‘The Passage’ Season 1, Episode 6 ‘I Want To Know What You Taste Like’ Recap: Interconnected

The Passage dangerously reaches the point of risking an outbreak. It always has to start with one. The loss of lives does not stop at the Project NOAH Headquarters. While the facility may have been miles away from huge populations, some civilians still lived nearby, thus being at risk of infection.

In this week’s episode of The Passage, Director Horace Guilder  (James Le Gros) creates a task force to locate and eliminate the escaped Viral, Winston (Brett Gentile). With Amy Belafonte’s (Saniyya Sidney) help, Clark Richards (Vincent Piazza) and his team track Winston. Meanwhile, Dr. Major Nichole Sykes (Caroline Chikezie) and Dr. Jonas Lear (Henry Ian Cusick) try to synthesize a counterbalance to Tim Fanning’s (Jamie McShane) strain of the virus.

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Project NOAH’s secrecy relied on its security team, and if Winston reached the populace, the entire project gets compromised. Now, Clark leads his men on a witchhunt in the forest. Director Guilder’s interest in Amy grows as she helps the team track Winston down, seeing what he sees. While Brad disliked the idea of taking Amy to the field, he was still forced to tag along.

After they reach the highway that Amy saw, two bodies were on the scene; both have their necks bitten by Winston. When Brad finds Lila Kyle’s (Emanuelle Chiriqui) wallet in one of the cars, he demands an explanation from Clark. Clark had to bring her in since she was risking the Project’s confidentiality. Amy’s visions soon lead them to a cabin where they find Lila fighting a Viral. Brad breathed a sigh of relief, but the hunt is far from over. In Winston’s mind, Tim instructs him to kill Amy as she stood in the way of their plans.

There was a water pumping station a few klicks from their location, and this is what Amy saw in her latest vision. Once there, the team strategizes its approach, including Brad in their plan. With the team in the station, Lila and Amy stood outside with a radio. Inside, a handful of Virals greet the team, but Winston was not one of them. The team deals with them as Clark sends Brad to follow Winston as Lila radios that he is after them. Winston comes deathly close to Amy as he corners her in a garage, but Brad comes in just in time to kill Winston. When Winston dies, the Virals in the station die, too.

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Throughout the entirety of the mission, Brad and Amy disagreed with each other. Brad feared for Amy’s safety, while Amy only wanted to make decisions of her own. With Guilder’s encouragement of her behavior, Amy recklessly made decisions. They may not have died, but dangerous situations like that were too risky, hence Brad’s panic. With the mission done, Brad tells Amy the story of her dead daughter. Finding grief as something familiar between them, Amy apologizes and hugs Brad, understanding his concern for her.

Something is amiss when Director Guilder, Amy, and Clark arrive at Project NOAH’s Headquarters. Brad and Lila’s car was not behind theirs, and Amy started to feel pain. As Clark told Dr. Sykes about their experience with Winston, she realizes what is happening. Hurriedly, Dr. Sykes went down to 4B.

The Revelation

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As the situation with the Virals escalates, Dr. Sykes finds herself in 4B, reviewing footage of Winston’s escape. Seeing that Amy’s scream drives Winston away from her and Brad, she looks into the biological aspect of the incident. The IEM data showed that Tim’s power flatlined. Notifying Dr. Lear about her findings, she then decides to use Amy’s blood against Tim’s blood and see if her blood could overrun Tim’s, thinking that they could use that on the other Virals as well as Dr. Lear’s infected wife, Elizabeth Lear (Jennifer Ferrin).

While Dr. Sykes was there, Shauna Babcock (Brianne Howey) played mind games on her. Dr. Sykes remember her experiences with Shauna six months ago. Before Shauna’s turning, she and Dr. Sykes became quite close. In the visions Shauna induces, she rants at Dr. Sykes, trying to demoralize her as her attempts to synthesize a cure failed. Realizing that the project, as a whole, failed, Dr. Sykes and Dr, Lear decide to kill the virals before Director Guilder arrived. When they do, Dr. Sykes tries to stall them, but unexpectedly finds out the consequences of their final decision. She had to rush down to 4B before it was too late.

The Revelation

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Elizabeth could not believe Jonas’ story. She found it hard to believe that the serum that cured her decades-long Alzheimers will kill her and turn her into a Vampire in 48 hours. Tim’s visit confirms her worst fears and sends her into a fit of mixed emotions. Thankfully, Dr. Sykes thought of a way to save Elizabeth as well as Amy, but she would need to test it first. Jonas depended on this with everything that he had. If the trial failed, Elizabeth turns.

Unfortunately, none of the trials yielded favorable results. Each time, Fanning’s blood counterattacked Amy’s blood. Disappointed, Jonas decided to have all the Virals killed. With the breach in their security as well as Fanning’s intrusion with the way things worked, Jonas knew that Project NOAH became a failure. With Dr. Sykes’s approval, Jonas induces daylight in all of the Virals’ cells, including Fanning’s. He stood there and watched as Fanning’s body started to react to sunlight. Moments later, Clark and Dr. Sykes rush down to stop him from killing Fanning. Thanks to their encounter with Winston, Clark told Dr. Sykes that Virals die within seconds of the death of the Viral who infected them. If Fanning died, so did Elizabeth and Amy, so Jonas stops the execution.

‘The Passage’ Season 1, Episode 6 ‘I Want To Know What You Taste Like’ Final Verdict

For a brief moment, the beginning of the apocalypse seemed to be at bay. However, this episode was not the time yet; perhaps the writers have something else in mind for the show’s direction. Finally, we get to the virus’ behavior outside the confines of Project NOAH. Although the plot’s simplicity was bothering, the episode was still visually compelling; but it does not have that much of a ‘spark’ as the previous ones had.

The Passage returns Monday, February 25th with ‘You Are Like The Sun’ at 9/10c on FOX.