Maite has fled to Primo, the envoy is desperate.
IO's been more restless, restless and disturbed.
These are glitches.
We're running out of time.
You have to let the transport ships land.
If you can control IO, you control everything.
You're talking about a coup.
This was your plan.
You want to break the very thing that holds the moon together.
I'm making it stronger.
Maite: This is not the end, this is the beginning.
[serene music]
♪
- [sighs]
♪
- Wish!
♪
- It was a massacre.
- Everyone's coming to find their blood families.
The flower led them here.
More will come.
We have to find Arlo.
- How did the tree move inside the fence?
- It was the fence that moved.
- Word has spread of Maite's death at the crater,
that you were there.
Lone says you're a good man,
but three of you walk into Primo,
and two of you come out.
Now, you can't expect everyone--
- I expect nothing.
My partner, 'Tective Arlo Noon, is missing.
Have you seen him?
[soft tense music]
- Help us, Fritz.
♪
- Paul! Paul!
- The Envoy wants to see you. I've come to take you to her.
- Honestly, kid, tell the Envoy she can wait.
♪
- Over here!
- [panting]
[cries]
[sighs]
[somber music]
♪
- Paul. Paul, look.
♪
Here. Paul!
♪
[Paul grunting]
♪
He's alive.
- [wheezes] - Meega.
- [laughs weakly]
You're stuck with me, 'Tective.
[dramatic music]
♪
Oh.
Wish is gone.
- First Wave launches within the hour.
Why didn't you wait for us, Arlo?
- I had my own journey to take, and I'm glad I took it.
- How did you make it outside the wall?
- The wall came to me.
After the first shot, everything started to change.
I'd never seen that before.
- That's IO...
moving underneath you, trying to stop the bullets.
- That is what I believe.
Paul...
that tree was built by Mooners
who couldn't let go of the old ways.
It needs to be hidden.
- With my mada, I felt the pull of blood.
Its strength will weaken us...
break our bonds.
Blood leads to blood.
- We will all be strangers again.
- When you can't overthrow an enemy with force,
you destabilize it.
Once people know their blood families,
there's no going back.
This place will collapse.
- Mooners died to save me.
They're strong. They won't be tempted.
- They're streaming to that tree.
You need to burn it down.
- Tomm knows we can't interfere in something so sacred,
but he's underestimated me.
Your friend won't have risked his life for nothing.
Bella, none of this matters.
Because of what you did with Maite,
the transport ships are loading up
to take the First Wave back to Earth.
- It wasn't me.
She knew we were coming.
She waited, and then she...
She jumped.
- Whatever happened out there
will remain between you and 'Tective Sarno.
- I'm telling you the truth.
- We're past truth.
Doubt and paranoia are on the rise.
- You sent me after Maite.
I went out there for you.
- Could anyone have held you back?
- What are you doing?
- I am doing what is necessary to save Earth.
It's no longer safe for you to remain on Moonhaven.
- Great. I'll go back to CAT.
You can forget about me.
- I've saved a place for you on a Transport.
You're going back to Earth.
[dramatic music]
♪
- You said that you were different
because you believed in something.
But I see you now.
You believe in nothing.
- Cuff her!
- Bella!
- No! [bracelet beeps]
- Envoy!
- Thanks, kid.
♪
You're sure of what you saw?
- The Envoy is rounding up the Markless.
- She'll do anything to save the Bridge.
She's saying I murdered Maite.
She tried to send me back on the Transports.
- They say she's using your ship as a prison.
- What? - Prison?
- She's hiding it from IO.
That's why she's using CAT.
She can do what she wants to them there.
- Our children launch today.
Why shouldn't they be kept safe
from the rebels who want to stop them?
- With martial law?
This is not who we are.
- You know what it sounds like
when people change who they are?
It's quiet.
- Mooners have a choice.
We can follow the Blood Tree back to the time of tribes,
or we can follow the Envoy into a new kind of darkness.
When both directions lead nowhere...
- Leave the path.
[dark unsettling music]
♪
- Move along!
♪
[urine trickling]
♪
- Indira's rounding up your army.
It's only a matter of time before she gets to you.
Don't call for help.
I didn't come alone.
- [sighs] [zipper closes]
I've never called for help...
not once.
The Envoy can do whatever she wants.
Doesn't matter.
All the Mooners are going to turn against the Earth.
A reckoning is on its way.
- Always the fortune teller.
- This linear bullshit gets pretty dull
once you've seen it from above.
The voices used to whisper from behind a door,
but now I'm in the room.
- I got you good, didn't I?
The Singers turned you into fried eggs and toast.
- Shit. You remember eggs?
[chuckles]
You see, I'm transformed because of what you did to me.
- I was hoping you'd die.
ICON's shut this place down before.
They can do it again.
- Once we take control of IO,
ICON won't have a say in what happens next.
The question is, will you?
I could use a real soldier, Bella.
- I don't know if this place could work, Tomm,
or if the Mooners could save us...
but why not let them try?
[distant whooshing]
- The ships are leaving.
You should've gone with them,
gotten out while you still had the chance.
There's nowhere to run now.
[whooshing continues]
Hmm.
Your name means "war," Bella.
[engines roaring]
[dramatic music]
♪
- Wish is on his way.
- We all miss the boy.
- I don't miss him. I'm happy for him.
- Fritz, you and I disagree on many things,
but mainly I don't like you because Lone does...
also the way you talk and things you say.
- Paul. - He would say the same of me.
To you, my voice-- - It grates
like sand in a wound.
- Indira is rounding up the rebels,
but word is spreading about the tree.
The Envoy's guard means to weaken us, and it's working.
- And things change.
Perhaps the time has come
for Mooners to take strength from their blood.
- Look what that did to the Mother.
Are we ever all doomed
to walk in circles repeating the same mistakes?
- Mooners are not better.
We are them. They are us.
- No!
IO, IO is here, not there.
Surely you've imagined what we could be
if we took control.
- But has it occurred to you that IO is watching us?
Did IO move the fence to give us the tree
or to give us the choice?
It learns from us, Fritz.
Maybe IO is watching us and asking us one question...
- Are we worth saving?
- [sighs]
- Why do you waste your breath on me?
Hundreds will find the tree today, thousands tomorrow.
- We don't need to change a thousand thinks...
just one.
[soft curious music]
♪
[whistles]
[indistinct chatter]
♪
[whistles] [indistinct chatter]
[firebox ringing softly]
- You can't keep us from this. - I'm not.
I'm giving you time to think
about what you're doing!
[music swells]
[whistles]
♪
- I heard you were the Earther.
- You skulk where you shouldn't.
It'll get you into trouble.
- What are we fighting for?
I thought it was a free Moon.
I thought we would keep our people here,
keep them safe, but now they launch,
and you tell us all to trust you.
- The First Wave needs to return to Earth.
- [scoffs] Why?
We need to forget about the Earthers.
Let the Earthers go.
Help me let them go.
- See?
This is the problem.
You're in love.
You say you want to move on, but it's like gravity.
The Earth holds on.
- We can change. We will.
- No. You're all trapped here.
And I know how to set you free.
[ominous music]
This will all be over soon.
♪
- Remember...
in our work, we seek connection.
We are built things in the world,
but we also exist as thoughts in those who love us.
Our heart is here.
But our soul is in our friends.
- Come to pay your respects?
- I miss her.
- You betrayed her.
I know about Tomm.
You played concerned while you encouraged Maite
to chase her ghosts.
You wanted her to die so you would get the key.
- I didn't want her to die.
I wanted her to take care of us.
She would've understood what we were trying to do,
but when you arrived, her craze--
- You could have helped her.
Mooners need a leader now...
not a spy...
not Tomm's puppet.
He told me about a reckoning.
What did he mean?
- Tomm knew Mooners were anxious
about the First Wave.
We spread rumors the Bridge was a trap, and it worked.
Since they came from the Envoy's own guard,
Mooners believed the lies we told.
- But the First Wave's already left.
What's Tomm gonna do when his lies don't come true?
[dramatic music]
♪
Sonda...
- I swear I didn't know.
- Tomm has shared the landing sites with Terra.
- Earth insurgents--
they've been fighting against the Bridge since it began.
They're ruthless.
- This is impossible. The landing sites are secret.
- Tomm had a spy in every Waver Circle.
They were willing to die for the cause.
The First Wave will be ambushed and killed where they land.
♪
- Warn them. Tell them to divert.
- It was decided to keep their comms dark
until they land.
It was meant to keep them safe.
- There's no way to reach them.
♪
- [grunting loudly]
♪
He knew!
Tomm knew the First Wave would leave!
He wanted us to trust ourself,
push past the fear, follow our hearts,
so that when our hearts were wrong, they would break!
What have I done?
[breathing heavily]
- You never could've held him back.
He's Truelune.
I started to believe I was part of something bigger.
But I know that's not real.
I'm not here for a reason.
But I am here.
And if I can help you, I'd like to do that.
- Wait.
A Mooner knows not to wallow-sink alone.
Where are we going?
[device humming]
- How now.
How do I know you?
- I'm Paul Sarno.
I helped those that felt pain when you died.
- You take care of the living.
- Yes.
- Chill...
do you remember your blood mother?
- We don't know them.
But I met mine...
once, by the water.
She was a Seeker.
- Did she bring you the flower?
- In a box.
She told me to hide it, and...
I did.
- And one day you showed it to Strego.
- My love.
[light sentimental music]
♪
You're making a mistake.
It's not too late.
♪
- You tried to protect it.
You died to save this place...
to save the Earth.
That is a worthy life.
♪
- My mother was a Seeker.
♪
What are you?
- I'm...
just a pilot...
♪
A smuggler, a soldier.
♪
Oh.
Smugglers.
There might be a way to get a message to the ships.
When I needed to contact Earth without being detected,
I used an encrypted channel.
We set 'em up during the war to move contraband.
- The Singer. - Mm.
- Her contact on Earth. - Jate.
There is a chance he could get a message
to the Transports the same way.
But there's no guarantee it'll reach them.
- We have to try.
- How do we reach Jate? - We have to get onto CAT.
It'll be dangerous.
The only access to the Secondary Comms
is near the cockpit up on the flight deck.
If we wait till night,
I can get us in a hatch at water level.
- Mm.
- I'd like to come.
- There's no way a kid's walking into a prison ship.
- I could be useful.
I'm unexpected.
- Yeah. - No!
- We learn by doing.
[ominous music]
♪
[tense orchestral music]
♪
- Where is everyone? - Shh, shh, shh.
♪
[doors beep, open]
- The Markless. - Sleeping.
- Let's go.
- She's cuffed them all.
♪
- I know him.
He's a good heart.
- We know many here.
♪
[distant indistinct chatter]
- I probably should have mentioned
that Jate hates the Moon and Mooners,
and he's probably wondering why I never turned up.
[footsteps overhead, chatter continues]
[device beeping, doors open]
♪
[indistinct conversation]
♪
[device beeping]
[whispering] Jate. Hey, man.
How's it going? - Why are you whispering?
- It's a long story.
I-I have a favor to ask you.
- Sure, Bella. Whatever you need.
- Well, we, uh-- - Just saying, though--
if the favor involves me using my hands,
it might take a while,
seeing as all those bones are broken.
Yeah, see, it turns out,
if you don't deliver a Moon drug on time,
people start to feel nervous and impulsive.
- Jate, hi.
She had good reason for what happened.
I'm sorry for your wince and suffer.
- Who the fuck is that? - That's not helping.
- Oh.
- Get in there.
They'll see you.
♪
Jate, I am so sorry I bailed.
I'll tell you the whole story another time,
but right now we have a big problem here,
and I need your help.
The fate of the world may be in your hands.
He said he'll try to reach them.
There's nothing else we can do.
Let's go, kid.
- Elna.
- I'm staying. I'll listen for them.
People will need to know if it worked or if it didn't.
I'm small enough to hide here. You're not.
I need to know if he's all right.
- Elna, your dad's risked enough.
[footsteps approaching]
Now. - I'll scream.
- I'll knock you out. - No, you won't.
- Yes, she will. - Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Elna, I'll let you stay.
But your wits and thinks must be sharp
and you must get out at sunwarm,
whether you hear from the ships or not.
I'll be waiting.
There's no hiding from the trouble that comes...
for any of us.
[soft music]
♪
- Don't die.
♪
[indistinct conversation]
[music darkens]
♪
- Oh, shit.
- Wake them all.
♪
- No guards. - The end is in sight.
- Tomm's here!
He's taken control of the ship!
[alarm ringing]
[whirring] This isn't a prison anymore.
It's a barracks. Run!
[person yells indistinctly]
♪
[gunshots]
♪
Indira wasn't there.
Tomm must have taken control of CAT.
He has his army again.
- And your message to the Transports?
- It's a long shot, at best.
- A traitor sits at our table.
Tomm's army is her army, too.
- She's come to help, Fritz.
Payback can wait.
- I never meant for this.
- My love for Lune is what drew me to Tomm--
the promise of a free people.
- Moonhaven isn't a people. It's a purpose.
- The Envoy may be our best shot.
ICON will send ships.
- To save us or to shut down IO?
- We cannot know what happens next.
But sadness, undealt, turns to hate.
I feel it in myself already.
- If you can be broken, Paul,
what chance do the rest of us have?
- I don't know how we come out of this alive,
but I do know we start by making it through tonight.
- Some of us have crumbled, Bella.
But most Mooners still believe.
They need to know they're not alone.
- We're here to save the Earth.
It's simple.
Tomm muddles it with temptations
towards tribes and power--
to freedom.
But a Mooner knows they're only free
when they finish what they came to do.
- We're not a violent people.
- But we will defend ourself.
Ooh.
- What's happening? - Roy!
- I'll take the first watch.
- Indira's been captured. They fear the worst.
Is there word from Elna?
- Nay.
- Any dreadfeel?
- All is dread.
[soft music]
♪
- I'm glad you're still with us, Arlo.
You've practiced dying more than most.
♪
- I'm sorry for your friends, Blu,
and your brother.
♪
- Why would IO allow this to happen?
- IO is still learning and watching.
♪
It's not our parent.
It's our child...
For now.
[dark music]
♪
[indistinct chatter]
[doors open]
[device beeping]
♪
- This is Circle 13.
We're diverting our landing. - This is Circle 18.
We got your message and have diverted our landing.
- Circle 35. We've heard your message.
- Circle 22. - New landing site selected.
- Message received. - Circle 17. Diverting--
- Divert our landing. - This is Circle 49.
- Circle 27.
Message received and understood.
- We have received your message.
- Circle Team 6.
Message received.
We are diverting.
♪
[indistinct chatter]
[doors hissing]
[doors close]
♪
[indistinct chatter]
[tense music]
♪
[footsteps overhead]
[chatter continues]
♪
- [inhales sharply]
♪
- The road ends here, Envoy.
It's over.
[doors close]
In my benevolence...
I just may let you live.
- How's our little revolution?
- I'd trade all these Markless for half a dozen Rangers.
They're going to need a lot of work.
- The Markless have never mattered--
a means to an end.
They're just part of the chaos.
The Mooners have never known real suffering.
But after today, they will.
They'll be divided and weak. The Bridge will be dead.
We'll have control of IO,
and the Moon will be ours.
- [chuckles]
You've got to start thinking bigger.
Your pilot came by to see me.
I asked her to fight for me.
She turned me down.
- She stands apart.
♪
[light clatter]
♪
- [panting]
- What now?
[gun hums]
♪
How could you?
[gunshot]
♪
- Doda!
- And Wish? - He's alive.
- So are you.
- The Envoy.
- You saw her?
- [panting]
She's not what she seems to be. She's working with Tomm.
♪
Arlo, wait for me!
[birds chirping]
- [chuckles]
- With Indira and Tomm bound against us,
I'd say the chance of our survival is slim.
- I know there's a Resistance, and we have some intel now,
but it's not enough.
- When news of the landings spreads,
Earth will be in chaos.
ICON might not survive.
And the First Wave is still in grave danger.
We're on our own.
- I'm not going back with you, Paul.
Indira will have the whole Moon looking for me.
I need to go where they won't follow.
- Primo.
Maite? - You saw what I saw.
If Maite's broken through
to something we can't explain...
she may be our only hope.
You think I'm crazy.
- My face didn't move, Bella,
and I'm starting to believe the impossible.
- Don't say goodbye for me.
Tell 'em I'll be back...
with help.
- I knew you'd go.
When the pull is there, a Seeker can't refuse the call,
no matter what they have to leave behind.
Your mada understood that.
You are Truelune, Bella.
- No.
This isn't for the cause.
This is for the unit.
- Well, we'll be ready for your return...
to fight Indira and for the future.
- You fight for the future.
I'm gonna make sure she doesn't live to see it.
♪
- Do you worry about IO?
That it moved the wall?
♪
Maite believed others have arrived
and they can talk to it.
- What you see as a problem, I see as an opportunity.
If something out there can talk to IO,
well, then I want to talk to them.
We're safe here.
IO can't do anything if it can't see us.
[foreboding music]
♪
[birds chirping]
- Our boy will touch the Earth.
- Elna was sighs and shambles.
- She feels for us all.
You taught Wish courage, Lone, sharped his mind.
He'll be ready for whatever lies ahead.
- Can you feel it, Paul?
We're on a fold.
There'll always be what happened before today...
and what happens after.
- And us? Are we on a fold, too?
Watching you drift
has been harder than I could ever have imagined.
- It wouldn't be so hard if you could see me.
You look at me through all our past,
all we've done and been.
- We were good-heart and bright together.
Tell me what I need to do for us to start again.
- You need to let go.
No one sees the truth like you, Paul.
When we're lost and jumbled, you shine the way out.
But darkness comes, and your light is dimmed
for looking backwards.
For all of us, for Truelune,
you need to face forward and lead.
- That's not who I am.
I'm a father, partner, 'tective.
I'm happy with that.
- You're so worried about the change around you,
you missed it in yourself.
Don't be what you were, Paul.
Be what you are.
[wind whistling]
[dramatic music]
♪