Earth: Final Conflict (1997–2002): Season 4, Episode 16 - Trapped by Time - full transcript

Previously on Gene Roddenberry's
Earth Final Conflict.

He has a wife
he had her comitted.

He's dying.

I know.

There's only one way to save him.

No, I can't go back Boone.

I promised Deedee,
I prom... I can't put her in danger again.

I took care of that problem for you.
I assure you she felt no pain.

Damn you Boone! Damn you!

I'm Heather North
I hear you're looking for me.

Forced sensory depravation
whithout do process.



Someone call that down right on American.

- It's the way things get done.
- It's going to stop.

.

- Rain, all the way from ***.
- Your authorisation.

- Just a minute.
- You have ten seconds...

or these men will take you down.

But they don't get to do that
as often as they'd like.

Here.

Who are you?

- You didn't mention it when you left the message.
- I'm the person with the other half light code.

Wich is all I need.

- In which section?
- Research.

Look, I can go alone if you like.

Imagine...



during the cold war dozens of
missile crews actually live down here,

with hydrogene bombs for company.

And the Taelons showed up
with the mother business.

Are they frozen?

No.

They're in a kind of stasis.

Their metabolism is inert
and their life forces are sustained.

- You think?
- How long have they been this way?

For a while.

We've no idea how this things work
but we tested the half-life of nuclear ***.

A hundred thousand years,
maybe two.

Not possible.

This is english.

Two hundred thousand years ago
only mammoths were running around.

Not in the past, in the future.

These people travel forward in time
and came back for what's a long long way around.

Now look at the technology, it's human.

And only a bit advance from what we have.

These people took a journey
that lasted two thousand centuries.

Think of the implications.

Something this amazing
and you keep it secret.

- How long have we had them?
- Oh, about thirty years.

I hope they will wait for ***

Emergency purge initiate.

They have come to Earth with a promise of peace.

An alien race...

called the Taelons.

But there are those who resist these

alien Companions.

For the Taelons true mission...

the secrets they hide...

will forever altered our world.

The fate of humanity now relies...

on those who dare challenge
the future...

of Earth.

TRAPPED BY TIME

Agent Sandoval I didn't realized
you were in today's group.

I can give you private appointment
when I finish the others.

I'm certain agent Sandoval
does not wish privilege treatment.

Certainly not Zo'or.

A CVI removal is a normal procedure...

and I have a full calendar, shall we?

How long have you had a cyber viral implant?

- Seven years fifty one days.
**- Longer than most.

Off course...

we never anticiped rejection
by your crude human immune system.

Pity you have lost the use of your skrill.

It has lost the use of me Zo'or.

How poetic.

Now you must rely on an energy weapon,
like a common guard.

I hope none of this is too painful for you.

Either for your body...

or your ego.

Be advised...

the neuropath was integrated with the implant.

Removal can cause vertigo...

separation anxiety and slight paralysis.

Just do it.

Agent Sandoval.

- Have them prepared my shuttle.
- Yes sir.

This came in a Whashington embassy pouch.
You're eyes only.

Sandoval...

I'm Mark Rusk.

Do I know you?

Absolutely not, I've made sure of it.

Also this is a quantum cyberlink with a
terrabyte ***, so you can't trace it.

What do you want Mr Rusk, I'm a busy man.

She'll tell you what I want.

Ron it's me.

It's Deedee.

It's impossible.

You're a bio-surrogate image or a computer simulation,
you're not real.

You haven't changed.
I knew you'd want proof.

Listen...

Sam Rods...

"Chateau ***"...

The first time we made love.

When we finally came back
to the real world it was done.

You won't let me out of your arms,
a few more hours.

Yes, that uh...

that's graphically accurate.

So you open up my wife's mind
before you killed her, why?

I'm not dead, Boone lied.

I'll explain later
when we'll be together.

They've been saving me.

But there is something they really want.

You have to give them the protocols
for deep Taelon's stasis.

No one has access to those,
except members of the Synod.

That's what they want.

They're only giving me one chance to ask you.
You've got to do it Ron.

What if I can't Deedee?

What will happen to you if I can't?

Liam Kincaid recognized.

Good news.

Sandoval finally had his CVI retired.

Too bad our agents didn't get it for us.

Let's just hope he didn't forget
where he hid out the bodies.

I'll see you tomorrow.

You're just still up to no good.

Relax, hey, I'm not armed.

I am full of enough *** heard of sworn of killer bees.

Not to mention your excellent single malt.

What do you want?

Six month ago you snuck into my place and
had a little look around, I'm just returning the favor.

How do you beat my system?

The last thing I took when I cleaned out
my old office was your security code.

- You could have knocked.
- And ruin my entrance?

This isn't a social call.

I've managed to seriously piss off some folks in a
secret agency who do not have the sense of humor.

You think I do, stand up.

Turn around.

Brave mam,
haven't see me inside of a tub in two days.

- You didn't break in for my soap?
**- No.

I've turned up a small corner
on a kind of Washington conspiracy...

that all agencies are built to deny
it's massive and it's dirty.

- Your speciality.
- Hey, don't judge me by my past.

I'm on my own now and by my calculations
it can go one of two ways.

Either i'll be dead in less than a week,
or I can write my own ticket.

Which would be?

Pan Global Intelligence.

It's the brass ring and I can grab it.

Now since their director was killed...

there's no one with the brew power
or enough political favorites to get the node.

I think this can do it for me.

How does what you're in
do affect the Taelons.

It's about the future.

Our future and theirs.

Liam, it's astonishing.

We have three astronauts,
three humans from the future, time travellers.

And our governements
had them for thirty years.

One of their agents try to kill me
when I saw where they were hiding.

If...

I stress if...

if this is true...

then what you saying is...

they know what's gonna happen to Earth...

- to the Taelons...
- Yeah.

and to us.

That's alright.

Sexy huh?

Oh yeah, I think I've beat the man's interest.

.

Look at this...

I was wondering where bamboo umbrellas
and ***

My uncle bought this place...

*** , 6 months after the Taelons
got here and they closed down the space program.

Some of these "crownies" from the cap
still come here to tell *** stories

Uncle Kyle!

Hey, Heather honey.

How are you? All right.

Renée Palmer, Liam Kincaid.
This is Kyle Madrid.

Pleasure.

- Nice to meet you.
- Same, same.

You were the last one in charge
of the space shuttle program right?

- Chek me out, uh?
- Your niece told us about you.

I ran shuttle ops from 03 to 05...

switched as the door *** stages.

It was before your time as C.O.

Before Doors start
to picking out with the Taelons ***.

Yes, well we're not picking out
as much these days as we used to.

According to Heather you're a pair of double dealers
who want to see those blue assle bees off our planet.

- Don't believe everything you ear.
- You don't have to be shy with me son, so do I.

And so does everyone else
who are allowed to drink in here.

Beers. Two.

I had to be up frank with uncle Kyle.
He's a bit suspicious.

Any Companion protector comes
into my place without my blessing...

He's gonna find I've got a bulb head,
under this bar.

At least for now we unterstand each other.
Heather told us an intriguing story.

We'd like to ear the rest.

It's a cover up.

It's bigger than the Kennedy things
It's started with project "Blue book".

Then it got serious when the Feds
infiltrated the SETI program

and had most of MIT branded as saucer nuts.

But our goverment has known
about the existence of extraterrestrials...

since the mid seventies.
It's not in a secret archives.

The Taelons are here what does it matter?

Aliens exist now we know it.

You don't know the half of it.

There's a huge compiracy
still in place and still alive, and deadly.

I only got away 'cause they have a failsafe
system load with C.5 incapacitation gaz.

Now, why have that unless you keep
what you've got from getting out?

Astronauts from the future?

Or this that's what you think you've saw.

And if she did...

Then they know how it plays out, don't they?

Here.

- Heather said the tunnels were full of commandos.
- Why pull the guard off now?

May be they want us to take a look.

And they don't care what we see.

Nice of them to leave the lights on.

Still about too parts per million C.5 gas in here
enough for a headache.

It's also saturated with alien energy.

Whatever was in here was ***.

Oh we shouldn't be surprised

it wasn't exactly settle.

Some of this stuff is ten years old.
Still printed on paper.

They spend a lot of time down here.

Time sheets, supply requisitions.

Stuff that accumulates
during long boring shifts.

- Boring shifts doing ***.
- *** the stasis bubble presumably.

There's a computer log here
for something called, Phoebus.

Fusions allocation device is armed.

- Thermo-blasting 50 seconds.
- Blast fusion burn.

They're sanitizing the whole tunnel system.

Thermo clean,

in five,

Four,

- Here we make the blast door.
- Three, Two,

One.

Initiate.

Listen I, I did a global search for Phoebus.

It's a Greek mythology,
one of the Gods send to the oracle at Delphy.

You mean like Zeus, Athena, Apollo.

Phoebus was another name for Apollo.

Ancient Gods were favourite
source of names for the US space program.

- Mercury, Saturn...
- You're there? It's Madrid.

Yeah, what have you got?

I got it all, Phoebus is the key to the vault.
Get down here.

You order to the bridge.

I'm a first priority sentry on main security duty Sir.
I answer only to commands from the helm.

- Well I'm cancelling those orders.
- Impossible Sir.

If you persist in interfering with my duties,
I'm instructed to report...

Damn it!

- Oh, good night ladies.
- Good night.

Thanks a lot, have a good sleep.

Hey...

what do you say I buy you that last beer and

we call it the night, OK?

You're pretty funny.

You forget about the beer.

Just pay up,

and you can get the hell out of he...

What did you think?

You could poke around on Phoebus data.

And not be found out.

Find out how much you know.

Go around!

Freeze!

Distortion generator, nice touch.

Kyle.

What did he want?

Apollo...

The circumstances surrounding
the death of my wife,

have always been somewhat marquee.

I use to remember more
but the details were stored in my CVI.

As was nutritional data for every meal
you ate for 7 years and 51 days.

And a myriad of other useless facts.

I will determine,

which of my memories
is and is not useless not you.

Your tone is insubordinate.

You forget yourself.

No Zo'or.

That is certainly one thing I've not forgotten.

In any case,

your CVI has been frozen pending dissection.

We wish to analyse why it failed.

Then perhaps I can access
the mothership's raw data.

It's in the segment of the data parts
for which I have no clearance.

As are many other things
which you have no reason to learn.

Can you give me some compelling reason
to reopen your wife's files?

It would put my mind at ease.

Compelling reason.

Your mental ease fails to meet that state.

Another matter.

The stasis control module
was vandalized yesterday.

Have you discovered who or why?

It was on my morning report.

I shall investigate in due course,
is there a reason to make it a priority?

Only that the mothership cyber anti-bodies

rejected that effort
to access restrictive data.

Put my mind at ease agent Sandoval.

Find out why.

Certainly Zo'or.

If you worried,

I can replace the volunteer guards
with my personal detail.

An excellent suggestion.

OK. Got the first Phoebus reference.

Phoebus was a secret team formed in april of 1978

after the Apollo 20 mission.

There was no Apollo 20,
the final trip to the moon was Apollo 17.

That's because they cut short
the plan number of missions.

But they build 3 spare lunar modules,

they flew Apollo 20
on a rescue mission to retrieve...

this.

Phoebus 11.

Launched in...

2091 towards Cygnus Major.

- 2091?
- That's what it says.

Its Commander is or will be
Captain Stuart Trammel.

How'd they know what would happen
a 120 years in the future.

That was on the Phoebus onboard computer log.

If Kyle hadn't made the Apollo connection,
we'd never found this.

He was launched into a wormhole
took an interstellar short cut, and...

got lost in time.

And came back before it was launched.

Right back to lunar orbit.

So Apollo 20,
was a secret mission to bring it down.

We never knew.

I don't think the Taelons

design this spacecraft.

It has taelon touches but the Phoebus is human.

So why did we...

why "will" we, revert our own technology?

Tealon tech is vastly superior for space travel.

I had to guess.

They gonna leave and take
most of their technology with them.

We have to start over with the little
that we've learned and take it from there.

I bet Trammel

can tell us.

Yeah even if we find him,
we need to know how to revive him.

- Can you get protocols?
- My protector status isn't enough.

The Taelons won't let us near their stasis tech.

We have to find another way.

You can't get pass the worst volunteers.

I won't use the front door.
Take a cross with the service decks.

There's been an unauthorized entry
to the stasis control module.

Have the protocol been accessed?

The cyber anti-bodies report no intrusion.

Well I've also placed
a simple bio-sensor inside the module.

Perhaps, you should investigate.

Dismissed.

What are you doing Major?

He'll be off for another four or five hours.

I Can make it more.

I'll admit, having Sandoval at my mercy
is almost too much ***

I was hoping we'd think
of something useful to do with him.

Can I just snap a finger or two?

I just wish you'd grab him two days ago.

Still have a CVI,

we could planted it
for every nasty secret he had in there.

Don't forget he is my surrogate father.

Some details are better not to know.

Ok, I've got the stasis protocols.

I've converted the lag data into binary
so you can view it here.

I'll take you word for it, but what is it?

Lag data technology
is strictly something the Taelons use.

It dosn't matter.

I'm betting that those stasis bubbles
from the Phoebus too,

or respond to the revive sequence from the stasis deck.

It's an EEG alarm.

Did you detect any abnormalities
in the brain waves?

No just random Beta patterns.

It's a CVI.

How his was removed?

There's a CVI pulse emanating from his parietal lobe.

*** never had taking out.

So is all the show. He couldn't get up
he's too attached.

Maybe we can download some of it.

Thought that you didn't want to,
that was better not to know.

As long as we can

♪Let's start with recents events

and see.

...another 24 hours,
that's all you've got.

I tried, but I dropped the recorder.

I'll go back, I'll get it somehow.

Tell Rusk, if he kills you,
he loose any chance he has.

Don't let me die Ron.

I love you.

Mothership control, this is Sandoval Ronald.
ID 50032.

Remove me from the locator web.
I'll be off duty for an indefinite period of time.

I hope giving Sandoval the stasis protocols
is the right move.

Well, he's the key.
He needs to have what they or were stuck.

You will transmit the protocols to me
via a quantum cyber-link.

Similar to the one we are using now.

Let me talk to my wife.

Let me talk to her.

I've got what you want
and you still need to get her from me.

I knew you could do it.

- But I'm scared to death.
- Don't be. That's over.

In a few minutes we gonna be together,
you'll can pull all this behind you.

But hurry.

- Satisfied?
- Not entirely.

I'm comming to get her.
I'll bring the stasis protocols with me.

Give me Deedee,
what you do after that I don't care.

No...

I send you another volatile data vault.

When you've transmitted the protocols
and I've tested them,

I'll give you back your wife.

I'm not dealing with you Rusk.
I'm informing you.

I'm sending you my portal coordinates,
link me to your location.

I'm coming in person.

Oh... I cant believe it.

It's over, it's over. I've got you back.

I'm gonna make them regret this.

- Just give them what they want and take me home.
- I will, I will.

Deedee.

I never gonna let anything
happen to you again.

Deedee, I've been *** alone,

but I'll be making the Taelons pay for it.

Where is it?

17 terrabytes,

computer is gonna take a few minutes
to reassemble it.

I'm sure you find it to your satisfaction.

Deedee?

You really think I want you back?

What?

For 2 years I haven't had to
listen to your warning and plodding.

I've been free, and it's been heaven.

He's forcing you to say that.

Don't flatter yourself Ron.

You're a paddy skimmer.

*** selfish fool,
delusion of grandeur.

Nobody has to force me to say that.

It's just the ugly truth.

Never take it off.

I want to work for the Companions,
I'm proud to have been recruted.

Do you realize that?

Even if it cost you your mariage?

I've activated the revive command.

- How long have they been like this?
- How long is a relative term?

Literally.

By the internal plugs in the bubbles who run forward.

Two hundred thousand and sixteen years.

God!

Do they dream?

I don't know.

Why don't we ask?

Sandoval is on the move.

I'm getting a strong subtraining reading
of taelon energy. The stasis signature.

Stasis bubbles are in the cellar.

It's pulsing in rapid sequence.

- She didn't revive.
- ***.

Who knows the slightest *** system.

- So far to go some *** use for nothing.
- Something is wrong.

Captain Trammel?

Welcome back.

My crew?

We will explain.

We have medical facilities here we need
to get you stabilize ***.

I need to call the mission control.

I made myself vulnerable,
that's allways a mistake.

You've been dead for me
for two years Deedee.

And I'm gonna keep you that way.

That's a skrill.

- Drop it!
- Deedee get down!

He's burned, but he'll be ok.

I make a anonymous call to the mothership
to have them pick him up.

Skrills are illegal.

Captain Trammel. Don't try to talk right now,
we gonna get you some help, Ok?

He's call, I can barely get a pulse.

Where am I?

You're on Earth,

before you left.

How did he get a skrill?

They were banned after the Taelons were gone.

What happen to the Taelons?

They got what they deserved,
don't you think?

From the others.

When they nearly wiped us out,

but that was years ago.

- Years.
- The Others, what others?

The ones we found.

The others.

So, I guess congratulations are on order,
when do you start?

I make a report on Phoebus
tomorrow to the President,

and *** the day after.

Then let me guess,
you pull a vanishing act.

More or less.

The Atlantic National Alliance
may have loved the ideas,

but it is still a goverment
and it likes its *** the old fashion way.

So even a director at pan-global intelligence
can't have an identity.

I really can't comment,
anyway...

- cheers!
- Cheers!

Your uncle would have enjoyed this.

I think he would have enjoy to having a beer
with Captain Trammel a lot more.

Maybe is.

You have performed well agent Sandoval.

We recovered the human remains

Who knew your goverment had such a secret.

your petition to the synod for a new CVI
is not granted.

But I will allow you to keep
your original defective model,

if you are so attached.

You have earned it.

Agent Sandoval is a master
at reading my mind.

Or so he thinks.

He deceived me, *** me,
and manipulated me.

He is quiet proud.

He had the stasis protocols.

Aren't you worried his CVI made a copy?

Our most secret technology
is stored in ***like data.

Human's CVIs do not record such data...

by design.

If you'd given it to us we could have avoided all interference.

Yes, but the synod protects the secret
with upmost zeal.

Even I would be punished for giving it away.

I needed the protocols to be stolen.

What will you do with the bodies
of the two that didn't revive?

They are back in stasis.

Hopefully, I can revive them.

And report to the synod on what they know.

A little glimpse into the future,
is just what I could use right now.