When Jamie, Satie, and Kahurangi reach the site, Kahurangi offers Jamie a bottle of pheromones that will make them smell like a kaiju so other creatures ignore them. They find the destroyed instruments and replace them with new ones. Jamie sees a flash at Bella’s former location but nobody else does. Jamie notices one of the instrument packages has a bullet in it and finds a dead phone under a fallen tree.

Later, in the conference room, Jamie shows a video they found on the phone to the rest of Tanaka Base. The video shows Tom planting the instruments. He explains that the aerostat and Chopper One were hit and that soldiers with equipment were approaching Bella and firing at the crew. Later in the video, a soldier shoots at one of the creatures and interrogates Tom, who tries to reason with the soldier. The soldier shoots him offscreen, checking to see if anyone is watching, and creatures chase him away. Jamie shows another video from the phone, depicting barrel-like objects that Jamie suspects the kidnappers used to create a barrier around Bella and the eggs. The objects glow, and a flash appears. Bella, her eggs, and the objects vanish.