All language subtitles for Crusade [1x02] - The Long Road

It's here again.

It can't be.

I am telling you, man,
it is out there.

I just saw it
with my own eyes.

Get on the link.
Tell 'em it's back.

Tell 'em to send
troops, ships,

anybody with a gun.
We need help.

Ah.

Good morning,
lieutenant.

Captain,
you're up early.

Well, couldn't sleep.

Figured i'd get
some exercise in.

Helps clear the mind,
calm the spirit.

Damn, did you see that?!

That's the third time
in and out.

That hoop is defective, man!
cheap, lousy piece of...

I believe you were
saying something

about
calming the spirit?

Complaining about the court's
part of the game, John.

So, what's up?

We've just been contacted

by an earthforce ship
in the area.

Apparently they're trying
to bring in materials

they say will help fight
the plague back home.

They're having trouble
with the local population,

and they'd like us
to help out.

I'm always happy
to lend a hand.

What's the location?

Regula 4.

I've heard of it.

It's a low-tech planet.

Mostly farmers,
no military to speak of.

No starships.

What could possibly be
causing them trouble?

Team 4, situation report

Repeat. Team 4,
situation report.

Do you have the target
in sight?

Matthew gideon, captain.

Attached to the earth alliance
starship excalibur.

To find a cure
to the drakh plague

before it wipes out
all life on earth.

Anywhere i have to.

Who do you serve?

And who do you trust?

Morning, matthew.

Galen.

Interesting reading?

I just got a report

from the medusa
stationed on regula 4.

These guys must be either
drunk or crazy or both.

I shouldn't be
at all surprised.

Get this. They report
seeing a dragon.

What?

A dragon.
Big as a skyscraper.

Uh, breathing fire
and all that?

Supposedly, yes, but they
haven't found any damage.

Can't be much
of a dragon.

Did they say
what color it was-

red, green, black?

Gold.

With red eyes.
Why?

No reason, just curious.

Well, I'll go and get ready
to meet them then.

I haven't invited
you yet.

You will.

So, what have we got?

Regula 4 is a human colony

established 90 years ago
by a separatist movement.

They've abandoned
technology

in favor of an agrarian
society-

Hand tools, wood stoves,

domesticated animals.

They're practically
medieval.

Sounds quite charming,
actually.

So we figured there
wouldn't be any problems

completing the mission-

Just come in, take what
we need, and go,

but unfortunately

it hasn't exactly
worked out like that.

We don't know what
the hell's doing on

down there, captain, so
if you could help us-

You said "take what you need. "
what are you taking?

Better let the captain
explain that part.

A preliminary survey
of the planet 3 years ago

revealed that humans on regula 4
had an average life span

of 15 years beyond earth
normally.

Now, there appears to be
a mineral in their water supply

that counteracts
most viruses-

Sort of a natural
antiviral agent.

We always intended
to investigate it further,

but when the drakh plague
hit earth,

our schedule was moved up.

We arrived a couple
of months ago

and began mining to remove
as much of the mineral

as possible
for shipment back to earth.

The tests back home were
apparently very positive,

so we were ordered
to speed up the process.

You're strip-mining
the place.

We're being more
aggressive, yes.

There's too much
at stake not to.

And that's when
the problems started.

Lieutenant?

This is a list
of the problems

we've experienced
over the past 6 weeks.

The control circuits
on half a dozen shuttles

were completely fused

shortly after landing
on regula 4.

A 12-ton cargo transport
disappeared entirely

from our planetside
base for 2 days.

When it reappeared,
we discovered that the engines

had been removed and replaced

with a substance resembling
peanut butter.

Don't
let the pranks fool you.

We are dealing
with terrorists here.

As to how they're doing
what they do,

it's completely beyond us.

We've doubled security,

we've put cameras
all over the place,

but we just can't catch them
in the act.

Has anyone been hurt?

No, not yet.

But it's only a matter
of time before that happens.

You've seen some
pretty strange stuff

out there, captain.
Any thoughts?

We need firsthand
information

before we can make
any recommendations.

I say we go down
to the planet,

see the situation
for ourselves.

I agree,
but just the two of us.

No security teams,
no troops.

I advise against that.

They're not exactly
happy to have us here.

If you two go alone,

we can't guarantee
your safety.

We can look after ourselves,

and I have reason to believe
that we won't be in any danger.

Would you like to share
that reason with me?

Oh, no, not yet.

Uh, not until
i'm sure.

We'll need a change of clothes
for matthew,

a map of the main village,

and some local currency.

Are you coming, matthew?

You know something
about this, don't you?

Perhaps. And if i'm right,

it's definitely something
you should see.

And if you're wrong?

Oh, well, that hardly
seems likely, does it?

Well, galen,

we're here.

What now?

Well, this is an inn.

We're new in town.

I suggest you buy us a drink.

You're enjoying this,
aren't you?

Immensely.

Swell.

Hi.

Hello.

What's your name?

Go on back, Claire.

I told you before
about talking to strangers.

Yes, father.

Evenin'.
We just got into town.

We're bringing some cattle
to market.

Thought we'd stop in

and wash some of the dust
out of our throats.

Well, you came
to the right place.

What'll it be?

I got flisky,
dry and wet,

lauderales, tunies,
lister, and bark.

What'll this buy?

The inn-all of it.

Then i'll just have
a couple of tunies.

How much longer are we
supposed to wait here?

Until something happens.

What if nothing happens?

Something always happens.

See?

Something i can do
for you?

Yeah. Get out
of our village.

We were just-

I said get the hell out!

We don't want your kind
around here.

Leave them alone.

They belong to me.

You know these two,
Alwyn?

I employ many
different people

to bring me information
from the border.

These two came to see me.

I told them to expect a warm
and friendly welcome.

You've made a liar
out of me.

We thought they
were outsiders.

They tried to pay for
their drinks with this.

Ah, yes.

Yes, that was supposed
to be a signal to me

that they had arrived.

They obviously gave it
to the wrong person.

I really don't know what
to do with them some days.

Intruders everywhere,

our way of life
hanging in the balance-

you would think that sometimes
they would be bothered

to attend staff conferences,
wouldn't you?

Still, i suppose
that is inevitable

when you are dealing
with the outer villages,

isolated like that.

Pretty soon the gene pool
turns into a stagnant pond.

This is what you get.

Thank you, thank you.

Hello, Alwyn.

It's good to see you again.

And you, Galen.

How did you find me?

A gold dragon?

You used to pull that one out
for children at parties.

You might as well have put up
a sign with your name on it.

Yes.

Yes, well,

it's a classic.

Classics never
grow old, do they?

The fear reaction
to that image,

you know,
is hereditary.

It is ingrained
in our dna.

It's archetypal,
it's jungian.

It's-it's...

just that i do like
dragons,

especially golden ones.

Nobody does dragons
anymore, do they?

A pity.

Too showy,
I suppose.

Who is this?

Matthew Gideon.

This... is the captain
of theexcalibur.

It's all right.
We can trust him.

Galen, i am the one
who is being betrayed.

How do I know
I can trust him?

You know me, Alwyn.

I would never do anything
to harm you.

I just think we should talk.

Yes, follow me.

Now, mind the bowls.

It's a vegetable chowder

made by mrs. Simms
just down the road.

It stays blisteringly hot
for at least half an hour

after it's drawn
from the pot.

Don't know how she does it.

Defies at least 2 of
the laws of thermodynamics.

I just can't decide
which of the two it is.

I take it from that
little display at the inn

that you're a technomage,
same as Galen?

I was once a member
of that order, yes.

Since you are here,

am I to assume that
the others have decided

at last to come
out of hiding?

No, not yet.

I came back
a little early.

Booted you out,
did they?

Something like that.

Good lad.
Hope for you yet...

Which is more than can
be said of the others.

You said you were
a technomage.

You left?

No.

They did.

Just as the shadow war
was gearing up,

they decided it would be
a jolly good idea

if we all left and went
somewhere else,

rode out the war
in some safe place

where we couldn't
be found.

Rank cowardice,
if you ask me!

Which they didn't.

It was always painfully
surprising to me

that you went along
with them.

I followed my teacher.

I believed I had
an obligation.

You did.

What a pity you confused
the one with the other.

Alwyn,

I take it that
you're responsible

for some
of the problems

that our ships have
been having lately.

I keep busy.

Why?

You say you have an
obligation to help people?

The resources
on this planet

can be a huge help
back home,

maybe even slow down the
plague and save lives.

So why this...
campaign of terror?

Terror?

Terror?!

Do you want to see

what a campaign of terror
really looks like?

Do you?!

Come with me.

Machines work
day and night

tearing the heart out
of this place.

The mineral they're after
is a natural antiviral agent

that has been filtered

through groundwater
over the centuries,

and the only places
you can find it

are in the most
fertile of our lands

with a nearby supply
of clean water,

all of which
is being destroyed

by this little
operation of yours.

We tried
to convince them

to mine elsewhere
away from the village,

but they would
not listen,

because this is where
the greatest concentration

of the mineral
can be found.

This is where it is
easier to dig out,

all in the name
of speed and efficiency,

and damn everyone here
who is affected by it.

These people here
have been displaced.

They have lost
their homes.

Can't they go elsewhere?

Where can they go?

They work the land.

They have farms,
livestock, crops.

You cannot just
back in a truck

and shift it all away.
We have no cities here.

We have no emergency
relocation camps.

You push them
out of here,

and come the ice
and snow,

they will starve,
they will die.

Have you tried talking
to captain Daniels,

telling him about it?

Tried, failed.

He won't listen.
Why should he?

I mean, what are
a few lives here

compared with billions
back at home?

I have tried to make it

more trouble
than it is worth

for them to stay here.

It is not working.

They call you
a terrorist.

Do they really?

And i am flattered.

The truth is that i'm
more of an annoyance

than a terrorist.

I would rather work
this out peacefully,

but with each
passing day,

that becomes more
and more improbable.

One day this will turn
to violence,

and when that happens,
your kind will come here

with ships and guns

and bombs.

And there is nothing here
that can stop them.

Wrong.

I will be here.

I will be waiting
for them.

These people have
given me a home.

They come to me
with their problems,

with their questions,
and i try to help them.

I am part-time wise man,

part-time jester,
part-time soldier,

part-time whatever
the moment requires.

They are decent people,

and I have
an obligation to them.

Galen, you know
what I can do.

So far I have
held back.

But if they come
with guns,

they will leave...

in boxes.

Try it, and you're dead.

Come on, get 'em in here!

Quickly.

We don't want to kill you,
but we will if we have to.

Do you understand?

Good. Yes.

Move 'em out.

Let's go.

Where is your friend?

Outside.

He has to check in
with the excalibur

every few hours,

otherwise
they get nervous.

And he didn't want me
to overhear him.

If I didn't know
any better,

I would think he
didn't trust me.

He doesn't trust
easily or often.

I'm surprised
he trusts me-

almost as surprised
as he is about it.

How is Elric?

He must not have been happy
about you coming back.

He passed beyond

just after we reached
the hiding place.

Oh, i'm sorry.
I didn't know that.

We disagreed about...

well, about almost
everything, really.

But he was a good man.
He taught you well.

When he took me in
after my father died,

I spent most of my life
being afraid of him

because he was tall
and powerful,

and that voice...

and because I was afraid

that I might lose him,
too,

just as I'd lost
my father.

I sometimes wonder what
either of them would think

about the way things
have turned out.

I think they would have
been very proud of you.

You've become your own man,

you make your
own decisions,

speak your own mind.

There is much
of your father in you,

although you will go
beyond him, I think,

which is what he would want.

It is what all fathers want
for their sons, is it not?

Speaking of making decisions,

since you are here,

you could help me
with all this.

These people
are good people-

rash, unpredictable,
annoying at times-

but surprisingly decent.

They would give you a home.

You wouldn't have to go
wandering through space anymore.

You could stay on here
after I have gone

and help guide them.

I go my own way, Alwyn.
I always have.

I cannot be responsible
for others.

Galen,

there's been a problem.

What's happened?

A dozen or so workers
at the mining operation

have been taken hostage.

They're saying unless
the ships leave

and the mining stops,
the hostages will be killed.

Just like I told
captain Gideon,

you can't trust
these people.

No, sir. We'll take care
of that once and for all.

Good. A message
needs to be sent,

and it's time
that we sent it.

Tell your attack squad
they're clear to proceed.

Aye, aye, sir.

You'll be going
with them.

Sir?

Need a command presence
down there, lieutenant.

It's good
for the men to see.

Besides, as far as
we can tell,

they have no heavy weaponry.
It'll be a skeet shoot.

Oh, yes, of course.
but I thought perhaps

you would prefer
to go yourself.

And horn in on your action?
Not a chance.

Promotion only comes from
combat experience, lieutenant,

and it's time
that you got some.

I'll see you when the
dust clears. Good hunting.

Lieutenant?

Lieutenant?!

It's a hologram.
Got to be.

Haven't had any damage yet
from this thing.

Keep on going.

Like I said,
just smoke and mirrors.

Continue on to the target.

Alwyn,
listen to me.

This isn't a clean
fight anymore.

Your people have
taken hostages.

You know that's wrong.

I told you if they come
with guns and ships,

I will stop them.

If you protect these people,
you're an accomplice.

If anyone gets killed,

this whole situation
escalates

beyond the control of you
or me or anybody else.

No one will be able
to pull it back

from the edge.
Is that what you want?

Is it?

All right, everyone move it!
Up against the wall! Now!

You! Get down!

Hey, just don't-

I said get down now!

No! Leave him alone!

Get her away
from here.

Don't touch her!

Any weapons?

No, sir.

All right, people.

You and I are gonna
have a little talk,

and you are gonna
tell me

where you're
holding my people,

and maybe
I'll let you go,

and maybe I won't,

depending on how fast
I get some answers.

Alwyn.

Leave them alone.

Get out of the way,
old man.

Don't mess with things
you don't understand.

That's funny.

We were about to tell you
the same thing.

Just more tricks...
holograms.

They can't hurt you.

Aah!

Nicely done.

Your own design?

They're holodemons.

I made a few modifications
to the original program.

Popped in a few synthetics
into the basic design.

They don't last
for more than an hour,

but then,
generally speaking,

you don't need them
for more than that.

No, that's usually
sufficient.

The teeth are
a very nice touch.

Do you think so?
Not too big?

No, i think they're
just about right.

Yes, I suppose
you're right.

Sir, I've got lieutenant
Meyers on the line.

Very good. Put him through.

So, lieutenant,
do you have the hostages?

No, sir.

Actually, we've been
captured also.

well done, Alwyn.

Thank you.

And nobody killed,
I will point out.

Bashed, beaten, and bit,
but still alive.

An admirable restraint
on my part, I feel.

I told the others
we could count on you

when it all started
to come down, and now-

now we will release
the prisoners

and the hostages
as a show of good faith.

Alwyn, these are the only
bargaining tools we have.

You can't ask us
to let them go, not now.

We can beat them, Alwyn.

You can't hope to win

against a superior
force like this.

Sooner or later
they will beat you.

You have to be reasonable.

We don't have
to be reasonable,

not as long
as we have him.

You all right?

No. I don't-
I don't feel...

Claire?

What's wrong
with her?

I don't know.

She's been pale
and tired all week

and getting worse.

I wanted to bring her
to you, Alwyn,

but with so much
going on,

she didn't
want to be a bother.

It's more than a bother.

She is dying.

I've done all i can.
It may not be enough.

She needs more than
I can do here.

What's wrong with her?

It's the antiviral
compound.

The mining has
sent tons of it

into the sky
as dust.

The winds blow it
across the village.

Your house is the
nearest to the mine.

She has gone out
into the open

far oftener
than you have.

She is therefore
the first

to be affected
by it.

Affected by what?

If we've been drinking it
for years,

why is it a problem now?

You have all grown up
ingesting this compound

at a slow rate.

You've adapted
yourselves to it.

Indeed, you can take in
a certain amount of it

on a daily basis.

However, because you are
saturated with it,

this dust constitutes
an overdose...

a deadly one.

Well, that's it, then.

If we tell captain Daniels this,
he'll have to stop.

You think he will?

He will say
it's a trick.

He will say this disease
has nothing whatsoever

to do with
the mining operation.

Then let me try
and convince him.

I'll have dr. Chambers do
a full workup on her.

If we can prove what you say,
he'll have to listen,

and medbay has the equipment
we'll need to save her.

Do what you have to.

Just save her.

But Alwyn's right.
They won't listen.

We've got to do things
our way.

A life for a life.

Oh, don't be a fool.

Oh, dear.

This was such
a nice quiet planet.

All right,

I'll have
The excalibur

send down a shuttle.

We'll take her up,
see what we can do.

Alwyn,
talk to your people.

Get them to calm down

before this situation
unravels any further.

Yes, yes,
I will, I will.

One thing...

if we're planning
to appeal

to the better angels
of their nature...

we better have
a backup plan...

in case reason
is not sufficient

to the cause.

I should go with you.

No, they are my people.

I will talk with them.

You wait here.

No, no, don't get up.

I might be tempted

to force you back
down again... hard.

I have lived amongst you
for almost 12 years.

I've always been very proud
to call you my friends...

until now.

Now I am ashamed.

Alwyn-

I have not finished.

The taking of hostages
is a weapon of choice

for a coward
and the criminal.

Which are you?

They're the only weapons
we have.

We were fools to live
like this,

to throw away our guns,
our machines.

We could fight.
We could beat them-

you would lose.

Those who came before you

chose this life because it was
better than the one they had,

and they were right.

If you choose
their weapons...

you will become no better
than they are.

You choose their tactics,

and you will lose
your way of life.

Everything that made this
a fine and decent place

in which to live,
you will lose it.

We won't give up
the hostages.

If you try to take them
from us by force-

force!

I would not use force
against you.

I still have some understanding
of honorable behavior.

So... you give me no choice,

no room for maneuver.

I must settle this
in my own way,

and you will all bear
the consequences.

dr. Chambers
has just finished

her preliminary analysis
of the woman's condition.

Her diagnosis confirms
what Alwyn said.

In a matter of weeks,

you could end up
killing everyone

within 20 miles
of the mining operation.

Captain, this is no time
for hysterics.

I'd like to get
a second opinion.

We'll send her off to a medical
facility closer to home-

that could take weeks.

We don't have
that kind of time.

You have to shut down
the operation and move it

somewhere else away from
the people down there.

That could cost us a hell
of a lot of time and money.

We have a perfectly fine
operation going here.

We're not about
to change it now.

I assure you, this will be
gone into at the proper time

once the current crisis
has been resolved.

Sir, I have Galen
on the line.

I'll get back
to you, captain.

Put him through.

Galen, what's
the situation?

Not good, Matthew.

There's been a most
disturbing development.

Sorry for the
interruption, captain,

but we've just had
some news.

As you probably know
by now,

there's a technomage
down there

who is responsible for
most of what's going on.

We'll take care of him
when the time comes.

You may not have
that chance.

Looks like he's preparing
to deal with you first.

I'm sending you
the feed

on one of our
planetary scanners.

A technomage
has access

to extremely
powerful forces.

That makes them dangerous
enough to begin with,

but now he plans
to amplify those forces

a hundred times over.

He's taken over
the mine

and has evacuated
all personnel.

He's going to use
the curvature of the mine

the same way you use
a satellite dish

to concentrate a signal.

It'll amplify the forces
that he's calling up

beyond anything
that we've seen so far.

What can he possibly do
from down there?

He can destroy
your ship, captain.

He can shoot it
out of the sky.

I don't believe it.

Believe it, captain.
Look again.

You have to stop him.

Gideon, we don't
have the facilities

to knock down a planetary
target in time to stop him,

but you do.

Captain-
damn it, Gideon!

Do you want the blood
of every man and woman

who dies aboard this ship
on your hands?

Ready main guns to fire.

Main guns locked on,
ready to fire.

Fire.

dr. Chambers says your
daughter's out of critical.

Last i heard, she was
demanding a shuttle

or there'd be hell
to pay.

Well, that's her.

She's a tiger under
all that silence.

Takes after her mother
that way, rest her soul.

Now that
the mining operation

is being glassed over,

they have to move
somewhere else.

It'll be hard
without cooperation,

and a lot of people
back home will die

without the kind of help
that they can get here.

But i guess that's
not your problem.

We released the hostages.

They can take them
back anytime.

And tell them-

tell them we'll help them
find another location

for the mining operation-
someplace safe.

I'm sure captain daniels
will appreciate that.

He's certainly been in
a more conciliatory mood

since he realized he
would need your help

to find another
location.

Well,
I should be going.

Before Alwyn died,

the last living thing
he said to us...

he said he was ashamed of us,
and he was right.

So we have to do something,
make things right somehow...

honor his memory.

Well, it's a start.

Me, I always figure
it's better

to honor someone's opinion

while they're still alive
to appreciate it

and you can still appreciate
what you've got.

Well, we didn't
appreciate him,

not the way we should have,

and he was always here for us.

We didn't listen...

when we should have.

Now he's gone.

I'm sorry.

Yeah.

Is it me,

or are the mornings
getting colder?

You cut that one
awfully close.

Ha ha. Oh, it wasn't
as bad as it looked.

You should know by now

that when we revolve,
nothing is as it seems.

So...

What will you do now?

Move on, i suppose.

It was inevitable.

The minute
I heard him say

that they didn't need
to be reasonable

as long as I was around,

I knew that I'd
stayed too long,

allowed them to rely
on me too much.

It is time they came
into their own-

began making their own
decisions

and creating
their own magic,

learning by their
own mistakes.

Yhat glassed-over
monument to stupidity

I hope will be
a constant reminder

of the lessons they
have learned here today.

Won't it be hard
to move on?

Oh, yes.

It is always hard
to move on.

On the other hand,

in 10 or 20 years this
will become a legend.

Some people won't even
believe that I ever existed.

I don't think
I mind that,

not at all, really.

It's what we all
want, isn't it-

to become something
larger than ourselves,

to enter living memory,

have them talk about us
when we've gone?

May as well.

They talk about us enough
when we're living.

I have overstayed
my welcome here.

The long road beckons.

It's time I got back
on it,

see where it leads me
this time.

There is
the whole universe.

I would like to see
some more of it

before the darkness
comes.

Well,

I'll miss you.

It's been nice to have someone
from home to talk to.

You can't fool me,
Galen.

You are home.

Just don't realize it
yet.

I will see you...

on the other side.

I didn't see you
say good-bye.

There was no need.

I was thinking,

with Alwyn leaving
his job open,

these people could use
someone like you.

Once the mission's
over...

you could come
back here,

have yourself
a home.

I have a home.