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The Tipping Point

Episode 8
Written by James Dormer
Directed by Isabelle Sieb

When it’s revealed that Nemo is playing with the lives of the crew, he is confined to his cabin and Boniface turns the Nautilus around. When they hit magnetic north and lose any sense of direction, then are attacked by metal-eating bugs, Nemo must show that he knows who his crew are, and must reveal himself to them, if any of them are to survive.

The sea beneath the Arctic. Inside the Nautilus, the temperature drops, the air depletes. A macabre vision of frozen sailors triggers talk of mutiny. Nemo reassures them. Four days more. Air enough for five. But Humility announces that Nemo made an error — only enough air for three. Nemo produces a revolver, but he’s restrained.

Nemo is confined to his cabin and Boniface turns the vessel around. Humility talks to Nemo. His need for revenge has blinded him. How can he expect the crew’s loyalty if he doesn’t know who they are, and he doesn’t reveal himself to them?

They hit magnetic north. Disoriented, the Nautilus descends. She hits bottom and a leak from the damaged rivet starts.

Nemo escapes his cabin and discovers they aren’t on the seafloor, but on the edge of a vast abyss, surrounded by bugs that feed on metal. The fissure worsens, and in come the bugs. The crew must kill the bug queen and seal the fissure, or they’ll topple into the abyss.

Turan uses magnetic force to attract the queen, full of metal, into the torpedo tube. She’s fired out of the Nautilus with her minions. Nemo remembers seeing algae in the abyss. A current.

Nemo needs them all to move to his side, to topple the Nautilus into the abyss. But he needs to gain their trust. He tells them who he is, and has them do the same. One by one, they move, until finally it falls down, and hits the current…

Cast (in order of appearance):

  • Jacob Collins-Levy as Captain Youngblood
  • Luke Arnold as Captain Billy Millais
  • Shazad Latif as Nemo
  • Benedict Hardie as Edward Cuff
  • Andrew Shaw as Jiacomo
  • Ling Cooper Tang as Suyin
  • Arlo Green as Turan
  • Pacharo Mzembe as Boniface
  • Céline Menville as Loti
  • Tyrone Ngatai as Kai
  • Ashan Kumar as Ranbir
  • Georgia Flood as Humility Lucas
  • Kayden Price as Blaster
  • Elvis as Archie the Dog