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The Anchor opens with a request for combinations for the locks. Viewers inform him that they have many possibilities, but that 2915 is their best bet for the music lock. The Anchor successfully unlocks the bag and finds a small glass terrarium and a folder with a tile in it. This sparks the Anchor’s memory: he explains to the viewers that a key part of the Terrarium’s mission was to make contact with the past.
We learn that they had attempted three previous transmissions: once during the Industrial Revolution, once in the 1940s around World War II, and once in the 1960s or ‘70s during the construction of ARPANET. The contact with 2019 is the fourth attempt. The technology failed during the first try but worked for the second and third. However, in the second attempt, the viewers thought that it was a hoax and in the third attempt, they were unable to change anything.
The Anchor affixes the tile to a blank slot on the back wall and the room flashes white. At the viewers’ request, he pulls the cooler out from under the back table and opens it. Inside, he finds a message that reads: “It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has power to obtain by himself.” The Anchor also finds an ice cube tray containing four ice cubes with seeds frozen inside. He decides to leave them in the corner of the room near a heat source to melt them. The cooler also reveals four note cards inscribed with recipes: Alfalfa cacao nib sorbet, Bourbon-aged seitan with banana agave demi-glace, Rutabaga steak with fermented rose petal gravy, and Lentil infused red bean jalapeño jawbreakers.
The viewers quickly figure out that the quote is from Epicurus, and from there infer that the recipes come from the site Epicurious, where quantities and ingredients are provided.
