Hunted / Season 1, Episode 8
Polar Night
APEX Season 1, Episode 8: "Polar Night" --- [CHAPTER 1: CRASH] The Twin Otter went down at 14:47 local time, though "local time" meant nothing here—the sun wouldn't rise for another seventy-three days. Dr. Anna Bergstrom felt the aircraft shudder, heard the port engine cough and die, and had exactly four seconds to brace herself before they hit the ice. The impact threw her against her harness hard enough to black out. When she came to, the world was silence and cold. The pilot—Henrik, a veteran of thirty Arctic winters—was dead. She knew without checking, from the angle of his head, the stillness of his chest. The copilot's seat was empty; the crash had torn the cockpit open and flung Eriksson somewhere into the darkness. Anna hung from her harness in the passenger compartment, surrounded by scattered equipment and the creeping cold that was already seeping through the broken fuselage. Move, she told herself. Move or die. Her left arm was broken—she felt it grating as she released the harness—but her legs worked. She gathered what supplies she could reach: emergency beacon (damaged but possibly functional), survival kit, sleeping bag, rifle (Henrik's, loaded with five rounds), and the expedition's emergency rations. Then she crawled out of the wreckage and into the polar night. The darkness was absolute. No moon, no...