The Ark S02E09 Cycle of Violence
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00:00You
00:05Previously on the ark lieutenant Bryce was the pilot on a covert mission to intercept the attack on the lunar base
00:10He intentionally threw the mission in service of the Eastern Federation. You had the chance to save my father. I'm so sorry
00:16This is my brother. He's with the Eastern Federation
00:18She's the one who's Eastern Federation
00:28Organs might be failing but her implants have not been on for that long. It's Eastern Federation
00:38What do we know so far the EF to one of two Eastern Federation ships to get off earth before arc 3 according to its database
00:45Well, they're packing some heavy artillery and it's all trained on us so not a social visit then
00:50Get us out of here Bryce. The FTL is fully charged, but I'm gonna need a while to charge course
00:54There's no time for that. We don't know their intention. Well in that case
00:58Everybody cross your fingers and toes
01:01No
01:03What the hell is that Scotsman doing to my ship
01:18Yeah, no, I owe you an explanation your majesty
01:21But it's not like I had much of a bloody choice since we were trying to escape death
01:26Which can only help us there's no way that ship couldn't find us again
01:29Which begs the question and all the vastness of space?
01:33How the hell did they find us in the first place and what could they possibly want?
01:36Well, I hate to say it but Ava is an EF operative. Oh, here we go
01:39I think we both know it's a little more complicated than that Occam's razor
01:43The most likely explanation is that she made contact. Well, how would she be able to she's been locked in her cabin?
01:48Well, she might have done it before we locked her up. Hang on. Hang on. That's a pretty serious accusation
01:53So how about we don't go jump into conclusions before we've actually bothered speaking to her
01:56Oh because she's been so forthcoming with us this whole time. Look mate. I know Ava a lot better
02:02For God's sake Bryce move your brains from your crotch to your skull. She's one of them
02:07Space I know you go through a lot. So I'll let that one slide. Otherwise you would be out cold on the floor
02:11Stop it both of you
02:17Strickland please bring Ava to the ready room on my way
02:26I
02:33Should doing
02:36There's been
02:38No improvements with these vitals. She could die. Why haven't the nanites helped yet? I'm not sure
02:46She's always healed faster than this
02:49She should have stabilized by now
02:56Ava you admitted you were a member of the Eastern Federation
03:00Now's your chance to explain yourself
03:03Okay, not much to it
03:05When I was trying to get off earth, it seemed like the F would never even finish building their ships
03:10So Harris and I changed our records pose this GSA and got onto our Kwan so we could escape earth, right?
03:19Not such a crime. No, is it sorry which part fraud or sneaking onto a government vessel?
03:23Ava the Eastern Federation showed up with weapons pointed at us
03:28They did. Yeah, we lost some they jump into FTL. I need to know did you contact them?
03:33No, then how did they find us? I
03:37Don't know. I
03:39Am loyal to this ship, why should we believe you? How do we know you're not loyal to the Eastern Federation?
03:45Lieutenant Lane after all I've done for this ship and this crew
03:48How can you question my loyalty because you already admitted you were loyal to those monsters?
03:52I was at one time but you're wrong about them. They aren't monsters really
03:57And how many GSA people need to die before we can categorize them as monsters in your eyes?
04:02They have a good reason to hate the GSA. I did before I got on this ship. I still hate some of the command structure
04:08We left behind
04:10what kind of leaders send a young recruit on a suicide mission without even telling them and
04:15Do you even know what they were doing on that lunar research colony?
04:21Not really it was a top-secret mission
04:24The GSA was developing a biological weapon that would have wiped out most of the world's population
04:30We what how dare you my father was a hero
04:34Felix get her out of here. Hang on. Hang on. I want to hear her out. We need to focus on the current problem
04:40Ava if you didn't contact them, do you have any idea how they found us or what they want?
04:45No, can you at least tell us what kind of weapons they have on board their vulnerabilities? I
04:52Don't know anything about the F ships. They launched after we did really didn't you use three of them to kill my father?
04:58I wasn't there
05:01But the fighters who were used small converted shuttles
05:06Captain they're preparing to jump out of FTL Strickland return her to her quarters. We'll continue this conversation later
05:16Oh
05:18Well, where are we
05:21About five light-years off course in the middle of nowhere says a new trajectory for Trappist and gets back on track
05:26But the FTL is gonna take some time to charge. Sounds good
05:28Oh
05:41God how the hell did they find us again? Even we didn't know where we were going
05:52What the hell sensors just detected an energy spike in engineering
05:59Engineering damage report
06:02Engineering we've just been hit with a doozy of an EM pulse targeting our FTL on the nets. We've got no engines
06:10We're sitting ducks
06:29You
06:40Why aren't they shooting at us what are they waiting for they're probably just relishing the moment
06:50They're attempting to hail us on comms
06:52Ah
06:58One this is captain Zeta Vega of the EF to
07:03Surrender our soldier to us at once. I'm captain Sharon Garnett of arc one. Why do you want Ava?
07:10Ava
07:11No, I want boy and Volkovich
07:15Hand him over along with the shuttle
07:18He stole from us, of course, they were tracking their shuttle this whole time
07:23hmm, I would gladly surrender boy and but
07:27I'm sorry to tell you this he died
07:31We rescued him from arc three, but he took his own life. I
07:36Don't believe you I'm telling the truth. We'll gladly return your shuttle, but Boyan's not here
07:48I
07:54Assume by Ava you mean boy and sister Ava Volkovich
07:59Return her on my shuttle if she verifies what you say about boy and staff
08:05We'll be on our way. You have a lot of weapons hanging off your ship
08:08How do we know you won't open fire on us either way?
08:12Despite what you've been led to believe captain
08:15We're not cold-blooded killers like the GSA and unlike the GSA
08:20I have no desire to push the human race closer to extinction
08:25Previous Eastern Federation actions be like that captain. I myself have lost a lot of friends to EF attacks
08:31I'm not going to explain EF actions to a GSA officer. So let me make myself perfectly clear
08:39If you do not return Ava and my shuttle, I will have no choice
08:45but to destroy your ship
08:48You have 20 minutes
08:53Sharon you're not seriously considering sending her over there, right?
08:58She should decide this is her life. We need to consider the lives of everyone on this ship
09:02Send her back to her people and we might just live to fight another day. It should be Ava's choice
09:07Hopefully she chooses to rejoin them and save the rest of our crew
09:12Alicia
09:14Go check with Mr. Tress to see if there's anything you can do to get the engines back up sooner
09:26Hey, what are you doing out of your cell security?
09:38Something wrong security you wish to report something
09:44I
09:49Want us to return you in their shuttle if we don't I said they'll destroy us
09:56Then I have to go or to take up this ship and everyone on it
10:03You
10:10Ava seems like you don't want to go back. I don't want to leave Bryce. I
10:18Don't want to leave my friends in the ark
10:22But you said you hated us I said I hated the GSA leadership, but that's not who any of you are
10:33I
10:37Trust
10:38Garnet you didn't have to send a genius girl here
10:41I had it under control except you missed the fact that the differential battery is misaligned. I missed
10:50How can I help you captain do you remember when you told me if we ever wanted to rig up a makeshift weapon you had
10:55an idea how to do it Oh, I
10:58Thought you'd never ask
11:03All
11:06Right everyone we're perfectly safe. There's nothing more to see let's go back to our posts, please come on. Yeah, let's go
11:20Are you not at all worried about what's on the other side of that glass
11:25Rather people have been trying to kill me every day in my life since I was born
11:30Literally to me it's just Tuesday. It's Thursday you see that
11:37You see days where there are none and I see everything is one long endless Tuesday
11:42Yeah, it's amazing how different we are is it which reminds me something's just been running through my head
11:48How the hell is it you came to be raised as a normal?
11:51Well, I don't know as far back as I can remember I had a mom and a dad I don't remember any lab
11:58Have you got any pictures of your parents?
12:09Ah
12:11See now that explains a lot
12:13What do you mean?
12:15Your dad was the officer we used to see through the window when we was at the lab as kids, I think he was the officer that was in charge
12:24You sure yeah
12:27He must have taken you from the facility. Well, he stole me as a baby. Well, I don't have a stole. I
12:33Mean technically we might have all been his property to begin with if you know what I mean
12:42Oh God
12:46They told me that my mother couldn't have children after she had me
12:50But maybe she could never have children in the first place. He brought me home so that they could raise me as their own
12:58It's all a lie
13:07They just hailed us put them through
13:10Captain Avega, I appreciate your patience captain garnet. Have you reached a decision?
13:16Are you sending Ava Vukovich or not?
13:22I'll let Ava speak for herself
13:30Captain Avega with respect. I prefer to stay here. I thought I made myself clear
13:36This is non-negotiable
13:38It's Ava's choice not yours or mine. She wants to stay with us. You're welcome to take your shuttle back
13:45How do I know she's not talking under duress? I'm speaking freely. They left it up to me
13:53Then you've dug your own grave
13:58Sharon
14:01They're arming their weapons
14:04Now mr. Trust
14:08You
14:17Their weapons just lost power
14:20Great job, mr. Trust. You're welcome, but all I did was buy us time
14:25But we still have to fix our engines
14:27before they fix their weapons
14:30You
14:37There will be consequences for this GSA we were merely defending ourselves as were we as will we
14:48May I suggest we send a second pulse targeting the life-support system. No, you'd be killing everyone on board
14:54You can bet your friends on that ship is trying to fix their weapons. They can kill everybody on our ship
14:59Free attack them without giving them a chance. What does that say about us that we like being alive?
15:06That we're exactly who they think we are what you thinking Sharon
15:14Captain Avega, I think it would be in both our interests to meet what for peace talks
15:22Sounds like a trap only a fool would fall for if we wanted you dead
15:26We would have attacked your life-support systems. You don't have the ability to take out our life-support. How do you think we took out your weapons?
15:35There's nothing for us to talk about
15:39Fine I really hoped you'd be willing to talk
15:42Goodbye captain ready the EM cannon tune it to their life-support frequencies
15:52Yes, mom
15:54Readying the weapons. No
15:56ready on my command I
16:03Propose a swap a
16:05swap
16:06I'll come unarmed
16:08With my second in command to meet you and yours
16:12But to assure my safety you will send two of your people to my ship if anything happens to us while aboard your ship
16:21The same will happen to your people here. I assure you nothing bad will happen here
16:26Then nothing bad will happen to your people on my ship
16:30Give me a moment
16:33Thoughts
16:34I'll go
16:36No, I need you as my number two in the negotiations. I'm your number two EF killed your father
16:42Do you really think you're the one to be negotiating peace? I'll go
16:45With Kimmy Kimmy is a friggin EF hunter. How about Griff?
16:56I
17:27You
17:47With the Vega coming here for peace talks, I need you to tell me everything you can about the Eastern Federation
17:52I'll tell you what I know. I
17:54Keep telling you Aaron who you believe they are the EF has stopped the GSA from doing a lot of bad
18:02Mr. Trust you worked with the GSA for years. What's your take?
18:05Well, I wasn't working for the GSA when the whole lunar colony thing happened
18:09They came calling to me after that, but do you recall the state of the earth at the time?
18:13Yeah, large sections of Earth's mantle were turning molten crowding survivors into less and less space
18:17Yes, and as a result resources were slim, which is why in my opinion the GSA was doing the right thing
18:24The right thing for example had that lunar colony mission been successful
18:28It would have made my job much easier. Once I started working with the program. What do you mean?
18:32What were they trying to do?
18:33They were trying to develop a bio agent to painlessly kill six billion people on earth
18:40I'm sorry. Did you did you just say billion?
18:45With a B. Yes
18:47Look, it's quite logical with fewer people remaining
18:51Slim resources would have lasted longer and I would have had time to build more ships
18:55Killing many to save more precisely. Why didn't you tell us about this sooner?
19:00He never asked just sounds too evil to be true
19:04It's simple maths the billions. They would have killed would have died
19:08Anyway, a few months later the early deaths would have saved the lives of many others. It's a trolley problem
19:13the trolley problem
19:14As an old philosophy thought experiment you have the controls of a train that's barreling toward ten people on a track
19:21You can switch to a different track, but that track has one person on it. It would die
19:26What would you do? Well, it seems fairly obvious
19:29I mean you kill the one to save the ten, right?
19:32But what if the ten were 90 years old and the one was a baby? I
19:38Guess I
19:41Guess you would kill the ten because the baby has its whole life ahead of it exactly what the GSA thought
19:46So you're saying them?
19:48My dad's program was designed to murder billions of innocent people
19:54He would have died anyway soon enough
19:56It would have helped to save many more human beings in the long run, but you left out one thing
20:01Who chose who survived?
20:05The GSA
20:07Yes, and they chose themselves the wealthiest and the most powerful
20:12That's why the EF wanted to stop it. I had no idea. I'm sorry. I just I need a minute
20:27If what you two are saying is true does that mean we the bad guys
20:37You
20:47Go a minute. Sure. Are you holding up?
20:57He was a good dad
20:59Police the man he was pretending to be my father was a good dad. Yeah, I'm sure he was
21:03I
21:06Home, you know
21:08He was making a biological weapon to kill six billion people
21:12He must have somehow believed he was doing the right thing
21:16same twisted logic that trust is
21:19You know, if you'd have succeeded in stopping the Eastern Federation from attacking the Lunar Colony, he would have killed all those people
21:28Yeah, I mean I
21:30Don't really know how I feel about all that to be honest
21:34I always thought it's the biggest mistake of my entire life. So
21:43Spence are we? All right, we will be
21:50You
22:03Kimmy
22:05Captain I am
22:07I've heard you've arranged peace talks with the enemy. That's a mistake. We'll see right now. I need to pick your brain
22:14Arc 15 left earth quite a while after arc one
22:17What can you tell me about what happened between the GSA and the Eastern Federation during that time? Well, I guess
22:25You want to know if the GSA we're in the wrong
22:31Kinda well, I hate to break it to you. But from where I was standing they sure as hell were
22:37That's not true. Well, then so with the Eastern Federation
22:40They both did bad things take it from a clone who was abused by everyone
22:48Ian you're a perfect neutral party
22:51Thanks, you're not affiliated with the GSA or the Eastern Federation perfect to mediate the peace talks was
23:02Well, I guess I can play intergalactic peacemaker today and finish my book tomorrow
23:07Yeah
23:25Captain got it. Spread your arms and legs, please
23:29Captain Avega, this is Felix Strickland and Jelena Griff. They will be going to your ship
23:34Jelena a nice Slavic name. I'm Serbian. Of course you are
23:40Never understood why so many from our part of the world would join the GSA instead of the EF
23:45Okay, NASA and the Euro Space Agency merged with the Serbo-Croatian Space Agency to keep them in the fold
23:51They were one of the three best space agencies on earth. The CSA was arguably the best
23:56I'll back to differ. Let's just say combined. They were better than the sum of their parts. I
24:02Assure you you will both be safe aboard the EF to as long as your captain keeps her word. I will if you will
24:12Captain Avega, this is lieutenant James Bryce
24:16And Ian your mediator
24:19No last name. No, just Ian. He's a clone
24:23That I am the Eastern Federation has historically
24:28Disapproved of clones, so is the GSA which is why he's an excellent neutral party right this way captain
24:37Choices like that are exactly why I can't imagine any peace between us. Oh, no, we're that acute
24:43Now tell me have you ever tried potato vodka?
24:57Talking at the same time, please. Thanks. This is pointless
25:14Captain
25:17What's your endgame here just drift alone in space forever an island unto yourselves
25:24No
25:26We're going to Trappist
25:31Why Trappist specifically
25:34We received Intel the GSA ships were headed for Proxima and Ross
25:40We wanted to avoid them
25:42I hate to tell you this but there's already a GSA colony being built as we speak at Trappist
25:48And more GSA ships headed there. You wouldn't be avoiding anyone
25:52So that leaves you only one other option
25:56What's that find another planet?
26:01Come with us
26:08Why would you trust us I would only under one condition your ship fully disarms
26:16Absolutely not. So what are you gonna do then? We're going to keep our weapons and when we get to Trappist we'll fight for what's ours
26:24Restitch we're finished here
26:36Whoa, whoa, can we just hold on? Let's take a minute. Can we just grab some snacks?
26:41Hmm, you can't give up that easily
26:45I'm sorry. It wasn't the outcome you wanted but you'll have to excuse us
26:51Go ahead
26:52Do it squeeze the life out of me
26:56Everyone stay where you are. What are you doing? Sharon kill me
27:00Have you lost your mind kill me?
27:03Then my people will kill you your ship will fire mine mine yours and everybody will die
27:08Even though none of them had anything to do with this and nothing to do with what happened in the past
27:12And if your other ships ever find Trappist the GSA will attack them on site
27:15Your ships will fire back and on and on this endless cycle of violence will continue until there's no one left
27:21So go ahead
27:23Kill me. You've made your point. You let a finger on my captain. You can meet a world of her pal. I
27:32Don't think I have
27:36In our first encounter you said to me you didn't want to contribute to the extinction of the human race that's it
27:43Did you mean it or not?
27:46Because if you walk out this room, that's exactly what you'll be doing
27:50Let's go on start with me first
27:58She always this forceful or you have no idea
28:02You
28:17If we disarm
28:21How do we know the GSA won't open fire on us when we arrive at Trappist
28:27You follow us there
28:29When we arrive you wait behind at a safe distance
28:32We'll negotiate with the others for you to peacefully join the colony
28:37When it's safe, I'll summon you
28:41We can disarm captain it's suicide if you arrive at Trappist with weapons hanging off your ship I guarantee
28:49They will open fire on you you have to dismantle them
28:54You
29:01Aren't seriously considering this
29:05She has a point no she doesn't like it or not restage
29:10Garnett's plan may be the last and only hope for us all
29:16All right
29:18Let's talk about how we make this happen you can be serious
29:22This decision will ensure the GSA kills us all we owe it to humanity to try peace
29:30You're a damn fool of a gun that's enough lieutenant
29:41Shall we
29:52I
30:12Don't know why I can't stop thinking about you. Thank you for coming
30:22I
30:48See awake
30:53Angus Kelly
30:58What the hell are you doing, I don't know what just happened well Kelly's vitals are stabilizing
31:08Nanites
31:11She needed all her nanites in order to heal so they found a way home, so I'm not crazy
31:17Oh
31:21Nanites are like like tiny robots it can affect any organ in your body
31:28Including your brain they led you to this moment
31:33You're gonna be okay Kelly
31:36Oh
31:43Wait there were two of them
31:45Our man who went to your ship was our head of security so lieutenant Lane and Kimmy Joma have been filling in for him while
31:50He's gone once we return. I'll send your people right over then
31:54I'll brief my crew on the conditions of the peace plan
31:58Gun it I want to thank you
32:01You opened my eyes in a way a lesser leader would not have been able to
32:09Thank you captain I can't let you do this Vega look out
32:25He's still got a pulse thank God
32:30Oh
32:35Lane help me get him to my bed stay with me
32:45Wayne
32:54Sharon I
32:56Got you hey hey, I got you. It's okay. It's okay. You're okay. Hey, you're okay
33:06Call medbay
33:14I'll stay with Lane
33:19Captain Garnett the F2 has been calling wanting to know where the shuttle hasn't
33:26I
33:30Have to this is captain Garnett
33:32Garnett I'm second lieutenant wig what is going on over there. I wish we were meeting under better circumstances, but
33:41Something terrible has happened lieutenant restitch attacked captain of Vega and one of our men
33:49With a knife he smuggled aboard I tried to tell him I wish I didn't trust you
33:57We
33:59Had nothing to do with it he'd tell you himself that we did I have no choice
34:04But to execute one of them both if you don't return lieutenant restitch unharmed
34:10Captain of Vega is still alive our doctors are trying to save his life as we speak you have one more hour to save our leader
34:26I
34:36Knife did a lot of damage. I can't stop the bleeding clean
34:41Pressures dropping god damn it what I'm trying to repair his liver, but it's so trashed
34:48It literally disintegrate under the suit just keep cleaning this if he dies. It'll cause a war well
34:53I'm sorry, but unless you know how to make liver out of plain cloth
34:58In a few hours. He's a dead man
35:00You need to stop this blood clean clean
35:04Come on Spencer
35:12Doctors update
35:17It's not good Sharon
35:19The knife destroyed kept in the Vegas liver I
35:23Can't save him well you you got to save him because they're gonna kill Strickland and Griff and probably the rest of us if you
35:27Don't I'm not God
35:30There's only so much I can do
35:36Sanji I
35:40Don't think so it's gonna make it either Sharon
35:44What
35:47Both his kidneys are damaged his spleen is basically gone
35:51He's lost two liters of blood, and we can't pump it into him fast enough
35:55Well, there's got to be something you can do I have tried everything. I know please believe me
36:01Okay, well switch patients. Maybe there's something that you missed that you didn't see in the other way around
36:07Beer has tried everything I would
36:09And the other way around
36:11How about Kelly's nanites?
36:14They can repair a lot of damage, but they cannot manufacture whole organs Sharon's an hour's past. How's it going down there?
36:26Not good James
36:28EF2 is hailing
36:31What do you mean not good?
36:33Garnett your time's up
36:36Look um
36:38Captain Garnett's not here right now. She's
36:40She's in this post. Please just stand by right
36:44Oh
36:46Sharon what do I tell them?
36:56Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, listen listen you you both are amazing
37:02Doctors, and I'm sure there's a way
37:05I'm sorry not this time
37:10We were made to be organ donors
37:14That's generous of you to offer, but you can't live without the liver not me
37:27No, no that is not an option
37:33Sharon
37:34sure
37:35Look, I hate this as much as you do
37:38But Spencer's not going to make it and one of his few organs that is still intact is his liver
37:54I'm not pretending to know my brother as well as you lot do but
37:58He's in this pickle because he was trying to save that blokes life to begin with
38:02And you think it's what he would have wanted
38:06It's your call Sharon
38:08I
38:25Agree to this
38:30Do you promise
38:33That you can save a bag of dr. Marsh as long as his body doesn't reject then please leave her I won't
38:40It's what we're made for
38:43Universal organ donors
38:47I need two hours
38:51Sharon what do I tell them?
38:59Okay
39:02Okay do it
39:19I don't believe this is real. I just I just want to wake up from this nightmare. I know Alicia. I don't need to
39:27Your time's up as agreed to by our captain it's time for the execution of your people
39:36For the love of God, would you please just give us a chance? Okay? No, no more stalling
39:43You know, what the hell you doing? She insisted after I told her what was happening
39:48Hannah
39:49Yeah. Yeah, it's me
39:52I was a little Sofia. If you rejoined us, you could have seen her for yourself. I
39:58Belong here now Anna
40:01Mark one gave me a home and a purpose
40:05The people here became my family. They're good people who have come to love
40:10They don't want to hurt anyone
40:14That man you want to kill he saved my life more than once
40:21He has a daughter about Sofia's age. I
40:24Have my orders. I know, you know me, you know, you can trust me and
40:29I'm telling you if you just give time to our doctors to save him your captain will tell you the same thing. I'm telling you
40:39For you ever I
40:42Will wait
40:43But if Captain Avega doesn't make it I'll have no choice but to follow my orders
40:51I
41:10Looks like Captain Avega is gonna be okay. Thank God
41:15How soon until we can put him on comms with his crew the anesthesia is wearing off give him 15 minutes
41:28I'm sorry, but lieutenant Lane
41:44I
41:54Want to see him Sharon Sharon you really don't
42:14You
42:44You
43:14You