List of Orphan Black Episodes
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Orphan Black is a Canadian science fiction television series that premiered on March 30, 2013 on Space. The series was created by Graeme Manson and John Fawcett, starring Tatiana Maslany as several clones. The rest of the starring cast includes Dylan Bruce, Jordan Gavaris, Kevin Hanchard, Michael Mando, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Évelyne Brochu, Ari Millen, Kristian Bruun, and Josh Vokey.
On June 16, 2016, the series was renewed for a fifth and final 10-episode season, which premiered on June 10, 2017. As of June 10, 2017, 41 episodes of Orphan Black have aired.
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[edit] Series overview
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | |||
| 1 | 10 | March 30, 2013 | June 1, 2013 | |
| 2 | 10 | April 19, 2014 | June 21, 2014 | |
| 3 | 10 | April 18, 2015 | June 20, 2015 | |
| 4 | 10 | April 14, 2016 | June 16, 2016 | |
| 5 | 10 | June 10, 2017 | August 12, 2017 | |
[edit] Episodes
[edit] Season 1 (2013)
All titles of the first season are quotes from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code | U.S. viewers (millions) |
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| 1 | 1 | "Natural Selection" | John Fawcett | Graeme Manson | March 30, 2013 | 224086-1 | 0.684 |
| British punk con artist Sarah Manning sees an identical woman, Beth Childs, kill herself by jumping in front of a train. Sarah retrieves Beth's bag, and finding that she is well off, decides to take her place and clean out Beth's bank account so she (Sarah) can collect her daughter Kira from her foster mother, Siobhan Sadler, whom Sarah calls Mrs. S. Sarah asks her foster brother Felix Dawkins to identify Beth's body as Sarah's to buy time for her scheme, and throw her drug-dealer boyfriend Victor Schmidt off her trail. Sarah withdraws $75,000 from Beth's account, but discovers to her dismay that Beth is a police detective suspended for shooting Maggie Chen. Beth's partner Arthur Bell ("Art") follows "Beth," and breaks into her car, taking the $75,000. Sarah is approached by Katja Obinger, another lookalike from Germany. Katja is killed by a sniper, but Sarah manages to escape. | |||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Instinct" | John Fawcett | Graeme Manson | April 6, 2013 | 224086-2 | 0.409 |
| Sarah is contacted by a woman who instructs her to dispose of Katja's body and retrieve her briefcase. Art tells Sarah that he has the $75,000, and won't return it until she testifies at the inquest into Maggie Chen's shooting and clears her name. It seems that Art placed a cellphone in the hand of the dead Maggie Chen to make it look like Beth had shot Maggie in self-defence, and he doesn't want this to get out. Sarah poses as Katja to get her briefcase from the hotel. Inside the briefcase, she finds evidence of more lookalikes, one of whom is Alison Hendrix, a soccer mom. Sarah gets Alison to set up a meeting where she meets yet another lookalike, evolutionary developmental biology student Cosima Niehaus, the woman she spoke with on the phone. | |||||||
| 3 | 3 | "Variation Under Nature" | David Frazee | Graeme Manson | April 13, 2013 | 224086-3 | 0.350 |
| Alison tells Sarah that they are clones. In the briefcase, Sarah and Felix find that three of the clones Katja had found were already dead. Sarah goes to the police station to ask Art for the money back, only to be reinstated as a police detective and drafted to cover Katja's murder. Worried that her fingerprints might be identical to Katja's, she deletes them from the record. Art and Sarah track down the killer, who starts shooting at them. Sarah saves Art's life, and then gives chase, only to find that the killer is another clone, Helena, a Ukrainian. Sarah stabs Helena, but Helena escapes. Art returns the money to Sarah, who gives it back to Alison, who had provided it to Beth to help with her investigation into their situation. | |||||||
| 4 | 4 | "Effects of External Conditions" | Grant Harvey | Karen Walton | April 20, 2013 | 224086-4 | 0.361 |
| Sarah and Art continue looking for the killer, while Sarah tries to cover up that both killer and victim are her sister clones. The police believe that the killer is a fundamentalist Christian, while Cosima deduces that the group affiliated with Helena believes the clones are abominations and must be killed. Helena keeps a close eye on Sarah and the case, putting Sarah's cover in jeopardy. Mrs. S allows her to visit Kira, but because Sarah is busy working the case, Felix asks Alison to impersonate Sarah, otherwise Mrs. S would never allow her to see Kira again. However, Alison is shocked to find that Kira knows she is not Sarah. Helena lures Sarah to Maggie Chen's apartment, where it is revealed that Maggie worked for the same group Helena works for; Beth actually killed Maggie to protect the clones. Sarah allows Helena to escape before Art arrives, and Sarah quits the police force. Helena collapses and gets picked up by a man wearing the same symbol as Helena and Maggie. | |||||||
| 5 | 5 | "Conditions of Existence" | TJ Scott | Alex Levine | April 27, 2013 | 224086-5 | 0.327 |
| After waking up from a supposed dream where she was experimented on, Sarah spits out an electrode from her mouth. The clones soon learn that they have monitors, people in their lives whose purpose it is to observe them. Sarah suspects Beth's boyfriend Paul Dierden of being her monitor, while Alison suspects her husband Donnie. Meanwhile, Vic comes across a chance meeting with Alison, and discovers that Sarah faked her death. In response, Sarah pays Vic $20,000 to leave her alone: $15,000 to pay for his debts incurred by her theft and $5,000 to pay for his "pain and suffering" due to the loss of his finger over the unpaid debts. Sarah and Felix spy on Paul's work place, but unknown to them, Paul follows Sarah walking Kira home from school. Paul also discovers that "Beth's" scar is gone. After calling Sarah to meet him at their home, Paul holds Sarah at gunpoint and demands an explanation, prompting Sarah to tell him that Beth is dead. When Sarah asks Paul why he is monitoring her, Paul admits that he does not know. | |||||||
| 6 | 6 | "Variations Under Domestication" | John Fawcett | Will Pascoe | May 4, 2013 | 224086-6 | 0.340 |
| Alison purchases a nanny cam and finds that Donnie snuck out during the middle of the night. Paranoid, Alison ties him up, while also handling a neighborhood house party. Sarah impersonates Alison to question Donnie, who says he was covering up letters from a girl he dated when he and Alison were broken up. Paul follows Sarah and ultimately learns of their nature as clones. He also helps Sarah get rid of Vic when he continues to be a nuisance to her. Felix suspects Alison's neighbor, Aynsley Norris, of being the actual monitor. Meanwhile, Cosima is approached by Delphine Cormier, a fellow student. Cosima suspects Delphine of being her monitor, but goes with her to a lecture given by Dr. Aldous Leekie of the Dyad Institute, a proponent of "neolution" (using technology to advance human evolution). Later, it is revealed that Delphine and Leekie are lovers. | |||||||
| 7 | 7 | "Parts Developed in an Unusual Manner" | Brett Sullivan | Tony Elliott | May 11, 2013 | 224086-7 | 0.280 |
| Paul is questioned by his handler, Olivier Duval, regarding Beth's behavior. Though Paul tries to cover up the fact that Sarah is posing as Beth, the neolutionists discover the truth after checking the test results from experimenting on her. The neolutionists also believe Sarah to be the killer of the other clones. Meanwhile, Helena is nursed back to health by her trainer, Tomas, who orders her to kill Sarah. Although she appears reluctant to do so, she implores Sarah to reveal the names of other clones. Later, Sarah calls Helena to help free Paul who is imprisoned in Olivier's nightclub, called "Neolution." Paul and Sarah hide out in Felix's loft to avoid the neolutionists. The police continue to investigate Katja's body and are perplexed to find a DNA match between the body and the killer, and that Katja's fingerprints also match Beth's. | |||||||
| 8 | 8 | "Entangled Bank" | Ken Girotti | Karen Walton | May 18, 2013 | 224086-8 | 0.367 |
| Paul blackmails Olivier into telling Leekie that there was only one clone who attacked, Helena. Leekie tells Paul he has a new job for him, and then arranges for Olivier to be killed. Delphine tells Leekie that Cosima made a pass at her, and he pushes Delphine to find out how many clones Cosima has had contact with. Cosima and Delphine sleep together, and then Delphine spies on her, giving the names of the clones to Leekie, but neglecting to mention Kira. Art goes to the morgue to check "Sarah's" body, and this leads him to Felix. They question Felix and realize that he is the one who made an anonymous call to Art with information about Beth. Alison takes vengeance on Aynsley, whom she suspects of being her monitor, by having sex with her husband, Chad. Aynsley finds out and confronts Alison, and the two fight. Sarah introduces Alison to Mrs. S and tells her about the clones. While they are talking, Kira finds Helena at the front door, and follows her out into the street. Kira is very kind to Helena, but when she hears her mother call, Kira goes to find her, and gets hit by a car. | |||||||
| 9 | 9 | "Unconscious Selection" | TJ Scott | Alex Levine | May 25, 2013 | 224086-9 | 0.253 |
| Kira is taken to the hospital, where it appears that she has accelerated healing. Alison returns home to find that Aynsley is holding an intervention regarding her past behavior and addictions. Under Felix's encouragement, Alison turns the tables by scrutinizing Aynsley. Art finds CCTV footage of the train station where Beth committed suicide, and discovers that Sarah has been impersonating her. Cosima learns that Delphine leaked the names of the clones to Leekie and confronts her. Delphine reveals that she knows about Kira's existence but decided not to tell Leekie, knowing her life could come into danger should he know (Kira is the only known biological child of a clone). Sarah meets with Leekie, who wants her to save Helena from the Proletheans, the extremists who indoctrinated her. Tomas punished Helena for defying orders, but she is later rescued by Sarah and turns against Tomas. They later return to Mrs. S, who has reached her contacts in England, and meet with Amelia, Sarah's birth mother. Amelia reveals that she gave her away and fled after realizing she was a surrogate mother to Dyad scientists. Furthermore, Amelia gave birth to twins; Helena is Sarah's twin sister. | |||||||
| 10 | 10 | "Endless Forms Most Beautiful" | John Fawcett | Graeme Manson | June 1, 2013 | 224086-10 | 0.376 |
| As Amelia meets Helena, police arrive to arrest Sarah, while Helena escapes. Sarah is about to tell Art the whole story, but gets spirited away by Daniel Rosen, a Dyad operative. Sarah is brought to Rachel Duncan, a clone high in the Dyad organization, who offers Sarah and Kira protection. Leekie also offers the same to Alison and Cosima, as Cosima begins to display symptoms of a respiratory illness that Katja had. Alison confronts Aynsley a final time, ending with Alison watching Aynsley accidentally choke to death on her own scarf. Amelia tells a woman pretending to be Sarah that Mrs. S is not who she says she is, but this "Sarah" is actually Helena, who stabs Amelia, blaming her for turning her over to the Proletheans. When Sarah finds her body, she shoots Helena. Alison signs Leekie's document, while Sarah goes to meet Rachel, planning to sign as well. However on the way, Cosima and Delphine decipher a code inside the clone genome: "this organism and derivative genetic material is restricted intellectual property." Cosima warns Sarah, who leaves Dyad without signing the contract. She returns to discover Mrs. S's home ransacked, and Kira and Mrs. S gone. | |||||||
[edit] Season 2 (2014)
All titles of the second season are quotes from the works of Sir Francis Bacon.
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code | U.S. viewers (millions) |
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[edit] Season 3 (2015)
All titles of the third season are quotes from the farewell address of Dwight Eisenhower.
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[edit] Season 4 (2016)
All season 4 titles are quotes from the works of Donna Haraway.
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[edit] Season 5 (2017)
All season 5 titles are quotes from the poem "Protest" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code | U.S. viewers (millions) |
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