We see the massive crater and the naked woman Kiya, sitting in a pool of mud. Lucy and her Grandma pull her out of the crater and take her back home in a car.

After getting cleaned up, Kiya is told that the island is a British territory in the West Indies, with a volcano and tells a part of her story. She wants to go back down to beach to see the crashed cylinder.

The next day, the two girls set off on bikes, to ride down to beach with the cylinder. They see two trucks of soldiers going in the same direction and wait until the men leave for lunch. Both girls walk across the empty beach to see the cylinder towering above them. Kiya knows how to get inside and as the tide comes in, the cylinder glows and slowly lifts off the sand only to stop at the high-water mark.

Kiya jumps out of the cylinder just before the soldiers return and the two girls run off and hide in the woods. On their walk back home Kiya explains how she worked with some human people on a boat in the past who taught her to speak English. The women were trained to be sailors and made to sow their own uniforms.

This episode introduces the exo-planet team who might still be on the other planet and we see Lucy and Kiya bond together. Next we return to James at the airbase by moving forward to 2030 again.

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