It surprises me that the 'blinking' was everywhere, not just in the mind of those two boffins. Saul was somewhat high when he saw it, but for some reason he went to confess to Chinese Grandmum that he thought the event was BS.
He cited the space based instruments as the proof because none of them saw it. Just the people on Earth, as if their reality had been captured by alien psiops. Yet, he couldn't tell who had done it.
Auggie however went to her lab to see nanofiber alloy experiment with 9 minutes on the clock. She obviously was aware of the prediction, but just simply couldn't give up on her work. She had to see her stuff work, before she gave up on the whole thing. Yet, the countdown went on to torment her till one and half minutes has crossed the clock.
Outside her firm, the DI caught the girl and popped the question, "Why the stars flickered at you?"
The answer didn't come straight away as we the viewers were whisked away to see the original chinese astroboffin, locked in the mountain top dish facility to question the Authorities. They told them that Westerners had been broadcasting longer and they've only been putting out 25 MW for a few years.
The thing that they couldn't answer was the signal observation between Earth, Jupiter and the Sun. The astroboffin explained some physics braking observations where the signals crossed faster than light between the celestial bodies as if they were in some higher dimensional beings. But that's the thing cause living planets doesn't equate well with the Hard Science, even if a recent paper was put out on our Sun being alive.
Funny thing about that is that the officer nicked the idea, presented it to the superior and got blamed for the idea of blasting "the red sun" with messages, because it didn't sit well with the CCP ideology.Yet, the lady couldn't give up on the idea and so she manipulated the experiment and did it anyway, without authorities approval.
We'll see it if it was successful.
Back in the London, the DI had transported Auggie to his office, and allowed her to smoke indoors while he showed that her alien friend couldn't be caught in the cameras. It was all in her head. Yet, her ciggie got lit up. So it wasn't all in her head. The alien was definitely there. Fact about that is it is happening in the real life, and it's one of the 'observables' in the UAP/Alien cases.
Speaking of which Jun donned the alien helmet once again after Auggie's session, and I was kind of corrent in the era as Jun was taken back in the Ancient First Emperor's China, and she was given a mission to "solve this world's riddle" even though the NPC denied on being one. When she asked, "What if I fail?" on determining "if the era was stable or chaotic," she was given a demonstration with freakish Sun inflating a small child, and then the NPC task giver rolling her up as if it was totally normal.
Man, this program is weird,
Not the only one thinking about weirdness, Jin hauled to the failed Oxford Five, Jack, who made the observation that the helmet wasn't a typical Apple or Sony product. Straight away inside the game he could tell by being able to taste the dirt that the device was beyond our technical capabilities, before his head was chopped off, and he rudely kicked back in the real world.
On the next day Saul caught Auggie outside on WE1 house and apologized for not answering the calls. Being pissed off Auggie raved at his face, and then walked off, obviously pissed at everything.
Yet, the weird thing happened at the DI, who tended his wife grave caught up with the alien girl. The only thing they talked about was how their loved ones died. No countdown or warnings or anything. The weirdness didn't stop there as at the evening Jack was given a gift of alien helmet and a written invitation to play the game. Being a geek, he couldn't say no, so he donned the helmet and was transported to old England that was going through the same problem as the First Emperor's China.
It was the first time I laughed as he went on full geek and did punch the NPC task giver and examined him physically as if it was his privilege. He even went to rave about the game to his best mate, until the last of Oxford Five delivered news on him having a terminal cancer. That riled Jack up good and proper, and he properly scolded Will with ideas that could never work, because it is the will of the patient who determines for how long they're going to put up the fight.
Speaking of which Jin taking the seriously entered the First Emperor's pyramid and explained to the Emperor that councillor's 'I Ching' was just a prophecy, and not a real science. Yet, her science was proven false by the 'Councillor's Code' turned out magical, just like Jin ability to shift time inside the pyramid as the world transformed from sun scorched back to a real one with oceans and everything, for the "masses to rehydrate."
A moment later all the good will was taken away as the Sun left the planet and left it behind to become a snowball planet in the matter of minutes. While everyone else died, she survived in the long night only to be told that she'd been taken back to level 2, where she would have to save the civilization by using science.
But we didn't get to see what happened as the DI walked into the bosses office and told him about the 'Wow signal' and then "one observatory in the China" had done the same thing back in 1977. So we were whisked back to the original astroboffin, who were allowed to walk outside her 'prison' to see a westerner living inside the zone of hacked forests.
He turned out to be a biologist, in pursuit of saving lives of countless species. The biologist scolded the astroboffin for wasting all life for one small radio observatory. And she promised to him that she'd try to stop the party from advancing the stupidity.
As if the Karma was revolving around her, she was given a chance to talk to the lady who killed her daddy. And she walked away after hearing that she wasn't sorry about what happened because the Party ideology was all her world. She was locked in it, while the astroboffin had turned hers around. On that evening she received back a signal from the stars, who told her that she was not to reply, only to listen, because they were warning her that if she would do it, they "would come and conquer the world."
