A Lighthouse in the Sea of Time
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| A Lighthouse in the Sea of Time | |
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| Season: | Two |
| Airdate: | September 7th 1995 |
| Airdate#: | 17 |
| GG#: | 22 |
| Written by | |
| Directed by | |
| Key Characters: | Hudson, Jeffrey Robbins |
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[edit] Cast
Keith David as Goliath
Thom Adcox-Hernandez as Lexington
Jeff Bennett as Brooklyn and Owen Burnett
Bill Fagerbakke as Broadway
Ed Asner as Hudson
Frank Welker as Bronx, Banquo, and Gilly
Salli Richardson as Elisa Maza
Tom Wilson as Matt Bluestone
John Rhys-Davies as Macbeth and Arthur Morwood-Smyth
Paul Winfield as Jeffrey Robbins
BJ Ward as Lydia Duane and Fleance
[edit] Summary
Archaeologists Lydia Duane and Arthur Morwood-Smyth find a chest containing the Scrolls of Merlin inside a cavern. Elisa tells the gargoyles that she and Matt are supposed to escort the Scrolls to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Matt and Elisa arrive at the archaeologist's boat. Banquo and Fleance, sent by Macbeth, arrive in harrier jets and attack the boat, stealing the Scrolls. The gargoyles arrive to help. Hudson manages to grab one Scroll, but is stunned by Banquo's jet and falls into the ocean. The jets flee, with Broadway grabbing onto one of them. Broadway is brought back to an airplane hangar, where he tries to steal the Scroll, but is knocked out by Macbeth. Macbeth takes the scrolls, finding that he only possesses the second set of scrolls. He looks for the first set, saying that "it would be useless, even dangerous, to read these out of order."
Meanwhile, Hudson washes up on a beach, where a blind man named Jeffrey Robbins takes him inside his house. Robbins explains that he became blind in the war in Vietnam, where shrapnel robbed him of his vision. He also tells Hudson that he writes novels, and shows him one. Hudson is unable to read it because it is written in Braille, but he also cannot read the printed version. Robbins offers to teach him how to read, but Hudson says that it shames him to admit that he can't read. Dawn arrives and Hudson stands on a wall outside of Robbins' house, turning to stone.
While Hudson is at Robbins' house, Broadway is held prisoner by Macbeth, who tries to find the first scroll. Macbeth tracks Hudson to Robbins' house. He asks Robbins' of Hudson's whereabouts, claiming that his name is "Lennox Macduff", a friend of Hudson. Robbins says that he had already left, but in actuality, Hudson was frozen in stone on the wall. Macbeth sees this and takes the canister holding the first set of the Scrolls. Later, when Hudson awakens to find that the Scrolls are gone, Robbins tells him that a friend came by earlier, which Hudson doesn't know. Robbins says that Lennox Macduff's name sounded phony, because Lennox and Macduff are characters from one of Shakespeare's plays: Macbeth. Robbins finds Macbeth's address in the phone book (under his phony name, Lennox Macduff) and Hudson goes to retrieve the scrolls.
At Macbeth's castle, Macbeth has Broadway chained to a wall, while he tries to find the safest way to open the Scrolls. Goliath, Brooklyn, and Lexington arrive, with Hudson meeting them. Macbeth opens the first set of scrolls as Banquo and Fleance try to fend off the gargoyles with laser cannons. They manage to destroy the cannons, but Macbeth opens the scrolls. Reading them, he finds out that it is Merlin's diary, not a book of spells. Goliath threatens to destroy the scrolls if Macbeth does not release Broadway, but Macbeth claims the scrolls are worthless. Broadway persuades Goliath not to destroy the scrolls, and Macbeth frees Broadway, telling them to take the scrolls and go. The gargoyles return to the clock tower, where Goliath offers to read them to the clan. Hudson says that they'll read the scrolls themselves, when they learn how.
Robbins decides to write a new novel about Merlin, The Sword and the Staff.
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[edit] Memorable Quotes
- Lexington: Harrier jets! They can take off and land like helicopters. I read about them.
- Broadway: When your life is this exiting, who needs books?
- Goliath: Release Broadway.
- Macbeth: Or what?
- Goliath: Or I'll burn the scrolls.
- Macbeth: Go ahead. They're worthless. No magic at all.
- Broadway: No! They are magic! But you can't burn them, Goliath. You can't! It's Merlin's life, in his own words. When you read them, they take you there. It is magic, Goliath. Precious magic.
- Hudson: Aye, lad. T'would be the greatest shame to lose them.
- (Macbeth pauses for a moment, then releases Broadway.)
- Macbeth: You're all trespassing. Now take the scrolls and go.
- Jeffrey Robbins: Books are lighthouses erected in the dark sea of time.
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