While their teammates search for them, Rafe and Adam find themselves trapped in adjoining cells, unable to touch or see each other properly, but grateful that at least they can communicate with each other. Though it doesn’t help them to understand what is happening as the walls change shape around them. Adam’s cell gets gradually smaller while Rafe is offered what seems to be a way of escape—but is that just one more trick of the strange trap in which they find themselves?

Will they be able to free themselves, or will they die together—but desperately alone?

When Jake returns from his patrol, he realizes the captain has disobeyed his order. Jake’s anger at his lover’s action is short-lived when Bart cannot be located. Eventually, the team tracks Bart to one of the ruins, but they find no trace of the man himself. Knowing they need help, Jake contacts the Alkya base and an engineering squad is sent to assist Jake’s team in a search-and-rescue effort. Will the men be able to find Bart before it’s too late?

Matt does what he can for his colleagues and attempts to repair the tear to the ship’s skin. But the men struggle to keep warm in the freezing temperatures, and when they discover their comm-unit isn’t working, it becomes a fight for their very survival...