Invasion season 2, episode 8's ending intentionally leaves an air of ambiguity surrounding the mysteries of the alien portals and their language.
Warning: This article contains major SPOILERS for Apple TV+'s Invasion season 2.
Summary
- Invasion season 2, episode 8 reveals that the aliens communicate with humans using binary code, allowing for universal understanding and compatibility with human technology.
- The military in Idabel is conducting experiments on the people previously abducted by aliens, aiming to decode the alien language. Their research aligns with Mitsuki's own investigations.
- The alien portals serve as gateways into the alien's consciousness and potentially lead to the mothership. Mitsuki destroys one portal to save Nikhil, potentially impacting humanity's ability to understand the aliens. However, there may be other ways to enter the alien consciousness and locate the mothership.
Invasion season 2, episode 8 makes several plot progressions, hinting at how the aliens communicate and create portals for humans. However, since the show still leaves an air mystery surrounding these new developments, it is hard not to speculate how these revelations will come into play in season 2's final episodes. Other than opening the floodgates of new narrative avenues with these revelations, Invasion season 2, episode 8 also gives a glimpse of what the military is trying to achieve by setting camp in Idabel.
Caspar and his friends also advance in a new direction toward finding answers when they finally find the other psychic kids, who claim they have seen Caspar before. Invasion season 2, episode 8 also shows how all the kids join forces to create a map of the alien consciousness while a part of Caspar still stays trapped somewhere in the hive mind. Given how episode 8 leaves so much for the viewers to unravel, here is a breakdown of all the nagging mysteries surrounding the alien hive mind in Invasion season 2, its portals, and how it uses humans as a medium to communicate.
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In Invasion season 2, episode 8's opening moments, Mitsuki struggles to decode the alien language. However, when she looks at the other people who came in contact with the alien power source in the fallen ship, she realizes that there is more to their behaviorism than meets the eye. Mitsuki and the team previously believed that these people had suffered neurological damage after interacting with the alien and lost their ability to communicate. Mitsuki deduces that they did not lose their ability to communicate and, instead, somehow learned to communicate in the alien's language to mediate human-alien interactions.
Although the episode does not reveal what they are trying to say, it shows how they use binary code to make the alien language comprehensible to humans. In the binary system, information is represented using only 0s and 1s, where 0 typically stands for low voltage, and 1 represents high voltage. The aliens are likely using binary code to contact humans not only because of the simplicity and universality of the language but also because it is compatible with human technology. The aliens also seem to have created highly advanced interconnected technological systems. Since binary code is closely linked with digital computing, it likely allows the aliens to seamlessly transmit information through their complex technological systems.
What Is The Military Doing In Idabel?
Trevante finally breaks into Project Idabel's crater in Invasion season 2, episode 8. He also discovers that the military has captured all the people previously abducted by the aliens and is running experiments on them. However, before he can figure out what is going on down there, he gets captured by the authorities that run the place. Trevante tries to convince them to let him join their team, but they imprison him in the underground facility. The former marine is yet to find answers about Project Idabel, but it is evident that the abducted people are still connected to the alien hive mind.
Their behaviorisms seem similar to the ones who came in contact with the alien power source in the fallen Amazon ship. The military also uses devices to calculate the electric impulses and brain activity of the abducted humans, hinting that they are trying to decode the alien language like Mitsuki. The last few episodes of Apple TV+'s Invasion will likely reveal whether they have made any progress with it and how their end of the research will align with Mitsuki's learnings of the alien's language, powers, and motives.
