Cate Randa
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- Kentaro Randa: “How can anyone believe this is fake?”
- Cate Randa: “It's easier than waking up every day and thinking, at any moment, the same could happen to you.”
- ― Cate and Kentaro Randa observing the Golden Gate Bridge ruins ("The Way Out")
Cate Randa is the protagonist of the 2023 Monsterverse television series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.
A schoolteacher in San Francisco, Cate Randa was caught in the city on G-Day when Godzilla arrived to battle the MUTOs; her experiences on that day left her with significant trauma. In the wake of her father Hiroshi's apparent death, Cate traveled to Japan to settle his affairs, only to uncover his double life when she met her previously unknown half-brother, Kentaro Randa, alongside evidence of Hiroshi's work with the mysterious monster-hunting organization Monarch. As they sought more answers, Cate found herself becoming increasingly entangled in the world of monsters that took everything from her, only to end up with a new lease on life in the process.
History
- Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (TV 2023–2026) [episodes 1–13]
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
In 2014, Cate Randa, a teacher at Girard Middle School in San Francisco, met her girlfriend and fellow teacher Dani at a coffee shop, and they shared a kiss. Cate described leaving for the shop early to dodge her landlady. Dani offered to let her move in, under the auspices of saving money, and gave her a key to her apartment, which Cate accepted with a smile. The following morning, Cate awoke in bed with another woman. She later went to school and was surprised to find her classroom mostly empty. Most of the students were crowded around a phone, through which they showed her news footage of monsters, Godzilla and the male MUTO, battling in Honolulu. Cate dismissed the video as a hoax until a passing administrator made it clear that the threat was real. One of her students asked if the monsters were coming to San Francisco next.
The following day, as fighter jets flew overhead with Godzilla's landfall imminent, Cate and Dani ushered students into a bus. Dani told Cate she would be staying with a group of students in the gym until their parents picked them up. The administrator offered to chaperone the bus so Cate could stay with Dani; Cate declined to leave with the bus. Before she left, Dani told her that they were good together, but Cate says she didn't want good. "The Way Out"
The bus ended up stuck in traffic and was caught on the Golden Gate Bridge as Godzilla neared. To Cate's horror, Godzilla soon crashed through the bridge, knocking the driver unconscious and leaving the bus hanging off the bridge. Cate attempted to evacuate the kids as Godzilla roared above her. She only got a few out before Godzilla knocked a piece of rubble onto the bus, causing it to fall off the edge. Cate broke down, devastated, and wandered past several men on the bridge, who ignored her to collect data on the damage caused by Godzilla.
In the wake of Godzilla's victory against the MUTOs, Cate finally reunited with her father in a camp for survivors, where he handed her bus passes to head east to Reno with Caroline before leaving her again despite her protests to carry out a task he refused to elaborate on. Shortly thereafter, they heard from police in Fairbanks, Alaska, that his plane was lost in a storm. The events of G-Day left Cate with PTSD.
In 2015, Cate traveled to Tokyo to settle Hiroshi's affairs after his death. Before she could depart the plane, two people in hazmat suits sprayed the passengers down to kill any parasites. The man beside her dismissed this as a false comfort that would not stop another monster attack. His words and the decontamination caused Cate to briefly flash back to an encounter with soldiers wearing similar masks on the Golden Gate Bridge. In the airport, she paused at a sign on the floor indicating the Godzilla Evacuation Route, recalling her own encounter with Godzilla. As she traveled through the city, she witnessed missile batteries and anti-Godzilla graffiti; her taxi driver, meanwhile, was convinced the Titans were all faked with CGI.
After arriving at her father's residence, Cate's mother, Caroline Randa, who pushed Cate to go to Japan, called her and reprimanded Cate for not calling her immediately after landing. Cate entered the apartment and found a memorial to Hiroshi beside a wall of photos that included him with a woman and boy she did not recognize, only to be confronted by the individuals in those photographs over her intrusion in their house moments later. Cate attempted to defuse the situation by telling them that Hiroshi was her father. The family, Emiko and Kentaro Randa, sat down with Cate to discuss the situation, but Kentaro was skeptical of her claim and asked her to provide proof. Cate showed them pictures of her and Caroline with Hiroshi and informed them that Caroline had been married to Hiroshi for 30 years. Emiko asked Cate whether she knew what happened to Hiroshi, but Cate became upset, apologized for the intrusion, returned the apartment's keys, and left. Caroline called Cate after she left he building, but she attempted to dodge her mother's questions on what she found in the apartment. Their call was interrupted when the phone relayed an evacuation alert. She regrouped with Kentaro and Emiko, who led her to a subway shelter and reassured her that it was likely just a drill. Emiko asked Cate if Hiroshi was with her during G-Day, but Cate told her that he wasn't. Cate then experienced a flashback to the attack on the Golden Gate Bridge and caused her to panic and attempt to leave the shelter, though Emiko managed to stop her and calm her down.
After being given the all clear to leave, Emiko invited Cate to come back to their apartment for tea. Cate refused as she didn't want to spend more time with the woman her father was cheating with, but relented when Kentaro pushed that she hadn't gotten any answers from her brief trip. Kentaro took Cate to Hiroshi's office where he allegedly programmed software for satellites. Kentaro had hoped to show her the good in their father, but it only reminded Cate of how Hiroshi was obsessed with his work. Feeling her way along a map on the wall, Cate found a safe behind it and unlocked it by combining her and Kentaro's birthdays with both of their mothers'. The safe contained a bag belonging to Bill Randa which contained several data storage tapes. She noticed the logo on the side of the bag, and remembered how she had spotted men wearing it during G-Day. She asked Kentaro for help reading them, offering to get out of his life forever.
Kentaro took Cate to his ex-girlfriend, May Olowe-Hewitt, a coder and game designer. Though not pleased to see him, he convinced her to help, and she brought them to her apartment. May found the first tape encrypted, but quickly cracked it, revealing scores of redacted documents. Kentaro noticed a map resembling the one in Hiroshi's office; after he read the name "Monarch," Cate told them about the agents she saw in San Francisco, and how they seemed to relish documenting the destruction as people were dying. She believed that Hiroshi was working for them, but Kentaro refused to believe it. He fumed to May in Japanese that Hiroshi would still be alive if he had been in Tokyo instead of San Francisco when the Titans attacked. Speaking Japanese in front of him for the first time, Cate retorted that Hiroshi wasn't in San Francisco that day either before recalling how he only returned to the city after the attack, only to abandon her again when she needed him most. Kentaro insisted he must have done everything for a reason, but Cate declared him unforgivable. She then spotted a photo of a woman standing inside a monstrous footprint on one of May's screens: her and Kentaro's grandmother Keiko. "Aftermath"
Cate later left May's apartment and took another call from her worried mother, telling her she was heading home after what she discovered in Japan had nothing to do with them and was all about their father as usual. While she looked at departure times, a man, Tim, tried to strike up a conversation with her. Unsettled by him, she tried to leave, until he revealed that he needed to talk to her about the files, which were highly valuable and belonged to his organization, Monarch. Cate asked to make a call first; once they stepped outside, she threw the phone at Tim's face and ran instead. Tim's partner on the case, Michelle Duvall, promptly caught Cate and dragged her into a car. Tim assured her they weren't going to hurt her as he pulled a hood over her head, only for her to panic as she began experiencing flashbacks of Godzilla. While thrashing, she kicked Duvall in the head, causing her to slam the car into a median barrier, flipping it over. Cate escaped the car before Tim could recover and fled the scene. Cate attempted to report her abduction at a police station, only to realize she left all of her identification in the car. The officer proved dismissive of her, but looked at her with renewed interest after making a call. Fearful, she rushed out of the station. Cate then went back to May's apartment, only to find Tim and Duvall already inside before discreetly escaping with May.
May retrieved a go bag, with some of its supplies, like extra passports, surprising Cate. They met up with Kentaro, whose apartment had also been searched by the Monarch agents. Cate revealed she was willing to just give Monarch the files, but Kentaro said he knew where to go next, recalling what his mother had recently told him of Hiroshi's "uncle", Lee Shaw, and where to find him. The trio later entered Shaw's retirement home. Shaw brightened upon hearing that Kentaro was Hiroshi's son, though he never knew about Hiroshi's daughter, Cate. He ushered the group outside. After telling Shaw about the files they found, they asked if he knew why Hiroshi traveled to Alaska. Shaw questioned whether Hiroshi was really dead, but before he was able to elaborate, May noticed a hidden camera inside a tree. Shaw revealed that the "retirement home" was more of a Monarch-operated prison before showing them his ankle monitor. Before they could leave, he warned them that Monarch would continue pursuing them until they finally caught up - unless they journeyed with him to learn Hiroshi's true fate. He proceeded to cut off the ankle monitor with a hand pruner and gave them a minute to decide. "Departure"
Shaw told the trio that their search for Hiroshi would begin in Alaska, the last place he was known to be alive. Though Cate wanted no part of the search and only wanted out of Monarch's crosshairs, Kentaro agreed. May questioned Shaw's dedication to locating Hiroshi, to which Shaw explained that he considered Hiroshi more son than nephew. Shaw took the wheel of Kentaro's rental car, and after brief confusion over operating a modern vehicle and striking several obstructions in their escape attempt, Shaw crashed through the main gate to freedom. The quartet later boarded a cargo ship to South Korea. Along the way, Shaw expressed his belief that Bill's files contained something Hiroshi wanted to keep secret from Monarch and hoped to discover what that was before Monarch, with May disclosing that she digitized the files. He described the files as containing the hopes, dreams, and ambitions of him, Bill, and Keiko Randa before their organization became misguided, more focused on keeping secrets than hunting monsters. He confirmed that Hiroshi worked for Monarch, calling it the Randas' "family business", though Cate was upset by these revelations, describing Monarch as her family's curse and believing Monarch should have done more to prevent G-Day.
After bribing the ship's captain, Shaw had Kentaro reluctantly dump Bill's files in the ocean to help them avoid any problems moving forward as they prepared to meet with a friend of Shaw's. In Pohang, Shaw so badly fumbled his interactions with security at customs that the party was led off by two armed guards. Shaw offered to bribe them, earning him a rifle to the stomach, but the same guard then locked his counterpart in their van, revealing himself to be Shaw's friend, Du-Ho. Du-Ho drove the party to an ancient plane he owned, which was to serve as their dubious chariot to Alaska.
Once their plane was in the air, Kentaro peppered Shaw with questions about Hiroshi. He shared that by the time Hiroshi joined Monarch, the job called for less field work and more number-crunching, and he last saw him almost 20 years prior. He had no knowledge of Hiroshi's two families, but added that like his mother Keiko, he always went after what he wanted and never lied to Shaw, which Cate doubted. While searching through Bill's files, May discovered a set of coordinates in Alaska while Cate recalled details of Hiroshi's ill-fated flight, giving them a destination. En route, Cate confided in Du-Ho that she couldn't decide if she feared finding Hiroshi or not finding him more. When she alluded to her experience in San Francisco, he commiserated, having watched loved ones die too, but encouraged her not to hide from pain. Upon reaching Alaska, the group encountered a storm as Shaw took the controls and directed Cate to assist. Following their rough but successful landing, they discovered the scattered remains of Hiroshi's plane and a frozen corpse that wasn't Hiroshi. Du-Ho located an abandoned tent where Cate and Kentaro recognized their father's handwriting on a map and his signature pencil shavings, revealing his survival, though his whereabouts remained unknown. After Du-Ho discovered claw marks on the plane, he attempted to warn Shaw and the others as he moved to start their plane. The mole-like Frost Vark suddenly burst out of the ground, swiped a wing off the plane, and killed Du-Ho by freezing the plane. "Secrets and Lies"
Cate watched as the Frost Vark continued to dismantle their plane and sadly called out to Du-Ho upon seeing his nearby corpse. Kentaro attempted to shoot a flare at the Titan, but distracted it long enough for everyone to reach a nearby cave. The Frost Vark searched around the cave, causing tremors that broke the ice underneath May's feet and forced Cate and Shaw to help her out while May was left lying on the ground barely keeping herself from screaming from the freezing water. After Shaw confirmed the Frost Vark had left, the group left the cave. While the others bickered, Cate spoke up about how it was getting late and the temperature would drop at night, and asked where Shaw was taking them with no resources. Shaw stated they were heading northwest towards the coast as they were more likely to see people there, but Kentaro stated that he saw a spherical building from the plane. Cate and the others stated they never saw the building and were unable to spot it after ascending a hilltop, though Cate spotted some lights in the distance. Kentaro refused to head in that direction, stating that the building he saw was much closer and behind some other hills. Shaw decided it was best for Kentaro to go on his own despite Cate's protests.
As a snow storm blew in, Cate lamented letting Kentaro go, but Shaw reassured her he just needed to survive until they reached the lights. However, upon climbing a hill, they found themselves in the valley the Frost Vark had attacked them in, learning that they were going in circles. Realizing May wouldn't make it without being warmed up, Cate refused to move on despite Shaw's protests about the nearby Titan. After starting the fire a fire and settling May within Hiroshi's tent, May complained that her legs were hurting, though Cate assured her this was good as it meant she didn't have frostbite yet. May wasn't as optimistic about her chances and asked Cate to call her sister Lyra if she didn't make it. Shaw returned with research papers from Hiroshi and asked whether Cate wanted to burn the papers to stoke the fire or keep them to learn as much as they could about her father, but Cate immediately told him to burn them. Shaw obliged, only for the Frost Vark to appear. Cate and Lee helped May out of the tent as the Frost Vark burst up from underneath their fire and consumed it. Lee realized that the Frost Vark fed on heat, and using this information created a plan to start a bonfire with aviation fuel and Du-Ho's corpse. As Shaw prepared, Cate attempted to comfort May, but May told Cate that they would eventually have to leave her and possibly Shaw behind so Cate could survive.
Shaw poured aviation fuel over Du-Ho's corpse, assuring Cate that Du-Ho always wanted to go out in a blaze of glory. Cate then heard a helicopter nearby seconds before the Frost Vark burst out of the ground right in front of Shaw. The Titan chased May and Cate as Shaw desperately attempted to light the fire. After May tripped, Shaw finally lit the fire, distracting the Frost Vark. The helicopter noticed the trio and landed, revealing Kentaro already inside before the others scrambled aboard. The helicopter took off and narrowly escaped the Frost Vark as it lunged towards them while Shaw noticed a glowing hole in the Earth as they flew away. During the trip, Shaw checked May's bag, only to discover that the Frost Vark destroyed the laptop by freezing it. When the helicopter landed, the group was met by Tim, Duvall, and a group of armed guards. "Parallels and Interiors"
Cate, Kentaro, May, and Shaw were detained in separate cells at Monarch's Alaskan command post, though Duvall deduced that they knew nothing of Monarch. The Monarch agents opted to release the kids, allowing them to continue their search for answers while keeping a close eye on them. Tim subsequently dropped Cate, Kentaro, and May off at Nome Airport, handing them new passports and other travel essentials while apologizing for their ordeal, only to be scoffed at. Using reverse psychology, he sternly warned them to return to their old lives, as he wouldn't be able to help if they endangered themselves again. Cate wanted to search Hiroshi's office in San Francisco and correctly guessed that May had a copy of the Monarch files saved in the cloud before telling her they were in too much danger to split up now.
The trio arrived at Oakland International Airport, with nearby San Francisco still lying in ruins. They were picked up in a large van by James, a work friend of Cate's mother, Caroline, who she was less than pleased to see. He brought them to FEMA housing in Alameda Point, confirming along the way that there used to be tours of the devastation in San Francisco before the military cordoned the city off. Upon arrival, May and Kentaro attempted to go on a walk so Cate could ease Caroline into her discoveries about Hiroshi, though they found themselves face-to-face with her just before Cate blurted out Kentaro's full name; Caroline was rattled but attempted to be hospitable. She explained that she and James worked to recover clients' personal items from San Francisco. When her façade started to crack, Cate ushered May and Kentaro into her room to discuss the revelations concerning Hiroshi, with Caroline confirming she long suspected Hiroshi's infidelity, which left Cate angry that her mother sent her instead of going herself. Caroline explained that she felt compelled to send Cate, as she barely left her room since surviving her encounter with Godzilla; she felt Cate was slowly killing herself with grief. Cate grimly acknowledged that she succeeded in giving her something to live for and asked to be smuggled into San Francisco.
That night, Caroline payed off a guard to avoid having the inside of the truck inspected before releasing Cate, May, and Kentaro in a secluded area. Kentaro asked how anyone could believe G-Day was a hoax, to which Cate responded that for some people, it was easier than accepting this devastation could happen to them too. Caroline and James left them with supplies, warning them to avoid being caught and to be back by morning. Cate experienced multiple flashbacks to G-Day as she walked through the ruins of her neighborhood, narrowly escaping a military patrol. Hoping to ease Cate's distress, Kentaro had her reminisce about their father along the way, though another patrol soon spotted them and chased them into a BART station, where Cate's flashbacks started to get the better of her. While exploring underground, they reached a dead end, which caused Cate to begin panicking; May helped her control her breathing, soothing her while Kentaro located a way out. Recalling her own infidelity, Cate broke down, believing she was no better than Hiroshi and always let everyone down. May reminded her of the way she helped her in Alaska; she regained her composure before Kentaro led them to the surface. They soon made it to the Transamerica Pyramid and located of Hiroshi's office. Kentaro hoped to find a safe behind a map on the wall as they did in Tokyo, but found nothing. Looking at the map itself, Cate realized the lines drawn on it were not satellite paths, but something else. Browsing Bill's files on May's tablet, she located a similar map. Kentaro copied the points on Bill's map to a piece of paper, then poked holes in it and held it up against the rising sun, where the light revealed locations of interest on Hiroshi's map. Cate identified dots aligning with Alaska and San Francisco while May located another in Africa: their next destination if they are to follow the path Hiroshi took. They left with the map and returned to the van just before daybreak.
Outside Caroline's house, Cate encouraged her mother to move on from Hiroshi. Caroline admitted that she could have done more to discover his double life and apologized for putting Cate through this. Cate shared that Hiroshi was still alive and worked for a secret monster-hunting organization, shocking her. "The Way Out"
Later, while debating their next steps, Cate, Kentaro, and May entered Caroline's house and were shocked to find Shaw, who escaped Monarch custody with help from Duvall, who was also present. Shaw expressed his belief that the Titan event Hiroshi was trying to stop would be much worse than G-Day if it was allowed to transpire and thus needed to find him. The trio reluctantly teamed up with Shaw and Duvall despite their reservations of the latter, even as Shaw vouched for her.
Shaw, Cate, May, Kentaro, and Duvall travelled to the Algerian Desert and met with sympathetic Monarch agents at an outpost. Cate and Shaw mutually acknowledged that they wouldn't have made it this far without each other, though Cate remained wary of their involvement with the "movement" Shaw was starting within Monarch and merely wanted to find Hiroshi. Shaw gave them the option to leave, but warned that the consequences of not catching up to Hiroshi and helping him could result in millions dead. The kids ultimately stuck with Shaw and ventured further into the desert to the point on their map. Kentaro then spotted Hiroshi in the distance with a strange device. The Randas and Shaw were overjoyed to see Hiroshi was alive and well, only for Shaw to realize that Hiroshi was trying to tell them to run moments before fleeing in his truck, driving off in the opposite direction. Just as a Monarch helicopter closed in on the group, the ground beneath the group's feet gave way as Godzilla emerged from the Earth, sending them tumbling off a hill. After recovering, the lot found themselves face-to-face with Godzilla as he opened his eyes, seeming to focus on Cate in particular. The Titan rose to his feet, causing the Monarch helicopter to crash before stomping away.
In the aftermath, Shaw reported that no one survived the helicopter crash and urged the group to leave quickly so they can determine where Godzilla was headed before Monarch, taking the map from Cate. Cate believed stopping Godzilla was impossible, but Shaw explained that he was actually trying to help the Titan. He promised them all the answers they wanted, but Cate, May, and finally Kentaro decided to part ways with them to continue looking for Hiroshi. Shaw left them supplies to last until they reached civilization. As they walked, Kentaro and Cate debated over Hiroshi's actions, with Cate optimistically believing there could be any number of reasons why he drove away. When Kentaro questioned their next steps without the map Shaw took, Cate pointed to May having backups, at which point May guiltily admitted that she made a deal with Duvall to secure her own freedom, explaining how they were able to find their location in Alameda Point. May attempted to explain herself, revealing that she had been on the run for years and had money saved to cover their travel expenses, but Cate, feeling betrayed, refused to accept it and stormed off. "Terrifying Miracles"
At the airport in Tindouf, while speaking to Cate, Kentaro expressed his frustrations that Hiroshi left them once again. Cate soon realized May had been gone for an unusually long time and went to search for her to no avail, finding only her bag. Cate and Kentaro then witnessed the battered and shaken Tim arrive at the airport, the sole survivor of the helicopter crash, at which point he was promptly accosted by Cate, who demanded to know what happened to May. Tim did not know what she was talking about, unaware that May had disappeared before being shocked to learn that the kids saw Hiroshi in the desert before Godzilla's emergence. At Cate's mention of a machine Hiroshi had with him, Tim theorized that he was trying to prevent the next G-Day. Cate proposed an exchange: if Monarch helped them find May, they would help the organization locate Shaw. As Tim updated his superior, Natalia Verdugo, Kentaro pulled Cate aside, believing they should cut their losses and avoid any further involvement with Monarch, though he relented when she dared him to say he did not care about what happened to May.
After assuring Cate and Kentaro that Monarch would help them, Tim raved about Hiroshi's brilliance as a Monarch agent, having known him well and sharing details that helped the Randa kids trust Tim. As they planned their next steps in locating May, Tim clarified that Monarch learned May was not her real name during a background check; her name was actually Corah Mateo. Cate, Kentaro, and Tim ventured to May's former residence in Tacoma. As they still didn't know why May was in hiding, Tim advised the Randas not to tell her family the truth. He instead pretended they knew May through an online manga group and decided to stop by her home while they were in town. Lyra, May's sister, was skeptical of their story, while May's mother divulged that she hadn't been home in two years. They left dissatisfied, but Tim was convinced Lyra wasn't telling them something, especially when she immediately left in her car. They tailed her into Seattle, but lost her in a parking garage until she ambushed them, brandishing a tire iron and asking if they were with "the company." Kentaro calmed her down and got her to explain that May was on the run from the company she worked for, Applied Experimental Technologies, after her sabotage of the company cost them millions. The group assured her they would find May.
Tim called in a favor to access local CCTV footage which revealed May entered AET headquarters several hours prior. At Cate's suggestion, Tim orchestrated an unauthorized test of Monarch's new warning system. Seattle citizens received alerts of an impending Titan attack on their phones, sending the city into a panic and allowing the group to infiltrate AET headquarters. By the time they found May, her former boss, Brenda Holland, intercepted the trio and explained that the company's dispute with May had been settled. May surprisingly told them to leave, though they knew May was still in trouble. As the trio exited AET, Monarch agents suddenly ushered them into a van to find a waiting Verdugo, who reprimanded Tim for using the Titan alert while he updated her on May's situation. Cate offered her help in dealing with Shaw in exchange for securing May's freedom. Monarch subsequently secured a deal with AET, which rebranded itself as Apex Cybernetics; though the details of the arrangement were not made public, May was freed and later rejoined Cate and Kentaro to see their adventure through. "Will the Real May Please Stand Up?"
To uphold their end of the deal, the Randas and May were brought to Monarch's headquarters by Tim, who steered them through Monarch's cluttered hallways. Cate wondered why there were no portraits of the other Randas on the walls, to which Tim replied that their family's legacy was complicated, detailing Bill's increasingly outlandish theories after Keiko's death in 1959. He led them to the control room, where they learned more about gamma ray bursts from outposts all around the world, which were caused by Shaw after he destroyed the rift in Alaska with his team of rogue Monarch agents; Verdugo needed to find him urgently before he caused more chaos, as he was seeking to close all known rifts to the Titans' realm. Tim, May, Cate, and Kentaro combed through various files in Tim's office, hoping to find something that would help them determine where Shaw was headed next. After Cate found a document on Keiko's death written by Shaw, Tim revealed that she died in Kazakhstan, which they deduced to be Shaw's next destination given how much Keiko meant to him, believing he wanted to make amends for losing her by closing the rift there. Knowing they were her best chance at talking Shaw down, Verdugo granted them a small team. They traveled to the nuclear power plant in Kazakhstan, finding evidence that Shaw and his forces were there. They discovered the vortex in the heart of the plant with charges set around it, only for Shaw's forces, including Duvall, to surround them at gunpoint.
Shaw then appeared and agreed to speak to Cate alone. In private, Shaw revealed that he wanted to speak to Cate specifically as she had the rare privilege of looking into Godzilla's eyes, revealing that the monster was not a mindless destructive force, but acted with purpose. He added that there was indeed a world beneath their feet as he had been there, though Monarch didn't believe him. He struggled to describe it, but says it crystalized Godzilla's purpose: keeping the other Titans in their world and humanity in theirs. Cate then attempted to warn him of what they learned at Monarch, telling him that though he successfully closed one rift, dozens of others experienced significant gamma ray emission spikes that ran the risk of causing another G-Day. Shaw, however, did not heed these warnings, believing Monarch was merely cherry-picking whatever data allowed them to continue sitting idly by. He described what he was doing as driven by both belief and atonement. Cate asked Shaw if destroying the portal would be what Keiko wanted. He believed that, even if doing so could not make up for losing her, it would be honoring her and Bill's work as he started the countdown for the charges. At the same time, an earthquake struck. In the chaos, May attempted to run to Cate, only to stumble and fall into the portal just before a massive Endopede emerged from it. The creature advanced on Cate, but rubble landed on its back, sending it plummeting back down while leaving Cate stuck near the portal. Shaw desperately attempted to rescue her, only for another tremor to strike, sending them both into the portal seconds before the charges denotated, sealing the portal. "Birthright"
Cate awoke in a strange forest at night. As she gathered her bearings, a small Titan, the Brambleboar, spotted her. The beast briefly stalked her as she scrambled back against a tree before it became agitated and charged at her. Before it reached her, the Brambleboar was suddenly shot in the eye by an arrow, sending it running away. Cate turned to see her savior and was astonished to see her grandmother, Keiko, alive and well, appearing to be the same age as she was in 1959 when she supposedly perished. "Axis Mundi"
In shock, Cate spoke Keiko's name as Keiko helped her up and led her away from the Brambleboar's territory. Keiko tried to sooth Cate when she began to panic about finding her friends, assuring her they would find them. As they talked, it became apparent that Keiko had assumed Cate's recognition of her meant that she was part of a rescue party who followed her beacon, but Cate's confused reaction to this information led her to realize Cate had not come to save her and instead was trapped in this realm just as she was. The duo then heard rustling in the trees, at which point May appeared and reunited with Cate. Keiko demanded to know who they were and how they got here when Shaw called out to her, initially hiding himself from view, where they learned that Keiko believed it was still 1959 and that only a few weeks had passed since she entered this realm. Shaw was tearfully forced to tell her that over half a century had passed on the surface, and that it was now 2015. She quickly determined the cause—gravitational distortion warping space-time—before the weight of it overwhelmed her. Cate and May confirmed that Shaw was telling the truth before he came into view to share an emotional reunion, having to break the news of Bill's death to her, leaving her devastated. Sorrowful, she asked about Hiroshi next, with Cate telling her he was fine before disclosing that she was in fact Keiko's granddaughter.
Keiko led Shaw, Cate, and May to her camp, revealing a beacon she recovered that she reconfigured to send out a signal to the surface world. Cate let her know that Monarch was still around in 2015 and that Hiroshi was part of it. Keiko asked Cate to describe Hiroshi, still struggling to believe he grew up without her. Cate characterized him as a "family man" who forged his own path. Shaw asked Keiko if she could return the beacon to its original configuration, which would allow them to attract a Titan and return home, as the portals only stabilized when a Titan passed through them. The quartet carried the beacon through the realm, which Keiko named Axis Mundi, to Shaw's original landing site and the capsule he left behind in 1962. By nightfall, they reached Shaw's original landing site and the capsule he left behind in 1962, which he discovered to be in working order. As they prepared the beacon, attaching it to the capsule, Keiko declared her intent to stay behind. She confided her fears that the world left her behind and that she would ruin Hiroshi's life if she suddenly reappeared. Cate refused to accept this, however, saying that their family already lost so much and that Keiko still had work to do in the world, at which point the grateful Keiko finally relented.
They entered the capsule and activated the beacon. Shaw explained to Cate how to see when a Titan was approaching on radar and instructed her to tell them once it carried them 3,000 feet into the air. They then witnessed the arrival of the nearby Ion Dragon, which presented a major complication as it was already inside Axis Mundi, leaving the rift impassible. It flew toward them, but passed overhead as Cate reported another creature coming through the rift. On the Ion Dragon's next pass, it struck the capsule with its tail, pulling wires apart and shutting off the gamma ray simulator. As the other Titan began leaving, losing interest now that the beacon had been severed, Shaw climbed out of the capsule as the others protested. He struggled to reconnect the cables as the Ion Dragon landed before him, briefly stalking him before he successfully reactivated the beacon. The Ion Dragon roared at him, only for Godzilla to roar back from the rift.
Godzilla entered Axis Mundi and battled the Ion Dragon. After a short bout, Godzilla ripped off the Ion Dragon's wing and hurled it into the rift, turning it into a vortex that began sucking nearby objects into it, including the capsule. Shaw attempted to run after the capsule to join them and grabbed Keiko's hand, but ultimately let go as to not endanger the others. Once Keiko reentered the capsule, May sealed the hatch while Cate held her grandmother's hand as they passed through the rift. The capsule surfaced on a tarmac surrounded by trucks and a strange device. Uniformed men led Keiko, Cate, and May to a hangar where they were met by Kentaro, who shared hugs with both Cate and May and revealed that it was now 2017. Cate shared an emotional reunion with her father before he noticed Keiko, stunning him. Cate led the awestruck Hiroshi to his long-lost mother, finally reuniting after over half a century. Cate subsequently introduced Keiko to Kentaro. The Randa family reunion was cut short when sirens began to blare as they were ushered into the facility due to an approaching Titan: Kong, the ruler of Skull Island. "Beyond Logic"
Family tree
| Hiroshi's father | Keiko Randa | Bill Randa | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Caroline Randa | Hiroshi Randa | Emiko Randa | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cate Randa | Kentaro Randa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Trivia
- Cate Randa is the first confirmed LGBTQ+ character in live-action Godzilla media.
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