

Octavia must do whatever it takes to get all her people, especially Kane, on board with the cannibalism plan at any cost. If people die of starvation, there will not be enough meat on their bones help feed Wonkru. Octavia is not going to force her own people to be cannibals, but Abby insists that everyone must eat. So, that is when Abby makes the suggestion that they use the people who die in the fighting pits as their new food source.Īt the first dinner with The 100‘s version of Soylent Green an the menu, a large group including Kane decide to starve instead of eating people.

It will take at least at year to replant the healthy crops, but everyone will be dead long before then without protein. Two years into life in the bunker, a fungus has knocked out the protein crops in the farm. It is during all of this that Abby starts to open up about why she started abusing the pills: The dark year and her role in it. The only problem is that it tends to stop her heart. But, Abby has been through this at least a couple other times and has developed a way to rapidly detox. Or less McCreary will kill Madi.Ĭlarke doesn’t actually know how to get Abby ready to work in the time frame McCreary gave her. Seeing as that will just kill Abby, McCreary gives Clarke 24 hours to get her mother ready to cure them. His solution is just to give her more pills. McCreary and his men are in no condition to fight a war, they need Abby back on her feet to cure them.

It all starts with Clarke being found by McCreary, and coming clean to him about shutting down the eye and that Octavia and Wonkru will be at the valley in six days to attack. Yet, the reveal of how the people in the bunker had to survive after their protein source was destroyed, ranks as some of the most horrifying scenes of the series.Īs many fans correctly theorized, the dark year referred to when the people in the bunker became cannibals in order to survive - a story that Clarke and Madi learn as they work to save Abby from the overdose at the end of the last episode. Over the course of five seasons of The 100, there have been many hard to watch scenes of violence and gore as the characters do whatever it takes to survive. The horrible truth about what took place during the dark year in the bunker was revealed during season 5 episode 11 of The 100.
