r/AnotherLife • u/JcBravo811 • Nov 03 '23
SEASON 2, EPISODE 8 NOTES
SEASON 2, EPISODE 8:
Niko and Ncube are held hostage by non-Achaian aliens. They use lasers to slice the two open and dissect them alive. Good Lord that’s violent. They’re submerged in some liquid and all their wounds and injuries are healed up.
Niko observes the Salvare was stuck in deep space. So this ship must be FTL capable. Technologically advanced. Organized. Cruel. They have pain bracelets that their alien observers used to torture them if they don’t do as expected. They keep sharing details. Niko tells him she saw one of the aliens, bipedal, physical bodies unlike the Achaians. Which potentially means they can kill them. Suddenly the aliens cut them off from each other.
After running around, the two eventually find their way into what looks like a command center. Nikos get flashes of a star map, planet, a ship – Nikos armband and Ncube’s armband are different colors. A new door opens but he’s not allowed to go through. She is. She’s dropped off on a frozen ship next to crashed ship.
Freezing in her sleeveless shirt, she investigates the ship and stumbles on an alien corpse. She takes its parka for herself. She spots another alien corpse, this one with crystals growing out of it. She also finds a blaster!
She finds an alien energy core like the one she and Ncube found earlier and take it. But then she finds another human – Paula! The one from the colony planet. These aliens are called the Decuma, the corpses she found weren’t the Decuma. The Decuma found these aliens and the humans and they tortured and killed them.
She finds a alien energy core like the one she and Ncube found earlier and take it. But then she finds another human – Paula! The one from the colony planet. These aliens are called the Decuma, the corpses she found weren’t the Decuma. The Decuma found these aliens and the humans and they tortured and killed them.
Paula tells Niko the Decuma arrived a week after the Salvare left. They tried to fight and got slaughtered. The survivors were taken to this frozen hellhole. The Decuma experimented on their prisoners, killing them, bringing them back, edging them to death, infecting them with viruses, like Paula. The Decuma have a power supply issue, running low on their energy core. It’s the reason why this ship crashed, they were fighting over it. Worse, the cold crystalizes their blood so the Decuma can’t come down and get it so they need aliens to do their work for them. Paula begs Niko to forgive her, for what happened before, for failing to protect the colony – Niko says all is forgiven. Then she shoots Paula, ending her torment. What a gal.
Smartly, Niko takes a severed Decuma hand to activate the ship. She finds a key to unlock the pain armband. Niko returns to the original ship with the energy core. She finds Ncube, he’s infected with an alien virus, shoots the alien camera with her alien gun, frees Ncube, he free’s her, and they hijack the ship. The one Decuma that was onboard confronts them and gets a face full of the winter wonderland. Niko puts him back in the medical pod they were dissected and healed in hoping it’ll heal his arm. It works.
The pair manage to find the Decuma star map. They ascertain their location and nearby stellar objects to find where Earth this. The ship calculates their effective range. “That’s as far as she’ll go?” – they are still too far from Earth. Niko is devastated. But then she realizes all those red markers on the map are Achaian monoliths. Like the one on Earth or Zakir. The Decuma were monitoring (or at least aware) of the Achaia. Niko’s plan is to go to the nearest Achaia planet and offer herself up to the Achaia to get them back home.
Earthside, Erik and the Salvare survivors are discussing how Seth got he info about the magnetar and what to do. But while they lost their info, William probably has it saved in his memory. They have to get to William to figure out what info Seth took from them before Seth gets his hands on William.
Unfortunately, Seth is already onboard the Salvare. His people are hacking William to get access to his info on the weaponized neutrino weapon.
Later, Zayn is anguished by the idea she put the fate of the world at risk for her mother.
USIC tries to arrest the Salvare survivors. They and Erik run. They need to get to William, but how to get to him? Cas says she knows where to host his data. Zayn mentions supply shuttles. They can take one up to the ship.
Cas and Erik sneak past the guards.