The Outer Limits (1995–2002): Season 4, Episode 18 - Monster - full transcript

(MOOING)

MR. BROWN: These are just
ordinary people,

they're just like you and me,
except that they have
this special skill,

this ability to move
things with their minds
from a distance.

They're all telekinetic,

and of course we've
designed a way
to give them a little help.

They spent a lot of our
money on the process,

only this time,
hopefully we'll avoid
what happened last time.

That would be bad
for the rest of you.

It's all been taken care of.

Gentlemen,
welcome to lab 507.



As you probably know,
all brains work on
electromagnetic activity.

Telekinesis is simply
a function of the

electromagnetic waves
from your brain.

You can move things
by attracting them and
pushing them away.

The telekinetic enhancers,
or Teeks,

help the team focus more
and over longer distances.

What they're doing
right now is practicing
a meditation exercise

which enables them
to clear the mind.

And return.

(CIRCUITS SCRAMBLING)

Good.

Now let's begin.

(BEEPING)

Imagine a hand,
grasping the block.



Now, move it.

(MACHINE POWERING UP)

Stop.

Better be more than this.

Now imagine a hand
gripping the block,

and crushing it.

Crushing it?

Shh. Crushing it.

On my count.

Three, two, one.

(MACHINE POWERING UP)

(EXPLODING)

-Yahoo!
-See that?

Oh!

Excellent.

Very good.

MR. BROWN: Well?

It's a go.

Thank you.

What's a go?

It means we're finally going
to get to do some real work.

Tomorrow, you're going
to assassinate this man.

CONTROL VOICE:
There is nothing wrong
with your television.

Do not attempt
to adjust the picture.

We are now controlling
the transmission.

We control the horizontal
and the vertical.

We can deluge you
with a thousand channels

or expand one single image
to crystal clarity

and beyond.

We can shape your vision

to anything our imagination
can conceive.

For the next hour,

we will control
all that you see and hear.

You are about to experience
the awe and mystery

which reaches from
the deepest inner mind

to
--The Outer Limits.

CONTROL VOICE:
It was once written,
"To thine own self, be true."

But how do we know
who we really are?

I'm not going to do this.

All along you said we'll be
working to develop our talents
for beneficial purposes.

This is beneficial.

Murder is not beneficial.

MR. BROWN: I'm not talking
about murder.

I'm talking about carrying
out a mission that
is beneficial

to the goals of
the United States,

and Mistoslav Krupchik
is one of them.

No, no, you said we'd be
working on micro surgery
or long distance surveillance.

We'll do that too.

But first we have
to start with murder?

ROGER: Hello.

We're living in a Cold War
bunker, 200 feet underground,

and all along you've known
this project is funded
by the Pentagon.

So what did you think
we were going to do?

Help Martha Stewart
bake cookies?

Oh, look out Martha you
dropped a chocolate chip,

let me get it before
it hits the floor.

No.

I just didn't think,
that I was going
to get lied to.

Oh, please.

That's all the Pentagon is.

LOUISE: I know, I worked
there for 20 years.

But killing somebody
doesn't bother you?

I don't think we're going
to do it, so why worry?

I think you can.

Across 7,000 miles?

Because, uh,
unless I'm mistaken,

right now, Mistoslav Krupchik
is back home in Serbia,
eating a Whopper.

But it's still murder.

Don't be such a baby,
the guys a monster.

Because he kills people!

You are so naive.

This guy's the Hitler
of the Balkans.

Why don't you lay off her?

Finally, he speaks.

RACHEL: Oh, God, my head.

-(SIGHS)
-Why don't we take a break?

I'm going home.

Rachel, I don't think I can
let you leave here,
in this state,

not until you've had
the chance to cool down.

Well, you can't keep me here.

Actually under
the National Security Act,
I can.

Let her go.

MR. BROWN: No. But she's
free to stretch her legs.

Let's get some fresh air.

(COWS MOOING)

You know, Mistoslav Krupchik
is a war criminal.

He slaughtered thousands
of people in the name
of ethnic cleansing.

Well, it's still not right.

(SIGHS)
It's the lesser of two evils.

Why do we have to choose
any evil at all?

Because all the
good ways have failed.

So, either we let him
run around making
of international justice,

and the thousands of people
he's killed, or we try to
do something about it,

before he rapes, tortures
and murders a few
thousands more.

(COWS MOOING)

So, that means, sending in
a SEAL team or a Delta Force,

and we kill a few bodyguards,
maybe a few of our own guys,

or,

we do it from here,
where it's safe.

You don't have any
problem with this?

Well, I think life is full
of problems.

It's how we deal with them,
it's how we define ourselves.

Well, I'm not very good
at dealing with problems.

So what made you
join the project?

Well, I didn't really
have a choice.

My brother Dougie is a
bit of a screw up.

He's got a drug problem.

Dougie was in jail until
Mr. Brown showed up.

He said that he could get him
out of jail, he could get the
charges dropped,

if I just join this program.

I don't know, they've
been following me.

I took part in this
psych experiment at
the hospital I worked at,

and I guess they saw
my potential.

So, because I'm cursed
with this special ability,

I either stay here,
or the government puts
my brother in jail.

Hmm.

What about you?

Any skeletons in your past?

A few. Gum?

No, thanks.

You see, there
are some countries
in the Middle East,

if you're caught over-billing
their companies,

they cut off your
hands for stealing.

How much did you take?

Enough that the governments
were involved.

I was selling them heavy
equipment and, uh,

sometimes I'd sell
them the same piece
over and over again.

I thought I was
pretty good at it.

Apparently the government had
their eyes on me ever since
I took some tests in the army.

So, it was either come here,
or lose my hands.

(CELL PHONE CHIMING)

I'm not gonna kill anyone.

Ma'am, you've got a call.

-Hello?
-MAN:
Rachel,
you gotta help me!

Dougie?

What's the matter?

How did you get
this phone number?

(DOUGIE TALKING)

What?

DOUGIE:
Arrested for robbery!

Oh, my God.

(DOUGIE TALKING)

(STUTTERS) Well, I can't.

I just can't right now.

Okay, I will.

-
Please, please, help me.
-Okay.

(BEEP)

They've arrested him
for robbery.

-Damn it.
-(GLASS SHATTERING)

God, I can't believe
how arrogant you are.

I refuse to kill somebody
and suddenly my brother's up
on a robbery charge?

How stupid do you think I am?

You know he's
a two time loser,
this will be his third felony.

That is automatic
life in prison!

Something happened to Dougie?

You bastard.

He meets some guy in
a bar who gives him some stuff
and the next thing he knows,

he wakes up in a car and the
police are arresting him for
robbing a convenience store?

Give me a break!

And then suddenly some
flunky shows up and gives
him this phone number.

What are you thinking?

I'm thinking,
I can get him off,
get the charges dropped.

MR. BROWN: But first,

I'm gonna need
some cooperation.

-I can't.
-Yes, you can.

You want me to kill somebody
to save my brother?

I want you to help save
the lives of thousands
of innocent people,

and help yourself and your
brother, in the process.

Listen, we don't need her
for this mission.

Rachel, I need an answer.

Now.

What you're about to see,

is satellite, real time,
downlink image.

(BEEPING)

(BEEP)

MR. BROWN: This is being shot
by hidden camera from
across the street.

That's Krupchik in the middle.

By executive order 33487J,

we are empowered and
ordered to assist in any and
all ways available

in permanent neutralization
of Mistoslav Krupchik.

Execution's more like it.

MR. BROWN: Ready?

Good. Now let's start with
something simple.

Consider it a ranging shot.

And,

wind.

Wind.

Good.

Let's take it down.

Stronger.

His tea cup.

(GLASS SHATTERING)

(BEEPING)

Now,

his heart.

His heart.

His heart!

His heart!

Ahhh!

Get it. Yeah!

RACHEL: Oh!

My God.

Rachel!

(CRYING)

(GASPING)

(WHIMPERING)

She needs a doctor, now.

ROGER: Man, did you
see his face?

Boom! Freight train,
goodnight, sayonara,

that boy was freaking dead,
yeah!

It doesn't bother you in the
least that you just killed
that man in cold blood,

just like he did those kids?

No. What we should have done
is crushed him inch by inch
with a steam roller,

until his head exploded
and his brains landed
in the Adriatic.

He got off, easy.

That's enough.

No, it is not enough.
The guy's a scumbag and
he got what he deserved.

He's just like my old man,
always beating on those who
couldn't defend themselves.

Krupchik deserved
to die, I know.

Telemetry says you
suffered a micro stroke.

-Stroke?
-A little one.

You'll be fine. I was just
on the phone to Bethesda.

I sent them your CAT scan
and your MRI.

They're the ones
who told me.

Now, let's talk about
our next target.

Rachel. We have a deal.
You expect me
to keep my side,

you've got to keep yours.

I'm not going to do it again.

I'm afraid you're
committed now.

RACHEL:
I want to kill him.

Well, I wouldn't
recommend that.

You know, when I was
a kid in peewee hockey,

I wanted to ride my bike
right over Bobby Macadoo
so I could play goalie.

So, what happened?

Nothing. I spent most of the
year on the bench.

You can't always get
what you want.

What do you think about this,
I mean doesn't it bother you?

Sure it does,

but I think about it like
being in the military, like

you've been paid to do a job,

or forced to.

(CELL PHONE CHIMING)

It's like we've been drafted.

Not every soldier
is a volunteer.

Roger is.

(LAUGHS) Yeah, he is.

Who knows, they might have
some on him too.

Ma'am.

Thanks.

-Hello.- Rach.

Dougie, where are you?

(DOUGIE TALKING)

Oh! That's great.

Good.

Um, listen.
I'll give you a call
tomorrow, okay?

Okay.

Okay, bye.

Ah, he kept his word,
got Dougie out.

What?

I don't know.

For a split second,
just for a moment
when Krupchik died,

I liked it.

I enjoyed killing him.

I felt like Roger,
yeah, we got him.

It scared me.

You know, I think we all
have something like
that inside of us.

A dark side.

Everyone.

We keep it hidden,

even from ourselves.

What if when you confront it,
it's stronger than you?

Well that's when you
call up Dr. Merlot,
and ask him the answer.

In vino veritas
--.

-
In vino veritas.
-Hmm.

(CHUCKLES)

No, you don't want to get
involves with me.

Why not?

You know for the last few
years, all I've done is work.

My whole life's
been about work.

But every day, and every night
all I can think about is

finding someone
that I can talk to,

someone I can share
things with,

someone who will,

someone who'll save
me from myself.

You're not the only one
with that dream.

But it won't happen.

It can't happen.

Hey.

(RATTLING)

(GUN FIRING)

(GUNS FIRING)

(GROANING)

(GROWLING)

(GASPING)

(PANTING)

Target, Colonel
Lawrence Kikongo.

He leads a rebel army,
which captured 40%
of Uwanda,

and he is now driving toward
the capital where he intends

to replace the
legitimate President.

By executive order 3642,
we are authorized to stop him

by any and all means
at our disposal.

(BEEPING)

MR. BROWN: Ready?

Now, his heart.

(CIRCUITS SCRAMBLING)

His heart.

Yes, now that he's moved away
from the generator field.

MR. BROWN: His heart.

Harder.

Harder.

Harder.

MR. BROWN: His heart!

Harder!

It's not working!

It's the electrical field.
Still too close
to the generator.

Concentrate! Harder!

(SHOUTING)

(COLONEL SCREAMING)

JOURNALIST: (ON TV)
I don't know what
happened, but it appears...

Yes!

Colonel Lawrence Kikongo
is dead. No shots
were fired...

You can't keep
doing this to her.

RACHEL: I can't take
this much longer.

(WHISPERING)

RACHEL: You know, last night
after you left, I had
this nightmare.

There were all these
bodies everywhere.

Some of the lined up
next to each other,
and others just scattered.

There was a man with
his right arm torn off,

and another on with
his chest clawed open.

There was so much blood,

and I was running,
trying to help,

and everybody was dead.

And there was this monster.

(WHISPERING)

It just makes me so angry.

You know, Mr. Brown, them.

-FORD: Forget about them.
-RACHEL: I can't.

(SCREAMING)

You stay away from me.

What's going on here?

She made the coffee come out
and scald me in the face.

I didn't do anything.

Rachel, we need to
be absolutely honest with
each other here.

Did you do this?
Can you do this?

Why doesn't anybody
believe me?

'Cause you're a pathetic
little thing,

who'd rather lie, than tell
someone you hate them
to their face.

You're passive aggressive,

so you throw coffee at
Roger instead of telling him
what you really think.

She didn't do it.

Are you calling me a liar?

I didn't say that.

Don't talk to me about lying.
When it comes to lying,
you're the champ.

Louise, be quiet.

LOUISE: Your boyfriend
has killed more people,
than we ever will.

Isn't that right, Ford?
Or should I say,

-Charon.
-It's enough, Louise!

What is she talking about?
Why is she calling you Sharon?

Charon with a "C", for the guy
in Greek mythology

who ferried people to
the Land of the Dead.

LOUISE: Don't you get it?
He's a spy.

It's his code name.

Shut up, Louise! Don't you
ever get tired of playing
the jealous bitch?

Not really. So much fun.

RACHEL: Is she
telling the truth?

Are you a spy?

I don't even own
a trench coat.

LOUISE: I got into all
your files weeks ago,

except for four.

His was the trickiest,
it was like tracking
down a ghost,

but last night,
I got into his.

He kills terrorists
for a living,

or anyone else the government
finds inconvenient.

I can show it to you,
if you want.

Mr. Brown probably told him to
do whatever necessary to
keep you in the program.

Sleep with you, if he had to.

So has he?

No!

FORD: Rachel, Rachel!

Rachel, Rachel!

(WEEPING)

Nobody told me
to come on to you.

I kissed you yesterday because
we both wanted it to happen,
that's the truth.

Get out!

(WEEPING)

The possibility that Rachel
may be able to perform

this psychic feat alone
without the aid of the Teek,

may indicate two things.

First, that once the mental
pathway is fully opened,

artificial enhancement may
no longer be necessary,

and second, that a larger
untapped reservoir

of talent may exist in Rachel
than was previously estimated.

(LOUISE SCREAMING)

Nobody touch her.

(GASPS)

This is security. What's
going on down there?

We've had a fatality.

I want no one on or off
our floor until I give the
say so. Brown out!

Where were you
just now, Rachel?

-I didn't do it.
-Answer my question.

(STUTTERING)
Well I, I came here after
I left the lounge,

and then I went for a walk
in the hallways

to try to calm down.

No, no. Every time she gets
ticked off, something
like this happens.

She did it, because Louise
burst her bubble about
Mr. Perfect.

Well, no one's leaving
this room until we find out
who killed Louise,

and believe me, we will.

Well, I got nothing to hide.

Good. That'll make it
that much quicker.

(METAL SCREECHING)

RACHEL: What is that?
What's going on?

FORD: Whatever it is,
it's not you.

(SCREECHING)

Mother of God!

(BANGING)

(SCREECHING)

(CLANKING)

(ROARING)

(GASPS)

(ROARING)

Run!

What the hell's going
on back there?

Is that the monster you
dreamed, Rachel?

What the hell, is going on?

-Just get together,
get together.
-What?

Get together. Come on, now.

I've dealt with this before.

Listen to me, empty
your minds. Calm down.
Empty your minds.

(BANGING)

Three, two, one.

Shh.

And return.

(ALL EXHALING)

What the hell's
going on here?

Side effect, Though I've never
seen anything of
this magnitude before.

-You've seen this before?
-That's impossible.

If you could imagine a hand
to crush Krupchik's heart,

why couldn't you imagine
this thing, too?

Just think of it as some
psychic backwash of your
collective unconscious.

Or maybe one of you has
opened up a whole
new neural pathway

into a supply of
untapped energy,

or maybe this is
a whole new ability.

Who knows what could happen,
once the right pathways
are opened up.

You might be able to create
things, all without a Teek.

FORD: Uh-huh.

Or maybe you created it.

Well, no. I don't
have your abilities.

See?

Everything's fine.

-Let's go.
-Ow!

-What?-Sorry.

ROGER: Look at the hairs,
static electricity.

(ROARING)

-Security.
-SECURITY:
Yes, go ahead.

-It's Brown.
-SECURITY:
Yes, Mr. Brown.

I've got a Code Four
emergency.

Wait, if this has happened
to you before,

there was another
team before us?

What happened to them,
when they experienced
the side effects?

They were disbanded.

-Disbanded? Or killed?
-SECURITY:
Mr. Brown.

Please come in.
I can have a team
from Fort Rex

(BANGING)

chopper there, meet you
in front of the elevators
in 20 minutes.

We'll be there. Brown, out.

Help will be here in
20 minutes, all we have to do
is hunker down till then.

20 minutes? We're gonna be
Chow Mein in 20 minutes!

You got another suggestion?

You can't run away, this time.

I did not run away.

That's not what
the court-martial said.

-Get your hands off!
-Cool it, you two. Cool it!

Now, listen,

Kikongo was in
a power station, right?

As soon as he moved away
from the generators,

he stopped being protected by
the electromagnetic field.

That's what was disturbing us.

So, that's where we need
to kill this thing.

At least, to buy us
the 20 minutes that we need.

(CRASHING)

RACHEL: It's broken
out the lab.

Come on! There are generators
in the air filtration room,
near the north elevators.

MR. BROWN:
There's the generator.

FORD: It's already here.

-That's impossible.
-FORD: Oh, really?

Haven't exactly seen
a rule book here.

Listen, if this thing really
is a product of our minds,

maybe it moves as fast as
our thoughts do. Maybe it
ran around us.

Well, then what are
we going to do?

-We're going to shut up,
and keep our heads.
-I am not a coward.

-No one's saying that you are.
-Don't touch me, you bitch.

You're probably behind
this whole thing.

-Shh!
-I have done six
confirmed kills.

Three of them were
your own men.

No, wait! Listen! Listen.

You can settle this later,

right now, we have to
get to those generators
and get them on.

All right? Now you two,
take that one.

We'll take this one. Come on!

(ROARING)

All right, there it is.

Let's go for it.

Okay.

Now.

Try that one.

Damn!

(CELL PHONE CHIMING)

Delta-One to Brown.

We're at the clearing,
what's your position?

(WHISPERING) We're in
the filtration room.

It's got us trapped.

How many hostiles are there?

Just one, but it's not human.

Can you describe it?

We don't know,
we can't see it,

but it's ripping through
steel doors.

We've got to get out of here.

We'll be at the north
elevators in 10 minutes.

Delta-One out.

(DOORS OPENS)

(ROARING)

Ahhh!

-(ROARING)
-(ROGER SCREAMS)

Ahhh!

(ROGER SCREAMING)

No!

No, we have to help him!

Shoot it! Shoot it!

Look at its power.

It's magnificent.

Are you crazy? Shoot it!

Come on, Brown! Shoot it, now!

(ROARING)

(CRYING) Ahhh!

(ROARING)

Kill it! Kill it!

(GUN FIRING)

Turn.

(GROWLING)

All clear here, sir.

Nothing this way, sir.

This is Delta-One.
We're at the elevators.

We're almost there.

(ROARING)

Thank, God, you guys made it.

Shoot them, shoot them!

-SOLDIER: What?
-Shoot them!

They're creating this thing.
It's coming from their minds.

-Over there!
-(ROARING)

(GUNS FIRING)

Shoot them!

Ahhh!

(ALL SHOUTING)

Damn!

RACHEL: It's just like
my nightmare.

(PANTING)

(GASPS)

This is all my fault.

I wanted to get back
at you, I made it do it.

We all created that thing.

Now, how did the first team
stop the side effects?

Come on! How did they do it?

She has to stop it.

I don't know how.

Come on, now. Come on,
look at me.

Don't leave us! Look at me!

(BREATHLESSLY)
If she can't stop it,

you know what to do.

The only other exit is
the south elevators. Come on!

It's not going to work.

Don't you see?
I can't control it.

Every move we make,
it's a step ahead us,

that's why it was waiting for
us in the air filtration room,

and it'll be waiting for us,
by the south elevators.

You're right.

We'll go where it won't
expect us. Here.

We won't try to escape,
not at first.

We'll go down to
the cooling shaft and
super computers,

and work our way up
through the air system.

Where it'll catch us,
and kill us.

Ford, nothing we can do
is going to save us,

and I don't want it to.

I want this whole
project to end.

I just, I want it to end!

Rachel, you have
got to stop it!

The only way to stop
this project is by killing
everyone involved,

including me.

I'm not gonna
shoot you.

We can make it to
that cooling shaft.

Come on. Come on!

Open faster!

(GUN FIRING)

Ford, you have to
do what I said,

what Mr. Brown told you to do.

He didn't know what
he was talking about,
he was dying.

-You have to kill me!
-I am not gonna shoot you!

(ROARING)

Listen to me, Rachel,
you have got to stop it.

I can't, I'm trying.

But you've got to!

I can't. You've got to do it.

No!

(ROARING)

-Do it!-No!

You've got to stop it from
breaking out of here.

Do it!

Please.

RACHEL: Do it!

Do it!

-FORD: No!
-(GUN FIRING)

Argh!

(ROARING)

(HUFFING)

(ROARING)

You gotta be kidding me.

(ROARING)

SECURITY: (ON RADIO)
Brown, are you there?

What's going on?

Brown, answer me.

This is security.

Ford, Rachel,

Louise, anybody?

Delta-One, are you there?

If you are there, please
respond. I repeat, if anyone
is there, please respond.

This is security.

If anyone can hear me, please
come to the com desk, now.

I repeat, Brown. Are you...

(PANTING)

(BREATHLESSLY)
Got to warn them.

Rachel?

I killed her.

MR. BROWN: You did it.

You opened a path.

(HUFFING)

Now, we don't need those
damn Teeks anymore.

(LAUGHS)

So much energy coming
from your minds.

I was hoping, that one
of you, might do this.

It's better than my dreams.
(COUGHING)

(BREATHLESSLY)
Just help me

out of here.

Possibilities are endless.

Program,

can go on...

No.

That's not gonna happen.

I killed Rachel,

because I couldn't face
the truth myself.

She had a dream
that people were killed,

but I'm the one who
made it happen,

and I let her think that
she was the problem,

but I hated this more
than she did.

I hated myself for
being a part of it.

I hated all the killing
I had done in the past,

but I didn't have the guts,
to do anything about it.

I didn't want
the responsibility.

Don't you get it?

You trained us
to use our minds,

but you can't train
the unconscious.

Don't you see?

We can't run away
from ourselves.

I am the monster.

I am the monster.

(SCREAMING) I am the monster!

Go ahead, make yourself
feel better.

(ROARING)

(ROARING)

(ROARING)

(LAUGHING)

Ahhh!

(ROARING)

(ENERGY PULSATING)

Delta-Two, we're moving
into position.

-VOICE: (ON RADIO)
What's your
situation? Delta-Two, come in.
-MAN: It's all over.

I repeat, what's
your situation? Delta-two,
come in. Do you read?

CONTROL VOICE:
Every man must confront
the monster within himself,

if he is ever to find
peace without.