File No. 36 – This Is What You Don’t Know – Gemini Division

Posted by Samuel Walters

“With her cover blown, Anna is held in detention as The Cleaner comes to her aid. But, is that a good thing?”

Location: Mediterranean Sea

“This Is What You Don’t Know” is another episode packed with both narrative and character information. The revelations are designed to reinforce the growing questions about what constitutes “humanity” — and to that end, this episode goes as far as any in advancing these explorations. The surface level story keeps us entertained, the undercurrents keep us thinking, pondering, and debating …

In this episode:

Anna says, “Goddamn Gemini — all these agendas and I’m always the last to know”
Gemini Division itself “tipped Colonel Black” that Anna was Gemini
Anna’s arrest turned out to be a diversion to get Van Gogh on board
Nick’s footage refutes the claim that all SIMs are “terrorists”
Van Gogh murders Rider and erases all the evidence
Anna says, “This whole thing makes me sick”
“Rider is the first decent human being I’ve met since this whole thing began.”
“All the SIMs could have been much more that soldiers if they just had been given a chance.”
Gemini saw the SIMs as more than soldiers, too
Van Gogh was a “killing machine” — a SIM v2.0
Anna saw “humanity” in Nick’s eyes
With Van Gogh, “Nothing human about him at all.”
Anna still has her own agenda
Gemini led Anna to believe that they had Nick’s core
Anna wants in on Gemini Underground
Rider was much deeper in the underground than they told me
Anna to masquerade as Rider’s widow, using Nick’s ring

“This Is What You Don’t Know” is yet another in a string of episodes to explicitly confront the question of: what makes us human? Anna says of Rider, who is killed by Van Gogh, “he was the first decent human being I have met since this whole thing began” — and, implicitly, that every other human has been something less than human. Of Nick, she says that she saw “humanity” in his eyes. The Cleaner, then, is the epitome of inhumanity. All of these character elements demonstrate that it’s possible that humanity has more to do with emotions, motivations, choices and actions than simple genetics — it’s a concept that Star Trek’s Data would have found especially promising.

In terms of Gemini Division as a series, this episode is also one of the more compelling of the series. Opening with the “inside joke” of Anna’s myriad “cliffhangar” phone calls (a narrative necessity), the surface level story of Van Gogh and the SIM underground is quite enjoyable.

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