How It Happens

**How It Happens** is the tenth episode of the first season of *The Society*, and the tenth episode of the series overall.

## Synopsis

Campbell plots a coup with Lexie and the Guard. Kelly spots something suspicious in a photo. Becca goes into labor. The expedition returns with news.

## Plot

Lexie is now holding little group sessions where she laments about how awful things are in New Ham under Allie's rule, she’s pissed about having to work and getting docked food, and the fact that Allie has never asked anyone if they’re okay with these rules. Lexie compares New Ham to a police state, and people clap for her, it is clear that directly attacking Allie's rule is gaining her support.
Fearing that her power is dwindling, and fears that she may loose the upcoming election, which she herself called, Allie asks for a meeting with Lexie. During the meeting, Allie begs Lexie to stop running, promising that she will do things differently in New Ham, however, and warns Allie that she is not afraid of her and will be running in the upcoming election. This scares Allie, and as a last effort, she offers her a compromise, Allie offers Lexie the option to run for council rather than Mayor, however, she declines.
Campbell, meanwhile, believes that he can manipulate Harry if he wins the election, furthering his own political influence and control in New Ham. Campbell does this with bribes that fuel Harry's drug addiction. Later Campbell also wants to manipulate the guard. While Clark and Jason want to follow him, Luke really doens't but is threatened and forced to agree.
On the other hand, Grizz and the explorers find a huge plot of land during their expedition, and decide that this land is enough to feed the whole town if they can find means to farm it. The land is also full of turkeys, meaning that the food supply will not dwindle in New Ham.
Kelly has now brought the photo of Pfeiffer to the larger group, explaining to Allie, Gordie, Becca, Sam, and Will that she saw him arguing with their parents shortly before they became trapped. She has also found messages and documents between them. Sam reveals that he saw some of the documents, including the one where the town refused to pay $1.5 million to have the smell removed, but destroyed the documents on Campbell's orders. Allie suggests that he drove the bus between two parallel universe, however, Gordie believes this to be impossible, as inter-dimensional travel is impossible. The group begin to speculate the reason that they are trapped, questioning whether they are being punished for their parent's actions or whether they have been given a new start.
Becca shortly goes into labour, and, due to her being the only one with any knowledge of medicine, Kelly is selected to deliver the baby. With no medical attention during the entire pregnancy, the baby appears stillborn once delivered, however, Kelly is able to revive the baby by turning it upside down. Becca and Sam decide to name the baby Eden Gelb.
Behind the scenes, the electoral candidates are trying to figure ways to win (or rig), the elections. Helena visits Allie, proposing that they work together to stop Lexie and keep Allie in power. Meanwhile, Campbell seeks partnership with Lexie, offering her ways to gain power in New Ham, including the idea of a coup by the Guard.
Following this, the Guard show up at Allie's house and place both her and Will under arrest under Campbell's orders. He believes that by arresting Allie, he is freeing Elle, whom he believes to be under house arrest from Allie; he also believes that he can stop Allie from stealing the election.
Meanwhile, at the church, Helena is talking to the crowd about how hard it is to lead, and that Allie’s doing the best job she can, when Lexie busts in and tells the crowd that Allie and Will have both been arrested. Luke explains that he heard the two of them rigging the election. This is enough to shock the crowd into believing Lexie, who tells everyone that she and Harry are going to be joint mayors for the time being until they can hold another election at a later date. One of the first changes that Harry and Lexie make is that everyone return to their own houses later that day.
Later that day, and nearing the end of the episode, Allie and Will are brought in front of an angry mob outside the church. Lexie describes what will happen to them, while Allie frantically attempts to persuade the crowd that the whole situation is a lie. While this chaos is going on, Grizz and the rest of the explorers return home and announce that they’ve found land and animals to help them survive, and Lexie tries to convince everyone that, somehow, they will make it through the rough times ahead.

Suddenly, everything cuts to black and the scene switches to that of the moon, and then the dog, Charlie, that we had seen earlier in the series in New Ham. We see Allie and Cassandra's mother, Amanda, who strokes the dog before heading into the library.

Amanda heads into the library and begins reading a story to a group of children and a few adults, all of whom are wearing yellow ribbons on their shirts. Behind her is a giant plaque that reads “We Remember Them" featuring a list of all the teens who are residing in New Ham.

## Cast

* Alex Fitzalan as Harry Bingham
* Jacques Colimon as Will LeClair
* Kristine Froseth as Kelly Aldrich
* Gideon Adlon as Becca Gelb
* Sean Berdy as Sam Eliot
* Toby Wallace as Campbell Eliot
* Olivia DeJonge as Elle Tomkins
* Jose Julian as Gordie
* Natasha Liu Bordizzo as Helena Wu
* Alex MacNicoll as Luke Holbrook
* Jack Mulhern as Grizz Visser
* Olivia Nikkanen as Gwen Patterson
* Spencer House as Clark
* Emilio Garcia-Sanchez as Jason Alvarado
* Grace Victoria Cox as Lexie Pemberton
* Amy Carlson as Amanda Pressman
* Naomi Oliver as Olivia
* Damon J. Gillespie as Mickey
* Alicia Crowder as Erika

## Trivia

* It is confirmed that Charlie, the dog, is able to travel between New Ham and West Ham, however, it is not confirmed if it is the only thing able to travel.
* It is speculated that the parents are aware of their children's locations, and aware that they are not dead.