Just prior to this, during her teary breakdown at the meeting with the Chinese, her conflicted feelings about leaving or staying with Arthur make more sense. It’s a futile effort to connect the dots in truth, one that eventually leads Miranda into realizing how pointless all of her work actually is during her meeting with the Chinese.Īs the episode closes out, Miranda doesn’t makes it aboard the Robespierre, heading back to her hotel room and taping up all the walls and doors to make sure she’s completely concealed inside. That doesn’t stop Miranda from searching for Arthur online, which in turn leads her to Kirsten’s social media profile. This explains its significance to this story. However, that was in the past and it also explains Arthur’s words earlier on in the episode.

Just before she goes though, she burns the workshop she’s worked so hard to work in, destroying all semblance of the spaceman and the Station Eleven work. That evening, she packs up her things and decides to leave, having had enough. As she sits by the pool, Miranda believes that the book has ruined her life. Although it’s brushed off earlier on as a “misunderstanding” and not an affair, Clark confirms the brutal truth. When she finds out Arthur has shown off her work without consent to Elizabeth, Miranda is livid. Some of her shock stems from the past, as we cut back once more to see how much time and dedication she’s putting into this book.Įverything goes awry during a dinner party that night though. It’s enough to shock her into submission, falling over and smacking her head. When she gets there, she receives word that Arthur has died. Eventually though, we slam back to 2020 again as Miranda makes it to the shore. There are several scenes interconnected here that have no expository text to explain what timeframe we’re in flashbacks within flashbacks (flashception?) that are actually in the past, allowing us to see more of Miranda and Arthur’s tumultuous relationship. There’s a really beautiful shot here that cuts back to Chicago again through the elevator doors but it simultaneously highlights the problem this show has. In the elevator, Miranda rings Arthur and tells him to hang tight in Chicago, encouraging him to stay safe. It’s ten miles off-shore and the Captain there owes Leon a favour, so he’s good value for this. Specifically she needs to head down to the shore and hop aboard a tanker called Robespierre. He confirms that the flu has mutated and she needs to get out. Now, without warning we cut forward again to see Miranda scribbling a symbol on a note, the same symbol we saw imprinted on Kirsten’s wrist during episode 2.īack in Miranda’s apartment, she receives a call from Leon, her boss. There are less people at the office and some of the workers begin wearing gas masks. The editing doesn’t make that very clear though, as we jump back to 2020.Īfter Miranda’s work trip in Malaysia, things begin to descend. Now, their ties link back to an earlier scene where Arthur first met Miranda in a coffee shop, requesting to buy her work for $1000. It’s a nice way to tie things together and adds more context to scenes we’ve seen before. This coincides nicely with Kirsten’s flashback which includes her asking about this.

Interestingly, she’s the one who has the Station Eleven book, handed over to him personally. Miranda has dedicated her life to this, and eventually heads up to visit Arthur Leander. We’re in Chicago 2005 and following Miranda, who applies for a big job that’ll change her life forever.įast forward to 2020 and she’s high-flying in her career. Episode 3 of Station Eleven begins with a shift to a completely different character.

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