The Scarlet Planet

WONG: 

What do we do with him?

Dr. Strange :

(CLEARS THROAT)

WONG: 

That’s gotta violate an ordinance.

Dr. Strange :

Ah, I’ve buried worse.

WONG: 

The creature that killed him, did… 

did it have the same markings 

as The Octopus?

Dr. Strange :

Runes -- This isn’t sorcery.

It’s witchcraft.

WONG: 

Do we know anyone who’s 

faced such a thing?

(WANDAVISION THEME PLAYING)

Dr. Strange :

I think I might.

Chocolate!

The Witch :

Hey! What did I say?

But we couldn’t wait.

But what did I say?

Oh! (LAUGHS)

Go wash your hands.

(TENDER MUSIC PLAYING)

Mom, come on. We’re too old for that.

Oh, okay. You can tuck me in, Mom.

The Witch :

I will. You know, A Family is forever.

We could never truly leave 

each other, even if we tried.

Mom, I changed my mind.

You can come tuck me in if you want.

Okay.

(CHUCKLES)

The Witch :

Love you.

(WANDA SHIVERS)

(WANDA CHUCKLES SOFTLY)

(GASPS)

(MUSIC STOPS)

(SIGHS SOFTLY)

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

Dr. Strange :

Apples, right?

The Witch :

Eventually.

Dr. Strange :

Hmm. (SNIFFS)

Smells…

The Witch :

Sweet.

Dr. Strange :

I was gonna say real.

The Witch :

Oh, it’s all very real, thanks.

I’ve put the magic behind me.

Dr. Strange :

So I can see — (The orchard dissolves)

The Witch :

Well, I knew sooner or later you’d show up, 

wanting to discuss what happened at WestView.

I made mistakes, and 

people were hurt…

Dr. Strange :

But you put things right in the end, 

and that was never in doubt.

I’m not here to talk 

about WestView.

The Witch :

Then what are you here for?

Dr. Strange :

We need your help.

The Witch :

With what?

Dr. Strange :

What do you know about 

The Multiverse?

The Witch :

The Multiverse.

Vis had his theories.

He believed it was 

real, and dangerous.

Dr. Strange :

Well, he was right about both.

We found a girl who can somehow travel 

across it, but she’s being pursued.

The Witch :

Pursued by who?

Dr. Strange :

Some kind of demon.

One that covets her 

power for itself.

The Witch :

Ah.

Dr. Strange :

We’ve taken her to Kamar-Taj, and 

we’ve got our defenses, but we 

could use an Avenger.

The Witch :

There are other Avengers.

Dr. Strange :

Yeah, but given the choice between the archer with the mohawk and several bug-themed crime fighters, or one of the most powerful magic-wielders on the planet…

(LAUGHS) …it’s an easy call.

Come to Kamar-Taj.

It’ll get you back 

on the lunch box.

The Witch :

What if you brought 

America here?

Dr. Strange :

Here?

The Witch :

Yeah. I know what it’s like 

to be on your own, hunted for 

abilities you never wanted, 

and I can protect her.

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS)

You never told me 

her name, did you?

Dr. Strange :

No.

The Witch :

Mm.

Dr. Strange :

No, I didn’t.

The Witch :

You know, The Hex 

was the easy part.

The lying, not so much.

(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

Dr. Strange :

The Darkhold.

The Witch :

You’re familiar with 

the Darkhold?

Dr. Strange :

I know it’s The Book of the Damned, 

and that it corrupts everything 

and everyone that it touches.

I wonder what it’s done to you.

The Witch :

The Darkhold only 

showed me The Truth;

Everything I lost can 

be mine again.

Dr. Strange :

What do you want with America?

The Witch :

What do you want 

with The Multiverse?

I’m going to leave this reality 

and go to one where I can 

be with my children.

Dr. Strange :

Wanda, your children aren’t real.

You created them using magic.

The Witch :

That’s what every mother does.

If you knew there was a universe 

where you were happy, wouldn’t 

you want to go there?

Dr. Strange :

I am happy.

The Witch :

I know better than most what 

self-deception looks like.

Dr. Strange :

What you’re doing is a flagrant 

violation of every Natural Law, and 

if you take that child’s power, 

she won’t survive.

The Witch :

I don’t relish hurting 

anyone, Stephen.

But she’s not A Child.

She’s A Supernatural Being.

Such raw power could wreak havoc 

on this and other worlds.

Her sacrifice would be 

for The Greater Good.

Dr. Strange :

Well, you can kiss the lunch box

 goodbye, ’cause that’s the kind 

of justification our enemies use.

The Witch :

Is it the one you used when you 

gave Thanos The Time Stone?

Dr. Strange :

That was A War, and 

I did what I had to do.

The Witch :

You break The Rules 

and become A Hero.

I do it, and I become 

The Enemy.

That doesn’t seem fair.

Dr. Strange :

What happens now?

The Witch :

Return to Kamar-Taj and prepare to 

hand over America Chavez by sundown.

Peacefully. After that… 

You’ll never see me again.

Dr. Strange :

And if we don’t?

The Witch :

Then it won’t be Wanda who comes for her.

It will be The Scarlet Witch.

(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

Wong :

(SOFTLY) The Scarlet Witch.

Dr. Strange :

Wanda’s gone.

She’s got The Darkhold, and

The Darkhold has her.

Wong :

The Scarlet Witch is a being 

of unfathomable magic.

She can rewrite reality as she chooses, 

and is prophesized to either rule 

or annihilate the cosmos.

Dr. Strange :

She took over a whole town using her mind.

If she gets America’s Power, she could 

enslave the entire Multiverse.

America :

So, the person you went to ask for help, 

and told exactly where I am, is the person 

that’s trying to kill me?

Heal — or Do Not; There is no “Please Fix it FOR Me —”….

LLoyd :

 If you don't mind my saying, 

Mr. Torrance, you seem... 

put upon.

Danny, Champion 

of The World :

Put upon?

LLoyd :

Ain't that the way.

Man just living his life, 

trying to do his work.

He gets put upon.

Pulled into other 

people's problems.

I see it all the time, if you 

don't mind my saying.

Danny, Champion 

of The World :

So we lived 

in Florida.

LLoyd :

I'm sorry?

Danny, Champion 

of The World :

Mom and I.

LLoyd :

I'm afraid I don't know 

who you mean….

Danny, Champion 

of The World :

We never wanted to see snow 

again, so we lived in Florida.

Tiny place, but it 

was comfortable, 

and we were happy.

I mean, we were grieving.

We were traumatised, but 

there was happiness too.

She... She would look away.

She'd look at me, but she'd always 

look away after a second or two.

It took me a while 

to notice it.

But after The Overlook, she wouldn't 

look me in the eyes, not for long.

Couldn't figure it out.

But it...

It was you.

She saw your eyes in Me, and 

she'd have to look away.

It tortured her to 

have to do that.

So, I fixed it.

I fixed it for her, and it was 

the last time I ever used it.

So that she wouldn't see you 

anymore when she looked at me.

I was 20 when she died.

And back then, I saw when 

someone was gonna die.

I saw flies. 

Black flies.

"Death flies," I called them, 

circling people's faces.

And in those last weeks, 

she was covered...

Her whole face.

I could barely see her eyes.

And I... I tried to comfort her, 

but I could hardly look at her.

And she saw that.

She just lay there dying, with 

her son who couldn't look at her.

LLoyd :

Maybe something warm to 

push-away such unpleasantries.

Danny, Champion 

of The World :

Don't you wanna hear 

about it? She was your wife.

LLoyd :

I think you've mistaken 

me for someone else.

I'm just A Bartender. 

Danny, Champion 

of The World :

Oh, yeah? Just Lloyd, The Bartender, 

pouring joy at The Overlook Hotel.

LLoyd :

I'll pour whatever 

you like, Mr. Torrance.

Overlooked : They Who Fail to See

“….so I Fixed it.”

overlook (v.)

late 14c., overloken, "to examine carefully, scrutinize, inspect," from over- + look (v.). Another Middle English sense was "to peer over the top of, survey from on high, view from a high place" (c. 1400).

These two literal senses have given rise to the two main modern meanings. The meaning "to look over or beyond and thus fail to see" (hence "to pass over indulgently") is via the notion of "to choose to not notice" and is attested from 1520s. The seemingly contradictory sense of "to watch over officially, keep an eye on, superintend" is from 1530s. 

Related: Overlooked; overlooking. In Shakespeare's day, overlooking also was a common term for "inflicting the evil eye on" (someone or something). 

Middle English had oure-loker (over-looker), meaning "a timekeeper in a monastery" (early 15c.).

overlook (n.)

"place that affords a view from a height," by 1861, from overlook (v.).

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oversee (v.)

Old English oferseon "to look down upon, keep watch over, survey, observe;" see over- + see (v.). Meaning "to supervise to superintend" is attested from mid-15c. The verb lacks the double sense of similar overlook, but it sometimes had it and this survives in the noun form oversight.  Compare German übersehen, Dutch overzien. Related: Oversaw; overseen.

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overhear (v.)

"to hear one who does not wish to be heard or what one is not meant to hear," 1540s, from over- + hear. The notion is perhaps "to hear beyond the intended range of the voice." Old English oferhieran (West Saxon), oferhēran (Anglian) also meant "to not listen, to disregard, disobey." Compare overlook (v.) for negative force of over; also Middle High German überhaeren, Middle Dutch overhoren in same sense. And Middle English had overheren "to hear fully or plainly" (c. 1300). The various senses reflect the wide range of over-. Related: Overheard; overhearing.

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indulgent (adj.)

"lenient, willing to overlook faults," often in a bad sense, "too lenient," c. 1500, from Latin indulgentem (nominative indulgens) "kind, tender, fond," present participle of indulgere "be kind, be complaisant, yield" (see indulgence). Related: Indulgently.

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pretermit (v.)

1510s, "neglect to do, leave undone," from Latin praetermittere "let pass, overlook," from praeter- (see preter-) + mittere "to release, let go; send, throw" (see mission). From 1530s as "intentionally omit, leave unnoticed or unmentioned." Related: Pretermitted; pretermitting.

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unforgiving (adj.)

"not disposed to overlook offenses," 1713, from un- (1) "not" + present-participle adjective from forgive. Old English had unforgifende. Related: Unforgivingness.

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probe (n.)

early 15c., "slender, flexible rod for exploring the conditions of wounds or other cavities in the body," also "a medical examination," from Medieval Latin proba "examination," in Late Latin "a test, proof," from Latin probare "show, demonstrate; test, inspect; judge by trial" (see prove).

Meaning "act of probing" is 1890, from the verb; figurative sense of "penetrating investigation" is from 1903, probably extended from the verb in this sense. Meaning "small, unmanned exploratory craft" is attested from 1953.

"Probe to the bottom," says President Roosevelt of the postal steals. Yes—"probe to the bottom," but don't overlook the top. What is needed quite as much as a probe—in fact, for the proper use of the probe—is a postmaster-general in the place of Payne, the mere partisan and convention fixer. [Chattanooga Daily Times, June 3, 1903]

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command (v.)

c. 1300, "order or direct with authority" (transitive), from Old French comander "to order, enjoin, entrust" (12c., Modern French commander), from Vulgar Latin *commandare, from Latin commendare "to recommend, entrust to" (see commend); altered by influence of Latin mandare "to commit, entrust" (see mandate (n.)). In this sense Old English had bebeodan.

Intransitive sense "act as or have authority of a commander, have or exercise supreme power" is from late 14c. Also from late 14c. as "have within the range of one's influence" (of resources, etc.), hence, via a military sense, "have a view of, overlook" in reference to elevated places (1690s). Related: Commanded; commanding.

Command-post "headquarters of a military unit" is from 1918. A command performance (1863) is one given by royal command.

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pardon (n.)

c. 1300, pardoun, "papal indulgence, forgiveness of sins or wrongdoing," from Old French pardon, from pardoner "to grant; forgive" (11c., Modern French pardonner), "to grant, forgive," and directly from Medieval Latin perdonum, from Vulgar Latin *perdonare "to give wholeheartedly, to remit," from Latin per "through, thoroughly" (from PIE root *per- (1) "forward," hence "through") + donare "give as a gift," from donum "gift," from PIE *donum "gift," from root *do- "to give."

Meaning "a passing over of an offense without punishment" is from c. 1300, also in the strictly ecclesiastical sense; the sense of "pardon for a civil or criminal offense; release from penalty or obligation" is from late 14c., earlier in Anglo-French. Weaker sense of "excuse for a minor fault" is attested from 1540s. To beg (one's) pardon "ask forgiveness" is by 1640s.

Strictly, pardon expresses the act of an official or a superior, remitting all or the remainder of the punishment that belongs to an offense: as, the queen or the governor pardons a convict before the expiration of his sentence. Forgive refers especially to the feelings; it means that one not only resolves to overlook the offense and reestablishes amicable relations with the offender, but gives up all ill feeling against him. [Century Dictionary]

Kraven’s First Hunt

In this stagnant world, Two Brothers -

called Arkady and Boris Strugatsky -

became the inspiration

of a growing new dissident movement.

They weren't politicians,

they were science fiction writers,

and in their stories,

they expressed

the strange mood that was rising up

as The Soviet Empire collapsed.

Their most famous book

was called ‘Roadside Picnic’.

It is set in a world

that seems like The Present,

except there is A Zone that

has been created by an alien force.

People, known as "stalkers",

go into The Zone.

They find that nothing

is what it seems,

that reality changes

minute by minute.

Shadows go the wrong way.

There are hidden forces

that twist your body

and change the way

you think and feel.

The picture the Strugatskys gave

was of a world

where nothing was fixed.

Where reality - both what you saw

and what you believed -

had become shifting and unstable.

And in 1979, the film director

Andrei Tarkovsky

made a film that was based

on Roadside Picnic.

He called it Stalker.

WIND WHISTLES

Seth

Star Trek: TNG -Data: The Sons 

of Soong Have Joined Together 

Data deactivates his brothers, Lore and B-4 

MULDER : 

You know, when I, uh... 

I first came to work at the FBI, 

I worked at Violent Crimes, 

and I saw, I saw 

The Worst of Humanity. 

I saw monsters and I wondered 

how they became that way, 

how these men became so evil. 

I know there were psychological explanations-- 

Victims of their environment, 

Victims of their parents-- 

But the scientific explanations 

were never truly satisfying. 

And I began to think about Evil like, like a disease. 

You know, that it goes from 

man to man or age to age. 

Most of us walk around thinking 

we're incapable of any 

Acts of Evil and we are. 

You know, we can stifle 

that momentary urge 

to kill or to hurt. 

We have some kind of 

immunity to it. 

But I think it's possible 

that there's... 

An occurrence 

in somebody's life, 

a Tragedy or a Loss 

that leaves them vulnerable, 

hurts their 

Immunity to Evil, 

and all of a sudden 

at that point 

in their lives when 

they're weakened —

They're open to Evil and

they can become Evil.

DOGGETT: 

If that were True, 

then what you're saying is... 

Is that this man 

we wheeled in here tonight 

is Infected with Evil, 

The Same Evil 

that killed My Son. 

You really believe that, Agent Mulder?

MULDER: 

Uh, I'm not really a good test 

for questions like that. 

I'll believe almost anything, 

you know, but the, uh... 

The pisser is,

You may never know. 

It may be like Agent Reyes says. 

It could be random and meaningless-- 

Who it Affects, Who it Goes to.

DOGGETT: 

What if it isn't?

The Heron Dance

The Heron Dance is 

performed slowly.

Wicked | Ozdust Ballroom

"It wasn't enough just to have a piece of choreography, 

it needed to show the pain that she was enduring 

but also the surrender to being 

okay with being alone --

"When I move as Elphaba, I feel -- free is 

the first word that comes to mind 

because she's consistently 

defying convention --"

"It's one of those moments that 

can't feel choreographed -- 

this has to look 

like Elphaba doing 

this in real time, 

for the first time --

"I love there was a turn where 

you start, just get a little 

bit frightened by her --"

We had to create that language with Cynthia. 

So Cynthia finding the sharp edges 

and finding how her fingers move 

and that really informed everything, 

so to see like that Spirit rides inside 

of her when she put that hat back on 

she put it on and it wasn't choreographed --

But the dialogue that she's having is, 

"There's a change in me", you can look 

at what she's saying but we can't understand 

until galinda comes in and validates her 

and now we can all say "Okay, I get it --"

"It's a moment of connecting their instincts are incredible -- they're so deep in those characters, that 

it really was the easiest part of this piece -- this actually happened rehearsal, and it was a moment 

that you thought was never going to happen again 

but they reached across and A Tear, like, 

on cue, poured out of Cynthia's eye 

and Arriana just gave it a little wipe --  

it was so powerful everyone in 

the room felt it with her; 

Everyone was just kind of holding space 

for Elphaba in that room and you could 

hear a pin drop every second of t

hat entire day --

The most special moment to have 

experienced, it really does feel like [Applause] magic Wicked