What’s Tatiana seeing through her helmet?
The mysterious Tatiana (Marlo Kelly) is already working for the San-Ti—the not-exactly-friendly aliens intent on claiming Earth as their new home—when we first meet her in episode one; she materializes outside of the bar where the Oxford Five are meeting after Vera’s (Vedette Lim) funeral, and advises Auggie (Eiza González) to shut down her lab or suffer the consequences. Then, she’s lurking in the cemetery when Clarence Shi (Benedict Wong) is visiting his wife’s grave. She’s far less innocuous elsewhere, brutally murdering Jack (John Bradley), trying to assassinate Jin (Jess Hong), and making sure Wenjie (Rosalind Chao) expires when the moment is right. So… why do the San-Ti need to hook her up with one of their snazzy gold helmets?
Earlier in the series we see Jin and Jack using the helmets to play a VR game that’s revealed to be a way for the San-Ti to study them—and try and recruit them to their cause. But the aliens already know everything about Tatiana, and they’ve already reached out to her using her TV. Is “Our Lord,” as she and other fanatics refer to the aliens, using the helmet in some other way, to train or communicate with her on a higher level? We’re not privy to what Tatiana is seeing when she dons her otherworldly headgear, but her expression is positively beatific.
