THE SWARM – Season 1 Episode 8 – SPOILERS ⁓
Whales surround he research vessel Thorvaldson in the Greenland Sea as Japanese billionaire Aito Mifune (Takuya Kimura) arrives there by helicopter. Mifune gets a briefing from Professor Johanson (Alexander Karim), who describes the Yrr as “a single-cell organism that can coalesce into a larger multicellular mass. A single-cell organism that can act on its own, but also [as] a larger multi-cellular collective mass able to shift in shape and density.” Mifune learns that the first message from the Yrr was an image of the ocean floor as it would have looked 250 million years ago. Since no aquatic species can keep written records, that memory must have been recorded in the Yrr’s collective genetic structure, passed from generation to generation.
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