Buck Rogers in the 26th Century



Episode 104x "Perspectives and Explosives"

Written by: Erin Weinstock


I don't hold any of the copyrights in this story, and this story was 
made without profit .


Teaser:

Close up on the bow of an old-fashioned looking wooden ship. Looking 
above the bow there seems to be a bright noon day sun, shining down in 
and on to the boat. The light has a slightly distorted look to its 
source.

After a beat we see an instrument come into view. It looks almost like a 
picker a dentist would use, but at the end to the metal pole there is a 
very tightly curved hook.

The hook end dips down into the boat, we can't see where it's gone. Or 
for that matter what's holding on to the pole end of it.

A small shuffling sound can be heard. The unseen end of the tool's hook 
end is moving about the deck of the ship, scratching across the wood for 
something.

The noise stops and after a beat the hook end comes into view again. 
Only now it's lifting the ship's main mast up.

Cut to:

int: Buck's living room:

Buck is down on the floor nearly sitting. He's holding on to his coffee 
table with one hand. The other hand is holding the hooked tool. He's 
working on a ship in a bottle. The bright light we saw earlier is 
actually a lamp, bent close down to the bottle. This bottle by the way 
has support to either side of it, by a small wooden structure. He is deeply 
concentrating on this task.

The camera is now closer back to this scene, but we can still see most 
of Buck and the coffee table in full. Theopolis: "Buck, I need you to go 
to Dr. Huer's office."

In reaction to this sudden disturbance, Buck jerks back the tool towards 
himself. As the result of this he breaks the mast of the toy sized ship. 
He groans in disappointment.

Moving the hook off the now broken mast, he gently pulls the tool out of 
the bottle. Theopolis: "Did you hear me, Buck?"

He gets up from the floor. Buck: [beat] "I heard you Theo."

Theopolis: "Did I interrupt you in something?"

Buck: "Why am I'm needed RIGHT NOW?"

Theopolis: "We have a guest here from Tierick, who Dr. Huer wants you to 
tour around the Directorate."

Buck: "Two things Theo, "Tierick," and why me?"

Theopolis: "It's a planet near the boarder of the Draconian Empire. And 
why you is because you're the only one with the free time off duty at 
this moment to give the tour."

Buck: "Yeah, I wasn't doing anything." He says this looking down at his 
bottled ship.

Theopolis: "That's good to know. I'll tell Dr. Huer you're on your way."

Cut to:

int: Huer's office:

Buck enters through the Phasoft-door to this room. Huer is standing 
besides his desk, next to the guest. She's an alien, she looks human but 
her head, neck, and hands look different from ours. She has white hair. 
Mixed into it, moving backwards into it, are shiny cuttlebone-like 
pieces sticking outwards. They're different sizes; small versions of 
these cuttlebones move down her neck from the sides of her head. The 
hands have these only very small and only on the upper side of the hand. 
She's dressed very white tie for a lady, and has a pair of red crystal 
earrings on. Her eyes are very pale in color.

Huer: "Ms. Komola, meet Buck Rogers." Huer presents her to Buck. Cont: 
"Buck, meet Ms. Komola." Now motioning Buck to Komola.

Komola: "You are my tour guide, Buck Rogers?"

Buck: "Do you want me to be?" He says this with no enthusiasm in his 
voice. 

Huer: "He is. Buck, I want you to give Ms. Komola the grand tour of the 
Directorate. She has just given us information vital to us in our battle 
against the Draconians. All she wants in return is to be shown we are 
the right ones she has given the information to."

Buck: "If you were unsure we were the right people to talk to, why did 
you tell us to begin with?"

She just stares at Buck with knowing eyes. Huer: "Ms. Komola knew we 
were the right people, Buck. She just wants to see now that we can deal 
with the Draconians if they come to battle us some time soon."

Buck is guiding her out the door. Buck: "Oh, I see." beat, Cont: "So 
where do you want to go first?"

Komola: "Where ever it is here you see as the place of this complex's most 
importance."

Buck: "Well to me, that's where I live but I don't think that's a place 
you want to go just yet. Come, I can show you our birds, they do all our 
flying. Well that is if not counting the pilots."

Komola: "Birds?" 

Cut to:

int: Flight hanger:

Buck and Komola are walking through here at a fast pace. Buck is the one 
who is setting the pace, Komola is trying to keep up with him. All the 
while they're moving Buck is pointing around to what he's talking about. 
Buck: "These here are our fighters, the "Z-87 Wolfs". Now turning to 
that wall way off over there are their launch tubes. I think you can 
guess what those do, um moving on -."

Komola: "What are those?" She pointing to the airlocks that lead to the 
holographic training simulators.

Buck: "Got to train somewhere, those are the airlocks that lead to the 
holographic training simulators. Now on to the flight control room."

Komola: "Why must we move at this speed Buck Rogers?"

Buck: "Because I bet you have better things you want to do with your 
time. Because I know I have better things to do."

Komola: "This is true, but is this how people are normally shown around 
these facilities?"

Buck: "Well you know what Miss, I truly don't know. However this is how 
"I" show people around."

Komola: "When you must hurry?"

Buck: "They grabbed me, [ beat ] I'm sorry for how I'm acting. You see I 
was in the middle of something when -."

Komola: "I understand, Buck Rogers; you're not the only one who has many 
tasks on hand to handle today."

Pre-Credits:

End of teaser:

Beginning of Act one:

ext: Defense Directorate, shuttle park:

The shuttle park is like a parking lot for cars or aircraft. Numerous 
small spacecraft can use a number of runways here, to find a parking 
space at its far end. Huer and Komola are walking towards a parking 
space with a ship on it. Note about Komola, she is no longer wearing the 
earrings we saw on her earlier. It's a breezy day, that's clear, with 
the sun high overhead. Huer: "So you feel better now about the 
Directorate's ability to defend Earth and all planets at peace with it?"

Komola: "It was a most interesting tour with its speed. I am still 
unsure as to whether or not you were the right people to come to. I felt 
I was shown what I needed to see and nothing more."

Huer: "He isn't the most polite of men is he?"

Komola: "He is interesting, but as to his politeness, we have an 
understanding."

Huer: "I'll have a talk with him."

Komola: "That will be unnecessary, I have no intentions of returning 
here."

Huer: "If you find out more about Draconian activity?"

Komola: "There are others who might have interest. If they have no 
interest, then maybe I'll return."

Huer: "Have a pleasant and safe trip home Ms. Komola."

Komola: "And may you have release in your work." After saying this she 
presses her ship and an opening appears like a doorway into the ship.

She moves inside and the opening quickly disappears.

Cut to:

New view same area, camera behind Huer who is watching the ship move 
off.

Change camera view, Huer looks down from his gaze into the sky. He turns 
and walks away. V.O. Huer: "At least she was helpful to the Directorate. 
Not much of a talker but otherwise understanding. Buck isn't the easiest 
of people to work with. The fact she was OK with him, he isn't too good 
around aliens. Well, most aliens; he gets along with the Candos pretty 
well. To that fact I wonder if he's been letting De-Pas have breaks from 
his jail time. He probably would let him; Buck may work for the 
Directorate, but he sure doesn't have much love for how it works all the 
time. Can't really blame him for that a whole lot. He's been awake and 
fully alive in this century for only a month, and he's at least in to my 
impression, not fully wild about living in this time. In his time, there 
were no aliens, no contact with other worlds. He's so different from 
anyone I've ever met before. He has such a way of seeing the world 
around himself, puts down the way the world is run. And he's the one who 
came from a time that the whole planet was nearly destroyed. How on 
Earth could we be the ones with the real issues? When it's his 
generation that's at fault for what's become the world I've known for 
all my life. Oh what will I ever do with him in how he acts. It's so 
hard to tell him to do anything by the book. But he has done things that 
have made him valuable to me, to the Directorate. Those odd views he has 
over the world, some of them have proved to be for good. I must sit down 
with him at some point, have a talk with him man to man. I just have to 
get eye to eye with Buck, for his good and maybe for my own." At this 
point Huer is re-entering the Directorate's interior from the shuttle 
park.

Cut to:

int: Defense Directorate:

Close up on a wall with Theopolis on it. The eye-lights light up and 
then start pulsing. We hold on this for a beat.

Cut to:

int: Workshop:

Buck is in this scene. Mallory is busy working on something on the 
lesser crowded of the two tables. Buck is holding his ship in a bottle. 
Note every time Mallory talks to Buck, he looks up from his work to see 
him. Mallory: "I heard she was beautiful, what was she like?"

Buck: "As long as you stay clear of the daggers growing out of her, I 
think she's fine. Now as far as what she's like, well I can't say much 
for that."

Mallory: "Why not, you toured her around the whole Directorate. Surely 
you know what kind of woman she is?"

Buck: "Yeah, I gave her a tour, a fast [ beat ], she isn't much of a 
talker. Mallory, we need to get back to this."

Mallory: "To what."

Buck puts the ship in a bottle down in front of him. Mallory: "What 
about that? What is it?"

Buck: "It's a ship in a bottle I've been working on. Is there some way 
to Phasoft the glass of the bottle? Make it so I can take out the broken 
mast with ease."

Mallory: "That can't be done, the glass -" Mallory picks up a piece of 
metal and taps the glass. Cont: "- was never manufactured to do such a 
thing, I'm sorry."

Buck: "Great," Buck takes back the ship in the bottle. 

Theopolis: "Attention all, there is a Code Zero in progress. I repeat 
there is a Code Zero in progress."

Buck: "Code Zero, what's that?"

Mallory: "It means something is afoot that is a direct threat to the 
Directorate."

Buck: "What do we do?"

Mallory: "Me, I'd leave, you, well you're one of its fighters. I would 
assume you'll be asked to help in the neutralization of the threat."

Buck: "Well this day just keeps getting better and better."

Cut to:

int: Hallway:

Buck is running down it when Twiki comes around a corner towards him. 
Once Twiki notices Buck, Twiki: "Where are you going?" Buck stops to 
talk to Twiki.

Buck: "To find Huer, Wilma, or Fox someone who might know what's going 
on."

Twiki: "Did it ever occur to you I might know?"

Buck: "Sorry Twiki, you know what the danger is?"

Twiki: "There's some kind of explosive that's been detected. But no one 
is sure of where it is."

Buck: "An explosive, not one of our own I'll bet. Why doesn't Theo know 
where it is?"

Twiki: "He isn't everywhere you know."

Buck: "Right, um do you know the procedures that take act during a time like 
this?"

Cut to:

int: Huer's office:

Wilma is standing before a line of people. Some we've seen before, some 
we haven't. Buck is there along with Fox and the Saurian, which we will 
come to know as "Taindair." Wilma is not facing these people, but is 
facing Huer, who stands before the whole group. Huer: "Doctor Theopolis 
doesn't know where the explosives are because of how faintly they show 
up on his sensors. But however, little by little their signals have been 
growing in strength. Now why that is occurring is beyond him and myself. 
All we can figure out by this growing signal is that we feel that by the 
time his sensors can pick it up on full, it will be too late. Wilma?"

Now Wilma turns to face the crowd. Wilma: "Every one of you and myself: 
our job right now, our only sole job right now is to search the 
Directorate for the explosives. They could be in a blind spot to 
Theopolis. That is in a room or area he is not fully in, or wired into. 
They could be also in fact right under Theopolis's nose so to speak. And 
he might not know that because of their weak signal. Now everybody get 
to it!" At the end of this Wilma claps her hands twice, then points 
towards the door.

After all of them have left but Wilma and Huer. Wilma looking out 
towards the door, not facing Huer. Wilma: "Buck doesn't know what he 
should be looking for does he?"

Huer: "Even in his time I believe explosives had sadly a good degree of 
sophistication. Hopefully whatever these explosives are, they'll be 
something he'll recognize on some level."

Wilma: "Let's hope," she turns to Huer. Cont: "His friend, do you 
think?"

Huer: "Fox?"

Wilma: "No, not Fox, De-Pas."

Huer: "I see [ beat ], if anyone here was to do something like this, it 
would be him. I'll have that looked into."

Wilma nods to him in acknowledgment and leaves the room.

Huer slowly returns to his chair looking worried.

Cut to:

int: Hallway:

There are many people moving about through here. There's an air of panic 
to their movement. Wilma is walking fast, while she's on her way towards 
the weapons storage room. V.O. Wilma: "If that convict is at fault for 
this, why would he do such a thing? I thought he only hated the Humdos, 
I thought he liked it here. This may be his jail, but he claims, I know 
so little about him, he could well be lying to us. And we might have all 
fallen for it. Maybe Buck? No, no he wouldn't do such a thing. But he 
doesn't like it here, there's nothing he can do about that. Blowing up 
the Directorate won't get him anywhere. He doesn't seem like that sort 
of man. The man that he is, doesn't much belong here. Or anywhere for 
that matter. He doesn't fit in with the rest of us. Maybe he was right, 
maybe he should have been left in stasis. But death instead of life 
here? He should be getting used to this life by now. And I'd know that 
how? For that matter how could I relate on that note. He doesn't have 
anyone he can really relate to does he. Well he's tried to relate to me? 
Puh, like I'd date him, the knuckle-dragger. But he often has a lot of 
good points in what he says. One date? Maybe one day when he's proved 
himself as good a man in person as to his service to the Directorate."

Wilma hits the activation pad next to the door that above it says 
weapons storage, and enters through the Phasoft-door.

End of Act One:

Beginning of Act Two:

Int: Medical Crime Lab:

De-Pas is sitting in an uncomfortable looking chair with badges wrapped 
around two fingers on one of his hands. There's a thin line coming from 
one of the badges into a machine. The machine has a hovering screen 
above it. Dantin is standing before De-Pas, along with Jade who is 
standing beside him. Dantin: "Where are the explosives?"

De-Pas: "I don't know." The screen above the machine types out a message 
and also says it. V.O. Machine: "He wishes he knew."

Dantin: "You wish you knew, and why is that?"

De-Pas: "So I can deactivate it." The screen above the machine types out 
a new message, and once more says it. V.O. Machine: "He's not sure how 
to go about that, but he wants to give it a try."

Dantin: "I don't believe that. You're a terrorist."

Typing out a new message and once more speaking it. V.O. Machine: "I'm 
not a terrorist, Major Dantin."

Dantin: "I was referring to De-Pas."

A new types out message with speech to match. V.O. Machine: "Well, you 
should have said you were addressing it to him."

Dantin: "Moving on then and I'm going to note it to you that I'm talking 
to De-Pas"[ beat ] Cont: "What kind of explosive is it? Nictis, Airgol, 
Veffol, Unther?"

De-Pas: "I'm the one in jail, and you're the one without much for 
brains. Don't you think if I knew where the explosive were I'd know 
something about it?"

The machine performs the expected act of text and speech. V.O. Machine: 
"He's got a point Major Dantin."

Dantin: "De-Pas, what kind of explosive is it?"

De-Pas: "Major Yogurt, I DON'T KNOW."

The machine does its text and speech return. V.O. Machine: "He's right 
he doesn't know. Mind telling me what yogurt is?"

De-Pas: "Hum, I want to check on my family."

The machine does its thing. V.O. Machine: "Well that doesn't answer my 
question."

Dantin: "Jade, disconnect him."

Jade goes over to De-Pas and takes the badges off his fingers. Just in 
the middle of this happening, the machine doing its thing, V.O. Machine: 
"Hey wa-."

Now all the while up to De-Pas saying "I want to check on my family," in 
between all the talking, V.O. De-Pas: "It's unfair, sure they think they 
have reason to pass that sort of judgment on me. But I'd never harm 
them. The only ones, only ones I'd ever think to harm are the Humdos. 
Besides my family lives here. I need to do a search, a real search. 
Without Major Yogurt on my ass all the time. I'm certain the explosive 
are somewhere close by, the power generator. That's the only place I can 
think of that would do the most damage if destroyed. But how to get 
there? If Theopolis isn't watching in my quarters, then it's Jade or 
Dantin. Man, Jade is something, but Dantin? I have no idea where Buck 
came up with the nickname Major Yogurt. Major, I know where that part 
came from. But "Yogurt", I don't even know what that is. But it sounds 
funny on him. The guy is such a hard-nosed pain in the butt. I hate him, 
Buck hates him too. Buck once told me, that if Major Dantin were a bull,
that he'd head-butt a new born calf into standing. I have to get away
from them. Away from all of them to do this."

Now continuing after the machine being disconnected. Dantin: "Why?" He 
says this very sternly.

De-Pas: "To see if they're OK . With all the commotion going on about, I 
want to ease their fears."

Jade: "You know something that would ease the fear in this moment, that 
we don't know about?"

De-Pas: "I'm telling you I have nothing to do with this. Little Beu-Pas 
is just a few weeks old. Jade, if I could only be with them for a 
little?"

Dantin: "Jade, you continue in the search. I'm going to escort De-Pas 
here to his family."

Jade nods at Dantin, then walks off.

Dantin grabs one of De-Pas'es arms, giving him a cold look.

Cut to:

int: De-Pas'es living quarters:

Ge-Ja is holding Beu-Pas, swinging her hips in walking, holding the 
baby's head close to her. She's leaving the living room, entering 
another room, when this scene starts.

De-Pas comes through the Phasoft-door followed closely behind by Dantin.

Ge-Ja turns to look at them come in. De-Pas: "Ge-Ja, I need to talk to 
you."

Ge-Ja: "Can it wait? Beu-Pas needs changing."

De-Pas: "I'll help you change her, we'll talk during that." De-Pas turns 
to Dantin. Cont: "This might take longer than I thought."

Dantin: "I'll help her with the baby." Dantin not looking at De-Pas, but 
off camera. Cont: "Doctor Theopolis, I need you to keep an eye on De-Pas 
while I'm helping his wife." [ beat ] Cont: "Great, the computer is so 
caught up in this hunt for the explosives, it wouldn't take commands to 
do anything else in work." Turning back to De-Pas. Cont: "If you do 
anything-"

De-Pas: "And just what crime do you think I'll commit in my own home?"

Dantin looks at him for a beat before turning away and walking towards 
Ge-Ja who is standing in the doorway.

When Dantin is almost at Ge-Ja, Dantin: "I'm the one who will help 
change your baby, I'll talk to you."

Ge-Ja gives him a mean look, and changes her look, looking down at the 
baby. Then she looks back up at him, turns away and continues into the 
room she was entering at the start of this.

She goes to a changing table and puts the baby gently on to its back on 
the table. Below the table we can see two baskets, one for dirty 
diapers, another for clean ones.

Move camera up just a little so we can't see the baby. She takes off its 
diaper, which we can tell has been done after she's done some movement, 
and when she lifts up the diaper some, as to put it down again into the 
right basket. 

Dantin watches this then bends down out of most of the view. And comes 
back up with a clean diaper. Dantin: "Going to need this I assume?"

She takes it from him with a mean look .

Dantin: "I'm not a bad person, it's just your husband. We the ones who 
work at the Directorate believe he might have done something. Very bad 
in fact, you wouldn't happen to know if he's actually guilty. I'd like 
to say what it is we think he might have done, but I don't want to upset 
your baby. Would he understand me? I mean things of high danger?"

All the while he's been talking she's been working on changing the baby. 
Ge-Ja: "She."

Dantin: "What?"

Ge-Ja: "Our baby is a girl."

Dantin: "I, I can see that." After looking at the baby he turns to look 
back at De-Pas, who is standing far back in the living room. 

Dantin turns back to Ge-Ja. Dantin: "She's a cute baby, isn't she." He 
sticks out his index finger on one of his hands, and goes with it down 
towards the baby. Cont: "Agoo-che-goo."

Ge-Ja: "I wouldn't do that if I were you."

Dantin: "Why not?" He's looking at her, then he turns back to the baby. 
After a beat, Cont: "YEAHAUH-uh!!"

Ge-Ja: "We Candoses get our teeth at an early age."

Dantin: "Little beastly rat bit me!"

Ge-Ja: "How dare you talk about my child that way!"

Dantin: "Your child? That's not what I've been told, the beast!"

Ge-Ja: "She, I may not have borne her, but she is my child, you ignorant 
monkey!"

Dantin: "Monkey! You she-wolf!" The baby starts crying.

Ge-Ja: "Look at what you've done, you've made the baby cry!"

Dantin: "It drew blood, that's no innocent creature!"

Ge-Ja: "You put your figure in her mouth, I warned you!"

Dantin: "A bit too late I might add!"

Ge-Ja snaps her teeth at him after saying, Ge-Ja: "My husband was right 
about you." Dantin backs up at seeing the snapping teeth.

Dantin: "And maybe there's something to be said for you as well. When 
this is over with the crisis at hand, I'm going to talk to the Humdos in 
command on Miahgo, and find out if you have a history on that planet 
that is stronger than what the Directorate knows!"

Ge-Ja: "I have done nothing, I simply believe in the freedom of my 
people, like my husband!"

Dantin: "Exactly, right there! That's why I want you investigated!"

Move camera back to the doorway, De-Pas is gone.

End of Act Two:

Beginning of Act Three:

int: Hallway, a different one than earlier:

A near a door marked "Testing Room Six," De-Pas can be seen crouching 
low, to an indent in the wall. He's trying not to be seen. The door has 
just changed color, a number of people walk out. One of them is Fox. The 
hallway is just a bustle with people.

Once the group of people that came out the door are out of sight, long 
view of the hallway. It's still a bustle with people, but not as many.

Keeping bent down a little, De-Pas makes a run down the hallway, passing 
Fox who is walking.

Closer to Fox now, watching De-Pas move by.

De-Pas is now out of sight. V.O. Fox: "I wonder where he's off to in 
such a hurry? He's not a member of the Directorate staff, so he doesn't 
have to help in the search like the rest of us. He could be 
participating in the search? I doubt he wants to see something bad 
happen to his family. The way he was running, maybe he knows where the 
explosives are! Because he can't leave here; he's still under arrest. 
Besides the direction he's headed in, that will put him nowhere near any 
entrance to the Directorate. I'd better follow him. He might need help 
in disarming the explosives. Or he might need to be captured. True, his 
family is here, but another Candos did die so he could fulfill his 
cause. Which he failed in; maybe he'd kill more of his own to complete 
his mission. In any case it would do well for me to follow him. I have 
no idea were I should be checking next for the explosives." 

Fox runs after where he saw De-Pas go off to, turning a corner in the 
hall.

After the turning De-Pas can be seen a long way down the hall still bent 
over in running. Fox: "De-Pas!"

De-Pas stops and looks to Fox, then continues after a beat. He hits a 
Phasoft-door access pad, and goes through the door. 

Fox goes after him. 

Cut to:

int: Power Center entrance:

The walls are lit up by hundreds of small squares covering them. Metal 
panels are scattered about on the walls, covered in buttons. De-Pas has 
pulled out one of these panels. He is messing around with the wiring 
coming off of it. Behind him, going deeper into the room, we can see the 
type of force field we saw on his cell door, back in episode two. Behind 
that is another room, like this one, only with a Phasoft-door at its 
end. Fox enters the room De-Pas is in.

Fox: "What are you doing? Why are you, I assume, trying to get into the 
power generator center?"

De-Pas doesn't answer as he continues to work at the wires.

A beat, Fox: "Do you know where the explosives are?"

De-Pas goes away from his work, and up to Fox. De-Pas: "Do you know the 
code to get in?"

Fox: "I know it, though you answer me first. What are you doing here?"

De-Pas: "I think they might be back there. Now will you help me?!" 
De-Pas points into the room behind them; the one he wants to get into.

Fox: "I'm not going to help you destroy Directorate property. If you're 
so sure you're right how come -."

De-Pas: "I don't think there's time to argue about this, Fox." And with 
that having been said, De-Pas grabs Fox by the arm, then forces Fox over 
to the panel he was working on. Cont: "Enter the code, I need to get in 
there."

Fox: "You're hurting me."

De-Pas: "Everybody's lives might depend on this, and you're worried 
about your arm, tough guy?"

Fox presses the code into the damaged panel.

The force field disappears, De-Pas lets go of Fox's arm. De-Pas: "They 
let Buck tour a stranger around the whole Directorate. But they won't 
entrust me with the access code to enter here."

Fox: "She helped us, and you're just a criminal! Buck maybe considered a 
trainee like myself, but he has proven his worth to us! I've proven it 
too! Why you should be entrusted with the code to enter the power 
generator center? You'd kill your own to get what you want!"

De-Pas gets up and starts heading in to the next room, Fox follows. 
De-Pas: "Now I see why Buck wanted to punch you."

Fox: "What?"

De-Pas: "When you two first met, he wanted to punch you."

Fox: "Why would he want to hurt me? We're friends."

De-Pas: "I know what it's like to feel like an outsider. It's not fun. 
If I ever wanted to, I could return to my home planet. Sure I'd be put 
to death, but I'd be home. Buck is an outsider, one for life. He can't 
return to what he once saw as home. You poking at him, about where he 
came from, what he wishes he could still have. [ beat ] What would you 
be tempted to do to the man that did that to you?"

Fox shares at De-Pas, then looks down.

De-Pas Touches to access pad to the door leading to the power generator 
center. Fox: "He never told me."

De-Pas: "Well I guess him and I are more alike; he trusts me more."

Fox: "He's not like you."

De-Pas: "Has anyone ever told you, you talk too much."

Fox: "No, they -."

De-Pas grabs Fox's head and slams it against the wall.

Fox is knocked out, he slides down the wall unconscious. De-Pas enters 
the power generator center.

Cut to:

int: Locker Room:

Buck and Taindair are moving from locker to locker. Each of these 
lockers uses Phasoft technology to work. Both of them have one gloved 
hand. The glove is padded on the underhand. Small lights blink on this 
padded side. In the other hand for the two of them, they're holding a 
scanner-like device. It looks a lot like the one Huer had in episode 
one. While the two of them are moving along, locker to locker, they look 
at the name posted above the locker, then punch the name of that person 
into the scanner-device. After that they run the scanner over the padded 
side of the glove. With this having been done, they then proceed to open 
said locker and inspect the inside, taking the hand out when done.

Taindair: "Why do you see that as funny?"

Buck: "Have you ever seen a spork?"

Taindair: "An eating weapon is an eating weapon. These "Airports" you've 
told me of, they would have reason to fear them."

Buck: "It's not a weapon. It's just a plastic spoon with little points 
on its tip."

Taindair: "A plastic eating weapon be feared? Now I see its amusement."

Buck: "Why is it you keep insisting on calling it a weapon?"

Taindair: "On Sanopp, any tool used in the capture and then devouring of 
food is called an eating weapon. So even though it can not cause harm we 
should look for it? This spork?"

Buck: "I don't think we should be on the lookout for sporks. The point 
I'm trying to make is, well, true you can't kill someone with a spork. 
The danger still might lie in something that looks harmless."

Taindair: "So even though it is silly to fear what is harmless, 
something that looks harmless might still cause harm."

Buck: "A rock can't do any harm until it's propelled at something."

Taindair: "If we're successful in disarming the explosives, I've asked 
Dr. Huer for you to join Colonel Deering and myself on a mission on 
Sanopp."

Buck: "What kind of mission?"

Swing camera around to. Wilma enters the room they're in through a 
Phasoft-door. Wilma: "Fox has been found injured, has either of you seen 
De-Pas?"

Buck: "De-Pas, why him?"

Wilma: "Major Dantin tried to interrogate him earlier, when that 
happened. He ran off!"

Buck: "He injured Fox?"

Wilma: "Major Dantin and I think so, we're not sure. We found him 
knocked out near the power generator center."

Buck: "Then De-Pas must be in there."

Wilma: "Unknown, the force field is up. And the panel used to unlock it 
is damaged. Thomas tried to punch in the code, and the panel being used 
shorted out because of that. We can't get in until it's repaired."

Buck: "I need to get to him, get to De-Pas and find out what's going on. 
There must be a reason to his actions we don't know about. [ beat ] How 
is Fox doing?" Buck takes off his glove, and walks over to Wilma.

Wilma: "We can't get to him yet. But we think he'll be OK, I think all 
he's going to get from the injury is a nasty bruise."

Buck: "Taindair, think you'll be OK by yourself?"

Taindair: "I will be fine in continuing the search. Colonel Deering, I 
will be contacting you if I find the explosives."

Wilma: "Good luck, Toluo."

While these next two things are being said. Buck and Wilma are leaving 
the locker room. Buck: "Toluo? That's not his name."

Wilma: "It's his last name."

Plus all the while this whole scene in the locker room has been taking 
place, when people are not speaking, V.O. Taindair: "Such a tedious 
thing this is. Searching locker by locker for the explosives. But they 
could be here, Buck has told me he's heard of that happening. Such a 
great human, Rogers. Most humans I've ever interacted with, hate me 
because I'm a Saurian. But he doesn't hate me, he wasn't around, wasn't 
awake when the war was going on between my species and his. It ended 
when I was still within shell, I have no hates over the humans because 
they've never been an enemy to me. He even complimented me the first day 
he saw me. Sure I had to look it up in the history files, but to the 
Land of the Heated Sands, what a glorious thing to call me: Godzilla, 
the king of all reptiles on his planet. What a marvelous creature he 
was, and for Buck to compare me with him. He has no hates for his others 
too. I'd never met a mutant before him and Fox came to their aid. Hope 
Fox returns to better health. He's somewhat of an interesting fellow 
too. But not like Buck. I look forward to returning to Sanopp, my new 
colleagues by my side doing a mission for my planet that well might also 
affect Earth as well. I better had tell Rogers of what I've gotten him 
into. I'm sure he'd like to have an idea of what's to come."

End of Act three:

Beginning of Act Four:

int: Power generator Center:

In the center of this room is a station, left open for the maintenance 
droids to enter. The whole place has a very automated look to it. The 
robots move about the room, not taking notice of anything but their work 
at hand. They look sleek, human size and they're colored in a deep red. 
There's no face on them, just a line cutting down from top to bottom. In 
the pitch blackness of the line lies, compacted, what would be needed in 
a face. There's technology littering table-islands throughout the room, 
built right into the them. Note none of these tables comes close to the 
station in the center of this. Within this center there's a glass 
chamber. Hovering within it is a Therbidian Crystal rotating very fast. 
As this is happening with the crystal, energy beams are hitting it. They 
strike it in a sequential succession every time this happens. A red beam 
strikes down from the crystal into the base below it, which is simmering 
in energy. Once in a while one of these red beams strikes off to the 
side forwards on the glass, only to one place on the glass down low. 
Along this glass is a thin edge; we can't see the edge the red beam is 
striking at. When this scene starts De-Pas is entering the room.

As he moves further into the room, one of the red droids starts coming 
towards him.

He moves away from it, staring at it, but the droid pays him no mind.

De-Pas starts looking all over the room for something, then after a beat 
goes to the station with the crystal.

He looks at the crystal in wonder, and puts his hands on the ridge that 
edges the glass. After a beat he jolts his hands up. When they had been 
in contact for that beat, the fur on him fuzzed up. Now off the ridge, 
the fur has returned back to being flat.

He looks at his hand then tentatively puts it back down on the ridge, 
then jolts back the hand. Once more the same fuzzing up and down has 
happened on the fur.

After a beat he puts the hand back down on the ridge. 

The fur on the hand fuzzes up.

De-Pas grits his teeth in pain.

He moves his hand along the ridge.

As he does this the fuzzing goes up beyond the hand, up his arm.

Cut to:

int: Power Center entrance:

We're in the room with the force field, leading into the next room that 
leads to the power generator center. Thomas is crouching in front of the 
damaged panel. Wilma and Buck stand behind him watching. Thomas performs 
the repairs with a futuristic looking tool. Note the panel isn't lit right 
now, but one moment later it lights up. 

Thomas: "There you go." After this having been said he punches in the 
code. The force field disappears. 

Wilma: "Good job Tom."

Thomas: "Any time." Thomas stands up, Cont: "Is there anything else I 
can do?"

Wilma: "Do you have a sidearm on you?"

Buck: "Wilma, I don't think that will be needed."

Thomas: "Well I don't know if that's needed or not. But I do know you 
can't fire off an energy based weapon in there."

Wilma: "Why not?"

Thomas: "Therbidian Crystals will strike out at anything admitting a 
high amount of energy. That or another Therbidian Crystal near to it."

Buck: "Wait, I thought the crystals make their own energy?"

Thomas: "They do. How they make energy is when a power generators are 
being started up, energy from the outside is fed in to them, located on 
the floor base below the crystal. This prompts the crystal to react in 
sending out energy. But before that happens, that outside energy is cut 
off. Now if the crystal's energy came into contact with the other energy 
Source, well there would be one hell of an explosion to see. [ beat ] 
This energy the crystal then sends out powers the new generator, which 
in turn sends it out to elsewhere, where it's needed."

Buck: "That must be why De-Pas went in. Maybe there's another energy 
source in there. One that hasn't fully been hit yet, by the Therbidian 
Crystal."

Wilma: "And when the crystal has been struck."

Buck: "An explosion."

Cut to:

int: Power Generator Center:

It's the same scene as before, only now near the station in the center, 
De-Pas can be seen lying on the floor. Buck runs over to De-Pas the 
moment he sees him, followed by Wilma.

Buck lifts up De-Pas a little. Buck: "What happened?"

 De-Pas points up to where the large Therbidian Crystal is being 
contained. De-Pas: "Up there earrings, little crystals, I think they're 
-"De-Pas passes out.

Buck stands up after gently letting De-Pas go into Wilma's hands. He 
looks at large crystal, then down to the ridge.

Close up on the ridge. We see the earrings Komola was wearing. The red 
energy from the large crystal is striking it more rapidly. Buck: "Oh my 
lord."

Wilma: "What is it?"

Buck: "Komola's earrings, they're the explosives!" Buck tries to touch 
them, then jerks his hand back at the shock.

Cont: "I have to get them away from here safely."

Wilma: "They shocked you; that must be what happened to De-Pas, only 
more so!"

Buck: "I have an idea." He runs off. Wilma: "Where are you going?!"

Cut to:

int: Archives storage, sports:

This is a very crowded place, filled with all sorts of sporting 
equipment.

Buck holds up a golf club, Buck: "Nah." He then turns it down looking 
off to his side, looking off camera. Cont: "Oooo!"

He walks off camera.

Cut to:

int: Power Generator Center:

Buck comes running into this scene, holding a hockey stick. Everything 
in this scene elsewhere is the same as before, only now the red beams 
are striking faster than ever at the earrings.

Once Buck is back at the station standing only a few feet away from it, 
Buck: "Everybody stay back!"

Cut to:

Close up on the earrings, in the background we can see the tip of the 
hockey stick. It moves back and forth a little. When it's more forward 
its picture is clearer. When it's farther back its image becomes fuzzy.

The tip of the hockey stick moves far back, then moves rapidly forward. 
This scene cuts when the stick has hit the earrings.

Cut to:

int: The room with the health regeneration chambers built into it:

Buck is sitting on one of the sliding out beds. Wilma is standing off to 
the side of him. Wilma: "That was quite an interesting way to get rid of 
the danger those earrings made of Therbidian Crystals were presenting."

Buck: "Well I couldn't come in contact with them. The crystal inside the 
generator had them so charged up. If they had been charged any more -."

Wilma: "Any more so and we would be all dead right now."

Buck: "How are De-Pas and Fox doing?"

Wilma: "After Fox was threatened I've been told he just went quietly to 
his living quarters. Wouldn't talk about his encounter with De-Pas, who 
is now with Huer. They're on their way to consult the computer council, 
so they can pass their judgment over his actions."

Cut to:

int: The Computer Council Forum:

Huer and De-Pas have just entered the room. The walls have the color of 
deep steel. They're walking along a walkway, to either side of it. About 
one or two inches down, twisted metal vines can be seen. All over, 
they're coated in a thin layer of transparent gel. Small bead size 
lights of different colors dot the vines randomly, along with slightly 
larger sized ones. At the end of this walk way it becomes circle shape, 
big enough for maybe 6 people to stand on.

Huer and De-Pas enter this circle area. When they do, all the vines 
straighten themselves out and move towards the circle, up over its 
edges, towering over the two engulfing the view of them. The vines then 
curve inwards, and form a hollow onion shape around them. The walk way 
being cut off from them, with a hole in the top of the onion for light 
to move in and let in air too.

int: Onion Room:

It's very dimly lit except for in the center, because of the opening. 
The lights from the vines dot all over the wall. Suddenly small vines 
come in through the large twisted ones on the wall. On the tips of some 
of these vines are many tightly grouped lights of all one color. Once 
these smaller vines have come about maybe seven inches from the wall, 
the ends of them curl up into an eye shape. The other vines coming 
outwards follow this out by forming out a face to fit into the eyes. 
This is happening all over the room; ten heads set into the wall, spaced 
out by a foot around. Theopolis speaks but the only way we know it's 
him is by the voice. All the heads look the same, only the eye color
lights are different. Theopolis: "You have helped in saving the
Directorate."

Computer Two: "But you hurt another to accomplish it."

Computer Three: "He needed to leave his watcher to do this."

Computer Four: "But Major Dantin came to no harm at this."

Computer Five: "Only a bite from his daughter, with little blood."

Computer Six: "You did do wrong still however."

De-Pas: "It was the only way I could help."

Theopolis: "You need to be watched over, De-Pas."

Computer Seven: "Maybe by a non-human?"

Computer Eight: "Yes, an ambuquad."

Computer Two: "The Vireis series. That should fit the bill for him."

Huer: "What do the Vireis series ambuquads do?"

Computer Ten: "It will stay with him, on him. If he does something of a 
bad sort, it will harm him." As this is being said, Computer Nine's head 
changes shape, squashing down some, the center of the face opening up, 
looking like a bird's nest widening. In the center of the hole light 
pours outwards, and the hole stops getting larger. After it's reached 
about four maybe five inches around, from deep within the light we can 
see a shape coming forward. It's a pixie-sized robot, with large 
forearms and lower legs. The head looks a tad too large for the body. 
Most of the head in its front, is a large circle of light that shines in 
a brilliant neon blue, white. It's moving through the air, being 
propelled by two flaps on either side of its head. They're moving 
rapidly, insect like. On the bottom of the face is another flap that 
comes to a point. The arms at their ends have two straight line fingers, 
while the ends of the legs have that plus one finger on the underside, 
like how you'd see on birds. The little robot makes its way over to 
De-Pas and sits down on him.

Theopolis: "The Vireis series are designed to punish actions seen as 
unwanted in a law abiding society."

De-Pas: "How does it do that?"

Computer Nine: "Demonstrate." When Computer Nine says this, the hole is 
closing up and the head is regaining its shape.

The pixie-sized robot moves about on De-Pas'es shoulders until it finds 
a good spot. Then making a petite sneezing sound, it jabs De-Pas with 
the pointed flap on the bottom of its head. De-Pas: "Aahuh, you didn't 
need to tell it to me that way!"

Computer Two: "Yes, it was needed, you needed to know the pain you'd be 
in from now on if you broke the law."

De-Pas: "So how long will I be stuck with this thing?"

Computer Four: "Till you've served out your sentence."

De-Pas: "Does this little guy mean people like Dantin and Jade will no 
longer be looking over my shoulder?"

Computer Six: "You have been told this before, yes."

Computer Five: "All that had to be said has been taken care of."

Computer Ten: "These talks have ended now." At this having been said the 
vines that make up the faces untwist and move back into the wall.

Then the wall twists out of its shape and moves down, back into the 
floor.

De-Pas looks outwards before turning to the little robot. De-Pas: "Well 
I'm not planing on doing anything wrong. At the very least you'll make a 
handy reading light."

The Bot makes a couple of small chirps moving its head. Huer: "Lets go, 
I have work that needs to be done. And I'm sure with the long day its 
been you'd like to see Ge-Ja."

Now from the point were Buck and Wilma are in the room with the health 
regeneration chambers, this is being said in between all else that is 
going on. V.O. Buck: "The day was saved, who'd had ever thought it was 
her earrings. That just goes to the point of what I was talking about 
with Taindair. He's gotten me into some mission on his home planet. 
Strange, don't think I'm ever going to get used to this going off to 
alien worlds. I've been awake for about a month, but this all still 
feels like a fantasy. Everything has changed so much since the 21st 
century. Everything I thought I knew is now so different. But people are 
people, no matter what century or era they're in. I've known people in 
the past like Dr. Huer and Wilma. Fox, I've never known a man like him. 
But he lives to know more about his own roots. And people wanting to 
know about where it is they came from, that's been going on for since 
maybe the dawn of man. The fact that the people that are in my life now 
are like people that have been around for centuries, maybe I do have 
hope of rebuilding my life into something of it's former self. I 
remember thinking early in this new life, my life had ended. But then it 
hit me, thanks to something Wilma had said to me: this is a fresh start 
in my life with so many new possibilities it just boggles the mind. 
Because after all, if the future wasn't interesting, who would want to 
live in it?"

Overhead view of Huer and De-Pas walking back to the door and .... Fade 
Out.

End Of Act Four.

The End. 

Roll Credits.