All language subtitles for The Outer Limits (1995) - S06E21 - Final Appeal (1) - [DVD][480p][x265 10-bit][AAC 2.0]

Just got word from the
clerk, We got a writ of cert,

Cert?

Writ of certiorari,

It means the Supreme Court's
gonna listen to our appeal,

Really?

Might show a little
more enthusiasm,

You don't understand the procedural
hoops we had to go through to get this,

I've been, uh,
sentenced to hang, Nicki,

Forgive me if I don't feel
like standing up and cheering,

Sorry,

I know they think I'm crazy,

You should see the
way they look at me,

You should get ready,
they are gonna move you

to another holding facility
right next to the court,

Be honest, what are my chances?

It's hard to say,
there has never been a case like this,

You remember, Cassandra?
Greek mythology,

She had the gift of prophesy,

More like a curse,

Apollo gave her the ability to see
the future in exchange for her favors,

when she spurned
him, he punished her,

Didn't matter what she,,,

Foresaw,

It fell on deaf ears,

I feel like,,,

I'm being punished by the Gods,

Come on,

I've been pulling court watches, they
feel were on the brink of a sea change,

This isn't about a sea change,

This is about waking up and realizing
that we're on a collision course

with extinction,

I've seen the future,
I've been there,

I know you have,

When the outlawed technology,
they paved the way to the final apocalypse,

Keep the faith, all right?
We're gonna get through this,

It's not about me,
I could give a damn at this point,

But if I go down,

so does the whole world,

There is nothing
wrong with your television,

Do not attempt to
adjust the picture,

We are now controlling
the transmission,

We control the horizontal
and the vertical,

We can deluge you with
a thousand channels

or expand one single
image to crystal clarity

and beyond,

We can shape your vision

to anything our
imagination can conceive,

For the next hour,

we will control all
that you see and hear,

You are about to experience
the awe and mystery

which reaches from
the deepest inner mind

to The Outer Limits,

Please stand by,

What will become of a world
that outlaws the very tools

it has always looked
to for solutions,

Oh, Earl,

Come on,
you know better than that,

Chief Justice sees you eating in
here again, there'll be hell to pay,

I've been reading
briefs all morning,

If I don't get some food in me,
I'll be gnawing on his gabble,

Where's Haden?

Supposed to be in session
in 20 minutes, Oh, boy,

That BLT looks good,
you mind if I,,,

Damn right, I mind, get your own
grub, Come on, away with you,

Elise, could you check the
Chief's shelly bean stash?

Not without an executive order,

Can't believe they
forgot the pickle spear,

Sorry I'm late, everyone,

My fool of a horse threw a shoe,

Hope for the days when
the horse threw a rod,

Getting nostalgic for
pollution, are we?

I assume everyone's up to speed on
U, S, v, Givens,

Ah, tell me something, Haden,

do you really believe
that this woman

has time traveled
here from the past?

Well, you read our
science advisor's brief,

It's just that our science
advisors understand technology

the way an archeologist understands
the how the pyramids were built,

Which is to say, not at all,

Oh, come on, Oli,

we have totally authenticated evidence
that this woman was born in 1954,

And is she's 122,

I want her beauty secrets,

I'll tell you what I think,

This time traveler or whatever
you want to call her,,,

Her arrival here is like
a gift from the Gods,

gives us a chance to steer the ship
of state off its disaster course,

Oh, just what I expected
from a bleeding heart,

We overturn the appellant
court's decision,

we open the door for the demons
of science and technology

to descend on us all over again,

And this time they won't be content to
wipe out 80% of the earth's population,

There's not going to be anything
left to render an opinion, but,,,

Cockroaches and tumble weeds,

One thing is certain,

The American people
will be watching us,

The world will be watching us,

I only hope God gives
us the wisdom to

get it right,

Wallace Gannon,
Solicitor General,

Top gun in the
government's arsenal,

Waiting for a landmark case like
this ever since his appointment,

There are only five chairs,
I thought there were nine Justices,

Not since 2062,
Congress picks its number,

It's changed seven times
since the first court,

Here they come,

All rise

for the justices of the
United States Supreme Court,

Please be seated,

I don't have to remind anyone
in this hallowed court room,

that the case we take up today has ramifications
far beyond the fate of the appellant,

Dr, Givens,

As we sit here today,

the future of the two-decade-old
anti-technology codes,

operative not only
in this country,

but by international agreement
throughout the world,

hangs in the balance,

Whether we maintain our ban on technology
or we start that mighty engine,

they will be determined,
by our actions today,

We'll begin by hearing from the
respondent, the Solicitor General,

Mr, Gannon,

I think that we can all agree
that there is nothing commonplace

about the state's case against
Dr, Theresa Givens,

But to say that it
is without precedent,

is to ask me to surrender the
numerous sidings of case law,

which we've detailed
in our brief,

The defense stipulates that Dr,
Givens invented a time travel device,

in the last decade
of the 20th century,

And she used that invention
to convey herself to our time,

Along with a veritable
arsenal of electronic devices,

Now, why?

In her own words,
before the Ninth Circuit Court, quote,

"I wanted to begin a new
Industrial Revolution,

"I wanted to re-kindle the
flame of scientific innovation,"

And that's exactly
what she tried to do,

She was arrested attempting to
deliver blueprints and prototypes

to anti-code realms,

But you're not saying "why",

Please sit
down, Dr, Givens,

You'll have your
opportunity to respond,

Not only has appellant's counsel
stipulated to her smuggling being,,,

Objection, prejudicial,
We never use the term "smuggling",

Fine, transporting these items
into our time into our country,

Defense also acknowledges that
Dr, Givens had already used

the time travel machine,
repeatedly, for a darker purpose,

Beck?

How did you get in here?

Are you Robert Beck?

Who wants to know?

Are you Robert Beck?

Yeah, Yeah, I'm Beck,

On September 13th, 1994,,,

-What is this?
-,,,you were executed

for the willful
murder of eight women,

I am here to carry out that
just and legal sentence,

I don't understand,

Only one of us has to,

Just wait a minute, wait,

The reality is
that she employed the device

to convey herself, to the past,

Where,
by her own written account,

she murdered, in cold blood,

no less than 17 victims,

I'm obliged to remind
the honorable Mr, Gannon

that my client was never
charged with murder,

and for good reason,
If you recall

the Theresa Givens who committed
those acts in another time stream,

saved untold lives by stopping
their killers before they acted,

Your Honors,
she paid dearly for what she did,

Shh, Come here,

Look, stay still,
I'm warning you, okay?

Let me go!

Let's see what you got, Shh,

Okay, you be a good girl
now or I'm going to get mad!

Stop, Leave her
alone, -

What is this?

I dreamed about
you for 15 years,

I thought you were 10 feet
tall with horns and fangs,

I don't know what
game you're playing,

but you're screwing with
the wrong guy, lady,

Do you have any idea,
what you did to me?

You stole my life!

No, wait,

Now, everyone, just calm down,

I don't wanna hurt
the little girl,

She and I just gonna
go for a little walk,

I'll keep her company for a little
while, then I'll let her go,

You are so right, Nothing matters,
nothing I ever did helped,

Drugs, therapy,
killing monsters like you,

I mean it!

Anything would be
better than this pain,

All I want is for it to be over,

You get down,,,

So, you're saying,
Theresa Givens,

the woman who committed
these murders,

actually died in
that confrontation?

That's right,

And, uh,
the young woman who was rescued,,,

She went on to create her
own time travel device,

She's the Theresa Givens you
see here today before you,

Uh, Mr, Gannon,

-Yes, -Please,
let's just clarify,

You're not alleging that the appellant
here committed any of these murders?

If we accept a wrong
definition of times dreams

and the possibilities they
allow, then yes,

One incarnation of Dr, Givens did
in fact engage in a murder spree,

In any event,

no one can contest the
violence-riddled repercussions

of her time travel device,

Now,
with the court's permission,

and in accord with rule 32 for
the submissions of exhibits,

I'd like to present that device

along with the very scientific
touchstones of the pre-apocalyptic era,

The possession and use of which

were the foundation
of the state's case,

Objection,

Parading the evidence
in the court room

is just grandstanding and
the respondent knows that,

I'm going to allow it,
Proceed, Mr, Gannon,

Thank you,

What you see before
you, Your Honors,

are nothing less than the
detonators of the next,

and most certainly final,
technological holocaust,

Mr, Gannon,

please, a knife can be used as an instrument
of homicide, but we don't outlaw cutlery,

Your view that these inventions
themselves constitute a palpable threat

is a matter of some debate,

My good friend, Justice Woods,
comments are duly noted for the record,

Go on, Mr, Gannon,

Thank you,

The petitioner's brief contends
that the anti-technological codes

are in violation of both the spirit
and the letter of the constitution,

Now, I draw your attention
to a phrase from the preamble

to that venerable document,

which describes its
all embracing purpose

to promote the general welfare,

These laws in question were
designed to protect, to nurture,

to shelter the flickering candle of
civilization from the howling winds of war,

And members of the court, these laws
are proven worthy, and affective,

Our society has flourished
since their implementation,

They have rescued us from spiraling
into an unspeakable abyss,

Now, I'll reserve the rest of my time for
a response to the petitioner's counsel,

Thank you, Mr, Gannon,

We will now hear from
appellant counsel,

Mr, Gannon has just quoted
from the stirring language

of the constitution
and if I might,,,

I'd like to quote from that
self-same well-spring of democracy,

Article 1, section 8, clause 8,

which grants rights to
inventors, quote,

"To promote the progress of science
and the useful arts," unquote,

Even in 1789,
nearly three centuries ago,

the founder saw the promise
in science and technology,

Is there any aspect of our
lives that was not enhanced

by Industrial Revolution
or the spirit of discovery?

From agriculture to
manufacturing to communications,

What about the advances
in medical technology,

that not only dramatically
extended our lifespans,

but improved the quality
of those lives as well,

Advances in technology that allow diseased
organs to be replaced by donor organs,

culminating in the first
full body transplant,

We're moving
the head of the donor,

You'll see that we've left 8 cm
scale of exposed final column

with brain stem still attached,

from the donor's medulla
oblongata, to the pons,

Ready for transfer,

Advances in artificial
intelligence and robotics

relieved us of tedious
and burdensome tasks,

We produce more goods,
we work less hours,

They gave us more time to
enjoy the fruits of our labor,

To spend time with our families,

Our children were
healthier, smarter, happier,

It hardly seems necessary
to count these as blessings,

But blessings they were,

Uh, uh, I hate to intrude
on your speechifying,

but there were some conspicuous
examples of scientific innovation

you omitted,

You skipped right
over the atomic bomb,

fusion technology, genetic
tampering, just to name a few,

I understand, Justice Harbison,

that science and technology
would be held responsible

for what happened to
our world 20 years ago,

But talk about an abyss?

We have become so fearful,
so phobic about change,

that we are plunging
headlong into a new dark age,

And God only knows when
we're going to emerge,

If I may, I'd like to bring
my client up to the podium,

The truth is, what she has
to say is far more important

than anything I could
argue in her defense,

I've always been a
very curious person,

I grew up wondering,,,

Why is the sky blue?

Why do we dream?

What is artificial intelligence?

And because I had such
a natural curiosity,

I gravitated towards science,

The term of choice

in those days was "nerd",

I don't know what
you call them now,

Maybe,
you've outlawed nerds too?

When I was a teenager, I,,,

I came very close to dying,

I was abducted by a psychopath,

He tried to rape me and he
certainly would have killed me,

The woman who
stopped the assault

was none other than me,

It was me grown up,

It was the woman who first
invented time travel,

It was the woman

I would become,

And she did much more
than save my life,

She changed it forever,

I wound up falling in love

with the idea

of harnessing time
streams, like,,,

Well, much like a poet
falls in love with words,

a musician falls in love
with his instrument,

Science

was my expression,

A way to loose myself,

A way to find myself,

What exactly did you see as your
mission, Dr, Givens?

I didn't know,

That's just it, I didn't know,

Maybe you could see me
as some kind of a,,,

An explorer of sorts,

I'd venture into the future,

A few days at a time at first,

Then some months,

Eventually, I wound up here

and my heart broke,

How so?

At first I thought it was something to
do with the settings on my computer,

This couldn't
possibly be the 2076,

I thought

there are no cars,

no telephones,

no computers,

no CAT scans,

No sign of an electronic age

and precious few signs
of anything more advanced

than the light bulb,

When I returned
back to my own time,

I began to think

what would happen to a world
that turned its back on science,

So you traveled deeper
into the future?

Yes, I did,

Thirty more years,

2105,

Can you tell us what you
saw, Dr, Givens?

It was horrible,

A virus slipped
over this planet,

No part of this world

was left untouched,

And there were no scientific
tools to combat it,

except small amounts of serum

that the renegade
researchers created,

And they weren't enough
to stem the tide of death,

You need to get
us more supplies,

-We need more supplies,,,
-MAN: No, ma'am, not me,

We're running out
of fresh water,

We don't have any more
food, We,,,

I can't help you, ma'am,

Listen, uh,,,

There's another dozen or so in
the town down the interstate,

I gave them the
same as I gave you,

Now, maybe you can
hook up with them,

So there are others?

Not many, a lot more dead,

That

is what your laws
are taking us to,

The end of humanity,

This is the real Armageddon,
Mr, Chief Justice,

Your so-called new holocaust
or thermo nuclear war,

That was only a prelude,

Dr, Givens, I'm sure you
appreciate how difficult it is

for us to understand the very notion of
your venturing back and forth through time,

Yeah, of course,

The very fact that the Dr,
Givens who went back in time

to rescue you as a teenager,

the Dr, Givens who was
the avenging angel,,,

The very fact that
she changed history

proves that history
can be altered,

That's my whole point,

We can intervene,

there's still time,

But how do we know that this plague is
the result of the course we're on now,

Keeping a ban on technology,

or whether, it's a direct result of
changing our course in this appeal,

I can only say,
Justice Harbison,

that the world I saw was
devoid of technology,,,

Was devoid of the medical
help that would've prevented

this virus from sweeping
over the planet,

Are you familiar with the medical
research of Dr, Ledbetter?

Yes, he pioneered work
in Nanotechnology,

That's exactly right,

Time machine,
invisible to the naked eye,

Touted as the panacea in the
scientific journals of the day,

It seemed nothing
short of a miracle,

Until something
went horribly wrong,

What are you doing here?
It's Saturday,

Your nanobots don't stop
working on weekends,

That's incredible,

What the hell are they?

They look a bit like gills,

The nanobots must have
interpreted you inability

to breathe underwater as
a physical deficiency,

-Who is it?
-DR, LEDBETTER: It's me, let me in,

I've been working
on it all night,

I know how to deactivate them,

We have to use electricity
and short them out,

--What is it?
Have there been more changes?

I'm not sure,

I have this intense pain
in the back of my head,

-It's kept me up all
night, -Let me look,

See anything?

Just two small bumps,

-Ah!
Damn it, that hurts, -Sorry,

They appear to be filled
with some kind of fluid,

-What is it? -They're moving,

What is it?

Oh, my God!

They're,,,eyes,

Problem, Dr, Givens,

is that the example Justice Parkhurst
has raised, this is just one of many,

You're aware, I'm sure,
of the researcher, Dr, Simon Kress,,,

Who carried a sample of Martian
soil back to his home laboratory

and, unwittingly,

let loose a biologic menace

that took the better part
of a decade to eradicate,

Dr,
Kress' decent into hell

is symptomatic of what happened over
and over again in this century,,,

Scientists attempting
to play God,

There is a difference
between playing God

and aspiring

to fulfill the
potential for greatness

that God gave us,

Is that a veiled
application for sainthood?

I am no saint,

Nor are any of the pioneers
that you mentioned,

Mistakes were made,

The very nature of science,
is trial and error,

This,,,
This is how people learn,

This is how people grow,

Unless, of course,
it's the last mistake we make,

What you may or may not
know, Dr, Givens,

is that society radically
changed after the New Holocaust,

Oh, you mean,
besides the fact that

technology was used as a scapegoat
for all of society's ills?

That was a big part of it, yes,
but there were other profound changes,

A kind of

involuntary anesthetizing
of the human spirit,

Our esteemed
political leaders

were convinced that not only did we
have to dismantle the electronic age,

but we had to change our
inner landscape as well,

There was a strong social
and political movement

to try to put the
past behind us,

even before the fallout had
claimed its last victim,

The anti-grieving
laws were instituted,

It actually became a crime to
mourn the death of a loved one,

The anti-grieving laws
have since been rescinded,

but I think it's
instructive to see that

it's not only
scientists who went awry

when they undertook to
redesign our species,

Governments, politicians,

demonstrated the same hubris

when they tried to
fundamentally alter who we are,

When they tried to,,,

Reconstruct the human soul,

to shackle the human heart,

You talk about the arrogance of
science, Justice Harbison,

what about the arrogance of those who
would try to remake us in their image?

Before we pass judgment
on the petitioner,

I ask that we reconsider
where the greatest evil lies,

In making a God of technology

or in making Gods of ourselves?

Those of us who survived
the war of 2059 will never forget it,

The loss of my own two sons,

My daughter lying
ill for six months,

Before her insides rotted
out from radiation poisoning,

Couldn't even give
them a proper burial,

Had to be sealed in
lead and concrete

along with the other
detritus of war,

The fact is,

those laws were created

so that we could go on

with the business of
living and survive,

What made you so certain that climbing
back into the darkness was the answer?

Darkness?
Dr, Givens, is that how you see it?

I'm inclined to see the light,

the light in the eyes of
children who climb trees

and count the stars

unobscured by clouds
and toxic pollution,

Have we lost something,
by giving up our machines, Doctor?

No doubt, we have,

But look what we've gained,

Families sit around
the hearth at night,

They don't stare blankly at
jittering electronic images,

They talk to one another,

Human interaction is
no longer obsolete,

Life is less complicated,
We've gone back to

simpler pleasures,
simpler times,

Justice Harbison is
right about one thing,

None of us will ever forget
what happened in June of '59,

I lost a daughter too

along with my only grandchildren,
The youngest was four,

Smart as they make them,

He dreamed of
being an astronaut,

Of course,
even if he had survived,

that wouldn't have been possible,
There were no more astronauts,

No more space program,

No more computers,

No more scientists,

No more dreamers, like you,

You play with fire,
you might get burnt,

You eliminate fire

and you might never
feel its warmth,

And you might never revel
in its illumination,

If you would take your
seat, Dr, Givens,

opposing counsels will now
have a chance to sum up,

Chief Justice,
associate justices,

history teaches

that no invention is
immune to subversion,

The missiles

that rocketed man to Mars also sent
ballistic warheads against the cities,

The Internet that promised us
dissemination of information

was ultimately used

to strip governments of their secrets
and make them vulnerable to attack,

Now, my, uh,
distinguished colleague

invokes the spirit of invention

as if it were some Holy Grail,
some self-appointed deity,

that demands that we
prostrate ourselves before it,

but aren't we wiser than that?

Forgive me for
sounding old-fashioned,

but what about rearing our
children in the peaceful world?

What about a quiet prayer

at the altar of common sense?

I ponder these highly touted
advances of the century,

The genome was deciphered and

the secrets of the human
brain were revealed,

but what became of
those discoveries?

And I refer you to the cruel
realities of entrepreneurs

who robbed the elderly of their
knowledge and their skills

and then sold them

like so many dried goods,

What's that for?

Time to make you sleep,

And to make you forget,

Oh, my,,,

Why would I want to,,,

Forget,

The most vulnerable in our
society stripped of their humanity,

their brains drained of a
lifetime of acquired gifts,

downloaded and cataloged
and left like empty husks,

warehoused and forgotten,

Is this your idea of
a scientific miracle?

If this court overturns
Dr, Givens' conviction,

it will send a message
around the world,

And the genie will
bellow and thunder,

He'll thrash in his bottle

and once more,
threaten to emerge,

I'm certain, in fact,
that we will be driving the last nail

into the coffin of God's
greatest experiment,

It will ordain the
end of humankind,

I, for one,
will not be party to that surrender,

I will fight it
with my last breath,

And I implore you to do no less,

With
the court's permission,

I'd like to give my remaining
minutes to the woman who will live

or die by your decision,

When my namesake invented
a temporal transporter,

she used it to save lives,

And when I followed
in her footsteps,

I knew that, like her, that I would have
to dedicate this incredible invention

to a humanitarian purpose,

Maybe ultimately,
make the same sacrifice she did,

I've been given

a special knowledge because of

the unique circumstances
of my journey,

Not to act would
have been the same

as turning my back on the
citizens of the future,

Those countless children
who depend on me now,

And I guess, they,
uh, depend on you now,

Thank you,

We'll take 15-minute recess,
then render our decision,

You okay?

I'm scared, Nicki,

All that stuff about me not
caring, about what they'd do to me,

it's a lie,

Stupid lie,

It's okay to be
afraid, Theresa,

If they let the verdict stand,

what will happen to all of this?

I won't lie to you,

They'll destroy it,

All those years,

All those minds,

Mmm,,,

We haven't lost yet,

There's still
hope, -

Yes, yes,,,

Of course,

Somebody will find an answer,

There's still plenty of time,

There's 30 years,

They could build
another transporter,

They could find a cure,
They know that the plague is coming,

There's a way, they'll find a
way, There has to be,

You will tell them, won't you?
That I wasn't crazy,,,

Of course I will,

Well,
I don't about the rest of you,

but nothing I heard in
that chamber did anything

but validate the
opinion I had going in,

You know,
that's what I love about you, Oli,

you're predictable
as a loaded dice,

I'm just being true to my sense of
ethics, Madam Justice,

And those ethics make it easy for
you to send a woman to her death,

for doing her damndest
to save the human race,

Oh, let's stop the
posturing, for God's sake,

There's nobody here but four walls
and five cantankerous old fools,

Nobody's
posturing, Gretchen,

As Haden says, this decision will
reverberate from now till doom's day,

Which,
if the appellant is right,

is about 35 years, tops,

This
court is now in session,

Before I pull the members of the court,
I have a few words for the appellant,

Dr, Givens,

I'm impressed with the way you've conducted
yourself in this proceeding, Doctor,

I admire you intelligence,
your courage under fire,

Before this court makes its
ruling, I wanted you to know that,

Thank you, sir, Chief Justice,

That being said,
I'll explain the procedure we'll follow

once every justice
has been pulled,

Excuse me, Your Honor,

I think there's one more voice
that you really should hear from

before you can make an
intelligent verdict,

I'm afraid that's
entirely out of order,

I'm sorry, sir, but I'm going to
have to ask you to leave the court,

Oh, I'm afraid I can't do that,

Who the hell are you?

I am your conscience,
Justice Harbison,

but you can call me Ezekiel,

Bailiff, stand down,

It's a bomb,

No, no, No,
Technically it's not a bomb,

it's a cold fusion device,

And I strongly advise you to listen
to what I have to say, otherwise,

otherwise I may just
have to set it off,

And then you can say
goodbye to this courtroom,

this city and, uh, what,

maybe half the eastern seaboard,