Gus’s animalistic qualities come into play in different ways this episode. It will be interesting to see how that baby leads to her and Gus’s inevitable meeting.) (When Aimee sees a hybrid baby dropped at the zoo at the end of the episode, we realize she might be something of a mother herself. Mothers are a complicated concept for Gus, who, born with deer features and a father stingy with information about his real birth mother, grew up assuming that the doe he encountered in the woods was her - not far of a leap, given the circumstances. Between her and Gus, liberation has become the major theme of this series, and through Aimee, we see how the Great Crumble gave her the opportunity to create a better life in a new world.Īfter finding a picture of a woman in Pubba’s lockbox, Gus finally gets an idea of what a human mother looks like, even if he’s never seen one in action. She follows their path and ends up at the Essex County Zoo - a shout-out to the comic book that put Sweet Tooth’s creator, Jeff Lemire, on the map - where she sees a caged bird and sets it free. Walking into the street with her face covered and brandishing a flame sculpture as a weapon, Aimee discovers that the only signs of life left in the city are the elephants stampeding through the streets.
When the virus struck, she barricaded herself inside her office for weeks, and after a time-lapse sequence depicting the world’s changes during her self-imposed prison sentence, she leaves because she hears an elephant trumpeting somewhere in the distance.
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Aimee (Dania Ramirez) was caged in a mundane life as a couples counselor before the Great Crumble.
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Like the pilot, “Sorry About All the Dead People” begins with a scene spotlighting a character whose small part in the episode morphs into a big role later in the series.