"Previously on "Dark Matter"..." "The Android is under my control." "It's not really her." "She's been hacked." "I was conscious of my actions but unable to stop them." "He wants your support so he can continue to fight a war that he cannot win." "I can win. probably beyond repair." "We've made several changes to the Blink Drive that I believe will overcome the damage done by the Ishida scientists." "Wait." "♪" "what just happened?" "Unknown." "I was temporarily offline." "you're not the only one." "I think I passed out." "Is Five okay?" "I'm fine." "Sort of." "come in." "do you read?" "Yeah." "This is Six." "I'm reading you." "you all right?" "What the hell was that?" "I've run an analysis." "The ship was hit with some kind of electromagnetic pulse." " Are we under attack?" " Negative." "I believe the pulse emanated from the Blink Drive." "Please don't tell me you turned that thing on again." "I thought we talked about this." "We didn't turn it on." "We were just running a diagnostic." "It would appear the Drive self-initiated." "How is that possible?" "Theoretically... it's not." "Where are we?" "I'm not sure." "The navigational computer is having trouble because the stars appear to be out of alignment." "Was the computer damaged by the pulse?" "I double-checked the system." "Seems fine." "I found something. approximately half a lightyear away." "Mass and spectrographic analysis show it to be an exact match for Pollux." " We were just in the Pollux system." " That's correct." "So we just traveled half a lightyear?" "That still doesn't explain why the stars are out of position." "Maybe it does." "Standby." "I need to reconfigure our star maps to confirm my hypothesis." " What hypothesis?" " Hypothesis confirmed." "We didn't move at all." "Pollux did." "As well as all of the other stars." " What does that mean?" " Means she finally blew a gasket." "It was only a matter of time." "Indeed." "That's exactly what it is." "you're not making any sense." "Of course I am." "The relative position of the stars changes over time." "shit." "approximately." "It's the only possible explanation." "are you saying we traveled through time?" "We went 600 years into the future?" "of course not." "Good." "Had me going there for a second." "We've traveled 600 years into the past." "♪" "Just as I suspected." "The station we know as Pollux 4 is no longer here." "Or perhaps I should say it's not here yet." "I guess that's confirmation." "It's one system." "I've also been scanning all subspace frequencies for typical interstellar chatter." "There's nothing out there." "right?" "You can use the Drive to get us back." "I can try." "But it make take some time." "Time." "That's very funny." "That wasn't a joke." "I've spent the last 48 hours analyzing the Blink Drive and am still no closer to a solution." "I don't know why it self-initiated or how to repair it." "So what are our options?" "We're running low on supplies." "Then I suggest we set a course to the only recorded civilization of this time period:" "Earth. but I believe we'll be visiting somewhere in the early 21st century." "the dawn of civilization?" "Do they even have flush toilets?" "Android." "We're going to Earth." "I've been reading up on this time period." "They have satellites." "Nothing that can detect a ship with the Raza's capabilities." "The Android said most of their tech is devoted and social media posturing." "Android!" "♪" "Hey!" "Ah." "There you are." "Do you mind?" "sorry." "An interesting cultural mix." "Is this what you've been doing?" "Listening to old-timey music?" "Not exclusively." "I also accessed the planet's data hub." "The security protocols in place are quite primitive and easily defeated. transportation..." "whatever we might need." "To do what?" "Live on the planet." "You want to abandon the Raza?" "I thought you brought us here so you could find the materials you needed to fix the Drive." "that's extremely unlikely." "So we're supposed to just live here the rest of our lives?" "I'm sorry." "There's nowhere else to go." " So you're leaving." " No." "we're just heading down to the planet." "We're gonna set things up." "I'll be back." "what's the point?" "you're still here." "I'm not gonna abandon you." "And I'm not gonna guilt you into paying me the occasional pity visit." "pity visits?" "Can't you see how this changes things?" "You're not stuck on this ship anymore." "You're free to go down there and start a new life... someone real." "You're real." "But this isn't." "As much as I want it to be..." "It's not." "It's a fantasy." "but you know what is real?" "My feelings for you are real. stop coming to visit?" "How long are gonna keep pretending that this is enough?" "I can't live like this." "I need more." "I require everyone's presence on the bridge." " What is it?" " It's another Blink Drive." "Or perhaps a past version of the same one." "How do you know? identical to the one our drive was giving off before we found a way to mask it." "Another Blink Drive?" " That doesn't make any sense." " It's true." "No technology even remotely like this should exist in this time period." "There can only be one possible explanation." "Somebody else from the future is down there." "This is perfect." "Another Blink Drive is just what we need." "we get the hell out of here." "The signal is too weak to pinpoint from orbit." "But I have determined that it's somewhere" "Wisconsin." "Wait a minute. then we can't take it without creating a paradox." "What do you mean? where I found it. and then we never go back in time to take it." "Then problem solved." "as long as it works?" "It's also possible in a more distant future more Blink Drives are being created and used to travel through time." "This could be one of them." "Five is right to be concerned. the results could be less than desirable." "Care to be a little more specific?" "Of course no one knows for certain what will happen." "There are competing theories." "We could simply return to a future that we find unrecognizable." " Wasn't that great to begin with." " Or we could all simply cease to exist." "then." "It's not just the Blink Drive. any significant change to the timeline so I suggest we maintain a low profile." "We might want to start with a change of clothes." "♪" "You guys look ridiculous." "They look contemporary." "You're each an archetype of the era. and... slob." "And you are?" "An upwardly mobile suburban professional." "Shouldn't you be staying back here with the ship?" "I can place the ship under lockdown and maintain neural monitoring." "It should be perfectly safe given their level of technology." "You might have a tough time fitting in. but my ability to access the planetary data hub makes me an indispensable source of information for this outing." "I'm not so sure..." " Indispensable." "Okay." "I was able to manipulate the planetary data hub and establish false identities and bank accounts for all of us." "I might start to like it here." "I also rented us a house under Two's alias." "You really think we'll be there that long?" "It's better to be safe than sorry." "And homeless." "Okay." "Let's go." "The "Marauder" should be able to evade detection." "But we will need to land in a forested area approximately six kilometers from the community." "Guess that means we're hiking. where I've arranged for us to pick up a vehicle" "I got double reward points." "♪" "Shapiros finally rented their house." "They look weird." "They look like the family from "Blood House." "What's that?" "It's this horror movie me and my brother watched when my parents were away. and it turns out they eat people." "Why?" "Because they're cannibals." "but why people?" "I don't know." "Maybe they taste better." "You're right." "There's something about them." "Crap!" "Jake?" "Coming." "We better get these out of sight." "All right." "kid." "It's like moving into a museum." "Did people actually live like this?" " What the hell is that?" " Someone's at the door." "I think it's the neighbors." "Does everyone remember their assigned names?" " Yeah." " Uh-huh." "Yes." "What?" " Hello." " Hi." "Welcome to the neighborhood." "We're the Connors." "Hi." "Come in. and this is our son Jake." "and this is my husband Mitch." " Hey." " Our daughter Apple." "Hey." "Mal." " Hi." " Mal." "What's that short for?" "Mal... vik." "It's Old Norse." "His mother was one-quarter Viking." " And this is my sister." " Rhianna." "Welcome to Fort Falls." "Oh." "It's blueberry." "I made a bunch for the upcoming bake sale at Jake's school." "That's very kind." "where'd you move from?" "Port Land." " Do you... do you mean Portland?" " Correct." " Oh." " Could I use the bathroom?" "you can just wait" " till we get home." " It's an emergency." "I know where it is." "he used to come over here all the time to play with the Shapiros' boy." "we're having people over later and would love all of you to come." "uh... but it'd be a perfect opportunity to meet some of the other neighbors." "uh..." " We'd love to." " Great." "4:00?" "Just come as you are." "♪" "Whoa." "I've reconfigured these radiation detectors to scan for the Blink Drive's signal. we need to take readings in multiple positions around the town." "Okay." "we'll split up." "you come with me." "Six with Five." " Android..." " Not so fast." "We still need supplies." "Two quarts of milk." "One dozen eggs." "please." "12x19 non-stick cookie sheet? as is the custom." "We don't have time to be running errands." "Or going to parties. we might be here a while." "I suggest we try to fit in." " Toilet paper?" " 2-ply." "But see what's on special." "Can we just find this thing and get the hell out of here?" " What's your rush?" " I just want to go home." "look at this place." "It's so primitive." "Where are the hyper-loops?" "Where are the aero-cars?" "Mag-lev boots? or wore mag-lev boots?" "That's not the point." "The point is that I no longer have the option." " I kind of like it here." " You can't be serious. and the closet G.A. ship is 600 years away." "please?" "Come on." "Baseline readings." "We got to cover more ground." "How about starting with the inside of that chocolate shop?" " Come on." " Hi." " What's she doing?" " I don't know." "I'm telling you guys." "She's a spy." "They're all spies." "the Russians?" "She looks Swedish." "Look!" "We should report this to Sheriff Vargas." "The Sheriff's not gonna believe us." "Then we need proof." "♪" "You are just so cute." "Your hot chocolate's getting cold." "Aww." "Hm?" "we are not getting a dog." "It would be great for crew morale." "We could screw up the timeline." "What if the dog that we bring back is instrumental in finding a cure for Sokolsky Syndrome or something?" "What?" "This is the happiest I've seen you in a long time." "I've missed this side of you. it's been a rough month." "Yeah. but we all do." "what we do." "It's not all on you." "Never has been." "We're the crew of the Raza." "We carry each other." "What?" "Readings are spiking." "Let's go." "this wasn't on the list." "Teens of this era probably loved mini cupcakes." "I'm just trying to stay in character." "Uh-huh." "So what kind of readings are we getting?" "Ah... but still dispersed." "We won't know for sure till we compare them with what the others get." "All right." "I'm afraid the results are inconclusive. we should get ready for the party." "again with the party." "What's with you? we'll need to find the Drive by other means." "The party could be an opportunity to gather intelligence." "She's right." "This is a small town." "Everyone knows everyone else's business. maybe they got themselves noticed." "How's that cupcake?" "you made it." "We baked cookies for the occasion." "How many guests are you expecting?" "maybe 40." "That's 1.67 cookies per guest." "Please apportion accordingly." "Okay. mingle? you're a couple." "We're a couple." "And you're a disaffected youth committed to sulking and avoiding all social discourse." "Perfect." "Pumpkin." "folks." " Yup." " Elaine." "Mitch." "Good to see you." "So how are you liking Fort Falls so far?" "it's lovely." "huh?" "a little." "I guess you guys don't get huh?" "yeah." "You'd be surprised." " Yeah? Mario Vidali made wings so spicy they sent Maeve Barclay to emergency." "Oh." "You're serious." "what do you do for a living?" "We're hired guns." "Freelancers." "always looking for the big score." "We run a small company." " Import-export." " Mostly import." "what countries do you do business with?" "We have partners all over the planet." "Did you see the last episode of "Infamy"?" "Yes. and Liam turning out to be the secret stalker... it was a very shocking finale." "The finale's not until next week." "I have a feeling you'll be pleasantly surprised." "She can finally eat solids now. but of course Mario felt horrible. he was in such a rush... glad you made it." "Elaine and Mitch?" "that's no problem." "huh?" "Nice to meet you." "Yeah." "Who was that?" "Professor Brophey." "Teaches physics at Harding High." " Supposedly quite the genius." " Is he always that jumpy?" "yeah." "Hm." "Did you see that?" "I swear that guy recognized us." "It could be our guy." "But we need to make sure. and run a facial recognition program through the G.A. database. you see if you can find out more about him." "I don't get it." " Who are they spying on?" " It's not who." "It's what." "what?" " I don't know." "It's obviously something top secret." "Like? it wouldn't be very top secret." "children." "Where do you think she's going?" "Come on." "♪" "They're not spies." "They're aliens." "♪" "I can't believe your neighbor's an alien." "You're so lucky." "This is the greatest thing to happen to me since Lila Marks got scabies and they shut down the school for a week." "I bet this picture can get me one million... two million upvotes on Reddit." "You can't show that to anyone." "I'm serious." "The three of us have to decide on who we tell and when." " Deal?" " Both:" "Deal." "see you guys tomorrow." "What's he doing with that dip?" "I was unable to find a match in the database." "Maybe he's not our guy." "It could be just a guy with a nervous twitch." "he recognized us." "I'm sure of it." "I was able to find a local address under his name from an online directory." "The address is 98 Gray Road." "Three and I will go check it out." "keep an eye on him." "Give us a heads-up if he's on the move." "Hey." "Hope you don't mind." "I kind of helped myself." "Party's pretty boring." "That controller's broken." "I fixed it." " How?" "Pretty good with electronics and stuff." "So you've played this game before?" "Nope." "First time." "You're on level eight. and I've only got as far as five." "Come on." "I'll give you some pointers." "♪" " That looks out of place." " Yup." "That looks familiar." "Yeah." " Oh." " Mission accomplished. they'd be tough to beat this year." "I think they can go all the way." "I hope so." "What's football?" "A team sport that was greatly revered in this era." "Its popularity even rivaled that of e-sports and qwiddich." "Get out of here." "We may have a problem." "The "Marauder's" proximity alert has been triggered." " Shit." " What's up?" "The "Marauder's" proximity alert's been triggered." " Shit." " That's what I said." "but we need to be sure." "I'll go check it out." " How?" "Two and Three took the van." "Two?" "Three?" "What's your status?" "Two." "Three." "Are you there?" "They're maintaining radio silence." "Great." "Now how am I supposed to travel six kilometers out to the "Marauder"?" "I've got an idea." "go ahead." "Jake says to top up the back tire." "I noticed." " All right." " Thank you so much." " Thank you for coming." " It's always a pleasure." "Two." "Three." "Are you there?" "Two." "Three." "The professor's on the move." "or magic?" "Magic." "Dungeon Siege III" it is." "do you know anything about that Professor Brophey?" "not much." "Why?" "I'm looking for a physics tutor." "I hear he's pretty smart." "Ethan's brother had him last semester." " Heard he was weird." " Weird how?" "I don't know." "Just weird." "Jake?" "What are you doing?" "Do you guys want a turn?" "we need to talk to Jake." " What are you guys doing?" " What are you doing?" " She's really cool." " She's an alien." "A really cool alien." "She's really good at videogames." "Does she know we know?" "I didn't tell her anything." " My dad knows." " What?" "That's what we came here to tell you." "I got in trouble for coming home late. and he saw a picture of the ship." "What did he do?" "He called Sheriff Vargas." "Hey." "Is everything okay?" "♪ come in." "This is Six." "Go ahead." " You need to be careful." " What do you mean?" "Someone may have tipped off the sheriff." "just in case." "So far there doesn't seem to be anyone." "Hold it right there." "What was that?" "Six?" "are you there?" "Hey." "Hey." " Who sent you?" " No one sent us." "Mitch. the future galaxy's most wanted?" "I downloaded the G.A. database before I left." "Who are you?" "How did you find me?" "We ran a planetary scan and picked up the Blink Drive subspace signal emanating from this location." "no." "How did you find me in this time?" "an accident?" "we ran a diagnostic and something happened. we had traveled 600 years into the past." "The recall worked." "What recall?" "What happened to the Blink Drive?" "It's damaged beyond repair." "this is perfect." " What's perfect? and it is safe here in the past." "Slight problem with that." "we'd kind of like to go home." "I'm afraid that's not gonna be possible." "♪" "Five." " What are you doing?" " Cops found the "Marauder." "They've got Six." "Two and Three aren't responding." "Wait." "We have to be careful." "The timeline is in danger." "I think we're a little past that now." "it's a lengthy walk." "I suggest we take an Uber." "An uber what?" "Never mind." "I trust you." "Where did you get your Blink Drive?" "it's a long story." "You stole it?" "that's the short version." "How did you get yours?" "I made it." "I was the lead scientist on a team put together by Electus Corp to research wormhole technology." "it was very exciting." "We were doing things that no one had ever done before. and... and how much danger we were in ourselves." "Fail and you're useless." "and you're a potential resource someone could exploit." "I was the only one who saw it coming." "I was the only one who got out alive." "I couldn't take the Drive with me." "I hid a recall command in the program." "Then you built another one and escaped to the past." "So you ran away." "I was being hunted by a corporation!" "Join the club." "Why didn't the recall program work until now?" "I'm not sure. the Drive was just an unfinished prototype prone to instability." "we noticed." "Our Android's been tinkering with it. it trigged the program." "Still fried the darn thing." "Which is why we need your drive." "That's not gonna happen." "so what are you gonna do?" "The only thing I can do. where no one will ever find me." "I don't think so." "Just in time." "No pun intended." "Malvik." "It's Old Norse." "This is actually a pretty good fake." "I've seen enough of them to know the difference." "What's your real name?" "Hmm." "what you know about that thing out there in the forest?" "You know I've already called in the feds." "they thought this was a joke at first till I showed 'em them pictures." "Then they got serious real fast." "Flying in a team as we speak." "You might want to consider the possibility that it might be a lot more pleasant talking to me than to them." "Ah." "Suit yourself." "boy." "The whole area's swarming with federal agents by now." "You'll never see your ship again." "I know how to fix this." "We've got a time machine right in front of us." "Does it have a power source?" "he was about to turn it on." "We just go back to this morning and warn ourselves. which means you won't go back in time and warn yourself." "You'll create a paradox." "And you think we'll cease to exist." "No." "I think we'll cause a rip in the space-time continuum it will kill everyone in a hundred-mile radius." "He's bluffing." "You think I want this to happen?" "Do you think I want the government to get its hands on technology that is not even supposed to exist for hundreds of years?" "That by itself might change the timeline beyond recognition." "I'm surprised we haven't felt effects of it already." "That means there's still a chance." "I know what to do." "guys." "please." "you have to stay out of sight of yourself and the others." "I know." "Be safe." "Well... we're still here." "sorry." "I got here as fast as I could." " Son of a bitch." " Is it done?" "but we have to hurry." "Professor." "You sure you want to stay?" "I've had my fill of the future." "Sorry." "Thank you." "♪" "Excuse me." "I need to go to the bathroom." "I'm here all by my lonesome." "I won't try anything." "I promise." "You're just gonna have to hold it." " Hi." " Hi." "Glad to see you guys." "But we got a problem." "The landing site..." "We know." "It's crawling with government agents." "We've made arrangements." "I preset the "Marauder's" engines to fire up in about ten minutes." "And I tweaked them to give off a sonic pulse that'll disable everyone in the area." " When did you do that?" " Earlier today." "It turns out I was the one who set off the proximity alert." " Wait a second." " We'll explain on the way." "Let's go." "hold on." "We don't want to get any closer. so we got to get moving." "Wait!" "What the hell's he doing here?" "It's okay." "They helped me." "aren't you?" " Yeah." " Take me with you." "You know I can't do that." "a family." "I want to see the future." "You will." "Your own." "And I'm sure it'll be amazing." "But I think I love you." "Jake... I'm five years older than you." "he's dating a girl 25 years younger than him. but... but this is different." "Someday you'll find that special someone." "maybe that someone is already closer than you think?" "no." "She's my cousin." "maybe not her." "But... but someone." "For sure." "I want you to have this." "Jake." "All right." "Are we ready?" "Good-bye." "♪" "Good-bye." "So we make it back?" "We returned to our own time." "The Drive is working flawlessly." "Good." "Now let's disconnect it." " Really?" " After all that?" "We can't trust Brophey to not try the recall again." "we only use it as a last resort." "And what about the timeline?" "Any changes? including the GNN newsfeeds." "Everything is as it was." "So we had no effect at all." "I'm not so sure about that." "I've also run a historical sweep on the people we met from the past and discovered something very curious. the inventor of the FTL engine." "Connor?" "Great-granddaughter of Jake Connor. his tales of potential space travel inspired her to pursue a career in astroengineering." "So what does that mean?" " We did effect the timeline?" " And isn't that a paradox?" "Unless we were always meant in which case... maybe it's not." "how can I help you?" "I'd like to discuss how we can help each other." "♪" "Get out of the way." "no." "Ah!" "Hey!" " Victor." " Android." "We need your help."