Dark Matter season one had a clear narrative throughline. Main character Jason Dessen (Joel Edgerton) was kidnapped by a Jason from another world who’d invented a way to hop between dimensions. While the duplicitous Jason 2 settled into Jason 1’s life, Jason 1 managed to escape Jason 2’s world and set out on a quantum-powered quest to find his way home.

Season two, which picks up after Jason 1 and his family, wife Daniela (Jennifer Connelly) and son Charlie (Oakes Fegley), have reunited and are attempting to restart their lives in a parallel Chicago, has gotten a lot more complicated. As you’d expect, the ability to travel between worlds—via “the Box,” Jason 2’s invention, with the help of a special compound perfected by chemist Ryan Holder (Jimmi Simpson)—has sparked a cross-dimensional ripple effect.

For Ryan—specifically Ryan 1, the show’s primary version of the character—that’s meant venturing on his own homeward journey.

In season one, Ryan 1 became another one of Jason 2’s kidnapping victims, paying a terrible price for figuring out that a slippery doppelganger had taken over the life of his best friend. Jason 2 did show a tiny bit of consideration by stranding him in a wonderfully progressive world—rather than one of Dark Matter’s worst-case scenario dimensions, which have included perpetual blizzards, rampaging tornados, and murder hornets.

But it was still a monstrous thing to do, and as Simpson pointed out in a recent interview with io9, Ryan 1 is one of few Dark Matter characters who wasn’t actively involved in creating the Box.

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