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- Check this out. - This memorial rocks.

They designed these goggles so you can look back into the past at the old monastery.

Come on. Check it out.

John, what are you talking about? There is nothing here.

You have to put the goggles on. Come on. Take a look.

Put the goggles on. Do you want me to look?

Yes, through the goggles.

Oh, my.

Pretty cool, huh?

Incredible.

This sucker is a tear in time.

It links to the past.

It looks back to the actual moment when the event occurred.

Now, check it out. This is the nurses surrendering to the Venek Horde.

Can they see us?

I hope not.

Keep watching. You'll see the final attack on the monastery.

This thing flicks back and forth between the attack and the truce.

This recording device is accurate. I learned about this Jocacean Memorial.

Well, need I say more? If you learned about it at military school it's certain to be farca.

Five hundred cycles ago, 30 Peacekeepers lost their lives defending this monastery

and Subofficer Dacon is one of our greatest heroes.

Propaganda for morons. - I don't believe...

Ah, ladies. Some decorum, please.

This is a peace memorial.

Let's not kill one another.

You're wrong, you know. - Bullfrell.

You're wrong. - Bullfrell.

You're wrong. If you'd only... Subofficer Dacon stood right up there.

The device says right up there.

Guts pouring out everywhere, bleeding,

and yet he still managed to initiate the peace process to save the nurses.

Bullfrell! Peacekeepers have always been a manifest military contagion that has raped and pillaged.

They never died for any nurses.

That's just a silly little story to help naive children sleep at night.

Do you know what would help me sleep better at night?

Do you want to hear? - Stop it, girls, stop that.

I'm going to get this thing and stuff it so far...

Stop it, okay? Stop.

Good.

Rygel. Can we get out of here yet?

D'Argo, it's Chi.

No, no, no. We, we can't leave yet.

Pilot still needs another arn to fix condensers.

I'll let you know when he's done.

Oh!

What are you doing in Zhaan's quarters?

You know why I'm here.

Same reason as you.

And why am I here?

To steal whatever's left.

Yeah, that's right.

Well, we're sensible, you and me.

Leaving this to rot won't bring Zhaan back.

No.

You can have whatever you find.

I don't want it.

No.

Neither do I.

Stark, let me show you something.

Zhaan bought these. Bought them for me.

I know. And you look great. You look like Astro Boy. Come on. Let me show you.

But her voice is gone.

It's gone now.

Come with me.

Come on.

With these, you can see 500 cycles into the past, as it's happening,

back to the moment when the nurses here were saved.

Ah, I don't want to, no, no.

No, it's okay.

It's a moment of peace.

It's the very thing Zhaan treasured most.

Can you see it?

I can see...

I can see so much.

So much death!

Get that mask off of him.

What are you doing to him? - Stark?

I can't see.

I can't see.

Stark, are you all right?

Stark?

He's breathing.

What happened?

Oh...

Where the frell are we?

The old monastery.

But how can that be? We're not wearing the goggles.

This is outstanding.

This is the finest simulation I've ever seen.

It's so real. It's so...

Incoming.

Get down!

Get down.

D'Argo, Jool's hit.

Jool!

Jool!

My name is John Crichton... I'm lost... an astronaut.

I got shot through a wormhole... In some distant part of the universe...

I'm trying to stay alive...

Aboard this ship... This living ship...

Of escaped prisoners. My friends.

If you can hear me... Beware.

If I make it back... Will they follow?

If I open the door... Are you ready?

Earth is unprepared... Helpless, for the nightmares I've seen.

Or should I stay... Protect my home...

Not show them... You exist...

But then you will never know the wonders I've seen.

Right, move now! Come on, in!

Don't touch me! My arm! - If you don't move, you'll die. - Move it! Move it!

Oh, I thought we were in a peace memorial.

I got shot at a peace memorial.

Shut up.

What are you doing?

Stop screaming.

Nice hit.

All right, no weapons. Let's figure out what's going on here.

- I know exactly what's going on. - Someone is trying to kill us.

You know, Aeryn, I think Stark's mask might have pulled us sometime into the past.

I kind of figured that one out.

John's right. If we change anything here, change the past,

the future might not happen as it's meant to.

Then we won't get back. - So, we don't get back.

But I'm not dying just so that things don't change. - Don't move.

Whoa, whoa, no weapons. No, don't shoot. Don't shoot. Don't shoot.

Reinforcements.

You received our distress call?

Yes, we did. Are you Subofficer Dacon?

No, Commanding Officer Tarn.

Officer Sun, Subofficer Crichton Luxan is a mercenary.

How did you get inside?

We rappelled down the cliff face.

Only five of us made it but the Banik...

Five? But we asked for hundreds of soldiers.

The Veneks, there are thousands in the valley.

Dacon, shut up, and get back up on the wall.

Yes, sir.

That is Subofficer Dacon?

Nurse!

Any more reinforcements on the cliff?

Yes. - No.

Maybe.

All right. Now they're jamming all pulse weapons

so grab a spear and keep the bastards from getting in.

Ha!

Hey, try not to kill anybody.

I'm not going to kill anyone.

Oh, I might kill this guy.

Dacon!

Oops, sorry. Don't die. Don't die.

Officer Tarn!

What's the matter, Pilot? Why'd you comm?

Have you heard from Crichton at the memorial?

Yeah, D'Argo commed about an arn ago.

He said Jool and Aeryn were tralk fighting.

That seemed normal.

Why? What's the matter?

Nothing. Just, when we arrived

the automated orbit instructions were broadcast in Jocacean.

Yeah, well it's a memorial.

But now, Moya received a request to lift orbit.

This time, the broadcast was in basic Venek vernacular.

Yeah, but didn't the Veneks abandon the planet like 400 cycles ago?

That's what I thought.

Well, comm Crichton and D'Argo.

I'll poke around in some frequencies and see what I can find.

Do you all know the sacrifice you have made?

So, what does that recording device say? Did we miss anything?

I don't know. It says here that the Veneks attacked

and all but one of the Peacekeepers were killed.

And that happened.

The boy you saved. Was he supposed to die?

Dacon? No, he dies when he gets up there near dawn

and sends back the ceasefire initiative to the Veneks.

So Dacon's supposed to be some kind of hero?

So I was taught.

Anyway, according to this the leader of the Venek Corps, General Grynes,

has just witnessed how this battle went,

ascertained that there are only women and children remaining,

and is out there now convincing the other generals to offer a ceasefire.

So, it's possible the time tear is still around here.

We find it and let's get out.

I'll get Jool and Stark and find the tear.

Don't frell things up when I'm gone.

You know, if we did change things,

it is possible that we could improve the future.

With our record, you think that's gonna happen?

I guess not.

I discovered something, by the way.

I don't know about yours but my pulse pistol is operational.

Yeah, mine, too.

Their plasma frequencies must only work against primitive recharges.

What about D'Argo's Qualta rifle?

It's as old as most of the weapons around here. I doubt it'll fire.

This one's still alive. Can you help me get him to the locker room?

Yeah, no problem, Opie.

I just hope this was supposed to happen.

So, you guys got any beer around here?

Beer, it's like fellip nectar.

Fellip's a creature on Tarsis 6.

That hurts.

Is that sterile?

Oh, God, I'll probably get hekpus.

Here, drink this.

Why?

It will dull the pain.

Oh, thank Blasma.

At least maybe now, I might die of shock.

That bitch just shoved the arrow right through. She...

Oh, hello.

Hesca.

Do you feel this?

Nothing.

Look!

This is great! I've got to get some of this to bring home. What is it?

One part water, nine parts fellip urine.

You made me drink piss?

Okay. Okay, Jool.

Let's get out of here, away from the children.

You can come with me, too.

In here, it's about all this thing's good for.

Oh, basha, my frelling...

Sorry for cursing. - No, you okay?

Dacon, have you been a soldier long?

Were you talking to Officer Tarn?

No, it's just that I once heard you killed a dozen Veneks

when they breached the stak wall.

Me? - Mmm.

Did you not also save the nurses' convoy?

No, Officer Tarn did all that.

He was a very noble man.

He always gave credit away.

He, uh...

Get down!

This...

Their snipers might see it.

Who am I kidding?

I'm not a soldier.

I was attached to this unit as Comm Supervisor,

and Sustenance Preparer.

You were the cook?

Yeah.

And with everyone getting killed,

I was terrified I was gonna be ranking officer.

I'm so glad you turned up.

Um... no, uh...

Dacon, you know the engagement better than I do.

You have to be the...

I'm a cook.

You gotta take over.

You're General Grynes, right?

Believe it or not, you don't all look alike to us.

You're a man of compassion.

Aren't you?

At the Battle of Madazac,

you offered a truce when you could have forced victory.

How do you know that?

Read about you.

Studied you.

At, uh, school.

Can you see the tear?

Moving, moving...

No, above us... above us.

I can see it, too, look. It's yellow and...

Shut up, Jool. Where is it?

It's coming... it's coming down.

It's coming down. It's here.

Now. - Okay.

You go through it. I'll go get the others.

I'm not going.

Well, that was obviously wrong.

What are you doing? There is nothing there.

Now, tell me, where is it exactly?

It's here, here.

Okay.

Mud!

You threw me in mud. - I'll go get Crichton and Aeryn.

I'll be 30 microts. Can you hold?

Yes, yes.

Bastards.

They shot me, they punch me,

they made me drink piss.

Oh, my Blasma.

Stark!

It's not the same here!

It's not the same here, Stark.

That's the lie.

It's the lie. It's what's wrong.

- Millions, billions, dead.

Okay, now focus Stykeran.

Where is the tear?

Ah... - Uh-uh-uh-uh.

Specifically.

Find it yourself. You find it yourself.

You will listen to me!

Tell me where the tear is,

or I will use your face to create a new one.

Stark, what's the problem?

Jool went through, then we go through, and everything's made right again.

Oh, that's the lie. That's the lie. That's what wrong. That's the lie.

Oh great. Yeah, we have to put up with this dren again.

Oh, when the foul woman pierced the membrane back to our time, death.

Jool's dead?

Others.

Thousands. Millions. Billions. Trillions.

Yes, yes, all right. Very many. We get the idea.

Not when we came through.

The people you're sensing weren't dead before?

Oh, yeah. We did it being here. We changed the future.

We don't know that, John.

Well, look at him. He knows it.

Can't we just go through and sort this out later?

We must do it here now.

As Zhaan always says, "Do right by the wrong.

Goddess helps us all along."

Feeling left out, D'Argo?

We're the only ones who don't have voices in our heads.

Well what are we gonna do if someone wants to know where Jool is?

Oh look, do you think anyone here cares about Jool?

Just tell them that she's dead.

Fine.

Stick with Stark. I've got an idea.

It'll set the timeline right and get us a ceasefire.

Won't work. - Yes, it will.

No, it won't. - You don't even know what it is.

Yes, I do. - No, you don't.

Oh yes, I do. - Oh, and what is your plan?

You're... you're gonna use pulse pistols?

Kill all the Veneks you can?

Actually, yes.

When they attack again, I'll show you my way to get a ceasefire.

God.

You are gonna have to stay out of this room if you can't stop shedding.

Without renewal, there's stagnation.

Yeah?

Well, I feel the same way about men.

But I don't leave them lying around.

Can't you ever play nice?

I got shot with a hekpus infected arrow, you monochromatic little bitch.

Chiana, I believe Jool may not have overstated the situation,

much to my surprise.

These broadcast frequencies are static. What happened to them?

Well, I kept trying to tell you.

Apparently, devastated by conflict.

The planet is still inhabited, but by a bare fraction of the population

from just a few arns ago.

If you don't like me, fine. But don't treat me like I'm nonexistent.

Somehow we went back in time and the others are still there.

And if you knew anything about linear continuity,

you'd realize what they're doing back there now is affecting things on that planet.

What minimal data stores I can access

indicate a vicious war claimed millions of lives around 500 cycles ago.

But that's not what happened when we got here.

They made peace.

Dacon. Slowly take your finger off the trigger

and point the weapon away from both of us.

Those recruitment holochips never said anything about this.

About what?

Fighting with primitive weapons?

Dying.

Knowing you're gonna die.

Having time to think about it.

Well as a soldier you don't think about it.

I'm a cook. I like to think about food.

Why did you join up?

I didn't.

You were born into service.

Aboard a Command Carrier.

No wonder you're fearless.

No. It's easy to be fearless around here.

This is what Peacekeepers are meant to do.

Help the defenseless.

You'll be fine.

Why is this cloister so important?

Your superiors sent you into battle without an understanding of the antecedents?

You really are barbarians.

No, we're Peacekeepers. Barbarians butcher children.

Yes, the Horde is bloodthirsty, and almost impossible to control.

I'm trying not to be a barbarian, and I've never harmed a child in my life.

Why is your army here?

My soldiers used to share the waters of the Krytlin River with the cities on the plateau.

Now our supply has dried and we're dying.

So this is about water?

Inside this mountain is the source of the river.

If we don't gain access to it, the Horde will attack the cities

and millions will die.

But you,

you want to offer a ceasefire.

How do you know this?

Doesn't matter. We accept your offer.

But the Horde will not offer it while opposing soldiers are still here.

We won't be here. By the time you and your soldiers arrive, we'll be gone.

And why would you do this?

Same reason you'll offer amnesty.

We're not barbarians.

You give me your word you won't harm the women and children,

and I'll get you out of here.

There seems to be too many nurses here and not enough fighters.

We were on a healing caravan when the Horde began the conflict.

This detachment of Peacekeepers found us.

We're just here for our protection.

Are the Peacekeepers contracted to defend your world?

They uphold all that's good.

It's ironic. We might have been safer if they'd never found us.

Do you know what the Horde does to children?

If they overrun us, and I'm too weak, or unable,

I'd rather my girl were at peace than in their hands.

Please?

I'll depend on you.

Why were you crying?

Because of all the pain.

What's your name?

Cyntrina.

My father's dead, and I never cried.

This is humiliating.

Yeah, bonnets are always a risk,

but it's the little touches that put you over the wall.

I'm not gonna get screwed here, am I?

Just don't be here when we arrive.

All of your soldiers must be gone.

That's the plan.

The ground looks soft on the other side.

All you got to do is drop down, hit the embankment and roll.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Hey, General?

I've got a good feeling about this.

I think history is going to remember you as the maker of great peace.

- No. No!

No, no, no, no.

Stand fast, traitor!

No, no, no, no! You did not just do that!

You did not! Please tell me you did not just do that!

I ask again, are you part of his deception?

No, Crichton's actions are his alone.

He told us nothing.

Hey, folks. I'm not the enemy here.

We should kill him.

No! Too much killing.

No more killing. Stop the killing. Stop.

It's worse, not better. It's more dead.

What's he talking about?

Ah, nothing. Just what will happen to us if we don't pull ourselves together.

- That guy you shot? - He was their general.

He wanted to offer you a ceasefire.

I don't believe you.

Why didn't you tell us anything?

There wasn't time. - Oh, like frell there wasn't.

And since when do you make decisions for me?

Aeryn, we get him back to his lines and this war's over. You know that.

Liar, he's a liar.

No!

Don't kill anyone else, Mother.

The Venek leaders want to offer you peace.

They're desperate for an excuse to offer you peace.

Give them a sign and I promise, they won't hurt you.

Jocacean civilians and Peacekeeper Militia, hear me.

You will never know how close to salvation you came,

how near lasting peace you brushed.

The death of our general in battle we understand and accept.

But to disgrace him in your females' cloth?

You have the night's stars to make peace with your deities.

On the dawn, your severed heads will be nailed to the walls you defend.

Ah, John.

If this situation hadn't reminded you of all those old Westerns

you watched as a youth, I never would have heard that.

Are you through?

Quite.

The interlude, however,

allowed me to ponder the question you ah, summoned me here to answer.

And?

All modern research points to the elasticity of time

rather than a brittle framework.

Can it be corrected?

Hmm.

If nudged closely enough to course,

events have a way of restructuring themselves.

If the participants are the same, the venues the same,

the motivation's the same, then well, the outcome is likely to be the same.

So we have to find a way to kick start this thing.

And soon.

When the Horde attacks at dawn, events will vector further away

from the reality you and I both know.

Suggestions?

No.

Not this time, John.

There's been so much change. What with you here, Grynes dead.

I don't want the consequences of catastrophic failure resting on my head.

I'm in a hell of a slump here,

and everything I do just makes things worse.

Well, then...

do better.

We can record a message over the one sent by Colonel Lennok.

And I have convinced Dacon into offering a complete and total surrender.

It's the only way to save the nurses.

Maybe. You wanna better the odds? - How?

Scroll through that digi-pamphlet you got at the Peace Memorial.

Look for anything that may be out of sync that we can fix.

What?

Oh what, you think I'm... I'm stupid?

That I don't understand what you're saying?

Subofficer Dacon does not have to die.

He's Davy Crockett at the Alamo.

He stands on the wall and takes one for the home team.

I've thought about this. It's the only thing that I can come up with to fix the timeline.

Oh, you and your stupid timeline.

What, you think I wanna do it?

You think it's my first option?

Read the history. It's in your pocket.

If Grynes lives, he's a hero who averts a war.

Dead, he's just another guy in the Laura Ashley Spring Collection.

It's you and me now.

We've gotta do something.

He's not a soldier.

I know that.

But the way history unfolds that doesn't stop him from taking an arrow.

So...

Dacon dies.

What about us? We're soldiers.

We go back through the time tear. - The tear?

Stark says it's completely disappeared. What happens if it doesn't reshow?

Then we die half an arn after Dacon.

Aeryn, either way he dies.

And the nurses.

That's what we have to play for now.

You deal with the dead?

Someone must.

Death is where my expertise ends.

When you shot the General how did you feel?

I felt hatred. Fear.

Fear is good.

Keep that.

But travel light. Forget hate.

If we die, will I be with my daughter?

After?

Different beliefs, different destinations.

I cannot tell before the end.

Should the worst befall, you will not be alone.

Hello.

You're scary looking.

You should have seen my father.

My father wasn't scary.

My mother says, when loved ones die, we must remember them forever.

Well, your mother is right.

Do you think when I'm dead, someone will remember me?

You know what?

I know a secret that will guarantee it.

Make your mark.

Carve it into the stone.

That way in the future, anyone that reads it will think of Cyntrina.

I've offered unconditional surrender, just like you said to.

And I've also sworn that killing their general was a tragic mistake.

But as Ranking Officer, are you sure you shouldn't be the one on the message?

As a part of Special Commando Force, I'm not officially here.

So if they knew your unit was present it would escalate the conflict?

Mm-hmm.

What are you doing?

I... I'm delivering the message.

There? You should shoot from down here.

Ah, no, we only get one chance.

I can't have it go wrong and it needs to land right near their camps.

You can't expose yourself to their fire. Let me do it.

I appreciate the gesture, but a soldier should do it.

Better if a cook does it.

I don't want you to get hurt.

Better me than you.

Subofficer Dacon?

You are a soldier.

A brave hero.

No. Heroes always get killed.

I'll be fine.

How is that possible? How is that possible?

I don't know, Chiana.

But the planet is now lifeless.

Moya's sensors detect no microbial chemistry.

What? Nothing?

Krass me, it looks radiated.

The crater pattern indicates, in all probability,

the destruction by military conflict.

But that can't be.

Can't see it. I can't see it.

What do you mean, you can't see it? Look harder!

It's not there.

It was above us! - It's not there.

It's gone. It's gone.

How? We did everything right.

We set the timeline back on track. How can it be gone?

Oh, it's not my fault. It's no one's fault.

I... I didn't mean to... - It's not your fault.

The Veneks! The Veneks!

Get down!

Cyntrina, come with me now.

It didn't work.

Dacon's dead, and the tear didn't reappear. - Aeryn, untie me.

You know, the device said that he died when he sent the ceasefire and then,

and then the Veneks offered peace. Does that sound like peace to you?

Untie me. - I listened to you.

I let a man die and we changed nothing.

He was supposed to die. That's what happened in history.

But then why isn't the tear back?

I don't know!

Untie me. - Can we use our weapons now or are you still afraid to change things?

Yes, we can use the weapons. Untie me.

Don't touch him!

Crichton's a soldier. He can help us fight.

He's a traitor. He tried to free that dog, Grynes.

Grynes would have brokered a peace.

What, you think they're coming to offer peace?

We need him to defend the monastery.

I won't warn you again. If you try to release him, I'll kill you.

And if the Horde gets in here, they're going to slaughter every single one of us.

He can help us.

How can he help?

He has a weapon like mine.

Now if you're gonna shoot, do it now.

Your pulse weapons are functional? Why haven't you used them?

Well there's a good question.

Are you ready to get a ceasefire my way?

Killing Dacon should have fixed the timeline.

Well, it didn't. Are you ready?

Yes.

Move!

Get to the walkway.

Two guns, Aeryn. We only have two guns.

Well make it look like more. - How?

Well, keep firing running backwards and forwards and pretend you're an army.

Oh yeah, that's gonna work!

Just do it!

Now!

Excuse me ladies, man with a gun coming through!

Chiana, look out the forward portal.

Not now, Pilot.

Look out the portal.

Gone! The planet, it's gone!

It can't be gone. I was just there two arns ago.

I got shot. I drank piss.

Keeps the comms open.

I'm going out to look for them.

There's nothing there. It's all gone.

Where are you gonna look?

Hey, how's that arm going? Has the piss worn off?

Yes. Actually, it's quite sore, thanks for asking.

And stop screaming.

It is very, very irritating and I don't want you melting anything.

Get away! Get away!

Mother!

Stay put, Cyntrina!

Leave her alone!

What are you doing?

I'm making like an army.

D'Argo!

Whoa.

Holy Montana!

Get to the Med Chamber.

I'm gonna have a heart attack.

Aeryn!

The Veneks are retreating!

What's going on, Pilot?

I'm getting the dren kicked out of me.

Moya's registering some kind of massive gamma disturbance

where the planet used to be.

Can you see anything?

Nothing.

I can't control this.

Ohh! It's back.

It's back.

No death, no death!

It's back. It's back.

It's back. No death.

Come on. Now, quick.

Let's go.

It will be safer if we just go now and don't tell her anything.

I'll just be 30 microts. - Crichton.

I won't tell her anything.

Are you leaving?

I will be leaving soon, yes.

Will I ever see you again?

How long do your people live?

My mother's sire lived for 700 cycles.

Well, maybe I'll see you again when you grow up.

We have to go.

If you're not here, the Veneks will murder us.

No, no. If there's no soldiers here they'll offer a ceasefire.

How do you know that?

I just... do.

Veneks are predators. They kill.

That's what they do. They don't have ceasefires.

Please.

At least leave your weapons...

No. I... I can't.

I'm sorry.

You're gonna be safe.

I promise.

Where's Aeryn?

She should be here. She left ahead of me.

Aeryn!

Aeryn!

Aeryn!

Sorry.

Okay, let's get the frell out of here.

On Moya, we registered every change as it happened.

First, there were, there were millions dead.

And then the planet disappeared, and then it came back.

I almost crashed the pod trying to get it in here.

And nothing changed on Moya?

No.

Only the planet was affected by what you did.

Everything's the same except...

So is there any chance you can go back?

No. The tear is no longer stable.

Stark tried, but he can't get us back through.

Does Crichton know that?

Yes, he does.

So who's gonna get him back on Moya?

I will.

Okay.

Thank you.

Hi.

I screwed up.

You...

We did what we could.

Why would they do that?

What's the point?

There probably was no point.

You must tell me. Where are the soldiers who were here?

I know nothing. They... they just left. I don't know where they went.

They're not here. - No one could get past my forces.

Tell me where they are. I can't control the Horde unless...

Crichton said they were going to escape by the cliffs but...

Too many Veneks have died here. The bloodlust is on them!

I need to give the Horde something.

Where are the pulse weapons you fired on us?!

Crichton took them. Please...

Please, I don't know where they've gone. I don't know.

I can't stop the Horde unless you tell me where this Crichton is!

I don't know. I don't know!

Crichton!

No! Not yet!

Crichton!

No!