Deep Storm - Part 3

Part 3

A few days later Asher comes through with a breakthrough with the binomial code, he realizes that it is a mathematical expression: 1 divided by 0. Because this is not making any sense, Crane holds the sentinel in his bare hand, causing it to warm up. Asher excitedly describes how the sentinel's broadcasts are more clear, they can now analyze messages on the infra-red spectrum, radioactive spectrum and any other kind of measuring device know to man. However during this exchange Peter notices how Asher has a very pale complexion and bruising along his arm. He wants him to go to medical but Asher disagrees saying that he could spend time in the Hyperbaric chamber as a way to alleviate his illness for a short time, just until they decoded the rest of the messages coming from the sentinel. At this point Crane runs a brain scan on all of the patients and discovers that they all do have something in common, all of their brain waves spike in formation, even their theta waves. He realizes that this is another signal coming from the source, just because humans can't analyze it does not mean it does not exist. He also realizes the implications, that whoever made this technology is much more powerful then humans. He is about to tell Asher of his discovery when Asher phones him saying that he decoded all of the messages. However on his arrival of the Hyperbaric chamber, the saboteur has struck again, burning the Hyperbaric chamber with Asher in it. Asher is nearly dead but manages to say one word to Crane: Whip, before he dies. Along with Ping, Crane does not realize what this means but then figures out that they could possibly salvage the hard drive and look at the decoded messages from Asher's laptop. Meanwhile Commander Korolis records the conversation and hurriedly runs a degaussing magnet over the hard drive, erasing it. He has noticed how Asher did not want to continue with the digging and assumes that whatever is on the hard drive is not relevant and would halt America from recovering possibly beneficial technology.