[SPEAKER_06]: Previously, on World's Away.
[SPEAKER_06]: Moments ago, countermeasures were deployed on Evantine 2B, to fully and completely disable all lustre destroying devices, and the facility which was manufacturing them.
[SPEAKER_00]: We never used these weapons in war.
[SPEAKER_00]: Only the Republic attempted that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Each of you have suspected the other to be in control of the ghost ship, but we've all suffered at its hands.
[SPEAKER_02]: We may need the capabilities of the lustre destroying devices to lure out the ghost ship.
[SPEAKER_00]: If Aventine is agreeing to disarm, we will not allow this council to maintain a weapon this powerful.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you want our agreement, they must all be destroyed.
[SPEAKER_06]: Done.
[SPEAKER_06]: And there's not like a second of hesitation from Missier.
[SPEAKER_00]: What do we see from Leila after Missier so quickly agreed?
[SPEAKER_02]: I think she's practiced at keeping her composure, but even so for a moment, I think she
[SPEAKER_06]: Madam President, I have given everything for peace.
[SPEAKER_06]: I am asking that you dare to dream.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think there's a long pause.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I think, President, the, almost the disbelievingly shakes her head, left her right.
[SPEAKER_00]: But then she stands up and says, what the hell?
[SPEAKER_00]: And holds out a hand to Eden Curious.
[SPEAKER_03]: I have a zero.
[SPEAKER_06]: You're both so good at this.
[SPEAKER_03]: Zero it is.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hello.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, that's bad.
[SPEAKER_03]: That is a four.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's extra what you're doing.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think we just explode or something.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I think we see the timer tick to zero.
[SPEAKER_00]: And maybe your focus goes back to the surface of the moon.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I think as we're looking back, you can make out a cloud of white exhaust.
[SPEAKER_00]: that is punctuated by an explosion as a missile explodes seconds before the shrapnel begins to hit the valiant.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think the entire engineering section of the ship is vented into space.
[SPEAKER_05]: Where was Charlie?
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm not a pilot.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm not a navigator.
[SPEAKER_05]: And so I make my way over to engineering to try to save Charlie.
[SPEAKER_06]: You unquestionably reach your goal would come in really handy right now.
[SPEAKER_05]: I know.
[SPEAKER_06]: I would love unquestionably reach your goal.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, that's rough.
[SPEAKER_00]: I do want you to mark a stress.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I do want you to tell me what climate you take.
[SPEAKER_05]: And now I, a resources put in peril or harmed.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think that it makes sense that I can't come in and save the day at the last second ever here.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I don't know what that means for Charlie in this case, but I think that that's the consequence.
[SPEAKER_00]: Back on the valiant, I think we're inside the net day.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think we see Mar and Arno.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure if you're still in your vaxutes or if you've taken them off at this point or sort of what you're wearing.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I think you're standing around the auto dock and we see Charlie some more of lying there.
[SPEAKER_05]: We need to talk about what happened.
[SPEAKER_05]: When we were on Aventine 2B, after I planted the first device near the bunkers, I lost control.
[SPEAKER_05]: Before I could take what felt like it was my last breath.
[SPEAKER_05]: I had this moment of clarity, and I was back in my indexing session with Lila.
[SPEAKER_05]: And she came up to me and said, Oh, she didn't say much of anything.
[SPEAKER_05]: She just convinced me that aliens were real.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I forgot that she made me believe it until I was in that room.
[SPEAKER_05]: I have to confront her about this.
[SPEAKER_05]: It can't happen again.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think Mara stands up and walks over and puts her hand on his shoulder.
[SPEAKER_03]: It won't.
[UNKNOWN]: Thank you very much.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I think back on ascension, the mood is maybe more celebratory, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: You're not aware of what's happened on the valiant, and it appears that this new armistice is moving forward.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think during the days that follow the events that we played out in the last few scenes, the delegates are breaking out into small groups, refining the text of this new treaty, working out the exact nature of the structure of this council.
[SPEAKER_00]: Where do we see Lila during this time?
[SPEAKER_00]: Is there anyone that she meets with any conversations that you want to have?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think Lila has sought out Mickey and I'm trying to think where we would have gone, maybe to just the the suite that we had set up for the session with Aiden Kuros, like maybe we're back in there.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I think we see Mickey sitting, like maybe you have two chairs
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think there's a big smile in our face.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think she says, ever since the first day we met, since your first experience in the landscape, I knew that you would achieve great things, Lila.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you did.
[SPEAKER_00]: What happened here when she got adjusters to the table?
[SPEAKER_00]: What you accomplish with Eden Curious, that is something that the Institute will never forget.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hope that your feeling is proud of yourself as I am of you, Lila.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think Lila has been looking down and she finally looks up and I think you can kind of tell that even though there is some, you know, some of the stress on her face has been relieved, she's feeling, I don't know, maybe like two fifths more stressed.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was a joke about how I took two stress.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's real stress.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the only give you all a collective force chess as the character is the player.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the many times.
[SPEAKER_06]: I said, I was like, Nesir is not nervous at all.
[SPEAKER_06]: There's like no nervousness in Nesir.
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, well, my hands were physically shaking because I was like, these dice are going to kill me.
[SPEAKER_03]: Knees week.
[SPEAKER_06]: Arms heavy, mom, spaghetti.
[SPEAKER_06]: Dice sweaty.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, I'm going to just retake that.
[SPEAKER_06]: Haley doesn't respect the art that his mom's spaghetti.
[SPEAKER_02]: Pity.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I think we will look up and there's maybe a touch of tension that has left her face since the backroom meeting.
[SPEAKER_02]: And since we were able to successfully broker the deal.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I think there's still
[SPEAKER_02]: a lot behind her eyes.
[SPEAKER_02]: And there's a lot that's that's weighing on her.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I think she smiles kind of weekly and nods at Mickey.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think if that's your only response, I think Mickey kind of tries to move the conversation forward.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you know what you want to do next after this?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure that the preceptors would let you do anything you want to get even be the youngest instructor at the institute.
[SPEAKER_00]: So selfishly, I hope you'll still find some time to work with me.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think Lea just kind of stands up very abruptly
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, I know this is the end of something, but I can't find it in meets to look forward quite yet.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then I think she's now pacing around the relatively small room, just kind of retracing her steps again and again.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think she says, I suppose I've been thinking a lot about the past.
[SPEAKER_02]: And about arrogance and I don't know, Mickey, I don't know what I'm
[SPEAKER_02]: what I'm doing next, I barely know what I'm doing now.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think when you say that we see on Mickey's face or smile almost like softened and become more calming, I guess, that's the emotion that she's giving off.
[SPEAKER_00]: And she stands to address you if you're kind of pacing around the room and she says,
[SPEAKER_00]: Leave a, I'm sure you remember how you felt that first time we met before your first visit to my library.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think Leo is just kind of scoffs.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I don't think you did admit it.
[SPEAKER_00]: The person I saw said he in that chair was exactly how you described someone who didn't know what they were going to do next.
[SPEAKER_00]: But when you love that room, I saw someone driven someone with purpose.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know that's within Ulyla.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if anything has happened here, it should be that you've proven to yourself that you can achieve anything that you put your mind to.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think Ulyla starts to shake her head, and then she stops herself,
[SPEAKER_02]: But how do we know how do we have so much certainty, sometimes feels like we have so much power over others and there's so much responsibility that we take on and I just don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: if we really have the right and I think her sentences are kind of running on into themselves and she's kind of staring off into the distance and seems clear that her mind is somewhere else.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think Mickey's smile gets shallower but then she says
[SPEAKER_00]: If I'm being completely honest with you, we can't.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't know if it ever becomes easier.
[SPEAKER_00]: All we can do is do our best.
[SPEAKER_00]: And what happens next, that speaks for our work.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think Lila senses the shift and kind of brings herself back to the present and says,
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry, Mickey.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm all out of sorts right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think she actually interrupts and says, please, Lila, don't be.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think she puts her hand on top of yours.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've been thinking a lot about the mistakes I've made.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think I just stayed a little time.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think she just nods and says,
[SPEAKER_00]: Take as much as you need, they let.
[SPEAKER_00]: I, the Institute, will be there for you as soon as you're ready.
[SPEAKER_00]: Where do we find this here?
[SPEAKER_06]: me in a bathroom, leaned over a sink, that's running, breathing heavily.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I think the shot is actually just a close-up of my two hands, my diet hand, clearly visible, like clutching a sink, almost bone white.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I start to trace words with water on the mirror.
[SPEAKER_06]: and breathe heavily just countdown and I like slowly raise my eyes to the mirror and you see a a shaken look and my eyes go down my head goes down and when they come back up my game faces on
[SPEAKER_06]: to go find Mateo.
[SPEAKER_00]: Where is it that you find him?
[SPEAKER_06]: I think I message him to meet me in one of the side rooms.
[SPEAKER_06]: We were using for the summit for like social receptions.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think it's a more private space.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's got a bar.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think it would give a casual energy, but it is like at the facilities, and I think it's late.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think it's been a few hours.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think folks have mostly cleared out.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think as you enter, maybe we see Mateo standing near the bar, and it could be something else.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm open of suggestions, but I think maybe he is pouring two glasses of Lucina.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think as you walk up maybe he hands one to you, do you take it?
[SPEAKER_06]: I take the glass in my left hand.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that he starts to speak and says, Monsieur, I over these past few months, we haven't always agreed on what needed to be done on how best to save a piece.
[SPEAKER_00]: But what you achieved here, this is the first time I can remember having hope.
[SPEAKER_00]: I haven't felt that since before the war, since before any kind of shakes his head and says,
[SPEAKER_00]: Curious asked me to be one of Aventine's representatives on the council.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you asked really if any of you did, the Republic couldn't say no, could they?
[SPEAKER_00]: It'll take some time.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I know that we won't always see eye to eye, I know that.
[SPEAKER_00]: But we could work on this together in this year.
[SPEAKER_00]: We could build something better.
[SPEAKER_00]: The world that we always wanted for him.
[SPEAKER_06]: I hit play on the message I recorded.
[SPEAKER_06]: Nico Torres saying, that we received information
[SPEAKER_00]: And as he respond, I think we just hear the sound play through, and I think he's just like frozen, but I think without you saying anything else or doing anything else, I don't think that you can tell if that's because he's just processing what does happened, or if there's something else happening here, did you know?
[SPEAKER_06]: While I wait for his answer, John, before the rest of this conversation, I would like to roll of the people.
[SPEAKER_06]: When you make a person feel like they share a real connection with you, a world plus slick, and on various results, you get a read on them.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I think I have spent an entire campaign making this person feel like I have a real connection with them.
[SPEAKER_06]: Go ahead and roll plus like.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm also going to make one more ask.
[SPEAKER_06]: I have invoked a piece of our past history.
[SPEAKER_06]: Whether it's true or not.
[SPEAKER_06]: Can I have advantage?
[SPEAKER_06]: You can say no, but I would like it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I think the question I have about that is some speech is when you try to convince someone of the fact about your past.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so I guess the question is, I mean, is the fact that you're trying to convince them of that you were warned?
[SPEAKER_00]: Is that what the fact is?
[SPEAKER_00]: That we were warned.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just trying to process the, okay, yeah, you can take advantage.
[SPEAKER_06]: So on a 10 plus, hold three, and I can ask one for one throughout this conversation.
[SPEAKER_06]: Is your character telling the truth?
[SPEAKER_06]: What is your character truly feeling?
[SPEAKER_06]: What is your character intend to do?
[SPEAKER_06]: How could it get your character to blank?
[SPEAKER_06]: And what does your character wish I do?
[SPEAKER_00]: So I know that the rule allows you to hold these questions throughout the conversation, but to help me determine what happens next in response to your question.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm wondering if I can know what your three questions are.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right now.
[SPEAKER_06]: The first question is how could I get your character to be honest with me?
[SPEAKER_06]: The second question is what is your character truly feeling?
[SPEAKER_06]: And the third question I'm going to ask, but I need an answer before it really applies, is is your character telling the truth?
[SPEAKER_06]: Because I think at this moment, the only thing I'm looking for is the truth.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going to answer those questions in order.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your first question was how could I get your character to be honest with you, and the answer to that is that that's impossible.
[SPEAKER_00]: You asked what your character is truly feeling, and the answer to that is that he is afraid.
[SPEAKER_00]: The third question was, is your character telling the truth?
[SPEAKER_00]: I think he says to you, of course not, and I think that you know he is lying.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh f**k. You're a coward.
[SPEAKER_06]: There are two people in the galaxy who are responsible for the death of our son.
[SPEAKER_06]: And only one of them has owned that.
[SPEAKER_06]: You're a coward.
[SPEAKER_06]: And you let me grieve alone.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think...
[SPEAKER_06]: There's a moment of realization, where I look down at my hand.
[SPEAKER_06]: I've spent the last seven years searching the galaxy for forgiveness, Matteo.
[SPEAKER_06]: Let me know if you find any.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I'll walk out.
[SPEAKER_06]: That was so cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wait, sorry.
[SPEAKER_02]: I looked away for a second.
[SPEAKER_02]: What did you say?
[SPEAKER_06]: You'll just have to hear it when you're editing.
[SPEAKER_03]: But he still love Easter.
[SPEAKER_06]: I just looked at the last 70 years.
[SPEAKER_00]: But he forgive me.
[SPEAKER_06]: I certainly don't like to see for freaking his material.
[SPEAKER_06]: Let me know if you find any.
[SPEAKER_06]: I said the last 70 years.
[SPEAKER_06]: There's the axe.
[SPEAKER_00]: It looks like for D's nuts.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then he ran out of the room.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, damn bro.
[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't even eat.
[SPEAKER_02]: He didn't even eat.
[SPEAKER_02]: And his ass was you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: And in Ohio, I've been thinking about telling his man off for a long time.
[SPEAKER_00]: where are Lila in the Sierra when they get the message that the valiant has arrived back at a sentient or is arriving back at a sentient?
[SPEAKER_02]: Are we maybe at the apartment?
[SPEAKER_06]: I think yeah, we're probably in the apartment, and I think we take off as quickly as we can without dead sprinting, or do we dead sprint?
[SPEAKER_06]: I kind of want a dead sprint, but I might attract attention.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think I've dead sprinting.
[SPEAKER_06]: Fuck it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I think you got the message and I think it includes that Charlie's been hurt.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, I, if I can, if I can just add to, I think I will say the trailer, I would say come to the
[SPEAKER_06]: If we got a message that said come to the med bay, I take off running.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think Lea will split second after an assier also breaks into a run and Chase is after him.
[SPEAKER_06]: And let's not forget they're both very fit.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're hot.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're tough.
[SPEAKER_02]: I said fit.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're fit.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a good time.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I think right as the walkway is extending to reach the airlock of the valiance, the two of you are already running across it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we see the door to the ship open and Captain Alba is standing there and she has a grum walk on her face.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think the next shot is the two of you entering the Med Bay and seeing Charlie lying in the Audit dark.
[SPEAKER_00]: or Arno and Mara there, also.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think the next shot is maybe all four of you are in the Med Bay and maybe you're standing there just as a physician is leaving and having told you that there's nothing in their knowledge that could help revive Charlie from the state.
[SPEAKER_06]: I am like down on the eye, the side of the auto dock, holding Trolley's hand, and I think I am ouping.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't think in this moment I'm handling this well.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think Leela is breathing heavily and just looking at Charlie in the autodoc and there's a little bit of a recognition of someone else who is in a very similar position, but the forefront
[SPEAKER_02]: Not as openly balling, but as shedding several tears.
[SPEAKER_05]: As we were escaping from Aventine 2B, we were chased by a few Aventine ships.
[SPEAKER_05]: And before we could engage the contrary matter drive, we took a hit, and Charlie was in the vicinity.
[SPEAKER_05]: If Dr. Bolova hadn't gotten the damage under control, we wouldn't be here, but I didn't quite make it in time.
[SPEAKER_03]: You did everything you could, aren't I?
[SPEAKER_03]: It wasn't your fault.
[SPEAKER_05]: Sometimes it's not enough.
[SPEAKER_00]: Certainly not enough for Charlie.
[SPEAKER_00]: And as you said that you were almost kneeling, I guess,
[SPEAKER_00]: I am right by the AutoDoc.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think I'm like holding Charlie's hand if I can.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think Charlie and I were very, very close.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I think this is fucking me up.
[SPEAKER_06]: I also, I can see brainwaves.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think it's not exactly the same as what you saw on the AutoDoc.
[SPEAKER_00]: in the Amity with Nadia, but I think you notice some similarities in terms of the intermittent and these patches of what might be construed as similar to dreaming.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm going to turn to Lila, actually.
[SPEAKER_06]: You've indexed before with someone who was unconscious.
[SPEAKER_06]: Could you do it again?
[SPEAKER_02]: I think Lea focuses on a serious face thanks for a second and says, perhaps I don't know what's wrong with Charlie, it's probably not the same thing that
[SPEAKER_02]: happens to Nadia, and I think she looks to Mara and Arno for some sort of insight or their input.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think Arno looks at Charlie and says, it's okay, Lila.
[SPEAKER_05]: I know you can do it.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's so fucked.
[SPEAKER_06]: You're like, it's so gross.
[SPEAKER_06]: It feels like he does it in.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's worth a try at least, so I guess we will just reluctantly nods and says, oh, I'll do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I actually don't want to describe the at what you see inside the landscape and I don't want to play out that part of this scene, I think what I want you to do is roll into the of us.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm willing to take a suggestion if there's a better move for this.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, I mean, I'm also willing to be persuaded if you think that your sages background could apply here.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, when I think into the abyss is the right move and I don't have an argument for anything else, thinking about the sage's background, when you try to pierce lies, confusion or mystery and see the wisdom beyond, you have advantage.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I think there's some confusion.
[SPEAKER_02]: I would love to argue it, but it feels a bit shaky.
[SPEAKER_02]: Alright, into the abyss, that would be a full success.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's a 14.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus Christ.
[SPEAKER_00]: Into the abyss, when you stir unblinking into the abyss, looking for forbidden or for god knowledge, you will plus alien.
[SPEAKER_00]: And on a 10-plus, you're showing dark visions that lend you insight.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, ask the Abyss one question in the Abyss answer, and then I'll ask you a question from the Abyss to us back.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I can tell, I think, what direction this is heading, but what exactly is your question for the Abyss?
[SPEAKER_02]: I think the question I have is, how do we heal you?
[SPEAKER_00]: I think we're back in the maze.
[SPEAKER_02]: I will, friend.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think you're not navigating the maze with twists and turns.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think you're just almost walking straight ahead the entire time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even though there are paths sprang off to your left and your right with a few steps you take.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think maybe 50 yards in front of you through the mist you start to see a figure.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I think as you approach, it becomes harder and harder to walk.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's almost how in some dreams you kind of feel your legs start to give out from underneath you and it's harder and harder to control your movements.
[SPEAKER_00]: And as you move forward, you actually see that the ground of this maze is beginning to dissolve.
[SPEAKER_00]: Next to you is a rope.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you throw it to Charlie or what do you do?
[SPEAKER_02]: How far is Charlie for me?
[SPEAKER_00]: At this point, maybe 10 yards away.
[SPEAKER_02]: I throw them the rope.
[SPEAKER_00]: What do you do with the other hand?
[SPEAKER_02]: I tie it to myself.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I think you tie the rope to yourself and begin to weigh it back out of the maze, back toward the way you came.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think as you're doing that, the surroundings again start to glitch out.
[SPEAKER_00]: And, intermittently, you see on the walls of this maze, the text that leaves the audience note to be words from the poem, Hal.
[SPEAKER_00]: And at this point, I'm going to ask my question to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that is what fate hoped does your character cling to?
[SPEAKER_02]: I think right now,
[SPEAKER_02]: Before the valiant came back, there were two things.
[SPEAKER_02]: On Lilo's mind.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think she was kind of talking about both in different ways, while she was talking to Mickey.
[SPEAKER_02]: The first was, what happened on Cairo's?
[SPEAKER_02]: And how,
[SPEAKER_02]: We believed we knew best and we decided what was right for that planet and something irreversible happened, but I also think that she's been thinking about what happened between her
[SPEAKER_02]: made a lot of decisions in arrogance.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think she knows in the back of her mind that there are other times where she's made decisions in arrogance, but I think the one that she's thinking about is when she put her own ambition over Palo.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I think the faint hope that she clings onto
[SPEAKER_02]: On one hand, that humanity is still capable of being fundamentally good and on the other hands, the other side of that scene token, that she is still capable of being fundamentally good.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I think at this point,
[SPEAKER_00]: the substance you're standing in or waiting through.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not water, it's almost like quick sand.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's reaching all the way up to your chest.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think as Charlie sinks into this and pulls you down with them.
[SPEAKER_00]: You turn back, and then look forward, and begin to push harder than you've ever pushed before.
[SPEAKER_00]: And with one hard pull, you grab the rope, and fling yourselves both out of this harass, and you begin to fall through the void.
[SPEAKER_00]: As your eyes, put her open and you instinctively reach to stop the metronome.
[SPEAKER_00]: You see that on the screens of the auto dock, the readings will still indicating what can only be described as significant injury to their brand, have begun to stabilize and suggest someone resting in a deep sleep.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I think you just sort of see my face break, and I like start to cry.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think Lila's so in shock, and just sits there staring at the brainwave monitor, or a long time.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think...
[SPEAKER_05]: a smile, and like a sigh of relief comes across Arnold's face, just for a moment, and his backstrains up and he says, Charlie needs their rest, and we still have things to discuss.
[SPEAKER_05]: We should go to the Wardroom.
[SPEAKER_00]: How do we find you all in the word room?
[SPEAKER_05]: So I think you find Arno seated closest to the back wall and he's got his sleet in front of him but his hands are on either side of it palms down and I think he's, guys I
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm leaned against the coffee snacks food counter with like a tea and like a steaming tea in my hands and I think like I'm probably shivering a little Mara sitting there just looking forward unblinkingly What about the LA?
[SPEAKER_02]: I think Lila is still recovering from whatever it was that just happened.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I think she's kind of half aware of what's going on, half just kind of in her own thoughts.
[SPEAKER_05]: was a success, but there were complications along the way that we should all be aware of.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think before you get started, there are continues, I should say.
[SPEAKER_06]: You'll just see me like quickly pull out my slate and flick something to the two of them.
[SPEAKER_06]: For your review later,
[SPEAKER_05]: I think at that, I don't know, who's genuinely surprised to think he raises the eyebrows taken back a second and composes himself and says,
[SPEAKER_05]: When we arrived on the 172B, we were very fortunate that the guards of the facility were already distracted.
[SPEAKER_05]: As we got into position, we learned that there was a ship crash not far from the facility and began to plant the devices.
[SPEAKER_05]: After Dr. Bolovina and I split up, we intended to regroup plant the final device and make our way back to the gris.
[SPEAKER_05]: hopefully without catching the attention of anybody on to be and making our escape without harm.
[SPEAKER_05]: That didn't happen, and I'd like to explain why.
[SPEAKER_05]: After planting the device, I decided to go off script and do an investigation at the administration building at the base.
[SPEAKER_05]: And there, I looked for any and all information that Aventine had about to go ship about aliens about really anything related to the things that we've seen on the Minerva project.
[SPEAKER_05]: And by the time I completed my investigation, I believe that the Amineteen forces were alerted to my presence there.
[SPEAKER_05]: And while I started going off, and that's where things went awry.
[SPEAKER_05]: I got out as quickly as I could, attempted to create a distraction for Dr. Bolova, and we made our way back to the gris departed from Amineteen to be, and we're hit worth a rocket before we could engage the CM drive.
[SPEAKER_05]: We were unable to send a message before all of the excitement and before we engage the CM drive.
[SPEAKER_05]: This is what we found.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I think Arno flicks all the information that he had collected on to be to everybody's slates.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think when he does that, you see on your slates detailed records of
[SPEAKER_00]: both Aventines historical use of the devices, they're kind of development from the very beginning and when they first discovered the prototype on Aventines to be, along with records of every sighting they have the go-shut tracing back to the first sighting during the mission of the Republic abandoned the device in the moon, or left the device back to the moon.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I think as you're flipping through that,
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, the origin of the ghost ship is unexplained, perhaps, in those documents, there's nothing that suggests any one reading them that some force beyond humanity is responsible for it.
[SPEAKER_06]: So we have further proof that Aventine did not create the rogue vessel and no suspicion from them that it is anything other than a republic ship.
[SPEAKER_06]: that's correct.
[SPEAKER_06]: Unsurprising, but helpful.
[SPEAKER_05]: But not with the risk.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I think at that Arno takes a very deep breath.
[SPEAKER_05]: He says, wouldn't you agree, Lila?
[SPEAKER_06]: I think my eyebrow will go up.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think Lila has been again, like kind of staring off and at that, she focuses in on Arnold Space and says, no, and I think she says, not worth the risk.
[SPEAKER_05]: My actions put the entire mission in jeopardy, not just our attempt to neutralize the devices on to be, but peace summit here.
[SPEAKER_05]: We could have been compromised.
[SPEAKER_05]: They could have captured us and had every strategic advantage.
[SPEAKER_05]: And we'd have nothing to show for this.
[SPEAKER_05]: What I did was impulsive, inexcusable,
[SPEAKER_05]: And I had no control over my actions when that happened.
[SPEAKER_05]: The only thing I could think of, the entire time I was on to be, making my way to the administration building, was aliens.
[SPEAKER_05]: Lila, can you imagine that?
[SPEAKER_05]: Years of training, countless missions under my belt,
[SPEAKER_05]: for this mission, the fate of the verge, at stake.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I took action for aliens.
[SPEAKER_05]: Fuck.
[SPEAKER_02]: Damn, you got me good.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think Lila is staring at Arno's face, but I don't think, I don't want to think it feels like she's actually looking at him.
[SPEAKER_05]: Do you remember when I started to believe that it was aliens behind the Go Ship Leila?
[SPEAKER_05]: It was right after our indexing session, and I believed it wholeheartedly, and I knew just think that I knew that the go-ship had to be aliens that were attacking Aventine and the Republic, and that our entire investigation needed to be focused around exposing them, protecting humanity from them.
[SPEAKER_05]: I re-entered that space you took me to.
[SPEAKER_05]: After you showed me the landscape, I was there again, and I felt like I was drowning, and I was running to escape that vision.
[SPEAKER_05]: And as soon as I got the information that I needed, it's like a spell was broken.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I remembered what you did to me in the landscape, Lila.
[SPEAKER_05]: You planted that thought in my head, you took my agency away from me.
[SPEAKER_05]: You put this whole mission at risk, and you put Charlie in that bed.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think maybe you can see Mars jaw-tighten as Arnold tells his truth, but other than that, you don't really see any response.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think this here's really confused.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't think this makes a lake of sense to miss here.
[SPEAKER_06]: We're talking about stuff.
[SPEAKER_06]: Like, this here's been to the landscape.
[SPEAKER_06]: It was nice.
[SPEAKER_06]: Right.
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, like, it sucked.
[SPEAKER_06]: It hurt emotionally.
[SPEAKER_06]: It was devastating, but like it helped him.
[SPEAKER_06]: So he's quiet and confused.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think Leila finally focuses back on Arno.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think she just says, I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think Arno, very briefly, you can see just a flash of anger across his face and his breathing gets really heavy.
[SPEAKER_05]: And he realizes what's happening and he tries to calm himself down.
[SPEAKER_05]: He takes a deep breath in and he says, how many others are there?
[SPEAKER_05]: Me, Ruby, the minor at Consus, who else have you done this, too?
[SPEAKER_03]: Nico Torres was nice enough to start making a list.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I think at this point, Mara will clock the Sears Confusion, and I do want to name at the mention of Nico Torres, if you're clocking the Sears, there is a moment of unbridled hatred, and then it goes back to confusion, but it's instinctual at the mention of his name.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's fair, but she'll send Nassir the information that Torres showed Mara in their meeting.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think Lila still has her head turned away and says, I'm so sorry.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_05]: you don't know what I think she looks back at Arnold says I don't know how many there are woof how wrong answer is that because you don't have control over your powers or is it because you and the Sato Institute of Lost Count.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think there's something a little horrified in Lila's eyes as she realizes that are no thinks this is something that everyone at the Sato Institute does.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think she says, this is not something that I learned from the instructors at the Sato Institute.
[SPEAKER_02]: At first, I barely understood what I was doing or that I didn't feel wrong.
[SPEAKER_02]: I felt like I was helping people.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like you were helping me.
[SPEAKER_05]: Did you help Eden Kuros too?
[SPEAKER_06]: So, at the mention of Eden Kuros, and looking over this list, and recognizing the moments where Nissier felt that Lila was just very good at her job, right?
[SPEAKER_06]: I've like referenced this list, I could have written this list, right?
[SPEAKER_06]: As like the moments where Lila changed the game for us, I'm not sure I understand what you're
[SPEAKER_06]: Who thought, what did you do to these people?
[SPEAKER_06]: And there's no accusation in Nessir's voice.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think we'll return to look at Nessir and says, I did the thing you're not supposed to.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was trying to help them mostly.
[SPEAKER_02]: to change someone else's expression.
[SPEAKER_02]: Didn't really know that's what I was doing at first.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's all a bed upstract, you know?
[SPEAKER_02]: And, but it didn't mean for this to happen.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think she looks around to each of the other three people in turn.
[SPEAKER_05]: modifying my expression or however you put it, we are four of the highest profile figures in the search, working on one of the most important missions for the fate of humanity and your actions
[SPEAKER_05]: We got lucky that this is all that happened, Lila.
[SPEAKER_06]: Did you?
[SPEAKER_06]: Do it to Aiden Kuros.
[SPEAKER_06]: Did you do it to me?
[SPEAKER_02]: I think Lila takes a moment and then cystness here to Aiden Kuros.
[SPEAKER_04]: No.
[SPEAKER_06]: What?
[SPEAKER_06]: For the viewers at home, you can't see the look on Mike Lauren and Modes faces, but we are Flabbergasted at 12 o'clock 6 a.m.
[SPEAKER_01]: Did you want me to lie?
[SPEAKER_06]: That didn't happen on screen, did I miss that somewhere?
[SPEAKER_06]: No, it did happen on screen.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, she was just, she just rolled like a, so the crazy high.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Remember how you helped me figure out how to modify his painting?
[SPEAKER_06]: I do, I do remember that.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was it.
[SPEAKER_01]: You helped.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think that's right.
[SPEAKER_06]: I did.
[SPEAKER_06]: I forgot.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's just 12 o'clock.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm like a month since the last recording.
[SPEAKER_00]: Did you forget or were you made to forget?
[SPEAKER_06]: Is he going to figure it out the way ono did?
[SPEAKER_06]: Is this?
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I think you just see me start pulling up the terms from like all of the recent sessions.
[SPEAKER_06]: And just like, can Aventine get out of this, right?
[SPEAKER_06]: Like, can he take it back?
[SPEAKER_06]: And I think that I'm panicking a little.
[SPEAKER_02]: How does Lila explain to Nesir that when she was indexing R, no, that was a partial success, which she was indexing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Does she have a question?
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe she doesn't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's what I was going to ask, does Lila know if it's going to be permanent or not?
[SPEAKER_02]: No, I don't, I don't think so.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I think like, there are sometimes when shit goes wrong, like with Ruby Watson, where it was kind of obvious immediately.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I'll say this in character.
[SPEAKER_01]: I, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have fairly good track record.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't suppose that's necessarily a good thing.
[SPEAKER_06]: how does Mara react to the phrase?
[SPEAKER_06]: I have a pretty good track record.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I think it's just like waves of like the slow, blink, main guy, but more serious than that.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's just, yeah, she has a
[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't come into this thinking I was going to change the course of history and impose my will on the leader of avatine.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's usually just a nudge, just a small push when sometimes
[SPEAKER_02]: It's something that the person doesn't want about themselves, and it's, it, it got out of hand.
[SPEAKER_05]: Get out.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think Louis will accept it or no, kind of, not necessarily with a questioning look in her eyes because I think she heard him, but almost just willing him to say it again.
[SPEAKER_03]: Mara turns her face and she says, he said, get out.
[SPEAKER_06]: You said, you didn't do it to me, and I believe you.
[SPEAKER_06]: You helped me a lot, you know.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't think I understand why you thought helping people that way wasn't enough.
[SPEAKER_06]: Thank you for everything.
[SPEAKER_06]: and I will go back to my notes, trying to figure out how to save this piece.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think in English, a flash is a small, I wouldn't, I wouldn't even call it a smile, but an acknowledgment to New Sierra.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then as she gets to the door, she turns around and says,
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry, and I think she leaves.
[SPEAKER_05]: I have a question for her, the remaining two people in the group.
[SPEAKER_05]: What do you do after she leaves?
[SPEAKER_06]: I think as we hear the swoosh of the sliding door, I look up for my notes for a minute, and I look at both of you, but I stare very intently at Arno.
[SPEAKER_06]: Are you both okay?
[SPEAKER_05]: I will be.
[SPEAKER_05]: If it's okay with you too.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'd like a minute alone.
[SPEAKER_05]: I still haven't had time to really process this.
[SPEAKER_05]: Of course not.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'll try to give him a hug.
[SPEAKER_01]: What?
[SPEAKER_05]: It's an awkward side hug.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't think I really know how to handle it, but my palms come off the table and I kind of just let it happen, but I don't hug back.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: I wrap my arms fully around our noines.
[SPEAKER_06]: Thank you, Mug.
[SPEAKER_06]: Think that, thank you.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm serious, but I will be okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Mars is just gonna give him a pat on the shoulder.
[SPEAKER_03]: And she'll say, I'll be right down the hole.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I think we both leave, and I think I sit there for a minute, and I stare at the space where Lila had been sitting, and then I say, Cassandra, did you catch all of that?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think the next scene is a couple days later still, and I think it's just as the conference is reaching its conclusion, and maybe at this point the treaty has been fully drafted, and maybe the next day actually is the signing ceremony.
[SPEAKER_00]: Where do we find Mara?
[SPEAKER_03]: And it's kind of juxtaposed because it's kind of juxtaposed against all of the previous scenes we've had in the garden where there was either clandestine conversations or large extravagant parties, I think it's actually maybe the most toned down we've ever seen it.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think Mara is sitting on the bench with her shoes off and kind of just with her feet in the grass.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I think if that's how we see the park and if it's no longer being used for the summit, maybe all the.
[SPEAKER_00]: abnormal lighting and decorations that we just try to previously have kind of been taking down and maybe at the time that we see there it's supposed to be more of a daylight.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think there's a very bright artificial sunlight lighting this park.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that we see because of that walking toward you, actually wearing a pair of sunglasses, we see Nolan Callahan.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think it is hands.
[SPEAKER_00]: He has two paper cups.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, on a bench.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I think he walks up to you and extends his left hand.
[SPEAKER_00]: And in there, you see there's a cup of coffee.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think it has latte art on the top.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's just like a flower or is that a, do you take the coffee from him?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think they sit there for a second.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think she says,
[SPEAKER_03]: I participated in a strike against a plant-estine weapon's development base on one of Aventine's moons at the end of the piece summit.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think she looks, she looks a no one and she waits for her response.
[SPEAKER_03]: Don't worry, we were successful.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think what he said that he just shakes his head left and right and exhales deeply.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think you obviously him like talk to himself.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's like, now they like it's going to be okay or something like that to himself.
[SPEAKER_00]: But eventually he regains his nerves and says,
[SPEAKER_00]: Look, Mara, I know we'll take another few days to wrap things up here.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure you have packing to do, too, but I made a range of minutes so I can stay here a bit longer, come back with you on the same ship.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a ton I want to catch up on, some new problems, real long shot stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: That way, once we're back, we can start off strong, you know?
[SPEAKER_03]: I think she shakes her head, back and forth.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think I'm going back.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think I can leave yet.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think what he said that he, um, he's size and says, no, no, I, I get it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know that a few days, I wasn't thinking straight.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll all had back before and, um, again, I'll make sure things are ready.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll, we'll be prepared, you know, if it takes another two weeks, the month, just whatever you need, we'll be ready.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think she gives him a side eye and she kind of smiles.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you say you're going to wait,
[SPEAKER_00]: But I wouldn't, what do you, what do you mean, Mara?
[SPEAKER_03]: There, there's just some things that I have to do here.
[SPEAKER_03]: And some things I need to see.
[SPEAKER_03]: And there's so much I don't understand.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it's dangerous.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's dangerous to the universe.
[SPEAKER_03]: Genath's synth is millions of light years away.
[SPEAKER_03]: We thought we had breach and power.
[SPEAKER_03]: And we do, but not enough.
[SPEAKER_03]: I understand what I do is important.
[SPEAKER_03]: But if I don't stay here, I can't protect anyone.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I can't heal.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think he looks back at you and I think he puts the glasses back on and then takes them off again and stands up and paces three steps and then turns back around you need me to understand and he walks into their step forward and says that night we first met I took a chance on you Mara and I'll be the first to admit it paid off.
[SPEAKER_00]: You joined us, saved Genesis and saved our vision for humanity beyond Earth.
[SPEAKER_00]: But without that, you wouldn't be here either, Mara.
[SPEAKER_00]: And now what you're going to throw that all the way, explore the verge, how is that rational?
[SPEAKER_03]: I think she's looking at him very confused.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not rational.
[SPEAKER_03]: selfish, I guess.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think I quit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I think when you say that he looks back at you again and just almost scoffs it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just like a sharp exhale and he shakes his head again
[SPEAKER_03]: Damn, now both Mara and Lana unemployed.
[SPEAKER_03]: This sucks.
[SPEAKER_03]: Can I have a job in my fucking fantasy?
[SPEAKER_00]: Ha ha.
[SPEAKER_03]: At least you're rich in your fantasy.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's okay, I can't even have a man in mind.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's also true.
[UNKNOWN]: Ha ha ha ha.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, I think we find you in the same conference from where we saw the final negotiations between Earth and Aventine, though you don't necessarily know that that was the space.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think the door is closed and the glass is opaque.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you're there because rear admiral is a ballman does a ask to meet with you after learning what you did on Aventine 2B.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's Arno wearing?
[SPEAKER_00]: Can I kiss?
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, he sounds hideous.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think even after everything, the version of himself that he feels the most comfortable with is the Arno wearing the Minner of a Project jacket.
[SPEAKER_05]: Growth.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I think maybe you're at the edge of the table, like one of the corners.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you know, Mendez is not seated right next to you, but is kind of on the short side of the table.
[SPEAKER_00]: So like two seats away from you, but still in a very close comfortable talking distance.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think she's, you know, it's maybe not the same degree of casual as she was in that first scene where we saw you to in her office, but it's certainly closer to that than when we've seen her most recently.
[SPEAKER_00]: What you and Bolova did on TV, that certainly was gutsy, aren't home.
[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't change anything I said before, and the plan that Nikotora has developed was still better.
[SPEAKER_00]: But still, you took action and prevented a bad situation from turning into a disaster.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think for the first time,
[SPEAKER_05]: That Arno has known where your admiral is a Bella mother fucking mendoza.
[SPEAKER_05]: Bob fucking get it right we're we're admiral is it doesn't do so.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, Bob fucking mendoza do you're good.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think for the first time since Arno has known where admiral is a Bella mendoza.
[SPEAKER_05]: He didn't just accept everything that she said is true.
[SPEAKER_05]: And it's not that it comes from a place of pride or arrogance or anger.
[SPEAKER_05]: I just think she said something that he didn't agree with.
[SPEAKER_05]: And it's his first time that he's thought that she was just wrong.
[SPEAKER_05]: And he says,
[SPEAKER_05]: I think we have different definitions of better.
[SPEAKER_05]: If Nico tours this plan is what you would have preferred, Admiral.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think she just audibly exhales from her nose.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not allowed protest or a scoffer anything like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you get the sense that she disagrees with you, but it's not going to raise the stink.
[SPEAKER_00]: And she says, did you ever figure out what happened
[SPEAKER_00]: I assume you got something when it'd be like you to leave Shah empty-handed.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think he taps the screen on his slate and there are a couple of folders that have been parsed out and he flicks one folder over in the direction of her slate.
[SPEAKER_05]: And he says, I don't know if I would call this actionable, but
[SPEAKER_05]: something to be aware of.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think she opens it up and sort of quickly flicks through a few items and then closes it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe kind of like leaves it bookmarks to look at later.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then she says,
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I assume you already know most of this from your own investigation, but I thought you might find this bit interesting.
[SPEAKER_00]: And she actually slides across to you a large slate, and when you tap that, you see on it a series of what appear to be screen captures, that she sort of continues talking.
[SPEAKER_00]: A source in station security was able to grab her slate once they found the body.
[SPEAKER_00]: It will take us years to go through it all, but this might be one of the best intelligence takes since the end of the war.
[SPEAKER_00]: One thing they just pulled yesterday jumped out to me, though.
[SPEAKER_00]: Apparently, Yale believed that her vice-console was working directly for Kyrus, as part of Aventine's research branch.
[SPEAKER_00]: And also, that Nesir Badeok was leaking information to him from our side of the fence.
[SPEAKER_00]: Badeok is still close to the president, maybe now close to the never.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you have anything to back up, guilt suspicions, you need to tell me, aren't home for all of our sake.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think at that, he looks her dead in the iron.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's not an intense look.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's just meeting her gaze.
[SPEAKER_05]: And he says, the seared bait acted more to preserve the security of the Republic than anybody else in this mission.
[SPEAKER_05]: He put his personal feelings aside, and in the toughest situation imaginable, damn sure got more out of the abyss than they got from us.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think we would just call that a trade-off, ma'am.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm legitimately on the verge of tears.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think she pauses for a second, and then what's out of deep breath, and now it almost is like a, the slight smile, but it's one of almost, like she's fascinated or confused by the situation, and she shakes her head left of it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Like when a kid stands up to you, but it's like, says something, and you're like, wow, I did not exactly that coming.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, or it's like, you know, I think she doesn't not believe you as the sense you get right on him.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think she's just, uh, kind of, the whole situations.
[SPEAKER_00]: Clapper Gaston.
[SPEAKER_00]: But then she says, on the first night of the conference outside the park, you told me that you were trying to eliminate our legacy from Avantine to be,
[SPEAKER_00]: The problem with legacy, though, is as much as you try to run from it, it's impossible to erase history.
[SPEAKER_00]: I always opposed the creation of these devices.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'd never needed them to win.
[SPEAKER_00]: But once Aventy and got a hold of them, Pandora's box was opened, and I'm not sure it's as simple to close it up again.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your reports said that Aventine had been preparing to fight a conventional war, building up their supplies across the Verge.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know as well as I do, that Aventine would have lasted another year where it not for the last armistice.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even if they had made a massive effort to build out their supplies, I don't see how they could have filled even a dozen of the caches you described in so little time,
[SPEAKER_00]: And if Herrera was working with Kira so long, I don't see why he would have backed your story at the press conference.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you told me it feels like we were being played, I think you were right about that.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I don't think it's some rogue faction, or whatever ghost ship you saw.
[SPEAKER_00]: The enemy here is the same one that we've known all along.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if we give up on the knowledge
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm a certain as I've ever been that some day in the future will regret having made that choice.
[SPEAKER_05]: This is a really weird moment for Arno because he just thinks she's wrong again.
[SPEAKER_05]: And he looks at her and says, I think it's easy to be held back by our own history when we have so much of it,
[SPEAKER_05]: and part of the reason that you had accepted.
[SPEAKER_05]: that there was no way out of this, but forward towards war, was because it's all we've known in our own histories, but you never thought to ask how we found the devices in the first place, how we were so effective at finding and neutralizing them.
[SPEAKER_05]: And whoever started all this, it doesn't matter.
[SPEAKER_05]: Admiral, at the end of that story, Pandora's box, what was left behind when the nightmares escaped was hope.
[SPEAKER_05]: And we have that now.
[SPEAKER_05]: A means to not just destroy each other, but to stop ourselves from destroying each other.
[SPEAKER_05]: We didn't have that before, because we were convinced it didn't exist.
[SPEAKER_05]: We never even considered the possibility.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think when you say that she just lightly shakes her head, left her right and you can tell that she thinks you're missing something here, but then I think she stands and I think offers you a last salute.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think he goes to raise his hand and before it can reach past his chest, he catches himself and extends it instead for a handshake.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, shit.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's a civilian now.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think without her eyes ever breaking from yours, she lowers her hand and
[SPEAKER_05]: I recovered something on to be.
[SPEAKER_05]: There was footage that showed that the earliest known footage of the go ship came from a republic ship.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know that we ever recovered that footage.
[SPEAKER_05]: How long have you known about it?
[SPEAKER_00]: I think where their hand still firmly grasping yours.
[SPEAKER_00]: She, she looks down for a moment before looking
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry, Mr. Hines.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's classified.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, really?
[SPEAKER_00]: This is your hand and walks out of the room.
[SPEAKER_06]: Hit him with the Uno reverse.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I think, as he watched early, he just stands there for a minute and says to himself, I know, but I'll be looking.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I don't know, Mr. Hines.
[SPEAKER_00]: In this next scene, we see the lead delegates from each planet climbing a small set of stairs and stepping onto a stage built near the docks on ascension with hundreds upon hundreds of stars as the backdrop.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're surrounded by a sea of reporters and diplomats or all watching as they sit down at a long table and are presented with ceremonial real paper copies of the new treaty that the four of you helped build.
[SPEAKER_00]: And as this is happening, I don't think they're occurring in any chronological order but we see a montage of shots that are intercut with this ceremony.
[SPEAKER_00]: We see Morris Shaw stepping on to the walkway of ascension station, and looking over his shoulder back towards the park.
[SPEAKER_00]: When a man and a woman wearing fleet uniforms, politely gesture him toward a line of people, who from their attire, we can tell our all-waiting to board a ship headed back to Earth.
[SPEAKER_00]: We see Sasha Green standing at a podium, answering questions from a small group of reporters between the flashes of a camera, wearing the pin of a member of the new Galactic Council, and with several others, including Ramon Herrera standing behind her.
[SPEAKER_00]: We see Charlie Zamora propped up in a hospital bed, straining to tap on a slate, trying to barely relearn the things that they had easily mastered years, if not decades earlier.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we see a group of people wearing vax suits, opening a large set of metallic doors, into one of what you suspected were avantine weapon caches, all throughout the Lewis system, and elsewhere across the verge.
[SPEAKER_00]: And as they shine their suit lights across that space, we see that the room is almost entirely empty, and appears to have never been filled.
[SPEAKER_00]: But as this montage continues, I want to ask you where we see your characters, just for a few seconds.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I want you to describe that as if you were the GM.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think we see Lila with some luggage in her hands, and she's making her way towards the docks.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think we stop at the front of a building that is clearly a hospital.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think Lila steps inside and places an envelope at the reception desk before walking back out and continuing on her way to the docks.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then I think we cut back to inside the hospital where we see the envelope make its way to Charlie Zamora's room.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think when they open the envelope, it's a sketch of them in the engineering bay, arm steep into some wires and all sorts of mechanical things,
[SPEAKER_02]: and their element.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then I think we cut back to Lila and she is boarding a ship at the docks.
[SPEAKER_03]: We see Mara and she seems to be in the middle of some sort of diplomatic incident.
[SPEAKER_03]: So she's kind of
[SPEAKER_03]: having a heated conversation with two individuals wearing what we would recognize as avantine uniforms.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then I think, I think someone opens a door and Aden Kiro steps out and gestures her inside.
[SPEAKER_06]: We find this year sitting at a table in a briefing room.
[SPEAKER_06]: Surrounded by other members of President Lee's administration, as Mar Elkin stands at a screen with figures, poll numbers, and an appearance listing on where, Newseer and others will need to go immediately upon returning to the Republic.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I think the scene continues and we watch Missier walk out and hop on the Ascension Station
[SPEAKER_06]: of Matteo, Celine, and I, and as I get off the train, image still on my slate.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think we see me walk into an office, and as the door closes, we zoom in on the nameplate,
[SPEAKER_05]: Where do we find Arno?
[SPEAKER_05]: You find Arno getting out of a small shuttle craft.
[SPEAKER_05]: wearing a familiar fax suit with another one tucked under his arm, and he makes his way across a barren surface to an airlock, punches in the code, and when he gets the other side, he opens the door and finds a very startled person inside.
[SPEAKER_05]: Someone who hasn't seen anyone for quite
[SPEAKER_05]: and he takes off his helmet, and he tosses the back suit and says, time to go Marvin.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think he's actually holding in his hands a fire extinguisher, but not like as if it's a bludgeon, but almost as if it's a rifle with a spray nozzle sort of ineffectively aimed at the door.
[SPEAKER_00]: His hair is longer than when we last saw him and his skin is a little paler, but I think that what strikes you the most is his face.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that when I described Sean, you know, when you saw him after a cyan died, I said it looked hollow.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that that's exactly what you see here.
[SPEAKER_00]: But as you step into the room and as the Vax who kind of falls to the ground next to him, I think he holds the fire extinguisher even tighter and raises the nozzle up toward you before saying,
[SPEAKER_00]: Where, where do you want to go?
[SPEAKER_05]: What do you mean?
[SPEAKER_05]: So I know we left him here a while ago.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I just got to know.
[SPEAKER_05]: Is there a place for me to sit down for a second?
[SPEAKER_00]: I think so.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think there's a table, you know, maybe there's, I think like containers of cans or MRE is kind of on the surface of the table, but I think you can maybe brush some stuff out of the way and sit down at one of the chairs.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'll sit down at a chair and I'll gesture to the other one.
[SPEAKER_05]: And does he move towards it?
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it takes a few seconds and I think he's kind of been tracking you with the fire
[SPEAKER_00]: But I think sort of skeptically and slowly he inches toward the chair and maybe lowers the fire extinguisher.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's on the ground next to him still very close and in reach of he needs to raise it again, but then he lowers himself down to the chair.
[SPEAKER_00]: Easy tiger.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's no fire anywhere near here.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I'm going to pull out a slate and slide it to his side of the table.
[SPEAKER_00]: And think he looks up at you and then looks down before extending his hand and sliding it back toward him, let's see, see, on the slit, or what is on us say to describe it.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think he sees headlines and stories detailing the new armances, armistice.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I, not really looking at him.
[SPEAKER_05]: just at the wall facing away from him and I just say it's it's over.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's no reason to keep
[SPEAKER_05]: I think I came here hoping that you would have the answer to that question, you've had a lot of time to think, and I'm sure you hoped to one day be out of this room.
[SPEAKER_05]: We can't just pretend that what we had done never happened.
[SPEAKER_05]: There are people we've wronged in families who don't have someone coming back to them to enjoy this peace.
[SPEAKER_05]: And so I think we have to wonder, where is the place for men like us in this new peaceful world?
[SPEAKER_00]: I think you, after some time, unusually, so these stands, and he says, I guess I want to go home.
[SPEAKER_00]: What about you?