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Previously on "The Ark."

We can't let anyone know about this.

Know about what?

Hey, what's up?

That took you long enough.

I'm gonna move the slab away from her!

Guys, you have to see this.

I think you need to take me to med bay.

What's wrong?

I can't-- - OK, OK, OK.

You can freaking control me.

Don't try that again.

You owe me your life.

You should be thanking me. - Thank you.

Now please, get out of my head.

Give me the silent treatment all you want.

Need a spotter?

I'm OK.

Good.

You don't need any distractions.

Now leave.

You know what?

I do need a spotter.

Just one a wee bit stronger.

Oh?

How's that for strong?

I see what you're doing, and I don't care.

I admit I was wrong, and I accept my defeat.

You're going to have to pay the price for doubting me.

And what's that then?

Mm-hmm.

You know what?

Have your fun while you can.

Because everything is gonna change once we get to Homebase.

You're taking a million cells?

Oh, I'm extracting a lot more than that.

But I only need a million cells to grow a culture to study it.

OK. You're numbed.

Deep breath.

I'm pretty sure the cure for Gen-3 psychosis

has to do with why your GABA receptor genes don't degrade.

You might feel a small pinch.

All done.

Oh.

That wasn't too bad for a needle to my spine.

Technically, it went in your brain stem.

What's next? How can I help?

- Well, I was-- - Captain.

We're picking up a distress call.

It's from "Ark 16."

Oh, go do captain stuff. I'll do science stuff.

You got it.

Set a course.

I'm on my way to the bridge now.

Mr. Strickland?

Alicia?

Yes. Good news.

Your name's been cleared. It's safe to come home.

Oh, that's a relief. Thank you.

Oh, thank Mr. Avega.

He got Lati to trick Ves into saying--

Alicia?

You better send a science team to my location.

What? Why?

I just found something strange.

I repeat, this is Captain St. John of "Ark 16."

We are under siege. Please send help.

I re--

The message is 31 hours old.

Then we might still be able to help.

What do we know?

"Ark 16" was one of the last Arks

to launch under GSA command.

Where are they now?

Dena-197,

listed in our database as a colonization candidate.

Could someone be challenging them for the planet?

Statistically unlikely.

Not everyone is as open to peace as you are, Captain.

Maybe it's "EF1."

Avega still hasn't been able to contact them.

Maybe they missed the memo that the war is over.

Or it could also be a trap.

Drake is still searching for you.

The thought crossed my mind.

We're approaching the coordinates.

Dropping out of FTL in three, two...

Huh.

I don't see any evidence of a colony on the surface.

I don't detect other ships in orbit.

Except "Ark 16."

It looks undamaged.

All the systems are functioning.

There's life signs for 285 people.

Yeah, I don't see any signs of an attack.

Hail them.

I've been trying to, but there's no response.

Can we tap into their internal cameras?

They're offline.

Then the only way we're getting answers is to go over.

We should be cautious.

Keep the boarding party small and armed.

Agreed. Shuttle in ten.

Eva, you're with us.

So maybe I should come with you?

I need you here.

I'm taking Eva, so I need an engineer on the ship.

Oh.

Because for a second there,

I thought it was about professional propriety.

Um--

it wasn't, but now it is.

There's an unknown contaminant in the air.

I'll take a sample.

Copy that. Helmets stay on.

Why are the bulkheads closed?

This seems off, right?

Little bit.

Can you do a sweep with Hendricks and Wilson?

Eva, see if you can

pull anything off the internal feeds.

So

you and Ian finally decided to go for it in real life?

It's that obvious?

Pretty much.

Can I ask you a question?

How do you and Brice draw professional boundaries?

Boundaries?

Good thing you didn't walk in on us earlier in the gym.

I'm in.

Half the bulkheads are in lockdown.

Most of the WD signatures I'm detecting

are behind the lockdowns.

So they're either locked in or keeping something out.

Get away from me!

Follow me.

Get away from me!

Hey, stop! What are you doing? Hey!

He slept with my wife!

You don't even have a wife.

Wait!

Kimi to Garnet.

You better come to the Mess Hall.

Come on.

What happened?

They all have some sort of skin condition.

Must be an infection or some sort of poisoning

from the contaminant we detected.

But we just saw two crew that have it.

They were alive.

These people didn't die from an infection.

This woman's head is smashed in.

This man was stabbed.

I think this person was strangled.

These people killed each other.

Stop! You're killing him!

My first officer mutinied.

I can't allow that.

What's on the back of your hand, Captain?

Who are you?

Captain Sharon Garnet. We're from "Ark 1."

You boarded without permission.

We were answering your distress call.

What happened here?

You want to take my ship?

We're here to help you.

Sir, you need to step back now!

This is Captain to anyone still loyal.

We have intruders.

Do not let them escape!

- Sharon? - Back to the shuttle.

We'll figure this out from "Ark 1."

Go. Go.

Come on!

The less contact, the better.

Run!

Kimi! Come on.

Go. Go, go, go!

Come on, Eva!

Hurry!

Decontamination protocol.

Clear in five, four, three, two, one.

The air is free of contaminants.

Let's go before they get in here and recontaminate.

Kimi, get us out of here.

It's safe for everyone to take off their helmets.

Is everyone OK?

- Yeah. - Good.

First order of business when we get to "Ark 1,"

figure out how to help those people

before they kill each other.

It's OK. I'm fine.

Yeah, I'll be the judge of that.

Pupil dilation, normal. Autonomic responses are good.

And you have no residual pain?

I don't even have a headache.

Seriously?

You were screaming when that thing electrocuted you.

Has the object been dormant since it attacked Kelly?

Yeah.

But only after half of it changed to English.

That would explain the results I got

from a diagnostic I ran on Kelly's implants.

It looks like your brain's CPU

sent out a massive data signal when you were shocked.

I wonder if somehow your augmentations connected

to the slab and triggered a reverse subcarrier wave.

I love you, but sometimes

I don't understand the words that come out of your mouth.

I think the slab learned English from Kelly

through her implants.

Like it copied a whole language from her brain.

So it's just lucky we have a post-human

that can connect with the technology in this lab?

Or the people from the cave discovered your implants

when you were their prisoner.

Wait, does that mean that the triangle device

that activated the slab was left specifically for Kelly?

So you think I was targeted?

Or chosen.

Thank you for helping prove my innocence, Zed.

We stand together or we fall alone.

I gave Lati work release in exchange for her aid,

but she's worried about retribution.

I don't blame her.

We don't know who among us is Black Thorn

and still loyal to Ves.

Including some people working in security.

Anyone on "Ark 11" is a suspect.

Just because they aren't from "Ark 11"

doesn't preclude them from being part

of another Black Thorn unit.

So what are you saying?

We can't trust any former GSA members

of the security team?

What I'm saying is we don't know if we can.

Which is why I'd like to

put a former EF security man in charge.

Agreed.

On an interim basis until we round up Ves and her team.

Trust to Felix.

I'm studying this object you found

and, well, it'll be easier to explain

if you just come back out here.

Divide and conquer?

Well, this is quite the puzzle

you've discovered here, Felix.

Look at the scorching.

Look how the ground is disturbed.

This is an impact radius.

It fell from the sky?

I think this fell from orbit.

This appears to be part of a piece of machinery

that fused under the heat of reentry.

It's debris. From what?

Too damaged to tell.

All I do know is that it's not ours.

It's not from something in orbit?

EF2 or one of those fore-section bulbs?

No, they're all intact. I checked.

This has been here for at least a year, maybe more.

How can you be sure?

Well, the trees are scorched, but we're still in the shade.

This has been here long enough for the canopy to regrow.

That explains why we never saw it in flyovers.

Mr. Trust, we found more debris to the east.

Like, a lot more.

Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce to you

Mr. Raymond Quinn.

With the unfortunate death of Mr. Petrovic,

Mr. Quinn will be taking command of security for now.

He picks an EF guy.

Big surprise.

Erica, is it?

Yes, sir.

I appointed a man I served with

because I know I can trust him.

Of course, sir.

Does anyone else have an opinion?

Dismissed.

There are still unidentified Black Thorn members.

Some of them could be among your men.

So why don't we just relieve all the former GSA of duty?

Because it's easier to catch a rat inside your house

rather than out.

We can't help "Ark 16" until we figure out

what that contaminant is and where it came from.

Well, if they were scouting the planet to settle,

the pre-colonization team could have picked it up down there.

Sorry I'm late.

I've been analyzing the air sample you brought back.

- What's the verdict? - Not good.

The particulate replicates at an extremely high rate.

The rash you described in the "Ark 16" crew

is likely a histamine reaction.

- So it's a virus. - No, it's not viral.

It's also not bacterial or parasitic.

It--it behaves in ways I don't understand.

Can you stop it?

Not until I run more tests

and figure out exactly what it is.

We don't have time to wait.

The "Ark 16" crew is at each other's throats.

Some of them have already killed each other.

Can we sedate them until Doc Kabir figures out a cure?

Not remotely.

I could take a squad over,

put a sedative into their system.

Good idea.

Keep the team small. Make sure you're armed.

I'll work on an insertion plan.

Once we get to your planet,

you're going to do as you're told.

Or what?

It's not like you can actually do anything to me,

as far as I can see.

Other than give me a migraine.

That being said, it's a pretty big friggin' migraine,

the way you just go on and on.

What?

Sorry.

Baby, sorry, I was lost in thought there.

I left my data pad here.

Hey, wait, wait, wait, wait.

You mad at me?

I was attacked on a mission

and you didn't even meet me at the airlock.

I'm sorry.

Baby, I'm sorry. I got distracted. I'm an ass.

You've been acting strange, and now I know why.

Well-- Yeah, because I--I died.

Don't use that as an excuse.

This started when you left Homebase.

- What started? - Cheating on me.

Cheating on you? What-- what are you talking about?

With Kimi.

Are you being serious right now?

Yes.

Do you not remember a few months ago

when she literally wanted me dead?

She wanted you dead because she was in love with you.

What?

Oh, my God.

Don't make fun of me!

What the hell is that?

Nothing.

And it's certainly none of your damn business.

Wow.

You got a minute?

Yeah, I'm just waiting

for Kimi's insertion plan for "Ark 16."

Listen, sorry if I was a little pushy

about coming on the mission.

Oh, and for being charming in public.

I promise to maintain professional propriety.

Although some of that is on you resisting this handsome face.

I knew it.

You don't actually want to be with me.

Wait.

That's not at all what I meant.

I know what you meant.

OK?

You don't have any real feelings for me.

I'm confused.

Where's this coming from?

No one can ever love me. I'm a Gen-3 freak.

I don't think that at all. No one thinks that.

The real question is...

why are you pretending to be in love with me?

Can we rewind for a second?

I just came by with a gift.

Pull that weapon, and I'll snap your neck.

I brought you a cookie from Mess.

It's peanut butter chocolate ch--

chip.

You think I'm an idiot?

I know it's poisoned.

OK.

I think we need to go see Dr. Kabir.

You're not going anywhere.

Hey!

What were you doing in the server room, Novak?

Maintenance. Why?

What the hell, Kimi?

That hurt.

You're an EF spy.

I don't want to fight you.

Oh, it's not gonna be a fight.

The test results for the "Ark 16" air samples.

Oh, great. Thank you.

Huh, interesting.

It's behaving more like a protozoan.

We were looking at it wrong.

The infection isn't caused by an airborne pathogen.

It's caused by an airborne spore.

Like a fungus.

So it settles on the skin and releases an ergot alkaloid

that must affect dopamine and cortisol levels.

The rash isn't the byproduct of the infection.

It's the cause.

Kabir to Garnet. I have to find her.

Clear the way!

Kimi, what is going on?

We have to get this spy to the brig.

The infection is on "Ark 1."

I drew this and this

and this and this and this and this.

Why?

I have no idea,

because I drew them all in my sleep.

I took a nap, and I woke up on the floor,

surrounded by pages of whatever this is.

You did all of this in your sleep?

Yeah.

This sounds like automatic writing.

But there's no scientific proof such a thing really exists.

I would say it really exists.

Your implants seem to be functioning properly.

There's nothing wrong with them?

Well, I didn't say that.

This lab obviously did something to you.

We just can't detect it.

I'm detecting more debris.

Why haven't we found any of this before now?

Because we never knew to scan for it.

And the tree canopy's too thick

to get a visual from this height.

It's all on one line.

Which means it must have been one large object

which broke apart in the upper atmosphere leaving this trail.

What is it?

Uh-huh.

What?

Trail stops here.

So it's possible that whatever it was,

the bulk of it lies at the bottom of this lake.

I'll take us lower.

And I'll run LiDAR scans.

If there is something down there,

I might be able to assemble an image.

I don't see it on here.

Me neither.

Well, stylistically, they're similar.

Very similar.

What's similar?

We're not seeing a match for what you drew here.

But it's the same as the symbol--

I don't understand.

We're pretty sure that the symbols on here represent

the language of the people who abducted you and Angus.

No, I mean, what symbols?

That thing is all in English.

Half of this is English.

All of it is English.

Are you saying you can read this?

Of course.

It says the same thing on both sides.

Or almost the same.

Is this a joke?

I'm not good with jokes.

Kelly, half of this is still just symbols.

You really see the same thing on both sides?

It's not word-for-word.

It's--look here.

This says error, but over here it says mistake.

You're pointing to another language.

I swear, I-- I see it in English.

That's so weird.

It wasn't a reverse subcarrier wave.

It was a two-way subcarrier wave!

- Wait, what? - Huh?

When the slab took English from you,

it also gave you its language,

like the CPU in your brain is translating for you.

Gave its language. OK, wait.

Uh, OK, if you can understand their language,

we might finally be able to communicate with our neighbors.

But if I can translate all this...

why can't I translate that?

There is indeed something in that lake.

You produced an image?

Yes.

It's a ship.

It's "EF1."

Oh, my God. Are you sure?

My son's on that ship.

You stole my food rations!

We don't have rations anymore!

The "Ark 16" infection is on our--

He's not Ian.

He's another J6-82 clone working for Drake,

and I just need to make him confess.

Help me, Dr. Kabir!

She's trying to steal my organs!

Sharon. Sharon.

I need you to come with me to med bay.

OK?

Why?

Because you were right. Drake is after you.

He's after me, too, because I have Dr. Hall's Gen-3 research.

We're in this together, Sanji.

Yeah.

First, let me take care of Drake's agent.

No! No.

We--we--we might need to interrogate him later.

You're the only one I can trust, Sanji.

You coming?

Let me up!

OK.

This spore synthesizes chitin polysaccharide.

At its base, it behaves a lot like an Earth fungus.

Are you talking about the "Ark 16" infection?

Yeah, but it's on "Ark 1" now too.

So theoretically, a strong antifungal

will counteract it immediately.

Wait.

If it's on "Ark 1," why don't you have it?

Um, because I was late to the briefing by an hour.

And that's where I would have first been affected.

I probably have less than 15 minutes

until I start exhibiting symptoms, so--

Wow.

I'm really glad you figured this out

before I started showing symptoms.

Yeah.

Me too.

Did you just infect me with the sickness?

No, no, no, no, it's the antifungal.

It's the antifungal, which, um, apparently doesn't work.

So what kills a fungus?

Damn it, this isn't my area of expertise.

Sounds like an Angus thing.

Shame you can't ask him for help.

Wait, that is a great idea.

Wait, why can't we ask Angus for help?

He knows what he did.

Did you hear that?

- No. - Shh!

You never died.

It was all a lie to cover up your affair.

You need to defuse this situation.

You've lost your bloody mind.

How is that defusing?

Least you can do is be honest with me.

You're in love with Kimi!

In love with her? She's--

Sweetheart, I don't know how to pronounce the woman's name.

Just tell me the truth.

The truth?

- Yes! - Fine. OK.

You want the truth? Here's the truth.

I'm dead. Right?

And none of this is real.

Oh, just be a man and come clean!

You need to get to the med bay.

You faked your death so you could be with Kimi!

- Look at the rash-- - Stop it! Stop it!

You're not real.

And you're not real.

OK.

I'm done with you and your lies!

Eva to Kimi.

Where are you?

Uh, have you tried antifungal?

OK, that was the first thing I tried.

You think I'm a moron, don't you?

OK. Sorry.

I don't have a lot of time.

OK, actually, I don't have any time,

so I need something right now.

Uh, OK.

Intense UV light could kill a fungus,

but that'll hurt.

OK, thanks. Bye.

OK.

I can work with this.

I heard a scream.

I'm all right.

Now...

We need to make sure Drake isn't putting a tracker on you.

That was intense.

It felt like everyone was out to get me.

How are you feeling now?

Embarrassed.

What did you do?

UV disinfectant wand.

I turned off the safeties and cranked it up,

but it's only a temporary solve.

'Cause we don't have time to use it on the whole crew?

Well, and the spores are still in the air.

So we're already reinfected.

Probably.

But I have an idea.

There's a small amount of UV in our lighting system.

Yeah, to combat depression from lack of sunlight.

You want to turn "Ark 1" into a giant disinfectant wand.

Yeah. If we can figure out how to recalibrate

the environmental system?

Well, I do happen to have an engineer tied up in my cabin.

It's only gonna hurt a minute, I promise.

But I have to kill the infection

that's making you sick!

Almost there, almost there!

All done.

Space virus? Really?

- Space fungus. - Same difference.

Uh, big difference.

A fungus we can kill by adjusting the UV in our lights

to disinfectant levels.

Assuming you know how to do that.

Just get me to the server room.

I'll crank it up as high as it goes.

Uh, it's more complicated than that.

If you push the UV wavelength above 222 nanometers,

you will blind the entire ship.

Ah.

So no pressure then.

You're still spying for the EF!

You just want Brice for yourself!

Oh, god. They're everywhere.

They're gonna kill each other.

We've got this.

Stop!

I'm gonna end this right now!

Oh, I'm in the environmental systems.

Turning off safeties.

Uh, shift our output to Far-UVC and adjust the wavelength.

222 nanometers?

That's the magic number.

Captain! She's an EF spy!

- She's sleeping with Brice! - She's an EF spy!

Come on, come on.

We're gonna have to go dark for this to activate.

Do it!

No, no, I thought that would work.

Where--

- Yes! - Oh, my god.

It's working!

Is everyone all right?

They're fine.

Eva.

Uh, I'm so-- - So sorry.

Are you guys good?

Are you OK? Come on.

I don't have the words to thank you, Captain.

Thank my crew.

They were the ones that were able to remotely access

your environmental controls and sterilize your ship.

We lost 39 souls.

They were good people.

I have no doubt.

What exactly happened?

We followed protocol and sent the scout team to the planet.

They came back at each other's throats.

Well, we'll put a beacon into orbit to warn others

that Deno-197 isn't habitable.

Thank you.

Where do we go now?

After years in space, we are still homeless.

Not quite.

Are you familiar with the Trappist system?

No.

Well, we built a nice colony there called Homebase 1.

I am so sorry.

Stop it.

It was the fungus.

Or the spore or whatever it is

we've decided to call that space shite.

Should we reset?

- Yes, please. - OK.

I know there's no other woman.

Of course there's not.

Permission to join, Captain?

Sorry.

Couldn't resist.

Oh, please don't make this harder.

I--I didn't mean what I said.

Stop.

It was just the infection, all right?

I got a little crazy too.

It's fine.

Can I let you into a little secret?

Sometimes I get nightmares

about the fact that I was bred for parts.

I didn't know that.

Because I never told you.

And anyway, you kind of got me worried that you--

That I'm gonna steal your liver?

No, that

the infection might have tapped into your deepest fears too.

Do you really believe that no one could ever love you?

Of course not.

I mean, you're way too smart to be that dumb anyway.

Seriously.

Look.

Everyone on this ship loves you.

Everyone. Everyone on Homebase loves you.

And I love you.

I probably should have waited

till we were alone for that last part.

I love you too.

OK, Captain!

OK.

All right. Yes, I get it.

I understand now.

Hands are sweatin'.

Zed?

I don't have the words.

Then don't try.

I've analyzed the images,

but I can't tell why "EF1" fell out of the sky.

I don't know about your GSA Arks,

but Eastern Federation ships don't generally

fall out of the sky.

No, no, of course not.

It must have been shot down.

By what?

You all need to see this.

It's, um--

It's bad.

We started a grid search at the lake shore

and found an area of disturbed ground.

So we started digging.

What have you found?

Bodies.

There were survivors.