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Okay, then I agree with you.

We should go back.

Good. Okay, great. There we go. Okay?

-So the three of us can--

Hold on a minute.

We should go back, yes.

But it took us, what,

six days to get here?

And the coast is two days away.

And as Sheppard said...

when we get to the coast,

we can follow it until the perimeter wall.

You're saying we get out

by going deeper?

-Yeah, if you like, yeah.

No, I don't f***ing "like."

This isn't some bullshit tactic

to get us to the lighthouse, is it?

This is not about the lighthouse, okay?

I believe that the coast

is the best route out.

Okay?

You lied to them.

I didn't know what going back meant.

Why it would be safer than going forward.

You didn't know, but you made

a decision to continue as if you did.

Ventress made the decision.

Ventress had cancer.

She was never coming back.

You knew she was sick.

I had guessed.

And you wanted to continue.

Yes. I did.

She could still be alive.

It's highly doubtful.

We need to know.

Go. Fine.

I'm coming with you.

I'll go alone.

Did you find her?

Yeah.

She's dead.

You okay?

Fine. Just... leave me the f*** alone.

We'll camp here tonight.

It's another two hours' walk up the coast.

They've grown this way.

That doesn't make any sense.

I think it does.

At first I thought the radio waves

were blocked by the Shimmer,

and that's why no one inside

could communicate with base or GPS,

but the light waves aren't blocked,

they're refracted, and...

...it's the same with the radios.

The signals aren't gone.

They're scrambled.

That leaf in your hand...

know what you'd get if you sequenced it?

-Human Hox genes.

Hox

They're the genes that define

the body plan, the physical structure.

And the plants have human body plan.

Arms attached to shoulders. Legs to hips.

It's literally not possible. It's literally what's happening.

The Shimmer is a prism,

but it refracts everything.

Not just light and radio waves.

Animal DNA, plant DNA...

all DNA.

What do you mean, "all DNA"?

She's talking about our DNA.

She's talking about us.

All right... I guess this is a bedroom.

Let's secure doors and windows.

This was a mistake.

Okay.

You spend more time

away from your husband than with him.

You can't talk to him about work,

and he won't talk to you about his.

And there is a clear physical

and intellectual connection between us.

-You forgot your wife.

I love my wife.

She's blameless in this.

Come on, Lena.

What's really going on here?

You think that something

may have happened to him?

Or you think he knows.

That's it, isn't it?

You think somehow he's found out

about our affair.

Has he found out?

Yes.

You should go.

-No, Lena, I--

-Dan...

I'm not interested in talking...

or in anything you have to say.

Just get dressed and get out.

You know, it's not me you hate,

it's yourself.

No, Dan, it's you, too.

It's never gonna happen again. You lying b*tch!

-No.

You don't get to ask

that f***ing question. You answer it!

Brother. Boyfriend.

Husband.

Husband.

Why didn't you tell us?

-You knew. Obviously.

-Okay.

There are two theories

of what went wrong.

One is that something in here killed them.

Two... is that they went crazy

and they killed each other.

Josie nearly got killed by an alligator,

and Cass did get killed by a bear.

So, yes, theory one, it fits.

But...

I didn't actually see a bear.

And neither did Josie.

The only people who saw

were Lena and Ventress.

So nothing's confirmed.

Everything's on their word.

-Everything's on Lena's word.

And what we know now...

what we know,

is that Lena... is a liar.

-Shut the f*** up!

Lena... you're a liar.

Did you kill Cass?

Did you lose your sh*t?

Or do you think I've lost my sh*t

and we're gonna f*** each other up?

That's theory two.

Oh, God.

When I look at my hands...

and my fingerprints...

I can see them moving.

I can't.

If I let you go,

and you tie me to a chair

and cut me open...

are my insides gonna move

like my fingerprints?

But... I'm not the one tied to a chair.

-You are.

Help me!

Help me!

Help me!

Oh, Cass?

-You said she was dead.

Cass! Cass, I'm coming!

Cass, is that you

Help me! Help me!

Help!

Don't react.

Mmm.

Me!

Help!

Me!

No! No!

No!

Me!

Help... me...

What are you doing?

-I'm leaving.

Now?

-It's not even light yet.

-I don't have time to wait.

We are disintegrating.

Our bodies as fast as our minds.

Can't you feel it?

It's like the onset of dementia.

If I don't reach the lighthouse soon...

the person that started this journey

won't be the person that ends it.

I want to be the one that ends it.

We should go, Josie.

How long was your husband in the Shimmer?

It's hard to say exactly.

Theoretically, as long as a year.

That's a long time to be inside

and remain intact.

I'm not so sure he was intact.

I'm right...

-Yeah.

I checked my blood last night.

It's... in me.

It will be in all of us.

It was so strange hearing...

Sheppard's voice in the mouth

of that creature last night.

I think as she was dying,

part of her mind became...

part of the creature that was killing her.

Imagine dying frightened and in pain,

and having that as the only part of you

which survives.

I wouldn't like that at all. Ventress wants to face it.

You want to fight it.

But I don't think I want

either of those things.

Josie. Josie.

Josie!

One by one, all gone, except you.

How do you explain that?

Is it something I need to explain?

Yes, you do.

I had to come back.

I'm not sure any of them did.

Stand by the stairway

You'll see something certain

To tell you

Confusion has its cost

- Love isn't lying

-Hey.

It's loose in a lady who lingers

Hey.

Saying she is lost

I thought I was a man.

I had a life.

People called me Kane. And now I'm not so sure.

If I wasn't Kane, what was I?

Was I you

My flesh moves...

like liquid.

My mind is...

just cut loose.

I can't bear it.

I can't bear it.

I can't bear it.

You ever seen a phosphorus grenade go off?

They're kind of bright.

Shield your eyes.

If you ever get out of here,

you find Lena.

I will.

No.

Five, four, three, two...

No, no, no. No.

Oh. Oh, God. Oh, my God.

No.

It's the last phase.

Vanished into havoc.

Unfathomable mind...

...and now beacon.

Now sea.

Lena.

We spoke.

What was it we said?

That I needed to know

what was inside the lighthouse.

That moment's passed.

It's inside me now.

What's... inside you?

It's not like us.

It's unlike us.

I don't know what it wants.

Or if it wants.

But it will grow...

until it encompasses everything.

Our bodies and our minds

will be fragmented

into their smallest parts until...

not one part remains.

Annihilation.

No, no, no. No!

So it was alien.

Can you describe its form?

No.

Was it carbon

I don't know.

What did it want?

I don't think it wanted anything.

But it... it attacked you.

It mirrored me.

I attacked it.

I'm not sure it even knew I was there.

It came here for a reason.

It was mutating our environment,

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