[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.
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 I. 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]