Electric City (2012) s01e01 Episode Script
Truth or Consequences
Paradise has many names.
Eden, utopia, the place of security, the illusion of freedom.
Humankind gets in the way of perfection.
Ghosts in the machinery of civilization.
It's best to ask no questions and be told no lies here in the Electric City.
Smalls, Vernon! Case number 552714.
You've completed your regeneration sentence.
Towel off for release.
Your city thanks you.
You're welcome.
Skytrain car approaching! Behind the white line, please! All aboard! Next stop Vernon! Life was better without you! I didn't spend 6 months in re-gen to come back to more of this! Just go! Please! Tea is served, ladies.
Thank you, cadet.
We'll help ourselves.
What is the weather outside? The skies are clear.
Order of business, Mrs.
Orwell.
An item in this morning's Daylight.
A source of trouble has yet to become a responsible resident of our city.
He is, again, a free man.
We only get so many chances.
Get rid of him.
I'll have my best man on the clock as soon as the Walking Post delivers.
The Walking Post delivers! - Cleveland Carr? - Good job, kid.
Kid? Shall I hold for response? I got nothing else to walk.
I know my tenants.
Man your post around the corner.
And now, Electric citizens, Hope Chatsworth with The Meridian Report on Wire 6.
Citizens in Beacon One are celebrating the completion of the renovated Monoville hydro power center.
It took the combined efforts of several trade guilds to rehabilitate and modernize this vital energy producing structure.
My day was ruined this morning.
Tell me how.
Not how.
Who.
Vernon Smalls.
What did that expletive do to you? Been placed back into society.
Huh.
Well, knowing him, he won't be out for long.
Let's make that a certainty.
How soon? Why not after tonight's power down.
Do you know how great, how great my life was when you were in re-gen!? Just go! Go!? This is my expletive house! Great! You lazy cow! Oh! Vernon! It is the main coupling, you know that and it is not my fault! Everything is your fault! What the X did she do to this thing? - Hey Vernon.
- Huh? For the uninformed, my name is Cleveland Carr.
And yes, I'm a grid operative.
I live in the shadows, between truth and consequence, here in the Electric City.
Eden, utopia, the place of security, the illusion of freedom.
Humankind gets in the way of perfection.
Ghosts in the machinery of civilization.
It's best to ask no questions and be told no lies here in the Electric City.
Smalls, Vernon! Case number 552714.
You've completed your regeneration sentence.
Towel off for release.
Your city thanks you.
You're welcome.
Skytrain car approaching! Behind the white line, please! All aboard! Next stop Vernon! Life was better without you! I didn't spend 6 months in re-gen to come back to more of this! Just go! Please! Tea is served, ladies.
Thank you, cadet.
We'll help ourselves.
What is the weather outside? The skies are clear.
Order of business, Mrs.
Orwell.
An item in this morning's Daylight.
A source of trouble has yet to become a responsible resident of our city.
He is, again, a free man.
We only get so many chances.
Get rid of him.
I'll have my best man on the clock as soon as the Walking Post delivers.
The Walking Post delivers! - Cleveland Carr? - Good job, kid.
Kid? Shall I hold for response? I got nothing else to walk.
I know my tenants.
Man your post around the corner.
And now, Electric citizens, Hope Chatsworth with The Meridian Report on Wire 6.
Citizens in Beacon One are celebrating the completion of the renovated Monoville hydro power center.
It took the combined efforts of several trade guilds to rehabilitate and modernize this vital energy producing structure.
My day was ruined this morning.
Tell me how.
Not how.
Who.
Vernon Smalls.
What did that expletive do to you? Been placed back into society.
Huh.
Well, knowing him, he won't be out for long.
Let's make that a certainty.
How soon? Why not after tonight's power down.
Do you know how great, how great my life was when you were in re-gen!? Just go! Go!? This is my expletive house! Great! You lazy cow! Oh! Vernon! It is the main coupling, you know that and it is not my fault! Everything is your fault! What the X did she do to this thing? - Hey Vernon.
- Huh? For the uninformed, my name is Cleveland Carr.
And yes, I'm a grid operative.
I live in the shadows, between truth and consequence, here in the Electric City.