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to The Outer Limits,

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CONTROL VOICE:
How is the world to survive

once technology makes
possible the day

when one man holds our fate
in his hands?

Now, I'm sure that
all the members of the gallery

will spread the word
when I tell you that

there's a second bomb
secreted somewhere out there,

It's on a timer,

and there's only one person
who can disable it,

Yours truly,

All I have to do is send
a little transmission code
to the device,

and we render it impotent,

About as impotent as I'm sure
that you're all feeling
about now,

If anyone tries to intervene,

that's it, game over,

Now, get out!

Everybody out, now!

Bailiffs, leave the court,

(CLAMORING)

What is it you want?

You allow interested parties
to file briefs

either for or
against the petitioner
in these actions,

Friends-of-the-court statements,

-What's the term?
-Amicus curiae,

Ah, that's it!

I most humbly submit
my amicus curiae,

I mean, I hope that doesn't
sound too unreasonable,

You're threatening us with
a fusion device capable of
killing millions of people,

and you want to know if
you sound unreasonable?

The court reporter
is not writing,

Please instruct her to
take all of this down,

Do as he says, Marie,

Thank you very much,

How do we know this thing
strapped to your body
is a bomb at all?

Ah, a skeptic, I like that,

Jurisprudence, 1A,

Never accept a fact without
corroborative evidence,

Well, if any of you
are students of cold fusion,

you may remember the young man
who invented it back in
the turn of the century,

His name was Seth Todtman,
brilliant young man,

Troubled, yes, but brilliant,

Now, Seth, (SCOFFS)

Seth had the same problem,

He had a classroom full
of students held hostage

with a fusion device
ticking away,

The problem was that
nobody believed him,

At least not at first,

Nobody wanted to listen to me,

but now

you're going to, (GUN FIRING)

(SCREAMING)

Get down!

Settle down!
Settle down!

Every way in and out
of this building
has a trash can,

and every trash can is wired
with an explosive device,

which I have just armed,

You won't get away
with this, Seth,

Really?

Define cold fusion,

-What?
-I said define cold fusion,

Cold fusion is, um,

is a release of
thermonuclear energies by
devices that operate at

ordinary room temperatures
and pressures,

but, but such devices
are totally impossible,

-We have proof of that,
-Really?

I made this one all by myself,

I did it on my kitchen table,

The people who said
it was impossible

were wrong,

and today,

I get to prove that,

Look out the window!
Look out the window!

Now, unlike that young man,
I have faith in your
native intelligence,

No, make that, faith in your
ability to judge
the difference between

a credible threat and a bluff,

You said you wanted to go
on record in this case, Why?

Well, ma'am, because I care,

I care deeply about the issues,

Does that sound corny?

No,

Well, where do I begin?

Ah, perhaps the beginning,

In the beginning, God created
the heavens and the earth,

and being rather enamored
of his own skills he looked
down upon his creation

and he deemed that it was good,

and it was good,

It was damn good,

And then he created
the beasts and the forests,
the dogs and the dark woods,

and feeling his oats,
he set about to create man,

Well, actually man and woman,
to be politically correct,

although, I don't believe
that God was but,
hey, it was his ball game,

And then, he plunked
his creation down
in the garden of Eden,

for they barely had enough
time for a round of croquet

and a conversation with
the serpent before
they found themselves

pissing God off,

You see, they violated
his one admonition,

Don't, I say don't, eat from
the tree of knowledge,

But, Adam and Eve,
they weren't
buying any of this,

and they paid dearly for it,

As a matter of fact,
we have all paid dearly for it
because you see,

paradise was off-limits
to the newlyweds,

It's been off-limits
to us ever since,

What is my point?

My point is, it wasn't
the snake in the grass

and it wasn't
the big, red, juicy,
Washington Delicious,

and it wasn't
our innate perversity

that draws us to things that
we are told to shun
that was the problem,

The problem was knowledge!

The problem was that
we were thrown headlong

into the same contradiction

that made protoplasmic stew
out of 6,8 billion people

back in June of 2059,

The problem was
we thought that
we could handle knowledge,

You're a Luddite,
an anti-technology zealot,

I am also living proof
of my own argument,

All the best
intentions of the world

can be erased
in the blink of an eye
at the hand of one mad man,

I'm dealing with
impulse and capability,

Aren't you forgetting
that your side won?

There was a definite roar
of anti-technology sentiment

after the new holocaust,

A million man chorus
that drowned any
voices of opposition,

and that's how we wound up here,

Those 200 years of progress
systematically dismantled

and place on the garbage heap,

So, I would ask you,

why do you feel
a need to put a nuclear
gun to our heads

and beat a drum that
hasn't stopped pounding
for almost 20 years?

Excellent question,
Brother Clayton,

and I think I have
an equally artful rejoinder,

You see,
I have got a terrible feeling
in the pit of my stomach,

I've got the sense that
we're about to piss on
the closest thing to paradise

since Hotel Eden,

So, all of this is to
make sure that Dr, Givens'
conviction is upheld?

(SCOFFS)
Dr, Givens isn't important,

I am not important,
There isn't
a soul in this room

who is important,
What is important,

is that we don't tick
God off one more time because

as smart as he is,

as good as he is,
I get the feeling he's
just about run out of patience

with his rather iffy creation,

You were wrong
about one thing, Ezekiel,

Ah, Dr, Givens,

I was waiting
for you to chime in,

You said this wasn't about me,

I said that
you weren't important,

How about the truth then?

-Is that important?
-(SCOFFS)

The truth is about
the only thing that I have
left in my kit bag, Doc,

Then tell them
where you came from,

how you got here,

and maybe you should tell
them that you were rather
infatuated with me once,

A school boy crush
on his mentor,

A sentiment alas unrequited,

I believe your last words
were, "Go to hell,"

Well, I took
your advice, Theresa,

and now I'm back,

THERESA:
May I address the court?

I think I may be able
to shed some light on
what's going on here,

I'm glad somebody can,
Go ahead, Dr, Givens,

"Ezekiel" wasn't
always his name,

He took it from the prophet,

who implored
the Jews in Babylonia

to return to their
godliness and faith,

Daniel Faraday is his real name,

When I started developing
my temporal transporter,

I enlisted a number
of specialists
in various fields,

It was a little like
the Manhattan Project
in the 20th Century,

Hmm,

An apt analogy
I must say, Theresa,

Everybody's responsibilities
were compartmentalized,

No one knew how the parts
would be put together but me,

Daniel, Ezekiel,

was a bio-physicist
for a company that had some

highly-classified
government contracts,

I believe there's a shorter
job-description, uh,

I believe the word, "whore"
is what you're looking for,

And so the two
of you collaborated?

No, I think that would be
over-stating it,

We did share information, yes,

but I made a critical
breakthrough that

the government
and Daniel never could,

and that's when
all hell broke loose,

Shall I tell them
or would you like to?

Oh, no, by all means, go ahead,

I always say,
why let the facts get
in the way of a good story?

That's when Daniel
became Ezekiel,

I had no idea what was going on,

And his behavior became erratic,

He would go on these rants,
rants against the government,

against science,
against technology,

Uh, Dr, Givens,
I must confess
that I'm confused,

You say that that man

used your machine
to enter our time,

but was this with or without
you cooperation?

There was
no cooperation on my part,

Daniel and I had
a terrible falling out
and then he disappeared,

First sign that he was surfaced

was when there was
an experiment
that was sabotaged

at the government
lab where he worked,

-The wormhole's expanding!
-Shut it down,

MAN: Abort! Abort!

The override isn't working,

(PULSATING)

-Power emissions are spiking!
-(BEEPING)

Shut it down!

(ALL SHOUTING)

A man called Ezekiel
claimed credit for it,

but I, I knew who
was responsible,

Ezekiel was making
the world safe for democracy,

and damned if he still isn't!

And then there was a break-in
at my lab, papers were stolen,

most of the key documents
from my transporter,

They belong to me as much
as they did her, I was
only taking what was mine,

I knew there was only
a matter of time,

-before he developed
his own device,
-(SCOFFS)

"Just a matter of time,"
I like that,

He took a number
of trips through time

with little or no regard
for how he might
be affecting history,

Ladies and gentlemen,
I believe the pot has
just called the kettle black,

Pot meet kettle,

You, uh, don't see
the irony here,

Oh, I see irony everywhere,

It's like X-ray vision,

JUSTICE HADEN:
Well, here you were,

a revolutionary railing
against the evils
of technology,

and you were employing
the most sophisticated product
of that technology,

To what end am I using
that technology?

That is what you have
to ask yourself,

Mr, Chief Justice,

Sometimes it is necessary to
take up the arms of the enemy,

to defeat him,

You, uh, see technology
as enslaving mankind,

-Is that a fair statement?
-Ha!

Not only is it fair, I'd say
it is pretty damn prophetic,

Look at these things,

Polygraphic generator,

Re-animation lasers,

Artificial intelligence
arrays, the new golden calf,

Uh, a little bowing
and scraping music,
please, maestro,

If you believe machines
are the problem,
then I can only assume

you place your faith
in man's innate goodness,

Only when he
is not being crushed
by the heavy boot

of science and government,

Only when he
has a fighting chance,

If that's the case,
then I have to
ask you, Ezekiel,

why do you feel the need to
force our hand here?

Isn't the highest
court of the land,
by definition,

a place where human judgment
reigns supreme,

That presumes that you
haven't been corrupted,

What evidence
is there that we have?

(LAUGHS)

That's funny, Chief Justice,
because to answer
that question,

I'm going to put
you on the stand,

-You want to interrogate me?
-(LAUGHS)

Oh, interrogate's
such a nasty word,

No, I just want to question you,

JUSTICE HARBISON:
Haden, don't fall into
this man's trap,

He's already got his finger
on a nuclear trigger,

don't give him anymore power,

And here I thought you were
the only cool head in this
chamber, Justice Harbison,

I stand before you as only a
lowly private citizen
advocating his point of view,

A point of view
that I believe you share,

I don't believe
in using violence

to undermine the legitimate
authority of this court,

Boilerplate!

Isn't that what you call it?

When you have to plug
in standard, legal language
when all else fails?

You want to question me?

I have no problem with that,
but I think it's only fair

that you give up
something in return,

Oh, now we're
negotiating, are we?

Well, I hope you will
excuse my coarse
language when I ask you,

do I look like a gosh darn
fool to you?

We're just spinning
our wheels here,

-I put a proposal
to you, Ezekiel,
-Mmm,

Disarm that device,
and I will do as you wish,

As a sign of goodwill,
I will disarm this bomb,

Ah, to tell you the truth,

it was getting a little
uncomfortable for me, anyway,

But I will warn you,

I hold the transmitter
that is capable of setting
the one off outside,

within a millisecond
of my touching any one
of these buttons,

or we can just let it
tick down on the timer

till it goes off of
its own accord,

Now, it's your turn
to show me some good will,

All I ask is that you
answer my questions
fairly and honestly,

Now, then, what did you
do on the war, Mr, Wainwright?

I was in the military,

Three-star general
attached to NATO troops,

Then I can assume
that you had a hand
in the strategizing?

Well, it was of
very little value,

Few skirmishes
in Eastern Europe
and Pan Africa,

The submarine was sunk
in the Atlantic,

So, you weren't consulted
in the possible use
of a nuclear arsenal?

I was in communication
with the Pentagon, yes,

Ah, such humility, Haden,

The scope of it
I heard was, you were
personal advisor to the pres,

What was your recommendation?

That we not give in
to nuclear blackmail,

Hmm, tough it out, huh?

Give us good as you get,
bomb them back
into the Stone Age,

and let God sort it out?

(CHUCKLES) That's
your characterization,
not mine,

Sir, Mr, Chief Justice,

you were safely ensconced
in a bunker two miles
below the earth's surface,

while four-fifth
of the world was reduced
to radioactive jelly!

You're hardly the one
to be sanctimonious!

Well, I learned from the best,

Why don't you tell him that
you traveled through time
to other wars,

and I don't recall you telling
me about any heroic efforts
to stop the bloodshed,

Well, that was you job,
wasn't it, Theresa?

GAURD: Hold steady!

(PANTING)

-MAN: Miriam! Miriam!
-GIRL: Mama! Mama!

MIRIAM:
Please, my daughter,
don't make her watch,

No, Mama!

(GRUNTS)

(GUN FIRING)

(YELLING)

THERESA:
You were
a tourist in hell,

Those were your exact words,

Well, I'm making
up for it now, aren't I?

History will number
me among the greatest
of all humanitarians,

Excuse me, Mr, Chief Justice,

We were talking
about the Great War,

Now, in the aftermath,

after all the bloodshed, when
the bodies were being counted,
what was your job?

I was appointed with
the president to a taskforce
to examine our options,

Huh, would that be
the task force
that recommended

the elimination of all weapons
of mass destruction?

That's correct,

And when the mandate
task force expanded,

to include the consideration
of the anti-technology codes,

where did you come down
on that issue?

I was in agreement that
they be considered,

EZEKIEL: And when the
codes were implemented,

and when the moratorium
on all scientific research
was adopted,

you were relieved,

-I was in support,
-Hmm,

And that support was unwavering?

Shall I repeat the question?

I'm sitting in judgment
on that question
in this court,

I think you know that,

I think it's inappropriate
for me to comment,

All right,
let's change the subject,

Are you familiar with research
done by Drs, McCamber
and Houghton

at the early part
of this century?

They were two doctors who
discovered a way to revive
necrotic tissues and organs,

-And repair them,
-EZEKIEL: Uh-huh,

Not just to revive dead tissue,

but to revive dead people,

Zombie time, isn't that right?

It proved to be
a flawed technology,

Oh, that is quite
an understatement,

because it did have
the ability to
restore human life,

but not the quality
of that life,

(ENERGY PULSATING)

Autolysis reversed,
rebuilding neuron networks,

(POWERING UP)

-Reflex!
-I don't think so,

(BEEPING)

Hello, Mr, Reynolds,
Welcome back,

EZEKIEL: You lost your wife,
Julie to cancer,
10 years ago, am I right?

I don't see
that's relevant here,

Oh, it's relevant,
Mr, Chief Justice,

because you went to
the scientific underground

and tried to illegally
bring her back to life,

She was my life,

Nothing I'd ever achieved

meant anything
after she was gone,

I was inconsolable,

A friend told me about
these renegades
in the underground,

They'd actually achieved
the promise of Lazarus,

And what else could you do?
You plucked the apple,

I would have given
my life to save her,

They weren't successful,
I take it?

She had a few moments
of consciousness,

She looked terrified,

Bewildered,

I'll never forget that look,
and I'll never forgive myself,

Never forgive yourself,
your Honor,

or never forgive science?

There's always been
a double standard,
hasn't there, Brother Gannon?

One set of laws
for the privileged and another
one for the average joe!

PARKHURST: Do you
honestly believe

that any ruling made
under threat,
of blackmail,

let alone, nuclear annihilation,

could have any validity?

EZEKIEL: You're making
an assumption, Justice,

Your assuming that I've
threatened to use force if the
decision doesn't go my way,

And you're saying, you're not?

I'm not a fool!

I grant you my excesses,

my passions,
my unorthodox protocol,

I did use my threat to, uh,
gain access to this court,

so that you will hear
my testimony,

but the final decisions
still rest in your hands,

untainted by any
sort of intimidation,

Now whatever you decide,
I'll accept,

I can't be stupid
enough to believe
that I can dictate the future,

Isn't that exactly
what you're doing?

No, Theresa, it is exactly
what you are trying
to do by bringing this

poisonous technology
into the present,

(THERESA LAUGHING)

Excuse me, this is just
a little more irony than
I can take right now,

Aren't you the one
with the bomb?

(SCOFFS)

Actually, no,

There is no bomb,

There never was a bomb,

Now surely,

you won't me begrudge me
this little bit of assurance,

No, the only bomb here is the

incendiary ignorance
that permeates
this courtroom,

this culture, ignorance
that would allow you to sink
into the mire once again,

Are you telling us that
the transmitter that
you're holding

is not capable of triggering
a cold fusion device?

Boom!

Hmm,

You almost seem
disappointed, Chief Justice,

If what you're saying is true,
then you won't
mind surrendering it,

Well,

there are 20 bucks worth
of perfectly good
electronics in here,

but I'm sure that once
the court assures itself
as to its harmlessness,

I'll be justly compensated,

Put the device down,

You realize the gravity
of your actions here today?

I absolutely do, Chief Justice,

I only wish that I could
be as sure that you did,

What's that?

That's a time travel
controller, your honor,

She's right,
It operates
the temporal transporter,

If you all foolish enough
to return to a world where

machines reign over humans,

then I will humbly take my
leave through that device,

-And go where?
-Oh!

So many destinations!

Ancient Greece,
Renaissance Italy,
anywhere but the future,

JUSTICE HARBISON:
If we let him go now,

what's to prevent him from
coming back later on

creating the same havoc?

If he leaves the controller
here there is no way
that he can return,

What about the damage
he could inflict in the past?

He could affect
the world for generations,

Unlike the charade
of this appeal,

I'm not putting
this up to a vote!

I say get him
the hell out of here,

Not quite yet, Justice Woods,

I haven't completed
my presentation,

-What does that mean?
-It means,

that I have special
knowledge too,

knowledge of the future
of mankind,

of the world far ahead
of the one visited
by Dr, Givens,

I want you to be able
to make the most informed
judgment that you can,

Why should we
believe you, Ezekiel?

Because to not believe me
would spell absolute
and irreversible doom,

Go ahead,
You have five minutes
of this court's time,

Thank you, your Honor,
That's all I need,

If time travel has
taught me anything,

is that the future is malleable,

It can be shaped by our choices,

It's really futures, plural,

The number of possibilities
is infinite,

We can change
your actions today,

and visit those
consequences, 10, 50,
100s of years from now,

Not long ago,
I went tripping through
one of those possibilities,

into a future where technology
was not outlawed,

Deep into the 24th century,

about 100 years after
we started to colonize
other worlds,

One civilization that we tried
to oust from its home planet,

declared war on us!

It not only defeated the human
invaders but then it came
to Earth to finish us off,

(SNARLING)

(GRUNTING)

(BEEPING)

This is impossible,
They, they have no technology,

Oh, God!

(EXPLODING)

In the end, it was
our false sense
of superiority,

our sheer willfulness,
our arrogance,

that defeated us,

It is our arrogance
that will defeat us,

(SCOFFS)
How did Shakespeare put it?

"Screw your courage
to the sticking-place
and we'll not fail,"

Well, I guess I agree
with old Will,

Screw your courage!

Theresa, I believe you're
familiar with this,

It's set, I just need you
to flick this switch,

You can come with me,
you do know that,

If they let your
conviction stand,
you'll face the death penalty,

I know that,

Are you so confident that
you'll be vindicated?

No, not at all,

(PULSATING)

Last chance!

Goodbye, Theresa!

(SIGHS)

Is he really gone?

Yes, he's gone,

In the light of these
remarkable developments

I'd like to hear from
the two councils,

Approach, please,

I assume that these
proceedings will be declared
null and void,

Is that your feeling
too, Ms, Whitley?

I don't know, The question is,
has the judicial process
been compromised?

Well, of course
it's been compromised,
it's all poison fruit,

How can the
Justices' fair hearing
not be compromised

by the presence of a mad man?

A mad man who
advocated your position,
I'd remind you, Mr, Gannon,

JUSTICE WOODS: Come on, look,
isn't the real question here,

not whether we
can unring the bell,

ah, but whether we can
make a fair decision
in the wake of all this?

JUSTICE HARBISON:
What's the alternative?

Put the nation on hold?
Put the whole damn
world on hold,

while start over from scratch?

And then run the risk
of the decision being called
double jeopardy?

I say, we take a deep breath
and make our decision,

Mr, Gannon?

I, uh, I would like
to make some final remarks,
before it's decided,

JUSTICE HADEN: Ms, Whitley?

I'd like some time as well,

I'll allow a brief summary
from each side,

-And the appellant?
-Yes,

She can speak,

To say that technology
is a double-edged sword
is beyond dispute,

But to forgo all
of technology's gifts,

because we have suffered the
consequences of its misuse,

may be the greatest
miscalculation of our time,

Your Honors, I believe,

the time for retreat is over,

We have to stop burying
our heads in the sand,

Society must act now,

Out of love rather than fear,

The same kind
of caring and compassion

that the Chief Justice
himself showed,

when he looked to science
to rekindle the spark of life,

in his beloved wife,

It's time to show
that same compassion

for the future
is still unwritten,

You all witnessed
Dr, Givens' choice

to face judgment
rather than flee,

She acted out of
that very love
for human kind,

and I hope that will guide
your ultimate decision,

Thank you,

Mr, Gannon, your final thoughts?

The, uh, state, as respondent
in this appeal,

has been accused in effect
of killing the messenger,

As fate would have it today,
we heard from
another messenger,

one with a very different
vision of future,

and while we all deplore
the barbaric way

in which this man
foisted his testimony
upon this august body,

ignore only at your peril,
at all our peril,

what his appearance
here signifies,

A few computer chips,
a mingling of rare elements,

a bit of electronic alchemy
and lo and behold,

our cities are held hostage
to the threats of a sociopath,

Now, are we really ready
to believe that what
happened here today

won't happen again?

It is we who
are insane by definition,

if we continue to conduct
the same experiment,

see the same results,

yet fail to heed its lessons,

Gentlemen, and lady Justices,

we have already found a refuge
from the plagues,

that science and technology
have visited upon us,

We have found a haven,

Are we ready to give up
that sanctuary,

and tempt fate?

I pray that we are not,

Dr, Givens?

Before you reach your
verdict, ask yourselves this,

Were human beings
put on this earth to witness

the wonders
of the universe or,
(SIGHS)

or to become one of them?

I believe that our innate
goodness and strength

are greater than
our innate weaknesses,

and our innate evil,

Are the fears

of science reemerging as an
uncontrollable monster,
legitimate ones?

Maybe so, but I'm

naive enough to hope

that we can overcome whatever
obstacles that await us,

that we can take control
of our destiny,

and realize in the best
in ourselves,

The real miracles are miracles

at the outer limits
of our imagination

are yet to come,

(SIGHS)
Don't everybody
talk at once,

What else is there to say?

I think we've all staked
out our turf,

Just so we're clear,

can we consider the words
of a terrorist

who threatened to blow
us to kingdom come?

Every case we hear
we draw upon
the body of the law

and a lifetime
of personal experience,

I don't think we can exclude
from that experience what
we went through today,

So, what does
a strict constructionist
make of all this?

We pulled the world
back from the brink,
once in this generation,

I'm not about
to push it back in,

If I do nothing else

in my remaining days
on this earth,

but negate my
good friend Ollie's vote,

I will consider it
a life worth spent!

I will not send that woman
to her death,

Much less, every child
who goes to bed at night
praying for a better world,

You're all so full of surprises,

So surprise us,

Tell us you weren't moved
by that woman's plea,

Oh, I was moved,

Sick to the stomach, moved,

but you cannot erase
the lessons of history

with one emotionally
charged speech,

When I came on this bench,

I made one, solemn
promise to myself

and that was to always
put justice first,

What the hell good is some
abstract notion of justice

in the face of everything
you've just seen and heard?

Now, you know better
than to cross rhetorical
swords with me, Kendall,

(SIGHS)

You're gonna have to break
the tie after all, Haden,

Yes, I know that,

So, what do you think,
old friend?

JUSTICE HADEN: We have
invented and created

and sought answers to
the mysteries of the universe

since we first emerged
from the cave,

Some of those inventions
were used to enlighten,

Others were used to destroy,

A rose, no matter
how enticing, has its thorns,

How are we to know when
the torch we've be handed
will be used to

light our way
through the darkness,

or to burn down our
homes and cities?

The truth is, we can't know,

Machines themselves
have no
intrinsic morality,

It's up to society to invest
them with a higher purpose,

In the opinion of this Justice,

the danger of denying
our true nature,
our natural curiosity,

of denying our thirst for
unencumbered freedom,

is one we can no longer ignore,

May we always seek the light,

The vote is three to two,
in favor to the appellate,

Congratulations, Dr, Givens,
you are a free woman,

(BANGS GAVEL)

(GIGGLING)

I wish that I could
be there in person,

but I left behind this
holographic message,

Consider it a consolation
to our defeat,

I'm sure that
Theresa's persuasiveness

and your own
gullibility were such,

that her cause prevailed,
Well, unfortunately

that victory will
be short lived,

Maybe now, the world
will heed my warning!

(BEEPING)

Oh, God, no,

What is it? What's happening?

Do something, use your machine!

I can't!

No time!

Ahhh!

(SCREAMING)

(SHOUTING)

(EXPLODING)

(PERIOD MUSIC PLAYING)

(LAUGHING AND SHOUTING)

I would like
to propose a toast,
To the future!

(CHEERING)

Beware of false gods,

false promises,

but most of all, beware of me,

(CACKLING)

NARRATOR:
If we fail
to be vigilant,

we may find that
the same miracles

which define our greatness
as a species,