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1:35

Hello everyone. I'm Christoph Liputka and

1:38

this is Leviathan Presents. It's a

1:40

segment where we highlight one audio

1:42

fiction creator, have a conversation, and share

1:44

some of your stories. And without further

1:46

ado, let's get into the interview. This

1:48

is Leviathan Presents. Hey

2:06

everyone, it's Christophe. Just to let you know,

2:09

we recorded this segment while we were on

2:11

the road. So the audio quality isn't quite

2:13

up to our usual Leviathan standards, but I

2:15

really wanted to share this interview with you

2:17

because I am so excited about this new

2:20

podcast, Derelict. Before we jump into this episode's

2:22

interview, I just wanted to reach out and

2:24

tell you a little bit about what's going

2:26

on in the Leviathan universe behind the scenes.

2:28

As many of you know, we are currently

2:30

well into production of our next Leviathan spin-off,

2:33

The Invenios Expeditions. And for many of you

2:35

sharp-eared listeners, you remember that the Invenios is

2:37

the dream research boat that Tully and Oberlin

2:39

were talking about back in season one of

2:41

the Leviathan Chronicles. And now, their dreams have

2:43

been realized, and this new season is the

2:45

story of some of their first adventures on

2:47

the high seas. Many of your favorite Leviathan

2:50

characters are going to be returning and are

2:52

part of the most unbelievable new cast that

2:54

I've ever worked with. It's been our biggest

2:56

production yet, it should be spanning about 13

2:58

or 14 episodes, and

3:00

also represents a return to the immortal storyline.

3:02

We can't wait to bring it to your

3:04

headphones in the spring of next year, but

3:06

in the meantime, you can expect more installments of

3:09

Leviathan Presents on roughly a monthly basis. There also

3:11

might be some other surprises in our feed, so

3:13

stay tuned, as 2024 will be our biggest

3:16

year yet, and we're so excited to be dropping

3:18

new audio fiction from the LU, or the Leviathan

3:20

universe as we're calling it. I'm going to be

3:22

touching base with you all again in 2024 to

3:24

let you know more about what to

3:27

expect in the coming year from Leviathan Audio,

3:29

but for now, I want to jump to

3:32

Jay Barton Mitchell and his incredible fiction podcast,

3:34

Derelict, so without further ado, let's jump to

3:36

the interview. Hey everyone, this

3:38

is Christoph, and today we have a real

3:40

treat. As you guys all know, I'm a huge

3:42

fan of stories involving the ocean, especially going below

3:45

it, and today we're going to take you

3:47

almost 20,000 feet below

3:49

it to hear an amazing podcast

3:51

called Derelict about an underwater research

3:53

station situated against a giant sealed

3:55

alien artifact. We're going to be

3:58

playing the opening episode of Derelict's first season called Fathom

4:00

and telling you a little bit about

4:02

season two of Derelict which is dropping

4:05

later this year. So definitely use this

4:07

time to get yourselves caught up on

4:09

this truly great show because this is

4:12

a deep world-built pulling from elements of

4:14

hard sci-fi, underwater adventure, AI consciousness and

4:16

wetware biohacking and I'm telling you the

4:18

soundscape does it all justice. And before

4:22

we get to the episode we're gonna be

4:24

talking with the man who created it all,

4:26

Derelict's creator and showrunner Jack Barton Mitchell and

4:28

learn a little bit more about him and

4:30

how the show was created and what it

4:33

takes to bring an episode of Derelict to

4:35

your headphones. Jack welcome to Leviathan Presents. Oh

4:37

I think so much man that description was

4:39

amazing. Well

4:43

I gotta tell you I was really

4:45

and truly blown away by season

4:47

one of Derelict. I thought it

4:49

was really amazing the way the

4:52

characters kind of grew and the focus

4:54

in the show shifted from one character

4:56

to another and you know

4:58

giving their perspectives on what's going on

5:00

I thought it was just brilliant. But

5:03

before I jump into the story I

5:05

wanted you to tell me a little

5:07

bit about yourself. How did you get

5:09

started in audio drama and how did

5:11

you learn how to edit and create

5:14

such amazing soundscapes? Just to be clear

5:16

Jack is writing, producing, directing and also

5:18

doing the sound mixing which I just

5:20

think is unreal. I mean having to do

5:22

the audio drama is sort of like I went

5:24

to film school and my first success as a

5:27

writer was on the film side of stuff with

5:29

screenplays. I sold my first script to

5:31

Warner Brothers when I was like 27. So the

5:33

film side of stuff has always been like my

5:35

primary interest. I've done all kinds of stuff, them

5:38

comic books, I have four published novels but you

5:40

know movies and TV were always sort of my

5:42

thing and listening to a lot of the fiction

5:44

podcasts that occurred to me, at least the way

5:46

that I approached it was it's sort of the

5:48

same thing. I write Derelict just like I would

5:50

write a live action thing for the most part.

5:52

That comes across. Oh thanks yeah. I pitched it it's

5:54

like you if you turn on a movie or HBO

5:56

show and you just close your eyes and listen that's

5:58

sort of the experience you know. And I felt

6:00

like it doesn't need a lot of audio shows have

6:02

kind of a conceit as to why they're audio only

6:05

You know either found footage or kind of heavy narration

6:07

or something and I thought you didn't need to do

6:09

that I thought you can do big action pieces and

6:11

giant scenes And so that's how I came to it

6:14

by wanting to do more of that stuff and to

6:16

do my own stuff The

6:18

other things I'm just really self-taught a lot of

6:20

YouTube watching Wow. Yeah, I don't know I just

6:22

found that I had this weird

6:24

ability to put a lot of Small

6:27

sounds that are disconnected together and kind of

6:29

make them into bigger things.

6:31

So yeah well

6:34

Someone who's self-taught. I'm blown away by your skill

6:36

at this, you know, you could

6:38

have done the story in space You could have

6:40

done this on land, but you chose to

6:43

do something deep under the ocean What

6:45

was your inspiration for the storyline and

6:47

where did you draw from to create

6:49

this? Um, it's probably not the answer

6:51

you expect the history of the show

6:53

is that we started derelict back in

6:56

2018 and We produced

6:58

one episode of that and it was just way

7:01

too expensive to continue at the time and I've set

7:03

on a spaceship But there was a space the

7:05

reason for that was because we were flying all

7:08

the actors in you know, it was pretty pandemic

7:10

So it got expensive too quick and we just

7:12

couldn't do it and keeping in touch with the

7:14

actors They're all voiceover people and

7:16

they were mentioning. Hey, we we have our

7:19

own setups now because of the pandemic Mm-hmm

7:21

Actors, you know couldn't go to the studios anymore. So they needed

7:23

a way to do work and then it clicked to me that oh

7:26

That's how we do it You know, I brought just a

7:28

small in comparison to a lot of other shows But you

7:31

know if you're putting your own money into it, it's it

7:33

adds up it adds up quick So I

7:35

thought well, I wanted to get back to

7:37

derelict. But what if we did a prequel

7:39

season first? And

7:42

we'll just do we'll do maybe

7:44

four maybe six episode Yeah,

7:47

it'll be short. Let me 30 minutes.

7:49

He's just something modest Yeah,

7:52

exactly easy, you know, we'll mock it out really

7:54

quick and and so that's sort of

7:56

where the idea for Fathom came and You

7:59

know, I mean And I had the idea already for another

8:01

story about the war at the bottom of the ocean.

8:04

So I took that and then knowing where derelict

8:06

goes story-wise, that allowed me to fill in what

8:08

would lead up to those things. So that really

8:11

was the inspiration, was doing a prequel to derelict.

8:13

And then of course it grew, it's 10 episodes

8:15

long. And there, I want to make my listeners

8:17

go, you say 10 episodes, but these are long

8:20

episodes. In fact, the season finale is

8:22

an hour and a half, almost two

8:24

hours long. So these are, you

8:26

say 10 episodes, but you are being modest. It's

8:29

actually, it's a much bigger story than that. Yeah, I

8:31

think, yeah, I mean, definitely the last one's basically just like

8:33

a movie wing. That's one of the allures for me of

8:36

doing a fiction show. A lot of the hurdles are gone.

8:38

So I feel like the story needs it and I'll do

8:40

it. Again, I love

8:42

the underwater setting. That's obviously a huge

8:45

inspiration in Leviathan. One of the things

8:47

that I think is really great in

8:49

derelict is the sense of clusterphobia that

8:52

you sometimes create and the sense of

8:54

suffocating is, I think, very visceral in

8:56

your soundscape. Tell me and tell our

8:58

audience a little bit about how you

9:01

approach sound underwater. What did

9:03

you want the listener to feel and

9:05

how did you use the tools in

9:07

your digital toolbox to kind of amplify

9:09

the emotion that you wanted to convey?

9:12

Bubbles. It's

9:14

called bubbles, baby. It's funny, but it's also sort of

9:17

true. How many different kinds of bubble sounds are there

9:19

in derelict? I don't know how many are in it,

9:21

but I probably have a folder that's like 100, all

9:23

different links, like long ones or short ones or bursts.

9:25

I mean, yeah, it just depends on kind of what's

9:28

going on. You know, that's what she would do. So

9:30

I mean, I think that really sells it. And

9:32

then the biggest hurdle for me is just finding the

9:34

stuff. One of my favorite sequences is in episode one

9:36

where there's underwater tidal wave that hits the base and

9:38

there's like a whole breach and there's a whole breach

9:41

sequence there with one of the main characters goes through

9:43

it, which I'm really, really proud of. And it's probably

9:45

my favorite sequence in the show, even though there was

9:47

a little more complicated stuff later on. But because when

9:50

I heard it altogether, I was like, okay, we

9:52

really can do this audio wise, you know, we

9:55

really can sort of sell the stuff. But the

9:57

thing is, you know, I'm sure you have this

9:59

experience. making your own sounds. You can't just

10:01

go to SoundSnap or something and

10:03

type in whole breach underwater, you'll get a whole

10:05

bunch of stuff. There's nothing. So

10:08

you have to sort of think about what

10:10

kind of sounds like that and

10:13

then that search. So putting

10:15

it together isn't all that hard. It's

10:17

a little laborious, but really

10:19

it's finding the right stuff to do. Was

10:22

there anything that you wanted to kind of

10:24

create that you either couldn't or what was

10:26

the most difficult, challenging scene to try and

10:28

figure out? That's a tough one. I mean,

10:31

I think it's almost like starting over every

10:33

time because each episode has all these different

10:35

set pieces and you just begin again looking.

10:38

You know, if I had to fix something really tricky,

10:40

it's probably in episode six there's these two robots that

10:43

are tracking the main characters. And then one of

10:45

them is this Hunter Killer sort of robot that

10:48

one of the characters describes as a robot panther. So

10:50

it's like four legged and it's like a Miele sort

10:52

of by hand. It operates very similar.

10:54

And I wanted to do vocalizations for that but

10:56

not have them sound dumb or out of place.

10:59

And for a lot of the voice filters I

11:01

use plug-ins by Krodos Audio if you know them,

11:03

really cool stuff. And I just couldn't get what

11:05

I wanted and then it occurred to me, well,

11:08

why not just get actual sounds of like tigers

11:10

and panthers and stuff. And I did and then

11:12

I plugged those in and then that really sort

11:14

of sold it. Oh, that's

11:16

so cool. Yeah. I mean, you can't necessarily tell

11:18

but I think they work really well. Again,

11:21

it seems like it all comes down to like finding

11:23

the source files that you use and then going from

11:25

there, putting it together.

11:27

One of the things that I really

11:30

liked about the show too was how

11:32

you start out in chapter one kind

11:34

of focusing on one character, one doctor.

11:36

And the aperture to the world you're

11:38

creating kind of opens a little wider

11:40

with each episode and it gets bigger

11:42

and bigger. And you think

11:44

it's an underwater show, but it's also a

11:46

space show. And it's also about biohacking and

11:48

you start to draw a lot of elements

11:50

and a lot of different parts of science.

11:52

And I'm a little bit of a geek

11:54

and there's a lot with quantum mechanics that

11:56

you touch on as well as

11:59

the physics of Deepwater. oceanic exploration. How much

12:01

research are you doing in terms of the

12:03

science and you know, is that a passion

12:05

of yours just generally? Yeah, I love science,

12:07

especially like the physics side of stuff. You

12:09

know, I wish I was smarter. I wish

12:11

I was really, really grasp and understand it

12:13

because I mean most of my characters that

12:15

I've ever written about in scientists. My

12:17

day job is I work, I'm a

12:19

software engineer with IBM. And I

12:22

also love the way technical and scientific corporations sort

12:24

of function. So I had that as a background.

12:26

But, you know, research,

12:28

yeah, it's just the web. I remember like

12:30

a story about Tom Clancy that one day the FBI

12:32

showed up at his house wondering about like how he

12:34

knew all this stuff about submarines or whatever. And you

12:37

know, I just go to the library and read. You

12:39

know, back then I think if you did know all

12:41

that stuff, it was either, you know,

12:43

you spent a lot of time like doing sort

12:45

of tedious research to figure things out or you

12:47

had an inside person in the CIA or something.

12:49

But these days I feel like there's just so

12:51

much information and it's so easy to get. And

12:54

we do get it wrong. An example of that

12:56

was in episode one, the way they know the

12:58

date of the vault is through carbon dating. And

13:00

I got all these emails from people, like

13:03

really detailed emails from people like saying no, it's

13:05

not how carbon dating works. So if you don't

13:07

– yeah, if you just go with the term

13:09

because it sounds good, it doesn't really

13:11

work. All

13:15

right. I wanted to ask you this question because again, it was

13:18

such a pleasure for me to listen to

13:20

another underwater story. What's your

13:22

relationship with the ocean? How do you feel

13:24

about the sea? You use it so passionately

13:27

in your story. I feel like there has to be

13:29

something deeper and personal for you there. Yeah, I always

13:31

had a great affinity for it growing up. You know,

13:33

I think like a lot of kids I went through

13:36

my want to be a marine biologist phase and I

13:38

was very into that and very into, you know, just

13:40

like underwater exploration. I'm not anymore, but I have been

13:42

at certain points in advanced level, diver. There's that side

13:44

of it. And then also, you know, like you just

13:46

said, I live underwater stories like The Abyss is one

13:48

of my favorite movies. Oh, I love that one. James

13:51

Cameron's one of the best films. Yeah, it's really a

13:53

masterpiece. So yeah, so it's both those things. I've always

13:55

had an affinity for it. And I love the fact

13:57

that like, you know, the deeper you go into it, the more

13:59

– alien it becomes and also the more

14:01

dangerous. The less we know, right? Yeah, it's almost

14:03

like another planet down there. You don't have any

14:06

idea what's down there. There's no way to really

14:08

know, right? So there's something about that that I

14:10

think sparks the imagination in a really cool way.

14:12

All right, so season two

14:15

of Derelict is going to be coming

14:17

out. What can people that are going

14:19

to binge season one, what can you

14:21

tell us? What can you hint? What

14:24

should they know about this this new season?

14:26

How big is it? How long have you

14:28

been working on it? Love to hear everything.

14:30

So like I said, we started that in

14:32

2018 with a specific cast and

14:34

then we had to stop. And so it's really cool

14:36

to be able to come back and continue it. And

14:38

you were able to get the cast to come back

14:40

as well. Yeah, they were. That's incredible.

14:42

It is. And they were so

14:44

throughout all that time, they were always in touch

14:46

and always, you know, checking and one actor, Michael

14:49

Maui plays Asian Blaine is in both seasons. He

14:51

does such a good job. He's a great player.

14:53

They're all really next level. We're very lucky to

14:55

have the cast that we have. But like I

14:57

said, so this story I had in my head

14:59

way longer and it does directly connect in

15:01

cool ways, I think I don't know how

15:03

much to say, but everything happens in Fathom

15:05

is directly responsible for what's going on in

15:07

Derelict. They're not one offs. Writing-wise, it's a

15:09

little harder because Fathom is a group of

15:11

characters who already know each other

15:13

and already know the location and they're there for

15:15

the event when stuff goes bad in Derelict. It's

15:18

characters who don't know each other, don't know this

15:20

environment and are coming to it after it's happened.

15:22

And finding that's a very different sort of narrative

15:24

to like go through, you know. So

15:26

there's a lot of boxes to check with the season to make

15:28

it connect and take it up a level too. I

15:31

think we're doing that. Season two takes place

15:33

partially in space. I take it.

15:36

What's easier to create audio drama in effects slides? Is

15:38

it space or is it underwater? I

15:40

think they both have very unique challenges. I'm

15:43

really curious to know your answer on this. I really

15:45

enjoy doing the sound for Fathom because you're asking about

15:47

the underwater so I really like finding the right sounds

15:49

to sell that, to sell that you're on a dive

15:51

suit to sell that you're in water. It's very satisfying

15:54

in a different way. I think more difficult is probably

15:56

underwater because I think the audience has less stuff to

15:58

draw on that they've got to do. Already seen and

16:00

consumed and kind of fill in the blanks with you

16:02

know right versus you know you watch star wars There's

16:05

tons of spaceship stuff and so

16:07

yeah, I would be my answer That's

16:11

great Okay to wrap

16:14

up where can people find you online? Just

16:17

tell us quickly where people can find out more

16:19

about you in the show derelict podcast comm is

16:21

our website That's the main hub for pretty much

16:24

everything We're on supercasts

16:26

if you join us on supercast the experience

16:28

there That's these little more access to we

16:30

have some interesting stuff on there That's different

16:32

like we have commentary episodes where the actors

16:35

are all talking about the episodes some more

16:37

unique art and things that's a little bit

16:39

different and then Yeah,

16:41

just run run Instagram or on Twitter awesome

16:45

well Jack thank you

16:47

so much for being on Leviathan presents.

16:49

We're really excited to To

16:51

have our listeners listen to the first

16:53

episode of derelict the first season

16:56

is called fathom And we're going

16:58

to be now playing episode 1 Thanks

17:01

very much They

17:11

say in the dark The

17:15

eyes begin to see And

17:18

in silence we begin to listen

17:24

Believe me nowhere is it darker quieter

17:28

than in this place The

17:32

bottom of the ocean 19,000

17:36

feet down That's

17:39

why I came here after all isn't it Why

17:43

I buried myself Furthest

17:47

away I could possibly get Lost

17:54

in insidious things whatever

17:59

we try to escape we inevitably bring

18:01

with us, even

18:03

to the darkest, quietest

18:06

places. And

18:10

in the dark, we

18:13

have no choice. I'm sorry. Shit.

18:33

Dr. Roth? Yes.

18:36

Are you okay? I'm

18:39

fine. Your heart rate is quite

18:41

elevated, your blood oxygen levels are... I'm fine. Clayton?

18:44

Clayton? Thank you. Dreams

18:49

again? Is

18:52

that a crime? Would you

18:54

like a sedative? It can really

18:56

help you sleep. No. If

19:00

according to the biologs, you haven't slept a regular cycle in more

19:02

than a month. How many times

19:04

do I have to say I'm fine? Logs

19:06

don't lie. Either. And

19:09

they don't tell the whole story either, Sarah. What's

19:14

up with the repairs? We'd

19:16

have to scream in for the whole picture. But

19:19

last I heard it was going well. They've

19:21

missed the supports we've had them west patched. Working

19:24

on North now? I

19:26

know what you're asking. I

19:29

haven't heard if the access to relay's back up or not. Hopefully

19:32

not much longer. Couple

19:35

of weird things though. What?

19:39

Well, they finally got the mainframe open. With

19:42

Mack acting the way he's been, everyone thought there must have been

19:44

some damage to his systems from the explosion. Flooding

19:47

or something? There wasn't? Not

19:51

only that Emmett's a fine. The water

19:53

present in the room, mainframe itself is undamaged. They're

19:56

going over it now though. Well... No

20:00

one knows Mack like Emerson. That's

20:02

the other thing. No

20:04

one knows what Emerson is. What

20:07

do you mean no one knows? Mack's

20:09

personnel tracking is down now and no one can raise her on

20:12

comms. She may be

20:14

outside, checking the capsule's exterior. With

20:17

all the other activity though. Well,

20:19

people don't just disappear, especially down

20:21

here and Emerson's sort of... aloof.

20:25

Anyway, she'll show up at lunch. I...

20:29

need to get up now. I still think it's up to you.

20:31

Thank you. Doctor. Jesus.

20:39

Good morning, Dr. Craft. Good

20:41

morning, Mack. I was

20:43

just talking about you. I heard

20:46

Emerson is poking around in your brain. Miss

20:49

Emerson is attempting to determine the cause

20:51

of my minor malfunctions. My own diagnostics

20:53

continue to show no errors or latency.

20:57

Well, something's up. Yesterday

21:00

you told me it was snowing in Chicago.

21:03

In June. It is puzzling.

21:05

I was extensively stress tested before being

21:08

approved for deployment. An

21:10

explosion such as the one that got them

21:12

base experience last week should not have caused

21:14

any permanent damage. Will

21:16

you be returning to sleep, Dr. Craft? No.

21:21

No, I don't think so. I'll prepare

21:23

your coffee. You

21:26

have two new voicemails that you would like them to... Ugh,

21:29

who's the first from? The first

21:31

voicemail is from your wife, Dr. Craft. She's

21:33

not my... Play

21:36

it. Please, Mack. Plead

21:40

message from Angela Craft. Times

21:42

7, June 17th. 11.45

21:44

PM. Hi.

21:51

Don't know why I do this. Do you never respond?

21:55

It's like talking to a ghost. Or...

21:58

Sending messages to a ghost. I don't know, I can't.

22:02

You're the only one who has a right to feel anything. It's really

22:07

selfish. You know that? It's really...

22:09

I just expected something. It's all.

22:11

Listen, listen, I'm

22:15

not going to be able to do this. I'm not going to be able to

22:17

do this. I'm not going to

22:21

be able to do this. I'm

22:23

not going to be able to do this. I'm not going to be able to

22:29

do this. Listen, I'm

22:31

not going to send these anymore, Eva. I

22:33

took a commission off World.

22:39

Call on the assignment. It's not

22:41

with the corporation. You don't have to worry about that.

22:43

It's my own thing. It's

22:47

what I've wanted to do for a long time. You

22:50

know what? Eva, I

22:57

waited as long as I

22:59

could, I guess. But I

23:01

can see you're not coming back. I don't

23:06

understand it. I

23:08

don't know why we couldn't be there for each other, go through

23:10

this together. I don't... I'm

23:13

Mr. Two. Maybe

23:16

you didn't just as much as you. I'm

23:21

sorry. For

23:24

that, I'm sorry. I called you selfish too. I'm

23:28

sorry. I'm

23:31

sorry every way I can be sorry. I love

23:36

you. Eva, always.

23:41

Would you like to respond to the message, Dr. Graff?

23:47

Would you like to respond to the message like that?

23:51

Are you certain, Dr. Graff? Delete it.

23:54

Message deleted. Would

23:57

you like to hear your second voice? Eva?

24:00

I need you to wake up and get over to

24:02

hydroponics. Good morning to you

24:04

too, Joe. Is it ISD's here

24:06

wants to meet with us? Already?

24:09

I thought his sub wasn't scheduled until tomorrow

24:11

night. Yeah, well, I guess he decided to

24:14

accelerate the schedule. I don't think it's

24:16

a good sign, do you? Can

24:18

it wait? I'm just not- It's

24:20

internal security, Eva. No, it

24:22

can't wait. I'd like

24:24

to know what you plan to say, though. Yeah,

24:27

well, I bet you would. Eva, I swear to

24:29

God, if you try to pin this on me-

24:31

Nothing is your base, isn't it, Joe?

24:33

You are the commander. Edgar's with

24:36

science team, not command. And it

24:38

was your security protocols he overrode,

24:40

your explosives he stole.

24:42

Look, there's plenty of blame to go

24:45

around. That's how they're gonna look at it. I

24:47

just think- I

24:49

just think we put our heads together on this. We

24:51

can come out of this with our jobs still intact.

24:53

Oh gosh, Joe! Neither of us tried

24:55

to blow up the damn base, did we? The

24:57

only one on the chopping block is Edgar's. MD's

24:59

put way too much money into this travesty to pull

25:01

either of us out now. Really? Then

25:04

why are they ordering what's left of the science team

25:07

back to the surface? What? W-w-what?

25:12

They-they can't do that. They-we're already a

25:14

skeleton crew. I have half the people I need to complete this

25:16

or even figure it out. They can't

25:18

do that, and they did. Not

25:20

essentials too, indefinitely. We started

25:23

mothballing rovers in dive suits last night, and analytics

25:25

just left out a sub 15 minutes ago. Where

25:27

have you been? Joe, that- that

25:30

doesn't make any sense. There has to be an

25:32

explanation. There- there- Yeah, there's an explanation.

25:34

You've been down here 11 months, and that

25:36

thing out there is no closer to being open

25:38

than the day it was found. Had you that,

25:40

you got people on your team running around trying

25:42

to blow up the place. The place that yes, they have

25:44

sunk a lot of money into. What you

25:46

think was gonna happen, Eva? What you think they

25:49

were gonna do? I-I-I-Okay,

25:51

I don't know what to- I-I'll

25:54

fix this. I'll fix it. I'm

25:58

holding my breath, Dr. C- I got a

26:01

grip. I

26:12

got a grip. I

26:15

got a

26:18

grip. I

26:26

got a grip. I

26:29

got a

26:31

grip. I

26:41

got a grip. I got

26:44

a grip. I

26:50

got a grip. I

26:57

got a grip. I

27:03

got a grip. I

27:09

got a grip. I

27:17

got a grip. I

27:22

got a grip. I

27:31

got a grip. I

27:37

got a grip. I

27:40

got a grip. I

27:46

got a grip. I

27:51

got a grip. Exactly.

28:04

If we never would have found the vault, you and I would never have

28:06

met. I suppose that is true, Dr. Graff. The

28:17

computer. And

28:20

you are the closest thing I have to a friend down here. I

28:24

appreciate the sentiment, Dr. Graff. I

28:27

enjoy our interactions a great deal. Can

28:33

you ever wonder why things work out the way they

28:35

do, Max? Can you

28:39

ever look back at your life and see all

28:41

the turning points? One turning

28:46

point, even. One

28:49

moment that sets you on a totally

28:51

different course. Like

28:54

a train that takes the

28:57

wrong track. You're

29:02

locked in then. There's

29:04

no going back. No,

29:07

Dr. Graff. Those

29:10

types of calculations are beyond my programming.

29:15

I'll look at you, Max. I'll

29:19

look at you. Your

29:26

coffee is ready, Dr. Graff. Swell.

29:44

Thank you. Here

30:01

she is. Here

30:11

I am. Eva, this is

30:13

Agent Blaine ISD. Dr.

30:17

Graff. Eva, it's fine. Eva, appreciate you coming.

30:20

I know it's early. I

30:22

know you weren't expecting me until tomorrow. It's

30:27

your world, Agent Blaine. We just live in

30:29

it. See,

30:31

you've already been talking with Commander Freeman?

30:34

I wanted to talk to you separately, if

30:37

that's okay. You're ISD.

30:40

I want to cooperate in any way I can. I

30:43

appreciate that. I know you've had a rough time

30:45

with it. Freeman was just going over

30:47

the status of the base repairs. Yeah. Northern

30:51

Platform got hit the worst. Three capsules breached and flooded.

30:55

But the supports on West and North were

30:57

damaged. Dr. Graff here has planted explosives. I've

30:59

been down both. And 11

31:01

people were killed. Am I right about that? Yeah.

31:05

That's right. You guys love to keep forgiving

31:08

me. There's a lot down here I don't understand

31:10

yet. You're rushing

31:12

the support repairs because... ...underwater

31:15

storms? Eddies. It's

31:18

the technical term. Big

31:20

pockets of moving water that break off from

31:23

the boundary current nearby. It happens frequently here.

31:26

It's one of the reasons working outside is so dangerous.

31:29

What kind of currents are we talking about? Intense.

31:32

When they surge 40 to 50 knots. And

31:34

40 to 50 knots of hundreds of tons of water. Got

31:37

it. MAC has a model for forecasting

31:39

them. Right now the forecast has no eddies for

31:41

three days. Which is the window we're going with? We

31:44

should have the supports repaired to Bracelet. I see.

31:47

What door is this? The one you're working on here? Hydroponics.

31:52

These doors came down when the explosion happened. No way

31:54

between the capsules. Every

31:56

room on Fathom is basically its own separate building.

31:59

We call them capsules. Every entry

32:01

point into a new capsule has emergency pressure doors that

32:03

come down in the event of a hull breach to

32:05

see open. Mack says the

32:07

capsule on the other side isn't flooded, but even

32:09

so, it's probably a total loss. Crops

32:12

don't do well without irrigation. Is

32:15

it possible the damage was more isolated

32:17

to the northern platform intentionally? If

32:20

Dr. Edgar's wanted to target one platform

32:22

over another, I think he'd focus on

32:24

West. The reactor's there. That's where you'd do

32:26

the most damage. I'd say he

32:29

did enough damage regardless. The

32:31

labs are on this platform, though. All your

32:33

research. So is your VI's

32:35

mainframe. From what I hear, it's been

32:37

acting erratic. Yeah, that's true. VI's

32:39

been acting strange ever since. Emerson's trying to

32:41

figure it out now. Strange how? Simple

32:45

things. Waking teams up

32:47

at the wrong times, forgetting who people are, shutting

32:49

lights off the middle of lunch, stuff like that.

32:53

But his main functions? He

32:55

hasn't missed a beat as far as the

32:57

project goes, and he designed the repair procedure

32:59

for the platform supports on West and North.

33:01

Yes, me. I think it should be shut down.

33:03

Turning off the lights is one thing. Depressurizing

33:05

the base is another. Mack wouldn't do that. What

33:09

Dr. Graff means to say is Mack's

33:11

programming wouldn't allow it to do that.

33:13

But she thinks of Mack as a person. I see it

33:16

as a tool. And tools can

33:18

malfunction. You think, what,

33:21

Edgar's was targeting Mack? I

33:23

don't know. But Dr. Edgar's was

33:25

a smart guy. Triple PhD, Band

33:27

11, Snowgill prize-winning engineer with almost

33:30

100 patents. So?

33:34

Just doesn't sound like a guy to me that

33:36

does anything randomly. I'd

33:39

like to speak to the VI engineer if I could. So would

33:42

I. But Emerson's been offline all morning. Offline? Can't

33:46

raise her on comms and Mack can't pinpoint

33:48

her location. Then again, he can't pinpoint anyone's

33:50

location right now. Hold

33:54

on now. What

34:01

happened? Paul's breach is

34:03

the other side of the door. Mac, do you

34:05

feel the pressure going? The shade's gone? No.

34:07

Mac, this is... He's in there. He's

34:10

in there. He's in there. Three. One.

34:21

Mac, what happened? It appears that the

34:23

hydroponic's actually under all operations. But

34:26

the pressure portion's broken. The water on the other

34:28

side... You said it wasn't breached. You said it

34:30

was pressurized. I am confused by this

34:32

meeting. I

34:40

want it shut down. I got met her. We're

34:42

lucky we ought to just drown to death.

34:44

I want it shut down. You can't shut

34:46

it down, Joe. It's a hundred million

34:48

dollar asset. We can do an

34:51

alpha level reboot if we need to. But Emerson

34:53

is AWOL and... If we need to, it almost kills

34:55

us. Do and relax. Everyone take a breath. Don't tell me to

34:57

take a breath. Freeman! Take

35:01

a breath. Fine. Sure.

35:05

But shut it down. Shut it down or I

35:07

will. I mean it. What

35:12

does that mean, Joe? You've

35:15

already had enough sabotage, don't you think? Joe?

35:21

God damn it. You okay?

35:24

Yeah, I'm fine. I just... Welcome

35:28

to Fathom. Tensions are high. Nothing I

35:30

didn't expect. You wouldn't shut him down, right? You

35:34

wouldn't shut down, Matt? No. Oh,

35:37

you're right. Shutting down a VI is essential

35:39

to urbanating. Not to mention hitting the

35:41

weak button and all this stored research. A

35:44

very expensive asset to incorporation. I

35:47

couldn't afford that loss. Not now, not after

35:49

the explosion. We're already short-solved as

35:51

it is. I am going to

35:53

limit back access to critical systems now. Keep

35:57

them online, just put the rain in. not

36:00

to the project, right? What happens

36:02

to that? The research?

36:06

All critical systems. Just

36:08

for the moment. That's going to limit my research

36:10

ability. I'm aware. No,

36:12

I don't think you are. I need MAC

36:14

for signal analysis for calculations on

36:16

the equation, not to mention... Dr.

36:19

Graff, you're

36:21

not going to be doing any research in the immediate future.

36:24

I'm wondering if you really shut down, even if it's a connection to

36:26

your story. I can't do that. You

36:28

already pulled the rest of my team. Now you're taking

36:31

MAC and the relay? Let's talk somewhere else. Let's

36:33

talk now. I need MAC.

36:35

I need... Let's talk somewhere else, Dr.

36:38

Graff. Fine.

36:44

There's a meeting room in lab three. I was

36:46

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39:47

is a lot of windows. 180

39:51

degree view of the whole sordid affair. We're

39:55

looking outside into the water? We

39:57

are. It

40:03

actually is. In space

40:06

you get starlight. Not

40:09

much, but it still counts lumens. Down

40:12

here there's nothing.

40:17

And what, it's straight out

40:19

there? About 600 yards.

40:22

Usually there's some kind of illumination around

40:24

it. Subs, rovers,

40:27

divers, but since

40:30

the explosions, that's all

40:32

stopped. Sometimes I think I can almost

40:35

see it better with the lights off. Like

40:37

it's darker than

40:41

everything else. I don't

40:43

see anything. It's black.

40:48

Max. I'm here, Dr. Graff. Will

40:51

you hit the vault lights for me? Full

40:53

spread, Dr. Graff. Yes, please. Now

41:03

that is something. Yes.

41:10

Yes, it is. The

41:13

size, I didn't

41:16

expect. Two thousand feet

41:18

in diameter. Carbon

41:20

dating? Seven million years old.

41:25

Seven million. It's

41:28

unbelievable. The

41:30

first proof of extraterrestrial life, we

41:34

find it's a bottom to the ocean. Life

41:36

is too ironic to fully understand.

41:39

It makes noise

41:41

to appreciate silence and

41:43

absence to value presence. You're

41:46

a scientist. You all

41:48

love Voltaire, don't you? You

41:52

forgot a part, though. It

41:54

takes sadness to understand what happiness

41:56

is. leave

42:00

that part. Correct

42:03

my math. Like I said, still come up to speed

42:06

on this. Eleven

42:08

years ago, an energy company comes down

42:10

here looking for a geothermal reactor site. They

42:14

unearthed that instead. Buried

42:17

nineteen thousand feet down. And

42:21

we think... What's the

42:23

door? We know it is. Substropic

42:27

filters show a space under it. A

42:29

big space. Doors

42:31

in your perfect circle, the laser scans show

42:33

us. Hinges on the

42:35

northern side, huge ones, but no

42:38

electronics, no visible hydraulics even, and

42:40

no locking mechanism. We

42:43

can interact with it, at least. There's

42:45

no obvious way to open it at first. So

42:47

you found a signal? Right. Knack.

42:52

Play the vault signal. Recording

42:54

or live broadcast, Dr. Gras. Live,

42:56

please. Well,

43:02

this is lively. It's

43:04

broadcasting the cyclic to VLF. Very low

43:06

frequency. And that's important

43:09

because VLF waves are when you diffuse it travel well

43:11

under water. This one is

43:13

at 11 kilohertz. Travel's been up far, right?

43:16

Right. About a quarter

43:18

mile. So basically

43:20

down here you'd have to be on top of it to find it.

43:24

I don't think it was meant to be found except by someone

43:26

from New York to look. The

43:29

light is signal at all. I do ask.

43:32

Knack, you're on the vault signal and we'll put

43:34

up a vault equation on all monitors. There's

43:39

a whole lot of numbers. The signal

43:41

isn't just noise. It's a carrier

43:43

wave. Modulated, sinusoidal

43:45

waveform. It's a bitcheted

43:47

code, but in the end it's

43:49

binary, like any other carrier signal. The

43:52

equation you're looking at is the sole piece of

43:55

data on that wave. And

43:57

the vault is broadcasting it over and

43:59

over. Like a key. More

44:02

like a hint to the key. You

44:04

figure out the equation, you figure out how to open

44:06

the vault. How? We

44:09

believe that solving the equation will

44:12

give us the frequency and the data

44:14

packets to transmit back to the vault's

44:16

reception device. We think that

44:18

should initiate

44:20

its opening procedure. How

44:22

far along are you to solving it? The

44:25

equation, long as it is, isn't all that

44:27

tough. It needs two variables to

44:29

solve, and it solves with numbers in a

44:32

rational integer pattern. We've

44:34

tried a lot of them. We're into the

44:36

seven digits now. Once

44:38

we have a solution, we broadcast the answers

44:40

in frequency back to the receptor. We

44:43

went through the VLF bandwidth. That's why

44:46

we built the relay next to the vault. Once

44:48

we got out of VLF, the signal didn't travel very

44:50

well down here. We needed a

44:53

broadcasting source that was physically closer.

44:56

No reaction from the locking mechanism? Not

44:59

yet. We theorized maybe the

45:01

vault wasn't yet submerged when it was implanted

45:03

and the water inhibits the reception, but

45:06

our geologist confirms that it was underwater at

45:08

the time of the construction. Not

45:10

to mention, this signal is in VLF,

45:13

unless it was designed to go through

45:15

water. And I assume you've tried other

45:17

ways to get in, besides the lock? Freeman's

45:20

team excavated around the entire perimeter down to

45:22

about 300 feet extra depth. They

45:24

never found an end to the structure, so it's

45:26

that deep, at least. Excavating

45:29

beyond that at this depth... Oh,

45:32

it gets hairy quick. They

45:35

lost two men just getting that far.

45:38

Exposives? Whatever that alloy is,

45:40

it's harder than flux steel. None

45:43

of them filament blades, laser cutters, nothing

45:45

Freeman's boys tried even scratched it.

45:48

And no, before you ask, the

45:50

vault can't be pried open either, the lock can't

45:52

be forced. Why? There's

45:54

no seam, no gap between the

45:57

door and the container. How's that

45:59

even possible? We don't know. Some

46:02

unique aspect of the ally, or maybe

46:04

it's by design an additional security

46:06

measure. I

46:08

guess once the locking mechanism

46:10

activates, somehow the entire thing unseals

46:13

itself explosively with heat, plasma.

46:16

I don't know. It's anyone's

46:18

guess. What

46:22

do you think, Dr. Graf? Can

46:26

you be more specific? About the artifact.

46:30

What do you think it is? You're

46:32

the project director, you gotta have a theory, you

46:34

if anyone. Why

46:36

put a giant door on the bottom of the ocean? An

46:40

ocean on a planet that at the time,

46:42

nothing intelligent lived on. I

46:45

don't know. All

46:47

I know is it shouldn't be here. But

46:50

it is. Yeah.

46:55

Just like us. Alright.

46:58

I get why you're here, Agent Blaine. Do

47:00

you now? An MD employee tries to

47:03

blow up an MD facility. Doesn't

47:06

care who he kills, doesn't care about the attention he

47:08

draws. This is a black site, after all.

47:12

Not the kind of headlines MD wants on the news. There

47:15

is that. You're here to investigate. If

47:20

out any collaborators, Edgars might have had. Signed

47:22

Blaine. I prefer the

47:25

word, responsibility. Whatever the

47:27

word, the problem I have with it is,

47:29

you don't seem to know very much about this project. And I

47:31

would have hoped that whoever the corporation sent to signed

47:34

responsibility would have been a little more informed. MD

47:37

has hundreds of black site projects around

47:39

the galaxy. They're black site

47:41

for a reason. Like every piece of

47:43

information the corporation deals out, you get it

47:45

when you need it. I don't

47:47

need to know the background of this place or the

47:50

specific information. I don't need

47:52

to know the background of this place or the specifics

47:54

of your research to form an opinion on your results.

47:58

Almost a year of your life on this project. project

48:01

you still have no clue what it is you're trying to open

48:04

oh no wait I wonder if your

48:06

research progress is more than just slow

48:10

I wonder if it's intentionally slow I'm

48:13

sorry you were offered this

48:15

decision once two

48:20

months later you lobbied to be included again now

48:22

why was that because

48:25

of your daughter what

48:27

did you just say I wonder

48:29

if you took this job because down here there's

48:32

nothing to remind you of home I wonder

48:35

if the thing that scares you most

48:37

about this place is having to leave

48:39

it is this a performance review or a

48:41

psych eval it's whatever I wanted to

48:43

be Eva right now I'm

48:45

trying to decide whether or not to pull

48:47

you off entirely pull you off and send

48:49

you home you don't have the authority I

48:51

don't you're right but the

48:54

executive board does and they

48:56

want my opinion to make a

48:58

decision right

49:01

look figuring things out like that out

49:03

there it doesn't happen overnight

49:05

and and there's there's

49:08

been progress we have figured out a

49:10

lot you mean the signal which

49:15

apparently no

49:17

wait that's not true it's harmless it's

49:19

just a looping carrier wave dr.

49:21

Edgars think it was edgars

49:24

lost his shit down here like pretty much everyone

49:26

else does eventually dr. Edgars tried to

49:28

blow up this space so as to

49:30

stop what was happening here a galactic

49:33

we respected scientist and your explanation is

49:35

you look out there look

49:38

human beings aren't supposed to be down here

49:41

you said it yourself we

49:43

might as well have been dropped on the moon it

49:45

takes a toll everyone

49:47

Edgar city heard voices

49:49

in the signal just

49:52

him losing it three other science staffs

49:54

are the same same voices in the

49:56

single hundreds of them are

49:58

they losing it too It's

50:00

just the power of suggestion.

50:03

Stories like Edgar's, they take

50:05

a life of their own, especially in a place like this.

50:08

Edgar said to the interviewer he was convinced that the

50:10

thing out there wasn't a vault at all. Yeah, I

50:12

know what he thought. Dr. Edgar's didn't think it was

50:14

designed to keep things out. I know what

50:17

he thought. He thought it was designed to keep something in. Someone

50:20

cracking under pressure. You have no clue what that

50:22

thing is, or what's inside it,

50:24

or what happens when it's open. You can't

50:26

possibly believe Edgar's. Do

50:29

you know what the internal security division does? We

50:34

deal with things when they get out of hand. I

50:37

am very good at it, and I've been working one

50:39

end of this galaxy to the other doing it. The

50:43

things I've seen, the kinds of projects

50:45

this corporation engages in, the Pandora's boxes

50:47

they've opened. I know the kind

50:49

of darkness my story is capable of finding.

50:52

I've shut it back in the box over and over again,

50:54

and the only reason I keep doing it is because

50:56

right now, I still believe the

50:58

good the corporation does outweighs the horror.

51:03

So if you asked me whether or not I

51:05

could believe the ghost stories of an unhinged, triple

51:07

BHD-holding research scientist who tried to blow up his

51:09

own project to stop it from succeeding? The

51:13

answer is, I could. Ask

51:17

Edgar's. Ask him. He's

51:20

on the surface now. He'll have recovered. He'll tell

51:22

you. He'll tell you it was just this place.

51:24

It got to him, and he lost

51:27

it. That's what he'll say. I

51:29

would very much like to ask him

51:31

about his experiences here, Dr. Graff. But

51:34

I can't. Why not?

51:37

Because he hanged himself in his cell last night.

51:41

What? Dr. Edgar's

51:43

is dead. And

51:45

what worries me more than anything is

51:49

that you're hearing voices too. No. No,

51:52

no. I... Your medical

51:54

officer, Dr. Clayton, put it in your chart.

51:57

You said you were hearing voices.

52:01

And you were hearing them way before Dr. Echter said. Once.

52:05

I said I heard it once. I

52:09

was wrong. Dr. Clayton also says you're not

52:11

sleeping. That's an exaggeration. She says you're losing

52:13

your grip. Says your team has reported you

52:15

erratic. That you get the same orders multiple

52:17

times. That's not fair. She put the same

52:19

exact things in Dr. Echter's smile. I know

52:22

Dr. Echter. She said he couldn't sleep either

52:24

at the end. She said

52:26

he roamed the halls all night. She said his

52:28

eyes were bloodshot. I can't go

52:30

home. Please. I can't go back. Being

52:34

down here, this work, it's all... You're

52:37

right. Okay. I

52:41

don't sleep. I don't

52:43

sleep. And

52:46

when I do, I hear

52:49

her. And

52:51

then it just... It

52:55

starts all over again. I'm

53:01

sorry I pushed

53:03

you like that

53:06

Dr. Crath. But I had to see for myself your state. I

53:11

think it's

53:14

a good thing I did. What does that mean?

53:17

It means you need to go back to your quarters

53:19

and start packing your things. No. And

53:21

get ready to return to the surface. No. And

53:23

you will be all Dr. Crath. No.

53:27

Please. I know how your daughter

53:29

died. But

53:32

the truth is, they

53:34

don't care about any of that. All

53:37

they care about is results. And

53:41

you haven't had enough. Blaine.

53:46

Go home Dr. Crath. There's

53:49

nothing here for you but pain. What

53:52

do you know about pain? I've

53:55

had my share. We

54:36

didn't know she was a doctor

54:38

or doctor, so we're

54:40

going to control her in less than

55:43

a minute.

56:01

I don't know. Can

56:04

you roll back time? I'm

56:07

afraid I do not have that ability, Dr. Graf. Chemamilti

56:12

has been shown to have a relaxing effect

56:14

in times of stress. Which is

56:17

like me to make you a cup. How

56:21

about a whiskey, Mac? Alcohol

56:24

is restricted on fathom-based to weekends

56:26

only. Oh,

56:28

you can't make an exception. For

56:32

an old friend. I'm

56:34

afraid not, Dr. Graf. Thanks

56:38

anyway, Mac. As

56:41

a reminder, you still have one unheard voicemail.

56:46

Yeah. Who's

56:48

it from? The voicemail

56:50

is from Dr. Richard Edgars. Edgars?

56:56

Yes, Dr. Richard Edgars. The

56:58

message was received 11 hours ago. Quiet.

57:05

Plain message from Dr. Richard Edgars.

57:09

They gave me one phone call, Eva. They

57:12

used it for you. Flatter.

57:16

They won't be

57:18

here tomorrow. Maybe

57:21

you'll hear. Maybe you

57:24

won't. It doesn't

57:26

matter. I

57:29

hoped when they pulled me out of that place and back into the

57:31

sun, the one Salas said,

57:33

have, said I wouldn't

57:35

hear them anymore. I

57:40

still do. From

57:43

the way inside my head. They're

57:47

all I hear, Eva. They

57:49

closed my eyes. They're all I hear. I

57:53

haven't slept in a month. How

57:57

are you sleeping, Eva? I've

58:02

decided I

58:05

don't care anymore. I've

58:08

decided I want it

58:10

open. Open and

58:12

for everything in there to just crawl

58:15

out. You

58:19

deserve it. You

58:21

more than anyone. See

58:25

the one I'll tell. Tell what I

58:27

already figured out. What

58:30

I kept from everyone. It's

58:33

actually very simple. I

58:36

won't just give it to you though. I

58:40

want you to make your choice. I

58:43

want you to look back. And know

58:45

that it was you that caused it. So,

58:51

here it is. You're

58:54

half right. The

58:57

signal is the key.

59:01

But it's the lock too. And

59:04

you never thought about the timing either. Right

59:08

there in front of you. And you

59:10

never thought about it at all. The

59:14

sad thing is, I

59:16

know you'll do it. You'll

59:20

do whatever it takes. They

59:22

just let you stay down there. I

59:25

tell you my sympathies, but we

59:29

both know better. Mac.

59:33

I'm here. Dr. Graff. I

59:36

need this message. Are you certain? Dr. Graff?

59:39

Yes. Delete it. Now.

59:42

And scrub it. No backup. Message from

59:45

Dr. Eggers. Permanently deleted. Alright.

59:48

Mac. Play the

59:51

ball signal with live broadcast. Mac,

59:56

I want to know the timing of the signal. How long is it?

1:00:00

Is it the same length every time? And

1:00:02

does the length of time vary in between each

1:00:04

broadcast? The

1:00:07

signal is exactly 10 seconds long. It

1:00:09

is the same length of every broadcast.

1:00:12

The time in between each broadcast is exactly

1:00:14

2 seconds. When

1:00:16

you say exactly, you mean with what

1:00:19

specificity? Down to the

1:00:21

millisecond, Dr. Grass. It is exact. Yes.

1:00:29

Put the signal equation on

1:00:31

number 3, please. Look,

1:00:38

I'd like to try solving

1:00:41

the equation with y equals

1:00:43

10 and x equals 2. Confirming

1:00:47

variable number of y equals 10 and

1:00:50

x equals 2. Hit

1:00:52

it. The

1:00:54

equation does not resolve with y equals 10 and x

1:00:57

equals 2. Mac, try

1:01:01

x equals 10 and

1:01:03

y equals 2. The

1:01:07

equation resolves with the level of result 11,

1:01:10

0, and x equals... Exactly

1:01:13

11. Yes, Dr.

1:01:16

Grass. 11, 0, and x equals 5.

1:01:20

The frequency of the ball signal is

1:01:23

11 hertz. The

1:01:25

frequency of the ball signal is 11 hertz. The frequency of

1:01:27

the ball signal is 11 hertz. Look,

1:01:32

in the key. The

1:01:34

temperature is 11. The temperature

1:01:37

is 11. Mac,

1:01:44

turn off the ball signal. Oh,

1:01:52

you just need to sleep. You

1:01:55

just need to sleep. Mac,

1:02:02

get me Freeman. I

1:02:09

can't help you, Eva. You did this to yourself. Joe.

1:02:13

I figured it out. I tried explaining how serious this was, but

1:02:15

you wouldn't listen. I'm in the

1:02:17

same boat. This plane guy is recommending I... I

1:02:20

figured it out, Joe. I

1:02:23

figured out what? The vault.

1:02:27

It's a long story, but I figured it

1:02:29

out. I can open it. I can give

1:02:31

them what they want. We can give them

1:02:34

what they want. We?

1:02:39

Yes. Together. All

1:02:41

I need is access to the relay. Local

1:02:43

access. With it disconnected from the labs, it's

1:02:45

the only way. You want

1:02:47

to take a suit and make a floor walk to the

1:02:50

relay. Use the controls locally. Not

1:02:53

me, Joe. Oh.

1:02:57

Now I get it. You want me to do it. You

1:03:00

want me to go around in highest demand date with an

1:03:02

agent on deck. I hate to break it

1:03:04

to you, but it won't just be me they throw in prison. It'll be

1:03:06

both of us. It won't. Because it will work

1:03:08

this time. I know it. We can both come

1:03:10

out of this on top. We can both stay.

1:03:13

We won't have to go back. We can stay. Stay.

1:03:15

The hell does that matter? It

1:03:20

doesn't. The point is, if

1:03:22

we do this, we don't just go

1:03:25

back to how it was. We'll close

1:03:27

out a major project milestone.

1:03:29

There will be bonuses. There

1:03:32

will be promotions. MD rewards

1:03:34

ambition. It rewards

1:03:37

it above everything. We

1:03:39

can turn this whole thing around. Joe?

1:03:46

It will work. Joe?

1:03:53

Joe? Back,

1:03:57

give me Freeman back. There

1:04:00

we go. Eric? Eric?

1:04:06

Eric? Mac? Eva?

1:04:12

Eva, what the hell? It's

1:04:14

a suppose to god. No! I

1:04:19

can't raise Mac! Eva,

1:04:21

hold on. Hey! Are

1:04:27

you? Eva?

1:04:34

Oh my god. It's

1:04:59

not!! It's not!! It's

1:05:02

not!!! It's not!!! He's

1:05:20

gone. He's

1:05:24

gone. He's

1:05:28

gone. He's

1:05:58

gone. Cort

1:06:22

Fury obtain This

1:06:31

is Dr. Ibaguirra There

1:06:35

was a hull breach in the western dorms The

1:06:39

water flushed me into the dive room airlock I vented

1:06:42

it, I'm alive Does anyone

1:06:44

copy? Dr. Clayton

1:06:50

Commander Freeman Do

1:06:54

you copy? Does

1:06:56

anyone? men Fathom

1:07:31

is the prequel to the podcast

1:07:33

derelict by Night Rocket Productions. It

1:07:36

is created, written, directed, and

1:07:38

edited by J. Martin Mitchell

1:07:41

and produced by Kirsten Ruttberg and

1:07:43

Thomas Barker. The

1:07:49

Star is Elizabeth Laidlaw as Eva Graff.

1:07:52

Michael Mao as Blaine. Eli

1:07:55

Goodman as Joe Freeman. Danny

1:07:58

Payne as Sarah Clayton. And

1:08:00

Mac as himself. The

1:08:04

podcast features additional sound design by

1:08:07

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1:08:09

music by Ryan Talbert, Luke

1:08:11

Attencio, and Davis Harwell. The

1:08:16

producers wish to thank Flashpoint Chicago, the

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1:08:21

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1:08:23

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1:08:26

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