02x30 - M.I.A.

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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...

GOLIATH: How long has it been?

XANATOS: A thousand years have gone by since the spell was cast.

You are the last of your kind.

GOLIATH: I have my own destiny to face.

I realize now that the hand of fate has guided us to every place we've gone on our journey.

I must see it through to the end.

Souvenirs?

I'm personally going to ensure that the Phoenix Gate and the Eye of Odin are never used again.

[BELL TOLLING]

[GLASS SHATTERING]

[EXCLAIMS IN FEAR]

You can run, but you can't hide!

[GLASS BREAKING]

There goes the neighborhood.

It's not our problem.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

Oh, those thugs almost got me!

A menace, they are.

Yes.

What kind of store is this?

Magic and the like.

The owners are a bit eccentric, like to dress up in robes and masks.

Those are incredible masks.

Aren't you going to do something about those ruffians?

You want help, call the police yourself.

What goes on outside this shop is none of our business.

ELISA: London!

I've always wanted to visit.

Remember, we have been sent here for a reason, even if we don't yet know what it is.

I think I see our first clue.

[SNIFFING]

ANGELA: That one looks like you, Goliath.

[GROWLS] Very curious.

In commemoration of their courage at the Battle of Britain...

CABBIE: That was The Blitz, miss.

1940, it was.

I remember the air raids like they were yesterday.

Did gargoyles fight in the w*r?

Oh, they tell stories about gremlins and the like.

You fancy this stuff?

Let's just say the legends intrigue me.

There's a shop in Soho might interest you.

The owners know all about magic creatures.

Even dress up like them.

[SHOUTING] Can you take me to the shop?

[CHUCKLES] No need to shout, love. Hop in.

Come. We will follow Elisa.

CABBIE: Take care, love.

Thanks. Sorry about the American money.

Goodnight.

Well, well, well...

What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this, eh?

Why don't you boys run along home?

Aw.

You know, I think she's disrespecting us.

Someone ought to teach her a lesson.

[ROARING]

[GASPS]

[GRUNTS]

Just try me, monster.

[GRUNTS]

[GRUNTS]

Surely we were sent here for something more important than this.

[YELPS]

Looks like it's down to you and me, pal.

[BRONX GROWLS]

I was just starting to miss you guys.

-[DOOR CHIMES] -UNA: I don't believe it!

You've come back!

Gargoyles. Real gargoyles.

We thought you d*ed with Griff.

Is he here? Is he with you?

Griff?

You survived and he didn't, is that it?

The only reason we forgave you was because we thought you d*ed with him.

I fear you have mistaken me for another, my friend.

The mistake is yours, Goliath, for believing you can return here without paying the consequences.

I do not know what you are talking about.

I have never been here.

And I do not know you.

I am Leo.

This is Una.

And Griff was the hero you led to his demise.

Does that refresh your recollection?

Not in the slightest.

[CLEARS THROAT] Shouldn't we sort this all out inside?

Follow me. Now.

Now, when do you think you met Goliath?

1940.

During the Battle of Britain.

And I don't think. I know.

That statue by the river was from the Battle of Britain.

Yes.

We believed you both d*ed as heroes.

Now we see it was only Griff.

Griff, who you swore to protect.

How could this be possible?

In 1940, I was frozen in stone hibernation.

Liar! You're lying now just as you did then!

[ROARING] [GRUNTS]

You gotta stop this.

I agree.

[STRUGGLING]

Dormite hostes mei ubi statis...

[ALL MOANING]

Good thinking.

I know my merchandise.

Unpleasant dreams, Goliath.

[GOLIATH MOANING]

Well, well, look who's back.

What...

Where are the others?

What have you done with them?

You can't save them. You can't even find them.

Now, you are powerless, just as we were.

You will live with the torment that we have lived with for half a century.

The torment of not knowing.

Tell me what you've done with my friends, or I'll...

You'll what?

Do to us what you did to Griff?

[ROARING]

[SCREAMS] I don't know any Griff!

GOLIATH: I swore never to use the Phoenix Gate, but I must find out what happened in 1940.

Deslagrate muri tempi et intervalia.

[AIRPLANE BLADES WHIRRING]

[GASPS]

[GRUNTS]

Clive, did you see that?

CLIVE ON RADIO: See what, Douglas?

Ah, nothing.

The night sky playing tricks.

All right then, chaps. Back to base.

You know, old boy, that could've been a bit nasty.

You saved my life.

It was supposed to work the other way.

Think nothing of it.

I always hoped there were other gargoyles about.

You look like Scottish stock to me.

Come to help with the w*r, have you?

You could say that.

Good show!

They call me Griff.

I am Goliath.

Goliath, I've got some friends you simply must meet.

Hello! I'm back.

Griff! You're safe.

We were so worried.

Yeah. This was a bad one.

They're all bad.

They won't stop being bad until the Nazis are beaten.

Now then, Leo, Una, look who I found.

This is Goliath.

He's come from far away to help.

Pleased to meet you.

Any friend of Griff's is a friend of ours.

This shop has been in our clan for generations.

Though with the Blitz, who knows how much longer it'll be left standing.

-Thank you. -I'm afraid we can't offer you sugar.

The w*r, you know.

There is a great deal of hardship, then?

Oh, yes. It's been terrible for us.

For us?

We're not important.

Unless the Nazis are stopped here and now, the future of the entire world is in jeopardy.

Yes, yes, but we belong down here, protecting our home.

If the fight comes to us, so be it.

Leo's right.

The Nazis are a human problem.

What do you think, Goliath?

I do not presume to advise, but in my experience, human problems become gargoyle problems.

Finally! Someone talking sense.

[AIR RAID SIREN BLARING]

The planes are back.

So, who's coming with me?

I will go.

That's the stuff!

Griff, don't go.

Please.

I have a terrible feeling about tonight.

I'd only get on your nerves if I stuck around too much.

You don't think less of us?

Rubbish.

You're minding the store.

Please look after him.

He's very dear to me.

I mean, to us.

You have my oath.

I will not let anything happen to him this time.

"This time"?

[SIREN CONTINUES BLARING]

[AIRPLANE ENGINES ROARING]

[b*mb WHISTLING]

[PEOPLE SCREAMING]

This is Bader. I've got a 109 on my tail!

Was ist... [SCREAMING]

[GROWLING]

[SCREAMING]

They're real.

And they're on our side.

[f*ring sh*ts]

[STRAINING] Come on...

[STRUGGLING]

Open up! [EXCLAIMS IN SURPRISE]

Need a lift?

[GASPS]

Enjoy the nap, chum.

You earned it.

I must not leave Griff alone.

[GRUNTS]

[AIRPLANES f*ring]

Goliath!

[g*ns f*ring]

There's a taste of your own medicine.

[MOANS]

I'm all right.

All the same, let's get you home.

[CHUCKLE] How'd you like the way I got that last one, eh?

Pow! Right in the backside.

We showed 'em, we did.

'Ere, what's this now?

It must be another of those blasted Nazis!

[a*tillery FIRES]

It's coming from our own side!

Let's get down to the ground!

Surprise.

That was a bit of a scare.

Griff!

I'm beginning to wonder if this night is ever fated to end.

Perhaps fate can somehow be...

[GRUNTS]

Cheated!

Well, my friend, we're even on the lifesaving now.

You cannot return to your home.

Fate is conspiring against you.

What do you mean? The store's not far from here.

I see now that history is impossible to change.

The fact is, you did not return home in 1940.

Say...

Where are you really from anyway?

Not where...

When.

[AIRPLANE APPROACHING]

Deslagrate muri tempi et intervalia!

[GASPS]

[ALL MOANING]

What have you done with Goliath?

Your friend has shown his true character.

He has abandoned you, as he once abandoned Griff.

Goliath would never leave us.

Believe what you wish.

He used sorcery to disappear in a ball of flame.

The Phoenix Gate!

Goliath must have gone back in time to save your friend.

Nothing can change what happened to Griff.

Goliath talked him into fighting the Nazis.

We had all but convinced him to stay safe with us.

But, that's the real problem, isn't it?

What...

What are you doing?

We should have gone with them.

I think all these years we've been blaming the wrong gargoyle for the loss of Griff.

We were protecting our home!

And maybe that was the right thing to do, but it is our guilt that haunts us.

Not Goliath's.

[SOBS] Oh, Griff...

Why did you have to be so brave?

We did come home!

[CAR ALARM BLARING]

[BEEPING]

[CAR HONKS]

Let's not start that again.

Is this a...

-Different time? -Yes.

The 1990s.

Let's just hope it's not too late to save my friends.

You have no reason to blame yourselves.

Horrible things happen in wartime.

[DOOR CHIMES]

[BRONX GROWLS]

Mmm... Easy, Bronx.

Goliath, you're injured!

Nothing that a day of stone hibernation can't cure.

I'm just happy to see that you are safe.

Goliath, we owe you...

But... It can't...

Una? Leo?

Let me look at you.

You're just the same.

You've grown quite distinguished, actually.

Oh, Griff!

It's been so long.

Uh, how long exactly?

What does it matter? Tonight is a new beginning.

For all of us.

You can explain this to us later.

So...

Leo and Una's memories of me were accurate, but I couldn't recognize them because I first had to go back in time to meet them.

Right.

Okay, just explain it one more time.

And take it slow.

Why don't you go back where you came from?

Yeah. Keep England pure!

Huh?

Is that any way to treat your neighbor?

[ROARS]

Ow!

[GRUNTING]

And don't come back!

Or we'll make it our business!

The more things change, the more they stay the same.