The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (2019) s01e08 Episode Script

[solemn music playing.]
[fire roaring.]
[Threader squeaks.]
[Threader scurrying, yelps.]
[Threader squeaks.]
[Threader screeching.]
[Mother Aughra.]
Hm? Didn't think it through, did you? Pah! No one ever does.
[squeaking.]
So, no need to run.
Aughra cares for all the creatures of Thra.
Even the foolish ones.
[Threader squeaks.]
Ah, I'll patch you up good as new.
Even though you did try to steal my mind.
Lucky you didn't get the chance.
Your little brain would've popped! [chuckling.]
[grumbling, spitting.]
[squelching.]
[cooing.]
Stings, does it? Blame yourself.
But most never do.
It will leave a scar, but scars are good.
Minds forget, scars remember, hmm.
- [Landstrider bellowing.]
- Hm? What now? [squeaking, scurrying.]
[dramatic music playing.]
Bah! [bellowing, snorting.]
[Landstrider bellowing.]
[sighing.]
I warned you, Fara, but you would not listen.
By the lords' grace, Stone-in-the-Wood shall rise once more.
[Mother Aughra scoffs.]
Bah! Mother Aughra.
Seladon.
New crown, I see.
New clothes.
Some dress to conceal their body, others to reveal their nature.
Perhaps my Paladins should seize you where you stand.
- [Paladins gasp.]
- [Mother Aughra growls.]
- [clears throat.]
- [swords swoosh.]
Look around you, prophet.
Was this in your visions? Where were your minions when the Skeksis turned their wrath upon Stone-in-the-Wood? [Mother Aughra.]
Doing what they must.
Finding the key to ending Skeksis' power.
I will negotiate peace - for all Gelfling.
- Hm? Bah! The Skeksis care nothing for peace.
Turn back.
Turn back before it's too late! The All-Maudra is not yours to command, witch! You trifle with powers you cannot understand! [scoffing.]
Trust Aughra.
I trust in the lords.
[gasps.]
[sighs.]
Foolish child.
Move, crone! You're blind.
You're standing in the All-Maudra's way.
[Landstrider bellowing.]
Now, Aughra shall see.
[huffs.]
Don't worry, Mother Aughra.
I will convince the Skeksis to show mercy upon you and your treasonous pets.
- Hi-yah! - [Landstriders bellowing.]
[Seladon.]
To the Castle of the Crystal! - [Landstrider bellowing.]
- Yah! [sighs.]
Brave Gelfling.
Lost, but brave.
Cannot see past her own rage, hm! But most never do.
- [grumbling.]
- [squeaking.]
[Mother Aughra.]
And you I have a job for you, little one.
[chuckling.]
[dramatic music playing.]
[spitting.]
[spitting.]
- [Gruenaks moaning.]
- [creature squeaking.]
Mm Greetings, wretched Gruenaks.
- [muffled straining.]
- [Chamberlain.]
Ah Yes.
I'm here to commend.
Much work you have done, yes? Help make the Scientist's machine come to life in such short order.
Make essence.
[Chamberlain.]
A vial for each Skeksis, yes? Including General.
A fellow, a crafty fellow with great stealth could replace the essence of my enemy.
[muffled yelling.]
No, no, no! Not with something so vulgar as poison, but perhaps switch essence with a simple draft of water and glowing milk of the desert Swothel, yes? General will grow weak, vulnerable.
[Chamberlain.]
Perhaps crafty wretches who took such risks to rid me of meddlesome enemy would earn freedom.
[muffled muttering.]
If those wretches do job well and tell no one.
[Gruenaks.]
Hmm.
[Chamberlain exclaims.]
[groans.]
Ah good.
Is deal, then.
[Chamberlain.]
Now, we wait.
Mmm [mystical music playing.]
We must go after Brea.
- Your stolen friend was right.
- Mm-hm The Hunter has set a trap.
SkekMal's using her as bait.
[Heretic.]
She will not be harmed.
First, retrieve the Glaive.
Then defeat the Skeksis.
[sighing.]
Hup go.
You need to rest.
We will watch over your friend-slave.
And - the Archer.
- [snoring.]
[groans.]
Deet careful.
It'll take forever to walk all the way to Grot.
[chuckling.]
Then do not walk.
- Huh? - But do follow.
[Heretic.]
Come along now.
We haven't got all day.
[Hup.]
Rian careful too.
I'll see you again friend.
Mm-hmm.
Behold.
[both gasping.]
[Rian.]
Where does it lead? [Heretic.]
To the Breath of Thra.
[Deet.]
The Breath of Thra? - [Heretic.]
Yeah.
- All the way out here? What's the Breath of Thra? - You'll see.
- [Heretic.]
Remember, as you travel your path, you carry with you the seed of hope that we, too, shall be one again.
So, don't get [sniffs.]
killed.
[Rian.]
Hmm.
[Heretic.]
All right then.
Best of luck.
[Rian.]
I can barely see where I'm going.
[grunting, gasping.]
I think that rock just tried to take a bite out of me.
Your eyes will adjust eventually - Daylighter.
- Hm? Daylighter? Grottans have all kinds of names for Gelfling that live above ground.
- Sun Brain, Moon Child.
- Hm, very funny.
[chuckling.]
Tunnel Screamer.
Yes, you're hilarious.
You'll get to hear them all when you meet my family.
Oh, good.
[sighing.]
[chuckling.]
- [echoing.]
- What's that sound? The Breath of Thra.
Come on, Sky Baby! [chuckling.]
I think I prefer "Daylighter.
" [chuckling.]
[Deet.]
These tunnels capture the warm air from the fire at the center of our world and carry it through the ground like veins.
And that's why they call it the Breath of Thra.
It's incredible.
- Ready? - Huh? We're going in there? Unless you want to spend the next three days walking.
Well, what if you don't have wings? Uh, you get smashed to bits.
- [shuddering.]
- [laughing.]
Just another reason why it's good to have friends.
- Uh - Try not to scream.
It scares the Hollerbats.
Oh, the Holler [screaming.]
[Deet.]
Whoo! No, what are you Deet! [screaming.]
.]
- Woo-hoo! - [Rian wails.]
- [Rian gasps.]
- [Deet.]
Woo-hoo! [both cheering.]
[chains rattling.]
Ah! Come in.
Come in.
Welcome, Gelfling of Stone-in-the-Wood.
Take a seat.
[metal thud.]
[muffled straining.]
[metal clicking.]
[metal clanging.]
- [gasping.]
- [Threader scurrying.]
[exhaling.]
Huh? - What? - [Scientist.]
Sublime! Sublime.
- [female Gelfling.]
Oh, boy.
- [gasping.]
Oh, no! [panting.]
[male Gelfling 2.]
What's going on? - No, no! It can't be! - What's happening? - [meale Gelfling 1.]
It's all true! - Let us go! [metal rattles.]
You're wasting your time.
I have strapped scores of Gelfling into these very chairs.
And I was equally unmoved by their screams.
[cackling.]
- [grunting.]
No! - [screaming.]
But I was loyal! I warned you of the guard's revolt! Ha! - [grunting.]
- [Scientist chuckling.]
Ah, then it is only fitting you meet the same end as your fellow guards.
Please, my lord.
Mercy! [growling.]
The only mercy I have left to offer is death.
[cackling.]
[grunting.]
[lever clicks.]
[electricity whooshing.]
[gasps.]
Yes! [electricty whooshing.]
[screaming.]
[Gruenaks whimper.]
Gaze into the beam! [groans.]
Ah! Yes! [metal thuds.]
[groaning intensifies.]
[Scientist.]
Now give yourself to the Crystal.
[whooshing intensifies.]
[groaning continues.]
[Scientist cackling.]
[electricity sizzles.]
[Scientist.]
Give the Crystal everything! Give the Skeksis your essence! [groaning intensifies.]
- [chains rattling.]
- [electricity rumbling.]
[water gushing.]
- [Scientist cackling.]
- [metal clanking.]
[thuds.]
[Scientist chuckling.]
[metal clicking.]
[laughing maniacally.]
[lever clicks.]
Good, sterling.
[essence dripping.]
Fresh essence.
[licking.]
Ambrosial and exquisite.
Bring the essence.
The patience of the Emperor is finite and decreasing exponentially.
But the Chamberlain's vial stays.
The Emperor remains displeased with skekSil.
Ha! [muffled muttering.]
[Deet chuckles.]
[Deet.]
Look! We made it! - [Rian.]
Ah! Magnificent! - [Deet.]
My home.
That's Domrak! Isn't it beautiful? [male panting.]
Hello there! - [Spitter hissing.]
- Huh? - [gasping.]
Spitter! - No! - [Rian.]
Watch out! - [yelping.]
[crashing.]
[Rian panting.]
[both grunting.]
- Deet, are you hurt? - I'm fine.
Look! [Spitters hissing.]
[straining.]
- [female screeching.]
- [male skrieking.]
[both gasp.]
[Ascendancy.]
I am the Ascendancy.
What are those small creatures? Are they Arathim too? They're not like any Arathim I've ever seen.
[Rian.]
I think they're somehow controlling those Gelfling.
- My family.
- Huh? We have to find them! [Deet.]
I know every tunnel through these caves.
[Rian.]
Yes.
Right behind you.
[wheels squeaking.]
[glasses clinking.]
Keep up, you lackadaisical lumps! [Scientist cackling.]
Now that I have mechanized the draining process, I can drain Gelfling on a prodigious scale.
- The Emperor will be pleased with me.
- [muffled muttering.]
[Scientist chuckling.]
I said keep up! - [wheels squeaking.]
- [glasses clinking.]
[Scientist groans.]
[muffled squeal.]
[Skeksis gasping.]
[Skeksis 1.]
About time.
[overlapping chatter.]
[cheering.]
[glasses rattle.]
[Skeksis 2.]
Out of my way! - [overlapping yelling.]
- [Emperor.]
Stop this at once! - [Skeksis murmuring.]
- Look at yourselves.
Squealing, gorging.
This essence is hard come by.
Let's not use it all today.
[Skeksis murmuring.]
I'm kidding, you fools.
Dig in! [cheering.]
[overlapping chatter.]
[clattering.]
We are Skeksis eternal! Skeksis eternal.
Hail to the Emperor! [all overlapping.]
Skeksis eternal! [all.]
Hail the Emperor! - [Skeksis 3.]
Yeah! - [Skeksis 4.]
Yes, drink! - [slurping.]
- [Skeksis 5.]
The euphoria! [Skeksis 6.]
Indeed! [cackling.]
Splendiferous rejuvenation.
[cackling.]
A sensation like no other! [grumbling.]
- I can see! My eyes are working! - [Skeksis gasping.]
I'd forgotten just how ugly you all are! [laughing.]
What? Rapturous! I will create a new ritual for the consuming of essence.
- One with many ablutions.
- [cheering.]
[chuckles.]
Ablutions! [Gourmand.]
What's an ablution? Mm [overlapping exclamations.]
- Hm.
- [overlapping chatter.]
[Gourmand.]
One of you tell me what an ablution is.
- I demand - Ablution.
[gasps.]
My pustules stopped oozing! - [overlapping laughter.]
- What? I am beautiful once again! [cackling.]
It isn't working! It isn't working! Why? Why? [grunting.]
- [General.]
Something is wrong.
- [Scroll-Keeper.]
A temper [Skeksis laughing.]
- [overlapping chatter.]
- [Emperor.]
Celebrate! We are Lords of the Crystal and Thra! Excellent work.
Will be rewarded with freedom for you and friend.
- When time is right.
- Mm The Chamberlain is back where belongs.
[overlapping chatter.]
Such power! All-Maudra here.
Bring her.
[grunting.]
[laughing.]
- [clearing throat.]
- What? - The All-Maudra requests an audience.
- The All-Maudra? She's dead.
The new All-Maudra.
Ah.
Well, then, show her in! [Skeksis cheering.]
They barely had time for them to burn the last one.
[cackling.]
[Collector.]
I wonder if it's as ugly.
Oh, yes, very ugly.
Wise and noble Emperor, I am Seladon of Ha'rar, daughter to Mayrin, the traitor All-Maudra.
Proceed.
My mother was led astray by conspirators who foolishly wished to overthrow the mighty Lords of the Crystal.
Now, I come before you to plead for mercy.
[Skeksis snorting.]
I humbly beg of you to release the Stonewood, so they may continue to serve Skeksis as all Gelfling do.
Uh No.
[Skeksis snickering.]
I understand.
The Stonewood must pay for their defiance, but the other clans have not forgotten their place.
Surely they will be spared your wrath.
No.
[cackling.]
[Emperor.]
No.
[guffawing.]
[grunting.]
Emperor, - you are as wise as you are fair.
- Mm Of course a few traitors may hide within any clan, but punishment will be reserved for those who dare spread the filthy lie that you are draining Gelfling! - But we do drain Gelfling.
- [gasping.]
So we may drink your essence! [howling.]
[Skeksis laughing.]
[sighing.]
Poor, poor child.
[cackling.]
Seven Gelfling from each clan.
That is the request you made of my mother, and I shall honor it.
Volunteers to serve as you see fit.
A small price to pay for a new age of peace.
Uh No.
- [gasping.]
- [laughing.]
- She offers her own to us.
- [Ritual-Master.]
How coldhearted.
She could be a Skeksis.
[laughing.]
Lords of the Crystal, please.
My sisters, Brea and Tavra.
Spare them if no others.
No! [laughing.]
Look at me! I'm the All-Maudra! [guffawing.]
I'm the leader of the Gelfling! The ruler of the dead! [laughter continues.]
Look at her face.
I think she's going to cry.
[metal swooshing.]
Enough! Huh? The All-Maudra was a shepherd.
Now, it's time to harvest the herd! [overlapping cheers, laughter.]
No, please! Please, my lords! [mocking.]
Please! Please! No! Please! My lords, please! Mercy! [yelling.]
No, no, no, no, no! [clothing tearing.]
[overlapping commotion.]
[shrieking.]
- [Seladon.]
Stop it! Leave me alone! - [Emperor.]
All right, that's enough.
[Skeksis panting.]
[cackling.]
Drain it.
[laughing.]
[cheering.]
[Seladon shrieks.]
[screaming.]
No! Don't! Stop it! Fresh essence? [cackling.]
[Threader scuttling.]
[Skeksis cackling.]
[gasping.]
Follow her.
Follow! Quickly! [scurrying.]
[Skeksis laughter continues.]
[crying.]
Poor lost child.
[Rian panting.]
There.
That's where I live.
[sighs.]
[Rian sighs.]
[Deet whimpers.]
All clear.
My home.
[Rian.]
It's [whimpering.]
destroyed.
[sighing.]
I'm so sorry, Deet.
[Deet.]
My fathers.
My brother.
I should never have left.
[whimpering.]
We'll get your family back.
[sniffling.]
- Why would the Arathim do this? - I What did the Grottan ever do to them? - [whispering.]
- [gasping.]
Who's there? [panting.]
Show yourself! - [scurrying.]
- [gasping.]
Is it a Spitter? Come out.
I won't warn you again! It's my brother! [gasping.]
[breathing heavily.]
[hissing.]
[Rian.]
He's under the Arathim's control too.
Oh, no.
Bobb'n.
[Ascendancy.]
We not Bobb'n.
Whoever you are, I beg you, let my little brother go.
We - Ascendancy.
- Deet, be careful.
He's just a childling.
He'd never hurt anyone.
[nervous chuckling.]
- [roaring.]
- [Rian yelping.]
- What is he doing? - He's calling the others.
[hissing.]
You have to stop! Bobb'n, stop! - [scurrying.]
- [Rian.]
It's too late! [hissing.]
[crashing.]
[Spitter hissing.]
[screaming.]
[Rian.]
Here it comes! No! [rumbling.]
[screeching.]
Where'd it go? - Bobb'n, stop! - [panting.]
- We have to go after him! - Deet! Wait! [crashing.]
[hissing.]
- [yelling.]
- [roaring.]
- What's that? - Nurloc.
- That's a Nurloc? - It's darkened.
[roaring.]
- Bobb'n! - [Rian.]
Oh, this is bad! [yelling.]
Watch out! [roaring.]
[Rian.]
Deet, get your brother to safety! [shrieking.]
Bobb'n! Come back! [grunting.]
Wait! Look at me! You hungry? I'm a much tastier Gelfling! [roaring.]
Rian, no! [panting.]
[Nurloc bellowing.]
[panting.]
[Rian.]
Don't worry! I've got this! Dinner time! Come on! That's it! That's right! - Come on! Come on! - [Nurloc roaring.]
- [Deet yelling.]
- [Rian grunting.]
[Rian panting.]
[Deet.]
Follow me.
- [crashing.]
- [crumbling.]
- [tail whipping.]
- [Nurloc roaring.]
[sighs.]
[grumbling.]
[humming.]
You think yourself so smart.
Now, what are you prattling on about? - Your essence fails! You're a fraud! - Bah! You can swindle the Emperor and the others, but not me! I see through you.
Your so-called Elixir of Life is a lie! Ow! Hands off, malcontent.
What can you do to stop me, weakling? - [grunting.]
- [cracking.]
It seems you are the weak one.
There is nothing wrong with the essence.
The fault must lie within you! [groaning.]
Impossible! [Chamberlain.]
Easy, friends.
No need for quarrel.
Nothing worse than seeing Skeksis turn on Skeksis.
[Chamberlain.]
Mm? - [chain rattling.]
- [groaning.]
Huh? [footsteps approaching.]
- [grunting.]
- [chain rattling.]
[panting.]
- [straining.]
- [murmuring.]
[overlapping chatter.]
- Huh? - [chain rattling.]
[gasping.]
[metal thud.]
- [Emperor.]
What is it? - [Skeksis.]
What? [groaning.]
[Emperor.]
What happened? - Smells like - [Gourmand.]
It's arrows! - [Scientist.]
What? How? - [Gourmand.]
What's happened? [overlapping muttering.]
[Ritual-Master.]
Nothing more.
Nothing more! - [Emperor.]
Is he all right? Is he dead? - SkekMal? [Gourmand.]
Careful! Careful! Careful! - [Hunter shuddering.]
- [all wailing.]
- [Skeksis shrieking.]
- Is he dead? - What? - [Gourmand.]
Oh, skekMal! [Ritual-Master.]
We must help our fallen brother.
[Ornamentalist.]
Is that skekMal's blood? - [Gourmand.]
Who did this? - Does the Hunter live? Is he dead? - Alive - [Skeksis shuddering.]
but barely.
[panting.]
And where does this tunnel lead? I'm not sure.
I thought you knew all the tunnels.
[grunting.]
[panting.]
Wait.
Shh! [scurrying.]
I hear something.
Is it Bobb'n? I don't think so.
[Threader scuttling.]
[squeaking.]
[dramatic music playing.]
Get back, Rian, now! [panting.]
[Rian gagging.]
[Deet.]
No! No! [gasping.]
I am the Ascendancy.
[gasping.]
- [grunting.]
- [shrieking.]
Join the Ascendancy.
[yelping.]
No, no! Rian! Please! [panting.]
Please, stop! Stop! - [Deet.]
No! - [Bobb'n growling.]
[Threaders squeaking.]
[gasping.]
[Rian panting.]
- [Deet sighs.]
- [Rian sighs.]
Rian Deet? What happened? [Bobb'n cooing.]
Bobb'n saved us.
Well thank you, I guess.
We go this way.
We go now.
He wants us to follow.
- What could possibly go wrong? - [panting.]
[grunting.]
- [grunting.]
- [Skeksis shrieking.]
[Scientist.]
Subject suffers severe exsanguination.
Extreme distress to the humus.
- [Skeksis 1.]
The humus? - [Skeksis 2.]
What's that? Imbalance of intrinsic fluids.
[Skeksis murmuring.]
Manifold ruptures in corporeal morphology.
[Skesksis gasping.]
Ah.
Ah Expiration is [gasping.]
inevitable.
[all wailing.]
No, no, no! What could have done this? Isn't it obvious? Gelfling! [Skeksis screaming.]
I feel ill.
But Gelfling could not have done this.
- Not to Skeksis! - No.
Not to the strongest! - No! - [Skeksis wailing.]
Well, any one of us could be next! [overlapping chatter.]
Quiet! Give the Hunter essence now and as much as it takes.
[Gourmand.]
Perhaps not all of it.
[grumbling.]
SkekMal must not die! It will be done, my Emperor.
- [rattling.]
- [Skeksis gasping.]
- [Brea shuddering.]
- What's that? That noise.
[overlapping murmuring.]
[Gourmand.]
It's coming from in there.
[Brea whimpering.]
- [Brea yelps.]
- Hm oh! Ah [grunting.]
Oh, look! [giggling.]
The clever princess.
[yelling.]
No, you can't do this! And yet it is already done.
You're all monsters! [Scroll-Keeper.]
Have you only just figured that out? Perhaps you are not so clever after all.
[overlapping chatter.]
The Skeksis gave us everything.
- [gasping.]
Seladon.
And now they're taking it all back.
What happened to you? There was an order to the world.
Everything worked until you and your friends broke it.
How can you say that? Look what the Skeksis are doing to Gelfling! Mother should have made a deal with the Skeksis.
Compromised.
Saved the lives of many by sacrificing a few.
[gasping.]
Sacrificing a few? And who decides who lives and who dies? You? Yes! I am the only one capable of making the hard choices.
[scoffing.]
If mother could you see you now Mother is dead! As we will be soon enough all thanks to you.
[sighing.]
- [Ascendancy.]
Pathetic.
- Tavra? [gasps.]
You're alive! [Seladon.]
You must get us out of here, sister! - We are not your sister.
- [prisoners.]
We are not your sister.
[gasping.]
Tavra.
Tavra, what's happening? We are not Tavra.
Accept your fate, make your peace.
The age of Gelfling has come to an end.
[gasping.]
[whimpering.]
[essence trickling.]
[murmuring.]
This is the last of my stores of essence.
[gasping.]
- [Skeksis shrieks.]
- So, drain more Gelfling.
But, Emperor, there are limits to what even essence can heal.
- [grunting.]
- [yelping.]
[cackling.]
[Scroll-Keeper.]
Right in the beak! [chuckling.]
If the Gelfling know we can die, it will be the end of Skeksis rule.
Drain every last Gelfling in our cages.
Bathe the Hunter in essence if you must.
We are immortal at any cost! [cackling.]
[overlapping cheering.]
[Emperor.]
Immortal! - [overlapping chatter.]
- [Emperor.]
Immortal! [Ritual-Master.]
Come on! Collect them! Ornamentalist, Scroll-Keeper, let us be gone! [overlapping chatter.]
- [Scroll-Keeper cackling.]
- [scurrying.]
[Threader purring.]
[panting.]
Bobb'n! Slow down! Wait for us! [Deet.]
Bobb'n? Bobb'n? Where have you go [hissing.]
[Spitters hissing.]
You save our lives, we save yours in return.
I don't like this.
Fathers! [groaning.]
[Deet.]
Maudra Argot? No.
Wait.
It's not her.
[gasping.]
[Ascendancy.]
We are the Ascendancy.
We are all Arathim as one.
No.
What have you done with the Grottan? They will be delivered to the Crystal Castle in exchange for the return of our home: these caves.
This isn't your home, it's ours.
The Grottan have always lived here.
[Ascendancy.]
Untrue! Once, we Arathim made our nest here, then the Skeksis came.
They demanded we serve them.
When we refused, they drove us out and gave our caves to more willing subjects: you.
Now, we will take back our home.
Once and for all.
[roaring.]
[Ascendancy groaning.]
[hacking.]
[groaning.]
- What's wrong? - Huh? - The Nurlocs! - They're killing us! - [roaring.]
- [thuds.]
[Ascendancy.]
What one feels all feel.
It's like dying.
The Nurlocs, they don't know what they're doing.
They're infected by the Darkening.
But the Skeksis must've known the Darkening has spread throughout Grot.
Huh Well, don't you see? They've sent you here to die.
[Rian.]
The Darkening destroys everything it touches! Hm Perhaps the Gelfling speaks true.
[Ascendancy.]
The Arathim are trapped here.
The Nurlocs have blocked every escape.
- We will be - Exterminated! I can get you above ground.
The Sanctuary Tree can take all of us to the surface.
You'd help us after all we've done to you? Why? My clan takes our name from these caves.
But if you were here first, that makes you Grottan too.
What do you ask in return? Free all the Gelfling under your control and fight with us against the Skeksis.
Arathim did not defeat Skeksis.
Gelfling cannot defeat Skeksis.
But the Arathim and Gelfling together might stand a chance.
[Ascendancy chattering.]
[scurrying.]
[rumbling.]
The Ascendancy has heard your truth.
[echoing.]
Truth We will fight by your side.
[echoing.]
By your side! Arathim and Gelfling together! [scurrying.]
- [Threader scuttles.]
- [sighs.]
- [Threader scuttles.]
- [sighs.]
Oh - What happened? - [gasping.]
- Fathers? - Oh! Deet! [uplifting music playing.]
[grunting.]
- Deet! - Father! [both sighing.]
[Bobb'n.]
Fathers! [chuckling.]
This is Rian.
We have to get topside.
Ah! [groaning.]
I'm not going anywhere until one of you tells me what in Thra is going on here.
Bah! [Threader squealing.]
[Threaders squeaking.]
Ah, there you are.
It's about time! Bah! [grunting.]
Ah.
[squeaking.]
You've done well.
You should be proud, little one.
Aughra has seen what she needed to see.
[squeaking.]
What? What do you mean, "alliance"? [squeaking.]
Gelfling and Arathim? Hm.
Hard to surprise a prophet.
The creatures of Thra align with one another.
A Skeksis lies dying.
Hm.
All signs and portents come together.
The Skeksis are desperate.
[squeaking.]
[chuckling.]
[uplifting music playing.]
A-ha! It's time to make my move.
[grunting, chuckling.]
[Spitters hissing.]
- Arathim.
- That's right.
[Sanctuary Tree.]
For so long, I have fought the Darkening alone.
You're not alone anymore.
The tide is turning.
A resistance is forming.
The Skeksis will fall, and the Darkening will end.
- [Sanctuary Tree.]
Thank you, Deethra.
- [Deet.]
I promise.
[Sanctuary Tree echoing.]
Thank you Your family's safely above ground.
[Rian.]
And the last of the Arathim are going up now.
It's time for you to go.
[gasping.]
You're not coming? No.
I have to find the Glaive.
[sighing.]
You can't go alone.
[sighing.]
You should be with the ones you love.
Don't worry about me.
I've made it this far somehow.
But I - [rumbling.]
- [yelping.]
[Sanctuary Tree.]
The Darkening! It's coming! I cannot hold it back.
[Sanctuary Tree groaning.]
- [crashing.]
- [Sanctuary Tree yelps.]
Oh, Thra, have mercy! Leave the Sanctuary Tree alone! You're killing it! [roaring.]
- [crashing.]
- We have to stop them! You have to stop! Stop! [Sanctuary Tree.]
Nothing can be done.
Thra calls me home.
[Sanctuary Tree exhaling.]
No.
No.
[gasping.]
It's all right.
I will carry on.
I will defeat the Darkening! [Sanctuary Tree.]
The Darkening is pure energy.
- It cannot be destroyed.
- Deet, they're coming! If the Darkening can't be destroyed, then how do I defeat it? [Sanctuary Tree.]
Like all energy, it can only be transferred, moved! Teach me how.
Please! [Sanctuary Tree.]
Blessing or curse, I do not know.
But my power is yours.
- [whooshing.]
- [shrieking.]
[screaming.]
[shuddering.]
[screaming.]
[crashing.]
[groans.]
- [screaming.]
- [clinking.]
[whooshing continues.]
[quietens.]
- I won't.
I won't.
- [panting.]
[crumbling.]
Oh, Deet? [roaring.]
[sword whooshes.]
- [roaring.]
- [sword clinking.]
Let me help you.
[gasping.]
[electricity pulsating.]
What? [panting.]
[cooing.]
[sighing.]
Sweet Nurloc.
You healed it.
But how? The Sanctuary Tree gifted me its power.
One last act of kindness.
[groaning.]
[Rian.]
Deet? Deet? [echoing.]
Deet Deet.
Deet! [Rian.]
Hold on.
[grunting.]
[Rian.]
Don't let go.
[panting.]
Rian? I've got you.
[exhaling.]
[panting.]
[fantasy music playing.]