The Silver Surfer s01e12 Episode Script

Silver Surfer - 12- Return to Zenn-La The Kree and the Skrull! Wherever they go, violence inevitably follows! What can be the reason for their conflict here? Greed? Territorial expansion? Or is it that they know no other way? All I wished to do here was nourish myself after my own encounter with the Kree Instead, am I forced to witness this inhumanity knowing that even if I could stop this battle, there would simply be more! Still must I try! For only then can I preserve the tranquil precepts of lost Zenn-La! Please! A communication beam? Not only does it not originate with the combatants, it is contacting both sides! Help me! An entire planet at the edge of this solar system, its energy sign showing it is under attack! To be "rescued" by the Kree or the Skrull may well be a worse fate than whatever danger threatens.
So engrossed are the two armadas in their battle, they are ignoring the plea.
I must do all I can to help.
For that too is the way of Zenn-La! Fractites! Inanimate forces of nature, still have they become the scourge of seven galaxies, draining the energy from any source they encounter! Now are they attempting to drain not only this world but myself as well! Fractites are even more dangerous than I thought! I feel myself weakening! So numerous are my enemies can this call have been an attempt to entrap me? Help us! Do not despair! Eternity! Brother! I have felt the first blow! It has begun, my dear sister Infinity.
As we knew it would.
The end of the universe end of you and I.
We need our champion at the ready! Only he has a chance of stopping the catastrophe! We must trust that the Silver Surfer will prevail! My cosmic blasts have only strengthened the Fractites.
Resisting them is futile I must follow the teachings of the Master and give myself to them instead! Brothers and sisters of this planet, whoever you may be! You are safe now! The power cosmic of the Silver Surfer was too much for the Fractites to absorb! Silver Surfer! Is it really you Norrin Radd? That voice! It knows my name, and sounds so much like no, it cannot be! My body has been weakened by my exertions, and my mind must have been affected as well - Norrin Radd! Please answer me? Is that you? Shalla Bal? This planet -- Now that the Fractites are gone, it indeed reminds me of Zenn-La! It could well be a trap -- Yet after all I have experienced on my search for my home, dare I leave any possibility unexplored? These fields, so familiar -- Tranquil dwelling places where predator and prey exist side by side.
That sculpture! Like one I know so well! Can this truly be Zenn-La? The Academy of the Master! It has been restored! Norrin Radd! Norrin Radd! Shalla Bal! Oh, Norrin it is really you! It seems too good to be true! Can I have found you at last? You said you would return and you have! Mere moments ago it appeared the Fractites would destroy us all, and and I would never see you again.
And now here you are! But how does Zenn-La come to be at this point in space? One day in anger Galactus appeared overhead.
He said you had broken the compact the two of you had made and and now our world was doomed to warp forever from sun to sun.
So we could never be together because you were roaming the spaceways even as I! But we are together now, my love Norrin Radd! Welcome home! Once more have you saved us! Norrin Radd, seeing you again makes my segments tremble with joy! Had I such segments, Borad, my friend, they would do the same! - Norrin Radd! - Darwekk! - Are you here for good then.
- I am home to stay! Still is it difficult for me to accept that I am back on Zenn-La Do you want to test us, Norrin Radd, to make certain we are who we seem? I can tell you every moment you and I have spent together, since we were twelve and met at the Master's knee.
Tell me, what do all of you know of the fate of the Master? It is common knowledge throughout the universe that he left Zenn-La so he might return with greater truth before our days of wandering began.
Have you further news? The Master will not be returning.
He he is no more.
You bear sad tidings, Norrin Radd.
All of us loved the Master very much.
Yet out of tragedy can come triumph.
Norrin Radd must be the new Master! Was he not the chosen successor? All right! Norrin Radd! Norrin Radd! Norrin Radd! Norrin Radd! Norrin Radd! The new Master! Shalla Bal, I realize this is an honor, but such unquestioning acceptance of fate greatly disturbs me.
I am reminded now of everything that made me feel an outsider in my own home! Of course! It was not Zenn-La's present you admired, but its past! You wanted to live during a time of adventure and conflict! You! Norrin Radd! You are not fit to lead us! Darwekk, what has happened to your tranquility? Were you not my advocate just moments ago? But now I have come to my senses! How can we reward the one responsible for Galactus casting Zenn-La adrift?! The bad blood between you two must be settled! I demand my right to trial by combat! Have you gone mad? It has been centuries since such activities were condoned here! You yourself have said many times, Norrin Radd, that the ancients were far wiser than many have believed.
It is time for their rituals to return! Even were I to agree to such a trial, as long as I possess the power cosmic never could it be fair.
There is only one answer to that, beloved.
Come Shalla Bal! I want my homeworld to be perfect, and to be part of its perfection.
But I feel so confused - For you to live your life with us to the fullest, you must once again become the man you were, the Norrin Radd I so admired Here can we make that occur.
You want me to give up my power? What has this precious power done for you, Norrin Radd? No doubt you have experienced many wonderful things but how many terrible ones as well? You are right.
No longer do I need the power cosmic.
I shall prove myself worthy of Zenn-La! Let the combat begin! You fight before I am ready, Yet if you believe that gives you an advantage, you are mistaken.
I have defeated foes you cannot even imagine! In your present state, Norrin Radd, you will find me more formidable than Galactus, or Thanos What can be happening on my world? One moment we are a civilization of peace The next, we are adopting the violent ways of millennia ago! Even I have been swept away by the change as I am now being taken by the current of a river.
I never knew existed before! Norrin Radd! Help me! Thank you! Your conduct proves you are worthy to be Master after all! "Worthiness" is the least of my concerns just now.
Still must we extricate ourselves.
Were the power cosmic still mine, all I would need do is call out - - No! Do not call - - To me, my board! Norrin! Darwekk Mirl! You have survived.
Yes - but in a way that is simply - not possible.
That board belongs to the Silver Surfer, not Norrin Radd.
Without the power cosmic, it should never have come to my aid! The ways of a being like Galactus are often unfathomable.
Yes! Another way of fulfilling yourself here on Zenn-La.
Yes! Shalla Bal is right.
I know Zenn-La, and I know Shalla Bal and I know all the rest of you as well But it is as though you and this whole world are no longer yourselves But rather what you believe I would like you to be! Shalla Bal said Galactus kept you always moving, but I felt no trace of the power cosmic on this world And Darwekk Mirl spoke of Thanos as my foe - how would anyone marooned on Zenn-La have known that? I have failed He knows! What? Am I once more the Silver Surfer? Or has this always been the truth, and Norrin Radd but an illusion? Is that why you did not wish me to summon my board? To me my board! Either this is madness or the trap I feared! No matter how much I desire it, this is not Zenn-La! And you are not my Shalla Bal! It is not madness, Norrin Radd.
But no, I am not Shalla Bal But I could be.
And this could be your world if you would but let it I cannot! Tempting though it is, I have travelled too long and too far to find peace in the arms of a fraud! Oh, my beloved your refusal has destroyed me! Shalla Bal! No! She was not Shalla Bal! Still to lose her the pain is almost unbearable! Only one being I know of has the power to alter and mold an entire planet like this! Only one being can create the semblance of life! Deceiver! Show yourself! EGO! Silver Surfer, you have seen through me.
But in so doing, you lose the peace you could have had! A false peace, Ego.
A sham.
Why would you do such a thing to one who has saved you from Thanos himself? I wanted only your happiness, Silver Surfer.
To give you what you most desire! And you sought to do so by violating my hopes? My very dreams? Again, Ego - Why? Notice, Silver Surfer, that you speak to the only being of my kind There is no race of living planets I am a cosmic accident, all powerful within my sphere, yet doomed to be forever alone For millennia, I have gone my own way, evading every attack But when the Fractites threatened, their energy field prevented me from transporting away In my desperation, I sent out a call for help and when you came to my aid i remembered the strength and nobility that had impressed me when we met before I realized that to be truly safe I needed a defender to stay with me for all time Combining the information I received when Thanos entered your mind with other knowledge gleaned on my travels, I re-created myself in the image of Zenn-La - So you could make me not a defender but a prisoner? I will not remain with you Ego.
Not for another moment, let alone "all time!" No, Silver Surfer, you shall not leave! I will force you to stay! Ego! Can you truly believe that, your powerful fiery core will overmatch me - Who takes sustenance from the very heart of a star? Ego? Ironic, is it not, Silver Surfer? I have done my best, but you who I hoped would protect me have caused my destruction instead.
That was not my intention, Ego.
I desired only to be free! What have I done? Ego is not evil, merely misguided.
I must help the planet live even if it means we combat each other again! You have healed me, Silver Surfer, in spite of the fact that I tried to imprison you I could do nothing else.
So you have continued as my protector, after all! There may come a time, when you need me to help you.
Rest assured - I will be there.
Until that time - Go! And may you find the true Zenn-La! My sister! How do you fare? I am in pain, brother.
The fabric of space and time is being twisted and warped.
Soon it will tear - We will survive, sister.
Do not give in to the devastation which lies ahead Do not give in to the chaos - Lady Chaos! For century upon century you have mocked me, accepting my tribute while refusing to reveal yourself to one who worships and adores you I say, "No more!" At last, all my efforts have reached fruition! By discovering a way to reverse the flow of time itself, I have designed a weapon A total destruction Tell me, my cold one.
How can you fail to love me, to take me within your embrace, after I have caused the ultimate chaos All creation to vanish