Earth: Final Conflict s01e13 Episode Script

Ah, here it is, ladies and gentlemen.
Well now.
Welcome to Strand Hill Stone Circle.
This is a megalithic wonder build by my ancestors How did they get rocks up the hills? Ah, that's a very good question.
Nobody knows the answer.
I mean, it's an impossible feat, isn't it? I mean before the wheel, some of these big bluestones here, they weigh 4 tons.
And they were cut from a quarry seven miles away.
Yes, yes, it's impossible.
You're right.
Yeah, but here they are.
Let me show you where the real magic of these place lies.
Come on, come on.
- Take my hand.
- Careful now.
Mind your heads.
It's rather dark in here.
There're 3 steps here.
We're in a passage way that leads to a burial chamber.
And it was some Brits who excavated on this in a century ago.
Look at this! These symbols mark the alleged burial site of a mystical king.
Yeah, the Celts believed very deeply in mystical kings and queens.
These mystical kings, they were tall and noble creatures with silvery tongues.
Ah, and the almighty strong was their hold of the Celtic minds.
Damned government! It wasn't supposed to start until tomorrow.
What was that? It's all right, it's all right.
It's nothing to worry about.
They're just blasting the new highway, you know.
They're opening it to the United Republic of Ireland.
It's all right, it's nothing at all.
Let's get out of here! Oh, my God! Three years ago they came, forever altering the future of humanity.
William Boone's life has been destroyed.
A man caught between two worlds.
Assigned protector to the Companions; undercover agent for the Liberation.
An alien implanted cyber-virus expands his mind.
Controlling a bio-engineered weapon of unprecedented power.
William Boone searches for the truth.
I bring the message we have all awaited since our arrival on Earth.
Evidence has been discovered which will lead to the remains of Ma'el.
Please, elaborate.
A mosaic was uncovered this morning in a passage tomb in the Midlands of Ireland.
It depicts the image of Ma'el.
Your experience in guiding the search for Ma'el's remains since our arrival makes you the logical candidate to lead the current search.
I will send my implants immediately.
We all understand the ramifications of this search.
Our mandate was to occupy this planet only until Ma'el's message could be verified.
If his conclusions prove to be true, we shall leave Earth forever.
Want another pint, O'Malley? Oh, sure, gaffer, I got a terrible thirst on me today.
When get a pint, while you're at it, why don't you pull a pint for all the rest of the boys here.
Cheers, O'Malley! Thanks, O'Malley! Have you gone mad, O'Malley? Mad is it? I suffer from a disease of the heart.
Which only money can cure.
Bloody epidemic around here! Ah, you can say that again.
But today, boys, ah, today I found the cure.
And it's gonna make me bloody rich! - A rich man Tim O'Malley! - I tell you this! The next time that I walk through that door, yes, I'll be looking like a wealthy man.
Give us another one, gaffer.
Soon they're gonna pay me a lot of money for you, little darling.
Shut up the rear! You follow me inside! Now.
Where's Tim O'Malley? Haven't seen him.
He's here.
Find him! Right.
I thought you said he wasn't here.
Well, surely, if your men can't find him, then These are his fingerprints.
How can you possibly know that? Are you challenging me? O'Malley shows his face here again, you'll be the first to know.
That's better.
Your contact in Ireland is Lieutenant Siobhan Beckett.
You will be looking for the remains of a Taelon named Ma'el.
Ma'el? I don't recognize the name.
Ma'el disappeared on Earth nearly 2,000 years ago.
In the beginning of our star travel we sent a scientist, Ma'el, to Earth.
It was a one way journey.
A scientist? For what purpose? To study the human species.
To determine if the meeting of our two cultures could be mutually beneficial.
Is Ma'el the last Taelon to study here on Earth? Ma'el was the first Taelon to visit your planet.
His knowledge is the most extensive and therefore the most valuable.
Da'an, are you certain that Ma'el is dead? Yes.
We felt Ma'el's release.
Our bodies have evolved to where they are composed primarily of energy.
When Ma'el's energy dispersed, it sent a ripple through Taelon consciousness.
Than what purpose Ma'el's body would serve? None.
We seek Ma'el's research on your human ancestors.
You must find the data log Ma'el used to record his research.
As a highly evolved species, what could you possibly learn from a study of primitive men.
Selective evolution can leave a race vulnerable to unanticipated events.
A primitive race often bears those traits helpful in contesting those unanticipated events.
Prep to land.
Lieutenant Beckett, security for the UK Companion.
Agent Sandoval.
Commander Boone.
Captain Marquette.
What do you have on Tim O'Malley? A member of his tour group reported the discovery of the mural.
We merely missed to catch his at a local pub.
We think he has the missing piece.
Why don't you show us the mural.
Nothing gets inside this perimeter while I'm gone! You so much as a field mouse you catch it and detain it for questioning.
You certainly have your troops worked out in pretty good shape.
Belfast militia, antiterrorism unit.
After the Companions came and helped us form the United Republic of Ireland, there was no IRA to fight.
Can't very well fight for nationalism when you see the Earth and its true perspective.
Is that why the Companions chose to serve them? Because of your antiterrorist expertise? They knew I was willing to die for a cause I believe in.
Or kill for one.
And you? Covert Ops, decorated SI vet.
You could surely serve the Companions well.
I ah I feel like I serve them well as it is.
Yes, but Companion protectors are blessed with gifts that make a woman's life more enlightening.
Here it is.
This is remarkable! Buddha.
Christ.
Shiva, Moses.
Religious leaders of our world.
The hillside folk of this region, they believed in a mystical king.
They described him as god and not god.
Like he was something in between.
A Taelon with advanced technology would've appeared to the ancients as a god.
Or, at very least, a king.
The colloquia of the ancients says "The mystical king came down from the heaven" "galloping for the clouds on a white horse.
" You suppose that was Ma'el? I make no superstition, Lieutenant.
None.
Until I have all the facts.
I find intuition a valuable ally.
How old is the mosaic? We utilized carbon and hydrogen ageing techniques.
The mosaic's no more than 2,000 years old.
How do you account for the stone wall laid over it? Success of generations used this tomb as a burial site.
Each one left behind its own memorial marker.
Taelon script, Boone.
Can you read it? I can only understand some of the characters.
Might be an archaic dialect.
Da'an will have to interpret.
They've been here before! They've been lying to us whole time! This exactly the kind of information we need to galvanize the world against the Taelons.
No, no.
The world is used to the idea that the Taelons are on Earth.
People will accept that they've been here before without much challenge.
The question is "why were they here before?" And the answer lies in Ma'el's research.
Yeah, but if Sandoval and Beckett get to it first, they'll take it straight to Da'an and we will never see it! All right.
Go to Doors, brief him and bring back any tools he has that will help us find Ma'el's tomb.
I have posted Zo'or as the Companion representative to the United Nations.
Was there a problem with my performance in that role? North America has proven to be our most troubling assignment.
It is the Synod's expectation that relieving you of some of your responsibilities will increase your efficiency.
I assume your role with the United Nations will require you to be based in New York.
You assume correctly.
And I intend to spend more time in Washington as well.
I welcome your council.
We found Taelon writings on the mosaic.
Would you interpret them? I was under the impression that you could now read Taelon.
This is apparently an ancient dialect.
The interpretation must be exact.
Zo'or has been appointed the Companion ambassador to the United Nations.
Transmit your data.
The message is from Ma'el.
What does it say? "We stand upon the lowest," "We bow to the highest.
" The rest of the message is missing.
The rest of the message is on the piece of the mosaic that was broken off and stolen.
Do these words mean anything to you? These words are meaningless.
Clear evidence of Ma'el's deterioration.
It is the beginning of a riddle.
Find the missing piece of the mosaic and complete the prose.
It will lead us to Ma'el.
Will do.
- Nice work! - Thanks.
- Captain Marquette, congratulations! - Jonathan! Captain Marquette.
Jonathan, this is it! This discovery is the first major step in legitimizing our liberation movement.
Only if we find the Taelon's research.
We can still prove that they've been here before.
That's not gonna sit well with a lot of people! Taelons are masters of spin control.
Without some solid evidence of their purpose they'll just come up with some plausible reason for their earlier visits.
Most of the world will swallow whatever they're told.
You don't give the human beings enough credit, Jonathan.
Nobody likes to be lied to.
Really? They don't seem to mind so far.
Do you have the equipment I requested.
Yes.
We used that to excavate this facility.
Good.
And Lili.
You have to find this Taelon research first.
Or this whole exercise will be wasted.
I understand that, Jonathan.
We can uplink these stills for identification.
So many religions.
So many gods.
You say the Celtic people around here believed in the mystical king.
The seers wrote that the ghost of the mystical king will return one day.
Maybe they've predicted the arrival of the Companions? "For all the hillside was haunted by the magic folk come again;" "And down in the heart-light enchanted were opal-colored men.
" Why are you staring at me, Agent Sandoval? I've ever met a female cyber-viral implant.
You're proficient in its use.
Impressive.
Very impressive.
You know, I can't help but wonder, how effectively a woman can protect her Companion given man's inherent physical strength? I've always wondered whether the CVI program would overwrite the male ego.
But you've just answered that question.
Sandoval, Da'an believes the mosaic was created a tombstone left behind by Ma'el for other Taelons to find after his transformation.
It may well be a tombstone, but it doesn't mean Ma'el was buried here.
How can you be certain? It's a passage grave.
Lots of bodies were interred here.
A king would be buried alone and in an elaborate chamber.
Or high in the royal ring fort with stone ramparts.
He'd be placed upright in full armor so that he could see his enemies approach.
Even in death.
But where? Could be anywhere on the cemetery.
What cemetery? Stone circles like these are usually found in a megalithic cemetery.
They can stretch out for miles.
Literally.
No, I don't see anything.
Well what you don't see are dozens of monuments and tombs hidden be the passage of time.
Sometimes they can look like nothing without being excavated.
A pile of rocks or a grass mount.
How can we know for sure? There's no way of knowing without the full archeological dig.
Well, that could take months.
We can do a geographical survey.
The Bureau developed a software that analyzes seismic impulses to create detailed underground maps.
I can use multiple datasets to generate a three-dimensional map of these fields.
It should reveal the signature of any camouflaged tomb big enough to hide a Taelon.
I've got a satellite link up in a computer back at the field command.
Good.
Is that Finnbeara? That's right.
And that tavern on the outskirts serves as the last known location of O'Malley.
Good.
Captain Marquette and I'll start there.
We've got to find O'Malley before he does anything with the mosaic fragment.
He's been here his whole life.
He knows these hills better than anyone.
He could be anywhere.
I better get started then.
Let's get to work, Lieutenant.
With Sandoval's geographical program I wouldn't be surprised they could turn up Ma'el's burial chamber by morning.
We have to find O'Malley tonight.
But they won't give us much, cuz we just smile and ask.
They might, if we make the right appeal.
I was afraid of this.
Come on.
Any guys like to drink? I can drink anyone of you under the table.
What do you want if you can? Simple.
Just a little information.
And what do I get if you can't? I don't know.
What do you want? Her.
Okay, it's a deal.
Oh, really? All right, lads, place your bets! Just relax and enjoy the show.
All right, another five.
Now clear off, lads! All set then! Both, this way.
You spit out a vile curse into the face of your wretched opponent and then you drink.
Curse, drink; curse, drink; curse, drink; curse drink; and on like that! You got that? Curse, drink? I think I got it.
Last man standing wins.
In the hell I wish you to be tormented into the depth of the world pool with 21 demons each tearing your sunburn.
Oh, that's a good one! Come on.
May your mother wear army boots.
I'll integrate the surface characteristics of this detailed two-dimensional map with our geographical data.
Were you able to pull together what I requested? All of it.
Satellite photos, contour maps, sediment studies, geophysical charts, even snapshots from tourists.
Good.
And what I'll do is deploy this geographical information over the service map to generate that three-dimensional model of the area.
And that will indicate underground holes where Ma'el might be hidden? That's correct.
And what else would be revealed? I'm sorry, I don't understand.
The secrets of the Irish are buried here.
You dig up this earth, you uncover those secrets.
And some secrets should never be revealed.
We are implants, Lieutenant.
We know our purpose.
We have nothing to hide.
Really? And who are you, Agent Sandoval? Underneath your CVI? I want to work for the Companions.
I'm proud to have been recruited.
Do you realize that? Even if it costs you your marriage? That's your decision, Dee Dee.
I've made mine.
I'm a servant of the Companions.
As you should be.
Oh, I am.
Show me how you interpolate this data.
Your turn, Yank.
Are you insane, Boone? Aren't you gonna quit now? You're a mess! Am I? Yeah! Do you know what are you doing? Can you even fire your skrill when you're drunk? My CVI doesn't allow my do get drunk.
A riddle? Why would Ma'el leave behind a human word game? Riddles and mysteries, they were popular among the Celtic people.
But Ma'el was not Celtic.
He was obviously not thinking clearly.
Perhaps he felt more comfortable communicating in a human idiom.
If Ma'el's last communications prove accurate, our tenure on Earth will cease.
That decision is irreversible given our current time table.
If Ma'el was more comfortable communicating as a human, I question the dependability of his conclusions.
We cannot leave Earth on the basis of inconclusive evidence.
However, it would be fruitless to remain on Earth if Ma'el was correct in his assumption about humanity.
You identify with this human race to the greater extent than any Taelon.
Yet you seem to be most anxious to abandon Earth.
Why? My only concern is for the well-being of the Taelon race.
We don't have the luxury of time.
Ma'el conducted extensive analysis over many centuries.
If his research bears the ring of truth, our only choice is to leave this planet.
Immediately.
May you be affected with the itch.
And have no nails to scratch with.
All right.
The deal was you give up information! Where's Tim O'Malley? He stole an artifact up in Strand Hill.
We need to find him! Yeah, come on! The deal was the you suppose to answer our questions.
You deal wasn't with them.
It was with him.
All right, geo-reference datasets have been entered.
Soil's geology, aerial photographs.
Time for the final interpolation.
Now let's see where our tomb might be hidden.
Can you enlarge this one here? How did you deduce that? That's probably just an anomaly.
Call it intuition.
You disappoint me, Lieutenant.
As an implant I would've expected you to abandon such a primitive unreliable techniques.
On the contrary, my intuition's never been sharper since the implantation of my CVI.
Cruciform-shaped chamber, usually reserved for royalty.
Those boulders above it are probably what's left of the royal ring fort.
Looks good for our target.
Connor.
Come on, Connor, wake up.
Hey there, handsome.
Come on.
Time to claim your prize.
Connor, you won! Oh, I did? That's right, you did! Time for you to take me home.
I'd like that very much, ma'am First you have to tell me where I can find Tim O'Malley.
Find him? He never left.
What do you mean? Connor! Come on! Connor, what do you mean he never left? A lot of good that did.
Not so fast.
Look at the floor around him.
Where's the water? I'm a senior citizen! Don't hurt me! Here! Take it! Get outta there! Let go of me! I gave you what you want! You! Out! Calm down.
We're not gonna hurt you.
Can you read what it says? I've watched Da'an interpret the beginning of the riddle.
I think I can finish it.
"But only penetrating vision" "reveal" "source.
" All right.
So the entire inscription reads: "We stand on the lowest.
We bow to the highest.
" "But only the penetrating vision can reveal the source.
" O'Malley, help us out here.
Why should I? Because I'm asking you nicely.
Unless, of course, you'd rather deal with Beckett.
Ah, no.
We believe the mosaic you found might be a grave marker.
An alien grave marker? Oh, my God.
Maybe it points the way to a burial chamber? What do you think? Ah, you know, you could be right.
There's lots of monuments around here with puzzles on them.
But that riddles thing That doesn't ring any bells for me.
Could it have some hidden meaning? Ah, yeah, no.
The trick with riddles is not to dig too deep.
You just listen to the words and then may take the most fair value.
I think I've got it.
Let's go.
We're looking for a portal stone.
It should be large with This is the spot.
The tomb's beneath us.
Magnificent stone.
Such a shame to destroy it.
You have the geosonic? It's looking for the frequency for the sympathetic resonance.
It's found it.
I am curious.
Why do you wear your human facade? It is clear that humans are much more comfortable with Taelons when we are in this state.
And with increased comfort comes increased malleability.
I believe we've located Ma'el's tomb, Da'an.
The passageway must've collapsed.
Probably centuries ago.
We have no time to excavate.
Can we have a visual? No problem.
We'll snake in the optical line.
We stand upon the lowest, we bow to the highest That's the highest! Here's the lowest.
But only the penetrating vision can reveal the source.
The tavern! White Horse tavern! Beckett said the mystical king would ride through the clouds on a white stallion! Let's get the geosonic.
Here we go.
Okay.
Open air, 21 meters.
It's definitely a burial chamber.
Wait.
Hold.
Push it right there.
What is it? It's ogham, ancient Celtic alphabet, very crude and simple.
Can you read it? "May thy kingdom come.
" With any luck, this should be the very tomb that Ma'el is buried in.
It's not Ma'el.
It's a tomb of a human king.
There's nowhere to go from here but down.
Maybe there's nothing down there.
Trust me.
Turn off! Turn it off! That was close.
Incredible! It's the Ma'hu'ra'va Galaxy.
Taelon homeworld.
Ma'el.
Come on, help me with this.
On three.
One, two, three.
Again.
It must be the data log Da'an discussed.
Ma'el's research.
I guess, that's why the Taelons didn't care about the body.
Do you understand this? What Yeah.
He doesn't have his research on humanity.
He's saying that he he desires to convey ah a different message to humanity.
What does it mean? What does he say? He says that if the Taelons are hearing this message, then they didn't heed his warning.
He told them not to come to Earth.
Not to come here under any circumstances.
He didn't trust his fellow Taelons to see us as he did.
He's asking his fellow Taelons to treat us as equals Because in time He says that we will become their equals.
Take it.
Let's get out of here.
You found the tomb.
Congratulations, Boone.
Da'an will be very pleased.
We were about to contact you.
How did you trace this site? My field equipment picked up seismic activity here.
Must've been when you blew up this hole.
I'll contact Da'an.
Yes.
The Synod will require Ma'el's research immediately.
Give them a hand.
Tell them never forget us at White Horse tavern.
I will.
If you need a recommendation to further your Companion career, it would be my pleasure to assist you.
Thanks.
I'll think about it.
You're an exceptional agent, Lieutenant Beckett.
And a faithful aid to the Companions.
Good luck to you.
Thank you, Agent Sandoval.
So are you.
We now must determine our fate on this planet.
Ma'el destroyed his research.
it is now impossible to verify his findings.
Ma'el's early messages indicated that the human race was a perfect complement to the Taelons.
Only later did Ma'el's messages indicate that we should not come to Earth.
Ma'el changed course.
He specifically and emphatically warned against coming to this planet.
The decision we make today goes to the very survival of our species.
Let us contemplate.
You have all communed with me.
We're not of one mind.
But we now speak with one voice.
And we say today that the future of Taelon is inextricably bound with the future of humanity.
We shall seek our destiny on this planet or our extinction.