the shark in your water

being jealous that grace makes friends with the other scientists but being pleasantly surprised whenever grace seeks him out. for coffee or to just spitball ideas or to just keep him from going to crazy. especially as grace begins to take on more of evas workload, carl also steps in to support grace. they become a team.

carl has always known that grace is being kept around for a reason. any one of them could be called on to step up and make a huge sacrifice, and hopefully it would not come to graces hands. but it does.

carl helps hold grace down. helps sedate and transport him. until hes on the hail mary, carl stands vigil over grace. still supporting him. still protecting him.

The silly shopping sequence. The matching glasses. The walkie talkies. Building venus (planet of love!! Hello!!) together. The juicy betrayal at the end of their relationship, with the heartbreaking thought that Carl is devastated but knows it has to be this way for the good of all humanity. And worse, that he is complicit in baja blasting Grace to space.

they are so starcrossed lovers coded