Summary
“These Fragments I Have Shored Again” is a lackluster end to an underwhelming series that failed to take off.
There is plenty to unpack in the Constellation Season 1 finale. From trying to figure out the truth with Jo, Alice fights with her father about seeing two Jos while unpacking the truth between Henry and Bud Caldera. Constellation has had many twists and turns trying to figure out who or what is real, and Episode 8 answers many of our questions in an ending that still leaves many things frustratingly unresolved.
Constellation Ending Explained – The Duality of Jo
Magnus and Alice return home from the cabin, where Alice asks him to sit down at the table with her. She tells him that Jo is dead, that there is another Alice, and that Alice’s version of Jo is the one that returned from space, not theirs. Of course, Magnus is confused, as Alice had just spent a few days with her in the cabin, and tells her that their mom is crazy.
Magnus and Alice are moving out of the house. Before leaving, Alice tells her father that she knows her mom isn’t saying the right things. Alice heads upstairs to get her final things, presses play on the tape player, and speaks one last time to the other Alice, saying goodbye.
Henry Caldera Is Arrested and Charged
Henry Caldera is arrested for shooting Paul as well as throwing Mr. Rogers off the boat, leading to his drowning. He proclaims his innocence and says he wants them to establish who Bud Caldera is because they aren’t the same person. He pleads with them to give him a lie detector test. He passes the lie detector with flying colors, but the DNA matches, meaning he is formally charged with the murder of Mr. Rogers and shooting Paul Lancaster.
Jo Is Pregnant
Jo is being kept at a hospital where Irena Lysenko and her team look over her. They attempt to sit down and talk to her, and she explains she saw her daughter, the one she hadn’t seen before she went into space. Irena tells her that her daughter is in safe hands with her father. Irena breaks the news to Jo that she is four weeks pregnant.
Jo asks to speak to Henry Caldera, but Frederick arrives and unpacks. He tells her that she must focus on getting better instead of worrying about the things that didn’t happen in the past. Before he leaves, he hands her keys to snoop around the hospital, and when she looks inside a room, two strange men with beards scream, “Momma.”
Constellation Season 1 Ends With Many More Questions Than Answers
Irena enters the room the following day, and Jo asks who the men are upstairs. She tells her there is only one man, and Jo wonders if there is more than one of her. Irene tells her to worry about the present and live for her daughter and baby on the way.
Alice visits Jo and tells her that the other Alice feels it is okay that she is here instead of with her. They have both lost someone, and Alice says that she needs a Mom, while Jo says she needs an Alice, leading to them agreeing to be that for one another. Later, Jo tells Magnus she will begin to take the pills to rebuild her life again.
The season ends with Alice asking her if what she said was real. “If she and her dad are from here and this version of Jo is from up there, where will the baby be from?” This leads to a montage of us seeing Jo on the ISS with her face half blown up, grabbing the iPad she was using, and the episode ending.
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