Dream Weaver (cont.)
(Hallway)
(They're still looking for the alien. They spot it running through the swim tubes.)
Brody: It's on the move!
Ford: (into PAL) O'Neil, seal of B Deck, now!
(O'Neil seals of B Deck.)
Brody: He's gone, we missed him.
Piccolo: Here give me that thing. Rumor has it there's a blind spot up around the lock port. I hide in it to get out of kitchen duty. I really doubt it's true, sir, but hey you never know… (suddenly the alien throws himself at the glass.) Must be true.
(The alien runs off down the tubes again.)
Bridger: O'Neil flood the tubes. (O'Neil does so.) Flood tubes six and seven, now! (O'Neil does.)
(We watch Henderson get swept away by the water.)
Lucas: It's Henderson, she's alive!
Piccolo: We've got her, sir.
Bridger: Let's close her down.
(Bridge)
(Piccolo has caught Henderson. They are in Darwin's pool. There is some kind of residual alien stuff in the pool.)
Brody: Grab her legs.
(They help her out of the pool.)
Lucas: I knew you'd make it. I knew you couldn't be gone.
Henderson: I was hiding from that thing. I crawled inside the ballasts…
Bridger: Easy, easy…just take it easy.
Henderson: I saw it get flushed out the ballasts tubes. It's gone, sir.
Bridger: Let's get her to Med Bay.
(They go to assist her, but Henderson stops them.)
Henderson: No, I can make it. I'm okay. (she leaves by herself)
Piccolo: When this is all over this tub's gonna need some serious spring cleaning.
Lucas: What is this stuff?
Piccolo: Excess cocoonage? It's jamming the swim tubes.
Bridger: It seems to be breaking up. Ortiz let's see if we can reboot the system.
Ortiz: Aye, sir. (does so) It's working, sir. Vid-link, oxygen, thrusters. Everything's coming back online.
Ford: We may be out of the woods.
Bridger: Brody, run a scan over all of seaQuest to make sure this thing is really gone.
Brody: Don't have to, sir. I can tell you right now it's still on board.
Bridger: Where?
Brody: Launch bay, and moving fast. (runs out)
(A Launch breaks through the shell surrounding the boat and heads off.)
(Bridge)
Bridger: Who's driving that thing?
O'Neil: I don't know, sir. They have their vid-link turned off.
Bridger: Start the security camera in the launch bay.
(O'Neil does so, and they watch as Henderson walks up and pounds on the doors. Nothing happens so she pounds on them again.)
Ford: What is she doing?
(Suddenly Henderson morphs into the alien. It hits the doors one more time and they open. It goes through and heads for the launch.)
Bridger: Ortiz, override it's power.
Ortiz: I can't, sir. That things completely fried that guidance system. I have no control over it.
(The vid-link is once again rebooting through memory, and is playing Tobias's message again.)
Keller: The vid-link always reboot through memory?
Ortiz: Just the last few uplinks. It's only got about 10K.
Keller: The same transmission played back when Henderson tapped into the EPS satellite system.
(They all stop and think about that as they realize what the alien is really after.)
(College - Lecture Hall)
(Tobias is giving a lecture to a room full of students.)
Tobias: So, we have mass times density into space. Giving us the so-called bending of time. But, if time does truly loop around in it's much ballywhod continuum, why then can we only remember the past and not the future?
Henderson: Because pure density only exists in absolute matter.
Tobias: But absolute matter doesn't exist. It's a concept, unless you mean the absence of matter Ms. Uh…
Henderson: Henderson, Lonnie.
Tobias: Ms. Henderson, Lonnie.
Henderson: No, that's not what I meant, I assume density is absolute.
Tobias: And you assume correctly. (The bell rings and the students begin to leave.) I will see you all Thursday. (He begins to gather his things together but realizes Henderson is still there.) Anything else, Ms. Henderson, Lonnie?
Henderson: Wouldn't the same mass density ratio also apply in absolutes?
Tobias: (laughs) No, it would not.
Henderson: Can I ask why?
Tobias: If I can ask why such enormous questions come from such a pretty voice.
Henderson: Okay, you caught me. I memorized them from one of your book discs. I was trying to get your attention by impressing you.
Tobias: And why would someone want to do that.
Henderson: I have a very curious mind.
Tobias: Are you as thirsty as I am, Ms. Henderson, Lonnie.
(Henderson smiles.)
(Outside the College)
(Brody, Ford, and their team make their way towards the classroom.)
Brody: Readings are red-lining. It's coming from that direction.
(Lecture Hall)
(Henderson and Tobias are having a drink.)
Tobias: What drives our need to understand these things that twinkle on around us? Isn't it just knowing that this great unknown is out there. The wonder, the sheer inspiration. Thou art the star for which all evening waits. Sorry, I'm a sucker for great inspiration. (she kisses him.) Did I do something to deserve that?
Henderson: I guess I'm a sucker for it too.
(They kiss again. When Tobias leans back Henderson morphs into the alien. Tobias rolls his eyes and tosses the alien across the room. The alien looks and sees Ford and Brody coming at it with guns and it runs off. Keller, Brody, and Ford all rush to Tobias's side.)
Keller: You threw that thing half-way across the room.
Tobias: More than half-way, I should think.
Keller: What's it want, Tobias? Why'd it come after you?
(Tobias gets up and moves over to a chair. As he sits down he morphs into an alien of the same kind.)
Tobias: Thank you for saving my life, my friend.
(All are notably shocked.)
(Later)
(Brody comes back in the room.)
Brody: We lost it in the woods. That thing could be anywhere by now.
Tobias: (still in alien form) It won't go far. (morphs back into his human self) I'm the one he wants. The only people in danger are the one's standing in the way of my execution. Oh, I should have seen this coming. I have no excuse for myself.
Ford: What about Henderson? Is she still alive inside that thing?
Tobias: Oh, your friend is fine. I never could have fallen for her if her soul wasn't human. I can smell my own kind a mile away.
Keller: What kind is that?
(Tobias goes over to a computer and brings up a chart of a solar system.)
Tobias: My world, Hyberion. 11 Million light years from Earth. Hitherto unobserved in your grand scheme of the universe.
Brody: Yeah, I'm getting a grand scheme here myself. How do we know the other one's an assassin? You're the one that's been hiding out on our planet. Maybe the other guy's a bounty hunter, the law, or something, whatever you have on your planet. The good professor here's a fugitive from justice.
Tobias: Fugitive. That's a good word for me.
Ford: You're a criminal?
Tobias: In my world, yes, I guess I am. Hyberion is a planet of conquest. Forever at war with itself and those around it. My teachings in tolerance and anti-expansion branded me a traitor. For which I was sentenced to death. I implanted my embryo and took off for a new world.
Brody: Bringing us your trouble.
Tobias: Oh, hopefully I've brought you more than that. This one who's after me is a Stormer. Not overly bright, but damn good at his work. Hyberion will only know that your planet is peopled and therefore conquerable. If, he's successful in returning with my head.
Keller: What happened to the boy, Tobias.
Tobias: I'm as you've always known me, my friend. Tobias LaCont, son of Atole and Phyllis LaCont. Naturalists researching the Serengeti with their infant son, when a great ball of fire fell to Earth blinding the young LaCont. The explosion of the comet would later develop as cancer, which, having a natural immunity I was able to fight off. In some respects I gave that child a life he never would have had.
Brody: And what about our friend?
Tobias: She's imprisoned, until my assassin releases her.
Ford: So we can't kill it without killing her, or hand you over to this Stormer without leaving ourselves open to attack.
Tobias: I'm very sorry about your friend. It was never my intention to bring trouble to this planet.
Brody: There's gotta be something we can do.
Tobias: As I said, it' isn't very smart and it only wants one thing.
(Outside the College)(Henderson walks back up to the School.)(Guard Station)
Guard: Can I help you?
Henderson: Yes, I'm looking for Professor LaCont.
Guard: Ah, the Professor is in the second floor lecture hall. I believe I saw him there earlier.
Henderson: Thank you. (leaves)
(Lecture Hall)
(Henderson walks into an empty hall and looks around. Suddenly she turns to find Brody and Ford with their guns pointed at her.)
Henderson: Where is he?
Ford: The professor lives here now. He no longer lives by your rules. (Henderson turns and walks over to them.)
Henderson: This isn't your fight. (she holds out her hand and Brody's gun flies into it. She then places the barrel of the gun just under her jaw.) This one is dead if you don't take me to him now.
(They slowly leave the room.)
(Guard Station)
(The guard looks at his security camera and sees Henderson, Brody, and Ford walking up to the station. Their weapons are clearly visible. The guard gets up and pulls his weapon.)
Guard: What's going on?
Brody: Sir, I know you're just doing your job, but let us handle this ourselves.
Guard: Drop your weapon, and release him.
Brody: Please, trust me!
Guard: I said drop it!
(The alien releases Henderson and morphs into it's ugly self. Brody catches Henderson before she hits the floor. The guard straightens up and looks at the alien before morphing into Tobias.)
Tobias: Thank God you're all so stupid.
(Tobias then morphs into his alien self and they begin to fight, they head up the stairs the roof.)
(The Roof)
(The fight continues. Tobias is finally able to get the upper hand and he knocks the bad alien off the roof.)
(The Ground - Later)
(The alien disintegrates on the ground.)
Keller: (to Tobias) Don't you guys ever leave something behind for a person to study.
Tobias: (in human form) I think I might have something better for you, my friend.
(Underground Cavern)
(Keller, Tobias, Bridger and Lucas all walk into the cavern and look up. There is a giant space ship just above their heads.)
Tobias: The mechanics of it were actually quite simple. Figuring out a way to create dominate absolute matter to fuel the thing was another matter. (laughs) So to speak. You don't like it.
Lucas: Like it? It's incredible. How did you achieve absolute mass?
Keller: More important, why did you let me spin my wheels all these years when you had it all along?
Tobias: Why, my friend? So you could go off and get yourself lost or worse killed? Never to be heard from again? No, I like you too much, Scotty. I like your planet. I like it's people. But you've got a lot to learn about the power of inter-stellar travel, and plenty of time to learn it.
Keller: My teacher and my tormentor to the very end.
Bridger: Couldn't persuade you to stay, huh?
Tobias: I'd love to, Nathan, but it's only a matter of time until they find me again. It's better this way.
Lucas: Exactly, where will you go? I mean…
Tobias: You mean, how will I see to get there? Actually I was kind of hoping you'd drive, Scott. Come with me my friend. Let's go in search of other worlds. Experience for ourselves all those places we argued about over so many pitchers of beer. (Scott just looks at him.) Lucas, is he gone or is he thinking it over?
Lucas: He's thinking it over.
Keller: There's nothing to think about. This is what I've dreamed of my whole life. (to Bridger) Only my family and my good friends could ever tolerate my long absences, I hope you'll understand this one too. (Bridger nods) You know, Lucas, I never realized this until now, how similar you are too Tobias. You sure you're not from outer space. Hey, you guys take care of each other.
Lucas: Yeah, thank you.
(Keller and Tobias beam on board the ship and it takes off.)
Lucas: I wonder if he'll come back.
Bridger: Depends on what he finds out there.
Lucas: I hope he comes back.
Bridger: Me too. (pause as they look around) Do you have any idea how to get out of here?
Lucas: None whatsoever.
Bridger: Well, every journey begins with one small step. What the hell? Let's go.
(They leave.)