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Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers Episode 003: "Outside the Garden"
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TEASER
FADE IN:
INT. LIANDRA - BRIDGE
The bridge is in a standard state of affairs. Kitaro is at the main console. Dulann is in the Captain's position. Hadann sits opposite Kitaro to Dulann's right. Several non-descript Rangers can be seen in the background working.
DULANN How have you found your quarters Hadann?
HADANN Very satisfactory thank you Dulann. I am pleased to be serving aboard this vessel.
KITARO You should just count yourself lucky the Ranger Council passed for over for Ranger training.
DULANN Yes, excisting Warrior Caste Minbari have been granted pardon from the extra training on occasion.
KITARO And with the Captain's backing...
HADANN (Smiling)
They could not turn me away!
(beat)
It's just a shame my first task as a Ranger was to inform the Captain of Mister Bester's disappearance.
DULANN It's not your fault Hadann. He tricked his guards with a mind trick then escaped aboard one of our shuttles. By the time we'd ID'd the missing shuttle it had disappeared into hyperspace...
KITARO Where do you think he'll end up?
DULANN I am not certain of that. But what I am certain of is we'll see him again.
HADANN That's a thought I don't care to repeat. I have vague memories of what it was like to have him inside my mind...
KITARO It must have been worse for you right Dulann? Being a Telepath yourself?
DULANN I can remember every instant he was inside my mind. Every single second as if it were an eternity is burned into my memory. The parts of my mind he touched...
HADANN If we see him again. I'll be shooting first. I promise you.
After a few BEATS of silence as they reflect on what has happened between "The Shape of things to Come" and "Gauntlet",
KITARO So how do you think the Captain is doing?
DULANN The Captain is capable of handling himself.
HADANN And if not. He has Sarah with him.
EXT. OMEGA DRAGA 5
The world is heavily forested with Tropical Jungle. The CAMERA begins at normal just above waist level showing Martel leading Sarah, Tirk, Na'Feel and a Non-Descript Ranger. Martel is hacking at the undergrowth with a large blade as he makes his way towards the CAMERA.
SARAH Tell me again why we had to land the Liandra so far away from the IPX dig?
MARTEL
Because
(hacking)
That's where the IPX charts recommended we land.
SARAH Surely the IPX guys didn't come all this way every time?
MARTEL
True.
(hacking)
But the IPX guys used shuttles... much smaller than the Liandra
(hacking)
That could land nearer the dig.
TIRK Drazi do not like all this hot moisture.
MARTEL The Drazi Homeworld doesn't have any jungles?
TIRK It does not.
NA'FEEL I've been to the Drazi homeworld Captain. It's almost as barren as Narn.
MARTEL
That I didn't know.
(beat)
Seems like I understand your people at lot better now Tirk.
Tirk looks mystified and Martel laughs as he turns back to face the way he's going. But as he does a small spherical hovering droids flies in from over the tree line at a rapid pace and flies low over the group. At this the entire group ducks to avoid it as it flies over.
NA'FEEL What the hell was that?
TIRK It came from the direction of the IPX dig...
The group starts rushing off in the direction they'd been meandering in.
EXT. OMEGA DRAGA 5 - IPX DIG SITE 1
We start of with a wide CAMERA SHOT of the site. It is at the end of the Jungle. The treeline ends and a redish rock begins. A few small mae-shifts but sturdy metal buildings with tents pitched from their walls are at the top of the CAMERA whilst a large hole with a lift apperatus hung over it is towards the bottom of the CAMERA shot. Smokes is coming up from the hole and the lift equipment looks broken. A body of an IPX worker can be seen near where Martel and the others are just coming into SHOT,
We SEE Martel and the others arrive onto the scene as the CAMERA PANS down to greet them.
MARTEL What the...
Sarah rushes over to the IPX body and checks the man's body. She looks up after a moment and shakes her head, indicating the man is deceased. The corpse has a few small bullet like wounds in his upper torso.
NA'FEEL No need to ask the cause of the death.
TIRK But what could've caused this?
MARTEL Sarah, you're the weapons expert.
SARAH Well if I had to wager a guess I'd say that strange robotic thing that almost ran into us did this...
Suddenly there is a huge rumbling sound. The ground shakes and the characters fall about to a minor extent. The CAMERA cuts to a angle that allows our heroes to be seen with the hole and lift equipment as the backdrop. The rumbling stops for a second, just enough time for our heroes to look at each other in puzzle before a hovering droid identical to the one seen previously emerges from the hole and flies towards the group. They all duck and it flies over them, passing them without incident.
MARTEL One of those again... What the hell is going on here?
The rumbling then begins again and Sarah makes her way shakilly towards the hole. Suddenly a fleet of the droids break free of the hole's confints and head strait for Sarah. She is engulfed in their onslaught. The others duck intime to miss it but when the fleet of droids has disappeared into the jungle Martel and the others are left looking at the empty space where Sarah once stood...
MARTEL Sarah? SARAH?!!
We ZOOM on Martel's distress and hear him cry Sarah's name as we,
FADE OUT:
END OF TEASER
INTRO:
VARIOUS (V.O)
We are the Rangers,
We walk in the Dark places no one will enter,
We do not break away from combat,
We stand on the bridge and no one may pass,
We do not retreat whatever the reason,
We Live for the one,
We Die for the one,
END OF INTRO: