I got the sample, and everyone made it back safe and sound.

And if we didn't know before, we sure as hell now know to stay far away from whatever the fuck is in there.

There is one more test we can conduct.

[scoffs] My dear Miles, are you suggesting we start a bonfire with some children and use the flames to burn down the black fungus?

Yeah, I'm coming.

You sure this is such a good idea?

Yes, I think that's the very one.

Will you all look at this? I hadn't realized there were so many instances of mysterious machines.

Some of these go pretty far back.

I mean, if any of this is actually real and researched.

The Hatch Expedition? Never even heard of this one.

In 1805, Francis Hatch, a Canadian explorer with a reputation for sensational claims, assembled a group of men and women to investigate a recently discovered cavern system believed to descend toward the center of Earth.

Please, stay away! [laughs] Leave me alone! No! [ominous music]

[ominous music][machines whirring] Well, that's that.

Hank just finished downloading the last of the files.

Let's get to work then, or let Hank get to work, I suppose I should say.

Let's start out with that name we saw on the wall of the ruins.

Hank, what can you tell me about the name Margala as it pertains to the subject of Mephitica?

Okay, we'll be right there.

I'm beginning to think [sighs] we may already be too late to stop this.