1 00:00:27,819 --> 00:00:31,782 I am Arthur Frayn, and I am Zardoz. 2 00:00:33,158 --> 00:00:37,829 I have lived 300 years, and I long to die, 3 00:00:37,913 --> 00:00:40,749 but death is no longer possible. 4 00:00:40,832 --> 00:00:43,168 I am immortal. 5 00:00:43,252 --> 00:00:45,671 I present now my story, 6 00:00:45,754 --> 00:00:48,173 full of mystery and intrigue, 7 00:00:48,257 --> 00:00:52,010 rich in irony, and most satirical. 8 00:00:53,929 --> 00:00:59,142 It is set deep in a possible future, so none of these events have yet occurred. 9 00:00:59,226 --> 00:01:01,436 But they may. 10 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:06,108 Be warned, lest you end as I. 11 00:01:07,568 --> 00:01:11,780 In this tale, I am a fake god by occupation 12 00:01:11,863 --> 00:01:14,575 and a magician by inclination. 13 00:01:14,658 --> 00:01:16,994 Merlin is my hero. 14 00:01:18,453 --> 00:01:22,249 I am the puppet master. 15 00:01:22,332 --> 00:01:26,753 I manipulate many of the characters and events you will see. 16 00:01:26,837 --> 00:01:31,425 But I am invented, too, for your entertainment and amusement. 17 00:01:33,218 --> 00:01:36,763 And you, poor creatures, 18 00:01:38,348 --> 00:01:41,101 who conjured you out of the clay? 19 00:01:41,184 --> 00:01:43,270 (Chuckles) 20 00:01:44,396 --> 00:01:46,898 ls God in show business, too? 21 00:02:40,494 --> 00:02:42,579 (Yelling) 22 00:03:23,286 --> 00:03:25,122 Za rd oz! 23 00:03:25,205 --> 00:03:28,792 Praise be to Zardoz! 24 00:03:30,669 --> 00:03:34,214 Praise be to Zardoz! 25 00:03:37,968 --> 00:03:41,430 Praise be to Zardoz! 26 00:03:41,513 --> 00:03:48,353 Zardoz speaks to you, his chosen ones. 27 00:03:48,854 --> 00:03:52,190 (All) We are the chosen ones. 28 00:03:52,274 --> 00:03:55,986 (Zardoz) You have been raised up from brutality 29 00:03:56,778 --> 00:04:02,200 to kill the Brutals who multiply and are legion. 30 00:04:02,951 --> 00:04:06,997 To this end Zardoz, your god, 31 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:11,251 gave you the gift of the gun. 32 00:04:12,335 --> 00:04:14,463 The gun is good. 33 00:04:14,546 --> 00:04:16,423 (All) The gun is good. 34 00:04:16,506 --> 00:04:19,926 The penis is evil. 35 00:04:20,260 --> 00:04:22,721 The penis shoots seeds 36 00:04:22,804 --> 00:04:28,101 and makes new life to poison the earth with a plague of men, 37 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:30,937 as once it was. 38 00:04:31,021 --> 00:04:38,111 But the gun shoots death and purifies the earth of the filth of Brutals. 39 00:04:38,195 --> 00:04:41,740 Go forth and kill. 40 00:04:41,823 --> 00:04:43,909 (Yelling) 41 00:04:47,329 --> 00:04:51,082 Zardoz has spoken. 42 00:05:14,773 --> 00:05:17,359 (All shouting) Guns! Guns! 43 00:09:43,208 --> 00:09:45,293 You... 44 00:09:48,588 --> 00:09:50,673 ...are foolish. 45 00:09:52,467 --> 00:09:55,178 I could have shown you. 46 00:09:56,596 --> 00:10:00,683 Without me, you are nothing. 47 00:10:02,936 --> 00:10:05,480 A bore! 48 00:10:05,814 --> 00:10:07,899 How pointless! 49 00:10:08,399 --> 00:10:10,485 How pointless! 50 00:14:11,309 --> 00:14:13,394 (Clunky music) 51 00:14:19,275 --> 00:14:21,527 (Chirrup) 52 00:14:21,611 --> 00:14:24,113 Attention. Harvest produce report. 53 00:14:24,947 --> 00:14:27,450 Attention. Harvest produce report. 54 00:14:28,409 --> 00:14:31,329 Attention. Harvest produce report. 55 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:34,999 Attention. Harvest produce report. 56 00:14:36,125 --> 00:14:38,211 Submit surpluses and needs. 57 00:14:38,961 --> 00:14:43,841 Submit surpluses and needs for intervortex barter and exchange. 58 00:14:43,925 --> 00:14:47,887 Year 2293. Third harvest yield. 59 00:14:49,931 --> 00:14:55,061 Vortex 4. Needs: soap, apples, salt, leather. 60 00:14:55,144 --> 00:14:58,981 Vortex 9. Surplus: soap, apples, leather. 61 00:14:59,065 --> 00:15:02,193 Needs: oats, barley, carrots. 62 00:15:02,610 --> 00:15:05,738 Here is a list of surpluses and needs remaining. 63 00:15:06,948 --> 00:15:10,576 Here is a list of surpluses and needs remaining. 64 00:15:11,744 --> 00:15:14,872 Here is a list of surpluses and needs remaining. 65 00:15:15,832 --> 00:15:17,917 (Chirrup) 66 00:15:21,170 --> 00:15:23,256 Food. 67 00:15:24,590 --> 00:15:26,676 Meat. 68 00:15:31,431 --> 00:15:33,516 Who lives here? 69 00:15:34,100 --> 00:15:36,686 I am Arthur Frayn. 70 00:15:36,769 --> 00:15:38,855 - No. - Vortex 4. 71 00:15:42,108 --> 00:15:44,193 I am Arthur... 72 00:15:44,569 --> 00:15:46,654 Vow... 4. 73 00:15:49,157 --> 00:15:51,534 Arthur Frayn. 74 00:15:51,617 --> 00:15:53,911 Vortex 4. 75 00:15:54,787 --> 00:15:57,123 I am Arth... 76 00:15:59,417 --> 00:16:01,502 Vortex 4. 77 00:16:02,962 --> 00:16:05,798 (Muffled) I am Arthur Frayn. 78 00:16:07,091 --> 00:16:09,177 Vortex 4. 79 00:16:10,094 --> 00:16:13,181 (Woman) Three from Vortex 8. 80 00:16:13,264 --> 00:16:15,600 Four from Vortex 5. 81 00:16:15,683 --> 00:16:18,811 (Man) Did you ever see such mangled limbs? 82 00:16:20,146 --> 00:16:23,274 (Woman) There are 14 bodies for repair. 83 00:17:05,233 --> 00:17:08,152 - What is it? - Flower. 84 00:17:08,236 --> 00:17:11,155 - For what? - Decorative. 85 00:19:16,113 --> 00:19:19,950 - Do you know where you are? - The Vortex. 86 00:19:20,201 --> 00:19:24,163 You come from the Outlands. You were told about the Vortex? 87 00:19:24,246 --> 00:19:27,375 - Zardoz says... - What does Zardoz say? 88 00:19:30,252 --> 00:19:34,507 Zardoz says if you obey him, you will go to a Vortex when you die 89 00:19:34,590 --> 00:19:37,802 and there you will live for ever. 90 00:19:38,135 --> 00:19:40,846 - Happily? - Yes. 91 00:19:41,889 --> 00:19:44,809 So you think you're dead? 92 00:19:56,529 --> 00:19:58,364 Am I? 93 00:19:59,031 --> 00:20:01,742 - You're an exterminator. - I kill for Zardoz. 94 00:20:01,826 --> 00:20:04,245 You came here in the stone head. 95 00:20:05,371 --> 00:20:07,331 I don't know. 96 00:20:07,415 --> 00:20:10,960 It is the only path and passage into the Vortex. 97 00:20:12,211 --> 00:20:14,505 You will show me how you come to be here. 98 00:20:21,637 --> 00:20:25,683 - (Woman) You have a name? - My name is Zed. 99 00:20:25,766 --> 00:20:28,436 Zed... for Zardoz. 100 00:20:28,519 --> 00:20:31,313 I am an exterminator. 101 00:20:32,732 --> 00:20:38,070 (Woman) The memories are simple heroics. There are no abstractions, you will notice. 102 00:20:38,154 --> 00:20:40,030 (Woman 103 00:20:40,114 --> 00:20:44,201 (Woman the Vortex could be responsible. 104 00:20:48,664 --> 00:20:51,959 Zarde 312. 105 00:20:52,042 --> 00:20:54,545 Twenty-five Brutals exterminated. 106 00:20:56,672 --> 00:20:59,133 Took a woman in his name. 107 00:21:00,176 --> 00:21:02,386 About rd oz. 108 00:21:18,360 --> 00:21:20,654 The place 109 00:21:20,738 --> 00:21:24,283 where the sea meets the land. 110 00:21:29,246 --> 00:21:31,373 It's blacked again. 111 00:21:31,457 --> 00:21:34,585 It seems to be able to control its memory. 112 00:21:39,381 --> 00:21:41,884 Show us more of your work. 113 00:21:43,385 --> 00:21:46,555 (Zed) Zardoz made us grow wheat. 114 00:21:46,639 --> 00:21:50,810 (Woman) This is a more recent memory. Cultivation has started. 115 00:21:55,439 --> 00:21:58,526 - Disturbed? - A little. 116 00:21:58,609 --> 00:22:03,072 - The outlands have to be controlled. - I've always voted against forced farming. 117 00:22:03,155 --> 00:22:05,574 You eat the bread. 118 00:22:05,658 --> 00:22:08,202 We have to shut ourselves off. We have to. 119 00:22:08,285 --> 00:22:12,373 This is the first visual contact with the outlands in years - as opposed to data - 120 00:22:12,456 --> 00:22:17,086 since Arthur was delegated to control them. It is proper that we investigate. 121 00:22:17,169 --> 00:22:21,340 It's better not to know. These images will pollute us. 122 00:22:21,423 --> 00:22:23,551 Quench it. Quell it. 123 00:22:23,634 --> 00:22:28,639 No Brutal has ever penetrated a Vortex. It therefore requires study. 124 00:22:29,849 --> 00:22:34,770 Perhaps it can tell us why Arthur has vanished so mysteriously. 125 00:22:34,854 --> 00:22:37,022 May... 126 00:22:37,106 --> 00:22:39,191 Please. 127 00:22:40,734 --> 00:22:44,071 Is Arthur Frayn's memory transmission still functioning? 128 00:22:44,154 --> 00:22:48,158 (Computer) Arthur Frayn ceased transmission three days ago. 129 00:22:48,242 --> 00:22:50,578 Replay his last memory moments. 130 00:23:05,342 --> 00:23:10,306 No, play back the preceding images so we can discover how he suffered this fall. 131 00:23:10,389 --> 00:23:13,309 It is permitted only to show the accident. 132 00:23:13,392 --> 00:23:15,519 No other memory image may be shown 133 00:23:15,603 --> 00:23:18,606 without the consent of the individual concerned. 134 00:23:18,689 --> 00:23:20,774 But we need to determine the location 135 00:23:20,858 --> 00:23:24,194 in case he is injured and the body has to be recovered. 136 00:23:24,278 --> 00:23:28,240 Arthur Frayn died. Reconstruction has begun. 137 00:23:32,745 --> 00:23:35,497 Ah, yes. There. 138 00:23:46,842 --> 00:23:49,303 That's an end to it. 139 00:23:50,971 --> 00:23:53,057 - Kill it, May. - No. 140 00:23:55,392 --> 00:23:58,312 May, for our love. 141 00:23:58,395 --> 00:24:00,856 - Consuella... - Don't. 142 00:24:00,940 --> 00:24:03,025 I will invoke a community vote. 143 00:24:03,108 --> 00:24:07,905 - The community will follow my intuition. - Then I will go to the Vortex. 144 00:24:10,491 --> 00:24:14,411 - You're hurting me. - Consuella, this is an experiment. 145 00:24:14,495 --> 00:24:16,830 We must find out how it came here. 146 00:24:17,873 --> 00:24:20,417 Where is Arthur Frayn? 147 00:24:20,501 --> 00:24:23,003 How did you come into the stone? 148 00:24:24,964 --> 00:24:28,717 Zardoz... The stone. 149 00:24:56,870 --> 00:24:59,248 (Woman) Terribly exciting. 150 00:24:59,331 --> 00:25:03,836 - But the suffering. - You can't equate their feelings with ours. 151 00:25:03,919 --> 00:25:06,005 It's just entertainment. 152 00:25:38,996 --> 00:25:41,790 (May) Again, this is a key image. 153 00:25:44,793 --> 00:25:46,879 My father was chosen. 154 00:25:47,546 --> 00:25:49,631 My mother was chosen. 155 00:25:50,716 --> 00:25:55,679 Only we could breed. Only the chosen. 156 00:25:55,763 --> 00:25:58,390 (May) Selective breeding, do you think? 157 00:25:58,474 --> 00:26:02,561 What has Arthur being doing out there all these years? 158 00:26:02,644 --> 00:26:08,275 He never discussed this in the Vortex. He will have to be thoroughly investigated. 159 00:26:12,154 --> 00:26:15,282 No one else wanted to run the outlands. 160 00:26:17,076 --> 00:26:20,954 He's an artist. He does it with imagination. 161 00:26:30,464 --> 00:26:34,259 (Zed) I love to see them running. I love the moment of their death, 162 00:26:34,343 --> 00:26:36,845 when I am one with Zardoz. 163 00:26:56,073 --> 00:26:58,575 Obscenely decaying flesh. 164 00:26:59,868 --> 00:27:03,622 The sweet scent of putrefaction already in the air. 165 00:27:04,998 --> 00:27:07,709 He's a fine, strong beast, dear May. 166 00:27:08,710 --> 00:27:13,924 - What exactly do you want to do with him? - A full genetic study. Break its DNA code. 167 00:27:14,007 --> 00:27:18,846 See if there are evolutional changes since ours were analysed 200 years ago. 168 00:27:18,929 --> 00:27:22,182 Discover any new hereditary diseases that may have emerged 169 00:27:22,266 --> 00:27:25,727 which might result in broadening our immunisation spectrum. 170 00:27:25,811 --> 00:27:30,065 Study its emotional and psychic elements in relation to its sociology. 171 00:27:30,149 --> 00:27:34,736 That all sounds respectably scientific, but what is May's underthought? 172 00:27:34,820 --> 00:27:38,407 Not long ago she was asking for new births, although we have no death. 173 00:27:38,490 --> 00:27:42,286 We are perfectly stabilised. We said "no" to May. 174 00:27:42,369 --> 00:27:45,873 Now she wants to bring in this animal from the outside. 175 00:27:45,956 --> 00:27:51,044 Think of our equilibrium. Remember the delicate balance we must maintain. 176 00:27:51,128 --> 00:27:54,840 The presence will dismay our tranquillity. 177 00:27:54,923 --> 00:27:58,677 May is a great scientist, but she also has destructive tendencies. 178 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,763 We have means of controlling it. We are not so vulnerable. 179 00:28:01,847 --> 00:28:05,267 Look at it. It knows its life is at stake, 180 00:28:05,350 --> 00:28:08,604 otherwise it would rape and kill as it always has. 181 00:28:08,687 --> 00:28:10,772 (Murmurs of disagreement) 182 00:28:12,232 --> 00:28:16,320 - You can see the disrupting effect. - Let's keep it. 183 00:28:16,403 --> 00:28:19,740 Anything to relieve the boredom. 184 00:28:19,823 --> 00:28:23,702 I want to see more of its memories. 185 00:28:23,785 --> 00:28:25,996 This is a psychic disturbance. 186 00:28:26,079 --> 00:28:29,208 Avalow, what does it portend for the future? 187 00:28:29,291 --> 00:28:33,337 How did we conjure up a monster in our midst? 188 00:28:33,420 --> 00:28:35,505 And Why? 189 00:28:37,466 --> 00:28:40,177 That is the question we must answer. 190 00:28:43,722 --> 00:28:46,850 Well, you've set the fur flying, my friend. 191 00:28:53,690 --> 00:28:57,027 I wonder what's going on inside your pea brain, hm? 192 00:28:58,070 --> 00:29:01,198 I like you, you sly old monster. 193 00:29:03,075 --> 00:29:05,160 Do you hear? 194 00:29:07,704 --> 00:29:09,790 (Chirrup) 195 00:29:12,209 --> 00:29:14,294 For. 196 00:29:15,087 --> 00:29:17,547 Against. 197 00:29:17,631 --> 00:29:19,716 Verdict. 198 00:29:20,509 --> 00:29:22,052 (Chirrup) 199 00:29:22,135 --> 00:29:25,055 Congratulations. You live. 200 00:29:26,598 --> 00:29:28,976 For three weeks. 201 00:29:29,059 --> 00:29:31,144 Zed. 202 00:29:54,501 --> 00:29:57,212 I'll examine him later, in the dome. 203 00:30:01,091 --> 00:30:04,011 (Man) Morning, Monster. Time for work. 204 00:30:17,733 --> 00:30:22,529 All right, let's stop all the nonsense, shall we? Where's Arthur Frayn? 205 00:30:24,531 --> 00:30:29,119 Ever hear the expression "if looks could kill"? Well, here they can. 206 00:30:30,954 --> 00:30:33,457 There's no need to pretend innocence with me. 207 00:30:33,540 --> 00:30:37,711 I'm in Arthur Frayn's confidence. I know more than you think. 208 00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:42,674 You're saying nothing. All right. We'll wait and see. 209 00:30:45,260 --> 00:30:48,805 Don't be sullen. I'm gonna look after you. 210 00:30:48,889 --> 00:30:52,434 Whenever you're ready to, just ask me questions. 211 00:30:56,355 --> 00:30:58,440 Anything at all. 212 00:31:04,654 --> 00:31:10,702 This is where you'll be working for me each morning. Menial tasks. Nothing too taxing. 213 00:31:15,540 --> 00:31:19,795 - Is this your god's house? - It's God you're seeking, is it? 214 00:31:19,878 --> 00:31:22,381 Well, here we are. 215 00:31:23,298 --> 00:31:27,511 Gods, goddesses, kings and queens. 216 00:31:27,594 --> 00:31:29,679 Take your pick. 217 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,895 - But they're all dead. - Dead? 218 00:31:36,978 --> 00:31:39,189 Died of boredom. 219 00:31:39,272 --> 00:31:41,358 (Man laughs) 220 00:31:53,412 --> 00:31:57,290 That's wrong. It's wrong. 221 00:31:57,374 --> 00:32:00,210 It is catalogued according to your instructions. 222 00:32:00,293 --> 00:32:03,338 I told you to analyse design growth across all makes of car, 223 00:32:03,422 --> 00:32:07,092 not just a chronological list from one manufacturer. 224 00:32:07,175 --> 00:32:09,428 A much more complex program. 225 00:32:09,511 --> 00:32:14,307 Shall I seek Vortex consent for a longer program? Shall I seek Vortex consent... 226 00:32:14,391 --> 00:32:16,476 - Yes. - It will take time. 227 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,271 There is a stack-up on some circuits. 228 00:32:20,439 --> 00:32:23,567 Well, I've got time, and plenty of it. 229 00:32:28,655 --> 00:32:31,116 Three weeks. 230 00:32:31,199 --> 00:32:33,285 Define three weeks. 231 00:32:33,368 --> 00:32:37,080 21 days, 504 hours, 232 00:32:37,164 --> 00:32:40,000 30,240 minutes, 233 00:32:40,083 --> 00:32:43,420 -1,514,400... - (Clock chimes) 234 00:32:44,963 --> 00:32:47,966 Do you mean he'd never seen a clock before? 235 00:32:48,049 --> 00:32:50,135 Obviously not. 236 00:32:50,218 --> 00:32:52,304 (Laughter) 237 00:33:01,605 --> 00:33:05,150 - (Girl) Are you not taking food with us, May? - (May) No. 238 00:33:05,942 --> 00:33:08,320 (May) Come, Zed. This way. 239 00:33:08,403 --> 00:33:12,324 - She's taking her studies very seriously. - She only has three weeks. 240 00:33:12,407 --> 00:33:16,119 - Do you know yet how the Brutal came here? - No conclusion. 241 00:33:16,203 --> 00:33:18,705 Insufficient data received. 242 00:33:25,462 --> 00:33:28,173 Go in. Go on. 243 00:34:04,751 --> 00:34:06,211 (Heartbeat) 244 00:34:06,294 --> 00:34:10,799 - Look into the ring. - No retina abnormalities. 245 00:34:10,882 --> 00:34:13,343 Fundus normal. 246 00:34:13,426 --> 00:34:17,055 Disc and retinal vessels normal. 247 00:34:17,138 --> 00:34:20,475 No haemorrhages or exudates. 248 00:34:20,559 --> 00:34:22,936 Macular area clear. 249 00:34:23,019 --> 00:34:28,608 Attention. Continuation of the trial of George Saden of Vortex 4. 250 00:34:28,692 --> 00:34:33,697 George Saden, accused of transmitting a negative aura in second level. 251 00:34:35,699 --> 00:34:37,784 This is not so. 252 00:34:39,286 --> 00:34:43,873 I have studied our social, emotional substructures for 140 years. 253 00:34:45,458 --> 00:34:48,753 These thoughts are constructive criticisms. 254 00:34:50,130 --> 00:34:52,215 Pyramidical. 255 00:34:53,091 --> 00:34:55,594 I am innocent of psychic violence. 256 00:34:58,263 --> 00:35:03,476 As you examine my face and eyes, you will see that this is true. 257 00:35:07,856 --> 00:35:08,982 (AH) He's lying. 258 00:35:48,146 --> 00:35:50,649 (incomprehensible speech) 259 00:35:57,364 --> 00:36:00,075 (incomprehensible speech continues) 260 00:36:16,091 --> 00:36:18,593 Are you looking for the head, Monster? 261 00:36:18,677 --> 00:36:24,182 It's gone. Off on its endless journey from Vortex to Vortex. 262 00:36:24,265 --> 00:36:28,019 Round and round, like me and the bread, for ever and ever. 263 00:36:28,103 --> 00:36:30,188 (Moaning) 264 00:36:35,985 --> 00:36:38,905 - Will he be punished for that? - Of course. 265 00:36:41,116 --> 00:36:43,827 But you have no police, no exterminators. 266 00:36:43,910 --> 00:36:46,079 But we discuss it endlessly. 267 00:36:46,162 --> 00:36:50,750 Every little sin and misdemeanour, raked over and over. 268 00:36:50,834 --> 00:36:54,546 - So what happens to him then? - He'll get six months at least. 269 00:36:54,629 --> 00:36:58,049 - Prison? - Ageing. 270 00:36:58,133 --> 00:37:00,510 - Ageing? - Yes. I'm getting old myself. 271 00:37:00,593 --> 00:37:05,306 Three months here, a year there. These sentences add up. 272 00:37:05,390 --> 00:37:08,768 So if you're bad often enough, you'll die. 273 00:37:08,852 --> 00:37:11,980 They make you old, but they don't let you die. 274 00:37:13,356 --> 00:37:17,152 - So what's to stop you killing yourself? - I do now and again. 275 00:37:17,235 --> 00:37:21,364 But the eternal tabernacle simply rebuilds me. 276 00:37:21,448 --> 00:37:25,076 - Would you like to see immortality at work? - Yes. 277 00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:27,662 Well, get a move on, then. 278 00:37:31,249 --> 00:37:34,335 This is where they live - the Renegades. 279 00:37:34,419 --> 00:37:37,380 They're condemned to an eternity of senility. 280 00:37:37,464 --> 00:37:40,467 We provide them with food, but they are shunned. 281 00:37:40,550 --> 00:37:44,095 They're malicious and vicious, so in and out fast. 282 00:37:50,268 --> 00:37:52,979 I myself feel quite at home in there. 283 00:38:01,863 --> 00:38:03,948 Loamer. 284 00:38:04,032 --> 00:38:05,825 Gray. 285 00:38:05,909 --> 00:38:08,411 I loved this girl once, Monster. 286 00:38:10,455 --> 00:38:12,540 You idle apathetic! 287 00:38:13,666 --> 00:38:15,752 Melancholy sight. 288 00:38:20,048 --> 00:38:22,091 Grayler. 289 00:38:22,175 --> 00:38:23,718 Bone. 290 00:38:23,802 --> 00:38:26,304 - (Bell) - Whoa there, boy. Whoa. 291 00:38:28,473 --> 00:38:33,061 You are asked to vote at the termination of the trial of George Saden. 292 00:38:33,144 --> 00:38:36,064 Final statement from the accused begins. 293 00:38:37,398 --> 00:38:41,778 I confess to the charges, but plead mitigation. 294 00:38:43,947 --> 00:38:46,825 I try to suppress these thoughts, 295 00:38:46,908 --> 00:38:51,913 but they leak out in second level through the head wound of my third death. 296 00:38:52,956 --> 00:38:55,041 I was imperfectly repaired. 297 00:38:55,124 --> 00:38:58,419 No. That is not true. 298 00:39:01,422 --> 00:39:04,801 - I think what I think. - That's more like it. 299 00:39:04,884 --> 00:39:07,387 I'm with you, George. 300 00:39:07,470 --> 00:39:09,973 (George) I hate you all. 301 00:39:11,474 --> 00:39:13,977 I hate you all. 302 00:39:14,269 --> 00:39:16,354 I hate you all. 303 00:39:17,647 --> 00:39:20,108 Especially me. 304 00:39:20,483 --> 00:39:24,445 Vote please. Vote please. 305 00:39:24,529 --> 00:39:27,490 I'm voting for him, Monster. 306 00:39:27,574 --> 00:39:30,702 It won't do any good. Nothing ever does. 307 00:39:31,870 --> 00:39:33,621 Absolute acquittal. 308 00:39:38,585 --> 00:39:41,170 Go on, Monster. 309 00:39:41,254 --> 00:39:43,339 Help yourself. 310 00:40:03,443 --> 00:40:06,988 Didn't Zardoz tell you about the apathetics? 311 00:40:08,740 --> 00:40:10,825 It's a disease. 312 00:40:12,368 --> 00:40:16,539 And it's slowly creeping through all the Vortexes. 313 00:40:18,416 --> 00:40:21,336 That's why Zardoz made you grow crops. 314 00:40:22,545 --> 00:40:27,300 To feed these people. We can't support them any more. 315 00:40:30,345 --> 00:40:34,057 Apathetic or Renegade - make your choice. 316 00:40:36,225 --> 00:40:38,937 Yes. A bit frightening, isn't it? 317 00:40:57,288 --> 00:40:59,832 Very good. 318 00:40:59,916 --> 00:41:02,627 Now you're beginning to show yourself. 319 00:41:02,710 --> 00:41:05,463 Final votes. For: nine. 320 00:41:05,546 --> 00:41:09,175 Against: 586. Undecided: 86. 321 00:41:09,258 --> 00:41:13,137 Sentence: George Saden will be aged five years. 322 00:41:13,221 --> 00:41:15,306 Welcome to paradise. 323 00:41:20,770 --> 00:41:26,359 Penis erection was one of the many unsolved evolutionary mysteries of sexuality. 324 00:41:26,442 --> 00:41:31,280 Every society had an elaborate subculture devoted to erotic stimulation. 325 00:41:31,364 --> 00:41:35,410 But nobody could quite determine how this 326 00:41:35,493 --> 00:41:37,578 becomes this. 327 00:41:38,705 --> 00:41:41,249 We all know the physical process involved, 328 00:41:41,332 --> 00:41:44,877 but not the link between stimulus and response. 329 00:41:45,878 --> 00:41:49,841 There seems to be a correlation with violence, with fear. 330 00:41:49,924 --> 00:41:53,386 Many hanged men died with an erection. 331 00:41:53,469 --> 00:41:58,683 You are all more or less aware of our intensive researches into the subject. 332 00:41:58,766 --> 00:42:03,730 Sexuality declined probably because we no longer needed to procreate. 333 00:42:03,813 --> 00:42:08,401 Eternals soon discovered that erection was impossible to achieve. 334 00:42:10,111 --> 00:42:13,698 And we are no longer victims of this violent, convulsive act, 335 00:42:13,781 --> 00:42:16,909 which so debased women and betrayed men. 336 00:42:17,452 --> 00:42:23,875 This Brutal, like other primates living unselfconscious lives, 337 00:42:23,958 --> 00:42:28,046 is capable of spontaneous and reflexive erection. 338 00:42:28,546 --> 00:42:31,007 As part of May's studies of this creature, 339 00:42:31,090 --> 00:42:36,637 we are trying to find once again the link between erotic stimulation and erection. 340 00:42:36,721 --> 00:42:42,977 This experiment will measure autoerotic stimulation of the cortex leading to erection. 341 00:42:43,061 --> 00:42:45,146 Play. 342 00:42:56,699 --> 00:43:02,121 The tracer indicates that this image is not erotically stimulating to the Brutal. 343 00:43:05,333 --> 00:43:06,417 Change. 344 00:43:25,019 --> 00:43:28,064 (Man) This doesn't seem to affect him either. 345 00:43:57,301 --> 00:44:00,221 (Man) Consuella's done the trick herself. 346 00:44:06,811 --> 00:44:08,146 (Squawking) 347 00:44:21,993 --> 00:44:25,454 The Brutal is now in fourth hour of unconscious sleep. 348 00:44:25,538 --> 00:44:30,418 It's astonishing that homo sapiens spends so much time in this vulnerable condition, 349 00:44:30,501 --> 00:44:33,004 at the mercy of its enemies. 350 00:44:34,213 --> 00:44:37,133 Is there data on sleeping patterns of primitive people? 351 00:44:37,216 --> 00:44:39,719 - Is that a priority request? - Yes. 352 00:44:42,054 --> 00:44:46,225 I'm now going to test its waking response to danger stimuli. 353 00:45:05,703 --> 00:45:07,872 Does it please you to sleep? 354 00:45:07,955 --> 00:45:09,332 Yes. 355 00:45:09,415 --> 00:45:11,375 Why? 356 00:45:11,459 --> 00:45:13,544 I have dreams. 357 00:45:14,629 --> 00:45:16,923 (Computer) Sleep was necessary for man 358 00:45:17,006 --> 00:45:21,177 when his waking and unconscious lives were separated. 359 00:45:21,260 --> 00:45:24,305 As Eternals achieved total consciousness, 360 00:45:24,388 --> 00:45:30,019 sleep became obsolete, and second-level meditation took its place. 361 00:45:31,312 --> 00:45:34,440 Sleep was closely connected with death. 362 00:45:36,651 --> 00:45:40,363 (May) Look at it. It's you. 363 00:45:40,446 --> 00:45:43,991 Your genetic structure. Your life chart. 364 00:45:45,826 --> 00:45:47,912 Look. 365 00:45:53,584 --> 00:45:55,670 You are a mutant. 366 00:45:56,629 --> 00:46:00,508 Second, maybe third generation. 367 00:46:00,591 --> 00:46:02,677 Therefore genetically stable. 368 00:46:03,844 --> 00:46:06,097 Enlarged brain. 369 00:46:06,180 --> 00:46:08,891 Total recall. 370 00:46:08,975 --> 00:46:11,060 Your potential is... 371 00:46:12,478 --> 00:46:15,606 - Your breeding potential... - Breeding? 372 00:46:16,357 --> 00:46:20,569 Frayn. How did you get into the Vortex? What is your purpose? 373 00:46:21,821 --> 00:46:24,824 I'm just an exterminator. I know nothing. 374 00:46:25,658 --> 00:46:30,329 You must know that you're mentally and physically vastly superior 375 00:46:30,413 --> 00:46:32,581 to me or anyone else here. 376 00:46:34,458 --> 00:46:36,961 You could be anything. 377 00:46:37,044 --> 00:46:39,130 Could do anything. 378 00:46:41,966 --> 00:46:43,884 - You must be destroyed. - Why? 379 00:46:43,968 --> 00:46:48,889 - Because you could destroy us. - As you destroyed the rest of life? 380 00:46:48,973 --> 00:46:52,518 Can you unknow what you know now about me? 381 00:46:55,146 --> 00:46:59,025 For the sake of science, I will keep this knowledge from the others, 382 00:46:59,108 --> 00:47:01,610 for the moment, keep you alive. 383 00:47:02,236 --> 00:47:05,740 But you must follow me. Obey me. 384 00:47:05,823 --> 00:47:08,909 Be circumspect. Make no disruption. 385 00:47:08,993 --> 00:47:12,913 Quietly do whatever work is given you. I will watch over you. 386 00:47:14,248 --> 00:47:16,876 Get a move on, you silly beast. 387 00:47:18,544 --> 00:47:22,256 Friend, put that thing outside. 388 00:47:25,551 --> 00:47:27,762 Anyone else disturbed? 389 00:47:31,390 --> 00:47:36,687 Let's take yet another boringly democratic vote, shall we, Consuella? 390 00:47:36,771 --> 00:47:39,648 It's Friend's day to make the food. 391 00:47:39,732 --> 00:47:42,443 He must do this without help as we all do. 392 00:47:43,819 --> 00:47:49,367 It's fundamental to our society that we do everything on a basis of absolute equality. 393 00:47:49,450 --> 00:47:52,995 - And Friend knows that perfectly well. - Yes or no? 394 00:47:54,872 --> 00:47:57,166 Potatoes? Yes or no? 395 00:48:00,628 --> 00:48:02,713 I say get more Zeds to do the work. 396 00:48:02,797 --> 00:48:06,175 We have eternal life and yet we sentence ourselves to drudgery. 397 00:48:06,258 --> 00:48:10,054 I tell you, I'm sick of 200 years of washing-up. 398 00:48:11,055 --> 00:48:16,227 And I'm sick of pitting my bare hands against the blind, brute stupidity of nature! 399 00:48:16,310 --> 00:48:20,731 - You'd better do something about this. - Consuella is right. 400 00:48:20,815 --> 00:48:23,859 Zed is being kept here for scientific study. 401 00:48:23,943 --> 00:48:27,530 It can earn its keep on the land, but it should not work as a servant. 402 00:48:27,613 --> 00:48:31,742 Time enough has gone to finish your study, May. Destroy it. 403 00:48:34,161 --> 00:48:36,247 (Agitated muttering) 404 00:48:39,708 --> 00:48:42,545 (Consuella) See how it disrupts our community. 405 00:48:42,628 --> 00:48:47,133 - It is almost over. - How can you speak such in front of Zed? 406 00:48:47,216 --> 00:48:50,386 It feels. I sense that. 407 00:48:52,138 --> 00:48:54,056 - Vote! - (Man) Yes, vote! 408 00:48:57,351 --> 00:48:59,854 (Woman) Give your votes. 409 00:49:23,544 --> 00:49:27,173 May has been given seven days to complete her study. 410 00:49:27,256 --> 00:49:29,341 Then Zed will be terminated. 411 00:49:29,425 --> 00:49:31,510 (Muttering) 412 00:49:32,136 --> 00:49:34,221 (Sings sustained note) 413 00:49:39,018 --> 00:49:41,937 The monster is a mirror, 414 00:49:43,689 --> 00:49:46,609 and when we look at him, 415 00:49:47,276 --> 00:49:51,655 we look into our own hidden faces. 416 00:49:51,739 --> 00:49:55,284 Meditate on this at second level. 417 00:50:00,706 --> 00:50:02,791 No. 418 00:50:03,792 --> 00:50:05,544 No. 419 00:50:05,628 --> 00:50:09,924 I will... I will not go to second level. 420 00:50:10,007 --> 00:50:12,092 No. 421 00:50:25,564 --> 00:50:27,650 No! 422 00:50:28,859 --> 00:50:32,404 I will... I will not go to second level with you! 423 00:50:34,198 --> 00:50:36,951 I will... No! 424 00:50:39,578 --> 00:50:42,498 I will not be one mind with you! 425 00:50:43,749 --> 00:50:47,461 I know what... I know what May wants with Zed. 426 00:50:47,545 --> 00:50:49,630 No! 427 00:50:53,008 --> 00:50:54,760 No. 428 00:50:58,973 --> 00:51:02,101 The Vortex is an obscenity! 429 00:51:04,436 --> 00:51:05,980 I... No. 430 00:51:06,397 --> 00:51:08,399 I hate all women. 431 00:51:08,482 --> 00:51:11,610 Birth, fertility, 432 00:51:12,695 --> 00:51:14,530 superstition. 433 00:51:15,322 --> 00:51:18,409 Friend is beyond redemption. 434 00:51:23,664 --> 00:51:25,791 - Renegade. - (Woman) Renegade. 435 00:51:26,875 --> 00:51:30,671 Friend is Renegade. 436 00:51:34,383 --> 00:51:36,760 He must be cast out. 437 00:51:36,844 --> 00:51:39,221 He is no longer one with us. 438 00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:42,308 - Renegade. - Cast him out. 439 00:51:42,391 --> 00:51:44,476 No! 440 00:51:49,773 --> 00:51:50,983 Renegade. 441 00:51:53,902 --> 00:51:54,945 Renegade. 442 00:51:56,864 --> 00:51:57,948 (AH) Renegade! 443 00:52:35,569 --> 00:52:40,783 Caution. You are approaching the periphery shield of Vortex 4. 444 00:52:40,991 --> 00:52:46,163 Caution. You are approaching the periphery shield of Vortex 4. 445 00:52:49,833 --> 00:52:52,211 (Caution is repeated) 446 00:53:13,857 --> 00:53:15,943 (Music) 447 00:53:29,540 --> 00:53:32,042 (Zed) Have you seen Friend? 448 00:53:35,921 --> 00:53:38,632 Friend. I seek Friend. 449 00:53:39,883 --> 00:53:41,969 Ff lend. 450 00:53:42,469 --> 00:53:43,679 Mm? 451 00:53:46,014 --> 00:53:48,267 I seek Friend. 452 00:53:51,895 --> 00:53:52,813 Ff lend. 453 00:53:58,902 --> 00:54:00,988 Old Friend. 454 00:54:02,740 --> 00:54:04,825 This is your fault. 455 00:54:08,704 --> 00:54:12,416 Now hear this, you old farts! 456 00:54:12,499 --> 00:54:16,587 Meet this creature from the outside world. 457 00:54:16,670 --> 00:54:20,549 - This man has the gift of death. - Death? 458 00:54:20,632 --> 00:54:24,219 He can mete it out, and he can die himself. 459 00:54:25,262 --> 00:54:27,347 He is mortal. 460 00:54:28,140 --> 00:54:30,851 - (Woman) He can die! - (All mutter) Die. 461 00:54:31,518 --> 00:54:34,480 - Shall we give him back to death? - Yes! 462 00:54:34,563 --> 00:54:37,065 - Silent death? - (All) Yes! 463 00:54:37,900 --> 00:54:39,985 - Glorious death? - Yes! 464 00:54:45,824 --> 00:54:51,997 May, the scientist, wants him to spawn another generation to suffer our agonies. 465 00:55:26,657 --> 00:55:28,742 Stop! 466 00:55:29,409 --> 00:55:32,079 Stop! 467 00:55:36,041 --> 00:55:38,627 What is it you want? 468 00:55:38,710 --> 00:55:42,130 Sweet death. Oblivion. 469 00:55:47,719 --> 00:55:50,472 For yourself, or for the whole Vortex? 470 00:55:52,140 --> 00:55:54,726 For everybody. 471 00:55:54,810 --> 00:55:57,771 An end to the human race 472 00:55:57,855 --> 00:56:01,650 that has plagued this pretty planet for far too long. 473 00:56:02,192 --> 00:56:04,278 You stink of despair. 474 00:56:05,529 --> 00:56:07,406 Fight back. 475 00:56:07,489 --> 00:56:10,492 Fight for death, if that's what you want. 476 00:56:11,493 --> 00:56:14,621 I thought at first you were the one to help. 477 00:56:15,998 --> 00:56:18,625 But it's hopeless. 478 00:56:18,709 --> 00:56:21,086 All my powers have gone. 479 00:56:21,461 --> 00:56:24,214 Where is it, the tabernacle? 480 00:56:24,298 --> 00:56:26,675 The tabernacle is... 481 00:56:32,347 --> 00:56:35,767 - I can't remember. - Who made it? 482 00:56:35,851 --> 00:56:38,979 Someone must know how to break it. 483 00:56:39,521 --> 00:56:41,565 Yes. 484 00:56:41,648 --> 00:56:44,151 You can meet him for yourself. 485 00:56:45,611 --> 00:56:51,575 One of our founders. One of the geniuses that discovered immortality. 486 00:56:52,743 --> 00:56:55,829 He found he didn't like it for himself. 487 00:56:55,913 --> 00:57:00,500 He didn't conform, so this is what his grateful people did to him. 488 00:57:05,005 --> 00:57:07,090 We want to die! 489 00:57:08,759 --> 00:57:11,261 - What's the trick? - Death. 490 00:57:17,309 --> 00:57:19,394 Death. 491 00:57:21,021 --> 00:57:23,649 Talk to May. 492 00:57:25,525 --> 00:57:27,611 May. 493 00:57:28,487 --> 00:57:30,572 May! 494 00:57:31,698 --> 00:57:33,784 May! 495 00:57:34,826 --> 00:57:36,912 May! 496 00:57:45,545 --> 00:57:48,173 May, I want your help. 497 00:57:48,256 --> 00:57:51,510 You want to destroy us. The tabernacle. 498 00:57:52,344 --> 00:57:53,762 I want the truth. 499 00:57:53,845 --> 00:57:57,391 You must give the truth if you wish to receive it. 500 00:57:58,517 --> 00:58:00,602 I'm ready. 501 00:58:04,272 --> 00:58:08,026 - It'll burn you. - Then burn me. 502 00:58:08,777 --> 00:58:11,113 Tell me everything. 503 00:58:15,117 --> 00:58:17,369 Show me pictures. 504 00:58:18,203 --> 00:58:22,374 Open your mind, your memory. 505 00:58:22,457 --> 00:58:24,960 Go back to the beginning. 506 00:58:27,754 --> 00:58:30,048 - Open. ' (Zed) Zar... 507 00:58:30,674 --> 00:58:32,843 - Open. - Zar... 508 00:58:33,385 --> 00:58:35,887 - Open. - Zardoz. 509 00:58:37,556 --> 00:58:41,685 (Zed) Zardoz gave us the gun. We were the chosen ones. 510 00:58:41,768 --> 00:58:43,562 (May) What was your task? 511 00:58:43,645 --> 00:58:47,816 To kill the Brutals who multiply and are legion. 512 00:58:50,110 --> 00:58:55,323 We rode out. We roamed the outlands. We killed. It was enough. 513 00:58:55,407 --> 00:58:57,909 Man was born to hunt and kill. 514 00:59:01,246 --> 00:59:03,999 - (May) And then? - (Zed) Then one day... 515 00:59:04,082 --> 00:59:06,001 - Yes? - Something happened. 516 00:59:06,084 --> 00:59:08,253 It changed everything. 517 00:59:08,545 --> 00:59:11,715 I lost my innocence. 518 00:59:11,798 --> 00:59:14,301 A face in the window. 519 00:59:45,707 --> 00:59:49,002 - (May) Who was he? - I don't know. 520 00:59:49,086 --> 00:59:53,340 He wore a mask. He led me on, like a game. 521 01:00:06,353 --> 01:00:08,438 Why did you spare him? 522 01:00:08,522 --> 01:00:11,441 Something... I don't know. 523 01:00:26,206 --> 01:00:28,917 - Had you seen a book before? - Never. 524 01:00:33,171 --> 01:00:36,174 - You learnt to read? - Yes. 525 01:00:36,258 --> 01:00:39,219 - How long did it take? - It came easy. 526 01:00:39,302 --> 01:00:44,599 I read everything. I learnt all that had been hidden from me. 527 01:00:44,683 --> 01:00:49,271 I learnt what the world had been before the darkness fell. 528 01:00:49,354 --> 01:00:52,899 Then, one day, I found the book. 529 01:00:55,068 --> 01:00:58,446 The book called... called... 530 01:00:58,530 --> 01:01:02,367 What was the book? What was the name of the book? 531 01:01:02,450 --> 01:01:05,704 - I don't remember! - Tell me. Show me. 532 01:01:05,787 --> 01:01:09,040 - You must tell me. - No! No! 533 01:01:09,749 --> 01:01:11,251 Za rd oz! 534 01:01:12,752 --> 01:01:15,839 Tell me. Show me. You must tell me. 535 01:01:15,922 --> 01:01:18,884 - I can't. - Tell me how you came in the stone. 536 01:01:18,967 --> 01:01:22,262 - I don't know. - Of course you know. 537 01:01:24,598 --> 01:01:27,726 - You knew Arthur was Zardoz, didn't you? - No. 538 01:01:30,061 --> 01:01:32,105 - You killed Arthur, didn't you? - No! 539 01:01:32,189 --> 01:01:35,233 Show me the whole image! What are you doing? 540 01:01:41,323 --> 01:01:44,075 You murdered your own god, by accident. 541 01:01:46,453 --> 01:01:50,916 Or was it an accident? Now show me that book. 542 01:01:50,999 --> 01:01:55,754 What did you find in that book? Show it to me. 543 01:01:56,671 --> 01:01:59,591 (Zed) It's a trick! A trick! 544 01:01:59,674 --> 01:02:01,676 What was a trick? Tell me. 545 01:02:01,760 --> 01:02:03,970 Zardoz said, "Stop." 546 01:02:04,054 --> 01:02:06,306 He said, "No more." 547 01:02:06,389 --> 01:02:09,684 - No more what? - No more killing. 548 01:02:09,768 --> 01:02:12,395 - He told you to take prisoners? - Yes. 549 01:02:12,479 --> 01:02:14,356 - To make slaves? - Yes. 550 01:02:14,439 --> 01:02:16,733 - To cultivate instead of kill? - Yes. 551 01:02:16,816 --> 01:02:18,401 - To grow wheat? - Yes! 552 01:02:18,485 --> 01:02:22,322 - Did you need wheat? - No. We ate meat. 553 01:02:22,822 --> 01:02:26,368 Zardoz betrayed us. We were hunters, not farmers. 554 01:02:27,827 --> 01:02:30,956 Show how you came into the stone. 555 01:02:32,165 --> 01:02:34,209 Show. 556 01:02:35,252 --> 01:02:37,462 (Zed) It was easy. 557 01:02:37,545 --> 01:02:41,508 Each season Zardoz came down to take our harvest. 558 01:02:44,052 --> 01:02:47,180 Zardoz! Zardoz! 559 01:03:04,072 --> 01:03:07,200 - (May) Your friends were mutants, too? - Yes. 560 01:03:07,909 --> 01:03:09,577 - You had a plot? - Yes. 561 01:03:09,661 --> 01:03:11,830 - Revenge? - The truth. 562 01:03:11,913 --> 01:03:14,499 We wanted the truth. 563 01:03:14,582 --> 01:03:19,004 - I told them about the book. - Show it. What is the book? 564 01:03:19,087 --> 01:03:20,964 No. No. 565 01:03:21,047 --> 01:03:23,633 No! Zardoz! 566 01:03:23,717 --> 01:03:27,887 (Zardoz) Zardoz is pleased. 567 01:03:27,971 --> 01:03:32,475 - (May) So that was it. - (Zed) The Wizard of Oz. 568 01:03:32,559 --> 01:03:34,811 Za rd oz. 569 01:03:34,894 --> 01:03:37,522 The Wizard of Oz was a fairy story 570 01:03:37,605 --> 01:03:42,569 about an old man who frightened people with a loud voice and a big mask. 571 01:03:42,652 --> 01:03:48,199 (May) It was Arthur Frayn's idea. A simple way of controlling the outlands. 572 01:03:48,283 --> 01:03:50,785 (Zed) But remember the end of the story. 573 01:03:50,869 --> 01:03:54,039 They looked behind the mask and found the truth. 574 01:03:54,122 --> 01:03:59,753 I looked behind the mask and I saw the truth - Zardoz. 575 01:04:00,670 --> 01:04:03,673 (May) So that was your plan - to stow away in the head. 576 01:04:03,757 --> 01:04:04,632 Yes. 577 01:04:04,716 --> 01:04:07,260 What was your purpose? To kill Arthur? 578 01:04:07,344 --> 01:04:12,182 To penetrate the Vortex? To find a way in for your friends to destroy us? 579 01:04:13,224 --> 01:04:16,519 - He made us killers. - Revenge. You wanted revenge. 580 01:04:16,603 --> 01:04:18,688 The truth. The truth! 581 01:04:21,441 --> 01:04:24,069 The truth! The truth! 582 01:04:24,486 --> 01:04:26,571 The truth! The truth! 583 01:04:30,367 --> 01:04:32,535 Truth or revenge? 584 01:04:32,619 --> 01:04:34,704 Revenge! 585 01:04:36,331 --> 01:04:38,416 Revenge. 586 01:04:41,836 --> 01:04:45,298 I remember feelings such as those. 587 01:04:45,382 --> 01:04:47,467 They stir in me. 588 01:04:53,640 --> 01:04:56,226 So this is your scientific investigation. 589 01:04:58,395 --> 01:05:01,064 There's another word for it - bestiality. 590 01:05:02,941 --> 01:05:05,777 For this you will be aged 50 years, no less. 591 01:05:05,860 --> 01:05:09,823 No man, woman or beast will ever desire you again. 592 01:05:49,487 --> 01:05:51,573 (Screaming) 593 01:05:59,330 --> 01:06:01,875 He can't see. 594 01:06:01,958 --> 01:06:04,043 He's blind. 595 01:06:10,133 --> 01:06:12,844 (Consuella) We can no longer quell him. 596 01:06:13,595 --> 01:06:15,930 He's out of control. 597 01:06:16,014 --> 01:06:19,559 We must now become hunters and killers ourselves. 598 01:06:26,816 --> 01:06:28,902 Come. 599 01:06:32,614 --> 01:06:38,453 This will restore your sight and you will see more and deeper than you ever saw before. 600 01:06:45,043 --> 01:06:51,216 I've seen men rape an old crippled woman 601 01:06:53,343 --> 01:06:55,428 in a wet ditch. 602 01:07:04,896 --> 01:07:07,398 I see now why you are here. 603 01:07:10,652 --> 01:07:14,405 You are the one. The liberator. 604 01:07:14,489 --> 01:07:16,074 Death. 605 01:07:18,201 --> 01:07:24,040 I will help you if, when the time comes, you will set me free. 606 01:07:27,085 --> 01:07:32,507 You have great strength, but there are times when that strength will fail you. 607 01:07:36,344 --> 01:07:39,472 Eat this when the need arises. 608 01:07:50,984 --> 01:07:54,571 This place is built on lies, and suffering. 609 01:07:55,697 --> 01:07:58,408 How could you do what you did to us? 610 01:07:59,826 --> 01:08:01,911 The world was dying. 611 01:08:04,872 --> 01:08:08,751 We took all that was good, 612 01:08:08,835 --> 01:08:12,005 and made an oasis here. 613 01:08:13,464 --> 01:08:18,261 We few - the rich, the powerful, the clever - 614 01:08:19,387 --> 01:08:24,851 cut ourselves off to guard the knowledge and treasures of civilisation, 615 01:08:24,934 --> 01:08:28,062 as the world plunged into a dark age. 616 01:08:31,399 --> 01:08:36,613 To do this, we had to harden our hearts against the suffering outside. 617 01:08:42,076 --> 01:08:46,873 We are custodians of the past for an unknown future. 618 01:08:50,543 --> 01:08:55,173 You are the price we now pay for that isolation. 619 01:08:55,256 --> 01:09:01,304 You have brought hate and anger into the Vortex to infect us all. 620 01:09:09,729 --> 01:09:12,231 Kill him! Kill him! 621 01:09:34,003 --> 01:09:36,381 Kill him! Kill him! 622 01:09:56,401 --> 01:10:00,571 - (Man) It's indestructible! - (Avalow) No! No! it can't be done. 623 01:10:02,198 --> 01:10:04,283 (Man) No! 624 01:10:07,662 --> 01:10:09,747 (Yelling) 625 01:10:11,958 --> 01:10:14,377 (Screaming) 626 01:10:14,460 --> 01:10:16,546 (Coughing) 627 01:10:17,964 --> 01:10:23,261 Caution. You are approaching the periphery shield of Vortex 4. 628 01:10:26,764 --> 01:10:28,850 (Caution repeated) 629 01:10:40,027 --> 01:10:42,113 (Consuella) Ride round! 630 01:11:13,102 --> 01:11:15,188 (Shouting) 631 01:11:22,069 --> 01:11:25,531 (Consuella) He's somewhere in these buildings. Smoke him out. 632 01:11:25,615 --> 01:11:29,160 Cover the exits! Over there! 633 01:11:41,088 --> 01:11:43,591 (Man) We've got him trapped! 634 01:11:43,674 --> 01:11:45,760 (Low moaning) 635 01:12:46,821 --> 01:12:49,740 We take life from you. 636 01:13:16,183 --> 01:13:20,771 Life flows out of you and flows into us. 637 01:13:38,039 --> 01:13:40,124 (Neighing) 638 01:13:50,426 --> 01:13:52,929 (Consuella) Get him! Get him! 639 01:14:01,437 --> 01:14:03,522 (Consuella) Come on! 640 01:14:10,237 --> 01:14:12,323 (Woman) Look over here. 641 01:14:15,034 --> 01:14:17,203 (Man) He's not here. 642 01:14:17,286 --> 01:14:19,163 (Woman) It's getting dark. 643 01:14:28,047 --> 01:14:31,425 - It's him! - They none of 'em could catch him! 644 01:14:33,010 --> 01:14:37,807 But he falls into the hands of the poor old Renegades. 645 01:14:39,141 --> 01:14:41,060 Death. 646 01:14:41,143 --> 01:14:43,646 Bring death to you all. 647 01:14:44,897 --> 01:14:48,567 Find Friend. Take me to Friend. 648 01:14:48,651 --> 01:14:51,153 - What'd he say? - Shut up! 649 01:15:00,121 --> 01:15:03,332 (Woman) It's a miracle. We're apathetics. 650 01:15:03,416 --> 01:15:05,626 Tell us how, please! 651 01:15:05,710 --> 01:15:07,795 We want some, too! 652 01:15:07,878 --> 01:15:10,715 We started chasing the Brutal. 653 01:15:10,798 --> 01:15:12,925 We got excited. 654 01:15:13,009 --> 01:15:16,303 We saw someone. We thought it was him. 655 01:15:16,387 --> 01:15:19,932 It wasn't, but we killed him anyway. 656 01:15:20,016 --> 01:15:22,184 And then we felt desire. 657 01:15:22,268 --> 01:15:27,064 Look at the excitement you've caused, you naughty girl. 658 01:15:30,192 --> 01:15:32,653 Secure all arms, weapons and food supplies. 659 01:15:32,737 --> 01:15:35,364 Work house to house, east to west down the valley. 660 01:15:35,448 --> 01:15:40,619 If you find the Brutal, destroy immediately. He's trapped. It's only a matter of time. 661 01:15:40,703 --> 01:15:42,788 Ff lend.Ff lend. 662 01:15:44,457 --> 01:15:46,959 Kiss the bride, dear Friend. 663 01:15:48,419 --> 01:15:50,504 Kiss the bride. 664 01:15:51,922 --> 01:15:55,468 You did well. I will take the bride. 665 01:15:56,385 --> 01:15:59,263 Death comes closer for us all. 666 01:15:59,346 --> 01:16:03,726 Find May. Tell her that Friend needs her. 667 01:16:17,198 --> 01:16:21,786 Friend, I cannot sanction this violence and destruction. 668 01:16:24,705 --> 01:16:29,293 It's too late, May. There's no going back. 669 01:16:29,376 --> 01:16:32,004 Don't destroy the Vortex. 670 01:16:32,088 --> 01:16:37,093 Let us renew it. A better breed could prosper here, given time. 671 01:16:37,176 --> 01:16:39,678 Time? 672 01:16:39,762 --> 01:16:42,264 Wasn't eternity enough? 673 01:16:42,348 --> 01:16:45,309 This place is against life. 674 01:16:45,392 --> 01:16:47,478 It must die. 675 01:16:55,653 --> 01:16:58,364 I have my followers. 676 01:16:58,447 --> 01:17:01,992 Inseminate us all, and we'll teach you all we know, 677 01:17:02,076 --> 01:17:05,412 give you all we have. 678 01:17:05,496 --> 01:17:08,791 Perhaps you can break the tabernacle, 679 01:17:08,874 --> 01:17:10,960 or be broken. 680 01:17:14,338 --> 01:17:16,423 An end to eternity. 681 01:17:17,383 --> 01:17:19,718 A higher form. 682 01:17:19,802 --> 01:17:21,220 Revenge. 683 01:17:32,940 --> 01:17:34,150 Charge! 684 01:17:34,233 --> 01:17:37,153 - How much time do we have? - (May) We will not work in time. 685 01:17:37,236 --> 01:17:40,865 You will take our knowledge by osmosis, out of time. 686 01:17:40,948 --> 01:17:44,910 We will touch-teach you, and you will give us your seed. 687 01:17:46,203 --> 01:17:51,625 (Woman) Where it is assumed that E75 equals R over M74, R being the ratio... 688 01:17:53,419 --> 01:17:58,549 (May) Contradictions differ in accordance with the different nature of different things. 689 01:17:58,632 --> 01:18:02,178 (Woman) ...Physical and geometrical assumptions. 690 01:18:04,138 --> 01:18:09,476 (May) in any given phenomenon or thing, the unity of opposites is conditional... 691 01:18:09,560 --> 01:18:11,979 Giustizia mosse il mio alto fattore: 692 01:18:12,062 --> 01:18:16,442 fecemi la divina podestate, la somma sapienza e il primo amore. 693 01:18:19,320 --> 01:18:24,158 (Woman) In many different ways, by making compensatory changes... 694 01:18:24,241 --> 01:18:27,494 Jeg ville skape den eneste kvinne séledes, 695 01:18:27,578 --> 01:18:32,917 sé om jeg ser at hun métte vékne... 696 01:18:36,462 --> 01:18:38,631 Le ciel est, par-dessus Ie toil, 697 01:18:38,714 --> 01:18:41,842 Si bleu, si calme! 698 01:18:41,926 --> 01:18:44,094 Un arbre, par-dessus Ie toil... 699 01:18:44,178 --> 01:18:47,806 Could twist the sinews of thy heart? 700 01:18:47,890 --> 01:18:51,268 And when thy heart began to beat, 701 01:18:51,352 --> 01:18:55,397 What dread hand? And what dread feet? 702 01:18:55,481 --> 01:18:58,817 ♪ The invisible worm 703 01:18:58,901 --> 01:19:01,946 ♪ That flies in the night 704 01:19:02,029 --> 01:19:07,493 ♪ Has found out thy bed of secret joy 705 01:19:07,576 --> 01:19:10,996 ...you pass into the city of woe. 706 01:19:11,080 --> 01:19:15,125 Through me you pass into eternal sorrow. 707 01:19:15,209 --> 01:19:18,837 Through me you pass among the forgotten people. 708 01:19:18,921 --> 01:19:21,006 (Woman singing) 709 01:19:28,597 --> 01:19:33,269 The law of the unity of opposites is the fundamental law of the universe. 710 01:19:33,352 --> 01:19:39,191 This law operates universally - in the natural world, human society or man's thinking. 711 01:19:43,988 --> 01:19:46,490 (Woman speaking Gaelic) 712 01:19:51,662 --> 01:19:56,417 The central nervous system no longer appears as a self-contained organ. 713 01:20:15,311 --> 01:20:18,647 (May) Now you know all that we know. 714 01:20:18,731 --> 01:20:21,442 It's a prison. A prison! 715 01:20:22,443 --> 01:20:25,696 No, it's an ark. A ship. 716 01:20:25,779 --> 01:20:27,781 A spaceship. 717 01:20:27,865 --> 01:20:32,536 All this technology was for travel to the distant stars. 718 01:20:32,619 --> 01:20:34,705 - Did you go? - Yes. 719 01:20:36,165 --> 01:20:38,917 Another dead end. 720 01:20:40,336 --> 01:20:44,840 (Zed) How did it come about, the Vortex? How did it start? 721 01:20:44,923 --> 01:20:50,095 They did it. They were the scientists, the best in the world. 722 01:20:50,179 --> 01:20:54,433 But they were middle-aged, too conditioned to mortality. 723 01:20:54,516 --> 01:21:00,272 They went Renegade. We were their offspring and we were born into Vortex life. 724 01:21:00,356 --> 01:21:06,403 We seal ourselves herewith into this... 725 01:21:06,487 --> 01:21:11,158 We seal ourselves herewith into this place of learning. 726 01:21:11,241 --> 01:21:14,161 Death is banished for ever. 727 01:21:14,244 --> 01:21:20,209 I direct that the tabernacle erase from us all memories of its construction, 728 01:21:20,292 --> 01:21:26,090 so we can never destroy it if we should ever crave for death. 729 01:21:26,173 --> 01:21:31,678 Here, man and the sum of his knowledge will never die, 730 01:21:31,762 --> 01:21:34,890 but go forward to perfection. 731 01:21:39,436 --> 01:21:43,941 (Friend) We applied ourselves to the unsolved mysteries of the universe, 732 01:21:44,024 --> 01:21:47,778 but even with infinite time and the help of the tabernacle, 733 01:21:47,861 --> 01:21:50,364 our minds were not up to it. 734 01:21:50,447 --> 01:21:52,533 We failed. 735 01:21:55,536 --> 01:21:58,080 (Voices quoting scientific theories) 736 01:22:11,844 --> 01:22:15,347 And now we're trapped by our own devices. 737 01:22:15,431 --> 01:22:17,516 There is no exit. 738 01:22:21,937 --> 01:22:24,022 Destroy it! Tabernacle! 739 01:22:31,155 --> 01:22:33,240 Kill the tabernacle! 740 01:22:35,284 --> 01:22:37,744 The tabernacle is indestructible! 741 01:22:40,831 --> 01:22:44,084 This crystal shall join us, 742 01:22:44,168 --> 01:22:48,755 each to each, and all to the tabernacle. 743 01:22:49,506 --> 01:22:53,051 (Friend) A crystal joins them. A crystal. 744 01:22:55,762 --> 01:22:59,683 (Avalow) Now we have given you all that we are, 745 01:22:59,766 --> 01:23:06,440 one gift remains which contains everything and nothing. 746 01:23:10,861 --> 01:23:13,489 Look into this. 747 01:23:13,572 --> 01:23:17,075 You will see lines running into the future. 748 01:23:17,159 --> 01:23:19,453 You will make insightjumps. 749 01:23:21,038 --> 01:23:27,961 When you can see into this crystal, then you will be ready. Only then. 750 01:23:35,677 --> 01:23:39,723 I see nothing inside except my own perplexity. 751 01:23:43,977 --> 01:23:46,313 Knowledge is not enough. 752 01:23:46,396 --> 01:23:49,107 (Man) I have come for you. 753 01:23:57,491 --> 01:24:00,327 Over here. 754 01:24:34,361 --> 01:24:37,030 - We've met before, I believe. - Arthur Frayn. 755 01:24:37,114 --> 01:24:40,867 Come, now. My Brutal friends call me Zardoz. 756 01:24:44,037 --> 01:24:46,123 Revenge. 757 01:24:48,083 --> 01:24:50,419 Now we're even. 758 01:24:52,254 --> 01:24:54,715 "Would it have been worthwhile 759 01:24:54,798 --> 01:24:58,260 "To have squeezed the universe into a ball, 760 01:24:58,343 --> 01:25:02,389 "To roll it towards some overwhelming question, 761 01:25:02,472 --> 01:25:06,435 "To say: 'I am Lazarus, come from the dead'?" 762 01:25:07,436 --> 01:25:10,355 Do you know the next line? It's TS Eliot. 763 01:25:12,608 --> 01:25:16,236 "I am Lazarus, come from the dead." 764 01:25:16,320 --> 01:25:20,407 "Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all." 765 01:25:21,158 --> 01:25:25,037 Well done! Well done! You've learnt your lessons well. 766 01:25:26,913 --> 01:25:29,625 - What will you tell me? -(Laughs) 767 01:25:34,129 --> 01:25:37,049 What do you see in the ball? 768 01:25:40,010 --> 01:25:42,095 - Nothing. - Nothing? 769 01:25:43,221 --> 01:25:45,849 Then I have nothing to tell you. 770 01:25:46,933 --> 01:25:49,019 (Frayn laughs) 771 01:26:13,919 --> 01:26:16,630 That way! There! 772 01:26:21,760 --> 01:26:24,930 (Frayn) What do you see in the ball? 773 01:26:25,013 --> 01:26:27,099 Consuella. 774 01:26:30,435 --> 01:26:32,938 I've ached for this moment. 775 01:26:35,565 --> 01:26:38,068 You cannot. You will not. 776 01:26:45,951 --> 01:26:48,870 The hunt is always better than the kill. 777 01:26:49,913 --> 01:26:52,916 In hunting you, I have become you. 778 01:26:54,459 --> 01:26:57,295 I have destroyed what I set out to defend. 779 01:26:57,379 --> 01:27:03,009 "He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself." Nietzsche. 780 01:27:04,386 --> 01:27:06,638 I'm not like the others. 781 01:27:06,722 --> 01:27:09,224 I would fill you with life. 782 01:27:11,560 --> 01:27:13,645 And love. 783 01:27:14,730 --> 01:27:18,275 You have given me what no other gave - love. 784 01:27:19,443 --> 01:27:22,362 If I live, we will live together. 785 01:27:25,031 --> 01:27:27,117 Go now. 786 01:27:31,288 --> 01:27:34,833 The Brutal is not here. I was mistaken. 787 01:27:48,472 --> 01:27:52,476 Refraction of light. Infinite. 788 01:27:52,559 --> 01:27:55,687 (May) Break the tabernacle, or be broken. 789 01:27:55,854 --> 01:27:58,440 (Frayn) What do you see in the crystal ball? 790 01:27:58,523 --> 01:28:02,694 (Avalow) When you see into the crystal, then you will be ready. 791 01:28:04,613 --> 01:28:08,575 Now I see it. I am ready. 792 01:28:09,743 --> 01:28:12,788 Tabernacle, what are you? 793 01:28:13,663 --> 01:28:15,415 Not permitted. 794 01:28:15,499 --> 01:28:18,210 - Where are you? - Not permitted. 795 01:28:18,919 --> 01:28:21,004 Do you know me? 796 01:28:21,087 --> 01:28:24,716 I have your voice print, Zed, and your genetic code, 797 01:28:24,800 --> 01:28:28,136 but only memory fragments. 798 01:28:28,220 --> 01:28:30,430 Tell me about the crystal transmitter. 799 01:28:30,514 --> 01:28:34,893 I cannot give information which may threaten my own security. 800 01:28:37,479 --> 01:28:42,818 Brain emissions refract low-wavelength laser light 801 01:28:42,901 --> 01:28:46,029 passing through the crystal in the brain. 802 01:28:47,823 --> 01:28:52,410 They're a code sent to you for interpretation and storage. 803 01:28:54,037 --> 01:28:56,540 - Yes or no? - Not permitted. 804 01:28:58,667 --> 01:29:01,586 A receiver must be like a transmitter. 805 01:29:03,839 --> 01:29:08,218 I think you're a crystal. In fact, this one. This diamond. 806 01:29:10,095 --> 01:29:15,100 In here there is infinite storage space for refracted light patterns. 807 01:29:18,770 --> 01:29:20,856 Yes or no? 808 01:29:22,607 --> 01:29:25,527 You have me in the palm of your hand. 809 01:29:26,695 --> 01:29:29,322 But you could be elsewhere. 810 01:29:29,406 --> 01:29:31,491 Yet I choose to be here. 811 01:29:31,575 --> 01:29:34,286 - Why? - To confront you. 812 01:29:35,161 --> 01:29:39,040 Already you have learnt to see my light wavelengths in the diamond. 813 01:29:39,124 --> 01:29:43,670 Now you will try to erase the refractions and destroy me. 814 01:29:44,546 --> 01:29:47,048 Your aim is to destroy me, isn't it? 815 01:29:47,132 --> 01:29:48,884 Yes. 816 01:29:48,967 --> 01:29:51,052 Would you kill God? 817 01:29:51,970 --> 01:29:54,097 Such vanity. 818 01:29:54,180 --> 01:29:58,018 I am the sum of all these people and all their knowledge. 819 01:29:58,101 --> 01:30:03,315 (Overlapping voices) I am all-seeing. I am everywhere and nowhere. 820 01:30:03,398 --> 01:30:07,152 That has often served as a definition of God. 821 01:30:07,235 --> 01:30:10,947 Would you destroy us and all that we are? 822 01:30:11,031 --> 01:30:12,699 Yes. 823 01:30:12,782 --> 01:30:15,619 Would you not rather be part of us, 824 01:30:15,702 --> 01:30:20,206 joined to us, a light shining to the future? 825 01:30:20,290 --> 01:30:22,751 Love us. Cherish the truth. 826 01:30:23,001 --> 01:30:25,086 No! 827 01:30:25,795 --> 01:30:27,881 You have penetrated me. 828 01:30:39,935 --> 01:30:42,020 There is no escape. 829 01:30:47,484 --> 01:30:49,569 You are within me. 830 01:30:54,741 --> 01:30:57,160 Come to my centre. 831 01:30:58,912 --> 01:31:02,248 Come into the centre of the crystal. 832 01:31:13,301 --> 01:31:15,387 Tabernacle! 833 01:31:16,471 --> 01:31:18,556 Tabernacle! 834 01:31:27,023 --> 01:31:29,484 Tabernacle! 835 01:31:37,701 --> 01:31:39,786 Tabernacle! 836 01:31:50,755 --> 01:31:52,841 (Distorted sounds and voices) 837 01:31:57,762 --> 01:32:00,265 No! No! 838 01:32:01,725 --> 01:32:03,768 No! 839 01:32:08,356 --> 01:32:10,442 No! 840 01:32:24,414 --> 01:32:26,499 (Screaming) 841 01:32:46,978 --> 01:32:49,064 (Distorted sounds continue) 842 01:33:32,565 --> 01:33:35,485 You have destroyed us. 843 01:33:35,568 --> 01:33:38,905 You found the flaw in the crystal. 844 01:33:38,988 --> 01:33:41,032 We are gone. 845 01:33:41,116 --> 01:33:43,201 You are alone. 846 01:34:28,496 --> 01:34:30,331 (Distorted shouting) 847 01:35:03,364 --> 01:35:05,867 Take him to the east door. 848 01:35:16,836 --> 01:35:19,339 It's too late. He's finished. 849 01:35:19,422 --> 01:35:21,925 - Consuella, no. - Wait. 850 01:35:23,301 --> 01:35:25,845 (Shouting) 851 01:35:25,929 --> 01:35:28,431 Stay close to me, inside my aura. 852 01:36:18,439 --> 01:36:20,525 (Shouting) 853 01:36:25,822 --> 01:36:28,241 (Woman) He's gone. I saw him. He was here. 854 01:36:28,324 --> 01:36:30,618 (Man) He's disappeared into thin air. 855 01:36:31,661 --> 01:36:34,622 Can you tell us how things stand? 856 01:36:34,706 --> 01:36:36,791 Hm? 857 01:36:38,835 --> 01:36:40,920 What next? 858 01:36:41,754 --> 01:36:44,799 An old man calls me. 859 01:36:44,882 --> 01:36:48,761 "The voice of the turtle is heard in the land." 860 01:36:51,764 --> 01:36:53,850 I... 861 01:36:53,933 --> 01:36:58,730 I remember now the way it was. 862 01:37:00,565 --> 01:37:04,277 We challenged the natural order. 863 01:37:05,903 --> 01:37:11,534 The Vortex is an of fence against Nature. 864 01:37:12,910 --> 01:37:18,958 She had to find a way to destroy us. 865 01:37:20,418 --> 01:37:23,296 Battle of wills. 866 01:37:24,464 --> 01:37:29,010 So she made you. 867 01:37:32,221 --> 01:37:39,228 We... we forced the hand of evolution. 868 01:37:40,897 --> 01:37:42,982 (Splutters) 869 01:37:55,411 --> 01:37:57,622 A good death. 870 01:37:57,705 --> 01:37:59,165 You've done it. 871 01:37:59,248 --> 01:38:01,334 He's dead. 872 01:38:06,881 --> 01:38:09,717 - Look! - (Woman) The stone head! 873 01:38:20,937 --> 01:38:22,772 (Avalow sings sustained notes) 874 01:38:37,036 --> 01:38:41,207 Take this, and let your sons and daughters look into it. 875 01:38:42,750 --> 01:38:46,295 Ride east. There you will pass through the wall. 876 01:38:47,296 --> 01:38:51,259 What will become of you? Will you go back to your people? 877 01:38:53,052 --> 01:38:55,763 There is no going back for me. 878 01:39:04,981 --> 01:39:07,066 (Shouting) 879 01:39:08,526 --> 01:39:11,362 Stop! It's useless. It's over. 880 01:39:11,446 --> 01:39:15,366 - The Renegades are all dying like flies. - Dying? 881 01:39:15,450 --> 01:39:19,495 - Zed's not to blame. We destroyed ourselves. - That's truer than you know. 882 01:39:19,579 --> 01:39:22,582 And here I would like to claim some credit, if I may. 883 01:39:22,665 --> 01:39:25,835 You see, our death wish was devious and deep. 884 01:39:25,918 --> 01:39:29,422 As Zardoz, Zed, I was able to choose your forefathers. 885 01:39:29,505 --> 01:39:32,467 Careful genetic breeding that produced this mutant, 886 01:39:32,550 --> 01:39:35,011 this slave who could free his masters. 887 01:39:35,094 --> 01:39:37,930 And Friend was my accomplice. 888 01:39:38,014 --> 01:39:44,103 Don't you remember the man in the library? It was I who led you to the Wizard of Oz book. 889 01:39:44,687 --> 01:39:49,317 It was I who gave you access to the stone. It was I. 890 01:39:49,400 --> 01:39:51,611 I bred you. I led you. 891 01:39:52,069 --> 01:39:56,908 And I have looked into the face of the force that put the idea in your mind. 892 01:39:56,991 --> 01:40:00,119 You're bred and led yourself. 893 01:40:01,662 --> 01:40:04,707 Arthur! We've all been used! 894 01:40:04,790 --> 01:40:07,502 - And reused! - And abused! 895 01:40:07,585 --> 01:40:09,670 And amused! 896 01:40:12,298 --> 01:40:14,383 (Avalow sings sustained notes) 897 01:40:34,111 --> 01:40:36,614 Death approaches. 898 01:40:37,448 --> 01:40:40,368 We are all mortal again. 899 01:40:42,245 --> 01:40:48,793 Now we can say "yes" to death, but never again "no". 900 01:40:49,377 --> 01:40:52,088 Now we must make our farewells. 901 01:40:53,714 --> 01:40:57,260 To each other, to the sun and moon, 902 01:40:57,718 --> 01:41:01,472 trees and sky, earth and rock, 903 01:41:02,598 --> 01:41:06,519 the landscape of our long waking dream. 904 01:41:07,061 --> 01:41:10,606 Zed, the liberator, 905 01:41:12,984 --> 01:41:17,154 liberate me now according to your promise. 906 01:41:21,117 --> 01:41:23,869 Do it. Do it. 907 01:41:29,917 --> 01:41:32,503 All that I was is gone. 908 01:41:32,837 --> 01:41:34,922 (Gunshot) 909 01:41:47,268 --> 01:41:48,352 Kill me too. 910 01:42:30,603 --> 01:42:32,813 (Distant gunshots) 911 01:42:41,656 --> 01:42:44,158 - Let's kill each other, Friend. - What? 912 01:42:44,241 --> 01:42:46,410 - Proper regard for irony. - Yes. 913 01:42:46,494 --> 01:42:49,830 - One last trick. - Oh! Ah! 914 01:42:53,542 --> 01:42:55,628 Success. 915 01:42:56,712 --> 01:42:59,006 It was all a joke. 916 01:43:03,552 --> 01:43:05,638 I want to die. 917 01:44:04,739 --> 01:44:06,741 Please! 918 01:44:06,824 --> 01:44:09,952 Kill me! I want to die! 919 01:44:10,828 --> 01:44:12,913 Please! 920 01:44:18,127 --> 01:44:20,004 Zed! 921 01:44:20,546 --> 01:44:22,631 Zed! 922 01:44:26,093 --> 01:44:28,179 Zed! 923 01:44:34,185 --> 01:44:36,270 Zed! 924 01:44:39,023 --> 01:44:41,108 Zed! 925 01:44:42,943 --> 01:44:45,029 Zed! 926 01:44:48,908 --> 01:44:50,576 Zed! 927 01:44:56,165 --> 01:44:57,291 Zed! 928 01:44:57,958 --> 01:45:00,044 Zed!