Flatland (2002): Season 1, Episode 20 - Episode #1.20 - 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 mankindhas raged for 3,000 years.

The battleground today is
Shanghai.

I have forced three young
Americans to work for me,

J.T., a gangbanger.

Mr. Mitchell, a failed mob
lawyer,



and Amy Li, a beautiful young
woman.

They will ultimately
discover their history

when present and past collide,

and where one misstep on eitherside

with the fourth dimension is
fatal.

In the world of Flatland,

where nothing is as it appears
to be.

My name is Smith, welcome to
Flatland.

Hello, pretty lady.

You make my darker days seem
brighter.

That's what I need today.

I only have one question.

I've asked it before.

- Then why ask again?



- I don't know.

I'm looking for a loophole I
guess.

- Follow your heart.

- Yeah.

Thank you, pretty lady.

Yada yada yada.

Golf's a lot like life.

The most important thing is to
be relaxed.

No thoughts in your mind
once you learn the technique.

It's not how hard you hit it,

but it's how you
concentrate mentally on it.

You wanna clear your mind
and just let it happen.

It's like life.

Life, you wanna hit it straight.

If it goes too far to the
right you're in trouble.

Goes too far to the
left you're in trouble.

Bring it back slow and follow
through.

Well, mediocre, come over here.

Come over here.

Let me set you up, all right.

Get balanced over the ball.

Okay, nice and easy, easy does
it.

That's not bad.

- Is something wrong?

- Yeah, lesson's over.

I've got problem, that's all.

- Time for a little rock and
roll.

Make it good and make it hurt.

- Don't I always.

- At the very least, I
want my friend isolated.

- Mr. Smith.

- Yes, Mr. Smith.

We were friends once,
you know, great friends,

but I suppose that's one of thethings

that makes great enemies,
friendship.

- So, why are we here?

- Because Smith asked
you to be.

- Oh yeah, I forgot.

He sneezes, we hold the
handkerchief.

- Something like that.

- I think it must be an
important sneeze.

- Looks like we're gonna
need a big ass hanky.

- Good morning, people.

Time is the only thing
that human beings have,

and the only thing that
we can't afford to lose.

- Good, so let's get to it.

- Amen.

Simon Cross, asswipe of the
millennium,

ring any bells, tintinnabulationanyone?

- I've seen this guy.

- Where?

- Prussia.

What's up with the funny shirt?

- Oh, he thinks it's
Halloween all year long.

He's an ultimate ghoul,

and he thinks I'm an ultimate
fool.

- So, this is the guy, the
man you've been looking for?

- That's correct and
now he's looking for me.

- Yeah, how do you know that?

- It's none of your business.

What is your business
is to find him first,

before he finds me.

- Same needle in the haystack.

- Yeah, but this needle
has a name and a face.

He also has a friend and
her name is Tsao Min,

which translates, cold blooded
killer.

- I know this chick.

- So do I.

- Good, then the haystack
has gotten smaller.

Now, let's get it down
to just me and Mr. Cross.

- And when we do, does
that mean I can go home?

- If you're still alive.

- Can I ask you a serious
question?

- You have one?

- This business between you andCross,

I thought it was personal.

- Maybe I lied.

- Why?

- Why, because a lie gets
halfway around the world

before truth even gets its pantson,

and everything else doesn't
matter.

You're dismissed, you stay.

- Hey!

- Hay is for horses.

- Pretty good, you're
making progress, J.T.

We gotta talk.

- My place.

- You got any chairs yet?

- Remember, if we nail this
Cross dude.

- We can kill each other.

- Kahn, I want you to move.

I want you to pack up
and go some place safe.

- I should've figured him
out the first time I met him.

- Wrong, if he was that sloppy,

I would've destroyed him 2,000
years ago.

- I don't know how you do it.

- What?

- Focus all your energy,

all your anger after all
this time has passed.

- Time doesn't pass, time stays,we pass.

Besides, what else am I gonna
do?

Hey, kiddo, he's gonna try
to get you to Flatland.

- I know.

- Happy trails.

- Very clever.

I know who you are now.

Your name is Tsao Min.

- And you are Amy Li.

- I also know who you
work with, Simon Cross.

- How do you know this?

- He can't hide anymore.

Smith.

- It was a warning, kiddo.

Maybe she just wanted to see
if you were in shape, ciao.

Light scrimmage, no casualties.

- You seem pretty cool about it.

- Yeah, sure, whistling
passed the boneyard.

It's all an act.

- You mean you're worried.

- Yeah, I'm used to hunting
Khan.

- Now he's hunting you.

- I'm not good at reversal of
roles.

- So, what're you gonna do aboutit?

- You know, I don't know.

I think that uh, it depends
upon what the score is,

and what down it is.

Maybe I'll punt.

- Smith.

- Well, you know.

What would you suggest?

- You never ask for other
people's advice.

- But hey, you know, I can
learn.

I mean, you know, just have a
little problem being taught.

- Have you ever
communicated with Khan,

I mean, really?

- A thousand times.

- And what happens?

- I lie, he lies, and we both
know it.

- Sounds like me and my mother.

- Not really, unless you hate
her guts.

- No.

- Then it's not like that at
all.

- Why me?

- Pretty soon you may be
the only one of us left.

- Thanks a lot, why is that?

- It's high noon now.

It's Armageddon on the horizon.

Maybe we draw the inside
straight.

- We could get lucky?

- No, it's not that.

- Then what?

- Khan kills me or I kill Khan,Cross,

or whoever the hell he is this
time.

- That's pretty morbid.

- I want this over.

- But how does it get
over?

- It's easy, one of us
kills the other in Flatland.

There is no past, the
future never happens.

Somebody gets all the marbles.

Do you ever think about growingold?

- Sure, we all do.

- Well, when that happens,

make sure that you have
something

that you care about, like uh,

a person, a thought,

a cause, your favorite
bubble bath, anything, yeah.

- What is it that you care aboutmost?

- the truth,
tada , Khan.

- Getting rid of him?

- Yeah, whatever happens,
just remember that, huh?

Care about something.

So that's it, you wanna change
the chains.

The hunter becomes the hunted.

Well, then come and get me, pal,I'm here.

If you want revenge, let's do
it, huh?

You and me, mano a mano,
winner take all, deal?

- She was testing you, playing.

- Well, how did she play me intoFlatland?

- It's not too hard.

- But I can never get there on
my own.

It seems like it just happens,

or somebody else takes me there.

- Flatland is in your mind.

- But getting back and forth.

- The curse and blessing of
freewill.

- So, I can do it on my own,

and get back to this world
just by doing it in my mind.

- If you choose

- I know I have weaknesses.

- And you need to know which oneis fatal.

- Yes.

- You fall in love, Amy.

- Falling in love is a weakness?

- And a strength.

Either way it gets you in the
end.

- That's not my problem right
now, Uncle.

- I know, finding a way for thefuture,

if there is a future.

- In a perfect world,

I would really love for you to
tell me

how I could eliminate this cat,Cross.

- If this world was perfect,
you would not be here.

- How do I get Cross?

- I only know how he can get
you.

- How?

- By using your strength againstyou.

- Me being a warrior.

- Sometimes it's better not to
fight.

- Sometimes I need to negotiate?

- A weakness, if you know it,

can be turned into your
advantage.

- So?

- You're cynical and
self-serving.

- Also good looking and smart,

and if you ask the ladies,

I do this crazy thing with
my tongue in their naval.

- Case proven, counselor.

- What's your point?

- Cheap charm and saving your
own ass

doesn't always work in
Flatland or anywhere.

- Look, if it gets me outta
here,

I will be integrity on a stick
and Mother Teresa's brother.

- Good, but remember,

you're more of a threat
to Khan than J.T. or Amy.

- Why is that?

- Because you think of yourselffirst.

That's not always a bad thing.

- And there she is.

- You know what?

She's not half bad.

- Ah, she's very bad.

- Deadly, but very tasty.

- Yeah, sure, if you like
arsonic.

- Here's the other guy?

Boy got a rap sheet from here toChicago,

narcotics, weapons, murder,
damn.

I wonder if his mother knows.

- I think they both gotta
be connected to Cross.

We find them, we find him.

- Well, you know what we could
do

is check out the Shanghai
Chamber of Commerce.

There's gotta be what,

25 million people in
the whole of Shanghai?

We could just ask around.

- Or we could just bust
you upside your head.

- Easy, homeboy.

- Hey, don't call me homeboy,
I don't like that, dude.

- All right, man.

All right, I want this
guy as much as you do,

and once this is all over,

you can bust whatever you want.

- Good.

- You speak to Uncle?

- Yes, I did.

- And?

- It's none of your business.

- That's what I love about you,J.T.

You're just filled to the brim
with communication skills.

- Yeah, well, I don't
like anything about you.

- You love me, especially
when I'm not here.

- Then why don't you get going
already?

- You gonna take his advice?

- No, I'm not.

- Good, there's two things we
have

in the whole wide world in
common.

Fishman!

- Hey, you guys get a look
at those pictures yet?

- We're going through them rightnow.

- Got any ideas?

- Well, they should be up on theNCIC.

APB's on every police station

around the world, CIA, FBI,
Interpol.

- Look, you're not a cop.

Leave that stuff to me.

- You asked.

- I don't want you guys
out there headhunting.

- J.T. may be, but I'd
never do anything like that.

- What happens if we do see
them?

- You do the right thing, call
me.

- Cop stuff.

- That sound like Smith stuff.

- You guys are both
immune, thanks to Smith,

but only to a certain extent.

- No, but that doesn't include
homicide.

- Or any violation of rights.

- Rights, you wanna talk about
rights?

I mean, what about Tsao Min?

How many times has that
girl tried to kill me?

- You think she'd be better at
her job.

- Fish, seriously, how much help

have the police actually been?

- We'll get them, but we're
gonna do it with the rules,

and I do wanna help you guys.

I know how important it is.

I know what's at stake.

I'm good, and come with me.

I got an idea.

- You think Fish knows about us?

- I don't know what he knows,

but I'd like to know what he's
thinking.

- Yo, Fishman, what's the plan?

- Simple, we wait here.

- I live here.

- I know, Cross knows too,
that's why we--

- Won't have to wait too long.

- Right.

- Hey, Mitchell.

- Hit it!

- I'll take her.

- I'll go up top!

- Great, so what do I do?

- You get that over there!

Okay.

- You know, you and I
keep meeting like this,

somebody's gonna get hurt.

I should kill you right now.

Just tell me where Cross is.

- Fish!

- Yeah?

- You get him?

- I haven't seen him yet.

- Maybe he went back inside.

- Maybe, I didn't see
him when I was coming up.

- What's the deal?

- He can't find him.

- He must've gone back inside!

Unless he's got wings.

- Fish!

Fish!

- Fish!

Damn it.

Police!

- That was a cop and a friend.

- I liked him.

- I like him a lot.

- Question, is there
anything good about fog?

The answer is no.

If you got arthritis, your
joints ache.

If you got a cough, it's gonna
get worse.

If you drive a car, you'll hit
something.

You can't land a plane.

I mean, this is nasty stuff,

hides all kinds of things, bats,Dracula,

the Wolfman, damn Jack the
Ripper,

and most of all, it hides the
truth, yeah.

Hey, do I walk through the
valley?

Nah, make that alley.

I will fear no evil.

Pea soup, my ass.

This is the devil's breath.

I will fear no evil.

- Okay, so let's
figure out what we know.

- Well, we don't know much.

- Simon Cross, Tsao Min,
Shanghai.

You got a Yellow Pages?

- He can fight.

- Good for him.

- He fights like we do.

He's part of Flatland.

- Does Smith know?

- Who knows what Smith knows.

- Good point, okay, so we've
got one of us on our hands.

- Two, actually, and
she's really dangerous.

- You can say that again.

I ran into this girl a couple oftimes.

Actually, more than that

if you count previous
reincarnations.

- You know what?

There's three of us.

That puts us up two.

- So, we're all in?

- Hey, I want out, all right,

and if getting this clown
is what I have to do,

I'm gonna do it.

Look, we know our strengths,

and we gotta try and figure
out what our weaknesses are,

because that's what he's gonna
play.

- And we need to find out
what his weaknesses are,

if he has any.

- I think he has one, me.

- What makes you say that?

- It's always been that way.

- Okay, so he likes to chase
skirt.

That's a good start.

- Now, wait a minute.

I don't know if we should
be using Amy as wait.

- It's okay, I am anyway.

Besides, I want it to
be over as much anyone.

- All right, well, first
we're gonna need some help.

- Mm hmm, Shanghai police, CIA,FBI.

Maybe get the Chinese Army too.

- Until then, we got Uncle.

- Oh, there's one more thing.

Smith wants me to find
another place to stay

until this is over.

- Well, if that's your way of
asking,

you can kick it on the futon.

I'll sleep in the back.

- Are you sure it's okay?

- You saved my ass twice, I oweyou.

- Thanks, J.T., I'll grab my
stuff

and meet you guys at Uncle's.

- So, how come he gets
to be the lucky guy?

- Because your ass ain't worthsaving.

- It's the end game or the
beginning.

Take the bait, Khan.

What do you have to
lose, except your life?

Khan, you miserable bastard.

- You always loved me,
Amy Li.

- I've never loved you.

- But you have always.

Don't you understand?

- Understand what?

- You're beautiful
like paint on silk.

- You're not gonna
disappear, are you?

- I'll be back.

I'll always be back and I alwaysam.

- We're not finished yet, Amy.

We're never finished.

And we never will be.

- I know who you are.

- Good.

- And I know what you are.

- Then try and understand it.

- Why don't you come into the
light?

- Why don't
you come into the dark?

- Never.

- Not a word I like,

and for us it has no meaning.

You can go, but remember,
I'm always close.

- How do I know you're not a
fake?

Show me your real face.

Come on, Khan.

We both want it.

Let's do it.

Where you going, Cross?

Into the future?

- Another time.

- Why, afraid to end it all?

Come on, I'm giving you
everything you want, I always
do.

Let's go back to Flatland.

Let's end it all, once and for
all.

- I'd rather make you suffer.

- You son of a bitch.

You always were a lousy coward.

- Oh, I'll be back.

I'll always be back,

and I'll make this world a
living hell.

I'll be back.

I'll always be back.

- Do not dwell in the past.

Do not dream of the future.

Concentrate the mind
on the present moment.

Now, why can't I do
that when I'm out there?