[Woodwind]
- Mother? Mother? - [Continues]
[Snorts, Roars]
Mother, are these grapes all right?
Young man, those grapes: : :
Are perfect, just like you:
I don't know what I'd do without you, Delph:
There is just one thing:
Remember our agreement that we weren't going to shout?
I forgot: Do you think he heard?
Probably not: It wasn't a very loud shout:
But just in case, maybe we should go in the house and bar the door for a while: All right?
All right: All right: We'll make some roseberry tarts and...
[Animal Roars, Snorts] Mother!
I hear:! Go:! Run:! Run:!
[Growling]
[Growls]
Pangor thirsty: Moon wine!
There isn't any: You drank it all the last time!
Pangor need wine: Bean!
[Growling]
[Clattering, Smashing] Wait! There is no wine, and there's not enough food:
Leave my mother alone: Ow!
Put me down! Let me go! Let me go!
Open the door! Leave my mother alone! Leave my mother alone! [Clattering, Smashing]
[Growling]
Eat! Eat!
[Growling, Slurping]
Please, please make him go away and leave my mother alone:
[Man Narrating] In the year 1987,
NASA launched the last of America's deep space probes:
Aboard this compact starship,
a lone astronaut, Captain William "Buck'"Rogers,
was to experience cosmic forces beyond all comprehension:
In a freak mishap, his life-support systems were frozen: : :
By temperatures beyond imagination:
Ranger 3 was blown out of its planned trajectory: : :
Into an orbit 1,000 times more vast,
an orbit which was to return Buck Rogers to Earth: : :
500 years later:
I still say think it over, Buck:
If we check the asteroid belt, you'll be alone here for 10 full days:
Well, it may take me that long to find any signs of life, if there are any:
What about it, Doctor? Did your review of the archives come up with anything significant?
Only two points, as a matter of fact, my dear boy:
Arkadis was thought to be a planetary paradise, often referred to as a benign twin of Earth:
Now, the last attempt of colonization: : :
Was led by a MajorJason Samos:
Samos? Outstanding fellow he was, actually...
founder of the back-to-the-land movement, all that sort of thing:
Established successful colonies on half a dozen other worlds:
Except that he didn't succeed on Arkadis:
Well, you see, no one knows that for certain:
For 10 years, he sent back glowing reports from Arkadis: Then about six years ago, it must have been,
all communications from that planet ceased:
I can't remember the precise date of the last message:
8:42 a: M:, Greenwich mean time,
July 17, 2485:
Oh, mind your own business: Drives you mad, that fellow, doesn't he? Makes you feel like a fool all the time:
- Are you certain you don't want me to go with you, Buck? - Yes, Hawk:
You and Wilma are gonna be busy enough completing that asteroid sweep in 10 days without worrying about me:
Besides, maybe when I get back from Arkadis I'll have some information about what happened to Major Samos:
Oh, I do hope so: I do hope so: I'll look forward to that: I will indeed, Buck:
Bye-bye: See you later, Doctor:
I don't know why: He just asked me if I'd like to go down to Arkadis with him,
and I said I would, and it's all set:
Your shuttlecraft is all set to go, Buck: Twiki tells me you're taking him with you: That's right:
I would've been glad to take you along, Wilma, but this planet has three moons: Meaning?
Well, I know how you are in moonlight, and, uh, I only got 10 days to complete this mission:
You're gonna regret that remark, Buck:
[Chirping] Are you really different in the moonlight?
No, sweetie: But I will be from now on:
I hope you two will be very happy together:
[Woodwind]
[Stops] [Roars]
[Snorting]
[Growling]
"On this site, April 25, in the year 2475,
"MajorJason Samos established the Earth colony of New Corinth,
"numbering 116 souls:
May God bless this venture:"
- Kinda gives you a funny feeling, doesn't it, Twiki? - [Chirping] Sure does, Buck:
It's sad, very sad:
All the hopes, all the dreams, reduced to this:
[Woodwind, Distant]
What was that? That the wind? [Continues]
I think there's a possibility of... Look out, Buck!
[Growling]
- [Howls] - Look out, Buck!
Get him, Buck: Get him!
[Howling]
[Groans, Sighs]
You're hurt: I'll live:
What kind of an animal was that, anyway? Could be a zewolf, Buck:
They're supposed to be native to Arkadis:
Well, maybe you better clue me in as to what other kinds of specimens I might run into on this planet:
That's easy: Human male, age approximately nine years:
What? Where? Right behind you at the moment:
Well, who are you?
Delph, sir:
Delph Samos: I saw what you did to the zewolf, and it was wonderful:
Well, thank you: Thank you:
"Samos," huh?
You by any chance related to, uh, MajorJason Samos who founded this colony?
Yes, sir: He was my father: He's dead now:
Oh: I'm sorry to hear that:
Oh, my name's Captain Buck Rogers, and this is my friend Twiki:
Pleased to meet ya:
You're bleeding: Oh, that's all right:
Tell me something: Are there any other people on this planet?
No, just my mother and me: No other settlers, huh?
No: Mother says they all left years ago: You're not going to leave right away, are you? No: I hadn't intended to:
Then please come to our house: My mother can fix your arm for you,
and she's a very good cook, and we've got plenty of room:
[Chuckling] All right: You've made yourself a deal:
Besides, I'd like to meet your mother and talk to her: And I could use a home cooked meal too:
Twiki? Yes, Buck:
- Stay here and keep an eye on the ship, all right? - Okay, Buck:
Lead on, Delph:
- Did you really come from a starship? - That's right: It's called the Searcher:
We're looking for the lost tribes of Earth: "Lost tribes"?
Your mother must have told you that right after the holocaust, people left the Earth to colonize other planets:
Well, a couple of hundred years ago, the Earth lost contact with those early colonists:
Now we're trying to find out what happened to them, reestablish contact, hoping that maybe, well...
Oh, there's my mother: Her name is Syra: Come on:
[Buck] Okay:
Mother!
That's Captain Buck Rogers: He's from the starship Searcher:
Happy to meet you, ma'am:
Hello:
Delph: You promised, if I let you go, you'd stay hidden till the spaceship left:
I was hiding, Mother, but Captain Rogers was hurt:
What happened? It was a zewolf, Mother:
That arm should be tended to: There are strange viruses here on this planet:
- Please come to the house: Delph, you stay and finish up here: - Oh!
I'm sorry if I haven't been very hospitable, Captain:
It's just... It's better if you don't stay here:
You can see there's... there's very little room, and we're barely managing:
You're welcome to share my supplies: And if you'd like, you can leave with me when the Searcher comes back:
Well, thank you, but this is our home: Suit yourself:
- Feels better already: - It's a wild herb: It has unusually fast healing properties:
From the looks of it, you... Don't:
[Sighs] I'm sorry: I'm afraid I don't react very well to being touched:
[Sighs]
Well... [Grunts] That was absolutely fantastic: Thank you:
Bread sprouts and corn gourds with roseberries baked on top:
Mm: We find them in the woods:
It's nice to see the land provides for you: When my father scouted this planet, he made sure: : :
That everything would be here for everybody:
You know what, Captain Rogers? I still have my father's logbook: I'll get it and show you:
He sleeps with it under his pillow:
He dreams someday of being able to do everything his father's done:
I never met Major Samos, but from everything I've heard about him, I wish I had:
Here it is: It shows all the places he's been:
[Woodwind, Distant]
I heard that sound when we first landed: What is it? [Continues]
It's nothing: It's the wind:
[Continues]
You all right, Delph? Yes, sir: I'm all right: : : Now:
I've never even been in a spaceship before, let alone be flying it:
Well, so far you're doing a great job: One of these days you'll be a fine pilot:
Hey, better let me take over right now: We're almost over your house: Aye, aye, Captain:
[Footsteps]
[Engine Whining, Approaching]
[Growling]
[Continues Growling] [Steed Roars]
Ah: There we go, huh? Well, I'm glad you had a good time: [Chuckles]
Mother! Mother! You'll never guess what I just did!
[Pouring]
Mother! Mother! Oh:
I flew the shuttle: I really flew it: Buck let me handle the controls,
and he's teaching me about flying and guidance and propulsion systems and...
Whoa: You mustn't pester the captain too much now, huh?
Oh, it's no trouble, ma'am: He's really a fine boy:
- He and Twiki are getting along really well: - Twiki?
Oh, Twiki's my robot: I left him on board the ship:
He's awful cute, Mother: And he's little...
not even as big as I am: [Chuckles]
I'm going to help him and Buck with the names of all the plants and animals around here:
Oh, he's already started: Got some right here: [Syra] That's nice:
You better go wash up for supper now:
This is amberfire, and, uh...
- Uh, "amberleaf:" - Oh, amberleaf:
Uh, then this must be: : : Devil's fire: Right:
Okay: And this must be, um...
Flute grass: Because you can play it like a flute: Like this: Flute grass:
- [Woodwind] - [Syra] Delph...
[Clatters] I told you never to do that:
I'm sorry, Mother: I forgot:
It's all right, Delph:
It's all right:
[Pangor Growls]
[Chirping] What is it, Twiki?
There's something coming, Buck: It's out there at the edge of the woods:
[Sighs]
Another zewolf? I can't tell:
All right:
- [Steed Roars] - [Growls]
Buck, we've been hit: Our controls have been shorted out:
[Hoofbeats Departing]
[Sizzling]
So where does this: : : Man... if you can call him that... come from?
He lives in the woods:
Nothing that goes on around here escapes him:
Keeps bothering us... taking things from us:
Calls himself Pangor: But I don't know what that is:
It's probably another name for "satyr"... half goat, half man:
I never thought I'd see one, outside of statues of ancient mythology:
I wish I was big enough to fight him: I won't have more fighting:
Captain Rogers has already been injured once: I won't have him hurt again:
Captain, that was one reason I wanted you to leave Arkadis right away: I still do:
That might be a trifle difficult at the moment... [Sighs]
With half my ship's controls and all of its communications out:
- I wasn't planning on taking off and leaving you two behind here anyway: - Even if I insisted?
Why should you insist? You're obviously in trouble here and have been for quite a while:
Delph, would you do me a favor?
- Would you get my toolbox for me? It's right outside the door of the ship: - Sure:
- I'm not getting the whole story here, am I? - It's true:
He's been troubling us a long time:
- What is he, some kind of mutant? - Mutant?
Is he one of a kind, or are there others like him?
There are a few others,
but we hardly ever see them here:
They seem to stake out their own territory and stay there:
And I think they're afraid of Pangor:
Well, I can't say that I blame them: Packs quite a thunderbolt in that whip of his:
Is that what frightened the other colonists away?
We were all terrified:
Six years ago, everybody voted to leave and settle on some other planet:
Their ship didn't make it:
- What stopped you from going with them? - My husband:
He, uh,
had this dream, right up to the end,
that he could somehow turn this place into a: : : Garden of Eden:
- But after he died, you must have had plenty of chances to leave here: - Then I couldn't:
[Woodwind]
[Continues] He's out there... a satyr and his feralon... always watching this house:
Let him watch... all he wants to:
- I get Twiki fixed and the Scout refitted, we're getting out of here... all of us: - No:
This is my husband's home:
This is where I stay:
Maybe you can take Delph:
I couldn't bear parting with him before, when he was so little: Maybe now it's getting to be time:
Mother, I'm not going anywhere without you: I'm not:
Something to think about:
[Growls]
[Electronic Buzzing, Whistling]
[Chirping] Ouch: [Giggles]
Oh, hello, there: I thought I'd lost my little compadre:
[Clicks]
Hey, easy, Buck: That tickles: [Giggles]
Well, welcome back, Twiki:
He's fixed: Well, not quite, but he's on his way:
Davis, try to raise Captain Rogers again:
It is useless: Arkadis passed into perihelion 17 minutes ago,
meaning it is at its closest approach to the sun:
I know what perihelion means, you rust bucket: What's that got to do with our being unable to speak to Captain Rogers?
Really, Admiral: When Arkadis is in perihelion,
it is in a state of total eclipse relative to our present position:
- No communication will be possible for another 12 hours: - Why didn't you tell me that 17 minutes ago?
You didn't ask:
Admiral, are we going to abort the rest of the asteroid sweep?
Well, I'm of two minds:
If we abort and there's nothing wrong, we're going to look like idiots:
I'd put my trust in Buck, Admiral:
There's not much he can't handle: All right: You and Hawk carry on until further notice:
I suppose we can afford to wait until that planet comes out of perihelion:
[Crank Squeaking]
[Crank Continues]
Please excuse me: Moon wine has to be made quickly when the grapes are ready:
Tell me the truth, Syra:
It's all for him, isn't it?
For Pangor:
If he's supplied with enough, he's content: : :
And he goes off and he leaves me alone: : : For a little while:
So you appease him? I have to, or he might hurt Delph:
Well, then tell me something:
Why do you still refuse to leave?
Because I can't:
Would you please: : : Just let me finish my work?
[Sobs]
[Twiki] Hi, Delph: Hi, Twiki:
It must be so nice, Captain Rogers, to fly all over the universe and see everything:
Well, it's got its points, Delph:
Like being free, isn't it... things ahead of you you don't know about?
There's a whole lot of truth to that: [Chuckles]
[Syra Screaming] No:! No:! No:!
Mother! Get inside quick: Move!
No:! No:! Pangor!
- [Growls] - Leave the woman alone, or I'll kill ya!
No! You be killed:
I don't think so, Pangor: Look:
Throw gun away:
Throw:! Or this one will feel Pangor's whip:
Throw gun now!
[Buck] Get in the house, quick:! [Whip Arcing]
Syra, bolt the door:! [Pangor Growling]
Pangor the coward: Fights women and children:
- Come on! - Now we see:
Come on, Pangor: You're nothing without your whip:
- Come on: Come get me: - [Growling Continues]
Pangor the coward:!
Kill: Kill! Kill!
Where are you? Close?
Yes, close!
Pangor's whip will sniff you out:
[Yells]
[Whip Arcing]
[Grunts]
[Groaning, Straining]
Is it true? He's really drowned?
Well, it sure looked that way: Wow:
I knew you could do it:
I knew from the first time you beat the zewolf, you'd be the one to beat Pangor:
That's why I wanted you to stay with us: We're free ofhim Mother... really and truly free:
Yes: Free:
Aren't you happy, Mother?
I'm thankful Captain Rogers came through it all right:
- Delph, go and get some fresh water from the well: - Yes, Mother:
He asked if you were happy, and you said, "We're thankful:" There's a difference:
I'm thankful we're free of him: I'm never happy over the death of anyone:
Yes, but I don't think you would mourn for everyone:
And yet you mourn for this Pangor: Why?
Part of me is relieved he's dead... more than I can tell:
Another part of me can't help grieving for him:
You grieve for the satyr who brutalized you?
You mind telling me why?
Because once upon a time he was something very different: Once, he was a man...
a good man... whose name was not Pangor,
but MajorJason Samos:
Your husband?
My husband:
Now you know why I could never bring myself to leave this place:
There's no reason to hide anything anymore:
You see, something here turned men into satyrs... never women or children:
And only some of the men:
We never found out what caused it:
Our own family stayed on here after all the others voted to leave:
My husband was so obsessed with the pioneer dream:
And then time came: : : When he was affected too:
Over the space of hours: : :
I watched him change: : :
Into that half-animal thing you had to kill today, Captain:
Changed from this civilized man...
this wonderful, dedicated human being I was married to:
And of course I worry about Delph:
I'm afraid it could happen to him too when he becomes a man:
[Sighs] [Quietly] I'm sorry:
Terribly sorry, Syra:
Delph never knew: He won't find out from you, will he Captain?
How could I tell him that I killed his father?
Captain:
- Oh, my God: - What's the matter?
Your eyes:
It was the satyr bite:
Leave this place, Buck:
Leave it and go back to your ship for help:
We're all gonna get out of here:
Mother, what's the matter? Where's Captain Rogers going?
This is Searcher calling Hawk's ship and Colonel Deering:
Searcher to Hawk and Colonel Deering: Come in, please:
- [Wilma] This is Deering: - [Hawk] Hawk, here:
I am aborting this mission:
We've been trying for almost 30 minutes to reach Buck with no success:
I'm turning Searcher to a median intercept course: Return as soon as possible:
[Wilma] On our way, Admiral:
[Hawk, On Speaker] Coming home:
Any luck yet, Twiki?
No, ma'am: Still a few things left to fix up, but we're gettin' there:
[Footsteps Running, Approaching]
What's happening? Was Buck working out here all night?
Oh, please tell me what's the matter:
Delph,
try to understand:
Buck... he's getting very sick:
Captain Rogers, my mother said you...
Delph...
[Coughs]
Please: : : Don't be frightened of me:
- Buck, somebody's comin.! - [Growling]
Pangor gone: Now we take the woman and wine:
That settles it: I can't wait any longer:
Twiki, deploy shielding: Get ready to lift off:
We'll try to hold to Searcher's old course: Hope to meet 'em coming back:
You two, get on board that ship now:
[Delph] Wait:! My father's logbook... I've got to get that too: Delph, no!
- [Growling Continues] - Delph!
[Buck] No:! Put me down! Put me down!
[Delph] Mother! Buck!
[Groaning]
[Snorting, Shuddering]
[Groaning]
[Delph] Buck:! Buck? Buck:!
Brother! We have the boy:
Comejoin us:! Come taste our whip, brother: We wait for you:!
[Growling]
[Guttural] Why should I join you?
I have the woman: : : And wine:
The woman is mine, and so is the wine:
If you want the wine, bring the boy:
Take boy back: Want wine! No:! Keep boy:!
Wine! [Growls]
- What'll they do to Delph? - Nothing:
They know they have a bargaining point as long as they hold Delph:
They want what Pangor had: His wine and his woman:
I planted the idea in their heads, about the wine being here:
I'll see that they get a reception: What are you going to do?
I have enough gelanite to blow this place sky-high: We have a lot of work to do:
[Growling Low]
- How much longer do you think it'll be before they come? - Not: : : Long:
You really believe this can work, Captain?
If they think they're safe,
they'll come for the wine, forget about the boy:
All right, it's all set: We'll put the detonator out here:
I'll string this wire out: Then, once they're inside drinking,
one touch on this detonator and they're gone:
[Groans, Growling]
[Growling, Distant] Delph! No!
You mustn't go out there:
They're fighting among themselves for some reason:
Get in the ship and wait for me:
I'll bring Delph back if I can:
[Pangor] Syra:
[Screams]
[Breathing Labored] Dying, Syra:
Something: : : Happened: : : In that lake:
Pangor pain:
- Starting: : : To remember: - Jason:
I'm... [Groans]
Jason:
[Breathing Continues]
Sorry, Syra:
I never meant to hurt you:
[Sobs] It's all right, Jason: It's all right:
I've always loved you, Syra:
I know: [Sniffles]
Sh:
[Sobs]
[Whips Cracking]
Buck!
Boy gone!
Go, Syra:
Take the boy: Leave with that man:
Where's Syra? She's not inside:
She's in the house, Buck: I heard voices inside:
Get him on board that ship: And keep that force field deployed at full power:
[Pangor Breathing]
It's all right: It's Jason again:
He remembers: All right: Let's get him on the shuttle!
[Satyr] We're here, brother:
[Satyr #2] We kill ship, then we kill you and take woman:
[Explosions] [Grunts]
What's happened, Twiki? Protective force field's startin' to give way:
I'll get them away from the ship: [Explosions Continue]
[Growls]
[Pangor] Brother,
he is tricking you:
I have the woman: : : Inside:
The woman: : : And the wine:
[Both Yelling]
[Breathing Heavily]
[Growls]
[Clattering] [Satyrs Gibbering]
- Pangor! No! - [Syra] Jason!
[Hawk] What do you think, Crichton?
[Goodfellow] Sh: He still has a hundred years of medical archives to review:
[Crichton] Infecting agent has been isolated:
Arbor virus, type AB, variant 246 of caprid encephalitis:
[Goodfellow] This creates the satyr effect?
[Crichton] Inevitably: 246 is a hitchhiker virus,
attaching itself to the male "Y'"chromosome, thus causing caprid symptoms:
[Wilma] But is the disease reversible?
[Crichton] In early stages, affirmative:
I recommend antisomal therapy treatment 74484...
12,000 units hourly in l: V: Solution: : :
For the next 72 hours:
Oh:
I thought you would want this: [Sighs] Back to normal:
I was afraid I'd been changed for good:
Wilma stayed with you while you were recovering:
It seems you had a most unusual experience: [Chuckles] That's not the half of it:
Somebody has been waiting to say good-bye:
Hi:
The Searcher is orbiting the planet Orion:
We're just about ready to leave for our new home: Mm:
Well, Orion is well-colonized: You and Delph should be very happy there:
I wish you were coming with us, Captain Rogers:
Well, I have to go where the Searcher goes, Delph:
- Admiral Asimov enrolled him in the Orion Cadet Academy: - That's the best there is:
I know: My father graduated from there:
Well, you grow to be just like your father, all right? Good pilot, an explorer:
[Crichton, On P: A:] Passengers for Orion 1, please report to launch bay:
It's never been easy for me to say good-bye:
Hasn't been easy for me either, especially with you two:
We won't forget you, Buck, either of us:
Nor I you:
Bye-bye:
[Knocking]
Ah: Hawk said you sat with me every night: Not a bad way to get you alone, is it?
Oh, yeah, but your methods are a little extreme:
Oh, you wouldn't believe what I went through on Arkadis:
Running around with horns on my head like some creature out of Greek mythology... It was incredible:
Incredible? Oh, I don't know about that:
Sounds to me like your true nature was finally showing through:
I mean, there are three moons on Arkadis, aren't there?
- What? - And, uh, we all know how you are in the moonlight:
[Laughs]