The Final Choice for Containment

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Restrictions applies see full terms at Fanjool. com slash sports book. Gambling problem call one eight hundred gambler or one eight hundred my reset . I finished a five K in ninety fourth place . Right after a man wearing jeans , they still gave me a medal. I don't want a reward for doing, I want a reward for dominating. Like Daily Prize Metra I'm Beth three hundred sixty five. I play for free and win real rewards, like up to five thousand dollars in cash weekly. Unlike that joker and denim Bet three hundred and sixty five Winning is everything . Gambling problem call one hundred gambler. twenty one plus only must be physically present in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, TC and C supply What's that? You gotta get up. Gotta freak it I can't pressurize. See anything. How are you out it's pretty much else ? You're happy with a flashlight Pretty old. Where is your arm in your jacket? I think it's I think it's broken impact through me. Pretty good Let me say it. I don't know time for that. Holes breached. We're filling up. So what are we? Warning ? Cautastrophic death. What was that? Hole breached problems . Pressurization cockpit. Power failure. You see it? It's actually God. It's actually black substance . The one on the release. God I guess somehow ? It doesn't play nice with it . Electronics or mechanics shorted everything , engines, computer, power strips . It's spreading . It's spreading quickly. Warning. I think it's attracted to electronics. We also can't We just lost power. The ballist pumps were keeping back the water breach where we're going to flood faster . What do we do? Alvarez, what do we do? I have to get the demis unlocked before it floods. How do we get out of this up? You'll have to blow the back hatch controls in your demis should still connect snow there waiting. I don't the water is so cold. Be moving. I've never been in a demis. That raining. Yeah, but wait , what about you? Emergency counter. Maybe I should use that. Wouldn't that make more sentence? No power now. Connection for the demist to the floor . Gotta be disconnected manually . Do you know how to do that? No , no, I definitely don't Oh my god Don't get up. It's all breaking down get up It's zoom zoom up. You're out of time . Okay , okay . So cold . So cold. Crawl in Where's Where is the capsule ? Nearby , hurry. Crawl in How do I the button there, a big green one it's plugging away Just breathe ? Just relax, you're okay now. OK now . Stay there . Disconnecting Demis . Look for control thing in your head . To blow the bulkhead, you'll be you'll be shocked outside, right outside . I see it. In the subcontrols it's green. I can still connect . Once I get that , the disconnects done , give you the signal . Then you blow it. But you have to get in the capsule first. If I blow the old head the sea, there's no capsule, doctor. Wait , wait, what are you? Always liked you, Sarah. There's no escape pod . There is just covered by that stuff . Sorry I lied . You wouldn't wouldn't get the demison. Oh, that's over is you can't just stop lucky . It's lucky . No , over stop on me somehow . Spreading the way like everywhere else Sweet Hurt Hurts bad. We can fix it. It's just tissue damage. Don't think so . Don't think so You use blow the back panel duck needs to get out of this, please listen to me there has to be a way my life went don't remember pressure . Take blue on north . Cut me up real good, you 're saving me , fixing me . Just be okay, Sarah, just like it, then wack made it back . However is it? It hit the button or the hatch Got to please , Sarah . I told Please A warning , emergency bulkhead explosive disconnects prime Just chief will be killed he'll take it, he'll take a hard . Just give him a minute. I'll get you okay Fuck here I can't stop thinking about this one time he and I This she is too early Albers . That was where is Albers ? Is he suck ed? Where's that ? Is he where she has night okay . Right here on my bad is , you're okay . You're okay . But it's strange . The way people tell you how you're feeling they mean well , I suppose, but really , who is anyone to tell anyone else something like that ? Just seems arrogant Esa Hello, Sarah . It's been a lifetime, hasn't it? I have so much to talk about I finished a five K in ninety fourth place . Right after a man wearing jeans , they still gave me a medal. I don't want a reward for doing, I want a reward for dominating. Like Daily Prize Metro, I'm Bet three hundred sixty five. I play for free and win real rewards, like up to five thousand dollars in cash weekly. Unlike that Joker in Denim , Beth three hundred and sixty five , winning is everything. Gambling problem call one hundred gambler twenty one plus only must be physically present in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, TC supply . I finished a five K in ninety fourth place , right after a man wearing jeans , they still gave me a medal. I don't want a reward for doing, I want a reward for dominating . Like Daily Prize Metro, I'm Beth three hundred sixty five. I play for free and win real rewards, like up to five thousand dollars in cash weekly. Unlike that Joker and denim , Beth three hundred and sixty five. Winning is everything. Gambling problem call one hundred gambler twenty one plus only must be physically present in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, TC supply Sarah has your demis handling You hit hard but the pressure blew out Sarah . Sorry Yes . What? You demis It's it seems fine. No warnings on my heart, nothing I'm noticing Sir, are you sure you're getting a damn it. What's happening Sut just lost power . It's dark . I got no joy here. The substance has spread almost up to your knee joint. Yeah . Started on the ankle. Spot about the size of my fist. It will keep spreading, too. The more he moves? Why can't you stand here, doctor? I wasn't suggesting that , but you do need to get that suit off him as fast as possible. I love it when people talk about me like I'm not . Hey, look at that Back online But what? My power levels are down . Draining fast. I'm at twenty three percent on battery now. It's clearly tapped into the suit's power cycles , operation's going to get more and more difficult. Bucket of optimism Marcheneva Should I lie? Please. Stop focus, please start moving again Raise how far to south from here . Not far , should be seeing Navlite soon. No Navlite's. The power's down on the whole platform. She reactivated the Excor n. That's how we knew to come out here. That was before the lifeform tapped into the reactor. The safeguards kicked in and shut it down. You keep calling it a lifeform , but it didn't look biological to me . Does it need to? Well what makes something alive ? I'd argue it's sentience and purpose and imperative more than anything else . And I can tell you it definitely has that. It's not biological. What is it? Mechanical , technological ? Some sort of advanced microscopic linked intelligence more than likely. Look, nanotech . Yes, but if you're comparing the lifeform to our nanotech , Blaine's healing system, for instance , it is orders of magnitude more sophisticated . The black oily murk you've seen in the water . That's its primordial form . What was inside the vault ? It's attracted to anything mechanical or electronic. Once it finds it it, attaches, drains, and consumes it , and then it starts to grow . It makes more of itself . That would mean mean ? It's on your demis right now , growing. It's too small to see, but once it builds up enough of itself , you will . In a couple of hours, it will shut your suits down, break through the seals and you'll all be dead This can be happening How much time do we have ? I don't know . All I can tell you is its growth and spread is exponential . The more of itself it produces, the faster it replicates . It must use the raw material it finds steel, plastic , circuitry , breaks it down and repurposes it . Like Fritz , the way it dissolved her suit , the way it dissolved her . No , I believe it's indifferent to biological material . It's just waste product without any value . Waste product ? It was Alpha's two . It spread it was on . It was still spreading at the end, but slow , not like what happened to Fritz. The mass in the relay was very large. That's why it reacted so volatile to your presence . The larger the mass, the more powerful . Each nodule of the lifeform seems to be its own structure , possibly its own entity. And I've observed I've seen two masses of the substance grow and spread from opposite sides of a room toward one another and then merge . Implying all individual sections of this thing are trying to form into one primary mass . That's my thought . This should have never happened . We should have never been down here. We should have left that goddamn thing alone . But we didn't . Now look at us. Reese , that thing is gonna keep spreading and spreading until we're No , he's right . All we had to do was leave well enough alone and everyone would still be alive . Everyone would they're not because you let it out , Eva . You opened the vault . I didn't open the vault . Mac the vault . I tried to stop him . Emerson and I both did. Wait , Mac . You both told me you destroyed Mattic. We did . On the North platform. Exactly. You destroyed him on the North platform. I didn't know about it, but Fathom has a singularity backup server and an auxiliary mainframe right here on South. What does what does that mean? Mac I killed him. Mac was a singularity fall over server would transition Mac to a back up location and it would do it at FTL data transfer speeds . Which is exactly what you wanted to be out of your reach and have systems with a direct connection to the relay . You didn't kill him, Sar ah. You moved him . If anyone's to blame for opening the vault, it's not me . It's you . That's not a fair . And blaming me is. Is it here? Are we going to have to deal with a damn FI two? Mac is gone. Erased , but it cost Brynn her life . She died activating his kill switch in the main frame, Matt electrocuted her through Ademis. Geez , it just never ends . This place mack the insuranity it never ends . Sometimes I wonder why we can try Sarah, we're in a private channel . What's going on with you? Nothing's going on with me . I'm fine . No, you're not. You never talked like that before. happen Whated back on the sub with Alvarez Sarah. I'm fine , Lane . Look , we're all being pushed now. It gets like this at the end. It gets hard. I don't need a pep talk. I don't need I'm fine . You can talk to me . You know that, right? It's It's there is South Platform straight ahead . You should see the door for the airlock . It's red . Blane should we approach ? Yeah, Chief , let's move forward . I don't see any of this substance . At least not on this wall. You're lucky then. Last I saw, before the computer shut off , the lifeworm recovered almost seventy percent of the exterior. You would stay sharp regardless Trying the earlock door . Well , Eva's right, no power. So nice to be validated. Can you tell if the staging room on the other side is flooded too? As far as I know, the only things not flooded are the control center, the X Corps and the auxiliary main frame . Where are you Eva? Auxiliary Mainframe . I've been trapped here for I don't know . The lost count . Don't worry, doctor, we'll get the platform pumped and you out of there . I think we can open the airlock safely with the manual override . Do it . Then what? Find a way to contact the surface , get a rescue cell on the way. It's a containment team . A containment team . You're sure that's the best option . This thing is a highly volatile tank , biological or otherwise . We need to isolate it, keep it from spreading any further . We've seen empty containment teams hold gamma eleven threats . They're very good at it. You could operate the relay from the control center . Contact the surface that way. Yes, but how are we going to get there? Every corridor is flooded, which means we can't open the water seal for control without flooding it. We'll have to drain the interior of the platform first, which means reactivating the X core to engage the bilge pumps . The problem is, the reactor will just shut down again like it did before. Why? It's fail safe . If the reactor computer senses a dangerous power drain shuts off to prevent a meltdown, when that creature made contact with it, must have taken one hell of a drink . Can we override the fill safe? Force the reactor to stay online? Yeah . We'll have to go inside the utility tunnel, flip the breakers. That's the easy part . Then we disconnect the hard lines to the XCOR monitoring server . That's the hard job . I can do it . Somebody will need to manually open the vent shapes for the Xytrilli um bleed we're going to get . Yeah, that too . Controls for those are in the hall above the tunnels near the XCOR. I've opened spacecraft vent panels before. Assume it's similar. Pretty much Exigonal interlocks on three separate vents . When power's reset, I can start the reboot of the Excourp from the terminal here. All right, then , it sounds like we have a plan. How much of the interior is infected ? How much of the life will he find? Without power, I can't check diagnostics, but it needs raw materials to build from and the energy to do it. Hopefully the shutdown of the X Corps slowed its growth, but I have no idea what you're going to find inside . It doesn't matter . We're committed now . Hell, we were committed the moment we touched down outside the relay . We were riding this one out . Open the door, chief I finished a five K in ninety fourth place . Right after a man wearing jeans , they still gave me a medal. I don't want a reward for doing, I want a reward for dominating. Like Daily Prize Metron, I'm Beth three hundred and sixty five. I play for free and win real rewards, like up to five thousand dollars in cash weekly. Unlike that joker and denim . Bet three hundred and sixty five. Winning is everything. Gambling problem call one hundred gambler. twenty plus only must be phys Nicallyew J preserseenty in and Pennsylvania, and Cuppy . I finished a five K in ninety fourth place . Right after a man wearing jeans , they still gave me a medal. I don't want a reward for doing, I want a reward for dominating . Like Daily Prize Metron, I'm Beth three hundred and sixty five. I play for free and win real rewards, like up to five thousand dollars in cash weekly. Unlike that Joker in Denim Beth three hundred and sixty five winning is everything. Gambling problem call one hundred gambler. twenty one plus only must be physically present in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, T and C supply Okay , we're in the utility tunnel . Acknowledged. What do you see ing? A lot of infrastructure , pipes, conduits , none of it's powered, none of it looks anything like I've ever seen either. This was Fathom's first platform . Self contained so the crews had somewhere to live while they built the rest . MD drones dug out the tunnels for the piping and the ducts and they surface dropped the rest on top . It's pretty impressive and all for nothing as it turns out . Any sound of the life form No , nothing yet. We're headed toward the X Core connections . If it's penetrated to the tunnels, we'll see it there. GPS shows me right above you, moving toward the vent controls. No sign of it here either. Maybe didn't spread that fall from the reactor . Our luck ain't that good . Okay , stay in touch, keep me updated Chief , how's your suit doing? Why? The growth . It's covering your entire leg now . Someone's true your torso, Chief . Don't call me chief . Not anymore . Oh, that's gone now . Now you earned that title, Race ? Lost it too , didn't they? I'm sorry, by the way, for what I said before outside the sub . Sorry, hey . About Alfarez . I didn't have any right to say that . He said that you would take it out He also said that you'd be okay . Hm m. Well , I'm not I found Alvarez in Albuquerque . Owed money to a loan shark so he could feed his sister . The kind of loan you don't ever payback. He wasn't an idiot. He knew the score, but he took the money anyway . At least she wouldn't be hungry Kind of kid he was . Took on weight for other people's sacrifice for him . He tried cleftin my motorcycle . Made about two blocks before the anti theft VI threw him head first into a dumpster and broke his nose, his cheekbone, dislocated his shoulder . I liked him right away Asked him to come work for MD once I heard his story. You paid his debt? The hell no . A man's got to pay his debts no matter how unfair , but I suggested to the shark he let Alvarez pay him back over time and that he frees the interest . He came rounded by way of thinking . Alvarez paid him back the first year at MD and paid for his sister to go to welding school too . He was in line for promotion. Once his contract was done , all of them in line for something . Promotions, raises , more responsibility , things they were promised , things they earned , things they wanted . Not anymore, though . Not anymore . It's not your fault, chief . No . Whose fault is it then ? Brought him here . Put him on a path, didn't I? And I'm the only one left . Last man standing gets the blame because there's no one else to take it . It's on me . It's not fair . Well this place is taken . It's not fair . Life deals the cards, Sarah . You play the hand you're dealt . You don't get a say in it . Sometimes all you can do is read 'em and weep . Read 'em and weep . You ain't been the same since the sub light's gone out of you you know the truth This is a little story we're in . It's already been written and it don't end well . There , ahead of us on the ceiling . Yes . Yes, I see it . Blaine , we found contamination . A lot of it . Yeah, I got it here too. The ceiling's completely covered . It looks like it was spreading down the walls, but it looks inert now . It doesn't look active . Plains right, it looks dead to me. It looks pretty like dead coral. It's not spreading , isn't it? It's doing anything . That don't mean it's dead . Rese is right . I've got it everywhere . They must be half a meter thick. At least . Are you at the disconnection? Not yet . We're gonna have to go through this stuff to get there. Lane, I'm not so sure about this anymore. What do you mean? Presumably this thing is still in contact with the XCO . If we turn it back on , everything us , it's a big jolted juice. We don't know it works that way We don't know it doesn't . I mean, blame, you can't see it down here. We're going to be completely boxed in with it. The tunnel just gets tighter and tighter moving forward, the growth gets thicker and thicker. If it reanimates . Yeah , yeah, I get it. Turning the reactor back on is the only way to drain the platform and use the relay remotely. Actually, there may be another doctor Grav . Flipping the breakers will reset the platform to its last configuration. Correct? Yeah , and its last configuration was the X Corps running at full power . Right. So I'll stop the X Core power up and instead shift back to maintenance mode. Limited battery power only . That'll keep the lightform down there from being able to draw off the reactor . Which will let us wait until Sarah and Rheese are the out of tunnels before we flip on the X Corps. Exactly . Without the X Corps powered, everything will stay just the way it is down there. The duck doesn't need to be down here . I can do them both myself if this is how we're doing it. No , I want you both out of there as fast as possible. I mean it's two people and two tasks. All right, it's your show. We're gonna push into the affected area if Sarah's ready . I'm ready here . Everyone, take it slow. You too, Blaine. Inert or not, I would be careful about touching it . Don't have to tell me twice . That's already spreading all over us. You said so yourself . Well, I assume you'd prefer not to accelerate the process. We should move single file . Reese and I will take up less space . Yeah, Doc. That's probably smart . It's a close it's definitely synthetic looking . It looks fibrous . That was my observation too. Some kind of molecular fiber . I bet if you put it under a microscope, its structure would be geometrical like, a grid . Like blunt cell manor ridges . Diatomalgae. I was thinking more like methycrylate polymers . Well damn losing power again It's a little this time how it's flashing power spikes . Your suit . What's happening ? Race can you see the wall by the floor ? Near your leg . Shit . Look at that Don't move . What's happening ? The inert substance in the moral . It's reacting to the active substance on Rhys Demus Reacting . It's moving , pulsing . It's hard to describe right near the wall where my leg is . And darkening . Darkening's probably bad . It's incredible . Just the proximity to another active version of itself is enough to reconstitute it . It must emit some kind of magnetic field. Oscillating field, yes. But what could be absorbing it on the other end? I don't know. I agree. It's fascinating, but maybe something we think about later. Can you tell if it is reactivating? The only movement is in a small part of the wall nearby is like It's not spreading to the rest of the contamination . It's likely that the mass is just too big to be able to use the power from Reese's Stoway . I'm gonna try moving my leg away. Careful It's stopped. It's an alt again on the wall I think it's just a superficial reaction. I don't think you're in any danger, but I do think you should keep moving . Longer you stand in any one position the more likely reaces contamination can use the inert substance to accelerate its own growth. The faster you get this done, the faster you can get out of there and just stay away from the walls. The problem is the walls are getting closer and closer and the tunnels split ahead. Yeah , we part ways here I'm going right . You're gonna find the monitoring connections for the reactor . You go left , look for the hard line switches. What am I looking for? Three big yellow levers. They'll be inside a plexistel shell, surrounded by a whole bunch of cabling ducts . And the exhibit is still right on all Yeah . Once we do this, I'll come find ya. Be careful, stay in contact. Right . Clayton , how is the spread of the life form where you are severe . And it's not just spread, it's growth . It must be two meters thick. It's getting really tight in yet . I can't believe it did all of this in just a few hours I told you exponential growth . Once it connected with the X Core , there wasn't any stopping in if the computer hadn't shut down the reactor . Yeah . Are you okay, Sarah ? You've been very quiet since the sub . You've barely offered any opinions . It's not like you Our connection is private, Sarah . Blame can't hear us if you're worried about that. You had to do it, didn't you? With Alvarez , that was his name . Whatever it was, you had to do it . Push a button, pull a lever. You killed him , but it saved . That's what you won't say out loud . Even to blame, isn't it ? Because saying it out loud makes it all very real. I think you know you can tell me . I think you know I would understand . I was with Joe, you know ? At the end , and I had to do it too . It saved me, it saved everyone and it killed him . I could have saved Joe Sarah , and I didn't. I could have to ld The truth is , even if we try to save someone , there's no guarantee we can I've been on both sides of that knife . They each cut just as deep . How do you ? I came down here . I tried I tried to distract myself . Did it work? No . Good blunted it . Muted it , but it was always waiting and things were quiet and dark . Is that what this is about? Sarah . Pain you have a lot of it to deal with, don't you? Right now, the luxury is you don't have to. You're too busy trying to survive , but what if you do survive ? What if you make it all that pain, then you know it's going to come to the surface I haven't felt like this before . You know what I was dying, even when I thought I was going to die . C still You like me, Sarah. We are both of us cursed with foresight . There's no way back to the East Platform . Even if there was, we would just bring the Lifeform with us . We would just accelerate its spread None of us can ever leave this platform again . You see that ? The problem of course is agent Blaine . He suffers from a particular kind of neurosis , one that in most situations serves him and Mas Dorian very well . An inability to give up How could that be a liability ? Because a time is coming, Sarah, where hard choices will need to be made . And if we don't make those choices , then everyone on the surface of this planet is going to die . You've seen the power of the life form , its ability to spread . A containment team will not stop it . All we are doing by summoning a rescue sub is giving the lifeborn the path it needs to reach the surface and begin to spread there . Are you Are you saying ? I'm saying once the lifeform consumes what remains of fathom , there is nothing else for it to consume . That is how you isolate it . That is how you contain it . It will remain here harmless in the depths unable to spread. That means everyone on East Must be sacrificed as well. Yes . I don't mean this as a slight , Sarah, merely as a fact . Next to me, you are the most intelligent person on this platform . Agent Blaine will never subscribe to reality . That what is happening here is a lost cause cause Agent Blaine will never sacrifice himself, not because he is a coward , but precisely because he is not, he will fight on until the end You're insane Eva . You hate in . It doesn't sit well with me, Sarah. Believe me, knowing what's coming . But everything I've been through has given me a level of insight . Occam's razor , as it turns out , is a very sharp blade indeed. Sarah, do you read? We're ready here. I'm sorry , Sarah You will have to choose between Agent Blaine's idealism and the necessity to sacrifice ourselves for everyone else . I don't envy you this What if it doesn't come to that? You aren't hungry then I will be wrong and all that will be left is the pain . I don't envy you that either. But I'm not wrong Doctor, patching his back in. Blaine , yes, I'm at the triggers . There are three, my crew said. All yellow, right? Yes, three yellow levers . Those are the overr ide breakers . You have to trip all of them left to right . Pump each one up once and then pull it down all the way . Hard when I say not before . Yes , good . Blaine, are you ready with the vents? I met the manuals, yeah . Okay , after I disconnect the hard l ines for the health monitors , we'll open the vents and flip the breakers concurrently one at a time Blaine goes first, then Sarah . Once the connections are restored, evil will stop the reactor from going back online and put us back in maintenance mode. Hopefully understand . All right , stand by. Monitoring lines disconnected, headed to your location, doctor . Lane . Open the first Ven. First van open . Clayton Goose I did it, but I don't hear anything. You won't until the second one . Blaine, you ready for the next vamp? Ray . Do it . Clayton, second switch Does anyone else here ? What? Nothing . Nothing. Almost back to you, Sarah . Blaine don't wait on me. Open a third vent . Look . Last one . Do it, Sar ah. Also flip . I hear power around me. That's the X Corps coming back online . Any activity from the Life Form? Not yet. Good . I'm stopping the reactor boot, stand by. Okay Okay , we're in lockdown again . Reinitiating maintenance mode. Please lie Is anyone ready? Hey , Doc, you went off cars, you okay? You heard her? Yeah . Right here, she's okay. Spooked though. Right. What happened? Where's you at? I thought I heard what? In maintenance mode. There's no power down here. I mean no more power than before. Some of the conduits are powered now. Yeah , but nothing like when they're react or was online. If it took that kind of power for this thing to grow this thick and big. Grease some of what is it The contaminant on REST , it's interacting with the mass on the walls. There isn't enough power in maintenance mode to reanimate the lifeform. There have to wait . The entire wool , it's you away from it. It's writhing. away from it Brace God damned . Stuck on my leg. Holy grab chair, don't struggle. Still faster. Got my arm now now. St stopop moving . Okay , pull British pull it loose. Stop. Okay . Okay , fine. Claying was his situation. He's pulled against the wall. It's covering his entire left side, I can't tell where the Demis starts in the wall layer. There isn't enough power to reanimate the entire expanse. It's likely just enough for the wall immediately around the Demis. This is spreading. The whole wall is cloving up. Take a step. Shift . If it's growing slow, we have time to hear Resleep. I don't think that's gonna be possible . We have a problem, what? I'm locked out of the terminal in the main frame, it's not accessible anymore . You have team lead access. I'm locked out, regardless, and I'm pretty sure I'm watching the Xytrillium Reactor APIs being rewritten. What? What does that mean? You think ? I think the life form is it's rewriting the source code for the reactor controls as we speak , specifically the power up procedure. Do that? Apparently how can it do that? It's a substance , it's an inanimate obstruction. Listen to what I'm saying . It's recoding the entire API at a speed that's I think you'd better get out of that tunnel, Sarah. Fast. You won't have time. It's already written and pushed a new priming procedure. Call you, Franz . We can't . Do we have to start priming? I'd say you have less than a year before the Excorpor comes back online . And once that happened , the entire tunnel comes in the active purple four percent . fifty seven percent. Stop it. Shut the t erminal down. I told you locked out You gotta get out of here, Sarah. No , you know what ? You know you have to I'm not leaving anyone else. Sir. sixty eight percent . I'm not leaving anyone else . Yeah , yeah, I get that. That's gonna be a big hurdle for ya. Figure it out. Blade Splitting will figure it out. I'm awful sorry about this. sixty percent. I am reason. I just I don't think you would do what you gotta do otherwise ? We smell so bad . You gotta get out here, Sarah. No read a minute dog. Read a the way Quith standing there . Sarah , thank you . Your tunnel dead ends at the pressure door at the recycling center pipe works. Good because she's got seconds eighty percent. Contemporation just keeps going. ninety one percent. Keep going . ninety four percent . ninety seven . I see the door . ninety nine reactive kind . It's alive. Right ? I'm almost there . What? The door panel's rebooting. I can't What? A second. They not half that long. Working on it plane, It's sealed . It won't matter. what do we do? Shut your eyes Clayton . I got it. I got it in this room anyway. That might be optimistic Clayton . Clayton, you're okay . Hey , you're okay . Don't tell me how I feel I'm not okay I'm not at all okay Please wasn't an option . There was nothing you could do. Blame . You know that, right? It wasn't your fault . Blame wasn't your fault. Blame Your left arm , your suit arm . And my grade shoulder . It's visible now . It's scrying Top floors are clear now. Tunnels should be drained in about thirty minutes . Even with the platform free of water, I think we should keep using the demos as long as we can. We don't know if the air in here is contaminated so arning. Battery reserves at thirty three percent . Atmosphere reserves at seventeen percent . This stemus will expand its atmosphere in thirty one minutes, thirty seven seconds. You'll be lucky to get close to that . With the lifeform growing, your battery will be drained long before your air runs out. You know how much time we have ? Clayton , when you last saw Reese, how far are the contaminants spread ? Sarah . I'm sorry. What? How far had the contaminant spread on Reese before he died? It was it had covered both legs . Nothing on the torso Not that I saw . Well, if you first noticed the contamination after the relay, and that was how long ago two hours, give or take . Then roughly four hours for complete coverage of edemas . Of course, the real variable is at what point does it break through your pressure seals ? That's when it kills you. Armor is going to be weaker around the joints, the neckline of the suit, depending on the spread, and the amount of Thank you, doctor. Let's cut that figure in half, give ourselves an hour left to do what ? Same plan as before. Use the relay remotely to call for help. We have the pumps on now, we can access control the center . We're getting there . We can clear out halls and rooms with plasma throwers. I've used half my fuel that's bad, but Clayton hasn't used any of hers . We can make it work . Room to room, flaring it up with superheated plasma. You really think the platform can take that ? Do you have another suggestion? Yes, I do . We start acknowledging reality . We don't do . Clearly unmissing something . You've seen the life form in action now. You've seen its volatility . Any ship you've summoned down here will be immediately contaminated . And when it goes back to the surface , the life form will go with it and everything up there will be exploded . There'll be a containment tambor. It won't matter . You don't know that . I do . The lifeform is more than just a simple contaminant much more . It took over the platform computers, it rewrote our APIs . APIs written in a language completely foreign to it . Do you understand? That implies three dimensional thinking, problem solving , awareness , and a very high degree of intelligence . If you can do all that with the computer systems for this platform. Do you really think it can't do the same with a containment team's dive suit controls or the cockpit computers of a transport sub ? It's clear now, Blaine , anything that comes down here is going to get infected . And if this thing makes it to the surface , you were the one who said we had to stop it . You said, stop it or watch the world burn if I remember right . And the way we do that is to isolate it . Trap it here . Let it consume the rest of Fathom, and then it will be out of raw materials and power . Then it will go inert , just like it did before you turn the lights back on. Everyone on East . What about them? The fifty survivors there . It's not a pretty choice or an easy one . I'm sorry for those lives . I know them better than you do. I work with them fored years , but if the math comes down to sacrificing fifty people to save the lives of billions , then it is a simple calculus, Agent Blaine . No one must ever come down here again . Okay, if you're right and I don't believe you are, even if we didn't call for help, my story would still send an investigation team. You were ahead of research here. You know how much money this facility represents They never abandoned it . They would if it were unrecoverable , if there was no way to access it , if there was a Xytrillium reactor implosion, for example . You want to overload the X core . Let it melt down . It would destroy the base entirely. Deny the Lformife any further building blocks, and it would discourage MD from ever trying to recover it . It checks every box . And kills everyone on East . And kills a bus . That's what makes it a sacrifice . That's what makes it a hard call . Hard calls , at least so I thought, were what ISD was created for is that only for ISD agents without newborn sons What did you say that Only the truth that your judgment is impaired , that you're biased , that you can't see the situation for what it is. You've got something here, doctor Line . Eva may be right. What? Will you agree with this? You're willing to sacrifice everyone on East . Yourself I'm not willing. Then what? Tell him, Sarah . Tell him what you think . Yes, Sarah, tell me . You think the situation's unrecoverable? Feeling a path I think we should take Comprey , make a choice the least to the death of everyone on the history platform . Comprey , fifty people you've worked with. Didn't red Break the stone a stone. We don't know Become brave brain, sir It smells like my dad my dad was a space welder . All but our platforms . He says the fumes stuck to the environment suits They could smell them in the airlock after . He said that welded metal in space, he said. It smelled dead That's what this place smells like Dead Metal Sira , I shouldn't have lost it like that, not with you . Can you please reseal your suit for me ? 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