There hasn't been a murder 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.
- [grunting]
[tense music]
♪
- Stay back!
- [grunting]
♪
- ♪ I went behind enemy lines to fetch a pail of water ♪
- Ahh!
- ♪ A farmer saw, but he did not draw ♪
♪ Because I was under--
♪
- He's nay breathing!
- Then leave him. Indira's out there alone!
♪
Indira, Indira!
♪
- [whimpering] Ahh!
- I've got you.
♪
- Thank you.
♪
- Paul, Arlo!
- We're here.
♪
- Who goes?
- Fire crew.
♪
[whistles]
♪
[whistles]
♪
[whistles]
- 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 bomb.
- No, IO would prevent that.
It won't be a bomb that will destroy us.
It will be doubt.
[dramatic music]
♪
- 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 kill us all when we land.
Free Lune! They'll never let us live!
It's a trap! Stop the Bridge!
The Earthers are gonna kill us all!
Are you listening to me? You're all gonna die!
Listen to me!
[dramatic music]
- 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 war.
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 gun.
Shoot 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!
[eerie humming]
[soft vocalization]
♪
- 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 war 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 war,
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.
[soft music]
♪
- 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 aids their cause.
- Their cause is just. They doubt.
They're hot-riled by fear, but I am not afraid.
[laughs]
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 war.
- 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.
[tense music]
♪
- 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 shit.
Can I, uh, show you something?
I found this when Paul and I went back
to where Chill was killed.
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 shit.
- 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 shit.
- 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.
[dramatic music]
♪
- 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 kill 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 kill 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.
[soft music]
♪
all: Clo Wing, we honor you.
Ama Tone, we honor you.
Wish Spur, we honor you.
♪
[tense music]
♪
- 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.
[soft music]
♪
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.
♪
all: ♪ Ahh
- 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."
♪
[tense music]
♪
- "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.
[soft music]
- 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.
[explosions and screams]
[dramatic music]
♪
- Maite?
♪
- "Where one world ends,
the next one begins."
[tense music]
♪
[grunts]
♪
Ah.
♪
Hello, flower.
♪
- Th-thanks.
[dramatic music]
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 kill you.
What is this?
It's not for us.
What have we unlocked?
♪