Transcript for “Salvation”
Episode 1x06
Originally Aired:  10/23/99
Writer:  Catherine Porciuncula
Director: Richard Franklin
Transcribed by Carol Murdock for TWIZ TV.com

[Scene:  Malone is writing in his journal.  He is sitting on a cliff by a 
waterfall overlooking the plateau.]

[Malone voice over]:  Gladys here I am again, a world away from you, writing 
another chapter in a book no one may ever read.  How can I begin to describe 
this place?  It is dark and dangerous and beautiful and terrifying.  
Sometimes I wonder if we’ve stumbled into paradise; only to find that God 
has given up on man.

[Scene:  The Christec village.  A man is to be burned as a sacrifice.  
Tolmac speaks to his people.]

Tolmac:  Flesh transformed into light; the soul reborn as a star.  As the 
fire consumes the spirit is released.  Sin is purified in the flame.  As our 
savior Jesucoatl died a victim of betrayal – of unbelievers; so all the 
traitors must die.

Man:  Please I have done nothing wrong.

Tolmac:  Some may call this cleansing cruel, unjust.  Is it unjust to 
protect ourselves from disease; from the contagion he carries?  He who 
believeth shall not be condemned.  Will we let him infect us with this 
plague of lies; this plague of heresy?

Man:  But I do believe- I swear!  I believe!

Tolmac:  Oh my son - if this be true; what a gift we have to give you.  Soon 
you will not need to believe - you will know.  Go forth my disciples let 
your spirit light up the world.

[The Christec villagers chant ‘Salvation’.  Tolmac lights the fire]

Man:  No!

**** Begin Intro****
At the dawn of the century
A band of adventures set out to prove the impossible
The existence of a prehistoric world
The Visionary
The Heiress
The Hunter
The Scientist
and
The Reporter
All chasing the story of a lifetime
Stranded in a savage land
Befriended by an untamed beauty
Together they fight to survive
In this amazing world of lost civilizations and terrifying creatures
Always searching for a way home
A way out of……the Lost World
****End Intro****

[Scene:  Veronica, Summerlee and Challenger are collecting flowers in the 
jungle.]

Summerlee:  Mary, Mary quite contrary how does your garden grow?  With 
silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row.

Veronica:  Looks like we’re almost done, we can go home early.

Summerlee:  Trailing a medical cornucopia behind us.

Challenger:  Well we’re not carting this monstrosity through twenty miles of 
jungle.

Summerlee:  And why not?

Challenger:  An orchid, as far as I’m concerned, it has no value whatsoever.

Summerlee:  That sir, is because you have no soul.

[A girl’s scream comes from the distance.  Veronica races to the sound and 
finds a young girl pointing at the river.]

Veronica:  What’s wrong?

[A girl is in the river drowning.  Veronica dives into the water and pulls 
the girl out.  Challenger carries the girl to shore.]

Challenger:  Summerlee, she’s not breathing.

Summerlee:  Quick Challenger set her down.  Roll her over.

[Summerlee pushes on the girls back.]

Veronica:  What is he doing?

Summerlee:  He’s trying to save her life.

[The girl spits out the water from her lungs and sits up]

Challenger: Well done Summerlee.

Veronica:  You did it.

Summerlee:  Are you alright?

[The Christec guards come up behind them.]

Darak:  Let go of my daughter.

Challenger:  You don’t understand.

Darak:  Step away.

Tolmac:  Attacking children, what savage Gods do you serve.

Summerlee:  You’re wrong we didn’t.

Challenger:  The child was drowning; we saved her.

Pintario:  As you can see your worship I didn’t lie.  These three are not 
merely heathens.

Summerlee:  Heathens!

Pintario:  They’re clearly witches as well.

Tolmac:  Take them!

[The men are held but Veronica is able to escape.]

Challenger:  Go run!

Tolmac:  Quick, catch her - find any others like her.

[Veronica manages to elude the guards]

[Scene:  Roxton, Marguerite and Malone are walking a trail.]

Malone: So that’s when I decided to write it has a serial.  You know each 
chapter self contained.

Roxton:  Got a name for it yet?

Marguerite:  How about the seventh circle of hell.

Malone:  I thought I’d call it the Lost World.

[They stop when they hear a noise]

Marguerite:  Not lost enough I’m afraid.

Roxton:  Quiet

Marguerite:  Maybe it went the other way.

[A T-Rex comes out of the jungle and chases them.]

Malone:  This way.

[They come to a dead end.]

Marguerite:  I’m open to suggestions.

[Roxton finds a cave and tries to move a bolder blocking the entrance.]

Roxton:  Give me a hand.

[They get inside the cave and the T-Rex tries to put his head through but it 
is too small an opening.]

Malone:  Let’s hope he finds dinner somewhere else.

Roxton:  He could be out there for awhile Malone.

[They start looking around the cave.]

Malone:  What the hell is this place?

Marguerite:  Who cares as long as we’re in here and it’s out there.

Malone:  Looks like some kind of tomb.

Roxton:  It’s no Westminster Abbey.

Malone:  I’ve never seen anything like this.

[Marguerite starts reading the symbols on the wall.]

Marguerite:  Xiechun-Ne, King and master ruler of all sleeps here; his 
journey among men at an end.

[They find the bones of the king]

Roxton:  If you say so.

[Marguerite walks toward the entrance of the cave annoyed.]

Malone:  Where did she get all that?

Marguerite:  Are you coming?

[Scene:  The Christec village.  Challenger and Summerlee are thrown in 
jail.]

Challenger:  I demand to know what this is all about.

Tolmac:  Demand!  You demand of me?  Hear that Pintario the witch threatens 
me.

Challenger:  I sir, am no witch.

Pintario:  That’s true your worship.  It was the other one that breathed 
life into the dead.

Summerlee:  That’s absurd; my saving that girl had nothing to do with 
witchcraft.

Tolmac:  Indeed?

Challenger:  Best not.

Summerlee:  It was elementary medical knowledge.

Challenger:  Summerlee.

Tolmac:  Only God can raise the dead.

Summerlee:  God and anyone with a basic knowledge of human anatomy.

Tolmac:  Pintario take note.  The charge is no longer witchcraft now it is 
heresy.

Challenger:  What do you mean the charge?

Pintario:  Tolmac holy inquisitor teacher of the Christecs accuses the witch 
of the gravest of all crimes, heretical depravity.

Summerlee:  I told you I am not a witch.

Challenger:  Summerlee do shut up!

Tolmac:  The council will review the charge.  The heretic will be found 
guilty.

Challenger:  And then?

Tolmac:  Then he will burn.

[Scene:  Night - The Christec guards are still searching for Veronica.  
Ape-men are watching the guards as is Veronica.]

Darak:  Anything?  We’ll camp here for the night.  Alvar you’re in charge of 
the fire; Jante, Lonzo you’re with me.

Alvar:  Darak she’ll get away.

Darak:  How?  If we can’t travel in the dark she’s certainly can’t.

Lonzo:  Women were created to be lesser than men.

Jante:  We should have found her by now…Tolmac said.

Darak:  I’m aware of Tolmac’s teachings about women.  Do you want to use 
what’s left of the light to bicker over religion or to find dinner?

Lonzo:  Dinner?

Darak:  Spoken like a true soldier and Lonzo we will find her.

[Veronica is attacked by the ape-men.  The guards run toward the sounds but 
only find a dead ape-man.]

Alvar:  A woman couldn’t have done this.

Lonzo:  Perhaps she’s a demon.

Darak:  She looked like a demon to you?  Let’s go.

[Scene:  The Christec village - Summerlee and Challenger are led to the 
council.]

Tolmac:  The great council in their wisdom wish to have a confession before 
the heretic is condemned.

Challenger:  I’m sorry I can’t oblige.

Tolmac:  Then it seems we will have to conduct an interrogation.

Challenger:  That must be inconvenient for you.

Tolmac:  And for your friend.  He is an old man his heart may not be strong 
enough to survive some of our more vigorous methods.

Challenger:  Methods, you mean torture.

Tolmac:  Indict him and the council will let you live.  You can spare your 
friend hours of agonizing pain.

Challenger:  In my world we have other ways of finding the truth.

Tolmac:  You are in my world now.

Challenger:  Any just world would allow the accused to speak freely in his 
own defense.

Tolmac:  Silence

Challenger:  Why?  Is your faith so fragile that my words can shake it?

Pintario:  How dare you!  The holy inquisitor’s faith was strong enough to 
survive a dozen public hearings.

Tolmac:  Pintario!

Challenger:  A public trial - now that’s just what’s required to get at the 
truth.  Or is the truth what you’re afraid of?

Tolmac:  Since you are so eager to defend the heretic; you will not mind to 
sharing his fate at the stake.  He burns……you burn.

[Fade Out]

[Scene:  The Christec village - Pintario is praying at an alter Tolmac 
enters.]

Tolmac:  How pious you look, reverent - almost holy.

[Tolmac puts his hand out for Pintario to kiss it but instead smacks 
Pintario across the face.]

Tolmac:  You think I’m a fool; that I wouldn’t see through you.

Pintario:  I only wanted to proclaim your glory.

Tolmac:  What you want is my priesthood.

Pintario:  This trial is an opportunity for your intellect to shine before 
all.

Tolmac:  It is an opportunity for me to fail before all, but I won’t.  And 
if you ever challenge me again, I will scatter your ashes to the winds.

[Scene:  Marguerite is washing herself by a stream.  Roxton approaches 
behind her.]

Marguerite:  The views better from over here.

Roxton:  It’s pretty nice from where I’m standing thanks.

Marguerite:  I wasn’t talking about the water.

Roxton:  Neither was I.  So do you want to tell me what happened back there?

Marguerite:  What do you mean?

Roxton:  Well I knew you were fluent in - what was it - sixty or seventy 
languages.  I just can’t figure out how this can be one of them.

Marguerite:  Let’s just say there’s something universal about graves, 
tombstone.  Here lies sweet Mary Jane.  Dead and gone all that’s left is her 
name.

Roxton:  Better than nothing.

Marguerite:  Is it?  If we don’t make it back.

Roxton:  We will.

Marguerite:  But if we don’t, that collection of bones in there was once a 
King.  And if we hadn’t of stumbled in; he wouldn’t even be a memory now.  
If the ruler of all can be forgotten; do you really think anyone will 
remember the likes of us?

Roxton:  I’d wager I’d be passed caring.

Marguerite:  It doesn’t bother you that all anyone may ever know is what Ned 
Malone writes in some ridiculous book.

Roxton:  No I’ve already done what I’ll be remembered for.

Marguerite:  That’s right Lord John world famous hunter his reputation spans 
the globe.

Roxton:  Now we both know that’s not what I mean.  Anyway what does it 
matter?

Marguerite:  It matters to me.

Roxton:  Marguerite, I’ll never forget you - that’s for sure.

Marguerite:  A lot of good that will do me when you’re digested by some 
prehistoric nightmare.

Roxton:  Hmmm - a simple thank you would have been nice.

[Scene:  Morning – The Christec guards are searching for Veronica.  She 
watches them from atop a tree.]

Alvar:  The witch’s tracks have disappeared.

Jante:  No animal disappears; it hides.

[They look up and Veronica swings down and fights them.  She runs off.]

[Scene:  The Christec village – the cell.  Challenger is admiring the 
markings on the walls.]

Challenger:  Fascinating, the Christecs seem to have blended two 
contradictory cultures.  They’ve merged Catholic saints with Aztec Gods.  
That statue I was telling you about quite clearly a creative hybrid of Mary 
and Coatlicue.  Both mothers of Gods, both virgin births as well.  Maybe the 
two religions aren’t so different after all.

Summerlee:  Well they certainly share a fondness for burning dissenters.

Challenger:  Yes, I wonder what they were after those lost conquistadors.  
Must have been something grand; something to fire the imagination.  An El 
Dorado perhaps or fountain of youth.

Summerlee:  Leave it to the great Challenger, thrown to the lions and he 
marvels at the animals pedigrees instead of trying to find a way out of the 
den.  Perhaps my life isn’t of enough practical value to you either.

Challenger:  It’s alright Arthur – I’m frightened too.  But the truth is 
there is no way out of here not at the moment anyway.  We’ll get one chance 
to talk our way out of this.  I promise you I’ll make the most of it.

Summerlee:  Well if I had to put my faith in anyone winning an argument it 
would be George Challenger.

[Scene:  The guards are tracking Veronica.]

Darak:  Fresh, she’s close.

[Scene:  The Christec village – The council room.]

Pintario:  You may give them what ever benediction they request; we must be 
mercifully.

Summerlee:  You’re not suggesting that he give us last rites.

Pintario:  You prefer to appear before the Gods marked by sin?  Very well, 
return them to their quarters.

Challenger:  No……no we are grateful for a place to reflect.

Pintario:  And repent.

Challenger:  Amen

[Scene:  The Christec guards tracking Veronica.]

Lonzo:  The man is possessed we haven’t eaten or slept.

Alvar:  He’s the commander.

Lonzo:  Not for long.

Alvar:  What are you talking about?

Lonzo:  He only pretends to follow the teachings; if Tolmac knew.

Alvar:  Tolmac must never know.

Lonzo:  Alvar what Darak does is heresy.

Alvar:  And what you do is treason.

Lonzo:  There she is.  She’s mine.

Darak:  Wait Lonzo wait!

[Lonzo chases Veronica she ducks into a cave there is a pit of snakes.  
Lonzo confronts Veronica.]

Lonzo:  I’m going to enjoy this.

[Lonzo and Veronica struggle.]

Lonzo:  Let’s see how a witch dies.

[Veronica kicks Lonzo into the pit.  The others hear his screams.  They find 
him in the pit dead no Veronica in sight.]

[Scene:  The treehouse - Roxton and Malone are walking up to the second 
level.]

Malone:  I’m not saying he isn’t a hell of a horse but nobody’s ever won all 
three races.

Roxton:  If anyone has a shot at the Triple Crown it’s Sir Barton.

[Marguerite is sitting at a table reading Malone’s journals.]

Malone:  What the hell do you think you’re doing?

Marguerite:  Calm down, I didn’t edit much.  I just wanted to see how wrong 
you were getting it.

Roxton:  And the verdict?

Marguerite:  A little sensational.

Malone:  You went through my things.  Put it down Marguerite.

Marguerite:  Just a second.

[Roxton notices Malone is getting a little agitated.]

Roxton:  Do as he says.

Marguerite:  Ah at last…me.  The mysterious Miss Krux, dangerous - possibly 
deadly.  You have no idea Malone just how dangerous I can be.  You are never 
to use my name in any of this.  Understood?

Malone:  Put it down.

Marguerite:  Well perhaps I haven’t made myself clear.

[She rips pages from the journal and Malone lunges for it.  Roxton holds 
Malone back from ringing Marguerite’s neck.]

Malone:  You had no right.  Don’t you ever touch my things again or I’ll.

Roxton:  No you won’t.

[Marguerite walks right up to Malone and gives him back his journal.]

Marguerite:  Well my my my.  Who would have thought the angelic Mr. Malone 
had demons to hide.

[Scene:  The Christec village - The cell.]

Pintario:  It’s time.

Challenger:  You really believe Summerlee is a witch?

Pintario:  The holy inquisitor believes it.

Challenger:  For God sakes man look at him he’s as conventional as they 
come.  He hasn’t got the imagination to be a heretic.

Summerlee:  Really Challenger.

Pintario:  It’s the council you need to convince; but I’ll pray for your 
souls.

Challenger:  How very comforting.

[The men are led outside.]

Summerlee:  I don’t care what your inquisitor proclaims.

Challenger:  Summerlee

Summerlee:  You may speak for me at the trial Challenger but here; no I will 
not be quiet.  Pintario listen to me, how can your faith claim that my 
saving that child was an act against God?

Pintario:  This is not the place.

Summerlee:  But surely in your heart you must know that the real evil would 
be knowing how to save her and choosing not to.

Pintario:  Your trial is about to begin.

[Fade Out]

[Scene:  The Christec village – The council chamber.]

Tolmac:  This is the question whether outsiders should be subject to our 
laws.  I answer this it is not our law that the heretic has broken; it is 
God’s law.

Challenger:  Summerlee saved that child’s life but he did not raise her from 
the dead.

Tolmac:  You yourself said she stopped breathing.

Challenger:  Not breathing doesn’t mean not alive.

Tolmac:  Of course it does.

Challenger:  No - There are other signs, electrical impulses in the brain; 
until they are extinguished life is still possible.

Tolmac:  You can see them - these electrical whatever in the child.

Challenger:  No - electrical impulses they can’t be seen.

Tolmac:  Yet you’re sure they’re there.

Challenger:  Yes

Tolmac:  Then it’s a question of faith.

Challenger:  Science has shown us that they exist.

Tolmac:  Yet you can’t see them; you can’t feel them.  But you believe in 
them as we believe in the Gods that we cannot see or feel.

Challenger:  They are an underlying principle of life I do not need to be 
able to see the air in order to know that I am breathing.

Tolmac:  Yes, I say the same things about the Gods.  You and I we’re not so 
different we both explain life and death by placing our faith in a higher 
power.  Your science is nothing more than a new religion new heresy; you are 
condemned by your own words.

[Scene:  The Treehouse – Malone is looking at his writings and a picture of 
Gladys.]

Roxton:  What would have happened if I hadn’t been there?  What would you 
have done?

Malone:  Nothing

Roxton:  Like hell.

Malone:  I wasn’t gonna hurt her.

Roxton:  You weren’t exactly teaching her to tango.

Malone:  I lost it ok; just let it go.

Roxton:  Once - it can never happen again.  Understand Malone?

Malone:  She pushed me.

Roxton:  She pushes everybody.

Malone:  Don’t tell me you trust her.

Roxton:  I certainly trust her to act in her own interest.  If she doesn’t 
watch our backs we can’t watch hers.

Malone:  How long do you think that will last?  What happens when it’s in 
her best interest to sell us down the river?

Roxton:  She won’t.

Malone:  How the hell do you know that?

Roxton:  Sometimes you roll the dice on people.  That’s what we did, all of 
us, when we signed on this journey.  You take what you get; there are too 
many ways to die out here.  And the one thing we can’t do is kill each 
other; we’re all we have.

[Roxton goes outside to talk to Marguerite who is hanging laundry.]

Roxton:  Ease up on Malone.

Marguerite:  I’m not in the mood.

Roxton:  I mean it Marguerite.

Marguerite:  Don’t make me your personal crusade. I’m not sure you’re up to 
the challenge.

Roxton:  What is wrong with you?

Marguerite:  Oh apart from being stranded a thousand miles from a decent 
maid.

Roxton:  We’re all stranded.

Marguerite:  That’s us one big happy family.

Roxton:  You know ever since we left the tomb.

Marguerite:  Let’s see Summerlee can be the doting grandfather, Challenger’s 
no – I think you’re the daddy then there’s little baby Veronica and me I’m 
the wicked stepsister.

Roxton:  I don’t really give a damn why you are who you are; but here now 
you’re going to behave.

Marguerite:  Or what - you’re going to shoot me?  That’s what the great 
white hunter does isn’t it?  You’re going to kill me like you did your 
brother? [Pauses when she sees the look on his face] Roxton I’m sorry.

[Roxton leaves.]

[Scene:  The Christec guards trailing Veronica.  They come up on each side 
of her as she tries to cross a river.]

Alvar:  Easy now don’t make us hurt you.

[Veronica smiles and kicks one of them and knocks him down.  She fights 
Alvar they take the fight into the water.  A Caiman attacks Alvar and drags 
him away.  Veronica is checking a cut when Darak’s sword appears against her 
throat.]

Darak:  I’ll take this one.  She’s been leading us somewhere Jante probably 
home.

Jante:  There are others like her?

Darak:  Find them.

[Scene:  Jante comes across Marguerite walking on the trail.  Jante follows 
her unnoticed.  Malone is in the cave where they found the King’s bones 
copying down the writings on the wall in his journal.  Marguerite appears 
behind him.]

Marguerite:  So this going to have its own chapter too?

Malone:  You don’t like me much do you?

Marguerite:  To be honest Malone I never really gave you a thought.

Malone:  Oh that’s why you were going through my journals?

Marguerite:  Well I was bored the public library is a hell of a trek.

Malone:  The six of us living on top of each other - no privacy.  We share 
our food; water; sleeping quarters.  But what’s up here that’s one thing I 
don’t have to share.

Marguerite:  What a shame; if you were half the man you wrote yourself to 
be.

Malone:  Don’t push me.

Marguerite:  But it’s so easy.

[Marguerite leaves the cave]

Malone:  Conceiting; selfish; arrogant.

[Malone hears Marguerite scream and goes running.  Marguerite is running 
from Jante.  She stumbles and he grabs her by the hair.]

Jante:  Witch

Marguerite:  Rhymes with.

Jante:  Dark hair.

Marguerite:  You’re hurting me.

Jante:  Not like the other witch.

Marguerite:  Other witch - blonde - too much attitude?

Jante:  And the old ones they’ll all be purified; Tolmac will see to that.

[Malone sails through the air and tackles Jante.  They fight.  Roxton comes 
up behind and hits Jante over the head with the butt of his pistol.]

Roxton:  Save ya  bullets.

Marguerite:  How did you find us?

Roxton:  Are you kidding you two made enough noise to raise the whole 
jungle.  Somebody wanna tell me what this is all about?

Marguerite:  Witchcraft

[Scene:  The Christec village – council room.]

Challenger:  Every time I let go of this book it will fall it requires no 
faith on my part nor on yours.  And no amount of prayer will stop it from 
falling.  Now whether or not I choose to believe in the laws of gravity they 
still keep my feet on the ground.

Tolmac:  Hear him - he defies nature.

Challenger:  I explain nature……with science.  Why should it be more pious to 
believe that the Gods created a world we can’t understand?

Tolmac:  Because God works in mysterious ways. His mysterious are his 
mysteries.

Challenger:  Wouldn’t you like medicines that could cure the sick; machines 
that could fly; light that could burn without flame.

Tolmac:  All this from science.

Challenger:  All this and more; all from the ingenuity of man.

Tolmac:  And you say these laws that science has discovered they are forever 
true?

Challenger:  Once set in motion an object will stay in motion until acted 
upon by an outside force.

Tolmac:  So it is possible to interfere with these laws.

Challenger:  No - only the object; the laws themselves cannot be changed.

[The girl is brought to the council chamber.]

Tolmac:  This girl’s death was set in motion her breathing had stopped her 
soul was on its way to heaven until you interfered.

Challenger:  It’s not the same.

Tolmac:  No?  She is the object her soul called back to the Gods.  Either 
you are witches defying the natural order of life or I’ll have no choice but 
to send this child back to the Gods.

[Fade Out]

[Scene:  The Christec village – The cell.]

Challenger:  I should have taken a different approach I played right into 
his hands.

Summerlee:  You couldn’t have known you’re not devious enough.

Challenger:  Let’s hope the council will see through him; it’s in their 
hands now.

Summerlee:  No, it’s in mine.

Challenger:  What are you talking about?

Summerlee:  I’ll confess to being a witch and I’ll tell them I forced you to 
defend me.

Challenger:  You will do no such thing!

Summerlee:  This isn’t about science and religion Challenger.  It’s about 
who has the power to give life and to take it away.  My life cannot continue 
at the cost of the child’s.

Challenger:  Summerlee

Summerlee:  Strange isn’t it?  Back home you made your reputation by tearing 
down my work; decrying me at every turn.  And now you’re willing to risk 
your own life to defend mine.

Challenger:  It’s not hard at all.  Back in London you made a habit of being 
persistently wrong headed.

Summerlee:  Whatever happens Challenger, I’m glad to have had you on my 
side.

[They shake hands.]

[Scene:  Darak is bandaging Veronica’s arm.]

Veronica:  Why are you doing this?

Darak:  Can’t have you bleed to death on the way home.

Veronica:  Don’t want to ruin the fun of killing me once we get there.  You 
never believed we were witches did you?

Darak:  Heathens maybe - witches no.

Veronica:  Then how can you let them kill us?

Darak:  The price of unity; the death of a few outsiders; a handful of 
dissenters.  Tolmac’s teachings give my men something to fight for.

Veronica:  What about you?

Darak:  I already have something to fight for - my daughter.

Veronica:  She didn’t seem like a lesser man to me.  She held her own until 
the current caught her.

Darak:  She’s a fine girl - make a good tracker.

Veronica:  What would Tolmac say?

Darak:  Tolmac knows better than to mess with my family – High Priest’s can 
be replaced.

Veronica:  So can commanders of armies.

Darak:  He wouldn’t dare, let’s go.

[Scene:  Marguerite, Malone and Roxton are escorting Jante along the trail.]

Marguerite:  Not that I’m not a great admirer of decisive action but what’s 
the plan once we get to the village.

Roxton:  We wing it.

Marguerite:  Translation he has no idea.

Roxton:  Eyes ahead keep moving [Roxton pushes Janek with his rifle]

Malone:  Any time now.

Marguerite:  I guess I owe you one.

Malone:  Great answer a question.

Marguerite:  Always the reporter.

Malone:  Those markings the ones in the tomb why do they frighten you so 
much?

Marguerite:  Don’t be ridiculous.

Malone:  Is it what they say a threat - a curse?

Marguerite:  It was a prayer to the God of the underworld to remember his 
name in the rolls of the dead.

Malone:  But how could you read that.

Marguerite:  I don’t know!  The words just form in my mind like chalk 
appearing on a blackboard.

Malone:  Lines – markings - scribbles.  Yet you read them as easily as I 
would decipher the latest Sherlock Holmes.

Marguerite:  All those years at Oxford; maybe I was paying attention after 
all.

Malone:  You really don’t know do you?

Marguerite:  Shouldn’t we be getting a move on?

Malone:  You have no idea how you were able to read a language thousands of 
years old.  That’s what terrifies you.

Marguerite:  I guess we all have our demons.  Consider yourself repaid.

Malone:  Fair enough for now.

Roxton:  What the hell are you doing back there stopping from tea?

Marguerite:  Roxton that stuff about your brother, that was out of line even 
for me.

Roxton:  Forget it - there’s other things to worry about.

[Scene:  The Christec village – Outside the council building.]

Tolmac:  Here before you is the agent of Satan.  The one who stole the soul 
of this poor girl; this child; this innocent a victim of this man’s evil.

Challenger:  I am the witch.

Summerlee:  No he’s not, I am the witch.

Challenger:  This man is clearly out of his head on the one you want.  Come 
on Tolmac, you know who your real enemy is.

Tolmac:  Yes I do - the heretics have confessed to their sins.  They tried 
to seduce us with promises of wonder; unnatural devices; raising that dead.  
  But I would not be seduced.  Mine eyes are the eyes that see - mine are 
the ears that hear - mine is the voice of salvation.

[He throws the girl at the guards to tie her to the stake.]

Tolmac:  Burn them!  Burn them all!

Challenger:  She has done nothing.

Tolmac:  She is the symbol of your heresy her soul must be purified.  On 
wings of flame the fire of Salvation.

[The fire is started and the village becomes chaos.  Roxton enters the 
village and shoots Tolmac.]

Malone:  Shooting a priest that’s your idea of winging it.

[Challenger gets loose and carries the girl from the fire.]

Veronica:  A group of outsiders have just saved you daughter’s life – again. 
  Will you still let them die?

Darak:  It was the will of the Gods.

Pintario:  The Gods have spoken rejoice for Jesucoatl God of rebirth who has 
brought life where there was death.

Darak:  All hail Pintario holy inquisitor high priest of the Christecs

[Epilogue]

[Scene:  The treehouse - Malone is writing in his journal.]

[Malone voice over]:  Some believe what separates men from animals is our 
ability to reason.  The others say it’s language or romantic love or 
opposable thumbs.  Living here in this lost world I’ve come to believe it’s 
more than our biology.  What truly makes us human is our unending search our 
abiding desire for immortality. [Challenger fixing the gramophone - 
Summerlee and Veronica potting the orchid.] From a flower to adorn a garden 
[Marguerite laying flowers at the King’s tomb, Roxton watching.] to a theory 
that will rock the world.  Some seek in death what they failed to achieve in 
life; building elaborate tombs as if to cage their own souls.  Even as I 
write this I wonder will anybody ever read these words.  Perhaps not, but if 
you do than all I ask is for you to remember me.

End of episode