01x03 - The Envoy

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Welcome to Moonhaven.

We've waited a long
time for this moment.

With the assistance of IO, the
technology to save our world

is coming.

Why did you bring me here?

There hasn't been a m*rder
here in a long time.

You will destabilize everything
just to stay in power?

Woman: Only if you compel me.

There may be an
agent here from Earth

trying to destroy everything.

Bella: How do you
know it's not me?

I don't.

They lied to us. The
Bridge is a trap.

- Congratulations.

If you made it here, it
means you're special.

- Move along, please.

- Single file.

- You will train here
in machine language,

ciphers, and system analyses

to see who has the talent
and, indeed, the grit

to help address the
most pressing issues

of our day.

Some of you will not
make it past the week.

Some will go on to build
the radical new technologies

that IO conceives for
humanity's survival.

Perhaps someday,

one of you will
be chosen as Envoy

and help usher in the Bridge.

Your Thimble will be
your main interface

with the IO simulator

and your primary
tool for learning

the various processes
and inner workings

of the most sophisticated
computer matrix ever built.

Learn well.

And remember, the
future is better.

- Speak your name.

- Indira Mare.

- I can't do this without you.

- Arlo.

Wake up, you old bag of bones.

- So darkness comes,

and we are never going
to save the Earth.

It was all lies.

And you woke me for this?

- If you'd have seen her
face, you'd have woke me.

- Mm-mm.
- It was terrifying, Arlo.

I had to walk the woods
just to lose my tremble.

- So you believe what she says.

- I believe she believed it.

Whatever Chill and
Strego were into,

it soaked their minds.

- And this message
Chill left behind

was meant for her
water sister Asus?

- She wanted Asus to know
that they'd done something.

Felt like a warning.

- But if they're
together in this,

why would he k*ll her?

- Maybe she had
a change a heart.

- So he comforted her
with a rock to the head.

- Look, if they thought
the Bridge was a lie

and were trying to do
something to stop it,

that would be a
secret worth keeping.

- Paul,

Chill's words were
nogginswirl and buzz.

Let the sunwarm calm your craze.

We will find the truth.

And I must speak
this to you now:

I will nap at lunch today.

Grats, meega.
- Mm.

You make bad tea.

- How now?

- I'm Blu. Your 'prentice.

- In these last few moments,

I have felt closer to you

than I ever have
another living soul.

I look at you, sharp heart,

and I know my path is true.

If you do not see
me by your side,

I am with you.

If you do not hear my
voice, I am with you.

My absence, love,
is proof of nothing.

- Bella.

What are you doing out here?

The voice.

- A letter to my sister.

- Want to talk about it?

- I can't tell you how much I
don't want to talk about it.

- I have a secret.

I found it.

- Somebody's out there.

They've been watching me.

- Are Earth forests enchanted?

I've read stories, but Doda says

there's no magic here.

He says they left it
all behind on Earth

so we could think clearly.

- I've been given an apprentice.

- Are they gonna creep
like that the whole time?

- They watch and learn.

So what did you see?

- I heard them.

Someone's been following me.
- Who?

- I don't want to endanger
your family, Paul.

Tomm tried to k*ll me
because I saw something

he didn't want me to see.

- Tomm isn't any danger now.

- I think Chill and Strego
were working for him.

If they were radicalized,
there might be others.

- Radicalized?

- Strego cut out
his own Mark, Paul.

What would make
a Mooner do that?

- Regret?

He wasn't joining something,
he was leaving it,

leaving us.

- Or dropping off the
grid to plant a b*mb

or poison the water.

I need to see the Envoy.

She needs to hear
what happened on CAT.

- Is it safe?
- Hmm.

I guess I'll find out.

- My pilot returns.

Do you have any answers?

They don't believe in fate here.

No gods either.

If there's an unseen force,

it's just our own
noise and music

drawing us into
unexplored rooms.

- Is the coincidence
keeping you up at night?

Me? My sister's m*rder?

Slotting into your loop
at the last minute?

- It's crossed my mind.

Why did you come to Moonhaven?

- I came for the smuggling,
stayed for the people.

I'm not the Earth agent
sent to disrupt the Bridge,

but someone's turning
Mooners against it,

spreading rumors.

- There are always threats,
but the work continues.

The transport ships
that land today

will take the First
Wave back to Earth.

The Bridge is safe.

- I was trained to lie,
so take this as you want.

Tomm is half blind
and barely alive

because he tried to k*ll me.

Your bodyguard is
a double agent.

- Tomm loves Moonhaven
more than the Earth.

He believes in what we're doing.

He would never betray me.

- He has.

And you either know that already

or you don't.

But I wanted you
to hear it from me.

- Why?

- Figured I'd learn
something either way.

- Where you from?

- Um, Heinlein Park.
Near Pittsburg?

- Wow, a ration
country. Must be rough.

- The people are good.
They just don't have much.

I lost my parents.

But it was early
on, so, you know...

- Yeah. Sorry.

- I made it here.
What about you?

- New Brompton,
outside of London.

The people suck.
We're just rich.

- Do you ever get homesick?

- Not much to miss back home.

My brothers fought
in the Water Wars.

One of them came
back... different.

The other one, you know, didn't.

Kinda tore my family apart.

But we're survivors, right?

- Grats, kid. You found her.

- They'll see you.
- Nah, I got tricks.

You should go home.

The Singer was
delivered to me in this.

- You went back to your ship?

- CAT's not going
anywhere. I need parts.

- Hmm.

- You said the Singer
was a big deal.

Whoever wanted it down
on Earth had to connect

with a Mooner up here.

- Down here.

Up there.

- I thought they
weren't allowed to talk.

- Yeah.

If Tomm was recruiting
locals to resist the Earth,

maybe one of them was willing
to help smuggle drugs.

- This box has no
markings, no trade scratch.

- I watched a pelican
dissolve and leave it behind.

Does that make it easier?

- Whoever made that box
will be in this room.

Indira's asked
for extra security

for her bodyguard.
Arlo's volunteered.

He's had some experience
bringing people out the Singer.

It can be tricky.

- He should have protection.

If Tomm starts talking,
he'll be a liability.

- From who?
- Anyone else involved.

- If there is anyone
else involved.

Paul.

- Bella. Both: Sirl?

- Bella, don't go
in there! Stop!

You, wait there.

Ah!

- Bella.

- What the f*ck is this place?

He got away.

- Are you all right?

This is Mirrorwell.

A Dreamer circle built it.

- Why?

- It's supposed to
stretch you in places

you don't want to be stretched.

- That's sick.

- It's useful if
you're prepared.

I had nothing to do
with stealing the drug.

- This isn't about drugs, Sirl.

Your paradise may
be under attack.

If you're in too deep,
we can help you out.

But you gotta talk.

I saw you in the Mirrorwell.

You were not so strong there.

I see the pain you
carry behind your eyes.

- There's none behind yours?

- How 'bout now?

- Control your violence.
- That was controlled.

Who asked you to make this?

Who's the Earth agent?

- I never met an
Earther till you.

Is this what awaits
the First Wave?

Bonecrack and bloodspill?

Been bred into you for so long,
how will you ever unlearn it?

- Right.

So why not pull up
the drawbridge here

and keep all the
toys for yourselves?

And why fix hunger
and thirst on Earth

when you can just
send them drugs

and watch them burn
themselves out?

- Bella, stop.
- Me?

- No Mooner would
think this way.

- I think some would, Paul.

And I think he's one of them.

And soon we're gonna know,

because I saw the Envoy's
guard this morning,

and he's waking up.

He's gonna be talking soon.

And then there's gonna
be no more secrets.

- I have nothing to tell you.

- Sirl.

- Let him go.

- Hey, why didn't you
tell me Tomm had woke?

- Because he didn't.

But if Sirl thinks he's talking,

he'll want to warn
whoever else is involved.

- How will we know?

- He's Marked, right?

Use your machine to track him.

- IO doesn't work like that.

We can track people
if there's been

an injury or death,

but it's not for surveillance.

- Jesus.

Would a little bit of
dystopia k*ll you guys?

- I'll find him.

I'll follow and tell
you where he goes.

- You can't send a kid.

- Stay far behind.

Don't let him see you.

We learn by doing.

- Who makes the
Singer? Is it IO?

- No, it's people.

People who can be
trusted. I'll take you.

- Among the most
complex of the New Fauna

is the Radix Tenebris.

Say, what makes it unique?

Ori?
- The polymorphous nano-zime.

- Without which we
would never feel

the smooth-cool of the Bright

or the thrill-pound of Openeye.

You are all mechanics
of the Unseen.

In our work, we seek connection.

We are built-things
in the world,

but we also exist as thoughts
in those who love us.

Our heart is here.

But our soul is in our friends.

- Your Second said you
may have some time for us.

- Thank you, Sonda.

The smuggler heals her wound
by helping you, 'tective.

- She sees where I am blind.

- You are brave, Bella.

For many Mooners,

you are the Mother
Planet made real.

- Sorry for your sister.

- Did you know Chill?

- We never crossed,

but I feel her loss.

- How can we help?

- You make the Singer here?

- We ask because...
- Because it was stolen.

- It's never happened before.

- I hate to tell you,

but smuggling
Moonstuff's not new.

I never loot drugs,
but rocks, knickknacks.

I got paid once to
bring a full cargo hold

of seawater home.

They sold it like it was holy.

But the Singer was different.

They wanted to copy
it, make it on Earth.

- The Singer serves one
purpose on Moonhaven,

our midlife celebration.

- But no Mooner would steal it.

- How can you all be so sure?

- Because we understand
something you cannot.

- Truelune.

- Truelune is trust.

It means we trust each other
to do what is right for all.

To do what is right
for the future.

The future is better.

- Something on your mind?

Besides how weird that was?

- You know what's on my mind.

The handprint on the
tree this morning.

It was pollen dust from here.

- You are getting
better at this, Paul.

- Why would she have us watched?

- 'Cause we're nosing around,
getting closer to something.

- Maite's been Council
Chair for ten years.

Never wavered,
always led strong.

- Before Strego
got shot, he said,

"Where one world ends,
the next one begins."

I know you don't want to believe

there are others like
Chill and Strego.

Mooners who have stopped
believing in the Bridge.

That... that somehow,
that's impossible.

- It is impossible!
- Tell me why?

Why would Mooners
not want to keep this

all for themselves?

Let alone risk their
lives to save a planet

they've never even been to.

- Because this isn't Earth.

We don't take our
lives for granted.

We're not looking for
a... A reason to run away

or give up.

Everything we do
is for the Bridge.

It's not our job. It's
our purpose. Our promise.

That's Truelune.

We're not gonna get scared off.

I don't think you can
understand it, Bella.

- I've seen it happen.

I've made it happen.

Fear spreads like
fire once it starts.

If someone wants
you all to burn,

you will.

- Council Chair.

Maite!

- You're telling us
she gave you no reason

for her decision?

- She did not.

- And without her consent,

the transport ships cannot
enter Lune's atmosphere?

- IO waits for both keys.

- If the First Wave is prevented

from leaving on time,

all Earth will know
something is wrong.

- There will be chaos, collapse.

Those ships must
be allowed to land.

- She has the will
of her people.

I can't force her to act.

- We buried the key to
our survival on the Moon

for one reason.

Because we could trust them

more than we could
trust ourselves.

What game are they playing at?

- You've all worked hard
these last few months.

Hard enough to still be here

and call yourselves
students of IO.

Today, you will be
given a demonstration

of just what it is
you're working toward.

These poison pools bubble
up throughout the Lowlands,

ensuring that nothing
lives or grows

in nearly 2/3 of the
United City States,

a result of over half a
century of w*r and migration.

Anyone thirsty?

Now...
- No way.

- Thanks to IO technology,

built and working on the Moon...

The purest water
you've ever seen.

Built one molecule at a time.

- It's clear!

- Drink up!

Go ahead.

- The future is better.

- You really think they'll
just let us have it?

All of that great tech?

- Who?
- People.

The strong take what they want
and leave the rest to suffer.

That's why IO was
built up there.

Look at Moonhaven, all
they've accomplished.

It's...
- Paradise, I know.

One they get to live
in while we starve

and suffer and burn down here.

- It takes time.

We can't just keep making
the world better for the few,

for the powerful.

- It all has to change.

Like ICON says,

"Technology without
culture doesn't work."

Moonhaven does.
They'll teach us.

- You're gonna be
the Envoy, you know.

The brilliant,
passionate orphan.

People are already
talking about you.

- If it's me, I'll
give it everything.

I'll give it my life.

- Elna said you
wanted to see me.

- I was sharp with you. Unfair.

I offer 'pologies.

And...

A gift.

Parts for your
ship. From a Maker.

- I
know what they are.

- I'm coming.

- Is it hard?

- To learn.

Once you do, it's easy.

- Fingers remember.

- You're a strange kid.

- Grats.

- I want to learn
more about you,

what your life's like on Earth.

- Hmm.
- When I first saw you,

I had a feeling.

We call it eyewarm,

when you see someone

and you think you know them,

but you've never
seen them before.

As a little, I thought
it was "eye worm."

Like a worm crawled
into your eye

and spoke you who to like.

- You are your
father's daughter.

I'm gonna need your
help threading this in.

Uh-huh. Just snap
in the harness.

And press your finger there

till you feel it
lock into place.

- Okay.

- Sh... oh, sh*t. Sorry.

- My mistake?

- No, you're doing great.

Here.

Keep holding it. Beautiful.

- We did it. Can she fly now?

- Oh, she wants to run.

Should we let her?

This is my favorite part.

- What?

- The lag.

- sh*t!

- Elna.

- We made that.

- Who did?

- People.

We can do anything.

Well, her life-plan is set.

- She could do worse.

- Bella, do you know why
your mother came here?

- There was a group
of 30 Earthers

selected as a test.

The first to go here after
the 80-year blackout.

They called it a lottery,

but you had to be
crazy qualified.

- She was special.
- She was smart, I guess.

I don't know much
more than that.

We were living in
some kind of commune.

I don't remember it.

When you gave me the
parts to my ship,

you must have considered
that I might leave.

- I don't know what
you're up against,

but if you're going to help me,
I want it to be your choice.

- What?

- Elna!

Blu sent word from here.

- Blu!

- Oh!

Tell what happened. Did
Sirl do this to you?

- He did.

I followed him here.

He was making for that cave
but glanced me in the trees.

He came hard for
me. Meant to k*ll.

- A g*dd*mn kid.

- I fought back.
- Yeah.

- Violence is never
our first choice,

but we will defend ourselves.

- Doda!

- Device for
extracting the Mark.

Sirl's work.

- Doda, look.

So many.

Why would people take them out?

- Some of them are fresh.

Paul.

Paul!

If Sirl told the others,
they'll come for Tomm.

We need to get to Arlo.

- What's all this?

- Trouble comes.

- He was walking on the ceiling.

The little one.

- He's coming back
from the inbetween.

- It's not safe for you here.

- If they come for
Tomm, they come for me.

- IO warned us.

It predicted all of this.

- You could have asked me.

I would have warned you too.

- Tomm will have answers
to all this when he wakes.

What would you say
if you were him?

- I'd say, "I came
upon the Earther pilot

"conspiring with the Mooner spy,

and I tried to k*ll them both."

- I don't think
you've come from Earth

to destroy us.

I looked hard into your past.

I saw a broken girl

who married a w*r

and then spun away
into a life so small,

gravity couldn't even find her.

I don't think you
could care enough

to make or destroy anything.

I've met you before, Bella.

I've met you a thousand times.

The ones who only
know how to survive.

- I'll tell you a story.

Our competition has arrived.

- We don't have any.

- We've gotta go.
I know a way out.

- They've come to
steal the tech.

We can't let them take it.

- There's nothing we can do.

- What now?

- Let's go!

- Come with us.
You'll be safe.

- Us?

You're one of them?

- Basta, come on!

- How could you do this?

How could you...
how could you...

Where am I?

- He's coming to.
- Where am I?

- No!

Why won't you let
the ships land?

I want to know it's safe.

Humankind is fallible,
but IO is not.

There's only a little to see
before the fight, but watch.

Why would he k*ll
her for a flower?

It's a trap! The Earthers
will k*ll us all when we land!

Envoy, what are you doing?

No!