: Mother discovers a simulation pod in the forest and uses it to experience flashbacks, revealing more about her creator and the loss of the original embryos.

: Marcus and the Mithraic soldiers find a large, symmetrical black artifact in the desert. They believe it fulfills a sacred prophecy, but a cold night leads to a deadly conflict between Marcus and the leader, Ambrose, over how to treat the relic.

: The parallel between the creature killed by Tempest and the unborn child she is carrying underscores the show's recurring themes of motherhood and the cycle of life and death.