All language subtitles for The Twilight Zone (1985) - 2x19 - Voices in the Earth

woman:
spectroscopic readings indicate
the atmosphere

is at perfect equilibrium.

predominantly carbon dioxide

with traces of methane
and ammonia.

what gives the atmosphere
that sickly yellow color?

iron oxides
from the rusting cities.

and the sensors show
no life form whatsoever?

nothing--
not even the presence

of simple amino acids
in the oceans.

it's a dead world.

there was a name for this one
wasn't there, professor?

yes... it's earth.

they called it earth.

not much left
after 1,000 years, is there?

donald, earth was stripped
of artifacts long ago.

what are you looking for?

i don't know...
a feeling.

a sense of place.

what it felt like
to live here

when the skies were blue

and the oceans
green with plankton.

too many historians
never get to see

the things
they write about.

thank you for getting me
on this mission.

a very kind gesture
for an old academic.

not that kind,
and not that old.

good luck,
donald, because

in four days, i must give word
to the mining vessels

to extract what is salvageable.

when they do, there will be
precious little left

of your earth.

archer? bledsoe?

did you hear that?

man:
hear what?

you got a problem, professor?

no, no problem.

i'll see you back at the ship
in about three hours.

knowles out.

(chopin's nocturne in e-flat,
opus 9, no. 2 playing)

don't you remember us,
professor?

donald, you're up late.

so are you.

lots of data to log.

there's still a treasure trove
of minerals in this planet.

the inhabitants bled it dry
of all fossil fuels

but there's a wealth of basalt,
iron, uranium.

it was really quite
a beautiful planet--

amazing variety of flora.

climates ranging

from the temperate
to the tropical

from the arctic
to the desert.

this is where it all began.

this is where
webegan.

how did it happen, donald?

how did the planet
end up like this?

greed, stupidity...

the usual catalog of sins.

they used refrigerants

that slowly ate away
the ozone layer.

they burned
the tropical
rain forests

to make way
for farmland

using the ashes
for fertilizer,

and entire species
simply vanished

forever
from the earth.

by the time they poisoned
the whole biosphere,

they had the technology
to leave it behind.

so they fled into space

and cast the earth aside

like a half-eaten apple.

and with humanity gone,
the biological changes

collapsed.

you know the irony of it?

the earth today is almost
exactly as it was millennia ago

before the very first rainfall.

for millions
of years,

there had been
no rain.

when the earth
cooled enough,

rain fell,

delivering nutrients
to the oceans

and life emerged.

and here we are.

here we are.

returned to commit
the final indignity

on the planet
that nurtured us.

here to put the knife
to her one last time.

our ancestors killed this world,
not us.

the law prohibits us from mining
any living world--

only dead ones.

like it or not, donald

earth is a dead world now

and there's nothing
we can do about that.

except, i suppose,
be grateful

that we finally
learned our lesson.

do you remember us now,
professor?

man:
you won't be needing
your helmet anymore, professor.

the air is breathable.

we sort of used
a part of our etheric energy

to change the molecular
structure of the gases.

we've been waiting so long.

why did you leave us?

are you back to stay?

all of you?

where are the others?

will they follow
in more ships?

woman:
yes, yes, where
are they?

when are they coming?

my god.

all of you.

you're...

the ones you left behind.

all the souls that ever were.

all the ones that stood
and watched

as your ships vanished forever
from our sight.

all of us
that couldn't follow.

we never knew.

we never knew
that you even existed.

didn't you?

didn't a part of you
always know?

why is it so important to you
to... follow us?

you're our children--

our future, our immortality.

since time began,
we've walked among you,

sharing in your triumphs...

your despair.

now... now
there's nothing.

no children. no future.

just a ruined playground
you left behind.

it doesn't have to be this way.

you can follow us.

our ship...

your ships warp space
in ways we can't.

those who have tried came back
disfigured or insane.

it's a large
universe, professor.

and not nearly as benign as
you living like to think it is.

well, then... what can i do?

put your helmet back on.

i know why you're here.

not you,
personally,

but your ship,
your crew.

we're shadows.

we're helpless to stop them.

but you...
you have to do something.

you have to explain to them
that this planet still contains

life of a sort.

this earth--

ruined and
gutted as it is--

it's all we
have left.

please, don't let them
take it from us.

you can't be serious.

do you know what
the others would say?

i'm just asking you
to keep an open mind.

give me a chance.

i'll prove it to you.

prove to me that
earth is some sort
of haunted planet?

how?

gycinda... you were
always my best pupil.

let me teach you
one last thing.

hello?

i've brought someone--

someone who can help.

please... let us see you.

please.
it's all right.

she has to see you.

she has to know.

donald.

for god's sake,
she can help.

why are you doing this?

please, let us see you.

donald, that's enough.

don't...

damn you!

show yourselves!

donald!

it's my fault.

i knew what this planet meant
to you.

i shouldn't have invited you
to watch it be...

why don't we just...

forget we ever came here,
all right?

my god.

what are you doing?

what arewedoing?!

what wereyoudoing?

donald, how
could you

do this to us?

to all of us.

i swear...

i... the last thing
i remember was being...

asleep in my cabin.

it was them.

don't you see? i...

it wasn't me, it was them.

he's crazy.

i told...
mr. bledsoe,
kindly shut up.

mr. archer...

please assess the damage
to the sensor web

and then raise central
on subspace.

tell them we'll be returning
dr. knowles to outpost 12--

medical emergency.

we'll also be staying over
for repairs, and...

and then we will be back
to finish our assignment.

you cowards.

you liars.

show yourselves.

i dare you
to show yourself to me.

go back to your ship,
professor.

you might as well.

because if i don't

you'll just take over my body

and make me go,
won't you?

that's right.

you wanted me to make
a fool of myself.

you wanted me shipped
back to civilization.

and you... you'd come
with me, wouldn't you?

please understand,
there's no other way.

we can't travel
through warp space in this form.

but in yours,
that's a different matter.

you can serve as a beacon

to the others,
showing them the way.

and me?

what happens to me--
my body--

when you're
done with it?

i'm not sure.

i have to merge myself fully
with your body

in order
to weather the journey.

i'll try to leave it
once we get there but...

you don't know if you can.

please try
to understand.

all we want

is to reclaim our future.

your future?

you don't deserve

a future,
any of you.

we may have
fled the earth

once it became

uninhabitable.

but you...

you're the ones who made it
that way.

you could have saved it.

you could've done something,
every one of you.

but you didn't,
did you?

how many of you
thought you'd be

on one of those
spaceships

fleeing the dying earth?

how many of you thought
you'd escape?

but died

before
you could.

what you're saying may be true,
but it's over and done.

there's nothing
we can do about it now.

isn't there?

you changed the air
in this building

from methane
to oxygen.

from poisonous

to breathable.

that's a different matter.

this is a small,
controllable environment.

we're talking about
a planetary scale.

even if we could,
we might lose

our consciousness,
our awareness.

like you propose to do to me.

cowards.

you're still
the same cowards

who let this
planet die

aren't you?

go ahead.

take my body, my life.

save yourselves.

at least... at least

i'll know that when
my times comes

i can die

with a hell
of a lot

more courage
and dignity

than you.

(buzzer sounds)

come in.

we're about to lift off.

i told central that
you requested a medical leave.

stress reaction
to space travel.

it's not uncommon.

the damage to the sensor web
was minimal.

i didn't log your actions
yesterday.

i appreciate that.

you're looking better, rested.

yes, you might say

i'm expecting to be a new man
once we leave the planet.

gycinda...

if i should not see you
again after this,

i just want you to know that

i'm grateful
for the chance
you gave me

and for your
friendship

and for...

(thunder rumbling)

what's that?

i don't know.

it sounded like thunder.

impossible.

the atmosphere
is at equilibrium.

there can't be any.

(thunder rumbles,
rainfall begins)

it's raining.

it can't be.

what's going on?

is that really rain?

not just water, either.

amino acids,
nutrients--

raining
into the ocean.

bledsoe:
good god!

i'm getting
life-form readings

in the oceans.

that's impossible.

it takes thousands of years

for the simplest life-form
to develop.

it's as if something
is accelerating evolution.

this can't be right.

the sensors
must be out of alignment

after yesterday's damage.

my god, he's right.

the ocean's suddenly swarming
with cyano bacteria.

cyano what?

cyano bacteria was the first

complex organism
to evolve on the earth...

and it led the way
for all life-forms to come,

including us.

does this... mean
what i think it means?

what it means...

is we're out of a job.

i don't know

if you can hear me anymore.

maybe you can't.

but...

we'll be back, i promise.

someday.

we'll be back.

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