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-Stop! -Charlie!

No! Leave me! Let me go!

-We can't go. We leave or we die! -Leave me! Stop!

Sigur, it's me.

I just wanted you to know...

I can't imagine a life without you either.

...has also been devastated,

with early reports suggesting

several coastal villages have been destroyed,

and more than 350 people reported missing.

...whose own lives had been irrevocably altered for

-the foreseeable future. -...around the world.

The extent of the catastrophe is still being determined.

There are more than 700 people missing in Trondheim, Norway.

trying to move inland, away from the coasts.

Great Britain has also been devastated,

with early reports

suggesting several coastal villages have been destroyed...

Charlie?

Sigur, it's me.

I just wanted you to know...

I can't imagine a life without you either.

One question...

I'm really sorry I'm late, can I go ahead?

I'm so sorry. I'm really sorry...

I'm late.

Come closer. Please wait.

If I could ask you to turn your attention to the screen.

In red, you will see where the infected crabs

first came ashore in Japan.

Can I see your badge please?

Following the infestation of infected crabs

which swarmed coastal areas in South Africa,

Brazil, Morocco and India.

-How are you? -Good. It's good to see you.

From the initial point of contact,

the bacteria has infiltrated every source of water,

both man-made and natural, everywhere it was introduced.

Forty percent of the earth's population lives on the coast.

If the swarms of crabs appear elsewhere,

we'll see one of the largest displacements of human beings

the world has ever seen.

-Dr Roche? -Yes?

We have been aware of the effect

the warming of the ocean will have on rising sea levels,

the number of people who will be displaced as a result,

as well as the effect it would have on the pathogenicity of bacteria

as well as viruses, fungi, parasites...

-Yeah? -Sigur?

Are you watching this?

I am.

I'm gonna call you back.

Dr Roche, so...

the emergence of a more deadly strain is...

unfortunately not a surprise.

No, it's not.

But what we could not have predicted was that it would be carried ashore

by an invasion of an unknown species

which seems to have no other function than to infect us

with the bacteria it carries.

Dr Roche,

are you suggesting that the crabs deliberately polluted our waterways?

I'm not suggesting it, Mr Peak.

The data is.

-Hello. -Riku, hi, it's Sigur.

So I'd like to talk to Dr Roche. Do you think you could arrange that?

I'll speak to her this afternoon.

Good. Also, do you know if Leon Anawak will be speaking?

Or anybody from the Vancouver Island Marine Institute?

He's not on the roster.

Why are you asking?

-I'd like to meet him. -When?

As soon as possible.

Do you think there's a chance?

I'll see what I can do.

You here to tell me to get inland?

This is going to get worse before it gets better.

This is our home.

I know.

I remember you, out there.

Half the height you are now.

Running from waves, your Mother chasing you down the beach.

You were more at home out there

than you were between any four walls.

You're right.

Still am.

Yeah, I appreciate the concern, Leon. We all do.

But until Murray Cove is gone...

most of us will be staying here.

I'm proud of you, kid.

There's a comfort in knowing you're right where you're supposed to be.

Thank you.

You really think moving inland's gonna make a difference?

It's safer than the coast.

I'm with Kit on this one.

Move inland, for what?

Facing it head on, on my own terms, sounds better to me.

While I'm gone, you'll...

Keep an eye on things? Yeah.

I'll do my best.

Let's just hope everything is still standing when you get back.

Do us proud, kid.

Okay, so if we go on the assumption that the attacks were not random...

Which I don't think they are.

Right, well that would suggest that they were strategic...

Part of an overall plan.

I know how it sounds.

I have wracked my brain to find another explanation.

And you can't?

No.

And what's more alarming is that I think that

whoever's behind it, is learning.

Learning?

The strain of bacteria we found in the lobsters

was brought ashore by the fishermen who caught them.

The infected crabs came ashore by themselves.

You understand why I decided not to mention that to the Council...

Well, as it happens, I agree with you.

As do several others.

Would you be free to meet?

In Trondheim?

No. In Kiel, Institute for Marine Biology.

I think you know Katharina Lehmann.

Not well, but yes, we have spoken a few times.

The thing is...

I promised my children I'd be back.

Yeah, I know it's a lot to ask.

-When? -Tomorrow.

Okay, I'll be there.

Hey, Rahim, Leon Anawak is on his way. Could you go meet him?

Bring him to the lab when he arrives.

-Sure. -Yeah? Thanks.

Leon Anawak?

Yes.

I'm Rahim Amir, I work with Professor Lehmann.

-Good flight? -I've never flown on a private jet.

You and me both.

Please.

The cafeteria is shut but we have some coffee and sandwiches

in the office if you'd like to eat before we get started.

You spoke to the others?

Yeah. Cécile, Leon.

Professor Lehmann?

No. I thought it better to wait for some back-up.

In recent days...

weeks... we have all seen things that should not be.

And...

yet are.

Populations of marine species growing at a rate so exponential

it seems to defy biology.

Whales behaving as if possessed...

The eruption and channelling of water from long dormant sites

over vast distances...

Species infected with mutant strains of bacteria poisoning our water...

I believe something...

is behind the events we have all witnessed first-hand.

Something that has weaponized the seas against us.

If these...

phenomena...

are in fact connected,

that they are outside the bounds of what we currently know to be true,

that they are somehow the work of...

some sort of intelligent life force

which wants to drive us from the ocean...

Is that what you're suggesting?

Yes.

But we've hardly scratched the surface

of what might be a plausible explanation.

Professor Lehmann...

That's true, I agree.

But instincts tell me this is something else.

Leon, I would never question

the importance of following your instinct,

or how intuition has been the impetus

for so many breakthroughs in our field.

But to abandon everything we know to be true...

and to jump to such a conclusion.

Katharina, it's because all I know to be true is no longer true

that I did begin to look elsewhere.

And... I cannot help but think that what's happening in the sea

is in some way a reaction...

a response, to what we have done to it.

Cécile, you are asking me...

to unearth the foundation on which my training,

my research, my teaching, has been built.

I can't.

I'm sorry.

I shall let you to it.

But before I do...

I must warn you.

This could be a very dangerous road to be going down.

At a time like this, with the world so unstable.

To suggest that we cannot find the truth in science as we know

and understand it, you must realise the level of disruption

that might be unleashed onto the psyche of the world...

Professor Lehmann.

Charlie.

You really don't think we have a chance of being right?

It's not about chances, it's about probability.

And when probability is low, it's wise to proceed with caution.

Which you are not.

We don't have time for caution.

It can be very easy to say that,

but that is precisely the time when caution is most warranted.

Yours and their reputations are on the line.

What good will our reputations be...

You still need a reputation.

If you ever expect people to listen to you.

If you believe something, pursue it.

Despite the risks. I learned that from you.

Charlie, I understand your passion...

but in my experience these kind of risks usually end poorly.

The slots are all 30 minutes.

If your proposal is selected, there is a follow-up with the council.

All supporting documentation needs to be sent in advance.

Yeah, we're working on that as we speak.

Travel is getting increasingly difficult.

I'll have my office make arrangements.

I will need the names of those accompanying you.

Cécile Roche. Leon Anawak. Charlie Wagner.

And Rahim Amir.

And Professor Lehmann?

Yeah, unfortunately, Professor Lehmann won't be joining us.

She has a... different view?

She does. Yes, but Riku I assure you...

You do not need to assure me.

Professor Lehmann's name would have added credibility,

but if your findings are sound, they will speak for themselves.

Thank you, Riku.

How long have you studied under her?

-Professor Lehmann? -Mmh.

Three years.

Two more to go.

If I want to finish my PhD.

It's probably not the best time

to be making decisions about the future.

No, probably not...

When you spoke in front of the Council...

Mhm?

You said we're seeing the largest displacements of human beings

the world has ever seen.

I did, yes.

Do you think...

Do you think it's possible that this... intelligence...

doesn't actually want to destroy us?

Do you think maybe it just wants to drive us from the water and...

-keep us from coming back? -I would like to believe so.

I'd like to believe its intentions are defensive and not aggressive.

But you aren't sure.

Right now, no, I can't be.

None of us can, unfortunately.

"Once we've eliminated the impossible,

whatever's left, however improbable, must be the truth."

Who said that?

Sherlock Holmes.

I think it fits.

What is that?

Just something my mother gave to me.

May I?

Does it mean something?

When I was little, I used to ask so many questions.

I remember driving my mum crazy.

She'd limit the number of things I could ask,

so I'd have to be more selective.

There came a point when I was asking things she couldn't answer.

She gave me that.

She said it was a symbol.

For the unknown.

Of course it was just for me to ease my mind.

Did it work?

For awhile.

But...

I don't think I'm someone who can accept the unknown.

Neither am I.

Enough?

Yes.

Why whales?

I grew up on the ocean,

in British Columbia.

It's part of the culture there.

I think most people remember being kids, in boats, on the beach...

seeing the burst of an orca's spray or the flick of a grey's fluke.

I saw an orca when I was in the Shetlands.

I kept going back for a couple of days,

hoping to see it again, but I never did.

They're a lot shyer than most people think.

What?

Professor Lehmann hates it, when we talk about animals like people.

But we all do it.

I don't think people realise how similar they are to us.

They'll travel weeks, months...

to meet a whale whose song they heard.

Their devotion to each other.

I don't see how you could perceive them as anything but fascinating...

as beautiful.

To recap Dr Johanson,

and please tell me if I don't get this straight.

You, and your team, believe that the catastrophes of the past weeks

are more than linked.

That new species of marine life,

bivalves, crustaceans, to name a few,

have mutated...

to carry out deliberate attacks on humanity?

That's correct.

And that certain species of whales

have been altered on a chemical and biological level...

prompting them to act with total aggression,

with no regard for their own well-being or even survival.

To push us inland,

to make the coast line of every country uninhabitable.

And all of this... all of it...

is the work of an...

An intelligence.

Such as an alien intelligence?

I didn't say alien.

We have many intelligent species on this planet, Dr Johanson.

We do.

But we believe that this intelligence

surpasses anything we've seen in other species,

perhaps even our own.

What we are seeing, the alterations of existing species,

the creation of new ones...

that is far beyond anything that we are able to do.

Perhaps will ever be able to do.

Can we assume, Dr Johanson,

that you have considered other, less original ideas?

I have.

I think we all have.

Many times...

A lab experiment gone wrong.

Decaying nuclear waste containers

leaking radioactive material into the ocean?

A hostile state?

Bio-terrorists genetically modifying species

to use in a coordinated attack.

As many as I'm sure you've asked yourself.

And if you have come up with some plausible, less original idea,

that explains all the phenomena we have witnessed,

then please tell us.

Because we have not.

Nor, by the presentations we have heard so far, has anyone else.

And this new intelligence,

could I ask what you are calling it, or them?

For the time being, I have taken to calling them...

the yrr.

-The yrr? -Correct.

How would you proceed in the event we consider your thesis?

I would suggest, as a first step, we try to establish contact.

-Contact? -With the yrr.

And if you were able to contact them, Dr Johanson,

what would you say?

What I would say to any invading force

that I stood no chance in combating?

I'd ask them to stop.

And do everything I could to try to come to terms.

One final question, Dr Johanson.

You're on the faculty of Trondheim University?

I am currently on sabbatical.

And you have been consulting for Hovedstad Energy.

Correct.

Which financed your research?

They financed the trip during which we discovered

the sirsoe methanicola, yeah.

Are there other sources of funding?

The Mifune Foundation has offered to cover our travel, accommodation.

But you haven't received any support from the institutions

which you and your colleagues are associated.

No.

Not at the moment.

If there are no other questions?

Thank you, Dr Johanson. Thank you all.

Y'all do come up with some interesting stuff.

Alicia did promise it would be worth the trip.

And she did not disappoint.

Sam looked into the sound we picked up when we tagged the whale.

They're all variations of rhythms, clicks, scratches,

all the same pitch, and frequency.

All earmarks of a language.

The question is what kind of language?

I trawled through our records.

ERIEL keeps logs of sounds that originate from the Earth

as well as the galaxy.

We picked up the same signal.

From space?

Much more close to home.

Antarctica and the Arctic Ocean.

Now I'm checking with some colleagues at other organisations

around the world, to see if they've picked up something similar.

-What do you think? -About the yrr?

I think...

I wouldn't be much of an astrophysicist

if I didn't think it were possible.

And if I asked, would you join us?

What would you say?

The team we have, we all know the water,

but none of us could do what you do.

Would I join you?

Yes, I would.

Thank you for coming.

Mr Mifune, your 6:15.

Dr Johanson.

Fifteen minute slots, huh?

You must be a busy man.

Fifteen minute slots so my meetings stay on point.

Over the years, I have come to realise that

time management is as valuable skill as any.

It allows me to spend time on the things I am truly passionate about.

I am sorry to hear the council did not approve your mission.

So am I.

Although I can't say that I'm surprised.

You may not have convinced them, but...

you have convinced me, Dr Johanson.

I have made my fortune of the planet's gifts.

Including its oceans.

And I believe it's my duty to repay the favour,

by doing all I can to undo the damage we have done,

and limit the damage done in the future.

Which is why I would like to fund a new venture.

If you are prepared to accept my support.

I would like to back your mission.

I...

like you...

wish to know if what you say is true.

Does this yrr exist?

I didn't think this day would come.

I doubt any of us did.

But now that it has,

it's up to you to decide if you want to go through with it.

Samantha, Alicia, we've just met.

The high regards with which Leon speaks of you,

and, of course, what I know about your work,

I have no doubt that your joining us

would be of great benefit to our mission.

We sail in 48 hours.

Once on board, there will be a complete communication black-out.

This is to protect the security of our mission,

and whatever we discover.

So, for those who can go home and make it back by the time we sail,

well... this could be your last chance to say goodbye.

Because there are no guarantees.

I can't guarantee the success of the mission, there are no guarantees...

that we will make it back alive, so...

those of you who feel that you do not want to carry forward...

I think I speak for everyone when I say I understand...

I understand, and it will in no way reflect poorly on your character.

But, for those who do...

I'll see you at the airport.

Excuse me?

I think I'm going to call it a night. It's been a long day.

Thank you.

Charlie, I...

You're not coming?

I wish I could.

I wish I were like you, but I'm not.

Sure you are. What are you talking about?

The mission will not succeed or fail based on my input.

But it may without yours.

I'm going to go home.

I'm going to meet Max and head down to Mum and Dad

and see my new niece,

and ride it out with them.

And you can come and tell me about it when you get back.

It's Mum.

I didn't mean to wake you.

Alicia!

It's a shame that it took this long

for you to get invited to a proper conference.

My conferences are proper.

You never get to stay in hotels like this.

Good you didn't marry me for the perks.

That would have proven very disappointing if I did.

Look, it's Mum.

Anything you say...

Mum!

What are you doing here? I didn't know you'd come back.

I thought you were coming back last week.

I'm sorry, I had to stay in Geneva a few days longer.

I spoke to Dr Colletti...

-There's nothing to worry about. -Yes, I know, but...

It's a simple procedure, a couple days rest and I'll be fine.

You should have someone in the house, just until I get back.

You're not staying?

I have to join a research mission in the Arctic Ocean.

Arctic Ocean?

You want to go out in the ocean now?

It's my job.

You come back and say not to worry, then worry me!

When have you needed an excuse? You worry all the time.

Of course I do, I'm your mother.

This running around, all over the world...

-Alicia, this is not living. -I'm living my way, not yours.

That doesn't mean it's wrong.

I want you to be happy.

To do whatever gives you joy.

But I also want time, to speak to my daughter.

I want her to tell me about her life.

Next visit, I promise.

But for now, can we just enjoy our time together?

Cook? Listen to music?

Yes.

But I'm cooking.

And picking the music.

If you say no, I won't...

Do you really think I'm going to say no?

Sam, who do you take me for?

I don't know what will happen out there.

You don't know what will happen here.

You know what I mean.

Sam, this is something that goes beyond what you or I want.

Will you be proven right?

Who knows?

But you're doing your part.

To find an answer. And god knows we need answers right now.

Hey.

And I will be here, waiting for you, when you get back.

I made a list of the people I deal with at the bank.

My lawyer has a copy of my will.

Okay.

She set up a trust for the children.

You're an executor alongside her.

Okay, fine, yeah.

I wrote down the name, numbers, of their doctor,

she has a list of all their immunisations.

And the name of their teachers.

And...

I promised Isabelle we would take a trip, for her birthday,

if she improved her grades...

Why don't we do this later?

-No. we need to do this now... -Why?

Because I can't leave without knowing

that if something happens, they'll be taken care of...

You don't have to go.

-I do. -No, stay.

We're safe here.

If we are right, if there is something out there,

and we don't figure out a way to get it stop,

nowhere will be safe, for anyone.

I hardly know them.

I don't know what they like, what they don't like.

Who their friends are, what they do when they're alone.

I mean, we never talk.

All we do is dance around each other,

afraid to say the wrong thing.

They're still getting to know themselves at this age.

You'll catch up.

You know that.

I know.

What time do you need to leave?

First thing in the morning.

-Alright, leave these with me. -Okay.

Thank you.

Okay. Who has first go?

Okay.

-Okay. Who has first go? -I do.

I did double five.

No! I have first go. I always have first go.

No, you are last.

Sigur, it's me.

I just wanted you to know,

I can't imagine a life without you either.

Sigur, it's me.

I just wanted you to know,

I can't imagine a life without you either.

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