"Whose is this?" "We thought it was time for your first gauntlet." "All right." "Look, it even matches my outfit." "Thank you, Mauser." "Oh, where's that laser fire thingy?" "I don't want to touch it, it may go off by accident." "Oh, no, that only has a shield projector and a heat-sensitive view finder." "We thought that was enough for now." "Well, it's like a training bra." "Oh, maybe I can paint some little flowers on it, like red roses or maybe blue ones." "What?" "Hel, I'm picking up a transmission on Channel 12-A." "Incoming." "Can you hear me?" "Respond immediately, I'm under attack." "We got it, Voice." "It's coming from Sector K, Level 9." "Nobody lives that close to the surface." "Nobody's gonna be living there much longer." "You hear that laser fire?" "I repeat." "We're under attack!" "This is Jake Lawson." "Please respond." "Did he just say Jake Lawson?" "I've lost it." "That's what I heard." "Who's Jake Lawson?" "Lawson was a great protector." "Protector of what?" "Someone the more stable levels hired to protect them." "He was the best." "If you heard a level was under Jake Lawson's protection, you know it would be a tough raid." "Oh, kind of like a frontier marshal thing." "Tell him we're on our way." "No, wait a minute." "We don't know if that's really him." "Tell him we're on our way." "This is Mauser, Wave 34." "Assistance is being directed towards your location." "Is anybody out there?" "He can't hear us." "Then we better hurry." "Why are you so hot to help Jake Lawson?" "I saw him fight once." "I was with the Black Watch." "We were trying to take Level 64 off the beta shaft." "You were with the Watch?" "Yes, I was." "We surprised them, we were plowing through their defenses and he showed up." "Just him against the Watch." "He cut us to ribbons." "It's how I lost my kidney." "He got me with an incredible shot from an old McGraw gauntlet." "Wait, you want to save him because he shot you?" "I thought he was gonna finish me off, but he didn't." "What a hero." "Look, I don't expect you two to understand." "And you don't have to come if you don't want to." "Get over there, Cleo." "Okay." "My guess is he's over there." "What we need is some cover fire." "That's what I call good timing." "That's Jake Lawson." "Cleo, come on!" "Get out of the way." "Jake Lawson?" "Not me, sweetie." "No." "I'm Jake Lawson." "You got one thing going for you." "That scum out there tried to kill you, but I'll need a little more to go on, before I decide not to waste you myself." "We were responding to your distress call, Jake." "That worked." "My apologies, Jerbo." "Sometimes old-fashioned technology is the way to go." "Do you mind telling us why half the scum of the underground is trying to take our heads off?" "You don't know?" "Your message was garbled." "We didn't get all the details." "Well, let me show you what all the fuss is about." "We're talking the big bang." "Five hundred years into the future, she will enter a world where machines rule the Earth." "Mankind has been driven underground." "And Cleopatra is about to discover there's no place like home." ""In the year 2525"" ""There are women with the will to survive"" ""Fighting for a brand new day"" ""Nothing's gonna get in their way"" ""And in the year 2525"" ""Three women keep hope alive"" ""Joining forces to reclaim the Earth"" ""Looking ahead to humankind's rebirth"" "CLEOPATRA 2525 1x12 "THE LAST STAND" Subtitles by subXpacio" "All those barrels are plutonium?" "500 years ago," "I'm marching' araound with this sign that says:" ""No nukes is good nukes." But does anybody listen?" "Up until now, it's been protected by a force field." "But time finally caught up with this place and the force field collapsed." "Within hours, every mercenary was down here looking to turn a profit on the black market." "But you got here first?" "No." "This guy over here beat me to it." "But fortunately, we have the same goal in mind." "We want to keep these weapons out of the hands of that scum out there." "So if I can just have that megatronic distributor, we can all go home." "You didn't get that part of the message, either?" "What's a megatronic distributor?" "It's used to generate force fields." "Oh, like my shield?" "Exactly." "Hey, I just got that." "Work your magic, Jerbo." "If you're the tech you claim to be, we can all go home real soon." "Well, do you really expect me to believe you didn't know anything about the plutonium?" "What do you mean?" "You just fought your way through that heavily-armed scum into a hopeless dead end." "Nobody does that without a profit motive." "Well, we do." "And if your main concern is getting that force field up, then you do, too." "Do I know you?" "No." "But you shot her once." "We'll help you hold these guys off until Jerbo is finished." "You get any sense of how many of them there were?" "Oh, I can tell you." "They gave me all the sympathy technology." "Well, it doesn't look so bad, there's only five of 'em." "See that dot waving its arm?" "Oh, yeah." "Does that mean something?" "Uh-huh." "It means you're pointing it the wrong way." "Over there." "I liked it better the other way." "Cleo, you'd better shield up." "This is gonna get nasty." "Jerbo has my shield." "Then double up." "No, we're gonna be movin' around too much." "Now." "My shield isn't that big." "If I knew it would come to this," "I would've protested harder." "So you're tellin' me I shot you, and I didn't finish you off." "Maybe my laser jammed." "Nope," "I saw you lay down some suppression fire after you nailed me," "I think you gave me a break." "I was into some pretty grand gestures in those days." "You became kind of a role model for me after that." "I asked around about you, learned that you never charged a level too much for protection." "Never took up a cause unless you believed in it." "And you never shot a man in the back." "Well, that last one's bunk." "You know as well as I do." "You aim at what they show you:" "front, back, side." "If you can hit it, it's fair game." "So now you're here to save my butt." "I guess it ain't true what they say." "What do they say?" "No good deed goes unpunished." "So I shot you with an old McGraw." "I wouldn't go around bragging' about that." "I've gotten a little better since then." "Well, prove it." "You take the two on the left." "Ready?" "Ready." "Nice shooting." "Sarge?" "Sarge." "Huh?" "What's in it for him?" "Same as us." "He wants to put the genie back in the bottle." "I guess it's hard being a protector when the other side has nuclear weapons." "Hmm." "No!" "He just destroyed the relay switch." "We needed that to start the force field with a remote control." "Did he damage the force field itself?" "It's fine, but now we have to turn it on manually." "Damn, all I needed was five more minutes." "Let me see that." "Don't panic, we'll keep the slime out until you're done." "After that, only one of us has to be here to turn on the force field." "Right." "So whoever hits that switch will be trapped in here." "Hel, Cleo," "I was the one who brought you guys down here." "It's only fair that I be the one to stay." "No." "I'll do it." "What are you saying?" "You're the one who carries the Voice." "If we're ever going to take the surface back, we need you." "If it's really just a matter of pushing a button." "We all know who the expendable one is." "Short one stays." "That settles it." "I stay." "Jerbo, make this thing work." "Right." "That was an old trick." "Cut all the wires so they'd be weak, and then you held on extra tight when you pulled yours." "Prove it." "It's a brave thing you're doing." "Not as brave as you think." "I lied before." "I remember you." "You were a beautiful, fierce young fighter." "I just couldn't stand the thought of killing something that perfect." "I used to have a heart back then, a soul." "But you get hardened after a while." "One day I woke up and realized the Jake Lawson you talked about has been dead a long time." "I don't know about that." "When I heard about this nuke pile," "I decided right there and then this would be my last mission, no matter how it turned out." "This is as good an ending as any." "I did it." "All right, you all need to get going." "I'll cover you." "Thanks, Jake, for everything." "Come on!" "Keep your head down." "Stick close to me!" "Now!" "I said stick close to me." "You can't get much closer than this!" "We got to get out of here!" "Come on!" "Sarge!" "Goodbye, Jake." "Sarge!" "Couldn't we destabilize the force field for a few minutes with an energy neutralizer?" "I made that impossible by projecting two energy barriers." "Even if you neutralized one, the other one would expand and take its place." "Very good." "Thanks." "Why don't you two stop stroking your technological egos and focus on getting Jake out of there?" "Hel, I've got good news." "Mauser, Voice has something." "It's a plan of an old ancient mainframe." "Look, there's an old tunnel that runs under the crypt." "Yes, but it doesn't really help." "I'm sure your force field projection encircled the entire crypt making any tunnel access useless." "Well, not exactly." "From the beginning, Jake suggested that I not project the force field onto the granite floor of the crypt." "I could save energy that way." "He said only a madman would try to blast his way through a granite floor into a room full of nuclear weapons." "Well, we can get to Jake through the tunnel." "You know, this explains everything." "I was the first one on the scene." "I set up a simple detection beacon to warn me of anyone approaching." "Then suddenly, Jake appeared from deep within the crypt." "Scared me to death." "I couldn't figure out how he had gotten in there without my beacon picking' him up." "But he's Jake Lawson, so you tend to think he can do anything, but he must have come up through the tunnel." "But if Jake knew about the tunnel, why didn't he tell us?" "Why indeed." "Well, he did say this would be his last mission, no matter what." "You were right about one thing, the Jake Lawson I talked about has been dead a long time, if he ever lived." "You figured this out." "Very smart." "Now, you be smart and don't go for that weapon." "Well, what are my alternatives?" "Walk away," "Jerbo comes in and redoes the barrier with the proper equipment." "You and I call it even." "I can trade this material for an entire level if I want to." "I can live like a king." "I can hire my own killers to do the dirty work." "Walking away is not an alternative." "Then do what you have to do." "You couldn't shoot me in the back." "Just call me sentimental." "Subtitles subXpacio and TusSeries"