For those of you who had, “suitcase nuke” in the betting pool, congratulations – you’ve won!
In a clever nod to the series’ source material, nuclear weapons have made their debut in The Strain universe, and have presumably taken out The Ancients, but not Quinlan, who rejoined the now mostly reformed group.
As it turns out, Eldritch Palmer found the cargo of the Aurora Cutlass, and as luck would have it it was a device very similar to the one that Herr Eichorst used on Quinlan and The Ancients last week.
Though back to the subject of Palmer for a moment, he is officially this week’s MVP, as his backstory was revealed in a similar fashion to Fet and Gus from the past couple of weeks, and it looks like he’s about to join the team of our heroes.