Earth: Final Conflict s04e22 Episode Script

Previously on Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict Where is the source of this jaridian energy? Find it and destroy it! My god Liam! Look! - That's a jaridian replicant.
- No.
I saw his face.
It's Sandoval! It's some kind of body armor.
I can't turn us around.
Sandoval has a master lockout on the propulsion and guidance systems.
Where is he taking us? Double star, in the constellation of Cetus.
The Jaridian's home world.
Welcome to Jaridia! - What is your intention? - To trial and then to kill you.
Then to char all life from the face of the earth.
Let the humans leave! They were never our allies.
Their contact with you was enough to doom them.
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Sorry to pull you away from your dinner, Mr.
Urick.
I'm not to worry, the President can handle it.
The ambassador from Mali is reading a poem about his soy harvest.
A long Poem I was thrilled to have an excuse to leave.
What do we got, Georges? Our space net has detected a burst of taelon interdimensional energy coming from an object in orbit around Mercury.
- Any chance it's a mistake? - No, sir.
About half an hour ago, the object left mercury on a trajectory to earth.
Allright, transmit a demand for identification.
Use the ANA protocol.
And see who answers This is the Atlantic National Alliance Defence Command.
Hubble, we're back.
Kincaid! Well, I'll be damned.
Good to see you.
We thought you were dead.
Where's Renee Palmer? The mothership was hijacked to Tau Ceti.
We were nearly vaporized by a Jaridian battlecruiser commanded by Vorjak.
Renee is down on the drive bay, nursing enough power to bring us home.
Are you two in command of this thing yourselves.
Taelons only had a day or two of core energy left, that was a month ago.
The Taelons survive.
Vorjak left enough energy on board for us to make the trip back.
But we're in bad shape.
Our telemetry confirms the mothership's systems are down, including the weapon pods.
How many Taelons are alive? But without energy showers, they're barely conscious.
We're hoping to get back to Earth in time to rig up some kind of stasis - to keep them alive.
- You listen me Kincaid.
The Taelons are no longer welcome.
They disappeared, we dealt with it, and good riddance.
You get back here, get off that ship, and send them to kingdom come.
If Zo'or thinks he's gonna perch in earth orbit, he can forget it.
You tell him I have authority to blow the mothership out of the sky, and by god, I'll do it.
They have come to Earth with a promise of peace.
An alien race, called the Taelons.
But there are those who resist these alien Companions.
For the taelons true mission the secrets they hide will forever alter our world The fate of humanity now relies on those who dare challenge the future of Earth.
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- Hello.
- Suprise! I know, I promised I wouldn't get all misty but I thought you two had sailed off into the jaridian sunset forever.
- Almost, but not quite.
- Ho! not quite Street, the Taelons only have 21 hours left.
We need to keep the Taelons alive until you crack the last two dimensions of Ma'el's riddle.
- No! No, I'm through with Ma'el.
- Come on Street! The riddle in his relic is the key to their survival.
You're the only hope they've got.
Hope? Liam, it's because of me, because of this "gift" being able to think in multi-dimensions, nearly got the two of you killed.
You have any idea what it was like last month, thinking you were dead? I don't want to talk about 9-dimensional levels anymore.
You're back - Let's go out and have some fun.
- Street they're all that remain of their entire species.
They're ancient, advanced beyond our imagination.
And we can't let them die.
Our destinies are one; they are interwoven.
Don't start that destiny routine with me.
I don't owe anybody.
Besides, it's over.
Done, finished.
I roasted the data disk.
It's cyber dust.
Why would you do that? I tried so hard to break the 8th dimension, I was in one of those trances for three days.
I thought it would bring you back.
All I got was a very dehydrated body and a migraine so I made sure I would never try that again.
I don't wanna be responsible anymore.
So, you're willing to see a species become extinct? Renee, we can't make her do it.
The Taelons tried that once.
She's got to want to.
Until we can convince her, we've got to get the Taelons off the mothership and initiate stasis.
You summoned me? What I'm about to ask you is well worth your time.
I haven't much left.
I'm preparing for a departure to Earth in less than twelve hours.
Before you go, I wish to offer you the privilege of terminating me.
I don't think I heard you correctly.
Is this not the moment you've wished for, even dreamed of? You win, I lose.
Your skrill is more than capable of dissipating my energy.
Do it quickly.
I see.
"Give me immortality or give me death.
" - What are you talking about? - You're a coward Zo'or.
If you can't live forever, you'd rather not live at all.
But you're so afraid of a lingering death, you want a quick end.
Well, I'm sorry.
I'll no longer take orders from you.
I'll enjoy watching you just fade away.
That's it.
Eighth dimension As it was foretold by Ma'el, the light will come in the darkest hour.
The riddle in Ma'el's relic has been solved.
It's global.
The source is indeterminate.
What is it? Some kind of taelon super-weapon? Jaridian? We're not sure, Sir.
Someone, somewhere, has found the key to our survival.
What is it? Go to Defcon 3.
I'll brief the president.
I was just dancing, trying not to think about Ma'el, when it it just hit me.
Probably because I wasn't trying.
- I solved the 8th dimension.
- And the light? I don't know, I don't want to know.
It just started somehow.
I'm gonna take a migraine pill and try never to think about Ma'el again.
It's a beacon! - Where? - Right there, 2:00.
The Behring Sea.
It's the Kamchatka Peninsula.
Seems to be shining right out of that mountain.
Mount Karmenikov.
Volcano.
The bureau of seismology says she's dormant but not cold.
The last big eruption was over 3,000 years ago.
I'll touch down on the rim.
Beginning descent.
- What's happening? - Helm's not responding.
We're being pulled down the sky.
Hold on, Renee.
Few bumps and bruises.
The I.
D.
drives are operational.
She can still fly.
Look It's a lava tube on the side of the caldera.
That's where I have to go.
What happens here is the turning point Renee.
Earth's future I've seen these before.
Ma'el was here 2,000 years ago.
- Ma'el gone around.
Ireland, Peru.
- And Siberia apparently.
It looks like a datalog.
Power source is dead.
But something in here has an energy signal.
- Can you read that? - I think it says it's a portal.
- It leads to another chamber.
- Are you crazy? Your atoms could be smeared across a million miles of I.
D.
space, you don"t know.
Renee, I told you.
Something greater than I am is at work here.
something Something's drawing me.
Some Some instinct, maybe it's my Kimera heritage.
I don't know.
My father told me to have faith.
He hasn't let me down yet.
Activate your tracker and keep a comm line opened.
We've got less than 9 hours left.
- Renee? - I got you You're still on earth, but you're more than 1,000 Feet underground.
I'm in a chamber.
There's a pool.
Some kind of energy.
I can't scan it.
The walls are covered with more Ma'el's writing.
Street will study this.
Let's get her on it! See if Augur will come with her.
He's the authority on Ma'el.
Strange! Your coordinates, they keep shifting.
I'm walking back to the portal.
Hurry up! I don't like it.
First you're 100 feet up, then you're 30 feet below.
The portal's not activating.
It worked less than a minute ago.
It's dead.
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How is our progress, Prajak? Without inter-dimensional technology, this was a Do you question my command? No, Vorjak.
But our warriors would have preferred spending their final hours on Jaridia, rather than die a meaningless death in an obscure corner of the galaxy.
A meaningless death is staying on our home world than we as warriors of a final duty to our race.
We will reach the mothership! Jaridia will prevail! And we will die with honour.
If anyone can fix the 2000 neural portal, it's you.
Ho damn Liam always sticking his nose in the places where it doesn't belong.
Don't give me that look.
How was I supposed to stop him? Hold on! This isn't about either of you! We've got to get Liam out of there.
Ho! hold on here is your problem! Looks like your portal grid's out of juice.
Thanks! We knew that! If we'd been using our heads, Liam could have taken a portable portal down with him but he's stuck down there.
See if you can get the juice flowing again? Then we'll just gonna have to improvise Liam, it's Augur.
I'm on the case.
Listen What's your power situation? I feel a all lot better knowing you're here Augur.
There's power in the chamber but I can't find the source.
Well, then if there's power, then we just gonna have to get this baby back online.
Let's look under the hood, shall we? You okay? Oh, my god.
It's Ma'el.
In the flesh Holographically speaking that is.
He recorded this 2,000 years ago.
Liam Can you translate? After his ship crashed, Ma'el found an alien colony not Taelon, nor Atavus.
They came here 8 billion years before he did.
Atavus? - That's a Taelon proto-species, they're extinct! - Not totally, this is a healing chamber.
Ma'el designed it to regenerate the Taelons with the healing energy in the pool.
It's the Atavus residual life force.
The Taelons are descending from the Atavus; they might be compatible.
Ma'el knew that the dying taelons would follow him here.
This chamber was what he left for them.
Why involve humans? Why make someone solve a nine-dimensional code? To force the Taelons to collaborate with humans instead of dominate us.
Ma'el also said that two of us must assist the regeneration.
One kimera and one human, more evolved than the others but We gonna need his relic to solve the 9th dimension of the riddle.
Don't look at me! I'm not going near the 9th dimension.
And don't "oh, Street" me.
I came to help get you out of there, and that's it.
Renee is there a pilot at Doors that you can trust to keep a secret? - A pilot? What for? - Take the shuttle to the mother ship.
Have Da'an pick five other taelons and bring them back here, with Ma'el's relic.
In the meantime, we're gonna figure out how to engineer a miracle.
We saw the light, as it was foretold by Ma'el.
Liam has led the way to our salvation.
- There is new hope for my species.
- For six of you, at least.
That's better than extinction.
It would be impossible for me to select who lives and who dies.
Well, somebody has to It's the Titanic.
There are six seats on a life raft.
You have to lead Da'an! There is an ancient Taelon procedure.
Humans might call it a "triage".
We group our consciousness and our energy.
Once merged, the commonality of over Ma'el also said you'll need the relic that contains his original manuscript.
We maintain it in a secure chamber.
I shall retrieve it.
I must thank you, Miss Palmer.
My friend is trapped in a rock coffin.
I'll do anything it takes to save him.
Maybe the Taelons are ready to give up, Da'an Humans can resist a long shot.
And Taelons understand that long shots are pointless.
I now have the relic, Da'an, and have thereby reduced my risk to nearly zero.
Give me a report, soldier.
We detected a spurious energy signal.
Traced it to this device.
It doesn't appear on any of the mothership technical diagrams.
- Have you told anyone? - No, Sir, I informed you first.
Good.
Erase any log entries of this occurrence and investigate no further.
I'll take it from here.
Jaridians It is time.
Four hundred and five will enter and merge, and only six will leave.
How Zo'or plans on carrying out his selfish quest eludes me.
All of the portals are non-operational.
He has the relic, but we don't have time to wait.
Ready to leave when you are, with or without Zo'or.
Zo'or, what have you done? Observe the first rule of the galaxy, Da'an.
Energy may neither be created nor destroyed.
I have conserved what remained in several of our brethen for my own use.
This is an abomination! This is murder! You are damned.
Were you not about to ask them to merge so that you might live? I refuse to sacrifice my individuality to the commonality.
Rather I choose to regenerate alone and intact.
Relinquish the relic.
- Ma'el's prophecy is sacrosanct.
- Sacrosanct and subject to revision.
Time is precious.
I suggest you proceed quickly with this pitiful integration ritual.
By the time you reach the Atavus regeneration chamber, there will be one less bio-receptacle available.
Renee, what the hell are you doing? You're not authorized to be up there.
I've a team of Doors engineers working on an energy transfer that should allow for a controlled descent.
Don't waste your time.
We just pulled 4 ICBMs out of cold storage and being prepped for launch.
- Nuclear warheads? Hubble, they're banned! - Yeah, well, we kept some megatons under the perma-ice in Rostock.
Nothing like having a few nukes for a rainy day.
Hubble, listen to me.
Our destiny is linked to the Taelons.
The Taelons aren't our destiny.
They are a detour.
So spare me the palaver get your butts off that mothership now! That's an order.
Urick, you can shove your order.
Thanks for the update.
What? Renee says Hubble Urick has turned into Dr.
Strangelove and Zo'or's got Ma'el's relic.
Forget the relic, we fix the portal, get Liam back, we're out of here.
No Liam's right.
There's a divine plan out of this, this is got to be.
- Don't go cosmic on me Augur! - Me? Cosmic? You're the one with the multi-dimensional brain.
Hey! I know you think you're cursed, but your gifts equal - chaos.
- Look where we are Augur! - What more proof do you need? - You're smarter than that! You are Hey! What's the underlying principle to chaos theory? Infinite correlation, perfection made manifest.
That's how you fit into this all equation.
Stop it! Don't try to make this all add up, you can't.
Why? Because I'm no longer looking for an angle? Liam's right, Juliette.
This was all meant to happen, it was all meant to bring us here, now.
To bring humanity to this place.
The future of our entire species depends on what's going to happen next.
- Liam, what's up? - I think we've got similarities here, between Taelon stasis tech and these Atavan modules.
I'm gonna download some light data and send it your way, OK? Sounds good.
Transmitting.
Look at the particle dragging, it's intense.
I've been here before 8 dimensions.
This must be a glimpse of the 9th.
So, what do we do now? I don't know.
Isolate the Taelon components, see what we get.
Half-baked, but what the hell.
Liam, we're gonna transfer a first draft start-up protocol.
Hit me.
Good work.
The modules are responding to the Taelon protocols.
Sweet.
Liam, what's going on? - I think we've reactivated the energy pool.
- You're kidding? You can't question destiny, Street, it's just roll-roving.
I'm transferring the bio-readings back to you now, tell me what we have.
We've activated the regeneration sequence but according to this, we've only got an hour before it overloads.
Maybe even less.
The selection process has been completed.
I now carry a portion of the combined Taelon consciousness, as do five others, and they are on the way to the shuttle bay.
Let's get you all down to the regeneration chamber now, before Zo'or finds a way to get there first.
Zo'or still has the relic and we cannot locate him.
One problem at a time.
- Vorjak.
- Sandoval.
I can't let you board just yet.
I should not be surprised.
- You betrayed us once before.
- You sent the raiders to destroy Earth.
I remain true to our original agreement of mutual self-interest.
But now you trap us Why? To kill us? It is my fondest wish to see the Taelons annihilated.
It is not my wish to see my planet obliterated.
This is where I choose to live and prosper.
So I propose we agree on a new arrangement.
- What? - Spare Earth, and subjugate it, so that I may rule.
You have the weapons to dominate the entire planet, and I want them.
You give them to me, and I will deliver you the Taelons.
Agreed.
Intruder alert, deck five.
Intruder alert, deck five.
Follow me.
We need to get to the bridge deck quickly.
You promised me the Taelons.
Where are they? They've abandoned ship.
You may not have noticed Vorjak, but we're in a shutdown mode, without power, in an untethered, descending orbit.
- They've returned to Earth then, to die? - No to live.
To be resurrected by Atavan technology discovered in a regeneration chamber beneath the surface of the Earth.
There are six bio-receptacles ready to be inhabited.
On a first come for serve basis.
- Where is this place? - I don't know the precise location.
But I have tracked where the shuttle carrying the Taelons has gone.
Tell me now - or die! - We're all going to die, Vorjak.
Look at yourself, look at your men.
Your hyper-metabolisms are ready to implode.
You kill me, you kill yourselves, while the Taelons live on and on.
- What do you want? - Exactly what I asked for Earth.
Intact, under Jaridian dominion and my rule.
Access to the regeneration chamber is my insurance, and I'm not letting you go there without me.
Agreed.
Take us there at once.
In order to do that I'll need your help to power up a shuttle.
I assume you still have a ration of core energy with you.
No.
It was depleted during our voyage here.
But we can remove the energy packs from our weapons.
If we do that to supply power to the shuttle only, it should be enough for the journey.
Augur Street I'm burning up down here.
Are you still getting the bio-reading from the receptacles? Yeah holding steady.
- How's the portal coming? - Street, Augur There are five other Taelons in the shuttle.
Help me get them.
I'll have to get in line.
Liam comes out before a Taelon goes in.
Why that? We jump-started the regeneration cycle but it triggered an overload.
Da'an? - I have restored the reserve power.
- Get Liam out of there before he fries.
I regret, but the nature of this portal is mono-directional.
One way? Why the hell is that? Ma'el was worried that the Atavus might spontaneously regenerate and leave before the Taelons arrived.
I will go to Liam.
Perhaps I can reverse the portal's directionality from within the chamber.
We're at Defcon 5 Sir.
- Are there any humans still on board? - One.
An FBI Agent, Ronald Sandoval.
You're talking sub-human there.
- What about Renee Palmer? - We know her shuttle left the mothership.
We can't confirm if she was on board.
The mothership's shields are weakened.
She's nearly defenseless.
It should be a turkey shoot.
I'm not gonna try to rain on our own parade here.
I want to blow that mother to hell and be done with it, while it's on the far side of the moon.
Targeting coordinates have been set.
Missile command is standing by for launch authorization.
All right.
I'll recommend to the President that we do it now.
The energy packs have been integrated into the power grid.
Good! Computer, direct all but essential base level power to the shuttle bay.
- Unable to comply.
- Why? Power has already been diverted to the portal system.
Zo'or! He was aboard.
He'll reach the regeneration chamber before us.
We won't be far behind.
Computer, store portal coordinates.
Emergency alert.
Sensors have detected four incoming missiles with nuclear fission warheads.
Its target trajectory is portside.
Five minutes to impact.
Divert power to port shields! Change course headings: 207.
8 Major Kincaid? I heard you had preceded me here.
As always I am impressed with your resourcefulness.
Zo'or, how did you get the link? Da'an and your friend Miss Palmer unknowingly revealed to me the Atavus whereabouts, and Ma'el's divining rod was programmed with a preset link to this portal.
A useful antiquity, I must say.
What about the other Taelons? If you use one of those receptacles, - there won't be enough for everyone else.
- They are of no concern Because you see, Major Kincaid, the future is mine.
Zo'or, don't.
We haven't unlocked the 9th dimension of the riddle.
I'm getting a new bio-reading from the regeneration chamber.
We had an unexpected visitor.
- What? - Zo'or.
He portalled in, using Ma'el's relic.
Then he took a dip in the Atavus energy pool.
He tried to merge with their life force.
But Something went wrong.
Really wrong.
I am ready to join you now, Liam.
However, I must inform you, Ma'el designed this portal with one-directional capability only.
Look, I don't care how you do it but get my friend's butt out there somehow, someway.
- Do you understand? - Our friend understood.
Wait! Are you sure, Zo'or's history? - Why? - His residual energy is still in the chamber.
It started out chaotic but now it's elliptical.
Infinite correlation Divine oder Perfection made manifest! - What are you talking about? - That's where I have to be.
Vorjak! Change of plan.
We don't need the shuttle.
I have the datalink to take us the chamber.
- All we have to do is power the bridge portal.
- Impossible! Our weapons packs don't have enough energy to activate the I.
D matrix.
You'll have to divert power from the shields.
We can't render the ship defenses, those are nuclear warheads are coming at us! Shields are semi-deployed.
Impact in two minutes.
I do not wish to die in this Taelon crypt.
Do it! Liam! Liam?! Liam? Street, what are you doing down here? You were right.
Augur were right.
I'm not a curse, I'm a gift, just like you.
- A gift, I see that now.
- Okay, easy, easy.
Ha'gel and Ma'el, they were talking about us, in tandem, in time, in space and - Oh my god! Is that? - Zo'or I'm afraid so.
My child! He thought he could use Ma'el's relic and Atavus life force to gain immortality.
But it was an illusion.
- Perhaps it is not in our destiny to survive.
- No, no you're wrong! Listen to me Ma'el was a Kimera devoty, mystic wrote the Taelon party line whose prophecy said that your and your face alone, Liam, would appear from out of the code from Ma'el's riddle to unite the divided.
What about you? Do you fit into this? Where do you think my multidimensional gifts come from? From the same place that all creation finds its true origin: From the unifying field We are that unifying field of possibility, Liam.
We are the key to the 9th dimension.
We just have to go through the gate together.
You and me.
Human to human.
Maybe a little Kimera thrown in.
Shields are down, we've got to get off! - Inside! Move, now! - Vorjak Hel We will survive you after all, Da'an.
After we regenerate with the Atavus, we will take great pleasure in watching the last of your species die.
Look at him! Look at your ennemy Vorjak.
That's what will happen if you regenerate with the Atavus alone.
Lies! Why should I believe a human slave of the Taelons? It's real simple the only way for a Taelon or a Jaridian to survive is for both species to give up the fight and to return to their origins.
Together you were Atavus.
Together, and only together, you will survive as Atavus.
Liam, you've got to get the hell out of there now! The magma pressure in this volcano is about to shoot you to the roof.
I can't - I'm needed here.
Hey, didn't you hear what she said, this thing is about to blow.
Then, go, get to the shuttle and save yourselves.
We survived until the end of our kind, Da'an.
What now? Together, we shall go forward.
Goodbye, Da'an.
Goodbye, Liam.
And thank you, for all the brethren and for all time you were our salvation.
- Street, go! - No, we can't do it! It's a one-way portal.
- Yeah for me, not for you! - No, I meant to be here too.
Okay, if you were meant to be here, - the portal won't take you.
- No, I want to be here, Liam.
I'll see you on the outside! I promise! Now, get out of here! Thank god you made it.
Liam? No time for goodbyes, Renee.
- I just need to see this thing through.
- I understand.
It's his destiny now, and we're not part of it.
Let's go.
The Atavan life force It needs both Taelon and Jaridian energies to regenerate.
I don't know what they'll become, but it's in the hands of destiny now.