EPISODE 6 (a REVIEW)
This REVIEW should help to CLEAR UP the reason why the episode was so CONFUSING that MOST viewers had NO CLUE WTF was going on while watching the FIRST HALF of it:
https://www.elitedaily.com/entertainment/the-nevers-season-1-part-1-finale-explained-77634280
I cannot possibly express in words the sheer bizarreness of The Nevers Season 1, Episode 6 spoilers that follow. After five episodes set in the mid to late 1880s, Episode 6 opened on a distant planet, thousands of years in the future. A Planetary Defense Coalition (PDC) team parachuted into a war zone under attack by terrorists called "FreeLifers," and into an ambush. They were saved by a combat veteran known as a "Stripe."share
Wounded and sick from withdrawal from using "coolant pods" to hide her body's heat signature, the Stripe was taken downstairs by the PDC's doctor, known as a Knitter. (Individual names are sacred here.) Meanwhile, the team, who claimed they were tracking a "spatial anomaly," discovered the base's scientific staff were slaughtered and left hanging over an alien creature known as a Galanthi.
Galanthi are known creatures in this future; the anomaly is a calling card for the "portals" these creatures use to travel through space and time. Galanthi are famous for appearing from out of nowhere above planets and distributing "Spores," which empathically enhance local populations to communicate with their kind. These "Spores" (as those affected are rudely referred to) also have parts of their mind activated that would otherwise be unused.
The Knitter is a "Spore," and she admitted to the Stripe the PDC team was there to take out the FreeLifers, hoping to rescue the Galanthi. She contends the Galanthi bring hope to the galaxy and can help achieve a better future. As they talk, the Stripe rifled through dozens of Victorian-era artifacts collected in the lab.
Meanwhile, upstairs, the lone FreeLife survivor argued to the Galanthi were dangerous. The open portal meant thousands more were coming. He only had to convince one to begin a shootout among the team, killing everyone, including the Knitter.
As she watched the Knitter die, the Stripe revealed signs show the portal was not an entry but an exit. There would be no invasion; this one was leaving. As she staggered toward the Galanthi, perhaps thinking to help it escape, its tendrils reached down. The alien disappeared through the portal, taking her with it.
When the Stripe awoke, she found herself in the body of a recently deceased Victorian lady. The body had belonged to Mrs. Amalia True, known as Molly, a baker whose abusive husband recently died, leaving her destitute and broken, driving her to suicide.
Eventually, she sold Sarah out to Dr. Hague when he came calling to avoid being taken away herself. Left alone to plot and plan, she figured out how to assimilate and function in this era while befriending other "Touched" locked away with her before finally getting out with the help of Lady Bidlow.
That's who Amalia True is. Brought from the future, and now unable to communicate with the creature which hides below the streets of London. She's alone in a radically changed past, attempting to function among a population that doesn't understand what's happened to it.