Annihilation Page #4

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enter and acquire data, and return.

But I don't think that

that's your mission statement.

No.

I've been watching the phenomenon

for a while now.

I profile the volunteers.

I pick the teams.

They enter, I watch.

I watch it grow closer.

There's only so long one can do that.

But you need to know what's inside?

Yes, I do.

So do I.

So that's the complication.

You want to come with us.

I can't do anything for him here.

Soldier-scientist.

You can fight.

You can learn.

You can save him.

You requested to join the mission.

You knew all other missions had failed

and the only survivor

was barely surviving.

That was a brave choice.

I owed him.

I'm only trying to understand

what drove you.

I owed him...

so I went in.

And then we get some real meals.

Spaghetti.

Here's Radek's vegetable crackers.

Wow, cornbread. That's not so bad.

Oh, you're finally awake.

You gotta give me a second.

I'm a little disoriented.

Join the club.

You don't remember

setting up camp, do you?

I don't remember anything...

after we reached the tree line.

None of us do.

And we did a food inventory.

From the depletion, we've been out here

for at least three or four days.

That's not possible.

That's what I said.

Guys, I've been checking

my comms and nav equipment.

They boot up fine,

no problem with the electronics,

and the camera is working,

but anything that sends a signal

out of the Shimmer... is down.

Even though we've probably got

about 20 satellites above us right now,

and... check this out.

So we've got no compass,

no comms, no coordinates...

and no landmarks.

Well, we know we're in the state park.

We head south, we hit the ocean,

then we can just follow the shoreline

until we hit the perimeter wall. Right?

-Come on, Josie, you know this.

Hour hand at the sun.

Split the difference

between the hour hand and 12, south.

Good.

We're oriented.

We weren't really expecting

the comms equipment to work, were we?

There's been three years of expeditions

and three years of radio silence.

Let's pack up and get moving.

We've already lost a lot of the day.

Oh, I'm gonna check this out.

Get us out of this damn swamp.

All right.

Let's check out the hut.

Looks like someone's

about to have a wedding. These are very strange.

Why?

Well, they're all so different.

To look at them, you wouldn't say

that they're the same species.

But they're growing

from the same branch structure...

so it has to be the same species.

It's the same plant.

It's like they're stuck

in a continuous mutation.

A pathology?

Yeah, well...

you'd sure as hell call it a pathology

if you saw this in a human.

Jackpot.

Sheppard! Mode of transportation.

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