01x02 - The Detective

[bunniefuu]

Indira: With the
assistance of IO,

the technology to save
our world is coming.

The first wave is eager
to return to the mother.

We've waited a long
time for this moment.

Paul: Why were you wondering

the dark, deep woods
at night, lady?

It's done.

Why did you come up?

[Laser p*stol fires]

[Grunting]

I really wish you
wouldn't have seen this.

I walked into something.

I don't know who
to trust. Trust me.

- Trust me...

[dramatic music]

[dog barking]

- [panting]

[gentle music]

♪

[unsettling music]

♪

Ah!

[gasps, coughs]

- Thank you for your patience.

Quite honestly, I'm still
in a state of shock.

- We couldn't be at a
more delicate moment.

The Bridge...
- I know how this looks.

- Do you?

Less than two weeks
until the First Wave

arrives on Earth, and
someone tries to k*ll

the Envoy's bodyguard
with a stolen drug.

- Our government
partnerships remain strong,

but on the street,
the extremist message

is gaining ground.

We anticipated an
uptick before Zero-day,

but a story like this?

It's already a tinderbox.

- I agree. It will
be used to define us.

- The story can be controlled.

The question is, can you control

whatever is happening up there?

We'd be fools to dismiss
this as a coincidence.

- Agreed.

Was this Terra?

Have they finally found a way
to get an agent on Moonhaven?

- Has Terra made any
claims on this incident?

- We don't know
what happened yet.

- Has the council
chair been dismissed?

- I delivered the message.
She has yet to step down.

- Ah...
- It's complicated.

She has the support
of her people.

- Indira, I don't want to
suggest the unthinkable,

but isn't it possible

the Mooners are
turning against us?

- IO did predict a
corruption in the workflow.

- If they were to find
a way to take control...

- We are them, and they are us.

- I know that's what we say...

- For 100 years,
they've had one mission,

one goal.

These people have been
raised to think of nothing

but solving our mess.

The current council
will swap out,

and a new council will be named,

and they will continue to do
what they have always done:

devote their lives to the
future of our species,

to the future of us.

I will see these
troubles resolved.

We will stay the course.

[dramatic music]

♪

- All things change.

[birds cawing]

How we respond to
change is our choice.

To fear it or embrace it.

Resisting change leads
only to one fate:

our own extinction.

The Moon, a universal
symbol of freedom and peace.

Chosen by ICON as
a setting to learn

from the past in order to
grow toward a brighter future.

The global mission
has developed IO,

an unprecedented
machine-learning technology.

The tool to repair
centuries of damage

here on Earth,

to bring home real
world solutions

to problems we had
thought unsolvable.

However, we cannot rely
entirely on technology.

We, too, must evolve.

Those on Moonhaven offer
us a new way of living,

a bridge to peace, to
health, to the future,

a path forward that
will not only begin

to heal our Mother Earth,
but also ourselves.

The Bridge offers us
each a second chance

to play a crucial
part in its success.

On the brink of this
new dawn, ask yourself.

What will the
Bridge mean to you?

[dramatic music]

♪

[birds chirping]

[soft string music playing]

- The ships to take
you to Earth...

- In orbit. I saw them.

Waiting for permission
to land, I guess.

- Your music... take it
with you when you go.

A piece of us.

I would be afraid
to be so far away.

That sound would
give me sweet-smile.

- I'm not afraid.

[gentle music]

♪

- Paul.

Our boy's gonna be
gone forever soon.

- We still have time.

We'll make the days
we have left sing.

Everyone drifts
in their own time.

- You're going back
to the Earther.

- The man who k*lled
her sister is dead.

The truth is hidden.

Bella is her name.

- They're dangerous.

- They are us.

We are them.

"The future is better" is
not just words and thinks.

It's the only way through.

- Gleam.

[tender music]

♪

- I didn't know you
were still there.

- Take care today.

- Bella?

[dramatic music]

- Ah!

Where the hell am I?

- I brought you here
to keep you safe.

[intense music]

♪

- Son of a b*tch.

[panting]

- You made a mess.

- Sorry. I don't cage well.

- I'll tell you what
you want to know.

- Is this your idea of a prison?

- These are Scapes.

Privacy huts for everyone.

- Why did you bring me here?

- Hmm. Frustangle.

- The what?

Frustangle, uh,
it's a... a knot.

A knot you don't
know how to untie.

Felt it last night.

Envoy's bodyguard overdosed
with stolen Singer.

A Mooner shot.

- So use your machine.

Wave it over everybody
and get your answer.

- Mm.

The ship's in a
diplomatic blind.

IO can't help.

That's why the g*n worked.

You're the only one who
knows what happened, Bella.

Did you know it was
Strega Nall who got shot,

the man who k*lled your sister?

- No.

- What did you see?

- I got back to CAT,

and he had the needle
in Tomm's neck.

But Tomm got a shot off
before he collapsed.

- Singer's very powerful,

very hard to get.

- You think someone was
trying to steal the Singer.

Was Chill caught in
some kind of drug deal?

And what about that kid
we chased in the forest?

- Frustangle.

And you saw every
struggle and gasp.

- I just want to
get back to my ship.

It's damaged, but I can fix it.

If you're holding me
here to heal me, Paul...

- Hasn't been a m*rder
here in a long time.

Now there are two.
- And I'm an Earther.

You suspect me.

- Just sit tight

until Arlo and I figure
out what's going on.

- Jesus, then I'll die here.

You said two murders.
Don't you mean three?

- Well, there is some good news.

IO was able to revive Tomm.

His mind is far away, and
his body barely beats,

but he will get better.

Maybe he'll be able to
tell us what we don't know.

Your ship, for now.

- You make a better
carpenter than a detective.

[soft music]

- Enjoy. Relax.

This is the Sea of Tranquility.

- ♪ When the sweet wind

♪ Did kiss the trees

♪ And they did make no noise

♪ In such night

- Couldn't you
dream up something

to do that for you?

- These seeds will bring bounty,

food, medicines.

Some can recover
memory or inspire.

I yearn to be part
of such blessings.

- Think of all the time
you'll have for blessings

after your council
responsibilities

are relinquished.

- You spin in your loss, Envoy.

A shock to us all.

I hear your guard
creeps back to life.

- Stabbed by a Mooner
trying to stow away

with a stolen drug.
- Mm.

- You've let chaos creep
into this place, Maite.

IO saw it coming.
- Who knows what IO sees?

It only said there was
trouble yet unspooled.

Is this the trouble,

or does something
worse lurk ahead?

- ICON wants to know
this mess is cleaned up.

They're expecting
you to step down.

- [sighs] So quick
to guilt the Mooner.

He's the one who's
gunned and dead.

And what of the Earther pilot?

- My pilot, Bella?
- A soldier, yes?

- A cargo pilot,
thoroughly vetted.

I haven't spoken to her yet.

I was told your
people picked her up.

- Our tectives will
see to her wellbeing.

As for her story, I've
not heard what she said.

But two Earthers live,

and two Mooners lay dead.

Who is left to speak for Lune?

♪ Who speaks for me?

- I will not have
the Bridge delayed.

You will swap out.

You will relinquish
your pass and key to IO

to the next council chair.
- And if I don't?

The two keys set
the course for IO.

One from the Mother,
one from the Moon,

as it has always been.

You think I'd step
aside from that

when my people need me most?

- You will step
down, Maite Voss.

I speak for the Earth.

- Then you speak
for fragile order,

desperation,
tinder-wood, and spark.

How might Earth respond

knowing her Bridge
to the better future

now swing-sways

in a perilous wind?

[dramatic music]

♪

- You would leak this trouble?

Destabilize everything
just to stay in power?

- Only if you compel me.

I won't let you frame
this as Moon trouble

when it is of Earth.

♪

[device beeps]

[device beeps]

- Why do you bother?
He has no Mark.

- I've never seen
it fail before.

[device beeps]

- We should look
for clues, Arlo.

Try and deduce what
took place here.

- Mm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

- According to the witness,

when she arrived, she
found Tomm and Strego

already in a struggle.
- Mm-hmm.

- Strego's weak and bleeding
from extracting his Mark.

Wait, wait, wait.

Don't touch.

Fingerprints.

- You know how to
check for those?

- I might learn. Yeah.

Okay, so Strego is much
smaller than the Earther.

He's surprised,
so he stabs him...

- Argh!
- With the Singer.

- The Singer which Strego stole

and planned to
sneak back to Earth.

- Perhaps.

- Because that's where
his true love waits

with his child.

A child conceived through space

by an ancient
magic of some sort.

- So Strego stabs Tomm.

- Yes, and then
Tomm shoots Strego.

And then Bella arrives,

and maybe it's she who
rips Strego's Mark out

with her bare hands
in a blood frenzy.

- Blood frenzy?
- Yes.

An Earther might do
that, see the violence

and lose control.

- Could you deduce less, Arlo?
- Oh, I like deducing.

Could this all be connected
to the death of Chill Spen?

- Yes, yes.
- Mm?

Chill and Strego could
have been planning

to smuggle the drug.
- Mm-hmm.

- But why would Strego k*ll her?

- Hmm.

And why would he
extract his Mark?

- So IO couldn't
know the dark he did.

- No, he had it in the
station when we saw him.

He must have taken it out after.

- Oh...
- What did he not want IO

to see him do? Hmm?

- Something so bad

that he'd want to
leave the Moon behind.

- Have we ever had
such a lost soul?

[dramatic music]

- Where the f*ck is my ship?

♪

- We need to learn
more about Strego.

- Maybe Chill didn't like
Strego's darkness either.

Maybe she knew too much.

- That actually
makes some sense.

How now, Orbis?

- She misses her master still.

- And you?

How do you fare
with the loss, Asus?

- The Bright has helped.

Joy comes easy again.

But in place of sadness,

I'm giggle-headed at the
thought of my sister.

She was here, and now she's not.

How can it be?

- Well, without
grief, death is silly.

We're everyall, then
nothing. It is absurd.

- Mm-hmm.

Chill and Strego,

they fit well?

She showed no shadow or cringe?

- Nay, bloom and bright-light,
the both of them.

They had hard days
and easy days,

but the k*lling makes no sense.

I should be lucky to find
a love so loyal-true.

Why do many questions
about the dead, detective?

Usually your concern
is with the living.

- The situation leaves
us little choice.

We find ourselves...
- Paul likes the Earther ways.

We are solving the case.

- And Strego never had
any doubts, worries?

- He worried often
of the Bridge,

of how different it will
be as we leave the Moon,

whether the Earthers
will accept our ways.

Who of us has no
noggin-swirl around this?

- Why would he do it, Asus?

- Does it matter why?

Strego is dead. Chill is dead.

My grief is dealt.

What of her blood-sister, Bella?

Have you done your job
for her? Your real job?

Wait.

Chill asked me to
keep this for her.

She said she was
coming back for it.

- Hmm, locked and sealed.

- Mystery. This
is a clue, Paul.

- Nay.

I mean for you to
give it to Bella.

A piece of her sister.

Stop chasing the gonesouls,

and get back to helping
those left behind.

[soft music]

♪

[upbeat drumming]

♪

All: [chanting] We
are all one here!

We are all one here!
We are all one here!

What loss? Say do!

- My Love lift today.

All: Love lift to da
light, to da light!

They that go can hear!

Fly your voice, do!

Your voice, your voice,
your voice, your voice!

- [wailing]

- Apologies for
intruding, Envoy.

- It's quite all right.
Grats for coming.

- Mm.

How is he?
- IO's doing everything he can.

He'll be moved to the
healing house today.

- Ten Singers at once.

- You can't go that far away
and still be what you were.

The future is better.

- Thank you.

My pilot, Bella
Sway. You have her.

- Uh, yes.

- What did she see with Tomm?

- Um, scuffle and grind.

The stabbing and the shot.
I arrived soon after.

- This incident
complicates everything.

- We've spent some
time with her.

I believe she tells the truth.

- Then you know more
about her than I.

We were slotted into her
ship at the last minute.

Tomm checked her out.

May I share something
in confidence?

Because of what Moonhaven
is, because of who you are,

IO is safe here.

It learns from the best
of us, not the worst.

No one on Earth has ever
been able to contaminate Lune

with terror or greed.

- We have terror and
greed, Madam Envoy.

It is our job to
heal the wounds.

- You have crimes of
passion. You are human.

But true evil has
never set foot here.

ICON is concerned
some Earth extremists

have found a way to get
an agent on the Moon

with the intent of preventing
the Bridge from moving forward.

- This is bleak, Envoy,

but still only in shadow.

Nothing is known.

- You think the
pilot is involved?

- I want to believe what
happened on the ship

was a random event,

a crisis of judgment.

I try to believe the best in
people, even at their worst.

[dramatic music]

♪

[twig breaks]

[Mooners humming]

♪

- What have you
done with my ship?

I just want to go home.

- We mean you no harm.

But you can run no more.

[gentle music]

♪

[explosions, radio chatter]

[g*nf*re]

- Contact, contact.
Armed. Inbound.

- I have vis.
Inbound. Ten seconds.

Heads up, Orion 334.

Time out three. Target lock.

- Closing. 3285 at 4K steady.

- I see him. Engage.

- I've got new lights above.
- Heat lock, weapon away.

- Lock, pilot, don't go.

- Come round, come round, Orion!

- Warning. Warning.

["Wild Is the Wind"
playing on music top]

- ♪ Love me, love
me, love me ♪

♪ Say you do

♪

♪ Let me fly away with you

♪

♪ For my love...

- Your mother...
She was a Mooner.

One of us.

- I never knew my mother.

I heard she decided to
come here after I was born.

She left me behind.

Didn't want the
company, I guess.

Like I said, I don't know her.

I don't have a sister.

- Her name is Chill Spen.
She's six years younger.

- ♪ Satisfy this hungriness

♪

♪ Let the wind...

- Should have stayed on the sea.

But then, you struggle staying
in one place, don't you?

There's still one
more knot to untie.

- Might be a little
extra scrutiny, no?

Having Indira Mare on board?

- Hey, hey, how do you think
we got your launch slot

moved up by six weeks, huh?

This is a gift.

- What's the job?

- We want you to bring
us home a Singer.

- You had mentioned making an
encrypted call on your ship.

I tracked it down.

You are the smuggler.

Jate Mura, Tremendous
w*r, served four tours.

You met in the Pacific,
and then seven years later,

when you started smuggling
black market goods for him.

- Good work, detective.

- Were you working with Strego?

- I wasn't working with anybody.

The Singer was
dropped at my ship

by a g*dd*mn fake bird.

Doesn't mean I tried
to k*ll anybody.

Those guys were going at it.

Strego must have
found the Singer

and used it to save himself.

- Hmm.

- Whatever. I'm
lying. It's all lies.

- You're in deeper trouble now.

Your fate lies with the Council
and the people of Moonhaven.

- What will they do to me?

- This...

was your sister's.

A locked box.

Like you...
- Yeah, I get it.

[dramatic music]

all: [chanting] h*-tee-ta! Tee!

♪

- Prior to the misfortune
on the shuttle,

I had met Bella Sway.

During that exchange,
she had mentioned

making an encrypted
call on her ship.

A further investigation
was required

and revealed she had been hired

to smuggle our Singer drug

back to Earth.

- It was elementary.

- Bella Sway has since
confessed to the crime.

As to the violent events
that took place on the ship

and those that led up to them,

there is nothing to indicate
that she played a part.

- ♪ Ah all: ♪ Ah

- Council, speak your mind.

Speak for the light.

- The Singer is not
a drug of choice

to be bought and sold.

To steal it is to nay understand

the nature of who we are.

The Earther wounds us all.

Wounds that will not close
until the Envoy's guard wakes

and speaks truth.

I say sleep her again,

in our custody, till
the answer's out

and all is known.

- No. No more sleep.

You can't just turn
me off like a switch.

Send me home.

Be rid of me.

- Hear her.

I say let the Mother's
justice sort this out.

She casts only shadow here.

Send her back to Earth.

The gifts of the
Bridge will come to her

in their own time.

- Council, have you more
sides to this shape?

Or shall we rest with
the light of the people?

- ♪ Ah all: ♪ Ah

- I would like to
speak for the light.

I am a Seeker.

A detective.

My role calls for me
to find the wounds

incurred in this community

and understand how
they may be healed.

Bella Sway has a dark heart.

She k*lled 72 souls
during the Tremendous w*r.

She has been captured.

She has been tortured.

She has suffered.

She chose a violent life,

and for that, we bear
no responsibility.

But these instincts rooted
long before that choice.

I share this against
the rules of my calling,

but you must know.

Bella's mother left
her as a baby on Earth

to join us here.

Her blood-sister was Chill Spen,

the gonesoul from the woods.

I say we are responsible
for her soul-twist.

We have a duty to repair it.

- May I speak?

What does my blood matter?

I'd never set foot on the
Glade until two days ago.

How is it I should
feel something

for people I never even knew?

I'm not from here.

I don't belong here.

- If she feels no
connection to us,

where is our duty to her?

- Then...

forget everything I said.

See the Earther here before you?

Here on the brink
of the First Wave,

are we to cast her back,
broken and violent,

to the very place that
we've sworn to heal?

We, all of us, have been raised

to believe in this mission

with all of our
hearts and minds.

If we cannot heal the
dark heart of Bella Sway,

tell me,

how can we ever hope to succeed?

[crowd murmuring]

If it will please you,

I will make her my charge.

I will open my house.

I will bear full
responsibility for her actions.

- What is Truelune,
if it is not to heal

what has been broken?

- I cannot deny the
light of the people.

The path forward is chosen.

Bella Sway...

[exciting music]

Welcome to Moonhaven.

♪

[footsteps]

- I'm in your cult now, Paul.

You can put flowers in my
hair. We can sing songs.

- I've been taught
when we wound someone,

reparations must be made.

- Pay up.
- Bella.

You owe me.

You're a liar.

You treat trust like a tool.

- I'm broken, remember?

- And what do you break?

Laws. Promises. People.

72 dead. How many others?

How will you pay your debt?

- I owe nothing.

I fought for a cause.

- You fought to keep moving.

You're a coward,
orbiting your darkness.

Spinning around and
never setting down.

- You don't know what you're...

- I didn't fight
to keep you here

so you could be helped.

I fought so that
you can help me.

This place is not a cult.

It's the only way we'll survive.

And I think it may be
in very real danger.

There's someone
you need to meet.

Get up.

- Who lives here?

- No one anymore.

- Who's that?

- Your sister.

Our custom.

IO assembles the gonesoul
from their living responses.

She is a projection
of your sister,

an Estimator,

not entirely who she
was when she was living,

but enough to gift closure
to those who seek it.

- I can talk to her?

[soft music]

♪

- How now?

How do I know you?

- You don't.

We've never met.

Do you have memories?
- Many.

- Do you remember going
to the woods at night?

- I like to walk in the dark.

The days are too
loud and bright,

but at night, you hear the
wind through the trees.

How they creak-talk

and whisper.

Now, I know it's all wood
and stones and stars, but...

I let my thinks fly.

- Do you remember the night
you met Strego in the woods?

- Which night was that?

They're mixed up now.

My thinks are in
the wrong order.

- It's the one where you died.

Were you meeting someone
else besides Strego?

A third?

Do you remember something?

- Why do you seem so familiar?

- We had the same mother.

Chill.

Did you somehow send for me?

- My sister.

- Yes.

- My sister is Asus.

But it was nice to talk to you.

- I'm sorry I didn't
get here in time.

♪

- Your things.

Figured you might want them.

- I'm bringing trouble for you.

- Trouble is already here.

- Is Fritz upset I'm moving in?

- Very.

- Does he live with you?

- Fritz yearns for Lone.

So he spends time,

little at first, and
then more and more.

He weaves himself
into the family.

And if it holds, he stays.

It's called a Knit.

It's not uncommon.

Lone and I have troubles.

We cool-drift...

Noggin-swirl.

[soft music]

♪

You yearn for the Mother.

♪

- I lied.

After Tomm shot Strego,

he tried to k*ll me,

so I injected him
with the Singer.

- And why would he do that?

- I saw something
I shouldn't have.

Strego was looking at
Tomm before he died.

I'm sure of it.

He looked at him and
said, "It's done."

- What's done?

Bella, there may
be an agent here

from Earth trying to
destroy everything.

- How do you know it's not me?

- I don't.

- If I help you figure this out,

you give me my ship
back and let me leave.

- Deal.

- [chuckles]

[box beeps]

- She had my mother's things.

What's that?

- If you're seeing this, Asus,

then know, what we
did, we did for you,

for everyone.

We need to be strong
and protect ourselves.

They lied to us.

We were never going
to save the Earth.

The Bridge is a trap.

[dramatic music]

Somebody's out there.
They've been watching me.

The transport ships
that land today

will take the First
Wave back to Earth.

The bridge is safe.

[ Spaceship whooshing ]

A device for
extracting the mark.

So many. Why would
people take them out?

Speak your name. Indira Mare.

You're gonna be the
Envoy, you know?

Those ships must
be allowed to land.

She has the will of her people.

I can't force her to act.

[ Dramatic music plays ]

♪

[gentle music]

♪