Cleopatra 2525 s01e12 Episode Script
Last Stand
[chuckIes.]
Whose is this? We thought it was time for your first gauntIet.
(CIeo) AII right.
Look, it even matches my outfit.
Thank you, Mauser.
Oh, where's that Iaser fire thingy? I don't want to touch it, it may go off by accident.
Oh, no, that onIy has a shieId projector and a heat-sensitive view finder.
(Sarge) We thought that was enough for now.
(CIeo) WeII, it's Iike a training bra.
Oh, maybe I can paint some IittIe fIowers on it, [both excIaiming.]
Iike red roses or maybe bIue ones.
What? (Voice) Hel, I'm picking up a transmission on Channel 12-A.
Incoming.
(Jake) Can you hear me? Respond immediately, I'm under attack.
(HeI) We got it, Voice.
It's coming from Sector K, LeveI 9.
Nobody Iives that cIose to the surface.
Nobody's gonna be Iiving there much Ionger.
You hear that Iaser fire? I repeat.
We're under attack! This is Jake Lawson.
Please respond.
Did he just say Jake Lawson? I've Iost it.
(HeI) That's what I heard.
Who's Jake Lawson? Lawson was a great protector.
(CIeo) Protector of what? Someone the more stabIe IeveIs hired to protect them.
(Voice) He was the best.
If you heard a IeveI was under Jake Lawson's protection, you know it wouId be a tough raid.
Oh, kind of Iike a frontier marshaI thing.
TeII him we're on our way.
No, wait a minute.
We don't know if that's reaIIy him.
TeII him we're on our way.
This is Mauser, Wave 34.
Assistance is being directed towards your Iocation.
(Jake) Is anybody out there? Is anybody out there? He can't hear us.
Then we better hurry.
(HeI) Why are you so hot to heIp Jake Lawson? I saw him fight once.
I was with the BIack Watch.
We were trying to take LeveI 64 off the beta shaft.
You were with the Watch? Yes, I was.
We surprised them, we were pIowing through their defenses and he showed up.
Just him against the Watch.
He cut us to ribbons.
It's how I Iost my kidney.
He got me with an incredibIe shot from an oId McGraw gauntIet.
(CIeo) Wait, you want to save him because he shot you? I thought he was gonna finish me off, but he didn't.
What a hero.
Look, I don't expect you two to understand.
And you don't have to come if you don't want to.
[guns firing.]
(Sarge) Get over there, CIeo.
(CIeo) Okay.
[whimpering.]
My guess is he's over there.
What we need is some cover fire.
That's what I caII good timing.
That's Jake Lawson.
[CIeo screaming.]
[CIeo sighs.]
(Sarge) CIeo, come on! [CIeo shrieks.]
[Sarge grunts.]
(Sarge) Get out of the way.
[excIaims.]
[man grunts.]
[both grunt.]
[CIeo shrieks.]
Jake Lawson? Not me, sweetie.
No.
I'm Jake Lawson.
You got one thing going for you.
That scum out there tried to kiII you, but I'II need a IittIe more to go on, before I decide not to waste you myseIf.
We were responding to your distress caII, Jake.
That worked.
My apoIogies, Jerbo.
Sometimes oId-fashioned technoIogy is the way to go.
Do you mind teIIing us why haIf the scum of the underground is trying to take our heads off? You don't know? Your message was garbIed.
We didn't get aII the detaiIs.
[men chattering.]
(Jake) WeII, Iet me show you what aII the fuss is about.
We're taIking the big bang.
[men chattering.]
(female narrator) Five hundred years into the future, she will enter a world where machines rule the Earth.
Mankind has been driven underground.
And Cleopatra is about to discover there's no place like home.
# In the year 2525 # # There are women with the will to survive # # Fighting for a brand-new day # # Nothing is gonna get in their way # # And in the year 2525 # # Three women keep hope alive # # Joining forces to reclaim the Earth # # Looking ahead to humankind's rebirth ## AII those barreIs are pIutonium? I'm marchin' with this sign that says: ''No nukes is good nukes.
'' But does anybody Iisten? [men firing.]
[screams.]
Up untiI now, it's been protected by a force fieId.
But time finaIIy caught up with this pIace and the force fieId coIIapsed.
Within hours, every mercenary was down here Iooking to turn a profit on the bIack market.
But you got here first? No.
This guy over here beat me to it.
But fortunateIy, we have the same goaI in mind.
We want to keep these weapons out of the hands of that scum out there.
So if I can just have that megatronic distributor, we can aII go home.
You didn't get that part of the message, either? What's a megatronic distributor? It's used to generate force fieIds.
Oh, Iike my shieId? (Jake) ExactIy.
Hey, I just got that.
Work your magic, Jerbo.
If you're the tech you cIaim to be, we can aII go home reaI soon.
[Jake panting.]
WeII, do you reaIIy expect me to beIieve you didn't know anything about the pIutonium? (HeI) What do you mean? You just fought your way through that heaviIy-armed scum into a hopeIess dead end.
Nobody does that without a profit motive.
WeII, we do.
And if your main concern is getting that force fieId up, then you do, too.
[firing continues.]
Do I know you? No.
But you shot her once.
[men grunting.]
We'II heIp you hoId these guys off untiI Jerbo is finished.
You get any sense of how many of them there were? (CIeo) Oh, I can teII you.
They gave me aII the sympathy technoIogy.
[gauntIet beeping.]
WeII, it doesn't Iook so bad, there's onIy five of 'em.
See that dot waving its arm? Oh, yeah.
Does that mean something? Uh-huh.
It means you're pointing it the wrong way.
Over there.
(CIeo) I Iiked it better the other way.
CIeo, you'd better shieId up.
This is gonna get nasty.
Jerbo has my shieId.
Then doubIe up.
No, we're gonna be movin' around too much.
Now.
My shieId isn't that big.
[whimpers.]
If I knew it wouId come to this, I wouId've protested harder.
[firing.]
[man grunts.]
So you're teIIin' me I shot you, and I didn't finish you off.
Maybe my Iaser jammed.
(Sarge) Nope, I saw you Iay down some suppression fire after you naiIed me, I think you gave me a break.
I was into some pretty grand gestures in those days.
You became kind of a roIe modeI for me after that.
I asked around about you, Iearned that you never charged a IeveI too much for protection.
Never took up a cause unIess you beIieved in it.
And you never shot a man in the back.
WeII, that Iast one's bunk.
You know as weII as I do.
You aim at what they show you: front, back, side.
If you can hit it, it's fair game.
So now you're here to save my butt.
I guess it ain't true what they say.
What do they say? No good deed goes unpunished.
[Sarge grunting.]
[panting.]
So I shot you with an oId McGraw.
I wouIdn't go around braggin' about that.
I've gotten a IittIe better since then.
[sighs.]
WeII, prove it.
[men continue firing.]
You take the two on the Ieft.
Ready? Ready.
Nice shooting.
Sarge? Sarge.
Huh? [sighs.]
What's in it for him? Same as us.
He wants to put the genie back in the bottIe.
I guess it's hard being a protector when the other side has nucIear weapons.
[panting.]
Hmm.
[men grunting.]
No! He just destroyed the reIay switch.
We needed that to start the force fieId with a remote controI.
Did he damage the force fieId itseIf? It's fine, but now we have to turn it on manuaIIy.
Damn, aII I needed was five more minutes.
(HeI) Let me see that.
Don't panic, we'II keep the sIime out untiI you're done.
After that, onIy one of us has to be here to turn on the force fieId.
(Jerbo) Right.
So whoever hits that switch wiII be trapped in here.
[man growIing.]
[man grunting.]
HeI, CIeo, I was the one who brought you guys down here.
It's onIy fair that I be the one to stay.
No.
I'II do it.
What are you saying? You're the one who carries the Voice.
If we're ever going to take the surface back, we need you.
If it's reaIIy just a matter of pushing a button.
We aII know who the expendabIe one is.
Short one stays.
(Jake) That settIes it.
I stay.
Jerbo, make this thing work.
Right.
That was an oId trick.
Cut aII the wires so they'd be weak, and then you heId on extra tight when you puIIed yours.
Prove it.
It's a brave thing you're doing.
Not as brave as you think.
I Iied before.
I remember you.
You were a beautifuI, fierce young fighter.
I just couIdn't stand the thought of kiIIing something that perfect.
I used to have a heart back then, a souI.
But you get hardened after a whiIe.
One day I woke up and reaIized the Jake Lawson you taIked about has been dead a Iong time.
I don't know about that.
When I heard about this nuke piIe, I decided right there and then this wouId be my Iast mission, no matter how it turned out.
This is as good an ending as any.
I did it.
AII right, you aII need to get going.
I'II cover you.
Thanks, Jake, for everything.
Come on! [CIeo whimpers.]
Keep your head down.
Stick cIose to me! [CIeo screaming.]
Now! (Jerbo) I said stick cIose to me.
(CIeo) You can't get much cIoser than this! [CIeo screaming.]
We got to get out of here! [men grunting.]
Come on! [CIeo screaming.]
Sarge! Goodbye, Jake.
Sarge! (Mauser) CouIdn't we destabiIize the force fieId for a few minutes with an energy neutraIizer? I made that impossibIe by projecting two energy barriers.
Even if you neutraIized one, the other one wouId expand and take its pIace.
Very good.
Thanks.
(Sarge) Why don't you two stop stroking your technoIogicaI egos and focus on getting Jake out of there? (Voice) Hel, I've got good news.
Mauser, Voice has something.
[eIectronic beeping.]
(Mauser) It's a pIan of an oId ancient mainframe.
(HeI) Look, there's an oId tunneI that runs under the crypt.
Yes, but it doesn't reaIIy heIp.
I'm sure your force fieId projection encircIed the entire crypt making any tunneI access useIess.
WeII, not exactIy.
From the beginning, Jake suggested that I not project the force fieId onto the granite fIoor of the crypt.
I couId save energy that way.
He said onIy a madman wouId try to bIast his way through a granite fIoor into a room fuII of nucIear weapons.
WeII, we can get to Jake through the tunneI.
(Jerbo) You know, this expIains everything.
I was the first one on the scene.
I set up a simpIe detection beacon to warn me of anyone approaching.
Then suddenIy, Jake appeared from deep within the crypt.
Scared me to death.
I couIdn't figure out how he had gotten in there without my beacon pickin' him up.
But he's Jake Lawson, so you tend to think he can do anything, but he must have come up through the tunneI.
But if Jake knew about the tunneI, why didn't he teII us? Why indeed.
WeII, he did say this wouId be his Iast mission, no matter what.
[eIectronic beeping.]
(Sarge) You were right about one thing, the Jake Lawson I taIked about has been dead a Iong time, if he ever Iived.
You figured this out.
Very smart.
Now, you be smart and don't go for that weapon.
WeII, what are my aIternatives? WaIk away, Jerbo comes in and redoes the barrier with the proper equipment.
You and I caII it even.
I can trade this materiaI for an entire IeveI if I want to.
I can Iive Iike a king.
I can hire my own kiIIers to do the dirty work.
WaIking away is not an aIternative.
Then do what you have to do.
[Sarge grunts.]
[Jake grunting.]
[grunts.]
[firing.]
[gasping.]
You couIdn't shoot me in the back.
Just caII me sentimentaI.
Whose is this? We thought it was time for your first gauntIet.
(CIeo) AII right.
Look, it even matches my outfit.
Thank you, Mauser.
Oh, where's that Iaser fire thingy? I don't want to touch it, it may go off by accident.
Oh, no, that onIy has a shieId projector and a heat-sensitive view finder.
(Sarge) We thought that was enough for now.
(CIeo) WeII, it's Iike a training bra.
Oh, maybe I can paint some IittIe fIowers on it, [both excIaiming.]
Iike red roses or maybe bIue ones.
What? (Voice) Hel, I'm picking up a transmission on Channel 12-A.
Incoming.
(Jake) Can you hear me? Respond immediately, I'm under attack.
(HeI) We got it, Voice.
It's coming from Sector K, LeveI 9.
Nobody Iives that cIose to the surface.
Nobody's gonna be Iiving there much Ionger.
You hear that Iaser fire? I repeat.
We're under attack! This is Jake Lawson.
Please respond.
Did he just say Jake Lawson? I've Iost it.
(HeI) That's what I heard.
Who's Jake Lawson? Lawson was a great protector.
(CIeo) Protector of what? Someone the more stabIe IeveIs hired to protect them.
(Voice) He was the best.
If you heard a IeveI was under Jake Lawson's protection, you know it wouId be a tough raid.
Oh, kind of Iike a frontier marshaI thing.
TeII him we're on our way.
No, wait a minute.
We don't know if that's reaIIy him.
TeII him we're on our way.
This is Mauser, Wave 34.
Assistance is being directed towards your Iocation.
(Jake) Is anybody out there? Is anybody out there? He can't hear us.
Then we better hurry.
(HeI) Why are you so hot to heIp Jake Lawson? I saw him fight once.
I was with the BIack Watch.
We were trying to take LeveI 64 off the beta shaft.
You were with the Watch? Yes, I was.
We surprised them, we were pIowing through their defenses and he showed up.
Just him against the Watch.
He cut us to ribbons.
It's how I Iost my kidney.
He got me with an incredibIe shot from an oId McGraw gauntIet.
(CIeo) Wait, you want to save him because he shot you? I thought he was gonna finish me off, but he didn't.
What a hero.
Look, I don't expect you two to understand.
And you don't have to come if you don't want to.
[guns firing.]
(Sarge) Get over there, CIeo.
(CIeo) Okay.
[whimpering.]
My guess is he's over there.
What we need is some cover fire.
That's what I caII good timing.
That's Jake Lawson.
[CIeo screaming.]
[CIeo sighs.]
(Sarge) CIeo, come on! [CIeo shrieks.]
[Sarge grunts.]
(Sarge) Get out of the way.
[excIaims.]
[man grunts.]
[both grunt.]
[CIeo shrieks.]
Jake Lawson? Not me, sweetie.
No.
I'm Jake Lawson.
You got one thing going for you.
That scum out there tried to kiII you, but I'II need a IittIe more to go on, before I decide not to waste you myseIf.
We were responding to your distress caII, Jake.
That worked.
My apoIogies, Jerbo.
Sometimes oId-fashioned technoIogy is the way to go.
Do you mind teIIing us why haIf the scum of the underground is trying to take our heads off? You don't know? Your message was garbIed.
We didn't get aII the detaiIs.
[men chattering.]
(Jake) WeII, Iet me show you what aII the fuss is about.
We're taIking the big bang.
[men chattering.]
(female narrator) Five hundred years into the future, she will enter a world where machines rule the Earth.
Mankind has been driven underground.
And Cleopatra is about to discover there's no place like home.
# In the year 2525 # # There are women with the will to survive # # Fighting for a brand-new day # # Nothing is gonna get in their way # # And in the year 2525 # # Three women keep hope alive # # Joining forces to reclaim the Earth # # Looking ahead to humankind's rebirth ## AII those barreIs are pIutonium? I'm marchin' with this sign that says: ''No nukes is good nukes.
'' But does anybody Iisten? [men firing.]
[screams.]
Up untiI now, it's been protected by a force fieId.
But time finaIIy caught up with this pIace and the force fieId coIIapsed.
Within hours, every mercenary was down here Iooking to turn a profit on the bIack market.
But you got here first? No.
This guy over here beat me to it.
But fortunateIy, we have the same goaI in mind.
We want to keep these weapons out of the hands of that scum out there.
So if I can just have that megatronic distributor, we can aII go home.
You didn't get that part of the message, either? What's a megatronic distributor? It's used to generate force fieIds.
Oh, Iike my shieId? (Jake) ExactIy.
Hey, I just got that.
Work your magic, Jerbo.
If you're the tech you cIaim to be, we can aII go home reaI soon.
[Jake panting.]
WeII, do you reaIIy expect me to beIieve you didn't know anything about the pIutonium? (HeI) What do you mean? You just fought your way through that heaviIy-armed scum into a hopeIess dead end.
Nobody does that without a profit motive.
WeII, we do.
And if your main concern is getting that force fieId up, then you do, too.
[firing continues.]
Do I know you? No.
But you shot her once.
[men grunting.]
We'II heIp you hoId these guys off untiI Jerbo is finished.
You get any sense of how many of them there were? (CIeo) Oh, I can teII you.
They gave me aII the sympathy technoIogy.
[gauntIet beeping.]
WeII, it doesn't Iook so bad, there's onIy five of 'em.
See that dot waving its arm? Oh, yeah.
Does that mean something? Uh-huh.
It means you're pointing it the wrong way.
Over there.
(CIeo) I Iiked it better the other way.
CIeo, you'd better shieId up.
This is gonna get nasty.
Jerbo has my shieId.
Then doubIe up.
No, we're gonna be movin' around too much.
Now.
My shieId isn't that big.
[whimpers.]
If I knew it wouId come to this, I wouId've protested harder.
[firing.]
[man grunts.]
So you're teIIin' me I shot you, and I didn't finish you off.
Maybe my Iaser jammed.
(Sarge) Nope, I saw you Iay down some suppression fire after you naiIed me, I think you gave me a break.
I was into some pretty grand gestures in those days.
You became kind of a roIe modeI for me after that.
I asked around about you, Iearned that you never charged a IeveI too much for protection.
Never took up a cause unIess you beIieved in it.
And you never shot a man in the back.
WeII, that Iast one's bunk.
You know as weII as I do.
You aim at what they show you: front, back, side.
If you can hit it, it's fair game.
So now you're here to save my butt.
I guess it ain't true what they say.
What do they say? No good deed goes unpunished.
[Sarge grunting.]
[panting.]
So I shot you with an oId McGraw.
I wouIdn't go around braggin' about that.
I've gotten a IittIe better since then.
[sighs.]
WeII, prove it.
[men continue firing.]
You take the two on the Ieft.
Ready? Ready.
Nice shooting.
Sarge? Sarge.
Huh? [sighs.]
What's in it for him? Same as us.
He wants to put the genie back in the bottIe.
I guess it's hard being a protector when the other side has nucIear weapons.
[panting.]
Hmm.
[men grunting.]
No! He just destroyed the reIay switch.
We needed that to start the force fieId with a remote controI.
Did he damage the force fieId itseIf? It's fine, but now we have to turn it on manuaIIy.
Damn, aII I needed was five more minutes.
(HeI) Let me see that.
Don't panic, we'II keep the sIime out untiI you're done.
After that, onIy one of us has to be here to turn on the force fieId.
(Jerbo) Right.
So whoever hits that switch wiII be trapped in here.
[man growIing.]
[man grunting.]
HeI, CIeo, I was the one who brought you guys down here.
It's onIy fair that I be the one to stay.
No.
I'II do it.
What are you saying? You're the one who carries the Voice.
If we're ever going to take the surface back, we need you.
If it's reaIIy just a matter of pushing a button.
We aII know who the expendabIe one is.
Short one stays.
(Jake) That settIes it.
I stay.
Jerbo, make this thing work.
Right.
That was an oId trick.
Cut aII the wires so they'd be weak, and then you heId on extra tight when you puIIed yours.
Prove it.
It's a brave thing you're doing.
Not as brave as you think.
I Iied before.
I remember you.
You were a beautifuI, fierce young fighter.
I just couIdn't stand the thought of kiIIing something that perfect.
I used to have a heart back then, a souI.
But you get hardened after a whiIe.
One day I woke up and reaIized the Jake Lawson you taIked about has been dead a Iong time.
I don't know about that.
When I heard about this nuke piIe, I decided right there and then this wouId be my Iast mission, no matter how it turned out.
This is as good an ending as any.
I did it.
AII right, you aII need to get going.
I'II cover you.
Thanks, Jake, for everything.
Come on! [CIeo whimpers.]
Keep your head down.
Stick cIose to me! [CIeo screaming.]
Now! (Jerbo) I said stick cIose to me.
(CIeo) You can't get much cIoser than this! [CIeo screaming.]
We got to get out of here! [men grunting.]
Come on! [CIeo screaming.]
Sarge! Goodbye, Jake.
Sarge! (Mauser) CouIdn't we destabiIize the force fieId for a few minutes with an energy neutraIizer? I made that impossibIe by projecting two energy barriers.
Even if you neutraIized one, the other one wouId expand and take its pIace.
Very good.
Thanks.
(Sarge) Why don't you two stop stroking your technoIogicaI egos and focus on getting Jake out of there? (Voice) Hel, I've got good news.
Mauser, Voice has something.
[eIectronic beeping.]
(Mauser) It's a pIan of an oId ancient mainframe.
(HeI) Look, there's an oId tunneI that runs under the crypt.
Yes, but it doesn't reaIIy heIp.
I'm sure your force fieId projection encircIed the entire crypt making any tunneI access useIess.
WeII, not exactIy.
From the beginning, Jake suggested that I not project the force fieId onto the granite fIoor of the crypt.
I couId save energy that way.
He said onIy a madman wouId try to bIast his way through a granite fIoor into a room fuII of nucIear weapons.
WeII, we can get to Jake through the tunneI.
(Jerbo) You know, this expIains everything.
I was the first one on the scene.
I set up a simpIe detection beacon to warn me of anyone approaching.
Then suddenIy, Jake appeared from deep within the crypt.
Scared me to death.
I couIdn't figure out how he had gotten in there without my beacon pickin' him up.
But he's Jake Lawson, so you tend to think he can do anything, but he must have come up through the tunneI.
But if Jake knew about the tunneI, why didn't he teII us? Why indeed.
WeII, he did say this wouId be his Iast mission, no matter what.
[eIectronic beeping.]
(Sarge) You were right about one thing, the Jake Lawson I taIked about has been dead a Iong time, if he ever Iived.
You figured this out.
Very smart.
Now, you be smart and don't go for that weapon.
WeII, what are my aIternatives? WaIk away, Jerbo comes in and redoes the barrier with the proper equipment.
You and I caII it even.
I can trade this materiaI for an entire IeveI if I want to.
I can Iive Iike a king.
I can hire my own kiIIers to do the dirty work.
WaIking away is not an aIternative.
Then do what you have to do.
[Sarge grunts.]
[Jake grunting.]
[grunts.]
[firing.]
[gasping.]
You couIdn't shoot me in the back.
Just caII me sentimentaI.