Wormholes, murder, and…butts?! Here’s what happened in Dark Matter: She’s One of Them Now.
Episode 7 opens on Two/Portia (Melissa O’Neil), Three/Marcus (Anthony Lemke), and Six/Kal (Roger Cross) kidnapping Talbor Calcheck (David Hewlett), the Raza crew’s old handler.
On the Raza, Nyx (Melanie Liburd) asks Devon (Shaun Sipos) for some meds to help her get through the day. He refuses, saying that self-medicating only replaces your problems with bigger ones, to which she replies, “I guess you would know,” and tells him that she recognizes a user when she sees one. Devon defends himself, saying that she should take it from him that it’s a bad idea to start using drugs. But Nyx holds an unspoken threat over him, so he gives her a bottle of pills.
“I was as much of a victim as you guys! In fact, now I’m like a double victim, because I’m accused of something I didn’t do!” | Meanwhile, Two, Three, and Six are talking with Calcheck. The team asks him for information about Alycia Reynaud (Inga Cadranel), and Calcheck tells them that she never leaves her fortress of a headquarters, and travels instead by Transfer-Transit. That gives Two an idea, and…
The crew buys transfer equipment and sets it up in the infirmary on the Raza. Calcheck tries to leave, since he’s finished helping them purchase and set up the equipment, but Two informs him that he’s going with them.
“This whole ‘team’ thing takes a bit of getting used to.” | In her quarters, Nyx internally debates taking one of the pills Devon gave her. She puts the bottle away when she hears a ring at her door, and finds Android (Zoie Palmer) standing there. Android gives Nyx a comforting talk, telling her that the crew can all empathize about what she’s going through. They haven’t lost family members, but they lost One/Derrick (Marc Bendavid), who was almost family. Android reminds Nyx that she’s not alone, and endeavors to comfortingly pat Nyx on her feet, the only part of her body within arm’s reach.
Five/Emily (Jodelle Ferland) hacks into Alycia Reynaud’s Transfer-Transit pod so that they can use it. They have three pods on the Raza, and Five volunteers to take one, since they’ll need her to hack into Reynaud’s systems and find the information they need. Two wants to go, but Six and Four/Ryo (Alex Mallari, Jr.) point out that the pods only clone organic material, so her clone wouldn’t have nanites and might not make it. Four decides he’ll go, since they can’t take weapons, and need someone skilled at hand-to-hand combat, and Six wants to fill the last position, but Three still doesn’t entirely trust him, so Three volunteers instead. Two and Six will patrol above the facility in the Marauder, in case any of them gets separated from the pod.
“Your outfit. It’s very…snug.” | The trio meet in the infirmary, wearing form-fitting jumpsuits of a biosynthetic material that will be able to travel with them, so they’re not wandering around naked (remember, actual Transfer-Transit stations provide clothing in each room). Android eyes Three’s butt, commenting several times on how tight the suits are.
The room Three, Four, and Five transfer to is furnished with couches, a computer, and—most importantly, in Five’s eyes—cookies, so they don’t even have to leave the room to get the information they need. Five discovers that the mystery metal card Alycia has been after is part of a drive called a blink drive. It creates transversible wormholes—basically, with the blink drive, you don’t travel from point A to point B. You don’t technically move at all. You just disappear from one place and reappear in another place, instantaneously, no matter how far the distance. Five says that this drive is useable in any ship, as long as they have the adaptor, which holds several different cards, to plug into the ship. The adaptor is in a lab 4 stories up, so the three decide to go after it (despite my advice to have one of them go back to the Raza, because, as we know, if a person’s clone is killed or doesn’t make back it to the pod for whatever other reason, the person won’t remember anything that happened to the clone. So if all three clones are captured or killed, well, they’re right back where they started).
“This is kind of an impromptu picnic.” | Nyx runs into Devon sitting on the floor with a bottle of alcohol, next to a stasis pod. He comments on how the crew “went in with the weight of the universe on their shoulders, and came out free and clear,” but Nyx points out that the stasis pod malfunction only erased their memories, not their pasts. Devon says that he still wishes he could get a fresh start, even if it’s just in his head. He then tells Nyx that he killed a 12-year-old girl once. Devon relates the story of how he was a ship’s doctor on a colonist run, when the ship came out of FTL and ran into a meteor storm. He was able to patch most of the people up, but the little girl had third-degree burns and internal injuries. He says that he would have been able to save her, but he got shaky, so he gave himself “a little top-up” of Shadow before surgery. But he gave himself too much, and she died on the operating table. He had tried to stay clean for about six months after that, but he started seeing the girl’s face everywhere. But Nyx tells Devon that “blocking something out is no way to move on,” and that she had been on her way to return the pills she had made him give her.
Meanwhile, in Reynaud’s facility, Three, Four, and Five have made it to the lab. The drive is sitting in the open on a pedestal. Five figures that there won’t be any safeguards, because the entire facility is a safeguard, so they take the drive, and—an automated voice asks for a password. Three says, “Password?!” which, of course isn’t the password, and alarms start blaring. The trio has only one gun, which they took from a guard they encountered and knocked out earlier, and the hallways are being blocked by security guards, so Three tells Five she has to take the device and get to the roof so Two can extract her. Five finds her favorite type of escape route, a duct, and starts crawling, while Three and Four are shot by stun guns and dragged away.
“Whoa, hang on a second. Can we discuss our options?” | Three and Four wake up sitting back-to-back in chairs, and Alycia Reynaud enters. She knows who they are, and that they used her transit pod. She also knows that the last card is on the Raza. She tells them that as long as the transit connection that brought them there remains open, her men can trace the signal and find the Raza, but they can save themselves a lot of trouble by just telling her the Raza’s coordinates. Four reminds her that they’re clones, so she can’t really hurt them, but Alycia tells them that she can send a powerful subspace charge to their pods on the Raza and fry their brains. But, in the meantime, while her men are tracking down the signal of the transit connection, she leaves a man with them to torture them.
“You are a sight for sore eyes, and I mean that literally.” | We cut to Alycia’s torturer punching both Three and Four in the face, when suddenly the door opens and the man gets shot with a stun gun by none other than our favorite green-haired pixie. While she’s searching for keys to the handcuffs, we go back to Alycia’s transit room, where one of her techs has just locked onto the Raza’s position. He sees three transit pod signatures, and Alycia tells him to pick one and send the charge (apparently forgetting that they only have two people in custody?).
Five can’t find the keys, so she improvises and shoots both Three and Four in the chests, killing their clones. Of course, that means that they don’t remember anything, but at least they’re out of the pods. Now there’s only a 2/3 chance that Alycia’s tech will kill someone with that charge. Alycia returns to the room where Three and Four were, only to find an unconscious torturer and two piles of ash. She tells her men that Five reminds her of herself when she was younger, and orders them to bring her Five alive.
More of Reynaud’s men (how many men does she have?) have attacked the Raza, telling them to lower their shields and prepare to be boarded, because they’re outgunned. Android tells the Marauder that they need to get back to the Raza, but just then, Six spots a heat signature on the roof of the facility, so he and Two tell the Raza to hold the other ship off for a little bit longer while they pick up Five’s clone. On the Raza, Android lowers the shields and uses that power to fire, knocking out the other ship’s weapons for a few precious seconds, enough for the Marauder to dock and them to jump to FTL. Five’s clone hops into a pod, and Five pops out of hers, safe and sound, with her memories intact.
“Aside from the break-and-enter, the assault, threats, kidnapping, imprisonment, I actually had a really great time!” | Six says that the drive will level the playing field, and that they’ll now be able to take the fight to the corporations. Three isn’t so sure he wants to do that, but Two says that the first step is to test it out. While Android is working on hooking the adaptor up, they drop off Calcheck at Regulus 12. Devon says that he could use a little time off the ship, and Nyx decides to join him. Devon protests, but Nyx persists, and Two tells them that they’ll pick them up after they’ve done their test. Nyx tells Two that she’s worried that if someone doesn’t go with him, he won’t be there when they get back, because he’s in a dark place.
Once the Raza gets out of visual range of the station, they test the blink drive, targeting a destination 160 light-years away from them. As the blink drive whirrs and clanks, Android says, “Something’s wrong.” She is unable to shut it down, and a high-pitched tone gets louder and louder, causing the crew (and me) to clutch their heads. We see the Raza from outside, and it shimmers like a mirage, and disappears.
On Regulus 12, Nyx waits for Devon to complete his business and meet her at the bar. He’s in what looks like a service hallway, and you’ll never guess who shows up: the crew of the seer ship. He doesn’t recognize them, but they talk about his past, and say that he’s here to sell Shadow to his contacts, as they predicted. He says they didn’t quite get that right, as he doesn’t have any Shadow. They then ask for the whereabouts of the Raza, and he tells them that it’s long gone. The seers want Nyx, but again, he says that he can’t help them, as “she’s one of them now.” The leader of the seers nods at one of them, who jumps forward and stabs Devon in the gut with a knife. And not just a simple in-and-out stab; he really dug around in there, so there’s pretty much no chance Devon will survive this, especially considering how abandoned the area he’s in is. While Devon is bleeding out on the floor, Nyx is still sitting at the bar, futilely waiting.
Did Devon survive? Will the seers find Nyx? And what happened to the Raza?!
Dark Matter airs Fridays at 10pm on Syfy.
