I Think We're Alone Now

**I Think We're Alone Now** is the sixth episode of the first season of *Another Life*, and the sixth episode of the series overall. It was released on July 25, 2019 on Netflix.

## Synopsis

While Niko races against the clock to save her ship and crew, she remembers the first time she met Cas. Sasha fears his mental state is deteriorating.

## Plot

**SPOILERS AHEAD**
Niko is outside of the Salvare and asks Cas to come back to her as she drifts away.

Three hours earlier, Javier tries bringing William back online, but they are not able to. Cas walks in and they find out the ship's systems are messed up, but Michelle thinks it is weird. Cas and Michelle go to investigate.

In Boston, post-floods, Niko checks water when she sees Cas tampering with tools, so she chases after her until she runs into her and a group of men. Cas tells her that she wanted to get her attention.

August is electrocuted, while Oliver and Javier assist her in finding out what caused the fires. She finds an electrified alien and she tells Niko that they were closer to fixing the problem.

Sasha sees more hallucinations of himself and breathes heavily, while reassuring himself that the hallucinations were not real. He screams "shut up," and visits Zayn, who tells him his blood pressure was a little high and asks him how he had been sleeping. He tells hir that his mind is spinning and could not sleep, but ze tells him that insomnia happens to hir too. However, he describes the feeling as if stepping out of himself and looking back at himself. Ze tells him that that is a defense mechanism and he wonders if he is going crazy.

Cas sees everything working normally and Michelle says that things happen, and comments that Niko is not perfect. Michelle asks if Cas remembers when she tried teaching her how to parallel park on a rover in Mars and they both have a laugh. Michelle tells Cas to forget about Niko because she was just upset, but Cas says that she said things that she should have never said, but the drugs made her do it and things have changed between the two. Michelle says that that is a good thing and the ship rumbles.

Niko is surprised that William was taken out by the small alien, but Javier tells her that William is super complicated, but he needs a manual reset, which Niko does not support and tells him to find another way. William appears and thanks them for not resetting him and he tells them that he is detecting a fire in the mess hall, crew quarters, and in many places, but there was no fire. William started alarming the crew and telling them to return to quarters, starting the Go Home Protocol; which separated the Salvare. One half of the Salvare thought the other was on fire.

Niko manually steers the ship in order to try to connect the two parts of the ship. Cas helps her and asks if they would talk about what happened. She tells her that she did not meant what she said when they were stoned, but Cas says that she did, which meant that Niko also meant what she said. Niko tells her that she is also amazing and has potential, but Cas asks her not to do that. Niko apologizes, but Cas does not respond and helps her connect the ships together.

August tries clamping the ship back together, but there appears to be a short with the clamp on the outside of the ship, so Niko says that she would go out and fix it herself.

Sasha meditates, but when he opens his eyes, his hallucination is still there. The hallucination says that he is real and nothing would ever make him go away, telling him to accept it so they could proceed.

Niko checks the ship on the outside and asks Cas to countdown for her. She manages to fix it and tells them that she would be going back in. However, there is a strong rumble, which scares her. However, her umbilical catches her. She looks to her side and sees damage, but an energy shield covers the Salvare and they move forward.

In the past, Cas tells Niko to not cause trouble so she would stay alive. However, Niko is not scared because she knew that things like that could happen and tells Cas that she would not give them any problems. The man with Cas recognizes Niko as one of the people on the Saturn mission, and her price goes up.

In space, Niko asks for Cas and Michelle, but gets no answer.

On the Salvare, Cas tells Michelle to keep trying to reach Niko on comms even though they were going faster than the speed of light. Cas tells Javier to get the override, but he was having a hard time with it. Michelle tells Cas that Niko is dead, but they all had a chance to go home, but Cas does not agree, telling her that all she had done was complain since day one. After this, the crew discuss whether to go back for Niko or not.

Niko only has 4% oxygen left and she starts closing her eyes, but sees the Salvare in the distance. Cas calls for Niko, but is not able to hear her, so she flies right past her. The crew tries a heat scan, while Niko pulls out a pair of pliers and opens her suit, which makes the oxygen leave faster, but also emits a fire, which Cas is able to see.

In the past, Cas asks Niko what it is like up in space, which Niko says is hard to describe, but says that inside the ship, there is not a lot of space. Cas says that everybody should just be able to sleep through all of that and reveals herself to be more knowledgeable than Niko thought. Niko tells her that to be an astronaut, you need to have studied, fearless, which were both qualities that she had. Cas tells her that if she let her go, she would put in a good word, but Niko tells her that it did not work that way.

Niko is brought into the Salvare, hypothermiac while Sasha still battles his hallucination, wanting to commit suicide, which his other version mocks him for, telling him to let him in instead.

Later, Niko wakes up and is approached by Cas, who apologizes for what she had said on the moon and earlier, but Niko says that she had also done wrong. She tells Cas to not let her bullshit get into her head because she had grown and come a long way on her own. Zayn tells Cas that visiting time was over, but the ship's lights start flickering. Niko asks Cas if they investigated the damage to the hull, specifically the exotic matter containment unit since the gravity was building up too much pressure there. Niko tries to get up, but Zayn does not allow it.

Oliver realizes that it made sense that William was glitching, since they were using a lot of energy creating exotic matter. Michelle asks if that was the same stuff they used for FTL and heads to the particle accelerator. August says that if pressure kept building up, they would explode. Oliver says that there is an off button, which Michelle finds.

An alarm starts sounding, and a piece of the ship nearly blows Michelle's hand off. Cas asks if she can get the control pad to work again, but Michelle says that it is impossible. Cas realizes that there is a manual override and says that she would do it, but Michelle realizes there was not enough time and heads into the exotic matter containment unit herself and pulls out a cable, which starts hurting her. She realizes Cas's plan did not work and pulls out another cable, but with alarms still sounding, she pulls out a third cable. Cas tries walking into the room with her, but is not able to open the door.

Everyone is saved and Cas tells Michelle, but when Cas walks inside the room, Michelle is weak. Cas tells her that she is a hero and Michelle asks her to tell everybody, especially Sasha. Cas holds Michelle as her skin starts deteriorating and cries.

In the past, Cas removes Niko's face cover and tells her that the ransom had been paid and tells her to leave. Niko asks for Cas's wrist so that she could contact her later and tells her that she could do better.

Niko walks into the exotic matter containment unit and sees Cas who is siting on the floor hugging her knees in front of Michelle's organs. She tells Niko that it should have been her and is comforted by the captain.

William tells Niko that Cas was still in shock, but would pick herself up. Niko tells William that that loss is different because the death happened when Cas was in command, which came with a lot of guilt. William tells Niko that if they woke a certain person up, there would be no going back and their rations would be strained.

Bernie and Zayn are together, when Sasha walks into the room. They offer their condolences about Michelle. Sasha tells Zayn to not show him his results since he was feeling like a better version of himself. When they both leave, Sasha looks at his brain scan and deletes the file.

## 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
* Helen King as Salvare Voice

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