Will uses heroin to block out Whispers while hiding in a safe house with Riley. Kala has married Rajan, but Wolfgang remains in her thoughts. Jonas reveals to Will that his cluster is not the first to be born by Angelica and that Whispers takes medication to block his sensate abilities. Kabaka gifts Capheus a new matatu to repay him. The eight celebrate their shared birthday. Lito refuses to deny his homosexuality upsetting his agents after Joaquin releases the pictures. Felix wakes up in the hospital and returns to normal. Joong-Ki hires men to kill Sun in prison but she defeats them with the help of the cluster. Lito is evicted from his apartment for his homosexuality, but his mother lovingly accepts him. Nomi and Amanita move in with Bug, as Nomi is still being pursued by government agents and especially Agent Bendix. Whispers intimidates Will by paying his dad a visit. Wolfgang is offered by his aunt and, later, territory boss Volker Bohm, the opportunity to become involved with organized crime the way his uncle was; he turns them down. Later, Bohm's hitmen perpetrate a shooting and come after Wolfgang, but he defeats them with help from the cluster.
Tropes present in this episode:
- Candlelit Bath: Riley and Will share one for their birthday.
- Christmas Episode: It's marketed as such, but it also easily counts as Birthday Episode, Thanksgiving Episode, and New Year Has Come, as the events and holidays from August to January are celebrated.
- Creator Cameo: An easily missed one as her face doesn't appear onscreen, but during the New Years celebrations in Berlin Wolfgang and Felix walk past a woman with pink dreadlocks. The woman is series creator Lana Wachowski.
- Emerging from the Shadows: Capheus is shot against the light for the first few minutes of his appearance, covering his face to build up to the reveal that his actor has been recast.
- Evil Power Vacuum: Wolfgang caused one by murdering his family and not taking their place.
- Forced Out of the Closet: Joaquin releases Dani's photos of Lito and Hernando, exposing them both as gay to the whole world.
- Groin Attack: Rajan injures his penis when Kala accidentally knocks him off the bed.
- Internal Reveal: Capheus partially explains his Sensate status to Jela, telling him about Sun a.k.a. The Spirit Of Jean-Claude.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall:
- Jela points out that Capheus has been looking "different" lately, clearly a reference to the fact that the character's actor has been recast between seasons. Capheus replies with "New barbershop."Capheus: Faces change, you know? But not the heart.
- When Bohm approaches them Felix refuses to go inside the shop for safety because...Felix: I can't get shot again. I just came out of the hospital, that would be terrible plotting!
- Jela points out that Capheus has been looking "different" lately, clearly a reference to the fact that the character's actor has been recast between seasons. Capheus replies with "New barbershop."
- Mood Whiplash: The Christmas sequence is immediately followed by Whispers visiting Will.
- Never Trust a Title: While the climax is set around Christmastime, the episode itself covers major events from at least August until the year's end.
- Sex Montage: The cluster, along with Amanita and Hernando, celebrate their birthday with a psychic orgy.
- So Proud of You: Lito's mother reveals she's known he was gay since he was a child and that she's proud of how he's handled being forced out of the closet.
- Tempting Fate: Riley thinks it's alright to take Will outside on Christmas Day, because Whispers has a family and will be preoccupied. She's wrong.
- Title Drop: It's the last line of the episode, spoken by Wolfgang after the cluster helps him deal with a group of assassins.
- Worthy Opponent: The boy Sun lost her virginity to was a rival kickboxer that she defeated in competition. After the match he approached her in the locker room, where she was crying over her father rejecting her win, and told her that she was the best fighter he'd ever faced.
