Heart and Soul

**Heart and Soul** is the ninth episode of the first season of *Another Life*, and the ninth episode of the series overall. It was released on July 25, 2019 on Netflix.

## Synopsis

The battle for control of the ship reaches critical mass as Sasha's endgame becomes clear. Erik interrogates Harper after her close encounter.

## Plot

**SPOILERS AHEAD**

Niko tells Sasha to get his hands off Beauchamp as the latter screams while getting his eyes drilled into. Cas grabs Sasha from behind and starts choking him, opening the door for Niko, who grabs Beauchamp's body. Sasha locks Niko out of the control room, and Niko apologizes for having treated him poorly, so Sasha asks if William also deserved better.

An alarm starts sounding and August says that the temperature in the particle accelerator was elevating, but she was stuck. Zayn and Bernie are in the lab, which was getting hot. However, Sasha turned off the comms and was trying to make the ship blow up. Niko understands why the aliens would choose Sasha, but focuses on getting August to the particle accelerator, telling Cas to focus on Sasha.

Niko tries getting the door open with Oliver, which they manage to do with a fire extinguisher. August tells them that they could not go down because they would burn to death.

Zayn tells Bernie that they needed to open a door and run, but are not able to thanks to the heat.

Niko, August and Oliver try using manual technology by pulling on a lever in order to build pressure. They discuss trusting William again, and Niko says it is all her fault. A noise starts and they manage to finish making it work.

Bernie hears the gurgling and is hit with sewage from a soma chamber, which Niko uses to tell them to use hazmat suits in order to go to particle accelerator and turn the cooling system back on, which he agrees to do.

Niko says that she would go and try a plan B in case Bernie did not make it and turns William on, but he looks different due to an error. Niko believes that he needed to be backed up, but William says that those files are no longer available. Niko tells him that he does not need permission to come back and tries to convince him to come back and she apologizes.

Erik hugs Jana and is approached by Dubois, who tells him that Harper refuses to talk to her except wanting to find out about him. However, he refuses because the Artifact had attacked Jana, so Harper would have to talk to somebody else because he was done. However, Dubois tells him that Harper was not really Harper anymore and reveals an object akin to Sasha's on her brain.

Erik and Dubois enter the room where Harper is at and she tells him that he looks tired. Erik reads a script and Harper says that she is fine, saying that the implant on her brain was not put on by force. Harper tells him that the aliens were called the Achaia and they liked Erik because he was not quite right. Erik believes that the reason that happened is because she has an audience, but she says that the reason is Jana. Harper says that the energy surge was for the Achaia to protect themselves, but they did not know that Jana was nearby and they know that she has a genetic anomaly which makes her more vulnerable to radiation than most children, but the Achaia could cure her. Erik is dragged away after that.

Zayn asks Bernie what they should do after everything was over and Bernie says that he could go for a shower. Zayn says that a massage could be an option, but Bernie knew that ze was only comforting him because he would die and regretted not loving hir sooner.

Bernie walks into the particle accelerator and reengages the cooling systems successfully, which Sasha recognizes as a challenge and reengages the cooling systems. Bernie and Sasha go back and forth until Bernie electrocutes the system and himself at the same time, severing the connection to the cooling systems.

Zayn finds Bernie on the floor and does not find a pulse, so ze starts CPR, which manages to wake him up.

Sasha tells the Salvare to cut oxygen to every deck below observation, but the ship tells him that it had to be done manually and instructs him how to do it. Sasha's head starts hurting a lot and he accesses a new data bank, scanning local quadrants until he finds out that there was activity in the soma room.

Niko wakes Azami up manually and is contacted by Sasha, who knew that Azami did not compare to Javier. They tell each other that they could not win and Sasha asks her about Operation Brimstone, but Niko said that she did not want to hurt anybody and knew Sasha wanted peace as well. Sasha asks since when humans had cared about peace, but Niko says that she would not blow up a planet. Sasha reminds her about what she did to William and she tells him that he would be killing a bunch of kids for something that was only a possibility, but Sasha says he does not have a choice because it was not him, but the Achaia, which makes his head hurt.

Niko tells him to tell the Achaia that they do not want to fight or go to war because it was not why they were there. She tells Sasha that if he kills everybody on the ship, he would force humanity's hand, but he instructs the Salvare to cut oxygen to Azami, which started asphyxiating Azami. Niko tells Sasha to think for himself as she tries to open Azami's tube up, but the latter ends up dying.

Beauchamp wakes up to see Cas and says that Sasha was looking for weaknesses in his defenses in his brain. They decide to look for Niko to see how they could get him off the ship.

The FTL engines are engaged and they head deeper into dark matter. August says that the files shown were not originated from anywhere in the ship's systems, which Sasha was able to do because of the symbiotic relationship between the alien in his brain and him. Beauchamp realizes they were headed for a black hole, so Niko tells them that they were going to abandon ship and head straight for Pi Canis Majoris.

Cas tells Niko that they would not leave without her, but she says that it was her fault. However, Cas says that Sasha was the one who let the alien into his head, but Niko says that she means Willam, who was in love with her. Cas does not see the issue because it was a moment of weakness, but Niko says that she needed to fix it and save everyone.

Niko keeps calling for William and sees a hallucination of a big area in front of a lake. In soma sleep, she tells William that the view was beautiful and says that what she did was not okay. William tells her to shut up because she was ruining it, which Niko agrees with, but she says that they need him. He asks about what he needs and asks her to stop manipulating him. Niko tells him that what he was feeling was something very human and begs him to come back, disappearing.

Niko wakes up to Sasha nearly hitting her head with an axe. She runs from him and keeps calling William as she runs from Sasha. As they near the black hole, Sasha grabs her, but she fights until he chokes her.

When Niko wakes up, William tells her that they do not have much time since he had blasted the deck with electricity, but he had taken the bad part of it. However, they were still headed straight for the black hole. Niko figures that the thing in Sasha's head had a power source and wonders if that could give them the boost they needed to escape.

Erik wants to talk to Harper because she could save Jana, but Dubois does not let him, which makes him really angry.

Cas moves the small shuttle, which surprises the crew since Niko was not there. They head straight towards Pi Canis Majoris. Beauchamp says that they could not pull away from the black hole, but Cas tells her to shut up. Cas does not listen, but August tells them to look at how the stars were warping and the Salvare shows up again. Niko tells them to come back since she was with William again, having connected Sasha's brain to the energy source.

William admits that he wanted Sasha to kill Niko, which she says that she did not blame him for. However, William says that he helped because of the mission and did not do it for her.

When Harper eats, she finds a comm device in the silverware. Erik and her start talking and he asks how he could save Jana. Harper tells him that the only way that could happen would be for him to get her out of there.

As the Salvare makes it to their destination, William says that he was picking up the Artifact's signal from the surface of the planet, which was also the only inhabitable planet in their system.

## Cast

* Justin Chatwin as Erik Wallace
* Samuel Anderson as William
* Elizabeth Faith Ludlow as Cas Isakovic
* Blu Hunt as August
* A.J. Rivera as Bernie Martinez
* Jake Abel as Sasha Harrison
* Alex Ozerov as Oliver Sokolov
* Alexander Eling as Javier Almanzar
* JayR Tinaco as Zayn Petrossian
* Lina Renna as Jana Breckinridge-Wallace
* Selma Blair as Harper Glass
* Greg Hovanessian as Beauchamp McCarry
* Helen King as Salvare Voice

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