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Piedmont, New Mexico.

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Population 68.

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Come on.

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I didn't notice them before.

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That's crazy. I didn't know
buzzards fly at night.

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That's what they look like.

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Here.

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Boy, that's some dead burg.

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Buzzards only come
when something's dead.

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Well, I guess we better
go in and have a look.

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This is Caper One to Vandal Deca.

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Caper One to Vandal Deca.
Are you reading? Over.

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Yes, I'm reading. Over.

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We're about to enter
the town of Piedmont

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and recover the satellite.

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Very good, Caper One.

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Leave your radio open.

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Roger.

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We're now inside the town.

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It's kind of spooky.

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I see a church steeple
ahead on the left.

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It's quiet here.

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It's the damndest thing.

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There's no sign of life.

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The signals from the satellite
are getting very strong.

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Sir! You see that, Lieutenant?

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See what, Crane'?

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Over by the fence.
It looks like a body.

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Easy, Crane.

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You're imagining things.

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Holy!

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Sir, it's another one.

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You're right. It looks dead.

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Yes, sir, shall I...

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No! Stay in the van.

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Vandal Deca to Caper One.

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What's happening?

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We see
bodies, lots of them.

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Are you certain, Caper One?

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Damn it, Com roe,

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of course we're certain.

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Your orders are proceed
to satellite and retrieve.

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Roger, Vandal Deca.

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Stay at your stations!

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Hit that security button!

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Get me Major Manchek.

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Somehow they don't
hardly look dead, Lieutenant.

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They're all over the place.

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Must be dozens of them.

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Damn it, get this call through!

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It's sort of like they just

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dropped in their tracks, sir.

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Sir!

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Good Chri...!

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Do you see that thing in white?

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Yeah, it's coming toward us.

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Major, this may sound crazy,

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but there's something strange

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going on with Caper One.

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Sir, I think we should get out of h...

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Hello, Ops, this is Major Manchek,

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Scoop Control A-12.

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We need a flyby over
Piedmont, New Mexico.

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Infrared. A FLI R scan, all sectors.

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Film to come direct to Scoop.

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Assign Gunner Wilson,

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if he's not crocked someplace.

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Jeez!

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I'm declaring a state of emergency.

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All personnel restricted to base.

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Everything seen and heard

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in that room is top secret.

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Yes, sir.

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This is a recording.

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State your name and

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your message and hang up.

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Major Arthur Manchek,

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Scoop Mission Control A-12.

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I recommend calling a Wildfire Alert.

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We have evidence here on film

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of unnatural death caused by

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Scoop 7 returning to earth.

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Time check 0-1-4-7 inclusive.

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We'd like to see Dr. Jeremy Stone, please.

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Well, I'm Mrs. Stone.

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We are having a party. May I...

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Does that man have a gun?

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Ma'am, we must see Dr. Stone.

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What is this?

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Please call Dr. Stone to the door.

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Otherwise we'll go get him.

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Just a minute.

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I'll just wait here, ma'am.

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I'll come to Berkeley anytime, Stone.

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That $4 million must be
your largest federal grant.

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May I see you, Jeremy?

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The S.D.S. Has arrived, no doubt.

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Jeremy, there are some
Army types in the hall

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and two more outside with guns.

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They want to see you.

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I'll take care of it.

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Jeremy! If you knew about this,

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you might've told...

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I didn't. I'll explain later.

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I'm Dr. Stone.

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Yes. I'm Captain Morton.

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There's a fire, sir.

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I've got to leave.

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For God's sakes, Jeremy!

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When will you be back?

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I'm not sure.

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The guns, is it...

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Mrs. Stone, it's our job

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to protect your husband.

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From now on, nothing must
be allowed to happen to him.

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I'll be safe as in your arms.

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Jeremy? Jeremy!

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You tell the senator it's his daughter!

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Allison?

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Dad, something very
peculiar has just happened,

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even for Jeremy.

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A few minutes ago...

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Dad, are you there?

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What's going on?

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This communication

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is being monitored. The connection

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has been broken for reasons
of national security.

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You will be briefed
at the appropriate time.

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Thank you for your cooperation, Mrs. Stone.

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I feel like Onassis.

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It was the fastest thing
we could arrange, sir.

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Thanks.

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Yes?

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General Sparks here.

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I just wanted to inform you

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that all members of your
team have been cleared

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and are now being called in.

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Except for Professor Kirke.

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He's in the hospital. Appendectomy.

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You'll get complete
details on everything

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when your team is assembled.

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You don't make sense.

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You talk like you've been brainwashed.

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You don't understand.

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Germ warfare people, Dad?

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A lab accident?

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Thank you.

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It's different this time.

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Don't pack, Claire,

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I won't need anything.

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A hippie. He's going to a love-in.

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I give UP-.

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One minute you're fed up.

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You talk about retiring to Alaska yet!

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Now you've turned into
a cloak-and-dagger man.

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My glasses.

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Here they are, Dad.

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Can't you at least tell me who phoned

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at this ungodly hour?

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Grandpa, there's a car,

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and they got guns.

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Do they now?

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Well, that's serious.

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I'll watch out.

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Honey, you've been dreaming.

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I wish I were!

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No. Uh-uh.

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Get someone else.

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Dr. Leavitt, I told you, there's a fire!

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My experiment's at the critical stage.

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I've been working around the clock.

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I can't just leave now.

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I want that new plate read

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as soon as it's developed.

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Yes, ma'am.

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My orders come from Dr. Robertson,

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the president's science
advisor in Washington.

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There's a phone. Pick it up.

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Call Robbie.

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Tell him I burnt my draft card.

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Are you sick, ma'am?

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We have a physician on call.

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All Dr. Leavitt needs is rest.

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Knock it off, Bess.

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If the physician certifies that
you are unable to continue...

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No!

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I'm fine.

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Relax.

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I'm going with you.

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Skin knife.

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Hold it, Mark.

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Sorry to disturb you.

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There's just been a call

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from a Dr. Robertson

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at the White House.

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Your orders are to break scrub.

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Orders? I've got a patient all ready.

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Kelly will take over for you.

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It's all arranged.

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You're expected in the
surgeon's room in 30 seconds.

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Are you sure the satellite
isn't radioactive?

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No. Manchek showed me
the telemetry reports.

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Presumably, it could be
some form of space germ.

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Presumably this stuff is nonporous.

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Why did you pick me?

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You're an M.D., a talented surgeon

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who knows blood chemistries

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and you're single...

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the "Odd Man Hypothesis. "

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What the hell is that?

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Didn't you read the Wildfire material

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I've been sending you?

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Very little.

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I never went in much
for science fiction.

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Nor do I!

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It seems to me, General,

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Dr. Stone put one over on you.

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In fact, he made us all think

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his Wildfire Lab could handle

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contamination from outer space.

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I disagree with the senator from Vermont.

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Dr. Stone, a Nobel Prize winner,

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twice president of the
National Academy of Sciences,

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is well known here in Washington.

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Is the implication that Dr. Stone

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deliberately misled us'?

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Perhaps not deliberately, Senator.

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I'm reasonably certain

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that before the night

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the Wildfire Team was mobilized,

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Dr. Stone didn't know Scoop existed.

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I'm astounded.

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Reasons of national security.

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Very smart.

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We've had experiences
with scientists before.

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Now, let's talk about
this famous letter

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Dr. Stone sent to the president

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some two years ago.

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From what you're saying,

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it was just a shot in the dark?

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Perhaps that's a little unfair, Senator.

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Dr. Stone and I were
consultants with NASA

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on the Lunar Receiving Lab.

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He wasn't completely satisfied.

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He felt a more advanced
lab was required.

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You mean more expensive, don't you?

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I call that Dr. Stone's $90 million
mash note to Uncle Sam.

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"In a true biological crisis

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which our exploration of
space could bring about,

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the present Lunar Receiving Laboratory

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might prove inadequate.

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I therefore urge

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the establishment of a facility

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to deal specifically

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with an extraterrestrial form of life.

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The purpose of this facility

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would be to limit the dissemination

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of such an unknown organism

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from outer space

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and to provide laboratories

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for its analysis.

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I recommend that this facility be located

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in an uninhabited region

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of the United States,

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that it utilize all known
isolation techniques,

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and that it be equipped
with a nuclear device

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for self-destruction in the event

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of an emergency.

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Yours very truly, Jeremy Stone. "

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Don't encourage the president

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to think scientists are wizards.

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If things get out of control,

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and they might,

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even you can't work miracles.

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I'd expect to have
your help, Charlie.

276
00:19:35,717 --> 00:19:37,802
Piedmont approaching, gentlemen.

277
00:19:37,886 --> 00:19:40,054
Go over and give us a look first, Dempsey.

278
00:19:59,908 --> 00:20:02,410
I was afraid of that.

279
00:20:02,535 --> 00:20:04,579
The birds'll eat the infected flesh,

280
00:20:04,579 --> 00:20:06,998
and then fly off and
spread the disease.

281
00:20:07,081 --> 00:20:08,917
If it is a disease.

282
00:20:18,927 --> 00:20:20,178
Drop the gas canisters.

283
00:20:20,220 --> 00:20:22,680
Someone's supposed to be alive down there!

284
00:20:22,764 --> 00:20:25,225
Somebody did something.

285
00:20:25,225 --> 00:20:27,143
That's for sure.

286
00:20:27,268 --> 00:20:29,395
Let's give it a double dose.

287
00:20:39,364 --> 00:20:43,201
That gas will only kill the birds.

288
00:20:43,284 --> 00:20:45,411
Okay, Dempsey, hover
over the main street

289
00:20:45,411 --> 00:20:46,496
and drop the ladder.

290
00:20:46,579 --> 00:20:47,914
Do not attempt to land.

291
00:20:47,914 --> 00:20:48,831
Is that clear?

292
00:20:48,915 --> 00:20:51,793
Roger. Clearer all the time.

293
00:20:51,876 --> 00:20:54,379
When we climb down,
lift off to 1,000 feet

294
00:20:54,379 --> 00:20:56,130
and hover at a safe distance.

295
00:20:56,172 --> 00:20:57,382
And come back when we signal.

296
00:20:57,382 --> 00:20:58,508
If anything happens to us,

297
00:20:58,508 --> 00:20:59,509
you have your orders.

298
00:20:59,592 --> 00:21:04,138
Yes, sir. Proceed directly
to Wildfire and then...

299
00:21:04,222 --> 00:21:05,473
If we're eliminated,

300
00:21:05,473 --> 00:21:06,849
the aircraft and pilot

301
00:21:06,849 --> 00:21:08,685
will have to be sterilized.

302
00:21:08,810 --> 00:21:10,728
Wait a minute!

303
00:21:10,812 --> 00:21:12,981
That's not what they told me.

304
00:21:12,981 --> 00:21:14,399
Just incinerated.

305
00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:07,618
Coronary?

306
00:22:07,618 --> 00:22:09,662
I doubt it.

307
00:22:48,493 --> 00:22:50,620
Hall!

308
00:22:50,703 --> 00:22:52,080
Take a look at this.

309
00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:54,499
Are you sure that isn't coronary?

310
00:22:54,582 --> 00:22:56,959
No, coronary's painful.

311
00:22:57,001 --> 00:22:58,753
They should grimace.

312
00:22:58,795 --> 00:23:01,005
If it was fast, they wouldn't have time.

313
00:23:01,089 --> 00:23:04,217
Fast? These people were
cut down in mid-stride.

314
00:24:07,238 --> 00:24:09,615
Up there! Look.

315
00:24:11,409 --> 00:24:13,327
An Air Force jet.

316
00:24:13,411 --> 00:24:14,996
If we don't make it to Wildfire,

317
00:24:14,996 --> 00:24:16,706
he'll see the helicopter does...

318
00:24:16,706 --> 00:24:17,707
or shoot it down.

319
00:24:17,748 --> 00:24:19,083
Well, for Dempsey's sake,

320
00:24:19,083 --> 00:24:20,376
we better not slip up.

321
00:24:38,561 --> 00:24:40,480
"The Day of Judgment is at hand.

322
00:24:40,563 --> 00:24:41,981
Have mercy on my soul

323
00:24:41,981 --> 00:24:44,775
and to hell with all
the others. Amen. "

324
00:24:44,859 --> 00:24:45,485
Senile.

325
00:24:45,485 --> 00:24:46,444
This took time!

326
00:24:46,444 --> 00:24:48,446
Regardless of what made her do it,

327
00:24:48,488 --> 00:24:49,447
it took time.

328
00:24:49,572 --> 00:24:51,741
There's a chance someone's still alive.

329
00:24:58,206 --> 00:25:01,417
I wouldn't believe you could
commit suicide that way.

330
00:25:01,501 --> 00:25:02,877
Most of them died instantly,

331
00:25:02,877 --> 00:25:04,879
but a few had time
to go quietly nuts.

332
00:25:04,962 --> 00:25:07,715
Let's find the damn satellite.

333
00:25:25,900 --> 00:25:28,611
This injury, there isn't any bleeding.

334
00:25:28,694 --> 00:25:30,321
A cut like this... torn veins,

335
00:25:30,321 --> 00:25:32,865
broken capillaries...
should bleed like hell.

336
00:25:32,949 --> 00:25:35,618
Yes. Well, there's no blood

337
00:25:35,618 --> 00:25:37,328
on any of them.

338
00:25:43,918 --> 00:25:46,712
Even where it's chewed, no bleeding.

339
00:26:09,652 --> 00:26:12,363
Hold it, hold it!

340
00:26:12,446 --> 00:26:13,531
You'd better back up.

341
00:26:13,531 --> 00:26:15,157
We gotta go to the... left.

342
00:26:31,382 --> 00:26:35,428
We're damn close. Bear right.

343
00:27:01,579 --> 00:27:03,956
I'll bet they took it to the doctor.

344
00:27:16,218 --> 00:27:18,846
There it is.

345
00:27:24,810 --> 00:27:27,146
The damn fool opened it!

346
00:27:27,229 --> 00:27:28,898
Yeah, every country doctor

347
00:27:28,898 --> 00:27:30,274
should run his office

348
00:27:30,274 --> 00:27:31,651
like the lunar lab.

349
00:27:33,235 --> 00:27:35,279
The capsule first, Hall.

350
00:27:35,404 --> 00:27:38,407
We've got about 40
minutes of oxygen left.

351
00:27:54,423 --> 00:27:56,467
Have a look at his buttocks.

352
00:27:56,592 --> 00:27:58,010
That's not funny.

353
00:27:58,010 --> 00:27:59,553
Not meant to be.

354
00:27:59,637 --> 00:28:01,263
Normally blood in a dead person

355
00:28:01,305 --> 00:28:02,807
goes to the lowest points.

356
00:28:02,848 --> 00:28:04,600
There should be marks of lividity.

357
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:06,686
Do you see purplish marks on his butt?

358
00:28:06,769 --> 00:28:08,688
No.

359
00:28:13,109 --> 00:28:16,529
Careful you don't puncture your suit.

360
00:28:21,992 --> 00:28:24,328
Clotted blood!

361
00:28:24,412 --> 00:28:26,288
Powdered!

362
00:28:26,372 --> 00:28:28,416
I'll be damned!

363
00:28:28,499 --> 00:28:30,042
No wonder they didn't bleed.

364
00:28:30,042 --> 00:28:32,461
It's clotted throughout
the entire system.

365
00:28:32,586 --> 00:28:36,173
Five quarts of blood
turned to powder!

366
00:28:36,298 --> 00:28:37,425
In theory, I suppose,

367
00:28:37,425 --> 00:28:39,176
a single organism could do it.

368
00:28:39,301 --> 00:28:42,138
But, in fact, there isn't
an organism on Earth...

369
00:28:42,179 --> 00:28:44,598
You mean, there didn't used to be.

370
00:29:34,190 --> 00:29:35,441
I don't...

371
00:29:35,441 --> 00:29:37,985
We heard it all right.

372
00:29:41,113 --> 00:29:43,115
Go away! Go back!

373
00:29:46,786 --> 00:29:49,997
Get back! Get out
of here. Go back!

374
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:52,875
Get away!

375
00:30:28,077 --> 00:30:30,371
This must be the mother.

376
00:30:30,454 --> 00:30:32,748
He's scared, and hungry as hell.

377
00:30:32,832 --> 00:30:34,333
Can't be more than six months.

378
00:30:34,375 --> 00:30:36,669
There's probably a
formula in the kitchen.

379
00:30:36,752 --> 00:30:37,336
Don't feed it!

380
00:30:37,336 --> 00:30:39,046
He hasn't eaten in
at least 12 hours!

381
00:30:39,129 --> 00:30:39,922
We don't do anything

382
00:30:39,922 --> 00:30:40,798
until we get that kid

383
00:30:40,798 --> 00:30:42,049
into a controlled situation.

384
00:30:42,091 --> 00:30:44,093
Maybe feeding is part
of the disease process.

385
00:30:44,093 --> 00:30:46,053
Maybe those who hadn't
eaten lasted longest.

386
00:30:46,136 --> 00:30:48,097
Whatever it is, with
our oxygen running out,

387
00:30:48,097 --> 00:30:49,139
we can't take a chance.

388
00:30:49,265 --> 00:30:50,391
Wait a minute.

389
00:30:50,391 --> 00:30:52,560
This is a major break...

390
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:53,686
a survivor.

391
00:30:53,769 --> 00:30:55,980
Too bad he can't tell
us what happened.

392
00:30:56,063 --> 00:30:59,692
Maybe he can... if he lives.

393
00:31:37,897 --> 00:31:40,274
You!

394
00:31:47,364 --> 00:31:49,450
You... you did it!

395
00:31:49,533 --> 00:31:52,578
Give me that knife.

396
00:31:52,661 --> 00:31:55,039
You're not human.

397
00:31:55,039 --> 00:31:57,708
Everybody's dead.

398
00:31:57,833 --> 00:31:59,251
What happened?

399
00:32:00,336 --> 00:32:02,755
What is it?

400
00:32:07,343 --> 00:32:09,470
What happened?

401
00:32:22,399 --> 00:32:23,901
The town is finished,

402
00:32:23,901 --> 00:32:25,486
contaminated beyond all...

403
00:32:25,569 --> 00:32:26,236
Careful, sir.

404
00:32:26,278 --> 00:32:27,905
This is an open transmission.

405
00:32:27,947 --> 00:32:29,281
I'm aware of that, Manchek.

406
00:32:29,281 --> 00:32:30,115
Order up a 7-12.

407
00:32:30,115 --> 00:32:31,909
Only the president...

408
00:32:32,076 --> 00:32:33,744
Precisely. Get on it.

409
00:32:33,744 --> 00:32:37,206
The town must be
neutralized immediately.

410
00:32:46,507 --> 00:32:48,801
Has the president made his decision

411
00:32:48,801 --> 00:32:50,386
on Directive 7-12 yet?

412
00:32:50,469 --> 00:32:52,972
He doesn't jump into
things, Dr. Robertson.

413
00:32:53,097 --> 00:32:55,599
First I've got to put together
a briefing for him.

414
00:32:55,683 --> 00:32:57,351
The president's main concern is

415
00:32:57,351 --> 00:32:59,144
the international consequences.

416
00:32:59,228 --> 00:33:01,188
What do you think, Mr. Secretary'?

417
00:33:01,271 --> 00:33:03,816
It's against the Moscow Treaty of 1963

418
00:33:03,941 --> 00:33:06,819
to fire thermonuclear
weapons above ground.

419
00:33:06,902 --> 00:33:10,072
The Russians will have
to be privately informed

420
00:33:10,072 --> 00:33:12,408
we're going to cauterize the area.

421
00:33:12,491 --> 00:33:14,576
Then they'll ask a flock of questions.

422
00:33:14,576 --> 00:33:16,203
Some we don't want answered.

423
00:33:16,286 --> 00:33:18,956
That'll take hours.

424
00:33:19,039 --> 00:33:22,042
God knows how far the infection
can spread in that time.

425
00:33:28,132 --> 00:33:30,175
Yes, Chief?

426
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:33,721
Yes, sir.

427
00:33:35,222 --> 00:33:37,766
Yes, Mr. President.

428
00:33:37,850 --> 00:33:39,643
The president's decided

429
00:33:39,643 --> 00:33:41,770
to postpone Directive 7-12

430
00:33:41,770 --> 00:33:43,480
for 24 to 48 hours.

431
00:33:43,564 --> 00:33:45,858
Instead he'll call
out the National Guard

432
00:33:45,858 --> 00:33:48,027
to cordon off the area around Piedmont.

433
00:33:48,068 --> 00:33:49,570
That's your department, Ed.

434
00:33:49,570 --> 00:33:50,529
Safe and sound.

435
00:33:52,364 --> 00:33:53,824
It should've been left up

436
00:33:53,824 --> 00:33:54,992
to the scientists.

437
00:33:55,075 --> 00:33:57,077
It's a colossal mistake.

438
00:33:57,161 --> 00:33:59,913
Tell the president I said so.

439
00:33:59,997 --> 00:34:01,248
No, but...

440
00:34:01,248 --> 00:34:04,376
I'll get you an appointment.

441
00:34:04,460 --> 00:34:06,503
By
whose decision, General,

442
00:34:06,503 --> 00:34:07,963
was the site for Wildfire chosen?

443
00:34:08,047 --> 00:34:09,339
Dr. Stone's.

444
00:34:09,339 --> 00:34:12,092
It seemed ideal because
of its remoteness.

445
00:34:12,176 --> 00:34:13,886
There was no inhabited area

446
00:34:13,886 --> 00:34:16,555
near Wildfire for a
radius of 112 miles.

447
00:34:16,597 --> 00:34:18,515
Las Vegas is to the north,

448
00:34:18,515 --> 00:34:20,142
Phoenix to the south,

449
00:34:20,142 --> 00:34:21,602
Los Angeles west.

450
00:34:21,727 --> 00:34:22,519
Weren't you worried

451
00:34:22,519 --> 00:34:24,146
the infection might spread to them?

452
00:34:24,229 --> 00:34:25,105
Yes, sir, I was,

453
00:34:25,105 --> 00:34:26,899
but Dr. Stone and Dr. Robertson

454
00:34:26,899 --> 00:34:28,525
assured the president

455
00:34:28,609 --> 00:34:29,818
Wildfire was foolproof

456
00:34:29,818 --> 00:34:30,986
because of its device

457
00:34:30,986 --> 00:34:32,529
for atomic self-destruct.

458
00:34:32,613 --> 00:34:35,115
The military had to
take a backseat.

459
00:34:49,546 --> 00:34:51,507
At least they could've
sent a licensed driver

460
00:34:51,507 --> 00:34:53,050
to meet me at that crummy airstrip.

461
00:34:53,133 --> 00:34:55,177
They keep personnel to a minimum

462
00:34:55,177 --> 00:34:56,595
for obvious reasons.

463
00:34:58,097 --> 00:34:58,972
You're lost!

464
00:34:58,972 --> 00:35:00,349
No one's been down

465
00:35:00,349 --> 00:35:02,434
this goat path for years.

466
00:35:02,559 --> 00:35:04,728
That's how it's supposed to look.

467
00:35:04,728 --> 00:35:06,522
They spent $50,000 on it.

468
00:35:06,647 --> 00:35:08,190
Putting in the potholes?

469
00:35:08,190 --> 00:35:10,359
Getting rid of the tread marks.

470
00:35:10,442 --> 00:35:13,362
Those big tractors leave
a lasting impression.

471
00:35:13,445 --> 00:35:15,572
A lot of heavy equipment
has passed this way.

472
00:35:23,205 --> 00:35:24,665
Where's our leader?

473
00:35:24,665 --> 00:35:28,335
We'll catch up to him
and Hall very soon now.

474
00:35:28,418 --> 00:35:29,878
Why'd they pick Hall?

475
00:35:29,878 --> 00:35:31,213
He's no scientist.

476
00:35:31,213 --> 00:35:33,423
Who needs an overpriced M. D?

477
00:35:35,384 --> 00:35:37,427
Relax and enjoy your cigarette.

478
00:35:37,427 --> 00:35:38,554
It's your last.

479
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:42,432
It starts here.

480
00:36:01,702 --> 00:36:03,704
It's a great place to grow pot.

481
00:36:03,829 --> 00:36:05,789
Just a plain old crop of barley.

482
00:36:05,789 --> 00:36:08,125
Still, it is rather clever, I think.

483
00:36:39,948 --> 00:36:40,866
Something wrong?

484
00:36:40,866 --> 00:36:42,409
I never liked red lights.

485
00:36:42,492 --> 00:36:45,245
Reminds me of my years in a bordello.

486
00:36:51,043 --> 00:36:52,961
Howdy.

487
00:36:53,045 --> 00:36:55,047
Howdy-do-dee.

488
00:36:55,172 --> 00:36:56,715
You got the time?

489
00:36:56,715 --> 00:36:59,259
My watch stopped at 11:46.

490
00:36:59,384 --> 00:37:00,385
Darn shame.

491
00:37:00,385 --> 00:37:02,179
Must be the heat.

492
00:37:16,276 --> 00:37:18,320
It's no fake, believe me.

493
00:37:18,403 --> 00:37:19,404
When I retire,

494
00:37:19,404 --> 00:37:22,366
I'd like an agricultural
station like this in Alaska.

495
00:37:22,407 --> 00:37:24,076
You, a sourdough?

496
00:37:24,117 --> 00:37:27,079
Hmph! The sourest. This way.

497
00:37:27,204 --> 00:37:29,623
Step in.

498
00:37:39,591 --> 00:37:41,760
Cute.

499
00:37:45,806 --> 00:37:47,349
The whole thing,

500
00:37:47,391 --> 00:37:50,143
what a world we're making.

501
00:37:50,143 --> 00:37:52,062
I can see why the kids are dropping out.

502
00:37:52,062 --> 00:37:53,063
We should've.

503
00:37:53,105 --> 00:37:54,648
It's an emergency, Dutton.

504
00:37:54,690 --> 00:37:56,108
We got tagged. Period.

505
00:37:56,233 --> 00:37:59,152
Until I saw those photos
from Vandenberg, I...

506
00:37:59,236 --> 00:38:01,405
They brought it on themselves.

507
00:38:01,405 --> 00:38:03,657
Who? The people in Piedmont?

508
00:38:36,273 --> 00:38:38,275
What you said before,

509
00:38:38,317 --> 00:38:40,068
you don't believe the
infection in that capsule

510
00:38:40,068 --> 00:38:41,528
was brought back deliberately, do you?

511
00:38:41,611 --> 00:38:42,738
Skip it. I hope

512
00:38:42,738 --> 00:38:44,948
I'm talking through my hat.

513
00:38:44,990 --> 00:38:46,992
Put your hands on
that glass, palms down.

514
00:38:47,034 --> 00:38:49,286
It's a finger and palm
print analyzer. It...

515
00:38:49,369 --> 00:38:53,040
Reads a composite of 10,000
dermatographic lines.

516
00:38:53,123 --> 00:38:54,541
How'd you know that?

517
00:38:54,541 --> 00:38:57,711
Oh, Dutton, I have a
long criminal record.

518
00:38:57,794 --> 00:38:59,421
Then you're in trouble.

519
00:38:59,421 --> 00:39:01,757
This machine has a long memory.

520
00:39:03,717 --> 00:39:06,678
It gives you final clearance
to enter Wildfire.

521
00:39:13,518 --> 00:39:16,104
Isothermal
reading for M.C. Levels 4 and 5

522
00:39:16,188 --> 00:39:20,108
is Z.B. And R.A. Over 2.9.

523
00:39:22,361 --> 00:39:23,028
How's Piedmont?

524
00:39:23,028 --> 00:39:24,196
I had to order up a 7-12.

525
00:39:24,196 --> 00:39:25,155
How are you, Ruth?

526
00:39:25,197 --> 00:39:27,407
No other way to halt
the infection spread.

527
00:39:27,449 --> 00:39:27,657
Oh.

528
00:39:27,699 --> 00:39:30,118
Oh, you two know
each other, don't you?

529
00:39:30,202 --> 00:39:31,536
By reputation only.

530
00:39:31,536 --> 00:39:35,248
Ah, yes, up to now we've
had to worship from a far.

531
00:39:35,374 --> 00:39:37,918
Be good, Ruth.

532
00:39:44,674 --> 00:39:45,926
Any messages for me

533
00:39:45,926 --> 00:39:47,469
from the White House?

534
00:39:47,594 --> 00:39:50,055
Not a thing, Dr. Stone, or you'd have it.

535
00:39:50,097 --> 00:39:51,431
No personal messages?

536
00:39:51,473 --> 00:39:52,265
No, ma'am.

537
00:39:52,307 --> 00:39:53,350
Nothing from Dr. Robertson?

538
00:39:53,350 --> 00:39:54,309
Are you sure, Sergeant?

539
00:39:54,393 --> 00:39:58,105
Dr. Stone, sir, I have
one thing to do. Just one.

540
00:39:58,188 --> 00:40:00,649
Everything else is fully automatic,

541
00:40:00,649 --> 00:40:03,110
computerized and self-regulating.

542
00:40:03,193 --> 00:40:06,405
I... I listen for a
little bell in here.

543
00:40:06,488 --> 00:40:08,115
Ding-a-ling. That
means a message

544
00:40:08,115 --> 00:40:09,825
coming in is for the Wildfire Team.

545
00:40:09,908 --> 00:40:11,576
Precisely! An M.C.N. Communication.

546
00:40:11,576 --> 00:40:12,536
I'm expecting one.

547
00:40:12,619 --> 00:40:14,830
Yes, sir! Top priority.

548
00:40:14,955 --> 00:40:17,082
Ding-a-ling. I push a button

549
00:40:17,124 --> 00:40:19,418
and all five level control
centers are notified

550
00:40:19,418 --> 00:40:20,502
the same time you are.

551
00:40:20,627 --> 00:40:22,546
The bell hasn't rung, sir.

552
00:40:22,629 --> 00:40:25,048
Thanks for the tour, Sergeant.

553
00:40:28,301 --> 00:40:31,138
Dr. Dutton. Thank you.

554
00:40:31,221 --> 00:40:32,681
Will you follow me, Dr. Leavitt?

555
00:40:32,681 --> 00:40:34,391
And may I have your glasses, please?

556
00:40:34,474 --> 00:40:34,891
What for'?

557
00:40:34,891 --> 00:40:37,394
They'll be treated and
returned to you, Doctor.

558
00:40:37,519 --> 00:40:38,437
They better be,

559
00:40:38,437 --> 00:40:40,105
or I'll need a white cane.

560
00:40:41,148 --> 00:40:44,484
Who picked Leavitt?

561
00:40:44,526 --> 00:40:46,695
Talk about the Odd Man Hypothesis,

562
00:40:46,695 --> 00:40:48,155
which we haven't yet.

563
00:40:48,155 --> 00:40:49,739
She's really an oddball.

564
00:40:49,823 --> 00:40:51,741
We're lucky to have her.

565
00:40:51,825 --> 00:40:52,868
She's the best equipped of us

566
00:40:52,909 --> 00:40:54,411
to double up for Kirke in microbiology.

567
00:40:54,494 --> 00:40:57,164
When dressed,
the team will proceed

568
00:40:57,164 --> 00:40:58,915
directly to conference room 7.

569
00:41:10,469 --> 00:41:12,888
Keep this with you at all times.

570
00:41:12,971 --> 00:41:15,390
What's it for?

571
00:41:15,474 --> 00:41:16,475
You're the Odd Man.

572
00:41:16,475 --> 00:41:18,185
The key man, quite literally.

573
00:41:18,268 --> 00:41:19,686
This other key,

574
00:41:19,686 --> 00:41:21,646
and Wildfire itself,

575
00:41:21,646 --> 00:41:23,690
depend on your key.

576
00:41:43,376 --> 00:41:45,837
Wildfire's equipped
with a nuclear device

577
00:41:45,837 --> 00:41:46,963
for self-destruct.

578
00:41:47,047 --> 00:41:48,173
In an emergency,

579
00:41:48,173 --> 00:41:50,383
it's activated automatically.

580
00:41:50,425 --> 00:41:52,636
I've just inserted the
key in the main station

581
00:41:52,636 --> 00:41:53,803
that arms the mechanism.

582
00:41:53,887 --> 00:41:55,972
The device is ready for detonation.

583
00:41:56,097 --> 00:41:56,515
When?

584
00:41:56,515 --> 00:41:58,808
Never, we hope.

585
00:41:58,892 --> 00:42:00,602
It only goes off if there's danger

586
00:42:00,644 --> 00:42:02,562
of infection breaking out from here.

587
00:42:02,646 --> 00:42:05,607
That silver key can't be removed.

588
00:42:05,649 --> 00:42:06,441
You're the only one

589
00:42:06,441 --> 00:42:07,692
who can disarm the mechanism

590
00:42:07,692 --> 00:42:08,777
by inserting your red key

591
00:42:08,860 --> 00:42:10,445
in one of the substations

592
00:42:10,445 --> 00:42:12,614
located throughout the facility.

593
00:42:12,656 --> 00:42:14,199
There's a five-minute delay

594
00:42:14,199 --> 00:42:16,284
between the time detonation locks in

595
00:42:16,284 --> 00:42:17,661
and the bomb explodes.

596
00:42:17,744 --> 00:42:20,288
That gives
you a chance to think

597
00:42:20,372 --> 00:42:22,666
and, please God, call it off.

598
00:42:22,749 --> 00:42:25,126
Look, I'm the new boy here. Why me?

599
00:42:25,126 --> 00:42:26,795
Because you're single.

600
00:42:26,878 --> 00:42:30,340
You should have done
your homework, sport.

601
00:42:30,382 --> 00:42:35,804
Page 255, Robbie's Odd Man Hypothesis.

602
00:42:35,845 --> 00:42:37,597
"Results of testing confirm

603
00:42:37,597 --> 00:42:39,891
the Robertson Odd Man Hypothesis:

604
00:42:39,975 --> 00:42:42,519
That an unmarried male should
carry out command decisions

605
00:42:42,644 --> 00:42:45,564
involving thermonuclear
destruct contexts. "

606
00:42:45,605 --> 00:42:48,316
Let me take a look at that.

607
00:42:55,699 --> 00:42:57,909
It's of vital importance

608
00:42:57,951 --> 00:42:59,619
that you always know where you are

609
00:42:59,661 --> 00:43:01,621
in relation to the nearest substation.

610
00:43:01,705 --> 00:43:03,373
To do that, you have to be familiar

611
00:43:03,373 --> 00:43:04,666
with the entire facility.

612
00:43:04,791 --> 00:43:08,712
It can be studied on
this electronic diagram

613
00:43:08,712 --> 00:43:11,339
which rotates to afford an overall view,

614
00:43:11,339 --> 00:43:13,633
or can be stopped at any section.

615
00:43:17,012 --> 00:43:19,723
Detailed plans of the
various levels and labs

616
00:43:19,723 --> 00:43:21,558
are also stored in the system.

617
00:43:25,979 --> 00:43:27,939
We're on level 1 of a five-story

618
00:43:27,939 --> 00:43:30,066
cylindrical underground structure

619
00:43:30,150 --> 00:43:32,527
surrounded by solid rock.

620
00:43:32,611 --> 00:43:34,237
Each level has three substations,

621
00:43:34,237 --> 00:43:35,864
indicated by the yellow lights.

622
00:43:37,949 --> 00:43:39,909
In the event the nuclear
device is triggered,

623
00:43:39,909 --> 00:43:41,411
you can still cancel self-destruct

624
00:43:41,494 --> 00:43:43,705
by inserting your red
key in a substation.

625
00:43:43,830 --> 00:43:47,042
After our last simulation run,

626
00:43:47,125 --> 00:43:49,377
we decided to add two
more substations per level,

627
00:43:49,377 --> 00:43:50,545
but they're not finished.

628
00:43:50,629 --> 00:43:53,548
So don't confuse them
with functioning ones.

629
00:43:53,632 --> 00:43:55,759
At the bottom of the central core

630
00:43:55,759 --> 00:43:58,136
is the apparatus for self-destruct.

631
00:44:02,766 --> 00:44:05,727
Each level is a different color

632
00:44:05,852 --> 00:44:07,062
based on a navy study

633
00:44:07,062 --> 00:44:08,730
of the psychological effects

634
00:44:08,772 --> 00:44:10,398
of color in environments.

635
00:44:10,482 --> 00:44:12,901
Also, each level is biomedically cleaner

636
00:44:12,901 --> 00:44:14,361
than the one above it.

637
00:44:14,361 --> 00:44:15,654
We don't want anything

638
00:44:15,695 --> 00:44:17,864
to contaminate a possible organism.

639
00:44:17,947 --> 00:44:19,991
That would make it twice as hard

640
00:44:19,991 --> 00:44:21,910
to isolate and characterize.

641
00:44:23,536 --> 00:44:25,872
It'll take us 16 hours to descend

642
00:44:25,955 --> 00:44:29,292
through the programmed
decontamination procedures

643
00:44:29,292 --> 00:44:31,628
on the first four levels to level 5

644
00:44:31,628 --> 00:44:33,380
where the main labs are.

645
00:44:33,380 --> 00:44:35,799
Where, exactly, are we now?

646
00:44:35,882 --> 00:44:37,884
There's one way you can
always locate yourself

647
00:44:37,884 --> 00:44:38,927
or any of us instantly.

648
00:44:38,968 --> 00:44:40,637
Simply by calling up projections

649
00:44:40,637 --> 00:44:42,138
from the electronic diagram

650
00:44:42,263 --> 00:44:44,891
on any video monitor
anywhere in Wildfire.

651
00:44:44,974 --> 00:44:46,893
Views such as this.

652
00:44:46,976 --> 00:44:51,773
This shows we're in
conference room 7, level 1.

653
00:44:51,815 --> 00:44:54,526
Each of us is indicated by our initial.

654
00:44:54,609 --> 00:44:56,403
Our movements are continuously monitored

655
00:44:56,403 --> 00:44:57,654
on the electronic diagram.

656
00:44:57,737 --> 00:44:59,447
Where are the patients?

657
00:44:59,447 --> 00:45:01,116
Where's the capsule?

658
00:45:02,242 --> 00:45:04,202
The patients are the yellow X's.

659
00:45:04,244 --> 00:45:06,413
The red circle is the capsule.

660
00:45:06,454 --> 00:45:09,332
On level 5, the patients
and capsule will be isolated

661
00:45:09,332 --> 00:45:11,000
in biologically secure setups.

662
00:45:11,084 --> 00:45:12,377
Are you sure the old man

663
00:45:12,377 --> 00:45:14,045
and the baby are still alive?

664
00:45:29,352 --> 00:45:31,646
What are their chances, Hall?

665
00:45:31,646 --> 00:45:32,605
Uncertain.

666
00:45:32,647 --> 00:45:34,816
I'm hoping the intravenous dextrose

667
00:45:34,858 --> 00:45:36,443
and saline will hold them

668
00:45:36,443 --> 00:45:37,902
until we get to them.

669
00:45:38,820 --> 00:45:40,363
We start decontamination and

670
00:45:40,405 --> 00:45:42,073
immunization procedures now.

671
00:45:48,079 --> 00:45:50,874
You really expect me to fire the thing?

672
00:45:52,709 --> 00:45:54,794
I'm afraid you don't understand.

673
00:45:54,878 --> 00:45:57,380
All you can do is stop it.

674
00:45:57,422 --> 00:45:58,923
In a biological emergency,

675
00:45:58,923 --> 00:46:01,176
the bomb is activated automatically.

676
00:46:01,301 --> 00:46:02,927
It'll then go off within five minutes

677
00:46:02,927 --> 00:46:04,345
unless you get to a substation

678
00:46:04,387 --> 00:46:06,639
and lock in your key.

679
00:46:08,516 --> 00:46:10,477
Oh.

680
00:46:13,396 --> 00:46:15,648
Delta Five to all levels.

681
00:46:15,732 --> 00:46:18,860
We are checking out ray-ban
emergency communications.

682
00:46:18,860 --> 00:46:19,778
This is a test.

683
00:46:36,544 --> 00:46:39,047
Proceed to infrared radiation

684
00:46:39,047 --> 00:46:41,382
decontamination room 1-D.

685
00:46:45,261 --> 00:46:47,347
Also it could be an organism

686
00:46:47,347 --> 00:46:49,808
from another planet
released deliberately.

687
00:46:49,933 --> 00:46:51,976
To wipe us out? Really, Charles!

688
00:46:52,060 --> 00:46:52,894
Just the opposite.

689
00:46:52,936 --> 00:46:54,229
To make friendly contact.

690
00:46:54,270 --> 00:46:56,231
A kind of messenger to show us

691
00:46:56,231 --> 00:46:58,817
life exists elsewhere in the universe.

692
00:46:58,900 --> 00:47:01,152
It could be benign in
its own environment.

693
00:47:01,152 --> 00:47:02,570
Pretty far-fetched.

694
00:47:02,654 --> 00:47:04,989
We can't ignore any possibility.

695
00:47:05,615 --> 00:47:07,283
You are about to

696
00:47:07,283 --> 00:47:09,160
undergo long-wave radiation.

697
00:47:09,244 --> 00:47:10,620
A buzzer will sound.

698
00:47:10,620 --> 00:47:12,789
Close your eyes and stand still

699
00:47:12,789 --> 00:47:14,624
or blindness may result.

700
00:47:37,313 --> 00:47:39,440
We face quite a problem:

701
00:47:39,524 --> 00:47:40,650
How to disinfect the human body,

702
00:47:40,650 --> 00:47:41,609
one of the dirtiest things

703
00:47:41,609 --> 00:47:42,485
in the known universe.

704
00:47:42,610 --> 00:47:45,446
That is without killing the
human being at the same time.

705
00:47:45,446 --> 00:47:46,739
It gets tougher as we go.

706
00:47:46,781 --> 00:47:47,991
Hard on the taxpayers,

707
00:47:47,991 --> 00:47:49,617
the way we burn up uniforms.

708
00:47:49,701 --> 00:47:51,703
They're paper.

709
00:47:51,786 --> 00:47:53,288
I'd swear it was cloth.

710
00:47:53,288 --> 00:47:54,205
New process.

711
00:47:54,289 --> 00:47:56,040
Where's the next substation, Hall?

712
00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:57,584
Left of elevator on level 2.

713
00:47:57,709 --> 00:48:00,587
Right. Across the corridor
from body analysis,

714
00:48:00,587 --> 00:48:02,005
our next port of call.

715
00:48:02,046 --> 00:48:04,340
Not for my alabaster body.

716
00:48:04,424 --> 00:48:05,174
I mean it, Stone.

717
00:48:05,174 --> 00:48:07,427
You can take your body
analyzer and you can...

718
00:48:12,348 --> 00:48:14,893
Sit down, please.

719
00:48:21,149 --> 00:48:23,985
Please look at the screen
in front of you.

720
00:48:25,653 --> 00:48:27,363
Please place your body so

721
00:48:27,363 --> 00:48:29,741
that all points are obliterated.

722
00:48:38,333 --> 00:48:40,376
That is fine. We may proceed.

723
00:48:40,460 --> 00:48:42,795
State your name for the records.

724
00:48:42,795 --> 00:48:43,922
Surname first.

725
00:48:43,922 --> 00:48:44,881
Mark Hall.

726
00:48:47,175 --> 00:48:47,926
Hall, Mark.

727
00:48:47,926 --> 00:48:50,386
Thank you for your cooperation.

728
00:48:50,470 --> 00:48:52,472
Yes, dear.

729
00:48:56,684 --> 00:49:00,229
Please answer the
following questions yes or no.

730
00:49:00,271 --> 00:49:01,814
Have you any allergies?

731
00:49:01,814 --> 00:49:03,483
Yes, to ragweed pollen.

732
00:49:05,485 --> 00:49:07,403
Okay, I'll repeat for
your memory cells...

733
00:49:07,487 --> 00:49:09,447
Please repeat your response

734
00:49:09,447 --> 00:49:11,115
for our memory cells.

735
00:49:11,199 --> 00:49:14,077
Ragweed pollen!

736
00:49:17,205 --> 00:49:19,624
This ends the formal questioning.

737
00:49:19,624 --> 00:49:20,875
Please undress.

738
00:49:27,382 --> 00:49:30,802
This is a scan for fungal lesions.

739
00:49:41,229 --> 00:49:43,231
Dr. Stone, this is level 2 control.

740
00:49:43,231 --> 00:49:44,857
The answer is affirmative.

741
00:49:44,899 --> 00:49:47,819
Major Manchek contacted the White House

742
00:49:47,819 --> 00:49:49,612
at 11:23 this morning.

743
00:49:50,947 --> 00:49:54,909
Contact on
all leads is "R" for ready.

744
00:49:54,951 --> 00:49:57,286
Do not be nervous.

745
00:49:57,286 --> 00:49:59,622
I'm not nervous.

746
00:50:00,748 --> 00:50:03,126
Physical parameters
are being measured.

747
00:50:03,167 --> 00:50:06,921
There's no need to be nervous, Dr. Leavitt.

748
00:50:07,839 --> 00:50:11,926
Please raise your left arm.

749
00:50:19,392 --> 00:50:22,103
Please sit up, facing the scan screen

750
00:50:22,103 --> 00:50:23,730
and watch carefully.

751
00:50:47,170 --> 00:50:49,630
You have received pneumatic injections

752
00:50:49,630 --> 00:50:51,382
of booster immunizations.

753
00:50:51,466 --> 00:50:53,843
You may get dressed. Thank you.

754
00:50:53,926 --> 00:50:56,512
This recording is now ended.

755
00:51:02,685 --> 00:51:03,644
That body analyzer!

756
00:51:03,644 --> 00:51:06,397
I want to be there when
the A.M.A. Gets wind of it.

757
00:51:06,439 --> 00:51:07,815
So far it's only been used by NASA

758
00:51:07,815 --> 00:51:09,192
to diagnose astronauts in space.

759
00:51:09,275 --> 00:51:12,445
You doctors better start
making house calls again.

760
00:51:21,370 --> 00:51:24,290
This is a xenon lamp apparatus.

761
00:51:24,290 --> 00:51:27,001
To insure complete effectiveness,

762
00:51:27,001 --> 00:51:29,087
spread your feet apart.

763
00:51:32,298 --> 00:51:34,801
To protect scalp and facial hair,

764
00:51:34,884 --> 00:51:36,302
place the metal helmet

765
00:51:36,302 --> 00:51:37,804
securely on the head.

766
00:51:42,767 --> 00:51:45,394
Make sure the helmet is firmly seated

767
00:51:45,394 --> 00:51:47,105
and the visor lowered.

768
00:51:47,188 --> 00:51:50,108
Then raise your arms and wait.

769
00:52:09,919 --> 00:52:12,463
You may now remove helmet.

770
00:52:14,423 --> 00:52:17,635
You will notice a fine
white ash on your body.

771
00:52:17,718 --> 00:52:20,763
This is the outer epithelial
layers of your skin

772
00:52:20,763 --> 00:52:22,515
that have been burned away.

773
00:52:24,433 --> 00:52:26,769
Please replace the helmet in compartment

774
00:52:26,769 --> 00:52:29,230
and proceed through shower in next room.

775
00:52:29,313 --> 00:52:32,233
Then you may dress
and descend to level 4.

776
00:52:39,448 --> 00:52:41,534
We're required to rest
for six hours on level 4

777
00:52:41,534 --> 00:52:43,035
after exposure to the xenon lamp.

778
00:52:43,119 --> 00:52:45,204
So go to your rooms and sleep.

779
00:52:45,329 --> 00:52:47,874
At the end of the corridor
is the cafeteria.

780
00:52:47,957 --> 00:52:50,668
We'll meet there at 0400 hours...

781
00:52:50,668 --> 00:52:51,544
tomorrow.

782
00:52:55,673 --> 00:52:58,342
Pharmacology
to maintenance L.B.

783
00:52:58,467 --> 00:53:00,678
One of our R.F. S shows six points

784
00:53:00,678 --> 00:53:02,889
over nominal at pressure three.

785
00:53:06,976 --> 00:53:09,312
Watchdog to all levels.

786
00:53:09,312 --> 00:53:11,022
Scoop 7 capsule secure.

787
00:53:11,105 --> 00:53:15,151
Biocheck 66 plus 9 minus OL-5.

788
00:53:29,165 --> 00:53:31,375
LEO control to KEEPSAKE 5.

789
00:53:31,500 --> 00:53:36,797
The pressure integrity check
runs 2.54 G-CM to the second.

790
00:53:36,881 --> 00:53:39,842
Please confirm.

791
00:54:12,208 --> 00:54:15,336
A new form of life.

792
00:54:17,380 --> 00:54:20,174
Like Rudolph Karp's bacteria.

793
00:54:20,216 --> 00:54:22,051
Fools!

794
00:54:22,134 --> 00:54:23,761
They refuse to believe

795
00:54:23,761 --> 00:54:25,846
life exists in meteorites.

796
00:54:25,930 --> 00:54:29,725
I showed them at the Astrophysics
Conference what I just showed you.

797
00:54:29,850 --> 00:54:32,186
But no, even with a microscope,

798
00:54:32,186 --> 00:54:33,479
they are blind.

799
00:54:33,521 --> 00:54:34,605
What do I have to do?

800
00:54:34,605 --> 00:54:35,856
Hit them over the head?

801
00:54:55,084 --> 00:54:57,044
I'm glad you're amused, gentlemen,

802
00:54:57,044 --> 00:54:59,338
but it might just turn out to be true.

803
00:54:59,422 --> 00:55:00,464
During this symposium,

804
00:55:00,464 --> 00:55:01,966
we'll discuss the possibility

805
00:55:02,091 --> 00:55:04,510
that intelligent life
on a distant planet

806
00:55:04,552 --> 00:55:06,595
may be no larger than a flea.

807
00:55:08,264 --> 00:55:11,976
Perhaps no larger
than a bacterium.

808
00:55:15,980 --> 00:55:18,691
Time to wake up, sir.

809
00:55:18,733 --> 00:55:21,777
Time to wake up, sir!

810
00:55:26,240 --> 00:55:28,200
Hello?

811
00:55:28,242 --> 00:55:30,953
Time to wake up, sir.

812
00:55:32,413 --> 00:55:33,873
Who are you?

813
00:55:33,873 --> 00:55:36,709
Time to wake up, sir.

814
00:55:42,757 --> 00:55:45,092
Do you wish something, sir'?

815
00:55:45,134 --> 00:55:47,094
Your name.

816
00:55:47,219 --> 00:55:50,139
Will that be all, sir?

817
00:55:50,139 --> 00:55:52,099
For the moment.

818
00:56:14,288 --> 00:56:16,916
This is the answering
service supervisor.

819
00:56:16,999 --> 00:56:18,417
We wish you would adopt

820
00:56:18,417 --> 00:56:20,628
a more serious attitude, Dr. Hall.

821
00:56:20,669 --> 00:56:23,255
Sorry. Her voice is quite luscious.

822
00:56:23,381 --> 00:56:26,175
The voice belongs to Miss Gladys Stevens

823
00:56:26,175 --> 00:56:27,718
who is 63 years old.

824
00:56:27,802 --> 00:56:30,012
She lives in Omaha and makes her living

825
00:56:30,012 --> 00:56:32,598
taping messages for
voice-reminder systems.

826
00:56:32,681 --> 00:56:35,101
Much obliged.

827
00:56:35,226 --> 00:56:37,478
Let's not get sidetracked
on Rudolph Karp

828
00:56:37,478 --> 00:56:38,979
and his meteorite theories.

829
00:56:39,063 --> 00:56:41,065
His technique was worthless!

830
00:56:41,107 --> 00:56:43,067
I still think we should contact him.

831
00:56:43,109 --> 00:56:44,610
Fair enough. Where is he?

832
00:56:44,652 --> 00:56:45,945
Behind the Iron Curtain.

833
00:56:45,945 --> 00:56:48,197
He couldn't get a research grant here.

834
00:56:51,909 --> 00:56:55,871
H.P. Nutrient now
available in the cafeteria

835
00:56:55,955 --> 00:56:59,166
for staff members
from sectors 1 through 6.

836
00:56:59,250 --> 00:57:00,000
Hemlock!

837
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:02,503
All for you, Hippocrates.

838
00:57:02,586 --> 00:57:04,630
Not your own venom?

839
00:57:06,674 --> 00:57:09,135
Tastes like orange juice.

840
00:57:09,176 --> 00:57:11,262
Nutrient 42-5.

841
00:57:11,345 --> 00:57:13,139
Developed for the astronauts.

842
00:57:13,264 --> 00:57:15,975
Eight ounces satisfy all daily
nutritional requirements.

843
00:57:16,058 --> 00:57:17,935
Except coffee.

844
00:57:17,977 --> 00:57:20,396
And lipid soluble vitamins.

845
00:57:20,438 --> 00:57:21,939
For that we have these.

846
00:57:21,939 --> 00:57:22,982
Help yourself.

847
00:57:23,065 --> 00:57:25,359
So what's the point
of the cafeteria?

848
00:57:25,443 --> 00:57:27,945
Wildfire isn't always on crash status.

849
00:57:27,987 --> 00:57:29,780
Maybe there's some sugar.

850
00:57:29,780 --> 00:57:30,030
Nope.

851
00:57:30,030 --> 00:57:32,825
Nothing that might provide
a bacterial growth medium.

852
00:57:32,908 --> 00:57:34,869
Precisely. No sugar in the gut.

853
00:57:34,952 --> 00:57:37,163
I'd like a cigarette right now.

854
00:57:37,288 --> 00:57:38,747
It's after meals you miss them.

855
00:57:38,747 --> 00:57:40,666
You should have no trouble on level 5.

856
00:57:40,708 --> 00:57:43,002
You won't even get
this close to a meal.

857
00:57:43,085 --> 00:57:45,588
We'll be entirely on
high-protein nutrients.

858
00:57:45,629 --> 00:57:48,007
I planned our work in three stages.

859
00:57:48,090 --> 00:57:50,009
One: Detection.

860
00:57:50,092 --> 00:57:52,803
First step is to confirm
that an organism is present.

861
00:57:52,887 --> 00:57:54,138
Two: Characterization.

862
00:57:54,138 --> 00:57:56,474
How is it structured,
how does it work?

863
00:57:56,515 --> 00:57:59,268
Three: Control.

864
00:57:59,393 --> 00:58:01,854
How to contain and exterminate?

865
00:58:01,937 --> 00:58:04,190
Jeremy, on this matter of extermination,

866
00:58:04,190 --> 00:58:05,441
we should go slowly.

867
00:58:05,483 --> 00:58:06,859
Without ever realizing it,

868
00:58:06,859 --> 00:58:09,695
we might destroy a highly
intelligent form of life.

869
00:58:09,778 --> 00:58:10,905
Why don't we get going?

870
00:58:10,946 --> 00:58:12,698
I've got two patients down there.

871
00:58:12,781 --> 00:58:14,200
The team has two subjects.

872
00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:15,951
They're not guinea pigs, Stone.

873
00:58:17,411 --> 00:58:20,831
You may now
proceed to level 5, gentlemen.

874
00:58:26,754 --> 00:58:29,673
Stop by your rooms and insert these

875
00:58:29,673 --> 00:58:31,842
before taking the elevator.

876
00:58:31,926 --> 00:58:34,637
I have risked drowning
in that foul bath.

877
00:58:34,720 --> 00:58:35,763
I have been parboiled,

878
00:58:35,763 --> 00:58:37,139
irradiated and xenon flashed.

879
00:58:37,139 --> 00:58:38,432
And now you suggest I...

880
00:58:38,516 --> 00:58:38,974
I have to!

881
00:58:38,974 --> 00:58:41,352
We haven't done anything
about the G.I. Tract yet.

882
00:58:41,435 --> 00:58:42,686
On level 5 we must be

883
00:58:42,686 --> 00:58:44,688
as nearly germ free as possible.

884
00:58:46,649 --> 00:58:49,944
Anyone care to join me for a smoke?

885
00:58:52,154 --> 00:58:54,281
Watchdog
to level 2, sector D.

886
00:58:54,365 --> 00:58:56,784
You are Red Kappa Phoenix status.

887
00:58:58,035 --> 00:59:00,538
Off the main
corridor on the outer rim

888
00:59:00,663 --> 00:59:03,374
are the living quarters,
conference room,

889
00:59:03,374 --> 00:59:05,960
cafeteria, bio-safety maintenance, etc.

890
00:59:06,001 --> 00:59:08,045
Inside are the labs.

891
00:59:08,087 --> 00:59:10,381
Where is the library?

892
00:59:10,464 --> 00:59:11,674
No need for books.

893
00:59:11,674 --> 00:59:13,801
Everything's in the computer.

894
00:59:13,842 --> 00:59:16,345
Notice the capsule has
already been delivered

895
00:59:16,470 --> 00:59:19,265
by the sterile conveyor system

896
00:59:19,265 --> 00:59:22,142
to the main control lab here.

897
00:59:22,268 --> 00:59:23,519
Your patients are here

898
00:59:23,519 --> 00:59:25,521
in the hot room of miscellaneous.

899
00:59:25,604 --> 00:59:27,815
We can't have any
direct contact with them.

900
00:59:27,815 --> 00:59:28,399
Poor souls.

901
00:59:28,482 --> 00:59:31,277
Dr. Dutton
and Dr. Hall are wanted

902
00:59:31,277 --> 00:59:33,028
in main control immediately.

903
00:59:34,863 --> 00:59:37,408
Hey!

904
00:59:37,491 --> 00:59:39,285
If the patients are sealed off,

905
00:59:39,285 --> 00:59:40,619
how do I get to them?

906
00:59:40,703 --> 00:59:42,288
Ever used a glove box?

907
00:59:42,288 --> 00:59:42,663
No.

908
00:59:42,746 --> 00:59:44,915
Wildfire's gone a step further.

909
00:59:44,999 --> 00:59:47,418
Whole rooms that operate
like glove boxes.

910
00:59:47,501 --> 00:59:49,420
You'll be working in one shortly.

911
01:00:00,889 --> 01:00:03,058
We have a magnetic "K" indices.

912
01:00:03,058 --> 01:00:05,561
Give us a code 3 when you get it.

913
01:00:22,036 --> 01:00:24,538
I wanted you here
while we find out

914
01:00:24,622 --> 01:00:25,748
if there's anything still

915
01:00:25,748 --> 01:00:27,416
biologically active in the capsule.

916
01:00:27,541 --> 01:00:28,584
Suggestions?

917
01:00:28,584 --> 01:00:29,960
Use a buffalo.

918
01:00:30,044 --> 01:00:32,254
Audio.

919
01:00:52,107 --> 01:00:55,069
Detectors "E"
through "G" correction.

920
01:00:55,152 --> 01:00:56,737
Negative "N" scan.

921
01:00:56,737 --> 01:00:59,365
Negative "N" scope in L Y-1.

922
01:00:59,490 --> 01:01:02,368
Affirmative. "N" indicator in MP-4.

923
01:01:02,368 --> 01:01:03,702
I will repeat.

924
01:01:03,786 --> 01:01:05,454
Negative "N" scan.

925
01:01:05,454 --> 01:01:08,248
Negative "N" scope in L Y-1.

926
01:01:08,374 --> 01:01:09,625
Affirmative.

927
01:01:09,667 --> 01:01:12,211
"N" indicator in MP-4.

928
01:01:35,025 --> 01:01:36,485
Whatever killed them at Piedmont

929
01:01:36,527 --> 01:01:38,612
is still there and
still as potent as ever.

930
01:01:38,696 --> 01:01:40,239
If potent's the word.

931
01:01:40,239 --> 01:01:41,782
Let's try a rhesus.

932
01:01:41,907 --> 01:01:44,451
Yeah. We'll want
a postmortem on it anyway.

933
01:01:56,046 --> 01:01:58,257
Housekeeping to level 5.

934
01:01:58,382 --> 01:02:00,968
Clean sweep schedule "B" now in effect.

935
01:02:01,051 --> 01:02:02,970
Germfree animal technicians,

936
01:02:03,011 --> 01:02:05,055
please consult schedule

937
01:02:57,316 --> 01:02:58,484
So, okay.

938
01:02:58,525 --> 01:03:01,528
Isolate and identify.

939
01:03:01,612 --> 01:03:04,615
Right. You and I'll scan
the capsule, Ruth.

940
01:03:04,740 --> 01:03:07,242
Charlie, you work on these in autopsy.

941
01:03:07,242 --> 01:03:08,702
Open the S.L., Ruth.

942
01:03:36,855 --> 01:03:39,107
Adjust S. Y. System

943
01:03:39,107 --> 01:03:41,276
for aseptricity as follows.

944
01:03:41,318 --> 01:03:42,820
Points 2-A at 5.

945
01:03:42,820 --> 01:03:45,864
Points 9 through 12 at plus 1.

946
01:03:45,989 --> 01:03:49,201
Plus 3, plus 6 at minus.

947
01:04:26,530 --> 01:04:29,116
Run an initial vector study, Charlie.

948
01:04:29,199 --> 01:04:31,577
Find out how the disease
enters the body.

949
01:04:32,953 --> 01:04:35,080
Charlie?

950
01:04:35,080 --> 01:04:36,665
Yes.

951
01:04:36,707 --> 01:04:39,293
Yes, the vector study first,

952
01:04:39,293 --> 01:04:41,795
then autopsy. Incredible.

953
01:04:44,381 --> 01:04:47,009
Dutton, be careful.

954
01:04:47,092 --> 01:04:49,261
Let our distinguished surgeon
handle the knife.

955
01:04:49,344 --> 01:04:52,389
Fine, but not for a while.

956
01:04:52,431 --> 01:04:56,101
First, I'm a pediatrician
and a geriatrist.

957
01:04:56,184 --> 01:04:57,227
Take it easy.

958
01:04:57,227 --> 01:04:59,938
Charlie will have a technician.

959
01:05:13,243 --> 01:05:15,537
What's been done for them?

960
01:05:17,664 --> 01:05:19,249
Just plasma for the old man,

961
01:05:19,249 --> 01:05:20,584
dextrose for the baby.

962
01:05:20,667 --> 01:05:22,794
Your therapy?

963
01:05:22,794 --> 01:05:25,213
No. Medcom's.

964
01:05:25,297 --> 01:05:27,841
Do I call you Miss Medcom?

965
01:05:27,925 --> 01:05:29,593
If you like, Dr. Hall.

966
01:05:29,593 --> 01:05:31,428
My name's Karen Anson.

967
01:05:31,511 --> 01:05:34,765
Good. I couldn't cope with two machines.

968
01:05:34,765 --> 01:05:36,475
How does this work?

969
01:05:36,600 --> 01:05:37,476
You're lucky.

970
01:05:37,476 --> 01:05:40,479
Medcom's got one of the best minds here.

971
01:05:40,520 --> 01:05:42,105
It's a medical data analyzer

972
01:05:42,105 --> 01:05:44,483
that can diagnose as well as prescribe.

973
01:05:44,524 --> 01:05:47,653
It's hooked up to the
main computer on level 1.

974
01:05:47,736 --> 01:05:49,905
Every console and
instrument in Wildfire

975
01:05:49,988 --> 01:05:51,823
is plugged into the main computer

976
01:05:51,823 --> 01:05:53,283
on a time-sharing basis.

977
01:05:53,408 --> 01:05:54,534
All our key lab studies

978
01:05:54,534 --> 01:05:56,161
are done on automated machines.

979
01:05:56,203 --> 01:05:58,121
I prefer the personal touch.

980
01:05:58,205 --> 01:06:00,749
It's hard to come
by in those suits.

981
01:06:06,922 --> 01:06:08,215
Have you worked in them?

982
01:06:08,256 --> 01:06:08,966
Not for real.

983
01:06:08,966 --> 01:06:11,218
But I've been drilling for three months.

984
01:06:11,301 --> 01:06:12,511
Thank God for an expert.

985
01:06:12,511 --> 01:06:14,221
This sort of thing's new to me.

986
01:06:14,304 --> 01:06:16,306
It's new to all of us.

987
01:06:16,348 --> 01:06:19,059
Until now, Wildfire's been like a game.

988
01:06:19,101 --> 01:06:22,270
We've even had simulation
biowar games here

989
01:06:22,354 --> 01:06:24,815
with live subjects... volunteers.

990
01:06:26,441 --> 01:06:29,152
I mean, I'm scared.

991
01:06:29,236 --> 01:06:31,947
I never believed
this could really happen.

992
01:06:32,030 --> 01:06:33,991
Well, it has happened.

993
01:06:34,074 --> 01:06:37,160
I'll need some lab tests.

994
01:06:51,258 --> 01:06:54,344
Use this to check off
what you want.

995
01:06:55,512 --> 01:06:58,432
Just touch the pen to the screen.

996
01:07:14,406 --> 01:07:16,199
You draw the bloods,

997
01:07:16,199 --> 01:07:18,326
I'll do the physicals.

998
01:07:21,496 --> 01:07:23,457
Use the bar.

999
01:07:23,540 --> 01:07:26,460
The tunnel seals off
automatically behind you.

1000
01:07:26,501 --> 01:07:27,919
The only way you might possibly

1001
01:07:27,919 --> 01:07:29,546
break your suit is with a scalpel,

1002
01:07:29,629 --> 01:07:32,674
and a surgeon isn't likely to do that.

1003
01:07:57,657 --> 01:07:59,826
Bio-safety to S.L.

1004
01:07:59,826 --> 01:08:01,995
An animal in airlock 0-9-5.

1005
01:08:02,037 --> 01:08:05,957
Reconfirm red R.D.P.
Status before transfer.

1006
01:08:46,790 --> 01:08:49,334
Second scan completed.

1007
01:08:49,376 --> 01:08:51,294
Score, nothing to nothing.

1008
01:08:51,336 --> 01:08:52,671
Go to 100 power.

1009
01:09:06,143 --> 01:09:07,185
No, Ruth.

1010
01:09:07,185 --> 01:09:08,895
Use only one microscanner.

1011
01:09:09,020 --> 01:09:10,063
You being paid by the hour?

1012
01:09:10,063 --> 01:09:12,023
We could cover the capsule
in one half the time.

1013
01:09:12,107 --> 01:09:13,441
There's less chance of missing something

1014
01:09:13,441 --> 01:09:14,818
when we both concentrate on one screen.

1015
01:09:14,901 --> 01:09:15,986
Let's go directly to the inside.

1016
01:09:16,027 --> 01:09:17,821
We can assume they put
the Scoop on the thing

1017
01:09:17,904 --> 01:09:19,990
to scoop something into it.

1018
01:09:20,115 --> 01:09:22,033
They sure got what
they were looking for.

1019
01:09:22,033 --> 01:09:24,119
We're not here to make accusations.

1020
01:09:24,119 --> 01:09:25,620
We have a job to do

1021
01:09:25,704 --> 01:09:27,205
purely as scientists.

1022
01:09:27,205 --> 01:09:28,623
Maybe not so pure.

1023
01:09:30,542 --> 01:09:33,461
Continue the scan, Ruth, on the outside.

1024
01:09:49,853 --> 01:09:51,438
No, don't do that.

1025
01:09:51,438 --> 01:09:53,398
We'll use the hands.

1026
01:09:53,481 --> 01:09:54,524
Nothing can happen, sir.

1027
01:09:54,524 --> 01:09:55,734
I'm faster than the hands.

1028
01:09:55,775 --> 01:09:57,819
I want you out of the hot room.

1029
01:10:03,700 --> 01:10:06,161
B.Z. Doris to I.Z. Alice.

1030
01:10:06,244 --> 01:10:10,707
S.D.T. Energy output
is 1.8 to 3.0 joules

1031
01:10:10,790 --> 01:10:13,710
with rate two to three milliradians.

1032
01:10:13,752 --> 01:10:16,046
And we still need those blankets.

1033
01:10:17,214 --> 01:10:18,006
No sweat, sir.

1034
01:10:18,006 --> 01:10:19,549
Those cages are airtight.

1035
01:10:19,591 --> 01:10:21,551
I wish you would sweat
a little more, Toby.

1036
01:10:21,593 --> 01:10:25,013
Sweat is a safeguard against some
kinds of bacteria and carelessness.

1037
01:10:25,055 --> 01:10:27,265
Use the hands.

1038
01:10:54,125 --> 01:10:56,086
Wow!

1039
01:10:56,211 --> 01:10:59,297
Transmitted by air, as we thought.

1040
01:10:59,422 --> 01:11:02,008
Now we've got to determine its size.

1041
01:11:02,092 --> 01:11:04,427
Could be a gas or some kind of a virus.

1042
01:11:04,511 --> 01:11:08,306
We'll use a hundred
angstrom filter to begin.

1043
01:11:08,431 --> 01:11:10,517
About the size of a small virus.

1044
01:11:28,535 --> 01:11:30,787
All systems go, sir.

1045
01:11:47,929 --> 01:11:49,055
Whatever it is,

1046
01:11:49,097 --> 01:11:51,141
it's larger than a virus.

1047
01:11:51,266 --> 01:11:53,184
We'll try a one micron filter.

1048
01:11:53,268 --> 01:11:55,312
Hang in there, baby.

1049
01:12:05,363 --> 01:12:06,573
He must be pretty big.

1050
01:12:06,573 --> 01:12:08,408
I'm gonna get me a fly swatter.

1051
01:12:08,491 --> 01:12:09,075
Do that.

1052
01:12:09,075 --> 01:12:11,202
Here goes with two microns.

1053
01:12:23,798 --> 01:12:25,842
Uh-huh.

1054
01:12:25,925 --> 01:12:27,927
Nasty.

1055
01:12:27,969 --> 01:12:30,597
At least we'll be able
to get a good look at it.

1056
01:12:30,597 --> 01:12:31,514
Dutton to Stone.

1057
01:12:31,639 --> 01:12:33,475
We've just found out its size:

1058
01:12:33,475 --> 01:12:35,435
About two microns in diameter.

1059
01:12:35,518 --> 01:12:37,604
Big enough to be a complete cell.

1060
01:12:37,645 --> 01:12:38,521
Interesting.

1061
01:12:38,563 --> 01:12:40,648
There's a good chance it's alive.

1062
01:12:40,648 --> 01:12:42,192
Airborne transmission?

1063
01:12:42,275 --> 01:12:44,486
Yes. What have you found?

1064
01:12:44,569 --> 01:12:45,487
So far nothing.

1065
01:12:45,487 --> 01:12:47,238
Our Nobel laureate here

1066
01:12:47,322 --> 01:12:49,199
won't scan on the inside
because he says...

1067
01:12:49,199 --> 01:12:49,908
All right, Ruth.

1068
01:12:49,991 --> 01:12:51,576
Thanks, Charlie. Keep at it.

1069
01:12:53,953 --> 01:12:56,414
It's pointless to go on scanning outside.

1070
01:12:56,498 --> 01:12:57,874
If it's two microns in diameter,

1071
01:12:57,874 --> 01:12:59,209
it would've showed up at 440.

1072
01:12:59,292 --> 01:13:01,961
True, but we didn't know
that before, did we?

1073
01:13:02,045 --> 01:13:04,589
We'll start with five power on the inside.

1074
01:13:04,672 --> 01:13:06,341
Stick to established procedure.

1075
01:13:06,341 --> 01:13:08,802
Establishment gonna
fall down and go boom.

1076
01:13:08,885 --> 01:13:09,886
Switch to manual, Ruth.

1077
01:13:09,886 --> 01:13:11,346
The interior's too irregular

1078
01:13:11,471 --> 01:13:13,306
to probe on automatic.

1079
01:13:39,791 --> 01:13:41,709
More light, huh?

1080
01:14:25,003 --> 01:14:26,963
Here's his blood value now.

1081
01:14:31,509 --> 01:14:33,887
Half normal. Severely anemic.

1082
01:14:39,726 --> 01:14:41,728
Wake up, sir.

1083
01:14:43,855 --> 01:14:45,982
Can you hear me?

1084
01:14:47,192 --> 01:14:49,152
What's your name?

1085
01:14:54,240 --> 01:14:55,492
Jackson.

1086
01:14:55,492 --> 01:14:56,576
What?

1087
01:14:59,662 --> 01:15:01,581
Jackson.

1088
01:15:05,293 --> 01:15:07,462
Stay awake, Mr. Jackson.

1089
01:15:08,463 --> 01:15:10,381
Stay awake!

1090
01:15:21,559 --> 01:15:24,187
Tongue blade.

1091
01:15:24,270 --> 01:15:27,482
Sixty-eight
degrees on 1-4-0-7.

1092
01:15:27,565 --> 01:15:29,526
Sixty-one
on 1-2-0-3.

1093
01:15:30,401 --> 01:15:34,364
Loss rate is minus 0-0-12.

1094
01:15:34,489 --> 01:15:37,909
Please copy and confirm
all receiving locks.

1095
01:15:58,054 --> 01:15:59,597
You can tell you're a bachelor.

1096
01:15:59,597 --> 01:16:00,223
What was that?

1097
01:16:00,306 --> 01:16:03,017
I didn't say anything.

1098
01:16:05,395 --> 01:16:07,814
We're doing an isotope scan.

1099
01:16:07,897 --> 01:16:09,148
How the bugs get into the body.

1100
01:16:09,190 --> 01:16:10,400
Thought you should watch it.

1101
01:16:10,441 --> 01:16:11,859
I assume it was inhaled.

1102
01:16:11,859 --> 01:16:14,487
Not likely it's absorbed
through the skin.

1103
01:16:14,571 --> 01:16:16,489
That's what we'll find out now:

1104
01:16:16,489 --> 01:16:18,032
The mechanism of death.

1105
01:17:12,795 --> 01:17:16,841
We'll look at a
replay of that at speed 6.

1106
01:17:25,933 --> 01:17:28,144
That tells us
what we want to know, Hall.

1107
01:17:28,227 --> 01:17:30,271
The organism is inhaled.

1108
01:17:30,313 --> 01:17:32,607
The clotting begins in the lungs
and spreads outward.

1109
01:17:32,690 --> 01:17:34,817
I didn't think it possible.

1110
01:17:34,901 --> 01:17:36,402
I didn't think the total volume

1111
01:17:36,402 --> 01:17:38,154
of blood could solidify that fast.

1112
01:17:38,196 --> 01:17:39,447
I hoped maybe one crucial clot

1113
01:17:39,447 --> 01:17:40,490
might form in the brain,

1114
01:17:40,490 --> 01:17:42,075
which was what made them go insane,

1115
01:17:42,116 --> 01:17:44,327
and then the rest of the
blood clot more slowly.

1116
01:17:44,410 --> 01:17:46,329
We'd have a chance to cure that.

1117
01:17:46,412 --> 01:17:47,080
Cure what?

1118
01:17:47,080 --> 01:17:48,831
We don't know what it is.

1119
01:17:48,956 --> 01:17:52,960
Stone and Leavitt haven't been
able to isolate the hellish thing.

1120
01:17:53,044 --> 01:17:55,505
Of course they will in time.

1121
01:17:58,341 --> 01:18:00,343
Of course.

1122
01:18:32,500 --> 01:18:34,502
Hold it.

1123
01:18:38,172 --> 01:18:41,175
At the edge of that
shadow, I think...

1124
01:18:41,217 --> 01:18:43,344
Me too.

1125
01:18:45,722 --> 01:18:47,765
It's an indentation.

1126
01:18:47,807 --> 01:18:52,019
Yes, about the
size of a pencil point.

1127
01:18:52,103 --> 01:18:54,021
Go to 40.

1128
01:19:02,822 --> 01:19:04,741
Go to 60.

1129
01:19:10,830 --> 01:19:13,207
Jeremy,
do you think maybe...

1130
01:19:13,249 --> 01:19:16,085
Maybe it's
just a grain of sand.

1131
01:19:18,463 --> 01:19:20,423
Go to 80.

1132
01:19:28,765 --> 01:19:30,725
What about the bits of green?

1133
01:19:30,850 --> 01:19:32,769
Paint.
For God's sake!

1134
01:19:32,769 --> 01:19:33,519
Pistachio ice cream!

1135
01:19:33,519 --> 01:19:35,313
There's no basis to
assume it's anything yet.

1136
01:19:35,354 --> 01:19:38,566
You're too good a scientist not to
be thinking the same thing I am.

1137
01:19:38,649 --> 01:19:41,527
If this is
really something new,

1138
01:19:41,527 --> 01:19:43,654
some brand-new form of life...

1139
01:19:43,738 --> 01:19:46,240
The best hope of cracking it
is to be grindingly thorough

1140
01:19:46,282 --> 01:19:49,368
with the help of computer number one.

1141
01:19:49,452 --> 01:19:51,788
Okay? Now let's get on with it.

1142
01:20:01,881 --> 01:20:04,467
Hold it.

1143
01:20:06,093 --> 01:20:08,054
More pistachio?

1144
01:20:09,388 --> 01:20:11,349
I count four patches.

1145
01:20:11,474 --> 01:20:12,266
Keep going.

1146
01:20:12,266 --> 01:20:14,852
I'll computerize the coordinates.

1147
01:20:14,894 --> 01:20:17,396
Let's take a look
at the rock at 100.

1148
01:20:24,362 --> 01:20:27,073
I doubt that's what
knocked the capsule off trajectory.

1149
01:20:27,198 --> 01:20:29,492
Unless the rock was going
at tremendous speed,

1150
01:20:29,575 --> 01:20:31,327
or unless it's terribly heavy.

1151
01:20:31,410 --> 01:20:33,496
For Pete's sake, Ruth,
it can't be that heavy.

1152
01:20:33,579 --> 01:20:35,581
Hall and I could lift the capsule.

1153
01:20:35,623 --> 01:20:37,875
However, it's possible the
rock is different in space:

1154
01:20:37,875 --> 01:20:39,168
Out there it might do anything.

1155
01:20:39,293 --> 01:20:42,296
Maybe it has elastic properties
we don't even know yet.

1156
01:20:42,380 --> 01:20:45,466
Let's have a look
at the green patches.

1157
01:20:45,591 --> 01:20:48,803
They must've come off the rock,

1158
01:20:48,886 --> 01:20:50,847
if it is rock.

1159
01:20:53,891 --> 01:20:55,893
You know something?

1160
01:20:55,935 --> 01:20:58,729
They do look like spatters of paint.

1161
01:20:59,939 --> 01:21:02,483
Let's go back to the rock
and see it at 440.

1162
01:21:11,909 --> 01:21:13,327
If that's a meteor,

1163
01:21:13,327 --> 01:21:14,745
it's a damn peculiar one.

1164
01:21:16,330 --> 01:21:19,375
This left border over here,

1165
01:21:20,918 --> 01:21:22,753
it's smooth, almost like

1166
01:21:22,795 --> 01:21:24,630
an artificial surface.

1167
01:21:24,714 --> 01:21:26,090
Painted, maybe.

1168
01:21:26,090 --> 01:21:27,633
Luminous paint.

1169
01:21:27,717 --> 01:21:29,552
If I keep watching it,

1170
01:21:29,552 --> 01:21:31,137
I might think so.

1171
01:21:31,220 --> 01:21:33,389
Wet paint sign and all.

1172
01:21:36,934 --> 01:21:38,477
Jeremy?

1173
01:21:38,477 --> 01:21:40,021
What?

1174
01:21:42,565 --> 01:21:44,650
Nothing.

1175
01:21:44,734 --> 01:21:46,903
You okay?

1176
01:21:46,986 --> 01:21:48,362
It's just my eyes are tired.

1177
01:21:48,362 --> 01:21:50,323
We've been at it five hours straight.

1178
01:21:50,448 --> 01:21:52,366
We'll take a caffeine
break in a minute.

1179
01:21:52,450 --> 01:21:54,201
First I'd like to see one of the

1180
01:21:54,201 --> 01:21:56,245
separate patches of green at 1,000.

1181
01:22:08,883 --> 01:22:10,468
Did you see that?

1182
01:22:10,468 --> 01:22:11,093
I saw it.

1183
01:22:11,218 --> 01:22:12,845
You didn't change the lighting?

1184
01:22:12,845 --> 01:22:13,930
I didn't touch it.

1185
01:22:16,974 --> 01:22:18,935
Looks alive.

1186
01:22:18,935 --> 01:22:19,477
Yes.

1187
01:22:19,518 --> 01:22:21,437
It's bigger than two microns.

1188
01:22:21,479 --> 01:22:23,606
Which means the infection is spread

1189
01:22:23,606 --> 01:22:25,650
by a mere fraction of the green.

1190
01:22:25,733 --> 01:22:27,526
I'm bringing down cameras.

1191
01:22:27,568 --> 01:22:29,487
Let's have the other microscanner.

1192
01:22:35,201 --> 01:22:36,619
Stone to Level Control.

1193
01:22:36,619 --> 01:22:37,620
I need a Mic-T.

1194
01:22:37,620 --> 01:22:38,871
Roger. Will send.

1195
01:22:41,040 --> 01:22:43,709
Jump it up to 1500.

1196
01:22:43,793 --> 01:22:45,962
Microscan doesn't go any higher.

1197
01:22:46,045 --> 01:22:47,171
We can get 1500 light

1198
01:22:47,171 --> 01:22:49,048
magnification in microchemistry.

1199
01:22:49,131 --> 01:22:51,175
I'll send the rock through.

1200
01:22:53,511 --> 01:22:56,514
Attention
C.L.T. S on levels 4 and 5.

1201
01:22:56,555 --> 01:22:58,933
Main computer shows capacity

1202
01:22:58,933 --> 01:23:00,977
versus access time

1203
01:23:01,060 --> 01:23:03,521
at ten to the twelfth bits.

1204
01:23:03,604 --> 01:23:06,148
For any change in memory configuration,

1205
01:23:06,232 --> 01:23:09,777
C.L.T. S must check their unicorn op.

1206
01:23:58,325 --> 01:24:00,244
Beautiful, sir.

1207
01:24:00,286 --> 01:24:00,911
I'm the Mic-T.

1208
01:24:00,911 --> 01:24:02,371
You're real sharp on the hands.

1209
01:24:02,496 --> 01:24:05,082
Thanks. Nice to know one
hasn't lost one's touch.

1210
01:24:05,207 --> 01:24:06,292
The next step is to find out

1211
01:24:06,292 --> 01:24:07,084
what makes it grow.

1212
01:24:07,209 --> 01:24:08,419
We'll need samples from the scoop

1213
01:24:08,461 --> 01:24:10,379
to send through maxcult
for culture and isolation.

1214
01:24:10,463 --> 01:24:12,673
Roger, sir. In work.

1215
01:24:16,302 --> 01:24:18,846
Good God!

1216
01:24:37,323 --> 01:24:39,825
It's growing.

1217
01:24:55,758 --> 01:24:57,676
Not so good.

1218
01:24:57,760 --> 01:24:59,178
Naturally he has acidosis.

1219
01:24:59,178 --> 01:25:01,555
His blood pH was nine points off normal.

1220
01:25:01,639 --> 01:25:03,390
But why? Stupid machine!

1221
01:25:03,432 --> 01:25:05,851
What makes his blood too acid?

1222
01:25:05,893 --> 01:25:08,145
Ask the patient.

1223
01:25:23,577 --> 01:25:27,206
Bio-safety to S.L., sectors 3 and 6.

1224
01:25:27,289 --> 01:25:29,667
Give us a code 3 when you get it.

1225
01:25:36,382 --> 01:25:38,300
Mr. Jackson?

1226
01:25:42,847 --> 01:25:44,807
Now, don't be scared.

1227
01:25:44,807 --> 01:25:46,225
I'm a doctor.

1228
01:25:48,894 --> 01:25:50,813
Bull.

1229
01:25:52,606 --> 01:25:54,316
Where am I?

1230
01:25:54,400 --> 01:25:57,236
A special laboratory in Nevada.

1231
01:25:57,319 --> 01:25:59,613
We brought you here from Piedmont.

1232
01:25:59,613 --> 01:26:00,573
You're sick.

1233
01:26:02,408 --> 01:26:04,994
It's this damn stomach of mine.

1234
01:26:05,119 --> 01:26:06,036
Bleeding?

1235
01:26:06,036 --> 01:26:08,372
Hell, yes, bleeding!

1236
01:26:08,455 --> 01:26:09,832
Bleeding in your stomach?

1237
01:26:09,832 --> 01:26:10,916
You have an ulcer?

1238
01:26:10,958 --> 01:26:14,712
Damn tooting. Two years.

1239
01:26:14,837 --> 01:26:16,088
But you must have pain.

1240
01:26:16,088 --> 01:26:17,381
What do you do for it?

1241
01:26:19,842 --> 01:26:22,678
Aspirin...

1242
01:26:22,720 --> 01:26:24,722
and squeeze.

1243
01:26:24,847 --> 01:26:26,891
Squeeze? What's that?

1244
01:26:26,891 --> 01:26:29,143
Ain't gonna tell you.

1245
01:26:44,950 --> 01:26:48,662
So you're a Sterno drinker, huh?

1246
01:26:48,746 --> 01:26:50,664
Works good.

1247
01:26:56,378 --> 01:26:59,006
Give him squeeze.

1248
01:27:07,264 --> 01:27:09,683
What's the baby's name, Mr. Jackson?

1249
01:27:10,559 --> 01:27:12,645
You the nurse?

1250
01:27:12,645 --> 01:27:14,063
Uh-huh.

1251
01:27:15,898 --> 01:27:18,192
Shoot!

1252
01:27:18,275 --> 01:27:20,194
Can't see your legs.

1253
01:27:24,323 --> 01:27:26,533
Do you know the baby's name?

1254
01:27:27,993 --> 01:27:29,995
Give us a butt first.

1255
01:27:30,037 --> 01:27:32,039
Smoking isn't allowed here.

1256
01:27:33,624 --> 01:27:35,793
Then go fish.

1257
01:27:42,007 --> 01:27:42,383
Yeah.

1258
01:27:42,383 --> 01:27:44,051
When you're finished,

1259
01:27:44,093 --> 01:27:45,511
we'll transfuse Jackson

1260
01:27:45,511 --> 01:27:47,263
and start ice water lavage.

1261
01:27:47,346 --> 01:27:48,764
He has a two-year history

1262
01:27:48,764 --> 01:27:49,932
of bleeding ulcers.

1263
01:27:50,015 --> 01:27:51,183
You seem delighted.

1264
01:27:51,183 --> 01:27:53,394
It may be the reason he survived.

1265
01:27:54,937 --> 01:27:57,856
If only our young gourmet
weren't so normal.

1266
01:27:57,898 --> 01:28:00,693
Well, let's hope
nothing changes that.

1267
01:28:00,818 --> 01:28:02,987
We might have to
before this is over.

1268
01:28:39,398 --> 01:28:41,900
They should've dropped the bomb.

1269
01:28:41,942 --> 01:28:43,652
They should've dropped it

1270
01:28:43,652 --> 01:28:45,321
two days ago, General.

1271
01:28:45,404 --> 01:28:47,156
This Phantom crashed a good 60 miles

1272
01:28:47,156 --> 01:28:48,490
beyond the cordoned area.

1273
01:28:48,615 --> 01:28:50,826
Men on the ground can't
cordon off airspace, sir.

1274
01:28:50,909 --> 01:28:53,078
I just don't understand
why the Wildfire Team

1275
01:28:53,120 --> 01:28:56,290
hasn't beefed about
the delay in 7-12.

1276
01:28:56,415 --> 01:28:58,459
It's been almost 24 hours,
and not a word from them.

1277
01:28:58,542 --> 01:29:00,377
I don't think Piedmont had anything

1278
01:29:00,377 --> 01:29:02,129
to do with this crash, Manchek.

1279
01:29:02,212 --> 01:29:04,715
It was a fluke.

1280
01:29:04,757 --> 01:29:07,301
That plane was only over the W.F. Area

1281
01:29:07,301 --> 01:29:09,511
for two minutes at 23,000 feet.

1282
01:29:09,553 --> 01:29:12,014
It's a routine training
mission accident, I bet you.

1283
01:29:12,056 --> 01:29:13,015
Pilot error.

1284
01:29:13,015 --> 01:29:13,891
Let's go.

1285
01:29:19,730 --> 01:29:21,899
Check with Wildfire
Message Center, Delta Five.

1286
01:29:21,982 --> 01:29:23,942
Make sure everything there is nominal.

1287
01:29:23,984 --> 01:29:27,154
Send me word on scrambler
at Big Head crash base.

1288
01:29:27,154 --> 01:29:27,529
Okay.

1289
01:29:34,078 --> 01:29:35,913
Checklim program completed.

1290
01:29:35,913 --> 01:29:37,831
All circuit banks nominal.

1291
01:29:47,466 --> 01:29:49,760
Same thing on the M.C.N. Console, Captain.

1292
01:29:51,762 --> 01:29:53,680
Just a
minute, Dr. Robertson.

1293
01:29:53,764 --> 01:29:55,974
You're saying Stone's
$90 million facility,

1294
01:29:55,974 --> 01:29:57,142
which you recommended,

1295
01:29:57,184 --> 01:29:58,227
was knocked out

1296
01:29:58,227 --> 01:29:59,812
by a sliver of paper?

1297
01:29:59,853 --> 01:30:02,606
You tell that
to the taxpayers!

1298
01:30:02,689 --> 01:30:04,441
These were highly-trained

1299
01:30:04,441 --> 01:30:05,734
electronics men, Senator,

1300
01:30:05,818 --> 01:30:07,903
looking for an electronic fault.

1301
01:30:07,986 --> 01:30:09,947
The trouble was purely mechanical

1302
01:30:09,947 --> 01:30:11,323
of the simplest kind.

1303
01:30:11,365 --> 01:30:13,367
But for them, it was like trying to see

1304
01:30:13,367 --> 01:30:15,160
an elephant through a microscope.

1305
01:30:15,285 --> 01:30:17,204
The sliver had peeled from the roll

1306
01:30:17,287 --> 01:30:18,914
and wedged between the bell and striker,

1307
01:30:18,914 --> 01:30:20,332
preventing the bell from ringing.

1308
01:30:28,006 --> 01:30:31,677
I'm convinced we're
being held in communicado.

1309
01:30:31,802 --> 01:30:32,761
Very flattering.

1310
01:30:32,761 --> 01:30:35,806
We don't know much more
than when we got here.

1311
01:30:35,889 --> 01:30:37,808
We know about Scoop now.

1312
01:30:37,891 --> 01:30:41,311
It's possible what Scoop
found was no accident.

1313
01:30:41,311 --> 01:30:42,855
I suspect they were looking for

1314
01:30:42,855 --> 01:30:44,481
the ultimate biological weapon.

1315
01:30:44,606 --> 01:30:46,483
Sounds like you're getting

1316
01:30:46,483 --> 01:30:49,236
a little paranoid in this fun house.

1317
01:30:49,319 --> 01:30:51,071
What does Stone think

1318
01:30:51,071 --> 01:30:53,699
about the ultimate weapon, I mean?

1319
01:30:53,824 --> 01:30:56,535
We've isolated the organism.

1320
01:30:56,618 --> 01:30:58,871
It's in microchemistry.

1321
01:30:58,954 --> 01:30:59,788
We'll show you.

1322
01:30:59,788 --> 01:31:02,499
Watchdog
to electrical support...

1323
01:32:09,858 --> 01:32:11,610
All right, Lieutenant.

1324
01:32:11,693 --> 01:32:15,405
Albuquerque
Center, this is Air Force 561.

1325
01:32:15,531 --> 01:32:16,448
Go ahead 561.

1326
01:32:16,448 --> 01:32:18,200
My air hose is coming apart...

1327
01:32:18,283 --> 01:32:20,202
like it's dissolving!

1328
01:32:20,285 --> 01:32:22,996
Everything made of rubber
is coming apart!

1329
01:32:24,164 --> 01:32:25,916
I feel funny.

1330
01:32:29,795 --> 01:32:33,423
It's a fluke, a vibration effect maybe.

1331
01:32:33,507 --> 01:32:35,842
Let's get up there.

1332
01:32:35,884 --> 01:32:37,052
Has Wildfire been informed?

1333
01:32:37,052 --> 01:32:38,220
You mean the germ people?

1334
01:32:38,303 --> 01:32:40,847
It went out to them on
the scrambler an hour ago.

1335
01:32:40,847 --> 01:32:42,099
This they can't ignore.

1336
01:33:06,415 --> 01:33:10,544
I. B. Control
to cafeteria level 3.

1337
01:33:10,627 --> 01:33:12,713
Number 4 Charlie hatch
shows condition blue.

1338
01:33:12,838 --> 01:33:15,132
Alter responsivity characteristics

1339
01:33:15,132 --> 01:33:17,301
until you get condition green.

1340
01:33:24,641 --> 01:33:26,560
Ready.

1341
01:33:34,735 --> 01:33:36,486
Nothing so unusual

1342
01:33:36,486 --> 01:33:38,155
about our rock after all.

1343
01:33:38,238 --> 01:33:39,948
Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen,

1344
01:33:39,948 --> 01:33:41,908
sulfur, silicon, et cetera.

1345
01:33:41,992 --> 01:33:44,953
Except the black rock
isn't rock at all.

1346
01:33:45,037 --> 01:33:47,205
It's some kind of material
similar to plastic.

1347
01:33:47,289 --> 01:33:49,041
How about that?

1348
01:33:49,166 --> 01:33:51,084
The green is even simpler.

1349
01:33:51,168 --> 01:33:54,087
Hydrogen, carbon,
nitrogen and oxygen.

1350
01:33:54,171 --> 01:33:57,174
The four basic elements
of life on Earth, nothing else.

1351
01:33:57,257 --> 01:33:59,176
That's a relief.

1352
01:33:59,259 --> 01:34:00,260
I'd have been happier

1353
01:34:00,260 --> 01:34:02,095
if it'd turned out not to be alive.

1354
01:34:02,179 --> 01:34:03,639
Green stuff,

1355
01:34:03,639 --> 01:34:06,141
you really had us going for a while.

1356
01:34:06,224 --> 01:34:09,353
A. A. Analysis results
are ready, Dr. Dutton.

1357
01:34:12,939 --> 01:34:14,316
Something's wrong.

1358
01:34:14,316 --> 01:34:15,525
It's not registering.

1359
01:34:15,609 --> 01:34:17,402
Yes it is, sir.

1360
01:34:17,527 --> 01:34:21,448
It's just registering
double-zero, double-zero.

1361
01:34:21,531 --> 01:34:24,076
We'll switch to computerized analysis.

1362
01:34:30,457 --> 01:34:32,417
No amino acids!

1363
01:34:32,459 --> 01:34:35,671
No proteins, no
enzymes, no nucleic acid.

1364
01:34:35,796 --> 01:34:39,257
Impossible! No organism
can maintain life without them!

1365
01:34:39,299 --> 01:34:41,510
You mean, no Earth organism.

1366
01:34:41,551 --> 01:34:43,804
It must have evolved in
a totally different way.

1367
01:34:43,887 --> 01:34:45,138
You got it.

1368
01:34:45,138 --> 01:34:48,350
It doesn't come from here.

1369
01:34:48,392 --> 01:34:51,228
Without chemical reactions
there can't be life,

1370
01:34:51,269 --> 01:34:52,896
yet it grows, reproduces...

1371
01:34:52,896 --> 01:34:53,772
Wait!

1372
01:34:53,855 --> 01:34:55,190
The infection at Piedmont

1373
01:34:55,190 --> 01:34:56,858
has been stopped by the bomb.

1374
01:34:56,942 --> 01:34:58,026
We're secure at Wildfire.

1375
01:34:58,068 --> 01:35:00,487
We have everything we need
to achieve a breakthrough.

1376
01:35:02,698 --> 01:35:06,034
All we have to do is attack this
problem like any other in science.

1377
01:35:06,118 --> 01:35:07,202
You could spend years

1378
01:35:07,202 --> 01:35:08,245
working on a thing like that

1379
01:35:08,245 --> 01:35:09,454
without solving its structure.

1380
01:35:09,496 --> 01:35:11,039
But when you do, there'll be

1381
01:35:11,039 --> 01:35:12,290
some red faces around.

1382
01:35:12,290 --> 01:35:13,959
It could change everything.

1383
01:35:17,796 --> 01:35:19,631
Great.

1384
01:35:19,715 --> 01:35:20,799
Ruth, since Kirke isn't here,

1385
01:35:20,799 --> 01:35:22,676
you take over the growth
program in microbiology.

1386
01:35:22,801 --> 01:35:24,928
We're halfway home if we find out

1387
01:35:24,928 --> 01:35:27,180
what will keep that from growing.

1388
01:35:27,222 --> 01:35:29,808
Charlie, you work with
me on the E.M. Hall...

1389
01:35:29,808 --> 01:35:30,892
All right.

1390
01:35:30,976 --> 01:35:32,144
Let me get back to my patients.

1391
01:35:32,144 --> 01:35:34,020
I'm sure they were
protected by the same thing:

1392
01:35:34,104 --> 01:35:35,397
Some simple mechanism

1393
01:35:35,397 --> 01:35:37,190
I just don't recognize yet.

1394
01:35:37,232 --> 01:35:38,567
There's got to be something

1395
01:35:38,567 --> 01:35:40,777
that the old man and
baby have in common.

1396
01:35:40,902 --> 01:35:42,821
Oh, Hall?

1397
01:35:44,197 --> 01:35:45,323
Five minutes.

1398
01:35:45,323 --> 01:35:47,117
You told me before.

1399
01:35:47,200 --> 01:35:48,952
Yes, we wouldn't want you to get

1400
01:35:48,952 --> 01:35:50,787
too far from the substation now.

1401
01:35:59,129 --> 01:36:02,924
Men, keep a
sharp eye open for pieces of rubber.

1402
01:36:03,008 --> 01:36:04,342
I'll repeat that for you.

1403
01:36:04,342 --> 01:36:06,762
Keep a sharp eye open
for pieces of rubber.

1404
01:36:10,932 --> 01:36:11,767
Major!

1405
01:36:11,767 --> 01:36:14,060
Major Manchek!

1406
01:36:16,813 --> 01:36:19,232
Take a look at that, sir.

1407
01:36:21,151 --> 01:36:22,778
We just found this, General.

1408
01:36:22,778 --> 01:36:23,945
It's a human bone.

1409
01:36:24,029 --> 01:36:26,698
Arm, I think.

1410
01:36:26,782 --> 01:36:28,116
It looks picked clean,

1411
01:36:28,116 --> 01:36:29,951
almost like it was polished.

1412
01:36:30,035 --> 01:36:31,036
That's right.

1413
01:36:31,036 --> 01:36:32,788
Well, I don't get it.

1414
01:36:32,871 --> 01:36:34,206
There is no actual rubber

1415
01:36:34,206 --> 01:36:35,791
on the Phantom F-4, General.

1416
01:36:35,832 --> 01:36:38,251
It's all a synthetic plastic

1417
01:36:38,251 --> 01:36:40,587
compound called polycron.

1418
01:36:40,670 --> 01:36:42,839
It has some of the characteristics

1419
01:36:42,839 --> 01:36:43,882
of human skin.

1420
01:36:43,965 --> 01:36:45,884
What the hell is that?

1421
01:36:45,967 --> 01:36:48,094
What's left of his oxygen mask.

1422
01:36:48,094 --> 01:36:49,763
It's made of polycron.

1423
01:36:49,805 --> 01:36:51,890
I'd say it was done
by a chemical reaction

1424
01:36:51,890 --> 01:36:52,557
of some sort.

1425
01:36:52,682 --> 01:36:54,351
Or maybe a microorganism.

1426
01:36:54,351 --> 01:36:55,018
Meaning?

1427
01:36:55,101 --> 01:36:56,478
Meaning there was something

1428
01:36:56,478 --> 01:36:58,438
in that plane that consumes plastic.

1429
01:37:30,178 --> 01:37:32,180
How's Maxcult coming, Ruth?

1430
01:37:32,222 --> 01:37:35,350
Will you be finished by
the midnight conference?

1431
01:37:35,392 --> 01:37:35,767
Easy.

1432
01:37:35,851 --> 01:37:38,895
Good. You can give us
the results then.

1433
01:38:42,459 --> 01:38:45,754
Feeling better, aren't you, Mr. Jackson?

1434
01:38:45,879 --> 01:38:47,797
Yep!

1435
01:38:50,050 --> 01:38:52,761
Do you always have
to wear that iron suit?

1436
01:38:52,886 --> 01:38:54,888
Yep!

1437
01:38:54,888 --> 01:38:57,349
Maybe you'll tell us
the baby's name now,

1438
01:38:57,349 --> 01:38:58,099
Mr. Jackson.

1439
01:38:58,183 --> 01:39:02,354
Manuel Rios. Mex.

1440
01:39:02,395 --> 01:39:04,606
Real little heller.

1441
01:39:04,689 --> 01:39:07,192
Squalls morning, noon and night.

1442
01:39:07,275 --> 01:39:08,902
Neighbors wouldn't let them

1443
01:39:08,902 --> 01:39:10,403
keep their windows open.

1444
01:39:12,697 --> 01:39:15,283
Do you sleep with your window closed?

1445
01:39:15,367 --> 01:39:18,036
No sirree, Bob.

1446
01:39:18,119 --> 01:39:20,080
Fresh air fiend.

1447
01:39:23,333 --> 01:39:27,045
Tell us what happened, Mr. Jackson.

1448
01:39:27,087 --> 01:39:29,631
I don't want to think about it.

1449
01:39:31,883 --> 01:39:34,344
You know what people will say?

1450
01:39:34,427 --> 01:39:35,679
Piedmont was bad.

1451
01:39:35,679 --> 01:39:37,764
That's why it was punished.

1452
01:39:37,847 --> 01:39:40,392
First the town went crazy

1453
01:39:40,433 --> 01:39:42,978
and then was destroyed.

1454
01:39:43,061 --> 01:39:44,980
Crazy.

1455
01:39:45,063 --> 01:39:47,315
Folks at Piedmont was good,

1456
01:39:47,315 --> 01:39:49,234
decent, normal folks.

1457
01:39:49,359 --> 01:39:50,652
The man we found dressed up

1458
01:39:50,652 --> 01:39:51,987
in his doughboy's uniform,

1459
01:39:51,987 --> 01:39:52,946
call that normal?

1460
01:39:53,071 --> 01:39:56,491
Pete Arnold, who worked at the store.

1461
01:39:56,491 --> 01:39:57,867
It was the disease.

1462
01:39:57,867 --> 01:39:59,160
How do you know?

1463
01:39:59,285 --> 01:40:01,121
'Cause the only thing wrong with him

1464
01:40:01,121 --> 01:40:02,664
before that night was sugar.

1465
01:40:02,789 --> 01:40:05,000
Diabetes? Did he take insulin?

1466
01:40:05,083 --> 01:40:07,502
A couple of times a day.

1467
01:40:07,585 --> 01:40:09,879
Hated the needle.

1468
01:40:09,963 --> 01:40:12,507
I tried to talk him
into using squeeze.

1469
01:40:12,590 --> 01:40:15,218
Insulin. If he missed his
treatment, he'd go...

1470
01:40:19,681 --> 01:40:22,434
Thanks, Mr. Jackson.

1471
01:41:05,143 --> 01:41:07,270
Oh, my God!

1472
01:41:16,738 --> 01:41:18,114
Central C.C.

1473
01:41:18,114 --> 01:41:20,158
To big P.C. Control, all levels.

1474
01:41:20,283 --> 01:41:22,368
Testing laser system.

1475
01:41:22,452 --> 01:41:24,954
Please maintain random fringe drift

1476
01:41:25,038 --> 01:41:28,208
within ten percent of initial value.

1477
01:41:37,884 --> 01:41:40,512
Dr. Leavitt, you have
a midnight conference.

1478
01:41:40,512 --> 01:41:42,180
The signal has struck twice.

1479
01:41:42,263 --> 01:41:44,474
I heard!

1480
01:41:44,557 --> 01:41:46,976
I heard! I've been busy.

1481
01:41:55,985 --> 01:41:57,487
The important thing is

1482
01:41:57,487 --> 01:41:59,447
something can slow it down.

1483
01:41:59,489 --> 01:42:01,950
I think it's some kind
of blood disorder.

1484
01:42:02,075 --> 01:42:04,369
If the old soldier missed
his insulin treatment,

1485
01:42:04,369 --> 01:42:05,453
he'd go into acidosis.

1486
01:42:05,495 --> 01:42:08,164
The same as Jackson on Sterno.

1487
01:42:08,289 --> 01:42:11,000
I'll bet Leavitt finds the
organism shows no growth

1488
01:42:11,000 --> 01:42:12,627
on some of the blood cultures.

1489
01:42:12,669 --> 01:42:15,672
What's wrong
with the baby's blood?

1490
01:42:15,713 --> 01:42:17,173
Nothing... so far.

1491
01:42:17,215 --> 01:42:20,051
Then you're back where you started.

1492
01:42:20,093 --> 01:42:22,887
No. Somehow they're all interrelated.

1493
01:42:22,971 --> 01:42:24,931
I'll have the answer when I know

1494
01:42:24,931 --> 01:42:27,433
why a 69-year-old Sterno drinker

1495
01:42:27,433 --> 01:42:29,686
with an ulcer is like a normal

1496
01:42:29,686 --> 01:42:31,271
six-month-old
baby.

1497
01:42:32,897 --> 01:42:34,732
Did you get any no-growth readouts...

1498
01:42:34,732 --> 01:42:36,234
No, but I'm not finished yet.

1499
01:42:36,317 --> 01:42:37,986
You told me you'd be finished.

1500
01:42:37,986 --> 01:42:39,988
I decided to play part of it back.

1501
01:42:40,113 --> 01:42:42,490
What for'? The first
time around should be...

1502
01:42:42,490 --> 01:42:43,533
Knock it off, Hall!

1503
01:42:43,616 --> 01:42:45,869
Wait. Wait.

1504
01:42:47,203 --> 01:42:49,789
We're all tired.

1505
01:42:49,914 --> 01:42:51,749
Tired people make mistakes.

1506
01:42:51,833 --> 01:42:53,626
They draw wrong conclusions,

1507
01:42:53,626 --> 01:42:54,878
they drop things.

1508
01:42:54,961 --> 01:42:57,297
That mustn't happen.

1509
01:42:57,338 --> 01:42:59,257
Starting now, I want the team to get

1510
01:42:59,257 --> 01:43:01,050
six hours sleep out of every 24.

1511
01:43:01,134 --> 01:43:03,052
Suits me.

1512
01:43:05,054 --> 01:43:06,055
Before turning in,

1513
01:43:06,055 --> 01:43:08,057
shouldn't we file for a code name?

1514
01:43:08,183 --> 01:43:10,476
Yeah, good idea.

1515
01:43:11,978 --> 01:43:14,314
Nine over 4 over 8

1516
01:43:14,355 --> 01:43:17,358
under 167.29.

1517
01:43:17,442 --> 01:43:19,485
Auto check in grade.

1518
01:43:19,527 --> 01:43:21,529
Auto check in grade.

1519
01:43:57,482 --> 01:43:58,358
Why Andromeda?

1520
01:43:58,358 --> 01:43:59,567
Andromeda's our...

1521
01:43:59,692 --> 01:44:01,611
Stone!

1522
01:44:03,863 --> 01:44:06,407
"Directive 7-12 has not been acted upon.

1523
01:44:06,532 --> 01:44:10,245
Alternative directive 7-11 now in effect. "

1524
01:44:10,286 --> 01:44:11,537
They didn't drop the bomb!

1525
01:44:11,537 --> 01:44:13,748
It's an M.C.N. Transmission sent yesterday.

1526
01:44:13,831 --> 01:44:15,416
Idiots!

1527
01:44:20,838 --> 01:44:22,799
Put me through to Dr. Robertson.

1528
01:44:22,882 --> 01:44:23,967
In work, sir.

1529
01:44:23,967 --> 01:44:25,468
Burke, you didn't special alert

1530
01:44:25,468 --> 01:44:26,719
an M.C.N. Message to us.

1531
01:44:26,844 --> 01:44:28,388
There haven't been any, sir.

1532
01:44:28,388 --> 01:44:29,847
The bell didn't ring...

1533
01:44:29,931 --> 01:44:31,015
Don't argue, damn it!

1534
01:44:31,057 --> 01:44:32,433
I've got one in my hand.

1535
01:44:34,519 --> 01:44:37,563
Well, well. About time
we heard from you.

1536
01:44:37,647 --> 01:44:39,065
There has been a communications foul-up.

1537
01:44:39,065 --> 01:44:39,774
Never mind that now.

1538
01:44:39,857 --> 01:44:41,818
Why hasn't that bomb
been dropped on Piedmont?

1539
01:44:41,901 --> 01:44:43,987
The decision on 7-12 isn't final.

1540
01:44:43,987 --> 01:44:46,072
It was just postponed 48 hours.

1541
01:44:46,155 --> 01:44:47,657
By then the disease could spread

1542
01:44:47,657 --> 01:44:48,950
into a worldwide epidemic.

1543
01:44:49,033 --> 01:44:50,952
It's because of rash
statements like that

1544
01:44:50,952 --> 01:44:52,787
the president doesn't trust scientists.

1545
01:44:52,912 --> 01:44:55,039
Warn the president
it may already be too late.

1546
01:44:55,123 --> 01:44:56,207
Stay on his back, Robbie.

1547
01:44:56,207 --> 01:44:57,834
You've got to make him call a 7-12.

1548
01:44:57,917 --> 01:45:00,295
Can you get me another
appointment tonight, Grimes?

1549
01:45:00,378 --> 01:45:03,214
Now let's all just keep
our heads screwed on.

1550
01:45:03,256 --> 01:45:06,676
Any thoughts about
the Phantom crash?

1551
01:45:06,759 --> 01:45:09,679
We sent you a couple messages on it.

1552
01:45:09,762 --> 01:45:12,974
A Phantom jet strayed over the
cordoned area around Piedmont.

1553
01:45:13,099 --> 01:45:14,225
Any other information?

1554
01:45:14,225 --> 01:45:15,560
Well, the pilot said...

1555
01:45:15,601 --> 01:45:18,646
that all the rubber on
the plane was dissolving.

1556
01:45:18,730 --> 01:45:20,690
His last communication was pretty weird.

1557
01:45:20,773 --> 01:45:21,649
Like he was crazy?

1558
01:45:21,691 --> 01:45:23,693
He was mighty confused, that's for sure.

1559
01:45:23,735 --> 01:45:25,945
Robbie, it's your job
to get the president

1560
01:45:25,945 --> 01:45:27,613
to activate a 7-12 immediately.

1561
01:45:27,613 --> 01:45:28,906
If he doesn't, there's no guarantee

1562
01:45:28,906 --> 01:45:29,866
anyone west of Piedmont

1563
01:45:29,866 --> 01:45:30,950
will be alive in the morning.

1564
01:45:31,034 --> 01:45:32,577
Simmer down, Professor.

1565
01:45:32,577 --> 01:45:33,995
I'll wake the boss.

1566
01:45:34,078 --> 01:45:36,456
But General Sparks says
the crash was just a fluke.

1567
01:45:36,539 --> 01:45:37,790
Forget the crash, Robbie.

1568
01:45:37,790 --> 01:45:39,792
Stay on that 7-12 and get back to me.

1569
01:45:39,917 --> 01:45:41,836
We'll be working around the clock.

1570
01:46:15,161 --> 01:46:17,163
That's a good slice.

1571
01:46:17,163 --> 01:46:18,373
It's too thick.

1572
01:46:23,544 --> 01:46:25,671
I'm setting it at 800 angstroms,

1573
01:46:25,755 --> 01:46:29,425
and I'm going to a higher magnification.

1574
01:46:31,094 --> 01:46:33,012
Now we're getting somewhere!

1575
01:46:33,054 --> 01:46:33,638
Yeah.

1576
01:46:33,638 --> 01:46:34,847
But these can't be more

1577
01:46:34,847 --> 01:46:36,516
than a few molecules in depth.

1578
01:46:40,269 --> 01:46:42,688
That's the one, that silver one.

1579
01:46:47,443 --> 01:46:49,862
This is a Villabach alert,
all levels.

1580
01:46:49,946 --> 01:46:51,864
This is a Villabach alert.

1581
01:46:51,948 --> 01:46:55,868
Electromagnetic waves are not
registering on the D.l.R.

1582
01:47:10,800 --> 01:47:12,635
Sample in the button
and sealed, Charlie.

1583
01:47:12,677 --> 01:47:13,678
Start the vacuum pump.

1584
01:47:23,020 --> 01:47:25,231
Stone, can I see you?

1585
01:47:25,314 --> 01:47:27,275
I have the results
of the growth cultures.

1586
01:47:27,400 --> 01:47:28,693
No, we can't leave now.

1587
01:47:28,693 --> 01:47:30,945
We have an Andromeda cell in the E.M.

1588
01:47:31,028 --> 01:47:33,990
Okay, Charlie, let's
put it on the screen.

1589
01:47:42,915 --> 01:47:44,625
Let's run it through the computer

1590
01:47:44,625 --> 01:47:45,918
for contrast expansion.

1591
01:47:54,927 --> 01:47:55,511
Stone?

1592
01:47:55,511 --> 01:47:57,472
What do you think?

1593
01:48:00,141 --> 01:48:02,059
It looks like a crystal.

1594
01:48:02,143 --> 01:48:04,854
Well, gentlemen, there's our answer.

1595
01:48:04,854 --> 01:48:05,605
To what?

1596
01:48:05,730 --> 01:48:08,441
How Andromeda functions
without amino acids.

1597
01:48:08,524 --> 01:48:10,151
Crystalline structure.

1598
01:48:10,151 --> 01:48:10,610
Yes.

1599
01:48:10,651 --> 01:48:13,112
I've often thought
that living matter

1600
01:48:13,237 --> 01:48:15,740
might be based on
crystals of some kind.

1601
01:48:15,823 --> 01:48:17,992
All these wedge-shaped compartments,

1602
01:48:18,075 --> 01:48:19,535
they'd serve to separate

1603
01:48:19,535 --> 01:48:21,621
biochemical functions very well.

1604
01:48:24,540 --> 01:48:26,542
It's dividing.

1605
01:48:29,253 --> 01:48:31,506
In a vacuum, bombarded by electrons?

1606
01:48:31,506 --> 01:48:33,341
It shouldn't even be alive!

1607
01:48:33,466 --> 01:48:34,842
That's what I wanted to tell you.

1608
01:48:34,842 --> 01:48:36,219
The growth program shows

1609
01:48:36,219 --> 01:48:38,095
Andromeda can live on anything.

1610
01:48:38,179 --> 01:48:40,473
Only gas and light affect it.

1611
01:48:40,556 --> 01:48:43,351
You didn't get any no-growth
results on the cultures?

1612
01:48:43,351 --> 01:48:43,976
None. Look.

1613
01:48:48,564 --> 01:48:51,192
The poorest growth
occurs in pure oxygen

1614
01:48:51,275 --> 01:48:53,861
incubated under infrared light.

1615
01:48:53,986 --> 01:48:56,697
Andromeda grows best in
carbon dioxide and hydrogen

1616
01:48:56,781 --> 01:48:58,699
incubated under X rays.

1617
01:48:58,783 --> 01:49:00,576
No excretions.

1618
01:49:00,660 --> 01:49:02,286
No waste of any kind.

1619
01:49:02,328 --> 01:49:03,871
You'd expect that.

1620
01:49:03,996 --> 01:49:06,999
Andromeda's perfect
for existence in outer space.

1621
01:49:07,083 --> 01:49:10,044
Consumes everything, wastes nothing.

1622
01:49:13,881 --> 01:49:15,258
Good Lord. Stone to Delta Five.

1623
01:49:15,258 --> 01:49:17,176
Put me through to Robertson immediately.

1624
01:49:17,301 --> 01:49:17,552
What?

1625
01:49:17,552 --> 01:49:19,220
God, I hope we're not too late.

1626
01:49:19,303 --> 01:49:19,887
Tell me.

1627
01:49:19,887 --> 01:49:22,390
It functions like an atomic reactor.

1628
01:49:22,515 --> 01:49:23,641
An atomic blast could provide it

1629
01:49:23,641 --> 01:49:25,017
with enough energy to grow

1630
01:49:25,017 --> 01:49:26,519
into a gigantic supercolony.

1631
01:49:26,519 --> 01:49:27,228
In one day.

1632
01:49:29,522 --> 01:49:31,482
You can relax now.

1633
01:49:31,524 --> 01:49:33,109
We've just left the president.

1634
01:49:33,109 --> 01:49:34,652
He agreed to drop the bomb.

1635
01:49:34,735 --> 01:49:36,696
No, you've got to stop 7-12
from being carried out.

1636
01:49:36,821 --> 01:49:37,947
Now, wait a minute!

1637
01:49:37,947 --> 01:49:39,740
We're not playing Ping-Pong.

1638
01:49:39,740 --> 01:49:41,909
We just got through
telling the president...

1639
01:49:41,909 --> 01:49:43,077
For God's sake, go back!

1640
01:49:43,160 --> 01:49:45,955
It grows when exposed to X rays
or any source of energy.

1641
01:49:45,997 --> 01:49:47,415
Tell him no nuclear device

1642
01:49:47,415 --> 01:49:49,417
must be detonated anywhere near it.

1643
01:49:49,458 --> 01:49:50,918
We just found out Andromeda works

1644
01:49:50,918 --> 01:49:51,961
like a little reactor:

1645
01:49:52,044 --> 01:49:53,754
Converts matter to energy,

1646
01:49:53,754 --> 01:49:55,590
energy to matter directly.

1647
01:49:55,673 --> 01:49:57,466
Then the bomb would only provide

1648
01:49:57,466 --> 01:49:59,510
a fantastically rich growth medium.

1649
01:49:59,510 --> 01:50:00,261
Understand?

1650
01:50:00,344 --> 01:50:03,014
No, but I'll pass along
the recommendation.

1651
01:50:03,514 --> 01:50:05,016
The boss will be pleased to know

1652
01:50:05,057 --> 01:50:06,434
that he made the right decision

1653
01:50:06,434 --> 01:50:07,685
on 7-12 in the first place.

1654
01:50:07,768 --> 01:50:10,104
Congratulate him
on his scientific insight.

1655
01:50:11,063 --> 01:50:13,024
And, Robbie?

1656
01:50:13,149 --> 01:50:15,192
You'd better get the
atomic self-destruct in here

1657
01:50:15,192 --> 01:50:16,402
disarmed as soon as possible.

1658
01:50:16,485 --> 01:50:19,280
Right. I'll start on the clearances now.

1659
01:50:19,363 --> 01:50:21,866
It'll be done by morning.

1660
01:50:23,951 --> 01:50:24,535
No, no, no.

1661
01:50:24,535 --> 01:50:27,038
That won't work until
the damn thing's going.

1662
01:50:52,521 --> 01:50:55,232
All the molecules
appear to be the same.

1663
01:50:55,316 --> 01:50:56,025
Yes.

1664
01:50:56,025 --> 01:50:58,736
Andromeda isn't composed
of different substances

1665
01:50:58,819 --> 01:51:00,738
like a normal cell.

1666
01:51:00,821 --> 01:51:02,990
All the subunits are the same.

1667
01:51:03,074 --> 01:51:05,409
Damndest thing I've ever s...

1668
01:51:05,409 --> 01:51:07,453
Boy, a single substance.

1669
01:51:07,536 --> 01:51:09,955
Then how the
hell does it operate?

1670
01:51:10,039 --> 01:51:11,624
How does anything so simple

1671
01:51:11,624 --> 01:51:13,250
utilize energy for growth?

1672
01:51:13,334 --> 01:51:15,378
No way of telling
from that structure.

1673
01:51:15,419 --> 01:51:16,337
Yes, there is.

1674
01:51:16,337 --> 01:51:17,713
With this new data,

1675
01:51:17,838 --> 01:51:19,715
we can get a computerized version

1676
01:51:19,715 --> 01:51:21,384
of how Andromeda functions.

1677
01:51:29,350 --> 01:51:31,060
They're not uniform.

1678
01:51:31,060 --> 01:51:32,853
Could be mutations.

1679
01:51:46,283 --> 01:51:47,910
What the devil?

1680
01:51:47,910 --> 01:51:48,869
601?

1681
01:51:48,953 --> 01:51:50,788
The computer's overloaded!

1682
01:51:50,830 --> 01:51:53,374
Too much data coming in too fast.

1683
01:51:53,457 --> 01:51:56,377
Dividing and mutating
at the same time?

1684
01:51:56,460 --> 01:51:58,546
And nothing to stop it.

1685
01:51:58,671 --> 01:52:01,215
Normal Earth checks and
balances don't exist for it.

1686
01:52:01,298 --> 01:52:03,342
We'd better get a biomath mapping

1687
01:52:03,342 --> 01:52:05,886
of its new growth potential and spread.

1688
01:52:16,105 --> 01:52:19,316
According to this,
there'll be a supercolony

1689
01:52:19,400 --> 01:52:21,485
of Andromeda over the
entire Southwest...

1690
01:52:21,610 --> 01:52:25,823
Jeremy, these are
biological warfare maps.

1691
01:52:27,950 --> 01:52:30,745
Why, yes, so they are.

1692
01:52:30,786 --> 01:52:34,373
Oh, but simulations, Charlie.

1693
01:52:34,498 --> 01:52:37,752
Defensive. It's just a scenario.

1694
01:52:37,835 --> 01:52:39,378
That's not the point,

1695
01:52:39,378 --> 01:52:40,629
for God's sake!

1696
01:52:40,713 --> 01:52:43,257
Wildfire was built
for germ warfare!

1697
01:52:43,340 --> 01:52:44,717
Wildfire and Scoop.

1698
01:52:44,717 --> 01:52:46,260
And you knew, Stone.

1699
01:52:46,260 --> 01:52:47,344
You knew it!

1700
01:52:47,428 --> 01:52:48,304
That's not true, Ruth.

1701
01:52:48,304 --> 01:52:50,181
I learned about Scoop
the same time you did.

1702
01:52:50,264 --> 01:52:52,975
They already have
Andromeda programmed.

1703
01:52:53,017 --> 01:52:54,393
The purpose of Scoop was to find

1704
01:52:54,393 --> 01:52:56,103
new biological weapons in outer space,

1705
01:52:56,228 --> 01:52:58,397
and then use Wildfire to develop them.

1706
01:52:58,397 --> 01:52:59,064
It stinks!

1707
01:52:59,106 --> 01:53:00,608
You're blowing your tops.

1708
01:53:00,649 --> 01:53:01,817
We have no proof.

1709
01:53:01,859 --> 01:53:02,318
The map!

1710
01:53:02,318 --> 01:53:03,319
Don't be an ass!

1711
01:53:03,444 --> 01:53:04,820
That map only shows what Andromeda

1712
01:53:04,820 --> 01:53:06,322
could do in the hands of an enemy.

1713
01:53:06,447 --> 01:53:09,158
Enemy? We did it to ourselves.

1714
01:53:09,241 --> 01:53:11,243
Perhaps, but this is hardly the time

1715
01:53:11,243 --> 01:53:12,578
to organize a protest.

1716
01:53:12,620 --> 01:53:15,623
Another giant leap for mankind!

1717
01:53:15,748 --> 01:53:17,708
I wish I could believe you.

1718
01:53:17,792 --> 01:53:18,626
Whether you do or not,

1719
01:53:18,626 --> 01:53:19,752
the only important thing now

1720
01:53:19,752 --> 01:53:20,795
is to find the antidote.

1721
01:53:20,836 --> 01:53:23,339
Let's get on with it, Charlie.

1722
01:53:23,380 --> 01:53:25,424
Test the cultured organisms

1723
01:53:25,424 --> 01:53:27,176
for biologic potency.

1724
01:53:27,259 --> 01:53:28,385
All right, I'll run them

1725
01:53:28,385 --> 01:53:29,637
against a rat in autopsy.

1726
01:53:29,762 --> 01:53:32,431
I want to seal up the capsule.

1727
01:53:32,431 --> 01:53:33,432
Watch it.

1728
01:53:33,474 --> 01:53:34,725
Andromeda's altered.

1729
01:53:34,767 --> 01:53:37,478
Its effect might be radically different.

1730
01:53:37,561 --> 01:53:39,814
I'll try to get us a photo
of the mutated form.

1731
01:53:53,160 --> 01:53:55,079
Photo lab to red map.

1732
01:53:55,162 --> 01:54:00,376
The offbeat access reference
reads at 649-F, 1.500.

1733
01:54:02,086 --> 01:54:04,004
Please copy.

1734
01:54:15,808 --> 01:54:18,352
This may be the key
to beating Andromeda.

1735
01:54:18,394 --> 01:54:19,520
How, by starving him to death?

1736
01:54:19,520 --> 01:54:21,105
No, but don't feed him until I tell you.

1737
01:54:25,818 --> 01:54:28,237
Contamination!

1738
01:54:34,201 --> 01:54:36,829
A seal has broken in autopsy.

1739
01:54:36,871 --> 01:54:38,914
A seal has broken in autopsy.

1740
01:54:38,998 --> 01:54:41,333
Emergency procedures are in effect.

1741
01:54:41,417 --> 01:54:42,668
What's the matter?

1742
01:54:42,668 --> 01:54:44,670
Infection spread. Autopsy.

1743
01:54:54,263 --> 01:54:54,805
Is he alive?

1744
01:54:54,805 --> 01:54:56,599
I should've been with him! Dr. Dutton!

1745
01:54:56,682 --> 01:54:58,601
It's no use. It's sealed off.

1746
01:54:59,768 --> 01:55:02,021
Dr. Hall!

1747
01:55:04,732 --> 01:55:06,650
She's in trouble.

1748
01:55:06,650 --> 01:55:08,611
Ruth, are you...

1749
01:55:26,337 --> 01:55:29,632
She's got the germ!

1750
01:55:36,347 --> 01:55:38,307
Someone bring 100 milligrams

1751
01:55:38,349 --> 01:55:40,684
of phenobarb in a syringe fast!

1752
01:55:43,687 --> 01:55:44,813
There's no danger.

1753
01:55:44,813 --> 01:55:46,231
She isn't contagious.

1754
01:55:48,067 --> 01:55:51,612
There's no danger!

1755
01:55:51,695 --> 01:55:55,491
...to L-5,
P. I. E. And E. T. E.

1756
01:55:55,616 --> 01:55:58,410
Your second quarter rest
period has been canceled.

1757
01:55:58,535 --> 01:56:01,163
Time R.A. Has been reassigned

1758
01:56:01,246 --> 01:56:03,624
according to crash program

1759
01:56:04,833 --> 01:56:06,752
Come on!

1760
01:56:06,835 --> 01:56:08,253
Come on. She can't hurt you.

1761
01:56:08,337 --> 01:56:10,547
Wasn't she with Dr. Dutton?

1762
01:56:10,631 --> 01:56:11,590
No, it's epilepsy.

1763
01:56:11,590 --> 01:56:12,883
Give her the injection.

1764
01:56:12,883 --> 01:56:14,093
She'll be all right.

1765
01:56:15,678 --> 01:56:18,055
Good girl. Thanks.

1766
01:56:21,141 --> 01:56:22,142
I'm scared.

1767
01:56:22,142 --> 01:56:24,228
Oh, Lord, I'm scared.

1768
01:56:24,269 --> 01:56:25,145
You'll be okay, Charlie.

1769
01:56:25,145 --> 01:56:26,981
We're pumping pure oxygen
through your lab now.

1770
01:56:27,064 --> 01:56:29,316
We know Andromeda
doesn't do well in oxygen.

1771
01:56:31,402 --> 01:56:32,027
He's alive!

1772
01:56:32,027 --> 01:56:33,320
Where have you been?

1773
01:56:33,445 --> 01:56:36,407
Leavitt had a seizure.

1774
01:56:36,407 --> 01:56:37,366
What?

1775
01:56:37,449 --> 01:56:38,659
Epilepsy. The red light

1776
01:56:38,659 --> 01:56:39,952
flashing at 3 per second

1777
01:56:39,952 --> 01:56:40,953
brought on a fit.

1778
01:56:41,078 --> 01:56:42,997
Why in the hell didn't
she tell us about it?

1779
01:56:43,080 --> 01:56:45,040
No top lab would have her if they knew.

1780
01:56:45,040 --> 01:56:47,001
Insurance, prejudice, all that crap.

1781
01:56:47,084 --> 01:56:49,003
From the Middle Ages.

1782
01:56:49,086 --> 01:56:52,006
Amazing he's still alive.

1783
01:56:52,089 --> 01:56:54,091
Well, it's been three minutes.

1784
01:56:54,174 --> 01:56:55,467
He's on pure oxygen.

1785
01:56:55,467 --> 01:56:58,220
I don't know how long that can hold him.

1786
01:56:58,262 --> 01:57:01,056
We're, working on some ideas, Charlie.

1787
01:57:01,181 --> 01:57:04,393
Ask your germ warfare friends.

1788
01:57:04,476 --> 01:57:06,395
They have lots.

1789
01:57:06,478 --> 01:57:08,564
Try to stay calm.

1790
01:57:08,689 --> 01:57:10,607
What happened?

1791
01:57:10,691 --> 01:57:12,901
Seal must've broken in there.

1792
01:57:12,985 --> 01:57:15,404
They had the same thing at the lunar lab.

1793
01:57:15,487 --> 01:57:17,781
That's why we use polycron gaskets here.

1794
01:57:17,906 --> 01:57:20,325
At least the rest of Wildfire is secure.

1795
01:57:22,786 --> 01:57:24,705
Poor devil.

1796
01:57:24,788 --> 01:57:26,707
Look at the way he's breathing.

1797
01:57:26,707 --> 01:57:28,625
He's scared to death.

1798
01:57:28,709 --> 01:57:30,794
That oxygen should relax him,

1799
01:57:30,794 --> 01:57:32,671
slow down his breathing.

1800
01:57:32,755 --> 01:57:34,715
No, we want him to breathe fast!

1801
01:57:34,798 --> 01:57:36,759
In Piedmont, Jackson
was crocked on Sterno.

1802
01:57:36,759 --> 01:57:37,509
Sterno acidosis.

1803
01:57:37,593 --> 01:57:39,053
Acidosis: Rapid breathing.

1804
01:57:39,136 --> 01:57:40,220
What the hell you doing?

1805
01:57:40,262 --> 01:57:42,222
Turn off the oxygen.
Put him on room air.

1806
01:57:42,306 --> 01:57:43,182
The baby, he's normal.

1807
01:57:43,182 --> 01:57:43,974
Cries all the time.

1808
01:57:43,974 --> 01:57:45,017
Can't catch his breath.

1809
01:57:45,059 --> 01:57:45,684
Rapid breathing?

1810
01:57:45,684 --> 01:57:46,894
It just can't be that simple.

1811
01:57:46,894 --> 01:57:47,352
It isn't.

1812
01:57:47,436 --> 01:57:50,606
Dutton, I think rapid breathing helps.

1813
01:57:50,647 --> 01:57:52,649
Don't let the bug in
your lungs long enough

1814
01:57:52,649 --> 01:57:53,901
to penetrate blood vessels.

1815
01:57:54,026 --> 01:57:55,778
I want to turn off the pure oxygen,

1816
01:57:55,778 --> 01:57:58,489
then you start breathing
room air as fast as you can.

1817
01:57:58,572 --> 01:57:59,156
No! No.

1818
01:57:59,156 --> 01:58:01,825
I was running a test in here.

1819
01:58:01,950 --> 01:58:03,577
The air is thick with Andromeda.

1820
01:58:03,577 --> 01:58:05,704
Experiment with your own life, damn it!

1821
01:58:05,788 --> 01:58:06,580
We won't do it, Charlie.

1822
01:58:06,580 --> 01:58:07,039
Take it easy.

1823
01:58:07,039 --> 01:58:07,706
I know I'm close.

1824
01:58:07,831 --> 01:58:09,374
I'm sure it has something to do

1825
01:58:09,374 --> 01:58:11,168
with blood chemistry and breathing.

1826
01:58:11,168 --> 01:58:13,545
Dr. Hall. May I please
feed the baby now?

1827
01:58:13,587 --> 01:58:15,297
He's been crying steadily...

1828
01:58:15,339 --> 01:58:17,716
That's what I want. Keep him crying.

1829
01:58:17,800 --> 01:58:19,176
Run another blood value on him.

1830
01:58:19,176 --> 01:58:20,344
Get his pH measurements.

1831
01:58:20,427 --> 01:58:22,137
Yes, Doctor!

1832
01:58:23,639 --> 01:58:24,765
With all the yelling,

1833
01:58:24,765 --> 01:58:26,266
blowing off carbon dioxide,

1834
01:58:26,266 --> 01:58:28,352
the kid should have too little acid.

1835
01:58:28,435 --> 01:58:30,187
Alkaline: A blood condition just

1836
01:58:30,187 --> 01:58:31,855
the opposite from the old man.

1837
01:58:31,855 --> 01:58:32,898
Too much alkali.

1838
01:58:32,940 --> 01:58:35,734
Well, what good does that do Dutton?

1839
01:58:35,859 --> 01:58:37,820
Karen, where's the blood test?

1840
01:58:37,903 --> 01:58:41,865
It's coming through now on your console.

1841
01:58:41,907 --> 01:58:44,284
Hell of a way to run a hospital.

1842
01:58:47,412 --> 01:58:49,373
Just what you expected.

1843
01:58:49,414 --> 01:58:50,541
Opposite blood chemistries,

1844
01:58:50,541 --> 01:58:51,667
the baby and the old man.

1845
01:58:51,792 --> 01:58:53,961
One of them should
be a dead opposite...

1846
01:58:53,961 --> 01:58:54,711
But he's not.

1847
01:58:54,795 --> 01:58:57,005
There must be a connection!

1848
01:58:58,465 --> 01:59:00,008
They both stayed alive at Piedmont

1849
01:59:00,050 --> 01:59:01,176
breathing the same air.

1850
01:59:01,301 --> 01:59:03,011
One's blood too alkaline,

1851
01:59:03,011 --> 01:59:04,763
the other too... acid.

1852
01:59:08,976 --> 01:59:12,146
Yes. Yes!

1853
01:59:14,523 --> 01:59:16,233
Dutton, I'm turning off the oxygen.

1854
01:59:16,233 --> 01:59:17,401
Breathe fast and hard.

1855
01:59:17,484 --> 01:59:18,068
No, Jeremy!

1856
01:59:18,068 --> 01:59:19,903
Don't let him cut off my oxygen.

1857
01:59:19,987 --> 01:59:22,447
No! The air in that room is loaded...

1858
01:59:22,447 --> 01:59:23,782
Air doesn't matter.

1859
01:59:23,824 --> 01:59:26,785
Blood does. That's the answer.

1860
01:59:34,418 --> 01:59:37,337
I need 30 seconds
to run a growth program.

1861
01:59:37,337 --> 01:59:39,298
He could die in 30 seconds.

1862
01:59:39,339 --> 01:59:41,383
Besides, Leavitt checked
all the growth programs.

1863
01:59:41,466 --> 01:59:42,759
She might have missed something.

1864
01:59:42,759 --> 01:59:43,510
Epileptics blank out.

1865
01:59:43,635 --> 01:59:45,596
I want to see how the
growth of Andromeda

1866
01:59:45,596 --> 01:59:47,598
is affected by blood
chemistry. The pH...

1867
01:59:47,723 --> 01:59:50,184
Oh, damn!

1868
01:59:52,269 --> 01:59:54,229
You do it.

1869
02:00:10,495 --> 02:00:11,330
Excellent.

1870
02:00:11,330 --> 02:00:13,707
The graph's practically
straight up and down.

1871
02:00:13,790 --> 02:00:15,459
That means Andromeda can only exist

1872
02:00:15,459 --> 02:00:16,877
within a narrow range of pH.

1873
02:00:16,960 --> 02:00:18,962
A very narrow range.

1874
02:00:19,004 --> 02:00:21,173
On either side of the
tolerance range, no growth.

1875
02:00:21,256 --> 02:00:22,216
Nothing, right?

1876
02:00:22,216 --> 02:00:23,508
It's exterminated.

1877
02:00:25,844 --> 02:00:27,346
Dutton, our troubles are over.

1878
02:00:27,346 --> 02:00:28,513
Look at your console.

1879
02:00:28,597 --> 02:00:30,724
It grows within
a narrow range of pH.

1880
02:00:30,724 --> 02:00:32,100
A very narrow range.

1881
02:00:32,142 --> 02:00:35,646
If your blood's abnormal,
if it's too acid or alkaline,

1882
02:00:35,771 --> 02:00:38,440
Andromeda can't survive
in the body.

1883
02:00:38,482 --> 02:00:40,234
So breathe as fast as you can.

1884
02:00:40,275 --> 02:00:42,152
Go into respiratory alkalosis.

1885
02:00:47,115 --> 02:00:47,741
Yes, fine.

1886
02:00:47,741 --> 02:00:50,619
That'll shoot your
blood chemistry to hell.

1887
02:00:50,702 --> 02:00:51,995
It's what happens to the baby

1888
02:00:51,995 --> 02:00:53,080
when he cries too much,

1889
02:00:53,080 --> 02:00:54,331
or the old man on Sterno.

1890
02:00:55,791 --> 02:00:57,709
How do you feel?

1891
02:00:57,709 --> 02:00:58,293
Okay.

1892
02:00:58,377 --> 02:01:00,671
A little dizzy, but okay.

1893
02:01:00,796 --> 02:01:02,881
He can't keep breathing
like that forever.

1894
02:01:03,006 --> 02:01:04,049
He'll hyperventilate, pass out.

1895
02:01:04,049 --> 02:01:05,968
We've got to get him something
to alkalize his blood.

1896
02:01:06,093 --> 02:01:08,679
We can't in there.

1897
02:01:08,804 --> 02:01:10,722
Charlie!

1898
02:01:10,806 --> 02:01:14,851
That cage... in the hot room.

1899
02:01:14,893 --> 02:01:17,020
Right in front of you.

1900
02:01:18,105 --> 02:01:20,023
It's alive!

1901
02:01:20,107 --> 02:01:22,651
The rat's been exposed as long as I have.

1902
02:01:22,734 --> 02:01:24,611
Longer. I exposed it to the cultures

1903
02:01:24,653 --> 02:01:25,904
before the seal broke.

1904
02:01:25,988 --> 02:01:26,697
Precisely.

1905
02:01:26,697 --> 02:01:30,117
Andromeda's mutated
to a noninfectious form.

1906
02:01:34,955 --> 02:01:37,249
Holy!

1907
02:01:41,044 --> 02:01:42,504
Where does that gasket lead?

1908
02:01:42,546 --> 02:01:43,338
Central core.

1909
02:01:43,380 --> 02:01:45,340
It connects all the labs.

1910
02:01:49,553 --> 02:01:51,555
The gaskets are decomposing.

1911
02:01:51,555 --> 02:01:52,764
It's Andromeda.

1912
02:01:59,479 --> 02:02:00,105
Next sector.

1913
02:02:00,105 --> 02:02:02,107
There's no substation in this sector.

1914
02:02:14,786 --> 02:02:18,040
Level 5 is sealed.

1915
02:02:18,081 --> 02:02:20,125
Emergency procedures are in effect.

1916
02:02:20,208 --> 02:02:21,418
When the bomb goes off,

1917
02:02:21,418 --> 02:02:23,253
there'll be a thousand mutations.

1918
02:02:23,295 --> 02:02:24,629
Andromeda will spread everywhere.

1919
02:02:24,629 --> 02:02:25,797
They'll never be rid of it.

1920
02:02:25,922 --> 02:02:30,010
There are now five
minutes to self-destruct.

1921
02:02:31,094 --> 02:02:33,513
What about the other levels?

1922
02:02:33,555 --> 02:02:35,223
Can't tell. Each sector seals off

1923
02:02:35,223 --> 02:02:36,391
when it's contaminated,

1924
02:02:36,391 --> 02:02:37,434
even the elevator.

1925
02:02:39,936 --> 02:02:42,105
The defense system is perfect.

1926
02:02:42,230 --> 02:02:44,900
It'll even bury our mistakes.

1927
02:02:46,151 --> 02:02:48,278
What about the central core?

1928
02:02:51,323 --> 02:02:52,991
The core's equipped with safeguards.

1929
02:02:52,991 --> 02:02:53,533
Like what?

1930
02:02:53,617 --> 02:02:54,618
Gas, lasers,

1931
02:02:54,618 --> 02:02:56,328
to prevent escape of lab animals.

1932
02:02:56,411 --> 02:02:57,621
What would my chances be?

1933
02:02:57,621 --> 02:03:00,207
They don't exist for anyone
anywhere if you stay here.

1934
02:03:00,248 --> 02:03:01,750
How do I get into the core'?

1935
02:03:01,750 --> 02:03:03,293
Through that service port.

1936
02:03:03,377 --> 02:03:04,044
Go ahead.

1937
02:03:04,044 --> 02:03:07,381
I'll ride shotgun for
you in main control.

1938
02:03:07,464 --> 02:03:09,508
I can't monitor the lasers here.

1939
02:03:09,591 --> 02:03:11,551
Karen, get me a scalpel.

1940
02:03:11,593 --> 02:03:14,179
There are now four minutes

1941
02:03:14,179 --> 02:03:16,556
and 30 seconds to self-destruct.

1942
02:03:20,143 --> 02:03:21,395
Cut it off!

1943
02:03:21,395 --> 02:03:23,647
Cut the panel off.

1944
02:03:26,066 --> 02:03:28,652
Karen, cut it!

1945
02:03:30,153 --> 02:03:32,489
Come on. Hurry up.

1946
02:03:43,166 --> 02:03:46,711
Hey, Doc, you ain't leaving
us here, are you?

1947
02:03:48,672 --> 02:03:51,383
The lasers are tuned low
for small animals, Mark.

1948
02:03:51,466 --> 02:03:54,469
You can make it if you're not
hit along the spinal cord.

1949
02:03:54,594 --> 02:03:59,015
There are now
four minutes to self-destruct.

1950
02:04:12,112 --> 02:04:14,406
That's the
ladder across from you.

1951
02:04:14,406 --> 02:04:15,824
Go before the gas starts.

1952
02:04:24,541 --> 02:04:29,671
There are now three minutes
and 30 seconds to self-destruct.

1953
02:04:29,671 --> 02:04:31,715
That's the gas. Keep going.

1954
02:04:34,926 --> 02:04:37,012
The sensors have picked you up.

1955
02:04:37,012 --> 02:04:37,888
Get moving.

1956
02:04:40,932 --> 02:04:43,226
Duck!

1957
02:04:43,310 --> 02:04:46,104
Keep going.

1958
02:04:46,229 --> 02:04:48,064
Duck!

1959
02:04:48,106 --> 02:04:50,275
Keep going.

1960
02:04:50,358 --> 02:04:52,110
Duck!

1961
02:04:53,862 --> 02:04:57,824
There are now
three minutes to self-destruct.

1962
02:04:59,618 --> 02:05:02,370
No, it's no good.

1963
02:05:02,454 --> 02:05:03,497
The level's contaminated.

1964
02:05:03,497 --> 02:05:04,539
You'll have to go to 3.

1965
02:05:04,623 --> 02:05:06,708
Go to 3!

1966
02:05:06,833 --> 02:05:12,255
There are now two minutes
and 45 seconds to self-destruct.

1967
02:05:12,339 --> 02:05:15,258
Sway! Weave!

1968
02:05:16,885 --> 02:05:20,764
You're zeroed in. Duck!

1969
02:05:20,805 --> 02:05:23,016
There are now two minutes

1970
02:05:23,016 --> 02:05:26,269
and 30 seconds to self-destruct.

1971
02:05:26,353 --> 02:05:29,272
Keep going! You'll make it.

1972
02:05:35,904 --> 02:05:41,284
There are now two minutes
and 15 seconds to self-destruct.

1973
02:05:43,787 --> 02:05:46,456
Fight the effect. It's mostly shock.

1974
02:05:50,669 --> 02:05:53,129
You've lost some time,
but you can still do it.

1975
02:05:53,171 --> 02:05:53,880
See the door?

1976
02:05:53,964 --> 02:05:58,260
There are now two
minutes to self-destruct.

1977
02:06:07,811 --> 02:06:14,859
There is now one minute and
45 seconds to self-destruct.

1978
02:06:20,156 --> 02:06:25,996
There is now one minute and
30 seconds to self-destruct.

1979
02:06:32,335 --> 02:06:33,128
There is now...

1980
02:06:33,128 --> 02:06:34,296
You're in an airlock.

1981
02:06:34,337 --> 02:06:35,088
Turn the wheel.

1982
02:06:35,130 --> 02:06:37,382
...one minute and 15
seconds to self-destruct.

1983
02:06:37,465 --> 02:06:38,925
No, not that one.

1984
02:06:38,925 --> 02:06:41,011
The one near the door.

1985
02:06:47,142 --> 02:06:50,770
There are now
60 seconds to self-destruct.

1986
02:06:55,025 --> 02:06:59,029
There are now 55 seconds to self-destruct.

1987
02:07:02,198 --> 02:07:06,119
There are now 50 seconds to self-destruct.

1988
02:07:07,787 --> 02:07:08,788
Where is it?

1989
02:07:08,788 --> 02:07:11,875
There are now 45 seconds to self-destruct.

1990
02:07:11,916 --> 02:07:13,084
Come on. Where is it?

1991
02:07:13,126 --> 02:07:15,170
Help me!

1992
02:07:15,295 --> 02:07:20,383
There are now 40 seconds to self-destruct.

1993
02:07:23,136 --> 02:07:27,807
There are now 35 seconds to self-destruct.

1994
02:07:30,393 --> 02:07:34,939
There are now 30 seconds to self-destruct.

1995
02:07:37,609 --> 02:07:41,863
There are now 25 seconds to self-destruct.

1996
02:07:43,740 --> 02:07:46,076
Twenty seconds,

1997
02:07:46,076 --> 02:07:48,119
19,18,17,

1998
02:07:48,161 --> 02:07:50,205
16,15,

1999
02:07:50,330 --> 02:07:53,375
14,13,12,

2000
02:07:53,416 --> 02:07:56,461
11,10, 9...

2001
02:07:56,544 --> 02:07:58,838
Self-destruct has been canceled.

2002
02:08:08,264 --> 02:08:10,225
Congratulations.

2003
02:08:11,851 --> 02:08:14,020
I take it the bomb didn't...

2004
02:08:14,062 --> 02:08:16,272
No, it didn't.

2005
02:08:16,356 --> 02:08:17,899
Eight seconds to spare.

2006
02:08:17,899 --> 02:08:19,442
Hardly even exciting.

2007
02:08:20,568 --> 02:08:22,570
What's happening?

2008
02:08:22,570 --> 02:08:25,573
The supercolony's now off the coast

2009
02:08:25,657 --> 02:08:27,784
and moving southwest across the Pacific.

2010
02:08:27,867 --> 02:08:29,869
Apparently Andromeda
hasn't turned lethal again.

2011
02:08:29,953 --> 02:08:31,204
At least there haven't been

2012
02:08:31,246 --> 02:08:32,747
any reports of bizarre deaths.

2013
02:08:32,789 --> 02:08:34,082
We're applying an adaptation

2014
02:08:34,082 --> 02:08:35,250
of your antidote to it.

2015
02:08:35,375 --> 02:08:36,084
Cloud seeding.

2016
02:08:36,084 --> 02:08:38,253
We're seeding the clouds above Andromeda

2017
02:08:38,294 --> 02:08:40,255
with silver iodide.

2018
02:08:40,296 --> 02:08:41,548
The raindrops will carry the

2019
02:08:41,548 --> 02:08:42,716
organism into the ocean,

2020
02:08:42,757 --> 02:08:43,967
and the alkaline reaction

2021
02:08:44,008 --> 02:08:45,510
from seawater should kill it.

2022
02:08:45,593 --> 02:08:47,470
Just as acids or alkali

2023
02:08:47,470 --> 02:08:49,013
in the blood stopped it.

2024
02:08:51,099 --> 02:08:53,226
This
cloud seeding business,

2025
02:08:53,226 --> 02:08:54,602
you absolutely sure it worked?

2026
02:08:54,686 --> 02:08:55,478
You better be.

2027
02:08:55,478 --> 02:08:57,063
All reports indicate

2028
02:08:57,063 --> 02:08:58,898
the experiment was successful.

2029
02:08:58,982 --> 02:09:01,359
Then
we can feel confident

2030
02:09:01,359 --> 02:09:03,528
your so-called
biological crisis is over'?

2031
02:09:03,611 --> 02:09:05,238
As far as Andromeda's concerned, yes.

2032
02:09:05,321 --> 02:09:06,781
We have the organism at Wildfire

2033
02:09:06,781 --> 02:09:08,116
and we continue to study it.

2034
02:09:08,199 --> 02:09:09,659
We now know beyond a doubt

2035
02:09:09,659 --> 02:09:11,035
that other forms of life

2036
02:09:11,035 --> 02:09:12,412
exist in the universe.

2037
02:09:12,495 --> 02:09:15,665
Thanks to Scoop.

2038
02:09:15,665 --> 02:09:16,207
Yes.

2039
02:09:16,291 --> 02:09:18,168
However, with this new knowledge,

2040
02:09:18,209 --> 02:09:19,461
there's no guarantee

2041
02:09:19,544 --> 02:09:22,255
that another so-called biological crisis

2042
02:09:22,255 --> 02:09:23,506
won't occur again.

2043
02:09:23,548 --> 02:09:25,592
Hmm.

2044
02:09:25,633 --> 02:09:28,094
What do we do about that?

2045
02:09:28,219 --> 02:09:30,555
Precisely, Senator.

2046
02:09:30,597 --> 02:09:32,974
What do we do?