The Outer Limits (1995) s04e10 Episode Script

1 All right, Cotter, that should do it, We've proved our point, Cotter, can you hear me? Loud and clear, general, Then what the hell ya doing? Transformer needs a little tweaking as long as I'm up here, Mother of god! There, He's out of his mind, Not his mind, colonel, ( applause ) Thank you, That was a hell of an exhibition you put on, How do you feel? Like I could do it again, That won't be necessary, You passed that test with flying colors, We're ready for the transfer, Looks like we're all set, See you on the other side, Beginning transfer sequence, code alpha-0019, @ Somebody get me out of this contraption, I'm starving, All clear, Since our earliest beginnings, we have always believed in some form of transcendence, But when we finally discover how to transcend our own biological bodies, what exactly will we gain? And what will we leave behind? Hey, Greg, How am I doing? You're one magnificent creature, Well, that goes without saying, I meant how's my alter ego doing? Remarkably Well, considering what it's been through, Our friend here managed to deflect 50 kilowatts of electricity up on that tower today, Know what that would do to a normal human body? Toasted as a marshmallow, Look at this, Hardly a mark on him, That's pretty amazing, We've shot it, froze it, cooked it, tried to electrocute it, and it takes a licking, it keeps on ticking, Imagine a whole army of these things, We've done more than imagine it, With next generation commando group, a platoon of these could get through the most hostile enemy environment, Nuclear, biological, chemical, you name it, I won't pretend I'm not pleased with our success, with your Success, Cotter, Yeah, that's right, It's not the machine, it's the driver, Now we're done patting each other on the back, let's talk about our glitch, I'm halfway up that tower, and the servo-Valve in the left knee actuator malfunctions again, I thought you fixed that, I did fix it, Mm-hmm, That look like an xt433 sub-Routine to you? It sure does, No, it can't be, The xt433 was replaced by the xt434, or at least it should have been, I'd hate to be up to my ass in alligators and have a bum leg, I don't understand, I was sure I inputted the new sub-Routine into the system, It must have slipped past me, That's what 36 hours without sleep does to a man, Come on, let's leave the good doctor alone with his guilt, Thanks, ( romantic classical music playing ) Cotter, dinner's ready, Yeah, I'll be right there, What's all this? What does it look like? I thought we could have dinner by candlelight, A little romance never hurt anybody, So what else do you have planned this evening? Why, captain Mccoy, I can assure you that my intentions are strictly dishonorable, Lucky for me, So did you miss me? Terribly, Did you miss me? I couldn't think of anything else, Liar, What? Me? A liar? That's okay, I love you anyway, Not as much as I love you, God, I am ravenous, Oh, sorry, Dinner first, Fine, You outdid yourself as usual, Something wrong, hon? No, not really, All right, don't give me that, Spit it out, Okay, what did you do today? Sally I know, I'm not supposed to ask, So how's your steak? Done just the way you like it? Mmm, really tasty, Sally, I know that the last couple of months have been hard on you, Hard on me? I don't know if I've married man or a rumor, I'm sorry, I didn't mean that, I know how important this work is to you, Not just to me, What I'm doing is making the world a better place, a safer place, That sounds kind of corny, doesn't it? No, it doesn't sound corny, I'm doing this for us too, This is high profile, This will get me out of the trenches and into the spotlight, You wouldn't believe the brass involved, If I didn't love you so much, this wouldn't be so awful, Listen, we're entering the final phase of testing, It's going to be two more weeks, When we're finished, we'll get a bungalow on the beach, just the two of us, I'm not worried about a vacation, sweetie, I'm worried about you, I have never been more happy in my entire life, That's what scares me, You're never happier than when you're living on the edge, Whatever it is, I'm sure risk is involved, There's risk involved in getting out of bed, I'm okay, really, Sally, Hi, Pete, You startled me, Yeah, I have that effect on women, That bum of a husband of yours around? We just finished breakfast, He'll be right out, Sorry to keep running off with him like this, Don't say it if you don't mean it, You think I enjoy separating you lovebirds? Take care of him for me, Take care of yourself too, Sally, this is nothing but a series of training exercises, You say that like no soldier's ever been hurt in a training exercise, Don't worry, He'll be fine, Hey, take your hands off my wife, If I'd seen her first Well, you didn't, I, uh, I'll be in the car, Bye, Sally, Bye, Pete, Oh, come on, No, it's okay, I knew what I was getting into when I married you, Did you? No, ,,but you were damn handsome in that uniform, Okay, take care of yourself, I will, You too, I'll see you in a couple of days, Every time we finish one of these little exercises, you're always in a hurry to get me out of Cotter two, What is the margin exactly? We don't like keeping you in there, How long can your mind safely reside in the android's brain? Let's just say it's not a limit I'm anxious to test, Any particular reason? You are full of questions today, Expect me to have my higher Brain functions Deleted Without knowing everything you do? Look, we're getting these glitches straightened out, I promise, Cotter, ready for these last round of tests? Yeah, zap me over there, and turn me loose, I flew down to Washington last night, The president is Positively ecstatic over the progress we've been making, He wants me to tell you that you're in line for a promotion, Don't expect me to start saluting and calling you sir, We're ready, gentlemen, Let's rock and roll, You all set, Cotter? Yeah, all set, Last chance to abort, I'm starting to get used to this, Let her rip, Beginning transfer sequence, code alpha-0019, What's happening? ( Greg ) the circuits are overloading, Well, do something, I'm trying, What's happening? I don't know, ,,uh, ,, turn it off! Open the door! I can't! I can't! Indications of major thermal trauma Several full thickness or third degree burns of the epidermal layer, Each of these burns appears to have a central charred zone and a peripheral Grey-White zone necrosis, Tissue samples, Get out of my way, Stand back, sir, They're working on me in there, You'd better get in there and try and calm him down, Let me in, Pete, I can't, That's my body, Pete, I have a right to see what's going on, Whatever's happening in there, there's nothing you can do, How could this happen, Pete? How? I don't know, Cotter, I understood all systems were go, It must have been a freak malfunction of some sort, It's over, isn't it? Leave us, gentlemen, Tell me, Cotter, your body suffered extensive tissue degeneration, We won't know the full extent of the damage till after the autopsy, This can't be happening, It can't be, Do something! You have to bring me back! Do you hear? Bring me back! We can't, Cotter, No one, ,,can, I'm sorry, I'd liketo think this was an accident, Either that or, ,, or what? As much as we've tried to keep the screws tight, it is possible that someone may have slipped in, committed an act of sabotage, We know of at least two other military android programs under development in less than friendly countries, The first coalition to put android soldiers onto the battlefield will have a decided advantage, Are you suggesting that someone did this deliberately? I'm just pointing out some options we should consider during the course of our investigation, I must be part of that investigation, Don't even think about cutting me out of this one, If somebody did kill me, I want to be there when we find out who, It's what I was afraid of, The electric current passed into the brain itself, There are lesions and burnt tissue all they way down the corpus callosum into the cerebellum, Even if I could have started your heart again, it wouldn't have done any good, I'm sorry, Cotter, What am I going to tell Sally? How will I break it to her that her husband, the man that she loves, is dead? But that his mind is still alive inside a machine? Cotter, ,, your, ,,hand, The interface between your mind and your android body is starting to break down, Your android brain operates on the same principles as a human brain, The synapses in the small section of your motor cortex are either misfiring or not firing, What's causing it? We don't know, You're certain It's a breakdown? It could be isolated, He's right, My hand is fine now, You knew this was going to happen, didn't you? During our initial testing phase with other primate subjects, the same degradation occurred, Your android apes had this problem? Yes, We think the stress you suffered since the accident this morning has speeded up the degradation, How much time do I have? 12 hours at the outside, 12 hours? And then what? My whole damn body starts twitching? The pattern of decay varies, but the end is the same, You'll gradually, maybe not so gradually, lose control over your extremities, and then ultimately you'll be unable to speak or move or perform any other function, Damn you, Greg, You knew about this, and you didn't tell me, You knew there were risks when you volunteered, Things were going so well, I didn't think about the risks any more, Sally knew, Pete, Not the details, but she knew it was dangerous, I have to see her, tell her What's happened, That's not a good idea, How would you tell her? There are tests we can run, Cotter, Working together, we might be able to slow the degradation, If you don't know how to stop it now, you won't figure it out in the next 12 hours, General, I request permission to go see my wife, I'm sorry, captain, Let me get this straight, Are you saying I'm a prisoner? Cotter, Follow my instructions, and no one will get hurt, You don't know what you're doing, Never argue with a man who has nothing to lose, In there, We can't have a $2-Billion weapon system running around on the loose, When we're out of here, I must return to Washington and brief the president and the nsc, That leaves colonel Butler in Charge, Colonel, you have express orders to either recapture captain MCCOY or terminate him by any means necessary, With all due respect, general, as long as that android's alive, so are Cotter's chances, He'll listen to reason, If you won't take the necessary action, I'll find someone who will, ( easy listening music playing ) ( doorbell ringing ) Somebody there? Sally, Who is it? Where are you? It's me, Sally, It's Cotter, Cotter, what are you doing? Turn off the porchlight, Why? Just do it please, Cotter? You're scaring me, I'm sorry, I don't mean to, Why are you hiding from me? Is everything all right? For the moment, Well, this is silly, Come inside, honey, I, ,,I can't stay, I just had to see you, Come up onto the porch, No, stay there, Are you all right? I can call a doctor, No, Damn it, Cotter, what is it? What have they done? Cotter? I know it sounds incredible, I'm the first human prototype, The first human to be downloaded into the prototype to be more precise, Why? It was an experiment, to fuse the electrical field that made up my mind, maybe even my soul into a synthetic body, Oh, this can't be, This is just, ,, look at me, Sally, I'm trapped inside this damn machine, I didn't want you to see me like this, There was an accident at the lab, This is all that's left of me, ( doorhandle turning ) I have to get out of here, Well, I'm going with you then, No, it's too dangerous, Don't argue with me, not now, Hold it right there, captain! Cease fire, damn it! Cease fire! You two go! Let's go! Watch the girl! Hold your fire! Hold your fire! ( intercom ) Dr, Olander, you have a call on line three, This is Dr, Olander, Nice place you have here, Greg, Cotter, is that you? I just met your father, I didn't know he was in town, You never tell me these things, What are you doing in my house? I want you here alone, And you better make it fast, Isn't there something that we can do? Maybe Olander's figured something out, We'll know soon enough, What have you done with my father? He wanted to lie down, He's fine, He's asleep, He's old, Even so, he's going to live a hell of a lot longer than I'm going to, Talk to me, Greg, Tell me what went wrong, You must have some idea, some theory, some possible scenarios, I don't, There hasn't been enough time, I'm losing motor control, The convulsions are more frequent now, I need your help, and I'm going to get it one way or the other, There's nothing I can do, Cotter, Cotter, don't, Stay out of this, Sally, This is between me, ,,and the monster who turned me into this! I'm on your side, Cotter, Don't you see that? My heart and soul are in this project, Why would I sabotage it? Somebody did sabotage it, didn't they? I don't know, Cotter, please, Please, Cotter, Cotter, stop it! All right, all right, I'll tell you what I know, The accident was caused by a missing feedback suppressor, Somebody removed it just before the last transfer, Who? I don't know, But you have, ,,an idea, ( sighing ) I discovered an anomalous pattern in the software logs, It appears that someone removed the disk with the operating code and replaced it with an earlier generation of the program, One of your technicians? No, not possible, They're not allowed into the transfer room when we're not working, They don't have access to the entire operating system, Only four people have unlimited access to the program on disk, You, me, general Chase, ,, and Pete, But, ,, no, it can't be Pete, Cotter, Why not? He's been feeling passed over ever since we started with me for the first downloading, He even pushed for a parallel program and volunteered to be next in line, Maybe he couldn't wait, But why? Why would he do it? I thought of trying to find a suitable donor, A donor? You can put my mind into another man's body? Theoretically, Where we'd find such a donor, one that would pass compatibility requirements, ,, there just isn't time, Then think of something else, Well, there is one other option, but it's really a long shot, I don't have many options, I don't know if this would work, It'll only be temporary, What? What is it? It may be possible to slow down the degradation process by using the Meg, Meg? What is that? The magneto- Electro-Encephlograph to incrementally realign the spin axes of the neural array, That might give us the time we need, We can only try this back at the lab, The research center is crawling with commandos, General Chase gave out orders that you're to be terminated on sight, Well, there's got to be another way in, There is, There you go, Unauthorized Visitors are not permitted, This is Cotter Mccoy's wife, ( Sally ) I was taken against my will, but I got away and called Dr, Olander here, Listen, okay, my husband is no longer my husband, He's crazy, out of control, and he's got to be stopped, She may be our best chance of finding him, I'm sorry, but I have my orders, Look, you idiot, I am the lead scientist for a top classified project, If you want to explain to general Chase why you were playing tin soldier while a $2-Billion piece of technology got destroyed, good luck with your new career as a dishwasher! Thank you, No, Not yet, I'll start preparing the scanner beep, Tell me the truth, Greg, Do you really think This is going to work? I don't know, I've never tried it before, Please, Please, Cotter! Are you all right? I'm all right, but I, ,, don't think I have much time left, Let's get you into the chamber, Don't worry, He'll get you back, And when he does, I'll be here waiting, Pete, ( Greg ) He's gone through the transfer, What do you think of the new look, Cotter? Be honest, Is it really me? What's wrong, Cotter? Don't you recognize your old Buddy, Pete? Guess you didn't know that Greg and his minions built a second prototype, a back-up, in case you failed, Let him go, There'll be plenty of time to deal with you later, as soon as I take care of my friend here, It was jealousy, wasn't it? Don't flatter yourself, That's why you arranged to kill me, You were in the way, We were friends, Pete! We'd been through everything together, With you always in the lead, Whenever we were up for promotions, they always went to you, You learned how to play the game better, With you around, I'd be second best, You're the one who's been stealing the operating codes, I knew someone would start sniffing it out, How is that bum knee, Cotter? You betrayed your best friend, This was not about friendship, This was about all those years of being ignored, They can't ignore me any more, can they, good Buddy? Give it up, Cotter, Your mind-Body Link's nearing termination, Your convulsions are getting worse, Cotter! Code Alpha, the red key, Cotter! Cotter! You did it, ,, Sally, You did it, No, Cotter, no, I, ,, love, ,, you, ( warning buzzer Beeping ) Thank you, Murray, Your husband was a True hero, mrs, Mccoy, The army owes him a great debt, Thank you, general, I'm terrible sorry about Cotter, mrs, Mccoy, Thank you, doctor, If anyone understands, it would be you, How are you holding up? I'm getting by, I guess, Pete here has been a great comfort to me, Yes, I imagine he has been at that, I love you, Let's go home, Cotter, ( car starting ) ( control voice ) a great philosopher once said the endeavor to persist in its own being is the essence of the individual thing, But when the day comes that the mind and body can be separated, what will happen to the soul? Captioning performed by Western captioning service ltd, Vancouver, B, C, 1998