Cleopatra 2525


Perceptions

This summary is from the old Studios USA website. It is written from the viewpoint of Sarge:

Our directive from Voice seemed simple enough: rescue trapped scientists in a hidden resistance research facility. We should have known Creegan would rear his ugly head again... This time he was armed with some psychological warfare, though, which he unleashed on Hel...

It all started when we were on our way to the lab, and Hel spotted a hologram replica of her father standing on a landing. Cleo got fixated on some "keep your mind open to all possibilities" angle. I think she thought Hel had seen a ghost. I knew better - I mean this man had obviously been dead for a while now - one of the more publicized casualties of the resistance. But it obviously hit a nerve in Hel, because she hesitated and told Cleo and I to cut through the lab door while she went on to find more survivors. I has some reservations about this, but Hel's judgement was hardly ever wrong. Meanwhile, Hel followed the hologram to an abandoned laboratory. Her "father" reached out his hand - I assume a "touching" moment Hel got fooled into consummating. Hel was then literally frozen, as her "father" morphed into a holding mechanism, engulfing our captain in a high voltage of electricity. When Hel opened her eyes she saw none other than Creegan's evil self...

Creegan then placed a patch behind her ear, beginning his nasty little mission to trace Voice. Using a Voice command, Hel then tried to engage the self-destruct sequence on her gauntlet. Creegan was ready with some promise of delivering information about her father and his involvement with Voice. Again, Hel faltered (all this psychological stuff can't bode good things for a resistance warrior...), and Hel aborted the self-destruction.

The trace on Voice was getting closer and closer, and Hel came to her senses and used her gauntlet to destroy the holding mechanism, as well as to blast the tracing device - FINALLY!! Unfortunately, Creegan and his mutant henchmen disappeared before Hel's wrath could get the better of them. (I'll have my day with that evil joker...)

Hel re-joined me and Cleo and we rescued the wounded researchers, and then it was down the subterranean hatch. Hel hung back a bit, though - I guess she had to say goodbye to the hologram. Cleo told us a bit about those "shrinks" from her time - if you ask me, it's all just a big conspiracy to weaken us...How else could Hel have been rendered so defenseless?

Starring: Gina Torres (Hel), Victoria Pratt (Sarge), Jennifer Sky (Cleopatra), Patrick Kake (Mauser), Elizabeth Hawthorne (Voice)

Guest Stars: Joel Tobeck (Creegan), Darryl Brown (Hel's Father), Maggie Harper (Researcher #1), Syd Mannion (Researcher #2), Jean Hyland (Catherine), Rodney Cook (Mutant #1)


Written by Carl Ellsworth
Directed by Wayne Rose




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