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- [Announcer] Previously on "Grand Star."

- Sorry to leave like this,

but there's something inside of me pulling me away.

- Have any of you seen Cal?

- A few days ago.

- [Liam] I haven't talked to you much about your mother.

- I know, and I'm tired of getting bits and pieces.

I'm here to find the Renewers.

- [Woman] Oh no, not again.

- My home and permasuit are gone.

He can read my thoughts and I can read his.

- Well, so he's telepathic.

That doesn't make you anything other

than a normal human being.

- You know very many human beings who can do that?

Who are you?

- [Woman] I'm a very big star who fell on the Earth.

- [Cal] Please, help me.

Wait.

(dramatic music)

(thunder booming) (suspenseful music)

- [Announcer] Attention, citizens of "Grand Star."

Due to the category four storm outside our walls,

outgoing trains have now been delayed indefinitely.

Electric Corps will advise you of any changes.

Message repeat.

Due to the category four.

(thunder booming)

(machine beeping)

- [Machine] Access denied.

(machine beeping) Access denied.

Due to climatic conditions

all expeditions out of Grand Star Station

have been suspended.

Please contact the Authorization Bureau

for any special-- - I need clearance

for Ice Fox 37.

- [Machine] Please wait for assistance.

- I cannot wait!

- [Machine] Access denied.

(hands thudding)

Please contact the Authorization Bureau.

- Listen, I wanna talk to the supervisor!

- Please wait for-- - I cannot wait!

- Please contact the-- - My son is in danger!

I have authorization to leave this site!

I am Professor Liam Ragg!

I have authorization to leave this.

You have no right to take me!

(wind blowing) (thunder booming)

- [Liam] He can't have gone far, he's on foot.

- I'm sorry, I can't risk my men's lives.

Besides, nobody asked for him to go out there.

- We're talking about my son, Lieutenant Damien.

- Yes, and approximately how many of my men's lives

do you think your son is worth?

- I'm not asking for your men.

I'm asking for your permission to go look for myself.

- I can't make any exceptions.

I'm sorry.

But I think you should consider the possibility

that by now your son is dead.

I'm sorry, there's really nothing we can do.

- If anything happens to him

and I find that I could have helped him,

you'll pay for this for the rest of your life.

(tense music)

(thunder booming)

- I'm gonna show you my home.

You can stay as long as you want.

- Where am I?

- You are in my country.

Nara's Country.

Nobody comes here.

- No, no, you should let me go.

- No, no.

- I've got things to do.

- You can't go, you're my brother of the warm.

I'm your sister of the cold.

(Cal shivering)

So you let that little storm knock you around.

- I was doing, I was doing great.

What are you doing?

- Shh.

Nothing warms you faster than body heat.

You're thinking of someone.

- [Cal] Her name is Suki.

- You know what?

You do seem like one of us.

- Really?

- Not completely, but very much.

- [Cal] Nara, I'm scared.

- [Nara] It's okay, Cal.

You mustn't be afraid of who you are.

- [Cal] I feel at peace.

- [Nara] You need to sleep now.

(gentle music)

- I mean, I can't just sit around and do nothing.

It's unbearable.

- I'm worried too, Mr. Ragg, but there's nothing we can do.

- There's always something we can do!

- [Suki] You're just like him.

- What?

- You think you're stronger than nature

or stronger than the storm.

You're just like him.

- What do you expect?

Just sit around here,

waiting for them to bring in a frozen body,

is that what you think?

Anyway, I don't think he was thinking

he was stronger than nature, I think he was pushed.

Yes, you've been pushing him, Suki.

You're always hammering on about seeking his destiny,

looking for the Sun, he told me.

You've all been pressuring him.

You're all responsible.

- I can't tell you why he left.

All I can say is that there are too many

unanswered questions floating around in his head.

- What sort of questions?

- You're his father, Mr. Ragg.

I think you know what I mean.

- His mother.

(wind blowing)

- So, why did you leave your home?

- There's something inside of me that's pulling me.

It's like a machine that won't stop.

- The Sun.

- Yeah, yeah, I believe the Sun still exists,

and I'm gonna help bring it back.

- A lovely little Sun that would make life happy again.

Why?

Why would you want the Sun to come back?

We will melt.

People like you and me won't survive.

Don't you like the cold?

- No, no, I don't like the cold.

And my fingers and my toes hate it.

- So you're like all the others.

They only want what they don't have.

Me, I'm happy here.

- No, I just want the truth.

- Why, what difference does it make?

Don't you see it's making you sick?

- No, it's not making sick.

It's the lies that are making me sick.

- Pff, the truth, the lies, the lies, the truth,

the cold, the Sun, the cold, the Sun.

- Do you live here alone?

- Hm-hmm.

- But where are your parents?

- They're gone.

They all went to get the Sun, never came back.

You are my family.

(gentle music)

(shoes thudding)

- [Guard] Ah!

(guard mumbling)

- Give me the exit code.

Give me the exit code.

(machine beeping)

- [Machine] Tracking device initiated.

(dramatic music) (car whooshing)

(tense music)

- You never did show up at that dinner.

That dinner which your friends and yourself stole.

- Oh, oh the one I crashed and we ran into each other, yeah.

Yeah, I guess I started to feel bad about what I'd done.

Sneaking in, I mean.

- Hmm.

I should have you arrested.

- Well, if you believe I had something to do with it,

then arrest it.

- I can't prove it.

- But you know it.

- (laughs) Yes.

- Arrest me.

Damien. - Hm?

- I'm here about Cal.

- If he's out there in the storm,

he'll probably die, if he's not dead already.

- He's not, I'd know it.

- How, instinct?

How romantic.

The door's over there.

Cal's not the only one with feelings, you know?

(dramatic music) (car whooshing)

(machine beeping)

♪ Ohhh ♪

♪ Ohhh ♪

♪ Ohhh ♪

(Liam breathing heavily)

- [Liam] Cal.

(ice creaking)

Cal!

(gentle music)

- You kept him here?

- Yes, I couldn't send him back in the storm.

I just couldn't.

He's my brother of the warm.

- [Man] And you talked to him?

- Yes, he said odd things.

- Yes, of course.

Let me hear him out.

What is your name?

- [Cal] Cal.

- [Man] Who are your parents?

Who is your father?

- [Cal] Liam Ragg, we live at Grand Star Station.

- [Man] Who is your mother?

- [Nara] Leave him alone.

- We have to know, Nara.

We have to know where he is from.

Who is your mother?

Who is your mother?

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

I don't know!

- Don't worry, little man.

Don't worry.

(tense music) (wind blowing)

(machine beeping)

(car whooshing)

- Why are you here?

- I came to find the Renewers.

But I got lost in the storm, and luckily Nara saved me.

- You seek for the Renewers?

- Yes.

Yeah, I believe the Sun still exists

and I wanna do whatever I can to help bring it back.

What?

Do you know something about the Sun?

- I know a man like me. (laughs)

So you think you can change things?

- Yeah, I do.

I think if one man knows the truth, he can tell another,

who will tell another, until everyone knows the truth,

and knows that there are people out there hiding it.

- So you think the Sun is out there,

somewhere in the mist?

- Or hidden.

- In my family, going back seven generations,

we have told the story of the Sun and of its disappearance.

That is our truth.

The truth is what you believe.

I will tell you my grandfather's story.

It is there.

Some of our ancestors did this.

(suspenseful music)

- [Suki] Storm's letting up.

We have to go out there, I asked Damien but.

- He's not gonna help.

- The Pointsmen are supposed to look after the people

who live here.

- I don't think Damien is gonna help Cal ever.

- Why, because of me?

- No.

We hated Cal long before you showed up.

- Well, if Damien won't go out there and help us

then we have to get out there and find him.

- If we do that, Cal's just gonna return to find

two frozen friends.

- How can you be so calm about this?

What's the matter with you?

He needs our help.

- Cal doesn't even remember this,

but when we were really little

he got stuck out on the ice for two days.

He was fine then.

He's gonna be fine now.

(wind blowing)

- My ancestor, he worked on a military base.

His job was to monitor the transportation

of the nuclear waste and warheads to the Moon,

as that was the compromise agreed on

by the nations of the world.

Better the Moon than the Earth.

- We had a moon?

And it was destroyed deliberately?

- Some say it was an accident, some say it was deliberate,

but while they were all agreeing

the sky every day became darker.

My ancestor traced those explosions.

He found six rift valleys

all lined with nuclear waste and warheads,

all close enough together to allow for a chain reaction.

People were told to move to the larger cities,

but he was obsessed with the pattern he was finding.

He kept on telling people about the destruction of the Moon

and how the dust blotted out the Sun.

Ah but far many people, they didn't want to believe it.

For them, it was easier to believe

that the Sun just went out.

(car whooshing)

- [Man] Liam, come warm yourself by the fire.

- [Liam] Thanks for seeing me, Zel.

I need your help.

- Your son saved me.

- Yeah.

I tried to help you at the trial,

but he was the one who set you free.

- We talked, you know?

- What do you mean?

- I communicated with him,

the way we People of the Cold communicate.

The words keep flying out of our heads.

We don't need to use our mouths.

- Oh please, not now!

- The air is so cold, it's our way of saving energy.

Don't need to get alarmed.

Liam, remain calm.

- I can't be calm.

I have to find my son!

- So the Sun is still above us?

I knew it!

And so all we need to do is just

remove the dust from the Sun and we'll have it back.

- Ah, the people who caused this are still with us,

and more powerful than they ever were

when the Earth was light.

- Who?

The Pointsmen and the Company?

- When this happened, they were given another name.

The Destroyers.

(gentle music)

- Look.

Could you hear him?

I mean, I mean, could you enter into contact with him

by no talking?

- No.

But I think you should keep going in the same direction.

- North?

- Just keep going.

I'm sure you expected this to happen, though.

- I suppose I didn't wanna face it.

- One day, Cal will need to know.

- [Nara] What are you doing?

- I'm doing what I set out to do.

- But you'll never reach the Renewers, not on foot.

- Yeah, well, you know where they are.

Take me, please.

- If the Renewers want you, they will find you.

- I wanna help them.

- Okay.

If I see the Renewers, I will tell them they have an ally.

- Well, can I say goodbye to the old man?

- He's ill.

Telling you his story took a lot of his strength.

Cal, his story is yours now.

(dramatic music)

(car whooshing)

Pointsmen.

- Let me see.

No, no Pointsmen.

That's my father.

- I suppose we should let your father know you're alive.

(flare whooshes)

(flare booms)

- [Machine] Emergency flare detected.

- [Liam] Cal, Cal.

- [Cal] Thank you, for everything.

- [Nara] Thank you, Cal, my brother of the warm.

- [Cal] I won't forget you, Nara.

- You are in real trouble with me.

- Dad, I'm sorry.

I don't know how many more times I can say it.

- I'm glad you're back.

I'm going to get some food, you must be starving.

(gentle music) (door whooshing)

- Where did that come from?

- I was right, Suki.

All along I was right.

There's still a Sun just beyond the clouds.

- [Suki] How do you know?

- [Cal] An old man told me.

- I thought you were going to die out there in the cold.

How did you survive the storm?

- [Cal] The People of the Cold, they saved me.

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