The Silver Surfer s01e06 Episode Script
Learning Curve, Pt. 2
The Beacons of the Watchers! For millennia, they have been the most coveted treasures in the universe.
When the scholar known as Mentor and his android companion Drax discovered one of these keys to the legendary Universal Library They believed they soon would be journeying to that vast repository of all knowledge.
Their joy, however, was short-lived.
For the Beacon was stolen by the notorious space pirate Nebula.
And the two seekers were left helpless in the void! It was thus that they were encountered by the Silver Surfer and Pip the Troll.
Hoping to learn how to find lost Zenn-La, the Silver Surfer agreed to join Mentor and Drax on their quest.
The journey to the Universal Library proved fraught with danger Now, at last, the Silver Surfer and his companions have reached the ancient home of my people But not even I, the last remaining Watcher, know if he will survive! Silver Surfer - 06 - Learning Curve, Pt.
2 Pip! Mentor! It appears we have survived.
Oh, my ringin' ears! Even my eyes feel numb! The Universal Library! It's like a giant computer.
These buildings must be memory chips, each designed to hold more data than any one being could comprehend! But what has happened to them? How have they become such ruins? I cannot imagine.
In half a millennium of searching, Drax and I never expected to find this! I hate to be the one to break it to ya,Mentor but I don't think Draxy cares much about anything right now.
Drax, my poor old friend.
You've always given so much more than a crazy old man like me deserves Now I understand the "lapses" you spoke of, Mentor.
He is like a mechanism whose control system has shut down.
And this, I'm afraid, may be the final shutdown.
All because of Thanos Thanos? He and I have had our own encounter! Then you will understand the true purpose of my quest to obtain the knowledge to destroy him.
Even though Thanos is I shudder to admit my brother.
Your brother? But why Behind us! The most primitive of lifeforms, here on a world of the highest technology? And yet be responsible for the wreckage all around? What if it were to destroy the very data that could bring me back to Shalla Bal? The creature's strength surpasses my own.
But surely it cannot with stand the power cosmic! It has the power to adapt to my attack! Strange they seem more curious than malicious Perhaps I can utilize that curiosity to my benefit Not bad.
Great pecs and a brain.
I dunno which is worse the welcoming committee at this dump, or the rest of the clientele! You must be the infamous Nebula.
Silver skin, power cosmic, that board.
You must be the equally infamous herald of Galactus No more.
You out of a job? Then you shouldn't mind doing one for me I need your help .
.
and Mentor's.
All the knowledge in the universe doesn't mean zip to me unless I can access it.
Yeah, well that's one trick we haven't exactly figured out ourselves.
We don't even know if any data is left here or if it's all been lost out in space! Oh, you'll get it all down and as soon as I have enough new military knowledge to sell to the Kree and the Skrull, Geatar and I'll holster our weapons and wave goodbye! Were I you, Nebula, I would keep my weapons ready but aimed that way Surfer, you've got a point.
For any of us to get the information we seek, we must find a way to ferret out the Library's secrets.
Yeah, and in the meantime, isn't there some old saying about, "safety first?" I will do what I can.
What is this? In my travels through the universe have I seen many structures of similar form They can only be one thing You've done it, Silver Surfer! You've found the Index to the Library! The Watchers were nothing if not efficient.
These controls can be operated by almost any conceivable form of life Get on with it, Mentor.
I've got a profit to make.
And I, a way home to find.
So you're a pirate, huh? I'm a troll, but where's the resta yer crew? I don't know.
After the Beacon guided us down I sent the boys to check out the lay of the land.
They haven't came back.
Those things must've gotten them Welcome to the Universal Library.
To access the Index, press - What's happening? - Where'd she go?! Mentor, you must persist! We are all so near to satisfying our greatest desires! After all Drax and I have gone through, nothing can stop me now! Alas, courageous quester of knowledge and truth if you are accessing the Universal Library now you have arrived too late! Always have the Watchers held themselves to a strict code of non-interference But when an intergalactic plague struck the Arad Nebula, destroying the food supply for thousands of inhabited worlds, even we were moved.
Utilizing all the biological knowledge our race ever gathered, we worked feverishly and created a cure! Incalculable lives were saved.
But amid all the rejoicing, the civilization of the Watchers paid a terrible price We had not sufficiently stabilized the genetic material forming the basis of the cure, and it created a new illness which mutated everyone on the planet into bizarre "Virals!" Only I, Oatu, was immune to the infection When we Watchers created the Beacons never did we believe the Universal Library would be damaged or become a trap for anyone who found it.
You watching this have my apology for you too are doomed! No! It can't be! Is that guy for real?! It's a bluff, to scare us away! Have I come this far, only to strike a wall of stone? Help me Surfer! Nebula was wrong.
Those Viral things didn't get her crew they are the crew! Lord Glenn! This is indeed a momentous occasion Welcome to the Wanderers I am Gamora, First Citizen of this League of Intergalactic Survivors.
We're pleased that a people of your stature has chosen to join us.
It is appropriate.
Like all of you, we Draconians have had to flee the annihilation of our planet.
We'll count on your help then, in achieving our goal.
Vengeance on Galactus, Devourer of Worlds and on his lackey, the Silver Surfer! All my life I've striven for knowledge, so I could have some control over events But then things like this occur, and there's nothing I can do! Perhaps there is something.
Surfer! Please! Help us.
I fear it is too late.
They are hopelessly intertwined.
Surfer take a gander over there! It is as though the others are summoning their new brother They're at it again! That definitely seems to be a method to this behavior, although I can't say what it is Don't sweat it, Mentor.
We'll know soon enough.
Seein' as how we're gonna be followin' in the pirates' footsteps in no time! No, Pip! We cannot give in! Never will I accept such a fate! The Watcher is not always right! Indeed, everything he said points to the fact that the Watchers have been wrong Slurper! Silver Surfer! No Looks like it's our turn now, Draxy, ol' kid 'Bye, Kili.
Funny how I never knew how good I had it back home I don't get it.
Something musta gone wrong I mean right I mean What in the name of the Kree do I mean? What is happening to me? I was the Silver Surfer.
Now, still do I think and feel but as what? Is this possible? I have no eyes, and yet I see clearly! Surfer come join us.
Oneness and knowledge await! Nebula? Geatar? The same.
And yet more.
For we are also the rest of the crew And Mentor And all of us, the lost Watchers, as well! All the Virals are one? You are united in a community mind? How has this come to be? What's goin' on here? Almost seems like they're tryin' ta talk to each other.
Oh yes, sure they are Although others cannot perceive it, to become a Viral is not to devolve to mindlessness but to move up to knowledge of all things Every fiber of my being cries out to join you yet I cannot.
What is stopping me? That which stops you from everything, Silver Surfer Your creator Galactus! That part of him which resides within you the power you hate and fear yet continue to use The Power Cosmic itself! As long as you possess it you belong to the Devourer.
Your very heart and soul are still his.
If you would attain your dream, then you must renounce the Power.
Give it up! But without the Power Cosmic how will I get to Zenn-La? It will be knowledge! And knowledge is its own end! See, Silver Surfer, how we control our own evolution! Join us now as the Evolutionary Ultimate! Fulfill your Destiny! Knowledge is useless if it cannot be acted upon.
If I remain a Viral, everything I learn will go for naught! Then you must renounce the Power.
Give it up! Just when ya think you've seen everything! The Virals seek to force me to give up the very essence of who I am! I must summon all the Power Cosmic within me, and use it to recreate that which the Virals would destroy No matter the consequences, now and forever must I be the Silver Surfer! To me, my board! Virals! Hear me! I belong to no one.
Not Galactus! Not you! I am a free man! The Power Cosmic has purged you of the Virus, Silver Surfer.
You have won but so do you lose Pip! Right atcha, Surfy! Drax! I am pleased to see that you have recovered.
Where is Mentor? I must help him! I am afraid that is not possible.
But you can take comfort in the fact that he found what he was looking for, all those long years.
All the ship's systems check out There's one thing I still don't get.
How come everybody turned into a Viral except Drax n' me? I believe it was because with the exception of the two of you, everyone had a selfish reason for being at the Universal Library Nebula and her men wanted financial gain.
Mentor wanted vengeance on Thanos.
And I was willing to to anything to find my way home.
But you and Drax came here only because you were aiding others.
The original Watchers too were selfish.
They wanted the knowledge for its own sake, not as a tool to be used.
And that attitude triggered the virus.
The Beacon's gettin' ready to guide us someplace.
But where? It seems to me there is only one way to find out.
Shall we go? So filled am I with sorrow for Mentor that I do not feel ready for anything.
I am purposeless, empty Drax, you have earned the right to your own life.
Pip, my experience here has shown me I have not been worthy of your loyalty Hey you tryin' ta say you're not goin' with us? It is for you I make that decision.
My obsession with Zenn- La almost cost your life I have much to think about.
Of what value is it for me to gain Zenn-La if I lose the beliefs Zenn-La holds dear? Thanks, Surfer.
ForFor everything.
We will meet again, Silver Surfer.
Of that there can be no doubt.
I will miss Pip more than I could tell him.
But, just as he was willing to give up everything to save me, so must I sacrifice for his good.
The Virals showed me key elements of the history of Zenn-La.
With that data I can continue my search even as I ponder its true meaning.
Watcher! Your shame remains unrevealed.
No one knows it was you who created the Virals by convincing your people to act.
Which is why I continue to bring them new knowledge.
It is a responsibility, I cannot deny.
And now, dear sister, what think you of the Surfer? He has surprised me with his capacity to grow as a man.
If he lives up to his potential, when the crisis comes the universe just may survive.
Fly well, Silver Surfer.
Someday, the future of all creation will be in your hands!
When the scholar known as Mentor and his android companion Drax discovered one of these keys to the legendary Universal Library They believed they soon would be journeying to that vast repository of all knowledge.
Their joy, however, was short-lived.
For the Beacon was stolen by the notorious space pirate Nebula.
And the two seekers were left helpless in the void! It was thus that they were encountered by the Silver Surfer and Pip the Troll.
Hoping to learn how to find lost Zenn-La, the Silver Surfer agreed to join Mentor and Drax on their quest.
The journey to the Universal Library proved fraught with danger Now, at last, the Silver Surfer and his companions have reached the ancient home of my people But not even I, the last remaining Watcher, know if he will survive! Silver Surfer - 06 - Learning Curve, Pt.
2 Pip! Mentor! It appears we have survived.
Oh, my ringin' ears! Even my eyes feel numb! The Universal Library! It's like a giant computer.
These buildings must be memory chips, each designed to hold more data than any one being could comprehend! But what has happened to them? How have they become such ruins? I cannot imagine.
In half a millennium of searching, Drax and I never expected to find this! I hate to be the one to break it to ya,Mentor but I don't think Draxy cares much about anything right now.
Drax, my poor old friend.
You've always given so much more than a crazy old man like me deserves Now I understand the "lapses" you spoke of, Mentor.
He is like a mechanism whose control system has shut down.
And this, I'm afraid, may be the final shutdown.
All because of Thanos Thanos? He and I have had our own encounter! Then you will understand the true purpose of my quest to obtain the knowledge to destroy him.
Even though Thanos is I shudder to admit my brother.
Your brother? But why Behind us! The most primitive of lifeforms, here on a world of the highest technology? And yet be responsible for the wreckage all around? What if it were to destroy the very data that could bring me back to Shalla Bal? The creature's strength surpasses my own.
But surely it cannot with stand the power cosmic! It has the power to adapt to my attack! Strange they seem more curious than malicious Perhaps I can utilize that curiosity to my benefit Not bad.
Great pecs and a brain.
I dunno which is worse the welcoming committee at this dump, or the rest of the clientele! You must be the infamous Nebula.
Silver skin, power cosmic, that board.
You must be the equally infamous herald of Galactus No more.
You out of a job? Then you shouldn't mind doing one for me I need your help .
.
and Mentor's.
All the knowledge in the universe doesn't mean zip to me unless I can access it.
Yeah, well that's one trick we haven't exactly figured out ourselves.
We don't even know if any data is left here or if it's all been lost out in space! Oh, you'll get it all down and as soon as I have enough new military knowledge to sell to the Kree and the Skrull, Geatar and I'll holster our weapons and wave goodbye! Were I you, Nebula, I would keep my weapons ready but aimed that way Surfer, you've got a point.
For any of us to get the information we seek, we must find a way to ferret out the Library's secrets.
Yeah, and in the meantime, isn't there some old saying about, "safety first?" I will do what I can.
What is this? In my travels through the universe have I seen many structures of similar form They can only be one thing You've done it, Silver Surfer! You've found the Index to the Library! The Watchers were nothing if not efficient.
These controls can be operated by almost any conceivable form of life Get on with it, Mentor.
I've got a profit to make.
And I, a way home to find.
So you're a pirate, huh? I'm a troll, but where's the resta yer crew? I don't know.
After the Beacon guided us down I sent the boys to check out the lay of the land.
They haven't came back.
Those things must've gotten them Welcome to the Universal Library.
To access the Index, press - What's happening? - Where'd she go?! Mentor, you must persist! We are all so near to satisfying our greatest desires! After all Drax and I have gone through, nothing can stop me now! Alas, courageous quester of knowledge and truth if you are accessing the Universal Library now you have arrived too late! Always have the Watchers held themselves to a strict code of non-interference But when an intergalactic plague struck the Arad Nebula, destroying the food supply for thousands of inhabited worlds, even we were moved.
Utilizing all the biological knowledge our race ever gathered, we worked feverishly and created a cure! Incalculable lives were saved.
But amid all the rejoicing, the civilization of the Watchers paid a terrible price We had not sufficiently stabilized the genetic material forming the basis of the cure, and it created a new illness which mutated everyone on the planet into bizarre "Virals!" Only I, Oatu, was immune to the infection When we Watchers created the Beacons never did we believe the Universal Library would be damaged or become a trap for anyone who found it.
You watching this have my apology for you too are doomed! No! It can't be! Is that guy for real?! It's a bluff, to scare us away! Have I come this far, only to strike a wall of stone? Help me Surfer! Nebula was wrong.
Those Viral things didn't get her crew they are the crew! Lord Glenn! This is indeed a momentous occasion Welcome to the Wanderers I am Gamora, First Citizen of this League of Intergalactic Survivors.
We're pleased that a people of your stature has chosen to join us.
It is appropriate.
Like all of you, we Draconians have had to flee the annihilation of our planet.
We'll count on your help then, in achieving our goal.
Vengeance on Galactus, Devourer of Worlds and on his lackey, the Silver Surfer! All my life I've striven for knowledge, so I could have some control over events But then things like this occur, and there's nothing I can do! Perhaps there is something.
Surfer! Please! Help us.
I fear it is too late.
They are hopelessly intertwined.
Surfer take a gander over there! It is as though the others are summoning their new brother They're at it again! That definitely seems to be a method to this behavior, although I can't say what it is Don't sweat it, Mentor.
We'll know soon enough.
Seein' as how we're gonna be followin' in the pirates' footsteps in no time! No, Pip! We cannot give in! Never will I accept such a fate! The Watcher is not always right! Indeed, everything he said points to the fact that the Watchers have been wrong Slurper! Silver Surfer! No Looks like it's our turn now, Draxy, ol' kid 'Bye, Kili.
Funny how I never knew how good I had it back home I don't get it.
Something musta gone wrong I mean right I mean What in the name of the Kree do I mean? What is happening to me? I was the Silver Surfer.
Now, still do I think and feel but as what? Is this possible? I have no eyes, and yet I see clearly! Surfer come join us.
Oneness and knowledge await! Nebula? Geatar? The same.
And yet more.
For we are also the rest of the crew And Mentor And all of us, the lost Watchers, as well! All the Virals are one? You are united in a community mind? How has this come to be? What's goin' on here? Almost seems like they're tryin' ta talk to each other.
Oh yes, sure they are Although others cannot perceive it, to become a Viral is not to devolve to mindlessness but to move up to knowledge of all things Every fiber of my being cries out to join you yet I cannot.
What is stopping me? That which stops you from everything, Silver Surfer Your creator Galactus! That part of him which resides within you the power you hate and fear yet continue to use The Power Cosmic itself! As long as you possess it you belong to the Devourer.
Your very heart and soul are still his.
If you would attain your dream, then you must renounce the Power.
Give it up! But without the Power Cosmic how will I get to Zenn-La? It will be knowledge! And knowledge is its own end! See, Silver Surfer, how we control our own evolution! Join us now as the Evolutionary Ultimate! Fulfill your Destiny! Knowledge is useless if it cannot be acted upon.
If I remain a Viral, everything I learn will go for naught! Then you must renounce the Power.
Give it up! Just when ya think you've seen everything! The Virals seek to force me to give up the very essence of who I am! I must summon all the Power Cosmic within me, and use it to recreate that which the Virals would destroy No matter the consequences, now and forever must I be the Silver Surfer! To me, my board! Virals! Hear me! I belong to no one.
Not Galactus! Not you! I am a free man! The Power Cosmic has purged you of the Virus, Silver Surfer.
You have won but so do you lose Pip! Right atcha, Surfy! Drax! I am pleased to see that you have recovered.
Where is Mentor? I must help him! I am afraid that is not possible.
But you can take comfort in the fact that he found what he was looking for, all those long years.
All the ship's systems check out There's one thing I still don't get.
How come everybody turned into a Viral except Drax n' me? I believe it was because with the exception of the two of you, everyone had a selfish reason for being at the Universal Library Nebula and her men wanted financial gain.
Mentor wanted vengeance on Thanos.
And I was willing to to anything to find my way home.
But you and Drax came here only because you were aiding others.
The original Watchers too were selfish.
They wanted the knowledge for its own sake, not as a tool to be used.
And that attitude triggered the virus.
The Beacon's gettin' ready to guide us someplace.
But where? It seems to me there is only one way to find out.
Shall we go? So filled am I with sorrow for Mentor that I do not feel ready for anything.
I am purposeless, empty Drax, you have earned the right to your own life.
Pip, my experience here has shown me I have not been worthy of your loyalty Hey you tryin' ta say you're not goin' with us? It is for you I make that decision.
My obsession with Zenn- La almost cost your life I have much to think about.
Of what value is it for me to gain Zenn-La if I lose the beliefs Zenn-La holds dear? Thanks, Surfer.
ForFor everything.
We will meet again, Silver Surfer.
Of that there can be no doubt.
I will miss Pip more than I could tell him.
But, just as he was willing to give up everything to save me, so must I sacrifice for his good.
The Virals showed me key elements of the history of Zenn-La.
With that data I can continue my search even as I ponder its true meaning.
Watcher! Your shame remains unrevealed.
No one knows it was you who created the Virals by convincing your people to act.
Which is why I continue to bring them new knowledge.
It is a responsibility, I cannot deny.
And now, dear sister, what think you of the Surfer? He has surprised me with his capacity to grow as a man.
If he lives up to his potential, when the crisis comes the universe just may survive.
Fly well, Silver Surfer.
Someday, the future of all creation will be in your hands!