SEASON 5
As she looked up at the sky, every unused part of her brain suddenly wakening with a slow alertness, she realized that everything she might have thought might have happened might be wrong. Every assumption, every conclusion, every theory might have been dead wrong.
How could she have been so blind?
It's not like she hadn't been here before. When they first landed on earth, they thought they were the only ones. They had no idea the ground was still inhabited. Their worst fears, that the air might be toxic, that the water wouldn't be clean, had proved relatively unfounded. Sure radiation was there and caused mutations just like the deer and the butterflies... in hindsight how could they have been so blind as to think if a deer could survive, a human couldn't have?
How could she have had six years and seven days of mulling the possibilities and still, not once, did the existence of others in space not come to mind?
Of course, the chances were even slimmer. They had been orbiting what they thought was a dead planet for 97 years. So where on earth was this ship coming from now?
She thought back to her time in the lab. She recalled talking to Jackson about human experiments, long distance travel... but he never mentioned a prisoner transport ship.
As she and Madi crept into the foliage to camouflage themselves, she thought to herself - 'if I am surprised here, what happened up there?'