The Odyssey (1992–1994): Season 2, Episode 9 - The Big Picture - full transcript
(suspenseful music)
- You know I really don't understand why
it takes so long to get
this mess cleaned up.
- It's hard to round up
good peons these days.
I'll have my monitors keep a lookout.
- Don't bother. The
earthquakes have stopped.
Jay must be back. I want
him. No more excuses.
- Don't worry Macro.
He won't get away this time.
- Now that we have Alpha and Flash,
he'll complete the set.
- We'll hunt him down to the ends
of the earth if we have to.
(ominous music)
- I know it hurts, but you'll get over it.
I'll take care of you.
- I have to leave. Macro
will lock us both up
if he finds me in the towers.
- Where are you going to go? Tell me,
I'll come find you when I can.
- I don't know, I'll find somewhere.
Maybe I don't belong in this world.
- Course you do.
Jay you're one of us.
We've all been abandoned.
- Doesn't that bother you?
- And wasn't it better to face facts?
Remember he left you.
- You're right.
If my dad left me.
Then I never want to see him again.
- Then stay here with us, with me.
- It doesn't make any difference.
I can't get him out of my head.
- Wait, maybe I can help you forget.
(Breathing heavily)
- Well?
- Never heard anything like it before.
The ramble gates surge is colossal.
- Really? What does that mean?
- Your head is very noisy inside.
- I know that. Medea said you'd
be able to shut it off.
- Calm down. I will,
but science takes time.
No one has ever had the
courage to even attempt
to research about the Dad.
- Dad.
I don't have a Dad.
- Good. We're making progress.
- How long will he need the uh...
- Oxygen?
It's hard to say. He was
having trouble breathing.
We'll have to keep a close
watch on him for awhile.
- Why's the peon sitting around?
Those petty guests better be spotless.
- You missed a spot.
- No way, look it.
- He said you missed a spot.
- Yeah, I guess you're right.
- Hey! What are you...
- You're gonna be pounded peon!
- Come on, I'll take you both on!
- What is going on here?
- The peon belongs in the pit!
- The pit's too good for him.
Take him to the library.
- I must be crazy. I stuck my neck out
to save you from the monitors.
A little appreciation would be nice.
- Okay. Can I go to the pit now?
- Why don't you just knock a lender?
It's not so bad when you get used to it.
- How long did it take you, a minute?
- Just be quiet and continue working.
- (Sigh) This is a library of truth.
I bet anything you want to know
you can find in here.
- Just about.
- What's in here.
- Medea's private collection.
- You ever read it?
- No.
- (laugh) Didn't trust
you with the key, eh?
- I have the key right here.
The position of head librarian carries
certain responsibilities.
I took an oath.
(clears throat)
- Your Royal Highness
- Mask off peon.
I'd like to go to my throne.
- I'm afraid that's impossible.
Your Macho Supremo-ship.
- Who says? It's my throne.
- Fractal's orders sir.
He's engaged in a very
dangerous experiment.
- Carry on.
- Comfy?
Tell me what you feel
when I turn on the juice.
- Nothing.
- Really?
- What is it Macro dear?
- I've been hearing some disturbing rumors
about you, Medea dear.
- Oh, I'm sorry.
I wouldn't want to trouble you.
What have you been hearing?
- Don't play with me.
Did you bring him here?
The kid, Jay.
- (laugh) That's silly.
- That's what I thought.
You heard that.
She said no.
- She was so sincere.
She's gotta be lying.
- Find out where she's hiding him.
- Jay's in the tower. Medea brought him.
- That's just peon gossip.
Jay would never come
to the tower with her.
- They say he's sick.
We got to help him.
- Why?
He turned his back on
us. On the whole world.
Why should I care about
him? Even if you was here.
- Boy, was he ever wrong about you?
- You have no right to say that.
You don't know how I feel. No one does.
- What are you afraid of?
- Not you peon.
- Where'd you get that?
- Fractal had it brought
back from the lighthouse.
Look.
- That explains everything.
You must have touched it.
- Do you want to see or not?
That's what I would be. If
Jay makes the two worlds one.
- What? With that leg thing?
- Yes.
Limping.
Falling.
- But she gets up.
It's the same for everybody.
You fall down, you get up.
- You don't know anything.
You think it's so simple.
- Maybe I'm the one in chains,
but you're the real prisoner here.
- Sierra. Hi, I'm Val Ziegler.
- Hi, Nice to meet you.
- I'm sorry to keep you waiting.
I'm so glad you've agreed to help us
get out the driftwood message.
- Oh, no problem. I'm very glad to help.
So how long has your
son been a patient here?
- A few months, but it feels like forever.
- Do you think I could see him?
- Sure. I don't think that would hurt.
Come on.
How's he doing?
- No change.
Hi.
- Hi.
- I don't care what it takes Fractal.
Just do it.
Hurry.
- We're dealing with highly
volatile elements here.
First of all, there's you.
Then there's this super
iodized crystal fragment.
Then there's this.
I call it Gardivonium.
If the tiniest bit of crystal
comes into contact with it,
the whole world could go up in flames.
- Just do it fractal.
Dad!
- What?
- Nothing.
- You distinctly said dad.
- I don't know what you're talking about.
- You're resisting Jay.
How can I be expected
to succeed if you won't cooperate.
- You're right. It's my fault.
- Good. Let's try again.
- No, it's my fault he left me.
It must've been.
- Your fault?
You mean you did something wrong,
and now you feel something?
- Yeah. I feel guilty.
- Guilty. Guilty?
(mumbling)
There's no guilty here.
No one has ever felt like you feel.
- This was a bad idea Fractal.
I'm never going to forget.
- Just stay back. Don't don't go near me.
Don't go near the crystal. Jay Don't.
Don't! You could unleash the
power of a thousand suns.
- I don't care about anything!
- Medea. I'll get Medea down here.
Please Jay, I'm begging you. Don't.
(Alarm sounds)
- DAD!
(ominous music)
- Get back! I'll do it, I'll do it!
- Okay! Medea, Medea we have a problem.
- (Medea) What is it Fractal?
- It's Jay.
- What did you do?
- He's gone berserk. If the Gardivonium
comes into contact with
the ionized crystal...
- Will you turn off that alarm!
- Jay, put it down, please.
- Stay back! If anybody gets any closer
the whole world goes with me.
- He's a human time bomb.
He could blow us all sky high.
- Attack team, move into position.
- What's wrong with him?
- He has guilt. He called it guilt.
- Guilt?
Why should we believe you Fractal?
- Wait, what's guilt?
- He doesn't like himself.
- I told you he was a goof.
- My SWAT team can take him.
- No way! What are you crazy? He'll do it.
Let me try something.
- Fine. I mean, you got us into this mess.
You and brainiac over there.
- Jay. I'm going to get Flash.
The least you can do is
stay here until he comes.
Please.
- Flash is here?
- Good. That'll buy us some time.
- Wow. You're Sierra Jones.
- Guilty. Who are you?
- I'm Donna. This is Keith.
What's going on?
- Um, I don't know. Mrs.
Ziegler's in there with Max now.
- Not a good time kids.
- Flash hurry, Come quick!
You have to speak to Jay!
- I told you he was here.
- He's threatening to blow up the world.
- I told you not to bring him here.
- Okay? I admit it.
I may have made a mistake. Now come flash.
- Say please.
- Fine. You want me to beg, I'll beg.
This is no time to fool around.
I beg you to come with
me and speak to Jay. Now.
- I just asked you to say please.
- Please?
- Okay. Come on Alpha.
- Not now. I've got some
important research do.
- Get back! I'm not joking!
- Go on. Talk to him.
- Flash?
- Do what you want Jay,
they don't care about you.
- Flash you promised!
- I never. He can do what he wants.
Go ahead pal. I'm with you.
- What is the plan Medea?
Got any other great ideas?
- Flash, talk to him. Ask
him why he's doing this.
- You wouldn't understand.
- You don't know how I
feel inside. No one does.
- Not this again. I
don't care, I'm with you.
- There's chains on your legs. Medea!
- He's under house arrest
for helping you escape.
Have you forgotten what he did for you?
- Never.
Set Flash free.
Get those chains off him.
- (Medea) Go on. Do it.
- Ah, ah, ah, ah, gently.
- Next Macro, free passage from the tower.
- Of course Jay, anything you want?
- You can't let him go.
- I'm lying.
- With whoever I want to take with me.
- No, no way.
All right.
Free passage for you and your two friends.
Okay?
- (Medea) Put it down, Jay.
You won.
- That was cool.
You really had them going.
- I want you and your friends
outta here in one hour.
Seal the exits.
- You okay?
Where's alpha. I should at
least say goodbye to her.
- She's in the library Jay.
She didn't even want to see you.
- (Flash) Well Alpha it's
been nice knowing you.
But I got to go now.
- (Alpha) You're free? How?
- Jay got us both out
of here. If you want.
What's this?
- Nothing.
Medea's collection.
- Hey that's Medea.
Who's the big guy?
- Jay's dad. Medea's been lying to him.
She knows his dad is here.
- Well then what are you
going to do about it?
- Medea's gone soft on the kid.
Don't let her out of your sight.
- Then what?
- Well, I was thinking she'd
make an appealing peon.
- (laugh) Of course, then you'd need
a new executive advisor.
- And I know the perfect candidate.
- Macro will keep his promise
for about five minutes.
Don't you have to pack or something?
- I don't think I'm part of the bargain.
Macro will keep you to two friends.
- I didn't say which two.
Alpha won't come with me anyway.
- Don't worry. I'll find you.
It wasn't your fault your dad left.
- Then why'd he leave me?
- The only one who could
answer that is your dad
and he's not here right now.
Who is it?
- (Flash) It's me flash and uh Alpha.
She wants to talk to you.
- Now of all times.
- Tower schemes. They never stop.
- We have to talk, about Jay.
- Can't this wait at
least until he's gone.
- No, it can't.
- Now I know why you stayed with him.
He's so different. He's so dangerous.
- If you like him so much,
and you're not just playing with him,
then you have to tell him the truth.
- What do you mean the truth?
- That you know Jay's dad is here.
- Now you sound as loopy as Jay.
- Quit lying. I saw the picture.
You and Jay's dad were right there.
- Does this mean you violated
your sacred oath of office?
- Forget the stupid oath.
Why aren't you trying to keep
him from finding his dad?
- We have to think about
our whole world here Alpha.
What Jay doesn't know won't hurt him.
- What Jay doesn't know
is killing him Medea.
Either you tell him or I will.
- Can't we come in? Just for a minute?
- One minute starting now.
- Wow. What'd he do, try to break out?
- He'll be okay. I know it.
- You talked to him.
- Yes. That's how I knew
you were the wrecker.
He said someone would come after him.
- He was right.
I'm going to hunt him down.
I want the truth.
- Well, you better get going.
Macro's hours almost up.
- Are you with me?
- Yeah.
- Yes. No matter what.
- Jay's breathing is better.
- (Macro) Open up in the name of Macro.
- Just a minute.
- Medea, we'll break it down.
- Come on, there's a way.
(loud banging)
Go, quick!
- Here you go.
(banging intensifies)
- You can come with us.
- No, my place is here in the tower.
Go, go on.
(suspenseful music)
- You know I really don't understand why
it takes so long to get
this mess cleaned up.
- It's hard to round up
good peons these days.
I'll have my monitors keep a lookout.
- Don't bother. The
earthquakes have stopped.
Jay must be back. I want
him. No more excuses.
- Don't worry Macro.
He won't get away this time.
- Now that we have Alpha and Flash,
he'll complete the set.
- We'll hunt him down to the ends
of the earth if we have to.
(ominous music)
- I know it hurts, but you'll get over it.
I'll take care of you.
- I have to leave. Macro
will lock us both up
if he finds me in the towers.
- Where are you going to go? Tell me,
I'll come find you when I can.
- I don't know, I'll find somewhere.
Maybe I don't belong in this world.
- Course you do.
Jay you're one of us.
We've all been abandoned.
- Doesn't that bother you?
- And wasn't it better to face facts?
Remember he left you.
- You're right.
If my dad left me.
Then I never want to see him again.
- Then stay here with us, with me.
- It doesn't make any difference.
I can't get him out of my head.
- Wait, maybe I can help you forget.
(Breathing heavily)
- Well?
- Never heard anything like it before.
The ramble gates surge is colossal.
- Really? What does that mean?
- Your head is very noisy inside.
- I know that. Medea said you'd
be able to shut it off.
- Calm down. I will,
but science takes time.
No one has ever had the
courage to even attempt
to research about the Dad.
- Dad.
I don't have a Dad.
- Good. We're making progress.
- How long will he need the uh...
- Oxygen?
It's hard to say. He was
having trouble breathing.
We'll have to keep a close
watch on him for awhile.
- Why's the peon sitting around?
Those petty guests better be spotless.
- You missed a spot.
- No way, look it.
- He said you missed a spot.
- Yeah, I guess you're right.
- Hey! What are you...
- You're gonna be pounded peon!
- Come on, I'll take you both on!
- What is going on here?
- The peon belongs in the pit!
- The pit's too good for him.
Take him to the library.
- I must be crazy. I stuck my neck out
to save you from the monitors.
A little appreciation would be nice.
- Okay. Can I go to the pit now?
- Why don't you just knock a lender?
It's not so bad when you get used to it.
- How long did it take you, a minute?
- Just be quiet and continue working.
- (Sigh) This is a library of truth.
I bet anything you want to know
you can find in here.
- Just about.
- What's in here.
- Medea's private collection.
- You ever read it?
- No.
- (laugh) Didn't trust
you with the key, eh?
- I have the key right here.
The position of head librarian carries
certain responsibilities.
I took an oath.
(clears throat)
- Your Royal Highness
- Mask off peon.
I'd like to go to my throne.
- I'm afraid that's impossible.
Your Macho Supremo-ship.
- Who says? It's my throne.
- Fractal's orders sir.
He's engaged in a very
dangerous experiment.
- Carry on.
- Comfy?
Tell me what you feel
when I turn on the juice.
- Nothing.
- Really?
- What is it Macro dear?
- I've been hearing some disturbing rumors
about you, Medea dear.
- Oh, I'm sorry.
I wouldn't want to trouble you.
What have you been hearing?
- Don't play with me.
Did you bring him here?
The kid, Jay.
- (laugh) That's silly.
- That's what I thought.
You heard that.
She said no.
- She was so sincere.
She's gotta be lying.
- Find out where she's hiding him.
- Jay's in the tower. Medea brought him.
- That's just peon gossip.
Jay would never come
to the tower with her.
- They say he's sick.
We got to help him.
- Why?
He turned his back on
us. On the whole world.
Why should I care about
him? Even if you was here.
- Boy, was he ever wrong about you?
- You have no right to say that.
You don't know how I feel. No one does.
- What are you afraid of?
- Not you peon.
- Where'd you get that?
- Fractal had it brought
back from the lighthouse.
Look.
- That explains everything.
You must have touched it.
- Do you want to see or not?
That's what I would be. If
Jay makes the two worlds one.
- What? With that leg thing?
- Yes.
Limping.
Falling.
- But she gets up.
It's the same for everybody.
You fall down, you get up.
- You don't know anything.
You think it's so simple.
- Maybe I'm the one in chains,
but you're the real prisoner here.
- Sierra. Hi, I'm Val Ziegler.
- Hi, Nice to meet you.
- I'm sorry to keep you waiting.
I'm so glad you've agreed to help us
get out the driftwood message.
- Oh, no problem. I'm very glad to help.
So how long has your
son been a patient here?
- A few months, but it feels like forever.
- Do you think I could see him?
- Sure. I don't think that would hurt.
Come on.
How's he doing?
- No change.
Hi.
- Hi.
- I don't care what it takes Fractal.
Just do it.
Hurry.
- We're dealing with highly
volatile elements here.
First of all, there's you.
Then there's this super
iodized crystal fragment.
Then there's this.
I call it Gardivonium.
If the tiniest bit of crystal
comes into contact with it,
the whole world could go up in flames.
- Just do it fractal.
Dad!
- What?
- Nothing.
- You distinctly said dad.
- I don't know what you're talking about.
- You're resisting Jay.
How can I be expected
to succeed if you won't cooperate.
- You're right. It's my fault.
- Good. Let's try again.
- No, it's my fault he left me.
It must've been.
- Your fault?
You mean you did something wrong,
and now you feel something?
- Yeah. I feel guilty.
- Guilty. Guilty?
(mumbling)
There's no guilty here.
No one has ever felt like you feel.
- This was a bad idea Fractal.
I'm never going to forget.
- Just stay back. Don't don't go near me.
Don't go near the crystal. Jay Don't.
Don't! You could unleash the
power of a thousand suns.
- I don't care about anything!
- Medea. I'll get Medea down here.
Please Jay, I'm begging you. Don't.
(Alarm sounds)
- DAD!
(ominous music)
- Get back! I'll do it, I'll do it!
- Okay! Medea, Medea we have a problem.
- (Medea) What is it Fractal?
- It's Jay.
- What did you do?
- He's gone berserk. If the Gardivonium
comes into contact with
the ionized crystal...
- Will you turn off that alarm!
- Jay, put it down, please.
- Stay back! If anybody gets any closer
the whole world goes with me.
- He's a human time bomb.
He could blow us all sky high.
- Attack team, move into position.
- What's wrong with him?
- He has guilt. He called it guilt.
- Guilt?
Why should we believe you Fractal?
- Wait, what's guilt?
- He doesn't like himself.
- I told you he was a goof.
- My SWAT team can take him.
- No way! What are you crazy? He'll do it.
Let me try something.
- Fine. I mean, you got us into this mess.
You and brainiac over there.
- Jay. I'm going to get Flash.
The least you can do is
stay here until he comes.
Please.
- Flash is here?
- Good. That'll buy us some time.
- Wow. You're Sierra Jones.
- Guilty. Who are you?
- I'm Donna. This is Keith.
What's going on?
- Um, I don't know. Mrs.
Ziegler's in there with Max now.
- Not a good time kids.
- Flash hurry, Come quick!
You have to speak to Jay!
- I told you he was here.
- He's threatening to blow up the world.
- I told you not to bring him here.
- Okay? I admit it.
I may have made a mistake. Now come flash.
- Say please.
- Fine. You want me to beg, I'll beg.
This is no time to fool around.
I beg you to come with
me and speak to Jay. Now.
- I just asked you to say please.
- Please?
- Okay. Come on Alpha.
- Not now. I've got some
important research do.
- Get back! I'm not joking!
- Go on. Talk to him.
- Flash?
- Do what you want Jay,
they don't care about you.
- Flash you promised!
- I never. He can do what he wants.
Go ahead pal. I'm with you.
- What is the plan Medea?
Got any other great ideas?
- Flash, talk to him. Ask
him why he's doing this.
- You wouldn't understand.
- You don't know how I
feel inside. No one does.
- Not this again. I
don't care, I'm with you.
- There's chains on your legs. Medea!
- He's under house arrest
for helping you escape.
Have you forgotten what he did for you?
- Never.
Set Flash free.
Get those chains off him.
- (Medea) Go on. Do it.
- Ah, ah, ah, ah, gently.
- Next Macro, free passage from the tower.
- Of course Jay, anything you want?
- You can't let him go.
- I'm lying.
- With whoever I want to take with me.
- No, no way.
All right.
Free passage for you and your two friends.
Okay?
- (Medea) Put it down, Jay.
You won.
- That was cool.
You really had them going.
- I want you and your friends
outta here in one hour.
Seal the exits.
- You okay?
Where's alpha. I should at
least say goodbye to her.
- She's in the library Jay.
She didn't even want to see you.
- (Flash) Well Alpha it's
been nice knowing you.
But I got to go now.
- (Alpha) You're free? How?
- Jay got us both out
of here. If you want.
What's this?
- Nothing.
Medea's collection.
- Hey that's Medea.
Who's the big guy?
- Jay's dad. Medea's been lying to him.
She knows his dad is here.
- Well then what are you
going to do about it?
- Medea's gone soft on the kid.
Don't let her out of your sight.
- Then what?
- Well, I was thinking she'd
make an appealing peon.
- (laugh) Of course, then you'd need
a new executive advisor.
- And I know the perfect candidate.
- Macro will keep his promise
for about five minutes.
Don't you have to pack or something?
- I don't think I'm part of the bargain.
Macro will keep you to two friends.
- I didn't say which two.
Alpha won't come with me anyway.
- Don't worry. I'll find you.
It wasn't your fault your dad left.
- Then why'd he leave me?
- The only one who could
answer that is your dad
and he's not here right now.
Who is it?
- (Flash) It's me flash and uh Alpha.
She wants to talk to you.
- Now of all times.
- Tower schemes. They never stop.
- We have to talk, about Jay.
- Can't this wait at
least until he's gone.
- No, it can't.
- Now I know why you stayed with him.
He's so different. He's so dangerous.
- If you like him so much,
and you're not just playing with him,
then you have to tell him the truth.
- What do you mean the truth?
- That you know Jay's dad is here.
- Now you sound as loopy as Jay.
- Quit lying. I saw the picture.
You and Jay's dad were right there.
- Does this mean you violated
your sacred oath of office?
- Forget the stupid oath.
Why aren't you trying to keep
him from finding his dad?
- We have to think about
our whole world here Alpha.
What Jay doesn't know won't hurt him.
- What Jay doesn't know
is killing him Medea.
Either you tell him or I will.
- Can't we come in? Just for a minute?
- One minute starting now.
- Wow. What'd he do, try to break out?
- He'll be okay. I know it.
- You talked to him.
- Yes. That's how I knew
you were the wrecker.
He said someone would come after him.
- He was right.
I'm going to hunt him down.
I want the truth.
- Well, you better get going.
Macro's hours almost up.
- Are you with me?
- Yeah.
- Yes. No matter what.
- Jay's breathing is better.
- (Macro) Open up in the name of Macro.
- Just a minute.
- Medea, we'll break it down.
- Come on, there's a way.
(loud banging)
Go, quick!
- Here you go.
(banging intensifies)
- You can come with us.
- No, my place is here in the tower.
Go, go on.
(suspenseful music)