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[indistinct conversation]

[bleating]

[chickens clucking]

[woman] Hello, Shal.

[indistinct chatter]

[chickens clucking]

[screaming]

Shal?

Mother?

[screaming]

Mother!

-Come to her. -Mother!

-Where's Mother? -Mother!

[man] Get some help. Find some help.

Mother!

Shal!

Mother!

[Mother] When did it start?

Just after lunch. [screams]

But it's getting worse.

[Mother] That's because it's time.

[groaning and screaming]

[Mother] Yes. Yes, stay calm.

-[Brav] Mother... -[Mother] It will be over soon.

Try to breathe normally.

[Shal whimpers]

[Mother] That's better.

You're almost there.

That's it, Shal. It's coming.

Good! Push! Push!

-You're doing fine. -[straining]

[Mother] Yes! Push! Good! I see it!

-[screaming in pain] -[Mother] Yes.

-[Mother cooing] -[baby crying]

Mother?

Yes, Roan?

What is it?

[Control Voice] There is nothing wrong with your television.

Do not attempt to adjust the picture.

We are now controlling the transmission.

We control the horizontal and the vertical.

We can deluge you with a thousand channels

or expand one single image to crystal clarity

and beyond.

We can shape your vision

to anything our imagination can conceive.

For the next hour,

we will control all that you see and hear.

You are about to experience the awe and mystery

which reaches from the deepest inner mind

to The Outer Limits.

[laughing]

[Mother] Children, have you all had enough?

The harvest has been so good this year.

[narrator] Throughout history,

man has been driven to seek out his origins

to determine whether he's the result of a divine plan

or merely the sum of all his yesterdays.

But what happens if, at the end of his search,

he should discover he's neither?

[Mother] It's a good likeness.

But it has a form she no longer has.

The body has resumed its previous shape

now that she is no longer with child.

I didn't know.

It's been a while since she was here.

Is she coming back soon?

Maybe.

But first, we want to make sure she's well enough to return.

You said she was all right.

She is.

But the birth was hard on her body.

At the Obelisk,

we can keep an eye on her and on the child.

-Then let me go there. -No.

It would mean leaving the community.

It's too far and too dangerous for you.

Will he really grow up to look like us?

Of course.

Both of you created him.

Yes, but we don't look like you.

And you created us.

That's because we are Vorak.

I've told you this before many times.

It's not necessary

for the parent to look like the child.

But enough of this.

I've brought K'ren with me.

I don't want another companion.

We've decided that it's better

for you and for the community that you have one.

But you said Shal was coming back.

[Mother] Eventually.

But in the meantime,

K'ren will be more than suitable as a mate.

I've seen you look at her.

It's not the same.

Why not? Doesn't she appeal to you?

Is there something wrong with her?

Something I don't understand?

No... No, of course not.

Then you'll accept our decision.

[cooing]

[cooing]

[K'ren] You've been alone too long, Brav.

No, I haven't.

I'm sorry.

But Mother said.

She can't make me.

[dog whining]

[barking]

[man] Look at his face.

[woman laughs]

[woman] Come on, Roan. Concentrate.

[Roan grunting]

Mother's wrong.

It doesn't respond to mental commands.

Come on. Pick up the stick!

I don't know why she thinks it should live with us.

[screams threateningly]

-[man 1] What's he doing? -[man 2] I don't know.

No matter what I do,

it just sits there.

Good, good!

[barking]

[laughter]

He's forgotten about the boundary.

Roan! Stop!

[Roan screaming in pain]

[exhales heavily]

Shal.

[beeps]

Good to see you again.

It's good to see you.

I missed you when you weren't here.

-What's wrong? -I'm not staying.

They kept our child, Brav.

They took him away from me.

And they wanna keep him at the Obelisk

until he's older like us.

Maybe they didn't think you could look after him.

They're wrong!

I'm going to get him back.

-Why? -Because he's important to me.

But isn't he still at the Obelisk?

That means you'd have to cross the boundary again.

The monitor band won't let you.

I know how to take them off.

How?

There's a tool they use.

It's in their house.

I've been with them for a while.

I've been able to watch them.

We can get in their house now without their knowing.

We can get the tool, and I can take off all the monitor bands.

Why would any of us want that?

This is our home. We're safe here.

I don't want to go.

I don't know.

Brav...

You're my mate.

I need your help.

But this?

She'll be angry.

-I don't care! -You should.

Going into Mother's house, taking something of hers,

then leaving the community without telling her?

It isn't right.

Taking our child! That isn't right!

Why can't you understand that?

[sighs heavily]

Don't any of you understand that?

[gasping]

Does this mean you'll come with me?

I thought about how lonely it was when you weren't here.

I don't want to feel that way again,

even if it means leaving the community.

There's light, but there's no fire. How's that possible?

The Voraks have many secrets.

What are these things?

I don't know, but I don't like it.

Let's hurry.

Do you know your way back to the Obelisk?

There's a path, like the one in the open area,

but not as easy to walk on.

There it is!

Shal,

Mother always said it was dangerous past the boundary,

that we don't belong there.

-And you believe her? -Don't you?

Not like I did before they took me away.

Brav, look at this.

It's a reflection,

like the ones Mother makes of us,

with people in it.

[Brav] I've never seen them before.

[Shal] And we were told there weren't any others.

There's something wrong about this,

about always keeping us here, about taking our child.

I don't trust them anymore.

Got it.

[entry pass beeping]

[Brav] How much further is the Obelisk?

I don't know. It's taking longer to walk through this than I thought.

And when night comes, we won't be able to see the path.

Maybe we should go back.

If we go back now, they'll never let us leave again.

We're not gonna have another chance.

But maybe there's another way.

There isn't. I asked Mother if I could take him back into the community,

and she wouldn't allow it.

Brav, I don't like this any more than you do.

What's wrong?

Shal!

[Shal exclaims in pain]

[screaming in pain]

[Shal sobbing]

-Are you okay? -It stung me!

[sobbing]

Part of it's in your leg.

Can you get it out?

I don't know. I don't--

I think it's making me sick. [groans]

[screams] Oh! Stop it! Stop it!

Please! Stop it!

[Brav] I can't!

Get it out of me!

Do something!

Maybe if I cut it!

Do it! Do it!

[screaming]

[Shal panting]

[sobbing]

[tearing cloth]

I think the cave continues on.

But I couldn't see beyond where it narrows.

We're lucky it was so close to the path.

I'm lucky.

I'm lucky you were here to help me.

Thank you.

I didn't even know what I was doing.

But all I can think about now is what could have happened.

For a while...

I thought I might lose you forever.

I'm all right now.

Well, if we ever go back,

at least we will have seen the world beyond.

We're not going back, Brav.

No matter what happens, I am not going back without our child.

Do you ever think about him, Brav?

What do you mean?

I mean, do you miss him?

Our child needs us... both of us.

But, Shal...

All I know of him, I know through you.

I held him once when he was born.

And I can't even remember what he looks like.

He looks different.

He changes.

He's so small, so weak.

When I went to the Obelisk, you missed me.

That's how I feel about him.

Don't you feel the same?

Even a little?

[sighing]

I'm not sure I do.

I understand.

[distant banging]

[wings flapping]

Brav?

Brav?

[Brav] Over here!

Take my hand.

[grunts]

Look.

What is this place?

I'm not sure.

[cawing]

[Brav] It may be a home of some sort.

Whose?

I don't know.

These aren't Vorak.

Brav.

[Shal] They're like us.

The way they're holding it.

It was their child.

They were trying to protect it...

from something... Something awful.

They couldn't.

It's like one of my carvings.

Who do you think they were?

They must be the people

in the reflections that we looked at,

The people we didn't know.

Maybe they're our parents.

Not the Vorak.

Do you think they could have been hiding from the Vorak?

They were hiding from something.

Or they were hiding their child,

which might explain why they weren't wearing monitor bands.

So, they could have taken them off like we did.

So Mother wouldn't find them.

Maybe. Maybe they took their child from the Obelisk,

and the Vorak became angry.

I don't know.

It just doesn't make sense.

I mean, they've looked after us all our lives.

They've never hurt us.

Except when we tried to cross the boundary,

Except when we wanted to leave the community.

Look, look.

I remember this from when they took us to the Obelisk.

We're close. I know we are.

[exclaims in fear]

[gasping]

Is that what stung me?

One just like it.

Be careful. Don't get too close.

It's okay. I think it's dead.

[screaming]

Shal, stay close.

There might be more out there.

Listen.

[crawlers shrieking]

It's like they're talking to each other.

They're getting closer.

[crawlers shrieking]

We better go.

[Shal grunting in pain]

[panting] I can't. My...

My leg hurts. I can't run on it.

We don't have a choice!

Brav, I can't go this fast. My leg.

[Brav] Try and keep going.

[Shal] We're close. I can feel it.

We should be able to see it just past the trees.

Come on, Shal, try to keep up!

[screaming]

Brav, the trees! They're in the trees! [screams]

[crawlers shrieking]

[Shal yells]

[crawlers shrieking]

Aah!

[Shal] They've stopped.

Maybe the crawlers have a boundary, just like we do.

Brav, look.

We made it.

We're at the Obelisk.

[seagulls squawking]

That's the edge of the world, Brav.

[metallic hammering]

Can you see what they're doing?

[Shal] They're always digging for things in the ground.

I used to watch them when I was staying here.

They never told me why they did it.

Come on.

[security panel beeping]

[baby fussing]

[baby fusses]

[door opening]

You shouldn't be here.

Your place is in the community.

It wasn't safe to leave.

[Brav] It wasn't safe to stay.

We saw what you did to our people.

-I don't understand. -I'm keeping our child.

But that's impossible. He must stay here with us.

He doesn't belong with you.

He belongs with us, his parents, his own kind.

-But we are-- -[Brav] You're not anything!

Not our parents, not our friends! Nothing!

You've lied to us all our lives.

We saw what remains of our parents.

And we saw what you did to them.

We've done nothing.

Think about your child.

Why would you risk his life?

How can you keep him safe out there?

You can't. You can't look after him the way we can.

I can look after my own.

I can't let you.

Don't touch her!

[grunting]

Run! Get out of here now!

I can't leave you!

I'll follow you! Go!

You don't understand!

[Vorak grunts]

[screaming]

[grunts in pain]

[beeps]

[gasping]

You must be hungry.

[crawlers shrieking]

[exclaims]

[screaming]

[screaming]

[screaming]

[crawlers smashing into car]

-[crawlers shrieking] -[gasps]

[screaming]

[laser guns blasting]

It's fortunate that you forgot something.

[baby fusses]

Otherwise we wouldn't have found you.

[Brav] Shal.

I thought you were hurt.

I couldn't stand thinking I wasn't going to see you again.

They only made me sleep.

What about our child?

They took him.

They may try to punish us.

Because we took our child?

Because I hurt one of them.

What?

I was trying to protect you.

I didn't know what to do.

And I thought that he might hurt you,

or hurt the child.

So I used my cutter.

No...

I couldn't stop myself.

I wasn't thinking.

But now, I wish I hadn't done it.

[Mother] Your hearts are heavy!

Leaving the community has been hard on you.

It's a burden we'd hoped to protect you from.

Like fear, guilt, hate.

We never thought you'd go out to find them

all for yourselves.

We went to find our son.

And we found him.

It's a world without pity for its children, Shal.

Surely your journey here has taught you that.

Come.

[Mother cooing]

He's so very important,

and yet so fragile.

But we can't keep him from you,

and we can't keep your world from you.

Does that mean you'll let us leave?

That you'll give us our child back?

We will continue to watch over you.

How do we know you won't hurt us?

Like you did our real parents?

We are your real parents, Brav.

We created you,

raised you,

loved you as we would the young of our own species.

What more could you ask from a parent?

Why does it matter so much

that we don't look like you?

[cooing]

Until the child,

you and the rest of your community were all there was.

But we saw reflections.

It showed that there were people just like us.

And we saw what remained of them in the cave

where the crawlers were.

Those people disappeared hundreds of years ago,

long before we arrived.

All that's left of them

are the bits and pieces that we've dug out of the ground

and out of the great ice sheet.

They were like us?

Yes, they were.

Everything you are,

everything you have is a replica of when they lived.

We found reflections that showed your culture.

We used our genetic knowledge to create all of you

from the parts of them we found.

In a way, they are your parents.

Then what happened to them?

We don't know for sure.

A natural disaster perhaps,

or one of their own creation.

Who were they?

From what we've discovered,

they were beings who had to be taught

the value of lifeforms

different in appearance from themselves.

And they did learn... eventually.

Toward the end of their history,

they even resurrected some species

they'd previously driven to extinction.

Much like our mission to re-establish life

wherever it has vanished.

[cooing]

We believe that any species

capable of correcting such a terrible flaw,

of finally appreciating

the beauty that lies in diversity,

deserves a second chance.

That's what you are.

A new beginning.

[Mother cooing]

[sniffles]

[baby cooing]

You were right.

He does need both of us.

[Control Voice] Every life is a destination unknown.

A journey of tragedies and triumphs

that ultimately allows us to discover

not only our world,

but more importantly, ourselves.