Station Eleven
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Station Elevenepisodes either tend toward the character or the plot.
Episode five The Severn City Airport was all character.
We learned that the Prophet is Tyler, Arthurs son whom he shared with Elizabeth.
In this timeline, Gils death is only a few minutes old.
Distraught Alex is on the run, and Kirsten pursues her at a sprint across the minefield.
Except its not a minefield anymore.
Alex going missing is Kirstens worst nightmare,andits one of her most dreaded memories.
The book destroys what it touches.
And the Prophet is prepared to use it to create more ruin.
Kirs needs to have more faith in Alex, he tells her, which is true.
Shes not toddling off this time; shes breaking free.
Back at Pingree, theres more to mourn than when the troupe first arrived.
Their missing children are dead, innocent pawns in the Prophets vendetta against Kirsten.
The only good news is that Alex isnt missing.
She was thrown from her horse and returned to the country club shortly after leaving.
Sarah didnt realize immediately because shes drinking away her feelings about Gils wasteful death.
Kirsten sees them but decides to prowl the forest for traces of the Prophet instead.
The force is a guy holding them at gunpoint.
Sarah is hobbled by the march to the airport.
Shes retching and weakened.
Dieter yells for help, but the scene is menacing.
Sarah begins to make good-byes.
Somewhere in the forest, Kirstens been kidnapped, too.
But she knows it better than they do, even after years spent separated from her copy.
And theyve never read it for themselves.
Only Cody the kid who posed as the Prophets son when they all first met appears a little savvier.
The kids like it when real life appears to align with the prophecy, he tells her.
Not everyone is a true believer.
Still, Codys devotion is real, and his request isnt optional.
Kirsten meets the Prophet, who tells her the tragedy at Pingtree wasnt on his order.
A renegade minion told the rest of the Lost Boys that mines erase the past.
He also tells Kirsten that the Travelling Symphony is being held at the airport.
For all the years he must have spent mostly alone, Tyler hasnt lost his capacity for observation.
He sniffed out Uncle Clarks evil before it could hurt him.
And he knows that when Kirsten tries to stab a man in the kidney, she doesnt usually miss.
From the audience ofHamlet, he could see the way the memory of Jeevan knocked her off her course.
His young followers are always watching, but Tyler is more menacing.
So Arthurs son and Arthurs protege set off for the airport with minions in tow.
Kirsten found a family in the Travelling Symphony, but Tylers made one from stolen post-pans.
They call themselves the Undersea, a name borrowed from the stranded kids inStation Eleven.
At night, they gather around the campfire, and the Prophet recounts Mirandas story from memory.
Kirstens memory of the text is more authoritative.
Tyler never thought of it that way and doesnt really care.
He considers himself a post-pan, innocent and unburdened, trapped in a pre-pans body.
In this way,Station Elevenis mostly his tool for getting their attention.
Instinctively, Kirsten sides with the character she doesnt know is Arthur.
Or maybe its Tyler in the blue space helmet, keeping these parentless children from feeling alone.
The Prophets been building his following for a decade, and theyre blindly loyal, Cody assures her.
The post-pans are a family, but theyre also Tylers shield.
This is an episode about faith and coercion.
The Undersea is loyal to the Prophet.
Kirsten is loyal to the Travelling Symphony in a way that leaves no room for individual choice.
She willalwaysserve the troupe.
She cant fathom a version of love that includes leaving like Gil did.
Like Alex is considering.
She saves the Prophet ahead of saving herself.
Saving the Prophet is how shell save her family.
