01x05 - Dreadfeel

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This wasn't an attack.

It was an extraction.

Indira: By not letting
the ships down,

Maite is playing right
into the rebels' hands.

Maybe someone else
needs to stand up.

I saw us, crowns and thrones.

I saw our future
on the new moon.

Your mother didn't die.

She wandered off
and did not return.

I've never seen anything
like that before.

It's telling her where to go.

Like a compass rose.

Hello, flower.

- Thank you, Detective.

You saved me a lot of trouble

finding the missing piece.

- Mm.

This is very fragile.

I could destroy it before
you take another step.

It's sad, really,

that you would let me do
the work in finding it.

If you think about it,

we're all detectives...

dropped into a puzzle of a life,

looking for clues

to why we're here.

- Please. Shut up.

- No g*ns on the Glade.

But I've brought my own weapon.

I will talk you to death.

You should be resting still.
You don't look healed yet.

- Don't worry.

This won't take long.

- Drop the flower,
and I'll k*ll you.

- It's no mystery why I'm here.

I know exactly why.

- Thank you for the
private conversation.

We're at a delicate moment.

- It's obvious the resistance
on Lune is being coordinated.

- Their numbers are still small.

- After what happened at the
ceremony, they're growing.

You said yourself
Tomm is dangerous.

He's come back from the
dead, for God's sake.

If he's formed an alliance
with Council Chair Maite...

- And as soon as I find
her, I'll get answers.

- And what if you can't?

If you can't get Maite
back, the ships can't land,

and the whole world will
know there is trouble.

If Tomm were to get hold
of both keys to IO...

- You're talking about a coup.

That's not possible here.

- If you can control IO,
you control everything.

What's to stop them from
asking it to blow up the Earth?

Or the 12 billion people

so they can have the
planet to themselves?

- IO would never allow that.

People hold the keys,
but IO guides them.

It's the balance that works.

- IO is not a person
with a conscience.

It is a tool!

In the wrong hands,
it'll mean devastation!

- I will find Maite!

Look,
Loa, these are new.

- Is that a weed?

- These are what
the old pluckers

called "volunteers."

Gusted here by wind and rain...

The bounty of chance.

Weeds fight the garden.

They thieve the
light and water...

but volunteers help the garden.

They join the cause.

- And would you say I'm
a weed or a volunteer?

- What?
- On Moonhaven.

It's the wind that
brought me here.

What have I added to the cause?

- What do you mean?

You have brought only light.

Primo is the past.

It's vast and fear-tangled...

a jittery prototype.

Why don't we camp here tonight?

It's a beautiful spot.

- With all that ahead of us?

- I don't have your
wild explorer's heart.

I prefer the orchard.

I like order.

- I need to keep going.

I'll be back soon.

- I understand.

Go.

- The Envoy wants to see you.

- Sonda, tell me
you have some news.

- Maite was spotted
going into Primo.

- Into the wilderness?

Who else knows this?
- Very few.

- Keep it that way.

We can't afford more
panic.

- Envoy.

- Why would Maite want to stop
the First Wave from leaving?

- If I were her,

I wouldn't ship out an army
of my best and brightest...

not with an insurgency
forming at home.

But I don't think that's
why she's running.

She thinks the Bridge is doomed.

- She was more and more erratic.

She talked to me of
a new way forward.

I've seen her dose herself.

All her Dreamer studies,

growing new strains,
new pathways...

She could've gone too far.

- And you said nothing?

- I've looked up to
her my whole life.

She's always led us true.

- Maite told me she's
gonna find the gateway

to a new civilization.

She believes an alien race
has arrived on the Moon

because of IO.

No sh*t.

- Why does she believe this?

- Dreams, signs and symbols.

Maybe her plants told her.

- Sonda, give us a moment.

- Maite told me

she and my mother
were together...

for a long time, I guess.

That's why she's
been watching me,

and it's the reason she left.

Maite thinks my
mother didn't die

but somehow crossed over...

to them.

She believes this
race can talk to IO.

She told me my arrival
on Moonhaven was a sign.

- A sign?

- Maite's gone to find them...

and my mother.

- Maite is lost, but
you don't need to be.

You know what's
real and what's not.

This place can change you,

but you and I both need
to remember who we are.

- You can still catch her.

Have Sonda lead a team.

- A Mooner might not be
willing to do what's necessary.

- If IO were to detect

that the council
chair had died...

- Maite's key would be
transferred to the second.

Sonda and I could
give permission

to the ships to land.

- When I met Tomm,

he asked if my name
meant beauty...

or w*r.

- Did you know the answer?

Go to Primo. Find Maite.

I need you, Bella.

I trust you.

- Bella.

- Your dad awake?
- Oh, yeah.

- I hope you don't mind,

we borrowed one of
your favorite things.

- Paul, this has to wait.

- A Mooner knows when
the water's rising,

you need to take a breath
before you go under,

and I can tell from your
face, we're about to go under.

- It'll give us some
brightness to remember.

Our last dance.

- Elna!

Yeah.

- Paul.

- Here's the Glade,

Big Fence, and the
Fringeland beyond,

and here is Primo...

the old wild.

It can be dangerous.
The terrain is erratic.

- What do you mean "erratic"?

- Well, people say
things change out there.

Rivers shift course,
hills rise and fall.

It's a big area.

Knowing where to start's
gonna be the problem.

- I'd understand
if you didn't come.

I know you're loyal to Maite.

- Well, I don't believe she'd
do anything to harm the Bridge.

But I want to know the truth.

- I recognize this.

What is it?

- Pilinius Crater.

- I think there are paintings
of it in Loa's studio.

She obviously spent
some time there.

Maybe that's where
Maite's headed.

- It's not much to go on.

- I know, but I have a feeling.

- Oh. Bella has a feeling.

Okay, I like that.

- That's all we have,
so let's follow it.

Okay, the crater is
about a day's hike,

so we...

- What?

- Arlo's here.

Appears to be
holding his own arm.

- Okay, Arlo, here
we go, like...

Yep.
- You got it?

- Hang on. There.

- Yeah?
- Okay, wait.

Yeah. Deep breath, Arlo.
- Okay.

- And down.

- Okay.
- Thank you.

Oh, no, little.

Don't worry. I'm fine.

- Okay.

We figured out that
it's a compass rose,

like the ancient sailors used.

Chill was following it somewhere

the night she was k*lled.

- Does it still work?

- When I reattached
the petal you found,

I saw it light up.

You two trek to Maite.

I will solve the
riddle of the rose.

- Can't do it alone.

Tomm and his band will
be looking for you.

- Then Tomm must be
a glutton for pain.

- You two both
should've been there.

- I wish I had
been, but right now

we need to protect this thing.

- Mm-hmm.
- Take it to the Envoy.

She'll help us.

Blu's guarding her
with their brother

and a group they trust.

It's the safest place you
can be until we get back.

- I will.

- What? What is it?

- I don't know.

- You seem pretty happy for
a man who barely escaped

with his arm, let
alone his life.

- Maybe that's it.

We're actually in it, Paul.

We're detecting.
- I know. It's new.

Hmm.

I like it.

'Tective Paul.

- 'Tective Arlo.

both: Hmm.

- I always knew we'd be
the ones to save the Earth.

- Just be careful,
my old friend.

You are Truelune.

- Why be anything else?

- I'll be back for
your departure.

- I know.

- Don't worry.

Everything's gonna
be okay, Elna.

- When?

- Look to the sky.

When you see the transport ships

come down from orbit,
everything'll be fixed.

Promise.

That's my girl.

- Maite has fled to Primo.

The Envoy's desperate.

- She's dangerous
when she's desperate.

- What can she do?

With the ships stuck in orbit,
Earth's panic will rise.

There will be collapse.

Maite's madness will
save our people.

Do you have the flower?

- Turns out the detective
had the missing piece.

It's working again.

He took it and got away.

I let him live.

It wasn't his time to die.

- We've sacrificed a
lot for that flower.

If they destroy it...
- You're all a bit too curious

to destroy something so strange.

We'll watch them and be patient.

And they'll do my work for me.

- You shouldn't have gone.

You're not yourself yet.

- Am I scaring you?

- Of course not.

You've been through something
I'll never understand,

but I know you're still there.

This is the future.

Without the Bridge, the
First Wave will stay.

Our people will be safe.

Lune will finally have
its own way forward.

- There is no forward and back.

There is only the
seen and the unseen.

Maite will die.

You'll take control of the key.
- Tomm?

- You're going to
let those ships land.

- Well, why... why
would I do that?

- Because I've seen it.

I suppose if you
need a reason...

It's because you trust me...

and because we love each other.

- So Maite believes your
mother came back from the dead?

- She said a bunch
of crazy things.

- We've solved many things
on Moonhaven but not that.

Does she think she's
still out here somewhere?

- Sure. Why not?

If you see her, holler.

We'll all have a good old laugh.

Maite's just in denial...

probably has been
for a long time.

But now it's really curdled
into something else,

something dark.

- Then she needs our help...

Heavy heart hauling.

We'll get her home
safely and all pitch in.

- We're near the river.

- The map says the bridge
should be right here.

- It's right there
and also over there.

- Trapped in a dream out here...

IO's dream.

- On recon, there
was always a moment

where the satellites
didn't help.

I like it when there's no map.

I miss that sometimes.

- You miss the w*r?

I ask... I've got
nothing to compare it to.

- No.

But there's always moments...

Things you never would've
experienced otherwise,

things you don't
want to give back.

- The filaments light the way.

You see? It's working again.

This is old Dreamer artistry.
- Oh, it's beautiful.

- And you think whatever the
Markless are looking for,

this will lead us to it?

- Chill died trying
to keep it from Tomm.

That is my opinion.
As a 'tective...

- We need to see where it leads.

- Oh, no, there is
a plan in place.

We wait for word
from Paul and Bella.

- Arlo, why not burn it to ash?

Her guard lurks.

Dark mood and shadow.

If this is a key, keep it
far-ever from its lock.

- The 'prentice has a point.

Yet, this mystery is of us.

We made it.

If we turn it to smoke...

- That's what scares me.

Maybe an Earther
can't break you,

but if Tomm's found
some forgotten weakness,

then we need to know it.

This is my fault.

I feel a very strong
obligation to fix it.

I need to go where this leads.

IO will protect me.

- Okay.

But we go together.

- Oh.

I've heard of this place.

These are tombstones from
the original settlements.

- Are these from the rebellion?

- There were many
more than this.

- When we learned about
the Moon in school,

it was only the science.

The miracles to come.

Our saviors in
the sky.

Earth was going to be
healed, oh, yeah...

Any day now.

- That day is
actually here, Bella.

- How can you
still believe in it

when things are messed up?

- I'm no different than you.

You said it yourself,
you fought for a cause.

- That's just something I
say so things make sense.

There was no cause,

just people in high places

sending people
like me off to die.

That's sort of the
basic setup of history.

In my unit,

the only cause we
had was each other.

They were my family.
- Yeah.

Earth and Moon, we're one unit.

We got your back.

- Listen, I'm a total nobody.

I was lucky to be born here,

lucky to play my part
and spend my days

with those I love.

Nothing's perfect.

I have my doubts, believe me.

But if nothing else,
I always know...

We always know...

We're contributing
to something bigger.

- Very few people on
Earth feel like that.

It didn't used to be that way.

- I won't let you
k*ll her, Bella.

We're bringing Maite back...

alive.

- This place is very old.

- Who lives here?
- Let's see.

- We call ourselves Gazers.

- Why Gazers?

- We gaze...

at the stars, the
future, into ourselves.

We prefer a simpler life

beyond the everyday
stress of the Glade.

- The Glade was too
stressful for you.

Wow.

- Uh, we've been on edge
these past few weeks.

Our comms went down.

We were preparing to send
a group back to the Glade

to see if you had any answers.

- To what?

- IO's been more restless...

restless and disturbed.

We're used to the
rumble and crack,

but this is different.

- These are...

glitches, violent spasms.

- We saw the bridge
on the river.

- Mm-hmm.
- Snapped in two.

Just like that.

- And we've seen
people in the woods.

- I think they're
from the Glade.

There's been an uprising.

- We came out here
looking for Maite.

- Maite?

Our leader wandering Primo?

- She's involved.
- She might be involved.

We don't know what's going on.

- We haven't seen her.

And it's not malcontents from
the Glade who trouble us.

Shadowy forms haunt the
edge of these ruins.

- Some of us think
they're the ghosts

of the original settlers.

- Ghosts?

- Tell them, Zek. Tell
them what you saw.

- I saw a child in the trees...

wild and swift...

different.

- Arlo?
- Mm.

- How did you acquire
that brilliant arm?

- Tello, that's a private
matter... show respect.

- I'll tell him how.

I was in a debris storm when
the Tofi burned up on reentry.

Well, you guys know
about that, right?

- Arlo, I had no idea.

- Mm-hmm.
- A terrible tragedy.

Few survivors that day.

- Yeah, I lost some people.

The circle of my heart.

It was a bad
day for everyone.

But IO put me back together.

- I'm sorry for your loss, Arlo.

- Well, it opened the
door to other victories.

Every day is new and precious.

"Savor sweet the bitter wisdom,"

as Mwangi wrote.

- I know that feeling.

You're lost, floating,

but then you find
direction and momentum...

a rebirth.

If you hadn't survived,

where would you be?

- That's a funny
way of putting it.

Are you asking me what I
think happens after we die?

This has turned
into a fun stroll.

I believe this is what you get,

and you better get it right.

- I believe the same.

- We're getting close.

- She saw what I've seen.

You still don't believe me.

- I want to.

There's always been
watchers in the trees...

Elves, Bobos, Nix.

We fill the darkness
with our own concerns.

- Do you know how many
times I've been told

not to believe what's happening
right in front of me...

or to me?

It's not complicated to stop
that sh*t, but it's hard.

You actually have
to believe yourself.

I'm good at it now.

It's kept me alive.

I know what I saw.

It's real.

- And now we chase Maite,
who chases a ghost,

a memory.

And she would say
the same as you.

She believes it's real.

She risks all of our
survival for what?

A festering wound.

Dark heart cannot see.

- Then we're all blind and
wounded except for you.

- That's too easy.

You know my wounds.

I just see well enough not
to believe in the impossible.

- We're having this
conversation on the Moon.

What's that?

Impossible things
happen all the time now.

- Yeah, okay, exactly.

IO...

we create a tool that
solves hard problems,

sees things as they really are,

and isn't distracted or
tricked by fear or yearning.

- But someone
yearned to make it.

How do you think the
pyramids got built

or the Giza Needle?

Some... someone got wounded.

They got their heart broken,

or they wanted their
daddy to love them

or to... to prove
somebody wrong.

Or they were chasing a ghost.

That's what built IO.

We don't survive in
spite of our wounds.

We survive because of them.

- Bella, do you think
your mother's still alive?

- This is the limit, I'm afraid.

- It can't be. We need
to go beyond the wall.

- Should we?
- No. It's not safe.

The air is too thin.
You go too far, you die.

No!
- Envoy!

- I need to know what this is.

- The tree.

It's leading us there.

- This is a bad idea.

We can't stay out here long.

Slow your breathing.

- What is this?

- It's the same
composite as the flower.

What have we unlocked?

My name?

- What?

- These are family names.

This tree tells the Blood.

All the bloodlines of
Moonhaven are here.

No, no, no!

No, no!

Only IO should have
this information.

It's not for us.

- Things change.

Good to see you, Envoy.

- This was your plan.

You want to break the very thing

that holds the Moon together.

- I'm making it stronger.

- You'll make it tribal.

You're a traitor, Tomm.

You'll never succeed.

- She's right about that.

- I'm sorry, but we're
not on the Glade anymore.

IO can't save you out here.

- Dad!

- Tello!

- Oh!

- What's happening?
- It's IO!

- Okay, it's okay.
- Blu!

Run, Blu! Go!

- Run! Go!
- Aah!

- Everything is shifting!
- Cut them down!

- Go, Envoy! Go!

- Aah!
- Get to cover!

- No!

- Aah!

- Are you okay?

- Oh.

Dreadfeel.

Maite.

Oh, we're so happy
to find you safe.

- She found us.

- What haunts your
heart? Please.

- You are the gift, Maite...

the all-giving gift.

The miles I came through
darkness, finding you.

But...

- Leaving Earth was a mistake.

I try to forget...

by running.

- You are a Seeker.

It's your nature to leave.

- I left behind my daughter.

You sleep at night.

I lay awake.

Does she think of me
like I think of her?

- It's hard, no doubt.

But a true Seeker
is beauty-rare.

The rest of us march in circles,

swamp-stuck in our mistakes,

but a Seeker like you
escapes to light the way out.

- Maite...

I want to go back.

- We wish to talk.

You know of the
trouble on the Glade.

People think you're behind it.
I do not believe that, Maite.

We're running out of time.

You have to let the
transport ships land.

- The Bridge is nothing.

- You spent your entire
life working for the Bridge.

We all have.

We're so close.

Please, I don't understand.

- Bella...

we've both been so alone.

We thought Loa had
left us behind.

She's come back to us.

Loa, Loa is the bridge
between past and future.

She has found the
new way forward.

- My mother is dead.
- Bella.

- She brought you to the Moon,

and she brought you here to me.

For years...

I regretted what I did
to keep her on the Moon.

- What do you mean
"keep her on the Moon"?

- She wanted to
go back to Earth.

She wanted to go back to you.

I told her you were dead.

Forgive me, Bella.

I had to.

- Bella!

Stop!

- You stole my life from me.

- They brought you
here for a reason.

This is not the end.

This is the beginning.

Ask yourself, are
we to be remembered

as the descendants of apes

or the ancestors of gods?

Come with me.

- No!

- Bella!

- Blu!

Blu.

They're dead.
They're all dead.

- The ships are landing.

Everything's going to be okay.

We're here to save the Earth.

It's simple.

How did the tree move
inside the fence?

It was the fence that moved.

Naya was watching us and
asking us one question.

Are we worth saving?

Doubt and paranoia
are on the rise.

It's no longer safe for
you to remain on Moonhaven.

All the Mooners are going
to turn against the Earth.

A reckoning is on its way.

Man: This will all be over soon.