Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

Okay, it's time for bed now.

Past time.

- Are you tucked in? - Yeah.

Okay. Close your eyes and let the dreams come.

I'm not sleepy, Daddy.

Can you talk to me just a little longer?

Hey, you remember the song "Furusato"

my mother used to sing to me whenever I couldn't sleep?

I thought you said it was when she missed Japan.

Yeah, but it calmed us both when we needed it.

Dr. Randa?

They're ready for you.

Daddy? Are you there? Why'd you stop?

Sorry, I gotta go, sweetheart.

But the song's not finished.

Yeah. But this way you will have something to look forward to.

How soon are you coming home, Daddy?

I'll be home before you know it.

I love you.

I love you too, Daddy.

Hiroshi…

meet your son.

Not the way you wanted it to be…

I know…

I never said that…

It's just…

I thought the two of us were all we needed.

I thought of taking your father's name…

William.

We can call him Bill.

That was my stepfather's name.

My father's name was…

Kentaro.

Kentaro.

Kentaro.

It's okay, Kentaro.

I'm here.

Hiroshi.

Wait.

Wait.

Hiroshi.

Please. I need to talk to you.

We don't have time.

If the Titan is heading to Santa Soledad,

we need to get there and find a way to send it back where it came from.

Please. Let me see that letter.

Of course.

Forgive me for reading it.

It belongs to you…

…and Uncle Lee.

I need to explain.

You don't owe me an explanation.

Your business is your own.

It was just a one-time mistake.

Really?

That letter doesn't seem like a "mistake."

- "I love you, Lee." - Stop.

- "I always will." - Stop.

"In another lifetime, we could be together. Your Kei."

I know what it says.

So did Bill Randa.

That letter was with his things.

He knew that you betrayed him.

And your betrayal drove him away.

I don't believe that.

That's not who he was.

Billy loved you.

He wanted to be the best father he could be for you.

That's not what I remember.

No. I was just talking to him driving into Kazakhstan.

He was saying we'd never been away from you for so long

and he wanted to get back home to you so bad.

This was two months ago.

My condolences on your loss.

But you still have your other great love.

When you said "fieldwork," I didn't know you meant this far afield.

We didn't pick the spot.

The Titan did.

- Thank you. - Thanks.

Attention, all Apex Cybernetics personnel,

Titan arrival in T minus 13 hours.

Stage two alert.

Are you having second thoughts?

Aren't you?

Do we really think my code's the answer?

Yes. I do, Corah.

You know, this isn't a tiny Leafwing you can perch on your arm and feed peanuts to.

Do you really feel like we can control this thing?

Yes.

Now, make sure your code skill's up to control Titan X.

No pressure. I'm counting on you.

You know, you have every right to be upset.

But can I ask you something?

What good is it doing you…

to live a life that's so fixated on wanting to change the past

that you can't allow yourself to create a better future?

I mean, at some point,

you're gonna have to move beyond blaming everyone for what they did

and start building a life that's yours.

What do you expect from me?

Just pretend none of this ever happened?

No, of course not.

Well, it would be convenient for you, wouldn't it?

I'm not telling you this for my benefit, Hiro, but yours.

And hers and your children.

You got your mother back, Hiro.

You did that.

Do you really wanna push her away now?

Because if you do,

you're blowing off the opportunity

to discover one of the most fascinating, fearless and unique people alive.

All because you're mad

that a long time ago, she just happened to fall in love with two men.

I'd expect you of all people might know a little something about that.

Well, our ride's here.

All right.

Pack it up, everybody. It's here.

Director Barris, if you would just hear me out.

Absolutely. If you can explain to me why you're headed to South America

when Apex Cybernetic is telling us

they have a positive hit on Titan X in the Bering Sea.

Because the last time Apex told us they had a "positive hit,"

we chased a blue whale halfway across the Pacific Ocean.

So I don't trust Apex.

I don't trust them either. That's why I need eyes on the scene.

I can't just call them liars.

A reliable source has confirmed that they…

that Apex knows that Titan X is headed to South America.

What source?

A highly respected and confidential informant.

It's Colonel Shaw, isn't it?

Damn it, Tim. The world's on a precipice.

I've got possible Titan sightings popping up all over the globe

and you want me to take a valuable asset off the board

based on the word of a fugitive?

No, no. It's not just Shaw's word. He has evidence.

A migratory map from Bill Randa's journals.

Okay, I stand corrected.

So I'm supposed to trust a fugitive and a crazy dead man.

Well, Apex does, and they're not sharing that information. Why not?

Look, sir, we cannot afford to be wrong about this.

There are good people on this ship and equipment that can help.

But it's not going to do any good in Alaska because there is nothing there.

Apex are our partners in this.

- Are they? - And they have friends in high places.

You understand?

All right, look.

If I back this play, it's going to be both of our necks on that chopping block.

I'm going to need more than your source, Tim.

Get me some proof.

Do you want to talk about it?

I'd rather talk about you.

You said you think you can help.

Did something happen to you in San Francisco?

I think I heard something.

Heard what?

I went to the Golden Gate Bridge and there was this vibration, like…

I don't know, a song coming from the ocean.

You heard the ocean singing?

You know what? I was drunk.

It was probably nothing.

Okay. Pilot said we land in two hours.

And then we'll go on shore to Santa Soledad.

By boat.

How do we know that's where Titan X is going?

The people on this island, they celebrated a festival

that foreshadowed the return of this Titan.

They called it Co-Cai.

And Billy believed that this was one stop on its migratory route.

He predicted Titan X should reappear about every fifteen years.

He didn't live long enough to see if he was right,

but if he was, Titan X isn't due back before 2023.

So, Bill Randa was late, and we're six years too early?

By activating the Suzuki device on Skull Island,

it appears that we have awakened Titan X

and brought it out of Axis Mundi ahead of its schedule.

If its natural instincts do kick in,

it should follow the path it always has:

Skull Island right back to Santa Soledad.

What do you think Apex is gonna do if it does show up?

Tim said the intel we got from our little incursion into Apex,

indicates they may be working on a way to control the Titan

with a neural implant.

Probably air-launched from a chopper or a drone.

But the real question is, why are they keeping it a secret?

It might explain a lot about him. The two families.

He was abandoned as a kid.

Maybe he never wanted to risk being alone.

So you think he needed a backup family?

A spare just in case?

He couldn't help himself. It's the engineer in him.

Neither one of us was a spare.

It doesn't matter who came first. He loved us both.

And left us both.

You didn't see him when I told him we thought you were dead.

He was destroyed. He barely slept for two years straight.

I finally get a chance to see all of him now.

Not needing to keep himself half hidden all the time.

Why did you keep that letter?

It's all I had left of you, Kei.