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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?

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 killed Chill Spen? The mystery begins.

- Strego Nall is the killer.

- 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 killing?

- 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 "war." Did you know that?

Now, are you beauty or are you war?

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.

- Shit.

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 shit.

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 killer.

- Strego Nall? - You checked him in?

- Cell 3.

Wake cell.

- Strego Nall.

Do you admit to killing 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 pistol for?

To shoot 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.

Hoe-tee-ta!

Hee! Hoe-tee-ta!

- The Kinetobet.

Dance alphabet. We all learn it.

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 murder.

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 murder.

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 killed?

- 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 shit.

- 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 killing 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 killing 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 killing.

- I came as she fell.

There were three.

Sister.

Killer.

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 killed?

- 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 murdered 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 kill 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.