Another great issue, but still not a lot of answers. Most of the issue has Adam being tortured by an agent of the Pykkts. Someone who has been through an invasion and destruction of his home planet and apparently a similar torture. He questions why Rann and Adam didn’t help them.
The torture is kind of tearing Adam through time and space, seemingly destroying his mind. “The Tower of Rainbow Doom is supplanting the zeta beam ions in your body, replacing them as they fade. ...You’re not traveling anywhere. Except, like, you’re going everywhere right?”
Adam was tortured for weeks or even months. But this whole things brings into question what is real and actually happening. Back on earth, Adam apparently killed a man he suspected of being a Pykkt spy, but turned out to be just a regular person. Is this what Alana has been trying to cover up?
We’re still not shown the Pykkt language, so that door remains closed. But we now know that Adam went through some pretty horrendous torture so his tendency to shoot first and ask questions later is sort of explained.