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[narrator] Previously on The 100:

-[Gabriel] Where's Bellamy? -[Echo] It took him towards the Anomaly.

[Hope] We need to get to Bellamy.

Her brother is here.

I need her to talk him down. No one else has to die.

-Let her go. Right now. -[Anders] Let the Conductor go.

And then we can talk.

Open the Bridge and send him back to Sanctum.

I'll tell you everything you wanna know.

For all mankind.

-Bellamy, get down! -[screams]

Bellamy's dead. I'm sorry.

[whirring]

That's right. It's operational.

A little glitchy, but it's working.

And I'm going to bed.

I heard about what happened. You sure you're up for this?

I'm fine, Shoana. Get some rest.

Is it true no one's being punished? Not even for killing Anders?

I don't think that's been determined, but it's safe to assume, given they control the Key.

You know what I heard? I heard the Shepherd gave them his quarters.

The Key, Shoana. Once the Last War begins, none of this will matter.

Who cares about his damn quarters?

You're right. The subject is ready for neural link.

He shows symptoms of post-traumatic stress

from the explosion in the Stone Room. For all mankind.

For all mankind.

Let's begin, shall we?

You're in a vast desert. There's an insect buzzing in your ear--

[Octavia] Bell, it's okay.

I can't let you die to save me.

Jump through.

That was fast.

I'll be okay.

-Neural link is engaged. -[Bellamy] No way.

Not without you.

-[man] For all mankind! -[Octavia] Bellamy, get down!

What do you see? What's happening?

He's alive.

[dramatic music playing]

[theme music playing]

[twig snaps then both grunting]

[screaming]

[thunder rumbling]

[grunting]

Wait.

-Stop! Stop! -[screaming]

In the light of the Shepherd, for all mankind, he saved us.

No one is coming to save us.

Your friends on Bardo probably think we're dead, which means--

Disciples died at your hand.

In the light of the Shepherd, for all mankind, he saved us.

Okay. That's enough.

As he will save us, I will fight on his behalf.

That's enough. That's enough! Hey! Hey!

Hey. Hey!

Stop.

I have a better idea.

We survive. Both of us.

I'm more than happy to leave you here to die of your wounds,

but there is a way off this planet.

And to do it, it's gonna take both of us... working together.

[dramatic music playing]

[coughing]

-[coughing] -Hey. Lie back.

Lie back.

Your leg is pretty messed up.

[groaning]

This is gonna hurt.

This next part, it's gonna hurt even more.

But I'm gonna need your help.

Do you want to walk again? You need to get this bone aligned.

-Sweet Shepherd. -He's not here.

I'm all you got.

On three, your good foot, push as hard as you can against the wall.

There's trees in the forest. Limbs. You can just make a splint, bind the leg--

Shut up. Bite down hard.

-One, two, three! -[bone cracks]

[screaming]

I told you it was gonna hurt.

I'd like to get out of here before we find out what these eggs grow into.

Should be boiling soon.

If you pull through, we'll have a guy named Pike to thank.

Among other things,

he taught us that the oozing sap from pine trees on Earth can make antiseptics.

Fight infection, heal wounds.

Let's hope the same goes for the trees on this planet.

[pensive music playing]

[groaning]

You're a brilliant conversationalist.

I'm stuck here with you, and everyone I love,

Octavia, Echo, Clarke, they're all alive.

But they're just out of reach.

Problem is, to get back to the people I care about...

I have to nurse my enemy back to health.

Sometimes, Bellamy Blake, irony can be funny.

This is not one of those times.

No, sir.

Never travel to another planet without something to read.

Even if it is pocket propaganda for another false god.

[clearing throat]

[coughing]

They don't say "thank you" where you're from?

By all means, thank you, for caring about yourself enough to save me.

So is this it?

Is this the Cave of Ascent?

How do you know about that?

I read it.

Sure, it helped pass the hours, but I gotta say,

the message... doesn't add up.

I've read these words more times than you can imagine.

Enlighten me.

It's simple.

The Shepherd believes in transcendence and peace, right?

But to get there, in order to reach the next step up, you have to fight a war?

Elucidation of that paradox is not ours to know.

Our people have been to war more times than you can know.

And let me tell you, it doesn't bring peace.

Just death, and pain,

and if you're lucky enough to survive, another war.

I know who you are.

Your beliefs.

They're all about you.

Your people. Your sister.

The lives you take to protect them.

Your selfish view of the universe makes me sick.

So "don't care about people.” That's your solution?

The Shepherd teaches us we're tiny in comparison to the universe.

And when the time comes, he will guide me home.

Okay, I've got some news for you, Conductor Doucette.

It is through no higher power that you are alive right now. It is through me.

-It is because of me. -You.

You! It's all about you!

You saw the words.

You didn't truly read this.

-I'm a shadow of the Shepherd, fallen... -[dramatic music playing]

Do that later.

It's time to get that leg of yours stronger.

[Conductor grunting]

It's only been a week. Any pain?

[Conductor clearing throat]

Quit showing off. Help me pack for the climb.

[thunder rumbling]

Slow down.

-Wear yourself out before the actual climb. - I have people I have to get back to.

[Conductor] Wall of Unanswered Prayers, the Shepherd's first hurdle.

There is no walking around it.

Yeah. I knew that.

Here's the plan.

You brace your back against the shelf. I stand on your shoulders.

I should able to reach that handle and from there--

I should go first. I'll hoist you up.

My leg can bear my weight, not the both of us.

It's weaker than my arms.

My arms can get me over the ledge and then I'll help you up.

Fine.

[grunting]

Careful!

Yeah, that's great. Throw down the rope.

[ominous music playing]

The rope!

Have some faith.

[pensive music playing]

[Bellamy] We should be close now.

Would have been a little easier

if you had some of the climbing gear your Shepherd brought along with him.

It's true. The Shepherd prepared for his pilgrimage.

To explore the universe, he had to.

But it was here on Etherea that he found what he was seeking.

The remnants of a civilization that had truly transcended.

And we're back to this.

We're on a pilgrimage of our own.

You maybe. I'm headed for the exit.

But the Shepherd guides us both.

[dramatic music playing]

Sure your Shepherd isn't laughing at us?

"And, lo, the Shepherd persevered...

climbing skyward

from where the world below appeared as nothingness."

Let me guess, he was rolling a boulder uphill.

No, no, wait. I know.

He was wearing wax wings, going for the sun?

Choose to believe whatever you want.

But the Shepherd was here.

He wrote of the hardships...

the killing cold of night...

the snow that raged for months.

They're words on a page. I mean, this?

We've climbed long enough to know we can outrun this.

-We can't outrun that. -[thunder rumbling]

Well, how'd your Shepherd deal with it? Pray it all away?

He sought shelter when he needed it, and so should we.

If we're running low on rations now,

we're sure as hell not gonna waste them searching for a windbreak.

The Shepherd's patience should be our example.

The snow will stop once we clear the clouds.

The trees are getting thinner. It's only getting steeper.

If you keep going up, you're going to die.

Well, at least I won't have to hear about the Shepherd anymore.

[suspenseful music playing]

I'm not afraid. I'm not afraid.

[grunting]

I'm not afraid.

[grunting]

I'm not afraid.

What is this place?

Shelter.

A cave. Hopefully bigger than the first one.

[groans]

You didn't go in?

The moment I found it, I came back for you.

What's the matter? They don't say "thank you" where you're from?

Let's just call it even. Leave it at that.

[ominous music playing]

I'll try and start a fire.

How the hell did all this get here?

Fire.

That's quick. Good Earth skills.

I haven't done anything yet.

The Cave of Ascent.

"With his own eyes, he saw testament of those that ascended.

And he knew his labors were not in vain."

In the shadow of the Shepherd for all mankind,

he saved us from the fire that consumed the Earth.

In the light of the Shepherd, for all mankind,

he will save us from the war to end all wars.

These beings are of the civilization that ascended,

just as the Shepherd foretold.

Imprints of their energy.

Their mortal forms have risen.

In the sacred cave.

No.

In view of proof, yet still you doubt.

No.

No, this doesn't make sense.

It's been days.

I know there's no food, but there's plenty of lichen on the wall. You should eat.

The Shepherd survived three months in this cave, and we can too.

From the ashes, we will rise.

"From the ashes, we will rise"?

Let me see that picture again.

This is your Shepherd?

Yes. I told you--

This guy was a cult leader.

I saw video of him preaching on Earth.

A fraud. A conman.

He predicted the Earth's end...

and brought his people safely across the stars.

He spoke of the beings in the cave, of their ascension. You saw it yourself.

I don't know what happened here, but those things didn't ascend.

That book of yours says that civilization

needs to have the tech know-how enough to work the Stone.

And those beings of light, they lived in a cave.

They were pure.

All we know is that transcendence is born of a civilization's core.

Its soul.

Are they pure enough? Are they worthy?

If you don't trust the messenger, trust the message,

the beings in the cave.

You felt it. I saw it in your eyes.

I believe in what I can prove.

Do you love your family?

Your friends?

What kind of stupid question is that? You know I do.

Prove it.

At least they're worth fighting for.

Not just words in some book.

My people, that is what is real.

And yet there's still something missing inside you.

Death and despair hover around you like a shroud.

A consequence of your selfish love.

Please tell me again how it's better not to love.

Love is not the problem. It's how you love that is.

It's not filling the hole inside you.

I love all people equally.

I even love you, a stranger.

It's why I came back for you. I'm being tested.

Not to preference the few over the many.

I have a greater purpose.

For all mankind.

Well, if those beings of light

are what is waiting for you at the end of your rainbow...

then go in and bunk with them.

But I'm staying here... on my side.

[dramatic music playing]

In the shadow of the Shepherd, for all mankind,

he saved us from the fire that consumed the Earth.

I've lost track of the days after the first two months.

How long? How long have we been here?

It doesn't matter.

We're gonna die in this cave.

Why do you seem so happy about it?

Your obsession with your sister and your friends,

it's what drives the darkness that makes you suffer.

My love for all mankind, my faith in the Shepherd...

it's made me lighter than I've ever been. Why is that?

You believe in the Shepherd.

What did the Shepherd believe in?

The bond that unites us all.

That we're all connected.

I can help show you...

if you'd like.

Fine.

Sure.

Close your eyes.

Deep breath in.

Feel your lungs expand.

In the shadow of the Shepherd, for all mankind, he saved us.

You've read the passage. You know the prayer.

Come on, say it with me.

[both] In the shadow of the Shepherd, for all mankind,

he saved us from the fire that consumed the Earth.

In the light of the Shepherd, for all mankind,

he will save us from the war to end all wars.

In the shadow of the Shepherd, for all mankind,

he saved us from the fire that consumed the Earth.

I don't think this is gonna work--

Bellamy.

Hello.

Come.

Follow me.

I've already seen what's in there.

Have you?

These things that you think can save you...

are just pieces of metal.

Faith is the true weapon.

You've come far, Bellamy.

Your eyes are opening.

But there's still so much more to see.

[pensive music playing]

[Bellamy] Mom.

My son.

Go to the light, Bellamy.

The light is the way.

[pensive music playing]

The first time you chose to pray and the storm broke.

It means we're worthy, I think.

Both of us.

The sun's going down.

We'll never make it up there before dark.

We should go back.

We could go back.

But it took us this long to get here from the cave.

Tomorrow, the next day, nothing's gonna change that.

If we're on that face when night falls, we'll freeze there.

We may.

But the days are getting shorter.

This is our best chance.

Our only chance.

Have some faith.

[suspenseful music playing]

Getting closer!

[grunting]

[suspenseful music playing]

Bellamy!

I can't. There's nothing--

-Cut me loose. -No!

Look at me, Doucette! Look at me!

- I slipped the book in your provision bag! -What?

The Shepherd's book! I wrote the Stone codes inside.

You can activate the Stone yourself.

Now cut me loose or we'll both die!

No! We're doing this together!

In the light of the Shepherd...

for all mankind...

he saved us from the fire that consumed the Earth.

[both] And now, inspired by his strength,

I search for resilience,

for the will to find a way.

Let his fortitude grow in me as it did in him.

For all mankind!

You could've died.

That's not the way I planned on getting off this planet.

In the light of the Shepherd.

[Bellamy] We're here.

I don't understand. What now?

Now we do what we came to do.

How can you be sure that the Bridge is down there?

[Conductor] It's the path of the Shepherd.

And in his light... we will not lose.

Doucette!

[suspenseful music playing]

I am afraid.

[screaming]

Talk about a leap of faith.

[Cadogan] Welcome back, Bellamy.

My Shepherd.

Please stand.

And call me Bill.

Pilgrims returned from Etherea.

I want to know everything.

But first, your friends are here.

And I'm afraid they've gotten themselves into some trouble.

[ominous music playing]

Thank God for the Flame.

I doubt they serve acai bowls in jail.

-How could you eat right now'? -He can always eat.

Gabriel's right.

If they didn't believe I had the Flame, we'd be in cells.

Where are you going?

To wake the others. It's time to go back to Sanctum.

Clarke, we're under house arrest.

I'm aware of that.

I'm also aware our leverage disappears the moment he puts me in front of that Stone.

[Echo] So, what're you gonna do?

I'm gonna offer to do it

as soon as the rest of you are safely back on Sanctum.

Clarke, they'll kill you.

You're not sacrificing yourself for us.

[man] Make way for the Shepherd.

[dramatic music playing]

We need to talk.

I'm ready to help you, but only after my friends are--

Bellamy?

[weapons powering up]

How?

We saw you die.

It's hard to keep the Blakes down.

[Cadogan] Hold!

She has the Key.

[whispering] The Key is the Flame.

They think it's still in my head. Say nothing.

[Cadogan] I hope that now you're ready to help us, Clarke.

Too much blood has been spilled.

Each death is a child of Earth who won't transcend.

I'll give you time to reunite while we make preparations.

My Shepherd...

[suspenseful music playing]

There's something you should know.

Clarke doesn't have the Key.

The Flame was destroyed.

I'm sorry.

[theme music playing]