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Previously on NCIS Sydney.

Before thinking he's American, call sign ghost. The guy was hunting me.

It's a kill list.

I need a name.

I hope you know what you're doing.

Let me guess, Maui?

It's Malibu, isn't it?

God, you Yanks are so predictable.

I'm not thinking of Malibu, okay? Okay, Dr. Grumpy. You don't want to play Polo

Night Fantasy. I get it.

I get I asked.

I'm sorry, Jen. I just, I don't feel great.

I think that vitamin D shot's repeating on me. Right, and I'm sure it's got

nothing to do with the prospect of six months of unending darkness.

As a polar night virgin, can we stop with the whole unending darkness thing?

Oh, you'll be fine, Pavel. You just need a good sense of humor and something to

transport you out of this frozen hellhole.

You can borrow them when I'm done.

The Sonneville Chronicles.

Love that series.

How's the twist?

You think he's the hero. Turns out he's the killer all along.

He's cloned himself, but you don't work it out till the final book.

Are you serious?

These were supposed to last six whole months.

Bugger.

My bad.

Such a dick.

I guess you can only fly down there for a limited window each year. How often do

you resupply the base?

Three, maybe four times over summer.

Food and meds mainly.

There's always something broke.

Especially mining equipment.

Really? I thought there was a moratorium on mining in Antarctica.

Commercial mining.

Yeah. These guys are international climate scientists.

Same tools, different rules.

Gotta say, I'm surprised we're heading down so late in the season.

Don't use your wrist to get this close to Polar 9, not unless someone's dead or

dying.

A U .S. Navy climatologist attacked and killed one of her colleagues.

They subdued her, sent out a mayday.

There's no one closer to respond?

No one whose job it is to prosecute U .S. Navy crimes.

Dr. Cohen's one of us, I'm afraid.

Fair enough.

and leave them in there too long, pal.

The antibacterial bath will strip paint, believe me.

Oh, yeah, I'm just waiting for an important message.

He's probably been asleep the whole time.

Sure thing, Reezy. Some breeds are trickier than others, but he's pretty

maintenance.

Jack Russell's a concern.

Uh -huh.

Listen, he takes his breakfast at eight during the week, a little bit later on

the weekends.

Uh -huh, sure, sure.

And he loves to have a tummy rub, obviously.

Obviously.

No, no. Yeah, but not too long, because he's a bit gassy.

And he's house -trained, so he'll hold on for as long as he needs to.

A little help?

More of a cat person, to be honest.

Say again, Paul Point. This is Whiskey November Niner.

Radio check, Paul Point. Do you copy?

Do nothing.

Far from the course down here the satellite indirectly overhead That ain't

helping

Seriously

I didn't pick you as a horror movie buff.

I'm not.

I hate them.

Everything okay?

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, it's nothing.

Did I mention I had met someone online?

No. Uh, you did not, as it turns out. Yeah, um, it's not a big deal. It's, you

know, super casual again and off again. You know how it is.

Yeah.

Anyway, it's our, uh, anniversary.

One month since I poked her.

On the dating app.

Oh, right.

Yeah, I wasn't aware that was still a thing.

So I booked a table at Mimi's tonight for our anniversary, but obviously I had

to cancel last minute. Oh, I'm sure she'll understand.

No, it's not that. It's just...

I texted from the airport to see how I could make it up to her, and this is

she wrote back.

What do you mean, that?

If you need me to explain that, you probably shouldn't be dating.

That's what I thought.

This is your captain speaking.

We're about to make our descent into Pole Point Base.

Return your seat to the upright position and stow anything you don't want

hitting you in the kisser at speed.

On the clock, okay?

Collect the body, take Dr. Cohen into custody, in and out. No arguments from

Take the two -way.

You're not coming in? No, I'm going to get some shut -eye.

Besides, who's going to stay here and keep the engines running otherwise?

You don't power down?

It's already 20 below.

I power down by the time you get back, all my fluid lines will be frozen solid.

Which means, y 'all ain't back here at 40, y 'all ain't going back.

Oh, it is colder than a witch's proverbial out there.

Did I mention I hate the cold?

Take this over Darwin any day.

NCIS?

Anyone here?

Didn't expect ticker tape, but is a simple g'day too much to ask?

Hello?

Hello? NCIS!

E?

Mr. Spiegelman.

No.

Nor is she.

Base manifest puts a total number of residents at 10. Yeah, I've got seven of

them here and none appear to be Navy doctor.

They can't have gone far.

Split up, let's go find them.

Me and J .D. will stay here, help Rosie log the scene. D, Evie, get a play -by

-play of what went down.

Copy that.

And see if you can find Dr. Cohen.

So let's step this through.

Doc Cohen kicks things off when she caves Spiegelman's skull in from behind.

rest of the team overpower her, take her somewhere, lock her up.

Threats identified.

So how do you explain all this?

Go for Scooter.

What's maximum takeoff weight?

I have to do the math based on the fuel load. How come?

Because we're bringing back more bodies than we planned for, as in all of them.

Damn. I'm not sure we've got enough seats.

I don't need seats, just floor space.

I'm also going to need more time.

Okay. How much are you talking?

I've got a mass casualty crime scene to process, so two, maybe three hours if we

hurry. Oh, in which case, take your time.

By then, all the plane's lubricants will be frozen solid. We'll be stuck down

here for the next six months.

I am not staying here for six months, amigo. Think again.

I guess if we drain the oil, it'll move inside the base, stop it from freezing.

But it'll mean shutting down the engine.

Is that a problem?

Just can't guarantee it'll start up again, is all.

What are you waiting for?

You're the boss, boss.

Old school.

Someone wanted to lock someone else's side.

Or something.

Hello, play -by -play.

Guess this is the live feed.

Oh,

gun safe.

Yes, please.

Evie, you already got a gun.

You can never have too many guns.

Why do they need a gun safe on a research -based boy?

Oh, I don't know.

In case the crew go bananas and it turns into Alien in the Antarctic.

Missing shotgun.

That's not good.

Safe.

CCTV passwords protected.

I can't access the archive.

Okay.

Guess we found our Navy climatologist.

No signs of trauma.

Wrists are bruised and abraded.

Seems like she's struggling against some restraints.

Which means she was still conscious when she was cuffed.

We've got blunt force trauma to the skull, multiple stab wounds.

Ligature marks, consistent strangulation. It's too many competing

thinking multiple aggressors?

That's what it looks like.

A wild psychotic orgy.

I'm not sure what the emoji is for that, Jim.

Tell Doc about my cryptic text?

Firstly, it's not that cryptic. And secondly, I only told Dee. Who told

Who told Doc? Who told Scooter? I didn't want him feeling left out.

Oh, you're all hot. Cheers, Doc.

So, uh...

Doc figures multiple aggressors.

Well, like an all -in brawl that turned deadly.

I mean, I've heard of polar madness, but are we really buying that? Nope. Which

is why I'm getting Blue to run blood panels.

Assuming we can get the satellite to play ball.

Why blood panels?

Because I need a logical explanation.

Like what?

Okay, what if all the victims have been exposed to some kind of pathogen?

Seriously?

What kind of pathogen turns people homicidal?

Toxoplasma, maybe?

Meth can bring on uncontrollable anger coupled with exaggerated strength.

So the entire base was on ice? Well, it is Antarctica, but I'm just saying.

I'm missing Doctor, as requested.

One down, two to go.

We're still missing Jen Flannery and base geologist Pavel Dubovsky.

How'd you go with the CCTV?

Password protected.

No dice.

Maybe they just both up and left.

Yeah, we should check the snowmobiles.

Let's start over.

Tell us what happened, and we can talk about removing those cuffs.

The mood on base was pretty bleak.

Polar night. It puts everyone on edge.

Spiegelman, he was being annoying.

And Dr. Cohen.

It all happened so fast.

Did she have anything against Spiegelman? No, no more than the rest of

We've all been working together for months, some of them even longer.

We all get on each other's nerves at some point. What happened after Dr.

attacked Spiegelman? We restrained her.

It was hard.

She was frothing at the mouth.

I called my girlfriend back in Minsk, and while I was on the phone,

Peter went berserk. Then the rest of them started tearing each other apart.

What did you do?

I should have tried to help them.

I mean, they were my friends.

But I was just so terrified.

So you hid?

I didn't know what else to do.

It's like they were possessed.

Like it was contagious.

So what do we think? I think he's scared out of his wits. Maybe.

But with any mass homicide event, last man standing with an ice pick generally

has some explaining to do. But he's not the last man standing, remember?

There's still one short.

Yeah.

Head back out.

See if you can smoke out our final girl. What are you going to do?

Me and Pavel are going to find out what really happened.

Deja vu all over again.

It feels like we're in the sequel.

Door.

Hello?

Federal agents.

Anyone here?

Looks like water.

Where from?

Core samples, maybe?

Yeah, leave them unrefrigerated.

The ice melts.

You think all this happened before or after things went postal?

No idea.

I guess this must be where they store the frozen core samples.

Did I mention I hate the cold?

Can these come off now?

Not if you're the killer.

Passcode?

4892.

Height of the Vincent Massif.

Heist peak in Antarctica.

Bring me any more lamps you can find.

You really think this will speed up the thawing process?

Well, I'm open to suggestions.

How about we just leave her on ice until we get back to Sydney? Oh, I wish, but

I have to take her bloods before she's allowed back on that plane. Huddle up.

I just got this off the CCTV.

Damn.

Living man for himself.

What the hell happened to these people?

Whatever it is, Harville's story checks out.

There he is on the phone.

Just like you said.

Makes him our only eyewitness.

Sorry about that.

You mind explaining what exactly you guys are working on down here?

It's an international long -term climate study funded by the U .S. Navy.

We've been measuring nitrogen levels beneath the ice.

And you're a geologist?

It's my job to locate the rock deposits that are close enough to the ice cap and

extract them.

Core samples.

Very valuable.

I'm afraid some of them were trashed in the frenzy. We found a bunch of them

melted on the floor.

Actually, that happened before the incident.

Diane was running carbon dating tests when one of them slipped its rig and

shattered. Why wasn't it cleaned up?

You need to be straight up with us, Pavel, or we can't help you.

Core samples have to be handled with extreme care.

Why's that?

I would have thought the rock would have been pretty robust, no?

It's not the rock that's the issue.

It's any biological matter that's preserved within it.

And was there anything like that within the core sample that broke?

There were several significant veins of biomass.

It was concerning.

Why did you not flag it?

It was Diane's project. She wasn't worried.

What might have been trapped in the ice?

Worst case scenario.

Bacteria. Some long -dormant virus.

Something that kills.

Or makes us kill.

Just breathe.

Almost got it! Easy.

No sudden movements.

What have you been feeding him?

Just everything on Doc's list?

What? All of it? Yes, of course all of it. Why?

I've been feeding him from Doc's list too.

What? Why have you been feeding him? I thought you were a cat person.

No, I was just winding you up. I love dogs, especially Buster.

Couldn't stand seeing him go hungry. No, no chance of that.

Greetings and

salutations. On the clock, guys.

We've got a sketchy sat feed that won't last.

You get everything we send through?

Copy that.

And I've analysed the blood panels.

And? And it's weird.

They all have traces of an unknown viral infection.

Each victim had the same infection?

Affirmative. Um, what do you mean unknown?

I mean that it's not on any database that I have access to. Which means what?

Which means it's likely synthetic.

The closest that I can liken it to is the sort of encephalitis that comes from

rabies. But this is way more potent from what I can tell.

What do you know about zombie viruses?

Uh, just the basics.

Ancient viruses trapped in ice or permafrost that remain infectious, even

being frozen for thousands of years.

So it's a real thing?

If you consider catastrophic future pandemics a real thing.

Problems why Antarctica has such strict advice.

OK.

So let's say these core samples contain a virus trapped in the ice.

When that ice melts, it is released into the air. In which case, we've been

breathing it in this whole time.

Hands up who thinks now's a good time to get out of here. Not until we're

certain we're not infected.

We can't risk taking it back with us.

What if the sun sets before that?

But we're stuck here for six months.

If we don't kill each other first.

I'll send this to Sydney to see what's going on.

All right, pop that on, big fella.

Thank you, Doctor.

Go on, J .D. Go on.

Assume the position.

Here.

Sit still, will you?

How long till we get the results back? It'll take a lot longer if you have

stopped bloody moving. I'm just asking. Both of you!

We have a half hour max before the sun sets.

Are we getting results before then or not, Doc?

I'll do my best.

Are you sure we shouldn't be wearing PPE, just in case? Well, you do you.

But we've been huffing it in since we've been here.

If it is airborne, we've already got it.

And I don't intend to spend my remaining hours on the wrong side of an N95 mask.

It fogs up my specs.

Just on that.

The whole super rabies thing, Blue Mansion.

It's a crazy guess, right?

That's right, D.

Cool.

What are the symptoms of rabies again?

It starts with a temperature.

Then a tickle in the back of your throat. Don't even start.

Then heightened irritability.

Paranoia.

Then a murderous aggression that ultimately kills the host.

There's no cure.

You... Whoa, whoa, whoa. What's that?

Relax. What a cold, okay?

I haven't got rabies.

What are the actual symptoms of rabies, Doc?

Well, you're pretty bang on, actually.

What?

Okay, Mark.

No more coffee.

Zero coffee from this point on from anyone in this room. Locate him, Mark.

Enough!

Paranoia plus deadly weapons equals body bags.

Everyone, guns now.

Start on safety, okay?

Everyone presses one digit.

That way, no one gets the full code.

They're off, Dave.

Good. Safe and sound.

Knock it off.

It's not me.

Do we get our guns back yet?

This is literally the plot from the thing from another world.

Thought alien wakes up super pissed.

How's it end?

What do you think?

Everyone dies.

What the hell are you doing?

You hear that, Doc?

It's only trapped gas trying to escape the corpse. It is completely normal.

What about that?

I could...

I could hear them coming after me. They were like animals.

I had nowhere to hide, so I got into the cryo -fridge.

And then your body temperature dropped rapidly and you became chronically

hypothermic. Is that a nice way of saying I froze to death?

No. No, you just got very, very cold.

And now you're not.

Doc, don't tell me the zombie virus is actually a zombie virus.

Unlikely, but being almost frozen looks to have saved her.

Am I sure she's not going to rip our throats out?

No, of course not.

Great.

I wouldn't have thought so.

It is totally possible.

First Pavel, now Jen.

Two out of ten scientists unaffected by an airborne virus inside a closed base.

What's that tell you?

That maybe it isn't airborne.

Maybe.

And in which case, how did the virus jump from a smashed ice core to the

of eight scientists?

Maybe it had help.

Outside help.

What are you doing inside?

I had to bring in the oil.

Thought I'd make myself a brew while I'm here.

I was just filling him in on everything that's happening.

It's horrible.

You can hardly believe it. You really shouldn't be in here. It's not safe.

it's 50 below out there.

I'll take my chance. You'll take your coffee and get your butt back on the

plane.

You're our ticket out of here.

Sure.

No problemo.

Take Pavel.

Find the delivery manifests.

I want to know everything that's come onto this base in the last month.

Here it is.

Last delivery manifest.

I'm sure there are more here somewhere.

Long life milk, reconstituted mashed potato, condoms, vitamin D.

Helps survive months without sunlight.

I thought that's what the condoms are for.

I can check the supply cupboards, if you like, see if I can find records that go

further back. Good idea.

Talk us through what happened on the lead -up to all this. Lead -up to Poland

night's pretty busy. Last -minute weatherproofing, vehicles check, vitamin

injections, that sort of thing.

Vitamin D?

We give everyone a boost before the six months of dark.

And am I right in saying you were the one who raised the mayday?

Yeah, I sent the emergency email minutes after it happened.

Why not call it in?

If the satellite's not directly overhead, phones just don't work. It was

or nothing.

Solar flares regularly shut down our comms for hours.

We're finding that out.

So you had no phone coverage at all?

None at all.

Total blackout.

Give us a moment.

Total blackout.

So how is Pavel on the phone to his girlfriend?

Blood results are in.

We good?

We are.

She's not.

Jen tested positive for the virus?

Why isn't she presenting symptoms?

Well, freezing may have temporarily slowed the infection.

For how long?

Well, given she was frozen right when the others began to exhibit symptoms,

say not long at all.

I think we got something.

Look, this is the most recent delivery manifest.

Check out the vitamin D order.

And this was what was delivered.

Found the empty packets inside the bin.

Not what was ordered.

Different brand, different supplier.

Jen said the boosters were part of their prep for Polar Night.

Perfect time to slip a rogue virus past biosecurity protocols and infect the

entire base.

I guess the person who smuggled them in didn't get a shot.

Oh, you son of a...

What the hell?

The heart rate is spiking.

The temperature's skyrocketing.

She's turning.

Double imports contaminated vials of vitamin D to infect the entire crew.

What on this base is worth killing nine people for? Get us out of this room and

I'll be happy to workshop that with you.

So, Doc, is now a good time to ask about our test results? We're all clear.

Oh, that's the small victories.

Lifeline? Phone a friend.

What's that?

Talk to me.

Okay, code red, code red. Bus is exploding.

It's just a hairball, Lou.

This is Trigger.

It's JD.

We're in an air -sealed lab, security level four. We need a fast exit.

Level four?

Mate, those doors have hermetic bio -seals.

They're like triple redundant mag -locked, built to contain everything.

They only open from the outside.

Well, we're inside, mate.

Now would be a good time for some out -of -the -box thinking.

Purge protocol.

Come again?

In order for a level four bio lab to unlock, the system needs to think that

safe from any airborne foreign agents.

How does it do that? By initiating incineration purge protocols.

In order to activate that, the lab needs to detect a bio threat. Basically trick

the sensors into believing the virus is airborne.

Then flame jets will ignite every molecule in the room, including oxygen,

then the doors will unlock.

So burn ourselves alive, that's your solution?

Well, we didn't say it was a perfect one.

I mean, we're dead anyway.

Over here.

Not ready when you are.

That's a bit underwhelming.

J .D.,

what are you doing?

Incineration purge complete.

I'll sedate Jen and get her to the plane.

What about Pavel?

I vote we leave him. Come back in the summer. Yeah, I'm with Evie with that

Nah, we need answers.

We need guns.

You kidding?

Evie! It's one number. Okay, well, this isn't helping.

CB code now.

How do you like them rocks?

I don't know about you, but I take a week in Darwin right about now.

Mango, madness beats polar madness any day of the week.

Worth risking your life for?

Worth taking lives for, anyway.

Not much I know.

What is it?

DY66.

It's dysprosium.

A rare earth element.

Atomic number 66 on the periodic table.

Used in high -grade magnets, motors, guidance systems, anything military

And it is a work of fortune.

You think this whole thing is about mining?

Mm -hmm.

How's it possible mining is illegal in Antarctica?

Which is why Pavel had to clear out the entire base with a deadly virus first.

He takes control of the site, then waits for reinforcements to strip mine the

place. Yep.

All under the cover of six months of darkness.

It's kind of genius, really.

So who are the reinforcements?

Pavel's from Bellaverse.

I can take an educated guess.

We'll get him to talk.

And whoever they are, they're not getting their hands on any of this

soon.

Scooter? I know it feels so good.

The coffee.

Pavel must have spiked it.

It's just like a chopper, but, you know, a plane.

I still got it.

Is that eggplant emoji girl? Can we not call her that?

She is going to be pissed you didn't follow through.

Wait.

You didn't follow through, did you?

In the cold?

Just realize what this looks like. I was trying to ask if you liked Masaka, my

specialty. See, she was actually talking about eggplant.

Sure she was.

Special Agent Mackey, you're a hard woman to catch.

That's by design.

What do you got?

I chased up the kill list you found on the ghost's phone.

And you're not going to like what I found.

Why is that?

Because I worked out who put you on it.

We did.