The other day, someone asked me if I thought the finale was rushed. I impulsively replied “no”, but then re-watched the season and changed my mind. I think that 1 more episode would have been a really good idea, just to wrap up a few of the lingering questions that seemed to have been left open-ended, but that isn’t the way it worked out. So in an attempt to help clarify those last 15 minutes of episode 2x11, I’ve decided to lay out a timeline of events for the viewers to better understand exactly what went down.



(FYI: This is an EXTREMELY LONG POST. Sorry , not sorry.)

We begin at episode 2x11 “You Want A War?” by fast forwarding to around the 40 minute mark.

UGH, KALAGANG! THEY SHOULD HAVE HAD PARIS!!!

The first thing we see is our my favorite ship, happier than they ever have been in their entire lives. But little did we know this was the beginning of the end (way to crush our souls, Sense8). While packing for their trip to Paris, Kala & Wolfgang are interrupted by a villain that I LOVE to hate; Ms. Lila Facchini.

I am 99% sure that Lila is only “visiting” with Wolfgang in this moment because Kala can’t see her (even though she senses from Wolfgang that she’s there). Lila says to Wolfie that she warned him there were only two sides to choose from in this world; with her or against her. Then she says something interesting: “Imagine my surprise when I found out how badly the Cannibal wanted you.” (PS - ‘The Cannibal’ is Whispers. He got the nickname from committing acts of “clustercide” because he “eats his own kind”). Now the big question here is: how did Whispers want Wolfgang in the first place when he didn’t even know who he was yet? Well I think that is all thanks to Lila. After the cluster vs. cluster showdown in episode 8, she must have somehow gained information about Wolfgang’s cluster specifically. This makes me believe that she was manipulating him ever since they met, possibly because she had always worked as a headhunter for BPO. She is Sebastian’s “second” and “best assassin”, after all so it makes sense that BPO would value those kind of skill sets as well. Lila speaks often about wanting to live free of the “leash around her neck”, yet this scene shows that she will still bow to Whispers & BPO - the very ones holding that leash - if necessary.

Lila tricking Wolfgang & catching him off guard proves even further what I’ve always said about how sensate-to-sensate connections vary. The connection you have within your cluster is completely different to the one you have with sensates outside of it. It’s more superficial and doesn’t run nearly as deep. Although you may not be able to straight up lie to another sensate outside of your cluster, you can still manipulate one another, and this is proven time and time again by Lila herself.

But back to how she knew Whispers was looking for Wolfgang’s cluster; there is a specific scene in episode 6 in which Wolfgang, Will & Lila have a conversation. Lila might not have been able to see Will, but she was inside Wolfgang’s head and may have fished his name out of there somehow. Remember she’s been at this game for a very long time (the 8/8 cluster is still brand new) and hey, practice makes perfect, right? So with (possibly) knowing who Will was, and most likely having discussions with Whispers about how he had been hunting Will Gorski & his cluster for an entire year, she had to have figured it out for this to all make sense (I wish we got some sort of scene proving my theory tho!) But somehow - after getting to know Wolfgang - she discovered what cluster he was a part of so, like the cunning villain we all love to hate, she turned him in.

UPDATE: Once Lila turned Wolfgang in, and Whispers was able to look up his identification, he must have realized his birthday was 8/8/88, the same exact birthday as Will Gorski himself. It would have been quite easy to put 2 + 2 together at that point.



After the two of them exchange some banter, Whispers & BPO break into Wolfgang’s apartment. He puts up a fight, but does not reach out to the cluster for help. Why? Because this is Wolfgang Bogdanow we’re talking about. He never asks for help - see here [x] - They take Wolfgang down with a stun gun and after Whispers makes eye contact, they inject him with some type of substance that immediately knocks him out. This cuts him off from the cluster completely. Kala, who has witnessed the whole thing, rushes off to everyone for help and the last person she goes to is Will.

Now remember, Will has literally been staking out Whispers for almost an entire YEAR. He has been accessing Whispers’ personal thoughts during the duration of his struggle with heroin through “dream like states” - see here [x] - and has been able to gain a lot of intel in regards to both him and BPO. He has literally been forming a plan over the course of a year to take Whispers down. He knows that the BPO facility in London is Whispers’ home base (they have “visited” there with one another several times), and he knows that this is probably where he will be heading after he kidnaps Wolfgang. Will is truly an amazing cop and all of this works to their advantage. When Kala shows up, he says to her “I have a plan, but we’re gonna need blockers.” Kala agrees and goes directly to her lab, collects the blocker pills she had been working on all season long, then heads to the airport to fly to London.

In the next scene we see Riley & Will packing up all of the things they’ll need for their plan to work, while they wait for Kala to fly in. Remember that Will & Riley are already in London. They took the train there from Amsterdam in episode 6.

Notice that they have BPO suits ready, too? This is a well-thought out plan. It’s Officer Gorski for God’s sake; he knows what he’s doing.

Next, we see Wolfie open his eyes and realize he is strapped to a table inside BPO. There is a device on his head, which Whispers explains is called “The Traceworks”. He says Angelica was instrumental in it’s invention, and that it allows BPO headhunters to trace the “echo” of the psycellium by using acute pain. See here for a further explanation on the procedure [x]

The scene then cuts to Kala, arriving to the airport in London & collecting her luggage. This is the part where most viewers don’t even realize how much time has already passed, because:

MUMBAI ✈️ LONDON = 9 ½ hours

So this means that Wolfgang has been knocked out for at least this long, and that a lot of time has already gone by since his abduction. This is also the first time the cluster has been able to connect with him since he was taken because he had been injected with beta blockers.

Unfortunately, this is also when the torture begins. This entire scene was easily the HARDEST for me to watch and I can’t stand the fact that our amazing cluster had to go through this horrible pain with Wolfie. But hardest of all, seeing Wolfgang himself - strapped to that table in the first place - was extremely heartbreaking. I was clutching my chest the entire time like I could literally feel their pain.

With the first potent injection shot into Wolfgang’s body (which causes intense, acute pain) and the first torture session with the electrical paddles, Whispers discovers Kala’s name. She is inevitably Wolfgang’s very first thought because he loves her with all his heart and more (and I HATE that Whispers used their love against them in this disgusting, manipulative way). I seriously balled my fucking eyes out. But whatever, I was on my 2nd or 3rd box of tissues at this point anyways.

We can see that the cluster is reacting physically to Wolfgang’s torture and some of them are even getting nose bleeds in real life. After this horrific experience, Wolfgang passes out once again. Once unconscious, he is disconnected from the cluster yet again.

Maybe after accidentally giving up the love of his life’s name, he is able to endure the pain a bit easier somehow, doing his absolute best to try and not give out any more. I think that after the first torture session happens, the cluster realizes that Kala, Will & Riley being there in person is just NOT going to be enough, and that they all need to be there for real. “Sharing” with one another just won’t fix this problem.

We then see Nomi & Amanita at the San Francisco airport, rushing to get on a plane to London.

Next we see Wolfgang wake up for a second time, only to get tortured yet again while he “visits” with both Capheus & Lito. Wolfgang has obviously been putting up a fight throughout his entire experience (our man is TOUGH), keeping the rest of the cluster who is still unknown to Whispers at this point (Lito, Capheus & Sun) a secret. After Capheus & Lito are visited by Wolfie, they both quickly realize that they need to get their asses to London as well. I think this entire sequence is finally showing us that for once, Wolfgang is crying out to his cluster for help.

Sun also gets on a plane in Seoul:

The entire cluster is now on their way. They know they can’t take care of this situation by “sharing”/”visiting” with each other like they have with so many situations in the past. This time, they need to be there in real life.

Now, we must remember:

MEXICO CITY ✈️ LONDON = 10h 40m

NAIROBI ✈️ LONDON = 8h 45m

SEOUL ✈️ LONDON = 12h

So the next time Wolfgang wakes up, it has been AT LEAST a day or two since he was first captured in Berlin. He has been holding out for a really long time (like the badass motherfu*ker we all know and love), but Whispers has done this many times before and he knows how to be patient.

But regardless, his focus has always been on Will specifically.

I think Whispers takes the whole situation with Will quite personally, as he has outsmarted him on several different occasions - which, by the way, he is about to do YET AGAIN :) Pay close attention to what happens next…

The 8/8 Cluster’s Plan of Attack

By this point in time the entire cluster must have arrived in London, ready to get into position. Will carries out the first step of the plan by “visiting” with Jonas.



STEP #1: Contact Jonas

Will begs Jonas to please help, but he responds by telling him the only way out is to either turn himself in to Whispers, or go the “Angelica route”. Even though Will doesn’t say anything out loud, the look on his face is one of pure defeat so I think we can assume that Will lets Jonas believe he is going to surrender to Whispers. After this happens, Jonas must reach out to tell Whispers that Will wants to talk, because in the very next scene Whispers walks in to the interrogation room, sees Will, and says:



Jonas must have reported back to Whispers that Will was looking to speak with him so he could make a deal & surrender. This is why Whispers enters the interrogation room in the first place. (This must also be when Will takes his blocker pill).

Sidenote - The fact that Whispers is able to go right from the torture room with Wolfgang, then straight to the interrogation room where he meets with Will, is a huge clue that Wolfgang is also in London. The cluster just doesn’t know where Wolfie is specifically yet because he was knocked out during his entire capture and he himself doesn’t even know where he is specifically. They need to form another brilliant plan to rescue Wolfgang, and I guarantee that the Special will open up with this very plot line.

So once Whispers enters the interrogation room, he thinks Will is just “visiting” at first. If you watch closely you can actually see the look on Will’s face, like he’s trying really hard not to make eye contact with him - probably to keep the fact that he’s actually there in person a temporary secret; hoping Whispers won’t figure it out until the “big reveal”. After bullshitting with Whispers for a few seconds, Will attacks & catches him off guard. I’ve said before many, many times about how the connection between sensates who are NOT in the same cluster is extremely superficial and surface level, and that applies to this very situation. You may not be able to lie to one another, but you sure can manipulate one another (see: Lila & Wolfgang), so that must be why Will was able to get away with his farce for a few moments.



Step #1: Complete ✔️



STEP #2: Capture Whispers

I know it kinda sucked that we didn’t get to see the entire cluster coming together IRL for the very first time, but I think it was necessary in order to get the shock factor of the next scene. Will plays along and tells Whispers he will surrender, as long as he doesn’t harm Riley. So Whispers continues by telling Will that his plan is to not only find Riley, but to kill her slow; chopping her up piece by piece, as Will watches and feels her death.

So what’s Officer Gorski’s response to this?:

Yaaaaaas!

When Whispers says “Oh God, you’re here!” it was so, so satisfying. We never would have got that same kind of satisfaction if we knew the whole cluster had arrived & was ready to go but I’m sure we’ll get some amazing moments of them IRL together in the special.

Whispers then cries that he “can’t visit Will”, and Will responds by saying: “Thats right, Milt, old pal. You can’t visit me, because I’m actually here.” (and on Kala’s blockers, I might add).

Jonas then appears and says:

But Will doesn’t react, and that’s because - once again - he’s on blockers.

Thanks Jonas, we know.

Whispers reaches out for Jonas and seems to beg him for help. In turn, Will speaks out loud so that Jonas can hear him through Whispers. He says: “Jonas, this is it. You have to choose. Who’s side are you on?” And even though Jonas says Will “won’t understand the decision”, he makes it anyways by calling BPO and asking for The Chairman so that he can report the fact that Will has infiltrated a BPO facility (once again). Jonas has now picked his side, and it sure wasn’t with Will & his cluster.

Sidenote - See my theories about The Chairman here [x]

After this exchange, Will puts Whispers “out of his misery” by throwing a right, then a left hook; knocking him out cold.

Step #2: Complete ✔️

STEP #3: Kidnap Jonas

Will immediately takes the phone out of his pocket and calls someone (my bet is on Nomi). He says “Now.” into the phone, and why do you think that is? It’s because Whispers just let Will know that Jonas was currently OFF of blockers and was alone at his safe house. That phone call from Will (who was on blockers and needed to call because he couldn’t “visit”) let Nomi know it was the perfect opportunity to get him. We then see Nomi & co. do exactly that:

Sidenote - Since Nomi has also been connected to Jonas since season 1, that must be how they end up finding him and kidnapping him in the first place. Nomi had been connected to Jonas for a year, just like Will, and she (plus Bug & Neets) are the best hacktivists we have EVER known, so tracking him down couldn’t have been all that hard. My guess is that it took our all-access kinda girl all of 5 minutes to find out where he was hiding.

Step #3: Complete ✔️



STEP #4: Extract Whispers from BPO

Next, we see the arrival of Riley, Lito & Kala INSIDE the BPO facility (where they meet up with Will). Nomi obviously took care of this as well, since we know from season 1 that she got Will into the Icelandic BPO facility quite easily.

UPDATE: Please read the “notes” section of this thread and refer to the reblog by @kalagangspain - I forgot to add in extremely important details regarding how the cluster broke into the BPO facility, and she has done a really good job at adding in that information for me (I forgot to mention that Will broke into Whispers’ home in London and stole his BPO badge, which definitely helped them with their plan).

We can see they each have their own hazmat suit, and proceed by extracting Whispers from the building. Unfortunately, they cannot get to Wolfgang quite yet because they literally have no idea which room he is even in, because he doesn’t even know himself. What are they gonna do, go door to door like they’re selling Girl Scout cookies? They need to formulate a plan that is JUST as good as the one they are currently carrying out. Otherwise, they all get caught and then what’s the point?

They meet up with Capheus, Nomi, Amanita & Sun outside and successfully escape with both Whispers & Jonas in tow.

Step #4: Complete ✔️



As they drive off in the van, they take off their BPO masks. This caused me to let out a sigh of relief as I saw all of their faces. The first time I watched I just assumed it was Wolfgang in the body bag, and I couldn’t believe that they had actually just pulled this shit off! But then, after seeing Whispers when Will unzips the bag instead, this was me:

No Wolfgang!?!?!?! #fuckkkkjsjyr&@$tfdg^#@!!!

BUT - this only makes the next required step simple…

STEP #5: Save Wolfie!

Which we will need to wait and see :(

This concludes my analysis of the last 15 heart wrenching, emotional, fast paced minutes of episode 2x11, leaving us ALL wanting more. I think that releasing one more episode in the season would have been a smart move to make, giving an entire hour to lend a better explanation of those final few moments - but alas, Netflix only ordered 12 hours for the entire season (episode 1 was 2 hours long). Hopefully my timeline has helped to clear the air a bit when it comes to Wolfgang’s fate, revealing the potential story line for the special.

BUT - if they weren’t able to produce one more episode, I think they should have at least added in one more scene. So I’m going to make it up instead:

IN AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE

This is how I WISH the episode had ended, if only to clarify the question that everyone kept asking after they finished their binge; “Where the fuck is Wolfgang?!” I felt as though it was slightly unclear, and I wish the final scene had gone something more like this:

- WILL [to Whispers]: “You want a war? We’ll give you a war.”

[Will looks up at Kala, and she sees Wolfgang appear next to her with blood covering his whole face and the entire front of his BPO scrubs. The cluster (minus Will who is on a blocker) looks in his direction as Amanita scrunches her face with a look of confusion asking herself what the fuck they could be looking at, then realizing in an instant that it’s GOT to be Wolfgang. Kala grabs his hand for support, and musters up a tearful, crooked half-smile.]

- KALA: “Stay strong, Wolfgang. We’re coming for you.”

[Cut screen]

So yea - let’s just pretend that happened.

If you have any other questions or need me to clarify anything else, feel free to send a Q to my inbox!