The Ark

- Previously on "The Ark... " - Lieutenant Brice was the pilot

on a covert mission to intercept the attack on the lunar base.

He intentionally threw the mission in service of the Eastern Federation.

- You had the chance to save my father. - I'm so sorry.

- This is my brother. - He's with the Eastern Federation.

- She's the one who's Eastern Federation! - Bojan.

Bojan!

Her organs might be failing,

but her implants have not been on for that long.

It's Eastern Federation.

- What do we know so far? - The EF 2,

one of two Eastern Federation ships to get off Earth

before Ark 3, according to its database.

Well, they're packing some heavy artillery, and it's all trained on us.

- So not a social visit then? - Get us out of here, Brice.

The FTL is fully charged, but I'm gonna need a while to chart a course.

There's no time for that. We don't know their intention.

Well, in that case, everybody cross your fingers and toes.

Now!

What the hell is that Scotsman doing to my ship?

Even a junior cadet knows that activating FTL without a course set

could land us in the middle of God knows what.

Yeah, not that I owe you an explanation, Your Majesty,

but it's not like I had much a bloody choice seeing

as we were trying to escape death and everything.

So I typed in a set of random coordinates, okay?

Which can only help us. There's no way that ship

can then find us again.

Which begs the question, in all the vastness of space,

how the hell did they find us in the first place and what could they possibly want?

Well, I hate to say it,

but Eva is an EF operative.

- Oh, here we go. - I think we both know

- it's a little more complicated than that. - Occam's razor.

The most likely explanation is that she made contact.

Well, how would she be able to? She's been locked in her cabin.

Well, she could have done it before we locked her up.

Hang on, hang on. That's a pretty serious accusation.

So how 'bout we don't go jumping to conclusions

before we've actually bothered speaking to her?

Oh, because she's been so forthcoming with us this whole time?

Look, mate, I know Eva, right?

- A lot better than you. - Oh, for God's sake, Brice.

Move your brains from your crotch to your skull. She's one of them.

Spence, I know you're going through a lot, so I'll let that one slide.

Otherwise you would be out cold on the floor right now.

Stop it. Both of you.

Strickland, please bring Eva to the ready room.

On my way.

How's she doing?

There's been no improvement.

With these vitals, she could die.

- Why haven't the nanites helped yet? - I'm not sure.

She's always healed faster than this.

She should've stabilized by now.

Eva, you admitted you were a member of the Eastern Federation.

Now's your chance to explain yourself.

Okay. Not much to it.

When I was trying to get off Earth,

it seemed like the EF would never even finish building their ships,

so Harris and I changed our identities,

posed as GSA, and got onto Ark 1 so we could escape Earth.

- Right. Not such a crime now, is it? - Sorry, which part?

Fraud or sneaking onto a government vessel?

Eva, the Eastern Federation showed up with weapons pointed at us.

- They did? - Yeah, we lost them by jumping to FTL.

- I need to know. Did you contact them? - No.

- Then how did they find us? - I don't know.

- I am loyal to this ship. - Why should we believe you?

How do we know you're not loyal to the Eastern Federation?

Lieutenant Lane, after all I've done for this ship

and this crew, how can you question my loyalty?

Because you already admitted that you were loyal to those monsters.

I was at one time, but you're wrong about them.

- They aren't monsters. - Really?

And how many GSA people need to die before

we can categorize them as monsters in your eyes?

They have a good reason to hate the GSA.

I did before I got on this ship.

I still hate some of the command structure we left behind.

What kind of leaders send a young recruit

on a suicide mission without even telling them?

And do you even know what they were doing on that lunar research colony?

Not really. It was a top secret mission.

The GSA was developing a biological weapon

that would've wiped out most of the world's population.

- Wait, what? - How dare you? My father was a hero.

Felix, get her out of here. We don't have to listen to this.

Hang on, hang on. I want to hear her out.

We need to focus on the current problem.

Eva, if you didn't contact them, do you have any idea how they found us

- or what they want? - No.

Can you at least tell us what kind of weapons they have onboard?

- Their vulnerabilities? - I don't know anything about the EF ships.

- They launched after we did. - Really?

- Didn't you use three of them to kill my father? - I wasn't there.

But the fighters who were used small converted shuttles.

Captain, they're preparing to drop out of FTL.

Strickland, return her to her quarters.

We'll continue this conversation later.

- Well, where are we? - About five light-years off course

in the middle of nowhere. I'll assess a new trajectory

for Trappist and get us back on track,

but the FTL is gonna take some time to recharge.

Sounds good.

Oh, God.

How the hell did they find us again?

Even we didn't know where we were going.

What the hell?

Sensors just detected an energy spike in Engineering.

Engineering, damage report?

- Engineering? - We've just been hit

with a doozy of an EM pulse

targeting our FTL and the NEPS.

- We've got no engines. - We're sitting ducks.

Why aren't they shooting at us? What are they waiting for?

They're probably just relishing the moment.

They're attempting to hail us on comms.

Ark 1, this is Captain Zed Avega of the EF 2.

Surrender our soldier to us at once.

I'm Captain Sharon Garnet of Ark 1. Why do you want Eva?

Eva? No, I want Bojan Vukovic.

Hand him over along with the shuttle he stole from us.

Of course. They were tracking their shuttle this whole time.

I would gladly surrender Bojan,

but I'm sorry to tell you this,

he died.

We rescued him from Ark 3, but he took his own life.

- I don't believe you. - I'm telling the truth.

We'll gladly return your shuttle, but Bojan's not here.

I assume by Eva you mean

Bojan's sister Eva Vukovic.

Return her on my shuttle.

If she verifies what you say about Bojan's death, we'll be on our way.

You have a lot of weapons hanging off your ship.

How do we know you won't open fire on us either way?

Despite what you've been led to believe, Captain,

we're not cold-blooded killers like the GSA.

And unlike the GSA, I have no desire

to push the human race closer to extinction.

Previous Eastern Federation actions belie that, Captain.

I'm not going to explain EF actions to a GSA officer.

So let me make myself perfectly clear.

If you do not return Eva and my shuttle,

I will have no choice but to destroy your ship.

You have 20 minutes.

Sharon, you're not seriously considering

sending her over there, right?

She should decide. This is her life.

We need to consider the lives of everyone on this ship.

Send her back to her people, and we might just live to fight another day.

It should be Eva's choice.

Hopefully she chooses to rejoin them and save the rest of our crew.

Alicia, go check with Mr. Trust and see if there's anything

you can do to get the engines back up sooner.

Hey. What are you doing out of your cell?

Security!

- Security! - Angus?

Something wrong?

Security. You wish to report something?

Uh...

They want us to return you in their shuttle.

If we don't, they said they'll destroy us.

Then I have to go for the sake of this ship and everyone on it.

- Eva, it seems like you don't wanna go back. - I don't want to leave Brice.

I don't wanna leave my friends on the Ark.

But you said you hated us.

I said I hated the GSA leadership,

but that's not who any of you are.

- Trust. - Garnet.

You didn't have to send genius girl here. I had it under control.

Except you missed the fact that the differential battery

- was misaligned with... - I missed nothing.

How can I help you, Captain?

Do you remember when you told me if we ever wanted

to rig up a makeshift weapon, you had an idea how to do it?

Oh. I thought you'd never ask.

All right, everyone! You're perfectly safe.

There's nothing more to see. Let's go back to our posts, please, come on.

Yeah, let's go!

Are you not at all worried about what's on the other side of the glass?

Brother, people have been trying to kill me

every day of my life since I was born.

Literally.

- To me, it's just Tuesday. - It's Thursday.

You see that?

You see days when there are none,

and I see everything as one long endless Tuesday.

Yeah, it's amazing how different we are.

- Is it? - Which reminds me.

Something that's just been running through my head.

How the hell is it that you came to be raised as a normal?

Well, I don't know. As far back as I can remember, I had a mom and dad.

- I don't remember any lab. - Have you got any pictures of your parents?

Here.

Oh.

- See, now that explains a lot. - What do you mean?

Your dad was the officer we used to see through the window

when we was at the lab as kids.

I think he was the officer that was in charge.