All language subtitles for The Outer Limits s03e12 Double Helix

Good morning.

How are you doing, sir?

Sit.

Who's ready? Who's not ready?

Well, here we are. In light of the fact
that this is our last session, I thought

that we might diverge from the syllabus
a bit.

How many here would consider yourselves
to be Darwinians?

Oh, yes, I expected as much from
Reverend LeBlanc.

Darwinism might very well put his
seminary school out of business.

What if I told you that I have something
that might very well prove one, or yes,

Reverend, both theories?

DNA.

Blueprint for the finest architectural
design ever made. The human body.

Obviously, some blueprints are better
than others. Take Heather and Ben, for

example. They had a better designer for
the sequences that code for physical

attributes. Take a look. They have thick
hair, good bone structure, lean bodies.

But I might venture to say that my own
architect was better at the sequences

that code for intelligence.

Now, please, don't be insulted. I'm not
saying you're not smart. I'm just saying

that I'm smarter. Otherwise, you would
be here and I would be there.

Oh, you give me a few years, Professor.

I'll be up there.

Yes, Ben, I'm sure you will. But do you
know what you will be teaching?

Same way that we study the periodic
tables in chemistry class now. Soon we

be studying a vast map of the human
genome.

Just last month, the last part of the
genome was mapped.

So there is one remaining question, and
that, ladies and gentlemen, is what we

are going to discuss.

Tell me, who knows what an intron is?

Introns are the extra genetic material
in our DNA that haven't been mapped

because they don't seem to code for
anything. Right, right.

That's very good.

Now, there are some creationists that
believe that introns are a message from

God. I've never heard that before,
Martin.

Now, Peter, would I lie to you?

They believe that if we could just
decode the intron message, we would find

commandments from God. But there are
others who believe...

that the intron codes for the things we
used to have during our evolution, like

gills, for example.

Well, what do you think the introns are,
Professor?

I thought you would never ask, Ben.

I think the extra DNA codes for our
future evolution.

I think it codes for what we are about
to become.

And I intend to prove it.

How?

Do you remember our fifth session when
we discussed the use of retroviruses to

deliver proteins that would activate
certain genetic sequences?

Well, I have been working on it for the
past year, and I have developed a

retroviral activator that activates
introns.

I have in my hand the key to our future
cells.

Excuse me, Dr. Nadell. Ah, Dean
Hardwick. Well, let's give a warm

man who was lucky enough to have the
genetic sequences for both good looks

good brain.

How do you intend to test this new
activator of yours?

Well, actually, I have already tested
it.

But don't worry, Bart. I haven't tested
it on humans.

So, I want you to...

Listen to what I have to say.

I am urging you not to discuss this with
anyone outside of this group, because I

don't think that our dean would
appreciate the human uproar that will

Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you
evolution.

That's me.

There

is

nothing wrong with your television. Do
not attempt to adjust the picture.

We are now controlling the transmission.

We control the horizontal and the
vertical. We can delude you with a

channels or expand one single image to
crystal clarity and beyond.

We can shape your vision to anything our
imagination can conceive.

For the next hour, we will control all
that you see and hear.

are about to experience the awe and
mystery which reaches from the deepest

mind to the outer limit.

Perhaps we should ask ourselves, will
the next leap of science be a step into

the future or a plunge into the abyss?

You could have warned me this was
coming, Martin. Would you have shown up?

You know I'm completely opposed to this
research. It's abhorrently heretical.

I'm going to have to petition the
university to stop this research. I

less, but we all have to do what we have
to do. Peter, say hi to your wife.

So,

now you are doing animal experiments
without permission.

What, free the big mouth bass people are
going to start sending them pickets in

there? We have rules, Martin.

Plays like that are what keep the
students intrigued in the subject.

Perhaps you would rather not have them
flocking to my classes in this

department.

I was going through the roster for next
semester and noticed you didn't put

yourself in for any classes.

Yes, that's right.

May I ask why?

Because I want to spend the extra time
devoted to my new research. The problem

is it puts me in a difficult bind,
Martin.

You're my biggest selling point to draw
the best and brightest students to this

university, to this department.

Not to mention alumni money. Right. Just
keep pouring it on.

Oh, Martin. Look.

I just don't have much time left.

What does that mean?

Nothing.

Doug, I'm about to make a major
breakthrough that's going to make

Oh, please tell me how.

You'll never get approval for human
testing on something so radical.

You'll be lucky if you even get approval
for animal testing.

I'll get approval.

With the proper computer models, lab
testing, animal testing, I will get

approval. Just check my contracts. I'm
allowed to take off whatever semester I

want to do my research.

Well, you seem at perfect health to me.

Are you sure about your genetic test?
Yes, Phil, I'm absolutely sure.

I drew my own blood on three separate
occasions. I did my own genetic work on

each time, and each time the marker for
Wilson's disease came up. So obviously I

know that I'm going to get to the
disease. It's just a question of time.

tell me, please, have you checked
everything? What about the liver

reflexes, corneal coloration, copper
content?

Well, your copper levels are a touch
high.

Come on, you're sitting here telling me
there are no symptoms. Elevated copper

is the first one.

Well, I knew you'd overreact.

Everyone can have elevated copper levels
from time to time without Wilson's

disease.

There's no decolorization of the cornea,
no tremors. Yeah, probably a few years

they'll start to get tremors. They'll
take over a few years after that. My

liver's going to go. Then what?

Hold on.

You're not hearing me. There's so much
to do in my life. My research hasn't

started. My relationship with my son is
crap.

Have you told him?

No, I'm not going to tell anybody until
I can't hide the symptoms any longer.

And I don't want you to say anything
until anybody hides it.

Oh, Paul.

Sorry I'm late.

It's okay, Dad. I just got here.

It's been a long time ago when you say 1
o 'clock, figure 1 .30.

Ah, well.

How you been?

Oh, I'm good.

You?

Fantastic. Tell me about Mother.

Is she as good as she makes out to be?

Yeah.

She's fine.

She tells me that you have a new
girlfriend.

I guess Mom also told you about my
plans.

What makes you say that?

Well, why else would you ask me to
lunch, Dad?

Let's face it, I haven't seen you once
since I started school here three months

ago.

Well, you don't exactly make any efforts
to see me either, of course.

But now you...

I suddenly want to have lunch, I'm
guessing, because Mom told you I'm

school. Well, she did mention something
about it, so why don't you just tell me

about it yourself, okay?

I'm bored here, Dad.

I feel like my life's on hold, you know?

There's so much I want to see and
accomplish in the real world. I don't

waste four years here before I can get
started.

So what are you going to do? You're just
checking out. You're just quitting.

I told Hope you wouldn't understand.

Hope.

Hope, that's your new girlfriend.

You have to meet her, Dad. She...

She is the best.

Hope has made me see life for what it
really is, you know, a big, wonderful

adventure. Well, yes, Hope is right. It
is a big, wonderful adventure, but it's

an adventure that needs to have a solid
foundation, like a college education.

That's not what Hope thinks. She thinks
she learned more from life than she did

from college.

And to this day, she really regrets
wasting those four years.

Do you mind if I ask you how old Hope
is?

Hope? She's 30.

30.

30 like an 11 years older than 19 kind
of 30?

You're telling me that this girl, I mean
this woman, who is 30 years old and who

finished college is telling my son that
he shouldn't graduate.

What are you supposed to do for a
living, Seth Berger? And what would I do

a degree, huh?

Teach? Waste my life doing research that
no one will ever hear of or care about?

Oh, really?

You're going to deny it?

You've spent the past 20 years making
obscure discoveries that I'm sorry, Dad,

will not change the world.

That's nice.

And at what cost?

Your life?

Living your life?

Were you really treasured the three
months you spent veering in on a gene

nearsightedness when you could have
watched your son pick three no -hitters

Little League?

How about the years you spent finding
just one of ten genes responsible for

acne? Or psoriasis.

Whatever. That one cost you your
marriage.

Well, that's not fair.

You missed out, Dad.

You're missing the great adventure of
life. It is passing you by.

Yep.

Well... Look, I didn't mean to... No,
it's fine.

It's fine. No, you should say what you
mean. You should get it off your chest.

That's what people are supposed to do.

Dad.

Nope. Hope would really love to meet
you.

Hope.

I bet she would.

All right.

You'll never get approval for human
testing on something so radical.

You spent the past 20 years making
obscure discoveries that I'm sorry, Dad,

not change the world.

Tell me, Martin.

I've been learning from the fact that
you were doing nothing but wasting your

time.

Dad, hey.

What are you doing here?

I just came to see how my kid lived.

You want to come in? Mm -hmm.

Mom, I'm sorry it's such a mess.

Well, it wouldn't be a doing if it
wasn't such a mess.

Actually, it's a lot bigger than I
thought it would be.

You didn't come here to see my room,
Dad.

What's up? Oh, well, uh... You said that
Hope wanted to meet me.

Yeah. So?

Well, I think it's a pretty good idea.

So how about Friday in my place, 7 o
'clock?

It's a date.

Cool.

Never cease to amaze me, you know that,
Dad?

I never cease to amaze myself.

This is the MRI of your head, and that's
a normal one.

So does this somehow explain my
headaches?

Your cerebrum and cerebellum are
becoming more convoluted in order to fit

gray matter surface within the confines
of your cranium.

I don't follow.

Well, I don't either, exactly.

You study various species' brains,
you'll see that the higher the mammal,

bigger their brains are and the more
convoluted they are to fit the cranium.

So what are you saying? You're saying
that my brain is swelling?

No, Martin, I'm saying it's growing.

Maybe it's, I don't know, evolving?

I must read this material. I have to
read it. I don't know why I am driven to

read this material's volume of material.

No, Reverend LeBlanc is pretty worked up
over your fish demonstration.

He wants me to put a hold on your
research pending a review.

Can you hold him off?

Will you teach a class next semester?

I tell you what.

I will teach a small research seminar
with eight advanced students.

Twenty, and I'll fend off the rep. This
is not a negotiation. Eight advanced

students, and you fend him off.

Deal.

May I ask what changed your mind?

I figured that I could use the students
to assist me in my research, and they

can learn something at the same time.

Sounds good.

One more thing.

I handpicked the students myself, and
the moment that you question my methods

the moment the seminar is canceled.

All right, quiet now.

All right, now, first of all, I want to
thank you all for coming. I appreciate

it. As you know, there are only eight
people that I'm choosing for this

research, and there are very specific
requirements in order to qualify for

study. What is the study, Dr. Nadell?
I'm sorry, but only the eight will know.

It seems to be a very large group, so
I'm going to have to narrow it down a

So, any of you who are wearing glasses,
please raise your hand.

Okay,

thank you. You're dismissed.

Let's write a line, because I'm going to
check your eyes later, so it's a waste

of time. Yours and mine. Okay, all of
you who have SATs under 1 ,400.

GPA is under 3 .9. Thank you very much.
You're dismissed also. Let's go.

I'm going to check the record so none of
you waste my time or yours.

All right.

Let's begin.

Five at a time.

All right, you stay. The rest of you are
dismissed.

Why not me? It's because I'm fat, isn't
it? Yes, that's right. As I told you

before, there are specific mental as
well as physical qualifications for this

class. Thank you for coming. You come
with me.

Didn't hurt.

Smith, Smith, bye -bye. You go. You come
with me.

There you go.

Ben, you stay.

You come with me. The rest of you are
dismissed.

Now.

Right.

I'm not evolving.

Oh, this is something else.

Tell me, Brittany, what do you think of
my entrant theories?

I think they're really cool.

And would you feel comfortable traveling
with me to do field research?

Absolutely, if I can afford it.

Tell me, would you trust me completely
to do whatever I tell you, no matter how

strange it may seem?

That's a weird question.

Would you?

Yeah, I guess.

I admire you probably more than anyone.

I'm glad you feel that way.

So, do you have any ties that would keep
you from going away for a long time?

What do you mean?

Well, I mean, would anyone miss you if
you were to leave campus for a long

You mean like a girlfriend or family?
Right.

No, not really.

That's good. That's very, very good.

Don't you think this is getting kind of
weird?

What, the interview process?

Yeah. I mean, I don't know what
questions he asked you, but mine were

strange.

I felt like I was interviewing to join
one of those cults or something.

Do you trust me?

Would you be willing to travel with me
if necessary?

He's just checking our loyalty, Heather.
I really don't see anything wrong with

that. Besides, he did say this wasn't
the most important research.

He just doesn't want a bunch of scared
students screwing it up.

But he was dropping people for physical
attributes.

Too fat, too tall, bad skin, bad
eyesight.

What does any of that have to do with
qualified to be in a class?

I came to this university to study
genetic engineering for one reason, Dr.

Martin O'Dell.

He's the best -known genetics researcher
in the world. The man is a genius, and

most geniuses are eccentric. I know,
but... Think about this. This could be

most important genetics research seminar
we'll ever have the opportunity to be

involved in. Now, if you want to let his
eccentricities carry you away, that's

your prerogative. Personally, I don't
care how strange things get. I'm not

letting anything take it away from me.

In your independent interviews, all of
you said how much you trusted me. Well,

this is the final round, and the purpose
is to test how much you can learn to

trust each other.

So let's form two large circles. Men on
the outside, women on the inside. Let's

go. All right, this is a trust exercise.

The women are going to keep their bodies
rigid. They will fall backwards without

looking back into the arms of the man
behind them.

Let's go. No, it's not funny. There's
nothing funny about this. Heather, why

don't you start? Let's fall. Fall.

That's right. Okay, now your turn. Let's
go. Fall, fall. Brittany, fall!

That's right. All right, start walking.
Just remember to keep your hands down.

That's right. Just walk.

That's right. Just keep your hands down.
Now, just trust.

Fingers under.

Lift!

Very good.

We are going to be spending a great deal
of time together in very intimate,

cramped quarters, which means we have to
put aside modesty.

Tell me, anybody have a problem with
that?

No. No?

No. All right. Second.

You all said during your interview that
you had no previous surgery, no bodily

alteration. What about that? Anybody
want to change this story?

No. Anybody?

No. No. Okay, now for the final
exercise.

Will you all please disrobe?

You're kidding, right?

No.

No. No, I'm not kidding.

In front of everyone?

I'm not stripping in front of everyone.

Wait a second. I know this is
uncomfortable, but we're all going to be

a lot of time together, and we have
to... Yes, we have to expose ourselves

each other completely, not just our
outward bodies, but our inner selves.

So we have to share our deepest, darkest
secrets.

I'm sorry, but this is just a step way
beyond the kinky line for me. Hold on,

Derek.

Now, this isn't just a test and trust.
This is the only way I can tell if

had surgery and to make sure you have no
dermal blemishes.

Dermal blemishes? What does that mean?

It means scars. It means tattoos.

It means birthmarks, whatever.

We have to keep it down to a minimum.

The requirements are very specific to
serve as good specimens.

Good specimens?

All right, all right, subjects. We're
all going to be subjects and observers

the study.

I'm sorry, I can't do this. I'm out of
here. Well, that's fine. You can go if

you want. Just remember, you signed a
non -disclosure agreement.

No one gets to know about this.

Yeah?

Up yours.

What exactly are you looking for, Dr.
Nodal?

Scars, birthmarks, potential skin
cancers, tattoos.

That disqualify me?

That alone, no.

Who's that scar, Brittany?

Oh, that, I had my appendix out.

Well, you did, did you?

Did your appendix happen?

I thought you said you had no surgery.

I'm going to have to disqualify you.

Why? Because I can't trust you.

Because I need whole people as they
naturally evolved.

What are you going to do? What are you
going to do? You only have six. You're

supposed to have eight. Now, ifs, ands,
or buts.

Congratulations. I'm happy to inform you
that you are the students who will be

participating in my research seminar.

And I want to thank all of you for
participating in all of this with me.

a list of supplies that you need to
bring and a map for how to get to the

where I want you to meet me tomorrow
night at 7 o 'clock.

I don't want anyone to know about this.

Is that understood?

Yes, Heather.

But, Dr. Nodal, there are only six of
us.

Yes, Heather, that's correct. I'm aware
of that.

I have until tomorrow to find two more.

I'll leave for the rendezvous point as
soon as possible. It's a long drive, and

I will see you there. Thank you.

All right, let's go.

Dad. Paul. Hi.

You forgot, didn't you?

Oh, damn, Paul.

I apologize.

You okay?

Yeah, I'm fine. Hope.

Yes. Yes.

Yes. Yes. Come on in.

Come on.

Come on in.

I have better plans for us tonight.

Yes.

Okay, Dad, can you please tell us where
you're taking us?

I'm taking you to a very special place
in the mountains in the southern part of

the Bay. Don't worry. It's a nice place.
You're going to like it. But why? Why

are we going there?

We have to have eight.

May not fit all the requirements, but
it's better than showing up with six.

What's he talking about?

Paul, I am so happy that you are going
to be one of the eight.

I'm going to see your father's work. The
finest accomplishment in person.

Maybe then you won't think that my work
is a waste of time.

No, I never said that exactly. I just
said that, you know, you've got to get

more. Yeah, I'll help.

Paul tells me that you lecture him about
exploring life all the time. Well, I

hope he doesn't see it as a lecture. I
don't know. I consider it inspiration. I

hope you talk about living life. You're
about to see something that you've never

seen. Something that most people will
never see.

And what would that be?

Well, I hope that I told you.

It wouldn't be a surprise. So just don't
worry what we do before morning.

You'll understand everything.

kept you waiting too long. This is my
son, Paul.

And this is his girlfriend, Ho.

Hi. So, you have enough supply for a few
days of clothing and food and what?

Yes, and you told nobody as instructed
that you're going to be here in this

place, right? Yeah, with all due
respect, sir, I think you kind of owe us

explanation about that. Frankly, most of
us are pretty creeped out with all this

cloak and dagger stuff. Cloak and
dagger? Well, I apologize if you think

methods have been cloak and dagger.

Look, I have been taking orders from a
higher source.

I don't even know what I've been doing
the last... couple of weeks. I just have

to trust my own instincts.

Is this some kind of a cult thing? I
have been experimenting to find a way to

activate the intron sequences of human
DNA.

And because of the regulatory climate, I
knew I couldn't use a human volunteer,

so I tested it on myself.

Wait, wait. You injected that stuff that
made a fish grow legs into your own

bloodstream? That's correct.

At first, I didn't see any effect.

And then something started to happen. My
brain started to evolve, for want of a

better word.

And this new brain started to tell me to
do things.

Like what?

Like find eight young volunteers.

Four men, four women.

Your brain told you to do this? Yes,
Heather. You find that so strange?

Millions of years of evolution have told
birds to migrate, have told young

mammals to nurse, have told bears to
hibernate.

Well, I am evolving to know things.

So, did your brain tell you to bring us
here?

Something else, Heather, told me to do
this. You know what it was? It was this!

Oh, my God, Dad.

What is it?

It looks like a map. Right, man. It's a
map. It's a paleogeographical map.

A what?

It's a map that measures the plate
tectonics in this area.

There are two Cordilleran mountain
ranges meeting this area. That's what

those cliffs over there.

This map on my back was designed to
bring us to this location.

Why? To find something, Heather.

To find something wonderful. Something
that will inform us about our past, And

our future.

And we're going to find it, Heather.

We're going to find it at first light.

This is crazy, Dad. We've been looking
all day and you don't even know what

Here we go. Come on.

Everybody with me?

Well, aren't the voices in your head
telling you anything?

There aren't any voices, Paul. It
doesn't work that way. It's just an

desire to do something.

Okay. Here we go.

What?

Oh!

Okay.

What's this? I don't know.

Let's take a look. Come here.

Oh! Oh!

Death.

Looks like a door. Well, let's see
what's inside.

Now what?

Now we find another way in.

Come on, let's go.

Hey, what's going on?

Oh, God.

Oh.

I take it you're the one in charge here?

Well, in a manner of speaking, yes. I'm
Dr. Martin O'Dell. Dr. Arnold DeWitt, U

.S. Marine Corps of Sciences.

Mind telling me why you're out here?

I guess we're searching for the very
thing that your men are guarding. It's

through that door.

I don't know what you're talking about,
Doctor.

Now, tell me why you're here, please.

I was drawn to this place.

Why here? This place isn't even on any
map.

It is on one map.

Hope, be quiet.

No, Hope, do tell.

Show him, Dr. Nadal.

How did that happen?

Did that lead you here?

That's right.

What's in there?

I don't know. I just made it up. I
figured they were guarding something

must be looking for.

Given your condition, you might be of
some value to us.

I'd like to show you something.

Well, I would love to see it, as long as
all of my students can go.

Sorry, I can't do that. Well, then I'm
sorry.

All of us came this far.

So we're all going in. I can't force you
now.

Well, if you want to know what that
thing is inside, then we all go in.

It's that simple.

All right.

That's what I was hoping you would tell
me, Doctor. I have no idea.

Where is it from?

We found it underground at this location
after World War II.

We've been studying the object ever
since.

It won't move from that spot in three
-dimensional space.

We tried digging underneath it and it
just stays at this exact height. What's

supporting it?

Can't figure that out either. Best guess
is some kind of magnetic field.

And the object is impenetrable. We tried
lasers and diamond blades, ultrasounds,

x -rays, you name it.

We have no idea what, if anything, is
inside it.

Have you tried to carbon date it? Can't
get a sample. It's too hard.

Based on the surrounding geographic
strata, we figure it's about 60 million

years old.

60 million?

It predates humans.

By about 57 million years.

May I?

By all means.

You are the final result of our great
experiment in hope.

We seeded your planet with our own
genetic material to continue our race in

To see if you evolved socially,
scientifically, physically as we

did. To see if your society would evolve
to a life of war, destruction as

we did.

To see if you would use your
intelligence

and inventiveness for good or for evil.

We knew that when you reached the
appropriate level of intelligence, you

activate the remainder of our experiment
in your own DNA.

That, in turn, would lead you to this
craft.

That time you would return, report to
us.

Tell us of your world as it evolved.

Without our interference, if you have
done as we intended, this should be the

one who has transformed and ate more.

Good examples of what our seed has
brought.

Young and healthy enough to withstand
the journey using this vessel that you

before you now.

This vessel will launch in ten of your
minutes.

We look forward to welcoming you back.

You still think I'm wasting my time?

Guess not.

Well, then I'm okay.

So, you ready to go? When can we go?

This could be very dangerous.

They could have left that message as
much as 60 million years ago, or they

be dead or gone, or at the very least,
they could have forgotten about the

experiment.

Now, I intend to go.

But I can't expect any of you to join
me. That decision has to be entirely

yours.

Like I said, when do we go?

Right now.

I believe it's safe.

Say, this is going to be a long trip.
You think you can handle it with your

man?

Unless you'd rather I stay here and flip
burgers.

I hope you'll come.

I don't really feel the requirement.

To hell with the requirements. We need
someone who has your attitude about

Show those people on that other planet
what the human spirit really is.

Besides, my son likes you.

The more we learn about the universe
around us, the more we realize how

we truly know.

But we will only find what wonders await
us if no false walls are built around

our explorers and no false restraints
applied to the unquenchable human thirst

to know it all.

There'll be more from The Outer Limits
tomorrow at 8.

Singleton Bridget Fond is on the lookout
for love over on the studio in a few

minutes in the Cameron Crowe movie at 9
o 'clock, Singles.

Log on to thestudio .com.

This is Michael.

His problems began when he accepted a
body from a strange man.

He thought he could handle it
occasionally, but he was wrong.

Being a superhero really screws you up.
Now and Again is next.