NAUTILUS Episode 5 Sneak Peek: Things Get Ugly

Geek Girl Authority

17-07-2025

Pressure reveals character. While the Nautilus continues to evade capture, the same isn't true for its crew. In the sneak peek clip below from Nautilus Season 1 Episode 5, 'Anguille Fumée,' it's implied that Director Crawley (Damien Garvey) uses torture to learn what Nemo's (Shazad Latif) plans are.
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Unfortunately, Captain Youngblood (Jacob Collins Levy) seems to trust his data more than intel extracted under duress. How reasonable of him. Crawley's not in the mood to be reasonable. Nor is he forthcoming about why the coordinates they've charted are so important.
Nautilus, 'Anguille Fumée'
The episode's logline hints at a lot that the clip doesn't reveal: The Nautilus is helplessly dragged into the volcanic Ring of Fire by a giant electric eel. The crew begins to drift off into hallucinogenic stupors caused by mysterious spores. Humility must summon courage to save the Nautilus and its crew. ( Fun fact: The episode's title, 'Anguille Fumée,' translates to 'smoked eel.' Read into that whatever you like.)
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As neither Humility (Georgia Flood) nor hallucinogenic spores appear in the clip, we can't make any predictions on how any of that turns out. However, the 'huge pulses of electrical energy' reported by Youngblood's crew member may be eel-related. Or it could be the Nautilus trying to escape the eel. That would still make it eel-related, I guess.
The conflicting information indicates that Nemo's crew is loyal to him and their cause, even when faced with (one can assume) sadistic physical assault. Villains rarely see themselves as such, but Crawley's self-assured dehumanization of the hostage crew member sets him firmly in the baddie camp. His order to kill the man for lying makes him THE baddie of the moment.
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The jury's still out on the rest of the pursuers. Clearly, they aren't getting the full story behind the Nautilus and Nemo. Will they mutiny against their employers when they learn the truth? Will Nemo win them to his cause?
Nautilus airs every Sunday on AMC and AMC+.
Hawkins Is Under (and on) Fire in STRANGER THINGS Season 5 Teaser Diana lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada, where she invests her time and energy in teaching, writing, parenting, and indulging her love of all Trek and a myriad of other fandoms. She is a lifelong fan of smart sci-fi and fantasy media, an upstanding citizen of the United Federation of Planets, and a supporter of AFC Richmond 'til she dies. Her guilty pleasures include female-led procedurals, old-school sitcoms, and Bluey. She teaches, knits, and dreams big. You can also find her writing at The Televixen, Women at Warp, TV Fanatic, and TV Goodness.