Michael tells Joe to get in touch with Molly's parents to let them know she's okay as they hide in an underground shelter. It's a little girl named Molly (Clover Nee). Behind the smoke, he sees the silhouette of a monstrous creature. Michael then spots an explosion happen around a building. He maintains contact with his friend from mission control, Joe (Greg Grunberg). Michael is driving around as chaos occurs.
Kiel keeps Schmidt imprisoned in the airlock.īack on Earth, the planet has experienced some sort of phenomenon.
When Jensen mentions Schmidt, Kiel goes to check his communications log and finds that Schmidt received and responded to messages from German Intelligence that gave him orders to keep the Shepard offline until Russia was neutralized. Jensen also claims to be very close friends with Ava, saying that the Ava she knows stayed back on Earth as part of her civilian control position. She claims to be part of the crew as the engineer, which is the position Tam holds on the station. After a brief moment, Volkov spews out the station's worms before being dead for real.Īva talks to Jensen. Volkov then vomits and is taken to the medical bay where he convluses and regurgitates blood before apparently dying. He gets a gun and takes it to Schmidt and Tam, aiming it at them.
He feels something in his skin and has his eye briefly move out of place. Volkov starts to experience strange bodily occurrences. The crew pulls her out and takes her to get medical attention. They find a woman, Mina Jensen (Elizabeth Debicki), fused to the circuitry in the walls. Suddenly, they hear a shrieking sound coming from behind one of the walls. As the crew proceeds to try and fix the problem, Ava finds that the ship's gyroscope that helps with navigation is missing.
They find themselves with a steady beam, but within moments, the station starts shaking violently before they find that Earth has seemingly disappeared. The crew gears the Shepard up for one more test. The two at one point get into a fight before their crew mates break them up. The tension is heaviest between Schmidt and Volkov, as their respective home countries (Germany and Russia, respectively) are currently in conflict back on Earth. The crew themselves remain on edge after all the failed experiments. Pundits such as Mark Stambler (Donal Logue) cite the "Cloverfield Paradox" as a hazard for the mission as it may potentially open other dimensions and bring something dangerous into our world. After their connection is cut, Ava watches a video of their deceased children, Isaac and Ayana. They activate the Shepard and prepare to fire the beam upon the Earth, but over the course of two years, they hit many failed tries and are running dangerously low on fuel, with only three more tries left. The Shepard's crew also consists of Commander Kiel (David Oyelowo), Schmidt (Daniel Bruhl), Monk (John Ortiz), Mundy (Chris O'Dowd), Volkov (Aksel Hennie), and Tam (Zhang Ziyi). Ava has reservations about the mission, as she will be gone from Earth for potentially many years, but she nonetheless is adamant in saving the planet. One of the scientists on the Shepard's crew, Ava Hamilton (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), is with her husband Michael (Roger Davies), as they are in a long line trying to get gas. Scientists have created the Shepard particle accelerator in an attempt to provide Earth with an unlimited supply of energy In 2028, Earth's natural resources have severely depleted, and the planet is suffering a global energy crisis.