The Ark (2023) s02e10 Episode Script

- Previously on "The Ark"
- This is Captain Zed Avega.
We're going to Trappist.
There's already a GSA colony being built
as we speak at Trappist. Come with us.
- Why would you trust us?
- Under one condition.
- Your ship fully disarms.
- I cannot let you do this.
- Avega, look out.
- (GRUNTING)
Lane, help me get him to med bay.
- Lane.
- The knife destroyed Captain Avega's liver.
I can't save him.
I don't think Spencer is
gonna make it either, Sharon.
We were made to be organ donors.
Do you think it's what
he would've wanted?
Do it.
GARNET: We are entering
a new era of peace,
an era of hope and change.
But sometimes
peace comes at a cost.
Lieutenant Spencer Lane
will leave behind a legacy
that can never be forgotten.
He will always remain
a presence on this ship,
even if just in spirit and memory.
Lane was an honorable man
someone with a true moral compass.
He was a hero
who gave his life for peace
with the Eastern Federation.
And as a symbol of that peace,
he will lay to rest in space
with these destroyed tools of war.
(MUSIC PLAYING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Captain Garnet.
Your speech was very powerful.
I'm so deeply sorry.
- I appreciate you being here.
- Of course.
I owe my life to Lieutenant
Lane in more ways than one.
Listen, I've gotta get back.
I'll see you on Trappist.
Maybe we can share a drink and
swap war stories when we arrive.
Looking forward to it.
I can't imagine how Garnet
must be feeling right now.
Always thought she and
Lane would end up together.
It makes you want to live in the
moment and not waste any time.
I was just thinking the same thing.
Come by my cabin later?
I can't believe he's gone.
It doesn't feel real, does it?
BRICE: You know, my last days with him
they were just so screwed up.
- He wanted to kill me.
- He loved you.
He really did.
To Lane.
You know, that man, he was
pretty damn perfect besides
his love of this crap.
So the Scot doesn't like Scotch?
Whiskey from the
homeland tastes like piss.
Brice, you'll be my number two now.
It's back to business then.
It's what that wee bastard
would have wanted anyway.
Ark 1 and the EF2 will
depart within the hour.
We'll meet at the
designated meeting point
at the outer edge of
the Trappist system.
- Garnet. Captain Garnet.
- What is it, Ian?
Look, I'd really appreciate
having a job and a title.
See, people won't look
me in the eye right now,
and I feel like if I had a
proper place on this ship,
- it might help me to just
- I'm busy right now.
Can we discuss this later?
When? This is the third time I've
tried to talk to you about this.
Brice is in charge of crew
positions. Speak with him.
Look, Garnet, I know why you're
not talking to me, but I'm not him.
Oh, good. Captain Garnet, I was
just on my way to speak with you.
- What is it?
- It's Dr. Kabir.
She won't admit it, but I think
she blames herself for Lane's death
even though she tried
everything she could to save him.
I was wondering if she
could take a few days off.
SASHA: Captain Garnet to
Engineering as soon as possible.
- Walk with me to Engineering?
- BOTH: Sure.
- Wasn't talking to you.
- Oh, I know.
EVA: I'm not sure how else to say it,
but I've been reinstated as the
Chief Engineer, so I'm in charge now!
And I don't know how else
to say I do not take orders
from someone who learnt everything
she knows from reading my books.
- See why I called?
- GARNET: Mr. Trust.
Eva is back in charge now.
It's not up for debate.
And you're not the least bit
concerned that she was lying to you
about being part of the EF?
Eva has more than proven
herself loyal to this ship,
and how many times have
you lied to me, huh?
Fine, but don't come crying to
me when it all turns to crap.
I never said you couldn't
assist her in Engineering.
(SCOFFS) I don't assist.
- All right. Dr. Marsh, let's go see
- Uh, hey, Garnet, can we
- Not now, Ian.
- (CHIMING)
AVEGA: This is Captain Avega.
The EF2 is ready to initiate FTL.
Copy that, Captain. Ark
1 will depart momentarily.
You ready?
Everyone, brace for acceleration.
Initiating FTL in three, two, one.
- EF2 just left. Why didn't we?
- I don't know.
There's some sort of glitch.
Sasha, check the neutron stabilizer.
Ian, you want a job. You're
an engineer. Can you help?
Yeah. Have you tried the
- s happened?
- They're all unconscious, but alive.
I'll know more soon.
They were right next to
the FTL when it arced.
I've never seen the
transformer fritz like that.
Maybe the system never reset properly
after Trust sent that
EM pulse to the EF2.
- Can you fix it?
- I'm working on it.
Eva, I need you to fix it.
I know you're in charge now, James,
but you pushing me isn't going
to make me move any faster.
- How are they?
- They're still unresponsive.
You can help them though, right?
- They're gonna be okay?
- It's too soon to tell.
Sanji, they have to be okay.
Right? We can't lose anybody
else. Can you handle this?
Wait, why wouldn't I
be able to handle it?
Well, Lane died on your
table three days ago.
- Are you blaming me for his death?
- No, God, no. I just
- I just mean you had to watch him die, right?
- Yes, I did.
But seeing as I'm the only
conscious doctor on this ship,
we don't have much choice.
- That was fun.
- Was it?
- I've heard the first time's often, uh
- Bad.
I was gonna say tricky.
It's my fault. I'm not good at this.
No, I'm not good at it either.
What I'm trying to say is
maybe we're both just distracted
and worried about Garnet and the others.
I should get back to
Engineering to help Eva.
It'll get better.
- What the what happened?
- How did we end up in med bay?
Where is everyone?
Heart and respiratory rates
are perfect on all of us.
What's the last thing you guys remember?
Well, I remember trying
to talk to you in Engineering,
and you were too busy.
- Forgive me for doing my job.
- Forgive me for trying to get a job.
We were about to jump to FTL,
and then I don't remember.
Me either.
- Garnet to Brice.
- (HIGH-PITCHED BUZZING)
Garnet to Strickland. Do you read me?
Does anyone hear me?
Brice?
Anybody?
What the hell is going on?
Garnet to Eva, do you
copy? Alicia, are you there?
Looks like something
happened to the FTL.
Garnet, come and have a look
at this energy diagnostic.
- It looks like a power surge was triggered somehow.
- I can see it here.
Yeah, but if you could stand
to look at me for one second,
maybe I can show you
what I think went wrong.
- Fine. Show me.
- Looks like it's connected to the battery transformer.
- I'd like to go to Engineering and take a look.
- Good idea.
Dr. Marsh and I will
keep trying to find crew.
Marsh, start with the rest of the bunks.
- I'll take the lower decks.
- MARSH: You got it.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
You still trying to boost the
signal strength on our distress call?
- Guilty.
- Oh, come on, Sharon.
You've been at that for months.
You need to take a break. Come eat.
MARSH: I agree with Ian.
People need human contact.
It's critical for our sanity
to spend as much time
together as we possibly can,
or else we could just go nuts.
I'd say it's a miracle we
haven't gone nuts already.
You mean you don't enjoy being stuck
on a huge ship for months on end
with no valid theory
on where everybody went?
I still think we are in
an alternate universe.
Oh, come on. We've been through
this. We never went into FTL,
therefore there's no chance
of quantum entanglement.
You're still reading those
physics databases, huh?
- Well, it beats banging my head against the wall.
- Let's eat.
Ian's delicious tofu
casserole is getting cold.
- How'd it go on the FTL today?
- Slow, but I'm making progress.
- You'll fix it.
- Well, I need to do something soon.
We'll never make it to a livable
planet under the NEPS alone.
We need to discuss other
ways of keeping up morale.
We should be eating
every meal together and
- You're awake!
- What happened?
- You've been in a coma.
- How long?
- About an hour 20 minutes.
- Strange.
I feel like it's been months.
- Dr. Marsh is awake.
- Hey. Thank God.
- How you doing, buddy? You all right?
- Yeah.
- They in comas too?
- Yeah.
I can't believe it was all a coma dream.
You're disoriented, understandably.
No, no, no, no, you don't understand.
It was all so incredibly
detailed and real.
- I can remember every second of it.
- Hey, take a breath.
- I was going to
- Hey, hey, hey.
Take a breath, take a
breath. Take a deep breath.
- Deep breaths in and out.
- I don't feel so good.
Yeah, go ahead. You can ask.
What's with the scars?
I was part of Maddox's
first posthumanism trial.
You never mentioned
I didn't want you or anyone
else to think of me differently.
I wasn't forced into it.
I was a young medical student
at the time and I volunteered.
So you're posthuman, too? Like Kelly?
No, I'm a failed posthuman.
The implants didn't work on me,
so doctors removed all of
them except the one in my brain
which was too dangerous
to remove back then.
What did the brain implant do?
It was a Central Processing
Unit for all the other implants.
It was deactivated once
the others came out.
- (BEEPING)
- Are you sure about that?
What?
It's been re-activated.
It's malfunctioning.
It's never done this before.
Maybe the malfunction is what
woke you up from the coma?
(GRUNTING)
- You have to take it out.
- Brain implant?
You just said it was
too dangerous to remove.
There was no reason for it before,
- but now it's glitching.
- All right.
- (SCREAMS)
- All right, all right.
- Lie down, lie down.
- Just relax. Come on.
- (BEEPING)
- My head!
It feels like it's going to explode.
Sanji, it's killing me.
You have to take it out.
Will you just Marsh?
Dr. Marsh? Dr. Marsh?
(BEEPING CONTINUES)
- What the hell just happened?
- He just had a seizure.
Well, you heard the man. Get it out.
No, no, no. That surgery
is extremely dangerous.
- He said it's killing him!
- It's invasive brain surgery.
- You've just done it on Kelly, right?
- No! Dr. Marsh did it.
- I just assisted.
- (BEEPING INTENSIFIES)
Cranial pressure is up.
His brain is swelling.
Sanji, somebody has to do
surgery, so it's you or me.
(BEEPING CONTINUES)
- Fine. I'll do it.
- How can I help?
You can't. You have no medical training.
Just call Strickland and
Griff and then get out of here.
Go, go!
- You called?
- Look!
- Is that
- A wormhole. I can't believe it.
This confirms all my wormhole theories
based on all the database research.
- You have a wormhole theories?
- Hear me out.
Even though I fixed the FTL years ago,
it did us no good because the
computer can't chart a damn course.
That's because it doesn't recognize
any of the stars around us.
- Okay.
- Maybe that's because
the initial FTL crash
sent us through a wormhole
and launched us to the
other side of the universe.
- It would explain everything!
- Well, not everything.
- Like, where did everyone else go?
- I don't know.
Maybe there's some quantum
mechanics side effect.
The wormhole could reverse that too.
Look, the database doesn't
cover the side effects
of wormhole travel in much detail.
Wormhole travel? Oh, God.
- You want to go through it!
- It could send us back!
Back to the moment the anomaly happened.
Or it could crush us into nothingness.
That's not what the
latest wormhole theories
in the database say.
Even if what you're saying is true,
and that's a big if, how do we know
- that's the right wormhole?
- We don't.
At least it might get us closer.
What do you suggest we do?
Because we can't just keep
going around and around
in circles and never getting anywhere.
We need to take a leap of faith.
- What?
- I was just remembering
you wouldn't even look me
in the eye a few years ago.
Well, you have nice eyes.
That beard, however,
I could live without.
I only grew it in the first
place so I'd look less like Lane.
I didn't know.
- Can I tell you something?
- I guess so.
There is no one I'd rather be
stranded with on this ship than you.
Right back at ya.
- Let's do it.
- Go back to my room?
- No! The wormhole!
- Ah, yeah.
The wormhole. Great.
(BEEPING)
Forceps. Thank you.
- Here we go.
- Well done, Dr. Kabir.
Okay. Gauze please, Griff.
How's it going in
here? Is the FTL fixed?
No, and our usual solves aren't working.
If we don't fix it soon,
the electrical components
could burn out entirely.
There must be a way, right?
Did you ask Trust's opinion?
We tried, but he says we've made
it clear that he's not valued here.
Kreten.
I mean, have you tried the breakers?
EVA: Breakers stopped
being used in 2034.
- We don't have breakers.
- Right. Of course not.
Uh, okay, what about, um,
have you tried maybe
resetting the main
- Brice.
- Yep?
We will update you as things progress.
But for now, could you just please go
and micromanage somewhere else?
Yeah.
Ready?
Okay.
Entering wormhole in three, two, one.
Garnet, look.
- We did it!
- (LAUGHS)
- We did it!
- (CHEERS)
- Yes, we did it!
- We made it through!
You are a genius!
What?
The computer says the stars
are in exactly the same place
as they were before we
went through the wormhole.
- No.
- It's like we never went through it at all.
Switching to aft camera.
Maybe we didn't.
- Where is it?
- It's gone.
Okay, now move your
fingers and toes for me.
And follow my finger.
You did it, Sanji. You're incredible.
There's that smile.
You're glad I didn't die.
You're glad I saved your ass, huh?
Hey, guys? You're
gonna want to see this.
Garnet and Ian's brain waves
are spiking really high.
- Is that normal?
- How high?
They're literally going off the scales.
Wait a minute. Look at this.
Their brain waves are completely synced,
spiking at the exact
same time and speed.
How can that be?
Could they be sharing
the same coma dream?
- No, that's impossible.
- Is it?
When I was in the coma,
I dreamed quite vividly
about Ian, Garnet, and myself.
Maybe we were all
sharing the same dream.
Okay, let me check your coma
brain wave patterns with theirs.
- Ooh. Identical.
- Look at that.
Okay, I don't know how
the hell this is happening,
but we have a more pressing issue.
The spikes that high imply
massive mental energy expansion.
It could lead to intracranial
swelling and permanent damage
if we don't get them out of their coma.
Ian:
Look at you.
I found it in the Remember Earth crate.
Thought I'd try it
on. What do you think?
Really? Now?
- Took you long enough.
- It is date night.
And what better way to spend
it than by getting married?
- But where, oh, where is my ring?
- Huh.
Hmm.
- You shouldn't have.
- That's not all.
I found us the perfect wedding location.
Oh, that is one gorgeous nebula.
- (SIGHS)
- You know, it kind of reminds me
of that wormhole to nowhere.
Ian, it's been ten years. I think
it's time to let the wormhole go.
Let's just enjoy the moment, huh?
(BEEPING)
- Methyldole?
- KABIR: Yep.
I'm hoping it'll stimulate their
reticular activating systems
enough to pull them out of
their coma. Ready, Griff?
("WEDDING MARCH" PLAYING)
Come on down the aisle, Mrs. Garnet.
I thought I'd take your last name,
seeing as I don't have one.
(BEEPING CONTINUES)
("WEDDING MARCH" CONTINUES)
Thank you for marrying me, Mr. Garnet.
You're welcome, Mrs. Garnet.
You may kiss the bride.
(HIGH-PITCHED BUZZING)
- It's working. Sharon?
- Ian?
Sharon? Sharon? Damn it.
- GRIFF: Can we give them more?
- That was the maximum dose.
Any more could cause a brain hemorrhage.
- Hey, you okay?
- What was that?
It was like we were
somewhere else for a second.
Yeah, it was bright and blurry.
I could've sworn I saw Griff.
- I saw Dr. Kabir.
- What?
What if we did just
actually see them in med bay?
- What do you mean?
- Maybe this whole time
we've been knocked out or something
and they've been trying to revive us?
What if none of this is real?
What if this is all real and we
just dreamt we saw Kabir and Griff?
Both of us? At the same time?
Or maybe this is all my
dream and you're not real.
I was just thinking the same
thing only the other way around
because how could we both be having
the same dream at the same time?
All right, look, listen, let's just say
that this is some sort of coma dream.
If that's the case, they're obviously
having a hard time waking us up.
So the question is how do
we help them wake us up?
Since when did you tend bar?
Would you care to try some of my
mango basil pomegranate daiquiri?
Sure.
Cheers.
You know, that's actually really good.
Yeah? Aww, man, I've been
perfecting the recipe all day.
- Rough day?
- (SIGHS)
Well, let's see.
My best friend died,
my captain's in a coma,
and I'm starting to realize
I'm a pretty terrible leader.
So, yeah, not great.
You're not a terrible leader.
It's okay, bartender, you
don't have to kiss my ass.
No, I'm serious. I think
the fact that you're here
right now is a good sign.
- Hmm?
- I'm in charge of the bioshelter, right?
But it kind of runs
itself at this point,
which I think means
I'm doing my job right.
- How do you mean?
- I think when you're in charge,
you need to figure out who the
right person is for each job
and then back off and let them do it.
You know what, Angus?
That's actually pretty good advice.
Hey, uh, could I ask
you for some advice?
- Yeah, shoot.
- Actually, you know what? It's nothing.
- Don't don't worry about it.
- Come on.
Hey, it's me, your Uncle
Brice. Tell you what.
You give me another one
of those, you can ask away.
Okay, here it goes.
Uh, you're, like, really
good at sex, right?
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
Hey.
What's with the attitude?
- Brice taught me a few things.
- What kind of things?
Kimi, I need you to look at something.
- Does this mean anything to you?
- What is it?
There's a serial number on
that chip that begins with MX.
- Maddox.
- Yes.
Do you know what the number means?
Any information about this
is probably classified.
But luckily when I left Ark
15, I stole a memory drive
containing a bunch of
Maddox's classified documents.
- Figured we might need it at some point.
- Brilliant.
Bingo.
Oh, my God.
The implant was part of a
classified Maddox project
which focused on using
mind-control as a weapon.
Dr. Marsh said that implant was
just a Central Processing Unit.
It makes sense that
Maddox wouldn't tell him
- what it was really for.
- I am so over that woman.
- Do you know anything about this?
- Unfortunately, yes.
The project was developed at
my company, but I shut it down.
I worried about the harm
a mind-control implant
could do in the wrong hands.
But it sounds like after Maddox
so unceremoniously took over my company,
she continued to develop the technology.
How the hell does a
mind-control implant even work?
We were developing an
implantable brain device
which could transmit brainwaves
into other people's brains.
We used a marvelous new
magnetic wave technology
that I'd invented for other purposes.
So when the shock from the
FTL re-activated the implant,
maybe it linked up with Garnet and
Ian using your magnetic technology.
- Certainly possible.
- And then the implant malfunctioned,
which is how Marsh broke away
from the others and woke up.
Is there any way to use the implant
to wake Garnet and Ian
without doing brain surgery?
No, you'd have to put the chip
in each of them at the same time.
Okay, look, there has to be a way
to do it without cutting them open.
Look, I don't know if this
is even remotely helpful,
but my uncle had
Parkinson's Disease, right?
And I remember they used to put these
knitting needle type
things into his brain,
- and that
- Wilson stimulation probes.
That might actually work.
We could use them to connect
the implant to their brains.
That could work.
- Well, the Neanderthal finally had a smart idea.
- Thank you.
Look, I can give you a tool which
will deliver a current to the chip
that will trigger a
malfunction identical to the one
- that pulled Dr. Marsh out of the coma.
- Sounds incredibly risky.
It is, but it beats the hell
out of cutting their heads open.
What do you think, Brice?
I think that you should do
whatever you think is best.
I trust you completely.
Mr. Trust.
I just, uh I wanted to thank you
for your help with the implant stuff.
- Of course.
- I do find it interesting though
that you won't afford
the same help to Eva.
Well, it was made
very clear that my help
is no longer required in Engineering.
Tell me, Mr. Trust, is it
lonely having no friends?
- I think I prefer Garnet as Captain.
- They need help.
It sounds like the FTL
could melt down or something
if they don't fix it soon,
and you are obviously
the man for the job.
So do the right thing, Mr. Trust,
before your stubbornness kills us all.
(MUSIC PLAYING)
There you are.
Off on one of your walks again
trying to figure out how to wake us up?
Maybe.
It's been so many years, Sharon.
Maybe it's just not possible.
I swear, they get better every year.
Like you.
It's true.
You're even more beautiful now
than the day we got married.
I haven't showered today.
You are just blinded by love.
(SNIFFS)
Oh, yeah. Maybe.
(BEEPING)
STRICKLAND: Um, why not do
them both at the same time?
Because it's risky. We'd
rather not kill both of them.
- Then why Garnet first?
- Don't you think she would've insisted on it?
- You have a point.
- Ready.
- What is it?
- Something's not right.
Sharon.
- (FLATLINING)
- Damn it.
Okay. Okay.
- Charge!
- Clear.
(GASPS)
- (BEEPING)
- Sharon?
Sharon, please wake up. Don't leave me.
- Hey.
- Sharon? Sharon?
Come on. Stay with me, Sharon.
Please stay with me.
Come back, come back.
- Heartrate is stable.
- (BEEPING CONTINUES)
(MUSIC PLAYING)
KABIR: Sharon?
- (FLATLINING)
- Paddles!
- Come on, charge!
- Clear.
- No, no, no. Wait, wait.
- (BEEPING)
(BEEPING CONTINUES)
Her sinus rhythm is normal.
(GASPING)
(SIGHS)
Oh. Oh, you scared me.
I'm okay. I was in med bay.
Then I could feel your kiss
and it pulled me back to you.
Well, thank God.
No, that's the problem.
- I think I know how to wake us up.
- How?
Whatever the doctors were doing
to try and revive me just now,
it would have worked if I
allowed myself to die here
in this dream.
So the next time they try
to revive either of us
We need to let ourselves die.
We're missing something.
I just don't know what.
Remember how their brainwave patterns
- are so acutely tied to each other?
- Yeah.
What if their patterns
are so interconnected
that you can't pull one out
of the coma without the other?
We need to connect the probes
to both of them at the same time.
- I think so. It might be the only way.
- Okay.
Come on, let's push them closer
together so the probes can reach.
Slowly.
What's wrong, huh?
Oh, I just worry,
especially on beautiful days like this
that it might be our last,
that dying might not
actually bring us back.
We might just die.
- I know, but if we're in a coma in reality
- That's a big "if."
we could die there,
too, if we don't wake up.
(SCOFFS) Come on.
Are you okay there, grandpa?
Yes, I'm all right, grandma. Come on.
I wanna dance with my girl
in case it is our last day.
(MUSIC PLAYING)
Please let this work.
(GRUNTS)
- Hey, what is it?
- (MUTTERING)
It was just my chest.
It's time.
(FLATLINING)
Damn it, we're losing them!
What if I don't want to go back?
I understand.
I feel the same way.
But, sweetheart, none of this is real.
It feels very real to me.
(FLATLINING)
And so special.
Look at you.
(FLATLINING)
- Charge!
- Clear.
COMPUTER: Airlock depressurized.
We have to do this.
(ALARM BLARING)
(FLATLINING)
(BEEPING)
Oh, my God. It worked.
Welcome home.
They're both stable.
Can you tell me your names
and where we are?
Sharon Garnet. Ark 1.
(SIGHS)
Ian. Med bay.
KABIR: You've both been in
a coma for about 36 hours.
All right. All steady from here.
KABIR: Good girl.
- Okay.
- I want to do a round of blood work
and CTs on both of them.
Rest now.
(LAUGHS)
(SIGHS)
- You were right.
- (LAUGHS)
(LAUGHS)
You okay? I get it if you're not.
Because, I mean, after all
we've been through, it's
- It was
- Can we
just not talk about it?
Sure.
I don't understand why the
correlator isn't working,
even after we reset the
thermal management system.
I know. It makes no sense.
Because you no longer need
the thermal management system.
I had to bypass the system to
reroute power to the battery.
Permission to let this asshole
help you finish the job?
(MUSIC PLAYING)
Thank you all for your hard work today.
And thank you for taking charge
while I was out of commission.
- Just never do that to me again, eh?
- I'll try.
Captain Garnet. Thrilled to
see you back on the bridge.
Thank you for coming
back to check on us.
Well, I was concerned. We dropped
out of FTL, you never arrived.
Yeah, well, my little accident
was caused by our FTL malfunctioning.
The FTL is fixed and ready to go.
We're ready to go, and
this time, we mean it.
See you soon.
Initiating FTL in three, two, one.
(SNIFFLING)
It should have been you.
(SOBBING)