In The Ark Season 2, Episode 7 – ‘It Can’t Be True,’ relationships between the characters have become even more strained aboard the Ark One. The episode begins in a mini-monologue of Captain Sharon Garnet (Christie Burke) who laments on deteriorating relations among the crew members. This portrays that when the outer space threats are closer, people that were once close are turning against each other because secrets and suspicions are rising.
Kimi, a female security officer, has been secretly conducting her mission to find out whether there are enemies – the Eastern Federation agents – on board the ship. She takes her investigation to another phase when she realises that Eva Markovic could be a spy for MI6. Kimi first confronts Eva but before she could bring out more scandalous information about Eva actually, Eva also states that she has been an undercover, but not for the Eastern Federation. Instead, she will be attempting to preserve the lives of all the characters onboard from another evil force that exists in the vessel. This revelation puts Kimi in an ethical dilemma which obliges her to have no one to trust.
At the same time, the interest between main characters Angus and Alicia develops gradually. They alone have become a source of light for one another in what can only be described as a dark voyage but even this aspect is not spared from the strains forming on the ship. Indeed, Angus has been feeling more and more useless since the ship wreck and concerned whether he has done enough to help the crew to stay alive. He lays down his woes with her revealing his dilemma to her saying that he feels that he is just a burden. Alicia does so do reassure him but their moment of comfort is cut short by a blackout which precedes a disaster on board the ship.
There are flashing red lights and beeping noises when the electricity goes off and the team quickly tries to find out what is wrong. Lieutenant Spencer Lane and Garnet must grapple together to calm down the ship and their being close starts friction in between the both of them. Towards the end of the episode one gets the impression that the two have more than just a working relationship. A little slowly, but their relations have been becoming more intimate, but the state of the ship does not allow both of them to start an affair.
When the crew fails to reconnect the power the captain realizes that the was a sabotage attempt. Eva’s explanation raises suspicion especially with the discovery that Kimi has been making. However, when the crew confront her, Eva vehemently refused their accusations and said that it was not her and the real saboteur is still alive. This only fuels distrust among the crew and triggers disagreements and nervous tension on the ship.
In the middle of it all is Kelly Fowler (Samantha Glassner) who has her own personal issues to contend with, but finds herself entangled in another case. In previous episodes, she was provided with a remote control that will control the devices implanted in her that was proposed to assists them regulate their emotions. Although, Kelly has been using the device in behind the scenes hence she is becoming more powerful but also more dangerous like never before. When all the systems aboard the ship shut down one by one, a voice in Kelly’s mind tells her to commit suicide. The last scene of the episode shows Kelly before the button that, depending on her action would either blow up the ship and present the possibility of the colony being destroyed or save them all.
Currently in the medical bay, Dr. Marsh (Jadran Malkovich) is angry and his colleague Dr. Kabir (Shalini Peiris) is the one to suffer the consequences of discovering the above secrets. Marsh, who has never shown any sign of affection, suddenly comes clean to Kabir about the fact that he loves him. It is an odd, stiff scene, but Kabir’s response is even more unexpected: she turns him down flat, insisting there is no place for love among people whose lives may be at sea. This makes Marsh feel like he is alone and has no right to be part of the crew and hence causing him depression.
Towards the end of the episode, we find out how all the storylines are related to one another. The crew’s lack of trust reaches it peak when another sabotage is discovered one which is more lethal. By the end of this episode, the show is left on a cliff hanger as Garnet, Lane and Kimi confront the saboteur in a tense play off just to discover, the enemy could be among them. The last scene ends with the exit of the screen and the spectators overwhelmed with one single thought – whom you can believe in such a situation with the ship that is heading nowhere?
“It Can’t Be True” builds up for an exciting second half of the season for the crew of Ark One where they will experience their biggest trials not just from the harshness of space but also the treachery from within the ship.
