01x05 - Whanaungatanga

[bunniefuu]

[dramatic music playing]

[wind gusting]

[mysterious music playing]

[tires screech]

[Zip, on comms] Are you sure
you don't have the wrong address?

[Lara grunts]

- [gasps]
- [man] I've got you dead to rights.

Move if you like your head
on the ground next to ya!

For God's sake.
Find your manners, Captain.

[man] Lara?

Lara flippin' Croft!

[man laughing]

- It is you!
- [Lara grunts]

- You old so-and-so!
- [Lara giggles]

You don't call. You don't write.

Meanwhile, can't get Jonah
to stop writing.

Jeez. Like he's a poet.

Well, what's it been?
Five years since Oahu?

- Are you taller?
- [laughs]

Leo, it's good to see your smile.

I see you're missing yours.

What brings you
to the absolute navel of the Earth?

Jonah, actually. He's in trouble.

- What kind?
- The kind I can't talk about, I'm afraid.

But... I need a lift to Pasargadae.
Can you help?

[dynamic music playing]

- [Lara] Is that a yes?
- [Leo] There's no time for no.

[Lara] But Pasargadae
is restricted airspace.

Leo, you could get into serious trouble
or worse.

Jonah's in trouble, or he isn't?

[sighs]

He is.

Then restrictions can suck
my athlete's foot.

[Zip] Gross but admirable.

[door hinges creaking]

[dramatic music playing]

Thank you, Leo. I owe you.

Ah, I'll scratch one off the tab
I still owe Jonah.

Any sign of Devereaux?

Mm. Still no.

But if he found the Gold Stone already,
he'd want an exit route.

There are old railroad tracks
that run nearby.

Where's the nearest train station?

[Leo humming melody]

[Zip] So Mr. Loud Shorts and Jonah
were in the army together?

I don't know the whole story,
but Jonah saved his life.

Dude's weird, but I dig him.

[continues humming]

[sighs]

Jonah used to sing it all the time.
It used to drive me crazy. [chuckles]

I duct-taped his mouth once.
I could still hear him.

- [chuckles]
- Man's got bass.

Leo, the last time I saw Jonah,

I said some rather...

[sighs]...unkind things.

He knows you didn't mean it.
Trust me. Jonah always knows.

He does.

- It's rather annoying, isn't it?
- [Leo chuckling]

Oh, when you find him,
you'll set him straight.

[wind gusting]

[suspenseful music playing]

We still have to drop to a lower altitude!

Thanks for the ride, Leo!

[gasps]

[laughs]

Now, that's a woman after my heart.

[Zip] And now we're diving again.

Therapy is also a good option, you know?

Why didn't you tell him? About Jonah?

How do you tell someone
their old w*r buddy

is possessed by a magical stone
controlled by a supervillain?

Point taken.

He's safer not knowing.
He'd only get himself k*lled.

And what are we doing?

Hopefully, the opposite of that.

[Lara grunts]

[gasps]

[Zip, breaking up] Lara!
What the heck happened?

Are you all right? Lara!

[grunts and gasps]

[grunting]

[yelps]

[groans] Not very graceful.

[sighs]

[gasps]

He combined the Gold Stone.

[sighs]

[groans]

[somber music playing]

[people sobbing]

[Lara] Zip?

Zip, do you read me?

[Zip, breaking up] Lara! How...

- Can... hear me?
- [static crackling]

Radio Leo.
Tell him these people need help.

[gasps]

[grunts]

Huh?

Lara?

[Lara] Jonah!

Lara!

[Charles chuckles]

[Lara] Jonah!

[dramatic music playing]

[grunts and gasps]

[tires screeching]

[shouts]

[grunts and gasps]

All aboard.

[unsettling music playing]

[gasps]

[violin music playing in distance]

[violin music grows louder]

[gasps]

[Charles humming]

[continues humming]

Oh! Lady Croft.

[violin strings squealing]

- [gasps]
- [violin falls silent]

A bow. That's cute. Tea?

- [snaps fingers]
- [violinist resumes playing]

Their coffee is also delicious.

Let them go.

This isn't what you want.

[Charles] And how do you know what I want?

Because you're right.

[somber music playing]

It's the same thing I wanted.
To burn everything to the ground.

And I did.

And when Trinity was gone,
the house was still empty.

And I still didn't have my father.

All I had was blood on my hands.

[Charles sighs]

You're weaker than I thought you'd be.

The Light k*lled my father
because he said no.

Once they take power,

imagine what they'll do
to whole nations who dare to disagree.

Let them go?

These people, they don't matter.
All that matters is stopping the Light!

[Lara chuckles]

Lord, you do sound like me.

If you think you can control an artifact
that powerful, you're delusional.

[growls]

Then we are not kindred spirits after all.

I've never been bothered by blood.

[groaning]

No! Jonah!

Look at me!

[Jonah] I am!

And all I see is a petulant child!

You think I like babysitting you?

You're a grown-a*s woman! [yells]

- [Lara groaning]
- [Jonah] We've all felt grief.

- Get over it!
- [Lara strains]

It's what all of us do, Lara!

- Jonah... please...
- [cracking]

[Jonah] You only think
the people you've lost matter?

- [gasping]
- We matter too! [grunts]

[Lara groaning]

[strains]

[yells]

- [chuckling]
- [Lara panting]

- [screams]
- [Jonah grunts]

[panting]

[tense music playing]

[chuckles] Hmm.

Breakfast and a show.

Excellent. We're still on schedule.

- [gasps]
- [Lara grunts]

[laughing]

[woman speaking Farsi]

[Jonah gasping]

- Lara!
- [gasps]

[Charles snarling]

[gasping]

[dramatic music playing]

Do you trust me?

Of course.

[Charles screaming]

[growls]

[gasps]

Stop looking at me!

[snarls]

I hate the desert.

[wind gusting]

[both sigh]

[Jonah] I take it back.

I don't trust you.

[gasps]

[sighs]

[Lara sobbing]

[poignant music playing]

[Lara gasps]

[sighs]

Can I just say you do matter to me, Jonah?

And I'm so sorry
if I've ever made you feel otherwise.

[Jonah sighs]

[gasps]

And what you said was true.

Wh... what did I say?

You don't remember anything?

[groans]

The last thing I remember
is coughing up river water in the jungle.

[inhales] Then I was on a train.

Huh.

[Lara sighs]

Let's walk and talk.

There's a lot to fill in.

What about the Stones?
You don't wanna go after him?

[sighs] I got what I came for.

Let's help these people first,
then we'll figure out our next move.

Besides, I don't know about you,
but I could use a drink.

[Leo] Would you like some water?

[chuckles] Thank you.

I love you too, pickle.

[chuckles] All right, I'll tell her. Bye.

- [beep]
- Abby wants us to finish the mission.

Said, "There's no point
in planning a wedding

if the world's going to end."

[laughs]

She's always been practical.

[Zip] Okay. Got it, LC.

Great. Switching to video.

Mm. You two look like...

- [Lara] We fell off a train.
- [Jonah] She pushed me off a train.

That, uh... should be more surprising.

I'm sorry. Are you...
are you in my father's study?

Uh... I... I'm not sure.

I honestly have no idea where I am
or how to get out.

What happened to your flat?

Well, funny story. The ground ate it.

[both gasp]

Yeah. Yeah, there's a huge sinkhole
in South London,

whi... which brings me to, um...

After some help
from our lovely, chic friend at Interpol,

I managed to compile

a rather disturbing picture
of our supervillain friend.

Seems he was Leave it to Beaver as a kid.

Best in his class.
Volunteer work up the wazoo.

Until about 13 years old.

That's when Scotland Yard
first noticed him.

Mostly petty theft.

As soon as he was old enough,
he joined the French Foreign Legion.

Most brutal training in the world.

Recruits have died there.

He then led a pretty lucrative life
as a merc for hire

until fallin' off the map two years ago.

Not even a parking ticket.

Until he showed up at Croft Manor.

So a flunky legionnaire mercenary

now has three of the four Peril Stones

that can destabilize
the balance of chaos and order

that keep our world together?

Lovely.

Three of... four.

It's all sort of fuzzy.

Anything could help, Jonah.

Greed.

The fourth stone.

You do remember.

He said something like... I think...

Does Zulu mean anything?

Zulu? In Southern Africa?

Southern Africa
is not exactly a lead, Lara.

Does your big library of a brain have
any idea where the Greed Stone could be?

There's one place I know where to look.

A library.

The greatest in the world.

[Zip] "The beadwork
of the Zulu people is exquisite."

- "And are known as iziqu..."
- [gasps]

[Zip] "...medallions of w*r."

So why haven't you moved back here?

You realize it's a mansion, right?

You could build a water slide from
the top floor all the way to the pool,

and nobody could tell you no.

[Lara] Where you're standing,

that's where my mother taught me French.

Over there, my father and I argued about
whether it was safe to dig

on the Carpathian Mountains
during a thunderstorm.

This place is full of too many memories.
There's no room for me.

[emotional music playing]

If you built a waterslide,
we'd make new memories. I promise you.

[sighs]

[Zip] That bad, huh?

[Jonah] Well, Abby disinvited Lara
from the wedding.

More cake for me.

And you for aiding and abetting.

Your woman is out of control.

Then the pipes burst at the café
after a tremor,

and she understands now
why we have to go to Africa.

[Lara] Tremor?

Lara has no ideas. And the only thing
Lord Richard Croft took pleasure in

was discoursing the beadwork
of the Zulu people

and enumerating their many great battles.

Battle... the Battle of Zulu?

What did you say?

Battle of...

Zulu?

Zhuo Lu?

Is that what you heard Devereaux say?
Battle of Zhuo Lu?

Uh... maybe.

[Lara] Hmm.

- She has that look in her eye.
- [table legs scraping]

[mysterious music playing]

[grinding]

[Lara] You coming?

I'm sorry. What is happening?

This is the story of the Battle of Zhuo Lu
that founded China.

My father used to read it to me
when I was a child.

We had very different childhoods.

Huh.

A w*r between three brothers
forced the creation of China.

Each wanted to be emperor,

so the three brothers met
at the Battle of Zhuo Lu.

It's said one of the brothers
possessed a Black Stone

that made him exceptionally powerful.

He could only be defeated

when the two brothers joined forces
and decapitated him.

So Devereaux is going to the site
of this crazy ancient battle

where this guy's Black Stone is buried?

[Lara] Yes.

Well, that's not weird at all.

- [rumbling]
- [Lara gasps]

- [Zip yelps]
- [Jonah grunts]

[groans]

[phone ringing]

Abby?

Go outside. Now.

[dramatic music playing]

[thunder rumbling]

- [Jonah and Kip yelp]
- [splat]

[Zip] Definitely not cupcakes
and unicorn rides.

It's happening all over the world.

Paris, Egypt, Istanbul.

The world is no longer in balance.

We have to get those stones back.

We?

[Zip] Here.

These should contain
the energy of the Peril Stones.

Not sure for how long.

Mythical objects
aren't exactly a precise science.

Thank you.

Your flight leaves in two hours.

- [rumbling]
- [Zip gasps]

[yelps]

[Jonah gasps]

[whimpers and gasps]

I guess this is where
we install the waterslide.

[tap]

[tap]

- [tap]
- [Camilla] Where did the plane land?

The Azores. Just like the others.

What the hell are they up to?

Zip? Tell Lara that
the leaders of the Light are gathering.

Devereaux was right.

They're about to make
their glorious return.

[dramatic music playing]

[theme music playing]