03x04 - The Flame Keeper's Circle

[bunniefuu]

[ Indistinct shouting ]

[ Giggles ]

[ Laughs ]

[ People cheer ]

Hideous creature from the deep!

Hideous creature from the deep!
Come inside...lf you dare!

Can't miss the freak show.

Sure we can. It's late.

And I don't want to see

something gross in a rubber

suit.

[ Growling in distance ]

Sure you do.

Sure you do.
[ Growling continues ]

Ticket, please.

It's $ extra.

That's okay.

We were just leaving.

Oh! Sorry!

No harm done.

Please -- take one.

Please -- take one.
It could change your life.

No.

It's not possible.

It is. It's you.

bucks, pal!

bucks, pal!
[ Thunder crashing ]

Who is that?

The carnival's closed.
You hear me?

[ Thunder crashes ]

We stand here tonight as

liberators.

No!

You stand here trespassing!

You stand here trespassing!
[ Grunts ]

[ Gasps ]

[ Punch lands ] [ Groans ]

[ Thunder crashes ]

It is as I said.
He has returned to us.

Historic day -- the day that

marks the return of Diagon, the

knowledge bringer.

[ Thunder crashes ]

[ Thunder crashes ]
[ Growling ]

Circle?

Julie: Yep.

I can't believe it took so long

to convince you guys to come

check this out.

Ben: Yeah.

I'm...Completely disinterested

in a tour of an office building.

It is a puzzler.

Julie: Anyway, you're here,

and I'm glad.

This place really makes me feel

like I'm making a difference,

you know?

Ben: Making a difference is

Ben: Making a difference is
good.

Swanky setup.

What do they do for money,

again?

Julie: They take donations.

Kevin: Sweet.

Argit would love this place.

Ben: So, you say these guys

approached you at a tennis

match?

Julie: They were excited to

get me on board.

My celebrity can help raise

awareness of their organization.

Ben: Your celebrity for being

ranked in women's tennis...

Or for being the girlfriend of

the Ben Tennyson?

Julie: First of all, I'm

ranked rd, and I've only been

in five tournaments.

Ben: I didn't say you weren't

good -- just that you're not

famous...Yet.

Julie: Does it ever occur to

you that everything isn't always

about you?

Ben: Not really, no.

Ben Tennyson.

What an honor it is to finally

meet you and to have a celebrity

of your stature visiting our

of your stature visiting our
meager offices.

Conduit Edwards.

Ben: Conduit?

A title I have the honor of

holding.

Julie: It means he knows all

about the aliens.

Ben: Ohh.

Kevin: The flame keepers

circle, huh?

[ Laughs ]

That's just a symbol of what

that's just a symbol of what
flame represents -- knowledge.

Metallurgy -- milestones of

human ingenuity and invention.

Or were they?

Julie: The flame keepers

circle believe that thousands of

years ago, mankind was visited

by benevolent aliens, who gave

us the beginnings of technology.

Ben: Benevolent?

I guess anything's possible.

Ben, you of all people can

appreciate that we are not alone

in this universe.

Kevin: Which aliens are we

talking about here?

I know a lot of them.

I'm sure you do, but we're

talking about one alien in

particular -- the knowledge

bringer.

His name is Diagon.

Diagon prosed to return to

earth someday, with the

technology needed to save

mankind from w*r, famine,

disease...

To make the world a utopia.

Ben: And the flame keepers

circle are the welcoming

committee.

Julie: In the meantime, the

keepers dedicate their resources

to using modern technology to

help the less fortunate --

things like modernizing schools

and medical facilities in

underprivileged countries.

Kevin: It's a shame, after

all this time, he never managed

to make it back.

You don't suppose he's, you

know -- "ckkk!"?

I can personally assure you

he's alive.

Ben: How can you be so sure?

As a conduit, I am privy to

as a conduit, I am privy to
secret knowledge.

Behind this awesome door?

[ Chuckles ]

For example.

Now, if you don't mind, this

way, please.

Julie: That's conduit's

chamber.

Chamber.
It's private.

The donations he bilks out of

the donations he bilks out of
the suckers.

Man's nature to be skeptical,

but trust me when I say Diagon

is coming.

The new age of mankind is about

to begin.

I'd love to bring the

Ben Tennyson on board with our

Ben Tennyson on board with our
cause.

Ben: Uh...

Any points with Julie back

there.

Julie: Okay, so you're not

into it.

I get it. That's fine.

But did you have to laugh in his

face?!

Ben: Julie, it was an

accident.

Sometimes I laugh

situations.

Julie: You're a terrible

boyfriend!

Ben: [ Laughs ]

Julie: I'm not talking to

you.

Kevin: In Ben's defense,

you're way too smart to be

buying into this junk.

Julie: Which junk is that,

Kevin?

The "using technology to help

people" junk or maybe the

"modernizing of hospitals and

schools" junk?

So what is it -- the existence

of aliens?

Kevin: Well...

Julie: Oh, right -- because

we've never seen aliens before.

How many different aliens can

you turn into now?

?

Ben: .

Julie: And yet, believing in

aliens is laughable?

Ben: Say Diagon is real.

It still wouldn't be right to

use his alien tech to change the

planet.

Kevin: Ben's right.

They got rules for that stuff.

Julie: I see -- so only

you're allowed to use alien

tech the save the world.

Ben: Right.

I-I mean, no!

That's not --

Julie: Never mind.

Let's just drop it.

Ben: Julie, I --

look, you said there's some sort

of members meeting tonight?

Kevin: More tech talk with

conduit?

Julie: Forget it.

I thought I wanted you here, but

now I think it's best if you

just leave.

Ben: Julie!

Kevin: I'd let her cool down

Kevin: I'd let her cool down
first.

Ben: Talk about what?

Kevin: The Julie thing.

Ben: I know!

She's doing volunteer work for a

crooked organization, and she

can't even see it.

Gwen: Come on, guys.

Give Julie some credit.

She's not a dope.

Ben: True, but that doesn't

mean she can't get in over her

head.

Gwen: With a charity group?

What's the problem?

Ben: Her heart's in the right

place, but that guy reminds me

of a used-car salesman.

[ All gasp ]

Kevin: Even if these guys

were legit, their mission goes

against plumber rules and

interstellar law.

Gwen: You think they really

have access to alien tech?

Kevin: Doubt it.

Smells more like a multilevel

marketing scam.

Getting your suckers to get more

suckers -- charity for profit.

Ben: Yeah, conduit wouldn't

know alien tech if it was

staring him right in the face.

[ Beeping ]

Gwen: Speaking of alien tech,

looks like we've got a lead on

that stolen plumber ship.

Ben: Stolen plumber ship?

Gwen: Grandpa Max called

while you were getting your

burger and a side of sulk.

Kevin: The ship got jacked on

a routine run of this quadrant.

What do you say we skip dessert

and do a little follow-up?

Ben: You guys can handle it

without me, right?

Gwen: Have some apologizing

to do?

To do?
Ben: Only if I'm wrong.

[ Indistinct conversations ]

Another amazing night.
Big changes are coming soon.

[ Elevator bell dings ]
[ Muzak plays ]

[ Elevator bell dings ]

[ Doors open ]

Ben: [ Grunting ]

[ Gasps ]

Would find me.

Ben: Vilgax?

How can you be here?!

Vilgax: These days, they call

me the Diagon.

Ben: I don't care who these

people think you are.

I know the truth.

Vilgax: But how can it be?

I can see your tiny human brain

struggling to comprehend the

impossible.

Ben: Vilgax, conqueror of

worlds, living in a fish t*nk in

the v.I.P. Room of a bunch of

people who believe that Santa

drives a u.F.O.

It's a mystery, all right.

Vilgax: I should have been

dead.

Our last battle -- the terrible

our last battle -- the terrible
expl*si*n.

Did I.

Rather than being destroyed, I

rather than being destroyed, I
was lost to the sea.

Form, I eventually washed up

onshore...

Onshore...
[ Groaning ]

Carnival.

Despite the indignity of my

situation, it did provide me

with food, shelter, and time to

regain my strength.

Recently, I was liberated by

this collection of buffoons --

the esoterica.

Ben: The flame keepers

circle.

And this Diagon they're so

obsessed with just happens to be

some kind of space squid, too.

Vilgax: A most fortuitous

coincidence, would you not

agree?

Ben: So now you're a prophecy

made to order -- their old alien

pal finally making his promised

return.

Vilgax: "All hail Diagon!"

They'd do anything for me.

Why, they just acquired for me a

class interstellar ship.

Ben: What are you going to do

with it?

Vilgax: My followers think

I'll use it to fetch some

glorious alien tech stashed on a

nearby moon.

Instead, I will find Psyphon,

regain my lost powers, then

regain my lost powers, then
return home to rule my empire.

Empire, genius.

It fell after everybody heard

you were dead.

Vilgax: [ Roars ]

Ben: You know how it is.

When the cat's away, the mice

will play.

Vilgax: Those who resist my

rule will be washed away in the

tide of battle!

My empire will rise again!

Ben: Yeah, about that --

not gonna happen.

Vilgax: Guards!

This intruder is an enemy of

this intruder is an enemy of
Diagon!

Vilgax: You cannot stop the

vilgax: You cannot stop the
followers of Diagon with doors.

But you've got to believe me --

this guy is not Diagon.

He's an impostor.

His name is vilgax, and --

enough lies!

Enough lies!
You are an enemy of the flame.

Ben: [ Grunts ]

How are you guys --
aah!

Rules, then why should i?

Rules, then why should i?
[ Beep ]

Big chill: Big chill!

Vilgax: Bewildering, isn't
it?

Ultimate big chill: Ultimate

ultimate big chill: Ultimate
big chill!

Julie: I'm sorry, Ben. I --

give up, or I'll lose Julie

in between dimensions.

Julie: [ Grunts ]

[ Gasps ]

[ Gasps ] Aah!

Ultimate big chill: All

right.

You win.

[ Beep, beep ]

Ben: I did what you wanted.

Ben: I did what you wanted.
Let her go.

He wasn't really going to hurt

me.

That's right, Ben.

She wasn't my hostage.

She was my accomplice.

Ben: Julie, you --

what is going on here?!

Julie: It was the only way I

could get big chill to chill

out.

Ben: You are fighting on the

wrong side here!

These people are dangerous!

You don't understand!

Julie: You're the one missing

it.

We don't need to fight.

The stories were real.

Diagon is back, and he's going

to bring us the technology

needed to heal the world.

Ben: Julie, no!

Stay away from him!

Julie: He's not going to hurt

me.

He's about to bring a new golden

age to all humanity.

No sickness, no w*r.

Don't you see?

Vilgax: He sees all too well,

child.

He sees a world where he's no

longer special -- a healthy,

safe world where he is no longer

needed.

That is the real reason he

stands in our way.

Julie: Ben's not like that.

If you just let me explain it to

him...

Ben: This isn't about me at

all.

Even if Diagon was real, using

alien technology to accelerate

a planet's natural development

won't bring utopia.

It'll bring disaster.

It's happened before.

Why do you think the plumbers

have those laws?

But even that's not the point,

because that isn't Diagon!

His name is vilgax.

He's not a hero.

He's a selfish, evil w*rlord,

who's using you.

And if you let him get in his

ship, he's going to fly off and

start an interstellar civil w*r.

Julie: That's vilgax?

You're telling the truth?

Kevin: Mostly.

Except for the "flying off"

part.

That ship isn't going anywhere

that ship isn't going anywhere
without its pulse core.

Gwen: We had just tracked

down the stolen plumber ship

when Ben opened a communications

link so we could hear your

plans.

Kevin: Hence my custom

modification to the pulse core.

[ Blows ]

Vilgax: These infidels must

not be allowed to interfere with

not be allowed to interfere with
earth's glorious rebirth!

You heard Diagon.
att*ck!

Ben: Little help?
Kevin: On it!

Gwen: Tricky.

You could have been one of us.

The world.

Julie: The world needs

saving, all right --

saving, all right --
from creeps like you!

Vilgax: Enough!
Destroy the boy!

Destroy Ben Tennyson!

Starting to take this

personally.

Personally.
[ Beep ]

[ Shrieks ]

[ Flame keepers groaning ]

Julie: I hate when he does

this!

Gwen: What?!

Aaaaaah!

Aaaaaah!
Vilgax: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

[ All scream ]

[ Beep ]
Ben: Vilgax!

Water!

Water!

Save Diagon!

Save the knowledge bringer!

Ben: I'll be keeping an eye

on you.

There's no way I'm letting you

get off the earth.

Kevin: Better keep your nose

clean.

Gwen: Or we'll be back.

Kevin: Does he even have a

Kevin: Does he even have a
nose?

Vilgax, but you're wrong about

keeping alien technology out of

the hands of the people it could

help.

Ben: We could all argue

about it some more over dinner.

Kevin: I never did get my

dessert.

Julie: Fine.

Julie: Fine.
But no seafood.

What if Tennyson is telling
the truth about Diagon?

Circle!

We do not doubt.

We'll find you another ship, and

then the nonbelievers will see

how Diagon the knowledge bringer

will transform the earth into a

better place.

Vilgax: Yes.

When I'm done with this planet,

when I'm done with this planet,
you won't recognize it.