Episode: 5
Naomi reviews the hibernation programming over three days. She feigns illness to walk away toward medical without raising alarm. Instead, she reaches the secure control room and unlocks it using a hidden maintenance card. At the terminal, Naomi checks the records for Pod 1001 and sees her sleep was initially planned for ten years. A memory of dinner with Drake and Elena reveals Elena was deceiving her months into the journey.
Naomi Chen inspects the hibernation system's programming across three full days. She feigns an illness to mask her movements from the crew. Acting sick allows her to walk away toward the medical bay without drawing unwanted attention.
Naomi stops outside the entrance to the hibernation control room. The door requires clearance from Captain Drake Coulter. Naomi pulls out a maintenance key card that she stashed prior to launch, overriding the lock and entering the chamber.
Naomi sits down at the control room console to pull up system data. She opens the wake-up files for Pod 1001. The digital records show that her cryosleep was originally programmed to last only ten years.
A past dinner from six months into the expedition comes back to Naomi. She was sharing a meal with Drake and Elena Voss in the mess hall. Naomi realizes Elena put on an act of friendship while secretly scheming against her.
“My mother always said never let others decide your life for you.”
“Your mother is very wise.”
Standing in the control room, Naomi relives the mess hall conversation with Drake and Elena Voss. She realizes Elena's kindness was entirely fake from the early days of the voyage. With the truth about the ten-year pod setting now uncovered, how will Naomi protect herself before Elena and Drake discover what she found in the logs?