Homecoming (TV Series)

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Homecoming
Series overview
Series:	Halo: The Television Series
Season:	Season One
Episode specifications
Episode:	04
Air date:	April 14, 2022
Run time:	54 minutes, 33 seconds
Production information
Director(s):	Roel Reiné
Writer(s):	Justine Juel Gillmer Steven Kane

Homecoming is the fourth episode of the first season of Halo: The Television Series. The episode aired on April 14, 2022.

Official summary

Guided by his visions, John takes Halsey and Cortana back to where it all began, looking for answers from his past. With Soren along for protection, Kwan goes in search of an army. Meanwhile, John's behavior inspires another Spartan to begin a journey of self-discovery. And Miranda discovers a possible link between the artifact and something much larger.

Plot

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Appearances

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Characters Adun Saly Agatha (First appearance) Attu (First appearance) Catherine Halsey Cody (First mentioned) Cortana Ellie Eloise (First mentioned) Franklin Mendez Ivan (First mentioned) Jai-006 (Mentioned only) Jin Ha (Mentioned only) John-117 Kai-125 Makee (Flashback only) Miranda Keyes Kwan Ha Preston Cole (Mentioned only) Riz-028 Soojin Ha (First appearance) Soren-066 Sun Tzu (Mentioned only) Vannak-134 Vinsher Grath Violetta Franco (First appearance) Species Human Lekgolo Sangheili Unggoy (Mentioned only) Organizations Covenant Desert mystics (First mentioned) United Nations Space Command UNSC Navy UNSC Fleet Command Asymmetric Warfare Research Group SPARTAN-II program Silver Team Insurrection (Mentioned only) Locations Epsilon Eridani system Reach Eridanus system Eridanus II Reach for Life installation John-117's childhood home 23 Librae system Madrigal Granada (Mentioned only) Madrigal City The Rubble (Mentioned only) New Carthage (Mentioned only) Sedra (Mentioned only)

Events Insurrection (Mentioned only) Human-Covenant War (Mentioned only) Hunt for the Forerunner Keystone Attack on Madrigal (Mentioned only) Skirmish on Gladius (Mentioned only) Weapons Okarda'phaa-pattern plasma rifle Type-33 needler Vostu-pattern carbine M6G magnum SRS99-S7 AM sniper rifle Vehicles Technology and equipment Emotional regulator Keystone MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark VI

Credits

Directed by Roel Reiné

Written by Justine Juel Gillmer 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

• Burn Gorman

Executive Producers

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

Co-Executive Producers

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

Supervising Producer Silka Luisa

Consulting Producer

• Mark Malone
• Katie Swain

Producer

• Sheila Hockin
• Charlotte Keating
• Michael Armbruster

Director of Photography Eric Kress DFF

Production Designer Sophie Becher

Editor Maxime Lahaie

Music by Sean Callery

Casting by Jinya[sic] Jay and Olivia Brittain

Guest Starring

• Ryan McParland
• Angie Cepeda

Additional Cast (in Order of Appearance)

• Sergeant Mendez Sebastián Capitán Viveros
• Young John Casper Knopf
• John's Mother Sarah Ridgeway
• Jong Sook Khash-Erdene Ganbold
• Attu Ali Khan
• Madrigal Elder Jaram Lee
• Agatha Terne Nila Aalia
• John's Father Duncan Pow
• Soojin Ha Yuna Shin
• Fazekas Scott Karim

Unit Production Managers

• Robert Bernacchi
• Gabi Csoma

First Assistant Director Dale Butler

Second Assistant Director Nadia Brand

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

• Matt Sims
• Brett Hirson
• Gergo Rieger
• Kriszta Szilagyi
• Renato Cseh

Standby Art Director 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 Coordinator Domonkos Pardanyi

A Camera Operator Michael Soos

B Camera Operators

• Adam Fillenz
• Gyorgy Reder

Camera First Assistants

• Tamas Janossa
• Adam Kliegl
• Tamas Olah

Gaffers

• Oliver Whickman
• Laszlo Molnar

Key Grips

• Tommaso Mele
• 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
• Csaba Sepsi
• Viktor Mitev

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 Coach Hans Peterson

Digital Imaging Technicians Peter Racz

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

Supervising Sound Editor Jane Tattersall, MPSE

Supervising Sound Editor (ADR) Dale Sheldrake

Sound Effects Editor David Caporale

Dialogue Editor Claire Dobson

“The Lake of Eternal Life”

Performed by Jaram Lee

Composed by Abel Korzeniowski

Lyrics by Steven Kane

Music Editor Yuri Gorbachow

1st Assistant Sound Editors

• Sue Fawcett
• Andrew Wright
• Nadya Hanlon

Re-Recording Mixers

• Lou Solakofski
• Matt Chan

Lead Visual Effects Supervisor

• 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 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 Phil Prates

Lead Character/Creature Artist Toshi Kosaka

Layout/Previz Lead Matt Ralph

Visual Effects Producer Nicole Cedic

Senior Compositor Rick Smith

Pipeline TD Jose Alejandro Enriquez

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 Mai-anh Tran

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 Mavericks VFX

Visual Effects Supervisor Randall Rosa

Visual Effects Producer Tracy Grant

CG Department Coordinator Tae Hyun Kim

VFX Compositor Aditi Chowdhury

VFX Layout Artist Nizar Mohamed

VFX Lighter Ameek Singh

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
• Vikram Chandran

Visual Effects by Fillscrn

Compositing Supervisor Balázs Balogh

Digital Compositors

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

Visual Effects by Fuse FX

VFX Supervisor Marcus Levere
Lead Compositor Udit Mohan
Lead FX Artist Chris Hempel
VFX Producer Fikayo Ogundare
VFX Coordinator Sebastian Tirlui
CG Supervisor Sean Ritchie

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

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Gallery

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  John-117 and Cortana on the bridge of the Endymion II.

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  Endymion II lands on Eridanus II.

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  Kai-125 looking at preserved Lekgolo in Dr. Keyes' lab.

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  Kai holding a needler.

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  John and Halsey stare at the Forerunner artifact.