'The 100' Season 7 Episode 14 Preview: 'A Sort of Homecoming' sees the group go back to Earth with Cadogan
While there are three episodes left in the final season of The CW's post-apocalyptic show, 'The 100', many fans might be wondering if they might be worth watching. After all, the previous episode saw Clarke Griffin (Eliza Taylor) shoot Bellamy Blake (Bob Morley) in the heart and leave him to die as she went with Bill Cadogan (John Pyper-Ferguson) to save her friends who were trapped in the mysterious, offline planet, the code for which only Cadogan knows.
Clarke shot Bellamy in an effort to protect her daughter, Madi (Lola Flannery) after Bellamy discovered that Madi had been drawing memories from the Flame aka the Key in her drawing book when Sheidheda (JR Bourne) helpfully directed him to it. Bellamy seemed truly gone by that point — we know he knows how important Madi is to Clarke and despite this, he wanted to inform Cadogan about it. Bellamy kept insisting he would keep Madi safe, but could he really? It was difficult to see Bellamy — an OG lead character — die in such a fashion. He was left to die alone, after being shot by his best friend and forsaken by the people he had loved for six seasons. It seemed a pointless death and one that could perhaps ruin the whole show even if it makes no sense. We are holding out hope that it does — 'The 100' so far had managed to make every storyline make sense by the end of a season and we can only hope that Bellamy's death was not in vain.
That death also makes the setting of the next episode quite bittersweet. From the promo, we see that Clarke, Raven Reyes (Lindsey Morgan), John Murphy (Richard Harmon), and Emori (Luisa D'Oliveira) have apparently been taken to Earth — which if you recall was destroyed at the end of Season 5. Given that 100+ years have passed between Clarke and the others leaving the destroyed Earth and reaching Sanctum, part of it makes sense. The 14th episode of Season 7 is titled 'A Sort of Homecoming', which makes us think there's a caveat. However, being back on the familiar ground is certainly going to be difficult knowing what happened to Bellamy. While it does not seem so now, it would also be especially difficult for Clarke who has to tell everyone else what she did and deal with the guilt. As most fans agreed after the previous episode, there must have been another way.
The synopsis simply states, "Clarke and her friends reckon with all that has happened only to find an unexpected threat looming." We don't know what the unexpected threat could be but from what we are seeing in the promo, we see that Sheidheda still has tricks up his sleeve. There are also blink-and-you-miss shots of Bellamy (from the moment in the previous episode where his body is shown alongside a crying Clarke), Hope Diyoza (Shelby Flannery), and Jordan Green (Shannon Kook) holding each other, and what looks to be Sheidheda wearing a Disciple helmet. We will also be reunited with Octavia Blake (Marie Avgeropoulos), Nathan Miller (Jarod Joseph) and Gaia (Tati Gabrielle) — Gaia had been missing for most of the season. These reunions are sure to be bittersweet.
'The 100' airs on The CW on Wednesday nights at 8/7c. Watch the promo for this week's episode below.