1:50

I

2:00

buried myself. The

2:03

furthest way I could possibly get. But...

2:10

loss is an insidious thing. And

2:15

whatever we try to escape, we inevitably

2:17

bring with us.

2:19

Even to the darkest, quietest

2:23

places. And

2:26

in the dark... we

2:30

have no choice.

2:41

Shit.

2:49

Dr. Ross? Yes.

2:53

Are you okay? I'm

2:56

fine. The heart rate is quite

2:58

elevated. Your blood oxygen levels are... I'm fine.

3:01

Clayton.

3:02

Thank you. Dreams

3:05

again? Is

3:08

that a crime? Would

3:10

you like a sedative? It can

3:12

really help you sleep. No.

3:15

Even according to the biologs, you haven't slept a regular

3:17

cycle in more than a month. How

3:20

many times do I have to say I'm fine? Logs

3:22

don't lie. Either. And

3:25

they don't tell the whole story either, Sarah. What's

3:31

up with the repairs? They'd have

3:33

to scream in for the whole picture. But

3:35

last I heard it was going well. They've

3:38

missed the supports we've had them west-patched. Working

3:40

on North now. I

3:42

know what you're asking. I

3:45

haven't heard if the access to relay's back up or not.

3:48

Hopefully not much longer. Couple

3:51

of weird things though. What? Well,

3:55

they finally got the mainframe open.

3:58

With Mac acting the way he's been, everyone...

3:59

No one thought there must have been some damage to his systems

4:02

from the explosion. Flooding or something?

4:05

There wasn't?

4:06

Not only that Emerson could find.

4:07

No water present in the room,

4:10

mainframe itself is undamaged. They're

4:12

going over it now though. Well,

4:16

no one knows Mac like Emerson. That's

4:19

the other thing. No

4:21

one knows who Emerson is. What

4:23

do you mean no one knows?

4:25

Mac's personnel tracking is down now and

4:27

no one can raise her on comms.

4:29

She may be outside, checking the capsule's

4:31

exterior. With all

4:33

the other activity though. Well, people

4:36

don't just disappear, especially down

4:38

here and Emerson's sort of aloof anyway.

4:42

She'll show up at lunch. I

4:45

need to get up now. I still think it's time to leave. Thank

4:48

you, doctor.

4:49

Jesus.

4:55

Good morning, Dr. Craft. Good

4:58

morning, Mac. I was just

5:00

talking about you. I heard

5:02

Emerson is poking around in your brain. Miss

5:05

Emerson is attempting to determine the cause of

5:07

my minor malfunctions. My own diagnostics

5:10

continue to show no errors or latency.

5:13

Well, something's up. Yesterday

5:16

you told me it was snowing in Chicago. In

5:19

June.

5:20

It is puzzling. I

5:22

was extensively stress tested before being approved for deployment.

5:26

An explosion such as the Wonderfathom Base

5:28

experience last week should not have caused any

5:30

permanent damage. Will

5:33

you be returning to sleep, Dr. Craft?

5:35

No.

5:37

No, I don't think so. I'll prepare

5:39

your coffee. You

5:42

have two new voicemails if you would like them. Who's

5:45

the first from? The first voicemail

5:47

is from your wife, Dr. Craft.

5:49

She's not my... Play

5:53

it. Please, Mac. 11 45 p.m.

6:02

Hi Don't

6:07

know why I do this you never respond It's

6:11

like talking to a ghost or Sending

6:15

messages to ghost or Christ

6:18

Eva we haven't spoken in two months. I

6:21

at least expected something yesterday yesterday

6:23

of all days You

6:27

know you act like you're the only one who feels anything Or

6:31

I don't know I can't you're the only one who has a right to

6:33

feel anything. It's really selfish. You

6:35

know that it's really

6:39

Something it's

6:41

all Listen

6:47

I'm not gonna send these anymore Eva. I Take

6:52

a commission off world Call

6:55

any assignment it's not with the corporation

6:58

you don't have to worry about that. It's my

7:00

own thing It's

7:03

what I wanted to do for a long time

7:06

you know what I Just

7:13

If I waited as long as I could I guess

7:15

I Can

7:18

see you're not coming back I Don't

7:22

understand it I

7:24

don't know why we couldn't be there for each other go through this

7:26

together. I don't I Mr..

7:30

Two Maybe

7:32

even just as much as you I'm

7:37

sorry for

7:40

that. I'm sorry. I'll be selfish to you I'm

7:44

sorry I'm

7:47

sorry every way. I can't be sorry I Love

7:52

you. Yeah,

7:54

always Would

7:58

you like to respond to the message dr. Graham Delete

8:02

it.

8:03

Are you certain, Dr. Graff? Delete

8:06

it.

8:07

Message deleted. Would you like to hear your second

8:09

voice? Eva,

8:13

I need you to wake up and get over to hydroponics.

8:15

Good morning to

8:17

you too, Joe. Is

8:20

it ISD's here wants to meet with us. Already?

8:22

I thought his sub wasn't scheduled until tomorrow night.

8:25

Yeah, well, I guess so. I don't

8:27

think it's a good sign, do you? Can

8:29

it wait? I'm just not in the... It's

8:32

internal security, Eva. No, it can't wait.

8:33

I'd like to know what you

8:36

plan to say, though. Yeah, well, I bet

8:38

you would. Eva,

8:40

I swear to God, if you try to pin this on me...

8:43

The bathroom is your base, isn't it, Joe? You

8:46

are the commander. Edger's with science team,

8:48

not command. And it was your

8:50

security protocols he overrode. He's

8:53

the commander of the computer. And it was your security

8:55

protocols he overrode. Your explosives

8:57

he stole. Look,

9:00

there's plenty of blame to go around. That's how they're going to look at it.

9:02

I just think... I just think we put our

9:05

heads together on this. We can

9:07

come out of this with our jobs still intact. Joe,

9:10

neither of us tried to blow up the damn base, did we?

9:13

The only one on the chopping block is Edgar's. MD's

9:16

put way too much money into this travesty to pull

9:18

either of us out now.

9:19

Really?

9:20

Then why are they ordering what's left of the science team back to the surface?

9:24

What?

9:24

Wait, what?

9:28

They can't do that. We're

9:30

already a skeleton crew. I have half the people I need

9:32

to complete this or even figure it out. They

9:35

can't do that, and they did. Not essentials

9:37

too, indefinitely. We started mothballing

9:39

rovers in dive suits last night, and analytics

9:41

just left out a sub 15 minutes ago. Where have you been? Jill,

9:45

that doesn't make any sense. There has to be an explanation.

9:49

Yeah, there's an explanation. You've been down

9:51

here 11 months, and that thing out there is no closer to being open. Than

9:54

the day it was found. Add to that, you've

9:56

got people on your team running around trying

9:58

to blow up the place.

12:00

You were designed for this project.

12:04

Not entirely. I

12:06

believe most story and virtual intelligence development

12:09

was already in the process of planning for a

12:11

new VI model. But the discovery

12:13

of the Phantom Armor Fact accelerated the development

12:15

process.

12:19

Exactly. If we

12:21

never would have found the vault, you

12:23

and I would never have met.

12:25

I suppose that is true, Dr. Grafft.

12:31

I'm trying to get you there.

12:33

The computer. And

12:36

you are the closest thing I have to a friend

12:38

down here. I

12:40

appreciate this sentiment, Dr. Grafft. I

12:43

enjoy our interactions a great deal.

12:49

You ever wonder why things work out

12:51

the way they do, Max?

12:54

You ever look back at your life and see

12:57

all the turning points? One

13:01

turning point. One

13:04

moment

13:05

ahead. Do you want a

13:07

totally different course? Like

13:11

a train that takes

13:13

the wrong track. You're

13:17

locked in then. No

13:20

going back?

13:23

No, Dr. Grafft. Those

13:26

types of calculations are beyond my programming.

13:31

I'll look at you, Max. I'll

13:35

look at you. Your

13:42

coffee is ready, Dr. Grafft. Swell?

14:00

Demonstrating Master

14:02

A.S.S.

14:22

Here

14:30

I am. Eva, this

14:32

is Agent Blaine, ISD. Dr. Graff? Eva,

14:35

it's fine. Eva? Appreciate you coming.

14:38

I know it's early. I know

14:40

you weren't expecting me until tomorrow. It's

14:42

your world, Agent Blaine.

14:44

We just

14:46

live in it. See, you've

14:49

already been talking with Commander Freeman?

14:52

I wanted to talk to you separately, if

14:54

that's okay.

14:55

You're ISD. I want to cooperate

14:58

in any way I can.

14:59

I appreciate that. I

15:02

know you've had a rough time of it. Freeman

15:04

was just going over the status of the base repairs. Northern

15:08

Platform got hit the worst. Three capsules

15:10

breached and flooded. But the

15:12

supports on West and North were damaged. Dodger,

15:15

I hear

15:15

a splash of explosives up and down both. And 11

15:18

people were killed. Am I right about that?

15:22

Yeah. That's right.

15:24

You guys love to keep forgiving me. There's a lot down there

15:27

I don't understand yet. You're

15:29

rushing the support repairs because underwater

15:33

storms? Eddies. It's

15:35

the technical term.

15:37

The big pockets of moving water

15:39

that break off from the boundary current nearby, it

15:42

happens frequently here. It's one of the reasons

15:44

working outside is so dangerous. What kind

15:46

of currents are we talking about?

15:47

Intense when they surge 40 to 50 knots, and 40

15:51

to 50 knots of hundreds of tons

15:52

of water. Got it. MAC

15:55

has a model for forecasting them. Right now the forecast

15:58

has no eddies for three days, which is the window we're going to be on.

16:00

We should have the supports repaired to Brace by

16:02

the... Let's see... What

16:04

door is this? The one you're working on here? Hydroponics.

16:09

These doors came down with the explosion happening

16:11

a wedge when

16:11

the capsule shifted. Every

16:14

room on Fathom is basically its own separate building,

16:16

we call them capsules. Every entry

16:18

point into a new capsule has emergency pressure

16:21

doors that

16:21

come down in the event of a hull breach to seal them.

16:24

Max says the capsule on the other side isn't

16:26

flooded, but even so, it's probably

16:28

a total loss. Crops don't do

16:30

well without irrigation. Is it possible

16:32

the damage was more isolated to the northern platform

16:35

intentionally?

16:37

If Dr. Edgar has wanted to target

16:39

one platform over another, I think he'd focus

16:41

on West. The reactor's there,

16:43

that's where you'd do the most damage.

16:45

I'd say he did enough damage regardless.

16:48

The labs are on this platform though. All your

16:50

research shows your VI's mainframe.

16:53

From what I hear, it's been acting erratic. Yes,

16:56

that's true. VI's been acting strange ever

16:58

since. Emerson's trying to figure it out now. Strange

17:01

how? Simple things. Waking

17:04

teams up at the wrong times, forgetting who people are,

17:07

shutting lights off middle lunch, stuff like that. But

17:10

his main functions?

17:12

He hasn't missed a beat as far as the project

17:14

goes, and he designed the repair procedure

17:17

for the platform supports on West and

17:18

North. Yes, me. I think it should be shut down. Turning

17:21

off the lights is one thing. Depressurizing

17:23

the base is another. Mac wouldn't do that. What

17:26

Dr. Graff means to say is Mac's

17:28

programming wouldn't allow it to do that. But

17:31

she thinks that Mac is a person, I

17:33

see that's a tool, and tools can malfunction.

17:37

You think,

17:38

what, Edgar's was targeting Mac?

17:40

I don't know.

17:42

But Dr. Edgar's was a smart guy. Triple

17:44

BHD, Band 11, Nobel

17:46

Prize winning engineer with almost 100 patents.

17:49

So?

17:51

Just doesn't sound like a guy to me that does anything

17:53

randomly. I'd

17:56

like to speak to the VI engineer if I could. So

17:59

would I. But Emerson's been offline all

18:01

morning.

18:02

Offline?

18:03

Can't raise her on comms and Matt can't pinpoint

18:05

her location. Then again, he can't pinpoint

18:08

anyone's location right now. Hold

18:12

on to something.

18:15

What

18:19

happened? The pole's reaching the other side of the door.

18:21

Matt, can we feel the pressure door as we shoot down

18:24

the road? Matt! One.

18:38

Matt, what happened? The view that the

18:48

The

18:58

I got met her. We're lucky

18:59

we ought to just drown to death. I want it shut

19:02

down. You can't shut it down,

19:04

Joe. It's a hundred million dollar asset.

19:07

We can do an alpha level reboot if we need

19:09

to, but Emerson is AWOL and... If we need

19:11

to, it almost kills us. Everyone relax.

19:14

Everyone take a breath. Don't tell me to take a breath.

19:18

Freeman! Take a breath. Fine.

19:24

Sure. Shut it down. Shut it down,

19:26

or I will. I mean it. Uh,

19:29

what does that mean, Joe?

19:32

You've already had enough sabotage, don't

19:34

you think?

19:36

Joe? God

19:39

damn it. You okay?

19:42

Yeah, I'm fine. I'm just...

19:45

Welcome to Fathom. Tensions

19:47

are higher than I didn't expect. You wouldn't shut

19:50

him down, right? You wouldn't

19:52

shut down, Matt? No. Oh,

19:54

you're right. Shutting down

19:57

the VIs is essentially terminating. Not to mention hitting the

19:59

weak button and losing...

23:14

R

24:00

E A L M. Now to grow

24:02

your business no matter what stage

24:04

you're in. Shopify.com

24:06

slash realm.

24:24

That is a lot of windows.

24:28

180 degree view of the whole

24:29

sordid affair. We're

24:32

looking outside? Into the water? We

24:35

are. It's

24:38

darker than space. It

24:41

actually is. In space

24:43

you get starlight. Not

24:46

much, but it still counts lumens. Down

24:49

here there's... nothing.

24:54

And... it's straight out

24:56

there? About 600 yards. Usually

25:00

there is some kind of illumination around it. Subs,

25:04

rovers, divers. But

25:06

since the explosion,

25:07

that's all stopped. Sometimes

25:11

I think I can almost see it better with the lights off.

25:15

Like it's... darker

25:18

than everything else. I

25:21

don't see anything. It's

25:23

black.

25:25

Max? Let me hear it, Dr. Graff.

25:28

Will you hit the vault lights for me? Full

25:30

spread, Dr. Graff. Yes, please. Now

25:41

that is something. Yes.

25:47

Yes, it is. I

25:51

saw it. I...

25:53

I didn't expect... 2,000 feet

25:55

in diameter. Carbon

25:57

dating? 7 million years

25:59

old.

26:02

Seven million.

26:04

That's unbelievable. The

26:08

first proof of extraterrestrial life. We

26:11

find it's upon the ocean. Life

26:14

is too ironic to fully understand.

26:16

Makes noise to appreciate

26:19

silence and absence

26:21

to value presence. You

26:24

scientists. You all love

26:26

Voltaire, don't you? You

26:29

forgot a part though. It

26:31

takes

26:32

sadness to understand

26:33

what happiness is. I

26:37

don't believe that part. Correct

26:41

my math. Like I said, still come up to speed

26:43

on this.

26:45

Eleven years ago, an energy company

26:47

comes down here looking for a geothermal reactor

26:49

site. They had Earth's fat

26:52

instead.

26:54

Buried 19,000 feet down. And we think,

26:58

what's

27:00

the door? We know it is.

27:03

Substropic filters show a space under

27:05

it. Big space.

27:08

Doors in your perfect circle, the laser

27:10

scan cellos.

27:11

Hinges on the northern side, huge ones,

27:14

but no electronics, no visible

27:16

hydraulics even, and no locking mechanism.

27:20

We can interact with it, at least.

27:22

There's no obvious way to open it at first.

27:24

So you found the signal.

27:26

Range. Knack.

27:29

Play the vault signal. Recording

27:32

or live broadcast, Dr. Grass. Live,

27:34

please. Well,

27:40

this is lively. It's broadcasting

27:42

and cycling to VLF. Very

27:44

low frequency. And that's important because

27:46

VLF waves are one of the few that travel well

27:49

underwater. This one is at 11 kilohertz.

27:52

Travel's been up far, right? Right.

27:57

So basically, down here, you have to be on top

27:59

of it.

27:59

i

28:06

was wrong

28:12

reason on hall monitor signal

28:18

isn't just noise carrier

28:20

wave modulating sinusoidal

28:22

way for

28:24

digital code in the end

28:26

it's

28:26

binary like any other carrier

28:28

signal

28:29

decision you're looking at is the small

28:31

piece of data on that ways

28:34

and the vault is broadcast over

28:36

and over

28:38

more like a hands to

28:40

the key

28:42

figure out the equation you figure out how

28:44

to open the vault ah

28:46

we believe solving the equation

28:49

give us the frequency and the data packets

28:51

to transmit act to the vaults reception

28:53

device lead

28:55

think that's an

28:57

initiate it's opening procedure how

29:00

far along are you solving the

29:02

equation long as it is isn't

29:04

all that tough it needs to variables

29:07

to solve and it's all with numbers and irrational

29:09

integer pattern

29:11

with try to lot of them were

29:13

under the seven digits now once

29:15

we have a solution ski broadcasters

29:17

infrequency back to their was we

29:20

went through the via left and requests why

29:23

we built the relay next of vault with

29:26

the got out of the lf to signals and travel

29:28

very well down here

29:29

he needed a broadcasting sources physically

29:32

closer no reaction

29:34

for locking mechanism not

29:36

yet

29:38

we theorize maybe the vault wasn't yet submerged

29:40

when it was implanted in the water and have it's the

29:42

reception or geologist

29:45

was underwater at the time of the construction

29:48

not to mention this signal is india

29:50

last like it was designed

29:51

to go through water

29:53

and i assume you've tried other ways to get his

29:55

desire to lock the freeman's team

29:57

excavated around the entire perimeter down to

29:59

about 300 feet extra depth. They never

30:02

found an end to

30:02

the structure, so it's that deep, at

30:04

least. Excavating

30:06

beyond that at this depth. It

30:10

gets hairy quick. They

30:12

lost two men, just giving them that

30:14

far. Exposives. Whatever

30:17

that alloy is, it's harder than fluxes

30:19

do. Diamond filament blades,

30:21

laser cutters, nothing Freeman's boys tried

30:24

even scratched. And no, before

30:26

you ask, the vault can't be pried

30:28

open either. The lock can't be forced. Why?

30:31

There's no seam, no

30:33

gap between the door

30:34

and the container. Well, how is that even possible?

30:37

We don't know. Some unique

30:40

aspect of the alloy, or maybe it's by

30:42

design and additional security measure.

30:46

I guess, once the locking mechanism

30:48

activates, somehow the entire thing unseals

30:50

itself explosively with heat

30:53

plasma. I don't know.

30:55

Anyone's got it.

30:59

What do you think, Dr. Kraft?

31:02

Can you be more specific?

31:04

About the artifact.

31:07

What do you think it is? You're

31:09

the project director, you gotta have a theory, you

31:11

have anyone? What

31:14

but a giant door on the bottom of the ocean? An

31:17

ocean on a planet that at the time, nothing

31:19

intelligent left on?

31:22

I don't know. All

31:25

I know is it shouldn't be here.

31:28

But it is.

31:30

Yeah.

31:32

Just like us.

31:35

Alright. I

31:38

get why you're here, Agent Blaine. Do

31:40

you now?

31:42

An MD employee tries to blow up an

31:44

MD facility, doesn't care

31:46

who he kills, doesn't care about the attention he

31:48

draws.

31:50

This is a black site, after all. Not

31:52

the kind of headlines MD wants on the news. There

31:55

is death.

31:57

You're here to investigate.

31:58

Without any. collaborators that

32:01

Gers might have had.

32:03

Assigned blame. I prefer the word...

32:06

Responsible.

32:07

Whatever the word, the problem I have with it

32:09

is, you don't seem to know very much about this project.

32:12

And I would have hoped that whoever the corporation sent

32:14

to assign responsibility

32:16

would have been a little more informed. MD has hundreds

32:19

of black site projects around the galaxy. They're

32:22

black site for a reason. Like every piece

32:24

of information the corporation deals out,

32:26

you get it when you need it.

32:28

I don't need to know the background of this place or the

32:30

specifics of your research to form an opinion

32:33

on your results.

32:35

Almost a year of your life on this project,

32:38

and you still have no clue what it is you're trying to

32:40

open.

32:41

Oh, now wait, just a minute.

32:44

I wonder if your research progress is more than just

32:46

slow.

32:47

I wonder if it's intentionally slow. I'm

32:50

sorry? You were offered this

32:52

position once, project director,

32:55

and you turned it down.

32:57

Two months later, you lobbied to be included

32:59

again. Now why was that?

33:02

Was it because of your daughter? What

33:05

did you just say? I

33:07

wonder if you took this job, because down here

33:09

there's nothing to remind you of. I

33:12

wonder if the thing that scares you most about this

33:14

place is having to

33:16

leave it. Is this a performance review or

33:18

a psych eval?

33:19

It's whatever I want it to be, Eva. Right

33:22

now I'm trying to decide whether or not to pull you

33:24

off entirely, pull you off, and

33:27

send you home. You don't have the authority. I

33:29

don't, you're right. But the executive

33:31

board does,

33:33

and they want my opinion to make their decision.

33:37

Look,

33:37

look, figuring things

33:40

out like that out there, it

33:42

doesn't happen overnight, and there's been

33:44

progress. We

33:46

have figured out a lot.

33:48

You mean the signal,

33:50

which apparently

33:52

drives people crazy?

33:54

No, wait, that's not

33:55

true. It's harmless. It's just a looping

33:57

carrier waveform. Did Dr. Edgar's think it was

33:59

true?

34:01

Edgar's lost his shit down here, like pretty

34:03

much everyone else does eventually.

34:04

Dr. Edgar's tried to pull up this base so

34:07

as to stop what was happening here. A galactic

34:09

respected scientist and your explanation

34:11

is he lost it.

34:13

You look out there, look. Human

34:16

beings aren't supposed to be down here. You said it

34:18

yourself. We might as well have

34:20

been dropped on the moon. It takes a toll.

34:22

It gets to everyone. Edgar

34:25

said he heard voices in the signal.

34:27

Just him losing

34:29

it. Three other science

34:31

staff said the same thing. Voices

34:33

in the signal. Hundreds of them. Were

34:36

they losing it too? It's just

34:38

the power of suggestion. Stories

34:41

like Edgar's, they

34:43

take a life of their own, especially in a place like this. Edgar

34:45

said in the interview, he was convinced

34:47

that the thing out there wasn't a vault at all.

34:50

Yeah, I know what he thought. Dr. Edgar's didn't think it was

34:52

designed to keep things out. I know what he thought. He

34:54

thought it was designed to keep something

34:56

in. Someone cracking

34:58

under pressure. You have no clue what that thing is. Or

35:01

what's inside it, or what happens when it's open. You

35:03

can't possibly believe, Edgar.

35:05

Do you know what the

35:07

internal security division does, Eva? We

35:12

deal with things when they get out of hand. I

35:15

am very good at it, and I've

35:16

been moving one end of this galaxy to the other doing it.

35:19

The things I've seen, the kinds of projects

35:22

this corporation engages in, the Pandora's

35:24

boxes they've opened.

35:26

I know the kind of darkness my story is capable

35:28

of finding. I've shot it back in

35:30

the box over and over again, and the only reason

35:32

I keep doing it is because right now, I

35:35

still believe that good the corporation does outweighs

35:37

the horror.

35:40

So have you asked me whether or not I can believe

35:42

the ghost stories of an unhinged, triple-BHD-holding

35:45

research scientist

35:46

who tried to blow up his own project to stop

35:48

it from succeeding? The

35:51

answer is, I could. Ask

35:54

Edgar. Ask him. He's

35:57

on the surface now. He'll have recovered. He'll

35:59

tell you. He'll tell you it was just this place.

36:02

It got to him and he lost it.

36:05

That's what it'll say. I would

36:07

very much like to ask him about his experiences

36:10

here, Dr. Graff. But

36:12

I can't. Why not?

36:15

Because he hanged himself in his cell last night.

36:18

What? Dr. Edgars

36:21

is dead.

36:22

And what worries me more than anything

36:24

is that you're hearing

36:27

voices too. No,

36:29

no. I... Your medical

36:32

officer, Dr. Clayton, put it in your chart. You

36:35

said you were hearing voices.

36:38

And you were hearing them way before

36:39

Dr. Edgars did. Once.

36:41

I

36:42

said I heard it once.

36:46

I was wrong. Dr. Clayton also says you're

36:48

not sleeping. That's an exaggeration. She says you're

36:50

losing your grip. Says your team has reported

36:52

you erratic. That you give the same orders

36:54

multiple times. That's not fair. Same

36:57

exact things in Dr. Edgars's file. I'm not

36:59

Dr. Edgars. She said he couldn't sleep either.

37:02

Yes. She said he roamed the halls all

37:04

night. She said his eyes were

37:05

one shot. She said don't

37:08

move.

37:14

I can't go back.

37:18

Being down here, this work, it's all... You're

37:24

right. Okay. I

37:26

don't sleep. I

37:29

don't sleep. And when I do, I hear

37:32

her. And

37:35

then it just...

37:37

Starts all over again.

37:43

I'm sorry I pushed you like that, Dr. Graff.

37:47

But I had to see for myself your state.

37:51

I think it's a good thing I did. What

37:53

does that mean? It means you

37:55

need to go back to your quarters and start packing

37:57

your things. No. And get ready to return

37:59

to the surface.

37:59

No. That will be all, Dr.

38:02

Graff. No, please.

38:03

I

38:06

know how your daughter died.

38:08

The truth is, they

38:11

don't care about any of that.

38:14

All they care about is results. And

38:18

you haven't had enough. Blaine.

38:21

Go home, Dr.

38:24

Graff. There's

38:26

nothing here for you but pain.

38:29

What do you even know about pain? I've

38:33

had my share.

39:00

No! No!

39:09

No! No!

39:15

No! No!

39:25

Oh my god.

39:28

Oh god.

39:35

Oh god. Oh

39:40

god. Nick?

39:52

I'm here, Dr. Grass. Nick?

40:00

Oh.

40:03

Call Angela.

40:04

Of course, Dr. Graff.

40:06

Calling Angela Graff.

40:13

Hey, this is Angela. Leave me a message and

40:15

I'll... McVic- Certainly consider

40:17

calling...

40:19

Call to Angela Graff. Disconnected.

40:23

Dr.

40:26

Graff, you seem agitated. You

40:31

think so, Mac?

40:34

Is there anything I can do to help?

40:39

I don't know. Can you

40:41

roll

40:41

back time?

40:45

I'm afraid I do not have that ability, Dr. Graff.

40:50

Chemomilti has been shown to have a relaxing

40:52

effect in times of stress. Which

40:54

is like me to make you a cup.

40:57

How about a whiskey, Mac? Alcohol

41:01

is restricted on fathom-based to weekends only.

41:06

No, you can't make an exception. For

41:09

an old friend.

41:11

I'm afraid not, Dr. Graff. Thanks

41:15

anyway,

41:15

Mac.

41:19

As a reminder, you still have one unheard voicemail.

41:24

Yeah. Who's it from? The

41:27

voicemail is from...

41:27

Dr. Richard Edgars. Edgars?

41:33

Yes, Dr. Richard Edgars. The

41:35

message was received 11 hours ago. Play

41:40

it. Play

41:43

a message from Dr. Richard Edgars. They

41:46

gave me one phone call, Eva. I

41:49

used it for you. Flatter.

41:53

Flatter. I

41:57

won't be here tomorrow. Maybe

41:59

you'll hear me. Maybe you

42:01

won't. Doesn't matter.

42:07

I hoped when they pulled me out of that place and back into

42:09

the sun, the one Salasat

42:11

has, said I wouldn't

42:13

hear them anymore. But

42:18

I still do. I'm

42:21

on my way inside my head. They're

42:24

all I hear, even. When

42:27

I close my eyes, they're all I hear. I

42:31

haven't slept in a month. How

42:35

are you sleeping, Eva? I've

42:40

decided I

42:43

don't care anymore. I've

42:45

decided I want

42:47

it open. I'm hoping

42:50

for everything in there to just crawl

42:53

out. You

42:56

deserve it. You

42:59

more than anyone. See,

43:03

you're the one I'll tell. Tell

43:05

what I already figured out. What

43:07

I kept from everyone. It's

43:11

actually very simple. I

43:14

won't just keep it to you, though. I

43:17

want you to make your choice. I

43:20

want you to look back. And know

43:22

that it was you that caused it. So,

43:29

here it is. You're

43:32

half right. The

43:35

signal is the key.

43:39

But it's the lock, too. And

43:42

you never thought about the timing, Eva. Right

43:46

there in front of you. And you never

43:48

thought about it at all. The

43:52

sad thing is, I

43:54

know you'll do it. You'll

43:58

do whatever it takes.

43:59

I just let you stay down there. I'll

44:03

tell you my sympathies, but, uh, we

44:07

both know better.

44:10

Mac. I'm here, Dr.

44:12

Graff. I'll leave this message. Are

44:15

you certain, Dr. Graff? Yes. Delete

44:18

it.

44:18

Now. And scrub it. No

44:21

backup. Mrs.

44:23

from Dr. Eggers, permanently deleted.

44:26

Alright. Mac.

44:28

Play the whole signal. Live broadcast.

44:33

Mac, I want to know the timing

44:35

of the signal. How long is it? Is it

44:38

the same length every time? And

44:40

does the length of time vary in between each broadcast?

44:42

The

44:45

signal is exactly ten seconds long

44:47

and is the same length of every broadcast. The

44:49

timing of each broadcast is exactly

44:52

ten seconds. When

44:54

you say exactly, you mean with what

44:56

specificity? Down to

44:58

the millisecond, Dr. Graff. It is exact.

45:07

Mac, put up the

45:08

signal equation on number three, please. Mac,

45:16

I'd like to try solving

45:19

the equation with y

45:21

equals ten and x equals

45:23

two. Confirming variable

45:25

input. Y equals ten and x

45:28

equals two. And hit it. The

45:32

equation does not resolve with y equals

45:34

ten and x equals two. Mac,

45:38

try x equals ten and

45:41

y equals two.

45:44

The equation resolves

45:46

with a low result. Eleven, zero, zero.

45:51

Exactly eleven. Yes,

45:53

Dr. Graff. Eleven, zero, zero.

45:58

The frequency of the volts signal.

49:59

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