Australia - Easter Island - New Zealand
Information compiled during August 2002 and updated in October 2002. Updated again in November 2002.
Goliath, Angela, Bronx, and Elisa arrive in Australia and are attacked by something in the form of a flowing matrix of a silvery material. The travelers split up, running from the matrix. Goliath and Angela each climb different land mounds only to glide off just as the matrix covers the rock. They swoop down and rescue Elisa and Bronx just before they are overtaken by the matrix. The four watch helplessly from the top of another utcropping as the matrix flows up the side, then recedes, leaving the land covered in its smooth metallic sheen. Meanwhile, Dingo sits in front of a campfire with an Australian shaman, who tells him that to find himself he must go "walkabout" and seek the "dreamtime," a dimension that exists in the mind and the heart. This sounds good to Dingo, who sets off on his walkabout after activating his armor and pocketing a remote control device. Goliath and Co. are roaming the landscape, looking for any sign of the matrix, which seems to have retreated to wherever it came from. Bronx senses someone approaching, and Goliath and Elisa are stunned to discover it's Dingo, who is equally surprised to find gargoyles in Australia. He, Goliath and Bronx fight briefly as Dingo summons his armor by his remote control. It arrives momentarily, knocking Goliath out of the sky and opening itself up for Dingo to step into. As the fight seems about to escalate the scene cuts away to a scientific installation. Fox Xanatos is discussing the matrix, visible in a containment field in the foreground, with an older female scientist, who is expressing doubts about their ability to control the matrix. She and Fox are evidently testing this matrix, and after a moment Fox calls the woman "Mom." Fox reassures her mother that she has a man in the field keeping civilians away from the testing area and that should the matrix get out of control the magnetic containment field will keep it in check. Back at the rumble, Goliath and Dingo are still fighting, but suddenly the matrix intervenes, bursting from the ground as rods and spikes and crystalline towers. Bronx rescues Elisa from atop a huge prism-like tower, and a large slab of matrix appears ready to fall on Goliath and Dingo. Dingo blasts the slab into pieces with his armor blaster, but the matrix keeps erecting obstacles, at one point imprisoning Angela inside a dome which Dingo blasts a hole in, freeing her. All five run from the expanding matrix, which eventually recedes as before. Elisa marvels at the coincidence of Dingo being in the same area as this strange matrix. Dingo is incredulous. "You're the one a long way from home, this is MY country," he exclaims. "And by the way, you're welcome." Goliath grudgingly accepts Dingo's story, citing his rescue of Angela and himself. Meanwhile at the laboratory Anastasia Reynard is persuading Fox to blank the matrix's program and start over, thinking the current program is too flawed to control. Fox is reluctant, eager for she and Xanatos to use the matrix to reshape the world to their liking, but she finally agrees. We see the containment field around the matrix's container drop to zero, and the matrix begins to leak out as Fox and Anastasia leave the room. Goliath and the others inspect a puddle of the matrix. Angela suspects sorcery, but Dingo, able to zoom in closely with his helmet, disagrees. As Elisa looks at it through his helmet, he describes nanotechnology. The matrix is actually billions of tiny robots that are programmed to replicate themselves and take any shape you want them to. Back at the lab Fox and Anastasia leave the room to check in with Fox's man in the field as we see the matrix begin to escape its containment and take over the lab. Goliath and the others rejoin the shaman at his campfire. Seeing the gargoyles, the shaman says that they are from the dreamtime. Fox and Anastasia return to the lab. Fox is saying that a remote camera spotted gargoyles in the test area. They enter the lab to find the matrix run amok. They run from it as it breaks through the contaiment to flood the hallways. At the campfire, the shaman says while all things come from the dreamtime, this new matrix is not welcome and must be stopped...but in the dreamtime. Fox and Anastasia escape in the helicopter, but the matrix erects large towers in their way. One of the towers strikes the helicopter and they are forced to land, running towards the shaman's campfire. Anastasia recognizes Goliath, and Fox introduces the others to her mother, Anastasia Reynard. Goliath is stunned to learn that Fox is Halcyon Reynard's daughter. "I thought you had this matrix under control!" Dingo exclaims. Elisa pounces on him, vindicated that he is working for them after all. He concedes her point, but says he never expected all this. Fox says that if the matrix can absorb the reactor at the facility, it will be unstoppable. Anastasia adds that the matrix will cover the entire planet in a matter of days if that happens. Fox explains that the original experiment was to create order out of chaos in a landscape, but that the matrix has evolved far past its original parameters. Anastasia produces a data cartridge, which if it is input directly into the matrix could blank its program and render it inactive. The transmitter in Dingo's armor could do the trick, and he, Goliath and Angela set off to fly over the matrix and transmit the program. The shaman is skeptical, and with good reason. Just as Dingo begins the transmission the matrix sends up tendrils which imprison Goliath. Angela and Dingo free him and the three beat a hasty retreat. Anastasia surmises that the matrix is no longer just an experiment, that it has evolved into an artificial intelligence and a force to be reckoned with. The shaman reiterates that the only way to stop it is to talk with it. Fox points out that it thinks a billion times faster than they do and they could never communicate with it in real time. The shaman has the perfect solution...talk to it in dreamtime. Goliath and Dingo agree to attempt contact with the matrix, grasping each other's arms over the campfire. The shaman tosses some powder into the fire, reminding them that the dreamtime is not what it seems to be, but what you make it seem. Dingo and Goliath snap into a trancelike state...they have entered the dreamtime. The matrix absorbs the reactor and advances, energized. They materialize in a rather Dr. Seuss-esque dream landscape where the matrix appears as a large sun hovering over the horizon. Goliath sets off after it, and after a moment Dingo joins him. The light of the matrix almost overwhelms them. "What are you?" Goliath asks. "We are the matrix," it replies. "We create order out of chaos." Goliath remembers the shaman's words and realizes that they can do anything they like here, all they need do is will it. He waves his hands and a large dome materializes over the matrix. Goliath looks pleased with himself until the matrix breaks out of the dome easily. Dingo gets into it, scooping up a handful of flame from the ground. "I like it!" he exclaims as he throws the fire at the matrix. The matrix fires back; Goliath summons up a shield to protect himsef. "You are introducing random elements into the program," the matrix scolds them. Dingo wills himself some souped-up armor with more firepower as Goliath conjures up images of Brooklyn, Lex, Broadway, and Hudson to fly up and battle the matrix. In the real world, the matrix has slowed its advance. "Our champions have reached it," the shaman exclaims. The matrix retaliates, crushing the dream-gargoyles and imprisoning Goliath and Dingo in robotic arms and encasing itself in a huge protective shield. Goliath tries to reason with it and get it to stop its advance. "Order is not frozen and perfect, it is dynamic!" he exclaims. "Your peace is that of the grave!" With that the matrix releases them and coalesces into a humanoid shape, insisting that it must create order. "There are different kinds of order," Dingo says. "Like...law and order! You'd be real good at that!" Suddenly the matrix dissolves and Goliath and Dingo awaken from their trance. The matrix in the real world takes the same humanoid shape and approaches Dingo. "Tell us about this law and order," it implores. Dingo explains that once he and Fox were heroes to millions, and he misses that. He'd like to be a hero again, but for real. "Maybe you and I could work together!" he asks the matrix. The matrix shakes his hand, then flows over him, creating a silvery new armor around him. "Now we are joined," it says. "Teach us about law and order." Dingo is unsure of his ability to shoulder this new responsibility, but speculates that perhaps this country has a new kind of hero.
A Whowie attacked Adelaide, Australia. Dingo and Matrix fought it and eventually killed it after Madoc was dead.
Goliath, Elisa, Angela, and Bronx arrive at Easter Island. Since Elisa was asleep, Goliath and Angela investigate the island while Bronx guards Elisa. While Goliath and Angela study statuary, Bronx senses the approach of a stranger. He places himself between the sleeping Elisa and a nearby hillside, where light pours out of a portal sliding open. Elisa wakes up just in time to see a tall figure blast the protective Bronx with an energy beam. Goliath and Angela return to find Elisa missing and Bronx only half-conscious and disoriented. They split up to look for Elisa. Elisa, walking aimlessly along a dirt road, is found instead by two archaeologists -- Prof. Lydia Dwayne and Dr. Arthur Morwood-Smith--in a jeep. When they stop and question Elisa, Elisa professes to have no knowledge of who or where she is. Alone, Bronx is hunted down and captured by the energy-wielding figure from the hillside. Elisa accepts the archaeologists' aid and rides to town with them in their jeep. Goliath sees this and follows the vehicle by air. Angela is the next to be captured, as a bolt of energy knocks her from the sky. At a hotel in the city, the archaeologists and a doctor try to determine Elisa's identity and the cause of her amnesia. The identification in her wallet tells them her name and her job as a New York police officer. Prof. Dwayne then remembers that they have met before. The doctor suggests that a severe emotional trauma could have caused Elisa's amnesia, and he refers her to a Honolulu neurologist. Before Dr. Morwood-Smith can book a flight for her, however, Goliath steps inside from the balcony. Elisa completely fails to remember him or even the existence of Gargoyles. When Goliath reaches for her, Elisa draws her gun on him. Elisa tries to shoot Goliath, but she has long been out of bullets. Goliath picks Elisa up, brushes off the weak attempts of the others to stop him, and swoops off with Elisa into the night. Elisa stops struggling once they become airborne. Goliath urges Elisa to try to remember everything, but she just tells him to land. They come to earth near the shore: "We have been friends for over a year, good friends! We've been... travelling together with my daughter Angela. And Bronx?" Goliath implores her to remember, but she does not. "Whoa, Tiny," she says. "You mean there's more than one of you?" Goliath, frustrated, swears vengeance upon whomever created Elisa's amnesia. Angela, Bronx and one other watch the entire conversation on a video monitor. Angela, imprisoned like Bronx in a sphere of energy, pleads with her captor to believe that they mean him no harm, but he will not. He has been expecting them for a long time; he knows they were sent to "take this world." Behind a control panel beneath a huge, futuristic machine, he uses a tool to scan Angela's image in order to capture Goliath. Goliath continues to tell Elisa of her life. "Gargoyle clans, mutated brothers, magic spells," she reacts. "You threw in everything but King Arthur and the Holy Grail!" "Yes, well," Goliath replies, "we haven't encountered the Holy Grail yet." Elisa can't remember. Goliath tells her to trust her instincts, but all she has are doubts. Above, Angela appears and drops to the ground, curling up beside a stone. As Goliath runs to Angela, Elisa flees Goliath--but after a moment she decides to turn back and stay with him. Goliath finds Angela to be only a hologram, and a trap. A ball of energy appears and knocks Goliath to the ground. As Elisa, astounded, looks on, a column of light heralds the arrival of the mysterious figure--a tall being clad in futuristic green armor. "You are mine, alien," he proclaims. The tall green man asks after Elisa's well-being; he sought to protect her from Goliath, the alien. His name is Nokkar, and he is the cause of Elisa's amnesia. Nokkar imprisons Goliath in an energy sphere as he explains: Elisa had obviously been brainwashed by Goliath--she had insisted, after being taken from the shore by Nokkar, that they were her friends--so Nokkar had cleansed her mind of memories. In a few days, her true memories would return, unaffected by the Gargoyles' "false programming." "And to think," Elisa muses, "I was starting to trust this Goliath." The hillside slides open again, and Nokkar, with Goliath in tow, invites Elisa inside. Goliath awakens near Angela and Bronx while Nokkar is away giving Elisa a tour of the premises. Angela tells Goliath that they are inside a spaceship, hidden beneath the island, placed there for the defense of Earth during a war centuries ago. Nokkar, an alien sentinel, captured the Gargoyles because they were obviously alien spies. Elisa returns then with Nokkar, who has removed his helmet; his face look like the statues on the island, which were a tribute paid him by natives he befriended long ago. Goliath tries to convince Nokkar that Gargoyles are native to Earth, but Elisa tells Nokkar that she remembers no such race. Nokkar then delivers the Gargoyles' sentence: execution by means of a laser-flinging metal tongue that emerges from the bowels of the machine behind him. Elisa is horrified. Before the tongue can fire upon Goliath, Elisa seizes Nokkar's hand weapon and shoots the sphere enclosing Goliath. Freed, Goliath dodges the laser and leaps at the tongue. Elisa frees Angela and Bronx as well, and the three wrestle the tongue until they destroy it. The spaceship is torn up from the stray laser fire, and Nokkar is pinned beneath some rubble. Goliath helps Bronx, Angela and Elisa climb to the surface through a hole opened by the laser. Before Goliath himself can depart, however, Nokkar frees himself and attacks the Gargoyle. During the fight, Goliath destroys the control panel of the huge machine, which violently explodes. Nokkar, too close to it, is thrown across the room and defeated. Goliath departs. On the surface, Goliath urges the others to quickly head for the skiff. Elisa doesn't remember it; she still has amnesia. Goliath is confused; he asks her why she freed them from Nokkar if she still remembered nothing. The ground shakes then, and Nokkar's entire spaceship rises out of the earth. A gigantic cannon aims at Elisa and the Gargoyles, then emits Nokkar's voice: He forgives Elisa her lapse in judgment, and he asks her to step away from the Gargoyles. Elisa refuses; she may not have memories, but she does have her instincts, and her instincts tell her that the Gargoyles are her friends. Nokkar steps out from behind the cannon, having no choice but to believe Elisa. His mind-cleansing process destroys only false memories, not honest feelings. Elisa's loyalty to the Gargoyles must be genuine. Nokkar expresses loneliness about being a sentinel; he wishes he had someone to trust as well. Just then, The archaeologists and the doctor pull up on the hillside in their jeep. Elisa tells Nokkar that they are trustworthy. In the morning, Elisa and the Gargoyles leave the island while Nokkar looks on.
By this time, Dr. Lydia Duane and Dr. Peter Morwood-Smyth have been spending time getting to know Nokkar very well and vice versa and asked them to record their trip so he could see everything they saw.
Arthur arrives looking for a conference on the Grail, but it's secretly a set-up by Singleton. He doesn't know this, though, and Mary is cracking under the strain of watching Merlin's health fail – he's now delirious. Steel Clan robots attack the crew and carry Arthur off. Mary and Griff go to find him using the help of Leba in London (via Mary's phone). The pair bond along the way in buddy movie fashion except they were friends to begin with. Arthur is interrogated by a man named Simon Barnes, who is a decent family man who rings his wife when he's going to be home late, and is altogether reasonable. He's also a professional interrogator and forces out of Arthur the whereabouts of the London clan, details about Morgana and her connection to the... er... Connection, and most spectacularly (for Singleton, who is looking for leverage over Duval) that Duval is really Lancelot. At the end of the interrogation (when Singleton thinks the Illuminati might find out), an amnesia spell is placed on Arthur and he's left for Mary and Griff to find. But Singleton also had Dr. Carpenter, an ally of his, implant a tracking/transmitting device in his tooth so he can now track Arthur anywhere and hear everything. Duval presumably finds this after the season 4 finale.