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Previously on The Ark.

I always thought Blackthorn was a rumor.

This is a genetic library of selected animalia DNA samples from Earth. You did

all of this in your sleep.

Everyone on Homebase loves you. And I love you. I love you too. I saw an

opportunity when I detected the Dorman chip, so I took it. That thing put you

in my head, didn't it? We built a nice colony called Homebase. Well, stop here.

There is indeed something in that lake.

ZF-1 must have been shot down.

What have you found?

Bodies. There were survivors.

Said? I'm so sorry about this, mate.

We cross-referenced each ID with the EF manifest. These bodies are from EF1, but

I'm relieved to say your son is not one of them.

Don't be.

My son's body is likely at the bottom of that lake. I really hope that's not

true. I want to know exactly how my people died and who buried them.

Is it possible they were buried by other EF1 survivors?

I mean, maybe they're still out there alive.

No.

They would have come to us as soon as we arrived.

I have finished reviewing the autopsy results.

They have all been dead for about 22 months, and they were killed the same

way.

by gunshot.

I want answers.

Well, get them. Dr. Marsh said the bodies... What type of weapon systems

were used?

Ammunition? What was the motive?

Zed, Dr. Marsh said the bodies died two years ago. I'm aware of that. Do you

know who arrived here two years ago? Arca-11.

You think this was Vess and Blackthorn? Could be.

This was the secret she was hiding, and Hammond found out.

It would explain why she killed him and Framestrickled.

But does that mean she shot down the F-1 ship?

If she did...

The rest of ARC-11 would all be complicit. I trusted you, Garnet. I

trusted that all of the GSA would fall behind you and choose peace.

Sorry, Ced, but I... Captain Avega!

Captain Avega, I can't control the actions of others. I didn't even know

there was a Blackthorn unit here. But I can tell you this, if they or any other

GSA personnel are responsible for the murder of your people, they'll pay the

consequences.

We'll follow due process. Due process?

Are you kidding?

More than 200 of my people were murdered. A crime far beyond the scope

of anything that would require due process.

Now we need to still make sure everyone at home base is safe. ARC-16 is

disembarking as we speak.

And we still don't know who the Blackthorn are.

Okay, let's start by talking to Kimmy. Since EF Hunters was a division of

Blackthorn, maybe she can help.

I didn't know Kimmy was an EF Hunter.

This just keeps getting better and better.

This is when we were still at war.

Her job was to murder people like me. Again, when we were at war. Since then,

Kimmy has more than proven herself nonpartisan. I would trust her with my

life and yours.

Just the same.

I don't want her anywhere near me.

Captain Vega, why don't you go supervise the divers at the lake?

You can help them identify the rest of the bodies. Strickland and I will handle

everything else.

Fine.

But let me give you a word of advice.

Former EF security are the only ones we know for sure are not Blackthorn.

I will tell my men to follow yours and Felix's orders while you investigate.

But I would relieve all former GSA security personnel of their duties.

Hey. Hey.

Where are you going?

Uh, oh, um... That's her. You want to stretch your legs. I'm just gonna go and

stretch my legs.

Don't you want to shower first?

Rest? We just got home.

Don't you worry about me, my love. I'm absolutely fine, okay?

I am worried about you. You've been through a lot and you need to rest. You

get to go now.

Uh, you know what? I'm actually feeling kind of hungry, so I am just gonna head

down to Lannipad, quickly grab something, right?

Okay, I'll come with you.

Absolutely not. Uh, no.

No, no, no, it's fine, it's fine. You, uh, you want to stay here, get unpacked,

get settled, so, uh, yeah, you stay here, and I will be right back, okay?

Mwah!

Hey, hey, listen, you need to back off, okay? I can't think with you always

hovering and in my ear. You don't need to think. You need to do as I say.

Something's different about you.

It's like you're...

You're deeper in my brain or something.

Follow me.

Where are we going?

To the part of me that's sick.

Come, let me show you.

Hi. Hi.

You are back.

Yeah. I missed you.

I missed you too.

Really?

Really.

Sanjay, gotta tell you something.

Milani's dead.

What?

You remember he had internal bleeding when you left?

Uh, yes. It was manageable at first, but...

Things took a turn for the worse quickly. He coded.

We... We were unable to resuscitate him.

Come here.

You okay?

You relieved?

Relieved?

You think I'm relieved that he's dead?

No, no, of course not. That's not what I meant.

I... I don't know.

I... For the record,

I disavowed Blackthorn as soon as I was exposed as Niaf Hunter. I've been loyal

solely to you, Arc One, and Homebase ever since.

We know.

Do you know where Bess might be hiding?

No, I didn't even know she was Blackthorn.

As I understand it, you were each relegated to a specific Ark?

Yes, in isolated units with our own codes, so I've no idea who Ark 11's

other members are.

Did every ship have the same number of thorns?

On Ark 15, Ladia and I were the only ones.

The larger groups could be 12, 15, and they were all led by commanders.

Like Vess.

So whoever the Ark 11 members are?

They're all loyal to Vess.

Do you have any idea how she was able to summon them all so quickly to help her

escape? Every active duty thorn keeps a small device on their person at all

times. An encrypted beacon that can summon all members of the unit.

When triggered, all the other thorns meet at that location.

So we should find Vess and then... Use her beacon to smoke out her team.

Just get her out of here. You lied to me.

No, I didn't. You said you were going to a bar to get food.

Eva, listen to me.

You need to go, okay? You need to go now.

You're scaring me. I want to bring you to infirmary.

Simi, I've grown deeper into your brain.

She can talk to me.

I'm sorry I had to come to this.

Kill her.

Now.

I can't believe what I'm seeing.

What is it?

You know how Maddox put those chips in our brains when we first arrived here?

Well, Bryce's chip has activated and become entangled in strands of new

neural tissue.

It has to do with whatever happened to me on Ross.

No, but your chip looked completely normal after we rescued you, which means

the strands grew over the last few days.

Maybe that explains your behavior from today. Maybe the chip is controlling

you. So remove the chip.

Trust me, you don't want to do that. We can't remove it now without it killing

you. I like her. But there must be a way to shut down the chip. How?

I don't know.

I wonder if Alicia could help us tap into the software somehow.

We're to try.

Alicia to infirmary.

It's urgent.

None of them will ever get me out.

Leave now before I make you hurt someone.

Doc? Yeah? Yes?

I need you to restrain me.

What? Sorry?

Look, if your theory is correct, I might not be able to control my actions.

Are you sure?

We're going to figure this out. No, trust me, you're not.

I always thought Blackthorn was an old wives' tale.

Don't know anything about it. Why do you ask?

Captain, we have reason to believe that Vess Illich was a commander of a

Blackthorn unit on your ship.

Monarch 11?

Yes. There's no way.

Why do you say that?

I knew everything that happened on that ship.

Well, we think she might have shot down EF-1.

How?

Arc-11 had no weapons.

And it's not like she could have secretly been hiding something big

enough to shoot down a whole ship.

I'm sorry, but this all just sounds ridiculous.

Okay, then.

Thank you for your time.

We need to talk to Angus. Angus? Why?

Angus! Have you found any evidence of sunflowers growing here naturally?

No. Which is a bummer when you think about their impact on soil health and

the biofuel potential.

Let me just check the, uh...

Doesn't look like any other

arcs carry them either.

Why do you ask?

Yeah, what do sunflowers have to do with EF1?

The former captain of Arc-11 was pruning sunflowers. If there aren't any here,

and no one brought them on Earth, then where did he get them?

You think he brought them in the DNA vault?

Uh, there's no vault on Arc-11.

Yes, that's what we wanted you to think. No one knows the room even exists, which

makes it a good place for Vess to hide.

Mm-hmm. Well, all the vaults were built in the same place, behind the wall in OT

section of G-Deck.

Okay.

Um... Arc-11's G-Deck is now building 14B. Let's go.

Mr. Trust, the diver's found the server box from EF-1.

Oh, hi.

Hi. Is the data salvageable?

Who knows?

I'm sure as hell going to try.

Hopefully we'll find the captain's log so we can learn what really happened.

Great. Let me know the second you find anything.

Check it out.

Angus? Yeah?

Uh, can I talk to you outside?

Yeah.

So I've been automatic writing all night.

You can understand all of this?

Yes. I mean, I can't speak or understand spoken language, but I think I can

understand enough of the written language to be able to communicate with

people in caves.

So we have to go back to the caves.

Why?

What if you were right all along?

Maybe they're trying to tell us something.

Okay, just let me get a security detail together to go with us.

If we bring a bunch of strangers down there, the people down there might not

let us in.

Okay, but we should at least tell Mr. Trust and Felix. I don't think we

should.

They'll never let us go alone.

So you're saying you want to go, just us, no weapons, to see the people who

kidnapped us?

Yes.

I mean, I can always turn my implants on if I have to.

Hey, Dr. Kabir.

Could I have a word?

Um, it's, um, private.

Of course.

What's wrong?

I don't want to get anyone in trouble.

Okay, um, whatever it is, you can tell me.

When Petrovich flatlined, Dr. Marsh hesitated.

For too long.

What do you mean, hesitated?

He just kind of stood there, staring.

Almost like he was debating what to do.

Then when I came over, he snapped back to business.

You did the right thing telling me.

But can we keep this between us?

Of course.

Clear.

How did you find me?

Put your gun down and I will tell you.

We just want to talk.

Okay?

It's just... I don't trust him.

Hand over your unit beacon.

Now.

Kimmy?

And what happened to once a thorn, always a thorn?

Who's in your thorn unit, Bess?

I don't know what you're talking about.

And rotten ear.

Let's go.

That was successful.

How are we going to find the rest of them now?

I have an idea.

You really think Milan was Blackthorn?

Well, he was close to Bess.

Okay, but why do you need me here?

We're looking for a beacon they carry.

It's relatively small, gray, and shaped kind of like... Kind of like this.

It's password protected. That's why you're here, Sanji.

Four digits, using one through six.

Um... Try... 6161?

It's the address of his first house.

6-1.

Nope.

Okay, um... Try 1-1-2-2.

November 22nd.

Month and day he was sworn in as a cop.

Just proudest moment.

Yep. Thank you, Sanji.

I don't think there's a way to disable the chip without killing Bryce.

Maybe if we can figure out how the programming got into his chip in the

first place.

It was that thing that was connected behind my ear on Ross.

Shut up. There's nothing on the MRI where the tube was connected. It's just

scar tissue.

Or maybe it's not.

Okay, okay, look, I get it. You're mad.

I made you go into the woods and try to hurt your girlfriend.

But I am doing what I have to do.

What's that?

It's a bioelectric impedance probe.

Okay. What's it for?

If I'm correct... The scar tissue is conductive. Shh.

What? It's not scar tissue. It's some sort of electro-organic strand that was

left there by the thing that connected behind Bryce's ear. So this is how we

can access the chip.

Exactly.

Start rigging a contact.

This isn't just about me.

Trust me, if they disappear me, you will never be the same.

Do you have any plan on how to get inside?

I was sort of hoping they would just...

do that.

This is my clothes.

Maybe it's a gesture of goodwill?

It means hello.

I think.

I don't like this Come on

How's it going with Bryce?

It's complicated.

What can I do to help?

Nothing.

Okay, Sanji.

What's going on?

You've been avoiding me all day.

I can't do this right now.

Do what?

Okay.

If it's because of what I said about Milan... It's not what you said. It's

what you did.

Where didn't you do?

What are you talking about?

You killed him No, I didn't

I checked the medical records Milan flatlined and you waited

Twelve seconds before trying to resuscitate.

Twelve seconds.

I was trying to be thoughtful about the plan of action. Bullshit. You knew

exactly what was going to happen.

Even if I hadn't waited, it probably wouldn't have made a difference.

What kind of argument is that?

I didn't mean for him to die.

But you're not sorry.

Thanks for coming.

Yeah, the water in that lake was near freezing, so it preserved the bodies

fairly well.

I was able to pull up the manifest from the server we recovered.

So we've been able to identify most of them, but... We still need you to try

and ID the rest.

I'm really sorry you have to be the one to do this, but... Who else would do it?

Lieutenant Ephraim Wombey.

Corporal Albert Flink.

Leonard.

A Vega.

My son.

Can I join you?

I'm so sorry about your son.

I really wanted to blame you.

Or at least the GSA.

But the truth is, it's my fault.

Leo was an artist.

He was happy.

Painting alone in his room.

Even when the world was crumbling.

He wasn't like me.

Or anyone I knew, for that matter.

I couldn't understand him.

I'm not a parent.

Hell, I didn't even have parents.

Isn't that how most parents feel? Like they don't understand their kids?

My wife always said I was too hard on him. Your wife?

Sheila.

The love of my life.

She died when Leo was 12.

And I was left to raise a boy I didn't understand.

I'm so sorry.

I pushed him to join the EF.

Practically forced him.

Told him he had to help make a difference.

And he hated me for it.

I doubt that.

Oh, no, he did.

And because he hated me, I assigned him to EF1 instead of my ship.

So I didn't have to look him in the eye.

And now... Said, hey.

His death is not your fault.

I was his father.

It was my job to protect him. You did protect him. If you hadn't have put him

on EF1, he probably would have died two years earlier with everyone else left

behind on Earth.

I should have put him on EF2 with me. He'd still be alive.

You could not have predicted what would happen.

His death is not your fault.

Then who the hell's fault is it?

James, there is still time to stop this.

Okay. This wire can transmit signals to and from your conductive tissue to

access whatever programming is in the chip.

Buddy?

Can I try now?

I'm in.

I saved your life. Don't you want me to say it?

It worked?

Uh, well, sort of.

I can see the code, but I can't recognize it at all.

What do you mean?

It's not binary. It's ternary.

Base three.

I can't make sense of it. It's... It's totally foreign.

What are you asking?

I asked his name, but I can't translate his response.

Guess we'll just keep calling him John Doe.

How do you communicate with each other?

He says he spoke to them, but I didn't hear anything.

They must talk in a frequency outside our hearing range.

Kind of makes sense. He has different hearing and vocal cords Ask them why we

were kidnapped

You break.

You break what?

That symbol.

It's the only one I can't translate.

What does it mean?

Did you trigger it? No Who

made the call?

Get the wall masks off and keep your hands where we can see them

Okay,

I've combed through everything on the chip the code is indecipherable But if

we can purge the code from the chip there may be a chance that price will go

back to normal Purge means I will be gone you understand

Guys, maybe we shouldn't delete it all, you know?

We might need the information later.

Yeah, that's true. With all these questions looming about Ross and home

base, it could be valuable. Yeah, I'm valuable.

But I'm of no use to you if I'm not in your head.

You're right.

Instead of purging it, I'll move the data into an air gap device.

That way it can't infiltrate our computer system. But the software will

be completely out of his head, right?

Right. It'll be here instead.

Please. James, you don't know what you're doing.

Alicia.

Do it.

James.

James, please.

You will regret this.

This is for the best.

Who is he talking to? I don't know.

I will make you regret this.

Goodbye.

The transfer is complete.

How do you feel, James?

Here's how it's going to go.

You're going to tell us exactly what happened two years ago.

The only way I'm telling you anything is if you let my team go.

They were only following orders.

Absolutely not.

But I can promise you this.

If you don't help us right now, your team will suffer grave consequences.

Okay.

Okay.

Fez, we can't make a deal until we know exactly what happened.

It's not fine.

Start talking.

We killed OZF-1 survivors. Vega, you have to understand that at that time,

they were still the enemy.

We were in the Volga War.

The mission was standard.

Do a sweep and make sure there are no hostiles here before arc 11 came down

We're about to turn around and go back to the ship When we

smelled smoke smoke Come smoke

We followed it

found a group of people living in the woods somehow

So you just killed all those people? We were outnumbered. They were going to

kill us. You do not know that! Harvega, please.

Why didn't you tell us any of this before? Why murder Hammond to keep this

secret? Because of you two.

Chern and Zed. Oh, come on. When you came here, you had made peace.

I wasn't going to blow it by revealing who we had killed. No, it doesn't make

any sense. You buried the bodies. You wanted to cover it up right away.

Weapons.

There were no weapons recovered from that pile of bodies.

The EF soldiers were unarmed when you found them, weren't they?

You mowed down all those unarmed people!

I want to know how you shot down EF-1, how you killed hundreds of innocent

people on board that ship. Tell me!

I didn't know anything about that.

She is a murderer.

Yes, she is.

But don't let her turn you into one.

Ian, if you've come to try and calm me down... No, no, no, no.

Just to give you some information.

The server shut down two weeks before ARK 11 arrived at home base.

I'm not sure I follow.

The server shut down because the ship went down.

Before Vess or ARK 11 were even here.

So Vess was telling the truth.

I don't know who shot down the F1.

But it wasn't her.

You're saying you've been seeing and hearing Doc Marzoff this whole time?

Yeah.

Thanks.

Yeah.

And she felt so real.

There must have been some insanely advanced AI.

Yeah. Yep.

She saved my life.

Made it seem like I was supposed to save her, too.

Something about, like, fixing a part of her hair on home base.

Part of her? What does that mean?

I don't know.

Never got that far.

Oh, man, I am just so, so happy to feel like myself again, you know?

Thank you, both of you, for everything, really.

I am so happy you're OK.

Oh, OK, you're... Friendly.

One of the new doctors.

Yeah.

We haven't met, have we?

I'm James.

James Bryce.

Nice to meet you.

Um... What?

So Bess didn't shoot down the ship?

No, she couldn't have.

I despise her.

But she didn't kill my boy.

What happens when we meet the people who did?

I think we already have.

There's only one group of people that could have been here when the F1 arrived

The people in the caves wait if they were able to shoot down a spaceship then

They must have access to a massive weapon

Fix

I don't understand

Heal.

Fix what? Heal what? I don't know.

Fix or death.

What's he saying?

If we don't fix it they'll kill us.