- Karl. - This is Dr. Matheson.
- Oh, Agatha's fine. - I'm Melantha Jhirl,
- Karl's mission specialist. - This is Rowan,
- our xenobiologist. - Oh, you must be thrilled.
- First contact with alien life. - I think he's waking up.
The fuck was that?
- It was psychic feedback.
He wasn't trying to hurt you.
Bad idea...
bringing one of those things onto the ship.
- Never before has mankind had the opportunity
and the means....
to make first contact.
- There was a malfunction during launch.
They seem to think that it wasn't an accident.
Daddy?
- Stop playback! - This is not how it happened!
- It is not Thale. - He's... he's using my memories
- against me! - He was right here, out cold.
- A search of the ship is underway.
- So you've got cameras everywhere.
- How is this possible? - My security team
will find him and take the appropriate action.
- Your crew will walk into a bloodbath.
- You fucking little freak!
Get...
out.
- Somebody help! - I need some help down here.
- Is he still alive? - Barely.
- Did Thale do this? - I don't know.
Murphy had a gun, and if he used it...
- It won't matter to the crew. - No.
- Level four alert.
Please proceed to.
- You should get to your quarters.
The L-1's out.
- I've been waiting for you.
- What do you want?
- I just wanna talk.
- What did you just do? - You're not one
to piss about with, are you?
- What did you see? - Let's just say
you're way more interesting than I imagined.
- Get out of my room. - You know the ship.
You tell me how to get to the domes
without being seen, and I'll be gone.
- The maglev tunnels.
There are no cameras there.
You can climb up to the domes.
- Oh, and, uh...
don't tell anybody you saw me, will ya?
And I won't tell anybody what I saw.
- He's stable.
Lucky you got him up here when you did.
It probably saved his life.
- Can I talk to him. - No.
We had to put Murphy in a coma
to control the pain.
- They're gonna tear Thale apart.
- Is this the work of your telepath?
- No, and I'd strongly encourage you
not to feed into that hysteria.
Thale's not capable of doing this.
- You have quite a lot of things you say
he's not capable of, yet they seem
- to keep happening. - Mechanical malfunctions.
- Nothing to do with Thale. - Are you trying to deny
the danger your L-1 presents on my ship?
- No, of course not. - That's why we have them
isolated and under suppression.
- Someone on your crew set him free.
That's who we should be hunting for.
- Look, we can bring Thale in safely.
He trusts Agatha more than anyone.
- Then what?
I agreed to transport you to you Volcryn.
I can't do that with my crew fearing for their lives.
The L-1 is a complication I can't afford.
- That doesn't sound good.
- I need you to find Lommie.
We're gonna need her.
- Thale?
Thale?
Thale.
- He... he was in my head. - It's okay.
He didn't mean to hurt you, he's just scared.
- It's okay. - He was in my head.
- It's okay. - It's okay.
Admit.
- I was worried.
Where'd you go?
What happened to you?
- It was, um...
there was something...
- in there. - In where?
In the computer?
- At first I thought it was a... - A firewall,
but then I... I could feel it around me.
Heat and rage.
It wanted me dead.
- Hey.
Hey.
Come here.
We'll keep each other safe.
Jesus, Lommie, you're bleeding.
Let me see.
You did this?
You can't.
You're on a team, Lommie.
We are relying on you.
And you can rely on us. Do you understand?
- You're the one who doesn't understand.
- What's wrong?
- Nothing.
- Jesus. - Keep his head elevated.
- What happened to him? - Temporary side effect
of telepathic energy: minor hemorrhaging
- in the sclera. - That thing attacked him.
- He's not a thing.
And no. If Thale wanted this man dead
- he'd be dead. - He's gotta be
in one of the domes. Get Doryen and his men up here.
- Was it Thale?
I know how this looks,
but he's showing restraint, Karl.
- Yeah, I don't think anybody here is gonna
- appreciate that nuance. - I know where he is.
Just be straight-forward. Honest and direct.
He's not under suppression right now,
so he'll know if you're lying.
- Okay.
- Thale?
Come and talk to us.
- We're here to help you. - Sod off.
You can barely help yourself.
- You know there's nothing I wouldn't do
- to keep you safe. - You let them put me
in a coma! And maybe that was the plan
all along.
Clear the deck for you and D'Branin.
That's what you wanted, innit?
- The decision to put you under...
was mine.
I was wrong.
Look, I'm sorry.
- Oh, so now you tell the truth.
Now your prized lab rat's escaped.
- It's not like that.
We just want to protect you.
One of the crew is badly burned
and everybody thinks you did it.
- Did you see what happened?
- Look, have a look.
I got nothing to hide.
Just tell me what you know,
and you and I can work it out with Eris together.
- There he is! - Fucking knew it.
- No, no, don't run! - Don't come in here
with those weapons!
You'll force him to defend himself!
- Yeah? - After what he did to Murphy,
he'd better be ready to defend himself.
- That wasn't Thale. - Okay, you're making
a mistake. You go after him and that boy...
- Necessary personnel only
until the L-1 is contained.
- Sir, perhaps I could have a word in private?
- Just speak freely.
- We have an escaped L-1 onboard.
- Three men are down. - Your point?
- We're a colony ship. - This mission, sir?
- Perhaps we should turn back. - Out of the question.
You worry about our trajectory, Augustine.
Let me worry about the mission.
Thale will be apprehended within the hour.
- As you wish, Captain.
- Dude, what the fuck? - That was D'Branin
- you knocked out. - He brought the L-1 onboard,
didn't he?
He's responsible, as far as I'm concerned.
Split up.
Jesus.
You ever shoot one of those things before?
- Only in training, sir. - Just keep your hand steady
and squeeze.
I said quiet.
I got him. I got him!
- Suczek got him! - Move in!
Let's go help.
What are you doing?
- What the fuck?
- Fall back. - Everyone, out of the dome, now!
- So this is how it's gonna be.
- Clear the deck. - Out, now.
- I'm sorry, Karl.
- I had him. - I could have walked Thale back
- into his dome. - And my crew would still
be calling for his head.
He's a threat to the life of every person on this ship.
- I need him alive. - You want him alive.
Need is a matter of opinion.
- We've detected anomalies in the wave forms recorded
by the Volcryn... The same anomalies exist
in the L-1s.
Thale is our best hope at communicating with them.
- Give the chaos onboard of my ship, perhaps it's time
for you and your team to devise another way
- to communicate. - Oh, for Christ's sake.
Thale is a kid.
He volunteered to come out here.
- I'm sorry, my hands are tied.
- I'm gonna prove to you that he's innocent,
and then we'll see if you still have the balls
to murder him.
What's the status in Terraform?
- Stand-off.
Security can't get close to the L-1.
- It's time to use something that can.
- Security already came by.
No L-1s in here.
Just one overworked lab tech.
- We need a mobile robot
that can maneuver easily inside Terraform.
- The Spider-Bot's fully charged.
Just upgraded the OS.
- Can you outfit it with laser cutters?
- Lasers are lethal.
Strictly for work outside the hull.
- Lethal works.
Orders of Captain Eris.
- That's close enough.
- Why?
What will you do to me?
- Whatever it takes.
- The colony would perceive that as an attack
and protect me.
Are you gonna shoot each of them as well?
- Who are you?
I can't hear through the bees.
- Well, let me help you.
You have the ship in an uproar.
- Yeah, well, they started it, so...
Sit down.
Go on.
You're my prisoner now, so...
- Daddy? - Daddy... daddy...
- Try and catch me. - Wait, wait!
Wait, wait! Skye!
- Hi, Daddy.
- Do you remember when you gave me this bracelet?
- Come here, Daddy.
- I don't know what you are, but I will find out.
- You. - You... you...
Don't know anything.
- Admit.
- Hey. - What happened to you?
- Courtesy of our host, Roy Eris.
- You want some rope?
It's an organic anti-inflammatory.
- No, thanks. - I'm more of a gin man.
- Suit yourself.
Rowan, I don't know what's happening.
This ship...
Eris, the crew, Thale...
The way things are going,
I don't know if we'll even make it to the Volcryn.
We need to send a probe.
- We need to send White Rabbit. - What, now?
- Yeah, now.
I don't trust Eris.
It might be the closest we ever get to the Volcryn.
- You think Eris will abort the mission?
- Honestly, I don't know. - I don't wanna risk it.
I need you to get Mel.
Bring her with you, make all the necessary adjustments.
Don't let anybody see you.
We don't want to give Eris a chance to stop us.
- This isn't right.
This patient should not be moved right now.
- A man's life is at stake.
- Yeah, his.
- Hey. - Is he ready?
- How far is too far, Karl?
You're doing this for your mission.
- Do I really need to remind you of the stakes?
- You're just denying accountability.
- I'm not denying anything.
Look, if this ends up killing Murphy,
then I'll have to live with that... so will you.
Unless this is too much for you, and...
- I didn't say that. - I want Thale alive
as much as you do. More.
- What are you trying to do?
- We need to disconnect the memory suite
from the main system.
- I know a few tricks.
Been on the ship long enough.
Whose memories are you planning on accessing here?
- Murphy.
- Do you honestly believe the L-1 is innocent?
- He's part of our team.
- Ah.
Loyalty.
- I understand. - Why are you doing this?
- I'm loyal, too. - My captain, my ship...
I think what you're doing here could help them both.
Better move fast.
The crew's working double-time to try and deal with your L-1.
- We trained on probe systems way more complex than this
in the program.
I did three tours around Luna, all manual drives.
- That's certainly impressive.
- You think I'm green. - Being orbiters with a group
of cadets is hardly the same as crossing the Void.
This bloody tray.
- You have to disengage the limiter.
- I knew that.
Plan B is ready.
- It's beautiful.
- It will be even more beautiful...
if it sends us pictures back of the Volcryn.
Especially if we don't make it.
- Is the gun necessary?
- They have guns.
- You could kill me with your mind, right?
- Yeah, if I wanted to.
Maybe I don't.
- What's your name?
- Thale.
- What, no family name?
- I was taken from my family.
- I'm very sorry to hear that.
I'm Tessia, by the way.
It's nice to meet you, Thale.
- I know what you're doing.
- Making conversation? - No, empathizing.
Agatha, she does it all the time.
She's my, uh...
therapist, or...
handler.
I don't know what the fuck she is.
Cor, if you could hear the things they want
to do to me.
- I think it's absolutely horrible,
the way people treat L-1s.
I'm profoundly against it.
Still, you can't really blame them, you know?
They've been pushed down the food chain
by a new apex predator.
- Naw.
We ain't predators, we're victims.
- You certainly act like it.
- Say that again.
- What do you get from me, Thale?
- A bunch of fuzzy fucking rainbows.
- And behind the rainbows?
Everyone's the same.
Darkness and light.
Maybe the problem isn't the terrible things
people send out to you,
but what you let in.
- Easy for you to say.
- Okay, ready for playback. - Come on out.
- We'll get started. - Okay.
- It's not working.
Maybe it's too hard on him.
- Hold on...
- Here we go.
That's Murphy in the med bay.
Can you scan backwards?
- You brought an L-1 onboard? - His name is Thale, he's...
vital to the success of our mission.
- He's an L-1. - They're murderers.
- Getting closer.
- You're afraid, again.
I'm afraid too.
- Record feed. - Yeah.
'Cause our world is dying.
I'm guessing that's why you're all on a colony ship.
- Stop. - Slow down.
This is where they're hunting Thale.
- Go back to your quarters. - L-1's still on the loose.
- Eris needs the feeds restored.
Just in case.
- Yeah, here we go.
You fucking little freak.
No!
- Jesus. - Shut it down.
There was no malfunction.
- Wanna say any last words?
Safe travels, little rabbit.
- You okay?
- Fine.
Just... be a shame to come
out all this way just for a...
probe launch.
Wanted to make real contact.
- Then let's do that.
Stop hiding. Come and talk to me.
You want to experience intimacy?
Truth?
- Excuse me?
- That's why you watch people, right?
That's what you told me.
Well, start with D'Branin.
You two are partners.
You need to trust each other if we're gonna survive
- out here. - Partners.
Karl isn't my partner.
- He's my passenger. - We are not out here
to take a joy ride on your ship.
We are out here to find solutions.
- As am I. - Then trust him.
- It's not just the L-1, Melantha.
This mission faces a threat
you do not understand.
- So help me understand.
- I can't.
- You need to run your ship your way.
Karl needs to find the Volcryn his way.
- I tried. - Melantha...
- Go.
- How much longer is this gonna take?
- Five minutes, tops.
As I initiate the...
The hell?
- What is it?
- The domes were my mother's design...
The jeweled life glowing
against the blackness of space.
They're nothing without the outer ring
to support them.
A much more intricate design...
My design...
But all anyone sees are the domes.
- Thale set Murphy on fire.
Not with his mind... With his hands.
Bringing him was my idea.
I needed him to be innocent.
- It doesn't matter, Karl.
The real question...
is how do we keep the crew from learning what Thale did?
I'll make a ship-wide announcement
that a faulty comm relay caused the fire.
We'll be able to return Thale safely to his dome.
- Murphy will know that's a lie.
- Murphy has been placed back in a coma.
Before he's brought out, I'll adjust his memory
of the fire to reflect our version of events.
- Why?
Why are you doing this?
- We both want this mission to succeed
for our own reasons.
- Doesn't explain all the accidents on the ship.
- There's nothing to explain.
An internal review of memory footage has revealed
that an electrical fire was responsible
for Chief Engineer Murphy's injuries.
The L-1 will be returned to his dome.
Thank you for your patience
while we resolve this matter.
- The crew seem to have settled.
- I'm relieved to put this incident behind us.
- I gave D'Branin's team a hand this morning
in the memory suite.
- Is that a fact? - I wanted to install
a mirror program on their system
to monitor the footage they extracted
from Mr. Murphy.
A little insurance policy.
You're quite dedicated to their mission, sir.
- Yes.
I am.
- It's still not too late. - Too late for what, Auggie?
- You're not an explorer, you're a builder.
- It's what you do best. - It's what my mother did best.
- Your mother was a great woman.
- My mother didn't care about building colonies.
She was more interested in building her legend.
- I beg to differ, sir.
I think you're selling her short.
Those colonies create homes for families.
- Enough, Auggie.
It's imperative we keep order on the "Nightflyer."
You can destroy that footage, now.
- Don't know what's happening.
Someone's taken control.
- They're re-writing the code.
- No one can code that fast.
- Turn it off.
- Turn it off! - I can't get control back.
- Shit.
- Wait here. - Yes, ma'am.
Thale?
No one's gonna hurt you.
- Yeah, so it seems.
Interesting announcement from the captain, wasn't it?
- Yeah, well, I promised I would protect you.
You'll still be confined to your habitat
for your own safety, but...
mission's back on track.
You're gonna help us talk to the Volcryn.
- I'll go back to my dome, but no more drugs.
Well, I'm an apex predator.
I need to stay sharp, don't I?
- Predator? - Yeah.
That's the truth, innit?
Just gotta keep it under control.
- How do you propose to do that?
- Sift through what I receive.
Filter out the negative shit.
I think I'd like to go back to my dome, now.
- I got your message.
Do you need help with something?
- D'Branin's updated the mission prep calendar.
He needs you to confirm the probe's trajectory.
- I can't go back in there.
- Start off slow.
Stay out of the deeper system.
- No, I can't.
- But you can.
- I'll be with you the whole time.
- You're manipulating me.
- Am I?
- What happened in here?
The...
The spider.
It was... it was alive.
- Where is it now, Mr. Suczek?
- It's been a real stretch, to tell you the truth, Joy.
I, uh... I would have called you sooner
but every second there's a battle up here, so...
- Oh, I'm so sorry, baby.
Are you regretting it?
- No, no, I can't afford to.
Every day we get closer to contact is a good day.
Hey...
- Where'd you get that bracelet?
Looks familiar.
- Yeah.
Skye gave me this.
We made them together in the backyard.
- Oh. - Uh-huh.
- Right.
- Does it hurt?
Letting pieces of our daughter go like that?
I don't know, it just seems so sad to me.
- I can't feel sadness
over things I don't remember.
- Right. - That's the whole point
of the therapy.
- I just...
just can't help but wonder what's left.
- All the good stuff.
- Skye was good.
- Every part of her was good. - I know.
I just couldn't go on
one more day blaming myself for...
the decisions we made.
She'd still be alive if we just...
I can't even remember what we did wrong.
- Eris. - The door to the mission lab
has been disabled.
The room requires maintenance.
Come on, Roy.
I have a shitload of work to do.
What type of maintenance?
- You were right, Karl.
I haven't given you the full truth.
- About?
- The chaos onboard my ship.
The malfunctions...
the images of your daughter...
they're all related.
- Related how?
- I'm dealing with a force that's trying
to stop this mission.
- Okay. - I can't go into
precise detail without further compromising
- the safety of my ship. - That's not good enough.
Tell me what force. What do you mean?
- I'm sharing this with you because I want
to trust you, Karl. I gave you Thale.
Please. I need this.
I'll let you know once I have the situation under control.
This is Captain Roy Eris.
Override unauthorized user.
Deactivate.
This time you've gone too far.