All language subtitles for Poltergeist The Legacy s01e20 The Signalman.eng

Do a lot of research
for the Army, doc?

Only when something odd turns up.

I've got a contract to survey...

...the old tracks and tunnel out here
for anything strange.

Well, this is where we've had
the magnetic anomalies.

- The old Powder Wash train station.
- Oh, man.

What a dump.

You got it.

- I'll unload the truck, sarge.
- Okay.

Not much to look at.

My orders are for you to bunk inside
while you survey the tunnel.

Okay, how do you wanna
handle this?

First we'll set up your gear
in the station...

...then we'll survey the tunnel.

Okay, because I can't
calibrate my equipment...

...until you tell me how much
that tunnel has shifted.

So if you want to go on ahead...

...I'll set up my equipment
by myself.

- Okay, holler if you need a hand.
- All right.

Soldier, got the maps ready?

Ready to go, sergeant.

What the?

A train?

Sergeant Mapes?

Hello?

David?

David?

You've got to throw the switch.

- Can't you hear me?
- What's wrong? What's the matter?

Hey, you. Wait.

Wait a minute.

For God's sakes, throw the switch.

What the hell is going on?

Hey, you, where'd you go?

Hello?

Secure sector seven now.

- Sergeant Mapes?
- Hey, doc, what do you need?

Get off the tracks!

Oh, no.

Who cut the power cable?

- Did you see the light?
- What light?

Go use the radio in the truck,
I'll stay with him.

The bell went off in the station,
then the guy ran into the tunnel, hurt.

- He had to have passed you.
- Nobody was here but us.

- There was a danger light, sergeant.
- Not a chance.

Get to the truck
and radio for a chopper.

Move, man!

Since the beginning oh time...

... mankind has existed
between the world oh light...

... and the world oh darkness.

Our secret society
has been here horever...

... protecting others hrom the creatures
who inhabit the shadows and the night.

Known only to the initiated
by our true name...

... The Legacy.

Prager, get off the tracks!

For God's sakes, throw the switch!

The University of M�rida is faxing
a translation...

...of the Mayan beating-heart ritual.

The Mexico City House
will take it from here.

- Anything else?
- The U.S. Army's doing...

...some interesting work in Colorado.

- What's interesting about it?
- Dr. David Prager.

Prager? So the two of you finally
managed to bury the hatchet?

Not likely. We'll never ever be able
to iron out our differences...

...but I can't help keeping an eye
on his work.

If the poor man only knew
that you were watching him...

...like watching a barometer,
waiting for a storm.

He's a consultant for what's called
the Powder Wash Project.

What is it, an incinerator?

Yeah, it's very high-tech.

It's used for burning chemical
weapons from the Cold War.

I read about it.

Prager's a psychic debunker.

What's he doing
messing around with nerve gas?

I don't know.

But the point is,
I've been having dreams about him.

It's vague,
just a sensation of jeopardy.

I've had plenty of arguments
with this man...

...but I've never dreamed about him.

- So you ran a search?
- Yes.

And his name finally came up...

...in an obscure article
on defense research.

I couldn't get any details, though.
Only where he's working.

I still don't understand why the Army
would pull in Prager...

...unless it was to kill some kind of
a rumor about a sighting.

The man is virtually impossible
to convince...

...about supernatural phenomena.

I mean, he's based
his entire career on it.

Well, whatever he's doing...

...it's bound to have
some supernatural connection.

I've got a gut feeling about this,
Derek, that's very unsettling...

...and I think we should check it out,
and soon.

Powder Wash opens for business
in three days.

Okay, I admit,
it's only a hunch, but...

No, no, no. Trust your instincts.

If this project is somehow haunted...

...what could be worse
than an accident with nerve gas?

You should go
to Powder Wash, Alex.

Hello? Anyone there?

David?

Prager?

David?

Prager.

David.

Sorry, I just wanted to say hello.

- It's me. Alex.
- Yeah, Alex.

Last time we saw each other
was in New Orleans, right?

- That psi study group at Loyola.
- Right.

- Yeah.
- I left there in '92.

I live in San Francisco now.

What are you doing in Colorado
in the sticks?

I read somewhere you were doing
work for the Army, and I got curious.

About my work?

You used to be thoroughly
underwhelmed by my work.

- What's changed all of a sudden?
- I never criticized your work, David.

Only your refusal to possibly see
another point of view.

To see it isn't to prove it,
a distinction you generally ignored.

You need a hypothesis, experiments,
empirical evidence, Alex.

- You can't prove everything, David.
- Empirical evidence.

Okay, I'm sorry.
Let's just not rehash all this, okay?

Tell me about Powder Wash.
What are you doing here?

I'm redecorating. Can't you tell?

Powder Wash Station.

Built 1891,
abandoned three years later.

I'm surprised the old place
hasn't fallen down.

We're the first people
working here since...

...before the age of flight.

It's taken two weeks for me
to complete my redecorating.

You should have seen it.

- So, what are you studying exactly?
- Straight physics.

At the moment,
I'm measuring magnetic fields.

The Army has me
looking for oddities and...

What's it all about?

They've... Well, we've had
some problems.

For one thing, the magnetism
fluctuates wildly around here.

I haven't pinned down the cause.
Not yet.

But I send the Army my reports...

...and they think it's safe enough
to go ahead.

But you don't buy that, I gather.
You're still testing.

Let's just say
I never give up on a puzzle.

That's what makes perfectly
reasonable people become physicists.

God.

It's not your usual work.

I mean, this is pretty far afield
from psychic debunking.

Some smart-ass labeled me:

"The man who measures
the unmeasurable."

But when you're looking
for elusive energies...

...it all comes down to physics.

I don't suppose you heard this bell?

The bell?

No.

- What do you see?
- The tracks, the tunnel.

What am I supposed to see?

A man has been walking out of
that tunnel and waving at me.

You said a man.
Do you know who he is?

A railroad employee.
A signalman, maybe.

He's hurt. His face is bloody.

He walks out of the tunnel,
and he waves at me.

He shouts, "Throw the switch."

He puts his arm over his face,
and he backs into the tunnel.

He's done it three times
exactly the same way.

He never explains himself,
and I can't find him.

I don't see anything, David.

It's not something I can explain.

Not yet.

But you're hearing things.

Seeing this man.

I believe they're real for you,
proof or no proof.

Alex called. Prager seems to be
seeing an injured man...

...appear and disappear repeatedly.

Now take a look at this.
From 100 A.D.

"The Chronicles of Saint Evaristus."

What's the connection to Prager?

When the Holy City burned,
Evaristus was trapped in his cell.

The Rome House coined the term
"crisis apparition"...

...a dying specter which gives
vague warnings to one person.

Or Prager may simply be delusional.

Alex had clairvoyant dreams
about Prager's ghost.

- It gives the situation some credence.
- She dreamed about him?

I don't know, Derek.
You know how empathetic she is.

She may have a big
personal conflict here.

We have to take a chance.

A crisis apparition
foretells a catastrophe, Rachel.

The Holy City fire
killed 7000 people.

But Powder Wash is just 100 miles
away from Denver.

If a cloud of gas gets loose...

...it could easily kill 7 million.

Here's a sketch of the signalman.

It'll give you a general idea,
but I left the blood off his face.

And he always says:

"David, throw the switch.
Can't you hear me?"

Yeah. Don't ask me what it means.

I have no idea.

David, if this is so hard for you,
why do you stay?

You know, I've spent my whole career
proving phantoms don't exist.

Now I've got one I can't disprove.

- You want some?
- No.

Look at me, drinking like a fish.

A little white wine usually suits me,
and then only at faculty parties.

Do you hear it now?

I left this unit exactly how I found it.

And measured it
for a fraction of a decibel.

Nothing.

And no electrical current
to the telegraph key.

Because the rats made a meal
of the power cables...

...over a hundred years ago.

Now the light's flashing.

But that's impossible.

David, can you hear me?

They're coming, David.
You have to make it right.

It's him. Don't you hear him?

David, what do you see?
What's there?

- There he is.
- Kill him.

- He's the one.
- Shoot him.

No. No.

David.

- Hey, you look better.
- Hi.

I had a shower.

Doctors gave me something
to help me sleep, finally.

- They go over these with you?
- No physical damage.

Not a mark on me.

But it sure felt like I had been shot.

I've never felt anything so agonizing
in my whole life.

I believe you.

And what matters here...

...is that the manifestations
you sense are real for you.

Too real.

- I must be losing it.
- Are you?

I told you,
I saw soldiers in old uniforms.

Turn of the century,
the same era as the signalman.

This adds a whole new element.

We're not dealing with
just one entity.

I wonder why they closed
the tunnel in 1894.

What made these spirits
so agitated?

Forget 1894. I need to know
if anything's gonna happen now.

I know, and these hauntings
are the key.

Derek left for Colorado an hour ago.

He's worried about Alex.

I've mapped out all the information
that we have on Powder Wash...

...but it isn't much.

It's no coincidence they hid it
in Colorado's empty corner.

The question is,
why did they hide it?

Well, if you're gonna burn nerve gas,
you're not gonna do it in Manhattan.

Got that right.

The old rockets and bombs
will travel...

...by train through the tunnel where
Prager's working to the incinerator.

The Army even opened up
an old Northern Union track.

It closed in 1894.

First train is scheduled in two days.

These are what the Army calls
"events," mostly small accidents.

So, what is this electrical symbol
near the mouth of the tunnel?

Well, that's where that man
almost bought it...

...the one that Prager helped save.

Because the first ghost warned him.

But last night,
when more of them appeared...

...they tried to kill Prager.

And Derek's counting on us
to find out...

...who they are and what they want.

We're not gonna do it this way.
The Army's information is classified.

- Isn't it always?
- No kidding.

Even their report
on why the tunnel was closed...

...was made top-secret
over 100 years ago.

Is there any way you can get it?

Maybe through
the Freedom of Information Act.

But it's gonna take a while...

...and that train starts running
in two days.

Hello?

Hello?

Hello?

Hi, Alex.

Jeez, Derek.
What the hell are you doing here?

How's Prager?

He's sleeping at the clinic.

You don't think I can handle this.

I believe there are
supernatural forces at work here.

Come on, Alex, let me support
what you're trying to do.

Oh, look at this.

Prager said he found it
under the station...

...when he was cleaning up.

Looks genuine. Did you taste it?

Are you kidding?

He was drinking some last night,
but he wasn't drunk.

Whatever's going on
isn't so easy to explain.

Well, "Whenever you eliminate
the impossible...

...whatever remains,
however improbable...

...must be the truth."

Is that one of your golden rules?

No, not me, Sherlock Holmes.

Prager's ghost shot him
in this direction, right?

Yeah. Pretty close, why?

A hunch.

Look at this. A bullet.

If shots were fired
from the gun last night...

...that's exactly where it would have
hit the wall.

No.

No, this is not from last night. Look.

The lead is all tarnished.

This is from the days
when the station was open.

- Can I see that?
- Here.

Can you hear me?
For God's sakes, throw the switch!

- Alex!
- Can you hear me?

What did you see?
What did you see?

I saw him.

I saw the signalman.

- For God's sakes...
- He was here.

The bullet.

It shocked me.
I heard a bell, and I saw light.

I tasted whiskey.

For some reason, whiskey's part of
what he's trying to warn us about.

They noticed his room was empty
an hour ago.

Now, where would he go?

- I tasted whiskey.
- You could have smelled whiskey.

- The bottle was there.
- No, I didn't smell it, I tasted it.

I know where he is.

Hey, Prager.

You've been spending
too much time out there by yourself.

Looking a little rank.

You might want to ease up a little.
How about I buy you a cup of coffee?

Are you listening to me?

David, throw the switch.

Are you listening to me?

Doc.

- David, what are you doing?
- Don't do it, doc.

- What are you doing?
- Get him out of here.

I'm filing this with HQ, doctor.

They'll wonder why you're still
out there when they paid you off.

Who's your friend?

My name is Derek Rayne.

Alex and I work together.

Listen, let us take you back.

I mean, you're in no condition
to go anywhere.

Besides, all your gear
is back at the station.

That's not all.

I know what was there. I saw him.

He's real, and so are the others.

You're the one getting the warnings.
Don't you wanna know why?

I can live without it.

I doubt that, Dr. Prager.

You cannot simply walk away.

You need to know, and so do we.

David?

What's wrong?

Prager?

Prager.

Prager?

David?

You've got to throw the switch,
damn it.

No, you've had enough of that.

We should test this.

Frontier whiskey was infamous
for lead content.

Lead poisoning
doesn't happen overnight.

It takes years.

Everything Alex has been through
bears out what Prager says.

- How's she doing?
- Well, Alex seems in control...

...and he's beginning to
confide in her.

I need you two to hollow up
hrom there. I need any inhormation...

...you can find out about this place.

All right. You got it, Derek.

We'll get right back to you.

Look, let's approach this
scientifically.

Usually there's a pattern.

Are there any family stories
about ghosts or hauntings?

Not that I know of.

My mother died when I was 2,
so I don't know much about her side.

And on my father's side,
I can only trace it as far back...

...as my great-grandfather
Douglas Prager.

He's buried in Denver.

What about your two uncles
and three aunts?

I did my research.

Very scientific,
but nothing supernatural.

Until you.

You were drawn here. Compelled.

Somehow, you feel responsible.

Maybe.

It's almost like I came here
for some special reason.

How do you feel about
free will versus destiny?

Destiny.

I don't know.

I've seen a lot of things that would
be hard to explain any other way...

...but it's difficult to accept
we don't have free will.

Oh, I think we have free will...

...but now I realize I've made a lot
of decisions that led me right here.

I mean, I could have gone to MIT
instead of Cal Poly.

The floor's loose back here.

Look at this, an old pocket watch.

Okay, folks, the 8:00 train
from Wyman is due in.

Please take all your luggage and bags
out on the platform.

That's the 8:00 train from Wyman.

All aboard.

David?

You folks have a good day.

That's right, just take your bags
and head out on the platform.

Have a wonderful trip.

A secret drawer?

Folks, get back in the station.

Folks...

...get back in the station!

Folks.

Mr. Prager.

David.

Let me help you.

No!

- Stay with him, I'll get a light.
- David!

- David.
- They're trapped.

They need help.

David.

Oh, my God, they're all dead.

Stop it, David. Stop it.

Oh, my God.

Where did he go?

The Army has search parties
looking for Prager.

Do you think we should we tell them
about this journal?

David found it just before
he ran out of the station.

It's his great-grandfather's.

No, they're not in the mood
for ghost stories.

The remains have been removed,
the tunnel is being prepared.

They plan to run the trains
on schedule.

First one in the morning.

Well, I think they should know
what's in here.

Take a look at this.

Stationmaster Douglas Prager.

It's David's great-grandfather.

He was here, that was his station.
This is his journal.

Look.

"May 10, 1894.

Telegraphed those idiots in Denver.

Told them we'd lose one
from Wyman sure as hell.

They say that's what I'm there for."

"July 6. Four nights now.

Can't sleep. Drank till dawn...

...hoping the whiskey would blot out
the sound of how it will be.

A hundred tons driven
into that tunnel...

...like a steel cork
slammed into a bottle."

He tried to warn them, but he failed.

He was worried about a crash.

"Lose one from Wyman."

Prager mentioned Wyman today.
I bet you that's where we'll find him.

Yeah, this is a fax that Nick sent.

He got the Army's classified report...

...on the Powder Wash
catastrophe in 1894.

A troop train lost its brakes...

...and crashed in the tunnel,
July 7, 1894, at 8 a.m.

Forty-two men were lost.

The Army covered it up,
claimed the crash never happened.

But we found them.

We gave them their last rites.
They should be at rest.

But they aren't the only ghosts
at work.

The spirit of Douglas Prager
has also returned.

And it's warning us for a new crisis.

- So it could happen again?
- Yeah.

With a train full of nerve gas.

This is the tomb of the soldiers at
the bend halfway through the tunnel.

The accidents start here...

...but as time passes,
they spread outward.

Toward the mouth of the tunnel.

They've been reaching out
from the grave for a century.

An unconsecrated grave, forgotten,
in unhallowed ground.

God, Nick, how much vengeance
does it take...

...to repay a hundred years
of torment?

Wyman is 11 miles
from Powder Wash.

This is where Prager
might be headed.

This has gotta be Wyman, Derek.

We've gotta be close.

Well, maybe we just weren't meant
to find him.

This seems to be David's destiny.

"I do not believe in a fate
that falls on men however they act.

But I do believe in a fate
that falls on them unless they act."

- More Sherlock Holmes?
- No, my father...

...quoting G.K. Chesterton.

It's how he taught me
about The Legacy's destiny.

There he is.

- David.
- What's wrong?

David, where have you been?

Just walking.

This... This looks fairly flat...

...but it's actually a 6 percent
downhill grade toward the tunnel.

I worked out the math.

Six percent doubles the train's
momentum every half-mile.

Okay, well, let's explain it
to the Army, okay?

A lot they know.
They feel sure that their trains...

...can make the bend in the tunnel.
Not like the old days.

Those old steam engines,
their brakes used to overheat.

New trains don't even feel it.

So it's not a problem, then.

Look, you've lost a lot of blood.
I think you should go back.

There's no time.

- Time for what? What's the problem?
- The bend in the tunnel.

It's no coincidence
that's where I found the corpses.

- But you said the train can make it.
- Lf the brakes work.

But those soldiers' corpses...

...their souls,
they want to pay them back.

I found a letter at the station.

It's a bank draft from the railroad
to his widow...

...my great-grandmother.

Her hardship allowance.

Her hardship allowance
because he was killed on a job.

Douglas was shot,
just like you relived it.

The survivors hunted him down
and killed him on the tracks.

Can't you hear that, Alex?

Listen.

Hear it now?

Let her go, or I'll bring you back.

Don't be ridiculous.
We're out of time. Listen.

- Let her go.
- You're not trying.

- You're not trying!
- I don't hear anything, David.

The spirits in that tunnel
are gonna destroy the train.

The nerve-gas shipment
is on its way.

We've gotta stop the train.

Sergeant Mapes.

Stop right there. This is off-limits.

Hold it there.

You found him. How bad is he?

You've gotta stop the train
before it hits the tunnel.

The chance of an accident
is just too great to risk.

I wouldn't worry about it.

Man your posts.
Double the guards...

Take him out of here
and clear the area. That's an order.

We just cleared Wyman.

We're on the downhill grade.
ETA, five minutes.

Conditions normal.
Speed within limits.

Delta Company reporting.
Train is clear.

I'm serious, you can't come in here.

Yes, sir. This is Sergeant Mapes.

All secure.

Yes, sir, we're set.

Call them back and stop the train.

That was a full-bird colonel, lady.

Colonels start trains,
sergeants don't stop them.

It's going through that tunnel at 8,
on time.

Hey, we're picking up speed.

- Check the speedometer.
- I'm checking it.

Hold on. My brakes are failing.

This guy is never
gonna to listen to us, Derek.

Well, he can convince his officer
that he caught two terrorists.

How do you know we aren't planning
some act of sabotage, sergeant?

Emergency.
I've got a bad situation here.

Speed building.
Revise ETA, four minutes.

Slow us down. Do something, man.

I can't!

Do you hear that?
That's what Prager's been hearing.

You've been through signalman's
basics.

You can read code.

Runaway?

What runaway?

It's not even connected.

- What have you rigged up here?
- Nothing.

If you've jigged the tracks
or planted a bomb...

Not a bomb. Not us.

The dead soldiers who have been
left in that tunnel for over a century...

...it's their revenge.
History is about to repeat itself.

How can that be? That's crazy.

Oh, you want to take a chance?

If that train slams
into the mountain...

...then those old nerve-gas bombs
will blow apart.

There will be a lethal cloud
over the whole state.

Stop the train now.

It's up to you, sergeant.

You, halt. Prager.

I won't warn you twice.
Keep off the tracks.

David, you've done all you can do.

David... David, that thing hasn't moved
since they boarded up the station.

This was his job, switch a runaway
train away from the tunnel...

...so that it would miss it
because the Army overloaded it.

But the siding is gone.
It doesn't exist.

- The Army's gonna stop their train.
- They can't do it. It's up to me.

No one is going to interfere
with that train.

Leave him alone, sergeant.

Whiskey.

My God, I taste whiskey.

The stupid bastard was drunk.

How could he?

For God's sakes, pull the switch.

Can't you hear me?

You've got to throw
the switch, David.

- It's gone. What should I do?
- Can you hear me?

Get off the tracks, David. Please.

You've got to throw
the switch, David.

- You'll get killed.
- Hit the warning light.

Get off the track!

Alex, I gotta stop this train...

...for all those soldiers he killed,
so they can rest in peace.

Please, please, let me do it.

Alex, get away from him.

Prepare to fire.

Prager, get off the tracks.

- Shoot him.
- No.

Shoot him!

Leave him alone.

No.

My brakes wouldn't hold.

I've never seen anything
like this before.

- Check under the train.
- It was like a big hand...

...pulling the train.

There's a bend that would
have killed us all.

Where's David Prager?

I saw the poor SOB
go under the wheels.

Where's his body?

You saw someone named Prager,
sergeant...

...but I don't think it was David.

Alex, I'm sorry.

Like he said, he was born to do so.

It was his fate, Alex.

But we brought him
back here to die.

It was our fate.

Because of David Prager,
50 men are finally at peace...

...and a million are spared.

And if it was our fate to help him...

...we have no choice
than to accept it.

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