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- Previously on Ascension... - He's an unclaimed, isn't he? - You should go.

I find Councilman Davis' unwillingness

to take responsibility for his son shameful.

[Warren]: There's been a change in leadership.

You don't deserve to be here, OK? I wanna help you.

We're on Earth.

[Lorelei, echoing]: Christa! I wanna show you.

My wife has been sleeping with another man!

[Men grunting]

[Alarm blaring]

[Warren coughing]

Oh! What was that? Did you see anyone?

Dead.

[Both grunting]

I underestimated you, Harris.

That was one hell of a contingency place!

I swear I had nothing to do with it!

I have never seen anything like it!

Get him out of here!

Find out what happened to the power!

Katherine, listen to me!

The bunker, it has massive redundancies.

It's shouldn't be possible for anything to short the system!

Whatever it was, it came from that ship!

It had to be Christa.

Wait!

The girl in Krueger's report.

We have never had anything like it.

She is Punctuated Evolution made real!

Everything that we've been working for.

Tell me more.

[Electricity crackling]

[Alarm blaring]

Mr. Gault! Wake up, please!

[Echoing]: I saw Lorelei.

She led me here.

Christa?

[Groaning]

Christa.

Why did you bring me here?

[Sobbing]

Stokes, listen to me. Listen to me!

You're right! You're right!

Their lives were wasted, but not yours.

You know the truth, Stokes. You can help.

You can save the people still on Ascension.

[Guard]: Hands in the air!

Stay where you are, and show me your ID.

Samantha Krueger. Look...

Nice and easy.

Special operations.

- Scan it. - OK, OK!

[Beeping]

Hey! That's enough!

Hey, that's enough! Let's go! We gotta go!

[Car beeping]

It's this one here! Here! Get in!

Hey! Hey! Get in!

Get in!

You're bleeding.

[Panting]

- - [Whispering]: - OK! OK!

[Electricity crackling]

Gault! Gault! Come on!

Come on, wake up! Wake up!

What?

You must've been caught

in the electrical discharge from the surge.

You are lucky to be alive!

Surge?

[Woman]: I don't understand what happened!

[Woman groaning]

What's going on?

[Squealing]

Oh my God!

[Men and women]: Oh!

[Man]: Take cover!

Come on!

I need Gate 23 open, goddammit!

Carrillo! I need answers.

Uh...

Every system connected to the ship is out,

electrical, surveillance, security.

What about the backup generators?

They're all fried.

It must've been a massive electromagnetic burst.

I had to reroute to get power!

How long till we're back up?

This has never happened.

It's the first time in 50 years

we don't have eyes on the ship.

Both of them?

What?

Stokes is working with Krueger.

She broke him out.

Yes, I was wrong, Harris,

but I was so certain you were hiding something,

I couldn't see what she was up to.

Who's she working for?

Well, I thought it was me!

You just focus on getting Ascensionback online.

You were gonna kill me.

And now I'm giving you the opportunity

to get your job back.

If this girl is really responsible for all of this,

you've made a remarkable breakthrough.

Until the comm systems are back up,

we're going deck to deck,

checking all the essential systems.

So far, no sign of sabotage.

I remember what happened in the wake of the fire.

Crisis brings out the worst in people.

I'm depending on your safety officers to keep the peace.

Dr. Bryce, what's happening to my ship?

It was a massive power discharge.

I haven't found what originated it or what caused it.

- Could it be the reactor? - No, no!

The shielding is holding.

The cooling levels are acceptable.

Mrs. Vanderhaus, are we still on course?

I'll know once the nav computer's working.

Right now, we're flying blind.

XO on deck!

It's about time, Gault!

Coordinate a ship-wide damage survey

with Mrs. Vanderhaus.

Sir, shouldn't I be helping out below decks?

People are panicking.

You don't choose your assignment.

Next time you step on my bridge,

you better not smell like a distillery.

Are we clear?

Jackie, help me take the rest of these supplies

down to Dr. Bryce.

Who's Jackie?

Who are you? What do you want?

I was working on the midline when it blew a circuit.

I thought, hell, I've never been in the officer's lounge.

They've got some nice perks here.

The lounge is closed.

I'm taking this to medical.

Oh, feeling charitable?

I just got off the comm.

The safety officers are coming to take these supplies.

That's a cute trick, with the comms being down and all.

What's the matter? Are you afraid?

[Grunting]

Let go!

[Grunting]

[Groaning]

You bitch! That hurt!

[Groaning]

Oh my God!

It's illuminated!

My father had it hardwired into the ship's reactor

in order to ensure the illusion would never be shattered,

no matter what happened on the outside.

So they don't know.

Carrillo, have supply bring up the spools of 220.

We're gonna tap into the ship's nuclear reactor.

OK, right away!

You look surprised to see me.

This isn't the sort of job you get fired from.

Did you think about that when you sold me out?

Did you consider my wife, my son?

Harris...

Get the 220.

What the hell is that?

[♪ Man singing rock on PA, indistinct ♪]

[Crying]: It's all right here!

Sir, are you OK?

You're bleeding.

Um, I need painkillers.

Acetaminophen, ibuprofen?

As strong as you got.

If you want anything stronger,

you have to have a prescription.

- Ow! - Hey!

Painkillers!

- Painkillers. - Ow!

Don't hurt him!

Don't--don't hurt him! I'll get them.

It's fried!

Electrical is at 40%!

Environmental, 30%!

Come on!

Come on!

Cryogenic, no response!

[Beeping]

Scrubber Room, no response.

Are you gonna tell me what happened?

I was caught in the surge.

Since when does an electrical shock do that?

It doesn't!

[Breathing shallowly]

Oh! Oh God!

Hit the light! Hit the light behind you!

[Groaning]

Lay down!

[Muttering, indistinct]

[Whispering]: OK, all right.

[Groaning]

Must everything on this infernal planet

be cocooned in plastic?

Listen, you need to take this.

What is it?

If you're in trouble,

you press and you hold down number 1, OK?

- OK. - It's on speed dial.

Someone will come who can help you.

OK.

Oh God!

Use it now, if it's so damn helpful!

I don't wanna involve her if I don't have to.

We need to get out of the country. We need to regroup.

Don't go dying on me, OK?

We don't have a lot of time!

Mr. Carrillo?

So, he wants to tap into the ship's nuclear reactor.

It seems questionable.

It's already feeding the star field.

We're just skimming enough juice to run the monitors.

Too much, and the stars will dim.

He knows I sold him out.

Don't worry about Enzmann.

The terms we discussed are still in effect.

You told him he'd run the project again.

And he believed me.

So stay close to him,

make him think you're on his side.

We need him till this place is up and running.

Why?

The girl.

If she's what Enzmann claims she is,

the TC Group will be very happy.

- We have a new problem. - What now?

When Ascensionwas built,

there were no mobile phones or satellite TVs.

The R.F. jammers weren't added until a decade later.

They weren't hardwired to the ship.

They could be picking up any transmission in the spectrum--

radio, digital, microwave.

It doesn't take much to shatter an illusion.

I need to get to the jammers.

They're in my office.

Take Mr. Carrillo with you,

and Medici.

OK!

I need those levels up onscreen now!

[Electricity crackling]

[Man]: Yes, sir!

[Bryce]: OK...

[Bryce talking, indistinct]

Excuse me, Dr. Bryce?

Yeah, what is it, James?

Something's happening with the Panopticon.

There's a strange broadcast.

Strange how?

Automobiles and computers from Earth,

but like nothing I've ever seen in the library.

It must be feedback from the main server.

I've been having trouble with it since the Ostara celebration.

But aren't the archives on a separate server?

I designed the system. I know it better than you.

Yes, sir.

If you wanna be helpful, can you find Nora?

Her mother's worried about her.

I was told to remain on the bridge.

I'm telling you to find my daughter.

Yes, sir!

Christa?

[Panting]

[Whispering]: Dammit!

[Whispering]: OK.

Christa!

You unleashed an ocean, didn't you?

Whatever caused that impact

obviously knocked the system out of alignment.

Councilman Rose, may I speak with you?

Excuse me.

What can I do for you?

Someone threatened Viondra in the lounge.

It's not safe here. I thought I could come with you.

What made you think that?

After the way the way you undermined me in the council,

you're now seeking refuge under my wing?

- You're dumber than I thought! - Please, I didn't know.

The litany of what you don't know is too long a list.

What I do know is that I lost leverage because of you,

'cause you were too busy

being bent over the massage table by Denninger

to realize you were being played!

No, let me come with you!

Just for tonight.

My dear Jackie,

there is a cost for failure,

a cost you are about to learn.

[Cell phone ringing]

[Breathing heavily]

- Hello? - [Eva]: Sam!

Where are you? What's going on?

Things got complicated.

- You shouldn't have called. - You got me involved.

You think they won't trace you to my website?

There's a long-term parking lot

on the corner of Lincoln and Fifth.

Meet me there in an hour.

How does it compare to the real thing?

[Chuckling]

How the hell should I know?

I've never been in space.

At least they got alien princesses

with hardly any clothes on.

I need to--I need to go get some things

if we're gonna disappear.

Why are you helping me?

[Sniffing]

[Groaning, sighing]

Look...

it's not just about you.

It's the whole program,

the idea that they can

just engineer the whole world to their liking,

sweep everything under the table.

It doesn't fit.

So it's revenge?

Balance.

It's about time that I did something

that I felt good about.

You really think one action can make up for another.

I hope so.

Bandages, opiates, rubbing alcohol?

Where did all of this come from?

The council's private emergency stash.

I thought it may be better utilized here.

Thank you, Viondra.

[Men whistling and catcalling]

I heard about the scare in the officer's lounge.

Sometimes a crisis gives weak men an excuse

to prey on the fairer sex.

Oh, it feels good to roll up my sleeves

instead of putting on heels.

[Women]: Oh! Oh!

[Juliet]: Come here! OK, come on!

Alison?

Help me get her to the exam table.

Hey! Alison?

Let's go over the data again.

[Equipment beeping]

What about the reports from Water Rec?

Nothing significant. Why?

Let's overlay the downed systems on the schematic.

There!

On the beach. That's where the surge started.

Emily,

Duke and I got into a fight down there.

Suddenly, a blue light appeared,

so bright, it hurt to look at it.

Then nothing.

I don't remember anything until...

Christa woke me up.

She said she saw Lorelei!

Lorelei?

She said she led her there.

Emily?

What's wrong?

Em? Emily?

Help!

Come on!

[Pig grunting, James laughing]

It's not funny!

You're right, it's not.

This is exactly what I expected to find you doing.

Why were you looking for me?

I thought you said we didn't have a future.

Your father asked me to find you. He was worried.

Why? He knows where I am.

Come on!

That's strange.

I think he was trying to get me off the bridge

because of this broadcast I saw.

Why do you think that?

It was different from anything I've ever seen,

like, the clothes, the cars.

Your father was acting like it was no big deal,

but I got the feeling he was really worried that I saw it.

[Beeping]

All right! We're live!

Full system status report.

I need to know everything that's been going on in there.

This is all over the news.

That's Stokes, isn't it?

Where is he?

Robbed a pharmacy downtown, grabbed booze and pills.

His hands were covered in blood,

but, apparently, he wasn't injured.

Krueger.

Oh! My problem just might be solving itself.

What about yours?

Juliet! She passed out!

Get her on the table.

[Denninger]: What the hell's going on?

It must be hypercapnia.

I have 3 other patients with the same symptoms.

An oxygen tank!

The air-quality system must be malfunctioning.

When we were running checks,

we couldn't get a response from the Scrubber Room.

If the scrubbers are out, the CO2 toxicity is climbing

with every breath we take.

If it reaches 5%, it's fatal.

- And our repair team? - Spread out over the ship.

We can't reach them.

My mother worked the scrubbers.

I was practically raised down there. I know the system.

- I'll go with him. - No, keep the peace on the upper decks.

Gault and I will go down to try to restart the scrubbers.

Juliet, do you have any more oxygen tanks?

In the lab.

Hey!

Why didn't you tell me about the officer's lounge?

I'm a grown woman.

I'm capable of taking care of myself.

That's not the point.

You're my wife. It's my job to protect you.

Take care of yourself this time, OK?

[Car beeping]

What is all this stuff?

It's Plan B. It's my bug-out car.

Are you all right?

We need to get as far away from here as possible.

I got Stokes out as a witness. They're gonna come after us.

But, Sam, maybe we can talk to someone, work something out!

Tell them we'll go away, disappear.

These people have one solution for every kind of problem.

I'm getting Stokes,

and then we're getting the hell out of Dodge, all of us!

Where are we going?

Switzerland, Venezuela.

Somewhere. We're going full Snowden.

The world is gonna know about Ascension!

[Man]: Come on! Get on this side!

[Woman]: Come on! Come on! Hurry up!

Move!

[Woman]: Hurry up! Hurry up!

We're running out of oxygen tanks.

At this rate,

we'll have exhausted the reserves within the hour.

What is it, James?

Actually, they sent me to speak with you, Mrs. Denninger.

We can't reach the captain or the XO.

Spot checks of CO2 indicate it's nearing fatal levels.

Why are you telling me?

Councilman Rose is in engineering.

With the midline and comm out,

we can't reach him or the other officers.

According to the ship's bylaws,

you're the highest ranking official.

My position isn't command.

Ma'am, you're the highest ranking official we can find.

What are your orders?

Radiation alert protocol.

Get as many people as you can into the sleeping pods.

Their oxygen supply could buy us some time.

[Man on PA]: Radiation alert.

[Denninger]: Good God! This entire section is fried!

Yeah.

They called a radiation alert!

Smart! It'll buy us some time.

I'm at 30%! You?

20! The Scrubber Room is on the other side of this hatch!

Fine! Let's get that door open!

[Beeping]

[Whispering]: Shit!

Harris, there's something you should see.

The ship's carbon-dioxide scrubbers are offline.

Get me a full analysis--

cubic metres of breathable air, rate of toxicity.

I need to know exactly how long they have.

4% and rising.

They're all gonna die. We have to do something.

What? Open the windows?

It's completely sealed with a double hull.

This thing was designed

to take the direct impact of an asteroid.

If we open up the airlocks,

they'll use the turbine to suck out the CO2.

We barely have enough power to run the monitors,

much less the turbines!

Their only hope is to get the scrubbers working.

It's up to them.

Then we're going in now.

It's the perfect opportunity to get the girl out.

You can't! It's a complicated process to board the ship.

We need to create a plausible reason.

- They're in their pods. - Not all of them!

It's a delicate ecosystem. Christa is the heart of it.

If you take her out,

you can't expect it to survive.

And if they don't repair the scrubber,

she dies along with the rest of them.

Are you willing to take that chance, Harris?

I'm not.

Medici, you're going in!

I'm sorry, Harris,

but it looks like your space heroes aren't heroes at all.

They're just men...

and men die.

[Alarm blaring]

Christa?

Christa, I've been looking everywhere for you!

What are you doing down here?

Lorelei wanted to show me what was in the water.

There's nothing down there, Christa.

It's just a reservoir.

It's farther down.

I saw it rise up.

What else did Lorelei tell you?

That none of this is real,

that they're gonna try and take me off the ship.

Who, Christa?

Who's gonna come and take you?

Globus.

[Banging]

They're coming!

Christa!

[Enzmann on radio]: Listen to me.

Once you get in, you cannot be seen by anyone.

Just get me to the girl.

Anyone stands in my way,

I'll deal with them.

You can't!

Watch me.

[Beeping]

Clear the bridge of non-essential crew.

- Everyone into their pods. - Yes, ma'am!

James, what's the status on the comm?

Still working on it, ma'am.

As soon as they're back up, try the scrubber room.

And don't stop till you get an answer. - Yes, ma'am!

Wow! I always knew the true power behind the captain,

but now I see it with my own eyes.

Councilman, you should be in your radiation pod.

That would be a dereliction of duty.

With the captain and XO missing,

it falls on me to finally command this ship.

They tried to reach you repeatedly.

I was tied up in engineering.

Oh, Viondra, look, I know it was you

that masterminded that double-cross with the council.

I don't have time for--

How do you remember whose face to show to whom?

You never intended to help me become captain. I get that.

But let me ask you this:

What kind of man would send his wife off

to sleep with his enemy?

One that isn't threatened by any man.

Now, get your hand off of me!

You are a hell of a woman, Viondra.

Thank you for keeping my captain's seat warm.

Remove the councilman from the bridge,

see that he makes it safely back to his pod.

Ignore that! I'm the ranking official on this bridge!

When I was made acting captain,

I issued a state of emergency freezing the chain of command.

Now get the hell off my bridge!

[Sighing]

[Breathing heavily]

Christa! Stop!

- This is Robert Bryce - on Ascension. - Do you read me?

This is Robert Bryce on Ascension.

Do you read me?

[Beeping]

Is anyone there, please? Answer me!

I'm, uh, getting feedback from the jammers.

- What does it matter? - Nothing.

If you want the ham-radio operators of the world

to start getting signals from the ship.

Fix it.

[Bryce]: Is anyone there?

Answer me! Is anyone there?

Are you alone?

Uh...

Yeah, yeah.

Christa said someone from Globus is coming.

Are you sending someone in?

It's not me.

You have to call them off.

You cannot take her off this ship!

It's out of my hands.

You have to get her out of there.

- No, I can't! - He's coming.

[Footsteps approaching]

No!

[Panting]

The scrubber power grid is blown! Hurry!

This whole place could go up!

[Screaming]

Goddammit!

Gault! Gault!

Gault, can you hear me?

Stokes?

Stokes!

Oh, goddammit!

How could they have found him?

They could've combed through traffic cameras,

tapped into the mapping satellite,

following us ever since!

Wait!

[Car honking in distance]

Hey!

I thought I told you to stay put.

You did.

Hmm! Is that your friend?

Eva Marceau.

I've heard a lot about you.

I've only seen it in movies.

Guess that sounds pretty pathetic to you, huh?

Not at all.

I'd like to be able to see the moon for the first time.

Shit may not have been real, but it was my home.

So far, the only thing that impresses me about here...

[Clicks tongue]

...right there.

Hang in there.

It's gotta be better than the stockyards.

We'll see!

Get whatever you need from the room.

It's time to go.

[Sighing]

You're good, you know that?

I never said where he worked.

[Sighing]

Is that how they kept the project a secret

all these years?

A honey trap?

Anyone who gets too close to the truth, they find you?

- Sam, please. - No, I'm such an idiot...

...to think that I actually thought

I could make a difference.

I'm sorry, sweetie,

but the Starchild must be born.

Gault!

Gault! Can you hear me?

Gault! Come on, you've gotta get up!

We have to get the scrubbers working. We're out of oxygen!

We don't need them. We need what's in them!

Come here.

[Groaning]

Easy, easy.

Lithium dioxide.

I remember my mother refilling the scrubbers with it.

Carbon dioxide changes into oxygen and water

once it comes into contact with it.

We have to spray it through the ship.

[Crew coughing]

Bridge, I need all power to the HVAC system!

Keep trying, Gault!

[Static]

Are you sure this will work?

It's our only hope!

[Breathing heavily]

[Alarm blaring]

- Christa! - There.

That's where they're gonna come from.

You're right. They're coming for you.

Bad people!

Bad people like you?

You remember, don't you?

Lorelei knew the truth.

That's why you killed her?

I didn't wanna hurt her.

She was gonna ruin everything.

I stopped her to save us all.

[Banging]

[Beeping]

This is the XO. Do you read me?

Bridge!

XO, are you there?

Viondra, is that you?

[Sighing]

I'm here, William.

CO2 levels are toxic.

The crew isn't gonna last much longer.

Listen, I need your help!

We have to spread lithium dioxide through the ventilation

to make oxygen.

Come on, we've gotta get out of here.

Christa, these men--

These men, Christa, if they get you, they'll hurt you.

They will dissect you like lab rat.

Please, come with me.

[Whispering]: OK.

Please! Come on!

[Beeping]

I want full power to the ventilation system now.

[Ventilation system whirring]

All right! Let's do this!

[Both grunting]

No!

You can't have her.

- You feel that? - Gault, help me!

[Gasping]

I felt this before on the beach.

Lorelei?

Gault!

Gault!

[Christa screaming]

[Screaming]: No! Let go of me! No!

No! No!

Let go! No! No!

Don't let them take you.

[Man]: Ma'am! The oxygen levels are rising!

[Grunting]

[Viondra]: They did it!

[Christa screaming]

Let me go!

Help me! Somebody help!

Please! Let go of me!

[Men grunting]

[Both grunting]

[Medici groaning]

Where's the picture?

Where's the goddamn picture?

[Gasping]

I told him I didn't wanna go.

[Christa sobbing]

I told him--

What is happening in there, Medici?

Answer me!

Medici!

Answer me, goddammit!

I don't want any "I told you so's,"

because this isn't over!

I am not about to go back to the TC Group empty-handed.

Medici!

Medici, answer--

[Screaming]

You're wrong.

They are heroes, and they're going to space.

Call the TC Group.

Director Warren had an accident.

[Grunting]

[Boat horn blaring]

[Car tires screeching, horn honking]

It works.

Huh?

- Closed Captions: - Vision Globale