The Big O (1999–2003): Season 2, Episode 4 - Leviathan - full transcript
Even without what
happened forty years ago,
man would still be a creature
that fears the dark, I think.
He averts his eyes
from that fear...
...and acts as if he never had memories
of his history in the first place.
But 40 years is a brief time,
as well as a time that is far too long.
Man's fear is weathered away,
and time even tries to weather away
the desire to know the truth.
Is it a crime to try
to learn the truth?
Is it a sin to search
for that which you fear?
My purpose in this
world is to know.
And I am he who is to restore the fruits
of my quest to the entire world.
Fear... It is something Vital
to us puny creatures.
The instant man stops fearing is the instant
the species will enter a dead-end street...
...and become a pitiable being
that waits apathetically for extinction.
Wake up!
And be not afraid of knowing.
Schwarzwald...
Humans who have stopped thinking are
creatures whose existence have no value.
Think, you humans that
are split into two worlds!
Unless you want the gulf between humans
to continue forever as it does now!
Signed, Schwarzwald.
If it's a bounty hunter you're looking for,
I'm afraid I'm an unsuitable choice.
That's true, of course.
But your services were personally retained
by Mr. Rosewater, our company president.
The newspaper reporter Michael Seebach
no longer exists in this city.
Michael Seebach is dead.
But the agitator who calls himself
Schwarzwald has returned.
So it would seem.
However, people have the right
to tell people what they think.
But they don't have the right to recklessly
mislead the public and stir up baseless fears.
So, what would you
like me to do about it?
Our determination is that the
contract previously made...
...between yourself and Mr. Rosewater
stands unfulfilled.
See that you carry it out, Roger Smith,
even if it takes you to the end of your days.
He himself burned up the check.
It's in my report.
Don't you want to know
everything that he knows?
I can't believe
that guy is still alive...
I won't work with the Military Police
looking over my shoulder.
Relax. We won't put you
under surveillance.
It wouldn't do
any good, anyway...
Dastun. I guess I should
be offering my sympathies.
Cut it out.
I haven't given up
lately or anything,
but it's like I'm being forced to face up
to my limitations, like it or not.
The Military Police are vital, especially
to the people outside the Domes.
Until the black Megadeus
shows up, anyway.
Schwarzwald is trying to spread
terror in this city again.
But is that what
he's really after?
That man fell under the spell
of the Megadeus' power.
Could he be foolish enough
to try that again?
Don't you find it odd that there is only
one man in this city who pursues the truth?
Very good, Dorothy.
You've managed to get a very slight
variation in your tempo.
In music, that is vital.
Thank you, Instro.
Let's call it a day.
I'm afraid I must be going.
What about your job here?
There haven't been many
customers these past few days.
You're playing piano
somewhere else, then?
No, not a piano.
An organ.
More and more people have been
going to church lately.
They all believe that by singing there,
they will be saved from some fate.
I don't understand their reasons, but if my
playing can help them even a little, then...
You poor souls who fear
the darkness and the deep.
When you subdue that fear, you will
be able to get closer to the truth.
"The truth you're looking for
is all in your head."
These days, telling myself that keeps
my mind calmer than the alternative.
But still. . .
The thing that was lying dormant
here deep underground...
Could that have been the "truth"
that Schwarzwald is talking about?
If that monstrosity that tried
to steal Dorothy's identity...
...was the Archetype of a Megadeus--
no, of Big O, then...
What on earth?
"There is but one truth."
"If you avert your eyes from it, you will
always remain nothing more than a puppet."
I've had enough of this!
I give you the words of Schwarzwald,
he who is closest to the truth!
"Imagination and Memory
are but one thing,"
"which for divers considerations
hath divers names."
They tell us not to make any moves until
after something has happened.
How the hell are we supposed
to protect this city...
...when it keeps coming under attack from
strange people with incredible power?!
It can't be...
Foolish denizens
of Paradigm City,
so long as you exist together,
continue to live your lives together,
and share in your mass illusion,
a single dragon will be born there!
Megadeuses... The things
that come to this city...
So this is where
it had been hidden...
But...
What are they planning
to do with it?
So, that's it...
Fire!
The Megadeuses
from another country...
This is was what
they were really for...
What's in them is--
A Big.
Alex Rosewater...
You're saying that there was
a Big O hidden inside these?
The reporter called the
red Megadeus "Big Duo."
"Big"... It has a nice ring to it,
don't you think?
What are you planning
to do with these?
I had thought that if anyone
would understand, it would be you.
What're you talking about?
Is it your narrow-minded values that makes
that gigantic Big O your personal property?
Your sense of justice?
Are you... the same?
You lost your soul.
And with that in mind,
you act freely.
You run wild.
You destroy.
How good that must feel...
That's... That's a Megadeus, too?
Yes, that ancient mechanical dragon
is you yourselves, you fools.
The anxiety within you
has no outlet.
It has no past.
And no future, either.
You want to experience
what I feel?
Oh, I already have power.
The power to make people do what I want.
What do you want these
Megadeuses for, then?
Because they're a symbol.
Of what?
That their masters are agents
of the power of God.
No, that's stretching things.
I'm a human being who was
born already possessing...
...the qualifications to use
a Megadeus properly.
Unlike you.
I've had enough of this!
Oh, my.
I suppose it leaves me
with no other choice...
That's a good boy, Roger Smith.
It wouldn't be any fun, otherwise.
I'd be interested to see
if it's oil or blood...
...that's flowing under that
foppish mask of yours.
Let's find out what color
each other's blood is.
You're the only one
who's going to bleed.
Alan, don't be crude.
Playing the hero, are we?
Unfortunately, my Big doesn't
have everything that it needs.
For the time being, you're still
the only Dominus Megadeum.
What're you talking about?
We're inside an electromagnetic barrier.
Your communicator is useless here.
stop...
Please...
I can't be your soul.
No one can.
The Megadeus?!
Roger?
What's wrong?!
Roger, move!
Move, damn it!
Are you another Archetype?
Big O!
Dorothy?
What are you doing here?
Did that thing
call you here?
No, or did you call it?
That dragon is a ghost.
A ghost from long ago.
We'll just have to send it
back to the grave, then.
Action!
Each person's jealousies,
their desires and fears...
Alone, each may be small, but together,
they become an enormous whole.
And will take shape.
Schwarzwald, let me show you an ending
that isn't in your prophecy!
Oh, no!
A fond farewell to you,
my prophesied Leviathan.
"Imagination and Memory
are but one thing,"
"which for divers considerations
hath divers names."
Are you trying to say that that's
what Schwarzwald was, Roger?
Maybe he was.
What do you mean, Angel?
What's that?
Schwarzwald had those
leaflets that he passed around...
...printed up before
he went crazy in Big Duo.
What did you say?
There's a shoreline beyond
the desert to the east.
His body was found there.
Schwarzwald -- Michael Seebach -- hasn't
been among the living for a long time.
happened forty years ago,
man would still be a creature
that fears the dark, I think.
He averts his eyes
from that fear...
...and acts as if he never had memories
of his history in the first place.
But 40 years is a brief time,
as well as a time that is far too long.
Man's fear is weathered away,
and time even tries to weather away
the desire to know the truth.
Is it a crime to try
to learn the truth?
Is it a sin to search
for that which you fear?
My purpose in this
world is to know.
And I am he who is to restore the fruits
of my quest to the entire world.
Fear... It is something Vital
to us puny creatures.
The instant man stops fearing is the instant
the species will enter a dead-end street...
...and become a pitiable being
that waits apathetically for extinction.
Wake up!
And be not afraid of knowing.
Schwarzwald...
Humans who have stopped thinking are
creatures whose existence have no value.
Think, you humans that
are split into two worlds!
Unless you want the gulf between humans
to continue forever as it does now!
Signed, Schwarzwald.
If it's a bounty hunter you're looking for,
I'm afraid I'm an unsuitable choice.
That's true, of course.
But your services were personally retained
by Mr. Rosewater, our company president.
The newspaper reporter Michael Seebach
no longer exists in this city.
Michael Seebach is dead.
But the agitator who calls himself
Schwarzwald has returned.
So it would seem.
However, people have the right
to tell people what they think.
But they don't have the right to recklessly
mislead the public and stir up baseless fears.
So, what would you
like me to do about it?
Our determination is that the
contract previously made...
...between yourself and Mr. Rosewater
stands unfulfilled.
See that you carry it out, Roger Smith,
even if it takes you to the end of your days.
He himself burned up the check.
It's in my report.
Don't you want to know
everything that he knows?
I can't believe
that guy is still alive...
I won't work with the Military Police
looking over my shoulder.
Relax. We won't put you
under surveillance.
It wouldn't do
any good, anyway...
Dastun. I guess I should
be offering my sympathies.
Cut it out.
I haven't given up
lately or anything,
but it's like I'm being forced to face up
to my limitations, like it or not.
The Military Police are vital, especially
to the people outside the Domes.
Until the black Megadeus
shows up, anyway.
Schwarzwald is trying to spread
terror in this city again.
But is that what
he's really after?
That man fell under the spell
of the Megadeus' power.
Could he be foolish enough
to try that again?
Don't you find it odd that there is only
one man in this city who pursues the truth?
Very good, Dorothy.
You've managed to get a very slight
variation in your tempo.
In music, that is vital.
Thank you, Instro.
Let's call it a day.
I'm afraid I must be going.
What about your job here?
There haven't been many
customers these past few days.
You're playing piano
somewhere else, then?
No, not a piano.
An organ.
More and more people have been
going to church lately.
They all believe that by singing there,
they will be saved from some fate.
I don't understand their reasons, but if my
playing can help them even a little, then...
You poor souls who fear
the darkness and the deep.
When you subdue that fear, you will
be able to get closer to the truth.
"The truth you're looking for
is all in your head."
These days, telling myself that keeps
my mind calmer than the alternative.
But still. . .
The thing that was lying dormant
here deep underground...
Could that have been the "truth"
that Schwarzwald is talking about?
If that monstrosity that tried
to steal Dorothy's identity...
...was the Archetype of a Megadeus--
no, of Big O, then...
What on earth?
"There is but one truth."
"If you avert your eyes from it, you will
always remain nothing more than a puppet."
I've had enough of this!
I give you the words of Schwarzwald,
he who is closest to the truth!
"Imagination and Memory
are but one thing,"
"which for divers considerations
hath divers names."
They tell us not to make any moves until
after something has happened.
How the hell are we supposed
to protect this city...
...when it keeps coming under attack from
strange people with incredible power?!
It can't be...
Foolish denizens
of Paradigm City,
so long as you exist together,
continue to live your lives together,
and share in your mass illusion,
a single dragon will be born there!
Megadeuses... The things
that come to this city...
So this is where
it had been hidden...
But...
What are they planning
to do with it?
So, that's it...
Fire!
The Megadeuses
from another country...
This is was what
they were really for...
What's in them is--
A Big.
Alex Rosewater...
You're saying that there was
a Big O hidden inside these?
The reporter called the
red Megadeus "Big Duo."
"Big"... It has a nice ring to it,
don't you think?
What are you planning
to do with these?
I had thought that if anyone
would understand, it would be you.
What're you talking about?
Is it your narrow-minded values that makes
that gigantic Big O your personal property?
Your sense of justice?
Are you... the same?
You lost your soul.
And with that in mind,
you act freely.
You run wild.
You destroy.
How good that must feel...
That's... That's a Megadeus, too?
Yes, that ancient mechanical dragon
is you yourselves, you fools.
The anxiety within you
has no outlet.
It has no past.
And no future, either.
You want to experience
what I feel?
Oh, I already have power.
The power to make people do what I want.
What do you want these
Megadeuses for, then?
Because they're a symbol.
Of what?
That their masters are agents
of the power of God.
No, that's stretching things.
I'm a human being who was
born already possessing...
...the qualifications to use
a Megadeus properly.
Unlike you.
I've had enough of this!
Oh, my.
I suppose it leaves me
with no other choice...
That's a good boy, Roger Smith.
It wouldn't be any fun, otherwise.
I'd be interested to see
if it's oil or blood...
...that's flowing under that
foppish mask of yours.
Let's find out what color
each other's blood is.
You're the only one
who's going to bleed.
Alan, don't be crude.
Playing the hero, are we?
Unfortunately, my Big doesn't
have everything that it needs.
For the time being, you're still
the only Dominus Megadeum.
What're you talking about?
We're inside an electromagnetic barrier.
Your communicator is useless here.
stop...
Please...
I can't be your soul.
No one can.
The Megadeus?!
Roger?
What's wrong?!
Roger, move!
Move, damn it!
Are you another Archetype?
Big O!
Dorothy?
What are you doing here?
Did that thing
call you here?
No, or did you call it?
That dragon is a ghost.
A ghost from long ago.
We'll just have to send it
back to the grave, then.
Action!
Each person's jealousies,
their desires and fears...
Alone, each may be small, but together,
they become an enormous whole.
And will take shape.
Schwarzwald, let me show you an ending
that isn't in your prophecy!
Oh, no!
A fond farewell to you,
my prophesied Leviathan.
"Imagination and Memory
are but one thing,"
"which for divers considerations
hath divers names."
Are you trying to say that that's
what Schwarzwald was, Roger?
Maybe he was.
What do you mean, Angel?
What's that?
Schwarzwald had those
leaflets that he passed around...
...printed up before
he went crazy in Big Duo.
What did you say?
There's a shoreline beyond
the desert to the east.
His body was found there.
Schwarzwald -- Michael Seebach -- hasn't
been among the living for a long time.