1 00:00:02,852 --> 00:00:04,883 RAMOS: What's a Covenant dropship doing here? 2 00:00:05,777 --> 00:00:07,604 Backwater like Sedra? 3 00:00:08,141 --> 00:00:09,107 He's heading for the city. 4 00:00:09,176 --> 00:00:10,396 We think it's a bomb. 5 00:00:13,113 --> 00:00:14,920 [People clamoring] 6 00:00:15,662 --> 00:00:17,156 [Gasping] 7 00:00:18,240 --> 00:00:19,978 GAINES: She's been affected by something. 8 00:00:20,467 --> 00:00:21,560 Secure the entrances. 9 00:00:22,176 --> 00:00:24,510 Only Sedran passports get entrance. 10 00:00:25,074 --> 00:00:28,023 I've got wounded, Colonel. We can talk politics later. 11 00:00:29,596 --> 00:00:31,461 What the hell did they do to us? 12 00:00:32,144 --> 00:00:34,381 HORRIGAN: Covenant's found their holy grail then, haven't they? 13 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:37,330 Way of wiping us out without firing a shot. 14 00:00:38,425 --> 00:00:40,495 LOCKE: He says it's sourced from a place no one will go. 15 00:00:40,642 --> 00:00:42,273 [Speaking alien language] 16 00:00:42,615 --> 00:00:44,089 He says it's sourced from hell. 17 00:00:44,402 --> 00:00:45,818 Looks like we got a one-off. 18 00:00:46,550 --> 00:00:48,064 An element fatal to humans. 19 00:00:48,937 --> 00:00:51,671 Native to this little piece of Halo ring and nowhere else. 20 00:00:51,788 --> 00:00:55,284 Treaty says no one goes back to the ring. Not UNSC, not Covenant. 21 00:00:55,695 --> 00:00:58,292 Daytime temperatures reach 900 degrees. 22 00:00:58,378 --> 00:00:59,755 HORRIGAN: They're working the night shift. 23 00:01:00,790 --> 00:01:03,808 Harvesting the element and they're long gone before the sun comes up. 24 00:01:04,033 --> 00:01:05,683 We destroy the deposits with the Havok, 25 00:01:06,390 --> 00:01:07,463 grab our smugglers, 26 00:01:08,011 --> 00:01:09,485 be off-planet within hours. 27 00:01:09,827 --> 00:01:11,458 Look, you wanna do this tonight, 28 00:01:11,917 --> 00:01:13,470 your only option 29 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:15,677 is the Sedrans. 30 00:01:15,815 --> 00:01:17,133 I hear you need a ship. 31 00:01:17,781 --> 00:01:20,125 HORRIGAN: All these years heard about the Halo ring. 32 00:01:20,799 --> 00:01:22,693 Never thought we'd actually step foot on it. 33 00:01:23,143 --> 00:01:24,910 Won't be the Halo ring of yore, that's for sure. 34 00:01:27,266 --> 00:01:28,799 Ready to go to hell, Colonel? 35 00:01:58,770 --> 00:02:01,289 - Daddy? - I heard you're gonna come home. 36 00:02:01,543 --> 00:02:03,936 I made a picture of us at the beach. 37 00:02:05,758 --> 00:02:08,454 - Bye, Daddy! - I miss you. 38 00:02:19,802 --> 00:02:21,491 Ever seen a Havok nuke before? 39 00:02:23,561 --> 00:02:24,743 Only virtually. 40 00:02:25,505 --> 00:02:27,575 How 'bout battle? Seen that? 41 00:02:29,573 --> 00:02:31,673 Thing you don't understand about Sedrans. 42 00:02:31,888 --> 00:02:34,866 We've lived in a state of perpetual war, surrounded by enemies. 43 00:02:35,941 --> 00:02:37,405 We were born fighting. 44 00:02:37,464 --> 00:02:38,450 That may be. 45 00:02:40,452 --> 00:02:41,800 But make a mistake with that 46 00:02:42,366 --> 00:02:44,652 you won't even have time to know you made a mistake. 47 00:02:44,925 --> 00:02:46,390 No one in 100 kilometers will. 48 00:02:46,804 --> 00:02:48,630 Which is why only we touch it. 49 00:02:49,460 --> 00:02:50,730 This is our mission. 50 00:02:51,111 --> 00:02:52,898 I don't wanna hear that again, Lieutenant. 51 00:02:53,565 --> 00:02:55,098 This is a Sedran operation. 52 00:02:55,123 --> 00:02:56,690 Oh, we'll be the ones setting the nuke. 53 00:02:57,651 --> 00:02:59,829 And probably nabbing the smugglers 54 00:03:00,483 --> 00:03:01,450 as advisors. 55 00:03:04,312 --> 00:03:07,495 You wanna put a muzzle on your subordinate, Commander Locke? 56 00:03:08,487 --> 00:03:09,766 He's officially muzzled. 57 00:03:10,918 --> 00:03:11,787 He said what he had to say. 58 00:03:15,078 --> 00:03:19,151 Well, once we're boots down, we'll have roughly eight hours before sunup. 59 00:03:19,625 --> 00:03:21,481 Anybody who's on the surface at that point 60 00:03:23,033 --> 00:03:23,649 is dead. 61 00:03:25,153 --> 00:03:26,677 Atmosphere's still breathable 62 00:03:26,702 --> 00:03:29,431 but at only 20% oxygen of what the ring used to have. 63 00:03:29,626 --> 00:03:31,375 This is gonna slow us down. 64 00:03:31,687 --> 00:03:34,578 Which means oxygen systems and scrubbers for everyone. 65 00:03:36,794 --> 00:03:37,722 And lastly 66 00:03:38,191 --> 00:03:40,662 I don't wanna hear anymore proper nous until we exfil. 67 00:03:40,687 --> 00:03:43,171 No more "Sedrans", no "ONI". 68 00:03:44,187 --> 00:03:45,564 Just a team of soldiers. 69 00:03:46,909 --> 00:03:48,432 And as commanding officer of this mission 70 00:03:48,969 --> 00:03:49,770 that team 71 00:03:50,287 --> 00:03:51,567 goes through me, clear? 72 00:03:52,358 --> 00:03:53,559 Clear from this end. 73 00:04:05,100 --> 00:04:06,311 We come up against it 74 00:04:07,249 --> 00:04:07,962 so you know 75 00:04:10,442 --> 00:04:11,663 only guy I listen to 76 00:04:12,366 --> 00:04:13,342 is you. 77 00:04:38,436 --> 00:04:40,206 Your friend's wrong about us. 78 00:04:41,105 --> 00:04:42,068 We can fight. 79 00:04:43,136 --> 00:04:44,308 Not tonight, you won't. 80 00:04:49,022 --> 00:04:51,248 Colonel's right about you, if you don't mind me saying. 81 00:04:53,569 --> 00:04:54,324 ONI. 82 00:04:55,340 --> 00:04:56,980 Think you're better than everyone else. 83 00:04:58,308 --> 00:04:58,920 I mean... 84 00:04:59,298 --> 00:05:00,769 not that you're not, it's just... 85 00:05:01,524 --> 00:05:03,972 Well, the only difference between you and any of us is the training. 86 00:05:05,691 --> 00:05:08,426 So you think if you went through ONI training, you'd be just as good? 87 00:05:09,777 --> 00:05:10,805 Maybe even better. 88 00:05:12,290 --> 00:05:14,516 That your aspiration? To be ONI? 89 00:05:19,647 --> 00:05:21,079 Perhaps you'd rather be a Spartan. 90 00:05:21,964 --> 00:05:23,397 She should be neither. 91 00:05:29,703 --> 00:05:31,083 You know, he used to be a Spartan. 92 00:05:34,039 --> 00:05:35,210 A decade ago maybe. 93 00:05:35,835 --> 00:05:37,593 Named Randall-037. 94 00:05:38,414 --> 00:05:39,859 One day, he up and walks away. 95 00:05:40,835 --> 00:05:42,841 And no one walks away from the Spartan program. 96 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:44,755 It's not supposed to be possible. 97 00:05:45,759 --> 00:05:47,334 They have too much invested in you. 98 00:05:48,467 --> 00:05:51,188 Fast forward 10 years and suddenly I'm looking at your colonel. 99 00:05:52,230 --> 00:05:54,561 Scars like they took a bunch of titanium out of his body. 100 00:05:55,472 --> 00:05:57,881 Except his name is not Randall, it's Aiken. 101 00:05:59,274 --> 00:06:00,407 How's that come to pass? 102 00:06:01,989 --> 00:06:02,705 You're ONI. 103 00:06:03,317 --> 00:06:03,929 You tell me. 104 00:06:04,594 --> 00:06:05,674 Come on, Macer. 105 00:06:07,354 --> 00:06:08,942 I know better than to trust you. 106 00:06:09,086 --> 00:06:11,221 We wouldn't be doing our job if people trusted us. 107 00:06:11,781 --> 00:06:12,810 AIKEN: Commander. 108 00:06:32,630 --> 00:06:35,482 MACER: Colonel, we've located the position of the mining tug. 109 00:06:58,678 --> 00:07:00,944 AIKEN: Condor will drop us two klicks short of the target, 110 00:07:00,969 --> 00:07:02,245 we'll proceed on foot. 111 00:07:02,870 --> 00:07:04,485 Make sure we preserve surprise. 112 00:07:05,553 --> 00:07:06,620 As for the Havok, 113 00:07:07,102 --> 00:07:08,495 Unless you disagree, Commander, 114 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:11,112 I suggest it stays here till we have our quarry. 115 00:07:11,803 --> 00:07:13,183 We can light it up at that point, 116 00:07:13,208 --> 00:07:15,670 make sure we're well out of space by the time it detonates. 117 00:07:16,164 --> 00:07:18,078 But not so far that we can't see it. 118 00:07:18,495 --> 00:07:21,828 Something awful mesmerizing about seeing a Havok go up in real time. 119 00:07:22,479 --> 00:07:24,263 A fireworks show like none other. 120 00:07:24,406 --> 00:07:25,435 Amen to that. 121 00:07:25,656 --> 00:07:27,193 On our signal, come to us. 122 00:07:29,867 --> 00:07:31,964 [Alarm beeping] 123 00:07:43,681 --> 00:07:46,442 HORRIGAN: Last chance, Colonel. We can do this on our own. 124 00:07:46,533 --> 00:07:47,548 AIKEN: We do this as a team. 125 00:07:47,573 --> 00:07:49,345 Have it your way, try to keep up. 126 00:08:00,042 --> 00:08:01,318 Now drop the lines! 127 00:08:02,060 --> 00:08:04,208 BEST: Ropes away. Drop in five. 128 00:08:23,175 --> 00:08:25,454 RAMOS: Something about this place freaks me out. 129 00:08:26,391 --> 00:08:27,875 Whole thing's fried. 130 00:08:28,435 --> 00:08:30,558 Used to be rivers, forests. 131 00:08:30,583 --> 00:08:32,120 Everything living in those forests... 132 00:08:32,719 --> 00:08:34,021 LOCKE: If it was living, it's dead now. 133 00:08:34,735 --> 00:08:36,870 RAMOS: The Forerunners built it 100,000 years ago, 134 00:08:36,895 --> 00:08:38,524 and we still don't totally understand it. 135 00:08:41,376 --> 00:08:43,094 Even busted up like it is. 136 00:09:03,518 --> 00:09:05,966 [Electronic beeping] 137 00:09:06,213 --> 00:09:07,385 LOCKE: Not getting any movement. 138 00:09:08,134 --> 00:09:09,410 Best, Wisner, 139 00:09:10,035 --> 00:09:11,363 stay 360 on this. 140 00:09:11,806 --> 00:09:13,238 I don't want anybody flanking us. 141 00:09:13,863 --> 00:09:14,592 WISNER AND BEST: Yes, sir. 142 00:10:05,204 --> 00:10:06,662 Got any thoughts on this one, Colonel? 143 00:10:06,805 --> 00:10:08,316 Almost say they ditched, 144 00:10:09,292 --> 00:10:10,542 but engine's still warm. 145 00:10:11,795 --> 00:10:14,633 ESTRIN: Still functional. I wonder why they deployed the chute. 146 00:10:15,128 --> 00:10:16,925 RAMOS: It's pretty cramped for a two-seater. 147 00:10:17,680 --> 00:10:19,360 LOCKE: Question is where our two are. 148 00:10:25,337 --> 00:10:26,404 HORRIGAN: Got something, Locke. 149 00:10:55,527 --> 00:10:56,490 AIKEN: Cargo unit. 150 00:10:57,714 --> 00:10:59,602 Looks like it got pretty busted up on entry. 151 00:11:00,331 --> 00:11:02,024 HORRIGAN: Jettisoned before landed. 152 00:11:02,506 --> 00:11:04,186 LOCKE: Guess they weren't planning on bringing it back. 153 00:11:05,032 --> 00:11:05,970 HORRIGAN: Horse tracks. 154 00:11:08,366 --> 00:11:10,228 RAMOS: Who the hell brings horses? 155 00:11:10,253 --> 00:11:12,285 LOCKE: Couldn't land the tug near the deposits. 156 00:11:12,650 --> 00:11:14,134 Might have been the fastest way out. 157 00:11:14,395 --> 00:11:16,179 ESTRIN: Fastest way 1000 years ago. 158 00:11:25,714 --> 00:11:28,566 AIKEN: Got a cave, Macer. Can you image through this soil? 159 00:11:29,803 --> 00:11:31,287 No, sir. Too thick. 160 00:11:31,678 --> 00:11:33,540 Roger that. Stay high and wide of us. 161 00:11:34,308 --> 00:11:36,027 I don't want your engine noise, but I want your eyes. 162 00:11:36,417 --> 00:11:37,420 CONDOR PILOT: Roger that, sir. 163 00:11:37,824 --> 00:11:38,462 Get ready. 164 00:11:51,144 --> 00:11:54,673 [Creatures screeching] 165 00:11:59,100 --> 00:12:00,637 ESTRIN: Humidity level is rising. 166 00:12:04,381 --> 00:12:06,737 [Water pattering] 167 00:12:21,567 --> 00:12:23,181 LOCKE: Got 'em. Twelve o'clock. 168 00:12:23,533 --> 00:12:27,621 M53 non-lethal rounds. I want them incapacitated, not dead. 169 00:12:27,882 --> 00:12:29,288 [Device whirring] 170 00:12:34,910 --> 00:12:36,330 [Neighing] 171 00:12:38,192 --> 00:12:40,223 We've got your ship. There's no way out. 172 00:12:41,693 --> 00:12:42,475 Stand up! 173 00:12:42,982 --> 00:12:44,063 HAISAL: Put down your weapons! 174 00:12:45,964 --> 00:12:47,357 These guys are something else. 175 00:12:48,191 --> 00:12:50,977 Put down your weapons, I'm telling you! 176 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:52,357 [Whinnying] 177 00:12:55,652 --> 00:12:56,954 What's wrong with those horses? 178 00:12:56,979 --> 00:12:58,139 They can smell something. 179 00:12:58,164 --> 00:12:59,141 LOCKE: They're moving. 180 00:12:59,460 --> 00:13:00,541 Son of a bitch. 181 00:13:00,606 --> 00:13:01,739 Horrigan, Estrin. 182 00:13:06,765 --> 00:13:09,160 MACER: Colonel, I got 'em. Running east of you. 183 00:13:18,127 --> 00:13:18,947 [Grunts] 184 00:13:21,447 --> 00:13:22,828 Let's make this easy, huh? 185 00:13:22,958 --> 00:13:24,729 You have no idea what you're doing. 186 00:13:24,924 --> 00:13:26,617 HORRIGAN: Shut up and save the bull for the ride out. 187 00:13:28,127 --> 00:13:29,039 [Muffled screams] 188 00:13:30,484 --> 00:13:32,385 HORRIGAN: Not bad for advisors, huh, Colonel? 189 00:13:32,489 --> 00:13:33,296 [Chuckles] 190 00:13:33,648 --> 00:13:34,442 Nice. 191 00:13:35,027 --> 00:13:37,436 - Bring it, Macer, we have our quarry. - MACER: Roger that. 192 00:13:37,580 --> 00:13:39,077 Privates, get the containers. 193 00:13:39,389 --> 00:13:40,106 Yes, sir! 194 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:46,681 [Alarm sounding] 195 00:13:58,454 --> 00:14:00,680 [Whinnying] 196 00:14:00,745 --> 00:14:01,930 Whoa there, boy! Whoa! 197 00:14:03,219 --> 00:14:05,771 [Creatures screeching] 198 00:14:16,568 --> 00:14:17,883 Pull up, sir! Pull up! 199 00:14:17,908 --> 00:14:19,199 Hell's going on, Macer? 200 00:14:19,303 --> 00:14:20,839 I don't know, but pull up! 201 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:34,831 AIKEN: Talk to me, Condor. What the hell's going on? 202 00:14:37,109 --> 00:14:38,503 [Macer screams] 203 00:14:38,528 --> 00:14:40,625 CONDOR PILOT: Something's on me, sir. I'm losing control of her. 204 00:14:41,133 --> 00:14:43,945 The propulsion's gone. Blown up the engines. 205 00:14:47,721 --> 00:14:49,466 [Screaming] 206 00:14:50,923 --> 00:14:51,743 Macer. 207 00:14:56,861 --> 00:14:57,876 [Groans] 208 00:15:00,780 --> 00:15:01,835 Get down! 209 00:15:03,410 --> 00:15:04,556 RAMOS: It's gonna hit us! 210 00:15:35,341 --> 00:15:36,669 [Creatures screeching] 211 00:15:36,694 --> 00:15:37,984 [Gunfire] 212 00:15:38,192 --> 00:15:39,742 [Horse neighing] 213 00:15:57,401 --> 00:15:59,198 AIKEN: Fall back! Take cover! 214 00:16:01,138 --> 00:16:03,182 [Best screaming] 215 00:16:10,542 --> 00:16:13,055 LOCKE: Stand down. Hold your fire. 216 00:16:14,344 --> 00:16:15,633 We're cloaking. 217 00:16:29,441 --> 00:16:31,876 [Creatures screeching] 218 00:16:35,964 --> 00:16:37,527 What the hell are they? 219 00:16:37,552 --> 00:16:40,990 RAMOS: The only thing that matters right now is we're cloaked and they can't see us. 220 00:16:43,742 --> 00:16:45,096 I'm not so sure about that. 221 00:16:53,495 --> 00:16:54,615 AIKEN: Fall back! 222 00:16:55,721 --> 00:16:57,076 Fall back! Fall back! 223 00:17:03,222 --> 00:17:05,917 We were cloaked. How did they know? 224 00:17:07,766 --> 00:17:09,016 It's your technology! 225 00:17:09,928 --> 00:17:11,230 It's like a magnet to them. 226 00:17:11,633 --> 00:17:12,480 They sense it. 227 00:17:12,792 --> 00:17:15,774 Once they on you, they can even sense your movements. 228 00:17:27,037 --> 00:17:28,157 Power down. 229 00:17:28,182 --> 00:17:29,146 What? 230 00:17:31,295 --> 00:17:31,985 AIKEN: Do it. 231 00:19:27,051 --> 00:19:28,900 [Screaming] 232 00:19:30,070 --> 00:19:31,801 ESTRIN: Can someone tell me what those things are? 233 00:19:32,062 --> 00:19:33,090 They're Hunter Worms. 234 00:19:33,650 --> 00:19:36,072 LOCKE: Some of us aren't going to survive the night. 235 00:19:36,346 --> 00:19:37,153 Two hours down, 236 00:19:37,817 --> 00:19:38,794 two hours to the tug. 237 00:19:39,058 --> 00:19:40,451 WISNER: How do we decide who takes it? 238 00:19:40,841 --> 00:19:42,170 Lifeboat rules. 239 00:19:42,990 --> 00:19:44,422 LOCKE: I give you my word. 240 00:19:44,513 --> 00:19:45,698 You help us find that craft, 241 00:19:46,180 --> 00:19:47,742 you'll get a fair draw at those straws. 242 00:19:48,185 --> 00:19:50,099 That's a dangerous game you're playing. 243 00:19:50,711 --> 00:19:51,974 Someone's gotta help him. 244 00:19:52,104 --> 00:19:53,146 Stay on mission, Macer.