01x04 - Mada

[bunniefuu]

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

Now there are two.

Woman: One of you will
be chosen as an envoy

and help usher in the Bridge.

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

but someone is turning
Mooners against it.

IO warned us. It
predicted all of this.

Why would Mooners not want to
keep this all for themselves?

Because this isn't Earth.

Everything we do
is for The Bridge.

What's all this? Trouble comes.

- Stay back!

- Ahh!

- He's nay breathing!

- Then leave him.
Indira's out there alone!

Indira, Indira!

- Ahh!

- I've got you.

- Thank you.

- Paul, Arlo!

- We're here.

- Who goes?

- Fire crew.

- Tomm's gone.

- This wasn't an attack.
It was an extraction.

- We thought he was dead.
- The sedative.

They got him out.

Whatever they've been planning,

they need him to see it through.

This could be what
Chill's warning was about.

- The First Wavers are
being celebrated tomorrow.

- Your son.

- All of Moonhaven
will be there.

- If this were Earth, I'd
expect an attack or a b*mb.

- No, IO would prevent that.

It won't be a b*mb
that will destroy us.

It will be doubt.

- Where you now stand,
there was nothing.

Our land was
dry-barren and scrape

without life or meaning.

As First Wavers, you will soon
bring both back to the Mother.

We have spent our lives
studying the world

we have been tasked to remake.

As we know the mountains
and valleys of the Mother,

so we have sought to
understand the people.

Make no mistake. You
sail into a storm.

When you leave on
the transport ships,

you will be two days
from footfall on Earth.

Nay forget your mission.

The tools you bring
the Mother from IO

are not only to
fix what is broken.

You serve those yet to be born.

You will create new beginnings,

the Bridge Zones,
where our mistakes,

humanity's mistakes, will
be forever cherished,

understood, and never repeated.

The future is better.

All: The future is better.

- You will now receive your
Bridge Zone assignments.

Three landing sites,

kept secret for your protection,

have been selected within
each of the 12 Bridge Zones.

- Circle Six,

your Earth landing zone will
be Sahara Desert, North.

- It's a trap!

The Earthers will k*ll
us all when we land.

Free Lune! They'll
never let us live!

It's a trap! Stop the Bridge!

The Earthers are
gonna k*ll us all!

Are you listening to me?
You're all gonna die!

Listen to me!

- Come in.

Tomm must have been
working this a long time.

A separatist Moon,
in full control of IO

and all it can do.

- You gotta appreciate
the big swing.

- He was Ultra Ops in the w*r.

He worked alone, but he told me
his nickname was The Battalion.

- If he was Ultra,

then anything he ever said
to you was for a reason.

The training's all
about the long game.

- I'm glad you're here, Bella.

I'm alone now.

The Council chair is refusing

to let the transport ships land.

No one knows yet.
- Why would she do that?

- I assume she's
looking for leverage.

She wants to stay in power.

Those ships are due to leave
for Earth in four days.

- I've met Maite.

She's had me watched
since my trial.

- I need to get those ships down

before anyone else finds
out what she's done.

Tomm's g*n.

sh**t me.

Humankind is fallible,
but IO is not.

I believe this with
everything I am.

You have to believe in
something, Bella Sway.

- Envoy, what are you doing?

No!

- This is what we
are fighting for,

to save us from ourselves.

- I can get close to Maite.

Let me help you.

- So landing in the Sahara.

- In the middle of the desert?

- Bedouin nomads
used to live there

before the hyper-simooms.

- Um, most touchdowns
are far from population.

They're kept secret so that
we can protect the IO tech

until it can protect us.

- Good, the less contact
with Earthers, the better.

- There are some Waver circles
going into cities to teach.

- Well, you're lucky then.

- Uh, why is he lucky?

I would like him to
teach the people.

Maybe they could teach him.

- And what would
they teach a Mooner

but how to ruin what works?

Your talk is easy, Paul.

Lone knows our son
launches into darkness.

Wish'll find out the truths
about Earthers soon enough.

- The truth?

- We know them better
than they know themselves.

We fix everyall for them,
and they would w*r us all

if we dropped our guard.

- But they are us,
and we are them.

- The time for
child-speak is past.

- Wish, you have nothing
to learn from the Mother?

- I mean, I would
listen if they spoke,

but the hungry
only talk of food.

- You're smiles, Fritz?

The boy now babbles your jabber.

- Maybe Fritz taught me
how to think for myself.

- Well, then think, think.

This arrogant swagger
is not the boy I raised.

- No, he's not,
Paul. He's a man now.

- Mooners know
strength is weakness.

Do you hear yourself? And you?

Where are you in all this?
Your silence is loud.

- He needs to know
how to survive.

A good heart is enough
here, not up there.

- A good heart is
enough anywhere.

If it's not, then what are
we trying to save on Earth?

The greed, the anger?

Wish, your life should be
proof that we should survive.

- And the Earthers
who live by no rules?

What of the attack this morning?

- What attack?

- You have not told Lone?

A fire where the Envoy's
guard was recovering,

and IO sees nothing?

There are Earthers
amongst us causing chaos,

and your pilot is involved.

- Bella helps us,

and it's Mooners who have
turned against the Bridge.

They've shed their marks,
and it spreads like poison.

- What do you mean,
shed their marks?

- Wish.

Wish!

Wish, wait.

This is the panic and crumble
that comes with change.

Truelune stays the course.

- Truelune?

How long would you keep me from
seeing things the way they are?

I'm going to fight a w*r,

and you want me to stay a child.

- Fritz has you thinking...

- Fritz didn't make me
think anything, okay?

Fritz isn't like you.
- No, he's not.

- He isn't a fool.

- Paul Sarno?
- Yeah.

- Go.

I'm happy you came.

- Saves you the trouble
of having me followed.

Why won't you let
the ships land?

You know the damage
you're causing.

- Ah, the Envoy speaks
through you with Earth words,

but what does your heart say?

We are taught to nay
believe in destiny.

From your eyes, one
step leads to another.

But from these eyes,

you were called and
came as planned.

- Maite, you've given
people on Earth hope.

Can you see the risk in that?

You've let them imagine
there's another way.

You take that back now,

and their hope
will die for good.

- Do you have hope, Bella?

- It's not about me.
None of this is about me.

Those ships mean
things could change.

Let them land.
- I want to know it's safe.

There are those on the Mother

that profit from
her destruction.

Do they wait in
darkness to destroy us?

I want to know what
trouble IO saw ahead.

- It saw you.

You are the trouble.

- The pilot has moved you.

- You want me to share
what I cannot understand.

- She speaks only
for the Mother.

It's hard to hear.
- No.

It's nay what she says.

It's who she is.
It's how she's come.

She's the message
I've been waiting for.

- Her blood sister, the Mooner,

I've learned she
worked with those

who wish to stop the Bridge.

These rebels divide us,

and your delaying the ships
only A*DS their cause.

- Their cause is
just. They doubt.

They're hot-riled by
fear, but I am not afraid.

Something bigger-better
comes to save us all,

something even our
Dreamers could not dream.

You think me mad?

- No.

I believe in you.
Trust yourself, Maite.

Trust that you are doing the
right thing for all of us.

We will follow you
wherever you lead.

- Gratz for your counsel.

Sonda.

- Where's Paul?

- It's his Palmi.
- His what?

- His blood mother goes to
air. He's gone to see her.

- I thought you don't
meet your blood parents.

- At our birth and
their death, we meet.

The Palmi is the farewell.

You should go to him.

- If it were me, I'd
want to be alone.

- He wouldn't.

What happened this morning?

No one will say more.

- Mooners have turned
against the Bridge.

The Envoy's guard is involved.

- An Earther.

- I can't tell you who or
what he's fighting for,

but you know, don't you?

You hear "Earther," and
you know the whole story.

Like when you look at me.

- Or you me.

You think this is
easy to live this way.

You think I'm cruel and
blind to my lover's pain?

- Which one?

- What is strange
to you is not to me.

- Yeah, well, a hundred
years of all this bullshit,

of you making yourselves
better than us,

and it took a trained
operative about ten minutes

to turn you all
against yourselves.

- We're not broken so
easy. It won't work.

- I think it's working, sister.

- I should rip out
my mark and beg them

to stop the Bridge, but
I want my child to go.

I want him to make
things better for Earth.

What more do you need from me?

- How now?

- I still beat.

Still here.

- Mada.

- Boy.

- Here.

- Good life, ya?

- Yeah.

- Talk.

This time is what we have.

- I am lost.

Trying to hold it together.

I'm too weak.

- I see no weakness.

I see strength in
a man who is sad.

- My son goes to Earth.

We've talked about it
since he was a wisp,

since he came to
us seven years ago.

Curious boy with a wide smile.

He swaggers now, pushes me away.

I see the man he will become,

but the boy inside,

I told that boy,

trust Truelune,
trust our purpose.

I taught him to leave,
and now I doubt.

- All children leave.

Time sees to that.

This is not the first time
Truelune has been tested.

Sometimes, we feel lost.
Our foot is in the air.

Where will it go?

But it always comes back,

down to the ground.

The way forward,
across the bridge.

We do not walk alone.

Boy called?

- Wish.

- Boy.

- Paul. My name is Paul, Mada.

- Paul.

I was called Gnoc.

Up do.

This ends for me.

Both: I will honor the blood.

But it will not bind me.

I will be family to all.

Put the past behind me.

- I will sing to the Moon

and let her console me.

- Why do you meet your
blood parents at all?

- Uh, it's a tribute

to the old ways when blood
was more important than water.

You've heard of the rebellion?

- A hundred years ago,
before the blackout.

- 143.

The first settlers were quick
to divide on family lines.

One tribe tried to control
IO. Earth shut it down.

Was a bloody mess.

- Mm.
- IO watched.

It was decided that
they should start again.

New settlers arrived,
and yeah, the blackout,

and water families took
the place of blood.

- Because a family
leads to a tribe,

leads to a nation,
leads to a w*r.

- Hm, blood leads
to blood, we say.

- Leave us please.

Sonda.

I hope you've come to
tell me the Council chair

has changed her mind.

By not letting the ships down,

she is playing right
into the rebels' hands.

- Envoy.

I begged her to let them land,

to change her mind.

I told her it's her
duty to call Council

and speak for the light,
to see what Mooners feel...

- If she doesn't stand
up and lead her people,

these insurgent lies
will spread unchecked.

She is beloved.

She has your hearts, but
she leads you over a cliff.

You are her second, yes?

If Maite won't speak out,

then maybe someone
else needs to stand up.

We're running out of time.

- You're okay.

- How, now, Bella.
Where's Paul?

- He's celebrating Wish today.

- The Three Circles.

All of Wish's water parents
will come together later.

- Yeah, more crazy sh*t.

Can I, uh, show you something?

I found this when
Paul and I went back

to where Chill was k*lled.

It was right where she fell.

- A flower petal?

- It's not real.
It's synthetic.

I'd forgotten about
it. What's that?

- This is called a magnifying...
- I know what it is.

Why do you have one?

- I had a Maker
make it. I like it.

Crazy sh*t.

- Okay.
- Hm?

Hmm.

This has been
ripped at the base.

- Wow, so where's the
rest of the flower?

- What did Strego say to
Tomm before he got shot?

- He said, "Where
one world ends,

the next one begins."

- That's it?

- Uh, when I called
him, he was upset.

He said he'd done
something terrible.

That's when I figured it out.

I told him Chill was my sister.

We heard Tomm, and I
told him to stay hidden.

- Hmm.

- There is something
I need to do.

Can you...
- Detect?

- Yeah.

- Maite's craze has
created opportunity.

She's lost her
faith in the Bridge,

and even the Envoy sees
the need to remove her,

as you predicted.

Tomm?

When Sirl sent word you were
waking up from the Singer,

I didn't believe it.

No one's ever taken that much.

- No sh*t.

- What was it like?

- I saw m-monsters
in this world,

and then they saw me in theirs.

Every hesitation,

every bad choice I ever made
happened all over again.

- Give it time.

You're back now. I'm here.

- No, I'm not being
clear. It was a gift.

I saw where I am, Sonda,

where I've been,
where I'm going.

I saw us, crowns, and thrones.

I saw our future
on the new Moon.

- Meega. Oh, oh,
apologies, apologies.

- Oh, I didn't
think I'd see you.

- Well, the soothe of work.
- Mm-hmm.

- Look at this.

- A flower.
- Unreal, made by a Mooner.

But yes, a flower.

- Why would he k*ll
her for a flower?

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

- It's telling her where to go.

- Like a compass rose.

- I've never seen
anything like that before.

Where does it lead?

- I don't think it
works without this.

- So Strego returns to
the ship with the flower

to give to Tomm.

Bella gets there first.
- Mm-hmm.

- And Tomm returns.

He doesn't want anyone to know

that he's been working
with the rebels,

so he shoots Strego,
tries to k*ll Bella.

- Mm-hmm.
- Where's the flower?

- Somewhere on that ship.

Why would he come up from below?

Strego, he could
have stayed hidden.

Bella warned him,
and he came up.

He had to know death
was waiting for him.

His heart was torn.

Maybe death is what
he really wanted.

- No Mooner would
die without reason.

He'd done a wrong. He was
trying to make it right.

- Strego told
Tomm, "It's done."

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

Bella said she told Strego
that she was Chill's sister.

Maybe that's why he came up.

- He knew.

He was trying to
give Bella justice.

- Yes, maybe Strego
wasn't talking to Tomm.

He was talking to Bella.

- Arlo, you are Sherlock.

Strego was trying to tell Bella
where he'd hid the flower.

- Could be. I'll go to CAT.

- I'll go with you.
- Mm, no.

You have other duties.

- It's dangerous.

- Yes, it's dangerous.

The game is afoot.

All: Clo Wing, we honor you.

Ama Tone, we honor you.

Wish Spur, we honor you.

- Welcomin.

- You're skipping the
celebrations, Council chair?

- I have bigger-better
matters to attend.

- When I came before,

you opened that door on purpose.

You wanted me to see the flower.

- I gave you
good-glimpse of all this.

It was the flower
that drew you back?

- You told me you
didn't know Chill Spen.

- I didn't.

- She died with that
flower in her hand,

One of a kind, Moon-made.

You're working with
the rebels, Maite.

- Chill didn't
paint that picture.

Muffle your thinks.

Open your heart.

What do you see?

Chill's life flows through
everything in this room,

but so does yours, Bella.

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.

- The letter, it was to you.

- Your mother
painted that flower.

All of this was Loa's.

She was Earther, Mooner,

Seeker, Maker, Dreamer, Lover.

She was mine.

- The story of Lune
is the story of us.

As you return to the Mother,
we remember how we came.

Back before, when the
Moon simply watched,

she was lonely.

She saw the Mother suffer, but
could do nothing but stare.

She loved the Mother
too much to turn away,

but people came from Earth.

They brought IO too.

And IO said to Lune, "You
are not alone anymore.

"Trust that when you look away,

the Mother will still be
there when you look back."

Lune did not believe,
so IO gave Lune a push.

And Lune was happy. And
there was night and day.

More people came
from the Mother,

and the time of Metal began.

But the people wanted
wood and water.

Soil and sky.

Whatever question they
asked, IO answered,

and the lands we call Primo
sprouted from the gray,

dead rock, and the
first settlement grew.

And for a time, there was peace,

but dark times came,

the time of blood and tribes.

IO was in danger. The
Mother sent soldiers.

The tribes were put down,
and there was darkness.

And IO saw what had to happen,

and they began again,

and the Moon said to the Mother,

"Leave me until we
know what we can be."

- "Where one world ends,
the next one begins"?

- I've been looping
here for five years.

Why did you wait?

- You were hidden from me

until Chill died and
IO tagged you as blood.

- And my mother's things
in the box from Chill?

How would Loa have known
Chill was her daughter?

That's kept hidden.
- I have no answer.

Loa would wander off

through the Glade, into Primo.

I suspected she
went over the wall

into the Fringelands too.

One day, she wandered
back, and she knew.

She was never at peace
until the dark path

was before her.

She lived to be the light.

- What was she looking for?

- What winds the Seeker's heart?

The Grail, the empty
road? Does it matter?

They go where the
rest of us fear to go.

- The rest of us
are still alive.

- Doda.

- What are you doing here?

- Just checking up on you.

- Gratz. I needed some breath.

- I'm scared.

- I know.

If you choose the right
way, the hard way,

Truelune will
never let you down.

And Wish, wherever you go,

I'll always be with you.

My son.

- Hmm.

- Whatever part you think
I'm playing in this, Maite,

you're wrong.

I stumbled into this mess.

I wanted nothing to
do with any of it,

but I see now the
Bridge must happen.

It can't be allowed to fail.
The First Wave needs to leave.

- We will cross the
Bridge, but not this way.

- There is no other way.
- There is.

Others have arrived.

- Others?

- Drawn across the void.

Our human flicker
was too dim to see,

but IO's flame shines bright.

- Aliens?

Here for IO? And
you've made contact?

- Your mother was the first.
She told me of a passage.

I did not believe, but
the signs come now,

fast and furious.

Even as you doubt me,
you are the proof.

They speak to IO, and
IO has brought you here.

- Why me?

- Your mother didn't die.

She wandered off
and did not return.

IO marked her dead,

but I am heart-sure
she's with them.

I feel it, as do you.

The seeker has found the Grail.

It's time for us to find her.

- Maite?

- "Where one world ends,

the next one begins."

Ah.

Hello, flower.

- Th-thanks.

Maite was spotted
going into Primo.

Into the wilderness?

She thinks The Bridge is doomed.

We figured out that
it's a compass rose

like the ancient sailors used.

We need to see where it leads.

The ships are landing.

Everything's going to be okay.

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

What is this?

It's not for us.

What have we unlocked?