The last we see of them, they're wrapped in thermal blankets, huddling together as the lights blink out and the ship floats through space, closer and closer to the Volcryn.Īs for D'Branin, his pod soars up to the aliens and he finally gets his wish. That means it's going to get sub-zero space cold in there for a minute, so they rally all of the crew into a huddle in attempt to create a heat sink. The Nightflyer is rapidly approaching the Volcryn and the ship is set to overheat at any moment, with Cynthia-Lommie locked away and D'Branin soaring out to meet the Volcryn, Mel, Thale, Rowan and a newly heartbroken Auggie devise a strategy to essentially reboot the Nightflyer, turning off the engines, in a last ditch effort to save the ship. With those mysteries revealed, the clock is ticking. And Cynthia has one more nasty reveal up her sleeve - Mel, the genetically-engineered superhuman, was created from a splice of Cynthia's DNA, making her and Eris (aka, her lover for quite some time now,) siblings. On the heels of learning that Roy's physical form was a bio-tech hybrid robot, she discovers an even darker truth - his true form is a pathetic, shriveled mutant, trapped in a life-sustaining tube, more hideously controlled by his mother than we ever could have imagined. Meanwhile, Mel is confronting some horrible truths of her own. Finally, D'Branin wises up to Cynthia-Lommie's nefarious plans, beats her to the escape pod and shuttles out to meet the Volcryn face-to-face - or face-to-astral-tentacles, anyway. Of course, none of this stops the single-minded D'Branin, whose obsession with using the Volcryn's powers to reunite with his daughter only intensified throughout the season, especially as they drifted into the influence of the Volcryn's telepathic field (the effects of which were also seen on poor Rowan, whose amplified grief turned him murderous). At the same time, as the ship draws nearer to the alien life form and the telepathic energy they emit, the ship's resident telepath - the L1 Thale - is overwhelmed with power surges and relentless feedback. The villainous Cynthia has taken over Lommie's body and recruited her loyal right-hand man Auggie to sabotage the ship before they can make it to the Volcryn. The finale opens with the Nightflyer in a state of unbridled chaos. At last, after icky flesh-covered probes and telepathic communiques, we finally met the Volcryn in the Season One finale, but if their arrival answered some of the series' burning questions, it also opened the door to a whole new batch of mysteries. Inspired by the George RR Martin novella of the same name, Syfy's horror series followed a team of daring scientists on a mission to meet a mysterious alien race known as the Volcryn and possibly save Earth in the process - on a space ship that was quite literally haunted by the evil digital presence of the captain's mother. Wait, what?! What just happened? The Nightflyers finale was quite the enigma.

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