07x07 - Worst Case Scenario

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Keep dreaming bout a better world. You keep wishing for some clarity.

Always hoping. It's going to save you from this gravity.

You're holding up a.

But inside your mind.

When you don't know where to turn to.

And you sure all hope is gone when the.

Come and dark will yield to dust. Trust.

Ain't no better.

Citizens of Marseille. Following a most recent grim att*ck,

a temporary prohibition of assembly and.

There are to be no public.. Gatherings of any kind.

Please conduct your business and return to your homes before curfew.

This is for your own safety.

Hey! Stop right there! Stop running! Wait.

m*llitary officials have gone on record to say the footage was doctored.

Many citizens are still insisting that the protector of mantle be deactivated.

You were obstructing an Atlas m*llitary operation.

Please step aside. Everything all right over here?

Uh. Hello?

This is the worst case scenario. More people are dead.

Penny's been framed. And somehow, Jack, she is sitting on the council.

That's the second shipment for Amity that was hit today.

It seems election night was the last

push Robin needed to go from hometown hero to full on vigilante.

I'm afraid the problem is more complicated than that.

It seems Robin has emboldened our suppliers and mental.

They're refusing to sell us provisions until the city is adequately repaired.

With Robin redistributing the goods her team has stolen,

the Amity project is completely stalled.

But we're so close, there has to be some way

we can finish the tower. There is declaring martial law.

You're not actually considering that, are you?

What's more important? Establishing communication to unite the world.

We're appeasing a few city blocks.

Don't make it sound trivial when you know it isn't.

You keep talking about how we just need a little more time.

But you're not the one having to struggle.

We have all had to make sacrifices for the greater good.

Mantle has had to bear a lot

of the burden. Yes, but they're..

Bearing all of it. The longer this waiting game goes on,

the harder each day gets for people down there.

And now you want to send in more soldiers.

You can't force people to fall in line.

If you do that, you'll just be trading

all of these problems for the grim.

Please. General Ironwood. Squeezing mantle this way.

That kind of division plays right into Salem's hands.

That's why Tyrion is here framing you, right?

The reason we called you here in the first place.

You're sure this was the man you saw?

Tyrion. Carlos was accused of murders all across Anima,

a homicidal maniac who escaped justice when

his prison transport was att*cked by Grimm.

After that, he was never seen again.

Well, he works for Salem, and he's here.

If we ever had any doubts. Atlas was Salem's next target.

I think those are officially out the window.

But now we have a suspect. We can tell the people that a..

Long lost serial k*ller is loose in mantle,

and the m*llitary has no idea where he is.

Might make things worse before they get better.

I am so sick of secrets. If we just

told everyone about Amity, about Salem, we can't.

If we talk about Amity now, we risk

Salem's forces who we know are here, working to sabotage it.

If we tell them about Salem now,

we risk falling to the Grimm before we can reunite remnant.

We have to finish the tower.

I want Robyn Hill in custody. We can

offer her a deal if she gets mantle to cooperate.

We'll figure it out. And anyone not

assisting with Robyn needs to focus on Tyrion.

I want to know who he's working with,

where he's hiding, what he's planning, and how

exactly that video of Penny got all over my kingdom.

Do I make myself clear? Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

Looks like we're approaching st.

Thanks again for the assist on this.

You too. Now we may all be split between different trucks,

but we need to be ready to act

as one in case Robin's team takes the bait.

If your truck is hit, pursue immediately.

Everyone else will move in as fast as possible.

Going radio. Silent. Over.

Do you?

Do you think we should have told

Ironwood about Salem before he put so much

on the line for Amity? Sounds like you do.

I trust Ruby. But I think he deserves

to know what he's stepping into. We all did. You don't agree.

Look around. The embargo, the m*llitary presence, the restrictions on assembly.

He's a bit prone to overreacting. Yeah.

Hard to argue with that. Still, he didn't

have a lot of good options. I'm not sure there are many good

options left for any of us anymore. Keeping secrets, taking lives.

It makes you wonder how far we're

going to have to go to keep doing the right thing. Blake.

We did what we had to do.

I know, but next time I want to make sure we don't have to.

And I can tell you, ambushing a huntress

who's just trying to help isn't an option. I'm thrilled about choosing.

Then maybe we shouldn't.

How is she doing?

She's confused. Scared? We'll have her recorded visual data shortly.

That should prove her innocence. But the damage has already been done.

The things people are saying about her.

If Penny hadn't been there, Robin would be.

I don't think Robin was their target.

Salem's goal has always been to divide us.

I think Penny was exactly where they wanted her.

Just like at the vital festival.

And just like back then, someone is

using our own technology against us.

This doctored footage of Penny came from her

work all around mantle stolen straight from our surveillance network.

Hacking technology. Oh, why can't people just

do what they used to and fight to the death?

A lot simpler, if you ask me.

Well, if we're dealing with the same enemy from beacon,

hacking into mantle system would be simple.

Fortunately, the rest of Atlas is running on an upgraded network.

And how would someone get access to that network?

Well, only a few people have clearance.

Ironwood Council, our cyber security and surveillance leads,

and maybe a select few who oversee

critical systems like sewage or the heating grid.

The heating grid run in partnership with the Schnee

Dust Company. What are you thinking?

I don't know yet, but something isn't right.

Understatement of the century, huh? And how are you doing?

If Maria hadn't offered to help me these past weeks,

I'd have likely collapsed by now.

Getting a communications tower into the sky seems impossible on its own.

But now, to think of what people want to do to my girl.

Even if the worst does happen, you can always reactivate her again.

So maybe try not to worry so much.

There's a reason why Penny is the only one of her kind.

Within the general first challenged us to find

the next breakthrough in defense technology.

Most of my colleagues pursued more obvious choices.

I was one of the few who

believed in looking inward for inspiration.

You wanted a protector with a soul.

I did. And when General Ironwood saw he did too much.

To my surprise, the Haney Project was

chosen over all the other proposals.

Why would you be surprised? You created an artificial aura.

Not quite.

You gave her part of yours?

Yes. And each time I rebuild Penny, it takes a little more.

If the people get their wish and she's

destroyed. I won't be able to.

We'll find whoever's responsible. I promise.

Robin.

Scramble! No, wait. Split up and regroup at the hideout.

Please stop. We just want to.

Yeah.

Huh?

If Ironwood wants me, he'll

have to send more than a couple of kids.

He is stopping the trucks alerted the ops

we don't have long before they arrive, so please listen to us.

You need to know the truth.

You're stalling. Amity Colosseum. All these supplies they're for.

Their for a new communications tower.

It doesn't make any sense. A new tower means..

The kingdoms can find. The tower means fisticuffs.

One of you take my hand. What? You said time is short.

Either take it or I'm gone.

Tell me again. What is Ironwood? Building out in the tundra.

A new communications tower. He's trying to help everyone.

You're telling the truth. Handy semblance. Why keep that a secret?

Because he doesn't know..

Who he can trust. Atlas isn't out to get anybody.

The people murdering civilians in mantle are

just trying to make it look that way.

And if those same people learned about Amity,

they'd do everything in their power to destroy it. So who..

Are they? Who's actually behind this? Yang. Blake, where are you?

We can't tell you that part yet.

Bullshit. Look, we are trusting you. So trust

us when we say that Amity Tower

needs to stay a secret until it's done.

We just need a little more time. This way.

This way. Run! We'll throw them off.

I won't stop until I know the whole truth.

It's right behind that door. The staff of Creation.

I hoped bring you down here might jog some memories.

After all, it was your idea to use

the staff to lift Atlas off the ground.

I thought gravity dust kept Atlas afloat.

That's the public story. But with the staff

we have a constant, seemingly limitless energy source,

Oz once speculated. It could take us as high as we wanted.

To tell you the truth, that served

as the inspiration for the Amity Project.

Get a communication tower up in the sky

higher than the Grimm can survive,

so we never lose contact with each other again.

But you're not using the staff to raise amity.

The staff can only be used for one purpose at a time.

We're going to have to do Amity

the old fashioned way. Dust and all..

That feels strange. Knowing a part of me

helps come up with all this. You'll get used to it, I'm sure.

Eventually you don't even know who is who anymore.

Right. We didn't know. We see eye to eye.

But I wish I could ask askin what he thought of all this.

Well, I can tell you what I think.

The path you're heading down. Where you're

the only one with the answers.

Where you do the thing you think is right.

No matter the cost. It's not going to take you anywhere. Good.

We have to stop Salem. Nothing matters more.

Some things matter more. I think keeping our humanity.

It's what makes us different from her.

Sometimes I worry that's her greatest advantage.

Without humanity. Does she still feel fear?

Does she ever hesitate? When Salem hit beacon,

even with all my ships, all of my soldiers.

I was no match for her. I've never felt so helpless.

The way she.. Told me she was there.

It's okay to be afraid. You just

can't let that fear control you.

I am not going to end up like

Lionheart. Do you believe in me?

I do believe in you. But not only you.

I think the best thing you could do is sit

down and talk with the people you're most afraid to.

Now you are starting to sound like him.

Winter. What is it?

What's going on? It looks like you're getting your wish.

My father's first act. We've all been invited to dinner.

Where the general will be defending his seat on the council.