Nightflyers

This is Dr. Agatha Matheson

of the "Nightflyer."

We have sustained fatalities,

structural damages.

We...

This is a warning...

Not a distress call.

Do not board this ship.

Do not bring the "Nightflyer" back to Earth.

Me again.

No! No!

No!

Hold still.

- Any sickness? - Sores?

No.

- He's clear. - Let him through.

Thank you.

Joy?

Hey.

Hey. Everything okay?

Flights have been grounded.

Quarantine zones are back into effect.

They're... they're saying

it might spread north this time.

Hey, we'll be all right.

They've said that before.

What is it?

The funding?

- You got it? - No.

Presentation was horrible.

They... they practically threw tomatoes at me.

Aww.

- Then, what? - Afterwards...

I got a call...

from Roy Eris.

And he's seen all my calculations,

the intercept, the Teke waveforms, all those...

What... what does that have

to do with him building colonies?

- He sees the potential in all of this.

He sees what I see.

He... the power...

beyond our comprehension, all of it, he...

He wants me to assemble a team.

A team for... for what?

- Eris called me from the deck of the "Nightflyer."

He wants to take me there.

I'm going after the volcryn.

Um...

I am...

That... that's incredible.

Hey, um,

I know how hard this is.

But this is everything I've worked for.

I'm happy for you, it's...

It's just, it's...

- It's unexpected. - This mission...

could change everything.

It could save the Earth.

What do we tell her?

You'll be...

gone.

Maybe two years.

Joy, I... I'm sorry,

but if I don't go...

and they pass us by...

I'm gonna come back.

I promise.

I'm scared that you won't.

Daddy?

Hey, honey.

We wake you?

I'm sorry.

Want me to bring you back to bed?

- Yeah. - Okay, come on.

- That thing you found in the sky...

it's a ship for people?

It might be.

That's what I'm gonna find out.

And you're going

to go talk to them.

Yeah, I'm gonna try to.

Here.

Give them...

this...

Friendship bracelet...

so we can all be friends.

- I think they'd really like that.

- Daddy? - Mm-hmm?

You're my...

Memory paused.

Go for D'Branin.

Professor, the shuttle has arrived,

and they're prepping the cargo for offload.

How long till we break orbit?

Six hours.

You nervous?

We're going into the Void.

No one's done it before.

"Eagle 16" did it.

- No one's done that and come back.

Well, we're with Roy Eris.

I think we're in good hands.

- Hi. - I'm Melantha Jhirl,

- Karl's mission specialist. - Sorry.

Mel, Lommie, this is Dr. Matheson.

Oh, Agatha's fine.

I'm a psychiatrist.

- I'll be looking after Thale. - I'm excited to meet him.

I've never met an L-1 before.

Mel and I planned every aspect

- of this mission together. - Karl was nervous

that a group of scientists wouldn't be able to survive

- out in the Void. - But Mel has been

born and raised for space travel,

so she'll get us through it.

- Won't you? - I'll do my best.

Lommie... Thorne.

It's nice to meet you.

Lommie talks to the ship.

Internal systems, data flow,

- coding. - Neural port?

Yeah.

Wow.

It's not much to look at,

but, uh, it's all they had.

- Oh. - It'll get the job done.

- I think it's great. - Yeah.

Most of them would rather

we weren't on their ship at all.

Right.

We got a special delivery coming in.

I want full security on this one.

Quick and clean.

- The next bin holds an L-1. - A fucking L-1?

- God damn it. - Captain Eris wants him

on the ship, so we're bringing him on the ship.

Let's get this done.

Gear up.

- Dr. Matheson, you really think your L-1

can communicate with the volcryn?

Karl does.

Yeah, I do.

Look, the Teke energy that comes off telepaths

is the exact same energy we detected

coming off the volcryn.

- So you'd better hope they speak the same language.

- It's a theory, but it's all we've got to go on.

He's not my L-1, by the way.

I've just known him since he was a child.

What's he like?

He's good...

at times.

- Here he comes. - Get to position;

follow my lead.

- Come on. - Yes, sir. Let's go, guys.

You're doing the right thing.

I hope you're right.

I think he's waking up.

He's under suppression.

Open the pipe.

Coming your way.

Of course.

The fuck was that?

It was psychic feedback.

He wasn't trying to hurt you.

- Bad idea bringing one of those things

- onto the ship. - Let's get him to the dome.

Now.

All right, moving.

It's gonna be okay.

They can handle it.

I, uh...

wanna show you something.

Come on.

Everything you see was grown right here

on this ship.

It's beautiful.

- I promised you I'd look after Thale.

Captain Eris has agreed to give him two hours

every week down there.

Thale's spent his entire life

locked inside that mountain.

No fresh air.

No sunshine.

Thank you, Karl.

This must be our lion tamer.

I loved your paper

on neuroplasticity in telepaths.

Wild stuff.

- This is Rowan, our xenobiologist.

- Ah. - Nice to meet you.

You, too.

Oh, you must be thrilled.

Chance to make first contact with alien life.

- Is that what Karl told you we're doing?

- Yeah, Rowan is a little skeptical

- of our mission. - You don't believe

- there's anything out there. - Actually, I do.

That's what concerns me.