“Every Single Person Matters” has such an eventful story that here is the second half! Tensions on The Ark are ramped up when the Trusts join the crew. Lt. James Brice had given William an upper cut for the Klampkins disease, the result of his experiments, this makes me think of a real life rocket launch that was feared to explode and cover the atmosphere, it didn’t. Still, I wonder if Trust’s experiments made The Arks and the later advancements by his rival Maddox possible or that she sabotaged his experiments? I don’t trust the Trusts, but there may be more to what happened. At the conference room, Felix Strickland is angry that Helena put him on The Ark-1. He had no option to protect his family. Helena says he saved their lives so she in turn saved his life. It seems so clear cut to her. Strickland is haunted by the memory. There is a crowd of protestors outside of the Trust headquarters, Strickland watches them, escorting the Trusts. A gun man aims at the Trusts, but Strickland takes the bullet! He says he regrets saving their lives and turns over guard duty to Jelena Griff. She comes and thanks William Trust, but this already raises Helena’s suspicions.
THE ARK -- “Every Single Person Matters” -- PAUL LEONARD MURRAY, MERCEDES DE LA CRUZ, CHRISTIE BURKE, PAVLE JERINIC -- Photo: Aleksander Letic/Ark TV Holdings, Inc./SYFY
Alicia Nevins sees Angus Medford at the mess hall and takes a seat by him. She updates him on her productive day, then they are joined by Kelly who says they were experimenting with the crops. Angus is suddenly perked up. No matter what happens, if Alicia is interested in Angus’ work, but he has no interest in her work, that’s not a friend. Hopefully, Alicia finds someone better. Nevins notes his change and Kelly says she changed his hairstyle. Eva Markovic asks for Alicia to return to engineering and tells her to bring her food. At the bridge, Lt. Sharon Garnet and Brice call over Lt. Spencer Lane. He explains that Trent gave him the secret of the Trusts and Garnet he says he lied by omission. True. Also, that he didn’t not confide in Garnet as the second officer. Lane also broke his friendship with Brice keeping the secret. Garnet takes away his duties and rank as lieutenant! This is backed by Brice and Strickland walks up to them. Strickland has his hand out for Lane’s i.d. It may be necessary, but not in front of all of the bridge crew. Markovic and Alicia are hooking up the Maddox retrofit. One of the engineers is confused at what Alicia said, but she knows her theoretical physics!
Markovic says that The Ark-3 worked fine, yes, but what happened when it stopped and ended up with all of the crew lost except Kelly? Also, Angus is basically the science officer, but did not have any input? There should be conferences, back-up plans if the jump goes wrong, and what to do with an Ark-3 situation. They are ready to go Faster Than Light, but engineer, Sasha Novak asks about the possiblites of dying. Helena wonders why they were not honored and William notes human nature, I sense a little Steve Jobs there, but also a kind of arrogance. He notices the arrival of Alicia and Markovic. William gets an update about the retrofit from Alicia and he says it is dangerous. She counters that they are running out of fuel necessary to make a FTL jump. William notes that the fuel will be replaced in FTL and also that Maddox liked to use shortcuts! Garnet asks for feedback and Brice seconds Alicia and Markovic. She makes the decision to go FTL! They take their stations, no shipwide announcement, and go FTL! A bubble envelops The Ark-1, and then energy crackles, sending the ship in warp. This kinda makes me think of the Stargate. We see surges of white energy in the bubble. Markovic reports that it is stable, but there is a distortion like her face is pulled to the side. This is similar to the effect on Ellie Arroway in Contact (1997).
THE ARK -- “Every Single Person Matters” -- TIANA UPCHEVA, STACEY READ, PAUL LEONARD MURRAY -- Photo: Aleksander Letic/Ark TV Holdings, Inc./SYFY
Garnet is shocked that words from the past and future are combining including the warning by William Trust. Garnet asks if they can drop out of FTL, Markovic starts typing, then we see her running. She is back at the station and reports they can’t shut it down. William says they have to reach the engine room, he turns and sees himself, Alicia, and Markovic walking towards it! I love the surreal nature of the FTL’s effect on the crew. He says to follow their “future selves”, makes sense since they safely reached a certain point. They do so and William says to “focus on the destination”, then the women see William do the same action. They flash into the engine room and William tells them to remember. Then, he appears entering the engine room, everything fragments, moments ahead, Alicia about to activate the EMP, her arriving. They have a distorted conversation, Markovic worries that the EMP will destroy Ark-1, and William Trust says it is a fail-safe that will only hit the engines and not the other systems! Markovic never heard about it and William says the info on the EMP was for the commanding officers. Eva Markovic is to disconnect the retrofit and Trust activates the EMP. They tossed to the floor, but out of FTL! The bridge crew pick themselves up, out of breath, Brice remarks that he thought FTL would be fun. Garnet meets with the Trusts who have returned to their room.
She is there to apologize. William says about leadership that you have to trust your gut and if a mistake is made to own up to it. He says the right things sometimes. Garnet says she wants his help with the Maddox retrofit and Williams replies that their goal is to survive. In the helmet room, Brice and Markovic put on their clothes, their relationship is not perfect, but their attraction is evident. He compliments her for the engine room save and she says it is the last time. Sure. Whatever happens, I think they will always be passionate about each other, there was a hint when Brice backed her FTL decision that maybe this was influenced by their relationship. He is smiling when he says he is just a “slip-up”, she mentions that there may be a cure for Klompkins in The Ark-3 archives. Brice has accepted his fate and given up finding a way to survive. He doesn’t want her to fall in love with a man who will die like Harris. Brice walks away. Cat has been waiting for someone to see her, it’s William Trust!, they kiss, yeek! Just when I was leaning towards Cat being a valuable member of the crew, rug pulled out! He says Helena doesn’t now about their affair or she wouldn’t put them on the same Ark. William brings up the mysterious Juno Project, the Roman goddess was connected to childbirth, hmm. He asks about her loyalty before they fall to the bed! The Ark makes a risky FTL jump, tensions run high with the Trusts and Kelly?, plus another mystery with a Juno Project!
Five Compression Suits out of Five!
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