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[Zero] Previously on Prisoner Zero...

There is a weak link aboard that ship. Something I can exploit.

Mom, Dad!

The Imperium turned on us.

[Mom] Your life with us is over.

Dad?

As soon as the troopers break the door down,

I can slip inside in the confusion.

-But, Dad! -We'll meet again, I promise.

He knew what he was doing and I let him do it.

We have a new mission for you.

A chance to redeem yourself.

I think you already know my prime tactician.

[crackling]

[rock music playing]

[Tag] Now, that is cool!

[computer] Target acquired.

Moving into attack position.

[laser firing]

Whoa! Where did you guys come from?

Okay, fellas, try to keep up.

What?

Hold it together.

No, no, no, no!

Whoo-hoo!

[automated voice] Disengage. Disengage!

All systems are down.

Yee-ha!

[Gem] We've got to get him back!

I am not going to lose him.

[Guardian] Zero, look. Tag is heading for the cargo bay.

I have unlocked the doors to enable access.

What was he even doing out there?

Because he's stupid and spoiled and is always seeking attention!

Well, I wouldn't have put it quite that rudely.

[Tag] Whoo-hoo! Check out the new paint job.

But you may have a point.

[birds squawking]

[Barqel] And now it is time.

Let the fun begin.

[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]

[electricity crackling]

Hey.

[explosion]

It was a fun ship to have around while it lasted.

[explosion]

We needed those ships!

The Wasp, the Skorpion,

they're the only ships we have to get to planets and you just...

What Gem means is, are you okay?

Okay? Okay?

I'm Tag Anaton,

superstar pilot, all-round ace of the spaceways.

I'm always okay.

I mean, seriously, though, that was a really stupid stunt.

Yeah, but I was brilliant, wasn't I?

Stupid, irresponsible, careless...

We could have lost you, Tag!

Okay, okay, point made.

You could have been killed out there!

What were you thinking?

I'm sorry, guys.

I was just letting off a bit of steam about that whole Del thing.

Don't you dare use him as an excuse.

[Guardian] You should return to the Cargo Bay.

An Imperium Razor has just come aboard.

We have an intruder.

BAM ready, just in case.

No...

Dad?

Dad?

You're my son.

You're Tag.

Was that you in that stolen Skorpion?

I could have killed you!

You should be at the Academy.

Ah...

You've run away.

Don't you understand what that means for me and your mother?

What's going on? What happened to you?

Tag,

step away from your dad.

It's a trap.

It's my dad.

And what are you people doing on my ship?

Why are you on The Imperador?

The what? This is The Rogue.

Who are you people?

You don't know me?

You should. You really should.

I stole this ship from you. You helped me.

But you do know what happened!

Don't you remember the prison camp?

Dad? Do you remember?

Dad?

Get off my ship!

[grunting]

Dad!

This is a trap!

You are a trap!

[Cav grunts]

[Guardian] My scans reveal he is not a hologram,

nor have any of you been infected with nanotech

that would induce illusions, phantoms, hallucinations--

Okay, thank you!

So if that is Cav, we can assume from his attitude so far,

that this time around he's hostile towards us.

So the question is, how do we stop him?

That can't be too hard.

I mean, there's one of him, three of us.

Well, four including Guardian.

Thank you.

We are five, including the big blue wizard.

[Librarian] And I am pained to say that without Del Rev,

we are not exactly at our best right now.

They take Del and then think they can break us with this.

What's happened to him?

He must have been caught after we left him in the camp.

Yeah. We left him there.

Left my dad behind.

We don't know that is Cav Anaton.

It might be a robot copy, or a clone or...well, anything.

I have a theory, but I cannot vouch for its accuracy.

I'll take anything right now.

Maybe the Imperium are making him forget.

Could they have found a way to make him believe he never left The Rogue?

This has the stink of Barqel all over it.

It's just like what he did to me!

Yeah, and we fixed you!

We can fix him!

But, Tag, wait! You don't know him!

He's my dad!

I wonder...

Guardian, you knew him before you and Tag came to Rogue.

Is he the Cav Anaton you remember?

[Guardian] Most definitely. Determined. Proud.

Loyal to the Imperium.

I believe that is Commander Anaton in the brig.

Then we have a big problem.

Because at the moment

Tag's holding on to the hope that it isn't.

This is really going to test him.

[Barqel] Thank you for your help in getting Mr Anaton back aboard

for this touching reunion with his son.

This is exactly why I asked you for the key codes to The Rogue.

I can just tell we are going to have a most rewarding partnership.

[Tag] You really don't remember?

I do remember.

That's how I know.

Tag, this is a simulation.

It's not real.

Dad...

So you honestly believe the last time you saw me,

I was being held in some kind of prison camp?

Yeah! And they must have caught you and done...

this.

Dad, you never were in charge of the ship.

For your first mission, Vykar asked you to blow up Elysium.

Our home planet.

He wanted you to kill billions of people just to make a point.

Vykar wouldn't do that.

He's a good man.

Gem was on board.

She stopped you.

She stole the ship and you were arrested.

One girl?

The girl I saw earlier stole all this?

Yeah, she's really good.

Then she and Del and Zero, they found me.

And I joined them.

You betrayed the Imperium?

They'd taken you and Mom.

I didn't know where you were.

Your mother and I are an Imperium First Family.

They'd never do this.

You're not real.

A trick.

You're part of it.

You seem so real.

Dad, look at me.

I'm your son. I'm Tag.

Remember that time I crashed the hoverbike into the Harpers' farm,

and you paid them off so they wouldn't tell anyone?

They're taking the memories from my mind.

What you say you know, I already know.

That's how they do it.

"They?" Who are "they"?

The Imperium.

I thought they were the good guys.

It's all part of my training.

Vykar brought me here.

To The Rogue?

We're not on the ship, Tag.

We're on the planet Destrii.

Come on. I need to show you something.

[sighs] I hope you know what you're doing, Tag.

Look!

Vykar brought me here to this...

simulation testing site,

so he could see how I'd react if traitors took over the ship.

I didn't realize how hard it would be.

I didn't think they'd make you one of them.

I'm not a traitor.

We're on the right side!

You're not a traitor, no.

Just a hologram.

All of this is only a hologram.

Dad, remember when Grandad died?

You were being real brave for me and Mom,

didn't want me to see you crying.

But I did.

I came home from school and saw you.

It was the first time I realized you were just like everyone else.

You were just... a person, a human being.

And I was...scared.

You weren't my big superhero dad anymore.

You were a normal man.

And I pretended I never saw but...

I saw something that day...

Something in your eyes.

Right!

And the Imperium couldn't know that I'd seen you cry,

because you didn't know!

Tag?

It's me.

You're...real.

You're really real.

Yes.

Uh... Of course.

You don't know, do you?

What?

They've taken you out of the Academy,

brought you here to be part of it with me!

They're testing you as well!

Dad, it's not real!

Think about it.

One girl stole this whole ship?

-Nobody's that good. -Dad!

You want proof? Look out at the stars!

They're just stars.

Look at them, Tag.

What?

Look. At. It!

Whoa! What's going on?

None of it has been real, Tag.

No, no! It can't be.

The Imperium wanted to test me, but they wanted to test you even more.

They know just how brilliant you could be.

But you know what the sad thing is?

Please, no.

You failed.

I saw through it but you failed.

You believed everything you were told and you betrayed the Imperium.

Tag. You're a traitor.

I'm sorry!

Oh, my poor boy. He had to know the truth.

Nothing he's been through over these last few months has been real.

Tag, how are you?

What did he show you? What did you see?

He doesn't think this is real.

He says none of this is real.

But you know it is real.

We are real.

Yeah, but...if this is all some kind of Bioweve simulation, then...

Well, you would say that.

And what do you believe?

I don't know.

When I'm with him, he makes sense.

You cannot seriously believe him.

You think this has all been some kind of...hologram?

Everything? Del? The Vagabonds? Mica? Everything we've done?

Now, let us all assume we're real.

So Cav Anaton has been brainwashed

into thinking he is still the captain of this ship.

Why?

To split us up.

They've taken Del and now they want Tag.

I saw the wall.

I looked out at the stars and they weren't there.

-Look at it! -Get off me!

Look at it!

I'm not a kid! Don't treat me like a kid!

Then stop acting like one and look at it!

It's space!

We're on The Rogue and we're flying through space.

You see that?

I see it.

So you know what's real.

Yeah.

Sure. Of course.

It finally makes sense.

So now we need to speak to Cav.

Get him to see the truth.

He is a good man, Tag.

I'll take him to sick bay.

Alone.

So, how am I?

Heart rate's normal. Everything...everything's normal.

I needed to get you in here,

away from the brig and the observation deck.

This is the only place Zero and the others can't see us.

You believe me, then?

[Gem] I'm really not sure that's a good idea,

leaving the two of them alone.

He knows the truth. He knows what's real.

I might...

I might just go and check on them.

Tag is not a child anymore.

And I want him to trust us.

You stay here, then.

But although he might be the most arrogant, annoying, argumentative...

Oh...oh! I've run out of As.

But whatever. He's still Tag.

He's still my friend.

And I know someone he trusts without question.

Looks like it's down to you and me, Guardian.

[Tag] We need to get off the Ship.

Retreat?

That's not the Imperium way.

The simulation, all this, it's to test how we react to traitors.

Do you really think we'll pass if we just run away

and leave them with The Imperador?

Dad, I can't...I won't hurt them!

Fine, we'll lock them up, take control of the ship

and then we're done.

We can go back to the real world.

[sighs] I don't... Mom?

She's there waiting for us. Outside these walls.

I'll pretend I still believe them.

Pretend I'm helping you get better.

Then...

BAM.

[Zero] What are you gonna do with Cav?

[Gem] See if we can cure him!

-You think you can? -I can try.

If I can convince him that we're real,

break his conditioning, then afterwards we'll go and find Del.

Do the same with him.

Be careful, okay?

Guardian, protect her.

I don't think I'm the one who'll need protecting.

Tag.

Are you okay?

Yeah.

I was just bringing Dad to see you.

He believes me.

You do?

Yeah.

We can help you.

No, you can't, because there's nothing wrong.

The Imperium created you to test me and my dad.

What?

Can you hear what you're saying?

Hear how ridiculous that sounds?

Look, they couldn't quite get your Guardian android to look right.

No, Tag fixed that himself. He made the new head!

Vykar probably thought I'd failed the test, but I haven't.

I'm loyal.

I love the Imperium.

Tag, listen, they are everything you've been fighting against!

Oh, just stop.

Quit filling my head with lies about what the Imperium does.

About them destroying worlds. About them hurting people.

I know what they are. They love us.

Now.

We're gonna lock you up in the brig and we're gonna leave this place

and we're gonna return to the real world.

So are you going to come quietly?

I hope not.

Tag, please!

[lasers firing]

Guardian. Override, Anaton c-plus-prime.

[laser firing]

Tag, please!

You're not even real.

I am!

Please!

Remember this? Do you remember it?

Part of the simulation!

It's real! Look at it!

It belonged to Del Rev.

And then the Imperium took him and they hurt him.

Like they've hurt your dad.

No, Tag! Look!

They're waiting for us!

Look at it!

Look at Del! Look at us!

Please, Tag, listen to me.

You're the most annoying brat in the universe

and you are my best friend.

I lost Del and I can't lose you too!

He was my friend.

No, Tag.

Get off me! Look at your hand!

-What is it? -It's nanotech!

Your dad must have put it there!

I don't...I don't... Dad?

Tag! Please! I'm your dad!

We have to get out of here!

But here's real, Dad.

Here and now.

That's real.

Then you're a traitor.

And that means you are no longer a son of mine.

Go after him!

Just let him go.

[Barqel] Ah, Tag Anaton.

Another round to you, it seems.

I don't suppose you know

how he managed to hack his own Bioweve privileges

and get himself up to Omega level without doing...

You know,

your son is far too smart for his own good.

And quite possibly mine.

Don't you think, Mrs. Anaton?

So we're all okay?

Yeah, just...

I'm sorry, guys. I just wanted my dad back again.

I should've known it was a trap.

No one here blames you for what you said and believed.

I'm not sure I deserve that.

I fell for it completely.

Stupid Tag.

[exhales] Yeah, right.

Tag, listen, the very last thing I'd ever think to call you is stupid.

Gem's absolutely right. We'll find your mum and dad.

And we'll find Del.

Then we'll find a way to bring them all here safely.

Okay?

You two, me, Guardian and Librarian.

Five of us against the Imperium.

No one's going to break this team up anymore.

[theme music playing]