Following the hand drawn map she has, Barb struggles to find her way and stops at a remote cabin to ask for directions. The guy there is defensive but points her in the right direction.
Later while Barb fishes she witnesses something terrible happening and recognises the guy from the cabin as the perpetrator. With no mobile phone signal and now properly snowed in Barb decides to do something about it.
CW: violence and dark melancholic themes
As he and the other Ranger candidates face their final training scenario, which is to destroy a downed experimental weapon, they find an immensely impressive prop slightly away from the expected location.
Placing their demolition charges they think they've had an unexpectedly easy ride. The only problem is: this isn't their objective.
CW: injury detail, so much jingoistic macho hoora I think I made myself dumber just by watching it
Now a Police Officer Daniels (Pat Healy) is on the phone saying one of her counter staff, Becky (Dreama Walker), has stolen from a customer. Officer Daniels asks Sandra to take Becky aside and check her pockets and bag.
No good will come of this.
CW: vile humiliating misogyny throughout, some nudity
Grace is not an astronaut and struggles to work out what is going on, but he knows this much: it must be something to do with the phenomenon dimming Earth's sun and threatening all life. Just recently he'd been failing to come up with the words to explain this sympathetically to the children in his class.
Slowly his recollection improves but Grace has another problem: he realises he is not alone.
His wife is lucky to have work as a hostess in a bar but when their daughter gets sick they simply can't afford the medicine she needs.
After he pleads for his old job back and fails he resolves to audition for one of the many exploitative reality game shows that pass for entertainment. Not "The Running Man" though: that would be simply suicidal.
No good will come of this.
Rudolf's work is stressful: he's a workaholic, occasionally meeting with suppliers and colleagues at the house but when he can he rides his horse and takes the children swimming in the nearby river.
Rudolf is the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
CW: the Holocaust done matter of fact, off screen but constantly within earshot
Dek vows to prove himself in the most ostentatious way: to hunt and kill the Kalisk, the apex predator of the death world Genna where everything hunts everything else. The Kalisk has never been taken as a trophy.
The Weyland-Yutani corporation has an expedition on Genna entirely composed of Synths: humans would simply not survive. Nonetheless things have not been going smoothly to say the least.
Dek encounters the heavily damaged, abandoned Synth Thia (Elle Fanning) who claims to have encountered the Kalisk. Much as Yautja hunt alone Dek decides Thia can be used, like a tool, in his hunt.
Shenanigans ensue
This continues to be the case for some time.
CW: full frontal nudity