Where have you been?
Taking a walk.
By yourself?
Who else would I be with?
What's that?
Just a sketch.
Show me.
May I take one?
Beer?
That's rare.
- Kampai. - Kampai.
Tomorrow we'll know…
if this was all worth it or not…
when we get Cate back.
A week,
or a month,
there's still a good chance Cate would be alive.
But it's been two years.
It may not be two years.
What does that mean?
What if,
time doesn't work the same way there?
What if a year can pass in a day?
Why would you believe something like that?
After G-Day,
when I disappeared for that year,
I told you this before, but I went to Alaska,
to prove my parents' theories.
There,
I found a rift.
You went in…
It was a day,
two days at most…
when I finally came out, in Africa,
it was a year later.
Why did you hide this until now?
I wanted to protect you and…
I didn't want you to follow me.
But we've had this time.
Working together in this mad place--
I was happy.
Thanks to you, I got that year back.
Excuse me.
Do you know if this is the funeral for Hiroshi Randa?
Yeah, this is…
Zook?
Is this possible?
You know we're gonna have to talk sooner or later.
I keep thinking.
It's unfair that you didn't get the chance to say good-bye to him.
I wish…
I wish I could undo what happened.
If I knew that he was coming--
If you knew?
The hell did you think was gonna happen? It's a Titan, Cate.
Tell me what you were doing down there.
I don't know. I couldn't control it.
I don't know what's happening to me.
You have to trust me.
Dad would want us to figure this out together.
You've lost your mind.
Dad's dead.
Is everything okay?
No. No, everything is not okay here.
The world is under a Titan alert,
and no one has the faintest idea of what to do.
Do you? Does Monarch?
How long before Godzilla shows up and cleans up Cate's mess?
Kentaro,
I know you're in a lot of pain.
But no matter who's to blame,
fighting won't bring your father back.
Kentaro.
We'll leave first.
Kentaro.
Kei, an old friend would like to say hello.
Dr. Suzuki.
Dr. Randa.
Major Shaw tried to explain it to me, but seeing it…
You should be as old as I am, and yet, look at you.
I know it's a lot to take in.
I wish it were for a different reason,
but I'm so happy to see you both.
You must be Cate.
Hiro's told me so much about you.
Wait, I didn't realize you two kept in touch.
More than that. He'll come to Hateruma often.
You know, if it wasn't for what this man created at Hateruma,
none of us would be here.
You should see it sometime, Cate.
Well, why not come now?
We wouldn't want to impose, no.
No, please. I'll be honored.
I don't know. Until Monarch gets a hit on that Titan,
that might bring us all some peace.
Trade stories about Hiro.
I'm not sure waiting around here for it to show up is helping anybody.
Please.
Keep it safe, Hiro.
I'm gonna find a way to set things right. I promise.
Day one.
- Good morning. - Good morning.
Good morning.
Good morning, Dr. Miura, Mr. Randa.
Good morning.
Alice. I'm Mr. Randa's new secretary.
Really?
Of course.
Your secretary just went out to get some pastries, Dr. Miura.
She'll be back soon.
Oh, okay.
It's very thoughtful.
Okay. This way to the new Monarch offices.
Your office is just through here, Doctor.
Here we go.
Holy moly.
Yours is right next door, Mr. Randa.
It's almost as nice as this one.
Yeah.
"Don't screw this up. General Puckett."
- The man has a way with words. - Yeah.
Can you believe it?
Monarch on three continents.
You know, your photos of the Titan are what got us all these outposts.
I cannot wait to get back out in the field.
At least unpack before we start planning
- the next expedition. - Yeah.
Plus, we don't know how long until the Titan shows up again.
What is that?
Hiro did it for the new offices.
We decided to call it Hiro-saurus. What do you think?
Knock knock.
- Hey, look at you, full regalia. - Yeah. Yeah.
Well, a fancy place like this. I figured I had to dress up.
Hi, Lee.
Kei.
You wanna help us christen the place?
Actually, if you will indulge me,
I'd like to make a toast.
Yeah.
Six years ago, when I first met you.
My first thought was,
these two are going to get themselves killed.
And then I eventually realized
that, actually, you were more likely to get me killed.
But now it's very obvious
that you are not only very capable of keeping yourselves safe,
but you are probably going to save us all one day.
So, cheers.
It's a nice toast, but why do I feel like I'm getting broken up with?
Bad poker face, huh?
Well…
I've been reassigned.
- What? - No.
That is ridiculous. I am calling Puckett right now.
Hold on, no, don't. I've already talked to the General.
He's the one who approved my request.
- Your request? - Yeah.
Yeah, he's getting his third star and he offered me a position on his staff.
Well, I guess I just always thought we'd see this thing through together.
It won't be the same without you, Lee.
Guys, I'm relocating to Maryland, not the moon.
Look, we don't give a hoot about the logistics, Lee.
I thought you were happy here.
It's not about whether I'm happy or not, Billy.
It's about what's best for all of us.
So,
to Monarch.
May?
Hey.
I'm sorry that I wasn't at the funeral.
And I figured that maybe I wasn't welcome there.
And I don't know, after everything that happened,
I also understand if I'm not welcome here.
I can…
You haven't spoken to Cate?
No. No, I came here first.
I wanted to see how you were holding up.
I don't want to talk about it. Let's get a drink.
Put that away.
You're not reporting to me.
Dad.
How long has it been? Three years? Four?
- Five. - Five years.
- Yeah. - Hot damn.
- Yeah. - Well, you better get in here.
- We got a lot of catching up to do. - Yeah.
I can't believe I'm stationed at the same place with my son.
It's a tight-knit community here.
Hell, I know half the senior officers in this place. It's basic.
- You'll be well taken care of. - What are you doing?
Well, to celebrate your new assignment.
No, no, it's my first day tomorrow.
You can't have one drink at eight o'clock at night?
No, I just wanna be sharp. I wanna be my best.
You're right.
Hell, I know how much Puckett's approval means to you.
Okay, fine. One. One drink.
Fine with me. This stuff wasn't cheap.
Bullshit.
So, are we gonna talk about it?
- Talk about what? - Why you left Monarch?
Yeah, I don't know if it's…
Not really one of our strong suits, you know what I mean?
- What? Talking? - Getting personal.
Oh, it's personal.
So, did you fight someone or fornicate with someone?
Jesus Christ, Dad. Come on.
Why do those have to be the only two options, huh?
Matter of the heart then. Officer's wife?
- Secretary? - Wow. Okay.
- You're not gonna let this go? - Army nurse? Somebody's mother?
She was a colleague, Dad.
She was a colleague.
A scientist.
Most brilliant person I've ever met.
And she's spoken for, I take it.
By the second most brilliant person I've ever met.
Although I'd rather eat my hat than admit that to his face, so.
Yeah.
You know I love this country,
but it tricks us into thinking we can have it all sometimes.
Success, happiness, family.
But honor.
That doesn't come without a price.
I'm not so sure I've kept that either.
You stepped aside, didn't you?
Yeah.
- You want another? - No, that was just a stingy pour.
I just want the rest of my one drink.
- You know… - Thank you.
- …I sat at this very table… - Thanks.
…more times than I'd like to admit,
asking myself why Project Hourglass ended in disaster.
What went wrong?
Time dilation, of course.
Without that piece of knowledge, every equation was off.
It's a miracle that rift didn't kill us all.
After that, I was blacklisted.
My visa revoked. My reputation ruined. My inventions destroyed.
Everything?
They said that if I so much as looked at another isotope,
Monarch would throw me into asset management.
That is until Hiroshi came to me.
He wanted to know about my Titan phone.
Titan phone?
Suzuki device.
I told him that it had been seized by Monarch years ago,
but Hiroshi set to work building a new one from scratch.
- To Hiro. - Yeah.
I was gonna top everybody off, but it seems like we're out.
There are more over there.
Seeing my work live on in him.
It restored me.
This one's out too, Zook.
Why don't you show me where you keep the good stuff?
Oh, God.
Oh, shit. Oh, shit.
Hey. What are you doing here? I thought they had you in Hodge's hall.
Had an early meeting. Skipped breakfast. You hungry?
There's a place a few blocks away.
It has flapjacks so good they'll make you cry.
Well, that's a really nice offer, but I don't think
- I should be late on my first day. - Nonsense.
I already gave Puckett the heads-up.
- I ate already, so-- - Son,
if you don't have one of them flapjacks, I'll have you court-martialed.
All right. One cup of coffee. That's it.
Remember the last time we were at Sota's?
Yeah, New Year's.
Yes.
He accidentally served us that $9,000 Yamazaki.
"Don't swallow it! Spit it back in the bottle!"
Hard to imagine that was my life.
Going to whiskey bars and hanging out with cool Americans.
Who? Me?
Now, I'm just a guy who watched his dad bleed out in the dirt.
Come on, Kentaro. We don't have to do this.
We can always go home.
No, no, I'm good.
- When did he add all this? - Do you think Sota's is this way?
Welcome.
Table for two?
- Yes. - Right this way.
Isn't this Sota's place?
What happened?
You mean the previous owner?
- Hai. - He sold it about a year ago, but…
I think you'll really like it here too.
No, let's go somewhere else. It's--
No, I… I came for a drink at Sota's.
I'm gonna get a goddamn drink.
- Welcome. - Whiskey.
Do you have whiskey?
We have…blue raspberry whiskey sours?
Okay, but without the blue raspberry.
Thank you.
Well, here's to Dad.
How long have you been sober now?
Hiroshi wouldn't have wanted his loss to destroy years of sobriety.
Relax, Zook.
The only thing I'm interested in destroying is the monster that killed him.
Nah, you can't destroy a Titan.
No, I can't, but Godzilla can,
and I just happen to be at the home
of the only man that knows how to get his attention.
That's why you invited yourself here.
Honestly, Zook, I'm just trying to help us survive.
Nothing we try to do seems to be right…
but I can't stop trying.
We can still save millions of lives, Zook.
You know that. You just need to take the leap.
You need to see my tomatoes.
After seeing the improvement Hiroshi made to my Titan phone,
I was inspired to come up with something new.
Oh, yeah.
Could you use this to draw a Titan away from a major city?
Theoretically.
How about toward a target of your choice?
We're just talking theoretically, right?
So, indulge me. How does this work?
It didn't. You see, for all these years I've pondered the wrong question.
Now that I know about time dilation,
I simply need to calculate the time difference
between our world and Axis Mundi.
The correct question is not where you last saw Godzilla, but when.
Yeah.
Do you remember a few years ago when I had the flu?
I just moved here. I was in this new country
and feeling really sorry for myself.
I'm so sad and lonely, and you showed up at my doorstep
with Ramen
and every installment of the Back to the Future trilogy
for three nights in a row.
You know that was the sweetest thing that anybody has ever done for me.
Really?
You can still be the sweet guy
who does a really bad Doc Brown impersonation.
Sorry.
- No, it's okay. - Look, it's my mistake.
- No, it's fine. - I'm the wrong Randa.
That's weird.
You prefer my sister, no?
- Kentaro… - Well, I don't know. Maybe…
She didn't want you, after all.
I'm gonna give you some space.
I'll call you in the morning.
Make that two.
I saw you strike out with your date there.
Sorry about that.
Wasn't a date.
You had to take your shot, right?
Cheers.
Who knows, this could all be over by tomorrow.
Mind if I join you?
Isn't it funny?
These stars.
They're from another time.
The light we see now is their past.
It's already happened,
but the light somehow keeps going
like a memory that refuses to fade.
Do you find that comforting?
It's what I tell myself.
Somewhere in some part of this universe…
Hiroshi's light is still shining.
Cate, don't move.
That ripple in the water,
I've seen that before.
When Titan X was near.
No…
But it's got to be thousands of miles away.
Yeah.
How long has this been going on?
Since I let Titan X out.
So, that's what you meant on the plane.
I didn't know what it was.
I thought I was going crazy.
No, you're not.
Tell me everything.
We need to take measurements of the signal you're receiving.
We might be able to retrofit some of Suzuki's equipment.
- What are they doing? - I don't know.
Where are you going?
What is that? What does it do?
Well, that's what we want to find out.
We're simply going to test its capabilities.
We're headed for Mount Osore.
There's a rift there, same one I woke up in front of in 1982.
You want to open a rift to Axis Mundi?
Not right now, no.
We just want to know if it's possible.
For what purpose?
Why would you risk bringing another Titan into this world?
Godzilla's not just another Titan.
What are you even talking about?
Oh, my God. Godzilla and Titan X,
you want them to fight.
Yes, I want them to fight.
But, hopefully, with this at a place and time that we determine.
Are you out of your mind?
They're not attack dogs to be sicced on one another.
What if you've got the biggest, baddest dog in the fight?
Look, we're not opening a rift.
- We're simply testing its capabilities. - Testing its capabilities.
You sound like the generals, Lee.
You can't control Godzilla, you know that.
You're not the man I used to know.
I don't know, Kei, maybe that's a good thing.
Dr. Suzuki… please…
I'm sorry, Dr. Randa, but…
the cost of doing nothing is too great.
But these are living beings, Lee.
They are far more intelligent and ancient than we can possibly imagine.
And we are human beings.
And just like those monsters,
all we want to do is survive at the top of the food chain.
It's us versus them, Kei.
And in the end, only one thing matters.
Who wins.
G-Day footage. Drink.
What are you doing?
I am putting my number in it.
I just figured since you already struck out once today, you weren't gonna ask.
So, I took the initiative.
G-Day. Drink.
Showing all that destruction and death on loop, it just makes people numb to it.
I don't know that I agree with that.
We've literally made it into a drinking game.
I mean, that's true.
But maybe you need to be desensitized to it, you know?
So that when the moment comes you don't panic.
No, when a Titan shows up, you'll panic.
I guess you would know.
What?
How do you know I've seen a Titan before?
I just… I guess, assumed.
I… I…
knew I had too much to drink.
Who the hell are you?
My name is Isabel and I'm Walter Simmons's daughter. And--
Wait. What? Did they send you to spy on me?
No, they didn't.
There was a little bit of stalking involved.
But, no, no, no. They didn't send me.
They actually said that I shouldn't approach you
'cause you probably would be too angry.
Seems like good advice.
I don't know. I guess I just don't believe that you're ready to give up
and let Monarch take over, or worse, Cate.
As far as I'm concerned, you guys are all the same.
No, please.
Give me a chance to prove you wrong.
You should have seen it, Dad.
This thing was the size of the Empire State.
I'm telling you, it was breathing fire.
Thank you, sweetheart.
No, no. We're good.
- Let me get the bill. I got to go. - No.
- Lee, listen, you're not gonna be late. - No, Dad. I'm late.
- I was supposed to be there two hours-- - Thank you.
You're not gonna be late because you're not reporting
to Puckett anymore.
What?
Wait, what? What do you mean?
I had you transferred to MAAG Vietnam.
That's funny.
Yeah. MAAG.
Yeah, that's what I was doing this morning.
What?
MA… You did what?
Military advisors?
That's right.
Why would you do something like that?
Because I know what's best for you.
Now, if you're done having a fit, I will explain.
Look, that cushy job in Puckett's office might sound impressive,
but you're never going to advance in this army
if you don't have a record people can look up to.
Ever since the French shit the bed in Dien Bien Phu,
we've gotten more involved in the region,
which might result in some combat experience.
I just don't want you to make the same mistakes I did.
I trusted the wrong people, was too naive.
I didn't care about the politics and got…
I missed the boat on my own career.
It's a good story.
I'm supposed to believe that you missed the boat on your career
because you were too naive?
You got something to say, you better say it.
I have crisscrossed the globe ten times
and seen monsters the size of naval destroyers.
I've faced down things you can't imagine.
Yeah, and after five years, what do you have to show for it?
Dad. We are trying to…
to protect people by understanding how these things operate.
Lee, do you think they want to learn to live with us?
You think they want to understand us?
No. They want to destroy us.
All they care about is survival, and here's a dirty secret.
That's all we care about too.
Because in the end, only one thing matters.
Who wins.
Who wins, yeah, that's all that matters.
Lee, it's been troubling me.
What?
What if Godzilla emerges?
Kentaro!
Thank god you're here, I was so worried.
Oh, shit.
May! Let's go.
- Cate? - It's okay.
I told you it doesn't want to harm us.
Are you okay?
Thank goodness.
You're okay?
Welcome to your new home, Captain.
Sir.
- Thank you, Private, you're dismissed. - Have a good day, sir.
It's Isabel. Leave a message.
This is Kentaro.
Prove me wrong.
We have to get answers and find Titan X before Lee calls Godzilla.
If what you're feeling is really coming from Titan X,
then maybe the signal you're receiving can lead us to it.
Let's try again.
- Ready? - Water and electricity.
What could go wrong?
The transducer converts the waves coursing through your body
into electric signals we can analyze.
Are you reading something?
The amperage is low.
The signal is too weak.
If we could immerse you a little more, we might be able to amplify it.
I'm scared.
The last time I got closer…
I know.
Cate, we'll take it slow.
You only have to go as deep as you can.
And you'll know when to stop.
What if I don't?
I will.
I'm here.
Oh, my God.
It's working.
Cate.
You did it.
Listen.
What is it?
Do you hear that?
That's panic.
That's fear.
I… I think it's lost.
Yeah, this is it, Zook.
This is where I came out.
Then let's see if by accounting for time dilation
my calculations can locate Godzilla.
What's wrong?
The rift's residual energy, combined with the power we're adding
could trigger quantum distortions.
There is one way to bypass the interference.
A conduit to collect readings.
A conduit. That sounds good.
I'm the conduit?
So, like Benjamin Franklin's kite?
Well, yes. In a way.
It necessitates you getting closer to the rift
than any person should reasonably go.
What's the worst thing that can happen here?
The worst is…
I don't know.
Oh, my goodness. Lee.
Sorry, I let myself in. I…
I figured I'd find you here working on the weekend.
Lee, I'm… I'm sorry I didn't try harder to convince you to stay.
No, no.
I wanted to, but your mind seemed made up
and the way things were between us…
I… Yeah. I think what I'm…
What I'm really here to say
is even if you two are fine on your own…
I'm not so sure that I am.
What you're doing here, Kei, is way too important
and I promise
to put my feelings aside for Monarch.
That is if the position is still available.
Of course.
Nobody could ever replace you, Lee.
Kei.
What changed your mind?
I got an uncomfortable glimpse into my future
without a couple of good eggheads by my side.
You wouldn't say good…
if you saw Billy's proposed route through the Urals.
There was an incident at a Soviet power plant.
It was forced to cordon off the area for a hundred miles.
I think there's something more going on there.
Yeah. Where is it?
Kazakhstan.
Oh, yeah. These need to be synced together because…
Have you ever attempted to have a conversation in the middle of a hurricane?
- Got it. - Yeah.
All right, where do you want me?
A little farther down.
- How's this? Good? - Yeah, almost. Yeah, good. That's it.
Yes. Yeah.
That's it. Yeah, stay right there, stay right there.
Yeah.
All right.
Okay. Get back.
Easy, Zook. Easy.
Is it working?
It's picking up an anomaly.
I don't know if it's a Titan.
I'm getting a strong signal here, Zook.
Are you picking up Godzilla?
It detected something.
But I don't think it's Godzilla.
Dial it down! It's pulling me in.
Come on, Zook!
Zook!
Okay.
Zook, I'm running out of real estate here. I'm serious, kill it! Kill the power now!
I already did.
Whoa.
Did you catch that?
Did you see it?
What… What was that?
Catch what?
My instruments are reading something, but it doesn't make sense.
Who cares? That was great.
I don't even know what we just did, do you?
No.
Control?
Control, do you read me? Over.
Who is this?
Who am I speaking to?
This is Major Leland Lafayette Shaw III.
My crew is dead.
My vehicle is damaged.
My food has run out.
Control, I need an extraction.