[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for “The Terror” Episode 8, “Terror Camp Clear.”]Part of the tragedy of “The Terror” is the slow realization that the men at the center are caught in an impossible confluence of deadly forces.
If the freezing temperatures don’t get them, there’s poison in the very food they eat.
If they manage to escape the timeless creature off in the distance, the machinations of their shipmates might be an even greater concern.Enter (the man who claims to be) Cornelius Hickey.Played in the AMC series by Adam Nagaitis, this shadow Hickey is quickly proving to be one of the show’s pivotal chess pieces.
A mutinous petty officer who’s shown an explicit capacity for killing and an unrepentant attitude toward dividing the Terror’s survivors to better serve his plan for survival, Hickey’s been the beneficiary of the crew’s uncertainty.
After a last-second attack spares him
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