Lady MacBeth

Episode nine of The Event, Your World To Take, introduced more Sleepers; hundreds of them as a matter of fact but one in particular, Isabel (Necar Zadegan).  While we discovered the inner workings of the Sleeper organization, Sean and Leila track down an escaped old little girl, and Jarvis is still alive but hospitalized from the injuries suffered in last weeks car explosion.

Isabel was played by guest star Necar Zadegan, who you may remember from the final season of 24. Last night on The Event she revealed way more skin then she ever did on 24! Isabel is a lawyer for big evil corporate entities, and she seems to be good at it.  During a pre-trail meeting she receives a text message, "1121944".  I believe this number to be a date; November 2, 1944...the date that the Inos crashed in the Brooks Mountain Range.

We are then shown many other Sleepers embedded in every facet of society who also receive the text.  The text was Thomas and Sophia, signaling a meeting. This scene leading up to the title sequence was great!  We see the "aliens" living among us dealing with day to day life and then they are summons to this meeting and it's like a convention.  Everybody seems happy to see each other, and they are sharing work stories like regular people.  For a minute there It looked like an Amway setup at some hotel. Sophia appears and takes the stage to address her people (Thomas and Simon to her left). After her speech we see a shot of her audience and there must of been a couple of hundred of them. I'm pretty sure this meeting took place in DC, which is funny considering the manhunt for Sophia and Thomas.

After the big meeting Sophia meets with a smaller group of sleepers.  I'm guessing they are some secondary level of command like an Intergalactic Council.  She runs down the necessary items needed to build a portal for the return trip home, but the others aren't interested in going home.  Over the last 66 years they've grown to love being here, and it sounds like where ever they are from is falling apart and they would rather not go back. One of the sleepers who looked like, Viola Davis, said they had "settled down", some even starting families. Which raises the questions, Do their kids age as slow as the parents?....Are these Inos all "alien" or are they mixing when the general population? Sophia puts an end to this very quickly by reminding the council of their directive which reminds me of Star Trek:

"You know what staying will ultimately do to the native population. We are all sworn to honor the same directives, we're not allowed to damage benevolent civilizations, indigenous people who aren't a threat to us."

Even though their home is barely viable, Sophia insist that they must go home and they will survive. Okay we got the Inos alone amongst other Inos and they're talking alien stuff. I feel the running poll of what the Inos are might change.

A little later in the show it's revealed that Isabel and Thomas are having secret relations. Isabel is very Lady MacBeth like, she wants her man Thomas to be in charge. Isabel, "They will except you as their new leader". Secretly I believe it's really her who wants to be in charge, and she's trying to manipulate Thomas to get there. Isabel has helped Thomas conceive a plan to  kill Sophia once she's helped them get a salvaged part that came from the ship, the key module. The key module is locked away and only Sophia has the ability to retrieve it. Once she gets the key Thomas is to kill Sophia...his own mother. At one point Isabel tells Thomas that she has talked to someone familiar with killing, and they suggested a 380 for stopping power. Is Isabel worried that a lower caliber gun won't be able to put Sophia down.  Makes me think that the Inos are more resilient than us; especially with Simon's survival and recovery after being crushed by falling rubble.

It's interesting that this key module could help build a portal to take all the Inos home and Thomas and Isabel want it, but they don't want to go home.  If they aren't going to use it to take their people home, what would they use it for? Something nefarious?

On the flight to where ever the key module is being kept, Sophia reminds Thomas of what he used to be like as a child. He was terrified of the rain. That may or may not help my theory about the Inos being from a desert land. But, I still think water is a very important clue to who the Inos are and where they come from, it just keeps coming up. Was Thomas afraid of the rain because it didn't rain often where they're from or is it that when Thomas was a little boy the rain hadn't stopped yet?

Something else important that Sophia shares with Thomas and the rest of us. Her and the detainees could of left Inostranka anytime they wished, but they didn't. It was Sophia's will to stay at Inostranka that kept them there for sixty-six years. It was better that they stay locked up and wait for an empathetic President would free them versus leaving on their own and exposing who they really are and in turn endanger all  the sleepers.

Thomas and Sophia arrive at some unknown facility where the key is being kept. Thomas does his part by opening a hi-tech safe, but only Sophia can retrieve the key from some opaque blue box that looks solid, but is penetrable like liquid.  After she gets the key and her part is complete, Thomas pulls his 380 on her. Sophia does a Jedi mind trick on him that only a mother could pull off, and the teary eyed Thomas caves.  Sophia knows that he didn't come up with this on his on. Thomas isn't much without a strong female figure to build him up. In Sophia's absence that strong female figure has been Isabel.

Sophia forgives her son, but she can't forgive the other betrayer that easy. In the opening of the last scene; Isabel awaits Thomas by the Potomac, but it's not Thomas who appears, it's Sophia and she's going to show Isabel who their leader really is.  I think a lot of people were shocked to see this side of Sophia last night but excited:

@spillednotes, "Sophia is such a gangsta. #TheEvent"

@sarah013, "Why the heck is Sophia smiling?! You twisted woman...#TheEvent"

@RohanCrawford, "Sophia is the boss for a reason. Who would think you'd convince somebody to shoot themselves without threatening physical harm? #TheEvent"

Isabel tries to explain to Sophia that it was all Thomas' idea and that she wasn't thinking straight.  Again Sophia uses her motherly instinct and sees right through the crap. Sophia tells Isabel that she can't ignore her disloyalty and tells her to get on her knees. She then gives Isabel two choices, be shunned from her people for the rest of her life or prove her loyalty right now by shooting herself in the thigh. Sophia even tells Isabel that she isn't forcing her to do anything...it's her choice. Not the best options ever, but at least it isn't death as many expected.

Isabel is obviously not the type to make it alone, so she shoots herself in the leg.  As she lay on the ground in pain Sophia tells her, "This world isn't yours or Thomas'". Sophia then leaves her there and returns to Thomas who is waiting in the limo.  Sophia forgives Thomas as any mother would do, but you have to wonder if he learned his lesson.

I'm not going to go in depth about Leila and Sean or the Jarivs story tonight, but maybe later. Last night was really about the Sleepers and I have to say the star of the night was Sophia (Laura Innes) along with a fabulous performance by Necar Zadegan.

Oh, and did you notice...no flashbacks! I know that makes some people happy, but I really didn't mind them so much.

Next Monday is the Fall Finale and it is sure to be jaw dropping!  Make sure you stop by the site Monday for live The Event chat with other fans or check us out from your mobile device at m.the-event.tv .  It should prove to be a special occasion!