List of Dark Matter episodes

Dark Matter is a Canadian science fiction series created by Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie, based on their comic book of the same name and developed by Prodigy Pictures in association with Space channel.^[1] An order for 13 episodes was placed for the first season of the series, which premiered on June 12, 2015.^[2][3] The series was renewed for a 13-episode second season in September 2015, which premiered on July 1, 2016.^[4][5] Dark Matter was renewed for a third season in September 2016, which is set to premiere in 2017.^[6] As of September 16, 2016, 26 episodes of Dark Matter have aired, concluding the second season.

Series overview

Season		Episodes		Originally aired
				First aired	Last aired
	1	13		June 12, 2015	August 28, 2015
	2	13		July 1, 2016	September 16, 2016

Episodes

Season 1 (2015)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Can. viewers (millions)
1	1	"Episode One"	TJ Scott	Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie	June 12, 2015	0.273[7]
Six people awaken from stasis on an unknown ship. They all have amnesia; none of them can remember who they are or how they got onto the ship. After awakening, they name themselves based on the order in which they awoke, One through Six. Searching the ship, they discover and are attacked by the ship's android, who they manage to deactivate and reprogram. The ship is then attacked by another ship, which they manage to escape via hyperspace. Their pre-determined destination is a mining colony; the miners are awaiting help and weapons to defend themselves from savage raiders. After voting to deliver half the weapons, they find in the ship's decrypted files that all of them, with the possible exception of Five, are wanted murderers and thieves, and that they weren't going to the colony to help the colonists, but to kill them.
2	2	"Episode Two"	TJ Scott	Joseph Mallozzi	June 19, 2015	0.262[8]
After the disturbing revelation of at least part of their identities, the crew of the Raza, the name of the ship on which the six awake, deal with a claim by the mysterious Ferrous Corp over the colonized mining planet. The crew argues on whether to give the rest of the weapons to the town, and the resultant vote is in favour to, before a fight breaks out between the corporation and the planet's colonists. Two decides to seek the assistance of the Mikkei Combine and negotiates a 99 year lease to protect the miners, while Five begins to dream memories that belong to other people, and Three mulls over the large, unbreachable doors he found.
3	3	"Episode Three"	Paolo Barzman	Martin Gero	June 26, 2015	N/A
Five finds herself curious about the ship, and begins to crawl through the piping and venting system, stumbling upon the dead body of a boy about her age in the cargo hold. The crew finds the ship's systems have been tampered with, and the android finds a deleted subroutine that cleared the crew's memories. The ship finds itself deserted in mid-space outside of a supernova, with a damaged coupling that could vapourize the entire ship. The android puts everyone through a truth test to determine the member who tampered with the ship, and they all pass. The android volunteers to go on a spacewalk to fix the ship.
4	4	"Episode Four"	Amanda Tapping	Joseph Mallozzi	July 3, 2015	N/A
The crew determine that after repairs, fees and refuelling, they have no spare funds, and determine to find a buyer for the weapons that they have. Landing at the space station, Two and Five go to the casino to raise funds, One and Three find a weapons buyer, and Six finds himself a clinic to heal the electrical burn on his arm. One and Three get captured by a doppelganger of One, also named Jace Corso, but managed to escape, though the doppelganger manages to take their weapons for himself. Four, still on the ship, finds out his true identity, that he was the son of an Emperor, and that he is wanted for the Emperor's murder.
5	5	"Episode Five"	Lee Rose	Paul Mullie	July 10, 2015	N/A
The crew meet their handler, Tabor Calchek (David Hewlett) who assigns them to salvage a seemingly deserted space freighter but when the truth of the cargo is finally discovered, the crew find themselves fighting for their lives as they attempt to salvage the ship and stop the zombie-like beings from killing them in the process.
6	6	"Episode Six"	Ron Murphy	Paul Mullie	July 17, 2015	N/A
Five proposes using equipment in the medical bay to attempt to retrieve the crew's memories stored in her brain. Although she learns more about Four's past, as well as her own before she boarded the ship, she becomes stuck in her dream-like state. Six decides to enter her visions in order to rescue her, but he too discovers more about his past.
7	7	"Episode Seven"	Bruce McDonald	Robert C. Cooper	July 24, 2015	0.534[9]
The crew manages to gain access to the ship's secret room. Inside, they find a stasis pod carrying Sarah, a woman from Three's past with a deteriorating disease, and an android named Wendy, who is programmed to perform a wide range of activities, including cooking, games, and sex. As Sarah fills Three in on their history together, Wendy's programming is replaced with orders to destroy the Raza by Cyrus King, a man who wants revenge on the crew and knew the android would be activated.
8	8	"Episode Eight"	TW Peacocke	Trevor Finn	July 31, 2015	N/A
While docked for repairs and supplies, Six uses clone transport technology to try locating a man from his past. When Five tells the others, One and Four go after him, only for One to discover that his clone has his real face. Digging deeper into his genetic profile, One discovers his true identity, and a possible prior connection to Three.
9	9	"Episode Nine"	Ron Murphy	Joseph Mallozzi	August 7, 2015	N/A
Four leaves the ship to meet his half-brother, who is now the emperor in his place, and to prove his innocence in the murder of his father. However, when he arrives at the meeting place, he is instead greeted by his former instructor, Akita, who takes him to be arrested. As Four attempts to convince Akita of his innocence, the crew contemplates whether they should let Four go or rescue him, considering that his royalty might make him a useful ally. They eventually decide to save him, and before escaping, Four murders Akita as a message for his brother. Once back in space, the Raza is approached by three Ferrous Corp destroyers that take out the ship's FTL drives.
10	10	"Episode Ten"	John Stead	Paul Mullie	August 14, 2015	N/A
Three Mikkei Combine ships drop out of FTL in the middle of an encounter between the Raza and a group of Ferrous Corp destroyers, forcing the latter to flee. Commander Truffault (Torri Higginson) , whom Two negotiated with on behalf of the miners, boards the Raza with a mission for the crew to steal a mysterious device from a research station. Desperate to keep the Mikkei Combine as an ally, the crew accepts the mission and teams up with another group of mercenaries to pull off the heist. Once they steal the device and return to the Raza, however, the mercenaries turn on the crew and Two is blown into the vacuum of space.
11	11	"Episode Eleven"	Martin Wood	Paul Mullie	August 21, 2015	N/A
The mercenaries set out to deliver the remaining Raza crew to collect the bounties set on their heads. While they try to extract additional info from One, the FTL drive malfunctions again. Two is responsible: She turns out to be a very advanced synthetic and has the ability to survive the vacuum of space, which was previously unknown to her. But not before she manages to retake the ship almost single-handedly with a little help from Five, while the male crew members are fighting oxygen deprivation in the airtight vault.
12	12	"Episode Twelve"	Andy Mikita	Joseph Mallozzi	August 28, 2015	0.397[10]
Tabor Calchek (David Hewlett) tasks the team with rescuing a scientist but the team soon discover that it's a trap and find themselves fighting for their lives against a scientist, Alex Rook (Wil Wheaton). The episode ends with the Android being knocked unconscious.
13	13	"Episode Thirteen"	Andy Mikita	Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie	August 28, 2015	0.397[10]
In the aftermath of the Android being knocked out, the search for the traitor threatens to jeopardize friendships and relationships among the team. The episode ends with Galactic Authority soldiers storming the ship, capturing and carrying out members of the team, except Six/Griffin Jones (revealed at the beginning of season 2 to be Lt. Kal Varrick, an operative for GA special investigation unit), who walks free alongside the GA team leader.

Season 2 (2016)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Can. viewers (millions)
14	1	"Welcome to Your New Home"	Amanda Tapping	Paul Mullie	July 1, 2016	0.448[11]
Two, Three, and Four find themselves in the general population of the Hyperion-8 Maximum Security Galactic Detention Facility, unaware that Six had sold them out to the GA. One and Five meanwhile are held in the staff wing of the facility, pending release. Six tells One and Five that his real name is Kal Varrik, an undercover GA agent tasked with bringing them in. He later tasks Five with decoding an encrypted file that reveals a devastating secret from his past. One delves into his wife's murder, and uncovers some inconsistencies that suggest Marcus Boone was not responsible. He is then visited by Jace Corso, who shoots him dead.
15	2	"Kill Them All"	Bruce McDonald	Joseph Mallozzi	July 8, 2016	N/A
The crew of the Raza engineer their escape from Hyperion-8, and face threats from within the prison. They escape with the help of Delaney Truffault, who transfers the layout plans of Hyperion-8 via eye contact to Three. Four suggests luring a shuttle from the Ishida Empire's cruiser in orbit, and encounters Misaki Han. Arax has his people cause a riot in the prison, and when the inmates are disabled by the sonic device, Two regains consciousness and heads to the control room. The crew reunite at the shuttle and are joined by Arax Nero, Devon and Nyx. Six has a shootout with Lt.Anders after failing to convince him to let them go, and is critically wounded. Now aboard the Raza, Devon tells the crew that he lacks the tools to save Six, and Five suggests that they place him in stasis. They learn via a news broadcast that One (Derrick Moss) has been killed.
16	3	"I've Seen the Other Side of You"	Steve Dimarco	Paul Mullie	July 15, 2016	N/A
Five enlists the help of Arax, Nyx and Devon when Two, Three and Four collapse. With the Android undergoing repairs, Five activates the Android's hologram in search of answers. She learns that a neural link from a brain scan taken fourteen months ago has caused them to take on their old personas, that of Portia Lin, Marcus Boone and Ryo Tetsuda. Faced with mistrust from her friends, Five creates a neural link of her own using Two's brain scan, and uses Two's most vulnerable memory against her to persuade Two to disconnect her neural link to the ships systems. With the neural link disconnected, they return to their old selves. Arax Nero is revealed to be the "asset".
17	4	"We Were Family"	John Stead	Joseph Mallozzi	July 22, 2016	N/A
His former gang contact Three, including Tanner who claims to have brought him up. Arax attempts to recover Five’s key but is thwarted, escaping with a useless copy. Three joins his gang on the planet to collect stolen payroll, but discovers the thief was coerced by the gang and is killed, he kills the gang members and then Tanner, who he realises had killed his parents. The Android stumbles upon a secret society of other Androids who donate a behavioural upgrade that will enable her to be indistinguishable from humans as they are.
18	5	"We Voted Not to Space You"	Ron Murphy	Paul Mullie	July 29, 2016	N/A
The Android uses her upgrade to infiltrate a police station and plant a bug, attracting the attention of Inspector Kieken, who is on their case. The crew discover that the real Jace Corso shot One, and is hiding out in an abandoned settlement. Two, Three, Four and Nyx go to get him, but he escapes, setting off a self destruct mechanism. The Raza lands on the planet as does Kieken. Trapped in the tunnels under the settlement, Four is caught by Kieken, and Two captures Corso and executes him. After regrouping, the crew rescue Four. By his actions Six regains the trust of the crew, apart from Three.
19	6	"We Should Have Seen This Coming"	Bruce McDonald	Robert C. Cooper	August 5, 2016	N/A
Nyx recommends the Raza intercept a freighter to steal drugs and raise funds, but once on board she instead rescues her brother Milo and reveals that both of them were subjects of an experiment to enhance their precognition abilities, run by a team of rogue scientists called The Seers. Milo is the best subject and The Seers pursue the Raza to get him back. On rendezvous with the drug dealer the Raza is ambushed by The Seers, who seem to be able to predict their movements. Three and Six in the shuttle avoid the battle by hiding in a corrosive planet atmosphere whilst the Raza jumps away. When the Raza returns to rescue Three and Six, The Seers reappear, disabling their shields. Milo speaks of the oncoming war between the corporations, he wants to be returned so he can influence events. The Raza hands him over and departs, but concerned he will be used for nefarious plans, Milo commits suicide.
20	7	"She's One of Them Now"	Jason Priestley	Harley Peyton	August 12, 2016	N/A
The crew abduct Calchek so they can hunt down Reynaud to discover the secret of the key she was after. Five, with Three and Four, use Transit Pods installed on the Raza to infiltrate Reynaud’s fortress as clones, Five hacks into the system to find the key is used for a “blink drive” adapter that improves space travel. They steal the adapter but Three and Four are captured and their clones killed. Five’s clone escapes and is rescued with the adapter, which is installed on the Raza. Devon remains on the station with Nyx whilst the blink drive is tested, but he is killed by The Seers.
21	8	"Stuff to Steal, People to Kill"	Andy Mikita	Joseph Mallozzi	August 19, 2016	N/A
The blink drive transports the Raza to an alternate universe where corporations are at war, and the alternate Raza is launching attacks as rebels. Six (Jones) is dead, Four (Ryo) is a tyrant, the crew is now Corso, Two (Lin) and Three (Boone), who have their criminal memories, with Wexler and Tash from Episode Ten. The blink drive is destroyed, so they align with Truffault of the Mikkei Combine to trick the alternate Raza crew in order to steal their working one, with Two and Three impersonating and infiltrating, the situation with the mining colony from Episode Two is repeated with different results. They retrieve the drive and return to their universe, but inadvertently bringing along the shuttle from the alternate Raza.
22	9	"Going Out Fighting"	Peter DeLuise	Ivon Bartok	August 26, 2016	N/A
Two keeps collapsing, she finds her nanites are failing and she is dying. The crew contact an employee of Dwarf Star Technologies to discover improved nanites are available. Three and Six infiltrate the Dwarf Star HQ to obtain them but are captured and tortured by CEO Alex Rook. Two, Four and Nyx use the blink drive on the shuttle to land covertly but Two is confronted by Rook who sets a new synthetic to attack her. The new model is defeated by the combined efforts of the crew who transfer the improved nanites to Two and save her. When Three returns to the Raza he brings a parasite that was implanted during torture, the crew eject it into space, but they remain intrigued by what research Rook was doing.
23	10	"Take the Shot"	Paul Day	Paul Mullie	September 2, 2016	N/A
The crew debates whether to disable the ship's Android after she explains that she may have a potential flaw in her programming. After experiencing hallucinations via their prior neural link with the ship, and the Android's unconscious re-charge docking system, they start to take the idea more seriously. It is revealed that the Android's simulation was infected with a virus; it attempts to kill the crew and disable the ship. Two attempts to disable the ship's core software, but requires the Android's help. The crew comes to accept the Android as she is, even with her potential to make future mistakes.
24	11	"Wish I'd Spaced You When I Had the Chance"	Mairzee Almas	Joseph Mallozzi	September 9, 2016	N/A
On a routine break on a space-station, Five is kidnapped, and Three helps her to escape. In the mean time they, and the crew, are being pursued by GA Commander Kirken. Three is injured, making their escape more difficult. The rest of the crew manages to locate and rescue them in the shuttle after Five fires a missile to save Three. Five and Three share their true feelings with each other.
25	12	"Sometimes In Life You Don't Get to Choose"	William Waring	Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie	September 9, 2016	N/A
With the help of the Android, Four has his original memories restored. He demonstrates the power of the blink drive to general Dragoe in order to get close to his brother, restore his status as emperor, and win the war against Pier. His brother agrees to abdicate the throne in exchange for the safety of their people. Four says goodbye to the crew, but soon finds out that he had been misled. His step-mother, having taken control of the throne with the help of the Seers, attempts to have the crew, and Four, killed. But they are in for a surprise.
26	13	"But First, We Save the Galaxy"	Ron Murphy	Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie	September 16, 2016	N/A
The crew decides to preserve the balance of corporate galactic power by trying to prevent the bombing of the EOS-7 space-station. With the help of commander Truffault they are able to get into the space station. Five is able to disable the bomb. However, Four, now Emperor of Zairon, has other plans. He steals the blink drive and the episode ends with a cliff-hanger and the rest of the crew's safety in doubt.

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External links

• List of Dark Matter episodes at the Internet Movie Database