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CONTROL VOICE:

Previously on

The Outer Limits, ,,

Just got word from the clerk,

We got a writ of cert,

-Cert?

-Writ of certiorari,

It means the Supreme Court's

gonna listen to our appeal,

I assume everyone's up to

speed on

U, S, v, Givens

,

Ah, tell me something, Haden,

do you really believe that

this woman has time traveled

here from the past?

As we sit here today,

the future of the

two-decade-old

anti-technology codes,

hangs in the balance,

What you see before you,

Your Honors,

are nothing less than

the detonators of the next,

and most certainly final,

technological holocaust,

THERESA:

I'd venture into the future,

A few days at a time at first,

Eventually, I wound up here

and my heart broke,

This couldn't possibly be 2076,

There are no cars,

no telephones,

no computers,

No sign of an electronic age,

We haven't lost yet,

There's still hope,

Of course,

Somebody will find an answer,

Excuse me, Your Honor,

I think there's one more voice

that you really should

hear from

before you can make

an intelligent verdict,

-Who the hell are you?

-I am your conscience,

Justice Harbison,

but you can call me Ezekiel,

It's a bomb,

Technically it's not a bomb,

it's a cold fusion device,

And I strongly advise

you to listen to

what I have to say,

otherwise, otherwise

I may just have to set it off,

And then you can say goodbye

to this courtroom,

this city and, uh, what,

maybe half the

eastern seaboard,

CONTROL VOICE:

There is nothing wrong

with your television,

Do not attempt

to adjust the picture,

We are now controlling

the transmission,

We control the horizontal

and the vertical,

We can deluge you

with a thousand channels

or expand one single image

to crystal clarity

and beyond,

We can shape your vision

to anything our 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,

Please stand by,

CONTROL VOICE:

How is the world to survive

once technology makes

possible the day

when one man holds our fate

in his hands?

Now, I'm sure that

all the members of the gallery

will spread the word

when I tell you that

there's a second bomb

secreted somewhere out there,

It's on a timer,

and there's only one person

who can disable it,

Yours truly,

All I have to do is send

a little transmission code

to the device,

and we render it impotent,

About as impotent as I'm sure

that you're all feeling

about now,

If anyone tries to intervene,

that's it, game over,

Now, get out!

Everybody out, now!

Bailiffs, leave the court,

(CLAMORING)

What is it you want?

You allow interested parties

to file briefs

either for or

against the petitioner

in these actions,

Friends-of-the-court statements,

-What's the term?

-Amicus curiae,

Ah, that's it!

I most humbly submit

my amicus curiae,

I mean, I hope that doesn't

sound too unreasonable,

You're threatening us with

a fusion device capable of

killing millions of people,

and you want to know if

you sound unreasonable?

The court reporter

is not writing,

Please instruct her to

take all of this down,

Do as he says, Marie,

Thank you very much,

How do we know this thing

strapped to your body

is a bomb at all?

Ah, a skeptic, I like that,

Jurisprudence, 1A,

Never accept a fact without

corroborative evidence,

Well, if any of you

are students of cold fusion,

you may remember the young man

who invented it back in

the turn of the century,

His name was Seth Todtman,

brilliant young man,

Troubled, yes, but brilliant,

Now, Seth, (SCOFFS)

Seth had the same problem,

He had a classroom full

of students held hostage

with a fusion device

ticking away,

The problem was that

nobody believed him,

At least not at first,

Nobody wanted to listen to me,

but now

you're going to, (GUN FIRING)

(SCREAMING)

Get down!

Settle down!

Settle down!

Every way in and out

of this building

has a trash can,

and every trash can is wired

with an explosive device,

which I have just armed,

You won't get away

with this, Seth,

Really?

Define cold fusion,

-What?

-I said define cold fusion,

Cold fusion is, um,

is a release of

thermonuclear energies by

devices that operate at

ordinary room temperatures

and pressures,

but, but such devices

are totally impossible,

-We have proof of that,

-Really?

I made this one all by myself,

I did it on my kitchen table,

The people who said

it was impossible

were wrong,

and today,

I get to prove that,

Look out the window!

Look out the window!

Now, unlike that young man,

I have faith in your

native intelligence,

No, make that, faith in your

ability to judge

the difference between

a credible threat and a bluff,

You said you wanted to go

on record in this case, Why?

Well, ma'am, because I care,

I care deeply about the issues,

Does that sound corny?

No,

Well, where do I begin?

Ah, perhaps the beginning,

In the beginning, God created

the heavens and the earth,

and being rather enamored

of his own skills he looked

down upon his creation

and he deemed that it was good,

and it was good,

It was damn good,

And then he created

the beasts and the forests,

the dogs and the dark woods,

and feeling his oats,

he set about to create man,

Well, actually man and woman,

to be politically correct,

although, I don't believe

that God was but,

hey, it was his ball game,

And then, he plunked

his creation down

in the garden of Eden,

for they barely had enough

time for a round of croquet

and a conversation with

the serpent before

they found themselves

pissing God off,

You see, they violated

his one admonition,

Don't, I say don't, eat from

the tree of knowledge,

But, Adam and Eve,

they weren't

buying any of this,

and they paid dearly for it,

As a matter of fact,

we have all paid dearly for it

because you see,

paradise was off-limits

to the newlyweds,

It's been off-limits

to us ever since,

What is my point?

My point is, it wasn't

the snake in the grass

and it wasn't

the big, red, juicy,

Washington Delicious,

and it wasn't

our innate perversity

that draws us to things that

we are told to shun

that was the problem,

The problem was knowledge!

The problem was that

we were thrown headlong

into the same contradiction

that made protoplasmic stew

out of 6,8 billion people

back in June of 2059,

The problem was

we thought that

we could handle knowledge,

You're a Luddite,

an anti-technology zealot,

I am also living proof

of my own argument,

All the best

intentions of the world

can be erased

in the blink of an eye

at the hand of one mad man,

I'm dealing with

impulse and capability,

Aren't you forgetting

that your side won?

There was a definite roar

of anti-technology sentiment

after the new holocaust,

A million man chorus

that drowned any

voices of opposition,

and that's how we wound up here,

Those 200 years of progress

systematically dismantled

and place on the garbage heap,

So, I would ask you,

why do you feel

a need to put a nuclear

gun to our heads

and beat a drum that

hasn't stopped pounding

for almost 20 years?

Excellent question,

Brother Clayton,

and I think I have

an equally artful rejoinder,

You see,

I have got a terrible feeling

in the pit of my stomach,

I've got the sense that

we're about to piss on

the closest thing to paradise

since Hotel Eden,

So, all of this is to

make sure that Dr, Givens'

conviction is upheld?

(SCOFFS)

Dr, Givens isn't important,

I am not important,

There isn't

a soul in this room

who is important,

What is important,

is that we don't tick

God off one more time because

as smart as he is,

as good as he is,

I get the feeling he's

just about run out of patience

with his rather iffy creation,

You were wrong

about one thing, Ezekiel,

Ah, Dr, Givens,

I was waiting

for you to chime in,

You said this wasn't about me,

I said that

you weren't important,

How about the truth then?

-Is that important?

-(SCOFFS)

The truth is about

the only thing that I have

left in my kit bag, Doc,

Then tell them

where you came from,

how you got here,

and maybe you should tell

them that you were rather

infatuated with me once,

A school boy crush

on his mentor,

A sentiment alas unrequited,

I believe your last words

were, "Go to hell,"

Well, I took

your advice, Theresa,

and now I'm back,

THERESA:

May I address the court?

I think I may be able

to shed some light on

what's going on here,

I'm glad somebody can,

Go ahead, Dr, Givens,

"Ezekiel" wasn't

always his name,

He took it from the prophet,

who implored

the Jews in Babylonia

to return to their

godliness and faith,

Daniel Faraday is his real name,

When I started developing

my temporal transporter,

I enlisted a number

of specialists

in various fields,

It was a little like

the Manhattan Project

in the 20th Century,

Hmm,

An apt analogy

I must say, Theresa,

Everybody's responsibilities

were compartmentalized,

No one knew how the parts

would be put together but me,

Daniel, Ezekiel,

was a bio-physicist

for a company that had some

highly-classified

government contracts,

I believe there's a shorter

job-description, uh,

I believe the word, "whore"

is what you're looking for,

And so the two

of you collaborated?

No, I think that would be

over-stating it,

We did share information, yes,

but I made a critical

breakthrough that

the government

and Daniel never could,

and that's when

all hell broke loose,

Shall I tell them

or would you like to?

Oh, no, by all means, go ahead,

I always say,

why let the facts get

in the way of a good story?

That's when Daniel

became Ezekiel,

I had no idea what was going on,

And his behavior became erratic,

He would go on these rants,

rants against the government,

against science,

against technology,

Uh, Dr, Givens,

I must confess

that I'm confused,

You say that that man

used your machine

to enter our time,

but was this with or without

you cooperation?

There was

no cooperation on my part,

Daniel and I had

a terrible falling out

and then he disappeared,

First sign that he was surfaced

was when there was

an experiment

that was sabotaged

at the government

lab where he worked,

-The wormhole's expanding!

-Shut it down,

MAN: Abort! Abort!

The override isn't working,

(PULSATING)

-Power emissions are spiking!

-(BEEPING)

Shut it down!

(ALL SHOUTING)

A man called Ezekiel

claimed credit for it,

but I, I knew who

was responsible,

Ezekiel was making

the world safe for democracy,

and damned if he still isn't!

And then there was a break-in

at my lab, papers were stolen,

most of the key documents

from my transporter,

They belong to me as much

as they did her, I was

only taking what was mine,

I knew there was only

a matter of time,

-before he developed

his own device,

-(SCOFFS)

"Just a matter of time,"

I like that,

He took a number

of trips through time

with little or no regard

for how he might

be affecting history,

Ladies and gentlemen,

I believe the pot has

just called the kettle black,

Pot meet kettle,

You, uh, don't see

the irony here,

Oh, I see irony everywhere,

It's like X-ray vision,

JUSTICE HADEN:

Well, here you were,

a revolutionary railing

against the evils

of technology,

and you were employing

the most sophisticated product

of that technology,

To what end am I using

that technology?

That is what you have

to ask yourself,

Mr, Chief Justice,

Sometimes it is necessary to

take up the arms of the enemy,

to defeat him,

You, uh, see technology

as enslaving mankind,

-Is that a fair statement?

-Ha!

Not only is it fair, I'd say

it is pretty damn prophetic,

Look at these things,

Polygraphic generator,

Re-animation lasers,

Artificial intelligence

arrays, the new golden calf,

Uh, a little bowing

and scraping music,

please, maestro,

If you believe machines

are the problem,

then I can only assume

you place your faith

in man's innate goodness,

Only when he

is not being crushed

by the heavy boot

of science and government,

Only when he

has a fighting chance,

If that's the case,

then I have to

ask you, Ezekiel,

why do you feel the need to

force our hand here?

Isn't the highest

court of the land,

by definition,

a place where human judgment

reigns supreme,

That presumes that you

haven't been corrupted,

What evidence

is there that we have?

(LAUGHS)

That's funny, Chief Justice,

because to answer

that question,

I'm going to put

you on the stand,

-You want to interrogate me?

-(LAUGHS)

Oh, interrogate's

such a nasty word,

No, I just want to question you,

JUSTICE HARBISON:

Haden, don't fall into

this man's trap,

He's already got his finger

on a nuclear trigger,

don't give him anymore power,

And here I thought you were

the only cool head in this

chamber, Justice Harbison,

I stand before you as only a

lowly private citizen

advocating his point of view,

A point of view

that I believe you share,

I don't believe

in using violence

to undermine the legitimate

authority of this court,

Boilerplate!

Isn't that what you call it?

When you have to plug

in standard, legal language

when all else fails?

You want to question me?

I have no problem with that,

but I think it's only fair

that you give up

something in return,

Oh, now we're

negotiating, are we?

Well, I hope you will

excuse my coarse

language when I ask you,

do I look like a gosh darn

fool to you?

We're just spinning

our wheels here,

-I put a proposal

to you, Ezekiel,

-Mmm,

Disarm that device,

and I will do as you wish,

As a sign of goodwill,

I will disarm this bomb,

Ah, to tell you the truth,

it was getting a little

uncomfortable for me, anyway,

But I will warn you,

I hold the transmitter

that is capable of setting

the one off outside,

within a millisecond

of my touching any one

of these buttons,

or we can just let it

tick down on the timer

till it goes off of

its own accord,

Now, it's your turn

to show me some good will,

All I ask is that you

answer my questions

fairly and honestly,

Now, then, what did you

do on the war, Mr, Wainwright?

I was in the military,

Three-star general

attached to NATO troops,

Then I can assume

that you had a hand

in the strategizing?

Well, it was of

very little value,

Few skirmishes

in Eastern Europe

and Pan Africa,

The submarine was sunk

in the Atlantic,

So, you weren't consulted

in the possible use

of a nuclear arsenal?

I was in communication

with the Pentagon, yes,

Ah, such humility, Haden,

The scope of it

I heard was, you were

personal advisor to the pres,

What was your recommendation?

That we not give in

to nuclear blackmail,

Hmm, tough it out, huh?

Give us good as you get,

bomb them back

into the Stone Age,

and let God sort it out?

(CHUCKLES) That's

your characterization,

not mine,

Sir, Mr, Chief Justice,

you were safely ensconced

in a bunker two miles

below the earth's surface,

while four-fifth

of the world was reduced

to radioactive jelly!

You're hardly the one

to be sanctimonious!

Well, I learned from the best,

Why don't you tell him that

you traveled through time

to other wars,

and I don't recall you telling

me about any heroic efforts

to stop the bloodshed,

Well, that was you job,

wasn't it, Theresa?

GAURD: Hold steady!

(PANTING)

-MAN: Miriam! Miriam!

-GIRL: Mama! Mama!

MIRIAM:

Please, my daughter,

don't make her watch,

No, Mama!

(GRUNTS)

(GUN FIRING)

(YELLING)

THERESA:

You were

a tourist in hell,

Those were your exact words,

Well, I'm making

up for it now, aren't I?

History will number

me among the greatest

of all humanitarians,

Excuse me, Mr, Chief Justice,

We were talking

about the Great War,

Now, in the aftermath,

after all the bloodshed, when

the bodies were being counted,

what was your job?

I was appointed with

the president to a taskforce

to examine our options,

Huh, would that be

the task force

that recommended

the elimination of all weapons

of mass destruction?

That's correct,

And when the mandate

task force expanded,

to include the consideration

of the anti-technology codes,

where did you come down

on that issue?

I was in agreement that

they be considered,

EZEKIEL: And when the

codes were implemented,

and when the moratorium

on all scientific research

was adopted,

you were relieved,

-I was in support,

-Hmm,

And that support was unwavering?

Shall I repeat the question?

I'm sitting in judgment

on that question

in this court,

I think you know that,

I think it's inappropriate

for me to comment,

All right,

let's change the subject,

Are you familiar with research

done by Drs, McCamber

and Houghton

at the early part

of this century?

They were two doctors who

discovered a way to revive

necrotic tissues and organs,

-And repair them,

-EZEKIEL: Uh-huh,

Not just to revive dead tissue,

but to revive dead people,

Zombie time, isn't that right?

It proved to be

a flawed technology,

Oh, that is quite

an understatement,

because it did have

the ability to

restore human life,

but not the quality

of that life,

(ENERGY PULSATING)

Autolysis reversed,

rebuilding neuron networks,

(POWERING UP)

-Reflex!

-I don't think so,

(BEEPING)

Hello, Mr, Reynolds,

Welcome back,

EZEKIEL: You lost your wife,

Julie to cancer,

10 years ago, am I right?

I don't see

that's relevant here,

Oh, it's relevant,

Mr, Chief Justice,

because you went to

the scientific underground

and tried to illegally

bring her back to life,

She was my life,

Nothing I'd ever achieved

meant anything

after she was gone,

I was inconsolable,

A friend told me about

these renegades

in the underground,

They'd actually achieved

the promise of Lazarus,

And what else could you do?

You plucked the apple,

I would have given

my life to save her,

They weren't successful,

I take it?

She had a few moments

of consciousness,

She looked terrified,

Bewildered,

I'll never forget that look,

and I'll never forgive myself,

Never forgive yourself,

your Honor,

or never forgive science?

There's always been

a double standard,

hasn't there, Brother Gannon?

One set of laws

for the privileged and another

one for the average joe!

PARKHURST: Do you

honestly believe

that any ruling made

under threat,

of blackmail,

let alone, nuclear annihilation,

could have any validity?

EZEKIEL: You're making

an assumption, Justice,

Your assuming that I've

threatened to use force if the

decision doesn't go my way,

And you're saying, you're not?

I'm not a fool!

I grant you my excesses,

my passions,

my unorthodox protocol,

I did use my threat to, uh,

gain access to this court,

so that you will hear

my testimony,

but the final decisions

still rest in your hands,

untainted by any

sort of intimidation,

Now whatever you decide,

I'll accept,

I can't be stupid

enough to believe

that I can dictate the future,

Isn't that exactly

what you're doing?

No, Theresa, it is exactly

what you are trying

to do by bringing this

poisonous technology

into the present,

(THERESA LAUGHING)

Excuse me, this is just

a little more irony than

I can take right now,

Aren't you the one

with the bomb?

(SCOFFS)

Actually, no,

There is no bomb,

There never was a bomb,

Now surely,

you won't me begrudge me

this little bit of assurance,

No, the only bomb here is the

incendiary ignorance

that permeates

this courtroom,

this culture, ignorance

that would allow you to sink

into the mire once again,

Are you telling us that

the transmitter that

you're holding

is not capable of triggering

a cold fusion device?

Boom!

Hmm,

You almost seem

disappointed, Chief Justice,

If what you're saying is true,

then you won't

mind surrendering it,

Well,

there are 20 bucks worth

of perfectly good

electronics in here,

but I'm sure that once

the court assures itself

as to its harmlessness,

I'll be justly compensated,

Put the device down,

You realize the gravity

of your actions here today?

I absolutely do, Chief Justice,

I only wish that I could

be as sure that you did,

What's that?

That's a time travel

controller, your honor,

She's right,

It operates

the temporal transporter,

If you all foolish enough

to return to a world where

machines reign over humans,

then I will humbly take my

leave through that device,

-And go where?

-Oh!

So many destinations!

Ancient Greece,

Renaissance Italy,

anywhere but the future,

JUSTICE HARBISON:

If we let him go now,

what's to prevent him from

coming back later on

creating the same havoc?

If he leaves the controller

here there is no way

that he can return,

What about the damage

he could inflict in the past?

He could affect

the world for generations,

Unlike the charade

of this appeal,

I'm not putting

this up to a vote!

I say get him

the hell out of here,

Not quite yet, Justice Woods,

I haven't completed

my presentation,

-What does that mean?

-It means,

that I have special

knowledge too,

knowledge of the future

of mankind,

of the world far ahead

of the one visited

by Dr, Givens,

I want you to be able

to make the most informed

judgment that you can,

Why should we

believe you, Ezekiel?

Because to not believe me

would spell absolute

and irreversible doom,

Go ahead,

You have five minutes

of this court's time,

Thank you, your Honor,

That's all I need,

If time travel has

taught me anything,

is that the future is malleable,

It can be shaped by our choices,

It's really futures, plural,

The number of possibilities

is infinite,

We can change

your actions today,

and visit those

consequences, 10, 50,

100s of years from now,

Not long ago,

I went tripping through

one of those possibilities,

into a future where technology

was not outlawed,

Deep into the 24th century,

about 100 years after

we started to colonize

other worlds,

One civilization that we tried

to oust from its home planet,

declared war on us!

It not only defeated the human

invaders but then it came

to Earth to finish us off,

(SNARLING)

(GRUNTING)

(BEEPING)

This is impossible,

They, they have no technology,

Oh, God!

(EXPLODING)

In the end, it was

our false sense

of superiority,

our sheer willfulness,

our arrogance,

that defeated us,

It is our arrogance

that will defeat us,

(SCOFFS)

How did Shakespeare put it?

"Screw your courage

to the sticking-place

and we'll not fail,"

Well, I guess I agree

with old Will,

Screw your courage!

Theresa, I believe you're

familiar with this,

It's set, I just need you

to flick this switch,

You can come with me,

you do know that,

If they let your

conviction stand,

you'll face the death penalty,

I know that,

Are you so confident that

you'll be vindicated?

No, not at all,

(PULSATING)

Last chance!

Goodbye, Theresa!

(SIGHS)

Is he really gone?

Yes, he's gone,

In the light of these

remarkable developments

I'd like to hear from

the two councils,

Approach, please,

I assume that these

proceedings will be declared

null and void,

Is that your feeling

too, Ms, Whitley?

I don't know, The question is,

has the judicial process

been compromised?

Well, of course

it's been compromised,

it's all poison fruit,

How can the

Justices' fair hearing

not be compromised

by the presence of a mad man?

A mad man who

advocated your position,

I'd remind you, Mr, Gannon,

JUSTICE WOODS: Come on, look,

isn't the real question here,

not whether we

can unring the bell,

ah, but whether we can

make a fair decision

in the wake of all this?

JUSTICE HARBISON:

What's the alternative?

Put the nation on hold?

Put the whole damn

world on hold,

while start over from scratch?

And then run the risk

of the decision being called

double jeopardy?

I say, we take a deep breath

and make our decision,

Mr, Gannon?

I, uh, I would like

to make some final remarks,

before it's decided,

JUSTICE HADEN: Ms, Whitley?

I'd like some time as well,

I'll allow a brief summary

from each side,

-And the appellant?

-Yes,

She can speak,

To say that technology

is a double-edged sword

is beyond dispute,

But to forgo all

of technology's gifts,

because we have suffered the

consequences of its misuse,

may be the greatest

miscalculation of our time,

Your Honors, I believe,

the time for retreat is over,

We have to stop burying

our heads in the sand,

Society must act now,

Out of love rather than fear,

The same kind

of caring and compassion

that the Chief Justice

himself showed,

when he looked to science

to rekindle the spark of life,

in his beloved wife,

It's time to show

that same compassion

for the future

is still unwritten,

You all witnessed

Dr, Givens' choice

to face judgment

rather than flee,

She acted out of

that very love

for human kind,

and I hope that will guide

your ultimate decision,

Thank you,

Mr, Gannon, your final thoughts?

The, uh, state, as respondent

in this appeal,

has been accused in effect

of killing the messenger,

As fate would have it today,

we heard from

another messenger,

one with a very different

vision of future,

and while we all deplore

the barbaric way

in which this man

foisted his testimony

upon this august body,

ignore only at your peril,

at all our peril,

what his appearance

here signifies,

A few computer chips,

a mingling of rare elements,

a bit of electronic alchemy

and lo and behold,

our cities are held hostage

to the threats of a sociopath,

Now, are we really ready

to believe that what

happened here today

won't happen again?

It is we who

are insane by definition,

if we continue to conduct

the same experiment,

see the same results,

yet fail to heed its lessons,

Gentlemen, and lady Justices,

we have already found a refuge

from the plagues,

that science and technology

have visited upon us,

We have found a haven,

Are we ready to give up

that sanctuary,

and tempt fate?

I pray that we are not,

Dr, Givens?

Before you reach your

verdict, ask yourselves this,

Were human beings

put on this earth to witness

the wonders

of the universe or,

(SIGHS)

or to become one of them?

I believe that our innate

goodness and strength

are greater than

our innate weaknesses,

and our innate evil,

Are the fears

of science reemerging as an

uncontrollable monster,

legitimate ones?

Maybe so, but I'm

naive enough to hope

that we can overcome whatever

obstacles that await us,

that we can take control

of our destiny,

and realize in the best

in ourselves,

The real miracles are miracles

at the outer limits

of our imagination

are yet to come,

(SIGHS)

Don't everybody

talk at once,

What else is there to say?

I think we've all staked

out our turf,

Just so we're clear,

can we consider the words

of a terrorist

who threatened to blow

us to kingdom come?

Every case we hear

we draw upon

the body of the law

and a lifetime

of personal experience,

I don't think we can exclude

from that experience what

we went through today,

So, what does

a strict constructionist

make of all this?

We pulled the world

back from the brink,

once in this generation,

I'm not about

to push it back in,

If I do nothing else

in my remaining days

on this earth,

but negate my

good friend Ollie's vote,

I will consider it

a life worth spent!

I will not send that woman

to her death,

Much less, every child

who goes to bed at night

praying for a better world,

You're all so full of surprises,

So surprise us,

Tell us you weren't moved

by that woman's plea,

Oh, I was moved,

Sick to the stomach, moved,

but you cannot erase

the lessons of history

with one emotionally

charged speech,

When I came on this bench,

I made one, solemn

promise to myself

and that was to always

put justice first,

What the hell good is some

abstract notion of justice

in the face of everything

you've just seen and heard?

Now, you know better

than to cross rhetorical

swords with me, Kendall,

(SIGHS)

You're gonna have to break

the tie after all, Haden,

Yes, I know that,

So, what do you think,

old friend?

JUSTICE HADEN: We have

invented and created

and sought answers to

the mysteries of the universe

since we first emerged

from the cave,

Some of those inventions

were used to enlighten,

Others were used to destroy,

A rose, no matter

how enticing, has its thorns,

How are we to know when

the torch we've be handed

will be used to

light our way

through the darkness,

or to burn down our

homes and cities?

The truth is, we can't know,

Machines themselves

have no

intrinsic morality,

It's up to society to invest

them with a higher purpose,

In the opinion of this Justice,

the danger of denying

our true nature,

our natural curiosity,

of denying our thirst for

unencumbered freedom,

is one we can no longer ignore,

May we always seek the light,

The vote is three to two,

in favor to the appellate,

Congratulations, Dr, Givens,

you are a free woman,

(BANGS GAVEL)

(GIGGLING)

I wish that I could

be there in person,

but I left behind this

holographic message,

Consider it a consolation

to our defeat,

I'm sure that

Theresa's persuasiveness

and your own

gullibility were such,

that her cause prevailed,

Well, unfortunately

that victory will

be short lived,

Maybe now, the world

will heed my warning!

(BEEPING)

Oh, God, no,

What is it? What's happening?

Do something, use your machine!

I can't!

No time!

Ahhh!

(SCREAMING)

(SHOUTING)

(EXPLODING)

(PERIOD MUSIC PLAYING)

(LAUGHING AND SHOUTING)

I would like

to propose a toast,

To the future!

(CHEERING)

Beware of false gods,

false promises,

but most of all, beware of me,

(CACKLING)

NARRATOR:

If we fail

to be vigilant,

we may find that

the same miracles

which define our greatness

as a species,