The Odyssey (1992–1994): Season 3, Episode 4 - Night Life - full transcript
(suspenseful instrumental music)
(axle breaking)
- [Jay] The doctor said I was in a coma.
Maybe I was, but there is a world
beyond consciousness that
they knew nothing about.
(dramatic instrumental music)
But when I came back,
nothing was quite the same
and I couldn't leave
that other world behind.
My odyssey continues.
(upbeat rock music)
♪ Life's not fair ♪
♪ Going nowhere ♪
- The kingdom of the dead was ruled
by Hades and his queen Persephone.
Think of expressions like as hot as Hades.
- It's impossible, I'll never get it.
Those Greeks have gods for everything.
Why don't you just sit next to me?
- Sit next to you?
- Yeah, during the test.
Keith, Keith!
♪ Life's not fair ♪
Hey, what gives?
- Something seriously bad.
- What?
♪ Life's not ♪
- Sometimes bad can mean good.
- Not now.
Kirkie Hind, the lead
singer of Tainted Plasma.
She died, don't you know?
- [Jay] I didn't even know she was alive.
♪ Life's not fair ♪
♪ Going nowhere ♪
♪ I don't care ♪
- Get real.
- What for?
Kirkie was real and now she's really dead.
Her fans are getting together
tonight for an all-night party.
- You're having a party
because somebody died?
(mysterious instrumental music)
- [Girl Fiend] You wanna dance all night
and never get tired?
Party, party, party.
No music too loud, no moves too wild.
Our club is open all the time.
Come right now and avoid the line.
(mysterious instrumental music)
- Hey, it's what you do
when a rockstar dies.
Well, it's not what you do,
'cause you're just out of it.
- Oh man.
How am I ever get back into it?
- Jay, you can't stay out all night.
You need your sleep.
- I was asleep for two years.
What I need to do is live.
- If you're not gonna
sleep, you need to study.
- I'm not gonna be the only
kid in school studying tonight.
- Suit yourself.
Just remember those Greeks
have gods for everything,
including the great and powerful Flunko.
He ruled the kingdom of summer school,
where it's as hot as Hades.
- For somebody who's so
smart, you can be so ignorant.
- Maybe.
Not for long.
- Do you have another t-shirt?
(instrumental club music)
(party goers raucously chattering)
Wow, how'd you know about this place?
- [Keith] This is Kirkie's loft.
She used to live here.
- Why can't we go over
there, where they are?
- Man, because they're
cool and you're not.
- Who made up these rules?
- They did.
- [Jay] So?
Who are they?
- They're called Girl Fans.
- Oh great, now I've got
the ball and the chain.
I'm no babysitter.
- You can stick with me.
- These kids that are here tonight,
they all wanna be like Kirkie Hine.
- Kirkie's dead.
- I thought you might like to know,
Kirkie used to work in a doughnut shop.
That's where she wrote her hit
song, "Hole in My Ventricle."
- Wow, maybe she got her inspiration
from the hole in the doughnuts!
How'd you know that?
- How else?
Read and study.
Her favorite guitar, the Stratocaster.
- Hey, I know her.
That's...
- Sierra Jones.
She wears too much makeup.
- As the president of the student council,
I can honestly say this is fun, you know?
- Good clean fun or a
glorification of death?
(Interviewee laughing)
- Oh, you think that's
what this is all about?
- Well, I mean, you think all these kids
would show up if Kirkie were here alive?
Her last album did bomb.
- Well, she lost the way.
She was 22.
- [Girl Fiend] You wanna dance all night
and never get tired?
- [Crowd] Yeah!
- Party, party, party!
No music too loud, no moves too wild.
- [Crowd] Yeah!
- [Girl Fiend] Growing up
is work, don't be a jerk.
- Yeah.
- [Girl Fiend] Life is
strange, don't ever change.
- You are what you are.
Now...
- [All] And forever!
- Yeah.
Growing up is snore, don't be a bore.
- This girl is very persuasive.
Kids listen to her.
- Well, kids like what they hear.
- She's on to something.
Kids will listen if you
give them what they like.
- Kids like what they like.
(ominous instrumental music)
- Well, you don't seem like
the typical Tainted Plasma fan.
- You can't judge a book by its cover,
just like you can't judge
Kirkie by the way she looked.
- How so?
- Kirkie lived hard and fast,
but she wasn't into death.
She would never eat meat.
In her last music video,
when she bit off the head of the rat,
it was really plastic and
the blood was ketchup.
- Hmm.
- She's guessing.
- Still, that's strictly inside stuff.
She could be one of us.
- Where do these Girl Fiends come from?
This is bad.
- Kids just having fun.
- Kids are having too much fun.
- Is it possible for a
kid to have too much fun?
- We have to look at the big picture.
- Yeah, well you can give
me intimate details any day.
- Yeah, well just keep your
greasy nose off my screen.
- I think Macro's right, darling.
Why speculate?
For the good of our world,
I suggest that Macro
conduct an investigation.
- My, my, my, my specialty,
the, the hands on approach.
Yeah.
- No, no, no.
Hey, wait, wait!
(Finger scoffing)
(Medea giggling)
What did you send him for?
- He's perfect for this assignment.
I hear kids go into this club
and some of them never come out again.
Hm? (giggling)
- Bye, baby?
- Baby bye bye.
- [Alpha] I say we go home.
My invitation says this club never closes.
- Wow, just like everybody said.
It's unreal.
(crowd chattering)
- Hey, you can't just go in there.
You need a special invitation.
- From me.
- Persephone?
- We've been waiting for you, Alpha.
- [Alpha] What do you want with me?
- [Jay] Alpha?
- Well, thanks a lot. (nervous laughing)
- Hang with us.
- I can't, I'm with him.
- That your boyfriend?
Looks like he's busy.
- So, this is what you
look like standing up.
- It's amazing to see you here.
Finally we get a chance to talk.
- I'd love to, but I'm working right now.
Maybe when I'm not so busy.
- [Donna] Wait, wait!
Wait.
- Why don't you uh leave
a message at the station?
Okay?
I'll talk to you later.
- [Donna] C'mon, let's go.
- Alpha has arrived.
- [Bouncer] Stand back.
She's in, you're not.
Line up to the left.
Entrance by invitation only.
(crowd angrily chattering)
- [Angry Patron] C'mon.
Hey!
(both laughing)
(dramatic instrumental music)
(both nervously laughing)
- They're with me, you can drop them.
(upbeat club music)
- This place is weird.
- You're being irrational.
I find it fascinating.
- It's not at all like
I thought it would be.
- Come on, Jay.
You're the one who said real
life was better than a book.
- Smells in here.
(Jay sniffing)
- Wet soil, rotting wood?
- Alpha.
Discovery begins.
Enter down the path with us.
(door creaking)
- What about us?
- A wall of sound.
- It's just music, man.
Air vibrations.
Let's party.
(upbeat club music)
- Kids all like to
party at our night club.
- I like to go to bed early.
What does any of this have to do with me?
- Kids trust you.
See, they line up forever to get in,
but not all want to stay.
- It could be scary for
an outsider looking in.
Kids like what they know.
- You're so tedious.
The extraordinary can seem very ordinary,
once you're on the inside.
- Where do they all come from?
How come we've never seen them before?
- I'm getting a whoozer of a headache.
You know like the kind you get when
you're at the beach and you
forget to wear your hat.
- [Jay] Who are these girls?
- Hey, Jay, Jay.
Loosen up, man.
Like let the music rule your body, huh?
- I think Macro's being staring
at a disco ball too long.
♪ Life's not fair ♪
♪ Going nowhere ♪
- Come on, even Donna's into it.
♪ Nowhere ♪
♪ Nowhere ♪
♪ Things go wrong ♪
♪ Go undone ♪
♪ Get out the song ♪
♪ On the line ♪
♪ On the line ♪
♪ Life's not fair ♪
- This isn't like Alpha, to
go off with just anybody.
- Persephone's not anybody.
- Alpha's getting her hair done.
- Like I said, this isn't like Alpha.
- Relax, man.
Let's chow down.
You girls got anything to eat?
- We don't eat.
- You gotta eat to stay alive,
and even if you didn't
have to, I would anyway.
- What happened to him?
- He'll be all right.
Some kids can't take all this fun.
- Come on, we better find Alpha.
This place is strictly a dead-end street.
(hair dryers whirring)
- It's that look, I guess.
It's bad for the follicles.
- All kids want is the look.
In here, the transformation
is only skin deep.
Alpha, if you took the
pledge, others would follow.
(ominous instrumental music)
First to look like us,
then to be like us.
To possess the secret.
Alpha, kids don't really wanna grow up,
practical thoughts spoiling their fun.
"I have to go to sleep now,
'cause I have to get up early."
- [Alpha] You are here.
- We have the way to stay up late forever.
- Never grow up.
- I'm thirsty.
But look at that line over there.
There's no way I'm standing in that line.
What about over there?
- When kids get thirsty,
they knock back a can of pop.
When Girl Fiends get dry...
- They drink ketchup?
- It's blood.
- Ugh.
Who drinks blood?
- [Both] Vampires!
(alarm blaring)
- Where's Jay and Flash?
- [Flash] Go, they've got Alpha!
- We've gotta find her.
Gangway!
This is weird, we keep
going around in circles.
- Alpha was right.
No wonder why kids can
never get out of here.
(Persephone scoffing)
- Your so-called friends
are destroying the place.
- Why?
- They're trying to rescue you.
- Am I in danger?
- Alpha, is it dangerous
to make new friends?
(ominous instrumental music)
(crowd loudly chattering)
- Did you get that?
- Yeah, of course I got it.
- For sure?
- Yeah, I got it.
It's on.
(crowd cheering)
- Where's Alpha?
- No wonder you boys neglect
your personal appearance.
Always in a rush.
Who cuts your hair, Flash?
Your weed wacker?
- Where's Alpha?
- You just missed her.
White hair.
She looks kinda radical.
Almost decent.
Hm.
(Flash scoffing)
(mysterious instrumental music)
(blood gurgling)
- [Flash] More blood?
(blood gurgling)
- [Girl Fiend] Mm, fresh.
- Ew, gross!
- [Jay] Where do they get it all?
- Uh oh, dead-end.
Come on, let's go!
Here, wait.
That'll kill them.
- They're vampires, they're already dead.
- I knew that.
(footsteps clattering)
- Can I have a local anesthetic?
I don't like needles.
- Pain is for regular kids.
- Look, I don't have time
to be a part of your club.
I have a life.
- Our life is timeless.
We never get hungry.
Never get tired.
- But learning takes
up every daylight hour.
- What, then you sleep?
All night long. (scoffing)
What a waste. (sighing)
- What do you mean?
- Think of it, Alpha.
If you never grow up and you never sleep,
you'll have more time to learn.
- I'll never have to put down the book
and turn off the light.
- First you must dye...
Your hair.
(instrumental rock music)
(crowd jeering)
- Donna!
Donna!
What are you doing?
You could hurt yourself.
- What do you know?
It's moshing, it's the latest dance.
- Dance?
What if you fall?
- You'll never get it.
You're supposed to fall.
Then they catch you.
- What if they don't?
- Why wouldn't they,
they're my new friends.
- Your boyfriend here is
getting everyone down.
- He's not my boyfriend.
- Where have you been?
(ominous instrumental music)
- [Alpha] Promise I won't feel anything?
(crowd cheering)
(Sierra laughing)
- This is great!
Keep shooting, for sure.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- We're getting close.
- [Alpha] Hey.
- Come on, let's go.
- Wait.
No, leave me alone.
I don't wanna go!
- [Jay] Stop.
- No!
(ominous instrumental music)
- What's that stupid kid doing?
- Come on, Donna, come down.
- [Sierra] I know that kid.
- What's his problem?
- It's called loyalty.
Keep shooting.
- [Jay] I've got you, it
doesn't matter what they think.
(dramatic instrumental music)
- [Donna] This is about
friendship and caring.
About the individual versus the crowd.
Real life is sometimes
better than fiction.
(crowd jeering)
- Hey, bug off!
- [Crowd] Loser!
- [Flash] Run for your lives, vampires!
- [Persephone] Going somewhere?
- [Flash] Let's throw
some light on the subject.
- [Girl Fiend] Stop them!
(crowd screaming)
- I don't get it, how could you be so...
- Brainless.
- With all that knowledge?
- I could have had more.
I could have had all there was to have.
Forever.
- Dead is forever.
(ominous instrumental music)
(dramatic instrumental music)
(axle breaking)
- [Jay] The doctor said I was in a coma.
Maybe I was, but there is a world
beyond consciousness that
they knew nothing about.
(dramatic instrumental music)
But when I came back,
nothing was quite the same
and I couldn't leave
that other world behind.
My odyssey continues.
(upbeat rock music)
♪ Life's not fair ♪
♪ Going nowhere ♪
- The kingdom of the dead was ruled
by Hades and his queen Persephone.
Think of expressions like as hot as Hades.
- It's impossible, I'll never get it.
Those Greeks have gods for everything.
Why don't you just sit next to me?
- Sit next to you?
- Yeah, during the test.
Keith, Keith!
♪ Life's not fair ♪
Hey, what gives?
- Something seriously bad.
- What?
♪ Life's not ♪
- Sometimes bad can mean good.
- Not now.
Kirkie Hind, the lead
singer of Tainted Plasma.
She died, don't you know?
- [Jay] I didn't even know she was alive.
♪ Life's not fair ♪
♪ Going nowhere ♪
♪ I don't care ♪
- Get real.
- What for?
Kirkie was real and now she's really dead.
Her fans are getting together
tonight for an all-night party.
- You're having a party
because somebody died?
(mysterious instrumental music)
- [Girl Fiend] You wanna dance all night
and never get tired?
Party, party, party.
No music too loud, no moves too wild.
Our club is open all the time.
Come right now and avoid the line.
(mysterious instrumental music)
- Hey, it's what you do
when a rockstar dies.
Well, it's not what you do,
'cause you're just out of it.
- Oh man.
How am I ever get back into it?
- Jay, you can't stay out all night.
You need your sleep.
- I was asleep for two years.
What I need to do is live.
- If you're not gonna
sleep, you need to study.
- I'm not gonna be the only
kid in school studying tonight.
- Suit yourself.
Just remember those Greeks
have gods for everything,
including the great and powerful Flunko.
He ruled the kingdom of summer school,
where it's as hot as Hades.
- For somebody who's so
smart, you can be so ignorant.
- Maybe.
Not for long.
- Do you have another t-shirt?
(instrumental club music)
(party goers raucously chattering)
Wow, how'd you know about this place?
- [Keith] This is Kirkie's loft.
She used to live here.
- Why can't we go over
there, where they are?
- Man, because they're
cool and you're not.
- Who made up these rules?
- They did.
- [Jay] So?
Who are they?
- They're called Girl Fans.
- Oh great, now I've got
the ball and the chain.
I'm no babysitter.
- You can stick with me.
- These kids that are here tonight,
they all wanna be like Kirkie Hine.
- Kirkie's dead.
- I thought you might like to know,
Kirkie used to work in a doughnut shop.
That's where she wrote her hit
song, "Hole in My Ventricle."
- Wow, maybe she got her inspiration
from the hole in the doughnuts!
How'd you know that?
- How else?
Read and study.
Her favorite guitar, the Stratocaster.
- Hey, I know her.
That's...
- Sierra Jones.
She wears too much makeup.
- As the president of the student council,
I can honestly say this is fun, you know?
- Good clean fun or a
glorification of death?
(Interviewee laughing)
- Oh, you think that's
what this is all about?
- Well, I mean, you think all these kids
would show up if Kirkie were here alive?
Her last album did bomb.
- Well, she lost the way.
She was 22.
- [Girl Fiend] You wanna dance all night
and never get tired?
- [Crowd] Yeah!
- Party, party, party!
No music too loud, no moves too wild.
- [Crowd] Yeah!
- [Girl Fiend] Growing up
is work, don't be a jerk.
- Yeah.
- [Girl Fiend] Life is
strange, don't ever change.
- You are what you are.
Now...
- [All] And forever!
- Yeah.
Growing up is snore, don't be a bore.
- This girl is very persuasive.
Kids listen to her.
- Well, kids like what they hear.
- She's on to something.
Kids will listen if you
give them what they like.
- Kids like what they like.
(ominous instrumental music)
- Well, you don't seem like
the typical Tainted Plasma fan.
- You can't judge a book by its cover,
just like you can't judge
Kirkie by the way she looked.
- How so?
- Kirkie lived hard and fast,
but she wasn't into death.
She would never eat meat.
In her last music video,
when she bit off the head of the rat,
it was really plastic and
the blood was ketchup.
- Hmm.
- She's guessing.
- Still, that's strictly inside stuff.
She could be one of us.
- Where do these Girl Fiends come from?
This is bad.
- Kids just having fun.
- Kids are having too much fun.
- Is it possible for a
kid to have too much fun?
- We have to look at the big picture.
- Yeah, well you can give
me intimate details any day.
- Yeah, well just keep your
greasy nose off my screen.
- I think Macro's right, darling.
Why speculate?
For the good of our world,
I suggest that Macro
conduct an investigation.
- My, my, my, my specialty,
the, the hands on approach.
Yeah.
- No, no, no.
Hey, wait, wait!
(Finger scoffing)
(Medea giggling)
What did you send him for?
- He's perfect for this assignment.
I hear kids go into this club
and some of them never come out again.
Hm? (giggling)
- Bye, baby?
- Baby bye bye.
- [Alpha] I say we go home.
My invitation says this club never closes.
- Wow, just like everybody said.
It's unreal.
(crowd chattering)
- Hey, you can't just go in there.
You need a special invitation.
- From me.
- Persephone?
- We've been waiting for you, Alpha.
- [Alpha] What do you want with me?
- [Jay] Alpha?
- Well, thanks a lot. (nervous laughing)
- Hang with us.
- I can't, I'm with him.
- That your boyfriend?
Looks like he's busy.
- So, this is what you
look like standing up.
- It's amazing to see you here.
Finally we get a chance to talk.
- I'd love to, but I'm working right now.
Maybe when I'm not so busy.
- [Donna] Wait, wait!
Wait.
- Why don't you uh leave
a message at the station?
Okay?
I'll talk to you later.
- [Donna] C'mon, let's go.
- Alpha has arrived.
- [Bouncer] Stand back.
She's in, you're not.
Line up to the left.
Entrance by invitation only.
(crowd angrily chattering)
- [Angry Patron] C'mon.
Hey!
(both laughing)
(dramatic instrumental music)
(both nervously laughing)
- They're with me, you can drop them.
(upbeat club music)
- This place is weird.
- You're being irrational.
I find it fascinating.
- It's not at all like
I thought it would be.
- Come on, Jay.
You're the one who said real
life was better than a book.
- Smells in here.
(Jay sniffing)
- Wet soil, rotting wood?
- Alpha.
Discovery begins.
Enter down the path with us.
(door creaking)
- What about us?
- A wall of sound.
- It's just music, man.
Air vibrations.
Let's party.
(upbeat club music)
- Kids all like to
party at our night club.
- I like to go to bed early.
What does any of this have to do with me?
- Kids trust you.
See, they line up forever to get in,
but not all want to stay.
- It could be scary for
an outsider looking in.
Kids like what they know.
- You're so tedious.
The extraordinary can seem very ordinary,
once you're on the inside.
- Where do they all come from?
How come we've never seen them before?
- I'm getting a whoozer of a headache.
You know like the kind you get when
you're at the beach and you
forget to wear your hat.
- [Jay] Who are these girls?
- Hey, Jay, Jay.
Loosen up, man.
Like let the music rule your body, huh?
- I think Macro's being staring
at a disco ball too long.
♪ Life's not fair ♪
♪ Going nowhere ♪
- Come on, even Donna's into it.
♪ Nowhere ♪
♪ Nowhere ♪
♪ Things go wrong ♪
♪ Go undone ♪
♪ Get out the song ♪
♪ On the line ♪
♪ On the line ♪
♪ Life's not fair ♪
- This isn't like Alpha, to
go off with just anybody.
- Persephone's not anybody.
- Alpha's getting her hair done.
- Like I said, this isn't like Alpha.
- Relax, man.
Let's chow down.
You girls got anything to eat?
- We don't eat.
- You gotta eat to stay alive,
and even if you didn't
have to, I would anyway.
- What happened to him?
- He'll be all right.
Some kids can't take all this fun.
- Come on, we better find Alpha.
This place is strictly a dead-end street.
(hair dryers whirring)
- It's that look, I guess.
It's bad for the follicles.
- All kids want is the look.
In here, the transformation
is only skin deep.
Alpha, if you took the
pledge, others would follow.
(ominous instrumental music)
First to look like us,
then to be like us.
To possess the secret.
Alpha, kids don't really wanna grow up,
practical thoughts spoiling their fun.
"I have to go to sleep now,
'cause I have to get up early."
- [Alpha] You are here.
- We have the way to stay up late forever.
- Never grow up.
- I'm thirsty.
But look at that line over there.
There's no way I'm standing in that line.
What about over there?
- When kids get thirsty,
they knock back a can of pop.
When Girl Fiends get dry...
- They drink ketchup?
- It's blood.
- Ugh.
Who drinks blood?
- [Both] Vampires!
(alarm blaring)
- Where's Jay and Flash?
- [Flash] Go, they've got Alpha!
- We've gotta find her.
Gangway!
This is weird, we keep
going around in circles.
- Alpha was right.
No wonder why kids can
never get out of here.
(Persephone scoffing)
- Your so-called friends
are destroying the place.
- Why?
- They're trying to rescue you.
- Am I in danger?
- Alpha, is it dangerous
to make new friends?
(ominous instrumental music)
(crowd loudly chattering)
- Did you get that?
- Yeah, of course I got it.
- For sure?
- Yeah, I got it.
It's on.
(crowd cheering)
- Where's Alpha?
- No wonder you boys neglect
your personal appearance.
Always in a rush.
Who cuts your hair, Flash?
Your weed wacker?
- Where's Alpha?
- You just missed her.
White hair.
She looks kinda radical.
Almost decent.
Hm.
(Flash scoffing)
(mysterious instrumental music)
(blood gurgling)
- [Flash] More blood?
(blood gurgling)
- [Girl Fiend] Mm, fresh.
- Ew, gross!
- [Jay] Where do they get it all?
- Uh oh, dead-end.
Come on, let's go!
Here, wait.
That'll kill them.
- They're vampires, they're already dead.
- I knew that.
(footsteps clattering)
- Can I have a local anesthetic?
I don't like needles.
- Pain is for regular kids.
- Look, I don't have time
to be a part of your club.
I have a life.
- Our life is timeless.
We never get hungry.
Never get tired.
- But learning takes
up every daylight hour.
- What, then you sleep?
All night long. (scoffing)
What a waste. (sighing)
- What do you mean?
- Think of it, Alpha.
If you never grow up and you never sleep,
you'll have more time to learn.
- I'll never have to put down the book
and turn off the light.
- First you must dye...
Your hair.
(instrumental rock music)
(crowd jeering)
- Donna!
Donna!
What are you doing?
You could hurt yourself.
- What do you know?
It's moshing, it's the latest dance.
- Dance?
What if you fall?
- You'll never get it.
You're supposed to fall.
Then they catch you.
- What if they don't?
- Why wouldn't they,
they're my new friends.
- Your boyfriend here is
getting everyone down.
- He's not my boyfriend.
- Where have you been?
(ominous instrumental music)
- [Alpha] Promise I won't feel anything?
(crowd cheering)
(Sierra laughing)
- This is great!
Keep shooting, for sure.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- We're getting close.
- [Alpha] Hey.
- Come on, let's go.
- Wait.
No, leave me alone.
I don't wanna go!
- [Jay] Stop.
- No!
(ominous instrumental music)
- What's that stupid kid doing?
- Come on, Donna, come down.
- [Sierra] I know that kid.
- What's his problem?
- It's called loyalty.
Keep shooting.
- [Jay] I've got you, it
doesn't matter what they think.
(dramatic instrumental music)
- [Donna] This is about
friendship and caring.
About the individual versus the crowd.
Real life is sometimes
better than fiction.
(crowd jeering)
- Hey, bug off!
- [Crowd] Loser!
- [Flash] Run for your lives, vampires!
- [Persephone] Going somewhere?
- [Flash] Let's throw
some light on the subject.
- [Girl Fiend] Stop them!
(crowd screaming)
- I don't get it, how could you be so...
- Brainless.
- With all that knowledge?
- I could have had more.
I could have had all there was to have.
Forever.
- Dead is forever.
(ominous instrumental music)
(dramatic instrumental music)