Warning: SPOILERS for The 100 season 7, episode 15.

The 100‘s penultimate episode was action-packed but it ultimately ended heart-wrenching for viewers, with Madi paralyzed and on the verge of being mercy-killed by Clarke. Everything is finally coming to a head in The 100 season 7 and there’s only one episode left for the series to wrap up its latest confounding storyline. Part of that may mean another person dying or being permanently disabled; in the past three episodes, someone close to Clarke has been hurt either directly or indirectly by the Disciples: first Bellamy, then Gabriel, and now Madi.

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In The 100 season 7, episode 15, “The Dying of the Light” (the title itself taken from Dylan Thomas’ famous poem, “Do not go gentle into that good night”), Clarke and Octavia made a temporary alliance with Sheidheda to defeat the Disciples, kill Cadogan, and rescue Madi. Sadly, by the time Clarke and Octavia, with the help of Levitt, made it to M-cap where Madi was and where her memories were being prodded, the damage had already been done. Although Madi was fully conscious and could see and hear everything going on around her, she was completely paralyzed.

As far as they could tell, there was no way of saving her or repairing the damage. She wouldn’t be able to go on living as is, so Clarke made the tough decision to mercy-kill Madi – her own daughter. But not wanting Clarke to suffer through that pain, Octavia offered to kill Madi herself. During this scene, Clarke began humming the song “All the Pretty Little Horses” to ease Madi’s suffering, something that she first did in The 100 season 1, episode 3, “Earth Kills”, when she mercy-killed Atom, one of the delinquents who was caught in Mount Weather’s acid fog. Atom was her first kill.

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Clarke and Bellamy found Atom, and Atom begged Bellamy to kill him. Clarke ultimately did it herself, and she hummed the same song, “All the Pretty Little Horses”, in order to calm Atom as much as possible. Sadly, Charlotte saw all of this happen from a short distance away, and she did the same thing – hum the song – when she killed Wells, Chancellor Jaha’s son. Bringing the song back one more time makes Madi’s eventual death even more heartbreaking for her, Clarke, and viewers. Clarke was prepared to do what was necessary when she first arrived on the ground and now she was willing to make the same choice, regardless of how it affected herself.

Of course, Clarke and Octavia were interrupted before they could mercy-kill Madi. And now they will be hunting Cadogan and the Disciples in The 100 series finale, in which they will either attempt to stop the Last War (or test) from happening or perhaps take the test themselves; the final episode’s story remains to be seen. But unless time travel is made possible or transcendence saves everyone who’s died and been permanently injured, Clarke will still need to mercy-kill Madi when she returns.

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