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Contact
Series overview
Series:	Halo: The Television Series
Season:	Season One
Episode specifications
Episode:	01
Air date:	March 24, 2022
Run time:	58 minutes, 56 seconds
Production information
Director(s):	Otto Bathurst
Writer(s):	Kyle Killen Steven Kane

Contact is the first episode of the first season of Halo: The Television Series. The episode aired on March 24, 2022.

Official summary

In the year 2552, humans on the planet Madrigal have been fighting for independence from Earth, but a fatal encounter with the Alien Covenant complicates things. Master Chief John 117 and his super-soldier "Spartans" join the fight. After the battle, Master Chief heads to his home planet of Reach with a Madrigal survivor and a mysterious object he discovered on the planet. But a controversial order has John questioning his mission, and himself.

Plot

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Appearances

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Characters Adun Saly (First appearance) Cara (First appearance) Catherine Halsey (First appearance) Cortana (First mentioned) Djanka (First appearance) Doan (First appearance) Esso (First appearance) Faaz (First appearance) Isaac Lux (First mentioned) Jacob Keyes (First appearance) Jin Ha (First appearance) John-117 (First appearance) John-117's father (First appearance) John-117's mother Juric (First appearance) Kai-125 (First appearance) Kwan Ha (First appearance) Ladi (First appearance) Makee (First appearance) Malchin (First appearance) Miranda Keyes (First appearance) Neru (First appearance) Margaret Parangosky (First appearance) Prophet of Mercy (First appearance) Riz-028 (First appearance) Ruben (First appearance) Shepherd (Mentioned only) Stacker (First appearance) Tesic (First appearance) Unidentified Kaidon (First appearance) Unidentified Professor (First appearance) Vannak-134 (First appearance) Vinsher Grath (First appearance) Species Human Forerunner (Mentioned only) Lekgolo Sangheili San'Shyuum Organizations Admiral Captain Covenant Covenant fleet Covenant military Colonial Administration Authority United Nations Space Command UNSC Navy UNSC Fleet Command Asymmetric Warfare Research Group SPARTAN-II program Silver Team (First appearance) Acheron Security AMG Transport Dynamics Dasuss Intersystem News Lethbridge Industrial Misriah Armory Xedon (First appearance) Locations High Charity 23 Librae system Madrigal Jin Ha's Outpost (First appearance) Sol system Earth (Mentioned only) Reach WHITE TOWER (First appearance) Skillian Response Center (First mentioned)

Events Insurrection Human-Covenant War (First appearance) Hunt for Forerunner Keystone (First appearance) Operation: DEFIANT GLASS (First appearance) Weapons Type-1 energy sword Type-25 plasma pistol Okarda'phaa-pattern plasma rifle MA5C assault rifle M6G magnum M392 DMR SRS99-S7 AM sniper rifle Vehicles Anodyne Spirit CAS-class assault carrier Type-26 Banshee Ru'swum-pattern Phantom Halberd-class light destroyer D80 Condor Condor 325 (First appearance) Stalwart-class light frigate Technology and equipment Active camouflage Brokkr Armor Mechanism Data pad Flash cloning Holography Keystone (First appearance) MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark VI Spartan neural interface

Trivia

While exploring the cave, John's HUD icon for his DMR includes a scope, as seen in-game, despite the lack of scope on his own particular weapon.

Credits

Directed by Otto Bathurst

Written for Television by Kyle Killen and Steven Kane

Developed by Kyle Killen and Steven Kane

Based on the Halo Video Game Universe

Starring

• Pablo Schreiber
• Shabana Azmi
• Natasha Culzac
• Olive Gray
• Yerin Ha
• Bentley Kalu
• Kate Kennedy
• Charlie Murphy
• Danny Sapani
• Jen Taylor
• with Bokeem Woodbine and Natascha McElhone

Also Starring

• Jamie Beamish
• Burn Gorman
• Julian Bleach

Executive Producers

• Steven Spielberg
• Steven Kane
• Kiki Wolfkill
• Frank O’Connor
• Bonnie Ross
• Justin Falvey
• Darryl Frank
• Otto Bathurst
• Toby Leslie
• Kyle Killen
• Scott Pennington

Co-Executive Producers

• Gian Paolo Varani
• Richard E. Robbins
• Justine Juel Gillmer

Supervising Producer Luisa Silka[sic]

Consulting Producer

• Mark Malone
• Katie Swain

Producer

• Sheila Hockin
• Charlotte Keating
• Michael Armbruster

Director of Photography Karl Walter Lindenlaub ASC

Production Designer Sophie Becher

Editor Aaron Marshall CCE

Music by Sean Callery

Casting by Jinya[sic] Jay and Olivia Brittain

Guest Starring

• Ryan McParland
• Jung Hwan Gong

Additional Cast (in Order of Appearance)

• Ruben Sky Yang
• Professor Ian Pirie
• Djanka Bneka Okoye
• Esso Shaun Aylward
• Cara Hayley Canham
• Neru Zachary Hing
• Faaz Olivia Liu
• Sentry Miklós Béres
• Malchin Felipe Gabriel Mariano
• Young John Casper Knopf
• John's Mother Sarah Ridgeway
• John's Father Duncan Pow
• Flight Tech Doan Chan Woo Lim
• Flight Tech Juric Karen Gagnon
• Flight Tech Tesic Mirjam Novak
• Control Tech Ladi Johnny K. Palmer
• Ops Tech Hans Peterson
• Colonel Stacker Dávid Csányi

Unit Production Managers

• Robert Bernacchi
• Gabi Csoma

First Assistant Directors

• Robert P. Grayson
• Peter Freeman

Second Assistant Directors

• Angela Mages
• Robyn Glaser

343/Halo Transmedia Producer Cheryl Nebelsieck

343/Halo Canon Technical Consultant Kenneth Peters

343/Halo Franchise Manager Corrinne Robinson

343/Halo Franchise Producer Carlos Naranjo

Supervising Art Director Matt Hywel-Davies

Senior Art Directors

• Andrew Ackland-Snow
• Kiera Tudway

Art Directors

• Jiri Karasek
• Brett Hirson
• Gergo Rieger
• Kriszta Szilagyi
• Renato Cseh
• Jim McCallum

Lead Graphics Designer Eva Hartmann

Costume Designer Giovanni Lipari

Costume Supervisors

• Gabor Homonnay
• Balazs Labancz

Hair Designer Mauro Tamagnini

Make Up Designer Felicity Bowring

Special Effects Supervisor Paul Stephenson

Special Effects Coordinators

• Balazs Boross
• Adam Szucs

Movement Coach/Choreographer Kristof Varnagy

Armoury Liam Byrne

Military Advisor Daniel Hirst

Set Decorators

• Adam Polgar
• Guy Potgieter

Property Master Andrew Orlando

Clearances Coordinator Paula Byrden

Stunt Coordinators

• Domonkos Pardanyi
• Brett Chan

Fight Coordinator Johnny Yang

A Camera Operator Michael Soos

B Camera Operators

• Adam Fillenz
• Gyorgy Reder

Camera First Assistants

• Tamas Janossa
• Adam Kliegl
• Tamas Olah

Gaffers

• Jonathan Spencer
• Will Finch
• Laszlo Molnar

Key Grips

• Tommaso Mele
• Paolo Tiberti
• Gabor Balda

Production Supervisor Lyndzi Doyle

Assistant Production Manager Alex Balla

Production Coordinator Veronika Bojtos

Key Script Supervisor Morag Cameron

Script Supervisor Dora Sarkozi

Script Coordinator Joe Greskoviak

Writer's Assistant Iván Karajz

Production Sound Mixer Tamas Devenyi

Senior Location Manager Andras Rudolf

Location Managers

• Daniel Toth
• Viktor Mitev
• Csaba Sepsi

Transport Coordinator Sandor Viseralek

Hungarian Casting by Katalin Baranyi

Additional Casting by

• Poping Auyeung
• Yoko Narahashi
• Su Kim

Child Casting Verity Naughton

Casting Associate Melissa Gethin Clarke

Casting Assistant Becky Rossmaur

Second Unit

Second Unit Director Tom Struthers

Second Unit 1st Assistant Director Mircea Hategan

Unit Production Manager Veronika Dobos

Assistant Unit Production Managers

• Zsigmond Cholnoky
• Gabor Bukai

Production Coordinator Anna Szoke

Director of Photography Gabor Marosi

Camera Operators

• Attila Pfeffer
• Nandor Gulyas

Gaffer Mark Czirjak

Key Grips

• David Kecskemeti
• George Anton

Art Directors

• Norbert Nagy
• Mate Kovacsi

Key Hair Stylist Arianna Palmucci

Script Supervisor Julia Raczky

Sound Mixer Janos Csaki Jr.

DIT Robert Gradvolt

Financial Controller Wendy Ellerker

Production Accountants

• Kolos Trimmel
• Peter Dano
• Carla Self
• Linda Gillespie

Language Consultant David J. Peterson

Dialogue Coaches

• Hans Peterson
• Christine Grace Szarko

Digital Imaging Technicians

• Peter Racz
• Attila Tumbasz

Senior Colourist Bill Ferwerda

Senior Online Editor Adrian Saywell

Digital Dailies Supervisor Adam Jurkovich

Project Managers

• Sarah Riley
• Shane Allan

Post Producer Bill Goddard

Associate Producer Ian Keltie

Post Production Supervisor Lee Hughes

Post Production Coordinator Kathleen Harris

Post Production Coordinator (Deliverables) Renée Perrin

VFX Editor Andrew Bukovac

First Assistant Picture Editors

• Wes Demkiw
• Daisy Maclean
• Simon Thede

Assistant Picture Editor Arielle Skolnik

Trainee Assistant Picture Editor Jesse Scarrow

Sound Designers

• Brennan Mercer
• David Evans

Supervising Sound Editor Jane Tattersall, MPSE

Supervising Sound Editor (ADR) Dale Sheldrake

Sound Effects Editors

• David Caporale
• Steve Medeiros

Dialogue Editor Claire Dobson

Music Editor Yuri Gorbachow

1st Assistant Sound Editors

• Sue Fawcett
• Andrew Wright
• Nadya Hanlon

Re-Recording Mixers

• Lou Solakofski
• Matt Chan

Lead Visual Effects Supervisors

• Tom Turnbull
• Dominic Remane

Visual Effects Producer Bill Halliday

Lead On Set VFX Supervisor Leann Harvey

VFX Production Manager Kelsey Thompson

Lead VFX Data Wrangler Tamas Udvardi

VFX Data Wrangler Bence Tobik

Assistant VFX Data Wranglers

• Bennett Gyurik
• Tamas Hajdu

Visual Effects by Mr. X

Visual Effects Supervisor Craig Calvert

Senior Visual Effects Producer Luke Groves

Visual Effects Producer Nick Colangelo

CG Supervisor Kedar Nath Manapragada

Animation Supervisor Martin Hesselink

VFX Lighting Supervisor Viduttam Rajan Katkar

Visual Effects by Rocket Science VFX

Visual Effects Supervisor Tom Plaskett

DFX Supervisor Chris Zammit

CG Supervisor Amiy Shrivastava

Compositing Supervisor Mohsin Kazi

VFX Producer JP Giamos

VFX Production Manager John Markle

Visual Effects by Pixomondo

Visual Effects Supervisor Mahmoud Rahnama

Visual Effects Producer Michael Borrett

CG Supervisor Evgeny Berbasov

2D Supervisor Eric Covello

VFX Assets Supervisor Daniel Rhys Fox

VFX Lighting Supervisor Zachary Dembinski

Visual Effects by Rodeo FX

Visual Effects Supervisor Patrick David

Visual Effects Producer Nancy Heller

CG Supervisor Xavier Lafarge

Compositing Supervisor Pierre-Hugues Vachon

VFX Asset Supervisor Vincent L'heureaux

Matte Painter Matthieu Veillette

Visual Effects by Cinesite

Visual Effects Producer Jonathan Brayer

Visual Effects Supervisor Sean Stranks

VFX Project Manager Amanda Nguyen

CG Supervisor Graham Huston

Compositing Supervisor Christian Simon

Visual Effects by Mavericks VFX

Visual Effects Supervisor Randall Rosa

Associate Visual Effects Supervisor Karim Sahai

Visual Effects Editor Nathan Winspear

Lead Visual Effects Compositor Emma Landriault

Visual Effects Compositors

• Benjamin Figueroa
• Pedro Seixas

Visual Effects by Take 5

Assistant Production Manager Kealeagh Brewer

VFX Compositing Supervisor Maria Gordon

VFX Lead Compositor Jerry Lai

Lead Matte Painter Alphonso Young

VFX Compositors

• Travis Pond
• Yuri Shubenin

Visual Effects by Fillscrn

Compositing Supervisor Balázs Balogh

Digital Compositors

• Balázs Varga
• Andor Záhonyi
• Róbert Illés
• Dóra Bárány
• Attila Czeglédi

Visual Effects by Stereo D

Visual Effects Supervisor Grant Lee
Visual Effects Line Producer Melissa Espina
VFX Production Manager Skye Morandin
Roto Production Manager Jitendra Singh Gaur
Roto Artist Babu Sarkar
Paint Artist Prasanna Kumar Mandavalli

Post Production Services Take 5 Productions

Colour And Finish Company 3 Toronto

Dailies Colorfront

Sound Post Production

• Formosa Group Toronto
• Footsteps Sound and Picture

Main Title Design Goodbye Kansas Studios

Funded by the Government of Canada

Financé par le Gouvernement du Canada

• Creative BC
• Québec Cgre
• Ontario Creates
• Production Services Tax Credit Sodec
• British Columbia
• DGC (Directors Guild of Canada) Ontario

With the participation of the Province of British Columbia Production Services Tax Credit

Production services In Hungary provided by Mid Atlantic Films

Producers

• Adam Goodman
• Howard Ellis

Head of Production Gergő Balika

Thank you to

The National Film Office-National Media and Info-Communications Authority Of Hungary and the Hungarian National Film Fund

National Film Institute Hungary

Supported by the Hungarian Film Incentive

The events, characters and firms depicted in this motion picture are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or to actual firms is purely coincidental.

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Gallery

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  Kwan Ha finds drugs outside the settlement.

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  The Insurrectionists attempt to defend their home from the Covenant.

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  Master Chief Petty Officer John-117 joins the battle.

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  John-117 dodges the swing of a Sangheili's energy sword.

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  Vannak-134 stabbing a Sangheili with a pole.

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  John-117 with a CMA AIE-486H machine gun.

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  The Sangheili officer fatally stabs General Ha.

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  John-117 executes the Sangheili officer with a M6G magnum.

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  Silver Team after defeating the Covenant.

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  Kwan Ha cries over the death of her father.

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  A surviving Sangheili spies on Silver Team.

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  A Forerunner artifact activates for John-117.

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  The surviving Sangheili runs away and activates active camo.

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  WHITE TOWER on Reach.

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  A flash clone of Catherine Halsey.

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  The Prophet of Mercy talking to Makee.

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  Makee talking to the Prophet of Mercy.

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  UNSC personnel preparing for Condor 325 to land.

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  D77-TC Pelicans surround Condor 325.

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  Silver Team prepare to defend John-117 from the UNSC Marines.

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  John-117 takes off his helmet.

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  The Forerunner artifact activates aboard Condor 325.