Hello again readers. Welcome back to the furthering adventures of Tom Lasky and Forward Unto Dawn.

As with each previous episode, we start out watching a now familiar backdrop of the drifting Forward Unto Dawn. Cortana is thinking out loud about her rampancy. Next parts of the ship start to burst. Not from explosions though.

What’s great is that one of the clamp rings from a hose connected to a cryo bay is popped off. A close up of this ring makes it appear to be just like a Halo ring, especially when focused on the outer edge of it. This is a great use of imagery that connects us to the larger story outside of the series.

As Cortana continues to consider the situation, the broken ship starts to be scanned form an “unknown” source.

She recognizes that it’s not Covenant by design and exclaims, “We’re in danger.” A great way to transition to the past where indeed Lasky and his fellow cadets are in extreme danger.

In each of these opening sequences, Stewart Hendler, continues to one-up himself in direction. We viewers gain more and more knowledge of the struggles of rampancy for an AI seen through the eyes of Cortana, figuratively speaking.

Next review of Episode 4: Part 2, Battle and Loss