Undone season 1, episode 7 recap: The Wedding

It’s Becca’s day on Undone’s “The Wedding.” Becca’s conscience weighs on her. Alma has a dangerous meeting and completes her training. We’ve got the recap!

One of the main arcs of Undone has been Becca’s (Angelique Cabral) marriage to Reed (Kevin Bigley). The story hasn’t spent a lot of time in wedding planning activities. Instead, it uses the impending nuptials as a means to introduce new conflict and push the narrative forward. News of Reed’s proposal introduces us to Becca, sparks the fight that partially causes Alma’s (Rosa Salazar) car crash, and helps us to see Camila (Constance Marie) more clearly. In “The Wedding,” Becca’s marriage provides Alma the ability to change history through time travel. Far out.

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As maid of honor, Alma makes a speech at the wedding rehearsal. To Camila’s delight, there are only a few expletives. What makes her and Sam (Siddharth Dhananjay) happy, are the references that Alma makes to her father. When Alma says that she sees her dad, Camila and Sam are both worried that Alma is going to tell everyone about how she talks to her dead dad about time travel and true crime. Instead, Alma backs up my thoughts from “Prayers and Visions.” She says that she sees her dad in Becca. Her smile, spirit, and ability to throw herself completely into an idea all come from him. It was really a nice speech. Reed probably enjoyed it more than anyone in the room.

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After the speech, Camila thinks that this improved behavior stems from the miracle of Alma taking her meds. But, she’s faking it. Sam knows. I mean, the clues are there. The bottle Alma has is still full and she takes a pill in front of her mom like there’s no schedule for them. Sam asks Alma if it would help if she took the meds. Alma blows that off by sharply asking “Help what?” Apparently, Jacob (Bob Odenkirk) is sitting next to her. We still haven’t seen him in anything besides a flashback since “Alone in This (You Have Me).” Alma blows him off by saying “Not now.” Sam thinks this is meant for him.

The next morning, Alma has a busy day. As maid of honor, she’s supposed to be at Becca’s side for all of the social media stuff and photo ops. But, she also has a meeting set up with Charles Bandersnatch (Brad Hall). That’s the guy who low key threatened Jacob for his research. She uses a LinkedIn identity she had created to see if an old boyfriend had been cheating on her years ago. They meet at the hotel bar where the wedding is being held, the Faraday. Four martinis into the convo, Charlie is still talking about himself. Alma confesses she wants corporate dirt. It’s not clear, but she may be acting as a member of the press. Charlie invites her to his room.

That’s right. Charlie is a creep who keeps a regular room at the Faraday. Who knows what kind of Dateline and #MeToo related atrocities he’s responsible for. Jacob finally appears. He begs Alma to not go in a room alone with this sleaze bag. But, Alma walks right through him. Charlie offers Alma a drink from the minibar because he’s so thoroughly classy. When he discovers Alma’s identity, he asks her what she wants. He threatens Alma to leave any inquiry into her father’s research or his company’s involvement in it alone, for her own sake. Again. A low key threat. But, there’s no bite to this little doggie. He’s just a corporate talker.

Fate is Harder to Change than Time

Charlie was a dead end. Alma returns to the wedding. She may feel that the wedding is also a waste of time, but three important things happen there. One is that Becca confesses to Alma that she cheated on Reed with Tomas (Nicholas Gonzalez) the night before her accident. She cheated with him again last week. Alma asks if Becca wants to marry Reed. If she does, there’s no need to hurt him with the truth. He didn’t do anything wrong. It’s a touching moment between the sisters. Everyone is afraid that Alma is losing it, but Becca is the one telling her that she has self-destructive issues of her own. Becca craves stability in relationships, but she self sabotages them. Or, maybe she wants the mundane life that Alma is afraid of until she realizes that she’s afraid of it, too.

When Alma is late to a photo op, Becca is upset. She demands an apology. Alma has already had a rough day. Plus, she’s at least four martinis deep. So, Alma loudly berates Becca for going through this whole production when she cheated on Reed and isn’t even sure if she wants to marry him. This is in front of the whole family. Reed walks off like a small child, but it’s understandable, kind of. Alma freaks out. We start to see her phase-out of this timeline. Where is the handheld blackjack to help her?! When she phases back into a timeline, it’s the same one. Only before she ruined the wedding! Alma acts completely different. Things seem patched up.

Alma takes a break and Jacob appears. There doesn’t need to be any test runs. Alma can time travel and change the past. Plus. It seems to be sticking with no adverse effects. But, how long will it last? Are the things that Alma changed destined to happen in another fashion? Did she fracture all of existence as we know it? Jacob doesn’t ask these questions. He just begs Alma to go to the night of his accident right away and change it. Alma reluctantly agrees. She gets to the point of the accident, but she can’t change it. It’s interesting, though. I always thought that Jacob was hit, head-on, by a truck. He actually flies off a cliff. I guess that was a swerve to avoid the truck.

Jacob wants Alma to try again. He’s rude about. He suggests that the wedding she wants to get back to is temporal. Things will change when she changes history. Alma goes back to the wedding where the third important thing happens. She meets an Aztec dancer, Tonantzin (Tonantzin Carmelo), who’s performing at a Bar Mitzvah at the Faraday. They discuss the dance and Tonantzin tells Alma that since she shares the same ancestry, she has the dance in her.

That unlocks something for Alma. We flashback to see her dancing the first day she was in the special education school performing a dance that was basically the same. At the wedding reception, Alma happily leads all of the guests in the dance. We see her doing it at home after the wedding. Alma makes headdresses for the kids at the daycare while dancing. And, as Alma is leading the kids in the dance at the daycare, she sees the moment her dad left her on that Halloween night. It’s reflected to her in a mirror. She feels like she’s conjuring something. Alma runs for the mirror and jumps headfirst into it.

What’s on the other side? Keep watching Undone on Amazon Prime to find out in the season finale.