Deception and betrayal run rampant in Halo Season 1's penultimate episode, with its major characters firmly picking sides.

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Master Chief and Makee are both haunted by their shared psychic vision of the Halo ring, while Master Chief takes Makee around Reach, still secretly observed by Halsey through Cortana.

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This little tour is interrupted when the UNSC learns that a frontier colony on a different planet has been completely devastated by the Covenant.

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Master Chief and Admiral Parangosky want to go on the offensive against the Covenant but Captain Jacob Keyes is skeptical

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Master Chief fights the two other Spartans with Cortana providing as much support as she can while the battle intensifies.

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