[machine beeping]
[door hisses close]
[grunts]
[Karl] Lommie?
Lommie? Hey, Lommie?
Lommie?
Lommie? Hey! Hey.
Hey.
What are you doing?
[Karl] I'm sorry. You weren't...
You know, I'm... Don't do that when I'm deep.
You went back inside the Crystal Matrix?
No, just outside of it.
I'm putting patches on the firewalls Eris set up.
How long were you in for?
Hours.
-I need to sleep. -[Karl] Hey.
You said we wouldn't need any more firewalls
once Cynthia was trapped.
Yeah, I'm just making sure.
[retreating footsteps]
[disembodied mumble]
[indistinct chanting]
[chanting continues]
[knife pierces flesh]
[squelching]
[women giggle]
[panting]
[theme music]
[theme music continues]
[rumbling]
Did you get this from the crew?
No, that one is strange.
It feels like it came from somewhere else.
[Thale] Like, from outside the ship.
[Agatha sighs]
Maybe you should get some air?
[Agatha] Captain Eris trusts you.
He gave you explicit permission to roam the ship at will.
-And do what? -[Agatha] I don't know.
Meet some people.
You mean, like, make friends?
You've seen what they all think of me. [sighs]
You're making it really hard for me to feel sorry for you.
Oh, you think that's what I want?
I think it's what you need
in order to justify that self-pity you're holding onto.
[Agatha] Let it go, Thale.
You missed a spot.
There.
Suit yourself.
[retreating footsteps]
-[door hisses open] -I will.
[whooshing]
[crew] Hey, you see this?
We're picking up organics outside.
[beeping]
[Auggie] You know, you can order anything you want?
What was your favorite restaurant as a kid?
Um...
My mom took us to a place called Silver Spurs once.
I remember getting the Downtown Dog.
It was really gross.
Downtown Dog from Silver Spurs restaurant circa...
'77, I guess.
Circa 2077.
Oh, and a water, please.
[machine whirring]
Whoa. [chuckles]
They even got the little paper tray right.
-Oh, thanks. -What's it like?
Porting.
I've always wondered.
Imagine listening to your favorite music,
only you're not really listening,
but instead, you are the instrument.
Sounds strange.
Well, I think people are strange.
[Rowan] How is Roy doing with his mommy thing?
[Mel] Hm.
He's been spending time in her old bedroom.
Well, we've all got parental issues.
His mom never let him control anything.
Now is his chance to shine.
Is she not a bad person?
[Auggie] Cynthia Eris.
You should've been here the year she built the outer ring.
There was an electricity on the ship. We knew we were doing something important.
Something good.
Here comes the condemnation part.
I respect what Captain Eris is doing, and D'Branin.
They're good men.
But if Cynthia were alive,
we wouldn't be crossing the void with so many people back on Earth.
I'm sorry. It's not my place.
[Rowan] Mm.
[crew] There's something going on with the sensor.
Excuse me.
Well, he obviously doesn't know the truth about Cynthia.
-Willa. -Sir.
[Auggie] Show me.
[chiming]
Is the sensor bad? Have it replaced.
We swapped three of them out already.
You're telling me we're picking up organic compound?
Out here? It's not possible.
[Auggie] Nothing lives in the void.
The crew were wondering, perhaps the Volcryn ship?
Well, it can't be the Volcryn.
They're still too far away.
[foreboding music]
Captain Eris?
[door creaks]
[Roy] What is it, Auggie?
Sir, I'm...
We're picking up streams of organic compound outside the ship.
Distribution suggests it's coming off a moving object.
What are you suggesting?
The Volcryn?
-No, sir. We're still too far. -[Roy] Then it's an error.
No other ship has ever made it this far.
[ominous music]
[rumbling]
[ominous music]
[Tessia] How did it get here?
It's enormous.
Better get Karl.
[ominous music]
[door hisses open]
How long has it been there?
It's moving.
We've adjusted our velocity to match their speed.
How is that possible all the way out here?
Apparently, it's on our exact trajectory.
What? Is it the Volcryn?
It's one of ours.
An older ship, Eagle class.
[Mel] Eagle 16.
We studied this. She broke apart in the ice fields.
[Roy] Part of our Europa Project.
Your failed Europa Project.
That's not what happened, is it?
We lost contact when they entered the Jupiter gravity field.
No one knows what happened after that.
Oh, so there could be survivors?
Eagles could carry 40 months of provisions.
That ship has been adrift for nearly 14 years.
[hums]
Spooky.
[Karl] Wait a minute.
That ship operates off a Crystal Matrix,
just like the Nightflyer.
If this is about my mother, we've already taken care of that problem.
[Karl] No, not permanently.
And Lommie is consistently patching up all the firewalls.
How long is that going to hold her?
[Auggie] Sorry, sir. I'm not following.
My mother, Auggie,
she never left the ship.
Sir?
[Roy] When she passed,
she left her body, but not the Nightflyer.
Her spirit resides inside our Crystal.
I couldn't say anything.
How could the crew understand?
I'm sorry.
Of course.
[Karl] Roy, we need to get your mother off this ship.
The Crystal Matrix on the Eagle,
if it's still functioning, we could swap it out
with ours on the Nightflyer.
Your mother won't be harmed.
And she won't be able to hurt anyone and she'll be able to live there forever.
She'll be alone.
She'll be alive.
As will we.
I want Mel to lead.
[Roy] We'll have to set a guideline to get the boarding party across.
The Nightflyer wasn't designed for ship-to-ship transfer.
And Auggie,
he's familiar with the Eagle class ships.
I'll stay here with the Nightflyer.
I'll lock the ship to the offset position.
The closest I can get us is 600 meters.
I'm coming.
I'll bring Lommie with me to assess the viability of the Crystal.
-[Roy] Okay. -And Rowan.
Uh, I'm a biologist.
Look, we don't know how an abandoned ship
is on the same intercept as the Volcryn,
-so I need you. -[Rowan sighs]
All right. How exactly are we getting there?
[hissing]
Ready to depressurize.
[Roy] Releasing pressure.
In three, two, one.
[hisses]
[sighs]
[whirring]
[eerie music]
[thuds, whirs]
[Mel] We've reached the airlock on Eagle 16.
Preparing to board.
[crew] About to lose visual contact.
[Mel] Opening the port hatch.
[hatch creaks]
[hatch rumbles, hisses]
Artificial gravity still working.
[Lommie] And they still have power.
Captain Eris. We are on the Eagle. Do you copy?
We're inside the Eagle, do you copy?
[Auggie] Probably out of range.
These suits were designed for orbital maintenance.
Then we'll proceed without comms.
[beeping, chimes]
Environmental systems are on, too.
-Temperature. -[device beeping]
[Lommie] Contaminates.
The air is safe to breathe.
We shouldn't take our helmets off.
You can't be certain that those readings are accurate.
Or if their Crystal is still operational.
Conserving the air in our suits buys us the time to find out.
[Karl] There's no point carrying the extra weight, anyway.
[space suit whirs, hisses]
As I said,
the air is safe.
You're going to hurt yourself, acting like that.
Yeah, only that I don't care anymore.
The air in here...
smells like...
Death.
We need to move.
[foreboding music]
[foreboding music continues]
[hisses]
[ship rumbles]
[Auggie] Every Eris ship was designed from the same core layout.
[Auggie] The Crystal will be on a lower deck.
[Mel] What happened here?
[Lommie] They must have, uh, been living here.
Maybe it was warmer?
[Karl] I wonder what killed them.
Looks like each other.
There was definitely a fight here.
When the food ran out.
Where are all the bodies?
Uh, please wait for me.
[foreboding music]
-I'll go. -I'll back you up.
[approaching footsteps]
[foreboding music]
[suspenseful music]
Get ready.
[rustles]
[both sigh]
[Mel] It's okay!
[Karl sighs]
[Auggie] Judson Smith.
The captain.
Why hang the suit?
The use of a totem or an effigy is meant to signify control.
But what happened to him?
Are you angels?
[Lommie] There's another one.
There are two more!
[eerie music]
[approaching footsteps]
[woman #1] Who are you?
[Karl] We're travelers.
Here to help.
We don't need help here.
We're doing fine.
[Karl] I'm Karl D'Branin.
We're from the Nightflyer.
The Nightflyer?
Come with me.
Come on.
[Roy] How did we lose communication?
As soon as they entered the Eagle airlock, their comms went dead.
Is this an external phenomenon?
Well, that's what we thought at first, but it seems like someone
-is jamming the signal. -Someone on the Eagle?
Okay, how do we un-jam it?
Sir, the Nightflyer doesn't have this type of capability.
I understand our capabilities! I'm asking you to improvise.
[ominous music]
[footsteps]
[distant chatter]
-[woman #1] We have visitors. -[all gasp]
Travelers from the Nightflyer.
[crowd mumbling]
Your tech. Everything...
Lost in the fight.
Useless, anyways.
We run our environment off the auxiliary grid.
Minimal energy use.
Simple and efficient.
More stable.
Have you ever calculated
how much energy is wasted running a food synthesizer?
Going back to the land, I see.
For years, we drifted.
Working to survive,
to keep life burning out here in the ocean of nothing.
[woman #1] We prayed that someone would come replenish us,
to bring new life.
And here you are.
We're happy to have found you.
Hope is alive in you.
I see that.
And you as well.
[woman #1] Sit with us. Eat and rejoice this marvelous occurrence.
[Karl] Well, thank you for your generosity.
[crowd murmuring]
You must have exhausted your supplies of base proteins years ago.
All the women you see here are scientists,
geneticists, biochemists.
[woman #1] But more than that, we're farmers.
We grow everything we eat.
Try it.
That's why we were on this ship in the first place,
the first wave of technicians destined to spark a new seed of life.
[Mel] I know you.
You're Constance Brighthead.
[chuckles] Wow.
[Mel] She created the replacement technique
-in RNA splicing. -RNA splicing.
I'm from the Academy.
You built half my genetic architecture.
Stand up for me.
Let me look at you.
[approaching footsteps]
[crowd murmuring]
[Connie gasps]
[Connie] Magnificent.
[Mel] We've had debates on sustaining environments.
No one thought it was possible. Not out here.
[Auggie] Your ship.
I don't understand what happened.
Eagle 16 was never lost.
It was hijacked.
We saw signs of a fight.
Our captain.
As we approached Jupiter,
he commandeered the ship
and used the gravitational pull to throw us into the void.
His dream was to create a self-sustaining system,
drifting across the void like a dandelion seed
to eventually land and grow on some new world.
[Connie] Jud Smith wanted a world of his own.
He became obsessed with power and control,
and convinced his crew to follow.
Where are the other men?
[Connie] They killed themselves.
Power begets greed.
Greed corrupts.
Violence becomes a contagion.
It wasn't until all the men were gone that we achieved balance.
Harmony.
[crowd murmurs]
Excuse me.
[retreating footsteps]
Lommie? Lommie, hey, hey.
-What's wrong? -This is bad.
The way they talk.
[Lommie sighs]
Did you see the way they...
they looked at her?
I've seen this before.
I lived it.
[approaching footsteps]
Lommie,
are you all right?
Yeah, I'm just not feeling well.
Your oxygen mix is pretty thin.
She'll be fine.
Quiet.
One of us.
Fourteen years in the void.
[Karl] Oh.
No terraform, no sunlight. No one has...
ever successfully run a fully enclosed system for so long.
Yes, and we could keep going.
We replenish what we use.
[Connie] We only use what we need. And we work together.
All these women you see around us,
I picked them myself.
They're the toughest and brightest. My Sisters.
It's unbelievable, really.
I'd love to see how you do it,
if you don't mind sharing what you've learned?
She didn't learn this, Karl.
She invented it.
I am always learning.
That's what makes life interesting.
Come on.
[Mel] I'm sure there's so much more for us to see.
Make your way to the airlock.
We need to get a message to the Nightflyer.
-[Rowan] Okay. -Auggie, find their Crystal.
-[Roy] This is urgent. -[Agatha] Okay, he's sleeping.
No, I need him to reach out to Eagle 16
-and make contact with our boarding party. -You push him to reach out that far,
-it could hurt him. -He's been training.
-Please, we need him to try! -Fine, I'll take him to the bridge.
If he can see them, it will help.
Yeah, I couldn't sleep anyway.
[hisses]
[approaching footsteps]
[Lommie] Did you hear what they called them?
Sisters?
They're lunatics.
They're out of their minds.
[doors creaking]
Well, crazy and smart is a dangerous combination.
[approaching footsteps]
[rumbling]
[machine buzzing]
[foreboding music]
Auggie, this is a cult.
I grew up with people like this on Luna.
You grew up in a Luddite colony?
[Auggie] How did you get out?
[Lommie] My dad.
He broke you out of there?
[Lommie] He stayed quiet,
saved us.
He didn't make it.
[Auggie] Sacrifice.
He saw they were wrong and couldn't leave you there.
Yeah.
[Auggie] He did the right thing.
Let's find the Crystal,
so we can get back to the Flyer.
[tool clanks]
[tool clangs]
[Auggie] How did you get here?
[Lommie] My mom.
You remember on the ship?
I ordered a hot dog from Silver Spurs?
Yeah.
My mom took us there
the day we landed in New York.
That was the first time I felt normal.
[Auggie] I know what it's like to sacrifice for someone you love.
Your father was a good man.
[light footsteps]
-[creaking] -[thuds]
[indistinct chatter]
[chattering continues]
[retreating footsteps]
-[creaking] -[rumbling]
[Auggie] The Crystal runs off one of these optical wires.
-[Auggie] What a mess. -[rumbling]
[Lommie] Did you hear it?
Did you hear that?
You're just jumpy.
[Auggie] This way.
So, you're not worried about them?
Nah.
They don't hold a candle to the woman who put them here.
You mean Cynthia?
[Auggie] Yeah.
She's not what you think.
She wasn't...
isn't...
bad.
Just strong,
like you.
[Auggie] This way.
[ominous music]
They're not even using it.
[beeping, chiming]
[Lommie] All the ship's systems have been diverted to auxiliary networks.
[whirring]
Wow.
[Auggie] It's beautiful.
[panting]
[woman #1] Praise be.
[woman #1 moans]
Fresh seed.
-[Rowan grunts] -[body thuds]
-[rumbling] -[whirring]
I see them.
[Roy] Who?
[pants]
Lommie.
And the bald one.
Do you see anyone else?
[Thale grunts]
Rowan.
Are they safe?
Others.
There are others.
[Roy] There are others?
We should stop this.
[grunts]
[Thale] Fuck!
[Thale panting]
Many others.
[Agatha] It's too much.
It's hurting him.
I need to get him back to his dome.
Judson's officers hoarded food.
Their plan was to starve non-essential crew.
Violence is not a sustainable strategy for survival.
[Lommie] Hold on.
There was a vid feed in progress when they went dark.
All the men dead.
And they took Rubin, Wiedeman too.
Crane was killed right in from of my eyes.
-Scientists have taken the ship. -[woman screaming]
[Lommie] We've got to get out of here, Auggie.
We turned to science to restore our bodies.
Then a miracle occurred.
To think that Roy Eris could condemn his own mother
to a rusty tub infested with psychos.
What miracle?
[Connie] The Shooting Star.
We had been drifting for nearly a decade when it moved into view.
[Connie] That's how I knew we were on the right path.
-[Sisters shriek] -[Auggie grunts]
-[Sisters] Fresh seed. -[Auggie] Stop!
[Sisters] Fresh seed.
-Fresh seed. -Fresh seed.
[overlapping dialogue]
[Auggie] Lommie, go! Get out of here, now!
-[Sister #1] Fresh seed. -[Sister #2] Praise be.
[Sisters] Fresh seed.
The way it changed position in the sky like no other object.
It was speaking to us.
You were tracking the Volcryn.
-That's how we found you. -You've been following a ship.
Is that what you see?
A ship?
I see a miracle.
We prayed to the Star
to replenish our ability to harvest food
and like magic,
three new Givers fall out of the sky.
A ship cannot do such things.
Givers?
[Karl] What are you talking about?
[Connie] Our farm. Our livestock.
Except for you, Mel,
this system is my most precious achievement.
[ominous music]
[shutter door rattles]
[squelching]
The Sacred Gift.
It's very humane.
My cloning process does not result in conscious beings.
[Connie] Mindless, blind.
Their eyes never open.
They are merely food.
Sustenance.
-Hope. -[Mel gasps]
[squelches]
[Mel shrieks]
You're insane.
Exposure to the Volcryn has done something you don't--
We mine the seed to grow the Gift.
[Connie] The Star brought you to us.
Three of you, Givers of the seed.
[Sisters] Believe.
-Believe. -Believe.
[Rowan] Shit.
[sighs] What happened?
I can't move, Rowan.
They're going to kill us.
-[Auggie chuckles] -[Rowan grunts]
[man #1 grunts] Fresh seed, fresh seed.
-How can we get out of here? -[man #1] He wants to get out.
Augustine?
Judson Smith.
Yes.
Wait. You were the captain?
What happened?
Hey, I was loyal to Eris Corp.
-Most of us were. -Okay.
We were at the tip of the spear, pushing out to Jupiter.
Our cargo was genius.
Twenty-four of the best scientific minds.
Connie Brighthead, yeah.
Connie...
She had her own plans,
plans beyond Europa.
[Judson] It was her idea to turn the Eagle
into some sort of self-sustaining paradise,
some kind of a Noah's Ark thing.
So, one night while we were sleeping,
they rose up and they,
they killed the men one by one,
except for a few Givers.
[door opens]
-What? -[shushes]
Here she comes.
[Judson] It's time.
-[Ruthanne] Morning, Givers. -[Judson] Morning, Ruthanne.
[Ruthanne] Oh, praise be.
Good.
Very good, yes.
[grunting]
Oh, my, let's look at you.
Wow.
High quality,
high volume, I imagine.
Excuse me?
[Judson] Ruthanne?
Ruthanne?
Ruthanne, can you...
[Judson] Can you give my neck a little squeeze?
[Ruthanne] Stop asking that.
It makes it go faster.
[Ruthanne] Faster reduces yield, Judson.
You know that, I've told you that.
That's it, there. That's it.
Good.
[machine whirring]
[Judson] Too strong, it hurts.
That's it.
The timing really couldn't be better.
[Ruthanne] Judson, bless his heart,
after all these years, he's running a little dry.
[grunts]
[Ruthanne] Don't worry.
It gets easier each and every time, I promise.
That's good, Judson. That's good.
[machine whirring]
-Ooh. -[Rowan grunting]
Good.
Very good.
-[Auggie chuckles, grunts] -[Ruthanne grunts]
[Rowan] You know, there are many other ways.
There are many, many other ways we can do this.
Hey, don't resist.
[Judson] She'll turn it on stronger if you fight.
Just relax and enjoy it. [chuckles]
-[Ruthanne groans] -[thuds]
[suspenseful music]
[stutters] No, just leave me.
I've got, I've got nothing left.
-Come on. They're going to kill you. -[Judson] Ah, no.
I'll do that myself.
Once I'm done with her.
[Rowan] Let's get out of here.
[rapid retreating footsteps]
[Judson sighs]
Believe.
[Judson] Praise be.
Don't worry.
[shushes]
-[Judson] Just relax. -Judson.
It will all be over before you know it.
[Ruthanne screams]
[Thale] I can see something.
There's people gathering,
and there's fear.
Fear in the room.
Lommie, come to me.
Sorry.
I doubted...
There's a woman.
She's a survivor. She's...
[Thale] She's the leader, I can hear her.
You have a strong mind,
a strong will.
[Connie] But your real strength is in us.
...in us.
[Sisters] Believe.
Let me hear you say it. Please.
Believe.
Good.
You are strong.
Praise the Shooting Star.
It has brought life into our world.
New Givers...
...and one strong Sister.
[Sisters] Believe.
I'm saddened by your resistance, Mel.
Perhaps I should have added a gene that codes...
...for courage.
Fuck you, you psychotic bitch.
That type of thinking is poison.
We purged it from our system
to maintain sustainability,
and we will purge it again.
Tonight we take...
...the head of the snake.
And we will eat fresh meat!
[Sisters] Believe!
-Believe! -Believe!
[Lommie] Connie.
Yes, Lommie?
-[Connie grunts] -[Sisters gasp]
[Thale grunts] Fuck!
Fuck.
Thale!
-You are the poison. -[Sisters jabbering]
You'll rot in hell.
-[squelches] -[Sisters whimpering]
[Sisters sobbing]
Oh, Thale!
[Sister #1] Mother, no!
-No! -[Sister #2] Get them!
[Sister #3] Mother!
[Sister #4] Get them!
[chattering]
[pants]
[Sisters shrieking]
[all panting]
[Sister #5] Trap them!
[Rowan] They're coming!
They're fucking coming!
[Rowan groans]
[Karl grunts]
[Sister #1] No!
[Rowan] Hurry!
-Get the door! -[Sister #1] No!
[Sisters screaming]
[Lommie] Open it!
-[Mel] Open it! Open it! -[Rowan] Quickly! Quickly!
[Sisters shrieking]
Get ready to open the airlocks!
-[thumping] -[Sisters shrieking]
[rumbling]
[Thale] This ain't over.
The closer we get to the Volcryn, the stranger it's going to get.
[Mel] Everyone was acting mad on that ship.
It's like she was possessed.
I idolized that woman.
Well, who you wanted her to be,
not what she became.
You saw her, didn't you?
-Saved our lives. -Oh, yeah.
For the second time.
I guess.
You did.
And the Crystal?
Smashed, sir.
Connie, most likely, years ago.
They were crazy.
I'll be porting.
Could use a break from this world.
[retreating footsteps]
[door hisses open]
["Lay Down in the Tall Grass" by Timbre Timbre plays]
I saved your life today.
[Auggie] I need you to know,
I will always be loyal...
to the real Captain Eris.
♪ Lay down in the tall grass ♪
♪ In the flat bottom boat ♪
♪ I lay down and wait for you ♪
[Agatha and Karl panting]
♪ With nothing but a piece of rope ♪
♪ Dreaming every night of you ♪
♪ Shaking at the sight ♪
♪ I'll be dreaming every night of you ♪
♪ I'll be shaking at the sight ♪
♪ Of you ♪
You're an L.
♪ I dreamt you found me out in the field ♪
♪ You tripped over my site ♪
♪ And you dug me out Of this shallow grave ♪