Episode Notes

The members of the Herodotus Task Force have an unexpected new assignment...

This trailer features the voices of:

Jordan Cobb @inkphemeral

Julia Eve @juliaeve_voice

Chris Magilton @chrismagilton

Shakira Searle

Oliver Smith @OliverSmithVAVO

Karim Kronfli @BullshotUK

Brandon Nguyen @MisplacedTextVA

Whitney Johnson @EditrixW

Jerron Bacat @JerronBacat

Maia Harlap @maia_harlap

Rebecca Owen @rowen_vo

Emma Sherr-Ziarko @TheGreatDilemma

Devin Madson @DevinMadson

Theme music by Oliver Morris @oliverrmorris

TRAILER TRANSCRIPT[A few bars of the theme tune and the rumble of a spaceship in flight]

MAYHEW: Nabonidus - What do you know about their current assignment?ADRIENNE: Some site miners found twelve miles below the surface of an ice ball of a planet in Sector 17FRANCIS: Are you saying they've...disappeared?MAYHEW: I am saying the brass have made it your job to find out.FRANCIS: What?MAYHEW: Both your jobs.ADRIENNE: You can't be serious. We have 14 dead, and many of us are still recovering from...

[Adrienne's voice and spaceship rumble fade, replaced by a computer sound effect]

COMPUTER: For attention of Jennifer Connolly, Eudoxus Initiative...

[The computer fades out to be replaced by the beginnings of the Season 2 theme]

ADRIENNE: Initial hails failed to illicit a response.FRANCIS: Because despite all our best efforts, we've turned up nothing.CELIA: There is still a question over whether or not the people we are here to find are alive or dead.KATHY: We've been tasked with going through the data from Nabonidus to see what we can piece together.HOLLISTER: (on recording) Descending the ramp now.KATHY: We started noticing a few people doing weird things.HOLLISTER: (on recording) Did anyone see that?KATHY: There's a question of...behaviour.HOLLISTER: (on recording) Can they be opened?DUONG: (on recording) Should they be opened?KATHY: 88 missing people. Only 87 sets of personal logs.CELIA: We're still at a loss as to how this whole site was built 12 miles below the surface without a tunnel.BEN: Last time we had the ultimate xenoarchaeological murder mystery. This time it's the ultimate locked room.ADRIENNE: Covered in danger messages.BEN: That in two dozen ways are screaming, "Wrong way, go back."FRANCIS: They discovered evidence of sabotage.BEN: A host of contradictions. Warnings and signs and portents and clues and half-truths.ADRIENNE: Are you picking up on a general theme of wrongness?

[The music builds up and switches to a different, bass-heavy version of the theme]

JENSEN: (on radio) Captain, we've got something. Movement in the hangar area.MUELLER: Stay back!KONSTANTINIDIS: (crying) I'm sorry!ADRIENNE: Get to the mine!FRANCIS: Prepare to advance from the right flank!DUONG: Someone! Please!HUBERT: Swanson - Your two!KONSTANTINIDIS: (screaming) Don't you think we would if we could!FRANCIS: Do not approach!MEISNER: (crying) Someone, anyone...help.KATHY: (on radio) We're not going to make it to you!BEN: (shouting) The hell you're not!FRANCIS: I am compromised. Repeat: I am compromised.

[The music drops intensity to an outro]

COMPUTER: Among the Stars and Bones. Season 2. Coming February 14 2024.

KATHY: Ms Connolly. Please make sure that you have a screen available. Because you need to see this recording. I can describe it, but even I don't believe it and I've seen it.