Original subtitles

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,

(GRUNTING)

(ALIENS SCREECHING)

They're all around us,

(ROARING)

(GRUNTING)

Move,

(GRUNTING)

(ALIENS SCREECHING)

(GRUNTING)

(GRUNTING)

(GROANING)

(SNARLING)

(ROARING)

(ROARING)

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,

CONTROL VOICE: 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?

(HONKING)

(GRUNTING)

(HONKING)

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,

(BOTH LAUGHING)

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,

-(CROWD SCREAMING)

-(MAN YELLING)

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?

CROWD: Yeah!

-Yeah!

-MAN: That's Jake Armstrong,

Lost his little brother

in the attack,

JAKE: Hang him!

-I'll put a stop

to this right now,

-Why?

I've got to, I'm the

crooked old geezer

from Earth,

(GRUNTING)

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?

(CROWD YELLING INDISTINCTLY)

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,

-(GRUNTING)

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, ,,

-(SIGHING)

-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?

QUINCE: 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,

(BEEPING)

Hi, this is Eileen,

Please leave your name

and trans tag

and I'll call you back

as soon as I can, Thank you,

AUTOMATED VOICE:

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,

(LAUGHING)

Is that mystical enough

for you?

No wonder

all my lawyer friends

think I'm crazy,

(SIGHING)

I still think about you,

I know you're still working

on the big decision,

(SIGHING) 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,

(SIGHING)

-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?

-(BEEP)

-(MAN'S VOICE) "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!

(INDISTINCT TALKING)

(EXHALING)

All rise for the Honorable

Judge Jerome Finch,

First territorial court

of Dedalus is now in session,

Please be seated,

(INDISTINCT MURMURING)

(CLEARING THROAT)

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,

(SIGHING) Fine,

Bailiff, we need a translator,

(GRUNTING)

Anybody here speak Medusan?

(INDISTINCT MURMURING)

(SPEAKING 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?

(SPEAKING MEDUSAN)

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,

(SPEAKING MEDUSAN)

He says do as you wish,

I'll take that as a yes,

Court is adjourned

until trial,

MIRANDA: 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,

(GRUNTING) Good night,

Good night,

(EXHALING)

-You want a blanket?

-No,

-Glass of water?

-No thanks,

-Okay, then,

Well, see you in the morning,

-First thing,

Well, sweet dreams,

(SIGHING)

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,

(GRUNTING)

(GRUNTING)

(GRUNTING)

It's a Narcopta,

They have a daily

two hour hibernation,

That's lunch,

(GRUNTING)

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,

(SPEAKING MEDUSAN)

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,

-(INDISTINCT MUTTERING)

-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?

(SPEAKING MEDUSAN)

(SPEAKING MEDUSAN)

Yes, it was the leader,

What happened

to the other humans?

(SPEAKING MEDUSAN)

Uh, they were killed and, ,,

Your honor, the word

doesn't translate,

Was it as Mr, Armstrong

described?

(SPEAKING MEDUSAN)

Yes,

Were you present

when they were killed?

(QUINCE SPEAKING MEDUSAN)

Yes,

Did you kill anyone yourself?

(SPEAKING MEDUSAN)

Yes, One of them was for me,

Son of a bitch!

You killed them!

You killed them all,

Order!

(FAINT MUSIC PLAYING)

-(THRASHING)

-(CREATURE SCREECHING)

(INDISTINCT TALKING)

MIRANDA:

Judge, he came by after court

to see you about the case,

FINCH: 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,

(BEEPING)

AUTOMATED VOICE:

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,

(MUSIC PLAYING FROM STREET)

FINCH: It's open,

Hello,

Hey!

Your blood alcohol level

is, 21,

Is that all?

AUTOMATED VOICE:

Replaying same message,

EILEEN:

I got married, Josh,

-Judge Finch?

-I know it's not

what you wanted to hear,

FINCH: Ah!

-I know it's, ,,

 -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,

(PEOPLE TALKING INDISTINCTLY)

(GRUNTING)

Oh!

Jesus!

(GASPS) 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?

(DOOR KNOCKING)

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,

MIRANDA: 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,

(MEDUSANS GROWLING)

(GRUNTING)

(SPEAKING MEDUSAN)

(GRUNTING)

(GRUNTING)

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?

FINCH: Tritium bricks,

(INFANT WHIMPERING)

(GRUNTING)

(SQUEALING)

Court is now in session,

How can you expect

to conduct a trial

without a defendant?

-(GROWLING)

-(INDISTINCT TALKING)

-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,

(INDISTINCT MUTTERING)

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?

MEDUSAN: 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,

-(INDISTINCT MURMURING)

-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,

LAVINIA:

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,

KRA'DOK: 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, ,,

(DOOR CLOSING)

Joshua Finch,

Please be seated,

FINCH:

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?

(GAVEL HITTING)

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?

MIRANDA: 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?

CONTROL VOICE:

Only by cutting

through the darkness

of ignorance and prejudice