Flatland (2002): Season 1, Episode 21 - Episode #1.21 - 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, say 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: JT, a
gangbanger,
Mr. Mitchell, a failed mob
lawyer,
and Amy Li, a beautiful young
woman.
They will ultimately discover
the history when present
and past collide, and where
one misstep on either side
of the 4th dimension, is fatal.
In the world of Flatland where
nothing is as it appears to
be...
My name is Smith, welcome to
Flatland.
- Someone once told me
art was autobiographical.
- All I know is one thing, if
art were
personified, it would be like
us.
How are you, Victoria?
I like this persona.
- What do you think of the
others?
- Solomon and Liu, it's been a
long time.
- Uriel, help me.
Help me to destroy Smith
and all his people.
- That's precisely why I'm
here, and I have a plan.
- Good.
Now, where's your other
persona, your better half?
- Good morning!
Do you speak English?
- A little.
- Well maybe you can tell me
something.
I'm fascinated by the Peace
Hotel.
Somebody told me that Noel
Coward wrote
his famous play Private Lives
here.
- He did.
- 1930, right?
- And he wrote it in four days,
while he had the Chinese Flu.
- Ah!
That I didn't know.
JT.
- Making trouble again, huh?
- In the wrong place at the
right time.
- You are always in the wrong
place at the right time.
- Well, this time it was more.
- What?
- There was this gorgeous girl.
- Why does you and a skirt
always have to equal trouble?
- This is different.
- How gorgeous, how different?
- Most gorgeous thing I've everseen.
Then she disappeared.
- Ugh, I hate when that happens.
You just say hello and they
leave.
- Yep, well I didn't even get todo that,
there was this great big
explosion of white light.
- Really?
- I was talking to this
old guy over here too,
and then he disappears.
- He did too?
You know what's going on, man,
those funny leaves you're
smoking are kicking in.
- I'm serious, man.
- So is quantum physics.
I don't understand that either.
- I'm telling you, it has
something to do with Flatland.
Somebody tried to kill me.
- You know the
best thing about chess?
- What?
- There's no luck.
No one rolls dice, no one dealscards.
It's just your smarts
against the other player.
- I always have trouble at the
beginning.
- Why?
- There's too many choices,
and I don't know where to start?
- It's easy, play the
beginning like a book,
play the middle like a magician,
play the end like a machine.
Well that'll get you
checkmate in about 10 moves.
- Story of my life.
- Chess is a lot like life.
It's a fairytale, a
thousand and one mistakes.
To err is human, but in chess
you can't afford to be human.
Repetition is a key; same
offense,
same defense, repeating moves.
Repetition is a way of learning,
and then someone makes a change.
That's when the real game
starts...
Just like in life.
- Why did you make that
move, from Smith to Uncle?
- Mitchell is about to come in
here,
and he needs me, not my better
half.
- Uncle!
Hi.
I don't mean to be
paranoid, but I think she
was trying to kill me,
and I think the old man
had something to do with it as
well.
- Good, because they did.
- What?
- Do you know what archangels
are?
- Alright well,
archangels, they're like...
They're like what, super angels,huh?
- They deliver messages
of extreme importance.
And the word angel denotes a
function more than a nature.
- Okay.
- And they come from
the 8th highest level
of celestial hierarchy.
- Well, this one tried
to kill me at sea-level.
- Yes.
Which is good.
- She's loony tunes my
friend, how is that good?
- Because they did not succeed.
- Please.
- In their world,
you would be dead.
- Well you know what?
I'm gonna kick it here,
I'm gonna have a beer.
I hear the dim sum is fabulous.
- There's another thing you
should try and understand.
- Like what?
- They know you.
And probably very well.
- Well that's very nice.
- To know them, you need
to look in Flatland.
- And how do I do that?
- You need to look in the past.
Dream, it's the only way.
- Well stupid me,
I really should have known, huh?
- You will.
And one more thing.
Dreams become waking
reality, and that alone
could save your sarcastic ass.
- Look out, look out,
get out of the way!
- Son of a bitch.
I want my bike back, you--
- Hey, Amy.
- What's up?
- I just saw Uncle.
Listen, can you--
- Can I what?
- Um do you know
what an archangel is?
- Yeah, there's Michael, and
Lucifer he's an archangel.
- Okay, have you ever seen one?
- Not recently.
- I think one tried to kill me.
- You serious?
- I'm completely serious.
You've never seen one,
not even in Flatland?
Alright, thanks.
- Man, I know I shouldn't do
this.
- Sexually speaking, there
are two manifestations.
- A male side and a female side?
- Yeah, they're gender benders,
and they can cause a lot of
problems.
- Like what?
- Well just think.
If you were suddenly a
man and a woman equally,
it might be interesting going
into
the locker room for the
first time, you know?
Check things out?
But how about the bedroom?
- That could be confusing.
- Archangels are very
confusing, and very powerful.
- So, why would one be after
Mitchell?
- Most likely he clobbered
somebody's feelings.
- Emotionally?
- Yeah.
They love, they hate, they
deceive,
they tell jokes, and they
carry around about the
same amount of baggage as we do.
- But she didn't kill him.
- Or she wasn't ready.
Maybe her moon wasn't aligned
just perfectly with Jupiter.
Hey, maybe she was having a badhair day.
It could be anything.
- And that's for sure.
- Flatlands has as many curves
as
you see at a party at the
Playboy Mansion.
- Have you ever been to
any of those parties?
- A couple...
Dozen.
- You're too pretty to
be this damn deadly.
- I don't know who you are,
but following me will get you
killed.
- What is this?
I just wanna talk to you, okay,
nothing more, just a little
talk.
- Okay, so talk.
- Why'd you try and kill me?
- I didn't, I saved you.
- Save me?
- You don't remember?
- No.
My friend told me to look into
Flatland,
in order to find out who you
are.
And what you want.
- Your friend knows a lot.
- So what's your name?
- Aurora.
- Goddess of dawn.
- Then you'll know who I am.
- We were lovers.
How long ago was that?
- A long time ago in
this world, a heartbeat in
Flatland.
- My friend also told me
that when an archangel comes
to this world, they do
so to deliver a message.
A very important message.
- That's one of the reasons.
- So is it for me, Aurora?
- I gotta go.
- Hold on.
I need to know.
- You will.
- Aurora.
Will I see you again?
- Tonight.
Midnight 'til dawn.
- That's when miracles are born.
- You should do
it sometime this century.
- Do we really have
to do this?
- No, but so far you
haven't done anything.
You are playing terribly.
- Well, I have a few things on
my mind.
- You should still be up
for a little multi-tasking.
- I thought she was trying to
kill me.
And it turns out to be a
whole different ballgame.
- Maybe.
- I think she loves me, Uncle.
- People kill people
they love all the time.
- I'll be the cynical one.
- Mitchell, you loved her in
Flatland.
- Well why can't I love her
here?
- You can, but just don't expectrainbows,
and honey on your tongue.
- Why not?
- Aurora is here for a reason.
- Yeah, and I think that reasonis me.
- But there is another side
to the coin, as there is
another side to her.
- Which is?
- A cold-blooded killer,
working for her friend Khan
who uses her to seduce and
deceive.
- You know, I don't believe you,
and I don't wanna play this gameanymore.
I'm down three major pieces,
and this game is history.
- It's still on the table.
You'll see who is history.
- I'm very aware of
that.
- You don't act like it.
- You know how I feel
about him.
- Yes, you love him.
- I've always felt that way.
- Love, the worst of the human
frailties, right up there with
pride.
- It isn't always like that.
Why can't you ever feel
anything?
- I don't suffer that weakness.
- It isn't a weakness, Uriel,
it can be so much more.
- Look at yourself, tell me howyou
feel right now.
Is that what you want?
You enjoy suffering pains of theheart?
Where's the logic in that?
And what does it get you in theend?
- It's something you don't
understand.
- What I understand is
what we're going to do:
Kill Smith's warriors in
Flatland once and for all.
It's what Khan wants, and
is what we're going to do.
Have your fun for tonight,
Aurora, and then it will be
over.
Look at me.
The boy is just a pawn in a
bigger game,
I know you understand that.
And I believe in you.
- And I believe in you.
- Hello Amy Li.
Remember London?
1874?
It was quick, as I recall.
- Who are you?
What do you want?
- You don't remember?
I'm disappointed.
- Uriel.
The archangel.
- Excellent.
- Why are you here?
- Oh, you know that as well.
Like that last time; to deliver
a message to Mr. Smith from
Khan.
- He's not here.
- You disappoint me.
He's in Shanghai, and when he
knows
that you and the others are
dead, my job will be finished.
- You think it's that easy.
- It doesn't matter to me.
The end will be the same, no
matter what.
- You've learned a few things
since the last century.
And this is how he died.
Very good, Amy Li.
Next time.
- What I don't understand is why
they didn't kill the both of you
- He said that was the message,for Smith.
- Maybe he's full of it.
It's all about something else.
- No, they've played the same
sequence of events before.
- With Mitchell and Aurora?
- And you and Uriel.
When an opponent makes the
same opening moves twice,
it's time to change your
defense.
It's an old chess player's
maxim.
- You've learned a few things
since the last century.
- I know what you mean.
- Good.
When they're playing the same
moves,
and you know it, their game
has ended where it started.
- The docks?
- No, he saw her before that.
- End game, and it'll be
played the way it should.
Without mercy.
- Why didn't you killher?
- I will, but you
know what's interesting?
Smith's warriors are better
now than they used to be.
- And you're not?
- Of course, but there'sno
harm in a little fun before thekill.
- I'm not
interested in fun, Uriel.
- Don't worry, the one called
Mitchell has to die first.
- Why?
Oh, I see.
Then the other half of
you won't have a problem.
- And she'll be angry.
- I want Smith out of my world
forever.
- You'll have it.
- For your sake, I hope I do.
- It's beautiful.
- It's like a jewelry box,
full of beautiful gems.
- And me?
- You're the most
beautiful gem of them all.
- You know, sometimes I
wish that time could stop.
- Why?
- I'd stop it now like, would'vestopped it a long time ago.
- But then we would be
stuck there, or here?
- Yes.
Whatever happened before,
and whatever happens
later would just never be.
- Well that's a tough one, I'llhave to figure out that one.
- Sometimes I just think
emotions
aren't worth the trouble they
bring.
- No, no no.
You're wrong.
They aren't, they're worth everyminute.
Aurora!
Aurora!
Aurora!
Aurora.
Remember what you said.
If we could stop time.
- Time is about to stop.
For you.
- Not in Flatland, Aurora.
That will end it forever.
- For yesterday and tomorrow.
It's just the way it's going tobe.
Kill him.
- Stop time.
Aurora, please.
- I can't.
- He's just a pawn, Aurora.
Now you're a pawn as well.
- You okay?
- Yeah, I'm okay.
- Which way'd he go?
- He went that way.
- I tried to tell you.
- And I told you.
Human emotions are frailties,
they destroy everything.
- I'm not sorry.
- Neither am I.
- Checkmate, Khan.
For now.
You wanna have another game
tomorrow?
The next day, and the next, huh?
'Til one of us does stop time?
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, say 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: JT, a
gangbanger,
Mr. Mitchell, a failed mob
lawyer,
and Amy Li, a beautiful young
woman.
They will ultimately discover
the history when present
and past collide, and where
one misstep on either side
of the 4th dimension, is fatal.
In the world of Flatland where
nothing is as it appears to
be...
My name is Smith, welcome to
Flatland.
- Someone once told me
art was autobiographical.
- All I know is one thing, if
art were
personified, it would be like
us.
How are you, Victoria?
I like this persona.
- What do you think of the
others?
- Solomon and Liu, it's been a
long time.
- Uriel, help me.
Help me to destroy Smith
and all his people.
- That's precisely why I'm
here, and I have a plan.
- Good.
Now, where's your other
persona, your better half?
- Good morning!
Do you speak English?
- A little.
- Well maybe you can tell me
something.
I'm fascinated by the Peace
Hotel.
Somebody told me that Noel
Coward wrote
his famous play Private Lives
here.
- He did.
- 1930, right?
- And he wrote it in four days,
while he had the Chinese Flu.
- Ah!
That I didn't know.
JT.
- Making trouble again, huh?
- In the wrong place at the
right time.
- You are always in the wrong
place at the right time.
- Well, this time it was more.
- What?
- There was this gorgeous girl.
- Why does you and a skirt
always have to equal trouble?
- This is different.
- How gorgeous, how different?
- Most gorgeous thing I've everseen.
Then she disappeared.
- Ugh, I hate when that happens.
You just say hello and they
leave.
- Yep, well I didn't even get todo that,
there was this great big
explosion of white light.
- Really?
- I was talking to this
old guy over here too,
and then he disappears.
- He did too?
You know what's going on, man,
those funny leaves you're
smoking are kicking in.
- I'm serious, man.
- So is quantum physics.
I don't understand that either.
- I'm telling you, it has
something to do with Flatland.
Somebody tried to kill me.
- You know the
best thing about chess?
- What?
- There's no luck.
No one rolls dice, no one dealscards.
It's just your smarts
against the other player.
- I always have trouble at the
beginning.
- Why?
- There's too many choices,
and I don't know where to start?
- It's easy, play the
beginning like a book,
play the middle like a magician,
play the end like a machine.
Well that'll get you
checkmate in about 10 moves.
- Story of my life.
- Chess is a lot like life.
It's a fairytale, a
thousand and one mistakes.
To err is human, but in chess
you can't afford to be human.
Repetition is a key; same
offense,
same defense, repeating moves.
Repetition is a way of learning,
and then someone makes a change.
That's when the real game
starts...
Just like in life.
- Why did you make that
move, from Smith to Uncle?
- Mitchell is about to come in
here,
and he needs me, not my better
half.
- Uncle!
Hi.
I don't mean to be
paranoid, but I think she
was trying to kill me,
and I think the old man
had something to do with it as
well.
- Good, because they did.
- What?
- Do you know what archangels
are?
- Alright well,
archangels, they're like...
They're like what, super angels,huh?
- They deliver messages
of extreme importance.
And the word angel denotes a
function more than a nature.
- Okay.
- And they come from
the 8th highest level
of celestial hierarchy.
- Well, this one tried
to kill me at sea-level.
- Yes.
Which is good.
- She's loony tunes my
friend, how is that good?
- Because they did not succeed.
- Please.
- In their world,
you would be dead.
- Well you know what?
I'm gonna kick it here,
I'm gonna have a beer.
I hear the dim sum is fabulous.
- There's another thing you
should try and understand.
- Like what?
- They know you.
And probably very well.
- Well that's very nice.
- To know them, you need
to look in Flatland.
- And how do I do that?
- You need to look in the past.
Dream, it's the only way.
- Well stupid me,
I really should have known, huh?
- You will.
And one more thing.
Dreams become waking
reality, and that alone
could save your sarcastic ass.
- Look out, look out,
get out of the way!
- Son of a bitch.
I want my bike back, you--
- Hey, Amy.
- What's up?
- I just saw Uncle.
Listen, can you--
- Can I what?
- Um do you know
what an archangel is?
- Yeah, there's Michael, and
Lucifer he's an archangel.
- Okay, have you ever seen one?
- Not recently.
- I think one tried to kill me.
- You serious?
- I'm completely serious.
You've never seen one,
not even in Flatland?
Alright, thanks.
- Man, I know I shouldn't do
this.
- Sexually speaking, there
are two manifestations.
- A male side and a female side?
- Yeah, they're gender benders,
and they can cause a lot of
problems.
- Like what?
- Well just think.
If you were suddenly a
man and a woman equally,
it might be interesting going
into
the locker room for the
first time, you know?
Check things out?
But how about the bedroom?
- That could be confusing.
- Archangels are very
confusing, and very powerful.
- So, why would one be after
Mitchell?
- Most likely he clobbered
somebody's feelings.
- Emotionally?
- Yeah.
They love, they hate, they
deceive,
they tell jokes, and they
carry around about the
same amount of baggage as we do.
- But she didn't kill him.
- Or she wasn't ready.
Maybe her moon wasn't aligned
just perfectly with Jupiter.
Hey, maybe she was having a badhair day.
It could be anything.
- And that's for sure.
- Flatlands has as many curves
as
you see at a party at the
Playboy Mansion.
- Have you ever been to
any of those parties?
- A couple...
Dozen.
- You're too pretty to
be this damn deadly.
- I don't know who you are,
but following me will get you
killed.
- What is this?
I just wanna talk to you, okay,
nothing more, just a little
talk.
- Okay, so talk.
- Why'd you try and kill me?
- I didn't, I saved you.
- Save me?
- You don't remember?
- No.
My friend told me to look into
Flatland,
in order to find out who you
are.
And what you want.
- Your friend knows a lot.
- So what's your name?
- Aurora.
- Goddess of dawn.
- Then you'll know who I am.
- We were lovers.
How long ago was that?
- A long time ago in
this world, a heartbeat in
Flatland.
- My friend also told me
that when an archangel comes
to this world, they do
so to deliver a message.
A very important message.
- That's one of the reasons.
- So is it for me, Aurora?
- I gotta go.
- Hold on.
I need to know.
- You will.
- Aurora.
Will I see you again?
- Tonight.
Midnight 'til dawn.
- That's when miracles are born.
- You should do
it sometime this century.
- Do we really have
to do this?
- No, but so far you
haven't done anything.
You are playing terribly.
- Well, I have a few things on
my mind.
- You should still be up
for a little multi-tasking.
- I thought she was trying to
kill me.
And it turns out to be a
whole different ballgame.
- Maybe.
- I think she loves me, Uncle.
- People kill people
they love all the time.
- I'll be the cynical one.
- Mitchell, you loved her in
Flatland.
- Well why can't I love her
here?
- You can, but just don't expectrainbows,
and honey on your tongue.
- Why not?
- Aurora is here for a reason.
- Yeah, and I think that reasonis me.
- But there is another side
to the coin, as there is
another side to her.
- Which is?
- A cold-blooded killer,
working for her friend Khan
who uses her to seduce and
deceive.
- You know, I don't believe you,
and I don't wanna play this gameanymore.
I'm down three major pieces,
and this game is history.
- It's still on the table.
You'll see who is history.
- I'm very aware of
that.
- You don't act like it.
- You know how I feel
about him.
- Yes, you love him.
- I've always felt that way.
- Love, the worst of the human
frailties, right up there with
pride.
- It isn't always like that.
Why can't you ever feel
anything?
- I don't suffer that weakness.
- It isn't a weakness, Uriel,
it can be so much more.
- Look at yourself, tell me howyou
feel right now.
Is that what you want?
You enjoy suffering pains of theheart?
Where's the logic in that?
And what does it get you in theend?
- It's something you don't
understand.
- What I understand is
what we're going to do:
Kill Smith's warriors in
Flatland once and for all.
It's what Khan wants, and
is what we're going to do.
Have your fun for tonight,
Aurora, and then it will be
over.
Look at me.
The boy is just a pawn in a
bigger game,
I know you understand that.
And I believe in you.
- And I believe in you.
- Hello Amy Li.
Remember London?
1874?
It was quick, as I recall.
- Who are you?
What do you want?
- You don't remember?
I'm disappointed.
- Uriel.
The archangel.
- Excellent.
- Why are you here?
- Oh, you know that as well.
Like that last time; to deliver
a message to Mr. Smith from
Khan.
- He's not here.
- You disappoint me.
He's in Shanghai, and when he
knows
that you and the others are
dead, my job will be finished.
- You think it's that easy.
- It doesn't matter to me.
The end will be the same, no
matter what.
- You've learned a few things
since the last century.
And this is how he died.
Very good, Amy Li.
Next time.
- What I don't understand is why
they didn't kill the both of you
- He said that was the message,for Smith.
- Maybe he's full of it.
It's all about something else.
- No, they've played the same
sequence of events before.
- With Mitchell and Aurora?
- And you and Uriel.
When an opponent makes the
same opening moves twice,
it's time to change your
defense.
It's an old chess player's
maxim.
- You've learned a few things
since the last century.
- I know what you mean.
- Good.
When they're playing the same
moves,
and you know it, their game
has ended where it started.
- The docks?
- No, he saw her before that.
- End game, and it'll be
played the way it should.
Without mercy.
- Why didn't you killher?
- I will, but you
know what's interesting?
Smith's warriors are better
now than they used to be.
- And you're not?
- Of course, but there'sno
harm in a little fun before thekill.
- I'm not
interested in fun, Uriel.
- Don't worry, the one called
Mitchell has to die first.
- Why?
Oh, I see.
Then the other half of
you won't have a problem.
- And she'll be angry.
- I want Smith out of my world
forever.
- You'll have it.
- For your sake, I hope I do.
- It's beautiful.
- It's like a jewelry box,
full of beautiful gems.
- And me?
- You're the most
beautiful gem of them all.
- You know, sometimes I
wish that time could stop.
- Why?
- I'd stop it now like, would'vestopped it a long time ago.
- But then we would be
stuck there, or here?
- Yes.
Whatever happened before,
and whatever happens
later would just never be.
- Well that's a tough one, I'llhave to figure out that one.
- Sometimes I just think
emotions
aren't worth the trouble they
bring.
- No, no no.
You're wrong.
They aren't, they're worth everyminute.
Aurora!
Aurora!
Aurora!
Aurora.
Remember what you said.
If we could stop time.
- Time is about to stop.
For you.
- Not in Flatland, Aurora.
That will end it forever.
- For yesterday and tomorrow.
It's just the way it's going tobe.
Kill him.
- Stop time.
Aurora, please.
- I can't.
- He's just a pawn, Aurora.
Now you're a pawn as well.
- You okay?
- Yeah, I'm okay.
- Which way'd he go?
- He went that way.
- I tried to tell you.
- And I told you.
Human emotions are frailties,
they destroy everything.
- I'm not sorry.
- Neither am I.
- Checkmate, Khan.
For now.
You wanna have another game
tomorrow?
The next day, and the next, huh?
'Til one of us does stop time?