Earth: Final Conflict (1997–2002): Season 2, Episode 6 - The Sleepers - full transcript

What is this?

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They are the Companions.

Aliens come to Earth
on a mission of peace.

Their true mission,

the secrets they hide,
forever alter humanity.

Caught in the struggle
between these Taelon Companions

and the Human Resistance
is Liam Kincaid.

A man who is more than human.

The mysteries of his past
hold the key to Earth's future

and the fate of mankind.



On Earth Final Conflict.

Is your strike team ready?

On my command Companion forces
worldwide will engage simultaneously.

Zo'or, I can be more effective if I'm
fully briefed on what's happening...

Give the command!

Ah, wonder what
the old man would say.

What old man?

Oh, my father.

You know,

the only piece of land he ever
owned was his body buried in.

And now look at me.

I own an entire square block
of our nation's capital. Me.

What a strange
concept to own land.

Why would you
wanna do that?



Well, so I can leave
something behind when I die.

To who?

If you play your cards
right, maybe you.

When my people die, we leave nothing
behind but this for the crows to eat.

You sound like my father.

But in his case there was
nothing left to pick on,

except a few charred bones, you know.

- You father died in war?
- No.

In the church.

Trying to get a bunch
of sharecroppers

off the vote for something.
They never did.

Taelon Security. You
all are being detained

for questioning on suspicion
of crimes committed against the...

Companions.

- What the hell is going on?
- I don't know.

I thought you said she
was in the jungles of Peru.

I said she could be
in the jungles of Peru,

or the streets of Bangkok, or San
Francisco, or Tippecanoe for that matter.

For an ex-marine, Captain,

your reconnoitering skills
are slightly lacking.

The woman is a cultural anthropologist,
Sandoval. What do you expect?

What do I expect?

I expect the same loyalty you
gave Boone, that's what I expect.

So it's true that Zo'or
is just randomly pulling

innocent citizens off the street
and executing them on the spot.

- They are not being executed.
- That's not what I've heard.

So you now trust idle speculation

rather then my words?

Then tell me what
is happening, Da'an.

There's been a rupture
in the Commonality.

Utilizing

the mental energy of human beings

is the only remedy available to us
until the rupture has been repaired.

And you stand idly by
and do nothing

while Zo'or just grabs
people off the street?

Would you prefer
that we allow ourselves

to revert to our primitive state?

I'll make sure to ask Augur
and Maiya that question.

If they survive.

When did this become
a police state?

We don't have the authority to
grab innocent people off the streets

on the suspicion that they
are Liberation members.

Innocent?

Observe the walking neon sign
with the ponytail, Captain.

What about him?

He's an escaped
convict from Russia.

Then we have to let the
Russians to deal with him.

But what about the girl and
the others? What have they done?

You don't know what's going
on here any more than I do.

Collect them

and take them to the lab.

Are they dead?

Not quite.

Tell me, Captain,

Why did you lie to me about
whereabouts of this woman?

You're calling me a liar.

And I resent that accusation.

Look, Sandoval...

If you continue this
obsession with this woman,

you're gonna endanger your
position with the Companions.

Have you located the
source of the rupture?

No, not yet.

Do you understand the
urgency of this situation?

I understand that the Commonality,
the spiritual nexus that

links the consciousness of
all Taelons, has been ruptured.

- And if that rupture isn't repaired...
- It will be the end of us.

We shall revert to our
atavistic state.

Until the source of
the rupture is located,

we require a secondary spiritual
energy to maintain the Commonality.

Energy that they're providing?

We have created what
humans would call

a near-death experience.

By keeping the body in stasis,

we have forced the soul out and into
a psycho-kinetic containment field,

which in turn channels
that spiritual energy to us

compensating for the rupture.

But those people...

Are quite content,
Agent Sandoval.

The PK field responds to the individual
consciousness of each sleeper

manifesting whatever
environment the soul requires.

You mean each one is
creating their own heaven?

That is one way of putting it.

How long can they last in stasis?

It varies with the individual.

But they will eventually
move beyond the NDE state

and enter a condition of
permanent irretrievable death.

If that happens and we have not yet
located the source of the rupture,

we will replace them with
the new group of the sleepers.

Is there no alternative
to handling this?

One. Find the cause of the rift.

Yes, Zo'or.

We have never questioned
whether it is justified for us

to kill others so
that we might live.

Self-preservation is a
concept that you taught me.

Perhaps it is time to
take stock of our actions

to determine if we have the
right to sacrifice others

for the survival of the Taelon race.

That is the reason you
will never lead the Synod.

You were once strong enough
to do what must be done.

Not anymore.

Your misplaced allegiance to
this human race has destroyed you.

And what will happen
when they all die?

What do you think?

We will get others
to take their place.

Don't be nervous.
Everything will be fine.

Jason will make
a good husband.

Ari!

Okay, Ari, that's enough.

Run along, you'll have plenty of
time to be with your sister. Go on.

Ari was killed.

I don't know how,

- but I know he was killed.
- We are all beyond death now.

No.

This is not real.

Nothing here is real.

Maiya,

there were mystics among our people

who believed that the whole
universe is contained within us.

And all of it is locked
away right here.

But unlocking that universe
won't bring people from the dead.

Nothing can do that.

I'm no philosopher,

but I know that I am your mother.

And through worlds and time,

through life and death
I have missed you, Maiya.

And nothing, nothing will
take you away from me again.

Or me.

Jason.

One of the sleepers died.

Which one?

Understood, Zo'or.

One of the subjects died.

Subjects?

Don't you mean people?

Why did you asked which one?

Were you concerned that the "subject"
that died was Isabel Martinez?

Any progress on the scans?

No.

I've been analyzing the Taelon scans,

both Earth-based and
galactic for hours.

I can't seem to trace the energy
source of the Commonality drain...

Wait a second.

Found something?

We've been searching for the
source of the Commonality drain

instead of letting it
show us where it is.

You have to be more
specific than that, Captain.

The rupture is drawing all the subatomic
waves created by the Commonality.

Now, we can replicate the
Commonality's harmonics,

then the subatomic waves
that we are creating

should be drawn to the
source of the rupture.

Very good.
Proceed.

You want me to do what?

Lili explained to me that the
Taelons are intentionally initiating

near-death experiences to
preserve the Commonality.

I want you to do
the same thing to me.

Go play your games
somewhere else.

People of my movement are
dying all over the world.

Why the hell do you
think I'm doing this?

Thought of all people
you'd be receptive.

Isn't this exactly
what you want?

Meaning what?

You tried to kill me, Doors.

You are the one who
sabotaged the shuttle.

And you can prove that?

Do you deny it?

No, you challenged
my authority!

We don't have time for this.
Our people are dying right now.

Allow Dr. Park to do what I asked.
What have you got to loose.

What makes you think you
can reach Augur and Maiya?

I have greater control of my psychic
senses than most human beings.

I know I can direct my
consciousness toward them.

And you have a plan
if you do find them?

They entered a dimensional doorway
to reach their personal heaven.

I can lead them back through that
doorway and into their bodies.

I'm sorry, Jonathan, this
is way beyond my league.

I'm not even sure any
of this is possible.

Alright.

But if we think you're in too
deep, we're pulling you out.

With your track record that
doesn't give me a lot of comfort.

Hey, beaver, wait up.

This is all...

This is all familiar.

Good day.

Forest Park.
That's impossible.

That's what they said about hacking
into Polytech's computer system.

But you did it.

Changed all your Ds
to straight As.

Dad?

How are you doing, son?

No. It can't be.

You're dead.

I heard a lot of greetings
in time, but it's

gonna be a pretty
hard to top that one.

I'm dead.

That's it.

I'm dead and this...
This is...

Heaven?

That's right.
It's your heaven.

Common up to the house.

Aunt Dee Dee and grandma Esther are
cooking up something special for you.

Aunt Dee Dee?
Grandma Esther?

This isn't right. I can
very well be killing you.

I understand.

And you'd better
wished me luck.

Be careful.

Stay clear.

Stay in the moment.
They are here.

They are definitely here.
I can find them.

I can find them.

In the tradition of our
fathers and our mothers,

I've left myself to
you for all eternity.

Before the eyes of my
family, I accept your vow.

No!

You can't.

Who are you, stranger?

Who'd interrupt
such an occasion?

Tell him, Maiya.
Tell him who I am.

I... I don't know.

Concentrate, Maiya.
We have to find Augur

and get back to lab
before we all die.

I'm sorry, I don't
know any Augur.

And I don't know you.

We just don't have time...

I'm not going anywhere.

Listen to me, this is a
psycho-kinetic dimension where

thing are real only as
long as you believe in them.

It's all created by the Taelons.

The Taelons?

You took yourself

back to a time before
the Taelons came.

Get him out of here.

No.

Let him speak.

There's nothing here
but energy, Maiya.

Quantum wave patterns and

spinning particles are given
form by your own thoughts.

We've heard enough of this.

That's okay.

It's okay.

Don't you remember?

How you told me Ari was killed
by your war with the Taelons?

How can he be here?

What about Jason?

Your husband?

You're interfering with
my daughter's wedding.

She was already married
and her husband is dead.

Do I look dead to you?

No.

Because here you're
figment of Maiya's memory.

At a time before the Taelons came,

when her world was perfect.

The most perfect day of her
life, the day she married you.

Jason.

If you stop believing this... This
will all go away. Look around you.

No!

Maiya...

Are we gonna loose him?

I've never seen
anything like it.

It is as if he's alive,
yet not alive.

All scans are negative.

There is no sign of the energy source

that is causing the
drain on the Commonality.

Then recalibrate the scan
parameters and start again.

This is the next one to go.

Better start preparation
for the next group.

Let's have a water fight.

- Okay.
- Okay.

You never got past the 60's.

You just couldn't accept
that the fight was over.

You wouldn't say that if you would've
been there from the beginning.

You had it too easy.

I mean, we were the ones
who have marched in Selma.

Handcuffs on ourselves...

Dad, dad, dad, that was ancient
history when I was a kid.

To everyone else but you the
color that ever mattered was green.

Is that why you
began to steal?

No, I began to steal because you
had me busted out of Forest Park.

And then I realized that
there were people out there

that actually had more
than one pair of shoes, dad.

Lucky for you I did,

otherwise you would've
never got into MIT.

Check.

Well, MCI had more to
do with that than luck.

It was their line that I used to hack
into the register office and get in.

Check.

But it was this that
got you through.

Mate.

With honors.

Yep.

But you were dead by then.

Just another way
to leave us, leave me.

Fighting the good fight.

And what are you
fighting for, son?

A piece of art?
A city block?

A street sing with
your name on it?

What is this? It's supposed to
be my version of heaven, right?

It is.

So there must be something
here you're missing.

Or something you need.

Well, it is certainly isn't you.

Or this co-comedian Norman
Rockwell version of our family!

What a joke!

Don't you ever refer
to our family as a joke!

It's time for you to grow up!

I never ran out on you.

- I died.
- Yes.

And I had to learn to
do everything for myself

because I knew no one
else was going to.

It's not true, Augur.

I'll always be there for
you, and so will Lili.

Who are you?

You don't remember me?

Maybe you remember
the Companions?

Maybe you remember our
struggle to save the world?

You can't solve your problems
with your father by staying here,

no matter how
tempting it may look.

Lincoln, Augur,
dinner's ready.

And grandma Esther
made a poppy seed cake.

I can't pass up
them calories.

Coming, son?

We'll have plenty time
to talk after dinner.

He's not your father, Augur.

He's just a memory
of your father.

Perhaps you should be less
concerned with his father

than with your own.

Ha'gel.

You're not Ha'gel.

You're just a projection
of my unconscious.

But your unconscious contains
the collective memories

of experiences of
countless races.

Given that, I would say
that I'm more real than most.

Come.

Be here.

Can you be so certain that
I'm not the spirit of Ha'gel?

And even is I am
a psychic projection,

would it hurt to show the image
of your father some respect?

No.

No, it wouldn't.

Here, my son,

you can create a heaven
where you truly belong.

On Earth you were neither man, nor
Companion, you were something other,

at war with yourself
and with the world.

Then why the hell did
you bring me into it?

I succumbed to
a biological imperative

as the last of my kind.

I'm sorry.

Yeah?

Well, it's the only
world I know.

But not the only
world there is.

Of what use is the
physical universe

when all the universes
in here and in here

are so much vaster
and more interesting?

Are you saying I
should stay here?

Trapped in this Taelon
psycho-kinetic prison?

The Taelons?

Liam...

You are so much more
than what they are,

and what they create.

You can transcend.

"Yellow leaves are falling,"

"A fire horse bolts and runs."

"The perfect day lost."

I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry. If only I had...

There's nothing
to be sorry about.

You don't belong here.

Not yet anyway.

But I don't know what
I'll do without you.

Just listen to the music.

In here.

The music of the human soul,

timeless melody in which
only the lyrics change.

That part of me I've given
you with my undying love.

I love you, Jason.

I'll always, always love you.

Now go before
it's too late.

Remember.

No matter where you are
or how long we're apart,

the music will go on.

Still holding, but I
can't say for how long.

Call me if her condition
turns for the worse.

I've completed the triangulation.

Our energy drain is
emanating from right here.

I assume you want me to
engage interdimensional.

It gets us there faster.

Proceed.

The subject 6 has approximately 12
minutes of life remaining, Zo'or.

And the others?

There's no reason
they'll last the night.

Round up another group.

If Liam is gonna make it, I
really can't wait any longer.

He knows what he's
doing. He'll pull it off.

- How can you be so sure?
- Because he was so sure.

Well, is I don't act right
now, he is a dead man.

Maybe not. After all, he's
not exactly a man, is he?

2/3 of him is.

Well, then I guess we'll just have to
put our money on 1/3 that isn't

for his sake and ours.

Is that your final word?

He stays in until he accomplished
what he set out to do.

Then you get him out. Alive.

You understand what this is?

The doorway beyond this plane.

Enter that vortex

and you will push past the
boundaries of material worlds

to what our people call Shahariath.

On Earth quantum physicists
would call it the implicate order.

Place where everyone and everything
is part of undivided energy continuum.

You being unique in all the
universes have the ability to see this,

know this,

become one with this.

It's almost too much
for the mind to grasp.

For others, perhaps.

Not for you.

Think, Liam.

An unbounded ocean of pure
consciousness, infinite knowledge.

But back in Earth...

Lies the destiny that
might very well destroy you.

What about your species?

If I transcend the Kimera
will no longer exist.

On this plane.

Let's get us as
close as we can.

We only get
one shot at it.

Get out of here, Captain!

You cannot save me!

Liam!

You can't throw your life away.

You made us to see the truth, now
you've got to see it for yourself.

We're loosing him.

- Pull him out now.
- But I thought you said...

I don't care what I said.

We loose him, we loose
the fight with the Taelons.

Again.

Again.

- I can't!
- Again!

I can't!

He's gone.

Liam...

Access Taelon
Commonality frequency.

Liam...

We created our fathers here,

because they are the strongest
influences that we have.

But especially you, Liam,

because you're struggling to know
a father you've never even seen.

But it's...

What's wrong?

What's happening to me?

Listen, Liam...

I hate to rush you, but
we're short on time here.

Why to go back to the world
of pain when I gonna have...

Nirvana?

There's no challenge
in being pure energy,

no danger or passion,
no anger or sorrow.

No love.

All the pain, Liam,

being human is the
greatest gift there is.

The heaven you're
looking for is back there

on Earth.

Before I can know the
secrets of the universe,

I need to know myself.

It's here.

What is?

The dimensional doorway that will
lead you back to the Taelon lab.

Step through.

What doorway?

Trust me.

What about the
other sleepers?

Take out that Taelon NDE
machine and they'll be fine.

What about you?

Just go.

Come on, Augur! Come on, get up!
Free everyone, come on! Come on!

Wait, wait, wait!
Stop, stop!

Get back, stay right
where you are!

Come on, get up, get up!
Free everyone! Come on!

Let's go! Come on! That way!

Come on! Go! Go!

Do you realize
what they've done?

Doomed the Companions and
their own foolish race as well!

If this means our ending,

at least we are able to face
it with our dignity intact.

How much time
do we have?

Not enough time to
say your prayers.

Zo'or, do you feel it?

Feel what? I...

The Commonality

has been repaired.

Zo'or and Da'an report that the
drain on the Commonality has ceased.

Good work, Captain.

And the sleepers?

Awake and free.

Gesture of mercy from Zo'or?

No, not quite.

Isabel and her friends
freed themselves and escaped.

I should've known.

- Augur?
- Where's Liam?

He's gone.

Gone?

You killed him!

No, we had to leave
him under long enough

to save you, Maiya,
everyone. No, listen to me.

You wanted him dead and you
took this chance to kill him!

Augur!

No.

It's not what's happened.

Liam? Liam!

Who said you don't have
a flair for the dramatic?

- I have a good teacher.
- Yeah. Careful.

Well.

What do you say?

Oh, come on, give me a hug!

Hey, you okay?

Are you kidding? It's gonna take
a lot more than that to rattle me.

Oh, I don't doubt it.
Ciao, baby.

What will you have?

That's up to you.

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