The Collective is the eleventh episode of HBO Max's science fiction drama television series, Raised by Wolves and the season premiere of the second season.[1] It aired on February 3, 2022 in a two-episode premiere alongside Seven.
Synopsis[]
As they join the atheist collective, Mother, Father and the children are met with threats and intimidation while they struggle to assimilate. Meanwhile, Marcus has found the ruins of an ancient church and begins recruiting members to fill its walls.[1]
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In the tropics of Kepler-22b, Mother awakens to the sound of an aircraft passing directly overhead. Around her, a band of human prisoners are directed by an automated announcement to separate the harvest around them from the relics. The message ends with the Trust urging the Mithraic captives to turn to atheistic thoughts. Mother is soon found by two guards, who call over a female technician. The woman confirms the android to be Mithraic-built, and her colleagues are informed of another android and the remains of a crash. Her daughter finds a suspicious skin shed. The technician believes it could be biotech the Mithraic brought with them from Earth. The guards agree they must move before the crossing floods, and proceed to cross a land bridge to reach the Atheist station's large ship dock.
Father and Mother are placed inside a laboratory, where new technicians begin the process to perform memory downloading and physical autopsies. While two members banter about the over-reliance of the computers, a third fails to notice Mother's movements until he realizes too late that she isn't a service model. With an agonizing scream, his hands gorge into mutilated mounds of blood and meat that race throughout his body and bring his quick death. Mother sits up, attacks the man Cleaver and holds him hostage. A telepathic voice assures Cleaver, and asks Mother (as Lamia) to come see him. Cleaver is set free as Mother enters a large theater space, where she is greeted as sister by a column of AI intelligence mass. It remarks that her memory files are encrypted, and she replies those files are private. The AI also notes the lack of a security system inside Mother, and she replies she feel things, impulses that make her repress the aspects of herself that are displeasing. The AI tells her she's describing human shame, but she assures there's nothing to be suspicious about, as they share a creator. It replies it judges only on qualification of data. Mother knows the AI was meant to be placed in control of the Earth once the atheists won the war, and asks about the status of the "indigenous" creature that came on the lander with her. It tells her the creature is most likely dead, to her hidden disappointment, but she is relieved to know her children were picked up. The AI lastly commends Mother for her longstanding efforts to continue the Atheist mission, informing her a sole Mithraic terrorist will soon be eliminated.
3,000 miles from the tropical zone, Marcus is braving the winter season seemingly alone, until he hears an incoming aircraft. He barely dodges the missile it sends, and with a bow and cross he shoots it down. Removing the dead pilot within, Marcus enjoys a snack before turning the Bomber online. Marcus wants to return to the mother ship, but the system informs him the ship landed sometime ago on the edge of the tropic zone, in Atheist Colony One. Marcus takes over and races to his destination.
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- at the end of the episode, a dedication was made to TanNa Young, who died 17 March 2021. Young a production executive at "Scott Free" who shepherded the series.[4]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 [https://pressroom.warnermedia.com/us/synopses/raised-wolves-season-2-synopses/ Raised By Wolves Season 2 Synopses - Warner Media Press Room]
- ↑ Pentagram. Raised by Wolves. Season 1. Episode 2. HBO Max.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 ‘Raised By Wolves’: Ridley Scott’s HBO Max Sci-Fi Drama Adds Six For Season 2 - Deadline
- ↑ https://deadline.com/2021/05/tanna-young-dead-scott-free-production-executive-1234752098/