Since we've known this was the only season of Containment we'd be getting, the countdown to resolution has been ticking. There could be no cliffhangers in the final episode, and what we were given was a nice end to what has been a pretty great series.

But truthfully, I'm still trying hard not to be disappointed that this is all we get. Enjoy it while it lasts or something, right? 

It's difficult to discuss series finales in general, but it's even more difficult to discuss them when there's only been one season, because there's good and bad which comes with knowing a series is ending.

The writers have time to prepare and create closure for the storylines. The actors have time to find new gigs. The audience has time to adjust to the fact that the end is nigh. 

But sometimes there's the feeling that everything is a little too okay when the final credits begin to roll, and that's what tonight felt like. Just a little bit. (DON'T HATE ME.)

I have loved every second of this show, but the finale felt a little too easy. A little too settled and happy ending-ish for people who are still trapped inside a cordon for who knows how long. 

The sun is shining, the people will be cured (thanks to a pseudo-savior who has the antibody and also happens to be a priest), Lex and Jana are reunited, Teresa's taking back her family store, and Bert and Micheline are dead.

Micheline, when she knew the infection in her leg was too severe, instead of trying to find anyone to help, instead of asking her granddaughter or Xander to find help, decided to poison her last glass of wine and die in her home. Bert, being the loving and attentive husband he is, decided to die with her.

This is one of those things where the real-life human in me says that people in situations like theirs, trapped inside a cordon, no way to call for help, sick and/or dying, get to decide their own fates. Full stop.

The writer and TV watcher/critic in me says this was not the beautiful farewell it was supposed to be. 

Had she fallen into a coma from the infection while Bert painted the dream of the two of them dancing, the appropriate amount of pathos would've been struck. Their final scene would've been one which left the viewer to imagine that they both survived, whether or not it was true.

Too much of the episode was spent with Jana, Suzy, and Quentin following Meese around the tunnels. Then he just shoots the guy he's working with, so now when he gets out, in addition to going to jail for falling into the cordon and racketeering and exploitation, he's also going down for murder. 

Suzy's claustrophobia, which prevented her from even thinking of escaping via the church tunnel, became magically surmountable. A blip on her psychiatric radar. 

Lex and his father can't find Leo because "Leo didn't want to be found" and then Roy tracks him to a hotel, shows up in the middle of the day without any sort of surveillance despite the fact that he's technically part of Lommers' investigation into Lex's life, and they publish the expose' that destroys Lommers just in the nick of time. 

All of that was just a little too convenient. Maybe as convenient as Cannerts finding a cure AFTER Katie died instead of before, and yes, I'm definitely still bitter about that. KAKE FOR LIFE.

Except I'm sort of cranky about Jake throwing Katie's ashes into the wind because what if Quentin wanted to do that? If he'd been reunited with the boy and they'd both been on that rooftop together saying goodbye to her, cool. 

Poignant and proof that Jake and Quentin will go on to be family. Jake's solo farewell with Katie's ashes just felt selfish.

I'm glad he found a way to grow through the experience and realized his own worth and strength. The writers shoved a LOT of character development onto Jake for only 13 episodes, probably more than just about anyone else besides Lex, and Chris Wood did the job of bringing the character to life incredibly well.  

But I don't know. I'm trying really hard right now to appreciate this for what it was: the final sequence of a (long) movie where the pieces finally fall into place, the hero has a monologue, and everyone rides off into the sunset.

I know I'm coming off sort of bitter, and I'm sorry. Truly. It just stinks to want more and know that this is it. This is the end. 

Oh well. It was a fun few months, wasn't it?

What did you think of the Containment series finale? Did anything shock you? On a scale of 1 to 10, how much do you wish we were getting a second season? Let's chat about the series one more time and don't forget you can always relive every moment and watch Containment online!

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Inside the cordon, Jake finds Dr. Cannerts inside Cinco's quarantine room with Thomas. In order for the treatments to work, Cannerts needs to draw blood from Thomas in real time. The treatment is straining for Thomas and Jake demands Cannerts' stop but he refuses. Micheline's infection grows more severe and Bert decides to go out in search of medicine. 

After Thomas is safely back in his room, Cinco begins seizing and dies.

Meese leads Jana and her friends through the tunnels. Suzy fights against her claustrophobia when they hear dynamite blowing up part of the tunnel system. They discuss the risks versus rewards of moving forward or turning back and decide escape is the only answer.

Lex meets with the Internal Affairs investigator who is looking for information about how someone managed to escape the cordon. They suspect Lex is responsible for the escape, but instead of handing over Meese and the Captain, Lex decides to walk out of the interview.

Jake leaves the furnace room and finds Trey attacking Dr. Cannerts. He manages to calm Trey down and when he leaves, Jake tells Cannerts that Cinco didn't look like the other bodies he's burned. Cinco didn't die from the virus.

At Lex's house, police issue a search warrant looking for any information connecting Lex to the cordon escape. His father makes a scene to divert from the fact that he pocketed the one thing which would benefit the OPS investigation. Lex and his father can't find Leo Green and they need his help to take Lommers down. 

There are more explosions in the tunnels and Teresa, Xander, and the baby are separated from the rest of the group. Jana tells them that they'll circle back, but Teresa sends them forward. She and Xander turn back to the cordon.

Cannerts does more tests on Cinco's body to determine what needs to happen in order for his treatments to work. The problem is that Thomas, so far, is their only source of antibodies. Jake decides they should test everyone in the cordon to find more people who are immune but no one wants to help.

Outside the cordon, Lex finds one of his officers who isn't supposed to be working and grows suspicious about the switch. He finds the officer responsible for helping people escape from the cordon and learns that Meese is in on it too. Walden thinks Meese fell inside the cordon on accident and is shocked to learn the fell on purpose. He's even more shocked to learn that the tunnels are being blown up.

Cannerts finds Jake in the furnace room where he's staring at the jars of ashes and lamenting the fact that no one will help them. As the men talk about Katie, Jake gets an idea. Meanwhile, in the tunnels, walls continue collapsing. Meese has no idea how to get them out.

Jake stands in the middle of a park and calls out the names of those who died and uses them as a plea to get people to have their blood tested. Lommers watches as pundits argue over Syria when Lex enters the briefing room and tells her that Meese is helping people try to escape and that there are people in the tunnels at that very moment. She gives him one hour.

Bert returns without medicine and Micheline asks him to open the good bottle of wine. 

Cannerts and his remaining medical team set up tables outside the hospital in hopes that people will show up to be tested. Trey shows up with two of his men and offers to have his blood tested. Others begin arriving in droves. 

Lex takes some of his men into the tunnels and on the way gets a call from his dad. He's located Leo. Lex asks his father to carry on with their plan to take down Lommers no matter what happens. 

Xander, Teresa, and their baby make it back to the market. She decides they're done running and makes him stay. They plan to clean it up and restart their lives there. Jake and Cannerts find another person carrying the antibody.

Lex instructs his men to walk through the open tunnels searching for anyone who may be inside. Meese gets Jana, Suzy, and Quentin to the rendezvous point but his contact is nowhere to be found. Roy meets Leo in a hotel room and delivers the information Leo needs to take down Lommers. 

While walking through the tunnels, Lex finds Quentin's hat and tells Lommers there are kids inside the tunnel. She gives him 20 minutes to get people out. Meese encounters Walden and shoots his partner so that he can get Jana, Suzy, Quentin, and himself out. 

Bert crushes up cyanide and pours it into a glass of wine for Micheline, at her own request. Later he reveals he doctored his own glass too. 

Lex stumbles upon the people trying to leave the cordon and realizes it's Jana. He doesn't know what to do. Lommers tells him time is up, but she's informed there's no signal from his walkie. She gives the order to resume imploding the tunnels just as news breaks about Lommers' guilt. 

Jake heads onto the roof of the hospital with Katie's ashes as Jana, Suzy, Quentin, and Lex re-enter the cordon.

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We all came into this knowing it would be a limited series event but prepared to enjoy it anyway, and I'm going to be really, really bummed when it's over next week.

And not just because I won't get a weekly dose of Chris Wood. 

You guys have truly been fantastic, jumping into the comments week after week, sharing your theories and sadness and excitement with me, and it's been awesome. So as much as I'm going to miss the series, I'm going to miss reading YOUR commentary. 

Our beloved Katie, Kristen Gutoskie, is coming to The Vampire Diaries Season 8, so we won't be without her forever. If Julie Plec somehow managed to resurrect Kai and give us back our beloved Kake, I feel pretty confident we'd rally around her to make sure she won whatever awards she wants adorning her mantle, right?

Sigh. How heartbreaking was that scene where Jake had to cremate the woman he loved? Maybe the only woman he's EVER loved? 

When I watched him washing off her face, my heart cracked a little, and then when he took off his glove to touch her skin for the first, last, and only time? Yikes. Emotion City up in this place.

I had really hoped that last week's ending would be a shocking cliffhanger and the first thing we'd see on tonight's opening sequence would be Katie taking a long, gasping breath of air as her body started to fight back against the virus. Cannerts would have figured out the missing ingredient in his antibody serum and BAM! She'd be saved. 

Maybe slightly maimed somehow, like paralyzed from temporary lack of oxygen, or she'd have amnesia, or she would be in a coma, BUT ALIVE. 

Except no. She's really, truly, completely gone, and now I'm about thismuch okay with the finale coming because it means my heart won't get repeatedly crushed episode after episode by her absence.

It's really hard to think about the final episode because there is a LOT to wrap up before those people start popping up out of that tunnel and Lex has to throw himself on top of them to save Jana from being shot by one of the police officers guarding the manhole cover.

That's what's going to happen, right? (DON'T TELL US, BELGIAN SERIES VIEWERS! DON'T TELL US!)

The tunnel has been discovered. Meese has no way of knowing that. He's about to send six people through it without knowing they're being shot on the other side. 

Lex has no way of knowing they're coming out. 

No one knows anything except Jake and he only knows they're leaving but not the escape route. So what's Lex going to do?

I'm imagining there will be a meeting in the sluice between Jake and Lex once Cannerts decides whether or not his cure is working and Jake will tell Lex that Jana et al are on their way out and Lex will rush out of the sluice and shout into the tunnel that they need to turn back and there will be guns drawn and it's going to be a mess.

But they can't leave us hanging, can they?

If this is all we get, there's got to be a resolution, right?

Preferably it's one where Lommers is dethroned as the reigning Queen of Quarantines and exposed for the power hungry monster she is.

I was really hoping Lex was pulling an Orphan Black/Rachel-style takedown when he was in the conference room confronting Lommers and the phone call was someone from the media asking her if she cared to comment on her recent statement that she let the virus loose so that they would have a reason to develop a vaccine.

Instead we got Lommers continuing to manage the media while Lex stands by and plays along. I can only hope he's planning something huge to take her down because she totally deserves it.

And yet part of me understands her point that biochemical warfare like this is far more dangerous and threatening (and easy) than nuclear warfare, yet the budgets aren't even remotely equitable.

The conspiracy theorist in me has tin foil hats for sale. (Moderately priced, I promise. No outbreak-style gouging!)

I'm really unsure how this is all going to play out in only one more episode. I know already that it won't be enough and wish this hadn't been dumped in the summer where it would have a harder time finding its footing with a wider audience.

Cordon is getting a second season, and it would be great to get one here as well. But alas.

I guess we'll always have Atlanta Midtown Hospital and that shower.

What did you think of "Yes Is the Only Living Thing"? Katie's gone for good: React. On a scale of 1 to 10, how ready are you for next week's finale? If you missed a single minute, don't forget you can watch Containment online!

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I'm just sad. Super, super sad.

I have about .03% of hope remaining that maybe that ending wasn't what we all thought it was, but mostly I'm just…ugh. Damn.

So Katie's probably, most likely dead. Cannerts' cure didn't work. In fact, it may have made her die more quickly and more painfully than if the virus had taken its course. 

We haven't seen too many deaths by the virus, but Katie's was, by far, the most brutal and gut-wrenching and not just because of her relationship to Jake and the fact that she left a son behind. 

It was viscerally hard to watch someone die like that, and I found myself thankful that I have no firsthand knowledge of what it's like when someone dies from a deadly virus like this one while also feeling terrible for those people who do.

One of David Gyasi's repeated comments in our pre-Containment interviews was the ways in which it's our humanity that leads to the spread of these terrible illnesses. We see someone suffering and instinctively we want to reach out to console them, to offer comfort as they pass. 

But that just spreads the virus even further, so what has to happen in order for these viruses which are absent a cure to die out is for there to be no contact between sick and healthy individuals. To kill the virus we have to be willing to watch as our sick loved ones die what may be excruciating deaths.

Most of us can't do that. Jake couldn't do that. 

He had the benefit of a clean suit, but he couldn't sit by as Katie died alone in that room. He knew he needed to be inside, to hold her while she passed, so he found a way to make it happen, and in doing so he was able to tell her that he loved her. 

The rest of us had our hearts ripped out while we watched it all happen. 

Spoiler alert: the Belgian version of Katie died, too. I had hoped that perhaps, maybe, Julie Plec would change her story slightly. That she would bring Katie to the brink of death and then return her to us with the cure taking effect in the final moments. 

I suppose there's still a miniscule chance that could happen and what we saw as Jake and Katie kissed in the shower wasn't her final thought. Maybe it was just the thought she had as she clutched his space suit and passed out to sleep off the narcotics that didn't seem to be working at all while her body started to heal itself.

But that's wishful thinking and I know it. I've known since she coughed last week that she'd be dead. Probably since she cut her head on the van and held Mary's dead body in the streets.

On a show like this one, someone in your inner circle is going to die.

That's just how it goes. The people at Bitscan are insulated, only leaving when it's an absolute necessity and using the vacuum room when they reenter. They're not the ones who are going to die.

We don't really know enough about Bert and Micheline to care very much about their outcomes, though either of them dying would be sad because both of them would probably die and then Teresa and Xander would really be all alone in the middle of this.

But still. Their deaths don't carry the emotional gravitas of either Jake or Katie's death. Or of the deaths of any of the children trapped in the hospital.

It had to be Katie. Even if I didn't want it to be Katie. 

I'm just really bummed out by this, y'all, to the point that I don't even know if I want to continue watching. I mean, I will because I can't stop now when Containment Season 1 Episode 12 is the penultimate of the series, but man. What a sad, sad ending for Jake.

He fell in love with a woman who made him want to stay and then he lost her. 

Sure, that's how life happens sometimes, but this is fiction and when I'm watching fiction, I want to believe in happy endings. Right now I just don't. 

Even if Cannerts finds a cure, it's too late. Hundreds of people are already dead and the virus is on its way to choking itself out. 

What he really needs to do is figure out how to clear his name and restore his integrity. But then maybe that's the path Leo has set Lex on with his pizza/key delivery. 

Maybe there's still a way for Lex to blow the lid off of this thing yet, and I, for one, sincerely hope so. Maybe then Katie's death won't have been in vain.

Scale of 1 to 10, how heartbreaking was Katie's death? (Did Julie Plec REALLY kill her??? WHY?) What's behind the key Leo sent Lex (and don't spoil it if you've seen the Belgian series, please!)? Sound off in the comments below and don't forget you can watch Containment online!

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First we watched as Kai was brutally beheaded (and yeah, he sort of deserved it), and during the final scene of Containment Season 1 Episode 10, Jake got his heart ripped all the way down into his guts.

Katie coughed.

She coughed, you guys, and there was blood. This isn't just an "oh, there's a tickle in my throat" cough that sometimes happens when there's too much dust or the air is too dry. 

Blood. Spattered on a window. She's infected.

She's infected, and I hate any and everyone even remotely involved in making it so. Cannerts, Lommers, her husband, that Ray guy who took the kids out of the hospital, the driver that ran into the van Mary was in. All of them. 

They all deserve to be sick more than she does. Mostly because the world needs more Kake. But also because I really like her character and don't want to see her die.

I would rather lose Suzy, despite the fact that she really stepped up tonight. 

Teresa's baby started to make an exit and Suzy, distraught over the news of her own pregnancy, just couldn't deal. She didn't want any part of helping bring someone's baby into the world until two things happened:

1. Dennis showed up begging to sit with her while he died, possibly infecting her, their unborn baby, and everyone else inside Bitscan in the process. (How…romantic?)
2. Jana started to have a complete and total freakout.

The first is all it took for Suzy to realize that even if she screwed up by sleeping with a married man (and yes, he screwed up too), she couldn't allow her fear of being a single parent overrule common sense in the middle of an outbreak.

Or at least that's how I read the scene.

Something was triggered inside her in that moment and she decided he wasn't worth the risk to herself, her baby, or anyone else. Lying to him was a kindness. He was going to die anyway. By lying to him he didn't beg to stay there and make her watch him die.

Jana's freakout put Suzy in straight up mom mode. She's got this. 

Jana, again, proved she's a badass capable of doing just about anything, but yeah, Teresa should probably be glad Jake arrived since apparently no one else in the room thought maybe they should look in the general vicinity of the area from which the baby would be emerging.

I can't see it being legit that Jake had delivered very many babies in his line of work, but let's assume at least one or two. Having any knowledge at all in that department was pretty useful.

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So Teresa's baby is here. Her name is Leanne. Xander's looking healthy. But this virus has mutated so maybe they shouldn't let him hold his baby girl just yet.

While Jake was playing information tag with Lex and delivering babies, Katie was at the hospital learning that the virus has mutated and is now taking longer to show symptoms. And calling Cannerts a coward, which, yeah, he's kind of deserving of her vitriol right now.

Thomas, however, is still symptom-free, so there's still hope for a cure. (PLEASE LET THERE BE A CURE!)

And that's sort of what I hope Lommers will talk about in her press conference where Lex thinks she's going to resign.

Let's be real here. This woman isn't going to resign.

But! There's a chance she knows someone who should. Or knows how to make that person work on finding a cure ASAP.

I'm still not convinced that Sabine Lommers is the person behind the outbreak and the quarantine. It has to be her husband.

Having her be the guilty party, particularly a solo guilty party, is way, way too easy. Plus, the writers introduced her husband for three milliseconds and we've gathered that he taught Cannerts everything he knows, has access, and was with his wife in Nantucket when Burns made the call. 

The thing is that Lommers knows too. She has to have put it together once Lex laid it all out there on the table and what she's trying to do now is figure out how to extract herself from this mess so she doesn't go down with her husband who may be a bumbling idiot but who also may be a mass murderer.

But then the question is how would her husband have access to Meese? 

The Chief thought Meese was going into the quarantine to destroy evidence at the Syrian patient's house, but someone redirected him to the journalists' apartment instead. Who sent him there? 

Or was the Chief lying? So many people are lying it's hard to know which of the maybe-bad-guys aren't so bad, and with so few episodes remaining in this limited series, I'm on the verge of biting off my nails to figure out how it's all going down in the end. 

Who do you think is lying on Containment? Who's behind this outbreak? Will Katie be cured before it's too late? Let's talk about tonight's episode in the comments below and don't forget you can watch Containment online!

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It's Day 17 inside the cordon and on the outside, a man uses an ice cream truck to broadcast Lommers' press conference to those inside the walls. A mob forms to go after Cannerts since they believe he's to blame for the virus. Lex follows Leo's key to a storage unit filled with boxes and filing cabinets. 

Jana, Suzy, and Sam try to get the money together to get out of the cordon. Teresa and Xander decide to take their daughter to her grandparents where they believe they'll all be safest. 

Jake walks the streets where those trapped have taken to burning their own dead. He ends up at the grocery store and asks to buy booze. The gang leader, seeing the distress in his face, takes pity on him and locates a bottle of bourbon. 

Lex combs through the filing cabinets and notices a pipe along the wall which seems out of place. Inside it he finds an enevelope with his name on it. Suddenly, he has a new lead: Katrina Hobbs, a woman who received $250,000 for an undisclosed reason.

Jana, Sam, and Suzy decide to see if Meese will accept a 3 for 2 deal and run into Jake at the grocery store. Jake learns that Meese has a way to get out and Jana learns that Katie has died. Teresa and Xander make it to Burt and Micheline's with the baby and break the news that Leanne didn't survive. Micheline asks to hold the baby and the women grieve together.

Sam decides to go with or without Jana and Jana asks Jake to leave the cordon with them. Lex finds Katrina Hobbs online and learn that her son, now deceased, was military with connections to chemical warfare divisions. 

When Teresa and Xander realize that Burt and Micheline don't have enough supplies for the four of them, he wants to leave. Teresa doesn't want to risk it with the baby and knows they don't have the $15,000 passage. Burt overhears their conversation.

Lex tracks down Katrina Hobbs and learns about a warehouse where her son died. She's never been there, but she's able to give him a general location. She believes the money she was given was a settlement for his death and has no idea how he actually died. 

Jake asks Quentin if he's ready to leave the cordon, but Quentin is reluctant to go too far away from the last place he saw his mom alive. Ultimately, they decide to leave since that's what they believe Katie would have wanted. Jake uses the personal effects of those he's cremated to secure their passage but saves a photo of Katie for himself.

An angry mob takes to the streets with an effigy of Cannerts. They're on the way to the hospital where the doctor is working diligently to find a cure by examining both Katie and Thomas' blood. Jake finds Cannerts to tell the doctor he's planning to leave when they're met by the gang from the grocery store. They plan to kill Cannerts for getting them all into this mess, but Jake turns them into his personal protection unit in exchange for being first in line for a vaccine.

Micheline tells Teresa what it was like to be married to a Black man in a sundown town and about the violence perpetrated on her daughter, Teresa's mother, because of her relationship with Bert. Micheline tells her that the cordon isn't safe for her and Xander and hands over her pearls, urging the teen to use them to buy her way out of the cordon.

Lex finds the warehouse and enters. Inside he finds a white board with the names of several men on it, as well as proof that Henry Burns was an engineer of the virus' creation and not patient zero. He confronts Lommers with his findings and she denies nothing. She says she did it so that they would have a vaccine in the event any of their enemies ever mutated the virus and regrets nothing. She believes everything she's done has been in the interest of national security. Together they learn there was a breach and someone made it out of the cordon.

Teresa and Xander say goodbye to her grandparents. Micheline's cut has gotten worse and an infection is spreading throughout her leg. 

In the hospital, a sick man approaches Cannerts. When the gang leader's brother gets too close, the leader shoots the sick man, spraying his blood all over Cinco. Cinco goes into isolation and Cannerts uses him as a guinea pig for his new treatment. The gang leader gives the treatment 48 hours to work or Cannerts will die.

Meese won't take the baby for fear she'll cry along the way. When Jana and Sam argue, Meese decides he'll take the baby but not Sam. Jana says the deal is off if Meese won't take all of them and Meese is okay with that. Sam agrees to stay behind but asks Jana to call his loved one when she makes it outside.

Jake visits the shower where he and Katie kissed and hallucinates her presence. He decides to send Quentin outside the cordon with Jana so that he can stay behind and protect Cannerts. He knows Katie wouldn't want him to let everyone else inside die. Quentin doesn't want to leave.

Lommers and Lex arrive at the location of the breach and learn that the police shot the man who managed to escape. Lommers demands the body be cremated even though it shows no signs of the virus. Jana and the others head into their pre-escape quarantine.

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Katie envisions her illness growing worse and begins to hallucinate what she might do as it progresses. Jake pressures Cannerts to rush the cure or antibody. Cannerts is afraid to try because the current iteration of the vaccine could make Katie die more quickly. Jake has been taking care of Quentin, who has an outburst and blames his friend for his mother's illness.

Bert wakes up in a car. His leg is probably broken and the supplies he had for Micheline have been ravaged. 

Lex and Leo talk as they both learn that the Chief has been promoted to COO of the Atlanta PD, second in command to the mayor. Leo wants to walk away from the story in order to save his own life and career. Lex wants to keep going, but Leo tells him there's no point in staking his own credibility on taking down Sabine Lommers. Lex is on his own.

Cannerts video conferences with Lommers' husband who promises to make sure Cannerts' name is cleared. In the middle of their conversation, he's cut off from his secure line. No more contact with the outside world. 

Quentin wants to blame Thomas for his mother's illness, but Katie won't let him. If anything, she tries to take the blame for the fact that they're all inside the cordon in the first place since she brought them on the field trip that found them trapped. She sends Quentin to get Dr. Cannerts for her treatment and makes Jake promise to get Quentin out of the quarantine alive.

Micheline has been tending to her own injury, but she's out of medication and worried about Bert. He's trying to salvage what he can from the supplies Cannerts gave him in order to make a splint for his leg so that he can get home. Jana makes a run to the grocery store and asks to speak to Trey. Xander and Teresa need supplies and he's the only person who can give them. She finds Meese inside the cordon and he promises to bust her out of the cordon for $5000.

Lex talks to his father about the situation with Leo and the press conference and his father's advice is to get back up and fight harder. 

Cannerts enters Katie's quarantine cell and begins her treatment. He maintains that he his courageous and a man of integrity. He tells her the true story of how the quarantine began and how Sabine Lommers misled the public by naming Sayid Patient Zero. At the Georgia State Capitol, Lex and his father visit with the State Lt. Governor, one of the elder man's last remaining friends. 

Jake finds Quentin on the roof of the hospital. Quentin vows not to fall apart in front of his mother because he doesn't want her to worry. Jake tells him Katie will worry no matter what and then hugs the boy. On the street, Jana finds Bert trying to walk. She shares her water with him and gives him some food for he and Micheline, along with a cart he can use to walk home. 

Lex and his father find Besser exiting the Lt. Governor's office. Besser canceled their appointment. Katie's IV starts to itch and when she looks in the mirror she finds her illness has progressed. Her skin is tearing off and she's bleeding profusely from the nose. When she sees Quentin slip in a pool of blood she wakes up. It was a dream. 

Thomas gets visitation with Katie. The boy tries to heal her through the glass and Jake makes him clear out so that the two of them can watch a movie under the stars, just like they planned. As they talk, she says she feels better but not better after getting the first dose of medicine. She takes the moment to tell Jake she loves him. Then she says it's time to start saying goodbye.

At Bitscan, Jana and Sam talk about her encounter with Meese and his plan to get people out of the cordon. Together, they have enough for two to escape. Lex pays Leo a visit and finds his apartment has been cleaned out. He's gone, leaving no trace of himself behind. 

Cannerts gives Katie the pain medication she had previously refused and Quentin comes in to say his goodbyes. 

Lex and his father once again sit in Lex's apartment and watch the news. They still want to find Leo Greene; Lex doesn't think he ran. The doorbell rings and Lex gets a pizza delivery with a key from Leo.

Jake visits Katie in isolation and she makes him promise to smile once a day for the rest of his life. She starts to hemorrhage. Bert finally makes it home to Micheline.

Jake puts on a clean suit and holds Katie as she dies.

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Jake visits Katie outside her isolation room. So far, she's not sick, but there are still eight hours to go. They're both positive she'll be fine. At Bitscan, Suzy's pregnancy test comes back positive and Teresa goes into labor.

Lex visits Leo and learns that Lommers is the one behind the outbreak and the quarantine. Lex isn't sure and believes Lommers may be innocent. They start digging into Burns and Lex spies a logo he recognizes. The evidence they need is inside the cordon. Together they vow to make Lommers pay.

Jana tries to get Teresa to move to a clean room to have the baby. She doesn't want to leave Xander, who is still stuck in quarantine. Suzy doesn't want to deliver the baby at all and believes they should try to get her to the hospital. Jana doesn't give anyone a choice. Teresa will be giving birth at Bitscan.

Lommers has no information from the National Guard regarding the condition of the men who went inside the cordon, so she goes after the information herself. Lex manages to get word to Jake about the journalists' apartment and sends him on an evidence-finding mission. Jake decides to go after the information after Katie is released from quarantine. She urges him to go ahead anyway.

Teresa practices visualization to make it through labor. Jana and Sam aren't much comfort. Cannerts makes his rounds, finally letting himself out of isolation, and finds Thomas is still healthy. There may still be a chance for a cure, but it won't be as easy as creating a vaccine. Katie, despite being healthy at the moment, isn't in the clear. Thomas' strain of the virus has a slower presentation rate. Katie won't be getting out of quarantine.

Lommers holds a press conference after learning that 11 out of 12 of the men who went inside the cordon are infected. For maximum effect, she walks the cameras over to the viewing window outside the tent housing the sick men giving the public its first glimpse of what's inside those shipping containers. She asks for everyone's cooperation and for people to protect the cordon.

Jake visits the journalists' apartment and finds their bodies have been wrapped in plastic and placed inside a shower. Their research has been burned in a bathtub and their computers stolen. Jake takes the info back to Lex inside the sluice and learns that Lommers is behind it. Meese is also playing for the other team. Together they figure out that the Chief is involved.

Teresa's contractions have stalled and she worries something has happened to the baby. Sam starts to improvise a way to help Teresa. Quentin spends time with Katie and asks questions about his dad. Katie levels with him about her ex's drug use and her own. 

Lex puts Leo on the money trail to figure out Meese's connection to events inside the cordon. He approaches Meese's wife and learns their house is out of foreclosure. Sam's device works and Teresa is able to hear her daughter's heartbeat. Dennis returns to Bitscan and asks to be let in. He's infected.

Jake walks into the grocery store and asks for a conversation with Meese. He plays dumb and demands the information Meese stole from the apartment. Meese tells him to look inside the bathtub and Jake refuses to give up Teresa's location with the gang leader asks for it. Knowing he won't get the information, the gang leader gives Jake a box of food and supplies for Teresa and the baby.

Teresa's contractions restart and they're closer together. Dennise asks to come inside and stay with Suzy as he dies. She lies to him about the baby and turns him away.

At the police department, Lex corners the Cheif and questions him about Meese's sudden windfall. The Chief denies knowing they received more than the standard hazard pay but Lex knows he's lying. He implicates Lommers in the payout and promises to find the money trail. That trips the Chief up and he agrees to work with Lex.

Teresa is ready to have the baby and cries out for her mother. Jana begins to panic and Suzy is the one to calm her down. Suzy breaks the news to Teresa that neither her mother nor Xander will be in the room so she'll have to do this for herself. 

At the hospital, Katie confronts Cannerts about his lies. He stonewalls and says there's nothing to figure out. As he walks away she mentions Henry Burns. 

Teresa's birth isn't going easily and Sam and Xander are shocked and scared to see that someone is coming up the elevator. It's Jake with the supplies. He knows how to deliver a baby and comes inside to help.

Lex joins Leo as he's watching the news. He lets Lex read the first draft of his article and Lex doesn't want to run the story yet. There's something missing. Leo gives Lex two hours to get to the truth before he publishes the expose.

Suzy, Jana, and Jake help bring Teresa's baby into the world.

At the CDC, Lex sits next to Lommers in a boardroom and asks her to resign. He slides a copy of their evidence against her across the table but she plays dumb. He asks her for the truth and she tells him he's out of his depth. He hands the Chief over as a witness and blames her, again, for orchestrating the outbreak to further her own career. She agrees to call a press conference for the following day.

Jana wheels Teresa and the baby to meet Xander. They name her Leanne after Teresa's mother.

Jake returns to the hospital and finds Katie still in quarantine. He tells her about delivering Teresa's baby and propositions her to one day have one of their own. She coughs blood onto the window.

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Tonight we watched them retreat almost as quickly as they entered, and had Captain Scott listened to Lommers, he probably wouldn't have had to put his men in jeopardy at all.

Every episode of Containment just keeps getting heavier and heavier, which is actually a great thing. Too often seasons run on for too long leaving several episodes as fillers. The plot isn't advanced, the characters aren't really developed. They're boring.

That isn't something which plagues limited engagement series' such as this one. (Though I'm holding out that after the Belgian series Cordon gets its Season 2 off the ground we'll get to return to Atlanta Midtown Hospital!)

Here's what we know after this episode:

• Jake and Katie are adorable together.
• There might not BE a "Jake and Katie" when this is all over.
• Lommers' husband is behind the outbreak.
• Cannerts may or may not know about it.
• Sabine Lommers might be one of the good guys after all.
• Lex has a significant inability to see the bad in people.
• The middle of a major epidemic probably isn't the best place to have a baby.

Yeah. That ALL happened, or almost happened, tonight. It was quite the full hour.

Jake and Katie, aka Kake, are ripping my heart to pieces with their longing glances and his soulful expressions and puppy dog eyes whenever she opens her mouth. They're just so cute and natural together!

His first date was incredibly sweet and the perfect way to make something good happen in the middle of such a terrible situation. Of course, like him, I wouldn't have minded if they jumped straight back to the shower scene because the one we got tonight was anything but magical.

Kake's second shower scene came after returning to the hospital. She frantically tried to wash blood and infectious diseases off of her person while Jake sat outside the shower room and cried because he's finally found a girl to love and now he might lose her. 

I would be crying too, Jake. Totally. (I will cry if Katie dies.)

During their date, Quentin alerts them to the fact that Ray, the bus driver, decided he would join the protest growing outside and get the kids out of the cordon. Except that's…yeah. That was a terrible idea.

Jake and Katie rushed off to save the kids and possibly even Ray. They were separated with only Jake receiving news that one of the girls may have been sick. 

She also could've sneezed because of all the dust being kicked up by the motorcycle tweakers, but it's way more dramatic that WE DON'T KNOW if Katie's infected now.

Katie found the girl. Jake found them both. Katie was covered in Mary's blood and Katie had a cut on her head. If Mary was infected, Katie is too and she can't die so I need Cannerts not to suck and figure out a cure for this. 

After learning that someone in Nantucket was the person who received a call from Henry Burns we can assume one of two things:

Sabine Lommers is behind this outbreak or her husband is. Cannerts is somehow complicit because he created the virus and mailed the package to Burns, but I'm back to thinking that he never knew an outbreak would be a possibility. 

Cannerts is (probably) a good guy. He's quarantined himself in his office and we can't just march in there and ask him what's up, but for now, yeah. At least he's trying to figure out a cure.

Thomas is still un-sick, by the way. Just in case you're keeping track. 

I really can't figure out who's playing whom here. We know way more about Lommers, namely that she's power-hungry and doesn't like to lose, but is she really diabolical enough to go around the world killing innocent people via viral outbreak just so she can rise to power? If so, that's serial murder on a whole 'nother level.

It's way more likely that her husband is behind this somehow which means maybe Lex's inability to see the bad in people isn't such a bad thing after all. But still, is it just me or is this guy too trusting?

Or is he just playing Dr. Lommers to make her think he's on her side when really he's eager to get out of that sluice and talk to his pal Leo who is about to blow the lid off this whole operation?

Because that's where my brain would be if I were trapped in a shipping container with health and answers on one side and probable death on the other. I would want all of the answers for myself and playing people to get them probably wouldn't be outside the scope of lengths to which I would go. 

Lex isn't a dummy. I hope.

And finally, it completely goes without saying, but just like a Zombie Apocalypse is a terrible time for having babies, so too is a viral epidemic when you're trapped smack in the middle of it. 

Teresa is about to find out what that's all about and Suzy might be as well. I'm full meh on Suzy's possible pregnancy and half meh on Teresa's. I mean, I care, but there are other things I care about more. Teresa will be fine.

Her labor and birth scenes next week on Containment Season 1 Episode 10 will be totally unrealistic and probably overly dramatic and I'll roll my eyes about a dozen times while my brain screams "BUT WHAT ABOUT KATIE!?" for an hour.

But really, what about Katie, y'all? Is she going to die? Please say no. Let's chat about this week's episode in the comments below and don't forget you can watch Containment online right here!

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Y'all. I have been saying for WEEKS now that there was more to this outbreak than just a Middle Eastern man who brought in a virus, and while Jake and Katie have been proving me right, now we got a straight up breakthrough in our story.

Cannerts is the responsible party behind this outbreak. Not only did he send the virus to the real Patient Zero, HE CREATED IT. He engineered a virus he has no way to control or contain! And he SET IT LOOSE ON PEOPLE!

I mean, maybe he didn't mean to infect Henry Burns, Dr. Sanders' boyfriend, but he's definitely responsible for moving the virus outside the confines of the CDC.

That explains how he happened to be inside the hospital on the morning in question. Burns' mystery phone call that morning, before he ditched his belongings in a sharps container and put himself in quarantine, had to be to Cannerts. Cannerts rushed to the hospital to see if there was anything he could do and BOOM. 

Epidemic.

Except, instead of saying "hey, so, about this virus…" he let the people in charge run with the narrative that a Syrian kid had brought it into the hospital and may have also been the person who planted the virus in the kid's bag so this would like like biological warfare and not a giant mistake currently costing hundreds and hundreds of people their lives.

Lex and Leo are on their way to figuring all of this out; well, they WERE on their way. Now Lex is stuck inside a sluice with Lommers while they spend 48 hours determining if either of them will get sick after being exposed to Thomas.

While we'll probably see a resolution to their entrapment on Containment Season 2 Episode 9, my money's on no, but given all the ways Lommers has botched this cordon, I don't mind seeing her sweat for a couple of days. 

The only way Cannerts isn't just the WORST – and really, while he's totally responsible, I want to think he's one of the good guys – is through his mysterious colleague and professor, Lommers' husband.

This guy, Dr. McIntyre, could have set up Cannerts somehow. Maybe, just maybe, they were collaborating on the virus, since Cannerts did mention that infectious diseases like this one were his primary interest, and McIntyre somehow released the virus, but he's setting Cannerts up to take the fall. 

But Cannerts definitely wanted out of the cordon, so now I'm back to thinking McIntyre's a relatively innocent bystander in all of this. Hmmm.

Cannerts didn't get his wish, and he's not necessarily any closer to finding a cure, either. 

Thomas, the boy who seemed immune, may not be immune after all. He has an atypical presentation, which means that symptoms don't show up until well after 48 hours, so now we're back to wondering if Thomas will get sick. 

I'm hoping no because the images of sick kids just does me in. Like rips my heart out and kicks it through the mud. The sick kids are the worst, even if their representation and their death is, or would be, reality. 

I just really want Thomas to be okay because Thomas has now spent time out of quarantine with Quentin. Who has spent time with Katie. Who has spent time with Jake.

Their dialogue about their relationship and what it might be like after the cordon was stilted. Jake, for all the ways he's grown more intuitive, didn't understand how his comment about letting go of his responsibilities for a few days couldn't include her. She doesn't get to walk away from her responsibilities for any length of time. 

I'd say he made it better with his promise, though.

Jake: You…you think I’ll run. And maybe at one time I would’ve been that guy. If you think that your crazy life is going to scare me off, you are so wrong. There’s nothing out there or in here that scares me as much as losing you. There’s no version of my life that doesn’t have you in it.

Katie: You can’t promise that.

Jake: I just did.

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YOU GUYS. That shower scene? Once I got over the thought of "won't they…suffocate?" that became one of the steamiest scenes since Patrick Swayze sat behind Demi Moore at a pottery wheel in Ghost. 

Or since Damon and Elena's "near touch" during the Miss Mystic Falls pageant.

And really, that's what it was. It was the near touch that set things on fire. The kissing wasn't even necessary to convey the emotion and impact of the scene. 

These are people who are desperate for human connection, for touch, and it's the one thing they can't give. To anyone. 

Gah. It was perfect. Just…perfect. 

Elsewhere:

• Jana and her people tried to use a bricked over Underground Railroad tunnel to get out of the cordon. Suzy's claustrophobia threatened to ruin their plan and once she overcame her fear, a gas leak of some sort (I think) sent them running back into the church. They're still trapped.
• Xander and Teresa are…I don't know. 
• Burt and Micheline, while I really want to like their storyline, are one of the most seemingly random subplots of the series. I'm hoping 1) she doesn't die from her leg wound and 2) somehow they factor into everyone getting out of the cordon alive and healthy and 3) my # 2 isn't just because Burt raises mice.
• The National Guard dude is a jerk. 

What did you think of "There Is a Crack in Everything"? At this point, what are the odds our cast of characters make it out of the cordon alive? Who do you have selected to survive and who's going to perish in the next two episodes? Sound off in the comments below and don't forget you can watch Containment online!

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