And allies are in short supply, as Tia reminds us. If he’s on their side, he makes a powerful ally, but he’ll make an equally powerful enemy. How this changes their relationship, and whether Ted will be friend or foe to merpeople is yet to be determined. It takes all of this for Ben to finally let his dad in on the secret. Ryn intercepts Tia before she can get to him, and they fight. He investigates his accident, which leads him back to where it happened and, when he foolishly jumps into the tempest, he is beset upon by Tia. After seeing a photo of a woman with no gear “free-diving” at over two-thousand feet-actually, Ryn destroying Kelsco Oil’s rig-he started to question whether he hadn’t made up the entire thing. Meanwhile, Ted, Ben’s father, is completely wrecked over memories he can’t quite reconcile of seeing a woman in the ocean, the same night as the accident that left his wife paralyzed. This has major implications for Ben, and his family, because of Ben’s uneasy relationship to the military, and Kyle’s involvement in developing Elaine’s treatment (using ill-gotten mermaid stem cells). She uses Ben’s phone to set a meeting with Commander Kyle, where she ambushes and kills him.
Tia, as it turns out, does not see it for humans.
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Ryn agrees that their kind needs to unify against the common threat, but she doesn’t know the full extent of Tia’s plan, so she takes a calculated risk in trusting her. She escaped, and came to find Ryn so they can unite their tribes, and all the other disparate tribes across the globe, to protect their livelihoods in the ocean. Tia tells Ryn she was captured 10 years ago by Russians who taught her and made her stronger, even as they experimented on her. I have faith that the writers can approach this with the appropriate nuance, and it makes for a strong internal conflict between this tight-knit throuple.Īnother thing that complicates their dynamic is Tia. This is the first major falling out Ben and Maddie have had in a long time, especially since they united around Ryn, and it’ll be interesting to see how their dynamic changes. Maddie travels to Seattle to speak to a (handsome, charming) Elon Musk-type about his plan to remove plastic from the oceans, things don’t stay strictly business. Even though she understands his reasoning, she may not be able to accept it and move on. Ben’s revelation threatens that-because Maddie cannot rationalize his actions the way he has. Ben and Maddie did whatever was needed to protect Ryn and her tribe, and Ryn offered herself to be experimented on to protect Ben, and help cure his mother Elaine of the condition that left her paralyzed from the waist down. Last season, Ben, Maddie, and Ryn were a unit, completely in sync with one another. So, to Ryn and to Ben, it was a logical choice. Mermaids kill to defend themselves, and Ben let Ian die to protect Ryn, and her kind, from him exposing their secret. Mermaids are at least as smart humans, but their emotional intelligence and their capacity for empathy, is different. This kind of misunderstanding is something this show does well. This is another of those human things that Ryn can’t easily grasp because there is no cultural equivalent for her kind. Maddie is upset, and Ryn doesn’t quite understand her reaction. When Maddie confronts Ben about tensing up whenever Ian is mentioned, he reveals that he could’ve saved Ian, but made the conscious choice not to. Ben had made it to him in time to help, but decided not to Ian subsequently died. He attempted to kidnap Ryn, to expose her, but he drove off a cliff and was stuck in his car underwater instead. Last season, reporter and eco-activist Ian Sutton, witnessed Ryn transform into a mermaid. This is where we meet Tia, and she’s a cold piece. When she hits the water, she transforms into a mermaid. In the air, the pilots get word that she’s not on the manifest, but before they can do anything with that, she kills them, then parachutes out the plane, letting it crash with four remaining passengers on board. Siren Season 3, Episode 1 & 2Ī woman dressed as a flight attendant boards a private jet to Seattle. This Siren review contains spoilers for Episodes 1 & 2 of Season 3.