02x05 - King

[bunniefuu]

- [STATIC CRACKLING]
- [DISTORTED SPEECH]

[HAUNTING MUSIC]

♪ The door that finally opens ♪

♪ With light flooding in ♪

♪ Spilling out on the floor ♪

♪ ♪

♪ The core that never was ♪

♪ Now it will be the bones ♪

♪ Of what was there before ♪

♪ Every step, every b*at ♪

♪ Every thought, every breath ♪
♪ Everything is longing ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Pulling you from the sky ♪

♪ Just like love will do ♪

♪ Pulling you from the ground ♪

♪ Just like love will do ♪

♪ ♪

[STATIC CRACKLING]

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

In about hours, the chemical
composition inside the cocoon

is gonna dissolve his body.

♪ ♪

The cellular structure
is getting stronger.

It's not really death at all.

It's more of an... of an evolution.

His humanity is dissolving, Mother.

He's becoming a f*cking snake.

I apologize.

I misspoke.

I value your feelings.
You are my friend.

It's all right.

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[RUMBLING]

[BEEPING]

[BEEPING]

Why are we retreating?

You heard what Paul said.

The seeds are in the Tarantula.

There's too few of us
to mount an att*ck.

But hasn't Sol already granted
you all the power we need?

I think you're underestimating
yourself, Marcus.

- [GRUNTS]
- [THUDS]

[RUMBLING]

I k*lled Vrille

because I thought that
you were the prophet.

I am the prophet.

And you can't k*ll something
that was never alive.

She wasn't your daughter.

She was just a robot
keeping you from the light.

That's all she was.

Who's keeping me from it now?

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪ ♪

It's Romulus's tooth.
I found it in the wreckage.

It's an extremely important
relic, and it's not right

- that you're wearing it, child.
- Why not?

I found it, so Sol meant it for me.

Oh, doubtful. Give it to me!

You could be cursing us by wearing it!

It's a holy relic from the Ark

and not to be worn by the likes of her.

Those relics are all bullshit.

The Mithraic made tons of them.

No, it's real.

And it has power.
I can feel it sometimes.

Romulus was a king, was he not?

Yes.

[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC]

♪ ♪

It's not real, Marcus.

♪ ♪

I'm sorry.

You're right.

It's the perfect accessory for you.

Marcus, over here!

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

♪ ♪

It's another one of those temples.

♪ ♪

[WAVES CRASHING]

Holly!

Holly!

[EMBERS CRACKLING]

[SOFT MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[STATIC CRACKLES]

[MELODIC TONES PLAYING]

♪ ♪

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪ ♪

Hello.

Welcome to our world.

You had been disassembled,

and I managed, through
some degree of effort,

to put you back together again.

How it is your function returned,

I do not know.

I am a farmer by trade.

[EERIE MUSIC]

It would appear your caul
is not your caul at all,

but part of your build.

♪ ♪

Perhaps you're nervous.

How about a joke to break the ice?

I have prepared one just for you.

A black hole, a glass of milk,
and a cat walk into a bar.

The glass of milk asks the cat,

"Why does the black hole
have to tag along with us?

"Everywhere he goes, he sucks up

all the energy in the room." [LAUGHS]

[MELODIC TONES PLAYING]

You like jokes.

[EERIE MUSIC]

♪ ♪

Can you...

remove it?

- Father!
- [GASPS]

Can you come and see this?

Uh, it's all right.

Stay here.

Don't make a sound.

[DOOR CLICKS OPEN]

[DOOR CLOSES]

Hey, over here! I found it. Look.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[INSECTS CHIRPING]

Where have you been, Father?

Just checking on my work project.

While Paul is dying?

I wish I had the power to rescue him

from this horror, Mother, but I don't.

There's nothing I can do.

From Holly.

[DEVICE BEEPS]

[WHIRRING]

Necromancer, generic service model,

you are my kidnappers.

The church is my family now.

Do not come looking for me.
I am where I belong.

Respect my decision to stay here

and do not attempt to bring
any harm to my new family.

Vita, Hunter, Tempest...

get away if you can and come join us.

You can still save your souls.

[DEVICE WHIRS, BEEPS]

She needs to be brought home.

She's more apt to listen to you.

You've always had a softer touch
when it comes to the children.

With the exception of
number seven, of course.

I made no attempt to harm
your animal, Mother.

Tempest told me that you've
been fighting for sport

or some such thing.

What I do in my off hours
is none of your concern.

You're flagrantly risking damage.

- Do you need a systems check?
- No.

I'm functioning normally.

Who are you?

Are you a parent on a mission
to restart humanity

or are you some rogue android
who fights and tinkers?

It's one or the other, Father.

You can't be both.

Mother...

I feel we're becoming too human

to be the parents that
our children deserve.

Nonsense.

When you do retrieve Holly,

perhaps bring someone along with you

who isn't perpetually distracted.

It might be dangerous.

[DOOR HISSING]

Can we go in there with him?

Sue said no.

Especially not you.

It's okay.

Sol is in there with him.

Can he hear us?

Does he have any idea what's happening?

I don't know. I hope not.

How are you doing?

I'm fine.

No, come here. Look at me.

Seriously, how are you doing?

The encampment that was
supposed to take my baby,

they all ran off when Mother
shut down the Trust.

So I have no idea what I'm gonna do.

- [CHILDREN LAUGHING]
- Connection lost.

Maintenance required.

- [MARBLES CLINKING]
- Connection lost.

Maintenance required.

[CHILDREN GIGGLING]

Connection lost.

[DISTORTED] Maintenance required.

Paul is gonna die.

You don't think Sol is gonna save him?

[SOMBER MUSIC]

♪ ♪

I don't know what I think anymore.

♪ ♪

I miss it sometimes.

Being able to believe that there's
someone out there listening.

Someone with the power
to make things all better.

♪ ♪

[INSECTS CHIRPING]

[MELODIC TONES PLAYING]

What's that?

Sounds like someone's messing
around in Father's shed.

Hello?

There's nobody in there.

What the hell happened to this place?

Huh.

Hello.

It has skin now.

How did he manage that?

It looks like it could be functioning.

Thing creeps me out.

Looks like he posed it.

[EERIE MUSIC]

♪ ♪

Do you think he's been in here
pretending it's functioning?

♪ ♪

Maybe he really has been
k*lled one too many times.

Hey, look, we should
get out of here, okay?

This is his private stuff.

- Tempest, come on.
- Wait.

Whatever.

♪ ♪

- [ELECTRONIC WHIRRING]
- [HEARTBEAT THUMPING]

[GASPS]

♪ ♪

[BREATHES SHAKILY]

You okay?

Yeah.

I'm fine.

[WHIRRING]

[MAN GROANING]

Did you know about the Trust's plan

to sacrifice Paul?

[GRUNTS]

Yes.

And it was a sound decision.

The needs of the many
outweigh the needs of the...

- [GROANS]
- [ENERGY RUMBLES]

[GROANING]

Now tell me what the antidote is.

I told you I don't know.

- [GRUNTS]
- [GLASS CRACKS]

[PANTING]

[TENSE MUSIC]

[ENERGY RUMBLING]

[GROANING]

You never told me whose eyes these are.

They were my... my brother's.

What was your brother's name?

[SPUTTERS] His name. It was... Clay.

I mean... I mean Christopher.

Well, which is it?

It was Christopher.
My father's name was...

I thought you said they
were your brother's.

No, no. It was Chris...

[SPUTTERS]

- You're confusing me!
- Yes.

It's easy to become confused
when you've been reprogrammed.

I'm not a f*cking android!

Of course not.

But you see, humans can be
reprogrammed just as easily,

if not more so.

Simple redirection, conditioning...

repetition.

The Trust used you like
a parasite uses its host.

It's very likely that the
person you used to be

was not even up to the
task of protecting it.

Of course...

you might never know who you were...

as old programs are often overwritten.

[GLASS CRACKS, CLATTERS]

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

♪ ♪

They're your eyes, Cleaver.

♪ ♪

The iso-bath slow it down?

Negative.

Okay. What's next?

I have no other recommendations, Doctor.

This is the time to ensure

the patient is made as
comfortable as possible...

- That's enough.
- As you prepare him

- for the inevitable...
- I said that's enough. You can leave.

- Doctor...
- I said you can leave!

[OBJECTS CLATTER]

[BREATHING SHAKILY]

[SOMBER MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[BREATHES DEEPLY]

♪ ♪

Sol...

or whatever your real name is.
I know you're not a god.

You're a signal sent by
some alien somewhere.

If you can hear me...

He's innocent.

It's not fair. He didn't deserve this.

And he loves you.

He's a true believer.

♪ ♪

So I am begging you...

♪ ♪

Please make him better.

And I will do anything...

anything you want.

Just...

Please make him better. Please.

Please don't take my
little boy away from me.

I love him so much, so...

please make him better.

[SNIFFS]

[GATE BUZZES, CLICKS]

[GATE CLICKS]

You come to execute me?

- I'm not that kind of android.
- [LAUGHS]

Well, you could have fooled me.

You were all set to feed me to a
giant serpent a couple of days ago.

I'm here to offer you freedom...

in exchange for your help in
retrieving one of my children.

Don't you have atheists
to do your chores for you?

We experienced a serious
decline in our population

since Mother's coup.

And given your feelings
towards Captain Drusus,

I thought you'd be a good
candidate to assist me.

What's Marcus got to do with this?

Holly has taken up with
him and his followers...

your old friends.

So if I help you get her back...

I want Marcus and my old friends

to do with as I please...

in the name of the lord
they've so betrayed.

Agreed.

Okay, service model.

We have a deal.

[GATE BUZZES, CLICKS]

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

♪ ♪

We've been led here.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

Looks like it harnesses the
power of the planet itself.

I don't see the symbol of
the Sol Invictus anywhere.

This temple looks like it
didn't have any windows.

It didn't. No doors, either.

We found one that was fully intact
on the other side of the planet.

I don't like this place.

There's nothing to fear.

We have our prophet to
protect us from the darkness.

[EERIE TONE]

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[CLICKS]

[RUMBLING]

♪ ♪

[CHAIN RATTLING]

♪ ♪

There's some kind of trial
that must be passed.

I know not the nature of it,

but I do recognize the symbol
of the tree of knowledge.

Well?

What are you waiting for?

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[CREAKING]

[CREAKING]

[CLICKS]

[RUMBLING]

[CHAIN RATTLING]

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[CREAKING]

♪ ♪

[BREATHES DEEPLY]

Oh, no.

Holosphere?

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[ROSARY CLATTERS]

Oh, no.

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪ ♪

The hell?

No. No.

No. No. No. No. No. No.

♪ ♪

[AIR HISSES]

Come here, you little fucker.

[EERIE MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[BREATHES HEAVILY]

- [PANTING]
- [OBJECTS CLATTER]

[PANICKED GRUNTING]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[PANTING]

♪ ♪

[PANTING]

[SQUISHING]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪ ♪

No. No. No. No.

Oh. Oh.

Oh, no.

[MUTTERING INDISTINCTLY]

[PANTING]

♪ ♪

[PANTING]

Holosphere.

[INHALES DEEPLY]

- Holosphere!
- Doctor.

I think I need a psych evaluation.

What seems to be the problem?

I think I'm seeing things.

Have you eaten any untested fruit

or come into contact with any
novel forms of flora or fauna?

No.

Then emotional stress
is likely the cause.

We have several medications aboard

that will help prevent hallucinations.

I recommend Giddymax Five.

No, f*ck that, all right?
It'll fog me up.

Hallucinations will also,
as you say, "fog you up."

Ugh!

Do you have any idea... I was in
a f*cking w*r, holosphere, okay?

I saw insane sh*t every f*cking day,

and I never hallucinated.

Not once.

Even when I wanted to imagine
that I was somewhere else,

I couldn't f*cking do it.

[SIGHS]

Perhaps, Doctor, you could share

exactly what it is you
think you are seeing.

Leeches.

A couple of inches long...

with little, tiny teeth.

You are describing
aquatic leech variant six,

thought to have medicinal applications.

These leeches feed exclusively
on the marine creatures

that dwell in the acid ocean.

Medicinal applications?

Yes, but unfortunately, they're
very dangerous to collect,

while variants one through
five are quite easy to come by.

Well, I don't need one
through f*cking five.

I need variant six.

Then you will have to
collect it yourself, Doctor.

[WAVES CRASHING]

What do you need the leech for?

[DEVICE BEEPING]

- It might help Paul.
- [DEVICE WHIRS]

- Really?
- I don't know if it's gonna work.

Well, if there's even just
a little bit of chance,

then we have to try, don't we?

That's right. We do.

[DEVICE TRILLING]

Come on. Go down that way.

[TRILLING AMPLIFIES]

So the serpent... you
think it's dangerous?

I used to be scared of their
bones when I was little.

[DEVICE TRILLING]

But when I saw its eyes...

it's just a kid, really.

[CREATURE SCREECHES]

Holy sh*t. Look at that thing.

[CREATURE TRILLS]

[CLINKING]

[AIR BLASTS]

[CREATURE RETCHES]

No. You stay here.

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

♪ ♪

Ah, gotcha.

[BREATHING SHAKILY]

Careful!

[CREATURE SCREECHES]

[GRUNTS]

[CREATURE GROWLING]

- Ahh!
- [ROCK THUDS]

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[CREATURE SCREECHES]

♪ ♪

- [SPLASHING]
- [GRUNTS]

[PANTING]

These things better work.

[SOFT MUSIC]

♪ ♪

♪ Sol saves ♪

[SINGING INDISTINCTLY]

- [CAGE CLANKS]
- [CHAINS RATTLE]

[SINGING INDISTINCTLY]

Look.

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[DEBRIS CLATTERS]

[CREAKING]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[RUMBLING]

[CREAKING]

[GRUNTS]

[CREAKING]

[RUMBLING]

[CRASHING]

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[THUNDER RUMBLING]

[RAIN PATTERING]

[FAINT CHANTING]

[INDISTINCT WHISPERING]

We ask you, Sol,

please, Sol, cloak us in your light.

[TENSE MUSIC]

[CHANTING CONTINUES]

♪ ♪

[CHANTING]

[GASPS]

♪ ♪

[GASPING]

What's wrong?

[GASPING]

- No!
- [SCREAMS]

[EERIE MUSIC]

- [BLADE SWISHES]
- Ahh!

- No!
- Ahh!

[g*n COCKS]

- Ahh!
- [g*n CLATTERS]

Ahh!

[g*nsh*t]

You took my mother away from me.

Run!

You're sinners!

- [BLADE SWISHES]
- [GRUNTS]

♪ ♪

[PANTING]

- [SCREAMING]
- [CLANGS]

[RATTLING]

[PANTING]

Mommy?

Ahh!

[GROANS]

[GRUNTING]

[SCREAMING]

[g*n COCKS]

- [SCREAMING]
- [g*nf*re]

[GRUNTS, GASPS]

[STRAINING]

- [g*nsh*t]
- Ahh!

[SCREAMS]

[PANTING]

[GRUNTING]

Go to the light.

[GURGLING]

[PANTING]

[GASPS]

♪ ♪

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[QUICK FOOTSTEPS]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[CLICKS]

[RUMBLING]

[CREAKING]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[BONES CLATTERING]

[BREATHING SHAKILY]

[RAIN PATTERING]

[EERIE MUSIC]

[GASPS]

I found you, Mommy.

♪ ♪

[GASPING] Vrille.

[g*nshots]

♪ ♪

[ROCKS CLATTERING]

[GASPS]

- [GRUNTS]
- [g*nsh*t]

- [CRACKING]
- [GROANS]

[BONES CLATTERING]

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[GRUNTS]

[CLATTERING]

[PANTING]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

- [CORPSE VOCALIZES]
- [GASPS]

♪ ♪

[ENERGY HUMS]

[STATIC BUZZES]

[GRUNTS]

[HISSING, BUZZING]

♪ ♪

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[CRACKING]

[GROANING]

♪ ♪

[GROANS]

What the f*ck?

f*ck! f*ck!

[ROARS, SCREECHES]

[GROWLING]

♪ ♪

f*ck.

[GRUNTING]

Ahh!

[CREATURE SCREECHING]

[g*nsh*t]

[PANTING]

- [CAGE RATTLES]
- [RUMBLING]

♪ ♪

Help me, Sol!

Thank you.

[GRUNTING]

♪ ♪

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[YELPING]

[WHIMPERING]

No! Come back!

[PANTING]

[t*nk HATCH RATTLES]

No! Come back!

[SOBBING] Come back!

[SOBBING]

[PANTING]

[EERIE MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[GASPS]

Finally found a pet to hold.

Vrille?

Vrille, honey, I'm so sorry.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

I made... Mommy made a real bad mistake.

The worst mistake she's ever made,

and you know she's made a lot of them.

You're still you.

You're... that makes me so happy.

It means... it means it's not too late.

Really?

Yes. Yes, we're gonna start afresh.

[PANTING]

I know we both like a
fresh, clean slate, right?

Yes.

- I hate being mad at you.
- I know.

- I know.
- I just want to be understood.

Well, I will try harder, honey.

Okay?

Okay.

Are you ready, then?

For what, honey?

[GASPS] No.

[BOTH GRUNT]

[GASPING]

I want to help you.

Help you understand what it's like...

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪ ♪

to be me.

[SCREAMS]

[RAIN PATTERING]

[BEEPING]

So if the necromancer is queen now...

does that make you the king?

These are absurd terms.

We're simply stewards.

As soon as Campion is ready,
he'll take over for us.

Right.

Was that her idea?

Yes.

But I'm starting to think she's right.

Do you see that?

Marcus would never pass that up.

Remember, Holly is priority.

I'm a man of my word.

Hope you're an android of yours.

[RUMBLING]

[LIQUID DRIPPING]

[CAGE RATTLES]

[DARK MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[INHALES SHARPLY]

[EXHALES SHAKILY]

♪ ♪

[SOBBING]

Thank Sol.

You're alive.

[SOBBING]

It's okay.

Hey.

You're looking more awake now.

How you feeling?

It was kind of like being in hypersleep.

I got some fruit juice for you, okay?

All right. Take it slow.

Do you remember any of what happened?

Yeah. I...

Yeah, we went to warn, um...

It's okay.

Campion told me.

The Trust used Mouse to
deliver a virus, and...

you got sick.

How did you make me better?

Omnibiotics?

No. They didn't work.

Campion helped me.

We had to obtain some
indigenous leeches.

How'd you come up with that?

You know what? I'm gonna tell
you all the geeky details later.

- You need to rest.
- Yeah, okay.

[GRUNTS]

What's the matter?

It's kicking.

It must be happy for Paul.

It's livelier than usual.

Don't worry.

It's not in distress.

[FIRE CRACKLING]

They got what they deserved
for following your ass.

Now it's your turn.

[TENSE MUSIC]

You're with the atheists now, Lucius.

No, m*therf*cker.
I'm the last true Mithraic,

come to snuff out the darkness.

Turn around.

Do what you must.

- Sol will protect me.
- Wait, wait, wait, wait!

Don't! Don't! Don't! Don't sh**t him!

He's the prophet.

- Father, I will never forgive you.
- No, just...

You got what you came for.
You promised me something.

Martyring him would be a mistake.

Dogs don't become martyrs.

- You're the dog, traitor.
- You really shouldn't let your kids

- push you around like this.
- You should just shut the f*ck up!

- Traitor! Traitor!
- Holly! Holly!

You made me a promise, service model.

And you will get what is promised.

But not while a child is present.

We'll take him back with us.

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[PANTING]

So you gonna tell me how you
came up with the leeches?

I didn't come up with it.

- Mother again?
- No.

I prayed.

Are you serious?

Or are you just saying
that 'cause I almost d*ed?

No, I'm telling the truth.

I prayed, and something heard me.

It's probably the same thing

that was talking to you and Marcus.

[SIGHS]

Sounds crazy, right?

That's what it's like to be a believer.

But really the atheists
are the crazy ones.

This wasn't god, Paul.
This was... something real.

It's like some sort
of alien transmission.

What's the difference
between a god and an alien?

Well, one's fantasy, and
the other's an unknown.

Well, did you have to prove yourself?

What do you mean?

In the scriptures, Sol
always asks atheists

to prove themselves
before he helps them.

He didn't ask me for anything.

Then maybe it's something
different you heard.

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪ ♪

Look.

Whatever we call it,

just know that I believe in it now,

whatever it is.

It's Sol.

You'll see.

♪ ♪

[SIGHS]

You can k*ll the sleep aid.

Are you sure?

You're also in need of rest, Doctor.

Soon. You can go.

Yes. Thank you, Doctor.

Mary...

[FAINT WHISPERING]

Mary...

[WHISPERING INTENSIFIES] Mary.

Grow the seeds.

The seeds... Grow the seeds...

[WHISPERING CONTINUES]

Grow the seeds.

[OVERLAPPING WHISPERS]

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

Plant the seeds.

[WHISPERING CONTINUES]

Mary, grow the seed.

[ETHEREAL MUSIC]

I'll do whatever you want.

Just keep him safe.

♪ ♪

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪ ♪