Lexx 4.23 Lyekka vs Japan (written by Jeffrey Hirschfield)
(The asteroid is close to Earth now. It slows as several
spikes emerge, then speeds through the atmosphere and crashes into the
sea)
(Elsewhere, in a television studio, Bob the anchorman is giving us
the latest news)
BOB: Eunice Broadflower of Dunk, Missouri has once
again defeated all challengers in this year's international Marilyn Monroe
lookalike contest, the judges citing her deeply plunging neckline as the
clincher. In other plunging news, the NASDAQ dropped for the fourth consecutive
session. Mass suicides in the business world are expected to follow
shortly. And - plunging appears to be the watchword of the day, as we receive
reports that a giant asteroid has just plunged into the Pacific Ocean somewhere
off the coast of Japan. The subsequent tidal wave is expected to wipe out a
number of nearby Pacific islands, causing considerable damage and loss of life.
Dr Ponts?
(Professor Ponts is on a monitor, transmitting from another
studio)
PONTS: You know Bob, I can't help but think that there must
be a relationship between the unusual presence of alien carrots all over the
planet this year, the unusual disappearance of Mars, Venus and Pluto, and now
the unusual crash of a giant asteroid into the Pacific Ocean. About the only
thing not unusual is Eunice Broadflower's return triumph. She was the crowd
favourite, and certainly my own choice
(He grins. Bob gives him a
look, and Ponts gets all professional again)
PONTS: I predict that
the tidal wave from this asteroid's impact will depress real estate prices in
coastal communities, further undermining the already weak banking sector, which
should increase the pressure on President Priest to return to work, in order to
prop up the dollar
(A carrot is briefly visible behind
him)
PONTS: And most important to Americans, reverse the downward
pressure on the NASDAQ. In a word, the outlook is not pretty at all, but -
(He sees a carrot nearby, then two, three. One flies past
him)
PONTS: Wasn't that one of those carrot things?
(He
runs)
(The Lexx. Everyone is on the bridge, watching the news on the view
screen. Out of view, Ponts screams. Blood splashes on the
screen)
STAN: Whoa. That little blue planet's just a never-ending
barrel of laughs, isn't it? KAI: 790, is there any doubt that the asteroid
that crashed into the ocean was in fact Lyekka's ship? 790: I have scanned an
endless stream of transmissions between the alien carrots and the asteroid. It
is definitely connected with Lyekka XEV: Kai, what do you think? KAI: I
think that Lyekka is a dangerous predator, who will consume this entire universe
unless she is stopped - by us STAN: OK, listen up - captain's orders
(onto pedestal) Kai, and Kai alone, goes down to Earth. He retrieves the
control unit from Vlad's cryopod, which shouldn't take long, and then he comes
straight back here and we leave forever, never to return
(Xev steps
up to him)
XEV: Captain's orders? STAN: Well, I am the captain,
remember? XEV: I'm going down there with Kai STAN: Why?! XEV:
Lyekka STAN: What about Lyekka? XEV: She tried to kill us STAN: Yeah,
but she didn't. We got away(gets down) and we gotta stay away, from her
and that stupid planet XEV: Lyekka is going to eat the Earth and then
probably this whole universe STAN: Lyekka said that she was just gonna eat
Japaneseland, not the whole planet XEV: And you believe that? We can take her
on now, we can take her on later, but we definitely have to take her on
sometime
(Kai and Xev take a moth to Earth. Stan appears on the
moth's view screen)
STAN: Xev - we can make this really simple you
know. You two get the part for the cryopod, and then hustle straight back here.
Then, I blow up the planet. Lyekka's gone, the carrots are gone, the universe is
safe, everybody wins XEV: Except all the people on Earth STAN: OK. Now
listen you two. I'm officially warning you. Do not - I mean, do not! - get
caught up in - whatever, down there on Earth, because if I see things going
wrong - and they will - I will not hesitate to command the Lexx for the good of
the universe to blow that planet up. Understood? XEV: Understood,
Stanley
(She switches off the view screen. It's night. A wolf howls
as they approach Vlad's castle. Kai opens the door of the moth)
KAI:
I will not drop in for long
(He jumps. The Cluster logo on the castle
roof opens, and he lands in the tunnels beneath the castle. He goes to Vlad's
cryopod, disconnects the control unit and picks it up)
(On the Lexx, Stan
is watching the news)
BOB: This just in - Eunice Broadflower - yes,
that Eunice Broadflower - died suddenly and horribly when the Marilyn Monroe
lookalike contest runner-up threw gasoline on her and lit her on fire at the
trophy presentation ceremony. The assailant repeatedly screamed "Some like it
hot! Some like it hot!" as she was taken into custody and -(upset)
Let's check the weather
(A weather chart appears onscreen,
accompanied by the sound of slot machines? Prince is there, dressed in
black)
PRINCE: The weather here, there and everywhere is not good.
But it is especially bad(he points, a gong sounds and a skull appears)
in Japan STAN: Prince. Well that figures PRINCE: I could use the words
'extreme climate change' but this time I think 'final destruction of the planet'
is more appropriate. Bad carrots have been up to their dirty deeds everywhere.
Mars, Venus, Pluto - disappeared from the sky. Evil characters have been popping
up in positions of power all over the place. Pacific islands have just been
inundated by a gigantic tidal wave. Cats and dogs are sure to start raining from
the skies soon
(Carrots, clouds and skulls appear on the chart.
Prince looks up, and images of cats and dogs fall across the chart. Prince looks
back at Stan)
PRINCE: And I'm not finished yet
(He
vanishes. The view screen shows the Earth)
STAN: Never leave the
Lexx. Never leave the Lexx. Never!
(Kai is now back in the moth with
the cryopod control unit)
XEV: Are you sure it still works? KAI:
Yes XEV: Now do you want to go to the place where the asteroid went down, so
that you can jump into the ocean and search for it? KAI: No. The search area
will be large, and I cannot move quickly in the water. The time and effort would
likely exhaust my protoblood, making the bottom of the Earth's ocean - my final
tomb XEV: So what do you think we should do? KAI: I think - we should
wait
(Japan, dawn - the moth flies past a temple to a rocky shore. A
man who looks like a Buddhist monk is sitting on the rocks. Xev and Kai walk up
to him - his eyes are closed, legs crossed, hands in lap)
XEV: Hi
there. I'm Xev of B3K, this is Kai. What's your name? KAI: Have you recently
seen a woman named Lyekka, or any alien carrots, or any other unusual type of
alien?
(The man doesn't react. Xev leans closer)
XEV: Are
you alive?
(Still no reaction. Kai crouches down beside
him)
XEV: Maybe he's dead KAI: He is alive XEV: Well whatever
he is, he's no help - come on, let's keep going KAI: Where to? XEV: Hmm -
somewhere KAI: This part of Japan is close to where the asteroid landed. It
is as good a place as any to wait for Lyekka XEV: How long will that
be? KAI: I do not know XEV: I'm going to explore KAI: What? XEV: Why
not? I'm half Cluster lizard, and Cluster lizards are not good at
waiting KAI: True - but exploration can take many forms
(He sits
beside the monk, copies his position, closes his eyes)
XEV: Kai?
Kai
(She waves her hand in front of Kai's face, but he doesn't react.
She sits beside him, tries to meditate - but keeps turning her head quickly to
see if he's looking. She sighs)
XEV: I really don't wanna sit here.
Will you come with me? Please? Kai?
(He does not
respond)
XEV: OK. I won't go far, and you don't go anywhere without
me, right? Promise? Good
(She gets up and walks along the rocks, sees
another monk standing looking out to sea. This monk looks American, not
Japanese)
XEV: Hello! WYATT: Well hello XEV: Hi WYATT: I'm
Wyatt XEV: Xev WYATT: Have you come seeking the Master? XEV: No. My -
crew mate and I are waiting for Lyekka. She's in the big asteroid thing that
landed near here in the ocean, near here, sort of WYATT: A sad loss of life -
for some, but not for others XEV: Why? WYATT: Many of us do not see the
end of life so much as a sad thing but as a joyful beginning XEV: Of
what? WYATT: Of the next life, of course (smiles) XEV: Of
course WYATT: You should meet the Master XEV: What for? WYATT: The
Master can help you understand the immortal force that travels from one living
vessel to the next XEV: What's that? WYATT: Your spiritual self. The part
of you that lives on, the part of you that is born again and again and again,
each time in a different vessel XEV: I've known people who have lived a few
times - like Schlemmi, who first was on the Luvliner but then he died, and he
became Fifi on the planet Fire, and then he was Farley on TV. He was worried
about liking men in a sexual way - until a carrot got him WYATT: You've lived
before Xev XEV: I have? WYATT: Yes you have. The Master can teach you
about it. He can feel into the past, into your past. He can tell you who you
were before XEV: He can? WYATT: Yes he can - if you let go XEV: Of
what? WYATT: Of this passing life. If you give yourself over to your
spiritual vessel. Reject the decadent ways of the West, Xev, and let the
enlightened ways of the East heal your spirit XEV: Sounds
great!
(Xev goes back to Kai, who is still
meditating)
XEV: Kai! Any sign of Lyekka yet? Listen, I don't know
if you can hear me, but I'm going to the temple up the hill to meet the Master,
so either I'll come back down when I'm done or you can meet me there when you've
finished. How does that sound?
(No reaction. She gets
up)
XEV: Great. Bye. Bye Kai
(Wyatt leads Xev into the
temple grounds - other monks there, sweeping the courtyard)
WYATT:
So Xev, where are you from? XEV: A planet called B3K - that's in the Light
Zone WYATT: That's interesting. Do your family know you're here? XEV: My
family? I don't have any family. My parents put me in the wife bank when I was a
baby, and they would have been killed anyway when the Mantrid drones destroyed
B3K. I'm alone - all alone WYATT: Forgive my bluntness Xev, but I sense a
great deal of pain in you. Are you stricken with any physical illness or serious
disease? XEV: No, of course not! I'm a love slave. Love slaves are
perfect (twirls) See? WYATT: Then your pain must be here, am I
right?
(Wyatt puts his hand over his heart)
XEV: You
could be WYATT: I am right. I am, because your pain, was my pain until I came
here. But the Master has since brought balance and joy where once there was only
anxiety and discontent. Like me, you can supplant your inner anguish with inner
peace, harmony and a sense of oneness with everyone and everything. You can be
saved, if you will XEV: And the Master can do all this? WYATT: Yes. He
can XEV: Wow
(Back on the Lexx, Stan is on the pedestal. There is
a small selection of junk on the armrest. He selects apiece and throws it at
790)
790: Simple entertainment for the simple minded STAN: I'm
not listening
(He throws another piece, which hits
790)
STAN: Bingo! 790: Bongo STAN: Dumb dumb time. Guys, where
are ya?
(Another hit. He laughs)
(Wyatt leads Xev to a wooden
building. Two monks pass them, carrying small plastic boxes)
XEV:
What are those people carrying? WYATT: I have no idea and no concern.
Whatever they have is part of their journey, not mine
(They go up
steps, slide door, go inside. Xev sits cross-legged on a mat, candles around
her)
WYATT: Think pleasant thoughts XEV: I'll try
(smiles)
(Wyatt leaves)
(Back on the rocks, four bad carrots
arrive. Kai opens his eyes, turns to the monk)
KAI: I apologise for
disturbing your meditation, but I feel it necessary to warn you that you are
surrounded by alien probes. Your life is in extreme danger should they choose to
enter your body, or otherwise to attack you
(Kai gets his brace
ready)
KAI: I can eliminate them if you wish. They are not living
things, so their destruction should not run counter to any principles you may
hold in that regard. I suggest you take me up on my offer, if you have any
concern for your own mortality
(The monk still says
nothing)
KAI: Which apparently you do not
(Kai puts his
brace away, looks at the carrots)
KAI: Why have you not attacked
him? Does he have a power which keeps you away?
(The carrots jump
about on the rocks, clanking and screeching. Kai returns to his
meditation)
(Xev is chanting, when a pair of hands emerge from a screen
behind her)
MASTER: Approach the screen
(Xev turns, gets
up, goes to the screen. She can just see the outline of a monk on the other
side)
MASTER: Closer
(He turns her around, so his hands
can feel her belly from behind)
MASTER: You have known great
pain XEV: Yes. All my life. I've never known any real happiness MASTER:
Your soul is a battleground of conflicting desires, both present and
past
(He feels under her jaw)
XEV: Yes, it's
true MASTER: You seek love, but do not find it. You seek inner joy and
harmony but it is elusive. You seek a soft nest to land in, but none is there
for you. I can help you XEV: You can? MASTER: But I must warn you that the
path to spiritual enlightenment may prove to be a long and difficult trail.
There are no half measures on such a journey. Are you willing to commit your
being to the hard road ahead? XEV: Yes I will. But Lyekka might show up and
then I'll have to leave in a big hurry MASTER: Your first true session will
begin this afternoon. Contemplate the garden. Wyatt will summon you when I am
ready XEV: Thank you master MASTER: Go now XEV: Yes. Thank
you
(She leaves, bows, closes the door behind her. The screen slides
back, and the Master takes off a false beard - of course, it's
Wyatt)
WYATT: We got a hot one
(The Lexx. Stan is
sleeping on the pedestal. The weather chart is on the view screen - signs for
tornadoes, volcanoes, lightning, tidal waves. Prince walks onto the screen,
singing)
PRINCE: It's raining, it's pouring, the weather's crack
whoring! I kid you not folks, the Earth's atmosphere has spread her legs, and
absolutely anything can crawl inside. It's Armageddon time! We have hurricanes,
tornadoes, earthquakes all over the place. Dozens of erupting volcanoes are
filling the skies with ash. There's hardly enough of the polar ice caps left to
drop into a highball, and the hole in the ozone layer is nearly as big as the
one in Stanley Tweedle's head!
(Stan wakes up)
STAN:
Hey! PRINCE: Ah, so you are paying attention STAN: Well, I try not to pay
attention to you, Prince PRINCE: Well you should - there's a lot that I can
tell you STAN: About what? PRINCE: Oh, things. Things brewing. Things
afoot STAN: I know what's afoot. It's big trouble of the alien kind, and I'm
ready for it PRINCE: Really? Are you sure? I mean, you're not exactly captain
courage, are you Stanley? Are you sure that you're not gonna just fall apart
when the going gets tough, as you have so many times before? STAN: No, I
won't! 790: He will STAN: You shut up! PRINCE: Well - we'll see. Stan.
Brave captain Stanley we will soon see precisely what you are and are not made
of. The time is at hand. Prepare yourself. Prepare
(Prince
disappears. The view screen shows Earth)
STAN: Kai, Xev, where are
you?!
(Back near the shore, there is a huge splash. The carrots run
around on the rocks. Kai watches as one extends antennae, and starts making a
different sound. Kai looks out to sea)
(Xev is sitting in the courtyard,
and sees seven monks, all with boxes. She follows and watches from behind trees
as they walk down to the sea, and hand the boxes to someone in a
boat)
WYATT: Xev! Xev!
(Xev goes back to the
garden)
XEV: Yes? WYATT: It is time XEV: I saw more people
carrying containers, they were loading them onto a boat WYATT:
Really? XEV: Yeah WYATT: As I said, we all have our own journey here at
the temple - and yours is about to begin
(He leads her back inside,
gives her a legal document to sign)
XEV: What's that? WYATT: In
order for the temple to proceed, we require donations. This document states that
you are of your own free will donating all your earthly possessions to the
temple XEV: You mean money? I don't have any, but I can get some at the bank
machine WYATT: We don't want your money from the bank machine. The temple's
needs are - larger. Just sign here XEV: Here?
(She makes her mark
on the page)
(Back on the shore. The monk takes a deep breath, opens his
eyes - and sees the carrots)
MONK: Oh KAI: Hello MONK:
Hello KAI: How was your meditation? MONK: What meditation? My guts were
aching, so I sat down here, and I guess I must have passed out. It happens a lot
these days. Say - what the heck are those?
(Xev is chanting. There is
a bowl with lots of incense burning in front of her. She hears the Master go
behind the screen)
MASTER: Greetings, Xev - or should I say, Lady
Xev? Since I touched you fragments of your past lives have come to me, and I
have learned some things that might interest you. I saw a vision of a castle,
and you sitting in a jewel encrusted throne - but you were not a queen. You were
a lady in the service of a wicked queen, and when she caught you sitting on her
throne she had you beheaded XEV: Where was that? MASTER: In - Abyssinia, I
believe XEV: Where's Abyssinia? MASTER: On the other side of the
world XEV: You mean this planet, the Earth? But I grew up in the Light Zone,
wouldn't my past lives have been there?
(The smoke is thicker. Xev
coughs)
MASTER: I saw you in a library. This was more recent - maybe
less than 200 years ago. Perhaps you were a scholar, or a poet - or more likely
a cleaner XEV: (sleepy) How can that be? I was on the Lexx then, on
my way to Fire and Water - or maybe already there. I remember - I was a singer -
singing to lots and lots of happy people MASTER: No. The only singing you did
was squealing like a pig in a cheap whorehouse XEV: I did not! MASTER: You
did, you didn't, it doesn't matter
(He puts on a gas mask, steps out
from behind the screen)
MASTER: You see, the truth is Xev - whoever
you were in your past lives, you were the same gullible chick as you are in this
one XEV: You're just another bad man
(She passes out)
(Back
on the shore - )
MONK: I sold my television, my radio, everything, a
long time ago to pay for the lessons with the Master, so I never heard of these
carrot probes KAI: They usually enter people when they encounter them - but
not you MONK:(laughs) Nor you KAI: I am dead, and of little
interest to them MONK: Nor am I KAI: You are also dead? MONK: No. Not
yet. Not quite, anyway KAI: Then what is it that keeps them at bay? MONK:
I don't know. I think it's more likely because my poop chute is sewn up KAI:
Your poop chute? MONK: I'm stapled and stitched. There's no exit through the
back door KAI: I do not understand MONK: I was one of the first here, and
before long I ran out of money for lessons. I thought I was out of luck, until
the Master got the idea of his students donating unnecessary distracting organs
- which he sells to the medical community. Pretty well half of my body has been
harvested now. Maybe the carrots figured that out, and that's why they were not
interested in me
(He lifts his robe back, to reveal lots of plastic
tubes, pumps, bags)
MONK: This is my gall bladder. Pancreas, my
heart, and my liver. And I call this my bliss bag. The only downside of
surrendering my inside is that I sometimes pass out for long periods of time,
like just now. The two jugs of sake I had last night didn't help either. But - I
have never been happier. The Master is good - the Master is wise. The Master has
guided me to the top of the mountain, and joy is mine
(Kai stands
up)
KAI: I would like to see this Master myself MONK: Good for
you. Meet him, and you'll never be the same KAI: Nor will he, I
suspect MONK: And - KAI: Yes?
(But the monk has passed out
again. Kai leaves)
(Xev slowly comes around. She is strapped to a table.
Wyatt is nearby, talking on a mobile phone)
WYATT: Absolutely, great
specimen. She's got everything - everything except relatives, that is. Yeah,
that's right - her guts are a gold mine. Going for the full harvest - eyes,
breast, kidneys, lungs, heart, skin, hair. Finally get caught up on those back
orders. Yeah, I'm happy too. Later Tony. Bye
(He puts the phone away,
looks at Xev)
WYATT: Hey, you're awake. That's quite the
constitution you got there, cash cow. You inhaled enough gas to knock out a team
of horses for a week
(Xev snarls)
WYATT: It'd be less
painful if you stayed unconscious, but that's your problem, not mine. I'll cut
'em as I get 'em
(She growls quietly - still
dopey)
WYATT: Don't be so upset. This is just your troubled soul's
shortcut to Nirvana
(Kai runs over rocks, heading for the temple.
There is another big splash - and a giant Lyekka emerges from the water - short
dark hair, wearing a sort of kimono. The monk wakes up, looks at
her)
MONK: Nirvana! In the form of a giant woman from the sea! As
the Master said - sort of
(He laughs, pulls all his tubes out - and
dies. Lyekka smiles, and starts walking through the water)
(Kai arrives
in the temple garden. He sees two monks, who have plastic bags sticking out from
under their robes)
KAI: Where is the Master?
(The monks
point up the path. Kai takes it)
(Wyatt puts one of the plastic
containers onto the table)
WYATT: Lots of old sick rich people
around these days, and there's a lot more money to be made selling them new
organs than fixing their old ones. Soon as I figured that one out I quit medical
school. Besides, my bedside manner never was very good, that's my drift. Oh, I'd
recommend lying as still as possible, but I understand if that's a little tough
to do
(He switches on a cutting tool, holds it near Xev's
face)
(Kai is getting closer to the temple)
WYATT: It's like
I always say Xev - you may not find inner peace, but you'll always find inner
pieces
(Xev snarls. Meanwhile, Lyekka is stomping her way towards the
temple)
XEV: I forgot to tell you something WYATT: And what is
that? XEV: I'm not all human WYATT: Well that goes for the both of
us
(He grins. Xev snarls, and sits up, pulling free of the
restraints)
(Outside, monks look up at the sound of stomping. Kai reaches
the temple - and sees Lyekka. Monks run for cover. Lyekka smiles. Inside,
plaster is falling from the ceiling. Wyatt looks up - and is crushed by Lyekka's
foot. As Lyekka walks on, Kai walks through the torn screen
door)
XEV: Kai KAI: Hello Xev. Were you having a problem? XEV:
Yes I was - until Lyekka stepped in
(They go outside. Some monks are
dead, others running away. Lyekka is heading for Tokyo)
XEV: Oh
no LYEKKA: (deep voice) This is a tasty planet. I like it XEV:
What do we do now? KAI: We go after her
(They take off in the
moth)
(On the bridge, Stan kicks 790)
XEV: Stan, this is Xev,
talk to us STAN: I'm here Xev, what's up? XEV: Lyekka's up. I mean, she's
way up. She's huge and she's stomping all over Japan STAN: Well, she said
she'd eat Japan. Look, look - do you have the replacement cryopod control
unit? XEV: Yes STAN: Well, then come on back so that we can leave XEV:
What about Lyekka? STAN: If Lyekka breaks her word, then - then we can blow
the planet up from a safe distance and that'll take care of her XEV: No,
Kai's going to try to get her from down here STAN: Xev, you come back right
now XEV: We will come back - soon STAN: I'm telling you - do not expect me
to be here if you do not come back to the Lexx right now! KAI: If you make
the choice to leave without us Stanley, you must destroy the planet, and destroy
Lyekka STAN: Look, I just want you to come back to the Lexx! XEV: We will
not do that. We're going to try to defeat Lyekka without killing everyone else
on the planet STAN: Then I am leaving XEV: Goodbye Stan
(Xev
switches off the moth's view screen)
STAN: I will leave. I'm just
gonna leave without 'em 790: No you will not STAN: Watch
me
(More news)
BOB: Upon viewing the court videotape of
himself in bed with four prostitutes, the mayor stated "What can I say? I'm
horny for hoes"(coughs) In NASDAQ news -
(Bob sees an image
of giant Lyekka on a monitor)
BOB: Holy cow! News flash. A giant
woman - a very beautiful giant woman is at this very moment stomping all over
Tokyo, causing an orgy of destruction. We take you live to our correspondent in
Japan, Danny Trevello
(Lyekka is using two telephone poles as
chopsticks. She picks up a train and eats it)
LYEKKA: Yum
yum! DANNY: Carnage and chaos reign supreme here in Tokyo, as the monster
continues to carve a swath of destruction throughout the city
(Stan
is watching this on the view screen)
STAN: Oh, Lyekka 790: She's
after my Kai - blow up the planet! DANNY: For a rampaging monster she sure is
gorgeous STAN: I'm with you there, buddy DANNY: I know that offers little
consolation to the legions of Japanese people now being crushed to death by the
monster but - wow, is she hot! LYEKKA: Yum yum!
(The stomping
sounds are moving closer)
DANNY: Is she looking at
us?
(Giant legs come into view. Danny screams as he is crushed. Stan
looks away)
BOB: We'll get right back to the scene, courtesy of -
someone else (smiles)
(A long distance view, of helicopters heading
for Lyekka. Prince appears on the view screen)
PRINCE: Well, things
are definitely heating up in old Japaneseland. Is there help in sight? Well -
there is a small chance that a nearby weak disturbance will move in to push the
storm away - but, more likely it will simply lose its nerve and fizzle out
before it gets there. That's what this sort of system usually does STAN:
You're wrong there, Prince
(In Tokyo, people scream as more are
trampled to death. The moth reaches Tokyo)
XEV: Stan, we can see
Lyekka. She's in a big city called Tokyo STAN: Kai - do you think you can get
rid of her? KAI: I am not certain
(Stan gets up onto the
pedestal)
STAN: Then you better stay away from there, because Stan
the man is gonna rescue Japan XEV: Really? And how are you going to do
that? STAN: I'll tell the Lexx to fire just a little shot, just the size of
the city Tokyo. He's done it before XEV: When he was really really hungry.
Now that he's eaten Holland, he's probably going to blow up the whole
planet STAN: OK Lexx - can you fire just a little, tiny, small - just a
little shot the size of that city named Tokyo? LEXX: I don't know, Stanley. I
like to blow up planets, but I can try if you like STAN: Not yet, OK?
Soon
(In Tokyo, people run as Lyekka approaches. Three helicopters
hover around her head)
LYEKKA: Japan is so tasty. Yum. yum,
yum!
(She sucks a helicopter into her mouth)
LYEKKA: More
please
STAN: Lexx - are we there yet? LEXX: Yes I am, Stan STAN:
Xev? XEV: Yes? STAN: I'm now over Tokyo. I'm about to tell the Lexx to
blow the city up. I'm giving you one last chance to get out 790: Or not. I
don't care. Kai won't be hurt XEV: Stan, wait - STAN: No! I'm taking
Lyekka out, right now
(Xev steers the moth away from
Tokyo)
(Stan activates the template)
STAN: Lexx, I command
you to -
(Suddenly Lyekka appears on the view screen - not giant
Lyekka, but normal blonde Lyekka, with a background of clouds and
stars)
LYEKKA: Don't Stanley, don't do it, please STAN: Lyekka!
What, what -? How can you - wait just a second here LYEKKA: Don't kill me
Stanley. I beg you STAN: How can you be here? You're stomping all over
Tokyo LYEKKA: No Stan. I mean - yes Stan (smiles) One of my sisters
is the Lyekka in that tasty city - but not me. I'm the real Lyekka - the Lyekka
that likes you 790: She's messing with your mind! Not that there's much to
mess with. Shoot!
(Stan is not sure about this)
LYEKKA:
Who cares about Tokyo, the Earth, Stan? The only thing in this universe that's
important is us - you and me. I like you Stanley. And you like me, don't
you? STAN: Well yeah, yeah, I do LYEKKA: So forget about the Earth and all
its fat and greasy tasty people. Think about us and how good we are
together STAN: No, you're just saying that. I do like you but you're
bad LYEKKA: I am bad Stan - but so are you, and that's why we love each
other. I do love you Stan STAN: Oh, Lyekka LYEKKA: Oh, Stan 790: Oh,
pukefest
(More helicopters arrive. Lyekka sucks them all in,
smiles)
LYEKKA: My tummy feels terrific (grins)
(The moth
is out over the sea)
XEV: Stan, what are you doing up there? You
said you were gonna fire. Stan? Stan, answer me!
(There is just
static on the moth's view screen)
XEV: Something isn't right
there
(More sirens and screams, as giant Lyekka continues stomping -
and her sister tries to persuade Stan)
LYEKKA: You will be my king
and I your queen. I want to make love to you and eat tasty things all day
long STAN: You're just trying to trick me. You're smooth round the bend,
remember? You're just trying to distract me while you eat the Earth and then
every planet everywhere. You're not Lyekka. Lyekka's dead. You're just a monster
who's pretending to be Lyekka LYEKKA: I'm all yours, Stanley. Everything I am
is all yours
(She licks her lips, kisses at him. Her tongue and lips
are very big)
STAN: Oh
(The moth flies back to
Tokyo)
KAI: There XEV: How are you going to fight her? KAI:
Divine Assassins are very resourceful
(Lyekka catches two more
helicopters with her tongue)
KAI: That's close enough! XEV: Kai -
KAI: Get well away as soon as I am out XEV: Good luck
Kai!
(Kai jumps out of the moth. Lyekka sucks in another helicopter -
and Kai)
LYEKKA: I'm still hungry XEV: Stanley, where are
you?!
STAN: You're not just saying those things, you're not just teasing
me? LYEKKA: Oh no, Stanley. I can't live without you. I tried, but I
can't STAN: Yeah. Yeah, I admit there is something between us - even if it is
completely strange. I never felt anything for anybody the way I feel about you -
even if you really are bad LYEKKA: Yes, I am bad
(smiles) STAN:(grins) Tell me more, Lyekka
(Kai is
inside giant Lyekka's mouth, balancing on her tongue)
LYEKKA: Tasty
human pie
LYEKKA: I want to kiss you. I want to caress you -
LYEKKA: I wanna eat, and eat, and eat, and eat, and eat until I
-
(Kai fires his brace up through the roof of Lyekka's mouth, out
through her head. She looks surprised)
(On the view screen, Lyekka's face
is distorted)
STAN: Whoa. What was that? LYEKKA: No -
thing
(Giant Lyekka is holding her head)
LYEKKA:
Die?
(On the view screen, Lyekka's face is twisting, her voice is
wrong)
LYEKKA: And squeeze, and hug, and explore - STAN: Lyekka?
Something's not right LYEKKA: I know that
(Giant Lyekka falls to
the ground, dead)
LYEKKA: I - want - to - STAN:
Lyekka?!
(Lyekka's head explodes. The view screen goes blank. Stan
sighs)
(The moth hovers over giant Lyekka. Kai crawls out of her nose,
waves to Xev. She waves back. The moth flies to the Lexx - and the asteroid gets
out of the sea, on giant mechanical legs. Stan watches the news on the view
screen)
BOB: No doubt about it - it's just not Japan's day. Tokyo is
once again under attack, this time from - can this be right? - a giant asteroid
on legs. Well, if that doesn't beat all. Not much media is left alive in Tokyo,
but we are still able to take you to the scene
(Xev and Kai (carrying
the cryopod control unit) walk onto the bridge)
STAN: Now that's
what I all a Lexx-sized target!
(The Lexx turns to aim at Tokyo. The
asteroid stops stomping across Tokyo, and a giant ray gun comes out of the top,
fires at the Lexx)
LEXX: Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! STAN: Remember, just
one short sharp blast at that big thing that sticks out of the planet there.
Ready, aim - hold it, hold it - OK, fire Lexx, fire now!
(Lexx powers
up - and scores a direct hit on the asteroid - and Tokyo)
STAN: Ha
Ha! Yahoo! Yeah, we got it! We did it, we did it!
(He jumps down from
the pedestal, hugs Xev)
(All the carrots on the rocks near the monk fall
down, dead)
XEV: Well done, captain STAN: Oh yeah. Good shot
Lexx
(Prince appears on the view screen, with the weather
chart)
PRINCE: Clear skies, clear skies everywhere. It's a wonderful
day to be alive, the storm clouds have passed. But - you never can tell when
more are going to roll in - can you? STAN: Spoilsport!
(He gets up
onto the pedestal. The view screen goes blank)
STAN: We're done
here(activates template) OK Lexx - time to turn yourself
around LEXX: As you command, Stan
(Stan gets
down)
STAN: Let's get outta here, once and for all XEV: Good
idea
(Xev kisses Stan's cheek. The Lexx flies away. They don't notice
another asteroid heading for the Earth)
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