AGATHA ANNOUNCER COMPUTER_VOICE CREW CYNTHIA_ERIS DBRANIN ERIS JOY LOMMIE MEL NAV_TEAM_MEMBER OFF_LOADER ROWAN SKYE THALE ANNOUNCER Previously on “Nightflyers” MEL I imagined that Roy Eris carried me out. You came to me. ERIS Let’s get you out of here. JOY Doctor Selsman has been encouraging me to go deeper – anything that could possibly remind me of her. DBRANIN Those are memories of…of us. JOY This is how the therapy works. DBRANIN What the hell was that? ERIS My mother. ROWAN Your mother’s dead. ERIS Her body died, but before she uploaded her consciousness. DBRANIN Wait a minute. Where? ERIS Into the Nighflyer. She’s the one who’s been trying to kill you. DBRANIN We need to send the probe. Might be the closest we ever get to the “Volcryn”. MEL It’s beautiful. ROWAN It will be even more beautiful if it sends us pictures… back of the “Volcryn”. MEL Wanna say any last words? ROWAN Safe travels, little rabbit. MEL So, is this how you avoid me? ERIS I like this dome. All this life. I didn't know what to say. Did Karl tell you? MEL I need to hear it from you. ERIS My mother. She's alive. MEL Alive. How? ERIS When her body was dying, she made contingencies. She built this ship to be her home forever. MEL You're saying she's been using the ship to hurt us? ERIS No. She is the ship. All of this -- the metal hull, the Crystal Matrix. The Nightflyer is her body now. And that's why I'm hiding up here. To get away from her voice. MEL You can hear your mother? ERIS Words, feelings. In my head. All the time. You take me away from that. SKYE Get it out of me. Daddy? That thing, cancer inside. Cut it out. DBRANIN Just leave me alone. Go away. SKYE Get it out! You brought it here. DBRANIN Brought what here? SKYE Please, daddy. It's hurting me. Get it out. It’s…it’s hurting me. ROWAN Just walk through it. DBRANIN She's taunting me. ROWAN Eris' mother? You know it’s an errant computer program? DBRANIN Yes, I…I know. ROWAN Right. So, don’t leave yourself so vulnerable. DBRANIN What exactly is it you want me to do? ROWAN When you torture yourself, Karl. It makes it easy for other people to do the same. DBRANIN Rowan, why is the fucking… ROWAN Evening. DBRANIN Why is the fucking probe in my room? ROWAN You tell me. DBRANIN Don't touch it! Don’t. ROWAN Oh. This can’t be right. DBRANIN Rowan, this should be a million miles away from us. ROWAN How did you get it in here? DBRANIN I didn't. ROWAN Then who did? ERIS Ah! MEL Roy? Roy? Roy, Roy, Roy. ERIS Oh, she's screaming at me. Ah! I never heard her like this. OFF LOADER Hey! Somebody? Open this thing! THALE Thought we said no more needles. AGATHA Careful, you’re transmitting. I'm not suppressing you. I’m just checking your levels of “tek” hormone. OFF LOADER Hey! THALE You're thinking about D’Branin again. AGATHA It’s none of your business. OFF LOADER No, no, no, no, no. Ah! AGATHA Thale? Thale! Bring your levels down. THALE I can’t breathe. AGATHA What are you sensing? THALE Cold. On my fingers. Terribly cold. AGATHA Okay, just try to breathe. DBRANIN This is our first point of alien contact. ROWAN Well, that's a that’s a bit of a leap, Karl. DBRANIN Oh, yeah? How do you explain how it just magically appeared in my room? ROWAN I don't I don't know. I can’t. DBRANIN Rowan, I built this probe and they sent it back to me. ROWAN Surely Eris is involved. DBRANIN I told you they could do incredible things. We knew they could do incredible things. ROWAN Please stop there. Let’s take a step back. And we’ll run some tests. DBRANIN Yes, I’ll get Lommie to port in. ROWAN No, no, no. You can't send her in there. DBRANIN Rowan, I need you to get radiation monitors, spectrometers, cameras. Everywhere. Record everything. Everything! ROWAN Don’t forget duct tape. Keep your head from exploding. NAV TEAM MEMBER Sir, we're getting error codes. A lot of them. ERIS Isolate the malfunctioning systems. Cut them off from the rest of the ship. Doctor Matheson? We're quite busy right now. AGATHA There's been accident. One of your crew members. Thale, he felt something. ERIS Where did it happen? AGATHA I can't be sure unless we take him out of the dome. ERIS I'll gather security detail. AGATHA No. Better just you and me. It would help a lot for Thale to feel lyou trust him. LOMMIE Last night you very specifically told me to run the wave patterns, so that's what I've been doing. DBRANIN Yeah. That was before. LOMMIE Before what? DBRANIN We can't let this get out, not yet. Think of the crew if they found out. ROWAN Or Eris. LOMMIE I don't understand. How…how did it get back on the ship? DBRANIN We don't know. ROWAN Makes nice Beach Boys music though. Listen. LOMMIE Did it reach the “Volcryn”? DBRANIN We don't know. LOMMIE What's this, uh, this crust on the outside? ROWAN Ah, that’s isotopes of iridium and palladium. It’s all over the hull. It’s kind of like, uh, like a space rust, if you will. DBRANIN You touched it? ROWAN No. Had to get a small sample. DBRANIN Rowan, you gotta be careful. We don't know what this shit is. So much data in there. Finally, I get some answers. LOMMIE What kind of answers? DBRANIN Well, how it got back here. For a start. ERIS How far down? THALE I'll let you know. OFF LOADER Ah! THALE Well, we just went passed it. Go back. ERIS Cargo. AGATHA Thale experiences everything. Mentally, emotionally, physically. ERIS Incredible. AGATHA And not pleasant. He describes it as a suffocating dread. THALE It’s one of those. ERIS These bins are locked. It's not possible to close them from inside. AGATHA Maybe someone did it from outside. ERIS You're suggesting this wasn't an accident? THALE We died together. LOMMIE Can you do something about the room? It's too hot. ROWAN Yeah, sure. LOMMIE Okay. Rowan, is it…is it not working? ROWAN There's nothing wrong with the controls LOMMIE What do you mean? Then why are we not… What are you saying? DBRANIN We think it’s intentional. LOMMIE What do you mean intentional? DBRANIN Eris' mother. She's, uh, inside the ship. ROWAN We think she’s the one turning the heat up. LOMMIE That's what I felt, that’s what I felt when I ported into the system. It was her. ROWAN Yep. DBRANIN Yeah, that’s…that’s what we think. ROWAN Or more likely a simulation based on a physiological protocol. LOMMIE No, it's not a simulation. She's in there and she's real. AGATHA Come on. Let's get you to bed. THALE Ain’t easy, you know. Dying over and over again. AGATHA I’ll get you some suppressives. THALE I ain’t going back on that shit. AGATHA Do you remember when you were a little boy and you used to have your episodes? I was the only one you'd let get close to you. THALE Yeah, well, I ain’t a little kid no more, am I? You don't give a shit, you’re thinking about him. AGATHA That's not fair. Karl and I used to be close. I’ve known him for a long time. I think about you all the time. THALE Shouldn’t lie, it doesn’t suit you. AGATHA Alright. You should get some rest. I'll bring you your dinner in an hour or so. MEL Is she still screaming? ERIS No. Now she's lashing out. There's no way to predict who she'll hurt. MEL The guy in the cargo bin, you're sure it was her? ERIS The system controlling the bins was interrupted last night. We didn't get a warning, it reset itself. LOMMIE The probe can’t take this heat any longer. COMPUTER VOICE Commander Eris requests entry. ROWAN I wouldn’t do that. ERIS Karl, open up. I’m going to override the door. MEL Oh my God. ERIS That thing. That's what she's screaming about. She wants it off her ship. DBRANIN Hi. AGATHA Thanks for meeting me. I'm only in town for a few days. Conference. DBRANIN Hi. AGATHA You look good, Karl. I miss you. We never really got to talk... DBRANIN No, you left too abruptly for that. AGATHA I know. I'm sorry. I just, I didn't know what to say. DBRANIN You can’t just show up out of the blue after two years without contact. AGATHA Well, I wanted to see you, to talk about what happened. DBRANIN Great. So, let's talk. AGATHA Well, it's complicated. Um… DBRANIN Okay, so, I’ll talk. So, after you bailed on me, I, uh, met someone else. Her name is Joy and we're getting married this summer. AGATHA Wow. That’s, that’s really great, Karl. DBRANIN Guess I'm getting old. Because, um, sold my motorcycle, got a house in Ross and talking about having kids. AGATHA I'm really happy for you. DBRANIN Can you imagine me being a father? AGATHA You'll be a great father, Karl. DBRANIN That means a lot. CREW Yes, sir. What can I do? ERIS Send a welding team to Karl D’Branin's quarters. There's some equipment here we need to remove. CREW Copy that, sir DBRANIN No, no, no! I won't let you do this. ERIS I'm not asking your permission. DBRANIN No, this is my probe, it’s too important! ERIS I'm trying to save your life! My mother can feel this thing inside of her-- like a cancer. I don't know if it's something the “Volcryn”, but she wants it out. DBRANIN You feel sorry for her. MEL Roy, you have to stand up to her. This is your chance. We'll do whatever it takes help you. ERIS It's not that simple, Melantha. DBRANIN Roy, it is that simple. I know how important this mission is to you. And I know you're not going to destroy the only alien artifact that anybody has ever come in contact with because you’re afraid of pissing off your mother. ERIS What she's doing with your cabin -- the heat. She'll do this to the entire ship or worse. DBRANIN Just give me the time to get the data I need off my probe. Please. Please. ERIS One cycle -- I can hold her off for one cycle. Then I'm cutting up that probe and sending it out the air lock. DBRANIN That’s all I need. ERIS Do you understand me? DBRANIN Yes. ROWAN Well, you took that well. Maybe, uh, you should take a minute to clear your head. We don’t want to make any mistakes given we’re now being rushed. DBRANIN Okay. Can't sleep? AGATHA No, I'm worried about Thale. He experienced a dock worker’s death and he’s taking it pretty badly. I’m just…I don’t want him to start slipping. Sorry, I know how you feel about telepaths. DBRANIN What do you mean? AGATHA My work with “L.-one’s”. I know that's what drove us apart. When I took the job at Sutherland. I knew how you felt. DBRANIN Hey, I was scared. I wasn’t the only one. We've all seen what “L.’s” can do on those vids. AGATHA Telepaths are misunderstood. I took the job to help people to understand that there's a place for everyone in this world. DBRANIN Hey, Agatha, that's all very honorable and, obviously, I’m all for the idea of using “L.’s” for their abilities. But I don't want to have my thoughts invaded. AGATHA Wait, you think they want to see inside your head? It’s a curse. DBRANIN Okay, malicious or not, it's still an invasion. I mean, okay, they can’t control it but… What? AGATHA I just remembered how you can be when... DBRANIN Yeah. ROWAN You really need to see this. Hi. Now. You might want to remove a layer or two of clothes. DBRANIN Cynthia Eris is doing this. She thinks the heat will damage the probe. LOMMIE Won’t this heat warp the circuits? DBRANIN Nah, it should be fine. It was designed for deep space. ROWAN There's… DBRANIN That’s blood? Where's it coming from? ROWAN That’s a good question. Follow me. I was removing the internal drive tray. DBRANIN And what? It just started to bleed? ROWAN Think it makes perfect sense. Because it’s alive. ERIS Okay, Mother, it’s going to be okay. Please, just try and get rest. Stop it. Stop it! Stop it! MEL Was that her? ERIS I used to hear her clearly. Now there's so many voices fighting…fighting for attention, terrified. MEL How do you know it's her? ERIS What do you mean? MEL Maybe those voices… ERIS I'm not crazy, Mel… MEL But they could just be echoes of your mother. Not the person that she was when she was alive. ERIS Cynthia Eris is a memory to the world… CYNTHIA ERIS She’s using you. ERIS but up here, on the Nightflyer she never went away. CYNTHIA ERIS Don’t be a fool. ERIS My whole life, I've heard her, her voice, her criticisms… CYNTHIA ERIS You disappoint me. ERIS every judgment. Coming from inside of these walls. CYNTHIA ERIS She wants you to get rid of me. MEL I’m sorry, Roy. But maybe it’s not the probe that you need to try to get rid of? Maybe your…What? ERIS She told me you'd say that. AGATHA Die. THALE Fuck. DBRANIN Ah, central components intact, can it sustain this heat? ROWAN For the time being but it’s not enjoying it very much. DBRANIN All this organic material. Could this actually be the “Volcryn”? Or maybe some sort of message? ROWAN You're certainly enjoying this. DBRANIN Of course, aren't you? You came all the way out here to find some form of alien life. Look what came back! ROWAN It certainly is quite incredible. DBRANIN Okay, so, we know that they can move through the walls. Which means that they can… ROWAN Say it out loud. DBRANIN The “Volcryn” may have the ability to control space-time. Right? They…they sent this here for a reason to us. ROWAN We don't know that. DBRANIN We could send Loomie. Lommie, you could go in and extract some information. ROWAN Too dangerous. We don’t know what… LOMMIE No, it's fine. I want to do it. Who knows how long it will survive. ROWAN Her system is not designed to go into things like that DBRANIN Well, then we fucking lose everything. The heat is going to destroy all of the data. She has to go inside. ROWAN I suppose it is conceivable that they’re using organic material rather than words or sounds. Perhaps this tissue is their language. DBRANIN See, see what you just did there? ROWAN What? DBRANIN You admitted that this could be the “Volcryn” and it is. ROWAN No, that’s…that’s not what I did at all. LOMMIE Actually, it is. ROWAN I said conceivable. That is the analysis of the probe blood sample. What the hell? That’s not possible. LOMMIE The blood coming out of the probe -- it's you. ROWAN Apparently the “Volcryn” know who you are. DBRANIN Is that me? Is this me? ROWAN From now on, I’m in charge. We follow my lead, my orders. DBRANIN No, no fucking way. ROWAN Yes fucking way. DBRANIN No, no, this is my probe. I…I built it. I sent it out there. ROWAN Technically, Karl, I sent it out. So, I’m sorry but you can no longer study the phenomenon because you are the phenomenon. ERIS There’s too many at once. No, no. No, no, no, no. That’s not true. You don't get to decide. I get to decide. CYNTHIA ERIS End this mission. ERIS Mother? Mother? SKYE Get it out. Now! Now! Now! DBRANIN No. AGATHA Karl! DBRANIN You see that, right? SKYE I see how you think of me. AGATHA I see how you think of me. SKYE How you hate who I am. AGATHA How you hate who I am. DBRANIN Hate you? No, I don’t hate you. We talked about that. SKYE You would. AGATHA You would. SKYE If I told you how I knew. AGATHA If I told you how I knew. DBRANIN Agatha, stop. You're …you’re scaring me. SKYE Don’t be scared. AGATHA Don't be scared. SKYE It’s so beautiful. AGATHA It’s so beautiful. Look. What we could have had. SKYE Go to sleep. AGATHA I found out after I left you. SKYE Close your eyes. AGATHA We could have had a child together. SKYE Drift into dreams. AGATHA You and me. SKYE Descend in sweet sleep. AGATHA This child. SKYE I’ll be right here. AGATHA But I knew how you felt. SKYE ‘Til you close your eyes. AGATHA That there was no future for us. SKYE Kill. AGATHA I was in a new city. SKYE Kill. AGATHA Alone. SKYE Kill. AGATHA Surrounded by strangers… DBRANIN No. SKYE Kill. AGATHA No hope. DBRANIN Agatha, stop. SKYE Kill. DBRANIN Stop. AGATHA So… SKYE Kill. AGATHA …I cut it out. SKYE Death. DBRANIN No! SKYE Listen right here to my lullaby. THALE DBRANIN Joy, hey. It's me. We are so far in the void, I have no idea when this message is actually gonna reach you so... I've been thinking about your therapy and I know that you know that I wasn’t exactly in love with the idea. And I don't want to forget about Skye. I don't think I can. And I’m not going to. But, I know that I remind you of her. And I want to you know that if you want to start releasing your memories of me that I understand. So go ahead, release me. And start over. Because I want you to be happy. Okay. ROWAN Lommie? Did you do that? Shit. LOMMIE THALE LOMMIE ROWAN Hold on! Don’t cut the link, not while she’s under. THALE LOMMIE THALE LOMMIE It's dying. DBRANIN No! ROWAN Oh, shit! It’s in irreversible descent. Full system collapse. Shit. We need more samples. We need everything we can get. AGATHA What is it, Karl? DBRANIN Something Cynthia Eris showed me, taunted me with. AGATHA Was it Skye again? DBRANIN Yep. And it was you. AGATHA The memory I accessed. She was able to see it. Goddamn it. DBRANIN It was true? Were you actually… AGATHA I found out when I was going through medical clearance for Sutherland. DBRANIN Why didn't you, um…what didn’t you just call me? AGATHA I…I knew it couldn't work. DBRANIN How? How could you know? Tell me how you knew. AGATHA It was too dangerous to keep going in there with a life inside me. I had to make a choice. I tried to put it out of my mind later for a while, but that's the thing about working with “L.’s”. You can't bring your baggage into the room. So, I took some time and I tried to find you, to tell you know what happened. DBRANIN There was no conference. AGATHA When I saw how happy you were, when you told me about Joy. I just, I couldn’t. DBRANIN Oh, Jesus. I'm sorry. I’m sorry. AGATHA We can't let Cynthia Eris tear us all apart. ERIS Anything salvaged from the probe? ROWAN What do you care? ERIS I put everything on the line for this mission. And if there’s some way for us to learn about them. Maybe she saved us? ROWAN She's not going to stop at the probe. You must know that. DBRANIN Hey. How you feeling? LOMMIE Mmm. DBRANIN You got out of there just in time. LOMMIE How are you? DBRANIN Alright. So, what did you see when you were inside that thing? LOMMIE Everything was jumbled. DBRANIN The data? LOMMIE Chaos. But beautiful. Organized in a way I’ve never seen. DBRANIN Okay. So, there must be something, there right? A message from the “Volcryn”. LOMMIE You're so used to looking for details that you can't see what's right in front of you. The probe, the probe was the message. You sent them something you made. A piece of you. And then they sent it back, but with more of you in it. That’s a response. DBRANIN We have to keep studying the pieces… LOMMIE Karl? There’s one more thing -- the timestamp on the sensors, it was from a month ago. But the sensors recorded far more than a month's worth of data. More than they could store, just data over previous data, layer over layer. DBRANIN How much? LOMMIE According to the drives on that probe, it's been out there for over a thousand years.