01x02 - Fermi's Paradox

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Kaz ran off.

It's probably aliens.

Beatrice McConnell!!

This summer needs
to be momentous!

Whhooaahh!

Slow down! Wait!

Did my parents call?

Meg. How old are you? Twelve?

Running a bit low
on small sizes. Er, yeah.

They rang a few times.
Just checking up on you.

Are they okay? They don't
want me to come home?

They're just being worried
Mums and Dads, Meg.

It's what they do. You okay?

My name's Meg. I may
have found a strange alien rock

in the woods
and I'm freaking out.

Leave her alone.
Meg wouldn't tell.

You think Louis's okay?
Ever since ZZZZZT!

He's been weird.
What if his brain exploded?

His brain didn't explode.

He shouldn't have gone near that
thing. Who knows what it does?

My name's Kaz. I may have
found a strange alien rock

in the woods
and I'm freaking out.

Great.

Come with me
if you want to live!

Color Wars are a regular thing.
You'll get used to it.

You're from the group who snuck
out of the camp yesterday.

Can't hide anything round here.
I'm Elliot.

I should probably get back.

- Did you go past the fence?
- The fence?

Weird things happen
in that part of the woods.

What kind of weird things?

Unexplainable lights, sounds.

That's the rumor anyway. But
I got proof. Do you wanna see?

Take cover!

Don't sulk, Ethan.
Keep tonight free.

Tonight? What's happening?

It's a surprise.

And you can't say 'no'
or nag Alice till she tells you.

Meg? You okay?

I think it's self-inflicted
and she's playing dead.

What's this thing
Finn's planned tonight?

Finn explicitly told
you not to ask me!

Is it going to get me
into trouble?

No.
We put off telling you before,

- because, you know...
- My dad'll freak.

It just breaks a few camp rules.

Okay, now you're definitely
telling me everything!

Color w*r's over!

Collect up the bags
and get cleaned up!

What is this place?

It's where they stash
all the cool stuff.

I run the camp website for them
so they let me have a key.

Now where is it, where is it?

You read sci-fi comics?

I got Fear Agent. Descender's
pretty good. Found it!

What's this?

That's the proof! I found it
in the woods, past the fence.

Up a tree.

Proves something's out there.
Something they're watching.

Who? The McConnells?

No. Secret. Government. Agents.

We need a music player,
good Sir, and some batteries.

Don't listen to him, okay,
he grabs the first nerd

from new arrivals and tells them
about his weird theories.

Really progressive, Elliot.

That's not official supplies!

You do believe me, right?

Can I borrow those?

The walkie talkies? Okay.
But you owe me.

We've got a problem.

Hey you.

I need some help getting all the
rafting stuff down to the lake.

It could go on pretty late.

Can't some
of the other kids do it?

Bea they pay to be here.
You know better than that.

It would be a big help.
How was the Color w*r?

Fine.

The McConnells' daughter
and her friend. I heard them.

All the older kids are heading
out past the fence tonight.

- You sure?
- Maybe you'd know

if you hadn't gone off
with that Elliot guy!

We dug a big hold in the ground.
What if they find it?

We'll have to make sure
they don't.

The camp's heaving right now.

We'll go tonight
and hope we get there first.

You want to go back out there
after what happened to you?

Look, that thing is ours.
We found it.

No one else can know about it
until we figure out what it is.

Agreed?

It's from when I touched it.

It's fine.
Doesn't hurt or anything.

Agreed.

Agreed.

Agreed.

Come on, Bea.

Go on then!

Look at this!

Do you know how hard it is to
find cool trainers in my size?

You didn't.

Do you hear that?

Kaz? The rock's this way! Kaz!

I wanna see what they're up to.

Here take this.

You two go make sure
it's hidden.

I'll meet you there.

You got walkie talkies?

Guys, guys.

As the oldest and most
responsible person here

I wanted to point out

that we're off camp grounds,
up way past lights out...

and most likely trespassing
on private property.

So, seeing as this is
probably my last chance...

Aww...

Let's have some fun!

Whoo-hoo!

How does this thing work?

You. And the crack shot.

I've still got blue paint
in my ear.

What are you doing out here?

We just went
for a walk and got lost.

We'll leave you to it.

Why the rush?

You running to go tell on us
to Daniel and Steph?

- No.
- Prove it. Come inside.

Finn, they don't need to.

We should go.

Hope you're happy?

They're not going to find it
if we're watching them.

Look, if this is cos you're too
scared to go back out there,

- just say so.
- I'm not scared.

But maybe I'd have
figured out what

it was before
sticking my hand on it!

So...

What are you two up to? Really
like, nobody comes out here.

You did.

We've been daring each other
to come out to this cabin

every summer since we were kids.

Never thought
we'd actually do it.

I know we rib Elliot, but

he's right about
one undeniable fact.

Weird things happen
in these woods.

Especially around
this cabin at night.

Like... UFO-alien-type things.

Alien abduction.

They take humans
out for experiments.

Just suck them out of the air.

You're making this up.

Bea knows.
She grew up around here.

It goes back years.
Bright lights in the sky.

Weird sounds. Tremors.
Electronic interference.

Raaarrgghh!

Please! That was hilarious!

It's constant surprises
with you two!

We're just having fun.

What did you mean before?
What you said?

About this might be
your last chance to do this?

We're seventeen, Bea.
I mean what did you think?

We'd still be coming
out here in our twenties?

I've grown out of it. Alice too.

This is your last year.

Look, it means we can make
this the best summer yet.

That's why we wanted to do this.

And you finally went against
your dad and his rules.

You shouldn't be doing that.

Don't you want
to know what it is?

Louis told us just to hide it.
You saw what it did to his hand.

Go if you like.

Meg! Meg! What are you doing?
You'll get lost out there!

Meg!

I promise nothing bad
will happen.

I don't give these out
very often.

I'll keep you safe.

Any scary business will have me
to deal with.

What just happened to my shoe?

Sorry about her.

Yeah. Finn and Alice too.

They're not usually
this annoying.

- Are him and her, like...
- No.

- You and him?
- No.

We all do our own thing and
we hang out here every summer.

But you live here?

What they said about
strange stuff in the woods?

It's something
the locals put about.

My dad tries to hide it
cos it might put

parents off sending
their kids here.

But it's just rumors.

You don't sound so sure.

- Aarrggh!!
- What the...

What was that?!

Finn, what's going on?

- Can you hear that?
- Don't stick your face in it.

Why's it doing this
with just us two here?

All I did was dig more of it up.

You were picking
at it with the spade.

Sssh...

We should go find Louis and Kaz.

Why would you throw
both your shoes in there?

Pass me more stuff.

This is getting really weird!

- Finn!
- It's not me!

What's going on?

You okay?

It's like weird static or
something. Are you doing this?

- No! What is going on?
- This is freaking me out, Finn.

Everybody just calm down.

You calm down! I'm out of here.

Yeah, let's go.
Let's go, let's go!

- Bea, come on!
- Come on, let's go!

- Hurry up! Go, go, go!
- Let's go, let's go!

We need to go too.

That thing.
This could all be part of it.

- It's okay if you're scared...
- I'm not scared!

Just go it's fine.

There's no reason
for you to stay here.

You're so annoying!

Let's move it come on!

- Bea!
- Let's get out of here!

You go, I'll catch up with you.

- What are you talking about?
- Just go, it's okay.

- Alice, come on!
- I mean it.

What are you doing?
Why aren't you leaving?

Why aren't you scared?

Do you think
it will happen again?

But you want it to?

Have you ever heard
of Fermi's Paradox?

My dad was a huge nerd

into astrophysics
and stuff like that.

He was like obsessed with it.

I used to hang out in his office
and he'd tell me things like...

there are more stars
in the universe

than words ever spoken by
every human that's ever lived.

Is that true?

Fermi's Paradox basically says
that alien life can't exist,

because with all the billions
of planets out there,

surely one of them
would have contacted us?

But there has to be something
else. Something impossible.

Why are unexplainable things
scary anyway?

It's the stuff in the world
that you can explain...

that scares me.

So. Let's wait and see
if it happens again.

- We, um...
- Er, yeah. I, er...

Roll call! I have to get back.

My parents are going to freak!

- What are you doing?
- I'm not sure.

Roll call's happening right now.

The shutters...

they're radio'd they were
wired to go off.

It's rusted shut.

I have to get back.

Hey, wristbands everybody.
Let's pay attention.

Badger.
Thank you and Kingfisher.

It was like, pow, pow, pow, pow,
vanishing one after the other.

I know, you said. I had
a pretty weird night myself.

- We don't know what it was.
- And Nightingale!

It'll be us soon.
Louis'll get us into trouble.

And Dragonfly!

Dragonfly?

Hummingbird.

- He's wearing my shoes.
- What?

Hey! Where'd you get those?

Why would someone rig a cabin
to scare people? It's strange.

I dunno. Your parents maybe?

Some kind of activity
or something.

They wouldn't.

Sorry you didn't find your
something impossible.

- Actually...
- Louis!

- You missed roll call!
- Were you out all this time?

There's something
you have to see! Like,

really seriously,
like right now!

What do you mean
things disappear?

You throw stuff into
it now and it vanishes!

- Now tell him the rest!
- It doesn't just vanish.

It comes out here!

Wh...
So you're saying that thing,

it teleports stuff?