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- Previously on "The Ark"...

- I always thought Black Thorn was a rumor.

- This is a genetic library of selected

animalia DNA samples from Earth.

- You did all of this in your sleep?

- Everyone on Homebase loves you.

And I love you.

- I love you too.

- I saw an opportunity when I detected

the dormant chip, so I took it.

- That thing put you in my head, didn't it?

- We built a nice colony called Homebase 1.

- Trail stops here.

There is indeed something in that lake.

- It's "EF1." Must have been shot down.

- What have you found?

- Bodies.

- There were survivors.

- Zed.

- I'm so sorry about this, mate.

- We cross-referenced each ID with the EF manifest.

These bodies are from "EF1," but I'm relieved to say

your son is not one of them.

- Don't be.

My son's body is likely at the bottom of that lake.

- I really hope that's not true.

- I want to know exactly how my people died

and who buried them.

- Is it possible they were buried

by other "EF1" survivors?

I mean, maybe they're still out there, alive.

- No.

They would've come to us as soon as we arrived.

- I've finished reviewing the autopsy results.

They have all been dead for about 22 months,

and they were killed the same way...

By gunshot.

- I want answers.

- We'll get them. Dr. Marsh said the bodies--

- What type of weapon systems were used?

Ammunition? What was the motive?

- Zed, Dr. Marsh said the bodies died two years ago.

- I'm aware of that.

- You know who arrived here two years ago?

- "Ark 11."

- You think this was Ves and Black Thorn?

- Could be.

- This was the secret she was hiding,

and Hammond found out.

- It would explain why she killed him

and framed Strickland.

- But does that mean she shut down the "EF1" ship?

- If she did,

the rest of "Ark 11" would all be complicit.

I trusted you, Garnet.

I trusted that all of the GSA would

fall behind you and choose peace.

- I'm sorry, Zed, but I--

- Captain Avega!

- Captain Avega, I can't control the actions of others.

I didn't even know there was a Black Thorn unit here.

But I can tell you this.

If they or any other GSA personnel are responsible

for the murder of your people,

they'll pay the consequences.

- How?

- We'll follow due process.

- Due process? Are you kidding?

More than 200 of my people were murdered.

A crime far beyond the scope

of anything that would require due process.

- For now, we need to still make sure everyone

at Homebase is safe.

- "Ark 16" is disembarking as we speak.

And we still don't know who the Black Thorn are.

- Okay, let's start by talking to Kimi.

Since EF Hunters was a division of Black Thorn,

maybe she can help.

- I didn't know Kimi was an EF hunter.

This just keeps getting better and better.

- This is when we were still at war.

- Her job was to murder people like me.

- Again, we were at war.

Since then, Kimi has more than proven herself non-partisan.

I would trust her with my life and yours.

- Just the same,

I don't want her anywhere near me.

- Captain Avega, why don't you go supervise

the divers at the lake?

You can help them identify the rest of the bodies.

Strickland and I will handle everything else.

- Fine.

But let me give you a word of advice.

Former EF security are the only ones we know

for sure are not Black Thorn.

I will tell my men to follow

yours and Felix's orders while you investigate.

But I would relieve

all former GSA security personnel of their duties.

Hey.

- Hey.

- Where are you going?

- Uh, oh, um, I--

- Tell her you want to stretch your legs.

- I'm just gonna go and stretch my legs.

- Don't you wanna shower first?

Rest? We just got home.

- Don't you worry about me, my love.

I'm absolutely fine, okay?

- I am worried about you.

You've been through a lot, and you need to rest.

You need to go now.

- You know what?

I'm--I'm actually feeling kind of hungry.

So I'm just gonna head down to Landing Pad,

quickly grab something, all right?

- Okay, I'll come with you.

- Absolutely not. - Uh, no.

No, no, no. It's fine.

It's fine. You, uh--

you wanna stay here and get unpacked, get settled.

So, uh, yeah, you stay here, and I will be right back, okay?

Mwah!

Hey. Hey, listen.

You need to back off, okay?

I can't think with you always hovering and in my ear.

- You don't need to think.

You need to do as I say.

- Something's different about you.

It's like you're--

you're deeper in my brain or something.

- Follow me.

- Where are we going?

- To the part of me that's sick.

Come.

Let me show you.

- Hi.

- Hi.

You're back.

- Yeah.

- Oh.

I missed you.

- Oh, God, I missed you too.

- Really?

- Really.

- Uh, Sanji.

- Hmm?

- I've got to tell you something.

Milan is dead.

- What?

- You remember he had

internal bleeding when you left.

- Yeah, but--

- It was manageable at first,

but things took a turn for the worse quickly,

and he coded.

We--we were unable to resuscitate him.

Come here.

You okay?

- Um--

- You're relieved?

- Relieved?

You think I'm relieved that he's dead?

- No, no, of course not.

That's not what I meant.

- I--

I don't know.

- Um, what?

- For the record, I disavowed Black Thorn

as soon as I was exposed as an EF hunter.

I've been loyal solely to you, "Ark 1,"

and Homebase ever since.

- We know.

- Do you know where Ves might be hiding?

- No.

I didn't even know she was Black Thorn.

- As I understand it, you were each relegated

to a specific Ark?

- Yes, in isolated units with our own codes.

So have no idea who "Ark 11's" other members are.

- Did every ship have the same number of Thorns?

- On "Ark 15," Lati and I were the only ones.

The larger groups could be 12, 15.

And they were all led by commanders.

- Like Ves? - Mm-hmm.

- So whoever the "Ark 11" members are...

- They're all loyal to Ves.

- Do you have any idea how she was able to summon them all

so quickly to help her escape?

- Every active-duty Thorn keeps a small device

on their person at all times,

an encrypted beacon that can summon all members of the unit.

When triggered, all the other Thorns meet at that location.

So we should find Ves and then--

- Use her beacon to smoke out her team.

- Eva?

- Just get her out of here.

- You lied to me.

- No, I didn't.

- You said you were going to a bar to get food.

- Eva, listen to me.

You need to go, okay?

You need to go now.

- You're scaring me.

I want to bring you to infirmary.

- Listen to me.

I've grown deeper into your brain,

and I can make you do whatever I want.

So tell her to leave.

- You can't be here.

- Hey.

Hey. It's me.

You can talk to me. - I can't.

- I'm sorry it had to come to this.

Kill her.

Now.

- It's okay.

I'm so sorry.

- It's okay.

- I can't believe what I'm seeing.

- What is it?

- You know how Maddox put those chips in our brains

when we first arrived here?

Well, Brice's chip has activated

and become entangled in strands of new neural tissue.

- It has to do with whatever happened to me on Ross.

- Yeah, but your chip looked completely normal

after we rescued you, which means the strands grew

over the last few days.

- Maybe that explains your behavior from today.

Maybe the chip is controlling you.

- So remove the chip.

- Trust me, you don't want to do that.

- We can't remove it now without it killing you.

- I like her.

- But there must be a way to shut down the chip.

- But how?

- I don't know.

- I wonder if Alicia could

help us tap into the software somehow.

- Worth a try.

Alicia to infirmary.

It's urgent.

- None of them will ever get me out.

Leave now before I make you hurt someone.

- Doc? - Yeah?

- I need you to restrain me.

- What? - Sorry?

- Look, if your theory is correct,

I might not be able to control my actions.

- Are you sure?

- Do it.

Fast.

- Okay.

- Hey, we're going to figure this out.

- Oh, trust me, you're not.

- I always thought Black Thorn was an old wives tale.

Don't know anything about it.

Why do you ask?

- Captain, we have reason to believe

that Ves Ilic was a commander

of a Black Thorn unit on your ship.

- On "Ark 11"? - Yes.

- There's no way.

- Why do you say that?

- I knew everything that happened on that ship.

- Well, we think she might have shot down "EF1."

- How?

"Ark 11" had no weapons.

And it's not like she could've secretly been

hiding something big enough to shoot down a whole ship.

I'm sorry, but this all just sounds ridiculous.

- Okay, then.

Thank you for your time.

We need to talk to Angus.

- Angus? Why?

- Angus.

Have you found any evidence of sunflowers

growing here naturally?

- No.

Which is a bummer when you think about their impact

on soil health and the biofuel potential.

Let me just check the, uh--

Doesn't look like any other Arks carried them either.

Why do you ask?

- Yeah, what do sunflowers have to do with "EF1"?

- The former captain of "Ark 11" was

pruning sunflowers.

If there aren't any here and no one brought them on Earth,

then where did he get them?

- You think he brought them in the DNA vault?

- Uh, there's no vault on "Ark 11."

- Yes, that's what we wanted you to think.

- No one knows the room even exists,

which makes it a good place for Ves to hide.

- Mm-hmm.

- Well, all the vaults were built in the same place--

behind the wall in OT section of G Deck.

- Okay.

"Ark 11's" G Deck is now Building 14B.

- Let's go.

- Mr. Trust.

The divers found the server box from "EF1."

Oh, hi.

- Hi.

Is the data salvageable?

- Who knows?

I'm sure as hell gonna try.

Hopefully we'll find the captain's log

so we can learn what really happened.

- Great.

Let me know the second you find anything.

- Check it out. - Uh-huh.

- Let's go over there. - Oh!

- Angus? - Yeah?

- Uh, can I talk to you outside?

- Yeah.

- So I've been automatic writing all night.

- You can understand all of this?

- Yes.

I mean, I can't speak or understand the spoken language,

but I think I can understand

enough of the written language to be able to communicate

with the people in the caves.

So we have to go back to the caves.

- Why?

- What if you were right all along?

Maybe they're trying to tell us something.

- Okay, just let me get a security detail

together to go with us and-- - No.

If we bring a bunch of strangers down there,

the people down there might not let us in.

- Okay, but we should at least tell Mr. Trust and Felix.

- I don't think we should.

They'll never let us go alone.

- So you're saying you wanna go, just us, no weapons,

to see the people who kidnapped us?

- Yes.

I mean, I can always turn my implants on if I have to.

- Hey, Dr. Kabir?

Could I have a word?

- Um--

- It's private.

- Of course.

What's wrong?

- I don't want to get anyone in trouble.

- Okay.

Whatever it is, you can tell me.

- When Petrovic flatlined,

Dr. Marsh hesitated--

for too long.

- What do you mean hesitated?

- He just kind of stood there, staring.

Almost like he was debating what to do.

Then when I came over, he snapped back to business.

- You did the right thing telling me,

but can we keep this between us?

- Of course.

- Thank you.

- Clear.

- How did you find me?

- Put your gun down, and we'll tell you.

- We just wanna talk.

Okay?

- It's just that--

I don't trust you.

- Hand over your unit beacon.

- Now.

Kimi?

- What happened to "Once a Thorn, always a Thorn?"

- Who's in your Thorn unit, Ves?

- I don't know what you're talking about.

- Then rot in here.

Let's go.

- Well, that was successful.

- How are we gonna find the rest of them now?

- I have an idea.

- You really think Milan was Black Thorn?

- Well, he was close to Ves.

- Um, okay, but why do you need me here?

- We're looking for a beacon they carry.

- It's relatively small, gray, and shaped kind of like--

Kind of like this.

- It's password protected.

That's why you're here, Sanji.

- Four digits, using 1 through 6.

- Try 6161.

It's the address of his first house.

61--

nope.

- Okay.

Um--hmm.

Try 1122.

November 22nd.

Month and day he was sworn in as a cop.

His proudest moment.

- Thank you, Sanji.

- I don't think there's a way to disable the chip

without killing Brice.

- Maybe if we can figure out how

the programming got into his chip in the first place--

- It was that thing that was connected

behind my ear on Ross. - Shut up.

- There's nothing on the MRI where the tube was connected.

It's just scar tissue.

Or maybe it's not.

- Okay, okay.

Look, I get it.

You're mad I made you go into the woods

and try to hurt your girlfriend.

But I am doing what I have to do.

- What's that?

- It's a bioelectric impedance probe.

- Okay, what's it for?

Well, if I'm correct...

The scar tissue is conductive.

- Shit. - What?

- It's not scar tissue.

It's some sort of electro-organic strand

that was left there by the thing that

connected behind Brice's ear.

- So this is how we can access the chip?

- Exactly.

Start rigging a contact.

- This isn't just about me.

Trust me, if they disappear me, you will never be the same.

- Do you have any plan on how to get inside?

- I was sort of hoping they would just--

Do that.

- It's my clothes.

- Maybe it's a gesture of goodwill?

It means hello.

I think.

- I don't like this.

- Come on.

- Hey. - Hmm.

- How's it going with Brice?

- It's complicated.

- What can I do to help?

- Nothing.

- Okay, Sanji.

What's going on?

You've been avoiding me all day.

- I can't do this right now.

- Do what?

Okay.

If it's because of what I said about Milan--

- It's not what you said.

It's what you did, or didn't do.

- What are you talking about?

- You killed him.

- No, I didn't.

- I checked the medical records.

Milan flatlined, and you waited 12 seconds

before trying to resuscitate.

12 seconds.

- I was trying to be thoughtful about the plan of action--

- Bullshit!

You knew exactly what was gonna happen.

- Even if I hadn't waited,

it probably wouldn't have made a difference.

- What the hell kind of argument is that?

- I didn't mean for him to die.

- But you're not sorry.

- No.

No, I'm not.

- Thanks for coming.

- Yeah, the water in that lake was near freezing,

so it preserved the bodies fairly well.

I was able to pull up the manifest

from the server we recovered.

So we've been able to identify most of them, but...

we still need you to try and ID the rest.

I'm really sorry you have to be the one to do this, but--

- Who else would do it?

Lieutenant Efram Womby.

Corporal Albert Flink.

Leonard...

Avega.

My son.

- Can I join you?

I'm so sorry about your son.

- I really wanted to blame you.

Or at least the GSA.

But the truth is, it's my fault.

Leo was an artist.

He was happy

painting alone in his room,

even when the world was--

was crumbling.

He wasn't like me or anyone I knew, for that matter.

I couldn't understand him.

- I'm not a parent.

Hell, I didn't even have parents.

But isn't that how most parents feel,

like they don't understand their kids?

- Hmm.

My wife always said I was too hard on him.

- Your wife?

- Sheila, the love of my life.

She died when Leo was 12.

And I was left to raise a boy I didn't understand.

- I am so sorry.

- I pushed him to join the EF,

practically forced him.

Told him he had to help make a difference,

and he hated me for it.

- I doubt that.

- Oh, no, he did.

And because he hated me, I assigned him

to "EF1" instead of my ship,

so I didn't have to look him in the eye.

And now--

- Zed, hey.

His death is not your fault.

- I was his father.

It was my job to protect him.

- You did protect him.

If you hadn't put him on "EF1,"

he probably would have died two years earlier

with everyone else left behind on Earth.

- I should've put him on "EF2" with me.

He'd still be alive.

- You could not have predicted what would happen.

His death is not your fault.

- Then who the hell's fault is it?

- James, there is still time to stop this.

- Okay, this wire can transmit signals

to and from your conductive tissue

to access whatever programming's in the chip.

- Buddy.

- Okay, try now.

- I'm in.

- I saved your life.

Don't you owe me the same?

- It worked?

- Uh, well, sort of.

I can see the code,

but I can't recognize it at all.

- What do you mean?

- It's not binary.

It's ternary.

Base three.

I can't make sense of it.

It's--it's totally foreign.

- What are you asking?

- I asked his name.

But I can't translate his response.

- Guess we'll just keep calling him John Doe.

- How do you communicate with each other?

He says he spoke to them.

But I didn't hear anything.

- They must talk in a frequency outside our hearing range.

It kind of makes sense.

He has different hearing and vocal cords.

Ask them why we were kidnapped.

- "You break."

- You break what?

- It's that symbol.

It's the only one I can't translate.

What does it mean?

Did you trigger it? - No.

- Who made the call?

- Against the wall! - Masks off.

- And keep your hands where we can see them.

- Okay, I've combed through everything on the chip.

The code is indecipherable.

But if we can purge the code from the chip,

there may be a chance that Brice will go back to normal.

- "Purge" means I will be gone.

Do you understand?

- Guys, maybe we shouldn't delete it all, you know?

We might need the information later.

- Yeah, that's true.

With all these questions looming

about Ross and Homebase, it could be valuable.

- I am valuable.

But I'm of no use to you if I'm not in your head.

- You're right.

Instead of purging it, I'll move the data

into an air-gapped device.

That way it can't infiltrate our computer system.

- But the software will be completely

out of his head, right?

- Right. It'll be here instead.

- Please.

James, you don't know what you're doing.

- Alicia...

do it.

- James.

James, please.

You will regret this.

This is for the best.

- Who is he talking to?

- I don't know.

- I will make you regret this.

- Goodbye.

- The transfer is complete.

- How do you feel, James?

- I, uh--

Thank you.

- Just let him rest. Let him rest.

- Here's how it's gonna go.

You're going to tell us exactly what happened two years ago.

- The only way I'm telling you anything

is if you let my team go.

- They were only following orders.

- Absolutely not.

But I can promise you this.

If you don't help us right now,

your team will suffer grave consequences.

- Okay.

Okay.

Ves, we can't make a deal until we know exactly what happened.

- Fine.

- Start talking.

- We killed those "EF1" survivors.

Avega, you have to understand that, at that time,

they were still the enemy.

We were in the fog of war.

The mission was standard--

do a sweep and make sure there were no hostiles here

before "Ark 11" came down.

We were about to turn around and go back to the ship

when we smelled smoke.

- Smoke?

- Camp smoke.

We followed it

and found a group of people living in the woods somehow.

- They're EF.

- Fire!

- So you just killed all those people?

- We were outnumbered.

They were going to kill us--

- You do not know that!

- Avega, please.

- Why didn't you tell us any of this before?

Why murder Hammond to keep this secret?

- Because of you two, Sharon and Zed.

- Oh, come on. - Wait, me?

- When you came here, you had made peace.

I wasn't going to blow it by revealing who we had killed.

- No, it doesn't make any sense.

You buried the bodies.

You wanted to cover it up right away.

- Weapons.

- What?

- There were no weapons recovered

from that pile of bodies.

- The EF soldiers were unarmed

when you found them, weren't they?

- You mowed down all those unarmed people?

I wanna know how you shot down "EF1,"

how you killed hundreds of innocent people

on board that ship.

Tell me!

- I didn't--I didn't know anything about that.

- Avega!

- You're a liar!

- She is a murderer.

- Yes, she is.

But don't let her turn you into one.

- Ian, if you've come to try and calm me down--

- No, no, no. No.

Just to give you some information.

The server shut down two weeks before

"Ark 11" arrived at Homebase.

- I'm not sure I follow.

- The server shut down because the ship went down

before Ves or "Ark 11" were even here.

- So Ves was telling the truth.

- I don't know who shot down "EF1,"

but it wasn't her.

- You're saying you've been seeing and hearing

Doc Morozov this whole time?

- Yep.

Thanks.

Yeah.

And she felt so real.

- That must've been some insanely advanced AI.

- Mm. - Yeah.

- Yep.

She saved my life.

Made it seem like I was supposed to save her too.

Something about, like, fixing a part of her here on Homebase.

- A part of her? What does that mean?

- I don't know.

Never got that far.

Oh, man, I am just so, so happy

to feel like myself again, you know?

Thank you, both of you, for everything, really.

- I'm so happy you're okay.

- Oh, oh, okay.

You're friendly.

One of the new doctors.

- Yeah.

- Uh, we haven't met, have we?

I'm James.

James Brice.

Nice to meet you.

- Um--

What?

- So Ves didn't shoot down the ship.

- No, she couldn't have.

- I despise her, but she didn't kill my boy.

- What happens when we meet the people who did?

- I think we already have.

There's only one group of people that could have

been here when "EF1" arrived.

- The people in the caves.

- Wait.

If they were able to shoot down a spaceship, then--

- They must have access to a massive weapon.

- Fix?

I don't understand.

Heal.

- Fix what? Heal what?

- I don't know.

- Fix or death.

- Hey.

- Is he saying--

- If we don't fix it, they'll kill us.