---Open on shot of satellite---

Operator: Plotting to g8-13

---Cut to Banning's control room---

Operator: There it is again. 1500 kilometers an hour, decelerating. Give me a trajectory

Operator 2: Plotting.

Operator: I think its what we were expecting.

Banning: Yes it would be. 

Operator: The course is set for the prairies. Somewhere close to the border.

---Cut to family around campfire---

Father: Okay, who's having fun.

Daughter: It's the worst holiday ever

Father: Oh come on. You're enjoying yourself aren't you sport.

Son: How come we didn't stay at a motel. At least they have a pool.

Daughter: And a TV.

Father: Oh well. Thanks for really giving it a chance Steve. Okay.

---Cut to Banning---

Operator 2: We've got visual from the satellite now.

Banning: Mobilise a retrieval team.

Operator: Intruder confirmed. Prepare to jam.

---Cut to ship---

---Cut to policemen---

<<Lightning lances down>>

Cop 1: Looks like a storm coming.

Cop 2: Nobody's calling for weather.

---Family in woods---

Mother: I've never seen anything like this.

---Cut to Banning---

Banning: Shut it down.

Operator 2: You mean -

Banning: I do mean..

Operator 2: It'll kill all forms of life on board.

Banning: It won't. Now.

---Cut to family---

Mother: Oh my god.

Father: Holy...

Mother: Get in the truck now.

Father: Come on. Move.

---Cut back to policemen---

Cop 2: That ain't no heat lightning.

Cop 1: In the truck.

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Titles
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Cameron Bancroft as Ethaniel
Ingrid Kavelaars as Laura

Gordon Currie as Dent
Joseph Baldwin as Byder
Olivier Gruner as Tawrens
Andrew Gillies as Banning

Transcribed by: Rob, sometime in September 2001. All rights reserved. People who own Codename Eternity and associated properties still own them. This is not intended for profit. Drop me a line (rob@culturalwilderness.com) if you find it useful / interesting / good enough to host elsewhere.

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Ethaniel's Story
-----

---Open on police van pulling up by Dent and soldiers unloading equipment---

Policeman: Who's in charge here?

Dent: I think, that would be me.

Policeman: Well, then maybe you'll tell us what the hell you're doing here?

Dent: Tell them.

<Gunshots as men in black turn and shoot the policemen>

---Cut to family in car---

Mother: It's not working

Father: Try the radio. There might be something on the news.

Mother: Nothing. What _was_ that?

---Cut to chase in woods---

<Lots of running through woods>

Dent: Still alive?

Soldier: Yes sir.

Dent: Take him.

<More running>
<Night vision goggles shot>
<Woman shot>

Dent: Three taken. One in flight.

Banning: This has been a very unacceptable report. Can you guess the part I don't like.

Dent: We are in pursuit.

Banning: Yes, I should hope so.

---Cut to family in car---

Son: Dad, we shouldn't be doing this.

Mother: He's right.

Father: There might be some people who need help.

---Cut back to chase in woodland---

<More running>

Ethaniel: Yaah.

<Ethaniel gets shot, wavy dizzy screen>

Dent: The missing one. We've lost him.

Banning: That is not an option. Keep looking until you find him.

---Cut to car coming round corner on road---

Father: It had to be some sort of plane. It was moving to slow to be a meteor.

<Ethaniel steps out into the road>

Mother: Look out.

---Cut to road with car - Car drives past sign for Dorian Medical Center.---

<Car drives past>

---Cut to Ethaniel's hospital room---

<Sheriff comes into the doorway>

Sheriff: Uh, Doc, could I uh, speak to you a moment please.

Doctor: Yeah sure.

Doctor: Oh, make sure that our John Doe here eats something.

Orderly: Hey buddy. A lot of people are real interested in you. You're a regular phenomenon.

Ethaniel (Stilted): You're a regular phenomenon.

---Cut to hallway - Laura, Doctor and Sheriff are walking towards some stairs (going up)---

Doctor: Well, its the strangest thing I've ever run up against. Memory loss is severe, and yet he suffered no physical injuries when the van hit himm,

Laura: His memory loss could be from shock. How are his language skills.

Doctor: Improving daily. It's as if he's picking up his vocabulary from us. He doesn't have a word unless we've used it first.

Laura: And no logical explanation for his being out there without any clothes.

Sheriff: Fraternity prank. Maybe his girl had second thoughts about parking in the woods and left him.

Nurse: The latest on our John Doe. No change.

Doctor: Thanks.

Laura: Did you run his fingerprints and photo through your databases?

Sheriff: So far nothing's come back. The guy who hit him saw something fall from the sky on fire, but the aviation investigators have had no reports of anything going missing.

Doctor: Doctor Keating, my practice is mostly stitching up loggers after a bar fight.  We're not equipped for this.

Laura: Alright, I'll have a look at him, but it's going to take a couple of days.

Sheriff: I'll have Rachel set aside a room at the motel

---Cut to Banning's Lab---

Banning: Sloppy work Mr Dent. We should have been prepared for this eventuality.

Dent: We were, and we got three.

Banning: You were supposed to take them all.

Dent: Well. The last one. He won't get that far. He was a hit by a dart also.

Banning: You don't know the caliber of soldier they sent after me.

Dent: Well, he's naked, and, now alone.

Banning: He'll still have everything he needs for his mission. Did you find anything else?

Dent: Within the remains of the ship, we found four suspension tubes. Each had what I assume to be a label with vital statistics.

<Dent hands labels to Banning, who looks at them>

Banning: Hm. I know them by reputation, as I said. The best of the best.

Dent: Well, Thera's best just wasn't good enough was it. The rest are on slabs.

Banning: No!

<Banning goes past the slabs, lifting the foil blankets and matching the labels with those lying there - Tawrens is the third>

Banning: The fourth one. 

Dent: What is it?

Banning: He is the most dangerous of them all.

---Cut back to Ethaniel's hospital room---

Doctor: Morning. I've brought somebody new to meet you. This is Doctor Keating, she's a clinical psychologist. She's just gonna ask questions. No more needles or probes.

Laura: Alone. If there's a problem, I'll holler. 

<Doctor leaves the room>

Laura: My name's Laura.

Ethaniel: Laura.

Laura: Do you know you're name.

Ethaniel: Our John Doe.

Laura: I specialise in regressive memory. Do you know what that means?

<Ethaniel doesn't respond>

Laura: You and the rest of the world. I help people remember things. Sit down.

---

Dent: Maam.

Woman at bar: Bother somebody else cowboy.

<Dent pulls badge out of jacket pocket and shows it to woman at bar>

Woman at bar: There's a badge I haven't seen before. What are you? Federal?

Dent: Federal, international, local. It's all covered.

Woman at bar: A regular James Bond.

Dent: Maam, I'm here to check out the guy they found down in the road. Hospital told me I could find you here.

Woman at bar: Our John Doe?

Dent: What are the chances he could get his memory back?

Woman at bar: Sometimes it takes a few days. Sometimes they never get it back.

---Cut to Ethaniel dreaming. Ship being shot.---

---Back to bar---
<Dent looks around and then turns back to woman>

Dent: How's he doing physically?

Woman at bar: Unreal. I mean , the way he survived being hit by that van is one thing.

Dent: I sense a story here.

Woman at bar: You know whats even weirder. I did his bloodwork. Factory fresh. Totally without antibodies. It's like he's never been exposed to a disease.

Dent: You mean recently.

Woman at bar: I mean ever.

---Cut back to Ethaniel dreaming. Chase through woods.---

---Back to bar---

Woman at bar: You think he's dangerous?

Dent: That's what I'm here to find out.

Woman at bar: You should talk to the psychologist.

Dent: Psychologist?

Woman at bar: Girl who's helping him get his memeroy back.

Dent: Bartender. 

Bartender: Yeah.

Dent: Make it a double, for this young lady.

Bartender: You got it.

---Ethaniel's dream---

Ethaniel wakes up in hospital bed.

---Dent in phonebooth---

Dent: It's him.
<<Dent replaces phone>>

---Shot of office building---
---Board room---

<<Banning stands in from of a bank of screens, addressing people seated at a table. As he speaks, he walks round behing them. >>

Banning: Gentlemen, we have a slight security breach. Which must be mended.

Man with glasses: A security breach?

Banning: Yes. It seems that one member of a certain landing party escaped.

Man with glasses: What? I thought you had that situation contained.

Banning: I do. 

Man with glasses: It doesn't sound like it.

Banning: I've located the refugee. He's a patient at a small, out of the way hospital.

Man with glasses: What happens when he starts talking?

Banning: He's being treated for memory loss. But you see the necessity for immediate action.

Man with glasses: What do you propose?

Banning: Pick up the phone. Call in favours. You must see to it that this hospital fall under our domain immediately.

Man with glasses: There's a lot of red tape involved in--

Banning: Cut through it.

Man with glasses: Could take time.

Banning: We don't have any time. By morning he must be under my care without question or incident.

Man with glasses: You don't ask much.

Banning: I don't ask at all. I insist.

<BREAK>

---Outside hospital, in garden---

<<Ethaniel taking shakey steps.>>

Laura: I'd like to try another regression this afternoon. Are you up to it?

Ethaniel: I see images when I sleep

Laura: Dreams?

Ethaniel: <<nods>> Dreams.

<<They sit on a bench>>

Laura: What did you see?

Ethaniel: Light. Speed. There was something I had to do. A mission. Lives will be lost. Many lives.

Laura: Who's lives?

Ethaniel: I don't know. That's why I need you to help me remember more.

Laura: Give it time. What else do you remember? Could you remember your name?

Ethaniel: No.

Laura: You talked about coming here from somewhere else. Do you know where that might be?

Ethaniel: I don't remember. It's urgent that I do.

Laura: Be patient.

Ethaniel: This mission can't wait. Are you afraid.

Laura: No

Ethaniel: If you don't want to go on, I'll understand.

Laura: I didn't say I--

Ethaniel: You don't have to.

<<Doctor and sheriff enter>>

Doctor: Doctor Keating. Sorry to interrupt. 

Sheriff: Would you come with us?

Laura: What's going on?

<<Laura gets up and goes with them>>

---Hospital corridor---

Laura: Doctor Banning.

Banning: Hello Laura, I heard taht you were here. Quite an interesting case. What's your opinion of the patients condition?

Laura: Simple memory loss.

Sheriff: Dr Banning has a court order to take the young fella.

Laura: What?

Banning: I'm moving him to our research clinic.

Laura: He's in a fragile state.

Banning: Dont worry. He'll be well taken care of. I've taken every precaution to avoid disturbing him. And I'd appreciate your session notes.

Laura: I have to take that up with Dr Graham.

Banning: Not necessary, I cleared it with him first.

Laura: Excuse me.

Banning: Certainly.

<<Laura walks off>>

---Cut to other corridor, pan over to Laura talking to doctor---

Laura: It's all about grants and connections to you people. But This is my case, and you are not taking him.

Doctor: Doctor Keating, you have to understand my position.

Laura: Don't even start. In two hours I'll have a court order to stop the transfer.

Doctor: It won't change anything.

Laura: Watch me.

<<Laura walks to lift. Dent enters corridor. Laura goes down fire escape. Dent stands at top of stairs and drips some silver liquid onto Laura's coat. It runs up her shoulder under the collar and disappears.>>

---Cut to motel parking lot---

Rachel: Oh, you look like you've had a hard day. I've got a couple of beers in the fridge if you're interested.

Laura: Mmmm. Thanks anyway, maybe later.

<<Laura enters motel room. Dent looks on from parked car>>

Laura: Mom, don't be so surprised. Things at work are a little wierd right now.

<<Dog barks. Dent gets out of car>>

Laura: You wanted me to come home. I'm coming home. Look. I'll call you tomorrow. 

<<Dent walks towards Motel. Dog barks and growls at him>>

Laura: Bye.

KNOCK at door.

<<Laura gets up and answers it - leaves chain on>>

Dent: Dr Keating?

Laura: Yes.

<<Dent waves official looking badge at Laura>>

Dent: Albert Dent. I have to ask you to come with me and answer a few questions.

Laura: About what?

<<Dent looks around at other voices - man and woman standing by car>>

Dent: Well, uh... I'm afraid I can't talk about it here maam.

Laura: I'm not going anywhere until I know what's going on.

Dent: I have to insist maam.

Laura: Have Chief Hewitt call me.

<<Laura shuts door>>

<<Dent turns as if to go, turns back to the door. Dog, chained up, keeps barking at him>>

Rachel: Be quiet. What's the matter with you. I'm sorry, what can I do for you.

Dent: Hi, I was wondering about a vacancy

Rachel: A vacancy. Honey, the last time this place was booked up, we still had renegade injuns in these woods.

Dent: Of course, uh, never trust the sign right.

Rachel: Yeah, whatever. Come right in, I'll sign you up.

<<Dog barking repeatedly.>>

---Cut to Dorian Medical Center---
---Cut to Ethaniel's Room---

<<Man walks around bed, as he comes into view we see it's Banning.>>

Ethaniel (in bed): Who are you?

Banning: I'm here to help you.

Ethaniel: Laura's helping me.

Banning: Trust me, I can help you more. In fact, I believe we can help each other.

Ethaniel: You know who I am?

Banning: I know much more than that. 

<<Banning leans in close to Ethaniel>>

Banning: --alien language-- Shon-tar --end alien language--

---Cut to Motel---

<<Woman, Rachel, walks out of the motel office with a beer in each hand. Dog barks at her all the time. She glares at the dog, before knocking at door to room 19 (Laura's room).>>

---Cut to interior of room---

Laura: Who is it?

Rachel (through door): Its Rachel.

<<Laura opens door>>

Laura: Hi.

Rachel: I thought you might have had second thoughts about that beer.

Laura: You know what, I have. Come in.

<<Laura takes beer. Rachel stands at door before entering, leaving door open. Dog continues to bark>>

Laura: Sorry If i was rude today. It's just that things are a little complicated at work right now.

---Cut to Ethaniel's hospital room---

Banning: You see. I've helped already.

<<Ethaniel grabs Banning and pushes him away. He then repeatedly kicks the man at the end of the bed (stomach, groin, stomach). Rolls to the side and grabs the man on the opposite side of the bed to Banning. Throws him over his shoulder onto the bed and then hits him twice in the chest. Banning trips Ethaniel as he heads for the door>>

---Cut back to dog barking---

<<Dog breaks free, runs into Laura's room. It grabs Rachel by the wrist and repeatedly tugs at her. She seems nonplussed. Holographic shimmer travels over her, revealing Dent. Laura shuts herself in the bathroom>>

---Back to Ethaniel---

<<He blocks Banning's punch, and then punches him in the jaw, before kicking him back into the wall.>>

---Back to Dent---

<<Dent walks towards bathroom, dragging dog, which is still gripping his wrist. He punches through the bathroom door>>

---Cut to Laura in bathroom---

<<She sees Dent's hand emerge from the hole in the door and start groping around. She tries to open the window>>

---Back to Ethaniel---

<<He and Banning trade a couple more blows, before gripping each other around the throat. Ethaniel breaks the hold, but gets grabbed from behind by the other two guys and injected in the shoulder with a hypodermic needle>>

Banning: You should have listened to me.

<<Ethaniel slumps to the ground>>

Banning: Prepare him to be moved.

---Back to Laura---

<<She picks up the cover of the toilet cistern and throws it through the window. Then she climbs through as Dent breaks open the door>>

---Cut to Dorian Medical Center---

---Hallway---

<<Laura walks down hallway, and peers around a corner at two nurses. She continues past them>>

---Different hallway, Banning and Dent round corner---

Banning: Sedate him again before we go.

<<Laura emerges from a door down the corridor and sees them. She ducks down an adjoining corridor. Dent goes after her. She ducks into a darkened side room. Dent looks in an Examining Room before approaching the room Laura is in. She ducks into a linen closet. Dent enters the room and looks around. He then appears to change his mind, and leaves the room. Laura looks out to see him gone, and then looks around the room, picking up a scalpel. Hand goes over her mouth, she drops the scalpel and is pulled to the floor. It's Ethaniel.>>

Laura: How'd you get in here?

Ethaniel: I had to get out before they came back.

Laura: Is there another way out of here?

<<Ethaniel shakes his head>>

Laura: Alright. 

<<They stand. Dent enters the room. They run out, and find Dent waiting for them. Ethaniel jumps at him, but Dent throws him off. Laura throws a bottle of liquid at Dent, which smashes over him, then swings a light at him, which he dodges. The light sparks on the wall and starts a fire behind Dent. Laura then pushes a gurney at Dent, forcing him back towards the fire. She picks Ethaniel up and they run. Dent's sleeve is alight. Run through more corridors, to outside.>>

---Outside, we see a parked car---

Laura: Get in.

<<She goes back to open the door for Ethaniel when he just stands there>>

Laura: Sit.

<<They enter the car, Laura in the driving seat>>

Laura: My keys. Get out.

<<Ethaniel halts her. He leans over the dashboard, and places his hands out, palms down. Appearing to concentrate, the engine revs to life, and the car shifts into reverse (Automatic gearbox), before pulling away. Banning emerges from the hospital to see the car leaving. He goes back inside to find Dent.>>

Banning: They got away. Can you get a fix.

Dent: I've got them.

<<Dent turns to reveal he's burnt and battered.>>

Banning: Good. Get changed.

<<Dent twitches and holographic shimmer travels over him, revealing him completely unscathed>>

---Cut to motel, paramedics are wheeling out a dead body---

<<Body gets wheeled into the back of an ambulance as Laura and Ethaniel pull up in their car and get out>>

Sheriff: Doctor Keating?

Laura: Yes?

Sheriff: Can I talk to you over here maam?

Ethaniel: Laura, what's happening?

Sheriff: Stay back there would you sir.

Laura: It's okay.

Ethaniel: I'll be right here if you need me.

Laura (to Sheriff): What's going on here? Who is that?

Doctor Keating, It's my duty to inform you you're under arrest for homicide.

Laura: What are you talking about?

<<Laura gets escorted towards a police car by a policeman. Ethaniel kicks the sheriff in the stomach, runs over the top of the police car and kicks the man holding Laura. He helps Laura into the car, runs round to the other side and gets in. They drive away, forcing a policeman to dive out of the way of the speeding car>>

Laura: What are you doing?

Ethaniel: Getting you away from them.

Laura: They're gonna shoot us.

Ethaniel: Well we have to move fast.

Laura: You can't outrun the police.

Ethaniel: I'm not gonna let them shoot you.

Laura: They didn't want to shoot me until you pulled this move.

Ethaniel: Am I supposed to stand there and let them take you away?

Laura: Yes.

Ethaniel: It's not in my nature.

---Back to motel parking lot---

Sheriff (on radio): Alright Pete, listen up. We've got a perp on the run in a stolen squad car heading west on Zucker.

---Laura and Ethaniel in car---

Laura: Take this car back now.

Ethaniel: I can't let them take you prisoner.

Laura: Prisoner?

Ethaniel: That's what they're gonna do isn't it.

Laura: They're the police. They're on our side.

Ethaniel: I don't care who they are, I didn't like what they were doing to you.

Laura: They thought I killed somebody. I'm a respectable law abiding person.

Ethaniel: I know you didn't kill anybody.

Laura: No, but once they catch us, we're gonna be in more trouble than ever.

Ethaniel: They won't catch us. I'll make sure of that.

<<Sirens start up behind them>>

Laura: There they are. We can't outrun them forever.

Ethaniel: I don't plan to outrun them.

<<Ethaniel pulls a handbrake turn and kills the lights just after going round a bend. The following cars continue to approach. As they near, he turns the headlights back on, blinding the trailing drivers, who swerve and crash into a barn, demolishing it. Ethaniel drives off>>

Laura: Get this through your head. They won't give up.

Ethaniel: That's okay, neither will we.

Laura: Seems you know your way around high speed chases.

Ethaniel: I'm good with mechanics; and tactics.

Laura: Why is that?

Ethaniel: I'm not sure.

Laura: Can we get rid of this car. I'm not sure I'm up for another chase.

<BREAK>

---Laura and Ethaniel are sitting in a back row of a bus.---

Ethaniel: I remembered... things. When Banning touched me. The reason... you can't trace my past... I'm from somewhere else.

Laura: Where?

Ethaniel: Another world. I was in another form. They gave me this... body For a mission. I have memories of a horrible crime. Something I do here will help. The fire that family saw. That was my ship. Crashing. I was completing my transformation. I don't think it finished.

Laura: The last things to develop in the brain are the areas that control the cognitive associations. If the development were interrupted, it might have left you unable to access your memories.

Ethaniel: Then my mission will be lost forever.

Laura: Not necessarily. The brain is capable of reroutining neurones to find what you need. It takes time. Of course, everything I'm saying is based on the human brain. What am I saying?

Ethaniel: Unless we find the ship and complete the transformation.

---Laura sitting at a table outside a coffee shop, drinking. We see her through a window, with the bottom half of a neon sign in view. Ethaniel sits next to her.---

Laura: There's got to be someone who can help us.

Ethaniel: The people who you ask for help. Will they respond to me as you have?

Laura: You mean, would they believe us? Probably not. Can you... do what he does? The one that's chasing us? Can you change like he does?

Ethaniel: I don't think so. This body was designed to be human. Banning designed the others to be something else.

Laura: Banning isn't capable of-

Ethaniel: He is. He's afraid of me. He knows that I can stop him.

Laura: There must be something else. What is it?

Ethaniel: A weapon. Something I know only as a concept.

Laura: I've got it. I know who we have to see.

Ethaniel: Can this person be trusted?

Laura: We don't have a choice.

---A home, man (Gordon) coming down the stairs. Laura is sitting on a sofa, Ethaniel is seated in a chair at one end, and Gordon sits in a chair at the other.---

Gordon: Look, you come here asking for help, you've got to tell me something. I mean, come on, give me a break, I'm not a freaking magician.

Laura: There are people who say you are.

Gordon: Hey, flattery will get you nowhere. You're just like all the rest. Find my low-life husband.

Laura: Gordon, you're a remote viewer, that's what you do.

Gordon: Hey, I know what I do. I've been doing it ever since the freaking army freaked out about my freaking PSI scores. I'm the guy found Noriega, remember.

Laura: Gordon, calm down. I'm just asking for some help.

Gordon: And I'm just asking for somebody to be straight with me. Okay? Just once.

Laura: Gordon, I'd tell you if I could.

Gordon: No, no, no, no, you want me to find something. I need to know whose it is, what it is, and why you need it. Otherwise forget it.

Ethaniel: It's mine. It's a vehicle I use to travel between planets. I need it to complete my mission.

Gordon: Don't tell me. Elvis borrowed it to visit Santy Claus.

Ethaniel: No, I don't think so.

Gordon: Yeah right. Okay, I'm ready.

Laura: Do you need anything?

Gordon: Something from the ship would help.

Ethaniel:There's only me.

Gordon: You'll do.

<<They're sitting in a line on the sofa, Gordon in the middle, with a finger over a map of the local area. He takes Ethaniel's hand>>

---Intersperse views of Gordon on sofa, with flashes of Ethaniel's run through the woods at the start of the episode---

Gordon: Here. Here's where the accident happened. There's fields to the north. What looks like a door... two trees crossed. You came through the forest. Theres a way through. There it is. There it is.

Gordon: There. <<Point's emphatically at map>>

<<Ethaniel spots silver goo on Laura's jacket>>

Ethaniel:Laura.

<<Ethaniel picks the goo up in his fingers>>

Laura: What is it?

---Shot of satellite in orbit---

---Shot of Banning sitting in the back of a car, watching a holographic image of Ethaniel.---

Ethaniel: It's Banning's.

<<Ethaniel crushes the goo, holographic image blinks out>>

---Gordon's house---

Ethaniel: Now he knows as much as we do. We have to get to the ship first.

Laura (indicating map): Gordon do you mind?

Gordon: No, why should I mind. Do you know how many maps and compasses I lose in a year. Hold it. Um, how are you getting out there?

<<Gordon dangles car keys, before throwing them to Laura>>

Laura: Thanks.

---Cut to car on busy stretch of road, city skyline in background.---

---Shot inside car, Laura driving, Ethaniel in passenger seat---

---Shot of car on country road, daylight, trees around, water behind.---

<<Car pulls up. Ethaniel and Laura get out. Intercut the following with shots of Ethaniel running through the woods from the start of the episode>>

Ethaniel: This is it. I know it. Yes. I was hit by two lights. I didn't see them until... I came from over there. I was hurt. They were chasing me. and I hid. Somewhere over there.

Laura: Who was chasing you?

---Cut to Banning and Dent in a room---

Banning: You've lost him.

Dent: That is what I said.

Banning: I forget some times that you're a machine Mr. Dent. Times like this make me remember. No human or Theran would give me bad news so blithely.

Dent: If I had emotions I would be afraid. You could destroy me.

Banning: Then you believe I wouldn't harm you for innocently transmitting such information.

Dent: Of course you could. Violence is touched off by much more trivial and unfair motives. 
Especially by you.

Banning: Then what is it Mr Dent. Why do you never hold back.

Dent: Because you need me. The others, of your kind. They're too much like you. You need someone to trust, and who better to trust than your own creation.

Banning: Good reasoning Mr. Dent, but for one flaw. I don't need anyone to trust. I'm happier destroying those who understand my secrest and my vulnerabilities.

Dent: I understand.

Banning: Before I exercise this most pleasant of diversions. I would advise you to apprehend our adversary.

Dent: Of course, that means I have to find him first.

Banning: You will go to the only place he knows. The only place he might get weapons or assistance.

Dent: His ship?

Banning: His ship.

Dent: But I have men stationed there.

Banning: I want you there and immediately

---Cut back to Laura and Ethaniel in the woods---

Ethaniel: Down there, through the trees. I remember.

<<They look over a hillside at the downed spaceship. Men are swarming around it. A number of vehicles are parked nearby>>

Laura: What's that?

---Cut to men in hazard suits with a crane---

---Satellite---

---Man at crash site on phone---

---Hillside---

Ethaniel: Lets go down.

<<Dent steps out from behind a tree>>

Dent: I'd advise you to come with me. You have questions. We have the answers.

Ethaniel: What about her?

Dent: She knows more than is safe.

Ethaniel: No.

Dent: Banning's wrong. You're nothing like him.

Laura: Like him?

<<Dent puts silver goo on a leaf so Banning can watch from his car>>

Dent: He'll want to see this.

<<Dent throws Ethaniel. Ethaniel throws Dent. They're fairly evently matched, trading blows, until Ethaniel throws dent onto a log. Dent lies there twitching>>

Ethaniel: Are you alright.

Laura: Yeah.

Laura: What is that.

Ethaniel: A machine. Alive but not alive.

Laura: Its horrible.

---Banning gets out of car at bottom of hillside---

Banning (Theran): Eeee-thaaa-neee-eelllll

---Woods---

Ethaniel: He's calling my name. Lets go.

---Banning---

---Woods---

Ethaniel: Banning has it. He has my ship. It means I cannot access any of the information it might have offered. I have no way of returning home.

<<Pan across to sunset>>

Ethaniel (VO): And that's when I first thought that one day, I might think of this strange new world as home.

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