Colony (Episode)

**"Colony"** is the first episode of *Season 2: Memories* of *So Help Me God*, the remake of the miniseries of the same name*.* It is the seventh episode of the series overall.

## Plot

*After their home is seized by a group they are powerless to challenge, Eden and Sasha put their resilience to the test.*

## Synopsis

With Eden out cold, Sasha, Sergei and Nancy are powerless to stop Alpha Force from breaking into the Capitol. Aurora and his soldiers check all the rooms and orders the muerto corpses to be removed and burned. Eden and his group are bound and locked inside a storage closet while Alpha Force starts settling in.

Twelve hours later, one of the soldiers collects Eden from the makeshift cell, informing him that Aurora wants to speak with him. Eden is bound against his wishes and marched through the Capitol; already, most of the furniture and decorations he and Sasha had collected over the years has been removed, as have the mounds of dead muertos. Eden is forced up the stairs until Dylan intervenes, demanding that Eden's restraints be removed. Dylan escorts Eden the rest of the way, revealing that Aurora has made his office in Eden's bedroom. Aurora asks that Dylan and his guards leave, allowing him and Eden to talk in private. Having calmed since first meeting him, Aurora reluctantly gives Eden some answers: having enlisted in the U.S. army shortly before the outbreak, Aurora was instructed via broadcast to build Alpha Force from a secure location before setting out to build a safe-zone. He describes how his group has been on the move for months since leaving their original base, and were told that Sacramento would be a safe place. Upon entering the city that saw smoke; realizing it was a controlled fire, they headed toward it and struggled to navigate the collapsed streets before reaching the Capitol.

Despite Eden's demands that they all leave, Aurora states that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few: the Capitol has the space, infrastructure and symbolic significance needed to build a successful colony. In an attempt to make peace, Aurora offers Eden a choice: either he and his group can become citizens of the Colony, or they can leave and settle elsewhere. Aurora points out that Alpha Force is well-armed, well-organized and well-supplied, including ammo, medical supplies and engineering equipment. To demonstrate, he mentions that engineers have already got the showers working, something Eden and Sasha could never fix. He gives Eden and his people twelve hours to make their decision.

Eden rejoins his group in the basement and relays Aurora's offer; Sergei and Nancy agree to Aurora's terms, but Sasha remains defiant. She demands to speak with Eden privately; in the next room, she asks him to use his newfound abilities to chase Alpha Force away from their home. Shocked by her request, Eden argues that he doesn't even know how his abilities work, having learned about them not 24 hours ago, and that he will not hurt anyone. Frustrated by his answer, Sasha tries to leave, but Eden, in a sudden show of aggression, grabs her tightly by the arm; he coldly states that they have to be smart and bide their time, and that their moment will come. Losing feeling in her arm, Sasha smacks him, forcing him to finally let go; Eden breaks down in tears, unsure what is happening to him, before slipping into another hallucination.

Sat outside the university where he will eventually commit his massacre, Arthur and an unidentified man discuss the roles that "the family" has assigned for them; Arthur remains silent about his task, while his friend describes being sent to the "Underchurch" as a "preacher". The man holds Arthur's hand and says that he hopes they will meet again. Eden wakes up from the memory to hear Dylan at the door; Eden says his group will agree to Aurora's terms, on the condition that all the rooms in the basement will belong to his group only. Dylan smiles and says he will see what he can do.

Three days later, the Capitol survivors begin their integration with Alpha Force. Eden and Sergei help with the construction of a secure wall around the Capitol gardens, which are being turned into a farm. A group of soldiers destroys Sasha's flower beds to make more room for crops and assault her when she tries to stop them. Eden grabs his bat and comes to her defence, but is hopelessly outmatched. In the middle of a wrestle, Eden is shot in the chest and falls to the ground, dead; the amused soldiers agree to wait for him to reanimate so they can mount him on the wall as a warning. Eden quickly gets to his feet, but not as a zombie like the soldiers expected; as before, his eyes and veins have turned black. The soldiers shoot him a second time, but he shrugs it off despite the bullet hitting a lung. He smiles and flies into a rage, stomping one to death and murdering the other with his bat. Covered in blood, he addresses the horrified crowd and shows them his healing bite wound, causing Dylan to order everyone to stand down. Eden walks over to Dylan and demands medical attention before collapsing.

Eden is carried into the office of doctor Foy, who puts Eden under; having seen his attack, she decides to put him under permanently, but not before investigating further. A few hours later she reports to Dylan about her findings: Eden's internal organs, including his heart, are far smaller than they should be and covered in a myelin-like sheath, just like the muertos she has previously dissected. In addition, his heart is beating just four times a minute and his stomach contains undigested food from weeks ago. These findings, coupled with the sheer number of surgical scars across his body, suggest that he shouldn't even be alive. Dylan asks Dr. Foy to make sure Eden wakes up.