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Meridian, this is Reese. Anyone? Anyone

at all?

[panting]

It's still behind me. It's still behind

me. [panting]

>> [panting]

[screaming]

[groaning]

>> Wow.

Please someone answer.

Help.

Where are you?

>> [screaming]

>> suck.

Hey

>> [sighs]

>> Okay. Okay. Okay.

[panting]

Run

him. [screaming]

There's Oh, God.

They're all It got all of them. It got

everyone.

This is Dr. Ellen Ree Meridian Station.

If anyone receives this, do not send a

rescue team. [music] Send soldiers. It

isn't an animal. It knew where the guns

were. It shut them off first.

SRP.

I bought it.

[snorts]

>> Your preparation encounters the imperson

tribes of personal blood. This is a no

finding absence.

>> Anything from your farmers? 60 days like

clockwork. Dr. Reese never misses.

I'll show you

what we are seeing.

Eco repair.

Are we ready?

Chief,

>> knock.

>> Meridian's uplink came in.

>> So log it, Arun.

>> It's four dice.

>> When was the last one?

>> 60 days on schedule.

Wait, wait, wait.

Don't go home.

Show me.

How old is it?

>> Four years in transit, ma'am. It left

Meridian in the spring of 41.

>> 4 years.

>> Yes, ma'am.

>> So, whatever happened happened when I

was still a captain?

>> Yes, ma'am.

>> And the bio signs?

>> Zero, ma'am. All three [clears throat]

habs. Zero since the packet was cut.

>> Zero means the sensors are dead. Not

>> four years of nothing is not a sensor

error. It's a

>> four byte file. We don't know person

sent. 81 people do not go quiet inside

one packet.

>> They do if there's nobody left to count.

Somebody typed it. That's the part

nobody's saying.

>> Meridian, all three habitats. This is

the last packet before the signal.

>> And the column

>> bios signs. Every reading since every

one of them zero. That's four years of

zeros.

>> Yes, sir.

>> 81 people wrote us one word in 4 years.

One. Four brights. Somebody sat down at

a working terminal with the towers

already off and chose that word. We are

not going to stand in this room and

decide it was a malfunction. Get me a

ship.

>> Ma'am, a survey team would take

>> Not a survey team,

soldiers.

>> You want me to send people 12 light

years to a place that answered with one

word?

>> Yes, sir.

>> And the two teams before them

>> also. Yes, sir.

>> Understood. Small team quiet.

>> No announcement.

>> Understood.

Heat. Heat.

You guys

Oh my god.

You're standing on my mat,

Captain Tigs. Not for 4 years.

>> We're here to bring you to base. You're

reinstated as captain by Commander

Okore. Special mission. [laughter]

>> Yeah. Yeah. Oh,

[laughter]

>> where that's been

[laughter]

[laughter]

[laughter]

Sergeant Deck.

>> That's a name I haven't heard in a

while.

>> You're reinstated. Effective now.

>> By who?

>> Commander Okori.

>> And you came all this way to tell me in

person.

>> Captain Tigs is outside. You're

expected.

>> Tigs.

>> When you're ready, Sergeant.

No,

I haven't said anything.

>> You've got the face on.

>> Last time you had that face, I lost a

year.

>> How many are we?

Four. Four. That's not a rescue. That's

a look.

>> Corporal Sato.

>> Um, yes. Sorry. Yes.

This is off world.

>> Yes.

>> Yes. Yes. I'll go

north side. Guess

You've got the good boots. That's the

start.

>> Why me?

>> Because you're not currently anyone's.

>> That's not an answer.

>> It's the honest one.

The signal took 12 years to reach us.

It'll take you nearly two to get there.

Whatever wrote that word has had 14

years to finish.

I'm not sending you to save anyone,

Captain. I'm sending you [music] to find

out what we're dealing with.

Don't come back.

>> [laughter]

[laughter]

>> I'm done.

Okay.

I want it.

20 years I put in for this.

>> You put in for the ground.

>> I put in for both.

>> More it.

Meridian Station. 81 colonists, 6 years

in place, agricultural and survey,

60-day reports, all routine, all boring.

Then this

HD 2181C

cataloged, never surveyed properly. 94%

of that landmant has never had a human

being standing on it.

What's the extraction?

>> The vessel that takes you in comes back

for you.

>> That's not an answer either.

>> Climber to Apex, torch ship to Thoros.

That's 4 days. At theus, you collect

your specialist and transfer to deep

space transit. From there, it's 22

months.

>> 22. And back is another 22.

>> Yes.

>> So, I'm 38 when I get home and everyone

I know is 41,

right? Fine. Great.

Ma'am, cryo for the full 22.

>> Cryo for all of it. You'll go under an

hour out of Thasus and wake in orbit.

You won't experience the journey at all.

>> Perimeter is automated. Four tower

implants, independent [music] power,

independent targeting. Nothing on that

planet had ever tested them.

>> had ever tested them.

>> The last diagnostic before the signal

shows all four towers offline manually.

Personnel

manifest. 81 names.

>> 81 colonists.

>> 81 names.

>> There's a survey team logged here. Four

names arrived 8 months before the

signal.

>> Yes.

>> Where are they in the manifest?

>> They're not.

>> Why not?

>> They were never colonists.

>> So, we're the second team. You're the

third

>> and the second

>> also not in the manifest.

>> Two teams.

>> Two.

>> And we're hearing it up here after the

hatch.

>> Yes.

>> Ma'am, was the second team told about

the first?

>> No.

>> Two teams went to find out what happened

at Meridian. Neither sent anything back.

You are not going to reopen a colony.

You are going to establish what is on

that planet, transmit it, and if you can

come home

in that order.

>> Third team.

>> Yep.

>> You knew before she said it.

>> I guessed. Would you have come anyway?

>> Yes.

>> Yeah, me too. That's the bit that

bothers me.

Halisian final personnel 12 minutes.

>> 12 minutes for what? We're asleep in 4

days. 12 minutes for them, not for us.

>> Sato

>> coming.

>> Case is on the rack. Seats are afted.

>> Three aboard.

>> Three aboard.

>> 4 days. Drive burns the whole way. So

down is that way and it stays that way.

Don't touch anything red. If the lights

go red, you sit down where you are and

wait for someone who works here. That's

the tour.

Day two. Saying it out loud so it's

official.

>> Noted.

>> Vos says 4 days. 4 days is 96 hours.

We've done what? 40.

>> 31.

>> 31. Christ. Sleep then.

>> Can't. Too rested. Sato. What is that

>> survey drone? It came in wrong.

>> It came in fine.

>> It came in 11 g heavy. Right.

>> Third time today.

>> Fourth.

Three each then one down and the sixes

are wild because I say so.

>> That's [music] not a game.

>> It's the game we've got. You said sevens

last time and I was wrong. Look how much

I've grown. So the extraction bird's

already lifting [music] and he's still

down there and he comes up on coms dead

calm and says

>> don't. He says I'll walk.

>> It was 6 km.

>> It was 60.

>> [laughter]

>> There it is.

>> Two of those are the same card.

>> They're not.

>> They're both the little man with the

axe.

>> That's the same man twice. That's how a

deck works.

>> He knows.

>> I do not know.

>> First time off chairs.

>> Is it that obvious?

>> You had your hand on the window.

Yeah.

>> Don't stop doing that.

>> That's not a hole breach. That's

coolant.

>> Port radiators hold. We can't dump heat

on that side. Meaning what?

>> Meaning I shut the drive down in 4

minutes or we cook. And if I shut it

down out here, we reach Mars in 9 months

instead of 2 days.

>> Can it be clamped

>> from inside the crawlway? Yes. My

engineer's on the aft deck and it'll

take him 6 minutes to get [music] there.

>> How long for someone already here?

>> It's a 40 cm crawlway.

Okay.

>> Talk to me, Saki. What are you looking

at? You want to warm up? What are you?

>> Coolant junction. It's It's venting. I

can see it.

>> Of course you can. You're the only one

who can. That's the whole point of you.

Uh-huh.

[panting]

>> You want to hear something stupid?

>> Yes.

I've never been more scared of anything

in my life than I was of that hole. And

I wasn't even in it.

>> We just said this ago with terror.

Hey, Die. Do me. What about the Hers?

Here's

some time. You are

>> How long have you had that?

>> Since [music] Apex.

>> Don't go.

>> 4 days.

>> Yes.

>> Yes.

>> Promaging Patri.

>> Is it bad? [music]

>> I can't tell. That's the problem.

There's 40 seconds of it and I've

watched it 200 times.

>> S doesn't see this. No, not because she

can't handle it.

She just crawled into a pipe for us. She

gets two more days of being excited. I'm

not taking that off her.

Hey kids here,

we do up

down

Yeah.

[cough]

Heat.

Got some peace out.

>> Oh sir.

2

force.

Mr. Tigs.

>> Captain,

>> you've been out 4 years. I looked. Dr.

Carla Rain, I've read everything ever

written about where you're going, which

is not very much. Follow me, please.

I've got you for about 6 hours.

Mr. Tigs.

>> Captain,

>> you've been out four years. I looked.

Dr. Carla Rain, I've read everything

that has ever been written about where

you're much. I've read everything that

has ever been written about where you're

going, which is not very much. Follow

me, please. I've got you for about 6

hours.

How much did they tell you?

>> 81 colonists, one word, no life signs.

>> Did they tell you about the other two

teams?

>> Yes.

>> Oh, good.

>> Task lamp ticker.

What's this one? That's a seed pod.

>> Doesn't look like a seed pod.

>> It's not a seed pod. It's what's left of

a probe housing that got too [music]

close to one.

Right, [music] sit down. I'm going to

tell you what's going to try to kill you

in order of how likely it is. 0.9 Earth

gravity, 26-hour [music] day, two moons,

so the tides are chaotic, and so is

everything that evolved around them. The

air is breathable. That's the trap. A

spore load [music] your lungs tolerate

for 6 hours. After 30, it doesn't come

out. Helmets stay on always.

90% of the biomaris is plant. Most of it

is inert. This one knows when something

has been standing still near [music] it.

>> So don't stand still.

>> So don't stand still.

>> This is the largest thing we have any

record of. [music] That's everything we

have. Two probe frames 11 years apart.

>> That's not a whole animal.

>> No, it isn't.

And these are the people who live there.

How many are there?

We think thousands.

We've imaged nine settlements. We assume

there are far more.

Meridian cataloged them for 6 years,

recorded them, mapped them, watched

them. They were never permitted to make

contact. Standing order out of Earth.

Observation only. Why?

>> Nobody ever wrote down why.

>> You said the colony reported on them

every cycle.

>> Every 60 days, 6 years.

>> Then read me the last one.

11 months. 11 months before the signal,

they stopped mentioning them.

Not no activity observed, not no

contact. They just stopped writing it

down.

It doesn't mean they died.

>> No,

>> it means the [music] colony stopped

looking

[snorts]

>> or stopped being able to

Doctor, have you been off Mars?

>> I've been on Mars for 9 years and I've

never been anywhere else in my life. Is

that a problem for you?

>> No, it's the first thing you've said

that I understood.

Please

don't

die.

>> [snorts]

>> Oh yeah. [groaning]

Yeah.

>> [panting]

[laughter]

>> I'm here.

Okay.

>> [music]

>> I've done 40 hours in one of these.

>> That's 40 more than most people.

>> That was a lie. It was 12.

Mount up.

Stop the vehicle.

>> No.

>> There's a canopy epiripe 6 m from us

that I have only ever seen at 400 meter

resolution.

>> There'll be another one.

>> That is a horrifying thing to say to a

person.

Who's that for?

>> My sister.

>> She's going to be 41.

>> She'll still want to see it.

>> This was a road.

>> Yes.

>> They drove this every week. 6 years.

It's taken 14 to close.

Go.

[panting]

You told us that on Mars. You told us

that.

>> I know.

>> Then why?

>> Because I've spent 9 years looking at a

photograph of it. I'm sorry. It won't

happen again.

>> It will.

>> Yes.

It's not damaged.

>> No.

>> So, where is everybody?

Unfamiliar jungle calls, ticks and racks

from the treeine.

>> This is intact.

>> All four of them are

>> [clears throat]

>> They barricaded [music] this from the

inside.

>> Yes. Then how did it get in?

>> This is loaded.

>> [panting]

>> This one's an animal attack.

Something with a lot of mass came

through that [music] door and killed him

with its body.

That's not a weapon wound. There isn't a

tool involved.

>> [snorts]

>> That one was killed by an animal. This

one was shot.

>> By who?

>> Not by anything I have a file on.

[music]

>> By what, then?

by something that carries a weapon and

knows what a corridor is.

>> Captain, the towers didn't fail.

Somebody [music] switched them off from

in here by hand. Why would anyone?

>> Because it wasn't outside yet.

>> Or because it was already in the room

with them.

We're sleeping in it.

>> One door. Yeah, that's what they

thought.

Where you should next?

Heat. Heat.

Captain, straight ahead.

That's not a wildfire. A wildfire is one

shape. That's 40 separate heat sources

and they're all moving on their own.

>> How far?

>> 4 km.

It's the settlement.

It's the one I've been looking at for 9

years.

>> [sighs and gasps]

>> Oh no.

Oh no. No. No. No.

Captain, there's a lot more of this.

It's everywhere.

>> Don't touch anything.

It's the same same as the corridor.

>> This wasn't random. Look at the spacing.

They came through in a line at intervals

from the east. That's deliberate.

Somebody organized this.

S come back. Leave her.

There were kids here.

Char Whitney's a clown. A deck surf is

client to ch

sign

[snorts]

[gasps]

there.

Now we're both inside it.

They came from the sky. Not like you.

Not the same as you.

They came before. Before my mother was

born. They came and they took the water

and they went away.

Then they came [music] again when the

pale ones were here. That's us, the

colony.

They do not hunt. They do not eat us.

They come in a line and they take

everything in front of the line and then

the line moves. [music]

>> That's a shift pattern.

>> Ask her [music] where they are now.

>> They did not leave.

They are in the ground to the east. They

make a hole and the hole gets bigger. My

village [music] was too near the hole.

They have been in [music] the ground for

all of my life. My grandmother said they

will finish and go. She said it every

year [music] until she died.

Fore

hard.

There's nothing alive out here.

Not a bird, not an insect, nothing.

There's

[panting and sighs]

nothing.

How deep is that?

>> Rangefinder says 400 meters to the

bottom terrace. That's not the bottom.

>> It's water.

>> What? The conduits?

>> They're not here for the rock. They're

draining the aquer. The whole water

plate under this continent.

>> For how long? until it's empty.

Foreign

Captain.

UP NOW. MOVE. MOVE. [groaning]

>> [panting]

>> GO, [screaming] GO. I'VE GOT THE BACK.

>> [panting]

[panting]

>> DECK. DECK. Fall back

>> without turning his head. In a minute.

He's gone. He's gone.

>> Get in.

>> Started. He once catches

>> [groaning]

[sighs]

>> Hey.

Wow.

What the hell?

What is that?

>> The second team. 40 seconds of helmet

cam.

I've had it since Apex.

>> Since Apex?

>> Yes.

It wouldn't have changed anything.

>> That isn't why you didn't show us.

>> No, I'm sorry.

>> 12 years.

>> Yes.

>> Everyone who reads this will be older

than we are. Some of them aren't born

>> the extraction ship is 22 months out.

>> I know.

>> So, what are you doing?

>> Making the base defensible.

>> There are 11 terraces. You counted 40 on

the top three. You cannot make this

defensible. You can make it take longer.

>> Yes. Then say what you're actually

doing.

>> I'm making it take longer.

[snorts]

>> Second bundle. The one behind the

bracket.

>> I've got three behind the bracket.

>> Then it doesn't say

>> [sighs]

>> You were four.

>> Yes.

The big one and the small one.

>> Where did you put them?

>> We didn't. We couldn't go back for them.

>> Then they are still there.

>> Yes.

Eat

[panting]

crap.

No,

>> the tower's dry. There's no second

position.

>> No,

>> the colony reactor. If I overload it,

the EM pulse takes out every drone

inside 2 km.

>> And you?

>> I need to be at the reactor.

>> [panting]

>> Here we go.

A second transmission arrived 4 months

after you left. Dr. Ellen Ree from the

first station. She told us what you'd be

walking into. She told us not to send

four people. So, I sent this. We've been

11 months behind you the whole way.

All

right.