The Odyssey (1992–1994): Season 2, Episode 5 - The Hall of Darkness - full transcript
(suspenseful music)
(fast-paced music)
(knocking)
- What do you want?
- Hi, we're looking for...
Food.
- That's it.
That's the third club
that's turned us away.
- We're going to starve
to death if this keeps up.
- Right, two days ago,
the whole world wants
me to be their leader,
and now they won't
offer us a ham sandwich.
- That's politics Jay!
Reject the people and
the people reject you.
- This is crazy, I'm going back.
(knocking)
- What do you want!
- Don't shut the door.
My friends and I haven't
eaten in two days, please.
- You can eat, but we want
you out before the big game.
- What is this big game?
- Think fast.
Good hands.
You ever play this game?
(knocking)
Go defense, whale 50, hut!
- Afternoon sir.
- We were collecting for Macro.
- Toys.
- What for?
- Taxes.
- We don't have any toys.
- Everyone has to pay, sir.
- All we have is our equipment,
and we can't play without that.
- You play with it?
- It's a toy.
- Wait, I have something
Macro might want even more.
(ominous music)
- Is that who I think it is?
- We've gotta get outta here.
- Fumble!
(everyone yelling)
- I'm not here to make trouble,
I'm just here to find my dad.
Is that a crime?
- Did they give you that
tie or is it your own?
- It's mine.
- [Tall Collector] Can
I borrow it sometime?
- Are you two even listening?
- It's no use Jay,
Macro's collectors are
specially trained not
to listen to the public.
- [Male] Stop the wagon!
Secure the perimeter.
- [Donna] Check it out!
- [Male Collector] A Flash Calc 900!
- [Female Collector]
You must've been talking
to my fingers and toes.
- I hear it does instant
percentage add-ons.
- Ugh, Atara would never get us these.
- [Both Collectors] Ambush!
- Jay, we're rescuing you!
- [Donna] It's Yudo!
(grunting)
(everyone yelling)
- Ah yeah!
- Hey, this is silk!
- [Warrior] Yah!
- [Jay] We're free let's go!
- [Warrior] Come on!
- Sorry I was late,
yeah report cards today.
Not me, but Keith's going to
have some explaining to do
when he gets home, McGiven
gave him an F in science.
- Hi, Donna, How are you?
- Fine Mrs. Ziegler.
- Do you mind if Jay and
I have a moment alone?
- Oh, no, I'll wait outside.
- Oh good, I'd like to talk to you after.
- Sure.
See you later, Jay.
(solemn music)
- Your dad left us a life insurance policy
and I haven't wanted to
cash it up until now.
Maybe part of me was hoping
he might show up one day,
but now it's time for
us both to face facts.
- [Jay] Lila.
- Hey, Jay, Flash, Alpha, are you alright?
Macro's punks are after you.
- You got that right.
- Any luck finding your dad?
- Not yet.
- But we're going to help him find him.
- You will?
- Of course we will.
Cause you're going to help us.
We know that big people
and kids once lived
in the same world.
- [Jay] Where'd you get that?
That's my dad's fishing rod!
- This?
- Yeah, he had it in his
hand the last time I saw him.
- That's the proof.
- Proof of what?
- Jay's the key,
when Jay finds his dad ...
- Two worlds become one.
- Uh-oh, collectors.
- Quick better hide behind here.
- Why, we can take them.
- No, better they don't find you here.
I'll get rid of them.
Come on!
Well, well, well collectors, come on in.
Boy, I didn't know they let
guys like you out of the Tower.
- I don't mind coming
here every day, honest.
And Jay likes it.
- Mm-hmm, he's lucky to
have you for a friend,
but it's you I'm worried about.
- What's the problem?
Well, you must have other
things you want to do,
friends you want to see.
- No, not really.
- I think it's important that
we try to take back our lives.
You've got to get out more,
it's not healthy for you
to spend every day in here.
- But I want to be here, with Jay.
- And you will be.
Listen, I know it's tough,
but let's not make it any
harder than it has to be.
We'll make a schedule, say
twice a week, three times.
- (chuckling) You know Lila,
Macro doesn't get all the toys.
Some of the best toys we've taken
are in my own private collection.
- You know, I'd really
like to see that sometime.
(knocking)
All clear.
- You have proof of my dad?
- I've heard it's called
the Certificate of Fate,
everyone's got one, even the big people.
- That's ridiculous!
We've never heard of
any Certificate of Fate
at the Library Club, and we're
in charge of all the records.
- Have you ever heard
of the Hall of Darkness?
- That's just a story we
use to scare little kids.
- [Yudo] Think about it.
What better way to keep a secret?
- What will it tell us?
- His fate, if we can find it.
- You mean his future?
- And yours too.
- Listen to what he's saying Jay,
you can't really believe him.
- Can you take me there?
- Jay, if you go there with
him, you have to go without me.
- But what if he's right?
This is what have been looking for.
- If he is right and
you get what you want,
then my world dies.
No Alpha, when the two worlds become one-
- You haven't seen it!
You don't know what you'll
be like if that happens.
What if you're different in that world?
I don't want to take the chance.
- Alpha, I have to find him.
- I know Jay.
Goodbye.
- Alpha, wait!
- Don't make this any
harder than it already is.
(knocking)
(doors creaking)
- What is it?
- A girl.
She claims you'll want
to see her right away.
- Who is it?
- It's me, Alpha.
- Where's Jay?
- It's not where he is,
it's where he's going,
and we have to stop him.
- Well, I'm glad you
finally come to your senses.
(eerie music)
- [Yudo] The whole darkness is so scary,
it isn't even dark.
Fear is enough to keep people away.
- How scary can it be?
- [Male] I've never heard of
any kid wanting to go there.
- [Alpha] After what Udo
said, nothing will stop Jay.
We have to hurry.
- Can't you go any faster?
- We'd go faster if we got off
this stupid thing and walked.
- In these shoes?
- Do you want to beat Jay or not?
- Halt!
All right, we're walking.
- [Yudo] This is it.
- [Flash] The Hall of Darkness.
(eerie music)
Yeah, well, I'm not afraid, let's go.
- [Jay] We walk in,
get the certificate and
we're out before dark.
(gate rattling)
- If this place is so scary
how come they have to lock it?
- To keep the hypocrites out.
There's always a test.
- Wait, that's gotta be the key.
- I thought you were the key.
- No, the key to the gate, look.
- There's no way to reach it.
- Maybe there is, give me the rod.
- It's not long enough.
- Time to try the conquerer
of 40, Dad's killer spoon.
- You're not gonna eat with that?
- I learned this from my dad.
We used to do this all the time together.
Let's see if I still have the old touch.
- You got it!
- Yes!
So, this is what you enjoyed
doing most with your dad,
retrieving keys.
- No, fish.
- Fish?
- Never mind.
(gates creaking)
- [Medea] Hope we didn't keep you waiting.
- [Blonde] Hey!
- [Medea] Why thank you.
- [Flash] Hey, you can't do that!
Come on!
- [Male] Hey!
- I thought you said you didn't want
to come to the Hall of Darkness.
- No, she just didn't want to go with you.
- So why are you here?
- Well, we're very curious
about Jay's dad's Certificate of Fate.
- Well, what are we waiting for?
- The Hall of Darkness is a school.
- You know this place?
- It's a place where
grownups teach kids things.
They learn how to spell
and do math and homework.
- What's homework?
- When you don't finish
all of your work at school,
you do it at home and
take it back the next day.
- How do you get out of school?
- You get a report card.
It tells you how you did,
and if you tried hard enough.
You graduate, go on to
another stage of your life.
- The Certificate of Fate.
You really do know this place.
- [Flash] Sounds pretty awful to me.
- Well, you get used to it.
- Wait, what's a school hour?
- Nine to three, unless you get detention.
- Sounds like this place
has a lot of rules.
What's a detention?
- When you break the
rules, they keep you here.
- Keep you in the Hall of Darkness?
- Maybe we should come back tomorrow,
we don't make the Big People mad.
- Yes, I think we all should wait.
- We can all go in tomorrow
and face the consequences together.
- Swear it.
But you won't try and go in until morning.
- Big people aren't
just a dream to me Jay,
they're real I can feel it.
- You're right, just relax.
- Not me.
Not until my belief
BEcomes something I can see
and hear, and touch and talk with.
I can never just relax.
I can only keep searching.
- That's how I feel about my dad.
- We'll find him, Jay.
I promise.
(suspenseful music)
(papers shuffling)
(door creaking)
- Ugh!
(door creaking)
- This must be hard for you, Mrs. Ziegler.
- It has to be done.
- Basically it's illegal
affirmation that your husband
is in fact deceased.
That you have no reason to
believe he's still alive.
- I believe that.
I mean...
- I understand.
(drawers rattling)
- Mrs. Ziegler?
- I just can't help, but
wonder if by signing this,
I'm making it true.
- Where's Flash?
- Are you ready?
- Why is this one open?
(ominous music)
You think this is it?
- Well, there's only one way to find out.
- He's dead Jay, I'm sorry.
- He can't be!
- [Alpha] That's what it means, look.
Incomplete means he didn't
finish his assignments,
indefinite suspension must be his fate.
- This can't be his fate!
He did stuff after he left the Navy.
- That's the man in my vision.
You must be the key.
- [Flash] Get me outta here!
Get me outta here!
- Big People!
We'd better go!
- [Jay] Flash!
How long you been in there?
- All night, I fell asleep.
- Flash, you broke our agreement!
- I'm not the only one,
Medea was in here too.
- Me?
You must be joking.
- I bet she did something
to the certificate.
- Sleeping in a drawer must
have affected your brain Flash.
- Let's get outta here.
- But!
- This certificate doesn't matter.
This isn't about some old piece of paper.
It's about what I know in my heart.
(solemn music)
- The seventh hour, of the seventh day,
of the seventh month,
July the seventh, 7:00 AM.
Jay, you must come with me!
I can show you what you're looking for.
- Yes Jay, go with Yudo.
- [Yudo] We found the
proof Jay, you are the key.
Come on.
- [Alpha] Give it up
Jay, stay here with us.
- You don't believe that
I'll find my dad do you?
- No, I think you're fooling yourself.
I mean, as soon as you
realize you belong here-
- I don't belong here.
- Then we don't belong together.
- I guess we don't.
- You did your best, you
were honest with him.
- Yeah, but it wasn't enough.
- [Medea] They're made for each other,
Jay and Yudo, off chasing ghosts.
- See ya.
(intense music)
(digital music)
(fast-paced music)
(knocking)
- What do you want?
- Hi, we're looking for...
Food.
- That's it.
That's the third club
that's turned us away.
- We're going to starve
to death if this keeps up.
- Right, two days ago,
the whole world wants
me to be their leader,
and now they won't
offer us a ham sandwich.
- That's politics Jay!
Reject the people and
the people reject you.
- This is crazy, I'm going back.
(knocking)
- What do you want!
- Don't shut the door.
My friends and I haven't
eaten in two days, please.
- You can eat, but we want
you out before the big game.
- What is this big game?
- Think fast.
Good hands.
You ever play this game?
(knocking)
Go defense, whale 50, hut!
- Afternoon sir.
- We were collecting for Macro.
- Toys.
- What for?
- Taxes.
- We don't have any toys.
- Everyone has to pay, sir.
- All we have is our equipment,
and we can't play without that.
- You play with it?
- It's a toy.
- Wait, I have something
Macro might want even more.
(ominous music)
- Is that who I think it is?
- We've gotta get outta here.
- Fumble!
(everyone yelling)
- I'm not here to make trouble,
I'm just here to find my dad.
Is that a crime?
- Did they give you that
tie or is it your own?
- It's mine.
- [Tall Collector] Can
I borrow it sometime?
- Are you two even listening?
- It's no use Jay,
Macro's collectors are
specially trained not
to listen to the public.
- [Male] Stop the wagon!
Secure the perimeter.
- [Donna] Check it out!
- [Male Collector] A Flash Calc 900!
- [Female Collector]
You must've been talking
to my fingers and toes.
- I hear it does instant
percentage add-ons.
- Ugh, Atara would never get us these.
- [Both Collectors] Ambush!
- Jay, we're rescuing you!
- [Donna] It's Yudo!
(grunting)
(everyone yelling)
- Ah yeah!
- Hey, this is silk!
- [Warrior] Yah!
- [Jay] We're free let's go!
- [Warrior] Come on!
- Sorry I was late,
yeah report cards today.
Not me, but Keith's going to
have some explaining to do
when he gets home, McGiven
gave him an F in science.
- Hi, Donna, How are you?
- Fine Mrs. Ziegler.
- Do you mind if Jay and
I have a moment alone?
- Oh, no, I'll wait outside.
- Oh good, I'd like to talk to you after.
- Sure.
See you later, Jay.
(solemn music)
- Your dad left us a life insurance policy
and I haven't wanted to
cash it up until now.
Maybe part of me was hoping
he might show up one day,
but now it's time for
us both to face facts.
- [Jay] Lila.
- Hey, Jay, Flash, Alpha, are you alright?
Macro's punks are after you.
- You got that right.
- Any luck finding your dad?
- Not yet.
- But we're going to help him find him.
- You will?
- Of course we will.
Cause you're going to help us.
We know that big people
and kids once lived
in the same world.
- [Jay] Where'd you get that?
That's my dad's fishing rod!
- This?
- Yeah, he had it in his
hand the last time I saw him.
- That's the proof.
- Proof of what?
- Jay's the key,
when Jay finds his dad ...
- Two worlds become one.
- Uh-oh, collectors.
- Quick better hide behind here.
- Why, we can take them.
- No, better they don't find you here.
I'll get rid of them.
Come on!
Well, well, well collectors, come on in.
Boy, I didn't know they let
guys like you out of the Tower.
- I don't mind coming
here every day, honest.
And Jay likes it.
- Mm-hmm, he's lucky to
have you for a friend,
but it's you I'm worried about.
- What's the problem?
Well, you must have other
things you want to do,
friends you want to see.
- No, not really.
- I think it's important that
we try to take back our lives.
You've got to get out more,
it's not healthy for you
to spend every day in here.
- But I want to be here, with Jay.
- And you will be.
Listen, I know it's tough,
but let's not make it any
harder than it has to be.
We'll make a schedule, say
twice a week, three times.
- (chuckling) You know Lila,
Macro doesn't get all the toys.
Some of the best toys we've taken
are in my own private collection.
- You know, I'd really
like to see that sometime.
(knocking)
All clear.
- You have proof of my dad?
- I've heard it's called
the Certificate of Fate,
everyone's got one, even the big people.
- That's ridiculous!
We've never heard of
any Certificate of Fate
at the Library Club, and we're
in charge of all the records.
- Have you ever heard
of the Hall of Darkness?
- That's just a story we
use to scare little kids.
- [Yudo] Think about it.
What better way to keep a secret?
- What will it tell us?
- His fate, if we can find it.
- You mean his future?
- And yours too.
- Listen to what he's saying Jay,
you can't really believe him.
- Can you take me there?
- Jay, if you go there with
him, you have to go without me.
- But what if he's right?
This is what have been looking for.
- If he is right and
you get what you want,
then my world dies.
No Alpha, when the two worlds become one-
- You haven't seen it!
You don't know what you'll
be like if that happens.
What if you're different in that world?
I don't want to take the chance.
- Alpha, I have to find him.
- I know Jay.
Goodbye.
- Alpha, wait!
- Don't make this any
harder than it already is.
(knocking)
(doors creaking)
- What is it?
- A girl.
She claims you'll want
to see her right away.
- Who is it?
- It's me, Alpha.
- Where's Jay?
- It's not where he is,
it's where he's going,
and we have to stop him.
- Well, I'm glad you
finally come to your senses.
(eerie music)
- [Yudo] The whole darkness is so scary,
it isn't even dark.
Fear is enough to keep people away.
- How scary can it be?
- [Male] I've never heard of
any kid wanting to go there.
- [Alpha] After what Udo
said, nothing will stop Jay.
We have to hurry.
- Can't you go any faster?
- We'd go faster if we got off
this stupid thing and walked.
- In these shoes?
- Do you want to beat Jay or not?
- Halt!
All right, we're walking.
- [Yudo] This is it.
- [Flash] The Hall of Darkness.
(eerie music)
Yeah, well, I'm not afraid, let's go.
- [Jay] We walk in,
get the certificate and
we're out before dark.
(gate rattling)
- If this place is so scary
how come they have to lock it?
- To keep the hypocrites out.
There's always a test.
- Wait, that's gotta be the key.
- I thought you were the key.
- No, the key to the gate, look.
- There's no way to reach it.
- Maybe there is, give me the rod.
- It's not long enough.
- Time to try the conquerer
of 40, Dad's killer spoon.
- You're not gonna eat with that?
- I learned this from my dad.
We used to do this all the time together.
Let's see if I still have the old touch.
- You got it!
- Yes!
So, this is what you enjoyed
doing most with your dad,
retrieving keys.
- No, fish.
- Fish?
- Never mind.
(gates creaking)
- [Medea] Hope we didn't keep you waiting.
- [Blonde] Hey!
- [Medea] Why thank you.
- [Flash] Hey, you can't do that!
Come on!
- [Male] Hey!
- I thought you said you didn't want
to come to the Hall of Darkness.
- No, she just didn't want to go with you.
- So why are you here?
- Well, we're very curious
about Jay's dad's Certificate of Fate.
- Well, what are we waiting for?
- The Hall of Darkness is a school.
- You know this place?
- It's a place where
grownups teach kids things.
They learn how to spell
and do math and homework.
- What's homework?
- When you don't finish
all of your work at school,
you do it at home and
take it back the next day.
- How do you get out of school?
- You get a report card.
It tells you how you did,
and if you tried hard enough.
You graduate, go on to
another stage of your life.
- The Certificate of Fate.
You really do know this place.
- [Flash] Sounds pretty awful to me.
- Well, you get used to it.
- Wait, what's a school hour?
- Nine to three, unless you get detention.
- Sounds like this place
has a lot of rules.
What's a detention?
- When you break the
rules, they keep you here.
- Keep you in the Hall of Darkness?
- Maybe we should come back tomorrow,
we don't make the Big People mad.
- Yes, I think we all should wait.
- We can all go in tomorrow
and face the consequences together.
- Swear it.
But you won't try and go in until morning.
- Big people aren't
just a dream to me Jay,
they're real I can feel it.
- You're right, just relax.
- Not me.
Not until my belief
BEcomes something I can see
and hear, and touch and talk with.
I can never just relax.
I can only keep searching.
- That's how I feel about my dad.
- We'll find him, Jay.
I promise.
(suspenseful music)
(papers shuffling)
(door creaking)
- Ugh!
(door creaking)
- This must be hard for you, Mrs. Ziegler.
- It has to be done.
- Basically it's illegal
affirmation that your husband
is in fact deceased.
That you have no reason to
believe he's still alive.
- I believe that.
I mean...
- I understand.
(drawers rattling)
- Mrs. Ziegler?
- I just can't help, but
wonder if by signing this,
I'm making it true.
- Where's Flash?
- Are you ready?
- Why is this one open?
(ominous music)
You think this is it?
- Well, there's only one way to find out.
- He's dead Jay, I'm sorry.
- He can't be!
- [Alpha] That's what it means, look.
Incomplete means he didn't
finish his assignments,
indefinite suspension must be his fate.
- This can't be his fate!
He did stuff after he left the Navy.
- That's the man in my vision.
You must be the key.
- [Flash] Get me outta here!
Get me outta here!
- Big People!
We'd better go!
- [Jay] Flash!
How long you been in there?
- All night, I fell asleep.
- Flash, you broke our agreement!
- I'm not the only one,
Medea was in here too.
- Me?
You must be joking.
- I bet she did something
to the certificate.
- Sleeping in a drawer must
have affected your brain Flash.
- Let's get outta here.
- But!
- This certificate doesn't matter.
This isn't about some old piece of paper.
It's about what I know in my heart.
(solemn music)
- The seventh hour, of the seventh day,
of the seventh month,
July the seventh, 7:00 AM.
Jay, you must come with me!
I can show you what you're looking for.
- Yes Jay, go with Yudo.
- [Yudo] We found the
proof Jay, you are the key.
Come on.
- [Alpha] Give it up
Jay, stay here with us.
- You don't believe that
I'll find my dad do you?
- No, I think you're fooling yourself.
I mean, as soon as you
realize you belong here-
- I don't belong here.
- Then we don't belong together.
- I guess we don't.
- You did your best, you
were honest with him.
- Yeah, but it wasn't enough.
- [Medea] They're made for each other,
Jay and Yudo, off chasing ghosts.
- See ya.
(intense music)
(digital music)