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Before we get to the war-torn solar system, however, we get a brief interlude on Laconia. When we last left the ring planet, Cara's brother was tragically killed. We start this episode at his funeral, where young Cara (Emma Ho) has a poignant conversation with Admiral Duarte (Dylan Taylor), the Laconian leader.

Duarte's talk with Cara serves the purpose of letting us know why someone like Duarte, a former Martian Admiral, would break off from his home planet and help someone like Marco. Duarte, like Cara, is also grieving. In his case, he's grieving for the dream of Mars. When the ring gate went up, the dream of terraforming Mars into a habitable planet was washed away why spend all that money to "fix" a planet when there were hundreds of habitable worlds now at humanity's fingertips? His speech gives us a glimpse into his psyche, and what he's trying to accomplish on Laconia, though we don't know the details.

We do know that his new mission, however, involves trying to turn the protomolecule on. And when someone rushes in to get him from the funeral, it looks like he may be close to accomplishing that goal.

Cara doesn't care about this, of course. All she cares about his her brother. And so at the end of the sequence we see her taking his body out into the forest and to the strange dogs.

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