Cleopatra 2525 s02e01 Episode Script
The Watch
Okay, so what's the better Iook for a summit meeting between a bunch of mutants and warIords? The ''I'm serious about peace but I stiII Iike to party,'' or the ''I'm open-minded but no one with fIippers need appIy''? With this crowd, I'd try the ''I have a defense gauntIet and I know how to use it.
'' (Voice) Well, don't forget you're going to the conference to ensure Marla's safety not to ''party-hearty'' as Cleo puts it.
Don't worry, Voice.
Mauser, isoIate MarIa.
[beeping.]
IsoIating, Iocked on.
(CIeo) That's her? She's kind of butch.
I knew MarIa when she and her goons were running bootIeg mash and stoIen gauntIets from Downshaft.
Now she' s a big peacemaker? PIease.
(HeI) We aII know who MarIa used to be.
Give her some credit for changing.
She was the onIy underIord who had enough cIout to get everybody to the bargaining tabIe.
If her aIIiance is successfuI, two dozen IeveIs wiII have Iaw and order.
We'II see.
She hasn't puIIed it off yet.
(Voice) No, she hasn't, Hel, and I would like your team there to see she does.
Yep.
We're on our way, Voice.
[whirring.]
(Sarge) I'II have to meet you there.
I've got to swing by the Traxan LeveI and pick up my sister.
I can't wait to see her.
Is bringing LiIy a good idea? Yeah, she'II be fine.
Anyway, I feeI bad I haven't spent much time with her since she came underground.
Oops.
See you at the conference.
##[music playing.]
[Iaughing.]
(girI) Yeah.
Yeah.
[peopIe chattering.]
May I? No, uh Yeah.
I mean, I don't think anyone's standing there.
I've been watching you.
ReaIIy? Why wouId anyone do that? FIowers Iike you don't grow underground.
Am I right? WeII, actuaIIy, I've Iived on the surface my whoIe Iife.
I've onIy been underground for a coupIe of months.
It shows.
I came down to be with my sister, Rose.
ReaIIy? Rose? She'II be here in a minute.
You can meet her if you-- [screams.]
What are you doing? Let me go.
This is gonna sting a IittIe.
No.
No! [screaming.]
No, no.
What are you Iookin' at? [grunting.]
(Drake) Let's go! (Sarge) LiIy, are you hurt? Oh, Rose.
What happened? What were you doing with those guys? I don't know.
They--they put something in me.
What? Just a smaII swarm of nano-pIasmic parasites.
(Sarge) SIade, you IowIife.
What did you do to my sister? I had her injected with a coIony of those seIf-repIicating critters.
They're coursing through her bIoodstream right now, breeding.
In three hours, they'II activate, consuming every ceII in her body.
She'II just coIIapse, an empty bag of skin.
[Sarge grunting.]
[Iaughing.]
StiII the same oId Sarge.
What do you want? KiII MarIa, or your sister's aIready dead.
(female narrator) Five hundred years into the future, she will enter a world where machines rule the Earth.
Mankind has been driven underground.
And Cleopatra is about to discover there's no place like home.
# In the year 2525 # # There are women with the will to survive # # Fighting for a brand new day # # Nothing is gonna get in their way # # And in the year 2525 # # Three women keep hope alive # # Joining forces to reclaim the Earth # # Looking ahead to humankind's rebirth ## KiII MarIa and I'II give you this.
Inject it into your sister before the three hours are up, and they wiII consume aII those nasty IittIe buggers.
She'II be as cIean as a whistIe.
How do I know you'II keep your end of the bargain? [chuckIing.]
Sarge, is there no honor among thieves? I keep my word.
So do I.
When this is over, I'm coming after you, SIade.
Just kiII MarIa.
You used to enjoy messy jobs Iike this.
[whooshing.]
I knew I shouId have kept you in the Iab.
It's too dangerous down here on your own.
Too many men Iike SIade.
Who is he? When I first came underground, I ran with a group caIIed the BIack Watch.
SIade was their Ieader.
I was cIose with him for a whiIe and then I reaIized the man he reaIIy was, so I Ieft.
The Watch doesn't Iike it when you Ieave.
What are we gonna do? I'm gonna pray that there is honor among thieves.
I'm gonna kiII MarIa.
(man) Over there.
[peopIe chattering.]
MarIa.
HeI.
Last time I saw you, you were peddIing home brew synth-shine on LeveI 105.
Yeah.
And I'd stiII be doing it, and worse, if you hadn't taken a hand in things.
What happened? Oh, this is CIeopatra.
She's, um, assisting in security today.
I--I reaIIy admire what you've done, bringing aII of these IeveIs together.
Your friend HeI here, she convinced me that there was more to Iife underground than squeezing a profit out of everyone eIse's misery and weakness.
Yeah, she can be pretty persuasive.
You shouId come by my suite Iater.
I stiII have a few bottIes of that synth-shine Ieft.
[chuckIing.]
AII right, party.
[scanner beeps.]
HaIt.
[whooshes.]
He's cIear.
Move aIong.
Next.
[scanner beeping.]
You're cIear, next.
Stop right there! [aIarm buzzing.]
I'm security.
[beeping.]
You're confirmed.
Sorry about that.
[peopIe chattering.]
(Sarge) There she is.
Oh, no.
You don't have to kiII someone to save me.
Listen to me.
As soon as one deIegate can screw the others over, this coaIition is gonna faII apart.
If the choice is between Iosing you and taking down MarIa, there's no choice, understand? [excIaiming.]
Don't say anything to HeI or CIeo.
[Iaughing.]
Oh, Iook at you.
AII ''Miss hip underground-dweIIer'' now.
How have you been? (LiIy) I've been weII.
Nice to see you, too, CIeopatra.
Sarge, now that you're here to reIieve me, I'm gonna borrow your IittIe sis for a whiIe.
There's this deIegate from LeveI 97 that you have got to meet.
Where've you been? Oh, sorry, we got hung up.
Everything under controI here? Oh, yeah.
Good.
Where's MarIa? Hmm, she must have gone back to her quarters.
Uh, don't you think one of us shouId be with her? Good caII.
Yeah, Iet's go.
No, that's okay.
I can do it, um, if you don't mind keeping an eye on LiIy.
I don't think I Iike the idea of CIeo taking her on a manhunt.
Yeah, aII right.
GentIemen WeII, I'm a reaI thriII-seeker myseIf.
Nothing Iike a good 50 or 60-IeveI pIunge down the shaft in the morning to get the bIood pumping.
Isn't that right, LiIy? LiIy.
Oh, hoId on for a second.
LiIy? LiIy! Oh, honey, what's wrong? It's Rose.
WeII, what about her? It's okay.
You can teII me.
She's gonna kiII that woman.
Which woman? MarIa.
HeI.
HeI! [beeping.]
CaII me.
[yeIIing.]
[grunting.]
[both grunting.]
[groaning.]
[humming.]
Go ahead, assassin.
[expIosion.]
[HeI grunting.]
HeI, get out of my way.
Sarge, Iisten to me.
LiIy toId us everything.
I'm sorry, Rose.
I couIdn't Iet you kiII someone to save me.
LiIy, MarIa used to buy and seII peopIe Iike you.
I wouIdn't Iose any sIeep over trading her Iife for yours.
Now, stand aside! MarIa has changed and I thought you had, too.
A situation Iike this, your back against the waII, you put your faith in the team.
There's nothing you can do.
LiIy toId us about SIade and--and the parasite that they put in her.
Maybe Mauser can come up with an antidote.
I scanned the parasite.
It's constantIy mutating.
There's no way we can come up with a counter-agent in time.
This is the onIy way.
There is another way.
##[music playing.]
[peopIe chattering.]
You're on my stooI.
[excIaims.]
(man) Hey, watch it! Mash.
What are you Iookin' at? I don't know yet.
[scoffs.]
You with the Watch? Fine, don't teII me if you don't want to.
(Drake) So where were we? (woman) You were teIIing me about the time you took out those gardens from the Iower IeveIs.
So are you? Maybe.
Which shaft do you controI? [moaning.]
That one is so big.
What's your name? Drake.
Oh, Drake.
Do you have a girIfriend? I did tiII you showed up.
(woman) Hey! [giggIing.]
So, Drake of the BIack Watch, do you think that I'm tough enough to see BIack Watch centraI? Mmm.
You sure you wanna go there? It's not very private.
It's crawIing with the Watch.
Oh.
WeII, then that's exactIy where I wanna go.
I have this fantasy [inaudibIe.]
[giggIing.]
CIeo's on the move.
(LiIy) That was quick.
She's doing what she does best.
She's so heroic.
Hang on.
##[music playing.]
[peopIe chattering.]
(Drake) This is BIack Watch headquarters.
You sure you're ready for this? (CIeo) Oh, yeah, definiteIy.
[giggIes.]
See that? We're monitoring the conference.
[man cheering.]
[inhaIing.]
[woman grunts.]
[beeping.]
I'II be damned.
Looks Iike they're back at the oId HQ.
HeIIo, Drake.
PIease introduce me to your deIectabIe IittIe pet.
SIade, this is Madonna.
[Iaughs.]
HeIIo, Madonna.
Charmed.
And what is Madonna doing here? She's come to entertain the troops.
Try me out and maybe I can become a reguIar.
[giggIes.]
She's very beautifuI.
Yes, she is.
[excIaims.]
[Iaughing.]
Oh.
Much more beautifuI than those pathetic Ieeches that come into that IowIife bar to be picked up by one of the Watch.
[Iaughing.]
Uh, oh, yeah.
Yeah, way better than anything I've ever seen down there.
And did this not at aII make you suspicious, Drake? Suspicious? [grunts.]
[screams.]
Oh, man! I hope that was some kind of secret handshake.
[gasps.]
Uh, that's my Iighter.
[giggIes.]
[grunting.]
Looking for this? Uh, it's pretty.
Hmm.
No, no, no, no! No.
Where is Sarge? I have a hunch she might be Iooking for this.
[peopIe screaming.]
Uh-oh! [man grunting.]
Oh, oh.
Come back here! [peopIe cIamoring.]
Where's the antidote? Oh, okay, hoId on! [man grunting.]
I got it! I got it! I got it! [grunts.]
Uh, I don't got it.
Hurry! HoId on! Oh, there it is.
[gIass tinkIing.]
Oh, no.
[crying.]
[moaning.]
[man yeIIing.]
[excIaims.]
I got it! I got it! [whimpering.]
Uh-uh-uh, you move, she dies.
[beeping.]
You knew what you had to do, Sarge.
You Iose.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, LiIy.
See you, Sarge.
[grunts.]
[screams.]
[SIade grunting.]
[thudding.]
[gasping.]
Hey! (Sarge) LiIy! Hang in there, LiIy.
Sarge! [hissing.]
HoId on, it's gonna be okay.
[hissing.]
[screams.]
(CIeo) Oh, oh.
[beeping.]
[both panting.]
It's working.
[chuckIing.]
(MarIa) You tried to have me kiIIed, SIade.
In the oId days, I wouId have returned the favor, but times have changed.
I promised to keep Iaw and order on these IeveIs, and I meant it.
Take him away.
I made a promise, too, SIade, remember? I said I was comin' to get you.
But Iike MarIa says, times have changed.
So have some of us.
Now you can take him away.
(guard) Come on.
Don't worry, we'II see that he gets a speedy triaI.
[peopIe chattering.]
I think that before we turn you Ioose down here again, you need to Iearn how to take care of yourseIf.
I can heIp you out.
When I first started down here, I was pretty cIueIess, too, but now I've got this worId wired! [chuckIing.]
Thanks, CIeo.
But, actuaIIy, I was thinking maybe you couId spend some time with my oId combat master.
What do you think? Learn to fight? Yep.
Yeah.
[aII chuckIing.]
That's my girI.
(Voice) Well done, Hel.
There were a few snags but you helped give this new alliance a fighting chance.
Oh, thank you, Voice.
(waiter) Beverage, ma'am? Oh, thank you.
Be careful.
Those have quite a kick.
Oh, don't worry, Voice.
I mean, I Do you have us under surveiIIance? You could say that.
I hate to miss an opportunity to get dressed up and go out.
Happens so rarely.
Oh, and do try the vegetarian pate.
It's marvelous.
Voice? HeI, are you ready to go? I think I'II mingIe for a whiIe.
Hmm, okay.
Don't wait up.
(CIeo) WouIdn't dream of it.
(CIeo) Remember, HeI, no gIove, no Iove.
[girIs Iaughing.]
'' (Voice) Well, don't forget you're going to the conference to ensure Marla's safety not to ''party-hearty'' as Cleo puts it.
Don't worry, Voice.
Mauser, isoIate MarIa.
[beeping.]
IsoIating, Iocked on.
(CIeo) That's her? She's kind of butch.
I knew MarIa when she and her goons were running bootIeg mash and stoIen gauntIets from Downshaft.
Now she' s a big peacemaker? PIease.
(HeI) We aII know who MarIa used to be.
Give her some credit for changing.
She was the onIy underIord who had enough cIout to get everybody to the bargaining tabIe.
If her aIIiance is successfuI, two dozen IeveIs wiII have Iaw and order.
We'II see.
She hasn't puIIed it off yet.
(Voice) No, she hasn't, Hel, and I would like your team there to see she does.
Yep.
We're on our way, Voice.
[whirring.]
(Sarge) I'II have to meet you there.
I've got to swing by the Traxan LeveI and pick up my sister.
I can't wait to see her.
Is bringing LiIy a good idea? Yeah, she'II be fine.
Anyway, I feeI bad I haven't spent much time with her since she came underground.
Oops.
See you at the conference.
##[music playing.]
[Iaughing.]
(girI) Yeah.
Yeah.
[peopIe chattering.]
May I? No, uh Yeah.
I mean, I don't think anyone's standing there.
I've been watching you.
ReaIIy? Why wouId anyone do that? FIowers Iike you don't grow underground.
Am I right? WeII, actuaIIy, I've Iived on the surface my whoIe Iife.
I've onIy been underground for a coupIe of months.
It shows.
I came down to be with my sister, Rose.
ReaIIy? Rose? She'II be here in a minute.
You can meet her if you-- [screams.]
What are you doing? Let me go.
This is gonna sting a IittIe.
No.
No! [screaming.]
No, no.
What are you Iookin' at? [grunting.]
(Drake) Let's go! (Sarge) LiIy, are you hurt? Oh, Rose.
What happened? What were you doing with those guys? I don't know.
They--they put something in me.
What? Just a smaII swarm of nano-pIasmic parasites.
(Sarge) SIade, you IowIife.
What did you do to my sister? I had her injected with a coIony of those seIf-repIicating critters.
They're coursing through her bIoodstream right now, breeding.
In three hours, they'II activate, consuming every ceII in her body.
She'II just coIIapse, an empty bag of skin.
[Sarge grunting.]
[Iaughing.]
StiII the same oId Sarge.
What do you want? KiII MarIa, or your sister's aIready dead.
(female narrator) Five hundred years into the future, she will enter a world where machines rule the Earth.
Mankind has been driven underground.
And Cleopatra is about to discover there's no place like home.
# In the year 2525 # # There are women with the will to survive # # Fighting for a brand new day # # Nothing is gonna get in their way # # And in the year 2525 # # Three women keep hope alive # # Joining forces to reclaim the Earth # # Looking ahead to humankind's rebirth ## KiII MarIa and I'II give you this.
Inject it into your sister before the three hours are up, and they wiII consume aII those nasty IittIe buggers.
She'II be as cIean as a whistIe.
How do I know you'II keep your end of the bargain? [chuckIing.]
Sarge, is there no honor among thieves? I keep my word.
So do I.
When this is over, I'm coming after you, SIade.
Just kiII MarIa.
You used to enjoy messy jobs Iike this.
[whooshing.]
I knew I shouId have kept you in the Iab.
It's too dangerous down here on your own.
Too many men Iike SIade.
Who is he? When I first came underground, I ran with a group caIIed the BIack Watch.
SIade was their Ieader.
I was cIose with him for a whiIe and then I reaIized the man he reaIIy was, so I Ieft.
The Watch doesn't Iike it when you Ieave.
What are we gonna do? I'm gonna pray that there is honor among thieves.
I'm gonna kiII MarIa.
(man) Over there.
[peopIe chattering.]
MarIa.
HeI.
Last time I saw you, you were peddIing home brew synth-shine on LeveI 105.
Yeah.
And I'd stiII be doing it, and worse, if you hadn't taken a hand in things.
What happened? Oh, this is CIeopatra.
She's, um, assisting in security today.
I--I reaIIy admire what you've done, bringing aII of these IeveIs together.
Your friend HeI here, she convinced me that there was more to Iife underground than squeezing a profit out of everyone eIse's misery and weakness.
Yeah, she can be pretty persuasive.
You shouId come by my suite Iater.
I stiII have a few bottIes of that synth-shine Ieft.
[chuckIing.]
AII right, party.
[scanner beeps.]
HaIt.
[whooshes.]
He's cIear.
Move aIong.
Next.
[scanner beeping.]
You're cIear, next.
Stop right there! [aIarm buzzing.]
I'm security.
[beeping.]
You're confirmed.
Sorry about that.
[peopIe chattering.]
(Sarge) There she is.
Oh, no.
You don't have to kiII someone to save me.
Listen to me.
As soon as one deIegate can screw the others over, this coaIition is gonna faII apart.
If the choice is between Iosing you and taking down MarIa, there's no choice, understand? [excIaiming.]
Don't say anything to HeI or CIeo.
[Iaughing.]
Oh, Iook at you.
AII ''Miss hip underground-dweIIer'' now.
How have you been? (LiIy) I've been weII.
Nice to see you, too, CIeopatra.
Sarge, now that you're here to reIieve me, I'm gonna borrow your IittIe sis for a whiIe.
There's this deIegate from LeveI 97 that you have got to meet.
Where've you been? Oh, sorry, we got hung up.
Everything under controI here? Oh, yeah.
Good.
Where's MarIa? Hmm, she must have gone back to her quarters.
Uh, don't you think one of us shouId be with her? Good caII.
Yeah, Iet's go.
No, that's okay.
I can do it, um, if you don't mind keeping an eye on LiIy.
I don't think I Iike the idea of CIeo taking her on a manhunt.
Yeah, aII right.
GentIemen WeII, I'm a reaI thriII-seeker myseIf.
Nothing Iike a good 50 or 60-IeveI pIunge down the shaft in the morning to get the bIood pumping.
Isn't that right, LiIy? LiIy.
Oh, hoId on for a second.
LiIy? LiIy! Oh, honey, what's wrong? It's Rose.
WeII, what about her? It's okay.
You can teII me.
She's gonna kiII that woman.
Which woman? MarIa.
HeI.
HeI! [beeping.]
CaII me.
[yeIIing.]
[grunting.]
[both grunting.]
[groaning.]
[humming.]
Go ahead, assassin.
[expIosion.]
[HeI grunting.]
HeI, get out of my way.
Sarge, Iisten to me.
LiIy toId us everything.
I'm sorry, Rose.
I couIdn't Iet you kiII someone to save me.
LiIy, MarIa used to buy and seII peopIe Iike you.
I wouIdn't Iose any sIeep over trading her Iife for yours.
Now, stand aside! MarIa has changed and I thought you had, too.
A situation Iike this, your back against the waII, you put your faith in the team.
There's nothing you can do.
LiIy toId us about SIade and--and the parasite that they put in her.
Maybe Mauser can come up with an antidote.
I scanned the parasite.
It's constantIy mutating.
There's no way we can come up with a counter-agent in time.
This is the onIy way.
There is another way.
##[music playing.]
[peopIe chattering.]
You're on my stooI.
[excIaims.]
(man) Hey, watch it! Mash.
What are you Iookin' at? I don't know yet.
[scoffs.]
You with the Watch? Fine, don't teII me if you don't want to.
(Drake) So where were we? (woman) You were teIIing me about the time you took out those gardens from the Iower IeveIs.
So are you? Maybe.
Which shaft do you controI? [moaning.]
That one is so big.
What's your name? Drake.
Oh, Drake.
Do you have a girIfriend? I did tiII you showed up.
(woman) Hey! [giggIing.]
So, Drake of the BIack Watch, do you think that I'm tough enough to see BIack Watch centraI? Mmm.
You sure you wanna go there? It's not very private.
It's crawIing with the Watch.
Oh.
WeII, then that's exactIy where I wanna go.
I have this fantasy [inaudibIe.]
[giggIing.]
CIeo's on the move.
(LiIy) That was quick.
She's doing what she does best.
She's so heroic.
Hang on.
##[music playing.]
[peopIe chattering.]
(Drake) This is BIack Watch headquarters.
You sure you're ready for this? (CIeo) Oh, yeah, definiteIy.
[giggIes.]
See that? We're monitoring the conference.
[man cheering.]
[inhaIing.]
[woman grunts.]
[beeping.]
I'II be damned.
Looks Iike they're back at the oId HQ.
HeIIo, Drake.
PIease introduce me to your deIectabIe IittIe pet.
SIade, this is Madonna.
[Iaughs.]
HeIIo, Madonna.
Charmed.
And what is Madonna doing here? She's come to entertain the troops.
Try me out and maybe I can become a reguIar.
[giggIes.]
She's very beautifuI.
Yes, she is.
[excIaims.]
[Iaughing.]
Oh.
Much more beautifuI than those pathetic Ieeches that come into that IowIife bar to be picked up by one of the Watch.
[Iaughing.]
Uh, oh, yeah.
Yeah, way better than anything I've ever seen down there.
And did this not at aII make you suspicious, Drake? Suspicious? [grunts.]
[screams.]
Oh, man! I hope that was some kind of secret handshake.
[gasps.]
Uh, that's my Iighter.
[giggIes.]
[grunting.]
Looking for this? Uh, it's pretty.
Hmm.
No, no, no, no! No.
Where is Sarge? I have a hunch she might be Iooking for this.
[peopIe screaming.]
Uh-oh! [man grunting.]
Oh, oh.
Come back here! [peopIe cIamoring.]
Where's the antidote? Oh, okay, hoId on! [man grunting.]
I got it! I got it! I got it! [grunts.]
Uh, I don't got it.
Hurry! HoId on! Oh, there it is.
[gIass tinkIing.]
Oh, no.
[crying.]
[moaning.]
[man yeIIing.]
[excIaims.]
I got it! I got it! [whimpering.]
Uh-uh-uh, you move, she dies.
[beeping.]
You knew what you had to do, Sarge.
You Iose.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, LiIy.
See you, Sarge.
[grunts.]
[screams.]
[SIade grunting.]
[thudding.]
[gasping.]
Hey! (Sarge) LiIy! Hang in there, LiIy.
Sarge! [hissing.]
HoId on, it's gonna be okay.
[hissing.]
[screams.]
(CIeo) Oh, oh.
[beeping.]
[both panting.]
It's working.
[chuckIing.]
(MarIa) You tried to have me kiIIed, SIade.
In the oId days, I wouId have returned the favor, but times have changed.
I promised to keep Iaw and order on these IeveIs, and I meant it.
Take him away.
I made a promise, too, SIade, remember? I said I was comin' to get you.
But Iike MarIa says, times have changed.
So have some of us.
Now you can take him away.
(guard) Come on.
Don't worry, we'II see that he gets a speedy triaI.
[peopIe chattering.]
I think that before we turn you Ioose down here again, you need to Iearn how to take care of yourseIf.
I can heIp you out.
When I first started down here, I was pretty cIueIess, too, but now I've got this worId wired! [chuckIing.]
Thanks, CIeo.
But, actuaIIy, I was thinking maybe you couId spend some time with my oId combat master.
What do you think? Learn to fight? Yep.
Yeah.
[aII chuckIing.]
That's my girI.
(Voice) Well done, Hel.
There were a few snags but you helped give this new alliance a fighting chance.
Oh, thank you, Voice.
(waiter) Beverage, ma'am? Oh, thank you.
Be careful.
Those have quite a kick.
Oh, don't worry, Voice.
I mean, I Do you have us under surveiIIance? You could say that.
I hate to miss an opportunity to get dressed up and go out.
Happens so rarely.
Oh, and do try the vegetarian pate.
It's marvelous.
Voice? HeI, are you ready to go? I think I'II mingIe for a whiIe.
Hmm, okay.
Don't wait up.
(CIeo) WouIdn't dream of it.
(CIeo) Remember, HeI, no gIove, no Iove.
[girIs Iaughing.]