2.12 - There’s No Place That’s Home

"We return to the domicile of Dr. West, where Mrs. Rourke and Andrew desperately try to sort out just what happened at Al’s Bar…and who might be to blame."

Synopsis
Elizabeth and Andrew arrive back in Herbert's residence. Elizabeth is in denial about having killed and eaten six people, as that would be inhuman and she considers herself a person. When discovering a piece of brain in her hair, leftover from the incident at Al's Bar, she instinctively eats it however, which she can't believe she did. Andrew admits that Herbert mentioned this might happened, but didn't believe it would, as Elizabeth seemed different from his previous experiments. Elizabeth is upset that Herbert knew about this risk and didn't warn her. She believes that she could've stopped this if she had been prepared.

Elizabeth asks Andrew how she is supposed to deal with this. While she is glad to be alive again, she isn't sure if she can control her urges and doesn't want to be like this. When Andrew asks her what her choice is, she muses being dead isn't so bad. Andrew tries to give her a pep talk and says life might be hard, but you just have to keep going and, in Elizabeth's case, keep away from bleeding people. Elizabeth says that aside from her Woken-related problems, she also doesn't know what happened to her son. Andrew says obstacles can be opportunities, and reminds Elizabeth that she didn't hurt him in the bar. Elizabeth realizes that Andrew is right, that she was strong enough to hurt all those people but didn't touch Andrew, because he called her "mom". With this insight, she sets out to free Nathan from where she believes the Company is holding him.

Trivia

 * The song on the radio is Rolling Down to Tunnel Three, a Lightning Rigger working song, which was later released as a mid-season extra during season 7, along with the MolePeople Dirt Shanty Haul Away Mole.
 * During his pep talk to Elizabeth, Andrew mentions that "there was this one day where I was threatened with rat flu, kicked off a moving train, and attacked [...] by antpeople." In episode 6.5 of the original first season, members of the Science Faire threaten to inject Andrew with rat flu during his attempt to join them again. This does not happen in the remastered Season One - Complete. The AntPeople attack does not happen "on screen" in the original first season either, but in the episode prior to the meeting with the Science Faire, Ants on a Train!, Nathan has an encounter with AntPeople on the PeopleMover, so Andrew being attacked is much more obvious.

Cast

 * Narrator — Ansel Burch
 * Mrs. Rourke — Tara Schile
 * Andrew Snidge — Frank Sjodin
 * On The Radio — Lead Vocals: David Rheinstrom and Betsey Palmer. Guitar: Clayton Faits. Cello: Ira Ochs. Mandolin: Jeff Gardner. Bass: Lauren Rapciak. Percussion: Mark Soloff, Tara Schile, John Sumner Majer, Ryan Simmons. Backing Vocals: Tara Schile, Mark Soloff, Ryan Schile, Jeffrey Gardner, Clayton Faits, Ryan Simmons, John Sumner Majer, Lauren Rapciak, Ira Ochs