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(solemn, steady music)

And this is how they do it on Mars.

Oh god, I hate Mars.

LUC: I know you do.

Wow that was fantastic, can we play poker now?

Yeah, come Luc, I haven't played poker in awhile,

I'm a little rusty, you may beat me.

You know how I feel about gambling.

DANTE: So we won't play for credits, we'll play for a--

Kitchen duty.

No. Yes, deal.

Dealer's choice, five card stud,

ladies and deuces are wild, ante is one day.

Raise it two days.

I see that and raise one.

PERCY: I will raise you two weeks.

You're bluffing.

Am I really?

Call it.

I've always wanted to say this.

Read 'em and weep, pilgrim.

I don't believe it.

I know, life can be so unfair.

Hm, well guys I have one, two, three, four queens.

That's good, right?

(Dante laughing)

Do you know the odds on that?

Yeah, I know the exact odds, as a matter of fact.

Next round is strip poker.

LUC AND DANTE: No!

(ominous music)

(roaring)

(bold, adventurous music)

(gun firing)

(sparks sizzling)

(exploding)

(lasers firing)

Greetings from the moon,

I hope you're treating our prize catch well.

Nice and very attractive I must say.

Oops, I forgot to feed her.

She is gonna bring us a nice little bounty fee.

A Raider paved gunrunner brings top dollar.

Hey, you should hear what happened to me today.

It'll make your toes curl with envy (laughing).

Car, give me surveillance on the holding cell, please.

She's too young, Dante.

She won't know anything.

Maybe you're right.

PERCY: Yum, yum, yum.

(tray crashing)

That was very impressive.

Will you let me out of here!

Ahh.

(ominous music)

(eerie music)

(swishing and sizzling)

DIGITAL VOICE: Reanimation sequence initiated.

Unit one, activating cryogenisis.

Seven, twelve, sequence react, revivification under way.

(deep swishing)

(tense, scary music)

(suctioning)

Cryo system slipped, but stable.

Your name is Bramwell.

You are the commanding officer of the 104th

space cavalry, responsible for Operation Black Light.

Black Light, what time is it, how long have I been under?

DIGITAL VOICE: 49, 12, seven, eight, four.

What was that?

That's not possible.

Status report.

Come in Fugi.

This is Black Light leader, come in Lemay.

Anybody.

DIGITAL VOICE: Cryo system now opening

units two and three.

Revivify, sequencing.

Code zero, revivification failure.

Subjects are DOA.

Taylor,

Fugi.

You were loyal to the end.

I will complete this mission successfully,

even if I am on my own.

(slow, daunting music)

Captain, I detect several Raider vessels in this quadrant.

Heading this way?

Negative, but they seem to be moving along similar curves.

Keep monitoring their movement, Caravaggio.

Excuse me for a minute, don't look at those cards.

Of course I wouldn't.

CARAVAGGIO: I'll squeal you.

I know you will.

Nice, mine are better.

I love this game.

Deploy backup command protocol, code 1749.

You'll report to me, and me only.

DIGITAL VOICE: Yes, sir.

Affirmative, sir.

But I have exceeded my expire date.

All backup systems are offline,

weapons systems are inactive.

Do not accept, accept.

The deal is, abort, abort (voice fading).

Abort nothing, come back!

Damn.

(gun chambering)

(door control beeping)

(loud swishing)

(ominous tones)

Dog food.

Yeah well, sorry about that but,

I gotta eat it too, you know.

Hey, how long have you been runnin' guns?

I mean, you're too young to be doin'

work like that on your own.

I'm a quick study.

DANTE: How old are you?

What's it to you?

25.

You were stolen by the Raiders.

Adopted.

DANTE: How old were you when it happened?

Old enough to remember everything,

thank you very much, before and after.

But you're not really interested

in my childhood are you, captain?

You made it perfectly clear when you picked me up,

you hate everything to do with the Raiders.

They took my son.

Adoption is an honor.

Stealing children is evil, and the Raiders are cowards.

Just today I saw them running like mice.

ELECTRA: We're not afraid of anything.

Oh yeah, well there's a lot of Raiders in this quadrant

right now, and we've seen them running all in one direction.

That tells me they're running from something.

What makes you think they're running from something?

CARAVAGGIO: Excuse me captain, I've detected an intruder.

What, where?

CARAVAGGIO: Appeared in the G corridor of level 38.

Moving through section L.

It appears to be armed.

A deep space break-in,

you guys better update your security system.

Luc?

Car?

Identify yourself, what are you doing on my ship?

Your ship, who the hell are you?

How'd he get onboard?

BRAMWELL: Drop the charade, answer the question,

what are you doing on my ship?

What are you talking about?

Fine, you're under arrest.

Under arrest?

That's right young lady.

What is this, some kind of joke, who are you?

Bramwell, Colonel, division commander,

and this is my command.

Please keep your hands where I can see them,

on top of your head.

Caravaggio, what the hell's goin' on here?

I suggest colonel that you look around.

Does any of this seem the least bit familiar?

I must confess, it does look a little different.

It must be the cryogenic agent wearing off.

Cryogenic agent?

Please don't try my patience.

Let me show you some identification.

Colonel, we are not your enemies,

we're a bounty hunting crew.

We're delivering a prisoner to the authority

criminal justice unit at Ganymede.

BRAMWELL: Ganymede?

Yes.

Now I know you're lying.

Our target is Mars.

This is the troopship designated Night Hawk.

I have to complete mission Black Light.

Black Light, isn't that the botched operation

on the Raiders' bases?

Nothing was botched.

We were planning the second assault, and I was betrayed.

That's impossible.

That martian campaign ended 50 years ago.

Colonel, the war's over, you won, we won.

There are no Raiders on Mars,

put your gun down and I'll prove it to you.

I've already been betrayed once on this mission, now move!

DANTE: Where are we goin'?

The brig.

You expect us to lead you to the brig

so you can put us in a cell?

I am the commander of this ship,

you think I don't know where the brig is?

I've had enough of this.

I'm rusty, but I haven't forgotten everything.

Now if it's not too much trouble, move.

Dante.

Okay, Luc.

Caravaggio, monitor all ship's functions.

CARAVAGGIO: Oh my, this is a new one, even for me.

Percy, wake up, we have a problem.

Um, go away.

CARAVAGGIO: A madman has taken over the ship.

Take a look at this.

Oh, that's fantastic, look at that.

(Caravaggio whistling)

What's your problem?

CARAVAGGIO: Look.

Who's the old guy?

My surveillance first picked him up on the lower levels.

And there's been no unauthorized breach

of the ship's entrance.

Well how'd he get on then?

He may have been here all along.

He talked about the infamous Black Light campaign

in the first martian Raider wars,

which ended over 50 years ago.

Black Light, I never heard of that.

I'm not surprised considering how much you hate history

and find every excuse to skip the tutorials.

Okay, I hate history, but I'm not too bad at math

and you know what, that guy would've been a baby

50 years ago and he did not fight in that war.

An excellent point.

I can't fully explain the discrepancy,

but his appearance coincides with a short circuit

in the unchartered passages

in the lowest levels of the ship.

I guess, I'll get on it then.

I have a mission to accomplish.

There is no mission, you're in some kind of time warp.

This is 2276.

I don't believe you!

What do we have to do to get through to you?

I mean, I don't know how the hell you got on this ship,

I'm tired of this.

Luc, the colonel is clearly in control of the situation.

We have to do whatever he says, you understand?

Open the door.

ELECTRA: The hunter becomes the hunted.

Shut up, Electra.

ELECTRA: I'm not afraid of you.

BRAMWELL: Who the hell are you?

She's our prisoner.

She was running guns for the Raiders.

Raider woman, huh?

ELECTRA: Who are you?

Colonel Bramwell.

I know that name.

Tell me something Electra, what year is it?

What year do you want it to be?

BRAMWELL: Raider scum.

Caravaggio, did you warn Percy?

Hey, you guys having an interesting night?

Yeah right, Percy, Bramwell mentioned something about

cryogenics, find out if there's some way he could've been

frozen somewhere on the ship, all right?

No problem.

And Percy, stay away from this guy,

he's not playin' with a full deck.

He's no problem for me.

(door lock whizzing)

DANTE: Got it.

(door locking)

You know, I recognize his uniform.

It's from the 104th space cavalry.

I mean, what if this guy really is who he says he is?

That's it, Colonel Bramwell from the Mars wars.

We kicked his ass, that was our greatest victory.

Hm, that's right, you won that battle.

Oh but no, you lost the war though, didn't you?

DANTE: The Raiders had a war?

I didn't realize they were so organized.

(fluctuating tones)

50 years, it doesn't make sense.

So this is how they planned to deceive me.

Take my men, leave me all alone.

But there's still Black Light.

During the first Martian war,

the Tulip was refitted as a troop carrier.

I thought the military hardware had been gutted from

the lower decks when Rudolpho bought the ship,

but they must have missed level 48.

So Bramwell was living down there?

He may have been on some form of cryonic life support,

but to know for sure, you'll have to

go down there and explore the area.

Frozen, wow.

(rapid swishing)

Hello, how's it goin'?

You can look around if you want, that's cool.

You're not military.

No, I'm just a girl, I'm Percy.

It's true isn't it?

This is a bounty hunting ship.

And the war's been over for years.

Yeah.

Car.

Yeah, this is what Mars looks like today, sir.

It's a healthy growing colony.

There are no Raider bases,

we drove them back to the outer worlds.

There's some consolation in that, I suppose.

But there's a footnote sir.

Colonel Bramwell was reported missing in action,

presumed dead.

Silver Signal Medal, second class, was awarded posthumously.

Second class, I see.

There really is no reason to suppose

I would've made general.

After all I failed in the first assault.

Of course, after that caca,

why would I get promoted?

DANTE: Percy, where are you, are you all right?

I'm fine, I'm on the bridge.

Frozen old guy just left here.

DANTE: Stay there, we'll find him.

I really think he's harmless.

Car, where's the colonel?

CARAVAGGIO: He appears to be moving

towards the shuttle bay.

He's trying to get off the ship!

Soldiers of the fighting 104th,

our first assault fell short.

Indeed we lost many good men, brothers and sons all.

But our new tactical plan will catch the enemy off guard.

Victory is assured, assured, assured (echoing).

Assured of nothing but ignominy and shame.

Is everything and everyone gone?

Even me.

(crying) It's over, you're a man out of your time.

You're a complete has-been, a walking cliche

with no business in this place.

Now, it's too late for redemption.

DANTE: Colonel!

LUC: Put the gun down, please.

Look colonel, I know you must be feeling very strange

after everything that's happened, but don't do this.

It's not gonna change anything.

My boy died in the first assault.

He was a lieutenant in the 104th.

(crying) Here's Joe, he's my only child.

What could be more cruel?

Kill me!

No.

I won't do that.

Come on, get on your feet soldier, stand up.

Stand up.

(crying) Please, please I'm so ashamed.

Please lock me up.

I'm a threat to myself, I'm a threat to everyone.

Luc, escort the colonel to a holding cell, please.

Sure.

Caravaggio, display all Raider activity in this sector.

Car, calculate an intersection point for all the

Raider trajectories, please.

(beeping)

Caravaggio, plot a course to those coordinates.

(suspenseful, tense music)

PERCY: Caravaggio, did you just alter our course?

CARAVAGGIO: On captain's orders.

Well where are we headed?

I was ordered by the captain to withhold that information.

Withhold it, not from me.

No exceptions.

I'm as exceptional as they come, Car.

CARAVAGGIO: That may be, but you're still

outranked on this point.

Figured out where Bramwell came from yet?

Yeah, I think so.

Well let's take a look.

Let's take a look.

(eerie music)

Wow.

I guess he, he really is who he says he is.

Well all these guys really are dead, if that's proof.

Hm.

Uuh.

Well, it was a power surge all right.

Jeez, what a fluke.

That guy could've been asleep for another 50 years.

Yep, instead he wakes up now,

and keeps spinning his wheels about a mission

that's already in the history books.

Come on, let's get outta here.

Where are we going, by the way?

DANTE: What do you mean?

Well Caravaggio said it was top secret,

but I know you didn't mean to include me

in the list of no exceptions.

You wouldn't do that, would you?

Look as soon as I know, I'll let you know, okay,

it's probably nothing.

Come on, you comin' or not?

Let me get this straight.

You are Colonel E.W. Bramwell from the Black Light campaign.

The same.

You're serious, you should be dead by now.

I'm on my way to spending the rest of my 20s

in the slammer, and all of the sudden I'm sharing a cell

with the Colonel Bramwell.

I trust I'm not a disappointment.

You're a freakin' hero.

Car, give me a view of the holding cell.

Make it a good angle.

You're a star to the Raiders.

You know it took four of our crack regiments

to defeat your forces on Mars.

And that makes me a star?

Come on, the famous Colonel Bramwell,

the enemy commander who was so supremely confident

that he led his initial soldiers into

second valley of death.

It was brilliant.

She's right, it was an outstanding battle.

(crying) It's true, I was responsible for

that sorry episode.

Sorry nothing, they use that assault in

Raider simulation training.

It was one of the greatest strategic battles in history.

If she sucks up any harder,

she's gonna suck her own teeth in.

Oh if only I could tell the others, they'd be so jealous.

Me and Colonel Bramwell together.

I wanna know everything about your experience on Mars.

I was defeated!

We sustained terrible losses.

Yeah, and isn't that the price of war?

Look, you were outgunned and outnumbered,

but you planned to go in anyway.

You have a terrible knack young lady

of making me wish I had never woken up.

Tell me why you sent your ground squadrons

in cinch formation, now what they were expecting

was a two-pronged attack from either side.

Yes, yes, yes, but of course we knew they'd expect that.

And, our atmospheric forces were ready to

back up the assault.

You know, Raiders'd line up and pay big

just to get a glimpse of you, colonel.

Have you given that any thought?

Oh if I wasn't stuck in this hole, I could be your manager.

Don't flatter yourself.

DANTE: I have a proposition to make you.

ELECTRA: Not interested.

Even if it means lettin' you go free?

LUC: What the hell is he doing?

DANTE: It involves you too, colonel.

Why would you offer to let me go?

Oh, I get it, you wanna find your son.

It's been 10 years, get over it.

I'll never get over it.

Do you honestly think your parents did?

I was seven when they came.

My father had run off years earlier,

and my mother was drunk somewhere.

The Raiders saved me when they stole me.

They gave me a real home, what do you think about that?

Not only me, the evil Raiders save thousands

who don't waste a damn second weeping and whining about

their oh so perfect past.

So yeah, I can help you find your son.

Just be careful what you wish for Montana,

because he might just feel the same way I do.

I'll take that chance.

ELECTRA: And you'd be willing to let me go?

It it means getting my son back, yes.

Captain, how do you propose to find the boy?

We have a rather unique situation here,

don't we Electra?

(Electra sighing)

Supreme Commanders decide every four years

on a location for the gathering of the Raiders.

We're able to keep it secret because they

don't decide until the last possible moment.

But I think I found.

The gathering's real colonel, it's not a myth, it's real.

PERCY: I suppose this explains our new course.

He's too emotional about this,

he's taking us into an impossible situation.

It's Travis, you expect him to be unemotional?

No, but for him just to expect us to rush in like this.

Well, what would you do?

You'd run away and leave your only child.

I hate to be the one to point out

the obvious to you, Percy, but Dante wouldn't be any good

to Travis if he died trying to save him.

I understand his need to find his boy.

My son died in that last great battle,

the one that I led.

I'm sure he died with honor.

Perhaps one day you could have another son.

After what my body has been through, I don't think so.

Even if the spirit was willing.

And of course by now my wife is dead.

There are many women in the universe, colonel.

Women who would be honored to have your child.

To be the mother of Colonel Bramwell's son.

You've never known bliss,

until you've had a woman Raider, sir.

Please, don't.

I know you want to touch me too.

Colonel, I've been thinking, if you're feeling better,

I had the guest quarters made up.

Maybe you wanna notify someone.

BRAMWELL: You're very kind.

Soon, but not yet.

With your permission,

my first duty is to my fallen comrades.

You understand, I wasn't in my right mind

when I last saw them.

DANTE: Yeah, sure colonel, take this.

And I shall give your proposition careful consideration,

Captain Montana.

Thanks, colonel.

Montana, haven't you forgotten something?

What?

ELECTRA: You haven't asked me about

the location of the gathering.

I already know the location of the gathering.

And you're gonna get this monstrosity

of a ship past security, are you?

So you're gonna tell me what

security measures are in place?

Better, I can get them to let you in.

How are you gonna do that?

Let me talk to them, they'll know me.

I can tell them that this ship is bounty

and that I overcame you when you took me onboard.

Have you been fantasizing, Electra?

(laughing) Always.

But once I'm there, how do I find my son?

Not part of the deal, unfortunately.

All I can do is get you in.

After that, you're on your own.

But I might be able to offer you a small incentive.

You didn't know if the gathering was real or myth,

so there's no way you can know that attendance is mandatory.

If your son is still alive, he'll be there.

We are such stuff as dreams are made of.

(scary tones)

She is a filthy Raider for god's sake,

she will say anything to get out.

I know what she is and what she's capable of, Luc.

So you're gonna let her lead you into this so-called

gathering, into some sort of trap for all you know.

This is your plan?

No, I haven't made up my mind,

that's why we're talking about it now.

Come on Percy, what do you think?

(door swishing open)

Excuse me, I thought about your proposal, captain.

And?

If this is your best opportunity to find your boy,

I'd be honored to offer you my services

in helping you to achieve that goal.

However, I suggest that you permit me to go alone.

No, I won't allow that.

Hear me out.

It appears that I've become something of a legend

with the Raiders, and I believe I can use that

to great effect at the gathering,

the infamous Colonel Bramwell, risen from the dead.

You would be a sensation.

And if you give me a sample of your DNA I believe,

with luck, I'll find your boy.

No, they'll never give you access to their records.

I will tell them that I have come back to join them.

They will never believe that.

When they hear how my own men betrayed me, hm?

Whatever you may believe about the Raiders,

they have a sense of honor, and they'll understand

that what was done to me was not honorable.

They defeated me once, now I'm just an old soldier.

They won't watch me too closely.

Colonel, you're not going on my behalf.

They killed my men, they killed,

I have selfish reasons for volunteering

for this mission, captain.

To return your son to you, to get him from the Raiders,

is my memorial to Joe.

Colonel, you must understand that

this is my duty, he's my son.

This is how it's gonna work, we go together,

while the Raiders are listening to your war stories,

I look for Travis.

You could wear one of my dead major's uniforms.

And pass for one of your men, exactly.

Are you forgetting that you're known amongst them,

and that you have arrested many of them over the years?

Look, I realize how risky this is, okay?

Excuse me for interrupting,

but how are you planning on getting back?

I'll make it back Percy, no matter what.

(bold, solemn music)

It can't be good luck to wear this.

Hey, and no starch.

Montana what kind of treatment's this?

Will you please tell your subordinate that

I'm actually helping you?

Humor her, and remember, we're monitoring

this entire coded transmission.

And if I get an inkling that you're screwing with us,

the deal's off, and you can rot in that cell

for as long as I choose, which will be forever, clear?

Crystal.

Okay, I need a long-wave frequency set for 65.843 cycles

with a type D code scrambler set for universal enabler.

CARAVAGGIO: Done.

Transmit security access code, Rollin's horn echos still.

That could mean anything.

CARAVAGGIO: It's uploading.

DANTE: Come on, come on, hands up.

Transmission code, confirmed.

Personal identity code, Electra, Valkyrie clan, confirmed.

Electra, you are approaching in hostile vessel

Trans Utopian, what are you doing there?

I was captured by the ship's bounty hunting crew.

I was able to overcome them with the help of

Colonel E.W. Bramwell, and his lieutenant.

RAIDER: Repeat.

Colonel Bramwell, the leader of the assault

on our first Raider bases, Black Light,

that was crushed by our elders.

This some kind of joke?

Black Light, that was 50 years ago.

I assure you, it is no joke.

I am Colonel E.W. Bramwell of the 104th space calvary.

I don't believe it.

I, and several of my officers, were cryogenically frozen

on this ship, and only recently revived.

He helped me take over the ship, we're bringin' it in.

It was Colonel Bramwell that did it.

Trans Utopian, you will be escorted to a

staging area pending investigation.

Any deviation, and you will be immediately fired upon.

End communication.

So, how'd I do?

How'd you do, ho-ho?

Hey!

You're not off this ship yet.

(adventurous music)

That's a whole lot of evil there.

ELECTRA: Have you ever seen anything more beautiful?

For behold, he is coming with the clouds,

and every eye shall see him.

For I am alpha and omega.

(electronic tones)

(Dante gasping and groaning)

Can't, cannot, not believe, can it, can it be?

I know I can't believe it.

After all these years, we're so close.

So happy.

Seeing you again, Travis, but you--

No, there's no other way.

I put everyone at risk, I won't do that.

This is my responsibility alone, Penny.

Alone but, how can you, can you alone?

How?

Penny, Penny?

Percy, you had to know that this possibility always existed.

Yes, but this gathering will only last a few days.

So what if I don't find him before the gathering's over,

I don't know, maybe it's another 10 years of near misses,

I don't know.

I don't think it's gonna work.

I think Luc's right.

If you really think it's gonna work, then take me with you.

I can wear the other dead man's uniform.

No, I need you here Percy.

I can't risk the Raiders boarding the Tulip.

Now I want you guys outta here, maximum velocity

as soon as we're clear, understand?

Fine, what do you want us to do if you find him

before the gathering's over?

I've downloaded the morphing program to the shuttle's

computer, it'll mask me long enough to get to Calisto,

where I'll hook up with you.

Percy,

you're gonna be fine.

Um, do you want me to go talk to her?

No.

No.

You are either the bravest

or the most foolish man I've ever met.

I hope you find your son.

DANTE: Remember the first time we saw this place?

Mm-hm.

I remember how excited you were.

You were like a little kid running around here, so excited.

So I was a little kid?

Yeah.

Seems like a lifetime ago, when you named it the lookout.

But you know Percy, after all these years,

it's here and now, and you know I have to do this.

I know, I just

don't think that this dead man's uniform plan is foolproof.

I hope you're gonna be okay.

I'll be okay.

Over the years, you've become the most

important person in my life.

And I have received so much joy, pride,

watching you grow into this wonderful

young woman you've become.

Well I haven't done anything yet.

I wouldn't have made it this far without you, Percy.

That's true, 'cause the spaceship would've fallen apart.

Absolutely.

Thanks, Percy.

For fixing the ship?

For being exactly the way you are.

Come here.

(suspenseful music)

BRAMWELL: Home for 50 years, good riddance.

Come on.

Car, locate the Colonel please.

CARAVAGGIO: The colonel is off the grid.

Well where is he?

Stay here.

(tense, suspenseful music)

The world is turning, always turning, turning forever,

til what was wrong, is made right.

LUC: Dante we've got an incoming transmission

from the Raiders, what do you want me to do?

Tell Electra to stall them.

Come on, come on, talk to me.

50 years is not too long, I'm still here.

[Electronic Voice] It will be a ground depart

with no light.

Ah, good soldier.

Bramwell!

Son of a bitch.

Electra, you know we don't like deviations

from visitor flight schedules.

He's just woke up from 50 years of brain freeze,

he needed some last minute medicate attention.

What's this?

Your ship just launched an unidentified craft.

What?

This is not what we agreed upon.

How could you lose him, you idiot?

What the hell is he doing?

Caravaggio, open a channel to Bramwell now.

BRAMWELL: Hello captain.

Colonel return to the ship immediately.

BRAMWELL: This is a one way trip, Montana--

Stop him!

Car power up laserball's cannon, target Bramwell.

We're going to have the last laugh.

Sorry to disappoint you captain,

but this is the price of war.

Mission accomplished!

(exploding)

Oh.

They're leaving, with Travis.

LUC: Dante, we have to go.

Son of a bitch.

CARAVAGGIO: They are powering up their weapon systems.

Caravaggio get us out of here!

No, no, it's not too late.

(eerie music)

(slow, contemplative music)

(bold, dramatic music)