Transformers Prime (2010–2013): Season 1, Episode 23 - One Shall Fall - full transcript
As an ancient Transformers prophecy is edging close to coming true, Megatron rushes to take matters into his own hands, answering the call of the mysterious Unicron. Thus Optimus Prime finally decides to put an end to Megatron's evil.
And it was written
in the covenant of Primus
that when the 47 spheres align,
a perpetual conflict will culminate
upon a world forged from chaos,
and the weak shall perish
in the shadow
of a rising darkness.
No skies raining fire?
Goes without saying.
It is a doom prophecy, after all.
I say it's a load of hooey.
I'd always assumed the ancients
were referring to our home planet,
but being that Cybertron
has been dark for eons...
And considering
what has befallen this planet
since Megatron's arrival here...
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
We've known about
these superstitions for ages
and never gave them
a second thought.
Why all the ominous
rumblings now?
Because the planetary alignment
to which the prophecy refers
is nearly upon us.
And it would seem
its end point...Is earth.
Uh...Crazy coincidence,
heh, r-right?
How long are we talking?
A few days at most.
However unsettling
this revelation may be,
I am more concerned about those
who might believe
That the prophecy
speaks to them alone.
I did not seek out
the blood of Unicron
To simply keep my spark aflame,
but to rule undead armies
and conquer worlds,
and to accomplish that,
I require more
than this mere sliver
which lies within me.
So, where is my Dark Energon?!
Out there, lord Megatron,
just waiting for you
to reach out and pluck it.
But you shouldn't
push yourself so hard.
You've had setbacks.
You were in stasis.
Oh!
Precisely why I must
make up for lost time!
I can see the future vividly,
but I must ensure its outcome,
for I'm the rising darkness
of which the prophecy speaks.
Pass.
Kid in a costume.
Balloon.
Nope.
Uh, hold.
The camera sure loves Bee.
What can you do?
When you're a superstar,
you're paparazzi bait.
Wait.
Is that Bumblebee?
On a conspiracy website
where users post evidence
of close encounters.
But we have it
under control, Ratchet.
We just scrub
and replace Bee with...
Mars cat says,
"take me to your feeder."
Ratchet actually laughed?
Uh...
Um, Optimus, do you want
to see something funny?
No.
Don't take it personally.
Primes are built that way.
Never seen Optimus laugh,
cry, or lose his cool.
While Optimus certainly
keeps his emotions in check,
I've known him far longer
than any of you have,
and he was different
before he was made a Prime.
Optimus wasn't always a Prime?
On Cybertron,
one isn't born into greatness.
Rather, one must earn it.
So, different how?
We talkin' party animal?
No, no.
Optimus was more like...
...Jack.
What?
I'm nothing like Opt--
Prime!
Those techites my department's
been tracking --
We figured it was MECH
on account of the stealth tactics
until moments ago
when a security feed
at the Pennington ebbs
particle collider
captured this.
Soundwave.
Raf can swap that out for you
with a funny cap.
The 'Con without a face
made off with
a cutting-edge phase conductor.
Here's a punch list
of everything else
we've confirmed stolen to date.
Plasma injector,
neutron shield, tesserat?
There's only one thing missing
if they are intending to build...
The decepticon space bridge 2.0
is nearly ready to launch.
All we require is...
what Soundwave said --
an ample power source.
This one lies within
a highly fortified location,
by human standards.
I could tunnel in.
The time of prophecy
is nearly upon us!
We can no longer afford stealth.
Prime, the 'Cons really
stepped in it this time.
They hit a U.S. military lab.
Our boys in green
will fend them off
till your team shows.
Agent Fowler, I fear
that Megatron's desperation
may be at its zenith,
and you know
that I cannot condone
even a single human casualty.
Fowler here.
Evacuate all personnel,
immediately.
Retreat!
Lord Megatron, package secured,
but the Autobots have arrived.
Ah!
Prepare the warship
for rendezvous.
The package will be ready
for pickup!
Bumblebee,
the team may require backup.
They are three clicks north
from your current position,
just off the highway.
If you drop Raf at the exit ramp,
I can bridge him back to base
from there.
It's okay, Bee.
We'll go racing another time.
Well, well.
A foolish scout
has strayed from the ranks.
Optimus.
Megatron,
do you not see the folly
in trying to force
a prophecy to fruition?
Why leave matters to fate
if one can forge
one's own destiny?
Ah, speaking of fate...
Raf!
He's breathing...
Barely.
It would seem I swatted a Bee
and squashed a bug.
Bee, no!
Ratchet, bridge us back now.
We must have an Autobot down.
Arcee, attend to Rafael
and Bumblebee.
Raf?
No!
What happened?
Megatron.
Quickly, into my laboratory.
Rafael isn't responding.
We must run diagnostics
of his assemblage --
eh, vital statistics.
Oh, my tools --
they're all wrong!
We need to call my mom.
Your mother may be a nurse,
but does she know anything
about the effects of Energon
on the human body?
Wh-- do you know anything
about the human body?
Mom, it's urgent!
"The weak will perish."
Be strong, Rafael.
The power source
will be rigged in no time,
Lord Megatron.
We're nearly
at the construction site.
"Nearly" isn't good enough.
The spheres are aligning.
I must not miss
my moment to --
Lord Megatron,
are you all right?
Yet again, it is as if
I can hear Unicron's thoughts.
Unicron, the chaos bringer?
They say Dark Energon
is his blood.
Heh, whatever.
Complete the space bridge.
There is something
I must attend to.
Does he seem to be losing it?
A bit.
Mom, thank --
Grab my bag!
Measuring the extent
of the absorption
should determine
the proper course of treatment.
If I don't get this boy
stabilized now,
he will not leave
this table alive.
Do you understand me?
Bee, listen.
You think I don't know
how it feels
to watch a partner...
Harmed?
Revenge won't help Raf
right now.
You need to keep
your emotions in check.
Ratchet, how is Rafael?
It is too soon to know.
He's in good hands.
Not mine, Optimus.
Curse my cybertronian pride.
We've accepted these humans
into our lives,
yet I bothered to learn
so little
of their science or medicine.
Pull yourself together,
old friend.
Rafael needs you.
And I have grown to need him.
Lock on to my coordinates
and activate the ground bridge.
Ready.
Bulkhead, return to base.
There is something
I must do.
R-- serious?
I have been foolish not to see
what history has proven
over and over again --
that Autobots and Decepticons
will never mend their ways.
If there can be
no diplomatic solution
to this perpetual conflict,
then I must not allow
more darkness to fall
upon this or any planet.
Megatron must be destroyed.
I have come for Megatron,
and him alone.
Stand down and be spared.
The flaming mountain
in my visions...
...as if it summoned me here,
guided me.
This is where I am
to position my space bridge --
the place from whence
I am to harvest Dark Energon!
Megatron!
I am here on your ship.
Come and face me.
The place in which
I am to defeat
the last of the Primes.
Hear this!
Any Decepticon who lays
a hand on Optimus Prime
will answer to me.
Soundwave,
lock on to my coordinates
and lead my opponent
to his destiny!
Jack, help me get Raf
to the car.
He's going to the
emergency room.
Nurse Darby, your doctors
won't be able to comprehend
what's afflicting him --
not without a decade of study.
I don't have time to argue.
The effects of an energon blast
on an autobot
can be devastating enough,
but this is a human.
I'm not getting any readings.
How could I not have seen this?
Rafael's been infected
with Dark Energon.
Megatron, today you answer
for your crimes
against Cybertron
and against humanity.
One shall stand...
And one shall fall --
You, Optimus Prime!
If Dark Energon is devouring
Raf from the inside out,
we must expel it and fast,
the only possible way I know.
I need Energon.
Wait.
You said Energon
was devastating to humans.
Under normal circumstances,
quite.
But I am relying upon
the dark matter
currently invading Rafael's body
to meet it head on.
Your defeat here was
foreseen by the ancients.
What was it they wrote --
"the weak shall perish"?
Do not believe
everything you read.
I need him over here now!
Pulse rate is stabilizing.
Bee.
Optimus, we did it.
My destiny!
This isn't how it's
supposed to end!
On the contrary, Megatron.
I could not have allowed
this to end otherwise.
Bulkhead, you let Optimus
face Megatron alone?
I didn't have a choice.
It could be a trap.
We need to get a fix
on his location.
How was it that you put it,
Optimus?
"I could not have allowed
this to end otherwise"?
I'm locked onto
Optimus' signal.
Wait.
How is this possible?
What? What is it?
We need to get Optimus
out of there now!
Well, well.
It seems the blood
of Unicron I've been seeking
is not out there,
but rather... right here.
Dark Energon erupting
from the earth...?
in the covenant of Primus
that when the 47 spheres align,
a perpetual conflict will culminate
upon a world forged from chaos,
and the weak shall perish
in the shadow
of a rising darkness.
No skies raining fire?
Goes without saying.
It is a doom prophecy, after all.
I say it's a load of hooey.
I'd always assumed the ancients
were referring to our home planet,
but being that Cybertron
has been dark for eons...
And considering
what has befallen this planet
since Megatron's arrival here...
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
We've known about
these superstitions for ages
and never gave them
a second thought.
Why all the ominous
rumblings now?
Because the planetary alignment
to which the prophecy refers
is nearly upon us.
And it would seem
its end point...Is earth.
Uh...Crazy coincidence,
heh, r-right?
How long are we talking?
A few days at most.
However unsettling
this revelation may be,
I am more concerned about those
who might believe
That the prophecy
speaks to them alone.
I did not seek out
the blood of Unicron
To simply keep my spark aflame,
but to rule undead armies
and conquer worlds,
and to accomplish that,
I require more
than this mere sliver
which lies within me.
So, where is my Dark Energon?!
Out there, lord Megatron,
just waiting for you
to reach out and pluck it.
But you shouldn't
push yourself so hard.
You've had setbacks.
You were in stasis.
Oh!
Precisely why I must
make up for lost time!
I can see the future vividly,
but I must ensure its outcome,
for I'm the rising darkness
of which the prophecy speaks.
Pass.
Kid in a costume.
Balloon.
Nope.
Uh, hold.
The camera sure loves Bee.
What can you do?
When you're a superstar,
you're paparazzi bait.
Wait.
Is that Bumblebee?
On a conspiracy website
where users post evidence
of close encounters.
But we have it
under control, Ratchet.
We just scrub
and replace Bee with...
Mars cat says,
"take me to your feeder."
Ratchet actually laughed?
Uh...
Um, Optimus, do you want
to see something funny?
No.
Don't take it personally.
Primes are built that way.
Never seen Optimus laugh,
cry, or lose his cool.
While Optimus certainly
keeps his emotions in check,
I've known him far longer
than any of you have,
and he was different
before he was made a Prime.
Optimus wasn't always a Prime?
On Cybertron,
one isn't born into greatness.
Rather, one must earn it.
So, different how?
We talkin' party animal?
No, no.
Optimus was more like...
...Jack.
What?
I'm nothing like Opt--
Prime!
Those techites my department's
been tracking --
We figured it was MECH
on account of the stealth tactics
until moments ago
when a security feed
at the Pennington ebbs
particle collider
captured this.
Soundwave.
Raf can swap that out for you
with a funny cap.
The 'Con without a face
made off with
a cutting-edge phase conductor.
Here's a punch list
of everything else
we've confirmed stolen to date.
Plasma injector,
neutron shield, tesserat?
There's only one thing missing
if they are intending to build...
The decepticon space bridge 2.0
is nearly ready to launch.
All we require is...
what Soundwave said --
an ample power source.
This one lies within
a highly fortified location,
by human standards.
I could tunnel in.
The time of prophecy
is nearly upon us!
We can no longer afford stealth.
Prime, the 'Cons really
stepped in it this time.
They hit a U.S. military lab.
Our boys in green
will fend them off
till your team shows.
Agent Fowler, I fear
that Megatron's desperation
may be at its zenith,
and you know
that I cannot condone
even a single human casualty.
Fowler here.
Evacuate all personnel,
immediately.
Retreat!
Lord Megatron, package secured,
but the Autobots have arrived.
Ah!
Prepare the warship
for rendezvous.
The package will be ready
for pickup!
Bumblebee,
the team may require backup.
They are three clicks north
from your current position,
just off the highway.
If you drop Raf at the exit ramp,
I can bridge him back to base
from there.
It's okay, Bee.
We'll go racing another time.
Well, well.
A foolish scout
has strayed from the ranks.
Optimus.
Megatron,
do you not see the folly
in trying to force
a prophecy to fruition?
Why leave matters to fate
if one can forge
one's own destiny?
Ah, speaking of fate...
Raf!
He's breathing...
Barely.
It would seem I swatted a Bee
and squashed a bug.
Bee, no!
Ratchet, bridge us back now.
We must have an Autobot down.
Arcee, attend to Rafael
and Bumblebee.
Raf?
No!
What happened?
Megatron.
Quickly, into my laboratory.
Rafael isn't responding.
We must run diagnostics
of his assemblage --
eh, vital statistics.
Oh, my tools --
they're all wrong!
We need to call my mom.
Your mother may be a nurse,
but does she know anything
about the effects of Energon
on the human body?
Wh-- do you know anything
about the human body?
Mom, it's urgent!
"The weak will perish."
Be strong, Rafael.
The power source
will be rigged in no time,
Lord Megatron.
We're nearly
at the construction site.
"Nearly" isn't good enough.
The spheres are aligning.
I must not miss
my moment to --
Lord Megatron,
are you all right?
Yet again, it is as if
I can hear Unicron's thoughts.
Unicron, the chaos bringer?
They say Dark Energon
is his blood.
Heh, whatever.
Complete the space bridge.
There is something
I must attend to.
Does he seem to be losing it?
A bit.
Mom, thank --
Grab my bag!
Measuring the extent
of the absorption
should determine
the proper course of treatment.
If I don't get this boy
stabilized now,
he will not leave
this table alive.
Do you understand me?
Bee, listen.
You think I don't know
how it feels
to watch a partner...
Harmed?
Revenge won't help Raf
right now.
You need to keep
your emotions in check.
Ratchet, how is Rafael?
It is too soon to know.
He's in good hands.
Not mine, Optimus.
Curse my cybertronian pride.
We've accepted these humans
into our lives,
yet I bothered to learn
so little
of their science or medicine.
Pull yourself together,
old friend.
Rafael needs you.
And I have grown to need him.
Lock on to my coordinates
and activate the ground bridge.
Ready.
Bulkhead, return to base.
There is something
I must do.
R-- serious?
I have been foolish not to see
what history has proven
over and over again --
that Autobots and Decepticons
will never mend their ways.
If there can be
no diplomatic solution
to this perpetual conflict,
then I must not allow
more darkness to fall
upon this or any planet.
Megatron must be destroyed.
I have come for Megatron,
and him alone.
Stand down and be spared.
The flaming mountain
in my visions...
...as if it summoned me here,
guided me.
This is where I am
to position my space bridge --
the place from whence
I am to harvest Dark Energon!
Megatron!
I am here on your ship.
Come and face me.
The place in which
I am to defeat
the last of the Primes.
Hear this!
Any Decepticon who lays
a hand on Optimus Prime
will answer to me.
Soundwave,
lock on to my coordinates
and lead my opponent
to his destiny!
Jack, help me get Raf
to the car.
He's going to the
emergency room.
Nurse Darby, your doctors
won't be able to comprehend
what's afflicting him --
not without a decade of study.
I don't have time to argue.
The effects of an energon blast
on an autobot
can be devastating enough,
but this is a human.
I'm not getting any readings.
How could I not have seen this?
Rafael's been infected
with Dark Energon.
Megatron, today you answer
for your crimes
against Cybertron
and against humanity.
One shall stand...
And one shall fall --
You, Optimus Prime!
If Dark Energon is devouring
Raf from the inside out,
we must expel it and fast,
the only possible way I know.
I need Energon.
Wait.
You said Energon
was devastating to humans.
Under normal circumstances,
quite.
But I am relying upon
the dark matter
currently invading Rafael's body
to meet it head on.
Your defeat here was
foreseen by the ancients.
What was it they wrote --
"the weak shall perish"?
Do not believe
everything you read.
I need him over here now!
Pulse rate is stabilizing.
Bee.
Optimus, we did it.
My destiny!
This isn't how it's
supposed to end!
On the contrary, Megatron.
I could not have allowed
this to end otherwise.
Bulkhead, you let Optimus
face Megatron alone?
I didn't have a choice.
It could be a trap.
We need to get a fix
on his location.
How was it that you put it,
Optimus?
"I could not have allowed
this to end otherwise"?
I'm locked onto
Optimus' signal.
Wait.
How is this possible?
What? What is it?
We need to get Optimus
out of there now!
Well, well.
It seems the blood
of Unicron I've been seeking
is not out there,
but rather... right here.
Dark Energon erupting
from the earth...?