The Odyssey (1992–1994): Season 2, Episode 4 - Whispers Like Thunder - full transcript
(upbeat music plays)
(upbeat music continues)
- Jay, are you here?
Oh God, I can't believe it.
If you can hear me,
blink once.
(thunder rumbles)
- He's not coming back,
Flash deal with it.
He's gone for good
- Quit saying that it's not true.
- He appeared out of nowhere
and he vanished the same way.
(thunder crashes)
The world's getting wrecked.
Just like Medea said.
- There's no way Jay would abandon us,
especially if the grown ups were coming.
- I'm not saying Jay abandoned us.
It's not his fault. Medea and
pushed him into the crystal,
but he's gone.
We've got to watch out for ourselves now.
(rocks fall as storm rages)
- We're not safe here, come on.
(indistinct children chattering)
- My purse!
- Leave that, we'll get it later!
Alpha!!
(pillars creek and thud)
- This is a buzzer I'm
putting in your hand.
Can you feel it?
Yes. Very good Jay.
I never thought a wink could mean so much.
- When you can.
I want you to press on it.
It'll make a big noise in here
and at the nurses station.
- When you were in the
coma, could you hear us?
- No?
You must have you talked to me.
- Donna talked to you all the time.
She insisted you could hear her.
- Me too.
- Welcome home,
I love you
I don't want you to go away again.
- [Boy] Let's get that equipment over here
- Begin manual resuscitation immediately
- This guy is hurt, come on
(Flash coughing)
- Alpha?
Where's Alpha
- You mean someone else was in there?
- Come on we have to get her out.
(dramatic music plays)
There she is!
Her leg is bent I need a prying thing
Hey, only certified A level of rescuers
are trained and authorized
to utilize the high-tech equipment
- Come on Alpha, get up, come on.
- [Boy] Medic!
(grunting noises)
(Alpha coughing)
We're always on the lookout
for top-notch rubble roasters.
The world is falling apart.
- You'd be the best friend?
Yeah. Well how is she?
She's got a badly scraped
knee, snot's full of dust.
You're going to have
to watch her carefully
for the next few days.
- You sure she can walk?
- She can walk.
I need the space.
- I'm going back to the library club
- What! Right now?
- Yep.
Hasta la vista, baby.
- But you can't get there by yourself.
- Do you have any better ideas?
- What about Jay?
You just going to forget about him?
He's gone Flash.
The truth is the truth. Even
if you don't want it to be true
- Can you take us to the tower?
- Why the tower?
Everyone's going there
Macro will know what to do.
- Right Macro
- Listen, we'll go to the tower.
And if you still want to go
onto the library club from
there, we'll say goodbye.
- Okay.
Thanks for rescuing me flash.
- Yeah.
Well you had the sandwiches.
(children chanting)
- We want Brad, we want Brad
We'll get mad if we don't see Brad!
- They want Brad.
- So I gather.
(Lightning strikes)
- Yeah, well I want Brad too okay!
I don't know what to do.
- Get a grip, Macro.
- The checkpoints are open,
every kid in the world is
showing up in my front yard.
You say the grownups are coming
and you want me to get a grip?
- They don't care about Brad.
- Well, they're not chatting
we want Macro out there
are they?
- They want a firm hand.
They want reassurance.
That's all.
- What's this.
- It's your speech.
Supreme commanders of the world
don't just sit in their
playrooms and winge, you know.
- [Announcer] Stay tuned
for announcement from Macro.
(chanting slows)
- Good day weather the world will ask
I'd like to take a few moments
today to share with you the
aims and goals of your government.
Because though I am Supreme
commander of the world.
I am first and foremost, your servant.
And now some words to live by
ask not what the tower can do for you.
Ask what you can do for the tower.
- I thought Jay was the wrecker.
- It's within the statistical
spirit probabilities.
(Lightning strikes)
- Well we got rid of him. Now this.
- You see the trouble with
the unscientific method
is it's non specificity.
What's important is not your Ouija board.
What's important is A
hypothesis, B antithesis
and C synthesis
- I knew that...
- Thesis: Jay by his very
presence will wreck the world.
- I already said that.
- Antithesis,
Jay by his very presence
will not wreck the world.
Neither the antithesis,
nor the thesis concur with
the empirical realities of
observation.
Jay was in the world a long
time without it getting wrecked.
However,
there does appear to be a
link between him and the world
falling apart.
Synthesis Jay wrecks the
world, when he leaves it.
- Of course, everything started
to fall apart when he left.
And the grownups?
- To restate the obvious
stories of the grownups
only became rampant,
only after the world
started to fall apart.
- Oh. I've been trying to get
rid of them when all along,
I should have been trying
to lock him up here forever.
- If you can lock up
someone who just disappears.
- Well, then we'll just have
to convince them that it's in
everybody's best interest for him to stay.
- First. You have to
get them to come back.
- Yes,
the world is shaking and the
weather seems a bit odd for
this time of year, but it's
nothing to be upset about.
I promised you open
government and here it is.
There's nothing to worry about.
Well here's the picture now.
This is Jay,
He used to be a wanted kid,
but now we just want him,
not like a criminal, but-
- What are they up to now?
- And these are Flash and Alpha,
two of Jay's most trusted advisors.
Flash is a great, a great warrior
and alpha is incredibly smart.
- I told you, if they're
trying to catch Jay.
That means they don't
have him, means he's gone.
- And these three kids
are important to us all.
If you see them,
tell them I need to talk to
them as soon as possible.
And remember together, we save the world.
- Come on
- [Macro] Don't think you could go alone.
Every kid needs a club
and every club needs a kid
on the recent walk about,
(Macro's announcement fades)
So what are we gonna do?
- Why would they need our help?
- You heard 'em you're incredibly smart,
and I'm a great warrior
- At least part of that's true.
But how can we find out?
I can climb these walls at night easy.
- Then what?
But you're right.
One of us should go in.
I said I'd go.
- No.
No, I should go.
- You're crazy. How are you gonna get in?
It's not getting in I'm worried about,
but if anything happens,
I'm going to need you to get me out.
(Alarm bell buzzes)
- Is he all right?
- Its okay,
this happens.
- Are you sure? It was, it was like,
he was calling for help.
- I'm sure.
He regained some motor control,
just before he fell asleep,
let's let them get some rest.
(thunder rumbles)
(sparkle sounds)
- Jay?
(Ominous music plays)
- Flash?
- Jay?
- Whoa, what happened here?
- Where have you been?
- Home.
- And you came back?
Weird, weird and freaky.
How?
- I don't know how I just had to.
Alphas in trouble.
- She went to the tower.
How'd you know?
- Why is she there?
- Macro went on TV.
He said he needed our
help to save the world.
- And what happened?
- Earthquakes, floods, storms.
You name it.
- What can we do about it?
- Right this way.
C'mon, right over here.
This will be your room.
Now, don't move. If you
want anything, just ask.
I can't stand to see you suffer.
- Your concern is touching,
but don't you think you're
laying it on a bit thick?
- Well then let me point out
a few features of the tower
suite.
The biggest room of course will be Jays,
but yours has an excellent
view of the moat.
- Yeah. If you don't
mind bars on the windows
- My dear, those are for your protection.
You didn't think we were
going to keep you in, did you?
- The thought occurred to me.
You expect me to believe you
want Jay to run the world.
What about macro?
- Macro is an excellent
administrator, but he has no vision.
He'll still do all the tax gathering
and all that boring hoowie.
- Do I have a choice?
- Absolutely.
This lovely apartment or slime
filled rat-infested dungeon.
Just joking.
But we do know that if we have you,
eventually Jay will show up.
(door slams and lock clicks)
- What are you doing?
- Did you notice?
The earthquakes stopped
- Told you, Jay would come back for her,
are the monitors ready?
(Macro speaks in background)
- I am Macro.
Most of you know me as the supreme ruler.
- Hey, why don't we
just turn ourselves in?
At least then they'll take us to Alpha.
- That's what they want us to do.
- C'mon
(upbeat music plays)
(moaning)
- Fits good for me.
Who would believe you're a monitor
- Constitutes even the, the likelihood,
the likelihood of their
existence, questions?
- But Fractal himself saw
the mom through the crystal.
- Yes.
Yes, but we've all seen how
crystal distorts an image.
- Another nerd to see fractal
(crowd murmurs)
- [Guard] Pass, please.
- Oh, well, sorry to detain you, sir.
Just doing my job.
- Quite all right, carry on
- And may say something sir?
Sure.
- All us monitors are
wishing you good luck
with that death ray.
- Thank you.
- Great. Now we got the inventor
of a death ray mad at us
(spark flies)
- Trouble Fractal?
- [Flash] He's back!
How did you?
You're wearing Cricks clothes.
- What are you doing?
Fractal!
- Trying to find out what
you are doing to this world.
- Me? I'm looking for alpha.
- Good for you.
Okay. Okay.
Philistines.
This fluctuating accumulator.
refracts the total diffuse
polyhedral wave front and an
occlusion oscillation.
- Fractal.
I'm hoping this crystal can
provide a few answers to the
grownup question.
The trouble is I'm missing
the radiative catalyst.
- Hmm?
The thing to make it go.
- You mean this?
(suspenseful music plays)
(TV static)
- Let me try.
- See, this is a grownup.
A mom?
- No, it's a dad.
My dad.
- Fascinating.
- Wait, dad, you can't.
I have to ask you
- No first this is very
important for my research.
Brad is Jay the wrecker?
We're all the wreckers.
We dream, we wreck what's real
we wake and we wreck our
dreams it's very complex.
- Can we keep the grownups away?
- Who says we want to?
- Where there are kids, There
are grownups, it's a fact
- But where can you...
- Oh, it's time to go
- Dad!
- Jay, we should talk before I go
- How? Where are you going?
- Fractal will bring
you to our secret place.
(sparks crackle)
- You heard him fractal let's go.
- What about Alpha?
- Find her, if anyone could
take care of her, you can
(eerie music plays)
- You know, here we are
ready to offer Jay the world,
and you know what I
think he'll leave us all
- How long are you gonna keep me here?
- Leg feeling better yet?
- I don't believe you.
- All I'm trying to do is
keep our world together.
Tell me you don't want to do the same.
Now that Flash is here.
I'm sure. Jay can't be far behind.
- Where are you taking me anyway.
- Me and Brad used to
have a special place.
- If you were so close, how
could you betray him like that?
Help Macro we'll get rid of him?
- Because he stopped
caring about the world,
that's why
it wasn't me who betrayed Brad,
it was Brad who betrayed all of us
- I just started to grow up, Fractal.
- Brad?
- It's time to go.
- What? Where, why?
- Sorry. It's time.
- Wait,
what day is this?
- What?
- It's right.
Fractal.
It's your birthday?
- 16.
- That's impossible.
It's a scientific fact.
No one turns 16.
- Not till now.
- You can't go.
- I don't know what to do, where to go.
- Sure you do the truth is inside you Jay,
you know why you're here,
go for it.
(ominous music plays)
- (children chanting)
- Jay! Jay! Jay!
(chanting continues)
- They never chanted my name.
- [Medea] Shut up. Macro.
- Why me?
- Because if you don't, the
whole world will fall apart.
You even remind me of Brad,
just a little bit stronger.
- What do I have to do.
- That's better? All right here take this.
You're gonna go on TV and
tell them that everything's
okay. And everything's back to normal.
- Can I say that?
- You run the world, Jay,
if you say it, it's true.
- You're never gonna let us
out of here are you Medea?
You're going to keep us locked
up in the tower and write
speeches for Jay to make.
- It's not so bad. I mean,
the courtyard's really nice
when people bring you cool
things from all over.
- Let's just say,
you can choose your own
destiny king of the world or
prisoner of the pit.
It doesn't matter to me.
- Okay, but not on TV,
I'm gonna go down and tell them in person.
- Wonderful, a populous,
press of the flesh it's a very nice touch.
(crowd cheering)
- I'm supposed to tell you
that everything is fine,
that nothing has changed and
that you're in good hands
and you are, in good hands
but only as long as
you're in your own hands,
I'm not gonna be your leader.
Leaders have answers to problems.
I only have about a zillion questions.
I'm here to find the answers.
Time to go
- Stop them!
(whistle blows)
(outro music plays)
(upbeat music continues)
- Jay, are you here?
Oh God, I can't believe it.
If you can hear me,
blink once.
(thunder rumbles)
- He's not coming back,
Flash deal with it.
He's gone for good
- Quit saying that it's not true.
- He appeared out of nowhere
and he vanished the same way.
(thunder crashes)
The world's getting wrecked.
Just like Medea said.
- There's no way Jay would abandon us,
especially if the grown ups were coming.
- I'm not saying Jay abandoned us.
It's not his fault. Medea and
pushed him into the crystal,
but he's gone.
We've got to watch out for ourselves now.
(rocks fall as storm rages)
- We're not safe here, come on.
(indistinct children chattering)
- My purse!
- Leave that, we'll get it later!
Alpha!!
(pillars creek and thud)
- This is a buzzer I'm
putting in your hand.
Can you feel it?
Yes. Very good Jay.
I never thought a wink could mean so much.
- When you can.
I want you to press on it.
It'll make a big noise in here
and at the nurses station.
- When you were in the
coma, could you hear us?
- No?
You must have you talked to me.
- Donna talked to you all the time.
She insisted you could hear her.
- Me too.
- Welcome home,
I love you
I don't want you to go away again.
- [Boy] Let's get that equipment over here
- Begin manual resuscitation immediately
- This guy is hurt, come on
(Flash coughing)
- Alpha?
Where's Alpha
- You mean someone else was in there?
- Come on we have to get her out.
(dramatic music plays)
There she is!
Her leg is bent I need a prying thing
Hey, only certified A level of rescuers
are trained and authorized
to utilize the high-tech equipment
- Come on Alpha, get up, come on.
- [Boy] Medic!
(grunting noises)
(Alpha coughing)
We're always on the lookout
for top-notch rubble roasters.
The world is falling apart.
- You'd be the best friend?
Yeah. Well how is she?
She's got a badly scraped
knee, snot's full of dust.
You're going to have
to watch her carefully
for the next few days.
- You sure she can walk?
- She can walk.
I need the space.
- I'm going back to the library club
- What! Right now?
- Yep.
Hasta la vista, baby.
- But you can't get there by yourself.
- Do you have any better ideas?
- What about Jay?
You just going to forget about him?
He's gone Flash.
The truth is the truth. Even
if you don't want it to be true
- Can you take us to the tower?
- Why the tower?
Everyone's going there
Macro will know what to do.
- Right Macro
- Listen, we'll go to the tower.
And if you still want to go
onto the library club from
there, we'll say goodbye.
- Okay.
Thanks for rescuing me flash.
- Yeah.
Well you had the sandwiches.
(children chanting)
- We want Brad, we want Brad
We'll get mad if we don't see Brad!
- They want Brad.
- So I gather.
(Lightning strikes)
- Yeah, well I want Brad too okay!
I don't know what to do.
- Get a grip, Macro.
- The checkpoints are open,
every kid in the world is
showing up in my front yard.
You say the grownups are coming
and you want me to get a grip?
- They don't care about Brad.
- Well, they're not chatting
we want Macro out there
are they?
- They want a firm hand.
They want reassurance.
That's all.
- What's this.
- It's your speech.
Supreme commanders of the world
don't just sit in their
playrooms and winge, you know.
- [Announcer] Stay tuned
for announcement from Macro.
(chanting slows)
- Good day weather the world will ask
I'd like to take a few moments
today to share with you the
aims and goals of your government.
Because though I am Supreme
commander of the world.
I am first and foremost, your servant.
And now some words to live by
ask not what the tower can do for you.
Ask what you can do for the tower.
- I thought Jay was the wrecker.
- It's within the statistical
spirit probabilities.
(Lightning strikes)
- Well we got rid of him. Now this.
- You see the trouble with
the unscientific method
is it's non specificity.
What's important is not your Ouija board.
What's important is A
hypothesis, B antithesis
and C synthesis
- I knew that...
- Thesis: Jay by his very
presence will wreck the world.
- I already said that.
- Antithesis,
Jay by his very presence
will not wreck the world.
Neither the antithesis,
nor the thesis concur with
the empirical realities of
observation.
Jay was in the world a long
time without it getting wrecked.
However,
there does appear to be a
link between him and the world
falling apart.
Synthesis Jay wrecks the
world, when he leaves it.
- Of course, everything started
to fall apart when he left.
And the grownups?
- To restate the obvious
stories of the grownups
only became rampant,
only after the world
started to fall apart.
- Oh. I've been trying to get
rid of them when all along,
I should have been trying
to lock him up here forever.
- If you can lock up
someone who just disappears.
- Well, then we'll just have
to convince them that it's in
everybody's best interest for him to stay.
- First. You have to
get them to come back.
- Yes,
the world is shaking and the
weather seems a bit odd for
this time of year, but it's
nothing to be upset about.
I promised you open
government and here it is.
There's nothing to worry about.
Well here's the picture now.
This is Jay,
He used to be a wanted kid,
but now we just want him,
not like a criminal, but-
- What are they up to now?
- And these are Flash and Alpha,
two of Jay's most trusted advisors.
Flash is a great, a great warrior
and alpha is incredibly smart.
- I told you, if they're
trying to catch Jay.
That means they don't
have him, means he's gone.
- And these three kids
are important to us all.
If you see them,
tell them I need to talk to
them as soon as possible.
And remember together, we save the world.
- Come on
- [Macro] Don't think you could go alone.
Every kid needs a club
and every club needs a kid
on the recent walk about,
(Macro's announcement fades)
So what are we gonna do?
- Why would they need our help?
- You heard 'em you're incredibly smart,
and I'm a great warrior
- At least part of that's true.
But how can we find out?
I can climb these walls at night easy.
- Then what?
But you're right.
One of us should go in.
I said I'd go.
- No.
No, I should go.
- You're crazy. How are you gonna get in?
It's not getting in I'm worried about,
but if anything happens,
I'm going to need you to get me out.
(Alarm bell buzzes)
- Is he all right?
- Its okay,
this happens.
- Are you sure? It was, it was like,
he was calling for help.
- I'm sure.
He regained some motor control,
just before he fell asleep,
let's let them get some rest.
(thunder rumbles)
(sparkle sounds)
- Jay?
(Ominous music plays)
- Flash?
- Jay?
- Whoa, what happened here?
- Where have you been?
- Home.
- And you came back?
Weird, weird and freaky.
How?
- I don't know how I just had to.
Alphas in trouble.
- She went to the tower.
How'd you know?
- Why is she there?
- Macro went on TV.
He said he needed our
help to save the world.
- And what happened?
- Earthquakes, floods, storms.
You name it.
- What can we do about it?
- Right this way.
C'mon, right over here.
This will be your room.
Now, don't move. If you
want anything, just ask.
I can't stand to see you suffer.
- Your concern is touching,
but don't you think you're
laying it on a bit thick?
- Well then let me point out
a few features of the tower
suite.
The biggest room of course will be Jays,
but yours has an excellent
view of the moat.
- Yeah. If you don't
mind bars on the windows
- My dear, those are for your protection.
You didn't think we were
going to keep you in, did you?
- The thought occurred to me.
You expect me to believe you
want Jay to run the world.
What about macro?
- Macro is an excellent
administrator, but he has no vision.
He'll still do all the tax gathering
and all that boring hoowie.
- Do I have a choice?
- Absolutely.
This lovely apartment or slime
filled rat-infested dungeon.
Just joking.
But we do know that if we have you,
eventually Jay will show up.
(door slams and lock clicks)
- What are you doing?
- Did you notice?
The earthquakes stopped
- Told you, Jay would come back for her,
are the monitors ready?
(Macro speaks in background)
- I am Macro.
Most of you know me as the supreme ruler.
- Hey, why don't we
just turn ourselves in?
At least then they'll take us to Alpha.
- That's what they want us to do.
- C'mon
(upbeat music plays)
(moaning)
- Fits good for me.
Who would believe you're a monitor
- Constitutes even the, the likelihood,
the likelihood of their
existence, questions?
- But Fractal himself saw
the mom through the crystal.
- Yes.
Yes, but we've all seen how
crystal distorts an image.
- Another nerd to see fractal
(crowd murmurs)
- [Guard] Pass, please.
- Oh, well, sorry to detain you, sir.
Just doing my job.
- Quite all right, carry on
- And may say something sir?
Sure.
- All us monitors are
wishing you good luck
with that death ray.
- Thank you.
- Great. Now we got the inventor
of a death ray mad at us
(spark flies)
- Trouble Fractal?
- [Flash] He's back!
How did you?
You're wearing Cricks clothes.
- What are you doing?
Fractal!
- Trying to find out what
you are doing to this world.
- Me? I'm looking for alpha.
- Good for you.
Okay. Okay.
Philistines.
This fluctuating accumulator.
refracts the total diffuse
polyhedral wave front and an
occlusion oscillation.
- Fractal.
I'm hoping this crystal can
provide a few answers to the
grownup question.
The trouble is I'm missing
the radiative catalyst.
- Hmm?
The thing to make it go.
- You mean this?
(suspenseful music plays)
(TV static)
- Let me try.
- See, this is a grownup.
A mom?
- No, it's a dad.
My dad.
- Fascinating.
- Wait, dad, you can't.
I have to ask you
- No first this is very
important for my research.
Brad is Jay the wrecker?
We're all the wreckers.
We dream, we wreck what's real
we wake and we wreck our
dreams it's very complex.
- Can we keep the grownups away?
- Who says we want to?
- Where there are kids, There
are grownups, it's a fact
- But where can you...
- Oh, it's time to go
- Dad!
- Jay, we should talk before I go
- How? Where are you going?
- Fractal will bring
you to our secret place.
(sparks crackle)
- You heard him fractal let's go.
- What about Alpha?
- Find her, if anyone could
take care of her, you can
(eerie music plays)
- You know, here we are
ready to offer Jay the world,
and you know what I
think he'll leave us all
- How long are you gonna keep me here?
- Leg feeling better yet?
- I don't believe you.
- All I'm trying to do is
keep our world together.
Tell me you don't want to do the same.
Now that Flash is here.
I'm sure. Jay can't be far behind.
- Where are you taking me anyway.
- Me and Brad used to
have a special place.
- If you were so close, how
could you betray him like that?
Help Macro we'll get rid of him?
- Because he stopped
caring about the world,
that's why
it wasn't me who betrayed Brad,
it was Brad who betrayed all of us
- I just started to grow up, Fractal.
- Brad?
- It's time to go.
- What? Where, why?
- Sorry. It's time.
- Wait,
what day is this?
- What?
- It's right.
Fractal.
It's your birthday?
- 16.
- That's impossible.
It's a scientific fact.
No one turns 16.
- Not till now.
- You can't go.
- I don't know what to do, where to go.
- Sure you do the truth is inside you Jay,
you know why you're here,
go for it.
(ominous music plays)
- (children chanting)
- Jay! Jay! Jay!
(chanting continues)
- They never chanted my name.
- [Medea] Shut up. Macro.
- Why me?
- Because if you don't, the
whole world will fall apart.
You even remind me of Brad,
just a little bit stronger.
- What do I have to do.
- That's better? All right here take this.
You're gonna go on TV and
tell them that everything's
okay. And everything's back to normal.
- Can I say that?
- You run the world, Jay,
if you say it, it's true.
- You're never gonna let us
out of here are you Medea?
You're going to keep us locked
up in the tower and write
speeches for Jay to make.
- It's not so bad. I mean,
the courtyard's really nice
when people bring you cool
things from all over.
- Let's just say,
you can choose your own
destiny king of the world or
prisoner of the pit.
It doesn't matter to me.
- Okay, but not on TV,
I'm gonna go down and tell them in person.
- Wonderful, a populous,
press of the flesh it's a very nice touch.
(crowd cheering)
- I'm supposed to tell you
that everything is fine,
that nothing has changed and
that you're in good hands
and you are, in good hands
but only as long as
you're in your own hands,
I'm not gonna be your leader.
Leaders have answers to problems.
I only have about a zillion questions.
I'm here to find the answers.
Time to go
- Stop them!
(whistle blows)
(outro music plays)