Summary
Constellation continues to juggle things in a way that doesn’t entice its viewers. The lack of focus forces your interest to weave in and out, just like each story.
Jo struggles to adapt to everyday life upon returning to Earth in Episode 3 of Constellation. Jo’s relationship with her husband and daughter is struggling due to her not understanding what is real and what is fake. After retrieving the Data Core from Jo, Commander Henry searches for answers about what happened in space. The lack of focus from the Season 1 premiere returns here.
What was Jo’s mission on the ISS?
When she returns, Jo answers questions from the press about what had happened on the ISS. When asked if her mission was over, she announces that her job was to retrieve and monitor the neurological effects of long-term space travel.
After the gathering, Jo sits down with the other astronauts who were on the mission with her, along with Paul’s wife and daughter. She speaks about how Paul was a hero, though calls his wife Erica, which confuses everyone since her name is Friday.
In the past, Henry tried to solve some of the odd things that happened with his Data Core while on the spaceship. While present-day Henry is on a ship getting ready to sign pictures, he also debates a man named Ian Rogers, who questions the legitimacy of his time in space.
The ISS mission team testifies in front of their colleagues, where they begin to ask questions about what has gone down. Although Jo says she heard an alarm sound off, her team says otherwise. When they start to dissect what caused the collision, the footage can’t be retrieved, and Jo says this is when she saw a body. However, Irena challenges that notion, saying there is no way a body could’ve been there.
What are the yellow and red pills for?
We’ve seen through each episode that former astronauts have taken these yellow and red pills. After the crash, a team of doctors hands them to Jo and her team. When she questions what they are, they tell her they are Folic, Vitamins D, and B-12.
Alice has been struggling to handle her mother’s actions since returning. As a result, she and Wendy (her BFF and Paul’s daughter) get into a fight about her ruining the bunny she gave her, but it never happened. Wendy throws the bunny at her and says she is as crazy as her mother and that Jo should be dead instead of her father.
Conversely, Jo and Magnus’s relationship has grown to new heights. In the first two episodes, Alice spoke about how Jo and Magnus’s relationship was in shambles, but upon her return, she has been more loving and caring towards him.
What was the cause of the ISS accident?
Regardless of Jo claiming that she saw a person, the team is claiming that a trashbag caused the accident on board the ISS. As Jo looks on with distress, Irena and her team inform her that there is no way she saw a body on board the ship.
After a brief recess, the pressure builds on Jo, who announces that she will withdraw her notion that she saw the body on the spaceship. Because of this, she asks if she can now go home. At home, Jo asks Magnus when they got a new car because it is blue, and they had a red car, but he looks at her awkwardly since it has always been blue.
We get a montage of Henry dealing with his past and present. First, we see him and Irena set to have another rendezvous. He asks her how many more times they are going to do this, and she says this will be the last as she informs him that she is dying of cancer. Then, on the cruise ship, Henry confronts Ian Rogers about his words, and things turn violent when Henry pushes him off the boat.
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