Something's alive in the mothership crawlspace. Sci-fi Bits Malley is living inside the walls of the mothership. Juicy Bits Liam as Clint Eastwood. In spite of everything Sandoval and the Taelons can do, the mothership starts to behave very oddly, plunging into the Earth's atmosphere and then stopping right before it would crash on Earth.
Power fluctuates without warning.
And to Liam's horror, the walls of the mothership reach out and swallow Renee. It's been made clear in previous episodes that the mothership is an organic structure, but Renee discovers that the ship is actually a living being with a mind and a mission. Renee has been taken by Lt. Jack Malley, a legendary Companion Protector who supposedly died for his Companion, T'than. Since the entire show takes place on the mothership, we spend a lot of time with the physical sets and props for the Taelon interiors, which are mostly so bad that they achieve a sort of endearing cheesiness. In one scene, Malley is standing in the middle of something which presumably is supposed to represent one of the mothership's nerve clusters, but which looks like twigs and styrofoam balls covered with flourescent paint.