R E M E M B E R
Episode 48

PART D

"dream"/memory is shown in this font

Torres: "Computer, locate Jora Mirell." Computer: "Jora Mirell is in her quarters." Torres leaves her quarters and heads for Jora Mirell's. standard doors When she arrives her door signal is not answered so she knocks on the door. She taps in a code sequence and the door opens.

She finds Jora Mirell collapsed on the floor. Torres: "I'll get you to Sickbay." Jora Mirell: "No. I have to give you the rest of it." Torres: "You are Korenna? These are your memories?" Korenna Mirell: "Yes."

Torres: "Why give them to me?" Korenna Mirell: "You won't deny the truth. We've been hiding it. I couldn't any more. But they found out I was sharing it with you." Torres: "Who did?" Korenna Mirell: "Don't let the memories die. Promise me?"

Torres: "I don't understand-" Korenna Mirell grabs hold of her and starts transferring the rest of her memories to Torres.

Korenna/(Torres) is sitting in her room. It is late in the day. She is practising her musical instrument. There is a tap on the glass. She does not answer it. It is repeated. She gets up and lets Dathan in.

Korenna/(Torres): "My father's home. If he hears you-" Dathan sees the sticking plaster on her cheek (over the scratches). "What happened?" Korenna/(Torres): "One of your friends made some trouble on the resettlement line today. Did you know you were on the list too? Where were you?" Dathan: "Some of us got away. We're leaving tonight. Come with me. Korenna, it's the only way we can be together now." Korenna/(Torres) cannot believe what he is asking: "You're asking me to abandon my family, my career-" Dathan: "Yes, I am. Leave it all behind. What's happening here is wrong. Don't be a part of it any more." Korenna/(Torres): "It's just a resettlement!" Dathan: "It is more than that! My uncle and his family were resettled two months ago and we haven't heard from them since. Nobody I know has had any contact with this colony we're supposed to be going to." Korenna/(Torres) refuses to believe it. "There could be a perfectly good reason-"

Dathan: "There are stories. I've heard the transports don't really go anywhere, that the passengers just get vapourised in some kind of thermal sweep. Korenna, there are thousands of us gone already. We're being slaughtered." Korenna/(Torres): "Don't being ridiculous! No one is being killed. My father told me-" Dathan: "Your father is lying to you! I'm sorry, but you've got to make a choice. You can't go on trying to believe in both of us any more. Either he is right and you should never see me again. Or I'm right, and he is part of a terrible crime." Korenna/(Torres): "No. My father is a good man." Dathan: "I can show you how we're rounded up for these voluntary resettlements, how the soldiers treat Regressives who won't go quietly. I know it is hard to face but you have to, it is too important. Let me show you." Korenna/(Torres): "No! I-" Jareth knocks on the door. "Korenna?"

There is a moment of panic when they hear the knock. Quickly Dathan hides, the curtain swiftly pulled to hide him. She tries to compose herself.

Korenna/(Torres): "Come in." Jareth does so. "I was just practising." Jareth: "Haven't I always said you have the talent to play professionally? How are you feeling?" Korenna/(Torres): "I've been better." Jareth: "Don't think about it any more. That Regressive was completely irrational. He attacked you for no reason." Korenna/(Torres): "Maybe he thought he had a reason. Maybe he was afraid." Jareth: "I know there are some very disturbing rumours coming from these people. You may have heard them from that boy. You know, the things that is so insidious about these Regressives is that they pretend to be passive, not harming anyone, and all the while they are spreading their lies, trying to believe these awful things." Korenna/(Torres): "Why would they do that?" Jareth: "They have some twisted ideas about resisting progress which they think gives them the right to hold us back in any way that they can. They're trying to undermine us, to cause dissent and doubt. Just look at how they've affected you." Korenna/(Torres): "But what they're saying is so horrible." Jareth: "Yes, but it isn't very plausible. Korenna, think: a secret conspiracy against their people? Organised murder on such an enormous scale? Do you really believe that your family and friends are capable of that?!" Korenna/(Torres): "No." Jareth: "Course not. I know how hard it is for you to accept that anyone, even Regressives, could lie about something like that, but it is all part of their manipulation. These people have no conscience. They'll say anything to get what they want. Like that boy Dathan. Has he told you he's in love with you? He's not." Korenna/(Torres) cannot stop herself crying at this hurt as she starts believing her father and re-assessing Dathan's love for her. "It's his way of gaining your sympathy. And not only yours, I've seen him talking to quite a number of young women. Has he been asking you to trust him? He's poisoning you against your own people, even your own family? That's very cruel. No wonder you've been confused. But now you understand what these people are really like." Korenna/(Torres) makes her choice: father or Dathan. She looks up brokenly, and looks aggrievedly at Dathan's hiding place. Jareth follows her gaze and realises what it means.

Jareth gets up and pulls the curtain across: "You!" He drags Dathan out of hiding. Dathan, shocked at the betrayal, can only cry "No!" and stare at her, though she does not meet his gaze, as Jareth hauls him out of the room.

Out in the city a shouting crowd of Enarans jeer as two prisoners, Dathan and another Regressive, are transported to the place of execution. They are each manacled to an execution poles.

As the crowd shouts for their deaths, Korenna/(Torres) looks on.

Jareth calls out: "These criminals represent a growing threat to Enaran society. As responsible citizens we must fight back! With their punishment we send a signal to all Regressives - we will protect ourselves and our ideals from their destructive influence by whatever means necessary!"

The crowd listens to Jareth. His words incite the crowd further and the people begin chanting, demanding the criminals' deaths.

Dathan says nothing.

The prisoners, bound to the execution poles.

The execution poles are activated. The prisoners' bodies jerk backward, swathed in a fatal energy field. Enaran execution. (pop-up window)

Dathan's dead, burned face falls forward, in full sight of Korenna/(Torres).

Korenna/(Torres) is stunned for a moment, but then she is swept up by the belligerant mood of the crowd and she joins in their chants: "Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!"

Years later, Korenna/(Mirell), now an Instructor, is answering the questions of a group of her young Enaran charges. Girl: "Why did they all move away?" Korenna/(Torres): "Because they didn't want to live with the rest of us any more."

Girl: "Why?" Korenna/(Torres): "The Regressive people had very strange ideas about how to live. They didn't want to learn new things or use any of the technology we tried to share with them. They decided to live somewhere else on their own, and we let them go. But they couldn't take very good care of themselves. They fought with each other. They spread all kinds of diseases." Girl: "And they all died?" Korenna/(Torres): "They destroyed themselves. It was very sad, but we can learn from their mistakes. That's why we keep this gate here, to remind us never to be stubborn and backward like they were."

Girl, solemnly: "We'll remember." Korenna/(Torres): "I know you will."

The memories end, and Torres realises that Korenna Mirell is dead.

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