The Calling
Maura wakes up in a dream and rushes to the grave with the words “Wake Up” written on the wood. She’s pulled back into the shadows and to a room where she’s tied down, injected with something and thrust straight back into the ship.
Maura wakes up to find all of the passengers have locked up the boy in a cabinet with a metal pipe over the front. This is similar to what happened in episode 1, doesn’t it? ..
Maura moves forward to protect the boy, wanting to free him. However, something happens that freezes time and Maura can’t distort reality to her will. She plucks a bullet out from the air and looks around in confusion. The only constant able to move along with her is the boy, who steps out from the cabinet after Maura frees him.
He leads her by the hand out of the room, leaving everyone inside in a state of disbelief over what just happened. ..
Meanwhile, Krester continues to snub his poor son, with Iben’s sexuality weighing heavily like an anchor on her heart, restricting her from actually being able to open up and accept her son. As for Tove, she speaks to Krester about this before eventually taking the gun and marching off purposefully.
Clemence learns the truth about Lucien, including all the lies he’s told to reach this point. “You are a constant reminder of what I can’t have,” Lucien says sadly, tears running down his cheeks. He knows that his life has been a complete lie ever since he pretended to be a lieutenant.
A strange ticking noise is heard throughout the ship, prompting a group of crew to begin marching off to the deck. The noise reverberates through the cabins, splitting the group in half, with those who are lucid and those who are completely entranced. ..
Ling-Yi’s mother takes charge as she nonchalantly drops herself into the water, followed by all the other passengers - Krester included. When Maura questions the boy over what’s happening, he writes down “They are listening” and continues on, claiming she needs to speak to the Creator for any sort of answer. And that comes in the form of that strange hatch hidden below the cabin. ..
Maura finds herself in a vision of the same house that she saw in the early parts of this chapter. The details are incredibly similar, right down to the cross and a house in the distance.
When Daniel sees the hatch opened, he presses the buttons on his machine to reveal a hidden compartment, which happened to contain this gateway. The young boy is there, “It knows we’re here now” Daniel says to the boy. Now, there’s some cryptic chatter here about the Creator, “not making it this far before” and other dialogue that seems to hint at the true reality of what’s happening but honestly, it’s way too confusing to piece together right now! ..
Daniel heads down to the engine room and tries to fix what’s gone wrong. Unfortunately, one of the engineers suddenly gets on top and begins choking him out, calling him a wolf. Daniel manages to press a few more buttons though and with that, the man suddenly goes limp and docile.
Maura finds a mental health center in the same building as her cabin.
Maura wakes up on the ship to find herself in a familiar chair from flashes at the start of the chapter. Her father, who she saw from hallway moments ago, appears out the shadows and injects her with something. Maura then opens her eyes and finds herself back on the ship and lying in bed. ..
Eyk soon catches up with her and demands answers. And we do indeed get some. It turns out Franklin is Maura’s mother’s maiden name. She was born Maura Singleton, and her father is Henry Singleton, the owner of these ships. She believes that all of this is an experiment given her father was more into behavioral science. He was never into ships or the sea. ..
Maura’s brother, who she never got along with, may have been on the Prometheus when it left Southampton docks. If he was, Maura is likely to be looking for him now.
Maura and Eyk find themselves in a strange area, where they hear the familiar jaunty tune that their daughter sung in their visions in episode 2. They stumble upon the Captain’s house rather than the mental institution. Could it be that there’s one of these below every single cabin?
Eyk Larsen, the man who claimed to be the captain of the Prometheus, has been revealed to have been lying all along. His signature is on the passenger list for the ship, which suggests he was actually on board. Just as they reveal this, they find that Daniel’s tinkering has stopped the ticking noise and the survivors are coming together. ..
Captain Smith receives another telegram, this time with the same message as the others- that their ship, the Prometheus, is going to sink. However, when Daniel appears, it seems that they actually mean the Kerberos. ..
Henry Singleton, the head of security for a major company, is receiving strange arrows related to “Project Kerberos” and immediately tells his subordinate that they don’t have much time. He needs the boy for some reason. As he stands up and looks outside, a towering pyramid sits on the horizon. What on earth is going on?
The Episode Review
The passengers on this Project Kerberos seem to be having some strange behavior and it’s still unclear what the end-goal is. It seems like this is some sort of experiment, but it could also be used for some other purpose.
Maura’s inclusion in the study and her father’s role in it is a twist that I’m not likely to see coming. However, the fate of these passengers seems to be eerily linked to that of the Prometheus. I’m curious to see more of this over time and hopefully understand how everything is connected together.
