Vampire Academy (2022–…): Season 1, Episode 9 - Darkness - full transcript
- In a faith built on
the cycling of Elements,
there is no greater sin
than bringing life
back to the dead.
- Where's Sasha?
- I told her to run.
- Do you have any idea
what they'll do to you
if they find out
that you helped?
- I'm not sorry.
- Where's Guardian Tanner?
- Guardian Tanner died
in a Strigoi attack.
- Rose and I
remembered everything.
Their parents were there.
They murdered my family.
- Oh, I'm so sorry.
- Someone inside the Royal Court
is conspiring with
Strigoi to take Lissa out.
- When your family died,
I kept thinking
we could preserve
some little part of that life
before the crash, but we can't.
We both need to find our
way without each other.
- Rose, what does that mean?
- I have to get out of here.
Remember when you
offered to go with me?
I was just wondering if
the offer still stands.
- Yes, Rose.
- The crown is yours, Victor.
- I only wish Sonya was
here to celebrate with us.
- We spoke.
She said this was all worth it.
- We have shamed the Elements
with the choice
of Victor Dashkov
during these Trials.
- You don't understand.
Talk to me, please.
I know you're
hurting. So am I.
- No!
You don't get to play the
loving husband and father now.
- Victor lied about his health.
And what of his
Strigoi daughter?
How can we trust him
to rule the Dominion
when he can't even
rule his household?
Will he even be around to rule?
People are worried
their province will
be the next St. Jude,
that their brother,
wife, or child
will become the
next Strigoi victim,
or worse,
become a monster
to defend against,
like Sonya Karp.
- If anyone knew about Sonya,
there would be no chance
for me to be on the throne.
- So you lied
about our daughter.
- Sonya healed me because
she believe in me.
That's why I have
to become the king,
to be the man Sonya
believed in, especially now.
People are scared!
- Of course people are scared.
Who can blame them?
Our very future is on the line.
We need to fix this
before we cannot.
- I can fix this,
fix everything.
- We're getting ready
for our daughter's
funeral, Victor.
You can't fix that!
- Stop it.
Isn't it enough that Sonya's
locked up in a dungeon
until they kill her?
- That's not Sonya anymore.
Sonya is gone.
- No one feels that
more than I do.
But the only way
to make it worse
is if I abdicate
and Tatiana wins.
- You really think the
crown is yours after this?
Tatiana is rallying
the Moroi to her side.
- By preying on their fear.
Do you really wanna
live in a realm
ruled by someone
with her values?
- Values aren't about
what you say, Victor.
They're about what you do.
- Exactly.
My whole life,
I've worked to
make this Dominion
a better place for our children.
Don't you see?
Taking the throne
is the only way
to honor her sacrifice...
and find some light in
this terrible darkness.
- I want to understand, but...
- I'm so sorry.
I never asked her to heal me.
And if I had only
said no that night...
But how could I know it would
come at such a terrible cost?
- We cannot afford to
sit back and do nothing.
We must act when
it matters most.
And that time is now.
Call upon me,
and I shall serve.
Our
queen! Our queen!
- We're fucked.
Aren't we, Herald?
- Indeed we are, Your Majesty.
- Um, buy a trampoline.
- Okay. Go to a baseball game.
- Eat pizza with
pineapple on it.
- No, that's gross.
- Yeah.
Well, I've heard it's a thing.
I've heard it's a thing.
- You've heard it's a thing?
- Mm-hmm.
- What is it?
- It just seems like forever ago
that Lissa and I were
planning the same adventure.
- It's okay to worry about her.
- Maybe.
She's got Dimitri, right?
And I told my mother
about Christian's parents.
It's in her hands now.
It's bigger than us.
- I think you should actually
say goodbye to Lissa.
- I will.
- 'Cause then it's
just you and me.
No more trainings.
No more schedule.
- No more taking orders.
- Like you took orders.
You aren't the least bit scared?
- I'm terrified.
But being terrified and free
beats throwing our
bodies on the line
for a bunch of Royals who
couldn't give a shit about us.
Right?
- Right.
- Lissa.
- Mia, I'm so sorry.
- You have to stop.
The healing, all of it.
I saw you with Dean.
- I don't know what
you think you saw,
but that's crazy.
No one can do that.
- You can.
And so could Sonya.
My family thought that
she was the only one,
and then I saw you.
- Okay, Mia, if
anyone found out...
- I haven't told anyone.
But, Lissa, the
more Sonya healed,
the worse she got.
She hated seeing anyone in pain.
Even me.
Even though I
wasn't always nice.
She deserved better.
And so do you.
- But I'm not like
you and Christian.
What if this power is
my only way to fight?
- It's not worth it.
- Mia, look, I
know you're upset,
but you don't...
- Of course I'm upset!
Papa is livid.
Dad lied about
Sonya being missing.
I know that my dad
did a terrible thing.
And even though I am furious,
I can't stand to
see him this way.
I can't.
I fucking can't.
- Guardian Belikov.
- Commander Croft.
It's an honor.
- You are under
arrest for treason.
- Your Majesty, it's madness.
- Open brawling in the streets.
- And it's getting worse.
- If Your Majesty desires
a Dominion tomorrow
to wake up to,
you must take action.
Take action?
To quell the madness
you wrought yourselves?
Everyone knows my
days are numbered.
Just what would you have me do?
- Officially disavow Victor.
Your support still matters
and can unite the Dominion
behind a worthy successor.
- The Council can
release a statement
contesting the Trials
and confirming me as queen,
which means, Your Majesty,
you are free to step down.
You may rest easy with
your legacy in my hands.
- No.
The Elements did not
choose you, Tatiana.
I may not like it,
but they chose Victor.
He won the Trials.
Per the church, he is king.
- Guardian Belikov.
Now in the matter of the
Caroni Village resettlement,
aside from the Strigoi attack,
you claim that the mission
was completed without fault.
Is that true?
You also state that
Guardian Sasha Tanner,
with whom you were
charged with remanding,
died in battle.
Is that true?
Guardian Belikov,
the punishment for
treason is very serious.
- I stand by my statement.
- Very well.
I hope you know
what you're doing.
Take him away.
And bring Guardian Tanner in.
It'll be very interesting
to hear what she has to say
now that we've heard
your side of the story.
Put him under house arrest.
Sit.
- Hey, kiddo.
Come and have a seat.
I've been thinking.
I know you're blue
about Lissa...
- I know you've been
working with my parents.
Is that why you've been so
nice to me this whole time?
- Honey, you're not
making any sense.
- Please don't add
another lie to the pile.
Just tell me.
Have you just been using
me to get to Lissa?
- You got it all wrong.
Your parents love you.
Why they wanted the
Dragomirs off the throne,
I can't tell you.
But one thing I do know...
they miss you
and just wanna be
together again.
You know, the Moroi say
becoming Strigoi is a
fate worse than death.
But if you ask the Strigoi,
they call it the Awakening.
- What do you mean?
- It's like you've been
sleepwalking your whole life.
Everything's more intense...
Colors, sounds, touch.
And you never get old.
- You want them to turn you.
All I'm saying is
you have options.
You don't have to
be alone ever again
if you don't want to be.
I've seen how everyone's
treated you here.
You deserve better.
- I want you to
give them a message.
Tell them...
I'm ready to talk.
- I'm the one that
helped Sasha escape.
- Sasha chose this.
It's not on you.
What did you tell them?
- What do you think?
Nothing.
- Keep it that way.
What's going to happen to her?
- It's in the hands of HQ now.
Nothing either of us can do.
- And that?
- The tracker?
It's nothing.
Just due process and
proper safeguards.
I'll be fine once
all this blows over.
- HQ doesn't let
things "blow over."
- The Dominion needs all the
Guardians it has right now.
I'm not entirely without value.
- If that was a brag, you need
to step up your game, comrade.
- Hard to brag to the woman
who gave me a black eye.
- Sorry about that.
- Forget it, Roza.
- Are all of these about...
- Humans.
Biographies.
My way of seeing the world.
Having a staring contest
with the air, are we?
- I guess I'll see
you around then.
- Yeah.
See you around.
- Victor lied about his health.
And what of his
Strigoi daughter?
How can we trust him
to rule the Dominion
when he can't even
rule his household?
- So the rumors are true.
You're not well.
- Don't look too
kingly now, do I?
I survived campaign season,
won the Trials.
Even the church...
is on my
side now apparently.
But the irony is,
I can't claim victory because
my body is failing me.
I could have united
the Dominion.
But it's over.
Tatiana will be queen.
And I'd hoped to find
peace for us all,
but now I can't even find my own
after Sonya.
- But you have to know
that what happened
wasn't your fault.
You can't beat yourself up
for something you
couldn't possibly control.
- How would you know?
- I know it may sound crazy,
but there is a reason
Sonya was the way she was.
I think she have had a
special magic called Spirit.
The Fifth Element.
- What did you say?
- That's why she
never specialized.
But she could do
things like heal,
maybe even dream
walk or see auras.
But with the good comes...
- The Darkness.
That's what she called it.
Those times when
she was troubled
and there was nothing
we could do to stop it.
- That's what happens
when you use Spirit.
It must have just
gotten to be too much,
and that's why she...
It may not have even
been a conscious choice.
She may have just wanted
to make the pain stop.
- How could you know this?
- Because I'm like Sonya.
I have Spirit too.
- Does that mean
you can also heal?
- Sonya was healing you?
- Mia.
- I bought her a bracelet.
I was gonna give it to
her for her birthday,
but they only told me that
it was ready yesterday.
I just had...
- I'm so sorry.
Is there anything I can...
- No, there's nothing.
We've lost her.
- I felt like I was losing you
when I'd only just found you.
When I saw you at the Trials
with all those Royals,
I-I got scared and weird.
And...
I've never
felt like this.
For anyone.
And I know I've probably
just made it worse
by saying something
today of all days.
I'm so sorry, Mia.
- Don't be.
I just...
My papa is heading out of town
for the treaty re-signing.
As a diplomat, he
has to go, even...
Even with all this, so...
- Right, right.
But if you need to talk...
I'll be in the Cistern later.
- And you knew
about the Darkness.
You knew using her
magic would hurt her,
but you just kept on
letting her heal you.
- I asked her to stop,
but she wouldn't.
- Because she couldn't
heal a dying man,
no matter how much
of herself she gave.
You should have refused.
- She insisted.
After Mikhail, she was
afraid to lose anyone else.
Sonya never had it easy,
but her real trouble started
after those damn
treatments and therapies
when she didn't specialize.
She was never the same after.
As king, I can make sure
people like Sonya and you
don't have to hide anymore.
Imagine what would happen to you
if you were exposed as a Spirit
User under Tatiana's reign.
There'd be nowhere to hide
if anyone ever found out.
It's okay.
Listen, I just...
I just need to get
through the coronation.
After that, the
stress will abate,
and I'll be better,
if you help me.
- And what happens next time
when you start to fail again?
How can you ask me after Sonya?
- If there were any other way...
But it's that or Tatiana wins.
- Even if I wanted to,
I'm on meds to
suppress my magic.
So it'd take hours
to clear my system.
- Then I'll see
you in a few hours.
- Victor, wha...
Victor, wait!
- You better get changed.
We've got fight training in...
If you're doing what I think
you're doing, you're insane.
- I know I should
have told you...
- I don't care that
you didn't tell me.
I care about my best friend
getting thrown in the dungeons
for going AWOL.
Or worse, getting killed
by some rando Strigoi
in the human world.
- We'll be okay.
- "We"?
Anyone with eyes can see
how she feels about Dimitri.
- She asked me to go with her.
Rose is with me now.
- Then why did I just see her
coming out of his apartment?
- Sweet.
- You deserve someone
who loves you.
The way you feel about Rose,
that is how she
feels about Dimitri.
She can't help that
any more than you can.
I'm sorry, but you're gonna
have to face the truth.
- Like you're so truthful.
If you think that I'm buying
all this family leave time,
I'm not.
I don't know what
you do when you go
or where you go,
but I know it's not hanging
out with your mom at a commune.
Oh, you think you're the
only one who notices things?
- I'm not saying you're
not being truthful.
Just that you can't see what's
right in front of your eyes.
Rose doesn't love you.
Fuck.
- Guardian Belikov, it
appears you either lied
in your mission report that
Guardian Tanner was dead
or someone else led
you to believe she was.
And with your spotless record
and insistence that you
stand by your story,
I have to ask...
are you lying?
Or are you covering
for another Guardian?
Or both?
- I was the commanding officer.
I was responsible
for the veracity
of the information I relayed.
Any gap between my
report and the truth
rests solely on me,
as should the punishment for
giving false information.
- You haven't
answered my question.
- I have nothing further to say.
Though I wonder
at your prioritizing
punishing a Guardian
during a time of civil unrest.
- How can we expect
any kind of order
if we allow a
Guardian to disobey?
Guardian Belikov, you
have me no choice.
I declare you guilty of treason.
You'll be taken to the dungeons
until you are
sentenced by the Queen.
May the Saints
have mercy on you.
"Plans changed"?
- Ma'am, we're in
the weeds out there.
Five more altercations
in the past hour.
Reassign ward units three,
five, and six to town square.
Tell wards to move
to rotating patrols.
- Yes, ma'am.
- Nobody gets in right now.
- Please, just let
me talk to her.
- Let him through.
- I got another one.
- We're slammed.
It'll have to wait.
- But it can't.
They wanted Sonya Karp.
- Well, that isn't
going to happen.
- Yeah, but they have
something that we want!
- What?
Mia?
We knew they were starting
to coordinate their attacks,
but this must be
some kind of a prank.
Strigoi don't write
notes and bargain.
They aren't this sophisticated.
- Well, maybe we've
had them all wrong.
I mean, yes, of course they're
violent and even feral,
but they're more than that.
- Well, we've just missed
that for centuries, huh?
- I don't know.
Maybe they've evolved.
Maybe they've always been
more than what we knew.
The only ones we meet, we kill.
- Before they kill us.
Look, even if they
could bargain,
I wouldn't trust 'em.
This is not happening.
- When I met my mother,
she spoke and
sounded like herself.
Her old self.
Alberta, I think this is real.
I think they don't want
Sonya to be killed.
- Then that's too bad for them.
I'm not walking into an ambush.
- With Mia out there?
What happened to
"they come first"?
- Hello?
James, if you're still
out there, please!
- You know what that means.
- I thought you
got what you wanted
when I remembered the accident.
- Oh, come on.
You're a little happy to see me.
- Except it means the
drugs are out of my system.
- Is that so bad?
- If Sonya's any indicator.
Apparently, my magic
makes people want
to burn me at the stake and
me want to turn Strigoi.
- And makes you able to
sway people and heal them.
It's not all bad.
- Except when I do those
things, I hurt Rose.
And I'm trapped in here
with a figment of my imagination
while I wait for
Victor to come back
and do who knows what...
- Wah.
- Excuse me?
- You know what the
secret to power is?
It's making your
biggest liability
your greatest strength.
You have a special magic.
You're gonna allow
that to make you weak?
Or strong?
- Sorry to have
kept you waiting.
I trust you've
thought things over.
Oh, Lissa.
- There's nothing to discuss.
You can't keep me here.
And if there is anything
left of the man I knew,
you'll get out of my
way and let me leave.
- I'm sorry. I can't do that.
- I said let me go.
- Vasilissa, please.
Think of the greater good.
- You can't be serious.
- Just this once.
- No.
James, if you don't get
out of my way, I'm gonna...
- You're gonna what?
- This!
- Rose!
- Dang it, Rose!
- You could stop this.
You could stop this
right now, Lissa.
- Fine, fine.
You want my power?
Take it!
Take it all!
- No, Lissa!
- Aah!
- Wait, Dimitri. I
heard about the verdict.
Give me five minutes with him,
and I'll wipe out your debt.
I didn't think it was
true, and I'm sorry.
- Don't be.
You didn't need to
be alone to say that.
- I wanted to tell you...
Rose and I are leaving.
- That explains it.
- Look, where you're going,
it's not gonna be easy.
I know that.
But I thought maybe it'd help
to know that she'll be okay.
- It does.
And I wish you the best.
Rose is meant for
greater things,
and she deserves to be safe.
And happy.
- She does.
- Never tell her what's
about to happen to me.
If she knows, she won't leave.
Let's go.
- Fuck you, Dimitri.
Fuck you.
There she is.
You look pretty cocky
for someone who just gave
him exactly what he wanted.
- No.
All I gave him was time.
Once his guilt kicks in...
And it will eventually...
That's no favor.
- But are you gonna be...
- Wait, Rose.
The Darkness,
I can see it.
All this time,
I wasn't passing it to you.
I was taking your
light through our bond.
- I don't know which
version sounds worse,
but how?
- Magic doesn't fill
me with Darkness.
It depletes my light.
Spirit needs light.
Hey, Rose, maybe if I
could give myself some
time to fully recover,
you know, to build
back my own light,
because I won't
take yours anymore.
- Well, actually,
you won't have to
worry about that now.
I'm leaving.
- Leaving? Where?
- Out into the world.
Like you and I always planned.
- But if I can learn
to control this,
then you don't have to go.
- That's not why I'm going.
For so long, all I thought
of was being your Guardian,
and that was enough.
But now,
after everything,
I need to figure out who I
am outside of all of that...
And outside of you.
And given you just came
riding to my rescue,
it looks like you can
take care of yourself now.
- We can't have you corner
the whole hero market.
Rose.
- I know.
- So, um, just you?
Or...
I'm going with Mason.
Stop it.
He's a good guy.
- He is.
And it's your life, Rose.
Whatever makes you happy.
But don't get too
comfortable, okay?
I have big plans
for this Dominion.
When I'm done with this place,
you're gonna wanna come back.
Just wait.
This isn't goodbye.
- No.
It's just see you later.
- Woodland secure.
They won't get through.
- No one's been able to
reach either of her fathers?
- Nothing.
Weapons up.
Hey. Whoa, whoa.
Where is Mia Karp?
- Mia.
What did you do?
- She's fine. For now.
You look so shocked.
- We have what you asked for.
Let Mia go, and
we'll give you Sonya.
- Sonya first.
Or she dies.
- Absolutely not.
We have you outnumbered
and outgunned.
Mia first, then Sonya.
Or we walk.
She's next.
- All right.
Everybody, stand down!
Down!
If you kill Mia,
there is nothing stopping
us from torching you all.
We exchange simultaneously.
When we drop the wards.
- After Andre and
my parents died,
you believed in me,
before even I did.
Since then,
this Dominion has been on
a wild ride, Your Majesty,
leaving no candidate untarnished
and our people as
divided as ever.
I know I need to
get my quorum back,
to marry, and to learn,
and all of that will take time.
But I have a proposal for you
if you're willing to hear it.
- Once again,
I hereby declare Princess
Vasilissa Dragomir
heir to the throne.
But not for today.
For today, I'm not
going anywhere.
I
declare the Trials moot.
It is time we put this
whole ugly business,
this whole ugly era, behind us.
As such, I shall be
keeping the crown
until Vasilissa
is ready to rule.
Such is my decree.
- You're late.
Where have you been?
- Sorry, I just had
some last-minute stuff.
- For a second, I thought you
might have changed your mind.
- Never.
- What?
You're being weird.
- I'm just excited.
You ready for the adventure?
- I was born ready.
- Lower the wards.
- Sonya, I'm sorry I
wasn't there for you.
I won't forget you,
Sonya! I promise.
I love you, Sonya.
- Wards, back up!
- I'm taking this
back to the vault.
One wrong move,
and you kill them.
- After all that,
you're just gonna leave?
- We've done what we came to do.
- Everyone told me you
guys were monsters.
There wasn't a day that went
by that I didn't defend you.
I even wanted to join
you because I thought...
I thought somewhere
inside, you...
You must still love me.
- You always were a good boy.
- So if you don't care about me,
why do you care about Sonya?
Is it 'cause she's like you?
Is she your family now?
- We didn't come here for Sonya.
We came here to feed.
- Breach the far wards!
- What?
- You were the perfect decoy.
It's sad how stupid Moroi are.
Though it makes them easy prey.
- I'm never gonna let you
hurt anybody ever again!
- No!
You haven't begun to
know the meaning of hurt!
Lissa is mine!
- Come on, Marie. This way.
How could they possibly
breach the wards?
- It's St. Jude's
all over again!
- I tried diplomacy.
I tried preaching your
ridiculous Saints.
I'm done playing nice.
So fuck the Queen
and fuck your sister.
Fuck it all.
Now we're doing
things my way, Andre.
the cycling of Elements,
there is no greater sin
than bringing life
back to the dead.
- Where's Sasha?
- I told her to run.
- Do you have any idea
what they'll do to you
if they find out
that you helped?
- I'm not sorry.
- Where's Guardian Tanner?
- Guardian Tanner died
in a Strigoi attack.
- Rose and I
remembered everything.
Their parents were there.
They murdered my family.
- Oh, I'm so sorry.
- Someone inside the Royal Court
is conspiring with
Strigoi to take Lissa out.
- When your family died,
I kept thinking
we could preserve
some little part of that life
before the crash, but we can't.
We both need to find our
way without each other.
- Rose, what does that mean?
- I have to get out of here.
Remember when you
offered to go with me?
I was just wondering if
the offer still stands.
- Yes, Rose.
- The crown is yours, Victor.
- I only wish Sonya was
here to celebrate with us.
- We spoke.
She said this was all worth it.
- We have shamed the Elements
with the choice
of Victor Dashkov
during these Trials.
- You don't understand.
Talk to me, please.
I know you're
hurting. So am I.
- No!
You don't get to play the
loving husband and father now.
- Victor lied about his health.
And what of his
Strigoi daughter?
How can we trust him
to rule the Dominion
when he can't even
rule his household?
Will he even be around to rule?
People are worried
their province will
be the next St. Jude,
that their brother,
wife, or child
will become the
next Strigoi victim,
or worse,
become a monster
to defend against,
like Sonya Karp.
- If anyone knew about Sonya,
there would be no chance
for me to be on the throne.
- So you lied
about our daughter.
- Sonya healed me because
she believe in me.
That's why I have
to become the king,
to be the man Sonya
believed in, especially now.
People are scared!
- Of course people are scared.
Who can blame them?
Our very future is on the line.
We need to fix this
before we cannot.
- I can fix this,
fix everything.
- We're getting ready
for our daughter's
funeral, Victor.
You can't fix that!
- Stop it.
Isn't it enough that Sonya's
locked up in a dungeon
until they kill her?
- That's not Sonya anymore.
Sonya is gone.
- No one feels that
more than I do.
But the only way
to make it worse
is if I abdicate
and Tatiana wins.
- You really think the
crown is yours after this?
Tatiana is rallying
the Moroi to her side.
- By preying on their fear.
Do you really wanna
live in a realm
ruled by someone
with her values?
- Values aren't about
what you say, Victor.
They're about what you do.
- Exactly.
My whole life,
I've worked to
make this Dominion
a better place for our children.
Don't you see?
Taking the throne
is the only way
to honor her sacrifice...
and find some light in
this terrible darkness.
- I want to understand, but...
- I'm so sorry.
I never asked her to heal me.
And if I had only
said no that night...
But how could I know it would
come at such a terrible cost?
- We cannot afford to
sit back and do nothing.
We must act when
it matters most.
And that time is now.
Call upon me,
and I shall serve.
Our
queen! Our queen!
- We're fucked.
Aren't we, Herald?
- Indeed we are, Your Majesty.
- Um, buy a trampoline.
- Okay. Go to a baseball game.
- Eat pizza with
pineapple on it.
- No, that's gross.
- Yeah.
Well, I've heard it's a thing.
I've heard it's a thing.
- You've heard it's a thing?
- Mm-hmm.
- What is it?
- It just seems like forever ago
that Lissa and I were
planning the same adventure.
- It's okay to worry about her.
- Maybe.
She's got Dimitri, right?
And I told my mother
about Christian's parents.
It's in her hands now.
It's bigger than us.
- I think you should actually
say goodbye to Lissa.
- I will.
- 'Cause then it's
just you and me.
No more trainings.
No more schedule.
- No more taking orders.
- Like you took orders.
You aren't the least bit scared?
- I'm terrified.
But being terrified and free
beats throwing our
bodies on the line
for a bunch of Royals who
couldn't give a shit about us.
Right?
- Right.
- Lissa.
- Mia, I'm so sorry.
- You have to stop.
The healing, all of it.
I saw you with Dean.
- I don't know what
you think you saw,
but that's crazy.
No one can do that.
- You can.
And so could Sonya.
My family thought that
she was the only one,
and then I saw you.
- Okay, Mia, if
anyone found out...
- I haven't told anyone.
But, Lissa, the
more Sonya healed,
the worse she got.
She hated seeing anyone in pain.
Even me.
Even though I
wasn't always nice.
She deserved better.
And so do you.
- But I'm not like
you and Christian.
What if this power is
my only way to fight?
- It's not worth it.
- Mia, look, I
know you're upset,
but you don't...
- Of course I'm upset!
Papa is livid.
Dad lied about
Sonya being missing.
I know that my dad
did a terrible thing.
And even though I am furious,
I can't stand to
see him this way.
I can't.
I fucking can't.
- Guardian Belikov.
- Commander Croft.
It's an honor.
- You are under
arrest for treason.
- Your Majesty, it's madness.
- Open brawling in the streets.
- And it's getting worse.
- If Your Majesty desires
a Dominion tomorrow
to wake up to,
you must take action.
Take action?
To quell the madness
you wrought yourselves?
Everyone knows my
days are numbered.
Just what would you have me do?
- Officially disavow Victor.
Your support still matters
and can unite the Dominion
behind a worthy successor.
- The Council can
release a statement
contesting the Trials
and confirming me as queen,
which means, Your Majesty,
you are free to step down.
You may rest easy with
your legacy in my hands.
- No.
The Elements did not
choose you, Tatiana.
I may not like it,
but they chose Victor.
He won the Trials.
Per the church, he is king.
- Guardian Belikov.
Now in the matter of the
Caroni Village resettlement,
aside from the Strigoi attack,
you claim that the mission
was completed without fault.
Is that true?
You also state that
Guardian Sasha Tanner,
with whom you were
charged with remanding,
died in battle.
Is that true?
Guardian Belikov,
the punishment for
treason is very serious.
- I stand by my statement.
- Very well.
I hope you know
what you're doing.
Take him away.
And bring Guardian Tanner in.
It'll be very interesting
to hear what she has to say
now that we've heard
your side of the story.
Put him under house arrest.
Sit.
- Hey, kiddo.
Come and have a seat.
I've been thinking.
I know you're blue
about Lissa...
- I know you've been
working with my parents.
Is that why you've been so
nice to me this whole time?
- Honey, you're not
making any sense.
- Please don't add
another lie to the pile.
Just tell me.
Have you just been using
me to get to Lissa?
- You got it all wrong.
Your parents love you.
Why they wanted the
Dragomirs off the throne,
I can't tell you.
But one thing I do know...
they miss you
and just wanna be
together again.
You know, the Moroi say
becoming Strigoi is a
fate worse than death.
But if you ask the Strigoi,
they call it the Awakening.
- What do you mean?
- It's like you've been
sleepwalking your whole life.
Everything's more intense...
Colors, sounds, touch.
And you never get old.
- You want them to turn you.
All I'm saying is
you have options.
You don't have to
be alone ever again
if you don't want to be.
I've seen how everyone's
treated you here.
You deserve better.
- I want you to
give them a message.
Tell them...
I'm ready to talk.
- I'm the one that
helped Sasha escape.
- Sasha chose this.
It's not on you.
What did you tell them?
- What do you think?
Nothing.
- Keep it that way.
What's going to happen to her?
- It's in the hands of HQ now.
Nothing either of us can do.
- And that?
- The tracker?
It's nothing.
Just due process and
proper safeguards.
I'll be fine once
all this blows over.
- HQ doesn't let
things "blow over."
- The Dominion needs all the
Guardians it has right now.
I'm not entirely without value.
- If that was a brag, you need
to step up your game, comrade.
- Hard to brag to the woman
who gave me a black eye.
- Sorry about that.
- Forget it, Roza.
- Are all of these about...
- Humans.
Biographies.
My way of seeing the world.
Having a staring contest
with the air, are we?
- I guess I'll see
you around then.
- Yeah.
See you around.
- Victor lied about his health.
And what of his
Strigoi daughter?
How can we trust him
to rule the Dominion
when he can't even
rule his household?
- So the rumors are true.
You're not well.
- Don't look too
kingly now, do I?
I survived campaign season,
won the Trials.
Even the church...
is on my
side now apparently.
But the irony is,
I can't claim victory because
my body is failing me.
I could have united
the Dominion.
But it's over.
Tatiana will be queen.
And I'd hoped to find
peace for us all,
but now I can't even find my own
after Sonya.
- But you have to know
that what happened
wasn't your fault.
You can't beat yourself up
for something you
couldn't possibly control.
- How would you know?
- I know it may sound crazy,
but there is a reason
Sonya was the way she was.
I think she have had a
special magic called Spirit.
The Fifth Element.
- What did you say?
- That's why she
never specialized.
But she could do
things like heal,
maybe even dream
walk or see auras.
But with the good comes...
- The Darkness.
That's what she called it.
Those times when
she was troubled
and there was nothing
we could do to stop it.
- That's what happens
when you use Spirit.
It must have just
gotten to be too much,
and that's why she...
It may not have even
been a conscious choice.
She may have just wanted
to make the pain stop.
- How could you know this?
- Because I'm like Sonya.
I have Spirit too.
- Does that mean
you can also heal?
- Sonya was healing you?
- Mia.
- I bought her a bracelet.
I was gonna give it to
her for her birthday,
but they only told me that
it was ready yesterday.
I just had...
- I'm so sorry.
Is there anything I can...
- No, there's nothing.
We've lost her.
- I felt like I was losing you
when I'd only just found you.
When I saw you at the Trials
with all those Royals,
I-I got scared and weird.
And...
I've never
felt like this.
For anyone.
And I know I've probably
just made it worse
by saying something
today of all days.
I'm so sorry, Mia.
- Don't be.
I just...
My papa is heading out of town
for the treaty re-signing.
As a diplomat, he
has to go, even...
Even with all this, so...
- Right, right.
But if you need to talk...
I'll be in the Cistern later.
- And you knew
about the Darkness.
You knew using her
magic would hurt her,
but you just kept on
letting her heal you.
- I asked her to stop,
but she wouldn't.
- Because she couldn't
heal a dying man,
no matter how much
of herself she gave.
You should have refused.
- She insisted.
After Mikhail, she was
afraid to lose anyone else.
Sonya never had it easy,
but her real trouble started
after those damn
treatments and therapies
when she didn't specialize.
She was never the same after.
As king, I can make sure
people like Sonya and you
don't have to hide anymore.
Imagine what would happen to you
if you were exposed as a Spirit
User under Tatiana's reign.
There'd be nowhere to hide
if anyone ever found out.
It's okay.
Listen, I just...
I just need to get
through the coronation.
After that, the
stress will abate,
and I'll be better,
if you help me.
- And what happens next time
when you start to fail again?
How can you ask me after Sonya?
- If there were any other way...
But it's that or Tatiana wins.
- Even if I wanted to,
I'm on meds to
suppress my magic.
So it'd take hours
to clear my system.
- Then I'll see
you in a few hours.
- Victor, wha...
Victor, wait!
- You better get changed.
We've got fight training in...
If you're doing what I think
you're doing, you're insane.
- I know I should
have told you...
- I don't care that
you didn't tell me.
I care about my best friend
getting thrown in the dungeons
for going AWOL.
Or worse, getting killed
by some rando Strigoi
in the human world.
- We'll be okay.
- "We"?
Anyone with eyes can see
how she feels about Dimitri.
- She asked me to go with her.
Rose is with me now.
- Then why did I just see her
coming out of his apartment?
- Sweet.
- You deserve someone
who loves you.
The way you feel about Rose,
that is how she
feels about Dimitri.
She can't help that
any more than you can.
I'm sorry, but you're gonna
have to face the truth.
- Like you're so truthful.
If you think that I'm buying
all this family leave time,
I'm not.
I don't know what
you do when you go
or where you go,
but I know it's not hanging
out with your mom at a commune.
Oh, you think you're the
only one who notices things?
- I'm not saying you're
not being truthful.
Just that you can't see what's
right in front of your eyes.
Rose doesn't love you.
Fuck.
- Guardian Belikov, it
appears you either lied
in your mission report that
Guardian Tanner was dead
or someone else led
you to believe she was.
And with your spotless record
and insistence that you
stand by your story,
I have to ask...
are you lying?
Or are you covering
for another Guardian?
Or both?
- I was the commanding officer.
I was responsible
for the veracity
of the information I relayed.
Any gap between my
report and the truth
rests solely on me,
as should the punishment for
giving false information.
- You haven't
answered my question.
- I have nothing further to say.
Though I wonder
at your prioritizing
punishing a Guardian
during a time of civil unrest.
- How can we expect
any kind of order
if we allow a
Guardian to disobey?
Guardian Belikov, you
have me no choice.
I declare you guilty of treason.
You'll be taken to the dungeons
until you are
sentenced by the Queen.
May the Saints
have mercy on you.
"Plans changed"?
- Ma'am, we're in
the weeds out there.
Five more altercations
in the past hour.
Reassign ward units three,
five, and six to town square.
Tell wards to move
to rotating patrols.
- Yes, ma'am.
- Nobody gets in right now.
- Please, just let
me talk to her.
- Let him through.
- I got another one.
- We're slammed.
It'll have to wait.
- But it can't.
They wanted Sonya Karp.
- Well, that isn't
going to happen.
- Yeah, but they have
something that we want!
- What?
Mia?
We knew they were starting
to coordinate their attacks,
but this must be
some kind of a prank.
Strigoi don't write
notes and bargain.
They aren't this sophisticated.
- Well, maybe we've
had them all wrong.
I mean, yes, of course they're
violent and even feral,
but they're more than that.
- Well, we've just missed
that for centuries, huh?
- I don't know.
Maybe they've evolved.
Maybe they've always been
more than what we knew.
The only ones we meet, we kill.
- Before they kill us.
Look, even if they
could bargain,
I wouldn't trust 'em.
This is not happening.
- When I met my mother,
she spoke and
sounded like herself.
Her old self.
Alberta, I think this is real.
I think they don't want
Sonya to be killed.
- Then that's too bad for them.
I'm not walking into an ambush.
- With Mia out there?
What happened to
"they come first"?
- Hello?
James, if you're still
out there, please!
- You know what that means.
- I thought you
got what you wanted
when I remembered the accident.
- Oh, come on.
You're a little happy to see me.
- Except it means the
drugs are out of my system.
- Is that so bad?
- If Sonya's any indicator.
Apparently, my magic
makes people want
to burn me at the stake and
me want to turn Strigoi.
- And makes you able to
sway people and heal them.
It's not all bad.
- Except when I do those
things, I hurt Rose.
And I'm trapped in here
with a figment of my imagination
while I wait for
Victor to come back
and do who knows what...
- Wah.
- Excuse me?
- You know what the
secret to power is?
It's making your
biggest liability
your greatest strength.
You have a special magic.
You're gonna allow
that to make you weak?
Or strong?
- Sorry to have
kept you waiting.
I trust you've
thought things over.
Oh, Lissa.
- There's nothing to discuss.
You can't keep me here.
And if there is anything
left of the man I knew,
you'll get out of my
way and let me leave.
- I'm sorry. I can't do that.
- I said let me go.
- Vasilissa, please.
Think of the greater good.
- You can't be serious.
- Just this once.
- No.
James, if you don't get
out of my way, I'm gonna...
- You're gonna what?
- This!
- Rose!
- Dang it, Rose!
- You could stop this.
You could stop this
right now, Lissa.
- Fine, fine.
You want my power?
Take it!
Take it all!
- No, Lissa!
- Aah!
- Wait, Dimitri. I
heard about the verdict.
Give me five minutes with him,
and I'll wipe out your debt.
I didn't think it was
true, and I'm sorry.
- Don't be.
You didn't need to
be alone to say that.
- I wanted to tell you...
Rose and I are leaving.
- That explains it.
- Look, where you're going,
it's not gonna be easy.
I know that.
But I thought maybe it'd help
to know that she'll be okay.
- It does.
And I wish you the best.
Rose is meant for
greater things,
and she deserves to be safe.
And happy.
- She does.
- Never tell her what's
about to happen to me.
If she knows, she won't leave.
Let's go.
- Fuck you, Dimitri.
Fuck you.
There she is.
You look pretty cocky
for someone who just gave
him exactly what he wanted.
- No.
All I gave him was time.
Once his guilt kicks in...
And it will eventually...
That's no favor.
- But are you gonna be...
- Wait, Rose.
The Darkness,
I can see it.
All this time,
I wasn't passing it to you.
I was taking your
light through our bond.
- I don't know which
version sounds worse,
but how?
- Magic doesn't fill
me with Darkness.
It depletes my light.
Spirit needs light.
Hey, Rose, maybe if I
could give myself some
time to fully recover,
you know, to build
back my own light,
because I won't
take yours anymore.
- Well, actually,
you won't have to
worry about that now.
I'm leaving.
- Leaving? Where?
- Out into the world.
Like you and I always planned.
- But if I can learn
to control this,
then you don't have to go.
- That's not why I'm going.
For so long, all I thought
of was being your Guardian,
and that was enough.
But now,
after everything,
I need to figure out who I
am outside of all of that...
And outside of you.
And given you just came
riding to my rescue,
it looks like you can
take care of yourself now.
- We can't have you corner
the whole hero market.
Rose.
- I know.
- So, um, just you?
Or...
I'm going with Mason.
Stop it.
He's a good guy.
- He is.
And it's your life, Rose.
Whatever makes you happy.
But don't get too
comfortable, okay?
I have big plans
for this Dominion.
When I'm done with this place,
you're gonna wanna come back.
Just wait.
This isn't goodbye.
- No.
It's just see you later.
- Woodland secure.
They won't get through.
- No one's been able to
reach either of her fathers?
- Nothing.
Weapons up.
Hey. Whoa, whoa.
Where is Mia Karp?
- Mia.
What did you do?
- She's fine. For now.
You look so shocked.
- We have what you asked for.
Let Mia go, and
we'll give you Sonya.
- Sonya first.
Or she dies.
- Absolutely not.
We have you outnumbered
and outgunned.
Mia first, then Sonya.
Or we walk.
She's next.
- All right.
Everybody, stand down!
Down!
If you kill Mia,
there is nothing stopping
us from torching you all.
We exchange simultaneously.
When we drop the wards.
- After Andre and
my parents died,
you believed in me,
before even I did.
Since then,
this Dominion has been on
a wild ride, Your Majesty,
leaving no candidate untarnished
and our people as
divided as ever.
I know I need to
get my quorum back,
to marry, and to learn,
and all of that will take time.
But I have a proposal for you
if you're willing to hear it.
- Once again,
I hereby declare Princess
Vasilissa Dragomir
heir to the throne.
But not for today.
For today, I'm not
going anywhere.
I
declare the Trials moot.
It is time we put this
whole ugly business,
this whole ugly era, behind us.
As such, I shall be
keeping the crown
until Vasilissa
is ready to rule.
Such is my decree.
- You're late.
Where have you been?
- Sorry, I just had
some last-minute stuff.
- For a second, I thought you
might have changed your mind.
- Never.
- What?
You're being weird.
- I'm just excited.
You ready for the adventure?
- I was born ready.
- Lower the wards.
- Sonya, I'm sorry I
wasn't there for you.
I won't forget you,
Sonya! I promise.
I love you, Sonya.
- Wards, back up!
- I'm taking this
back to the vault.
One wrong move,
and you kill them.
- After all that,
you're just gonna leave?
- We've done what we came to do.
- Everyone told me you
guys were monsters.
There wasn't a day that went
by that I didn't defend you.
I even wanted to join
you because I thought...
I thought somewhere
inside, you...
You must still love me.
- You always were a good boy.
- So if you don't care about me,
why do you care about Sonya?
Is it 'cause she's like you?
Is she your family now?
- We didn't come here for Sonya.
We came here to feed.
- Breach the far wards!
- What?
- You were the perfect decoy.
It's sad how stupid Moroi are.
Though it makes them easy prey.
- I'm never gonna let you
hurt anybody ever again!
- No!
You haven't begun to
know the meaning of hurt!
Lissa is mine!
- Come on, Marie. This way.
How could they possibly
breach the wards?
- It's St. Jude's
all over again!
- I tried diplomacy.
I tried preaching your
ridiculous Saints.
I'm done playing nice.
So fuck the Queen
and fuck your sister.
Fuck it all.
Now we're doing
things my way, Andre.