Leadership tension arises immediately. Clarke Griffin focuses on survival and reaching Mount Weather, while Bellamy Blake encourages the group to remove their monitoring wristbands to make the Ark believe they are dead, ensuring the adults don't follow them down.

The group lands off-course, away from their intended destination, Mount Weather , where vital food and supplies are stored.

In the series premiere of , titled "Pilot," 100 juvenile delinquents are exiled from a failing space station known as the Ark and sent to Earth 97 years after a nuclear apocalypse to determine if the planet is habitable. Key Plot Points

While exploring, the teens encounter bioluminescent forests and mutated wildlife, including a two-headed deer. Octavia Blake is attacked by a giant "river monster" while swimming, but is saved by Jasper Jordan .