Masters of Science Fiction (2007–…): Season 1, Episode 5 - Little Brother - full transcript

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(Stephen hawking) from
the very beginning,

We have wondered how life began,

What our purpose is
and where we are headed.

We have struggled
to understand time,

Matter, the infinite universe,

Who we are and if we are alone.

Great minds have imagined
the most wonderful

And the most terrifying answers

To these questions.

We invite you to join us
on this great expedition.



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As we seek to improve
and refine ourselves,

To elevate humankind
to its consummate form,

What will become of those
who are less than perfect?

(Thud) you can't go
out. It's the first hand.

(Man) i fold. (Woman)
you are so full of it.

(Man) do it, sharon. He's lyin'.

(Grunts) (man) play the game.

(Sharon) i call.

(Man) read 'em and weep--
Four kings. (Grunts)

(Sharon)amn. (Man) i told you.

Ohh! You didn't have to lien.

(Sharon) shuffle the cards.

(Man) i can't take anymore.



All right!

Who the hell's gonna
clean this garbage up

And blow it outta here?

Okay, okay. Volunteers?

All right, you--
You, you and you.

Yeah, that's right,
the dullard sisters.

Get over there.
Cleanup on aisle 13.

Come on, move!

Seriously, i had one of
the very first geno-Pets.

They hadn't worked
out all of the bugs,

So it shifted species
depending on my mood, but...

it was a really good companion.

(Woman grunts) i named her dolly,

After that sheep
with the big hooters.

I miss that cat--That
dog-- That thing.

You know what i miss?

A healthy
bowel movement--

A real big, round
cookie, baby--

One that only happens when
you've been eatin' real food.

(Woman) do you remember real food?

Not really. One, two, three!

(Man) oh! (Mechanical grinding)

(Man) so long, riila.

Hmm. Mango. Very piquant.

Aah! Ooh!

Easy.

Thank you.

I am...

i am extremely whipped.

Riila never manifested
herself for the k.P. Shift.

Odious though it may
be, i worked both.

Do i make myself pellucid?

Eight detestable hours.

I may have to kill that woman.

You're too late.

Riila?

I was perturbed she didn't
wish to do her garbage shift.

Would you kindly be quiet?

Now it seems she is
the garbage shift.

Fortuitous i didn't
knock over the plant.

Well, if you had, there'd have been

Two all-Meat pizzas
floatin' out there.

As i've always said, bedzyk,
you're a kindly, thoughtful man.

Just passin' the time

Till it's my turn to
go out the garbage port.

I am samswope!

No, u loathsome
creature, i am samswope!

Come on, bedzyk, it's not that bad.

At the very least,
we are still alive.

We'll find a landfall.

We will...

all in the fullness of time.

Ah, come on, sam.

Been to all six terraformed
sites in the system,

Some of them more than once.

It's always
the same--

"Keep moving, scum. Hit the road.

Get lost, and take this
piece of junk with you."

If we had any sense,

We'd fly this garbage
scow right into the sun--

And better still,
crash it right up there.

Ah,
yes--

Into the bosom of our
succoring mother earth...

up there, down there.

Wherever.

Adieu and bide thee
well, dear, sweet riila.

What is she, the third this month?

The fourth?

Sixth.

So we're down to what, 96?

93.

Two-Thirds of our
original little party

Of discarded freaks, dead and gone.

It's tragic, just tragic.

We've been orbiting too long. Huh.

What are you going to do?

What am i gonna do?

In spite of your surly, one
might even venture taciturn,

Nature, mon ami, you
remain an imposing

And, whether you like it or nay,

A de facto executive figure
aboard this enchanted scow,

The mutant horrors of which

Hold you in the
very highest esteem.

And i suspect, beneath your snarls,

You actually care
what happens to them.

I'm just a
passenger, pal--

Just another steerage
-Class passenger,

And i got my ticket to prove it.

I... i want to go home.

Yeah, me, too.

I wanna go home.
I-I wanna go home.

Off you go, then.

Ah, bedzyk, exit
the mere passenger,

Replaced by the sublime
poet-Philosopher.

Oh, that's why everyone
looks to you, you know.

Apathy prevails here on
the good ship "gulag,"

A.K.A. "The riggum express."

But you're the one

Who gets up and
does something--

If not every time,

At least with sufficient frequency

That your nobility rises like
the rose mountains of mars

Above the apathy.

Everything i do, you could do.

(Laughs) you jest,
sir. You jape. You jive.

I laugh at your
jackanapery, squire.

No, really, you could
run this place, sam.

You got two hes.

Do you in
fact know--

Toeer away from the
previous bull-Pucky--

Why we call the sickness
that condemned us

To this
floating prison--

What we affectionately refer
to as "the blood poop"--

Do you know why we
call it "riggum,"

As previous generations
called theirs "the pox"

Or "yellow fever" or "a.I.D.S."?

I--I'm sorry, sam. I
gotta get some fresh air.

Yes, well, we could
all use some fresh air.

I wanna go home. I wanna go home...

Ah, smiler, my old friend. I wanna
go home. Home. Home. I wanna go home.

Do you know the etymological basis

Of the nom de blood poop "riggum"

For our communal sickness?

Well, it began

As transmutational
blood poisoning--

Wildly stupid and inaccurate term,

Just as chronic fatigue
syndrome was epstein-Barr,

Or mono-- Listen,
i gotta go.

No, no, no. (Chuckles)

Then--Then they
abbreviated it to t.B.P.,

Whence came "tepee."

But native americans
decried that as racist,

So they started calling
it "blood mutation"

Or "blood
poop"--

Utterly disgusting redneck term.

And finally, after a
million people had it,

They took it seriously,

Particularly when the
president of uruguay

Grew 11 extra noses on
the back of each hand,

And they called
that-- Ta-Da!

The birth of the blues!

(Laughs) i'm only kidding.

They called the sickness what
it really is... (whimpering)

Random idiopathic
genomic mutation--

The acronym--R.I.G.M.,
or "riggum."

Now wasn't that an
informative interlude?

Philistines.

I am festooned with philistines.

I was just telling sharon here
how much i miss whisper chips.

Really? You remember, don't ya?

Opening the bag without a sound,

The feel of that first
little crisp chip,

Jumped right out of the bag,

And you caught it on your tongue,

And then the funny little
hiss when you bit down.

Of course, i remember
when chips made a crunch

And pissed off everyone
around you. Yeah. Barbaric.

Exactly. Excuse me.

I never tasted any
kind of chip at all.

Oh, darlin', the
things you've missed--

The popcorn, the
beer-Battered flurge,

Sonic potatoes!

Ooh.

Hi, bedzyk.

Lookin' good, sis.

Now that, my friend, is an eye.

Some hell of an
eye, let me tell you!

Yeah, that is an
eye only to die for.

You could plotz from
an eye like that.

Ah, the tuchis is not
easily dismissed either.

What do you mean, the tuchis?
What are you, a pervert?/

Yeah?

Bedzyk, that you?

No, it's somebody else.

Come on, will you stop crankin'
me? Is that you, bedzyk?

Harmony, this is bedzyk. What?

We got a ship comin' in,
dead-On trajectory from earth.

Yeah, so?

So i checked the ephemeris
and the new e.T.A. Readout,

And there's nothing
supposed to be there.

All right. So our loving
friends and neighbors

Have sent us an unscheduled
load of toilet paper.

Why bother me with it?
I'm a tourist here myself.

Come on, bedzyk. They'll
dock in eight hours.

What the hell do you want me to do?

Well, call me in
eight and a half hours

If you're desperate for my
company. (Intercom chimes)

(Grunts) i'm gonna
turn on the light.

What are you doing?

I want to turn up the light. Don't.

Don't. You know i don't
like that. (Grunts)

How long have you been here
on the gulag, annie? You know.

I can't remember anything.

Time just runs together out here.

Come on, how many
years has it been?

14. I was 16 when they crashed
the "coventry" on callisto

And took me to the settlement.

You were a kid.

How long were you
on the "coventry"?

I was, uh...

22, i think,

When i was discarded,

So that'd be five or
six, something like that.

Do you ever wonder why
you were discarded, annie?

Yeah. Ohh.

Yeah, i do, but it's
that thing about malthus.

At least, that's how they
always explained it to me--

Too many people on
earth, no place to stand,

The sheep look up.

Yeah, that's what
they always say--

"It's too crowded.
Somebody's gotta go.

Why not send the infected ones?"

I don't buy it.

So what is it then, hmm? Hmm?

You ever hear of father damien?

No. Who is he?

He was a priest. He
worked with lepers.

See, they used to send people
with leprosy to this island

To die, okay?

Like they shipped us
up here, to the gulag.

Where are you going with this, hmm?

The real reason they
sent us out here, annie,

Is because they can't
stand to look at us.

It's the ugliness that
scares the hell out of 'em,

Not the infection.

We're just like those lepers.

You read too much.

Listen, love, i'm no fan
of our neighbors from earth,

But i don't think even they
could be that cruel to...

no.

To exile us with no landfall ever,

Just because we repulse them.

Out of sight, out of mind.

And there's a big ship
coming in. Oh, yes.

Maybe it's good news.

(Laughs) oh, good news!
Yeah, good news is comin'.

(Laughs) yeah, next week.

Mmm.

Let me turn up the lights.

No, don't.

Annie, i like to look at you.

No. It's
not--No. I...

it's me, this ridiculous arm.

It's not you, bedzyk.

You are lovely.

(Laughs) yeah, i'm gorgeous.

Really.

I love looking at you.

I just... i just have...

baggage.

Please

Annie, all over the system,

People make love to each
other with the lights on

Because they like to
look at each other.

I'll tell
you what--

I--I'll give you
$2 in small change

If just once...

we could pretend we're normal.

Did you just say "normal"?

Bedzyk?

(Chimes) yes?

It's harmony teat.

That ship is docking right
now. What should i do?

Why don't you take
that ship and-- Shh.

Has it been eight
hours already, harmony?

Six, ship time. I didn't
figure it so good. Sorry, boss.

Have they declared themselves?

Get that ham-Fisted
jackhammer you call an arm

And your fat ass
over to control now!

It's an emissary yacht
from earth central.

What's going on?

Ephemeris
time 0-0-0,

And he's sweet.

(Smiler) nice. Very, very nice.
Nice. Coupled and locked in.

Bam! Did i do a job,
or did i do a job?

I'm one hell of a navigator.

Did they hail us?

Not yet. Guess we're being
thrown out of here. You think?

Yeah, probably.

All right, let's hail them.

Attention, earth vessel.

Attention, earth
vessel, do you read me?

What are they, deaf? Could be.

Attention, earth vessel.

Listen, guys, save
yourself the effort, okay?

We are leaving
earth space. (Static)

What is this?

Maybe they're all dead and
purple and full of maggots

In there, you know?

Tongues hangin' out, guts
spillin' out of their noses,

Eyeballs all...

(samswope) one can only hope.

I don't get it. They're here.

We know they're here.
Why won't they talk to us?

(Crash) they've undogged
their debarkation port

And cycled ours.
They're boarding us.

Home. Home.
W-W-We're going home.

All right, open it.

Hello. I was sent
from earth central

To make you a really
terrific offer.

My name's curran, and
you must be the captain.

I wanna go home! Home!
What year is it on earth?

(Samswope) quiet!

(Clang) all right, listen up!

Now you all wanted to
go to the terraforms.

Have we been to the
terraforms? (All) yes!

You wanted to go to europa. Have
we been to europa? (All) yes!

Have we been to mercury? (All) yes!

Have we been to venus,
callisto, ganymede...

(all) yes! Yes!

Twice-- Twice we
went to ganymede.

All right, then back off! (Grunts)

Back off. Let me talk to this guy.

I'll tell you everything
in five minutes.

Oh, yes, my captain.

Come on. We can talk
in the cathedral.

(Samswope) the cathedral.
Drop to your knees and pray.

Reminds me of the rain forests
my grandparents spoke of.

Plants are life-- The
very air we breathe.

That's 'cause you bastards
never sent us new scrubbers,

And the original crap they
put on this garbage scow

Broke down years ago. Harmony,make
sure we're left alone,huh?

All right, speak your piece...

shove off.

Stop suckin' up our air.

I've been invested with
the most important mission

People of your home
planet have ever mounted.

I represent evy member

Of the sanhedrin of earth central.

Yes,how profoundly moving.

And your name is curran?

You can call me barney.

Well,mr. Curran, or
ambassador curran,

Or plenipotentiary
high-Mucketty-Doodle curran,

We perceive your vast importance.

Now just get on with it. (Gurgles)

Captain,could you introduce
me to your associates?

(Bedzyk) okay,sam.

Well,uh, this is harmony at.

I... uh,we are samswope,
the captain's right arm.

I am samswope.

Let me see if i can guess,
mr. Sanhedrin earth neighbor.

You want us to move our
little load of misfits

Off orbit l-5,or we'll
blast your asses away.

Oh,no. N-No, it's not that at all.

And in fact,i don't think
that any of us down there

Haven idea of how hard
it's been for you people.

Without the lubricant,huh?
Just spit it out.

Bedzyk,let him talk.

You were the control
that skimmed us in.

Lovely job--Like
a ballet.

Hey,curran--Riggum.
Beg your pardon?

R.I.G.M.

R...

i...

G... m. He blood poop.

Random idiopathic genomic mutation.

"The sickness." The gift
that keeps on giving--

Like another head.

Do you think that
earth central hates you,

That we don't feel you pain?

God,it's been 37 years.

You--You have to believe
that we feel the guilt

And torment of what the
former generation did to you.

Oh,that's why you never
send get-Well packages

Or toilet paper?

Mr. Bedzyk and i need to
tell our happy little band

Why you're here,sheriff.

So go ahead.

Uh,by the way, i notice that you're

A healthy,arrow-Slim normal lad.

Did they pick you preferentially,

To give us a little
tweak of the antennae?

Ah.

(Harmony teat) oh,god.

You're one of us.

The runnies.

That's how darting priest
went. Remember,bedzyk?

And gary
what's-His-Name,

The one that drank the can of lye.

They sent you to be a passenger.
What'd you do,steal the yacht?

It's getting
worse... much worse--

The
sickness--Riggum.

But why'd you
come to us--

What,to tell us we were
gonna have to double-Bunk?

Th're gonna send a--A couple
of hundred more discards

Up here to our floating swamp? If it
were that, we wouldn't send hundreds.

We'd send hundreds of thousands.

It's spreading--Changing us
like a tidal wave every day.

There is no day
here-- Also no night.

Every day is every day.

Sam,let him tell it.

After the first wave of discards...

After all of you... left,

It spread from
continent to continent.

We don't know how.
We didn't kn the--

The vector of contamination--
If it was fleas,ticks,

Animals,people.

We didn't know. But
there was a spray--

Um,germicide or
pheromonic, i don't know.

I'm not a biologist.
But the sanhedrin

Sprayed the entire
planet, and it worked--

For about 11 years.

And then the sickness
mutated around it--

Got stronger,smarter. Damn riggum.

Got even tougher. The rigmarole.

Something in the spray
itself activated a trigger

In the nucleus of the plague virus.

Everyone was hit.

There's no chance to
isolate it or for quarantine.

(Chuckles) so what, we're
the ones who got off easy?

Is that--Is that what you came to
tell us? (Laughs) that is a bit rich.

It got so bad, people
evacuated the cities,

Started living in sterile shelters

And domes underground.

We thought it was all
over. And then a doctor,

A hungarian, came up with a serum.

Do you hear what he's
saying? Don't you get it yet?

A cure.

The only thing that
stops it from sprding.

It's a--It's
a serum

Synthesized from
prepandemic enzymes

That are only found in blood,
in... in the blood of...

of discards.

Of us! (All laughing)

Are you kiddin' me?
You want our blood!

Here i thought i'd lost my faith
in the wickedness of mankind.

Y-Y-You want
us to save you?

Hey,barney--
Y,you got a world

Full of freaks up there,huh?

Why don't you use them? Better yet,

Why don't you pop into
one of your own puky veins?

Hey,you could save the whole world yourself.
We're no good. The sickness changed us.

Our blood doesn't
secrete the same enzymes.

Well,then you and the
world have crapped out,

Because i wouldn't
take a whiz on you

If there were flames
shooting out of your eyeballs.

If you'd listen to my proposal,

I think you might well reconsider.

It could change the lives of everyone
aboard this vessel-- Oh,sure it will.

If you would just listen--
I'm not gonna listen to you.

You got nothing i
want to listen to.

No!

Comin' home! Comin' home!

Baby jesus--Jesus loves
me! (Bedzyk) grab him!

Hallelujah,jesus!

Hallelujah! I'm goin' home!

Smiler,no! I cannot wait!

I'm goin' home!

I'm goin' home,baby jesus!

Aah!

You want to talk to the captain?

Well,talk to her.

You know how to use this thing?

Yeah,harmony taught me.

What happened?

Smiler lost it--
Tried to bring us down.

Tried to kill
the cathedral--

Merely succeeded in
killing harmony teat.

(Man) well,where is he?

Chucho red's got him
locked up in the lazarette.

Well,you're still here?

It's important that i finish
what i was going to say.

Well,if it's important,
you'd better finish.

You all need to know that we care.

What happened to you is
happening to us,only faster.

We've watched people change
right before our eyes.

No family is untouched.

My wife...

on behalf of terran central,
if you agree to help us,

We're prepared to
let your ship land

And house all of you on
earth. (All murmuring)

You'll bhome again.
You'll--You'll breathe real air,

Feel real land.

What happens if we decide
not to give you our blood?

Yeah,that's right.
He wants our blood.

You'll come out here and
take it anyway,won't you?

No,of course not.
No,we'll send an emissary

To another ship,but i hope that won't be necessary.
What do you think, we're a bunch of idiots?

You won't give us anything.
Yes,we will. I swear.

Oh,god, you're a liar,curran.

You're an errand boy
wearing a sailor suit.

You're their lapdog with
a bad case of the mange.

You'll say whatever takes. Please.

I suspect that i'm not isolated

In my naked,desperate,
pain-Filled need

To return to the
planet of my youth.

This isn't home,bedzyk. We
want to go back to earth.

All of us-- We want
to go back home!

There is no earth!

Not for us. Not now,not ever.

It's what these people do,sam.
They lie to get what they want.

How could it possibly be
to our detriment,old friend?

He said we could go back home!

And he's lying!

Let him screw around with
somebody else's ship--Not mine!

"Mine"? Get out of the way.

I'm gonna throw this lying
pissant off the ship. No!

They are not gonna let us
get any closer to earth!

Can't you pathetic
freaks ever realize that?

You must disabuse yourself
of this paranoia,this hatred.

Simply put,they want what it
is that only we can provide.

We need what they
have-- Our home!

Home? Are you really that stupid?

You are as close to a
friend as anyone i've known,

And whether you like it or not,

I consider you to be an equal.

I don't mind if you
think i'm a fool,

But don't ever talk to me
as if you think i'm one.

Oh,come on,sam. You're
smarter than this.

They're nothing but a bunch
of backstabbing,arrogant liars.

Cease and desist.

Your authority has been superseded,

And you have been supplanted.

Yes!

Oh. (Chuckles) so now
we're a democracy,eh?

Yesterday, it was
"aye,aye,captain."

Today "you're superseded."

As distressing as it may seem,yes.

How about you,annie?
Where do you stand?

I'm sorry,bedzyk.

Look,you're so angry,

You're not seeing
any of this clearly.

I see it real clear.

You people...

anytime anything ever went wrong,

You came runnin' for
me, didn't you,huh?

Something had to be done,
some decision had to be made--

"Where's bedzyk? Go
get bedzyk. Get bedzyk."

And
this--This--

This earth scum shows
up with the runnies.

He holds up this bright
and shiny new lie,

And you all sit up
and wag your tails.

It is not my most fervent wish

To expire on this galactic latrine.

Lien to me. We will
take care of all of you.

We have huge plots of
land in south america--

Rugged land,i'll admit--
But there's plenty of room

For all of you.
Don't listen to him!

Never trust an earthman. Never!

Bedzyk,shut up!

Annie?

It's what we all want, bedzyk.

Get off my ship!

Bedzyk,stop!

Sam...

(bedzyk) annie...

now you've done it.

Get your medical teams up
here and start with the bloods.

We wish to go home,
ambassador curran.

We wish to go home now.

Ah! Once again,

The manifestation of the venerable,

Idiom-Precise dr. Janet goldstein,

Savior of our
misbegotten compatriots

Both here and on earth.

(Chuckles) samswope.
It's good to see you.

Your work here
approaches a denouement.

We finally hit our quota today.

The rescue vessel is on the way.

I wonder who's more
excited-- Your people or mine?

What?

Oh,i admit,before this
operation commenced,

I felt a flourish
of cynicism--

A touch of the old
vampire, don't ya know?

(Chuckles) you've
done well,samswope.

You've saved the world,

And you've saved your people.

We couldn't have
done this without you,

And no one's ever
gonna forget that.

Well,shucks,doc.

I'll be superamalgamated.

(Laughs) are you ready
to give one last time?

Old girlfriend?

Could we just finish this?

Aah!

Samswope.

Samswope

I have an update on
the rescue vessel--

E.T.A. Six hours.

Thank you,annie.

Roger that.

You don't seem
particularly excited.

Ah,but i am.

Six hours...

there's more than enough time.

Uh...

barely enough to master

All thoutlandish permutations

Of this connubiation custom.

Steve's wedding?

But of course,my darling.

This is a first,isn't it? Truly.

Never happened when
bedzyk was running things.

Then again,we didn't
have much to celebrate.

What?

It was not my intention...

i didn't mean to kill him,frenchy.

I swear to god.

He was going to ruin everything.

You did what you had to do.

You gave us hope.

You gave us back our home,sam.

Here we go.

Wow. Okay.

Just a little bit right there.

Brothers and sisters,

Mesdames et monsieurs,

Freaks and frogs,
flotsam and jetsam,

We are aggregated here
to witness the tri-Binding

Of a trio of our assembly
in holy matrimony....

steve,sharon,bucky.

It would be remiss of
me not to make mention

Of the fact that this
moment is without precedent

In the annals of our ordeal.

This is the first wedding
we've ever had here...

a symbol of new beginnings

Bespeaking our imminent departure

For a home to which we
feared we might never return.

Yes!

Steve,do you take these other two

To be your lifelong lovemates?

I do.

Bucky,do you take these other two

To be your lifelong lovemates?

I do.

(Mutters indistinctly) sharon,do
you take these other two

For your lifelong lovemates? Okay.

All of which have the merit
of being acceptable answers

To the query just posed.

Steve,sharon,bucky, i
have the distinct pleasure

In pronouncing you men,
women,bisexes,bivalves,

Baby-Blue husbands and/or wives.

Sam? They're here.

They're docking.

Come! Let us greet the
engines of our salvation!

Ambassador curran, welcome back.

You arrive at the most
appropriate moment.

The very thought of
our repatriation is...

huh?

No!

No!

No!

Oh.

Am i samswope?

Somebody clean that up

And blow it out the garbage port!

"What monstrosities
would walk the streets

Were some peopli's faces as
unfinished as their minds"

Eric hoffer