Andromeda (2000–2005): Season 3, Episode 6 - Slipfighter the Dogs of War - full transcript

[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]

Even a small light
dispels the darkness.

Shine on, Mesmer.

The time has come
to say hello and goodbye.

I'd just like
to thank you all
for being here.

It's much
appreciated.

Um...

I'm sorry for
your loss, Trance.

If Mesmer was anything
like you, Trance,

I'm sure
he was incredible.

Thank you.



I've had a lot
of cousins.

You know, a lot
of cousins...

and relatives.

Just about my
whole family.

Who knows where
they are now?

Uh, anyway...

It may be very comforting
to you to know

that both scientifically
and metaphorically,

nothing ever
truly disappears.

Yeah, I mean, our atoms,
they recombine,

and, um, they make
other things,

like um, daffodils.

Yes, um,

look, as a crew member,



I feel somehow
obligated to be here.

Beyond that,
Trance,

perhaps an explanation
would help.

Mesmer gave life to many.

He gave life to everything
he touched.

He was warm, wonderful...

Mesmer, a part of you
will be in me always.

The way of the Universe.

Trance...

How did he die?

[THUD]

[ALARM BLARING]

Shock waves.

Everybody to
command, now.

Oh, no.

[PANTING]

[WHEEZING]

Another incoming
shock wave.

[BEKA SCREAMING]

[GROANING]

DYLAN: The Universe
is a dangerous place,

but in our future,

my crew and I fight
to make it safe.

I am Dylan Hunt,

Captain of
the Andromeda Ascendant,

and these are our adventures.

[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]

[WHEEZING]

[METAL TWISTING]

Eh, for once in my life,
everything looks just right.

[GROANING]

Harper, are you all right?

Just a little bent,
is all.

Maybe if you gave me
a massage later,

and worked out
the kinks...

Ow.

Rommie, report.

That was an exploding star.

Epicenter in the
Kantorek system.

Supernova.

What are the odds of that?

It's a statistical
impossibility,

Given the level
of residual voltarium.

Voltarium?

Any schoolboy
with a knowledge
of the elements

Knows voltarium
doesn't occur in nature.

Yeah, and it's only good,
make that great,

for one thing.

Making nova bombs.

SEAMUS: Yeah.

DYLAN: All right.

Trance, Harper,
run a damage report,

check for radiation leaks.

Meet us in the briefing room
after wards.

Beka, Tyr, you're with me.

Andromeda, cross-Index planets
closest to the blast

with planets most
likely to make

voltarium-based
weapons.

ANDROMEDA: Searching.

I know who it is.

Hmm.

On the outskirts
of the Kantorek system.

mirror, mirror on the wall,

who's the evilest
rogue planet of them all?

ANDROMEDA: Marduk.

ALL: Marduk.

Yeah, surprise,
surprise.

Where would Marduk
get the resources

to refine voltarium
to make nova bombs?

You can save
a lot of money

feeding your workforce
chickweed

and lint-stuffed sausages.

They're dabbling
in the dark side.

Enigma.

Dylan,

I do so hope you're not
seriously considering
going in there.

The same
single-Minded fanaticism

that has allowed Marduk
to produce this weapon

has also given them the most
fearsome orbital defense
systems ever known.

Tyr, they will soon be able
to kill billions on a whim.

They're using nova bombs

to slaughter the very
heart of existence.

We cannot let this go on.

We won't, Trance.

Rommie.

Pitted against Marduk's array
of orbital defense systems,

The Andromeda would be
a minor irritant at best,

and would be
highly ineffectual.

Humor me
and play it out.

Run mission scenario.

Penetrate Marduk's
known defense system.

Positing scenario.

Andromeda entering the...

mission scenario terminated.

Try it again. This time
give us a chance, please.

Making all other variables
Most favorable to our endeavor.

Thank you.

Blinding the first
of the sensor
receptor satellites

and using them as cover.

Run mission.

[DIGITAL BEEPS]

Mission 59% complete.

Well, there you are.

Game over.

I'm sure you'll agree we should
no further consider this.

He's considering it.

We can't help, Dylan.

An unprovoked
attack on Marduk

would be seen
as commonwealth
hypocrisy.

No one's happy with the change
in power on Marduk.

In fact, we don't even know
where their new leader is.

Cautious diplomacy
is called for.

This is beyond politics.

I mean, they're making
nova bombs.

I need a fleet.

that reactor
has to be destroyed.

No.

Dylan, we can't do it.

All right, what do you
expect me to do?

I can't sit here
and do nothing.

I'm sorry, Dylan.

All right, what about
plausible deniability?

Are you saying
we're not having
this conversation?

What conversation?

We could live
with that, Dylan.

Just one thing, Dylan.

Be fore warned,
We once green-Lighted

a similar mission
out of Delgron 5.

Please observe.

I've been hit.

O. B. D. satellite four's
got a plasma cannon
on it or something.

[RAPID ALARM]

[SCREAMING]

Wait a minute.
I know them.

SEAMUS: Yeah,

Jane and Dorothy Rubenfeld.

What do you know?

They've recently been appointed
joint ministers of the exterior

and, Dylan,

they each hold one fine
set of ph-Double-Ds.

Not to mention as joint
secretaries of state,

for Delgron 5
they managed to get

all the signatories
to the treaty of Hmmelstoss,

Just so you know.

Yeah, but, man,
are they hot.

Yeah, so is the
radiation corridor

after a nova bomb blast.

SEAMUS: Well, at least
the slip drive's not broken.

That's true.

DYLAN: Arman Kroz.

He gladly led the Marduks
into the Commonwealth.

Bernard Renoir.

Now in hiding,
seized power from Kroz,

and led to this...

[CRYING]

Poverty,

starvation,

[WOMAN SCREAMING]

police state.

These poor people.

Starved and oppressed,
all in the name of power.

The aftermath
of a nova blast

leaves nothing.

Absolutely nothing.

I know.

No particles,
no dust,

Just oblivion.

We can't let this happen.

No one should be able
to wield that kind of power.

Let's take
that power away.

How?

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]

[WHIRRING]

Slipfighters...

The dogs of war.

Harper says he's reconfigured
the V. R. simulation for you.

That's right.

What's going on?

I've piloted a slipfighter
on many an occasion.

The precision,
the reflexes...

I was bred for this.

What's the problem?

I don't know.

I am preoccupied.

With what?

Beka, this whole
slipfighter assault thing,

it's just...

It's a bad idea.

Tyr, in order
for this to work,

We're going to need you
at the top of your game.

That's the problem.

ANDROMEDA:
Commencing tactical simulation.

[WHEEZING]

[RAPID BEEPS]

SEAMUS: Thattaboy, Tyr,
rip him a new tail pipe.

DYLAN: Stay steady.

[LASER WHEEZING]

ANDROMEDA:
Ending tactical simulation.

Yes. Tyr, that
was great.

It was all right.

BEKA: "All right"?

Tyr, whatever
you're going through,

fight through it.

Let's suit up
and try one for real.

Are you kidding?
We'll kill him.

Not if I kill the two
of you first.

That is the point
of all this, isn't it?

Let's fight.

All right.

Let's do it.

[WHIRRING]

DYLAN: Stand by
for simulated attack run.

[DIGITAL BEEPS]

Stay alert and focused.
That's everything.

Let the games begin.

Got to go faster.

[WHEEZING]

[RAPID BEEPS]

Here we go.
stay with me, Tyr.

Got it.

On your lead.

[WHEEZING]

[GROWLING]

All right, follow me
around the drain.

[WHEEZING]

That was all around
a lateral axis, Tyr...

Nice and easy.

[RAPID BEEPS]

All right, am I dead yet?

Follow me down.

Sometimes the baddies play dead,

sometimes you'll want to,

so stay with me.

[VIBRATING]

It's called a "lumshovok. "

Flyers from the Primortan
galaxy coined it.

It means...

"headache. "

lumshovok...

[GROANED]

[CHUCKLES]

All right, Tyr, kick out.

Tyr, I said kick out.

[RAPID BEEPING]

Damn it.

Full right, Tyr.

[LASERS FIRING]

Real ammunition?

Concentrate, Tyr.

Just stay focused.

Catch me if you can.

[WHEEZING]

[RAPID BEEPING]

[LASER BUZZING]

DYLAN: Gotcha.

Let's go back.

TYR: Lumshovok.

It's just
an expression, Tyr.

Yes, headache.
I know, yes.

I had no trouble flying.

I knew what you
both were doing.

It's just, I...

understand,

I need to be confident
of my own ability

to win the day.

I understand, Tyr,

But if you stay here,
then you'll never know,

Will you?

I'm going back out
in a slipfighter

To fight the only enemy
I ever worry about.

[BUZZ]

ANDROMEDA: Dylan,
come to command.

there's something
you want to see.

Rommie, status.

A sector in the vicinity
of Marduk.

Sensors indicate

that gravity
has reversed itself.

On-Screen.

[EXPLOSION]

I don't believe it.

Marduk has tested
another nova bomb.

I can't take
this any more.

this can't go on.

Where is Tyr?
Bring him up on display.

Com-Link opened.

Tyr,

get back in here.

BEKA: He's going
too hard.

he's going to have
an anti-Proton problem.

Tyr, eject.

I said eject.

Always pushing the boundaries
and testing my patience.

Rommie...

bring him in.

Two novas

is a standard run
of weapons tests.

As soon as Marduk
Can refine more voltarium,

they'll be ready to attack
more helpless solar systems.

It's time.

As you might expect
for Marduk's capital city,

Baal is heavily defended.

The intel forwarded to us
by the exterior ministers

places the reactor here,

however, I would recommend
that on approach,

Just four clicks
North of Baal,

you activate your sensors

to confirm the location
of any residual
voltarium emissions.

You haven't the slightest idea
where the refinery is located,

Do you?

Not really, no.

BEKA: Look at the
bright side, Tyr.

by the time we get there,
you'll have the satisfaction
of having penetrated

five impenetrable orbital

and planet-Based
Defense systems.

[DOOR WHIRRING]

He doesn't
appear to be satisfied.

Have you guys noticed
how cold it is lately?

No. Android.

Right.

Must be some kind of crazy
space weather thing.

Could it be that maybe
you're scared about the mission

and you'd like
to talk about it?

What makes you
think that?

No weather in space.

You know, ever since
we re-Established
the commonwealth,

I've been wondering...

is it really necessary
to risk life and limb

every time someone,
somewhere

has a problem?

We're the good guys, Beka.

We fight the bad guys.

I mean, so some stars blew up.

There are
more stars

than one person could count
in a lifetime.

The lifetime of a human
is infinitely smaller

compared to that of a star,

but a star is born,
created from dust,

just like a human,

with life and fire
breathed into it.

It shines,

but eventually
the star grows old,

and it hunches
and winks out.

Maybe it even goes out
with a bang,

and that's life,

but just because
there are so many
of them, Beka,

don't think
that it's not valuable

or that it doesn't
make a difference.

It does.

You two are no help.

You know that, right?

Help is our mission.

It's what we do.

I'm staying behind.

Oh, no,
you're not.

Two pilots are required
for protective air cover,

While the third focuses
on the bombing run.

Shut up.

Sir, I must
tell you now.

This fight is unwinnable.

We should not go.

You heard Rommie.

We need three pilots.

You're going.

I'll volunteer.

I'll be the third.

Trance,

no offense, but I think
we all remember what happened

the last time you tried
to pilot the slipstream.

You took us back
300 years in time

Into the middle
of a humongous space battle,

where we, uh... fixed
the course of history.

Lucky for us.

That's not the point.

Tyr, we've gone
on more dangerous missions.

They were winnable missions.

I have seen you

go up against
hundreds of Magog
And not even blink, Tyr.

How many generations
of Nietzscheans

would marvel
at the idiocy of this?

I can't make you go...

but we need your help.

[BEEPS]

Hello, Trance.

You're not mad at me?

[CHUCKLES]

I knew you wanted
to come along.

Besides, how could
I ever be mad at you?

You know,
you need me.

I have no doubt.

What is it that Mr. Harper
always says?

"buckle your seatbelt
and hold your mud. "

[WHIRRING]

[ENGINE REVVING]

[ENTHRALLING MUSIC PLAYING]

The ODSS look like moons.

Activate stealth mode.

Trance, will you
do me the honors, please?

Stealth we are.

Thank you.

[WHEEZING]

All right, ready to thread
the laser sweeps.

Break on my mark.

Three.

Two.

One.

Mark.

[ALARM BEEPING]

Anyone jump rope as a kid?

Is there an official word
for "phew"?

I think you just said it.

Prepare to enter
Marduk's atmosphere.

We have to skim the terrain

to avoid radar contact.

Let's hope the topography
hasn't evolved

since our maps
were last updated.

[RAPID BEEPING]

Fell into some cotton here.

Visuals gone.

People, use your heads-Up.

It's all instruments now.

There's always light to fly to.

From here on out,

we are playing
everything by ear.

All the lights.

It's truly a wonder.

Never thought I'd be so happy
to see a place so evil.

Been detected.

Ladies and gentlemen,

the stealth portion
of our flight

has officially ended.

[HEAVY EXPLOSIONS]

Split formation.

Dodging the hairballs.

That last burst
washed right over me.

Well, try not to be there
next time.

Get plasma in your intake,
and you'll catch fire.

Watch out
for fighters.

How are you holding up, Trance?

I'm okay.

Any words of wisdom?

Um...

Always be nice
to your parents.

Sound advice.

Marduk fighters on our back.

Eight o'clock high.

There are six of them.

Regroup, finger three formation.

Tyr, cover my left.

Assembling.

BEKA: Roger that.

Assembling.

Climb and turn
to meet the enemy.

Dylan? Dylan swerve.

They've got a bead on you.

[LASER BUZZING]

They did have a bead on me.

Yes. Flamed one.

Where's my second pigeon?

Tyr, on your six.

Triples, Tyr.
Wing over.

'Round the drain.
We're almost there.

Tyr, let him go.

[RAPID BEEPING]

[EXPLOSION]

Tyr...

I got Tyr.
He's going down.

[ACCELERATES]

[RAPID BEEPING]

All right, Tyr, kick out.

He's losing control.

BEKA: Tyr...

Tyr, eject.

Damn it.

No response.
mark where he hits.

Impact.

I didn't see a chute.

Trance...

I've got a fix
on his location.

They need hostile terrain S&R
from the commonwealth.

Search and rescue?

Tell them not to
hold their breath.

I just picked this up
a few minutes ago.

We are just as bewildered
as everyone else.

Our hearts
and prayers

go out to the families
of the victims.

Captain Hunt has a long
history of recklessness,

but we never expected...

They're good.

The very effective

seamless duck in cover.

Classic
non-Denial denial.

BEKA: Dylan, we've got to
go back for him.

Let's finish the mission.

We'll double back for Tyr later.

[EXPLOSIONS]

[RAPID BEEPS]

Damn, we've been hit.

Beka, we're ejecting.

We're going down.

Dylan...

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

Solid ground.

[POWERS UP]

All bets are off.

BEKA: Dylan?

Beka, we're down
and we're safe.

Make your way
to the voltarium site.

We're going after Tyr.

Dylan out.

[SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

It's okay.

It's okay, we're here
as friends.

We're friends.

Trance, you all right?

Yes.

Uh, Trance,

Give me your food.

Here you go.

This is all
we have.

I'm sorry...

We don't have
that much. All right?

I'm sorry.

Please share.

Run, run, run. Go!

[LASERS BEEPING]

[GRUNTS]

[GROANS]

[PANTING]

Trance,

check the casualties.

Trance...

How are they?

Dead.

Come on.

Dylan,

the voltarium reactor site
is now a children's hospital.

talk about winning
the PR war.

Great.

Find Tyr.

Track him,

on his emergency
locator transponder.

Yeah, then what?

I've got a big bomb,
no place to drop it.

No worries.

We'll find a place
to drop your bomb.

if they don't shoot us first.

They're not
going to shoot us.

We have a mission to finish.

Behind us.

Oh, great.

[YELLING]

BOTH: Tyr.

[OPRAH MUSIC PLAYING]

Get down.

Hello.

Hello.

Tyr, feel free to correct
me if I'm wrong,

but it just could be

the music
that attracts the enemy.

Don't you love it?

How are you?

I've been better.

This way.

No...

Follow me.

Follow her.

Dylan,

Hurry up.

My fuel's gauging down.

Roger that, Beka.

The voltarium reactor
is right ahead.

"Right ahead"?

Sorry, Trance,
you're going to have to do
A little better than that.

That place.

It makes me ill
just looking at it.

[FOREIGN DIALOG]

You know, it's always
curious to me that I know
what you're talking about

When I have no idea
what you're talking about.

DYLAN: Beka,

we have your
building.

I'm going to paint it
with the laser pointer.

You do the rest.

If you're close enough
to paint it,

The blast
will likely kill you.

No, it won't.
I'm indestructible.

Besides,

I've got your
favorite lucky charm

standing next to me.

The plant is there.

You have to be sure, Trance.
We've only got one shot at this.

You have to be sure too.

Say no more.

[SCREAMING]

You okay?

The darkness.

It's the voltarium,
isn't it?

Yeah.
Don't worry.

You'll feel better
in about ten seconds.

All right, Beka.

Target is painted.

BEKA: Target locked.
Commencing bomb run.

Smart bomb away.

Here she comes.

[RAPID BEEPS]

[EXPLOSION]

Good work, Beka.

We're heading
for the pickup point.

Bring us home.

So, we take out
the reactor.

What about inhabitants
of Marduk?

Where does that
leave them?

You mean, did we
do enough?

We did what had to be done.

It's what didn't happen
that's important.

No one should have
the capability

of destroying a sun.

It is a big responsibility.

All right, come on, you guys.

You did a lot of good
down there.

I mean, you took out
a major threat.

If you hadn't,

their lives would probably
get even worse.

Yeah, but did we
make their life better?

I mean, there's always
going to be another guy

who comes along
and builds another reactor.

And we'll be there
to destroy that one as well.

That's our job.

It's what we do.

[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]