The nine-episode first season of Pluribus is now over, and it’s going to be a long wait for fans until the second season.

The season ended with a bombshell of a cliffhanger as we see (spoilers ahead) Carol, played by Rhea Seehorn, and Manousos, played by Carlos-Manuel Vesga, finally on the same page. The Others, reluctantly, helped retrieve a deadly weapon for Carol. What will Carol and Manousos do with this weapon? Will they even use it?

It all seemed fine earlier when Carol and Zosia, portrayed by Karolina Wydra, were having a great time together. However, the former was able to snap out of this fantasy when she discovered that Zosia and the Others already have her frozen eggs, and they hope to have her join the hive mind. Carol felt betrayed because they did this behind her back, and they don’t seem to care about her choices.

“Carol herself is fighting with what emotion she’s allowing to rise to the surface, right?” Seehorn tells Nerd Reactor. “There she is, willingly being a bit delusional in this relationship with Zosia. And hanging on to the parts of like, ‘Okay, it is factual that there is sincere love for me in this. They do care about me. I think I can hang on to that.’ But at the same time, that terrible scene where she was like, ‘You cannot love Manousos the same as me.’ And it’s so disturbing. It’s disturbing for Carol as a writer, I think, in the literal sense of it’s not possible to love two things exactly the same.

“But it’s also this much larger existential philosophical crisis of then the love for me is not unique, which led the crew and me to have these late-night discussions of, ‘Does love have to be unique?’ Carol cannot accept that that’s real love, which is a very interesting question to pose. So she willingly went along with this delusion. And then to find out that they have betrayed her in such a horrific way to her is the end of that illusion and the end of that delusion.”

Also, check out our interview with Karolina Wydra and Carlos-Manuel Vesga as they talk about the show, including the Darien Gap episode.

Pluribus Season 1 is now available to stream on Apple TV+.