"Lexx 2.12 Norb" "Cool!" "Hey, big fat candy house, anybody home there?" "This is space pilot Norb, requesting a pit stop." "Talk to me." "Somebody help me, I'm being attacked!" "You gotta help me, dad!" "Lexx - sometimes, when I come onto the bridge, say for instance, things look different than they were before." "Meaning, things have changed." "Really, Stanley?" "I meant that as a question, Lexx." "The question is - why are things different?" "I'm still growing, Stanley." "Oh - oh, well " "Can I hear that please, Lexx?" "As you command, Stan." "Please help me." "I'm drifting alone in space and I'm low on air." "Can somebody out there please help me?" "So, nice to see you again" " Norb, isn't it?" "You can take off your helmet." "Here, let me take this." "Don't touch it." " What is it?" " It's mine." "I can see that, but - what is that thing that you have in your hand that's yours?" " It's a picture of my father" " Your Pa?" "It's a picture of my father." "I see." "Well - you know, we don't want to take it away from you - it's OK, no problem." "You can do whatever you want here." "We're your friends." "It's a picture of my father." "It is not an image of Pa." "Well, then it must be your real father." "I bet he was handsome - just like you're going to be." "There is no image." "The little kid is clearly deranged." "I suggest we spare ourselves any further unpleasantness by ejecting him back into space at once." "He's only a child!" "Who will eventually grow into a man, who could then become a threat to the perfect love that I feel for you at all times!" "So, Norb - how long were you out there floating around in space," "I mean, what were you breathing?" "And how'd you lose your spaceship, the Charger?" "I'm not getting anywhere." "You gonna answer any questions that I ask you?" "OK." "I give up." "Never was that good with kids anyway." "Next!" "Obviously he's had some kind of extremely traumatic experience." "Maybe we should give him some time alone." "What do you think, Kai?" "I think" " I think, the living should decide what the living should do." "OK, but sometimes you decide to do things on your own." "My brain, being dead, does not function in the sense that a living person's does." "However, I respond to suggestions from others - sometimes." "I only respond to Xev - at all times." "Well I've had enough." "He can sort himself out on his own, play with his sphere - whatever." "Norb - you must be tired." "Why don't you lie down for a while, in my bed." "You'll feel better." "Coming?" "And remember Norb - we're your friends." "Look - here we are." "Now you get some rest, OK?" "OK." "I'll leave you alone." "Xev" " I admire you for your concern and all, but Norb is not the same little kid that we met before." "No." "He's damaged goods." "Definitely." "Kai?" "What do you think?" "I do not think, the way you think I think, but he is not the same little kid we met before." "What do you mean?" "He seems to be more like me than he is like you." "Are you saying" " Norb is dead?" "He lacks a certain - vitality." "You know, that little kid is beginning to worry me." "Maybe 790 was right, maybe we should just eject him back out into space?" "Stanley, he's a boy who was drifting in space for who knows how long." "What do you expect?" "I don't think you know what it's like to be alone, really alone like that." "I do." "Maybe, Xev." "But he is not like you." "Not in the slightest." "A moment with Xev beats a moment with Stan." "Two moments with Xev beats one moment with Xev." "Three moments with Xev " "Get your filthy inbred fingers off me!" "Hey, can you hear me?" "Hey!" "What are you doing?" "Xev, help me." "Xev!" "Help me!" "I demand that you bring me to Xev at once, or I will persuasively argue that you be returned from whence you came." "You may think that " "What is your name?" "790." "Rest or no rest, I'm not comfortable about leaving him alone anymore until we get some answers." "Norb?" "Norb?" "×òî ñ òâîåé ðóêîé?" "What happened to your arm?" "790, what happened to Norb's arm?" "790, turn yourself on." "Why are you shut off?" "Is everything OK?" "790?" "Why don't you answer my question?" "You are not an authorised person." "What's wrong with you?" "You are not an authorised person." "Do you have anything to say to us?" "Yes." "Hello humans." "What are you?" "A message." "From who?" "Mantrid." "Mantrid?" "And what is the message?" "Let the contest begin." "Yes!" "Good work Kai." "And just like I thought" " Norb wasn't Norb." "Yeah, but, what did he mean by Mantrid?" "Mantrid is dead, his planet was destroyed." "His planet was destroyed, the insect was destroyed, and Mantrid's body was destroyed, but something calling itself Mantrid still seems to definitely exist." "And what do you think he meant by - the contest?" "I suspect that we shall find out." "I think we just had the contest, and it was a short one." "You shot down all the drones!" "All the ones I could see, but remember - Norb had the sphere." "And there was something weird going on with his arm." "Lexx - can you see a Mantrid drone?" "A little one armed thing flying around?" "I cannot see them now, Stanley." "They are somewhere inside me." "Well, if you see it, I want you to tell me immediately." "Yes, Stan." "790's brain cube." "Brain cube, what brain cube?" "790's piece of human brain." "790 was a robot, a mechanical device, a souped up toaster!" "What are you talking about?" "790 model robots have a tiny cube of human brain." "A functional interface integrating a computer head and a human body ." "If 790 had no living brain tissue, the falling in love part of the love slave transformation intended for Xev, would not have worked on him." "Makes sense to me." "How do you know that?" "I have many memories." "But why didn't 790 know that?" "It was not necessary for 790 robots to know that in order to perform their required functions, therefore such knowledge was not part of his programming." "Well why didn't you tell him?" "He never asked." "We must hurry." "We must use 790 to help us." "790 is " "790 as you knew him is gone - but the information that might help us is still contained in his data bank." "Useless robot head." "Gone." "This is the 790 who loved you." "Why are you wasting your time on a dead robot head when we have to find the drone?" "I'm sorry Xev, but what I'm saying makes sense." "Well why don't you go find it Stan?" "Well - maybe if no-one else will, I'll have to." " Kai!" "Kai, can you hear me?" " Yes I can, Stanley." "Well, it's not in the passageway." "The Lexx is a big ship." "I know that." "Lexx?" "Yes, Stanley?" "Can you see the Mantrid drone on the bridge now?" "What is the Mantrid drone?" "The little one armed thing that flies around." "So?" "So what, Stanley?" "So can you see the Mantrid drone little one armed thing that flies around on the bridge now?" "No, Stanley." "Good." "Good." "Mantrid's drones are a variation of standard Cluster drones, which should be very familiar to 790." "Exact knowledge of their construction may be the key to our being able to stop them." "Them?" "The Mantrid drones, are builder drones." "Given the time and raw materials they can construct almost anything - including more Mantrid drones." "Stanley!" "Yes?" "Where are you, are you all right?" "Yes, I'm all right." "I'm gonna check out the bridge now." "How unusually brave of you." "Not brave Xev - try worried." "Don't be a hero." "That, you can count on." "Why your protoblood?" "My protoblood is similar to the substance used to keep 790's nodule of brain tissue alive, only - it's better." "Lexx!" "Lexx!" "We've gotta locate the Mantrid drone little one armed things that fly around." "You can count on me, Stanley." "You are my captain." "You see anything yet Lexx?" "No, Stanley." "I do not see any Mantrid drone little one armed things that fly around anywhere right now." "But Stanley?" "Yes Lexx?" "I don't feel well, Stanley." "What do you mean, Lexx?" "I think that the Mantrid drone little one armed things that fly around are hurting me." "What do you mean?" "I feel bad in certain places." "What places?" "On the moth breeding chamber." "In my accelerator pipes." "In 6 of my stomachs." "In 117 passageways " "Excuse me, Lexx, but there was only one drone, so how can it be possible that " "I can see a Mantrid drone little one armed thing that flies around on the bridge now Stanley." "So can I Lexx, so can I." "I've found the drone!" "I've found the drone!" "Kai!" "Kai, can you hear me?" "Help!" "790?" "Hello there." "790?" "You're very attractive." "790" " I have connected you to a protein regenerator." "Can you operate it?" "It is part of my standard programming." "Your face is very special." "The protein regenerator contains your own brain tissue." "You must control it in order to restore your neurological functions." "I - do not have brain tissue." "Yes you do - not much, but you do have some." "That's funny." "Ha." "Ha." "Operate the protein regenerator now, 790." "You're cute." "Thank you." "Please 790, operate the machine." "I want you back." "You - want me back?" "That's nice." "790, operate the machine!" "O" " K." "That's it, 790." "You can do it!" "We haven't heard from Stanley in a while." "No, we have not." "Stanley!" "Are you all right?" "Yes." "I'm all right." "Remember, don't go far." "That, you can count on." "Lexx?" "Yes, Stanley?" "Tell Kai, in the cryochamber, that Stanley is being attacked in the passageway." "As you command, Stanley." "Kai in the cryochamber, Stanley is being attacked in the passageway." "Oh, thank you Kai." "Thank you thank you thank you thank you!" "Whoa." "There were so many!" "Lexx says they're all over the ship." "They're in the accelerator tubes, they're in the moth breeding chamber, they're in hundreds of passageways, and they're hurting him." "This is, this is " "This would be the contest." "We gotta get outta here." "To where?" "We should find out what their agenda is." "But - but " "I am feeling very very bad, Stanley." "So am I Lexx." "Think we all are." "Ask what they are doing to him." "hat are they doing to you Lexx?" "They are eating me, Stan." "Look!" "That explains where they all came from." "They are using Lexx as raw material to make new versions of themselves." "How can we stop so many?" "I do not know." "I think we don't have much time." "It is Mantrid's plan." "He is sending his drones out into the universe to make new versions of themselves." "Why?" "It is part of his insect legacy to want to destroy all humankind." "He is using his drones to pursue that goal." "Stan, tell Lexx to open this airlock and close it the instant we're through." "Lexx - open the airlock and close it the very instant we're through." "As you command, Stanley." "Now what?" "Xev?" "Xev darling?" "Xev darling, where are you?" "Oh Xev, perfect sample of womankind, please do not be in trouble." "790?" "Yes, you city sized mass of marginally cognitive insect mush?" "Stanley asked me to say to you the words, how can we stop the drones that are Mantrid drones?" "Tell him he can stop them by placing them all around his body and commanding them to slash him into thousands of pieces, but in the slowest and most painful way possible!" "790 said the words, tell him he can stop them by placing them around his body and commanding them to slash him into thousands of little pieces, but in the slowest and most painful way possible." "It's 790." "He's back!" "Yeah." "Stanley asked me to tell you that I am with Xev but since Lexx only responds to me and you only respond to Xev we must communicate this way, and that only by listening to me can you help Xev." "Oh, how do I know that the security guard isn't trying to trick me?" "Or perhaps you are?" "No, that's not possible." "790 asked me to say, what is this piece of brain tissue that is connected to his casing?" "Lexx, you can tell 790 that that teensy weensy unimportant insignificant particle of brain tissue is actually his, and he's had it all along, and he didn't know it" "My very own brain tissue?" "!" "I'm alive!" "I'm really alive!" "Tell Stanley to tell Xev that that explains my perfect human love." "A love far superior to machine love - a love that a security class 4 could only ever dream of." "Lexx, you can tell 790 that he may be alive now but it won't be for long unless he gets with the programme!" "The Mantrid drones are a variation of class 23 Cluster drones, version 2.03." "They have limited individual computational power but can share data, which means the more of them you have, the more capable they become." "I think I'm beginning to feel depressed right now." "The drones, like myself, are largely composed of complex and precise electronic circuitry, but unlike me - they do not have a love chunk of human brain!" "But like all complex and precise electronic devices, are capable of being damaged by high powered pulses of electromagnetic flux." "What do you mean?" "Lexx, say what do you mean?" "Stanley asked me to say, what do you mean?" "What I mean, is that if the Lexx's main drive were to be reversed, the resulting collision of highly accelerated particles within the Lexx itself would produce enough flux to fry every sensitive circuit on board." "But wouldn't that kill the Lexx too?" "I have never observed anything complex or precise in regard to the Lexx." "Can the Lexx actually do that?" "I mean, reverse his drive?" "790 said the words " "Sorry, Stanley" " I am not well." "I do not feel good." "I feel very bad, Stanley." "I think the Mantrid drone things that fly around are eating important parts of me." "I do not like it." "Lexx, if you want to feel better, you have to reverse your main drive" "You have to shoot your particles the other way, inside you - can you do that?" "I think that would really sting, Stanley." "Yeah." "I know it would sting, but Lexx - the drones are going to keep eating you till you're all gone, do you know what I mean?" "No." "What I mean, Lexx, is that if you don't reverse your particle drive, you're going to die." "And we're going to die a few minutes later, do you understand that?" "No, I do not, Stanley, but I don't feel well at all." "Lexx, I command you to - 790 is an electronic device." "Won't he be destroyed too?" "790's mini brain is not an electronic circuit and so it shouldn't be destroyed." "Isn't that the part that counts now?" "790 is a hybrid - part human, but mostly machine." "Any pulse that destroys the drones would certainly destroy 790." "So?" "The Lexx is about to die here, and we're about to die with it, we can't stop to save a robot head!" "Kai " "Yeah, well, come on Kai, what do you think?" "I do not think." "I am qualified to make life and death decisions." "However, if you ask me to, I will enter the Lexx and try to retrieve 790, but that is not the quickest solution to our problem, and time is not on our side." "You are not a human being." "I am also not a flying appliance like you." "I have a small but tremendously important nodule of real human nervous tissue." "You are not a human being." "I have perfect human love." "You are not a human being." "Lexx - is there any drones around the airlock?" "I - do not - feel well, Stanley." "Please Lexx, please - try to see if there are any drones around the airlock" "I do not know, Stanley." "I do not feel very good." "Lexx, say to 790 that he's a stupid robot head and I care for him less than I care for anything in the two universes, biological, mechanical, or in-between." "I" " Stanley - all I - uh " "Please Lexx, please, open the airlock, Lexx, open the airlock" "Open the airlock!" "Open the airlock!" "Open the airlock!" "Stop, Xev, we're gonna get squashed!" "How can we land?" "We, will not land." "Kai!" "Where's Xev?" "Outside, in a moth." "Waiting." "I'm so happy!" "Xev did not want you to be destroyed by the electromagnetic pulse, therefore, I've come to fetch you." "I would have gladly expired for Xev." "It would have been my perfect end." "Are you human?" "Where's Mantrid?" "Are you human?" "Mantrid - if you can hear me, remember, that like me - you too were once human." "You are not human." "Hello Xev." "Hey, 790." "OK." "We're outta here." "Lexx - as soon as we're outside, reverse your particle drive to make that electromagnetic pulse like we talked about, OK?" "Lexx?" "Lexx, can you hear me?" "Is he dead?" "I do not know, but I do know we can no longer communicate with him this way." "Then how can we?" "The Lexx's primitive main nerve cluster is primarily centred on the bridge." "Then we must go to the bridge." "We?" "We, meaning you, Stanley, as the Lexx only responds to you." "I'm the winner." "Oh, you owe me robot head." "I can't begin to tell you how much you owe me." "Look, they're gonna kill is!" "Eating the Lexx appears to be their priority." "I suspect that your turn to be the priority is coming - soon." "Lexx - we're gonna fly out in a moth." "When we get near the airlock, I want you to open it for an instant, so we can get through." "Then I want you to reverse the polarity on your main accelerator drive." "That should be enough to destroy the drones." "As you command, Stanley." "Oh boy!" "Come on." "Run, Stanley." "But " "The pulse should not affect me." " Kai!" "Kai!" " Go, he's OK, he'll be all right." "Well, they mean business this time." "They know our plan, now they're really after us." "They know we're headed for the airlock." "Then we have to get there first." "Come on baby!" "A robot head" " I can't believe I came back for a robot head!" "Stop, the airlock is covered with drones!" "There's no stopping now, we're going through!" "Woo!" "We made it!" "Oh, I can't believe I just did that." "You're the one that should be kissing me!" "Don't even fantasise about it, security guard class 4." "I should only be kissing Xev." "Ouch!" "That hurt a lot." "Well done Xev." "You make my day a perfect one." "Yeah, well what about me?" "Oh, yes." "You're still alive, aren't you Tweedle?" "I guess the day can't be perfect then after all." "Well that's gratitude!" "At least I'm consistent." "I knew it!" "All that talk of me being just an appliance." "I knew that I was more than a machine." "A machine could never feel for you like I do, Xev." "That is correct." "Don't make too big a deal of it 790." "It's only a tiny little cube of brain." "You do not have a whole fully functioning brain like me, and your fragment seems to contain none of the thinking parts." "I have all I need to love Xev." "Oh, I'm going, now." "Don't you think it's wonderful, Xev?" "I think it's - interesting, anyway." "I wonder where it came from?" "Who I was?" "What was I like when I was alive?" "I bet I was handsome, don't you think Xev?" "You are handsome right now, 790 - for a robot, that is." "Lexx - what happened to all the drone parts?" "I have re-sorbed them, Stanley." "You - you what them?" "I re-sorbed them." "I need the material if I am to heal properly." "Oh." "That's good, Lexx, that's good." "Hello, humans." "Mantrid." "Are you alive, Mantrid?" "I exist." "Is there any more to it?" "Yes." "We saw the insect destroyed." "We saw you die." "And we saw your planet destroyed." "But the machine you saw was not destroyed." "My insect essence fused with my human essence and entered the machine, which was designed by my human half for keeping his mind alive past the death of his body." "So you are a machine?" "If you like." "I function, and I know that I have a purpose." "And what is that purpose?" "That comes from my insect half." "My purpose is to destroy all humanity." "But how can you have that purpose, if you are part human as well?" "I share some programming with humans, but I'm not a human." "Did you enjoy my little game?" "What game?" "That was just a game I was playing with you." "If I had wanted to destroy you, you would long ago have been destroyed." "But you helped create me, so I'm saving you for last." "What do you mean, last?" "I will destroy all humankind." "The last to be destroyed will be you." "That will be my thank you." "My going away present." "Now, I'll go away from you - for a while." "Goodbye." "Oh, this is bad." "For everyone." "What can we do?" "I do not know." "Well, I mean, how can he destroy everyone?" "O mean, that's not possible," "I mean, there are hundreds and thousands of planets with trillions of people on them." "He can't destroy them, how could he destroy them all?" "I do not know." "You don't think he really could?" "I do not think we should underestimate him." "He may not be a life form as you know it - but our creation, Mantrid, is a very dangerous - thing." "Mantrid." "Ñèíõðîíèçàöèÿ è êîððåêòèðîâêà:" "DarkLight"