Earth: Final Conflict (1997–2002): Season 4, Episode 19 - Hearts and Minds - full transcript

Previously on Gene Roddenberry's
Earth Final Conflict

Reverse thrusters are activated.
All systems are back on line.

Then we ascertain the cause of the system's failure?

No, not yet.

In a word: sabotage.

No human leaves here until I have
a satisfactory answer.

You once told me that
you didn't even know if you ever have kids.

Cos' you weren't sure you want to bring them
into a world like this.

I want the option.

I want the decision to be mine,
I want...

I want to be able to
choose the way I want to do it.



I want them off my planete.

I want them stop infecting our lives.

I want them dead.

Damned squirrels.

- Retinal match confirmed: Palmer Renée
- Security report.

Security grid intact. There has been no entry
authorised door otherwise in 28.7 hours

Expecting someone?

How do you by-pass security?

You're the expert...

you tell me.

Taelon tech.

You Volunteers are nothing more
than toys soldiers without it.

That kind of attitude
it's gonna lead you in a whole lot of trouble.

I'm counting on it.



- I missed you
- Hey, you're all talk Marlowe.

We'll see about that.

Is installation complete?

We have been able to effectively integrate
the Jaridian enhancements into our weapons array.

Excellent!

If should the Jaridians attack,

we can respond with equal force.

Though it disturbes me,

to think we can now annihilate an entire planet
in a blink of an eye.

Does it?

I find it empowering.

They have come to Earth
with the promise of peace...

an alien race

called the Taelons.

But there are those who resist these

alien Companions.

For the Taelon's true mission,

the secrets they hide...

will forever alter our world.

The fate of humanity now relies...

on those who dare challenge the future...

of Earth.

Season 4 Episode 19

- I have a meeting at 08:00.
- You too, uh...

Well I need just gonna have to...
tell Hubble that you have other plans.

- He might fire me.
- No, no, no he can't, you see,...

double agents with Volunteer status
and mothership clearance...

pretty hard to find.

So when I'm gonna see you again?

Is tonight too soon?

I might be a little late.

And, uh, What *** do with your
little tête à tête with Hubble?

Come on Rennée you know I can't.

Can't talk about what you do, I can't
talk about what I do, *** to know only.

So, I need to know.

Are we on for tonight or not?

- Three nights in a round.
- Yeah.

- That's jolly risky.
- True.

- We've got to be careful.
- Oh well, we're past careful.

What are you sayin, you want to slow down?

- Are you?
- God no!

- Just tired of all the sneaking around that's all.
- Yeah, me too.

Yeah. I know *** just south of Santa Cruz.

- You can almost hear the ocean brise.
- Yeah.

It's...

something natural.

Maybe I take you there someday.

As long as we'tre together.

It doesn't matter where we are.

I never want let you go.

Then don't.

Good morning ladies and gentlemen.

I wish I had better news but we believe Zo'or

has just enhanced his weapons systems
with jaridian particule beam technology.

You know Liam Kincaid,

Jeff Marlowe is a deep cover Volunteer
weapon specialist aboard the mothership

Gentlemen.

The Taelons use the Jaridian recent sorties into our
solar system as an opportunity to steal weaponery.

as an opportunity to steal weaponery.

We've design an interface to lockout
the mothership weapons array,

making it impossible for Zo'or to use his new canons
without the proper code.

The code held safely in the hands of the ANA.

we gonna plant it in a weapon's pod on deck nine.

Deck nine is a top level security area.
Unaccessible to humans,

but I've been implanted
with tealon energy nano emmeters.

As you know Da'an recently transfert
some of his energy to Renée Palmer.

We copy this energy signature to allow
agent Marlowe to override security.

Once I'm in place, major Kincaid will introduce robotic
disruptors into the ship's environmental system...

As a distraction,

Weapons array will be taking off line,

giving at agent Marlowe about 60 seconds
to plant the lockout interface.

Once in place I'll program the code.

Now, the watch word of this mission is deniability,

to that end agent Marlowe has agreed
to undergo a selective memory block,

to wipe any knowledge of the ANA
from his mind for 24 hours.

Any questions?

Objections?

Then good luck gentlemen.

A walk in the park?

You sure the taelon energy
hasn't infected your brain?

Liam, I need to talk to you about Renée.

Oh I see that it has, hey listen...

we've been friends for what, two years now.
If I had a problem I let you know.

Just asking.

She said anything about me?

- Deniability remember?
- Come on i'm looking for some information?

What are friends for?

Now listen, if you really want impress her,
all you got to do,

is beat her at chess qote some Robert Ludlum,
and...

blow up the mothership.

Or keep Zo'or exoskin,
she says that'll make great *** rock.

Anything else?

Doesn't pink roses never hurt?

I remember that.

Computer: Sandoval,
deactivate security field.

I'm in position.

It's a green light here.

Computer: Sandoval security code 50034
access environmental systems portal.

Voice recognition match.
Access granted.

There's a systemic failure.

It's probably an indicator malfunction.

The environmental controls are frozen Zo'or.

The override is apparently blocked
or malfunctionning. Repair it at once.

Systems are not responding.

Attention all personnal:

We are experiencing an environmental failure,
the ship is depressurizing

Report to the escape pods immediately.

- Repeat: the ship is deprissurizing,
- Move out.

Report to the escape pods immediately.

Keep moving... keeping moving.

I'm in.

Professor Og'no what is the status
of the environmental system?

It will not respond to manual command

Inside the weapons pod.

- You should see this Liam.
- Stop sightseeing and do what you have to do.

Just waiting for shut down.

We must divert power
from the auxilliary drive.

- A temporary solution at best.
- Zo'or...

humans require oxygen to breath.
We running out of time.

Do it.

Auxilliary shutdown complete.

We're in business 60 seconds and counting.

That is strange.

Report.

I was attempting to run
an operationnal diagnostic,

when I noticed an energy emission ***,
in the weapons pod.

Dispatch security.

We've got a problem partner.

It's not what you're suppose to say.

There is a security detachment headed you way.

Damnit.

I'm almost done one more digit
and the code is complete.

- Abort the mission. Get the hell out of there.
- Negative...

You have your orders.

To help yours.

Back away from the controls.
Don't move.

Major!

I heard there was a security breach,
I came fast as I could.

Volunteer Marlowe was already on the scene
when I arrived.

That is because Volunteer Marlowe
"is" the security breach.

Explain what you were doing in an area
restricted to Tealons.

There was an evacuation, I panicked.
I thought I'd be safe in a secure area.

I have finished the operationnal diagnostic.
The weapon system conduit was breached.

I'm guessing Volunteer Marlowe
was attempting sabotage.

Forward jump to conclusions we need to calm down
and sort this out.

I'm sure there's an explanation.

Who ordered this act of treason?

All I'm required to do is tell you my name.

Marlowe Jeffrey Thomas 1st lieutenant
Volunteer security corps.

- Answer me!
- Go to hell.

Take him away.

And when he revives,
bring him to me for questioning.

There will be consequences to this treason.

- It is a primitive though effective lockout device.
- Have it removed at once.

The interface has integrated itself
into the bioslurry.

It will take several weeks to repair the damage caused
if we attempt to remove it.

Then shut it down.

It requires a failsafe code.

Until we have the code,
we cannot engage the particle canons.

Volunteer Marlowe is a traitor and a saboteur

He will not leave this ship
until we are given the code.

With all due respect Zo'or,
this is a high profile case.

Marlowe's been charge with treason
he's untitled to an attorney.

Volunteer Marlowe is untitled to nothing.

Time and again, you humans prove yourselves
unworthy of our kindness...

our generosity, and our trust.

If... if I may Zo'or,...

all of humanity is extremely grateful.
- Get off my ship!

- I'm begging you pardon
- Get off. All of you.

All humans are banished from the mothership,
effective immediatly.

It will take several hours to portal
all of the humans back to Earth.

That is not my concern.

I shall return to the bridge in fifteen minutes.

Any human remaining will be shot on sight.

This is insanity.

Humanity has betrayed us Liam.

We must take the appropriate action.

Even war has its rules,

including the human treatment
of its prisoners.

I can assure you, Volunteer Marlowe
is receiving the best care possible.

Then let me see him.

What have you done to him?

The hydro-dermic suspension interrupts
any further serial decay.

Decay?

So he's dead?

He is neiter alive nor dead,

but our efforts to revive him have fail thus far.

Zo'or isn't gonna give up.
He wants names.

Volunteer Marlowe made a choice.

He must now suffer the consequences.

Did it again.

At least Im consistent.

You know one of this days you gonna have
to tell me how you bypass my security.

Sorry trade secret.

Well, speaking of secrets...

pink roses are my favorits,

- how'd you know?
- Another secret.

- Well I have ways of making you talk.
- Oh, I was hopping you'd say that.

- So, how was your mission?
- Mission?

Ok, don't tell me, deniability, I know.

All I can think about today
was how much I wanted to be with you.

I don't want this to end...

ever.

Doesn't have to.

Cold out there.
How're you doing?

I have been trying to find you
for the past seven hours.

You know I take my global off
the tracking net when I'm at the cabin.

I need this.

Liam.

I might may not to drink the coffee
when you make it.

Alright, so what is so urgent?

I don't how to sugarcoat this.

- How to tell you?
- Then just tell me what is it?

It's Jeff.

The mission yesterday went south.

Zo'or light to killing him,
he's not dead but he's not alive either.

What are you talking about?

Taelons are keeping him in a stasis tank
so they can probe his mind on the mothership.

If he revives.

Liam,

I was with Jeff last night and believe me
he is very much alive.

No.

It's on floating in a tank.

Why are you doing this, this is...
You're idea is a sick joke or something.

That's no joke

- I know it's hard for you to believe.
- Believe what?

Jeff and I were together last night.

He, he even brought me roses.

- It wasn't Jeff.
- wasn't Jeff.

An impostor maybe, Zo'or could have
deliberately sends someone...

- to see what you knew about mission.
- Oh, come on!

Renée...

I was there.

- He's my friend, I tried to save him.
- What, what is with you?

I'm telling you he was not an impostor,
he was Jeff.

It's the truth.

Really.

But if you were the impostor,

what if you're the one trying to figure out
what I know about the mission.

Then run a med test,
anyone else do you know have three strands of DNA?

I will.

Fine...

'cause right now,

all you doing is putting off facing
the truth about Jeff.

Unfortunately,

sooner or later you gonna have to deal with it.

- When exactly was the last time you saw Jeff?
- Just before I left the mothership.

- Eleven P.M, what about you?
- I was with him all night.

According to the downloaded security log
you were the only one here last night.

Jeff bypasses the security system all the time.

Just to drive me crazy.
Roses are over there on the table.

Jeff could have brought you here before the mission,
but he wasn't here with you after.

Jeff and I made love,

I would know if he was an impostor.

- Did he tell you anything about the mission?
- He never talks about his missions.

- What about the alarm?
- I told you, he knows how to defeat the system.

- Liam, he was here.
- He was on the mothership.

- He's still on the mothership.
- Well, we can't both be right.

Report.

There has been no change
in Volunteer Marlowe's condition.

- Unacceptable.
- I understand you concern Zo'or,

but if we attempt to mind probe beat this time
we may kill him.

The only thing keeping Volunteer Marlowe alive
is the Taelon energy in his system,

released by the nanobots in his blood stream.

To complicate matters his mind is been wiped
from the crude memory block.

No more excuses.

You will succeed So'ron
or I will order you to surrender to stasis.

It would be imprudent at this time
to place anyone in stasis.

Without the humans
we are rather short handed.

- And you blame me.
- You are the one responsible for their banishment.

We scarcely have enough Taelons
to run the ship's most basic funtions.

Unless the humans return...

- we may all be force into stasis.
- Never.

You are relieved of duty.

Since you are the expert on all things human.

Volunteer Marlowe
will now be your primary responsability.

You will find a way
to circumvent the memory block,

and burrow into what remains
of his subconscious mind.

I did ** a complete medical work up,
** scan, neuralogical scan, EEG everything's normal.

- You sound disappointed.
- It's not that I was hoping that there is some...

medical reason that would explain
what's been happening.

- I have theory
- Well please, let's hear it.

It's might sound pretty wild but I use reviewing
some of Augur's research on the communality.

Communality, what for?

We can't explain how they do
but we know the Taelons can link their minds,

that they communicate
on some sort of communal virtual plan.

You're saying he's communicating with me
through some kind of... mind link?

Come on Liam, we both know no such thing
as a human communality.

Augur's not the only one who's experiment it with it.

We had specialists at Doors working on for years...

can't be done.
- What if, you and Jeff are a special case.

- How?
- In order to bypass the mothership security,

Jeff was implanted with energy nanobots.

The energy signature was clone from Da'an.

- Where the ANA get Da'an's energy signature?
- From you,

after you carry Da'an's energy to counter
the effect of the dark matter.

Why was not informed of this?

- Deniability.
- Of course.

Anyway I don't buy it.

Doctor Duprée gave me
a complete physical after the mission.

She flashed the remaining energy
out of my system.

What if there is residual energy,
and you and Jeff would have identical signatures.

You want me to believe
that Jeff is barely alive on the mothership,

and he's communicating with me
on some virtual plan.

Would explain why you're the only one
who could see him in here.

But that's not how
the Taelon communality works.

Taelons don't manifest themselves to each other
they're not present to one another.

Because they're not human.

What if,

your emotion are making it more real.

Maybe a human communality
is actually superior to a Taelon communality.

Well, then why can't I see Jeff right here right now?

Maybe that your state of mind and your environment
actually stimulate the link.

You're only receptive
because you expect to see him and be with him.

Or there could be a more
reasonable explaination for all this.

What if Jeff escaped from the mothership,
and we don't know it.

Maybe I'm the only one he's risking contacting.

When is the next time you're planing to see him?

- Lunch, Woodside Park.
- Alright then, here's what we do.

You go to lunch, I stake out the park
record what happens.

Either Jeff shows, or he doesn't.

- You're really here.
- Sure I am.

What's the matter?

I heard about your mission yesterday.
What happen to you.

You're not suppose
to hear anything about my mission.

It's on all over sat news.

Everyone knows Zo'or banished the humans
from the mothership. Listen...

Liam thinks you're still up there,...

we've got to tell him that you're OK.
- Wait a minute.

Zo'or banished everyone from the mothership?

You were there, don't you remember?

It doesn't make sens.

I... I remember been caught,
I don't remember coming home.

I don't remember anything
up until I saw you at the cabin and...

nothing after that until now.

Your *** was still on shock

- We'll sort it out.
- Something's wrong.

- No. No listen, just give it time.
- I'd better go.

Why?

Because I have to.

Leave me alone.

Jeff!

- Jeff wait.
- Renée.

- Guess he's.
- Late?

- He's come and gone.
- Renée no-one has been here.

I'm telling you he just left.

We could still catch him, come on.

- I've seen you've been standing here the entire time.
- It's ridiculous.

Look, this is the surveillance recording
of the last three minutes.

You're alone, no-one was with you.

No, he was here.

I touched him.

I kissed him, he was right here.

It's true.

It's all in your mind Renée.

Jeff said,

the only thing he remembered
was beeing at the cabin and then...

and then nothing until then.

He doesn't know he's on the mothership.

He doen't know is in a tank.

And he doesn't know he's dying.

- So you're saying Marlowe is still alive?
- Yes.

Well if that's the case we've got
a major security problem on our hands.

That memory block is temporary.

The entire ANA can be compromise
if Zo'or gets inside what's left of his brain.

That is why we have to get him
off the mothership as soon as we can.

Now, I still have a residual amount
of Da'an's energy.

If Jeff's nano-emitters can fool the system,
I can fool it.

No.

You were specificaly past over for this assignment
because of your emotional stake in this.

Emotion is what separates us from the Taelons,
whitout it we are not better than they are.

I'm going up there.
With or without your approuval.

Alright, the two of you will go.
On one condition:

if a rescue is impossible,...

you are to terminated agent Marlowe.
- No.

If Zo'or can find a way to crawl inside
Marlowe's head, it's all over for the ANA.

Everything we worked for will be destroyed.

The greater good has to come first here.

Understood?

Understood.

Understood.

I'm not really here, am I?

You're still on the mothership.

They put you in some sort of...

stasis tank to keep you alive.

So real.

Yes for me too.

I've been trying to make sense
on what I'm feeling.

No memories, just blackness.

And then you come alive,
the whole world comes alive how?

I don't know.

I don't know exactly.

It has something to do
with the Taelon energy in your system.

And mine.

I'm... I'm scared.

I'm deeply scared.
If I'd let you go...

- I don't know if I'll ever be able to find you again.
- No, that's not gonna happen.

- Liam and I gonna take you out of there.
- No. It's too dangerous.

No, Hubble's already approves it
and We have a plan.

Our only problem is getting on the mothership
without getting caught.

I think I might beyond help.

Taelons have be digging into my subconscious,

I can feel their presences,
I think it's Da'an.

I thought to shut him off.

I think his main concern is the lockout code.

You think if you can give it to him
that he won't take for names?

Maybe.

If he can make contact
before my mind isn't completely dead

Your mind is alive.

It's still you.

Ok, you tell Da'an not much.

- And try not to give him anything else.
- I'll be careful.

OK.

There is one more thing.

This will not be a rescue mission.

When you find me you and Liam
have to terminated me,

- you have to pull the plug.
- No.

Once your off that ship, we'll get you a medical
treatment whatever you need.

Renée, listen. Listen.

If Taelon science can't revive me,
human science can't either.

You don't know that.

Neither *** knows what will happen
unless we get you down here,

and will try to undo whatever just
they've done to you. Don't you understand?

I can't let you go.

I can't.

Concentrate.

He has giving me the code.
We can deactivate the lockout mechanism.

- Who masterminded that treachery?
- I do not know.

- You must reestablish the link.
- I cannot.

I have pushed the limits
of Volunteer Marlowe's lifeforce

I can go no further now without killing him.

Then you will resume your efforts in an hour.

I must protest.
It is unnaturally cruel to keep this human alive.

Now that we have ascertained that
the mothership is no longer in jeopardy.

Cruelty is irrelevant.

Your misplaced concern for the humans
will automatically be your undoing.

And your lack of concern
will automatically be yours.

Looks like you've been busy.

Bringing Jeff back... alive.

I look the *** to *** a power source,
and I'll find some way to portal me here.

Fine, as long as you don't allow your emotions
to get in the way of your professional judgement.

That's too late for that, isn't it?

That's what we need to do?

You don't need to desobey a direct order.
I'll do it alone.

That's not gonna happen.

You could be court martialed.
I can't ask you to do this.

You didn't.

If there any way to bring Jeff back alive,
we'll find it. Together.

We've got your message?

Though I was initially unwilling to aid you.

Volunteer Marlowe gave me the lockout code.

So we can again access our weapon system.

In exchange, I have masked your arrival
aboard the mothership.

Take it easy Renée.

We've got work to do.

I read the power source is mobile.

All we've got to do is figure out
is how to reconnect it.

- Don't do it Renée.
- Jeff

What's... what's happen to you?

I'm dying.

In human terms I might as well
already be dead.

- Don't say that.
- That's true.

It's time to let go.
It's time the both of us let go.

- Shut down the tank.
- No. I can't.

Try to understand.

At first, I didn't even know I was dying.

Part of my mind was in a capsule,
isolated from the knowledge.

But death have been heading a way at me,
and now I'm facing it.

Renée all I feel now is the pain of dying,
over and over.

I'm trapped in some living Taelon health

Want you back on Earth.

We'll have time...

we can find a way to help you.
- Cut this.

No.

Listen to me,

I know what I'm asking you to do.

But I'm gonna die.

Give me peace.

But if there's, But if there's any hope.

There is no hope.

I've already let go what you see in there.

All it's left in the tank is a shell.

Someone said to me

It doesn't matter where we are
as long as we're together.

No...

You'll be in my heart...

forever.

Right, all we need to do is get the tank
to the portal without be detecting by security.

without be detecting by security.

Jeff told me to shut down his life support.

Didn't you tell him we're taking him home?

He says is no use.

He's not alive any more, not...
in the human sense.

He's in agony.

He wants me to let him go.

You're sure you want to do this?

Access one get you enter the system.
Access two shut down life support.

Controls aren't responding

There's the lockout Da'an signature.

Let's go.

Zo'or made a formal apology to the Volunteers
for the way he traded Jeff.

Gave him a space burial with full honors.

So Volunteer are back on the mothership?

Yes, business as usual.

So what we ever gonna win Liam?

The pain all the sacrifice.
Is that ever really got to mean anything.

You know, I know it's hard but

can't give up hope.

Yeah, well,

I don't have much left.

If you can't do it for yourself right now,
you have to do it for Jeff.

That's it I guess.

Well, the security system on the mothership
was never changed to lockout on Da'an signature.

Then why can I access the controls?

The Taelon energy inside your boddy
wasn't strong enough to activate them?

Then how could the mind thing worked?

I can't explain it.

So maybe there's more to Taelon science
we don't understand or...

Or more to the human heart.