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Emily Kolburn
Emily Kolburn Featured Season 3
Portrayed by
Jodelle Ferland
Home
Raza
Eridani-6 (Past)
Relatives
Unknown father (deceased)
Unknown mother (deceased)
Unknown Sister
Occupation
Engineer

Crew Member (Raza)

Status
Alive
Appearances
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
First Appearance
Episode One
Last Appearance
Episode Thirty


Emily Kolburn, also known as Five or Das, is a main character that appears in Season 1, 2 and 3 of Dark Matter. She is portrayed by Jodelle Ferland.

Biography

Prior to stowing away on the Raza, Das had become an accomplished pickpocket in order to survive after leaving the partial care of a mechanic. One day she stole a seemingly innocuous piece of metal from a bearded man. Unfortunately for her the object was far more valuable than she had guessed, and the man traced her to her hideout. He killed all but one of the gang of youths she ran with, prompting her and the survivor, TJ, to sneak onto the Raza.

Das, later known as Five, is the crew mascot. She is extremely proficient in electrical engineering and enjoys working with wires, circuits and fuses.

Season 1

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Five awakens from stasis.

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Five shows a knack for mechanics.

In Episode One, Das awakes aboard the Raza with no memory of who she is. Each of the crew is named in the order of when they each awakened from stasis, so she is given the name Five. She is shown to be quite knowledgeable about random subjects, i.e. medicine and circuitry. When The Android uses evasive maneuvers to avoid being attacked by an unknown ship, the ship loses gravity for a short period of time and Five hits her and loses consciousness when gravity is restored. When Five regains consciousness, the crew is standing her in sickbay. The Android tells them that she has restored some of the lost data from the computer and has determined where the ship is headed. While in FTL, she tells Six that she had a dream about a mysterious door with secrets locked inside. Later, she is seen sleeping with Six sleeping nearby.

While One, Three, Four, Six, and the Android are down on the mining colony, Five works to repair a console on the bridge of the ship. Two tells her that the Android said that that console is fried and asks her if she knows what she is doing. Five remarks that wires, circuits, and fuses come naturally to her, unlike the things she sees in her head. Five tells Two about a dream she had about helping her little brother and carving out the eyes of some people who murdered her father. However, she says the dream doesn't belong to her.

When the others return, the crew sits together in the mess hall and debate whether or not they should help the mining colony defend themselves against the "Raza," a group coming to kill the miners on behalf of Ferrous Corp, by giving them the guns in the ship's cargo hold. Five votes to help the miners, but Three says she can't vote because she's a kid. Finally, Two decides to set half the weapon crates aside for themselves and give the rest to the miners. While One, Three, Four, and Six load the weapons aboard The Marauder, the Android shows Two and Five her progress on the lost data recovery. Two calls everyone to the bridge to show everyone. It is revealed that every one of the crew, except Five, is on the Galactic Authority Most Wanted list. Two then realizes that the Raza is the name of the ship and they were sent to kill the miners, not help them.

In Episode Two, Five stands silently on the bridge while the rest of the crew, reeling from the knowledge of their previous lives, discuss what their options are. They realize that they were hired by Ferrous Corp to kill the inhabitants of the Mining Colony.

Later, Five is sitting alone on the bridge staring at the pictures of the crew when the Android startles from behind before sitting down beside her. The Android asks Five if she is now afraid of the crew. When Five asks is she should be, the Android tells her that they all have violent pasts. Five says that what matters is who they are now. The Android says that while that is an admirable attitude, it is a potentially dangerous and foolish one. Five compares the situation to the Android's earlier attempt and trying to kill the crew based on a deleted program directive. The Android deduces that Five is upset based on physical tells and pheromone levels; Five tells her that she is happy that she is the only one without a computer file and therefore not one of the crew. Five wonders how she got on board the Raza and where she really belongs. The Android tells Five that one day she might be lucky not to be counted part of the crew. Five says that she just wants to be part of the team. Before leaving the Android, Five tells her that telling people she can smell their pheromones won't win her any friends.

In Episode Three, Five discovers the body of a young man in the Raza's cargo hold while exploring the ship's ventilation and piping system. The boy is later revealed to belong to her friend TJ, who bled to death after sustaining injuries inflicted by a man whom she stole from. While dreaming, Five experiences flashbacks of one of the crew sabotaging the Raza's systems before they entered stasis pods. The Android also finds traces of the deleted subroutine that purged their memories. After the crew escapes an accident that causes the Raza to materialize in a radioactive patch of space, the Android subjects Five and the rest of the crew to a truth test. Everyone passes, proving that whoever conducted the mindwipe also purged their own memories.

In Episode Five, Five and Two visited a casino on a space station in an attempt to gain some money to cover living expenses. When the two were confronted by the manager for winning too much, Two fought back fiercely. While Five was frightened to learn that Two was formerly a killer, Two reassured her that she could trust her.

In Episode Six, Five and her fellow crew were hired by Tabor Calchek to salvage an abandoned starship, that was haunted by zombies. During the salvage operation, Five learned that she was a former street urchin named Das who had to stowaway on the Raza with her friend TJ after a man she stole from killed the members of her gang, leaving Das and TJ as the only survivors. TJ later died from his wounds.

In Episode Ten, Five and her fellow crew participated in a job by the Mikkei Combine to steal a piece of technology from the rival Traugott Corp. The crew of the Raza reluctantly joined forces with a group of mercenaries consisting of Wexler, Tash, Vons and Cain. Though the operation was a success, the mercenaries turned on the crew of the Raza. Five was forced to restrain her crew at gunpoint while Two was ejected out of the airlock.

In Episode Eleven, Five was forced by Wexley and his mercenaries to help them operate the ship's systems due to her mechanical and computer skills. After Vons failed to return during a spacewalk to perform repairs, Tash struck Five but was stopped by Two, who had survived being thrown out of the airlock due to the nanites insider her body. Working together, Five and Two eliminated the intruders and freed the rest of the Raza crew. The crew then delivered the stolen Traugott device to a Mikkei research station on Iriden-3. While the Mikkei search team attempted to start up the device, the device exploded and destroyed the planet.

In Episode Twelve, Das remembered a bit more of her past in which she was let out of the Raza airlock and the crew voted on keeping her or not. Griffin, Derrick, and Ryo voted in favor of her while Portia and Marcus were against it. Ryo ultimately had the tie break vote, which leads her to thank him, though he wonders what for. She also later remembered she had skills in programming. Later, Das and her fellow crew rescued Two from her creator Alex Cook, the CEO of Dwarf Star Technologies. After returning to the ship, the Android was disabled by an unidentified assailant.

Episode Thirteen revealed that Das made the program that wiped everyone's memories, however it was corrupted which leads Six to assume this wasn't her intention and that she was actually trying to help someone. This is later further clarified as an audio file is discovered which records Portia and Ryo discussing murdering someone, presumably Six, who they found out was an undercover GA cop. Following the incapacitation of the Android, Das helped search the ship for intruders. After failing to find the intruders, the crew concluded that assailant was one of them. After Four and Six were incapacitated, the crew began accusing each other. Five thought that Two was the assailant on the belief that Cook had altered her during her captivity. The Raza was subsequently boarded by Galactic Authority forces, who incapacitated the crew with gas and took them into custody. Six was revealed to be the assailant and a Galactic Authority double agent.

Season 2

In Episode Fourteen, Five and her fellow Raza crew are held at Hyperion-8 Maximum Security Galactic Detention Facility. Due to her youth and since she has not committed capital crimes, Five is housed away from the general population. After revealing himself as a Galactic Authority informant, Six informs Five that her real name is Emily Kolburn and that she is sixteen years old. Her parents died in a shuttle accident when she was a baby and she grew up in an orphanage until she ran away at the age of twelve. She has been living on the streets ever since. Six arranges for Five to be rehoused in a group home but is overruled by Galactic Authority Chief Inspector Shaddick, who intends to use her to assist in her investigation of the Raza crew.

In Episode Fifteen, Shaddick forces Five to force the Android to divulge the Raza's secrets. However, Five orders the Android to kill Shaddick and the other Galactic Authority soldiers. Five and the Android then join the rest of the Raza crew and three fellow prisoners Arax, Devon and Nyx in escaping Hyperion-8. Since Six was seriously wounded during the escape attempt, Five puts him into stasis.

In Episode Sixteen, Five enlists the help of Arax, Devon, and Nyx after Two, Three and Four mysteriously collapse while the Android is undergoing self-repair. Though the other crew eventually awake, Two establishes a neural link with the ship which causes them to download their previous memories; blocking their memories of the past 14 months and causing their vicious personas to re-emerge. Five is captured by Two, who has forgotten about her and intends to sell her into slavery. Five and the newcomers are forced to fight back against Two, Three, and Four. During the struggle, Five initiates a neural link of her own and uses Two's most vulnerable memory of being beaten by her master to gain the upper hand in a mental struggle. However, Five chooses mercy over victory and convinces Two to disconnect her neural link. As a result, the other crew return to their amnesiac selves.

In Episode Eighteen, Five along with the Android, Six, Arax, and Devon remain aboard the Raza while Two, Three, Four and Nyx hunt down Corso in order to avenge the death of One. After Four is captured by Lieutenant Kierken and his troops on a snowy planet, the crew use their guns and the Raza to force Kierken to release Four.

In Episode Nineteen, the Seer tells Five about his visions of her conflict among the corporations breaking out in the next six months.

In Episode Twenty, Five along with Three and Four use Transfer Transit pods to send their clones aboard Alicia Reynaud's research facility in order to steal an experimental adapter that is part of a "blink drive" that can facilitate instantaneous space travel. Though Three and Four are captured by Reynaud's security forces, Five manages to evade capture with the stolen drive. To prevent Reynaud from remotely electrocuting Three and Four's bodies aboard the Raza, Five destroys their clones. She escapes with the stolen drive with the help of Two and Six, who evacuate her aboard the Raza. After her clone completes the mission, Five awakes inside her own body. The crew install the stolen adaptor into the Raza's drive. However, it malfunctions during a test run and the Raza ends up in uncharted space.

In Episode Twenty-Four, Five is kidnapped by slavers. Three rescues her on his own but he ends up getting shot in the process. Five tries to aid him with his wound. With Galactic Authority forces led by a clone of Kierken in pursuit, Three attempts to convince Five to escape by claiming that he despises her. However, Five sees through his act and refuses to abandon him. She hides when clones of Kierken and his men interrogate Three. Kierken offers to grant Five an amnesty in return for Three's surrender but double-crosses them. Five and Three are later rescued by their fellow crew.

In Episode Twenty-Five, Five frees Four's brother, Hiro Ishida from his mother Empress Ishida Li Na Katsumi's imprisonment. This leads to Hiro giving Ryo the throne to the Principality of Zairon. After claiming the throne, Hiro orders the execution of his step-mother, step-brother, and several Seers; horrifying his fellow Raza comrades.

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Five working with Mikkei Combine.

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Truffault and Five together as EOS-7 suffers explosions.

In Episode Twenty-Six, Commander Delaney Truffault helps the Raza crew get into the space station EOS-7. So that they can stop Ferrous Corp from bombing the Council of Corporations. Truffault has Five pose as her assistant to sneak inside. While there Five looks for the bomb and is soon found and attacked by Zairon guards, only to be saved by an illegally modified android named Arien. The two quickly get along as he is touched by Five's kindness and he appears flirtatious with her. Unfortunately Arien is revealed to be the bomb and there is no way to safely turn it off. Arien spaces himself to save Five and explodes.

Commander Nieman's bomb is stopped, however that isn't the end as it's revealed that Ryo has other plans. He has EOS-7 overloaded and steals the blink drive. As explosions start happening around the station Truffault finds Five and they seemingly escape together.

Season 3

In Episode Twenty-Seven, Five and Truffault escape the destruction of EOS-7 aboard an escape pod, which they use to reach the Raza. They are pursued by a Ferrous Corp cruiser and repel a boarding party. After destroying the Ferrous cruiser, Five and Truffault rescue Two and Six from the wrecked The Marauder. Later, Five contacts Sarah through a link.

In Episode Twenty-Eight, Five uses the mind probe to relive past memories but loses consciousness in the process. In her first flashback, Five experiences Ryo's memory of his father's efforts to build the Ishida Research Station. In her second flashback, she remembers a kind mechanic named Vanes offering her a job after discovering her mechanical talents. While dealing with these past memories, Five attempts to help the Android locate the other crew, who have disappeared with the research station into a pocket of null space. In her third flashback, a fellow pickpocket warns Five that Vanes can't be trusted due to his dealings with the Galactic Authority and invites her to leave with the rest of the crew for a tourist location. The Android later brings her to the medical bay and revives her, diagnosing her with cascading synaptic failure. After the rest of the Raza crew return from an assault on a secret Ishida Research Station, the Android uses a procedure to revive Five. However, this operation inadvertently interrupts her fourth flashback where Five learns from Vanes that she had an older sister who was adopted while Fives was still a baby. While upset, Five is relieved to learn that she has a relative.

In Episode Thirty, the Android conducts a time loop experiment using an experimental device which Six's friend and new Raza crew member Adrian seized from a scientist. However, the experiment goes awry and causes Five to age. Five convinces the Android to break the time loop and destroy the experiment device.

Physical Appearance

Das is average height with shoulder-length blue and green wavy hair. She has light blue eyes and a pale complexion. Das wears colorful clothing including a grey jacket with pink and purple sleeves and multicolored patterned pants. She usually has a long-sleeved plaid shirt wrapped around her waist.

She also wears some kind of earring on her right ear which can be seen when her hair is put back behind her right ear.

Appearances

Dark Matter: Season One
Episode One
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Episode Two
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Episode Three
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Episode Four
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Episode Five
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Episode Six
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Episode Seven
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Episode Eight
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Episode Nine
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Episode Ten
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Episode Eleven
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Episode Twelve
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Episode Thirteen
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Dark Matter: Season Two
Episode Fourteen
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Episode Fifteen
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Episode Sixteen
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Episode Seventeen
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Episode Eighteen
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Episode Nineteen
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Episode Twenty
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Episode Twenty-One
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Episode Twenty-Two
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Episode Twenty-Three
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Episode Twenty-Four
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Episode Twenty-Five
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Episode Twenty-Six
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Dark Matter: Season Three
Episode Twenty-Seven
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Episode Twenty-Eight
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Episode Twenty-Nine
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Episode Thirty
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Episode Thirty-One
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Episode Thirty-Two
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Episode Thirty-Three
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Episode Thirty-Four
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Episode Thirty-Five
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Episode Thirty-Six
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Episode Thirty-Seven
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Episode Thirty-Eight
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Episode Thirty-Nine
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