"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." "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." "Your winnings." "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..." "There was no reason to kill him." "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!" "Oh, gao." "Oh, gao." "Oh, Rayetso, gao." "_" "_" "Luke?" "Luke?" "He's hungry." "Oh, baby, thank God." "You remember how our kids used to cry like that... when they were..." "Oh, Rafe." "Rafe McCawley, you wake the hell up right now." "Oh..." "Alak, my son, you forget what happened here." "You forget this day, and you love this little baby like you loved my Christie." "I should have been better." "Well, me too." "What are you doing?" "Waste not, want not." "What's with all the cloak and dagger?" "We're keeping this quiet." "We don't want anyone to see her." "Why?" "Who's the patient?" "_" "Can you help her?" "I'm not going anywhere near that thing!" "Let nature take its course!" "If you stand by and let her die, we're gonna be digging two graves." "Fine, chain her up." "Doc, she's half dead." "An optimist would say she's half alive." "Chain her up." "Come on." "So you know what she is?" "She's a predator designed by evolution to conquer, kill, and devour." "She moves like a hunter." "Yeah, well, she eats like a cannibal." "What kind of Votan is she?" "There was an early Votan race, one that predated the rest of us, one that called the shots for a very long time." "Congratulations, you found yourselves an honest-to-goodness Omec." "Omec?" "I've heard the name, but I heard they died out." "Supposedly they did." "Back home we built arcs to escape the exploding sun." "Ours worked." "Theirs didn't." "Hey, we don't mean you any harm." "Conquer, kill, devour." "Put it on a T-shirt, so you don't forget." "According to Nolan, there's another one." " A male." " Kill them both." "You have no idea what you're dealing with." "That should keep you warm." "_" "_" "_" "Good right hook." "Ka-pow." "Ka-pow." "Warm." "That's it." "Nice and warm." "Very flattering." "T'abinel Kindzi." "Nolan." "Irisa." "What the doc said about you guys being cannibals, back there in the caves when you licked me..." "You weren't gonna eat me, were you?" "You understand me, don't you?" "Oh, um, what brings you to my stall this fine afternoon?" "Favi Ksaruko, hello." "Monguno, how's it going with that mandolin of yours?" " Fine." " He doesn't practice enough." "Uh, how can I help you, Madam Mayor?" "Yes, um, a Votan friend of mine was telling me a story today about the Omec." "Um, "devils,"" "as you humans would say." "Enchanters." "Takers of the innocent." "Dark gods." "Would you call them cannibals?" "Only if I were a sloppy speaker." "Cannibals eat their own species whereas Omec, they preferred eating us." "_" "_" "_" "Thudu thezuhu," ""The Dread Harvest."" "Every 76 years, the Omec home planet, which is here, would come close to the other Votan planets." "The Omec came in giant space vessels and spirited away thousands upon thousands of our ancestors." "Those harvested were kept as slaves until their Omec masters grew bored." " Or hungry?" " Exactly." "Those old stories are bogus." "Bogus?" "You ignore your people's history at your own peril." "I don't believe in Omec." "That's because you are a foolish boy with work to do." "Go." "Pay no attention to my son." "The Omec were very real, very dangerous." "I'm here for my daughter." "All well and good, General, but Defiance will not go down without a fight." "How do you plan to take the city with such a small force?" "We have a weapon." "What kind of weapon?" "She said it's our little secret, and by golly, oh," "I'm gonna keep it." "It's from a Johnny Cash song." "Ah, the Man in Black." "For a southern member of the Collective, your command of human culture, General, is... is excellent." "After emigrating, I studied in New York." "I lived with them." "I ate with them." "I know everything there is to know about everything human." "Living with pigs, one grows all too accustomed to filth." "Praise Rayetso." "But please don't misunderstand," "I desire that filth." "Consider sweet Lieutenant Bebe, an Indogene who wore a human skin to infiltrate a shopping mall, killing hundreds of humans." "His skin is heroic." "I call it poetry." "We shall seize their human language, their land, their clothes, the very skin on their faces." "Everything in this world is ours for the taking." ""Manifest Destiny."" "Do you know the term?" "Oh, I know it's a human concept." "So well informed... both of you." " You honor us, General." " _" "I shame myself." "So I am trying to decide how best to put you both to work for the Votan cause." "Anything to serve the Collective, General." "Good, good, because you, Datak, are going to be a saboteur for the Votanis Collective." "You are gonna help me bring that odious little town to its knees." "If I may, General... without me there to calm him, my husband is prone to fits of intemperate anger." "You're saying I should send you both?" "It might help you achieve the objective you desire." "Here's the thing, Stahma, you and your husband are a pair of treacherous snakes." "If I release you both, you'll disappear into the woodpile, and I won't get what I want." "So I think it's best for everyone if we set some simple ground rules." "You, Datak, will go to Defiance." "You'll carry out assignments that I give you." "Anytime you refuse an assignment or fail or displease me in any way," "I will cut a piece off of your wife's beautiful body." "And over time, that can add up to one ugly bitch." "So do as I say." "Do you even know where we're going?" "As long as the Collective are far behind us," "I could care less." "Oh, I know." "I know, baby." "I'm so sorry your terrible Casti grandparents ruined everything." "I will protect you." "What are you gonna do?" "I am going to get food for my grandson." "She'll be back." "It's gonna be okay." "Please..." "Help her up." "I found these in our mines along with my daughter's blood." "Well, you have nothing to worry about." "She's fine." "Where is she?" "Why don't you answer some questions first?" "Take me to her." "Listen, I appreciate your patience during this trying time, but forgive me, I don't know what to call you." "Eksua Tsuroz T'evgin." "Eksua is my family," "Tsuroz is my ship, and you may call me T'evgin." "You say you have a ship?" "I believe I just did." "Is it functional?" "You are asking very invasive questions of someone who just recently saved your life." "See, I don't know that you just saved my life." "Mm, I know I woke up with a gash in my head." "The head wound was from where the sleeper pod was hooked into your brain." "The entire system was losing power, and you both soon would have died had I not taken action." "Cutting the interface was to release you from the pod." "And then you dumped us out in the snow and left us to die." "You attacked us." "I wanted to kill you, but my daughter pled mercy on your behalf." "Speaking of which, you will take me to her now." "Well, we still have some more questions you have to answer." "Like what's with all the gulanite?" "That ship of yours low on power?" "Need fuel?" "When we arrived in Earth orbit, our ship was low on fuel and badly in need of repair." "And what happens once that ship is functional again?" "Others may have survived like my daughter and I did." "We will travel into deep space in search for them." " Just the two of you?" " Yes." "All right, here's the deal." "Our town needs gulanite badly." "I suggest a sharing agreement, 50/50." "Our mines, your equipment." "Everybody wins." "These are my terms!" "You will bring me my daughter, or I will bathe in the blood of every Votan and human until my rage is cleansed." "Now, where is she?" "You finished?" "I shot your daughter." "But she attacked me first, which means I was within my rights." "We brought her back to town to seek medical care." "She's stable, and she's resting comfortably." "Now, I will return her to you when you and I reach an agreement about the gulanite." "So she's a hostage?" "No, that's an ugly word." " Should be you." " What?" "Chained up." "You're the real menace." "Can we see it?" "There's nothing to see, short stuff." "Mayor came to my dad's booth asking about Omec, and then one showed up outside the NeedWant." "What?" "You see Omec?" "Didn't your dad beat you once for calling him "Omec"?" "There's nothing in here." "Then why is she guarding the door?" "Leave, now." "Don't piss her off." "She'll drop an ark on your head." "You are her, from book." "Goddess of Badland." "That book's trash." "Shtako, that is her." "Why didn't you kill it?" "That Omec?" "You kill everything." "You are murder." "Okay, boys, that's enough." "Bye." "You are murder." "She bitch." "Guys, she lied." "There's totally an Omec in here." "Check it out." " Hey, yo, boost me up." " All right." " What do you see?" " I don't know, it's dark." "Here, Omec." "Come here, little Omec." "Poke it." "She's still chained up, right?" "What did you see?" "What did you see?" "Come here, girlie." "Come on." "Come on." "What happened?" "What do you see, Monguno?" "Get away from there!" "No." "No, no, no, no, no." "No." "Please." "Hey, come on, out of the way." "Omec." "Is it inconsiderate to say I told you so?" "I never know the rules for that." "Raised by wolves..." "You're not funny." "50 million Elvis fans can't be wrong." "_" "Get him out of here." "Come on, you trying to start a riot?" "Let's go." "Your Indogene was insulting." "_" "_" "Well, at least the baby ate." "I lost my appetite." "That little boy needs his papa to stay strong." "Family is more important than anything else in this world, Alak." "You sound like my parents." "You mean the ones that killed my daughter?" "Your wife?" "His mother?" "No, I very much do not sound like them." "You murdered these people." "How does that make you any different?" "I kill strangers to take care of my family." "Your parents kill family to take care of themselves." "You know, I tried to poison my three children." "Christie was just a baby." "It's come up in conversation, yeah." "I was sick." "The Votan monastery that Rafe shipped me off to, it made me hard, but it also taught me to look beyond my own needs." "I had to suffer so that my children would be safe." "Safe from you." " Right?" " Yes." "The shigustako offered redemption," "Castithan-style." "I took it." "I allowed them to abuse me, and then my dear, sweet Quentin found me." "Forgave me." "He saved my life... because I realized that my family, my children needed a mother." "I focused on that." "I wouldn't let anything stop me, least of all your parents." "I am not your mother, Alak." "I'm Christie's mother." "You can depend on me." "I wish I could believe that." "I will never betray you." "Blood trail comes in from behind us." "She went this way." "Must have reopened her gunshot wounds when she escaped." "I don't like the amount of blood I'm seeing here." "How do you think I feel?" "So let's go find her." "Oh, my God!" "Do you need a doctor?" "She needs a doctor!" "No, she doesn't!" "This Omec killed my son!" "Step away from her, please." "_" "_" "_" "Stop!" "Aah!" "_" "_" "Get on the ground!" "Down!" "All of you, down!" "Show me your hands!" "Get that on the ground." "Stay down." "T'evgin, no!" "No!" "T'evgin, no!" "Don't worry about the bookseller." "Not now." "Look after your daughter." "Look at her." "What is that?" "Call it a letter opener." "I'll die before I leave you alone here with that decho." "The McCawleys may have been human, but they were our humans." "Rafe was shot down like a dog." " He deserved better." " And Christie?" "Make me a weapon too." "Better we die together, don't you think?" "I'll get to work." "Pilar?" "No, no, no, no, no, no!" "Pilar!" "Luke!" "Hey!" "Hey, please!" "She... she took my son!" "She took my son!" "She just... she took him!" "Please!" "Get the Indogene!" "Now!" "Doc, Doc, we got a situation!" "Hey." "Hey, hey, hey, sweetheart, hey." "Look at me." "That's it, focus on me." "That's it, you stay with me." "We're gonna get you through this." "Hey!" "Hands off my stuff." "Take it easy, Doc." "Get this monster out of here." "I'm not gonna ask you twice." "All right, she's bleeding out." "She needs your help." "You misunderstand me." "I don't need the little Indogene's medical expertise." "I need protoform." "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa." "Whoa, whoa." "Everybody calm down." "What exactly is "protoform"?" "Indogene skin." "The Indogenes are a manufactured race created for many purposes." "To him, I'm just a great big tub of spackle." " Stay back!" " All right, slow down." "In order to save my daughter's life," "I need a strip of epidermis, 6 inches long and 3 inches wide." "I can promise you that the Indogene will recover fully." "Now, out of my way." "If my daughter dies, your town dies along with her." "No gulanite, nothing." " Nolan, hold her down." " What?" "No!" " Kiddo." " I got her." "Aah!" "All right, come on." "All right, I have a sedative." "No frigging way!" "Sorry, Doc, it's necessary." "Is 20ccs enough to numb the pain?" "Screw you!" "This is gonna go a lot quicker if you don't struggle." "How is she?" "Angry and drugged." "Protoform is infinitely mutable." "It has many applications that are beneficial to Omec physiology." "_" "_" "_" "_" "_" "_" "_" "_" "_" "_" "_" "Your ride's here." "You helped me save my daughter." "I acknowledge this." "Well, it's what we do around here." "I also... accept your proposal to share the gulanite." "Come to the mines tomorrow, and we'll discuss the details." "Thank you, T'evgin." "Get back inside!" "_" "_" " End of the street." " Got him, go around." "Favi Ksaruko..." "I know you're angry." "My son is dead." "You and your father and the mayor all fought to save the life of the devil that killed him." "There will be no justice until she is dead too." "I'm sorry for your loss." "But Monguno was provoking her." "She was scared and lashed out." "You killing her or anyone else is only gonna make things worse." "Yengi Ksaruko!" "You're endangering the entire town!" "Throw down your weapon where I can see it or I will shoot you!" "Toss the gun, Favi Ksaruko." "You're not a killer." "You don't know what it's like, what killing does to you." "I don't want you to know." "You didn't have to kill him!" " He was shooting at us." " He was gonna surrender!" " Was he?" "You know that?" " Yeah!" "What if he wasn't?" "He would've put a bullet right between your eyes." "Nobody forced this man to pick up a gun and start shooting at innocent people." "Innocent?" "Right." "Good luck." "Well done." "Well done, well done, Stahma." "I must admit you were right." "You two are more formidable together than apart." "Your wish is granted." "You will travel to Defiance with Datak." "You will spy for me as a team." "I bet you're thinking there must be a catch." "Well..." "Bebe!" "Alak!" "Stahma, sit with me." "We're gonna work on your cover story." "♪ World gone wrong ♪" "♪ Quiet song ♪" "♪ Let us sing ♪" "♪ Of pretty horses ♪" "♪ Living free ♪" "♪ Riding high ♪" "♪ Together you and I ♪" "♪ Ooh ♪" "♪ Ooh, you make me live ♪" "♪ Whatever this world can give to me ♪" "♪ It's you ♪" "♪ You're all I see ♪" " ♪ Ooh, you make me live now ♪" " Three, two, one!" "♪ Ooh, you make me live ♪" "♪ You're the best friend ♪" "♪ That I ever had ♪" "♪ I've been with you such a long time ♪" "♪ You're my sunshine ♪" "♪ And I want you to know ♪" "♪ That my feelings are true ♪" "♪ I really love you ♪" "♪ You're my best friend ♪" "♪ I've been wandering round ♪" "♪ Still come back to you ♪" "♪ And rain or shine ♪" "♪ You stood by me, boy ♪" "♪ I'm happy at home ♪" "♪ You're my best friend ♪" "♪ Ooh ♪" "♪ Whenever this world is cruel to me ♪" "♪ I got you to help me forgive ♪" "♪ Ooh, you make me live, now, honey ♪" "♪ Ooh, you make me live ♪" "♪ Ooh, you make me live ♪" "♪ Ooh, you make me live ♪"