SPIRIT FOLK
Episode 137
Part C
 | Janeway has immediately set certain senior staff to finding out what has gone wrong. She heads along a corridor for engineering with Paris.
Janeway: "How did he know? Those are questions no holodeck character should be asking. What exactly did you do to that program?"
Paris: "Well, I just added a few bells and whistles to make the characters more realistic, nothing too fancy."
Janeway: "Well, something's gone wrong. The people of Fair Haven aren't simple country folk any more." |
 | They enter engineering.  standard doors The go up to the console on righthand side, a little distance in from the door, where Torres and Kim have called up the program's technical data on a monitor.
Janeway: "Report."
Torres: "It looks like we've worn out our welcome."
Kim: "It's the first time we've tried running a holodeck program non-stop. We're lucky it's lasted this long." |
Torres: "There are damaged subroutines in all of the character files."
Paris: "So much for my open-door policy."
Janeway orders: "Shut it down and repair the damaged systems." She leaves.
 | Kim works the controls of the console in Voyager's holographic research laboratory. |
 | Kim: "As I recall, everything was fine until someone started turning people into cows."
Paris: "Ha, ha." |
 | Paris: "Computer, display Fair Haven character Michael Sullivan." |
 | Sullivan fritzes as he materialises in front of them, causing Kim to draw Paris' attention to the monitor: "Tom."
Sullivan starts to panic on being suddenly whisked out of the pub where only a moment before he had been talking to Katie O'Clare by the fire. Now he is suddenly in unfamiliar surroundings. "Where am I? Where's Katie?" |
 | They ignore him - he is only a hologram. Paris to Kim: "He shouldn't be aware that he's in the lab."
Kim: "Obviously the damaged subroutines-"
Sullivan: "I said: where the hell am I?!"
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 | Paris to Sullivan: "It's alright, Michael, take it easy."
Sullivan: "What is this place?!"
Paris tells him: "Try to relax."
Sullivan: "If someone doesn't tell me where I am I'm going to start busting heads!"
Kim to Paris: "His perceptual filters are malfunctioning." |
 | Sullivan: "What are you saying? What's a 'perceptual filter'?!"
Paris tells Sullivan: "It's, it's OK! We're trying to help you." |
 | Deciding it is safer to play along with them, Sullivan listens carefully to what Kim and Paris say to each other. He does not understand the technical words but manages to glean some meaning.
Kim to Paris: "There. Look at these. Those are the algorithms designed to keep him oblivious of anything outside the program's parameters."
Paris: "They're offline."
Kim: "Give me a minute." He adjusts the controls. "That should do it." |
 | Paris to Sullivan: "How are you feeling, Michael?"
Sullivan: "Never better. Harry, Liam's been looking for you. You're the only man in four counties to beat him at arm-wrestling. He wants a re-match." |
 | Kim replies: "Tell him he's got one."
Sullivan: "I'll do that." |
Paris remarks to Kim: "There, that was easy enough."
Kim, looking at the program data on the monitor: "Unfortunately, it looks like all the other characters have the same malfunction."
Paris remarks: "Don't tell me we're going to have to go through every one of them."
Kim tells him: "If we reactivate the program using the primary control port in Sullivan's pub, we could reset all the perceptual filters with a single command sequence."
Paris: "Ah." To Sullivan: "I guess we'll be seeing you later."
Sullivan: "Looking forward to it."
 | Kim pats Paris on the back - they have done sterling work in identifying the problem and making the rest of the repairs will be easy.
Paris is pleased too. "Computer, resume Fair Haven program in holodeck 1 and transfer Michael Sullivan back to his bar."
Sullivan is transferred. |
 | As soon as he rematerialises in his bar, he finds it is now day time and Katie O'Clare has gone. |
 | Immediately he dashes out of the pub. |
 | Outside he stops a boy who is playing with a hoop.
Sullivan: "Danny!"
Danny. "Yes?"
Sullivan: "Come here. Find Doc Fitzgerald. Tell him to meet me at the church. Go on, hurry, lad!"
The boy dashes off and Sullivan heads for the church. |
 | On Voyager's bridge, Kim and Paris are reporting to Janeway.
Paris: "We thought we reset his perceptual filters, until we took a closer look at his subroutines. Turns out he was just playing along."
Janeway: "Never underestimate an Irish hologram."
Paris: "We'll have to reprogram Michael when we do the others."
Janeway: "Let's just hope he didn't share the experience with too many others.
Kim is downloading data into a tricorder. "Got it. These resequenced algorithms should do the trick." He closes the tricorder.
Janeway: "Good luck." |
 | She goes and sits in the captain's chair. To Chakotay: "What the hell was I thinking?"
Chakotay: "A minor malfunction."
Janeway: "Well, that's the problem." She leans over towards him. "I've got a boyfriend who malfunctions!" |
 | Chakotay: "Tom and Harry will fix him."
Janeway: "And if they can't?"
Chakotay: "One piece of advice you've always given me: tell the truth." |
 | Janeway: "'Hate to break the news to you, Michael. But I'm a starship captain and you're a 300 deciwatt holodeck program.' I couldn't do it."
Chakotay: "In that case, you'll have to get creative." |
 | Sullivan and Doc Fitzgerald have an urgent private meeting in the church. |
 
| Sullivan: "I'm not a superstitious man, Doc, but I've been seeing things I can't explain."
Doc Fitzgerald: "You're not the only one. At first I thought we had an epidemic on our hands, but this is no fever."
Sullivan: "No, it's not. Last night I was talking to Katie, and the next thing I knew I was being spirited away to God knows where."
Doc Fitzgerald: "They took you?! Where?"
Sullivan: "It was the Other World. I don't know. Tom Paris was there, young Harry too."
Doc Fitzgerald: "What did they want with you?"
Sullivan: "I'm not sure. They were talking about me like I wasn't there, saying things about Fair Haven, that we knew too much about them."
Doc Fitzgerald groans. "Oh Lord."
Sullivan: "That's not all. They were saying something about coming to the pub tonight to change the town somehow."
Doc Fitzgerald: "What does that mean?!"
Sullivan: "I'm damned if I know."
Doc Fitzgerald: "How did you get away?"
Sullivan: "With all that talk about us knowing too much about them, I figured that if I pretended there was nothing out of the ordinary they would let me go. And sure enough, that's exactly what they did."
Doc Fitzgerald: "I wonder if this is how things started back in Kilmanin back in '46."
Sullivan: "I'm not sure what they have in mind, but we'd better be prepared!" |
 | That night, Paris and Kim enter Sullivan's pub.
Kim: "We're in luck. Nobody's home."
He is carrying a toolkit - a wooden toolbox in keeping with the holoprogram's setting. |
 | They walk towards the area of wall beside the bar and open a door in one of the panels. This reveals the 24th century glowing LCARS control interface. Kim activates his tricorder and they start work. |
 | They are unaware that Grace is secretly watching them. |
 | The townsfolk have gathered in the church.
Seamus: "If we're going to fight them, we've got to use the right ammunition. Biddy Ramsay gave me this before she passed on. She knew a thing or two about faery magic and how to fight it. Everything she learned, she learned from this book." The book is entitled 'Faerie Magick'.
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 | Sullivan: "I doubt if it says anything about using rifles." |
 | Milo: "You'd be surprised how many things a bullet will stop." |
 | Sullivan confides to Doc Fitzgerald: "I don't like this one bit." He protests to Seamus: "Guns, Seamus!"
Doc Fitzgerald: "Under normal circumstances, I'd agree with you, Michael, but these aren't normal circumstances."
Milo: "Maybe you'd still like us to be acting civilised. Where did that get you before? A ticket to the Other World, that's what!"
Doc Fitzgerald: "We don't know what the spirit folk have in store for us." |
 | Sullivan: "That's just it. We don't know much about anything, do we. I mean, we've got Milo here, acting like a holy war's been declared."
Seamus: "Relax, Sullivan. Rifles are only a last resort. Besides, we've got incantations," he shows him the book, "which are more lethal to spirit folk than any weapons forged by man. That's how we're going to force them back into their realm." |
 | Seamus continues: "And we've got red twine to stop them from changing shape."
Several townswomen are preparing these weapons. |
 | Milo: "And don't forget about the ash berries."
Seamus: "Ash berries. Right. That's how you stop them from using their powers against you." |
 | Seamus' words ring out: "They've been walking amongst us for weeks, pretending to be our friends, lying to us, making mischief. What's next?" His words incite the townsfolk who shout their protests, one echoing his words, "Aye, what is next?!" Seamus continues: "I for one am not going to stand by and let them ride roughshod over our town!"
The people shout: "No!" in support.
Seamus: "We can't rest until we've driven every one of them out!"
The crowd has become a mob! |
 | At this moment, Grace, the spy from the pub runs in. Excitedly she shouts: "They're here! Tom Paris and Harry Kim - they're in Sullivan's right now!" |
 | Seamus rallies the mob: "Who's with me?" and leads them from the church. |
 | The reluctant Sullivan and Doc Fitzgerald are left behind. |
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