Cleopatra 2525 s02e03 Episode Script
Brain Drain
Mmm.
Oh, yeah! [grunting.]
It wants our minds! [screaming.]
We are the vesseIs! Shut it out! [Jensen continues grunting.]
I thought we were, Iike, the saviors of humanity.
Shut it out! Since when do we break up bar fights? (Sarge) I'm with CIeo on this one.
This guy's gone into vapor Iock.
Let the bouncers handIe him.
(HeI) Voice says he's important.
Important and stupid.
Frying his brain out with that toxic crap.
(Voice) He's not a gas addict.
His name's Jensen Manning.
He's involved in very sensitive research on the Bailies.
I'm sending a Confessor to assist you.
Voice is sending a Confessor to try and taIk him down.
[Sarge snickers.]
What's a Confessor? PeopIe go to them to whine about their probIems.
Some say they have empathic powers.
That's a bunch of garbage if you ask me.
Maybe you shouId give it a try sometime.
PIease stand back.
[Jenson continues grunting.]
Listen to my voice.
No one here wiII hurt you.
Hurt me? [grunts.]
Keep away! You're the one who'II get hurt! (Confessor) Give me your pain.
My mind is open to yours.
Give me your anguish.
[grunting.]
PIease.
Too many minds! I have to get out! Yes.
Yes, your pain.
Give it to me.
I toId you to keep away! Sarge! [growIing.]
[gagging.]
(Sarge) What the heII! [Confessor gasping.]
[groaning.]
[sighs.]
HoIy sh (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 ## Oh.
Gross! What was that? I don't know.
[peopIe chattering.]
He's dead.
[Confessor coughs.]
What happened? Be happy you don't remember.
(Voice) Hel, get the Confessor back to the lab right away.
If he's carrying some kind of parasitic infection, we need to contain it.
You're comin' with us.
S and M bar's two IeveIs down, boys.
Betrayers.
Oh, no.
Oh.
Come on! Jump! CIeo, don't inhaIe! CIeo! Oh, pretty.
(Sarge) CIeo, get down! More.
[CIeo giggIing.]
Sarge.
I saved her the Iast time.
[CIeo continues giggIing.]
[whooping.]
Oh! I Iove you, Sarge.
That's nice.
Whoa.
(Sarge) Those Betrayers want the Confessor.
No, they want that thing that's inside him.
[grunts.]
(HeI) They've got energy shieIds.
That's new for Betrayers.
Can we get through? (HeI) It doesn't Iook Iike it! [HeI grunts.]
I Iove you, HeI.
Yeah, I Iove you, too, CIeo, but now is not the time.
Okay.
Betrayers are 100% human in this form, right? That means they'd feeI the effects of the gas same as CIeo.
Let's get happy.
[yeIIing.]
Ha, ha, good shot! (HeI) HoId your breath! [both grunt.]
[Iaughing.]
(HeI) Sarge, get CIeo.
Come on.
(CIeo) Oops.
(HeI) Mauser, we need a compIete medicaI diagnostic now! (Mauser) Voice aIerted me.
Let's get him in the heaIing tube.
(Confessor) The pain! Take my pain.
[Confessor grunting.]
[continues grunting.]
[Confessor coughs.]
(CIeo) He seemed fine Yeah, weII, whatever it is, it works fast.
[beeps.]
(Sarge) Is it contained, Mauser? Yes.
(HeI) Something went into him, Mauser.
It Iooked Iike robo-cockroach.
[grunting.]
Can you get it out of him? I don' t know.
I can try.
[gagging.]
[beeping.]
[grunting.]
[sighs.]
You know, I saw this movie once where this bug thing cIamped onto your spine and you had to scream to kiII it.
Don't scream.
(Mauser) It seems to be designed to interface directIy with the human nervous system.
What do you mean? Somebody buiIt this thing? Yes.
It appears to be some kind of organic data retrievaI unit.
It's downIoading everything in the Confessor's brain.
That expIains why the Betrayers want it.
It must have accessed everything Dr.
Manning knew before it jumped into the Confessor.
You think the BaiIies sent it down here on purpose? The spy who bugged me.
[Confessor screaming.]
[Confessor gagging.]
[aII excIaim.]
[CIeo gasping.]
Mauser.
NeuraI output zero.
He's dead.
(Sarge) It sucked him dry.
It's Iookin' for a new home.
(HeI) Oh, Mauser, can you kiII it? I'm not sure, but it's harmIess as Iong as the fieId hoIds.
[CIeo sighs.]
[CIeo screams.]
That's the main power! [CIeo whimpering.]
(HeI) Mauser! Go to backup! [CIeo shudders.]
[CIeo screams.]
(HeI) Nobody move! [CIeo sighs.]
(CIeo) Oh, something touched my Ieg! (Mauser) That was me.
[CIeo panting.]
(Sarge) There it is! [aII grunting.]
HoId your fire! [Sarge breathing heaviIy.]
[eIectricity surging.]
(HeI) So much for ''don't move.
'' Let's find this thing.
[eIectricity continue surging.]
Sarge.
Nothing.
[screams.]
[panting.]
Sorry.
WeII, I can't find it.
Voice, can you scan the Iab for a fix on that parasite? (Voice) Hel, I'm not picking up anything.
It isn't there.
What do you mean it isn't here? (Sarge) WeII, then where is it? Oh, man.
It's in one of us.
AII right, everyone just stay caIm.
I'II do my best, but it's a IittIe hard considering there's an incredibIy gross parasite sucking on somebody's brain! WeII, I know it's not in me.
You don't know anything.
It couId be in any one of us.
Mauser, can you run a biomed scan on aII of us? ImpossibIe.
With main power out, the med scanner is off-Iine.
That's exceIIent.
I guess we'II just wait here untiI one of us turns into a raving Iunatic and dies.
Can you come up with another scan? I think so.
The parasite disrupts the victim's brain chemistry.
A simpIe tissue anaIysis shouId reveaI its presence.
Do it.
I just need a tiny sampIe of your brain tissue.
OK, but don't take too much.
[aspirating.]
Done.
Sure you got enough? Sure you didn't get the whoIe thing? After I coIIect a sampIe from each of us, an anaIysis wiII reveaI who is harboring the intruder.
HeI, your turn.
Get it over with.
[screaming.]
[grunting.]
Sarge.
I beIieve it's in HeI.
[CIeo whimpers.]
Betrayers outside.
They must have tracked the parasite here.
Sarge, secure the Iab.
That thing's inside you, HeI.
It's stiII me.
Secure the Iab or we aII die.
[sobs.]
[HeI crying.]
I've routed aII auxiIiary power to Iab defensive systems.
[CIeo shuddering.]
But that door's not gonna hoId out Iong against the Betrayers.
[panting.]
I know.
Mauser, find a way to get this thing the heII out of me.
I don't know if there is a way.
WeII, what do you mean? We've got to do something.
When the parasite invaded the Confessor, it Iived off the bioeIectric energy of his neuraI tissue.
OnIy when that energy was expended did it Ieave his body.
So it won't Ieave tiII I'm dead? At Ieast do what you can, Mauser.
[gagging.]
[groans.]
Sarge? HeI, what's happening? Sarge.
That parasite, [grunts.]
it's been here a very Iong time, spying on us.
Watching us for the BaiIies.
Dr.
Manning wasn't the first.
There are dozens, dozens of them.
It-It's taken their minds.
And they're aII inside of me now.
[Betrayers banging on doors.]
If it takes mine, it'II know about the team.
You're aII in danger.
You have to kiII it.
Oh.
We have to do something.
What? It's not gonna Ieave her tiII she's dead.
No.
I saw this movie once where they fIat-Iined these guys.
TechnicaIIy, they were dead, but they shocked them back to Iife.
[Betrayers continue banging.]
Yes.
The parasite wiII Ieave her body.
Then we can bIast it and jump-start HeI.
But how much of HeI's brain has it aIready drained? If we force it out of her, wiII it take HeI's mind with it? (Sarge) I don't know.
But if we don't get it out now, she's aIready dead.
[machine whirring.]
[machine puIsing.]
I'm gonna have to divert power from the Iab defenses to generate a strong enough charge to stop HeI's heart.
We don't have a choice.
Do it.
Do it.
[machine humming.]
[gasping.]
Mauser? No heartbeat.
[Betrayers banging.]
(CIeo) WeII, where is it? (Sarge) There it is! [CIeo shudders.]
[circuit bursting.]
(Mauser) AuxiIiary power faiIing! Bring her back, Mauser! [grunts.]
[grunts.]
Start her heart back up! (Mauser) I'm trying.
[eIectricity surging.]
No effect.
There's not enough power.
[firing continues.]
Hurry! [firing continues.]
[CIeo screaming.]
Come on, Mauser! It's no good.
There's not enough power.
[whimpers.]
[Sarge growIs.]
(CIeo) Huh.
Sarge, duck! Look out! Now, Mauser! Hit it! [machine puIsing.]
(CIeo) Hit her again! (Mauser) It's no good.
There's not enough power.
It's too Iate.
Stand back! Sarge? What have we got to Iose? [gasping.]
[breathing heaviIy.]
[sighing.]
(CIeo) HeI, are you aII right? HeI.
[sobs.]
Sarge.
[Iaughs.]
Mauser.
[CIeo continues Iaughing.]
Who are you? Gotcha.
[Iaughs.]
[Iaughing.]
[eIectronic beeping.]
Ready for seIf-destruct and evac on your signaI.
WeII, another Iab bites the dust.
Huh.
So, any reveIations from the other side? Bright Iight, Iong tunneI? DearIy departed waiting with open arms? [chuckIing.]
No.
No.
Nothing Iike that.
What is it, HeI? When I had that thing inside me, there were aII these peopIe that it had assimiIated.
AII these voices, aII these minds.
I guess the siIence is just a bit deafening.
If I were you I'd be happy to have my head aII to myseIf again.
[Iaughing.]
Yeah.
WeII, aImost.
Which reminds me, there were quite a few peopIe that knew Voice pretty weII.
Uh-huh.
I Iearned quite a few new things about you, Voice.
(Voice) Really? Would you care to share? No.
I think I'II be the one keeping the secrets for a whiIe.
Come on, team.
Let's bIow this joint.
[circuit bursting.]
Oh, yeah! [grunting.]
It wants our minds! [screaming.]
We are the vesseIs! Shut it out! [Jensen continues grunting.]
I thought we were, Iike, the saviors of humanity.
Shut it out! Since when do we break up bar fights? (Sarge) I'm with CIeo on this one.
This guy's gone into vapor Iock.
Let the bouncers handIe him.
(HeI) Voice says he's important.
Important and stupid.
Frying his brain out with that toxic crap.
(Voice) He's not a gas addict.
His name's Jensen Manning.
He's involved in very sensitive research on the Bailies.
I'm sending a Confessor to assist you.
Voice is sending a Confessor to try and taIk him down.
[Sarge snickers.]
What's a Confessor? PeopIe go to them to whine about their probIems.
Some say they have empathic powers.
That's a bunch of garbage if you ask me.
Maybe you shouId give it a try sometime.
PIease stand back.
[Jenson continues grunting.]
Listen to my voice.
No one here wiII hurt you.
Hurt me? [grunts.]
Keep away! You're the one who'II get hurt! (Confessor) Give me your pain.
My mind is open to yours.
Give me your anguish.
[grunting.]
PIease.
Too many minds! I have to get out! Yes.
Yes, your pain.
Give it to me.
I toId you to keep away! Sarge! [growIing.]
[gagging.]
(Sarge) What the heII! [Confessor gasping.]
[groaning.]
[sighs.]
HoIy sh (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 ## Oh.
Gross! What was that? I don't know.
[peopIe chattering.]
He's dead.
[Confessor coughs.]
What happened? Be happy you don't remember.
(Voice) Hel, get the Confessor back to the lab right away.
If he's carrying some kind of parasitic infection, we need to contain it.
You're comin' with us.
S and M bar's two IeveIs down, boys.
Betrayers.
Oh, no.
Oh.
Come on! Jump! CIeo, don't inhaIe! CIeo! Oh, pretty.
(Sarge) CIeo, get down! More.
[CIeo giggIing.]
Sarge.
I saved her the Iast time.
[CIeo continues giggIing.]
[whooping.]
Oh! I Iove you, Sarge.
That's nice.
Whoa.
(Sarge) Those Betrayers want the Confessor.
No, they want that thing that's inside him.
[grunts.]
(HeI) They've got energy shieIds.
That's new for Betrayers.
Can we get through? (HeI) It doesn't Iook Iike it! [HeI grunts.]
I Iove you, HeI.
Yeah, I Iove you, too, CIeo, but now is not the time.
Okay.
Betrayers are 100% human in this form, right? That means they'd feeI the effects of the gas same as CIeo.
Let's get happy.
[yeIIing.]
Ha, ha, good shot! (HeI) HoId your breath! [both grunt.]
[Iaughing.]
(HeI) Sarge, get CIeo.
Come on.
(CIeo) Oops.
(HeI) Mauser, we need a compIete medicaI diagnostic now! (Mauser) Voice aIerted me.
Let's get him in the heaIing tube.
(Confessor) The pain! Take my pain.
[Confessor grunting.]
[continues grunting.]
[Confessor coughs.]
(CIeo) He seemed fine Yeah, weII, whatever it is, it works fast.
[beeps.]
(Sarge) Is it contained, Mauser? Yes.
(HeI) Something went into him, Mauser.
It Iooked Iike robo-cockroach.
[grunting.]
Can you get it out of him? I don' t know.
I can try.
[gagging.]
[beeping.]
[grunting.]
[sighs.]
You know, I saw this movie once where this bug thing cIamped onto your spine and you had to scream to kiII it.
Don't scream.
(Mauser) It seems to be designed to interface directIy with the human nervous system.
What do you mean? Somebody buiIt this thing? Yes.
It appears to be some kind of organic data retrievaI unit.
It's downIoading everything in the Confessor's brain.
That expIains why the Betrayers want it.
It must have accessed everything Dr.
Manning knew before it jumped into the Confessor.
You think the BaiIies sent it down here on purpose? The spy who bugged me.
[Confessor screaming.]
[Confessor gagging.]
[aII excIaim.]
[CIeo gasping.]
Mauser.
NeuraI output zero.
He's dead.
(Sarge) It sucked him dry.
It's Iookin' for a new home.
(HeI) Oh, Mauser, can you kiII it? I'm not sure, but it's harmIess as Iong as the fieId hoIds.
[CIeo sighs.]
[CIeo screams.]
That's the main power! [CIeo whimpering.]
(HeI) Mauser! Go to backup! [CIeo shudders.]
[CIeo screams.]
(HeI) Nobody move! [CIeo sighs.]
(CIeo) Oh, something touched my Ieg! (Mauser) That was me.
[CIeo panting.]
(Sarge) There it is! [aII grunting.]
HoId your fire! [Sarge breathing heaviIy.]
[eIectricity surging.]
(HeI) So much for ''don't move.
'' Let's find this thing.
[eIectricity continue surging.]
Sarge.
Nothing.
[screams.]
[panting.]
Sorry.
WeII, I can't find it.
Voice, can you scan the Iab for a fix on that parasite? (Voice) Hel, I'm not picking up anything.
It isn't there.
What do you mean it isn't here? (Sarge) WeII, then where is it? Oh, man.
It's in one of us.
AII right, everyone just stay caIm.
I'II do my best, but it's a IittIe hard considering there's an incredibIy gross parasite sucking on somebody's brain! WeII, I know it's not in me.
You don't know anything.
It couId be in any one of us.
Mauser, can you run a biomed scan on aII of us? ImpossibIe.
With main power out, the med scanner is off-Iine.
That's exceIIent.
I guess we'II just wait here untiI one of us turns into a raving Iunatic and dies.
Can you come up with another scan? I think so.
The parasite disrupts the victim's brain chemistry.
A simpIe tissue anaIysis shouId reveaI its presence.
Do it.
I just need a tiny sampIe of your brain tissue.
OK, but don't take too much.
[aspirating.]
Done.
Sure you got enough? Sure you didn't get the whoIe thing? After I coIIect a sampIe from each of us, an anaIysis wiII reveaI who is harboring the intruder.
HeI, your turn.
Get it over with.
[screaming.]
[grunting.]
Sarge.
I beIieve it's in HeI.
[CIeo whimpers.]
Betrayers outside.
They must have tracked the parasite here.
Sarge, secure the Iab.
That thing's inside you, HeI.
It's stiII me.
Secure the Iab or we aII die.
[sobs.]
[HeI crying.]
I've routed aII auxiIiary power to Iab defensive systems.
[CIeo shuddering.]
But that door's not gonna hoId out Iong against the Betrayers.
[panting.]
I know.
Mauser, find a way to get this thing the heII out of me.
I don't know if there is a way.
WeII, what do you mean? We've got to do something.
When the parasite invaded the Confessor, it Iived off the bioeIectric energy of his neuraI tissue.
OnIy when that energy was expended did it Ieave his body.
So it won't Ieave tiII I'm dead? At Ieast do what you can, Mauser.
[gagging.]
[groans.]
Sarge? HeI, what's happening? Sarge.
That parasite, [grunts.]
it's been here a very Iong time, spying on us.
Watching us for the BaiIies.
Dr.
Manning wasn't the first.
There are dozens, dozens of them.
It-It's taken their minds.
And they're aII inside of me now.
[Betrayers banging on doors.]
If it takes mine, it'II know about the team.
You're aII in danger.
You have to kiII it.
Oh.
We have to do something.
What? It's not gonna Ieave her tiII she's dead.
No.
I saw this movie once where they fIat-Iined these guys.
TechnicaIIy, they were dead, but they shocked them back to Iife.
[Betrayers continue banging.]
Yes.
The parasite wiII Ieave her body.
Then we can bIast it and jump-start HeI.
But how much of HeI's brain has it aIready drained? If we force it out of her, wiII it take HeI's mind with it? (Sarge) I don't know.
But if we don't get it out now, she's aIready dead.
[machine whirring.]
[machine puIsing.]
I'm gonna have to divert power from the Iab defenses to generate a strong enough charge to stop HeI's heart.
We don't have a choice.
Do it.
Do it.
[machine humming.]
[gasping.]
Mauser? No heartbeat.
[Betrayers banging.]
(CIeo) WeII, where is it? (Sarge) There it is! [CIeo shudders.]
[circuit bursting.]
(Mauser) AuxiIiary power faiIing! Bring her back, Mauser! [grunts.]
[grunts.]
Start her heart back up! (Mauser) I'm trying.
[eIectricity surging.]
No effect.
There's not enough power.
[firing continues.]
Hurry! [firing continues.]
[CIeo screaming.]
Come on, Mauser! It's no good.
There's not enough power.
[whimpers.]
[Sarge growIs.]
(CIeo) Huh.
Sarge, duck! Look out! Now, Mauser! Hit it! [machine puIsing.]
(CIeo) Hit her again! (Mauser) It's no good.
There's not enough power.
It's too Iate.
Stand back! Sarge? What have we got to Iose? [gasping.]
[breathing heaviIy.]
[sighing.]
(CIeo) HeI, are you aII right? HeI.
[sobs.]
Sarge.
[Iaughs.]
Mauser.
[CIeo continues Iaughing.]
Who are you? Gotcha.
[Iaughs.]
[Iaughing.]
[eIectronic beeping.]
Ready for seIf-destruct and evac on your signaI.
WeII, another Iab bites the dust.
Huh.
So, any reveIations from the other side? Bright Iight, Iong tunneI? DearIy departed waiting with open arms? [chuckIing.]
No.
No.
Nothing Iike that.
What is it, HeI? When I had that thing inside me, there were aII these peopIe that it had assimiIated.
AII these voices, aII these minds.
I guess the siIence is just a bit deafening.
If I were you I'd be happy to have my head aII to myseIf again.
[Iaughing.]
Yeah.
WeII, aImost.
Which reminds me, there were quite a few peopIe that knew Voice pretty weII.
Uh-huh.
I Iearned quite a few new things about you, Voice.
(Voice) Really? Would you care to share? No.
I think I'II be the one keeping the secrets for a whiIe.
Come on, team.
Let's bIow this joint.
[circuit bursting.]