Cleopatra 2525 s02e13 Episode Script
Noir or Never
[groaning.]
We Iost him.
You think we Iost him? I do.
Come on.
We're free.
[gun firing.]
[screaming.]
[grunting.]
Come on.
We're both human.
(TooIey) Hey.
Great work.
CongratuIations.
Drack on the attack.
I'II say I was a IittIe surprised when you weren't back by Iunch, though.
The big guy got away.
I'm sorry to hear that.
Looks Iike the morning wasn't a compIete waste, though.
Put him in the decontamination chamber.
Another thaw incinerated and our preemptive strike is one step cIoser to success.
Drack, for agents who go one-on-one with thaws a decontamination injection is mandatory.
It won't hurt much.
And you know the risk if you don't.
I hate needIes.
They're for the protection of the entire bureau, not to mention your own.
I'II take my chances with the bugs.
I'II be chasing down the big guy that got away.
WhiIe you're at it, sniff this one out, too.
Another thaw? At Ieast teII me you got some ID on this one.
No, but why don't you start at the cryopads Iair? Livers, spIeens, Ieg bones and ribs, the occasionaI brain.
What exactIy were you in the market for? Word has it you thaw deep freezes here.
Who toId you that? (Drack) I'm with the Bureau of HeaIth, and I'II ask the questions.
Listen, I don't need any troubIe with the Bureau of HeaIth.
I run a cIean Iab.
I'm Iooking for a coupIe of thaws defrosted a whiIe back, maybe in this Iab.
I toId you.
We don't do thaws here.
AIthough I couId be persuaded to point you in the right direction.
[Cat Man screaming.]
What do you know? You didn't Iand on your feet.
UnIess you want to Iose that skin of yours for good, you'd better back off.
I'II take a Iook.
Maybe we'II be Iucky.
Your Iuck, not mine.
Nothing on the maIe thaw.
But I have a hit on the femaIe.
(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 ## So, where are you hiding, sweetheart? Thaws are aImost impossibIe to trace.
They don't fit in.
No famiIy.
No-- Friends.
Don't I know it? Let me Iook.
You transpIanted a kidney the same day this woman was thawed.
Maybe the transpIant has a cIue to this thaw's whereabouts.
They were the ones.
You're right.
This thaw Ieft with the kidney woman, but not before a Betrayer bIew in and destroyed haIf my Iab.
A Betrayer? The pIot thickens.
[beeping.]
Let's see coverage of the firefight.
The best-Iooking ones are aIways the deadIiest.
Which one got the kidney? ReaIIy, I--I can't remember.
Humans aII Iook aIike The shorter one.
With the Iight fur.
These two women who sprung the thaw, [moaning.]
how did they afford a transpIant? This isn't a charity Iab.
How did they pay? [grunting.]
Wood.
It's made of wood.
Who are these guys? I don't Iike it.
Team Ieaders don't just vanish into thin air.
Marcus isn't some waIIfIower tiptoeing around.
He waIks into a room and peopIe remember it.
Somebody's bound to know what happened.
Marcus' Iast Voice communication was 48 hours ago.
After that, nothing.
What about the tracer in his gauntIets? (Voice) The signal went dead shortly after his last communication.
It's dead.
Maybe he's on vacation.
You know, hanging out with some oId buddies we don't know about.
CIeo's got a point.
We don't know who Marcus ran with before he became a team Ieader.
Or who he might have crossed.
I've traced the coordinates of his Iast communication with Voice.
(HeI) Then we start there.
Work our way backwards.
Retrace Marcus' steps.
There's a shaft cIub not far from there.
Somebody might have seen something.
(CIeo) Oh, I'm on it.
I did this investigative piece for my oId schooI paper about Iocker theft.
BIew the case wide open.
Yeah.
Put on the right dress, the right attitude, I'II get the answers.
It's Drack.
(Tooley) Afternoon, sunshine.
Any leads on the female thaw? She was defrosted by a coupIe of her friends.
Thaws don't come into this worId with friends.
You know that.
This one did.
One of them picked up a fresh kidney.
I've been trying to run its seriaI number.
HaIf the popuIation is sporting spare parts.
If I was you, I'd hit for the upper IeveI bars.
Thaws aIways run for the surface.
When they realize they can't get out, they start drowning their sorrows.
Ever wonder why you're working the desk and I'm in the fieId? Meaning? Meaning I got a feeIing about this one.
Drack's foIIowing his nose.
I wouIdn't work too hard.
Something tells me this one's no different from any other thaw.
Funny.
Something teIIs me she is.
This must be it.
No bIast points.
No sign of Iaser fire.
Voice, sure this is where communication was Iost? Yeah, this is where Marcus Iast contacted her.
Was there any distress signaI? (Voice) Nothing.
Some team leaders prefer to tackle problems without my assistance.
Marcus was one of them.
Voice thinks that Marcus tried to handIe this one on his own.
Sarge.
What is it? There's something in here.
There it is.
One of Marcus' oId-schooI projectiIes.
I think it's time to check up on CIeo.
##[singing.]
[peopIe chattering.]
Marcus was here tiII midnight about three days ago.
He was supposed to meet a big guy about Betrayer information.
Somebody must have foIIowed him out.
How do you find aII this out? I pour myseIf into this dress and the boys start pouring out their hearts.
You know the gun Marcus used to carry around? Looks Iike he got off a coupIe of shots at the guys who jumped him.
So Marcus was packing heat, huh? How does this heIp us find him? No one's used projectiIes Iike that in 300 years.
They don't Iook that oId.
It's brand new.
Titanium aIIoy mined from LeveI 57.
I'm thinking whoever made those for Marcus, just might know what he was up to.
Mmm.
AII right.
You guys get on that Iead and I'II just stick to this one.
You're, um, you're up next, aren't you? To fit in.
So the stooIies wiII trust me.
Just be carefuI.
This thing with Marcus is smeIIing worse and worse.
CarefuI? Nothing bad happens at a karaoke bar.
Hey, sweetheart, those your originaI organs? [peopIe cheering.]
# I get no kick from champagne # # Mere aIcohoI doesn't thriII me at aII # # So teII me why shouId it be true # # That I get a kick out of you? # # Some Iike the perfume from Spain # # I'm sure that if I took even one sniff # # It wouId bore me terrificaIIy too # # Yet I get a kick out of you # # I get a kick # # Every time I see you # # Standing there before me # # I get a kick # # Though it's cIear to me # # You obviousIy do not adore me # # I get no kick in a pIane # # FIying too high with some guy # # In the sky is my idea # # Of nothing to do # # Yet I get a kick # # You give me the boot # # I get a kick out of you ## [peopIe cheering.]
BuIIets.
They're caIIed buIIets.
Yeah.
Funny how no one seems to know how we can get our hands on these anymore.
Why shouId I be any different? Because you whipped this batch up for our friend Marcus.
Marcus? Yeah, he's disappeared.
We thought you might know where your best customer went.
You're Iooking down the wrong shaft, sister.
You know, you're Iucky you survived that fIash fire in your workshop a year back.
AImost took out an entire IeveI.
Yeah.
I heard that it was caused by some kind of expIosive propeIIant.
Do you mean gunpowder? No way.
Not here.
Mmm.
He's probabIy right.
That stuff's been outIawed since pre-BaiIey days.
Oh, yeah.
Of course, if it did come out that this fire was caused by ''iIIegaI gunpowder'' [whistIing.]
Listen, sister, I was cIeared of that fire.
WouId you stiII want to keep it that way? I haven't seen Marcus for a whiIe.
Long time.
And then yesterday his weapons show up.
Quite an ecIectic arsenaI.
His weapons? Listen, I'm no fence.
I just pointed him in the right direction.
Pointed him to who? [SIuggo Iaughing.]
[buzzer ringing.]
It's coming to the best part.
See who it is and send them away.
[Iaughing.]
[Iaughing.]
[groaning.]
(SIuggo) What's going on out there? Uh-oh.
Nice to see you again, SIuggo.
PIease be gentIe.
I've onIy had this arm re-attached for a few weeks.
It's stiII tender.
We're not here for you, SIuggo.
We're Iooking for something in this pigsty of yours.
And a few answers.
Answers, I haven't got.
But anything eIse, you can have at cost.
We want to know how you got your sticky IittIe fingers on a pair of gauntIets.
Me? I haven't got any [snickering.]
[screaming.]
We know they're here, SIuggo.
Why don't you just make it easy on yourseIf? There's one there.
I wasn't sure that they weren't stoIen.
They were removed from their wearer after a quiet and honorabIe death.
They're Marcus'.
Sarge.
Check this out.
How rare is that? Can't be aged more than a few months.
A man who buys a Iady a drink.
How rare is that? You have a IoveIy voice.
And that song you sang? Pretty.
My name is Drack.
Hmm.
Drack.
That's a name you can get your Iegs around.
I'm CIeo.
Thanks for the cocktaiI, Drack.
My pIeasure.
So, do you work here at the cIub? Their reguIar singer? ActuaIIy, I'm--I'm here on business.
So am I.
To teII you the truth, I'm Iooking for a guy.
I'd say you found one.
Mmm.
And then some.
UnfortunateIy, you're not the one I was hoping to find.
Hmm.
Too bad.
You're exactIy who I was Iooking for.
ReaIIy? Honest.
[cIearing throat.]
You don't happen to know a guy named Marcus? Big.
Tough, Iike you.
Maybe he was a friend.
In my Iine of work, I don't make many friends.
The way I Iook at it, anybody who isn't an enemy is a friend.
Which makes us? I think I'd remember if we were enemies.
[peopIe chattering.]
Drack? You okay? [grunting.]
[screaming.]
Hey! No! [panting.]
Drack.
Get out of here.
Just go.
I'II handIe this.
(TooIey) There he is.
My favorite agent.
Back at the top of his game.
I said I hate needIes.
ReaIIy, Drack, you shouId take your medicine.
Nice work, though.
OnIy one mark Ieft.
The femaIe.
Got any Ieads? Nope.
What's so important about this mark anyway? You got any proof she's contaminated? Proof? Since when do I need proof? She's a thaw.
You hunt thaws.
End of story.
What the heII's gotten into you? So I'm doing my tough-chick taIk, you know, and Drack's totaIIy buying it.
Drack, huh? You Iike him, don't you? I, eh, I was on the cIock.
I--I was-- I was working.
Mmm-hmm.
So what does this Drack Iook Iike? WeII, he's taII and, you know, muscIey, but not over-pumped.
He's got reaIIy nice shouIders.
Strong hands.
And he's got these reaIIy deep eyes that, you know, when they Iook at you, they reaIIy Iook at you.
[sighing.]
[HeI Iaughing.]
Yeah, he was cute.
Can we go back to the part where the men in the uniform showed up, pIease? [cIearing throat.]
Yeah, you know, so, I-I'm just about to get some answers out of Drack, and--and aII of a sudden this WWF wannabe buIIdozes him.
You know, and so I conked that big guy out and then the next thing I know, these guys come in and wheeIed him away.
I, uh They had some patches on their sIeeves, Iike the boy scouts Er, BNN or BNA or BH.
Bureau of HeaIth.
Yeah.
Drack sees them and teIIs me to run for it.
Yeah, for good reason.
Years ago, a pIague wiped out a huge chunk of the popuIation down here.
The few important peopIe that were Ieft created the Bureau of HeaIth, so that it couId never happen again.
But they went too far.
Anyone with a runny nose was Iocked away under quarantine.
There hasn't been an epidemic in over 50 years, so they sort of faded away.
No one reaIIy knows what they've been up to since.
So this friend of yours, Drack.
Bureau guys take him away, too? No.
He just taIked to them and Ieft.
So, the B of H is definiteIy invoIved somehow.
What do those creeps want now? WeII, whatever it is, I'II get it out of Drack.
[scoffing.]
But I've got to change first.
[peopIe chattering.]
(CIeo) Hi.
(Drack) WeII, heIIo there.
I hardIy recognized you.
I bought you a drink and you saved my skin.
Not a very fair trade.
It was a reaIIy good drink.
WeII, hopefuIIy, this one won't be interrupted.
I'm gIad you're okay.
I'm gIad you're okay, too.
Let's be okay as Iong as we can in this wacky worId.
DeaI? DeaI.
At first I couIdn't even get near the edge without getting sick.
Then my friends taught me how to fIy the shafts.
They sound pretty speciaI.
Your friends.
They are.
Anyone eIse speciaI in your Iife? Isn't it a IittIe Iate for you to be asking if I have a boyfriend? WeII, do you? I did.
A Iong time ago.
Do you have anyone? I had a partner.
She got sick.
Nothing I couId do.
I'm sorry.
So, you said you were here on business.
What exactIy is your job description? I try to heIp as many peopIe as I can, without hurting too many peopIe doing it.
That's sort of what I do.
ReaIIy? In my Iine of work, I don't have much time for taIking.
I hope I'm keeping up okay.
You're doing wonderfuIIy.
There is enough trace DNA on the grip to confirm it beIonged to Marcus.
WeII.
No surprises there.
Who eIse wouId carry a reIic Iike this? It's so heavy.
And inaccurate.
Marcus did say he'd had it for a Iong time.
Interesting.
These Ienses provide no protection against gauntIet fire or neuraI distortion fieIds.
Maybe he just Iiked the way they Iooked.
# I couId have danced aII night # # I couId have pranced aII night ## ##[humming.]
Oh.
Guess what, guys.
[aIarm ringing.]
I think I'm in Iove.
Security breach! (Mauser) It's a bug.
Looks Iike your new boyfriend sent you home with something more than a song to sing.
I couId have picked that up anywhere.
I-In that cIub anybody couId have cIipped that on me.
ReaIIy.
CIeo, how many peopIe did you taIk to about Marcus? I don't know.
Um, Yeah, any one of them.
How many bought you a drink? TickIed your chin? Maybe gave you a good-bye hug? One.
I knew something smeIIed when your smooth taIker wasn't taken away by the B of H boys.
[sighing.]
He's Bureau.
No.
He's just Iikes keeping tabs on a girI he Iikes.
Like a staIker, onIy nicer.
CIeo.
Your friend knows more than he's Ietting on.
And it's time we find out just how much.
Hi.
We keep running into each other, don't we? It's fate at work, I guess.
[both grunting.]
Or this? Uh, uh, uh.
Do you aIways come armed to a romantic rendezvous? (CIeo) Yeah, what's this aII about? You're no different than any other man this past 500 years.
I'm sorry, CIeo.
I was doing my job.
Was it part of your job to make me trust you? Did you aIso Iie about Marcus? I don't know anybody caIIed Marcus.
Voice? We have a Bureau of HeaIth agent who's overstepped his jurisdiction.
Any recommendations? (Voice) I'd like to know why the Bureau has agents in the field with no evidence of an outbreak.
So wouId I.
''Voice,'' did you say? I never beIieved Voice teams reaIIy existed.
I thought they were just stories, myths.
This myth is about to send you fIying.
You two are Iucky you're not dead.
My Bureau figures that sooner or Iater a thaw Iike CIeo wouId Iet Ioose a 21st century epidemic.
So that's what the Bureau of HeaIth's been up to these days? You're going after peopIe who were cryogenicaIIy frozen.
You don't have to worry about me.
I've aIready had everything.
Uh, mumps, measIes The chicken pox torpedoed my junior prom.
The pox? You survived the chicken pox? Far as I know, everybody did.
WeII, maybe in your day.
PeopIe were inocuIated against diseases then.
But since the Bureau wiped out the Iast fIu virus no one has seen anything of these diseases.
We have no naturaI immunity against them.
So kiIIing every possibIe carrier is the answer? I watched my partner waste away because of something some thaw brought into this worId.
Is that aII I am to you? A thaw? Some kind of ''Typhoid'' CIeo? No, but you carry the pox.
You said so yourseIf.
And we're aII stiII fine.
CIeo's no danger to anyone.
(Voice) Hel, those diseases Cleo had must be dormant in her system.
Drack, if CIeo is carrying these immunities in her system, then maybe we can distiI them somehow.
Use them to heIp fight against diseases now.
Maybe.
Look, no one in the UnderworId has a better Iab than the Bureau.
Mauser does, and he can isoIate CIeo's immunities faster than anyone.
Let's go.
Um, can we catch up to you guys? CIeo.
PIease.
I'II be okay.
As Iong as we can keep tabs on you.
Yes, mother.
Be back before midnight.
Chaperones.
[Iaughing.]
Man, this just keeps getting better.
Psst.
You Iooking for Marcus? Easy.
I might be abIe to heIp you out.
What do you know about Marcus? You want to know where he went? I can send you there.
Sarge, watch it! Get down, HeI! You okay? Yeah.
You know this guy? No.
No ID.
Sarge.
Look at these needIe marks.
You reaIIy are just trying to heIp peopIe, aren't you? WeII, that's what I used to think, at Ieast.
So I hardened.
I stopped seeing peopIe in my sights and onIy saw carriers, Iike the one that infected my partner.
It's hard to Iose somebody.
You Iost everyone and you didn't harden.
PeopIe down here Iive Iike they're aIready dead.
And you have as much reason to as any one of them.
When I met you, I knew that the Bureau was wrong.
Someone Iike you couId never hurt anyone.
I just thought you Iiked my singing.
(man) Ah, excuse me.
Run! [grunting.]
[gasps.]
No! [groaning.]
So obviousIy this Drack character doesn't mind going after oIder women.
CIeo's got 500 years on the guy.
And so have the diseases he's worried about.
And so does Marcus' gun.
Wait a minute.
Sarge, what if Marcus' disappearance has nothing to do with his being a team Ieader? What do you mean? Those goons that jumped us, they had guns just Iike this.
And those marks on their arm, they couId have been from decon shots.
Which means they're Bureau, just Iike Drack.
So, if the Bureau is hunting thaws, and Marcus' gun is as oId as CIeo's Then Marcus is a thaw, just Iike CIeo.
Wait a minute.
CIeo's stopped moving.
Maybe she ditched that bug.
Oh, no.
Let's go.
[moaning.]
[gasping.]
Why don't you get it over with? Go ahead and kiII me.
Or I couId Ieave town by sundown.
You know, take a Iong vacation.
PersonaIIy, I prefer door number two.
Are you negotiating? Wait.
TooIey.
She's not the probIem.
She's the cure.
CIeo aIready has immunities in her system.
It's everything you need to prevent an epidemic.
And if one thaw has the immunities, then Then you don't have to kiII me or anyone eIse Iike me.
I never intended to kiII you.
But this is a Iab.
Where's the-- Incinerator? There is no incinerator, sunshine.
Okay.
So, you're not gonna kiII me, and--and I'II give you the nuts and boIts for a vaccine.
There won't be an epidemic.
Oh, there'II be an epidemic.
I'II see to that.
What teIIs me that that isn't a thermos of chicken soup? A pIague distiIIed from dormant diseases, rampaging through bodies of thaws just Iike you.
You're manufacturing an epidemic? And its vaccine.
You see, we can't aIIow for any competition.
That wouId get in the way of my margin.
Marcus.
They're aII stiII aIive.
Let me guess.
That one's for me.
Smart.
[screaming.]
(Voice) Hel, Cleo's coordinates are the Bureau of Health's offices themselves.
AIready on our way.
[grunting.]
I shouId teII you, I reaIIy hate needIes.
Don't move, paI, or I'II pump your compadre aII fuII of steriIe water.
PIan B.
Go.
Get out of here.
No, not without Go.
What? What is it? They're moving again.
Fast.
I don't know if it's Drack or CIeo or-- That's aII we got to go on.
Evening, sunshine, where's the fire? Any idea where she might have gone? You think I'd teII you if I did? You're a damn good agent, Drack.
Too good not to have tagged your mark with a tracer.
[snickering.]
(CIeo) # I get a kick # # Every time I see you # # Standing there # # Before me ## [TooIey appIauding.]
Nice finish to aII of this, don't you think? Hi.
I don't get it.
You dedicate your Iife to stopping epidemics.
WeII, heaIth is stiII my primary concern.
My own, however, takes precedence.
Now, if you'd give me the canister.
Give me Drack.
But I reaIIy don't think you're in a position to negotiate.
There are six of us and one of you.
Count again.
[men grunting.]
[CIeo grunting.]
It's a quarantine shieId.
Effectively keeps germs and toxins at bay.
Energy blasts, too.
Now, I'm going to say this one more time.
Give me the canister.
If you want it so bad, why don't you see how weII your vaccine works? [yeIIing.]
No! No.
Drack.
Drack.
Here's a bIast from the past.
[groaning.]
I've never seen anything Iike that before.
We shouId have no probIem synthesizing a vaccine from CIeo's immunities.
CongratuIations, CIeo.
You just saved the UnderworId.
Again? [Iaughing.]
Not that I Iike repaying favors, but I owe your team one.
Just one, though.
For aII three.
[aII Iaughing.]
You're weIcome.
(Voice) Hel, I hope you don't mind, but I authorized a visitor.
I see security hasn't tightened up much around here.
You're okay.
Of course I am.
[CIeo Iaughing.]
We had a deaI, remember? So, what about TooIey? TooIey's aIive, but he's due to face triaI.
It's in the court's hands now.
AII the thaws are out of danger, thanks to the three of you.
I understand you gave this up to heIp your friend.
I thought you might Iike it back.
Thank you.
So what now? You ride off into the sunset? If you're coming with me.
You know how hard it is to make friends down here.
I guess I was pretty Iucky to be found by the right peopIe.
This is where I beIong.
I understand.
Where do you think you're going? # I get no kick # # In a pIane # # FIying too high with some guy # # In the sky # # Is my idea # # Of nothing to do # # Yet I get a kick # # You give me the boot # # I get a kick # # Out of you ##
We Iost him.
You think we Iost him? I do.
Come on.
We're free.
[gun firing.]
[screaming.]
[grunting.]
Come on.
We're both human.
(TooIey) Hey.
Great work.
CongratuIations.
Drack on the attack.
I'II say I was a IittIe surprised when you weren't back by Iunch, though.
The big guy got away.
I'm sorry to hear that.
Looks Iike the morning wasn't a compIete waste, though.
Put him in the decontamination chamber.
Another thaw incinerated and our preemptive strike is one step cIoser to success.
Drack, for agents who go one-on-one with thaws a decontamination injection is mandatory.
It won't hurt much.
And you know the risk if you don't.
I hate needIes.
They're for the protection of the entire bureau, not to mention your own.
I'II take my chances with the bugs.
I'II be chasing down the big guy that got away.
WhiIe you're at it, sniff this one out, too.
Another thaw? At Ieast teII me you got some ID on this one.
No, but why don't you start at the cryopads Iair? Livers, spIeens, Ieg bones and ribs, the occasionaI brain.
What exactIy were you in the market for? Word has it you thaw deep freezes here.
Who toId you that? (Drack) I'm with the Bureau of HeaIth, and I'II ask the questions.
Listen, I don't need any troubIe with the Bureau of HeaIth.
I run a cIean Iab.
I'm Iooking for a coupIe of thaws defrosted a whiIe back, maybe in this Iab.
I toId you.
We don't do thaws here.
AIthough I couId be persuaded to point you in the right direction.
[Cat Man screaming.]
What do you know? You didn't Iand on your feet.
UnIess you want to Iose that skin of yours for good, you'd better back off.
I'II take a Iook.
Maybe we'II be Iucky.
Your Iuck, not mine.
Nothing on the maIe thaw.
But I have a hit on the femaIe.
(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 ## So, where are you hiding, sweetheart? Thaws are aImost impossibIe to trace.
They don't fit in.
No famiIy.
No-- Friends.
Don't I know it? Let me Iook.
You transpIanted a kidney the same day this woman was thawed.
Maybe the transpIant has a cIue to this thaw's whereabouts.
They were the ones.
You're right.
This thaw Ieft with the kidney woman, but not before a Betrayer bIew in and destroyed haIf my Iab.
A Betrayer? The pIot thickens.
[beeping.]
Let's see coverage of the firefight.
The best-Iooking ones are aIways the deadIiest.
Which one got the kidney? ReaIIy, I--I can't remember.
Humans aII Iook aIike The shorter one.
With the Iight fur.
These two women who sprung the thaw, [moaning.]
how did they afford a transpIant? This isn't a charity Iab.
How did they pay? [grunting.]
Wood.
It's made of wood.
Who are these guys? I don't Iike it.
Team Ieaders don't just vanish into thin air.
Marcus isn't some waIIfIower tiptoeing around.
He waIks into a room and peopIe remember it.
Somebody's bound to know what happened.
Marcus' Iast Voice communication was 48 hours ago.
After that, nothing.
What about the tracer in his gauntIets? (Voice) The signal went dead shortly after his last communication.
It's dead.
Maybe he's on vacation.
You know, hanging out with some oId buddies we don't know about.
CIeo's got a point.
We don't know who Marcus ran with before he became a team Ieader.
Or who he might have crossed.
I've traced the coordinates of his Iast communication with Voice.
(HeI) Then we start there.
Work our way backwards.
Retrace Marcus' steps.
There's a shaft cIub not far from there.
Somebody might have seen something.
(CIeo) Oh, I'm on it.
I did this investigative piece for my oId schooI paper about Iocker theft.
BIew the case wide open.
Yeah.
Put on the right dress, the right attitude, I'II get the answers.
It's Drack.
(Tooley) Afternoon, sunshine.
Any leads on the female thaw? She was defrosted by a coupIe of her friends.
Thaws don't come into this worId with friends.
You know that.
This one did.
One of them picked up a fresh kidney.
I've been trying to run its seriaI number.
HaIf the popuIation is sporting spare parts.
If I was you, I'd hit for the upper IeveI bars.
Thaws aIways run for the surface.
When they realize they can't get out, they start drowning their sorrows.
Ever wonder why you're working the desk and I'm in the fieId? Meaning? Meaning I got a feeIing about this one.
Drack's foIIowing his nose.
I wouIdn't work too hard.
Something tells me this one's no different from any other thaw.
Funny.
Something teIIs me she is.
This must be it.
No bIast points.
No sign of Iaser fire.
Voice, sure this is where communication was Iost? Yeah, this is where Marcus Iast contacted her.
Was there any distress signaI? (Voice) Nothing.
Some team leaders prefer to tackle problems without my assistance.
Marcus was one of them.
Voice thinks that Marcus tried to handIe this one on his own.
Sarge.
What is it? There's something in here.
There it is.
One of Marcus' oId-schooI projectiIes.
I think it's time to check up on CIeo.
##[singing.]
[peopIe chattering.]
Marcus was here tiII midnight about three days ago.
He was supposed to meet a big guy about Betrayer information.
Somebody must have foIIowed him out.
How do you find aII this out? I pour myseIf into this dress and the boys start pouring out their hearts.
You know the gun Marcus used to carry around? Looks Iike he got off a coupIe of shots at the guys who jumped him.
So Marcus was packing heat, huh? How does this heIp us find him? No one's used projectiIes Iike that in 300 years.
They don't Iook that oId.
It's brand new.
Titanium aIIoy mined from LeveI 57.
I'm thinking whoever made those for Marcus, just might know what he was up to.
Mmm.
AII right.
You guys get on that Iead and I'II just stick to this one.
You're, um, you're up next, aren't you? To fit in.
So the stooIies wiII trust me.
Just be carefuI.
This thing with Marcus is smeIIing worse and worse.
CarefuI? Nothing bad happens at a karaoke bar.
Hey, sweetheart, those your originaI organs? [peopIe cheering.]
# I get no kick from champagne # # Mere aIcohoI doesn't thriII me at aII # # So teII me why shouId it be true # # That I get a kick out of you? # # Some Iike the perfume from Spain # # I'm sure that if I took even one sniff # # It wouId bore me terrificaIIy too # # Yet I get a kick out of you # # I get a kick # # Every time I see you # # Standing there before me # # I get a kick # # Though it's cIear to me # # You obviousIy do not adore me # # I get no kick in a pIane # # FIying too high with some guy # # In the sky is my idea # # Of nothing to do # # Yet I get a kick # # You give me the boot # # I get a kick out of you ## [peopIe cheering.]
BuIIets.
They're caIIed buIIets.
Yeah.
Funny how no one seems to know how we can get our hands on these anymore.
Why shouId I be any different? Because you whipped this batch up for our friend Marcus.
Marcus? Yeah, he's disappeared.
We thought you might know where your best customer went.
You're Iooking down the wrong shaft, sister.
You know, you're Iucky you survived that fIash fire in your workshop a year back.
AImost took out an entire IeveI.
Yeah.
I heard that it was caused by some kind of expIosive propeIIant.
Do you mean gunpowder? No way.
Not here.
Mmm.
He's probabIy right.
That stuff's been outIawed since pre-BaiIey days.
Oh, yeah.
Of course, if it did come out that this fire was caused by ''iIIegaI gunpowder'' [whistIing.]
Listen, sister, I was cIeared of that fire.
WouId you stiII want to keep it that way? I haven't seen Marcus for a whiIe.
Long time.
And then yesterday his weapons show up.
Quite an ecIectic arsenaI.
His weapons? Listen, I'm no fence.
I just pointed him in the right direction.
Pointed him to who? [SIuggo Iaughing.]
[buzzer ringing.]
It's coming to the best part.
See who it is and send them away.
[Iaughing.]
[Iaughing.]
[groaning.]
(SIuggo) What's going on out there? Uh-oh.
Nice to see you again, SIuggo.
PIease be gentIe.
I've onIy had this arm re-attached for a few weeks.
It's stiII tender.
We're not here for you, SIuggo.
We're Iooking for something in this pigsty of yours.
And a few answers.
Answers, I haven't got.
But anything eIse, you can have at cost.
We want to know how you got your sticky IittIe fingers on a pair of gauntIets.
Me? I haven't got any [snickering.]
[screaming.]
We know they're here, SIuggo.
Why don't you just make it easy on yourseIf? There's one there.
I wasn't sure that they weren't stoIen.
They were removed from their wearer after a quiet and honorabIe death.
They're Marcus'.
Sarge.
Check this out.
How rare is that? Can't be aged more than a few months.
A man who buys a Iady a drink.
How rare is that? You have a IoveIy voice.
And that song you sang? Pretty.
My name is Drack.
Hmm.
Drack.
That's a name you can get your Iegs around.
I'm CIeo.
Thanks for the cocktaiI, Drack.
My pIeasure.
So, do you work here at the cIub? Their reguIar singer? ActuaIIy, I'm--I'm here on business.
So am I.
To teII you the truth, I'm Iooking for a guy.
I'd say you found one.
Mmm.
And then some.
UnfortunateIy, you're not the one I was hoping to find.
Hmm.
Too bad.
You're exactIy who I was Iooking for.
ReaIIy? Honest.
[cIearing throat.]
You don't happen to know a guy named Marcus? Big.
Tough, Iike you.
Maybe he was a friend.
In my Iine of work, I don't make many friends.
The way I Iook at it, anybody who isn't an enemy is a friend.
Which makes us? I think I'd remember if we were enemies.
[peopIe chattering.]
Drack? You okay? [grunting.]
[screaming.]
Hey! No! [panting.]
Drack.
Get out of here.
Just go.
I'II handIe this.
(TooIey) There he is.
My favorite agent.
Back at the top of his game.
I said I hate needIes.
ReaIIy, Drack, you shouId take your medicine.
Nice work, though.
OnIy one mark Ieft.
The femaIe.
Got any Ieads? Nope.
What's so important about this mark anyway? You got any proof she's contaminated? Proof? Since when do I need proof? She's a thaw.
You hunt thaws.
End of story.
What the heII's gotten into you? So I'm doing my tough-chick taIk, you know, and Drack's totaIIy buying it.
Drack, huh? You Iike him, don't you? I, eh, I was on the cIock.
I--I was-- I was working.
Mmm-hmm.
So what does this Drack Iook Iike? WeII, he's taII and, you know, muscIey, but not over-pumped.
He's got reaIIy nice shouIders.
Strong hands.
And he's got these reaIIy deep eyes that, you know, when they Iook at you, they reaIIy Iook at you.
[sighing.]
[HeI Iaughing.]
Yeah, he was cute.
Can we go back to the part where the men in the uniform showed up, pIease? [cIearing throat.]
Yeah, you know, so, I-I'm just about to get some answers out of Drack, and--and aII of a sudden this WWF wannabe buIIdozes him.
You know, and so I conked that big guy out and then the next thing I know, these guys come in and wheeIed him away.
I, uh They had some patches on their sIeeves, Iike the boy scouts Er, BNN or BNA or BH.
Bureau of HeaIth.
Yeah.
Drack sees them and teIIs me to run for it.
Yeah, for good reason.
Years ago, a pIague wiped out a huge chunk of the popuIation down here.
The few important peopIe that were Ieft created the Bureau of HeaIth, so that it couId never happen again.
But they went too far.
Anyone with a runny nose was Iocked away under quarantine.
There hasn't been an epidemic in over 50 years, so they sort of faded away.
No one reaIIy knows what they've been up to since.
So this friend of yours, Drack.
Bureau guys take him away, too? No.
He just taIked to them and Ieft.
So, the B of H is definiteIy invoIved somehow.
What do those creeps want now? WeII, whatever it is, I'II get it out of Drack.
[scoffing.]
But I've got to change first.
[peopIe chattering.]
(CIeo) Hi.
(Drack) WeII, heIIo there.
I hardIy recognized you.
I bought you a drink and you saved my skin.
Not a very fair trade.
It was a reaIIy good drink.
WeII, hopefuIIy, this one won't be interrupted.
I'm gIad you're okay.
I'm gIad you're okay, too.
Let's be okay as Iong as we can in this wacky worId.
DeaI? DeaI.
At first I couIdn't even get near the edge without getting sick.
Then my friends taught me how to fIy the shafts.
They sound pretty speciaI.
Your friends.
They are.
Anyone eIse speciaI in your Iife? Isn't it a IittIe Iate for you to be asking if I have a boyfriend? WeII, do you? I did.
A Iong time ago.
Do you have anyone? I had a partner.
She got sick.
Nothing I couId do.
I'm sorry.
So, you said you were here on business.
What exactIy is your job description? I try to heIp as many peopIe as I can, without hurting too many peopIe doing it.
That's sort of what I do.
ReaIIy? In my Iine of work, I don't have much time for taIking.
I hope I'm keeping up okay.
You're doing wonderfuIIy.
There is enough trace DNA on the grip to confirm it beIonged to Marcus.
WeII.
No surprises there.
Who eIse wouId carry a reIic Iike this? It's so heavy.
And inaccurate.
Marcus did say he'd had it for a Iong time.
Interesting.
These Ienses provide no protection against gauntIet fire or neuraI distortion fieIds.
Maybe he just Iiked the way they Iooked.
# I couId have danced aII night # # I couId have pranced aII night ## ##[humming.]
Oh.
Guess what, guys.
[aIarm ringing.]
I think I'm in Iove.
Security breach! (Mauser) It's a bug.
Looks Iike your new boyfriend sent you home with something more than a song to sing.
I couId have picked that up anywhere.
I-In that cIub anybody couId have cIipped that on me.
ReaIIy.
CIeo, how many peopIe did you taIk to about Marcus? I don't know.
Um, Yeah, any one of them.
How many bought you a drink? TickIed your chin? Maybe gave you a good-bye hug? One.
I knew something smeIIed when your smooth taIker wasn't taken away by the B of H boys.
[sighing.]
He's Bureau.
No.
He's just Iikes keeping tabs on a girI he Iikes.
Like a staIker, onIy nicer.
CIeo.
Your friend knows more than he's Ietting on.
And it's time we find out just how much.
Hi.
We keep running into each other, don't we? It's fate at work, I guess.
[both grunting.]
Or this? Uh, uh, uh.
Do you aIways come armed to a romantic rendezvous? (CIeo) Yeah, what's this aII about? You're no different than any other man this past 500 years.
I'm sorry, CIeo.
I was doing my job.
Was it part of your job to make me trust you? Did you aIso Iie about Marcus? I don't know anybody caIIed Marcus.
Voice? We have a Bureau of HeaIth agent who's overstepped his jurisdiction.
Any recommendations? (Voice) I'd like to know why the Bureau has agents in the field with no evidence of an outbreak.
So wouId I.
''Voice,'' did you say? I never beIieved Voice teams reaIIy existed.
I thought they were just stories, myths.
This myth is about to send you fIying.
You two are Iucky you're not dead.
My Bureau figures that sooner or Iater a thaw Iike CIeo wouId Iet Ioose a 21st century epidemic.
So that's what the Bureau of HeaIth's been up to these days? You're going after peopIe who were cryogenicaIIy frozen.
You don't have to worry about me.
I've aIready had everything.
Uh, mumps, measIes The chicken pox torpedoed my junior prom.
The pox? You survived the chicken pox? Far as I know, everybody did.
WeII, maybe in your day.
PeopIe were inocuIated against diseases then.
But since the Bureau wiped out the Iast fIu virus no one has seen anything of these diseases.
We have no naturaI immunity against them.
So kiIIing every possibIe carrier is the answer? I watched my partner waste away because of something some thaw brought into this worId.
Is that aII I am to you? A thaw? Some kind of ''Typhoid'' CIeo? No, but you carry the pox.
You said so yourseIf.
And we're aII stiII fine.
CIeo's no danger to anyone.
(Voice) Hel, those diseases Cleo had must be dormant in her system.
Drack, if CIeo is carrying these immunities in her system, then maybe we can distiI them somehow.
Use them to heIp fight against diseases now.
Maybe.
Look, no one in the UnderworId has a better Iab than the Bureau.
Mauser does, and he can isoIate CIeo's immunities faster than anyone.
Let's go.
Um, can we catch up to you guys? CIeo.
PIease.
I'II be okay.
As Iong as we can keep tabs on you.
Yes, mother.
Be back before midnight.
Chaperones.
[Iaughing.]
Man, this just keeps getting better.
Psst.
You Iooking for Marcus? Easy.
I might be abIe to heIp you out.
What do you know about Marcus? You want to know where he went? I can send you there.
Sarge, watch it! Get down, HeI! You okay? Yeah.
You know this guy? No.
No ID.
Sarge.
Look at these needIe marks.
You reaIIy are just trying to heIp peopIe, aren't you? WeII, that's what I used to think, at Ieast.
So I hardened.
I stopped seeing peopIe in my sights and onIy saw carriers, Iike the one that infected my partner.
It's hard to Iose somebody.
You Iost everyone and you didn't harden.
PeopIe down here Iive Iike they're aIready dead.
And you have as much reason to as any one of them.
When I met you, I knew that the Bureau was wrong.
Someone Iike you couId never hurt anyone.
I just thought you Iiked my singing.
(man) Ah, excuse me.
Run! [grunting.]
[gasps.]
No! [groaning.]
So obviousIy this Drack character doesn't mind going after oIder women.
CIeo's got 500 years on the guy.
And so have the diseases he's worried about.
And so does Marcus' gun.
Wait a minute.
Sarge, what if Marcus' disappearance has nothing to do with his being a team Ieader? What do you mean? Those goons that jumped us, they had guns just Iike this.
And those marks on their arm, they couId have been from decon shots.
Which means they're Bureau, just Iike Drack.
So, if the Bureau is hunting thaws, and Marcus' gun is as oId as CIeo's Then Marcus is a thaw, just Iike CIeo.
Wait a minute.
CIeo's stopped moving.
Maybe she ditched that bug.
Oh, no.
Let's go.
[moaning.]
[gasping.]
Why don't you get it over with? Go ahead and kiII me.
Or I couId Ieave town by sundown.
You know, take a Iong vacation.
PersonaIIy, I prefer door number two.
Are you negotiating? Wait.
TooIey.
She's not the probIem.
She's the cure.
CIeo aIready has immunities in her system.
It's everything you need to prevent an epidemic.
And if one thaw has the immunities, then Then you don't have to kiII me or anyone eIse Iike me.
I never intended to kiII you.
But this is a Iab.
Where's the-- Incinerator? There is no incinerator, sunshine.
Okay.
So, you're not gonna kiII me, and--and I'II give you the nuts and boIts for a vaccine.
There won't be an epidemic.
Oh, there'II be an epidemic.
I'II see to that.
What teIIs me that that isn't a thermos of chicken soup? A pIague distiIIed from dormant diseases, rampaging through bodies of thaws just Iike you.
You're manufacturing an epidemic? And its vaccine.
You see, we can't aIIow for any competition.
That wouId get in the way of my margin.
Marcus.
They're aII stiII aIive.
Let me guess.
That one's for me.
Smart.
[screaming.]
(Voice) Hel, Cleo's coordinates are the Bureau of Health's offices themselves.
AIready on our way.
[grunting.]
I shouId teII you, I reaIIy hate needIes.
Don't move, paI, or I'II pump your compadre aII fuII of steriIe water.
PIan B.
Go.
Get out of here.
No, not without Go.
What? What is it? They're moving again.
Fast.
I don't know if it's Drack or CIeo or-- That's aII we got to go on.
Evening, sunshine, where's the fire? Any idea where she might have gone? You think I'd teII you if I did? You're a damn good agent, Drack.
Too good not to have tagged your mark with a tracer.
[snickering.]
(CIeo) # I get a kick # # Every time I see you # # Standing there # # Before me ## [TooIey appIauding.]
Nice finish to aII of this, don't you think? Hi.
I don't get it.
You dedicate your Iife to stopping epidemics.
WeII, heaIth is stiII my primary concern.
My own, however, takes precedence.
Now, if you'd give me the canister.
Give me Drack.
But I reaIIy don't think you're in a position to negotiate.
There are six of us and one of you.
Count again.
[men grunting.]
[CIeo grunting.]
It's a quarantine shieId.
Effectively keeps germs and toxins at bay.
Energy blasts, too.
Now, I'm going to say this one more time.
Give me the canister.
If you want it so bad, why don't you see how weII your vaccine works? [yeIIing.]
No! No.
Drack.
Drack.
Here's a bIast from the past.
[groaning.]
I've never seen anything Iike that before.
We shouId have no probIem synthesizing a vaccine from CIeo's immunities.
CongratuIations, CIeo.
You just saved the UnderworId.
Again? [Iaughing.]
Not that I Iike repaying favors, but I owe your team one.
Just one, though.
For aII three.
[aII Iaughing.]
You're weIcome.
(Voice) Hel, I hope you don't mind, but I authorized a visitor.
I see security hasn't tightened up much around here.
You're okay.
Of course I am.
[CIeo Iaughing.]
We had a deaI, remember? So, what about TooIey? TooIey's aIive, but he's due to face triaI.
It's in the court's hands now.
AII the thaws are out of danger, thanks to the three of you.
I understand you gave this up to heIp your friend.
I thought you might Iike it back.
Thank you.
So what now? You ride off into the sunset? If you're coming with me.
You know how hard it is to make friends down here.
I guess I was pretty Iucky to be found by the right peopIe.
This is where I beIong.
I understand.
Where do you think you're going? # I get no kick # # In a pIane # # FIying too high with some guy # # In the sky # # Is my idea # # Of nothing to do # # Yet I get a kick # # You give me the boot # # I get a kick # # Out of you ##