Drinks take center stage as Carol (Rhea Seehorn) continues to investigate other people who have now abandoned her due to drugging Zosia (Karolina Wydra) in episode 4. Isolation is both a curse and a blessing in equal parts. A curse, because even the most miserable woman in the world needs company (and someone to take out her trash, too). A blessing, because now Carol can do her detective work away from the prying eyes of the global mind.
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Surprisingly, what he found during spying is related to milk. It is the drink of choice of many disturbing TV and film villains A Clockwork Orangeto alex boys‘ Homelander, so the others are in good company. sure, they are nowhere near Just as violent or evil as the other onscreen suckers, but their takeover of the human race definitely puts them in antagonist territory.
But while other milk-drinking villains like Homelander enjoy the beverage with Oedipal undertones, others treat it purely as sustenance. What’s really going on with them and milk?
in other Pluribus They sure love their milk.
Carroll noticed that Albuquerque’s recycling bins contained only milk cans. She can’t drink all the milk herself (although if she did I’d be a little impressed and mostly upset), so she argues that it’s the only food source for the others.
Carton’s search leads him to the Duke City Dairy, where all the milk is produced. There, he finds out that it is not so In fact Not milk (sorry to Homelander & Co.) but a mixture made of water and a strange white powder. The resulting liquid is light amber or straw colored, says Carroll. It is neutral on the pH scale, and has the texture of “olive oil, but thinner”.
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So what effect does this mystery-milky-liquid actually have on others? Is it just their food, or does it help strengthen the hive’s brain? Is it the physical manifestation of the “mental glue” that holds them together?
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The key should be in the white powder, which Carol investigates further. Thanks to some bar code detectives, she ends up at Agri-Jet, a manufacturing plant filled with products and mysterious objects wrapped in plastic bags. Whatever is in there has probably turned into that white powder, right?
Well, it’s also apparently up to no good, because when Carol peeks under the plastic, she puts her hand over her mouth in fear. Black it out, giving us another week to speculate about the true nature of others’ “milk.”
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What’s in the bag that Carol found in the Agri-Jet?
What could have caused Carol’s reaction to be so horrified? Unfortunately, when the thought of “absolutely horrific food sources” comes up the only thing that comes to my mind are human corpses.
That’s right: I think Carroll made the grand discovery that in addition to having parasitic minds, other people are also cannibals.
We know that others are incapable of killing any living thing. However, they can certainly eat something that is already dead, and did you know that Earth currently has plenty of that? Dead man due to the trauma of the joining and Carol’s emotional outbursts. Millions of people were killed in those events, providing others with a free supply of meat that prevented them from having to kill directly.
However, the implications of cannibalism may be a red herring that throws us off the scent. Perhaps what’s under the plastic isn’t corpses at all. Perhaps this is an indication of what the others’ true alien forms look like, no matter where in the universe they come from. Or maybe it’s some kind of experiment that proves they can bring Carol or other survivors in.
However, for now I stand by my initial theory. Pluribus Soylent is putting its own spin on green. What else? It’s still people.
Pluribus is now streaming on Apple TV with a new episode every Friday, and episode 5 will be released on Wednesday, November 26.
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