02x43 - Future Tense

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GOLIATH: 1, 000 years ago, superstition and the sword ruled.

It was a time of darkness.

It was a world of fear.

It was the age of gargoyles.

Stone by day, warriors by night.

We were betrayed by the humans we had sworn to protect, frozen in stone by a magic spell for 1, 000 years.

Now, here in Manhattan,

the spell is broken and we live again.

We are Defenders of the Night.

We are gargoyles!

NARRATOR: Previously on Gargoyles...

ELISA: if you're from Goliath's time, how did you get here?

GUARDIAN: Time passes differently on Avalon.

For every hour spent there, one day goes by in the real world.

ELISA: Every time we sail into that mist, I keep hoping I'll see the Brooklyn Bridge or Lady Liberty.

At least you have Avalon to come home to.

But it's not my home.

It's not our home.

Now that matters are settled here we've a quest to return to.

GOLIATH: Oberon is gathering his magical children home to Avalon.

I wish Avalon would finally send us home as well.

You and me both.

GOLIATH: I miss the Trio and Hudson.

I'd give much to see Manhattan's spires again.

[LIGHTNING CRACKLING]

[GROANING]

ELISA: Goliath!

I...

I'm fine. I... Look!

ELISA: [GASPS] The Statue of Liberty!

-At last we're home! -[BARKING]

[PANTING]

[BOTH GASPING]

No...

-[THUNDER RUMBLES] -ELISA: What...

What's happened?

This is the world you wanted me to see?

It wasn't like this!

-This is impossible. -[BEEPING]

MAN OVER PA: Attention. By entering these waters you are violating Manhattan national sovereignty.

Prepare for apprehension.

[GASPING]

Angela! Elisa!

[GASPING] Goliath! Help!

[GRUNTS] Hold on, Elisa!

[GROANS]

[GRUNTS]

Elisa!

[SCREAMING] No!

[GROANS]

[GASPING]

[COUGHING]

MATT: Ooh! Pull up slow, Claw.

You don't want to ram him.

[GOLIATH GRUNTS]

Thank you, strangers.

Strangers? Is that any way to greet old friends?

Goliath, it's me... Matt Bluestone!

Bluestone?

What has happened to you?

Well I got older.

What happened to you?

You look exactly the same after 40 years.

Forty years?

It cannot be. I know time passes more slowly on Avalon, but...

This mystery will have to wait.

Elisa and Angela have been captured by Xanatos' robots.

That's bad. Claw, get us back to base.

[SQUEAKING]

GOLIATH: They are not afraid of us.

MATT: They've got better things to be afraid of.

[GASPING]

[FOOTSTEPS MARCHING]

[GASPING]

[GASPING]

[GLASS SHATTERING]

[BABY CRYING]

Goliath, no!

You can't fight them all! Not here. Not now.

[ALARM BLARING]

Rejoice, my people.

The Age of Xanatopia is at hand.

All of your suffering and hardship will soon come to an end.

And the rest of the world will enjoy the fruits of my benevolent leadership.

Soon my people, very soon.

Xanatos must be stopped!

We must return to the clock tower, get the others!

Goliath, that is the clock tower.

Come on, it's not safe out in the open.

The first hero of the Resistance.

He d*ed fighting Xanatos's breakaway from the U.S. 32 years ago.

-Hudson... Dead. -[WHIMPERING]

None of us have seen Xanatos in person since.

GOLIATH: I saw his broadcast image.

He does not look 40 years older.

The rumor is he's realized his dream of immortality.

-Brooklyn! -Welcome back, Goliath.

I've been waiting a long time for this.

[GOLIATH GROANS]

[SNARLS]

You got a lot of nerve showing your face around here!

What was that all about?

He abandoned us 40 years ago!

Without you we were no match for Xanatos!

I didn't know.

We thought our odyssey was fated.

We wanted to come home.

Oh, hey. You know, that makes everything much better.

Don't yell at him, Brooklyn. He's back now.

That's all that matters.

Broadway.

I knew you'd come back.

Others doubted, but I never lost faith.

What...

What happened to him?

Broadway, Talon, Maggie and Coldstone battled Sevarius and the Ultra-Pack to save the last free humans from being turned into Mutates.

Broadway was the lucky one.

If there were anything I could do to change this...

Wait a minute. The Phoenix Gate.

Tell me you have it.

We've got to use it to go back in time and stop all this from ever happening.

Impossible.

Time is like a river, correcting its course against any change.

History cannot be altered.

Look around you, Goliath.

What have we got to lose by trying?

The solutions lie not in the past, but in the present.

We must free Elisa and Angela and topple Xanatos from his throne.

DEMONA: That may not be so easy.

GOLIATH: Demona!

[GRUNTS]

Are you mad? She's our enemy!

Not anymore.

Are you all right, my love?

Yes, now that I'm back in your arms.

[GROWLING]

You two... Together?

But... I thought Demona had chosen Thailog.

Uh, yeah, but...

Thailog was k*lled in the Clone Wars.

[WHIRRING]

Lexington! What has happened to you?

No time for explanations.

Fox has infiltrated Xanatos' lair.

We're receiving the transmission now.

We'd better get to the w*r room.

Glad to have you back, Goliath.

Better late than never.

Homing in on Fox's signal.

Fox is helping us?

Fox is our secret w*apon.

Xanatos has no idea how much his son loathes him.

His son?

On screen now.

[GRUNTING]

GOLIATH: Where in the world are they?

[expl*si*n]

LEXINGTON: Somewhere inside the Eyrie Pyramid.

I'm trying to pinpoint the signal.

I'm disappointed, Alexander.

Did you really believe I didn't know you had joined Brooklyn's rebels?

[expl*si*n]

ALEXANDER: Ah!

[GROANING] Oh...

[ALEXANDER GRUNTS]

Well, father, you are well informed.

Did you also know I'm broadcasting this little family chat directly to rebel headquarters?

Of course. I'm piggy-backing on your signal.

I should have the location of their secret base in under 20 minutes.

No!

XANATOS: Nice try, my boy.

But you can't defeat me. Your rebels are doomed.

And once they're gone, there will be no one left to stop me. In fact, before this night is over, I'll literally be king of the world.

And since I'm immortal, -I have no need of an heir. -[ALEXANDER SCREAMS]

I knew Xanatos was evil.

But to destroy his own son.

He didn't die in vain. I got a fix on the signal.

Believe it or not, it was coming from the Great Hall in the old castle.

Hmm. Xanatos is onto us.

Our only course of action is a preemptive strike.

att*ck the pyramid?

Unless someone has a more timely solution.

Elisa and Angela may be there as well.

They must be rescued.

We'll use a two-pronged att*ck.

Matt's ground forces will plant charges on the lower levels.

That should keep Xanatos's grunts busy while those of us with wings fly into the nerve center, inside Castle Wyvern.

One way or another, it ends tonight.

Now let's get out of here before Xanatos nukes the place.

LEXINGTON: Okay, Broadway, we're coming in for a landing.

I've got it covered, Lex. Your sonar collar's working just fine.

Once we're inside, you must rescue Angela and escape with her.

Escape? To where?

As far away as you can.

You must protect our daughter.

Give her the Phoenix Gate so she may hide in the past.

Hiding, is never a solution.

[LOUD expl*si*n]

That's our cue.

We've only got one sh*t to stop Xanatos.

Let's do it!

LEXINGTON: Telemetry coming in.

[MACHINE WHIRRING]

Claw, Matt and Bronx are gone.

Thailog Shock Troops! Broadway! Hit them!

Way ahead of you, Brook.

[WHINING]

[GROANING]

[GRUNTING]

[GRUNTING]

[GRUNTING]

[SCREAMING]

[SHRIEKS]

[ROARS]

[BROADWAY GROANS]

Broadway!

Hold on, Broadway. If you can last until sunrise, you'll be healed.

[WHISPERING] Oh...

Yes...

The sun. Can you see it, Goliath?

It's beautiful.

Good-bye, my friend.

[GROWLING]

[SHOUTING] Xanatos!

Show yourself!

[ALL GROANING]

[POWERING DOWN]

ELISA: Goliath!

You came at last.

What is this place?

XANATOS: It's not a place, Goliath.

It's me.

The real me. Since Hudson and I quarreled.

[SCREAMING]

BROOKLYN: Your body was destroyed.

XANATOS: Sad but true.

However, my brain patterns and personality were successfully downloaded into my computer network.

Granting me the immortality I've always desired.

You're not immortal.

You're not even Xanatos.

The real Xanatos at his worst would not have done what you've done.

You're just an unfeeling machine!

Well, this machine is about to download onto every computer on the World Wide Net.

Bringing the planet exactly the kind of order it needs.

My kind.

The world needs your kind of order like it needs another ice age!

Well, we can't have that.

How about some sun to melt through that ice.

[SCREAMS]

DEMONA: Ah!

Well, Demona, I see Puck's spell of transformation even works in Cyberspace.

You didn't turn to stone.

Which means...

You get to suffer.

DEMONA: No!

[CRYING] My daughter! My love!

[GROANS]

[CRACKLING]

Goliath, listen!

This world is not real.

It's controlled by the mind.

If your will is greater you can defeat him.

[SCREAMS]

Well, that's that.

No, it is not.

It ends now, machine.

Goliath! No!

[WHIRRING]

Alas, poor Goliath. I knew him well.

You will not win.

What are you going to do? Bite my kneecaps off?

Whatever you're up to, it won't work.

XANATOS: Ah!

Demona, Brooklyn, Angela...

LEXINGTON: Gone. Bye-bye.

-Sorry about that. -[ELISA GASPS]

ELISA: Lexington?

I had to keep you occupied while I finished downloading the Xanatos program.

In less than a minute all the world will belong to me.

It was you all along?

Yep. Xanatos really did die in the fight with Hudson.

I just kept his memory alive, so I could run the show unmolested.

You betrayed your own clan!

You betrayed us.

You disappeared when we needed you the most.

You've lost, Goliath!

Even if you destroy this terminal there are a thousand others all over the city!

Traitor!

[ROARING]

[CRACKLING]

[GROANS]

[GRUNTS]

We've lost, Goliath.

It was all for nothing.

You heard Lex. The countdown wasn't stopped.

The Xanatos program is spreading all over the globe.

There's only one chance left.

The Phoenix Gate.

It's too late. Even if we could change the past.

I'm too weak to use it.

Then let me try. There's nothing to lose.

Give it to me, Goliath.

Here...

Take it.

-Give it to me. -Too weak.

No, you're not. Put it in my hand.

If you want it, take it.

Give it to me! Now!

No.

You're not Elisa.

Who are you?

No! No! Not now!

I was so close! So close!

Puck! This is your doing!

Why?

[SIGHS]

Big Daddy Oberon's already begun The Gathering.

Time for all us wayward children to toddle back to oh-so-boring Avalon.

And what has that to do with me?

You have to ask?

Even Oberon's not above a little bribery.

If I hand him the Phoenix Gate he might just let me hang out with you mortals a while longer.

So you needed to get it from me.

Exact-a-mundo.

Problem is, the rules say I can't take it from you.

I needed you to fork it over.

And that's why you created that horrible dream?

Ooh! Was it a dream? Or a prophecy?

I must know.

Mmm-hmm. Like I'd tell you.

Wake up!

Wake up! Wake up, Goliath!

What happened to me?

That's what we were wondering.

A few seconds ago you were talking about getting home and then you passed out and fell off the skiff.

No...

We found Manhattan. But it was wrong, all wrong.

Manhattan? I don't get it.

I did not either. Until it was nearly too late.

Puck may try his deception again.

I can't chance him succeeding.

Goliath? What's this all about?

[GOLIATH CHANTING SPELL]

Why did you do that?

Without a mind to direct the Gate, it will be forever lost in time.

Yes and beyond the reach of all who desire it.

Uh, you're gonna explain all this, right?

I had a nightmare, Elisa.

Now, we must get home and make sure it does not come true.