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3x08 - The Episode With No Name

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« on: July 14, 2007, 02:06:47 am »

Written by: Adria Budd
Story by: Gavin Blair, Phil Mitchell, Ian Pearson

This is the first part of a five-part story: "The Net" + "The Web"

    * 3.2.4 "The Episode With No Name"
    * 3.3.1 "Return of the Crimson Binome"
    * 3.3.2 "The Edge of Beyond"
    * 3.3.3 "Web Riders on the Storm"
    * 3.3.4 "Mousetrap"

Synopsis
Matrix and AndrAIa encounter a bizarre bazaar, where renegade Guardians are searching for Guardian 452 (aka Bob). An infected Turbo declares Matrix to be the only hope for saving the Net.

Story
This time the city is surrounding the sea, instead of the other way around. A large, apparently under control, tear sends energy down to a ring in the sea. A voice with Mid-Eastern intonations declares "Game Over". The sprites in appear to have won, since there is no visible damage to the city. The point of view swoops down from above a fortress high in the desert down to the city with ships at port.

The stone-cobbles streets of the city are deserted; no movement other than a piece of paper blowing in the wind. There is a fountain with a statue of a One with a spear, some brightly colored awnings, but no vendors. Nothing but the sound of the fountain gurgling.

Poof! The square comes alive with the sound of a Bantha. An incredible menagerie of people and critters, like something out of "1001 Arabian Nights". Matrix has Glitch scan the place, and is overjoyed that this place has portals to the Net. They're going home!

His kiss with AndrAIa is interrupted by a pickpocket, Slimey Goober, who takes the Guardian's keytool. Matrix tears out after the guy, and AndrAIa calls out, "stay frosty, Sparky!" She decides to do some shopping while Matrix is occupied.

Matrix takes the high road - jumping from one roof to another in slow motion while chasing the pickpocket, and uses an awning to backflip onto another building. He flips up onto a horizontal rope, but it sags beneath his weight.

Meanwhile, AndrAIa is besieged by vendors selling "files and data" (floppy disks), red apples, and such. Even an upgrade (think of Princess Jasmine in pale blue harem pants).

The city's sun flares and rings of light pile up, forming a portal for motley crew of two blue men, a yellow woman, and four spider-like drones. The populace hides; "the Guardings are coming, the Guardians are coming!" The woman (red tubes for hair and a prosthetic arm) is the leader. The Guardians with her are punkers and do not look friendly. They terrorize the populace, holding a One binome upside down for the fun of it.

AndrAIa and Frisket missed out on the excitement; they were at the dingy end of the marina, looking for transport. They come across a chrome-plated woman cleaning up her boat (it has a bunch of seats, and says IMAX on the side). She asks for authorization codes; Internet travel is restricted. And when AndrAIa is confused, the woman asks, "where you been, playing games?" AndrAIa asks who restricted travel, the other remarks, "you have been out of the loop, haven't you. The Guardians did."

Matrix has followed the thief to a building marked SIBEDAR (sidebar?) and "Z bar mid drift". (Zee bare midriff = belly dancers) Your basic cantina. Complete with the music from the Star Wars cantina, and more strange creatures than you can shake a stick at. Matrix bursts through the saloon doors, and the bar goes silent. He orders an I/O Shot, and the only sound is from the pickpocket quaking in fear. The thief denies he has Matrix's property, until the Mainframer has Glitch activate its homing signal. But the little guy has some big menacing friends on his side. (Two round balls with long arms, and a mantis/robot creature.

Matrix keeps his hands up, but that doesn't stop him from controlling his Gun. The voice-activated weapon sends out targeting spots to everyone in the room. "Gun, Death Blossom mode." It rotates rapidly, ready to spew death and destruction in all directions. Glitch is returned, and everybody leaves.

Just before Matrix can take a sip, he notices someone it the shadows. A familiar voice states that he is looking for Guardian 452. He wants to know what happened to Bob. It's Turbo, the Prime Guardian.

It's the man who ordered the destruction of Mainframe. Matrix goes for his gun, but Turbo's keytool, Copland, is faster, acting as a three-roped bola that becomes a containment field. Turbo releases the field when he hears that this big guy is Enzo Matrix. By his reconning, Turbo says, Enzo is 11. (In "Talent Night", Enzo compiled up from 01 to 10.) Game time is accellerated. Copland and Glitch talk to each other, Turbo says its a great honor to be selected by Glitch. The keytools are sentient. Copland will leave Turbo if and when the Prime Guardian succumbs to the infection. But the reason Turbo came to the cantina was to warn what he thought was Bob. At that point, bullets hail in from the outside, breaking every bottle in the bar.

Back at the docks, the ship owner tells AndrAIa that the "mend and defend" Guardians are operating in "divide and render" mode. The only people who could help are locked up in the prison above the city. Her format is Search Engine. But before she can explain this term to AndrAIa, they hear the battle. AndrAIa dashes off.

The yellow woman and bad Guardians outside, demanding the surrender of "the rogue Guardian, Bob". The good Guardians refuse to throw down their weapons. Instead, (cue generic Spaghetti Western music), Matrix asks if the drones have personality chips. The yellow woman says no, which allows Turbo and Matrix to obliterate the spider 'bots without feeling guilty.

The warning Turbo was delivering was of the infection; glowing green lines around his temples and his icon. Turbo claims he is strong enough to fight it, but the super virus, Daemon, has infected the entire Guardian Collective. Only two Guardians are uninfected: Bob and Matrix. Daemon is really bad, she arranged the Web creature that caused the near destruction of Mainframe. The bad guys have a lock on Matrix's icon; the can follow him whereever he goes. "Not if I do this."

The yellow woman loses the signal when his icon turns into game-sprite mode, so she assumes that Matrix has created a portal and left. Just then she notices the pickpocket, who tells her about Matrix's companions. Her henchmen head back to the square, where they find AndrAIa and Frisket surveying the damage. AndrAIa winks at Frisket, and wait for the appropriate time.

A large blimp casts a shadow over the SIBEDAR and a screen on it announces "Guardian 452, we have your female and the dog. Surrender or they will be deleted." Matrix is not worried. Sure enough, Frisket jumps up and eats the cameraman.

The yellow woman is waiting for her men to return. When a fly buzzes her, she catches it and pops its eyeball. [Not a nice person.] She hears a noise, but instead of her men with the prisoners, Frisket and AndrAIa stare at the yellow woman and her one remaining spider drone. "And my men?" "Don't ask." Frisket growls, AndrAIa translates. "He was wondering if your drone has a personality chip." The drone realizes the implications, and runs off, screaming like a kicked dog. Poor Frisket. With no one to battle, he lies down and lets the women fight it out.

Very much like a Sergio Leone movie, the two prepare for a showdown. The wind blows a sheet of paper down the street. No one moves. The camera pans behind AndrAIa and seamlessly cuts to a pan from behind her opponent.
[Which Clint Eastwood film is this from? -Joe]
The woman fires her blaster, AndrAIa deflects it with her wrist spikes, then unleashes four of her long fingernails. The woman goes down with poison darts in her throat.

Turbo and Matrix part ways after the cadet creates a tear out of the coffee maker. Turbo conjures up something that has not been shown in a long time; a portal to the Supercomputer. They part as friends.

AndrAIa saunters in, and Matrix explains that Turbo is a good guy. But they still don't have a ship. Just as Matrix finally gets around to his untouched drink, Glitch locates a possible transport. Its captain walks through the door - it's Captain Capacitor, the Crimson Binome.

References
    * Slow motion jump - with sound effects from "The Six Million Dollar Man".
    * Bouncing off of awnings - Douglas Fairbanks Sr. in "The Thief of Bagdad (1924)", a silent film.
    * Bouncing off of awnings - Burt Lancaster in "The Crimson Pirate (1952)".
    * SibeDar/SideBar - night club in Vancouver (not the "Side Door").
    * Layout of the city - matches that of the Microsoft Natural Keyboard.
    * The new IMAX Ridefilm - holds several people in a bouncing journey through ReBoot, has enough action that someone will throw up.
       The California Chrome woman is Maxine. She and her vehicle are guest stars in the IMAX Ridefilm.
    * Rings of light - same transport mechanism as the movie "Stargate".
    * Death Blossom - The Last Starfighter.
    * Gun, automatic return to holster, ala "Robocop".
    * The voice of the Prime Guardian, Turbo, is the voice of Optimus Primal in "Beast Wars".
    * Copland (pronounced "copeland") - code name for a Mac Operating System.
    * "01", "10", "11" = 1, 2, 3 in the binary number system.
    * Daemon - usually means a good demon, a background task that performs needed functions for the system.
       Examples: rlogind, telnetd, inetd, cron, smtp, httpd, syslogd, nfsd.

Did You Notice?
    * The blowing paper is translucent; you can see Matrix through it, dimly.
    * The statue is wearing a coon-skin cap, like Jebediah Springfield in "The Simpsons".
    * In the square: binome with a fez, binomes with turbans, a straw-colored Bib Fortuna, Jabba the Hutt wearing
       sunglasses, Imperial Storm Troopers, Ones wearing golden boots, dancing girls, a Chicken Walker, a limping two-legged snout,
       a snake with a fez, this-side-up on snake's jar.
    * The pickpocket is called Slimey Goober. His voice is provided by Jessie Moss, the original Enzo.
    * After the pickpocket scene: A One with black and white stripes looking up and the equivalent of a Jawa almost being
       thrown from his mount (ala the digitally remastered scene of Mos Eisley in Star Wars).
    * Shadow squares circling the sun above Ringworld.
    * The snake has swallowed the snake charmer, sideways.
    * Paying for a drink with a ONE, lava lamps, "YSC11" on bottle.
    * Woman with lipstick totally messes up her makeup. (Buns and pigtails; Chun Li?)
    * The sea bird (pelican + pterodactyl with elephant trunk) has beneath its wings a second eye and a second mouth.
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