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I know you don't want to be here.

But without you and Baruch, I might never have found her.

So, thank you.

Nearly 400 years with Baruch must have mellowed me.

Four hundred years?

- You know where he is now? - Of course.

Angels can connect to any mind,

but between us, the bond is even stronger.

We feel as one, though we are two.

He's close to Asriel now.

You know what Asriel is going to ask of you.

My father told me about the war before he died.

He told me I have a duty.

There is a warrior in you, Will.

You overpowered the King of the Bears.

And you'll find a way to protect the one you love.

Lyra.

- Lyra. - Roger!

You have to help me.

I will.

I promise I won't let you down.

- They're hurting me. - Who?

Just tell me where you are and I'll find you.

The Land of the Dead.

Roger!

Roger!

Roger!

Roger.

I was having that dream again.

We need to find him when we get out of here.

Where did you go? I...

I couldn't follow you there.

- The Land of the Dead.

Ah, this is a decent set up.

Just a start, Commander. Just a start.

It's very impressive, Lord Asriel.

But your soldiers, well, now, they all need some structure.

That's why you're here.

Ruta, welcome back.

Commander Ogunwe, allow me to introduce Queen Ruta Skadi

of the Lake Lubana witch clan and her daemon, Sergi.

She's a vital member of my Council.

- Commander. - Your Majesty.

Ruta, if you wouldn't mind?

You're well known to Ruta, Commander. She chose you.

- Chose me? - Mm-hmm.

I listen to whispers between worlds.

I hear things others do not. We're assembling an army.

You and your resistance soldiers are some of the best.

I'm glad you approve.

We hope we can live up to our reputation.

We all hope that.

How much more will we need?

- Of what? - This. Soldiers. Witches.

It's the Authority's strength that lies in numbers.

Sheer wealth of people willing to defend

his mysticism and dogma.

We just need enough to provoke him.

So all this is just a provocation?

Come. You'll see.

Find me the latest plans for the Intention Craft.

Yes, sir.

How do you know this one won't kill you?

It would take more than a little crash

to put an end to the pair of us.

Commander, you asked

how many soldiers we were going to need.

The truth is, I don't know.

But the key to provoking the Authority

lies not in men, it may well lie in Dust.

Asriel, you talk in riddles, I deal in strategy.

I'm not being clear.

We have to force the Authority to show his face.

And then, then we're going to need all the fighters

we can get our hands on.

- I didn't mean to scare you.

What do you want?

I don't mean you any harm. I'm... I'm looking for someone.

A girl. Her name is Lyra.

Were you followed?

I don't think so.

Temple soldiers are in the woods.

I haven't seen anyone.

Something happened here

a few days ago, and now they're everywhere.

Come with us.

It's moving away.

It's the salt. It burns the roots.

And these to the southern garrison.

And 250 to the western...

- Lord Asriel. - Roke.

- No people. - Sir.

- What is it? - A message

from our Magisterium spy, Agent Salmakia.

She says they are preparing to undertake a search mission.

- For what? - Your daughter, sir.

They think she's the most important child

that's ever lived.

Salmakia believes she's in danger.

When is Lyra not in danger?

Anything else?

- No. There's nothing else. - Very good.

You dismiss Lyra too easily.

You know what the Magisterium believe about her.

According to the Authority, Eve was the mother of creation.

Lyra is simply the creation of Marisa and I.

She's not Eve, she's a little girl.

She must have some information they need or some skill

we've overlooked.

Other than being able to read the alethiometer,

she has very little, I'm afraid. Other than a nose for trouble.

What?

- What would you like me to say? - The truth.

There are angels above the camp.

What are they doing?

They're fighting.

Clear the camp!

Not too close. Not too close.

Back away. Back away.

His chest is moving.

Let's say, one of them fights for the Authority

- and one for us, which is which? - I don't know.

Maybe neither.

Ruta?

This one's higher status. Could be an archangel.

This one, I don't know.

Shall we see if we can move him?

Mm-hmm.

- You have him? - Yes, sir.

Get back.

Are you an agent of the Authority?

- Please. - Say again?

There is a message I must give to you.

We're going to assume that one's with the Authority

and this one with us.

I'll take him inside. Sergeant.

Take him to the intercision field chamber.

All right. Give me your message.

We found the boy.

The bearer.

What boy? What does he bear?

AEsahaettr. The God killer.

The only weapon that will destroy him.

- Destroy who? - The Authority.

What?

And his Regent.

My brother, Enoch.

The Authority has a Regent?

Baruch!

How? Who did this?

- An angel. - We've already incarcerated him.

He's leaving us.

Not yet. Tell me where I can find the boy.

He's on his way to Lyra.

Lyra?

Find him.

There is an angel waiting.

My Balthamos.

Find them.

Find the knife.

Balthamos.

- BALTHAMOS: Baruch!

I don't understand. It doesn't make sense.

What doesn't make sense?

What did they do to him?

What happened, Balthamos?

This is your fault.

You forced me to come here.

I wanted us to stay together. I wanted to go with him.

They've killed him!

Messenger returns.

He did not resist.

Didn't say a word. He just...

stared at me.

Yesterday I believed that angels were merely symbols

and witches were villains in children's stories.

Yet, here I am.

There you are.

Our kind have been to your world before.

Many centuries ago.

The Temple would burn women they suspected of witchcraft.

I remember it.

Witches live for many hundreds of years.

Angels for millennia.

It gives them a power and perspective

far greater than either of our comprehension.

I imagine they regard us witches

in a similar way as we see humans.

And how is that?

Your lives are short and easily extinguished.

So then why do you fight with us?

Hope.

I believe there is a chance we can win.

And so, do you trust Asriel?

I'd stake my life on it.

You're awake. That's good.

This chamber,

I created it for experimenting on Dust.

As such, it's lined with adamantine,

properties of which include preventing Dust from escaping.

Now you, as well as my daemon, are entirely made of Dust.

So you might find yourself locked in here for eternity.

I am eternal.

- I have no concept of time. - Good for you.

You'll be comfortable then.

I'm going to begin now.

I'm going to ask you some questions

and you will answer them.

What's the Authority so afraid of

that he sent one angel to attack another?

Don't want to talk?

Perhaps you are afraid of revealing that the Authority

no longer rules in the Kingdom of Heaven,

and that he has, for some reason,

appointed a regent?

It's quite all right, I already know.

What's wrong with him that he won't rule?

Or is it that he can't? If he...

Oh, now that's interesting.

Now we're getting somewhere.

Do you know what else is interesting?

Dust. Fascinating stuff.

Spent most of my adult life trying to understand it.

And I once killed an innocent young boy

in order to harness it.

But no one, before this moment...

has ever tried to weaponize it.

Enoch, brother of Baruch.

- How did he become Regent? - Do not dare use that name.

He is Metatron.

Metatron? Good.

Asriel, stop.

- What does he want? - The end of this!

Dust is not for you to understand.

Conscious beings have become dangerously independent.

He will lead a permanent inquisition

into every world, on every being.

Until they understand complete obedience.

And with it, we will bring

an end to the freedom of thought and will,

and control Dust once and for all.

How do I find him?

The Kingdom of Heaven is not yours to enter.

You think you're significant?

He does not even know your name.

Were he to notice you,

he could crush you and burn whatever remains.

Doesn't even know my name.

So this Metatron will require a little more coaxing?

And then, will his Kingdom come?

Good. Very good.

Wasn't so difficult, was it? Didn't even take an eternity.

Maddy's been here for nine years.

I joined a few years later.

You've been on your own all this time?

We have a life in resistance.

We can read, write, learn.

All those things are forbidden by the Temple.

- Especially for... - Girls.

What about your parents?

Our father stayed.

He's one of them.

When we ran away, he helped us get out,

but he wouldn't come.

He wanted us to join the Temple.

He thinks that we'd let the Temple turn us

into brain-dead followers.

I'd rip their eyes out first.

- She actually would. - Fair enough.

So, where's everybody else gone?

A stranger came here and...

blew a hole in the sky.

And then Commander Ogunwe let everyone through it.

Like a window...

- to another world? - Is that how you got here?

Something like that, yes.

And you decided not to go?

We can't leave him, our father.

I left my community once, too.

Long time ago now.

Left everything I had ever known.

It felt like the world was ending.

But now I can see,

it was just beginning to open up in front of me.

Full of strangeness and mystery.

I better go.

Are you going to another world?

- A - few more, I think.

I'm following these, um...

sticks, they're telling me where to go.

I know that sounds crazy, so I won't...

Stay with us a while.

Who knows when you'll next have a chance to rest.

Go on so.

Tell us more about why you're looking for this girl.

Today...

we have been offered an opportunity.

The opportunity...

to purge this world...

To purge these worlds...

of all that has been ailing them.

We are going to release the righteous from sin.

Father Gomez will lead you,

and the Authority will guide you in your sacred mission.

Be swift, be brutal.

But make no mistake.

The girl, Eve, must not be allowed to escape.

Retrieve the child.

Retrieve the mother.

Ad return them to me,

dead or alive.

I understand that none of this matters compared to him.

I don't know what else I'm supposed to do.

You know what this woman is capable of.

Balthamos and I will take a closer look.

You attract too much attention, so stay here and keep watch.

Do not underestimate her.

I won't.

I'm not gonna hurt you.

I... I'm looking for a girl on this island.

Balthamos, you're gonna scare her.

Yes, angel.

And this is Will.

This is Ama.

Ask her about Lyra.

Is there a girl here?

I care about her a lot.

There was a girl here being kept asleep,

by a woman who claims to be her mother.

But no mother could possibly be so cruel.

This mother would.

Is that sun root?

It's a waking medicine?

Are you going to use that?

Oh.

The woman has gone, but will be returning soon.

Stay here, okay?

If you see her coming, run and get help.

Lyra?

You see, she's quite safe.

How did you get here?

Oh. Uh, these chambers, they have secrets.

She's not safe, you're drugging her!

Hmm.

You've grown, Will.

You know, I always suspected you were coming,

but I didn't think you'd be the first.

It's impressive.

Why are you keeping her here? Why won't you let her leave?

- Come.

Let's sit. Hmm?

Tea?

Come on. I know for a fact you have tea

- in your world, too. - Who else is coming?

Did you bring the knife?

May I see it?

Why are you keeping her here?

I am keeping her here because I'm her mother,

and I love her.

Lyra's in the most appalling danger,

and here, I can keep her safe.

Please, sit down.

What could be more dangerous than you?

How sad you can't see the truth.

Three times I have seen her in danger,

and three times I've tried to save her from it.

It's cost me everything.

And now she's in danger again.

Who is she in danger from?

The Magisterium.

And they intend to have her killed.

Do you know who they say she is, Will?

I know there's a prophecy.

They think she is Eve...

the mother of all sin.

And they think she will do great damage.

So they are determined to murder her

as an act of devotion.

Unless we stop them.

Even if that's true,

why are you keeping her asleep?

'Cause she hates me, Will.

And if I woke her, she'd run.

In fact, she's already tried to run.

So explain to her, like you've explained to me.

I am doing this to keep her alive.

Wouldn't your mother do the same for you?

A child needs their mother.

You understand that, Will.

You need your mother.

And here's the trick they never tell you.

Your mother needs you.

And that bond,

it stretches,

it transforms, but it never breaks.

Why?

Because the line from here,

to here...

matters more than any line in nature.

It's primal.

It's beautiful.

It overwhelms all other things...

if you let it.

Help me.

The three of us could be extraordinary.

Your strength, my guile,

- Lyra's bravery... - I'm not strong.

You are strong, Will. You think I can't see that?

You promise that you're keeping her safe?

That you'll carry on

- keeping her safe? - I give you my word.

Then I can leave her here.

Go to Asriel, like I was supposed to?

No, no. No, no, no, no. I... I need you to stay.

I saw what you did at Carlo's house, we...

We could help each other, we could protect

each other's vulnerabilities.

Will, we can't stay here, we have to keep moving.

- You must come with us. - I gave my word to my father

that as soon as I knew Lyra was safe,

I would go to Asriel to fight.

I have to do that.

Do you... do you understand what you're doing?

This...

This is a betrayal bigger than any I have committed.

If you abandon us now, you leave her for dead.

Do you understand that?

Thank you for all you're doing for her.

I'm gonna leave her in your care.

Will, you're making a mistake.

You...

I thought he'd stay.

We're going to find that knife

and we're going to use it to destroy Metatron.

You know nothing of him.

He is the dark angel, you cannot fight.

I can because I must.

Ruta, this knife, it's the weapon

you heard the cliff-ghasts talking about?

AEsahaettr. Yes.

Though I wasn't aware it required a bearer.

Or that it would have been the boy who was with Lyra.

So, we find Lyra, we find the boy.

I have seen them together.

Where one goes, the other follows.

Who is this girl that everyone is so interested in?

Asriel's daughter.

They believe she is Eve.

- Eve? - Hmm.

Who is Eve?

In some worlds, the mother of all sin.

Your daughter is the mother of all sin?

They believe so.

But they believe a great deal of fanciful nonsense.

And you didn't think it worth mentioning before?

- Where is she? - We don't know.

Then how will we protect her?

If there's one girl in all the worlds

that doesn't need protecting, it is Lyra.

Now, what I need is that knife.

The Magisterium can help us in this matter.

Roke, I want you to contact Salmakia.

Once she knows where Lyra is, I'll follow her there.

You will use your own daughter as a trap?

I have already risked everything I have

to get us this far.

My fortune, my reputation.

But what we risk now, here, in the next few weeks,

that will shape the course of history forever.

So if I have to journey to every world, I will.

If I have to incarcerate every angel, I will.

If I have to take a knife

to the heart of the Authority himself, I will.

And yes, I will risk Lyra, I will risk my own daughter

because the alternative, Commander,

is what happened to yours.

And I would risk everything and everyone

to ensure that can never happen again.

So I suggest you all ask yourselves,

what are you willing to risk?

An angel has been killed and all you can think about

is how that might benefit you.

Would you rather he die in vain?

Xaphania, the great betrayer.

You are consorting with humans now?

Was a millennia in exile not degradation enough for you?

You speak of betrayal

when you have taken orders to kill one of our own kind?

Baruch is... was an enemy of the Kingdom.

What few rebels there are will not fight for you.

They are defectors.

They run away from conflict, not towards it.

They will fight for what they believe in.

Why have you really come to see me?

Perhaps, you wanted to see if it is true

what Asriel has been doing to me?

Don't expect your rebels to follow a mortal

who enjoys torturing angels.

Where is the Authority?

Hiding behind a Regent who cares for nothing,

but his own greatness?

The Kingdom, as we know it, has already gone, Alarbus.

This is our final rebellion.

- What happened? - She's a liar.

- And yet, you're drawn to her. - I know what I'm doing.

Look.

There is no time now. This is absurd.

Baruch died for a purpose, but this...

- this is meaningless. - I promise it will work.

Five minutes to destination.

What is this?

It's kind of a Dust beam communication device.

We have a message from our agent in the Magisterium.

Load stan resonating, go ahead.

Lyra is with a woman named Marisa Coulter.

Of course, she is. How close are they?

We are about to land on a remote island

in the German Ocean. Fairisle.

I know the place.

I'll take the Intention Craft, it's the fastest way.

Agent Salmakia, get to the children,

get them to safety, away from the woman,

and then stay with them until I arrive. Understood?

- Understood. - You will go?

I must. You heard what the angel said.

AEsahaettr, God destroyer.

Hmm.

In which case,

try not to die.

The child is asking what you are doing?

I'm counting my steps.

We'll return by them in another world.

Oh, no, no, no. No, no, no, no.

The Intention Craft works through clarity.

Your mind is muddled.

I know exactly what and who we're going for.

Do your worst.

As soon as I've got her,

I'll come back through and close the window.

I need you to keep watch.

I'm sorry, Will. I must leave.

Balthamos!

It was one thing for the AEsahaettr,

but this, this is a human matter.

Don't go. I know this is hard for you,

but I need you to trust me.

I can't. I'm sorry. Not for this.

Balthamos!

Thank you. But go home, okay?

Stay out of danger.

Mrs. Coulter?

That's me.

You're too late, Father.

She's gone.

A boy got here first.

You know, he had several hundred miles

and the boundaries between worlds to cross.

And yet...

still managed to get here before you.

Bravo.

But I don't know why I'm surprised.

MacPhail likes to think he knows what he's doing,

but he prevaricates. Dithers. Don't you think?

That was from the boy.

Surprisingly vicious little brat.

I am going to take Lyra now, Mrs. Coulter.

And I'd rather not travel back to Geneva after nightfall.

Like I said...

she's not here.

Please.

I'm sorry. Her fate was decided long before I arrived here.

Okay.

She's in there.

Sit.

What was your plan?

Would you have kept her unconscious forever?

Run from world to world,

trying to escape the alethiometer?

Forever? You are not stupid.

Quite the opposite. You knew we would find her, eventually.

And destroy her.

That is her destiny.

You brought this fate upon her.

You gave her the terrible punishment of her existence.

And now, when she reaches

the hands of Father President MacPhail...

death.

Why have you been

prolonging her pain in this way?

I don't know.

I'm sorry.

I did not know what else to do, Father.

That is not true.

The answer was so simple and you knew it...

all along.

A truly loving act would have been to let her die.

To drift off in a sleep so deep that no one could ever hurt her.

In her mother's arms.

It is time for you to let her go now.

To kill one's own child

takes a kind of strength I do not possess.

Oh, but you do.

You have greater strength than you know.

Do it for me, please.

Grant me that.

Hey! Hey, we're leaving.

Please.

Oh, dear. Perhaps you were right about that strength.

You came back for us. I knew you would, Will.

What are you doing?

We're leaving.

Well, I'll come with you.

We'll be safer together. You need the two of us... No, no.

Stay back.

You're not coming with us.

She needs me, Will.

Please, don't take her from me.

- Please. - Ju... just stay back.

Will?

Do you think it's that easy to dispose of me?

Get away from us.

Is that what you do, Will?

Was your mother as easily disposed of?

Why did you leave her?

Where is she, Will?

Where is your mother?

Look at me, Will.

Look at me.

Look at me.

What have you done?

What have you done?

You broke the knife.

Leave.

Without the knife, you're useless to me.

Please, leave now, Will.

Leave!

Lyra, move, move, move.

Don't look at me like that, please.

Let me go.

Please, let me go.

It was only a small sting. She'll be fine in a few hours.

- Boy, do you have the knife? - Who are you?

I'm under instruction to take you to Asriel.

- Follow me. - No.

No, we're not going to Asriel.

- It's okay. Come on. - This is a way out.

Whoa!

Get down.

- Iorek's here? - I'll explain later.

Get her out of here!

Hey! You okay?

Will, we need to go.

Come on.

Come with us.

Thank you.

Come on.

Lyra?

Lyra?

We're too late.

Damn.