Transcript for “Absolute Power”
Episode 1x13
Originally Aired: 1/22/00
Writer: Frank Encarnacao
Director: Ian Gilmour
Transcribed by Carol Murdock for TWIZ TV.com
Feedback: murdockcarol@twiztv.com
[Scene: The trail. Roxton and Malone are shooting at a dinosaur]
Roxton: Nine O’clock.
[The dinosaur runs back into the jungle]
Marguerite: Nice shooting.
Roxton: Thank you.
Marguerite: I meant Malone.
Malone: I think we got them all.
[They hear a dinosaur growl]
Roxton: Don’t be so sure.
Challenger: Their surrounding us.
Roxton: Time to leave.
[Scene: The foursome comes across an abandoned city. It’s overgrown with
plant life]
Roxton: We’ve lost them.
Challenger: What in God’s name?
Marguerite: What is this place?
Roxton: Roman maybe.
Malone: Or Greek sort of.
Challenger: With industrial elements that’s not possible.
Marguerite: Is that a train track.
Malone: It looks just like a piece of the Second Avenue ‘L’.
Marguerite: And one rail.
Roxton: It can’t be. Its a thousand years old.
Challenger: Or more.
[Marguerite finds symbols carved on a pillar]
Malone: Can you read that?
Marguerite: It’s an offering. May those who read this be bolder, braver
and wiser than we who have perished by…
Roxton: Well go on.
Marguerite: That’s it.
[Challenger is on top of an altar he pushes away some of the debris. There
are symbols on the altar]
Challenger: This is unbelievable. It’s absolutely unbelievable.
Marguerite: It looks like a crude map of the solar system.
Challenger: It’s a blueprint of the atom.
Marguerite: What? It’s a thousand years old; how the hell could they know
about the atom?
Roxton: What are you looking for?
[Challenger finds a crystal orb. He dusts it off.]
Challenger: This
Malone: And this is?
Challenger: The missing piece.
[Challenger places the orb in the middle of the altar. It starts to glow]
Marguerite: I don’t like the look of this.
Roxton: Get down from the platform Challenger.
Malone: Challenger
[The orb illuminates Challenger and fills the sky with its light. The beam
of light dissipates and Challenger falls to the ground. The others run to
him.]
Marguerite: Is he alive?
**** 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****
Malone: He’s breathing.
Roxton: Barely
Malone: His face, it’s scorched.
Marguerite: His heart is pounding out of his chest.
Roxton: He’s burning up.
Malone: It looks like he’s dreaming.
[Challenger’s dream]
[Challenger wakes up in his own bed in the treehouse]
Summerlee: Easy
Challenger: Summerlee
Summerlee: Just relax you need to rest.
Marguerite: You had us worried for a while there.
Challenger: What happened?
Marguerite: You don’t remember?
Roxton: That was quite a jolt you took.
Challenger: It was remarkable.
Summerlee: It’s over that’s the important thing.
Marguerite: How are you feeling?
Challenger: Exhilarated! In fact I’ve never felt more alive.
[Challenger sits up raises his hands and light shoots between them. He
falls back on his cot.]
[Scene: Outside the treehouse - Malone is trying to fix the electric
generator]
Veronica: Are you sure you know what you’re doing?
Malone: I thought I did.
Veronica: Well you said you could fix it.
Malone: Well I’m a journalist not an electrician.
[The generator starts up. Dirkon comes out of nowhere grabs Malone and
tosses him out of the way. Slavers surround Malone while Dirkon stands in
front of Veronica.
Veronica: What do you want?
Dirkon: You
[Scene: The treehouse – Challenger sits up looking at his hands.]
Challenger: Amazing
Summerlee: Some sort of residual charge from that light.
Roxton: Which begs the question?
Marguerite: What the hell happened to you back there?
[They are startled by yelling from outside the treehouse]
Slavers: Grab the girl!
Veronica: Challenger!
[Scene: Outside the treehouse - Veronica and Malone fight with the slavers]
Dirkon: Now you will behave or die.
[Roxton and Marguerite from the balcony of the treehouse shoots at the
slavers]
Roxton: Let her go!
Marguerite: Now!
[Marguerite shoots one of the slavers. Dirkon throws Veronica over his
shoulder and they escape. Roxton and Marguerite get to Malone first.]
Roxton: Malone are you all right?
Malone: Veronica
Roxton: You’re not going anywhere.
Malone: I’m fine.
Marguerite: You’re bleeding.
Summerlee: That’s a really nasty wound. You may have a concussion.
Roxton: Get him upstairs.
Malone: No I have to go.
Challenger: No you don’t - I do.
Summerlee: George……George get back here you’re not well.
Roxton: We’ll bring them home.
[Roxton and Marguerite run after Challenger]
[Reality]
[Scene: The treehouse - Roxton, Malone and Marguerite are bringing
Challenger up the elevator]
Roxton: Summerlee Challenger’s hurt!
Veronica: What happened?
Marguerite: There was an explosion.
Summerlee: We’re going to need some clean water, cloths and some soap to
disinfect that burn on his face.
Malone: I think he’s gone into shock.
Summerlee: Challenger! George - come back…come back.
Roxton: It’s no good Summerlee; wherever he is he can’t hear you.
[Challengers dream]
[Scene: The trail to find Veronica.]
Roxton: Challenger wait up - comeback.
Marguerite: At least slowdown.
[They catch up to him. Challenger turns around]
Challenger: What?
Marguerite: I get the feeling there something you’re not telling us.
Challenger: Veronica’s in danger; right now that’s all that matters.
Roxton: Hold up.
Challenger: What is it?
Roxton: This way.
Roxton: No they went through here.
Challenger: This is where the trail leads.
Challenger: That’s false.
Marguerite: Not to be difficult but Roxton’s pretty good at this sort of
thing.
Challenger: There are six of them slavers one of them wounded slowing them
down. Dirkon put that there to throw us off.
Marguerite: Dirkon?
Challenger: Their leader.
Roxton: You know this man?
Challenger: I do now.
Roxton: I haven’t got time for this. I’m going after Veronica.
Challenger: Wait! I admit it sounds strange but you’ve got to trust me.
They went this way.
Marguerite: What are you clairvoyant now?
Challenger: Oh my God.
Marguerite: What?
Challenger: He’s killing him.
[Scene: Dirkon is stabbing one of his wounded men in the back.]
Veronica: What kind of an animal are you?
Dirkon: He was dying anyway.
Veronica: He was one of your own men.
Dirkon: He was a liability. Make sure you don’t become one.
[Scene: the trail]
Challenger: We must hurry.
Marguerite: But wait! What do you want to do?
Roxton: Doesn’t look like we have much choice really.
Marguerite: What if he’s right?
Roxton: The man’s delusional, and it seems to be catching.
Marguerite: I’m just asking what if. What if the light rewired his brain?
Roxton: Then we’ll get him to pick a few winning horses when we get back to
civilization.
[Scene: Dirkon and the slavers enter their village. Men yell their welcome
to their leader. Veronica sees that she is not the only woman slave in the
camp. Other women are chained to poles. They bring Veronica in front of a
statue and everyone, but her, kneels before it.]
Dirkon: On your knees before Rohtah woman.
Veronica: I kneel before no one, much less some piece of junk.
Dirkon: Kneel
Veronica: Go to hell.
[One of the men steps forward and backhands Veronica. Before he can get
another blow in Dirkon stops him.]
Dirkon: No bruising, not on such lovely skin. [Dirkon licks down her neck.
Veronica is disgusted.] Take her.
[Scene: The trail to find Veronica]
Marguerite: Hey Challenger wait up.
Roxton: Marguerite we’ve lost too much time already. I’m going back to the
other trail.
[Challenger stops in front of the dead slaver]
Challenger: I think I’m beginning to understand. Each mind has its own
frequency like a short way wireless. It’s as if I’m a radio tuning
everything in.
Roxton: Just have a listen to yourself Challenger.
Challenger: I know it sounds fantastic but it’s true.
Marguerite: How are you picking up the signals?
Challenger: She’s over there.
Marguerite: Veronica?
Challenger: I can sense her fear, sadness and pity, but she lives.
Veronica is still alive.
Roxton: All what the hell we’ve come this far.
Marguerite: What’s happening to him?
[Reality]
[Scene: Marguerite is wiping Challengers brow. He is fevered and can’t
keep still. Roxton enters with a bowl.]
Roxton: Summerlee says we have to get him to eat.
Marguerite: Faint hope.
[Marguerite takes the bowl of broth from Roxton.]
Marguerite: Hold him. [Challenger spits up what she feeds him] He won’t
take it.
Roxton: He has to.
Marguerite: Fine you try.
Summerlee: Any change?
Marguerite: He’s burning up.
Summerlee: How can I treat him when we don’t know what’s wrong with him.
Roxton: Either we break his fever now or we’re going to lose him.
[Fade Out]
[Scene: The treehouse: Roxton and Marguerite come up the elevator with
buckets of water.]
Summerlee: Colder the water needs to be colder.
Roxton: Straight from the stream this is as cold as it gets.
Marguerite: We are in the jungle Professor.
Summerlee: I don’t need a lecture on thermodynamics. Now you really soak
those towels and pack them around him. We’ve got to get his temperature
down.
Marguerite: Is this gonna work?
Roxton: It better, if it doesn’t.
Summerlee: Yes…yes John we all know what will happen.
[Challengers dream]
[Scene: Dirkon’s village - Veronica is being led around in chains. She
looks around and sees the other slave women being man handled by the
slavers. One slaver walks up to Veronica; he grabs her behind the neck.
Veronica knees him in the groin then punches him knocking him down. Another
slaver comes toward her; she kicks him in the face.]
Dirkon: Stop it leave her alone.
[Dirkon kicks the man who is already down. With his foot he digs the man’s
hand into hot coals.]
Dirkon: Any damage to this woman and the price falls. Those of you wishing
to pay the difference may do so - to be exacted very slowly.
[Scene: Roxton, Marguerite and Challenger find Dirkon’s village. They
watch from a high point.]
Marguerite: So far you’re batting a thousand.
Roxton: I’d be willing to settle for a reasonable explanation.
Challenger: I’d led you here didn’t I? Just admit there are forces at work
in our universe beyond explanation
Roxton: I count twelve maybe as many as fifteen.
Marguerite: Five to one. With odds like that why do I worry?
Roxton: Check your loads everyone. Where’s your weapon Challenger?
Challenger: I didn’t bring it.
Roxton: You forgot your weapon?
Challenger: I don’t need it.
Roxton: Great. Well you’re out of the game. All right we’ll need a
strategy. I’ll swing around flank them from across the base of the camp.
[Challenger walks off.] Challenger?
Marguerite: So much for strategy.
[The three walk into Dirkon’s village. Challenger walks right up to
Veronica.]
Challenger: Are you all right?
Veronica: Better now.
Challenger: Good I’ll be right back. Dirkon.
Dirkon: And you are?
Challenger: I’ve come for Veronica.
Dirkon: A fine specimen but I’m afraid she’s not up for auction just yet.
Challenger: And I have not come to bid. Please release her and no one need
be injured. [A slaver grabs Veronica and puts a knife to her throat] No!
Dirkon: Wise choice now to drop your weapon or the girl dies.
Veronica: Don’t, they’ll kill us anyway.
Challenger: Dirkon you bring this upon yourself.
Dirkon: Kill her.
[A beam of light comes from Challenger’s hand and kills the slaver holding
Veronica.]
Challenger: Are you hurt?
Veronica: You killed him with your hand.
Challenger: No - with my thoughts.
[Roxton and Marguerite approach Veronica]
Veronica: What’s going on? How’d he do that?
Marguerite: He’s the wrong guy to ask.
Roxton: There’s a reasonable explanation.
Marguerite: I’d like to hear it.
[The slavers are kneeling before Challenger]
Dirkon: On your feet - I said on your feet. Rohtah is watching and his
servants kneel before no man. False prophet – trickster. Now you will
kneel before Rohtah or I will command him to strike you down.
Challenger: Your God has no power over me. I do this with regret, but
there can be no mercy without true worship [Challenger melts the idol with
the light from his hands. The slavers along with Dirkon kneel before
Challenger.] Know this now and forever. There are no other Gods before me.
[Scene: Nighttime Dirkon’s village – Roxton, Marguerite, Challenger and
Veronica are sitting around a camp fire.]
Roxton: Quantum reality.
Challenger: Everything is possible and all at the same time. I’ve never
been able to put my finger on it before because there’s never been a unified
theory for this sort of thing. But now I understand and I understand how to
harness the power.
Marguerite: And you got this magical knowledge from the light?
Challenger: Oh it’s not magic. It’s science - pure and breathtaking.
Veronica: Science from a vanished civilization.
Challenger: From Atlantis.
Marguerite: Well there’s your reasonable explanation.
Roxton: Atlantis, as in the lost city?
Marguerite: It was destroyed thousands of years ago. It sunk to the bottom
of the sea.
Veronica: This is where you got your information?
Challenger: It was all encoded and transmitted on that beam of light.
Roxton: In this makes you a God now?
Challenger: It burdens me with new responsibilities if that’s what you
mean.
Veronica: Like what?
Challenger: Just imagine a world rid of pestilence and drought, natural
disasters, famine.
Marguerite: Now you’re beginning to scare me.
Challenger: All I’m doing is manipulating the laws of physics. How can I
in good conscience allow suffering to continue?
Marguerite: Atlantis was destroyed Challenger and this may be why.
Challenger: They didn’t respect the power; it overwhelmed them. I will be
wiser. I will not make the same mistakes.
Roxton: No you’ll make new ones. You roasted a man - a human being like
you’re swatting a fly.
Challenger: I saved Veronica’s life.
Roxton: Yes you did. You also destroyed these people’s sacred God.
Challenger: You can be either disciple or enemy. For your sake choose
wisely my friend.
[Scene: Nighttime the treehouse – Summerlee is changing Malone’s bandage]
Malone: This is all my fault.
Summerlee: Now you just stop that.
Malone: I could have done more I could have saved her.
Summerlee: You did what you could and you nearly get yourself killed.
Malone: No I’ve gotta get to her.
Summerlee: Sit down - you’re not going anywhere.
Malone: Get out of my way.
Summerlee: What you going to do; you going to hit me? Very well go right
ahead.
Malone: Move!
Summerlee: There’s only one way you can get out Malone and that’s through
me.
Marguerite: Please - I don’t want to hurt you.
Summerlee: I’m sorry but you’re just going to have to take your best shot
(Malone tries to push past Summerlee but he falls to the floor) Come on
let’s get you to bed.
[Scene: The campfire]
Roxton: He’s out of control.
Marguerite: He’s still George Challenger.
Roxton: Is he?
Marguerite: So what’s the plan?
Roxton: It started at the ruins with that crystal.
Marguerite: Do you really think that’s his source of power?
Roxton: If we could destroy it, it’s worth a shot.
Marguerite: What if it doesn’t work?
Roxton: Then God help us.
[Challenger is supervising the slavers]
Challenger: Good work - quickly now we have much to do.
Veronica: Challenger?
Challenger: Not now child I’m busy.
Veronica: I was just wondering - with these new powers of yours. Can you
use them to find my parents?
Challenger: In due course.
Veronica: What does that mean?
Challenger: It means later!
Veronica: Are they dead? Is that what you’re trying to tell me?
Challenger: What I’m trying to tell you is compared to the millions of
people who need my help - two lives are insignificant.
[Veronica grabs Challenger’s arm]
Veronica: Insignificant – not to me; are they alive?
Challenger: Do not lay your hands on me.
Veronica: I don’t know what you are, but you’re not human anymore.
Challenger: Hold your tongue.
Veronica: You’re a fraud Challenger.
[Challenger grabs Veronica’s arm to stop her from walking away]
Roxton: Let her go. We’re going home.
Challenger: You’re not going anywhere.
Roxton: Maybe you’re not tuning me in right - check your dial.
Challenger: I will be needing your help Roxton please.
Roxton: You’ve got warriors to build your weapons.
Challenger: If you think affecting this type of change is easy this is a
spiritual awakening - a revolution.
Roxton: You need to get down from the altar and take a cold shower.
Challenger: Mankind needs me Roxton can’t you understand that? I can’t
turn my back on them.
Roxton: We’re leaving in the morning.
Challenger: I can make you stay.
[Roxton points his rifle at Challenger]
Roxton: I wouldn’t try it.
Challenger: Go ahead pull the trigger.
Roxton: Blundering into that light doesn’t make you the chosen one
Challenger. It could’ve been Marguerite or Malone even me.
Challenger: But it wasn’t was it? I discovered it - it is my destiny.
Veronica: I don’t want any part of your destiny. Let’s go.
Challenger: No! I don’t want to hurt you.
Roxton: Then let us walk.
Challenger: I’m afraid you leave me no choice.
[Challenger points his hand at Roxton and shoots a beam of light. Veronica
jumps in front of Roxton and takes the hit.]
Roxton: What have you done?
[Fade Out]
[Reality]
[Scene: Daytime the treehouse – Veronica is wiping Challengers brow.]
Veronica: He’s going to make it.
Summerlee: I hope so.
Marguerite: How’s he doing?
Summerlee: Well the fevers leveled off a bit but.
Veronica: It’s his pulse; his heart.
Marguerite: How fast?
Veronica: It’s racing.
Marguerite: Do you think he’s in pain?
Summerlee: What makes you say that?
Marguerite: He’s crying.
[A tear is forming in Challenger’s right eye.]
[Challenger’s Dream]
[Scene: Daytime Dirkon’s village – Roxton is covering Veronica’s dead body.
She is on a stretcher ready for travel.]
Challenger: She will live on in all of us - a martyr.
Marguerite: You’re insane.
Challenger: I will find her parents. I will do that for her and maybe
direct a grand temple in her memory.
Roxton: She didn’t want a temple she wanted to live. You ready?
Challenger: Wait where are you going.
Roxton: We’re taking her home.
Challenger: You can’t.
Marguerite: Or what you kill us too?
Challenger: I can give you anything you want. Everything you dreamed up.
Marguerite: There’s nothing you have that I want.
Challenger: Roxton, Marguerite - don’t desert me now. I am in need of
friends as well as worshipers.
Roxton: What you need is a mirror to get a good hard look at what you’ve
become.
Challenger: I didn’t mean to kill her it was an accident.
Marguerite: Only because you were aiming for Roxton.
[Challenger falls to his knees]
Challenger: I mourn; how it hurts me. But see, even my sadness brings joy
to someone.
[Challenger holds out a diamond for Marguerite. She takes the diamond and
looks it over.]
Marguerite: What is this Challenger the divine being reduced to petty
bribery?
[Marguerite puts the diamond back in Challenger’s hands]
Challenger: That is not an answer.
Marguerite: There are some things even diamonds can’t buy. Let’s go.
[Roxton and Marguerite pick up the stretcher and leave.]
[Scene: The trail back to the treehouse]
Marguerite: I need to rest Roxton just for a minute.
Roxton: Sure
Marguerite: I can’t believe she’s gone.
Roxton: You know I should’ve.
Marguerite: You couldn’t have saved her.
Roxton: I should have killed him.
Challenger: Now’s your chance; go ahead shoot if it’ll make you feel any
better. Shoot!
[Roxton tries to shoot Challenger but he has no bullets.]
Challenger: I could kill you now but I won’t. All I want to be is
merciful.
[A T-Rex comes out of the jungle]
Challenger: How badly do you will live?
Marguerite: What do you want Challenger?
Challenger: If I can’t have your friendship I demand your respect. Pray to
me!
Roxton: Go to hell.
Challenger: Try living without me.
Marguerite: George please don’t do this - please.
Challenger: For you.
[Challenger walks up to the T-Rex. He makes it disappear with a beam of
light from as hand]
[Scene: Nighttime the treehouse]
[Scene: Summerlee checks on Malone and sees he’s sleeping. He blows out
the lantern. Summerlee goes to the balcony smoking in pipe. Challenger
appears behind him.]
Summerlee: George I didn’t hear you. Where are the others?
Challenger: On their way.
Summerlee: Veronica? No - she was so young.
Challenger: Arthur we need to talk. Are you my friend? I mean truly my
friend? Please I have to know.
Summerlee: Of course I am George you know that.
Challenger: Then you’ll stand by me no matter what.
Summerlee: What on earth’s wrong George?
Challenger: Nothing, not anymore. Anything you want Arthur; your heart’s
desire. You just name it.
Summerlee: Perhaps you better go downstairs and get some rest.
Challenger: Listen to me Arthur. I’m offering you something - take it.
Summerlee: What could you possibly have that I might want?
Challenger: Redemption
[Scene: Challenger transports Summerlee to a time in the past. Summerlee
sees a vision of himself sitting beside his wife Anna’s death bed.]
Summerlee: How did you do this?
Challenger: I didn’t - you did. This is where your heart has longed to
return to. Now she doesn’t have to die alone.
Summerlee: Anna
Vision Anna: Arthur
Vision Summerlee: It’s alright I’m here.
Vision Anna: The pain - I can’t bear it anymore.
Vision Summerlee: Shh. It’ll be better in the morning.
Vision Anna: Forgive me.
Vision Summerlee: Try to get some sleep.
[Vision Summerlee leaves the room.]
Summerlee: No she needs you - you fool go back. Why are you doing this to
me?
Challenger: Can’t you see? You’ve given yourself a second chance. Go to
her.
Vision Anna: Arthur
Challenger: Go - she can see you now.
Summerlee: I’m here Anna.
Vision Anna: Thank you. Thank you for staying - I love you.
Summerlee: And I love you too and I’ll never leave you my darling.
[Summerlee cries as Anna dies.]
[Scene: Challenger and Summerlee appear back in the treehouse.]
Summerlee: No it can’t be.
Challenger: You see anything is possible.
Summerlee: My God what’s become of you?
Challenger: It was the light Arthur. It showed me so many things; how to
control time and space and the forces of nature.
Summerlee: No, you have to give it up.
Challenger: Give it up. I've barely begun.
Summerlee: Listen to me you’ve got to forget it. Forget it at all costs.
Challenger: I thought you said you were my friend and would stand by me no
matter what.
Summerlee: I’m appealing to you as your friend. This power you described
is too great for any man to bear.
Challenger: But I am so much more than any man now. Can’t you see that?
Summerlee: Pride goeth before a fall.
Challenger: This isn’t pride it’s reality.
Summerlee: You’re not God.
Challenger: You ungrateful fool. I gave you a gift.
Summerlee: A gift - you call that a gift?
Challenger: You got all you wanted; a chance to say goodbye to your dying
wife.
Summerlee: I didn’t give you permission to rape my memories.
Challenger: I helped you.
Summerlee: You used me.
Challenger: How many people get a second chance? Arthur you been blessed.
Summerlee: Cursed is more like it. Look at you you’re drunk with power.
Challenger: I’m alive with the possibilities of the universe.
Summerlee: A madman.
Challenger: Summerlee
Summerlee: Likening yourself to God.
Challenger: Judas!
[Challenger raises his arms and Summerlee falls back over the balcony to his
death. Roxton and Marguerite from the ground below see him fall and run to
him. Challenger looks over the balcony]
Challenger: No no nooooo.
[Reality]
[Scene: The treehouse – Challenger screams as he lies in bed]
Challenger: Nooooooo
Summerlee: Roxton! Marguerite!
Marguerite: What’s wrong?
Summerlee: His hearts stopped.
[Fade Out]
[Roxton is pounding on Challenger’s chest trying to get his heart started.]
Roxton: Come on you old bastard you’re not dying on me yet. What the
hell’s taking so long?
Marguerite: Just a few more seconds.
Roxton: We haven’t got a few more seconds.
[Scene: Outside the treehouse – Malone is trying to fix the electric
generator.]
Veronica: Can’t you hurry?
Malone: I’m winging this Veronica.
Veronica: Meanwhile Challenger’s dying.
Malone: Dammit don’t you think I know that. I’m a journalist I’m not an
electrician.
[Malone gets the generator started.]
Veronica: I knew you could do it.
[Challengers Dream]
[Scene: Challenger is in an open field on his knees praying. There is
lightning all around him]
Challenger: I beg of you - help me!
[Reality]
[Scene: Summerlee is using a makeshift defibrillator sending electricity
through Challenger - trying to get his heart started.]
Marguerite: You’re electrocuting him; you’ll kill him!
Roxton: He’s already dead.
Summerlee: Not if I can help it.
Roxton: Again! [Summerlee tries again but the defibrillator is out of
juice] Malone!
[Scene: Outside the treehouse]
Veronica: Do something!
Marguerite: What the hell do you want me to do? I didn’t know how to get
it started in the first place - piece of junk. [Malone kicks the generator
and it starts up again.]
Marguerite: This may be your last chance Professor.
[Summerlee shocks Challenger again]
[Challengers Dream]
[Challenger in the open field is being struck by lightening]
[Reality]
[Challengers eyes open]
Summerlee: Easy
Challenger: Summerlee
Summerlee: Relax you need to rest.
Marguerite: You had us worried for a while there.
Challenger: What happened?
Marguerite: You don’t remember?
Roxton: That was one hell of a jolt you took.
Challenger: It was remarkable.
Summerlee: It’s over that’s the important thing.
[Challenger bolts out of bed]
Challenger: Veronica!
Summerlee: What are you doing man?
Challenger: Slavers!
Marguerite: You have a nasty bump on you head.
Challenger: We haven’t got time to argue. Slavers are coming for Veronica
now just go – go!
[Scene: Outside the treehouse - Malone and Veronica are fighting Dirkon and
the slavers. Roxton appears and shoots in the air.]
Roxton: Consider that a warning.
Dirkon: Take her.
[Everyone joins the fight. The slavers are defeated and they run off.]
Malone: Thanks guys. That was close.
Roxton: Don’t thank us thank Challenger.
Summerlee: He’s gone.
Roxton: What do you mean he’s gone? The man was just dead.
Marguerite: Well he can’t have gone far.
[Scene: The abandoned city - Challenger is laying gunpowder around the orb
on the altar.]
Challenger: May those who find this be bolder, braver and wiser than us.
[Challenger lights the fuse. The orb explodes. Challenger tries to make
the beam of light come from his hand and can’t.]
[Epilogue]
[Scene: Nighttime the abandoned city - Challenger is sitting on the steps
of the altar. Marguerite approaches.]
Marguerite: I see you’ve been keeping busy.
Challenger: I thought I’d take a walk get some fresh air.
Marguerite: How did you know about the slavers?
Challenger: It’s complicated.
Marguerite: Great - I’m glad I had my secretary clear my schedule.
Challenger: Let’s just say I was shown a world where I was God and it
wasn’t a world worth living in.
Marguerite: Riddles huh - I’ve got one for you. What’s black and blue and
floats down a river?
Challenger: I don’t know what’s black and blue and floats down a river.
Marguerite: A guy who makes me clear my schedule for nothing.
Challenger: Let’s go home.
Marguerite: Seriously, how did you know about the slavers?
Challenger: Same way I know you’d never sell out a friend; not even for the
most perfect diamond in the world.
Marguerite: It’s good to know even God can be wrong.
[Scene: Lighting is striking in the night sky]
[End of episode]