Sense8: Episode 24

24. Amor Vincit Omnia

Sedated and strapped to an operating table, Wolfgang relieves his traumatic childhood memories as his cluster devises a rescue strategy, what with both Whispers and Jonas now in their custody. Rajan’s unannounced arrival at their Paris hideout almost ruins the plan as he inadvertently leads BPO right to their very doorstep. Outwitting their assailants, the cluster brings their plan to fruition and gets Wolfgang back, but not without hiccups. Through constant intervention of the Lacuna, they discover that what the chairman of BPO is really after is the establishment of a drone militia, an army of Homo sensorium all linked to Whispers to do his bidding. Together, they form an alliance with unlikely allies to bring down the organization and make sure that their sinister plans wouldn’t go through. Bringing everyone from Paris to Naples and with a near-death experience for one of the eight, the cluster and their friends emerge victorious, ushering in a new era of harmonious co-existence with their Homo sapiens counterparts.

Sense8: Episode 23

23. You Want a War?

When the detective arrives to arrest Sun’s brother for fraud, he creates a diversion and shoots him, prompting Sun to go berserk. A chase scene in the streets of Seoul follows suit, resulting in a car crash. Cornering her brother, Sun drops her weapon eventually and lets him go. She’s arrested by the police, orchestrates her own crash, and is whisked to safety by Riley’s Sense8 friend. Neets and Nomi propose to each other. Rajan comes clean about a corruption investigation he’s involved in and sends Kala to Paris, giving her the perfect excuse to run away with Wolfgang. As he packs his bags, Lila (Valeria Bilello) barges in followed by Whispers, capturing him. The other seven scramble to get to London as he is tortured. They defy all odds. Will tricks Whispers into believing that he’s just visiting him when in fact he is physically there for real. He beats him up and takes him hostage with the help of Kala, Lito, and Riley while Sun, Capheus, Nomi, and Neets take care of Jonas. They drive off with the two in tow, off to rescue Wolfgang.

Sense8: Episode 22

22. If All the World's a Stage, Identity Is Nothing but a Costume

Capheus’ rally draws in an overwhelmingly supportive crowd, but the strong political rhetoric ends in violence. He almost gets assassinated. Kala tries to develop her own blockers for the cluster. She and Wolfgang plan to run away together, neither to Mumbai nor to Berlin, but somewhere nobody knows them. Lito’s audition coincides with Sun’s bartending demo. He prepares her drink. She reads his lines. She gets to keep her disguise and he ends up getting the role of a lifetime, rubbing elbows and boxers with famous Hollywood personalities and his three-time Academy Award winning leading man to be. Will wallows in grief following his father’s death. Whispers takes advantage of his vulnerability and taunts him. He shapes up just in time for Riley’s return and the realization of Sun’s vengeance plot. As her brother enters the party venue, the cluster gets together and attempts to device a foolproof plan to finally end the source of her misery. Are they going to succeed?

Sense8: Episode 21

21. What Family Actually Means

Nomi, along with Neets, attends her sister’s wedding and reception. She makes a moving speech highlighting her struggles and their relationship despite her mother’s blatant discouragement. A last minute hack saves her from Bendix crashing the wedding in a attempt to arrest her. Wolfgang goes into hiding. Kala ruminates on the secrets she and her husband are keeping from one another. Capheus faces more threats as his political campaign goes on full swing. Lito sulks in bed in an endless movie marathon. Daniela finds a Hollywood script and scores him a Hollywood audition. Riley is still in Chicago and makes some headway in finding the woman who gave her Whisper’s address. She breaks into a house and gets flashes of Angelica and her cluster-related activities. They find the woman there, who just committed suicide, apparently triggered by Jonas’ appearance. She also visits Will’s dad who lies on his dying bed at the hospital. Whispers defends his position at BPO.

Sense8: Episode 20

20. All I Want Right Now Is One More Bullet

Will watches helplessly as Whispers and family are whisked to safety after Jonas’ interruption, who is apparently alive and well. He takes some confidential dossiers with him from his vault after Wolfgang picks the locks. Riley visits the Chicago police station for further investigation of their lead. Lito bemoans the fall of his career and gets a dose of realist advice from Sun, who is hiding in a love motel. Kala assists Will with his drug dependence problem while venting out about her marriage. Capheus’ political campaign kicks off, enjoying wide support from his community despite stark opposition from the incumbent. The Berlin underground gets a bit more dangerous for Wolfgang as the flirtatious Sense8 from the other cluster puts his life on the line in their little game of cat and mouse. He tries to get rid of her once and for all but is lured into a trap. Neets and the gang go on full throttle to help him in his predicament. As tables are turned, two clusters clash, only to be broken off by the arrival of the police.

Sense8: Episode 19

19. I Have No Room in My Heart for Hate

Kala confronts Rajan about his pharmaceutical empire’s questionable practices. Capheus makes up his mind to run for public office, much to the chagrin of his mother. Lito, Hernando, and Daniela celebrate in Rio but their fun is cut short when her parents arrive along with her ex. Back in Mexico City, Lito is dropped by his agency. Sun visits her parents’ tomb and gets not just advice, but also encouragement from her cluster. There the detective finds her and they engage in a rematch. Neets’ family hosts her and Nomi and they try to relax as Will panics over Riley’s trip to Chicago and her fake ID. He apologizes to his friend and persuades him to help Riley. He accompanies her to the scene of Angelica’s suicide where she finds an inhibitor capsule and a glass of water. After losing contact with the other seven, she is greeted by Angelica’s colleague, who gives her Whisper’s address. As Will, Sun, and Wolfgang prepare to attack, Jonas suddenly appears asking him if they are really ready to kill a man in cold blood.

Sense8: Episode 18

18. Isolated Above, Connected Below

The Irish Sense8 Riley connected with warns her on their train trip back to London about how being so trusting can lead to their downfall. Sun leaves her guru’s abode. Lito decides to push through with his São Paulo trip, prompting excited giggles from Daniela and Hernando. He gives out a heartfelt speech, openly declares that he is gay, and introduces Hernando to the crowd as the love of his life. Nomi and Neets enjoy their clean slate and move back to their apartment. They later discover the location of Angelica’s cabin, but finds out that it had been burned to the ground. Kala musters the courage to act on her desires, finally giving in to Wolfgang. Capheus sleeps with the reporter and a new love story blossoms. More and more people are persuading him to run for public office. Riley and Sun connect again and have a quiet conversation, reflecting on their life choices from way back. The former ends up gaining the Irish Sense8’s trust, and learns more about BP, its promising origins, and the its eventual shift to the dark side.

Sense8: Episode 17

17. Fear Never Fixed Anything

The cluster mourns Jonas’ death. Three politicians knock on Capheus’ door in an attempt to persuade him to run for office. Sun returns to her guru and is now the subject of a nationwide manhunt. He whips her back to shape in preparation for her revenge. Kala tries to convince herself that her life is perfect despite the obvious reality that she is not satisfied. Nomi and Neets meet a mysterious guy who claims to know about them and also wants to take BPO down. He gives them a Key Death USB which wipes out all of their police records. Lito bemoans the end of his career, and is hesitant to accept an invitation from the organizers of São Paulo’s gay pride parade. Wolfgang continues to deflect the other Sense8’s advances. Whispers visits Will and tries to justify his motives, declaring humanity as a threat to their existence as Homo Sensorium. Riley goes public through a rave party in a thinly veiled open call to all Sense8s to bond together against their common enemy. They narrowly escape the police, but are successful in their cause.

Sense8: Episode 16

16. Polyphony

Will makes a quick exit from the bloody outcome of his Rijks Museum meetup as Sun fights off the guards and Lito stages a hysterical distraction through Riley. Wolfgang breaks the news of his encounter with another Sense8 from a different cluster, prompting a subtle tinge of jealousy from Kala who starts sending him mixed signals. Capheus and she are caught in a riot in Nairobi and Mumbai, respectively. He becomes some sort of a local celebrity thanks to his grassroots advocacy and is interviewed on national TV. Whispers is back, having one of his men tail Neets as she comes back home from work. Lito revisits the house of the Mexican Sense8 from Jonas’ cluster, retrieving a VHS tape showing lethal experiments made on members of their cluster. Jonas is wheeled into a room for his final operation. He manages to visit Will for his last goodbye, apologizing for failing them. As Will and Nomi panic on what to do to help him, they realize it’s too late, standing there helplessly and watching one of the doctors slice his forehead.

Sense8: Episode 15

15. Obligate Mutualisms

Will’s cluster celebrates their victory, mocking Whispers and going full-on with their investigation. With Whispers officially off their case, they now have to deal with his boss at BPO. Their momentary euphoria is cut short as Sun is escorted to what is supposed to be her execution. As all eight feel the jolt of the tasers, they are rescued by an unexpected ally. They use the opportunity to successfully break her out of prison, and she goes into hiding in Seoul. Lito’s movie deals start to fall apart and they begin to feel the pressure. Wolfgang and Felix are constantly bribed with luxurious gifts by their new friend, who proposes an international money laundering business partnership. He is seduced by his assistant, a gorgeous Sense8 from another cluster. Jonas reappears and they discover that he is the last of his. Will meets up with Whisper’s boss, who explains that there are factions within BPO that want a more peaceful future. Just as he is offering him an olive branch, Whisper’s assassin ambushes them and kills him on the spot.

Sense8: Episode 14

14. Who Am I?

Will gets a glimpse of the initial stages of the Sense8 experiment involving Whispers and Angelica. The two try to outwit each other into giving away their location, but are caught in a deadlock. Riley asks for Kala’s help to stabilize his condition, but his health continues to decline. Nomi and Neets delve deeper into their research on Homo Sensorium all while trying to hack Whispers, but to no avail. They visit the mother of Sarah, the “ghost” of the girl Will often saw as a kid, and discover her connection to the Sense8 program. Lito attends his movie premiere with Hernando and Daniela and gets grilled by the press, just as Capheus is interviewed regarding his matatu’s glorification of violence and white supremacy in Nairobi. Wolfgang, joined by Sun, visits the zoo and reminisces about his mother. All of them rush to Will’s side just in time for him to ambush Whispers, who is caught unawares visiting one of the company bigwigs in London. His location is a dead giveaway and is left with no choice but panic as Will promises that they will come for him.

Sense8: Episode 13

13. Happy F*cking New Year

Will and Riley are in hiding somewhere in Iceland, but his reliance on heroin to shut off his connection with Whispers is not enough. He can still track them and he also extends his threat by visiting his father back in Chicago. Nomi and Neets suffer the same fate, but count on close friends to hide their tracks. Capheus’ matatu explodes, but he gets a brand new one from his benefactor to repay him for saving his life. Sun is still in prison, not getting enough support because her brother keeps on interfering with her legal representation. Kala and Rajan head over to Positano for their honeymoon, but her constant visions of Wolfgang come between them. Wolfgang is wooed by different factions to be their new leader as the consequence of his uncle’s murder leaves a great void that needs to be filled. His stalwart refusal results in more danger not just for him, but also for a recently recovering Felix. Lito and Hernando experience the backlash of their scandal going viral and must deal with the consequences to their respective careers.

Sense8: Episode 12

12. I Can't Leave Her

Trapped, Wolfgang visits Kala to bid her farewell, but she’s not ready to say goodbye and so she crafts a homemade explosive for him. He kills his uncle with her watching, then tells her that’s why she should just marry Rajan instead. Riley dreams about her husband’s death and the birth of their child, who also dies shortly after. Will flies to Iceland to rescue her. Nomi hacks their way into the facility. Lito flirts with a lab assistant to get the room number. Sun fights off the security personnel. Kala finds a medical reagent to jolt her back to consciousness. And Capheus takes care of the getaway ambulance. But Will accidentally looks Whispers in the eye, and now he can tap into him. Wolfgang takes the wheel to go head to head with Whispers’ helicopter. As Will and Riley get trapped on a mountaintop, he drugs himself unconscious so Whispers can’t track them, putting his faith on her. He wakes up on a boat cradled in her arms, before she drugs him again. As she looks up, she sees all eight of them onboard, sailing towards the setting sun.

Sense8: Episode 11

11. Just Turn the Wheel and the Future Changes

Riley wakes up in a hospital, and the sensate who warned her against Jonas tells her she’s going to die on that bed. Nomi wakes up from that nightmare and she and Will visit each other to plan her rescue. Kala admits to Rajan that his father asked her not to marry him, and he tells her that he has always known. She is later celebrated by the temple’s worshippers for “getting rid” of her future father-in-law. Sun’s brother comes over to deliver bad news: their father’s death. But she can see through his charades and tells him he murdered their father. Capheus settles “his debts” with the thugs, but instead of giving up the girl, he faces them alone. He then finds his boss captive there, and they ask him to end his life. Sun’s rage and his coincide and a bloodbath ensues. As he is trapped in a highway chase, he asks help from Will. Wolfgang gets Felix out of the hospital and relocates him somewhere safe before going on a suicide mission to kill his uncle. Kala tries to stop him, and they kiss, but he just won’t listen.

Sense8: Episode 10

10. What Is Human?

Sun signs the paperwork that could serve as her get-out-of-jail pass. Kala visits Capheus and they talk about courage in life. Wolfgang’s cousin comes over to threaten Felix’s life, unless he gets “his” diamonds back. Wolfgang returns them and almost gets killed, but Lito comes to the rescue with his acting skills, buying him time to grab his rocket launcher. Lito comes to terms with his sexuality and makes the first move to win Hernando back by thanking the bartender who flirted with him before with a kiss and by rescuing Daniela from her psychotic fiancé. Jonas explains more of the sensate situation to Will, on how they don’t belong to the Homo Sapiens species. He visits Riley before they bond with their respective fathers. Sun and Capheus visit him and together they watch the fireworks in Chicago for the fourth of July celebration. Later on, they all join Riley in Reykjavik to watch her dad’s piano concert, all of them getting a flashback of August 8, the day they were all born. Overwhelmed with emotions and visions, Riley faints.

Sense8: Episode 9

9. Death Doesn't Let You Say Goodbye

In Iceland, Riley meets an older sensate outside of their cluster who works for the enemy but is saving all the sensates she can before they are hunted down. Will dreams about Whispers before Jonas and Riley visit him, separately. When the other sensate with her finds out about Jonas, she warns her that HE is the enemy. Wolfgang gets a veiled threat from his uncle. Kala is interrogated by the police regarding her future father-in-law’s attempted murder, and Rajan reassures her that it’s not her fault. Sun’s father drops by to see her in jail for the first time and confesses his guilt to her, telling her that he will reveal the truth. Capheus visits Riley at her husband’s grave in Reykjavik. He shares the story about how he and his mother had to give up his baby sister at an orphanage because they had no choice. Nomi visits Lito and they talk about their respective heartaches at the Diego Rivera museum, where he and Hernando first met. He later attempts to take his own life, while Neets finds Nomi back at their apartment.

Sense8: Episode 8

8. We Will All Be Judged by the Courage of Our Hearts

Daniela agrees to marry her fiancé again so he’d leave the two alone, causing Hernando to break up with Lito. Kala visits Wolfgang at a Berlin hospital where Max is confined. Her future father-in-law tells her he knows she doesn’t want to marry his son and that it’s fine, before he gets repeatedly stabbed in front of her. Scared, Capheus decides to just drive his matatu again after witnessing his boss chop off the hands of a person who betrayed him. Thugs later threaten his mother’s life in exchange for his boss’ daughter. Sun gains both friends and enemies in prison, and puts her kickboxing skills to good use. Will gets ready for work when Riley visits him. She gives him a tour of her Reykjavik home. He does the same, and invites her to come to America. They kiss. He visits Nomi and they finally share their intel leading them to a company called BPO. Whispers arrives at Neet’s house and Nomi gets cornered in an alley. Sun fights off her two assailants, while Capheus helps her escape by driving a stolen car. Will is suspended from his job.

Sense8: Episode 7

7. WWN Double-D

Daniela repays Lito and Alejandro’s kindness by bringing them to a popular restaurant for a date, suggesting that the latter pretend to be their bodyguard. The fun ends when they find her ex-fiancé back at their place and he harasses them. Riley goes back to Reykjavik still believing that she is hexed, but Capheus joins her in the plane ride and reassures her that she’s lucky. Sun is welcomed by tough women in prison who are there for crimes like murder. Kala consults Ganesha about her wedding and Wolfgang’s frequent appearances, when she suddenly finds him right there. They share their views about gods and religion. Back in Berlin, Max winds up dead after their partners in crime betray them. Will brokers a deal with the street thugs he’s patrolling in exchange for intel regarding the night of Angelica’s suicide. Nomi reconnects with her criminal hacker past to even the playing field against their enemies. When they break into Metzger’s place, he catches them, before being ambushed by Whispers. The doctor ends up dead.

Sense8: Episode 6

6. Demons

Riley’s past catches up with her as she finds her drug lord friend in her flat, asking for his money and merchandise back, by force. As they suffocate her with a plastic bag, Will is also asphyxiated. He helps her break free from her ordeal. Sun takes the fall for her family and surrenders to the police. She goes to jail. Riley visits her and they talk about their respective dilemmas over hash. Kala wakes up the next day with her entire family watching her. When they leave the room, she sees a shirtless Wolfgang on her bed and blames him for what happened at the banquet. He tells her that he wanted her since the first time he saw her, and he thinks the feeling is mutual. Capheus quits driving his matatu in exchange for being his benefactor’s daughter’s driver/bodyguard. Nomi and Neets relocate to the latter’s house to hide. As their morning make-out session coincides with that of Lito and Hernando, as well as Wolfgang’s pool session and Will’s workout time, they experience a sensual connection like they have never before.

Sense8: Episode 5

5. Art Is Like Religion

Nomi contemplates on her hallucinations. Neets says the doctor might be hiding something and they must find out what it is. Capheus’ package is intercepted by goons, but he tracks them down and gets it back, securing his mother’s HIV meds as a prize. He visits Riley in London and Sun in Seoul, where they talk about their respective mothers. Lito experiences the pain of Sun’s menstrual period, affecting his work. His film action sequence coincides with Will’s actual police pursuit, where they inadvertently share each other’s actual reality. Will talks to Nomi’s mother, getting intel as a police officer regarding her whereabouts. Wolfgang’s uncle suspects he’s the one who stole the diamonds that should’ve been for them, but he feigns ignorance. Kala marries Rajan but as she is performing her part of the ritual, a fully naked Wolfgang fresh out of a swim in a Berlin pool appears right in front of her. He asks her what she’s doing, telling her that she doesn’t really love him, before they both lose consciousness.