The Pyramid
As the group begins to gather, they notice something off in the distance. It’s a small boat, its engine running but its sails missing. Tove starts to run towards it, her eyes wide with excitement. As she gets closer, she can see that the boat has been boarded and someone is inside - a boy!
The group of survivors must split up in order to find the missing boy and restore the engines. Only by working together can they hope to survive. ..
Tove is continuing to hear voices. There’s also a bizarre harrowing black mass that seems to be spreading throughout the ship too. And naturally, Mrs Wilson ends up getting curious and reaches out, shocked as her finger is pricked and it appears to be spreading across her hand like some sort of virus.
Speaking of spreading, Eyk and Maura head back down the hatch inside Maura’s cabin and end up in front of the mental institution as before. Maura deduces that the boy could well be inside, especially if Henry Singleton is pulling the strings. As they press on, Daniel isn’t far behind.
Maura’s father built the hospital as a way of finding out what happened to her mother, who slowly started to lose her mind. This behavioral science appears to be a big part of the experiment we’re seeing involving Project Kerberos. Maura can’t actually remember what happened inside this hospital but it definitely involves that huge room and the chair.
The windows in the room seem to be hiding something, as the wood behind it seems to be hollow. There’s also another panel with more metalwork behind it. Is this ship inside another ship? Is this a shipception?
In this episode, the characters are discussing identity and belonging. Ling-Yi goes down to the bowels of the ship with Olek and tells him that he is different from other men. Olek then kisses Ling-Yi. ..
Back in the hospital with Eyk and Maura, the latter brings up the last words the boy said about his father, believing that he may be onto something. Although Eyk immediately jumps to the idea of a deity, it would appear that this “Creator” may actually be Henry himself. AS they continue exploring the hospital, Maura points out that a room that should house her father’s office is just a wall. ..
Tove has been having more visions of the past, specifically of how his scar came to be. In one vision, a bounty hunter is after the family and determined to make them pay. He wants Tove as retribution for Krester taking his son’s innocence. He proceeds to rape her in front of the family as they try to look away. ..
Tove eventually gets retribution though, shooting him dead. This explains her family’s wretched backstory and also just why Krester’s sexuality has been frowned upon by his mother, given it tore the family apart. ..
Anker and the Priest are the only ones on the bridge. Anker tells Ramiro that he’s lost his faith and doesn’t believe in God. Ramiro tells him that God will forgive. It’s a really poetic moment between a man losing his faith and getting that faith returned, by a man who isn’t actually a priest. ..
When the engines do get back up and running again, the pair are happy until they realize they need to try and steer the ship. As they grab a bunch of books and cycle through, they realize the writing is all the same. The same sentence repeated constantly: “May your coffee kick in, before reality does.”
Back at the hospital, Eyk and Maura continue to search for clues about what happened to Daniel. They find some of that strange black stuff spreading and Daniel tells them they don’t have much time and a lot is riding on Maura remembering her past. “I’m not going to leave you again.” Daniel says as he wrestles with Eyk, knocks him down and inexplicably teleports him to the woods. ..
Maura has been married to Daniel for 12 years and everything around them is not real. Maura refuses to accept this reality, and eventually locks him in room 1011. “Please, wake up.” He says, before she rushes away.
Maura heads outside and throws the gun into the air. It seems like the illusion of this being a large, open area is just that – an illusion. Peeling off a panel that’s on the glass, she finds the outside of the ship and immediately whispers to herself “This can’t be real.”
Eyk stares out the window of the Prometheus as he sees other ships abandoned and destroyed in the water around them. ..
The Episode Review
This episode provides a lot of new information about Henry’s operation and the people behind it. It also seems that there are some secrets at play that we still don’t know about.
The way the characters’ pasts affect their attitudes and behaviors is really interesting to watch. ..
The Krester family’s haunted by Krester’s actions in acting on his sexual impulses, and that explains why they frown upon him getting close to Angel. These sort of instances -which we’re not outright told- is partly why this works so well.
The finale to this episode left the door open for the next episode, which promises to be quite an intriguing watch. ..
