♪ If you love me ♪
[Eris] Cynthia!
Where are you?
[door lock clatters]
[door creaks open]
[door slams]
[Eris in robotic voice] Cynthia!
You were in my office again.
Hm?
[eerie music]
[Eris] Where are you?
I know you're here.
I will find you.
[foreboding music]
[approaching footsteps]
[Eris] Cynthia!
Where are you?
Cynthia!
[Young Cynthia screams]
[rumbling]
[theme music]
[theme music continues]
[Rowan] I've never seen anything like this.
[squelching]
Oh, look, another tooth.
[Karl] Performing my own autopsy.
[Karl clicks tongue]
You should take a break, mate.
You don't need to be here. In fact, you shouldn't.
There's no way you can be objective about any of this.
Man, we are finding chunks of my body
in a probe that I built
to make contact with alien life.
I just feel like I should be here.
[sighs]
Something else bothering you?
Agatha.
What exactly is the logic of bringing your ex into deep space?
We needed Thale.
-For the mission? -Yeah, we did.
That's why we're here, the mission. Please remember that.
[rumbling]
[whirring]
[Lommie] We're never going to reach the Volcryn
unless we deal with Cynthia.
Permanently.
[Lommie] The firewalls can't keep up, and we're losing time.
We need to lock her out.
So, what's your plan?
Well, in order to maintain her consciousness,
Cynthia Eris had to build some sort of, um,
of an organizing architecture.
Without our bodies to relay sensation, our minds panic,
which is why she's so dangerous.
-She's frightened. -Yes.
I need to go in there
and find a way to seal her up in that world.
[Lommie] Permanently.
-Karl, are you agreeing with this? -I don't know.
The whole thing makes me nervous.
We're talking about containment, not death?
Yes. Your mother is still going to be there,
just unable to access the systems of the ship.
[Karl] What if you get lost?
Or if we lose the connection to you inside there?
[Mel] We lose her.
Forever.
I'm not comfortable with this.
After what happened to you the last time.
A lot of people endured a lot of pain for me to be in this place.
[Roy] The memory sphere.
Show her your pain.
It's hers, too.
Practice must be brief today.
[Lommie's father] The Elders are becoming suspicious.
[foreboding music]
[footsteps approaching]
[distant chattering]
-[Lommie's father] No! No! -[Lommie] No! No!
[Lommie's father] No, no, no.
[panting]
[tense music]
[Elder leader] You know tech is forbidden.
There are consequences to descension.
[Lommie's father] Your gift is worth the pain.
Don't be afraid.
Accept the price.
[foreboding music]
[Elder leader] The hands.
[all humming]
[humming continues]
-[Lommie yells] -[cracks]
[screams]
[screaming continues]
I'm ready.
It's what I'm here for.
Are you sure that's safe?
I'm worried about you.
Before you wanted to hack that thing out of your arm, and now you've got two.
I need the bandwidth if I'm going to find Cynthia.
She scared the shit out of you last time.
Are you sure?
There are other things on this ship that scare me more.
[alarm beeping]
[gushes]
[guard #1] What the hell?
[guard #2] Jesus! Call medical!
[medic] Speed it up!
-[Thale grunts] -[Tobias] Get out of the way!
[Tobias] Onto the table. Onto the table.
-[Tobias] Quick. Tie him down. -[guard] Up.
[Thale screams]
Sedation! Sedation.
There's too much blood. I need a visual.
[Tobias] Wipe him down...
[Thale screams]
Stand back, scanning!
[suspenseful music]
Where is the wound, please?
[medic] I can't find it. It's dermal, sub-dermal, arterial, all intact.
[Tobias] Scissors. Open the material, the top.
-Wipe down the wound, please. -[Thale whimpers]
Where is it coming from? Where is the wound?
[grunts]
Stay back, please.
-[Thale grunting] -[scoffs]
Okay, everybody stop.
Stop! Please, everybody. We just need to breathe.
Please, just trust me.
Just close your eyes, take deep breaths.
[Agatha] Close your eyes. Breathe.
[laughs]
That was a fucking tour de force performance.
You should have seen the look on your faces.
[chuckles]
[Tobias] Oh, my god.
I...
I don't understand.
[Thale laughs]
You should be ashamed of yourself.
[Thale] What? You should be ashamed of yourself!
I'm in desperate need of medical assistance.
-Hey. You are pushing your luck. -What the fuck else am I supposed to do?
I'm bored out of my nut. What? You never come and see me, do you?
-You scared the shit out of me. -Well, I'm sorry.
You look lovely today, by the way.
You can just lay there for a little while,
while I go clean up this mess with the crew.
Get me out of the fucking...
[sighs]
[thuds]
[foreboding music]
[clangs]
[Thale grunts]
I was on the Luna 71 shuttle.
[Murphy] My wife and kids.
We were on our way to Luna to spend a week at the water resort.
The L on that flight was one of the first.
Just a little girl.
It all started on takeoff.
You know what takeoff is like, right?
[Murphy] The gravity crush, the ship shuddering
as if it's going to break into a thousand pieces.
The kids loved it. Laughing, thrilled.
Us adults,
terrified.
[Murphy] We didn't let it show, of course.
But that little girl,
she took our normal fear,
and she amplified it.
And once that fear was bouncing around, getting bigger and louder,
it turned into a wave.
And the next minute,
everyone's ripping each other apart.
If...
[Murphy sobbing]
Now, I can't even remember what my boys looked like.
[Murphy] When I think of their faces, all I see is what's left.
Wasn't the little girl's fault, man.
It was too much power for her to control.
That's my point.
All that power
and you've never made a damn thing better in this world, have you?
[Karl] Hey.
We can use Thale.
[Agatha] He can connect with Lommie, in the Crystal.
Be like a beacon for her, you know, pull her out if she's in any trouble.
We...
-we can't trust him. -We have to, Karl.
Please. I want him to do something meaningful.
Let him be a part of this team.
[tense music]
[tense music continues]
Hey, Lommie, look.
[Thale] It's us.
[Lommie sighs]
[Karl] Thale, are you sure you know what you're doing?
No, not a clue, bro. This is uncharted territory.
It's going to be just fine. You can do this.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. You're going to have to go.
I can't think straight with all your thoughts
-bouncing around the room. -No, Thale. I can't leave you.
Agatha, trust me. You got to leave.
He can stay, it doesn't bother me.
He knows what we're up against. But the rest of you...
-[Thale clicks tongue] -Come on, Agatha.
If we're going to trust him, we have to trust him.
Are you okay?
Be careful.
You too, Lommie.
[Mel] Are you sure you're ready?
[Roy] We can't go on like this. Neither can she.
Go to the monitors in the mission lab.
I'll need you to open the firewall
-to let Lommie inside. -Okay.
You ready for me?
Yeah. I guess.
Oh.
Okay.
I can feel you.
All right. Don't.
Don't what?
Be afraid. I'm just riding with you.
I'm right here.
We're ready.
[Roy] Move fast.
She's going to fight back.
♪ Yeah! ♪
♪ Walking in unison ♪
♪ Left foot drag ♪
♪ Right foot drag ♪
[device beeping]
[blows raspberry]
[Tessia] What brings you, Rowan?
I have a... petri dish.
Full of cells that don't seem to want to die.
Oh, the probe! Do tell.
How do you know about that?
Well, the Volcryn sent me a message.
[chuckles] Come on.
Do you, uh...
want to take a look?
At your space blood?
I thought you'd never ask.
[approaching footsteps]
[crows cawing]
[Thale] Outside a big house.
There's trees, fog, birds.
Loads of fucking birds.
[ominous music]
[Thale] Fucking birds everywhere.
That's Greywing.
My grandfather's house.
[Roy] Lommie was right.
My mother created a familiar world.
[Thale] There's no way in.
Doors are locked.
Windows are shuttered. This place is a fortress.
No, the doors, the locks, those must be my firewalls.
I wasn't sure how they'd manifest.
Mel, open the door.
Already on it.
[beeping]
[chimes]
[door lock clangs]
[handle creaks, clicks]
[door creaks]
[door squeaking]
[birds flutter]
[wind blowing in the distant]
[distant light music]
[light music continues]
[approaching footsteps]
[light music playing]
[rustling]
Someone is here.
[creaking]
[approaching footsteps]
[ominous music]
[approaching footsteps]
That's my doll.
Who are you?
We know why you're here.
[Lommie] "We"?
-Us. -[disembodied voice] Us.
-Me. -[disembodied voice] Me.
[disembodied voice] Cynthia!
Him.
[thudding]
[retreating footsteps]
[ominous music]
[ominous music continues]
[crackling]
[disembodied voice] I can feel you...
[Cynthia] What are you doing?
[birds flutter]
[Cynthia] Get your hand off that door!
-[screeching] -[crashes]
[Lommie panting]
[crows caw]
[cawing continues]
[door slams]
[lights crackle]
[crackling continues]
[eerie music]
It's nice to have another toy.
[whirring]
It's a pity, really.
[rapid retreating footsteps]
[Lommie panting]
[suspenseful music]
-[groans] -[whirs]
[door shuts]
[Cynthia] Who sent you?
Roy?
-Where are we? -Home.
-Are you here to play? -She's here to trap us.
-I'm here to help. -To kill us!
There's someone upstairs. Who is it?
-A nobody. -Who is it?
-Daddy. -A nothing.
-Is this his house? -No!
-We should play with her. -Playtime is over.
[thumps]
[thuds]
[choking]
God, I can't stand not being in the room.
Someone else is solving the problem.
[Karl] Well, just trust Thale.
For Lommie's sake, we said he's strong.
Have you heard from Joy recently?
How is she holding up?
Yeah, she missed our last video call.
[Karl] She's undergoing heavy memory release therapy.
Getting rid of anything that reminds her of Skye.
Or me.
[Agatha] My aunt, Luce, did that when my father passed away.
She just kept going and going
until there was nothing left.
She was gone.
I mean, she never really came back.
I can't tell Joy what to do, but I'm not going to do that with Skye.
I don't want to forget about her.
[Agatha] You're doing great, Karl.
Grief is a natural process. You can't just hide from it.
You just have to face whatever comes your way
with an open heart.
Sleeping beauty is awake.
Uh, what happened?
Thale managed to pull you out.
You were unconscious for two days.
Two days?
Um.
Sorry, I couldn't trap her.
She was too strong.
Well, maybe you should've stayed and finished the job?
It's not her fault. She can't finish anything.
But I take it you found her?
[Lommie] Pieces.
She was fractured into two sub-processes.
A younger one, uncorrupt.
The other.
-Broken. -[Roy] Mm.
-I should go back in... -No, no, no.
[clicks tongue]
Rest.
[Mel] You need to rest.
Cynthia made everything clear.
She talked to you?
Well, through me, actually.
Yeah, come through my head, clear as a bell.
This mission is over.
I don't... I don't understand.
-Where's Karl? -Karl was wrong.
[Roy chuckles]
The Volcryn aren't what he thought.
They might not even be real.
Maybe we should just kill D'Branin.
That way, we could all go home.
[Roy] Cynthia lived a difficult life.
Suffered too much.
She built this ship to escape that world.
To fly away from old monsters,
not into the arms of new ones.
[buzzes]
She put her life into this ship.
It's not meant to be a prison for her.
[Roy] It's meant to be freedom.
She was...
-I am -[Cynthia] I am
-everywhere. -[Cynthia] everywhere.
Always listening.
[Cynthia] Always watching.
[ominous music]
You knew he was watching?
We were just having some fun.
We needed to distract long enough to find the break in the firewall
you used to get in here.
[tense music]
[screams]
[gasps]
I must be off now.
I'll tell Karl you said hello.
No! No!
[door slams]
[rattling]
[Roy] What's happening?
It's your mother.
She's out.
[Karl] Releasing your memories of me,
it's okay.
I don't even know if I'm going to come back from out here.
Anyways, it's probably for the best, right?
[static]
[buzzes]
[hissing]
-[paper rustles] -[alarm beeps]
[woman over PA] Warning. Oxygen depleting.
[beeping]
[beeping continues]
[woman over PA] Warning. Oxygen, 80%.
-[beeping] -[papers rustle]
[Karl] Help!
[alarm beeping]
[woman] Sir, there's a problem with the air flow.
D'Branin's quarters...
[woman over PA] Warning. Oxygen, 16%.
[gasping]
[Karl] Help!
[woman over PA] Oxygen, 14%.
[Karl in soft voice] Help!
[woman over PA] Oxygen level critical.
[Agatha gasps]
[woman over PA] Oxygen level critical.
-[woman over PA] Oxygen eliminated. -[Karl] Help!
-[man] To the hull! -[Agatha panting]
[coughs]
[approaching footsteps]
Karl! Stay with us. We're going to get you out!
-[Auggie] The hatch is disabled. -What? We've got to get this door open!
[Auggie] Give me that and get engineering.
-[Auggie] Stand clear! -Move back.
-It's not opening! -[Auggie] This doesn't make sense.
-Do something! -All right. I'm on it!
-Karl! Karl! -[Karl choking]
-[Karl gasps] -[thuds]
[crackles]
[door hisses]
[Agatha] Karl! Karl.
[Karl panting]
-Oh, god! -[Karl gasping]
[grunts]
[whimpers]
-You're okay. -How did you...
[Karl] How did you know?
We have to get you to Medical.
Cynthia. Cynthia...
She's out.
[beeping]
[woman over PA] Power systems error.
Switching to reserves mode.
[woman over PA] Initiating reboot procedure.
Oh, my god. Thale?
-I tried... -Where's Lommie?
-She's locked in now. I can't find her. -Is she okay? Is she still inside?
-Is she alive in there? -Can you go back inside?
Try and re-establish contact with Lommie?
She's coming.
Cynthia is coming.
[foreboding music]
Your friends are going to die now.
[Young Cynthia] There's nothing you can do.
You're trapped inside here with me now.
There's no getting out.
[Young Cynthia] Where are you going?
What are you going to do?
[thuds]
[thudding continues]
[Young Cynthia] Please stop.
[thuds]
Don't open the door.
It will bring him back.
[thuds]
[Cynthia] She's not going to like this.
[Lommie] I know.
[thuds]
[thudding continues]
[disembodied voice]
Mother is scared.
[disembodied voice]
[whirring]
You came back.
I wasn't going to hurt your friends.
I just wanted you to behave.
[ominous music]
I was angry.
[Cynthia] I've been alone in here.
You must understand.
What are you keeping behind this door?
It's your father, isn't it?
It's not the Crystal that made you
like this.
It was him.
[Cynthia] He beat us.
He demeaned us.
[Cynthia] He tore us down.
You had trouble with your father, too.
[Cynthia] I've watched your memories.
You hurt him with that hammer.
That's where you're wrong.
My dad loved me.
It was this fucking world that kicked me in the teeth.
-[Cynthia] I had to accept the price. -...accept the price.
[disembodied voices]
[buzzes]
[sobs]
[Eris] Come on!
[Cynthia] Daddy, no! Please! No!
[sighs]
Go hide!
Go! Go, run!
[whirring]
[beeping]
Thale.
[Lommie] Thale?
[Lommie] Get me out!
Systems stabilizing. No trace of malicious code.
[beeping]
Nice work.
How are you feeling?
Uh... Still a little shaky, I guess.
[Mel] Roy?
-[Mel] What is it? -I can't hear her voice.
For the first time, it's quiet.
You're welcome.
[Agatha] Hey, I'm proud of you.
We should get you back to the Dome.
We could all use some rest.
What was it?
[Roy] Her weakness?
We all have secrets.
Parts of our past we'd rather forget.
And is she okay?
Where she is?
Is it peaceful?
-Is it secure? -I locked her out.
You did so good.
I need to go lie down.
Here. Let me help you.
[Karl] You saved our lives
and the mission.
You, uh, go ahead.
Release me.
[Karl] Please start over.
I just want you to be happy.
[beeps]
[chimes]
[somber music]
[disembodied screams]
[buzzing]
♪ Dreamer ♪
[disembodied voices]
♪ Whenever ♪
♪ Her ♪
♪ Beyond the point ♪
Hey.
I was looking for you.
-You weren't in your quarters. -No, I couldn't sleep.
-Tell me what's wrong. -Don't touch me.
You let him watch us?
How many times were we together
-with Eris there, watching? -He watches everything.
-I don't understand what the big deal is. -Where was my voice in that decision?
Okay, I'm sorry.
I really am. I'm sorry.
Don't come to my room anymore.
[chimes]
Open.
Lights.
[Agatha] Is everything okay?
[Karl] Everything is fine.
I heard your voice. You're in my head.
You called me back.
When I opened my eyes,
I was glad it was you.
[Rowan] Tell me if this actually makes any sense.
Okay.
Cells can speak chemically to other cells
across vast distances inside our bodies.
Whilst animals,
like bees, butterflies, or ants,
can speak wordlessly across vast distances outside their bodies.
Could someone, in theory,
use those methods to communicate across galaxies?
You mean, use them like a radio or a telephone?
Yeah.
A human being,
one of two tin cans
at either end of a very long, invisible string.
I mean these... these cells,
they are transmitting.
[Rowan] Maybe just to one another, but maybe--
You think the Volcryn sent the probe back to talk to us?
I think they sent it back to listen.
[door hisses open]
Activate display 337, please.
[beeps, whirrs]
Hello, beautiful.
[chimes]
[Cynthia] My body is failing, Auggie.
But this is not goodbye.
I will always be here,
close to you.
I will always love you, little bear.
[buzzing]
[thuds]
[ominous music]
[thuds]
-[thuds] -[Cynthia screams]
[buzzes, thuds]