"Previously on Defiance..." "I made a deal with a devil to save my father." "This devil was a machine, a ship bent on destroying the world." "It had big plans for me." "It made me destroy New York City and hurt the people I love." "What happened?" "Did Irisa kill Tommy?" "Yes." "You remember Pilar, Rafe's wife." "You're not still sick?" "Never been better." "Alak!" "And if you struggle, you'll hurt the baby." "Pilar has kidnapped Alak and christie." "Do you know how many people I have killed?" "Do you know how many people you can still save?" "To save the planet, we had to travel into the heart of darkness, the ship buried deep under the town of Defiance." "He did it." "Looks like we just saved the world." "That's it." "All right." "I love you, baby girl." "Any word on Nolan?" "He disappeared." "Old St. Louis is gone." "If Nolan was in the collapse, I'm afraid he's gone as well." "Madam Mayor, the stasis nets just went dark." "I ordered them to pull the plug." "Gulanite reserves are down to 3%." "City charter stipulates that all power be diverted to heating and medical services." "And they're still asking for you at the NeedWant." "Of course." "With the stasis nets down, the town is a sitting duck for raiders or whatever else comes through Bissel pass." "You think I don't know that?" "People are scared." "Yeah, well, I'm scared too." "Don't tell anybody that." "Better be an emergency, Lambert." "I've got a town to run." "But it's doc Yewll." "She's up 30k." "Yewll?" "She's not a gambler." "What's she up to?" "I don't know, but if she keeps going, you know, she's gonna clean us out." "Doc Yewll." "You don't normally gamble in my establishment." "Just cutting loose." "Getting my ya-ya's out." "Winning big, I see." "Yeah." "You angling for a tip?" "Here you go, legs." " Now scoot." " Everybody stay calm!" " Nobody move." "Hand over your cash, scrip chips, and jewelry." "Don't you move." "Everyone does as they're told, and everyone walks away." " Empty your pockets." " Don't even think about it." "Empty 'em!" "Turn around!" "Move it!" "Ah!" "I don't think so!" "Get that safe open!" "Friend, I don't run this place anymore." "You're still the owner!" "But I don't know the combination." "Next shot goes through someone's skull." "Okay." "Let me guess." "You're an out-of-work miner." "Hap, is that you under that mask?" "Just get the scrip!" "Things feel pretty desperate around here, don't they?" "Mines collapsed." "Pow farms covered under a ton of snow." "Construction jobs nonexistent." "But this?" "This is not the answer." "Shut up, and give me the Jekking cash!" "Berlin, look out!" "Ahh!" "Ahh!" "You okay?" "It's been a day." "Hey." "Where's my daughter?" "Hey!" "Ugh!" "Irisa!" "Kiddo, hey, hey." "Hey, kiddo." "Hey, you okay?" "You okay?" "Your breath stinks." "Oh, you're all right." "All right." "Oh, oh." "Come on." "How'd we get here?" "Where are we?" "Thank Christ." "Any movement?" "No." "No patrols." "Good." "Come quickly then." "We spotted them." "Bundle up, dear." "It's a walk." "It's an old joint Pilar's parents had when she was little." "Only my wife would be crazy enough to hole up behind enemy lines." "Our grandchild." "Have you seen Alak and christie?" "Not yet." "They're probably inside." "If your wife has harmed them, she will die an excruciating death." "And if she hasn't harmed them?" "Same outcome." "I see your point." "How do we get down there?" "Well, the incline's too steep." "We've got to go around the long way." "Come on." "Let's get back to the roller." "Nothing like the cold air to ward off croup." "Does he need to be changed?" "Yeah, but don't worry, honey." "Grandma's got little lukey." "Votanis collective death squad." "They've taken our vehicle." "Ah, Chup." "We can't let them discover the children." "All right." "Make it look good." " Move." " Take it easy!" "Loyal to the collective?" "I shall be the judge of that." "I am General Rahm Tak." "The beast." "You've heard of me?" "I, however, find myself at a disadvantage." "I am Datak Tarr of the Shanje Liro." "Ah." "I know the name." "You're from Defiance." "A self-styled crime lord, are you not?" "I've learned to make some small profit among the humans." "Small indeed." "Your donations to our common cause have been meager, at best, and you're only Shanje by marriage." "Who's the pink skin?" "Who you calling pink skin, you Edgar winter piece of sht..." "McCawley." "The name is Rafe McCawley." "Please don't kill him." "The human is our bounty." "There is a price on his head back in Defiance." "You are in luck." "My caravan is headed to your hometown." "We'll make camp here." "We can travel together, once we've eaten and rested." "I won't take "no" for an answer." "I've been dying for some cultured company." "General Tak, may I ask what business you have in Defiance?" "You may, indeed." "I'm going to kill all the humans and burn the disgusting place to the ground." "Okay, you don't have to do that." " It's all there." " I count by twos." "It goes fast." "She's gonna need it to pay her way across the badlands." "What are you talking about?" "What's with the packed bags?" "Excuse me." "I've got a ticket on tomorrow's land coach." "Thought I'd try my luck out West." "This town needs you." "What this town needs is a sensitively worded obituary." "Defiance has faced harder winters than this." "It's time to get real." "It's been seven months since the McCawley mines collapsed." "Gulanite was the lifeblood of this town." "There is no future without it." "Oh, and incidentally," "I just heard that the stasis nets went down." "Amanda, is that true?" "It's temporary." "Ah, so we're only temporarily screwed." " Good news." " Ow." "I depart with a clear conscience." "Look, we've lost soldiers, doctors, engineers, anyone with a skill marketable to the outside world, but you know who stayed?" "The people who can't leave." "The people who can't survive in the badlands." "Yeah, and they're depending on people like us to keep it all together." "Come on, doc." "You're the only doctor in town." "If you leave, people will die." "I don't want that on my conscience, and I don't think you do either." "The fact that you try to appeal to my better angels is adorably human." "So you're staying?" "Get your skinny ass out of here." "I've got work to do." "Last thing I remember, uh, was the ceiling coming down on us." "You were in my arms, and..." "I pulled you into one of those life pods, and it closed up around." "We must have gone to sleep." "I wake up, and we're being pulled out by something." "Some alien I've never seen before." "Older male." "Younger female." "Purple skin." "Real strong." "This ringing a bell for you?" "They cut you?" "Yeah, must have." "You got one too." "Defiance is that way." "We should probably go soon." "I can't go back." "They're gonna lynch me." "It's the only town." "They know I'm a mass murderer." "I destroyed New York." "Nolan, I killed Tommy." "All right." "Now, you listen up because I'm only gonna say this once." "It was that arkbrain that did the killing, not you." "You are as much a victim as anyone." "You fought it." "You beat it, and you saved everyone." "I could not be prouder of you." "They're still gonna lynch me." "Details, details." "What is that?" "It's a wormhole flare." "Long-distance coded message." "Votanis collective." "The V.C. isn't normally this far north." "I wonder who they're talking to." "What's the message?" "It's good." "Just got word from Defiance, the stasis nets are down." "Datak." "Stahma." "Exciting news from my spies outside of Defiance." "The Gulanite shortage has apparently forced the town to pull the plug on the stasis nets." "Cause for celebration, no?" "You'll overrun them easily." "And that pleases you?" "Of course, Favi Tak." "General Rahm Tak." "I know I'm not supposed to take this job personally, but I must admit, I'm going to enjoy this campaign." "I mean, the very idea of Defiance turns my stomach." "I don't know how you two lived there." "You know, I think I will hook a cable to that arch and pull the whole thing to the ground." "Perhaps they'll put a statue of me in its place." "That is a beautiful dream." "Was that sarcasm?" "Because I assure you, Favi Tarr, my aspirations are achievable." "I am not a delusional man." "There's our signaler." "The one holding the wormhole flare gun." "I've seen him in Defiance." "They don't look like soldiers." "Why are they signaling the V.C.?" "That's because they're spies." "Go around to the right." "That one's yours." "I'll get the one by the truck." "Don't move." "I said don't move." "You're from Defiance." "They wrote that book about you." "What book?" "Drop the gun!" "No." "No shooting." "No shooting." "We're friends." "I speak English, see?" "Oh, look." "You're trembling." "Ah!" "Irisa." "Hey!" "Come on." "What happened?" "My weapon jammed." "Let me." "I've had three children, you know." "You have to keep one of them chained to the table, so she won't run away on you." "Oh, I bet you spent all night thinking up that one." "Check the traps, funny boy." "Getting cold out there." "I'll go." "I need to stretch my legs." "Come on." "Where would I run to?" "We're in the middle of nowhere." "I know you want to kill me." "Mom!" "Excuse me?" "And I don't blame you." "I know how mad both of you are." "But you don't care?" "Oh, don't say that." "I care very much." "And yet here we are." "Your parents are terrible people." "They threatened me." "They told me they would kill me if I stayed in Defiance." "Listen, when they tell..." "I could not abandon my family a second time." "Therefore, I had no choice but to bring you with me." "Surely, you understand that as a father." "Shh." " Sure." " Sweetheart, hush." "Then it's settled." "We'll both go." "Unchain him." "Looks like E-Rep pulled up stakes." " Good." " Don't be so sure." "Earth Republic was the only thing keeping the V.C." "Out of north America." "Come on." "Last time we saw Amanda, she tried to shoot me." "She considered shooting you." "I remind you she didn't actually pull the trigger." "But, yeah." "Yeah, you stay in the car." "Sure you can spare the bullets?" "Where's Pottinger?" "He's gone." " I'm back in charge." " What'd you do?" "Stuff the ballot box?" "This town's on its last legs." "I've been hanging on by my fingernails." "Where the hell were you?" "Trapped under a mile of solid rock." "How long have we been gone?" "Seven months." "Is Irisa..." "Downstairs?" "Yeah." "Excuse me?" "I knew it was you." "Irisa." "Can you sign this?" "It's for my boyfriend." "What's it feel like saving the world?" "Bet it feels great, huh?" "What happened to your head?" "Ah!" "Stasis nets are down." "What the hell is going on with that?" " Can't spare the Gulanite." " Well, you're gonna have to." "You got to get them up, and you got to get them up now." " You don't understand." " No." "You don't understand." " Votanis collective." " Mm-hmm." "They're coming for you." "This book's trash." "I won't sign this." "Take a walk, poole." "But don't you know who this is?" " Go home, deputy." " No, my shift doesn't end for..." "Go home!" "I'm the Lawkeeper now." "These are all the weapons that are left in the armory?" "There was looting when the E-Rep bugged out." "All right, I guess it's gonna have to do for a start." "The real issue is power." "We don't get those stasis nets back up and running, this war is over before it begins." " Come on." " Where we going?" "To the Gulanite mines." " There's no point." " Why not?" "The mines collapsed the night you disappeared." "The ground hardened into I don't know what, but our drills can't cut through." "Gulanite's down there, but we can't access it." "And yet somehow Irisa and I found our way out and made it to the surface, so there's got to be a tunnel or something." "You don't know how you made it to the surface?" "No, but the purple-skins do." "Purple-skins?" "I'll tell you on the way." "Hey!" "Berlin!" "Berlin, what the hell are you doing?" " She killed Tommy!" " A machine killed Tommy!" "You lay a hand on her again, and I don't care who you are," "I will put you in the ground." "That hardware always been there?" "No." "It's new." "Thought you said no one was home at the mines." "I did." "Looks like someone set up shop for themselves." "This tech's Votan." "Indogene." "Looks like our squatters are from your neck of the woods, kiddo." "I'm from Denver." "Oh, baby." "Come to papa." "Purples took my gun, so we know we're in the right place." "They have terraformers." "What the hell was that?" "I'm not waiting to find out." "Ah!" "Strong pulse." "She's just stunned." "Come on." "On me." "You cover right." "Rahm Tak..." " Is there something wrong?" " No talking." "Come." "Quickly." "We found some humans." "Should be educational." "Well, somebody's been busy down here." "What the hell do they want with all this Gulanite?" "I want to get my hands on one of those drones." "Figure out how they work, we might get a bead on who or what we're dealing with here." "Whoa." "I remember you." "You want to tell us what you're doing in our mines?" "Oh, feeling frisky, are we?" "Drop the weapon!" "Drop it!" "You guys okay?" "Yeah." "Did you have to shoot her in the gut?" " I was aiming for the legs." " Nice aim." "Look, I'm a little shaky after being zapped by that thing." "Is she gonna live?" "Not unless we get her to a doctor fast." "Grab the roller." "It's V.C. patrol." "I'm gonna go talk to them." "Then unlock the chain first." "Mom wouldn't like that." "Luke is half Casti, half human." "Do you know what the Votanis collective does to mixed-breed babies?" "Find a good hiding place." "Yeah, yeah." "Boring, boring." "Do you know who I am?" "Rahm Tak." "I'm on your side." "I worked as a spy for the collective." "I assassinated Earth Republic ambassador Tennety." "What did you say your name was?" "Quentin McCawley." "McCawley." "McCawley, McCawley, McCawley, McCawley, McCawley, McCawley." "Never heard of you." "Ah!" "No!" "Oops." "Was that your son?" " No!" " McCawl..." "He just did it out of spite." "I'm sorry, Rafe." "As family, we will bear this zoruto and take vengeance together." "Thanks, Datak." "It means a lot." "Someone's coming." "The General's asking for you two." "Stahma, you said you captured "papa bear" McCawley somewhere around here, right?" "Yes." "And yet you failed to notice that he had a son running around loose?" "We're as surprised as you must be." "Clever humans." "I'm beginning to think you're the clever one, Stahma." "Ah!" "Look at this." "I found a mouse." "This is a private home." "You have no right to be here!" "So?" "The baby." "We need to get the soldiers out of here." "No!" "Oh, dad!" "She's... she's in shock." "I am not in shock!" "I know exactly what I'm saying!" "May your Liro stink of unclean death in the forever-after of the three hells!" "Oh, forgive her." "Please!" "Stahma, did you teach this human the curses of our people?" "This is your husband's charge blade." "I want you to kill this human with it." "Do it for me." "I sense hesitation." "Would you kill this human in exchange for your husband's life?" "Stahma, make a decision." " Stahma!" " Come." "Make a decision!" "I'm not afraid." "Aah!" "No!" "Oh!" "Shh!" "Thank you, General, for providing clarity." "Of course, the only good human is a dead one." "Favi Tak, may we leave this place now?" "The human death-stink offends." "Of course." "Move out!"