S02.E02: Least Concern Species

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After a storm capsizes their boat, the Foxes work to repair it, so they won't be stranded by rising waters in an unforgiving jungle.

Episode starts with what turns out to be a closeup of the skin of Justin Theroux, as seen by some insect which bites him in the back of the neck.

Their boat isn't capsized as the episode description says.  The hull is pierced and it's taking on water.  Allie is working on lifting the boat up to fix the leak when he collapses.

Charlie, without Google, figures out he was bitten by a specific insect and the bite is life-threatening.  So while Allie is out of commission, just burning up with fever, Margot and Charlie go look for medicine -- they had seen a plume from an oil rig -- and Dina is suppose to figure out how to patch the hole in the hull.

This is suppose to show the kids have some of the ingenuity of Allie and maybe the passion/idealism of Margot.

She tells Charlie the people at the oil rig may be wary of strangers coming up to them deep in the jungle.  My thought was, they might feel a certain way about a woman.  But she suspects the oil rig workers are probably having to fight off local tribes and she says sometimes violence is justified against forces which have a lot of money on their side.

They see the oil rig camp has been the site of some shootout, with bullet holes and blood stains everywhere.  No survivors left, not even corpses.  They happen to find the drug for the exotic bug bite that Allie has and of course Allie is saved and Dina found a way to fix up the boat so their journey continues.

They always say the journey is the reward.  Seems like the writers really buy into that, because so far, the main characters are always on the way to something, but they face various obstacles and they overcome them and stick together.

Do they have some ideas for what happens after they finally reach this community which has dropped out of the rat race?  Or are they going to keep showing only the journey, at least through this season?