Come Relive The Shocking ORPHAN BLACK Season 3 Finale: "History Yet To Be Written"

Come Relive The Shocking ORPHAN BLACK Season 3 Finale: "History Yet To Be Written"

The third season of Orphan Black came to a close on Saturday with more than a few twists and turns. BBC America has released a handful of photos from the finale.

By RohanPatel - Jun 23, 2015 08:06 PM EST
Filed Under: Orphan Black
Source: Entertainment Weekly
Orphan Black season three came to a thrilling close on Saturday night with a Helena/Rudy fight, a Delphine cliffhanger, the results of Alison's election, and the return of an old villain highlighting some of the biggest twists and turns. Read on below for a brief recap with a few quotes from co-creator John Fawcett. 

The finale answered more than a few of the season's most pertinent questions, but with those answers came a whole slew of new questions. First off, the Neolutionists are back and they're just as weird and creepy as you remember. How do they play into season 4? Well, according to Fawcett: 


I think what was important for us in season 3 is that this was a chapter in the larger puzzle that we’re trying to tell in the bigger mystery. We’re trying to answer a lot of questions in this finale and have a lot of resolution. It was important to us in this finale that there are a lot of answers and there is resolution and there is the feeling of a finale, but we also are at the brink of almost a brand new rabbit hole. It’s interesting to come to the end of our Castor mystery, and how that fits in with Leda and Topside and then to introduce our new foes that we’re expecting to see more of in season 4, which is Neolution, which we set-up in season 1.


Sounds like some big things are the way next year. Now moving on to Delphine... is she really dead? Even though we've seen Helena and Cosima survive impossible odds in past season finales, it would appear as though Delphine won't be as fortunate. Fawcett says her love story with Cosima was always meant to be a tragic one and even though her death was horrible event, it was necessary for Cosima's story and it's something that had to happen as the show moves into seasons 4 and 5. He doesn't elaborate on who shot her, but based on his comments, it looks like the identity of the shooter will be one of next season's bigger mysteries.

A few final notes:
  • Even though Project Castor is more or less finished after Helena tore Rudy a new bicep, Mark will be back next year.
  • Krystal Goderitch, the newest seestra, will also be back next year. Fawcett teases big plans for the character.
  • If Ksenia Solo can make it work in her schedule, Shay will also be back next season.
  • Before deciding on the clone dinner party, there were a few brief conversations about Sarah having a side-scrolling fight, similiar to the major fight in Oldboy, where clones would come at her from various angles and she just turns and fights them all.
Hopefully they can make that fight work out in one of the future seasons, it sure sounds like something fans would love to see. Rewatch the clone dinner scene below and discuss the events of the finale in the usual spot!


Plus, check out more photos from the finale below:






















Season: 3 | Episode: 10 | Original Air Date: 20 June, 2015

Castor and Topside force Sarah to make uneasy alliances. But there is some rest for the wicked, when Donnie gives Helena an unexpected ‘gift’, and the results of Alison’s candidacy finally come in. Even as team Leda takes a moment to breathe, change is afoot and a life hangs in the balance.



More vulnerable than ever before, Sarah, Cosima, Alison, and Helena’s bond will be put to the test with the reveal of highly trained, identical male-soldiers played by Ari Millen.


Orphan Black features:
Tatiana Maslany as Sarah Manning
Tatiana Maslany as Alison Hendrix
Tatiana Maslany as Cosima Niehaus
Tatiana Maslany as Helena Manning
Tatiana Maslany as Rachel Duncan
Tatiana Maslany as Various Others
Jordan Gavaris as Felix Dawkins
Kevin Hanchard as Detective Arthur Bell
Évelyne Brochu as Dr. Delphine Cormier
Maria Doyle Kennedy as Siobhan Sadler
Skyler Wexler as Kira Manning
Michiel Huisman as Cal Morrison
Kristian Bruun as Donnie Hendrix
Ari Millen as Mark Rollins/Project Castor clones
Justin Chatwin as Jason Kellerman
James Frain as Ferdinand
Ksenia Solo as Shay

Orphan Black returns Spring 2016


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imkennypowers
imkennypowers - 6/22/2015, 7:15 PM
Such a solid finale!!

I think this finale sets up next season to be even more exciting/interesting than last season's finale did this season.

I like Helena being in the fold with Clone Club. I liked Ferdinand's 180 and him working with CC could be interesting/entertaining. Is Delphine dead? Who shot Delphine? Is Cosima's gf actually a monitor?? How hot is Cosima's gf?? What the serious f*ck is going on with Rachel's storylines??

Man I can't wait for next season!
imkennypowers
imkennypowers - 6/23/2015, 8:38 PM
@TheAcuario - "WOW the season finale tonight was intense. Kinda felt like a series finale in a way..."

No way did it feel like a series finale! I'd be LIVID!! hahaha. They closed a lot of storylines, but opened/started plenty more. I really hope it's not a series finale I have too many questions left, dammit! haha.
imkennypowers
imkennypowers - 6/23/2015, 8:40 PM
@Spock0Clock @Braveandthebold

have y'all not watched the finale yet?!

I can't believe there's been no discussion. haha.
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 6/23/2015, 10:45 PM
@ImKennyPowers

Such a great episode. My only problem with it was in how it sort of wrapped the Castor stuff up in too tidy of a bow. Rudy's dying speech was just amazing. A total reversal on the stereotype of "emotionless clone soldiers grown in vats" to imagine them all huddling up in the corner... Really just powerful stuff.

Also, Ferdinand and Donnie both went from me not really caring for them as characters to being up there with the rest of Clone Club. And there have been some sketchy compositing this season, but that Last Supper was amazing. I only watched it once, so I can't say "seamless", but it looked really damn good. Plus, the narrative of the scene really worked too. Something as silly and trivial as school trustee in the context of global bioengineering still totally landed. I was as proud of Alison as I was of Sarah.

And for someone whose was gutted by Mrs. S ripping Helena away from her sestras in the last season finale, this is me watching when Donnie shows Helena Jesse's Towtruck and Jesse gets out...

Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 6/23/2015, 10:47 PM
For reuniting Helena and her boyfriend, I deem Donnie the real hero of season 3.

Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 6/23/2015, 10:53 PM
Oh, and Neolution is back. I was hoping we were going to see more gene freaks, and extreme body-modders in the show, but it went real corporate for seasons 2 and 3. It looks like now we might see some Dark Angel style shenanigans.
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 6/23/2015, 11:17 PM
One more thing about this last season as a whole... I really really miss Beth. I've been thinking it was "I miss Sarah pretending to be Beth", since we never really got to know her. But I honestly think it's more that you can really feel her absence.

And I don't mean just because people mention her, and there are hallucination ghosts or whatever. I really feel like there was an empty chair at that party where Beth belonged, and the show is really effective at making that very grounded tragedy of the death/absence of a family member resonate.
Braveandthebold
Braveandthebold - 6/24/2015, 1:57 AM
This was a beautiful and actually a pretty happy finale(compared to season 1 and 2's endings especially season 1, that was just cruel), it also set up next seasons story. Now who the [frick] shot Delphine ? Am pretty sure she's dead, but I feel like the writers left it a bit ambiguous in case they change their minds and what to bring her back. Shay is still quite the suspicious character but that might just be Orphan Black paranoia(Could she have shot Delphine ? eh .. too obvious). See this is what happens when Clone club works together, the plan actually works. Rudy and Helena scene was so touching and it gave us some insight into the male clones. I really expected some of the castro and Leda clones to sort of recognize that they're
brother and sister and maybe work to fight against the factions that have been controlling them. Really would like to see some brother and sister bonding and some empathy from both sides towards each other maybe sometime next season. Am actually happy we finally have the big bad,Neolution has been pulling the strings behind both project, it seems they're heading into a more sc-fi/bio-tech season that's a bit more season 1. I really appreciated that they explained just how Sarah got to Mrs.S and made it make sense ... of course Kendall stirred Sarah(a part of her) to her daughter(god I love this show). The last scenes Kira and Sarah reunion was wonderful and earned. Poor Rachel, her life just sucks but hey she's finally got a child.Overall a satisfying finale, and now the wait begins for season 4.







Braveandthebold
Braveandthebold - 6/24/2015, 2:07 AM
@Spock0Clock
I also miss Beth(Sarah pretending to be Beth) I like the way you put it because I do get that feeling regarding Beth, like an emptiness.
Hell even Sarah feels Beth's absence.



I really liked how they showed us who Sarah thought Beth was based on her limited knowledge of her.
Braveandthebold
Braveandthebold - 6/24/2015, 2:08 AM
@ImKennyPowers
Yes! You're damn right I saw it! And I loved it. Sorry it seems am late to the party.
Braveandthebold
Braveandthebold - 6/24/2015, 2:23 AM
@TheAcuario
Yup this season finale was actually pretty clean compared to the last two. Ferdinand's hate for neolutionist led to an alliance and a hilariously violent scene(I think he might actually have a soft spot for Rachel).


Braveandthebold
Braveandthebold - 6/24/2015, 2:47 AM
@ImKennyPowers
"How hot is Cosima's gf??"

Which one ? Also they both look pretty good to me. Apparently Cosima likes blondes.





TheAcuario
TheAcuario - 6/24/2015, 7:44 AM
Delphine may still be alive depending on the actress schedule they are going to bring her back
TheAcuario
TheAcuario - 6/24/2015, 7:44 AM
@braveandthebold
I have a week spot for french and british woman and blondes too lol
imkennypowers
imkennypowers - 6/24/2015, 10:27 AM
@Spock0Clock - "Such a great episode. My only problem with it was in how it sort of wrapped the Castor stuff up in too tidy of a bow. Rudy's dying speech was just amazing. A total reversal on the stereotype of "emotionless clone soldiers grown in vats" to imagine them all huddling up in the corner... Really just powerful stuff."

Yeah they could've gotten a little more out of the Castor storyline, but I think they made the right decision shifting the direction of series/season. I mean really the only reason I would've liked it to continue is to see more the different Castor clones. The seemed closer knit bc they were raised together and I they could've gotten more out that dynamic. And yeah Rudy's speech was pretty f*cking great and further supports why I wouldn've enjoyed learning more about them.

"Also, Ferdinand and Donnie both went from me not really caring for them as characters to being up there with the rest of Clone Club. And there have been some sketchy compositing this season, but that Last Supper was amazing. I only watched it once, so I can't say "seamless", but it looked really damn good. Plus, the narrative of the scene really worked too. Something as silly and trivial as school trustee in the context of global bioengineering still totally landed. I was as proud of Alison as I was of Sarah."

Ferdinand & Donnie deserve more screen time next season, for sure! They've done 180s for me.

"And for someone whose was gutted by Mrs. S ripping Helena away from her sestras in the last season finale, this is me watching when Donnie shows Helena Jesse's Towtruck and Jesse gets out..."

The "hello, Jesse Towing" scene and the parallels between Helena's dream sequence to start the season & the family dinner scene to end season were great!
imkennypowers
imkennypowers - 6/24/2015, 10:33 AM
@TheAcuario - "I said it felt like a series in a way because it felt like they wrapped almost of the story lines smoothly while giving us something new to look forward too."

Got ya! I was just giving you a hard time because I'm entrigued by the new storylines and would hate not to see those tied up as well as those from this season. And I know what you mean about how well they tied up storylines. Community and Parks & Rec had several brilliant episodes that were great and closed up storylines so well, they too felt like series finales. Granted, a few of the season finales were done that way because both series weren't guaranteed the next season so they wrapped things up as well as possible just in case. Oh and like the Wire season four!! That was a perfect series finale and for two years it was, until they came back and did the brilliant season five and the true series finale was even better, in my opinion.
imkennypowers
imkennypowers - 6/24/2015, 10:34 AM
@Braveandthebold - "Yes! You're damn right I saw it! And I loved it. Sorry it seems am late to the party."

hahaha. I figured you had, I was just surprised no one had been talking about it on here yet!
imkennypowers
imkennypowers - 6/24/2015, 10:38 AM
@Braveandthebold

Shay. She's on Turn: Washington's Spies too.

Braveandthebold
Braveandthebold - 6/24/2015, 10:42 PM
@TheAcuario
Who doesn't ? Cosima has good taste.



TheAcuario
TheAcuario - 6/25/2015, 5:35 AM
@braveandthebold
Yeah man i agree with you there
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