Recaps

Zhang Tianyuan and Liu Chunshi learned that an Antarctic ice-shelf disaster was about a month and a half away, while a government task force investigated the strange vehicles and people who had appeared in the city. After inspecting the vehicles and hearing Wang Lei’s account, team leader Lu Deshou began to suspect they might be telling the truth.

• Jason told Zhang Tianyuan and Liu Chunshi that his team was studying the rapidly melting ice shelf and planned to drill ice cores, while Jack questioned the other team’s advanced equipment and interest in Antarctica.
• Zhang Tianyuan ordered his team to follow Jason’s group, then estimated that they had about a month and a half to warn countries and move populations south before the disaster.
• Lu Deshou’s task force questioned the visitors, and Wang Lei said he was a cross-spacetime rescue-team captain from No. 3 Spacetime under the Mutual Aid Society and United Government.
• A subordinate reported that the vehicles contained technology more advanced than anything known on Earth, prompting Lu Deshou to reconsider Wang Lei’s explanation and take him to inspect them.
• Wang Lei explained that the vehicles used cards as keys, and Lu Deshou started one, which announced the driver’s identity and played a safety notice.

Wang Lei told Lu Deshou about the Mutual Aid Society and its disaster-rescue work, while Lu Deshou quietly investigated the group and reported what he learned. In Antarctica, Zhang Tianyuan’s team witnessed a massive ice-shelf collapse that nearly killed Jack, Jason, and Frank, confirming that the disaster had begun.

• Wang Lei described the Mutual Aid Society to Lu Deshou and recounted the Wandering Spacetime’s history, while withholding classified details about the coming disaster.
• Lu Deshou questioned the other team members, ordered them allowed to rest, and left to report his findings.
• Liu Chunshi’s team found that Antarctica had warmed by six degrees in the Day After Tomorrow Spacetime, compared with a two-degree rise in their own spacetime.
• A fissure tore through the ice shelf while Jack, Jason, and Frank were working, leaving their camp at the edge of a deep chasm.
• Jack rescued the ice-core samples and the Mutual Aid Society soldiers pulled him to safety; Zhang Tianyuan warned everyone to leave as the broken ice shelf drifted apart.

Zhang Tianyuan and Liu Chunshi rescued Jack and his colleagues after the Larsen B Ice Shelf collapsed, then debated how soon climate change could trigger disaster. Back at the research station, Jack’s account revealed that his rescuers belonged to no known Antarctic team, while Zhong Ruijin prepared to investigate Wang Lei and the advanced vehicles in person.

• Zhang Tianyuan and Liu Chunshi rescued Jack, Frank, and Jason from the collapsing ice shelf, and Liu Chunshi questioned Jack about climate change in their spacetime.
• Liu Chunshi and the other meteorologists argued with Jack that severe climate changes could happen soon, but Jack remained unconvinced and later invited them to a conference.
• Frank contacted the research station, and he, Jack, and Jason returned safely after Jack declined Liu Chunshi’s invitation to the climate conference.
• Lu Deshou reported Wang Lei’s account and the advanced vehicles to Zhong Ruijin, who decided to inspect them the next day; Lu then questioned Wang Lei further.
• Jack and his colleagues learned that their research station had no expedition or vehicles matching the group that rescued them, and Jack’s joke about meeting kind ghosts left him, Frank, and Jason isolated for the night.

Wang Lei introduced Zhang Tianyuan to Zhong Ruijin and other officials, and Zhang warned them that their spacetime faced a catastrophic cold storm followed by a prolonged glacial period. He said the storm was expected to arrive in October.

• Lu Deshou escorted Wang Lei to the transport vehicles, where Zhong Ruijin asked Wang Lei about the vehicles and his spacetime.
• Wang Lei contacted the Mutual Aid Society president, and Zhang Tianyuan arrived through a Spacetime Tunnel to meet Zhong Ruijin.
• Zhang Tianyuan showed Zhong Ruijin climate data comparing their spacetime with No. 2 Spacetime and explained that rising temperatures had made their climate unusually unstable.
• Zhang Tianyuan warned that a severe cold storm would sweep across the northern hemisphere, bringing extreme cold and widespread ice and snow.
• Zhong Ruijin asked when the disaster would occur, and Zhang Tianyuan answered that it would come in October.

Zhang Tianyuan warned Zhong Ruijin that No. 6 Spacetime would face an unprecedented superstorm in October and helped establish emergency preparations. He then rallied the Mutual Aid Society’s chapters to assist No. 6 Spacetime, but their representatives had to compete for places before they could go.

• Zhang Tianyuan told Zhong Ruijin that an ice age could begin in October, despite the projections giving that outcome a probability of less than one in a hundred million.
• Zhang Tianyuan and Zhong Ruijin agreed on evacuation, shelter, and civil-defense preparations, and Zhang Tianyuan arranged further meteorological research and help from other spacetimes.
• Zhong Ruijin ordered emergency preparations, including stockpiling supplies, inspecting transport routes, and retrofitting civil-defense facilities.
• Lu Deshou contained the public fallout from Wang Lei’s group by having authorities describe their traffic obstruction as a film crew’s malicious marketing for The Wandering Earth.
• Zhang Tianyuan convened Mutual Aid Society representatives in No. 4 Spacetime and called on them to help No. 6 Spacetime prepare for the superstorm.
• The chapters agreed to send teams to persuade their counterparts in No. 6 Spacetime, but they first had to compete with chapters from the other spacetimes for places.

Zhang Tianyuan secured Zhong Ruijin’s agreement to begin the disaster-avoidance plan after new Arctic data raised the projected risk of a cooling storm. The plan’s first step was to circulate a meteorological paper, and the chapter ended with Carl telling Raymond Becker that she came from a parallel spacetime and held his position there.

• Liu Chunshi reported that Arctic and Antarctic warming had raised the projected chance of a catastrophic climate shift, and Zhong Ruijin agreed to begin the plan.
• The Disaster Prevention Working Group sent a paper about polar conditions and their possible catastrophic consequences to meteorological institutions around the world.
• Tom discovered that the paper’s Antarctic data matched classified records and went to report his concerns to Raymond Becker.
• Chai Ping arrived to meet Becker with Carl and her team, while Tom waited to explain the paper’s classified data.
• Carl told Becker that she came from a parallel spacetime and held the same position there.

Carl and Chai Ping tried to convince Becker that a catastrophic storm was approaching, but he dismissed their warning and worked to undermine trust in their claims. Jack recognized the authors of the warning paper as the people he had met in Antarctica just as news arrived that the other side had issued a global climate disaster alert.

• Carl told Becker that she came from a parallel spacetime and warned that a devastating storm would arrive, but Becker refused to listen and left.
• Becker dismissed the paper predicting a new glacial period, ordered Tom to stop spending money on verifying it, and called officials in other countries to discredit the warning.
• Becker's superior told him to stay in contact with Chai and report back, and Becker received the agreement Chai had sent him.
• Jack returned from Antarctica and recognized Liu Chunshi's name on the paper Tom showed him, realizing its authors were the people he had encountered there.
• A young man rushed into the laboratory and told Tom and Jack that the other side's meteorological department had issued a climate disaster warning to every country.

A worldwide broadcast warned that a superstorm and global ice age would arrive in October, and Jack recognized its explanation as matching the paper he held. While Zhong Ruijin’s government began preparing the public for disaster, Becker suppressed the warning abroad and accused Chai Ping and the Mutual Aid Society of causing a crisis; the chapter ended with Carl insisting they had come to save them.

• Jack and Tom watched a broadcast warning of a superstorm followed by a global ice age, and Jack realized its explanation matched both his paper and what he had heard in Antarctica.
• Becker ordered the warning blocked, accused Chai Ping’s side of trying to destabilize the economy, and arranged for his meteorology department to produce a false report predicting normal conditions.
• Zhong Ruijin declared an emergency, accelerated civil-defense preparations, issued disaster-avoidance plans, and urged citizens abroad to return home.
• Becker and President Kazu struggled to explain Zhong Ruijin’s serious preparations, then decided to hold steady and leave the other country alone.
• Becker met Chai Ping and Carl and demanded that they stop their actions and compensate the world economy, but Carl replied that the Mutual Aid Society had come to save them.

Chai Ping and Carl planned to encourage people to migrate south after Becker rejected their warning, while Zhang Tianyuan and Zhong Ruijin continued trying to publicize the coming superstorm. In North America, Jack judged the warning plausible, sent his family south, and learned that the New Delhi Climate Change Conference had been moved up.

• Becker rejected Chai Ping's proposal, and Chai Ping told Carl they would try to persuade people to migrate south on their own.
• Zhang Tianyuan and Zhong Ruijin decided to break through North America's information blockade and urge people to evacuate south.
• Jack concluded that Liu Chunshi's paper and the climate warning were plausible, prompting Tom, Jason, and Frank to arrange for their families to go south.
• Jack urged Lucy to take Sam to Miami, while Lucy recognized that he was hiding his concern about the climate warning.
• Jack received news from Tom that the New Delhi Climate Change Conference had been moved up.

As the New Delhi climate conference drew global attention, Jack learned from Liu Chunshi that Zhang Tianyuan had set the events in motion and saw evidence of their advanced technology. Liu Chunshi began the conference by announcing a more direct way to convince the world of the climate catastrophe, as a patch of black spread across the stage.

• Tom told Jack that the climate conference had been moved up to three days away, and Jack flew to New Delhi.
• Professor Terry Rapson prepared to attend the conference, while Becker refused to go and limited North America's delegation to meteorologists.
• In New Delhi, Jack noticed unusually large delegations and overheard officials discussing “parallel spacetime” and “brother country.”
• Jack met Liu Chunshi, who said Zhang Tianyuan—not Liu—had set events in motion, then showed Jack their advanced computer and latest results.
• At the conference's opening, Liu Chunshi took the stage and said they would use a more direct way to explain the crisis, as a patch of black spread across the podium.

Zhang Tianyuan appeared through a Spacetime Tunnel at the climate conference and revealed the Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society, confirming that the climate catastrophe and impending glacial period were real. He invited the delegations to visit the Mutual Aid Society’s base and travel to another spacetime, leaving the officials scrambling to report his announcement.

• Zhang Tianyuan emerged from a Spacetime Tunnel, and the domestic delegation distributed simultaneous interpretation earpieces to the stunned attendees.
• Zhang Tianyuan introduced himself as President of the Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society and explained that it united different spacetimes to face world-ending disasters.
• Zhang Tianyuan confirmed that the warnings about a climate catastrophe and glacial period were genuine and urged the attendees to cooperate with the Mutual Aid Society.
• Zhang Tianyuan invited the delegations to visit the Society’s temporary base and travel to a parallel spacetime, then left through the Spacetime Tunnel.
• Officials from the delegations rushed to report the announcement, while meteorologists and United Nations staff remained at the venue and the television station celebrated its record audience.

Zhang Tianyuan’s speech triggered worldwide panic over a coming climate catastrophe, while Becker tried to suppress the news and reassure North America. Jack publicly supported the warning, urged his family to flee south, and learned he and his colleagues could not return home.

• Viewers across the world reacted to Zhang Tianyuan’s speech with alarm, and many began preparing to leave northern regions.
• Becker ordered the agreement tested, restricted the broadcast footage, and went to consult his superior about the spreading panic.
• Jack abandoned his prepared remarks and publicly said the climate warning should be taken seriously, drawing attention and support at the conference.
• Reports and recordings of the speech spread widely, prompting panic and conspiracy theories; Becker then called Zhang Tianyuan and his group charlatans in a national address.
• Jack finally reached Lucy and urged her to take Sam south before October, insisting the catastrophe was real.
• Jack told Lucy he, Jason, and Frank were barred from returning to North America, and asked her to warn their families.

Lucy told Sam that they had to leave Washington for Miami before October, while the Mutual Aid Society prepared visiting delegations to cross into another parallel spacetime. Zhang Tianyuan led the visitors through the Spacetime Tunnel toward No. 4 Spacetime, where the apocalyptic crisis had been resolved.

• Lucy told Sam they had to leave Washington before October because of events in New Delhi, and Sam agreed to go.
• Becker continued controlling information about the climate catastrophe, while many people left Washington and fewer foreign representatives committed to the Mutual Aid Society visit.
• Liu Chunshi brought Jack, Jason, and Frank to join the visiting delegations, who signed their invitations and fingerprints before entering the tunnel.
• Zhang Tianyuan greeted the assembled representatives, reassured them, and led Elder Zhong through the Spacetime Tunnel.
• Jack and the other visitors followed the queue toward the tunnel as Liu Chunshi revealed that they were heading to No. 4 Spacetime, where the apocalyptic crisis had been resolved.

Jack and the other representatives arrived in No. 3 Spacetime and toured Moyulan Base, where they saw the Pangu mecha. Meanwhile, Carl privately asked Zhang Tianyuan for permission to use the Spacetime Tunnel to confront Becker, but he rejected her plan and insisted they continue with the existing approach.

• Jack crossed the tunnel with Liu Chunshi and the other scholars, then opened his eyes to see the enormous Pangu mecha.
• Mako Mori welcomed the representatives to Moyulan Base and explained that the Pangu had helped end the age of monsters and joined Support Team No. 0.
• Zhang Tianyuan left the tour to oversee the scheduled destruction of nuclear bombs aimed at the Precursors' planet.
• Carl asked Zhang Tianyuan for temporary permission to use the Spacetime Tunnel, hinting that she wanted to deal with Becker by force.
• Zhang Tianyuan stopped Carl and warned her not to repeat the idea, telling her to follow the Mutual Aid Society's existing plan instead.

Mako Mori explained the Mutual Aid Society’s nuclear-weapons disposal mission and showed the representatives Pacific Rim Spacetime’s history of fighting the Precursors, convincing them of the Society’s power and the coming disaster. She then led the group through a Spacetime Tunnel to No. 3 Spacetime, the next stop on their tour.

• Mako Mori clarified that the nuclear weapons were being eliminated on the Precursors’ planet and came from two other spacetimes, leaving the representatives alarmed by the Mutual Aid Society’s arsenal.
• Mako Mori showed the representatives records and footage of the Precursors’ monsters and humanity’s battles against them, then took them to see the monsters’ preserved remains.
• The representatives learned about Pacific Rim Spacetime’s technology, industry, and political situation, and many resolved to support the southward migration plan after returning home.
• Mako Mori led the representatives through a newly opened Spacetime Tunnel to No. 3 Spacetime, carrying documents for her own business there.

Wang Lei escorted the spacetime representatives through an underground city and explained that a faction seeking migration to other spacetimes had split between lawful resettlement and invasion. The representatives reached the residential district shaken by a staged leaflet attack and wary of the faction’s interest in their worlds.

• Wang Lei introduced himself as the head of the rescue team and led the representatives away from the tunnel, while Moriko Masami left with documents.
• Wang Lei explained that another group had offered the representatives aid in exchange for signing a cross-spacetime migration and resettlement agreement.
• Wang Lei and Liu Shichun revealed that the group was in Underground City B, about fifteen thousand kilometers below the surface.
• A resident threw a backpack toward the representatives, but Wang Lei shot it and revealed it contained leaflets; Liu Shichun said such incidents were common.
• Wang Lei described the Migration Faction’s goals and explained that some members wanted to seize resources through invasion.

Wang Lei led the representatives from The Day After Tomorrow Spacetime to the surface, where they witnessed a Planetary Engine firing and learned that it was built to propel Earth. The representatives then heard how the United Government formed the Wandering Earth Project to escape the sun’s coming disaster.

• Wang Lei took the representatives to an equipment room, where they put on cold-weather suits and prepared to go outside.
• Wang Lei led the group up a massive elevator, and Liu Chunshi told Jack that the surface temperature was around minus sixty-three degrees.
• The elevator opened onto an icy surface, and the representatives saw a vast steel structure fire a blue pillar of light into the sky.
• Liu Chunshi explained that the structure was a Planetary Engine designed to propel Earth and that its test firing produced 150 trillion tons of thrust.
• Wang Lei identified the structure as the BJ No. 3 Planetary Engine and began explaining how the sun’s impending helium flash led to the Wandering Earth Project.

Wang Lei explained that No. 3 Spacetime had begun the Wandering Earth Project, using planetary engines to move Earth toward Alpha Centauri after biosphere experiments made a self-sustaining spaceship impossible. The representatives left for their next visit after surrendering Migration Faction leaflets, emerging beside an enormous railway yard.

• Wang Lei told Jack and the representatives that failed biosphere experiments led No. 3 Spacetime to abandon building a spaceship and instead use Earth as one.
• Jack and the representatives watched the BJ No. 3 Planetary Engine fire and learned that the plan aimed to reach Alpha Centauri in 2,500 years.
• Wang Lei explained that No. 3 Spacetime had continued the Wandering Earth Project because migration between spacetimes lacked sufficient support and the Mutual Aid Society had only recently made contact.
• The representatives toured No. 3 Spacetime, learned it had developed heavy nuclear fusion, and considered the technology's value to their own worlds.
• Wang Lei required the representatives to hand over Migration Faction leaflets before they departed through a Spacetime Tunnel.
• The representatives emerged beside a long corridor overlooking parallel railway tracks.

Zhang Tianyuan and the branch presidents presented the representatives with a rescue plan for the approaching climate catastrophe and promised help from other spacetimes. As the meeting addressed relocation, shelter, supplies, and energy, Sun Deyi offered a space station to support communications.

• Elder Zhou showed the representatives No. 1 Spacetime’s vast railway network and explained that it was transporting people and supplies through a Spacetime Tunnel to No. 2 Spacetime.
• Elder Zhou learned from Hu Haoran that the representatives’ spacetime had only a little over a month before its climate catastrophe, and he promised the branches would help.
• Zhang Tianyuan introduced the branch presidents, confirmed the representatives accepted the Mutual Aid Society’s existence and the coming disaster, and shared the relocation-and-shelter plan.
• The representatives raised concerns about relocation, shelters, supplies, energy, and communications, especially for small northern countries with limited resources.
• Zhang Tianyuan, Elder Zhou, Tong Wenshi, and Ning Jihua offered relocation guidance, temporary refuge in No. 2 Spacetime, and pooled food and energy for shelters.
• Sun Deyi offered to provide the representatives’ spacetime with a space station for support.

Sun Deyi and Zhang Tianyuan offered the delegates evacuation support and a space station, and the delegates returned home to urge their countries to join the Mutual Aid Society. As countries across three continents announced their membership and coordinated operations disarmed Becker’s overseas forces, Becker blamed a conspiracy and appealed to his superior to save the world.

• Sun Deyi offered to send the Navigator Space Station through the Spacetime Tunnel to provide communications services, and Zhang Tianyuan promised to support countries joining the Mutual Aid Society.
• The delegates signed authorization documents and returned home, where they urged their governments to begin evacuations and join the society.
• Zhong Ruijin told other countries his country was ready to evacuate people, increasing pressure on them to act.
• On September 3, a small Northern Hemisphere country announced it would join the Mutual Aid Society and relocate its people before October.
• Becker learned that countries across Asia, Europe, and North America had announced support for the society, then discovered his forces abroad had been disarmed.
• Becker told his superior that the coordinated operation was a conspiracy and claimed he had to save the world from it.

Zhang Tianyuan and the Mutual Aid Society secured international support and accelerated preparations for the coming climate catastrophe, while Becker struggled to keep his country from joining the southward migration. As the evacuation began across the Northern Hemisphere, news of the disaster spread through North America, leaving Lucy unwilling to wait any longer.

• Zhong Ruijin and the Mutual Aid Society seized Becker’s overseas bases, prompting more countries to join the Mutual Aid Society and announce evacuation plans.
• Zhang Tianyuan and Elder Zhong discussed how Becker’s interest groups resisted evacuation, while Carl prepared to negotiate with Becker again.
• Elder Zhong launched the domestic evacuation plan, and Zhang Tianyuan reviewed plans to move or shelter populations at home and abroad before the catastrophe.
• News of the climate catastrophe spread across North America despite Becker’s efforts to suppress it, and growing panic drove more people to flee south.
• Lucy, still unable to contact her husband, decided she could not wait any longer.

Lucy prepared to take Sam to Miami as the climate crisis deepened and Jack and his colleagues remained unreachable. After Sam vanished, Lucy feared she was under surveillance, while the Mutual Aid Society sent massive reinforcements to quell unrest and support evacuations.

• Lucy told Sam they would leave for Miami the next morning because Jack had warned them to go, and she learned that Frank and Jason were also unreachable.
• Sam called Laura about their school competition, heard her family did not believe the climate danger, and listened to Becker's speech on television before asking a friend if he could stay over.
• Sam slipped out of the house at night, and Lucy discovered the next morning that he was missing; the school and police offered no immediate help.
• A surveillance operative reported that Lucy seemed to have noticed the watchers outside her home.
• Zhang Tianyuan deployed nearly five hundred thousand Mutual Aid Society members to assist with evacuations, calming unrest, while Wang Lei coordinated aid and rescue resources.

Soldiers unloaded communications equipment and supplies at the shelter as exoskeleton-equipped teams helped with the evacuation effort. After returning to The Day After Tomorrow Spacetime, Jack learned from Lucy that their son Sam had mysteriously disappeared, and he suspected the FBI had targeted him.

• Soldiers unloaded heavy communications equipment at the shelter and envied the exoskeletons worn by the unloading team, but the squad leader learned that about fifty people were ahead of him to borrow one.
• The nationwide shelter evacuation continued with aid teams from Wandering Spacetime and the "2012" spacetime branch helping with transport, equipment testing, and cold-weather preparations.
• Liu Chunshi returned to The Day After Tomorrow Spacetime with his meteorological team, and Jack and his companions arranged calls to their families.
• Jack reached Lucy, who had feared he was missing, and told her he had traveled to a parallel spacetime.
• Lucy told Jack that Sam had vanished from home before she planned to leave for Miami and still had not returned.
• Jack suspected the FBI had taken Sam in retaliation for his departure from New Delhi.

Jack apologized to Lucy and sought Tom’s help to find Sam, while reports of New Delhi’s snowfall fueled evacuations and the Mutual Aid Society reviewed its completed relocation efforts. Zhang Tianyuan learned that Carl’s efforts had helped trigger a mass flight from Washington as the disaster drew closer.

• Jack promised Lucy he would bring Sam back, told her to stay at the hospital, and arranged how they would contact each other if separated.
• Jack called Tom, learned that the meteorological bureau was under surveillance, and asked him to help find Sam; Tom agreed to do his best.
• Lucy saw patients and families leaving the Washington hospital after hearing that snow had fallen in New Delhi and October was near.
• At an international climate conference, Liu Chunshi reported New Delhi’s heavy snow and other emerging weather threats while member countries said their evacuations were essentially complete.
• Zhang Tianyuan acknowledged the evacuation work’s shortcomings and received a call from Carl, who reported that people were fleeing despite Becker’s renewed speech.

As extreme weather worsened around the world, Becker ordered California to prepare for Hurricane Nonali and planned to publicly deny a climate catastrophe. Meanwhile, a weather buoy reported a sudden 13-degree drop in ocean temperature near the hurricane, and enormous hailstones killed people in Tokyo, intensifying panic and flight across North America.

• At school, Sam stayed with his friend’s family and enjoyed his freedom while smiling at Laura, unaware that his parents believed the FBI had taken him.
• Becker learned that millions had fled south and that New Delhi’s snowfall was worsening, then warned California to prepare for Hurricane Nonali, whose strength was predicted to be unprecedented.
• Becker told his superior about the worsening situation and then arranged to give an interview exposing what he called the lie of a climate catastrophe.
• At the Hedland Meteorological Observation Center, Professor Rapson and Dennis discussed the predicted global disaster as a buoy near the hurricane registered a sudden 13-degree Celsius drop in seawater temperature.
• In Tokyo, enormous hailstones smashed through the streets and killed rioters, while reporters broadcast the disaster to viewers.
• After the snowfall in New Delhi and lethal hail in Tokyo became widely known, North Americans panicked and fled in greater numbers, spurred on by Carl.