Thorensen is about to hurt Lena when she hears what sounds like Sheppard screaming. She discovers that Kane is Lena's husband, and rambles that Lena is a liar and untrustworthy. Thorensen, increasingly aware of changes to her own body and mind, becomes paranoid and ties up her teammates. Radek suggests that the Shimmer is a prism, but not just of light - the Shimmer is actively refracting and changing everything, including the cellular and DNA make-up of plants, animals, and humans. The team comes upon some flowering trees that are in the shape of human beings. The next day, Lena finds Sheppard's body and confirms that she is dead. The next day, Thorensen and Radek want to leave and Ventress wants to go forward Lena convinces Thorensen and Radek to continue onward toward the coast and Lighthouse. Because of the dark, only Lena, with night-vision goggles, sees the bear. They hear a noise, and as Sheppard comes out to join them, a mutated bear grabs her and drags her away. That night, while on watch, Ventress tells Lena that it is a good thing that she did not tell the team that Kane was her husband, as they wouldn't know what to think of her after the video. The entire team, and especially Radek, is unnerved by the video, and they argue over whether or not the previous team went crazy or mutated. They find a hybrid corpse-plant that shares some similarities with the man that Kane cut open. They watch the tape in horror as Kane cuts open his team mate and holds his moving guts. Inside of the base, they discover a video tape in a plastic bag that is seemingly addressed to them. Taking the boats from the boathouse, the team makes their way to the former base of the Southern Reach, now overgrown with plants and deserted. The crocodile attacks Radek, but Lena kills it. They encounter their first mutated creature: a crocodile that appears to have the teeth of a shark. The team arrive at a boathouse that is covered with many seemingly different flowers growing from the same vine. Despite these setbacks, they begin to work towards the lighthouse. They discover that most of their technology, from the radios to compasses, doesn't work. They do not remember setting up camp or how they spent the first four days in the Shimmer, even though their rations are lower. The team enters the Shimmer and then blacks out. Lena does not tell Sheppard, Thorensen, or Radek that she is Kane's wife. Lena convinces Ventress to allow her to come on the team, telling Ventress that she "owes" Kane - it's not explicitly stated what Lena means, but she could feel that her affair drove Kane away. Lena stays at the facility to watch over Kane, and she learns from Cass Sheppard, Anya Thorensen, and Josie Radek that they are preparing to enter into the Shimmer to go to the Lighthouse that is "ground zero" of the strange transformations. Ventress, a psychologist, for information about Kane, who is the first person to return from the Shimmer - or at least, so they think. The Southern Reach intercepts Lena and "Kane" in an ambulance, and "Kane" is stabilized at the Southern Reach facility. He struggles with words, and then begins bleeding from his mouth. She is elated, and then concerned when he does not seem to be acting like himself. Because the scene happens early in the film, the viewer may not realize that Daniel and Lena previously had an affair, creating an additional layer of tension between them.Īt home, Kane's doppelganger returns to find Lena. Daniel invites her to a barbecue, which she declines, and he tells her that being social isn't disrespectful to Kane's memory. The film's first flashback shows Lena around one year after Kane's mission into the Southern Reach.
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