S01E01 Sylvie

## Sylvie

Sylvie is the first episode of the first series of Netflix's TV show Into the Night.

## Plot

Passengers gather at Brussels Airport for a red-eye flight to Moscow. Televisions in the airport begin to show people collapsed in the middle of their broadcasts. A frantic NATO officer (Terenzio) snatches a rifle and forces his way onto the plane, which has just begun boarding. He demands that the co-pilot (Mathieu) takes off heading west immediately, shooting him in the hand and damaging the radio. With the captain and a flight attendant still in the airport, Sylvie, an ex-military helicopter pilot, volunteers to assist and they take off towards Iceland. Terenzio explains that daylight is killing all living beings as it moves around the earth. Laura, a care home worker, tends to Mathieu's wound. A passenger appears to fall ill as Ayaz disarms Terenzio. The plane closes on Keflavík International Airport, but finds it in chaos and Mathieu decides to turn back and land at RAF Kinloss, Scotland. Upon landing at the apparently deserted base, the passengers' phones show news reports validating Terenzio's claims. Three RAF servicemen drive up to the plane.

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## Cast

* Laurent Capelluto as Mathieu Douek
* Stefano Cassetti as Terenzio Gallo
* Mehmet Kurtulus as Ayaz Kobanbay
* Babetida Sadjo as Laura Djaló
* Vincent Londez as Horst Baudin
* Jan Bijvoet as Rik Mertens
* Ksawery Szlenkier as Jakub Kieslowski
* Alba Gaïa Bellugi as Ines Ricci
* Regina Bikkinina as Zara Oblonskaya
* Nicolas Alechine as Dominik Oblonsky
* Nabil Mallat as Osman Azizi
* Astrid Whettnall as Gabrielle Renoir
* Yassine Fadel as Nabil
* Laura Sépul as Chloé
* Robbie Nock as John Morris
* Edwin Thomas as Roger Waters
* James McElvar as Freddie Green

Episodic* Thorian De Decker as Henry Martens
* Gaëtan Wenders as Louis

## Trivia

* Most of this episode happens aboard a flying plane. Leaving aside flashbacks and overviews from the plane, the only two relevant land locations are Brussels and RAF Kinloss.
* Sylvie wakes up at 10 PM (Brussels time) and runs to the airport. A brief scene strongly hints that by that time China has been already hit by the altered sun rays. Minutes later another scene suggests that Ines' friend Sophie in New York has just been hit as well.

* Brussels and New York are both subject to periods of DST (daylight savings time) that do not perfectly align with each other. Still, for most of the year 10 PM time in Brussels would correspond to 04 AM time in New York, with sunrise times falling typically inside the 5h30 AM - 7h AM range.

That is relevant due to the scene where Ines loses contact with Sophie. The implication is that Sylvie took around an hour (perhaps slightly more) to reach the Airport and it is now nearly midnight in Brussels and around 6 AM in New York. Chloé also states that it is almost midnight, although the scenes do not necessarily happen very close in time.

* We also see a glimpse of TV news from Melbourne showing people fallen to the ground for no clear reason. Terenzio (probably correctly) interprets this as evidence that the sun's effects have reached that city, prompting him to his desperate hijack of Flight 21. Melbourne is also subject to DST, but by virtue of being in the South Hemisphere its DST period is almost (but not quite) opposite to those of New York and Brussels. Midnight in Brussels may be either 8 AM, 9 AM or 10 AM in Melbourne, depending on which of the two cities (if any) is operating under DST: 8 when Brussels uses DST but Melbourne does not; 10 when Melbourne uses DST but Brussels does not; and 9 when DST is either ignored or equally present (or absent) in both cities, which is by far the most common situation in any given year.

* Mathieu is actually the co-pilot designated for Flight 21 to Moscow. We see the main pilot briefly, but he leaves the plane for a last walkaround a few short minutes before Terenzio forces his way into the plane. We also see that Chloé witnessed Terenzio's run for the plane from the outside and had no chance to reboard Flight 21 either.

* Most of the passengers had not yet boarded the plane when Terenzio forced his way into it; we see the main pilot and Chloé guiding them back into the airport after the access door was closed by Gabrielle under Terenzio's gunpoint. Chloé and the pilot were supposed to have time to reenter the plane (and Osman and perhaps Jakub to leave it), but Tenrenzio forced the schedule.

* Ines at one point believes that there was some sort of gas attack in New York.

* Flight 21's in-flight internet access is faulty, apparently for no particular reason; according to Gabrielle the repairs just had not been made yet.

* If a couple of statements from certain characters in S02E04 and S02E05 are accurate and a certain unique installation that also exists in the real world was inaugurated in the same year in the story's fictional world, this episode takes place in 2020, the same year of the series' release.