The first nucleus colony is failing: the queen is missing or dead, with no eggs in the brood cycle. The speaker found a risky solution that requires one crucial missing component to save it, and withheld a detail at the start that matters to the rescue plan.
Zane's first nuc, episode 10, and it is not going well. So I don't know where that queen's come from. I don't think there's any eggs in here. She's either in the colony alive or she is dead somewhere. But I found something else, Zane. Something that's quite promising. I'm not going to lie. I'm going to go risky. They've got everything they need apart from one really important thing, Zane. But I promise you this, we will get it fixed and we will get it back on track. But there is something that I didn't tell you at the beginning, Zane.