[Cut to command deck. All hands at stations.]

ROSE (appearing on right half of view screen): Approaching the All Forces Nullification Point. [Left side shows planet-like object in state of collapse as unseen forces pull it apart.]

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[Cut to cave-like tunnels inside planet-like object. It's sci-fi, OK? Visualize something. Andy and Nina walk through tunnels, carrying High Guard force lances (ray guns that somehow expand into long bars for combat – it's an "Andromeda" thing), wearing conveniently stylish but transparent safety glasses instead of helmets and space suits. Yeah, this show's weird. Anyway, hole opens in what passes for ground here, stopping Andy and Nina in their tracks.

HAROO (appearing as Andy and Nina look across gap): Marvelous, don't you think? A self-cleaning planet. No teenagers to give you headaches, no mothers to embarrass you, no idiots wanting you to cure all their ills so they can go on being idiots … hell, I could stay here forever if it wasn't about to blow apart. Of course, I knew it would … just like I knew you'd come. [Flies to ground in front of Andy and Nina.] And here you are: the latest inductees to the place of sorrow, disillusionment, and confusion. My own personal triumvirate, if you will. Hell, I deserve one!

NINA: Speaking of the Triumvirate, where's -

HAROO: My mission is to do as much damage as I can before I go. We're all going to die. [Looks worried.] What if I die, and nobody comes to my funeral, except - [Looks at Andy, annoyed.] You! You always try to run things! You enmesh, you embroil, you meddle! Sometimes I want to - [Looks scared.] I don't want to do this. You have to go now. If you don't - [Looks giddy.] Hey, let's trade secrets! I've only got one, and I've forgotten what it is! Wait, I know … it's … pie! I love! Pie!

NINA (to Andy): I think he's going.

ANDY (to Nina): Oh, I think he's long gone.

HAROO (shaking): I've been under a lot of stress lately. I need my… [Looks irritated.] Medication is for the weak! People with no support system!

ANDY (grabbing Haroo by uniform, shoving him against rock, pointing force lance at his neck): We don't have time for this, dammit! Just give us the coordinates so we can get the triumvir and get out of here!

HAROO (looking scared): 37 north, 24 west, using this point as ze- [Grins and stares into space.] I remember the smell of cigars …

ANDY (to Nina): Your turn to baby-sit. If he moves, shoot him.

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[Cut to Andy in similar-looking tunnel, but obviously not same one because he's been walking around … it's an "action" show, remember? Andy turns corner and finds female figure in vaguely official-looking pantsuit, who turns to face him.

LAYNIE (smiling faintly for no apparent reason): Mdfjkgskbf?

ANDY: Madame Triumvir, we've got to get you out of here. There's not much time.

LAYNIE: Dfcchthoyt safe drhtdhf. Jfdhtfjf ljbgkk my pills.

ANDY: If they're the same pills Haroo's on – or whatever it is he's on right now – you're anything but safe. Have you talked to him lately?

LAYNIE: Slrsejgfdhf giug the old Captain Brown. Nrklyldd tkfuyf rydhl betrayed the Commonwealth.

ANDY: What?! What the hell are you saying?! I -

HAROO (appearing behind Andy): She's right, of course. Anyone who agrees with me must be. [Looks worried.] I made a Faustian bargain with the forces of darkness. Anything courageous must go. I was tortured by the Abyss for … [Looks at Andy, annoyed.] You! You did this! And we're through with you! We can't grow old! We can't die! You have no power!

ANDY (to Laynie, while drawing force lance): This is a classic conflict between good! And evil!

LAYNIE: Adehb flihl point is?

ANDY: One of us doesn't know when to shut up! [Fires force lance at Haroo, who shakes and then … flickers, as if some alien substance is inside him, so Andy fires again, and Haroo collapses. Strange, liquid-metal blob appears above Haroo's inert body, then vanishes.]

NINA (walking in, seeing blob vanish over Haroo): I always miss the good stuff.

ANDY: Let's get the hell out of here!

[Cut to shot of Maru pulling into starship's docking bay.]

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NARRATOR'S VOICE: Shtay tuned for schenes from the nexsht … Everwood … [Thump, followed by sound of glass breaking.]