Earth: Final Conflict (1997–2002): Season 4, Episode 7 - The Second Wave - full transcript

Previously on Gene Roddenberry's
Earth: Final Conflict.

What've we got?

Jaridians,

and they were shot down by a Taelon
energy canon.

My god, this could be the opening salvo
of a Taelon-Jaridian war.

Welcome back to Earth Vorjak.

The Jaridian high command will not
forget your actions

when the breed crossing takes
place.

I expect nothing less.

So, it is possible that these
Jaridians could have been
emissaries,

on a mission of peace.



It is not within the Jaridian's nature
to embrace a peaceful coexistence.

When a human being looks into the
eyes of a Jaridian,

who would he see?

The enemy we have portrayed as evil
incarnate,

or someone more like himself.

What's going on? - We are on
emergency alert.

Who gave the order?
Zo'or.

The command deck is now off-limits to
all personal.

I am not "all personal",

I am someone who has intimate knowledge
of the implant embedded in your neck.

And unless you want me to use it, I
suggest you get the hell out of my way.

Now!

Maru kawa kali

This is a Taelon council of war.



Be gone!

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.

How bad is it? - We were running full
power test when,

Va'ar just ... took the Taelon control
core and shuttle off to the mothership.

All right, keep cool you've got five
hours until that reactor goes critical.

I'm shipping you a prototype core from
Taipei, you can use it for a safe shut
down.

Look, I have to take this call,

tell the Feds to start an evacuation
for a 20 mile radius.

Fell, I know it's dicey, but hang in
there for me.

Mr. President, thank you for
interrupting your schedule.

Glad to Miss Palmer,

my chief of staff informs me you don't
use the word emergency lightly.

Well I'm hoping this turns out not to
be one but perhaps you want to notify
the Atlantic National Alliance.

43 minutes ago the Taelons cut their
hot-link to our corporate com center.

Any indication as to why?

None. Now I did a quick check.

16 of 23 embassies are now empty,

and their companions have gone back to
the mothership.

Yes, we confirm that.

Our national policy would suggest that
we would be in favor of this, but you
seem,

less than pleased Miss Palmer.

I'm pleased if they're going but,

they might be planning an attack.

And as you know sir,

our whole infrastructure is tied
into their tech.

We can't go cold turkey without
major consequences.

Yes.

Understood.

A federal alert might be my next move,
but I need to know what's going on,

and I need you to fill in the blanks
for me.

Of course sir, as soon as I have any
answers you'll have them.

Thank you Miss Palmer. I'm sure you,

you have your hands full. Goodbye.

Liam!

Your system locked me out.

Sorry, I was on with the white house.

Thomson's taking a "wait and see" until
he gets some answers.

He won't have long to wait, they have
to scram the reactor at Three Mile
Island,

six states are now in rolling
blackouts.

I see it.

God, it's taking down the whole east
coast grid.

Can't you get Da'an to tell you what
the hell is going on?

I wish I could ... but he's gone.

Well, I've send the message five times,
nothing,

and I've been doing a broad spectrum
scan.

Send it again.

If the Taelons are going to war,

it's with the Jaridians.

They made first contact.

I sent them Lili Marquette with the
ID drives. I'll be damned if I'm denied
my place as their front man.

Did you consider it might not be the
Jaridians.

Judging from their,

amicable natures, the Taelons can have
an enemy in every port.

Anyway,

if it is the Jaridians they aren't
picking up.

What's plan B big guy?

You mean, other than finding a new
chief operative?

This is encoded with Taelon energy
signatures it'll get you pass
mothership security.

Commandeer a shuttle in the main
docking bay and wait there for my
orders.

Save you a seat on the Titanic?

Is that all?

Trust me.

You'd prefer this over plan C.

And if I don't?

Plan C involves that I insist that you've
been secretly putting through
Princeton,

and there's a alphabet after that Tate.

Just be ready.

Put your teams on alert, be prepared to
be join civil forces.

We could be looking at an all out
assault.

Street?

Is that you?

Roar/whoosh
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha

Gotcha!
What was that?

F-217 Aurora Escape jet.

It's a holokit, I built it.

I got a T-Rex too, wanna see?

Not now, the Taelons have shut off the
contact with Earth.

Need you to hack into their systems,
monitor what's going on aboard the
mothership.

Easier done, done said.

D.O.D. satellites are reading their
energy signature,

looks like they're powering up all
their weapons.

Satnews is covering the power outage,

Moscow TV's got ... whoa.

What?

This is from the observatory at Mauna
Kea.

An armada.

It's not Taelon.

Can you work out its trajectory?

No lateral motion, just spectral
shift heading straight for Earth.

Immediate assistance required.

It's a mayday in resistance code.

Her identifier is genuine who ever she
is she's legit.

Sending portal coordinates, please
activate. Repeat immediate
assistance.

I've got the coordinates.

She's on the mothership.

Why would a resistance mayday be coming
from the mothership?

Check again.

I've got five verifications, no
ghosting, no echoes, no reflections,

who ever needs your help is on the
mothership.

It sounds like she's in a bad way too.

Bring her down.

These actually work?

We've had glitches.

Well we don't have time to test.

Stay clear the portals I've got to max
the gain.

Let's hope we don't glitch this chick.

The system can't take it.

The field is inverting.

You're OK?

Fine.

Kira?

Our bodies aren't build to take that
kind of field reversal.

You pull a major Houdini.

So lucky you even read my signal.

I had to use a specimen portal in the
medlab, and I don't think it's
configured for people.

At least not living ones.

It's been a long time.

Too long.

I thought you were dead Kira.

Last time I saw you, it was what,

18 months ago at the Chicago meeting?

You were lobbying for reconciliation
with the Taelons.

And you didn't agree.

In fact I felt generally rejected.

A week later your unit vanishes.

No bodies, no genetic trace, nothing.

What's going on?

Ren?e, this is Kira Dorn fresh off
the "missing in action" list.

Welcome back.

Missing in action, where have you
been?

We were ambushed,

and the survivors have spend the past
year and a half on the mothership.

The, the Taelons, they, uh,

they tortured me Liam.

If you hadn't issued memory block
patches, I could have giving it all
way, I would have.

They had these,

creatures like,

overgrown CVIs crawling around inside
your brain.

It's not even you feeling the pain, but
you wished it were because...

Where you are is so much,

worse.

I shared a cell,

for a while with Lili Marquette.

She made me promise if I have to get
out,

to let you know how much she valued
your friendship.

Kira who is your first lieutenant?

Jerry Bailey.

He died in the ambush.

And before, while you are in the
resistance, who did you report to?

Major Robert Colison, he was my covert
cutout.

So you know Bob.

We've covered the security check she's
a full set of valid codes.

Kira's one of us, she has been through a
lot. She needs our support.

Just being careful.

I'd expect nothing less from Ren?e
Palmer.

Doors international,

covert resistance,

some of the newer captives knew about
your work. It is an honor.

Now can one of you guys tell me what
the hell is going on?

It is pandemonium on the mothership, I
took advantage of the chaos to send my
SOS.

There's a Jaridian fleet on its way here,

intent on the wiping out the Taelons.

And probably the planet.

So that's it!

How do we position ourselves, we don't
know enough about the Jaridians,

to hope they might be the lesser of two
evils.

The rest of my unit is still trapped on
the mothership,

I've got to get them off.

There's no shuttle traffic, and our
portals are fried.

But I could hack in a public facility.

There's a portal near the cell where
they're holding my unit.

You could use my codes.

If could get a message to them I can
tell them to

All senior companion protectors,
report to the bridge immediately.

Maybe you shouldn't go.

It's the best way to stay on top of
this crisis.

Street, do what you can for Kira's
people.

Liam.

Thank you for taking a chance.

I wasn't gonna make it on the
mothership, much longer.

Major, I'm glad you could make it.

This won't take long.

May I have your attention please?

You've all heard rumors of war.

Well I can neither confirm,

nor deny this.

All I know is after this meeting,

protectors without Skrills and CVIs,

are ordered to return to Earth.

Those with,

are invited to remain on board with
me,

where we can best serve.

In light of recent developments,

the Taelon Synode has decided to leave
this planet.

You have your orders.

You were right.

Something must be up.

Ten minutes to opening time we're shut
down.

Let's go.

Please believe that I'd hoped it will
never come to this.

Now I owe you the truth at the very
least.

What do you talking about?

This message,

was intercepted and blocked by the
Taelons six years ago.

Just days before our arrival on Earth.

I am Vorjak of the Jaridian
race.

The Taelons who are up to arrive on
your planet,

will appear to be an advanced
species, with benevolent
intentions.

They are anything but.

Lending your assistance to them will be
deemed, an act of treachery and
punished accordingly.

You have been warned.

All these years you with held this from us.

Didn't even give us the chance to
choose our own fate.

Trust me.

Your chances of survival were far
better in partnership with the Taelons.

Partnership! What kind of ...
Copy of the message...

With proof that it never reached Earth.

If you can show this to the
Jaridians,

they may have mercy.

I have also sent a message of peace to
them without Zo'or's knowledge.

Perhaps they too have grown weary of battle.

You haven't exactly won my trust.

How do you expect to succeed with a
bitter rival?

I am so sorry Liam.

I had great hope for our alliance.

You did the best you could.

But it's Zo'or's Synode after all.

Goodbye my ...

Goodbye.

Greetings Earthling.

Judging by your accent I'd say, Crab
Nebula?

Zeta Prime.

God I love the old verbal codes.

Bet the Taelons never cracked 'em. -
Some of our own never cracked 'em.

Zeta Prime that can only mean,

Monique's pregnant.

I'm impressed! - So am I, finally
took some time off?

Yeah! - Congratulations.

Everyone's here.

Karl, this is Kira Dorn from the
Chicago cell.

Can you let her have a firearm?

It's all set, we've got control of the
portal and, we've locked on to this tag
signal from the mothership.

Let's do it.

Kira!

I knew you wouldn't let us down.
Good to see you.

Majiv?

Welcome.

Majiv!

What's wrong?

Went to Majiv's funeral seven months
ago something happening.

It could be Taelon replicants.

I don't recognize him from the ship.

Hey Liam.

That was so close, you OK?

That was a Jaridian weapon.
I saw it ... too late.

I owe you.
Count it on.

Liam,

the hostages. Five of them are gone.

Freeze it.

Erase the hostages who are still here.

Anyone familiar?

Edouardo Hernandez, he does
surveillance for me.

He was in a car wreck last week, he's
in a body case, there's no way that's
him.

I think they're all Jaridians,

disguised as resistance.

So how did a Jaridian raiding party
managed to come along for the ride.

There was a second ID stream converging
with ours,

from outside the solar system.

We open the portal, they caught a ride.

How did they know to come disguised as
resistance?

Maybe they intercepted Kira's distress
call?

Where did they get the visual
identities or the ID technology.

It could have been from Lili.

The Jaridians held her prisoner long
enough to put her through a full mental
intervention.

You think she would have done this?
She might not know.

OK, the Jaridians are part of uh,
some kind of ... advanced unit.

We need to find them, hope we can use
them for negotiations.

The Jaridians have a battle fleet, they
won't negotiate for five scouts.

During my time on the mothership I
hacked into their database looking for
a way out, I found this.

It's designs for the Taelon's most
advanced particle beam cannon.

I'd hoped to use it as a way to blast
the bastards out of the sky,

Now, I know it may not be much, but it
may be something.

Impressive.

I just might be able to rig this up
from parts from my warehouses.

The cannon uses ID flux energy, so we
have to build it at a portal facility.

This place is as good as any.

Oh we can't wait around here, the entire
infrastructure's about to collapse.

Karl, get your crew working on the cannon
we'll check back with you later.

President Thompson.

You wished an audience?

Zo'or, since your arrival,

Humanity has willingly assisted you,

but we have become somewhat,

dependent on your support.

I'm asking you not to abandon us,

but to allow us to fight with you
against the Jaridians.

It was for this eventuality that you
militarized humanity.

An objective than you and I achieved
together.

To quote a human,

the fittest must survive.

This is simple Darwinian evolution at
work.

Your own history is full of such
examples.

Do not over simplify what is a terribly
complex idea devised by a human.

Our evolution was interrupted by you.

You must take responsibility for the
changes that we did not ask for.

Thank you, Mr. President,

for reminding me of what I must do.

I will take it under advisement.

You are dismissed.

Fine,

and I'll await your decision.

Yes.

You will.

Some lack the fortitude to stand alone
when ask to do so.

Perhaps the,

Companion protectors can best serve the
Taelons by fighting the Jaridians,

using embassy defense systems.

A last stand buying you precious time to
escape Zo'or.

Agent Sandoval,

is your CVI, your command imperative
functioning?

Or has it deteriorated like everything
else we've given to your species?

It's functioning perfectly.

Then accept, the Earth is doomed.

You can best serve Taelons by dying
when you are told to die.

Are you in position? - I'm in the
shuttle on deck six.

Power up the drives, I'm on my way.

... but it is your calm and orderly
conduct, that would get us through this
crisis.

I have already personally...

OK. Here's the quick and dirty.

Words about the Jaridian fleet and
the Taelons are spinning.

Global reactions run from pissed to
freaked.

Power's out, there's casualties in the
hospitals, air traffic control is
fried.

It's B movie time out there folks.

Where the hell Godzilla when
you need him. - The Jaridians are a
primitive, highly ...

That's definitely not him.
...Obsessed with the destruction of the
Taelons...

and so we are leaving,

in order to deflect the danger away
from Earth.

We wish you peace and safety.

Perhaps we shall meet again.

I can't believe this!
Parasites.

It's high time we took back our planet.

You're still bleeding.

Don't you think it's high time you had
that treated.

Let's get you to a doctor.

While we're at it get you full medical,
just in case if any of these nasty,

brain bugs will still crawling around.

Might be a good idea.
Fine,

maybe a medical stamp of approval will
get you off my back.

Isn't that one of your operatives?

He used to be.

Put him in the brig.

Agent Sandoval,

I am maneuvering the mother ship into
low Earth orbit to facilitate the
arrival of our cruisers.

You are required on the bridge.

You must think I'm pretty important to
be wasting time on me like this.

I've been cautious, for everyone
sake,

even yours.

The caution is good if you can afford
the time for it.

Meaning, I don't have time now to be
careful?

I disagree, a little caution can
prevent a calamity.

And when it comes to Liam Kincaid,

how careful are you?

I'm not gonna dignify that with an
answer.

Nothing to worry about, perfectly
normal.

And in excellent health.

Well,

it looks like I owe you an apology.

Why?

With a race of alien's running around
the planet one can never be too
careful?

Peace.

Peace.

Everything OK? Good.

They spotted one of the disguised
Jaridians near the portal building,
let's get over there.

They're gone.

I can feel it.

Hard to believe we're alone. Waited so
long for this.

We got what we wished for.

Let's hope it's not a hollow victory.

Police are firing rubber bullets and
neural suppression gas as well.
There must be a,

a hundred thousand people out in the
street now,

and of course the same question on
everyone's mind:

Is this the beginning of the end?

This is crazy.

We spent our time, but we know to
work, Kira's cannon is a long shot at best.

Maybe, but at least it's a collective
choice, not just a reative one.

Look it's obvious you are used to first
playing one side against the other.
This is not an option here.

Excuse me! - Woah, whoah,
slow down! You're way out a line,

Ren?e never flinched from a fight in her
life.

If we die, at least we die free.

What I'm saying is, we don't know
enough about the Jaridians to be taking
that stand.

We may have to anyway, so we'd better
have something to fight with.

OK. Keep your global switched to
locate so I could find you.

You know anything's all over.

We go out for that dim sum.

Greetings Earthling - Our ETA on the
fleet is five hours,

Any sign of the Jaridians kept? -
No.

And I've been running numbers on this
thing.

The ID pulse energy isn't regulated, so
the gun is unstable.

We can tear up half the city just
trying to fire it. - My compliments,

I've seen some great field jerry-rigs but
this is the best.

Impulse energy shouldn't be a problem.

You've built the gun ... here's the
bullet.

It's Taelon tech I took from the
mothersip.

The only thing of the specs that
couldn't be find on Earth.

It should supply the right field
modulation.

Where did you find this girl Liam?
I'm not entirely sure.

Look Kira, the cannon is still our last
resort, our best bet is to negotiate
with the Jaridians.

Let's go check-in with our spotters.

You wish to speak with me Zo'or.

Yes. I thought you should know,

that the Jaridians have not bothered to
answer the peace initiative you sent
them without my knowledge.

I was merely attempting a diplomatic
deception,

in order to gain time for our escape.

Pursuing futile goals is a human
attribute.

It is timely we have left Earth Da'an.

Your thought has become infected.

I believe humans call such pursuit,

Faith.

I am counting on the Jaridian's taste
for vengeance.

The fleet will stop to destroy the
Earth,

giving us enough time to reach the
wormhole at Sirius B.

It would be many years before the
Jaridians find us again.

Are the Taelons going to spend
eternity, running away from this?

If the Jaridians don't stop to destroy
Earth, what then?

Taelon pilots will fly suicide
missions in battle cruisers manned by
human crews.

You may yet have a chance to make your
last stand.

I now count seven, no make that
eight federal buildings that are on
fire,

and the fire department just can't
cover this now.

They just go to let things burn, it
looks like it, and it's gonna spread

Sorry Ren?e. - Doctor Debry, um,
Please come in.

It's about Kira Dorn.

I was reviewing her scans there's a
fragment of titanium shrapnel lodged in
her back.

And judging by the scar tissue I'd say
it's been there under a year.

Titanium?

I've seen this before, the
anti-personal grenade used by the
volunteers have a,

Titanium sheath.

It's close enough to her spinal cord to
be a problem in the future.

She should have it removed.

Could you email me the scans?

I've got it right here.

Great ... thanks.

I don't get in four sightings within a
mile of the portal and each time the
Jaridian disappears.

Ren?e was right, we're wasting our
time. Let's get back to her office.

The stars are so beautiful.

Ironic considering what's about to
happen.

After eighteen month of prison I feel
like I'm just coming back to life.

That ... could be a temporary state.

Well if these are going to be my last
hours.

Then I have to act upon an impulse I
first had in Chicago.

You're burning up.

Body heat way off the scale.

You like distracting me, right?

So we can spend the final hour before the
invasion, in the park.

Well, you do turn me on but I should
have guessed, huh, the intensity, hmm?.

Body heat.

None of it's human and neither you.
Are you Kira?

You're better than I thought.

Passionate,

strong,

Humanity's best.

Unfortunately the Jaridians have given
all companion protectors a death
sentence.

But if you join me ...

If I took you as my mate I could keep
you alive.

No thanks. Wasn't it you who said
something about dying free?

OK, your decision.

You get to die before the rest of your
species.

That combat wound is less than a year
old.

Kira claimed she's been a prisoner on the
mothership for over eighteen months.

Maybe she got caught trying to escape.

The volunteers use energy weapons in
space,

Grenades are too dangerous. Something
else is going on here.

Check the database for resistances
members injured in action last year.

All right, now limit the list to injuries
caused by anti-personal grenades.

Now pull out the women.

And operatives released without surgery.

Capt. Lili Marquette.

Liam's friend? The one who Sandoval
sent on a package tour of Jaridia?

That's the one.

Bring up her last medical.

Identical wounds.

Now superpose Lili's images over
Kira's.

What if the odd of two women having the
exact same internal anatomy?

Zero. - Not to mention blood type,
enzyme profile,

and DNA sequencing. They'd be
identical.

If you could look closely enough I bet
you find active code embedded in Kira's
DNA.

It's really a copy of Lili's.

But any medical scan is programmed
to identify as Kira Dorn.

Nobody's got tech like that.

At least nobody on Earth.

Come on Liam.

Answer.

Ren?e?

She's got good instincts.

How do you beat our lab tests?

Our technology is active and adaptive.

This suit I'm wearing emulates every
signature of the human anatomy...

Sound, smell, even X-ray.

Kira Dorn's exterior we got from Lili
Marquette's visual memory and everything
else,

pure Lili Marquette.

It doesn't explain my response to you.
The intensity of it.

Jaridian take every life experience to
the fullest.

Living it to the hilt.

And you picked up on my attraction to
you.

It's about passion Liam, something the
Taelons no longer feel.

You obviously do.

Life is passion.

You know the Jaridians and humans are
more alike than you think.

It's really a shame the Taelons got
here first and doomed your planet,

rather than show you how to really
enjoy life.

You need to see something.

We can't be held responsible for what
we didn't know.

The Taelons blocked our warning
transmission. ...Would appear to be an
advanced species,

with benevolent intentions.
Shame.

They are anything but.

But it changes nothing.

You humans allowed them to contaminate
the Earth.

It must be decimated as a lesson to
others.

You and the Taelons are nothing but
opposite side of the same coin.

Arrogant, cowardly, consumed by
hatred,

and you presume to sit in judgment
over others?

You're wasting valuable time,

for unfortunately your death will prove
nothing.

You picked a good moment to show up,
remind me in the future to trust your
instincts.

Yours weren't bad either, you're closer to
the Jaridians than you thought.

Wait a minute, Kira's particle
cannon,

it's gotta be a ruse. Let me use your
global.

Praise them. Is Vega going nova yet?

Vega can be closer than we
think.

Power down the cannon and
whatever you do don't activate it.

Be prepared for Jaridian assault. Hey
Karl,

Kira's their leader.

Understood.

We're on our way.

Street, we may need your technical
savvy at the portal building.

Page Hubble Yorik, priority one,

requesting a combat unit at the
Washington portal.

Zo'or!

I'm going tired of your interruptions
agent Sandoval.

Data from the Mars probe shows that the
Jaridian battle fleet is on a final
approach to Earth.

And your point?

As enormous as the fleet is,

it's producing no gravitational
distortion.

It has no mass. It's an illusion.

"Shabra!"

Return this ship to Earth ... at once!

Hey.
Looks like everything's cool.

I'll go and check with Karl.

You two keep an eye out and
wait for Hubble's cavalry.
- Right.

Hi Liam, no sign of the Jaridians?
Is Vega going nova yet?

Ya got me.

Why are you powering down the cannon?
Half power and dropping.

No use trying your energy weapon close
to the cannon.

Resonance field casts out
its radiation.

The time for pretense is over.

Street, big problem, time to get
creative.

There's no invasion on its way, is
there Kira?

Very good, I'm the invasion.

This device will blow away the Earth's
atmosphere in a matter of minutes.

This planet will be reduce to a cinder
by its own sun.

It's a beautiful sun, I've seen it many
times.

Prepare to leave.

Shoot it down!

That's the signal!

The atmosphere is about to cascade.

Get into the portal.

Kira.

I scrambled all the data on the portal
link.

The Jaridians won't be able to
return ... for a while.

Have the entire portal system
reconfigured,

and insure that the press devote
significant attention,

to the salvation of Earth by a loyal
companion protector.

Zo'or as a companion protector I must
advise you,

that humanity will feel the Taelons
have broken a delicate trust.

The Jaridians pronounced a death
sentence on your species.

Be assured they will return to carry it
out.

Humanity will quickly realize that the
Taelons are their only hope for
survival.

Humanity is more likely to conclude
that their survival is,

and always has been, in our own hands.