02x09 - The Dirt Under Your Nails

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[MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING]

♪ I've held on for as long as I can ♪

♪ For the ones that I had to defend ♪

♪ I've been strong
every day of my life ♪

♪ If she wants ♪
♪ Death could take me this time ♪

♪ This world is a wasteland ♪
♪ Where nothing can grow ♪

♪ I used to have strength ♪
♪ But I ran out of hope ♪

♪ I know it's my fault ♪
♪ That I'm here all alone ♪

♪ This world is a wasteland ♪

♪ Please let me go ♪

♪ Go, go, go ♪

♪ If I could just lay my head down ♪
♪ And rest ♪

♪ If there was nothing to fight ♪
♪ Or protect ♪

♪ Maybe then I could finally be free ♪

♪ Maybe death is like falling asleep ♪

♪ This world is a wasteland ♪
♪ Where nothing can grow... ♪

[EKKO] Wait!

I just wanna talk to you.

Get out of here, Ekko.

I just...

[PANTS]

I just wanna talk to you, Pow...

Jinx.

[EKKO GRUNTS]

- You're too late, Ekko.
- Wait!

[PANTS]

Always a dance with you.

I think I'm just gonna
sit here a minute.

You know, catch my breath.

See if I can talk an old
friend out of blowing us up.

- [JINX] I'm tired of talking.
- No!

[ECHOING] No! No! No...

You know, I learned from someone...

very special...

that no matter what
happened in the past,

it's never too late
to build something new.

Someone worth building it for.

♪ ... go, go ♪

♪ Go, go, go ♪

♪ Please let me go ♪

[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]

♪ I wake up to the sounds ♪
♪ Of the silence that allows ♪

♪ For my mind to run around ♪
♪ With my ear up to the ground ♪

♪ I'm searching to behold ♪
♪ The stories that are told ♪

♪ When my back is to the world ♪
♪ That was smiling when I turned ♪

♪ Tell you you're the greatest ♪

♪ But once you turn, they hate us ♪

♪ Oh, the misery ♪

♪ Everybody wants to be my enemy ♪

♪ Oh, spare the sympathy ♪

♪ Everybody wants to be my enemy ♪

♪ Pray it away, I swear ♪
♪ I'll never be a saint, no way ♪

♪ My enemy ♪

♪ Pray it away, I swear ♪
♪ I'll never be a saint ♪

♪ Look out for yourself ♪

[BELL RINGING IN DISTANCE]

[CHATTERING]

[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]

I need you and the Enforcers to
buy me as much time as you can

so I can shut down the Hexgates.

It's our only chance.

[SIGHS]

Viktor's at the center
of all this, isn't he?

We're meant to lose this fight.

If he reaches the Hexgates...

[VI GRUNTING & WEAPONS FIRING]

[GRUNTING]

[WEAPONS FIRING]

Then we'd best stop him.

[GRUNTING]

[GROANS]

[ENFORCER 1] Move, move!

[ALL SHOUTING]

Reinforce the forward a*tillery.
We can't let them break through.

- Go.
- Let's go.

- [ENFORCER 2] Hold it.
- [ENFORCER 3] Go.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

Reload.

- [MEDIC 1] Give her some air.
- [MEDIC 2] You're okay.

[GASPING, GRUNTING]

[GASPS] Down!

- [ENFORCER 4] Back!
- [ENFORCER 5] Come on.

[ENFORCER 6] Let's go.

[SOLDIER 1] Around the gate!

Bold, little one.

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]

[GROWLING]

- Move your units and wait there.
- Stay.

Come on!

[SNARLING]

[RAPID FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]

[COUGHS]

[SOLDIER 2] Let's go, let's go.

[SOLDIER 3 GROANS]

[GROANS]

[COUGHS]

[COUGHING]

[PANTING]

[CAITLYN GRUNTS]

[SHRILL RINGING]

[CAITLYN GRUNTING]

[WIND GUSTING]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

I warned you of the hazards
of professional entanglement.

[INHALES, THEN EXHALES DEEPLY]

[GRUNTS]

Desperation is the
doorway to oblivion, child.

[GASPING]

[AMBESSA] Let's get this over with.

I did appreciate your warmth.

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]

[SIGHS]

If you care for me at
all, spare their lives.

There is nothing to gain
from this senseless bloodshed.

[SCOFFS]

Still a fox.

Soldier.

[ALL GRUNT IN UNISON]

[CHAOTIC HUMMING IN DISTANCE]

[HUMMING INTENSIFIES]

[TECHNO MUSIC BLARING]

[WOMAN RAPPING IN SPANISH]

Get in line.

♪ You're not alone ♪

♪ Look at my shadow ♪
♪ Right behind you like a ghost ♪

♪ If we should die ♪
♪ Our legend is our rare flow ♪

♪ Taking those shots ♪
♪ Make the big throws, bespoke ♪

♪ Tell them straight, coz ♪
T♪ urn them all to stone ♪

Fire!

[ALL SHOUTING]

Let's run.

[SOLDIERS YELL]

[SCREAMS]

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]

Hmm.

[MEL] Where is Viktor?

[VIKTOR IN ECHOING VOICE]
Despite the circumstances, Jayce...

I am... pleased to see you.

There must be some part
of you still in there.

[VIKTOR] I am more than I ever was.

[FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYING]

[ENFORCERS SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]

[ENFORCER] What other choice do we have?

[GROANS]

Mother, look at the price
of your ambition.

You've sacrificed everything.

Rictus.

Kino.

This city I built for our family.

If it was for us,
you wouldn't have fought me.

You are no Medarda.

[SCOFFS]

You remember your...

Shut up and fight.

[OMINOUS CHORAL MUSIC PLAYING]

[JINX] Vi!

Vi!

[VI YELLING]

[JINX] Vi!

[expl*si*n ECHOING]

[VIKTOR IN ECHOING VOICE]
It is the answer you and I

pursued all our lives.

An end to cruelty, injustice.

All of us our own authors

to an unbroken saga of progress.

To the benefit of all.

People deserve to
choose their own fates.

[VIKTOR] Choice is false.

It is how we clothe and forgive

the baser instincts
that spur us to division.

Death, w*r, prejudice.

Energy spent only to consume itself.

But we can be of one mind.

United.

[AMBESSA GROWLS]

[GROANS]

You fought well, child.

- Now!
- [GASPS]

A wolf has no mercy.

[AMBESSA GROWLING]

[SORCERESS] Your daughter is wiser
than you credit.

I salute you, Ambessa.

For one without the gift,

you were quite a thorn.

[GASPING]

What are you doing, sister?

I see your face, deceiver.

Sly girl.

[SCREAMING]

[GASPS]

[BREATHING RAGGEDLY]

You are the wolf.

[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]

[METAL CREAKING, GROANING]

[COUGHING]

[GROANS]

Looks like you shouldn't have come back.

Still don't get it, huh, sis?

I'm always with you.

Even when we're worlds apart.

Stop this insanity, Viktor.

[VIKTOR IN ECHOING VOICE]
That is precisely my intention.

Your eyes won't lie...

when your mind...

is open, Jayce.

[SOLEMN, ETHEREAL MUSIC PLAYING]

Vander.

Dad?

[VIKTOR] Do you see?

The sublime intersection
of order and chaos.

[GASPS]

[PANTING]

This is what you see?

[VIKTOR] This conflict.

This senseless waste.

I know their minds, Jayce.

They want better lives,

but emotion clashes with reason.

Humanity's self-corrupting
contradiction.

You've always wanted to cure
what you thought were weaknesses.

Your leg.

Your disease.

But you were never broken, Viktor.

There is beauty in imperfections.

They made you who you are.

An inseparable piece of everything...

I admired about you.

[YELLS]

[VIKTOR] That device can't be.

[GASPS]

I thought I wanted us
to give magic to the world.

Now...

all I want...

is my partner back.

Why do you persist?

After everything I've done?

Because I promised you.

[GASPS]

Why did you ever give me this?

Why?

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

I thought I could bring an end
to the world's suffering.

But when every equation was solved...

all that remained...

were fields of dreamless solitude.

There is no prize to perfection.

Only an end to pursuit.

In all timelines,

in all possibilities...

only you...

can show me this.

[BREATHING RAGGEDLY]

You must go, Jayce.

We finish this together.

[GASPS]

[THUNDER RUMBLING]

[GROANS]

[SCREAMS]

Vi!

Vi, hurry, you can make the other ledge.

[METAL GROANING]

Vi!

What are you... ?

Vi.

- Vi?
- [SOBS]

[JINX] You can't save him.

Vi!

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]

[GROWLS]

Always with you, sis.

[MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING]

♪ If I could just lay my head down ♪
♪ And rest ♪

♪ If there was nothing to fight ♪
♪ Or protect ♪

♪ Maybe then I could finally be free ♪

♪ Maybe death is like falling asleep ♪

♪ This world is a wasteland ♪
♪ Where nothing can grow ♪

♪ I used to have strength ♪
♪ But I ran out of hope ♪

♪ I know it's my fault ♪
♪ That I'm here all alone ♪

♪ This world is a wasteland ♪

♪ Please let me go ♪

♪ Go, go, go ♪

♪ Go, go, go ♪

♪ Please let me go ♪

[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]

[CAITLYN] You may read
about the w*r in Piltover.

But history is made palatably abstract.

For its truth...

the agony of every sacrifice...

the exaltation of every triumph...

is more than one should bear.

[LIGHTER CLINKS]

[CAITLYN] We...

whose decisions led us here,

will carry them forever.

Our only consolation
that with every loss,

we found some good,

some light,

worth gaining,

worth fighting for.

[SQUAWKS]

[SQUAWKING]

[CAITLYN] And though we are doomed
to revisit the error of our ways...

spark ever more conflicts...

our story isn't over.

[MACHINE CLICKING]

[SOLEMN HUMMING NEARBY]

Is that...

singing?

It's just a tune my mother used to hum.

[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]

Are you still in this fight, Violet?

I am the dirt under your nails, cupcake.

Nothing's gonna clean me out.