The Rig Season 1 – TV Series

Episodes 01

The oil rig Kinlock Bravo begins experiencing strange events, such as tremors and electrical faults, before a mysterious fog rolls in. Without radio contact or working communications, the entire crew is stranded on the rig, where tensions begin to mount and tempers fray, especially after one of the crew has a serious accident.

Episodes 02

Baz begins experiencing strange symptoms and visions after surviving his fall. The Stand-By-Vessel makes contact with the Kinloch Bravo rig, and the crew begin to hope for a rescue, while talk turns to the forthcoming decommissioning of the rig. Leck dies under mysterious circumstances after standing out in the fog, and Alwyn dies after a strange encounter with Baz. Hutton makes his escape after being confined. Rose discovers that the ash contains parasitic spores.

Episodes 03

With Baz missing and presumed dangerous, Magnus sends groups out to look for him and bring him back, while Fulmer is isolated due to a fear of the parasite spreading. Baz begins showing increasingly strange and disturbing behaviour as Rose makes a perplexing breakthrough regarding the spores and their link to extinction events. More spores begin to grow, and Garrow becomes infected. More problems face the rig as the flare goes out and the electrical systems go down, and Fulmer makes a dangerous decision to prove he can still be trusted.

Episodes 04

Fulmer tries to recover from his injuries and helps Rose and Heather investigate the spores. Baz and Garrow seek a way to shut down the oil pipeline and realise that they need Fulmer, which leads to painful consequences for Fulmer as he struggles to keep a grip on his sanity. Magnus struggles with old memories as he tries to maintain order when the crew is disappointed after the signal comes back but they’re unable to contact the coastguard. The fog appears to head inland, and the crew thinks they might finally be getting rescued as lights appear.

Episodes 05

A lifeboat from Kinloch Charlie arrives, with a Pictor head Coake aboard. The new arrivals make their presence known as Coake undermines Magnus’ position on the rig and create division between the crew. Fulmer helps Baz and Garrow with their mission. Coake’s motives are investigated and the crew realise he isn’t giving them the full truth. Coake sets in motion a plan to kill the crew members on the platform to gain control of the pump room, with Hutton, Murch, and Dunlin involved.

Episodes 06

The events that led to the explosion on the Kinloch Charlie rig are revealed, and Coake’s part in them, as well as his true purpose on board and Pictor’s plans. The crew races to find a solution as Rose and Fulmer work out the horrifying extent of what the coded messages they have discovered really mean. Magnus, Rose, and Fulmer go to help Baz stop the Ancestor from triggering another Storegga Slide. Coake attempts to finish his mission to kill the organism by doing the same as on Kinloch Charlie, but the crew manages to stop him. Rescue helicopters come to evacuate the crew of the Kinloch Bravo, but Baz stays behind. A tsunami is created and the rescued crew watches as it destroys the rig and heads towards the shore, presumably wiping out the coastline.