Episode 1 of Into The Night starts as a woman named Sylvie tries to get a flight to Moscow. The check-in woman tells her she’s too late and asks if she is still flying with Mr Mertens. Sylvie then takes out an urn from her bag, revealing that Mr Mertens passed away.
The woman manages to get her on a flight and gives her a first class seat. At the same time, a man named Terenzio tries to get any flight due west and gets on one to New York.
Belgium’s first entry for streaming giants Netflix, Into the Night, starts its run-time with a strong and tense first episode. It doesn’t waste any time getting into the heart of the action after a quick introduction to the characters. It manages to keep the audience hooked with enough suspense and intrigue to make this an interesting series to check out.
While in an airport cafe, Terenzio sees on the news people fainting all over the world while Ines, an internet influencer, panics when her friend from New York chokes while talking to her on the phone. As the air hostesses are getting the Moscow plane ready, Terenzio grabs a machine gun from one of the soldiers and storms the plane.
He rushes in the cockpit and orders the pilot Mathieu to take off, claiming the sun will kill them all. The pilot tries to stop him but causes Terenzio to accidentally shoot him in the hand. One of the pilots is missing too, so Terenzio asks the passengers if anyone is a pilot. Sylvie comes forward and after threatening her, they take off successfully.
Up in the air, Terenzio tries to convince Mathieu and Sylvie that the sunlight is killing people and that he works for NATO. Mathieu reveals that when he shot him, the bullet broke the radio.
Terenzio asks how far he could fly if he went west while Sylvie brings a home care worker named Laura from the passengers to tend to his hand. He then makes an announcement to the rest of the passengers that everything is under control.
While paranoia settles in within the rest of the passengers, Sylvie and Mathieu plan to land the plane in Iceland. Back in the plane, one of the passengers starts to get violently ill and another one named Ayaz manages to take control of the gun and forces Terenzio to lock himself in the bathroom.
He protests though, wanting to save everyone but Ayaz points the gun at Mathieu and demands to know the truth about the sun. He explains that he had to go with what Terenzio was saying as he is unhinged and capable of anything.
