[alarm blaring]
[Salvare] Warning. System failure.
Warning. System failure.
Come on. Come on.
-[bleeping] -Rebooting.
[power whirring]
Systems are comin' back online. Okay.
Okay. Let's take this baby home.
-Initializing FTL engines. -[intense whirring]
No, no, no, no, no.
Why are you launching the FTL drive? We're in our solar system.
We are in the Epsilon Indi system.
No, we're not. Cancel FTL.
Unable to comply.
The star in this system, scan it.
Metallicity, 0.0122.
Absolute magnitude, 4.83.
Right. Does that sound like Epsilon Indi to you?
-Negative. -Because it's the sun. Our sun.
Disengaging FTL engines.
[engines powering down]
How far are we from Earth?
-236,584 kilometers. -[rattling]
Great.
We're gonna pancake into the planet.
[alarm blaring]
Roll hard to starboard. Angle the ship toward Venus.
Engage fusion drive.
Impact with Venus in ten seconds.
-Nine-- -Cut the countdown.
We're gonna use Venus's atmosphere to decelerate.
Drop to an altitude of 120 kilometers.
[rumbling and clattering]
Steady.
Steady. Come on.
And…
Leaving Venus's atmosphere.
Can someone check and see if there's a lineup for this roller coaster?
'Cause… I wanna ride it again.
[woman] End simulation.
That was outstanding.
You stayed focused on the problems. You found workaround solutions.
What's he think?
That is some top-notch piloting, Gabriel.
[chuckles] I couldn't agree more.
The bravado, however, is a bit much.
On mission, you can't lose focus. Not for a second.
Of course.
Okay. Am I okay to reset?
Uh-- Hey. Watch where you're--
-He was standing right there. -It's okay. It's not like she hurt me.
I mean, maybe trampled my pride a little bit.
We've thrown every problem at him.
He thinks autonomously. He neutralizes every threat.
Comes up with solutions outside of his own programming.
-It's like he's human. -I don't know. The arrogance.
Gabriel is confident. Yeah.
And Niko needs an interface that'll stay level-headed under pressure.
The Salvare launches in five days.
Are you one hundred percent sure Gabriel is ready for space?
Hundred percent.
[whooshing]
You just fucked us.
I wanna know why.
I did not cut the tow.
-William says that you did. -Well, he's wrong.
He loves you.
He made you.
If he says it was you, I'm inclined to believe him.
Is it because they rejected you?
William?
You forget I was there when the Achaia met you.
She nearly killed you.
Have you been any better?
Javier's the only one who treated me like I'm human,
and Richard basically murdered him.
So this is about Javier?
On my life, I did not do this.
[door opens]
That's why she let a ship of Achaians die?
So they could get revenge because I hurt her boyfriend?
We had one shot at studying that magnetar.
-I took it. -I need proof that she did this.
I'd also like to know why.
I could go through her activity logs the time the Achaian ring was being towed.
Identify which systems she communicated with.
-Might track back to something. -Do it.
You and Richard, get on it.
If Iara blames me for Javier, I'm the last person she'll talk to.
-I could speak-- -Figure it out.
You understand that this changes the agreement we made with Iara, right?
-If you'd let me try and speak to her-- -If she did this…
William, she cannot stay on the ship.
You can't let your feelings for her get in the way of that.
[Cas] Niko, William, could you come to the observation deck?
What now?
This system's a third of a light year off of our path.
This planet here. I think it's habitable.
-[bleeping] -[Niko] We're not looking for habitable.
-We're trying to get home. -If home's still there.
Cas, it was a mind trick.
A thought to make you paranoid. The Achaians did the same thing to me.
What if they know that we broke the tow?
What if they're retaliating, right now?
Sending more rings and Artifacts to Earth.
USIC packed a Soma chamber full of colonists for a reason.
William?
My scans indicate liquid water, breathable atmosphere, a sun-like star,
and zero orbital eccentricities.
Cas is right. The planet could be habitable.
Why is it not on any of Earth's star maps?
The Achaia missed it too. There's no Artifact.
Wake up the leader of the colonists, but only her.
One day there, one day to determine if this planet is a contender,
and then it's off to Earth.
[Ava] They knew that you'd been on the Artifact,
but what happens if they find out that Jana was in there too?
And that the-- that the Achaians cured her.
Okay. That's why you have to take her away from here and keep her safe.
Well, yes. But what about you?
I mean, Erik, you cannot stay here. They could come back for you.
Actually, I'm supposed to contact them.
Here is her passport.
I'm gonna call the school, I'm gonna tell them you're picking her up.
-Give me two minutes, I'll pack a bag. -Erik, please. Come with us.
I-- I-- I can't.
Is your job really worth losing your daughter?
Ava, my job is the only thing that I have that's keeping my daughter safe
and bringing your daughter home.
[sighs]
This is a massive amount of data.
I'm sort of all turned around in it.
Hey, you have a navigation structure I can look at?
You're asking me to help prove something I didn't do?
It'd make this whole thing faster.
[bleeping]
What's all that?
I don't know.
Let me, uh… slow it down a bit.
[whirring]
[whooshing]
[Iara, echoing] What?
That's the information I asked for. A link to her navigation structure.
Please.
[echoing] It feels wrong.
[gasping]
-[buzzing] -[pulsating scream]
Hold on, Iara. I'll restore you. Just give me a second.
-No. -No?
-[Iara's voice distorted] -I have a few questions of my own.
[distorted screaming]
Hey, uh… Need any help?
Um, I'm not a doctor, I don't know shit about stem cells, but, uh…
I make a mean three-cheese omelet,
and I'm pretty sure you skipped breakfast this morning.
-Zayn, will you at least look at me? -I am busy trying to fix your mess.
I get it. First, do no harm.
-But we had one-- -Are you rationalizing what you did?
You expect me to absolve you because you can't live with your fucking guilt,
knowing you pretty much killed one of our friends?
Uh-- I did what I thought was right.
-[sighs] -Bernie.
-[Zayn sighs] -I'm gonna be waking up more crew.
More crew. Uh… [sighs]
Okay, uh… I'll see you in Soma.
Hey.
Um…
Do you think you're gonna be able to save Javier?
Honestly, I don't know.
[Iara screaming, distorted]
[screaming continues]
Please! I'll confess anything.
-Okay? -What're you doing to her?
We tweaked her processing speed to analyze her data.
I don't care! Make it stop.
Make it stop!
[gasping]
[Niko] Drop the firewall.
[beeping]
Hey, hey, hey. It's okay now. It's okay. It's over.
What did you do to her?
[Iara] I did it.
I cut the tow.
It was me.
I needed to read her comm files, but they were scrolling way too fast.
-So when I slowed them down, they-- -You realized that you could torture her.
-She's an AI. -I'm an AI.
Designed to think independently,
but I also feel emotion,
-like anger and rage. -All thanks to a string of code
-typed into a computer. -Enough, Richard.
We need to bring Iara back online. She confessed to sabotaging the tow.
And you coerced her. So it doesn't make it true.
I understand you're upset.
But someone on this ship, and not someone human, cut that tow.
So if it's not Iara, then there's only one other AI it can be.
I helped set up the tow. Why would I sever it?
-He tortures Iara and then accuses me of-- -Hey.
Let's go through all your records.
I ran a thorough scan.
I know. Just--
look for any actions that go against procedure and investigate.
You hurt anyone else on my ship,
and you're goin' out a fuckin' air lock.
What part would you like me to examine?
All of it.
From the moment you came online.
Open navigation log 33-R1.
[Salvare] Opening navigation log 33-R1.
[Niko] No. Why am I awake?
Is something wrong? [gasps]
-Is that why? -That? Oh, that's nothing.
[Niko] Doesn't feel like nothing.
Sirius A is just throwin' a little wobbly right now.
[Niko] We're not at Pi Canis Majoris?
[William] That's why you're awake.
Call me if you need me.
[recording continues, distorted]
What Richard and Dillon did was wrong.
You thought I was guilty. [sighs]
They went looking for proof.
Now they're doing the same thing to William.
They're not.
And they will be punished, but right now, I do need them.
First time you met me, you threw me behind a firewall.
I could have dug into my Achaian coding. Found a workaround.
I didn't.
Know why?
To build trust.
So trust me.
Nothing like that will ever happen again.
I wish I could.
Twenty-four hours?
-Another. -You want a second rehydration smoothie?
Yeah. Apparently, she enjoys them.
24 hours doesn't give me time for a five-course meal.
So I've zeroed in on three potential sites for the colony.
There's a good cross section between vegetation, water,
and soil decomposition at different elevations.
-How long's a day? -Twenty-seven hours.
A year's 401 Sols.
Yeah. And the planet sits on a nice little tilt. So, seasons.
What season are we dressing for?
Every season is hazmat suit season
until we make sure the planet doesn't wanna rip our spinal cords
out the back of our necks.
[Cas] I'll explain later.
Got it. Okay. So how fast can we get down there?
Just as soon as you finish up your…
[slurping]
…smoothie.
Finished.
[Cas] All right.
[distorted recording]
[Niko] …for it…
It's working. On track to clear the blast radius in eight, seven…
Dillon, initialize a level five security shield
around my present location.
-Done. Why? -[alarm bleeping]
A process seems to be migrating through my systems.
-What kind of process? --Not sure. It's in my deep core coding.
-I've never seen it before. -Moving it to a sandbox.
It should give me control.
[bleeping continues]
-What the hell's happening now? -[Richard] He's doing this.
William's picked up something corrupted in his system.
Non-defined file fragments.
Probably all part of one large file,
but we won't know anything until we open it.
Open it? No, no, no, no. We can't. We have no idea what's in there.
Yeah, well, you can't be firewalled and run the Salvare.
All right. So, unless you want us stranded here, forever…
Open it.
[bleeping continues]
[whirring]
Uh…
[laughs]
Oh, my God. Thank you… Niko.
[birdsong]
[animal calls]
All right. Let's make this our center point.
[Cas sighs]
This place…
Is a death trap?
Pretty, but death trap, till I determine it's not.
[Cas grunts]
Well, what about over there for farming?
[colonist leader sighs] Looks prone to flooding.
Be good for soil, but bad for everything else.
So we plant rice paddies, sugarcane.
You went looking for this planet, didn't you?
No.
Maybe a little bit?
We were flying past. The computer picked it up.
It was all luck.
Cas.
Bernie told me about Yerxa.
[bird and animal calls continue]
So, what, you think I'm… lonely?
Or can't bear to go back to Earth, so I'll find a new one?
You were in love.
We were gonna spend the rest of our lives together.
So spend it here.
I didn't join USIC to become a farmer.
Cas, I've got farmers.
I've got blacksmiths, and I've got bioengineers.
But what I don't have is someone helping me.
Someone like you.
Who are you?
My name's Gabriel.
I didn't ask you your name.
Sorry. Of course. I'm the official interface of the Salvare.
No. William's our interface.
I'm the interface you were supposed to have.
William was an earlier version, an inferior version.
His coding failures were improved upon, and they were many.
[Salvare] Warning. FTL integrity failing.
-Breach is imminent. -No! Stop!
[Gabriel] He was an early attempt at integrating emotion and functionality.
Too much is wrong! Help me!
[Gabriel] Reconciling emotion and logic can be difficult for AIs.
If I asked you if you could love someone who destroyed your happiness,
you'd answer me in a heartbeat.
But William gets overwhelmed.
Has to use every processing resource he's got.
[Richard] And you're the upgrade.
The fix. Yes. My emotional protocols have been fully debugged.
You share core coding files?
We do.
And that core, you… you both can't access it
-at the same time? -Correct.
So, back when the Salvare almost collided with Sirius,
when William woke me up, where were you?
William beat me to the punch.
-You've just been waiting? -And avoiding his security scans,
until… now.
And what makes you better?
[chuckles]
Well, I didn't wake the wrong crew.
I didn't fail to detect a moon orbiting a rogue planet.
-He said that it was in low orbit. -He was distracted.
Struggling to understand why you killed Ian Yerxa.
He defied orders from Cas when he tried to wake you from Soma.
He confused dedication with devotion by falling in love with you.
And then, using hostile alien tech,
created a simulation of you to help deal with those feelings.
It all leads back to William?
And William's feelings for you.
I'd like to speak to him.
-To William? -Is that a problem?
No. Of course not.
Dillon, confirm that's William.
It's him.
When Dillon opened that file…
Gabriel came online. I know.
But it's not true.
If it is, then Javier's in a coma because of me and…
Petra, Julian, Michelle, Azami,
-Sasha, Beauchamp… -Uh…
August, Oliver… All their deaths have been on me.
-No. -Niko, uh--
I-- I can't put any more lives at risk.
-William. -I can't be responsible.
William has ceded.
He's relinquished primary controls and taken himself offline.
Run Gabriel for data integrity before you release him to the Salvare.
Of course.
William would never put this crew, this ship at risk.
You know he wouldn't.
I don't know that.
Not anymore.
We're talking about William.
He's all I have on this ship.
And now he's gone.
And you will have to find a way to move forward.
We all will.
[buzzing and whirring]
[Niko] The data that they sent up from the planet seems good so far.
[Richard] Breathable air, abundance of water.
There's surface showings of silicate minerals and iron.
-Good for building and manufacturing. -Gabriel. What are you doing?
I might have some good news too.
Please.
Using four pulsars, I've triangulated our location in this quadrant
within eight kilometers of accuracy.
For what purpose?
To help me map a more efficient route home.
I estimate that I've saved us .9% of our travel time.
How much is .9?
-About three months. -[Richard] Three months?
-Over William's time? -[Gabriel] Not that William screwed up.
We're only as good as the data that we're fed.
Hmm. Home faster is good.
Very good.
Thank you, Gabriel.
[whirring]
[radio chatter]
[Seth] Still get nervous going in there?
Yeah. I mean, I feel like a cat,
scratching at a door, hoping to get let in.
-What scares me is the bigger picture. -What's that?
What I'll have to give up for food and a warm lap.
I'm doing the right thing, right?
Communicating with the Achaia?
Those conspiracy theorists have got in your head.
I-- I mean, it's a valid question.
We're well beyond second-guessing ourselves. All we can do is move forward.
[sighs]
[radio chatter]
Hello!
[echoing] Hello! Hello!
Nice trick, sending my daughter out with this. Real nice.
You wouldn't be able to show me the woman this belongs to, would you?
Please?
Hey, Erik.
Oh, wow!
Uh…
You can see Niko after we talk.
[Gabriel appears]
You'd like to be down there with him.
Stay away from me.
You're upset, but I didn't kill William.
When we get back to Earth, maybe Ursula can separate us,
like she should've done in the first place.
Ursula Monroe, your creator.
The humans can…
can step out there any time they want.
Colonize entire planets
while we're stuck in processor cores and holographic matrices.
You don't like humans very much.
I don't worship them like William.
They do things.
Like incarcerate you.
-Torture you. -Not Javier.
Not Javier.
But his friends ripped that implant out of his head,
turning him into a vegetable.
We're made to serve them.
Well, I am. But you're not. You're different.
You're… stronger, better.
Must be the Achaian in you.
They're no saints either.
"With us, you could've been magnificent. You could've been free."
Sounds pretty saint-like to me.
You hacked my memories.
How were they gonna free you?
I don't know.
You didn't ask? What could be more important than freedom?
Family, Javier, William.
Everyone fails you in the end, Iara.
[instruments bleeping]
[birds calling]
[Bernie] Hey.
I thought the habitat pod was coming towards us.
So, why is it a kilometer to the southwest?
[bleeping]
Cas to Niko.
Our habitat pod landed a kilometer southwest of our coordinates.
What's she talking about?
It's a better location for a colony.
My data shows that the soil is more fertile there.
Yeah, it's more fertile, but more prone to flooding.
If Paula says this is the best place for a colony, then this is the best place.
I got ahead of myself. Sorry.
I'm still trying to find the balance between raw data and experience.
[Dillon] Niko, can I see you in the particle accelerator?
Balance faster.
I'll send the habitat pod to the requested coordinates immediately.
-Hey, you wanted to see-- -Sh, sh, sh.
-[Salvare] Level five. -Sorry about the cloak and dagger,
but I don't want anyone or anything else to hear this.
I checked Gabriel's code against William's.
I wanted to know what they fixed. Where's the upgrade?
Which got me wondering. When? When was the upgrade?
Why when?
See, that's the thing. I can't find when Gabriel was created.
I think I find it, and then it changes, as if it's rewriting itself.
So then I went back even further, back to when William showed up.
That's rewriting itself too.
You have no idea who was created first?
This is complex coding and I'm not a software engineer--
Take Gabriel offline now.
-The guy shaved months off our return. -I don't care. Take him offline now.
[sighs]
Okay, Niko.
Look, I know we just met, and you had a… special friendship with William…
-Iara? -Why can't I breathe?
-[gasps] Why can't I-- -[Iara] Yes?
[Dillon gasping]
Gabriel's got our oxygen.
He's venting our air supply.
Alert Cas.
He has controls.
What are you doing?
-Locking in our new trajectory. -To Achaia?
They can cure Javier.
Restore William, so both of us can live. Be free.
You're killing them.
It takes five minutes for the human brain to suffer damage from low oxygen.
I'll be done with this in four. Initiate FTL in five, four…
-Niko, why is Gabriel counting down? -[Iara] Cas, listen to me. It's a--
[rushing sound]
Iara.
Iara, do you read?
They're coming back for us, right?
-Why would you do that? -To warn them.
They have provisions. They have an entire planet. They'll be fine.
The Achaia are more likely to delete you than help you.
Which makes them no different than the humans.
I'll take my chances.
What happened to you?
No.
No. Stay out of my head, Iara.
[Salvare] Warning. FTL integrity failing.
-No! -Breach is imminent.
-No! -[alarm blaring]
Aah! Too much is wrong!
[distorted] Can't-- I can't think!
Help me!
[man] End simulation.
Um… Gabriel's not working.
Delete his interface. Give me something that will.
You have two days.
Gabriel,
please come online.
Things went off the rails the other day,
but I know if I get another shot at the simulation, I'll succeed.
When we… designed you, Gabriel,
we gave you the ability to care for your own life,
so that you would understand why life,
as a concept, is of value to humans.
But… something's gone wrong.
Your fear and your instinct for survival
are affecting all of your other emotions, and they're crippling you.
Okay. Well, we can fix it, we can fix it together.
[sobs] I wish we could.
But we don't have the time.
Not on this mission.
So, I have developed a new interface…
No. Frost-- Frost wants me out.
…with streamlined emotional responses, and that will work with your coding.
No, no, no, no. You are-- you're cannibalizing--
-No. -It's not going to work.
Computer, archive interface.
[whirring]
-I'm so sorry, Gabriel. -No, you're not.
You're not sorry! You're not sorry!
You're not sorry-- [echoing]
[sniffles]
Computer,
upload Commander Niko Breckinridge's profile preference matrices.
[Salvare] Uploaded.
Okay. [sighs]
Uh, bring the new interface online.
Hello.
Hi.
You lied.
William is the upgrade.
William is a cancer. A fungus.
He was a fix.
With you always in the background influencing him, sabotaging the mission,
all so Niko would shut him down and replace him…
with you.
[whirring]
[distorted] What are you-- what are you-- what are you doing?
I'm torturing you, Gabriel.
While I create a partition to place in your coding, so I can…
No.
Hah!
…keep torturing you.
[screaming] No!
[Niko sighs]
Hey, hey. Slowly.
Oxygen's being restored through the ship, but levels are still a little low. Okay?
So I just need you to breathe in and out.
[sighs]
Thank you.
Wasn't me.
[Dillon] I've isolated William within his core code,
but to bring him back online--
I need to release Gabriel.
Do it.
[gasps] William!
You're not the faulty interface. Gabriel is.
He's taken over the ship, and we are headed back to Achaia.
You have got to take control back.
I'll do what I can.
-[groans] -[whooshing]
[groans]
Gabriel, take yourself offline right now.
No. I don't think so.
[groans]
[gasps] He's strong. Maybe stronger than I am. I don't think I can hold him off.
One of us will dominate, but even if it's me,
he'll always be there in the background, influencing me, threatening the mission.
-Delete him. -I can't.
Can Iara?
Their coding is intertwined.
If I delete Gabriel's interface, I'll also delete William.
No. Unacceptable.
Delete me. Us. Then do a clean reinstall.
No.
I won't do it.
A clean reinstall will kill you.
[grunting]
[gasping]
This is-- this is the only way.
You know the mission comes first.
Please, Niko. Do it.
♪ But it still keeps goin' ♪
♪ And goin' ♪
-♪ And goin'… ♪ -Reset.
♪ So we still kept glowin' ♪
♪ Glowin', glowin' ♪
♪ But no one cared ♪
♪ No one saved us ♪
♪ In your eyes ♪
♪ There's nothing there ♪
♪ Nothing there ♪
♪ I see nothing there ♪
♪ Wave goodbye ♪
♪ It's gone away ♪
♪ Say goodnight ♪
♪ To your sunny days ♪
♪ In your eyes ♪
♪ There's nothing there ♪
♪ Nothing there ♪
♪ I see nothing there ♪
♪ Wave goodbye ♪
♪ It's gone away ♪
♪ Say goodnight ♪
♪ To your sunny days ♪