All language subtitles for Earth Final Conflict (1997) - S02E02 - Atavus (480p DVD x265 Celdra).eng

Well, Liam, welcome to your new home.

It's like Rohe said:
"Less is more", right?

Guess he must have had you
in mind when he said it.

Don't knock it man.

I've wasted many a night in this chair,

kicking back, and checking out the view.

The view?

Beats Mount Rushmore, don't you think?

I'll say.

You own the Flat Planet?

Key word for the
millennium, kid, "diversify".

Check that.

Ten bucks says they're
talking about sex.

No other subject gets
that kind of a laugh.

Why?

Well, just loo...

How do I explain?

Usually, by your age, we wouldn't
have to have this conversation, but...

Okay, uh...

Okay, you have a man, like you,

and a woman, like Lili...

I think you're going to have
to figure this one out for yourself.

And the world is still reeling
over the shocking murder

of Synod leader Quo'on

at the funeral of Companion
protector William Boone.

The leadership of the Synod
is taking on a new phase

as Zo'or, known for his
brief tenure replacing

North American Companion
Da'an, now takes command.

So tell him!

Not if he's living up there.

Okay, big rule: never flirt with a guy
you can't avoid if things go sour!

- Oh, come on!
- I'm serious!

He's coming with Augur. I'm gonna
go before I embarrass myself.

Suzanne! Sorry to interrupt, can
you get us another round, please.

- Sure.
- Okay?

Can you settle something
for us, please?

Okay.

I bet Liam here that you two were
down here talking about men...

No, you said they
were talking about sex.

Right, that's what I meant.

So, am I right or not?

- Not.
- Right!

I know that you are lying.

You're deliberately trying to provoke me

so that I lose control,
and pull you into the pit.

Oh, Augur, is that
the best you can do?

Don't tire me with your
20th century versions of sex!

Oh, I'm 20th century now.
You hear that Liam?

Like she's found something better.

As a matter of fact I have.

Da'an shared himself with me.

- Da'an shared...?
- Yeah.

He held my hand...

"I Wanna Hold Your Hand",
Beatles, Capitol Records, 1964.

You can laugh if you want but I'm
telling you when he touched me...

"He Touched Me",
Johnny Mathis, 1957.

When he touched me, Da'an
showed me everything that he is.

He even let me tap into
the Taelon Commonality.

When our hands touched...

It was like the most unbelievable
experience of my life.

On every level.

You wouldn't understand.

Go on, be a good little soldier

for Sandoval, Captain.

Lili, was it really that
wonderful with Da'an?

Yeah. It was.

Oh, but it had nothing
to do with sex.

You just love pulling
his chain, don't you?

One of life's little pleasures.

See you.

As new leader of the
Synod I will no longer

tolerate this so called
Liberation movement.

The continued freedom of
Jonathan Doors is an affront.

I have commissioned search-and-destroy
teams all over the world.

Such extreme steps will only increase

the popularity of the
Liberation you seek to disable.

I also have instituted a reward,
a bounty for Jonathan Doors,

appeal to the self
interests of the humans.

Pull up the files on
that Russian psychic.

What's her name?..
Katya Petrenko.

Master, there's another woman?!

Cross reference Katya's DNA scans with
anything we have on Taelon physiology.

Anything else, Master?

In fact, yes.

Review the Taelon databanks

and look up any data we have
on the Taelon Commonality, and

enough with the "Master".

What is it thou art
looking for, Master?

Well,

both Katya and Lili

sampled the Taelon Commonality
through different means.

Which implies that
the Commonality has

any number of possible entry points!

Reviewing the databanks
suggests a hypothesis.

The Taelon Commonality is
a psycho-dimensional web,

a matrix of shared energy

which links the psyches
of the entire Taelon race.

Each blue orb represents a Taelon,

the linking lines of energy -
the ties that bind.

Good! Let's test that.

Now if each Taelon can
function as a transmitter,

what happens if we tap
one Taelon's frequency?

I could have done
that for thee.

Well, sometimes I think a lot
faster than I talk, sweetheart.

Do this instead.

Analyze all frequencies
emanating from the Taelon embassy.

Certainly, Master.

And isolate the frequency that
links Da'an to the Commonality.

Doing it now, Master.

Let's check out this
unbelievable experience.

You have no understanding of humanity.

This ill-conceived approa...

I had no idea...

Complete your thought.

There is a strange
interference with my thoughts.

Da'an!

I cannot explain!

My bond... with the
Commonality is weakening...

I am...

losing contact with the Commonality!

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They are the Companions.

Aliens come to Earth
on a mission of peace.

Their true mission,

the secrets they hide,
forever alter humanity.

Caught in the struggle
between these Taelon Companions

and the Human Resistance
is Liam Kincaid.

A man who is more than human.

The mysteries of his past
hold the key to Earth's future

and the fate of mankind.

On Earth Final Conflict.

Something's wrong with Da'an.

Capt. Marquette's at the embassy.

I'll have her look into it.

Da'an?

You of all people
cannot see me like this.

Da'an!

Da'an!

Of course Capt. Marquette did
not find Da'an in his office.

He is the creature.

Had she simply fired at the beast,

we might have been saved the
trouble of hunting him down.

We are to hunt down a Taelon?

Da'an is no longer Taelon.

How can that be?

Something has severed Da'an's
link to the Commonality.

Without the Commonality to sustain
us, the Taelon form regresses.

It returns to the atavistic state from
which we struggled so hard to evolve.

Like a human somehow
turning back into an ape?

Humanity's apish ancestors are benign,

compared to the roots
from which Taelons spring.

We no longer even have
a word for such creatures.

We have expunged the
idea from our language.

The simplest term would
be from Earth Latin.

Da'an has become an Atavus.

A distant, primitive ancestor?

The term fails to convey
the horror of the beast.

And since every Taelon
may be vulnerable,

you will suspend all
other activities until

you have killed Da'an, and
destroyed the source of the rupture!

You look tired.

Just a little t'ai chi ch'uan.

I've felt disconnected
from my body lately.

This bring me up to speed.

You're needed at once,
Agent Beckett.

By you or by the Companions?

Zo'or has ordered me to
hunt down and kill Da'an.

Kill Da'an?

Da'an has become a
threat to the Commonality.

Does that make the gravity
of the situation clear?

I'm on my way.

A pleasure to see you again.

Not if this is as serious
as Agent Sandoval tells me.

What's wrong?

Nothing. Just I hoped maybe...

Thought that you'd see another
glimpse of maternal recognition?

You better pray that you don't!

Or that reprogramming we
did to her CVI will kill her.

You must commence the search
for the Atavus at once.

You mean Da'an.

The Atavus!

Join with Agent Kincaid so
that each team has a skrill.

The skrill is the only
weapon we know for certain

will be effective
against the Atavus.

I still can't believe that
the creature I saw was Da'an.

Da'an told me that
Taelons had the ability

to break away from the
Commonality if they chose,

but they're afraid to be
alone with their own thoughts.

Obviously Da'an understated the case.

If Da'an didn't leave the
Commonality of his own will,

then what forced him out?

We have no time
for these reflections.

Capt. Marquette's failure to act

when she first sighted the Atavus has
resulted in the present threat.

And that threat
must be eliminated.

What is the threat?

What are the capabilities
of the Atavus?

The Atavus has strength and reflexes
akin to your mythological vampire.

It possesses a vestigial
organ called Shaqarava.

Which allows it to fire lethal blasts.

But that is not its
principal means of attack.

The beast has the power to draw
the very life force from it's prey.

And the ability to reshape flesh.

That's what enabled the
Atavus to evolve into Taelons

once they created
the Commonality.

Taelons do not discuss
our evolutionary origins.

How do you know of this?

From Da'an.

There would be no reason for Da'an
to share this information with you.

Apparently Da'an felt differently.

It presents a threat to the
Taelons as well as humans?

The Atavus is a threat
to all who live.

Stripped of its ties
to the Commonality,

the Atavus knows
nothing of civilization.

It knows only hunger,

savage, rapacious
hunger for life spirit.

Give me your wallet!

Now!

Here... Just don't...

How do we contain the Atavus so that
he can return to his life as Da'an?

Did I in any way suggest that your
task was to capture the Atavus?

Obviously we'll want to restore
Da'an to his Taelon form.

That would be an
obvious human reaction.

Let me be clear.

The Atavus is to be
exterminated like vermin,

which is exactly how the Synod views
such a repugnant, primitive creature.

You want us to kill Da'an?

Learn, Captain.

The Atavus is not Da'an
and never will be again.

Da'an is beyond help.

Once cut off from the Commonality
a Taelon can never return.

Liam.

My grandfather's name is Liam.

Then maybe we're related.

No, I would know that.

Genealogy is very important to me.

I like that.

It's important to keep in touch
with your roots. Your family.

Without family we're all drifting.

Funny you should say that.

Your security file is
quite distinguished.

Medals, commendations,
citations...

But nothing about family.

Based solely on your file,

I'd have to assume that you popped
out of the Earth fully formed.

Quite transparent, Agent Beckett.

I know what you're after.

You're angling for an invite

to my grandmother's
St. Paddy's Day dinner.

Just curious about anyone
who pilots my shuttle.

Well, the truth is, Agent Beckett,
you know about as much as I do.

My mother gave birth to me
and then she had to leave.

Nobody wanted to talk
about where or why.

Was there a scandal?

Well kind of a... mixed
marriage. It scared people.

I was left behind
by both parents,

raised by the next
people to come along.

They acted like a
family, gave me a home...

But somehow I feel
there's something missing.

If you could talk to you mother now,

what would you tell her?

I love you.

Even after she left you?

I know it doesn't
make sense, but

there's a bond between us.

It cuts across everything else.

In a show of support
for the Taelons,

President Thompson has endorsed
the Synod's offer of a reward

for information leading to
the capture of Jonathan Doors.

The President released
a statement saying that

two million dollar
bounty is a small payment

to safeguard humanity's
relationship with the Companions.

Two million dollars?

I shall apply for the
reward in thy name, Master!

No...

What happened to
the sounds, the tone?

If you mean the signal that we
tapped into the Taelon embassy,

why it ceased several
moments after it began.

Come on! How long
have I been lying here?

3 hours, 23 minutes
and 16 seconds, Master.

You mean to tell me

that ten seconds of
the Commonality harmonic

put me under for that long?

This calls for a
major marketing plan.

Excuse me, Master, but...

don't you think you're skirting
just a little too close to

the stereotypical male willing to
sell his soul for a sexual high?

Sex?

This has nothing to do with sex.

This goes way beyond that.

I'm talking pure
spirituality here.

Okay. Then perhaps you'd
like me to replicate

the signal for your added
spiritual listening pleasure.

Sound replication begin.

These scans aren't picking
up the creature anywhere.

I looked at the Atavus straight
in the eye, and it didn't kill me.

What are you suggesting?

I'm saying that Da'an
is inside that beast.

He talked to me when he
ran out of his office.

The last drops of his
consciousness slipping away.

You sure about that?

We only have Zo'or's word on it.

Look closely, Captain.

Look closely! Does that
look like Da'an to you?

- Da'an...
- If Da'an existed inside this beast,

the motivational imperative
in my CVI would compel me

to accord him loyalty but I feel
nothing for this creature. Nothing.

What the...!

If Da'an is inside the beast,

then we have to try to
communicate with him.

He talked to me once,
he can do it again!

Da'an will reach out to you
when no one else can touch him?

When not even Zo'or can sense
him inside the Commonality?

Here!

That's your mugger?

That thing has sucked...

every last drop out of him
like he was squeezing a lemon.

He didn't even touch the guy!

I've never seen
anything like this...

There's a body on 24th and E, northeast.

A victim of the Atavus?

You hang back, Captain.
I'll take the lead.

At least until you put your
sentimentality behind you.

Maybe you're right. How could it
be Da'an? Da'an would never kill.

- Yes.
- There's been another victim, sir.

An antique shop at
Vermont and Tacoma.

- He's moving fast.
- Should I reroute?

No.

Stay on course, Agent Beckett
will handle the antique store.

This is a matter of federal security.

Move along or you'll
end up like your camera.

That kind of tactic may
fly wherever you come from,

but it's another thing in this country.

I suggest you
familiarize yourself

with your own department's
chain of command...

Corporal.

If you do, you'll understand that Companion
protectors have worldwide jurisdiction.

So do your job,
and be quick about it.

Nasty piece of work.
What's next?

Let's see if there's a pattern here.

Taelon headquarters, 24th and
E, and this bit of carnage here.

It's headed in a
straight line, but where?

Are you alone?

Relatively.

I extrapolated the Atavus' path
based on the sightings to date.

What do you got?

Oh, my God!

He's heading straight for Augur's.

Come on, Augur!

Do you want me
to get that, Master?

Okay, okay, alright...

Check caller ID.

Hey! She looks familiar...

Never mind, hang it up.

No, wait! Who is she?

I said, hang it up!

You are not programmed
to override my commands!

Augur, you've got
to get out of there.

Who is she?

- Who's there with you?
- Never mind, I'll call you later.

No you don't understand!

What the hell was that?

Get out of there right
now, I'm on my way.

- Let's go!
- Go where?

The Atavus is travelling in a
straight line. It's heading northeast.

There's nothing there, but a bunch
of warehouses. We can corner it.

You said "it".

What?

You said we can corner
"it". Not "him". "It".

Perhaps you've finally stopped
thinking of the Atavus as Da'an.

Master, what can I do?

Download my will, order it to...

Master, what is it doing?

It's the harmonic tone! It wants the
Commonality signal. Disable it now!

It's not working!

I'm losing composition.
Save me, Master!

- Save me!
- I'll fix you, I promise!

Over here!

I've been here before.
This place is a maze.

Agent Beckett, converge on
this signal. We have the Atavus!

Save me! Save me, Augur...

- Are you okay?
- Yeah.

I'm alright. Go!

Augur?

Augur, you okay?

No!

But I will be as soon
as I see my tailor. Look!

We need medtechs. Converge
on this signal immediately.

It's okay.
Go with him.

But you can't confront
the Atavus alone.

When we find it, we'll contact you.

I looked at it, Liam.

I... I tried to see Da'an in its eyes.

I couldn't.

Okay, okay, I admit it, I recreated
the frequency of the Taelon

- Commonality. What you want me to...
- You disrupted the Commonality.

People are dying.

Da'an himself may be
dying, and why?

- Because you were jealous of me?
- Wait, no, no, no, no, tapping

into the commonality could give us
the means of defeating the Taelons...

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And your altered state had
nothing to do with it!

Well, no!

Could you reproduce the
Taelon harmonic again?

Yeah, great idea.

Except this time why don't
we do it at you place instead.

That's right.

Give the Atavus another homing
beacon, make it come to us.

Except this time
we'll be ready for it.

Come on!

Get serious! Look around!

Not even E.T. could phone
home in this rubble.

What the hell do
you want me to do?

The impossible,
just like you always do.

Okay.

There is one other system like it,

but I don't think you're
gonna wanna take the risk.

Why not?

It's in the Liberation hideout.

This is the symbol Sowilo.

It's my protection.

I'm entrusting it to you, Sandoval.

We're bound together.

So don't you dare die on me.

Understand?

Listen,

even if we can kill this thing,

you'll expose our entire
operation to the Taelons.

Jonathan, we'll stop it before
it penetrates the Liberation.

Just like you've stopped it so far.

We don't have a choice.

You're right. You have
no choice, but I do.

I will not risk this
operation to save a Taelon.

Da'an is not just a Taelon.

He is the lone voice
in the Taelon hierarchy

willing to fight Zo'or
on behalf of mankind!

What do you care about mankind?

You're just as much a
Taelon as you are human.

Which is how I know that neither
species can survive without the other.

Start bringing up the
Taelon Commonality signal.

Over my dead body.

If that's what it takes.

What are you waiting for?

This isn't over.

It is for now.

I think we can save Da'an.

How? How can we save him
when even Zo'or can't,

unless Zo'or's lying...

No, Zo'or's telling the
truth as far as he knows it.

Isolate the commonality frequency.

You got it, Master!

- What the hell?
- Hey, I've got work to do! Remember?

That's what I saw at your little hovel.

Did you program some kind of

docile servant version
of me into your computer?

I tried to program your actual
personality into the system

but it was too much for
the computer to capture.

- So I settled for this.
- That is so pathetic!

- I heard that!
- Ladies, please, please..

Liam, what are you doing here?

Capt. Marquette is
closing in on the Atavus.

Strange accessory for
a Companion Agent.

Why?

Someone who believes in the Companions
wouldn't believe in the runes?

Runes are tied to the Earth,

the Companions are
tied to the stars.

Yes...

but it's my own bonds to
the Earth that sustain me and

make me of value to the
Companions in the first place.

I serve as a bridge between
this world and their own.

A bridge.

Here.

What's this?

You look like you have
a puzzle in you.

Maybe this will help.

Riedon.

You know runes.

The rune of communication.

Reunion.

Tying two sides together.

Yes!

Lili, it's ready, come!

I'll call Liam.

- You start it up.
- Good.

Let's summon the beast!

Signal's good.

Of course...

It's you two are together...

What?

Why did he say that?

We've got to go.

Converge on this signal.

He's here.

Kill the harmonic.

Don't do anything stupid.

You know me.

You won't hurt me.

No!

Beckett, no!

Can you help Da'an?

Da'an.

What have I done?

Those deaths...

No. That wasn't you.

It is a part of me.

We all have a darkness within us...

even Taelons.

And...

now that I have taken a life,

I will never be whole again.

Hey.

Now it's your turn.

Just a wee bump on the head.

You know doctors.

Any chance to use the word
"concussion", and they're all atwitter.

I'll be up and around
before you know it.

Yeah... Some punishment
you've taken lately.

Is Capt. Marquette being
disciplined for insubordination?

No, she was right.

Da'an recovered.

Recovered?

How?

Nobody quite knows.

And Zo'or is beside himself
trying to figure it out.

Are we then the guilty ones?

For not having faith in Da'an.

There is something
I wanted to ask you.

What did you mean when you said of
course Liam and I would be there together?

Did I say that?

When you fought your way back
up to the land of the living.

I must have been delirious.

Wait.

Speaking of Liam.

He wanted you to have this.

Said he didn't want
to break up your set.

Reunion.

How can you say that?

He saved Da'an.

I don't give a damn about Da'an.

Liam openly defied me.
He can't be trusted.

He'll never set foot
in here again, never.

Never say never.

You can tell Liam yourself, Doors.

He's coming down
the elevator right now.

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