Script – Season four ==================== Episode 13 ---------- *(whale sounds)* *(music)* :Dianne: Darling, it’s me, mother. You’re safe with us. --------- :Malakat: This is the place. It’s here we’ll find the secret of working the pyramid. :Shersheba: I hope we find it quickly. --------- *(music)* :Brett: No. She’s going to be okay. :Dianne: I don’t like this. :Paul: I’ll get a doctor. :Jason: It’s too late. She’s gone. --------- :Shersheba: There’s nothing here. Absolutely nothing. You were wrong, again. :Malakat: We’ll go back up. The answer must be somewhere close. Wait. Yes. --------- :Winston: Are you absolutely sure? :Dianne: I’m afraid there’s no doubt. :Winston: Neri. When the moon vanishes… The forest falls silent. :Dianne: We need you. :Winston: Of course. Of course. --------- :Cass: It’s not fair. It’s just not fair. :Brett: We gotta do something. Get an expert from a space centre or something. *(Door buzzer)* :Brett: Bet that’s Winston. :Louis: What’s going on? I heard you brought a girl down from the pontoon a while ago. And she was sick or something. :Cass: Just beat it. :Louis: It’s that alien girl, isn’t it? :Brett: Mind you own business. Don’t go in there! :Louis: What’s happened? She’s not– :Cass: Just get lost, Louis. :Brett: Just go away. :Louis: But I didn’t mean for them to hurt her. I’m sorry. Honest. :Cass: I better go after him. He’ll be blabbering all over the place. --------- :Louis: What do you want? :Cass: Make sure you don’t go yabbering to anyone about Neri. :Louis: You needn’t worry, I won’t. :Cass: How come you’re feeling so sorry for yourself, anyway? You’re the one who was helping PRAXIS. :Louis: I know, I know. :Cass: Something’s getting at you. What is it? :Louis: Lying there, she looked just like my mother. So now you know. Leave me alone. :Cass: Did your mom die, too? :Louis: Yes. :Cass: How long ago? :Louis: When I was eight. Right after my birthday. :Cass: Gee, Louis. I’m really sorry. --------- :Brett: Mum’s coming up with Winston. They want to talk to us. --------- :Cass: She was pretty. I bet you and your dad miss her, huh? :Louis: Yes. She was wonderful. She made things happen, not like my father. :Cass: Your dad’s okay. :Louis: He’s a weak freak. :Cass: Not how he comes across. :Louis: Maybe that’s because I push him – to get to the top. That’s what my mother wanted, for all of us. :Cass: Hey, you gotta lighten up, Louis. Hang about with kids for a time. :Louis: Other kids don’t like me. You don’t like me. :Cass: Who likes snoopy little cheats? Look, Louis, you want to give people a chance, then maybe they’ll give you one. :Louis: Whatever happens now with Neri, I want to help. Can I? :Cass: Yeah, sure. --------- :Dianne: I know this is difficult but you boys are Neri’s family on earth and I think it’s up to you to decide what to do now. :Brett: Us? :Winston: In all things, Brett, you could consider what Neri would have wanted. :Dianne: To go back to the island, perhaps? :Jason: I know what to do. Leave it with us. --------- :Shersheba: So, the time has come to fulfil our destiny. :Malakat: The metal of the ankh has changed. Into what? :Shersheba: Mine, I think. :Malakat: Highness. --------- :Hauser: The last time I saw Neri, that is the extraterrestrial biological entity, was in the lift well. I couldn’t get her up the ladder. Her body slipped away from under me, under the water. I didn’t see her again. She must have been washed away when the flood waters cleared. :Shelby: Okay, let’s go back to that moment in detail. :Hauser: How many times do I have to go through this, sir? What does it matter anyway? She was already gone. :Richter: Very well. I’ve made a decision. All records of operation sphinx will be destroyed. From this point on, the alien girl never existed. Is that understood? By both of you? :Hauser: Yes, sir. :Richter: Agent Shelby? :Shelby: If you insist, sir. :Richter: Good. We can put the whole disaster behind us. :Hauser: Not me, sir. I can’t do that. Put it behind me. :Richter: No point blaming yourself, Hauser. :Shelby: You’ve just had a hard time, that’s all. :Richter: He’s right. Take some leave and you’ll see things differently. :Hauser: Differently? We killed her. You think I can ever accept that? :Richter: The medical procedures used on the subject were regrettable but essential. :Hauser: So, the end always justifies the means? Not for me. Not any more. My resignation. I’m quitting as of now. :Richter: Her choice. --------- :Louis: She’s gone. Neri’s gone. They’ve taken her. :Cass: Only the boys. :Louis: You promised. :Cass: Get lost, Louis. :Louis: You’re a liar. I hate you. :Cass: Yeah, well, that just about says it all. Like why you haven’t got any friends. :Louis: You’re going to be sorry about this. --------- :Shelby: They brought her back to ORCA? :Louis: Yes. And now, they’ve taken her somewhere else. :Shelby: They’ve taken her? Where? :Louis: I don’t know yet. But I can find out. :Shelby: Nice try, kid. But I don’t know what you’re talking about. And if you make any more of these prank calls, you’re gonna be in serious trouble. Get it? --------- :Shelby: What if we went back in [?] :Richter: Shelby! There is no girl. There is no e.b.e. The file is closed. Understood? --------- :Jason: Neri, we brought you back to Shalamorn because… She was the one that sent you to us and… :Brett: We had really good times. :Jason: Yeah, really great times. *(music)* :Jason: Now we have to say goodbye. I love you, Neri. Always. :Malakat: So, we find ourselves together again. :Shersheba: How sad. And I was going to make her one of my ladies in waiting. :Brett: You animal! :Malakat: Quickly. Waste no time. :Jason: Don’t do it! :Shalamorn: She who dares to rule the pyramid step forward and place your hand on the sacred stone. *(music)* :Neri: Where am I? What has happened? :Jason: That doesn’t matter now. You’re alive. :Shersheba: Not for long. :Malakat: No, wait. It may not be as you think! --------- :Cass: Winston, look. :Winston: Some sort of seismic disturbance in the mako abyss. It’s the pyramid. My goodness. --------- :Jason: We’ve got to get out of here. :Shersheba: It was for me. It was for me! :Jason: Are you sure you’re all right to swim? :Neri: I do not know what has happened. :Jason: Later. :Brett: We’ve got to go! Come on. *(music)* *(Whale sounds)* --------- :Jason: What’s happening down there? *(music)* :Winston: I don’t understand. The anomaly’s completely disappeared. It’s gone. --------- :Winston: Dianne, something extraordinary has happened. I’m sorry. I’m intruding. :Dianne: It’s all right. I just keep thinking things, about Neri. :Winston: Dianne, you must allow yourself to experience all feelings of grief. :Dianne: How can the boys– how can I, stay here on ORCA knowing how our people destroyed her? :Winston: Dianne. :Neri: Mother. :Dianne: Oh, Neri, Neri. *(music)* --------- :Shelby: Not even hanging around for the farewell party? :Hauser: Nobody I want to say goodbye to, thanks all the same. :Shelby: Pity, you couldn’t hack it, Hauser. Just when I had them sold on the idea of a crack E.B.E. hunting unit, an elite force to catch the elite. :Hauser: Jake, want to know something? I couldn’t care less. :Shelby: And I was going to recommend you as my assistant. :Hauser: Shelby, if I ever went back to hunting aliens, I’d be starting with you. :Shelby: Always knew she had a hankering for me. --------- :Paul: So, I tear up my report? :Dianne: Paul, you must. If Neri had been dead, it wouldn’t have mattered. But now that she’s alive… :Paul: I’ve got to keep my mouth shut. :Dianne: Every family has its secrets. :Paul: And I get to share this one? :Dianne: So far, you’ve stood by us over Neri. The boys appreciate it and so do I. :Paul: I know how you all feel. Today I felt almost as though she was my daughter, too. Okay, as long as things stay quiet, I’ll take a leaf out of PRAXIS’ book. Neri never existed. :Dianne: Don’t know what’s happening, commander. You’re becoming quite reasonable in your old age. --------- :Jason: So, what about Malakat and Shersheba? :Brett: How could they have got out? I say they went down with the pyramid. :Jason: No one’s set eyes on them since. :Neri: I wish… I wish it was true. But, I cannot believe. :Brett: C’mon, Neri. They’re history. You beat them. You won. :Jason: I knew you would. :Neri: I hope we all win. But something say, in here, is not over. Something say, is only the beginning. *(music)*