1 00:00:01,100 --> 00:00:02,930 There is this woman, she flipped a coin. 2 00:00:02,970 --> 00:00:04,410 She dared me to call it, and I did. 3 00:00:05,170 --> 00:00:06,270 For luck. 4 00:00:08,340 --> 00:00:10,580 They're responsible, Kai. For Reach. 5 00:00:11,150 --> 00:00:13,050 -For Vannak. -The Covenant's responsible. 6 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:14,610 The Covenant didn't take our armor. 7 00:00:14,650 --> 00:00:16,490 Centuries of work can be undone 8 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:19,060 by the smallest of oversights. 9 00:00:21,860 --> 00:00:23,460 How did you choose me? 10 00:00:23,490 --> 00:00:26,130 I didn't choose you. I found you. 11 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:28,230 When things fall apart, you're never there. 12 00:00:28,260 --> 00:00:29,800 You ran from the Spartan program. 13 00:00:29,830 --> 00:00:31,500 You ran from the Rubble. 14 00:00:31,530 --> 00:00:33,830 - Who took Kessler? - The UNSC. 15 00:00:33,870 --> 00:00:35,470 They're still making Spartans. 16 00:00:35,500 --> 00:00:37,500 - What is this place? - Thermopylae. 17 00:00:37,540 --> 00:00:39,280 Infiltrate the ship, 18 00:00:39,310 --> 00:00:41,040 deliver the Spike. 19 00:00:42,610 --> 00:00:44,410 I know this. 20 00:00:44,450 --> 00:00:45,880 What is it doing here? 21 00:00:47,480 --> 00:00:48,850 What is this place? 22 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:50,920 It's where it all began. 23 00:00:50,950 --> 00:00:52,920 Without your research, I never would have been able 24 00:00:52,950 --> 00:00:54,450 to discover your mistake. 25 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:57,160 If you were to use the Artifact 26 00:00:57,190 --> 00:00:59,330 to project yourself back to the Halo, 27 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:00,830 you could determine its location in the stars. 28 00:01:00,860 --> 00:01:02,260 I can't go there without him. 29 00:01:02,300 --> 00:01:04,170 Perhaps I can help. 30 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:06,200 Cortana. 31 00:01:06,230 --> 00:01:08,130 The Covenant's going to find the Halo, Chief. 32 00:01:08,170 --> 00:01:11,140 It is imperative that you get there first. 33 00:01:11,170 --> 00:01:12,600 You need to touch the Artifact. 34 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:14,940 He said that you let the whole planet burn. 35 00:01:14,980 --> 00:01:17,320 Sometimes events are beyond our control. 36 00:01:17,350 --> 00:01:19,190 - You can't trust him. - But I do. 37 00:01:19,210 --> 00:01:20,650 I always have. 38 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:51,110 As a child, I came here in my imagination. 39 00:01:52,980 --> 00:01:54,680 - I always thought it was... - A dream. 40 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:55,820 ...alive. 41 00:01:57,190 --> 00:01:59,290 I try to understand what it wants from me. 42 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:03,000 Why me? 43 00:02:04,660 --> 00:02:05,960 Why you? 44 00:02:08,900 --> 00:02:10,540 Look at me. 45 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:20,310 I saw you. 46 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:23,310 On Reach. 47 00:02:23,340 --> 00:02:24,770 With the Sangheili. 48 00:02:24,810 --> 00:02:27,050 The Arbiter is a soldier. 49 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:29,050 Like you. 50 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:31,050 You brought the Covenant there. 51 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:33,120 Millions of people. 52 00:02:33,150 --> 00:02:35,350 Gone. 53 00:02:35,390 --> 00:02:37,260 -Because of you. -Because of war. 54 00:02:39,390 --> 00:02:41,860 If you could burn High Charity to embers, would you hesitate? 55 00:02:41,900 --> 00:02:44,570 There's a difference. You're human. 56 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:46,670 Am I? Are you? 57 00:02:48,940 --> 00:02:50,880 What if there are no sides? 58 00:02:51,910 --> 00:02:53,550 Only life and death. 59 00:02:53,570 --> 00:02:54,970 Light and dark. Us and them. 60 00:02:55,010 --> 00:02:56,750 We are not the same. 61 00:03:01,180 --> 00:03:02,950 You don't believe that. 62 00:03:06,590 --> 00:03:08,390 I needed to see your eyes. 63 00:03:10,220 --> 00:03:12,790 To know that you understand what needs to be done. 64 00:03:18,100 --> 00:03:19,640 You found it. 65 00:03:21,740 --> 00:03:23,510 You can't bring the Covenant here. 66 00:03:23,540 --> 00:03:25,880 Do you understand? 67 00:03:25,910 --> 00:03:27,280 If they control the Halo... 68 00:03:27,310 --> 00:03:29,110 They will annihilate humankind. 69 00:03:29,140 --> 00:03:31,740 And if the humans control it, they'll annihilate the Covenant. 70 00:03:31,780 --> 00:03:33,380 This is all they know. 71 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:37,360 The Ring does more than destroy. 72 00:03:37,390 --> 00:03:39,530 It holds the seed of life itself. 73 00:03:39,550 --> 00:03:41,890 We could build a world here. 74 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:43,360 A place of peace. 75 00:03:43,390 --> 00:03:45,290 They're not gonna let that happen. 76 00:03:45,330 --> 00:03:46,630 They don't decide. 77 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:51,800 The Ring doesn't belong to them. It belongs to us. 78 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:57,340 Oh, I see it now. 79 00:03:57,840 --> 00:03:59,640 The difference between us. 80 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:03,810 You doubt. 81 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:10,590 Move. 82 00:04:10,620 --> 00:04:12,290 You need to move. 83 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:24,500 Everybody out! 84 00:05:51,950 --> 00:05:53,520 Did you find it? 85 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:56,890 The map. Show me. 86 00:06:14,540 --> 00:06:15,740 There. 87 00:07:20,270 --> 00:07:21,910 I take it your strike team 88 00:07:21,940 --> 00:07:23,940 has failed to locate Master Chief. 89 00:07:23,980 --> 00:07:26,150 Allow me to help you. He's with the Artifact. 90 00:07:26,180 --> 00:07:27,420 Captain Briggs's team was moving in 91 00:07:27,450 --> 00:07:29,120 on the target when-- 92 00:07:29,150 --> 00:07:31,490 If people learn that Master Chief in fact is not dead, 93 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:33,490 it'll lead to inconvenient questions 94 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:35,020 about Reach, don't you think? 95 00:07:35,060 --> 00:07:37,060 About who knew what, and when. 96 00:07:37,790 --> 00:07:39,930 Well, we won't have to worry about that. 97 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:41,630 Did you say "we"? 98 00:07:41,660 --> 00:07:44,130 You were in charge. 99 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:45,860 Acting on your orders. 100 00:07:47,230 --> 00:07:50,770 But I'm not even in the ONI. 101 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:52,700 What's taking so long? Where's the feed? 102 00:07:52,740 --> 00:07:54,780 Coming back online now, ma'am. 103 00:07:54,810 --> 00:07:56,350 Signal reacquired, ma'am. 104 00:07:56,380 --> 00:07:57,820 We're tracking the Covenant Cruiser. 105 00:07:57,850 --> 00:08:00,750 It just exited slipspace in the Soell system. 106 00:08:03,250 --> 00:08:05,050 That's a Covenant battle group. 107 00:08:06,490 --> 00:08:09,730 That's the entire First Fleet of Solemn Accord. 108 00:08:11,830 --> 00:08:13,900 -What's wrong with it? -It's the signal, ma'am. 109 00:08:13,930 --> 00:08:15,300 There's significant energy 110 00:08:15,330 --> 00:08:17,200 coming from the center of that system. 111 00:08:17,230 --> 00:08:19,770 Solar flare. Nova activity. Black hole. 112 00:08:21,870 --> 00:08:23,470 Contact Admiral Stanforth 113 00:08:23,500 --> 00:08:26,000 to dispatch the UNSC fleet from Sector 3. 114 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:27,780 Ready the Spartan-IIIs. 115 00:08:29,940 --> 00:08:33,180 My Spartan-IIIs were trained to execute specialized missions. 116 00:08:33,210 --> 00:08:34,980 I thought you said they were ready? 117 00:08:35,020 --> 00:08:36,990 They're elite soldiers. 118 00:08:37,020 --> 00:08:39,420 They're not designed to assault a Covenant fleet without-- 119 00:08:39,450 --> 00:08:42,250 It's your job to prepare them. I decide how they're used. 120 00:08:43,260 --> 00:08:46,400 Now, if there's nothing else, I suggest you find him. 121 00:08:54,900 --> 00:08:56,740 It's not a black hole. 122 00:09:18,790 --> 00:09:21,090 John-117, stop where you are. 123 00:09:23,630 --> 00:09:25,100 On your knees. 124 00:09:25,130 --> 00:09:26,700 We have orders to take you in. 125 00:09:26,730 --> 00:09:28,300 Those aren't your orders. 126 00:09:28,340 --> 00:09:30,180 He's resisting. Take him down. 127 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:33,180 I said take him down. 128 00:09:34,740 --> 00:09:36,010 Shoot him. 129 00:09:38,750 --> 00:09:41,120 I've been on that side of the gun. 130 00:09:42,180 --> 00:09:43,950 I didn't ask questions. 131 00:09:43,980 --> 00:09:45,380 I didn't want to know. 132 00:09:45,420 --> 00:09:46,790 Pull the trigger! 133 00:09:46,820 --> 00:09:49,390 But we always know, don't we? 134 00:09:49,420 --> 00:09:50,890 I gave you an order, Lieutenant. 135 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:52,390 She knows you can't take a bullet back. 136 00:09:52,430 --> 00:09:54,630 That's why she wants it to be yours. 137 00:09:54,660 --> 00:09:56,160 But if you're gonna kill me... 138 00:09:57,670 --> 00:09:59,670 at least look me in the eyes. 139 00:10:06,210 --> 00:10:09,310 What are you doing? I said engage! 140 00:10:10,810 --> 00:10:11,880 Do it yourself. 141 00:10:15,850 --> 00:10:17,690 Stop right there! 142 00:10:20,990 --> 00:10:22,390 Didn't ask for your help. 143 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:25,960 Were you gonna do it? 144 00:10:30,560 --> 00:10:32,930 This structure might not be stable, we should go. 145 00:10:32,970 --> 00:10:34,610 We're not going anywhere. 146 00:10:34,630 --> 00:10:37,770 Whoever designed this complex built the Halo. 147 00:10:37,810 --> 00:10:39,380 What is this place? 148 00:10:39,410 --> 00:10:41,780 It's a repository for knowledge, like a library. 149 00:10:41,810 --> 00:10:43,340 Or a religious site. 150 00:10:43,380 --> 00:10:45,950 As the original lead scientist on this project, 151 00:10:45,980 --> 00:10:48,180 I can assure you it is a library. 152 00:10:48,220 --> 00:10:49,990 As you can see from the node walls... 153 00:10:50,020 --> 00:10:51,790 Like you'd find in a church or a chapel. 154 00:10:51,820 --> 00:10:53,120 Got it. 155 00:10:53,150 --> 00:10:54,420 You have no idea. 156 00:10:55,420 --> 00:10:56,820 Thanks. 157 00:10:58,930 --> 00:11:00,730 You said something about a mistake. 158 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:02,290 Did I? 159 00:11:02,330 --> 00:11:04,230 Yes, you said I made a mistake. 160 00:11:04,260 --> 00:11:06,900 When you solved the first cipher back in the day, 161 00:11:06,930 --> 00:11:10,370 you did so according to your own familiar principles. 162 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:12,000 Data, mathematics. 163 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:14,010 And you unlocked the first alcove. 164 00:11:14,710 --> 00:11:17,550 -Simple. -It wasn't that simple. 165 00:11:17,580 --> 00:11:20,550 -It took me weeks to solve it. -It took you four months. 166 00:11:20,580 --> 00:11:22,020 I have your notes, remember? 167 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:25,650 You opened this one. 168 00:11:25,690 --> 00:11:28,260 But what you overlooked is that the cipher 169 00:11:28,290 --> 00:11:30,230 isn't just mathematical. 170 00:11:30,260 --> 00:11:33,200 It's also linguistic. 171 00:11:34,190 --> 00:11:36,990 In this case, a complex ideographic system 172 00:11:37,030 --> 00:11:39,530 with a number of logographic traits, some phonemes... 173 00:11:39,570 --> 00:11:41,570 Do you think this will take a long time? 174 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:44,100 It'll take less than four months. 175 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:55,710 What was inside? 176 00:11:55,750 --> 00:11:57,250 You first. 177 00:11:59,090 --> 00:12:01,290 Whatever you found wasn't in your notes. 178 00:12:02,390 --> 00:12:03,460 Tell me. 179 00:12:04,420 --> 00:12:05,550 DNA. 180 00:12:06,890 --> 00:12:08,460 Theirs. 181 00:12:08,500 --> 00:12:10,170 And ours. 182 00:12:22,510 --> 00:12:23,910 I have the commander of the lead Condor. 183 00:12:23,940 --> 00:12:25,710 -Name's Bookman. -Put him through. 184 00:12:28,350 --> 00:12:31,490 Commander Bookman, this is Admiral Parangosky. 185 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:32,820 Can your team hear me? 186 00:12:32,850 --> 00:12:34,080 Yes, ma'am. 187 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:35,650 Our enemy's about to learn 188 00:12:35,690 --> 00:12:38,160 that there's a cost to tangling with humanity. 189 00:12:38,190 --> 00:12:40,290 I'm asking you to deliver the bill. 190 00:12:41,290 --> 00:12:43,060 -Can you do that for me? -Yes, ma'am. 191 00:12:43,100 --> 00:12:45,240 Arrow Team, make ready. On my mark. 192 00:12:45,270 --> 00:12:46,770 Godspeed. 193 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:47,870 Spartans on the beam. 194 00:12:52,010 --> 00:12:54,510 Condor-Hotel-Tango-3, come in. 195 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:59,950 Condor-Charlie-November-2 radio check. 196 00:12:59,980 --> 00:13:02,980 All assassin Condors, this TAC-CON ONYX, over. 197 00:13:04,280 --> 00:13:07,020 Any Assassin Condors, respond. 198 00:13:07,050 --> 00:13:08,180 Deploy the second wave. 199 00:13:08,220 --> 00:13:09,990 - Yes, Admiral. - What? 200 00:13:10,020 --> 00:13:11,490 No, the first wave just got obliterated 201 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:12,690 and now you're sending more? 202 00:13:12,730 --> 00:13:14,100 What do you expect will happen? 203 00:13:14,130 --> 00:13:15,970 I expect they'll follow their orders. 204 00:13:17,660 --> 00:13:19,500 Admiral... 205 00:13:19,530 --> 00:13:21,000 don't do this. 206 00:13:21,870 --> 00:13:24,110 Tell me the moment our Condors exit slipspace. 207 00:13:24,140 --> 00:13:25,780 This is unsound. 208 00:13:25,810 --> 00:13:28,480 How many Spartan-IIIs are you willing to sacrifice? 209 00:13:28,510 --> 00:13:29,640 All of them. 210 00:13:31,010 --> 00:13:32,510 This isn't just another battle. 211 00:13:32,550 --> 00:13:34,990 What do you think is at the center of that system? 212 00:13:35,020 --> 00:13:37,260 If the Covenant takes the Halo... 213 00:13:38,420 --> 00:13:40,520 we won't live to fight another day. 214 00:13:40,550 --> 00:13:42,820 There will be no more days. 215 00:13:59,210 --> 00:14:00,680 Where are we going? 216 00:14:03,010 --> 00:14:05,950 They brought us to a place just like this. 217 00:14:05,980 --> 00:14:07,220 We were kids. 218 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:12,150 Our trainers told us that the objective 219 00:14:12,190 --> 00:14:14,130 was to defend the pass. 220 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:16,560 But that wasn't it. 221 00:14:18,330 --> 00:14:20,270 What was the objective? 222 00:14:20,290 --> 00:14:24,130 To learn... what it meant to call yourself a Spartan. 223 00:14:24,970 --> 00:14:26,540 I fought with everything I had. 224 00:14:27,500 --> 00:14:30,500 But they were soldiers. They were too big, too fast. 225 00:14:30,540 --> 00:14:32,180 They had batons. 226 00:14:32,970 --> 00:14:37,310 You had two options-- stand and bleed, or run. 227 00:14:37,340 --> 00:14:38,540 Most ran. 228 00:14:39,510 --> 00:14:41,880 Until you're in that situation... 229 00:14:43,650 --> 00:14:46,690 ...you don't know what kind of person you are. 230 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:48,490 I wasn't brave. 231 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:52,500 I just kept moving forward 232 00:14:52,530 --> 00:14:55,970 when others went back. 233 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:58,700 By the third night, there were only five of us left: 234 00:14:58,730 --> 00:15:01,430 Me. Riz. 235 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:04,810 Vannak. Kai. 236 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:06,080 John. 237 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:13,220 So we stood together. 238 00:15:18,020 --> 00:15:20,020 And we fought together. 239 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:25,190 And we lost... 240 00:15:27,860 --> 00:15:29,100 together. 241 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:39,940 What are we gonna do about Kessler? 242 00:15:44,610 --> 00:15:46,110 Nothing. 243 00:15:46,150 --> 00:15:47,380 What? 244 00:15:47,410 --> 00:15:50,550 Tonight is his. 245 00:15:50,580 --> 00:15:51,620 What are you saying? 246 00:15:51,650 --> 00:15:53,620 If we take this away from him, 247 00:15:53,650 --> 00:15:55,420 he'll never know which person he is. 248 00:15:56,560 --> 00:15:58,130 What the hell did they do to you? 249 00:15:58,160 --> 00:15:59,590 If you mean by "they," 250 00:15:59,630 --> 00:16:02,100 the people who stood by me no matter what? 251 00:16:02,130 --> 00:16:04,100 I stand by you no matter what! 252 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:12,280 All that time you were obsessing about Halsey, 253 00:16:13,410 --> 00:16:15,480 you weren't trying to bring her to justice. 254 00:16:16,610 --> 00:16:18,510 You were trying to find your way back. 255 00:16:20,350 --> 00:16:23,050 It meant something, being a Spartan. 256 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:25,780 You are not a Spartan. 257 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:30,160 You have a life. 258 00:16:31,660 --> 00:16:33,130 You have a marriage. 259 00:16:34,030 --> 00:16:35,430 You have a son. 260 00:16:37,330 --> 00:16:39,970 And I'll be damned if anyone's going to hurt him. 261 00:16:41,030 --> 00:16:42,630 He doesn't belong here. 262 00:16:42,670 --> 00:16:45,010 I won't let them turn him into a killer. 263 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:46,640 And I won't let you. 264 00:16:46,670 --> 00:16:48,340 - Laera... - Don't! 265 00:17:01,050 --> 00:17:02,490 Slow down. 266 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:04,190 I can't feel my fingers. 267 00:17:04,220 --> 00:17:06,190 Take a breath. 268 00:17:06,230 --> 00:17:07,300 You're all right. 269 00:17:08,330 --> 00:17:09,760 I'm gonna mess this up. 270 00:17:11,660 --> 00:17:13,260 I screwed up the last simulation. 271 00:17:13,300 --> 00:17:14,630 Take it easy. 272 00:17:14,670 --> 00:17:16,870 You're okay. 273 00:17:18,910 --> 00:17:20,550 I'm pretty sure I'm gonna die. 274 00:17:22,840 --> 00:17:25,510 You're just scared of being scared. 275 00:17:26,650 --> 00:17:28,890 When that plasma starts flying, 276 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:31,220 you won't have time to be scared for yourself. 277 00:17:32,220 --> 00:17:35,660 Because you'll be scared for me, and I'll be scared for you. 278 00:17:37,220 --> 00:17:39,360 I'll be watching your ass every minute. 279 00:17:40,030 --> 00:17:42,100 So you better be watching mine. 280 00:17:45,430 --> 00:17:46,560 Copy? 281 00:17:49,700 --> 00:17:50,840 Yeah. 282 00:17:58,750 --> 00:17:59,820 John. 283 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:05,690 Look, this isn't all on me. 284 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:07,320 You lied to us. 285 00:18:07,350 --> 00:18:09,720 You put us in harm's way. You got us grounded. 286 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:15,030 I tried to help you, but you wouldn't listen. 287 00:18:15,060 --> 00:18:17,430 What was I supposed to do? I had to make a call. 288 00:18:17,460 --> 00:18:19,430 You made the wrong call. 289 00:18:20,930 --> 00:18:23,370 You trusted people who wanted us dead. 290 00:18:27,410 --> 00:18:30,210 I made a mistake. 291 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:31,780 Maybe you don't know what that feels like, 292 00:18:31,810 --> 00:18:33,110 but that's what humans do. 293 00:18:33,150 --> 00:18:34,420 They make mistakes. 294 00:18:36,050 --> 00:18:37,750 But we shouldn't be here. 295 00:18:40,050 --> 00:18:41,750 Where are we going? 296 00:18:41,790 --> 00:18:43,860 -John? -I need my suit. 297 00:18:43,890 --> 00:18:45,590 -You don't know where it is? -No. 298 00:18:45,630 --> 00:18:47,030 But she does. 299 00:18:49,430 --> 00:18:51,700 Even then, I understood what it meant. 300 00:18:51,730 --> 00:18:54,700 The DNA I found in that vault was both human and not. 301 00:18:54,730 --> 00:18:57,200 - A mutation? - A possibility. 302 00:18:57,240 --> 00:18:59,140 An invitation to unlock 303 00:18:59,170 --> 00:19:01,310 the full potential of our species. 304 00:19:01,340 --> 00:19:03,240 So, I started looking. 305 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:05,050 I assembled a team. 306 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:08,380 We scoured the galaxy for those people who exhibited traces 307 00:19:08,420 --> 00:19:10,150 of the genetic sequence that I found here. 308 00:19:10,180 --> 00:19:11,650 You took children. 309 00:19:13,650 --> 00:19:15,320 I needed Spartans. 310 00:19:15,360 --> 00:19:16,790 We all did. 311 00:19:16,820 --> 00:19:18,420 Who else knows about this? 312 00:19:22,530 --> 00:19:24,100 Show me what you found. 313 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:34,480 Whatever it is, it must be valuable. 314 00:20:05,540 --> 00:20:09,240 Computer, give me the same simulation parameters. 315 00:20:10,210 --> 00:20:11,580 Expand scale. 316 00:20:12,350 --> 00:20:13,520 Planetary. 317 00:20:14,510 --> 00:20:15,780 Initiate. 318 00:20:20,890 --> 00:20:22,260 Expand scale. 319 00:20:23,090 --> 00:20:24,330 Star system. 320 00:20:25,220 --> 00:20:26,290 Initiate. 321 00:20:40,210 --> 00:20:41,550 Thank you, Cortana. 322 00:20:41,570 --> 00:20:43,240 Wait. John. No. 323 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:44,350 John... 324 00:20:48,010 --> 00:20:49,410 Give me one reason 325 00:20:49,450 --> 00:20:51,420 why I shouldn't kill this guy right now. 326 00:20:51,450 --> 00:20:53,550 Honestly nothing comes to mind. 327 00:20:53,590 --> 00:20:55,230 John. 328 00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:01,390 Where is my armor? 329 00:21:01,430 --> 00:21:03,500 I know where it is! 330 00:21:03,530 --> 00:21:05,530 I can get it for you. 331 00:21:05,570 --> 00:21:06,900 Tell me. 332 00:21:06,930 --> 00:21:08,870 It's behind a biometric lock! 333 00:21:08,900 --> 00:21:10,500 We need his face. 334 00:21:10,540 --> 00:21:12,640 Hmm? Attached? 335 00:21:18,710 --> 00:21:21,410 Parangosky lied about the Spike. 336 00:21:21,450 --> 00:21:24,520 It doesn't do what we told them. 337 00:21:24,550 --> 00:21:25,950 Let's go. 338 00:21:26,650 --> 00:21:28,250 It's not an override. 339 00:21:28,290 --> 00:21:31,390 The virus compresses the ship's fusion drive, 340 00:21:31,420 --> 00:21:33,460 creating a reaction powerful enough 341 00:21:33,490 --> 00:21:35,590 to incinerate everything within a million miles. 342 00:21:35,630 --> 00:21:38,700 -Wait, what? -Their fleet. Our fleet. 343 00:21:38,730 --> 00:21:40,930 Perhaps even the Halo itself. 344 00:21:41,570 --> 00:21:43,410 Parangosky's throwing Spartan-IIIs 345 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:44,940 at the Covenant fleet in swarms 346 00:21:44,970 --> 00:21:47,040 because she doesn't need all of them to make it. 347 00:21:47,070 --> 00:21:49,810 She just needs one. 348 00:21:51,140 --> 00:21:53,810 One team. One Spike. 349 00:21:53,850 --> 00:21:55,950 One ship. 350 00:21:55,980 --> 00:21:59,150 The Spartans are Parangosky's insurance policy. 351 00:21:59,190 --> 00:22:01,230 Her fail-safe. 352 00:22:01,250 --> 00:22:03,620 If we lose this battle against the Covenant, 353 00:22:03,660 --> 00:22:05,160 we won't get the Halo. 354 00:22:05,190 --> 00:22:08,330 But with Parangosky's Spike, neither will they. 355 00:22:10,700 --> 00:22:12,940 Since when do you care about Spartans? 356 00:22:15,030 --> 00:22:17,630 These Spartans are my life's work. 357 00:22:21,940 --> 00:22:23,170 I've heard that before. 358 00:22:31,350 --> 00:22:32,990 What happened? 359 00:22:34,220 --> 00:22:35,460 To my father? 360 00:22:41,790 --> 00:22:43,530 They say he stayed behind. 361 00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:44,890 On Reach. 362 00:22:47,130 --> 00:22:48,700 You know your father. 363 00:22:50,140 --> 00:22:51,680 He would never leave. 364 00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:56,440 Survivors are scattered all over the galaxy. 365 00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:58,380 Can't be sure he's not one of them. 366 00:23:01,010 --> 00:23:02,380 I saw it. 367 00:23:04,250 --> 00:23:06,390 Miranda, I-- I saw him. 368 00:23:07,990 --> 00:23:09,320 At the end. 369 00:23:13,430 --> 00:23:14,600 Oh. 370 00:23:15,660 --> 00:23:17,430 W-Wait, Miranda. 371 00:23:50,300 --> 00:23:52,470 Now that's something. 372 00:23:53,900 --> 00:23:56,240 Not just math. Not just language. 373 00:23:59,470 --> 00:24:01,370 These are stars. 374 00:24:17,990 --> 00:24:19,690 Sector 4. 375 00:25:00,870 --> 00:25:02,300 I couldn't save him. 376 00:25:07,710 --> 00:25:11,780 Vannak looked at me and he didn't understand... 377 00:25:12,950 --> 00:25:15,420 how he got there. 378 00:25:15,450 --> 00:25:17,220 He wasn't scared. 379 00:25:18,950 --> 00:25:20,590 He just didn't understand. 380 00:25:23,090 --> 00:25:24,890 What are we going to do? 381 00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:31,500 Well, I came here to punch a hole in your chest. 382 00:25:32,330 --> 00:25:34,800 Watch the life drain out of you, like my friend. 383 00:25:39,670 --> 00:25:41,610 I didn't give the orders on Reach. 384 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:43,270 But you followed them. 385 00:25:44,310 --> 00:25:46,110 And I followed you. 386 00:25:52,450 --> 00:25:55,790 You are going to tell everybody 387 00:25:55,820 --> 00:25:59,790 what Parangosky did on Reach. 388 00:26:02,290 --> 00:26:03,430 And then you're gonna tell the truth 389 00:26:03,460 --> 00:26:05,000 about what you did too. 390 00:26:05,670 --> 00:26:08,740 It'll be my word against hers. I don't have proof. 391 00:26:08,770 --> 00:26:10,270 I'm the proof. 392 00:26:10,300 --> 00:26:13,070 The moment I walk out of here in that suit, 393 00:26:13,110 --> 00:26:16,510 everything that Parangosky did, everything she said, 394 00:26:16,540 --> 00:26:18,140 it all becomes a lie. 395 00:26:20,950 --> 00:26:23,490 I'll be destroyed too. 396 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:26,290 It all costs something. 397 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:28,320 Even when you can't see it. 398 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:31,390 That's what you people never understand. 399 00:26:32,460 --> 00:26:34,330 Somebody always pays. 400 00:26:35,630 --> 00:26:37,030 This time, it's you. 401 00:27:04,090 --> 00:27:06,830 That constellation is Veles's Net. 402 00:27:07,890 --> 00:27:09,060 Yeah. 403 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:12,660 And that's Loviatar's Wing. 404 00:27:16,570 --> 00:27:18,840 And the Grand Cross is the final piece. 405 00:27:26,180 --> 00:27:27,720 Nothing's happening. 406 00:27:28,950 --> 00:27:30,820 We must have missed something. 407 00:27:30,850 --> 00:27:32,890 The cipher's a test. 408 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:37,490 Do we share their understanding of mathematics? 409 00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:38,760 Biology? 410 00:27:40,430 --> 00:27:42,130 Do we communicate the way they did? 411 00:27:43,300 --> 00:27:46,640 Do we explore the way they explored? 412 00:27:48,970 --> 00:27:50,710 Are we curious? 413 00:27:52,470 --> 00:27:53,940 It's not a map. 414 00:27:56,610 --> 00:27:57,810 It's a clock. 415 00:28:01,150 --> 00:28:02,890 What? 416 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:06,060 It projects the stars as they are, as we see them, but... 417 00:28:07,090 --> 00:28:09,060 this isn't their sky. 418 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:20,130 What are you doing? 419 00:28:21,830 --> 00:28:22,930 Stars... 420 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:27,940 they move over time. 421 00:28:27,970 --> 00:28:31,240 Millions of years. 422 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:41,590 How do you know where they go? 423 00:28:41,620 --> 00:28:44,060 I've seen it before. 424 00:28:44,090 --> 00:28:45,520 Seen what? 425 00:28:47,460 --> 00:28:49,360 Their stars. 426 00:28:54,500 --> 00:28:56,240 It was like a dream. 427 00:29:35,210 --> 00:29:37,610 - Wait. - You must be joking! 428 00:30:01,830 --> 00:30:03,830 Wait, what if... 429 00:30:12,210 --> 00:30:13,880 Are you coming or not? 430 00:30:16,750 --> 00:30:18,990 You know what we have to do. 431 00:30:19,020 --> 00:30:22,590 -It's not that simple. -You heard what Ackerson said. 432 00:30:22,620 --> 00:30:25,060 Parangosky's throwing the Spartan-IIIs into the fire. 433 00:30:25,090 --> 00:30:27,560 -We gotta go with them. -I can't come with you. 434 00:30:27,590 --> 00:30:29,530 Why not? 435 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:31,430 Because Parangosky's right, Kai. 436 00:30:31,460 --> 00:30:32,760 What are you talking about? 437 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:34,500 I'm not saying it doesn't matter. 438 00:30:34,530 --> 00:30:35,870 I'm not saying it doesn't hurt. 439 00:30:35,900 --> 00:30:37,370 But if we lose the Halo... 440 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:38,900 You heard what he said. 441 00:30:38,940 --> 00:30:40,710 We're talking about an entire fleet. 442 00:30:40,740 --> 00:30:44,440 I'm talking about the end of everything. 443 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:46,180 The Halo has more than one purpose, 444 00:30:46,210 --> 00:30:48,910 but in the wrong hands, it is a weapon. 445 00:30:50,380 --> 00:30:51,820 I'm going with them. 446 00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:55,290 They're mine. 447 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:57,090 I can't let them go alone. 448 00:30:58,260 --> 00:30:59,830 I need to be there. 449 00:31:00,660 --> 00:31:02,060 I know. 450 00:31:06,930 --> 00:31:08,500 If it comes down to it... 451 00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:13,310 and it's you 452 00:31:13,340 --> 00:31:15,240 with that Spike in your hand... 453 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:20,420 Just get to the Halo. 454 00:31:21,250 --> 00:31:22,650 No matter what. 455 00:31:33,860 --> 00:31:35,260 Those symbols. 456 00:31:35,290 --> 00:31:37,030 What does it say? 457 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:40,400 I haven't seen that one before. 458 00:31:40,430 --> 00:31:42,570 The central segment looks like the ideograph 459 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,170 for "growth" or "rebirth," but the symbol at the top 460 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:47,440 usually has negative connotations. 461 00:31:47,470 --> 00:31:48,800 Given the positioning, 462 00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:50,610 maybe it modifies the other symbol. 463 00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:56,650 It could mean anything. Change. Division. Decay. 464 00:32:25,140 --> 00:32:26,740 It's a tomb. 465 00:32:27,580 --> 00:32:29,150 It's not a tomb. 466 00:32:30,150 --> 00:32:31,750 It's a laboratory. 467 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:47,840 And that... 468 00:32:56,180 --> 00:32:57,910 It's a scientist. 469 00:33:00,910 --> 00:33:02,550 It's almost human. 470 00:33:06,790 --> 00:33:08,860 Don't touch it. 471 00:33:08,890 --> 00:33:10,360 There's something in its hand. 472 00:33:13,890 --> 00:33:15,160 Wait. 473 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:25,540 We need to move. 474 00:33:25,570 --> 00:33:27,340 Halsey, let's go. 475 00:33:28,770 --> 00:33:30,510 - Get out! - No, Miranda... 476 00:33:34,210 --> 00:33:35,540 Move! 477 00:33:44,620 --> 00:33:46,820 - Look. - Halsey! 478 00:33:48,790 --> 00:33:50,290 Look at this... 479 00:33:50,330 --> 00:33:52,270 -Halsey! -Can you see? 480 00:33:52,300 --> 00:33:54,970 We have to go! Halsey! 481 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,000 Come on! Come on! Let's go! 482 00:33:57,900 --> 00:33:59,600 Mom! 483 00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:00,910 Please. 484 00:34:14,690 --> 00:34:16,790 We have to get back there. That was a city. 485 00:34:16,820 --> 00:34:18,050 A city. 486 00:34:18,090 --> 00:34:19,760 Imagine the technology, 487 00:34:19,790 --> 00:34:21,660 the ingenuity required to build that-- 488 00:34:21,690 --> 00:34:23,930 - What's happening? - It's beautiful. 489 00:34:24,830 --> 00:34:25,900 It's spreading. 490 00:34:25,930 --> 00:34:27,470 It's their history. 491 00:34:28,100 --> 00:34:30,900 The story of their empire expanding. 492 00:34:30,940 --> 00:34:33,110 All these worlds they knew. 493 00:34:35,970 --> 00:34:37,270 Growth. 494 00:34:37,310 --> 00:34:39,110 -What's wrong? -It's real. 495 00:34:39,150 --> 00:34:40,650 -What is? -We can't be here. 496 00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:42,810 - Kwan-- - No. Let her go. 497 00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:45,850 Miranda, tell me. 498 00:34:46,990 --> 00:34:48,330 Tell me you got it. 499 00:37:12,500 --> 00:37:13,600 Kessler! 500 00:37:14,470 --> 00:37:16,110 Kessler! 501 00:37:49,500 --> 00:37:50,470 Hey. 502 00:37:53,910 --> 00:37:55,410 Kessler. 503 00:37:56,210 --> 00:37:57,680 It's me. 504 00:38:00,550 --> 00:38:01,580 Hey. 505 00:38:06,050 --> 00:38:07,490 Soren! 506 00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:09,320 Mom! 507 00:38:19,900 --> 00:38:21,270 Kessler! 508 00:38:43,690 --> 00:38:44,990 Nice suit. 509 00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:00,210 How are you alive? 510 00:39:00,770 --> 00:39:02,940 I could ask the same thing about you. 511 00:39:12,350 --> 00:39:13,820 You're coming with us. 512 00:39:17,990 --> 00:39:19,560 I have a different mission. 513 00:39:22,390 --> 00:39:25,290 You know what it would mean to them to see you're alive. 514 00:39:25,330 --> 00:39:27,630 To know you're fighting beside them. 515 00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:30,870 You know what it would mean to me. 516 00:39:34,340 --> 00:39:35,940 When the battle ends, 517 00:39:35,970 --> 00:39:38,440 they don't talk about the ones who don't come home. 518 00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:41,580 They just call it a victory 519 00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:47,150 and say it was because of me. 520 00:39:47,190 --> 00:39:51,700 Because of something I did, or something I had, or-- 521 00:39:51,720 --> 00:39:53,060 Or something you are. 522 00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:55,930 Something you can't see. 523 00:39:57,400 --> 00:39:59,740 But you feel it. 524 00:39:59,770 --> 00:40:01,340 I know you feel it. 525 00:40:03,870 --> 00:40:05,710 Moving through you. 526 00:40:08,240 --> 00:40:10,010 That woman made you flip that coin 527 00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:12,280 all those times when you were a kid. 528 00:40:15,710 --> 00:40:17,340 Was it luck? 529 00:40:17,380 --> 00:40:18,920 Did you guess? 530 00:40:20,690 --> 00:40:21,920 I told you, I... 531 00:40:23,020 --> 00:40:24,050 I just knew. 532 00:40:24,090 --> 00:40:26,860 Did you know? 533 00:40:26,890 --> 00:40:28,960 Or did you make it come up heads? 534 00:40:42,870 --> 00:40:44,210 Perez. 535 00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:52,090 I'll be all right. 536 00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:55,120 One way or the other. 537 00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:08,140 What do you suppose it does? 538 00:41:08,170 --> 00:41:11,010 Well, she was a scientist and she died clutching it, so... 539 00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:13,140 It's her work. 540 00:41:18,580 --> 00:41:21,150 I spent the last five months down in that site. 541 00:41:21,180 --> 00:41:23,750 Staying late, working alone, 542 00:41:23,780 --> 00:41:25,150 just me and your notes. 543 00:41:26,350 --> 00:41:29,690 In a way, it felt like I was talking to who you used to be. 544 00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:33,430 I want to meet the people who built that city 545 00:41:33,460 --> 00:41:35,600 just as much as you do. 546 00:41:37,860 --> 00:41:39,660 And don't worry. 547 00:41:39,700 --> 00:41:42,970 If you never get there, I will. 548 00:41:47,610 --> 00:41:49,340 I believe you. 549 00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:56,980 Security team to Section 70. 550 00:41:57,020 --> 00:41:59,490 Possible unauthorized personnel. 551 00:42:17,470 --> 00:42:19,210 Halsey? 552 00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:23,140 Mom? 553 00:42:30,850 --> 00:42:32,820 Now that's something. 554 00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:57,580 Let's go, Master Chief. 555 00:43:01,510 --> 00:43:03,750 You know, I've been doing this a long time. 556 00:43:03,780 --> 00:43:05,450 I beg your pardon? 557 00:43:06,550 --> 00:43:07,580 Oh? 558 00:43:07,620 --> 00:43:09,090 Are we going to pretend 559 00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:11,560 you didn't do an analysis of the Spike code? 560 00:43:11,590 --> 00:43:14,030 And unauthorized simulations? 561 00:43:14,930 --> 00:43:16,670 You know, I've always found it helps 562 00:43:16,700 --> 00:43:18,430 to know what my people are thinking. 563 00:43:18,460 --> 00:43:21,760 Especially when I'm not there. 564 00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:23,370 What about the Spartan-IIIs? 565 00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:25,340 -What about them? -They trusted me. 566 00:43:25,370 --> 00:43:27,070 I told them they could win. 567 00:43:27,110 --> 00:43:30,110 You can't do this to them. 568 00:43:30,140 --> 00:43:32,010 You mean I can't do this to you. 569 00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:33,080 No. 570 00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:35,510 To them. 571 00:43:35,550 --> 00:43:37,590 Flight Deck, this is Launch Control. 572 00:43:37,620 --> 00:43:40,360 We're detecting a heat plume on Condor UBX-19. 573 00:43:40,390 --> 00:43:43,590 Condor UBX-19, this is Control. 574 00:43:43,620 --> 00:43:45,520 You do not have an approved flight plan. 575 00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:47,130 You're not cleared for launch. 576 00:43:49,460 --> 00:43:51,430 UBX-19, identify yourself. 577 00:43:51,460 --> 00:43:54,600 This is Master Chief John-117. 578 00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:57,230 You were saying? 579 00:43:57,270 --> 00:43:59,270 - Restrain this man. - Yes, Admiral. 580 00:43:59,300 --> 00:44:01,540 See, when the story of what happened on Reach gets told, 581 00:44:01,570 --> 00:44:03,810 when the story of what happened here gets told, 582 00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:05,880 I think they'll listen to him, don't you? 583 00:44:34,510 --> 00:44:36,350 Get it out of your head. 584 00:44:38,810 --> 00:44:40,510 He's not coming. 585 00:45:32,430 --> 00:45:34,530 We're approaching the slot. 586 00:45:34,570 --> 00:45:36,640 Hostiles in range, 60 seconds to jump point. 587 00:45:36,670 --> 00:45:38,310 Good luck, Spartans. 588 00:45:38,340 --> 00:45:40,640 First squad, on the beam!