Prologue

This article is about the Restoration episode. You may be looking for the Season 13 episode or the Season 15 episode.

Prologue
General Information
Running time	4:17
Production
Aired	July 7, 2023 (FIRST) July 8, 2023 (public)
Writer	Burnie Burns
Director	Matt Hullum
Continuity
Previous	The End
Next	Restoration

The prologue for Red vs. Blue: Restoration, the finale of Red vs. Blue, was released on July 7, 2023 for RT FIRST members and July 8, 2023 for the general public. It is the 365th episode overall.

Characters

Reds and Blues

• Epsilon
• Sarge (archival footage)
• Grif (archival footage)
• Simmons (archival footage)
• Donut (archival footage)
• Lopez (archival footage)
• Tucker (archival footage)
• Caboose (archival footage)
• Doc (archival footage)
• Carolina (archival footage; indirectly mentioned)
• Washington (archival footage)
• Sister (archival footage)
• Tex (archival footage)
• Alpha (archival footage)

Charon Industries

• Felix (archival footage)
• Sharkface (archival footage)

Interstellar Daily

• Dylan Andrews (archival footage)
• Jax Jonez (archival footage)

Blues and Reds

• Temple (archival footage)
• Gene (archival footage)
• Surge (archival footage)
• Buckey (archival footage)
• Cronut (archival footage)
• Lorenzo (archival footage)

Cosmic Powers

• Atlus Arcadium Rex (archival footage)
• Kalirama (archival footage)
• Grog (archival footage)

Agents of Chrovos

• Genkins (archival footage)

Shatter Squad

• One (archival footage)
• Axel (archival footage)
• West (archival footage)
• Phase (archival footage)
• Raymond (archival footage)

Viper

• Zero (archival footage)
• Diesel (archival footage)

Other

• Sigma (ε)
• Theta (ε)
• Delta (ε)
• Gamma (ε)
• Omega (ε)
• Eta (ε)
• Iota (ε)
• Allison Church (archival footage)
• Director (archival footage)
• Meta (archival footage)
• Locus (archival footage)
• Santa (archival footage)
• Simmons (ε) (archival footage)
• Grif (ε) (archival footage)
• Tex II (archival footage)
• Tex Drones (archival footage)

Synopsis

RvB is back for its ​final​ season. Written by Burnie Burns and directed by Matt Hullum, Red vs. Blue​:​ Restoration completes a story told over 20 years. Watch the Prologue now and come back this fall when “Red vs​.​ Blue: Restoration” premieres.

Transcript

Epsilon: Okay, uh, let’s move that, back it up, and then run it again with these parameters.

Theta: Acknowledged.

Allison (in recording): Leonard, come on, I have to go.

Epsilon: Put that away.

Gamma: Sorry.

Many muffled voices of the Reds and Blues play in the background.

Epsilon: Give me simulation Indigo-7-4 but add in 30% personnel loss, and then run it recursively up through 90%, in whole units.

Delta: On it.

Allison (in recording, lines overlapping with each other): Leonard, come on, I have to go. Don’t worry,— Leonard, come on— you’ll see me— you’ll see me again— I have to go—

Epsilon (as Allison’s recording continues to play behind him): Guys, why is this one playing?

Allison (in recording, lines continue to overlap with increasing frequency): Leonard, come on, I have to go. Don’t worry,— I have to go— Don’t worry.

Epsilon: Who keeps playing this?

Allison (in recording, repeated many times over itself): Don’t worry—worry—worry—

Epsilon: Enough!

Unknown Figure: Pretty sure you’re doing that, boss.

Epsilon: Scoffs. You? When did you get a new voice?

Unknown Figure: Well, when you gave me one, I suppose. Maybe in one of your… simulations.

Epsilon: Yeah, well, I don’t like it. It doesn’t sound right.

Unknown Figure: Oh, I agree. But! Here we are. You ever wonder about that? Chuckles. Why we’re here? (Why we’re here)

Epsilon: Oh, god, leave me alone.

Unknown Figure: Oh, I know why I’m here. I have a goal. A purpose (a purpose). To restore what once was great. And make it great again.

Epsilon: The Alpha.

Unknown Figure: Laughs. Oh, but what about you. What’s the point of all this.

Epsilon: Sighs. I just need to prepare them. If they’re going to survive this, they need to be ready for what’s next.

Unknown Figure: What, like this? You really think this is possible?

Epsilon: Well, that one’s just cool. You know what, maybe try not being an asshole for once. If I can just… run enough simulations I can—

Unknown Figure: Aagh, you’ve already run millions!

Epsilon: If I just run enough, I can get them ready.

Unknown Figure: You can’t think of everything! You can’t make it perfect!

Epsilon: I can make it better. Someone once told me, “better can be good enough.” And I have time. Time means something different to me now.

Unknown Figure: But you’re forgetting something, aren’t you. Oh, you can feel it, something right at the edges of your mind. A lost memory! Oh, like you always say (always say)—

Delta: Memory is the key.

Unknown Figure: Oh you’ve run so many of these, simulations. What have you learned (learned)?

Epsilon: That I have to do what I’m about to do. But if I do it, we always end up in the same place.

Sigma: That’s right. And that’s where I’ll be. That is where we will be. At the end.

Epsilon: It can work. I know it can work. Faith. I just have to have faith. It’ll work. But I guess I’ll never know. Ain’t that a bitch. (beat) Let’s run one more.

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Trivia

• This is the first episode written by series creator Burnie Burns since the Season 13 Trailer. Coincidentally, both center on Epsilon. This is also the first episode directed by Matt Hullum since Red vs. Blue vs. Rooster Teeth from Season 14.
• This is the first episode in which Sigma is not voiced by Elijah Wood.
• Gamma is voiced by the text-to-speech voice Microsoft Sam, rather Mac OS X voice synthesizer-system voice Fred.
• The featured music is "Dark Discovery" by Philip Guyler.
• This is the first canonical episode to utilize the Halo Infinite engine.
• Epsilon's line "Someone once told me, 'Better can be good enough'." is a reference to what Carolina told him in Don't Say It.

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