All language subtitles for The Outer Limits S04E17 Lithia (1080p AI Upscale DVD HEVC x265 10bit AC3 Vertag)

ARIEL: When it came to pass
that the men of the Earth

could not make peace
among themselves,

and so took up arms
against one another,

the fires of hatred
rained down upon the land,

laying waste to all that
was good and gentle,

Those who survived saw death
and destruction all around,

and it was called what? Hmm?

-Phoebe? -The Great War,

Yes,

And in the days that followed
there was more death,

as a miasma called "fallout"
bore down upon the survivors,

But even then, the men who had
made of Earth a fiery hell,

saw not the error of their ways,

and so the Goddess
raised her mighty hand,

and wrecked vengeance upon them,

and the men who remained fell
victim one by one, to what?

-Nomi? -The scourge?

That's right,

And the scourge cleansed
the Earth of evil,

singling out the men,
and leaving the women unscathed,

And the Goddess saw that the evil
was gone and the men were no more,

and she unfurled the
fingers or her hands,

and she made a sign of
blessing upon the females,

who now inherited
the sea and the sky,

the land and all its bounty,

and when the males of
the Earth had vanished,

so too did wickedness
and war and hatred,

and the peace and the glory
of her kingdom was restored,

And let us say,
"Praise Goddess,"

ALL: Praise Goddess,

(MAN EXCLAIMING)

(GASPING)

(EXCLAMATIONS)

Shh, it's all right,

(PANTING)

(GROANING) Help me,

(GIRLS SCREAMING)

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CONTROL VOICE: Evolution
teaches that the failure

of a species to adapt
will result in extinction,

but could an entire gender fall
victim to the same immutable loss?

Feeling better?

Much, thank you,

I'm called Hera, the elder,

I see you've met my
grandchild, Ariel, the teacher,

This is Sarah, the healer,
and Celeste, our baby nurse,

What is your name?

Oh, that's a good question,

You don't know your name?

Well, I'm still a bit foggy,
I've been in deep cryo,

You were frozen?

Hang on, a little bit of
it's coming back to me,

It was an experiment,
I volunteered,

-What's the date? -March 9th,

-The year, what year is it?
-2055,

55?

40 years,
It was supposed to be six months,

Then you remember the Great War?

I remember how it started,

I was in the service,

My name is Mercer,

Major, US Army,

We won, didn't we?

No one won,

How bad? How many were lost?

Over 7 billion,

99% of the Earth's population,

-Oh, God, -That was before
the worldwide starvation,

the attrition from
radioactivity,

and the scourge,

-GIRL: He's crying,
-That'll do, children,

Everyone, outside,

Come on,

Is this some sort
of girls' school?

No, this is our enclave, Lithia,

So, uh,

where are your
men, in the fields?

I didn't see any
when I got here,

You might say they're
in the fields,

That's where they're buried,

So, my war wasn't the last one?

Oh, no, it was the last one,

-Something I'm missing here?
-The scourge,

It was a mutated virus
that killed only men,

It was men who brought the war and it
was men who paid the ultimate price,

So, your town, your enclave,

there are no men at all?

No, Not here, not anywhere,

40 years?

No men, What about those kids?

Even in your day,
the technology existed,

Frozen seed from the
last of the survivors,

There's enough stored
for generations,

But, even still,
males must have been born?

They didn't survive more than a few
days, weeks at the most,

I want you to tell me
this is a nightmare,

I want to wake up,

What I can tell you with
certainty, Major Mercer,

is that you are the
last man on Earth,

(CHILDREN PLAYING)

Phoebe, Phoebe,
come here, You saw him,

is he as handsome
as they say he is?

Well, I don't know, I've never seen a
real man before, only the picture people,

He looked so strong,

-Did he? -He can't stay here,

The Council won't allow it,

PELE: His arrival is a curse,

The Goddess is unhappy with us,

HERA: Perhaps,
but it may also be a test,

A test of what?

Our goodness, our
faith, our morality,

How do we know he doesn't harbor the
same disease which decimated the others?

What if his arrival
is a blessing?

Miranda, please,

Well, of all the world's
enclaves, he finds ours,

There's only one devil,
Would his arrival be a blessing too?

I just don't think we should
react out of ignorance,

I mean, what if he's been
sent to restore the balance?

(CHUCKLES) There was no balance
when men ruled, Miranda,

Believe me, I was there, I know,

I have no fondness for one
who worships destruction,

but I believe that if it was a woman
who came to us hungry and in need,

we wouldn't turn her away,

Ariel's right, we are measured
by our generosity and kindness,

and we can't possibly make an
exception just because he's a man,

I still think we're
making a big mistake,

-Pele, we can't starve
him, -No, I'm serious,

-(BELL RINGING) -A
message from the Council!

Greetings, Lithia,

Greetings, Pontella,

I wish I were
bearing better news,

The austerity measures we
instituted the last solstice,

- won't be lifted as I had
hoped, -(SIGHING)

There were weather-related shortfalls
in the crops of many of the enclaves,

yours included,

Rations will have to
be cut by another 10%,

and the tithe will be
increased a like amount,

We hope this will not impose too
much of a hardship on your citizens,

We'll manage, Pontella,

We're sure the Council wouldn't institute
these measures without good reason,

Thank you for your
understanding, Hera,

More austerity,
There's barely enough as it is!

All the more reason
to banish the man,

You have to tell them eventually, you
can't keep something like this a secret,

No, but we don't want
to cause a panic,

Now, we'll deal with the newcomer
without the Council's assistance,

for now, Is that agreed?

Pele?

Agreed,

(ROOSTERS CROWING)

(GRUNTING)

I've been sent to wake you,

-What time is it? -Time to work,

(SIGHS)

Good morning,

This is how you
grind your wheat?

Ever since the
waters diminished,

Here, you can take
the outside position,

(WORKERS PANTING)

Men can't be trusted,
you heard what Hera said,

Hera's memories grow dim,

The war killed everyone she ever
loved, believe me, she remembers,

-Are you jealous?
-Why, should I be?

Of course not,

But what's the matter with you?

I'm exhausted,

Come here, I'll wash your back,

(MOANING) (GASPS)

Sorry,

They said that I was supposed
to shower before the meal,

That's all right,
the shower's for everyone,

-Miranda! -What?

Pele!

Don't be shy,
we're all one family here,

When the waters
powered the wheel,

we processed three times the
amount of grain we do now,

What happens to the
grain you don't get to?

Some of it goes bad,
most of it we give away before it does,

When did the river dry up?

When they repaired
the old dam upstream,

Who did?

Hyacinth Enclave,

They're trying to restore portions of a
century-old hydroelectric power plant,

and they're hoping to be able to
barter power the way we do flour,

Let me get this straight,
this other enclave,

they dammed up your river and
now your paddle wheel won't turn,

That's right, but you can't
blame them for what they did,

Really? Why not?

Their soil is poor,

They can't produce food for
themselves, much less to trade,

Besides, we can still use
labor to turn the wheel,

I'm sorry, but where I'm
from, that's highway robbery,

They have children, as we
do, and a larger population,

They have to survive too,

I understand,
but not at your expense,

I mean, you can't take care of the whole world,
you have to look after your own first,

Those are the very
beliefs that led to war,

You know, in my day,

these rural paddle wheels sometimes had
an electro- mechanical system as a backup,

Ours did once, but it's been
broken for a long time now,

Yeah? You mind if I
take a look at it?

Be our guest, but we don't have
the electricity to power it,

even if repairs could be made,

Well, what about those
power lines I saw?

Relics of the apocalypse, Major,

Your apocalypse,

MERCER: So, uh, Ariel,
do you do much traveling?

What for?
Everything we need is here,

What about over to that other
enclave, the one with the dam?

Miranda's the trade
representative,

She's visited Hyacinth on
a number of occasions, why?

I don't know,
just thought maybe,

sometimes curiosity might
get the best of you,

I'm curious about you,

You got questions, fire away,

-What was it like? -What's that?

Life before I was a popsicle?

Well, Hera's told us about
the world before the war,

but her perspective
is that of a woman,

Well, we had our problems,

I don't mean between nations,
I know all about that,

I mean, between men and women,

Oh, yeah, we called that
the battle of the sexes,

(CHUCKLES) The battle?

Guess we know who won,

-You didn't always fight?
-No, no,

Most of the time it was
pretty damn good, Thanks,

So was there someone special?

A wife?

No, I never did marry, but,

there was,
there was someone special,

Must have been very difficult
to leave her behind,

Yeah, it was,

I'm sorry, I didn't mean
to bring back bad memories,

No, hey, memories are all I've
got, or what there is of them,

What about you?
With relationships, I mean,

There's no one,
if that's what you mean,

I was just wondering, I mean,
there's nobody around here but women,

Don't flatter
yourself, Major Mercer,

those women are very contented,

(GRUNTING)

I hope I'm not interrupting,

Not at all, In fact,
I was just getting nowhere fast,

What a shame, I was hoping we could
elevate ourselves from the status of oxen,

Listen, uh, Ariel tells me that

you're the one in charge of
bartering with the other enclaves,

Among other things, yes,

Well, how long before this
Hyacinth enclave would be ready to

have electricity they
could trade with us?

-Us? -Well, as it were,

Well, from what I'm told,

they're only beginning to
produce marketable power,

but it's controversial, The Ruling
Council's leery of the whole idea,

Yeah, you get electricity, before you
know it, somebody turns on a light,

You mock us,
but our ways have served us well,

Yeah,

(GRUNTING)

Why don't you take a break?

You must be tired,

Well, I've been resting for
about three or four decades,

A little hard work feels good,

Do you know what
else feels good?

PELE: Miranda, are you in there?

Miranda?

I've got to go,

Come on,

-Hera, tell us a story,
-Oh, past your bedtime,

Just a short one, please?

It's all right,
Celeste, it's all right,

-Tell us about the olden days,
-Yeah, when you were young,

(GIGGLES) Oh,
fans of ancient history, I see,

There were men before the
war, right?

Of course there were,
I even know that,

Did you ever fall in love with one?
With a man, I mean,

Yes, uh, I suppose, once,

A long time ago,

-Did you get married?
-We had plans,

What happened?
Didn't he like you?

Yes, he liked me very much, but like
most young men, he chose to go to war,

Did he die?

-Yes, I'm afraid he
did, -That's sad,

-What was his name? -Jason,

Was he handsome?

(CHUCKLES) Yes,
he was very handsome,

Do you miss him?

I still keep this
to remember him by,

-What is that?
-It's the locket he gave me,

Do you wish things were the way they
used to be? With men and everything?

No, I don't waste my time
wishing for things like that,

I think Ariel
likes Major Mercer,

Oh, that's enough, (LAUGHS)

-(LAUGHS) Good night,
Girls, -GIRLS: Good night!

HERA: Sweet Dreams,

What are you looking at?

Sorry, I was just, um,,,

I just have to know,

Know what?

What I have been missing,

Is that a problem?

Oh, No,

That's no problem at all,

Come here,

There you go,

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

(GENTLE MOANING)

(GASPS)

(SOBS)

MERCER: The mill's motor
is almost operational,

It's not that we don't appreciate
your efforts, Major Mercer,

but, as I told you,
there's no way we could possibly power it,

With your permission, Hera, I'd like to
explore future trade with the Hyacinth,

Flour for electricity,
Once they have Council approval,

Miranda! We have gotten by for two
generations without a power source,

But it doesn't have
to be that way,

It's by choice, Major Mercer,

We choose not to
depend on machines,

Clearly, you don't understand,
You've never understood,

Men can't seem to grasp
the value of simplicity,

Well, we're not talking about
nuclear power, just a few amps,

Please, Hera,

Well, as long as no pressure is applied, I
suppose there's no harm in talking to them,

We've heard rumors of men in suspended
animation but we thought they were myths,

I certainly never
expected to meet one,

Well, the pleasure is all mine,

Now, what do you
think of our proposal?

-It's a just one, I believe, -I wish
it were simply a matter of justness,

Even among our own citizens,

there is no consensus that this
undertaking was a wise one,

And as you probably know,

the Ruling Council won't allow us to
go much beyond testing our capacity

to produce electricity

until the ramifications
are fully debated,

Well, considering the
hardships your dam has imposed,

I think you can make an
exception for Lithia,

All we're asking is that you trade us
a few kilowatts of power per season,

If and when we get our
approvals, I promise you

we will give your enclave
the highest priority,

How long is that going to be?

The Ruling Council has asked to study
the matter for another year, perhaps two,

-Well, that's not soon
enough, -I beg your pardon?

(ELECTRICITY BUZZING)

You're producing power now,
Why not share some of it?

Miranda, perhaps you
can explain to this man

what our code of honor is about,

Oh, I know about your code of
honor, Take care of your own first,

-Thank you for your time,
-Give our regards to Hera,

I want the hunters to
organize into small patrols,

-What kind of patrols?
-The man was armed with a laser pistol,

I'm concerned about
what he might do,

You're not suggesting we take
arms against a human being?

We will pray to the Goddess
that it never comes to that,

but it would be irresponsible
not to protect ourselves,

We have redrawn the levies,
It will take effect immediately,

20% of your trade goods
will be collected for

the Ruling Council's
distribution,

Essentials and allocations will
continue to be supplied on a need basis,

so please keep us current on your
supply status and your productivity,

Until we speak again,
Praise Goddess,

ALL: Praise Goddess,

Well, so much for the austerity
measures being moderated,

We can't possibly give
the Council another 20%,

Well, what would you have us
do, Miranda? Rebel?

Oh, is that a dirty word too?

I'll remind you that you are here
at our pleasure, Major Mercer,

It would be unwise to place any
additional strain on that relationship,

Right,

It's just that Miranda and I passed the
distribution poles on the way back from the dam,

I don't understand,
What's the significance?

Well, the power lines running into
Lithia are just a stone's throw

away from one of
their transformers,

Now, I could easily tap into that
transformer, hook us back up,

and nobody's going to
know the difference,

You want to steal
their electricity?

There's enough power in that
river for both enclaves,

And you have just as much right to it as
they do, More, because you had it first,

So who's stealing from whom?

We do not steal, Major Mercer,
We do not lie, we do not cheat,

I did not ask to be
here, Hera, but I'm here,

Now let me do something,

(LAUGHS) I've known many like
you, Major,

You've always gotten your way,
you can't stand being thwarted,

-Ariel! -All I ask is
you think this through,

-Ariel! Just listen for a second!
-Mercer!

You don't need her,
You don't need anyone, No one but me,

I'm your only convert, and the only one
who can bring your plan to fruition,

There's some old cable
locked up in a storage shed,

I can get the key,

How's it going?

Almost there,

We did it,

Miranda, I couldn't have
done it without you,

You can thank me later,

-I'll see you in an hour? -Yeah,

If you ever come near Miranda
again, so help me,

I'll carve you a new smile,

(MOTOR WHIZZING)

(LAUGHS)

Hera!

Hera, can you hear it?

The great wheel,
it's turning on its own!

What you did was wrong, Miranda!

No good will come of it,

We can produce more wheat in 24 hours
than your workers can in a week,

When the Ruling Council finds
out, we will be punished,

Mercer says we're
already being punished,

Don't you people
see what's going on?

There are enough resources to go
around, You Ruling Council

is going to squeeze the other
small enclaves just like yours,

They're going to tax you into oblivion,
At least now, you've got a fighting chance,

Women don't fight,
Major Mercer, We cooperate,

You think you have us all
figured out after five days,

but obviously you haven't learned
anything about who we are,

What I do know, Hera,

is that no good leader would
stand by and watch her community

slowly be taxed into starvation,

I suppose we needed
a man to save us?

This is not about men and women,
It's about standing up for our rights,

Since when did we acquire the
right to plunder from our neighbor?

You don't want to survive?
I'll unplug the damned thing,

You don't see the irony in
this, Major Mercer,

your telling a community
of women how to survive?

When your gender has
all but disappeared?

(LOUD BANGS)

(GIRLS LAUGHING)

Wanna try it?

Let's go up a little closer!
All right,

Now, you just look
right through here,

sight right through there,

What are you doing?

Scoot, both of you,

Where did that come from?

Cryo-capsule, Soldier doesn't
go far without his weapon,

This is our day of rest,
You're disturbing the tranquility,

-Hera wouldn't be happy,
-Hera hasn't been happy since I got here,

Neither has anybody else,
no matter what I try to do to help you,

-What about you?
-What does it matter what I think?

-Oh, it matters? -Why?

It does,

What wrong?

Nothing,

Yeah? You sure?

Now that wasn't so bad, was it?

No,

It was good,

(MECHANICAL SQUEAKING)

The motor stopped working,

The electricity's been shut off,

I've got to go,

MERCER: Yeah,
they cut it, all right,

Here,

-What do I do with this?
-Cover me,

Please, Stop what you're
doing and get down,

You can tell your people that we're
only taking what's rightfully ours,

I said get down!

I said please! Please, get down!

MIRANDA: What do I do?
MERCER: Stop her,

(CRIES IN PAIN)

Oh my God!

What have I done?

(GASPS)

Mercer!

They had a long
bow trained on me,

Miranda fired her weapon
in defense of my life,

I could be dead right now if she
hadn't had the guts to shoot,

A citizen of Hyacinth
would still be alive

if it weren't for your
ill-advised marauding,

You want me to take the hit?
Fine,

I just want the
chance to make amends,

I want to bring
Miranda back safely,

But law,
they have the right to keep her,

And she could end up losing
her life because of my mistake,

An eye for an eye is
men's idea of justice,

I'm going to bring her back, Hera,
With or without your blessing,

I'll come with you, Mercer,

I'm not abandoning Miranda now,

I'll come too,
If you'll have me,

You have your
gall, Major Mercer,

I didn't come here
to cause any trouble,

I just want Miranda back,

She slew one of our own,

-Where is she?
-She's alive and well,

But until the Council rules,
she will atone through her labors,

Look, if you want to blame
someone, blame me,

I'll take her place,

Please, Major, How could a man
possibly take a woman's place?

All right, Then we'll
trade a woman for a woman,

(WHISTLES)

(WOMEN GASP)

Bring out the wrongdoer,

WOMAN: Bring the wrongdoer!

Now then, Nice and easy,

Let her come forward,

First, lay down your weapon,

Not a chance,

(BANGING)

Elysse! Run!

Hold it, Right there!

(GASPING)

WOMAN: Stop it!

(WHEEZING)

(WHISPERS) Enough!

I say enough!

(GASPING) I finally
found someone,

This is madness!

WOMAN: Lay down your weapons!

All of you!

(WHISPERS) It's not fair!

(GASPING)

HERA: We beseech you, oh Goddess, to
lift up the souls of our dearly departed,

And make of them a
sign in the heavens,

that they will always
know our love is constant,

(WOMEN WEEPING)

And to those who would
try to change us,

who would try to bring the
old ways back into our midst,

let this be a warning,

We will never, never succumb
to the Devil's enticements,

Males worship death,
Females, life,

Men destroy but women endure,

And let us say,
"Praise Goddess,"

WOMAN: Praise Goddess,
Praise Goddess,

(WOMEN WEEPING)

Impetuous, stubborn,
you're so much like him,

I just came by to tell you
I'll be leaving at first light,

Where will you go?

Someplace I can get
a second chance,

While you were gone I reported
to the Ruling Council,

I told them all
about your arrival,

That's just all the more reason
for me to get the hell out of here,

To my surprise,
they knew all about you,

You're not the only man on
Earth, Major Mercer,

There are 11 others,

They found you all in cryonic
suspension during an excavation,

And they decided to place
each of you near an enclave,

And then arranged
to have you revived,

One by one,

-Go on, -Well,
it was to be an experiment, you see?

They wanted to see what would happen if
men were reintroduced into the world,

And from what they tell me,
in each case it was a disaster,

There was violence,
jealousy, Evil ran rampant,

You still don't
understand, do you?

That fact is for you, for all men now
and forever, this was your second chance,

MERCER: What I did,
I did because it was right,

If I find someone in
need, I want to help them,

I see someone in danger, my instinct
is to protect them, To be strong,

It's who I am,
I'm a soldier, I'm a man,

MERCER: No!

Listen!
Listen, we're not that different!

Not down deep,
we all want the same things!

Just to be happy and live and raise
our children and love each other!

Please! I don't want to die!

Please, just one more chance!

Just one more
chance, Hera, please!

Oh, God!

Goodbye,

Jason,

What did you say?
What did you call me?

MERCER: I never told you that!
How did you know my name?

MERCER: How did you know?

HERA: I'm sorry,

MERCER: Wait!
How did you know my name? Please!

Please! No! No!

No! Help me!
(SILENTLY) Please, help me!

(CRYING)

CONTROL VOICE: The differences between
men and women have been debated

among philosophers since
recorded history began,

If indeed males by their
nature are the aggressor,

it is this quality that