Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.

Answers, glorious answers. That was the theme when Wayward Pines hit the halfway point in its 10 episode order on Thursday night, and they couldn't have come soon enough. After weeks of following Ethan Burke and his quest to figure out the strange town, he finally scaled the wall and made it over to the other side. There, we finally got our first real look at these "unknowns" and at what the town of Boise looks like in an apocalyptic world, all the while getting a history lesson of sorts back at the school alongside Ben.Splitting up the family allowed us to experience three different points of view, piecing together new bits of information as the episode progressed. With Ethan, we saw these hunters up close; with Theresa we got a little more intel about the process of bringing someone over to Wayward Pines; and with Ben we learned a number of truth bombs. Little nuggets like the fact that the year is now 4028, that the rest of the planet has been decimated by evolution, and that those unknown killer carnivore peeps are actually called aberrations. It was a lot to take in with one episode, but it flowed quite well thanks to the contrasting perspectives, which were woven together in accordance with Ms. Fisher's presentation about the "first generation."Watching Ms. Fisher deliver the presentation, the first thought was why not tell the adults as well? If people knew why they were being kept in the strange town and what had actually happened, perhaps it wouldn't be so sketched out. But even that was answered (to a point) when the teacher explained that when adults knew, they didn't take it as well. And we all know nothing whips a kid into submission than a scary parental suicide story. It all begs the question of whether the presentation was completely real or if it was a psychoanalyst trying to shape the kids' minds (perhaps a bit of both), but when coupled with Ethan's experiences out in the woods it was quite effective storytelling.

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Meanwhile, it was also confirmed that "Dr. Jenkins" did have more to do with the town than it seemed at first glance, and he's actually town founder David Peltier -- a scientist whose intentions seem good enough at the moment, but as we all know power corrupts. Something tells me a mad scientist is lurking underneath that unassuming surface (Toby Jones did portray Alfred Hitchcock once, after all). There's also the fact that he hasn't seemed to age from present day to the future, the way someone like Nurse Pam supposedly has.At the same time, Theresa was adjusting to her new life as a realtor, in which commissions are gold stars and houses are free. Her secret service training came in handy while she was questioning new resident Wayne Johnson, who happened to see a bunch of pods containing potential town residents just waiting to be acclimatized to all of the weirdness. It helped to explain the time jump, but also showcased the fact that Theresa is far from a submissive housewife as viewers were led to believe in the first couple of episodes. The more time we spend with her the more it seems as though she was selected to join the town for her own merits, and not just because she's Ethan's wife. (Thanks to those files she found, it's safe to say everyone is selected for a specific purpose).Despite all of the answers, there are still plenty of questions to get us through this latter half of the series. Why do David and his helicopter cronies feel Ethan will make the best sheriff? Why were there doors leading to other towns in that underground garage if Wayward Pines really is the last civilization? How many others are waiting in those pods to potentially join the town and could they be people we met earlier in the series? Why do the students light candles like a cult after the newbies are introduced to the idea of a First Generation?At least now we know what we're signing up for, and for those of us who have come this far it seems too late to turn back.