Black Scorpion (2001): Season 1, Episode 8 - Crime Time - full transcript
- It's time.
It's time!
- Hi, Ben.
- You're late.
6:30 on the dot.
- Actually, 6:31 and 42,
make that 43 seconds.
Punctuality is very
important to me, big hand.
You'll learn that in time.
- What's the hurry there, Ben?
- Making up for lost time, little hand,
that's the hurry.
219,000 hours, 31 minutes,
59.9 seconds behind bars lost.
- Wow, what does all that
time add up to, bennie?
- 25 years, my shapely
hourglass, 25 years.
25 years of listening to a leaky sink.
25 years of my heart keeping the beat.
25 years to make me the
human metronome I am today.
Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock.
25 years!
But the countdown is over.
I've served my time.
- No!
- Whoa!
- For now, time serves me.
We better hurry.
According to my calculations
city of angel's finest
will be here in 7
minutes, 41.3 seconds.
Their usual response time.
What are you waiting for?
The clock is ticking.
So am I!
Tick, tock, tick tock,
tick, tock, tick, tock.
- Attention any unit in the vicinity
of the Phoenix institute,
respond to the burglar alarm.
- That's one alarm I can't
hit the snooze button on.
Access lair.
- Hurry, hurry, we
don't wanna go to jail
on the trivial charge of
breaking and entering,
do we?
- No.
- If you can't do the time,
don't do the crime.
- Black scorpion.
- And you are?
Wait, wait, let me guess,
the watchmaker?
Father time?
Or the minuteman?
- Try, clockwise.
- Fire.
- In the light of day
Darcy Walker is a cop.
But in the dark of night she becomes
black scorpion.
Doing with a mask what she
can't do with a badge.
- Give yourself up, clockwise.
- Impossible.
It's daylight savings time.
- We'll spring forward.
- And make her fall back.
I may be little but I'm fast.
- Not fast enough.
- The clocks weren't the only thing
the Swiss made bigger and better.
- Your time has run out, clockwise.
- Impossible.
When you're the man of the hour,
not to mention minutes and
those all important seconds.
- Auto revert.
I'm a cop.
- I can't believe you let
this clockface get away!
- It's clockwise.
And, captain, I didn't
just let him get away.
It was just.
- What?
- Just bad timing.
- If it happens again
you're gonna find yourself
walking prisoners to the bathroom!
Or else, checking city dump
for severed body parts!
Or whatever else I can think of
to make you regret the day
you became a police officer!
- Why is he in such a bad mood?
- Review board wants him to retire.
- How do you know?
- We tapped his phone.
- What?
That's illegal.
- So call a cop.
- So, what happened?
What they say?
Did they give him a reason?
- Guys?
- The woman on the phone said
he's getting a little
too old to do his job.
- Apparently his wife has
said the same thing.
- Enough.
Walker, let's go question Dr. Phoenix,
find out what clockwise stole.
- Well, he stole microchips,
14 of them in all.
- What are they used for?
- The chrono-genetic-velocirator.
- Doc, English please.
- Of course.
The microchips produce sonic waves
which stimulate the cerebral cortex,
speeding up the flow of neurons,
which in turn convinces the brain
that the body is aging.
- Mind over matter?
- Exactly.
The organs then react accordingly,
accelerating the aging process.
It's why my clones are always generated
as fully developed human specimens
instead of embryos.
- Doc.
- Hmm?
- How would clockwise know any of this?
- He probably read my interview
in popular genetics.
Here.
I got the cover story.
What do you think?
It's not a bad picture.
Of me, I mean.
The mutant of the month
is a little cross-eyed.
Except for the one in the middle.
- Doc, is it possible that clockwise
could reverse your invention
and make himself younger?
- No, it's not that simple, detective.
The first rule of genetics is...
It is that living organism
get older not younger.
All the chrono-genetic-velocirator does
is expedite the course of nature.
- Yeah, but that doesn't
mean that clockwise
wouldn't try to reverse it.
- He can try all he wants,
he will never succeed.
- He must want those chips
for another reason.
- Why you say that?
- Because clockwise doesn't strike me
as someone who wastes time.
- Ask not for whom the bell tolls,
it tolls,
for the jury who sent me to prison.
- We're almost finished with
these clocks here, boss.
- Clocks?
I prefer to think of them as
tokens of my depreciation.
12 of them, 12, 12.
One for each of the detestable
dozen that found me guilty.
- Guilty of what?
- A crime that
I never committed.
Hey, watches, all kinds of watches.
I got time on my hands.
Hey lady, how 'bout a watch?
I got beautiful watches.
Oh, you like the coat, don't you?
I got gold watches, silver
watches, any kind you want.
Oh come on.
Come on.
Hey listen, in the heart of
things to come, all right,
no present like the time.
Hey buddy, look at this.
Look what I got.
All kinds of watches.
Big watches, little watches.
Give me a break.
How about buying the
coat then, will ya?
Hey, look, look, I got one.
- You're off the case.
- What's that? What?
- Hey, man, come on.
- Hey, you all right?
Wait, wait!
I can't believe this.
- Police, freeze!
- Wait a minute, wait a minute.
I know what it looks like to you,
but there was an accident, all right?
I swear.
It was an accident.
I ran over here to make
sure the guy was all right,
he took off, he dropped all this money.
What am I supposed to do?
I gotta pick it up.
You'd do the same thing, wouldn't ya?
Come on, look, I'll put the money back.
I don't need the money.
Oh, come on, you gotta believe me.
Officer, listen, you wanna buy a watch?
- Boy, you sure got a bum rap, boss.
- That's all in the past.
Can't turn back the hands of time,
but perhaps I can turn
them forward a bit.
- Forward?
- That's what the stolen
microchips are for.
When my clocks go off they'll
send out a sonic wave
that'll prematurely age
those judgmental jurors.
- But I thought we were
gonna steal stuff.
- We are, my beautiful
hourglass, we are.
We're gonna steal from them
what they stole from me.
Time.
It's all about time.
- Hey, yo, lady, hey.
- Yes?
- You got the right time?
- Your clock is two minutes slow.
- You sure?
- Of course I'm sure.
My watch says it's four on the dot
and my watch is never wrong.
Now, go ahead, correct the time.
- You got it.
I don't usually buy clocks.
But, my friend, this is an antique.
- What's it gonna cost me?
- More than you know.
- What'd you say?
- I said, maybe a fourth of your soul.
- It's about time.
- Sorry, to keep you waiting, sir.
- Sorry's not good enough, old man.
- Couldn't agree with you more, sir.
Couldn't agree with you more.
Three down, nine to go.
- Attention all units,
the clockmobile has been
spotted heading north
on paradise parkway.
- Auto transform.
- Clocky, the light is yellow.
- Time waits for no man.
Nor do I.
- Boss, it's the scorpionmobile.
- No cause for alarm, big hand.
I've got an idea.
- Well?
- Use the alarm clocks.
- Now that's what I call a time bomb.
- Wow.
- Whoa!
- I bet that one ticked her off.
- Hickory, dickory, dock,
time for another clock.
- Can I give it a try?
- I don't see why not.
Boys, let hourglass throw her a curve.
Set it for high noon.
- Come on.
- Clockwise strikes again.
A total of 12 people
have aged as a result of
his so called biological clocks.
The victims all suffered
similar symptoms,
premature wrinkling, loss
of vision, and gray hair.
- Argy, I don't wanna get old.
- It's gonna happen
sooner or later, baby.
- Yeah, but will you still love
me when I'm old and wrinkly?
- Of course I will.
How wrinkly we talking?
- Like a raisin.
And I might start to sag.
And if I fall and need
a hip replacement,
then you'll have to wheel
me around in a wheelchair.
So how 'bout it?
If I became an old,
wrinkly, sagging raisin,
with a plastic hip
that needed to be pushed
around in a wheelchair
would you still love me?
- Of course I will, baby.
I'd love you just like my granny.
- Your granny?
- Yeah.
I'd come visit you every Sunday.
- Visit me where?
- In the rest home, where else?
- I knew it!
The first gray hair I get
you're gonna dump me
for some bouncy,
bikini-wearing beach bunny
that's half your age.
- You really think I
can get one of those?
- You're not gonna live
long enough to find out.
- Man, I can't believe
tender lovin' kicked me
out of my own apartment.
- You compared her to your grandmother.
What'd you expect her to do?
- I don't know.
Knit me a sweater?
- Very funny.
- I thought it was.
- But seriously,
were you joking when you
said those things to her?
- I don't know.
I mean, I just can't
imagine my old lady
being my old lady, you know?
I just, I dunno, what
do you think, blue?
Blue?
Hello?
Are you listening to me?
- Sorry.
Just a little distracted right now.
- Doing what?
- Cross referencing the
names of the 12 people
that clockwise targeted.
- Why?
- Because if I can figure out
what they have in common
I think I'll be able to figure out
what makes clockwise tick.
- I think you just found your answer.
- All of clockwise's victims
served on the same jury.
The people versus Benjamin tickerman.
- Tickerman?
- Yeah.
I think he's really clockwise.
Look, I've got his file right here.
- I don't need to see his file.
- He probably can't see the
file without his glasses.
- You should talk.
- Cap, it says here that
tickerman served 25 years
in pearlgate correctional
facility for armed robbery.
- And he always claimed his innocence,
that he was just in the wrong
place at the wrong time.
- That's what they all say.
- His prison record's clean.
He even learned a trade while
he was in the penitentiary,
clock making.
- Well, take it from me, you two,
tickerman is guilty.
- How do you know?
- Because I've been on the force
as long as he's been in prison,
and that's long enough to know...
To know...
- to know what?
- When it's time to quit.
I'm going to accept the
review board's offer
of early retirement.
- I'm really worried about the captain.
- Yeah, he has been acting a
little bit strange lately,
but I guess getting old
can be a scary thing.
- Getting old doesn't scare me.
Well, at least not as much
as getting old alone does.
- Come on, Darcy, you don't
have to worry about that.
- I don't?
- No, you and I are going
to get old together.
Taste.
- Needs more thyme.
So, you really think
we'll grow old together?
- Oh yeah.
You and I are going to
be going down the street
in our walkers chasing bad guys.
- Right.
- Speaking of bad guys,
how do we catch this clockwise?
- We have to figure out
who his next victim is.
- What do you mean his next victim?
He's already gotten
revenge on all 12 jurors.
- Yes, but he stole 14 microchips,
which means there are two more
people left on his hit list.
- So then the question is,
who else does he blame?
- I don't know.
Too much thyme.
- I'll be the judge of that.
- The judge!
We gotta get down to the
criminal courts building.
- Why?
- He's going after judge cheetum.
- You're working this evening.
- Oh, just making sure this
glass is clean, your honor.
You can hardly tell what time it is.
- Don't worry about it.
I never read much to watching a clock.
- All that 's about to change.
- It's locked.
- Buzz their security.
- Where are you going?
- To look for another way in.
- You be sure and have yourself
a good evening, your honor.
- Care to join me in a little nightcap?
- Aint' no time for no libation,
or anything else.
- There's plenty of time.
It's only...
- it's a good thing I
cleaned your clock.
- And now I'm going to
do the same to yours.
- Black scorpion.
- My goodness.
- If I didn't know any better
I'd say we're in love.
- And why's that?
- Because every time we're
together time stands still.
- Oh, goodness!
- What is that thing?
- My own version of a stopwatch.
Unfortunately, it's
electromagnetic pulse
can only stop for three seconds
but that's long enough.
- Not if I beat you to the punch.
- Sorry, scorpion, time's on my side.
Sorry to laugh, scorpo, but
I'm just all wound up.
- Maybe I can unwind you.
- That'll teach you
to counter clockwise.
- Freeze!
- You took the words right
out of my mouth, detective.
- Must be this drink.
- The evening's not a complete loss.
You're coming with me, black scorpion.
- You know it's nice
to be a wanted woman,
but there's something you
should know about me.
- What's that?
- I play hard to get.
- Why is it that whenever
we're out in public together
we always have to fight?
- Maybe it's because you
always try to control me.
- Join me in a cocktail?
- Maybe later, your honor.
- You know what's great
about fighting you?
- What's that?
- We get to kiss and make up.
- Where did I put those olives?
- Blue, blue, I'm here.
What's the big emergency?
- Hey.
I need you to run some tests on this.
- A microchip?
- It's one of the 14 clockwise stole.
He tried to h judge cheetum with it.
- So what do you want me to do with it?
- I want you to reverse the process.
- Yeah, no problem.
Then after that maybe I can find a cure
for the common cold.
- You have to try.
- So what are you gonna be doing
while I'm searching for this
high tech fountain of youth?
- Same thing I've been doing,
trying to figure out who his
next victim is going to be.
- Well, you're the detective.
Detective.
His arresting officer.
- Is he still on the force?
- I don't know, let's find out.
Oh my god.
Yeah, he's still on the force.
But not for long.
- Hey, slugger, specs.
What, strickland's not in yet?
- No, but his mail is.
- What's in the box?
- How're we supposed to know?
- The same way you know
all the cap's business.
Now come on, what's in it?
- It's a timing watch.
- Oh man, I tell you,
the review board does not
waste any time at all.
- Look at it though, it's solid gold.
- Whoa, specs, what are you doing?
- Well, you asked.
- I didn't say take it out of the box.
Come on, he's gonna be here any minute.
- Cap never gets here before what?
10 past?
- Yeah, it's eight o'clock,
we got plenty of time.
- Guys, I'm not so sure.
- Suddenly I don't feel so good.
- Neither do I.
- My vision's getting blurry.
- My body aches all over.
I just wet myself.
- 187.
We're driving down... - 87.
- Your brain is gone.
No, it's gone.
We're in the car.
- You're an idiot.
- He's got no brain.
- It was 87.
- Whoa, whoa, wow.
- Who's the young chippy?
- That's our Marcy.
- No, it's not Marcy it's farcy.
You remember?
Right, slugger?
- Yeah, I remember.
But who's slugger?
- What in the world?
- Captain,
are you all right?
- I'm fine.
What happened to them?
- Hello, Rafferty, 21st precinct.
- It's clockwise's work.
- Hello?
- I think it was meant for you.
- Then you know
this is all my fault.
- You were just doing your job.
- I didn't do it very well.
Arresting tickerman
was the worst mistake
I ever made,
and that's saying a lot coming from me.
- Hello.
Hello, is anybody there?
Hello?
Hello, is anybody...
- I'm on it.
Walker, 21st precinct.
- Blue, I got some bad news.
- Argyle is that you?
- Of course it's me.
I had an accident.
- What kind of accident?
- Well, tender lovin' was yappin'
and I touched the wrong
electrodes together and well...
- don't tell me.
- From now on you're gonna
be calling me uncle argyle.
- Who you tellin' to call you uncle?
- Hush up!
- Was that Veronica?
- It better not be some bouncy,
bikini wearing beach bunny.
- Hush up!
The upside of this, blue, is
I've gone deaf in one ear,
I can't hear tender lovin' yappin'.
- Stop, old man, I'm trying
to watch my program.
- You keep on,
I'ma hide your false teeth
from you next time.
- You shut up.
- No, you shut up.
- Guy manley is live at angel field
with today's look at sports.
Guy.
- Hi, sports fans.
Sorry, but guy is taking a time out.
I'm clockwise,
with the countdown to catastrophe.
- Quick, blue, turn to channel eight.
- Hold on, hold on.
Gimme that.
- Your white thing.
- The police have taken judge cheetum
into protective custody.
No doubt part of their
oath to serve and protect.
However, the brave boys in blue
will be serving the public better
if they turn the judge over to me.
Because if they don't
I'll be setting off
this giant biological clock
to make every last man and
woman in the city of angels
old before his or her time.
You have 'til the stroke of
midnight to meet my demands.
If you don't, I'll be
the one to strike.
Make no mistake my plan will go off
like clockwork.
- All right, I'll call you right back.
- Tick, tock, tick,
tock, tick, tock, tick.
No more talk.
- You've got to be kidding.
- The plan will work, judge.
- You actually expect
me to turn myself over
to that tick-tocking terrorist?
Hey, try to say that three times fast.
Tick-terror-tockerist,
tock-terror-tick.
That is a twist tonguer.
I mean, a tongue twister,
- your honor, you wouldn't be
turning yourself over to him.
It'd be a set up
to flush him out of hiding.
Once he shows his face we'll
move in and arrest him.
- Uh-huh, and who'd gonna
guarantee my safety?
- I will.
- You?
It's because of your complete and utter
lack of competency as a police officer
that we're in this mess
in the first place.
No offense.
- None taken.
- Now wait a minute!
You can't blame the captain for this.
He's doing the best job he can.
- That's my point exactly.
And his best is not good enough.
So, what can I get you to drink?
- Don't let what the
judge said get to you.
- Oh, believe me,
he didn't say anything I
haven't said to myself
a million times before.
- Have I ever shown you my bruise?
- There's only one place
clockwise can get more chips.
- Uh?
- The Phoenix institute.
- Oh, well what are we waiting for?
- We?
- Hello?
Anyone out there?
Can you hear me?
- Dr. Phoenix?
- Oh, please, you're just in time.
Please, open, press the button.
- What happened?
- Clockwise.
He stole the chrono-genetic-velocirator
just as I was on the verge of
making an important discovery.
- What kind of discovery?
- I may have found a way to
reverse the aging process.
- I thought you said
that wasn't possible.
- Yes, for clockwise, but not
for a genius like myself.
I was on the cover of
popular genetics after all.
- This is great.
- Yes, my mother thought so too.
She stuck it up on her refrigerator
so her fondue club could see it.
- I think the captain was
talking about your discovery.
At least now we don't
have to worry about
when to stop clockwise
because whatever damage he does
you're gonna be able to undo.
- That's not exactly true, detective.
You see, I was only halfway done
with the microchip conversion.
If clockwise uses it
in its present state,
well, he won't just age us,
he will turn us into corpses.
- We're running out of time, Walker.
My watch says quarter to 12.
Mine says 11:30.
- Well, trust me, I set
my watch every day
at the corner of sears and third.
- Sears and third?
- Yeah, you know, where
the clock tower is.
It's been there 100 years
and it's never been wrong.
- The clock tower, that's it!
You think you can handle these stairs?
- Oh yeah, sure.
But it might take me a little time.
- Well, time is all we've got.
You better get started.
- Wait, where are you going?
- To wait here for chopper patrol.
- Tick, tock, tick, tock.
- We're almost finished with
these connections here, boss.
- Not a moment too soon
it's five to midnight.
- Already?
- Time flies when you're having fun.
- The fun's over, clockwise.
- Don't you ever knock?
Get her!
- I'll punch your clock.
- That's what I call a Swiss miss.
- Hey!
Let me down!
Too late, black scorpion.
- This game of beat the
clock isn't over yet.
- You wouldn't hit a man
with glasses would you?
- Well, in your case
I'll make an exception.
There's gotta be a way
to stop this thing.
- Speaking of stopping,
fortunately for me
when I take a licking
I keep right on ticking.
The same thing can't be said for you.
Now nothing will stop me!
- Freeze.
You're under arrest.
- If it isn't my old friend,
patrolman strickland.
- It's captain strickland now.
And I'm not as old as you'd like.
Your biological clock didn't get to me.
- You mean the years
have done this to you?
Time is a cruel mistress.
- The point is
now you'll never get
your revenge on me.
- Is that so?
- Not as long as you've got
that chrono-genetic-accelerator
aimed at the city.
- Ah!
Well now
it's aimed at you.
How's it feel to be in the wrong place
at the wrong time?
- Cut off that machine.
- I'll turn it off when
it's half past never!
- Then you leave me no choice.
- What are you doing?
- Killing time.
- What are you doing?
What are you doing?
No!
No!
No time!
Yuck.
- Dr. Phoenix has been
working around the clock
to restore youth to
clockwise's victims.
The bad news, however,
is that his discovery
can only reverse the
artificial aging process
brought on by the
chrono-genetic-velocirator.
The true fountain of youth
has yet to be discovered.
I'm sure there are a lot of
disappointed viewers out there.
- Well, I hope somebody
discovers a fountain of youth
by the time I get old.
- I wouldn't worry about
it if I were you, baby.
- Why not?
- 'Cause you are gonna
be fine at any age.
And I know from experience.
- So, you don't care
if my hair goes gray?
- You'll be a silver fox no
matter what age you are.
And I'll be the fox catcher.
- You still look scary.
- Hello, darc.
- Wow, it's nice to see that you guys
are back to yourselves again.
- You mean back to our young selves.
- It's kinda bumming me out.
I was looking forward to retiring.
- Oh, speaking of which,
where's the captain?
- He's in his office, packing.
- What?
He's quitting?
Even after he helped black
scorpion save the city?
- The city wouldn't
have needed to be saved
if I hadn't arrested tickerman
in the first place.
- Come on, captain,
you were a young cop.
Young cops make mistakes.
We do it every day.
Some of us a little more than others.
- Is she talking to us?
- The fact is that you
learned from your mistakes.
And actually, we learn from them too.
- All right, Walker.
You've convinced me.
I'm gonna stay right here
and keep making mistakes
so that you guys can be better cops.
- Uh, well, that's not
exactly what I meant.
- Slugger, specs,
bring these boxes, help me unpack.
- Hey, give me that back.
- Yeah, pick up the boxes.
- Hey.
Walker, why the long face?
Is something wrong?
- I don't know.
This whole thing has
just got me thinking
about getting older.
- Are you still worried
about being alone?
- Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
It would be nice to have somebody.
- Come on, I told you,
we will have each other.
- As partners?
- Um, I think I know how
clockwise would answer that.
- How?
- Only time will tell.
- Hello?
Anybody?
Hello?
It's time!
- Hi, Ben.
- You're late.
6:30 on the dot.
- Actually, 6:31 and 42,
make that 43 seconds.
Punctuality is very
important to me, big hand.
You'll learn that in time.
- What's the hurry there, Ben?
- Making up for lost time, little hand,
that's the hurry.
219,000 hours, 31 minutes,
59.9 seconds behind bars lost.
- Wow, what does all that
time add up to, bennie?
- 25 years, my shapely
hourglass, 25 years.
25 years of listening to a leaky sink.
25 years of my heart keeping the beat.
25 years to make me the
human metronome I am today.
Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock.
25 years!
But the countdown is over.
I've served my time.
- No!
- Whoa!
- For now, time serves me.
We better hurry.
According to my calculations
city of angel's finest
will be here in 7
minutes, 41.3 seconds.
Their usual response time.
What are you waiting for?
The clock is ticking.
So am I!
Tick, tock, tick tock,
tick, tock, tick, tock.
- Attention any unit in the vicinity
of the Phoenix institute,
respond to the burglar alarm.
- That's one alarm I can't
hit the snooze button on.
Access lair.
- Hurry, hurry, we
don't wanna go to jail
on the trivial charge of
breaking and entering,
do we?
- No.
- If you can't do the time,
don't do the crime.
- Black scorpion.
- And you are?
Wait, wait, let me guess,
the watchmaker?
Father time?
Or the minuteman?
- Try, clockwise.
- Fire.
- In the light of day
Darcy Walker is a cop.
But in the dark of night she becomes
black scorpion.
Doing with a mask what she
can't do with a badge.
- Give yourself up, clockwise.
- Impossible.
It's daylight savings time.
- We'll spring forward.
- And make her fall back.
I may be little but I'm fast.
- Not fast enough.
- The clocks weren't the only thing
the Swiss made bigger and better.
- Your time has run out, clockwise.
- Impossible.
When you're the man of the hour,
not to mention minutes and
those all important seconds.
- Auto revert.
I'm a cop.
- I can't believe you let
this clockface get away!
- It's clockwise.
And, captain, I didn't
just let him get away.
It was just.
- What?
- Just bad timing.
- If it happens again
you're gonna find yourself
walking prisoners to the bathroom!
Or else, checking city dump
for severed body parts!
Or whatever else I can think of
to make you regret the day
you became a police officer!
- Why is he in such a bad mood?
- Review board wants him to retire.
- How do you know?
- We tapped his phone.
- What?
That's illegal.
- So call a cop.
- So, what happened?
What they say?
Did they give him a reason?
- Guys?
- The woman on the phone said
he's getting a little
too old to do his job.
- Apparently his wife has
said the same thing.
- Enough.
Walker, let's go question Dr. Phoenix,
find out what clockwise stole.
- Well, he stole microchips,
14 of them in all.
- What are they used for?
- The chrono-genetic-velocirator.
- Doc, English please.
- Of course.
The microchips produce sonic waves
which stimulate the cerebral cortex,
speeding up the flow of neurons,
which in turn convinces the brain
that the body is aging.
- Mind over matter?
- Exactly.
The organs then react accordingly,
accelerating the aging process.
It's why my clones are always generated
as fully developed human specimens
instead of embryos.
- Doc.
- Hmm?
- How would clockwise know any of this?
- He probably read my interview
in popular genetics.
Here.
I got the cover story.
What do you think?
It's not a bad picture.
Of me, I mean.
The mutant of the month
is a little cross-eyed.
Except for the one in the middle.
- Doc, is it possible that clockwise
could reverse your invention
and make himself younger?
- No, it's not that simple, detective.
The first rule of genetics is...
It is that living organism
get older not younger.
All the chrono-genetic-velocirator does
is expedite the course of nature.
- Yeah, but that doesn't
mean that clockwise
wouldn't try to reverse it.
- He can try all he wants,
he will never succeed.
- He must want those chips
for another reason.
- Why you say that?
- Because clockwise doesn't strike me
as someone who wastes time.
- Ask not for whom the bell tolls,
it tolls,
for the jury who sent me to prison.
- We're almost finished with
these clocks here, boss.
- Clocks?
I prefer to think of them as
tokens of my depreciation.
12 of them, 12, 12.
One for each of the detestable
dozen that found me guilty.
- Guilty of what?
- A crime that
I never committed.
Hey, watches, all kinds of watches.
I got time on my hands.
Hey lady, how 'bout a watch?
I got beautiful watches.
Oh, you like the coat, don't you?
I got gold watches, silver
watches, any kind you want.
Oh come on.
Come on.
Hey listen, in the heart of
things to come, all right,
no present like the time.
Hey buddy, look at this.
Look what I got.
All kinds of watches.
Big watches, little watches.
Give me a break.
How about buying the
coat then, will ya?
Hey, look, look, I got one.
- You're off the case.
- What's that? What?
- Hey, man, come on.
- Hey, you all right?
Wait, wait!
I can't believe this.
- Police, freeze!
- Wait a minute, wait a minute.
I know what it looks like to you,
but there was an accident, all right?
I swear.
It was an accident.
I ran over here to make
sure the guy was all right,
he took off, he dropped all this money.
What am I supposed to do?
I gotta pick it up.
You'd do the same thing, wouldn't ya?
Come on, look, I'll put the money back.
I don't need the money.
Oh, come on, you gotta believe me.
Officer, listen, you wanna buy a watch?
- Boy, you sure got a bum rap, boss.
- That's all in the past.
Can't turn back the hands of time,
but perhaps I can turn
them forward a bit.
- Forward?
- That's what the stolen
microchips are for.
When my clocks go off they'll
send out a sonic wave
that'll prematurely age
those judgmental jurors.
- But I thought we were
gonna steal stuff.
- We are, my beautiful
hourglass, we are.
We're gonna steal from them
what they stole from me.
Time.
It's all about time.
- Hey, yo, lady, hey.
- Yes?
- You got the right time?
- Your clock is two minutes slow.
- You sure?
- Of course I'm sure.
My watch says it's four on the dot
and my watch is never wrong.
Now, go ahead, correct the time.
- You got it.
I don't usually buy clocks.
But, my friend, this is an antique.
- What's it gonna cost me?
- More than you know.
- What'd you say?
- I said, maybe a fourth of your soul.
- It's about time.
- Sorry, to keep you waiting, sir.
- Sorry's not good enough, old man.
- Couldn't agree with you more, sir.
Couldn't agree with you more.
Three down, nine to go.
- Attention all units,
the clockmobile has been
spotted heading north
on paradise parkway.
- Auto transform.
- Clocky, the light is yellow.
- Time waits for no man.
Nor do I.
- Boss, it's the scorpionmobile.
- No cause for alarm, big hand.
I've got an idea.
- Well?
- Use the alarm clocks.
- Now that's what I call a time bomb.
- Wow.
- Whoa!
- I bet that one ticked her off.
- Hickory, dickory, dock,
time for another clock.
- Can I give it a try?
- I don't see why not.
Boys, let hourglass throw her a curve.
Set it for high noon.
- Come on.
- Clockwise strikes again.
A total of 12 people
have aged as a result of
his so called biological clocks.
The victims all suffered
similar symptoms,
premature wrinkling, loss
of vision, and gray hair.
- Argy, I don't wanna get old.
- It's gonna happen
sooner or later, baby.
- Yeah, but will you still love
me when I'm old and wrinkly?
- Of course I will.
How wrinkly we talking?
- Like a raisin.
And I might start to sag.
And if I fall and need
a hip replacement,
then you'll have to wheel
me around in a wheelchair.
So how 'bout it?
If I became an old,
wrinkly, sagging raisin,
with a plastic hip
that needed to be pushed
around in a wheelchair
would you still love me?
- Of course I will, baby.
I'd love you just like my granny.
- Your granny?
- Yeah.
I'd come visit you every Sunday.
- Visit me where?
- In the rest home, where else?
- I knew it!
The first gray hair I get
you're gonna dump me
for some bouncy,
bikini-wearing beach bunny
that's half your age.
- You really think I
can get one of those?
- You're not gonna live
long enough to find out.
- Man, I can't believe
tender lovin' kicked me
out of my own apartment.
- You compared her to your grandmother.
What'd you expect her to do?
- I don't know.
Knit me a sweater?
- Very funny.
- I thought it was.
- But seriously,
were you joking when you
said those things to her?
- I don't know.
I mean, I just can't
imagine my old lady
being my old lady, you know?
I just, I dunno, what
do you think, blue?
Blue?
Hello?
Are you listening to me?
- Sorry.
Just a little distracted right now.
- Doing what?
- Cross referencing the
names of the 12 people
that clockwise targeted.
- Why?
- Because if I can figure out
what they have in common
I think I'll be able to figure out
what makes clockwise tick.
- I think you just found your answer.
- All of clockwise's victims
served on the same jury.
The people versus Benjamin tickerman.
- Tickerman?
- Yeah.
I think he's really clockwise.
Look, I've got his file right here.
- I don't need to see his file.
- He probably can't see the
file without his glasses.
- You should talk.
- Cap, it says here that
tickerman served 25 years
in pearlgate correctional
facility for armed robbery.
- And he always claimed his innocence,
that he was just in the wrong
place at the wrong time.
- That's what they all say.
- His prison record's clean.
He even learned a trade while
he was in the penitentiary,
clock making.
- Well, take it from me, you two,
tickerman is guilty.
- How do you know?
- Because I've been on the force
as long as he's been in prison,
and that's long enough to know...
To know...
- to know what?
- When it's time to quit.
I'm going to accept the
review board's offer
of early retirement.
- I'm really worried about the captain.
- Yeah, he has been acting a
little bit strange lately,
but I guess getting old
can be a scary thing.
- Getting old doesn't scare me.
Well, at least not as much
as getting old alone does.
- Come on, Darcy, you don't
have to worry about that.
- I don't?
- No, you and I are going
to get old together.
Taste.
- Needs more thyme.
So, you really think
we'll grow old together?
- Oh yeah.
You and I are going to
be going down the street
in our walkers chasing bad guys.
- Right.
- Speaking of bad guys,
how do we catch this clockwise?
- We have to figure out
who his next victim is.
- What do you mean his next victim?
He's already gotten
revenge on all 12 jurors.
- Yes, but he stole 14 microchips,
which means there are two more
people left on his hit list.
- So then the question is,
who else does he blame?
- I don't know.
Too much thyme.
- I'll be the judge of that.
- The judge!
We gotta get down to the
criminal courts building.
- Why?
- He's going after judge cheetum.
- You're working this evening.
- Oh, just making sure this
glass is clean, your honor.
You can hardly tell what time it is.
- Don't worry about it.
I never read much to watching a clock.
- All that 's about to change.
- It's locked.
- Buzz their security.
- Where are you going?
- To look for another way in.
- You be sure and have yourself
a good evening, your honor.
- Care to join me in a little nightcap?
- Aint' no time for no libation,
or anything else.
- There's plenty of time.
It's only...
- it's a good thing I
cleaned your clock.
- And now I'm going to
do the same to yours.
- Black scorpion.
- My goodness.
- If I didn't know any better
I'd say we're in love.
- And why's that?
- Because every time we're
together time stands still.
- Oh, goodness!
- What is that thing?
- My own version of a stopwatch.
Unfortunately, it's
electromagnetic pulse
can only stop for three seconds
but that's long enough.
- Not if I beat you to the punch.
- Sorry, scorpion, time's on my side.
Sorry to laugh, scorpo, but
I'm just all wound up.
- Maybe I can unwind you.
- That'll teach you
to counter clockwise.
- Freeze!
- You took the words right
out of my mouth, detective.
- Must be this drink.
- The evening's not a complete loss.
You're coming with me, black scorpion.
- You know it's nice
to be a wanted woman,
but there's something you
should know about me.
- What's that?
- I play hard to get.
- Why is it that whenever
we're out in public together
we always have to fight?
- Maybe it's because you
always try to control me.
- Join me in a cocktail?
- Maybe later, your honor.
- You know what's great
about fighting you?
- What's that?
- We get to kiss and make up.
- Where did I put those olives?
- Blue, blue, I'm here.
What's the big emergency?
- Hey.
I need you to run some tests on this.
- A microchip?
- It's one of the 14 clockwise stole.
He tried to h judge cheetum with it.
- So what do you want me to do with it?
- I want you to reverse the process.
- Yeah, no problem.
Then after that maybe I can find a cure
for the common cold.
- You have to try.
- So what are you gonna be doing
while I'm searching for this
high tech fountain of youth?
- Same thing I've been doing,
trying to figure out who his
next victim is going to be.
- Well, you're the detective.
Detective.
His arresting officer.
- Is he still on the force?
- I don't know, let's find out.
Oh my god.
Yeah, he's still on the force.
But not for long.
- Hey, slugger, specs.
What, strickland's not in yet?
- No, but his mail is.
- What's in the box?
- How're we supposed to know?
- The same way you know
all the cap's business.
Now come on, what's in it?
- It's a timing watch.
- Oh man, I tell you,
the review board does not
waste any time at all.
- Look at it though, it's solid gold.
- Whoa, specs, what are you doing?
- Well, you asked.
- I didn't say take it out of the box.
Come on, he's gonna be here any minute.
- Cap never gets here before what?
10 past?
- Yeah, it's eight o'clock,
we got plenty of time.
- Guys, I'm not so sure.
- Suddenly I don't feel so good.
- Neither do I.
- My vision's getting blurry.
- My body aches all over.
I just wet myself.
- 187.
We're driving down... - 87.
- Your brain is gone.
No, it's gone.
We're in the car.
- You're an idiot.
- He's got no brain.
- It was 87.
- Whoa, whoa, wow.
- Who's the young chippy?
- That's our Marcy.
- No, it's not Marcy it's farcy.
You remember?
Right, slugger?
- Yeah, I remember.
But who's slugger?
- What in the world?
- Captain,
are you all right?
- I'm fine.
What happened to them?
- Hello, Rafferty, 21st precinct.
- It's clockwise's work.
- Hello?
- I think it was meant for you.
- Then you know
this is all my fault.
- You were just doing your job.
- I didn't do it very well.
Arresting tickerman
was the worst mistake
I ever made,
and that's saying a lot coming from me.
- Hello.
Hello, is anybody there?
Hello?
Hello, is anybody...
- I'm on it.
Walker, 21st precinct.
- Blue, I got some bad news.
- Argyle is that you?
- Of course it's me.
I had an accident.
- What kind of accident?
- Well, tender lovin' was yappin'
and I touched the wrong
electrodes together and well...
- don't tell me.
- From now on you're gonna
be calling me uncle argyle.
- Who you tellin' to call you uncle?
- Hush up!
- Was that Veronica?
- It better not be some bouncy,
bikini wearing beach bunny.
- Hush up!
The upside of this, blue, is
I've gone deaf in one ear,
I can't hear tender lovin' yappin'.
- Stop, old man, I'm trying
to watch my program.
- You keep on,
I'ma hide your false teeth
from you next time.
- You shut up.
- No, you shut up.
- Guy manley is live at angel field
with today's look at sports.
Guy.
- Hi, sports fans.
Sorry, but guy is taking a time out.
I'm clockwise,
with the countdown to catastrophe.
- Quick, blue, turn to channel eight.
- Hold on, hold on.
Gimme that.
- Your white thing.
- The police have taken judge cheetum
into protective custody.
No doubt part of their
oath to serve and protect.
However, the brave boys in blue
will be serving the public better
if they turn the judge over to me.
Because if they don't
I'll be setting off
this giant biological clock
to make every last man and
woman in the city of angels
old before his or her time.
You have 'til the stroke of
midnight to meet my demands.
If you don't, I'll be
the one to strike.
Make no mistake my plan will go off
like clockwork.
- All right, I'll call you right back.
- Tick, tock, tick,
tock, tick, tock, tick.
No more talk.
- You've got to be kidding.
- The plan will work, judge.
- You actually expect
me to turn myself over
to that tick-tocking terrorist?
Hey, try to say that three times fast.
Tick-terror-tockerist,
tock-terror-tick.
That is a twist tonguer.
I mean, a tongue twister,
- your honor, you wouldn't be
turning yourself over to him.
It'd be a set up
to flush him out of hiding.
Once he shows his face we'll
move in and arrest him.
- Uh-huh, and who'd gonna
guarantee my safety?
- I will.
- You?
It's because of your complete and utter
lack of competency as a police officer
that we're in this mess
in the first place.
No offense.
- None taken.
- Now wait a minute!
You can't blame the captain for this.
He's doing the best job he can.
- That's my point exactly.
And his best is not good enough.
So, what can I get you to drink?
- Don't let what the
judge said get to you.
- Oh, believe me,
he didn't say anything I
haven't said to myself
a million times before.
- Have I ever shown you my bruise?
- There's only one place
clockwise can get more chips.
- Uh?
- The Phoenix institute.
- Oh, well what are we waiting for?
- We?
- Hello?
Anyone out there?
Can you hear me?
- Dr. Phoenix?
- Oh, please, you're just in time.
Please, open, press the button.
- What happened?
- Clockwise.
He stole the chrono-genetic-velocirator
just as I was on the verge of
making an important discovery.
- What kind of discovery?
- I may have found a way to
reverse the aging process.
- I thought you said
that wasn't possible.
- Yes, for clockwise, but not
for a genius like myself.
I was on the cover of
popular genetics after all.
- This is great.
- Yes, my mother thought so too.
She stuck it up on her refrigerator
so her fondue club could see it.
- I think the captain was
talking about your discovery.
At least now we don't
have to worry about
when to stop clockwise
because whatever damage he does
you're gonna be able to undo.
- That's not exactly true, detective.
You see, I was only halfway done
with the microchip conversion.
If clockwise uses it
in its present state,
well, he won't just age us,
he will turn us into corpses.
- We're running out of time, Walker.
My watch says quarter to 12.
Mine says 11:30.
- Well, trust me, I set
my watch every day
at the corner of sears and third.
- Sears and third?
- Yeah, you know, where
the clock tower is.
It's been there 100 years
and it's never been wrong.
- The clock tower, that's it!
You think you can handle these stairs?
- Oh yeah, sure.
But it might take me a little time.
- Well, time is all we've got.
You better get started.
- Wait, where are you going?
- To wait here for chopper patrol.
- Tick, tock, tick, tock.
- We're almost finished with
these connections here, boss.
- Not a moment too soon
it's five to midnight.
- Already?
- Time flies when you're having fun.
- The fun's over, clockwise.
- Don't you ever knock?
Get her!
- I'll punch your clock.
- That's what I call a Swiss miss.
- Hey!
Let me down!
Too late, black scorpion.
- This game of beat the
clock isn't over yet.
- You wouldn't hit a man
with glasses would you?
- Well, in your case
I'll make an exception.
There's gotta be a way
to stop this thing.
- Speaking of stopping,
fortunately for me
when I take a licking
I keep right on ticking.
The same thing can't be said for you.
Now nothing will stop me!
- Freeze.
You're under arrest.
- If it isn't my old friend,
patrolman strickland.
- It's captain strickland now.
And I'm not as old as you'd like.
Your biological clock didn't get to me.
- You mean the years
have done this to you?
Time is a cruel mistress.
- The point is
now you'll never get
your revenge on me.
- Is that so?
- Not as long as you've got
that chrono-genetic-accelerator
aimed at the city.
- Ah!
Well now
it's aimed at you.
How's it feel to be in the wrong place
at the wrong time?
- Cut off that machine.
- I'll turn it off when
it's half past never!
- Then you leave me no choice.
- What are you doing?
- Killing time.
- What are you doing?
What are you doing?
No!
No!
No time!
Yuck.
- Dr. Phoenix has been
working around the clock
to restore youth to
clockwise's victims.
The bad news, however,
is that his discovery
can only reverse the
artificial aging process
brought on by the
chrono-genetic-velocirator.
The true fountain of youth
has yet to be discovered.
I'm sure there are a lot of
disappointed viewers out there.
- Well, I hope somebody
discovers a fountain of youth
by the time I get old.
- I wouldn't worry about
it if I were you, baby.
- Why not?
- 'Cause you are gonna
be fine at any age.
And I know from experience.
- So, you don't care
if my hair goes gray?
- You'll be a silver fox no
matter what age you are.
And I'll be the fox catcher.
- You still look scary.
- Hello, darc.
- Wow, it's nice to see that you guys
are back to yourselves again.
- You mean back to our young selves.
- It's kinda bumming me out.
I was looking forward to retiring.
- Oh, speaking of which,
where's the captain?
- He's in his office, packing.
- What?
He's quitting?
Even after he helped black
scorpion save the city?
- The city wouldn't
have needed to be saved
if I hadn't arrested tickerman
in the first place.
- Come on, captain,
you were a young cop.
Young cops make mistakes.
We do it every day.
Some of us a little more than others.
- Is she talking to us?
- The fact is that you
learned from your mistakes.
And actually, we learn from them too.
- All right, Walker.
You've convinced me.
I'm gonna stay right here
and keep making mistakes
so that you guys can be better cops.
- Uh, well, that's not
exactly what I meant.
- Slugger, specs,
bring these boxes, help me unpack.
- Hey, give me that back.
- Yeah, pick up the boxes.
- Hey.
Walker, why the long face?
Is something wrong?
- I don't know.
This whole thing has
just got me thinking
about getting older.
- Are you still worried
about being alone?
- Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
It would be nice to have somebody.
- Come on, I told you,
we will have each other.
- As partners?
- Um, I think I know how
clockwise would answer that.
- How?
- Only time will tell.
- Hello?
Anybody?
Hello?