Lyra! Roger!
I need you! Is that you?
Balthamos and I have been searching
for Aesahaettr, for you.
Lyra's the most important thing to me right now.
I was having that dream again.
I couldn't follow you there. Where did you go? Roger!
The land of the dead.
She's a woman who is holding her against her will.
Balthamos will take you to her.
I must go to Asriel.
Clear the camp!
I'd say one of them fights for the Authority and one for us.
We found Aesahaettr, the only weapon that will destroy the Authority
and his Regent.
We have been offered an opportunity.
Father Gomez will lead you.
Retrieve the child,
retrieve the mother.
I'm looking for someone. A girl.
Where's everybody else gone?
A stranger came here and blew a hole in the sky.
The Authority has, for some reason,
appointed a Regent. I want to talk.
CRIES OUT
Do not dare use that name! He is Metatron!
There is no time now.
I'm going to take Lyra now, Mrs Coulter.
SHRIEKS
Get away from us!
Without the knife, you're useless to me.
She'll be fine in a few hours.
ROARS
GUNFIRE
ROARS
Get her out of here!
We're too late. Damn.
Lyra!
Lyra, can you hear me?
Roger!
Lyra!
Roger! Lyra!
Just tell me where you are and I'll find you!
The land of the dead.
PAN CHIRPS
What is it?
It's nothing.
Then what woke you?
I've slept enough.
Was it another nightmare? No.
Then what? Just...
..too much to think about.
Roger needs us. I need to go to the land of the dead
and put things right. You mean, WE need to.
Whatever happens...
..we'll be together.
PURRS
Help me to understand what happened.
There were unexpected forces around the girl.
Unexpected forces? Dark forces.
Our soldiers saw the boy and the girl disappear
into thin air.
I believe it will take more than manpower to...
..eradicate her.
That child cannot be allowed to live.
SNARLING
RUSTLING
Sir, your prisoner is awake.
Very good.
Quite a thing to see you like this.
Hello, Asriel.
You should find this a touch more comfortable.
Not that comfortable.
You don't need to tie me up, Asriel.
Well, you are my prisoner.
You're enjoying this, aren't you?
Still the same man.
You could be standing here beside me, you know.
I gave you the choice on that mountaintop
and you turned me down.
No. Not the same man.
Even more petty.
I think I'm rather unchanged.
I've done exactly as I said I would.
But you...
You went back for her, and failed.
Is she here?
You still wear this?
No, she's not.
Listen to me. She's in danger. No.
No, I...
Asriel, she's our daughter, and the Magisterium want her dead.
I think you'll find they want the pair of us dead, too.
Do you know what they say she is?
Hokum. Religious hokum. Eve. Asriel...
How could you and I have produced another Eve?
Well, the witches believe the same.
The wretched girl should have stayed in Jordan College
and done as she was told.
The fuss she has caused is out of proportion
with any of her merits.
Remember who you're talking to!
I do know you, Asriel. You don't mean any of those words.
Do not presume to tell me what I mean!
You're right.
I failed.
And now you're the only one who can help her.
SIGHS
I have someone with her.
With Lyra? Mm. One of our best.
She'll bring her here when the time is right.
So she's safe?
You promise me she's safe?
My word.
That girl has cast quite a spell on you, hasn't she?
Eyes on! Yes, sir.
Hmm.
CLATTERING
Has the worst of it worn off? Feels like it.
What she did to you...
It's unforgivable.
You seem different.
So do you.
You're staring.
I know.
I just didn't think I'd see you again.
Thank you for coming.
FLUTTERING
How long have you been there?
I haven't been hiding. You just haven't been looking.
Why are you following us?
I am a member of Lord Asriel's republic.
I am here for you and the girl
and your knife.
You're not in charge here. We are.
Lyra and I need to talk in private.
How do I know you won't just cut into another world?
Don't you trust us?
What do you think?
Fine.
If I haven't got it, I can't use it.
Is that really a good idea? Might she steal the knife?
It's broken. What? How?
When I tried to get you.
It broke when you were with my mother?
She made me think of my mother.
And as I did, it...broke.
I left the window open to your world, but I think we're stuck.
This might help.
Always seems to come back to me.
What happened to you, Will?
I woke up and you were gone, and she was there, and...
I shouldn't have left you. If I hadn't have left you...
That's not what I'm saying.
I just suddenly knew where he was.
Your father?
You found him?
Then he was gone.
Shot by a soldier.
Don't know why.
I'm so sorry, Will.
Since he died, I've done none of the things he asked me to do.
LYRA SIGHS
Do you really have to go?
I'm sorry. I have to keep moving.
Here.
Stay away from the city road.
What's this?
Just...compass, torch, some generally useful stuff.
You've been very kind.
I'll be careful.
PAN CAWS
LYRA: I've got an idea. I know who can fix the knife.
Iorek understands metal. If anyone can fix it, he can.
We can go through the window, fix it, and then...
And then? Look, I know you won't want to do this,
but my dad, before he died, told me that the knife's needed in a war.
He told me to take the knife to Asriel.
No.
Maybe Asriel regrets what he did. Maybe it was a mistake.
It wasn't. How can you be so sure?
Because Roger's dead body was in a cage!
In a cage that he made! He killed him.
Look, he told me that the fate of many worlds rests on me,
that I have the only knife that can destroy the Authority.
As knife bearer, it's my responsibility to do that.
To work alongside a murderer? Hmm? No.
I've got something more important for us to do.
What's more important than that?
When I was asleep, Roger spoke to me.
He told me where he was and he told me he needed help.
And I think we should go there.
Go where?
To the land of the dead.
You can't bring people back from the dead, Lyra. You don't know that.
You've got a knife that can cut through worlds.
So you think it's an actual world? It is. I've seen it.
Listen, you can talk to your dad.
You can tell him the things you wanted to say. No,
this isn't some fairy tale.
So you're choosing him?
I'm not choosing your dad. I'm choosing my own,
because he died before I even knew him.
I'm the bearer, not you!
This isn't how I wanted things to be.
I saved you. I did everything I could to save you.
He told me not to, but I did it anyway.
Maybe we're better off not fixing the knife at all.
The boy seems troubled.
Lyra is pushing him to do things he doesn't want to do.
Oh, she is her mother's daughter.
You don't trust her? But she is also mine.
Right, the knife. Tell me about the knife.
When they step away, I demand they leave it with me.
That's good. As soon as you know
which world you're in, send us your coordinates and we'll
have someone come for you. Make sure to keep them on a tight leash.
Is it true - you brought her here?
Agent Salmakia, carry on. Stay in contact.
What? You'd rather I let her go?
I would rather you had killed her on the spot.
She is...
..devious.
She has done much that's wrong.
But look here, she is fiercely intelligent.
And it looks at the moment like she might be on our side.
I think we can use her.
And you trust her so much, you took her prisoner?
I don't trust her one bit, which is why I want
a second opinion. I'd like to put it before the council.
I think she might be holding something back.
My sister witches, tortured and killed at Coulter's hands!
I'm sure they are not the only ones.
There is no judgment to be made.
Ruta, I am sorry for your loss.
But I want her heard.
Do you think you can agree to that?
Where have you gone?
OCTAVIA: Don't doubt yourself.
Then I shall do it without you.
Lyra.
Is it really that hard to tell him, "I'm sorry"?
Why would I be sorry? He came for you.
He found you. He fought for you.
And the first thing you do is argue with him.
You're not always right, you know that.
I'm sorry.
One thing I know about you is that you don't apologise easily.
Fine. Then I'm not sorry.
I'm sorry too.
I don't want to argue with you.
Iorek is still close to the window in my world.
I checked with the alethiometer.
We can fix the knife and then you can decide what to do.
I'm not changing my mind. I'm not asking you to.
The last thing my dad asked me to do was take the knife to Asriel.
I'm grateful you came to me first.
I had to.
I can't take you where you want to go.
That's fine.
Me and Pan will find our own way to Roger.
How will you get back?
Just don't trust him.
I did. I regretted it.
FLUTTERING I've heard enough!
You've been lying this whole time!
The knife is broken.
Stop attacking him!
Give me one reason why I should.
Because Asriel needs him safe.
It's him he wants, isn't it?
Your father was right about you.
You are insufferable.
Tell him we escaped.
Tell him you lost the knife.
And it's my mother that broke it, not Will.
When he needs us most, we'll be there.
Will we?
You can fix it, can't you?
Not with you here. We can't trust you.
And if I refuse to leave?
Then I'll close the only window still open,
and we can all stay here.
We can't be controlled by anyone, especially Asriel.
Then you leave me no choice.
Whatever you're doing, do it quickly.
This war will need us all.
First thing tomorrow, we go and find Iorek.
Are those for me?
You summoned me, my lord.
Please sit.
GROANS
Why am I here?
He wants us to see you and decide.
Decide what?
Who you are.
Oh.
LAUGHS Oh, this is a trial.
And what happens if you find me guilty?
Pelt me with rocks?
Tar and feather me?
Isn't that what you do to unruly women?
Don't play the victim, Marisa. It doesn't suit you.
We're trying to decide
if you have a place in the Republic of Heaven.
Should you sit here on this council or...
Be forever locked in that windowless cell?
Hmm! What do you want to know?
We want to know what use you can be.
What would you like to hear? That I was the first woman
in my world to sit at a table with high clerics and scholars?
That my experimentation with Dust
is equal to that of Asriel's?
Ask him. See if he would contradict anything I've said.
This is not my floor. Oh!
How interesting. Because it looks like it is.
You are an agent of the Magisterium.
Former agent. During your time
at the Magisterium, you killed... I killed witches, yes.
I murdered.
I experimented on children.
I have behaved abominably.
You cannot exact a harsher judgment
than the judgment I've placed on myself.
But...
..you are not asking the important question.
ROKE: Which is?
Why would I help you?
Because we have the keys to your cage. No.
Because you are the only ones I can see
who could help protect our child.
I have been the worst mother in the world.
I didn't think of her for years.
And if I did, it was only to regret
the embarrassment of her birth,
the humiliation. Ridiculous!
I have never understood
why a child born of our love should be a humiliation...
An illegitimate child and a murdered husband.
That is quite something to carry on my back.
Then the Magisterium started becoming interested
in Dust and children, and I...
I had concerns for her.
When they wish to control us, they use our children.
I saved her from the Oblation Board.
I saved her even when she was under a knife.
The Oblation Board was your operation!
The blade was your invention!
How easily you criticise others
and don't see it in yourself, Lord Asriel Belacqua.
I may be no father, but I never put her at risk! Specifically,
I kept her from danger! And now you need to do more.
No. The Magisterium will kill her
with pomp and ceremony and prayers and lamentations.
But they will kill her.
I couldn't save her.
But you can.
Do that. Please.
That is all I beg of you. And I will do anything.
Why?
Because I love her, Ruta.
I think we've heard enough.
What if Iorek's not there?
He wouldn't leave without me.
I should have come alone.
No.
We don't have to go inside.
Are you OK?
I know it wasn't real, but I woke up once or twice
and she was holding me.
I've never been held before.
IOREK GROWLS NEARBY
PAN CHIRPS Let's go.
All right, that's enough deliberation.
If you have a doubt about her, now's the time to express it.
I do. But she's not the only one I doubt.
She's clear on what she is.
But what's less clear is what she is to you.
If that woman tempted you, I'm not sure you would resist.
Does she stay, Commander?
Provided we keep an eye on her.
Roke? She stays.
As long as she proves useful to us.
Mm-hm.
Ruta?
I like Lyra,
and she's important to the witches,
so, for her, I agree.
But...if she betrays us, even for a second,
let me be the one that kills her.
You will have that honour.
Bring her in!
Marisa, you are to stay. You'll have the freedom of the camp.
If you try to leave, you'll be killed.
Oh, how kind. It's not a kindness.
My colleagues seem to think you'll be useful.
Let's hope for your sake that proves to be the case.
Will you unchain her daemon?
CHAINS CLANK
GROWLS SOFTLY
The agent Salmakia, one of Roke's spies,
tells us that Lyra is travelling with a boy,
the bearer of some powerful knife.
Have you come across him?
A knife? That's what I said.
Can you tell me about it?
Will. That's his name.
I've had the pleasure of meeting him twice now.
No, thank you.
He considers himself a bit of a hero.
But I find him rather insipid.
And I heard nothing of a knife.
LYRA: Iorek!
SNIFFS
I have missed you, Lyra.
I missed you, too.
You stayed and waited to see if you could help.
And you can.
How? Will's knife broke.
I need it to go to the land of the dead.
And you're the best blacksmith in the world, so...
The land of the dead is no place for the living.
And that knife should never have been made.
But it was made. And I'm meant to be its bearer.
You may have good intentions, Will,
but that knife has intentions too.
The knife's mine. I understand it.
If you did, do not use it to cut Lyra through
to that place.
Iorek...
Lyra, the knife will have broken
because Will's mind was divided.
He doubted his path.
Have you never doubted yourself?
Bears do not doubt.
You're lying. When I met you, you were drunk
because you couldn't cope with the idea of failure.
I didn't understand then.
But I do now.
Doubt comes when you care. It's not bear or human.
It's the worst people that don't doubt,
the people like my mother and my father.
The ones like Will and like you...
..the good people,
they doubt because they don't know which is the right path.
Read your instrument, Lyra.
Ask it whether you should go to the land of the dead.
WHIRRING
I've never known it so confused.
It's talking about balance.
But it's such a delicate kind of balance
that the faintest thought or wish could tilt it one way or the other.
Then that is your answer.
The alethiometer thinks it unwise.
Then it said yes.
Ha!
Still a silver tongue.
Fine.
I will mend your knife.
But I do not like your purpose.
BREATHES HEAVILY
PANTS
Dr Cooper.
Thank you for seeing me.
What is it you wanted to discuss?
You have a service to perform.
I am fascinated, particularly by energy,
particularly by what Asriel managed to do.
The source of that colossal energy release in Svalbard,
which he accomplished, I believe,
inspired by your severing technology.
Anything you can do
to help me understand what you did with those children
would be much appreciated.
Why would you wish...
WHIMPERS
What happened at the station
was a moral and religious disaster.
You sacrificed what you shouldn't have
in the aid of nothing at all.
But you did learn.
Now put that learning to a good use.
One of our team observed that, in the process of daemon severance,
there was a release of energy.
How much energy? It was heretical.
Mostly the work of my colleague...
Now, could do energy from this sacrifice
be manipulated into some new...
..weapon?
You have the best minds in Geneva at your disposal.
And of course, if there were any question,
you and your team will be unable to leave the premises
until your task is complete.
Asriel's explosion burnt a hole in the sky.
I don't think we should be building anything...
Dr Cooper...
I am fighting for a new Eden.
Here.
On Earth.
That gives me a strength which I didn't realise I had.
That is my task.
It was ordained for me.
And you must earn the forgiveness of the Authority.
Otherwise...
..I shall rip what I need from you.
Courage, Dr Cooper.
Impressive, isn't it, the intention craft?
Oh, yes.
You always were easily impressed by what he made.
I don't think he'd want you to be looking at them
quite so forensically.
He gave me my freedom, Ruta.
I'm simply trying to understand what he's done here.
So your daemon powers it and your intentions control it -
am I right?
The lab where these are held...
..where can I find it?
LAUGHS
SIGHS
Hmm.
FLUTTERING
Salmakia has finally communicated again.
The knife is broken. In its current state,
entirely unusable.
How? It broke
when Lyra's mother tried to take it from the boy.
Have your agent return immediately.
She's on her way.
And Mrs Coulter... She's already lying to you.
BREATHES DEEPLY
ASRIEL: Commander Roke is angry with you.
It seems you did see the knife,
and that it was you, in fact, who broke it.
Why didn't you tell me, Marisa?
Well, I didn't think it would further my cause.
I believed you. I thought that perhaps
you'd finally found honesty.
Honesty is not a thing to be found, Asriel.
You're either honest or you're not.
And...neither of us are.
You understand I need to put you back in your cell now.
You don't need to do anything.
I don't want to. But I understand that I will.
They worship you, don't they?
Ogunwe.
The witch.
The insect.
Will they bow,
do you think, when you finally put yourself on the throne?
I'm not putting myself on a throne, woman.
I'm trying to defeat... It fascinates me
how enamoured you are with your own power
that you've come to embody the very thing you most despise.
I've abandoned the search for Lyra.
I've pulled my agent away from her.
Since you've destroyed the knife, I have no use for her.
No, you can't, Asriel.
I can, and I have. The battle I'm engaged in is too great.
If you say that one more time...
She is not my fight. She cannot be Eve.
Then use this opportunity to... I am battling to liberate us
from these oppressive fairy tales,
and yet from all angles I am being told that my own daughter
is the original symbol of guilt? I cannot believe that story!
It's not all about your beliefs.
They believe it and they will act on it.
A throne? I don't sit on a throne.
I sit in the earth, in the soil, in the filth!
I've given my entire life
to fighting a battle that must be won.
I have sacrificed so much!
What have you devoted your life to, Marisa?
Power? Hmm? And how did you get it?
By making yourself the pitiless agent of the Magisterium,
the inventor of hideous machines
capable of tearing children apart.
But along comes some foul-mouthed,
arrogant little brat with dirt under her fingernails,
and, oh, you can love her!
You cluck and you settle your feathers over her
like a mother hen!
Why can't you just
be who I want you to be?
Take your hands off me.
ASRIEL SIGHS
Marisa, I'm doing this
because the power of the Authority is a lie.
He didn't create anything. Not you or I.
Not any of the worlds.
The only thing he ever created were institutions
to instil fear and exert control.
Do you know, he doesn't even rule in heaven any more.
The Kingdom is ruled by a Regent called Metatron...
..an angel, just another person, really...
..intent on carrying on the good work of his master.
That's why I fight.
MRS COULTER LAUGHS
I don't believe you.
It is a lie.
Every hideous thing you've ever done in his name...
..and it was all a lie.
Come with me.
I can show you.
And then you can watch me start a war.
IOREK SNUFFLES
Will, place the knife in the fire.
A divided mind broke it.
Only a strong one will make it new.
This will be your task as much as mine.
Hold it still in your mind.
Consider the path to making the knife whole.
Focus on what is important.
JOPARI: Look what you've become...
..without me.
GUNSHOT
No! Leave him!
GROANS
Focus your thoughts!
CLINKING
You're a warrior, Will.
BREATHES RAPIDLY
Do you understand?
The Aesahaettr has chosen you.
Was your mother so easily disposed of?
YELLS
BREATHES RAPIDLY
GROANS
Try again. You must go deep inside yourself.
Find what matters!
CLINKING
Lyra!
Stand clear!
CLANG
LYRA: Will?
Will?
Will, can you hear me?
Will?
I have done as you asked.
And now you must decide the path you take.
If you do not find a way out of the land of the dead,
we shall not meet again.
But if you do,
you will always be a welcome visitor to Svalbard.
And the same is true of you, Will.
You are worthy of each other.
Goodbye, Lyra Silvertongue.
I hope we do meet again...
..one day.
CREAKING
Who is he?
KNOCKS
Come back. Stand here.
GASPS
An angel.
How?
Fell out of the sky...
..and right into my lap.
Does he speak? He's decided not to.
But I don't need him to speak any more.
He's beautiful.
Everyone's beautiful.
How does it feel?
Different.
It did something to you, didn't it?
When the knife was being forged, I saw things.
What did you see?
I saw...
I saw you.
I saw you and... WHOOSHING
Balthamos!
I thought you were gone.
I should have done better. I am sorry.
But I have been watching over you.
Is he a... He's an angel.
I'm Lyra.
I know.
WHOOSHING
You nearly lost it...forever.
And now, are you ready to go to Lord Asriel?
He's gathering his armies.
No.
I'm sorry, Balthamos.
I have to go to the land of the dead.
There's someone there who needs our help.
Lyra's friend.
This is the route you must take?
Yes.
Then follow the path.
Come with us.
The land of the dead cannot be entered by angels.
And my path is a different one,
but I shan't be far away.
WHOOSHING
You'll come with me?
Yeah.
I'm not just my dad's son, you know.
My mum's always said,
"If a friend needs help, then you should give it."
Thank you.
DISTANT WHOOSHING
The worlds are rippling with angelic activity.
Xaphania's rebels are gathering in scores.
Like the shifting tide before a great ocean storm.
You said you trusted Asriel completely. Is that the truth?
I think it is a dangerous assumption
that Xaphania's followers will side with a human
against one of their own.
You really think they would turn against us
because he has one of Metatron's angels prisoner?
I think that depends. On what?
What Asriel does to him.
WHIRRING
You're no doubt aware of the legend of Aesahaettr,
the knife that can cut through worlds,
as it can cut through anything.
Unfortunately, that knife is now broken.
It was forged by human hand, you know,
some 300 year ago,
using rudimentary technology
whilst the people of that world were still getting around
using horse and cart. HE CHUCKLES
Quite extraordinary, really.
The point I'm trying to make is that perhaps I never needed
the knife in the first place.
This woman once created a device
capable of cutting the soul.
I use the same technology to blast through worlds.
Now, together, we are going
to cut you to pieces and then blast you back to your master.
Marisa, if you'd be so kind as to close the door.
I'd like to begin now.
Hmm.
WHIRRING
Can you feel it, Alarbus?
The energy!
Such creativity down here in the worlds.
And your kind seek to extinguish it?
I do not do this willingly.
I do this because you force my hand.
SCREAMS
ROARS
You are a sinner!
I am the agent of change!
I am the harbinger of your kind's destruction!
You will get your judgment!
But you will not be the one to deliver it.
Instead...
..you will deliver my message to Metatron.
CLUNKS LEVER
SCREAMS
ROARS
My message to Metatron is this.
I...am...here!
BREATHES RAPIDLY
LAUGHS
Marisa...
BREATHES DEEPLY
Marisa!
OGUNWE: Soldiers! Prepare to fire!
Hold fire! What?
Roke!
Get yourself inside that craft. Go with her.
ROKE: Understood.
Goodbye, Asriel.
WHIRRING
Guns down.
What game are you playing?
She wants to play mother, so let her.
I hope they're ready for her.
Soldiers!
About turn!
March!
What exactly am I looking for?
It's endless.
And flat.
And you can feel the death within it.
Tell me this is the right thing to do.
I hope it's the right thing to do.
That'll have to do.
SCRATCHING AND FIZZING
Are you OK?
It doesn't feel like it should go through.
This is the last world I can find.
There's nothing beyond this.
Is this it?
Mm.
WIND WHISTLES
This is it. You found it.
How can you be sure?
I saw it my dream.
It must be this way.
Wait. WHINES
This doesn't feel safe.
Lyra, wait!