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Battle cruiser Tango Bravo 1.
Approximate relay.

We're in auto-pilot orbit
around planet N184.

Entire crew
is in the cargo bay now.

As soon as we touch down,
we'll begin
deployment protocol.

You sure this needs
all six of us?

[Elana] Those are
the orders from Proxima relay.

Every crew member
report to the hold

for instrument
deployment.

Display op, please.

Start deployment
of the device.

It's beautiful.

It seems like
a long way to come

just for
target practice.

I don't know
what makes you so sure
this thing's a weapon?

Could just be
an oversized music box.

Yeah, right.

How long do you figure
to deploy the package?

Well, if everything goes
without a hitch,

we should have it
on the surface and operational

inside of five hours.

With our window,
that still leaves

almost half a day for
survey and exploration.

Somebody tell
the boy scout

we didn't sign on
for a picnic.

So what did we sign on for?

You don't know
any more about this cargo
than I do.

Difference is I know enough
not to give a damn.

[all grunting]

Talk to me!

Laser fire
from the surface.

Damage is just after
of main thruster.
No breach.

-All critical systems
intact.
-Signature?

Ebonite weaponry,
no question about it.

This was
supposed to be a dead planet.

Yeah, well,
that can be arranged.

No time to get
to the bridge.

Activate weapons remote.

-Stand by to launch.
-[Waylon] You got it.

Computer, this is
weapons officer Dumar.

Arm laser. Targeting.

Right 40.

Up 20.

Right two, lock.

We're locked on
their tracking system, Captain.
Just say the word.

Let 'em know
what we're made of.

B-55 boron laser banks fire!

Right down
their throats!

No additional
energy readings.

Looks like
we knocked 'em out.

All quiet.

I love it when
you fight dirty!

Well, we do what
we can, buddy.

[all groaning]

Hey, Captain...

What is this place?

Damn, I thought
I asked for a private room.

What the hell hit us?

The impulse is my guess.

Just enough to knock us out.

Looks like
we've been accessorized.

Some sort of metallic implant.

And stripped
of our weapons.

It must be 100 degrees in here.

Whoever put us here
made one big mistake.

What's that, Captain?

They left us alive.

You got that right.

Major.

It's 0800.

In two hours, I want options
for an escape plan.

I'm on it, sir.

[electronic voice]
Prisoners of war,

identify yourselves!

Who's asking?

Identify yourselves!

It's all right.

Name and rank
is all they're getting.

Kimbro, Robert R.

Captain of
the starship Archipelago.

Neguchi, Major Ronald.

Lieutenant
Christopher Valentine.

Dr. Elana Chomsky.

O'Keefe, Kristen Anne,
civilian.

Sergeant Waylon Deadeye Dumar,

scumbag exterminator.

[electronic voice]
You have a brought
a device to this planet

in the storage area
of your ship.

We demand a full accounting
of its function and purpose.

Yeah, we demand to see
your ugly mug.

-Silence!
-Oh, bite me!

Ow! Ow! Oh, God!

Ow!

Oh...

You all right, Sarge?

Yeah, yeah, it's going
to take more than that, man.

Further defiance will be
dealt with swiftly and harshly.

You have one hour to designate

one who will speak for you.

Our bodies are dehydrated.
This man needs water--

When our demands are met,
yours will be considered.

If you fail to cooperate,

you will meet the same fate

as the last
unfortunate creatures

to trespass in this sector.

[Christopher]
What is it, Captain?

[Roger] I don't know,
but they ripped its guts out.

[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]
While some prisoners of war

show bravery
beyond the call of duty,

others succumb to an enemy
often more formidable

than the one
which captured them.

Front and center.

Would you care to join us,
Lieutenant?

Assessment, Doctor.

It's Ebonite all right.

Down the line,
class five POW compound.

The aliens
build 'em to last.

Structural assay, Major?

[Ronald]
Non-ferrous alloy.

Cordite amalgam
most likely--

[scoffs] It's not going
anywhere unless you're packing
an synth-8 torch.

What's the plan,
Captain?

Same as when
we were outnumbered
by the Ebonites on Petavius.

We hunker down, clam up

and wait
for our moment.

It doesn't make
any sense.

All our data shows
we're a good parsec away

from any known Ebonite outpost.

That planet was
supposed to be uninhabited.

Wouldn't be
the first time

HQ underestimated
the enemy's reach.

Just beautiful.

Fleet command
sends us to plant a bomb

right in the middle
of a hornet's nest.

[Christopher] Bomb?

I was told
the device
in the cargo bay

was strictly
telemetry and recon.

[Waylon] Who knows?

Best damn crew
of the fleet,

They don't even trust us
with the skinny.

[Roger] Even if I
did have the facts,

they're going to have
this place wired
nine ways from Sunday.

So the less we say
about the device,
the better.

You ever hear of the Ebonites
being fluent in English?

No, but it doesn't surprise me.

But we know
we're not the first humans
they've captured.

Maybe they picked up
the lingo from
other prisoners.

Could be this is one cell
of a penal colony.

[Christopher] What,
so there could be other
prisoners here like us.

Hello!

Is anybody out there?

You know,
the Ebonites will rip
a man's heart out

and feed it to him
just to get what they want.

Well then,
I guess you're safe, Sarge.

[laughs]

Well, let's just hope that
they don't see
our civilian here

as an Achilles' heel.

I'm sworn to
the same secrecy you are.

I've been briefed
on deployment procedure.

No more, no less.
Not that I haven't
heard rumors.

What have you heard?

That it's some kind of,
I don't know,
deep-space bio-sensor.

It's supposed to look
for alien lifeforms.

Well, what do you know?

The damn thing works.

[Elana] The last
ISF conference,

there was talk about
a doomsday device.

If it's the weapons system
being whispered about,

we just better hope to God

we haven't
put it in enemy hands.

I'm telling you.

Screwed, blued and tattooed.

[Roger] Listen up.

Whatever differences we have on
how fleet command handled this,

we put 'em
aside right now.

If we're going to survive,
we act as one.

An assault on one of us
is an assault on all of us.

We stick together, right?

-Yes, sir.
-Yes, sir.

Sergeant?

We live together,
we die together.

If we're
prisoners of war,

they can't just kill us
in cold blood.

Oh, no?
You haven't gone against
these bastards hand-to-hand.

You have no clue what kind
of savages we're dealing with.

[Christopher]
Is anybody out there?

Somebody
please help us!

Somebody!

Hey, boy scout,
take it easy.

No one can hear you

that doesn't want you dead.

Valentine!

Watch your backs!

-Oh, my God!
-[Roger] Valentine!

-[muffled screaming]
-Oh, Jesus.

Easy, Valentine.

Look what they did
to his mouth.

[Waylon] Boy scout,
settle down.

-Easy, son, easy.
-Come on.

Instantaneous fusion
in the epidermal layer.

One of
the Ebonites' favorite toys.

Command has known about it
since they captured

that T-Class scout ship
in the Procyon skirmishes.

It's the first time
i've seen it used though.

[Ronald] Captain.

I'm pretty sure I've located
the vid and audio sensors.

If you want,
I can try and disable them.

Do it.

[electronic voice]
The time is up!

Have you chosen a spokesman?

We have.

Wait, not yet.

Why don't you
let me go?

I mean, just in case
they decide to get ugly

right off the bat,

you know,
set an example.

Can't afford to
lose our commander.

Thanks, Sarge,
but I want them

to know they've picked
the wrong squadron
to mess with.

Besides, if anyone's
going to take

a high hard one
for the team,

it ought to be me.

Step forward,
Captain Kimbro.

Give 'em hell.

Step into the light,
Captain Kimbro.

[wincing]

Water.

We have but a few questions.

Answer them truthfully,
and you will be returned

to your comrades
unharmed.

We have recovered the weapon
of war from your ship.

Why did you bring it
to our planet?

I wasn't aware
this was your planet.

Are we still on N184,
or did you move us?

We will ask
the questions.

Why did you
bring the device?

It's a tool
for scientific research.

What kind
of research?

We weren't given
the particulars.

What about food and water
for my crew?

You will get nothing
if you don't cooperate.

Look, you want
to score points,

with your command,
you can bring them
my head.

Just let the rest
of my crew go.

I swear
they don't know anything.

What were
your orders?

To deploy the device
and return home.

Then you must be able
to access its controls.

It's self-activating.

So...

It's a bomb.

It's not a bomb.

I told you.

It's a research instrument.

[grunting]

Torturing prisoners

violates the Geneva
and Alpha Aquilae conventions,

and it won't get you squat.

Whatever you think
you're protecting,
Captain, know this:

either satisfy me
with the truth

by the time
our second sun rises,

or you'll watch
your crew die.

It won't be
the first time

you've seen that,
will it, Captain?

[screams]

You know how this works,
don't you?

They start questioning us
one by one

until somebody buckles.

Even if the captain
does know more
than he let on,

he's not gonna say word one.

I wouldn't bet the farm
on that, Doctor.

And why is that?

Look, I like the captain.

Just as much
as the rest of you,

It's just...
You can't count out
a man's history.

Whoa, wait a minute.
You're not gonna
bring up that BS

about the first
Ebonite invasion,
are you?

I thought
the captain was decorated
or that campaign.

-He was.
-Maybe so.

But he abandoned ship
before the rest of his crew
was accounted for.

His escape capsule
jettisoned safely,

but the second pod
malfunctioned.

Four crew members
on the Outbound died

including
your captain's best friend
from the academy.

Look it up
if you don't belie me.

So what are you saying?

That Kimbro would sell
the rest of us out
to save his own skin?

I'm just saying I don't think
we shouldn't make
any blanket assumptions.

-Then don't.
-[Ronald] Come on, people.

This is the last thing
we need right now.

You heard what
the captain said.

We either hang together
or we hang separately.

[Waylon] Captain.

So?

You all right?

Full metal
interrogation, huh?

Same voice over and over.

They want access codes
to the device.

What did
you tell them?

I told them the truth.

But I don't even know
what the damn thing is.

You sure took your time
saying nothing.

You want to see
my souvenirs?

It's water.

Beats dying of thirst.

Yeah.

What are we going to do
about Valentine?

I'll just have to hydrate him
as much as possible
through his skin.

[electronic voice]
Lieutenant Valentine.

Enter.

Valentine.

You wish to regain
your speech, don't you?

We can make
that happen.

but understand

we expect
something in return.

Is that better, Lieutenant?

Yes.

The device
in the cargo bay,
Lieutenant Valentine.

we want to know
what it is.

I don't know.
I swear I don't.

I don't think
anyone else does either.

[screams]

It would
be a shame

if fleet command
had notified your mother

that her other son
died in combat too.

Who told you about my brother?

Your captain.

[Kimbro's voice]
Valentine's your
basic eager beaver.

He grew up in the shadows
of his older brother Billy,

big war hero.

It's not that
I don't like the kid,

but lets just say
he's not the kind of soldier

you'd trust
with your life.

Never gonna hold
a candle to his brother.

He just doesn't
have what it takes.

He's right.

I'll never be the man
my brother was.

Billy sacrificed his life
to save his platoon.

That's a crock.

Oh, God Almighty.

Billy.

I stumbled on that pulse mine.

I wasn't trying
to save anybody.

I don't understand.

You're alive?

More alive than you'll be
if you don't play ball.

No, this can't be happening.

I'm dreaming this.

[screams]

Does that
feel like a dream, Chris?

Look, you said
you always wanted
to be like me.

Well, you can be
the real hero,
little brother.

Not a fraud like me.

You can make a liar
out of that captain.

Save your own life

and the lives of
everyone in your crew.

Oh, thank God.

[Waylon]
What do you know.

Kid got his mouth back...
Sort of.

Of course.
They had to reverse the damage
if they wanted him to talk.

-Well, did you?
-Of course not.

My brother...

My brother Billy was there.

Your brother's dead,
lieutenant.

They pulled the image
from your mind.

I heard what you said
about me, Captain.

They played it back.

What are you
talking about?

About how
you couldn't trust me
with your life,

that I wasn't
half the soldier
my brother was.

I never said
any of those things.

Ebonites must have
simulated my voice.

-[Kristen] Yeah, right.
-They could have downloaded

the personnel files
from the ship.

Then they'd know everything
there was to know about us.

Maybe more than we know
about each other.

Let's just hope that
they didn't give him

his voice back
so he could squeal
like a stuck pig.

I told you
I didn't tell them anything!

-Come on.
-Did your brother--

The image
of your brother,

did he encourage
you to talk?

It's not Billy's fault!

They made him
say those things.

There was no Billy!

And I never said
those things about you.

Don't you see
what they're doing?

Don't you see?

They're messing with our minds.

Captain.

This should
knock out their surveillance.

[screams]

What did they do to me?

What did they do?

My eyes.

[Elana] Here,
have some food.

[Waylon] You know, they said
they wouldn't even

consider giving us
food or water

until their demands
were met first.

What's that
supposed to mean?

Oh, I don't know.

I just can't help thinking

maybe, maybe they've already
heard something they like.

Makes sense to me.

Can't you see
what's going on here?

It's intermittent
reinforcement,

alternating
punishment with reward,

the first rule
of behavior modification.

And what was your reward,
Captain?

What haven't you told us?

I saw your reaction

when Valentine told us
about his brother.

What did
they show you?

Who did you see?

[Dennis] Bobby?

Bobby, wake up.

It's me.

Dennis?

It's impossible.

Now is that any way
to greet your best friend?

But...you died.

You, you died up there.

You didn't stick around

to find out
what happened to any of us.

Not that
I blame you.

The Outbound disintegrated.

How did you survive?

The Ebonites...

deployed a mop-up team

just before they...
just before they
blew up the ship.

I've been a prisoner
here ever since.

What about the others?

They stone-walled.

All dead?

Mercifully,

Yes.

Dennis...
You got to believe me.

My instruments
showed your pod

free and clear
of the ship.

I would never
have left you behind.

Hey, you did
what you had to do.

You don't believe me.

Fear's a powerful thing, Bobby,

No matter what we want
to believe about ourselves.

But I think
we both know

what's
motivating you now.

Fear of losing
more people

on your watch.

Dennis...

I'm sorry.

If only I could have
traded places with you.

Maybe you'll be
given the chance, Bobby.

You never know.

[sniffles]

I'm not going to talk.

I don't care
what they do to me.

I felt the same way
for the longest time.

But they're going
to get the information,

one way...

or another.

Don't make it any harder
than it has to be.

You're positive
it was all in your mind?

It had to have been.

He was trying
to get me to talk.

In a million years,

Dennis would never
have done that.

He was the best damn soldier
i've ever known.

Why didn't you
tell us, Captain?

Living it once
was hard enough.

The commander
is supposed to look out
for the soldiers under him.

One of them dies...

so does a part of you.

Just ask the major.

Captain, don't you think
Ronny's been
through enough?

Look at him.

You lost guys
in combat too, Major?

If it was combat,
maybe it would
have been easier.

-What happened?
-Hey! Back off!

Give me a break,
I didn't bring it up.

Captain...

I'm pretty sure
I can finish what
Neguchi started.

[Christopher]
Ron...Ronny.

It's worse like this...
In the dark.

What's...
What's worse?

I can't stop
seeing their faces.

He's talking
about the air show accident.

It was no accident.

It was cockiness.

Stupidity.

My stupidity!

We were circling
to return to the base,

so I said,
"How about a curtain call?"

I climbed
to 2,000 feet

and began my loop.

They took my lead.

I thought we had
enough room to make it.

I skimmed the top
of the trees.

So did Azinger.

But the rest of them
couldn't pull up.

I led 'em straight to hell.

How many died?

Two of the best pilot
in the command.

Four people were injured
by the burning debris...

including a six-year-old girl.

She was...

She was blinded.

Last one.

[alarm blaring]

[Waylon]
What the hell is it?

[Kristen] You must've tripped
some kind of fail-safe.

Now you've done it!

Thought you were
the tough guy, Sergeant.

Hey, hey.
I'm just sick of your bull,
you know that?

All this bluster,
it's just a cover for
a scared little boy.

Shut up.
I won't take any more!

Dumar!

Sergeant, stand down!

Are you crazy?

She's been lying to us
since this mission started.

Both of you have!

Now if we're going to die
20 trillion miles from home,

the least we deserve to know
is why.

Huh? Why?

God.

You don't want to do this.

-You wanna bet?
-You've always
been ready

-to lay
your life down--
-Yeah, that was then!

All right, go ahead, O'Keefe.

I'm officially
declassifying the information.

There's nothing they can use
even if they can hear us.

Just give me
the damn knife.

Now.

Now talk!

[panting]

First of all,
you were kept out of the loop

to protect you.

The less you knew,
the safer you'd be.

And if you had half a brain,
you'd want to keep it that way.

Yeah, well,
I'll take my chances.

The instrument

is a weapon of war,

The most awesome mankind
has ever developed.

Once deployed,
it can be programmed

to train its firepower

on any coordinates
in the known universe.

You knew about this all along?

It was designed to be
the ultimate deterrent.

We were going to target
an uninhabited world

and have the enemy
monitor the test.

It's insanity!

Great, great.

So what? Can they get it up
and running without us?

It'll blow a hole
in this planet
five miles across

if they try
and dismantle it.

So we get vaporized?
Is that it?

Had you given
any thought

to what happens
when they torture you
within an inch of your life?

I'm carrying an L capsule.

If I have to, I'll swallow it
before I give up any secrets

on how to dismantle
or use the bomb.

[electronic voice]
Dr. Chomsky.

Prepare to enter
the interrogation room.

So whose
bright idea was it

to send
our super weapon

to a planet
full of Ebonites?

There weren't
supposed to be any Ebonites.

No? What happened?
Somebody tipped them off
we were coming?

Are you accusing one of us
of being a traitor?

I'm just saying,
it's a long mission.

There's been plenty of time
to contact the enemy.

Come on, Sarge,
this is how it starts.

Paranoia, suspicion.

They're viruses, they breed.

And once they get hold,
you can't kill 'em.

[electronic voice] Dr. Chomsky,
Lieutenant Valentine told us

you used to experiment
on children.

[Christopher's voice]
It wasn't easy hiding
my contempt for that butcher.

They were terminally ill.

[electronic voice] Is that what
you want, Doctor?

More suffering?
More dying?

Haven't you seen
enough death?

This war was not of my making!

Prolonging it,
that's in all our hands,

Isn't it?

No!

[girl] Why did you hurt us?

We didn't want to die.

Please,
don't let it start again.

Stop it!

Stop it!

[screams]

Attention
crew of the Archipelago.

we regret to inform you
that science officer

Elana Chomsky
will not return.

I want to see her.

Take me to her now!

Her body expired.

We made every effort
to resuscitate her,

but we were unsuccessful.

No, you tortured her
to death!

It's up to the rest of you now.

Major Neguchi,
please come forward.

Please.

You're not taking any more
of my people,
do you hear me?

Not one!

[screams]

Now, Major,

or your Captain dies.

[Ronald]
Lead me to the door.

Are you sure?

[Roger]
No, Major! Stop!

Perhaps you'd like to hear
what Valentine said about you.

[Christopher's voice] At the
air show, Major Neguchi was
playing the hero.

He led those men to
their deaths,

then he tried
to blame them
for the accident.

No, I did no such thing!

[electronic voice]
You want to
remain like this

for the rest
of your life?

Then again,
why should you see

when that little girl
never will?

Please!

I want my eyes back.

Why?

So you can cry, Major?

Or so you can see?

Perhaps you'd like
to see Dr. Chomsky.

Elana?

[Waylon]
Looks like somebody
did some trading.

What was it?
An eye for an eye, Ronny?

Valentine, you bastard!

I never told 'em anything!
I swear!

Back off, Major.
It wasn't the boy scout,
and you know it.

Sergeant, you want to jump
on somebody,

you come get
a piece of me.

That's interesting
you would defend him.

What? Are you in it together?

What happened in there?

They made me look at the doc.

Dead?

They ripped her wide open.

Cut out her heart.

Why'd they treat you so well?

What's this about?

I'm the one
who was betrayed!

Prisoners of war,

your ordeal is almost over.

We're currently reviewing

the information
you've provided.

If it bears out,

you'll be permitted
to return to your ship

and begin your journey home.

-What?
-Did you hear that?

We're going home.
We're going home!

We're going home!

You made a deal.

You made a deal, didn't you?

I didn't know anything.
I didn't tell them anything!

Sorry, Major,
but that dog don't hunt here.

[Christopher] I hate to say it,

but the sergeant
might be right.

What else would
make 'em turn around
like that?

For all we know,
it could have been Chomsky.

Yeah, funny how easy
it is to accuse a corpse

instead of a living traitor!

You haven't been
interrogated yet.

It could be you won't be
as brave as you think.

After the air show accident,

you should have been
stripped of your bars.

Instead you're promoted
six months later.

Listen, Captain,
he had one last meeting

just before we left.

That briefing
was strictly navigations

and interstellar protocols!

[Waylon]
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I thought we were friends.

So did I.

You can't just rush
to judgment like this,

not when we know they're doing
everything they can

to turn us against
one another.

Captain,
treason is a capital offense.

And I, for one,

intend that this sentence
be carried out.

You want to take
your anger out on this man,

you're going
to have to come through me.

[Kristen] Look, I think
he's guilty too,

but that's still for
a military court
to determine.

This far from home,

we either carry our justice
with us, or it doesn't exist.

All these years...

I don't know
how many missions,

we've always stuck
by each other.

We were a unit... A team!

How many times
has one of us

saved the life of the soldier
in the trench beside him?

Not because
it was in the book!

But because
it was in his heart!

Now look at us.

[electronic voice]
Sergeant Dumar,

come forward.

I'm not finished with you,
you spineless sack of garbage.

Not by a long shot.

Where the hell are you,
you cowards?

[electronic voice]
Cowards, Sergeant?

Who's the real coward?

You're one of them.

All this time?

One of you knows the codes.

and we've interrogated
all the military personnel
but you.

Our second sun
rises in less than
one of your hours.

As painful as
Dr. Chomsky's death was,

yours will be more painful.

-[electricity crackling]
-[screams]

Not me.

Then who, Sergeant?

Who has the answers?

Somebody help me.

[sobs]

I'm not going
to ask you again.

Forgive me.

[screaming]

I can't take it!

Civilian O'Keefe.

Enter.

[Christopher] Where is Dumar?

What have you
done to him?

O'Keefe! O'Keefe, no!

What's happening?

It's supposed
to be instantaneous.

Now, O'Keefe.

No!

[shuddering]

[electronic voice]
There's no point
in resisting, O'Keefe.

The sergeant's last words
told us it was you who holds
the answers we demand.

Where is Dumar?

You killed him?

Sergeant Dumar
has been detained.

Time is short.

We want you to disable

the armament's
protective electronics.

Do as we say
or pay the price.

You're going
to have to free my hands

if you expect me
to defeat the booby traps.

Oh, God.

Oh.

We thought you were a goner.

He's not human.

I saw him in there.

He's an Ebonite, Captain.

He's gone off the edge.

I'm no more an alien
than you are!

They've got O'Keefe in there.

You told them, didn't you?

I can read it
all over your face.

Neguchi told 'em.

I just confirmed it, Captain.

They were going to kill me.

Kill us all!

He's an alien!
Don't you get it?

They played you
for all you were worth.

You don't have the sense
or the courage

you were born with.

You are a pathetic excuse
for a soldier!

You son of a bitch!
I'll kill you!

Die, you! Die!

You traitor!

I killed him,
I killed him.

[Roger]
What have you done?

[electronic voice]
That's it! Pull the plug!

Get the paramedics in here.

-[man's voice over intercom]
Code blue!
-What the hell?

Wait a minute.

Oh, sweet mother of God!

Medics,
get in here now!

This was not
supposed to happen!

[PA announcer]
Code blue.

Emergency medical team
to the simulation chamber.
Code blue.

Is everyone seeing
what I'm seeing?

It's no hallucination,
Lieutenant.

General Seawell?

What's going on here?

Where the hell are we?

At the Star Fleet research lab
at Fort Dix.

What?

We were on Earth?

And have been ever since
we brought the Archipelago
back from deep space

and all of you out of sedation.

You don't believe me.

Well, then maybe
you should ask Dr. Chomsky.

Neguchi swore you were dead.

A life cast with
a few gruesome touches.

You're part of it?

No, I only found out
after the interrogation.

I begged them to stop it.
But they wouldn't listen.

[doctor]
We're losing him.

And Major Neguchi?

We used his holographic image
in Dumar's interrogation

as the last phase
of the experiment.

I only wish his assault

was part of
the simulation.

What the hell's going on here?

We are at war, soldier,

with an alien race
of such advanced capability

that we don't stand a chance
of prevailing

unless we know the physical
and psychological limits

of our men and women
in the field.

We fabricated your capture
by the Ebonites,

used state-of-the-art imaging
to gaslight you,

all to test
your snap threshold.

The weapon we were carrying.

It wasn't real.

Oh, it's very real.

And one day you'll deploy it
just as you expected to.

But we couldn't risk it
getting into enemy hands.

Unfortunately, we found out
just how human
you all really are.

No.

No, this can't be happening.

We're not on Earth.

Tell me we're not on Earth.

[Roger]
We're home, O'Keefe.

We have been all this time.

Don't you understand?

I didn't disengage
the booby traps.

I just pretended to.

I set the device to go of
in exactly one minute.

Oh, that's impossible.

We safeguarded against
any accidental triggering

before you went into space
with it.

We even added
an electronic firewall.

No, no, I bypassed
all five levels of safeguards.

It's impossible.
You couldn't have.

I'm the only one who can.

I help designed
the damn thing!

Believe me, I know
what I'm talking about.

It's going off in 40 seconds.

God Almighty!

Well, don't just stand there!

Stop the countdown!

That thing goes off,

half the hemisphere
goes with it!

It's too late.

They can't. No one can.

It's been given
the final command.

We were in enemy territory.

We were going to die anyway.

General,

tell me
this is part of the simulation.

O'Keefe, do something!

Oh, God,
what have they done?

What have I done?

[control voice]
In our efforts
to plumb the depths

of our psychological endurance,

we may do more
than drive ourselves

to the breaking point.

We may destroy the very world

we're seeking to protect.

[theme music playing]