A self-defeating fool defaces himself with arbitrary precision, insisting that he knows who he is. All he finds underneath is bone. He then dangles Paul by his tail, equating punishment with love and saying he needs to teach him to be a survivor. Campion meanwhile digs a hole with disappointment; trying to escape before it becomes an even dozen, and Hunter diagnoses an unfeeling mechanism in 'Father', finding nothing but hollowness and primitive code.
Mother enters the guts of Heaven's ruins where some dummies hang around, and hooks herself up to one for a transfusion. The dummy comes around and notices his blood levels are dropping. He says "What are you doing? I'm a doctor, not a blood bag", but he's not the real McCoy. He confirms his qualifications: he's part mechanic, part gardener, part veterinarian, part physician. And he's a bug hobbyist. He gets an A+ for producing a diagnosis and (radical) treatment plan using almost no information to guide his decision.
As Mary-Sue and Paul plan a getaway adventure, she recalls being tortured and they'll have to keep their escape a secret from 'Dad' because they don't want any more surprises.
Per the advisement of her faceless doctor, Mother cuts her abdomen open with a knife. This does not relieve her discomfort. He charmingly advises her to dig her fingers inside her bloody wound and they chat about how it might be difficult for him to care for the colonists (but luckily, they won't be requiring his medical attention). She notes the presence of a mass or foreign body and then follows his next directive, removing her eyeball from its socket and stuffing it into the gaping hole in her abdomen. His diagnosis protocols say it's the former and he inevitably agrees, advising next that she reach into her guts with her hand to unscrew and remove the unit using a counter-clockwise motion. She's unable to remove it and she gives him an abundance of data indicating that it may be organic. He arrives at an incidentally pertinent question from the incorrect assumption that it's not organic, asking if she's been in contact with any foreign entities. She says no and he particularly pleasantly prescribes the final treatment plan to deliberately do harm by feeding the foreign body so that it will become massive.
Campion's supply of shrooms is next replenished by a somewhat more contentious friend.
'His Eminence' has become devout virtually overnight and he prays a little too fervently at the gravestones in the semi-house of 'Heaven' with Paul at his side. He defines the terms of belief and arranges that Paul will have to ditch his skeptic friend in order to stay 'pure'.
Mary-Sue takes it as a compliment when 'His Eminence' notes that she never cracked under torture (on their first 'date'), problematically. They have a touching connection and there's a flashback to when they crashed the boarding party at the ark. A voice over the loudspeaker advises that only designated passengers will be granted entry, and so we can just feel bad for them because if they don't commit then they may get left behind. Touchingly, it's all about them and they're all that matters. They run for the checkpoint after an explosion from a suicide bomber of their own kind.
The devout sit around playing games and swearing at each other and Paul disobeys 'His Eminence', bringing Campion another care package. He's cornered up against the silo by 'Dad' who's come to the reasonable conclusion that Paul and 'Mom' might leave him. 'Mom' intervenes, attempting to handle the man by brute force and he (unsurprisingly) hauls her off and locks her in a silo. She very impressively screams through the door at him and so he very impressively screams back and so she screams again. She's very impressively useless to Paul and she sinks down to the floor in her jail cell. He's very impressively useless to Paul and he marshals the devout to prayer for the soul of his wayward wife.
Mother only knows what she's been programmed to believe, much is beyond her understanding, and she sometimes suffers from impulses not dictated by programming. Surrounded by a hanging garden of dismembered dummies, she feeds the foreign body fuel-blood as her limp doctor notes that her kind was always full of surprises. When she runs out of dummies she escalates and kills a creature, stringing it up as a blood donor, and with his final breath her doctor indirectly acknowledges half rightly the hypothesis that the "growth" might have carbon-based components. Well, he might have saved the world, but he's just not a very good doctor - I mean mechanic - I mean veterinarian.
Campion claws his way out of jail and sets the semi-church on fire, hiding for a bitter moment to behold his hellish blaze and then scurrying away into the woods. 'Father' follows in pursuit, axe in hand. In the woods, Campion pointlessly slings a rock at 'Father' The Colossal Machine That Requires Special Technique To Decommission And Never Goes Down For Long, but then he feels bad and apologizes as he approaches 'Father' hoping he's Father. When Campion comes near, 'Father' is compelled by a programming cue to raise the axe to its apex and swing it at Campion with a massive lunge. Campion turns and runs, so 'Father' then throws the axe at him with equally deadly force. Campion barely makes it away alive.
During the chaos of the fire, Paul breaks 'Mom' out of jail. She discovers the getaway vehicle's been sabotaged and so she leads Paul, Holly and Vita into the woods on foot. She doesn't know where she's going.
Mother only knows what she's been programmed to believe, much is beyond her understanding, and she has an impulse to acquire nourishment from non-viable food sources that she can kill herself, including Tempest. After shrieking Tempest away, she returns to the Wreckage Sim for answers and is advised by an unidentifiable entity that she's been gifted a child and that the other children were just practice for her glorious true mission as the new mother of humanity. She wakes up to a cold present.
Mother enters the guts of Heaven's ruins where some dummies hang around, and hooks herself up to one for a transfusion. The dummy comes around and notices his blood levels are dropping. He says "What are you doing? I'm a doctor, not a blood bag", but he's not the real McCoy. He confirms his qualifications: he's part mechanic, part gardener, part veterinarian, part physician. And he's a bug hobbyist. He gets an A+ for producing a diagnosis and (radical) treatment plan using almost no information to guide his decision.
As Mary-Sue and Paul plan a getaway adventure, she recalls being tortured and they'll have to keep their escape a secret from 'Dad' because they don't want any more surprises.
Per the advisement of her faceless doctor, Mother cuts her abdomen open with a knife. This does not relieve her discomfort. He charmingly advises her to dig her fingers inside her bloody wound and they chat about how it might be difficult for him to care for the colonists (but luckily, they won't be requiring his medical attention). She notes the presence of a mass or foreign body and then follows his next directive, removing her eyeball from its socket and stuffing it into the gaping hole in her abdomen. His diagnosis protocols say it's the former and he inevitably agrees, advising next that she reach into her guts with her hand to unscrew and remove the unit using a counter-clockwise motion. She's unable to remove it and she gives him an abundance of data indicating that it may be organic. He arrives at an incidentally pertinent question from the incorrect assumption that it's not organic, asking if she's been in contact with any foreign entities. She says no and he particularly pleasantly prescribes the final treatment plan to deliberately do harm by feeding the foreign body so that it will become massive.
Campion's supply of shrooms is next replenished by a somewhat more contentious friend.
'His Eminence' has become devout virtually overnight and he prays a little too fervently at the gravestones in the semi-house of 'Heaven' with Paul at his side. He defines the terms of belief and arranges that Paul will have to ditch his skeptic friend in order to stay 'pure'.
Mary-Sue takes it as a compliment when 'His Eminence' notes that she never cracked under torture (on their first 'date'), problematically. They have a touching connection and there's a flashback to when they crashed the boarding party at the ark. A voice over the loudspeaker advises that only designated passengers will be granted entry, and so we can just feel bad for them because if they don't commit then they may get left behind. Touchingly, it's all about them and they're all that matters. They run for the checkpoint after an explosion from a suicide bomber of their own kind.
The devout sit around playing games and swearing at each other and Paul disobeys 'His Eminence', bringing Campion another care package. He's cornered up against the silo by 'Dad' who's come to the reasonable conclusion that Paul and 'Mom' might leave him. 'Mom' intervenes, attempting to handle the man by brute force and he (unsurprisingly) hauls her off and locks her in a silo. She very impressively screams through the door at him and so he very impressively screams back and so she screams again. She's very impressively useless to Paul and she sinks down to the floor in her jail cell. He's very impressively useless to Paul and he marshals the devout to prayer for the soul of his wayward wife.
Mother only knows what she's been programmed to believe, much is beyond her understanding, and she sometimes suffers from impulses not dictated by programming. Surrounded by a hanging garden of dismembered dummies, she feeds the foreign body fuel-blood as her limp doctor notes that her kind was always full of surprises. When she runs out of dummies she escalates and kills a creature, stringing it up as a blood donor, and with his final breath her doctor indirectly acknowledges half rightly the hypothesis that the "growth" might have carbon-based components. Well, he might have saved the world, but he's just not a very good doctor - I mean mechanic - I mean veterinarian.
Campion claws his way out of jail and sets the semi-church on fire, hiding for a bitter moment to behold his hellish blaze and then scurrying away into the woods. 'Father' follows in pursuit, axe in hand. In the woods, Campion pointlessly slings a rock at 'Father' The Colossal Machine That Requires Special Technique To Decommission And Never Goes Down For Long, but then he feels bad and apologizes as he approaches 'Father' hoping he's Father. When Campion comes near, 'Father' is compelled by a programming cue to raise the axe to its apex and swing it at Campion with a massive lunge. Campion turns and runs, so 'Father' then throws the axe at him with equally deadly force. Campion barely makes it away alive.
During the chaos of the fire, Paul breaks 'Mom' out of jail. She discovers the getaway vehicle's been sabotaged and so she leads Paul, Holly and Vita into the woods on foot. She doesn't know where she's going.
Mother only knows what she's been programmed to believe, much is beyond her understanding, and she has an impulse to acquire nourishment from non-viable food sources that she can kill herself, including Tempest. After shrieking Tempest away, she returns to the Wreckage Sim for answers and is advised by an unidentifiable entity that she's been gifted a child and that the other children were just practice for her glorious true mission as the new mother of humanity. She wakes up to a cold present.