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[Zero] Previously on Prisoner Zero...

I am going to shut down this Bioweave Master Transmitter,

get everyone out from under the Imperium's tyranny.

Parker knew me before I was Prisoner Zero.

I don't have any key!

[Parker] It's locked away, deep inside your mind.

The man I was keeps getting us in over our heads.

What did you do to me, General?

On Tartarus? In prison?

How much do you remember?

I remember nothing!

I understand nothing! [sighs]

-[distant rumbling] -[chitters]

Del, what's going on?

Maybe he's asleep.

Old people need their sleep.

I am so telling him you said that.

Of course you are.

I don't need much sleep and I'm old.

You are so old you've gone through the "I need sleep" stage

and back out again.

Oh, yes, very good.

Del, if you are asleep...

Who said I was asleep?

Oh, Tag. Of course.

Banter, later. Rescues, now!

Get us off Galt straightaway.

Uh, the Jump Tech is down.

Makes a change from the comms.

I thought that.

Amazing, isn't it?

[roaring]

Is no-one getting the urgency of our situation?

-[Del] Problems? -Oh, nothing much. Just them!

[roars]

Wow.

I believe the planet Galt has some very strange natural properties

and this may be one of them.

Guys. Seriously?

Why is the Jump Pad not working?

I was stripping it down, trying to increase its range.

You said you'd be hours.

Well, I apologize for not anticipating us being attacked by giant rock monsters!

[roars]

Can't Guardian get you back here

with his handy-dandy built-in Jump Tech?

It was in his left hand.

Librarian, can you use one of your portals?

I could get us about 60 random meters away,

but no, I can't get us back to the Rogue.

Right now 60 meters would be better than nothing.

You moved the whole ship once.

Yes, but again I say "random".

He's right.

Randomly moving is useless if we end up 60 meters backwards.

We just need one of Del's miracles.

[groans]

How'd you do that?

Was going to ask you the same question.

But we're very glad you did.

Except that I didn't.

Something else activated the Jump Pad, from off-ship.

-Uh, guys? -What?

Problem. Where's Zero?

[Zero] A decade ago, the Imperium created the Bioweave,

a digital nightmare they wired into our brains.

They locked me away, stole my memories, left me with nothing.

Then one day, I was rescued and taken aboard the Rogue.

Now my friends and I are going to shut down the Bioweave

and free humanity.

Because I am Prisoner Zero.

[theme music playing]

Guys?

Tag? Gem? Anyone?

[man] Welcome home, Culchie.

Where is this place?

Ah, come on, you must recognize it.

You spent the best part of your life here.

-No. -Oh, yes.

No longer Zero aboard the Rogue, fighting Vykar,

righting wrongs, defending the weak and oppressed.

No. Once again you are locked up in the Imperium's finest jail.

Welcome back to your life as Prisoner Zero.

Remember?

[hissing]

In you go.

You want the first shift?

Nah. I need sleep.

Get comfortable, Culchie.

You're going to be here for a very long time.

Where am I?

Sub-Commander Vykar wants only the best for you.

Welcome to Tartarus.

Oh, and the surface of the whole planet is made of molten lava.

So no escape for you.

-Who-- -Callum Corcoran, at your service.

No. I...

Why am I here? Why am I in prison?

Save the questions for when Vykar gets here.

But...

But who am I?

Who am I?

I sort of remember that. Flashes.

Well, Parker and I did wipe your mind on a regular basis.

I wouldn't be surprised if odd things seep back in.

Parker?

Oh, of course.

Why am I here, Callum? Why bring me back?

You can ask the big guy when he gets here.

Something about what's locked inside your head.

Something you, uh, you learned while you were here.

Trouble is, we wiped you so many times,

you don't know that you know it.

So Vykar thought, what,

chucking me back in here would jog my memory?

That's what the, the big guy thinks.

I'm not so sure.

But it seems I've got to do what I'm told.

Maybe sitting in your cell like this will spark a few memories, Culchie.

How does anyone interrupt a jump?

And do it so specifically that they only took Zero?

-Vykar? -Not possible.

The Imperium don't have the ability to do anything that specific.

Or covering that distance.

If distance is a problem,

have we considered the possibility that Zero is still down on Galt?

You reckon he just never came up with us?

He was there with you. I saw him for a second.

Then he just looked...weird.

Ill weird? Hurt weird?

Do you think someone attacked him?

Nope, it was more like he was seeing something or somewhere

that wasn't here on the Rogue.

We really ought to find him.

I don't like to think of poor Zero lost somewhere, all alone.

He's a grown-up. He can look after himself.

For now.

Yeah, but we are going to find him, right?

Course.

Just as soon as one of you tells me where to look.

That's where you were, Galt.

Could someone there have the technology to transmit a signal

-strong enough to interrupt a jump? -Sure.

But it'd take the most powerful transmitter I've ever imagined.

It would require a transmitter

capable of reaching far greater distances than--

A Master Transmitter.

What? You think...

Hey, it makes sense.

We've been searching all over for the Bioweave Master Transmitter.

We can shut it down, stop the Imperium.

Yeah. What if it's been used to find Zero,

the one man the Imperium believe could actually do that?

This is the only local planet with an atmosphere breathable by humans.

-The planet is called-- -I know what it's called.

I've been here before.

[Librarian] Really? When was that?

Last time the Rogue was here, I was looking for this specific planet.

It's Tartarus.

It's where I rescued Zero from prison, where they wiped his mind.

And now they've taken him back.

DeMar, are you... Are you still there?

[DeMar] Hello, my friend. How are you today?

Been for more of Parker's treatment.

They're destroying my mind, my memories, DeMar.

I still can't remember who I am, or why I'm here.

Without you to focus on, I think I'd lose it all.

[DeMar] They tell me you're called Zero.

Silly name.

The ultimate prisoner, I suppose.

Are you okay?

[DeMar] I'm alive, which is nice.

They made me re-live more of it, Zero.

Re-live the creation of my monster.

But you said you thought it was a good thing you invented.

-You said-- -[DeMar] Oh, I thought so back then.

But now...

It worked!

Oh, Darrow!

Darrow, this is going to change everything!

Oh! Do you know what I've done?

You mean other than invade the minds of two citizens of Dosk?

Whatever. I've created the future.

Look, the Bioweave test worked under laboratory conditions, yes,

but I'm asking you to slow down.

Think for once, don't just act.

If we magnify the range,

we should be able to beam straight into the minds

of everyone in the city.

Maybe across the entire planet.

No. No, it's too ambitious.

Too dangerous.

The Bioweave!

It's going to change everything.

And it all starts here, with this.

The Codec is the heart of it all.

Everyone can be connected and this locks it all together.

And I'm the key to it all.

You're the key?

The key?

Parker and Callum keep asking me about the key.

Of course. That's why. They think you've told me about your secrets.

About your key.

What happened next?

[DeMar] Next?

Next I destroyed a world.

What is it doing?

Creating connections, creating happiness.

This is humanity's next step.

And in the wrong hands?

It sounds like you could control the minds of every one on Dosk,

brainwash them.

If this works, I can change the cosmos.

It's going to be the greatest gift humanity has ever received.

[yells]

[Zero] You weren't to know.

[DeMar] I was arrogant and stupid.

I thought I knew it all.

But in creating the Bioweave, I destroyed everything and everyone.

Darrow, my friends, my family.

The planet Dosk, wiped out in a split second.

I was at the eye of the storm, unhurt.

The Imperium found me, brought me here and are stealing my Bioweave.

They're going to control the cosmos.

Don't worry, DeMar.

One day soon, we'll get you out.

I won't leave you here, my friend.

I never got you out, DeMar.

I'm so sorry.

And they did exactly as you feared.

Took your Bioweave and enslaved everyone.

I wish you were still here

so I could tell you how Gem, Del, Tag and I are doing everything we can

to stop them.

I won't rest till I stop them, DeMar.

I'm doing all this for you.

Let's go get him back.

I'm not sure that's a good idea.

-What? -The librarian's right.

Look at these specs. That's a lava world down there.

We still don't have a working Jump Pad.

I'm not leaving him.

Not only is Zero there, but so's the Master Transmitter.

That is only guesswork at this time.

Hey, whose side are you on?

I am not on anyone's side, I just--

Look, Guardian, without Zero, I'd probably be dead.

Or worse, an Imperium Zombie.

And you, what life would you have had?

-We owe this to Zero. -Wow. I mean, just wow.

I never thought I'd hear you speak like that about Zero.

Times change. And so do I.

I know who my friends are.

Even with one arm,

I can fly the Skorpion Fighter stored in the cargo bay.

Now, hang on. Oh.

It would appear, Del Rev,

that no one listens to grown-ups any more.

[Callum] Hello again.

Remembered anything yet, Zero?

Remembered what the key is yet?

Still?

That's what you're thinking about?

You brought me back here for something I know nothing about!

[laughs]

I think you do.

Tell me what else DeMar said to you all those years ago.

Nothing! He told me nothing.

I'd just listen to him at night,

sobbing or screaming at the nightmares you two made him re-live,

time and time again.

I never spoke to anyone else, saw anyone else the whole time I was here

except you and Parker.

And...

that young woman.

So you're the Prisoner Zero.

Who are you?

[Vykar] So my most trusted lieutenant can be trusted no longer.

Come back!

Whoever you are, come back!

Please.

I need someone to talk to.

I never saw Parker again after that.

Just you.

Poor Parker really annoyed Vykar that day,

letting the lady nick that key card.

That was the beginning of the end for him.

Now this is all beginning to make sense.

You killed DeMar and after all this time you're tying to make Vykar happy

by seeing what I remember.

[laughs]

Vykar?

You think I'm working for the Imperium?

Ah, Culchie, I'm strictly mercenary.

This is an operation for someone else entirely.

But you said "the big guy".

I assumed you meant Vykar.

[Callum chuckles] You assume a lot, Zero.

[grunts]

No cell.

Nothing there.

Where was DeMar?

-I don't understand. -[gun cocks]

No fan of all that BAM nonsense you use, Culchie.

I prefer good old-fashioned firepower.

I went to a lot of effort for you, using the transmitter up there

to create a jump, getting you here, overriding your ship.

But now,

now you're not sure I'm really worth the bother.

Spot on.

[Zero groans]

[whooshes]

-[grunts] -[groans]

[hissing]

[panting]

Stay put, Callum. I think I'm being rescued.

-[grunts] -[electricity crackling]

[groaning]

Great.

-Well, hello. -Well, hello indeed.

Getting to be a habit, getting you out of here.

Let's hope twice is enough. Thank you.

-What for? -Finding me.

Here. Again.

Last time it was easier getting away.

I managed to fool Praetor into jumping us back to the Rogue.

-Still no Jump Pad? -Still no Jump Pad.

We came in that captured Skorpion I borrowed.

Told you it'd come in useful one day.

So who brought you here?

Don't ask. All dealt with now. Let's go home.

We have something to show you before we get away from here.

-[groaning] -[beeping]

Callum Corcoran. I thought you were dead.

General Vykar. Why would you think I was dead?

Sorry. Said "thought", meant "hoped".

Clearly you came out of our last encounter better than your friend Parker Grech did.

Now you have precisely 10 seconds to tell me

why you have broken the embargo and are on Tartarus

before I have Commander Jocam do to you

what I did to Parker all those years ago!

No! Wait! I'm conducting an experiment.

The last time I left you in charge of an experiment on Tartarus,

something I wanted very badly

got buried deeper into Zero's subconscious.

Due, I might add, to your mind-wiping techniques.

You might remember my mood on that day.

But I'm close to getting it all back.

Parker and I always thought--

I'm really not interested in your thoughts. Goodbye.

-Centurion. -General.

Tell Commander Jocam to set course for Tartarus.

Let's see what Corcoran has found out.

If we're not too late.

Oh, I do hope you weren't that stupid, Corcoran.

[Tag] And that really is it?

It has to be.

They were keeping DeMar somewhere because he controlled the Bioweave.

The only reason to be here has to be that.

The Master Transmitter.

At last.

So, what do you want to do now?

Oh, this? This, we do this together.

Ah, the old 1-0-1 maneuver.

Except this time, we can call it 1-0-2.

[yells]

We did it. We actually finally did it.

Is it over? Finally?

Have we destroyed the Imperium?

No.

But we've started to bring them down.

All over the cosmos, people will start to wake up.

I just hope that we haven't taken away the Bioweave

and opened up a chance for someone else

to bring in something even worse.

[explosion]

[rumbling]

Um, Zero, we can't exactly go swimming down there.

Guardian, we're ready to go home.

It's over.

[sighs] Good job there wasn't anyone else down there.

Zero?

[Zero] Yes. A good job indeed.

[grunting]

Callum Corcoran.

You're late. We had a deal!

Did you get what you promised you could?

No.

Oh. No deal, then.

You have to get me out of here.

Vykar's probably on his way.

Of course.

If you are willing to accommodate an alternative agreement.

I'm listening. Mainly because I don't have much option.

Good.

I have something to show you.

So, the Master Transmitter, finally gone.

Does that mean we can stop running now?

Vykar won't stop.

He and the Faculty will escalate everything now.

I'm not sure I like any of this, Zero.

Like what?

Your obsessions.

Again, I'm worried about Tag and Gem.

When you were missing,

they were getting very Zero-like in their need to find you.

-Nothing else mattered. -I appreciate their efforts.

-And yours. -Oh.

Oh, well, yes, thank you for your appreciation.

That's not what I meant.

They are kids, Zero.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, kids.

Stop making them into adults before their time.

Am I doing that? Or is circumstance?

[sighs] That's low, Del.

I lost him, thanks to you.

I won't lose Gem, too.

-[Tag] Now! -[Gem] Finally.

Four-two to me, Tag Anaton.

Kids, Zero, but for how much longer?

I never realized.

Your cap, it was Bowi's.

I'm so sorry.

He wore it everyday I knew him

till he gave it to me on my birthday.

It's all I have left.

You have memories, though.

I don't even have that.

[theme music playing]