02x48 - The Reckoning

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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!

[DEMONA GROANS]

NARRATOR: Previously on Gargoyles...

Who are you?

Demona is my mother.

Elisa, I have to know.

Yes, it's true.

The sun's about to come up.

[LAUGHS] Is it really?

[GROANING]

[ELISA GASPS]

BROOKLYN: if the boredom doesn't get us, the mosquitoes will.

[SIGHS] How much longer do we have to sit here?

Patience. With all the recent thefts of high technology, our best move is to stake out research facilities.

[RUMBLING]

Whoa!

[expl*si*n]

Okay, you convinced me.

Demona.

My mother?

[GROWLING]

Demona must be gathering weapons for another offensive.

Then let's offend her first.

[DEMONA GRUNTING]

Take care, Angela. Do not underestimate Demona.

This tin can won't save you.

Oh, but it's a very clever tin can.

[GRUNTING]

Brooklyn!

I should've known. You always travel in groups.

We are a clan, Demona.

That's something you forgot long ago.

[GRUNTING]

ANGELA: Stop this fighting.

You! I saw you in Paris.

Who are you?

I know every remaining gargoyle.

[GRUNTING]

She is not your concern!

[DEMONA SCREAMING]

[GOLIATH GRUNTING]

[DEMONA GRUNTING]

-Is she... -She is alive.

Are you all right?

[GROANS] I guess.

She looks so peaceful.

[SIGHS] Yeah?

Wait till she wakes up.

GOLIATH: We cannot release her.

What options do we have?

Long ago, we banished gargoyles who turned against the clan.

Yeah, but where could we banish her to?

Humans lock their criminals away in prison, maybe we could do the same.

During the day, Demona is human, and we turn to stone.

There's nowhere we could safely guard her.

I think I know a place.

TALON: Then it's agreed...

We will guard the prisoners during the day, and you will stand watch at night.

Do you realize what you're committing yourself to?

-There is no other way. -[MOSQUITO BUZZING]

We will each take our turn in a nightly rotation.

[GRUNTS]

Sorry. I'm afraid we have mosquitoes down here. And worse.

Hey! Hey! I resemble that remark.

Fang is serving time for trying to force his way into power down here.

Yeah, yeah, but I'm expecting the Governor to commute my sentence any minute now.

I'll take the first watch.

[GRUNTS] Perhaps it's best if you don't.

Am I a member of this clan or not?

Of course. But...

Take the first watch, lass.

Just remember, she may be your mother, but she is capable of anything.

[DEMONA MOANING]

[GROANING]

[GASPS] Where am I?

You again!

Who are you?

Angela. Your daughter.

My daughter? How dare you mock me?

I have no daughter.

Yes, you do. The clan's eggs survived.

You and Goliath are my biological parents.

I'm told there's a resemblance.

My daughter, after so long.

Can it really be?

I've been living on Avalon.

Princess Katharine brought all the eggs there after Castle Wyvern was att*cked.

Typical humans! They pillage the castle and steal our children.

No, it wasn't like that. The princess saved us.

She's part of my clan as you are.

Know this, young one, humans have no place in any gargoyle clan.

Goliath has lost sight of this simple truth.

If you truly are my daughter, we must always be there for one another.

That is what it means to belong to a clan.

[FANG SOBBING MOCKINGLY]

I'm moved. Deeply.

Mind your own business.

Man, you chicks are better than soaps. Ha!

FANG: And another day bites the dust.

[MOSQUITO WHINING]

Argh!

Stupid bugs.

[MOSQUITO WHINING]

Ah, the prodigal bug returns.

And whose DNA have you brought us tonight, my little thief?

You know, when they call bio-engineering a growth industry, they're not kidding. [LAUGHS]

Hmm.

And there you have it.

Three down and two to go.

I just love it when everything goes according to plan.

[LAUGHING]

DR. SEVARIUS: Nice doing business with you, Thailog.

All you have to do now is decide on the programming.

My advice, keep it simple.

You don't want to end up with another you.

My thoughts exactly.

[THAILOG LAUGHS]

Yes, but that doesn't explain how you could have done so many terrible things.

How can you judge me?

You've been hiding on a magical island, while I have been out in the real world.

I know, Claw. It's dawn.

I think I'll just stay here today.

[GRUNTING]

Kinky.

They're all yours.

Hey, yo, Goliath.

FANG: How many gargoyles does it take to screw in a light bulb, huh? [LAUGHS]

Well, well. If it isn't my judge and jury.

You chose your own fate, Demona, when you turned against your clan.

Clan? You don't know the meaning of the word.

But I'll teach you.

[RUMBLING]

That doesn't sound like a subway car.

[GRUNTING]

I hope I haven't come at a bad time.

Thailog, my love, your timing is impeccable.

[NERVOUSLY] Hey, Demona, I've always respected you as a fellow inmate.

Some of my best friends are half-gargoyle/half-human babes with bad attitudes.

He's a fool, but he may be of some use.

I can work with that.

Hey! Wait up!

[GRUNTING]

Hurry. We must not lose them.

I smell a trap. [GROWLING]

Yes. They were too easy to follow.

Keep watch while I go for help.

Feel free to hurry back.

Nobody's come or gone, so I scoped the place out.

There's three ways in... A service entrance at the rear, an air vent on the roof and the front door.

GOLIATH: We will take them from all sides.

Hudson, you and Talon go in through the back.

You three take the roof. Angela, come with me.

Remember me?

[GRUNTS]

Not tonight, pal. We got a special surprise for you.

[GASPS] What are you?

Oh!

[BOTH GASP]

LEXINGTON: Very funny.

They're clones of us.

[LEXINGTON GRUNTING]

[GROANING]

[SCOFFS] Looks nothing like me.

Ow!

[GRUNTING]

[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]

You think you've won, Thailog, but it isn't that easy.

Oh, really?

I hope you weren't counting on them to rescue you.

Face it, Goliath, my clan can b*at your clan any day of the week. [LAUGHS]

Well, Goliath, what do you think of my new clan?

That's Brentwood, Hollywood, Malibu and Burbank.

I named them myself.

If you consider these poor creatures to be your clan, you have sunk even lower than I imagined.

Now, now. That's your friends' genetic makeup you're insulting.

Of course, they are a bit primitive.

I've kept their programming simple.

"Obey Thailog ."

[LAUGHS]

It's all they really need to know.

But enough about me. It's time to get rid of all of you.

Starting with her.

No! She belongs to me.

My dear, you've known she was your daughter, since before we staged your capture, and you've still been unable to turn her.

You knew the whole time?

I had to make you understand.

I understand perfectly.

All this was a charade staged to turn me against my father, to trap and destroy my clan.

You are capable of anything.

I hate you.

You see? You're better off without her.

DEMONA: No!

[GRUNTING]

THAILOG: You disappoint me, my dear.

Fortunately, I prepared for such a development.

Delilah.

Yes, master Thailog?

Look familiar, my ex-love?

I combined your DNA with that of the human, Elisa Maza, to create Delilah.

She's the perfect programmed companion, obedient and lovely.

She'll do anything for me.

Destroy them, Delilah.

As you command.

Goliath! Save our daughter!

You won't get away that easy.

Don't even think about it.

We can't b*at these guys one-on-one.

So let's use teamwork.

Aye, but we'll need some room to move.

Looks like it's just you and me.

[ROARING]

I've been waiting a long time for this, Talon!

I b*at you before, tonight will be no different.

[DEMONA GRUNTING]

It would seem that the love has gone out of our relationship.

[THAILOG GRUNTS]

You are mine, Thailog. [YELLS]

Split up.

[GROWLING]

BROADWAY: I'll take him from here!

You'll have to do better than that.

[expl*si*n BLASTING]

[GROANING]

Demona, the fire.

I told you to save our daughter.

It's all over, you forgery.

Have you seen Angela?

Are you all right?

I've been better. Where's Demona?

Look!

[GRUNTING]

Do you wish to perish?

My vengeance is all you've left me.

-Master? -Mother!

[ANGELA SOBBING]

No!

No Thailog?

What now for us?

Without Thailog, these guys don't know what to do or where to go.

Yeah, but we can't just bring them back to the Clock Tower, can we?

I mean they kind of give me the creeps.

They can come live in the Labyrinth with my clan.

You our master now?

TALON: Better than that.

I'll teach you how to think for yourselves and use verbs.

[ANGELA SOBBING]

Is she really gone?

GOLIATH: I don't know.

The last thing I said to her was "I hate you," but she sacrificed herself for me.

How can it end this way?

She knew how you truly felt.

And Demona's love for you was the first goodness she has shown in a long, long time.

GOLIATH: For her, it may have been a new beginning.

A new beginning for us all.