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Roswell Conspiracies

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Tuesday, December 6, 2005 9:52 PM

This animated series was aired in my area a couple of years back, and I was hooked from the first episode. Unfortunately, the blasted network airing the show pulled it out after only a few episodes.

Since then, I've searched around for any websites or full episode summaries but have met with no such luck. I'm trying to divert my attention from the missing series by concentrating on other good shows
( Firefly has quickly become one of those post-obsessions. But like Roswell-Conspiracies, it too seems to be jinxed

).
Has anyone watched the series and do they remember any particularly good scenes and memorable quotes?
I'm seriously contemplating starting a website for the series.
Like our beloved Firefly, it too was grossly underappreciated and not valued for the genius behind it. Real talent just doesn't seem to be appreciated anymore...

Behind every cynic lies a disappointed idealist...

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Thursday, December 29, 2005 3:53 PM

CYBERSNARK

Realization 1: This may take a while.

Like an hour and a half for each half-hour episode (what with the pausing and scribbling notes and rewinding on my mom's crappy-ass VCR). I'm not really complaining though; as a writer, I'm actually finding it really helpful to deconstruct these episodes and see exactly how the acts are laid out.

Anyhew, I'm two episodes in. Hope to get a few more before Christmas vacation is over.

A note on spelling: The closed-captioning renders Sh'lainn's last name as "Blaze," but I invoke artistic license and celtic authenticity to render it as "Blaise" --i.e., the name of Merlin's teacher. The captions also use "Banshee" instead of "Bean Sidhe." I'm keeping that one just 'cause it's easier to type.

Realization 2: If they ever make a live-action version of this, Alan Tudyk must play Fitz. He's the only one who could be wacky enough.

***

The Bait, pt. 1, written by Bob Forward and Rick Ungar.

The series opens on a rugged clifftop on a dark and stormy night. Atop the ledge is a Stonehenge-like circle, with an altar in the middle. Tied to the altar is a silver-haired girl (looks about late teens, early 20s, despite the hair). Surrounding her are robed women, their own hair (shades of pink, purple, and green) writhing Medusa-like in the static-filled air (the women are shrieking like generators). An older, imperious-looking woman, with a craggy face and glowing red eyes, looms up with a pair of wicked-looking daggers. With a roar, strange gunships rise over the cliff and open fire. The women scatter (using that one-footed terrain-covering leap that you see in thousands of animé) and hurl blasts of energy from their hands at the attackers. The ships over the circle lower cables, dropping silver-armoured figures, armed with cattle-prod-like staffs. One of them, a tall Native American, reminds his men that "Rinnaker wants the girl alive," but it's too late; a stray shot shoots off one of the manacles holding her down, and she tears the other free. As the women flee, the soldiers corner her against the cliff, but she dives off, vanishing into the darkness.

Cut to an American city, where a trenchcoated figure (who looks like David Boreanaz) is skulking through an alley, a cell phone to his ear. Nick is on the phone to "Cracker," and is chasing a recently escaped con called Thrope. He finds a torn-open styrofoam tray (the kind that you buy meat on), still bloody and swarming with flies --Thrope has a taste for raw meat. The flies direct the bounty hunter's vision upward, toward an apartment window.

Elsewhere, four people (the big Native from before, a blond man, a hispanic woman, and a shadowy guy in a suit) are watching from inside a surveilance truck.

Inside the apartment building, Thrope (a muscular redhead in jeans & T-shirt), is finishing his meal as he watches TV. There's a knock on the door, and he grabs a shotgun. Other side of the door, we see a door-knocker (a rubber ball, hanging by a string, and set swinging) --the hunter's nowhere in sight. Thrope's shot blows the door apart, and Nick swings in through the window. Thrope tumbles, but recovers, and Nick reacts as he sees a translucent outline of a giant wolf-like monster overlaying Thrope.

In the surveilance van, hidden cameras are recording Nick's eyes, and the Native notes that Logan's got "the Vision." The suit says he's seen enough.

Inside, Nick Logan judo-throws Thrope against the wall. Thrope's head goes clear through, scaring the bejeebers out of a scrawny old guy living next door. Thrope suddenly transforms, morphing into the wolf-being Nick saw earlier (understandably, the old guy freaks). Back in Thrope's apartment, Nick recoils (the wolf is easily twice as large as the human, and the human was big to begin with). The wolf pulls free and attacks Nick, taunting him. Nick reacts, grabs a floor lamp, and electrocutes the wolf, noting that he's actually trained for this (he's as surprised as anyone).

Downstairs, Nick walks Thrope (human-form, with a towel around him and still gagged) outside, where a brown Sheriff's truck pulls up. The Native is driving, and introduces himself as Jefferson Trueblood, fugitive collection & transport. The blond and the woman (both in police browns) climb out of the back of the truck, and Trueblood introduces them as Fitz and Nema. Nick asks how they found him, and Trueblood looks helpless until Fitz says that they monitor all cell phone communication. The wierd neighbour scrambles down the steps, yelling about what he's seen, and Fitz quickly takes him aside and explains about classified genetic experiments --turning convicted felons into endangered species to repopulate the wild-- and pays him off (pesky ethical concerns, all hush-hush, you understand). Nema watches, looking simultaneously horrified and bemused.

Trueblood gives Nick the brushoff and drives away. Nick clambers up a fire escape and watches (unseen) as the truck finds an empty street, transforms into one of the hovering gunships we saw earlier, and flies away at ludicrous speed.

Inside, Trueblood is in communication with General Rinnaker (the suit), still back in the surveilance truck/field office. Nick was tipped off to where the lycanthrope was hiding. Now it's time to see how he does with someone even they can't find.

Elsewhere, in New York, the girl from the prologue stealthily disembarks from a freighter, only to find two of the robed women waiting for her. There's a brief firefight (the girl has energy powers as well), and the girl brings a road sign down on them as she hops aboard a passing semi.

Later, Nick is cruising down the highway in his very fine car. He's on the phone with Cracker, going over the latest job: on the passenger seat is an 8-by-10 of the girl. Cracker identifies her as Sh'lainn Blaise, a major extradition order, which means big payoff. Same originator as the last one (on the picture, Nick sees Sh'lainn's eyes glowing red). Nick has somewhere else to go first.

He stops at the Roseburg Rest Home, where he stops in to meet an older, balding man (currently hooked up to an I.V.). Nick greets "Walter," who laughs about Nick being too cool to call him "dad." We flashback to young Nick getting karate training from dad, and we see Walter's unconventional tactics ("what if I grew fangs, and big claws?"). Nick then tells him about the fight today, and notes that Walter was training him to fight monsters. Walter corrects him; not monsters, aliens. He wasn't supposed to, but wanted Nick to be ready in case the Alliance tried to contact him. Nick asks about Sh'lainn, and Walter explains about the Banshee: they landed in about 527 BC in the British Isles. Sh'lainn's a young one, idealistic --she'll want answers. She'll be heading to Roswell.

Later, Nick is driving and talking to Cracker again: He knows how fugitives think, and figures that Sh'lainn won't have stayed long on the truck. There's a rail yard not far along its route, she'll have hopped a train there. The Alliance are listening in, and Rinnaker authorizes Trueblood to kill her before she reaches Roswell.

Meanwhile, in Roswell, the nutcase who saw Thrope earlier is telling his buddies about it. They don't believe him, and he takes out the wad of cash, which has now transformed into pocket lint. They laugh at him, and he yells that he knows what he saw.

Inside the Alliance headquarters, Rinnaker is giving a pep talk, being mister plot-exposition: the Alliance has existed for 50 years, secretly protecting humanity from the aliens who walk among us, but now the situation grows out of control, and humanity's very existence is threatened. He deploys Star Team, and Trueblood leaps into action, driving off in a beige Volkswagon beetle.

On a train across the desert, the conductor looks out as a limousine pulls alongside (a road parallels the tracks). The sunroof opens, and the two Banshee (hair combed, dressed in suits and skirts, showing off their curves), wave flirtatiously. The conducter waves back, and suddenly the Banshee attack, blasting the engine through and flying aboard to toss the conductor overboard as they pass a bridge. Far behind, in a boxcar, Sh'lainn looks out, sees the falling body, then looks up to see the Banshee hopping along the top of the train toward her (those animé jumps look even cooler when done in heels).

High above, on one of those ubiquitous desert rock formations, Nick adjusts his parachute as he waits for the train to approach. At the right time, Nick takes a running leap into freefall. The two Banshee are chasing Sh'lainn along the train when they spot Nick's parachute, and they stop long enough to blast him out of the sky.

He lands atop Sh'lainn, and they both fall through a roof into a boxcar. The car's packed with motorcycles, and they land on a crate of helmets, scattering them as the crate shatters. Sh'lainn shoves Nick away, then freezes in shock, recognizing Walter Logan. Nick corrects her, then notes that he and dad don't really look alike. After a brief exchange establishes that Sh'lainn's an enemy of Queen Mab, and wants to make peace, she tries to attack (defending herself), but Nick lunges and forces her hands away, holding them behind her, with her body between them and him (their faces inches apart, reduced to whispering, we see the first of the Nick/Sh'lainn flirtation that will continue through the series). Sh'lainn tells him about the Banshee's power to know when someone's about to die. Nick's got 35 seconds.

Outside, the Alliance have arrived. As the gunships drive off the Banshee, Trueblood's VW climbs onto the tracks and transforms into this massive two-legged walker (kinda like a Star Wars AT-ST, but much sleeker), and starts throwing cannonfire toward the train. The engine explodes, then the second car, then the third. As explosions race down the train (which is carrying more than a few propane tanks), a gunship hovers overhead, dropping a ladder for Trueblood, who leaves the walker on the tracks, where the train rams it.

As the explosions tear through the train, Nick & Sh'lainn soar through the flames on a motorcycle. After they get clear, they see the Alliance gunships flying off. Since they both want answers, they might as well work together. A quick Blues Brothers quote, and they're off, as the rising sun illuminates the Roswell sign.

Keep your eyes on:
The paranoid nutcase who witnesses the Logan/Thrope fight. He's more than he seems.

Rinnaker's habit of absently clinking his keys. Just keep it in mind.

Trueblood is the leader of Star Team, the military arm of the Alliance.

Notable quotes:
NEMA: I like him.
FITZ: Big surprise, he's male.

NICK: What is this? The bad hair day from --HELLO!

THROPE: Never learned to fight somethin' like this, didja?
NICK: Matter of fact
*electrocutes Thrope*
NICK: I did!
*beats Thrope*
NICK: First time it ever paid off though.

NICK: Y'know, you look even uglier in good light.

NEMA: You are so full of it!
FITZ: Admit it; you're in awe.

Not quotes, but Fitz's "I'm-making-this-up-as-I-go-along/quick-somebody-agree-with-me!" hand twirl (as he's explaining about the cell phones) and Nema's facepalm (as Fitz pays off the nutcase) are both memorable details.

WALTER: . . . in case the Alliance tried to contact you.
NICK: The Alliance? What the-- flying trucks, stuff like that?
WALTER: I see you've met them.

FITZ: Train. We shoulda thought of that.

RINNAKER: Banshee will follow her. If Logan doesn't stop her before she reaches Roswell, you will. By any means necessary.

RINNAKER: The truth is not out there. The truth walks among us. For 50 years, the Alliance has worked in absolute secrecy to protect the human race from the aliens among us. But the threat to our planet grows out of control. Humanity's very existence is now endangered by these alien tribes. I will not permit this to happen.

SH'LAINN: *softly* I could burn your hands off, y'know.
NICK: *softly* Try it, and you'll set your clothes on fire. Call me overly perceptive, but you don't look like you'd enjoy running around bare-bottomed in the breeze.
SH'LAINN: Do other girls fall for your lines?
NICK: Gotta admit, it's the first time I've used that one. How's it working?
SH'LAINN: It hardly matters. You've heard of the Banshee legend?
NICK: You mean the one about you knowin' when people are gonna die?
SH'LAINN: *leans in close* Mm-hm, that's the one. *whispering* You've got 35 seconds.

NICK: 34 seconds. Beat it by one. Your warning saved my life.
SH'LAINN: And you just saved mine.

NICK: We've got the Alliance and the Banshee after us, a pile of unanswered questions, we're on a hot motorcycle, it's night, and we're wearing dark visors.
SH'LAINN: Hit it.

***

The Bait, Pt. 2, written by Bob Forward and Rick Ungar.

The next morning, newscrews are filming around the train wreck, reporting that there's been no statement as to the cause. In a generic newsvan, Fitz (in a standard Men-in-Black suit) & Nema watch, noting that they'll suspect a coverup, but that if they do this right, they'll never suspect the truth. Fitz puts on his shades and earpiece and gets out. Nema takes out her cell and calls in an anonymous tip to the local newsdesk about a "chemical weapons leak" (dropping her accent as she does). Fitz is interviewed, brushing it off as a simple derailment. The interviewer gets updated from the 'desk, and asks about chemical weapons. Fitz panics, and denies that Flostine gas was ever carried on this train. The reporter grabs the bait (she never said what kind of weapons), and Fitz withdraws from commenting (hand to his earpiece).

In a restaurant in Roswell, the paranoid guy recognizes Fitz and starts in on the conspiracy angle.

Above the train wreck, the outline of a blimp is visible inside a cloud. In the blimp, Rinnaker contacts Detail Team (Fitz & Nema), and learns that they haven't found Logan's body.

Nick & Sh'lainn stop outside of Roswell (Nick pulls out his wallet to show Sh'lainn his dad's picture), and Nick tells her that he was born & raised in California. The Walter Logan she knew couldn't have been his father. Sh'lainn swears that the Walter she knew 25 years ago looked just like Nick. Nick asks how old she is, and she gives him The Look, then closes her helmet visor.

The Banshee agents watch from afar (using their powers), then withdraw to a set of standing stones in the desert, and vanish in a flash of light.

Trueblood is just coming out of the Roswell sheriff's department when Nick & Sh'lainn drive past. He & Nick lock gazes, and Nick, knowing that they've been made, guns it as Trueblood rushes for a jeep. As he chases them, Trueblood calls Fitz and tells him that Logan's still alive. Rinnaker (listening in, as usual) orders a tech to scan for Logan's cell phone signal. After a few motorcycle stunts, Sh'lainn shoots a bunch of oil drums, blowing them up and blocking Trueblood's pursuit. Behind them, Trueblood smiles.

Out in the country, Nick & Sh'lainn stop at a vacant lot, framed by trees. This is the address Sh'lainn had, but it looks like she was wrong. Nick is stunned --he remembers this place (there was a house, right next to the tree). We see a flashback to very young Nick and his mom in a car, with dad (who looks a lot like Nick) outside, going to check out a strange light. The light brightens, becomes blinding, then it's gone. Along with Walter Logan.

Rinnaker has found the cell phone, and he gives the order to target and lock.

Nick is having an epiphany; the dreams, they always said it was his imagination. It finally dawns on him that Sh'lainn's freaking out, and he looks around frantically before looking up. The missile hits, explodes. . .

The tech reports that that did it. Logan's cell phone is offline.

Below, Nick and Sh'lainn have taken cover among the trees, and Nick finishes shutting off his cell. Nick searches the sky, and sees the cloud. Sh'lainn dismisses it, but Nick notes that the cloud's moving against the wind.

Elsewhere, Queen Mab hears the report of Sh'lainn & Logan working together, and accuses Sh'lainn of treason, declaring war on her.

As they watch the cloud, Nick asks Sh'lainn about the Banshee, and she explains that the Banshee hate technology, it disrupts their power. She also points out a nearby Banshee outpost (the same one the Banshee spies left through). Queen Mab wants to destroy technology, but Walter Logan wanted to help them integrate themselves, but vanished. She stops as the cloud lands atop a rock formation and disappears. Nick sees Trueblood drive up to the hidden door and enter the mountain.

Inside, Trueblood meets up with Rinnaker, who tells him that Logan and the Banshee are dead. Trueblood is disappointed; he was impressed with Logan's abilities, but Rinnaker reminds him of his place. In mid-scene, Detail Team calls in to Trueblood, and reports that they still can't confirm Logan's death (Nema seems uncharacteristically jubilant).

Mab's group arrives at the standing stones in the desert.

Sh'lainn & Nick are in Roswell, strolling. Nick is intending to turn himself in; he knows the sheriff is Alliance, and it's probably easier than getting into the fortress. They're parting ways, and Nick promises to vouch for her, to tell the Alliance she's no threat. She sheds a tear as she turns to walk away. She turns into an alley, and gets surrounded by Banshee. Nick is almost at the station's door when he hears the scream and goes back for her. He attacks the Banshee, but takes a few hits, and they escape with Sh'lainn.

Nick turns his cell back on (which the Alliance immediately detects) and calls Cracker, telling him to use scrambler code C8 (the Alliance can't listen in, but they do start tracking his location). He arranges for a rental car. Trueblood is on the chase, but Nick gets to the car before Trueblood arrives. The chase leads out into the desert, and Trueblood's jeep transforms into a monster-truck/dragster thing, and starts shooting at Logan. It's too late, Logan breaches Perimeter Alpha and enters the canyon leading to the entrance.

Inside headquarters, there's general panic. People are running and screaming, except for Rinnaker, standing perfectly composed in the eye of the storm, looking angry.

Nick throws himself clear as the SUV hits the door and explodes. Trueblood stops, looking horrified.

Inside, a wall collapses, and Nick strides through the flames. While everyone is frozen, Nick runs to the nearest vehicle (a jeep), and grabs it, speeding off and urging them to follow him. As he passes Trueblood, the chief gives the order to pursue. As he races away, Nick starts randomly punching buttons, and triggers the transformation. Behind him, the blimp launches, and transforms into an aerial fortress.

Inside the now-empty HQ, Fitz calmly gets coffee, then pauses, staring at the coffee machine as an idea forms. He grabs the machine and strolls off.

At the standing stones, Sh'lainn is brought before Mab, who accuses her of betraying them to the Alliance. Sh'lainn swears tearfully (and honestly) that she never betrayed them, just before the Alliance shows up (with Whedonesque timing). Amidst the chaos of the battle, Nick rescues Sh'lainn. Mab escapes.

From a distance, Nema records the lights of the battle (a hill obscures the action, so it's just the light show), and Fitz in a radiation suit, "recovering" the coffee machine from the train wreck.

Later, Rinnaker & Trueblood deal with Logan & Sh'lainn. The plan (as per Rinnaker) was for Logan to be introduced gradually, and they didn't want any Banshee at all, but he does admit that they've proven themselves. Nick asks about his father, and Rinnaker pleads innocence, and welcomes them to join him. They complain, and Rinnaker brushes them off (with a T-shirt-worthy line), but Trueblood seems glad to have them aboard.

Cut to a news report (with footage, from Nema) of a canister being removed from the train wreck and detonated in a remote area. The anchor comments on the uselessly transparent coverup. Fitz & Nema watch from the commissary, and trade high-fives.

Keep your eyes on:
Rinnaker calls Trueblood "Chief." In later episodes, we learn that it isn't just a nickname, he really is chief of his tribe.

Nema's uncharacteristic outburst; she wouldn't be that gleeful to Rinnaker (he signs her paycheques, and she knows that he can make people disappear) --she knew Fitz was calling Trueblood, but not that Rinnaker was present. A sign of competition between Detail and Star teams?

The snack tray in the main hangar (and Fitz' tendency to hang around it) is a minor recurring motif.

Notable quotes:
FITZ: How do I look?
NEMA: Totally suspicious and untrustworthy.
FITZ: These are my skills.

SH'LAINN: You've got 8 seconds to live!

RINNAKER: Have Detail call it a gas explosion or something.

NICK: Somebody up there doesn't like us.

SH'LAINN: So we follow the cloud?
NICK: To the end of the rainbow. I want answers.

NICK: Either we're nuts or they're good.

NICK: If that ain't the stately Wayne Manor. . .

RINNAKER: The Alliance doesn't need wildcards, Chief. Remember that.

FITZ: Got a nice barbeque pit here, but no bodies.
NEMA: Hah, Logan smoked you again!

TRUEBLOOD: Card's still in play.

NICK: So, which star are you from?
SH'LAINN: Too far to see. Besides, I was born here.
NICK: Really? Where?
SH'LAINN: Nice try.

SH'LAINN: You're really gonna turn yourself in?
NICK: Gave that advice to every fugitive I ever chased. Now that I am a fugitive, maybe I better listen.

NICK: Call Roswell rent-a-car, tell them I need the biggest, baddest sport-ute they've got, with a tank full of high-octane, and I need it now!
CRACKER: You got it --Hey, you want the insurance rider?
NICK: Oh yeah. To the hilt!

NICK: Time to wail on some Banshee!

FITZ: Carpe diem. Get your camera.

RINNAKER: . . . You're welcome to join us.
NICK: Join you?!? Because of the Alliance my whole life has been a lie!
SH'LAINN: And you tried to kill us!
RINNAKER: This is the Alliance. Deal with it.
*exit*
NICK: Well, I just feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
SH'LAINN: Like a big happy family.

NEWSCASTER: Authorities are still denying any knowledge, but we know the truth, don't we?

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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

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Friday, December 30, 2005 11:11 PM

BLACKLILY

Cybersnark, you're an absolute angel

Seriously, you've brought a ray of sunshine to my otherwise gloomy day. The episodes are all laid out in gorgeous detail and I really appreciate the whole "Keep your eyes on" angle. It's like pointing out all those near-imperceptible details in the show which we never thought would be significant.But they actually were!!
Thank you sooo much!!

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for more info soon..
*Begins preparing drafts for website like a butcher sharpening knives*

Peace to you..
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I had too much nog...

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Tuesday, January 3, 2006 3:31 AM

BLACKLILY

Quote:
Realization 2: If they ever make a live-action version of this, Alan Tudyk must play Fitz. He's the only one who could be wacky enough.

Who will get to play all the other characters?

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" Kagome- "I'm going to be over at Jinenji's farm, so don't you even think about attacking there okay? If you hurt me, you'll all have to die, 'cause Inuyasha here will have to avenge me."
~Inuyasha- "I will!? Since when!?"
~Kagome- "You'de better avenge me! What am I supposed to do if you don't!?"
~Inuyasha- "Fine, I'll avenge you already." "

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Tuesday, January 3, 2006 7:18 AM

CYBERSNARK

Logan: David Boreanaz ('cause his hair goes straight up

)

Sh'lainn: Unknown. Need someone petite and graceful (easy) who can do a convincing Irish accent (not so much).

Fitz: Alan Tudyk

Nema: No preferrences. Need someone nondescript with a range of accents (primarily hispanic, but Nema can drop it at will).

Rinnaker: Maybe Peter Coyote, though his voice tends to be a bit higher than Rinnaker's usual growl (more of an "executive" than a "black ops" leader). Mark Harmon could probably do the voice, but he looks far too young (Rinnaker is supposed to look emanciated and unhealthy --held together by pure force of will). Is William B. Davis still working these days? (He's a bit heavier than Rinnaker, but the voice is right, and the X-Files factor would be a neat in-joke.)

Trueblood: No preferences. Tall, broad-shouldered, craggy-faced Native American --has that career-military look.

Conspiracy nut: No preferences. Older (or just unhealthy), somewhat frail-looking, squinty-eyed and paranoid.

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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

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Tuesday, January 3, 2006 10:46 PM

BLACKLILY

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Originally posted by Cybersnark:
Logan: David Boreanaz ('cause his hair goes straight up )

Sh'lainn: Unknown. Need someone petite and graceful (easy) who can do a convincing Irish accent (not so much).

Fitz: Alan Tudyk

Nema: No preferrences. Need someone nondescript with a range of accents (primarily hispanic, but Nema can drop it at will).

Rinnaker: Maybe Peter Coyote, though his voice tends to be a bit higher than Rinnaker's usual growl (more of an "executive" than a "black ops" leader). Mark Harmon could probably do the voice, but he looks far too young (Rinnaker is supposed to look emanciated and unhealthy --held together by pure force of will). Is William B. Davis still working these days? (He's a bit heavier than Rinnaker, but the voice is right, and the X-Files factor would be a neat in-joke.)

LOL!! William B. Davis IS General Rinaker!!
It's another conspiracy within the conspiracy!!
MWAHAHAHA!!

I suppose anyone with the right slender build and big green eyes could play Sh'lainn, but she'd have to have a (faintly) fairy-ish aura to her. (When I first saw Sh'lainn I thought she was one of the Fates from Gargoyles and it made me go "What the...?"). You're right about the Irish accent, though. It's convincing, but not so much. When I first heard her speak I couldn't decide whether she was Irish, Scottish, English or even American.
She has a nice voice though...

Same thing for Nema. She drops her accent on and off at will.Personally, she never sounded truly Hispanic to me.At first she sounded like she had a Brooklyn accent for some inexplicable reason. Then Arab. Then Latin. Then ordinary American. Then Brooklyn again.
I was so confused by the end of it..

David Boreanz has always reminded me of Logan, particularly in the first few Buffy episodes before he started looking so old and puffy and haggard..
His voice is a bit different, though. Kind of softer and thinner. Logan's always sounded like Batman (The WB one) for some bizarre reason. Dont ask why...

And Alan Tudyk = Fitz.
He's the only one whose wackiness could match Fitz's own wild (and often bizarre) imagination.
There's one quote from the show that I vaguely remember...
FITZ: " I clipped little pictures out of National Geographics.. "
ME (Confused): Say what..?

*Chuckles to self..*

I wonder who'll play Ti-Yet the Snowman...

______________
INUYASHA: I hope Kagome comes back soon...
So I can HIT her!!

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 6:32 AM

CYBERSNARK

I'm assuming Ti-Yet (and the lycanthropes and vampires) would be CGI; no reason they couldn't use VAs from the show.

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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 10:38 PM

BLACKLILY

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Originally posted by Cybersnark:
I'm assuming Ti-Yet (and the lycanthropes and vampires) would be CGI; no reason they couldn't use VAs from the show.

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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

CGI on the Banshees would look cool, would'nt it though?

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"How's business?"
" None of YOUR'S"

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Saturday, January 14, 2006 10:57 PM

BLACKLILY

Haven't checked in for a while now.(Real life got in the way...

). Any updates yet?

*Keeps fingers crossed*

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I'm not evil. I'm just... misunderstood.

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Friday, January 20, 2006 7:30 AM

BROKENCRAYON

Awesome. You guys have like a whole synopses thingy goin' on! I remember this show (They aired it on Y-Tv a couple of years back. Don't really remember much of it, but I sure did like what I can remember.) That Banshee was f

ing hot- 'specially her accent. The storyline was also very different from the usual cartoons you have on the tube these days. Very mature plot. Great characters. Even better villians.

Ah...
This brings back some real nice memories...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ah crap....

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Saturday, January 21, 2006 11:02 PM

BROKENCRAYON

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Sh'lainn & Nick are in Roswell, strolling. Nick is intending to turn himself in; he knows the sheriff is Alliance, and it's probably easier than getting into the fortress. They're parting ways, and Nick promises to vouch for her, to tell the Alliance she's no threat. She sheds a tear as she turns to walk away. She turns into an alley, and gets surrounded by Banshee. Nick is almost at the station's door when he hears the scream and goes back for her. He attacks the Banshee, but takes a few hits, and they escape with Sh'lainn.

Nick turns his cell back on (which the Alliance immediately detects) and calls Cracker, telling him to use scrambler code C8 (the Alliance can't listen in, but they do start tracking his location). He arranges for a rental car. Trueblood is on the chase, but Nick gets to the car before Trueblood arrives. The chase leads out into the desert, and Trueblood's jeep transforms into a monster-truck/dragster thing, and starts shooting at Logan. It's too late, Logan breaches Perimeter Alpha and enters the canyon leading to the entrance.

I never did get why Logan was so inclined to save Blaise in that scene. 'Course, I missed the first episode so I could have no idea what transpired earlier between them. From what I can tell ( from your summary on The Bait Pt 1), they saved each other's butts, but that's about all.
Then again, I guess it ain't hard to like somebody who saved your life.

Still, after getting his ass whupped once, he could've just said " Oh well. I tried.." and gone his own way.
Well, that's what I think anyway. I suppose if he didn't save her, then the series would never have progressed further.
( We'd have Logan sitting in an Alliance prison for all the remaining episodes, and Blaise lying in a ditch somewhere, playing a breeding-ground for maggots.....

)

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Ah crap...

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Saturday, January 28, 2006 11:35 PM

BLACKLILY

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I never did get why Logan was so inclined to save Blaise in that scene. 'Course, I missed the first episode so I could have no idea what transpired earlier between them. From what I can tell ( from your summary on The Bait Pt 1), they saved each other's butts, but that's about all.
Then again, I guess it ain't hard to like somebody who saved your life. Still, after getting his ass whupped once, he could've just said " Oh well. I tried.." and gone his own way.
Well, that's what I think anyway. I suppose if he didn't save her, then the series would never have progressed further.
( We'd have Logan sitting in an Alliance prison for all the remaining episodes, and Blaise lying in a ditch somewhere, playing a breeding-ground for maggots..... )

Heh heh heh...
You're joking right...?

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The truth will set you free...
But first it'll piss you off.

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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 6:24 PM

JUBB3500

Hi guys. I was the main executive producer/show runner on RC and was obviously pretty disheartened at BKN's Network collapse back in 2000 and the way it impacted the distribution of the series in the U.S..

So it is really gratifying to run across on-line threads of enthusiatic fans. Particularly on a site for a "Class" show like "Firefly".

Anyhow thanks to for the kind words. Especially the amazingly detailed and spot on summaries by Cybersnark, and the good thoughts and very kind words about the show from Blacklilly. It makes it all worthwhile. I mean the paycheck for doing what you love is great, but to see it actually meant something to the audience and that they were groking it is just as important.

If anyone's got questions or comments for me, I'll do my best to respond.

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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 6:30 PM

JUBB3500

I've always thought of Fitz's personality to be very similar to the character Tom Arnold played in "True Lies"—a glib, wisecracking, fast on his feet, BS artist. So when we were casting Roswell Conspiracies I actually asked the talent to keep that in mind.

I think you can kinda hear the "Tom Arnold" in Fitz's voice if you're looking for it.

So I'd put a blond wig on Tommy boy and cast him as Fitz in a live-action movie.

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Thursday, April 20, 2006 4:35 PM

CYBERSNARK

Hey cool! Another celebrity graces FFF.net.

Thanks for Roswell Conspiracies; the show kinda sells itself, as we've been saying.

And now, in celebration, I shall post. . . the thing I was supposed to post anyway.

Mountain Retreat, written by Greg Johnson.

It's night, on a gloomy, fog-shrouded pier, probably somewhere in Europe. Above, we see over Trueblood's black-suited shoulder as he looks down at the few people wandering through the murk. In the distance, something howls and snarls, and an older man appears below, wearing a trenchcoat. Trueblood leaves his post, and the camera shifts to the view below. The old man looks nervous at the sound. The camera moves to a new angle (long shot on the old guy), and something big and shaggy sweeps past. The old man reacts, and soon a pair of Lycanthropes looms out of the fog, snarling.

The camera looks up, to where Trueblood is now outside on the rooftop (about one storey up). He brandishes a flashlight, which transforms and morphs into a claw-shaped weapon.

Below, a Lycanthrope pounces, and takes the plasma blast from Trueblood. He charges into their midst, hitting the other one with the weapon (which this time works as a close-up stun-gun). He fires at one of the wolves, catching it in what looks like a tractor beam (Trueblood's voice sounds strained, like he's struggling to keep the beast still). Trueblood asks for "Ruck," and the old man starts laughing --he drops the coat and hat, and transforms slowly, taunting Trueblood: apparently there's some history between the two. Ruck beats up Trueblood, and taunts him about being alone. Trueblood gives his tagline reply, and an Alliance walker (like what he used to kill the train in Ep. 1) appears through the fog and trains guns on the Lycanthropes.

Ruck releases Trueblood and morphs into another human guise (not the old man, but a younger guy, with green-dyed hair and a goatee). He offers Trueblood a business proposition. . .

Back at Alliance HQ, a projector shows a wrecked climbing basecamp, then zooms to a set of two-toed footprints in the snow. Nick is skeptical, but the briefing officer continues, telling them (Sh'lainn's there too) that, due to an approaching storm, they'll be dropped at Peak 3, and will move to the camp from there. The screen shifts to show the mountain, highlighting the drop zone and the target area.

Nick rants skeptically about the Abominable Snowman. The officer reminds him of their mission, to locate "two manned climbing teams" (I'm guessing that's a script misread for either two two-man teams [four men in total] or a singular two-man team --wierd that it got into the finished dialogue [see below for another bit of wierdness in this scene]). Nick shrugs off the disappearances, and complains that Rinnaker should put a UAV up. As he's talking, Rinnaker rises out of the floor behind him (trapdoor elevator in the middle of the floor), and tells him that they did; it was shot down. He gives Nick a chewing out (and suggests that the whatever-it-is might not be alien at all).

A high-tech pre-fab bunker with four anchor legs is para-dropped onto the snowy mountainside, automatically abandoning its chutes when it lands. A short distance away, Nick and Sh'lainn (in matching Alliance-issue snowsuits & goggles) follow it down and cut their own chutes. Once down, they hustle inside, and Sh'lainn gets right to work --as does Nick, except that he's at the coffee machine.

After Sh'lainn gets Nick off his ass and on the job, they make their way over to the wrecked climbing camp. Nick promptly finds a digital recorder --Alliance issue. They deal with that implication, and Nick checks the tape, getting his first glimpse of a massive, horned figure. High above, a large shadow slips behind a boulder and plants a pair of two-fingered hands for a shove.

In the camp, Nick is ranting and raving when Sh'lainn's Banshee-sense starts tingling. Nick doesn't notice until she yells at him, then they both run for it. She trips, but Nick darts back and picks her up. They reach a cliff, and Sh'lainn starts throwing plasma, trying to hold the avalanche back, but they end up getting swept away.

When we come back from commercial, we're treated to a different clip of animation (cheaters), in which a pile of snow is left after the avalanche, and which then pops as Sh'lainn's force-field blasts them free. The Nick/Sh'lainn flirting resumes, and they head back to base-camp.

They arrive to find the bunker trashed. Fitz appears and scares the bejeesus out of Logan. Then Nema appears and scares the bejeesus out of Logan, then tries to hit on him. Fitz makes a joke that, if the show were made today, would be a jab at network TV programming. They explain that their Detail op is a wash, so they came up here to "help." By now the storm's gotten worse --they're stuck up here. They pile into Detail Team's jeep, which transforms, and head off to the crash site.

High above, the Alliance aero-fortress is overhead, shrouded in stormclouds. Trueblood is in the command seat, and a tech complains that the storm's giving them trouble too; they only have approximate positions on Logan and the others. Ruck is also there, in his human form, complaining to Trueblood, who explains that they'll wait for a window in the storm: Ruck will have his Yeti then. Ruck reminds Trueblood of their bargain, and Trueblood spells it out: Ruck will leave the planet once they give him the Yeti. Ruck plays along ominously, surreptitiously planting a bomb under a console.

At a crash site, Fitz is investigating a fallen hover-gunship, flashlight in hand, when Nick steps into view, returning the heart-attack Fitz gave him earlier (and doing one better as Fitz fumbles his blaster and nearly tasers himself). They bicker, but then recognize that the wreck is Alliance-issue, and end up bonding over shared complaints about the higher-ups. From a distance, a Yeti watches ominously. Nema pops up with a targetting scope, and notes that it was sighted on the climbers' camp. Fitz calls it a Detail op, but wonders who it's aimed at. Nick suggests the Yeti, and Sh'lainn reports that something's removed every weapon on the ship.

Fitz wants to bolt, but something reaches up through the snow and pulls him under. Nema runs to help, but the hands grab her next. Nick and Sh'lainn scramble onto the crawler, and Nick pulls his blaster and fires at the ground, revealing a network of caverns. Sh'lainn calls out to the others, but gets no answer.

Hands reach up and grab the footboards, and we see a ridiculously oversized Yeti rear out of the snow, picking up the crawler (one hand on the running board, one hand on the axle) and tossing it. Nick, Sh'lainn, and Nick's blaster go flying.

Nick loses sight of Sh'lainn (the blowing snow is affecting visibility), and narrowly dodges another paw-sweep from the ground. He scrambles once again for the now-capsized crawler, then takes a moment to look around for where his gun landed, well out of reach.

Meanwhile, upstairs, Ruck sets another bomb, then turns and pesters Trueblood again. He says that this is taking too long, and offers to track them on the surface. Trueblood makes a snide comment about Ruck's impatience, and his race.

Nick scavenges a backpack from the crawler, and tosses it as bait, then runs for the blaster. He doesn't make it, and the ground collapses under him. Nick tumbles down a slide, and barely manages to catch himself at the precipice. He's hanging by his fingertips when the Yeti finally reveals himself with a roar. Nick growls right back, and the Yeti chuckles, revealing that he can speak.

He rescues Nick, and brings him to a chamber filled with dozens of diamond-like coffins, each one containing a human, including Fitz, Nema, and Sh'lainn. He explains that these people are the ones who got too close over the last 250 years --they're in hibernation, as Nick will be. The Yeti explains that he is the Guardian of his tribe (he gestures, and Nick sees that the cavern beyond is filled with Yeti, some of them working with high tech, apparently carving new walls and tunnels out of the glacier. Before he puts Nick under, he introduces himself --Ti-Yet. Nick explains that he's a Guardian too, and Ti-Yet seems moved, but still hits the "snooze" button. We see through Nick's eyes as his vision becomes blurry. Ti-Yet steps away, but turns back just before Nick's eyelids close.

The scene fades in (still through Nick's eyes), and we see three Yeti staring down. Nick is on the floor, shivering. The two Yeti generics withdraw, and Ti-Yet gestures to a crystal-enclosed pod, looking like a massive bomb. Nick immediately recovers, and Ti-Yet explains that this is one of only two EMP charges ever made. It's powerful enough to render Earth uninhabitable --they know because the other one was detonated on the Yeti homeworld. As he explains how the Yeti were enslaved by the Lycanthropes, a female Yeti approaches, and Ti-Yet embraces her. He adds how the Yeti escaped to Earth, stole the EMP before it could be used, and have been hiding here ever since. Ti-Yet interrupts his plot exposition, sniffing the air and noting that the storm has lifted.

Above, an Alliance tech notes that they've tracked Logan's location; he's inside a glacier. Before Trueblood can give an order, however, A Lycanthrope ship looms up off their starbord bow (a long shot establishes that the Lycanthrope ship is easily twice their size --established because the ships are pretty much hull-to-hull). Trueblood notes that Ruck has betrayed them, and Ruck taunts him before setting off the bombs he planted. With the bridge in chaos, something shatters the wall-spanning viewport (the animation is unclear as to whether it's a bomb or weapons fire from the Lycanthropes), and Ruck leaps out. He transforms in mid-air and lands in wolf form (shrugging off the huge drop). He then looks up (we see the aero-fortress careening away from the warship, heavily damaged and taking fire) and yells for his ship to open fire on Logan's position.

Below, the Yeti workers we saw earlier react as the warren trembles and starts to cave in. Ti-Yet swats Nick away, then turns and shoulder-bashes the bomb. The crystal shatters, and Ti-Yet orders the female to escape with the bomb (he gestures toward a tunnel). Nick asks what's happening, and Ti-Yet growls ("Lycanthropes!"), grabs Nick, and slams him into the wall, obviously intending to kill him. Nick denies responsibility, then watches as Ti-Yet makes eye-contact with the female (other Yeti are streaming down the tunnel as debris falls between them). She pauses, then exits, following the others. Nick tells Ti-Yet to join them; he'll deal with the Lycanthropes. Ti-Yet is obviously tempted, but instead drops Nick and steps to a weapons rack. Ti-Yet recalls his duty as Guardian, and Nick vows to stand with him as they arm themselves (Nick with a carbine, and Ti-Yet with a massive cannon that he braces against his hip like a minigun). For a moment it looks like Ti-Yet's going to shoot Nick, but instead he grins, turns, and fires one blast, collapsing the exit tunnel.

A moment later, the ceiling fractures, and Lycanthropes drop in on ziplines, wielding blasters. Nick and Ti-Yet open fire, and we actually see a few "lethal" hits (wolves taking shots to the chest and flying off-screen, 'cause they can't actually show death). The Lycanthropes return fire, and Nick and Ti-Yet take cover behind a stalagmite. After a moment, the column explodes under a Lycanthrope hit, and both our heroes go down, dropping their weapons. They're immediately surrounded, and Ruck demands to know where the bomb is. Ti-Yet verbally flips him off, and Ruck signals their execution.

They're saved as anti-ship fire strikes the warship (still hovering overhead). A pair of Alliance gunships sweep past, raking the Lycanthrope ship, which promptly explodes, dropping a big knife-like chunk into the Yeti base (it ends up impaling the floor, sticking up like some kind of monolith). Everybody scatters as the debris falls, and the Alliance fliers swoop in on strafing runs, gunning down Lycanthropes left and right.

In the confusion, Nick gets the drop on Ruck (who was running to save his own ass). Behind Nick, Ti-Yet is going hand-to-hand, picking up Lycanthropes and cracking skulls, covering Nick's back. Trueblood ziplines in and takes aim at Ruck, ordering him to stand down.

After a cut, the Alliance is rounding up the Lycanthropes, and Ruck is railing at Trueblood and Nick for double-crossing them, reminding him that the Alliance was supposed to come alone.

Take a moment to appreciate that: the guy whose hidden battleship just tried to shoot down his allies is mad that they double-crossed him.

Behind them, Ti-Yet is being led past in chains, and he shoots a glare at Nick.

Trueblood asks where the other Yeti are, but Nick says there was just one. Trueblood knows he's lying, but can't do anything now.

Elsewhere, Fitz, Nema, and Sh'lainn are wearing thermal blankets and sipping hot cocoa as Alliance troops defrost the prisoners. Fitz asks what's with them, and the nearest soldier notes that they're his next assignment: Fitz'll have to provide cover stories to explain to them what happened.

Back at Alliance HQ, two guards are sealing Ti-Yet in a Yeti-sized cage, with Nick looking on. Nick and Ti-Yet share a moment, and Nick promises to get his fellow Guardian released. The cage is lowered away (the Alliance prison facility is a huge cylinder, with the cells on the outside wall and the control facility suspended in the middle --kinda like where Luke and Vader had their duel in ESB), and Rinnaker and Sh'lainn approach. There's a bit of beautiful verbal choreography in which Nick lies to Rinnaker, and Sh'lainn manages to both back Nick and wash her own hands at the same time, and Nick almost dares Rinnaker to call his bluff. Midway through the scene, a file (Nick's after-action-report) appears in Nick's hand (sleight of hand or animation glitch), and Nick (suddenly angry) throws the file at Rinnaker and storms off. As he leaves, Rinnaker starts to work on Sh'lainn, playing into Nick's distrust of her.

Keep your eyes on:
In the briefing, just after the view of the mountain, the camera switches briefly to an establishing shot (showing the whole briefing room area) before jumping back to Nick's close-up. In the wide shot, there's a picture of Ti-Yet clearly visible on the projection screen (in the close-up, we're back to the mountain view). He's life-sized (compared to the other characters), in profile, and it looks like some animator got their hands on a character model sheet and put it into the scene by accident. It's wierd that an animation blooper like this would pop up, especially how Nick immediately dismisses the Abominable Snowman as a tall tale.

Maybe production of this ep was unusually rushed.

Rinnaker's pop-up entrance. It just makes me smile. Obviously Alliance HQ was designed by the same folks who did the Death Star --no handrails anywhere, elevator pits in the middle of the room, etc.

Makalu (where the Yetis' anti-aircraft fire came from) is an actual Himalayan peak (I looked it up: http://www.peakware.com/peaks.html?pk=162 ). By inference, the destroyed camp is on Chomo Lonzo, just north of the main summit.

And no, it isn't possible to outrun an avalanche.

Interesting that Fitz wasn't informed of the Detail Op to take out the climbing camp. It's possible there are other "Detail Teams" in the Alliance, but they're only ever referred to in the singular.

Note how Fitz starts to freak out before the Yeti attack --he's obviously not a combatant, but more of a Xander-esque "frightened guy with a rock."

Nick's strategy of hiding from the Yeti on top of the crawler is clearly inspired by Tremors.

Note the detail of Nick's dropped gun gradually getting buried in the falling snow.

There's no commercial break between Nick's entering stasis and waking up, just a plain fade out/fade in. A nice touch that reflects the dreamless condition of hibernation, and the helpless disorientation of waking up.

I like Ti-Yet's accent (and how it becomes less pronounced in future episodes). Unlike many of the other aliens in the series (Lycanthropes, Banshee, Vampires, etc), the Yeti are obviously not fully assimilated.

I'm guessing whoever designed Ti-Yet's animation model was a Star Wars fan --those tusk/horns on the side of his face are definitely based on the wampa that attacked Luke in ESB.

Yeti females are easily distinguished by their lack of horns. The one who embraces Ti-Yet reappears in future episodes, eventually being identified as Ra-Yune. It's never stated outright, but I assume she's his mate (their body language virtually screams that they're a couple).

I assume that Ti-Yet's use of "polarity" is referring to the magnetic field, in which case the EMP bomb's effects aren't totally far-fetched --archaeological evidence suggests that the poles have reversed before, about a millennia ago. Some theories suggest that this sudden magnetic upheaval was responsible for the "Biblical" flood (it's not just Biblical --there are hundreds of mythologies from all over the world that describe similar events), the obliteration of Atlantis and Lemuria (again, corroborated by tales of "boat people" [i.e., refugees] from all over the planet), the loss of the Indian sub-continent (described in the Mahabharata and no nowhere to be seen), and the freezing of Antarctica (as per the ancient Piri Re'is map, which shows Antarctica's non-frozen coastlines --now long buried under the ice cap). Suffice to say, the EMP discharge would be very bad --The Day After Tomorrow bad.

I'm guessing that Ruck's not just yelling at his ship from the ground. He must have some kind of communicator, either secreted on him or implanted subdermally.

Note the pun in Nick's last line (below), about all the details Rinnaker needs. A pun on both Fitz's "detail" ops and on Rinnaker's "need to know" information. He's basically declaring that his report is full of lies and evasions, but no-one has any grounds to call his bluff.

Nick's outburst as he throws his report at Rinnaker is unexpected (it looks like Rinnaker is also taken by surprise, and nearly fumbles the report). There's no clear reason why Nick would suddenly snap (he'd been calming down as the scene continued). It might be Sh'lainn's less-than-total support. While she does back him up, she also covers her own ass by pointing out her unconsciousness --if Nick does go down, she won't be going with him. It also adds another layer to Rinnaker's final comment to Sh'lainn; Nick's outburst was a crack in Nick's armour: Rinnaker sees the hint that Nick can't trust Sh'lainn, and immediately recruits her to spy on Nick. Whether this is more about Sh'lainn (Rinnaker honestly hopes she can be made to betray Logan) or Nick (Rinnaker is giving him a reason to mistrust the Banshee) is an open question.

Notable quotes:
RUCK: Just can't resist bein' a boy scout, can ya? Even when it draws ya from the shadows.

RUCK: Glad you came alone.
TRUEBLOOD: When you're with the Alliance, you're never alone!

NICK: You're telling me our first assignment is to find the Abominable Snowman?!?

NICK: Tell Rinnaker to stick an unmanned surveillance craft up there and--
RINNAKER (entering): We did. We lost it two hours ago. Shot down at twenty-four thousand feet by something on the Makalu peak. Make no mistake, Agent Logan, something is in those mountains. It might be alien, it might not, but when you joined the Alliance, it became your job to find out.

NICK: Thank you, General Rinnaker.

NICK: Inputting temperature and concentration.
*coffee pours*
NICK: Extra hot, extra strong.

NICK: Wake me when this mission's over.

NICK (muttering): Stubborn Banshee. . .
SH'LAINN: Just one of a long list of amazin' traits you'll come to love.

SH'LAINN: They were Alliance operatives? Why weren't we told?
NICK: Rinnaker.

SH'LAINN: NICK!!
NICK (mid-rant): What?! . . . Uh-oh.
SH'LAINN: Read the warning!
NICK: Where?!?
SH'LAINN: Five. . . Four. . .
NICK: I hate when you do this!
SH'LAINN: . . . One. . . Zero!

NICK: If this were a movie, you'd be kissing me goodbye right about now.
SH'LAINN: Really? I don't watch fairy tales.

NICK: On your long list of annoying traits, that one actually came in handy.
SH'LAINN: Now it's time for one of yours to pay off.
NICK: Okay. Let's get back to base-camp and gear up for the hunt. Then you'll really be impressed.
SH'LAINN: And what kind of movie would that be, a comedy?

FITZ: Roar.
*Nick recoils*
*Sh'lainn tackles Fitz*
SH'LAINN: Fitz?
FITZ: Sh'lainn. How's it going?

FITZ: I love what you've done with the place. Kind of a desperate survival motif.

TRUEBLOOD: And I'll be making sure you keep your end of it, by hightailing it off this planet when we deliver.
RUCK: Ooh, I guarantee, you won't be seeing hide nor hair of any of us when this is over.

NICK: Roar.
*Fitz recoils, smacking himself in the chin as his flashlight transforms to blaster mode*

NICK & FITZ (in unison): Thank you, General Rinnaker.

FITZ: Sounds like a Detail Op. Incinerating evidence to keep it from falling into the wrong hands. But whose hands?
NICK: Not who. What. I think I've been underestimating our hairy snowman.
SH'LAINN: The "what" has removed every weapon on board.
FITZ: Not a good scenario. Okay,who's for getting off this mountain, hm? I'll start the voting; ME!

TRUEBLOOD: This. . . impatience is why you've always failed up here in the past, alien.

TI-YET: *growls*
NICK: Gnaagh!
TI-YET (taken aback, then amused): . . . Hehehe. Nice try.
NICK: That, I was not expecting.
*Nick starts to fall, Ti-Yet grabs him and hauls him up*
NICK: That either.

NICK: You got a name?
TI-YET: Ti-Yet. I am--
NICK: The Guardian --So am I.
TI-YET: You are the Guardian of your tribe?
NICK: Yes. The human tribe. I protect them from hostile forces that would do harm to us, and to our world.

TI-YET (showing the bomb): I too protect your world.
NICK: What is it?
TI-YET: An EMP charge. One of two ever made.
NICK: And if it detonates?
TI-YET: The polarity of your planet would reverse. All who live here must then leave. . . or perish.
*beat*
NICK: You said two. Where's the other?
TI-YET: Discharged. On my Homeworld. By the Lycanthropes. They gave my race an ultimatum: Stay and die, or board their slave ships. There was no choice; we complied.

NICK: Go with them. I'll handle the Lycanthropes.
Ti-YET: . . . No. I am the Guardian. I must stay.
NICK: Then so will I. After all, us Guardians gotta stick together.

NICK: Nice gun.
TI-YET: It should be. It's one of yours.

RUCK: Your ship was supposed to be alone!
TRUEBLOOD: I told you once, Ruck. When you're with the Alliance, you're never alone.

FITZ (regarding prisoners): What's with them?
AGENT: That's your next detail assignment, Fitz old boy; coming up with 250 years' worth of cover stories.

TI-YET: I have failed as Guardian.
NICK: In my book, Guardians don't come any better.
*cage starts to lower*
TI-YET: Remember me, Logan.
NICK: I'll get you out, Ti-Yet!

NICK: How can you do this?!?
RINNAKER: He's an alien. It's what we do.
NICK: By cutting deals with Ruck and his pack?
RINNAKER: They were supposed to leave Earth and take their slaves with them. I'm surprised though, that the Yeti cavern didn't yield more. . . discoveries.
NICK: Yeah, nothing else was found.
RINNAKER: You have any light to shed on this, Agent Blaise?
*beat*
SH'LAINN: Nothing. Of course, I was completely unconscious, so the details are a little bit hazy.
NICK: Read our report, General. You'll find all the details you need.
*Exit Nick*
*beat*
RINNAKER: Your partner is a rogue, Sh'lainn, and rogues cannot be trusted to respect the greater picture. I need you to watch him for me.

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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

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Friday, April 21, 2006 5:34 AM

BLACKLILY

*SQUEAL!*

*Does a little dance*

Thank you Cybersnark! Here's another of those gorgeously-detailed summaries to make my day complete!

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Rinnaker's pop-up entrance. It just makes me smile. Obviously Alliance HQ was designed by the same folks who did the Death Star --no handrails anywhere, elevator pits in the middle of the room, etc.

Yeah, I always felt like the Bunker was an underground version of the Death Star. There was even an area I vaguely recall in it that reminded me of the place where Luke had his final showdown with Darth Vader and Darth Sidius.

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I'm guessing whoever designed Ti-Yet's animation model was a Star Wars fan --those tusk/horns on the side of his face are definitely based on the wampa that attacked Luke in ESB

The same STAR WARS feel occured to me when I saw Ti-Yet's deseign. I wonder if it's an inside joke or something?

Thank you once again for all the meticulously observed details!

*Sheds a tear*
It makes me miss this series more than ever!

Peace to you.

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The truth will set you free
But first it'll piss you off

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Friday, April 21, 2006 9:23 PM

BLACKLILY

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Originally posted by Jubb3500:
Hi guys. I was the main executive producer/show runner on RC and was obviously pretty disheartened at BKN's Network collapse back in 2000 and the way it impacted the distribution of the series in the U.S..

So it is really gratifying to run across on-line threads of enthusiatic fans. Particularly on a site for a "Class" show like "Firefly".

Anyhow thanks to for the kind words. Especially the amazingly detailed and spot on summaries by Cybersnark, and the good thoughts and very kind words about the show from Blacklilly. It makes it all worthwhile. I mean the paycheck for doing what you love is great, but to see it actually meant something to the audience and that they were groking it is just as important.

If anyone's got questions or comments for me, I'll do my best to respond.

Hello and welcome to our little corner of the web! It's so cool to have the producer of Roswell Conspiracies grace the Firefly realm! As you can see we blatantly adore this series! You’ve done an awesome job on the intricate plot and all the deep characters (all of whom I love)! Thank you for making this show!

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The truth will set you free
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Saturday, April 22, 2006 10:22 AM

JUBB3500

Cybersnark, again my compliments for such a detailed summary and really thoughtful analysis on Episode Three.

I've got comments on your questions and comments, but it's been about 3 years since I've last seen this particular episode, so I want to watch it and then get back to you.

On the Bunker and Starwars, etc.

My big influence on the Bunker predates Star Wars. It is more an homage to the great Marvel Comics series from the mid-to late '60's—Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD. As intially conceived by Jack "King" Kirby, then brilliantly modified by super artist, Jim Steranko, Agent of Shield was jam full of amazing concepts, vehicles, and HQ's/lair/fortresses.

I read Agent of Shield when it first appeared (I was beginning Jr. High) and stayed with the run for it's three or four years. It was a very influential piece of work for me.

When we were initially brainstorming Roswell Conspiracies, it all came together for me when I realized that the show is really "The X Files" meets "Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD". When I explained this to the Story Editors, Bob Forward and Greg Johnson, they immediately "got it". It helps that we're all about the same age and grew up on the same stuff.

So much of the Series, including the Bunker is kind of my homage to that comic. It was a fantastic experience being able to sit down one Saturday early in the production and conceptualize and draft up the "Cut Away" view for the Bunker, figuring our where everything would go and how much personnel, etc. (I needed to do this for Episode 4).

I used to do this stuff as a comic crazed kid, so getting paid to initiate this on my own show was really a trip.

And thanks for mentioning the floor elevator. Rinnaker just looks so bad-ass emerging or sinking down like a piece of ramrod straight sculpture. I liked that piece of animation so much that I had it put into the main title.

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