The Big O (1999–2003): Season 2, Episode 13 - The Show Must Go On - full transcript
You know, Roger...
This city was created to be a stage with
no memory of events prior to 40 years ago.
It's nonsense to ask
if Memories exist.
I wanted you to know.
By the way, aren't you going to be the knight
in shining armor and rescue the maiden?
Alex! You need a taste of the scope
of the rage in people's hearts!
Wha--? Howitzer units,
what are you doing?!
Why are you targeting
the black Megadeus?!
Edict from the Paradigm
home office, sir.
They'd go that far
to use us...?
It has no elegance at all,
this Megadeus under the control
of a stray dog of a Dominus.
Is this what we ought to be doing?!
Is this what the Military Police is for?!
Our actions are meant to serve
the new order, Colonel Dastun.
No, you are no longer
a Military Police commander.
Did he beat him...?
Roger!
H-How can she be moving?!
Roger, you aren't the only one...
Wake up! Get up, and
take that bastard dawn!
Hey! Do you know
who you are?
Damn it...
I'm such a buffoon!
There truly are some odd humans
born every now and again...
It's Big O and Roger Smith who have been
saving this city and the people who live in it!
It's with pride in my heart
that I turn against you.
In honor of your many years of service,
I think I'll crush you once and for all.
Out of pity.
Dan Dastun, all members of Anderson
and Roddenberry squads...
...have turned in
their badges.
You guys...
Oh, you want me to teach you
what happens to watchdogs...
...who bare their teeth
at their master, do you?
This world has a new order!
A new god!
Do the lives of people who don't
serve those have any value?!
Yes, of course! Power must be
demonstrated to the ignorant!
Dad, you were nothing but a coward!
I'm going to prove that I'm not!
The Memory wants
to be remembered...
What's happening?
Big O! Can you move?!
I'm going to send you and that
giant coffin to the bottom of the sea!
ROGER!
Roger...
I just don't get it! How can you be
functioning without your Memory?!
ROGER!
So, Big Fau, you're trying to absorb
me into your systems, are you?
I'm not like that pitiful reporter
or that man who was half machine!
I'm a true Dominus!
Roger...
Big O... Is this
what you want?
If you do this will you
and I become one being?
I've always been with you.
Isn't that right?
Thais right.
This is my decision.
That is Roger Smith's decision...
Stop it! What the hell
are you talking about?!
Dorothy.
Crow Boy is already dead,
and you know it!
Memories... What the
hell are they?
Memory is something
found within human form.
Dorothy.
Hold it.
I hate both
white and black!
I'm a Memory? How can something
as unreliable as a woman...
...who doesn't even know anything
about herself be a Memory?
Memories by their very nature
are unreliable.
Inside people's minds, they'll even
degenerate into something fraudulent.
People subconsciously create
these fables called "Memories."
All I wanted was
my own Memories.
I don't know what happened
40 years ago, and I don't care.
Yes. Which will make it so that nothing
will have existed 40 years ago.
If I'm cut, I bleed, and l have
all too many faults,
so if I've always been this same man
by the name of Roger Smith, who am I?
I just want to go home...
At what point in time?
With the Memories of what time?
I expect that you are able to either maintain
the seal on the Memories or to release them,
even those Memories of events
prior to 40 years ago.
I'll... make a choice.
Hear me, true author
of this book!
Fill in the blank pages
with Memories!
It is in your hands now,
Negotiator.
This world...
This world what is it?!
No.
No...
NO!
You're...
These Memories
you're seeing, they're...
Roger!
Wh-What the--?
My world...!
Dorothy...
Dorothy!
You could have come up with a gentler way
to bring me around, you know!
Like mouth-to-mouth,
or something...
If you knew my air tank's displacement
capacity, you'd regret those words.
You're R. Dorothy, all right.
Roger...!
Do you plan on remaining
half-dead forever?
Big Fau, I'll give you all that I am!
Just as you wanted!
What's--
Dorothy?!
A lecherous man with curly
hair told me how.
He did?
Big O! Final Stage!
The Big O!
You're weak, Roger Smith! When it's all
said and done, you're just a Negotiator!
Die!
A Big?!
Big Venus. A bird whose
wings have been plucked.
Turn back into the beast they once were
before they evolved into birds...
Big O, Wait!
This is my job.
ANGEL!
Memories are precious to people!
They let us prove to ourselves that we exist!
And if we lose them, we have an
unrelenting feeling of insecurity!
But listen to me!
The humans living here and now are made up
of more than their Memories of the past!
I myself don't even know
who or what I am!
I don't have a single
Memory about myself!
But I most likely erased them
of my own free will!
I was the one
who made that choice!
I made it for myself!
To live in the present,
to go on living into the future!
Because I have to believe that
there is a me that exists!
ANGEL!
I'll never lose the you
that's in my Memories!
The you that met me and had conviction
in what she felt she needed to do!
The you that loved yourself
more than anyone else!
And the woman named Angel
whose love for herself wavered!
You mustn't deny your own existence!
Live as a human being!
Roger the Negotiator...
My name is Roger Smith.
I perform a much-needed job
here in this city of Amnesia.
This city was created to be a stage with
no memory of events prior to 40 years ago.
It's nonsense to ask
if Memories exist.
I wanted you to know.
By the way, aren't you going to be the knight
in shining armor and rescue the maiden?
Alex! You need a taste of the scope
of the rage in people's hearts!
Wha--? Howitzer units,
what are you doing?!
Why are you targeting
the black Megadeus?!
Edict from the Paradigm
home office, sir.
They'd go that far
to use us...?
It has no elegance at all,
this Megadeus under the control
of a stray dog of a Dominus.
Is this what we ought to be doing?!
Is this what the Military Police is for?!
Our actions are meant to serve
the new order, Colonel Dastun.
No, you are no longer
a Military Police commander.
Did he beat him...?
Roger!
H-How can she be moving?!
Roger, you aren't the only one...
Wake up! Get up, and
take that bastard dawn!
Hey! Do you know
who you are?
Damn it...
I'm such a buffoon!
There truly are some odd humans
born every now and again...
It's Big O and Roger Smith who have been
saving this city and the people who live in it!
It's with pride in my heart
that I turn against you.
In honor of your many years of service,
I think I'll crush you once and for all.
Out of pity.
Dan Dastun, all members of Anderson
and Roddenberry squads...
...have turned in
their badges.
You guys...
Oh, you want me to teach you
what happens to watchdogs...
...who bare their teeth
at their master, do you?
This world has a new order!
A new god!
Do the lives of people who don't
serve those have any value?!
Yes, of course! Power must be
demonstrated to the ignorant!
Dad, you were nothing but a coward!
I'm going to prove that I'm not!
The Memory wants
to be remembered...
What's happening?
Big O! Can you move?!
I'm going to send you and that
giant coffin to the bottom of the sea!
ROGER!
Roger...
I just don't get it! How can you be
functioning without your Memory?!
ROGER!
So, Big Fau, you're trying to absorb
me into your systems, are you?
I'm not like that pitiful reporter
or that man who was half machine!
I'm a true Dominus!
Roger...
Big O... Is this
what you want?
If you do this will you
and I become one being?
I've always been with you.
Isn't that right?
Thais right.
This is my decision.
That is Roger Smith's decision...
Stop it! What the hell
are you talking about?!
Dorothy.
Crow Boy is already dead,
and you know it!
Memories... What the
hell are they?
Memory is something
found within human form.
Dorothy.
Hold it.
I hate both
white and black!
I'm a Memory? How can something
as unreliable as a woman...
...who doesn't even know anything
about herself be a Memory?
Memories by their very nature
are unreliable.
Inside people's minds, they'll even
degenerate into something fraudulent.
People subconsciously create
these fables called "Memories."
All I wanted was
my own Memories.
I don't know what happened
40 years ago, and I don't care.
Yes. Which will make it so that nothing
will have existed 40 years ago.
If I'm cut, I bleed, and l have
all too many faults,
so if I've always been this same man
by the name of Roger Smith, who am I?
I just want to go home...
At what point in time?
With the Memories of what time?
I expect that you are able to either maintain
the seal on the Memories or to release them,
even those Memories of events
prior to 40 years ago.
I'll... make a choice.
Hear me, true author
of this book!
Fill in the blank pages
with Memories!
It is in your hands now,
Negotiator.
This world...
This world what is it?!
No.
No...
NO!
You're...
These Memories
you're seeing, they're...
Roger!
Wh-What the--?
My world...!
Dorothy...
Dorothy!
You could have come up with a gentler way
to bring me around, you know!
Like mouth-to-mouth,
or something...
If you knew my air tank's displacement
capacity, you'd regret those words.
You're R. Dorothy, all right.
Roger...!
Do you plan on remaining
half-dead forever?
Big Fau, I'll give you all that I am!
Just as you wanted!
What's--
Dorothy?!
A lecherous man with curly
hair told me how.
He did?
Big O! Final Stage!
The Big O!
You're weak, Roger Smith! When it's all
said and done, you're just a Negotiator!
Die!
A Big?!
Big Venus. A bird whose
wings have been plucked.
Turn back into the beast they once were
before they evolved into birds...
Big O, Wait!
This is my job.
ANGEL!
Memories are precious to people!
They let us prove to ourselves that we exist!
And if we lose them, we have an
unrelenting feeling of insecurity!
But listen to me!
The humans living here and now are made up
of more than their Memories of the past!
I myself don't even know
who or what I am!
I don't have a single
Memory about myself!
But I most likely erased them
of my own free will!
I was the one
who made that choice!
I made it for myself!
To live in the present,
to go on living into the future!
Because I have to believe that
there is a me that exists!
ANGEL!
I'll never lose the you
that's in my Memories!
The you that met me and had conviction
in what she felt she needed to do!
The you that loved yourself
more than anyone else!
And the woman named Angel
whose love for herself wavered!
You mustn't deny your own existence!
Live as a human being!
Roger the Negotiator...
My name is Roger Smith.
I perform a much-needed job
here in this city of Amnesia.