Defiance (2013–2015): Season 3, Episode 5 - History Rhymes - full transcript

Previously on Defiance...

I don't believe
Rahm Tak will ever release Alak alive.

A fully functional Omec warship

could destroy the entire
Votanis Collective.

T'Evgin needs to die.

So long as that madman
has the power to expose us,

we must obey his commands.

Is that poison?

I'll fill a hidden needle

and inject the Omec
during coitus.

Why do you want me dead?



Actually, I don't.

I need to know
I can count on you.

You had him.
And if you hadn't have choked,

Rahm Tak could be
a cooling corpse right now,

and Defiance would
be a whole lot safer.

You're benched.

You're gonna stay
here with Berlin,

you're gonna figure out
who planted those explosives.

I'm the lawkeeper now.

Ah!

Whatever's
inside this man's head

is killing him.

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It doesn't look broken.



It'll be fine.

Here, this will
help soak up the blood.

Thanks.

Oh, gross, gross, gross.

- Is it working?
- Pretty much.

Did you hit him back?

Are you kidding?

What is wrong with you?

He's the biggest
kid in the yard.

I hit back, he hits me twice.

It's safer just to fall down.

I didn't raise you
to be a doormat.

Oh, so you raised me?

Don't tell Mom and Dad.

Look.

It's the aliens!

Get away from the window!

It's okay, Jon Stewart
says they're friendly.

Watch out!

She's got it.

Josh, help me put this stuff
back where it was.

How did you know?

'Cause that's my sister,
Rebecca.

And that little boy is me.

Just put the stuff anywhere.

Where are we?

It needs to go
back where it was.

You know how OCD Mom gets.

How long has he been like this?

Hour, hour and a half.

We stopped to refuel
and he just collapsed.

We need to sedate him.
Top drawer behind you.

You got some moves, kid.

You a doctor?

I'll take it.
There's a crash cart behind you.

Grab it in case we
need to defibrillate.

I'm on it.

What's wrong with him?

But we're losing him.

Do you think we're dead?

I don't feel dead.

No.

This is something else.

You never said you had a sister.

Rebecca?

Josh, you gotta be
careful with those rounds.

They're explosive tipped.

I know what I'm doing.
I trained on the T-Nines.

Hey. Look at me. Focus.

You're scared and
you'd piss yourself

if you weren't so exhausted.

So am I.

But Cooper's unit's coming
through here tomorrow

and they're gonna need
this ammo we're guarding. Okay?

Hey, those were empty coffins
at Mom and Dad's funerals.

Why?

They were vaporized,

and we lost our parents.

I want payback, don't you?

Yeah. Yes.

We're Nolans.
We have one rule.

We live together...

Or we die together.

Good man.

They're getting on the roof!

I remember this.

No!

I got incoming.

Take out the I-rath!

Please, I don't want...

...to fight anymore.

No more fight.

C'mon, Josh. Waste him
and get over here!

Listen to her!

Shoot him! Please.

Death to the sutso!

You're all right.

You're gonna be okay.

You have to hold the position.

Everyone's counting on us.

And whatever you do,

don't...

Don't...

Tell me.

I won't.

I won't.

I promise I won't.

What...

One single task!

Kill the Omec!

I poisoned him with enough
ZWIM-bo to kill a bell beast.

But is the Omec dead? No.

He's at home, smelling
my wife on his fingers

and chuckling about how
he cuckolded Datak Tarr!

I doubt T'Evgin knows your name.

"Incompetence" is not a word
I normally associate with you.

Or perhaps there's something
deeper going on here?

Deeper? What's that
supposed to mean?

Now look what you've done.

You've woken the baby.

Hello, wee one.

Aw!

Grandma Stahma loves
purple-enchanter penis so much...

...she's forgotten all about
your daddy Alak.

That's beneath you.

And now Grandpa Datak
has to go out

and put a bullet in the
enchanter's brain...

to compensate for Grandma's
embarrassing female weakness.

Have you quite finished?

Was there more
you wanted to say?

Shooting the Omec
is a stupid plan.

Why is that?

I learned that Omec
become stronger as they age.

T'Evgin is much, much,
older than he appears.

I doubt a sniper bullet
will do more than irritate him.

I'm happy to put
that theory to a test.

An irritated Omec is
likely to hunt you down,

hang you from your ankles and
separate you from your spinal column.

I'd like to see him try.

As would I.

But it won't help Alak.

How does any of this help Alak?

Rahm Tak is Casti.

He was raised on the same
old enchanter stories we were.

He fears T'Evgin, which is why
he ordered us to kill him.

If I can get
T'Evgin on our side,

we can exploit that fear
to secure Alak's release.

And why would T'Evgin help us?

Must I draw you a chart?

Contrary to what you think,
darling,

your chivo is not magic.

On many occasions
you've said different.

You have to trust me.

Of course.

Always.

Nobody said stop.

The gun seller has arrived.

Finally. Welcome.

Your reputation precedes you,
of course.

I am General Rahm Tak
of the Votanis Collective.

These are
Lieutenants Bebe, Geeze.

Pleasure.

Please, join me for some wine.

Long trip.

Back to work.

Yes, Boss.

How bad is it?

He needs a machine to breath

and I'm keeping his heart
beating with drugs.

And he's not responding
to painful stimuli.

Essentially, he's brain dead.

Is this true?

It seems that way.

You're asking Dr. Dolittle?

Suddenly my word
not good enough?

I just want to make
sure everything possible

is being done to save his life.

Wait, what's going on?

Amanda's afraid
that I might try to kill Nolan.

Why the hell would you do that?

Because a couple weeks ago,

the two of them held me down
and skinned me alive?

C'mon.
You're kidding, right?

That didn't happen.

You're hazing me, right?

Welcome to the suck, jarhead.

Whoa! Hang on. Look at this.

Brain activity.

Out of nowhere.
And it's not human.

There's a mass in Nolan's
medial temporal lobe.

I think it's arktech.

How is that possible?

It's got to be from the sleeper pod
that he shared with Irisa.

She's got a scar just like this.

I've got a theory.
Get Irisa in here.

Yeah, well, I don't
know where she is.

Well, if you want
a shot at saving Nolan,

find her! Now!

Hey. Have you seen Irisa?

We're not exactly
soul sisters these days.

Well, we have to find her
or Nolan's gonna die.

Shtak, shtak, shtak.

Where did you go?

Help me.

How did you know?

I'm sorry about Rebecca.

I don't want to talk about it.

She seemed like she really...

I said I don't
want to talk about it.

It should have
been me that died.

Don't say that.

She shouldn't
have even been there.

I thought the war would
help me prove something.

Make me a man, or something
romantic like that.

And then I got there, the reality
was anything but romantic,

noble or even good.

Becca knew it
would be like that.

So she enlisted, she made sure
she was assigned to my unit

so she could protect me.

She was brave.

She didn't care what
anyone else thought.

She's the type of girl
who'd rather be under a car fixing it

than in the backseat with a guy.

All her friends loved Taylor Swift,
but she lived for Johnny Cash.

There was nothing about her
I didn't want to be.

If I had been stronger,

she'd be alive.

It's been exactly
one year since the fateful night

that turned the tide
of the Pale Wars.

The night' when every alien ship
all over the world exploded.

Many crashed to Earth...

When are we?

This is the shaming rack.

A Storm Divide watering hole.

Making space
travel an impossibility.

The majority of the wreckage
remained in orbit

and were dubbed the Arkbelt.

The tragic event could not have
come at a more opportune time

for the Earth Military Coalition.

Since they were in danger
of losing the war one year ago.

This is the one-year
anniversary of Arkfall.

Every human I knew got
plastered this night.

We spoke to EMC
ambassador Olfin Tennety.

And here's what she had to say.

Over the last year,
one thing has become clear.

We have broken the back
of the Votanis Collective.

They are no longer capable
of maintaining their war effort

and this has forced them
to the bargaining table.

War is over!

Yeah!

To quote a great Earth leader,

"Peace is at hand."

But not soon enough
for this guy, huh?

Too true.

I miss you on
the front lines, No-Man.

How you been paying the bills?

You know how some
of that ark wreckage

still falls from space to Earth?

This guy Varus pays
top dollar for arktech.

So you're one of
those scavenger guys,

with a little girl in tow?

The official term is arkhunter,
my friend,

and the kid loves it.

Right, she can climb
into all the tiny spaces I can't reach.

Watch out folks, father of the year
coming through, huh?

Hey, I'm not her dad.

I just helped her
out of a bad situation.

Arkfall. I gotta go.

I'll settle up.

You got the last one,
J-Turk. I got this one.

Earth is for humans!

See you, brother.

I have no memory of this night.

Did it really happen?

- Kiddo...
- Don't Kiddo me!

Did it happen?

It was a different time.

Hmm.

Well, the daily special
seems to be scrambled brains.

What?

There's an arktech
cluster in Irisa's head,

just like Nolan's.

And you want to know the kicker?

The minute you brought her in here,
both their vitals stabilized.

And Nolan's
breathing on his own.

That's good, right?

That means
they're getting better.

Actually, it's bad.

Very bad.

Votan sleeper pods were
not designed for humans.

Sharing one forced the pod
to make some modifications

to keep it from killing Nolan.

What modifications?

The pod physically tethered
Nolan and Irisa's brains.

It kept them both alive,
but the brains grew interdependent,

like organs on
conjoined human twins.

Right. Both twins can survive,
so long as they remain attached.

Exactly.

The Omec severed the attachment

when it took Nolan and
Irisa out of the pod.

Now the arktech adapted itself,

keeping the connection going
through a spread-spectrum signal.

Like Bluetooth?

You're adorable.

But sure, why not, let's call it

"Bluetooth for the brain."

When you and Nolan left town,
the connection broke.

But instead of a dropped signal,

they got brain damage.

Bringing them closer together
reestablished the link

and stabilized their conditions.

But unfortunately
it is temporary.

The arktech is
growing out of control.

What can we do to
save their lives?

Well, I need to open
them up and cut the arktech out.

Well, you've done this
surgery before, right?

Best not to dwell on that.

My hands are freezing.
I can barely hold the ax.

Just give me
a second to warm them.

On your feet. Let's go.

Just give me a second
to warm them, man.

Bebe! Geeze!

Let's start
unloading these crates.

Favi Tak,
good news with our guest?

Oh, he won't stop talking,

or drinking my wine.

Right now,
he and his Bio-men are

subjecting the men to
old-earth show tunes.

He's the most disgusting human
I've ever encountered

and, trust me, I've been around.

He would sell his weaponry
to anyone who has enough scrip.

No honor. No loyalty
to his fellow humans.

I'm tempted to kill him,
just to make the planet a better place.

I'll deliver
the death stroke myself.

That's kind of you,
Bebe, thank you.

No. We may need
to re-supply.

It's better if he leaves with a fat
profit and we get our guns.

Defiance won't
know what hit them.

Don't gloat, Geeze,
it's premature.

A lot of things have to go right
for this plan to work.

Including
the element of surprise.

That's essential.

I need to get back.

I'm gonna find out if
the carnivorous plant eats Audrey.

What's wrong?

I'm sorry.

I thought this would
be a welcome diversion.

But my thoughts drift to my son
in that VC camp.

My husband insists
I carry out their demands.

Do you really believe my death
would win his release?

I fear nothing short
of a miracle will save him.

It's strange.

When I close my eyes I can
only picture Alak as a little boy.

I keep remembering this one day.

The humans have this ancient
ritual called a "picnic."

Have you come
across the term yet?

No.

You eat outdoors among
the flies and rodents.

Alak was very young,
and insisted we try it.

I confess it was fun,
in a dirty way.

Until we encountered
a hellbug skitterling.

Alak thought it was cute
and wanted to play with it.

But I grabbed him
in my arms and I ran.

My husband tackled the beast.

Killed it with his charge blade.

Impressive.

I held my son close,

and I whispered
over and over again,

"I've got you.

"I will always protect you."

Now I realize that was a lie.

I wish someone would give
Rahm Tak the same treatment

my husband gave that hellbug.

Someone strong.

Someone fearless.

Someone like me.

It would be so easy for you.

The sight of an Omec ship

over their camp
would terrify them.

They would submit to any demand.

Or they, being resourceful
and duplicitous,

would concoct some trick
to disable my ship.

We could take
precautionary steps.

Kindzi and I are alone.

We face the extinction
of our entire race.

Our only hope of finding
other Omec survivors is with that ship.

I would not do anything
to put it in harm's way.

Not even for you.

It seems the mood has soured.

Hmm.

We got a problem.

What?

Every time I move a piece
of arktech from Nolan's brain,

the arktech in Irisa's brain
grows larger to compensate.

I need to figure out
a way of removing

the arktech from
both of their brains

at the exact same time.

Okay. Well, we have
two doctors,

so we could do two
surgeries at the same time.

What do you say, slick?

Any experience doing
cranial nano-surgery?

I once removed a tumor
from a cat's brain.

And it lived.

For, like, a year and a half.

Talk about healing hands.

All right. Fine.

What other options do we have?

Well, I need a surgery module.

One that would
allow me to operate on

two patients with
one set of hands.

Okay, well, where can
we get one of these?

Nowhere close.

But I'm pretty sure
that I can make one.

All I need is an Omec drone.

That a problem?

What are you doing here?

You have no right
to intrude here!

Where's your father?

And did not tell me where.

Leave this place or I
will make you leave.

Nolan and Irisa will both die
if you turn us away.

Please. Remember,
Nolan fought for you.

He saved your life.

From the gunshot wounds
inflicted by you.

Don't punish him
for my mistakes.

What is it you need?

If I can interface
with one of your drones,

it can perform one surgery
while I do the other.

And steal our technology,
no doubt.

Is that your plan,
crafty little Indogene?

Do you play both sides?

See, Mandy and I
have this bet going...

Shut up.

Please, Kindzi.

I can't lose him.

I will help you.

But then the scales
are balanced.

We owe you people nothing.

Understood.

Remember this, Indogene.

I am a skilled technobiologist.

You try anything tricky when
you're connected to my system,

I will see it and I
will kill you quickly.

See, I was gonna kill
you slowly.

I like a little bit of foreplay.

Shall we get started, ladies?

Here, Spot. Come to Mama.

Good ball.

So far so good.

Why did you keep me
if you hated us so much?

Because when I looked at you,
I didn't see an enemy combatant.

I saw a scared kid
who needed my help.

Besides, you were different.

Different how?

Well, you were born on Earth.

You weren't like the Votans
we fought in the war.

Are you saying you adopted me

because I wasn't
alien enough to hate?

No.

Because I am a Votan.

No different from
the millions that died.

Yeah.

But you were too young
to experience the horror.

You never saw the years
of the worst of the Pale Wars.

Don't kill me.
I don't wanna die.

He came after us because of
the bounty on our heads.

Please. I have a family.

What is this?

I'll tell people
that I never found you.

I don't think we're seeing
these things randomly.

Lotta scrip if he brings us in.

You think he's just gonna
give up and go away?

Please.

Let me go.

That guy over here.

They called him adolo.

That's Casti for "brother".

He's honor-bound
to avenge his family.

There's no way he's gonna
pack it up and go home.

So maybe one night
he comes up on us,

slits our throats.
Is that what you want?

No.

So what do we do?

Follow through?

Follow through.

The Casti heart's
on the other side.

Before God...

I humble myself.

As we all must humble
ourselves before God.

I know that wasn't
easy for you, kid.

I'm proud of you.

All right, so let's get this roller
packed up and get outta here.

I'm sorry.

Don't tell me I didn't
grow up with horror.

Come on.

Move!

Or I'll do you both.

I want you to know
that I understand.

You have to put
your own family first.

I appreciate that.

Have you tried
phall vindaloo yet?

No.

You are in for a treat.

This way.

Sneaky bitch!

Alak!

Why are you unattended?

I begged Sagyan for a break.

I couldn't take
the smell of those bodies.

Well, I'm gonna have to talk
to Sagyan about his leniency.

Odd, though,
the smell bothers you.

You were married to a human.

I'm curious.

Did you have to
scrub really hard

to get the smell
off your GWA-va-yo?

I know this place.

I'm sorry.

What?

About the bounty hunter.

I didn't know it
affected you so much.

I'm not sorry
for the lesson, though.

You would have
been dead years ago,

I hadn't a taught
you how to survive.

Hey, kiddo.

What's wrong?
You can't sleep?

Too cold?

Come on up.

Come on. Hop in.

That's it.

Okay.

Was that real?

Something's happening.

Was it real?
Did it actually happen?

Thought about it.

I don't believe you.

Believe what you want.

No, I remember that night.

That was the first time I thought
everything was gonna be okay.

It was the first time
we started to feel like a family.

It happened.

Because I was scared of you.

I was scared of you.

They're awake.

Thank God.

How are you feeling?

Yeah.

Dizzy.

Irisa, how are you feeling?

Shtako.

All right, move slow.

You scared me.

I don't know what I would've
done without you.

You should never
have allowed them in here.

Where is this Indogene now?

She took Nolan and Irisa
back to town for more tests.

I should strip off your skin
and feed it to my loom!

You're my commander.
It is your prerogative.

Don't you understand the danger?

You allowed a shape-taker

to access our network!

An Indogene!

She could have seized
control of our drones!

The network is
a two-way street.

She was so busy
with the surgery,

she failed to notice that I copied
her cerebral source-print.

You got it all?

Everything.

This particular shape-taker,
Yewll, is smart,

even by Indogene standards.

Her expertise
will prove valuable

once the Dread Harvest begins.

Very resourceful.

But also reckless.

Destroy it.

Why?

Creating new Indogenes
would turn Defiance against us.

We're Omec.

We feed upon the lesser races.

We do not fear them!

I fear anything that will
disrupt the flow of gulanite

and prevent us from
repairing the Tsuroz!

You are young.

Two bullets from
a human almost killed you.

Have you forgotten this?

I will never forget that.

Follow my orders.
Destroy it.

Of course, commander.

Does your head hurt?

A little.

I can taste something.

Burnt tires.

Yeah.

That's it.

So.

If you're that scared of me,

why didn't you just sink the knife
and be done with it?

Because I'm not you.

Something pulled these memories

from both our minds
to understand that.

So we could both see the lie,

that's kept us together
for all these years.

What lie?
I never lied to you.

You taught me to
believe we're the same.

Yeah, we both grew up
with blood on our hands.

It made you okay with killing.

But not me.

I hated it then,
and I hate it now.

I think that's why
I didn't stab you.

I have to leave.

There's no place for me here.

Not with Rahm Tak coming.

If I stay,
I'll have to hurt people.

And if I don't,
I'll get you killed.

Don't you worry about me.

You can't protect me
and the town at the same time.

I know what you have to do.

It takes a killer
to stop a killer.

I know what you have to be.

But I don't want
to be here for it.

Okay.

"Live together, die together"

works when you have
to keep on fighting.

It totally sucks in real life.

There's a land coach
coming tomorrow.

Well, you let me
know where you end up.

Maybe when this is all over
I can join you there.

Maybe.

I just finished going through
your post-op scans.

I didn't want to say
anything until I was sure.

Sure about what?

I wasn't able to
remove the arktech.

So I repaired it.

Strengthened the connection.

You two will remain stable

so long as you don't
separate again.

Meaning?

Meaning if you get too far apart
you'll strain the connection,

excruciating pain, killing you both,
the whole megillah.

How far is too far?

I don't know.
A mile. Maybe more.

Why the long faces?

You two are practically
joined at the hip anyway.

"Geez, thanks, Doc Yewll,
for saving us from a certain death."

Hey, no problem, kids.
Any time.

Grab a lollipop on your way out.

Go away.

But not too far, obviously.

What is Rahm Tak like in person?

Excuse me?

I shame myself.
The question was impertinent.

No, it's all right, Andina.

Why do you ask?

I saw his image
the day the arch fell.

He's very handsome.

Dangerous looking.

Yes.

I prefer my men dangerous,
don't you?

Generally, they prefer me.

Some of the other
servants think humans

have brought all of
this upon themselves.

All of what?

The righteous wrath of
the Votanis Collective.

If humans had been
better about sharing

their planet then we
wouldn't hate them.

That's Rahm Tak's whole message.

There's more to it than that.

You're in shock.

You killed Christie.

Oh, no, I did it to save your...

There's always an excuse.

You've never told the truth.

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