His Dark Materials (2019) s03e01 Episode Script

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
XAPHANIA: For many millennia,
the Authority has ruled
in the Kingdom of Heaven
with absolute control.
He named himself the Creator,
the Father, the Almighty.
He is none of those
but just an angel like ourselves.
And he rules with a
dark angel by his side.
We, who fought for truth,
were cast out of the Kingdom.
Since then, we have
lived between the worlds,
watching and waiting for vengeance.
A spark of hope is
alive among humankind.
A bold leader is rallying warriors.
He may be mortal
but his ambitions transcend his kind.
A serpent has been summoned.
A new Eve emerges.
The time for a new rebellion
- is coming.
- [MUSIC CONCLUDES]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[CRICKETS CHIRPING]
[ELECTRICAL BUZZING]
WILL PARRY: Lyra!
Lyra!
Lyra!
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
WILL: I'm looking for a girl.
Medium height, dark hair, brown eyes.
Her name's Lyra. She
has a daemon called Pan.
[CHIMES]
WILL: She's missing.
Help me.
[MUSIC SWELLS]
[CHIMES]
Tell me where she is.
[MUSIC FADES]
[EERIE MUSIC PLAYING]
[WIND HOWLING]
Pan?
Pan?
ROGER PARSLOW: [DISTORTED] Lyra!
[SHOUTING] Roger! Is that you?
ROGER: [DISTORTED] I need you! Help me!
[SHOUTING] Where are you?
Roger!
[MUSIC CONCLUDES]
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
[GOLDEN MONKEY GRUNTS]
MRS. COULTER: Lyra.
[MUSIC CONCLUDES]
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]
[CLOCK TICKING RAPIDLY]
[CREATURES GROWLING, SHRIEKING]
[ENGINE WHIRRING]
Come on. Come on. For goodness' sake.
The craft may not be
ready for this. [GROWLS]
Then that is on the
pair of us, is it not?
- [GRUNTS]
- STELMARIA: Clear your mind.
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
[INSECTS BUZZING]
[PORTAL WHOOSHING]
- [ENGINE SPUTTERING]
- [URGENT BEEPING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
We've lost the rear oscillator.
[GRUNTS]
[GROANS]
[GRUNTS]
[GROANS] Brace!
[MUSIC CONCLUDES]
[GENTLE PIANO MUSIC PLAYING]
[SQUEAKS]
[SQUEAKS]
I could smell the flowers when
you came down the path.
How are you?
What's wrong?
Is there a problem?
This chapel has stood empty for years.
There are rumours that someone
is hiding there.
I'm not hiding.
Why are you here?
Do you believe in magic?
Sometimes.
Follow me.
[HAUNTING MUSIC PLAYING]
[GRUNTS]
[SQUIRREL SQUEAKING]
[FIRE CRACKLING]
Don't be scared.
She is my daughter.
An enchanter has cast a spell on her.
That's why she's asleep.
Can't you wake her?
I need time to help wake her up.
I need you to help me
keep the people away.
I will help.
Thank you. I appreciate it.
Keep her safe, please.
I will.
This is our secret.
PAN: Please
Let us go.
COULTER: [WHISPERING] Here.
- Drink this.
- Hmm.
If you don't drink your medicine,
how will you get better, darling?
Hmm? Here.
- [MUSIC CONCLUDES]
- [BIRDS CHIRPING]
[BREATHES HEAVILY]
- [GRASS RUSTLING]
- [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[EXHALES]
[CHIMES]
[MUSIC CONCLUDES]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
BARUCH: [ECHOING] Don't be afraid.
[COMPASS CLOSING]
- [HESITATES] How did you
- We're not going to hurt you.
What are you?
[SPEAKING HEBREW] Bene Elim.
We come to you in human form.
Angels?
We just want to talk.
Stop following me.
[PORTAL CHIMES]
AEsahaettr.
It's real.
- [MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
- [CHIMES]
[MUSIC CONCLUDES]
- [GRUNTS]
- [GROWLS]
I think the craft is
pretty much done for.
STELMARIA: And how will we
get back to the Republic?
[SIGHS] We'll be able
to figure something out.
- [GROWLS]
- [GRUNTS]
- See anything?
- [STELMARIA GROWLS SOFTLY]
Looks like the path is clear.
Commander, let's go get our man.
[EPIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[WINGS FLUTTERING]
WINGED CREATURE 1: Follow my lead.
Hey! Hey! [GRUNTS]
WINGED CREATURE 1: Cleared.
[GRUNTS]
[GRUNTS]
[KNIVES RINGING]
- [GUARD GRUNTING]
- [GRUNTS]
[LORD ASRIEL BELACQUA GRUNTING]
- [MUSIC CONCLUDES]
- We secure?
- WINGED CREATURE 2: Clear!
- WINGED CREATURE 3: Clear!
WINGED CREATURE 1: All clear.
- [PANTS]
- [GROWLS]
ASRIEL: [PANTING] Ogunwe.
Which one of you is Commander Ogunwe?
[DOOR UNLOCKS]
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
I am.
- [PANTS]
- [DOOR CLOSES]
Who are you, and your little friends?
I am Lord Asriel Belacqua.
I intend to march upon
the Kingdom of Heaven,
and I should very much
like you to join me.
I've heard stories about you.
You have just made war with the Temple.
I'll let you fight that one.
[GROWLS] Listen to what he has to say.
My friends and I, we
are not from your world.
We have little interest in your Temple.
We came here for you.
Join with me in my fight
against the Authority.
Look, I know that we
stand for the same thing.
I know the number you command.
I want your army, but
I need your leadership.
Come with me. Be a part
of the final victory.
You can come with me.
[MUSIC CONCLUDES]
[AIRSHIP ENGINE REVVING]
[THREATENING MUSIC PLAYING]
Welcome to Geneva, Cardinal MacPhail.
FATHER PRESIDENT MACPHAIL:
Father President, please.
Father President.
[MUSIC CONCLUDES]
Tell me of this arrest.
FATHER JEROME: We recovered
this material from the site.
It was recited before an audience,
many inebriated, and followed
by feverish discussion,
and a grotesque exchange of ideas.
Poems. [INHALES]
Father Jerome.
What do you think should be done?
The author must be
imprisoned for heresy.
[GRUNTS]
Father Heyst. There
were dozens more like it
hidden throughout the building.
All attendees imprisoned,
as well as anyone found
in possession of the author's work.
Mm-hmm.
Father?
- Gomez.
- Father Gomez.
If you were in my
position, what would you do?
Physical atonement in public.
For those charged with possession,
I'd choose, perhaps,
the whip. For the author,
something which leaves a
little more lasting damage.
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
Fear is a gift.
It allows people to learn.
[MUSIC CONCLUDES]
BALTHAMOS: They'll make examples of us.
Baruch, we do not have time.
BARUCH: We need that knife.
[INHALES] I told you
to stop following me.
How can you cut through worlds?
BALTHAMOS: We are made of Dust,
and can pass through
invisible spaces in the air,
gateways into other worlds.
We can see them, but you cannot.
Balthamos and I have been searching
- for AEsahaettr for you.
- [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
Because there is a great war coming.
All conscious beings are
engaged in a battle already,
though not all of us know it.
The enemy's power is growing
stronger every minute,
and you have the weapon
that will enable us to win.
You must come with us to Lord Asriel.
He's gathering an army
I know who he is.
Someone told me about
him. About all of it.
The war,
how I'm supposed to fight
alongside Asriel, with this.
I can't go with you. I'm sorry.
I'm looking for my friend,
Lyra Asriel's daughter.
[SCOFFS] Not that he
cares, but she's lost.
She needs my help.
BALTHAMOS: You don't understand.
That knife is more important
than you can imagine.
No, you don't understand.
Lyra's the most important
thing to me right now.
I'm going to find her.
- You will come with us now
- Or what?
I'm sorry about your friend.
I can see she means a lot to you.
Do you know what happened to her?
We were attacked. She was taken.
- By who?
- WILL: I don't know.
I went ahead without her.
I thought she would be safe.
When I came back, she was gone.
Whatever Asriel wants, he can wait.
I'm sorry.
You do realize we're just going
to keep following you
until you change your mind.
Well, you can keep
following me because
You've managed to find me
every time I've cut through.
How?
The knife. It attracts Dust.
We have senses that humans do not.
[SCOFFS] Help me find her.
If you can find me, you can find Lyra.
Take me to her.
Then, I will come with you to Asriel.
We do not have time.
It will not take them long,
Baruch. They will find us.
So we will be quick.
Balthamos, we don't have a choice.
[MUSIC CONCLUDES]
This was Lyra's.
She says it's powered
the same way as the knife.
Maybe you can use it to find her.
BARUCH: It's powered by Dust.
[CHUCKLES] Yes.
We will need a little
time, but we will find her,
whatever world she is in.
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
[ALARM BLARING]
Lyra, I'm here!
Wait, I'm coming.
Roger, what is this place?
ROGER: I hate it!
Roger!
Roger!
ROGER: [SHOUTING] I'm scared!
Roger.
Roger.
[MUSIC CONCLUDES]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
Come on. [PANTS]
[PANTS]
- [PANTS] Machi!
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
MACHI: Father!
OGUNWE: [CHUCKLING] God, I missed you.
Oh, my sweet. [GASPS]
Look at you. [SIGHS]
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
- You've grown six inches,
you're almost as tall
as me now. [CHUCKLES]
Daddy has work to do.
I'll be right back.
[SNIFFS]
[MUSIC CONCLUDES]
You have a beautiful little girl.
How long since you last saw her?
Ten months and 16 days.
I had no hope of leaving that cell,
until you and your cat
- came to recruit me.
- [GROWLS]
- What?
- [STOPPER SQUEAKS]
Trying to decide if you're a madman
or a genius.
Well, I rather hoped
the two could coexist.
So, Lord Asriel
tell me who your war is really against,
and what you want from me?
My fight is with the
Authority himself
You said that before,
but it's impossible.
Humankind cannot stand
against its Creator.
Well, he forces us to kneel at his feet,
but he is not the Creator.
It's all a lie. He is an angel.
- An angel?
- Nothing more.
[CLICKS TONGUE] And how
do you know all this
Even if it were true?
Some millennia ago,
another angel discovered
the Authority's secret.
Now, that angel, Xaphania,
sits on my council.
Ogunwe, I am gathering the
greatest from every world.
From even the heavens above,
but I want you to help me wage my war.
I should be flattered.
Well, I have come rather a
long way, so yes, you should.
Lord Asriel I cannot help you.
Machi is my youngest daughter.
But I have another.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
The Temple have been targeting
our children for a while now.
[SIGHS] But in recent years
they began taking them away
for training.
Aria is the property of the Temple.
To her
I do not exist.
There is only the Authority.
And the girl I knew
she's gone.
But she's still my child.
I understand what you offer.
[SIGHS] But I have my
own battles here to fight.
And an obligation to
save as many sons
and daughters as I can.
May I? Please.
I've seen this before. Her
daemon has been severed.
She is not demonic.
I did not say she was. Forgive me.
Please, if you'll allow
me to explain. Stelmaria?
[STELMARIA PURRING]
[EXHALES] Stelmaria and I are one.
She is my daemon. My
soul, if you use that word.
[PURRING]
Aria's daemon resided within.
The link that binds us to our daemon
is immensely powerful.
But when it is severed,
well, very little remains.
[SIGHS]
They are taking our souls, Ogunwe,
and with them our humanity.
To make us easier to control.
To make us this.
- [MUSIC CONCLUDES]
- [INDISTINCT BUZZING]
Drones.
- [DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
- [DRONES WHIRRING]
Get Machi on the ground!
Everyone, inside now!
[INDISTINCT CHATTER, CLAMOR]
OGUNWE: Hold your fire.
They're trying to draw us out.
[DRONE BEEPING]
[DRONES WHIRRING]
[MUSIC FADES]
[AIRSHIP WHIRRING]
FATHER GOMEZ: You sent
for me, Father President?
Come in, Father Gomez.
I have come to Geneva
on a matter of great significance.
Fra Pavel's alethiometer
has informed me of a prophecy
which, if true, a
and I believe it is,
risks plunging us into a darkness,
the like of which the
world has not experienced.
There is a girl wandering
the earth at this very moment,
- and she is Eve.
- [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
The mother of us all,
and the cause of all sin.
The instrument says that
if this child is tempted
by the serpent, she will likely fall.
And if she does fall, then
sin and Dust will triumph.
This cannot happen.
So, we stop her.
Where is she?
Unfortunately, we are at the mercy
of the instrument and its user.
Fra Pavel's work is unbearably slow.
When he does locate the child
we will send troops to retrieve her.
And I would like you,
Father Gomez to lead them.
It would be an honor.
I could perhaps drop in on Fra Pavel.
See if I can speed him up a little.
Please.
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
[GRUNTS, BREATHES DEEPLY]
[MUSIC CONCLUDES]
COULTER: All these men after you.
I tell you, it'll never change.
There are forces out there
that you can't begin to understand.
I wish you wouldn't
look at me like that.
[WHIMPERS]
Would you rather I didn't keep her safe?
You're keeping her prisoner.
Let us go.
Afraid I can't.
[PAN WHIMPERS]
[GOLDEN MONKEY CHITTERS]
- [PAN SNIFFS]
- [GOLDEN MONKEY GROWLS]
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
- [MUSIC CONCLUDES]
- [TICKING RAPIDLY]
[DINGS]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
WILL: You found her.
You were right.
She is in the world of the daemons.
Where?
She's with a woman who is holding her
against her will.
In a house carved into the rocks.
It's on a remote island
in the German ocean.
You will need passage on a ship.
But Lyra's not harmed?
No. Just asleep and dreaming.
What can you tell me about the woman?
Her daemon is a golden monkey.
- Her mother.
- BALTHAMOS: Her mother?
Lyra's mother's the
worst possible person
she could be with.
Balthamos will take you to her.
I must go to Asriel
and tell him about you and AEsahaettr.
Are you sure this is safe?
Go straight to Lyra,
and we will be together
again before long.
I do not remember agreeing
to accompany the boy.
BARUCH: Stay close to Will.
As soon as the children are reunited,
you will both come to
me in Asriel's Republic.
[CHIMES]
[CHIMES]
[MUSIC CONCLUDES]
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
Father President MacPhail sent me.
Where is the girl?
I am close, Father. I assure you.
[SQUEAKS]
I see this task has
weighed heavily on you.
The pressure. Such great responsibility.
It must muddle the mind terribly.
It is this [BREATHES HEAVILY]
final part of the reading.
Its meaning
- [SQUEAKS]
- [FRA PAVEL SIGHS]
eludes me.
[SHUDDERS] I just need
a little more time.
We can only do that of
which we are capable.
Father President has advised
that if the coordinates
are not forthcoming,
then perhaps, the time
has come to re-educate you.
No.
No. I will find her.
I promise.
I have no doubt that you will.
[SQUEAKS]
- [MUSIC CONCLUDES]
- [BIRDS CHIRPING]
PAN: Lyra. Wake up, please. [SNIFFS]
[LYRA BREATHES DEEPLY]
PAN: Look.
[BREATHES HEAVILY]
PAN: We can get away.
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[SIGHS, BREATHES DEEPLY]
[GRUNTS, INHALES]
[GOLDEN MONKEY GRUNTS]
[GRUNTS, BREATHES HEAVILY]
[GOLDEN MONKEY GROWLS]
[SIGHS]
[GRUNTS, BREATHES HEAVILY]
[GOLDEN MONKEY SHRIEKS]
- [GRUNTS, BREATHES HEAVILY]
- COULTER: Lyra!
PAN: She's coming.
- [BREATHES HEAVILY]
- PAN: You're not gonna make it.
- LYRA: We have to try.
- [SQUEAKS]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
Hide here. Maybe someone will see us.
[BREATHES HEAVILY, GRUNTS]
[BREATHES HEAVILY]
COULTER: Lyra?
Lyra!
Where is she? [BREATHES HEAVILY]
PAN: I can't see.
Lyra! [CHUCKLING] Lyra, where are you?
You never cease to amaze me.
[BREATHES HEAVILY]
[GRUNTS]
[BREATHES HEAVILY] Please.
[CHITTERS]
Hmm. [CHUCKLES]
[BREATHES HEAVILY]
[SIGHS]
Hmm.
I do understand why you're doing this.
Must be strange being
here, like this with me.
But I haven't brought you
here to keep you jailed.
I've done it to keep you safe.
Lyra, darling
there are people coming for you.
Dangerous people.
- [SIGHS, BREATHES HEAVILY]
- You're so brave. [CHUCKLES]
So courageous.
[BREATHES HEAVILY]
I know you won't believe me,
but I I am doing this for you.
Come on, darling, here you go.
[BREATHES DEEPLY] I will
never be safe with you.
[GROANS, INHALES]
- [WHIMPERS, BREATHES HEAVILY]
- I'm sorry.
[BREATHES HEAVILY, GRUNTS]
- [MUSIC CONCLUDES]
- [SIGHS] I'm sorry.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
Commander, they're
heading for the mines.
They will miss us by four miles.
Good. We'll stay covered until sundown.
- [PURRING]
- Putting up a good fight,
Commander, but the battle
you're engaged in is too small.
Even if you win this
fight against the Temple,
the Authority will send
more servants in their place
to put you back on your knees.
They are in every world. I've seen it.
You keep talkin' of other worlds
as if you expect me to believe them.
I do not lie.
This is but one world among many.
In every single one of
them, the same thing.
Children, mutilated.
Science, learning, criminalized,
and whole civilizations
cowering under the sky.
[BREATHES DEEPLY] I was like you once.
In my world, the Temple, they
are called the Magisterium
and I have wasted most
of my life fighting them
until I discovered that
they were but one arm
of the Authority's might,
and that beast has countless arms.
The only fight worth risking
your children's lives
for lies elsewhere.
[SIGHS]
My Republic, down
here in the good Earth,
against his Kingdom up there in the sky.
- [SIGHS]
- It is the only way to win.
We cut off the head of the beast,
and the rest will crumble.
No! No.
What you ask me to believe is too great.
It's a lot to take in
so, let me show you.
Show me?
And that way you can
decide for yourself.
Let me take you to another world.
[MUSIC CONCLUDES]
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[GOLDEN MONKEY CHITTERS]
Please
just let me be.
I'll think of something.
[GRUNTS]
I just thought he'd be here by now.
[MUSIC CONCLUDES]
- Do you know how she reads it?
- No.
Readers of those instruments
have normally studied many years.
Even then, they can only understand
- with the help of books.
- She wasn't making it up.
Perhaps she's a very
skilled inventor.
She can read it.
It told her things she
could have never known,
like where my father
was. It's a part of her,
just like the knife's a part of me.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[SIGHS] That's the
port we're looking for.
[SIGHS] Now, we just need a ship.
[BACKGROUND CHATTER]
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
IOREK BYRNISON: I am
King Iorek Byrnison.
[ANIMAL GROWLING]
[ROARS] You've trapped one of my bears!
Release her now! [ROARS]
- I think I know that bear.
- [IOREK ROARS]
- I can talk to him.
- What?
[IOREK ROARS]
It's Lyra's friend.
[ROARS, BITES]
[IOREK ROARS]
IOREK: Where is she?
- [SCREAMS, GRUNTS]
- [ROARS]
[GRUNTS]
[GRUNTS]
[TOWNSPEOPLE SHOUTING]
Come on!
- [ROARS]
- [TOWNSMAN GRUNTS]
[ROARS]
Stop!
Stop.
- Get out of my way, child.
- You have to stop.
There are innocent people here.
They have taken one of my bears!
What do you want?
I want to fight you. In single combat.
I win, you leave these people alone.
If I lose, do whatever
you want with them, and me.
You wish to fight me? [GROWLS]
It would be shameful to fight you.
You are as weak as an
oyster out of its shell.
Let's make it a fair fight, then.
You have all the armor.
- [SNIFFS, GROWLS]
- I have none.
Give me a piece.
Anything you want.
We'll be better matched then, won't we?
[GROWLS]
Do you know what you are doing, boy?
Sky-iron, am I right?
[GRUNTS]
Impenetrable, I heard.
[BREATHES HEAVILY]
[TOWNSPEOPLE GASP]
[GROWLS]
WILL: That's surprising.
I guess I have to fight
you without armor after all.
[GROWLS, SNIFFS] I cannot fight that.
That knife is too strange.
[GRUNTS] You win, boy.
Free that bear, now.
You heard the boy. Do it!
[CROWD CLAMORING]
[GROWLS]
What is your name, child?
Will Parry.
So, Will Parry, you're looking for Lyra?
She's with her mother,
being held against her will.
Then we must go to her.
Father President.
I visited Fra Pavel. Several times.
[MUSIC CONCLUDES]
I helped him to
focus his mind
a little.
He has since divined that the child
is with her mother.
[BREATHES DEEPLY] The mother.
With this information,
I am confident I can
locate the girl myself.
But I will need to use
methods that aren't
officially sanctioned.
You must do whatever you need to do.
The second you have their position,
go to them, get the
child, get the mother,
and bring them directly to me.
Marisa Coulter is
evil, she is persuasive.
Do not trust her.
Father, I've done
pre-emptive penance every day
of my adult life.
I will do whatever is
required to get them here.
Your dedication to the Authority
will not go unappreciated.
[KISSES]
[IMPOSING MUSIC PLAYING]
[SNIFFS]
[SQUEAKING]
[CHITTER, SQUEAKING]
OGUNWE: Asriel,
I do hope you're not
walking me to my death.
LORD ASRIEL: And death is a lie.
[CLICKS TONGUE]
You're wrong. Death is real.
I've seen it.
More than my fair share of battle.
Commander, somehow the Authority
has managed to pervert
the natural order of Dust.
I don't know how but when I find out,
believe me, death is going to die.
I believe I've heard enough.
- [TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
- You'll see.
[GRUNTS] Stelmaria, on my mark
- [GROWLS]
- I want you to bite down.
You ready?
- In three, two, one.
- [BITES]
[EXPLOSION]
[GASPS]
[LAUGHS]
See?
[LORD ASRIEL GRUNTS]
Welcome to the Republic
of Heaven, Commander.
I'd gather my people if I were you.
[SIGHS] The real war is
coming, and we must win it.
[EPIC MUSIC PLAYING]