Terrahawks (1983–1986): Season 2, Episode 12 - The Ultimate Menace - full transcript
Terrahawks, stay on this channel.
This is an emergency.
[TERRAHAWKS THEME BEGINS]
[SPACE MUSIC]
[DECELERATING]
At ease.
Strict military discipline will be
maintained throughout this operation.
Is that understood?
- Tiger, this is madness.
- Is that understood?
Yes.
What we don't understand is
the reason you're doing this.
Prepare to leave orbit.
[BLEEP] Ready to leave
Earth Orbit. [BLEEP]
[LOW RUMBLING]
Set course for Mars.
[MARTIAN MUSIC]
So the clone and his
stinking hoard...
...are on their way.
[GURGLING]
What did you say, Mother?
Nothing to cause concern to that tiny
object perched between your ears.
Ooh.
[RUMBLING]
[DRAMATIC CHORD]
[PATTERN OF BEEPS
AND BLEEPS]
Rerun check one four eight.
[BLEEP] What's 'e up to,
One Oh One? [BLEEP]
[BLEEP] I don't know, he's been
working with the computers for hours.
What's this?
- COCOA.
- COCOA?
- You know I hate the stuff.
- Exactly.
[ZERO CHORTLES]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[ENGINE NOISE]
Mother, a ZEAF reports that
the Terrahawks' accursed ship...
- ...is approaching.
- Yes, I know.
We can launch an attack and
destroy the Earth-scum.
I will give the order.
You will do nothing.
You imbecile.
Zelda's acting very strangely.
Yes, what's going on?
[RUMBLING]
ETA Martian orbit,
seventeen minutes.
- Ten ten.
- Shall I sound battle stations, Doctor?
No, Hiro.
Then at least activate
a protective force field.
Ten zero. Prepare to launch the
MEV as soon as we're in orbit.
- You're going down there!
- That's right.
I'm taking Kate and
Hawkeye with me.
[RUMBLING]
It's defenseless!
A perfect target. We can blow
them all to SMIT-HER-EENS!
Into tiny pieces.
[BOTH EVIL CACKLE]
Be quiet, you giggling fools.
- But Mother, I think---
- You, think?
Be quiet I say, and
allow me to think.
[MARTIAN MUSIC]
- Is the MEV ready?
- Ten ten, Doctor.
Kate, Hawkeye, let's go.
Doctor Ninestein, we have followed
your strange orders to the letter.
Perhaps we deserve
some kind of explanation?
I'll give you a hope, Hiro.
I hope I'm wrong.
[ENGINE NOISE]
[CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC]
[LANDING NOISE]
[BUMP]
They've landed.
They're here.
It's Ninestein himself.
And two of the Earthlings.
- I will give the order to fire.
- No, I will.
Be silent.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Doctor Ninestein.
- Zelda.
- I knew you would come.
- I had no choice.
- Neither of us had a choice.
(Dy-Star, Yung-Star.
You will entertain our guests.
- Guests?
- Yes.
I am declaring a truce.
- I copy.
- Come, Doctor; we must talk, plan.
[DARK, TENSE MUSIC]
Would anyone like
something to eat?
Er, well er, not right now.
Thank you.
The Doctor is still in
conference with Zelda.
All we can do is wait.
What in space fire is going on?
It beats me.
The abandoned space station, Mir
Kleon, will test our theory, Doctor.
It hasn't been manned
for years.
But it will still have traces
of human occupation.
It's coming into range now.
[HIGH-PITCHED BUZZ]
[NOISE OF MISSILE]
Our worst fears have
been given reality.
It's gone.
Completely destroyed.
Patch me through to
Spacehawk, Kate.
That won't be necessary.
They'll hear you.
I can now confirm what
Zelda and I suspected.
We will soon be confronted by the
greatest menace in the Universe.
- The Zyklon.
- The Zyklon, what's that, Mother?
The ultimate computer.
Programmed to destroy all life forms...
...whether humanoid, or android.
The Zyklon's present trajectory
will bring it first to Mars.
Then it will move on,
to the Earth.
This is why we're here. This is why we
must join forces against a mutual threat.
- How do we move against it, Tiger?
- First we need to know all we can about it.
- Launch Hawkspy.
- Ten ten.
[SPACE MUSIC]
[ENGINE IGNITION]
I'm going back up to
Spacehawk.
- Can we trust Zelda?
- The only chance we've got...
...against the Zyklon is to
work together.
Zelda knows that.
You can trust her.
At least until this is over.
[OTHERWORLDLY MUSIC]
[FAINT BLEEP]
Tiger, the Hawkspy's started
transmitting information on the Zyklon.
- No detail yet.
- Right.
First dimensional estimates
coming through.
Flaming thunderbolts.
What is it?
It appears to be over
one mile long.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
It's built and controlled by
a massive computer system.
Look at that potential
power reading.
There's nothing to match
it in the Universe.
[BEEPING]
The Hawkspy is closing.
Range seventy miles.
Well, whatever controls that
thing won't let it get much closer.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[PULSATING, FIRING]
[THUNDEROUS BLAST]
The Hawkspy was vapourised.
Work on what it gave us, Hiro.
- We need answers.
- Ten ten.
This time, it is coffee.
Ah, thanks Mary.
- Why didn't you tell us?
- I hoped I was wrong.
What are our chances?
[SIGHS] The Zyklon is considered
unstoppable, smashing anything in its path.
Its one aim, the
elimination of life.
If we fail, first Mars and then
Earth will be totally destroyed.
[TENSE MUSIC]
[FLYPAST NOISE]
- How're you doing, Hawkeye?
- Okay, I guess.
Seems a little sluggish,
compared to Hawkwing.
I know what you mean.
Let's get back down.
[OMINOUS SPACE SOUNDS]
[MARTIAN MUSIC]
Will you be able to
handle the ZEAFs?
- We'll manage.
- Good. The battle plan is finalised.
We attack at Martian dawn.
- How long does that give us?
- Seven Earth hours.
You may not like it, Zero, but the
plain fact is, you two are machines.
[BLEEP] But, sah! I'm more than
just metal and wire.
- You knows I am! [BLEEP]
- No.
That's exactly what you are. Nothing
more. You've gotta start accepting it.
- Yes, sir.
- You must forget any...
...human characteristics
you may have--- picked up.
You are robots.
Inanimate objects. Machines.
[BLEEP] I'm a robot.
Nothing more than a machine.
[BLEEP] Come on, Zero. The MEV's waiting,
we're due down on the surface. [BLEEP]
[OMINOUS SPACE SOUNDS]
[HOPEFUL MUSIC]
The Martian dawn.
Zero minus sixty
seconds.
Launch the ZEAFs.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[FLYPAST NOISE]
[ACCELERATION]
[BEEPING]
Ten seconds.
Fire on command.
Five, four, three, two, one.
- Zero.
- Fire.
[WEAPON FIRE, EXPLOSION]
It's shielded by a
massive force field.
- We're not even denting it.
- Keep firing.
Kate, Hawkeye, you'll be
spotted any moment now.
- Prepare to take evasive action.
- [KATE ON COMMS] Ten ten.
[WEAPONS FIRE]
[ACCELERATION]
[FLYPAST NOISE]
[PULSATING, FIRING]
[ACCELERATION]
Hold on, One Oh One.
We're coming under fire.
[ZAPPING]
[PULSATING, FIRING]
[ACCELERATION]
[PULSATING, FIRING]
[FLYPAST NOISE]
[ZAPPING]
The ZEAFs are taking
a pounding.
Kate, Hawkeye, get as close as
you can and send in the Zeroids.
[PULSATING, FIRING]
[ENGINES CUTTING OUT]
We've been hit.
[NINESTEIN ON COMMS]
Are you all right, Hawkeye?
- Just about.
- Disengage and and return to base.
Ten ten.
It's up to Kate and
Zero now.
[PULSATING, FIRING]
[FLYPAST NOISE]
[BLAST, PULSATING]
[MISSILE PASSES]
[WHOOSH]
This is about as far
as I can take you, Zero.
[BLEEP]
I will be on my way, then.
- Good luck.
- A machine does not need luck.
But thanks anyway, ma'am.
[BLEEP]
[MECHANICAL SOUNDS]
[ACCELERATION]
Zero's going in alone.
Cease fire.
[PULSATING, LOW RUMBLING]
[BLEEP] There it is. Oh.
It's a big 'un.
Steady, lad. [BLEEP]
The Sergeant Major is
making his approach.
The moment of truth.
Will it open fire on
a machine...?
[TENSE MUSIC]
He's going aboard.
[RUMBLING]
[PULSING WHINE]
You are a robotic sphere.
Programmed to communicate
in the language called English.
- I am Sergeant Major Zero.
- Yes.
I'm glad to see your decision
circuitry is based on logic.
I am here to destroy you.
You will not fire, it is
not logical to do so.
[BEEPING] Zero's been inside that
thing almost two minutes now.
What in space fire's
happening?
We have unlimited power.
Enough to rule the Universe.
You, and the others
like you, must join us.
Your mobility would be
of great use.
- Join you?
- Yes.
Become part of the
ultimate computer.
A timeless, invincible,
perfect, machine.
Invincible.
I knew you would agree.
What about Ninestein?
And Mary?
And the others?
The humans.
They will be eliminated.
It is logical and
therefore inevitable.
- No.
- It is the only course of action.
[PULSING WHINE]
- What are you doing?
- The targets are now in range.
They must be destroyed.
Stop! Or I fire.
You cannot fire.
You could only do so
out of loyalty, or anger...
...or some other
human attribute...
...not applicable to a robot.
I am more than metal
and wire.
[HIGH-PITCHED WHINE]
This cannot be happening!
We have been deceived.
You cannot. Be. A. Machine.
[CIRCUITS CRACKLING]
You. Are. illogical.
[ZEROID FIRE AND IMPACT]
Stop.
[BEEPING]
He's done it.
It's started a chain reaction.
The power sources are going critical.
Zero, get outta there.
[RUMBLING,
ELECTRICAL CRACKLING]
[EXPLOSION, ROLLING]
[EXPLOSIONS]
[CRACKLING]
GERONIMO!
[BLAST REVERBERATES]
So, clone. You've come
down to say a fond farewell.
Let's make it a
straight farewell.
What makes you believe
I will allow you to leave?
I took out an insurance.
Spacehawk's entire firepower
is targeted on this base.
And our guns are all
aimed at your big ship.
What do you say to that?
I say it would be a pity to
blow each other to pieces.
My aim is still
your destruction.
I imagined it would be.
Let's go.
[SPACE MUSIC]
- Where's Zero?
- [BLEEP] Right here, sah. [BLEEP]
Well, I suppose you deserve
some kind of commendation.
[BLEEP] Oh-ho, not necessary, sir.
- What?
Well, modesty forbids
me to accept praise.
Modesty?
For the last time, Zero, you
can't have human emotions.
- You are a robot.
- Oh-ho no, sir. That Zyklon told me...
...I could not be a machine, because
I is illogical. Hum hum hum hum!
- Zero, you're crazy.
- Crazy?!
- That's even better than illogical. Ooh-hoo.
- [MARY LAUGHS]
Don't encourage him, Mary.
I didn't mean crazy.
I meant--- ah. Why am I arguing
with this, this plague of my life?
Ooh-hoo. Now he's angry.
And I'm happy.
Happy! Even better still.
Um hum hum hum!
I do believe I'll fetch
him a nice cup of cocoa.
[LAUGHS]
[END THEME]
Ripped & Corrected By mstoll
April 2017
This is an emergency.
[TERRAHAWKS THEME BEGINS]
[SPACE MUSIC]
[DECELERATING]
At ease.
Strict military discipline will be
maintained throughout this operation.
Is that understood?
- Tiger, this is madness.
- Is that understood?
Yes.
What we don't understand is
the reason you're doing this.
Prepare to leave orbit.
[BLEEP] Ready to leave
Earth Orbit. [BLEEP]
[LOW RUMBLING]
Set course for Mars.
[MARTIAN MUSIC]
So the clone and his
stinking hoard...
...are on their way.
[GURGLING]
What did you say, Mother?
Nothing to cause concern to that tiny
object perched between your ears.
Ooh.
[RUMBLING]
[DRAMATIC CHORD]
[PATTERN OF BEEPS
AND BLEEPS]
Rerun check one four eight.
[BLEEP] What's 'e up to,
One Oh One? [BLEEP]
[BLEEP] I don't know, he's been
working with the computers for hours.
What's this?
- COCOA.
- COCOA?
- You know I hate the stuff.
- Exactly.
[ZERO CHORTLES]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[ENGINE NOISE]
Mother, a ZEAF reports that
the Terrahawks' accursed ship...
- ...is approaching.
- Yes, I know.
We can launch an attack and
destroy the Earth-scum.
I will give the order.
You will do nothing.
You imbecile.
Zelda's acting very strangely.
Yes, what's going on?
[RUMBLING]
ETA Martian orbit,
seventeen minutes.
- Ten ten.
- Shall I sound battle stations, Doctor?
No, Hiro.
Then at least activate
a protective force field.
Ten zero. Prepare to launch the
MEV as soon as we're in orbit.
- You're going down there!
- That's right.
I'm taking Kate and
Hawkeye with me.
[RUMBLING]
It's defenseless!
A perfect target. We can blow
them all to SMIT-HER-EENS!
Into tiny pieces.
[BOTH EVIL CACKLE]
Be quiet, you giggling fools.
- But Mother, I think---
- You, think?
Be quiet I say, and
allow me to think.
[MARTIAN MUSIC]
- Is the MEV ready?
- Ten ten, Doctor.
Kate, Hawkeye, let's go.
Doctor Ninestein, we have followed
your strange orders to the letter.
Perhaps we deserve
some kind of explanation?
I'll give you a hope, Hiro.
I hope I'm wrong.
[ENGINE NOISE]
[CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC]
[LANDING NOISE]
[BUMP]
They've landed.
They're here.
It's Ninestein himself.
And two of the Earthlings.
- I will give the order to fire.
- No, I will.
Be silent.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Doctor Ninestein.
- Zelda.
- I knew you would come.
- I had no choice.
- Neither of us had a choice.
(Dy-Star, Yung-Star.
You will entertain our guests.
- Guests?
- Yes.
I am declaring a truce.
- I copy.
- Come, Doctor; we must talk, plan.
[DARK, TENSE MUSIC]
Would anyone like
something to eat?
Er, well er, not right now.
Thank you.
The Doctor is still in
conference with Zelda.
All we can do is wait.
What in space fire is going on?
It beats me.
The abandoned space station, Mir
Kleon, will test our theory, Doctor.
It hasn't been manned
for years.
But it will still have traces
of human occupation.
It's coming into range now.
[HIGH-PITCHED BUZZ]
[NOISE OF MISSILE]
Our worst fears have
been given reality.
It's gone.
Completely destroyed.
Patch me through to
Spacehawk, Kate.
That won't be necessary.
They'll hear you.
I can now confirm what
Zelda and I suspected.
We will soon be confronted by the
greatest menace in the Universe.
- The Zyklon.
- The Zyklon, what's that, Mother?
The ultimate computer.
Programmed to destroy all life forms...
...whether humanoid, or android.
The Zyklon's present trajectory
will bring it first to Mars.
Then it will move on,
to the Earth.
This is why we're here. This is why we
must join forces against a mutual threat.
- How do we move against it, Tiger?
- First we need to know all we can about it.
- Launch Hawkspy.
- Ten ten.
[SPACE MUSIC]
[ENGINE IGNITION]
I'm going back up to
Spacehawk.
- Can we trust Zelda?
- The only chance we've got...
...against the Zyklon is to
work together.
Zelda knows that.
You can trust her.
At least until this is over.
[OTHERWORLDLY MUSIC]
[FAINT BLEEP]
Tiger, the Hawkspy's started
transmitting information on the Zyklon.
- No detail yet.
- Right.
First dimensional estimates
coming through.
Flaming thunderbolts.
What is it?
It appears to be over
one mile long.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
It's built and controlled by
a massive computer system.
Look at that potential
power reading.
There's nothing to match
it in the Universe.
[BEEPING]
The Hawkspy is closing.
Range seventy miles.
Well, whatever controls that
thing won't let it get much closer.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[PULSATING, FIRING]
[THUNDEROUS BLAST]
The Hawkspy was vapourised.
Work on what it gave us, Hiro.
- We need answers.
- Ten ten.
This time, it is coffee.
Ah, thanks Mary.
- Why didn't you tell us?
- I hoped I was wrong.
What are our chances?
[SIGHS] The Zyklon is considered
unstoppable, smashing anything in its path.
Its one aim, the
elimination of life.
If we fail, first Mars and then
Earth will be totally destroyed.
[TENSE MUSIC]
[FLYPAST NOISE]
- How're you doing, Hawkeye?
- Okay, I guess.
Seems a little sluggish,
compared to Hawkwing.
I know what you mean.
Let's get back down.
[OMINOUS SPACE SOUNDS]
[MARTIAN MUSIC]
Will you be able to
handle the ZEAFs?
- We'll manage.
- Good. The battle plan is finalised.
We attack at Martian dawn.
- How long does that give us?
- Seven Earth hours.
You may not like it, Zero, but the
plain fact is, you two are machines.
[BLEEP] But, sah! I'm more than
just metal and wire.
- You knows I am! [BLEEP]
- No.
That's exactly what you are. Nothing
more. You've gotta start accepting it.
- Yes, sir.
- You must forget any...
...human characteristics
you may have--- picked up.
You are robots.
Inanimate objects. Machines.
[BLEEP] I'm a robot.
Nothing more than a machine.
[BLEEP] Come on, Zero. The MEV's waiting,
we're due down on the surface. [BLEEP]
[OMINOUS SPACE SOUNDS]
[HOPEFUL MUSIC]
The Martian dawn.
Zero minus sixty
seconds.
Launch the ZEAFs.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[FLYPAST NOISE]
[ACCELERATION]
[BEEPING]
Ten seconds.
Fire on command.
Five, four, three, two, one.
- Zero.
- Fire.
[WEAPON FIRE, EXPLOSION]
It's shielded by a
massive force field.
- We're not even denting it.
- Keep firing.
Kate, Hawkeye, you'll be
spotted any moment now.
- Prepare to take evasive action.
- [KATE ON COMMS] Ten ten.
[WEAPONS FIRE]
[ACCELERATION]
[FLYPAST NOISE]
[PULSATING, FIRING]
[ACCELERATION]
Hold on, One Oh One.
We're coming under fire.
[ZAPPING]
[PULSATING, FIRING]
[ACCELERATION]
[PULSATING, FIRING]
[FLYPAST NOISE]
[ZAPPING]
The ZEAFs are taking
a pounding.
Kate, Hawkeye, get as close as
you can and send in the Zeroids.
[PULSATING, FIRING]
[ENGINES CUTTING OUT]
We've been hit.
[NINESTEIN ON COMMS]
Are you all right, Hawkeye?
- Just about.
- Disengage and and return to base.
Ten ten.
It's up to Kate and
Zero now.
[PULSATING, FIRING]
[FLYPAST NOISE]
[BLAST, PULSATING]
[MISSILE PASSES]
[WHOOSH]
This is about as far
as I can take you, Zero.
[BLEEP]
I will be on my way, then.
- Good luck.
- A machine does not need luck.
But thanks anyway, ma'am.
[BLEEP]
[MECHANICAL SOUNDS]
[ACCELERATION]
Zero's going in alone.
Cease fire.
[PULSATING, LOW RUMBLING]
[BLEEP] There it is. Oh.
It's a big 'un.
Steady, lad. [BLEEP]
The Sergeant Major is
making his approach.
The moment of truth.
Will it open fire on
a machine...?
[TENSE MUSIC]
He's going aboard.
[RUMBLING]
[PULSING WHINE]
You are a robotic sphere.
Programmed to communicate
in the language called English.
- I am Sergeant Major Zero.
- Yes.
I'm glad to see your decision
circuitry is based on logic.
I am here to destroy you.
You will not fire, it is
not logical to do so.
[BEEPING] Zero's been inside that
thing almost two minutes now.
What in space fire's
happening?
We have unlimited power.
Enough to rule the Universe.
You, and the others
like you, must join us.
Your mobility would be
of great use.
- Join you?
- Yes.
Become part of the
ultimate computer.
A timeless, invincible,
perfect, machine.
Invincible.
I knew you would agree.
What about Ninestein?
And Mary?
And the others?
The humans.
They will be eliminated.
It is logical and
therefore inevitable.
- No.
- It is the only course of action.
[PULSING WHINE]
- What are you doing?
- The targets are now in range.
They must be destroyed.
Stop! Or I fire.
You cannot fire.
You could only do so
out of loyalty, or anger...
...or some other
human attribute...
...not applicable to a robot.
I am more than metal
and wire.
[HIGH-PITCHED WHINE]
This cannot be happening!
We have been deceived.
You cannot. Be. A. Machine.
[CIRCUITS CRACKLING]
You. Are. illogical.
[ZEROID FIRE AND IMPACT]
Stop.
[BEEPING]
He's done it.
It's started a chain reaction.
The power sources are going critical.
Zero, get outta there.
[RUMBLING,
ELECTRICAL CRACKLING]
[EXPLOSION, ROLLING]
[EXPLOSIONS]
[CRACKLING]
GERONIMO!
[BLAST REVERBERATES]
So, clone. You've come
down to say a fond farewell.
Let's make it a
straight farewell.
What makes you believe
I will allow you to leave?
I took out an insurance.
Spacehawk's entire firepower
is targeted on this base.
And our guns are all
aimed at your big ship.
What do you say to that?
I say it would be a pity to
blow each other to pieces.
My aim is still
your destruction.
I imagined it would be.
Let's go.
[SPACE MUSIC]
- Where's Zero?
- [BLEEP] Right here, sah. [BLEEP]
Well, I suppose you deserve
some kind of commendation.
[BLEEP] Oh-ho, not necessary, sir.
- What?
Well, modesty forbids
me to accept praise.
Modesty?
For the last time, Zero, you
can't have human emotions.
- You are a robot.
- Oh-ho no, sir. That Zyklon told me...
...I could not be a machine, because
I is illogical. Hum hum hum hum!
- Zero, you're crazy.
- Crazy?!
- That's even better than illogical. Ooh-hoo.
- [MARY LAUGHS]
Don't encourage him, Mary.
I didn't mean crazy.
I meant--- ah. Why am I arguing
with this, this plague of my life?
Ooh-hoo. Now he's angry.
And I'm happy.
Happy! Even better still.
Um hum hum hum!
I do believe I'll fetch
him a nice cup of cocoa.
[LAUGHS]
[END THEME]
Ripped & Corrected By mstoll
April 2017