Gargoyles (1994–1996): Season 2, Episode 33 - Walkabout - full transcript
The World Tourists team up with Dingo and Fox to stop an artificially intelligent machine mass undergoing a grey goo situation.
GOLIATH:
One thousand years ago,
superstition
and the sword ruled.
It was a time of darkness.
It was a world of fear.
It was the age of gargoyles.
Stone by day,
warriors by night.
(GUTTURAL SCREAM)
We were betrayed by the humans
we had sworn to protect,
frozen in stone
by a magic spell
for 1,000 years.
Now, here in Manhattan,
the spell is broken
and we live again.
(DEEP GROWL)
We are defenders of the night.
We are Gargoyles!
RENARD: Hello, Janine.
ELISA:
Previously onGargoyles...
Hello, Daddy.
We are here today to
join David Xanatos and Fox
in matrimony.
RENARD: But why?
I built this company for you.
I’d have given it
to you already
If you hadn’t married
that villain Xanatos.
I can’t understand that.
Maybe you’ll have better luck
relating to the next generation.
-What?
-That’s right, Daddy.
You’re going to
be a grandfather.
Dingo’s gonna be
sorry he missed this.
I’m a partner
in a freak show.
I wonder where Avalon
has brought us this time?
(GASPS)
(GROWLS)
That was a kangaroo.
(LAUGHS)
Unless we’ve landed in a zoo,
this is Australia.
(SNIFFS, GROWLS)
What is it, Bronx?
Look!
It must be sorcery!
Whatever it is,
it’s coming this way! Move!
(GASPS)
What was that?
Perhaps we’re here
to find out.
SHAMAN: If you would
leave your past behind...
You must go on the Walkabout
and find the Dreamtime.
The Dreamtime?
It is all around you.
A dimension
parallel to this one.
A world of the mind...
And the heart.
Find the Dreamtime,
and you’ll free your soul.
Well, um,
I wanna clean the slate,
make a fresh start.
If that’s what it needs,
then I’m for it.
Now, um, you won’t
come looking for me, right?
This quest is yours alone.
No one will disturb you on it.
That’s the ticket.
Cheers, cobber!
(BEEPING)
All systems go...
Still no sign of it.
The cataclysm
appears to have stopped.
(SNIFFS)
(GROWLS)
It seems we are not alone...
Strike me! Gargoyles! Here?
Dingo!
-Bronx, with me.
-(GROWLS)
ANGELA:
Who is Dingo?
It’s a long story.
Let’s just say he’s
not one of the good guys.
(BRONX SNARLS)
(GRUNTS)
(GROWLS)
(BEEPS)
Hold still!
(BEEPING)
(BEEPING CONTINUES)
(GRUNTS)
(ROBOTIC VOICE) Now, let’s you
and me dance, handsome.
(SNARLS)
ANASTASIA: I don’t like it.
The Matrix is not
responding properly.
It’s too smart, Fox.
We don’t know enough about
hive mind
artificial intelligence
to understand
what’s going on in there.
It’s dangerous.
If the Matrix
gets out of control...
You worry too much, Mom.
The magnetic field
will contain it.
What about the locals?
I’ve got
an operative making sure
they stay clear of the site.
Start the next test stage.
-(GASPS)
-Anything wrong?
Your grandson just kicked me.
(SNARLS)
(BOTH GRUNTING)
(GRUNTS)
Whoa! Goliath!
(GRUNTS)
(SCREAMING)
(GRUNTS)
(GASPS)
(GRUNTS)
(BOTH GASP)
(GRUNTS) This way.
(STARTLED CRY)
(GRUNTS)
(PANTING)
Looks like we’re clear.
Aye. For now.
What do you
know of this?
What makes you think
I know anything about it?
Somehow, I doubt it’s a
coincidence that you’re here.
Me? What about you, Sheila?
You’re the ones
a long way from home.
This is my country.
And, by the way,
you’re welcome.
He did help save
Angela and myself.
We’ll accept your story...
For now.
I’d just feel better
if we restarted
with a clean operating system.
Mother, it’s just a test.
If we’re successful,
David and I can use
Matrix to reshape
the entire planet
to suit us.
Fox, humor your mother.
(SIGHS) Well,
it’s a lot of work but if you
really think it’s necessary
we’ll erase the program
and start over.
(MONITOR BEEPING)
Hmm.
This discoloration
stops here.
Magic. Dark magic.
DINGO:
Hmm... I don’t think so.
Not magic. Nanotechnology.
(NORMAL VOICE) Here,
have a look.
(ROBOTIC VOICE) I see them!
What is this
"nanotechnology"?
Tiny robots,
each smaller than a germ.
Coyote used to say it was
the wave of the future.
What do they do?
Anything you want ’em to.
They’re computer programmed
(ROBOTIC VOICE) to keep building
more and more of themselves.
When you have billions
of the little buggers
all working together,
they can do just about
anything in a big hurry.
-ELISA: It’s unbelievable...
-DINGO: Not really.
Old Mother Nature’s been
doing the same thing for
millions of years.
She just uses proteins and
enzymes instead of machines.
But could not these tiny
machines transform us as well?
Huh. I wouldn’t wanna
test my luck.
Let’s get outta here.
FOX: Let’s check in with
my man in the field.
Uh, say, maybe just
you and me outta go in.
I don’t want to give
the old geezer a heart attack.
Ah... You have returned.
Why not bring your
other guests into the light?
Ah!
You are from the Dreamtime.
I’ve got an automatic
video transmission
showing that the Gargoyles
are in the test area.
We’ve got to shut down
immediately, before... (GASPS)
(WHIRRING)
The Matrix has learned how
to shut down a magnetic
containment field!
(LOUD CRASH)
(BOTH PANTING)
(ALARM BLARING)
SHAMAN: All things
come from the Dreaming,
but this new vision is flawed.
It must be stopped.
But how?
You must find
the Dreamtime.
Only there can you speak to it,
convince it to stop.
(GASPS)
Oh! Hang on!
(PANTING)
Ah!
Ah! (PANTING)
You must be Goliath.
(CHUCKLING)
Where are my manners?
Goliath, Dingo,
Detective Maza,
meet Anastasia Renard,
my mother.
Renard? But that means...
You are
Halcyon Renard’s daughter!
We have more important
things to discuss
than my ex-husband.
The Matrix has reached
the limits of its range...
For now.
I thought you were in control
of the bloody thing!
So...
You are working with them.
Hang about, it’s true
I hired on to give ’em a hand,
but I didn’t expect this.
-It’s too dangerous.
We have to stop it.
-I don’t know that we can.
Once the Matrix taps into
the atomic power plant
that runs the labs,
nothing can stop it.
It’s called
the "gray goo" scenario.
With enough power the Matrix
could cover the entire Earth
with microscopic machines,
converting everything
to suit its programming.
This Matrix of
which you speak,
what is it?
Why is it doing this?
It’s a shared computer program
that controls the machines...
Sort of a group mind.
The test was supposed to create
order out of random terrain,
but it’s gone beyond
the experiment’s parameters.
Is there any way to stop it?
Perhaps. We managed to save
this optical drive cartridge.
Theoretically, it could
wipe the program clean,
leaving the Matrix dormant.
But to implement it,
we have to input it
directly into the Matrix.
My armor’s computer modem might
be able to transmit the program.
Risky.
With all the
magnetic interference,
you’d have to get inside
the test site boundary.
Angela and I will go with you
to guard your back.
Right neighborly of you.
This is not the way.
GOLIATH:
Why has it not absorbed
the power plant already?
DINGO:
I’d bet it’s got to go slow
or all that plutonium
could give it
a bad case of indigestion.
The deactivation
program’s running.
Things should
settle down now, you know.
(SHOUTS IN SURPRISE)
(GRUNTS)
(GASPS)
Get away from him!
(GRUNTING)
(GRUNTING)
Let’s get outta here!
ANASTASIA: It sounds like
the Matrix has evolved
beyond its
original programming.
We can’t stop it.
When it absorbs
the power plant,
it will overrun everything.
Shouldn’t we be leaving?
There’s no place to run.
In a few days the whole world
will be transformed.
We’ve got to do something!
SHAMAN: You must talk to it.
Convince it of its error.
What?
Talk to a machine?
It’s more than
a machine now.
It’s
an artificial intelligence.
But it thinks a billion times
faster than we do!
We can’t communicate
with it in real time.
Then you must seek it
in the Dreamtime.
Oh... I must be off my nut,
goin’ for this...
(PLAYS DIDGERIDOO)
Remember...
In the Dreamtime,
things are not
what they seem,
but as you make them seem.
(SMOKE WHOOSHING)
ELISA:
What’s happened to them?
They have crossed over
into the Dreamtime.
DINGO: Where are we?
GOLIATH:
As the Shaman said,
this must be the Dreamtime.
And that must be the Matrix.
Come.
We have no time to lose.
Eh, why not? Always did fancy
a trip to Disneyland.
We are near the source!
(STRAINING) What are you?
MATRIX: We are the Matrix.
We create order from chaos.
If you continue,
you will destroy the world.
MATRIX:
The world is imperfect.
We shall make it pure,
pristine.
-(LASER FIRES)
-(GRUNTS)
Nothing must interfere
with our directive.
I can’t say that one
was a blazing success, mate.
Remember what the Shaman said?
The Dreamtime is
what you want it to be.
(LOUD CRASH)
(CHUCKLES) I like it.
MATRIX: You are inducing random
elements into the program.
I need me a bit
more fire-power here!
Oh, now this is more like it!
Ah! It slows. Our champions
have confronted it.
(STARTLED CRY)
(GASPS)
Matrix!
You must listen to me!
Order is not
frozen perfection!
It is dynamic, evolving!
MATRIX: We are programmed
to create order.
GOLIATH: You are not creating,
you are negating!
Your peace is
that of the grave!
But we must pursue order.
(STAMMERS) Uh, listen, mate!
There’s another
kind of order...
Law and order!
Hey, now, that’s something
you’d be real good at!
(WHIRRING)
(GASPS)
ELISA: You’re back!
Whatever you did, it worked!
It seems your
words were well-chosen.
Look!
MATRIX: Your words have
a ring of truth.
Speak to us
of this new order.
This "law and order."
Uh, well, um...
(CLEARS THROAT)
Me and Fox here
used to be heroes
to a lot of folks
when The Pack was on TV.
I’ve been
missing that lately.
What are you
getting at, Dingo?
I wanna be a hero again,
for real, this time.
You and I, we could be a team,
fighting to create
law and order.
Yes. We will help you.
Strewth!
Ripper!
MATRIX: We are now joined.
Teach us of law and order.
Quite a responsibility,
Dingo.
Yeah, heh.
I don’t quite know
if I’m up to it,
but I guess I’ll give it a go.
(SIGH)
Looks like Australia’s got
a new kind of hero, mates!
(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)
One thousand years ago,
superstition
and the sword ruled.
It was a time of darkness.
It was a world of fear.
It was the age of gargoyles.
Stone by day,
warriors by night.
(GUTTURAL SCREAM)
We were betrayed by the humans
we had sworn to protect,
frozen in stone
by a magic spell
for 1,000 years.
Now, here in Manhattan,
the spell is broken
and we live again.
(DEEP GROWL)
We are defenders of the night.
We are Gargoyles!
RENARD: Hello, Janine.
ELISA:
Previously onGargoyles...
Hello, Daddy.
We are here today to
join David Xanatos and Fox
in matrimony.
RENARD: But why?
I built this company for you.
I’d have given it
to you already
If you hadn’t married
that villain Xanatos.
I can’t understand that.
Maybe you’ll have better luck
relating to the next generation.
-What?
-That’s right, Daddy.
You’re going to
be a grandfather.
Dingo’s gonna be
sorry he missed this.
I’m a partner
in a freak show.
I wonder where Avalon
has brought us this time?
(GASPS)
(GROWLS)
That was a kangaroo.
(LAUGHS)
Unless we’ve landed in a zoo,
this is Australia.
(SNIFFS, GROWLS)
What is it, Bronx?
Look!
It must be sorcery!
Whatever it is,
it’s coming this way! Move!
(GASPS)
What was that?
Perhaps we’re here
to find out.
SHAMAN: If you would
leave your past behind...
You must go on the Walkabout
and find the Dreamtime.
The Dreamtime?
It is all around you.
A dimension
parallel to this one.
A world of the mind...
And the heart.
Find the Dreamtime,
and you’ll free your soul.
Well, um,
I wanna clean the slate,
make a fresh start.
If that’s what it needs,
then I’m for it.
Now, um, you won’t
come looking for me, right?
This quest is yours alone.
No one will disturb you on it.
That’s the ticket.
Cheers, cobber!
(BEEPING)
All systems go...
Still no sign of it.
The cataclysm
appears to have stopped.
(SNIFFS)
(GROWLS)
It seems we are not alone...
Strike me! Gargoyles! Here?
Dingo!
-Bronx, with me.
-(GROWLS)
ANGELA:
Who is Dingo?
It’s a long story.
Let’s just say he’s
not one of the good guys.
(BRONX SNARLS)
(GRUNTS)
(GROWLS)
(BEEPS)
Hold still!
(BEEPING)
(BEEPING CONTINUES)
(GRUNTS)
(ROBOTIC VOICE) Now, let’s you
and me dance, handsome.
(SNARLS)
ANASTASIA: I don’t like it.
The Matrix is not
responding properly.
It’s too smart, Fox.
We don’t know enough about
hive mind
artificial intelligence
to understand
what’s going on in there.
It’s dangerous.
If the Matrix
gets out of control...
You worry too much, Mom.
The magnetic field
will contain it.
What about the locals?
I’ve got
an operative making sure
they stay clear of the site.
Start the next test stage.
-(GASPS)
-Anything wrong?
Your grandson just kicked me.
(SNARLS)
(BOTH GRUNTING)
(GRUNTS)
Whoa! Goliath!
(GRUNTS)
(SCREAMING)
(GRUNTS)
(GASPS)
(GRUNTS)
(BOTH GASP)
(GRUNTS) This way.
(STARTLED CRY)
(GRUNTS)
(PANTING)
Looks like we’re clear.
Aye. For now.
What do you
know of this?
What makes you think
I know anything about it?
Somehow, I doubt it’s a
coincidence that you’re here.
Me? What about you, Sheila?
You’re the ones
a long way from home.
This is my country.
And, by the way,
you’re welcome.
He did help save
Angela and myself.
We’ll accept your story...
For now.
I’d just feel better
if we restarted
with a clean operating system.
Mother, it’s just a test.
If we’re successful,
David and I can use
Matrix to reshape
the entire planet
to suit us.
Fox, humor your mother.
(SIGHS) Well,
it’s a lot of work but if you
really think it’s necessary
we’ll erase the program
and start over.
(MONITOR BEEPING)
Hmm.
This discoloration
stops here.
Magic. Dark magic.
DINGO:
Hmm... I don’t think so.
Not magic. Nanotechnology.
(NORMAL VOICE) Here,
have a look.
(ROBOTIC VOICE) I see them!
What is this
"nanotechnology"?
Tiny robots,
each smaller than a germ.
Coyote used to say it was
the wave of the future.
What do they do?
Anything you want ’em to.
They’re computer programmed
(ROBOTIC VOICE) to keep building
more and more of themselves.
When you have billions
of the little buggers
all working together,
they can do just about
anything in a big hurry.
-ELISA: It’s unbelievable...
-DINGO: Not really.
Old Mother Nature’s been
doing the same thing for
millions of years.
She just uses proteins and
enzymes instead of machines.
But could not these tiny
machines transform us as well?
Huh. I wouldn’t wanna
test my luck.
Let’s get outta here.
FOX: Let’s check in with
my man in the field.
Uh, say, maybe just
you and me outta go in.
I don’t want to give
the old geezer a heart attack.
Ah... You have returned.
Why not bring your
other guests into the light?
Ah!
You are from the Dreamtime.
I’ve got an automatic
video transmission
showing that the Gargoyles
are in the test area.
We’ve got to shut down
immediately, before... (GASPS)
(WHIRRING)
The Matrix has learned how
to shut down a magnetic
containment field!
(LOUD CRASH)
(BOTH PANTING)
(ALARM BLARING)
SHAMAN: All things
come from the Dreaming,
but this new vision is flawed.
It must be stopped.
But how?
You must find
the Dreamtime.
Only there can you speak to it,
convince it to stop.
(GASPS)
Oh! Hang on!
(PANTING)
Ah!
Ah! (PANTING)
You must be Goliath.
(CHUCKLING)
Where are my manners?
Goliath, Dingo,
Detective Maza,
meet Anastasia Renard,
my mother.
Renard? But that means...
You are
Halcyon Renard’s daughter!
We have more important
things to discuss
than my ex-husband.
The Matrix has reached
the limits of its range...
For now.
I thought you were in control
of the bloody thing!
So...
You are working with them.
Hang about, it’s true
I hired on to give ’em a hand,
but I didn’t expect this.
-It’s too dangerous.
We have to stop it.
-I don’t know that we can.
Once the Matrix taps into
the atomic power plant
that runs the labs,
nothing can stop it.
It’s called
the "gray goo" scenario.
With enough power the Matrix
could cover the entire Earth
with microscopic machines,
converting everything
to suit its programming.
This Matrix of
which you speak,
what is it?
Why is it doing this?
It’s a shared computer program
that controls the machines...
Sort of a group mind.
The test was supposed to create
order out of random terrain,
but it’s gone beyond
the experiment’s parameters.
Is there any way to stop it?
Perhaps. We managed to save
this optical drive cartridge.
Theoretically, it could
wipe the program clean,
leaving the Matrix dormant.
But to implement it,
we have to input it
directly into the Matrix.
My armor’s computer modem might
be able to transmit the program.
Risky.
With all the
magnetic interference,
you’d have to get inside
the test site boundary.
Angela and I will go with you
to guard your back.
Right neighborly of you.
This is not the way.
GOLIATH:
Why has it not absorbed
the power plant already?
DINGO:
I’d bet it’s got to go slow
or all that plutonium
could give it
a bad case of indigestion.
The deactivation
program’s running.
Things should
settle down now, you know.
(SHOUTS IN SURPRISE)
(GRUNTS)
(GASPS)
Get away from him!
(GRUNTING)
(GRUNTING)
Let’s get outta here!
ANASTASIA: It sounds like
the Matrix has evolved
beyond its
original programming.
We can’t stop it.
When it absorbs
the power plant,
it will overrun everything.
Shouldn’t we be leaving?
There’s no place to run.
In a few days the whole world
will be transformed.
We’ve got to do something!
SHAMAN: You must talk to it.
Convince it of its error.
What?
Talk to a machine?
It’s more than
a machine now.
It’s
an artificial intelligence.
But it thinks a billion times
faster than we do!
We can’t communicate
with it in real time.
Then you must seek it
in the Dreamtime.
Oh... I must be off my nut,
goin’ for this...
(PLAYS DIDGERIDOO)
Remember...
In the Dreamtime,
things are not
what they seem,
but as you make them seem.
(SMOKE WHOOSHING)
ELISA:
What’s happened to them?
They have crossed over
into the Dreamtime.
DINGO: Where are we?
GOLIATH:
As the Shaman said,
this must be the Dreamtime.
And that must be the Matrix.
Come.
We have no time to lose.
Eh, why not? Always did fancy
a trip to Disneyland.
We are near the source!
(STRAINING) What are you?
MATRIX: We are the Matrix.
We create order from chaos.
If you continue,
you will destroy the world.
MATRIX:
The world is imperfect.
We shall make it pure,
pristine.
-(LASER FIRES)
-(GRUNTS)
Nothing must interfere
with our directive.
I can’t say that one
was a blazing success, mate.
Remember what the Shaman said?
The Dreamtime is
what you want it to be.
(LOUD CRASH)
(CHUCKLES) I like it.
MATRIX: You are inducing random
elements into the program.
I need me a bit
more fire-power here!
Oh, now this is more like it!
Ah! It slows. Our champions
have confronted it.
(STARTLED CRY)
(GASPS)
Matrix!
You must listen to me!
Order is not
frozen perfection!
It is dynamic, evolving!
MATRIX: We are programmed
to create order.
GOLIATH: You are not creating,
you are negating!
Your peace is
that of the grave!
But we must pursue order.
(STAMMERS) Uh, listen, mate!
There’s another
kind of order...
Law and order!
Hey, now, that’s something
you’d be real good at!
(WHIRRING)
(GASPS)
ELISA: You’re back!
Whatever you did, it worked!
It seems your
words were well-chosen.
Look!
MATRIX: Your words have
a ring of truth.
Speak to us
of this new order.
This "law and order."
Uh, well, um...
(CLEARS THROAT)
Me and Fox here
used to be heroes
to a lot of folks
when The Pack was on TV.
I’ve been
missing that lately.
What are you
getting at, Dingo?
I wanna be a hero again,
for real, this time.
You and I, we could be a team,
fighting to create
law and order.
Yes. We will help you.
Strewth!
Ripper!
MATRIX: We are now joined.
Teach us of law and order.
Quite a responsibility,
Dingo.
Yeah, heh.
I don’t quite know
if I’m up to it,
but I guess I’ll give it a go.
(SIGH)
Looks like Australia’s got
a new kind of hero, mates!
(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)