The Silver Surfer s01e05 Episode Script
Learning Curve, Pt. 1
Silver Surfer - 05 - Learning Curve, Pt.
1 Eons ago, there lived a race called the Watchers, unique in its total dedication to the gathering of knowledge from everywhere in the universe The Watchers stored what they learned on their home planet, and renamed it the Universal Library Eventually, this noble culture perished, as even the greatest of civilizations may, and now only one of its kind remains.
Before the end, the Watchers created several Beacons, to be used as guides to their planet so others could reclaim the knowledge that was left behind Because their creators deemed only the most dedicated seeker worthy of being rewarded, finding such a Beacon is not easy.
Entire lifetimes have been wasted in fruitless pursuit Are you all right, Mentor? Drax, old friend, how can I not be, with success so close at hand? In spite of all the adversities however, some special individuals are able to reap their rewards! A Beacon! Drax, the legends are true! Mentor, this feels like a trap! Of course it's a trap.
But that shouldn't keep us from desiring the bait! Mentor! Instruments show Mentor and Drax returning to their ship, Captain.
What's Mentor carrying? [NEBULA.]
I don't get a reading You would if your instruments saw the way I do Yes! That's the reason I've been tracking the old coot Get it! At last! After all these years Mentor, look! Nebula! We've come too far for that pirate to take the prize now, I'll get it back! Drax, no! Not again! Strange.
When last I was at this Landing its people reacted bitterly toward me Now I am accepted for who I am.
Can it be that I no longer bear the stigma of having served dread Galactus? Perhaps here I will obtain news of where I can find Shalla Bal! Norrin Radd! Norrin Have I truly found you? It is really you! How do you come to be here, instead of on Lost Zenn-La? I came searching for you, Norrin I could not go on, unless we were together What is it? No! I will fight for this woman, Galactus! I will fight though it mean my own destruction! Big fella! Slurper! You have nothing to hide from now, Pip.
I wasn't hidin'.
I was checkin' the fertility of the soil.
If you'da' told me you were such a bad sleeper, I never woulda booked this trip! It is that same nightmare, over and over.
Am I to be haunted by this until I find Zenn-La? Is there anything I can do to help? You can keep your eyes open, little one.
You mean for somethin' like that! Hey! Where ya goin'? I have been a part of too much tragedy, Pip, to turn away from what may be another's plight.
Just my luck, out on the town with an Interstellar Samaritan! Mentor! Please.
I am not here to harm you.
The Silver Surfer! And a Kree slave troll? A slave? Where? The name's Pip.
I'm showin' the Surfer around.
I failed, Mentor.
I'm sorry.
You couldn't help it, Drax.
The tired old scholar before you is Mentor.
And this eternally young specimen is Drax, As you can see, Drax is an android.
His brain, however, is organic, and subject to lapses I apologize for any problem this has caused.
No harm was done.
However, it is not every day that I encounter other beings spinning through space.
How did that come to be? In a word, Silver Surfer Nebula.
You know the lady? I been around.
You had something she wanted, right? I had an idea.
A world where I could obtain this.
Tell me, Silver Surfer.
Have you ever heard of a place called the Universal Library? One of the mixed blessings bestowed upon me by Galactus is the ability to detect powerful energy sources Mentor! I have found the energy trail of the stolen Beacon.
Follow me! After spending centuries questing for the hidden wisdom of the Watchers, Silver Surfer, nothing could keep me from doing so! Although Zenn-La maintained a heightened awareness of the human spirit, still was there much we did not know about other matters Until this day I was ignorant of the Universal Library, and of the fact that once there was more than one Watcher The remaining Watcher was unable to tell me where Zenn-La could be found, but now I feel new hope That the ancient Library of his people will provide a way to locate my home A buncha lights're flyin' us halfway around the universe so we can go to the library? Cap'n, are you sure about this? Maclag's got a point there, Captain.
Seems like a screwy idea to me.
Listen up, you lowlife, bottom of the barrel dregs of pseudo-sentient life! We've been on more missions together than you can count if you could count and have I ever let you gobs down? Begging your pardon, Captain, but I think the boys're just a tad confused.
They know plundernot education.
And plunder's what they'll get, Geatar Knowledge is power, and power is profit.
What do you think the profit'll be when this "buncha lights" puts all the knowledge in the universe right into our hands? Hey, I never thoughta that She's got a point Cap'n, I've always been proud to be a member of your crew Brace yourselves, boys.
Looks like we're about to get our library cards punched! How can this be? The energy I have been following leads directly to this point in space But now I find nothing! Nor do I.
My instruments show no sign of the Beacon Have we truly come to the end of the road? Were that so, Nebula still would be here.
Yet she has continued on A Plasma Jump! In all my time with Galactus I encountered only one of its ilk It served as a doorway, an instantaneous transporter to a star system millions of light-years away.
But this one is so small According to my research, the Beacon would be capable of opening the Jump so a ship can go through.
- Without it - Without it, that task must fall to me! The Jump has fastened onto my power cosmic.
Never have I felt anything like this! Can it be feeding on my very being? Drax, hurry! The Surfer's inside that cockamamie thing! The pain is too much to bear! I feel as if I am being ripped apart! Mentor? If I destroy this Jump, we may never get to the Universal Library! We've taken more than our share of chances already, old friend I'd rather save the Silver Surfer and fail in our quest than succeed at the cost of his life! You heard the man! Whaddaya waitin' for? Nothing, little one.
Nothing at all.
I do not know how to fight this My very essence seems to be slipping away Instead of extinguishing the Jump, Drax's blasts are causing it to grow The doorway is eager to devour energy from any source.
Like Galactus, it always demands more On Zenn-La we were taught that peace comes to those who walk with the wind, not against it If this Plasma Jump wants me so much then have me it shall! - This don't mean we're goin' steady.
- Drax! Mentor! I do not know how long the Jump will hold its size! You must hurry through! On my way.
What about you? Pip and I will meet you on the other side! To me, my board! Hey, hey, surfer, is that your old pal, the Watcher, Or, or is that him? I'd say that rumors of the demise of the Watchers' civilization were greatly exaggerated Except for that fact that my readings show that those are images, not living beings.
Whaddaya think they're for? Road signs? Surfer? Surfer? Shalla Bal SURFER!!! I fear for the Surfer.
He doesn't have very good color.
How ironic! This should be a moment of victory, not despair.
The Universal Library finally is within our grasp Yet it appears that the man responsible for our being here, has paid the ultimate price.
The internal energy level of the Silver Surfer is so low it can't even be measured.
And I'm at a loss as to how to increase it! You've been unusually quiet, Pip.
I'm doin' something, I never did before.
I'm prayin' The last time I was the object of such close attention, my world almost came to an end.
I trust that this situation is not quite so dire.
Awriight! Check those highlights! You wanna talk colorlookit this guy shine! I see that we have successfully passed through the Plasma Jump.
It is time to obtain the answers we seek! Easy, my friend.
You aren't yet fully recovered.
It isn't much, Silver Surfer, but may I offer you a ride? Remarkable! It's as though the Watchers are welcoming us after all our travail.
You're sure they aren't really protectin' their turf? I believe we will be safe.
If the rest of his people were like the surviving Watcher, never would they involve themselves in the events of the universe.
We have seen no sign of Nebula.
- She and her ship must already be - There! That must be our destination! What is all this? It is coming from the planet.
There's only one thing this can be, the sight and sound of all the Watchers have ever recorded! Gentlemen, we've done it! We've found the Universal Library! But where's the order, Mentor? The index? Make it stop! Make it stop! Make it gone away! Did I say this was a library? It's an assault! Drax! I need your assistance! We must protect the ship Drax! Watcher! We know you are there! Who calls the Watcher? Do you not know Eternity? And my sweet sister, Infinity? How can I not know the living representations of time and space What brings you to my ancestral home? A crisis is on the horizon, Watcher, one that threatens us all! My brother believes that the Silver Surfer will be able to resolve it.
I however, have grave doubts The Surfer's obsessive search for Zenn-La may mean not only his own end, but that of the universe as well
1 Eons ago, there lived a race called the Watchers, unique in its total dedication to the gathering of knowledge from everywhere in the universe The Watchers stored what they learned on their home planet, and renamed it the Universal Library Eventually, this noble culture perished, as even the greatest of civilizations may, and now only one of its kind remains.
Before the end, the Watchers created several Beacons, to be used as guides to their planet so others could reclaim the knowledge that was left behind Because their creators deemed only the most dedicated seeker worthy of being rewarded, finding such a Beacon is not easy.
Entire lifetimes have been wasted in fruitless pursuit Are you all right, Mentor? Drax, old friend, how can I not be, with success so close at hand? In spite of all the adversities however, some special individuals are able to reap their rewards! A Beacon! Drax, the legends are true! Mentor, this feels like a trap! Of course it's a trap.
But that shouldn't keep us from desiring the bait! Mentor! Instruments show Mentor and Drax returning to their ship, Captain.
What's Mentor carrying? [NEBULA.]
I don't get a reading You would if your instruments saw the way I do Yes! That's the reason I've been tracking the old coot Get it! At last! After all these years Mentor, look! Nebula! We've come too far for that pirate to take the prize now, I'll get it back! Drax, no! Not again! Strange.
When last I was at this Landing its people reacted bitterly toward me Now I am accepted for who I am.
Can it be that I no longer bear the stigma of having served dread Galactus? Perhaps here I will obtain news of where I can find Shalla Bal! Norrin Radd! Norrin Have I truly found you? It is really you! How do you come to be here, instead of on Lost Zenn-La? I came searching for you, Norrin I could not go on, unless we were together What is it? No! I will fight for this woman, Galactus! I will fight though it mean my own destruction! Big fella! Slurper! You have nothing to hide from now, Pip.
I wasn't hidin'.
I was checkin' the fertility of the soil.
If you'da' told me you were such a bad sleeper, I never woulda booked this trip! It is that same nightmare, over and over.
Am I to be haunted by this until I find Zenn-La? Is there anything I can do to help? You can keep your eyes open, little one.
You mean for somethin' like that! Hey! Where ya goin'? I have been a part of too much tragedy, Pip, to turn away from what may be another's plight.
Just my luck, out on the town with an Interstellar Samaritan! Mentor! Please.
I am not here to harm you.
The Silver Surfer! And a Kree slave troll? A slave? Where? The name's Pip.
I'm showin' the Surfer around.
I failed, Mentor.
I'm sorry.
You couldn't help it, Drax.
The tired old scholar before you is Mentor.
And this eternally young specimen is Drax, As you can see, Drax is an android.
His brain, however, is organic, and subject to lapses I apologize for any problem this has caused.
No harm was done.
However, it is not every day that I encounter other beings spinning through space.
How did that come to be? In a word, Silver Surfer Nebula.
You know the lady? I been around.
You had something she wanted, right? I had an idea.
A world where I could obtain this.
Tell me, Silver Surfer.
Have you ever heard of a place called the Universal Library? One of the mixed blessings bestowed upon me by Galactus is the ability to detect powerful energy sources Mentor! I have found the energy trail of the stolen Beacon.
Follow me! After spending centuries questing for the hidden wisdom of the Watchers, Silver Surfer, nothing could keep me from doing so! Although Zenn-La maintained a heightened awareness of the human spirit, still was there much we did not know about other matters Until this day I was ignorant of the Universal Library, and of the fact that once there was more than one Watcher The remaining Watcher was unable to tell me where Zenn-La could be found, but now I feel new hope That the ancient Library of his people will provide a way to locate my home A buncha lights're flyin' us halfway around the universe so we can go to the library? Cap'n, are you sure about this? Maclag's got a point there, Captain.
Seems like a screwy idea to me.
Listen up, you lowlife, bottom of the barrel dregs of pseudo-sentient life! We've been on more missions together than you can count if you could count and have I ever let you gobs down? Begging your pardon, Captain, but I think the boys're just a tad confused.
They know plundernot education.
And plunder's what they'll get, Geatar Knowledge is power, and power is profit.
What do you think the profit'll be when this "buncha lights" puts all the knowledge in the universe right into our hands? Hey, I never thoughta that She's got a point Cap'n, I've always been proud to be a member of your crew Brace yourselves, boys.
Looks like we're about to get our library cards punched! How can this be? The energy I have been following leads directly to this point in space But now I find nothing! Nor do I.
My instruments show no sign of the Beacon Have we truly come to the end of the road? Were that so, Nebula still would be here.
Yet she has continued on A Plasma Jump! In all my time with Galactus I encountered only one of its ilk It served as a doorway, an instantaneous transporter to a star system millions of light-years away.
But this one is so small According to my research, the Beacon would be capable of opening the Jump so a ship can go through.
- Without it - Without it, that task must fall to me! The Jump has fastened onto my power cosmic.
Never have I felt anything like this! Can it be feeding on my very being? Drax, hurry! The Surfer's inside that cockamamie thing! The pain is too much to bear! I feel as if I am being ripped apart! Mentor? If I destroy this Jump, we may never get to the Universal Library! We've taken more than our share of chances already, old friend I'd rather save the Silver Surfer and fail in our quest than succeed at the cost of his life! You heard the man! Whaddaya waitin' for? Nothing, little one.
Nothing at all.
I do not know how to fight this My very essence seems to be slipping away Instead of extinguishing the Jump, Drax's blasts are causing it to grow The doorway is eager to devour energy from any source.
Like Galactus, it always demands more On Zenn-La we were taught that peace comes to those who walk with the wind, not against it If this Plasma Jump wants me so much then have me it shall! - This don't mean we're goin' steady.
- Drax! Mentor! I do not know how long the Jump will hold its size! You must hurry through! On my way.
What about you? Pip and I will meet you on the other side! To me, my board! Hey, hey, surfer, is that your old pal, the Watcher, Or, or is that him? I'd say that rumors of the demise of the Watchers' civilization were greatly exaggerated Except for that fact that my readings show that those are images, not living beings.
Whaddaya think they're for? Road signs? Surfer? Surfer? Shalla Bal SURFER!!! I fear for the Surfer.
He doesn't have very good color.
How ironic! This should be a moment of victory, not despair.
The Universal Library finally is within our grasp Yet it appears that the man responsible for our being here, has paid the ultimate price.
The internal energy level of the Silver Surfer is so low it can't even be measured.
And I'm at a loss as to how to increase it! You've been unusually quiet, Pip.
I'm doin' something, I never did before.
I'm prayin' The last time I was the object of such close attention, my world almost came to an end.
I trust that this situation is not quite so dire.
Awriight! Check those highlights! You wanna talk colorlookit this guy shine! I see that we have successfully passed through the Plasma Jump.
It is time to obtain the answers we seek! Easy, my friend.
You aren't yet fully recovered.
It isn't much, Silver Surfer, but may I offer you a ride? Remarkable! It's as though the Watchers are welcoming us after all our travail.
You're sure they aren't really protectin' their turf? I believe we will be safe.
If the rest of his people were like the surviving Watcher, never would they involve themselves in the events of the universe.
We have seen no sign of Nebula.
- She and her ship must already be - There! That must be our destination! What is all this? It is coming from the planet.
There's only one thing this can be, the sight and sound of all the Watchers have ever recorded! Gentlemen, we've done it! We've found the Universal Library! But where's the order, Mentor? The index? Make it stop! Make it stop! Make it gone away! Did I say this was a library? It's an assault! Drax! I need your assistance! We must protect the ship Drax! Watcher! We know you are there! Who calls the Watcher? Do you not know Eternity? And my sweet sister, Infinity? How can I not know the living representations of time and space What brings you to my ancestral home? A crisis is on the horizon, Watcher, one that threatens us all! My brother believes that the Silver Surfer will be able to resolve it.
I however, have grave doubts The Surfer's obsessive search for Zenn-La may mean not only his own end, but that of the universe as well