
Deep below the ground at Resistance headquarters, William Boone
(Kevin Kilner) met with two molecular biologists who were studying
the alien probe captured after it wreaked havoc on an Amish community.
Sahjit Jinnah (Damon D'Oliveira) and his fiancee Rayna Armitraj
(Sonia Dhillon) used fiber optics to drill inside the probe,
trying to identify its purpose. But when Boone and Sahjit
left the lab,
a sudden power surge caused Rayna to cut open the top of the
probe. The probe responded by emitting a powerful beam
which enveloped
Rayna and dematerialized her piece by piece, ingesting each portion. Unaware
of the situation, Sahjit and Boone met with Doors (David Hemblen)
and Auger (Richard Chevolleau)
to discuss the probe's
purpose. They recalled its ability to replicate butterflies into
miniature killer probes which killed several people. Back in the
lab, the probe replicated Rayna, "birthing" two clones
to take her place.
Boone
met with Da'an (Leni Parker) to ask the Companion's permission
to study the Taelon language,
which
he believed would help the
Resistance decode the probe's operating commands. Da'an gave his
consent, and even helped Boone learn the Taelon "alphabet."
Back at Resistance headquarters, Auger and Captain Lili Marquette
(Lisa Howard) had deciphered the probe's transmission coordinates
to determine where exactly it was sending information. Oddly, the
probe seemed to be trying to send information to a point on the
other end of the galaxy from the planet Taelon. As they discussed
their findings with Doors, Boone and Sahjit tried to communicate
with the probe, when suddenly one of Rayna's clones appeared and
immolated itself on the headquarter's reactor power generator.
Sahjit was beside himself with grief thinking it was Rayna when
the second clone appeared and attacked Lili in the lab. As the
clone moved to kill Lili, the probe sent a burst of energy into
the sky, relaying a transmission. The clone turned its attention
to the probe and Lili was momentarily spared, although she was
still trapped inside the lab.
Da'an and Agent Ron Sandoval (Von Flores) detected the transmission
and put a trace on it to find the probe. The trace led
them into the tunnels which
were the outer defense of the Resistance hideout. Boone and Sahjit worked
furiously to cut a laser into the clone's force field surrounding
the lab, finally getting
in to blow the Rayna clone to bits. With Lili safe, they had to turn over
the probe to the Taelons, who could control it, without
Sandoval and Da'an finding
the headquarters. To make matters worse, the probe morphed into a pile of
crystal sand, and disappeared into the lab's ventilation
ducts.
With Sandoval and Da'an moments from their doorstep, and Doors
threatening to blow up the whole facility, Boone devised
a plan to save them all. He
used reactor fuel to coax the probe back to its original form and lead
it into the
tunnels. As the probe began to analyze the fuel, Da'an and Sandoval arrived.
The probe turned to attack them but Da'an had obviously encountered these
probes before and, with a struggle, was able to "cap" the probe with a Taelon
device, finally shutting it down.
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