Deep Storm - Part 4

Part 4

Ping is deemed the saboteur so now Crane and Ping need to stealthily dissect Asher's hard drive. They go to a deserted physics lab and realize that the hard drive was magnetized. Despite this, Ping manages to resurrect the data using a crude form of magnetic force microscopy and as they peer onto the screen they realize that the other messages included a cubed + b cubed = c cubed, π=a/b and x= 00, other impossible mathematical equations. After, they discover that Asher was searching the web and by looking at the history they find the WIPP site, the waste isolation plant in New Mexico. This is a decommissioned weapons facility, where nuclear arms are being disarmed and stored. Crane believes that this was what Asher meant by Whip, he thinks that earth is actually a waste deposit, with the "remains of an interstellar arms race". Because humans believe that the weapons will be functional for thousands of years they will place passive and active ways to warn people of the danger, Crane assumes aliens think the same way and the sentinels are actually a message warning advanced civilizations to stay off earth. This deciphers the mathematical expressions because the "forbidden" mathematical maneuvers are the only way aliens can communicate with other more sophisticated races. Crane leaves Ping and goes to warn Spartan of this danger, that digging into the source will lead to Armageddon. Spartan does not seem to take the hint and still believes that there is beneficial technology there. Frustrated, Crane goes to Dr. Bishop and asks her to organize the other heads of departments into believing him. Michelle promises to call him back but is seen by Dr. Corbett 1 hour later wiring C-4 into the facility. Corbett secretly switches on his phone, dialing his intern, and confronts Michelle saying that she is the saboteur. She does not deny it, instead explaining how America has no right in taking this technology. She shoots him with a silenced pistol and quickly leaves at the sound of approaching voices. Corbett is barely alive, and starts to disable the C4, but Michelle re-enters the room and sees him. With his dying breath and before she can finish him off, he inadvertently blows the C4, condemning Michelle and himself to a watery grave.