The Ark's arrival to Trappist-B has to wait as there is a mystery involving Felix Strickland! Re:cap - “It Should Have Been You”; the funeral ceremony for Spencer Lane is given by Captain Sharon Garnet with Captain Zed Avega attending whose life was saved by Lane. The Ark-1 is about to go into FTL, but the engine sends out bolts that hit Garnet, Lane’s clone, Ian, and Dr. Marsh! They find they are on an empty ship, but Marsh vanishes only to wake up from his coma on the ship! Lt. James Brice sees that Marsh has scars on his back which the doctor explains is from his post-human implants that failed. He suddenly screams from his faulty brain implant! Ian and Garnet have aged in the other reality and eventually marry. Felix Strickland has removed a MX chip during Marsh’s operation. William Trust says that it was part of a mind control project.
Lt. James Brice has a talk with Angus about leadership. He encourages Trust to help in engineering. Brice has the idea of using probes which are inserted into Garnet’s head, she emerges from her coma, but then fades back into it. Garnet wakens in the reality to tell her husband, Ian, that they both have to die to return from the shared dream! Now elderly, the couple spend time on the observation deck. Now the probes are shared and activated. Ian feels a stroke and then their heart beats fail at medbay. Ian and Garnet kiss one last time. Defibrillators are placed on Garnet and Ian in their comas. A red light flashes as the airlock depressurizes in the dream reality. The couple walks towards space. Their vitals return to normal.
Dr. Sanjivni Kabir welcomes them back. She tells them that they have been in comas for 36 hours.
Ian says Garnet was right, she sees that they were holding hands, and pulls away. She looks forward and doesn’t want to talk to him. Eva Markovic and Alicia Nevins are sitting at engineering wondering why the engine doesn’t work. Trust offers to help them. Eva smiles. Brice thanks the crew at the bridge. Garnet contacts Captain Avega to explain why they didn’t meet with the FTL failure. It has been repaired and Brice activates the FTL drive. The two ships, the EF-2 and Ark-1, slip into FTL. Alone, Garnet goes to a terminal to look at the profile of Spencer Lane, and cries. She says, “It should have been you” and changes his status to Deceased. Great acting by Christie Burke.
THE ARK -- “It Will Be Over Soon” -- RICHARD FLEESHMAN, CHRISTIE BURKE, PAVLE JERINIC -- Photo by: Aleksandar Letic/Ark TV Holdings, Inc./SYFY.
Orsi Nagypal is the director of “It Will Be Over Soon” She directed season one’s “The Painful Way” (2023). India Sage Wilson is the writer. The Ark-1 has reached its destination, the rendevous with EF-2, there is a star ahead of them. Alicia reports Trappist-1D is the fourth planet similar to Earth. Garnet tries to send a contact. There is four Arks thought be there. Home base sends out coordinates. A celebration!, but this show doesn’t have easy resoltuions. EF-2 hasn’t arrived yet. Marsh checks Kelly and she brings up that he is also post-human. He said his implants failed after a few weeks. Kelly calls herself a freak. Alicia walks to engineering and the worker, Maija (Olivera Perunicic) is supicious about Alicia's work instead of Trust. Perunicic is in the horror movie, Subspecies V: Bloodrise (2023).
There is a malfunction as a pipe explodes. Brice reports the coolant leak. Eva activates the anti-radiation. Garnet sees the engineer has a badly scarred face. Maria? Alicia’s face only has burns on her chin. Angus goes to hug Alicia. Kabir says that she only has minor burns. Garnet enters engineerng with Eva, Ian, and Sasha. Trust walks in and finds that Alicia wouldn’t have made the mistake. Ian catches up with Garnet. He says he thinks he knows her from the dream. Garnet says he is “just a dream.” Felix Strickland practices with his katana. He gets a call from a mysterious man who tells him that they have his daughter! The man says he has Katherine! He hears her voice! He asks her favorite book. She says Pinocchio.
It is his lost daughter! She says she is scared. This is pushing him over the edge! I like that Felix Strickland is the focus of the episode. The man says Garnet is knocking at his door. If he says anything, Katherine will lose a finger! She mentions preparations for Trappist. Alicia and Kelly enter the medbay and Kelly wants to give her nanites to heal Maija. Marsh says it can’t be done. This seems like a Hippocratic Oath violation, a patient should be given something to help her, if it doesn't endanger the patient. Felix is contacted by Kabir about her defense session. She is in the gym ready to work on the punching bag. He enters engineering sub-station. and is about to take out a chip. The voice tells him that he should continue. He replaces chips. Ian walks in. Felix is being manipulated, but strangely, the man knows his every move?
THE ARK -- “It Will Be Over Soon” -- SAMANTHA GLASSNER, JADRAN MALKOVCH -- Photo by: Aleksandar Letic/Ark TV Holdings, Inc./SYFY.
Eva finds that a capcitaor has overloaded which makes travel to Trappist-B difficult. Felix writes in a a book, “I’m being blackmailed, help me.” He gets a warning on his wrist unit. Felix eyes the crew and then the security camera. Marsh enters Kelly’s cell, she is frustrated that she can’t use her blood to help, he wants to protect her from people who will use her. She asks if her mother will be on the planet. Kelly admits she doesn’t know if she will fulfill her vow of killing Evelryn Maddox. Eva has found the radiation blowout. She asks Trust about it and wonders if it is sabotage. Ian mentions Felix’s action, but she doesn’t find it important. At the ready room, Eva wth Brice tells Garnet about the blowout is intentional. Felix taps his fingers as a signal.
He gets a message to “direct them from Maija.” Felix mentions Ian. A mystery! Felix is told to log in to the Personnel files. He is asked to volunteer for a spacewalk. Garnet tells Alicia about the explosion was set up. She wants her to stay in her quarters and invites Angus to stay with her. She kisses him as Garnet leaves. Interesting to see paintings of flowers in her room. At the ready room, Garnet invited Trust for a spacewalk, he agrees to it even though he was sick. He asks for Garnet and Felix volunteers. He taps his fingers again. Trust agrees to Felix on the spacewalk. Ian tries to tell Brice about Felix and he agrees with the captain. He wants them to investigate Felix. Brice admits that Felix has been acting “jumpy.”
At the engineering sub-station, Ian says he loves jazz, and Brice says Lane didn’t like it. Ian says he feels the pressure of living up to his example. Ian has found the faulty capacitor and sees the capacitors were switched. Felix enters the captain’s quarters, he says Ian is responsible for the radiation vent, he taps his fingers on his elbow. Garnet says, “Right, got it.” Finally, we have one person who understands the situation. Garnet takes Maija’s wrist device and computer at medbay. She uses her command override to access the device’s message, “We’ll kill your brother unless you do what we say.” Garnet, now investigator, looks at the Ark-2 locker and finds an old tape recorder.
THE ARK -- “It Will Be Over Soon” -- RICHARD FLEESHMAN, REECE RITCHIE -- Photo by: Aleksandar Letic/Ark TV Holdings, Inc./SYFY.
Garnet makes a ship wide announcement for the members to the ready room. She takes out the tape recorder. She has them silent, take off their wrist devices, and plays a tape of herself speaking to them. She takes them to the closet to speak privately. Felix admits he is blackmailed. He doesn’t know how they knew and Eva says the ship could be monitored ouside of the ship. Felix says he heard his daughter’s voice. He realizes that the blackmailer wants Trust dead. Garnet has him continue as they plan. Felix is troubled as he is contacted by the man. He wants Felix to cut both of their tethers when on spacewalk. At the airlock, Felix and Trust suit up and then prepare for spacewalk! Tense. He has Trust use hand signals, cuts his tether, and throws him into space! This episode of The Ark episode blackmail, the hope of Felix's daughter, and a plot to kill Felix and Trust!
Five Compression Suits out of Five!
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