12. The Chosen

Complete story — includes the ending

Jaha and Kane disagree over how to handle their grim reality when they must choose only 100 out of their 400 people to shelter at the Second Dawn bunker to make room for the rest of the 1,200 grounders, who want to place their own survivors there as well. It all leads to holding a lottery which threatens to tear the fragile plans apart. Abby asks Kane to let her give up her place to make space for others. Eventually, the two men gas their people and use Clarke's list to decide who will stay. Clarke leads Bellamy, Murphy, and Emori to save Raven, who still is at the lab with Murphy and Emori planning to shelter in the lighthouse bunker Murphy was trapped in. A group of grounders attacks them, but Echo saves them; Clarke gives Emori her suit after Emori's is damaged, but Clarke suffers from the radiation, suggesting that her Nightblood failed. With no time to return to Polis, Monty and Harper are called to transport the group to the lab where they come up with a plan to go to the remnants of the Ark in space to survive instead.