This Was Horrifying.. | Chernobyl Episode 3 Reaction 

This was a hard watch..such a bleak, horrifying and depressing outcome for everyone involved All 5 Episode Reactions are available 4 weeks EARLY and UNCUT over on Patreon! www.patreon.com/spartanandpudgey

Pudgey: 21:33 “oh my god I can’t look at it I can’t.” Dyatlov: “she’s delusional, take her to the infirmary, it's only 3.6 roentgen. I’ve seen worse.”

The fact that this is a real event makes it so much more horrifying

What's crazy is that they actually downplayed how horrific a body looks after it received a deadly dose of radiation poisoning. Vasily looked even worse irl. It's genuinely horrifying. In Chernobyl City they had a museum and that museum had video footage playing of people affected by radiation poisoning. I'll never forget it.

spartan: i love this guy, hes got balls 10 minutes later: the guys balls

And one has to remember in this authoritarian regime people didn’t know what was going on . Neither the soldiers or liquidators nor the ordinary public . And if you did the KGB paid you a visit . So really really horrible because most ppl didn’t realize what killed them

Shcherbina's response to the miner when he asked about them being looked after is actually amazing character development. As Deputy Chairman he starts off fully devoted to the Soviet establishment and its ideas, but as he faces the extremely harsh realities of this nuclear disaster, he slowly realizes that the Soviet view is no longer enough and begins to doubt his own power. In addition to that, throughout the show he's coming to terms with his own mortality (as everyone else involved), so as he's losing half of his remaining life and his faith in the system he realizes that he can't answer whether the miners will be looked after or not. He knows he might not have that power afterwards or worse, he might not even be alive by then.

Never ascribe to malice what can be explained by incompetence and stupidity.

I get the impression that SnP are less informed about communism and the USSR than I expected. I mean no disrespect. I’m a little older and maybe this isn’t taught in Australia schools when they were growing up. Secrecy and cover up was so over the top and career party members made their way “up the ladder” by how easily they followed orders and agreed with their superiors. They weren’t always the most qualified for the jobs and positions they held. Information to the public was NEVER honest and accurate if it painted the govt in a bad light. When you know that going into the show, it offers a different understanding of what you’re seeing. Some of the brutality, secrecy, and lack of empathy for human life has been lost over time when learning about the history of some places. The USSR being one of them. That being said, I do think SNP are doing a fantastic job breaking down and discussing what they’re watching happen in each episode.

Kudos to the filmmakers for not having the actors fake bad Russian accents. They just went for it and it makes the show so much better.

if anything, this show down played the effects of ionizing radiation. it didnt show the worker whose face literally melted off.

Radiation sickness isnt really explained on this show. You cant get infected by it as if it were a disease. There are four main types of radiation, alpha, beta, neutrons, and gamma. Gamma is literally the light that comes from the irradiated object. It can give you burns similar to sunburn and cancer similar to overexposure from the sun. It travels far but is stopped by lead because it is dense. Most radiation suits have a lead lining to stop this radiation. Neutron radiation is when the atom shoots out neutrons from the core. It travels really far and is stopped by water or thick concrete, which is why Dyatlov was trying to pump water into the core. Usually if something is wrong with the reactor, stopping the neutrons is a major step to stop further reactions. Neutrons dont cause much damage in the human body if you are not too close to the source but can cause damage to the body if you are close. Beta radiation is stopped by your clothing and is when the atom shoots out free electrons. It can cause burns to the outside but is mostly harmless unless you breathe it in. Alpha radiation is stopped by a thin layer of pretty much anything but is most dangerous when breathed in. The danger of the reactor is actually the ash. The ash contains small parts of irradiated objects. It is spitting out alpha and beta radiation and when it is breathed in, eaten or absorbed in other ways, it can cause the radiation sickness that you see with the firefighters or cancer if you are lucky. Good news is if you wear a decent mask and clothes, you are likely going to be shielded from this. It is also why they wash down the cars, try not to disturb the ground and worked fast to put out the fire and stop the smoke. Obviously the other forms make it harder to clean up the actual material, but it is the ash that they worked to bury and what caused the spread of radiation across Europe. TLDR The reason she was not supposed to touch her husband is not for her safety, but his. The radiation sickness killed his immune system so there is a good chance that she could infect him with another disease while he is already sick, making it much worse. Radiation isnt contagious, unless you dont clean yourself to remove irradiated dust.

In the 80s the dangers of radiation were just not as well understood. Chernobyl was actually the reason it became publicly known how bad it could be. But the wife and even the firefighter didn't know any of that, so when she was in the hospital and the nurse told her not to touch him with no explanation, she had no idea why. It felt like an arbitrary rule because they were in a hospital.

There are a few things here: First, Dyatlov was not as bad as he was portrayed here, witnesses said he remained collected and acted according to his best ability. He did not know that an accident like this even could happen, but when the evidence came up, he acted on it, not like shown here. On the matter of the water, he wanted to cool the core, which he thought was still there, which would have beed the most important thing if that were the case. But this water would not be pumped with the pumps destroyed, remaining water evaporated in the fire and only the rest landed in those tanks. What filled them were the firetrucks outside, so they had to be drained, stopping the water was easy enough, but removing it was difficult. Second on the behalf of the wife: in the USSR there were a lot of rules, you constantly were told not to do this or that, and often there rules were nonsensical. Thats the reason she disobeyed the nurse for example. She did not understand the reason, why she shouldn’t touch her husband, so it must be nonsense. But radiation as such is not contagious, it’s “just” that her husband is so irradiated and has inhaled so much of the irradiated smoke and dust, that he himself is essentially gushing out radiation. On top of that his immune system will be practically gone, so touching him will give him all kinds of diseases. Not that it really matters in this situation anyway.

this show packs an extra punch because it actually happened. it's not fiction but real, those guys really went to turn off those valves, those miners really dug under the pad, those firefighters really died miserable deaths. That's why it hits you in the feels

When this happened in 1986 the radioactivity when with the wind to Sweden among other countries. The most came to my home town Gävle. We first though it was from the nearest nuclear powerplant here which was 80 km away until we learnt it came from Ukraine. For some years we were not allowed to eat mushrooms or meat from wild animals hunted in the forest here. The day I learnt about it was a sunny day but I saw two people with umbrellas so I asked why they had them. They thought it would protect from the nuclear powder falling from the sky.... I still live here in Gävle, we still have traces of radioactivity in the mushrooms, but now we eat them as its lower rates.

I genuinely think the ending shot of this episode is one if the darkest depictions ive ever scene. The cement just slowly covering the last thing associated with her lover, her shattered blank stare just holding into that last glimpse of the casket of her lover that she will ever get.

They poured concrete not to make them inaccessible but to contain the radiation. Radiation is stopped by mass, which is why the very heavy lead (Pb) is usually used by X-ray technicians, for example, for radiation shielding. In this case, concrete was the most practical solution.

"What is everyone gonna hear?" Such a cold, barely veiled threat...

For those wondering what kind of flashlights those divers switched to, so they worked under radiation, those were mechanical flashlights where you need to squeeze them all the time to produce static energy and therefore having light. Those were quite common in soviet union. 0 batteries, just static energy.

The latency stage between when you first get irradiated and when your body starts truly imploding is called the "walking ghost" stage. A very apt and horrifying name.

9:45 By the way, he didn't say the radiation would have disappeared in 24,000 years but that the half-life of plutonium-239 was 24,000 years, which means that even 24,000 years later the material would still be at 50% of its initial radiation level. 26:25 Of course, they are obviously KGB agents.

You must understand the mindset of someone raised in a murderous dictatorship, like the soviet one (who is actually coming back now): if you're told something, like "a RBMK reactor can't explode," then you don't question it; in fact, for some, the mere possibility becames inconceivable, and that is why Diatlov's mind simply refused what his eyes were seeing. The higher-ups told you something, then questioning it is impossible, because you can actually be imprisoned and killed if you do. The KGB permeated every level of society, and people were either true believers (and a fair number of those were killed too), or was just terrified and tried to live under the radar.

This is the Soviet Union, NO ONE was told about radiation. The wife was told not to touch her husband, but never why.

The baby is an abstraction; Vasily is real, he's her husband, and he's suffering the most horrible death imaginable: Lyudmilla isn't stupid.

Here in Germany, 1000-1500 km away, we still have to scan hunted wild animals for radiation in some areas. Mushrooms (which the wild animals also eat) could **still** contain Caesium 137 in non negligable quantities. So there is still an advisory to not consume mushrooms in these regions in larger quantities.

the thing about "trust, but verify" proverb is that in russian verbs sound similarly, basically they rhyme, so it's "doveryai, no proveryai"

21:29 What is happening to him is called Necrosis, which means he is literally rotting away while still alive.

Just a few points: 📍Regarding the guy who lost his face, in reality his wife was present whenever he was asked questions, because she was the only one who understood his replies 📍The prison cell scene was filmed at a real ex-KGB prison 📍The fireman's wife holding slippers at the graveside, did happen in reality. They were brand new slippers that he never wore

Now, with the 3 volunteers there's a bit of dramatization. In reality nobody volunteered, it was simply their shift that day. But the scene means to emphasize that there were moments of bravery shown by simple people throughout the event. Enjoy the rest of the show, I'm looking forward to the rest of it!

"Not though the soldier knew Someone had blundered. Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred."

21:20 The show directors actually toned down the gruesomeness of cell death caused by the radiation. This was hard to look at.... but seeing organs liquify and their eyes decompose while suffering pain unimaginnable. I understand their decision.

After this show released 1 of the miners alive today very mutch insisted that they most definatly were not entierly naked. I cant remember if he mentioned if all of the miners toke there cloths off but they did not take there underwear off.

25:00 they dont show you this guys face because by this point he didnt have a face. the showrunners decided not to be too graphic. From what Ive heard there are pictures of all of them but I wouldnt recommend looking for them.

12:00 According to some Russian friends this tv series is more than 90% accurate but this is the most inaccurate scene of the entire show. Mikhail Shadov was actually a former miner worker himself and not arrogant at all.

"This guy has balls!" I loved this foreshadowing haha

LOL, Pudgey "Why don't they suit them up in the bus to give them a fighting chance?" a minute later "The masks don't work or you'd be wearing them" Pudgey "That'll be me"

What makes this show even more scary is that these things actually happened. That's why when I watched it it just felt far worse than most things I've watched. It's so sad 😭

As for Ulyana Khamyuk, the authors of the series themselves admitted that she is a fiction. And supposedly she is a collective image of all the specialists who worked to eliminate the accident. What complete nonsense. More than a million people were involved in the liquidation of the accident. Even if we take only the layer of chief specialists and scientists, then even then it is impossible to imagine how this entire huge crowd, instead of fulfilling their duties in Chernobyl, runs around hospitals and looks for some kind of secret in Moscow hospitals, without taking off clothes contaminated with radiation. Khamyuk and Legasov even come to meetings in the Kremlin in these clothes. 14 minutes 55 seconds - I don't know how to comment on this. Legasov and Shcherbina walk through a city contaminated with radiation. Oh, these calming evenings among radionuclides, it’s so wonderful!

It takes a certain special confidence for an actor to accurately portray a Soviet era mine boss.

If the wife has health problems from the radiation, it’s not from touching her husband. The mere fact she was living there in Pripyat when it happened was enough to damage her DNA. Being there until later the next day, before she left for Moscow, means she was exposed PLUS just living in Ukraine was dangerous. Everyone in all those countries were living in the elevated radiation…so even if she left the Pripyat area, she was getting radiation. When the person you love is scared and dying, you don’t abandon them. People call her stupid but she loves him and doesn’t know where else to be. The general public had no training, just people barking orders at them. She didn’t understand …it was almost 40 years ago. Even you guys didn’t understand…and you have the internet.

Notice how in episode two when Boris shows up the local bureaucrats immediately hand him a list of who is at fault? All of these men, including especially Dyatlov had at the top of their mind not being blamed for this (because they knew it likely meant torture in some Siberian prison until they died). The reason that Dyatlov couldn't admit the core had exploded was because he knew he would then be responsible for it.

27:27 Managing this catastrophe while fighting an extended war in Afghanistan destroyed the Soviet Union. That’s why 5 years later it collapsed.

About your last point, that is precisely how they were referring to it : a battle against an invisible enemy. For the soviets, the mobilization around this event is literally described in military terms. It was considered a war, a battle. In french, in some articles, we were calling this enemy that they were fighting the "black evil" of radioactivity.

If you like to read, I highly recommend Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham. It goes into a lot of detail about what happened and why it happened but also about the reasons people acted as they did. Keep in mind this happened under a totalitarian government under which millions of people disappeared and were never heard from again. 1980s USSR was a completely different world.

Funny, Spartan used the word eerie. I worked in nuclear plants for a bit over five years of my career and I always thought they were eerie. Just the thought that there could be something in the air that I couldn't see, feel, or smell that could kill me... eerie. Well, obviously it didn't kill me, LOL.

Welcome to Soviet life, where you are monitored constantly by the KGB.

The Divers in real life didn't have backup flashlights. They did that entirely in the dark. They added the flashlights for the show.

It's worth pushing through to the end. Loved your reactions, guys.

There are so many small and clever details "hidden" in plain sight in this series. For instance the scene when the firefighter and his wife hug in the hospital, the screen flashes as if the actual film in the camera was being overexposed by the radiation still being emitted from the firefighter's irradiated body.

Those miners mean business .... "They work in the dark, they see everything"

Well, I know there is no point, but in this show I'd suggest you don't think much about something you missed. It's not the show about conspiracy theories, there are no hidden clues. It's about real event and more or less, it's about how they dealt with situation and how they investigated. If they don't know, you can't deduce. I mean, you don't even know what Roentgen is.

Lyudmilla did not like how she was portrayed in this series. In reality, she took care of several men as well as Vasily because the hospital was overwhelmed. Also, what happened to Vasily was far more gruesome. This is toned down a bit.

The more you read about Chernobyl the bleaker and more depressing it is, like the shadows of workers bodies blasted onto the corridor walls.

The thing about the minister of coal: real one was a miner in the past, he was much more competent.

25:15 Nice blurs 🤣 Jokes aside, it's good too see you enjoying this series. It's deff a top 5

It's not that she's in danger, it's that he is. After the exposure the fire fighters got their immune systems were destroyed. Yes, they're going to die anyways, but medical staff are trying to save their lives with skin grafts and marrow transplants, anything to try and save them, and her exposing him to disease isn't helping. The guy the lady interviews that's 25, that's tuptonov. He's the youngest of the operators to die, and afterwards the Soviet Union made them scapegoats and blamed everything on them. Their headstones were vandalized, all except his because of his picture on the headstone of him being so young. His father had a small bench installed so he could come talk to him and mourn. some people said they would see his dad sleeping on the bench at night from time to time

You got the details of the water at the start wrong. Basically that part was NOT Dyatalov. There were big tanks underneath the reactor. Legasov assumed they were empty, but he forgot that they’d been filled up by the firefighters. This part was NOT Dyatalov’s fault. Apart from the fact that he blew up the reactor in the first place. Also the dudes going into the water here were draining the water from those tanks, not filling them. Dyatalov wanting coolant in his reactor at the start was unrelated. Also the guys who went in survived.

All three survived. And they gave many interviews. And when asked why you went there, you answered: it was my duty, if I had not gone, then how would I have looked my colleagues in the eyes?

Touching radiation victims is actually not dangerous as long as they were properly washed/cleaned from any dust or debris. Their body was destroyed by radiation, but there is no material inside their body that could further cause any radiation, thus no damage to you.

The three volunteers survived the trip because they were rave, careful and lucky. The ground they walked on was covered with fallen radioactive particles which made a type a shield. And even if contaminated, water is a natural neutron shield because of its hydrogen. They 'walked the razors edge'.

6:32 The actress playing the wife is actually Irish. Her name is Jessie Buckley and she is quite the chameleon

Nobody was to blame really. It was the state of the Soviet Union at that time not to not draw attention to any failure of Mother Russia, Whilst the plant itself possessed an inherently unsafe design, the wider culture in the Soviet Union at the time discouraged raising concerns or speaking up about mistakes. Even America kept the fact that there was a near disaster at 3 mile Island when the core there started to melt down. The USA and the USSR didn't want to show there was any weakness in their countries. Watching it on the news as it happened was horrible and not any different to how you are both reacting. With the Internet nowadays it is much more difficult for governments to keep things secret from the people.

It's a bit unfortunate they often go with artistic license instead of getting the science right on this show, but I still love how well made it is. And then of course Harris and Skarsgård are solid actors with great on-screen chemistry that elevates the show even further - excellent casting

For the record, the three people at the beginning didn't actually have hand-cranked flashlights - They really did complete their mission, in complete darkness, and the lights were for our benefit as the show's audience. They also didn't have the geiger counters, for the exact reason you mentioned - It wouldn't be helpful to hear the buzzing of apocalypic levels of radioactivity in the detector. Again, the sound is for our benefit, so we remember how horrifically dangerous is it to stand where those men are standing.

To answer your prologue, the reactor was never sabotaged. But to explain more would be spoiling. But don’t worry, those answers are coming and with great clarity, including how a RBMK reactor explodes.

Spartan, you hit the nail on the head commenting on how heavy this show is. Episode after episode shows the small victories only to fall short of a solution. You both have started to notice one of the plot points of this horrendous event: it was the people, those volunteers who are the real heroes who volunteered to clean the area up and gave their lives doing so.

New subscriber. Really enjoyed your commentary during the show.

One thing I've heard about the incident was that Chernobyl was, of course, a reactor built and running on land. Most of the engineers that would have made decisions that day were former military engineers on nuclear submarines, which is a VERY different context and different safety conditions that need to be accounted for during operation. There was also an experiment setup that was forced to run long due to grid demands, which meant it ran into a new shift and crew that hadn't prepped to run this test. When they finally stopped this test, and went to start their own shift's test, is when alarm bells should have started ringing, but for some reason nobody rang them or understood the signs, and when they started increasing power again...kaboom. The truth is this was Soviet Russia, and nobody survived who might have the key to understanding what went wrong, specifically, which is why we have TV like this and numerous investigations into it.

Vasily screaming - and so the s-l-o-w liquification of his internal organs begins. An horrific death.

"Now you look like the Minister of Coal."

20:12- these are the "T.V. friendly" injuries, and given the MANY, MANY documentaries i've seen on Chernobyl, believe me when i say these are LIGHT injuries! 25:25 - Akimov went to he grave saying those words " i did everything right", and to my knowledge, they did everything they could from start to finish, but Dyatlov was "calling the shots"

"And then in three days to three weeks, you are dead." In 1999, Hisashi Ouchi, a Japanese nuclear fuel plant worker was exposed to critical levels of radiation. He suffered the worst radiation burns in history. He lived for 83 agonizing days.

I didn't think of it before, but couldn't they have set up showers for the miners to wash off and cool down as part of their rotation..? 🤔

Corruption was rife in the Soviet Union and bribes were a way of life. When Lyudmila bribed the first nurse at the hospital, that was just the way things were done. In a show without much kindness, there are two things that stood out to me. The second nurse (who wouldn't take a bribe, but let her see Vasily) and when Ulana wiped the blood away from Toptonov's nose. It was believed at the time that touching someone with radiationing poisoning was dangerous and the show depicted that. But it is now known that isn't the case. Their clothes were dangerous, but at this point their bodies aren't. The shot of Vasily (the last time we see him) still keeps me up at night! The miners were badass. The crew chief is my hero!

Thinking Dyatlov might be a spy is a level of Soviet paranoia that would make you an excellent KGB agent. 😂I have no doubts KGB agents looked into his history to determine if he did any of this on purpose.

Not sure if this was mentioned in the last video, but yeah... the men who went to turn the pumps off had to do it in complete darkness. The falsehood for TV is that they were able to get their lights working again. The are true heroes.

17:30 Pudgey you can prove your self-congratulation in the series DARK. 🤷‍♂😉

The one bright light in this dark tale, one singular point of justice; the three men who went into the tunnels all lived to old age. The first of them died only a few years ago. They were completely ready to die in the effort to save millions, but they lived.

"He's got balls" Yep... and you're about to see them

It doesn't spoil it, but the engineers followed the procedure by the book, pressed AZ5 and it still exploded, that's what is dawning on the female scientist...that something else must have been wrong from the beginning

The actual cause will be explained by later seasons but the REAL reason the managers acted the way the did was because it was literally IMPOSSIBLE for an RBMK reactor to explode. And because it was impossible, it was therefore IMPOSSIBLE for the core to be exposed. And since that literally cannot ever happen the only explanation of people saying that there was graphite on the ground is that they were lying. However what the managers didn't know was that they were not actually dealing with a proper RBMK reactor. This problem is with us today - when you KNOW that something is impossible you dismiss people saying that they saw it happen. The problem is you don't question how you know what you KNOW.

Someone is saying: “You have to understand: This is not your husband anymore, not a beloved person, but a radioactive object with a strong density of poison-ing. You are not suicidal. Get ahold of yourself.” And I’m like someone who’s lost her mind: “But I love him! I love him!” He’s sleeping, and I’m whispering: “I love you!” Walking in the hospital courtyard, “I love you.” Carrying his sanitary tray, “I love you.” I remember how we used to live at home. He only fell asleep at night after he’d taken my hand. That was a habit of his- to hold my hand while he slept. All night. So in the hospital I take his hand and I don’t let go. --- Lyudmilla Ignatenko, the widow of firefighter Vasily Ignatenko, Voices from Chernobyl, by Svetlana Alexeivich (transl. Keith Gessen) 😔

Pudgey is an easy target for conspiracy ideas it seems.😂

The workers that were drafted for the work around the Chernobyl area to clean the rubble trucks and lay over the ground before the dome building were not send into death, but rather a very high risk of cancer, many of them were from Prison camps i like two friends of my father who tried to escape east Germany, they got cotton clothing as protection that got incinerated after every shift but the ones working at the direct site could wear what they wanted because it didn't realy change the outcome and they were there because they understood the necessaty, ive heard this story my whole life and i realy like how the show portraits the workers in a more optimistic way than what i was told.

the showrunners went to heard on Dyatlov as far as I understood. I even saw an interview with him, but some years after the events, and he was nothing like the portrayal in the series.

im always shocked by how little people know about the KGB and the horrors of communism in general... maybe thats why so many young people dont see the danger in it

I remember watching the news and not fully understanding but knew horrible horrible things were happening in Chernobyl @ the time when western news agencies started having things to say and show during this event. I like your reactions so far, and appreciate your perspectives being so much younger and knowing hardly anything at all @ the beginning of this epic true event tv show. The biggest changes for tv are combining people into one character, and simplifying some of the hard stuff (all types of difficulty or hard tv reality) to be better understood without needing to read a textbook on the event or seek therapy after.

A history fact. few days after the disaster in 1986 the radioactive smoke started to reaching Poland. my parents who was 20+ at that time were ordered (as long as the rest of a whole country) to take a Iodine tabs to prevent of possible cancer illness. I was born 3 years later and Im still considered as a in danger of being ill in my life. My whole generation actually, who borned around that time. Thanks to luck, they managed to stop the melting of the core becoz I wouldnt bere here at all.

To understand the attitude and demeanor of Dyatlov, the KGB and Soviet officials like Scherbina, you have to understand the way communism operates. The blame always went to the workers even though communist propaganda always revered the workers (famous communist party slogan - 'Workers of the World Unite!'). The purpose was to mitigate any blame that may have been laid on the government. Higher-ups were never held accountable because they were representatives of 'The Party' (the communist party) - and nothing NOTHING is allowed to besmirch The Party.

TIL there's an interview with Dyatlov that was only found and put on RU-vid a few years ago, subtitled in English

The miners didnt work naked and they did in fact use their breath masks.. the whole "if they worked you would be using them" line might sound impressive but when you take a second to think about it its stupid cause they were sitting in a building a fair distance from the disaster site and they werent busy digging a hole which would still kick up dust into the air fans or not

People in Western Europe where fully aware of the dangers of radiation. Anyone who was trained for frontline military fighting knew the details of what happened in these circumstances. It's only since 1992 that training and the giving of info to the public has stopped.

The firemen had no clue what was going on, they sacrified themselfes without knowing that they did. But without their work, it would have been much worse.

Wow, I'm actually impressed by Spatan and his rationale here. Pudgey's gone full tinfoil hat conspiracy mode, but Spartan's not having it, based on the scope of the show, how it's been fairly grounded, and what they've presented thus far. Usually Spartan's off in the deep end with his theories, and Pudgey's reeling him in. I like the twist of the rol3 reversal here.

Mankind can F up so much! The one thing that gives me hope is the unexpected heroism of the 'common man'.

I'm so glad you guys are watching this series. It's amazing and VERY truthful.

It's weird to see the evil oozing out from Paul Ritter (Dyatlov) after seing him in Friday Night Dinner!

I'm so sure the next ep will make you both cry, even Spartan. This show is heavyest at each ep !

6:44 "Not that she knows of" Yes, she did know she was pregnant. At the beginning of the movie, she throws up in the bathroom, and as she walks out, as the reactor explodes.