♪ ♪
- ♪ Speed, bonnie boat ♪
♪ Like a bird on the wind ♪
♪ Onward the sailors cry ♪
♪ Carry the lad ♪
♪ That's born to be king ♪
[upbeat electronic music]
♪ ♪
[dark tone]
♪ ♪
- Some argue I started the very war
I tried to prevent.
- But it's not Migas's, right?
Not more of me inside of those holons.
- I promise, Chase.
Nemesis copies are not driving the Holon frames.
- Ah.
[sighs]
You alone know the weight.
- Your Polity masters deceived you.
As Mother Earth punishes us all--
- This is the first purely benevolent fiction that we--
- Selling a fictional city on Mars
to half the human population--
- Is manufacturing hope. We're not lying.
We're buying time until RTASA--
- Ugh!
[panting]
- But the light of that glory doesn't burn off the pain.
My heart is broken.
You lost a friend.
For me, it feels like losing a child.
- Bullshit!
- Excuse me, soldier?
- He is right. This is a sham.
- You were supposed to protect us.
Did you know what was in the Holon frames?
That she enslaved us?
We're supposed to be the good guys.
- Good guys?
You are a soldier. Not a superhero.
This is war. Your black and white morality does not apply.
- I had to watch Kazu die for your war.
Only to find him again, locked in a living hell,
along with all of us inside your machine.
- As hard as that decision was, I had to make it.
- The Union consumes its citizens to build weapons.
That was what made us different.
We're no different now because of you.
- Arrest them.
- Good luck with that.
[grunting]
- Ah! Ow!
Sorry, Dave. Woah!
[grunting]
[thrilling music]
- Hey!
♪ ♪
- [sighs] - Oh, thank God.
Cammie's cloaking protocol worked.
- Ugh!
- They saw me. Their cloaking device interrupted my own.
- Idiot children.
- The Holon frames...
you need to show me.
- Brother, just in time.
You knew Dr. Jha as a heretic before.
Now know her as your co-director
on the Twilight project.
- This code is elegantly written by someone
who was clearly not a neuroscientist.
I hope my perspective adds value.
- I suppose Polity blasphemy is technically a perspective.
- [laughs]
- The Deluge devastated many places besides New York.
Half a million people died in Puerto Rico, my home.
And our faith in God was washed away with the runoff.
- The instant secularization of a people.
I never knew.
- The true death count was classified
because The Old-World Government sent no aid.
Food became so scarce.
For want of enough sustenance to go around,
my people grew violent.
The Governor implemented martial law.
Consequences that would turn your stomach
were exacted over mere stolen bread.
But those harsh consequences prevented social collapse,
forced enough stability for the colony to find its footing.
When the Governor was finally dragged from her home,
by the very people she'd saved,
the words she spoke burned into my mind,
"This is my burden. I alone know the weight."
- You were there? - I was.
The governor was my abuela.
- [gasps]
- RTASA is upgrading them
with Hammer System tech capable of eliminating smoke.
Thus, my Holon frames are not just how we win back
North America, but eliminate the Union threat altogether.
I have built an army out of misery.
And I shoulder the burden of that choice.
For the good of all,
carry that burden with me.
I know you can. [people screaming]
Chase's instability is a virus.
His team is infected.
If it spreads... [screaming continues]
all this suffering will have been for nothing.
- We--we only have to make this journey once.
But you, I had stopped believing in heroes.
- [scoffs] I'm no hero.
I just give people a choice besides war.
There she is.
- [whistles]
- Robert Sinclair, you are under arrest
by order of CEP Holcroft.
Huh?
- [grunts]
Ah!
♪ ♪
[grunting]
- [gurgling]
- [panting]
[all panting]
- Babe, don't start nothing you're not fixin' to finish.
I gotta get these folks to New Zealand.
- Hey, I expect you back faster this time.
[engine whirring]
[beeping]
- Whoa. Look what just came in.
- [sighs]
When we met, I was so excited to have a new family
like my old one, only different.
God, I miss 'em so fucking much.
We shared everything 'cause we had to.
Too many people, not enough stuff to go around.
That old sad song.
But I loved it.
Then my sister died.
Healthy one minute, dead the next.
Then my dad. Then my baby brother.
One by one, they all fell.
I knew we might die too, but I thought
we'd be dying for the truth
and for each other.
Instead, we had to watch Kazu die for a lie.
In my old family, we'd mourn a great pain like this as one.
But you all--
y'all believe so hard that your you
is what you need to be free, but I'm not like you.
I need an us to be a part of.
I know I'll never get that here.
At least, thanks to Yaz,
I know where I can go to fill in the blanks.
- You seem a bit lost.
- I have been...
for a while.
- You're not from Babylon, are you?
Why don't you come to our picnic?
- I don't want to impose on you and your family.
I'm trying to practice not overstepping boundaries.
- Oh, sweet child,
we're all family here.
- No clues. She just vanished.
- Cammie's not safe. She's just a kid.
- No, she isn't. None of us are.
We've spilled way too much blood for that.
It's Val that I'm worried about.
Exceeding uptime isn't fun.
Why don't we pop out for a minute?
Talk to us about what you're feeling.
- I would appreciate your concern,
if it was not so clearly
an attempt to distract you from your own issues.
- Seriously? I'm here to help.
You're acting like you're the only one who lost Kazu.
- I lost so much more than you when I lost him.
I'm being lectured on sharing feelings by someone
who's locked us out of himself to keep hidden.
[banging]
- You're right. I am a hypocrite.
It's because I'm afraid of showing you what's inside me.
But maybe you can help.
- I, uh, like what you've done with the place.
What's behind it?
- Whatever's in there is a corruption
and it wants to corrupt me with it.
- Kazu faced his fears
and it gave him back power over himself.
- The last time I opened it, it almost broke me.
- But now you are not alone.
- [roaring]
- [grunts] - You're not listening.
- Ahh!
- I can't hurt him.
Uh!
- [groans]
[grunts, panting]
- I'm sorry. I tried to-- - Uh!
What--how are you out here?
- [growling]
- A neurological trait you may have, too.
Get screened, and if you're one in a million,
join the freedom fighters on the front.
- And I need not remind you, it is your duty
to volunteer for Ascension in this hour of need.
To replenish the Flow so it shall grow powerful enough
to push back to those
who would try to set fire to heaven itself.
- Our freedom fighters in the SpotTheHero Challenge.
Post your geotagged photos to the Ether.
The first confirmed sighting will win a free ticket to Mars.
Your plan for locating the - gen: - LOCK team is unorthodox.
- You've taught me that unorthodoxy
is required, General.
[chatter]
[laughter]
- Ooh.
- Ha!
How do you control it like that?
- It's easy. Just let it listen.
- The Flow is Grandpa. - Nuh-uh.
The Flow is all of us.
[laughter]
- [coughs]
- And today, I'll ascend and be one in it.
I won't be sick ever again.
- [laughs] What's that?
- They're Flow pennies.
Grownups give them to us on special days.
So you can practice.
[laughter]
Over here!
[somber music]
♪ ♪
Um, You should come with us to the Temple tonight.
Nugget, too!
- Your code had a memory leak.
Individual Minds are too data-rich to share arrays.
You must separate them,
compile them in the Flow.
- Separate. Individual.
Typical Polity heresy.
[beeping]
- One error fixed.
Let's hope I have dozens more heresies up my sleeve.
- I will be heard!
- I will never become you.
And I won't let Marin twist them, either.
- [growls]
- What's the emergency?
- Has Marin found us?
[screaming]
- Ah.
Do you see?
- You want us to attack RTASA?
- It's where they're keeping the copies.
We have to free 'em.
- Ah! Oh! - Shh.
Drones are getting smaller.
- I'm looking for a Ferryman. I'm going to the Polity.
- Wait long enough, the Polity will come to you.
- I need to get there now.
- Returning people to the war isn't what we do.
We keep people away.
- I need to find my brother.
He's in the Vanguard.
I thought he died, but he didn't.
He's all I have left.
The things I've had to do to get here.
- [sighs]
I hope you find him, I do.
- We gotta help her.
We both know what it is to have so little to cling to.
- The Polity and Union are both scum.
They both worship gods they invented.
Little robots, money.
- We give people choice.
That's your third way.
And she's made hers.
- Ah.
- You and Kazu were mind shared when he died.
What did you see?
- [sighs] Every night,
I dream his death as my own.
I have other dreams, too,
where I am, Kazu, worrying about you.
Between us, there's a lot of Kazu still here.
- He got good at sharing at the end.
Those things.
Kazu told me if he saw himself trapped in Holons, like Chase,
he couldn't rest until they were at peace.
- But how can we save them?
[somber music]
♪ ♪
- [coughs]
[speaking native language]
- [speaking native language]
- Are you ready?
- I am.
[light music]
♪ ♪
- [snoring]
- We need to talk.
Tell me the odds of me going.
- Oh, yes, your mental collapse.
Hmm, uh, 68.4% when last we spoke, was it?
Yes, but now I would say they are about, um--
The chances you'll go mad are 94.1198333.
Oh. Uh, yeah.
Dr. Weller never predicted the manifestation
of your subconscious.
Nor the repercussions.
Apologies. - [snoring]
- Become one in the true community.
[wondrous music]
♪ ♪
Together.
all: Together, together, together!
- Ah.
- Our baby's gone home.
[chatter]
- Excuse me. I want to Ascend.
- You look healthy.
- My body is healthy, but my heart--
I just want peace.
- And you'll have plenty of time to earn it, young one.
[playing guitar]
♪ ♪
- Chase, breaking into RTASA
is no simple task, to say the least.
- And even if we succeed, we won't be able
to disentangle the us in the Holon frames.
We have a plan to free them.
You won't like it, but--
- To free them, we have to kill them
and destroy the hard drives that contain the copies of us
Marin made her abominations with.
So no one can ever make slaves of us again.
- Oh, damn. - You don't have a problem
with any of that, Chase?
- I've killed so many versions of myself already, Yaz.
Every Nemesis we take down, that's me, remember?
We shouldn't be fighting on either side of this war.
We should be fighting to end it.
Now, go rest up.
We gotta be on our A game.
- You're making the wrong choice.
- You won't have to eat rat tomorrow.
The weather's actually good.
All we gotta do is--
[explosion booms] - Ah!
- Huh?
[tense music]
Chris!
[grunts]
♪ ♪
[whirring]
- [whimpers]
♪ ♪
- [grunting]
[groans]
- Sinclair, I'm glad you're coming home.
I have a mission for you.
- [grunting] Chris! Ah!
[screaming]
- Be free.
♪ ♪
- ♪ Flout the wind's howl ♪
♪ Flout the waves roll ♪
♪ Thunder claps rend the air ♪
♪ Baffle thou foes ♪
♪ Stand on the shore ♪
♪ Follow, they will not dare ♪
- ♪ Sleep on the boat ♪
♪ Like a bird on the wind ♪
♪ Onward, the sea-- ♪
- Take care of Clara's family for me.
I have to experience this.
Through this rite, you become one in the true community.
- ♪ Though the waves weep ♪
♪ Soft will ye sleep ♪
♪ Ocean's a royal bed ♪
♪ Locked in the deep ♪
♪ Flora will keep ♪
♪ Watch by your weep ♪
[light music]
♪ ♪