Flatland (2002): Season 1, Episode 18 - Episode #1.18 - full transcript
- Do not dwell in the past,
do not dream of the future.
Concentrate the mind
on the present moment.
My name is Smith.
Welcome to Flatland.
- When I first met the devil,
his name was Khan.
Mine,
Saint Michael.
The war for the soul of
mankind has raged for
3,000 years.
The battleground today
is Shanghai.
I have forced 3 young
Americans to work for me.
JT,
a gangbanger,
Mr. Mitchell,
a failed love lawyer,
and Amy Lee,
a beautiful young woman.
They will ultimately discover
the history
when present and past collide
and when one misstep on either
side
of the fourth dimension
is fatal.
In the world of Flatland,
where nothing is as it appears.
My name is Smith,
welcome to Flatland.
- What's the purpose?
- Just one.
To kill or be killed.
- They come here to train.
- Amazing.
- Yeah, look,
Ying,
I find it fascinating.
- You've always liked him, why?
- He's beautiful.
Deadly.
Just the kind of
man
a woman could almost have.
- This isn't supposed to be forreal.
- It's always real.
Like I told you,
it is always for real.
- My kind of guy.
- Shay is my only daughter.
A beautiful girl.
A champion fighter.
Now, I don't think I
will ever see her again.
- Are you sure they took her?
- Absolutely.
There has to be something you
can do.
- I already have.
The search for your daughter
has begun, Mr. Chan.
- Is there anything I can do?
- Yes.
Wait and hope.
- That's all?
- It's more than enough.
- What are you doing back here?
- It's none of your business.
- I asked a polite question,
get a nasty answer.
- Is it polite to grab
someone by the throat?
- Depends.
Now what are you doing?
- I want to fight.
- Not bad.
For an amateur.
- I can do better.
- We'll see.
You can fight.
If you win, you live.
If you lose, we play,
and then you die.
- Shadows are all wrong,
it's way too stark.
No subtly,
no subtly at all.
- What do you know about being
subtle?
- Time.
- Yeah, time.
A whole big bunch of time.
- Hasn't tempered you much.
- The hell it hasn't.
I can't cover my wide receiversanymore.
Can't do the limbo like I used
to.
And I can't
drink all night like there's notomorrow.
Remember those days?
- You look good.
- Yeah.
Let's keep lying to each other.
You look good too, Dao.
- The world has changed, huh?
- No, only it's face has
changed.
Underneath it's all the same.
The battle continues
with or without you.
- I atoned for what I did.
- Well I don't believe in that.
The past is what it is.
You can't change what happened.
- I can change what's about to
happen.
- No you can't.
- I can try.
- You crossed one line a long
time ago,
and lost everything.
- What I do here now,
is gonna restore it.
- Destroy it,
not restore it.
Leave the future alone.
I don't even know what's gonna
happen.
- It's death I'm talking about.
- Let it be.
- I can't.
- I don't know, man.
What do you think?
- Well the guy needs a decent
myth,
I mean, that's obvious.
I don't know.
Did you have a barbecue here
last night?
- Listen fool,
somebody left him here, okay?
What I can't figure out is why.
I don't even know if it is a
him.
- Maybe skinny minnie is
an ex-girlfriend of yours.
- In about two seconds
I'm gonna smack you.
- Speak to Smith?
- Not yet.
- Cops find a skeleton in the
closet,
could put him in jail.
That'd be something.
- Yeah.
But what?
- Is this how you treat your
fighters?
Like prisoners?
- Yes,
most are.
Some volunteer,
like you.
- I came to fight.
- That's what you say.
Any other reason?
- To make some money.
- There is a way for pretty
lady to make some money.
- This one's more of a
challenge.
- Til the day you lose,
that'll be the day a bailer cashyou.
- Still fighting I see,
after all these years.
- That's what I live for.
- Yes.
But now for profit,
and not for me.
- You know I always be there,
if I'm needed.
- We need each other.
He's here.
In Shanghai.
- The monk?
Here?
- Dao.
The healer and the slayer.
There are more fights ahead of
us, Ying.
I remember
how good you are.
- Dao.
I guess no place is safe from
you.
Finished piece,
what do you think?
- Don't give up your day job.
- What do you want?
- It's been a long time.
I need to train.
- So we can stand time on it's
head?
Maybe you should try painting.
- I was the best fighter you
ever had.
- Until you failed.
- I failed myself.
Not you.
- It would have been
better to disappoint me,
don't you think?
- I've been thinking
about that for 900 years.
Help me.
- No.
- Come on, Smith.
For old time's sake?
- I said no.
And don't call me Smith.
- You know,
this is really pretty awful.
- Don't you dare.
- And like you said,
I'm not subtle.
- Provoke me if you want,
but I said no.
- Temper,
now that's an artist tool,
right?
Come on, Smith.
For old time's sake.
- That's not yours.
Give it back.
- Make me.
- So what's the deal?
- He's dead.
- Yep.
We kind of figured that already,though.
- And, he's a man.
Around 30 years old,
and he's been in the
ground a long, long time.
- Long, long time--
how long?
- From what I can see,
about 1,000 years.
- How much more can you get?
- With a little time,
I can get a lot.
- It's important,
you guys will let me know?
- You look lonely.
Want some company?
Get her out.
You're fighting tonight.
- Good.
- If you do well,
I can make things very good foryou.
Get her away.
- You're faster than I remember.
- I have had more fights than
you.
Come in, JT.
- You said it was important.
- You remember where I sent Amy?
- Yeah,
to find the girl in the fight
match.
- She found the arena.
Then nothing.
She's missing.
- You mean she went in
and didn't come out?
- And I don't like that.
- Alright, well I'll find her.
- What is it?
- Nah, it's nothing.
- What is it?
- Well it just that,
something strange happened in myplace.
I don't want to bother you aboutit now.
Talk about it later.
- This is your doing.
- Hey.
- I hope one of those
has Irish whiskey in it.
- Colombian.
Best I could do at three in themorning.
Still at it, huh?
- No, I'm home sleeping
and dreaming about Hawaii.
- Hawaii?
I like it.
Sun, sea,
sex and sand.
You, me.
- Not quite.
- Alright take away the sun andthe sand--
- Mitchell,
you're a broken record.
- I am?
But I'm lonely.
- Then try another button.
- Okay.
So what's up with the mystery
guy?
- I know how he died.
- Yeah?
Natural causes?
- His throat was slit.
The bone is striate,
scarred and chipped across,
but it's nice and neat.
Pretty sharp blade.
- Really must've pissed off
someone good.
- I think that was his
M.O. his whole life.
I also found a couple
of head indentations,
a cracked radius,
a bunch of finger fractures,
and a broken tibia.
This guy was a fighter.
- Looks like he's finally
picked on the wrong guy.
- You both fight at the gong,
if you don't,
you both die.
- Next time you do it faster.
You toyed with her.
- You wanted a show.
- I want what you want,
to make money.
- We should make a really good
team.
- Please help me!
A bandit, an African.
He tried to rob me.
Come with me.
No sword this time, Dao?
- Never again.
- No more weapons or never
again will you be a monk?
- It's still my life.
- But not your order.
They threw you out.
Am I safe here with you?
- I won't attack you,
that's our law.
- Yes.
No aggression.
But, you can still fight if
attacked.
- Or if innocent people will beharmed,
then I can fight.
And I will.
- Relax, monk.
I'm not here to fight.
- Be very careful, Khan.
I live by the law.
But as you said,
I'm not in the order anymore.
You
I can fight.
- So full of anger.
And look where it's got you.
Outcast.
Obsessed with guilt.
Such a pity, really.
- Interesting emotion coming
from you.
Especially to me after what I
did.
- You did?
I seduced you.
And it was wonderful.
And I won, I had a monk.
I won.
And I'll win again.
Join me, Dao.
In your world, now.
You are nothing.
In my world,
you can be a prince.
- Never.
- Then live with your horrible
past.
Suffer,
slowly.
Because never is a long time.
- Amy?
Amy!
The window.
- What are you doing?
- They got guards down below,
I had to come this way.
- The girl.
- She's okay.
Fooled them pretty good.
They dumped the body in the
river,
I fished her out.
She's alive.
- And out of here.
- Which is exactly what
I'm gonna do for you.
- No, I have to stay.
- What?
Are you nuts?
- No, JT.
I'm here looking for a girl,
I haven't found her yet.
- Let me get you out now, okay?
We'll go get the cops,
come back for a real bust on
this place.
Get everybody out.
- Won't work,
I'm telling you,
Ying, the guy that runs this
sick hole,
has about 25 armed guards here.
First thing they do is
kill all the fighters,
no witnesses.
Look,
if I'm not out of here by
tomorrow night,
come back.
I'll find a way then.
- Hey, JT.
- You said it's important,
so I'm here.
- Thing is, I'm not sure what itmeans.
I ran as many tests as I
could on our friend here.
Finished the facial
reconstruction,
did a quick DNA--
- So what is it?
- It's you.
- I don't get it, what
do you mean it's me?
- Right down to the chromosomes,
and the genetics.
- Well I mean it's gotta
be a joke or something,
a threat.
- Or maybe it's a warning.
- A warning about what?
- Someone slit your throat in apast life,
maybe they're trying to do it
again.
- Hello, JT.
Sorry if I startled you.
- Who the hell are you?
- It's been a long time.
- I asked a question.
- My name is Dao.
- Dao, you can stop your ass
right there.
Why do I think I know you?
- Because you do.
Remember this?
Belongs to you.
- You did this to me?
- No, but in some ways,
what I did was worse.
I know you're nervous,
sometimes you just have to takea chance,
step off into the void,
see if you can find the truth.
I've done it myself,
it can be nerve wracking.
Try.
- Please help me!
You must help me.
Here he is.
Help him.
He's dying.
Ying will live,
but you won't.
- My vows were to never take
life,
but heal it, protect it.
That day, I
I couldn't tell between the
innocent and the guilty.
I fell from grace.
- I've seen this guy before.
- His name is Ying.
- What does all this mean?
- I can't tell you.
But I've seen what you can't.
That is why I've come back.
Hopefully to save you this time.
And myself, as well.
- You mean to tell me this
dude came all the way back
to kill me again?
- Where did you see him?
- Amy.
I gotta go there, tell me.
- Follow your fate.
History does repeat.
- You're Xan, aren't you?
I'm a friend of a man
who knows your father.
Showed me your picture.
- You know my father?
- No, but I'm going to
take you back to him and
the rest of your family.
- How?
We can't get out of here.
- I think we can.
Do you know how to drive a
truck?
Over there.
You take it,
I'll clear the way.
Whatever happens,
keep going.
- Impossible.
- Nothing's impossible.
I hear you know how to fight.
- I've trained my whole life.
What's that got to do with it?
- Everything.
Now,
are you gonna trust me?
Or am I gonna have to
do this all by myself?
I'm gonna give you one chance,
right now.
Deal?
Relax,
we just wanted to know how we
could,
you know,
have a little fun around here.
We thought we could
maybe get together.
- For that you're
fighting with me tonight.
- So what happened the rest of
that day?
- I found Khan,
he was a woman then.
- He always was seductive.
- He did seduce me in a way.
Into breaking the vows I believein.
- You mean never to kill?
- It was a test.
I failed.
But I only killed his form.
- What do you mean?
- It was near a lake.
- Come with me.
- I knew it wasn't him,
he'd already left that body.
- So he tricked you?
That's what he does best.
- It worked.
You know something?
Even though it
wasn't real.
My actions were.
Evil can be evil,
but what I did,
I did myself.
And I did with conscious and itwas wrong,
especially in my world.
- That's rare air, buddy.
I'm not sure all of us
would feel the same.
But you paid.
So now what?
- Hopefully,
I'll be forgiven.
And I can finally be
what I was meant to be.
- Get up.
Now, you suffer before you die.
What's the matter, woman?
I thought you said you came hereto fight?
- I know I did.
And to set a few things
straight.
- Who are you?
- Call me a blast from the past.
A man who died a long time ago.
- You will die again.
- Then let's do it.
- You okay?
No savior for you this time,
Ying.
You didn't deserve one last
time.
You alright?
- Yeah.
You know this guy?
- I knew him.
Let's get out of here.
do not dream of the future.
Concentrate the mind
on the present moment.
My name is Smith.
Welcome to Flatland.
- When I first met the devil,
his name was Khan.
Mine,
Saint Michael.
The war for the soul of
mankind has raged for
3,000 years.
The battleground today
is Shanghai.
I have forced 3 young
Americans to work for me.
JT,
a gangbanger,
Mr. Mitchell,
a failed love lawyer,
and Amy Lee,
a beautiful young woman.
They will ultimately discover
the history
when present and past collide
and when one misstep on either
side
of the fourth dimension
is fatal.
In the world of Flatland,
where nothing is as it appears.
My name is Smith,
welcome to Flatland.
- What's the purpose?
- Just one.
To kill or be killed.
- They come here to train.
- Amazing.
- Yeah, look,
Ying,
I find it fascinating.
- You've always liked him, why?
- He's beautiful.
Deadly.
Just the kind of
man
a woman could almost have.
- This isn't supposed to be forreal.
- It's always real.
Like I told you,
it is always for real.
- My kind of guy.
- Shay is my only daughter.
A beautiful girl.
A champion fighter.
Now, I don't think I
will ever see her again.
- Are you sure they took her?
- Absolutely.
There has to be something you
can do.
- I already have.
The search for your daughter
has begun, Mr. Chan.
- Is there anything I can do?
- Yes.
Wait and hope.
- That's all?
- It's more than enough.
- What are you doing back here?
- It's none of your business.
- I asked a polite question,
get a nasty answer.
- Is it polite to grab
someone by the throat?
- Depends.
Now what are you doing?
- I want to fight.
- Not bad.
For an amateur.
- I can do better.
- We'll see.
You can fight.
If you win, you live.
If you lose, we play,
and then you die.
- Shadows are all wrong,
it's way too stark.
No subtly,
no subtly at all.
- What do you know about being
subtle?
- Time.
- Yeah, time.
A whole big bunch of time.
- Hasn't tempered you much.
- The hell it hasn't.
I can't cover my wide receiversanymore.
Can't do the limbo like I used
to.
And I can't
drink all night like there's notomorrow.
Remember those days?
- You look good.
- Yeah.
Let's keep lying to each other.
You look good too, Dao.
- The world has changed, huh?
- No, only it's face has
changed.
Underneath it's all the same.
The battle continues
with or without you.
- I atoned for what I did.
- Well I don't believe in that.
The past is what it is.
You can't change what happened.
- I can change what's about to
happen.
- No you can't.
- I can try.
- You crossed one line a long
time ago,
and lost everything.
- What I do here now,
is gonna restore it.
- Destroy it,
not restore it.
Leave the future alone.
I don't even know what's gonna
happen.
- It's death I'm talking about.
- Let it be.
- I can't.
- I don't know, man.
What do you think?
- Well the guy needs a decent
myth,
I mean, that's obvious.
I don't know.
Did you have a barbecue here
last night?
- Listen fool,
somebody left him here, okay?
What I can't figure out is why.
I don't even know if it is a
him.
- Maybe skinny minnie is
an ex-girlfriend of yours.
- In about two seconds
I'm gonna smack you.
- Speak to Smith?
- Not yet.
- Cops find a skeleton in the
closet,
could put him in jail.
That'd be something.
- Yeah.
But what?
- Is this how you treat your
fighters?
Like prisoners?
- Yes,
most are.
Some volunteer,
like you.
- I came to fight.
- That's what you say.
Any other reason?
- To make some money.
- There is a way for pretty
lady to make some money.
- This one's more of a
challenge.
- Til the day you lose,
that'll be the day a bailer cashyou.
- Still fighting I see,
after all these years.
- That's what I live for.
- Yes.
But now for profit,
and not for me.
- You know I always be there,
if I'm needed.
- We need each other.
He's here.
In Shanghai.
- The monk?
Here?
- Dao.
The healer and the slayer.
There are more fights ahead of
us, Ying.
I remember
how good you are.
- Dao.
I guess no place is safe from
you.
Finished piece,
what do you think?
- Don't give up your day job.
- What do you want?
- It's been a long time.
I need to train.
- So we can stand time on it's
head?
Maybe you should try painting.
- I was the best fighter you
ever had.
- Until you failed.
- I failed myself.
Not you.
- It would have been
better to disappoint me,
don't you think?
- I've been thinking
about that for 900 years.
Help me.
- No.
- Come on, Smith.
For old time's sake?
- I said no.
And don't call me Smith.
- You know,
this is really pretty awful.
- Don't you dare.
- And like you said,
I'm not subtle.
- Provoke me if you want,
but I said no.
- Temper,
now that's an artist tool,
right?
Come on, Smith.
For old time's sake.
- That's not yours.
Give it back.
- Make me.
- So what's the deal?
- He's dead.
- Yep.
We kind of figured that already,though.
- And, he's a man.
Around 30 years old,
and he's been in the
ground a long, long time.
- Long, long time--
how long?
- From what I can see,
about 1,000 years.
- How much more can you get?
- With a little time,
I can get a lot.
- It's important,
you guys will let me know?
- You look lonely.
Want some company?
Get her out.
You're fighting tonight.
- Good.
- If you do well,
I can make things very good foryou.
Get her away.
- You're faster than I remember.
- I have had more fights than
you.
Come in, JT.
- You said it was important.
- You remember where I sent Amy?
- Yeah,
to find the girl in the fight
match.
- She found the arena.
Then nothing.
She's missing.
- You mean she went in
and didn't come out?
- And I don't like that.
- Alright, well I'll find her.
- What is it?
- Nah, it's nothing.
- What is it?
- Well it just that,
something strange happened in myplace.
I don't want to bother you aboutit now.
Talk about it later.
- This is your doing.
- Hey.
- I hope one of those
has Irish whiskey in it.
- Colombian.
Best I could do at three in themorning.
Still at it, huh?
- No, I'm home sleeping
and dreaming about Hawaii.
- Hawaii?
I like it.
Sun, sea,
sex and sand.
You, me.
- Not quite.
- Alright take away the sun andthe sand--
- Mitchell,
you're a broken record.
- I am?
But I'm lonely.
- Then try another button.
- Okay.
So what's up with the mystery
guy?
- I know how he died.
- Yeah?
Natural causes?
- His throat was slit.
The bone is striate,
scarred and chipped across,
but it's nice and neat.
Pretty sharp blade.
- Really must've pissed off
someone good.
- I think that was his
M.O. his whole life.
I also found a couple
of head indentations,
a cracked radius,
a bunch of finger fractures,
and a broken tibia.
This guy was a fighter.
- Looks like he's finally
picked on the wrong guy.
- You both fight at the gong,
if you don't,
you both die.
- Next time you do it faster.
You toyed with her.
- You wanted a show.
- I want what you want,
to make money.
- We should make a really good
team.
- Please help me!
A bandit, an African.
He tried to rob me.
Come with me.
No sword this time, Dao?
- Never again.
- No more weapons or never
again will you be a monk?
- It's still my life.
- But not your order.
They threw you out.
Am I safe here with you?
- I won't attack you,
that's our law.
- Yes.
No aggression.
But, you can still fight if
attacked.
- Or if innocent people will beharmed,
then I can fight.
And I will.
- Relax, monk.
I'm not here to fight.
- Be very careful, Khan.
I live by the law.
But as you said,
I'm not in the order anymore.
You
I can fight.
- So full of anger.
And look where it's got you.
Outcast.
Obsessed with guilt.
Such a pity, really.
- Interesting emotion coming
from you.
Especially to me after what I
did.
- You did?
I seduced you.
And it was wonderful.
And I won, I had a monk.
I won.
And I'll win again.
Join me, Dao.
In your world, now.
You are nothing.
In my world,
you can be a prince.
- Never.
- Then live with your horrible
past.
Suffer,
slowly.
Because never is a long time.
- Amy?
Amy!
The window.
- What are you doing?
- They got guards down below,
I had to come this way.
- The girl.
- She's okay.
Fooled them pretty good.
They dumped the body in the
river,
I fished her out.
She's alive.
- And out of here.
- Which is exactly what
I'm gonna do for you.
- No, I have to stay.
- What?
Are you nuts?
- No, JT.
I'm here looking for a girl,
I haven't found her yet.
- Let me get you out now, okay?
We'll go get the cops,
come back for a real bust on
this place.
Get everybody out.
- Won't work,
I'm telling you,
Ying, the guy that runs this
sick hole,
has about 25 armed guards here.
First thing they do is
kill all the fighters,
no witnesses.
Look,
if I'm not out of here by
tomorrow night,
come back.
I'll find a way then.
- Hey, JT.
- You said it's important,
so I'm here.
- Thing is, I'm not sure what itmeans.
I ran as many tests as I
could on our friend here.
Finished the facial
reconstruction,
did a quick DNA--
- So what is it?
- It's you.
- I don't get it, what
do you mean it's me?
- Right down to the chromosomes,
and the genetics.
- Well I mean it's gotta
be a joke or something,
a threat.
- Or maybe it's a warning.
- A warning about what?
- Someone slit your throat in apast life,
maybe they're trying to do it
again.
- Hello, JT.
Sorry if I startled you.
- Who the hell are you?
- It's been a long time.
- I asked a question.
- My name is Dao.
- Dao, you can stop your ass
right there.
Why do I think I know you?
- Because you do.
Remember this?
Belongs to you.
- You did this to me?
- No, but in some ways,
what I did was worse.
I know you're nervous,
sometimes you just have to takea chance,
step off into the void,
see if you can find the truth.
I've done it myself,
it can be nerve wracking.
Try.
- Please help me!
You must help me.
Here he is.
Help him.
He's dying.
Ying will live,
but you won't.
- My vows were to never take
life,
but heal it, protect it.
That day, I
I couldn't tell between the
innocent and the guilty.
I fell from grace.
- I've seen this guy before.
- His name is Ying.
- What does all this mean?
- I can't tell you.
But I've seen what you can't.
That is why I've come back.
Hopefully to save you this time.
And myself, as well.
- You mean to tell me this
dude came all the way back
to kill me again?
- Where did you see him?
- Amy.
I gotta go there, tell me.
- Follow your fate.
History does repeat.
- You're Xan, aren't you?
I'm a friend of a man
who knows your father.
Showed me your picture.
- You know my father?
- No, but I'm going to
take you back to him and
the rest of your family.
- How?
We can't get out of here.
- I think we can.
Do you know how to drive a
truck?
Over there.
You take it,
I'll clear the way.
Whatever happens,
keep going.
- Impossible.
- Nothing's impossible.
I hear you know how to fight.
- I've trained my whole life.
What's that got to do with it?
- Everything.
Now,
are you gonna trust me?
Or am I gonna have to
do this all by myself?
I'm gonna give you one chance,
right now.
Deal?
Relax,
we just wanted to know how we
could,
you know,
have a little fun around here.
We thought we could
maybe get together.
- For that you're
fighting with me tonight.
- So what happened the rest of
that day?
- I found Khan,
he was a woman then.
- He always was seductive.
- He did seduce me in a way.
Into breaking the vows I believein.
- You mean never to kill?
- It was a test.
I failed.
But I only killed his form.
- What do you mean?
- It was near a lake.
- Come with me.
- I knew it wasn't him,
he'd already left that body.
- So he tricked you?
That's what he does best.
- It worked.
You know something?
Even though it
wasn't real.
My actions were.
Evil can be evil,
but what I did,
I did myself.
And I did with conscious and itwas wrong,
especially in my world.
- That's rare air, buddy.
I'm not sure all of us
would feel the same.
But you paid.
So now what?
- Hopefully,
I'll be forgiven.
And I can finally be
what I was meant to be.
- Get up.
Now, you suffer before you die.
What's the matter, woman?
I thought you said you came hereto fight?
- I know I did.
And to set a few things
straight.
- Who are you?
- Call me a blast from the past.
A man who died a long time ago.
- You will die again.
- Then let's do it.
- You okay?
No savior for you this time,
Ying.
You didn't deserve one last
time.
You alright?
- Yeah.
You know this guy?
- I knew him.
Let's get out of here.