Ritter stars as Lucy, a young woman with amnesia about her past. Keeley Hawes plays a grown Kira Manning, now a scientist who is married to a neuroscientist, Dr. Eleanor Miller (Rya Kihlstedt); they have a son named Lucas (Jaeden Noel). Avan Jogia plays Lucy’s army medic boyfriend, Jack, who has a deaf daughter named Charlie (Zariella Langford-Haughton). Amanda Fix plays Jules Lee, the adopted teen daughter of wealthy parents, while James Hiroyuki Liao plays billionaire Paul Darros, founder of the Darros Foundation. In addition, Jordan Gavaris and Evelyne Brochu reprise their Orphan Black roles as Kira’s uncle, Felix, and aunt, Delphine Cormier, respectively.
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Krysten Ritter stars as an amnesiac young woman named Lucy.
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Keeley Hawes plays Dr. Kira Manning, grown daughter of Sarah Manning in the original series.
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Lucy does a double-take when she encounters Jules Lee (Amanda Fix).
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Keeley Hawes plays Dr. Kira Manning, grown daughter of Sarah Manning in the original series.
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Lucy does a double-take when she encounters Jules Lee (Amanda Fix).
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We got a brief teaser last October showing Lucy waking with no memory of her identity, apart from a few disturbing flashes. A woman scientist asked her some probing questions, and when Lucy asked what was wrong with her, the scientist merely replied, “You’ve been through a procedure.” The teaser ended with a shot of Lucy rising up out of a vat of hot, pink primordial goo.
The full trailer opens with a nice little montage of Lucy’s seemingly normal life: hanging out with boyfriend Jack and playing with Charlie. “I like SpaghettiOs, long walks on the beach, and I have an almost pathological desire to avoid talking about the past,” she says in a voiceover accompanied by more flashes of ominous imagery. Cut to Darros at a press conference confidently proclaiming that they are changing the world with his foundation’s research. But Kira has serious misgivings about the project and fears Lucy might be in danger. Darros seems unconcerned: “Sometimes we have to make sacrifices for the greater good.”
It looks like Lucy ends up on the run from dangerous people while trying to figure out who she really is. Then she encounters Jules, who is a dead ringer for Lucy herself at 16 (and apparently, Lucy is a dead ringer for Eleanor as a young woman). Jules is in danger, too, so the two team up to find the answers. It might not end well… for someone.
Orphan Black: Echoes premieres on AMC (streaming on AMC+) and BBC America on June 23, 2024. New episodes will air weekly after that.
