Screens: Syfy
Pretty much no one makes it through the double-sized series premiere of SyFy's Helix completely unscathed: those who didn't actually get killed or infected by the mysterious killer virus have to deal with the notion that the shady black-ops work they've been doing may be scuttled by all the deaths and infections. But, arguably, no one comes out worse than the Antarctic research facility's complement of rhesus monkeys. As if it weren't offensive enough for their very existence to be officially denied, we then see how undignified were their final moments of life: apparently set loose on the tundra to freeze to death.
But just because the human researchers who worked with these primate subjects didn't appreciate them enough to send them humanely on to the next world doesn't mean we can't honour them. And honour them we do.
