"Well, Liam, welcome to your new home." "It's like Rohe said:" ""Less is more", right?" "Guess he must have had you in mind when he said it." "Don't knock it man." "I've wasted many a night in this chair, kicking back, and checking out the view." "The view?" "Beats Mount Rushmore, don't you think?" "I'll say." "You own the Flat Planet?" "Key word for the millennium, kid, "diversify"." "Check that." "Ten bucks says they're talking about sex." "No other subject gets that kind of a laugh." "Why?" "Well, just loo..." "How do I explain?" "Usually, by your age, we wouldn't have to have this conversation, but..." "Okay, uh..." "Okay, you have a man, like you, and a woman, like Lili..." "I think you're going to have to figure this one out for yourself." "And the world is still reeling over the shocking murder of Synod leader Quo'on at the funeral of Companion protector William Boone." "The leadership of the Synod is taking on a new phase as Zo'or, known for his brief tenure replacing" "North American Companion Da'an, now takes command." "So tell him!" "Not if he's living up there." "Okay, big rule: never flirt with a guy you can't avoid if things go sour!" " Oh, come on!" " I'm serious!" "He's coming with Augur." "I'm gonna go before I embarrass myself." "Suzanne!" "Sorry to interrupt, can you get us another round, please." " Sure." " Okay?" "Can you settle something for us, please?" "Okay." "I bet Liam here that you two were down here talking about men..." "No, you said they were talking about sex." "Right, that's what I meant." "So, am I right or not?" " Not." " Right!" "I know that you are lying." "You're deliberately trying to provoke me so that I lose control, and pull you into the pit." "Oh, Augur, is that the best you can do?" "Don't tire me with your 20th century versions of sex!" "Oh, I'm 20th century now." "You hear that Liam?" "Like she's found something better." "As a matter of fact I have." "Da'an shared himself with me." " Da'an shared...?" " Yeah." "He held my hand..." ""I Wanna Hold Your Hand", Beatles, Capitol Records, 1964." "You can laugh if you want but I'm telling you when he touched me..." ""He Touched Me", Johnny Mathis, 1957." "When he touched me, Da'an showed me everything that he is." "He even let me tap into the Taelon Commonality." "When our hands touched..." "It was like the most unbelievable experience of my life." "On every level." "You wouldn't understand." "Go on, be a good little soldier for Sandoval, Captain." "Lili, was it really that wonderful with Da'an?" "Yeah." "It was." "Oh, but it had nothing to do with sex." "You just love pulling his chain, don't you?" "One of life's little pleasures." "See you." "As new leader of the Synod I will no longer tolerate this so called Liberation movement." "The continued freedom of Jonathan Doors is an affront." "I have commissioned search-and-destroy teams all over the world." "Such extreme steps will only increase the popularity of the Liberation you seek to disable." "I also have instituted a reward, a bounty for Jonathan Doors, appeal to the self interests of the humans." "Pull up the files on that Russian psychic." "What's her name?" ".." "Katya Petrenko." "Master, there's another woman?" "!" "Cross reference Katya's DNA scans with anything we have on Taelon physiology." "Anything else, Master?" "In fact, yes." "Review the Taelon databanks and look up any data we have on the Taelon Commonality, and enough with the "Master"." "What is it thou art looking for, Master?" "Well, both Katya and Lili sampled the Taelon Commonality through different means." "Which implies that the Commonality has any number of possible entry points!" "Reviewing the databanks suggests a hypothesis." "The Taelon Commonality is a psycho-dimensional web, a matrix of shared energy which links the psyches of the entire Taelon race." "Each blue orb represents a Taelon, the linking lines of energy - the ties that bind." "Good!" "Let's test that." "Now if each Taelon can function as a transmitter, what happens if we tap one Taelon's frequency?" "I could have done that for thee." "Well, sometimes I think a lot faster than I talk, sweetheart." "Do this instead." "Analyze all frequencies emanating from the Taelon embassy." "Certainly, Master." "And isolate the frequency that links Da'an to the Commonality." "Doing it now, Master." "Let's check out this unbelievable experience." "You have no understanding of humanity." "This ill-conceived approa..." "I had no idea..." "Complete your thought." "There is a strange interference with my thoughts." "Da'an!" "I cannot explain!" "My bond... with the Commonality is weakening..." "I am... losing contact with the Commonality!" "Subtitled by Axarion" "They are the Companions." "Aliens come to Earth on a mission of peace." "Their true mission, the secrets they hide, forever alter humanity." "Caught in the struggle between these Taelon Companions and the Human Resistance is Liam Kincaid." "A man who is more than human." "The mysteries of his past hold the key to Earth's future and the fate of mankind." "On Earth Final Conflict." "Something's wrong with Da'an." "Capt. Marquette's at the embassy." "I'll have her look into it." "Da'an?" "You of all people cannot see me like this." "Da'an!" "Da'an!" "Of course Capt. Marquette did not find Da'an in his office." "He is the creature." "Had she simply fired at the beast, we might have been saved the trouble of hunting him down." "We are to hunt down a Taelon?" "Da'an is no longer Taelon." "How can that be?" "Something has severed Da'an's link to the Commonality." "Without the Commonality to sustain us, the Taelon form regresses." "It returns to the atavistic state from which we struggled so hard to evolve." "Like a human somehow turning back into an ape?" "Humanity's apish ancestors are benign, compared to the roots from which Taelons spring." "We no longer even have a word for such creatures." "We have expunged the idea from our language." "The simplest term would be from Earth Latin." "Da'an has become an Atavus." "A distant, primitive ancestor?" "The term fails to convey the horror of the beast." "And since every Taelon may be vulnerable, you will suspend all other activities until you have killed Da'an, and destroyed the source of the rupture!" "You look tired." "Just a little t'ai chi ch'uan." "I've felt disconnected from my body lately." "This bring me up to speed." "You're needed at once, Agent Beckett." "By you or by the Companions?" "Zo'or has ordered me to hunt down and kill Da'an." "Kill Da'an?" "Da'an has become a threat to the Commonality." "Does that make the gravity of the situation clear?" "I'm on my way." "A pleasure to see you again." "Not if this is as serious as Agent Sandoval tells me." "What's wrong?" "Nothing." "Just I hoped maybe..." "Thought that you'd see another glimpse of maternal recognition?" "You better pray that you don't!" "Or that reprogramming we did to her CVI will kill her." "You must commence the search for the Atavus at once." "You mean Da'an." "The Atavus!" "Join with Agent Kincaid so that each team has a skrill." "The skrill is the only weapon we know for certain will be effective against the Atavus." "I still can't believe that the creature I saw was Da'an." "Da'an told me that Taelons had the ability to break away from the Commonality if they chose, but they're afraid to be alone with their own thoughts." "Obviously Da'an understated the case." "If Da'an didn't leave the Commonality of his own will, then what forced him out?" "We have no time for these reflections." "Capt. Marquette's failure to act when she first sighted the Atavus has resulted in the present threat." "And that threat must be eliminated." "What is the threat?" "What are the capabilities of the Atavus?" "The Atavus has strength and reflexes akin to your mythological vampire." "It possesses a vestigial organ called Shaqarava." "Which allows it to fire lethal blasts." "But that is not its principal means of attack." "The beast has the power to draw the very life force from it's prey." "And the ability to reshape flesh." "That's what enabled the Atavus to evolve into Taelons once they created the Commonality." "Taelons do not discuss our evolutionary origins." "How do you know of this?" "From Da'an." "There would be no reason for Da'an to share this information with you." "Apparently Da'an felt differently." "It presents a threat to the Taelons as well as humans?" "The Atavus is a threat to all who live." "Stripped of its ties to the Commonality, the Atavus knows nothing of civilization." "It knows only hunger, savage, rapacious hunger for life spirit." "Give me your wallet!" "Now!" "Here..." "Just don't..." "How do we contain the Atavus so that he can return to his life as Da'an?" "Did I in any way suggest that your task was to capture the Atavus?" "Obviously we'll want to restore Da'an to his Taelon form." "That would be an obvious human reaction." "Let me be clear." "The Atavus is to be exterminated like vermin, which is exactly how the Synod views such a repugnant, primitive creature." "You want us to kill Da'an?" "Learn, Captain." "The Atavus is not Da'an and never will be again." "Da'an is beyond help." "Once cut off from the Commonality a Taelon can never return." "Liam." "My grandfather's name is Liam." "Then maybe we're related." "No, I would know that." "Genealogy is very important to me." "I like that." "It's important to keep in touch with your roots." "Your family." "Without family we're all drifting." "Funny you should say that." "Your security file is quite distinguished." "Medals, commendations, citations..." "But nothing about family." "Based solely on your file," "I'd have to assume that you popped out of the Earth fully formed." "Quite transparent, Agent Beckett." "I know what you're after." "You're angling for an invite to my grandmother's St. Paddy's Day dinner." "Just curious about anyone who pilots my shuttle." "Well, the truth is, Agent Beckett, you know about as much as I do." "My mother gave birth to me and then she had to leave." "Nobody wanted to talk about where or why." "Was there a scandal?" "Well kind of a... mixed marriage." "It scared people." "I was left behind by both parents, raised by the next people to come along." "They acted like a family, gave me a home..." "But somehow I feel there's something missing." "If you could talk to you mother now, what would you tell her?" "I love you." "Even after she left you?" "I know it doesn't make sense, but there's a bond between us." "It cuts across everything else." "In a show of support for the Taelons," "President Thompson has endorsed the Synod's offer of a reward for information leading to the capture of Jonathan Doors." "The President released a statement saying that two million dollar bounty is a small payment to safeguard humanity's relationship with the Companions." "Two million dollars?" "I shall apply for the reward in thy name, Master!" "No..." "What happened to the sounds, the tone?" "If you mean the signal that we tapped into the Taelon embassy, why it ceased several moments after it began." "Come on!" "How long have I been lying here?" "3 hours, 23 minutes and 16 seconds, Master." "You mean to tell me that ten seconds of the Commonality harmonic put me under for that long?" "This calls for a major marketing plan." "Excuse me, Master, but... don't you think you're skirting just a little too close to the stereotypical male willing to sell his soul for a sexual high?" "Sex?" "This has nothing to do with sex." "This goes way beyond that." "I'm talking pure spirituality here." "Okay." "Then perhaps you'd like me to replicate the signal for your added spiritual listening pleasure." "Sound replication begin." "These scans aren't picking up the creature anywhere." "I looked at the Atavus straight in the eye, and it didn't kill me." "What are you suggesting?" "I'm saying that Da'an is inside that beast." "He talked to me when he ran out of his office." "The last drops of his consciousness slipping away." "You sure about that?" "We only have Zo'or's word on it." "Look closely, Captain." "Look closely!" "Does that look like Da'an to you?" " Da'an..." " If Da'an existed inside this beast, the motivational imperative in my CVI would compel me to accord him loyalty but I feel nothing for this creature." "Nothing." "What the...!" "If Da'an is inside the beast, then we have to try to communicate with him." "He talked to me once, he can do it again!" "Da'an will reach out to you when no one else can touch him?" "When not even Zo'or can sense him inside the Commonality?" "Here!" "That's your mugger?" "That thing has sucked... every last drop out of him like he was squeezing a lemon." "He didn't even touch the guy!" "I've never seen anything like this..." "There's a body on 24th and E, northeast." "A victim of the Atavus?" "You hang back, Captain." "I'll take the lead." "At least until you put your sentimentality behind you." "Maybe you're right." "How could it be Da'an?" "Da'an would never kill." " Yes." " There's been another victim, sir." "An antique shop at Vermont and Tacoma." " He's moving fast." " Should I reroute?" "No." "Stay on course, Agent Beckett will handle the antique store." "This is a matter of federal security." "Move along or you'll end up like your camera." "That kind of tactic may fly wherever you come from, but it's another thing in this country." "I suggest you familiarize yourself with your own department's chain of command..." "Corporal." "If you do, you'll understand that Companion protectors have worldwide jurisdiction." "So do your job, and be quick about it." "Nasty piece of work." "What's next?" "Let's see if there's a pattern here." "Taelon headquarters, 24th and E, and this bit of carnage here." "It's headed in a straight line, but where?" "Are you alone?" "Relatively." "I extrapolated the Atavus' path based on the sightings to date." "What do you got?" "Oh, my God!" "He's heading straight for Augur's." "Come on, Augur!" "Do you want me to get that, Master?" "Okay, okay, alright..." "Check caller ID." "Hey!" "She looks familiar..." "Never mind, hang it up." "No, wait!" "Who is she?" "I said, hang it up!" "You are not programmed to override my commands!" "Augur, you've got to get out of there." "Who is she?" " Who's there with you?" " Never mind, I'll call you later." "No you don't understand!" "What the hell was that?" "Get out of there right now, I'm on my way." " Let's go!" " Go where?" "The Atavus is travelling in a straight line." "It's heading northeast." "There's nothing there, but a bunch of warehouses." "We can corner it." "You said "it"." "What?" "You said we can corner "it"." "Not "him". "It"." "Perhaps you've finally stopped thinking of the Atavus as Da'an." "Master, what can I do?" "Download my will, order it to..." "Master, what is it doing?" "It's the harmonic tone!" "It wants the Commonality signal." "Disable it now!" "It's not working!" "I'm losing composition." "Save me, Master!" " Save me!" " I'll fix you, I promise!" "Over here!" "I've been here before." "This place is a maze." "Agent Beckett, converge on this signal." "We have the Atavus!" "Save me!" "Save me, Augur..." " Are you okay?" " Yeah." "I'm alright." "Go!" "Augur?" "Augur, you okay?" "No!" "But I will be as soon as I see my tailor." "Look!" "We need medtechs." "Converge on this signal immediately." "It's okay." "Go with him." "But you can't confront the Atavus alone." "When we find it, we'll contact you." "I looked at it, Liam." "I..." "I tried to see Da'an in its eyes." "I couldn't." "Okay, okay, I admit it, I recreated the frequency of the Taelon" " Commonality." "What you want me to..." " You disrupted the Commonality." "People are dying." "Da'an himself may be dying, and why?" " Because you were jealous of me?" " Wait, no, no, no, no, tapping into the commonality could give us the means of defeating the Taelons..." "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah." "And your altered state had nothing to do with it!" "Well, no!" "Could you reproduce the Taelon harmonic again?" "Yeah, great idea." "Except this time why don't we do it at you place instead." "That's right." "Give the Atavus another homing beacon, make it come to us." "Except this time we'll be ready for it." "Come on!" "Get serious!" "Look around!" "Not even E.T. could phone home in this rubble." "What the hell do you want me to do?" "The impossible, just like you always do." "Okay." "There is one other system like it, but I don't think you're gonna wanna take the risk." "Why not?" "It's in the Liberation hideout." "This is the symbol Sowilo." "It's my protection." "I'm entrusting it to you, Sandoval." "We're bound together." "So don't you dare die on me." "Understand?" "Listen, even if we can kill this thing, you'll expose our entire operation to the Taelons." "Jonathan, we'll stop it before it penetrates the Liberation." "Just like you've stopped it so far." "We don't have a choice." "You're right." "You have no choice, but I do." "I will not risk this operation to save a Taelon." "Da'an is not just a Taelon." "He is the lone voice in the Taelon hierarchy willing to fight Zo'or on behalf of mankind!" "What do you care about mankind?" "You're just as much a Taelon as you are human." "Which is how I know that neither species can survive without the other." "Start bringing up the Taelon Commonality signal." "Over my dead body." "If that's what it takes." "What are you waiting for?" "This isn't over." "It is for now." "I think we can save Da'an." "How?" "How can we save him when even Zo'or can't, unless Zo'or's lying..." "No, Zo'or's telling the truth as far as he knows it." "Isolate the commonality frequency." "You got it, Master!" " What the hell?" " Hey, I've got work to do!" "Remember?" "That's what I saw at your little hovel." "Did you program some kind of docile servant version of me into your computer?" "I tried to program your actual personality into the system but it was too much for the computer to capture." " So I settled for this." " That is so pathetic!" " I heard that!" " Ladies, please, please.." "Liam, what are you doing here?" "Capt. Marquette is closing in on the Atavus." "Strange accessory for a Companion Agent." "Why?" "Someone who believes in the Companions wouldn't believe in the runes?" "Runes are tied to the Earth, the Companions are tied to the stars." "Yes... but it's my own bonds to the Earth that sustain me and make me of value to the Companions in the first place." "I serve as a bridge between this world and their own." "A bridge." "Here." "What's this?" "You look like you have a puzzle in you." "Maybe this will help." "Riedon." "You know runes." "The rune of communication." "Reunion." "Tying two sides together." "Yes!" "Lili, it's ready, come!" "I'll call Liam." " You start it up." " Good." "Let's summon the beast!" "Signal's good." "Of course..." "It's you two are together..." "What?" "Why did he say that?" "We've got to go." "Converge on this signal." "He's here." "Kill the harmonic." "Don't do anything stupid." "You know me." "You won't hurt me." "No!" "Beckett, no!" "Can you help Da'an?" "Da'an." "What have I done?" "Those deaths..." "No." "That wasn't you." "It is a part of me." "We all have a darkness within us... even Taelons." "And... now that I have taken a life," "I will never be whole again." "Hey." "Now it's your turn." "Just a wee bump on the head." "You know doctors." "Any chance to use the word "concussion", and they're all atwitter." "I'll be up and around before you know it." "Yeah..." "Some punishment you've taken lately." "Is Capt. Marquette being disciplined for insubordination?" "No, she was right." "Da'an recovered." "Recovered?" "How?" "Nobody quite knows." "And Zo'or is beside himself trying to figure it out." "Are we then the guilty ones?" "For not having faith in Da'an." "There is something I wanted to ask you." "What did you mean when you said of course Liam and I would be there together?" "Did I say that?" "When you fought your way back up to the land of the living." "I must have been delirious." "Wait." "Speaking of Liam." "He wanted you to have this." "Said he didn't want to break up your set." "Reunion." "How can you say that?" "He saved Da'an." "I don't give a damn about Da'an." "Liam openly defied me." "He can't be trusted." "He'll never set foot in here again, never." "Never say never." "You can tell Liam yourself, Doors." "He's coming down the elevator right now." "Subtitled by Axarion"