‘Orphan Black’ Season 4 Spoilers On A New Clone, Plus Watch The Eye Teaser [Videos]
Oh, Clone Club, the wait for new Orphan Black episodes continues, as Season 4 isn’t set to premiere on BBC America (and Space in Canada) until April, 2016. Fortunately, fans won’t have to wait until then for glimpses and teases about what to expect in the new season, including hints about what’s coming up with the newest Leda clone.
As Orphan Black Season 3 ended, Sarah discovered that Neolution was a major player — as in, it had infiltrated both Leda and Castor. Delphine may have paid the price after uncovering the truth, with her fate left up in the air at the end of the finale. Will she survive being shot? What exactly are the Neolutionists up to now? That’s what Sarah’s going to have to find out, but she did at least get a moment to be with her family — including her daughter, Kira, Mrs. S and Mrs. S’ mother (the original for both projects) in Iceland when last seen in the Season 3 finale.
As for the latest spoilers out, first up, there’s the first official Orphan Black Season 4 teaser from BBC America, and it’s all about (presumably) Rachel’s Neolution eye. The “upgrade” for the clone who lost her eye thanks to a pencil, science, Cosima Scott, and Sarah (and who was reunited with her very much alive mother in the finale), was first seen at the end of Season 3, and it looks like with this teaser, fans get a closer look at it — and it includes a camera.
Unsurprisingly, with a new Orphan Black season comes a new clone, and the details of Season 4’s addition have been revealed by Entertainment Weekly via an interview with series creators Graeme Manson and John Fawcett.
We have exclusive intel and photos of the newest @OrphanBlack clone! https://t.co/Qs7kRMv57c pic.twitter.com/h2EzxxtbJ1
— Entertainment Weekly (@EW) December 28, 2015
As seen in the photo in the tweet above, the newest clone portrayed by Tatiana Maslany wears a sheep mask — “Dolly the sheep,” as Fawcett pointed out, adding, “We wanted it to be spooky but kind of childlike at the same time. We wanted a little balance.”
The clone is only known as M.K. thus far, and Fawcett described her as a “slightly traumatized clone who has a deep past,” as well as “highly skilled and very smart” and someone with “a little bit of a dangerous side.” This is a Leda clone who is self-aware, much like the Leda clones learned the Castor clones were. However, don’t expect her to be that willing to share what she knows as Sarah goes looking for answers in Season 4, and that’s because she wants to protect herself. Given what the clones who have been introduced in the first three seasons – on both sides, really – have gone through, who can blame her?
“She knows more than Sarah does so she knows how dangerous the whole thing is. She’s purposefully avoided contact with the sisters to keep herself safe, and Sarah is now trying to draw her out of the shadows and trying to utilize the information that she has so that Sarah can follow her own mystery and fill in the blanks and protect Alison and protect Cosima from Neolution. But this girl is very unwilling.”
The two photos that EW has posted along with these teases about the new clone offer a look at M.K. running through the woods, sheep mask on, and sitting against a tree at night. Space has released three very short promos — each barely 10 seconds — for the new season, and thanks to these photos, it’s clear to see that they have to do with M.K. “New Season. New Secrets,” the short videos tease, going from offering a blurry look at someone in the woods to the back of someone with a backpack on to that person lowering a sheep mask to her side.
Orphan Black Season 4 will premiere on BBC America in April, 2016.
[Image via BBC America]
