01x08 - Identity Crisis

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there's a reason ♪

♪ There's a breach in the hull ♪

♪ Started going under,
loot and plunder ♪

♪ Cut 'em down, cut 'em
down at the knees, yeah ♪

♪ Cut 'em down to the bone ♪

♪ Just a lesser evil, born unequal ♪

♪ You show them where they belong ♪

♪ Tear right through them,
tear right through them all ♪

♪ We pretend in the darkness ♪

♪ We pretend the night
won't steal our youth ♪

♪ Singing me the sweet
songs of seduction ♪

♪ Let me be the fool, fool, fool ♪

♪ Who will live and die for you ♪

♪ We pretend in the darkness ♪

♪ We pretend the night
won't steal our youth ♪

♪ Singing me the sweet
songs of seduction ♪

♪ Let me be the fool, fool, fool ♪

♪ Who will live and die for you ♪

1x08 - Identity Crisis

[Migas] Come on, man.
¿Donde estan...?

[music]

You gotta be out there...

One of you pick up, damn it.

- Uh, hello?
- Cammie?

- Migas!
- [laughs] Yes!

- It's unbelievable.
- I don't believe it.

That's what's I'm sayin'.

Chase!
Man, you're hard to k*ll.

Me?
What about you?

Wait, if you made it, then did ...

- is the Doc...?
- Is he alive?

No.
I'm really sorry, guys.

When the lab went up, he took out

most of the Union troops
that made it inside.

Also, he's the reason
we got past the nano.

It looked like you guys
were flooded with it.

- How are you alive?
- Whenever the Union scours a city,

only their troops or their sympathizers

who drank the Kool-Aid are left behind.

That's because they all carry a chip

puttin' out a signal telling the
nano to back off. Keeps 'em safe.

Few weeks ago, the Doc
gave the Colonel his idea

about how to mimic that signal.

We deployed it for the first
time, the nano froze up

and we cut through the last
of 'em like a hot Kn*fe.

- Hello, hook a girl up!
- I got you covered, sending the code now.

Between the lab and
cracking the Union signal,

- without the Doc...
- None of us would be talking right now.

We owe him.
Again.

- [Migas] But, man, where you been?
- On the run.

It took us a hot minute
to lose the Union.

Nemesis was tracking us
using the GL network.

- What-a-sis?
- The mystery mech.

- Under the hood, it's a Holon.
- Turns out, he and Chase are...

- They share...
- He's me.

- Or I'm him, more like.
- Say what?

Let's just say GL ain't copy-protected.

Oh...
Oh, damn.

Okay, well, I like you better
if that helps,

so, um, how 'bout we take
another sh*t at him?

100%.
We're packed and ready to go.

Good, because Union's
making another big move

and with the nano under control,

we just need someone to
keep Nemesis off our backs.

Show me where.
[music]

Sweet home Chicago.

He'll lounge on his
charging pad all day

- if ya let him, so...
- Yeah, no worries.

- Go forth and kick ass.
- Behave!

[Chase] We seem to have a pretty
disruptive effect wherever we go.

- I'm really sorry about that.
- No, you're always welcome.

Chase, Rufus shared your file
when you were first identified.

Wouldn't stop talking about you.

You've come far already.
I know he was proud.

Thank you.

Hey, Cal.
Let's get on board, okay?

[Colonel] Behemoth in Lake
Michigan has dropped cloak.

T-minus 15 minutes to
intracontinental test fire of the hammer system,

- so hang in there.
- [Yaz] It's begun.

- _
- We have a mission.

We will be helping.

So, what's the game
plan for Nemesis, then?

__

_

No, we want him isolated.

We pull him off the Vanguard
and keep him away from any backup.

- How do we draw him out?
- We put down at the edge of the city.

We call him funny names
and see if he comes running.

That's it?
That's your plan?

[Caliban] Simple, but effective.

- Say again?
- [Caliban] Dr. Weller gave you

this rating many times
in his performance reviews.

I'mma take that as a compliment.

[music]

[Cammie] No sign of Nem.

Wait, got some bogies.
It's not him, but...

_

[Chase] Hey, I know you're creepin',
so listen to this.

All this time I've been
fighting to keep it together,

it turns out I'm not
even the original.

So I've gotta know, what could
make you stand what you've become?

Why don't you rise up?
Why are you still the Union sl*ve,

'cause that's what you are
and I don't understand.

Isn't there any of me ...
us, left in you?

If there is, you're
gonna have to prove it.

If there isn't, well, you're
gonna have to come shut me up

or else we're gonna find out

how you like having someone
in your head all the time.

Okay, keep your eyes open.

And activate any mods
you're gonna want.

- Ah, okay, okay.
- And I just want you all to know

that I haven't dropped my
fear response whatsoever.

Movement, inbound.

- It's something big-ish.
- That was quick.

He's way faster than before.
No way he can run like that.

[supersonic boost in distance]

Ah, hang on, I still want
to change my fear response.

Ah, sh*t.

[whoosh]

[Chase grunts]

[dramatic music]

Check it out.
Tall, dark, and ugly got...

...more like that.

- Cammie!
- On it!

- [Chase] Now would be good!
- I'm sending!

They've already patched
it with something new.

[Chase grunts]

[Kazu yells]

[Kazu grunts]

[gasps] Kazu!

He's sensing us!

You think too loud.

[Kazu grunts]

He's reading us like a book.

[Kazu yells]

_

The signal ain't workin'
and if we keep fightin' solo,

he'll always know what's next.
We've got to shake it up.

_

Chase!

[Kazu yells]

[Cammie yells]

_

Yeah, but we're
burning through uptime!

_

[Cammie grunts]

- You alright?
- Duck!

- Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
- I will in a moment.

[Valentina and Yaz yelling]

We're close.

If we all merge, fightin'
five as one, we got him.

- Chase.
- I know, I just...

- It's time to let go.
- I know!

Look, this is all I got, my mind.
Everything else is gone.

You let someone in like this,
become one with them,

if I start to merge, what do I become?

Maybe you become a new you.

Over a lifetime, yes,
you are supposed to change.

_

You cannot keep clinging to old you.

You can't stay closed off.
That's not living.

Changing, evolving, letting
in something, someone new,

that's staying alive.

Okay.
Okay, I'm ready.

- Oh no.
- [Val] What is this?

- _
- We're gonna exceed uptime.

- All the mods and us merging...
- We have to download now.

We have to get back to our bodies.

Not when we're so close.

- We don't have time!
- Yeah, you do.

You're gonna get the
time you need to reset.

- You can bet on it.
- Chase, no!

We got him on the ropes.

If we let up now, he
runs away, upgrades,

and we gotta start all over again.
This has to stop now.

- No, not like this.
- Yaz!

Not like this!

_

Why do you always rush
to sacrifice yourself?

- We do this as a team.
- I am doing this for the team.

This is what I can do.
This!

If I can hold them long enough
for you to reset, we got 'em.

- You will lose your body!
- Yaz.

I lost that four years ago.
This is me now.

You just said it.
I gotta let go, right?

- Change.
- This is not what I meant!

Time's wasting. Just get
back here as soon as you can.

I got an idea how to b*at him,
but I need you.

All of you.

So, what do we do?

We scatter, fall back just
a little, then download.

[Nemesis] You forget.

I can hear you all.

Go!

[music]

[Nemesis] You still have time.

Could leave now, and download.

Hide in my body.

Only a few moments
left 'til you're just...

like...
me.

_

[music]
[grunts]

[grunts]

[dramatic music]

The first difference
between you and me?

You're gonna be gone for good
as soon as the team's back.

You think you know how to take me?

How?
Let me see.

After all, it's my mind you have.

Here, have a piece of it.

What if I make sure
they can't come back?

Huh, there it is.
There's the fear.

[Nemesis laughs]

- Cammie.
- Going as fast as I can!

_

Doc had a bunch of safeties in place

to keep us from doing exactly this.

You need a minimum reset time
before you ... [heavy thud]

[Chase grunts]

Hey!

_

__

[Chase grunts]

Cal, get us airborne!

Julian!
Why are you doing this?

Gotta say, Chase,
other you is kind of an assh*le.

- [Chase] Leon? How?
- [Leon] Sinclair's Holon.

I'll tell you the rest later,
we gotta end this, quick!

I only got so much uptime.

Uptime?
I don't need uptime.

I can mod anything.

- Hey.
- Chase, we're so sorry.

Why?
This is me now, right?

But, I gotta warn you,

if my mind can't ever
leave this Holon,

I could turn into him.

I dunno if you want that in your heads.

- He was alone, cut off, corrupted.
- Tortured.

_

Be something new with us

and we will make sure
you don't become that.

[All] You have something we need.

Cammie!
Shut down the nano now!

[music]

What am I supposed to do?

k*ll these copies.

Just a copy of a copy of a

copy of... a copy of... a copy.

Raaah!

[Leon] Uploading... it wasn't good.
Downloading is not gonna be fun.

Well, either we take a sh*t at this
or you're stuck like me.

- You ready?
- Nope, but let's do it anyway.

He's alive.
Why ain't he waking up?

Med scan's working.
He sustained a lot of damage.

Parietal, hippocampus, frontal.
He may be in a coma.

He may not be in there at all.

He hoped he could help.
Now we hold out hope for him.

He sacrificed.
Many have.

There has been such terrible cost,

but for the first time
since this w*r began,

we stopped them.

This is the day we began
to turn the w*r around.

From here, we don't
merely hold the line,

we start to take back what was lost.

gen:LOCK team, I'd like to
discuss your return to the Anvil.

We couldn't have won
this battle without you.

I think there's a great
deal more we can do together.

I think we're all gonna need
a moment to talk about it, ma'am.

Very well.

- What'd you decide?
- The crew's talking it out.

I wanted to talk to you.

You can't swing the decision
based on anything with us.

I know.

But I think we both know
how this is going to go.

- We're not the same.
- No.

I don't think it was just my Chase
I lost the night the w*r started.

I think both those people,

that Chase, that Miranda,
were casualties.

It's just been playing out
in slow motion ever since.

- Another cost of the w*r.
- Something like that.

- Maybe someday?
- I can only do day by day.

But don't let too many days go by
without saying, "Hey".

- So? Where we at?
- We have some ideas.

That's a pretty steep ask.

We know, ma'am, but
it makes sense to us

and it keeps a strong connection
between us and the Vanguard,

even if we're not
stationed at the Anvil.

I like that part, but I don't know
about losing our top technician.

Hey, this wasn't my idea.
Not that I'm not a fan.

Yeah, I'd be proud to be, um...
"engineering liaison".

We're admitting Leon to
our neural medical facility.

They've got the best sh*t
at assessing his condition.

I promise, we'll provide
the best possible care.

Pre-flight's done.
Good to go.

- Take care of yourselves.
- You'll see us again soon.

[music]

/ wait for scene after ending credits /

[music]

[dramatic music]

[steps on floor]

[man panting heavily]

[panting]

Come on, Sinclair, get it together.

Oh, damn it!