5. The Gospel of Josephine

Complete story — includes the ending

This episode's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. ( April 2020 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) After waking up, Josephine kills Kaylee as revenge for killing her last host. She is then forced by her parents to pretend to be Clarke to find out how many other Nightbloods the Earth group has. Jordan suspects something happened to Delilah because she's not herself. He, Bellamy, Murphy, and Gaia find a secret room where they discover that the Primes have been using mind drives to take on new Nightblood host bodies, and essentially live forever, but at the cost of mind-wiping their new hosts, effectively killing them. Having followed them, Josephine defends the Primes, to Bellamy and Gaia's surprise. After learning that Abby knows how to turn ordinary people into Nightbloods, Josephine goes to report but a suspicious Bellamy confronts her. Josephine admits that she's not Clarke before knocking Bellamy out. She decides to use Murphy to get more information by offering him immortality. In the woods, Octavia and Diyoza are chasing after Xavier when they get stuck in a swampy-surface called the crucible. Octavia struggles to get out against Xavier's advice, which causes her to sink faster. When a temporal flare approaches, Xavier throws them a rope to escape but it's too late for Octavia. Diyoza runs from the area and Octavia submerges herself under the crucible surface, not knowing one of her hands is still exposed. Diyoza comes back later to dig Octavia out.