Krypton (2018–…): Season 2, Episode 8 - Mercy - full transcript
Dev and Jayna help Seg and Nyssa target Gen. Zod's fleet when they make a shocking discovery.
- The first fleet of our
space-faring ships is complete.
It is time for Krypton
to take its rightful place
in the universe as conquerors.
- I want our son to be an El.
- They'll be telling
the story of Jor-El.
- Trust us, son,
we--we--we--
The best of Krypton
will be preserved
within the blood of the Els.
[baby crying]
- No!
No!
- The mythical beast
of the Outlands
has been brought to heel.
- To weaponize it, I need--
- Complete control.
- We're never going to find
a way to be together.
Especially now.
[crowd shrieking]
- Lyta's death,
her reconditioning.
None of that is your fault.
We need to focus on
stopping Dru-Zod.
We cannot let him spread
more misery
and destruction across
the universe.
[dramatic music]
♪
- [chuckles]
- What about her?
- Uh, she is a mother
looking for her son.
He's off somewhere
up to no good.
- That's very likely true.
- [chuckles]
- What about them?
- Oh, they are lovers, clearly.
Star-crossed.
- Very star-crossed
by the looks of things.
- Well, she is a Word of Rao,
actually,
tempted away from her pious
devotion to the cloth
by her passionate love for
a scrappy Rankless smuggler.
- Scrappy?
I would say he's dashing
and roguishly handsome
to say the least.
- [chuckles]
She seems to think so.
She sneaks down here every
chance she can get to see him,
but it can be hard.
- And they get through them?
- I mean, for now.
But their love is
tragically fated.
They know they'll
never truly be together,
because they live
separate lives.
- They could change that,
though, if they wanted to.
- So I suppose they could
leave everything behind,
run away to Kryptonopolis,
and squat in
some abandoned hovel?
- Sounds all right to me.
- [chuckles]
- Let's do it.
- Sure.
- I'm serious.
Let's do it.
- Seg, my mother would hunt us
down and kill us both.
- And I would defend you
to my dying breath,
which, against your mother,
would come almost immediately.
But I don't care.
Let's do it, Lyta.
Let's just be together.
[dramatic music]
♪
[wind blowing]
♪
[machine whirrs]
- [chuckles]
Do you think we're doing
the right thing?
I mean, we don't know anything
about Kryptonopolis.
And what are we gonna eat?
Where are we gonna live?
[computer beeps]
- It's all right.
We'll figure it out.
We have the rest of our lives.
♪
Lights.
- Oh.
Well, this is nice.
So when do the people
who actually live here
come back
and have us arrested?
- They won't.
- And you know this because...
- Because I have this.
- That's my mother's.
She--she wore that
at her Binding.
How do you have this?
- She gave it to me
when I told her I want
to Bind with you.
- I don't understand.
- I decided to get ahead
of the whole
"being hunted down by the
Primus of the Sagitari" thing.
- You spoke to my mother.
- It might surprise you
to learn
the great Jayna-Zod
was not immune to my charms.
- Well, that does
surprise me immensely.
- Well, it's true.
- Seg, your Rank.
- She helped me get it back.
She even helped me
get this apartment.
We don't have to leave
anything behind anymore.
We can have it all.
Just like you
always wanted, Lyta.
So, Lyta-Zod, would you make me
the happiest man on Krypton
and Bind with me?
- Yes.
Yes.
Yes!
♪
[heroic music]
♪
- Scan Space X 2149 for any
signs of Brainiac's Skull Ship.
[beeping]
- Seg.
- Okay, scan 2683 and 2684.
[beeping]
Okay, we're going
to start again.
- Seg, stop.
- Scan our home Sector 2813.
- Seg!
You've been at this
for hours.
[dramatic music]
♪
You scanned as far as
the deep space sensors can go
and found nothing.
- What can I do, Nyssa?
Because I have to do something.
- You can face the truth.
Brainiac is gone
and so is our son for now.
But searching the cosmos
sector by sector
will take a thousand cycles
and it will not bring Jor back.
- I am so sorry, Nyssa.
I promised that I would
do everything in my power
to keep our son safe.
It wasn't enough.
- You know...
the first time I saw
you hold him--
the three of us together...
♪
A part of me felt like
it was too good to be true.
- We're not giving up.
♪
Not ever.
- Who said anything
about giving up?
I will raze the universe
before giving up on Jor.
♪
Your grandfather--
you said in the Phantom Zone,
he saw Brainiac's
potential futures.
We have to talk to him.
- We've tried to contact
Wegthor a dozen times.
They've gone completely dark.
- Well, then we have to find
a way to get there.
[rumbling]
[gun whirrs]
[suspenseful music]
♪
- What's happened here?
♪
[clicking]
♪
- Administering hell-blossom.
[clicking, beeping]
♪
[machine beeping]
Subject has returned
to baseline.
- Again.
Your lack of progress
is disappointing.
[tense music]
Walk with me.
♪
Something is weighing on
your mind.
What is it?
- Sir, I--
it's Brainiac's ship.
Why did it just disappear
and what does it mean
for Kandor?
- I don't know.
There is nothing to fear,
Lis-Ser.
If Brainiac ever returns,
we'll be ready
because we will have Doomsday.
That is why we must control
him at any cost.
So why hasn't it been done?
- We have successfully accessed
Doomsday's cerebral cortex,
but imprinting your voice so he
will answer to your commands,
those commands will not take
hold unless we can find a way
to keep his mind in
a suggestive state.
- A problem you will solve.
[dramatic music]
- Doomsday has grown immune
to every psychoactive drug
known to Krypton.
- What about something
not known to Krypton?
A toxin that feeds on
the pleasure centers
of the brain?
- Does such a toxin even exist?
- Would it work?
- I'd have to analyze it.
♪
Can you acquire some?
♪
- Come with me.
♪
- What is that thing?
- It's called a Black Mercy.
It's a parasitic plant
from another world.
I discovered it
within Val-El's Fortress.
It creates an entire
alternate reality
in the mind of its host.
- And who is its host?
- My mother.
[dramatic music]
- No, it can't be.
Lyta-Zod died on Wegthor.
No...
It was her clone.
♪
- Oh!
- What do you think?
Do I look ready?
- You're more than ready, Lyta.
I've never seen you look
more beautiful
or more like yourself.
There's just
one final tradition.
- So many traditions.
It's a wonder anyone ever gets
on with a Binding at all.
- Traditions remind us
of what's important.
This garment represents the
joining of two lives into one.
For their Houses, for Krypton,
for Rao.
But most importantly,
for themselves
and their love
for one another.
- Thank you, Mother.
- What for?
- I know this isn't the life
you wanted for me,
leaving Kandor
and the Sagitari,
binding with Seg.
But everything you've done
for him, for us,
and the fact that you're here,
standing by my side
despite it all,
it just means so much.
- Seg is a good man.
I see the same strength in him
as I saw in your father.
The same resilience.
And occasionally,
the same audacity.
- You have no idea.
- The only life I want for you,
the only one worth
fighting for
is the one that
makes you happy.
- I am happy.
[dramatic music]
- No one should have to know
the pain you're feeling.
I'm truly sorry
for both of you.
- We tracked your skimmer
from the Outpost.
We came with news from Kandor,
but we understand--
- What's happened?
- Zod has announced
the first fleet
of his interstellar ships
is complete.
- We closely monitored
all Sagitari comm signals
until we got the order
to prepare for launch...
for Wegthor.
- Wegthor?
- We believe Zod is
planning on launching
a final assault
on the Resistance,
to send them everything
he has
and make sure no one
is left standing.
- My grandfather.
Kem, Adam.
None of them know
what's coming.
- Do either of you have
a way of contacting them?
- The comm system is down.
- If we can't warn them
about the launch,
we're going to have to stop it.
- The only way to stop Zod's
fleet is by destroying it.
- What do you have in mind?
[buzzing]
- So, breaking into Fort Rozz.
Gotta get easier
with practice, right?
- Not on the eve of a launch.
[beeping]
Every Sagitari
will be on duty.
[indistinct radio chatter]
They'll have
new security codes,
new patrol routes
in every sector.
If we want to get inside,
we'll have to think
of a way Zod hasn't.
- I know a way.
[beeping]
Back before we were
all friends,
Kem and I used to,
shall we say,
liberate various goods
from the Guilds
and redistribute them
to the Rankless.
We used tunnels that
ran close to Fort Rozz.
- How close?
- Stupidly close.
Hundred feet to the north.
- Right beneath the spot where
Zod built his shipyard.
♪
[feet stamping]
♪
- What do we do once
we're inside?
- There's an armory that only
the Primus is informed of.
It's heavily protected by
defense protocols,
so it has fewer Sagitari
protecting it.
But I know how to disengage
its security measures.
We just need to get there.
- I mean, how hard could it be?
♪
- Should've seen this coming.
- Don't let them make a sound.
[grunting]
- Gunfire!
Down the hall!
[zapping]
- Shot fired down the hall!
- At least we don't have
to worry about
being quiet anymore.
- Over there!
[zapping]
[grunting]
- Behind the ledge!
Breached door!
- Surrender!
- I surrender!
[dramatic music]
♪
Coming out.
- Put your gun on the floor.
♪
- [gasps]
♪
- [grunts]
[zapping, clicking]
[squishing]
[suspenseful music]
- What's happening?
- The Black Mercy's having
a negative reaction
to the extraction.
How long has Lyta
been its host?
- Months.
She'd grown troubled by
the loss of her mother, of Seg.
This brought her peace
in a way I could not.
I did her replacement
from a Somatically
Reconditioned clone.
[sighs]
When I lost her,
it actually still felt like
I lost my mother.
[dramatic music]
- Lyta's vitals are stable now.
I'm concerned that
the Black Mercy's
negative reaction
to the extraction
could cause Lyta's fantasy
to collapse entirely.
- Do we need more toxin?
- Yes.
- Then proceed.
♪
My mother's strength
has been tested before.
So it must be again.
♪
[squishing]
[buzzing]
[soft music]
♪
[beeping]
[beeping]
- The Oracle foresees
the product of your union.
The child will be male.
His name, Dru-Zod.
Bio-scans designate
he will be best suited
for the Military Guild.
Barring unforeseen accidents,
he will conquer 467 planets
and eradicate 233 billion
alien life forms.
[crowd murmurs]
[suspenseful music]
- No, that can't be possible.
Do it again, please.
- The Oracle has spoken.
♪
- Please!
Something's gone wrong.
♪
[crowd murmurs]
♪
- Lyta, everything all right?
- The Word of Rao.
What the Oracle said
about my son...
- You're nervous.
I understand.
You're about to Bind to
Seg-El, a former Rankless.
- What?
- Why would you do this, Lyta?
- You told me you loved me.
Do you remember?
In your cell?
After you were arrested
on orders
from the Voice of Rao himself.
Why say it if you didn't
mean it?
- Dev...
I don't know what
you're talking about.
- Fine.
Deny it all you want.
It won't change what you did.
[haunting music]
♪
- [gasp]
- Lyta.
- What--what happened
to Dev's arm?
- Are you really
asking me this?
You know what you did.
Dev has given everything
to you,
to House Zod,
and it nearly cost him
his life.
All the people you love
have suffered to protect you.
And why?
I should've let my father kill
you when I had the chance.
[indistinct murmuring]
♪
- [panting]
- Are you all right?
- Look, if you need to rest,
I'll send everyone home
right now.
- No, I'm--I'm fine.
Honestly.
[soft music]
- I don't believe you, Lyta.
How could I?
After you betrayed me.
After you betrayed all of us
and chose your son?
[suspenseful music]
- Mother, you're bleeding.
[squishing]
- That's because
you shot me, Lyta.
- This isn't happening.
None of this happened.
♪
[squishing]
- I've never seen anything
like this before.
The half-life of this toxin
seems to be limitless.
Once exposed
to the Black Mercy,
a person could remain under
its influence forever.
[suspenseful music]
[beeping]
[whirring]
- Amidst my travels
in the future,
I encountered the Black Mercy.
I learned the only way
to break its hold
is to reject
the fantasy it creates.
But there are few with
the awareness
to see beyond the illusion,
and even fewer with
the will to give it up.
- What will happen to Lyta?
- That is not your concern.
I'd worry more about
what will happen to you
if you fail to deliver me
Doomsday.
- I'm confident this dosage
will allow Doomsday
to remain cognizant
yet pliable.
He'll be in
a suggestive state
but won't succumb to the
toxin's psychoactive affects.
- Let's hope your confidence
is not misplaced.
♪
- Administering
Black Mercy toxin.
[squishing]
[beeping]
- [groaning]
- Calculate brain activity.
- [growling]
♪
[beeping]
- Neural pattern shows signs
of stabilization.
Toxin's working.
- [sighs]
- But we'll need more.
[squishing]
- General, there's been
a breach in Sector 4.
Seg-El and Nyssa-Vex were
successfully apprehended.
♪
- Seg-El and Nyssa-Vex?
Have them taken to my chambers.
I want to speak with them
immediately.
Do you have everything
you need?
- Yes, I believe so.
- Good.
Let's get to work.
♪
[squishing]
- [rasping]
- [gasping]
[groaning]
[gagging]
[retching]
[grunts]
[whimpering]
[thud]
[groans]
- Hello?
Is somebody there?
[footsteps approaching]
[grunting]
[groaning]
- [yelling, gagging]
[coughing]
[rattling]
[groaning]
[zap, sizzling]
[coughs]
[clattering]
[dramatic music]
♪
Oh, please,
let this be real.
- Do you know which way
you're going?
Because I don't mean
to be rude,
but it really seems like
we've been walking around
in circles for a while now.
- Seg, I think
you've upset him.
Sagitari can be
so sensitive sometimes.
- Yeah, that's probably
why they hide behind
those helmets all the time.
Hey, seriously though.
Are you lost?
Would you like me to show you
the way to the detention cells?
- Oh, you're not being detained.
General Zod has other plans for you.
[suspenseful music]
♪
- Just the two of you then.
No.
I don't think so.
But if you've returned
with Jayna and Dev-Em...
Who's watching after
young Cor-Vex, I wonder?
- You and your men tried
to shoot down
the skimmer he was in.
He barely survived.
So don't pretend that you care.
- I assure you,
I never would let anything
happen to my brother.
- [scoffs]
Really?
- Because that's exactly
what you said about Lyta.
And then you let her die.
♪
- You think I let her die?
What would you have done,
Father?
Negotiate with a terrorist?
Do you really believe Jax-Ur
would have let the Primus of
the Sagitari walk free
if I'd given into her demands?
- At least then my grandfather
could have found--
- Val-El still stands with
my mother's executioner!
- You're lying.
- Really?
Why?
Well, has he told
you otherwise?
But that's probably because
communication lines
were severed
when he decided to bomb
the Space Elevator
Base Station,
taking hundreds of lives.
- No.
- Whatever's happened,
Val is a good man.
We've all done things
in this war we're not proud of.
- Yet you choose
to demonize only me.
♪
I know you loved Lyta, Seg.
But so did I.
♪
- Dru,
if you truly loved her...
She'd still be here.
♪
- I tried to warn you.
Jax-Ur had corrupted
your grandfather.
I granted you both
the opportunity to join with me
and fight for Krypton's future.
- Krypton has no future
if you're the one leading it.
What you did to Lyta,
everything that you've done,
is proof of that.
- If you are not going
to tell me why you're here,
I have other ways
of finding out.
- I think you're forgetting
that Somatic Reconditioning
doesn't work on me.
- Yes, perhaps.
Let's see if it works on Nyssa.
[chuckles]
Hmm?
Detain them both for now.
I want to personally oversee
Nyssa's Somatic Reconditioning.
- Dru.
Dru.
- Seg.
- Dru!
Dru!
♪
- Stop right there!
Drop your weapons or we will shoot!
♪
Just as we thought. We know who you are.
And General Zod does not want you alive.
♪
[zapping, thud]
[somber music]
- Mother?
- Lyta?
Lyta.
- [groans]
- Lyta.
- You're alive.
- Yes.
I'm here, Lyta.
I'm here.
- [sobbing]
♪
- We should be safe here.
As long as my security codes
still work.
- Let me help you.
[beeping, whirring]
- [sighs]
Thank Rao.
[click, gun whirrs]
[suspenseful music]
- Who are you?
- Dev.
Lower that weapon.
- Not until she explains
how this is possible.
We know Zod reconditioned you.
We both watched you die.
What has he done to you now?
- That must've been my clone
you watched die.
♪
I was trapped in a fantasy.
A prisoner of my own mind.
It took everything I had
to get out.
I was living
the most wonderful life.
Seg and I were to be bound.
Everything was perfect
and then something happened.
- I'm concerned that the
Black Mercy's negative reaction
to the extraction could cause
Lyta's fantasy to collapse.
- My perfect life started
falling apart.
Memories of my real life
were bleeding through.
The things I've done,
the mistakes I've made,
the people I'd hurt.
All these memories
flooding back.
Like how I got here.
- Hello, Mother.
♪
You told me you wanted
to save Krypton.
Ensure the survival
of our culture.
Well?
How did you think
it would be done?
The colonization
of alien planets is our future.
And Doomsday is our most
efficient path toward it.
You agreed.
Use Doomsday against Brainiac.
This is no different.
- It's entirely different.
Brainiac was
an imminent threat.
- I have traveled across
centuries of time,
and I can assure you,
the most imminent threat is
the one we do not see coming
until it is too late.
There is no victory
without sacrifice.
You told me that.
- There are some sacrifices
that are not ours to make.
I can't let you do this.
Dru, my son,
we can find another way.
- That sounds like
my father talking.
And when it comes to survival,
I would not value his advice.
- How dare you speak
about Seg like that?
- He has made you weak.
- No, he has made me
stronger every day.
Even in his absence.
I am your mother.
The version of me
who made you who you are,
she failed you.
I will not.
♪
- I had hoped it
wouldn't come to this.
That doesn't mean
I did not prepare.
- What are you doing?
[beeping]
Stop.
You don't have to do this.
- [grunts]
[panting]
[grunting]
- [yells]
[grunting]
[crack]
- [screams]
- [grunts]
- Zod!
No!
- [gagging]
- I'm sorry, Mother,
but you left me no choice.
You need more time
and I will give it to you.
One day, you'll realize that
you were wrong to tell me.
- [gagging]
- Then the fantasy reset.
But this time, I was left
with all my real memories.
I was back at Kryptonopolis.
My perfect life.
- I have never seen you
look so beautiful
or more like yourself.
- Except it wasn't.
None of it was real,
no matter how much
I wanted it to be.
- Oh!
What's the matter?
This is meant to be
a perfect day.
The rest of your life
is about to begin.
- No, it's not.
- What's wrong?
Aren't you happy?
- I am.
But that's not enough.
There's a whole world outside
this apartment
and it's in danger.
And I can't stay here
and be happy
when I know what's
about to happen.
- Lyta, I don't understand.
- Everything all right?
[somber music]
- Seg, you're early.
- I couldn't stay away.
Lyta, all I want is for us
to be together.
♪
- So do I.
I love you, Seg.
and I want to Bind with you
and spend every day with you
until we grow old
and tired of each other.
But I can't.
- I don't understand.
Why not?
- Because Brainiac
took you away.
Mother...
I shot you.
- Lyta, you would never.
- I did.
I made the wrong choice.
I've been trying to run
from it ever since.
But that has to stop now.
Even if it means...
I lose both of you forever.
- Lyta, we can talk about this.
- No, we can't.
Because you're not real.
None of this is real.
[panting]
I knew I needed
to make things right
to stop Dru
no matter what it took,
even if it meant I might never
be able to see you again.
I'd never be able to tell you
how sorry I truly am.
- All that matters now
is that you're here.
With us again.
- I'm sorry I doubted you.
After all that's happened, I
didn't want to get my hopes up.
Not until I knew it was true.
- It's all right, Dad.
I would've done the same.
I'm just so glad
to see you both again.
- [chuckles]
- Even if Seg's...
- Lyta, Seg has returned.
He's here.
- Seg is back?
- He's in danger.
- We broke into Fort Rozz
to stop the launch
of Zod's fleet.
Seg and Nyssa were captured.
- Don't worry.
We will find a way to help them
once we get you far away
from here.
- No.
If Seg's in danger,
I'm not leaving without him.
- Lyta, you're still not well.
- I made it this far.
Now, if Seg and Nyssa
have been captured,
they're most likely in one
of our detention centers.
I can find out for certain.
There.
That's their cell block.
- If Zod realizes
you're missing,
he'll order a lockdown.
Leaving now could be
our only chance.
- Dev is right.
I won't lose you again.
- And I won't lose Seg.
- There's got to be
some way out of here.
I mean, they got us in here,
right?
- Yeah, and then they activated
the energy field.
I've never seen
a cell so secure.
- That just means
we have Zod scared.
And that tells me,
he believes we can defeat him.
Once we get out of this cell,
of course.
- Of course.
[suspenseful music]
- [sighs]
♪
[sighs]
♪
Why is it that every time
I try and help someone I love,
I end up putting
someone else in danger?
- You didn't put me here, Seg.
I chose to be.
We're going to be all right,
somehow.
'Cause we have to be.
Because our son is still
out there and he needs us.
♪
- What you said about seeing me
and Jor together,
and how it felt too good
to be true...
I don't want it to be.
♪
I don't know how we're
gonna find our son.
But I promise you...
I am gonna be with you
every step of the way.
[door opens and closes]
Hey, I said I'd talk.
You set Nyssa free, I'll tell
Zod anything he wants to hear.
- Seg...
- Brainiac's ship taking off?
I'm sure Zod wants
to know about that.
- Stand back.
[slam]
[yells]
[somber music]
- Dev, where's Jayna?
What happened?
- Fill you in once
we get out of here.
We still got our work
cut out for us.
- Seg-El and Nyssa-Vex
have escaped.
- Must I perform
every task myself?
Find them or it'll be you
in that cell.
[indistinct radio chatter]
What?
- I'm getting a report
over comm.
Alarms in the shipyard
have been activated.
They must be trying
to sabotage the fleet.
- Is it working?
- There's a Sagitari squad on
their way to the shipyard now.
- Seg and Nyssa,
how much time will they have?
- Enough.
- And us?
[suspenseful music]
[whirring]
- Surrender this instant!
- It's not them.
They're just engineers.
It's a setup.
This is just a diversion.
♪
- Where's Jayna?
Wasn't she supposed
to meet us here?
- Yeah.
But before she arrives, Seg,
I need to tell you something.
[footsteps approaching]
- Lyta.
[somber music]
♪
- It'll take a bit of
explaining, but yeah.
The real Lyta.
♪
- Is this real?
Are you real?
- I hope so.
- [chuckles]
♪
I thought I'd lost you.
- I know.
Me too.
- Oh, I'm never letting go
of you again.
- Good.
- We should go
before Zod finds us.
- Yes.
But let's give them this.
♪
[suspenseful music]
♪
- Assemble every Sagitari
in Kandor.
We're moving up the launch
and ending this Resistance now.
When this is over, there will
not be a soul left on Wegthor.
I promise you!
[squishing, hissing]
♪
[snarls]
space-faring ships is complete.
It is time for Krypton
to take its rightful place
in the universe as conquerors.
- I want our son to be an El.
- They'll be telling
the story of Jor-El.
- Trust us, son,
we--we--we--
The best of Krypton
will be preserved
within the blood of the Els.
[baby crying]
- No!
No!
- The mythical beast
of the Outlands
has been brought to heel.
- To weaponize it, I need--
- Complete control.
- We're never going to find
a way to be together.
Especially now.
[crowd shrieking]
- Lyta's death,
her reconditioning.
None of that is your fault.
We need to focus on
stopping Dru-Zod.
We cannot let him spread
more misery
and destruction across
the universe.
[dramatic music]
♪
- [chuckles]
- What about her?
- Uh, she is a mother
looking for her son.
He's off somewhere
up to no good.
- That's very likely true.
- [chuckles]
- What about them?
- Oh, they are lovers, clearly.
Star-crossed.
- Very star-crossed
by the looks of things.
- Well, she is a Word of Rao,
actually,
tempted away from her pious
devotion to the cloth
by her passionate love for
a scrappy Rankless smuggler.
- Scrappy?
I would say he's dashing
and roguishly handsome
to say the least.
- [chuckles]
She seems to think so.
She sneaks down here every
chance she can get to see him,
but it can be hard.
- And they get through them?
- I mean, for now.
But their love is
tragically fated.
They know they'll
never truly be together,
because they live
separate lives.
- They could change that,
though, if they wanted to.
- So I suppose they could
leave everything behind,
run away to Kryptonopolis,
and squat in
some abandoned hovel?
- Sounds all right to me.
- [chuckles]
- Let's do it.
- Sure.
- I'm serious.
Let's do it.
- Seg, my mother would hunt us
down and kill us both.
- And I would defend you
to my dying breath,
which, against your mother,
would come almost immediately.
But I don't care.
Let's do it, Lyta.
Let's just be together.
[dramatic music]
♪
[wind blowing]
♪
[machine whirrs]
- [chuckles]
Do you think we're doing
the right thing?
I mean, we don't know anything
about Kryptonopolis.
And what are we gonna eat?
Where are we gonna live?
[computer beeps]
- It's all right.
We'll figure it out.
We have the rest of our lives.
♪
Lights.
- Oh.
Well, this is nice.
So when do the people
who actually live here
come back
and have us arrested?
- They won't.
- And you know this because...
- Because I have this.
- That's my mother's.
She--she wore that
at her Binding.
How do you have this?
- She gave it to me
when I told her I want
to Bind with you.
- I don't understand.
- I decided to get ahead
of the whole
"being hunted down by the
Primus of the Sagitari" thing.
- You spoke to my mother.
- It might surprise you
to learn
the great Jayna-Zod
was not immune to my charms.
- Well, that does
surprise me immensely.
- Well, it's true.
- Seg, your Rank.
- She helped me get it back.
She even helped me
get this apartment.
We don't have to leave
anything behind anymore.
We can have it all.
Just like you
always wanted, Lyta.
So, Lyta-Zod, would you make me
the happiest man on Krypton
and Bind with me?
- Yes.
Yes.
Yes!
♪
[heroic music]
♪
- Scan Space X 2149 for any
signs of Brainiac's Skull Ship.
[beeping]
- Seg.
- Okay, scan 2683 and 2684.
[beeping]
Okay, we're going
to start again.
- Seg, stop.
- Scan our home Sector 2813.
- Seg!
You've been at this
for hours.
[dramatic music]
♪
You scanned as far as
the deep space sensors can go
and found nothing.
- What can I do, Nyssa?
Because I have to do something.
- You can face the truth.
Brainiac is gone
and so is our son for now.
But searching the cosmos
sector by sector
will take a thousand cycles
and it will not bring Jor back.
- I am so sorry, Nyssa.
I promised that I would
do everything in my power
to keep our son safe.
It wasn't enough.
- You know...
the first time I saw
you hold him--
the three of us together...
♪
A part of me felt like
it was too good to be true.
- We're not giving up.
♪
Not ever.
- Who said anything
about giving up?
I will raze the universe
before giving up on Jor.
♪
Your grandfather--
you said in the Phantom Zone,
he saw Brainiac's
potential futures.
We have to talk to him.
- We've tried to contact
Wegthor a dozen times.
They've gone completely dark.
- Well, then we have to find
a way to get there.
[rumbling]
[gun whirrs]
[suspenseful music]
♪
- What's happened here?
♪
[clicking]
♪
- Administering hell-blossom.
[clicking, beeping]
♪
[machine beeping]
Subject has returned
to baseline.
- Again.
Your lack of progress
is disappointing.
[tense music]
Walk with me.
♪
Something is weighing on
your mind.
What is it?
- Sir, I--
it's Brainiac's ship.
Why did it just disappear
and what does it mean
for Kandor?
- I don't know.
There is nothing to fear,
Lis-Ser.
If Brainiac ever returns,
we'll be ready
because we will have Doomsday.
That is why we must control
him at any cost.
So why hasn't it been done?
- We have successfully accessed
Doomsday's cerebral cortex,
but imprinting your voice so he
will answer to your commands,
those commands will not take
hold unless we can find a way
to keep his mind in
a suggestive state.
- A problem you will solve.
[dramatic music]
- Doomsday has grown immune
to every psychoactive drug
known to Krypton.
- What about something
not known to Krypton?
A toxin that feeds on
the pleasure centers
of the brain?
- Does such a toxin even exist?
- Would it work?
- I'd have to analyze it.
♪
Can you acquire some?
♪
- Come with me.
♪
- What is that thing?
- It's called a Black Mercy.
It's a parasitic plant
from another world.
I discovered it
within Val-El's Fortress.
It creates an entire
alternate reality
in the mind of its host.
- And who is its host?
- My mother.
[dramatic music]
- No, it can't be.
Lyta-Zod died on Wegthor.
No...
It was her clone.
♪
- Oh!
- What do you think?
Do I look ready?
- You're more than ready, Lyta.
I've never seen you look
more beautiful
or more like yourself.
There's just
one final tradition.
- So many traditions.
It's a wonder anyone ever gets
on with a Binding at all.
- Traditions remind us
of what's important.
This garment represents the
joining of two lives into one.
For their Houses, for Krypton,
for Rao.
But most importantly,
for themselves
and their love
for one another.
- Thank you, Mother.
- What for?
- I know this isn't the life
you wanted for me,
leaving Kandor
and the Sagitari,
binding with Seg.
But everything you've done
for him, for us,
and the fact that you're here,
standing by my side
despite it all,
it just means so much.
- Seg is a good man.
I see the same strength in him
as I saw in your father.
The same resilience.
And occasionally,
the same audacity.
- You have no idea.
- The only life I want for you,
the only one worth
fighting for
is the one that
makes you happy.
- I am happy.
[dramatic music]
- No one should have to know
the pain you're feeling.
I'm truly sorry
for both of you.
- We tracked your skimmer
from the Outpost.
We came with news from Kandor,
but we understand--
- What's happened?
- Zod has announced
the first fleet
of his interstellar ships
is complete.
- We closely monitored
all Sagitari comm signals
until we got the order
to prepare for launch...
for Wegthor.
- Wegthor?
- We believe Zod is
planning on launching
a final assault
on the Resistance,
to send them everything
he has
and make sure no one
is left standing.
- My grandfather.
Kem, Adam.
None of them know
what's coming.
- Do either of you have
a way of contacting them?
- The comm system is down.
- If we can't warn them
about the launch,
we're going to have to stop it.
- The only way to stop Zod's
fleet is by destroying it.
- What do you have in mind?
[buzzing]
- So, breaking into Fort Rozz.
Gotta get easier
with practice, right?
- Not on the eve of a launch.
[beeping]
Every Sagitari
will be on duty.
[indistinct radio chatter]
They'll have
new security codes,
new patrol routes
in every sector.
If we want to get inside,
we'll have to think
of a way Zod hasn't.
- I know a way.
[beeping]
Back before we were
all friends,
Kem and I used to,
shall we say,
liberate various goods
from the Guilds
and redistribute them
to the Rankless.
We used tunnels that
ran close to Fort Rozz.
- How close?
- Stupidly close.
Hundred feet to the north.
- Right beneath the spot where
Zod built his shipyard.
♪
[feet stamping]
♪
- What do we do once
we're inside?
- There's an armory that only
the Primus is informed of.
It's heavily protected by
defense protocols,
so it has fewer Sagitari
protecting it.
But I know how to disengage
its security measures.
We just need to get there.
- I mean, how hard could it be?
♪
- Should've seen this coming.
- Don't let them make a sound.
[grunting]
- Gunfire!
Down the hall!
[zapping]
- Shot fired down the hall!
- At least we don't have
to worry about
being quiet anymore.
- Over there!
[zapping]
[grunting]
- Behind the ledge!
Breached door!
- Surrender!
- I surrender!
[dramatic music]
♪
Coming out.
- Put your gun on the floor.
♪
- [gasps]
♪
- [grunts]
[zapping, clicking]
[squishing]
[suspenseful music]
- What's happening?
- The Black Mercy's having
a negative reaction
to the extraction.
How long has Lyta
been its host?
- Months.
She'd grown troubled by
the loss of her mother, of Seg.
This brought her peace
in a way I could not.
I did her replacement
from a Somatically
Reconditioned clone.
[sighs]
When I lost her,
it actually still felt like
I lost my mother.
[dramatic music]
- Lyta's vitals are stable now.
I'm concerned that
the Black Mercy's
negative reaction
to the extraction
could cause Lyta's fantasy
to collapse entirely.
- Do we need more toxin?
- Yes.
- Then proceed.
♪
My mother's strength
has been tested before.
So it must be again.
♪
[squishing]
[buzzing]
[soft music]
♪
[beeping]
[beeping]
- The Oracle foresees
the product of your union.
The child will be male.
His name, Dru-Zod.
Bio-scans designate
he will be best suited
for the Military Guild.
Barring unforeseen accidents,
he will conquer 467 planets
and eradicate 233 billion
alien life forms.
[crowd murmurs]
[suspenseful music]
- No, that can't be possible.
Do it again, please.
- The Oracle has spoken.
♪
- Please!
Something's gone wrong.
♪
[crowd murmurs]
♪
- Lyta, everything all right?
- The Word of Rao.
What the Oracle said
about my son...
- You're nervous.
I understand.
You're about to Bind to
Seg-El, a former Rankless.
- What?
- Why would you do this, Lyta?
- You told me you loved me.
Do you remember?
In your cell?
After you were arrested
on orders
from the Voice of Rao himself.
Why say it if you didn't
mean it?
- Dev...
I don't know what
you're talking about.
- Fine.
Deny it all you want.
It won't change what you did.
[haunting music]
♪
- [gasp]
- Lyta.
- What--what happened
to Dev's arm?
- Are you really
asking me this?
You know what you did.
Dev has given everything
to you,
to House Zod,
and it nearly cost him
his life.
All the people you love
have suffered to protect you.
And why?
I should've let my father kill
you when I had the chance.
[indistinct murmuring]
♪
- [panting]
- Are you all right?
- Look, if you need to rest,
I'll send everyone home
right now.
- No, I'm--I'm fine.
Honestly.
[soft music]
- I don't believe you, Lyta.
How could I?
After you betrayed me.
After you betrayed all of us
and chose your son?
[suspenseful music]
- Mother, you're bleeding.
[squishing]
- That's because
you shot me, Lyta.
- This isn't happening.
None of this happened.
♪
[squishing]
- I've never seen anything
like this before.
The half-life of this toxin
seems to be limitless.
Once exposed
to the Black Mercy,
a person could remain under
its influence forever.
[suspenseful music]
[beeping]
[whirring]
- Amidst my travels
in the future,
I encountered the Black Mercy.
I learned the only way
to break its hold
is to reject
the fantasy it creates.
But there are few with
the awareness
to see beyond the illusion,
and even fewer with
the will to give it up.
- What will happen to Lyta?
- That is not your concern.
I'd worry more about
what will happen to you
if you fail to deliver me
Doomsday.
- I'm confident this dosage
will allow Doomsday
to remain cognizant
yet pliable.
He'll be in
a suggestive state
but won't succumb to the
toxin's psychoactive affects.
- Let's hope your confidence
is not misplaced.
♪
- Administering
Black Mercy toxin.
[squishing]
[beeping]
- [groaning]
- Calculate brain activity.
- [growling]
♪
[beeping]
- Neural pattern shows signs
of stabilization.
Toxin's working.
- [sighs]
- But we'll need more.
[squishing]
- General, there's been
a breach in Sector 4.
Seg-El and Nyssa-Vex were
successfully apprehended.
♪
- Seg-El and Nyssa-Vex?
Have them taken to my chambers.
I want to speak with them
immediately.
Do you have everything
you need?
- Yes, I believe so.
- Good.
Let's get to work.
♪
[squishing]
- [rasping]
- [gasping]
[groaning]
[gagging]
[retching]
[grunts]
[whimpering]
[thud]
[groans]
- Hello?
Is somebody there?
[footsteps approaching]
[grunting]
[groaning]
- [yelling, gagging]
[coughing]
[rattling]
[groaning]
[zap, sizzling]
[coughs]
[clattering]
[dramatic music]
♪
Oh, please,
let this be real.
- Do you know which way
you're going?
Because I don't mean
to be rude,
but it really seems like
we've been walking around
in circles for a while now.
- Seg, I think
you've upset him.
Sagitari can be
so sensitive sometimes.
- Yeah, that's probably
why they hide behind
those helmets all the time.
Hey, seriously though.
Are you lost?
Would you like me to show you
the way to the detention cells?
- Oh, you're not being detained.
General Zod has other plans for you.
[suspenseful music]
♪
- Just the two of you then.
No.
I don't think so.
But if you've returned
with Jayna and Dev-Em...
Who's watching after
young Cor-Vex, I wonder?
- You and your men tried
to shoot down
the skimmer he was in.
He barely survived.
So don't pretend that you care.
- I assure you,
I never would let anything
happen to my brother.
- [scoffs]
Really?
- Because that's exactly
what you said about Lyta.
And then you let her die.
♪
- You think I let her die?
What would you have done,
Father?
Negotiate with a terrorist?
Do you really believe Jax-Ur
would have let the Primus of
the Sagitari walk free
if I'd given into her demands?
- At least then my grandfather
could have found--
- Val-El still stands with
my mother's executioner!
- You're lying.
- Really?
Why?
Well, has he told
you otherwise?
But that's probably because
communication lines
were severed
when he decided to bomb
the Space Elevator
Base Station,
taking hundreds of lives.
- No.
- Whatever's happened,
Val is a good man.
We've all done things
in this war we're not proud of.
- Yet you choose
to demonize only me.
♪
I know you loved Lyta, Seg.
But so did I.
♪
- Dru,
if you truly loved her...
She'd still be here.
♪
- I tried to warn you.
Jax-Ur had corrupted
your grandfather.
I granted you both
the opportunity to join with me
and fight for Krypton's future.
- Krypton has no future
if you're the one leading it.
What you did to Lyta,
everything that you've done,
is proof of that.
- If you are not going
to tell me why you're here,
I have other ways
of finding out.
- I think you're forgetting
that Somatic Reconditioning
doesn't work on me.
- Yes, perhaps.
Let's see if it works on Nyssa.
[chuckles]
Hmm?
Detain them both for now.
I want to personally oversee
Nyssa's Somatic Reconditioning.
- Dru.
Dru.
- Seg.
- Dru!
Dru!
♪
- Stop right there!
Drop your weapons or we will shoot!
♪
Just as we thought. We know who you are.
And General Zod does not want you alive.
♪
[zapping, thud]
[somber music]
- Mother?
- Lyta?
Lyta.
- [groans]
- Lyta.
- You're alive.
- Yes.
I'm here, Lyta.
I'm here.
- [sobbing]
♪
- We should be safe here.
As long as my security codes
still work.
- Let me help you.
[beeping, whirring]
- [sighs]
Thank Rao.
[click, gun whirrs]
[suspenseful music]
- Who are you?
- Dev.
Lower that weapon.
- Not until she explains
how this is possible.
We know Zod reconditioned you.
We both watched you die.
What has he done to you now?
- That must've been my clone
you watched die.
♪
I was trapped in a fantasy.
A prisoner of my own mind.
It took everything I had
to get out.
I was living
the most wonderful life.
Seg and I were to be bound.
Everything was perfect
and then something happened.
- I'm concerned that the
Black Mercy's negative reaction
to the extraction could cause
Lyta's fantasy to collapse.
- My perfect life started
falling apart.
Memories of my real life
were bleeding through.
The things I've done,
the mistakes I've made,
the people I'd hurt.
All these memories
flooding back.
Like how I got here.
- Hello, Mother.
♪
You told me you wanted
to save Krypton.
Ensure the survival
of our culture.
Well?
How did you think
it would be done?
The colonization
of alien planets is our future.
And Doomsday is our most
efficient path toward it.
You agreed.
Use Doomsday against Brainiac.
This is no different.
- It's entirely different.
Brainiac was
an imminent threat.
- I have traveled across
centuries of time,
and I can assure you,
the most imminent threat is
the one we do not see coming
until it is too late.
There is no victory
without sacrifice.
You told me that.
- There are some sacrifices
that are not ours to make.
I can't let you do this.
Dru, my son,
we can find another way.
- That sounds like
my father talking.
And when it comes to survival,
I would not value his advice.
- How dare you speak
about Seg like that?
- He has made you weak.
- No, he has made me
stronger every day.
Even in his absence.
I am your mother.
The version of me
who made you who you are,
she failed you.
I will not.
♪
- I had hoped it
wouldn't come to this.
That doesn't mean
I did not prepare.
- What are you doing?
[beeping]
Stop.
You don't have to do this.
- [grunts]
[panting]
[grunting]
- [yells]
[grunting]
[crack]
- [screams]
- [grunts]
- Zod!
No!
- [gagging]
- I'm sorry, Mother,
but you left me no choice.
You need more time
and I will give it to you.
One day, you'll realize that
you were wrong to tell me.
- [gagging]
- Then the fantasy reset.
But this time, I was left
with all my real memories.
I was back at Kryptonopolis.
My perfect life.
- I have never seen you
look so beautiful
or more like yourself.
- Except it wasn't.
None of it was real,
no matter how much
I wanted it to be.
- Oh!
What's the matter?
This is meant to be
a perfect day.
The rest of your life
is about to begin.
- No, it's not.
- What's wrong?
Aren't you happy?
- I am.
But that's not enough.
There's a whole world outside
this apartment
and it's in danger.
And I can't stay here
and be happy
when I know what's
about to happen.
- Lyta, I don't understand.
- Everything all right?
[somber music]
- Seg, you're early.
- I couldn't stay away.
Lyta, all I want is for us
to be together.
♪
- So do I.
I love you, Seg.
and I want to Bind with you
and spend every day with you
until we grow old
and tired of each other.
But I can't.
- I don't understand.
Why not?
- Because Brainiac
took you away.
Mother...
I shot you.
- Lyta, you would never.
- I did.
I made the wrong choice.
I've been trying to run
from it ever since.
But that has to stop now.
Even if it means...
I lose both of you forever.
- Lyta, we can talk about this.
- No, we can't.
Because you're not real.
None of this is real.
[panting]
I knew I needed
to make things right
to stop Dru
no matter what it took,
even if it meant I might never
be able to see you again.
I'd never be able to tell you
how sorry I truly am.
- All that matters now
is that you're here.
With us again.
- I'm sorry I doubted you.
After all that's happened, I
didn't want to get my hopes up.
Not until I knew it was true.
- It's all right, Dad.
I would've done the same.
I'm just so glad
to see you both again.
- [chuckles]
- Even if Seg's...
- Lyta, Seg has returned.
He's here.
- Seg is back?
- He's in danger.
- We broke into Fort Rozz
to stop the launch
of Zod's fleet.
Seg and Nyssa were captured.
- Don't worry.
We will find a way to help them
once we get you far away
from here.
- No.
If Seg's in danger,
I'm not leaving without him.
- Lyta, you're still not well.
- I made it this far.
Now, if Seg and Nyssa
have been captured,
they're most likely in one
of our detention centers.
I can find out for certain.
There.
That's their cell block.
- If Zod realizes
you're missing,
he'll order a lockdown.
Leaving now could be
our only chance.
- Dev is right.
I won't lose you again.
- And I won't lose Seg.
- There's got to be
some way out of here.
I mean, they got us in here,
right?
- Yeah, and then they activated
the energy field.
I've never seen
a cell so secure.
- That just means
we have Zod scared.
And that tells me,
he believes we can defeat him.
Once we get out of this cell,
of course.
- Of course.
[suspenseful music]
- [sighs]
♪
[sighs]
♪
Why is it that every time
I try and help someone I love,
I end up putting
someone else in danger?
- You didn't put me here, Seg.
I chose to be.
We're going to be all right,
somehow.
'Cause we have to be.
Because our son is still
out there and he needs us.
♪
- What you said about seeing me
and Jor together,
and how it felt too good
to be true...
I don't want it to be.
♪
I don't know how we're
gonna find our son.
But I promise you...
I am gonna be with you
every step of the way.
[door opens and closes]
Hey, I said I'd talk.
You set Nyssa free, I'll tell
Zod anything he wants to hear.
- Seg...
- Brainiac's ship taking off?
I'm sure Zod wants
to know about that.
- Stand back.
[slam]
[yells]
[somber music]
- Dev, where's Jayna?
What happened?
- Fill you in once
we get out of here.
We still got our work
cut out for us.
- Seg-El and Nyssa-Vex
have escaped.
- Must I perform
every task myself?
Find them or it'll be you
in that cell.
[indistinct radio chatter]
What?
- I'm getting a report
over comm.
Alarms in the shipyard
have been activated.
They must be trying
to sabotage the fleet.
- Is it working?
- There's a Sagitari squad on
their way to the shipyard now.
- Seg and Nyssa,
how much time will they have?
- Enough.
- And us?
[suspenseful music]
[whirring]
- Surrender this instant!
- It's not them.
They're just engineers.
It's a setup.
This is just a diversion.
♪
- Where's Jayna?
Wasn't she supposed
to meet us here?
- Yeah.
But before she arrives, Seg,
I need to tell you something.
[footsteps approaching]
- Lyta.
[somber music]
♪
- It'll take a bit of
explaining, but yeah.
The real Lyta.
♪
- Is this real?
Are you real?
- I hope so.
- [chuckles]
♪
I thought I'd lost you.
- I know.
Me too.
- Oh, I'm never letting go
of you again.
- Good.
- We should go
before Zod finds us.
- Yes.
But let's give them this.
♪
[suspenseful music]
♪
- Assemble every Sagitari
in Kandor.
We're moving up the launch
and ending this Resistance now.
When this is over, there will
not be a soul left on Wegthor.
I promise you!
[squishing, hissing]
♪
[snarls]