This wasn't an attack.
It was an extraction.
Indira: By not letting the ships down,
Maite is playing right into the rebels' hands.
Maybe someone else needs to stand up.
I saw us, crowns and thrones.
I saw our future on the new moon.
[Suspenseful music plays]
Your mother didn't die.
She wandered off and did not return.
I've never seen anything like that before.
It's telling her where to go.
Like a compass rose.
Hello, flower.
♪
[ominous music]
- Thank you, Detective.
You saved me a lot of trouble
finding the missing piece.
- Mm.
This is very fragile.
I could destroy it before you take another step.
It's sad, really,
that you would let me do the work in finding it.
If you think about it,
we're all detectives...
dropped into a puzzle of a life,
looking for clues
to why we're here.
- Please. Shut up.
- No guns on the Glade.
But I've brought my own weapon.
I will talk you to death.
You should be resting still. You don't look healed yet.
[doors beeping]
- Don't worry.
This won't take long.
[switch panel hums]
[muted audio]
[air hisses]
[both gasping]
- Drop the flower, and I'll kill you.
- [screaming]
- It's no mystery why I'm here.
I know exactly why.
- [screaming]
[panting]
[water splashes]
[ominous music]
♪
- Thank you for the private conversation.
We're at a delicate moment.
- It's obvious the resistance on Lune is being coordinated.
- Their numbers are still small.
- After what happened at the ceremony, they're growing.
You said yourself Tomm is dangerous.
He's come back from the dead, for God's sake.
If he's formed an alliance with Council Chair Maite--
- And as soon as I find her, I'll get answers.
- And what if you can't?
If you can't get Maite back, the ships can't land,
and the whole world will know there is trouble.
If Tomm were to get hold of both keys to IO--
- You're talking about a coup.
That's not possible here.
- If you can control IO, you control everything.
What's to stop them from asking it to blow up the Earth?
Or the 12 billion people
so they can have the planet to themselves?
- IO would never allow that.
People hold the keys, but IO guides them.
It's the balance that works.
- IO is not a person with a conscience.
It is a tool!
In the wrong hands, it'll mean devastation!
- I will find Maite!
[animals chattering]
[soft serene music]
♪
- [exhales sharply]
[laughs] Look, Loa, these are new.
- Is that a weed?
- These are what the old pluckers
called "volunteers."
Gusted here by wind and rain--
the bounty of chance.
♪
Weeds fight the garden.
They thieve the light and water...
but volunteers help the garden.
They join the cause.
- And would you say I'm a weed or a volunteer?
- What? - On Moonhaven.
It's the wind that brought me here.
What have I added to the cause?
- What do you mean?
You have brought only light.
♪
Primo is the past.
It's vast and fear-tangled...
a jittery prototype.
♪
Why don't we camp here tonight?
It's a beautiful spot.
- With all that ahead of us?
- I don't have your wild explorer's heart.
I prefer the orchard.
I like order.
- I need to keep going.
I'll be back soon.
- I understand.
Go.
♪
- [sniffles]
♪
[dramatic music]
♪
- The Envoy wants to see you.
- [sighs]
- Sonda, tell me you have some news.
- Maite was spotted going into Primo.
- Into the wilderness?
Who else knows this? - Very few.
- Keep it that way.
We can't afford more panic. [knock at door]
- Envoy.
- Why would Maite want to stop the First Wave from leaving?
- If I were her,
I wouldn't ship out an army of my best and brightest...
not with an insurgency forming at home.
But I don't think that's why she's running.
[soft music]
She thinks the Bridge is doomed.
- She was more and more erratic.
She talked to me of a new way forward.
I've seen her dose herself.
All her Dreamer studies,
growing new strains, new pathways--
she could've gone too far.
- And you said nothing?
- I've looked up to her my whole life.
She's always led us true.
- Maite told me she's gonna find the gateway
to a new civilization.
She believes an alien race has arrived on the Moon
because of IO.
No shit.
- Why does she believe this?
- Dreams, signs and symbols.
Maybe her plants told her.
- Sonda, give us a moment.
♪
[door closes] - Maite told me
she and my mother were together...
for a long time, I guess.
That's why she's been watching me,
and it's the reason she left.
Maite thinks my mother didn't die
but somehow crossed over...
to them.
She believes this race can talk to IO.
She told me my arrival on Moonhaven was a sign.
- A sign?
- Maite's gone to find them...
and my mother.
- Maite is lost, but you don't need to be.
You know what's real and what's not.
This place can change you,
but you and I both need to remember who we are.
- You can still catch her.
Have Sonda lead a team.
- A Mooner might not be willing to do what's necessary.
- If IO were to detect
that the council chair had died...
- Maite's key would be transferred to the second.
Sonda and I could give permission
to the ships to land.
- When I met Tomm,
he asked if my name meant beauty...
or war.
- Did you know the answer?
Go to Primo. Find Maite.
I need you, Bella.
I trust you.
[dramatic music]
♪
- Bella.
- Your dad awake? - Oh, yeah.
- I hope you don't mind,
we borrowed one of your favorite things.
- Paul, this has to wait.
- A Mooner knows when the water's rising,
you need to take a breath before you go under,
and I can tell from your face, we're about to go under.
- It'll give us some brightness to remember.
Our last dance.
["The Boy from Ipanema" playing in background]
♪ ♪
- ♪ Tall and tan and young and handsome ♪
♪ The boy from Ipanema goes walking ♪
♪ And when he passes each girl ♪
- Elna!
Yeah.
♪
- ♪ When he walks he's like a samba ♪
♪ That swings so cool and sways so gentle ♪
♪ That when he passes, each girl he passes ♪
♪ Goes, "Ah"
[both giggle]
- Paul.
- ♪ Oh
♪ But I watch him so
- Here's the Glade,
Big Fence, and the Fringeland beyond,
and here is Primo...
the old wild.
It can be dangerous. The terrain is erratic.
- What do you mean "erratic"?
- Well, people say things change out there.
Rivers shift course, hills rise and fall.
It's a big area.
Knowing where to start's gonna be the problem.
- I'd understand if you didn't come.
I know you're loyal to Maite.
- Well, I don't believe she'd do anything to harm the Bridge.
But I want to know the truth.
- I recognize this.
What is it?
- Pilinius Crater.
- I think there are paintings of it in Loa's studio.
She obviously spent some time there.
Maybe that's where Maite's headed.
- It's not much to go on.
- I know, but I have a feeling.
- Oh. Bella has a feeling.
Okay, I like that. - [laughs]
- That's all we have, so let's follow it.
Okay, the crater is about a day's hike,
so we--
- What?
- Arlo's here.
Appears to be holding his own arm.
[light music]
♪
- Okay, Arlo, here we go, like...
Yep. - You got it?
- Hang on. There.
- Yeah? - Okay, wait.
Yeah. Deep breath, Arlo. - Okay.
- And down. - [winces]
- Okay. - [groans] Thank you.
Oh, no, little.
Don't worry. I'm fine.
- [chuckles]
- Okay.
We figured out that it's a compass rose,
like the ancient sailors used.
Chill was following it somewhere
the night she was killed.
- Does it still work?
- When I reattached the petal you found,
I saw it light up.
You two trek to Maite.
I will solve the riddle of the rose.
- Can't do it alone.
Tomm and his band will be looking for you.
- Then Tomm must be a glutton for pain.
- [laughs]
- You two both should've been there.
- I wish I had been, but right now
we need to protect this thing.
- Mm-hmm. - Take it to the Envoy.
She'll help us.
Blu's guarding her with their brother
and a group they trust.
It's the safest place you can be until we get back.
- I will.
[light music]
♪
- What? What is it?
- I don't know.
- You seem pretty happy for a man who barely escaped
with his arm, let alone his life.
- Maybe that's it.
We're actually in it, Paul.
We're detecting. - I know. It's new.
Hmm.
I like it. - [laughs]
'Tective Paul.
- 'Tective Arlo. [both laugh]
both: Hmm.
- I always knew we'd be the ones to save the Earth.
- Just be careful, my old friend.
You are Truelune.
- Why be anything else?
- I'll be back for your departure.
- I know.
[sentimental music]
♪
- Don't worry.
Everything's gonna be okay, Elna.
- When?
♪
- Look to the sky.
When you see the transport ships
come down from orbit, everything'll be fixed.
Promise.
♪
That's my girl.
♪
[ominous music]
♪
- Maite has fled to Primo.
The Envoy's desperate.
- She's dangerous when she's desperate.
- What can she do?
With the ships stuck in orbit, Earth's panic will rise.
There will be collapse.
Maite's madness will save our people.
Do you have the flower?
- Turns out the detective had the missing piece.
It's working again.
He took it and got away.
I let him live.
It wasn't his time to die.
- We've sacrificed a lot for that flower.
If they destroy it-- - You're all a bit too curious
to destroy something so strange.
We'll watch them and be patient.
And they'll do my work for me.
- You shouldn't have gone.
You're not yourself yet.
- Am I scaring you?
- Of course not.
You've been through something I'll never understand,
but I know you're still there.
This is the future.
Without the Bridge, the First Wave will stay.
Our people will be safe.
Lune will finally have its own way forward.
- There is no forward and back.
There is only the seen and the unseen.
♪
Maite will die.
You'll take control of the key. - Tomm?
- You're going to let those ships land.
- Well, why--why would I do that?
- Because I've seen it.
[sighs]
I suppose if you need a reason...
It's because you trust me...
and because we love each other.
[dark contemplative music]
♪
[contemplative music]
♪
- So Maite believes your mother came back from the dead?
- She said a bunch of crazy things.
- We've solved many things on Moonhaven but not that.
Does she think she's still out here somewhere?
- Sure. Why not?
If you see her, holler.
We'll all have a good old laugh.
Maite's just in denial...
probably has been for a long time.
But now it's really curdled into something else,
something dark.
- Then she needs our help--
heavy heart hauling.
We'll get her home safely and all pitch in.
[water rushing]
- We're near the river.
♪
- The map says the bridge should be right here.
- It's right there and also over there.
[chuckles]
- Trapped in a dream out here...
IO's dream.
- On recon, there was always a moment
where the satellites didn't help.
I like it when there's no map.
I miss that sometimes.
- You miss the war?
I ask--I've got nothing to compare it to.
- No.
But there's always moments...
Things you never would've experienced otherwise,
things you don't want to give back.
- The filaments light the way.
You see? It's working again.
This is old Dreamer artistry. - Oh, it's beautiful.
- And you think whatever the Markless are looking for,
this will lead us to it?
- Chill died trying to keep it from Tomm.
That is my opinion. As a 'tective--
- We need to see where it leads.
- Oh, no, there is a plan in place.
We wait for word from Paul and Bella.
- Arlo, why not burn it to ash?
Her guard lurks.
Dark mood and shadow.
If this is a key, keep it far-ever from its lock.
- The 'prentice has a point.
Yet, this mystery is of us.
We made it.
If we turn it to smoke...
- That's what scares me.
Maybe an Earther can't break you,
but if Tomm's found some forgotten weakness,
then we need to know it.
This is my fault.
I feel a very strong obligation to fix it.
I need to go where this leads.
IO will protect me.
- Okay.
But we go together.
[soft ringing]
- Oh.
I've heard of this place.
These are tombstones from the original settlements.
- Are these from the rebellion?
- There were many more than this.
- When we learned about the Moon in school,
it was only the science.
The miracles to come.
Our saviors in the sky. [scoffs]
Earth was going to be healed, oh, yeah...
[chuckles] Any day now.
- That day is actually here, Bella.
- How can you still believe in it
when things are messed up?
- I'm no different than you.
You said it yourself, you fought for a cause.
- That's just something I say so things make sense.
There was no cause,
just people in high places
sending people like me off to die.
That's sort of the basic setup of history.
In my unit,
the only cause we had was each other.
They were my family. - Yeah.
Earth and Moon, we're one unit.
We got your back. - [laughing]
- Listen, I'm a total nobody.
I was lucky to be born here,
lucky to play my part and spend my days
with those I love.
Nothing's perfect.
I have my doubts, believe me.
But if nothing else, I always know--
we always know--
we're contributing to something bigger.
- Very few people on Earth feel like that.
It didn't used to be that way.
[contemplative music]
♪
- I won't let you kill her, Bella.
We're bringing Maite back...
alive.
♪
- This place is very old.
[distant indistinct chatter]
- Who lives here? - Let's see.
- We call ourselves Gazers.
- Why Gazers?
- We gaze...
at the stars, the future, into ourselves.
We prefer a simpler life
beyond the everyday stress of the Glade.
- The Glade was too stressful for you.
[chuckles] Wow.
- Uh, we've been on edge these past few weeks.
Our comms went down.
We were preparing to send a group back to the Glade
to see if you had any answers.
- To what?
- IO's been more restless...
restless and disturbed.
We're used to the rumble and crack,
but this is different.
- These are...
glitches, violent spasms.
- We saw the bridge on the river.
- Mm-hmm. - Snapped in two.
Just like that.
- And we've seen people in the woods.
- I think they're from the Glade.
There's been an uprising.
- We came out here looking for Maite.
- Maite? [children squealing happily]
Our leader wandering Primo?
- She's involved. - She might be involved.
We don't know what's going on.
- We haven't seen her.
And it's not malcontents from the Glade who trouble us.
Shadowy forms haunt the edge of these ruins.
- Some of us think they're the ghosts
of the original settlers.
- Ghosts?
[light mystical music]
- Tell them, Zek. Tell them what you saw.
[music darkens and swells]
- I saw a child in the trees...
wild and swift...
different.
♪
- Arlo? - Mm.
- How did you acquire that brilliant arm?
- Tello, that's a private matter--show respect.
- I'll tell him how.
I was in a debris storm when the Tofi burned up on reentry.
[sighs]
Well, you guys know about that, right?
- Arlo, I had no idea.
- Mm-hmm. - A terrible tragedy.
Few survivors that day.
- Yeah, I lost some people.
The circle of my heart.
[sighs] It was a bad day for everyone.
But IO put me back together.
- I'm sorry for your loss, Arlo.
- Well, it opened the door to other victories.
Every day is new and precious.
"Savor sweet the bitter wisdom,"
as Mwangi wrote.
- I know that feeling.
You're lost, floating,
but then you find direction and momentum...
a rebirth.
If you hadn't survived,
where would you be?
- That's a funny way of putting it.
Are you asking me what I think happens after we die?
This has turned into a fun stroll.
I believe this is what you get,
and you better get it right.
- I believe the same.
[flower chimes softly]
[soft curious music]
- We're getting close.
♪
[indistinct chatter]
- She saw what I've seen.
You still don't believe me.
- I want to.
There's always been watchers in the trees--
elves, Bobos, Nix.
We fill the darkness with our own concerns.
- Do you know how many times I've been told
not to believe what's happening right in front of me...
or to me?
It's not complicated to stop that shit, but it's hard.
You actually have to believe yourself.
I'm good at it now.
It's kept me alive.
I know what I saw.
It's real.
- And now we chase Maite, who chases a ghost,
a memory.
And she would say the same as you.
She believes it's real.
She risks all of our survival for what?
A festering wound.
Dark heart cannot see.
- Then we're all blind and wounded except for you.
- That's too easy.
You know my wounds.
I just see well enough not to believe in the impossible.
- We're having this conversation on the Moon.
What's that?
Impossible things happen all the time now.
- Yeah, okay, exactly.
IO...
we create a tool that solves hard problems,
sees things as they really are,
and isn't distracted or tricked by fear or yearning.
- But someone yearned to make it.
How do you think the pyramids got built
or the Giza Needle?
Some--someone got wounded.
They got their heart broken,
or they wanted their daddy to love them
or to--to prove somebody wrong.
Or they were chasing a ghost.
That's what built IO.
We don't survive in spite of our wounds.
We survive because of them.
[chatter continues]
- Bella, do you think your mother's still alive?
[dark music]
♪
- This is the limit, I'm afraid.
- It can't be. We need to go beyond the wall.
- Should we? - No. It's not safe.
The air is too thin. You go too far, you die.
No! - Envoy!
- I need to know what this is.
- [grunts]
[panting] - The tree.
It's leading us there.
- This is a bad idea.
We can't stay out here long.
Slow your breathing.
[all breathe slowly]
♪
[soft vocalization]
[chiming]
♪
- What is this?
♪
- It's the same composite as the flower.
What have we unlocked?
♪
[breathing heavily]
[wind whooshing]
♪
My name?
- What?
♪
- These are family names.
This tree tells the Blood.
All the bloodlines of Moonhaven are here.
♪
No, no, no!
No, no!
Only IO should have this information.
It's not for us.
- Things change.
[dramatic music]
Good to see you, Envoy.
♪
- This was your plan.
You want to break the very thing
that holds the Moon together.
- I'm making it stronger.
- You'll make it tribal.
You're a traitor, Tomm.
You'll never succeed.
- She's right about that.
[all breathing heavily]
- I'm sorry, but we're not on the Glade anymore.
IO can't save you out here.
♪
[gunshot] - [gasps]
♪
- Dad!
- Tello! [body thuds]
[rumbling]
[cries] - Oh!
- What's happening? - It's IO!
[all gasping]
- Okay, it's okay. - Blu!
Run, Blu! Go! - [cries]
- Run! Go! - Aah!
- Everything is shifting! - Cut them down!
[people screaming]
- Go, Envoy! Go!
- Aah! - Get to cover!
[gunshot]
- No! [people screaming]
[gunshots]
- Aah!
♪
[person screams]
[Paul mumbling indistinctly]
- [coughs]
- [mumbles]
[groans]
- Are you okay?
- Oh.
Dreadfeel.
[groans weakly]
[eerie music]
Maite.
Oh, we're so happy to find you safe.
- She found us.
♪
- What haunts your heart? Please.
- You are the gift, Maite...
the all-giving gift.
The miles I came through darkness, finding you.
[soft music]
- [sighs]
But...
- Leaving Earth was a mistake.
I try to forget...
by running.
- You are a Seeker.
It's your nature to leave.
♪
- I left behind my daughter.
You sleep at night.
I lay awake.
Does she think of me like I think of her?
- It's hard, no doubt.
But a true Seeker is beauty-rare.
The rest of us march in circles,
swamp-stuck in our mistakes,
but a Seeker like you escapes to light the way out.
- Maite...
I want to go back.
♪
[haunting music]
♪
- We wish to talk.
You know of the trouble on the Glade.
People think you're behind it. I do not believe that, Maite.
We're running out of time.
You have to let the transport ships land.
- The Bridge is nothing.
- You spent your entire life working for the Bridge.
We all have.
We're so close.
Please, I don't understand.
- Bella...
we've both been so alone.
We thought Loa had left us behind.
She's come back to us.
Loa, Loa is the bridge between past and future.
She has found the new way forward.
- My mother is dead. - Bella.
- She brought you to the Moon,
and she brought you here to me.
For years...
I regretted what I did to keep her on the Moon.
- What do you mean "keep her on the Moon"?
- She wanted to go back to Earth.
She wanted to go back to you.
I told her you were dead.
♪
Forgive me, Bella.
I had to.
♪
- Bella!
Stop!
- You stole my life from me.
- They brought you here for a reason.
This is not the end.
This is the beginning.
Ask yourself, are we to be remembered
as the descendants of apes
or the ancestors of gods?
♪
Come with me.
[music swells]
- No!
♪
- [screams]
- Bella!
[grunting] - [shouts]
♪
[grunts]
♪
[both grunting]
[both panting]
[mysterious whooshing]
[melancholic music]
♪
- [breathing heavily]
- Blu!
Blu. - [crying]
They're dead. They're all dead.
[ships whooshing overhead]
♪
[engines roaring overhead]
♪
- The ships are landing.
Everything's going to be okay.
♪
We're here to save the Earth.
It's simple.
How did the tree move inside the fence?
It was the fence that moved.
Naya was watching us and asking us one question.
Are we worth saving?
Doubt and paranoia are on the rise.
It's no longer safe for you to remain on Moonhaven.
All the Mooners are going to turn against the Earth.
A reckoning is on its way.
Man: This will all be over soon.
♪