| Zandra's
Life without Lex - Ep.45 |
When Ryan visits Zandra to try and cheer her up, she
confides that she is pregnant.
Tai-San also comes to see her, to make peace. Zandra only wants revenge. |
| Zandra |
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What do you want? |
| Tai-San |
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To make peace |
| Zandra |
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Grovel if you like - beg
- it won't make any difference |
| Tai-San |
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Lex did only what was in
his heart to do |
| Zandra |
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Heart? What heart?.....He
told me he didn't love me...How's that for romantic? |
| Tai-San |
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Isn't it better to know
the truth? For both of you? Lex couldn't pretend for ever |
| Zandra |
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Don't lecture me, Tai-San.
You think you're so cute, don't you? With your cute little sayings
and meditations. I don't buy it. |
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| Tai-San |
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You'll thank me if my wisdom
pays off. |
| Zandra |
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What for? You ruined everything.
I was happy before with Lex, even if it was a lie. I believed
in Lex. Now I don't know what to believe. |
| Tai-San |
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I'm sorry. I didn't mean
to hurt you |
| Zandra |
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I don't want your sympathy,
Tai-San. I want revenge. |
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| Tribe
Circus Invades the Mall - Ep.46 |
While the leaders were away on Hope Island, KC took
advantage of the situation. Not content with spray-painting over Bray's
mural, and putting stripes on Porky, he then headed off to play poker
at the Casino. Trading first some batteries stolen from Jack for gambling
chips, and later Cloe's pig Porky, he was playing a dangerous game.
KC was detained for interrogation by Top-Hat, the psycho leader of
Tribe-Circus. With Lex gone, the Mallrats begin to focus on KC's absence,
and when Cloe tells what she knows, Bray realizes the terrible danger
that KC will almost certainly bring them.
The Mallrats make frenetic preparation as best they can. Among the
many traps and hindrances laid ready is Tai-San's net, designed to
hoist aloft anyone stepping onto it, by releasing a counterweight. |
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The Mallrats put up a valiant fight in defense
of their home. Even Salene and Zandra do what they can, using
pillows to try smothering the enemy!
When Tai-San releases her net, the counterweight rope becomes
snagged. Top-Hat sniggers, and having worked out how it was
meant to work, seizes an opportunity to hoist Tai-San by her
own net.
Zandra forgets who the real enemy is. Here's a chance to release
the rope and let Tai-San fall, possibly to her death. Amber
notices the situation, and Zandra re-secures the rope. |
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| Zandra helps Salene with a twisted ankle. When one of
the enemy starts dragging Salene across the floor, Zandra grabs a
fire extinguisher to take swing at him, just as Ryan also jumps in
to protect her. The result is Zandra hits Ryan. |
Outnumbered, and running out of traps and stamina,
the Mallrats eventually concede defeat.
Top-Hat singles Zandra out to polish his boots and keep him
company. It seems he values intelligent conversation, something
he cannot obtain from his followers. Meanwhile, the other girls
are obliged to prepare a "Victory Feast".
After the meal, Top-Hat has something else on his mind for Zandra.
KC watches in anguish as he drags her to the bedding store.
She is the wife of his hero, Lex. |
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Until now KC has kept a low profile, careful to
keep well out of the fight to defend the Mall. Hearing Zandra's
screams changes things.
KC climbs a rope to the balcony, pulls Top-Hat off Zandra, and
kicks him in the 'nuts'! |
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| Disgusted that the Mallrats have paid him so little
respect, Top-Hat leaves them to their fate behind the grille.
Starvation? Setting fire to a pile of chairs and other furniture
just the other side of the grille, Top-Hat answers Amber's question,
"Oh don't worry, you won't starve!" |
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| Rescue comes unexpectedly by Ebony and the Locos.
While Lex was on the road he observed KC leading Tribe Circus
to the Mall and sought Ebony's help. At first refusing, she
finally agreed when Lex told her about the 'Antidote' from Hope
Island. |
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| Zandra sits with Ryan in a corner. She is really worried
that Lex might have infected her unborn baby. Then spotting Tai-San,
she heads over to pick a fight. |
| Zandra |
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This is all
your fault. You told Lex he could cure himself, and wrecked
my marriage. Well did you see him? Did you? Is that what you
call a cure? |
| Tai-San |
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Get off my
back. Who do you think you are anyway - Miss Perfect? I saw
what you were going to do. Forgotten already? In the battle
you were going to release the net - let me fall |
| Ryan |
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Zan... |
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| Amber |
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Stop it, both
of you. |
| Bray |
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Just cool off |
| Tai-San |
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You're a stupid,
mindless little trollop. Lex used you, like he uses anyone who
is dumb enough to let him have his way |
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| Amber |
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Well, if that's your people-skills,
Tai-San, I'd stick to meditation |
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| Zandra
Divorces Lex on the Spot |
| Zandra finds Lex
reclining on what was until recently their marital bed.
He looks worse than ever, and is really pleased to see
her. But she has taken on board some of what Tai-San
said (plus his own confession before leaving the Mall). Now
she is bitter that he first used her, before dumping her. Lex
tries to talk round his admission that he married her for sex,
but Zandra will have none of it,
and each time he mentions Tai-San,
it's like a red rag to a bull. Sick as he is, she finds it impossible
to pity him. She declares a divorce and orders him out of her
room. |
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| Ebony takes what she came for, the 'Antidote', and leaves,
also taking Lex (to act as guinea-pig to test it on) and Bray (to
spite Amber). Amber laments that the Mallrats are in a worse state
than when they first arrived. |
Zandra searches
through her things and finds that Tribe
Circus and the Locos took
nothing, just made a mess. Ryan
offers to help tidy, but Zandra
doesn't see a lot of point.
Despite everything, she still cares about
Lex and hopes he will be recover
from the virus. As for their relationship, she now realizes
that she never really knew him. |
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Zandra
gives most of her designer labels to Ryan
to sell for food. She even includes her earrings. She wants
to start a new life, one without Lex
who never used to appreciate how she
looked anyway. Now she is to be a mom, she doesn't want her
child to think its mother is an air-head. Ryan
thinks she is wonderful; "Yeah, I am aren't I!"
she jokingly agrees!
When Ryan tries to sell Zandra's stuff, he finds that people
aren't interested in trading, just taking. He reports that conditions
in the City are awful, like it's the end of the world. |
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| Lex
returns to the Mall - Ep.49 |
At the Hotel, Ebony's new HQ, Lex is forced to swallow
regular doses of the Antidote. When a chance comes to escape his cell
he takes it, then confronts Ebony by the swimming pool. Powerless
to stop him, she watches as he empties all the samples, one by one,
into the pool. With no further use for him, Ebony has Lex thrown out
onto the street.
With 'Old People' being stoned to death everywhere by the Locos, Lex
jumps one of them and dons his outfit. Dressed as a Loco, Lex makes
it back to the Mall where he sets off the security system in the sewers. |
Zan takes care of Lex under protest, and only
after he repeatedly calls for her, and the other Mallrats make
it clear that she ought to.
When she tells him she is pregnant, Lex declares he wants a
boy - to grow up just like him! Zandra wants a girl.
Against all expectation, after fever and hallucination, Zandra
makes a discovery: Lex is decidedly getting better.
Jack and Dal make progress decoding the computer files from
Hope Island. It seems there's something really important on
Eagle Mountain. Jack wakes everyone with the News. |
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The following morning Lex examines himself in
the mirror. What a transformation! He wakes Zandra to show her.
She is thrilled to see Lex back to his young self.
With the Mallrats totally preoccupied with food (or the lack
of it), Jack's proposal for an expedition to Eagle Mountain
gets short shrift.
Salene and Ryan take KC on a food foraging mission. They raid
a Loco storehouse and bring back enough food to stave off starvation
for a while.
Tai-San has had a dream. It was about a Mountain, and "A
great big beautiful Eagle." |
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| Eagle
Mountain - Ep.51-52 |
| Zandra doesn't want to go to Eagle Mountain - especially
now she is pregnant. Lex wants to be present for the birth, and insists.
That being so, Zandra brings down all her stuff for the Journey. Even
Lex agrees she can't take it all. |
| Tai-San |
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What's all
this? |
| Zandra |
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My clothes.
I've got to have fresh changes of clothes if we're going all
that way; and make-up, and hair stuff, and... |
| Amber |
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Oh Zandra...
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| Salene |
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Come on Zan,
you can't take all of those |
| Zandra |
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If I can't
take my clothes, I'm not going. |
| Tai-San |
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Don't be such
an air-head, Zandra |
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things are going and sees that Zandra is having a hard time |
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| Lex |
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Oi! Leave her
alone |
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| Amber |
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But Lex...
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| Lex |
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Get your hands
off her stuff. |
| Zandra |
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See! |
| Lex |
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Nobody messes
my Zandra about. |
| Zandra |
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If Lex says
I can take them... |
| Lex |
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What is all
this junk? |
| Zandra |
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My clothes
and stuff |
| Lex |
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Well get rid
of them. You don't need them. |
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| Lex begins to pull items
off the pile, while Zandra frantically picks them off the floor
to put them back. |
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| The Mallrats have hardly made it to the next block
when Lex and Ryan (much to Amber's annoyance) head off somewhere.
They show up again riding Top-Hat's motorbike, and Lex sporting
the famous hat. Zandra jumps on, but not far from the City they
run out of gas, and they'll just have to walk like everyone
else. |
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Or maybe not....
The Mallrats encounter a manned barricade erected to keep City-dwellers
from spreading the Virus. Bray arrives with Ebony, driving her
bus. Maybe they won't have to walk after all?
About halfway to Eagle Mountain, the bus breaks down. Okay, so
they'll all have to walk. |
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| In the struggle to board the bus, fighting off
an assault by the people guarding the barricade, Jack had all
his maps and compass snatched. The only guide they now have
is Tai-San, who receives help through meditation. Well, it's
all they have. |
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What the Mallrats find on Eagle Mountain is a
satellite tracking station. But when Dal initiates a tracking
run, it finds nothing. The Mallrats take stock of the situation.
They came here for answers and found none.
Lex is first to announce that he and Zandra intend to leave the
Mallrats and set out on their own. Ryan and Salene agree to
adopt Patsy and Cloe if the tribe splits up. Amber realizes
that Bray has already gone. She runs after him, despite the
rift between them. With Lex's persuasive logic, they kiss and
make up.
A satellite passes overhead in orbit, and the motors cut in to
track it. |
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The satellite broadcasts an important message
concerning the Virus and the Antidote.
Attention.
This is a prerecorded message. If you are listening to
this, the only hope for humanity lies with you, whoever
you are. Listen very carefully to what I have to say next.
There is an antidote: all the major
cities have it. There were plans for world-wide manufacture,
but the virus spread too quickly. Some of us escaped;
we thought we may have been spared; we haven't been.
Save yourselves - find the antidote and may God go with
you. |
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| Suddenly the lights dim, and there's an alarm. Jack
and Dal head toward the generator. When they get there they realize
it's about to blow. A pre-recorded warning orders a complete evacuation
of the building. |
| Ebony rejoins the sad group of Mallrats, standing
by the graves of Amber and Zandra. She claims to care, to grieve
with them. Even if they believed her, the Mallrats would rather
be left to grieve alone. |
Zandra is dead. Lex has just
laid her to rest himself. |
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