01x01 - The Pilot

[bunniefuu]

- Chill!

- Come back!

- Let me go!

- Shh. Shh.

Calm. Calm your craze.

Give me what's in your hand.
- You can't have it.

You're making a mistake.

- It's too late for this.
- No.

It's not too late.

- I'm doing this for
you, can't you see?

- Just let go.

- For all of us.

For our future.

- No.

- Chill! Stop!

- Everything's changing.

- So that's good. You
need to get unstuck.

- Maybe I like being stuck.

Have you talked to her
about how you feel?

- I've tried. She
doesn't want to.

We're "past talking," I guess.
- Mm.

- She used to look
me in the eye.

- Mm-hmm.
- We'd see each other.

- The sizzle.

- We'd feel it.
- Yeah.

- I miss it.
- Mm.

What about Fritz the Fireman?

- Well, he's coming
around the house a lot.

Kids are getting used to him.

I'm not a fool.
- Oh, no. You are a fool, Paul.

That's been long established.

- They drift away, Arlo.

That's what happens.
- And you watch and do nothing.

- Not true.

I think and think and think.

Got so many thinks,
I can't sleep.

- I have a way out
when I can't sleep now.

- What's your trick?

- I get up, I go outside,
I get naked in the dark.

- Stop.

I put my bare feet in the dirt.

I'm small under
trees, stars, sky.

Big problems don't
find small men.

- Hmm. Get small.

- Get small.

Hmm.

- Who is she?

- Victim: Chill Spen.

Body's cool, 92 degrees.

How long's she been
dead, Detective Arlo?

Do the math.

- Four hours?

- You're a bad detective.

- She's dead seven
hours, and a half.

- Oh, who cares?

Chancellor does it all for you.

You think you're Sherlock Hones.

- Holmes.

What her soul saw.
- What her soul saw.

- Must have been
grizzle and anguish

as she flew to air.

Why were you wandering
the dark, deep woods

at night, lady?

- Who k*lled Chill Spen?
The mystery begins.

- Strego Nall is the k*ller.

- The mystery ends.

Where's Nall now?

- Strego Nall's in Back
Park, around Middle Way.

- Mm. Case closed, Sherlock.

I'll tell them to round him up.

Hello.

Who are you?

We are police.

- Asus.

- Did you see the k*lling?

- Nay.

- The victim, did she
reach out to you for help?

- No.

The dreadfeel swept through me.

I felt trouble.

Searched the glade.

I came here.

But too late.

- You had the dreadfeel?

So you know the dead.

- My sister.

- Sorry, sister.

Sister Asus, since
we are detectives,

we lug the Bright.

Will you take it?

It will release you from
memory, pain, and drudge.

You can take it
now. Here and done.

- No. No Bright.

- Are you sure?
- I don't want it.

- I'm Paul Sarno.

You reach me if you
change your mind.

I will see your sister
cared for and justiced.

- Grats.

- The clock ticks down.

After more than 100
years of preparations,

only two weeks remain
before the Bridge,

our way forward to
a better future,

is set to begin with
the arrival on Earth

of the First Wave of Lunars.

And Earth is eager
for what they bring...

Planet-saving advances
created by IO,

humanity's self-teaching
artificial intelligence

buried in the Moon.

Indira Mare, known
to most of the world

as the Envoy of IO,

reiterated her trust
in IO's ability

to deliver tested solutions

to our most daunting challenges.

- The technology to save
our world is coming,

and so are the people

who can teach us how to live
in harmony with this power

and each other.

What's happening up there,

this isn't simply about
solving the crushing problems

of our planet.

It's about solving us.

- Bella Sway,
transport logistics.

Flight priority.

- You're the first loop
out of here in a month.

- You'll miss the
quiet soon enough.

- You are?

- Pilot. You?

- Muscle.

- This is scheduled
to be a cargo flight.

I wasn't expecting passengers.

- We weren't expecting
to fly with you.

We usually keep to
ourselves, but...

our pilot is sick.

Plans change.

- Who's "we"?

- You're Bella.

Our names hold our
story. Did you know that?

My mother taught me that.

Here.

I... am Tomm.

- Tomm.

I don't think I asked you
to explain anything to me.

- I am Tomm.

My destiny will take
me to the mountains.

Which ones? That's the mystery.

But I get the gist.

You are Bella.

I was told it
meant "beautiful."

- Oh, it does.

It also means "w*r."
Did you know that?

Now, are you beauty
or are you w*r?

- Why make me choose?

- I see...

"Be all."

Maybe that's God.

I see a bell ringing with
all the noise of life.

I see an A.

It stands alone.

What do you see?

- I see...

that you're a bad
fortune-teller, Tomm.

You said you're muscle.

Who do you protect?

- Indira, they're waiting
for you in quarantine,

This is Bella, our new pilot.

- Indira Mare.

- Nice to meet you, Bella.

Get us there and back
in one piece, please.

- Sure. Yes.

Good sleep.

I'm flying
the Envoy of IO?

- Don't worry. You were vetted.

Your military experience
qualifies you.

Besides, I'd stake
my life on anyone

who's survived
what you survived.

- I'm not what I was.

- No one escapes
where they've been.

See you on the Moon.

- sh*t.

You could have told me
who my passenger was,

and her bodyguard.

Might be a little
extra scrutiny, no?

Having Indira Mare on board?

- Hey, hey, how do you think
we got your launch slot

moved up by six weeks, huh?

This is a gift.

- What's the job?

- We want you to bring
us home a Singer.

It's their name for a
drug, a mechano-pharmasude.

It's used in one of
their kook ceremonies.

They say it uses nanos

to blow open the
doors of perception

to your inner life
or some such sh*t.

Anyway, nothing
like it down here.

- Not yet.

They're coming for you, Jatey.

- You know, if anyone
should take a good look

at their inner life,
that'd be you, Bella.

- I can't think of a worse high.

- One sample's all we
need to dupe it here.

All you gotta do
is park and wait.

They'll deliver it to you.

- The great and
powerful Envoy of IO.

Honk.

- Hello, Sarno. Noon.

- We've come to checkbox
the Chill Spen k*ller.

- Strego Nall?
- You checked him in?

- Cell 3.

- Wake cell.

- Strego Nall.

Do you admit to
k*lling Chill Spen?

- Does it matter?

- The Moon is no place
for the dark you bring.

Guilty.

Lunch.

- I know you'll make this right.

You'll heal what you've wounded.

- I don't deserve to be healed.

Okay. Okay.

- You want us to go after?

- No. Where's he gonna go?

We'll find him.

I got something else for you.

- Come on.

- Wake up. We're coming in.

You can take off the nose
pin. Drink as much as you can.

- You needn't worry.

Tomm comes up slowly, like
an old hibernating bear.

Do you make this run often?

- Once or twice a
month with cargo.

But I stay on the ship.
I'm not allowed on Glade.

- They let very
few outsiders in.

- Yeah.

I'm fine with that.

- You never wanted
to see your future?

- I'm glad to hear IO's
solved all of our problems.

Earth could use some easy.

The sooner we get
it, the better.

- IO's only a tool.

It needs people to
teach it, guide it,

so it can guide us.

- Guide us where?

- To the end of suffering.

- There's no shortage of people

who wanna disrupt
what we're doing.

But if it works...
- It must work.

It will work.

This is Bella.
- Yes.

- Bella stands alone.

- I stand apart, and
I'm fine with that.

- Apart, but not alone.

I like her.

- We're on approach.

You mind some music? It
helps me concentrate.

- I didn't take
you for a romantic.

If you don't like
it here, Bella,

why do you keep coming back?

- I like to be miserable,

but apparently, that's
going out of style.

- Buckle up.

- What's the p*stol for?

To sh**t yourself

if you get too blissed out here?

- Doesn't work on
Glade. No weapons do.

But I do like what it
does for my silhouette.

- If you'd like to
come ashore with us,

you can be my guest.

It might change your mind.
- I should stay on CAT.

- Dance with the dark, Bella.

- That's what they say here.

- The darkness is a
gift you must embrace.

- Why?

- Because you are the light.

- I wasn't expecting
you to meet me,

Council Chair Maite.

- Why should I hide away?

Make you think me
bigger, better?

No time
for pompfluff.

The future is better.

- Yes.

I'm always unprepared.

It's beautiful.

- We live and die
by the grace of IO,

and we have you to thank.

- I am only the messenger.

- Nay hide your power, Envoy.

Those who make IO
make the world.

- IO serves the world.

It works for the many.

When IO serves the few,
we'll shut it down.

- We look forward to your
address tomorrow, Envoy.

It means much that you
came here to make it.

- The First Wave is eager
to return to the Mother.

We've waited a long
time for this moment.

- Now the real work begins.

- Hmm.

- Your ship makes a good drum.

Paul Sarno. This is Arlo Noon.

We are police.

Can we come in?

Oh.
- Yeah.

- Yeah. Nice.

Metals. Yeah.

Oh, composites.
- Ah.

- You know, we
have wood, mostly.

- Mm. Mostly wood.

- So what seems to be
the problem, officers?

- Oh.
- Oh.

- Yes. Hmm.

Well, I'm afraid there's
been a discovery, ma'am.

- Mm-hmm.

- You need to come downtown
with us to the station.

- Are we playing
Cops and Robbers?

- Yeah.

That's how they used to do
it in the, uh, good ol' days.

- "Downtown."

- Yeah. The good ol' days.

Well, I'm not going anywhere.

Bang. Bang.

You're dead. Yeehaw.

- Yeehaw!

- Yeah. Yeehaw.

You, um, do need to
come with us, though.

- The Envoy won't
be happy about this.

I'm her pilot.

- You can send word if you like.

- Have I been charged
with anything?

Can I get a lawyer?

- We have no lawyers here.

That is why this is a utopia.

all: Hoe-tee-ta!

Hee! Hoe-tee-ta!

- The Kinetobet.

Dance alphabet.
We all learn it.

All: Toe!

Ha!

Hoe-tee-ta!

Tee!

- Two breaths to clear the mind.

It's our custom.
Would you like to try?

- No.

You still haven't
told me why I'm here.

- Why did you come to the Moon?

- I'm a pilot. It's my job.

- You like to fly?

- The money's good.

- Mm. You like money?

- Seriously?

- We have no money here.

- Where was your
mind yesterday night?

- Uh...

it was about 45,000
miles away from here.

Look, if this is about the
encrypted call to Earth,

I was testing my
secondary comm channels.

It's routine. I can
show you records.

- No. This is not about a call.

It's about m*rder.

And you've felt nothing
since yesterday?

- Why do you keep
asking me what I feel?

- Here we acknowledge
the dreadfeel.

When your heart sees a dying
person's fright-scream,

you feel troubled, here.

It's usually someone you love.

- I had nothing to
do with any m*rder.

I didn't even know
you had murders here.

I thought this was paradise.

- Snakes still slither.

- Tell us about your mada.

- My...
- Your mother.

She was a Mooner, right?

One of us?

- I never knew my mother.

I heard she decided to
come here after I was born.

She left me behind.

Didn't want the
company, I guess.

- All your trips here,

you've never had the
yearn to reconnect?

- The yearn?

- We all want connection.

- Do we?

Uh, look, if she's done
something wrong up here,

I am the last person who
would care about that.

She gave me up,
so I gave her up.

And if you wanna know
how I feel about that...

I feel nothing.

I'm done with this.

- Your sister is dead.

- I don't have a sister.

- Her name is Chill Spen.

She's six years younger.

- The gonesoul was
found this morning.

IO flagged you as blood when
you entered our airspace.

- Okay.

So I had a sister from
a mother I don't know.

Thanks for telling me.

Do you guys even
know how this works?

- How what works?

- An interrogation.

Do you want me to take over?

"Do you know the victim?" No.

"Have you ever made
contact with the victim?"

No.

"Did you even know
the victim was alive?"

No.

You guys getting the
hang of this yet?

Do you even know
why she was k*lled?

- Doesn't matter.

- The case is already solved.

- You know who did it?

- This isn't an interrogation.

We want to help you grieve.

- A loss must be felt
and properly released.

- This is our job.

- Holy sh*t.

- When your heart's dark,
your eyes can't see.

We want to help you see again.

You may not have
met your mother,

but you've flown the Moon
Loop hundreds of times.

Doesn't take a detective

to see you wanted
to be near her.

- Is my mother about to
walk through that door?

- She died ten years ago.

- Sorry, daughter.

- You didn't know?

Normally, we would
offer the Bright.

Since you are an outsider,
it is prohibited.

We could do the Scrinjig.
- Ooh.

- We owe you some peace.

- The what?
- Please.

It is our duty to
you and to the dead.

- Mm-hmm.

- Wait. No.

Stop it. No.

- We must.
- Please.

- How now, detectives?

Feel like a drink?

- Oh, you bet.

Shouldn't you be with the Envoy?

- I told her you
needed to be rescued.

- Those police wouldn't tell
me why they pulled you in.

- Some mix-up with the manifest.

It's sorted.

- Hmm.

Well, with the First
Wave leaving soon,

everyone's on edge.

Takes a while to
get used to this,

to them.

And I have to warn you,
Mooners don't give up.

You're gonna get that
dance before you go.

- Good luck to them.

How is any of this
gonna work, Tomm?

People back home are
k*lling each other.

They're starving and
wearing gas masks.

- None of this is for them.

It's for their children,

their children's children.

When you're born
into it, it's...

It's not weird, it's just life.

- On Earth, we fight.

All we know when
the lights go out

is how to survive.

No one learns it.
It's how we're made.

- China Sea.

Two tours.

- Has anyone here ever
felt what that's like?

- No.

They study it.

They study everything.

They know what
we're capable of...

and they guard against it.

- I get that this is
supposed to be our future,

that everything needs to change,

but you and I know...

darkness finds a way.

- Great to see you
again, Detective.

- I don't love the idea
of coming here either.

This is important.

Your sister had a
water sister, Asus.

- A water sister?

- A sister she grew up with.

We don't raise our
own children here.

We raise others' children.

We only see our blood
children when they are born

and when we are about to die.

- Yeah, we heard all about that.

It's gonna be a tough
sell down there on Earth,

don't you think?

- Well, when you
don't raise your own,

they're all yours.

And we say "up there on Earth."

Asus...

Asus has asked for me
to give her the Bright.

This is good because for
her, the pain is deep.

The Bright will
soften her memory.

She's asked to meet
you before she forgets.

- Honestly, I don't care.

I wouldn't have had to deal
with any of this bullshit

if the Envoy's pilot
hadn't gotten sick.

So just tell her I'm sorry.

- She said she has a message.

From your mother.

- I'm glad you came.

Orbis.

She was Chill's dog.

Tell me how this works.

My first time.

- You take the pill.
Puts you to sleep.

When you wake, you feel better.

The Bright unhooks your
heart from the memories.

The pictures still play,

but there's no friction, no...

- No tear-taste. No chest-dark.

- You'll still
remember your sister,

but the pain will be frozen.

The k*lling will be gone.

You'll just slide
over it like ice.

- There's pain in your
root, water sister.

I see it.

Better for you to
take this than me.

- Oh.

- I wanted to see your face.

Now I know.

- Now you know what?

- When Chill and
I were little...

we'd play alone down by the sea.

One day a woman walked
out of the forest.

She had your face.

Before she left,

she picked up Chill to
hold her and say goodbye.

She whispered
something into her ear.

It's cold.

- Mm. That means it's working.

- I don't wanna
forget my sister.

- You'll just
forget the sadness.

- That's where the love is.

- Asus, what did she say?

- Chill told me.

She said she had another sister.

A sister on the Earth...

Who would watch over her.

Keep her safe.

- She needs to sleep.

- There was a
third in the Glade.

- What?

- There was no third in
the Glade, lady sweet.

I saw the skypictures.

You said you didn't
see the k*lling.

- I came as she fell.

There were three.

Sister.

k*ller.

Watcher.

- There was no third.

- Maybe your machine was wrong.

- IO is never wrong.

- I'd be worried too

if the machine that
makes the air I breathe

and keeps me stuck to this rock

was starting to miss things.

- IO doesn't miss anything.

When a life is taken,
it sees everything.

- How?

How does it see?

- The satellites.

From birth, we're
all marked. See?

- An implant.

IO tracks you?

- We read Orwell
and Kazuo, Mwangi.

IO doesn't watch
us to control us.

It watches us to learn from us.

Our successes, our
mistakes. We all contribute.

The Envoy's speech
will begin soon.

- For thousands of years,

agriculture forced us
to enslave each other.

Energy demand created
massive inequality.

Scarcity divided us.

Pestilence and
disease weakened us.

But over the last century,

we have turned a corner.

With the assistance of IO,

we are on the verge of
being able to explore

an undiscovered country.

An Earth population with
all its basic needs met

with a climate that no
longer seeks to destroy us.

So how do we now transition

to our own better
future with IO?

The mission of Moonhaven

is to show us on Earth the way.

Very soon, the cultural
and technological leaps

that are working here on Lune

will be brought
back to the Mother.

As we enter this new phase
and commence the Bridge,

we will not forget the trust
you have placed in all of us.

The future is better.

- Can you at least
admit something is off

about this case?

- Yes.
- You can?

- Yeah, I can feel it here.

- It doesn't matter
what you feel.

You need to think.

Who was Chill Spen?
Why was she k*lled?

- I know who Chill Spen
was... Your blood sister.

You are connected to
this place, this person.

- Shh.

- Stop!

There's no going past this.

- They did.

- Stop!

Please!

Bella!

- We welcome the Envoy of IO.

You speech to the
Earth Mother was...

Excellent.

We owe you all.

Speak, do.

- You know why I've come.

ICON has requested
the council swap.

- Our council has
two more years.

- New members will
be chosen immediately

and then elect a
new council chair.

- The First Wave is
brinked to leave for Earth.

I've spent my life
preparing for this day.

- IO has detected a
pattern of responses

which suggests a risk of
corruption of workflow

if things remain unchanged.

- I am not trusted?

- IO doesn't trust or distrust.

You know IO is fluent in
the history of our mistakes.

It has analyzed past actions
to predict future behavior.

- IO sees the
future and the past.

But history doesn't
always repeat.

- It's a pretty safe
bet with our kind.

That's not an accusation.

As far as I'm aware,
you've done nothing wrong,

Council Maite.

The swap is preventative.

You can step aside with honor.

- Know what I speak of?

The Pivot?

The movement from a people
who seek to understand

mysteries of the universe
to one that creates them.

Do you believe in
God, Indira Mare?

- I believe in right and wrong.

If knowing the difference
comes from somewhere beyond,

so be it.

- Sometimes everything changes.

With thunder or a pin drop,

we pivot by a grace
bigger-better than IO.

Could the machine
see that coming?

- I'll expect your
full cooperation

with the swap.

Thank you for your
time, Council Maite.

This has been a productive trip.

I hope you'll agree.

It's time to go.

Get us clearance to leave,
and I'll meet you at the ship.

- Oh, Bella.

This is Lone, my love,

and my children.

Are you hungry?

- Yeah.

- When they got out there,

they found you barely
alive under a dead tree.

I suggested they bring
you here to recover.

- Thank you.

- She's strange.

- Well, you're
lucky to be alive.

- Our son, Wish,

will ride the First
Wave back to Earth.

The young and the
strong go first.

- You'll be the
tip of the spear.

- You make it sound
like an attack.

- It's an old expression.

- Do Earthers understand

that we're coming to
help them begin again?

- Earthers understand
you have the tech

that will let them
eat and breathe.

It might take some time for
us to pick up on the nuance

of everything else.

- The power to fix
all your problems

will destroy you without
a culture to contain it.

- Their problems
are our problem.

We come from the Mother,
and we shall return.

- You were stupid
to go past the wall.

Someone who was born here
would never make that choice.

- I told them what happened.

The dog was crazed by an animal,

and you were brave enough
to go in after them.

She's safe and at home now.

- Earthers see the world
like children do...

Full of rules to be
followed or broken.

A Mooner is taught to see truths

and lives by them.

- Yes, Fritz.

- Thanks, Fritz.

- Well, I'd pretty
much break any rule

to save a cute dog's life.

Just the cute ones, though.

If they're not cute, I
say let 'em asphyxiate.

These triangles...

are delicious.

- The Envoy's
business is finished.

I need to get back to CAT.

- Thank you for only
telling part of the story.

- You saw her too? The girl.

- I was far behind.

Found you alone.

- I'm not sure what I saw.

- Little ghost?

- There will be a reason.

There's always a reason.

But Fritz would be terrified
of what he can't explain.

- He barely said
anything and I hated him.

Who is he?

It's complicated.

- It's... it's simple.

I wish you didn't have to leave.

I'm a bad detective.

- You are.

Don't trust everything, Paul.

Use your head.

- I will not fear the darkness.

- Because you are the light.

I gotta go. My stuff's inside.

I'm sorry.

Is this your room?

I like your Earth.

She's beautiful from far away.

- You're going back?

- It's home.

- He told me your blood
mother was a Mooner,

and your sister too.

- Yeah, but I never knew 'em.

- I never met my mada either,

but I see her every
day in my thinks.

You need the dance.

- Elna, no.

- Please.
- Mm-mm.

- It's for you.

To remember.

- Who are you?

- I'm no one.

I'm nothing now.

- Spare me your Moon poetry
and tell me why you're here.

- R-ride to the Mother.

Wanna leave here forever.

Don't deserve to be here.

Done deep wounds to the
place and its people.

Just take me, please.

- You.

You m*rder*d my sister?

- Sister?

She called and you answered.

- What?

- Bella?

- Stay down here and
shut the hell up.

- There you are.

Indira's on her way back.

- Yeah.

- Excited to get
back to terra firma?

- I'll take liftoff.

Gravity's a drag, as they say.

- Is there anywhere you
feel at home, Bella?

- Mm, Mooners call
that "wanderflect."

Without an identity or
community, we float,

reflecting that of others.

- Tomm.
- Yes.

- Stop teaching me.

- Why did you come up?

- It's done.

Where one world ends,
the next one begins.

- I really wish you
wouldn't've seen that.

- Ahh!

- I had a bad feeling.

- I walked into something.

I... I don't know who to trust.

- Trust me.

- You have to believe in
something, Bella Sway.

- ICON is concerned
some Earth extremists

have found a way to get
an agent on the Moon.

- Could this all be connected
to the death of Chill Spen?

- You will step down.
- And if I don't?

- You would
destabilize everything

just to stay in power.

- Moonhaven isn't a people.

It's a purpose.

I'm transformed because
of what you did to me.

- She's not what
she seems to be.

- You're making a mistake.

- What is this?

- It's a trap!

The Earthers will k*ll
us all when we land!

- If we cannot
heal the dark heart

of Bella Sway,

how can we ever hope to succeed?

- This is not the end.

- No!

- This is the beginning.