Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

Are you all right? How do you feel?

About the same as…

coming back from a three-day pass in Manila.

- Tower falcon one one. - It's a hell of a lot better

than last time.

Did… Did you see it?

Did you recognize it?

The Titan? You've seen it before?

Yeah.

Great. Good old Monarch.

Shit.

And we're clear.

Nine klicks out, heading two-eight-seven at 35 knots.

Right into the South China Sea. What's the status on the evac?

Birds are home. All personnel secure on board.

What are your orders, sir?

Sir? Tim?

You're talking to me?

The Deputy Director is off the board.

- Off the board? That's what you call it? - Sir?

- She has a daughter. Jesus. - I'm sorry, sir,

but you're next in the chain of command.

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

No… we have to talk to Director Barris.

Get Director Barris on the phone.

Unable. The comms are down.

The storm wall off the island is throwing out a wicked EM field.

- The satellite uplink is offline. - How long does it take to fix?

We're working to boost the signal, sir,

but we may need to get out of range of the interference.

Are you telling me that no one knows about the Titan?

What are your orders?

Why aren't we moving?

What the hell is he doing here?

Nice to see you too. What's your name again?

- I'm Tim. - Hang on a second. Is that it?

Affirm. Almost at the edge of our range.

So, why aren't we going after it?

All right. Who's in charge here?

- Him? - Yes.

- No, no, no. Just hang on. No. - Let's go, Monarch.

You're giving it too much line.

We have to wait for orders from Washington.

We don't have time for bureaucracy.

If that makes landfall in a populated area,

you're looking at another G-Day.

What was G-Day?

Monarch's greatest failure.

Colonel, this is not a warship.

- I don't know if you noticed that. - It's a Monarch ship, isn't it?

I mean, you got the branding slapped on everything.

You don't get a say, Colonel!

You took over a Monarch outpost by force, and you put the whole world at risk.

Not to mention that none of us would even be here

if you hadn't have dragged Cate Randa

- down to the Rift with you. - I didn't drag Cate Randa

or anybody else anywhere, but at least I had a plan.

What's yours? Cocktails on the Lido Deck?

Okay.

We follow it.

You send out the alert when we get clear of the island,

so stay close enough to keep contact, but not too close, okay?

Not too close. Aye, sir.

You've been over this a dozen times.

And I'll keep going over it until I find out what went wrong.

Hey, you saved your Uncle Lee.

He hasn't been my "Uncle Lee" for a long time.

Kentaro.

We unleashed a Titan.

- We didn't know that would happen. - It doesn't matter!

- You didn't push that button. - We should've never pushed that button!

Cate!

Wait, Cate. Cate! Cate! Cate, wait, wait, wait.

- You blame me. - No.

Then whose fault is it?

Why does it have to be anyone's fault?

It's done. We move on.

No. That's how you do it.

- You move on. - Wait, wait, wait.

So, you want to blame someone?

You blamed me for lying to you,

for betraying your mother, for keeping my life a secret.

That's what brought you here.

Blame me.

So sorry.

Maybe that's what they're hiding. A rich fishing ground.

Would explain why they're so suspicious of outsiders.

Makes sense.

What I wanna know is, what is enriching these waters?

Hey, there he is. Thought you'd never come out of that cave.

- Billy, take a look at this. - Pack up.

- There's so much phosphorus and nitrogen… - It's time to go.

All right.

- We just got here. - I know. I found a map.

- A map? What kind of map, Billy? - Yeah. On the wall, back in the cave.

It's a migratory route.

- A migratory route? For your sea monster? - Yeah. No, exactly.

I think it charts the path that it takes around the world.

It's not here anymore because it's already moved on.

So we need to go back to Santiago, recheck the maritime archives

for any correlation with likely M.U.T.O. encounters

along the route.

Shake a leg. We're on the hunt.

Billy, I spent three weeks seasick

in a stinking tramp steamer to get to this place,

and I think there could be something going on here.

Look, okay.

That map just might show where it will be.

And just maybe we can get out in front of it, but we got to get going.

- No. - No?

- No. - What?

Billy, we run all around the world

checking out every rumor and myth you hear,

and I never say a word when you wanna follow a story,

but now you're dismissing me because I wanna follow the science.

Hey, I… I would never dismiss you.

- Okay, so, look at-- - So you… you can stay, okay?

You stay, you finish collecting your data.

We'll divide and conquer, all right?

And you'll probably find something I would never see in a million years.

No, no. Stop trying to flatter me.

Are you guys done?

Okay.

My professional opinion: If you're going, we should all go.

- No. - No.

Guys, I mean, we need to stick together.

Again, I don't know if you guys have noticed,

the locals don't really want us around here.

They specifically asked us to leave.

But that's why we need to stay.

This means something,

and if we turned around every time someone tried to spook us…

Just… don't go.

You know I have to.

All right.

I love you.

- I know. - Okay?

Love you too.

You wanted to see me, Captain?

I'm not the captain.

I know.

From Director Barris,

my orders are to pursue and maintain contact

with the unidentified Titan at all costs.

All other priorities are rescinded.

Congratulations. You made the right call.

No. You did, Colonel.

Most of my career at Monarch, I was just a troll in the basement.

I'm not the guy for this.

Well, you know what they say.

Some men have greatness thrust upon them.

So, what's next?

Consequences.

"Colonel Leland Lafayette Shaw

is to be detained and transported to Monarch Headquarters

for interrogation and asset management

at earliest opportunity."

You know what I think, Colonel?

I think this last one came through garbled.

Hey.

What are you doing?

Nothing.

Do you call home? Talk to your mom?

Tim said they notified everyone when we made it back to the ship.

But you didn't call her?

What would I even say?

I mean, I started with, "Hey, it's me.

It's been two years, but I'm not dead."

Yeah, I just…

There's been a lot going on.

Yeah.

You think?

My family is hiding in a basement waiting for the next G-Day.

Should've never pressed that button.

Yeah, probably not.

What?

What do you expect me to do?

You want me to pretend like we didn't do this?

We didn't do it. I did it. I pressed the button. I made--

Oh, my God. Stop! Don't do that shit.

We all did it.

Me, you, Kentaro, your dad,

we all went down there to save Shaw because it was the right thing to do.

What Tim said…

about you taking over a base with force,

endangering the world.

It just didn't sound like the Lee Shaw I knew.

Hey, Kei. I'm still the same guy I always was.

So, it's not true?

Well, Monarch and I had different ways of dealing with things.

What exactly was the issue?

- They were wrong. I was right. - Lee.

Things do change. Monarch changed.

But don't get dazzled by all the bells and whistles.

They're still just a government agency.

Same as the IRS or the people who go through your luggage at the airport.

They go through your luggage at the airport?

How far ahead, now?

Twelve kilometers and increasing.

It sped up?