NEW YORK, Aug. 29 (UPI) — Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Connelly says a snap decision by her character Daniela drives the Season 2 action of her sci-fi series, Dark Matter.

Based on the novel by Blake Crouch, the show is about what happens when parallel lives — created by the choices people make — collide.

At the top of Season 2, Daniela, her husband Jason (Joel Edgerton) and their teen son Charlie (Oakes Fegley) are trying to settle in a new dimension after dozens of Jasons from other lives placed them in mortal danger in their natural timeline.

Spoilers ahead.

Months into their new existence, one of the parallel Jasons confronts Daniela, prompting her to fatally shoot him and forcing the family to flee yet again.

“Maybe there was a fantasy that they could sort of imagine there was closure on everything that happened in Season 1, at the beginning of Season 2,” Connelly, 55, told UPI in a recent Zoom interview.

“But I think it was inevitable that they’d have to [move] a little bit more and something happens quite early on in Season 2, beginning of Season 2, that really propels them on this journey to take stock of where they are now and what they’ve seen and what they’ve done and who they’ve become.”

Parenting this way is difficult because Jason and Daniela yank Charlie out of school just as he is working on his goals and making friends.

“Daniela feels an incredible amount of guilt over the fact that she does something that causes him to be uprooted again,” Connelly said.

“She really feels that sense of responsibility to her son, to get her stuff together and to be able to make things OK and to not cause any more disruption for him, sort of get out of his way, as it were,” she added.

“I really like the chapters where the family is navigating the kind of practicalities of coming to a new world and having to fight to understand the new systems and how you get your kid in school and how you get a job and how, if you don’t have identification, you get a driver’s license, and all of that stuff.”

By the end of Friday’s Season 2 premiere, the family discusses whether the box, which serves as a portal to the parallel dimensions, should be destroyed so that none of the other Jasons can cross into lives again.

“Daniela really feels the box should be destroyed,” Connelly said, noting she likes that the show explores the concept of identity and how the choices we make and the paths we take impact us.

“It’s asking a lot of questions and I think that’s part of what’s really fun about the show,” she said.

“It has all of this spectacle. It has all this adventure. It’s exciting. It’s fun. It’s entertaining,” Connelly added. “It’s also asking these philosophical questions and it’s grounded in very real life concerns.”