‘The Strain’ Recap: S3E4 ‘Gone But Not Forgotten’

We Get To Like Feraldo, And Then Hate Her

After the attack, Feraldo briefly gets infected with a worm. It goes straight into her eye socket and only through the quick thinking by Fett is the worm burned by UV light. Given her importance to the fight against the Strigoi, the police captain has Eph come in to make a house call to make sure she is OK. The first test comes back as negative, but they have to see if any of the worms multiplied and take another test in a few hours.

As a result, she does some self-reflecting. She thinks about the husband she lost on September 11th, (another 9/11 reference) as well her pondering how she would want to die if she found out she was going to become what she hated the most.

Also during the episode she shows some compassion for Gus and the other prisoners the police deputized to fight the Strigoi (without proper weapons and training as well). We get to see that even though she has an icy exterior, she’s a human being after all.

It is only after that she discovers that she isn’t infected does she do a complete 180 ad goes back to that hardened person we always see. To further prove it, she arrests the journalists that are reporting on the dark side of her fight against the Strigoi. This pretty much loses whatever love we could have for her in one fell swoop. In that moment, she becomes one of the human monsters. Sure, we have to fight the Strigoi, but we can’t lose who were are in that process, or they already won.