The Nightflyer rotates in space. Melantha (Jodie Turner-Smith) finds Roy Eris (David Ajala) enjoying the wilderness dome. Roy is forced to tell Mel about his mother being alive. He tells her that his mother is the ship. He confesses to hearing his mother’s voice all the time. He wants Mel to take him away from that. They share a kiss. Karl (Eoin Macken) is harassed by his daughter in the hallway. Skye tells him to get it out of her. She tells him to cut the cancer out. Rowan (Angus Sampson) arrives and tells him to walk through it. Rowan reminds him not to leave himself vulnerable. He tells Karl not to torture himself because that makes it easier for others to do the same. The probe is found in Karl’s room. He is shocked to see it there.

They cannot understand how it made it back so fast or who put it in Karl’s room. After the intro, Roy and Mel get intimate. Lommie (Maya Eshet) works on the computer when something goes wrong. An off-loader (Keith Jordan) is locked inside a container. He calls for help. Nobody is around to hear him. Agatha (Gretchen Mol) works with Thale (Sam Strike). Gas begins to leak into the container. The off-loader cannot stop it. Thale starts feeling out. He describes the scene to Agatha. Karl and Rowan are amazed by the probe. Karl wants to send Lommie into the probe. Roy learns that the ship is getting a lot of error codes. Agatha arrives and tells Roy about the accident. Karl takes Lommie to the probe.

Rowan tells them about the space rust on the outside of the probe. Karl believes that the probe holds a lot of answers. Thale tries to help Roy and Agatha find the accident. Roy contemplates whether it was actually an accident. They find the man dead in the container. Thale claims that they died together. Lommie learns about Roy’s mother being inside of the ship. Agatha gets Thale back to bed. He tells her about the troubles of dying over and over again. They speak about Thale’s childhood. Thale calls Agatha out on thinking about Karl. Roy tells Mel that his mother is lashing out now. Roy visits Karl and learns about the probe. Mel is surprised to see it. Roy hears his mother going nuts. He tells the group that his mother wants the probe off the ship.

Agatha remembers a date with Karl many years ago. It is explained that Agatha left too abruptly for them have a chance to talk. She remained away for around two years and wanted to talk about what happened. Karl tells her that he met Joy after Agatha bailed on him. Karl is scheduled to marry Joy (Zoe Tapper) pretty soon. Agatha watches the memory aboard the ship. Roy intends to remove the probe. He says that he is trying to save Karl’s life. Roy is urged to stand up to his mother. Roy promises to hold off his mother for one cycle. Then, he wants the probe gone. Karl speaks with Agatha about Thale. She admits she is worried about him. Karl tells her why he is concerned about the L1s and their abilities.

Rowan interrupts. He tells Karl that there is something he needs to see. Cynthia tries to damage the probe with heat. Blood seems to be dripping from the probe. Rowan opens a portion of the probe and discovers that it is actually alive. Roy does his best to calm his mother. They speak about Roy and his mother judging him. Thale gets a visit from Agatha. She takes off her shoes and joins him in bed. They get intimate. Agatha pulls out a plastic sheet and tries to smother him. Thale wakes up from his nightmare. Thale finds that he has messed himself. Work continues on the probe. Karl wonders if the organic material is actually Volcryn or a message. He wonders if the Volcryn can control space and time.

Lommie agrees to go inside to save the data. Karl learns that the blood coming out of the probe belongs to him. Rowan decides to take over the investigation. Roy fears out while speaking to his mother. Karl is stopped by Skye (Bronte Carmichael) once again. Agatha speaks with him too. She appears to be pregnant. She tells him what they could have had would have been beautiful. They could’ve had a child together. Agatha cut the baby out and does so again. Agatha and Skye both disappear. Lommie and Rowan continue the work. Lommie enters the system. Karl sends a message to Joy. He chats with her about her therapy. He admits he doesn’t want to forget about Skye.

Karl takes off his ring and tells Joy that she can release her memories of him. He just wants her to be happy. He saves the message. Karl finds Lommie in a possessed state. Thale freaks out while she does the same. Lommie eventually comes through. She tells Karl that the probe is dying and it does. Karl speaks with Agatha about what Cynthia showed him. Agatha explains that Cynthia was able to see the memory that she accessed. Agatha admits to being pregnant. She insists she knew it wouldn’t work. She had to make a choice. She took some time and tried to find Karl to tell him what happened. When she saw how happy he was about Joy, she couldn’t tell him the truth. Agatha tells him that they cannot let Cynthia tear them apart.

Rowan finishes with the probe. Roy wants to know if anything was salvageable. Rowan tells Roy that Cynthia is not going to stop at the probe. Karl checks on Lommie. She seems fine. She tells Karl that everything was jumbled. It was beautiful chaos. She explains that the probe was the message. Lommie begins talking about the timestamp on the sensors. It was from a month ago. The sensors recorded more than a month’s worth of data. She insists that the probe has been out there more than a thousand years according to the data on the probe.

 

Nightflyers Review

I can see both sides of the argument. I understand why people like Nightflyers and I can see why they do not. The show is really out there and that makes it very difficult to accept. On the other side, the interaction with the characters is pretty interesting. It is very intriguing to see Agatha interact with Thale and with Karl. Alone, the characters aren’t too memorable. Most of them could die in the next episode and it wouldn’t matter too much. When they’re together, things start getting interesting.

Sadly, the story is off the wall and a bit tough to follow at times. Still, the show is at least interesting. For that, the episode scores a 7 out of 10. Be sure to check out other Nightflyers recaps before leaving.