AGATHA ANNOUNCER AUGGIE CREW_MEMBER DBRANIN DORYEN ERIS JOY LAB_WORKER LOMMIE MEL MURPHY ROWAN SKYE SUCZEK SUCZEKS_PARTNER SYLVIE TESSIA THALE TOBIAS ANNOUNCER Previously on “Nightflyers”… AGATHA Karl! DBRANIN This is Doctor Matheson. AGATHA Oh, Agatha’s fine. MEL I’m Melantha Jharl, Karl’s Mission Specialist. DBRANIN This is Rowan, our xeno-biologist. AGATHA Well, you must be thrilled, first contact with alien life. SUCZEK I think he’s waking up. (gasps) What the fuck was that?! AGATHA Psychic feedback. He wasn’t trying to hurt you. SUCZEK Bad idea, bringing one of those things on to this ship. ERIS Never before has mankind had the opportunity and the means to make first contact. AGATHA There was a malfunction during the launch, they seem to think that it wasn’t an accident. SKYE Daddy? DBRANIN Stop playback! This is not how it happened! AGATHA It is not Thale. DBRANIN He, he’s using my memories against me! AGATHA He was right here, out cold. ERIS A search of the ship is underway. DBRANIN So, you’ve got camera everywhere, how is this possible? ERIS My security team will find him and take the appropriate action. AGATHA Your crew will walk into a bloodbath. MURPHY You fucking little freak. LOMMIE Get out! DBRANIN Somebody help! I need some help down here! MEL Is he still alive? DBRANIN Barely. MEL Did Thale do this? DBRANIN I don't know. Murphy had a gun on him. If he used it... MEL That won't matter to the crew. DBRANIN No. CREW MEMBER You should get back to your quarters. The “L.-one’s” out. THALE I been waitin' for you. LOMMIE What do you want? THALE I just want to talk. LOMMIE What did you just do? THALE You're not one to piss about with, are you? LOMMIE What did you see? THALE Let's just say you're way more interesting than I imagined. LOMMIE Get out of my room. THALE You know the ship. You tell me how to get to the domes without being seen and I’m gone. LOMMIE The “Maglev” Tunnels. There are no cameras there. You can climb up to the domes. THALE Oh, and, uh, don't tell anybody that you saw me, will you? And I won’t tell anybody what I saw. TOBIAS He's stable. Lucky you got him up here when you did. It probably saved his life. DBRANIN Can I talk to him? TOBIAS No. We had to put Murphy in a coma to control the pain. AGATHA They’re gonna tear Thale apart. ERIS Is this the work of your telepath? AGATHA No. And I'd strongly encourage you not to feed into that hysteria. Thale’s not capable of doing this. ERIS There are quite a lot of things you say he's not capable of, yet they seem to keep happening. DBRANIN Mechanical malfunctions -- nothing to do with Thale. ERIS Are you trying to deny the danger your “L.-one” presents on my ship? DBRANIN No, of course not. That's why we had him isolated and under suppression. AGATHA Someone on your crew set him free. That's who you should be hunting for. DBRANIN Look, we can bring Thale in safely. He trusts Agatha more than anyone. ERIS Then what? I agreed to transport you to the “Volcryn”. I can't do that with my crew fearing for their lives. The “L.-one” is a complication I can't afford. MEL That doesn't sound good. DBRANIN I need you to find Lommie. We're gonna need her. AGATHA Thale? AGATHA Thale? AGATHA Thale. LAB WORKER He was in my head. AGATHA It’s okay. He didn’t mean to hurt you. He's just scared. LAB WORKER He knows the way. AGATHA It’s okay, it’s okay. LOMMIE Admit. MEL I was worried. Where did you go? What happened to you? LOMMIE There was, um, there was something in there. MEL In where? In the computer? LOMMIE At first I thought it was a, a firewall. But then, I could, I could feel it around me. Hate. And rage. It wanted me dead. MEL Hey, hey. Come here. We'll keep each other safe. Jesus, Lommie, you're bleeding. Let me see. You did this? You can't. You’re on a team, Lommie. We are relying on you. And you can rely on us. Do you understand? LOMMIE You're the one who doesn't understand. MEL What's wrong? LOMMIE Nothing. SUCZEK Jesus! AGATHA Keep his head elevated. SUCZEK What happened to him? AGATHA A temporary side effect of telepathic energy -- minor hemorrhaging in the sclera. SUCZEK That thing attacked him. AGATHA He’s not a thing.! And no, if Thale wanted this man dead, he’d be dead. SUCZEK He's gotta be in one of the domes. Get Doryen and his men up here. DBRANIN Was it Thale? AGATHA I know how this looks, but he's showing restraint, Karl. DBRANIN Yeah, I don't think anybody here's going to appreciate that nuance. AGATHA I know where he is.Just be straight forward. Honest and direct. He's not under suppression right now so he'll know if you're lying. DBRANIN Okay. AGATHA Thale? Come and talk to us. We're here to help you. THALE Fuck off! You can barely help yourself. AGATHA You know there's nothing I wouldn't do to keep you safe. THALE You let them put me in a coma. Maybe that was the plan all along. Clear the deck for you and D’Branin. It's what you wanted, isn't it? DBRANIN The decision to put you under was mine. I was wrong. Look, I’m sorry. THALE What? So, now you tell the truth? Now your prize lab rat has escaped. DBRANIN It’s not like that. Just want to protect you. One of the crew was badly burned and everybody thinks you did it. AGATHA Did you see what happened? DBRANIN Look, have a look. I've got nothing to hide. Just tell me what you know and you and I can work it out with Eris together. SUCZEK There he is! THALE I fucking knew! DBRANIN Thale, no, no, don't run! AGATHA Don't come in here with those weapons. You'll force him to defend himself. SUCZEK Yeah? After what he did to Murphy, he better be ready to defend himself. AGATHA That wasn't Thale. DBRANIN Okay! You’re making a mistake. You got after him and that boy… ERIS Necessary personnel only. Until the “L.-one” is contained. AUGGIE Sir, perhaps I could have a word in private? ERIS Just speak freely. AUGGIE We have an escaped “L.-one” on board. Three men are down... ERIS Your point? AUGGIE We're a colony ship. This mission, sir. Perhaps we should turn back? ERIS Out of the question. You worry about our trajectory, Augustine, let me worry about the mission. Thale will be apprehended within the hour. AUGGIE As you wish, Captain. DORYEN Dude, what the fuck? That was D’Branin you knocked out. SUCZEK He brought the “L.-one” on board, didn't he? He's responsible, as far as I'm concerned. DORYEN Let's split up. SUCZEK Jesus. You ever shoot one of those before? SUCZEKS PARTNER Only in training, sir. SUCZEK Just keep your hand steady and squeeze. I got him. I got him! DORYEN What are you doing?! SUCZEK What the fuck? DORYEN Fall back! Everyone! Out of the Dome, now! DBRANIN So, this is how it's going to be? AUGGIE Clear the deck. Out. Now! ERIS I'm sorry, Karl. DBRANIN I had him! I could've walked Thale back into his Dome. ERIS And my crew would still be calling for his head. He's a threat to the life of every person on this ship. DBRANIN I need him alive. ERIS You want him alive. "Need" is a matter of opinion. DBRANIN We have detected anomalies in the wave forms recorded by the “Volcryn”. The same anomalies exist in “L.-one’s”. Thale is our best hope at communicating with them. ERIS Given the chaos board of my ship, perhaps it's time for you and your team to devise another way to communicate. DBRANIN Oh, for Christ's sake. Thale is a kid. He volunteered to come out here. ERIS I'm sorry. My hands are tied. DBRANIN I'm gonna prove to you that he’s innocent. And then we’ll see if you still have the balls to murder him. ERIS What's the status in Terraform? AUGGIE Stand-off. Security can't get close to the “L.-one”. ERIS It's time to use something that can. SYLVIE Security already came by. No “L.-one’s” in here. Just one over-worked lab tech. SUCZEK We need a mobile robot that can maneuver easily inside Terraform. SYLVIE The Spider Bot's fully charged. Just upgraded the “O.S.” DORYEN Can you outfit it with laser cutters? SYLVIE Lasers are lethal. Strictly for work outside the hull. SUCZEK Lethal works. Orders of Captain Eris. THALE That’s close enough. TESSIA Why? What will you do to me? THALE Whatever it takes. TESSIA The colony would perceive that as an attack and protect me. Are you gonna shoot each of them as well? THALE Who are you? I can't hear through the bees. TESSIA Well, let me help you. You have the ship in an uproar. THALE Yeah, well, they started it, so... Sit down. Go on. You're my prisoner now so… SKYE Daddy. Try and catch me... DBRANIN Wait! Wait! Wait! Stop! SKYE Hi, Daddy. DBRANIN Hi. Do you remember when you gave me this bracelet? SKYE Come here Daddy! DBRANIN I don't know what you are, but I will find out. SKYE You don't know anything. ROWAN Admit. DBRANIN Hey. ROWAN What happened to you? DBRANIN Courtesy of our host, Roy Eris. ROWAN You want some rope? It's an organic anti-inflammatory. DBRANIN No, thanks. I'm more of a gin man. ROWAN Suit yourself. DBRANIN Rowan, I don't know what was happening on this ship. Eris, the crew, Thale. The way things are going I don’t know if we’ll even make it to the “Volcryn”. We need to send the probe. We need to send White Rabbit. ROWAN What, now? DBRANIN Yeah, now. I don't trust Eris. Might be the closest we ever get to the “Volcryn”. ROWAN You think Eris will abort the mission? DBRANIN Honestly, I don't know. I don’t want to risk it. I need you to get Mel, bring her with you, make all the necessary adjustments. Don’t let anybody see you. We don’t want to give Eris a chance to stop us. TOBIAS This isn't right. This patient should not be moved right now. AGATHA A man's life is at stake. TOBIAS Yeah. His. DBRANIN Is he ready? AGATHA How far is too far, Karl? DBRANIN I'm doing this for Thale. AGATHA You're doing this for your mission. DBRANIN Do I really need to remind you of the stakes? AGATHA You’re just denying accountability. DBRANIN I'm not denying anything. Look, if this ends up killing Murphy, then I'll have to live with that. So will you. That’s just too much for you, isn’t it? AGATHA I didn't say that. I want Thale alive as much as you do. More. AUGGIE What are you trying to do? LOMMIE I need to disconnect the Memory Suite from the main system. AUGGIE I know a few tricks. Been around this ship long enough. Whose memories are you planning on accessing here? LOMMIE Murphy. AUGGIE Do you honestly believe the “L.-one” is innocent? LOMMIE He's part of our team. AUGGIE Ah. Loyalty. I understand. LOMMIE Why are you doing this? AUGGIE I'm loyal, too -- my captain, my ship. I think what you're doing could help them both. Better move fast. The crew is working double-time to try and deal with your “L.-one”. MEL We trained on probe systems way more complex than this in the program. I did three tours around Luna. All manual drives. ROWAN Well, that's certainly impressive. MEL You think I'm green. ROWAN Running orbiters with a group of cadets is hardly the same as crossing the void. This bloody tray… MEL You have to disengage the limiter. ROWAN I knew that. Alright, plan “B.” is ready. MEL It's beautiful. ROWAN It will be even more beautiful if it sends us pictures back of the “Volcryn”. Especially if we don’t make it. TESSIA Is the gun necessary? THALE They have guns. TESSIA But you could kill me with your mind, right? THALE Yeah, if I wanted to. Maybe I don't. TESSIA What's your name? THALE Thale. TESSIA No family name? THALE I was taken from my family. TESSIA I'm sorry to hear that. I'm Tessia, by the way. It's nice to meet you, Thale. THALE I know what you're doing. TESSIA Making conversation? THALE No, empathizing. Agatha, she does it all the time. She's my, uh, therapist or handler. I don't know what the fuck she is. God, if you could hear the things they want to do to me. TESSIA I think it’s absolutely horrible the way people treat “L.-one’s”, I’m profoundly against it. Still, you can't really blame them. You know, they've been pushed down the food chain by a new apex predator. THALE Well, we ain’t predators. We're victims. TESSIA You certainly act like it. THALE Say that again. TESSIA What do you get from me, Thale? THALE A bunch of fuzzy fucking rainbows. TESSIA And behind the rainbows? Everyone's the same. Darkness and light. Maybe the problem isn't the terrible things people send out to you, but what you let in? THALE Easy for you to say. DBRANIN Ready for playback. LOMMIE Come on out and we'll get started. DBRANIN Okay. AGATHA It's not working. Maybe he's too out of it? LOMMIE Hold on… DBRANIN Here we go. That's Murphy in the Med Bay. Can you scan backward? MURPHY You brought an “L.-one” on board? DBRANIN His name is Thale and he’s vital to the success of our mission. MURPHY He’s an “L.-one”, they’re murderers. AUGGIE Murphy, come on. LOMMIE Getting closer. DBRANIN You’re afraid. I get it. I’m afraid too… AUGGIE Record feed. DBRANIN Slow. Slowdown, this is where they’re hunting Thale. Here. SUCZEK Get back to your quarters. The “L.-one’s” still on the loose. MURPHY Eris needs the feeds restored. SUCZEK Just in case. DBRANIN Now, here we go. MURPHY You fucking little freak. LOMMIE Jesus. DBRANIN Shut it down. LOMMIE It was no malfunction. MEL Want to say any last words? ROWAN Safe travels, little rabbit. MEL You okay? ROWAN Fine. Just be a shame to come out all this way just for a probe launch. I wanted to make real contact. MEL Then let's do that.Stop hiding. Come and talk to me. You want to experience intimacy? Truth? ERIS Excuse me? MEL That's why you watch people, right? That's what you told me. Well, start with D’Branin. You two are partners, you need to trust each other if we're gonna survive out here. ERIS Partners? Karl isn't my partner, he's my passenger… MEL We are not out here to take a joy ride on your ship. We are out here to find solutions. ERIS As am I. MEL Then trust him. ERIS It's not just the “L.-one”, Melantha. This mission faces a threat you don't understand. MEL So help me understand. ERIS I can't. MEL You need to run the ship your way. Karl needs to find the “Volcryn” his way. I tried. ERIS Melantha… MEL Go. SUCZEK How much longer is this gonna take? SYLVIE Five minutes, tops. As soon as I initiate the...What the hell? SUCZEK What is it? ERIS The domes were my mother's design. Bejeweled life glowing against the blackness of space. They're nothing without the outer ring to support them. A much more intricate design. My design. But all anyone sees are the domes. DBRANIN Thale set Murphy on fire. Not with his mind -- with his hands. Bringing him was my idea. I needed him to be innocent. ERIS It doesn't matter, Karl. The real question is how do we keep the crew from learning what Thale did? I'll make a ship-wide announcement that a faulty “comm” relay caused the fire. You'll be able to return Thale safely to his Dome. DBRANIN Murphy will know that’s a lie. ERIS Murphy has been placed back in a coma. Before he's brought out, I'll adjust his memory of the fire to reflect our version of events. DBRANIN Why? Why are you doing this? ERIS We both want this mission to succeed. For our own reasons. DBRANIN That doesn't explain all the accidents on this ship. ERIS There's nothing to explain. An internal review of memory footage revealed that an electrical fire was responsible for chief engineer Murphy's injuries. The “L.-one” will be returned to his dome. Thank you for your patience while we resolved this matter. AUGGIE The crew seems to have settled. ERIS I'm relieved to put this incident behind us. AUGGIE I gave D’Branin's team a hand this morning. In the Memory Suite. ERIS Is that a fact? AUGGIE I wanted to install a mirror program in their system to monitor the footage they extracted from Mister Murphy. A little insurance policy. You're quite dedicated to their mission, sir. ERIS Yes. I am. AUGGIE It's still not too late. ERIS Too late for what, Auggie? AUGGIE You're not an explorer, you're a builder. It's what you do best. ERIS It's what my mother did best. AUGGIE Your mother was a great woman. ERIS My mother didn't care about building colonies. She was more interested in building her legend. AUGGIE I beg to differ, sir, I think you're selling her short. Those colonies create homes for families. ERIS Enough, Auggie. It's imperative we keep order on the Nightflyer. You can destroy that footage now. SYLVIE Don't know what's happening. Someone's taken control... SUCZEK They're re-writing the code. SYLVIE No one can code that fast. DORYEN Turn it off! Turn it off! SYLVIE I can't get control back. SUCZEK Shit. AGATHA Wait here. Thale, no one’s gonna hurt you. THALE So it seems. Interesting announcement from the Captain. Wasn’t it? DBRANIN Yeah. Well, I promised I'd protect you. You'll still be confined to your habitat, for your own safety. But the mission's back on track. You're gonna help us talk to the “Volcryn”. THALE I'll go back to my Dome. But no more drugs. I'm an apex predator. I need to stay sharp, don’t I? AGATHA Predator? THALE Yeah, well, that’s the truth, “innit”? I just got to keep it under control. AGATHA How do you propose to do that? THALE Sift through what I receive, filter out the negative shit. Think I'd like to go back to my Dome now. LOMMIE I got your message. Do you need help with something? MEL D’Branin’s updated the mission prep calendar. He needs you to confirm the probe's trajectory. LOMMIE I can't go back in there. MEL Start off slow. Stay out of the deeper systems. LOMMIE Mel, I can't. MEL You can. I'll be with you the whole time. LOMMIE You're manipulating me. MEL Am I? ERIS What happened in here? SUCZEK The spider. It was, it was alive. ERIS Where is it now, Mister Suczek? DBRANIN It's been a brutal stretch to tell you the truth, Joy. I, uh, I would've called you sooner, but every second is a battle up here. JOY Oh, I'm so sorry, baby. Are you regretting it? DBRANIN No, I can't afford to. Every day we get closer to contact is a good day. Hey. JOY Where'd you get that bracelet? It looks familiar. DBRANIN Yeah, Skye gave me this. You made them together. In the backyard? JOY Oh.. DBRANIN Remember? JOY Right. DBRANIN Does it hurt? Letting pieces of our daughter go like that? I don't know, it just seems so sad to me. JOY I can't feel sadness over things I don't remember. DBRANIN Right. JOY That's the whole point of the therapy. DBRANIN I just can't help but wonder, what's left? JOY All the good stuff. DBRANIN Skye was good. Every part of her was good. JOY I know, I just couldn't go on one more day blaming myself for the decisions we made. She'd still be alive if we'd just...I can't even remember what we did wrong. DBRANIN Eris. ERIS The door to the Mission Lab has been disabled. The room requires maintenance. DBRANIN Come on, Roy. I have a shitload of work to do. What type of maintenance? ERIS You were right, Karl. I haven't given you the full truth. DBRANIN About? ERIS The chaos on board of my ship. The malfunctions. The images of your daughter. They’re all related. DBRANIN Related how? ERIS I'm dealing with a force that's trying to stop this mission. DBRANIN Okay. ERIS I can't go into precise detail without further compromising the safety of my ship. DBRANIN That's not good enough. Tell me what force. What do you mean? ERIS I'm sharing this with you because I want to trust you, Karl. I gave you Thale. Okay? So, I need this. I'll let you know once I have the situation under control. This is Captain Roy Eris. Override unauthorized user. Deactivate.This time you've gone too far.