The Caretakers (LL)



"The Caretakers" is the fourth episode of Legoland Season 2. It is the standard episode length of 40 minutes. This page contains spoilers.

Brief Synopsis
A team of time travelers abduct James and show him the biggest war in the universe, The Great War. In order to keep the universe on course with its fate James is drafted to stop a temporal disaster.

Plot
A surprising day at Legoland...

It is dark, in the main command room John shouts to Dave that the shields are failing. The camera shows the sky of Celios, there is a giant black hole sucking everything in. Dave then gives the order to abandon Legoland and for everybody to take a ship and leave, they do so. The gravitational pull becomes too strong and all of the escaping ships are pulled in and destroyed. John shouts that the event horizon is passing through Celios right now. Dave says that we are dead. The planet is sucked into the black hole and destroyed.

The intro sequence and titles then appear.

It is a normal day at Legoland, James was with Dr. Rosenburg, Harold, Dr. Keller in the briefing room inside the main command room. They all had PDA's, laptops and other equipment. James said that this will be a very large projects and take years to get operational but it will be worth it. Dr. Rosenburg says its a fabulous idea but I still think that regular teleportation is the answer to all of this. James says he is ok with him and Harold continuing working with teleportation using old technology in their Protolabs but will need their help with the Lambda Project. Harold says that a quest to make complete teleportation is definitely something he wants to be a part of. Dr. Keller he will work with the rest of The Science Team and some engineers to finalise these blueprints. James says ok but hes now got other work to do, they want him to see the new HEV mark 3 and possible write about if for the Legoland Times. James then gets onto the Legoland Transit System and proceeds to go on.

The transit cart continues along the rail until it stops at a dead end, nobody is around. He gets out and uses his Communicator to tell the main command room that the Legoland Transit System was broken and has not taken him to his intended destination. No one answers. James then asks the computer why his Communicator is not working, there is no reply. Suddenly he hears a noise. He turns around and gets his Power Pistol out before asking who is there. Someone comes up behind him and clamps an electronic armband onto him. James turns around and asks who the hell he is and what he is doing. The stranger then says into his Communicator that there is two to teleport aboard. Both of them are teleported onto a small ship in orbit around Celios.

James asks what the hell is going on and who are they. There were 5 people aboard, one of them was the leader, another was piloting, one was the person who was in Legoland with James and the other 2 were just controlling the ship. James demand to know and then fires his weapon, nothing comes out. The leader came out and said that they have disabled his gun. James is confused and says that they are human and that there is no humans with technology like this. The leader says that in our time we do. James looks at him confusingly, he proceeds to say that Legoland will know he is missing and will look for him. The leader says that he might want to rethink that. A Legoland ship passes by and does not react to it at all. James wonders how this is possible. The leaders says that this ship is called the HSS Dilation and it is equipped with a Cloaking Device. James says that he does not believe any of this and knows this is fake, he then demands to be take back to Celios. The leader then says that this will prove it all to you. He then shouts out to the pilot to enter the spatial coordinates 23 455, 67 893, 49 013 and temporal coordinates 2342,243,6793,346,23,01. The pilot then enters them and is then told to open a temporal fissure. A portal like anomaly opens in front of the ship and it flys into it, the ship is filled with blue/white light. The ship exits and a large star is seen in front of them. James asks where they are. Outside the ship a planet is seen forming. The leader tells James that they are at the formation of the earth. James looks out the window in surprise.

James does not believe it, he asks them where they are and where they have came from. The leader introduces himself as Captain Eugene Copeland, the pilot is called Commander Fiona Clayton, the person who took James was called Commander Dwain Todd and the two other members of the crew are called Commander Wallace Sutton and Lieutenant Robin Cortez. Together they are known as The Time Team. James says that there is a directive followed by all members of the Galactic Federation concerning time and it says not to mess with it, clearly you are. The captain tells him that they are from the future and in the future certain event will happen and changing the oast is neede to ensure they happen. James says that it is illegal to change the past no matter what reason, events should unfold how they are meant to. The captain says in the future the rules are different and the mission we are doing is to save the entire universe. James asks for him to elaborate. Captain Eugene Copeland tells him that that information is classified. Commander Fiona Clayton says that we have told him too much already and that we should stick to the mission. Lieutenant Robin Cortez agrees. James then asks why he was brought here. Captain Eugene Copeland says that they are about to show him. He shouts out another set of coordinates and the ship disappears into another temporal fissure.

The HSS Dilation appears above a battle field, this field is neverending, it stretches on in every direction as far as the eye can see. Below and all around them is a complete war. There seems to be 7 different sides to this war, all fighting each other, Humans is one of those races. As well as humans there were also hundreds of thousands of Hackabots also fighting and being destroyed. James what is this war and why are we here. Commander Wallace Sutton says that this is The Great War. James then asks how far in the future this is and do the humans win. Captain Eugene Copeland says actually this was has already happened, it happened as far back as time itself. James asks how thats possible as humans were not around back then, the captain says its all possible with time travel technology but that it a different story. James asks to see the end outcome of it, Commander Dwain Todd says they can't. Commander Fiona Clayton explains that the event is so far back in time that this ship cant get there, instead we are in the future when the human race was first shown this war. Lieutenant Robin Cortez says that an ancient being took a select group of humans back in time to this was to show them what lies in store for them in the future. James acts really confused. Captain Eugene Copeland tells him not to worry about all that as it is a different story a well and does not concern him. The first part of the The Time Teams mission is to show Legoland that this war will happen and that they need to be ready for it at all costs. James says that there is no way he will be ready for that, they could not handle 1 hackabot let alone thousands of billions of them. Captain Eugene Copeland explains that there is a long time before that and so they needn't worry yet. What really matter is what's going on in your time the captain says. James looks confused again. Commander Dwain Todd says that the team is sort of like the caretakers of time and that there is something they need Jameses help to fix. James asks if something in his time caused the war and that they are going back to stop it? Commander Wallace Sutton says its actually quite the opposite. The captain explains that they are actually going back to start it. James looks even more confused. Lieutenant Robin Cortez reveals that the space time continuum is a very hard thing to get your head around and that you should never try to do so. Captain Eugene Copeland says that all they know is that this war has to happen and it will happen so and at them moment an event in Jameses time is stopping that. James then says he is starting to get it but asks why they need him. Commander Fiona Clayton tells him that he is familiar with the Cligates and that they know who he is. James looks confused again and asks what the Cligates have to do with it. The captain says he will explain when they get there. He then shouts out another set of coordinates both spatial and temporal. The ship then enters a temporal fissure and disappears.

The HSS Dilation exits the fissure and and appears in normal space. Captain Eugene Copeland says to James that he has had an encounter with the Cligates has he not. He says yes. The captain then says that he witnessed the effects of their Chroniton Emancipation Reactor first hand. James says yes it nearly killed him and other Legoland staff. The captain explains that the reactor has been banned by the Cligates after the event on Cardainal Prime but some small groups of Cligates are secretly using it and experimenting on it. This experimentation lead to a temporal explosion that will create a black hole that will destroy Legoland. Commander Wallace Sutton tells him that it needs to be stopped in order to save Legoland. Commander Dwain Todd says that the problem is that the area where this experiment is happening is flooded with Chroniton Radiation. Lieutenant Robin Cortez explains that all of The Time Team have traveled through the continuum and have a large amount of Poleron Radiation on them. Commander Fiona Clayton says that this radiation will react with the Chroniton Radiation and create a Temporal Explosion that could kill many people. Captain Eugene Copeland then says that this is why they need James. He has barely time traveled and so he will have a very low amount of Poleron Radiation and will be able to get inside the Cligate lab and shutdown the reactor. Also James has had experience with that reactor as well as controlling it so he is the best man for the job. James agrees to do it, he gets given a plasma weapon and prepares for the mission.

The ship arrives at the small planet called Uri where the experiments are going on. The captain tells him exactly where the reactor is, he is not cloaked or wearing any disguise so he must sneak in. They say they will teleport him as close as they can to the Chroniton Emancipation Reactor but there is a lot of Chroniton Radiation so it won't be easy. James says he is ready, he is then teleported down to the planet.

Once inside the base James sneaks around looking for the reactor. He dodges guards and has to run and hide. Commander Fiona Clayton radios in for a status update, James tells her that he has not found it yet. Lieutenant Robin Cortez tells him to set his Scanner to look for Chronitons, then follow it until it takes him to the dences source and that will be the reactor. James says that a good idea and does it. He gets into the chamber and sees the big Chroniton Emancipation Reactor standing there. He uses his Communicator and tells Captain Eugene Copeland that he has found it and is now going to activate the Muon Discharge. He is about to walk closer to the reactor when suddenly he sees a man walk out from another door and go up to the reactor. The man hears James and turns around, the man is also James accept he has a big cut on his face. They both look at each other in surprise.

The original James asks what the hell is going on here, the cut James shouts for him to get back. Suddenly the original James starts to glow, slowly does the whole room. Captain Eugene Copeland communicates down and asks what the hell is going on, they are detecting a large temporal displacement happening. The new James quickly tells him that although James has not time traveled much his Poleron Radiation was enough to trigger a temporal explosion. The planet suddenly explodes and a black hole is created. The scene at the start of this episode repeats and Legoland is destroyed.

Onboard the HSS Dilation all of The Time Team are alive and James is onboard. James says let me get this straight, you recruited me, I went down to the base, saw my self and then cause the temporal explosion that killed me and all of Legoland. Captain Eugene Copeland says yes and and because of that we have gone back and recruited you again ad this time we will do things differently. James says that this does not work and that this is a paradox. Lieutenant Robin Cortez says that he has already told him not to try and think about it. James says have you or was the the previous James. Commander Fiona Clayton demands them to stop thinking about the ramifications of this predicament and just get James to complete the mission. James asks what they will do differently, Commander Wallace Sutton says that this time James not make a jump in time, only through space to where the Cligates base is. Commander Dwain Todd explains that he will have so little Poleron Radiation that he should be able to undertake the mission successful;as long and he tells his older self to not step towards the reactor. James says he understand and will do the best he can, he ois teleported down to the base.

James arrives at a different location in the base. He sneaks around looking for the reactor. He dodges guards and has to run and hide. Commander Fiona Clayton radios in for a status update, James tells her that he has not found it yet. Lieutenant Robin Cortez tells him to set his Scanner to look for Chronitons, then follow it until it takes him to the dences source and that will be the reactor. He accidently runs into some Cligates. They reacts immediately and shoot but James dives out of the way. The Cligate kicks his weapon out of his hand but James pulls his out, it was now a hand to hand fight. James got punched in the face causing a large cut to form. Despite this he manages to knock out the alien and runs to the reactor chamber. He goes straight up to the control and looks a it, he see The G-man in the reflection of the control panel and turns around. James is standing there. James shouts to James to get back and he does so. James tells old James that an explosion will occur if he got close to the reactor so he gets back. The old James then says that if the explosion happened and now the new James has stopped it doesn't that mean we have just created a paradox? Suddenly the old James disappears. The new James stops the reactor and sabotages it so the Cligates can not use the technology again. Commander Fiona Clayton tells him good work and teleports him back to the HSS Dilation.

Onboard the captain congratulates James for completing such a complicated mission. James says it was ok despite not understanding anything that happened. James then said that this mission was actually all for nothing as the act of going back in time caused this explosion thus creating the need for me to go back in the first place. Commander Wallace Sutton says yeah, we get that a lot. Commander Dwain Todd says that they nearly forgot, we still need to take James to The Great War and explain all of that to him. Captain Eugene Copeland says of course and tells James if he ever gets offered a job to do with time travel, don't take it.

The final scene is the HSS Dilation landed on Celios, all of the crew along with James are outside it. The captain once again thanks James for all of his help. James asks if he can tell everyone about it. Commander Fiona Clayton says you will need to, Legoland must know about The Great War. James then asks if they will ever meet again, Captain Eugene Copeland says definitely, remember its all relative. Finally James if he and the captain has ever met before, he says no, why'd you ask. James just says that he seem very familiar for some reason.

The episode ends there.