Whatever it's grown into, we also know it's completely fireproof and that it breaks down into some kind of quasi-solid, which makes destroying it pretty damn difficult.

[beeping] The XRF scan is done.

Let's see what, if anything, it found.

[beeping] [keyboard clicking] [sighs] Not figures.

In this view, Earth embodies the intended form and order shaped by some distant, impersonal force, while hell is nothing more than the repository of what was carved away, the chipped clay, the pencil shavings, the discarded remnants left behind in the act of creation, kept only until the work is perfected, and then perhaps swept clean

Reminds me of the biblical flood.

God creates man, only to be disappointed with him, and then wipes him out to start all over again with Noah and his family.

As far as the art metaphor goes, wiping out that much of your work feels like an awful big waste of paper

Lucy, take detailed close-range shots of his chest wound and send them over to Hank for analysis.

On it.

[keyboard clacking] [machine whirring] [camera clicking]

[camera clicking]Hank, can you give us a detailed description of what you see?

[beeping] Science team, have you found anything?

[beeping] This is Lucy.

We've just started our evaluation of Mr. Pryce.

We still have no idea how he's alive, but we might have stumbled onto something concerning why he was mutilated.

If the name of the temple is the womb of Margala, and we already know they were trying to communicate with some hell-like reality, does that mean they were trying to, I don't know, birth some kind of creature? A creature from hell?

I'm still having a lot of trouble accepting that whatever it was we all saw was a demon from hell.

Well, like I said before, maybe they were looking in the wrong direction.

I'm not sure there's a relevant distinction.

Both are objectively, or at least conventionally, batshit crazy theories.

And besides, why would an alien look like some kind of demonic goat?