Love, Death & Robots (2019) s04e03 Episode Script
Spider Rose
[opening theme music playing]
[electronic chirp]
[electronic warbling]
[glass breaks]
[eerie music playing]
[muffled shouting and screaming]
[screaming]
[tense music playing]
[panting, grunting]
- [electronic warbling]
- [gasps]
[wings fluttering]
- [electronic chittering]
- [screen ringing]
Off. We've got customers.
[screen beeps]
[whooshes]
[speaking alien language]
- [in English] Greetings, Lydia Martinez.
- I call myself Spider Rose now.
We had profitable dealings
with your husband
when he administered
the Mechanist colony on Konis.
That was eight years ago.
Much has changed.
Yes, your rivals in the Shaper Council
have since taken control.
- Taken control?
- [tense music playing]
Is that what you call the slaughter
of hundreds by Shaper treachery?
Any reduction in the market
is regrettable.
Reduction in the market?
[scoffs]
I didn't know you investors
were so sentimental.
[screen beeps]
So, let's get to business.
We understand
you have found something of interest.
Yes, my jewel.
My theory is that a
few million years ago,
a chunk of ring ice
laced with exotic matter
was struck by a massive charge
of ionic particles,
and the superheated metallic carbon
was fused in stasis.
You must admit. Its
composition is unique.
Your find intrigues us.
We can offer you
one quarter million gigawatts.
I have all the energy I need.
We can also give you
a stabilized plasma lattice for storage,
an advanced alien technology
you could deconstruct
We can barely assimilate
the human technology we already have.
Rare metals. Wealth brings status.
Something most
I'm not interested in status.
I live alone.
Crushed your gregarious instincts,
have you?
An ominous development.
What I need is a weapon.
One powerful enough to destroy an
orbital colony the size of, say, Konis.
[tense music continues]
- [dramatic sting]
- [explosion]
[alien] We, of course, have items
that could destroy a fragile habitat,
or a whole planet.
But as you know, our treaties
strictly forbid the barter of weapons.
Then you and I are done.
[inhales deeply]
We have nothing worth trading for.
[electronic chittering]
Pets, you enjoy them.
Please hold one moment.
[screen warbles]
[tense music playing]
[muffled shouting]
[music builds]
- [dramatic sting]
- [moans, gasps]
[heavy breathing]
[screen ringing]
Our race also seeks connection
with lesser beings.
This is our mascot,
Little Nose for Profits.
It is beloved of us all
and will bring us great sorrow
to part from it.
But your unwillingness to barter
forces us to choose between
losing a potentially lucrative deal
or losing its company.
- [alien pet squeaks]
- He is
[exhales sharply] cute.
But I will not trade my prize
for a used alien pet.
[alien] He is much more than that,
as you will see.
Our proposal is to leave
Little Nose for Profits with you,
while we complete
other business in system.
We will return in 96 standard days,
and you can then choose
between keeping our mascot
or your jewel.
[ethereal music playing]
Ninety-six days.
I agree to the trial period.
[screen warbles]
[ambient music playing
[clanking, whooshing]
[alien squeaks]
Don't be shy, then.
[alien coos]
[squeaking and cooing]
[squeaks, coos]
[Spider Rose] No native bacteria.
Looks like you'll eat most anything.
You've got a lot of genetic material.
Far more than you need.
- Far, far more.
- [Little Nose for Profits coos]
I see traces of previous forms.
Seems like you mimic your owner.
[Little Nose for Profits vocalizes]
- [Spider Rose laughs]
- [Little Nose for Profits squeaks]
- [Little Nose for Profits squeaks]
- [Spider Rose chuckles]
I need a nickname for you.
How about
- Nosey?
- [Nosey murmurs]
[poignant music playing]
[music builds, ends]
[gasps]
[panting]
Nosey?
[tense music playing]
Somebody's hungry.
[tense music continues]
[squelching]
What the?
[cooing]
[cooing]
[Spider Rose chuckles]
Hey.
It's okay.
[poignant music playing]
[music continues]
[sobbing]
[Nosey squeaking]
[Spider Rose sobbing, sniffles]
I've been out here too long.
[unintelligible alien language]
Too long alone.
[sniffs]
[shakily] I still have
friends out there.
[voice breaks] People I care about.
And unfinished business.
Recycled protein.
You've eaten all my roaches, so
Uh, uh, uh, uh.
Not my finger.
[laughs, giggles]
- [alarm sounding]
- [gasps]
[alarm blaring]
Fuck. Shapers.
- [tense music playing]
- [whooshing]
Hello, Lydia.
[gunshot]
Jade.
Imagine my surprise
when we intercepted the transmission
to your Mechanist friends on Enceladus.
The Shaper Council
thought you had crawled away to die,
but I knew you better.
How many times have
I fucking killed you?
Eleven. That I know of.
Clones, of course.
Never the original.
It must have been so unsatisfying,
not killing the one who blew
that hole in your husband's head.
But here I am at last.
Jade Prime.
My mission was to kill your husband
and you, Lydia.
And I mean to finish it.
[engine whirring, fires]
[gasps] Ha! Missed me, asshole! [shouts]
[whirring, gunfire]
Aim for her reactor!
[dramatic music playing]
[Spider Rose gasps, groans]
Come on! Come on!
[warning alarm sounding]
Fucking die!
[dramatic music continues]
You'll have to do better than that.
- [laughing]
- [gas whooshing]
[gasping, screaming in pain]
[music builds, stops]
[tense music playing]
[door whooshes]
[gasps]
I hope you're still
alive in here, Lydia.
You moldering sack of rust.
[breathing heavily]
I want to look into your eyes.
[metallic clank]
[Jade scoffs]
Cute.
- [dramatic music playing]
- [screams]
[both grunting and groaning]
[grunting and groaning continues]
[Jade screaming]
- [grunts]
- [bones breaking]
- [Spider Rose grunts]
- [Jade screams, chokes]
I agree.
This is so much more satisfying.
[choking]
[screams]
[screaming]
[shouting]
- [door closes]
- [music fades]
[unsettling music playing]
[Spider Rose] 80% atmospheric loss.
[breathing shakily]
Eating and nutrient systems offline.
Enough oxygen to last a week.
Maybe ten days.
[panting]
I still have my jewel.
And the investors will return for it.
But not soon enough.
[Nosey squeaks]
I'm sorry.
[sobbing]
I was dead when you came here.
You made me want to live again.
You saved me.
[Nosey coos]
It's okay.
You've eaten all my roaches, so
[mewling]
[growls softly]
[music builds]
- [growls]
- [music fades]
[whooshing]
[door whooshes]
[electronic trilling]
[tense music playing]
[squelching]
[mewling]
[in alien language] Cute.
[electronic warbling]
[poignant music playing]
[music fades]
[electronic chirp]
[electronic warbling]
[glass breaks]
[eerie music playing]
[muffled shouting and screaming]
[screaming]
[tense music playing]
[panting, grunting]
- [electronic warbling]
- [gasps]
[wings fluttering]
- [electronic chittering]
- [screen ringing]
Off. We've got customers.
[screen beeps]
[whooshes]
[speaking alien language]
- [in English] Greetings, Lydia Martinez.
- I call myself Spider Rose now.
We had profitable dealings
with your husband
when he administered
the Mechanist colony on Konis.
That was eight years ago.
Much has changed.
Yes, your rivals in the Shaper Council
have since taken control.
- Taken control?
- [tense music playing]
Is that what you call the slaughter
of hundreds by Shaper treachery?
Any reduction in the market
is regrettable.
Reduction in the market?
[scoffs]
I didn't know you investors
were so sentimental.
[screen beeps]
So, let's get to business.
We understand
you have found something of interest.
Yes, my jewel.
My theory is that a
few million years ago,
a chunk of ring ice
laced with exotic matter
was struck by a massive charge
of ionic particles,
and the superheated metallic carbon
was fused in stasis.
You must admit. Its
composition is unique.
Your find intrigues us.
We can offer you
one quarter million gigawatts.
I have all the energy I need.
We can also give you
a stabilized plasma lattice for storage,
an advanced alien technology
you could deconstruct
We can barely assimilate
the human technology we already have.
Rare metals. Wealth brings status.
Something most
I'm not interested in status.
I live alone.
Crushed your gregarious instincts,
have you?
An ominous development.
What I need is a weapon.
One powerful enough to destroy an
orbital colony the size of, say, Konis.
[tense music continues]
- [dramatic sting]
- [explosion]
[alien] We, of course, have items
that could destroy a fragile habitat,
or a whole planet.
But as you know, our treaties
strictly forbid the barter of weapons.
Then you and I are done.
[inhales deeply]
We have nothing worth trading for.
[electronic chittering]
Pets, you enjoy them.
Please hold one moment.
[screen warbles]
[tense music playing]
[muffled shouting]
[music builds]
- [dramatic sting]
- [moans, gasps]
[heavy breathing]
[screen ringing]
Our race also seeks connection
with lesser beings.
This is our mascot,
Little Nose for Profits.
It is beloved of us all
and will bring us great sorrow
to part from it.
But your unwillingness to barter
forces us to choose between
losing a potentially lucrative deal
or losing its company.
- [alien pet squeaks]
- He is
[exhales sharply] cute.
But I will not trade my prize
for a used alien pet.
[alien] He is much more than that,
as you will see.
Our proposal is to leave
Little Nose for Profits with you,
while we complete
other business in system.
We will return in 96 standard days,
and you can then choose
between keeping our mascot
or your jewel.
[ethereal music playing]
Ninety-six days.
I agree to the trial period.
[screen warbles]
[ambient music playing
[clanking, whooshing]
[alien squeaks]
Don't be shy, then.
[alien coos]
[squeaking and cooing]
[squeaks, coos]
[Spider Rose] No native bacteria.
Looks like you'll eat most anything.
You've got a lot of genetic material.
Far more than you need.
- Far, far more.
- [Little Nose for Profits coos]
I see traces of previous forms.
Seems like you mimic your owner.
[Little Nose for Profits vocalizes]
- [Spider Rose laughs]
- [Little Nose for Profits squeaks]
- [Little Nose for Profits squeaks]
- [Spider Rose chuckles]
I need a nickname for you.
How about
- Nosey?
- [Nosey murmurs]
[poignant music playing]
[music builds, ends]
[gasps]
[panting]
Nosey?
[tense music playing]
Somebody's hungry.
[tense music continues]
[squelching]
What the?
[cooing]
[cooing]
[Spider Rose chuckles]
Hey.
It's okay.
[poignant music playing]
[music continues]
[sobbing]
[Nosey squeaking]
[Spider Rose sobbing, sniffles]
I've been out here too long.
[unintelligible alien language]
Too long alone.
[sniffs]
[shakily] I still have
friends out there.
[voice breaks] People I care about.
And unfinished business.
Recycled protein.
You've eaten all my roaches, so
Uh, uh, uh, uh.
Not my finger.
[laughs, giggles]
- [alarm sounding]
- [gasps]
[alarm blaring]
Fuck. Shapers.
- [tense music playing]
- [whooshing]
Hello, Lydia.
[gunshot]
Jade.
Imagine my surprise
when we intercepted the transmission
to your Mechanist friends on Enceladus.
The Shaper Council
thought you had crawled away to die,
but I knew you better.
How many times have
I fucking killed you?
Eleven. That I know of.
Clones, of course.
Never the original.
It must have been so unsatisfying,
not killing the one who blew
that hole in your husband's head.
But here I am at last.
Jade Prime.
My mission was to kill your husband
and you, Lydia.
And I mean to finish it.
[engine whirring, fires]
[gasps] Ha! Missed me, asshole! [shouts]
[whirring, gunfire]
Aim for her reactor!
[dramatic music playing]
[Spider Rose gasps, groans]
Come on! Come on!
[warning alarm sounding]
Fucking die!
[dramatic music continues]
You'll have to do better than that.
- [laughing]
- [gas whooshing]
[gasping, screaming in pain]
[music builds, stops]
[tense music playing]
[door whooshes]
[gasps]
I hope you're still
alive in here, Lydia.
You moldering sack of rust.
[breathing heavily]
I want to look into your eyes.
[metallic clank]
[Jade scoffs]
Cute.
- [dramatic music playing]
- [screams]
[both grunting and groaning]
[grunting and groaning continues]
[Jade screaming]
- [grunts]
- [bones breaking]
- [Spider Rose grunts]
- [Jade screams, chokes]
I agree.
This is so much more satisfying.
[choking]
[screams]
[screaming]
[shouting]
- [door closes]
- [music fades]
[unsettling music playing]
[Spider Rose] 80% atmospheric loss.
[breathing shakily]
Eating and nutrient systems offline.
Enough oxygen to last a week.
Maybe ten days.
[panting]
I still have my jewel.
And the investors will return for it.
But not soon enough.
[Nosey squeaks]
I'm sorry.
[sobbing]
I was dead when you came here.
You made me want to live again.
You saved me.
[Nosey coos]
It's okay.
You've eaten all my roaches, so
[mewling]
[growls softly]
[music builds]
- [growls]
- [music fades]
[whooshing]
[door whooshes]
[electronic trilling]
[tense music playing]
[squelching]
[mewling]
[in alien language] Cute.
[electronic warbling]
[poignant music playing]
[music fades]