A shuttle arrives carrying all the crew members who stayed behind on the Eden planet. However, none of them remember how they got onto the shuttle or arrived in front of Destiny.
Tropes
- Came Back Wrong: On two levels really. Young notes that something about the returned crew members unnerves him (it may or may not be they lack their souls), to the point that he can barely stand to be in the same room with them. Further, the returned crew all spontaneously die of whatever killed them the first time, in the order they originally died.
- Clarke's Third Law: Quoted directly
- Downer Ending: Everybody who was on the shuttle died.
- Foregone Conclusion: Leave a bunch of hippie scientists on a planet with only camping equipment and winter fast approaching? What did you think was going to happen?!
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Speculation about soul loss was not confirmed or denied.
- Status Quo Is God: They got a shuttle to replace one they crashed in "Aftermath". This one however is working perfectly.
- Suddenly Always Knew That: Camille's not-previously-mentioned proficiency with hypnosis.
- Too Dumb to Live: The scientists get themselves killed through their own incompetence. When winter came, they sought shelter in the shuttle, but couldn't close the hatch or light a fire because of smoke inhalation. Apparently, building a roundhouse around the shuttle with a fire pit in the middle never occurred to them? Nor did covering the shuttle in snow, which would have provided excellent thermal insulation? The shuttle was also capable of sub-atmosphere hops. It can't be winter on the whole sphere, can it?
