"Well, clearly something's happening here," says Daniel, trying not to let Peter's panic tint his own mounting terror. It feels an awful lot like this is all part of some larger joke, maybe a concept he should be familiar with, but he's only just got a grasp on the finer point of the English language and hasn't really expanded his focus past that.

"We could be - I dunno, I don't know, phase-shifted or - or something?"

Phase-shifted. Where did that come from and what does it say about who he was before all this? Why was that his go-to phrase? That's not even a thing.

...Is it?

"We're getting EMF readings off the charts," enthuses one of the other crewmembers, staring a beeping device in the palm of his hand. "Something's definitely here."