Showing posts with label Dark Matter. Show all posts
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Sunday, June 14, 2015

Dark Matter, Season One, Episode One: Pilot


The alarm is sounding on a space ship.  A pod opens and a man wakes.  He starts running through the ship.  The next person to wake in a pod is an Asian woman. The man rushes to the control panel to try to deal with the ship and he is attacked by the woman.  A fight breaks out between the two and she easily kicks his ass, then fixes what's wrong with the ship.  Life support to the ship returns, the alarm stops and all the lights turn on. The woman explains to the man she attacked that she attacked him because he was in the way. A third man enters the area carrying two guns, demanding to know who the man and woman are.  In unison they say they don't know and ask the man holding the guns who he is and he admits that he has no idea either.

When next we see the crew, there are six of them and none of them remember who they are, with no idea how they got where they are.  The first woman says that the systems were down and she was able to repair the ship but has no idea how she knew that information.  The crew decides that since they don't know their names, they are going to name themselves in the order that they woke up in.  Two finds communication buttons.  It's One who finds the weapons and Three is excited to get a gun.  Two takes it upon herself to hand out assignments and after arming themselves, they decide to check the ship out further.

Two and Five decide to head to the bridge to check out the ship. Something is still wrong with the ship and so Two decides to give it a go.

Three is paired with Six and Three immediately starts to suggest that they should pick a leader.  Six questions if Three has anyone in mind.  Three thinks that someone should make the final decisions and suggests that if he were to become leader, he would make Six second in command.  The two men discover another craft attached to the ship and Six wonders if he knows how to fly it.  Bored with the ship, Three tells Six to knock himself out.

One is with Four and is expressing confusion about Two being able to turn the life support back on.  One explains that he did the something but got nowhere and wants to figure out what is going on.  One wonders how long they were in the pods and says that it's not like their minds have been wiped clean, otherwise he wouldn't know what a pod is or be able to express himself at all.  Four instructs One to follow him and they end up in a training room.  Four picks up a set of matching swords and starts a series of movement which prove that he is more than proficient with the weapons.

Three has made his way to a cargo bay and he finds an android locked in another pod.  Three calls out for Six to join him.  On the bridge, Two and Five get a warning that ships defensive protocols have been launched. In the bay, Six and Three fight with the android. Six uses his commuicator to tell the bridge that they are under attack and need help.  One and Four race to the scene, as Six continues to get his but kicked.  Four arrives and manages to hold is own briefly and is only saved by One cutting off the android's hand, before being knocked to the ground.  Two and Five have managed to override the security protocol and the Android stops in her tracks. 

In medical bay, Three hands out food to the others.  Two explains that what they are dealing with is an android and that the nanites have almost fixed her broken parts.  Two has re-established the Android in its basic form, causing it to cease being a threat to them.  Two argues that the Android could be useful because it is linked directly with the ship and therefore she will be able to ensure a better repair of the ship.  One is resistant to the idea of waking the android up, so Two argues that the android might have some answers for them.  One grabs a weapon and so do the rest of the crew except for Five and Two starts up the Android.  One asks the Android her name and why she attacked them.  It seems that not only does the Android not have a name, it has no memory of attacking them. Two explains that the reboot must have wiped it's memory.  Two orders the android to establish a link with the ships computer and access any and all data related to the passengers on the ship.  The android responds that there's no such data.  One asks for information on the crew and the android again responds, "no such data exists." Two is shocked and suggests that someone must have deliberately deleted that information.

One, Three and Four are together searching the ship again. Three points out that they don't know for a fact that everyone has lost their memory and anyone could be lying about that. It's not long before Three is accusing One because One was the first person to be awake and could have done something while the others were sleeping.  One calls the allegations ridiculous and Four moves on rather than speak in One's defense.  Three comes across sleeping quarters and jumps on the bed. 

Two walks with the android and asks her to run a full diagnostic and restore all systems. The android closes her eyes to work remotely but Two requests to be personally shown.  The android sits at a terminal and get to work.  She finds a subspace transmission that's a distress signal.

Five and Six are in what looks like medical.  Six is looking for something to cure a headache and Five lists off all the causes of a headace and does a spiel on human biology as she works to assemble something.  When she adds how far blood will spray after the carotid is severed it drives up the creepy factor times ten. After a little more fumbling, Five manages to fix the machine she was working on.

Four has returned to the lockers where the communication badges were found.  He goes through the lockers one by one feeling for false walls.  Hidden in the back of a wall he finds a wooden box.