Halo (2022–…): Season 1, Episode 9 - Episode #1.9 - full transcript
♪♪♪
Previously on Halo...
They will not stop
until they have both stones.
Do you know where
they took the other one?
I know in the star system
you call Aspero.
Aspero star system.
Find me a planet that can
support Covenant life!
We found absolutely nothing.
Makee can show us
where they are.
So they trust me.
They trust me,
and I trust you.
This obsession has cost you
every relationship
that you have today.
What else are you willing
to sacrifice?
Everything!
Parangosky wants you
off the planet.
Everything she told us
was a lie.
Did you tell Riz and Vannak?
Not yet.
My orders shall supersede
any others.
Bring John, the prisoner,
and the artifact to my ship.
Once we have Makee,
we'll no longer need John
to activate the artifacts.
You and John combined will be
the best of all of us.
Stop!
You're walking into a trap.
Cortana!
Go!
It was her voice
on the recording from Gladius.
I had no choice.
No, no, please!
You will pay for this.
Goodbye, John.
Kai?
Chief, I'm okay.
Go.
Makee, she...
she took the artifact.
She's gone.
What are you doing?
Take your weapon off!
Drop it.
Where's the Covenant ship?
Impound hangar
Delta 7.
Take me there.
Chief.
Halsey's orders
are to bring you in
dead or alive.
Your choice.
She kidnapped us,
Vannak.
What are you
talking about?
All of us. We were kids.
She took us from our families.
It's true.
Halsey lied to us.
She's been lying to us
for our entire lives.
I don't understand.
She doesn't want you
to understand.
She just wants to control you.
Raise your weapon, Riz.
She kidnapped us!
She tortured
and brainwashed us...
- turned us into weapons.
- It's not true.
Now she's turning us
against each other.
- Vannak, listen...
- It's not true!
It is!
It's all true.
I was there.
I helped Halsey select you.
I planned your abductions.
Delivered your replacement
clones to your families.
Worked with her
to erase your memories.
If there's anyone
you should shoot, it's me.
We lose the artifact,
we lose the war.
It's that simple.
No matter what
they've done to us...
we're all we have now.
It's just us.
The Covenant ship
is in hangar Delta 7.
Makee's probably
headed there.
Chief...
...you three go.
I want Halsey.
Miranda.
Out of the ship, Dr. Halsey!
This is your last warning!
Shut down your engines
and come out,
or we will fire upon you!
Auxiliary power is up.
It's up.
AI navigation is working.
We need to take off before they
can energize their EMP cannons.
Did you get a reading?
What?
Did you get a reading?
Someone touched
the artifact.
No. It blew everything out.
- Shit.
- Look, Doctor, come on.
We need to leave now,
all right?
Not until I know
what's happening.
Yes, yes, but they're going
to arrest you.
- No...
- Yes, they'll arrest you.
The package is secure.
Aren't you listening
to me?
We still have options.
Covenant Phantom on the move!
Get a track
on that Covenant ship.
And put some Pelicans
in the air.
Yes, sir.
Halsey's ship
just came back online.
It's preparing to launch.
No!
After it!
We're hit!
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What's my real name?
Kai, you are not
thinking clearly.
- This ship is about to crash.
- Tell me my name.
Let's turn this around.
We can even get into the pod.
- We can discuss...
- Enough!
Who am I?
You are exactly
who you're meant to be.
Ah!
Warning:
hull integrity compromised.
- Kai...
- All personnel to escape pods.
Ah!
Escape pod deploying.
No!
Halsey's broken off
into the escape pod.
Track that escape pod.
Do not let her
leave Reach airspace.
EMP ready?
Almost rebooted, sir.
Kai, what's your status?
Kai?
Attempting to regain control
of the ship.
Hull integrity is compromised.
Shit.
1-2-5, do you copy?
1-2-5, this is Captain Keyes.
Do you copy?
Kai!
Cortana?
Yes, Chief.
I'm still with you.
I'm gonna need you now.
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You'll pay for this.
No!
Halsey
guards her secrets
in a handwritten journal
which never leaves her side.
And what about Makee?
Were she and Halsey working
together from the beginning?
No. Once she learned...
Cortana, did Halsey ask Makee
to help her steal the artifact?
Yes. But Makee refused.
She wanted it for herself.
I'm not certain that's...
Bring up the Aspero star system.
Twenty times magnification.
Chief, we've searched
every visible region
of the Aspero system.
We can't find
one habitable planet.
Makee told me they
brought the Eridanus artifact
to their holy place,
somewhere in Aspero.
How could you trust
a single thing she told you
after all she's done?
She was honest with me.
At least for a little while.
I could feel it.
I believe
Master Chief is right.
Oh? And did you
feel it as well?
In my own way,
yes, ma'am.
Covenant prophecy.
The Halo is meant to be
revealed
where the stars sparkle
like glass.
A tad poetic for the Covenant,
don't you think?
I don't think
it's poetic at all.
I think it's a clue.
Cortana, what's the system's
gravitational
field strength?
Interesting question.
There are several fields.
Aspero is an unstable system,
surrounded by an artificial
dynamical network of what
appear to be cosmic strings.
Gravitational lensing
from the strings
warps and scatters the light
coming from within the system,
creating
a kaleidoscopic effect.
From our point of view,
a planet would appear
more like fragments.
Or shards of glass.
So you're saying
the Covenant planet
could be right there,
we just can't see it.
Not until we're actually there.
I'll send the Marines.
Twelve battalions.
Admiral,
you send 10,000 Marines,
you lose 10,000 Marines.
We are talking about
humankind's first incursion
into Covenant-controlled space.
We can do it, ma'am.
Silver Team can do it.
Listen to me.
Your recent behavior has been
erratic, to say the least.
You haven't been
your usual self.
Whatever emotions
you're experiencing,
whatever pain you must feel,
just put it aside.
Forget everything.
Do you understand?
When you walk
into the battlefield,
John must no longer exist.
Only the Master Chief.
Chief.
We pulsed Halsey's
escape pod over Manassas.
We'll have her
back in custody shortly.
There is a lot that has
happened over the years.
A lot that I am not
proud of.
I've tried to rationalize it...
because of all the good
that you have done.
There's no apology that can give
you back what we took from you.
But if...
There will be reckoning,
Captain.
Someday. For all of us.
Not today.
Hey, were you really
gonna shoot me?
- You know I would have.
- Oh, absolutely. No question.
Jesus. I can't believe you two.
You're, like, ice-cold.
Well, weren't you gonna
shoot us?
Of course I would have. I would
have just felt bad about it.
- Mm-hmm.
- Damn, Vannak.
- Dr. Halsey!
- Oh, shit.
She's moving!
Stop!
We got her!
She said anything yet?
Not a word.
Miranda, we need to talk.
If you could just give me
a moment of your time...
Miranda.
Chief, there's
something I need to tell you.
After the other Spartans
took you into custody,
Dr. Halsey was going to give me
full control of your body...
and your mind.
And how was she planning
on achieving that?
You would need
to cease to exist,
and I would take over.
- I see.
- It was always the plan.
It's what I was designed to do.
Why didn't you just take
me over from the beginning?
Only you could activate
the artifacts.
Halsey needed me
to find the Halo.
Yes.
Once Makee showed up,
I became redundant?
Yes.
Well, you had your chance.
You could have knocked me out,
handed me over to Halsey.
Why didn't you?
Because I was also designed
to learn, John.
And I have. From you.
I believe that
what Dr. Halsey wants
to eliminate from your species
is precisely the thing
that makes you special...
your humanity.
I've watched you
fight for yours,
and I believe it's a cause
that's right.
So you no longer
want to take over my body?
I'll wait for the less
beaten-up version.
The entire starfield
just disappeared.
We've entered the seam
between competing
gravitational fields.
It scatters
all available light.
You'll need to steer
along the critical point
between cosmic string segments,
where the fields
are at equilibrium.
Electrical systems failing.
Chief, rerouting
from auxiliary power.
Vannak!
Chief.
My instruments are down.
- Cortana?
- Calculating a path now.
You must maintain
the precise line.
If you veer too far
in the wrong direction,
the ship will be spaghettified
by tidal forces.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Spaghettified?
Stretched. Twisted.
Torn apart.
Right, and you didn't think I
should know this before we left?
Our odds for success
were already so low,
I didn't want to worry you.
- We're flying blind.
- I'll be your eyes.
Fire in Cabin 3!
Left two degrees.
I don't like this, Chief.
We've lost artificial gravity!
The hull is being pulled apart!
Warning:
hull integrity compromised.
We're going too fast.
Come again?
I can't hear you!
- ...navigation system.
- Shit!
I don't like this
one bit!
Hold on!
Hold this line.
- How do you know?
- Just do it!
Ship won't hold!
She'll hold.
Oh, good, you're still alive.
And I think we've found
what we're looking for.
Surprised to see me?
You know, I never thought
I'd see the day
when the great Catherine Halsey
got held accountable
for her actions.
You've rung up
quite a list of charges.
I can read them for you
if you'd like.
It starts with kidnapping
and ends with treason.
No? I don't blame you.
The committee would rather not
discuss it either.
They're quite embarrassed
by the whole affair.
Which is why they impaneled
a military tribunal
to try your case
in private.
They've already
reached a verdict.
Would you like to hear it?
Well, your guilt was never
really in question, was it?
The real debate
was over your punishment.
"In spite of her substantial
contributions
to the war effort,
the committee is convinced
that she is too dangerous
for incarceration or exile."
Imagine that.
Which left them
only one option.
Article 72.
I wanted you
to hear it from me.
You know...
I thought by keeping you away
from all of this,
I was protecting you.
But, uh, it's had
the opposite effect.
It's hardened you.
Miranda,
you are chasing a ghost.
Let it go.
Let it go for your own sake.
Goodbye, Mother.
I'm picking up low-level
Covenant activity
in the northwest hemisphere.
Locking in for orbital drop.
Air and ground defenses?
I'm not reading any.
That's odd. I thought this was
their holy planet.
Well, why defend a planet
a human can't find?
Stay alert. We go in quiet,
get the package, we get out.
- Roger that.
- Aye aye, Chief.
Just the artifacts.
That's the mission,
right, Chief?
- He's talking about Makee.
- Thank you, Kai.
You have your orders.
Aye, Chief.
You heard him.
Silver Team, on me.
Afternoon.
No one will remember you.
Kai, overwatch.
Copy.
Yeah. Come to Daddy.
Security is light.
Where is everyone?
The only enemy activity
I'm picking up now
is inside that temple.
Let's move.
Dr. Halsey, stay with me.
Let her through!
Doctor, look at me.
- Stay with me.
- Hold her arm.
What happened?
What happened?
The guard said her nose
started bleeding again,
and she just started seizing.
Dr. Halsey,
we're going to help you.
Seizure disorder.
That thing
you replaced me with?
Genetically compromised
flash clone,
after which,
for a period of time,
they will cause nosebleeds,
headaches,
undiagnosed seizure disorder,
which was a reasonable
explanation.
- She's going critical!
- Stop.
Stop what you're doing!
Where is she?
She's critical, ma'am.
Where is she? Where is she?
- Dr. Keyes!
- Tell me where she is!
- Ma'am!
- Stop! Tell me where she is!
Where is she?
Where is she?
Miranda, calm down.
Let them look after your mother.
That's...
That's not my mother.
Chief!
We've been compromised.
Chief, take cover.
Go, go!
What the hell is that?
Sangheili warriors
approaching from below.
I thought you said
this place was clear.
They must have been hidden
inside the mountain itself.
- I couldn't detect them.
- How many?
Calculating.
One, two, two-fifty...
- Chief, how many?
- Hundreds.
But they're coming in waves.
- We need to move. Now!
- How many?
They're coming
over the ledge on three sides.
- I got the leaders.
- There's too many!
- Just a few hundred.
- You gotta be shitting me.
Riz, with me.
Kai, Vannak, on the six.
- Chief?
- What?
Remember him?
Well, shit.
- I've got this!
- Riz, no!
Chief, no!
Chief's down!
Makee.
Makee, no!
Are you seeing this?
John.
John!
John! John!
You made it.
Wow, Makee.
It's beautiful, isn't it?
♪♪♪
Riz, I've got you!
Chief! Dammit!
Makee, send us back.
I'm not going back, John.
Kai, we need Chief
back in the fight.
He's unresponsive, what do you
want me to do about it?
Wake him up!
Chief! Chief! Get up!
Chief!
Vannak, get down!
Oh...
Unnhhh!
Vannak!
This isn't real.
We belong here.
Don't you see?
There's a reason the keystones
led us to each other.
They've been guiding us
this whole time,
and now we're here.
Let's finish this together.
Stay with me, John.
You have to let go.
No.
No.
Oh, John.
No! No!
Kai?
Chief. I...
Shit!
- Riz!
- Stay away, Kai!
Silver Team is down.
We don't have much time before
we're completely overwhelmed.
I've calculated three
possible routes out of here.
We're not leaving
without the artifacts.
That's not possible.
The second you touch them,
you'll freeze up.
Chief, are you listening to me?
There's no way you can save
the artifacts and the team.
Then you do it.
- Do what?
- Take over my body.
I told you, I no longer
want to control you.
It's the only way to get the
artifacts and save the others.
Chief, stop.
I can't let you die.
Find the Halo.
Win the war.
I may not be able
to bring you back.
I trust you.
Chief.
John.
♪♪♪
When the game is over,
the king and the pawn
go back into the same box.
Chief?
♪♪♪
♪♪♪
Let's go!
Come on, Riz! Get up!
Chief, no!
Riz.
Riz! She's fading!
Riz? Riz!
Oh, shit!
She's crashing!
Oh, God.
Multiple ribs busted.
We're gonna fix you.
Left lung compromised.
Come on!
It's okay, Riz.
We're here.
Do you hear me? Riz?
Stay with me, Riz.
We are on a journey.
We are born, we live,
and we die according
to the rules
of blind and unguided
evolution.
As a result,
our species is simply
not equipped
to survive what comes next.
It is time for us to take
control of our evolution,
to push past
our narrow ignorance
and venture out
into the wide unknown,
where we will discover
our true potential.
I suspect the Halo
will provide the key.
Dr. Halsey?
I'm to take you
to the space tether.
There's a ship leaving soon.
Much has been lost,
and there will surely
be more sacrifices to come.
♪♪♪
But I believe our species
will soon spread its wings
and soar to new heights,
that we will rewrite
what it means to be human.
That we will achieve...
transcendence.
♪♪♪
♪♪♪
John?
Is that you?
Previously on Halo...
They will not stop
until they have both stones.
Do you know where
they took the other one?
I know in the star system
you call Aspero.
Aspero star system.
Find me a planet that can
support Covenant life!
We found absolutely nothing.
Makee can show us
where they are.
So they trust me.
They trust me,
and I trust you.
This obsession has cost you
every relationship
that you have today.
What else are you willing
to sacrifice?
Everything!
Parangosky wants you
off the planet.
Everything she told us
was a lie.
Did you tell Riz and Vannak?
Not yet.
My orders shall supersede
any others.
Bring John, the prisoner,
and the artifact to my ship.
Once we have Makee,
we'll no longer need John
to activate the artifacts.
You and John combined will be
the best of all of us.
Stop!
You're walking into a trap.
Cortana!
Go!
It was her voice
on the recording from Gladius.
I had no choice.
No, no, please!
You will pay for this.
Goodbye, John.
Kai?
Chief, I'm okay.
Go.
Makee, she...
she took the artifact.
She's gone.
What are you doing?
Take your weapon off!
Drop it.
Where's the Covenant ship?
Impound hangar
Delta 7.
Take me there.
Chief.
Halsey's orders
are to bring you in
dead or alive.
Your choice.
She kidnapped us,
Vannak.
What are you
talking about?
All of us. We were kids.
She took us from our families.
It's true.
Halsey lied to us.
She's been lying to us
for our entire lives.
I don't understand.
She doesn't want you
to understand.
She just wants to control you.
Raise your weapon, Riz.
She kidnapped us!
She tortured
and brainwashed us...
- turned us into weapons.
- It's not true.
Now she's turning us
against each other.
- Vannak, listen...
- It's not true!
It is!
It's all true.
I was there.
I helped Halsey select you.
I planned your abductions.
Delivered your replacement
clones to your families.
Worked with her
to erase your memories.
If there's anyone
you should shoot, it's me.
We lose the artifact,
we lose the war.
It's that simple.
No matter what
they've done to us...
we're all we have now.
It's just us.
The Covenant ship
is in hangar Delta 7.
Makee's probably
headed there.
Chief...
...you three go.
I want Halsey.
Miranda.
Out of the ship, Dr. Halsey!
This is your last warning!
Shut down your engines
and come out,
or we will fire upon you!
Auxiliary power is up.
It's up.
AI navigation is working.
We need to take off before they
can energize their EMP cannons.
Did you get a reading?
What?
Did you get a reading?
Someone touched
the artifact.
No. It blew everything out.
- Shit.
- Look, Doctor, come on.
We need to leave now,
all right?
Not until I know
what's happening.
Yes, yes, but they're going
to arrest you.
- No...
- Yes, they'll arrest you.
The package is secure.
Aren't you listening
to me?
We still have options.
Covenant Phantom on the move!
Get a track
on that Covenant ship.
And put some Pelicans
in the air.
Yes, sir.
Halsey's ship
just came back online.
It's preparing to launch.
No!
After it!
We're hit!
♪♪♪
What's my real name?
Kai, you are not
thinking clearly.
- This ship is about to crash.
- Tell me my name.
Let's turn this around.
We can even get into the pod.
- We can discuss...
- Enough!
Who am I?
You are exactly
who you're meant to be.
Ah!
Warning:
hull integrity compromised.
- Kai...
- All personnel to escape pods.
Ah!
Escape pod deploying.
No!
Halsey's broken off
into the escape pod.
Track that escape pod.
Do not let her
leave Reach airspace.
EMP ready?
Almost rebooted, sir.
Kai, what's your status?
Kai?
Attempting to regain control
of the ship.
Hull integrity is compromised.
Shit.
1-2-5, do you copy?
1-2-5, this is Captain Keyes.
Do you copy?
Kai!
Cortana?
Yes, Chief.
I'm still with you.
I'm gonna need you now.
♪ ♪
You'll pay for this.
No!
Halsey
guards her secrets
in a handwritten journal
which never leaves her side.
And what about Makee?
Were she and Halsey working
together from the beginning?
No. Once she learned...
Cortana, did Halsey ask Makee
to help her steal the artifact?
Yes. But Makee refused.
She wanted it for herself.
I'm not certain that's...
Bring up the Aspero star system.
Twenty times magnification.
Chief, we've searched
every visible region
of the Aspero system.
We can't find
one habitable planet.
Makee told me they
brought the Eridanus artifact
to their holy place,
somewhere in Aspero.
How could you trust
a single thing she told you
after all she's done?
She was honest with me.
At least for a little while.
I could feel it.
I believe
Master Chief is right.
Oh? And did you
feel it as well?
In my own way,
yes, ma'am.
Covenant prophecy.
The Halo is meant to be
revealed
where the stars sparkle
like glass.
A tad poetic for the Covenant,
don't you think?
I don't think
it's poetic at all.
I think it's a clue.
Cortana, what's the system's
gravitational
field strength?
Interesting question.
There are several fields.
Aspero is an unstable system,
surrounded by an artificial
dynamical network of what
appear to be cosmic strings.
Gravitational lensing
from the strings
warps and scatters the light
coming from within the system,
creating
a kaleidoscopic effect.
From our point of view,
a planet would appear
more like fragments.
Or shards of glass.
So you're saying
the Covenant planet
could be right there,
we just can't see it.
Not until we're actually there.
I'll send the Marines.
Twelve battalions.
Admiral,
you send 10,000 Marines,
you lose 10,000 Marines.
We are talking about
humankind's first incursion
into Covenant-controlled space.
We can do it, ma'am.
Silver Team can do it.
Listen to me.
Your recent behavior has been
erratic, to say the least.
You haven't been
your usual self.
Whatever emotions
you're experiencing,
whatever pain you must feel,
just put it aside.
Forget everything.
Do you understand?
When you walk
into the battlefield,
John must no longer exist.
Only the Master Chief.
Chief.
We pulsed Halsey's
escape pod over Manassas.
We'll have her
back in custody shortly.
There is a lot that has
happened over the years.
A lot that I am not
proud of.
I've tried to rationalize it...
because of all the good
that you have done.
There's no apology that can give
you back what we took from you.
But if...
There will be reckoning,
Captain.
Someday. For all of us.
Not today.
Hey, were you really
gonna shoot me?
- You know I would have.
- Oh, absolutely. No question.
Jesus. I can't believe you two.
You're, like, ice-cold.
Well, weren't you gonna
shoot us?
Of course I would have. I would
have just felt bad about it.
- Mm-hmm.
- Damn, Vannak.
- Dr. Halsey!
- Oh, shit.
She's moving!
Stop!
We got her!
She said anything yet?
Not a word.
Miranda, we need to talk.
If you could just give me
a moment of your time...
Miranda.
Chief, there's
something I need to tell you.
After the other Spartans
took you into custody,
Dr. Halsey was going to give me
full control of your body...
and your mind.
And how was she planning
on achieving that?
You would need
to cease to exist,
and I would take over.
- I see.
- It was always the plan.
It's what I was designed to do.
Why didn't you just take
me over from the beginning?
Only you could activate
the artifacts.
Halsey needed me
to find the Halo.
Yes.
Once Makee showed up,
I became redundant?
Yes.
Well, you had your chance.
You could have knocked me out,
handed me over to Halsey.
Why didn't you?
Because I was also designed
to learn, John.
And I have. From you.
I believe that
what Dr. Halsey wants
to eliminate from your species
is precisely the thing
that makes you special...
your humanity.
I've watched you
fight for yours,
and I believe it's a cause
that's right.
So you no longer
want to take over my body?
I'll wait for the less
beaten-up version.
The entire starfield
just disappeared.
We've entered the seam
between competing
gravitational fields.
It scatters
all available light.
You'll need to steer
along the critical point
between cosmic string segments,
where the fields
are at equilibrium.
Electrical systems failing.
Chief, rerouting
from auxiliary power.
Vannak!
Chief.
My instruments are down.
- Cortana?
- Calculating a path now.
You must maintain
the precise line.
If you veer too far
in the wrong direction,
the ship will be spaghettified
by tidal forces.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Spaghettified?
Stretched. Twisted.
Torn apart.
Right, and you didn't think I
should know this before we left?
Our odds for success
were already so low,
I didn't want to worry you.
- We're flying blind.
- I'll be your eyes.
Fire in Cabin 3!
Left two degrees.
I don't like this, Chief.
We've lost artificial gravity!
The hull is being pulled apart!
Warning:
hull integrity compromised.
We're going too fast.
Come again?
I can't hear you!
- ...navigation system.
- Shit!
I don't like this
one bit!
Hold on!
Hold this line.
- How do you know?
- Just do it!
Ship won't hold!
She'll hold.
Oh, good, you're still alive.
And I think we've found
what we're looking for.
Surprised to see me?
You know, I never thought
I'd see the day
when the great Catherine Halsey
got held accountable
for her actions.
You've rung up
quite a list of charges.
I can read them for you
if you'd like.
It starts with kidnapping
and ends with treason.
No? I don't blame you.
The committee would rather not
discuss it either.
They're quite embarrassed
by the whole affair.
Which is why they impaneled
a military tribunal
to try your case
in private.
They've already
reached a verdict.
Would you like to hear it?
Well, your guilt was never
really in question, was it?
The real debate
was over your punishment.
"In spite of her substantial
contributions
to the war effort,
the committee is convinced
that she is too dangerous
for incarceration or exile."
Imagine that.
Which left them
only one option.
Article 72.
I wanted you
to hear it from me.
You know...
I thought by keeping you away
from all of this,
I was protecting you.
But, uh, it's had
the opposite effect.
It's hardened you.
Miranda,
you are chasing a ghost.
Let it go.
Let it go for your own sake.
Goodbye, Mother.
I'm picking up low-level
Covenant activity
in the northwest hemisphere.
Locking in for orbital drop.
Air and ground defenses?
I'm not reading any.
That's odd. I thought this was
their holy planet.
Well, why defend a planet
a human can't find?
Stay alert. We go in quiet,
get the package, we get out.
- Roger that.
- Aye aye, Chief.
Just the artifacts.
That's the mission,
right, Chief?
- He's talking about Makee.
- Thank you, Kai.
You have your orders.
Aye, Chief.
You heard him.
Silver Team, on me.
Afternoon.
No one will remember you.
Kai, overwatch.
Copy.
Yeah. Come to Daddy.
Security is light.
Where is everyone?
The only enemy activity
I'm picking up now
is inside that temple.
Let's move.
Dr. Halsey, stay with me.
Let her through!
Doctor, look at me.
- Stay with me.
- Hold her arm.
What happened?
What happened?
The guard said her nose
started bleeding again,
and she just started seizing.
Dr. Halsey,
we're going to help you.
Seizure disorder.
That thing
you replaced me with?
Genetically compromised
flash clone,
after which,
for a period of time,
they will cause nosebleeds,
headaches,
undiagnosed seizure disorder,
which was a reasonable
explanation.
- She's going critical!
- Stop.
Stop what you're doing!
Where is she?
She's critical, ma'am.
Where is she? Where is she?
- Dr. Keyes!
- Tell me where she is!
- Ma'am!
- Stop! Tell me where she is!
Where is she?
Where is she?
Miranda, calm down.
Let them look after your mother.
That's...
That's not my mother.
Chief!
We've been compromised.
Chief, take cover.
Go, go!
What the hell is that?
Sangheili warriors
approaching from below.
I thought you said
this place was clear.
They must have been hidden
inside the mountain itself.
- I couldn't detect them.
- How many?
Calculating.
One, two, two-fifty...
- Chief, how many?
- Hundreds.
But they're coming in waves.
- We need to move. Now!
- How many?
They're coming
over the ledge on three sides.
- I got the leaders.
- There's too many!
- Just a few hundred.
- You gotta be shitting me.
Riz, with me.
Kai, Vannak, on the six.
- Chief?
- What?
Remember him?
Well, shit.
- I've got this!
- Riz, no!
Chief, no!
Chief's down!
Makee.
Makee, no!
Are you seeing this?
John.
John!
John! John!
You made it.
Wow, Makee.
It's beautiful, isn't it?
♪♪♪
Riz, I've got you!
Chief! Dammit!
Makee, send us back.
I'm not going back, John.
Kai, we need Chief
back in the fight.
He's unresponsive, what do you
want me to do about it?
Wake him up!
Chief! Chief! Get up!
Chief!
Vannak, get down!
Oh...
Unnhhh!
Vannak!
This isn't real.
We belong here.
Don't you see?
There's a reason the keystones
led us to each other.
They've been guiding us
this whole time,
and now we're here.
Let's finish this together.
Stay with me, John.
You have to let go.
No.
No.
Oh, John.
No! No!
Kai?
Chief. I...
Shit!
- Riz!
- Stay away, Kai!
Silver Team is down.
We don't have much time before
we're completely overwhelmed.
I've calculated three
possible routes out of here.
We're not leaving
without the artifacts.
That's not possible.
The second you touch them,
you'll freeze up.
Chief, are you listening to me?
There's no way you can save
the artifacts and the team.
Then you do it.
- Do what?
- Take over my body.
I told you, I no longer
want to control you.
It's the only way to get the
artifacts and save the others.
Chief, stop.
I can't let you die.
Find the Halo.
Win the war.
I may not be able
to bring you back.
I trust you.
Chief.
John.
♪♪♪
When the game is over,
the king and the pawn
go back into the same box.
Chief?
♪♪♪
♪♪♪
Let's go!
Come on, Riz! Get up!
Chief, no!
Riz.
Riz! She's fading!
Riz? Riz!
Oh, shit!
She's crashing!
Oh, God.
Multiple ribs busted.
We're gonna fix you.
Left lung compromised.
Come on!
It's okay, Riz.
We're here.
Do you hear me? Riz?
Stay with me, Riz.
We are on a journey.
We are born, we live,
and we die according
to the rules
of blind and unguided
evolution.
As a result,
our species is simply
not equipped
to survive what comes next.
It is time for us to take
control of our evolution,
to push past
our narrow ignorance
and venture out
into the wide unknown,
where we will discover
our true potential.
I suspect the Halo
will provide the key.
Dr. Halsey?
I'm to take you
to the space tether.
There's a ship leaving soon.
Much has been lost,
and there will surely
be more sacrifices to come.
♪♪♪
But I believe our species
will soon spread its wings
and soar to new heights,
that we will rewrite
what it means to be human.
That we will achieve...
transcendence.
♪♪♪
♪♪♪
John?
Is that you?