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[siren wailing]

[man 1] Yeah.

One, two, three,

four, five.

[Dr. Rebecca] Oh, my God.

[man 1] ...seven, eight, nine, ten.

[man 1] Nothing?

No pulse at all.

One, two, three, four, five,

Six, seven, eight.

[man 2] You getting a rhythm?

[man 1] Nothing.

One, two, three, four,

Five, six, seven, eight...

No, don't!

Please don't.

No!

[Dr. Rebecca] I'm here, look at me!

I'm here!

That's it.

Look at me!

I'm here, I'm here!

[gasps]

[sighs wearily]

What is it?

That damn dream again?

[sighs] It was different this time.

What?

[sighs] This time...

I died.

[control voice] 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 deluge you with a thousand 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.

You are about to experience the awe and mystery

which reaches from the deepest inner mind

to The Outer Limits.

[control voice] We exist in this time and in this space,

but where are we when we dream,

before we are born or after we die?

What if we exist in many times and many spaces,

now and forever?

Do I have to go in there?

Only if you want keep doing your research.

-Our research. -Okay, our research.

But without additional funding,

it's not going to be anybody's research.

"The scientific search for the human soul."

Why'd the guy have to write that in The Times?

Yeah, the crazies are gonna be lined up in there waiting for us.

Doesn't make fund-raising any easier.

Don't worry, you'll handle them.

You always do.

[chuckles]

Okay, Duncan, come on.

Up here.

Yeah, that's right. Come on.

[Dr. Rebecca] There you go.

Yeah... oh.

Come on, Duncan. This way.

This way. You've done this before.

Our latest test subject

is a chimpanzee named Duncan.

Here's Duncan during

his first test in the hyperspace chamber.

Like our other animal subjects,

Duncan reached the state

approximating hibernation just a few minutes after the test began.

Body temperature, heart rate,

respiration, all fell off dramatically.

And yet the electrical activity in his brain

exceeded that of someone experiencing REM sleep.

Good. Very...

And here he is after the test, alive and well.

There you go. That's it.

Wasn't it great?

Dr. Warfield,

Carl Haven from the Morgan foundation.

Oh, yes, Mr. Haven, we spoke on the phone.

Thank you for coming.

Do you really believe your subjects, these animals

are having an out-of-body experience in this chamber

of yours, that some part of them splits off and travels to another dimension?

Well, I honestly wish I knew whether they were or not.

That's not the point of this phase of our testing.

So far, we've just been merely trying to determine

the safety of the hyperspace chamber.

And we'd like to report that not one of our animal subjects

has been hurt or injured in any of these sessions.

Dr. Warfield,

many of us here believe that you are the person

that's finally going to prove that each and every one of us has a real live soul.

My question for you is, when are you going to put

a real live honest-to-goodness human being in that chamber of yours?

Well, in our next phase of tests,

which is what we're currently trying to secure funding for.

It's why you're all here.

I have a question, Dr. Warfield.

John Wymer.

Yeah, I know who you are, Mr. Wymer.

On what moral basis do you conduct your research?

Don't you mean on what religious basis?

The soul is not something to be worn or discarded

like a pair of swimming trunks one puts on to go swimming.

The human soul is God's eternal truth.

Well, look, I never personally defined my work

as the search for the human soul.

That was a newspaper article.

Like those who would genetically engineer

a human birth,

abort a living being inside a woman's womb,

you are defying God's will.

How so?

[scoffs] You're searching for the face of God

instead of sitting back

and letting him reveal himself

on his own schedule.

How does such sacrilegious research come to be sanctioned

by this respected institute of higher learning?

Now, wait, look, I don't understand. This was not

a problem until you turned it into a religious issue, Mr. Wymer.

[Dr. Ben] Rebecca.

All right, I suggest that uh,

we open dialogue between all the parties involved

and uh, hopefully come to some sort of sane

and rational solution to this matter.

When you are ready to come down and humble yourself,

then we can talk.

What?

Do you think what we're doing is wrong?

You're letting Wymer get to you.

I'm just so damn tired

of these tug-of-wars between scientists and theologians.

Why should they start coexisting now?

They haven't for centuries.

Well, why shouldn't we?

I'm not looking to define a soul.

All I want is a scientific explanation

for what happened to me in that accident.

That does not mean I'm refuting God.

Hey, I know that.

Just Wymer makes us sound like devil worshippers,

tempting fate and God's wrath.

God blessed us with curiosity.

These questions lead to discoveries

which in turn result in progress.

Ben, without curiosity, where the hell would we be?

Back in the Garden with Eve?

[Dr. Ben] Sorry.

Listen, scientists always sound foolish

when they begin discussing metaphysics.

That's why so many of us wisely refrain from doing so.

What about you, Amy?

Do you believe that you have a soul?

Me?

Uh... yeah.

I mean, it's never been proven that we don't have one.

[knocking on door]

Good evening.

Hello. Please come in.

Thanks.

Anything to report?

I was just sifting through the latest test data.

And?

Dr. Warfield's theories are fascinating, really.

They rest on the assumption

that elementary particles are these tiny, vibrating loops.

I mean, that's what we're all made of, basically,

sub-atomic vibrations.

And she believes that we're vibrating in phase

with our three-dimensional world

and out of phase with other dimensions.

By modifying the vibrations,

Dr. Warfield is trying to access--

Amy, I'm not interested in the science.

I need to know exactly where Dr. Warfield is in her research.

She's ready to start testing on human subjects.

We can't allow that to happen.

Well, if none of her grants come through,

then she won't have the funding to start--

No, that's not what I mean.

Amy, pride is the downfall of any human being.

It's this woman's pride that concerns us here.

I mean,

life is not being out of phase with other dimensions,

some accident that God made that we need to correct.

The purpose of life is to glorify God.

Dr. Warfield's pride is

in violent opposition to that purpose.

She must be stopped.

You're here early.

I woke up early. I... I thought I'd come

in and crunch some numbers from yesterday's tests.

-Where's Ben? -He had some errands to run.

[phone ringing]

Hello?

Yeah, hi, Phil. What?

No.

Damn, we needed that grant.

[sighing]

Yes, I'm aware we're almost out of funding.

What about Carl Haven?

What did he have to say after the presentation yesterday?

Oh, no. I'll just... I'll see if I can turn him around.

Yeah, okay, bye.

Damn! Just lost the DOE grant.

I'm sorry.

Don't be.

Excuse me?

Amy, load program 64A.

Uh, that's a program designed for a human test subject.

I didn't tell ya? I just found one.

Rebecca, you... you can't do this.

It's not a good idea.

What's Ben going to say?

Chances are, we'll be done by the time he gets here.

See what he says then.

64A, Amy, now.

-What about Mr. Wymer? -To hell with Mr. Wymer!

I'm sorry, Amy.

Just don't think about it.

Just do it.

I can't.

Amy, if you don't help me,

I'll load the program and let the computer run it.

I'd much rather have you than the computer monitoring me,

but I'll take what I can get.

[computer beeping]

[computer beeping]

Why is she doing this?

Why?

What do I do?

[computer] Danger, levels high.

Warning, levels exceeding safety parameters.

Warning, levels exceeding safety parameters.

What?

[computer] Danger, levels high.

No!

What's happening? No! No!

Rebecca!

No!

No!

[computer] Danger, levels high.

[screaming]

Come on!

No!

[machine unclasps]

Amy, what's the problem?

What happened?

Amy?

Oh, my God, please be okay.

Please be okay. [crying]

Oh, God, [crying]

what do I do?

We did it!

Amy, we did it!

I was right!

We did it! Amy, we did it!

Amy, we did it! Amy!

Amy, how can I communicate with you?

I'm right here, right beside you!

You can't feel me, you can't see me,

you can't hear me, but I'm here and I've done it.

We've done it. We've accessed another dimension.

Ben, I've got to tell Ben!

-Great, thanks. -[clerk] Bye-bye.

Ha, ha, yes!

Our physical laws are rooted

in space, time, entropy, energy, momentum.

But without space and time, they're meaningless.

Oh, Ben, my wonderful, wonderful husband, I...

You don't even know I'm here right now.

I just want to tell you that I love you, Benjamin McCormick.

I love you, I love you. I love you. [chuckles]

Don't get so excited, honey.

I'd like these for my wife, please.

Oh, you're such a sweetheart.

She's been feeling a little down, lately.

Not anymore.

Huh. No visible body, no reflection.

Wonder if...

Well, Alice did it.

[screaming]

Of course... electricity.

That's all we are, vibrations, frequencies.

Something else we were right about.

Rebecca?

Amy?

Where is everybody?

Oh, my God!

What happened? What did they do with my--

-[phone ringing] -Ben!

Lab.

[Amy] Ben, thank God. It's Amy. There's been a terrible accident.

You have to come to the hospital.

-What? -[Amy] It's Rebecca.

Amy, what happened? Where is she?

-She's in there. -This room?

Rebecca? I'm her husband.

So sorry. You'll have to wait outside.

What's wrong with her?

That's what the doctor is trying to find out.

[Ben] Where is he? You don't know what's wrong with her?

[nurse] Please, you have to wait outside.

You can speak to the doctor in a minute.

Ben, you've got to get me back to the lab.

Amy, tell me again what happened.

No. How can I get through to you?

I got to the lab at the usual time and when I got there,

-Rebecca had strapped herself into the chamber. -What?

As far as I could tell, she had loaded 64A into the computer

and set it to run automatically.

The human test subject program?

There must have been a glitch otherwise the power levels...

Ben, think about the tests we've been doing.

I don't believe this.

-You have to get back to the chamber. -The university wants

-to shut the lab down. -No. You can't let that happen

I don't give a damn about the lab!

I just want my wife back.

Oh, Ben, the doctor.

Doctor, how... how is she?

Why are you lying?

[doctor] She's breathing.

This isn't your fault.

I practically twisted your arm to get you to help me.

[doctor] I'm afraid her brain is showing

-low levels of activity. -What are you hiding?

I'm sorry.

It can't be.

Rebecca, why would you do this?

Dear God, why?

I love you, Rebecca.

I always have, and I always will.

Please...

Please...

[sobbing]

[sobbing]

Ben, you have to think.

You have to bring my body back here.

I'm still here.

Rebecca, why did you do this?

What were you thinking? [sighs]

I should have been here.

It's my fault!

No! No!

What went wrong, Amy?

[knocking]

[John] Okay, okay.

I was so afraid you wouldn't come.

Don't be ridiculous.

I'm here, aren't I?

I'd like to come in, though, if that's all right.

Okay, I'm sorry. Come in.

[sighing]

Where are my manners?

Can I offer you anything?

No, no, I can't stay long.

Uh, I heard all about it on the news.

Dr. Warfield used herself as a guinea pig in her own experiment?

Yeah.

I was there.

I mean, I... I... I told them that I wasn't.

I was there.

Why did you tell them you weren't?

Amy... Amy, I want you to sit down.

Take a deep breath and try to relax.

The experiment is designed

to take place at a preset power level.

I raised the input past the preset levels.

You cranked up the power?

No... I mean...

Yeah, a little, I mean, just to throw the data off, you know

and then something happened.

[stammering] Everything... The power just increasing.

It was... It was going up,

and I... I tried to bring it back down,

but it... It wouldn't respond to my command.

Everything was just... It was going crazy.

And then I froze. [crying] I couldn't... I couldn't move.

By the time I figured out a way to reverse the power,

it was too late.

Amy... Amy, you've done nothing wrong in the eyes of God.

I know.

I mean, Rebecca's work was wrong.

Of course it was.

[sniffles] I mean, it was like she was trying to prove

that you don't have to believe in God to have a soul,

you don't have to go to church

-or read the Bible. -How do you know what I was trying to prove?

You might have asked me what I believe

instead of coming to work day after day, spying on me!

...the angel of the Lord chased them!

Oh, come on. This wasn't the Lord's work! This was yours!

Well... what do we do now?

We can't bring Family Foremost into this, Amy.

We can't?

No.

If people ever thought that I put you up to this,

it'd be a terrible blow to Family Foremost.

Our local chapter might never recover.

Well... what do I do?

Just make sure no one ever finds out

that you cranked up the power.

It'd be best if we didn't have too much contact

for a while till this blows over.

You didn't want me to do this?

[phone ringing]

[phone ringing]

[sighs] You can hear me.

[dial tone]

Hello?

Amy, listen! Amy! Amy!

Listen to me, Amy. You can hear me!

You can hear me!

[tape rewinding]

[phone ringing]

[sobbing]

[overlapping electronic noises]

[heart monitor beeping]

What are you going to do now?

Amy, any change?

No.

I can't tell you how sorry I am about all of this.

[Ben] Hey, it's not your fault.

You weren't even there.

Oh, Ben, but I'm here.

Damn it, Ben, look!

Please, look!

Bulb must be bad.

[sighs in exasperation]

I hate to see her like this.

Don't do this.

Tell Ben the truth!

Um, I'm going to, um... I have to run some errands.

-I'm going by the lab. -What for?

-Can I get you anything? -No, thanks.

Um, I'll be back.

I know you're here, Rebecca.

I can feel you.

You are here, aren't you?

This light...

make it flicker like you did at the hospital.

Do it again!

I'm sorry, Rebecca.

This is the devil's work!

Man's arrogance must be stopped.

Science is not divine.

You and Wymer are.

These choices aren't yours to make.

Pray for my forgiveness, Rebecca,

and I will pray for you.

Amy, don't do this!

You can save me!

May God have mercy on our souls.

Amy, don't do this!

You can save me!

Rebecca, you're damned,

and you have nobody to blame but yourself.

-Can I use this pitcher for some water? -Sure

[beeping]

We have a code blue. Get Dr. Minkoff in here.

[nurse] Get in here, now!

Pulse! Pulse!

Go!

[indistinct talking]

[Dr. Minkoff] He's fibrillating.

Hand me the paddles.

[nurse] Fibrillator coming on!

[Dr. Minkoff] Clear!

Clear!

I'm getting absolutely no pulse.

Again! Clear!

Again! Clear!

[nurse] No ECG Reading at all.

Adrenaline is ready.

Again! Clear!

You can see me?

Yes.

[Dr. Minkoff] Clear!

[nurse] We're getting something there.

[Dr. Minkoff] Okay, we've got a beat.

Wait, wait!

You can help me.

Please tell Ben you saw me.

[nurse] How are his blood gases?

[Dr. Minkoff] He's coming around.

He's stronger now.

Welcome back.

For a moment, we thought we'd lost you.

[flatlining]

Hey, help! Somebody!

Quick! In here!

I'm getting nothing, no blood pressure.

Nothing!

What have you done?

[nurse] Out of the way!

Please.

Clear.

Clear.

Clear!

Once again. Same levels! Clear!

Stand by.

All right, once more.

Come back to us, love.

Ben!

Clear!

[nurse] Standing by, waiting for pulse.

[indistinct talking]

Ben!

I'm sorry.

[nurse] I'm so sorry.

Time of death, please.

Mark it.

I'll pray with you, if you like.

What the hell is there to pray about?

Wait a minute. Stop.

You're Ben, aren't you?

Yes.

I saw her, your wife.

What?

When I left my body, I floated,

and she was standing right next to my bed.

She talked to me.

She told me to tell you that she was here, Ben.

She was here.

Let's go.

She's alive.

She... she's alive.

That means it worked, the experiment worked.

Ben, you're not making any sense.

She... She... Rebecca's alive! She crossed over!

I got to get to the lab.

I don't know if you're here

or the hospital or somewhere else,

but if you're here, please do something.

All right, all right, just stay where you are.

[shouting] No! No! This can't happen again!

No!

This can't happen again!

No!

[screaming]

[screaming]

[security guard] Stop that.

[screaming]

[Dr. Rebecca] Ben?

I couldn't live without you,

Not if there was a chance to live with you.

What's happening to us?

I don't know.

[control voice] Perhaps at the end of life's journey,

another begins.

Two hearts, two minds, two souls,

one destiny.