Cleopatra 2525 s01e13 Episode Script
Hel and Highwater (1)
[beeping.]
The signaI isn't coming from any known team frequency.
Is Voice sure it's a distress signaI? (Voice) All I know is it's coming from under the ocean.
Voice isn't sure.
Then I say we ignore it.
[beeping.]
We're not equipped to handIe an underwater mission, anyway.
What if somebody needs our heIp? Your mission is to find the signaI source.
I signed on to fight BaiIies not run down some gIitch in the communications network.
[sighs.]
Why's it so important to Voice that we check this out, anyway? (Voice) I've given you all the information I have, Hel.
MoIe's ready and standing by.
This is the op, Sarge.
Are you comin' or not? [sighs.]
Hatch seaIed.
Primary propuIsion system onIine.
[beeping.]
I've never been in a submarine before.
You stiII haven't.
This moIe was used for subterranean driIIing.
Mauser's just jury-rigged it for underwater use.
But it's safe, right? Right? Launch in 10 seconds.
[water bubbIing.]
(Voice) Well, I won't be able to contact you once you're in the water.
You'll have to use the mole's ultra-low frequency transceiver.
Got it, Voice.
Launch in 3, 2, 1 .
[engine roaring.]
[CIeo screaming.]
[beeping.]
[HeI chuckIing.]
This is amazing.
[beeping.]
I've tapped on to the beacon.
It shouId be just ahead.
What do you think it is? Hey, whiIe I was frozen, did they ever discover AtIantis? [beeping continues.]
[rumbIing.]
[thudding.]
[screaming.]
[aII groaning.]
W-W-W-What's that? [beeping.]
We've Iost our thrusters.
We're on auxiIiary power.
[engine revving.]
[aII groaning.]
It's some kind of underwater shock wave.
[beeping.]
It's a directed concussion weapon.
Whose weapon? [aII groaning.]
Can we make it back to the Iaunch port? [rumbIing.]
I'd say no.
I'm puIIing baIIast.
No, wait.
We've got to go deeper.
Deeper? Are you crazy? They'd be crazier to foIIow us.
[beeping.]
Sarge, we're passing crush depth.
(CIeo) Ahhh, guys, I--I think we've sprung a Ieak.
(HeI) Then do something to stop it.
[beeping.]
PuII up.
Not yet.
Give me the controIs.
No.
You're going to get us aII kiIIed.
(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 grunting.]
[panting.]
We've Iost them.
Low baIIast.
[grunting.]
[hissing.]
[engine staIIing.]
We're not going up.
We've taken on too much water.
WouId now be a bad time for me to mention that I'm just a teensy-weensy bit cIaustrophobic? [beeping.]
HuII pressure's increasing.
CIeo, see what you can do about that Ieak.
Good thinkin'.
Oh! Crap.
[CIeo screaming.]
We're going down.
[water bubbIing.]
Guys? [beeping.]
The pumps aren't working.
ExternaI pressure is too great.
Is this deep enough for you? Oh, sarcasm in a crisis, that's great.
Uh, uh, guys, you reaIIy shouId see this.
See what? I've got power back in the thrusters.
[engine humming.]
We're IeveIing off.
I don't know what you did, CIeo, but you just saved our taiIs.
A-A-As much as I crave your approvaI, it wasn't me.
T-There was a man outside.
In the water.
He must have fixed the sub.
CIeo, that's impossibIe.
The water pressure's too great.
It'd crush a human.
I am teIIing you, there was someone outside and he was kinda cute, too.
[beeping.]
(HeI) Hang on, Sarge.
We're caught in a current.
[CIeo gasps.]
[grunting.]
I can't break free.
This is strange.
It's focused onIy on us.
[panting.]
It's working Iike some underwater tractor beam.
Yeah, but where's it puIIing us to? I'm thinking maybe there.
Next stop, AtIantis.
IncredibIe.
[peopIe murmuring.]
[high-pitched humming.]
ChiII.
We're gonna start off on the right foot.
Greetings, AtIanteans, we come in peace.
Okay.
Take it from here, guys.
Remove your weapons.
Why did you attack us? Remove your weapons now or we'II remove them for you.
WeII, you just made my day.
[humming.]
(Granger) At ease, brother.
Like our new friend said, Iet's start this off on the right foot.
[whispers.]
That's him.
That's Aquaman.
Shh.
ToId you he's cute.
My name is Granger.
WeIcome.
That's a heII of a weIcome.
You nearIy sank us.
Trespassers are treated accordingIy.
We onIy meant to dissuade you from coming any cIoser.
When I noticed you were in troubIe, I rushed out to heIp you.
He did.
Aquaman.
Our technicians wiII make any repairs to your craft, but in the meantime, I wiII have to ask you to surrender your weapons.
(Sarge) I guess, you find it easier to be ''friends'' when your guests are defenseIess.
PIease or my brother here wiII insist that you Ieave immediateIy with or without your submarine.
HeI.
Do it.
Thank you.
We foIIowed a distress beacon here.
Do you know anything about that? No.
In fact, we try to keep a Iow profiIe down here.
Perhaps our communication equipment is maIfunctioning.
I'II Iook into it right away.
[sighs.]
[chuckIes.]
(Sarge) FriendIy foIks.
(Granger) We're not used to visitors.
But your worId is so peacefuI, so beautifuI.
I shouId think they'd want to show it off.
It's onIy through our totaI isoIation, we've been abIe to keep it this peacefuI.
How can you swim outside? Why doesn't the pressure kiII you? Over time, and with a bit of genetic manipuIation we've adapted to our environment.
(CIeo) Wow.
Five centuries is a Iong time to stay cooped up inside.
You've been down here, compIeteIy cut off, for 500 years? Mmm-hmm.
Our ancestors formed an environmentaI movement in the Iate 20th century.
They rejected the industriaIization that was ravaging the surface of the pIanet.
They started with one smaII undersea Iab dedicated to keeping the oceans from suffering the same fate as the surface.
EventuaIIy it grew into aII that you see.
Your quarters are this way.
(Granger) Now pIease make yourseIves comfortabIe.
Voice, can you hear me? Nothing.
[sighs.]
We have to get a message to Mauser.
I'II see if I can get the transceiver in the sub.
I think you've done enough for today.
Is that supposed to mean something? Cards on the tabIe? That stunt you puIIed today nearIy got us kiIIed.
Funny, the way I see it, I saved our hides.
You got Iucky.
The point is we're a team.
And you're the team Ieader.
That's right.
And you don't make a dangerous caII Iike that on your own.
Oh, Iike you deciding to give up our gauntIets? Mommy, Daddy, pIease don't fight.
Guys, we're thousands of feet under the ocean.
We have no weapons and a busted sub.
Maybe this IittIe power struggIe shouId wait tiII we get back to the Iab.
[sighing.]
Okay, so what about this distress caII? Nobody hears a peep from these peopIe in 500 years, then aII of a sudden their cover gets bIown by a com maIfunction? I don't buy it.
Neither do I, but Iet's go easy here.
We've got a taste of their weaponry.
They can make powerfuI aIIies if we can enIist their heIp against the BaiIies.
They may have reaIIy advanced technoIogy, but [cIicking tongue.]
I don't know about this whoIe retro-marine motif they've got going on.
[woman echoes.]
I need your help, sweetie.
What did you guys caII me? What? We didn't say anything.
Yeah.
Weird.
Just hearing voices.
[sighs.]
You sure about this? [peopIe chattering.]
What if they find out it was-- Don't worry, brother.
Everything's going according to pIan.
Isn't it? [sighs.]
Then enjoy yourseIf.
Let's see what we can Iearn from our new friends, huh? Don't get too friendIy.
They aIready know too much about us.
WeII, it's your job to make sure they don't Iearn any more.
Someday we wish to return to the surface.
To create a worId up there as perfect as you have down here.
It sounds to me, Iike the BaiIies have aIready done that for you.
What good is a perfect worId if you're not aIIowed to Iive in it? And what kind of worId wouId you make if you got the surface back? The same worId you created underground? Anarchy.
LeveI after IeveI of petty fiefdoms sustained by greed and vioIence.
At Ieast we try to exist as a peopIe.
To change what we can.
We didn't just stick our heads in the sea and wish it aII away.
[woman echoes.]
Sweetie.
Huh? Try a sea sIug.
They're much tastier than they Iook.
Have something to eat, sweetie.
(HeI) CIeo? CIeo, are you aII right? Have a Rice Krispie treat, dear.
Mom? They're your favorites.
How did I get here? I need your heIp.
They're hurting me.
PIease, make them stop.
Who-- Who's hurting you? I'm cIose by, sweetie, you just have to find me.
Mom, who's hurting you? Stop them! [screaming.]
Hey, CIeo, can you hear me? [gasping.]
Mom? CIeo, it's HeI.
You're okay.
[panting.]
Uh, I was back home and my mom was there.
She couId be having difficuIty adjusting to the pressure down here.
Then why aren't we aII affected by that? I wasn't haIIucinating.
I feIt her.
She said someone was hurting her.
I'II have one of our doctors check on her right away.
Am I going crazy? How can my mom be taIking to me? She's been gone for 500 years.
You're not crazy.
There's something going on here they're not teIIing us about.
Sarge, we don't know that.
HeI, they made us give up our gauntIets.
They're probabIy Iying to us about the distress caII.
And for aII we know they're doing this to CIeo.
I say we go find our gauntIets and get out of here.
Now.
And I stiII think that there's just too much at stake to start shooting.
What if Granger has technoIogy that can heIp us defeat the BaiIies and we just waIk away? I don't trust Granger.
I'm going to go find the sub and get a message out to Mauser.
CouId you do me a favor? Take it easy.
You know, don't kiII anybody.
Hey, are you gonna be aII right? I think so.
Oh, where are you goin'? [sighing.]
Sarge is right about one thing.
It's time we got some straight answers.
[sighs.]
Oh.
Must have been the sea sIugs.
(HeI) Why are you keeping us here? I'm not.
You know, I was hoping to forge an aIIiance between your peopIe and mine.
A Iie is a bad way to start.
My peopIe don't want an aIIiance.
Not with you.
Not with anyone.
This coIony was founded by peopIe who'd given up on the human race.
After a whiIe, they began to think they were the human race.
No one outside this city mattered anymore.
Is that how you feeI? Why do you think I saved your submarine? [sighing.]
We can't Iive this way forever.
Shut off from the worId.
Caring onIy about ourseIves.
So, you'II join us? I don't know if I can.
A few of us feeI the way I do.
[sighing.]
But most are Iike my brother.
They'II do anything to keep their paradise from being discovered.
I was hoping, once they met you, saw what other peopIe were Iike, they'd change their minds.
That distress signaI we heard? You sent it, didn't you? [sighing.]
Listen, I don't know what you heard but I'm gIad you're the one that heard it.
[woman echoes.]
Sweetie.
Sweetie.
Mom? Mom? Help me, sweetie.
Mom, where are you? Hi, I think I got turned around in here.
Do you think you couId show me to the moon pooI? [aII grunting.]
Come to momma.
[humming.]
CIeo? CIeo? Mom? [woman echoes.]
You're close, sweetie.
I can feel you.
Mom, where are you? CIeo.
Hey.
Hey.
Where'd you get those? Don't worry, I didn't kiII anybody yet.
Mom? [woman echoes.]
I'm here.
Where? Mom? (HeI) CIeo? CIeo, what are you doin' here? My mom's here.
What? Where? [sonic buzzing.]
I've never met CIeo's mom, but I'm guessing she's not a BaiIey.
[humming.]
You found me, sweetie.
CIeo!
The signaI isn't coming from any known team frequency.
Is Voice sure it's a distress signaI? (Voice) All I know is it's coming from under the ocean.
Voice isn't sure.
Then I say we ignore it.
[beeping.]
We're not equipped to handIe an underwater mission, anyway.
What if somebody needs our heIp? Your mission is to find the signaI source.
I signed on to fight BaiIies not run down some gIitch in the communications network.
[sighs.]
Why's it so important to Voice that we check this out, anyway? (Voice) I've given you all the information I have, Hel.
MoIe's ready and standing by.
This is the op, Sarge.
Are you comin' or not? [sighs.]
Hatch seaIed.
Primary propuIsion system onIine.
[beeping.]
I've never been in a submarine before.
You stiII haven't.
This moIe was used for subterranean driIIing.
Mauser's just jury-rigged it for underwater use.
But it's safe, right? Right? Launch in 10 seconds.
[water bubbIing.]
(Voice) Well, I won't be able to contact you once you're in the water.
You'll have to use the mole's ultra-low frequency transceiver.
Got it, Voice.
Launch in 3, 2, 1 .
[engine roaring.]
[CIeo screaming.]
[beeping.]
[HeI chuckIing.]
This is amazing.
[beeping.]
I've tapped on to the beacon.
It shouId be just ahead.
What do you think it is? Hey, whiIe I was frozen, did they ever discover AtIantis? [beeping continues.]
[rumbIing.]
[thudding.]
[screaming.]
[aII groaning.]
W-W-W-What's that? [beeping.]
We've Iost our thrusters.
We're on auxiIiary power.
[engine revving.]
[aII groaning.]
It's some kind of underwater shock wave.
[beeping.]
It's a directed concussion weapon.
Whose weapon? [aII groaning.]
Can we make it back to the Iaunch port? [rumbIing.]
I'd say no.
I'm puIIing baIIast.
No, wait.
We've got to go deeper.
Deeper? Are you crazy? They'd be crazier to foIIow us.
[beeping.]
Sarge, we're passing crush depth.
(CIeo) Ahhh, guys, I--I think we've sprung a Ieak.
(HeI) Then do something to stop it.
[beeping.]
PuII up.
Not yet.
Give me the controIs.
No.
You're going to get us aII kiIIed.
(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 grunting.]
[panting.]
We've Iost them.
Low baIIast.
[grunting.]
[hissing.]
[engine staIIing.]
We're not going up.
We've taken on too much water.
WouId now be a bad time for me to mention that I'm just a teensy-weensy bit cIaustrophobic? [beeping.]
HuII pressure's increasing.
CIeo, see what you can do about that Ieak.
Good thinkin'.
Oh! Crap.
[CIeo screaming.]
We're going down.
[water bubbIing.]
Guys? [beeping.]
The pumps aren't working.
ExternaI pressure is too great.
Is this deep enough for you? Oh, sarcasm in a crisis, that's great.
Uh, uh, guys, you reaIIy shouId see this.
See what? I've got power back in the thrusters.
[engine humming.]
We're IeveIing off.
I don't know what you did, CIeo, but you just saved our taiIs.
A-A-As much as I crave your approvaI, it wasn't me.
T-There was a man outside.
In the water.
He must have fixed the sub.
CIeo, that's impossibIe.
The water pressure's too great.
It'd crush a human.
I am teIIing you, there was someone outside and he was kinda cute, too.
[beeping.]
(HeI) Hang on, Sarge.
We're caught in a current.
[CIeo gasps.]
[grunting.]
I can't break free.
This is strange.
It's focused onIy on us.
[panting.]
It's working Iike some underwater tractor beam.
Yeah, but where's it puIIing us to? I'm thinking maybe there.
Next stop, AtIantis.
IncredibIe.
[peopIe murmuring.]
[high-pitched humming.]
ChiII.
We're gonna start off on the right foot.
Greetings, AtIanteans, we come in peace.
Okay.
Take it from here, guys.
Remove your weapons.
Why did you attack us? Remove your weapons now or we'II remove them for you.
WeII, you just made my day.
[humming.]
(Granger) At ease, brother.
Like our new friend said, Iet's start this off on the right foot.
[whispers.]
That's him.
That's Aquaman.
Shh.
ToId you he's cute.
My name is Granger.
WeIcome.
That's a heII of a weIcome.
You nearIy sank us.
Trespassers are treated accordingIy.
We onIy meant to dissuade you from coming any cIoser.
When I noticed you were in troubIe, I rushed out to heIp you.
He did.
Aquaman.
Our technicians wiII make any repairs to your craft, but in the meantime, I wiII have to ask you to surrender your weapons.
(Sarge) I guess, you find it easier to be ''friends'' when your guests are defenseIess.
PIease or my brother here wiII insist that you Ieave immediateIy with or without your submarine.
HeI.
Do it.
Thank you.
We foIIowed a distress beacon here.
Do you know anything about that? No.
In fact, we try to keep a Iow profiIe down here.
Perhaps our communication equipment is maIfunctioning.
I'II Iook into it right away.
[sighs.]
[chuckIes.]
(Sarge) FriendIy foIks.
(Granger) We're not used to visitors.
But your worId is so peacefuI, so beautifuI.
I shouId think they'd want to show it off.
It's onIy through our totaI isoIation, we've been abIe to keep it this peacefuI.
How can you swim outside? Why doesn't the pressure kiII you? Over time, and with a bit of genetic manipuIation we've adapted to our environment.
(CIeo) Wow.
Five centuries is a Iong time to stay cooped up inside.
You've been down here, compIeteIy cut off, for 500 years? Mmm-hmm.
Our ancestors formed an environmentaI movement in the Iate 20th century.
They rejected the industriaIization that was ravaging the surface of the pIanet.
They started with one smaII undersea Iab dedicated to keeping the oceans from suffering the same fate as the surface.
EventuaIIy it grew into aII that you see.
Your quarters are this way.
(Granger) Now pIease make yourseIves comfortabIe.
Voice, can you hear me? Nothing.
[sighs.]
We have to get a message to Mauser.
I'II see if I can get the transceiver in the sub.
I think you've done enough for today.
Is that supposed to mean something? Cards on the tabIe? That stunt you puIIed today nearIy got us kiIIed.
Funny, the way I see it, I saved our hides.
You got Iucky.
The point is we're a team.
And you're the team Ieader.
That's right.
And you don't make a dangerous caII Iike that on your own.
Oh, Iike you deciding to give up our gauntIets? Mommy, Daddy, pIease don't fight.
Guys, we're thousands of feet under the ocean.
We have no weapons and a busted sub.
Maybe this IittIe power struggIe shouId wait tiII we get back to the Iab.
[sighing.]
Okay, so what about this distress caII? Nobody hears a peep from these peopIe in 500 years, then aII of a sudden their cover gets bIown by a com maIfunction? I don't buy it.
Neither do I, but Iet's go easy here.
We've got a taste of their weaponry.
They can make powerfuI aIIies if we can enIist their heIp against the BaiIies.
They may have reaIIy advanced technoIogy, but [cIicking tongue.]
I don't know about this whoIe retro-marine motif they've got going on.
[woman echoes.]
I need your help, sweetie.
What did you guys caII me? What? We didn't say anything.
Yeah.
Weird.
Just hearing voices.
[sighs.]
You sure about this? [peopIe chattering.]
What if they find out it was-- Don't worry, brother.
Everything's going according to pIan.
Isn't it? [sighs.]
Then enjoy yourseIf.
Let's see what we can Iearn from our new friends, huh? Don't get too friendIy.
They aIready know too much about us.
WeII, it's your job to make sure they don't Iearn any more.
Someday we wish to return to the surface.
To create a worId up there as perfect as you have down here.
It sounds to me, Iike the BaiIies have aIready done that for you.
What good is a perfect worId if you're not aIIowed to Iive in it? And what kind of worId wouId you make if you got the surface back? The same worId you created underground? Anarchy.
LeveI after IeveI of petty fiefdoms sustained by greed and vioIence.
At Ieast we try to exist as a peopIe.
To change what we can.
We didn't just stick our heads in the sea and wish it aII away.
[woman echoes.]
Sweetie.
Huh? Try a sea sIug.
They're much tastier than they Iook.
Have something to eat, sweetie.
(HeI) CIeo? CIeo, are you aII right? Have a Rice Krispie treat, dear.
Mom? They're your favorites.
How did I get here? I need your heIp.
They're hurting me.
PIease, make them stop.
Who-- Who's hurting you? I'm cIose by, sweetie, you just have to find me.
Mom, who's hurting you? Stop them! [screaming.]
Hey, CIeo, can you hear me? [gasping.]
Mom? CIeo, it's HeI.
You're okay.
[panting.]
Uh, I was back home and my mom was there.
She couId be having difficuIty adjusting to the pressure down here.
Then why aren't we aII affected by that? I wasn't haIIucinating.
I feIt her.
She said someone was hurting her.
I'II have one of our doctors check on her right away.
Am I going crazy? How can my mom be taIking to me? She's been gone for 500 years.
You're not crazy.
There's something going on here they're not teIIing us about.
Sarge, we don't know that.
HeI, they made us give up our gauntIets.
They're probabIy Iying to us about the distress caII.
And for aII we know they're doing this to CIeo.
I say we go find our gauntIets and get out of here.
Now.
And I stiII think that there's just too much at stake to start shooting.
What if Granger has technoIogy that can heIp us defeat the BaiIies and we just waIk away? I don't trust Granger.
I'm going to go find the sub and get a message out to Mauser.
CouId you do me a favor? Take it easy.
You know, don't kiII anybody.
Hey, are you gonna be aII right? I think so.
Oh, where are you goin'? [sighing.]
Sarge is right about one thing.
It's time we got some straight answers.
[sighs.]
Oh.
Must have been the sea sIugs.
(HeI) Why are you keeping us here? I'm not.
You know, I was hoping to forge an aIIiance between your peopIe and mine.
A Iie is a bad way to start.
My peopIe don't want an aIIiance.
Not with you.
Not with anyone.
This coIony was founded by peopIe who'd given up on the human race.
After a whiIe, they began to think they were the human race.
No one outside this city mattered anymore.
Is that how you feeI? Why do you think I saved your submarine? [sighing.]
We can't Iive this way forever.
Shut off from the worId.
Caring onIy about ourseIves.
So, you'II join us? I don't know if I can.
A few of us feeI the way I do.
[sighing.]
But most are Iike my brother.
They'II do anything to keep their paradise from being discovered.
I was hoping, once they met you, saw what other peopIe were Iike, they'd change their minds.
That distress signaI we heard? You sent it, didn't you? [sighing.]
Listen, I don't know what you heard but I'm gIad you're the one that heard it.
[woman echoes.]
Sweetie.
Sweetie.
Mom? Mom? Help me, sweetie.
Mom, where are you? Hi, I think I got turned around in here.
Do you think you couId show me to the moon pooI? [aII grunting.]
Come to momma.
[humming.]
CIeo? CIeo? Mom? [woman echoes.]
You're close, sweetie.
I can feel you.
Mom, where are you? CIeo.
Hey.
Hey.
Where'd you get those? Don't worry, I didn't kiII anybody yet.
Mom? [woman echoes.]
I'm here.
Where? Mom? (HeI) CIeo? CIeo, what are you doin' here? My mom's here.
What? Where? [sonic buzzing.]
I've never met CIeo's mom, but I'm guessing she's not a BaiIey.
[humming.]
You found me, sweetie.
CIeo!