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-What are you doing here?

-You're a good sleeper.

What I wouldn't give to sleep like that.

-Don't know how you sleep at all.

What do you want?

-I just thought you might like some news of your father.

-Oh, yeah?

What makes you think that? -Come on, Darius.

Don't be so hard hearted.

The poor man is in prison.

For a long time.

-Well, you do the crime, you do the VI time, right?

-But there's VI time, and then there's VR time.

He's doing hard time, Darius.

The hardest.

And frankly, I think he's cracking up.

-What, Harry Pike crack up?

You don't know my father.

-You're right, of course.

But maybe you could just take a peek,

and let me know if I'm wrong.

And Set my mind at east.

And yours.

See for yourself how he's doing.

I know you two have had your issues, bur he is your old dad.

All right.

Forget it.

I'll let myself out.

Oi.

OK.

-Let's find daddy.

-Dad.

Dad, what have they done to you?

-He can't hear you.

Imagine it.

Nothing but whiteness.

No corners, not a detail to draw the eye or distract the mind.

That's poor Harry's world now, and he

has years of this to come.

-What do you want?

-Nothing from you.

We want something from K9.

-So why don't you go ask him for it?

-He wouldn't give it to me, and I must have it.

-So you want me to go get it for you?

No way.

-Hear me out.

We want a certain circuit from him.

He could function perfectly well without it.

Think of it as the cybernetic equivalent of an appendix.

-So why do you want it, then?

-We have our reasons.

-Well, I have my reasons for saying forget it.

Hey.

Wait.

Stop it!

Stop it!

-Doesn't he?

[crying]

-Perhaps I could sweeten the deal?

Happy here, isn't he?

Cruel to send him back, but all good things--

-No.

Just--

-Very well.

We'll let him be, shall we?

We have a deal, then?

-Hey, I'll talk to Kk9.

But as far as getting him to actually

hand the circuit over--

-I have a deal to offer him, too.

An exchange.

We've got something of his he thought he'd lost forever.

All I want from you is to tell him this.

We have his mem disk.

-It was destroyed when K9 first came through the SDM.

-Apparently not.

Do we have a deal?

-I'll talk to K9. -You're a good son.

DARIUS: No satellite cameras, no cops.

K9: This unit calculates the likelihood

of a double cross at 99.99%. -Huh.

Thorne wanting to meet down here doesn't

exactly inspire confidence.

Look, I know we've had our differences.

-A result of your tendency to cause irritation.

-And I really appreciate you doing this for me.

You know, for my dad.

-You're welcome.

However, I am not doing it exclusively

for your paternal forebear.

The prospect of having my memory restored

is extremely appealing. so you reckon

the disk I saw is really it?

-Probability my memory disk survived the blast

on my arrival?

Remote.

But more than zero.

-Still moving east.

-Good.

Stay out of sight.

But don't lose then.

-What are we hiding for?

If there's a chance of helping then, I want to be involved.

-We are helping.

If this is some double cross Thorne set up,

then we're there to help Darius.

If it is legit, then we don't want to get in the way of K9

getting his disk back.

What's that?

That smell.

It's Jixen.

-Jixen?

I thought they were destroyed?

-I guess they left us something to remember them by.

-Life forms detected.

-Ah, the welcoming committee. What's with the bodyguards?

You afraid we'll mug you?

-For what I'm carrying, I don't think

there's any length K9 wouldn't go to.

I'm here to deal.

-That disk belongs to this unit.

Please return it.

Why should I negotiate?

-Excellent point.

You can blast me and take it if you want.

But there's no need to resort to violence.

Have it.

Of course, I hate to think how the poor boy's father

is going to suffer in prison now.

-What do you want?

-One memory disk, in exchange for a regeneration unit.

-No.

The answer's no.

You can't do it.

-What are you doing here?

You're going to ruin everything.

-Deal or no deal?

-It's no deal.

You give him your regeneration unit,

and you're as vulnerable as the rest of us.

-K9, he's right. You can't do it.

Not for me.

-It's not for you.

It's for your poor old dad.

Deal or no deal?

Come on.

-What does the Department want with the regeneration unit?

Explanations are not part of the deal.

Well?

-Agreed. -K9!

-Let's have it.

-You first.

-Such an untrusting machine.

Very well, I'll be the bigger entity.

A pleasure doing business with you.

-What about my dad?

We had a deal.

-I'd be more worried about myself than dear old pop

if I was you.

-Accessing memory disk.

This unit remembers-- routing all power to photon reactor.

-What have you done to him?

-Photon reactor reaching critical mass.

-Explosion imminent.

-A blast from the past, perhaps?

-All defensive measures failing.

This unit will self destruct in 20 seconds.

19--

-And in the face of fiery annihilation, I take my leave.

-[shout]

-Starkey!

-K9! Stop!

-12.

-Ain't gonna stop.

-11, 10, 9, 8-- countdown terminated.

Explosion averted.

Critical mass maintained.

This unit is armed for self destruct.

-What do you mean, armed?

K9, what's happening to you?

-There is a sequence built into the memory disk.

-Thorne.

-I cannot stop it being triggered.

-Triggered by what?

-I do not know.

The target is not specified in the program.

-So we've got no idea what'll set if off.

-Correct.

The target will not be revealed to me

until it comes into range.

-Great.

So we're walking around with a live bomb.

-Jixen coming within range.

Stun mines and gas canisters ready to be dropped.

-Belay a moment.

Thorne?

The tunnels are clear of civilians, aren't they?

THORNE: Yes, of course. Completely.

Tell him to go ahead with the mines, but hold off on the gas.

I'll come and supervise that deployment myself.

-Once we get back to the lab, the professor

will know what to do.

-I think that is unlikely.

-What is that?

K9: My sensors indicate it is a stun mine.

-You sure?

-99% certain.

-I've seen--

-Make that 100%.

-What are they stringing those things about for?

[roar]

-I thought that slime seemed awfully fresh.

-What slime?

-Jixen slime. -Jixen?

-I know.

You thought they'd been destroyed.

-Obviously not quite.

-Target acquired.

Target acquired. Attack.

Attack. Attack.

-Looks like we just found the trigger.

-Moving to intercept target.

-K9, stop.

Stay.

You're not a bomb.

This is just a program.

You can beat it.

-Is it just me, or is that getting closer?

-Photon reactor explosion will destroy all life forms

in the vicinity of this unit.

I cannot allow targets to get any closer.

-Hang on! Stay!

-Starkey!

What are you--

-Oh, yeah.

-K9!

K9!

You're being used!

K9!

[coughing]

-The last of the gas cylinders have been deployed?

-Confirmed, inspector.

-Very well.

Deploy the final one and seal the exits.

Confirmed.

Oi, there's citizens down there.

-Well, get them out.

They'd better have a very good reason

for being in a department restricted area.

-There's two of them, inspector.

[coughing] -Jorjie?

-Easy.

You can't keep me.

I haven't done anything wrong.

-We were just wandering around.

-You were apprehended in a security zone.

You've done everything wrong.

-Starkey's still down there.

-Then he'll have to take his chances.

Does he have K9 with him?

-Sort of.

-Then I'm sure he'll be fine.

-What about the gas?

-It's a sleeping agent.

At worst, he'll be nursing a headache tomorrow.

It's not his main problem.

-You mean the Jixen?

-You know about it?

-That's right.

That's actually not his only problem.

He also has every chance of being vaporized by a bomb.

-A bomb? -Hey, tin face.

Your fly's undone.

Run.

-You don't have flies.

-Oi.

-Let go of me!

-Inspector Thorne.

-Inspector Turner.

It's come to my attention that your operation is stalled.

Care to comment on these obviously false reports?

-Yes, they are false. That operation isn't stored.

As of now, it's suspended.

-On whose authority?

-On my authority.

I don't answer to you, Thorne.

-Correct.

But likely you answer to those above us.

And that's where these orders are coming from.

On high.

-The mission is suspended.

Contrary to your reports, there were

civilians in the operational zone.

-And?

-And I won't be responsible for a possible death.

-June, you're not responsible for anything.

You're following orders.

Now, unsuspend the mission and obey your orders.

-No. -Inspector Turner.

-Yes, sir?

-Are the orders not clear?

-Sir, the orders need clarifying in light

of the new information.

-The orders make sense to those who make them.

You don't need to understand to obey.

-I have a question.

-And the have a schedule.

-What was Inspector Thorne doing in the mission zone

before the gas purge began?

-Inspector Thorne was acting in the best

interests of the Department.

Inspector, complete your mission.

-But sir, we have to question the--

-Do your duty.

-Starkey? K9?

Anyone?

Where are they all?

K9: Is that you, professor?

-K9.

Is everything all right?

-Everything is as it should be.

-I have been trying to get through for ages.

There seems to be some sort of electronic interference.

K9: Most probably the stun mines.

-Stun mines.

Why are there stun mines?

-I would presume that they are the Department's

attempt to corral the Jixen.

-There's a Jixen?

-Don't be alarmed, professor.

This unit is on route to deal with it.

-Oh. Well.

That's good news.

-It's part of my new programming imperative.

-New programming?

-Implanted in me in exchange for my regeneration unit.

-What is this new imperative?

-As soon as I am within range of the Jixen,

I will initiate the self destruct sequence.

GRYFFEN: Self destruct? -Affirmative.

Destroying the Jixen with maximum prejudice.

-But K9-- without your regeneration unit,

you won't have the capacity to regenerate.

-An excruciatingly obvious remark, professor.

-What I'm saying is then you'll be destroyed!

No more.

Gone forever. -Correct.

However, that is my program.

I would indeed seem destined to expire permanently

in an explosion of Jixen pieces.

My sensors indicate its presence in this tunnel.

-K9, no. No, no, no.

K9. K9!

-This stench on your clothes is marking the scent

I marked you with all those weeks ago.

-You speak?

-Evidentially.

-Dently.

It's evidently.

Since when do you speak?

-I had the time to learn your tun-goo.

-Tongue?

[roar]

-Do not correct me, or I'll forget my duties as a horse.

-A horse?

-Yes.

You think a Jixen cannot be a good horse?

-Host?

You mean host?

[roar] -Ah!

Ah!

OK, OK, you're a good horse.

-Starkey!

-So, you read these, or you eat them?

-I read.

-You've actually got some good stuff here.

-That book tells my story.

A peaceful emissary from another time

protecting an ignorant people from the monster

living among them.

-You?

You're the peaceful emissary?

-I was the emissary's guard, and I

failed to protect him from the machine.

My enemy, your friend.

-K9.

-Yes.

The best.

-You're confused.

You and your mates started smashing up

the mansion when you came through the STM.

K9 came and protected us.

He gave his life-- his previous life-- to save us.

-No!

You are the one confused.

We were protecting the emissary.

-I've heard some good yarns in my time, but--

-Yarn?

-A made up story.

-No!

It's the truth.

-Then how come it took you so long to tell me?

-And how could I have done that?

I cannot exactly go wandering the streets looking for you.

On our home planet, we Jixen were ready for war

against the Meron, until new energy

weapons cost us our rightful home.

These weapons were supplied by the Korven.

You know this name.

-Unfortunately, yes.

So let me get this right.

You guys were the peaceful emissaries,

us humans were the ignorant people,

and the monster the Korven?

-Yes, correct.

Especially the part about the ignorant people.

-Well if it's true, then how exactly

were you going to warn us?

-That information was lost with the emissary

destroyed by the Korven agent.

-Korven agent?

You mean K9?

-Yes.

-You're saying K9 was actually working for the Korven?

-No.

Not possible.

-If this is only a story, why does the beast hunt me?

-It's not him.

It's a program the Department installed in him.

The same program that's making him want to destroy you.

-Then your Department has been infiltrated by the Korven.

You will lose your home like we lost ours.

-Then I need to get out of here.

I need to tell my world.

-You believe what I've told you?

-Absolutely. Totally.

-You are free, but consider this.

Why would I have brought you here, saved you

from the gas, revealed my lair if I was not telling you

the truth, and wanting to save you?

DARIUS: Starkey?

Starkey?

-I am increasingly uncertain about this plan.

-It's simple.

You and K9 should be on the same side.

You're both interested in saving us ignorant humans.

You just need to get together and talk

about it, like you and I did, right?

-And you believe the cybernetic beast

is capable of such understanding?

-Totally. Now jut chill and follow me.

Oh, uh, one more t He doesn't like being called a dog, OK?

-Very well.

-Jixen!

-It's OK, it's OK!

He's a friend.

He's on our side.

-Hey, it's a Jixen.

-A friendly Jixen.

It's a long story. -Friendly Jixen?

-It is the truth.

-A friendly speaking Jixen.

-Yeah, and he's here to help us.

-Help us?

-I am your alibi. -Our what?

Oh, you mean ally?

-No!

He doesn't like being corrected.

-Right.

-Right now we need to find K9 and explain to him

that the Jixen isn't his enemy.

-I definitely think we should.

I think we should explain it to him really, really fast.

-Warning!

Target physical confirmed.

This unit is armed and primed.

Explosion imminent.

20 seconds, 19--

-Prepare to be destroyed!

-No!

This is crazy, you two!

-17--

-Stop threatening each other, and talk.

-15-- Explosion in t-minus 13 seconds.

Run, young master.

-No.

I'm not going to let either of you destroy the other.

K9, stay.

[whimper]

-Jixey, stop.

-Jixey?

-If we're going to be friends, I can't just call you Jixen.

I don't know your name.

-Jixen have no names.

We are part of a collective.

-Hear that, K9?

No names.

It's kind of sad.

-Tragic.

12, 11-- -K9!

-Young master, you can interrupt the countdown,

but you cannot stop it.

You must run!

-Sounds like good advice to me.

-No.

We are going to sort this out.

K9, the program Thorne put in you is Korven tech.

You have to fight it.

-My sensors would have detected it if it was Korven.

-Your sensors got it wrong!

Highly improbably.

-They're using you, K9.

They wanted the Jixen destroyed because he

came here to warn us about them.

You have to fight that program.

-Nobody move!

I will use this!

-7, 6, 5, 4--

-Stay!

-Sorry, young master.

I've managed to reroute my circuits.

I'm in control of them again.

-I wish I could say the same about mine.

-I have overwritten the program.

Imminent explosion averted.

This unit is no longer being used by the Korven.

4, 3-- -No, no, no!

-2, 1-- bang.

-K9, tell me that wasn't a joke.

-Very well, young master.

That wasn't a joke.

[laughter]

-You can laugh

-Of course.

The Jixen are famous for their sense of "humbuh."

-Nasty piece of technology.

-But we beat it.

-Yeah.

Thanks to our shell headed friend.

-The Jixen, an ally of humanity.

It's a remarkable development.

-Not the only remarkable development.

Mom told her boss to stick it.

-I didn't use the word stick it.

-They wanted them to keep dropping gas in the tunnels.

She wouldn't do it.

So cool.

-And I managed to check on your father, too, Darius.

He's safety in a minimum security environment.

-My dad's safe?

Jixen got away, K9 avoided blowing himself

and the rest of us up.

Sounds to me like we scuppered that Korven

plan good and proper.

-Not quite.

The professor is correct.

A significant part of their plan would

appear to have been for Inspector Thorne to get

possession of my regeneration technology.

That part succeeded.

-That's right.

Thorne still has the regen disk.

-The question is, what does he want it for?

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