Andromeda (2000–2005): Season 5, Episode 14 - Past Is Prolix - full transcript

Found this in a damaged section
of the Methus diagrams.

It's in two parts.

Show me part two.

Okay, this doesn't seem like
something we want to happen.

To me, this looks
like a line of defense,

or some sort of giant,
awesome braking system.

The Vedrans, man,
they sure like to think big,

even when their tech
didn't work.

A braking system for what?

Something with
incredible mass,
like Trance.

You think?



The Vedran sun, Trance's sun,

coming to join Tarn Vedra
once and for all.

Well, Mr. Harper, there are
a lot of people on those
eight planets.

And Trance is
the star attraction.

Yeah.

Damn water pirates.
They're going to keep this up
until we're out of fuel.

You're risking our lives
far too much.

You call this risk?

Oh, you're right. Fifty thousand
gallons of water delivered
under fire for free.

That's not risk,
it's death by bleeding heart.

Wells are drying up
all over our system, Rhade.

What are you going to do?
People are dying.

This is not our system.
Our place is anywhere but here.

I feel for the people, I do,
but I can't commit suicide
in their defense.



Am I right?

The only way to make this work
is to fix that blinking sun, and
I do not know how to fix a sun.

Who's watching the bar?

New girl's got it.
You have a visitor.
Your old pal, Sembler.

Sembler?

Sembler?

He's really mad and
he wants his bar back.

He was supposed to stay dead.

Deal with him after
you deal with this.

Fix what's wrong
with that sun.

Meanwhile, we've got
eight planets to evacuate.

Hunt here.

Captain.

Andromeda, I am only
in the mood for good news.

I am detecting extreme proton
radiation from the outer edges
of the Seefra system.

Spectral interference
is rising.

How is that good news?
Show me.

We've got an incoming.

Temperature, mass, and speed...

they're growing exponentially.

What is that?

A reminder that we are
always in the wrong place
at the wrong time.

Trance's sun...

and she's headed right for us.

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.

Don't tell Sembler where I am.
Understood.

Or where I am.
Okay.

I mean, the thing I mean is
about Sembler, you've got
to understand, he's...

My buddy!
Man, I've been looking for you.

So is Master Thux.

Now, you remember him,
don't you?

Thux. Thux?

He found out that
we faked my death.

We? Wait a minute.
I don't see how this has
anything to do with me.

I'm going to offer him
this bar for my life.

What? No way. This bar is worth
way more than your life.

No offense. And you
gave it to me. It's mine.
Those were our terms.

Those terms are changing.

Finally, I'm home.
It's my other self.

Dylan, this is my radiant body,

passing by to take its place
by Tarn Vedra.

Yeah, the Vedrans made
the Seefra system to stop it
at the right location.

So that Tarn Vedra
can be reborn.

The machine's not working,
Trance.

Your sun won't stop
where it should,

which means it will destroy
everything in this system,
including Tarn Vedra.

Trance? Trance! Trance?

Andromeda, prep Med deck!

Hang on. I'm picking up
a massive photon release from
the edges of Seefra.

I'm kind of busy here, Rhade.

Head towards it.
It'll break up communications
between the attackers.

Or burn us to a crisp. Not very
Nietzschean, but I like it.

Hang on.

Okay, RF interference rising.

They'll lose communication
in three, two, one. Firing away.

Bye, bye, bad guys.

Okay. Let's quench some thirst.

Look at that.

I know. What the hell is that?

That's exactly what it is.

Hell.

Harper!

I want Harper!

Harper.

Thux, buddy. I see you're still
on the all protein diet.

And you brought
your girlfriends.

Ocham Sembler.

Where?

Umm, name rings a bell.

But...

Last I heard he was worms' meat.

No!

He lives.

I guess, if you want to
call that living.

I want Sembler.

No Sembler...

you die.

Come!

Nice seeing you.

He's gone.

And I get the distinct
impression that giving
him the saloon,

it ain't going to do the job.

You've got to hide me, Seamus.

Oh no, I've got better thing
to do, like, oh, yeah. Living.

Hey, now, we're pals, right?

What about the Burberry twins?

Don't look at me like that,
and nice try. The Burberrys
weren't twins.

Were they?

What about the Skooze races?

All right. All right, fine.
I know a place, no one'll
find you,

but not another word
about the Skooze races.

Skooze me.

Andromeda,
what's Trance's temperature?

Trance's core
temperature is nine hundred
and ninety one degrees.

Nine ninety one?

But, why is it fluctuating
between 90 and 110?

Probability is she's retaining
heat to protect you.

Trance...

I hope you can hear me.

I know you don't mean us harm,

but the truth is,
if you don't get better...

you're going to kill all of us.

Hello?

Orlund?

Orlund?

Who goes there?

Hey, big guy. It's me? Harper.

You mind pointing
that thing somewhere else?

Harper!

Welcome to my corner
of the planets.

Tell me, how is Dylan?

He is my captain, my hero,
my mentor, my ideal. He is
everything I aspire to be.

Everything noble and brave.
He embodies the spirit of
adventure.

Orlund!

This is Sembler. He needs
a place to hide out for a while.

Not for long, just until...
What is this place?

A Vedran built passage
to the other eight planets,
and I am its keeper.

These doors take you straight
to other planets? How?

You wouldn't understand, but,
from here, you could hide
anywhere in the whole system.

Techno.

Our curse.

Actually, it's most likely
what's going to save us all.

How does it work?

Well, these crystals
are the keys.

Harper.

Dylan.
Dylan.

Harper, I need you
on Andromeda.
Trance has fallen ill.

Trance, the princess
is in danger?

Her temperature's at
fourteen hundred degrees.

Get those crystals up here.
Maybe they can reduce her fever.

Good idea. We can use them as
beam-splitters. Reflect the
energy back into itself.

The crystals!

Er, one second, boss.

Harper, what's going on?

Umm, I don't think we'll be
getting those crystals anytime
soon, Boss.

RF interference
from the Vedran sun. Signal is
breaking.

Harper, I need those crystals!

Signal lost.
Comm terminated.

I can't hear him.
Can you hear him?

I can't hear him.

What have you got?

The spectrum fluctuation is
caused, I believe, by Trance
rejecting herself.

Trying to stop or slow down
the approach of her sun.

Somewhere inside,
at her core probably,

she's protecting you still.

And it's killing her.

Andromeda, locate
Beka and Rhade.

Locating.

Trance cannot win this battle.

Visual contact with
the Maru is not possible
due to high photon radiation.

Audio contact
in three, two.

Dylan, I've located them.

Dylan, we've delivered
the water, and we're
on our way back now.

No, you're not.

We're not? Why not?

Because now I want you
to pick up something hot.

Well, we're in
the right place for that.

There's some kind of
solar plume that's causing
all this interference.

That's exactly what I want you
to get and bring back here.

The plume?

Not all of it.

Just scoop some plasma.
Use magnetic containment.
Hook it up to a probe.

Okay, so you're going to
send the specs on that?

You'll figure it out.

Ummm, okay. No problem.

I don't have time
to explain, Beka.

But Trance's life, hell,
all of our lives depend on it.

So don't argue, just do it.
Hunt out.

It's been a pleasure
talking to you, too.

Man, for being so smart,
Vedrans sure make things
unnecessarily complicated.

What would Dylan do?
What would he do?

Something heroic, unexpected,
counterintuitive, brilliant.

I got nothing.

Took the words
right out of my mouth.

You know, this would
go faster with two.

I'm not going to help you
commit suicide, and or
kill me in the process.

You know, if we don't
work together, we're going
to die in this place.

You still don't get that,
Rhade?

I get the part about
dying, Beka.

Let's just say, because of
a recent turn of events,

my Nietzschean side has
come front and center.

I am talking about
self-preservation, Rhade.

You're talking about
saving everyone.

Dylan's plan. Evacuate all
the planets to Seefra-1.

Let me tell you something.

Very soon, it's going to be
every man for himself.

If Andromeda finds a way
out of here, I say we take it,

and not worry about
the rest of the system.

Now you're starting to sound
Nietzschean again.

You don't understand.

Matriarch.

I find it difficult, Beka.

Difficult to say, to believe,
to reconcile within myself.

Her internal temperature
has reached twenty two hundred.

External is six fifty two, being
held at two fifty due to
cryogenic containment.

Captain,
I have an intermittent
hail from Harper.

Dylan.

Harper, talk to me.

Oh, finally. I jacked into
the Vedran system to
get a signal out.

I'm still waiting on those
crystals, Harper.

Don't hold your breath.

Sembler took them and
he locked us both in here.

Me and Orlund, both.
Sorry, boss.

Doyle's on her way down.
Hunt out.

Find those crystals.

I loosened it.

I know. Pure,
unadulterated Harper.

I get the unadult part.

Come on, Dylan needs us.

He needs me?

Yes, even you.

Like I need a knife
in the head. Come on,
we've got to get those crystals.

Trance.

Come out of there.

But I will destroy the ship.

But our sister has come home.

You have waited.
So has she.

So long.

Come.

I could help you
find the crystals.

I'm attuned to them,
hypersensitive.

This may put you in harm's way.

I am ready to serve
at your side, Captain.

Make adventures, make brilliant
plans to save the princess.

This is serious stuff, Orlund.
You have to understand that.

Understood.

Yeah, well, there's
understanding...

and there's understanding.

I understand.

Good.

The crystals are nearby.
I can feel them.

Hey, hey, hey, hey.
Lesson number one-
pick your fights.

Wait.

Is that a fight?

Let's find out.

I already don't like you.

Thux, you fool.

Don't you know
who he is?

Lesson number two:
keep your mouth shut.

Thux, I have a proposition
for you, okay?

What did you say?

You can't push him like that.

Don't you know who he is?

He's Dylan Hunt.

Oh, really?

Yeah. Yeah, it's me.

Uh-oh.

Leave him alone!

Lesson number three...

Oh, who am I kidding?

Are you alive?

Are you animals?

This man needs a med-tech!

Dylan will get us out.

How do I travel
between planets?

And where do I put the crystals?

That would be where
the sun never shines, pal.

That's rude.

There's a way out.

There must be.

A vent shaft.

A corrupt guard...

Of course!

The daughter!

Thux has a nubile daughter.

I seduce her...
she sneaks us a weapon.

Thux doesn't have a daughter.

There's always a daughter.

Even if he did, why would
she hang around a prison?

Your problem, my friend,
is hope.

There's always a way.

Dylan has a plan.
I know it.

No. No, don't. No, no! Please!
I don't know anything.

Hey, if you want him,
you have to deal with me first.

Right.

You're just resting, right?

If it wasn't so dangerous,
I'd say it was beautiful.

We have to see it as
part of Trance.

Then Trance may kill us all.

Rhade, that's enough.

Trance, our Trance, is a gentle,
kind soul who's been our friend
for years.

Your friend for years.

Try extending your loyalty
this much past your own skin.

I used to overextend my loyalty.

Now it extends as far
as it needs to.

I'm here to save Trance's life.
What the hell are you doing?

I'm here to protect you.

Bringing us around. Bearing
one-three-six and slowing.

You find that amusing?

I find that downright funny.

What's the status
on the magnetic probe?

We have to get significantly
closer before we can launch.

Well, yes.

I asked if it was ready.

It is.

What?

From this point on,

our radiation exposure and
heat exchange become critical.

Yes.

Why are you telling me
what I already know?

Because I want you
not to do it.

Does this, by any chance,
have anything to do
with Drago Museveni?

Until I have proof otherwise,
you are the female progenitor
Of the Nietzscheans.

You must be protected
at all costs.

So, what, you want to start
calling me "grandma?"

I cannot allow you to
risk your life.

We're saving Trance.

That's what we're doing.

Not if it endangers your life.

Understand me, Beka.
This goes against
my conscious will.

Trance,
this is Andromeda.

Can you hear me?

Yes, Andromeda.

Your temperature
is not diminishing.

I can feel it rising.

Internal temperature,
2,805 degrees.

External, 712.

That's not the problem.

It is for the cryocapsule.

If you continue at this rate,
it will not be able to
accomplish heat exchange.

I don't feel like
I have a fever.

I feel like I'm...

I'm splitting into pieces.

Does it hurt?

I hope that Beka and Rhade
are okay.

And that their mission
will be a success.

I know that they'll do
the best they can.

That's all anyone can ask for.

Sometimes, that proves
to be insufficient.

But it's not polite to say so.

Hull temp
nearing the red.

That's the way we like it.

Beka!
Steady as she goes.

Hey, what the...

I cannot let you sacrifice us.

No one tells me
how to make my choices.

Reconnect me
to my power supply.

You have a greater duty.

Okay, let me get this straight.

You see me as
Queen Mother Nietzschean.

Is that right?

You are matriarch, yes.

So you're, like, my subject?

My vassal?

Without me, you wouldn't be,
is that right?

Also true.

So, I'm the queen, and you're
some cheap spin-off of my DNA.

I wouldn't go that far.

You have to do what I say,
right?

Telemachus Rhade,
out of majorum by Rhade.

Is that true?

Yes, matriarch,
if you order it, it is true.

Okay, then.

Consider yourself ordered.

Give me control
of my ship.

We're going to launch that probe
and return with what Trance
needs to survive,

And that's final.

These people are terrified.

Yeah, well, doom and destruction
have a way of bringing
that out in people.

How are we supposed
to find Dylan?

And the crystals, don't forget.

Let it go, will you? Haven't
you ever made a mistake?

Not one that threatened
nine planets and millions
of lives.

Doyle, as hot as you are,
you do nothing for my
self-Image.

Find the crystals. That'll make
you feel better.

Master Thux wants to see
all strangers.

Does Thux "thuck" his thumb,
you think?

It's a "pothibility."

"Thankth. Theriouthly."

How do you feel?

The doctor says I'm well enough
to punch you in the face.

Ha! That's the way.

A well-timed joke
to lighten the spirit.

Yeah.

Did you see...
does Thux have a daughter?

You know, it, uh...

it never really came up
in our conversations.

But...

he does have the crystals.

Dylan?

They took Sembler.

He was here
before you arrived.

That's not good.

Okay, follow my lead.

Right.

I know what I'll do. I'll...
Orlund!

Mm-Hmm. Yes?

Look at me.

Okay.

Now, listen to me.

Okay.

Follow... my... lead.

Follow your lead.

Don't talk.

Okay.

What have
you done to him?

That was a good job,
but you still didn't
follow my lead.

I didn't?

No, but that's what
I was counting on.

Sembler.

Sembler?

He's dead.

That's not possible.

Damn it.

Okay, we have to go.

He's dead?

He can't be dead.

You wanted adventure,
now you got it. Come on.

They killed him. Why?

People like that
always find a reason.

And people like us?
How do we keep going?

This is not how I thought
it would be, this adventure
thing.

This is war.

People die.

Family, friends,
innocent bystanders,
It happens.

This happened to you?

Yeah, Beka, Rhade, Harper...

even Trance.

We've all lost someone precious.

And you continue,
despite the loss?

Because of the loss.

Right.

So we escape.

It was too easy getting out.
There was no alarm, no pursuit.

Thux wants us out, so
we'll lead him to the chamber.

Of course.

The crystals...

are in this direction.

See, you catch on fast.

You're going to do just fine
with this adventure thing.

Yeah?
Yeah.

Hull temp is critical,
I repeat, critical.

Almost in position now.

Just a little closer.

Get ready to fire the drone.

I've lost control.
Damn it, Beka!

Fire the drones. Do it now!

Drone is away and on course.

Reroute all power
to attitude thrusters.

Done.
Okay, steady...

Got it.

And now we're on our way
to pick up the drone.

Drone has entered
the solar prominence.

I've lost contact.

That's normal.
There's too much electromag.

You should be getting a signal
in about four, three, two...

Got it!

The drone is returning.

Did it get a plasma sample?

Reading indicates...

Yes. Yes, we did.

Okay.

Trance, here we come.

I just hope we're not too late.

And you...

loyal subject,

Thank you for coming
along for the ride.

I wouldn't have it
any other way.

A girl could get used to that.

I may never get used to it...

but it is my duty,

even if Dylan himself
interferes.

Trance,
I cannot contain your
temperature much longer.

Andromeda, you have to
help me. I'm so cold.

That cannot be.

I'm freezing.

Warning. The cryocapsule
is failing.

Warning. The cryocapsule
is failing.

Warning. The cryocapsule
is failing.

Am I dead?

Not dead, no.

I was freezing and burning up
at the same time.

Two sides of the same thing.

The unity of opposites.
I remember that.

There are many things
you will remember,

when we are together again,
sister.

I don't think I can join you.

We offer you
joy everlasting...

a beginning, an end.

Oh, I wish I could remember.

Tell me again, what will end?

All that you love.

No Dylan, no Orlund.

And no crystals. You know,
if we split up, we might cover
more ground.

Gotcha. Be safe.

The crystals...

I think they're...

in here.

All the way over
to the left.

Back in that corner.

Right.

Okay.

You stay here
and watch my back.

Your back.

Right. Got it.

Good.

I'm serious.
You stay right here.

Watch my back.
Nothing else, okay?

Okay. Your back.
Nothing else.

Yeah.

Yes! Well done.

My back.

That's Doyle.

Stay here.

Watch his back.

His back.

That's Harper.
I have to get their attention

Stay here!
Stupid!

Think!
What would Dylan do?

Okay. Maybe I better go.

Kill him!

You'll die slowly.

I'm not scared.

Oh?

How about now?

Ah!

Okay, now I'm sacred.

Thux!

Think before you hurt him.

Just let him go, and
we'll talk, otherwise,
you will lose everything.

This is my town now,
and in my town, we play
by my rules.

Didn't see that coming.

No one tells me
what to do.

Listen, Thux, you can still
walk away from this, okay?

You just let us go,
and we'll let you live.

See that?

I love that.

Even in the face of death--

Silence!

Thank you.

I'm going to count to three,

And by two, you drop
the crystals,

Or, by three...

you'll be dead.

Just standing up here, guys,
okay?

All right...

Crystals going in the bag.

Here you go.

You win.

I'm not half the man
you think you are.

I'm still counting...
and, by three, you die.

One... two, three!

Heel.

Oh, Thux, Thux, Thux.

Doesn't it just suck
when the bad guys lose?

Not working, huh?

Hey, don't look at me.

It's kind of cute
when they turn on you.

Uh...

Yeah, this show
has gone to the dogs.

Andromeda, status on Trance.

I am
detecting microfractures
in the cryocapsule.

At those temperatures,
micro can go macro
pretty darn fast.

She'll burn a hole
through the ship.

Then it's time
to move her out of here.

She'll die in space.

No. Space is her
natural environment.

Andromeda, launch pod.

Ready here.

All right, give her lots of
room. We're fooling around
with solar activity.

Sending you an intercept vector.

Got it.

And... launching.

Time to impact?
Twenty seconds.

You think maybe we should
move back a little?

I mean, we're dealing
with an event of unknown
magnitude here.

I'm with you, Mr. Harper.
Andromeda, move us away,
full speed please.

And advise Beka.

Moving and advising.

Good luck, my princess.

It is not in our nature
to fight one another.

I remember now...
everything.

I wanted to help
my dear friends.

Their fate is
not your concern.

I can't believe that.

I will not
let that be so.

You have been around
organics too long.

It has changed you.

Only for good.

Come back to us.

The nebula demands it.

No.

Dylan's fate
is irrelevant to ours.

I will not believe that.

That is your choice,

But it does not affect
the final outcome.

It will only affect
your own punishment.

Oh, no.
We've killed her!

She's tougher
than you think.

EMP wave coming fast.

You might want to
hold onto something.

New guy.

Rebooting.

We're back up.

Beka, status?

Well, we're fine.

What about Trance?

Could she survive?

Only one way
to find out.

Let's go get her.

Dylan?

Ah, Trance.

Welcome back.

It's good to be back,
thanks to all of your efforts.

Well...we did it
because we love you.

Yes, I can see that.

But what about the future?

I thought that was
your department.

But I want to know
your thoughts, your feelings.

We'll survive, Trance,

As long as
we're all working together.

How about you? You okay?

I remember, Dylan...
everything.

Well, that's good.

That's the best news
I've heard in a long time.

You were warned about me.

Yes, I was.

Tarn Vedran sun...

your sun.

We'll stop it
in time.

We'll find a way.

Yes, I'm sure we will...

but that's not what I mean.

Not what I mean at all.