The Outer Limits (1995) s04e08 Episode Script

1 (chickens clucking) HELLO, SHAL, (chickens clucking) (screaming) SHAL? MOTHER? (screaming) MOTHER! COME TO HER, MOTHER! WHERE'S MOTHER? MOTHER! GET SOME HELP, FIND HELP, MOTHER! SHAL! MOTHER! WHEN DID IT START? JUST AFTER LUNCH, BUT IT'S GETTING WORSE, THAT'S BECAUSE IT'S TIME, YES, YES, STAY CALM, IT WILL BE OVER SOON, TRY TO BREATHE NORMALLY, THAT'S BETTER, YOU'RE ALMOST THERE, THAT'S IT, SHAL, IT'S COMING, GOOD! PUSH! PUSH! YOU'RE DOING FINE, YES! PUSH! GOOD! I SEE IT! YES, (Mother cooing) (baby crying) MOTHER? YES, ROAN? WHAT, ,,IS IT? (Control Voice) THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH YOUR TELEVISION, DO NOT ATTEMP TO ADJUST THE PICTURE, WE ARE NOW CONTROLLING THE TRANSMISSION, WE CONTROL THE HORIZONTAL AND THE VERTICAL, WE CAN DELUGE YOU WITH A THOUSAND CHANNELS OR EXPAND ONE SINGLE IMAGE TO CRYSTAL CLARITY AND BEYOND, WE CAN SHAPE YOUR VISION TO ANYTHING OUR IMAGINATION CAN CONCEIVE, FOR THE NEXT HOUR, WE WILL CONTROL ALL THA YOU SEE AND HEAR, YOU ARE ABOUT TO EXPERIENCE THE AWE AND MYSTERY WHICH REACHES FROM THE DEEPEST INNER MIND TO THE OUTER LIMITS, CHILDREN, HAVE YOU ALL HAD ENOUGH? THE HARVEST HAS BEEN SO GOOD THIS YEAR, (control voice) THROUGHOUT HISTORY, MAN HAS BEEN DRIVEN TO SEEK OUT HIS ORIGINS TO DETERMINE WHETHER HE'S THE RESULT OF A DIVINE PLAN OR MERELY THE SUM OF ALL HIS YESTERDAYS, BUT WHAT HAPPENS IF, AT THE END OF HIS SEARCH, HE SHOULD DISCOVER HE'S NEITHER? IT'S A GOOD LIKENESS, BUT IT HAS A FORM SHE NO LONGER HAS, THE BODY HAS RESUMED ITS PREVIOUS SHAPE NOW THA SHE IS NO LONGER WITH CHILD, I DIDN'T KNOW, IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE SHE WAS HERE, IS SHE COMING BACK SOON? MAYBE, BUT FIRST WE WANT TO MAKE SURE SHE'S WELL ENOUGH TO RETURN, YOU SAID SHE WAS OKAY, SHE IS, BUT THE BIRTH WAS HARD ON HER BODY, AT THE OBELISK, WE CAN WATCH HER AND THE CHILD, THEN LET ME GO THERE, NO, IT WOULD MEAN LEAVING THE COMMUNITY, IT'S TOO FAR AND TOO DANGEROUS FOR YOU, WILL HE REALLY GROW UP TO LOOK LIKE US? OF COURSE, BOTH OF YOU CREATED HIM, YES, BUT WE DON' LOOK LIKE YOU, AND YOU CREATED US, THAT'S BECAUSE WE ARE VORAK, I'VE TOLD YOU THIS BEFORE MANY TIMES, IT'S NOT NECESSARY FOR THE PAREN TO LOOK LIKE THE CHILD, BUT ENOUGH OF THIS, I'VE BROUGHT K'REN WITH ME, I DON'T WANT ANOTHER COMPANION, WE'VE DECIDED THAT IT'S BETTER FOR YOU AND FOR THE COMMUNITY THAT YOU HAVE ONE, YOU SAID SHAL WAS COMING BACK, EVENTUALLY, BU IN THE MEANTIME, K'REN WILL BE MORE THAN SUITABLE AS A MATE, I'VE SEEN YOU LOOK AT HER, IT'S NO THE SAME, WHY NOT? DOESN'T SHE APPEAL TO YOU? IS THERE SOMETHING WRONG WITH HER? SOMETHING I DON'T UNDERSTAND? NO, ,,NO, OF COURSE NOT, THEN YOU'LL ACCEP OUR DECISION, (cooing) (cooing) YOU'VE BEEN ALONE TOO LONG, BRAV, NO, I HAVEN'T, I'M SORRY, BUT MOTHER SAID, SHE CAN' MAKE ME, (dog whining) (barking) LOOK AT HIS FACE, COME ON, ROAN, CONCENTRATE, MOTHER'S WRONG, IT DOESN'T RESPOND TO MENTAL COMMANDS, PICK UP THE STICK! I DON'T KNOW WHY SHE THINKS IT SHOULD LIVE WITH US, WHAT'S HE DOING? I DON'T KNOW, NO MATTER WHAT I DO, IT JUS SITS THERE, GOOD, GOOD! (barking) HE'S FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE BOUNDARY, ROAN! STOP! SHAL, GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN, IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU, I MISSED YOU WHEN YOU WEREN'T HERE, WHAT'S WRONG? I'M NOT STAYING, THEY KEP OUR CHILD, BRAV, THEY TOOK HIM AWAY FROM ME, THEY WANT TO KEEP HIM AT THE OBELISK UNTIL HE'S OLDER, MAYBE THEY DIDN'T THINK YOU COULD LOOK AFTER HIM, THEY'RE WRONG! I'M GOING TO GET HIM BACK, WHY? HE'S IMPORTANT TO ME, BUT ISN' HE STILL AT THE OBELISK? THAT MEANS YOU'D HAVE TO CROSS THE BOUNDARY AGAIN, THE MONITOR BAND WON'T LET YOU, I KNOW HOW TO TAKE THEM OFF, HOW? THERE'S A TOOL THEY USE, IT'S IN THEIR HOUSE, I'VE BEEN ABLE TO WATCH THEM, WE CAN GET IN THEIR HOUSE NOW WITHOU THEIR KNOWING, AND I CAN TAKE OFF ALL THE MONITOR BANDS, WHY WOULD WE WANT THAT? THIS IS OUR HOME, WE'RE SAFE HERE, I DON'T WAN TO GO, I DON'T KNOW, BRAV, ,, YOU'RE MY MATE, I NEED YOUR HELP, BUT THIS? SHE'LL BE ANGRY, I DON'T CARE! YOU SHOULD, GOING INTO MOTHER'S HOUSE, TAKING SOMETHING OF HERS, THEN LEAVING WITHOUT TELLING HER? IT ISN'T RIGHT, TAKING OUR CHILD! THAT ISN'T RIGHT! WHY CAN'T YOU UNDERSTAND THAT? DON'T ANY OF YOU UNDERSTAND THAT? (gasping) DOES THIS MEAN YOU'LL COME? I THOUGHT ABOU BEING LONELY, I DON'T WAN TO FEEL THAT AGAIN, EVEN IF IT MEANS LEAVING THE COMMUNITY, THERE'S LIGHT, BUT THERE'S NO FIRE, HOW'S THAT POSSIBLE? THE VORAKS HAVE MANY SECRETS, WHAT ARE THESE THINGS? I DON'T KNOW, BUT I DON'T LIKE IT, LET'S HURRY, DO YOU KNOW YOUR WAY TO THE OBELISK? THERE'S A PATH, LIKE IN THE OPEN AREA, BUT NOT AS EASY TO WALK ON, THERE IT IS! SHAL, MOTHER SAID IT WAS DANGEROUS PAST THE BOUNDARY, THAT WE DON'T BELONG THERE, YOU BELIEVE HER? DON'T YOU? NOT LIKE I DID BEFORE THEY TOOK ME AWAY, BRAV, LOOK AT THIS, IT'S A REFLECTION, LIKE THE ONES MOTHER MAKES OF US, WITH PEOPLE IN IT, I'VE NEVER SEEN THEM BEFORE, AND WE WERE TOLD THERE WEREN' ANY OTHERS, THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG ABOUT THIS, ABOUT ALWAYS KEEPING US HERE, ABOUT TAKING OUR CHILD, I DON'T TRUST THEM ANY MORE, GOT IT, (entry pass beeping) HOW MUCH FURTHER IS THE OBELISK? I DON'T KNOW, IT'S TAKING LONGER TO WALK THROUGH THIS THAN I THOUGHT, AND WHEN NIGHT COMES, WE WON'T BE ABLE TO SEE THE PATH, MAYBE WE SHOULD GO BACK, THEY'LL NEVER LET US LEAVE AGAIN, WE WON'T HAVE ANOTHER CHANCE, BUT MAYBE THERE'S ANOTHER WAY, I ASKED MOTHER IF I COULD TAKE HIM BACK, SHE WOULDN' ALLOW IT, BRAV, I DON' LIKE THIS ANY MORE THAN YOU DO, WHAT'S WRONG? SHAL! ARE YOU OKAY? IT STUNG ME! (sobbing) PART OF IT'S IN YOUR LEG, CAN YOU GET IT OUT? I DON'T KNOW, I THINK IT'S MAKING ME SICK, OH! STOP IT! STOP IT! PLEASE! STOP IT! I CAN'T! GET IT OUT OF ME! DO SOMETHING! MAYBE IF I CUT IT! DO IT! DO IT! (screaming) THE CAVE CONTINUES ON, BUT I COULDN'T SEE BEYOND WHERE IT NARROWS, WE'RE LUCKY IT WAS SO CLOSE TO THE PATH, I'M LUCKY YOU WERE HERE TO HELP ME, THANK YOU, I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT I WAS DOING, BUT ALL I CAN THINK ABOUT NOW IS WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED, FOR A WHILE, ,, I THOUGH I MIGHT LOSE YOU FOREVER, I'M ALL RIGHT NOW, IF WE EVER GO BACK, AT LEAST WE WILL HAVE SEEN THE WORLD BEYOND, NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS, I AM NO GOING BACK WITHOUT OUR CHILD, DO YOU EVER THINK ABOUT HIM, BRAV? WHAT DO YOU MEAN? I MEAN DO YOU MISS HIM? OUR CHILD NEEDS US, ,,BOTH OF US, BUT, SHAL, ,, ALL I KNOW OF HIM, I KNOW THROUGH YOU, I HELD HIM ONCE WHEN HE WAS BORN, I CAN'T EVEN REMEMBER WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE, HE LOOKS DIFFERENT, HE CHANGES, HE'S SO SMALL, SO WEAK, WHEN I WEN TO THE OBELISK, YOU MISSED ME, THAT'S HOW I FEEL ABOUT HIM, DON'T YOU FEEL THE SAME? EVEN A LITTLE? (sighing) I'M NOT SURE I DO, I UNDERSTAND, (distant banging) (wings flapping) BRAV? BRAV?! OVER HERE! TAKE MY HAND, LOOK, WHAT IS THIS PLACE? I'M NOT SURE, IT MAY BE A HOME OF SOME SORT, WHOSE? I DON'T KNOW, THESE AREN'T VORAK, BRAV, THEY'RE LIKE US, THE WAY THEY'RE HOLDING IT, IT WAS THEIR CHILD, THEY WERE TRYING TO PROTECT IT, ,, FROM SOMETHING, ,, SOMETHING AWFUL, THEY COULDN'T, IT'S LIKE ONE OF MY CARVINGS, WHO DO YOU THINK THEY WERE? THEY MUST BE THE PEOPLE IN THE REFLECTIONS THAT WE LOOKED AT, THE PEOPLE WE DIDN'T KNOW, MAYBE THEY'RE OUR PARENTS, NOT THE VORAK, DO YOU THINK THEY COULD HAVE BEEN HIDING FROM THE VORAK? THEY WERE HIDING FROM SOMETHING, OR THEY WERE HIDING THEIR CHILD, WHICH MIGH EXPLAIN WHY THEY WEREN'T WEARING MONITOR BANDS, SO THEY COULD HAVE TAKEN THEM OFF LIKE WE DID, SO MOTHER WOULDN'T FIND THEM, MAYBE MAYBE THEY TOOK THEIR CHILD FROM THE OBELISK, AND THE VORAK BECAME ANGRY, IT JUST DOESN' MAKE SENSE, I MEAN, THEY'VE LOOKED AFTER US ALL OUR LIVES, THEY'VE NEVER HURT US, EXCEPT WHEN WE TRIED TO CROSS THE BOUNDARY, EXCEPT WHEN WE WANTED TO LEAVE THE COMMUNITY, LOOK, LOOK I REMEMBER THIS FROM WHEN THEY TOOK US TO THE OBELISK, WE'RE CLOSE, I KNOW WE ARE, (gasping) IS THA WHAT STUNG ME? ONE JUST LIKE IT, BE CAREFUL, DON'T GE TOO CLOSE, IT'S OKAY, I THINK IT'S DEAD, (screaming) SHAL, STAY CLOSE, THERE MIGHT BE MORE OUT THERE, LISTEN, (crawlers shrieking) IT'S LIKE THEY'RE TALKING TO EACH OTHER, THEY'RE GETTING CLOSER, (crawlers shrieking) WE BETTER GO, I CAN'T, MY, ,, MY LEG HURTS, I CAN'T RUN ON IT, WE DON'T HAVE A CHOICE! BRAV, I CAN'T GO THIS FAST, MY LEG, TRY AND KEEP GOING, WE'RE CLOSE, I CAN FEEL IT, WE SHOULD SEE I JUST PAST THE TREES, COME ON, SHAL, TRY TO KEEP UP! (screaming) BRAV, THE TREES! THEY'RE IN THE TREES! (crawlers shrieking) (crawlers shrieking) (Shal) THEY'VE STOPPED, MAYBE THE CRAWLERS HAVE A BOUNDARY, JUST LIKE WE DO, BRAV, LOOK, WE MADE IT, WE'RE AT THE OBELISK, THAT'S THE EDGE OF THE WORLD, BRAV, CAN YOU SEE WHA THEY'RE DOING? THEY'RE ALWAYS DIGGING FOR THINGS IN THE GROUND, I USED TO WATCH THEM, THEY NEVER SAID WHY THEY DID IT, COME ON, YOU SHOULDN' BE HERE, YOUR PLACE IS IN THE COMMUNITY, IT WASN'T SAFE TO LEAVE, IT WASN'T SAFE TO STAY, WE SAW WHAT YOU DID, I DON'T UNDERSTAND, I'M KEEPING OUR CHILD, HE MUST STAY WITH US, HE BELONGS WITH US, HIS PARENTS, HIS OWN KIND, BUT WE ARE YOU'RE NOT ANYTHING! NOT OUR PARENTS OR FRIENDS! NOTHING! YOU'VE LIED TO US ALL OUR LIVES, WE SAW OUR PARENTS' REMAINS, WE SAW WHAT YOU DID, WE'VE DONE NOTHING, THINK ABOUT YOUR CHILD, WHY WOULD YOU RISK HIS LIFE? HOW CAN YOU KEEP HIM SAFE? YOU CAN'T LOOK AFTER HIM THE WAY WE CAN, I CAN LOOK AFTER MY OWN, I CAN'T LET YOU, DON'T TOUCH HER! RUN! GET OUT OF HERE NOW! I CAN'T LEAVE YOU! I'LL FOLLOW YOU! GO! YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND! (screaming) (gasping) YOU MUST BE HUNGRY, (crawlers shrieking) (screaming) (screaming) (screaming) (crawlers smashing into car) (crawlers shrieking) (screaming) (laser guns blasting) IT'S FORTUNATE THAT YOU FORGOT SOMETHING, OTHERWISE WE WOULDN'T HAVE FOUND YOU, SHAL, I THOUGH YOU WERE HURT, I COULDN' STAND THINKING I WASN'T GOING TO SEE YOU AGAIN, THEY ONLY MADE ME SLEEP, WHAT ABOU OUR CHILD? THEY TOOK HIM, THEY MAY TRY TO PUNISH US, BECAUSE WE TOOK OUR CHILD? BECAUSE I HURT ONE OF THEM, WHAT? I WAS TRYING TO PROTECT YOU, I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO, AND I THOUGHT THA HE MIGHT HURT YOU OR HURT THE CHILD, SO I USED MY CUTTER, I COULDN'T STOP MYSELF, I WASN'T THINKING, NOW I WISH I HADN'T DONE IT, YOUR HEARTS ARE HEAVY! LEAVING THE COMMUNITY HAS BEEN HARD ON YOU, IT'S A BURDEN WE'D HOPED TO PROTECT YOU FROM, LIKE FEAR, GUILT, HATE, WE NEVER THOUGHT YOU'D GO OU TO FIND THEM ALL FOR YOURSELVES, WE WENT TO FIND OUR SON, AND WE FOUND HIM, IT'S A WORLD WITHOUT PITY FOR ITS CHILDREN, SHAL, SURELY YOUR JOURNEY HERE HAS TAUGHT YOU THAT, COME, (cooing) HE'S SO VERY IMPORTAN AND YET SO FRAGILE, BUT WE CAN' KEEP HIM FROM YOU, AND WE CAN'T KEEP YOUR WORLD FROM YOU, DOES THAT MEAN YOU'LL LET US LEAVE? THAT YOU'LL GIVE US OUR CHILD BACK? WE WILL CONTINUE TO WATCH OVER YOU, HOW DO WE KNOW YOU WON'T HURT US? LIKE YOU DID OUR REAL PARENTS? WE ARE YOUR REAL PARENTS, BRAV, WE CREATED YOU, RAISED YOU, LOVED YOU AS WE WOULD THE YOUNG OF OUR OWN SPECIES, WHAT MORE COULD YOU ASK FROM A PARENT? WHY DOES I MATTER SO MUCH THAT WE DON' LOOK LIKE YOU? (cooing) UNTIL THE CHILD, YOU AND THE REST OF YOUR COMMUNITY WERE ALL THERE WAS, BUT WE SAW REFLECTIONS, IT SHOWED THA THERE WERE PEOPLE JUST LIKE US, AND WE SAW WHAT REMAINED OF THEM IN THE CAVE WHERE THE CRAWLERS WERE, THOSE PEOPLE DISAPPEARED HUNDREDS OF YEARS AGO, LONG BEFORE WE ARRIVED, ALL THAT'S LEFT OF THEM ARE THE PIECES THA WE'VE DUG OUT OF THE GROUND AND OUT OF THE GREAT ICE SHEET, THEY WERE LIKE US? YES, THEY WERE, EVERYTHING YOU ARE, EVERYTHING YOU HAVE IS A REPLICA OF WHEN THEY LIVED, WE FOUND REFLECTIONS THAT SHOWED YOUR CULTURE, WE USED OUR GENETIC KNOWLEDGE TO CREATE ALL OF YOU FROM THE PARTS OF THEM WE FOUND, IN A WAY, THEY ARE YOUR PARENTS, THEN WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM? WE DON'T KNOW FOR SURE, A NATURAL DISASTER PERHAPS OR ONE OF THEIR OWN CREATION, WHO WERE THEY? FROM WHAT WE'VE DISCOVERED, THEY WERE BEINGS WHO HAD TO BE TAUGH THE VALUE OF LIFEFORMS DIFFERENT IN APPEARANCE FROM THEMSELVES, AND THEY DID LEARN, ,,EVENTUALLY, TOWARD THE END OF THEIR HISTORY, THEY EVEN RESURRECTED SOME SPECIES THEY'D PREVIOUSLY DRIVEN TO EXTINCTION, MUCH LIKE OUR MISSION TO RE-ESTABLISH LIFE WHEREVER IT HAS VANISHED, (cooing) WE BELIEVE THAT ANY SPECIES CAPABLE OF CORRECTING SUCH A TERRIBLE FLAW, OF FINALLY APPRECIATING THE BEAUTY THAT LIES IN DIVERSITY, DESERVES A SECOND CHANCE, THAT'S WHAT YOU ARE, A NEW BEGINNING, (cooing) YOU WERE RIGHT, HE DOES NEED BOTH OF US, (control voice) EVERY LIFE IS A DESTINATION UNKNOWN, A JOURNEY OF TRAGEDIES AND TRIUMPHS THAT ULTIMATELY ALLOWS US TO DISCOVER NOT ONLY OUR WORLD BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY,