Earth: Final Conflict

Previously on Gene Roddenberry's Earth Final Conflict:

I'm not working at Doors International for Taelon money.

Hey, play CEO by day and guerrilla by night.

Relax, Augur. Take your allies where you can find them, okay?

Why the hell would you be breaking into a secured area?

Doors has a small fortune invested in these coventures with the Taelons,

not to mention my reputation.

Focus on your own business, Miss Palmer.

Let us handle ours.

You served as Boone's Lieutenant for 3 years during the SI war.

That is correct.

Kincaid participated in the invasion of Taiwan,

where faulty intelligence landed his unit

smack in the middle of a very nasty ambush.

Pulse generators are set.

- Got to the uplink dish? - Yeah.

The satellite access codes.

Any problem getting them?

You mean other than having to lie, cheat and steal?

As covert operatives it's our job to lie, cheat and steal.

All for the good of human kind, of course.

And that's why you'll always be a professional covert op.

- This is my last campaign. - You surprise me, Samira.

I thought you get as much of a thrill as I do from saving the day,

dragging the world back from the imminent nuclear disaster.

Here we are in the middle of nowhere, beautiful view of the Himalayas,

hacking into the Chinese and Indian launch map systems.

Yes! They both had their nuclear arsenals lit up like bright new pins.

For a start

I'm transmitting a series of neutrino pulses

to lock the alignment of the launch maps.

Are you sure this is gonna work?

If it doesn't, we won't be here to see the flak.

That's certainly a comfort.

If these coordinates are correct,

then every Chinese and Indian nuke is now inoperative.

Till they get the launch maps realigned.

By which time the world will come to its senses,

and will have solved out this bloody mess.

Alright, just in time for the next war.

Let's face it.

There's nothing more exciting than saving the world with the one you love.

What's going on?

Incoming!

Subtitled by Axarion

They have come to Earth with the promise of peace.

An alien race called the Taelons.

But, there are those who resist these Alien Companions.

For the Taelons' true mission,

the secrets they hide

will forever alter our world.

The fate of humanity now relies

on those who dare challenge the future

of Earth.

Samira.

Thanks to the valiant efforts of Colonel Dennis Robillard

and the late Captain Samira Farid, nuclear war was averted.

But a new hitherto unknown weapon,

which came to be known as quantum vortex, was launched

taking 100,000 lives.

I could almost smell the battle.

Thanks.

Not bad for a computer generated imagery, huh?

Besides writing the autobiographical script,

Dennis also created the virtual actors for us.

I understand the Taelons are trying to get Robillard on the Coventures project.

Yeah, he's playing hard to get.

Maybe you can be more persuasive.

I mean, you two worked closely together in the past.

Not that closely.

There's been another bombing, Major. This time it's the Chinese embassy.

I'm on my way. Duty calls.

Thank you, Madam Ambassador.

You know the Taelons will do anything they can to help you.

If we have other questions, I'll call.

I have relocated the Chinese and Indian ambassadors, their families and staffs to

CIA and FBI safe houses for the duration of the SI War Armistice this week.

Usual warning?

Global call, 60 seconds before the detonation.

Enough time to get everybody out.

Classic guerrilla tactics.

You rotated through the war zone as I recall, Major?

Six months in the Nepalese trenches.

You?

I served in Intelligence, never really got the opportunity to go overseas.

I put in for a transfer, but...

my CO insisted I was more valuable stateside.

Well, these bombings keep up, they could easily reignite the conflict.

You may get your shot at combat, after all.

We got a security breach. No idea what was stolen.

I'll start in all department inventory immediately.

Right, we need to do it in-house.

The last thing I want us to bring the police in.

Zo'or finds out about this, he could limit our access

to Taelon technology through Coventure program.

It's just like the other embassy attacks, Da'an.

Thanks to the warning no one was hurt, but the building was demolished.

And we thought we had brought peace to your world,

when we adjudicated the Sino-Indian peace awards.

Old animosity die hard.

I guess there's nothing like the anniversary of the Armistice

to bring out the worst in people.

It is unimaginable for us that members of the same species would wage war,

let alone hold a grudge after the conflict is over.

Unimaginable?

What about the Taelons

before the schism that split the species and created the Jaridians?

The Jaridians carry within them the demon of violence, which

we removed from our species.

What you call the demon of violence,

is the willingness to fight your own battles.

You're beautiful when when you're preoccupied.

Dennis, hi.

I'm getting nowhere in my investigation of the security breach.

Why don't you take a look?

Thanks.

But no, thanks.

Welcome to the world I gladly left behind.

Come on.

You're not telling me you don't miss peeking through keyholes?

- Spying on the unsuspecting? - Not a bit.

I don't miss the violence, I don't miss keeping secrets either.

No, I've had my fair share of the good fight.

Let someone else step up to the plate.

So, what, you're just gonna sit things out and let the rest of us have all the fun?

Fun?

Personally, I think the fun went out of the game when the Taelons showed up.

Don't you?

I'd like to personally supervise the inter-agency task force

that has been set out to deal with these bombings.

Human problems are not my priority.

Tell me, Agent Sandoval.

Is it my imagination, or is there some another agenda at work here?

I don't know what you mean, Zo'or.

Your psychological profile indicates a great frustration

at never having directly participated in armed combat.

My imperative is to serve you, Zo'or.

But I cannot deny that a part of me sees these bombings as an opportunity

to test myself on the field.

I find myself growing increasingly intrigued

by your human desire for mortal combat.

Hello.

- I'm looking for Colonel Robillard. - Come in.

He'll be out in a moment. Who shall I say is calling?

Major Liam Kincaid.

Nice to finally meet you, Major.

I got it from your expression that you've seen Renee in the docu-drama.

Samira is a hologram.

Pleasure to make your acquaintance, Major Kincaid.

I have to go, Dennis.

Interesting.

I presume from the reaction you also find it a bit ghoulish.

Well, it's certainly different.

Just think of it as a means of keeping alive in your heart the ones that you've lost.

Lost loves, fallen comrades.

You saw action. Taiwan, I believe.

- You've checked me out. - I know you're a pal of Renee's, so I

did a bit of hacking and pulled up your file. There are some

temptations that are just too difficult for an old spy to resist.

These bombings, Colonel.

They seem to me to be a continuation of the war, and I'm concerned, frankly,

that they might be leading us into another international conflict.

Well, there was never any real satisfaction in the Armistice.

Chinese and the Indians felt that we'd shoved peace down their throats.

Which we did thanks to the Taelon intervention.

Just like angels from above.

I was hoping I could get you to help with this investigation.

With all due respect, Major, and as I have already told Renee,

I'm retired from that sort of thing.

Well, that world ended for me when the Taelons started solving our problems.

The world was a far riskier place before they came, but we...

took our chances and made our own choices.

As far as I can tell, by disarming the Indians and the Chinese

you only postponed what was an inevitable resumption of nuclear hostility.

That's absolute nonsense.

We had the firepower, the muscle,

and the political will to make the peace and keep it, too.

But for those people who chose to give up free will in exchange for whatever

security it is that the Taelons provide.

People?

Like me, for instance?

I'm telling you, Augur, she looked completely real.

Yeah, so do my holos.

Yeah, but yours don't kiss you goodbye before they wink out.

And this hologram welcomed me in, walked around the room...

- It walked around the room? - Right, no holo projector.

Hmm, I gotta meet this guy. Tell me something, what's he really like?

Well, hard to say. Kinda sharp.

With a smart alec answer for everything.

Definitely won't give an inch in an argument.

Really? Is it me or this sounds like my description of Renee?

How funny you should mention Renee.

She got a little prickly when I asked about their relationship.

Really?

The Taelons want Robillard for his holographic research.

I want him because there's no one better suited to translate

Taelon technology for our purposes.

I agree, which raises a large issue.

I believe Dennis is a great asset to the Resistance, I want to approach him.

Too risky, we don't know where he stands.