"Previously on Earth 2." "True?" "You all right?" "You okay?" "Oh, look!" " Who is he, Yale?" " We are trying to find out." " We would like you to come with us." " I should like that." "Don't you hurt the others!" "Your friends are in peril, Commander." "The Terrians." "I tried to fight them." "What?" "What happened?" "They got him." "Ignition, on." "Engine, on." "Engine, start." "Vehicle, start." "Move forward." "Vehicle, move forward." "Drive forward." "Vehicle, go." "Forward." "Start moving." "Roll." "Drive." "Wheels spin." " What are you doing up there?" " Just playing with your toys, poppet." "Can't sleep." "Just waiting for you all to rise and shine." "I'm not used to all these people around." "I've been alone on this planet so long- 15 years." "I guess..." "I'd given up hope of ever seeing a human face again." "Such a grim face." "What do you want, mister?" "I want the same thing you want, poppet." "To fly away home." "We crashed on this planet two weeks ago, my dad and I." "And now, here we are, trapped." "Everything here is hard." "We have to walk so far every day." "Dad says we have to hurry to some place called New Pacifica." "But I don't care about New Pacifica." "All I know is it's hot." "And no one lets me do anything." "The days just crawl by." "And everyone here is a stranger." "It was immediately following the East Asian famine which occurred here... when certain geopolitical alliances were stockpiling grain" "It's not the planet that's so bad even." "It's the rules." "They're crushing me." "There's even more rules here than on the space stations." "I'm like a prisoner here." "Us kids have to wear wristlocks." "They monitor our every move, so everyone can panic if we wander, like, two little steps from camp." "What is the importance of the Indian-Arctic dispute of 2084?" "True?" "True?" "Would you like tojoin us?" " I don't know." " That's rather premature." "You don't even know the question." "Why should I learn all those stupid dates and places?" "I mean, we don't live on the space stations anymore, and we never lived on Earth." "We just have to, that's all." "You have to." "He's your teacher." "You're not mine." "My father didn't bring you along for me." "Look at Alonzo." "That guy's giving me the creeps." "He's been circling the camp all morning long." "Well, we've got bigger problems." "The solar converter's shattered." "Shattered?" "This vehicle's not goin' anywhere." "I can't believe this is happening to us." "We don't get a day's relief, Yale." "What's going on?" "It appears our friend Gaal found a little something on his morning constitutional." "What?" "That crate he's got Devon looking at?" "You know, your boss is a little too friendly for my taste." "She's a smart woman,John." "Definitely from our cargo pod." "It's two containers- one's clothing, the other we don't know." "Gaal thinks it must've been the Grendlers." "I'm gonna send a recon party to see if there's any more of our cargo in the area." "Well, you tell 'em to take as long as they like 'cause that dune-rail's gonna keep us here." " Crystal fuse is missing." " What do you mean missing?" " Missing." " Can you fix it?" "I might be able to retrofit something but..." "I'd say two days, at least." "Listen, Adair." "A word of advice." "We don't know anything about that guy, and I don't trust him." "I just like to know the people I don't trust, Danziger." "Geez." "Whoa!" "What is it?" "Treasure?" "There's some kind of vitrification process to preserve whatever's in these capsules." "They're sealed." "Probably heat sensitive." "So what does that mean?" "Is it alive?" "Just let the good doctor do her work, child." "Let's hope it's vegetation." "Like canned vegetables?" "One of Devon's botanists created a biosphere... which would allow seedlings to germinate and grow without sunlight or water." "So it's a tree?" "Maybe a whole forest of trees?" "Let's hope it's a tomato plant." "We could use some fresh produce." "We'll just have to wait and see what develops." "We just need to- Here we go." "Can I watch it for a while?" "Well,judging by this readout, maturation could take several hours." "Please?" "I'm through with school for the day." "Okay, if you're careful." "It'll be a pleasure to have such a smart assistant." "Just don't meddle." "It's obviously a delicate item." "Can I be of assistance, friend?" "No." "Thanks." "I work solo." "I see the Grendlers have been up to their usual mischief." "Yeah." "It's amazing how those Grendlers knew just what to hit." "Yeah." "Well, if there's any way that I can aid the cause" "Hey, sport." "Hi." "What's up?" "Thought you were in school?" "You know, maybe it'd be better if I helped you out here." "You know, plenty of time for school later." "Am I right?" "Uh-huh." "Give me a number seven, will ya?" "I mean, I'm just in the way there and I should be helping you out here." "Well, you know how much I want you to get a real education, sweetheart." "Don't worry, you'll get used to it." "Can I at least take this stupid wrist alarm" " True!" "Enough." "I'm working." "I hate this planet!" "What you looking at?" "Okay, Mr. Solace, no more moping around." "I made you a leg brace." "I'm gonna get you started on a physical therapy regime and get you walking again." "So I can walk to New Pacifica?" "I'm not interested." "Well, I'm not gonna carry you." "Good." "Oh, my God.!" "It's alive.!" "Mom, it's moving!" "Mom, come here!" "It's really alive!" "What?" "What is it?" "Oh, my God." "What is it?" "What's happening in here?" "What is that?" "I don't know." "I" " I thought it was some sort of vegetation." " Don't" " Don't touch it!" "It's coming at us!" " Morgan." " Caution people." " It needs to get out." "Oh, my God!" "It's an Equus callabus." "A horse?" "We have a horse." "It's impossible." "Horses don't grow up in an hour- Oh, my God.!" "It was like a womb." "It was an embryo." "Placenta all around it." "Amniotic fluid to suspend its life." " You can't touch him." "Pegasus is too fragile." " Uly." "You did." "And why's his name suddenly Pegasus?" "Just is, that's all." "Is there another one of these things?" "The last thing we need around here is two horses we don't know how to care for." "But I'll take care of it." "No, sweetheart." "It's not a matter of taking care of it." "The group has to agree." "Well, why do I have to be a part of this group?" "Hey, come on now, sport." "True?" "A horse, Morgan." "Worked wonders, my friend." "They won't be going anywhere without the dune-rail's vital organ." "In days, I'll have won them over." " True, what're you doing?" " Nothing." "True, you shouldn't have done that." "I just wanted my own horse." "Horsie?" "Julia, where is she?" "True, I have some bad news." "What?" "No." "The other horse, I'm sorry." "She didn't make it." "What'd you do to her?" "I didn't do anything." "I think the incubator was damaged in the crash." "I don't know." "It just didn't grow." "One horse is gonna be plenty." "I'll make sure Uly shares." "I promise." "True, wait.!" "You're doing such a good job." "Come on, boy." "There." "Is she okay?" "You're a nice boy, Pegasus." "Yeah." "Mom, look.!" "Look at him." "He's gigantic and he's tame." "Julia says he's made that way." "God, it's unreal, that kind of growth." "What's it been, 12 hours?" "No." "Not even." "I've never seen such a rapid escalation in development." "That horse, its genetic growth braking mechanism is not kicking in." "If it continues growing at this pace, it'll be dead in 48 hours." "Is that you, poppet?" "Don't tell anybody I'm here, okay?" "Of course." "Of course." "Um, why are you so wretched?" "Has someone done you harm?" "My horse died." "Oh, I'm so sorry." "That is very sad." "Julia says that Uly will share, but I know he won't." "No, he won't." "He won't?" "Nope." "He is a spoiled, avaricious brat, incapable of generosity." "That much is obvious." "Believe me, he's not of your caliber." "It's so unfair." "I hate this dirty, filthy planet." "I want my horse." "A horse." "A horse." "My kingdom for a horse." "Shall I show you something?" "Hmm." "Come here." "I think you'll fancy this." "See that?" "Just a bud and..." "Presto!" " Wow!" " See, my poppet, this isn't such a bad place after all." "This is a place where magic happens, where wishes can come true." "How'd you do that?" "We" " No." "How do I know if I can trust you?" "You can trust me." "Please?" "Trust must be forged by mutual fire." "You tell me some secret, and I will divulge mine." "But I don't know any secrets." "Nonsense." "You're full to the brim with them." "I know a good brain when I see one." "True, you could tell me about those wheeled beasts of burden." "What?" "The vehicles, my lamb." "I've seen you." "You could tell me about them." "Yeah, I could." "Well, there you are." "We're in business." "Oh!" "I hate this thing." "What is it?" "Stupid magnetic wristlock." "Blares if I'm, like, a hundred yards away from camp." "Any lock can be unlocked, poppet." "True, I've been looking for you everywhere for almost an hour." "Now come on, camp's been worried." "My pleasure, Miss True." "You've got to be careful, True." "You never know what dangers are lurking out there." "I can't take this, Bess." "Not two years of this." "Horses magically popping out of cans." "No real food." "No decent toilets." "I don't mind it." "Why do you say things like that, Bess?" "To drive me crazy?" "You loved our life back home." "Our unit, all your appliances, all the perks that goes along with being a government liaison's wife." "Yes, I did, but I like it here just as well." "Oh, dear." "What?" "What "Oh, dear"?" "I hate your "Oh, dears," Bess." "They're never good." "Well, Morgan, we have two boxes of alpha-glutenate missing." "Missing?" "Gone?" "Food?" "What are you talking about?" "Are you sure you counted right?" "Morgan, it's not here." "But we've got 16 mouths to feed, Bess." "Seventeen, including Gaal." "This is intolerable." "We're just eking by as it is." "Two boxes!" "Morgan" " Don't Morgan me!" "I've gotta go report this to Devon." "There you go, Pegasus." "Can you believe I never even saw a real live horse before yesterday?" "Mom says I'll be able to ride you soon." " Julia." "Julia!" " Yes?" "Look.!" "What is it?" "It's awful.!" "His epidermis can't regenerate the cells it's losing fast enough." "He's aging far too quickly." "Is it bad?" "A horse doesn't usually grow up overnight, Uly." "Pegasus can." "He's magic." "No, he's sick." "And I'm gonna need to try and alter his pituitary gland, help him age normally." "So no more riding him or feeding him, okay?" "The most important thing is that he gets plenty of rest." "We have a new problem." "Two boxes of food supplies are missing." "We're going to have to start rationing." "I suppose Gaal would say the Grendlers took the boxes." "He's a human being." "We can't just leave him here." "No." "Not without a substantive reason." "No." "No, not without a substantive reason." "Up, up, up, up, up." "Up.!" "Hey, Morgan." "You burn it,you waste it." "That's all you get." "We don't have enough rations for ourselves." "Why are we subsidizing a dying horse?" "It makes no sense." "The horse can't even be ridden." "We should make a meal of it." "Throw it on the fire." "At least it would be good for something." "Morgan!" "That's the spirit." "Just keep up those happy thoughts, guys." "Is this the first-class section?" "I was just thinking." "Yeah?" "What about?" "Oh, about how we've been here two weeks... and everybody seems to be falling apart at the seams." "I thought that morale hit bottom when we crashed." "Well, there's always further to go." "You think we're cursed, Danziger?" "Excuse me?" "I don't know." "First, uh, we crash into the planet." "Then we lose most of our supplies." "Then, uh, O'Neill gets killed." "And just when it seemed like we might be getting some equilibrium, there's the, uh, solar fuse, the rations, the... horse dying." "Well..." "I've never been much of a believer in curses." "I tend to think bad things happen for a reason." "Hang in there." "You should see, he can't even ride and I can." "Faster than the wind, I'll wager." "At a synth-arcade, no one broke my record, and it was my first time." "I stayed on the bronco for 22 minutes." "Longer even." " I just wish" " What?" "What do you wish?" "No." "It's a bad thought." "Bad thought?" "No such animal, not on this planet." "Now come, tell me." "What notion could be so black?" "I just wish that Uly hadn't gotten better." "Then I'd have the horse all to myself." "Well, of course you wish that." "That's only natural." "Really?" "He possesses what you desire." "You must remember, little one, there's no such thing as right or wrong." "Not here." "Here you must take what is yours." "What is it?" "It's the emblem of true genius." "Only a secret few have one." "You could perhaps wear it, if you pass the test." "What test?" "Show me what knowledge is hidden in that golden head." "There aren't too many secrets, just words." "Like, um, "Open sesame"?" "Kinda." "Just say, "Vehicle, start. "" "Vehicle, start." "Now, poppet, you told me you knew how to operate these animals." "I do." "You just say, "Vehicle, start,"" "then "Forward roll" or "Left side steer. "" "I don't know what's the matter." "It always works." "Vehicle, start, damn it!" "Move!" "It" " It won't go." "I can see that." " Come on, you heap!" " It won't help, you doing that." "You piece of junk." "Come on, start." "True, girl." " Come on." "Time for bed." " Coming." "Whoa, Pegasus." "Whoa." "I found you." "I passed the test you gave me." "I didn't think I could." "I never doubted you for an instant, poppet." "Did you accomplish the other task I set for you?" "Mm-hmm." "I did the bracelet just like you told me to." "It was as easy as you said." "And I put it just where you told me to." "What a keen student." "You amaze me, poppet." "I couldn't be more proud." "Makes me wish you were my very own daughter." "Well, one never knows what might happen." "I'd be a good father, True." "Mr. Martin." "Morgan, may I have a word with you?" "Mm-mmm." "In your official capacity as Deputy Secretary of Interstellar Development, of course." "I'm trying to sleep, you know." "It's no secret, Morgan, that you were pretty high up in the space station hierarchy." "Well, thank you, Yale." "I..." "I worked hard." "I need a little information about a possible government program... going by the acronym E2?" "You mean the sanitation system?" "No, no, no." "Possibly something involving interstellar growth." "Uh, maybe a program that jettisoned astronauts outward... possibly to a planet?" "Ring any bells?" "Oh, I" " I really don't know." "I" " I wasn't that high up." "Why did you say "sanitation system"?" "Almost there." "There." "Mr. Danziger," "I must apologize for my unseemly behavior yesterday." "You mean beating on my trans-rover?" "My temper got the best of me." "I'm still so unused to conducting myself around humans." "Yeah?" "Well, maybe you ought to consider spending more time alone." "Don't think my vehicles could take the abuse... what with all these Grendlers wandering around." "Your vehicles?" "I thought Ms. Adair" "Look, you wanna come with us, that's not for me to decide." "But we got rules." "And one of those rules is all these vehicles around here are my responsibility." "And being that they're my responsibility, nobody touches them but me, you got that?" "I apologize for any harm I may have done to your machine." "I guess we both better watch our step around here." "You just stay away from me and what's mine." "By the way, I've locked that trans-rover onto my voiceprint only, just for safekeeping." "He looks ten times worse." "He'll wake up soon, right?" "You'll make him all healthy, right?" "I promised him you would." "Uly, re-altering D.N.A. is very, very difficult, and I don't even have a full laboratory." "So both of us are just gonna have to keep our fingers crossed, okay?" "Don't worry." "Dr. Julia's gonna make you all better." "Mr. Danziger has disappointed me for the last time." "We'll kill him soon." "Luckily, I've taken from Danziger something more precious than life- his little girl." "True knows enough about the vehicles to suit our needs." "She'll be able to crack any codes her father has locked onto the vehicle's database." "It shall be yours." "Assume the beggar's position and be rewarded." "Rise." "Tasty, isn't it?" "My, poppet, what big eyes you have." "Oh, no." "I won't hurt you." "You-You" "You put blood" "You-You fed your blood to the Grendlers." "My father was right." "All you want is our stuff." "You're nothing but- but a lying thief." "You" "Shh." "Little poppet." "So much anger, so much fear, so much venom." "Let it go." "Don't touch me!" "I am the wronged party, little one." "Your father has banished me." "He doesn't want me around you." "He wants you to be obedient, pliant, and he'll erase anyone who inspires you, challenges you to greatness." "No." "Oh,yes, my dove." "Why does he try to kill your sparkle, your spirited voice?" "Why does he manacle you with that wrist bracelet?" "I can't come with you." "I only wanted to follow you." "That was my only motivation for a vehicle." "My father didn't say you couldn't come with us." "Oh, yes, he did." "And I go with a heavy heart." "Because you and I, we're kindred spirits, aren't we?" "You must trust me, poppet." "Fashioned especially for you." "You whistle and I will come for you." "The Grendlers know how to find me." "Uh, I don't think my father would like me whistling for you." "Whistle for yourself, True." "What do you think, cowboy?" "You want to take him for a ride?" "You did it!" "Look at him!" "He's amazing!" "You still gotta be careful." "There we go." "True." "True, guess what?" "He's okay." "He's gonna live." "Offer her a ride on Pegasus." "You wanna take a ride?" "I know Pegasus would like it." "Just a short one." "We're packing up camp." "Your dad fixed the dune-rail." "No, thanks." "Hey, Yale, are you okay, man?" "I'm fine, Alonzo." "I'm just in the middle of something." "You got that?" "John?" "John?" "John?" "Yeah." "Have you seen Gaal?" "Why?" "What happened?" "The E2 tattoo on Gaal's neck." "I've been scanning my memory for some reference to it." "It's a refuse disposal program." "Wait a minute." "Slow down here." "Our government has been using this planet as a judicial dumping ground." "Dumping ground?" "A penal colony,John." "Prisoners, murderers, political enemies, heretics." "They have found some way to jettison them here." "Gaal." "Where's True?" "True?" "We have to tell Devon." "No, no, I gotta find her." "True!" "The horse is missing." "Have you seen it?" "John, what are you doing?" "Show me the tracks." "Poppet." "Look.!" "Look what I brought you." "He's for you." "Now you'll be able to follow us." "A horse?" "I had thought a wheeled vehicle." "If I had wanted a horse, I would have asked for one, True." "But you said you wanted to follow us." "And... he can run real, real fast." "As fast as the dune-rail." "Faster." "And Pegasus is all healthy now." " Did anyone see you leave?" " No one." "I ditched the bracelet again." "You have valor in you, True." "True valor." "We'll get our vehicles yet." "Come on." "Let's ride together, you and I." "Let's ride the wind.!" "I can't." "They'll miss me back at camp." "Trust me, poppet." "True.!" "I thought you went unnoticed?" "I did." "He's coming for you." "Come, quickly!" "There's no time!" "Move!" " Get in." " Daddy." "Daddy, please don't hurt him." "It was my fault." "I was the one" " I said get in here." "Come on!" "You take the wheel." "Vehicle, halt!" "Crazy!" "You might've killed me!" "You stay there." "No, Daddy." "Daddy, please." "Gaal didn't do anything." "It was all my fault." "True, you let me handle this." "Now, don't you move, not a muscle, not a finger, because I will kill you." "No, Daddy, please." "You would kill me in cold blood... in front of your daughter?" "No." "No, he won't." "He" " He's just mad at me." "True, be quiet." "Get back." "I don't know what you are, but I know you're not an astronaut." "And I can only guess what you're capable of." "But you better hear me." "You come within 10 miles of us- hell, a hundred miles- and I will shoot you in cold blood... in front of my daughter- do you understand me?" " Do be careful with that gun." " Do you understand me?" "I understand you." "Don't blame your daughter, sir." "The blame rests on me." "I'm sorry, poppet." "I guess I won't be able to follow you after all." "Don't you say a word to him." "Get back in the rail." "He was the man who called me poppet." "And I never even got to find out what poppet means." "My dad just stole me back to my old boring life of school and rules by the millions." "But I wasn't sad." "I knew we'd meet again." "Somewhere." "Somehow." "'Cause just like Gaal says, this is the land where magic happens."