In the movie Annihilation , back in the present , Dr Ventress recruits Lena .
At Area X , Lena is interrogares by Dr. Ventress , a psychologist , who recruits Lena to her ongoing investigation , explaining that military teams , including the one with Kane , ventured into the Shimmer to reach the lighthouse in which the Shimmer was first observed .
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