seaQuest DSV Transcripts
SEAQUEST DSV
2x15: Dream Weaver
Original Airdate: 2/19/1995
Written by: Clifton Campbell
Directed by: Oscar L. Costo
(Tobias LaCont's Lab)
(Tobias and his lady friend are having wine and she is watching the stars. Tobias is blind.)
Tobias: The triangulum galaxy. Three hundred billion planets, each one a thousand times larger than Earth. A mass of more than fifty thousand light years from end to end, and yet surprisingly not a single decent place to eat.
Woman: It must be weird. Being an astronomer and not being able to see.
Tobias: Oh, I don't know. What do you see when you look up at the sky at night?
Woman: Well, stars.
Tobias: Tiny little dots far, far away. Our eyes drawn to the twinkle of a hundred billion galaxies, giving life to illusion, illusion to life. Something upon which to hang our hopes.
Woman: So why do you have a telescope?
Tobias: It came with the place. (smiles)
Woman: Show me something else. (Tobias pulls up another view on the telescope.) I don't see anything.
Tobias: You will.
(She looks again and sees the comet fly by.)
Woman: Wow! That was cool.
(They kiss.)
(seaQuest DSV - Bridge)
(The vid-link is now up and the crew stumbled upon Tobias as he's kissing his friend.)
Keller: This a bad time, professor?
Tobias: (on screen) Scott. My friends and I were just admiring your comet.
Ford: New research assistant, professor?
Tobias: (os) Oh, come on, Commander. You know I put the education of our youth ahead of my own pathetic needs for love and understanding.
Bridger: We envy your sacrifice, Tobias, and now if you'll extend that courtesy to Lucas we can uplink your trackers. We've got a comet to recover, remember?
Tobias: (os) You're right. Hey, Lucas, when the Commander picks a name for his comet, make sure it's something folksy. None of that alpha bravo numbers crap.
Ford: He's been pushing Wolenczak's comet all morning.
Lucas: Hey, come on, that's folksy.
Keller: Hey listen, if that thing burns itself out before I've had a chance to study it, I'm calling it quits. The energy it's packing, it could be my ticket out of our solar system.
Tobias: (os) You're sure there's something out there worth your time?
Keller: Well, I'm sure I'm not gonna find out until I get out there and take a look.
Bridger: You're pretty casual about inter-stellar travel, aren't you?
Tobias: (os) On the contrary, Captain, I find the idea fascinating. It's just that, to date, nothing's ever fallen out of the sky that's done anything but remind us how vulnerable we are.
Lucas: I'm online, professor. The comet just passed through the Q-Upper belt. She's wet in 16 minutes. She's flying. (grins)
(Shot of the comet heading for Earth.)
Bridger: (into PAL) Lieutenant Brody, status report.
(Launch Bay)
Brody: Recover team, prepped and ready sir.
(Bridge)
Lucas: Commander, this stuff is amazing. Hydrogen particles, mednet radiation, absolute matter... just a few seconds old. I mean, if these readings are correct, that comet has traversed the entire known universe in less than six weeks.
Ford: That's billions of light years from end to end. Nothing moves that fast.
Lucas: Oh, but absolute matter does.
Ford: Absolute matter is a theory. It doesn't exist. I mean, if it did anyone could travel between galaxies in the blink of an eye.
Keller: What do you think of my comet now, Tobias?
Tobias: (os) I think you better keep an eye on it.
(The comet's in the ocean.)
(Sea Crab)
(Brody is trying to get to the comet but is having a hard time because of the heat.)
(seaQuest DSV - Bridge)
Bridger: Lieutenant, what's wrong?
(Sea Crab)
Brody: I can't get to it, sir. This things going up like a giant bromo. I don't know how much more of this heat I can take.
(seaQuest DSV - Bridge, Later)
Keller: Were you able to recover anything?
Brody: (in sea crab) No sir, nothing. She's gone.
(Shot of the remnants of the comet floating up to the seaQuest.)
(Opening Credits)
(Bridge)
Bridger: We have every available unit in the area sweeping the perimeter, unfortunately telemetry readings aren't holding out much hope.
Keller: Surface temperatures have returned to normal. It's like it never happened.
Tobias: (os) Scott, it was a comet, it fell to Earth, it broke apart. That's what comet's do.
Keller: Yeah, well inter-stellar travel just slipped through my fingers. If I don't find a way to travel outside our galaxy I'm gonna lose my funding to this guy. (motions to Bridger)
Bridger: Hey, I lent you my boat, didn't I?
Keller: Look, Tobias, if I didn't know you better I'd swear that you were glad this thing broke apart.
Tobias: (os) I'm glad no one got hurt. Whenever you go up against the forces of nature and get out with your hide intact well you thank your lucky stars.
Keller: You thank. If you ask me, I got ripped off.
Tobias: (os) Scott, you've been to Mars and back. Do you know how many people went with you? Everyone, from Leonardo DiVinci to the Wright brothers was strapped inside that tin can right along with you. When our time comes your contributions will be there too.
Keller: Well I don't plan on being there in spirit, Tobias. I plan on being there in person.
Bridger: Professor, thanks again for the use of your trackers.
Tobias: (os) Anytime, Nathan. (signs off)
Keller: Kind of embarrassing falling on your face in front of the man that taught you everything.
(Launch Bay)
Ford: Sorry, Commander, we had six hours out there and we're just pulling up water.
Brody: There's a cold front stirring things up. Even if there were something to find, by now it's been blown miles from here.
Keller: Thanks for trying.
Bridger: You can call the rest in, Jonathan.
(Sea Crab)
Crewman #1: (on radio) Sea Crabs Alpha and Bravo, mission one is scrap, return to base.
Crewman: Roger that.
(They head back into the seaQuest, and we see that a type of blanket is now on the hull.)
(Bridger's Room)
(Bridger and Keller are having a drink.)
Keller: Tobias is one of the great mind's of our time. Totally blind and there isn't a solar system in our galaxy that he hasn't charted. Did you know that when he was seven years old he pinpointed the exact moment the universe was born? I mean, at age seven I barely knew my own birthday. And at fourteen he holds Newton's chair at Cambridge.
Bridger: And I thought you were competitive with me.
Keller: It's like he was born for one reason. To open our eyes to the wonders of the universe. You should have seen him, a skinny little fourteen year old kid totally captivating a room full of NASA pencil-necks. Made us all feel like we were idiots.
Bridger: You know, intelligence will only take you so far, then you have to get out and walk.
Keller: Yeah. Well you're lucky, Nathan. You've got this boat. Your universe will always be within reach. I'll never have that.
(Darwin swims up in the Aqua tunnels and Bridger sees him.)
Bridger: What is it my friend. (Darwin looks at him then swims off.) He wants us to follow.
(Bridge)
(Keller and Bridger enter. Darwin swims up. Lucas comes down from his station and turns on the vo-corder.)
Bridger: What is it pal?
Darwin: Darwin can't leave. Too slimy.
Lucas: What? An oil spill? What?
Darwin: Not oil. Blanket.
Bridger: A blanket? O'Neil, what's he saying.
O'Neil: I don't know. I'm not reading any contaminants. There's no internal ruptures or fuel leaks either.
Bridger: Engage a WSKR. (to Darwin) Where's the blanket?
Darwin: Around seaQuest. Brings new life.
O'Neil: WSKR view up, sir.
(They all look and see that seaQuest does indeed appear to be covered in a blanket.)
Keller: Looks like a cocoon.
Bridger: Ortiz, how deep are we?
Ortiz: I have no idea, sir. Anything I ping out pings right back.
(Piccolo rings in on the speaker. He fades in and out.)
Piccolo: Captain, I'm on level... I think someone should have a look at this thing. I don't know what it is, but it's...
Bridger: Piccolo, repeat. Piccolo?
O'Neil: He's in Sea Deck, sir.
(Bridger, Keller, and Lucas head for Sea Deck.)
(Sea Deck)
(Piccolo is there and there is a giant pod of something in one corner of the room.)
Piccolo: (into PAL) And it's got like everything shoved into a corner, and I really think somebody aught to come down here and look at this. Anybody?
(Bridger, Keller, and Lucas enter)
Lucas: What is that?
Piccolo: The pimple from hell!
Lucas: Has the mainline busted?
Bridger: Lucas, check the rest of the hull.
(Lucas goes over to the computer.)
Keller: It looks like it's full of liquid.
Piccolo: Maybe the head's backed up, cause this thing stinks.
Lucas: Structural integrity's fine.
Bridger: Try the sonogram.
(Lucas does so and they scan the pod.)
Lucas: Captain.
(They look and see that something is growing inside the pod.)
Bridger: It's a baby.
Piccolo: Yeah, but a baby what?
(Bridge)
Keller: (into PAL) Pier Bay Seven, this is Commander Scott Keller, do you copy? I need a priority one signal.
Dagwood: What kind of baby is it?
O'Neil: That's the question of the hour, Dag.
Ford: I'll tell you what it is. It's an unknown biologic that's dragging us to the ocean floor.
Henderson: I think it's kinda cute.
(O'Neil gives her a look.)
Keller: (into PAL) Bay Seven, this is Commander Keller, do you copy?
O'Neil: I'm sorry, sir. I can't hold a signal.
Henderson: Nothing can work in this heat.
Keller: Can we surface?
Bridger: We're too heavy, Scott. I can't afford to risk blowing the balasts. This thing is feeding off the bioskin of our boat.
Dagwood: (still watching the 'baby') It's growing.
Ford: Well, that's what baby's do, Dag.
Henderson: (looks up at the screen) No, he's right. It is growing.
(They all look and see that the 'baby' is growing at a very fast rate.)
Keller: We're about to give birth to an alien. Nathan, we've got to tell someone.
Bridger: I'd love to share your enthusiasm, but I've got a submarine to get back online.
(The power goes out briefly then comes back online.)
Computer: Activate Level 10 Emergency Oxygen Procedures. Report to designated shelter stations.
Ford: That thing breathes our air.
O'Neil: Our air, our water. All systems have shut down in sequence.
Bridger: All right, Commander. Let's go to Level 10 Emergency. Lock off everything above the Sea Deck. I want to move as far away from this thing as possible, and I want guards on that thing around the clock.
Ford: Okay people, let's move it.
(Sea Deck)
(Two guards are now guarding the pod. They hear a noise and go closer to investigate. Suddenly the alien is born, and it kills the guards and then runs off.)
(Hallway)
(Ford, Keller, and several other men are now searching for the alien.)
Ford: But he's not up there, Brody says he's on B Deck.
Keller: He was here for some reason.
Ford: You can't make sense of this thing, Commander. It's a predator.
Keller: Yeah well, you can be a predator, but he's trying to make sense of us.
Ford: (into PAL) Brody, meet us at Mag-Lev.
(Mag-Lev)
(The two teams meet up at Mag-Lev. Ford uses the automatic override to open the doors. They go into the Mag-Lev with their guns at the ready, and spot something.)
Ford: Uh, it's scrub.
Brody: No, uh-uh. Let's blast this one right now.
Keller: No, wait. It's not another one.
(Ford gets closer and he peers inside. There are all kinds of personal items from missing crew members. He picks up a necklace and holds it out to Brody. He then picks up a boot. He looks inside, and it's marked "Ortiz, M".)
Ford: It's Ortiz.
(Safe Shelter)
(Bridger is talking to Ford & Keller on the PAL.)
Bridger: (into PAL) A person is missing until found, Commander.
(Hallway)
Ford: (into PAL) Aye, sir. Ortiz is on this boat, we'll find him.
(Safe Shelter)
Bridger: (into PAL) Get me Scott again.
(Hallway)
(Ford hands the PAL over to Scott.)
Keller: (into PAL) Yeah.
(Safe Shelter)
Bridger: (into PAL) Scott, what do we have here?
(Hallway)
Keller: (into PAL) I wish I knew, Nathan. He's collecting things. Books, photographs, clothes.
(Safe Shelter)
Bridger: (into PAL) Do you think it's capable of processing information?
(Hallway)
Keller: (into PAL) This stuff isn't random. He wants something.
(Safe Shelter)
Bridger: (into PAL) Well I'm not gonna wait to find out what it is. My interest in science lacks when my crew is in danger. (he signs off.)
(to Lucas and the others in the safe shelter) This doesn't necessarily mean that Ortiz is dead.
O'Neil: No, sir.
Henderson: Of course not.
Lucas: No, absolutely not, sir.
Bridger (points to map) These com-lines can be set up for emergency power by satellite, right?
O'Neil: Yeah, but the EPS controls it from their end.
Bridger: Yeah, but we can tap into them if we need them, right?
O'Neil: Yes, but the power would be negligible. I'm not even sure how much power you can pull out of the atmosphere.
Henderson: If it powers one extra pulse rifle it's worth it.
Lucas: We'd have to find a hotwire somewhere along the system.
O'Neil: Uh, (points) here. Communications.
O'Neil: I'll do it.
Lucas: It's no problem.
Henderson: I'll go.
Lucas: Ah, you better let me do this.
Henderson: Why? Because it's dangerous? Let me earn my keep, would you.
Bridger: But remember, if you see anything, hear anything, don't hesitate to push that all alert flash. (hands her an alarm).
Henderson: Got it. Thanks. (climbs up the ladder)
(Duct Shaft)
(Henderson climbs up and looks around)
Henderson: Me and my big mouth. (she begins crawling towards Communications.)
(Communications)
Henderson: (into PAL) I'm in.
(She begins to reboot the systems.)
(Hallway - Near Mag-Lev)
Brody: Nothing. Either it's trail ends here or these batteries are dead.
Ford: Oh, where is he?
Keller: Is there any other way to get this thing operational without power or a backup system?
Brody: No, once the power's down Mag-Lev goes with it. If you're between stations you've got to hoof it to the next stop. I've done it, it ain't pretty.
Keller: (points to emergency exit tunnel) What about through here?
Ford: No, it couldn't have gone through there, that's an emergency exit. Even with no power, if somebody goes through there an alarm sounds throughout the entire boat.
(Keller looks and sees that the controls are fried.)
Keller: Not if he's fried the alarm system.
Brody: If he's inside the Mag-Lev tunnel he can access the entire boat.
Keller: It's smarter than I thought.
(Hallway)
(Dagwood is walking down the hallway. He smells something and looks into one of the Mag-Lev openings where he finds himself looking down the barrel of a gun. He backs up and Ortiz walks forward. He almost collapses to the floor with relief.)
Ortiz: Dag, am I glad to see you.
Dagwood: I'm glad to see you. Where's the baby bad thing?
(Ortiz shows Dagwood his leg which has several cuts on it and its bleeding.)
Ortiz: Does that look like the work of a baby? Help me out, would ya? Dag?
(Dagwood goes to help him, but pauses and sniffs. He turns around to find the alien at his back. He and the alien fight. The alien is much stronger. Just when it's about to kill Dagwood, Brody and Ford's teams show up and fire on the alien. It runs off.)
Brody: Dagwood, you all right? We barely even fazed that thing.
Ford: Miguel.
Ortiz: The others didn't make it out. We tried to make it to the shelter but... the boat was sealed up tight. Dagwood, you saved my life, man. Thanks.
Dagwood: Welcome, man. (re: the alien) It was a bad thing.
Ford: Let's get you guys to safe quarters.
(Communications)
(Henderson has gotten the vid-link to reboot. The alien watches her.)
Henderson: (into PAL) Tim, I was able to hot-wire the vid-link. It's rebooting through memory now.
(Safe Shelter)
O'Neil: Great job, um, Ortiz is fine. A little banged up, but he'll live to tell his grandkids.
(Communications)
(Henderson pauses as she hears the alien behind her.)
O'Neil: (in safe shelter) Henderson? Lonnie?
(Henderson hides as the alien walks up to the vid-link and sees the message from Tobias.)
Tobias: Scott... my friend and I were just admiring your comet...
(Henderson tries to escape and she and the alien fight. She's able to climb into the Duct Shaft.)
(Duct Tunnels)
(O'Neil is in the tunnels too trying to get to Henderson. The alien is also trying to catch up with her.)
O'Neil: Lonnie!
Henderson: Tim! Tim!
O'Neil: Don't worry, Lonnie! I'm coming!
Henderson: Tim! Tim!
O'Neil: I gotcha!
(They grab hands, and grin at each other. Suddenly Henderson is grabbed from behind by the alien and dragged away.)
O'Neil: No!!!
(Safe Shelter)
Brody: We're not getting anything on the tracker, Lucas.
Lucas: Well then your trackers are wrong. It's busted or something. The batteries are low, but there's no way she can be gone. She can't be gone.
Brody: It's fully charged, Lucas, I'm sorry.
Bridger: Easy, easy.
Lucas: Maybe she's hiding, like Ortiz.
Brody: Even with Miguel down in the belly of this beast it always registered something.
Lucas: I should have gone. It should have been me.
O'Neil: Captain, I'm getting something in the engine room.
Lucas: It's Henderson.
Ford: No, it's moving too fast.
Bridger: Do we have enough power to charge the ballasts?
O'Neil: Some, yeah. But not enough to drag us to the surface with this shell around us.
Bridger: What happens if we empty the swim tubes?
O'Neil: We might have more pressure to work with.
Bridger: All right, let's do it. Secure Darwin in the Moon Pool. Then we'll suck this thing into the swim tubes and blast it out the ballasts. (O'Neil begins typing.) Lucas, this was Henderson's choice, and no matter what it looks like, it's not your fault.
Lucas: Yeah, whether it's my fault or not, it sure feels like it is. So I fail to see the difference.
O'Neil: Darwin's secured in Sea Deck, sir.
(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.)