[clacking]
- [Maya, echoing] Mitsuki. Mitsuki. - [chittering, static]
I know you're feeling tired.
[typing]
Losing time?
Memories?
[in Japanese] No. You're not here. I need to work.
[in English] Mitsuki, you need to tell me if you're experiencing symptoms.
[in Japanese] Not here... you're not here...
[Maya, in English] Touch my hand.
[in Japanese, breathing heavily] Not here...
you're not here...
I need to find the pattern...
Stop!
[in English] You need to rest.
You need to let your mind heal.
I'll be here, Mitsuki.
- You're here. - I'm here.
Touch. The perfect bypass.
Circumvents the signal to the brain.
I'm here.
You've been losing time.
Hearing things?
It will pass.
I'll stay here with you while you learn the alien's language.
The others... the other scientists.
You're not there yet. I promise.
I have to-- [stammers] The frequencies.
[panting] I'm missing something.
Okay. Tell me about it.
I need more data.
There's a dozen frequencies.
I'm close. I just can't see the pattern.
If I can decipher it, we can understand them.
You tried to warn me.
I won't let what happened to the others happen to you.
I promise.
In a few hours, when your head clears, we'll check your baselines.
I know how valuable learning their language would be,
but you have to take a break.
- I'm missing something. - [headphones clatter]
Mitsuki?
I'm missing something.
I know it's in here. I just can't hear it.
Listen to me. First, you lose time.
Then you lose connection with the outside world.
Then you lose communication. That's what happened with the others.
The others?
[Maya] You need to stop. Rest.
The others.
[Maya] You're not there yet, I promise.
- I told you-- - That's it.
- What is?
[tongues clicking]
[clicking continues]
Mitsuki? What are you doing?
[shushes] Quiet.
- I need quiet. - [machine whirring]
[Maya] Quiet.
- [whispers] Turn that off. - [machine powers down]
[clicking continues]
What's happening?
I don't know.
[clicking slows]
You were wrong.
[Maya] About what?
[Mitsuki] They didn't lose communication.
They're just not communicating in our language.
They are communicating like them...
The aliens.
[clicking tongue]
[Trevante] What the hell?
[clanking]
[grunts]
[alarm blares]
[soldier] Code red. Code red. We have a breach!
All available personnel. Check the north quadrant.
[soldier 2] Get your goddamn hands up! Move away from the hatch!
On the ground, now! I said, on the ground!
[soldier] We will shoot you!
- [alarm continues] - [rumbling]
- [soldier 3] Last warning. - [Trevante] No! No!
- What are you hiding down there? - Just shut up!
- What are you hiding? - [soldier] Lock the damn hatch!
- [soldier 4] Let's go, let's go! - [soldier 5] Check the floor!
- [soldier 4] Secure the perimeter! - [soldier 6] Go, go, go!
See anything?
[sighs] Trev.
Bro, it's a bloody fortress. Are you sure they're in there?
I can hear them.
We'll look for a way in. Just you and me, Alf.
If they see us, we're lost children.
I could be a lost child.
I'm smaller.
And cuter.
She does add authenticity.
[Monty sighs]
Okay, fine.
But Penny? Hey, Penny, you're gonna listen to Jamila, all right?
I'll look after Caspar.
Thanks.
Alf.
[crow caws, flaps away]
[Monty sighs]
Jesus. What?
You don't trust me.
Oh, yeah? What gave you that idea?
It's all right.
I don't really know if I trust myself.
I mean, I hear things. I see things I don't really understand.
Well, no worries. I've got my eye on you.
Good.
Hey, look. You've been gone for a long time.
I mean, shit, people have been gone for a long time,
you know, sometimes they come back different.
You know, they've got a whole other-- whole other family or whatever.
Or little voices in their heads.
But do you think maybe you're different?
Maybe you're-- you're not you?
Then who else would I be?
Them.
I would never hurt Jamila.
Oh, I know that, mate.
'Cause I'll make sure of it.
Looks like we've got more in common than you thought.
I don't need superpowers to see it.
I think she's probably the only one that doesn't see it.
[Jamila] See what?
Nothing. Nothing at all.
Fine. Keep your secrets.
While you boys were busy gabbing, I figured a way in.
[tongues clicking]
What's she doing in here?
We're recording ticks. Binary code built the Internet, ones and zeros.
If she's recovered, I want her back in the enclosure.
She's not cleared yet.
The worst of her symptoms have receded, but her readings are still erratic.
I don't care.
Transmit these to my lab.
I'll reassemble there.
What's she gonna learn from these burnouts, huh?
Fear? Failure? [slams laptop shut]
I want her back inside, and I'm losing patience.
You mean the WDC is losing patience.
I mean the world is.
How many more need to die
so you can play fucking Mother Teresa to a room full of crackpots
- who've outlived their purpose. - You mean your purpose?
I mean the goddamn world's purpose, Maya!
You say this is all personal for me like that's a bad thing.
I don't mind your judgment. Your high-and-mighty morality.
- I'm used to it. It's how I survived. - If you don't care,
then why are you wasting your time saying all of this to me?
Because I'm not the one who changed. You are.
This girl, she means more to you, doesn't she?
Maybe I should put you in that room of yours, huh?
Ask you some questions. Poke around in your head for a bit, Doctor.
Or we can both serve our purpose.
And by "our" I mean the whole fucking human race.
I'm not going to talk to her until she's ready.
Fine.
I will.
You scared it.
The alien. That's why it came at you so hard.
You got too close. Too close to whatever it was hiding.
We-- You have the advantage now.
I'm starting to learn its language structure. Its syntax.
Maybe I was wrong. Maybe you're the one who's scared.
Is that what it is?
It's not the alien that got inside your head, it's Maya.
The others. You're scared you'll end up like them.
So, you're doing exactly what that entity wants you to do.
You're hiding.
If I can learn its language,
I can hack its internal communication pathways. I can--
You can do what? What then?
What if it doesn't feel like talking?
What if it lies to you? Manipulates you? How will you know?
We're not trying to figure out how to make friends with this thing.
We're here to destroy it. Destroy them.
Do I need to remind you, of all people, about that?
They killed your lover.
They killed your family.
They're in the process of killing everyone else you know.
When you got here, Maya said you were operating from a place of guilt and anger.
She was worried that wasn't a good motivator.
But you know what?
Those-- those are the best motivators if you wanna win a fight.
Win a war.
So you can stay in here and operate through fear...
or you can suit up and fight back.
It's hiding something. Get in there and find out what.
[door clanks]
[soldier grunts]
What the hell are you doing with those people? Huh?
Huh?
What are you guys hiding in there, huh?
[sergeant] What's your purpose in Idabel?
What's your purpose in Idabel?
- How did you know to look in the crater? - You're kidding me.
We're gonna have to elevate the level of discourse.
There's a giant hole with security three layers deep.
I don't know where the fuck you think I was gonna look.
We know all about you.
Sure. That's why we're having this conversation, right?
[sergeant] You've been on the outside a while.
Quit the service right when we needed you most.
Biggest attack world's ever known. "Family reasons."
You know we had the exact same training, right?
Your wife says you're depressed. Manic.
Don't talk about my wife.
Delusions of saving the world.
Must be rough, huh?
Punching the clock.
Following that playbook, hoping to God it'll make a difference.
But y'all gotta look outside
because the rules of engagement have changed up.
But you just keep pushing. Pushing that pencil.
Daddy's calling.
Chief Cole.
I'm General Mitchell.
[Trevante] General.
Apologies for your treatment.
What we're dealing with here is highly classified, and you're right,
far from the usual playbook.
There's no protocol for any of this.
So I'm gonna need to ask you some questions.
For your safety. For ours. For everyone's.
And maybe, together, we can make a little progress.
What led you here?
Kid's drawing in a notebook. It's in that file. Look it up. Okay?
I got debriefed when I came stateside, I'll tell you everything you need to know,
but I need to know some things in return. Got it?
What are you guys hiding in that pit, and what did you do with those people?
We didn't "do" anything to them. We're examining them.
They were taken by the aliens.
So if they were taken by aliens, how did you get them back?
That's classified.
- "Classified." [chuckles] - Who knows you're here?
- No one. - No one?
No one on the outside waiting to hear from you?
I can make sure they're not harmed, but only if I have all the facts.
I'm alone. This town has been as hospitable as you all are.
How did you get them back, General?
Okay.
Well, we're-- we're gonna need to keep you here.
Security reasons. I really wish you hadn't come.
It's a bad time to be away from your loved ones.
[stammers] Instead of locking me up, why don't you use me, okay?
Use me. I have more experience than any of your men,
and I've fought these things before.
Bring me in, General.
- Nice meeting you, Chief Cole. - General, read me in.
- [door slams] - General. General!
Fuck!
[gate rattles, squeaks]
[Penny] This way.
[gate squeaks, slams]
[voices echoing]
[Alfie shushes]
- Soldiers. - [footsteps departing]
I think they're leaving, though.
Casp. Can you hear them?
The voices.
[clattering]
[in Malay, Shona, Spanish, Swedish, Urdu] It's him! It's him! From the dream!
[all speaking indistinctly]
[Gabriel, in French] Esmee, what's happening?
[voices echoing loudly]
[in Shona] He's the boy in the dream!
[in English] No! No! No! Stop! Stop! They're with us! They're with us. [pants]
Caspar? Caspar Morrow?
[children chattering indistinctly]
How are you alive?
I don't know.
Maya! So shocked to see you.
You can't send her in.
It's of endless fascination to me that a person with such compassion,
such empathy for the whole world,
repeatedly chooses the one over the many.
It's called basic humanity, and I thought that's why I was here.
No. No. I brought you here to map an alien's consciousness.
Just think about that, eh? An alien's consciousness.
Neurobiologists would kill for this opportunity,
so imagine my disappointment to find you're better suited to play nursemaid.
- [scoffs] What a waste. - That won't work on me.
Here we go. What won't?
Foster insecurity. Seed guilt. Offer the one and only solution.
Close the deal before they have time to think.
- You're predictable. - I'm effective, unlike you.
Just for a moment, let go of your ego, and listen.
Whoa, that's a tall order.
You asked me to map a hive consciousness.
That's exactly what I'm doing.
You asked me to supervise anyone going in
to make sure we maintain the strategic advantage.
That's exactly what I'm doing.
If you push Mitsuki in now, you will cede that advantage, and we will lose.
That is my professional opinion.
Ignore it, and I'll resign my position right now.
Really?
Would you do that?
Resignation accepted. Eh, thank you for your time with the Amazon Project.
I wish you all the best in the outside world--
Or whatever's left of it.
Watch your back. I hear there's aliens.
[scoffs] I'll take my chances with the monsters outside.
[birds chirping]
What are you doing here?
I'm leaving. I came to say goodbye.
You said you would be here for me.
And I want to be. More than anything.
But I can't. Not anymore.
- I have to fix what I broke. - You broke nothing.
You gave us two of our biggest victories in this war.
You don't have to do this.
Your mind...
your heart, that's what we need.
You go in there like this, you may never get them back.
You're right.
My head tells me you're right, but my heart tells me to go.
You can't save her this way.
[Mitsuki] I know.
She's not in there.
I know.
- I'm sorry. - Me too.
[sniffles]
[door opens]
[Gabriel] I'm gonna ask you to look at the light.
[exhales sharply] That's good. You can rest. We're done.
He's okay.
- And you go to medical school for that? - [sighs]
I have no explanation.
Yeah. Well, there's no real explanation for any of this, so I say we move on.
Yeah?
Where did you find him?
Same hospital you left him in.
We heard it was overrun just hours after you left.
Guess he was lucky. No thanks to you.
Okay, no. [chuckles] Listen, these children,
they were found in hospitals all around the world
after the first alien ship was shot out of the sky. Okay?
They were all struck by the blast. Psychically.
How did you find us?
- We had this. - [objects clattering]
And Caspar.
He hears their voices in his head.
[scoffs]
God, this is unbelievable.
[exhales sharply] We never imagined their connection could have such range.
Maybe he had help.
What's that supposed to mean?
Well, look,
- I'm only asking, but is your friend-- - What?
Himself.
His connection with the aliens ran deep.
Deeper than the others.
Of course he's himself.
He's not, Jam.
He's been through a lot.
- You try and act normal after-- - Don't.
I'm not trying to say that. You know I'm not trying to say that.
He's my best friend.
He's fine.
Oi. You all got to hear this.
[in Malay] It was like a wall going this way...
- and then to the left of it, right? - [in English] She's saying "a wall."
[in Shona] For me, it was the right. That's where I saw him.
- [Elkin translates into Spanish] - [in English] He saw me...
[in Urdu] I saw him too, but far away, really far.
[in Swedish] Yes, exactly, me too!
[in English] I was far away. They all saw me.
The children have visions of, you know, of locations, of people.
We've been trying to understand why the aliens are focusing on certain places,
- but it doesn't-- - [in Malay] Not the visions!
[Natori, in Shona] Not the visions! When we were asleep!
[in English] They were all there. Before.
When they were unconscious, before they woke up,
we were all there in the darkness.
Except they woke up, and...
and I stayed.
Is that where you were when I saw you in my dreams?
I think so.
Yeah.
You think so?
What is this "darkness"?
Um...
I don't know. It's just...
It's just dark and-and-and cold and... [inhales deeply] ...scary. Very scary.
That's not much to go on.
You could draw it.
- What? - [Penny] A map.
If they all saw Caspar, they could draw a map of whatever it is.
- I love maps. - That's-- That's actually brilliant.
You don't have to sound so surprised.
Caspar's an artist.
He can draw anything.
[children chattering]
[Caspar] Can we-- Can we have more pink up here
and then green round here?
Yeah, perfect. And then, uh, green round there.
And then if you can bring a darker blue round here.
'Cause I remember that's how it was.
- Yeah. - [children continue chattering]
Dark blue. Yeah. That-- That was in-- That was in there. Dark.
Make the background white, at least.
Everyone is excited.
Yeah.
You're less excited.
[sighs]
Hey, what did you mean his connection "ran deeper" with the aliens?
We could not break it.
So, then what did?
[Jamila] Hey.
Do you speak any English?
Thank you for bringing us here.
For calling him so we could find you.
He was not the one we were calling to.
You weren't calling Caspar?
No.
Then who?
We found one more.
Someone is still out there.
[electrical humming]
In Hindu mythology, there's this sage, Markandeya.
One day, he climbs up and out of the belly of the world and finds himself looking out
through the mouth of the great god, Vishnu. The cosmic ocean.
His mind snaps with the enormity of it.
He stumbles.
Falls back down the god's throat. Smack, down to earth.
He spends the next several millennia searching for a way back out.
He finally finds it,
but only with the help of Shiva, the supreme god.
I think you just had the wrong partner all this time.
Come on.
Let's find the cosmic ocean.
[alarm blaring]
What's happening?
[alarm continues blaring]
- What the-- - [Misha] Suit malfunction.
Let me see.
What's wrong with it?
The circuit's been burned. I don't know what happened. [pants]
Base Camp Three to clean room. Prepare another suit for Mitsuki Yamato.
All three suits coded to Mitsuki are disabled.
All of them? [scoffs]
Hey!
You shorted the suits.
You sabotaged this project! Our best defense against the invasion!
Is it? Or is it all about you?
I disabled the suits, yes.
All except one.
The one you're wearing. Fitted precisely to your biometrics.
So if you really believe everything you say, go.
Risk your mind, your life, for once.
I stopped you from going in today.
I won't be here next time.
They'll have your suit repaired in a day, maybe less.
I hope your mind clears before then.
You're more than just a life to be sacrificed.
[Wade] What the hell?
[Rose] Put your hands up and turn around real slow, Wade.
Rose?
Wade.
Why don't you go ahead and put the gun down?
You're not gonna shoot me.
Remember when that ranger came in eighth grade,
we did that marksmanship unit?
He said I was a natural? Pretty sure I can wing you.
Somewhere painful, you know, not lethal.
So, you're gonna step into that cell for me.
Ah, the hell I am.
Okay, okay. Okay.
[Rose exhales sharply]
- [keys clang] - Thank you. [sighs]
I figured this would be the best way for us to have a conversation.
You've gone crazy.
[scoffs] I wish.
I may be the only sane person left in this town.
So, I went by Ben Shelton's farm.
That's military territory.
Cal, Chet, Ben, Joanie and Sheriff Tyson.
All vanished there.
Hell on wheels, Rose! Is this about your missing people?
They're yours too, Wade.
I know they're mine too.
But the world's on fire. I can't think about every damn thing.
You stop paying attention to the little things,
you miss half the picture.
Now, sit down.
[sighs]
I want you to listen real close.
I hid something in the evidence locker.
It's a kid's notebook. It's got clues, it's got answers, Wade.
I know-- I know I sound like one of those people
with their drawings and their theories. I know that.
But you've known me since grade school, Wade.
You know I wouldn't do a careless thing.
This is real. I swear it.
I need you to keep that notebook safe, in case I don't come back.
In case you don't come back?
Rosey!
What the hell is that?
Whatever it is, it's sitting in the center of the Shelton farm.
Now, what the hell kinda installation does the government wanna build
in the middle of a cornfield? Do you ever wonder that?
They're hiding something.
I think they're hiding what happened to those people.
It all centers on this farm,
and I'm not waiting around for someone to believe me. Not anymore.
I'm going back to the Shelton farm, and if I don't come back,
if I end up on that missing persons wall, I need you to take that notebook serious.
Okay?
Follow them clues.
No. No, no, no, no.
Ro-- Rosey, you can't leave me in here. Come on, we'll go talk to the sheriff.
- I'll make him listen! - You can tell Sheriff Perkins
I fixed his coffee maker.
[machine whirring]
[in Japanese] Our trip to Osaka... It rained all day.
On the way to a movie that we didn't like...
the sun came out, and you kissed my neck...
I don't know...
So. Day one.
I hate you this morning.
For taking my ring.
For finishing the beer.
For leaving me here.
I reinstalled Tinder.
Don't worry, it's just to keep your side of the bed warm...
- Until you get back. - [alarm blaring]
[in English] Wait! Stop. Stop.
[alarm blaring in distance]
[alarm continues]
- What's going on? - It's Nikhil.
[Mitsuki] Who's running the safety protocols?
No one. The tether is jammed, non-operational. We can't extract him.
- Turn off the magnet. - We can't. He's rerouted the controls.
[Misha] Look at those sine waves. What is he doing?
- [Tomas] He's turning it up. - He's fighting it.
Nikhil, you have to stop!
- It's too unstable. - No progress without radical--
[screams]
[rumbling]
[alarm blaring]
[rumbling]
- [Natori] Wajo! Wajo! [gasps] - [rattling]
Wajo! Wajo! Waj-- Wajo! Wajo!
- Wajo! Wajo! - [indistinct shouting]
[Natori] Wajo! Wajo! Wajo!
Wajo!
Casp, are you doing this?
You're the only one not losing their mind!
If you're doing this, please stop!
Jam.
[clattering]
[people continue screaming]
Why is this not happening to you?
I don't know.
Let's go.
[soldier] Quick! Come with me.
Everyone, out of the lab! Now!
[patients muttering, clicking]
[Mitsuki] Nikhil!
Nikhil.
[beeping]
[groaning]
[screams]
[whimpers]
[alarms beeping]
Clusters of epicenters in Eastern Europe, North America and the Amazon.
Get me Nikhil now.
Yes, Madam.
[Misha, on speaker] We have to evacuate.
All personnel evacuate the site immediately.
All personnel evacuate the site.
[breathing heavily]
Nikhil! Nik--
[electrical humming]
- [machine powers down] - [Mitsuki grunts]
[Maya panting]
[Mitsuki grunts]
- [grunts, pants] - Why is it not stopping?
[electrical humming continues]
I don't know.
[soldier 1] Let's go! Let's go! Oh, shit!
[soldiers shouting]
[soldier 2] Grab whatever you can, and strap it down!
[soldiers shouting]
[electricity crackling]
- Hey! Hey! - [soldier 3] Let's go!
Hey, what's going on out there?
Hey!
[Rose gasps]
Who the hell are you?
Cool it 15 degrees.
We're losing structural integrity.
[operator] Base station, I'm patching through a call from the WDC.
Got it. On the screen.
Where is Nikhil?
Not available.
We're a little busy here, Madam President.
We're recording global seismic activity and you're the primary epicenter.
- What have you done? - W-we just--
Whatever it was, stop it now.
We don't know how. The entity is out of control.
Let me be clear.
We have a global seismic event with multiple epicenters.
We have to stop it before it gets any worse.
I think I can do it.
I sabotaged the suits.
You don't even have a-- You won't be tethered.
You could be trapped in there.
I have to try.
I have to try, Maya.
I'm the only one she'll let in.
[electrical humming]
Hinata...
Hinata!
[Hinata, in Japanese] Why did you hurt me again?
I didn't...
I never wanted...
...never meant to hurt you...
Ever...
[Hinata] Then come back to me.
I said those words so many times.
"Come back to me..."
"Come back, Hinata."
[energy humming]
[humming intensifies]
[distortion echoing]
I know what pain feels like...
I've lived with it every day since she left...
You left...
[Hinata] Then let go of your world...
and come to mine...
We can be together.
We'll always be together.
But not like this...
because...
my Hinata is dead...
[device powers up]
[humming intensifies]
[electricity crackling]
[no audible dialogue]
[alarm blaring]
[alarm ends]
[people chattering]
[in English] Okay, this is gonna sting. Okay?
You pulled away from me.
I know.
I know, Casp.
It's just--
I feel like some part of you is still with them.
And I need to know which part.
Casp,
whose side are you on?
I'm not with them.
I don't wanna be.
I saw your face when I showed you the drawing.
It was everything to me. I looked at it every day, for months.
You don't even remember drawing it, do you?
Look at it.
Casp, look.
Are you here?
Or are you still there?
[echoing] Nikhil!
[mouse clicking]
[Maya sighs]
Mitsuki, what are you doing?
Checking the readings from Nikhil's suit, from when he went into the alien.
The atmosphere, it wasn't ours.
Maya, the alien--
It was a portal.
Our way in.
It was our only way into their world.
And I destroyed it.
I destroyed it.