Constellation
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The episode is once again bookended by brief visits to a snowy vista in the near future.
Jo rushes to safety in the warm cabin after finding who she thinks is the real Alice.
Jo is flummoxed and furious.
The scene abruptly ends by transitioning to Jo on the ISS.
If the intent here is to disorient us, its successful.
Jo herself is somewhat untethered from reality as she floats around in the near-defunct ISS.
She suddenly realizes that she has lost hours of precious time.
What happened to her in those hours?
Did she pass out due to stress and lack of oxygen?
Or might this be an important gap in time that will get filled in later?
Do we have a Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde situation going on here?
She lost nearly 12 hours, right?
At this point, though, it doesnt really matter.
All Jo knows is that she has to hustle if she wants to make it back to Earth.
First, his head covering comes off, floating up to greet Jo as shes hard at work.
She admits to no one in particular that shes afraid of the dark.
Jo is a stoic and capable woman, but shes also vulnerable and terrified.
And scary things just keep happening.
She hallucinates (?)
Pauls voice as she plays back her own recording.
He tells her to stop breathing, which is a horrifying thing to hear anyone say in any situation.
A bit later, Pauls hand floats into view.
Curious, she follows it.
Jo returns to her work, successfully replacing all of the batteries and starting the undocking procedure.
She still has no contact with TsUP.
Jo gives it a few hard whacks like one might smack a vending machine with a dangling treat.
intentionally assisted her from the outside of the hatch.
When she says, No matter what happens, my eyes are always on you, its heartbreaking.
Something tells me were going to find out.
Of course we know that Jo doesnt die.
But lets press pause on her for a moment as we check in with the humans on the ground.
One of the most intriguing pairings in the episode is Henry and Irena.
They both appear to be very influential in the space community.
But it doesnt exactly feel like Henry is telling the truth about this mystery brother.
Are these mysterious siblings actually other halves that came back with them from space somehow?
(Breaking Badfans will enjoy Banks trotting out his signature Mike Ehrmantraut sneer on glorious display here.)
Elsewhere, we meet Frederic.
All thats left for the people on the ground to do is wait.
And, when the countdown ticks to zero, they immediately give up hope.
Sergei is a real one.
Mere minutes later, they get a signal.
Sergei is so elated that his little headset almost pops off.
They confirm that she has the CAL and then they ask her to change her parameters.
The girl is hurtling through literal space at 8Gs, so … no.
In a thrilling sequence, the cavalry convenes to search for the capsule as it falls.
Dozens of helicopters and trucks are deployed, rumbling across the desert to find a single human.
The images of the stark, otherworldly capsule against the arid desert landscape are captivating.
So much for Jo being hard to find.
Jo is elated to be home and even more elated to be reunited with Magnus and Alice.
As the family is evacuated from the site via helicopter, Jo and Alice hold hands.
They both have respective moments of panic but are quickly reunited in psychic space.
Oddly, neither tells the other about what theyve just experienced.
It feels very strange that Alice is also experiencing these skips in reality.
The exchange: Where is she?
First, the Paul is dead reference last episode, and now this?
Lets hope every episode has a passing reference to the living legend.
