Earth: Final Conflict

His room has been secured?

Boone! Good of you to come.

Really looking forward to this.

Kinda like watching Taelon home movies.

Gratitude fills me as look out and see so many eminent astronomers.

I thank you that I have been allowed to share with you the jewel that is Taelon.

Our world resides near the core of a star system which we call ...

The four moons of our world

have been made inhabitable and have been home to most of my fellows for almost...

Lili, gas!

Da'an, this way!

Put the gun down!

Major MacIntire?

Johnson! No.

We agreed no casualties.

This way. Please.

Three years ago they came

forever altering the future of humanity.

Subtitled by Axarion

7 minutes since the attack.

Secure all access points, 40k radius from the planetarium.

Lili, Lili, come on.

What happened?

Da'an's gone.

Contact the air command,

confirm satellite read of possible air evacuation.

Lock down this facility and find the source of the gas.

Nobody leaves until I say so!

What have you got?

Breathing tubes surgically implanted.

Haven't seen anything like this since the SI War.

This guy's covert operation special forces, navy seals.

Whoever he is he's working for Jonathan Doors.

We cannot exclude any possibilities, not yet.

We need to compose the suspects.

I remain mystified as to the meaning to your actions.

You wish my confusion to endure?

You speak when spoken to!

Johnson, observe the protocol.

No communication.

Your silence communicates as clearly as speech, Major.

It conveys your desire to instill fear

and dependency within your captive.

Tell me where my men are being held?

I asked you a question.

I speak as freely as my bonds allow.

I thank you.

I remain curious.

With my abduction you have violated the sanctity of your laws.

Yet you make no attempt to conceal yourself.

The whole world is watching us.

As I get my men back,

everyone will know who abducted you.

There's no point hiding who I am.

I understand this.

Yet I remain mystified by your use of violence

to attain access to your targets.

You asked for volunteers,

my best men,

to prepare them for interdimensional flight.

Humans who could endure the phenomenon of bending time and space.

And have your compatriots not coveted this honor?

You guaranteed there would be no danger!

And the military believed your lies!

So that now they try to cover it up for you,

denying there ever was an experimental program!

I cannot fathom your anger.

This truce conceals no falsehood.

Humans confront minimal risks in these procedures.

Minimal?!

Is that minimal?

Police and media speculation has focused on Jonathan Doors,

the former CEO of Doors International,

as the leading suspect that responsible for...

There's no end to media's morbid speculation.

Da'an's life is nothing more than a sideshow to them!

What did the final analysis of the gas revealed?

You were informed of that, sir.

Neurocordesine,

officially deleted O2.

- Military issue is assumed. - Assumed?!

Confirm it, trace it.

And where is Boone?!

We have no idea how a Companion can be killed

or even if they can be.

The outrage committed against the American Companion is import.

But the mystery of it...

They're grieving as if they've lost their messiah.

And if Da'an should be actually murdered

backlash will sweep us all away.

These idiots who kidnapped him

put in danger everything I've worked to put in place! Who are they?

They're soldiers, special forces.

Sandoval identified their leader.

Major Raymond MacIntire.

Never heard of him.

MacIntire led the raid against the Shanghai nuclear facility.

During SI War.

He's a much decorated officer.

Doesn't fit the profile of a terrorist.

So why would a carrier soldier suddenly kidnap a Companion?

Well, the Taelons must've done something horrific to force to such an extreme.

Maybe. Or maybe the whole abduction is a ruse,

a ploy to regain the public sympathy I've cost them,

to justify their security crackdown.

Sandoval or I would be involved if the abduction was staged.

The Synod would never entrust anyone else with that.

You really think you're beginning to understand these creatures?

You've become quite an amateur to your Da'an.

Well now just as well, he's the priority here.

Get him back. Alive.

And the soldiers who took him?

Do what you have to do.

These are anticompanion sympathizers.

They're exactly the kind of people we need if we are to become an effective force!

Look how skillfully they took Da'an!

We have to survive if we're going to grow.

And what they've done endangers that survival.

So we just sacrifice our own for the sake of a Taelon, is that what you're saying?

I am aware of the ironies.

This is not what I signed on for.

What's it worth, neither did I.

But Da'an must live.

So we can too.

What have you got?

Nothing.

A headache.

As far as I can tell

it has no brain.

No lobes, no cortex.

There's energy conscience, but...

the mind-body relationship is bizarre.

For all I know every cell in its body could be intelligent.

Would drugs work on him?

Make him confess where the men are being held?

I don't know what can I do.

- It's bad again? - Oh, no.

Well it won't be long now.

Our demands were delivered.

And if they won't negotiate for him?

They will. He's one of their kind, they want him back.

I can make him talk.

Make him tell us where the others are being held.

I can do to him what the did to me!

We're not here for your personal vendetta.

Get it under control.

I have been asked to speak to you by my host

to deliver this demand.

Five American soldiers

have been the subjects of experiments

involving Companion technologies.

They're being held against their will by agents of their own government.

When they have been released

I too will attain freedom.

But if not...

They judge me accordingly.

We received this video at 16:00.

All the soldiers named are listed as dead by the military.

It's a standard covering in covert operations.

This is Major Raymond MacIntire, the missing soldiers' officer.

Five weeks ago he went AWOL with four of his men

and a storage of weapons, including nerve gas

and a helicopter gunship.

Can you suggest a way in which we should respond to this threat?

Assuming their men are still alive we propose an exchange.

The only imperative is to ensure Da'an's protection.

The only imperative concerns the welfare of our collective sentience,

not the survival of an individual.

We cannot negotiate in the matter that you propose.

But Quo'on, you must let me fulfill my imperative to protect Da'an.

It appears Da'an has chosen well.

Your devotion is exceptional.

Da'an's life is at risk.

Giving up these soldiers is noting compared to that.

But your Companion does not fear death as you do.

If it serves us, he will not hesitate to embrace it.

So it's true?

They're not willing to negotiate for Da'an's life?

Why? This doesn't make any sense!

It does to the Taelon Synod.

MacIntire wants ransom Da'an for those men,

the Taelons see that as a major threat to existence here.

What did they do to those soldiers that they're willing to sacrifice Da'an to keep them hidden?

I don't know. Except they don't see it as a sacrifice.

Taelons don't view death the way we do. They're not afraid of it,

especially death of an individual.

I don't believe that. Everything that lives has an instinctual fear of dying.

Those soldiers are gonna die if Sandoval gets to them first.

I know. Look...

Sandoval wants to go the army base and interrogate the soldiers' families for leads.

We have to get to Da'an during that window.

Than assign my to fly the shuttle.

I can keep him away as long as you want.

Ok.

Thousands have gathered at the historic Cathedral, and the others across the nation

to pray for the American Companion.

In my experience nothing has moved us like this

since the Iranian hostage crisis of the 1970s.

It a tribute to the force of Da'an's character

that he's won the hearts of the American people