Andromeda (2000–2005): Season 5, Episode 13 - Moonlight Becomes You - full transcript

Harper, if I knew you couldn't
follow directions, I wouldn't
have let you hold the map.

Relax. This is the door. I was
just securing the perimeter,
in case we were followed.

We've secured it
three times.

You can never be too safe.

Or too lost.

We're here, aren't we?

BEKA: We're where?

Where's the treasure?

They were Vedrans, Beka,
an advanced civilization.
They hid it!

Sounds advanced, all right.
Hiding things, like little
children do.

And you're positive about this?



Come on.
Everybody knows about this.

It's a legend...

the curse of the TCPA.

Training Center for Protectors
of Avatars, right?

DOYLE: It's a legend.

Suddenly, it's crystal clear.

You passed the tests,
you became a protector,
you got a prize.

And if you didn't pass?

You went stark raving mad.

Hmm. I see you've already
been inside.

[LAUGHS SARCASTICALLY]
Very funny.

Let me see the map again.

[BEEPING]

My guess is it doesn't take
a genius to open a door.



Just turn the knob.

[DOOR CREAKING]

Huh.

After you, oh, great one.

Knock that off.

What am I supposed
to call you?

Looks like opportunity
stopped knocking.

That's the fourth patient
you've torched today, Trance.

Trance's flare-ups have been
disrupting electrical systems
all over the ship.

Not everything is about you,
Andromeda.

DYLAN: That's fine, Andromeda.
Thanks.

Trance, you're working yourself
way too hard.

Well, I can't stop now.
I can do so much more.

If I brought us here, I should
be able to take us back.

Yeah, but I don't think that's
the way we want to go back.

It's more than controlling
my powers, Dylan.

It's knowing who I was.

You just have to give it time.

At Trance's present rate of
memory recovery, I estimate
full restoration in 8.7 years.

Eight years?

8.7.

What does she know?

Something is calling me, Dylan.

And I feel this need to
fight it. It is so frustrating.

It's like I'm looking through
a fog, I can see something,
and I can't quite make it out.

Then don't fight it.
Let go. Accept what has to be.

Dylan, I'm scared.

I know, but I'll be right by
your side, always.

Okay.

Here goes.

I can see something.

Seefra-2.

I'm on Seefra-2.

Trance!

Trance!

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]

Andromeda, prep a slipfighter,
And see if you can find trance
on Seefra-2.

ANDROMEDA: Aye, Captain.

[DISTANT EXPLOSION]

[DAINTY MUSIC PLAYING]

HAWKER: Step right up for fun.
Chance of a lifetime.

Right before your eyes.

Who's looking for excitement?

I thought you said
that was a valuable artifact.

SEAMUS: More like an anti-fact.
It keeps giving me riddles.
Antique flexis.

Okay, look, you keep playing
with your little flexi thing.
I'm going to get us in here.

Boss, I need help with a riddle.

Not now, Harper. I've got enough
riddles of my own to answer.

SEAMUS: This is a good one.

Pretty sure I can top it.

It's Vedran.

Believe me I still got you beat.

SEAMUS: Come on.
Just a little help, please?

All right.

What is always there,
yet sometimes unseen?

DYLAN: Er, your conscience?

Ha, ha. No. Mean and incorrect.

All right, try a moon.

SEAMUS: No, it can't be a moon.
Seefra doesn't have one.

Yes, but Tarn-Vedra did.

And Seefra used to be
Tarn-Vedra.

Moon. Ha! Excellent.
Thanks, boss.

Hey, Andromeda, get me
an update on Trance's location.

ANDROMEDA: She is
within a perimeter of
one hundred meters.

Could you be
a little more precise?

Harper strikes again.

BEKA: No kidding.

Some treasure.

And now we're trapped
in an empty room.

Give me that.

BOTH: [COUGH]

Full of gas, just like Harper.

I have never
wanted to kill him more.

HAWKER: Get your souvenirs.
Souvenirs! Step right up for
fun.

[AUDIENCE APPLAUDS]

TRANCE: This is beautiful.

A ring.

WOMAN: A beautiful ring
for the lady.

LADY: You're welcome.

HAWKER: Come on down!
Step right up!

[TRANCE GIGGLES]

HAWKER: You've never seen it
like this before!

Come on down,
get your souvenirs.

Chance of a lifetime!

[AUDIENCE APPLAUDS]

DYLAN: Andromeda, where is she?

I'm still looking.

Hey, brother. I'm broke and
I'm dry and I sure could
use a drink, man.

A bath wouldn't kill you either.
Sorry, pal, but really can't
help you.

Well, I can't help you either,
then.

Well, if it isn't
the puppet of the sun.

You still babbling
about that book?

When the sun is restored,
the truth shall be revealed.

[LAUGHS] Well, the way things
are going with our suns,
we'll all be dead soon.

So how about you
buying me a drink, huh?

I'm sorry. I...

I can't contribute
to your weaknesses.

[SCREAMS] Hey, man,
who you calling weak, huh?

I think maybe you should
start moving along, okay?

[LAUGHS] What are you going
to do with your little stick?

I don't know.

Make it bigger?

[GASPS]

Well, I'm definitely not going
to help you now.

It is you. The one I have
been waiting for.

Okay, you're scaring me
just a little bit.

I set off to find the Sun God,
and have come upon
the Bearer of the Sun Staff.

The sun shines
down upon the righteous.

This is a great day indeed.

I am Timmeo.

I'm Dylan.

Now that you have appeared,
you will be able to return the
ailing sun to its former glory.

That's excellent.
And how would I do that?

Here.

That's Trance.

And you,
with your Sun Staff.

You must be reunited
with the Sun God.

Together, you will
restore the balance.

Yeah, you know, it sounds like
a really good plan, but, once
again, how would I do that?

There she is.
[SCREAMS] Trance!

[BEEPING]

Okay, okay, give me a little
time here. Got another idea.
Just take me a second.

Everything is falling into...

[DOYLE SCREAMS]

...place.

Ew. Hey, I hope we don't
run into the spiders that
made these.

Or the rats that are
chewing through this wall.

[GROWLING]
What?

I'm going to pretend
that was your stomach
that made that growling noise.

RHADE: That...

That looks like Trance.

BEKA: Who's that guy with her?

Trance gets lucky.

They're both still glowing.

[BOTH GIGGLES]

RHADE: Looks like he's too
hot to handle.

The hotter, the better,
I think.

Oh, you'd need
an asbestos suit
to handle him.

He's an avatar.

Well, maybe I could be
his Protector.

I mean, how hard could it be
to pass these tests, anyway?

[STUMBLES]

Why don't you ask Curly?

[AUDIENCE APPLAUDS]

Come one, come all,
and see the amazing Sun God.

Do you seek riches,
power, love?

Come and see what
the future holds for you...

if you dare!

[EXPLOSION]
[AUDIENCE EXCLAIMS]

[DRUM ROLLS]

The Sun God.

I am the amazing Sun God.

Stay back and be amazed
by my powers.

I am all-seeing, all-knowing.
The essence of life itself.

Behold!

[AUDIENCE APPLAUDS]

TRANCE: Tell me my future.

IONE: It's your past
I see most clearly.

I feel myself within it.

TRANCE: Of course you do.
You're mine.

[EXPLOSION]

[AUDIENCE GASPS]

[AUDIENCE APPLAUDS]

TRANCE:
Things are coming into focus.

Trance!

Dylan. I knew you'd find me.

Thankfully in one piece.
I wasn't so sure after
your exit from Andromeda.

I know, it surprised me too.
But I know why it happened.
Look.

It's me.

I'm everywhere.
Isn't it wonderful?

It certainly seems
to agree with you.

I finally fit in.

And I'm having memories and
feelings that I haven't had
in a very long time.

And I've met someone.

You met someone?

Yeah.

And I believe
he's going to help me.

Oh, be careful, Trance.
Seefra's not known for
its Space Scouts.

There are answers here.

You were right.

Letting go is something
I had to do. It's good advice.

Yeah, but I also said
I would always be by
your side, remember?

So I'll just hang out here while
you find your answers, and then
we'll head back to Andromeda.

I don't think
I'm coming back
with you.

I think that maybe you are going
to have to let go this time.

Well, even if I should,
I don't know if I can.

It'll be okay.

Wish me luck.

Good luck, Trance.

I'm still sticking around,
though.

Come on, Doyle, talk to me.

[ROBOTIC] Incidence of squawk.
Flux negative transient flux.

Well, it's a start sort of.

Try talking to me and
making sense.

I hate when you do that.

Flux negative.
Transient flux ion.

Qua, qua, qua.

Doyle, we've got to help
Beka and Rhade,

and we can't do that
if you don't cooperate,
so start cooperating.

Omni pewter sync.

Harper,
you're a total screw-up.

Paka, paka, paka...

Omni...

One step forward,
five steps back.

Transient.

BEKA: None of these pictures
are going to help us get out of
here,

and yet...

we keep staring at them.

I've been over every
square inch of this room.

I'm telling you, Rhade,
there's no way out,

and there's no way in.

[GROANING] Ah,
what the hell is this stuff?

Disgusting.

Argh!

I can't think straight.

This is crazy, Beka!

We got in here somehow.

Where's the door?

[SCREAMS]
Where the hell is the door?

Oh, I see.

I get it. First...

I can't open the door by myself,

and now I can't even recognize
one. Is that right?

That's not...
[LAUGHS] what I'm saying.

It's what you're not saying
that's bugging me, Rhade.

[RHADE LAUGHS SMUGLY]

I will not talk about this now.

I will address it
at my choosing.

[RHADE COUGHS]

[LAUGHS]

I love it when you play
the tame Nietzschean.

Hey, maybe you want to
curl up in a corner and
suck on your bone blades.

I can't touch you...

because the disgust...

within myself...

has brought on total paralysis.

I know.

I can really understand that,

now that I've met
your worthless progenitor.

[SCREAMS]

Don't walk away from me.

I have had it with you treating
me like a museum exhibit.

[SCREAMS] Museum?

You are the repository
of the guilt...

of a lifetime.

[GROANS]

GERYON: Thanks so much
for coming. You've been
an excellent audience.

Be sure to catch the Sun God's
final performance on Seefra-2.

Remember me.

Remember me?

In the stillness.

I asked you
to tell me my future.

We never spoke,

but through the deafening
silence, I heard you.

And I heard you.

You're trembling.

I, I just, I get burned out.

I know what you mean.
Seeing the future used to
do that to me too.

I just remembered that.

Why, you see the future?

Yes.

Just like you,
I am a Sun God.

Wow. What are the odds?

Umm, five hundred and
twenty million to one?

What else can you do?

That's it so far.

Well, when I need a calculator,
I'll call you.

Sweetheart, you should go and
rest for tonight's performance.

It's nice to meet you.

Trance.

Gemini.

Yes, we've met before.

You go on ahead.
I'll be there soon.
I just want to get to know...

Trance Gemini a little better.

So would I.

You will.

I don't know what
your game is, honey,

but you aren't the first and
you won't be the last groupie
to catch his eye.

No, you're wrong.

I was his first.

GERYON: Something seems
to be troubling you.

You don't say.

I'm Geryon.

Maybe I can help.

You must not be from
around here, Geryon.

Why is that?

Because nobody helps
anybody on Seefra.

Well, let's just say
I'm feeling charitable.

Get your little friend Trance
out of town, and there's another
one of those waiting for you.

No, thanks. I...

already have enough bags.

Your girl is after my Sun God.

He belongs to me.

Does he know that?

Look, I got a good thing
going here.

I'm not hurting anybody,

so why don't you do yourself
a favor and take the bearded
lady back where she came from?

[LAUGHS]

Your Sun God may be
your meal ticket, but Trance
calls her own shots, okay?

Are you sure...

we can't work out a deal?
We could have such a good time
spending that money.

Sure, but would we have to
spend it together?

Don't forget your charity.

Showtime.

[DOOR OPENS]

Dylan Hunt...

the time is here.

You must meet with the Sun God.
Restore balance, or we will all
be destroyed.

Timmeo, I got to tell you,
I don't have much faith
in your Sun God.

I have enough faith
for both of us.

You will restore the balance.

It is written.

That's one way to look at it.

No.

All answers lie
within the book.

I do not question it.

Maybe it's time to start.
I'm sorry, but I got to see
a man about a ring.

Okay. Count to ten.

Aloud, Doyle.

One, two, ten.

Not bad. So you won't be doing
any calculations for a while.

At least you're on your feet,
you're able to understand me.

Quan, qua, paka...

Don't. Don't start that again.

Now, listen. You think you're
ready to try the door again?

The handle, this time,
without firing at it?

Affirmative.

Okay. Let's give her
a try, then.

No, no, no, no, no.
No! No, no, no, no, Doyle.

Okay.

Maybe we better
sit you down and...

try a few more adjustments.

RHADE: It's just a matter of
time before the rats attack.

BEKA: There must be
thousands of them.

The proper way for me to go.

Devoured by disease
infested scum.

[SQUEAKING]

Too little and too many,
just like my dreams.

[SQUEAKING CONTINUES]

Does this seem kind of
crazy to you, Rhade?

[SQUEAKING]

BEKA: Hey. Listen to me.

Obviously this is the test.

I mean...

nothing has really happened
to us here, has it?

I say we fight through it.

Concentrate.

And I thought I wanted
out of here bad before.

BEKA: Listen.

Maybe this is about you and me.

Huh?

I mean, we're in this
together through some
bizarre twist of fate.

Maybe we just have to
accept it.

I will never accept it.

I would rather die,
but I can't.

Honest to God, Rhade,
nothing's really changed

I'm still myself.
I'm still plain old Beka.

Just not plain and not old.

Who happens to be the
female progenitor of millions
and millions of Nietzscheans.

You say that
like it's my fault.

RHADE: It's not about fault!

It's about reality.

[SQUEAKING]

We were raised
to revere Drago Museveni,

so I should revere you.

Yeah, well, maybe a little
reverence wouldn't hurt.

You don't understand.

If we get to
the other universe,

millions of Nietzscheans
will honor you.

You!

Yeah.

Well...

there's nothing
we can do about that.

Finally.

We're going to die.

Why are you afraid of me?

I'm a Sun God.

I'm not afraid of anything.

That's not true.
You were afraid of asteroids.

What do you want from me?

I want to know
what was between us.

What is between us.

I don't even know who I am.
How could I know you?

Maybe this will remind you.

I do know you, Trance Gemini.

You're a part of me
I can't explain.

Sometimes what has always been
is seldom seen.

The bond that entwines us
transcends space and time.

I wish I could see things
as clearly as you.

Let go. The memories will come.

You make it sound so simple.

There's nothing
to be afraid of.

Within the memories
lies our love.

Ione!

Thank God
I got here in time.

Did you really thin
I would let you hurt him?

Ione?

Geryon, I'm fine.

You don't understand. She isn't
who she said she is.

You're not human.

No one cares what you think.

Trance is using you to steal
our secrets for her lover.

My what?
What?

Don't worry about it.

I took care of him for you.

No.
Trance?

I tried to warn you.

No one...
wants you as much as I do.

Ah. There we go. Good as new.
Back to your old self.

Although it was kind of nice
having you immobilized.

Really?

[GULPS]

Umm...

[SCREAMS]
Why won't they attack?

Why won't they end it?

Because, Rhade,
they're not real.

When we walked into this room,
it was empty.

No rats, no petroglyphs.

The room is still empty.

Harper said we'd go crazy.

That's what's happening.

I'm tired.

What do you want of the
Sun God?

I want some answers.

Go buy a ticket.

Yeah. I want some real answers.

Get out.

No one calls me a fake.

Well then, enlighten me.
Where's Trance?

Oh, you must be Dylan.

I though you were dead.

Really? That's the first
I've heard of it.

Well, I can make it the last.

Well, looks like it's sundown.

All right, now I'm pissed.

[GRUNTS]

All right,

one more time.
Where's Trance?

Why should I help
you two destroy me?

We are not the problem.
Geryon is the one you
have to worry about.

[DOOR OPENS]

Here we go.

I'm afraid we got off
to a rough start,

but just wait till you see what
I have in store for our future.

Looks like a shotgun wedding
to me.

You are so much more than this.

Trance, I don't think
he's the answer here.

He's my answer.

He needs me to believe in him
as you have believed in me.

Fire away.

Don't fight your feelings.
Remember who you've
always been.

I can't be
who you want me to be.

I loved you then.
I love you now.
Nothing has changed.

I can't remember.

Ione.

TRANCE: If you can't remember,
then all is lost.

Ione?

Admit it, Harper, you are
a selfish little weasel.

Your insatiable need
for monetary gain has
put us all at risk.

Speaking of monetary gain,
that's what the bag was for.
Not me!

Doyle...

remind me to lower
your emotional output level.

What if I lower your
oxygen intake level?

Got it. Sorry. I'm sorry.

Sorry I invited you.

You know, I just wanted
you to know what it felt
like to be immobilized.

I don't care.

BEKA: You have to care, Rhade.

That's the point.
That's the test...

for both of us.
If we face it,
we can get out of here.

[PANTING]

I know what's real.

[GRUNTS]

Then accept it.

Rhade?

Rhade, stand up. Now.

GERYON: Intruders have come
to steal your Sun God.

I have stopped them, and
they are now my prisoners.

Ione, what is always there,
that's sometimes never seen?

The moon.

Me.

DYLAN: Perfect balance.

The sun... and the moon.

Geryon has lied to you,
my friends.

Ione is not a Sun God.

He's a moon.

He's the moon of Tarn Vedra.

GERYON: Do not believe this
monster! He is a liar...

a fraud!

He's no fraud!

You are!

You just made a big mistake.

Come on.

Excuse me.

Dylan, are you all right?

Yeah, yeah.
I think she likes me.

The moon! In the sky!

AUDIENCE: [GASPS]

[INAUDIBLE CHATTER]

Well, how about that?

You're just browsing, right?

You're really starting
to get on my nerves.

Yeah, sorry about that.

The sun and moon
shine down upon us.

The book was right, Dylan Hunt.

Perhaps it's time to
ask some questions.

IONE: I haven't seen one of
these in a long time.

It's a Vedran training
manual for Protectors.

Protectors?
So they were real after all.

They are as real
as the avatars they protect.

Protectors are born,
not made.

Unfortunately, the Vedrans
wouldn't accept that, and
tried to train their own.

It is a very
special relationship.

The avatars and the Protectors
will find each other.

The Vedrans learned this
when most of the trainees

couldn't make it through
the training center.

Training center?

[BEEPING]

Harper, it's Dylan.

Sorry, Dylan. Harper can't come
to the comm right now.
He's a little tied up.

Because of him,
Rhade and Beka might be trapped
in a Vedran training center.

They're inside?

They'll never survive.

SEAMUS: How come I only get
the credit when it's bad?

You can let me out now.

Ah, no.

Dylan, the cycle has begun.
If we don't get them out
of there, they will die.

Thanks, Trance. I'll just get
there the old-fashioned way.

Andromeda, give me a reading
on Harper's location.

ANDROMEDA: Aye, Captain.

Are you watching this, Harper?

It didn't do that
when we touched it.

Yes, mistress.

I'm not even going to ask.
Thanks for the ride.

Are you ready?

Hey, I was born ready.

And I was born in a supernova.

Now, that's
the old Trance talking.

I hope this thing works.

Oh great!

Our problems just got bigger.

That moon is
headed right for us.

It's not working.
The orbits won't separate.

We're upsetting the balance.
We can't even open the door.

I'll help you.

Come on.

Come on.

Ione, other side of
the chamber. You two
need to keep your distance.

IONE: I'm impressed
you both survived.

Dylan said you'd be
up to the task.

Dylan sent you?

I'm Ione, moon of Tarn Vedra.

That's great.

Can you get us out of here?

DYLAN: It's not working.

GERYON: This is my lucky day.

You are so out of your league.

I just finished fixing her.

Which I never tire of.

Thanks to Trance, the moon
ripped a hole in the system,

and I can finally
get out of this dump.

Of course, I'm taking both
the avatars with me.

A matched set should start
a nice bidding war.

Ha. A bounty Hunter.

You know, I think I preferred
you better as a cheap hustler.

Oh, that hurt.

Dylan, I'm feeling
a magnetic pull from her.

That's funny, she's done
nothing but repel me.

Which is the interesting thing
about magnets.

Yes, they can repel and attract.

Stand back and be amazed!

[CHIMING]

[SCREAMING]

Good work, Trance.
You really blew her away.

Hey!

It worked.

What?

Don't ask.

Harper!

Harper!

[SCREAMS] Got to go. Got to go!

Trance, you know that the
balance can never be restored

as long as you two are together.

I found you.

I have to let you go.

I won't let you go,
Trance Gemini.

You're the best part of me.

We must let go and
accept what has to be.

Trance, I...

Dylan, where I'm going,
you can't follow me.

And you can't stop me
from missing you.

You often said that
letting go is the first step.

I know.

It's the second step
that I'm worried about.

Thank you.

[BEEPING]

ANDROMEDA: The probability of
Trance returning is

three in six million five
hundred and thirty thousand.

Well, those odds are better
than our last ten scenarios.

Try any scenario.
It is most probable
she is not coming back.

And I thank you for your
eternal optimism, Andromeda.

TRANCE:
Ready for that second step?

I thought you'd never ask.

Old habits die hard, Trance.
I was worried about you.

Giving up Ione was
more than I could bear, Dylan.

I needed time.

And as I grew stronger

and closer to the one
that I've always been,

and the one I'm meant to be,

I realized...

we have an eternity
to be together.

But on this plane, right now,
my place is with you.

My protector.

You have been warned
about me, and it is too late.
My sun is on its way.

Yeah, I know.

And when it comes, we're
going to meet it together.

Accept what has to be.

You got it.

Probability of survival,
one in seven million eight
thousand and fifty three.

All right, things are finally
starting to look up.

Now, that's how I see it.

It's nice to have you back,
Trance.

So, let's talk about all of
those possible futures.

[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]