Caroline Seide recaps the latest episode of the BBC’s clone drama
I’m going to start calling Dexter “The Movie Network’s Dexter” since that where it aired here.
To test her fertility, Henrik drugged her and removed one of her eggs in order to artificially inseminate it.
I don’t think we can know for sure that it was only one egg. My guess is he’s planning to implant it in Grace. If that’s his plan, he’d have taken more eggs since that’s the standard procedure for artificial insemination.
She also explains that the name comes from a Greek myth in which Zeus disguises himself as a swan and rapes a woman named Leda who then goes on to have half-human, half-god babies.
To be clear, some versions say rape, some say seduce. Cosima just says Zeus “gets it on with this human queen called Leda.” I’m wondering if there’s a significance to the half-god part of the myth. Helena certainly seems to have some superhuman abilities.
