Telemetry is stable across the board.

We're locked and loaded, Doc.

After you.

Okay.

We're starting our approach.

[machine whirring] Just got to the barrier.

Pulling away a small section of the plating.

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

You sure this is such a good idea?

We need to get a sample of that fungus-like material, identify it, understand it, and figure out if it's toxic.

I won't be anywhere near it.

I'll operate the collector arm from behind the barricade, fully enclosed in a biohazard suit.

It doesn't get much safer than that.

I think this might match what you're looking for, Dr. Gallowsby.

Okay, let's take a look.

The Black Gardens of Eot, a symbol of evil in the age after the fall of man.

[ominous musicAll right. This is the last of what we pulled from Price's room. I say we log everything we can into the system, transcribe it, catalog it, then let Hank comb through for patterns and anything that stands out. I'll also upload my files from Ifeateka. That way he can cross-reference them with the journals and everything else we've gathered since arriving here. I've amassed quite a file over the years, emails and essays from various scholars I haven't had the time to properly evaluate. Hank won't have internet access with the storm rolling in, so the analysis won't be as deep as we'd like. But it still beats trying to sift through all this ourselves. Dr. Aldridge, where'd you guys go? We're in the lab, Mick. What have you got for me? More like what I don't have. The security footage, it doesn't look wiped, more like it got hit with some kind of interference, probably the same EM field that have been knocking out our systems, especially since everything started scrambling around 3:00 AM onward. And just so you know, they just let Ryan out of the med bay, been saying some pretty crazy shit. Where is he now? Doc set him up with some pills and sent him back to his room to sleep it off. I gotta say, he's got the rest of the fellas on edge. You wanna let me in on what the hell he's talking about? We're not positive just yet, but we're thinking the EM fields coming out of the gorge can interact with the brain causing, uh, mild hallucinations. We won't know anything for sure till we finish our tests. But by the way, why have you been calling the shots? I haven't heard a peep out of Rosen since he told you guys to post up a guard because of the rope lines being cut. Yeah, he called me this morning, said he wasn't feeling good, wanted me to fill in. So, uh, when are those tests coming back? I mean, I did my fair share of acid back in college. Sure as hell don't need to be tripping balls out here in the middle of nowhere. I'll let you know as soon as we find something for sure. Do you think that's why Price might have lost it? I gotta let you go, Mick. We've got a video call with the captain waiting for us. I'll keep you updated. We need to come up with some kind of story that doesn't include monsters and demons, or things could get pretty messy in here. I say we keep things to the bare minimum. Tell the captain only what we know for sure. And what precisely would that be? Just like Sam said, we suspect those machines might have something to do with all this, that they could be made by, uh, [laughs]

[ominous musicAll right. This is the last of what we pulled from Price's room. I say we log everything we can into the system, transcribe it, catalog it, then let Hank comb through for patterns and anything that stands out. I'll also upload my files from Ifeateka. That way he can cross-reference them with the journals and everything else we've gathered since arriving here. I've amassed quite a file over the years, emails and essays from various scholars I haven't had the time to properly evaluate. Hank won't have internet access with the storm rolling in, so the analysis won't be as deep as we'd like. But it still beats trying to sift through all this ourselves. Dr. Aldridge, where'd you guys go? We're in the lab, Mick. What have you got for me? More like what I don't have. The security footage, it doesn't look wiped, more like it got hit with some kind of interference, probably the same EM field that have been knocking out our systems, especially since everything started scrambling around 3:00 AM onward. And just so you know, they just let Ryan out of the med bay, been saying some pretty crazy shit. Where is he now? Doc set him up with some pills and sent him back to his room to sleep it off. I gotta say, he's got the rest of the fellas on edge. You wanna let me in on what the hell he's talking about? We're not positive just yet, but we're thinking the EM fields coming out of the gorge can interact with the brain causing, uh, mild hallucinations. We won't know anything for sure till we finish our tests. But by the way, why have you been calling the shots? I haven't heard a peep out of Rosen since he told you guys to post up a guard because of the rope lines being cut. Yeah, he called me this morning, said he wasn't feeling good, wanted me to fill in. So, uh, when are those tests coming back? I mean, I did my fair share of acid back in college. Sure as hell don't need to be tripping balls out here in the middle of nowhere. I'll let you know as soon as we find something for sure. Do you think that's why Price might have lost it? I gotta let you go, Mick. We've got a video call with the captain waiting for us. I'll keep you updated. We need to come up with some kind of story that doesn't include monsters and demons, or things could get pretty messy in here. I say we keep things to the bare minimum. Tell the captain only what we know for sure. And what precisely would that be? Just like Sam said, we suspect those machines might have something to do with all this, that they could be made by, uh, [laughs] well-

In a nutshell, both the EM levels and the storm's intensity became significantly elevated shortly after they picked up the machine sound.

I realize correlation doesn't equal causation, but at this point I'm willing to draw a few conclusions.

Like whatever those machines are, whoever or whatever created them, they're behind all of this somehow.