Boom! Now that’s what I call a surprise ending. It’s always the one you least expect, right? The two episode season finale mirrored the entire season of Dark Matter, both good and bad. Oh, come on, you were thinking it, too. We finally learned who created Two, One and Three’s longstanding dislike for one another came to a head, and the Galactic Authority finally caught up to the Raza crew, thanks to a surprising assist, on the season finale of Dark Matter. Spoiler alert.
One Last Mission
Last week on Dark Matter, the mysterious object that the Raza crew helped steal ended up causing an entire planet to implode. And though at first it may have seemed like a surprise, if you really think about, it kind of did seem appropriate. After all, the Raza crew can never really seem to catch a break, and some would say given their pasts, they shouldn’t be able to, either. Judgment aside, the fact remains that they were in some deep you-know-what as a result of what happened, not that they had any idea what they were stealing in the first place, let alone that it was going to go all reactive and blow up an entire planet. But, life goes on and the Raza crew was presented with yet another opportunity to make friends with an “evil corporation,” this time Ferrous Corp. I don’t need to tell you that, of course, things went to hell almost immediately.
As soon as One, Two and Three entered the site where a supposed kidnapped Ferrous Corp. scientist was being held, they were immediately greeted by Two’s creator, who wasted no time immobilizing the feisty “boss lady” by reducing her level of nanites (the things that gave her the bad-ass capabilities). Aside from the fact that we finally got to meet Two’s creator, which was awesome in and of itself, but on top of that it was special guest star Wil Wheaton. Yep, Wesley Crusher made Two. That actually sounds kind of cool. Turns out, the whole alleged mission to rescue the Ferrous Corp. scientist was a complete ruse to get Two—ahem, Rebecca—back at the facility where she was made for some much needed tweaking. It seems her “aberrant behavior” wasn’t normal, it was a defect. Now, that explains her outbursts of violence (remember One walking up behind her and almost losing his arm over it?) and irrational behavior (pick an episode).
After being nicely forced to leave Two with Wesley, I mean Alexander Rook, the Raza crew then had to enlist the Android’s help to rescue her. No surprise there and boy did she deliver. It was one of the best displays of kicking butt and taking names we’ve seen on the show all season. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, what would the Raza crew do without the Android? Asked and answered. Needless to say, the Android was extremely instrumental in saving Two, which is precisely why the traitor among the group had to take her offline…again.
A Traitor Among Us
For a while now on Dark Matter, we’ve known that one of the members of the Raza crew was in fact the culprit behind the memory erasing. And, the writers did nothing in the way of deterring us from also linking the memory erasing to the recent sabotage on the ship, namely the Android being taken offline. We were made to believe the two happenings were related and orchestrated by the same person. Not so. Thanks to Five and a winning combination of her psychic abilities and snooping, she found a recording device that she stashed in the mess hall before they all went into stasis, that revealed Two and Four were in cahoots to eliminate one of their fellow crew members before their mining colony mission. As a result, we learned that Two and Four knew who the traitor was, and through process of elimination it wasn’t either of them.
With the Android offline, step one of the traitor’s plan to take over the Raza was all the more closer to coming to fruition, with little to no resistance. Closer, not home free. There was still the issue of the rest of the crew, including a couple hand-to-hand combat bad-asses like Two and Four. But before the big reveal, there was plenty of backstabbing to go around, which surely the traitor loved to watch play out. Namely, One and Three—whose initial personality conflicts evolved to a love triangle and then revenge—were all too willing to throw each other under the bus to save their own hides. Despite the apparent clues that One is hardly capable of being a criminal mastermind of any sort, and Three is just a teddy bear with a jerkass exterior, their back and forth was really just a stall tactic for the reveal of the real traitor, was it not?
Six
There’s a saying, beware of the nice ones. And in this instance, nothing could be truer. In one of the biggest—no scratch that, the biggest—plot twists of the entire first season of Dark Matter, Six was the traitor among the crew. Through a well calculated game of elimination, the totally unsuspecting “big guy” was able to successfully systematically reduce his threats to his mission in a mind game that resembled playing chess. He even faked us out by poisoning himself to make it look like another crew member did it. First, he took out the Android, then Four, then the remaining members of the crew. The only one he didn’t have to personally subdue was One because he had already been confined to his quarters as a result of the other crew members’ suspicion.
Six being the traitor was the best surprise of the episode and season, but it leaves so many questions. Did Six give up the Raza crew to the Galactic Authority to save his own butt, or he is working a bigger nobler scheme? Six was always protective of Four, was that real or a calculated move to protect his interests since she is a wunderkind and was likely to figure things out? Then too, what will become of One and Two as a result of Two seemingly siding with Three when he suspected One of being the traitor? What will happen when the rest of the crew finally find out who One really is, i.e. the CEO of an “evil corporation?” And most importantly, how in the world will they get out of this one?
Until next season…maybe?