Original subtitles

[Zero] Previously on Prisoner Zero...

Prisoner Zero has a mission.

Enlighten me.

Shutting down the Imperium and above all, you!

You have no idea where the Master Transmitter is.

Because we always have to do what Zero says.

You, me, Bowi, we're nothing to them.

Oh, Bowi.

Your mission is to protect Tag at all costs.

I just downloaded Preator specs.

[Zero] Hello, Guardian 2.0.

Tag, can you give your friend an overhaul?

Make sure he's not suddenly working for Vykar.

[birds chirping]

[Gem] Strange planet.

Strange smelly planet.

Strange hot, smelly planet.

Did I mention it's very hot?

Am I making my point that I'm feeling "the hot"?

You're so high maintenance, you know that?

Oi, weren't you meant to be scanning?

[beeping]

Hey, guys. How's it going down there?

Hey, Zero. "Hot" is the first word that springs to mind.

So far, all I can work out

is that this Bioweve Master Transmitter of yours

that we're looking for is nearby.

Sending you my latest scans

so I'm hoping you can work out its location.

I can barely hear you guys.

The interference is getting worse.

Oh, moan, moan, moan. That's all I'm hearing, people.

Data's coming through and...

Whoa, that building is huge!

How can you not see this?

[Gem] Zero?

Zero, can you hear us?

Well, that's comms officially gone.

And no updated map. Great.

[thunder rumbling]

Don't like the look of that storm.

Knowing this planet, it won't just be rain, it'll be hot rain.

Tag, I would love to know why I keep losing Gem and Del's comms.

Tag?

Ah. Of course, no Tag.

Sorry, Guardian.

Zero wants me to check how much Imperium programming

you've still got locked away inside.

Hope that doesn't tickle.

No? Nothing?

Oh, come on. Talk to me.

Right now, you're the only real friend I've got.

Whoa!

Primary Imperium override protocols activated.

And ignored.

Engaging Red System Purge.

And that means what, exactly?

It would appear that my subroutines as a Guardian Unit

and the Imperium systems from the Praetor Unit have become combined

and these are causing a conflict within my personality matrix.

This must be rectified immediately.

I must decide who I serve.

These conflicts must be deleted.

Conflict. Conflict.

Um, Guardian? You don't sound too good.

You are Tag Anaton.

You are my primary responsibility.

You will be safe.

[alarm blaring]

[Vykar] Uh, what now?

Sensors detecting a ship in geo-stationary orbit

on the other side of Kantria, General Vykar.

Its mass suggests the stolen experimental ship.

Thank you for rubbing that one in, Centurion.

I'm going down there...alone.

I have unfinished business on Kantria and the last thing I will tolerate

is Zero and his children getting in my way.

Centurion, prepare the Jump Pad.

Ensure you recapture that ship, Barqel.

Failure would be very...

courageous.

Pretty sure something is wrong with Del's scans.

This map makes no sense!

Guardian?

You all right?

No. Daft question. You're clearly not.

Something's wrong with Guardian!

You think?

Guardian. Stop!

'Cause that was so going to work.

[Zero] A decade ago, the Imperium created the Bioweve,

a digital nightmare they wired into our brains.

They locked me away, stole my memories, left me with nothing.

Then one day, I was rescued and taken aboard the Rogue.

Now my friends and I are going to shut down the Bioweve

and free humanity.

Because I am Prisoner Zero.

[theme music playing]

[whooshing]

Vykar to Spire.

Am on the planet's surface.

Spire?

Spire, reply immediately.

[Zero screams]

[thud]

Ow.

And still ow.

Still no comms. Still no surprise.

[groans] Huh?

Ah, great.

Good morning, General.

Zero! Always a pleasure.

Sorry to drop in unannounced,

my little robot seemed anxious we pay you a visit.

So. This is Kantria, is it? Nice.

Kantria is a protected Imperium world.

You should leave.

Oh, I thought they were all Imperium worlds to you.

Unless you want to donate a few to me.

Zero's Worlds.

Ooh, I like the sound of that.

I can set up home here. Stay permanently.

I plan to ensure one of you does.

Let the test begin.

Huh?

Opening gambit goes to the robot, it seems.

Any luck?

[grunts]

Nope, can't raise Zero or Tag.

I wouldn't imagine Tag's even still aboard.

He'll run back to Vykar at the first opportunity.

Really? I'm not so sure.

Well, I hope I never have to say "told you so".

Me too.

Now let's find this Master Transmitter.

Come on.

Zero?

Gem?

[grunts]

If I must...

Del?

That's not good.

Unless...

This is Junior Cadet Tag Anaton to The Spire.

This ship's shields are offline.

I have single-handedly recaptured my father's ship for the Imperium.

Hello?

Message received from Tag Anaton, son of Commander Cav Anaton.

Yes, I heard.

Do not reply.

Understood.

After all, no one else knows that boy is still alive.

No sense in giving him the glory when we could have it.

Get Skorpion Fighters out there, cut off all escape routes.

This time, that ship won't get away.

Uh, Gem, that storm?

I reckon that rain looks real hot.

Boiling even.

Great, more hot, just what we needed.

[Del] So, finding the entrance,

sometime in the next few seconds, might be good?

Got it.

Oh, Del.

You can be so sweet and so dim at the same time.

Why was I being...

Oh.

One entrance.

[beeping]

[Tag] I'm on your side, Vykar.

Not Zero's.

Oh.

The General isn't here, Anaton.

And this time you won't trick me into letting the ship go.

That wasn't me.

Well, it was me, but it wasn't my fault.

It was Zero. And Gem and...

I really don't care.

That ship's going to be mine.

And when I give it back to General Vykar,

there will be no trace that you were ever aboard.

[panting]

-[laser shot] -[grunting]

Oh.

You're getting old.

And you think you are so clever.

[laser shots]

Run.

[electricity crackling]

[Zero laughs] Yes!

Ya!

I won't tell you again.

Run!

How fast can you move, Vykar?

Faster than you, which is all that matters.

[explosion]

Vykar to Spire. Vykar to Spire!

Ah!

[grunts]

Rakshiff Vykar, General of the Imperium Fleet.

Decorated, honored, a veteran of so many battles

that Avalon has run out of walls to put your image on.

And your point is?

Are you worthy of my loyalty?

Are you as important as you think you are to the Faculty?

Or as relevant to the Imperium as a whole?

Praetor's memory banks had many communiques about you.

That say what?

Well?

I hate robots.

[screams]

[Del] So, how do we get in?

Before that boiling rain gets here.

When you've escaped from as many Imperium prisons as I have...

Boiling rain. Hurry up.

I am so hurrying!

[explosion]

Down into the unknown or stay here to be fried?

Not really a choice is it?

[panting]

[water dripping]

Dark. I love dark.

Oh, yeah.

You do so well with dark.

Remember that abandoned dreadnought in orbit around Ardeeth?

Or... Oh, yeah.

What about that old Imperium science rig on Ridgia?

It's an Imperium base, all right.

[sniffs] Cold and musty in there.

Why are we always looking for the Master Transmitter

in places that are cold and musty?

And dark.

Cold, musty and dark places

filled with things that probably don't exist.

That Zero believes exist.

Why are we doing this, Gem?

Um, 'cause Zero needs us to find the Master Transmitter.

And he says it's on this planet.

Yeah, he says.

And your point is?

Zero's not always going to be right, you know.

Yeah, he is.

He wasn't right about Bowi.

I'm sorry.

-We sometimes-- -Forget about him?

Forget he was part of our team?

Yeah. Before Zero.

No, I never forget about him. But...

we get caught up in stuff, we...

I forget how much you're hurting.

Remember when we met, what you and Bowi said to me?

Yeah.

You said you'd keep me safe. And you did.

Without you two, I don't know how I would have got through

what happened to my home.

To my parents.

Since meeting Zero,

it's got so much easier to think about them.

I miss him.

Me too.

Please don't blame Zero for what happened.

How do you do it?

Always finding the positive?

[Gem] Oh, I don't.

Not all the time.

But I have friends around me who pick me up no matter what happens.

Friends like Zero.

And you.

Thank you.

We should probably go in.

Find this Master Transmitter. If it's there.

And now we're back to the dark.

Great.

[grunting]

Guardian?

Why are you doing this?

A test.

[screaming]

Okay, Tag. Let's consider what you just did.

Did you just try to sell out your friends to the enemy?

[chuckling] Yep, guess you did.

Ah, who am I kidding? They're not my friends.

They're just...

I don't even know.

Dad, how did I get caught up in all this?

I was going to be the great Imperium Hero, you know.

Make you proud of me.

Sounds so simple now.

[beeping]

Now what?

[alarm blaring]

Ah, well, that's that decision made, then.

Spooky, isn't it?

No arguments there.

[gasps] There's a body in there.

Is he alive?

Asleep.

Breathing, but really slowly.

[Del] They're all linked into those tubes via wires.

Should we wake them up?

They don't look like Imperium Troopers.

No, no.

They're not sleeping like, well, like normal people,

they're in suspended animation.

Quick-frozen in a little tube, just like that.

What are you doing?

This one's empty. Why?

That can't be good.

This place is huge.

Why would the Imperium build it here?

Gem?

Get me out of here.

Now!

[gas hissing]

[Vykar over P.A.] Welcome, citizens of the Imperium.

Welcome to the future.

Vykar!

[Vykar over P.A.] Citizens of the Imperium.

You have been placed in this secure facility on Kantria

by the glorious Third Imperium.

You are the start of a whole new future for the galaxy.

The Bioweve is a brand-new concept that the Imperium has created

to enrich our lives.

Your sacrifice in enabling this...

He just doesn't know when to be quiet, that man.

Del, listen, I don't like this.

I'm not surprised.

No, listen.

We assumed we were looking for a machine, this Master Transmitter.

But what if all these tubes, all the people inside them,

they are the Master Transmitter?

These people are actually the conductors, the amplifiers,

broadcasting the Bioweve.

...your Imperium thanks you.

Well, it's crude and wrong on every level,

but it's the sort of nightmare the Imperium would come up with.

But if all these people are linked together and it activates,

what will it do to them?

To you?

It'll burn us out.

Fry our minds.

And bodies.

I've got to get you out.

You've got to get everyone out.

I'm so tired.

Gem, stay with me.

I...

can't.

[grunts]

Don't worry. I will get you out.

Whoa!

[gasps]

Whoa!

Huh!

[groans]

[grunts]

[footsteps approach]

Huh?

This is becoming a habit.

[gasps]

Huh?

Guardian, tell me why you're doing this? Please.

My protocols have been overridden.

My heads and my body have been...altered.

That's right.

We downloaded the Praetor's specs into the Guardian body.

To save your life.

Life?

I am an artificial being.

I do not live.

And before long, you may not either.

Unless you are the victor.

And if I win, what happens?

I will continue to serve you all aboard the Rogue.

You will have my loyalty.

And if Vykar wins, he gets it.

I see...

[bubbling]

-[squeals] -[Zero yells]

Robot! Android!

Whatever you are, wherever you are, face me.

What are you looking for, General?

Both you and Zero are searching for something down here.

What?

That is none of your concern.

Perhaps.

But that may be yours.

[screams]

Why was that tube empty, Gem?

Someone must have got out. So how did they do that.

Because if they did, so can you.

[screaming]

[panting]

[grunts]

[squeals]

[sighs]

[rumbling]

[grunts]

[Zero gasps]

Ah, thank you.

I think you just saved me from a long drop.

[Del] Let me go! Let me go!

[grunting]

[man over P.A.] Prototype Bioweve Organic Transmitter now complete.

All replacement circuits in place.

Experimental Transmitter will activate in five minutes.

-And counting. -[Del] No, let me out!

I'm not a circuit. I'm a human being! I'm a...

Oh, no.

Oh, no. No! No!

[man over P.A.] Amplified Bioweve Testing begins in 4 minutes, 40 seconds

and counting.

[gas hissing]

[grunts]

Yes.

It must be close now.

[Zero] Can you pull me up?

Please try not to let go.

He says, stating the obvious.

My name is Zero.

What's yours?

Hello there.

-[gasps] -[Guardian] Hello, Zero.

Hello, Guardian.

Goodbye, Zero.

Oh.

[clanging]

[panting]

[grunts]

Control. Now.

[electronic voice] Confirming identity. Rakshiff Vykar.

Welcome back, Sub-Commander Vykar.

General Vykar to you.

-How long? - [electronic voice] All circuits in place.

Amplified Bioweve Testing begins in 33 seconds and counting.

[Vykar] Activate the mast. Now.

[electronic voice] Amplified Bioweve Test beginning now.

Activate!

[rumbling]

[whirring]

[laughs evilly]

[people screaming]

[Vykar] General Vykar no longer.

I am reborn as the Living Bioweve Excelsior!

[screaming]

[electricity whirring]

[theme music playing]