The Odyssey (1992–1994): Season 2, Episode 2 - To the Lighthouse - full transcript
Back at the Tower, Fractal reveals that the lighthouse is a wormhole for inter-dimensional travel. At the waterside, Jay and friends renovate a boat which appears to have given passage to Jay's father in order to get to the lighthouse. As they start off, Jay purposely steers the boat toward shoals which are narrowly averted by Flash's intervention. Jay claims that the water made him want to crash, and makes Flash tie him up (like Ulysses) so that he won't succeed in doing anything else foolish. Meanwhile on shore, treasure hunters spot Jay's party and fear he will get the treasure they're seeking and take after them. As the treasure seekers board, Jay tricks Flash into releasing him, grabs the keys to the boat and self-destructively throws them into the water which he instantly recognizes as a place he has been long before, and plunges in, where, underwater, he sees his dad, who tells him "Go back." The treasure seekers fish Jay out of the water and find that their treasure-seeking mechanism indicates Jay himself is sacred treasure. At the lighthouse confusion reigns at the door which is subject to the Buzzenweiler Effect, and Flash disappears inside, while the others remain helplessly outside.
(The Odyssey theme song plays)
(bird squawks)
- There it is.
- How're we gonna get there?
- Easy.
- Easy, if we had a boat.
- Will that do?
- [Jay] Alright!
(bell tolls)
- Piece of cake, hey Alpha?
- Flash if we get out of this alive,
I'm going to murder you.
Jay, you okay?
- [Flash] What's the matter?
- I just got the spins, I'll be okay.
- But we made it.
You're supposed to get dizzy at the top.
(mysterious music plays)
Maybe going to the lighthouse
isn't such a good idea.
- I've got to find my dad.
If that's where his stuff came from,
that's where I'm going.
- Are you sure you're all right?
- I'll be fine.
Just as soon as we float this baby.
It's perfect.
- [Alpha] Perfect, yeah,
except for one small detail.
- What is that?
- Looks like something bit it.
- Maybe there's an over-land route.
(angelic music plays)
(recording plays)
- Just tell me simply how do we stop Jay.
- Well, the way I see it,
if Jay wants to bring
his dad into this world,
he's going to have to use a wormhole.
- Did he say wormhole?
- Like the lighthouse,
a shortcut in the space-time
continuum, through which
- What do worms have
to do with any of this?
- Doors, let's just call them doors.
- Good.
So why don't we just close the door?
- We could try, but there could be dozens,
thousands and infinite number.
- Then we'll just have to
convince them to stop looking.
- The Gypsy Ark?
This is Galileo's boat!
- He was going to lighthouse.
- Then where is he?
- Galileo knew these waters.
He spent ages planning the trip.
- Galileo was a wing nut.
Totally obsessed.
It looks to me like Galileo was lunch.
- Nothing's gonna eat us.
- What are you doing?
- I'm on to something, he twitched.
- That's stupid, Jay responds
to things about his dad.
- It can't hurt, right?
- What if we had something of his dad's?
- He must be getting
bored with all this stuff.
- So we need a new plan.
- Hurry, the tide's coming up.
- Hey guys, look.
It's still running.
- This was my dad's watch.
- Don't you kind of wonder
what your dad's watch was
doing in between those teeth?
- What do you mean?
- Let's face it.
That thing was have got your dad.
- No way, this means
we're on the right track.
- Are you still thinking of
taking Jay out of Driftwood?
- Oh no, no, I can't.
- I've got to find some
way to keep him here,
but I can't keep taking
money from my parents.
Brad left an insurance policy.
I never made the claim.
- After five years?
- Well, they never found his body.
I'd have to go to court, have
him declared legally dead.
- Are you sure you're ready
to go through all that?
- Well, how can I expect
Jay to accept Brad's death
if I won't?
(boat motor revs)
(pensive music plays)
- Jay, the rock, watch out!
Alpha!
What are you doing?
You nearly wrecked us!
- It's the water. I had to.
I felt like I wanted us to crash.
- Why would you want that?
- It's like the water was calling to me.
- Great, just what we need.
Alpha, take the wheel.
- This is crazy.
- We can't go on, if
you're going to do this.
- You better tie me up or
I don't know what I'll do.
(machine whirs and beeps)
- Wonder retrieval squad, report.
- We've got all of it
sir, full to the max.
- One chest, contents,
treasure assorted, check.
- Grub, Grub I found another treasure!
- Bead, gizmo off before mouth on!
- Please respect the equipment.
- But I found another treasure, out there!
- Are you positive?
- Yes, the machine went nuts!
- Did you identify the boat?
- I didn't have time,
I came to tell you right away.
- [Grub] Who are these intruders?
How could they know about the treasure?
[Bead] I don't know,
but we can't let them go,
the gizmo's never wrong.
- Well, there's still
some items on the list
that we haven't collected.
They're heading for the light house!
- Well, clearly they must be stopped.
(bell tolls)
Okay people intercept mode!
(all pirates talking)
- I have some decorations
from the other party
and I can bake a cake.
So it's just a matter
of getting a present.
- Come on. What's he going
to do with a present?
- It's a birthday, you
have to have a present
and we could set up some kind of shrine.
- A what?
- A memory place, for Jay's dad.
- You don't really believe all this.
That Jay's obsessed with his dad.
- Why not?
- Look at me? I don't
have a dad and I'm normal.
- Okay. Let's say that's true.
What's that got to do with Jay?
- Jay's dad, everyone
says the guy's a saint.
I mean, who's going to slag the dead.
My dad's just has gone,
And all I hear is or what a jerk he was.
Shouldn't I be more screwed up.
- Pirates!
Alpha full speed ahead!
- Flash, let me go.
- But you told me not to.
I know, but the pirates I'm begging.
If the pirates catch us,
we'll never get to the lighthouse.
- Don't let him go.
- Flash, please untie me.
You can't fight them on your own,
I'm okay now.
- [Flash] Give it the gas, Alpha.
They can't keep up.
Yes!
- Jay, no!
(splash)
- Oh no.
- I know this place.
Something happened here.
- Towards the intruder!
Seize the treasure!
(all screaming)
- [Jay] Get off our boat!
(grunting)
- [Pirate] Hold him down.
- What do you want?
- You got something that belongs to us.
- Engine disabled.
- Check, management clear to board.
- Let us go, our friend's sick.
- First things first, Bead.
(machine whirs)
- Oh, he's hot!
- Wristwatch, check.
Seize the treasurer.
- Hey! It doesn't belong to you!
(splash)
- Jay!
- Hey, I got it!
- Jay!
- [Flash] Jay, what are you doing?
- Jay!
- Where is he?
(dramatic music plays)
- Do something!
- He'll float up in a minute.
- No he won't!
- (echoing) Dad!
(Jay groans)
- What? Jay its me, spit it out.
- I don't hear anything.
- He was trying to talk to me.
(Jay groans)
- Hurry up, get him out of there!
- Bring him up, you have to!
- [Flash] What are you waiting for?
- He's still hot!
- But this was all he had.
- Its him, its Jay.
- But he's not on the list.
It's impossible.
- Forget the list Grub,
he's hotter than sunburn,
- Right.
Okay, people man overboard.
- (echoing) Jay, go back!
Go!
- Flash, what can we do?
- No keys.
No engine.
Nothing.
- [Pirate] We got him!
- [Bead] He doesn't look very good.
- [Pirate] He's going to be okay.
He's just water logged, he'll dry out
(machine whirs)
- I don't understand this.
It's not his clothes.
- It doesn't get any easier, does it, hun.
- What do you think they're
going to do with Jay?
- Well after your little trick
with that tweaking device,
They should treat him like a God.
- It wasn't a trick, he
really did set it off.
- This way.
- You're right, Medea.
This is the place, but where's Jay?
- If these two are here,
Jay can't be far behind.
- I saw him, he's still down there.
- Okay, settle down.
- How do you turn this thing on?
- I saw my dad back there.
A man.
- That's ridiculous, you were drowning.
Nobody lives there.
- I saw him.
- It was a hallucination.
You just had a near death experience.
That's all.
Maybe it was a sturgeon.
- But why is he so hot?
- Maybe it's your gizmo Bead.
Recalibrate.
Every sacred is on the sacred list.
- Well, let's ask him,
why are you sacred?
- In your own words.
- Forget it.
I wouldn't tell you anything,
even if I didn't know what
you were talking about.
You stole my watch.
This is a treasure.
It's ours, it's sacred.
- It belongs to my dad.
Hey!
Where'd you get this stuff?
It's my dad's, all of it.
- You know what this is ?
- It's a hoochie.
- One hoochie.
I knew that.
- Are you sure?
- Bead!
- Hey, dad's killer spoon.
The Conqueror 40.
- How could you know that?
- Well, maybe he's already
been to the lighthouse.
- Shut up.
- Is that where you're taking this stuff.
- Okay, everybody just shut up.
We're taking it to where it belongs.
- He's getting away.
- Doesn't matter.
- He can't get inside without us.
The source is calling, we have to go now.
Step lively people.
- Hello!
Is anyone there?
Flash, wait!
- Come on people, the door is gonna close.
- Come on, lets go!
- Jay!
- You made it.
- Come on. Let's go.
My dad's in there.
- Stop.
- Maybe there's another way in.
- Nope.
Only one door.
- With many possibilities.
- You've got to know how to use it,
to get to where you want to.
- Why is it changing?
- Uh oh, Grub its closing.
- Pirates, pile in.
- Come on.
- I'm talking to you as a sacred treasure.
I order you to take us with you.
- But Jay, you don't
know where they're going.
- Alpha we have to,
this is why we're here.
- Look, I'm sorry.
There's no procedure for this.
- But what if he is a sacred treasure?
Don't we have to take him with us.
There's no procedure.
We'll take them.
- I hope you're not taking
those two gatecrashers.
- Medea what are you doing here?
- Hello Grub what took you so long?
We've been waiting forever.
- Sure, Medea.
Look, we have to go, the gate.
- Ah the Buzzenweiler effect.
- Grub, come on!
- Listen, Jay is nothing but trouble.
He's just going to bring
grownups into this world.
Look, I know you don't
know what those are,
But please believe me.
They're evil.
- They force kids to share.
- Don't listen to them.
- I don't to listen to you anymore Medea,
we're not interested in power.
We follow a higher calling.
- Don't you guys ever shut up? Let's go.
- Fine, don't take it from me Grub, here.
- [Flash] Not the mumbo jumbo again.
- Oh cubes of destiny.
- Will I find my dad
if I go through there?
Alpha, Flash, the gate!
- [Bead] Medea, no!
- [Jay] Alpha, go through the door.
- [Alpha] No way!
- [Jay] Let me go.
- [Alpha] Come on Jay!
Medea stop!
- [Jay] Go Flash, go.
- Flash!
- [Receptionist] Here's Mrs Ziegler,
and don't forget Mr. Bourne,
you're due in court at three.
- Have a seat please, Mrs Ziegler.
- I want my husband declared legally dead.
(pounding on wall)
- I'm gonna find my dad Medea,
You can't stop me forever.
(maniacal laugh)
(outro theme music)
(bird squawks)
- There it is.
- How're we gonna get there?
- Easy.
- Easy, if we had a boat.
- Will that do?
- [Jay] Alright!
(bell tolls)
- Piece of cake, hey Alpha?
- Flash if we get out of this alive,
I'm going to murder you.
Jay, you okay?
- [Flash] What's the matter?
- I just got the spins, I'll be okay.
- But we made it.
You're supposed to get dizzy at the top.
(mysterious music plays)
Maybe going to the lighthouse
isn't such a good idea.
- I've got to find my dad.
If that's where his stuff came from,
that's where I'm going.
- Are you sure you're all right?
- I'll be fine.
Just as soon as we float this baby.
It's perfect.
- [Alpha] Perfect, yeah,
except for one small detail.
- What is that?
- Looks like something bit it.
- Maybe there's an over-land route.
(angelic music plays)
(recording plays)
- Just tell me simply how do we stop Jay.
- Well, the way I see it,
if Jay wants to bring
his dad into this world,
he's going to have to use a wormhole.
- Did he say wormhole?
- Like the lighthouse,
a shortcut in the space-time
continuum, through which
- What do worms have
to do with any of this?
- Doors, let's just call them doors.
- Good.
So why don't we just close the door?
- We could try, but there could be dozens,
thousands and infinite number.
- Then we'll just have to
convince them to stop looking.
- The Gypsy Ark?
This is Galileo's boat!
- He was going to lighthouse.
- Then where is he?
- Galileo knew these waters.
He spent ages planning the trip.
- Galileo was a wing nut.
Totally obsessed.
It looks to me like Galileo was lunch.
- Nothing's gonna eat us.
- What are you doing?
- I'm on to something, he twitched.
- That's stupid, Jay responds
to things about his dad.
- It can't hurt, right?
- What if we had something of his dad's?
- He must be getting
bored with all this stuff.
- So we need a new plan.
- Hurry, the tide's coming up.
- Hey guys, look.
It's still running.
- This was my dad's watch.
- Don't you kind of wonder
what your dad's watch was
doing in between those teeth?
- What do you mean?
- Let's face it.
That thing was have got your dad.
- No way, this means
we're on the right track.
- Are you still thinking of
taking Jay out of Driftwood?
- Oh no, no, I can't.
- I've got to find some
way to keep him here,
but I can't keep taking
money from my parents.
Brad left an insurance policy.
I never made the claim.
- After five years?
- Well, they never found his body.
I'd have to go to court, have
him declared legally dead.
- Are you sure you're ready
to go through all that?
- Well, how can I expect
Jay to accept Brad's death
if I won't?
(boat motor revs)
(pensive music plays)
- Jay, the rock, watch out!
Alpha!
What are you doing?
You nearly wrecked us!
- It's the water. I had to.
I felt like I wanted us to crash.
- Why would you want that?
- It's like the water was calling to me.
- Great, just what we need.
Alpha, take the wheel.
- This is crazy.
- We can't go on, if
you're going to do this.
- You better tie me up or
I don't know what I'll do.
(machine whirs and beeps)
- Wonder retrieval squad, report.
- We've got all of it
sir, full to the max.
- One chest, contents,
treasure assorted, check.
- Grub, Grub I found another treasure!
- Bead, gizmo off before mouth on!
- Please respect the equipment.
- But I found another treasure, out there!
- Are you positive?
- Yes, the machine went nuts!
- Did you identify the boat?
- I didn't have time,
I came to tell you right away.
- [Grub] Who are these intruders?
How could they know about the treasure?
[Bead] I don't know,
but we can't let them go,
the gizmo's never wrong.
- Well, there's still
some items on the list
that we haven't collected.
They're heading for the light house!
- Well, clearly they must be stopped.
(bell tolls)
Okay people intercept mode!
(all pirates talking)
- I have some decorations
from the other party
and I can bake a cake.
So it's just a matter
of getting a present.
- Come on. What's he going
to do with a present?
- It's a birthday, you
have to have a present
and we could set up some kind of shrine.
- A what?
- A memory place, for Jay's dad.
- You don't really believe all this.
That Jay's obsessed with his dad.
- Why not?
- Look at me? I don't
have a dad and I'm normal.
- Okay. Let's say that's true.
What's that got to do with Jay?
- Jay's dad, everyone
says the guy's a saint.
I mean, who's going to slag the dead.
My dad's just has gone,
And all I hear is or what a jerk he was.
Shouldn't I be more screwed up.
- Pirates!
Alpha full speed ahead!
- Flash, let me go.
- But you told me not to.
I know, but the pirates I'm begging.
If the pirates catch us,
we'll never get to the lighthouse.
- Don't let him go.
- Flash, please untie me.
You can't fight them on your own,
I'm okay now.
- [Flash] Give it the gas, Alpha.
They can't keep up.
Yes!
- Jay, no!
(splash)
- Oh no.
- I know this place.
Something happened here.
- Towards the intruder!
Seize the treasure!
(all screaming)
- [Jay] Get off our boat!
(grunting)
- [Pirate] Hold him down.
- What do you want?
- You got something that belongs to us.
- Engine disabled.
- Check, management clear to board.
- Let us go, our friend's sick.
- First things first, Bead.
(machine whirs)
- Oh, he's hot!
- Wristwatch, check.
Seize the treasurer.
- Hey! It doesn't belong to you!
(splash)
- Jay!
- Hey, I got it!
- Jay!
- [Flash] Jay, what are you doing?
- Jay!
- Where is he?
(dramatic music plays)
- Do something!
- He'll float up in a minute.
- No he won't!
- (echoing) Dad!
(Jay groans)
- What? Jay its me, spit it out.
- I don't hear anything.
- He was trying to talk to me.
(Jay groans)
- Hurry up, get him out of there!
- Bring him up, you have to!
- [Flash] What are you waiting for?
- He's still hot!
- But this was all he had.
- Its him, its Jay.
- But he's not on the list.
It's impossible.
- Forget the list Grub,
he's hotter than sunburn,
- Right.
Okay, people man overboard.
- (echoing) Jay, go back!
Go!
- Flash, what can we do?
- No keys.
No engine.
Nothing.
- [Pirate] We got him!
- [Bead] He doesn't look very good.
- [Pirate] He's going to be okay.
He's just water logged, he'll dry out
(machine whirs)
- I don't understand this.
It's not his clothes.
- It doesn't get any easier, does it, hun.
- What do you think they're
going to do with Jay?
- Well after your little trick
with that tweaking device,
They should treat him like a God.
- It wasn't a trick, he
really did set it off.
- This way.
- You're right, Medea.
This is the place, but where's Jay?
- If these two are here,
Jay can't be far behind.
- I saw him, he's still down there.
- Okay, settle down.
- How do you turn this thing on?
- I saw my dad back there.
A man.
- That's ridiculous, you were drowning.
Nobody lives there.
- I saw him.
- It was a hallucination.
You just had a near death experience.
That's all.
Maybe it was a sturgeon.
- But why is he so hot?
- Maybe it's your gizmo Bead.
Recalibrate.
Every sacred is on the sacred list.
- Well, let's ask him,
why are you sacred?
- In your own words.
- Forget it.
I wouldn't tell you anything,
even if I didn't know what
you were talking about.
You stole my watch.
This is a treasure.
It's ours, it's sacred.
- It belongs to my dad.
Hey!
Where'd you get this stuff?
It's my dad's, all of it.
- You know what this is ?
- It's a hoochie.
- One hoochie.
I knew that.
- Are you sure?
- Bead!
- Hey, dad's killer spoon.
The Conqueror 40.
- How could you know that?
- Well, maybe he's already
been to the lighthouse.
- Shut up.
- Is that where you're taking this stuff.
- Okay, everybody just shut up.
We're taking it to where it belongs.
- He's getting away.
- Doesn't matter.
- He can't get inside without us.
The source is calling, we have to go now.
Step lively people.
- Hello!
Is anyone there?
Flash, wait!
- Come on people, the door is gonna close.
- Come on, lets go!
- Jay!
- You made it.
- Come on. Let's go.
My dad's in there.
- Stop.
- Maybe there's another way in.
- Nope.
Only one door.
- With many possibilities.
- You've got to know how to use it,
to get to where you want to.
- Why is it changing?
- Uh oh, Grub its closing.
- Pirates, pile in.
- Come on.
- I'm talking to you as a sacred treasure.
I order you to take us with you.
- But Jay, you don't
know where they're going.
- Alpha we have to,
this is why we're here.
- Look, I'm sorry.
There's no procedure for this.
- But what if he is a sacred treasure?
Don't we have to take him with us.
There's no procedure.
We'll take them.
- I hope you're not taking
those two gatecrashers.
- Medea what are you doing here?
- Hello Grub what took you so long?
We've been waiting forever.
- Sure, Medea.
Look, we have to go, the gate.
- Ah the Buzzenweiler effect.
- Grub, come on!
- Listen, Jay is nothing but trouble.
He's just going to bring
grownups into this world.
Look, I know you don't
know what those are,
But please believe me.
They're evil.
- They force kids to share.
- Don't listen to them.
- I don't to listen to you anymore Medea,
we're not interested in power.
We follow a higher calling.
- Don't you guys ever shut up? Let's go.
- Fine, don't take it from me Grub, here.
- [Flash] Not the mumbo jumbo again.
- Oh cubes of destiny.
- Will I find my dad
if I go through there?
Alpha, Flash, the gate!
- [Bead] Medea, no!
- [Jay] Alpha, go through the door.
- [Alpha] No way!
- [Jay] Let me go.
- [Alpha] Come on Jay!
Medea stop!
- [Jay] Go Flash, go.
- Flash!
- [Receptionist] Here's Mrs Ziegler,
and don't forget Mr. Bourne,
you're due in court at three.
- Have a seat please, Mrs Ziegler.
- I want my husband declared legally dead.
(pounding on wall)
- I'm gonna find my dad Medea,
You can't stop me forever.
(maniacal laugh)
(outro theme music)