All language subtitles for The Outer Limits (1995) - S07E17 - Rule of Law - [DVD][480p][x265 10-bit][AAC 2.0]

We missed a trail marker,

We didn't miss anything,

Maybe they took the marker,

We are pretty close
to the border,

Do you think they even have a
concept of what a border is?

Maybe not, But they got the
idea of pulse rifles by now,

I'm not worried,

They're all around us,

Move,

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We are now controlling
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We control the horizontal
and the vertical,

We can deluge you with
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or expand one single
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and beyond,

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imagination can conceive,

For the next hour,

we will control all
that you see and hear,

You are about to experience
the awe and mystery

which reaches from
the deepest inner mind

to The Outer Limits,

As humanity
spreads to the stars,

we will take with us
our values and our laws,

But how will those laws
and moral judgments apply

to creatures and cultures
alien to our own?

Hi! I'm looking
for the courthouse,

We ain't got no
working courthouse,

No courthouse? You're sure?

I said, we ain't got
no working courthouse,

Oleaga slapped a room together
but we ain't got a judge yet,

Crooked old geezer from Earth
isn't due till next week,

-Geezer? -Word is

that he's senile enough

that Oleaga won't have much
trouble bribing him on the cheap,

Well, where's Oleaga's office?

Oh, just follow your
nose around the corner,

When you come to a building that don't
stink of manure that'll be Oleaga's place,

Oh, looks like Jake and his
posse got their Medusan,

Street justice is the custom?

Unless the criminal is paying
protection of Quince and the army,

You want this animal to hang?

Yeah!

- Yeah!
- That's Jake Armstrong,

Lost his little
brother in the attack,

Hang him!

-I'll put a stop to this right
now, -Why?

I've got to,
I'm the crooked old geezer from Earth,

Jake Armstrong!

As territorial judge
of this quadrant

by order of the
fifth circuit court,

I hereby take custody
of your prisoner,

Get back to Earth,

We don't need no judge here,

Jake,
I never killed a man in anger,

The problem for you is,,,

I ain't angry,

Nice antique,

But how are you gonna
stop a lynching with it?

If this Medusan
killed your brother,

he will be punished with
the full extent of the law,

There's no law in Dedalus,

There is now,

I didn't come to the far side of
nowhere for the sunny climate, Finch,

Dedalus is a commercial
mining colony,

But until we establish
a court of law

we're under the thumb
of the military,

And that is bad for business,

And that is why I sent for you,

Governor Oleaga,

I report to the fifth judicial
circuit, Not to local politicians,

Of course, I didn't mean
to imply anything else,

Thank you, -

So what is the situation
with the indigenous Medusans?

Well,
the military guard the town,

But you can't venture out into the
countryside without an armed escort,

The Medusans can
be quite savage,

Hmm,

Must be something about
having your planet

colonized that brings
out the worst in people,

Listen, Finch,
we bought that land fair and square

11 years ago from the
local Medusan chieftain,

And unfortunately with his death
this year things have gotten

a little dicey,

Now, about the Medusan
you want to try,

It might be best handled
by Quince and the military,

Governor, if you want the court
to be the moral authority here,

people have to respect it,

That means trying the tough
cases like this Medusan attack,

And not throwing it to
a military firing squad,

My daughter was
injured in that attack,

Her three friends were murdered,

She was the only survivor,

As a father I want
that killer punished,

And as a judge so do I,

If he's guilty,

Of course,

You sent for me, Governor?

Ah, yes, Judge Finch, this is our
prosecuting attorney Mr, O'Brien,

-Mr, O'Brien, how do you do?
-Judge,

Mr, O'Brien,
will you show the judge

to his courtroom?

Governor,,,

Well,
not exactly mahogany paneled splendor,

It's perfect,

For a judge,
you sure are easy to please,

Judge Roy Bean used to convene
his courtroom in a bar room

back in 1882,

Montana territory was
wide open frontier,

Judge and marshal for
a 1000 square miles,

No bureaucracy, no
politics, no shades of gray,

All a judge needed was common
sense, guts, fairness of mind,,,

And a six-shooter
strapped to his belt,

You know, Judge,
Oleaga was right,

You should leave this
Medusan for Quince,

What's the matter,
Mr, Prosecutor?

I thought you said this
was an open and shut case,

That doesn't mean I'm looking to
make work for myself unnecessarily,

I'm paid on a weekly, Judge,

Tell me, what were the victims
doing when they were attacked?

The geographical survey,

About as threatening
as the Red Cross,

Any idea what brought it on?

What brings on a shark attack?

O'Brien,

Sure thing,

I'm Quince,

And welcome to Dedalus, Judge,

Oh, and congratulations on
your rather colorful entrance,

Oh, congratulations on yours,

May I ask you a
straightforward question?

When I first heard they were
sending a judge to Dedalus,

I kept asking myself,

"Now what is it this judge did

"to get his ass booted from the high-tech
comforts of Earth to this sewage pit?"

I'm not much for the
high-tech comforts of Earth,

All they've gotten
us is fat and lazy,

Besides the sanitized
lifestyle on Earth these days

comes with a bill
I'm tired of paying,

And that bill being?

Independence,

Candor,

The ability to answer straightforward
questions straightforwardly,

That straightforward
enough for you?

Word has it you're gonna
put the Medusan on trial,

From my experience that attack
was more of an act of war,

If the Medusan was ordered to attack the
mapping party it'll come out in the trial,

Well, how are you gonna do that?

-You're gonna ask the Medusan?
-Something like that,

And if he won't answer?

I'll call you to the stands
so you can beat it out of him,

You're a funny man, Judge,

We don't get a lot of
funny men in Dedalus,

The problem is they
keep turning up dead,

Nice talking to you,

Oh, the pleasure was mine,

Hi, this is Eileen,

Please leave your
name and trans tag

and I'll call you back as soon as I
can, Thank you,

Please
leave your message now,

Hey, I'm in Dedalus,

Any sane person would get the hell
out of here in the next freighter,

Somehow I feel that a chapter of
my life needs to be written here,

Is that mystical enough for you?

No wonder all my lawyer
friends think I'm crazy,

I still
think about you,

I know you're still working
on the big decision,

Wish I could steer
you to the right choice

but hell I'm just
the ex-husband,

And as advice givers rank
just below the town drunk,

Don't marry him, Leni,

-Good morning,
Judge Finch, -Woah!

Did you have a nightmare?

Who the hell are you?

Justice Hafner of
the fifth circuit

sent me from Earth
to assist you,

-Didn't you get his message?
-No,

Here let me help you up,

Oh!

Can I get you something
to start your day?

I need a chiropractor,

-I doubt that Dedalus has a doctor
of that specialty, -Just kidding,

Oh!

So Hafner put you up to this?

-Why? -He's not sure you're
up to the assignment,

He said that?

What were his exact words?

"I'm not
sure he's up to this assignment,"

Oh, my god!

-You're a sim? -Yes,

A simulated human,
My name is Miranda,

Hafner sent me a sim!

He feels you're
too unconventional,

That you're too quick to
abandon judicial protocol,

Let me tell you what Hafner
can do with his protocol,

And he feels you have a temper,

It may comfort you to know that the
rest of the fifth circuit disagreed,

Sending me along was the
compromise that got you the job,

Then send a person,
Why send a sim?

Hafner knows I hate anything
to do with technology,

-Really? -No offense intended,

Why should I be offended?

-Simply because you hate
me for what I am! -Hey,,,

Because you don't
want to give me

even the smallest chance
to show you what I can do,

I'm sorry, okay,

No, let me apologies,

I'm sorry, Judge,
that my existence gives you a headache,

Oh, thank you, Judge Hafner!

All rise for the Honorable
Judge Jerome Finch,

First territorial court of Dedalus
is now in session, Please be seated,

For future reference,
my name is Joshua Finch,

-What did I say? -Jerome,

-Sorry, -It's okay,

All rise for the Honorable
Judge Joshua Finch!

Please be seated,

Your honor, I am Kra'dok,
attorney for the defense,

Before we begin this I might tell
you, I cannot plead my client,

-Why not?
-Well, I don't speak Medusan,

Why am I only hearing
about this now?

Up until this morning I was
doing property line disputes

and immigration claims,

Fine,

Bailiff, we need a translator,

Anybody here speak Medusan?

It looks like you're not
gonna get a plea your honor,

The Medusan refuses
to participate,

Your honor, the prosecution
moves for a summary judgment,

If you want a summary
judgment without evidence,

my ruling will be, "Not
guilty, case dismissed,"

You still want it?

Motion withdrawn,

I'm gonna enter a plea of
not guilty on your behalf,

Does he understand?

Excuse me,
do you want me to apprise you

of your small procedural
errors as they happen

or just save them up and tell
you at the end of the day?

At the end of the day,

He says do as you wish,

I'll take that as a yes,

Court is adjourned until trial,

I'm sorry to inconvenience
you, Judge Finch,

It's okay,

There isn't an
available room in town,

I'm sure one will open up soon,

Oh, thank you for the pillow,

I'm sure we can make do
for a couple of days,

I thought you were
masterful in court today,

Well, thank you, Miranda,

In fact your few mistakes
were hardly worth noting,

-Mistakes?
-The small procedural errors,

Oh, yeah!

I've noted them and left
a copy on your desk,

Would you like to review them?

No, actually,

I think I'm gonna
get some sleep,

Good night,

Good night,

-You want a blanket? -No,

-Glass of water? -No thanks,

-Okay, then, Well,
see you in the morning, -First thing,

Well, sweet dreams,

Are you gonna go to sleep?

I don't sleep much,

What does that mean exactly?

Well, it varies each night

depending on the
day's activities,

What are we looking at
tonight, you think?

48 minutes,

Probably just before dawn,

Great!

Thank you, Judge Hafner!

Lavinia told us they attacked
along the eastern border area,

So that's where
I took the posse,

We figured we still had a chance

to get our people back alive

given what we'd heard
about the Medusans,

-You mean their torture methods?
-Yes,

As slow as possible,

Objection, Hearsay,

Sustained,

Did you personally observe the
Medusans engaged in torture?

Yes,

We tracked the Medusans,

caught up with them just
across the territorial border,

I saw Matt strung up tied
to some sort of wooden rack,

Medusans burnt him alive,

We charged but it was too late,

Then more of them showed, we had to
pull back but we go that one there,

-No further questions,,,
-You should have let me

finish it the other
night, Judge,

You should have let
me string him up,

Enough, Mr, Armstrong,

It's a Narcopta,
They have a daily two hour hibernation,

That's lunch,

Your trial's not very popular
with some of the locals,

They'd just as soon strung the
Medusan and gotten it over with,

Well, that's another Christmas
card I won't be getting,

Well,,,

Watch those two over there,

The one on the left is about
to steal from his neighbor,

-Ah! -FINCH: Well,
why don't you arrest him?

Cos the neighbor
stole from him first,

You learn soon enough,
my friend, Soon enough,

The damn thing won't
swear on the Bible,

Your honor, uh,
the book has no meaning for them,

He doesn't respect our rituals,

Well, why should he
show us any respect?

How much respect
are we showing him?

Get him out of that cage,

Are you sure?

Sir, he's very dangerous,

And we don't have force field
barriers here like they do on Earth,

You're supposed to be the defense
attorney, Mr, Kra'dok,

Yes, but I'm the one who's
gonna be sitting next to him,

Bring a chair forward, please,

Judge,
procedure in homicide trials

requires the use of
a protective barrier

between the accused
and the court,

The defendant is shackled
and we have two armed guards,

True, but procedure clearly,,,

Bailiff, please remove the
defendant from the cage

and seat him at
the defense table,

We can go over it later,

Do you recognize the
woman in the gallery?

Yes, it was the leader,

What happened to
the other humans?

Uh, they were killed and,,, Your
honor, the word doesn't translate,

Was it as Mr,
Armstrong described?

Yes,

Were you present when
they were killed?

Yes,

Did you kill anyone yourself?

Yes, One of them was for me,

Son of a bitch! You killed them!

You killed them all,

Order!

Judge, he came by after
court to see you about the case,

What would he have
known about the case?

Straight for the throat,

Classic Medusan attack,

They have a habit of targeting
anyone who collaborates with humans,

But how did a Medusan get into
town without being spotted?

They're like roaches,
They can slither under the door,

These wounds were not
made by a Medusan,

I wasn't aware your
assistant was an expert,

Taught her everything I know,

The Medusans slash
with their claws,

These wounds suggest
a stabbing motion,

As if someone used a
Medusan claw as a knife,

Medusan severed claws
are not the kind of thing

that people keep lying
around their house,

I know someone who does,

Quince,

Sergeant, I want you to place
General Quince under arrest,

Sergeant, stand your ground,

-Quince, I am
ordering,,, -Governor!

-What are the charges? -Murder,

Murder who?

-The Hmong, -FINCH: We found the
murder weapon in your office,

Enough talk, Arrest him,

These men answer to me,

They also answer to the
military high command on Earth,

Now, if they disobey a judge's
order they will be court marshaled,

Wanna mortgage their futures
just to save yourself?

Sergeant, do your duty,

You
have one new message,

I got married, Josh,

I know it's not what
you wanted to hear,

But I know it's the right thing,

Deep down you do too,

Yeah,

I'll always love you,

But we want different things,

Sometimes love isn't enough,

I'm sorry, I can't talk anymore,

It's open,

Hello,

Hey!

Your blood alcohol level is, 21,

Is that all?

Replaying same message,

I got married, Josh,

-Judge Finch? -I know it's
not what you wanted to hear,

Ah!

-I know it's,,, Â -Are you okay?

Deep down you do too,

I'll always love you,

But we want different things,

Sometimes love isn't enough,

I'm sorry, I can't talk anymore,

Oh!

Jesus!

Oh!

Good morning,

-What are you doing in here?
-You were distracted,

You needed to be comforted so
that you could focus on the case

and operate at
maximum efficiency,

Comforted?
What the hell are you talking about?

Uh,,,just a minute,

Stay right there,

-Yes? -I'm sorry to disturb
you, Judge,

But I thought you
might want to know,,,

They're organizing
another party,

Why?

But,,, You mean,
nobody told you?

Well,
there's been the jailbreak,

The Medusans broke their own kind
out and put two of ours in hospital,

-What about Quince?
-Quince's is gone,

I believe the Medusans
took him with them,

-And they left a Tritium brick with
Medusan writing,,, -Wait there,

Get dressed,

It's in Medusan,

"Khartouf Point alone,"

When'd you learn
to speak Medusan?

I don't speak it, I can read it,

My larynx has difficulty
reproducing their vowels,

-It's actually,,, -Medusan wants to
meet, Probably in his own territory,

Tritium fuel is our main export,

Difficult as hell to
mine but a cash cow,

I've never seen a brick like
this, though,

What's this colored area?

Medusan territory,
They are sitting on a pile of it,

The Medusan Tritium area is
run mostly along the border,

Why do you think it took so long
to carve out a peace treaty?

The border was at
the heart of it,

There it is, Khartouf
Point, Let's go,

The note said alone,

That's the way it's gonna be,

The Medusans took me prisoner when
they busted their priest out of jail,

Priest?

Mmm-hmm, They're a lot more
intelligent than we thought,

It turns out your defendant
speaks pretty good English,

I'd put that peacemaker
away if I were you,

Why?

Because they'll cut you
in half if you don't,

Well, look on the bright side,

They could have killed
us in the forest,

We would have been better off,

They like to torture
their victims slowly,

There, That one,

Our defendant,

It's just like Armstrong said,

But why are they torturing
the dead Medusan?

Birth and death,

The sacred circle,

This ritual honors the dead,

The burial rite,

Your human comrades
died in our attack,

We took their bodies
here to honor them

as we would our own,

But why did you kill the humans?

Tritium bricks,

Court is now in session,

How can you expect to conduct
a trial without a defendant?

-Shoot,,, Shoot him! -No,

Stand down, Sergeant,

We'll get a testimony first,

Don't listen to Quince,
He's been arrested for murder,

General Quince is free
on bond pending trail,

What is this?

It's called trying a
case on the evidence,

Mr, Kra'dok,

call your witness,

The humans came to our
sacred place several times,

We did not catch them
until the last time,

And you murdered them,

You will be silent,
Mr, Armstrong,

Damn it, Judge, That thing killed my
brother and you're treating it like,,,

A defendant, Jake,

Now, sit down and shut up before
I have you tossed in the street,

Continue, Mr, Kra'dok,

What happened this last
time when you caught them?

We attacked them,

Three of them died,

Why did you kill them?

They stole the Tritium
bricks from our village,

You killed them
because of the bricks?

The Tritium bricks

are for our children,

Without the energy
that they provide

our children cannot be born,

The ore must be right and each
brick carefully processed,

When we had found that so
many bricks had been stolen,

hundreds of them,,,

There was not enough
time to make more

before many of our unborn
children were dying,

So, you attacked the humans

to save your children,

I've heard enough of this,

Sit down, Governor,

We don't have to
listen to a murderer,

If you wanna leave, leave!

But I believe Mr, Kra'dok is gonna call
your daughter up to the witness stand,

Isn't that right, Mr, Kra'dok?

Nobody is going anywhere
until his honor says so,

You can do whatever you like,
Mr, Oleaga, after the trial,

Now, sit down,

Everything that
thing said is a lie,

We were making maps,
It attacked us for no reason,

You mean,
you never visited the Medusan camp?

I would never set foot
in the forbidden zone,

And another thing,

Hundreds of those bricks would
weigh thousands of pounds,

Do I look like I
could carry that?

Do you, uh, recognize this?

-No, -Hmm!

It has your name on it,

The judge found it
in the Medusan camp,

Do you recognize this?

I'm not sure,

It's a Tritium
extraction device,

And was found in your bag,

Do you remember it now?

Objection!
Witness is not on trial,

I wasn't accusing
her of a crime,

I'm just establishing
mitigating circumstances

in the case against my
client, your honor,

-I'll allow it,
-KRA'DOK: Tritium is very light,

A thousand pounds of ore would only
produce a hundred pounds of Tritium,

Quite easy for four
people to carry,

Do you still deny that you were
stealing Tritium from the Medusans?

Even if we were

it wouldn't give it the
right to attack us like that,

But you heard
in his testimony today,

The Medusan hatchlings
need Tritium to survive,

Well, that's what they said,

They might just be saying that
to try to get away with murder,

Oh! So you still think that my client
was trying to kill you that day?

I know it was,

Then why didn't he?

-I was lucky, -Oh, I'll say!

A physically superior species,,,

It takes out three
combat veterans

with post rifles!

In his own environment he
is unstoppable, Deadly!

And yet he can't track down a single
unarmed woman ten feet away? Why?

Maybe it had its fill of blood,

Or maybe it only killed to stop
you from taking the Tritium

it needed to save its children,

Once it had your
knapsacks, it let you go,

Now, didn't he?

Didn't he?

All rise for the
honorable Judge Jerome,,,

Joshua Finch,

Please be seated,

The defendant has
confessed to killing three men,

The law here is clear,

The killings only occurred when the
defendant was resisting a felony,

The de facto murder of
his tribe's offspring,

Under the law such resistance
is justifiable homicide,

It is another function of the
law to prevent future crime,

I believe this crime
started with ignorance,

So to prevent future incidents

I hereby order the defendant
to serve five years

as a Medusan liaison
to the Dedalus colony,

This is outrageous,

These things aren't human,

They're subhuman savages,

Who cares about their children?

As for Lavinia Oleaga,

she's to be held for arraignment

on the charges of border
violation and theft,

Finch,
you'll never get away with this,

Court is adjourned,

So, what now?

Face arraignment hearing
next week on a murder charge,

Why would I wanna kill the Hmong?
It's an obvious frame,

So if it is,
it'll come out in court,

You think I did it?

It would be
against regulations

for Judge Finch to comment
on that pre-hearing,

She's right,

But off the record,

I wouldn't have a drink with a
murderer if I was dying of thirst

and it was the last
beer in the galaxy,

Buy you a beer?

Thought you'd never ask,

Hey, wait a minute!
I know what you just did,

Judge Finch?

Only by cutting through
the darkness of ignorance and prejudice