[ominous music]
[crickets chirping]
[approaching footsteps]
[Mel] So, is this how you avoid me?
[Roy] I like this dome.
All this life.
I didn't know what to say.
[Roy] Did Karl tell you?
I need to hear it from you.
[sighs]
My mother.
She's alive.
Alive?
How?
When her body was dying, she made...
contingencies.
She built this ship to be her home forever.
You're saying...
she's been using the ship to hurt us?
No. She is the ship.
All of this,
the metal hull, the Crystal Matrix...
The Nightflyer is her body now.
And that's why I'm hiding up here.
To get away from her voice.
You can hear your mother?
Words...
feelings in my head
all the time.
You take me away from that.
[lights clicking]
[foreboding music]
[lights power down]
[ominous music]
[ominous music continues]
[Skye] Get it out of me.
[Skye] Daddy?
That thing...
Cancer inside.
Cut it out.
Just leave me alone.
Go away.
Get it out!
[Skye] You brought it here.
[Karl] Brought what here?
Please, daddy. It's hurting me.
Get it out. It's... it's hurting me.
Just walk through it.
[footsteps]
[Karl] She's taunting me.
Eris's mother?
You know it's an errant computer program?
Yes, I... I know.
Right.
So, don't leave yourself so vulnerable.
What exactly is it you want me to do?
When you torture yourself, Karl.
It makes it easy for other people to do the same.
[keypad beeps]
[whirring]
[ominous music]
[tense music]
Rowan, why is the fucking--
Evening.
Why is the fucking probe in my room?
You tell me.
[tense music]
[lights powering up]
No, don't touch it! Don't.
No, of course not.
[stammers] Rowan, this should be
a million miles away from us.
How did you get it in here?
[Karl] I didn't.
Then who did?
[ominous music]
[theme music]
[theme music continues]
[Roy sighs]
[smooches]
[romantic music]
[Roy grunting, groaning]
-Roy? -[gasps]
[Mel] Roy, Roy, Roy.
Oh, she's screaming at me.
-[Roy screams] -[disembodied voice]
I've never heard her like this.
[foreboding music]
[static]
[beeping]
[static]
[gasps]
[beeping]
[static]
[whirring]
[door slams]
[beeping, chimes]
[static]
[beeping]
[crew #1] Hey!
Somebody?
[ominous music]
[banging]
Open this thing!
[whirring]
[Thale] I thought you said no more needles.
Careful, you're transmitting.
[Agatha] I'm not suppressing you. Just checking your levels of Teke hormone.
Hey!
[steam hisses]
You're thinking about D'Branin again.
It's none of your business.
[crew #1] No, no, no!
-[cracks] -[gasps]
[steam hisses]
[crew screams]
-[grunts] -[beeping]
-[Agatha] Thale. -[Thale wheezing]
-[Agatha] Thale. Okay. -[wheezing]
-Bring your levels down. -I can't breathe.
-[steam hissing] -[muffled grunts]
What are you sensing?
Cold. I can't feel my fingers.
[steam hissing]
It's freaking cold.
[panting]
-Okay, try to breathe. -I can't.
[steam hissing]
[crackling]
[grunts]
[panting]
-[Thale sniffles, sighs] -[Agatha shushes]
This is our first point of alien contact.
Well, that's, that's a bit of a leap, Karl.
[Karl] Oh, yeah?
Now, how do you explain...
how it just magically appeared in my room?
[Rowan stutters] I don't... I don't know.
-I... I can't. -[Karl] Hmm.
Rowan, I built this probe,
and they sent it back to me.
Surely Eris is involved.
I told you they could do incredible things.
We knew they could do incredible things.
Please stop there. Let's take a step back.
And we'll run some tests.
Yes, I'll get Lommie to port in.
No, no, no. You can't send her in there.
Rowan, I need you to get
radiation monitors, spectrometers, cameras everywhere.
Record everything. Everything.
Don't forget the duct tape.
Keep your head from exploding.
[whirring]
-[indistinct chatter] -[machines beeping]
[crew #2] Sir, we're getting error codes. A lot of them.
[computer beeping]
[woman over PA] Warning. System...
Isolate the malfunctioning systems.
[Roy] Cut them off from the rest of the ship.
Dr. Matheson, we're quite busy right now.
There's been an accident.
[Agatha] One of your crew members.
[woman over PA] ...unit now
Thale, he felt something.
Where did it happen?
I can't be sure unless we take him out of the dome.
-[woman over PA] Warning. -I'll gather security detail.
-System compromised. -No. Better just you and me.
It would help a lot for Thale to feel you trust him.
[whirring]
Last night, you very specifically told me to run the wave patterns,
-so that's what I've been doing. -Yeah.
That was before.
Before what?
[keypad beeps]
[foreboding music]
[Karl] We can't let this get out, not yet.
Think of the crew if they found out.
[Rowan] Or Eris.
[whirring]
I don't understand though. How did it get...
back on the ship?
We don't know.
Makes nice Beach Boys music though.
Listen.
[whirring]
Did it reach the Volcryn?
We don't know.
What's this, uh...
this crust on the outside?
[Rowan] Oh, that's isotopes of iridium and palladium.
It's all over the hull.
It's kind of like a...
like a space rust, if you will.
-You touched it? -No.
Had to get a small sample.
Rowan, you got to be careful. We don't know what this shit is.
There is so much data in there.
I'm finally going to get some answers.
What kind of answers?
Well, how it got back here.
For a start.
[ominous music]
-How far down? -I'll let you know.
[screams]
Well, we just went past it. Go back.
Cargo.
[keypad beeps]
[whirring]
[Agatha] Thale experiences everything.
Mentally, emotionally, physically.
[Roy] Incredible.
And not pleasant.
He describes it as a suffocating dread.
It's one of those.
These bins are locked.
It's not possible to close them from inside.
Maybe someone did it from outside.
You're suggesting this wasn't an accident?
[crew screaming]
[door opens]
[door clangs]
[ominous music]
[ominous music continues]
[shatters]
[ominous music]
We died together.
[Lommie inhales sharply]
Can you do something about the room?
It's too hot.
-Yeah, sure. -Okay.
Well, is it... is it not working?
There's nothing wrong with the controls.
What do you mean? Then why are we not...
-[beeping] -[Lommie] What are you saying?
-We think it's intentional. -What do you mean intentional?
[Karl] Eris' mother.
She's, uh... inside the ship.
[Rowan] We think she's the one turning the heat up.
So that's what I felt.
That's what I felt when I ported into the system. It was her.
Yeah. Yeah. That's what we think, yeah.
Or more likely a simulation based on her psychological protocols.
No, it's not a simulation.
She's in there, and she's real.
[foreboding music]
[Agatha] Come on.
Let's get you to bed.
[Thale] It ain't easy, you know.
Dying over and over again.
[Agatha] I'll get you some suppressives.
[Thale sighs]
I ain't going back on that shit.
Do you remember when you were a little boy
and you used to have your episodes?
I was the only one you'd let get close to you.
Yeah, well, I ain't a little kid no more, am I?
You probably don't give a shit. You're thinking about him.
That's not fair.
Karl and I used to be close.
I've known him for a long time.
I think about you all the time.
You shouldn't lie, it doesn't suit you.
Right.
You should get some rest.
I'll bring you your dinner in an hour or so.
[footsteps]
-Is she still screaming? -No.
Now, she's lashing out.
There's no way to predict who she'll hurt.
The guy in the cargo bin, you're sure that was her?
The system controlling the bins was interrupted last night.
We didn't get a warning.
It reset itself.
[whirring]
[Lommie sighs] The probe can't take this heat any longer.
[chimes]
[woman over PA] Commander Eris requests entry.
I wouldn't do that.
[Roy over PA] Karl, open up.
[sighs]
[Roy over PA] I'm going to override the door.
[keypad beeps]
[static]
Oh, my god.
[static]
-[static intensifies] -[groans]
[Mel] It's my bad.
[Roy] That thing.
[static]
[Roy] That's what she's screaming about.
She wants it off her ship.
[indistinct clatter]
[approaching footsteps]
-Hey -Hi.
[Agatha] Thanks for meeting me. I'm only in town for a few days, the...
conference.
[sighs]
You look good, Karl.
I miss you.
We never really got a chance to talk.
No.
You left too abruptly for that.
I know. I'm sorry.
I just didn't know what to say.
You can't just...
show up out of the blue after two years without contact.
Well, I wanted to see you.
To talk about what happened.
Okay. So, let's talk.
Well, it's complicated.
Um...
Okay, so I'll talk.
So, after you bailed on me, I, uh...
met someone else.
Her name is Joy and...
we're getting married this summer.
Wow.
That's... that's really great, Karl.
I guess I'm getting older because, uh...
sold my motorcycle,
got a house in Ross, and talking about having kids.
I'm really happy for you.
[Karl] Can you imagine
me being a father?
You'll be a great father.
[Karl] That means a lot.
[man over PA] Yes, sir. What can I do?
Send a welding team to Karl D'Branin's quarters.
There's some equipment here we need to remove.
No, no, no! I'm not gonna let you do this.
I'm not asking your permission. [Karl] No this is my probe.
-It's too important! -I'm trying to save your life!
My mother can feel this thing inside of her, like a cancer.
I don't know if it's something the Volcryn did, but she wants it out.
You feel sorry for her.
Roy, you have to stand up to her.
[Mel] This is your chance.
We'll do whatever it takes to help you.
-It's not that simple, Melantha. -No, okay.
Roy, it is that simple.
I know how important this mission is to you.
And I know you are not gonna destroy the only alien artifact
that anybody has ever come in contact with
because you're afraid of pissing off your mother.
What she's doing with your cabin, the heat.
She'll do this to the entire ship, or worse.
Just give me the time to get the data I need off my probe.
Please. Please.
One cycle.
I can hold her off for one cycle.
Then I'm cutting up that probe
-and sending it out the airlock. -That's all I need.
-Do you understand me? -Yes.
[door opens]
[sighs]
Oh, yeah. You took that well.
[Rowan] Maybe you should take a minute to clear your head.
We don't want to be making any mistakes, given we're now being rushed.
Okay.
[exhales sharply]
[approaching footsteps]
Can't sleep?
[Agatha] No, I'm worried about Thale.
He experienced a dock worker's death, and he's taking it pretty badly.
I'm just... I don't want him to start slipping.
Sorry, I know how you feel about telepaths.
What do you mean?
Oh, well I work with L-1s.
I know that's what drove us apart.
When I took the job at Sutherland,
I knew how you felt.
[stutters] No. Hey, I was scared.
[Karl] I wasn't the only one.
We've all seen what Ls can do on those vids.
Telepaths are misunderstood.
I took the job to help people to understand
that there's a place for everyone in this world.
[stammers] Agatha, that's all very honorable and obviously,
I'm all for the idea of using Ls for their abilities,
but, but I don't want to have my thoughts invaded.
Wait, you think they want to see inside your head?
-It's a curse. -Okay, malicious or not,
it's still an invasion.
I mean, okay, they can't control it but...
[laughs]
What?
I just remembered how you can be when...
Yeah.
[approaching footsteps]
[sighs]
You really need to see this.
Hi.
-[Rowan] Now. -Yeah.
Yeah.
[footsteps retreating]
[whirring]
[Rowan] Phew.
You may wish to remove a layer or two of clothing.
Cynthia Eris is doing this.
[Karl] She thinks the heat will damage the probe.
Won't this heat warp the circuits?
[Karl] No, it should be fine. It was designed for deep space.
Now, look at this.
[Karl] That's blood.
-Where is it coming from? -That's a good question.
Follow me.
I was removing the internal drive tray...
And what? It just started bleeding?
I think it makes perfect sense.
Because
it's alive.
[squelches]
[ominous music]
[Roy] Okay, Mother, it's going to be okay.
Please, just, just try and get some rest.
Oh, no. Stop it.
Mother stop it!
Stop it!
[sighs]
Was that her?
I used to hear her clearly.
Now, there's so many voices fighting.
Fighting for attention.
Terrified.
How do you know it's her?
What do you mean?
-Maybe those voices... -I'm not crazy, Mel.
But they could just be echoes of your mother.
Not the person that she was when she was alive.
Cynthia Eris is a memory to the world.
[disembodied voice] She's using you.
But up here, on the Nightflyer...
she never went away.
[disembodied voice] Don't be a fool.
My whole life, I've heard her.
Her voice...
her criticisms...
Every judgment coming from inside of these walls and--
I'm sorry, Roy. But maybe it's not the probe
that you need to try to get rid of?
[scoffs]
Maybe you...
[Mel] What?
She told me you'd say that.
[foreboding music]
[static]
[whirrs]
[heels clanking]
[ominous music]
[rumbles]
[smooches]
[ominous music]
[ominous music continues]
[Thale pants]
[tense music]
[muffled grunts]
Die.
[gasps, pants]
[sighs]
Fuck.
[footsteps]
Ah... Central components intact.
[Karl] Can it sustain this heat?
[Rowan] For the time being.
But it's not enjoying it very much.
Okay.
[Karl] All this organic material. What if...
Could this actually be the Volcryn?
Or is it some sort of message?
You're certainly enjoying this.
Of course, aren't you? I mean...
you came all the way out here to find some form of alien life.
[Karl] Look what came back!
It certainly is quite incredible.
Okay, so we know that they can move through the walls,
which means that they can...
Say it out loud.
The Volcryn may have the ability to control space-time.
Right? They...
They sent this here for a reason to us.
Well, we don't know that, now.
We could send Lommie in.
Lommie, you could go in and extract some information.
-Too dangerous. We don't know what... -No, it's fine. I want to do it.
[Lommie] Who knows how long it will survive?
Her system isn't designed to go into things like that.
Well, then we fucking lose everything.
The heat is going to destroy all of the data.
She has to go inside.
I suppose it is conceivable...
that they're using organic material
rather than words or sounds.
Perhaps this tissue is their language.
You see. See what you just did there?
What?
You admitted that this could be the Volcryn, and it is.
No, that's... that's not what I did at all.
Actually, it is.
I said conceivable.
[chimes]
What's that?
[Rowan] That is the analysis of the probe blood sample.
[beeping]
What the hell?
[Rowan] That's not possible.
[Lommie] The blood coming out of the probe, it's...
you.
[foreboding music]
Apparently, the Volcryn know who you are.
[Karl] No...
Then...
Does that mean...
Does that... does that mean that this is me?
All right, I'm in charge.
We follow my lead, my orders from here on out.
-No. No, fucking way. -Yes, fucking way.
No, no, no. This is my probe.
[stutters] I built it. I sent it out there.
Technically, Karl, I sent it out,
so I'm sorry, but you can no longer study the phenomenon
because you are the phenomenon.
[Roy] I can't, there's too many at once.
[disembodied voice] Roy!
-No. -[overlapping disembodied voices]
No, no, no.
That's not true.
You don't get to decide. I get to decide.
[disembodied voice] I'm in control.
[Roy] Mother?
[indistinct disembodied voices]
Mother?
[disembodied voice] End this mission.
[Roy panting] [Roy] Mother.
[static]
[rumbles]
[in soft voice] Get it out. Now!
Now. Now.
No.
[Karl] No. No.
[Agatha] Karl!
You see that, right?
-[Skye] I see how you think of me. -I see how you think of me.
-[Skye] How you hate who I am. -[Agatha] How you hate who I am.
Hate you? No, I don't hate you. We talked about that.
-[Skye] You would. -You would.
-If I told you how I knew... -If I told you how I knew.
-Agatha, stop. You're scaring me. -[Skye] Don't be scared.
Don't be scared.
-[Skye] It's so beautiful. -It's so beautiful.
[Agatha] Look.
What we could have had.
[Agatha] I found out after I left you.
We could have had a child together.
You and me.
This child.
But I knew how you felt.
That there was no future for us.
Kill.
-I was in a new city. -Kill.
-Alone. -Kill.
-[Agatha] Surrounded by strangers... -No.
-Kill. -[Agatha] No hope.
-Agatha, stop. -Kill.
-Stop. -So...
-Kill. -I cut it out.
Death.
No!
[grunts, breathes heavily]
[squelching]
[whirring]
[whirring continues]
[buzzing]
[gasps, grunts]
[buzzing]
[Karl] Joy, hey. It's me.
We are so far into the void.
I have no idea when this message is actually going to reach you, so...
I've been thinking about your therapy
and I know that you know
that I wasn't exactly in love with the idea.
And I don't want to forget about Skye.
I don't think I can.
And I'm not going to.
[Karl] But I know that I remind you of her.
And...
I want you to know that...
if you want to start releasing your memories of me,
then I understand.
So,
go ahead.
[Karl] Release me and start over.
Because I want you to be happy.
Okay.
[rumbling]
[indistinct chatter]
[Rowan] Lommie, do you do that?
[buzzing]
Shit.
-[screams] -[grunts]
No, no!
Don't cut the link, not while she's under.
[suspenseful music]
[panting]
[gasps]
[sighs]
[exhales sharply]
It's dying.
[blood trickling]
[Karl] No!
[Rowan] Oh, shit!
[Rowan] It's in irreversible descent.
Full system collapse.
Shit.
Come on, we need more samples.
We need everything we can get.
[blood trickling]
[Agatha] What is it, Karl?
Something Cynthia Eris showed me,
taunted me with.
-Was it Skye again? -Yup.
And it was you.
The memory I accessed.
She was able to see it.
-But, yeah... -Was it true?
Were you, were you actually...
I found out...
when I was going through medical clearance for Sutherland.
[sighs]
Why didn't you, um...
Why didn't you just call me?
-I knew it wouldn't work. -How?
How could you know? Tell me how you knew.
[sighs]
It was too dangerous to keep going in there
with a life inside me.
I had to make a choice.
[Agatha] I tried to put it out of my mind for a while but,
that's the thing about working with Ls,
you can't bring your baggage into the room.
So, I took some time
and I tried to find you,
to tell you what happened.
There was no conference.
And when I saw how happy you were
when you told me about Joy,
-I just... I couldn't. -[sighs]
Oh, Jesus.
I'm sorry.
We can't let Cynthia Eris tear us all apart.
[somber music]
[somber music continues]
Anything salvaged from the probe?
Why do you care?
I put everything on the line for this mission.
And if there's some way for us to learn
about them...
Maybe she saved us?
She's not going to stop at the probe.
You must know that.
-[Lommie grunts] -[Karl] Hey.
How are you feeling?
[Lommie groans]
You got out of there just in time.
How are you?
Hm.
Okay.
So, what did you see when you were inside that thing?
Everything was jumbled.
-The data? -Chaos.
But beautiful.
[Lommie] Organized in a way I've never seen.
Okay, so.
I mean, there must have been something in there, right?
A message from the Volcryn?
You're so used to looking for details
that you can't see what's right in front of you.
The probe. The probe was the message.
You sent them something you made. A piece of you.
And then they sent it back,
but with more of you in it.
[Lommie] That's a response.
Right, well, we have to keep studying the pieces...
[Lommie] Karl?
There's one more thing.
The timestamp on the sensors,
it was from a month ago.
But the sensors recorded far more than a month's worth of data.
More than they could store,
just data over previous data, layer over layer.
[laughs]
How much?
According to the drives on that probe,
it's been out there for over a thousand years.
[snickers]