01x07 - Yinyang

[bunniefuu]

[dramatic music playing]

[birdsong]

[peaceful music playing]

[hooves clip-clopping]

[murmurs]

[gasps]

[whimpering]

Papa!

Let me come with you!

[Richard and adult Lara]
I don't need your help.

- Don't do this.
- Please.

Don't go.

[young Lara panting] Wait! Camilla!

[wind gusting]

[Roth] Let her go.

It hurts less that way...

[Lara gasps]

[Roth]...if you let 'em go.

[Lara gasps]

[groans]

[eerie music playing]

[gasping]

- [Devereaux] Memories.
- [yelps]

I bet they all want you to move on.

To let go.

[gasps and cries out]

- [whimpering]
- [Devereaux growls]

Without revenge and anger driving you,

you are nothing.

[waves lapping]

[wind whistling]

[somber music playing]

[wind gusting]

[gasps heavily]

[panting]

- [woman] Who are you, Lara Croft?
- [gasps]

[Lara] Daji.

[Daji inhales deeply]

[exhales slowly]

You must restore balance.

Return the Stones to Nu'Wa
at the peak of Kunlun Mountain.

Devereaux is too powerful.

I'm not strong enough.

[chuckles]

Balance in all things, Lara Croft.

Look inward.

Grief, pain, failure.

Joy, triumph, love.

If you only let one in,

you are imbalanced,

like your father,

like Conrad Roth,

like Charles Devereaux.

You have strength enough,

but you must know who you are

before you can find it.

Who are you?

You're a Croft.

[birdsong]

[emotional music playing]

[young Lara sobbing]

[adult Lara] I'm not that kind of Croft.

[groans]

[sighs heavily]

[birdsong]

[gasps and grunts]

- [groans]
- [dog barking outside]

[gasps]

Hmm.

[gasps]

[grunting]

Lara! Have you seen Lara?

Did she make it? Someone, please!

[sobs]

- [laughter]
- [Jonah gasps]

Jonah! Ah!

- [Jonah grunts]
- [Lara laughs]

Zip, he's awake.

- Am I dead?
- Not yet.

How are you feeling?

[groans] Like I got hit by a tornado.

[chuckles]

[Zip] Glad to see you up, brother.

Come on. Let's get some food in you.

The fish is incredible.

I mean, well, obviously.
Fishing village, but...

Devereaux came out of that gold tree
wielding tornadoes like Pecos Bill,

and you're eating rice?

Ginger soy fish, actually.
The rice, it's not the star.

[light, cheerful music playing]

I'm devising a plan,

but neither of us can fight him
if we're strung out.

Eat right now. Fight when we're strongest.

That, uh... actually makes sense.

Are you sick? Wh... what's wrong with you?

[Zip] LC! Get to a TV, stat!

[ominous music playing]

[reporter speaking Mandarin on TV]

That's him. Zip, what's under that cloud?

[typing]

Nada.

An old marine research lab.

But it's been abandoned for years.

He's there.

Zip, update Camilla.

I'd wager a waterslide that's where
she'll find her missing Light members.

[Zip] I'm on it.

Jonah, I need your help.

Oh... uh... oh, okay.

All right.

I know I've been terrible
at asking before.

You've never asked.

I was wrong.

I'm sorry.

And I don't want to put you in danger.

But I'd be lying
if I said I didn't need your help.

And I don't want to lie anymore.

[emotional music playing]

[sobbing]

- [Zip] Are you crying?
- [gasps]

Real men cry real tears.

Of course I'm with you, Little Bird.

[sighs] Someone needs to make sure
you don't get into trouble.

Well, we'll need to get into
a little trouble.

[thunder rumbling]

[dramatic music playing]

[wind gusting]

[Jonah] I have a bad feeling about this.

[Zip] Uh, look for an old supply train.

Yeah, it should take you
right under the Wall of Death.

[Lara chuckles]

[Zip] If you get
this trunk of junk to run,

I'll never dis your banana puddin' again.

My future wife is a mechanic.

I... Wait. What's wrong
with my banana pudding?

[Zip and Lara] It tastes artificial.

[grumbles]

[sighs] Why is this only now coming up?

- [Zip] Because the world is ending.
- [grunts]

I barely use any extract.

Maybe add some kind of reduction...

- [Lara chuckles]
- [power humming, metal clanking]

[suspenseful music playing]

[brakes squealing]

[electricity buzzing]

[gasps]

Careful.

[eerie music playing]

- [grunts]
- [Lara yelping]

[groans]

Lara!

Lara?

- [man groans]
- Huh?

[Camilla laughs]

[Jonah wheezing]

[gasps] You must be Jonah.

[Jonah grunts and gasps]

[panting] Jonah... Camilla.

Cam... Ahem. Jonah.

Aah!

The look of a man
who's heard mixed things.

Uh...

What did you find out?

It seems the Portuguese president
is part of the Light.

He defunded the lab to give his cronies
a place to meet in secret,

away from the madding crowd.

Very Bond villain, though, isn't it?

Just once, I would like a secret society
to meet on a beach in Maui.

Focus, Cam.

We believe the heads of the Light
were meeting here for a summit

to launch the next phase of their plan.

Your psycho nemesis stopped them.

- [rumbling]
- [gasps]

[Jonah yells]

We're running out of time.

[Camilla] This way.

He's taken them hostage in the main lab,
but there's a problem.

You could have warned me to bring a parka.

This place could be on fire
in two minutes, or implode.

That's how chaos works.

[both, in unison] I'm sorry, implode?

[Camilla scoffs]

[tense music playing]

[speaks French]

[Zip] There's another lever
on the other side,

but only access is a wet porch.

And it's also iced over.

[Lara] Hmm.

This is insane. Tell her.

She's a grown woman.

It's freezing cold down there.

Hence the wet suit.

And dark.

I forgot how it felt
to want to strangle you.

I'll be fine.

Probably. [inhales deeply]

[intense rumbling]

[straining]

[grunting desperately]

[groaning]

[wheezing]

New record.

[Zip] That was stressful!

[Lara sighs]

- [slashing blow lands]
- [man grunts]

[people gasping]

[Devereaux] Have you ever heard
of the Gordian worm?

- [slashing]
- [man grunts]

They're born
at the bottom of lakes and ponds.

Born staring up at a sun
they can never get to.

- So they allow themselves to be eaten.
- [slashing and grunting continue]

[Devereaux] And once inside their host,
a cricket, say,

they will infect it
with a powerful neurotoxin.

The cricket will suddenly
stop chirping, eating, moving,

except by permission of the worm.

Until soon,
the cricket will feel only one need.

To dive into deep water and drown itself.

Which is when the worm will hatch
from its lifeless corpse

and begin its work again.

The Light shines on.

There's no head you can cut off here, pal.

There are thousands more like us.

[Devereaux] And I'm not here
to cut off your heads.

I'm here to infect your colony.

[Lara] Wait! The only way to survive
what's about to happen

is to get the Stone staff from him.

If that psycho kills the Light members,

our investigation
will be set back decades.

If we don't get that staff,
the world will be set back indefinitely.

Huh. [grunts]

On the ground! On the ground now!

[power humming]

[buzzing]

Huh?

Uh... [groaning]

[gasps]

[energy hums]

- [grunts]
- [screams]

[gasps]

[Lara yells]

[Devereaux groans]

[growling]

- Uh...
- Huh?

- [grunts]
- [Lara yells]

- [groans]
- Get them out of here.

[groans]

[roars]

[screams]

- [Lara panting]
- Why won't you just die?

Age before beauty.

- [snarling]
- [energy humming]

[Jonah] Come on! Come on, let's go!

- [rumbling]
- [Light members gasp]

I'll get them out safely.

Go!

[screams and grunts]

[dramatic music playing]

[staff crackling]

[energy humming]

[yells]

- [zapping]
- [Devereaux screaming]

[yells in agony]

[roaring]

[moaning]

[snarling]

[growling]

[gasps]

[Lara screams]

[whimpering]

[yells]

[screams]

[groans]

[power crackling]

[monster snorting]

[growling]

My God!

[snarling]

[g*nsh*t ricochets]

[g*nf*re]

[Camilla yelps]

- [groaning]
- [bleeping]

[energy whirring]

[gasps]

[g*nshots]

[roars]

- [g*n clicking]
- [sighs]

[snarling]

[monster whimpering]

[growling]

[distorted voice] You're both pathetic.

You know the Light will destroy the world.

Yet neither of you are strong enough
to do what must be done.

This guy doesn't even know me.

First impressions are everything.

Well, now I'm insecure.

[snarls]

[bleeping]

[roars]

[yells]

[Lara grunts]

[Devereaux yells]

[Lara gasps]

[Devereaux growls]

[gasps]

- [Camilla sighs]
- [Devereaux whimpers]

[Camilla] Lara, what are you doing?

- [Lara] I trusted you.
- [power crackling]

Lara, stop!

You abandoned me.

Don't make me do this.

[Devereaux groans]

You know I love you.

[whimpers]

[gulps]

[straining]

[groans]

[panting]

[exhales slowly]

[inhales]

[yells]

[Devereaux, wailing] No!

[power zapping]

[screams]

[poignant music playing]

[Devereaux sighs]

How?

Balance.

As you said,
the Stones themselves are not evil.

[strains]

Turns out I'm not the weak one, Devereaux.

They would have wanted us to be at peace.

- [sobbing]
- [door opens]

[handcuffs close]

[heavy rainfall]

[wind whistling]

[Abby] Look, I didn't know
what you'd need.

Water, ice, mountain climbing.

So I packed it all.

And more shells for your shotgun.

You're amazing.

Yeah. Amazing enough to come back to.

Every day for the rest of my life.

Your GPS already has the coordinates.

You sure it's Kunlun Mountain?

Kunlun is the home of the gods.

It's where myth says
Nu'Wa created the Stones.

The myth also says she made it
impossible for humans to get into!

We'll cross that bridge when we get there.

Comforting. I put some surprises in there.

Upgraded your grappler.
Should go farther and hold more weight.

Some deodorant, 'cause Lord knows...

And...

I brought this.

You're going through the mouth of hell
to get to heaven.

Trust me. You're gonna need it.

[dynamic music playing]

Hey.

Don't die.

[emotional music playing]

[action music playing]

[dramatic music playing]

[theme music playing]