Constellation – Season 1 Episode 3 Recap & Review

Somewhere in Space Hangs My Heart

Constellation Episode 3 starts with Jo and Alice going towards the other cabin in the snow. Alice suddenly loses Jo in the fog of the snowstorm. Back in the past, Jo is admitted to the hospital. Alice is worried that she doesn’t look like herself.

Later, Jo takes part in a press conference. She says she’s happy to be back home and talks about how nice it is to smell the Earth. Afterwards, all the astronauts sit with Wendy and her mother Frida. But Jo gets Frida’s name wrong and calls her Erica instead.

At the Star City labs in Russia, Henry shows his colleague the data from the CAL. He says he extracted results from the CAL right after it was taken from the evacuation capsule and got the same results as Paul had gotten when he first ran the experiment. But now, the results aren’t the same.

His colleague finds it hard to believe. Meanwhile, Bud Caldera is on a ship because of a space convention. He sets up a table and signs pictures for fans, although he doesn’t seem happy to do so.

A meeting is held with all the astronauts as well as professionals from space agencies, all of whom have gathered in Russia. They discuss the accident on the ISS and Jo once again describes the body she believes was the source of the collision. But the others believe this was just a figment of her imagination induced by a lack of oxygen. Later, Jo practices walking on the treadmill and is given pills to take on a daily basis.

Henry continues to argue with his colleague, Eryn, about what he saw when he extracted the data from the core. Eryn says it shouldn’t be possible. At the Russian accommodation for the European Space Agency, Jo and Magnus have dinner but things seem tense from Magnus’s end of things. Jo worries that Alice has forgotten Swedish.

On the ship, Bud engages in a debate as part of the program. The host accuses Bud of lying in his book, where he describes his mission to the moon. The host says it’s full of inaccuracies. Henry finally gets the same result on his computer as he had seen before — two pulsating circles. But his phone camera is unable to take a picture and he draws a replica instead.

Alice is helping Jo walk when she loses her balance and falls. When Alice goes to get Magnus, Jo notices that she’s in the same passageway with the wooden cupboard at the end.

Henry and Eryn are, yet again, arguing about what he saw on the computer. As they do so, he watches Alice and Wendy play hide and seek. Alice hides and then sees Wendy throw her stuffed rabbit into a puddle and stamp on it. She runs out and yells at Wendy, who claims she didn’t do anything. They fight and afterwards, Alice realises that her rabbit is clean and doesn’t have any water or dirt on it.

Jo continues to insist that she saw the body of a USSR astronaut at the meeting with the space agencies. The others say that every single USSR astronaut is accounted for. They believe the collision was due to some space debris instead. Jo gets back to her room at the ESA accommodation, feeling distraught. She tells Magnus she loves him and then kisses him.

Henry meets Alice, who’s sitting on a swing in the park. She asks about his work and he begins to talk about quantum physics. He describes how the same object can be in two places at once or have two colours at once.

Jo asks Magnus if she seems different and he says she does. Henry comes by to drop Alice off and thanks Jo for getting the CAL back. He warns her to be careful in the midst of all the bureaucratic players. Later, Jo takes a walk with her three crew members who also find it hard to believe what she saw. They visit Paul’s grave and lay down some flowers. When she’s on her own, Jo has a vision of Paul standing in front of her reciting a part of a poem.

Back at the meeting, Jo withdraws her statement about the space suit. This wraps things up and the astronauts can finally make their way home. Jo is happy to be home but things seem off almost immediately. She recalls having a red car while the one they have is blue.

Irena shows up at Henry’s house and they have wine. Irena then reveals that she has stage four lymphoma. She’s dying. So this is the last time they’re doing this. They slow dance to music while on the ship, Bud goes up to the debate host and tells him to walk with him. The host pokes more holes in Bud’s story.

After all, he was a senior police officer. Suddenly, Bud asks him for help. He says parts of his memory are missing and he doesn’t know how his two colleagues wound up dead when he did everything right on that Apollo mission. He blames Henry but the host doesn’t know who that is. When the host continues to taunt Bud, Bud grabs him and throws him off the ship. 

Back in his hotel room, Henry suddenly sees a corpse in place of Irena and yells in shock. Back in the present, Alice tells Jo that she doesn’t think the other cabin is real. She says people who have been to space see things. Jo tells Alice she isn’t her daughter. Alice, in turn, asks where her real mother is at the end of Constellation Episode 3.

The Episode Review

Constellation Episode 3 takes a big step towards making things clearer and a lot of this is thanks to Henry’s conversation with Alice about quantum physics. He goes on about how one thing can be in two places or of two colours at the same time, which is eerily similar to the ‘present’ section of the story. The overall direction seems to be moving towards the idea of parallel universes.

The bits of unexplained footage that don’t line up with the rest are probably from another universe altogether. The little details and eerie hints match up with this idea and the final scene emphasises that there has been a mix-up between the Jos and Alices of two different realms. By letting us in on a little bit of the secret, this episode has made the series a lot more interesting!