The CWFor an episode that wasn't intended to be a series finale, the final episode of The CW's "limited event series" Containment was actually a very satisfying way to go out.
Here's how we left everyone in the closing moments of the series:
Our little group of refugees had gotten about halfway through the tunnels on their way to escape the cordon when the government started blowing said tunnels up. Teresa (Hanna Mangan Lawrence) and Xander (Demetrius Bridges) realized that it was smarter for them to head back, so they did. They got to Teresa's mom's store, only to find their worst fears realized: Teresa's mom was dead. But they decided to stay and build their family there—plus, Xander proposed.
On the outside, Lex (David Gyasi) and his dad continued to work on his project to expose Dr. Lommers with Leo (Trevor St. John). He also discovered that some of his men were running a dangerous escape ring, so went down in the tunnels to try to find whoever was down there before the explosions killed them.
He ran right into Jana (Christina Moses), and explained why they couldn't make a break for the outside together. She asked him what he wanted her to do, then, and at the end of the episode we saw that he'd decided to stay in the cordon and be with his true love.
Oh, and his plan with Leo worked, with Dr. Lommers exposed thanks to secret recordings he'd made of her.
As for Dr. Cannerts (George Young), he finally stumbled across a way to use little Thomas' blood to stave off the virus for a while. It wasn't a complete cure, but it was on the way. The one problem: He needed too much of Thomas' blood to make it work. However, statistically there should be four other people in the cordon who might have the same antibodies as Thomas so he and Jake (Chris Wood) started a drive to test the blood of everyone in the cordon—and they found a guy! A priest, no less.
Last but not least, Jake. Sweet, sweet Jake with the bulging biceps. After leading the charge to test people for antibodies, he climbed to the top of a skyscraper in the cordon, delivered an inspiring voiceover, and hurled the ashes of his dead girlfriend of two weeks into the air. That's what love does to you, apparently. Love and being trapped inside a wasteland and basically left to die by the American government.
All silliness aside, it's kind of disappointing we won't get any more of Chris Wood's biceps—sorry, Containment—anymore. It was a tense and sometimes silly exploration of the best and worst of humanity and I would've watched the heck out of another season next summer.
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