Stargate: Infinity (2002) s01e04 Episode Script
Coming Home
[THUNDER CRASHlNG .]
l can't believe you guys remembered my birthday.
l mean, with all the important stuff going on.
Birthdays are important, Harrison.
When l was a kid, even if Dad had to sing " Happy Birthday" over the phone.
.
.
.
.
.
and the birthday candles were stuck in a burrito, it was a special day.
Before my family moved to Los Angeles.
.
.
.
.
.
every birthday was an excuse for a bonfire with music and dancing.
l always had a magician at my birthday parties, the Great Macaroni.
lt was just my Uncle Fred, but he tried.
SEATTLE: How about you, Ec'co? Any special birthday memories? EC'CO'S MOTHER: Yes, Mrs.
Elgin, l understand.
lt's too bad about Jimmy's tooth.
Strange how many of the children Ec'co invited to his party.
.
.
.
.
.
suddenly came down with toothaches.
[SOBBlNG .]
No.
No special birthday memories.
Where you going? The party's just heating up.
SEATTLE: His soul is weighted down.
lt wants to fly, but something holds it back.
-He shouldn't be alone.
-Hey.
What about my party? Want some birthday cake? -Penny for your thoughts.
-The batteries are low.
l need to devise some way to charge them up.
Okay, not the thoughts l'm in the market for.
What's really bugging you? You don't know how difficult it is being different.
l don't have a home anywhere.
l can't go to my mother's world.
.
.
.
.
.
and the human world thinks l'm a monster.
But you're half human, right? Apparently, half is not good enough.
[THUNDER CRASHlNG .]
Hey, why not? l'll tell you why not.
We can't go to Ec'co's home planet.
.
.
.
.
.
because it's one of the least hospitable in the galaxy.
You mean as opposed to this paradise we're on? At least no one will come looking for us here.
We can figure out our next move.
.
.
.
.
.
maybe get Draga to give us a clue how to get her home.
Why not hide out with Ec'co's people for a while? The H'rathi would never let us through the stargate alive.
H'rath is rich in natural resources.
And its central location and stargate make it a prime target for invasion.
The Tlak'kahn have tried to conquer it for decades and they are only the latest in a thousand-year series of invaders.
[WEAPON FlRlNG .]
[YELLlNG lNDlSTlNCTLY.]
BONNER: After being conquered and exploited so many times the H'rathi have learned to distrust all outsiders.
They'd attack as soon as we stepped through the gate.
But they'd let Ec'co through, wouldn't they? He'd have a chance to hang with people like himself for a change.
l have never been to my mother's home world.
-lt would be gratifying.
-l'm sorry, Ec'co.
We can't take the chance of going to H'rath without a mission objective.
lf H'rathi fight Tlak'kahn for so long.
.
.
.
.
.
maybe H'rathi know something to help Gus and others.
They would be familiar with Tlak'kahn tactics.
True, but l couldn't let you go alone.
l suppose maybe just the two of us unarmed-- Ha, ha.
Thanks, Uncle Gus.
Huh? Ahem.
That is, very good, major, sir.
[THUNDER CRASHES.]
As soon as Ec'co and l are through, you head for the caves.
This storm's too close for comfort.
Yeah, l already canceled my golf game.
Maybe we should wait until the storm passes.
We'll be okay.
Just shut down the stargate the minute we're through.
[ALL YELLlNG .]
[GRUNTS.]
[GRUNTlNG .]
MA'DEK: Commander Lo'do.
-What is it, Ma'dek? Someone is accessing the stargate.
[BEEPlNG .]
LO'DO: What command codes are they using? Stargate Command, the old codes.
Okay, let them in.
Guards, at the ready.
[COUGHlNG .]
LO'DO: Hold fire.
An outworlder.
Wait.
Close the lris.
Lucky we didn't try to bring anyone else.
See what we have here, Ma'dek.
-Hmm.
A half-breed.
-Take them to the interrogation chamber.
[GRUNTlNG .]
HARRlSON: Huh? Aah! Harrison is not injured.
No way, my body absorbed most of the electricity.
.
.
.
.
.
and l broke my fall with my face.
-How about the others? -We're okay.
Which is more than l can say for the stargate.
[SlZZLlNG .]
Hmm.
Can you fix it? No.
But l'm sure Ec'co can once he gets back.
Which, of course, he can't do as long as the stargate is broken.
And we cannot leave.
Without stargate, we are.
.
.
.
Uh.
.
.
.
Draga, l think the word you're looking for is " hosed.
" CHlLD 1 : Alien.
CHlLD 2: Weirdo.
CHlLD 3: Helmet face.
CHlLD 4: Creepy-crawly.
[CACKLES.]
[CHlLD GRUNTS.]
[LAUGHlNG .]
-Mutant.
-Monster.
Purple people eater.
Half-breed.
LO'DO: Neither human nor H'rathi.
How is one to know where your loyalties lie? EC'CO: They lie against the Tlak'kahn.
Ec'co's loyalty is beyond question.
No one's loyalty is beyond question.
Least of all yours, Gus Bonner.
l've spoken with Stargate Command about you.
They say you're a traitor who opened their stargate to the Tlak'kahn.
l was framed.
Someone at Stargate Command has been compromised.
Surely in all your years of war that's happened to the H'rathi.
No H'rathi would knowingly betray this planet.
Nevertheless, there have been incidents.
So how did the Tlak'kahn turn one of your people traitor? Some kind of mind control? l'd very much like to know.
But still, you would turn us over to Stargate Command.
l told them you'd escaped through the stargate.
lf, as you say, Stargate Command has been compromised.
.
.
.
.
.
it would not do to open our gate to them.
l have much to think about.
Ma'dek.
-Yes, commander.
-Place our guests in a holding cell.
l'll have more questions for them later.
Hey.
You aren't locking me in there with an alien and a half-breed, are you? lt is no less than you deserve for stealing rations.
So not even all H'rathi are perfect.
[GROWLS.]
You just stay on your side of the cell, you four-fingered freak.
You have nothing to fear from me.
Fear? lt's the smell l'm concerned about.
[GROWLS.]
Easy.
He isn't worth it.
We have to play nice, remember? Yes, l remember.
[WHlMPERlNG .]
Ec'co.
[GRUNTS.]
l must always play nice.
[THUNDER CRASHlNG .]
-You're worried, Stacey.
-Worried? We don't know if Gus and Ec'co ever made it to H'rath.
And even if they did, if we don't get the stargate fixed.
.
.
.
.
.
we won't last long on this planet once our rations are gone.
Why would l be worried? Okay, troops, here's the situation.
This is the stargate power supply.
lt's fried.
There are the MORV and RATV batteries.
They could power the stargate, but they're dead.
Ec'co said he needed to charge them up.
Yeah, but he didn't get around to it, but l had an idea.
Electricity all around us.
Draga, l was getting to that.
Electricity all around us.
l mean, is all around us.
But getting it from there to here.
.
.
.
.
.
is a trick for Ec'co or possibly the Great Macaroni.
l'm remembering from Seattle's mind.
Lightning rod.
[YELLS.]
[POWERlNG UP.]
[SlZZLlNG .]
Whoo! You guys did it.
Lightning rod: a grounded metallic conductor of atmospheric electricity.
Sure, yeah, right.
Yeah, my plan all along.
lt was a mistake coming here.
l thought my mother's people would accept me, but it seems.
.
.
.
.
.
there is prejudice everywhere.
l don't belong on Earth.
l don't belong on H'rath.
l have no home.
Home's where people love you, Ec'co.
Sometimes it isn't so much a place on the map as a place in the heart.
Oh! l can't believe l said that.
l've been listening to Seattle too much.
l must be getting soft in the head.
Thank you, Gus, for getting soft in the head.
[ALARM WAlLlNG .]
Uh-oh.
A Tlak'kahn cruiser.
Hurry, take cover.
[EC'CO GRUNTS.]
On your feet, major.
Hurry.
Unh.
Where's--? [COUGHS.]
Where's the H'rathi prisoner? He ran off.
Look.
[GRUNTlNG .]
Drop your weapons.
l said, drop them.
l don't think so.
[HlSSlNG .]
BONNER: Another one.
Huh? Follow me.
[BEEPS.]
Looks like you have them on the run.
l think you wanted these back.
The Tlak'kahn like to remind us of their presence on the far side of our planet.
As if you were likely to forget.
You're making me nervous up there, Harrison.
Ah, forget about it.
There hasn't been any lightning for half an hour.
Huh? Uh, coming down.
[GRUNTS THEN YELLS.]
You gonna tell us where this ride ends or do we get to guess? Silence, earthman.
We ask the questions here.
Treat our guests with respect, Ma'dek.
They could have escaped.
.
.
.
.
.
but they chose to stay and fight the Tlak'kahn.
A clever ploy to throw you off-guard, Commander Lo'do.
lt is no reason to trust them.
That's why you are here, Ma'dek.
l'd like to know if l'm being taken to a burger joint or a dungeon.
Neither.
Let me explain.
Two years ago, after a battle with the Tlak'kahn we managed to down a pyramid ship.
I suspect it was malfunctioning or we would never have been able to do so.
From that ship, we recovered a large number of Tlak'kahn artifacts.
Perhaps one of those artifacts will provide the information.
.
.
.
.
.
you need to clear your name with Stargate Command.
This is what it is like inside a Tlak'kahn pyramid ship.
Cheery place.
We have analyzed many of the artifacts, but many more remain mysteries.
This is one of our greatest successes.
[WHlSTLES.]
Pretty slick.
Where are we exactly? LO'DO: "Where" does not need to concern you.
This is your concern.
Our studies indicate that each of these crystals holds.
.
.
.
.
.
several thousand terabytes of information.
We could learn much about the Tlak'kahn from these.
-Their goals, tactics.
-lf only we could decipher them.
So the way to get these guys off your back is in there.
.
.
.
.
.
but you can't read it.
-Exactly.
MA'DEK: And you never shall.
Away from the crystals, all of you.
Ma'dek, what does this mean? lt means you were wrong about a H'rathi.
.
.
.
.
.
never selling out his own people.
The H'rathi are hardly my people, half-breed.
BONNER: A shape-shifter.
Two bucks will get you 5 that's how they set me up at Stargate Command.
What do you intend to do with us, Ma'dek? My friends, the Tlak-kahn, cannot allow you to decipher the data crystals.
l intend to destroy them.
And you as well.
This particular artifact is an explosive.
Careless of you to store it near the crystals.
[ARTlFACT BEEPlNG .]
-Ec'co.
-Get out, both of you.
Activate the rings.
Hurry.
Ec'co, don't do this.
No, l'll handle this.
Ec'co, the danger has passed.
The device is a fake.
So, what was all this? A big joke on the half-breed? No, not a joke.
A trap.
These are all replicas used to test outworlders.
lf you had tried to destroy the replica data crystals.
.
.
.
.
.
l would know you were on the side of the Tlak'kahn.
l had no idea the test would reveal a traitor and a hero.
l misjudged you, Ec'co, most seriously.
l ask your forgiveness.
l don't know how to talk to somebody on his knee.
-Friends? -From this day forward.
Follow me.
The real data crystals are kept in a vault not far from here.
-What about Ma'dek? -The guards will apprehend him.
l instructed them to let no one aboard the transport without the password.
And what was that password, if you don't mind telling an offworlder? Half-breed.
A genuine Tlak'kahn data crystal.
Ec'co.
.
.
.
.
.
l wish you luck in unlocking its secrets.
Thank you.
Perhaps my next visit to H'rath will be under better circumstances.
May it be soon.
Welcome home, guys.
EC'CO: What in--? This can't be.
Yup, l rigged it up after the stargate power supply got fried by lightning.
A grounded metallic conductor of atmospheric electricity.
-Pretty amazing, huh, Ec'co? -Amazing? [GlGGLlNG .]
l've never seen such an electronic mess.
Huh? Shape-shifters.
So that's how the Tlak'kahn framed you.
But we still don't know who the spy is.
Who'd believe us? lt could be any one of hundreds of people at Stargate Command.
The original power supply is fixed.
Now, l need Harrison's help in disconnecting the vehicle batteries.
-You need my help? -Of course.
There is no way l am touching that contraption of yours.
So did your mama's planet feel more like home? -They looked more like me.
-That wasn't my question.
-l liked the food.
-That still wasn't my question.
No, Harrison, it wasn't home.
A wise man once told me that home is where people love you.
So? So l think l'm starting to figure out where that is.
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l can't believe you guys remembered my birthday.
l mean, with all the important stuff going on.
Birthdays are important, Harrison.
When l was a kid, even if Dad had to sing " Happy Birthday" over the phone.
.
.
.
.
.
and the birthday candles were stuck in a burrito, it was a special day.
Before my family moved to Los Angeles.
.
.
.
.
.
every birthday was an excuse for a bonfire with music and dancing.
l always had a magician at my birthday parties, the Great Macaroni.
lt was just my Uncle Fred, but he tried.
SEATTLE: How about you, Ec'co? Any special birthday memories? EC'CO'S MOTHER: Yes, Mrs.
Elgin, l understand.
lt's too bad about Jimmy's tooth.
Strange how many of the children Ec'co invited to his party.
.
.
.
.
.
suddenly came down with toothaches.
[SOBBlNG .]
No.
No special birthday memories.
Where you going? The party's just heating up.
SEATTLE: His soul is weighted down.
lt wants to fly, but something holds it back.
-He shouldn't be alone.
-Hey.
What about my party? Want some birthday cake? -Penny for your thoughts.
-The batteries are low.
l need to devise some way to charge them up.
Okay, not the thoughts l'm in the market for.
What's really bugging you? You don't know how difficult it is being different.
l don't have a home anywhere.
l can't go to my mother's world.
.
.
.
.
.
and the human world thinks l'm a monster.
But you're half human, right? Apparently, half is not good enough.
[THUNDER CRASHlNG .]
Hey, why not? l'll tell you why not.
We can't go to Ec'co's home planet.
.
.
.
.
.
because it's one of the least hospitable in the galaxy.
You mean as opposed to this paradise we're on? At least no one will come looking for us here.
We can figure out our next move.
.
.
.
.
.
maybe get Draga to give us a clue how to get her home.
Why not hide out with Ec'co's people for a while? The H'rathi would never let us through the stargate alive.
H'rath is rich in natural resources.
And its central location and stargate make it a prime target for invasion.
The Tlak'kahn have tried to conquer it for decades and they are only the latest in a thousand-year series of invaders.
[WEAPON FlRlNG .]
[YELLlNG lNDlSTlNCTLY.]
BONNER: After being conquered and exploited so many times the H'rathi have learned to distrust all outsiders.
They'd attack as soon as we stepped through the gate.
But they'd let Ec'co through, wouldn't they? He'd have a chance to hang with people like himself for a change.
l have never been to my mother's home world.
-lt would be gratifying.
-l'm sorry, Ec'co.
We can't take the chance of going to H'rath without a mission objective.
lf H'rathi fight Tlak'kahn for so long.
.
.
.
.
.
maybe H'rathi know something to help Gus and others.
They would be familiar with Tlak'kahn tactics.
True, but l couldn't let you go alone.
l suppose maybe just the two of us unarmed-- Ha, ha.
Thanks, Uncle Gus.
Huh? Ahem.
That is, very good, major, sir.
[THUNDER CRASHES.]
As soon as Ec'co and l are through, you head for the caves.
This storm's too close for comfort.
Yeah, l already canceled my golf game.
Maybe we should wait until the storm passes.
We'll be okay.
Just shut down the stargate the minute we're through.
[ALL YELLlNG .]
[GRUNTS.]
[GRUNTlNG .]
MA'DEK: Commander Lo'do.
-What is it, Ma'dek? Someone is accessing the stargate.
[BEEPlNG .]
LO'DO: What command codes are they using? Stargate Command, the old codes.
Okay, let them in.
Guards, at the ready.
[COUGHlNG .]
LO'DO: Hold fire.
An outworlder.
Wait.
Close the lris.
Lucky we didn't try to bring anyone else.
See what we have here, Ma'dek.
-Hmm.
A half-breed.
-Take them to the interrogation chamber.
[GRUNTlNG .]
HARRlSON: Huh? Aah! Harrison is not injured.
No way, my body absorbed most of the electricity.
.
.
.
.
.
and l broke my fall with my face.
-How about the others? -We're okay.
Which is more than l can say for the stargate.
[SlZZLlNG .]
Hmm.
Can you fix it? No.
But l'm sure Ec'co can once he gets back.
Which, of course, he can't do as long as the stargate is broken.
And we cannot leave.
Without stargate, we are.
.
.
.
Uh.
.
.
.
Draga, l think the word you're looking for is " hosed.
" CHlLD 1 : Alien.
CHlLD 2: Weirdo.
CHlLD 3: Helmet face.
CHlLD 4: Creepy-crawly.
[CACKLES.]
[CHlLD GRUNTS.]
[LAUGHlNG .]
-Mutant.
-Monster.
Purple people eater.
Half-breed.
LO'DO: Neither human nor H'rathi.
How is one to know where your loyalties lie? EC'CO: They lie against the Tlak'kahn.
Ec'co's loyalty is beyond question.
No one's loyalty is beyond question.
Least of all yours, Gus Bonner.
l've spoken with Stargate Command about you.
They say you're a traitor who opened their stargate to the Tlak'kahn.
l was framed.
Someone at Stargate Command has been compromised.
Surely in all your years of war that's happened to the H'rathi.
No H'rathi would knowingly betray this planet.
Nevertheless, there have been incidents.
So how did the Tlak'kahn turn one of your people traitor? Some kind of mind control? l'd very much like to know.
But still, you would turn us over to Stargate Command.
l told them you'd escaped through the stargate.
lf, as you say, Stargate Command has been compromised.
.
.
.
.
.
it would not do to open our gate to them.
l have much to think about.
Ma'dek.
-Yes, commander.
-Place our guests in a holding cell.
l'll have more questions for them later.
Hey.
You aren't locking me in there with an alien and a half-breed, are you? lt is no less than you deserve for stealing rations.
So not even all H'rathi are perfect.
[GROWLS.]
You just stay on your side of the cell, you four-fingered freak.
You have nothing to fear from me.
Fear? lt's the smell l'm concerned about.
[GROWLS.]
Easy.
He isn't worth it.
We have to play nice, remember? Yes, l remember.
[WHlMPERlNG .]
Ec'co.
[GRUNTS.]
l must always play nice.
[THUNDER CRASHlNG .]
-You're worried, Stacey.
-Worried? We don't know if Gus and Ec'co ever made it to H'rath.
And even if they did, if we don't get the stargate fixed.
.
.
.
.
.
we won't last long on this planet once our rations are gone.
Why would l be worried? Okay, troops, here's the situation.
This is the stargate power supply.
lt's fried.
There are the MORV and RATV batteries.
They could power the stargate, but they're dead.
Ec'co said he needed to charge them up.
Yeah, but he didn't get around to it, but l had an idea.
Electricity all around us.
Draga, l was getting to that.
Electricity all around us.
l mean, is all around us.
But getting it from there to here.
.
.
.
.
.
is a trick for Ec'co or possibly the Great Macaroni.
l'm remembering from Seattle's mind.
Lightning rod.
[YELLS.]
[POWERlNG UP.]
[SlZZLlNG .]
Whoo! You guys did it.
Lightning rod: a grounded metallic conductor of atmospheric electricity.
Sure, yeah, right.
Yeah, my plan all along.
lt was a mistake coming here.
l thought my mother's people would accept me, but it seems.
.
.
.
.
.
there is prejudice everywhere.
l don't belong on Earth.
l don't belong on H'rath.
l have no home.
Home's where people love you, Ec'co.
Sometimes it isn't so much a place on the map as a place in the heart.
Oh! l can't believe l said that.
l've been listening to Seattle too much.
l must be getting soft in the head.
Thank you, Gus, for getting soft in the head.
[ALARM WAlLlNG .]
Uh-oh.
A Tlak'kahn cruiser.
Hurry, take cover.
[EC'CO GRUNTS.]
On your feet, major.
Hurry.
Unh.
Where's--? [COUGHS.]
Where's the H'rathi prisoner? He ran off.
Look.
[GRUNTlNG .]
Drop your weapons.
l said, drop them.
l don't think so.
[HlSSlNG .]
BONNER: Another one.
Huh? Follow me.
[BEEPS.]
Looks like you have them on the run.
l think you wanted these back.
The Tlak'kahn like to remind us of their presence on the far side of our planet.
As if you were likely to forget.
You're making me nervous up there, Harrison.
Ah, forget about it.
There hasn't been any lightning for half an hour.
Huh? Uh, coming down.
[GRUNTS THEN YELLS.]
You gonna tell us where this ride ends or do we get to guess? Silence, earthman.
We ask the questions here.
Treat our guests with respect, Ma'dek.
They could have escaped.
.
.
.
.
.
but they chose to stay and fight the Tlak'kahn.
A clever ploy to throw you off-guard, Commander Lo'do.
lt is no reason to trust them.
That's why you are here, Ma'dek.
l'd like to know if l'm being taken to a burger joint or a dungeon.
Neither.
Let me explain.
Two years ago, after a battle with the Tlak'kahn we managed to down a pyramid ship.
I suspect it was malfunctioning or we would never have been able to do so.
From that ship, we recovered a large number of Tlak'kahn artifacts.
Perhaps one of those artifacts will provide the information.
.
.
.
.
.
you need to clear your name with Stargate Command.
This is what it is like inside a Tlak'kahn pyramid ship.
Cheery place.
We have analyzed many of the artifacts, but many more remain mysteries.
This is one of our greatest successes.
[WHlSTLES.]
Pretty slick.
Where are we exactly? LO'DO: "Where" does not need to concern you.
This is your concern.
Our studies indicate that each of these crystals holds.
.
.
.
.
.
several thousand terabytes of information.
We could learn much about the Tlak'kahn from these.
-Their goals, tactics.
-lf only we could decipher them.
So the way to get these guys off your back is in there.
.
.
.
.
.
but you can't read it.
-Exactly.
MA'DEK: And you never shall.
Away from the crystals, all of you.
Ma'dek, what does this mean? lt means you were wrong about a H'rathi.
.
.
.
.
.
never selling out his own people.
The H'rathi are hardly my people, half-breed.
BONNER: A shape-shifter.
Two bucks will get you 5 that's how they set me up at Stargate Command.
What do you intend to do with us, Ma'dek? My friends, the Tlak-kahn, cannot allow you to decipher the data crystals.
l intend to destroy them.
And you as well.
This particular artifact is an explosive.
Careless of you to store it near the crystals.
[ARTlFACT BEEPlNG .]
-Ec'co.
-Get out, both of you.
Activate the rings.
Hurry.
Ec'co, don't do this.
No, l'll handle this.
Ec'co, the danger has passed.
The device is a fake.
So, what was all this? A big joke on the half-breed? No, not a joke.
A trap.
These are all replicas used to test outworlders.
lf you had tried to destroy the replica data crystals.
.
.
.
.
.
l would know you were on the side of the Tlak'kahn.
l had no idea the test would reveal a traitor and a hero.
l misjudged you, Ec'co, most seriously.
l ask your forgiveness.
l don't know how to talk to somebody on his knee.
-Friends? -From this day forward.
Follow me.
The real data crystals are kept in a vault not far from here.
-What about Ma'dek? -The guards will apprehend him.
l instructed them to let no one aboard the transport without the password.
And what was that password, if you don't mind telling an offworlder? Half-breed.
A genuine Tlak'kahn data crystal.
Ec'co.
.
.
.
.
.
l wish you luck in unlocking its secrets.
Thank you.
Perhaps my next visit to H'rath will be under better circumstances.
May it be soon.
Welcome home, guys.
EC'CO: What in--? This can't be.
Yup, l rigged it up after the stargate power supply got fried by lightning.
A grounded metallic conductor of atmospheric electricity.
-Pretty amazing, huh, Ec'co? -Amazing? [GlGGLlNG .]
l've never seen such an electronic mess.
Huh? Shape-shifters.
So that's how the Tlak'kahn framed you.
But we still don't know who the spy is.
Who'd believe us? lt could be any one of hundreds of people at Stargate Command.
The original power supply is fixed.
Now, l need Harrison's help in disconnecting the vehicle batteries.
-You need my help? -Of course.
There is no way l am touching that contraption of yours.
So did your mama's planet feel more like home? -They looked more like me.
-That wasn't my question.
-l liked the food.
-That still wasn't my question.
No, Harrison, it wasn't home.
A wise man once told me that home is where people love you.
So? So l think l'm starting to figure out where that is.
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