03x12 - We Can't Save Everyone

[bunniefuu]

- Previously on "The Ark"...

- You will regret this.
- [groans]

Goodbye.

- Maybe part
of its programming

is to protect
the planet from outsiders.

- That's why she put
the programming in my head--

to save the part of her
that's here.

- Guys, you have to see this.
- That can't be good.

- It's not enough time
to save a whole planet.

[device beeps]

- Come on.

An unexpected guest.
Right.

[g*n booms]

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- Ves and her team
stole "Ark 16"?

- How do you steal
an entire Ark?

- Well, it wouldn't be
the first time.

- The ship was empty
and offline,

as it was prepped
for separation.

- You're positive Alicia and
Lieutenant Vujik were on board?

- Their shuttle was docked
when "Ark 16" jumped to FTL.

- Do you have any leads
on their destination?

- They might not have one.

It seems their escape
was a crime of opportunity.

- Or they knew
that Homebase's environment

was starting to collapse.

- It's going that quickly?
How's that possible?

- The structure they found
is a terraformer.

A cascading failure could
accelerate exponentially.

- Which I think
it's already doing.

The tablet Angus discovered
seems to be linked to it.

- And it's become
a countdown clock.

- "Full collapse"--
that doesn't sound good.

- In the meantime, Zed and I
have started preparations

to evacuate as many colonists
as possible

to our assets in orbit.
- Good idea.

Our priority is to rescue our
people and the Doc hard drive.

Keep us informed.

♪ ♪

- How are we gonna
save our people?

"Ark 16" jumped to FTL.
We can't track them.

- And even if we could,
there's no guarantee

the hard drive is intact

or that Alicia and Vujik
are still alive.

♪ ♪

- Ana, where are you?

[breathing heavily]
I think Black Thorn is here.

- Well, now we know
why this EF pilot was here.

- Yeah.

- Stash Vujik and find Nevins.

[uplifting music]

♪ ♪

- The team has swept
Decks 1 through 4.

There's no sign of Nevins yet.

- Keep at it.

There's only so many places
she could hide.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[computer beeps]

- A power relay for life
support just failed on Deck 7.

We don't have anyone
on that level, but it--

[computer beeping]
Now there's a fire in med bay.

- Max, Greg, go!

- Do you think it's Nevins?
- It has to be.

What else could--
[computer chirps]

- Airlock 2 in the fore-section
just depressurized.

- Damn it.

Take care of it before
she does some real damage.

♪ ♪

- [sighs]
[softly] Come on.

Oh, come on.

- You're not as smart
as you believe you are.

- Ves.

Please, we have to turn around.

We have to get this hard drive
back to Homebase.

The planet will literally fall
apart without it.

- Well, then it's a good thing
you're safe here with us.

Move.

- Ves, you have
to listen to me.

- I k*lled your pilot
because I had no use for her.

I think
you could come in handy.

But if you don't agree,
I can just sh**t you.

Your choice.

♪ ♪

- Captain, we just received

a coded data packet
from "Ark 16."

[computer beeps]

Uh, it--it's just a set
of four numbers.

- It's got to be
from Alicia, right?

- Mm-hmm.

The top three numbers look
like coordinates, speed,

direction, point of origin.
- What's the fourth line?

- Oh.
[slams table]

She's a frickin' genius.

- What do you see
that we don't?

- Quick science lesson.

When we're at FTL, space folds
around our FTL bubble,

which is moving faster
than we can see.

- And faster than most sensors
can detect, which is why

we can't track ships in FTL.

- Which is also
why Alicia sent us

four dimensional coordinates.

- The fourth dimension being?
- Time.

- So Alicia sent us
a point in space

and the exact moment "Ark 16"
will pass through that point?

- Mm-hmm.

- Kimi, put us
on an intercept course.

- Wait.
There's just one problem.

- "Just one"?

- "Ark 16" won't be at that
point in space for very long.

- How much time will we have?
- Rough math?

About a picosecond.

♪ ♪

- I've pushed our FTL
as far as I can.

We'll arrive a few minutes
before "Ark 16" passes through.

- And then what?

- Let me guess--we try and hail
them, so you can do one

of your famous "be your
best self" kumbaya speeches.

- No, Ves won't listen.
I'm doing an extraction.

- There's no safe way
to pull them out of FTL,

let alone get on board.

- Ian, when we escaped Drake,

you dropped our shuttle
out of his FTL bubble.

Can you do the reverse
and send our shuttle

into "Ark 16's" FTL bubble?

- No, because we won't have
"Ark 16's" FTL bubble

to pull from.
- Not true.

We will have
their FTL bubble...

for a picosecond.

- Right, but it's not
enough time.

- Yeah, you think?
- Yes, it is--

if we position our shuttle
at Alicia's coordinates

right in her path
and activate the rigged coil

at the exact moment
that "Ark 16" passes.

- Our shuttle will be absorbed
into their warp bubble.

- Theoretically.
- "Theoretically"?

- Oh, the calculations
required to activate the coils

at the exact picosecond
are complex.

One wrong calculation,
and our shuttle

could be spread
across space and time.

- Look, even if
we could calculate it,

no one has the reflexes
to activate that precisely.

- But our
onboard computer does.

And luckily for you,
there's a genius on board

who can program it to do so.

It's me.
I'm talking about me.

- Oh, okay.
Uh, get to work, Mr. Trust.

- Hold on. Won't the collision
destroy the shuttle?

- It's not a collision.

It's an absorption--
like two soap bubbles merging.

- Okay, I still
don't understand it,

but if it works, I should lead
the extraction team.

- No, I'm going by myself.
- Sharon.

- I can't let people risk
their lives on a theory.

It's not a discussion.

Let's get the shuttle prepped.

♪ ♪

I'm in position.

Engines calibrated, activating
Mr. Trust's program now.

- Position and calibration
confirmed.

- Look, are you sure
about your math?

- All this time
and people still doubt me.

It's a little offensive.

- "Ark 16" passing through
in 5, 4, 3,

2...

♪ ♪

- You see?

Easy.

[device beeps]

- [electronic voice]
Autopilot engaged.

♪ ♪

[hatch whooshes]

- Now or never.

♪ ♪

- What the hell was that?

- Our FTL bubble lost integrity
for a second,

but it's fine now.

[thunder rumbling]

- It keeps getting worse.

There are earthquakes
in the south.

A volcano erupted

on the other side
of the continent,

and a hurricane's forming
to the north.

- [sighs]
Plus, your slab thingy

is saying we only have


- Captain Garnet has a plan
to recover the Doc drive.

- And Alicia.
- Yeah.

But they might not make it
back here in time

to fix the terraformer.

- Then it's time to set plan B
into motion.

- We are already evacuating
the colony

to our assets in orbit.
- Okay.

In the meantime,
Eva and I will go to the caves,

see if we can find
another solution.

- I used the stone dome
to deactivate

the terraformer's force field.

I'm hoping it's a control panel
for the whole thing.

- I'll go with them.

- You know,
we're approaching capacity

for the evacuation.

EF2 and the Ark fore-sections

can't house the entire colony.

We'll have to leave
people behind.

[soft dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- Excuse me, let me through!

- Move!
Don't you know who she is?

- Hold your post.
That's not Captain Garnet.

- I never said I was--
just that we wanted through.

- So does everyone else.

Go to your cabin
or the Landing Pad

and wait for your number
to be called.

- [inhales sharply]

- Come on.

[solemn music]

♪ ♪

- I'm scared.

- I know,
but it's going to be okay.

We're going to fix this,

and then you can come
back down, all right?

Come here.

Go, go, go.

♪ ♪

- I actually got complaints
from people,

saying it wasn't fair

that the children don't have
to be part of the lottery.

- They're children,
for God's sake.

- Agreed.

♪ ♪

[soft dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- He doesn't understand
what we're trying to do.

- Neither do we.

We just need him to activate it
so we can try some things.

♪ ♪

- [slams dome]

- What?

[gasps]
Oh, my G--

This is a lot cooler than
you guys made it out to be.

- Shh, shh.

- What?
It's cool.

♪ ♪

- What's wrong?

You decoded this
already, right?

- That was before there was
a countdown to destruction.

I don't want
to accidentally accelerate it.

- Hey, look, my memory
might be a bit wonky,

but I know you've got this.

♪ ♪

- These are the aliens!

- Just keep your commentary
to yourself, Plant Boy.

- Sorry.

It's just...

aliens.

- [chuckles]

♪ ♪

- So, if this is
a control panel,

why would they make it

so the people who live
down here can't see it?

- Because it's not made
for them.

- Then who's it for?

- Look.

Maybe they see
in a broader visual spectrum.

♪ ♪

I think this tells a story.

- How so?

- Look.

Here you've got...

humans interacting
with the aliens.

This looks like
the aliens and humans...

moving across the stars
together.

Now they're
on the same planet....

Which I'm guessing is...

- Here.

♪ ♪

What about all these symbols?

Maybe there are instructions
here or something?

- That would be great.
- It's possible.

I mean...

all these images
are basically pictograms.

♪ ♪

Well, except here.

♪ ♪

All these are just...

dots.

- The pattern is repeating.

- The entrance to the caves
is activated

by touching an area on it
in a certain rhythm.

- You think it works
the same way?

Like a keypad?

- So maybe if I touch them
in the order they pulse,

something happens.

- Something good
or something bad?

- [softly]
Only one way to find out.

[breathes deeply]

♪ ♪

[clank, scraping]

♪ ♪

- Good job, Angus.

- Thanks.

♪ ♪

- He didn't know this was here.

- What does that say?

- "Forbidden."

- Of course it does.

- This technology is advanced.

If there's anything in there

that can give me a clue
as to how it works,

I need to see it.

♪ ♪

- He said we can go...

but he won't go with us.

- Okay.

You stay, too, right?

If that door closes,

hopefully you can get it open
from the outside.

Come on.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

Hey.

- Oh, my God.

♪ ♪

- What is all this?

- I think we're under
the machine in the clearing.

- So this is the machine.

- Let's have a look around.

♪ ♪

[device beeping, whirring]

- [gasps]

- Bloody hell.

- The sign did say "forbidden."

- I don't understand how we're
getting opposite results.

- Well, maybe we're not
considering a third option,

like sample contamination.

- No, that wouldn't account
for how--

- Gentlemen,
you have news for us?

- Yes.
Yes, we do.

We both performed tests
on the corpse

that we discovered
under the terraformer.

- We have completely
opposite results.

- Well, yeah,
that's putting it mildly.

I examined the body--

no extra cochlea,
vocal cords are normal.

- Which means?

- He's not one
of John Doe's people.

For extreme lack
of a better term,

he is physiologically
a typical human, just like us.

- That makes sense.

The images in the caves
told the story

of aliens bringing humans
to this planet,

so they might have evolved
to communicate with the aliens

who brought them here.

- Yeah, or they were
genetically manipulated

to that end.
- Yeah, right.

- So what's the issue?

- [sighs]

- I carbon-dated the bones.

They're 6,000 years old.
But the body, it's--

- The body still had teeth.

And DNA decay confirms

that he's been dead
for only two years.

- Which means the only way
both results could be correct

is if the machine kept
this guy alive for 6,000 years.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- What are you guarding, boys?

[breathing heavily]

[device beeps]

- Sharon!

- Alicia!

- You understood my signal.
- Ian did.

Where's Vujik?

- She, um...

- [sighs]
Damn it.

What about the Doc drive?

- I tricked Ves into taking
a dummy drive earlier.

They're probably still
trying to hack it.

- Where's the real one?

- I figured Shuttle Bay 2

would be the only way out
if I had a chance,

so I hid it behind
a service panel in there.

- Great.
Then that's where we're going.

We'll need to bypass
shuttle security protocols

in order to steal it.
- Not a problem.

They're probably still
on a standard GSA rotation.

Got it.

♪ ♪

- Hands!

Drop it.

- You have to let us go, Ves.

- So you can keep hunting us?

- Where are you gonna go
anyways?

- None of your business.

- Well, at this point,
I don't care where you go.

Alicia and I need to get
back to Homebase.

- You'd let us walk away?

- Ves, people will die

if we don't get
Alicia's hard drive home.

Isn't that why you joined
the GSA--to help people?

- Don't pretend you know me.

I sacrificed a lot for the GSA.

- I'm sure you have.

Why stop now?

Just drop out of FTL
long enough to let us go.

- The only problem is,
I'm not an idiot.

- I told Mr. Trust
kumbaya wouldn't work.

- What?

- [breathing heavily]

- I'm a trained Black Thorn.
It won't be that easy.

- [gasps]

♪ ♪

- Ian says you need to rig
the impulse coils--

- To pull
out of the FTL bubble,

so we can exit warp space
carefully?

Yeah, I did that while you
were kicking Ves's a*s.

- [chuckles] Then let's get
the hell out of here.

♪ ♪

[both yell]

Wow, that does not get
any easier the second time.

[both breathing heavily]

- Hull integrity intact.
We're safe.

[device beeps]
- This is Garnet to "Ark 1."

Do you copy?
- Loud and clear, Sharon.

- Sending you our coordinates.

Mind giving us a lift?

- Got to be honest...

I'm pretty nervous.
[both chuckle]

Last time Doc was in my head,
it was not good.

- Hey, at least
it's not spiders.

- [scoffs]

You were there.

Weren't you?

When I had to put my hand
in that box of spiders,

you were there.

- I was there
for a lot of things.

- [chuckles softly]

Oh, man.

Bet we were great together,
weren't we?

- We'll be great again.

- Brice!
We're here!

- Listen, uh, are we sure
this is gonna work in reverse?

- No.

- But is it safe?

- Um, honestly, I wish we
could've run a few more tests.

- There's no time.
- No.

- The countdown is down
to two hours and change.

- Okay.

Look, when this is over, we
are finishing that date, okay?

- Yeah, we are.

- Okay. Ready?
- Ready.

- Hopefully this will be
just like last time

and you won't feel a thing.

[device beeping]

- [screaming]

[gasps, breathing heavily]

Oh, shite.

- I'm glad you came back.

- Yeah?

Well, that makes one of us.

- So...

are you ready to fix me?

- Yes.

But not until you agree
to turn off the solar weapon.

- No.

Our planet needs
to be protected.

- My people will protect it.

It's our home now.

Hell, what do you think
I'm trying to do here, Doc?

- I'm called Caretaker.
- Whatever.

Look, you're a computer
program, right?

- Mm-hmm.

- You're supposed
to think logically, right?

So think about it.

There's no reason
to keep that weapon online.

- You and I need
its protection.

- It will destroy every ship
that's in orbit

and all the people on board.

[soft dramatic music]

I'm not gonna help you
until you agree.

♪ ♪

Please, Doc.

We're running out of time.

♪ ♪

- Fine.

I'll disarm my defense system.

- Thank you.

- But...

I need one more thing.

- [gasps]

The machine
is called Caretaker.

♪ ♪

I know what we have to do.

Caretaker keeps
the planet calibrated

to support human life.

But two years ago, it broke.

- When EF1 shot at it.
- Right.

So our Caretaker
sent a distress signal

that was picked up
by the Caretaker on Ross.

But that machine was unable
to help its counterpart.

- Until we showed up with
Maddox's chips in our brains.

- And Doc used Brice
to hitch a ride.

- Look, bottom line--
Doc is like a repair program

that needs to be uploaded
into our Caretaker.

- If we repair this thing,
it could sh**t down

everything we have in orbit,
like it did EF1.

- Most of our people
are up there after evac.

- Caretaker has given its word.
It will not fire on us.

- How can we trust the word
of a computer program

that hacked into your brain?

- Honestly, Sharon...

we don't have much of a choice.

- So all you need to do
is upload Doc into Caretaker,

then you'll be all right?

- Uh, the--the hard part comes
after the upload.

So, once Caretaker is repaired,
it resets itself.

- What, like a computer
rebooting itself?

- Exactly, but the problem is,

the reboot causes
a radiation surge of, um...

What was it?

- 220 sieverts.
- 220 sieverts.

- Uh-huh.
So it's not gonna sh**t at us.

It'll nuke us.

How kind.

- It will take Caretaker
about an hour

to clean the planet
of radiation.

- 100 sieverts
is instant cell death.

This is more than twice that.

- Can't have anyone on
the planet when this happens.

- We don't even have enough
rooms on the ships in orbit

for the whole colony.

- What about the people
in the caves?

- We can't let them die.
- Right, the caves--

they were designed
to protect from the radiation.

So all we have to do is move

the remaining colonists there
temporarily.

- We only have an hour
and 38 minutes!

- The caves are too far away.

- If the radiation
cleanse fails,

we'll be trapped in the caves.

- We don't know if John Doe's
people are gonna let us in?

- [slams table]

Just make it happen.

♪ ♪

- I'll talk to John Doe.

- We'll pack radiation pills.

- I'll notify
the fore-sections.

We should keep some shuttles
down here, just in case.

- I'll make a general
WD comms announcement.

- We'll have security start
leading people to the caves.

Come on.

♪ ♪

[door clicks]

[door whooshes]

[door clicks]

[wind whooshing]

- Everyone in the last group
is coming in now.

- Good. Go.

- Any sign of our missing trio?
- No.

We've double-checked
everywhere.

- All I'm saying is, the key
colony personnel should have

a waiting area which is
a little less claustrophobic.

- Mr. Trust, a word...
- And I believe that I'm--

- With the Captain.
- Fine.

- Sorry.

Um, every colonist is accounted
for except three people.

Jill and Clark
did not report in.

Ian went to find them,
but they never came back.

- Oh, maybe they went
with one of the evac groups

to the ships in orbit.

- They're not there.
I already checked.

[device beeps]

- Garnet to Ian--
status report.

- [sighs]
- Ian?

- I'll come with you.
- No, you stay here.

Keep people calm.

Ian!

Where the hell are you?

Ian!

[crying]
Ian! Ian! Ian!

Ian, thank God.
Have you seen Clark and Ji--

[tense music]

You're not Ian.

♪ ♪

Clark?

Are you Gen-3?

[both yell]

I'll take that as a yes.

Hey, why didn't you tell us?
We could have prevented this!

Clark, hey, hey, stop!

Clark! Clark!

We can still save you, Clark.

Hey, listen to me.
Listen, Clark--

Please!
It doesn't have to be this way!

Clark!
[both yell]

[blade plunges]

♪ ♪

[gasping]

[grunts, breathing heavily]

- [groaning]

♪ ♪

Ian.

Ian!
- Sharon!

[groaning]
- Ian!

- [grunting]
Clark's a Gen-3.

- I know. I know, okay? I know.
- Clark's a Gen-3.

Jill and I saw him.
We--we saw--we saw him turn.

I didn't know he was a Gen-3.
- It's okay. It's okay.

Try to calm down, okay?

Look at me.
Where's Jill?

- She's dead.

Clark stabbed her.

- It's okay. It's okay, okay?
It's okay.

- Strickland to Garnet.

Eva and Brice are almost
at Caretaker.

- Just--just go.
I'll never make it.

[groans]
- Close the hatch, Felix.

- Sharon, you have to go.

- If you run, you can still--
- Do it!

We'll find another way.

- I love you.

[solemn music]

♪ ♪

- Okay.
[chuckles awkwardly]

How does it work?

It just plugs into your brain
like on Ross?

That's all you have
to do, right?

Then we can go?

- We are out of time.

♪ ♪

- Eva, listen, there's, um...

there's something
I haven't told you.

- What?

♪ ♪

James...

♪ ♪

What's--

James!

- [winces]

♪ ♪

What the hell is this?
- This was the deal.

Caretaker will turn off
the weapon,

but it needs a blueprint
of human biology

to keep the planet calibrated
to our needs.

- But then
you can come home, right?

- It doesn't work like that.

♪ ♪

- The body we found...

alive for 6,000 years...

dead for 2.

- That was the last sample...

but he died...

when EF1 damaged Caretaker.

- Why does it have to be you?

- Because Doc is
inside of my head.

- So we'll put her
in someone else.

- Eva...

I died on Ross.

All of this, it's just...

it's just been
a little extra time.

- No. Someone else
can volunteer.

- I've already volunteered.

- [grunts]
- [breathing heavily]

♪ ♪

[crying]
Why didn't you tell me?

♪ ♪

- Because I knew
you'd look at me like that.

And I wouldn't be able to go
through with it.

- Please don't do this.

- Eva, just listen to me, okay?

We don't--we don't have
much time.

I need you to know...

I'm so...

so grateful...

that I got to fall
in love with you...

Twice.

- [cries]

I love you.

♪ ♪

- You know, all of a sudden,
I'm not ready to go.

- But it didn't mean anything.
- Yeah, just--just sex.

- So this is a date?

- You love me.

Volim te.

Absolutely fantastic!

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[gasps]

I remember.

[solemn music]

♪ ♪

Volim te...

my love.

♪ ♪

- You and I will keep
your friends safe.

I promise.

♪ ♪

[Eva crying]

♪ ♪

- [grunting,
breathing heavily]

[dramatic music]

[Ian breathing heavily]
- It's beautiful.

[scoffs]

I don't know why I'm crying.

- Well...

it might have something to do

with our whole planet
being saved.

[both laugh]
- Yeah.

There's that.

♪ ♪

But it also made me
realize something.

I ran out of the safety
of that cave

towards probable death,
because...

♪ ♪

If we did fix the planet, I...

I didn't want to live on it
without you.

[both chuckle]

So whether that's
preprogrammed or not...

that...

is beautiful.

♪ ♪

- I love you so much, it hurts.
- [chuckles tearfully]

♪ ♪

- [groans]

Come to think of it...
[chuckles]

Maybe it's the wounds
that hurt.

[both laugh]

♪ ♪

You, you take me
on the best dates.

[both laugh]

[device beeping]

♪ ♪

Radiation levels
have normalized.

- So it worked?
- It worked.

[both laugh with relief]

Garnet to Felix.

The surface is safe.
You can come out.

Whatever Brice did,
he saved us all.

[all cheering]

- Oh, my God!
- Oh, my God!

- Mwah!
- Yes!

[cheering continues]

[triumphant music]

♪ ♪

[hatch rumbles]

[all cheering]

♪ ♪

- [exhales deeply]

♪ ♪

Zed?

Are you okay?

- I wish my son could've
been here to see this.

- This might be
of small comfort to you, but...

if EF1 hadn't damaged
Caretaker,

any ship that came
into orbit here

would've been fried
by an artificial solar flare.

- Your point?

- In a way, EF1 saved us all.

- ♪ Wish that I
could turn back time ♪

Yeah?

- ♪ Close my head
and close my eyes ♪

♪ I see a different life
around me ♪

♪ Mm, when I'm searching
in the dark ♪

♪ I'm trying hard
to find a spark ♪

♪ But no one else
can seem to find me ♪

[soft pop music]

♪ And I don't know
which way I'm going ♪

♪ ♪

♪ So tell me why
I keep on holding on ♪

- [chuckling]

This is nice.

- Yeah? Speak for yourself.
I've got 15 stitches.

- Mm.

[chuckles]

♪ ♪

We're really lucky.

♪ ♪

- Hey, Markovic, get over here.

Come on.

You too, Fowler, take a break.

We're not gonna take no
for an answer, come on.

- Sanji, Dr. Marsh...

please join us.

♪ ♪

[chuckling softly]

I feel like I haven't seen you
in a very long time.

- It has been a long--
- Kimi, get over here.

[laughter]

♪ ♪

- ♪ Want to go back home ♪

♪ Want to go back ♪

- I always forget about you.

[indistinct chatter]

♪ ♪

- Hey.
- Hey, hey, man.

- Trust!
- Trust! Trust!

[all clamoring]
Come on!

[indistinct chatter, laughter]

♪ ♪

- ♪ Feels like every
road I take ♪

- To Brice!
all: To Brice!

- ♪ All my dreams,
I can't let go ♪

- Hoorah, guys!
Come on!

- ♪ We're getting closer
day by day ♪

♪ But we both know
I'm gonna stay ♪

♪ Holding on to all I know ♪

♪ 'Cause it's
a long way, long way ♪