TEXT: Clarke (V.O.): I was born in space. I've never felt the sun on my face or breathed real air or floated in the water. None of us have. For three generations, the Ark has kept what's left of the human race alive, but now our home is dying, and we are the last hope of mankind. Each of us is here because we broke the law. On the ground, there is no law. All we have to do is survive, but we will be tested. By the Earth, by the secrets it holds, and most of all by each other. [PREVIOUSLY_ON] Raven: Ark Station, please come in. We need you. Jaha: Are you saying there are survivors on the ground? Clarke: Yes. The Earth is survivable. Finn: The Grounder saved Octavia's life, and Bellamy brought him back here and tortured him. Lincoln: My name is Lincoln. Bellamy: Let's go. With the Grounder escaping, we should expect retaliation. Jaha: We are going to the ground, but not all of us are. There are two thousand, two hundred and thirty seven people on this Ark, and there are only enough dropships to carry seven hundred. [SCENE_BREAK] Jaha: My friends, this is a historic Unity Day. Every year, we mark the moment our ancestors of the twelve stations joined to form the Ark, but this is the last time we do so while aboard her. Next year, on the ground. Miller: Right. After we did all the work. Delinquent: Someone shut him up. Raven: You shut up, Miller. No one's forcing you to watch. Jaha: For ninety-seven years, we have eked out an existence, hoping that someday our descendants would return to Earth. Clarke: Don't tell me you don't like Unity Day. Finn: Unity Day is a lie. The Ark only came together after the thirteenth station was blown out of the sky. Just not the version of history we like to tell each other at parties. Clarke: The Unity Day story gives people hope, though, and peace came out of that violence. Finn: Yeah, but did there need to be violence
SUMMARY:
"Unity Day" arrives, when the joining of the orbiting space stations is celebrated. As the 100 celebrate, they find their video link interrupted when a bomb explodes during the ceremony on The Ark. Diana engineers a mutiny in order to hijack the first dropship. As the ship launches, it is not fully disconnected from The Ark's main systems, causing an Ark-wide power outage and disabling every dropship. On the ground, in an effort to initiate peace, Finn arranges a meeting with the local grounder leader through Lincoln. Clarke represents the group and goes to the meeting, where she meets Anya, a grounder leader. Anya reveals that the 100's "flares" burned down a grounder village, causing the grounders to desire their destruction despite it having been an accident. Jasper, who along with Bellamy is monitoring the meeting from cover, believes he sees the grounder spotters in the trees about to shoot, he opens fire, and the meeting dissolves into battle. That night, Clarke and Bellamy see the dropship descending. It comes in too fast with no parachute and violently crashes in the distance.