1 00:00:09,977 --> 00:00:14,515 This is Virgil Vox on the box, soothing your Seefran souls as we wait... 2 00:00:14,548 --> 00:00:16,284 wait... wait... 3 00:00:16,317 --> 00:00:19,220 for the demi-century Festival of the Darkening, 4 00:00:19,253 --> 00:00:21,355 When Methus-2 goes out. 5 00:00:21,389 --> 00:00:22,523 For how long? 6 00:00:22,556 --> 00:00:24,092 The usual hour? 7 00:00:24,125 --> 00:00:27,061 Long enough for me to get a look inside, I hope. 8 00:00:27,095 --> 00:00:31,732 Or this time, as we all fear, will it stay dark forever? 9 00:00:31,765 --> 00:00:33,734 Not if I can figure out what makes it blink. 10 00:00:44,412 --> 00:00:45,946 You there, boss? You still in range? 11 00:00:45,979 --> 00:00:47,481 Not for long, Mr. Harper. 12 00:00:47,515 --> 00:00:49,717 The second that sun goes dark, we are going in. 13 00:00:49,750 --> 00:00:50,884 I'm back. 14 00:00:50,918 --> 00:00:53,087 I'll make it fast. Here she is, and she's got it. 15 00:00:53,121 --> 00:00:55,123 Plucked straight from the altar to our altar. 16 00:00:55,156 --> 00:00:57,591 Dylan: You're referring to the carbon block, I hope? 17 00:00:57,625 --> 00:00:59,793 Yeah, and this had better be good. 18 00:00:59,827 --> 00:01:03,731 The minute those paranoid zealots find out that their ceremonial rock is missing... 19 00:01:03,764 --> 00:01:05,599 It's worth it. It's worth it. 20 00:01:05,633 --> 00:01:08,236 You ever hear of an old thief named Horace Fry? 21 00:01:08,736 --> 00:01:10,003 Yeah. 22 00:01:10,037 --> 00:01:11,739 Lifted terma diamondoids. 23 00:01:11,772 --> 00:01:15,909 Did 20 years in stir, ended up on some backwater drift, tending to his tropical fish. 24 00:01:15,943 --> 00:01:19,347 Mm-hmm, but what happened to the diamondoids? 25 00:01:19,380 --> 00:01:20,781 Hmm, nobody knows for sure. 26 00:01:20,814 --> 00:01:23,884 He ditched them in the Chayson Drift just before he got caught. 27 00:01:23,917 --> 00:01:26,920 Bits of them scattered over a hundred light years, probably. 28 00:01:26,954 --> 00:01:27,988 Horace knew. 29 00:01:28,922 --> 00:01:30,691 Federales never found the swag. 30 00:01:30,724 --> 00:01:33,394 Even put the eels to old Mrs. Fry. Tough lady. 31 00:01:33,427 --> 00:01:35,496 She kept her lips sealed to the last convulsion. 32 00:01:38,699 --> 00:01:40,634 Fry left the swag in orbit, 33 00:01:40,668 --> 00:01:42,770 before he busted out to the drift. 34 00:01:42,803 --> 00:01:44,505 Twenty five year decay rate... 35 00:01:44,538 --> 00:01:46,407 terma was waiting for him when he got out. 36 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:49,977 Smart...but he knew the law would be looking for that. 37 00:01:50,010 --> 00:01:51,912 So, he hid the goods in plain sight. 38 00:01:54,148 --> 00:01:56,317 He sewed the diamondoids into his fish. 39 00:01:56,350 --> 00:01:57,818 Precisely. 40 00:01:57,851 --> 00:02:01,021 Finger marlins. They live 40 years. Much better decay rate. 41 00:02:01,054 --> 00:02:03,557 Dylan: Harper, you said this would be fast. 42 00:02:03,591 --> 00:02:07,060 I'm going as fast as I can. I'm making sure we're all on the same page, boss. 43 00:02:07,094 --> 00:02:08,196 You figure it out yet? 44 00:02:09,630 --> 00:02:12,933 It's... black. It's solid. It's carbon. 45 00:02:12,966 --> 00:02:14,368 It's a filing cabinet. 46 00:02:15,135 --> 00:02:17,037 Yes. I can see that. 47 00:02:17,070 --> 00:02:18,506 All right. 48 00:02:18,539 --> 00:02:21,342 We've got an artificial star with a terminal case of the blinks, right? 49 00:02:21,375 --> 00:02:25,145 Beka, Harper thinks the block contains information about Methus-2. 50 00:02:25,179 --> 00:02:28,616 Yeah, but the Vedrans never left any information about the system in the archives. I checked. 51 00:02:28,649 --> 00:02:31,685 Ah, but did you check a dusty old paperweight? 52 00:02:31,719 --> 00:02:34,355 Made of ultragrade carbon nanofibers? 53 00:02:34,388 --> 00:02:37,325 Beka, behold the Vedran finger marlin. 54 00:02:38,426 --> 00:02:40,060 Go fish. 55 00:02:40,093 --> 00:02:44,265 The Vedrans bound bits of information to carbon atoms inside this block. 56 00:02:44,298 --> 00:02:47,668 I figured out how to break those bonds and access the diagrams... 57 00:02:47,701 --> 00:02:50,170 structural design information For the entire system! 58 00:02:52,473 --> 00:02:55,042 I see. You're going to apply heat. 59 00:02:55,075 --> 00:02:56,844 Ain't no flies on you, Beka. 60 00:02:56,877 --> 00:03:01,382 Boss, do I have your permission to begin potentially damaging extraction of said information? 61 00:03:01,415 --> 00:03:05,386 It's either now or 50 years from now when Methus-2 blinks off again. 62 00:03:05,419 --> 00:03:08,456 That's assuming you're finished with your story. 63 00:03:09,757 --> 00:03:11,058 I thought you'd say that. 64 00:03:17,831 --> 00:03:21,001 Light your lanterns, gentle folk. 65 00:03:21,034 --> 00:03:24,372 Methus-2's horn of darkness approaches... 66 00:03:24,405 --> 00:03:25,573 After a 50- 67 00:03:45,459 --> 00:03:46,860 That's a good look for you. 68 00:03:49,830 --> 00:03:50,864 Uh... 69 00:03:59,407 --> 00:04:02,009 God bless you, Horace Fry. 70 00:04:02,042 --> 00:04:03,744 Huh? Who's laughing now? 71 00:04:04,745 --> 00:04:06,580 You've got a little, uh... 72 00:04:07,915 --> 00:04:09,016 Never mind. 73 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:14,655 I'm going to take that explosion as good news, because we're going in. 74 00:04:15,489 --> 00:04:17,825 Rhade, Trance, ready slipfighter. 75 00:05:39,306 --> 00:05:40,674 We're clear. 76 00:05:40,708 --> 00:05:42,042 Be careful, Rhade. 77 00:05:42,843 --> 00:05:45,012 What fun would that be? 78 00:05:53,421 --> 00:05:56,424 Okay, let's go where the sun doesn't shine. 79 00:05:59,993 --> 00:06:03,397 The universe is a dangerous place, 80 00:06:03,431 --> 00:06:08,135 but in our future, my crew and I fight to make it safe. 81 00:06:08,168 --> 00:06:11,672 I am Dylan Hunt, Captain of the Andromeda Ascendant, 82 00:06:11,705 --> 00:06:14,141 and these are our adventures. 83 00:06:54,414 --> 00:06:56,684 The festival of the darkening. 84 00:06:56,717 --> 00:06:59,753 Believers and non-believers, behold. 85 00:06:59,787 --> 00:07:03,356 Dylan, Rhade, and Trance went to Methus-2 without seeing this? 86 00:07:03,390 --> 00:07:06,359 Aw, geez, do I have to explain everything every time we do something? 87 00:07:09,062 --> 00:07:10,531 All right. 88 00:07:10,564 --> 00:07:13,133 By the time they hauled this thing out for the local fear festival, 89 00:07:13,166 --> 00:07:16,770 Dylan had already known for weeks about this once every 50 year blackout, 90 00:07:16,804 --> 00:07:19,507 And that he'd only have an hour from the second it got dark 91 00:07:19,540 --> 00:07:22,342 to get inside and look around, so he went, on pure instinct. 92 00:07:22,375 --> 00:07:23,443 Pure guts. 93 00:07:23,477 --> 00:07:25,145 That's Dylan. 94 00:07:25,178 --> 00:07:28,816 Yeah, however, pure brilliance led me to deduce that there's more to this carbon block 95 00:07:28,849 --> 00:07:30,183 than meets the eye. 96 00:07:30,217 --> 00:07:33,987 It contains a maintenance code I can use to keep the sun down longer. 97 00:07:34,021 --> 00:07:35,889 How long? Three hours. 98 00:07:35,923 --> 00:07:39,126 He'll have three hours inside, safe, guaranteed. 99 00:07:39,159 --> 00:07:41,328 Provided there are no surprises. 100 00:07:41,361 --> 00:07:43,797 Please don't bite the hand that solders you. 101 00:07:43,831 --> 00:07:47,535 I've wiped way too many of your guarantees off my boots, Harper. 102 00:07:47,568 --> 00:07:49,603 Fine. Don't believe me. Believe the Vedrans. 103 00:07:49,637 --> 00:07:52,005 It's their maintenance code, their diagrams. 104 00:07:52,039 --> 00:07:54,508 Apparently they wrote the block on this stuff. 105 00:07:54,542 --> 00:07:56,243 I see. 106 00:07:56,276 --> 00:07:59,813 So the furnace is on the fritz because Methus-2 hasn't seen a fix-It crew in while. 107 00:07:59,847 --> 00:08:02,783 Yes. Transmitting the code, in layman's terms, 108 00:08:02,816 --> 00:08:05,452 reduces the sun's luminosity to absolute blackness, 109 00:08:05,485 --> 00:08:07,855 Opening a portal which in this case is already open. 110 00:08:07,888 --> 00:08:09,823 Inside, between the mantle and the core, 111 00:08:09,857 --> 00:08:11,825 there's enough free space for a million Andromedas, 112 00:08:11,859 --> 00:08:14,762 and you should have more than enough time to repair the damage. 113 00:08:14,795 --> 00:08:17,631 We don't even know the extent of the damage. What if we need more downtime? 114 00:08:17,665 --> 00:08:19,767 You won't, because there isn't any. 115 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:23,503 Keeping the sun down any longer could cause catastrophic weather conditions 116 00:08:23,537 --> 00:08:24,638 throughout the system. 117 00:08:24,672 --> 00:08:26,740 That's why they built the three-hour failsafe. 118 00:08:26,774 --> 00:08:28,375 Besides, how long do you need? 119 00:08:28,408 --> 00:08:30,510 You get in, find Dylan, kick out the boiler, 120 00:08:30,544 --> 00:08:32,079 and be home in time to give me a massage. 121 00:08:33,981 --> 00:08:37,384 There is nothing in the Methus diagrams about a maintenance code. 122 00:08:37,417 --> 00:08:39,987 The information I'm getting from this rock is solid. 123 00:08:41,855 --> 00:08:44,457 It is not this block I have concerns about, Harper. 124 00:08:45,458 --> 00:08:47,427 Actually, Beka, he's right. 125 00:08:47,460 --> 00:08:51,599 The Vedrans designed this system as one immense roadblock to stop the rogue sun, 126 00:08:51,632 --> 00:08:52,900 and save this planet. 127 00:08:52,933 --> 00:08:55,569 If Methus-2 is broken, the mechanism fails- 128 00:08:55,603 --> 00:08:58,672 Thank you. And we are macrocosmic roadkill. 129 00:08:58,706 --> 00:09:00,440 We have no choice but to follow Dylan. 130 00:09:00,473 --> 00:09:02,109 Not yet. 131 00:09:02,142 --> 00:09:04,578 Harper's not quite finished feeding out the rope. 132 00:09:05,779 --> 00:09:07,514 I was getting to it. 133 00:09:08,649 --> 00:09:10,818 There is a catch. There always is. 134 00:09:12,119 --> 00:09:14,688 The Vedrans used the same architecture inside the sun's core 135 00:09:14,722 --> 00:09:16,156 that they used inside all their spaceships. 136 00:09:16,189 --> 00:09:19,727 So passages are going to look familiar, very familiar, over and over again. 137 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:22,630 The whole thing's probably designed to lure intruders away from their true path 138 00:09:22,663 --> 00:09:23,897 to the fusion reactor, 139 00:09:23,931 --> 00:09:25,165 So pay attention. 140 00:09:25,198 --> 00:09:27,668 We could be walking around in circles until the sun ignites. 141 00:09:30,203 --> 00:09:32,372 Now, we can go hang ourselves. 142 00:09:32,405 --> 00:09:34,174 Uh-uh. Got you something. 143 00:09:42,616 --> 00:09:44,051 Now you can go hang yourselves. 144 00:09:56,529 --> 00:10:00,000 I uploaded the Methus-2 designs Into Doyle's neuronnet. 145 00:10:01,669 --> 00:10:03,336 Did you want us to miss you? 146 00:10:03,370 --> 00:10:05,472 I don't hold false hopes. 147 00:10:05,505 --> 00:10:07,574 Just following the boss and Trance's orders. 148 00:10:07,607 --> 00:10:09,276 Besides, don't cry about it. 149 00:10:09,309 --> 00:10:11,078 At least this way, you'll be able to know where you're going. 150 00:10:14,147 --> 00:10:16,383 You wanted Harper to stay behind? 151 00:10:16,416 --> 00:10:18,318 Well, it felt like the right thing to do. 152 00:10:18,351 --> 00:10:20,821 You know, in case there's a problem. 153 00:10:20,854 --> 00:10:24,457 Well, it's in case you need a rescue. Besides, the Seefrans aren't tech savvy. 154 00:10:24,491 --> 00:10:28,328 They'll need Harper's help to get some other plan o save the system. 155 00:10:28,361 --> 00:10:32,399 Not that you will need rescue, by the way. I looked it all over twice. 156 00:10:32,432 --> 00:10:35,635 You're not going to hit any snags or any tangles of any sort. 157 00:10:35,669 --> 00:10:37,771 I promise. You'll be fine. 158 00:10:40,674 --> 00:10:43,944 That's brave talk for a guy whose butt is shining a bar stool. 159 00:10:43,977 --> 00:10:46,747 Communication gets tougher the closer you get to the core, 160 00:10:46,780 --> 00:10:48,782 So I'll be acting as your conduit to Harper. 161 00:10:49,249 --> 00:10:50,818 Okay. 162 00:10:50,851 --> 00:10:52,419 We're on our way to find the core. 163 00:10:54,087 --> 00:10:56,990 Good, 'cause the one thing you need to worry about is time. 164 00:10:57,024 --> 00:10:58,692 So keep your eyes on the minutes. 165 00:11:03,797 --> 00:11:05,532 We'll be doing that, Mr. Harper. 166 00:11:05,565 --> 00:11:07,835 Just make sure there's free gwaro when we get back. 167 00:11:07,868 --> 00:11:09,169 Free? Half price. 168 00:11:10,003 --> 00:11:11,638 For the first round. 169 00:11:11,671 --> 00:11:13,206 Yeah, I'll pretend I didn't hear that. 170 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:14,708 Well, then, let me spell it out for you. 171 00:11:14,742 --> 00:11:17,477 I got a "bidnes" to run, spelled B-I-D-N-E-S. 172 00:11:17,510 --> 00:11:20,147 The girls in the back, they're giving me a hard time- 173 00:11:23,717 --> 00:11:26,253 Now, if I could only make sense of this place. 174 00:11:32,425 --> 00:11:34,194 Rhade? 175 00:11:34,227 --> 00:11:39,199 I get this very strong feeling that Dylan has invested all of our hopes in this mission. 176 00:11:39,232 --> 00:11:41,902 He's just like every other exile thrown down this hole. 177 00:11:42,435 --> 00:11:44,537 He wants to survive. 178 00:11:44,571 --> 00:11:48,341 If there's still a Commonwealth, I want to find a way back. So does he. 179 00:11:48,375 --> 00:11:50,610 When hope fills us up, we're easy to deceive. 180 00:11:52,079 --> 00:11:55,082 I'm afraid we might miss what's obvious. 181 00:11:55,115 --> 00:11:57,985 I don't miss much. That's how I've survived this long. 182 00:11:58,018 --> 00:12:00,687 No. You've already missed something. 183 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:03,556 I don't think that this star is some broken machine. 184 00:12:03,590 --> 00:12:06,193 Something alive is inside the core. 185 00:12:06,226 --> 00:12:08,996 Or it's at least an expression of some entity's life force. 186 00:12:29,482 --> 00:12:31,251 Couldn't wait for us, huh? 187 00:12:31,284 --> 00:12:34,687 Well, I had to get the party started. There's still two hours and five minutes to burn. 188 00:12:34,721 --> 00:12:36,924 What route did Rhade and Trance take? 189 00:12:36,957 --> 00:12:40,627 Through a portal at the core's south pole. You guys take the north. 190 00:12:40,660 --> 00:12:42,329 Splitting up doubles the risk. 191 00:12:42,362 --> 00:12:45,165 Yeah, but it also doubles our chances of finding the reactor. 192 00:12:45,198 --> 00:12:46,967 Look, whoever gets there first will make repairs. 193 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:49,536 Other team will harvest deuterium fuel for Andromeda. 194 00:12:49,569 --> 00:12:53,106 Seems counterproductive to steal fuel from a dying star. 195 00:12:53,140 --> 00:12:57,210 If no one can make repairs, at least we'll get out with the ship at full power. 196 00:12:57,244 --> 00:13:00,313 Oh, uh, when I say it's time to get out, get out. 197 00:13:00,347 --> 00:13:01,648 I'll be coming fast. 198 00:13:01,681 --> 00:13:03,951 You won't have to say that twice. Going in. 199 00:13:04,584 --> 00:13:05,785 Good luck. 200 00:13:14,061 --> 00:13:17,364 Rhade, Beka and Doyle are inside the core at the north portal. 201 00:13:18,198 --> 00:13:19,566 Dylan, change frequencies. 202 00:13:23,170 --> 00:13:25,572 He'll come through again. It's this place. 203 00:13:25,605 --> 00:13:27,807 Some spots are more open than others. 204 00:13:27,841 --> 00:13:32,012 And I suppose that's determined by the life force you sensed in here? 205 00:13:32,045 --> 00:13:33,914 Can't tell yet if it's friend or foe? 206 00:13:33,947 --> 00:13:36,516 Well, maybe it's both... in the same body. 207 00:13:38,785 --> 00:13:39,786 Hey! 208 00:13:43,656 --> 00:13:45,058 I'm leaning towards "foe." 209 00:13:58,005 --> 00:14:00,173 Dylan, we've got problems. 210 00:14:00,207 --> 00:14:02,409 Suddenly, the doors have legs. 211 00:14:02,442 --> 00:14:05,412 Doyle, dig through the diagrams for a pattern. 212 00:14:05,445 --> 00:14:09,016 See if there's any part of the configuration that leads to the fusion chamber. 213 00:14:09,049 --> 00:14:14,021 The core's designs refer to its ability to change its internal configuration. 214 00:14:14,054 --> 00:14:16,223 Which means our map is useless? 215 00:14:18,892 --> 00:14:20,327 Rhade? Trance? 216 00:14:22,262 --> 00:14:23,396 Rhade? 217 00:14:24,431 --> 00:14:25,632 Damn it! 218 00:14:38,878 --> 00:14:40,147 Dylan? 219 00:14:40,180 --> 00:14:41,214 Dylan! 220 00:14:41,714 --> 00:14:43,116 Clock is ticking. 221 00:14:44,317 --> 00:14:46,086 One hour and fifty three minutes. 222 00:14:50,157 --> 00:14:52,025 Time for intuition to lead the way. 223 00:15:10,978 --> 00:15:14,681 Rhade, I have a feeling something bad is coming. 224 00:15:18,385 --> 00:15:19,852 I could use a hint. 225 00:15:56,856 --> 00:15:57,924 Dylan? 226 00:15:59,492 --> 00:16:00,860 Andromeda? 227 00:16:11,704 --> 00:16:12,739 No. 228 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:14,874 This can't be happening. 229 00:16:19,412 --> 00:16:21,314 No, no, no. No! 230 00:16:28,121 --> 00:16:29,389 No, no... 231 00:16:29,422 --> 00:16:32,092 No, no, no! This can't be happening! No! 232 00:16:32,959 --> 00:16:35,095 I promised them. I promised them... 233 00:17:04,124 --> 00:17:05,325 Seefra to Dylan? 234 00:17:08,228 --> 00:17:10,197 Seefra to Dylan. Come in, Dylan. 235 00:17:12,165 --> 00:17:14,501 I never asked for any of you to come back, you know. 236 00:17:17,670 --> 00:17:20,707 Maybe I did a little at first, but... I got by. 237 00:17:22,642 --> 00:17:25,011 I got by. 238 00:17:25,044 --> 00:17:26,779 I made me a beauty. 239 00:17:26,813 --> 00:17:28,348 Fabricated some freaks. 240 00:17:30,650 --> 00:17:35,288 I did what I had to do to stay alive in this sinkhole. 241 00:17:35,655 --> 00:17:37,056 Stinkhole! 242 00:17:39,859 --> 00:17:41,294 Three years... 243 00:17:45,365 --> 00:17:47,334 But I was going to find my own way out. 244 00:17:47,367 --> 00:17:48,935 No Andromeda. 245 00:17:48,968 --> 00:17:50,503 No Rommie. 246 00:17:50,937 --> 00:17:52,705 No promises. 247 00:17:52,739 --> 00:17:54,341 I didn't ask for any of you. 248 00:17:54,374 --> 00:17:57,377 I didn't need any of you, and even if I did... 249 00:18:00,247 --> 00:18:01,814 I never expected an answer. 250 00:18:07,220 --> 00:18:08,388 You... 251 00:18:11,090 --> 00:18:12,492 You lied to me. 252 00:18:13,526 --> 00:18:14,627 Uh-huh. 253 00:18:14,661 --> 00:18:16,696 You made me believe they'd be safe. 254 00:18:21,568 --> 00:18:23,536 What's that? You want a little drinky? 255 00:18:24,537 --> 00:18:25,705 Okay. 256 00:18:28,441 --> 00:18:29,509 Ah! 257 00:18:44,957 --> 00:18:47,494 It's the Andromeda. This is real time. 258 00:18:47,927 --> 00:18:49,629 But... but how? 259 00:18:52,632 --> 00:18:56,169 If the mantle were strong enough to protect the core from a short burst, then... 260 00:18:57,003 --> 00:18:58,538 they wouldn't fry. 261 00:18:58,571 --> 00:19:00,340 They'd be okay. 262 00:19:00,373 --> 00:19:01,908 They'd be alive! 263 00:19:01,941 --> 00:19:03,976 They're alive? Ha! They're alive! 264 00:19:04,010 --> 00:19:06,045 They're alive! 265 00:19:08,215 --> 00:19:09,416 For now, anyway. 266 00:19:15,755 --> 00:19:17,424 The sun flashed. 267 00:19:17,457 --> 00:19:19,426 Just not enough to vaporize you. 268 00:19:29,269 --> 00:19:30,637 Gear's fried. 269 00:19:32,605 --> 00:19:35,642 Without the hand comm, we can't tell how much time we have left. 270 00:19:35,675 --> 00:19:38,177 Roughly 72 minutes, 42 seconds? 271 00:19:41,147 --> 00:19:42,715 "Roughly." 272 00:19:43,350 --> 00:19:44,351 Ah... 273 00:19:46,219 --> 00:19:48,154 Here's the next question. Our location. 274 00:19:49,389 --> 00:19:50,923 How far we are from the chamber? 275 00:19:53,993 --> 00:19:55,061 I got nothin'. 276 00:19:56,128 --> 00:19:58,097 Oh, I'm sure you have a feeling. 277 00:19:59,932 --> 00:20:01,901 This is going to sound strange. 278 00:20:01,934 --> 00:20:06,573 Sometimes I'm not where I am, and sometimes I am where I'm not. 279 00:20:08,140 --> 00:20:09,742 Here's the only thing that scares me- 280 00:20:09,776 --> 00:20:12,479 Is that you understand me... kind of? 281 00:20:14,347 --> 00:20:15,615 Kind of. 282 00:20:16,316 --> 00:20:17,617 Wish I did. 283 00:20:18,485 --> 00:20:19,652 You do. 284 00:20:22,822 --> 00:20:23,923 Trance. 285 00:20:25,625 --> 00:20:26,926 Would you like some company? 286 00:20:30,763 --> 00:20:33,933 What's up ahead, what we're all looking for? 287 00:20:34,834 --> 00:20:36,469 I'm the only one who knows the way. 288 00:20:37,670 --> 00:20:40,139 No matter what, you must follow me. 289 00:20:42,542 --> 00:20:43,843 I'm your shadow. 290 00:20:52,118 --> 00:20:53,420 Doyle? 291 00:20:54,954 --> 00:20:56,255 Doyle! 292 00:20:59,826 --> 00:21:01,093 Crap. 293 00:21:07,934 --> 00:21:08,968 Hey. 294 00:21:09,836 --> 00:21:11,804 Doyle, spark it up. 295 00:21:11,838 --> 00:21:13,373 I don't want to leave you here. 296 00:21:13,673 --> 00:21:14,974 Uh... 297 00:21:15,007 --> 00:21:17,209 I'm sorry, Beka. 298 00:21:17,243 --> 00:21:20,112 Trance, is that you? Are you okay? 299 00:21:20,146 --> 00:21:22,114 I brought us to Seefra. 300 00:21:22,148 --> 00:21:24,116 Hey, are you with Dylan? I need help. 301 00:21:25,184 --> 00:21:26,753 Doyle's shut down. 302 00:21:26,786 --> 00:21:29,021 All those months you spent alone, 303 00:21:29,055 --> 00:21:32,024 Drifting... Starving... 304 00:21:32,058 --> 00:21:35,127 Hey, look, you've got to tell Dylan we couldn't find any fuel storage. 305 00:21:35,161 --> 00:21:37,830 Where would you be without me? 306 00:21:37,864 --> 00:21:40,567 Where would you be if I were someone else? 307 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:44,337 Trance... without you, the rest of us would be dead. 308 00:21:45,037 --> 00:21:47,440 Death is just a matter of time. 309 00:21:56,849 --> 00:21:57,950 Trance? 310 00:22:02,021 --> 00:22:04,391 Where the hell are you going? I need help with Doyle. 311 00:22:06,393 --> 00:22:07,527 Trance? 312 00:22:14,100 --> 00:22:16,903 Wait. How much time do we have left? 313 00:22:16,936 --> 00:22:18,971 Trance? Trance! 314 00:22:24,677 --> 00:22:25,745 Crap! 315 00:22:32,385 --> 00:22:33,720 Your hand comm is working. 316 00:22:35,755 --> 00:22:37,657 Rhade, we've had no luck reaching Harper. 317 00:22:38,691 --> 00:22:40,393 Well, I guess we found a safe spot. 318 00:22:40,427 --> 00:22:42,361 For now. 319 00:22:42,395 --> 00:22:45,565 Dylan, we've lost contact With Beka and Doyle. 320 00:22:45,598 --> 00:22:47,400 Did the Andromeda sustain any damage? 321 00:22:47,700 --> 00:22:49,268 None. 322 00:22:49,301 --> 00:22:51,904 About the only good news on a really bad day. 323 00:22:51,938 --> 00:22:54,273 I hate to admit it, but I was actually looking forward to this. 324 00:22:54,306 --> 00:22:55,975 What, burning to a cinder? 325 00:22:56,008 --> 00:22:58,511 A concrete objective, like the old days. 326 00:22:58,545 --> 00:23:00,146 Shooting up bipedal lizards. 327 00:23:00,179 --> 00:23:03,650 Rescuing exotic women, accepting their sighs as gratitude. 328 00:23:04,784 --> 00:23:07,454 No riddles or paradine puzzles. 329 00:23:07,487 --> 00:23:10,857 And look what we get... trapped in a maze. 330 00:23:10,890 --> 00:23:13,760 Well, the only thing we know is that we're running out of time. 331 00:23:13,793 --> 00:23:15,462 There's no hard time on Seefra. 332 00:23:16,128 --> 00:23:17,329 There is in here. 333 00:23:18,998 --> 00:23:20,567 Maybe... 334 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:21,768 for one of us. 335 00:23:25,705 --> 00:23:27,440 Promise you'll remember what I said? 336 00:23:28,441 --> 00:23:29,642 I fail without you? 337 00:23:30,009 --> 00:23:31,277 Exactly. 338 00:23:36,783 --> 00:23:37,917 Damn it! 339 00:23:37,950 --> 00:23:39,018 Trance! 340 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:44,323 Dylan, I've been cut off from Trance. 341 00:23:44,356 --> 00:23:45,458 Understood. 342 00:23:47,660 --> 00:23:50,262 Andromeda, run the Methus-2 diagrams. 343 00:23:50,296 --> 00:23:54,701 Cross-Reference it with all Vedran ship designs from Commonwealth years CY4279. 344 00:23:55,101 --> 00:23:57,069 To CY9785. 345 00:24:00,973 --> 00:24:03,242 Captain, what are we looking for? 346 00:24:04,777 --> 00:24:06,345 Initial operating systems. 347 00:24:07,614 --> 00:24:08,781 And luck. 348 00:24:15,988 --> 00:24:17,690 The festival of the darkening. 349 00:24:18,525 --> 00:24:20,827 Dance, you fools, dance. 350 00:24:22,595 --> 00:24:23,696 Trance! 351 00:24:25,632 --> 00:24:28,100 Dylan, I'm going to need something to break through. 352 00:24:28,868 --> 00:24:29,869 Damn it! 353 00:24:31,538 --> 00:24:33,005 That sounded promising. 354 00:24:39,746 --> 00:24:42,649 A piece of the wall just broke and shattered. 355 00:24:43,315 --> 00:24:45,051 It's a strange metal. 356 00:24:45,084 --> 00:24:46,986 Yeah, it's, uh, it's not metal. 357 00:24:49,922 --> 00:24:51,157 The core... 358 00:24:51,190 --> 00:24:53,025 This whole structure Is made from carbon. 359 00:24:53,059 --> 00:24:54,627 Keep moving, Rhade. You're close. 360 00:25:12,845 --> 00:25:14,681 The flash... 361 00:25:14,714 --> 00:25:16,849 you used the star's energy to appear. 362 00:25:18,951 --> 00:25:22,021 But you're the only one I sense. Where are the rest of us? 363 00:25:22,054 --> 00:25:24,123 Where we are, when we are... 364 00:25:24,156 --> 00:25:27,126 nothing but lies told by the senses. 365 00:25:27,159 --> 00:25:30,630 I prefer the lies of living senses to your idea of the truth. 366 00:25:30,663 --> 00:25:33,633 There is no room for dissension within the nebula. 367 00:25:33,666 --> 00:25:35,568 All must be one. 368 00:25:35,602 --> 00:25:38,270 That is not an arbitrary law, Trance Gemini. 369 00:25:38,304 --> 00:25:40,272 It is the state of existence. 370 00:25:40,306 --> 00:25:42,775 No bodies. No borders. 371 00:25:42,809 --> 00:25:45,878 Only eternal, undivided essence. 372 00:25:45,912 --> 00:25:47,747 Don't you hear how foolish you sound? 373 00:25:48,414 --> 00:25:49,882 If all of us are one, 374 00:25:49,916 --> 00:25:52,919 yet I can reject the will of the nebula, 375 00:25:52,952 --> 00:25:54,954 then your belief is the lie. 376 00:25:54,987 --> 00:25:56,923 For every choice, there is a consequence. 377 00:25:57,556 --> 00:25:58,858 Yours is waiting. 378 00:26:05,798 --> 00:26:07,900 The only path still open to you. 379 00:26:08,735 --> 00:26:10,569 Then I'm already trapped. 380 00:26:25,151 --> 00:26:26,686 Doyle, can you hear me? 381 00:26:29,789 --> 00:26:30,823 Doyle! 382 00:26:38,264 --> 00:26:39,498 Aw, crap. 383 00:26:44,436 --> 00:26:45,437 Dylan? 384 00:26:46,172 --> 00:26:47,439 Dylan, come in. 385 00:26:47,473 --> 00:26:48,607 Rhade? 386 00:27:05,191 --> 00:27:06,492 It breaks. 387 00:27:12,231 --> 00:27:14,834 Okay, wait. That'd be a very bad idea. 388 00:27:14,867 --> 00:27:17,469 No sense incinerating myself before my time. 389 00:27:33,185 --> 00:27:34,420 Dylan! 390 00:27:34,453 --> 00:27:35,554 I've found Trance. 391 00:27:37,256 --> 00:27:39,759 Rhade, say again. Comm link is breaking. 392 00:27:43,529 --> 00:27:44,764 Trance! 393 00:27:47,700 --> 00:27:49,836 She said to follow. 394 00:27:49,869 --> 00:27:53,005 Andromeda, show the last locations of the crew. 395 00:27:54,340 --> 00:27:55,674 Searching. 396 00:27:55,708 --> 00:27:57,276 I have them, Captain. 397 00:28:00,346 --> 00:28:01,748 Time to go. 398 00:28:15,127 --> 00:28:17,263 Beka, is that you making all that racket? 399 00:28:17,296 --> 00:28:18,831 Hell, yes! 400 00:28:18,865 --> 00:28:20,332 Are you hurt? 401 00:28:20,366 --> 00:28:24,536 No, but I have discovered I'm a girl who does not like to be trapped. 402 00:28:24,570 --> 00:28:27,373 So you left me here, out of juice, defenseless. 403 00:28:27,406 --> 00:28:28,941 Serves you right you got trapped. 404 00:28:28,975 --> 00:28:32,879 Left you behind? I was chasing Trance. She abandoned us both. 405 00:28:32,912 --> 00:28:35,848 Sure, the synthetic's not worth a believable lie. 406 00:28:35,882 --> 00:28:37,283 I am not lying, damn it! 407 00:28:38,150 --> 00:28:39,919 How much time do we have? 408 00:28:39,952 --> 00:28:41,453 Not much. Stand back. 409 00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:02,541 Wow. 410 00:29:05,845 --> 00:29:07,013 Thanks. 411 00:29:07,046 --> 00:29:08,214 You're welcome. 412 00:29:09,015 --> 00:29:10,883 This is carbon. 413 00:29:10,917 --> 00:29:13,319 I know. It's a gas can. Let's go. 414 00:29:16,122 --> 00:29:18,925 Rhade? Beka? 415 00:29:18,958 --> 00:29:21,593 If anyone can read me, I am on my way in. 416 00:29:28,901 --> 00:29:32,171 The Vedrans used an ancient technology called Hydride Containment. 417 00:29:33,239 --> 00:29:35,507 They made the walls with carbon nanofibers. 418 00:29:35,541 --> 00:29:38,577 All the deuterium is bound to the carbon atoms. 419 00:29:38,610 --> 00:29:40,579 Highly stable, and given the size of the core, 420 00:29:40,612 --> 00:29:43,449 there's enough heavy hydrogen here to power a dozen Methus-2's. 421 00:29:43,482 --> 00:29:44,884 Well, what now? 422 00:29:44,917 --> 00:29:46,418 Contact the others. 423 00:29:52,158 --> 00:29:53,392 Rhade? 424 00:29:53,993 --> 00:29:55,561 Where are you, Beka? 425 00:29:55,594 --> 00:29:57,964 Inside a gas tank, and so are you. 426 00:29:59,365 --> 00:30:01,834 And so am I. I'm way ahead of you. 427 00:30:02,634 --> 00:30:04,336 Get to the Maru. 428 00:30:04,370 --> 00:30:06,205 Use the engines to heat a section of the core 429 00:30:06,238 --> 00:30:08,507 and release the deuterium we need for Andromeda. 430 00:30:08,540 --> 00:30:11,043 But, Dylan, we won't have time to search for the fusion chamber. 431 00:30:11,077 --> 00:30:14,080 Look, I want you and Doyle onboard Andromeda and ready to bolt 432 00:30:14,113 --> 00:30:15,848 with 10 minutes left on the clock. 433 00:30:15,882 --> 00:30:17,116 On our way. 434 00:30:25,524 --> 00:30:26,758 Hey, Rhade. 435 00:30:26,792 --> 00:30:28,294 Dylan? 436 00:30:28,327 --> 00:30:29,695 How the hell'd you get here? 437 00:30:30,863 --> 00:30:32,999 I guessed that the defense mechanism in the maze 438 00:30:33,032 --> 00:30:38,304 would employ the same pattern as other Vedran operating systems. 439 00:30:38,938 --> 00:30:40,239 You guessed? 440 00:30:50,582 --> 00:30:52,784 Didn't I tell you we were going to get lucky? 441 00:30:53,252 --> 00:30:54,786 You did. 442 00:30:54,820 --> 00:30:56,388 The fusion chamber. 443 00:31:03,829 --> 00:31:05,031 Here's the problem. 444 00:31:10,436 --> 00:31:11,971 We're screwed. 445 00:31:19,845 --> 00:31:22,514 Diagnostic says the lines running to and from the chamber are clear. 446 00:31:22,548 --> 00:31:24,816 There's no blockages to the fuel or heat transfer. 447 00:31:25,384 --> 00:31:26,785 That can't be. 448 00:31:26,818 --> 00:31:30,189 Adventures were much more fun when it was just bad guys lining up, 449 00:31:30,222 --> 00:31:31,290 letting us shoot them. 450 00:31:31,323 --> 00:31:33,659 Yeah, no glory in having to think for a living. 451 00:31:34,626 --> 00:31:36,662 All right, let's figure this thing out. 452 00:31:37,496 --> 00:31:39,831 Heat goes out to free deuterium. 453 00:31:39,865 --> 00:31:43,135 Fuel flows back here to feed the fusion reaction. 454 00:31:44,603 --> 00:31:46,939 Vedrans like to play "hide in plain sight." 455 00:31:49,475 --> 00:31:51,043 That fish tank is the furnace. 456 00:31:52,044 --> 00:31:53,946 And it's in real bad need of a cleaning. 457 00:32:07,159 --> 00:32:10,696 Once we're out, divert all fuel to the main engines. Run them in the red. 458 00:32:10,729 --> 00:32:13,932 There's a pop-off vent in the core's surface 30 degrees from this portal. 459 00:32:13,966 --> 00:32:15,867 Great. Plot the location into the nav net. 460 00:32:15,901 --> 00:32:17,069 How are we doing on time? 461 00:32:17,103 --> 00:32:18,804 You really want to know? 462 00:32:18,837 --> 00:32:20,339 What I really want is a nap. 463 00:32:30,549 --> 00:32:33,452 You said "on the ship and ready to ride with 10 minutes to burn." 464 00:32:33,485 --> 00:32:35,421 Fourteen minutes. Window's closing. 465 00:32:36,788 --> 00:32:38,991 Let's see what you and I can do in four minutes. 466 00:32:51,703 --> 00:32:53,739 Sealed the cargo hold and purged the interior. 467 00:32:53,772 --> 00:32:57,176 Storage available for 700 cubic liters of compressed deuterium. 468 00:32:57,209 --> 00:32:59,511 Firing thrusters and counter-thrusters. 469 00:33:00,446 --> 00:33:01,813 Let's get hot. 470 00:33:16,362 --> 00:33:18,664 That's right. Drink it up. 471 00:33:18,697 --> 00:33:21,600 We're already at thirty percent capacity. This is great. 472 00:33:29,808 --> 00:33:31,377 I spoke too soon, didn't I? 473 00:33:31,410 --> 00:33:33,279 Yeah. The engines have locked up. 474 00:33:33,312 --> 00:33:34,580 Can you unlock them? 475 00:33:34,613 --> 00:33:37,483 No, I don't think so, but we can continue collecting the gas. 476 00:33:39,251 --> 00:33:40,619 Comm's fried. 477 00:33:40,652 --> 00:33:42,721 Don't worry. Dylan will be here. 478 00:33:42,754 --> 00:33:44,022 He said he would be. 479 00:33:45,957 --> 00:33:47,726 No, this says the lines are clear. 480 00:33:47,759 --> 00:33:51,930 So why would the heat source run so far below ideal capacity? 481 00:33:51,963 --> 00:33:53,732 Radiant outflow must be blocked. 482 00:33:55,934 --> 00:33:57,836 Then let's run a snake through the drains. 483 00:33:57,869 --> 00:34:00,472 Hey, even pulsing at half capacity. 484 00:34:00,506 --> 00:34:03,375 This boiler is pumping billions of lumens. 485 00:34:03,409 --> 00:34:05,744 If it hasn't cleared the blockage, what will? 486 00:34:06,712 --> 00:34:09,615 Maybe a burst at 10 times normal output will. 487 00:34:11,150 --> 00:34:12,751 Have you ever heard of overkill? 488 00:34:12,784 --> 00:34:15,087 Ever hear of last resorts? 489 00:34:15,121 --> 00:34:18,157 Look, we survived one flare. I'll take those odds. 490 00:34:18,190 --> 00:34:20,859 Once you've primed the pump, we'd better duck, tuck, and roll. 491 00:34:23,495 --> 00:34:26,365 Get ready to duck, tuck, and roll. 492 00:34:44,316 --> 00:34:45,617 Why do you worry? 493 00:34:46,285 --> 00:34:47,919 Not for myself. 494 00:34:47,953 --> 00:34:50,156 Your friends will be saved. 495 00:34:50,189 --> 00:34:53,192 Tarn Vedra will remain outside of the cataclysm. 496 00:34:53,225 --> 00:34:56,728 A paradise for the millions fortunate enough to live in this system. 497 00:34:56,762 --> 00:34:58,797 What about the trillions of lives that will end 498 00:34:58,830 --> 00:35:01,933 when the abyss dissolves the three galaxies? 499 00:35:01,967 --> 00:35:04,470 Why does the nebula turn its back on them? 500 00:35:04,903 --> 00:35:05,971 And why should I? 501 00:35:06,004 --> 00:35:07,973 There are no beings. 502 00:35:08,006 --> 00:35:11,143 No such thing as lives for them to lead. 503 00:35:11,177 --> 00:35:14,980 The only real thing is the energy that fuels them, 504 00:35:15,013 --> 00:35:16,982 and energy can never die. 505 00:35:18,350 --> 00:35:20,152 Then I will live to stop you. 506 00:35:49,047 --> 00:35:50,249 Trance? 507 00:35:56,222 --> 00:35:57,423 Trance. 508 00:35:59,024 --> 00:36:02,294 When the clock starts winding down, it's going to get very hot in here... 509 00:36:02,728 --> 00:36:03,829 permanently. 510 00:36:05,864 --> 00:36:07,833 Well, then, we'd better outrun our shadows. 511 00:37:02,921 --> 00:37:05,223 Beka and Doyle are stalled on the core's surface. 512 00:37:05,257 --> 00:37:06,458 Open a channel. 513 00:37:06,492 --> 00:37:08,427 The Maru's communications are down. 514 00:37:11,630 --> 00:37:13,732 All right. Let's go get them. 515 00:37:29,315 --> 00:37:31,417 They're still gathering fuel. 516 00:37:31,450 --> 00:37:33,952 Readings indicate that Doyle and Beka are still onboard. 517 00:37:35,454 --> 00:37:37,289 The Maru's engines must have seized. 518 00:37:37,323 --> 00:37:40,459 T-minus one minute forty seconds to solar ignition. 519 00:37:41,593 --> 00:37:43,295 My priority is the matriarch... 520 00:37:43,329 --> 00:37:46,398 but there's barely enough time to make the portal and save ourselves, 521 00:37:46,432 --> 00:37:47,666 let alone anyone else. 522 00:37:49,100 --> 00:37:50,869 I'm not leaving anyone behind. 523 00:38:00,278 --> 00:38:01,747 Now what? 524 00:38:01,780 --> 00:38:04,015 Well, we're going to give them a tow, and we're going to make it quick. 525 00:38:04,049 --> 00:38:05,083 But we don't have... 526 00:38:07,085 --> 00:38:08,320 Time is relative. 527 00:38:09,688 --> 00:38:12,123 Andromeda, bucky cables, now. 528 00:38:16,595 --> 00:38:17,796 Cables. 529 00:38:17,829 --> 00:38:18,864 Cables secure. 530 00:38:18,897 --> 00:38:20,399 Bring 'em in. 531 00:38:20,432 --> 00:38:23,301 Be gentle with us, guys. Right now, we're a hydrogen hand grenade. 532 00:38:25,571 --> 00:38:28,640 T-minus 10 seconds to solar ignition. 533 00:38:28,674 --> 00:38:32,310 All right. Get us out of here. Feel free to get a push from the solar wind if you have to. 534 00:39:17,956 --> 00:39:20,692 Guys? Guys? 535 00:39:20,726 --> 00:39:22,628 Talk to me. Let me know you're alive. 536 00:39:23,495 --> 00:39:25,531 Insult me, for crying out loud. 537 00:39:25,564 --> 00:39:27,866 You're short, and you throw like a girl. 538 00:39:27,899 --> 00:39:29,535 Yes! Thank you. 539 00:39:40,812 --> 00:39:44,616 Methus-2 is at full capacity for the first time since we don't know when. 540 00:39:45,784 --> 00:39:47,218 Tap a keg, Mr. Harper. 541 00:39:47,252 --> 00:39:50,055 Make it a dozen, and invite some ladies. 542 00:39:50,088 --> 00:39:51,690 The friendly kind. 543 00:39:51,723 --> 00:39:53,091 The friendly kind? 544 00:39:53,124 --> 00:39:55,794 Rhade, I thought you only liked the kind with mustaches. 545 00:39:59,431 --> 00:40:00,999 "Throw like a girl." 546 00:40:26,625 --> 00:40:28,760 You saved millions of lives today, 547 00:40:28,794 --> 00:40:31,530 And you've given us a fighting chance to escape this system. 548 00:40:32,531 --> 00:40:34,299 It feels like we're free already. 549 00:40:35,867 --> 00:40:38,870 Trance, in matters of time and place, 550 00:40:38,904 --> 00:40:40,271 and, of course, life and death, 551 00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:43,809 I'll never doubt your intuition. 552 00:40:44,876 --> 00:40:46,177 I already knew that. 553 00:40:47,779 --> 00:40:49,347 I had a feeling it was obvious. 554 00:40:52,450 --> 00:40:53,752 Welcome back, ladies. 555 00:40:53,785 --> 00:40:54,986 It's good to be back. 556 00:40:55,020 --> 00:40:56,888 Hey, thanks for the lift. 557 00:41:02,260 --> 00:41:03,294 Dylan. 558 00:41:03,695 --> 00:41:04,796 Beka. 559 00:41:04,830 --> 00:41:06,865 Hey, thanks for getting that fuel. 560 00:41:06,898 --> 00:41:10,001 Dylan, I think you should know about something that happened on Methus-2, 561 00:41:10,702 --> 00:41:11,770 just after it flashed? 562 00:41:12,871 --> 00:41:13,872 I saw Trance. 563 00:41:14,606 --> 00:41:16,241 She spoke to me. 564 00:41:16,274 --> 00:41:18,810 But she definitely wasn't herself. 565 00:41:20,145 --> 00:41:22,881 I mean, Doyle was damaged, I needed help, 566 00:41:22,914 --> 00:41:26,351 and suddenly Trance becomes this mysterious cloaked figure 567 00:41:26,384 --> 00:41:28,119 who shuts up and walks away. 568 00:41:28,153 --> 00:41:29,354 She was wearing a cloak? 569 00:41:30,421 --> 00:41:31,790 Yeah, and, Dylan... 570 00:41:33,291 --> 00:41:35,326 I think she deliberately lured me into a trap. 571 00:41:37,195 --> 00:41:40,398 I mean, if Doyle hadn't rebooted, I'd be a cloud of gas right now. 572 00:41:40,431 --> 00:41:43,434 Come on, Beka. We both know Trance isn't capable of betrayal. 573 00:41:43,869 --> 00:41:45,604 Really? 574 00:41:45,637 --> 00:41:47,639 Then who was with me inside the sun?