As Gault searches the lower decks, he finds a notebook with writings discussing an insurrection. Toback and Nora go diving in the pool to find Lorelei's video card. When a radiation storm approaches, forcing everyone into sedated sleep in protected locations, someone in a masked suit steals Dr. Bryce's seahorse necklace, not aware that Christa is groggily watching. Stokes' lower deck headquarters is raided and the gun that killed Lorelei is found, sending Stokes to the brig. As Gault confronts Denninger with the compass, he is shocked to learn that Denninger had an affair with Lorelei. Stokes suddenly enters and shoots at Gault, but the gun does not fire. Stokes gets sucked out an airlock, only to land on a pad. He is drugged and taken away. Ascension is revealed to be a structure kept in a large building on Earth. Enzmann has continued his father's work, the populace of Ascension have unknowingly been a closely watched experiment for 51 years.