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[Control Voice] Previously on The Outer Limits...

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.

I have developed a retro-viral activator

that activates introns.

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

Are you sure about your genetic test?

Probably in a few years

I'll start to get tremors that will take over.

A few years after that my liver's going to go, then what?

You've spent the past 20 years making obscure discoveries

that I'm sorry, Dad, will not change the world.

That's nice.

You missed out, Dad.

You're missing the great adventure life.

It is passing you by.

[grunts] I'm evolving.

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 this study.

[laughing]

I am so happy to see all of you.

Oh, I hope I haven't kept you waiting too long.

This is my son Paul!

-This is his girlfriend Hope. -Hi.

What is it?

That's what I was hoping you'd tell me, doctor.

[electricity crackling]

Dad!

-Get back! -[screams]

Dad! Dad!

[echoing voice] You're the final result

of our great experiment in hope.

We seeded your planet with our own genetic material

to continue our race in you.

We knew that when you reached

the appropriate level of intelligence,

you would activate the remainder of our experiment

in your own DNA.

That in turn would lead you to this craft.

At 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 eight more.

Good examples of what our seed has wrought.

Young and healthy enough to withstand the journey,

using this vessel that you see before you now.

We look forward to welcoming you back home.

This could be very dangerous.

They could have left that message

as much as 60 million years ago,

or they could 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.

When do we go?

[rumbling]

[Control Voice] And now the story continues.

[engine revving]

[rumbling]

[motor whirring]

Paul?

It's okay.

My dad knows what he's doing.

[whistling]

[whistling continues]

Well... [sighs in relief]

That was quite refreshing.

That was incredible.

I can't believe we made it.

We haven't made it anywhere yet.

[Dr. Nodel] All right, all right, settle down.

We are not through yet.

Dr. Nodel, can you tell us where we're going?

Do you know where we're going?

All in good time, Kirby.

The first person who says, "Are we there yet?"

gets to walk home.

[scoffs]

Pay attention.

This adventure is just beginning.

[echoing voice] Eons ago...

...the ancestors of our race...

...foresaw... [grunts]

[breathes heavily]

Dad.

...a great danger. [gasping]

Dad, what's the matter?

I cannot, Paul, I can't...

My body... I can't let go.

Dad!

Paul!

Paul!

[Paul screaming] Ah! No!

[screaming]

[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] Throughout the ages,

humans have looked to the heavens and wondered,

"Where did we come from and where are we going?

But will we find those answers in the stars

or in ourselves?"

[Ben] What the hell's going on here?

Where'd they go?

[Hope] They're gone.

[Anthony] I knew this was a mistake.

[Sarah] What happened?

Hope, it's going to be okay.

Let it go, just let it go.

It's going to be okay.

Hope, please just say something.

We are screwed!

We must have been out of our minds

jumping into a 60-million-year-old spaceship

like it was a school bus!

Like we're on a goddamned field trip.

Kirby, Kirby, shut up.

No, what are we gonna do now?

I said shut up!

Guys, we have come too far to let this fall apart now.

Dr. Nodel was the only one

who knew what was going on here.

We can't control the ship without him.

We don't have to control it!

Look, Dr. Nodel said the ship is programmed to take us

to the aliens' home planet.

so all we have to do is just sit back--

Then what? Enjoy the ride?

Look where that got him.

Look, Dr. Nodel knew what he was doing.

Do you think he knew that touching that thing

was going to kill him?

[rumbling]

-Oh, God! -[Claire] Oh, no!

We're breaking apart.

[Heather] What was that?

[Kirby] The walls, they're moving.

[Sarah] Where did that come from?

[Anthony] What is that?

[Ben] My God, this is incredible.

That's an understatement.

Look, the ship must have opened up for a reason.

I think we need to figure out why.

Definitely.

Are you out of your minds?

You saw what the ship did to Dr. Nodel and Paul.

This is an old ship.

What happened to them

might have been a malfunction of some kind.

Malfunction? The ship murdered them.

You don't know that.

Maybe not, but what if she's right?

The last place we should go is in there.

I refuse to believe that the aliens

would go to all this trouble to get us onto the ship

just to kill us off once we got in here.

Dr. Nodel was trying to uncover the origins of the human race,

and he chose us to go with him.

He gave his life

trying to complete our mission.

So did his son.

The least we could do to honor their sacrifice

is pick it up from where they left off.

Yeah.

I'm in.

Okay.

[Heather] Me, too.

Good.

Okay, look.

We don't know how long this flight's going to last.

So we need to figure out as much as possible

of this ship as we can.

All right, so, we're going to map it out as we go,

so go ahead and get your notebooks and your pens.

Everybody keep an eye out

for anything that might look like a flight control panel

or food and water supplies.

Hope.

Please come with us.

I can't.

It's okay, Sarah.

You can stay here, Hope.

She not gonna be much help to us in that condition anyway.

So just go ahead and get your stuff.

[Ben] Okay, everybody pair-up.

Each team take a different section,

and we'll meet back here in exactly...

...twenty minutes.

[shudders]

[rumbling]

[Claire] What do you think it's made of?

Well, it's not quite the same as the ship's exterior, but...

...if I had to take a guess...

...I'd say it was... some sort of metallic crystal.

Yeah, which grows and changes whenever it feels like it.

You know, the more I see of it,

the less this place feels like a spaceship.

It's more like a... living thing.

Yeah.

A thing we happen to be inside of.

All right.

Come on.

[Kirby] They kind of look like the symbol on Dr. Nodel's hand.

Yeah, but the arrangement's different--

Well, don't touch it.

I wasn't planning to.

Sorry.

[sighs]

It could be some form of writing

like hieroglyphics.

Is it just me

or do hieroglyphics remind you of tombs?

We, um... better keep moving. [sighs]

Yeah.

[Dr. Nodel's voice] Despite initial evidence to the contrary,

it appears that my genetic flaw was not cured after all.

The symptoms of Wilson's disease have recurred,

and the progression is accelerating rapidly.

My immune system has been severely compromised.

And at this rate, I expect to be dead within a few weeks.

How will I ever settle things with Paul

when I have so little time left?

[whispering voice] Hope.

Hope.

Hope.

Hope.

-[electrical buzzing] -[groans]

[breathes heavily]

[whispering voice] Hope.

You must listen.

[softly] Dr. Nodel?

Hope.

Paul?

It can't be you.

[echoing voice] You must listen.

You must prepare.

[electrical buzzing]

What was that?

I don't know.

It sounds like the ship's engines.

Oh, God.

Okay, hey, everything's going to be--

Don't say it...

Don't say it. That's always when things go bad.

Don't say it.

Okay.

[rumbling]

Oh, God, what are you doing?

Come on. Come on!

Oh, no!

-Help! -Help!

-[Anthony] Help! Somebody help. -[Sarah] Help.

-[Anthony] Somebody! -[Sarah] Somebody.

[Anthony] Somebody help us!

[Sarah screams] No!

[electrical surge]

[Claire] Hope?

What are you doing?

It started glowing.

Like it suddenly turned on.

Why? What happened?

I'm... I'm not sure.

I think you should look at that.

I think it explains a lot.

You guys are late.

It's a big ship.

What is that?

Dr. Nodel's lab notebook.

I found it in his coat.

According to that, he was very sick.

He was dying.

Maybe that's why he couldn't

withstand the strain of interfacing with the ship.

Maybe that's what killed him.

That doesn't explain what happened to Paul.

Dr. Nodel's disease was genetic, hereditary.

Maybe he passed those genes along,

so even though Paul wasn't sick yet,

when he touched his father

and the ship, it had the same effect.

Aren't you a little out of your field of expertise here?

Where's Sarah?

And Anthony?

They should have been here by now.

[Heather] Anthony!

Anthony!

Sarah!

Can you hear me?

It's all right, we'll go find them.

But from now on, we stick together.

-Anthony? Anthony? -Anthony?

Sarah?

-Sarah? -Anthony?

[Ben] It's another dead end. Damn it.

[Heather] This doesn't make any sense.

They've got to be here.

[Claire] This place is so disoriented.

It's almost impossible to get your bearings.

It's not like they could just get off somewhere.

[Ben] All right, let me check my map.

We must have missed something.

All right.

[echoing voice] Hope.

You must understand now is the time.

What...are you?

What do you want?

It is the time.

Get away from me.

Claire! Kirby!

Look out! Something's going to happen.

[Kirby] What the...

Move!

[screaming]

-[thuds] -[all grunt]

Get us out of here!

[Hope gasping] Oh, God, this can't be happening.

I'm okay, come on.

All right, check the walls.

Look for an opening, a handle, anything.

[Hope] Come on, you guys. Hurry.

[Heather] Ben!

The light's changing in here.

-Oh, man. -Hurry!

Try and slide it.

[indistinct screaming]

Come on, Ben!

[Heather] Please get us out of here.

-[Kirby] Oh, my God, what is that? -[Heather] Ben!

Hurry!

[Kirby] Get us out of here!

That's doing something.

[electrical buzzing]

I think it's shorting out.

Keep going!

Please hurry!

Hurry!

Hurry! It's changing!

Please!

Hurry!

Hang on!

[electronic surge]

Guys?

Are you okay?

Are you okay?

Say something!

Where's Claire and Kirby?

Claire! Kirby!

Can you hear me?

Okay, let's get her out of here.

The ship, it just...

It just opened up.

Took them.

What do you mean it took them?

It took them.

Something came through the wall...

...fast.

Something mechanical.

I only got a glimpse of it.

Don't take this the wrong way, please.

But why didn't it take you, too?

You know...

First we lost Dr. Nodel and Paul.

Then Anthony and Sarah.

And now Kirby and Claire.

Maybe the ship is designed to take

two people at a time.

If you're right about this...

...this ship is one big trap...

...and we're on a one-way trip.

[echoing voice] Hope.

Try to listen.

Try to hear.

Hope.

[echoing voice] Try to understand.

What are you doing?

I... I'm not sure.

My God.

That looks like the mark on Dr. Nodel's hand.

How the hell did that happen?

When I found Dr. Nodel's lab notebook,

I was near the post.

And I don't exactly know why,

but I reached out to touch it,

and something hit me.

It was like an electrical shock.

And then I started hearing things.

Voices...

...that keep drawing me here.

And I keep seeing images.

They look like Paul sometimes,

and Dr. Nodel and...

And what?

Something alien.

I think the ship created these images

when it consumed them,

a fusion of each person's consciousness,

maybe even melded with the ship itself.

This is crazy.

You're trying to tell me

that this ship is trying to control you?

No, no.

I think the ship is trying to help me.

The aliens designed this ship

to talk through a person genetically altered

who could become an interface.

This is just the point of connection.

When Dr. Nodel died,

the ship had no way to communicate with us.

And you think that's why the ship changed your hand?

Yes.

And now you want to try and talk back?

If I can.

This structure isn't the same as Dr. Nodel's.

It's not fully formed.

It...may not work.

Well, maybe not,

but I don't see a lot of other options.

All right, let's just say

you can communicate with the ship.

Then what?

I'll ask it what it's done with the others, and why.

At the first sign of trouble, we're pulling you off.

[electronic surge]

-[Heather] Hope? -No, It's all right.

It's working.

I can sense...

...some kind of memory bank.

Like a library.

I'm going to try and access it.

[whirring]

So much information.

So much knowledge.

It's incredible.

Looks like the Sphinx.

What are you saying? Aliens built it?

[Hope] I'm accessing the ship.

I've got it.

Just, just a little... bit longer.

I can see them. [screaming]

[Heather] Hope?

You all right?

Did you see what we saw?

I mean, it was the others. I'm sure of that.

But I couldn't tell where they were.

There's a network of tunnels

that run behind the main corridors.

They all seem to converge on a central chamber.

I think that's the place.

Okay.

So, we have to try and get them back.

If we cut through the corridor walls

and into those tunnels, we might be able to find them.

No, wait--

We can't afford to wait any longer.

For all we know it might already be too late.

We don't know enough.

We know plenty.

The ship's been grabbing us for God knows what reason,

and we have to put an end to it right now

before we're next.

I nearly got it to short out before,

so just keep at it.

Do you really think they're still alive?

These symbols...

They're all over the place

and in different patterns.

Maybe they're different types of interfaces.

Maybe.

Whoa.

[whirring]

[Ben] Well, we're in.

All right, we'll be right back.

Be careful.

[low rumbling]

[Heather] Can you see anything?

No, just more of the same.

Well, maybe we should just find another way in.

Wait a sec, wait a sec.

There's something up ahead.

How are you doing?

I think Ben found something.

[mechanical scratch]

Ben.

Better get out of there! Something's going on.

I think this is it.

[Hope] Heather.

Hold on a second.

Those symbols, I think they're some kind of timer,

and the've just finished...

I think Hope's saying something.

I can see...

-Go back! -Ben!

Get out of there now!

Ben!

[screaming]

[panting]

[echoing voice] Hope.

It is the plan.

You're lying.

Let the others go.

You must prepare.

For what?

You must prepare...

...to save yourselves.

[screaming]

[screaming]

[footsteps approaching]

Hope?

Are you okay?

[softly] I don't know.

Does anybody remember anything?

It felt like we were out for hours.

Maybe even days.

It felt longer than that.

Yeah, my watch stopped.

The battery's supposed to be good for a year.

Yeah, I...remember restraints,

like we were... part of the ship.

We were all restrained.

The ship was doing things to us.

Surgical things. [sighs]

Yeah, well, why don't we just all come out and say it?

I've got marks. We all do.

We were being experimented on.

We weren't hurt.

As far as we can tell.

We don't know what the ship did to us.

Before we launched,

Dr. Nodel told us that the aliens wanted to take us

to their home planet to see how we evolved.

I think that's what they were trying to do.

Before I was taken,

the last thing the ship told me was that

they were trying to save us.

I don't believe the ship would harm us.

How can you say that after what we've been through?

Let me interface again.

Look at the mark on my hand.

It's grown.

This time I'll be able to figure out--

No way. No way.

Every time you go near that interface,

something bad happens.

Hope, the ship is controlling you.

It's using you.

You don't understand.

Yes, I do. We blew it, all of us.

We threw our lives away

the minute we followed Dr. Nodel

into this goddamned ship!

[Ben] Hope.

-Let go of me! -No more, Hope! That's it.

-Forget it, Hope. -[engine whirring]

What's happening?

The ship's changing again.

No, it sounds different.

I think it's wind.

We're landing.

Everybody back to your launch positions now!

[whirring]

[door opens]

We made it.

Yeah, whether we like it or not.

We're really here.

[Sarah] I don't see any signs of life.

Me neither.

We came all this way.

I can't believe the aliens aren't here.

Yeah, you'd think they'd at least

send out a welcoming committee.

So, what do we do now?

We're going to wait right here.

Why?

Because after we find food and water,

we're going to need shelter.

[Ben] The ship is perfect.

It's practically indestructible.

If worse comes to worse, we can defend ourselves in it.

Defend ourselves?

You bet.

We are lucky the aliens aren't here.

So far we've done everything

according to a plan they made millions of years old,

jerking us around like a bunch of puppets.

If they want us so bad,

they can come get us.

Who knows? I mean,

they obviously had the technology

to get off the planet.

Maybe that's exactly what they did.

We don't know anything,

And we're not going to learn anything

by staying here.

I told you, I don't think the ship

or the aliens intended to harm us.

The fact that we're still here and still alive

should be enough to prove that.

Are you sure we really want to find them?

I just want some answers.

I think we should have a better vantage point

from up here.

[Hope] Oh, my God.

We're home.

I can't say how recently

this thing was discarded but...

It's like we've come about 250 years into the future.

Well, if this is Earth...

...then where is everybody?

We haven't seen a single sign of life since we got here.

The ship must have kept us

in some type of suspended animation.

That, or we just went

in one big circle at the speed of light.

Maybe there was a war.

That did all this?

It doesn't make any sense.

I mean, we got onto an alien ship.

We were supposed to be going to their home planet.

[Heather] Well, maybe the aliens' home planet is Earth.

That would explain all the images

of ancient human history that we saw.

Remember the Sphinx?

So, you're suggesting that an advanced civilization

lived on Earth and died off

eons ago without leaving a trace?

They did leave the ship.

What is this?

That... That can't be human.

No, I think it is.

Looks like its bone structure was modified.

Those are wings.

Angels don't have skeletons.

No, but humans do.

[Claire] It could be some kind of mutation

or genetic engineering.

What do you think?

There's no way to tell.

Hope?

Hope, what's wrong?

[Hope] "In testament

to the pride and vanity of our species.

We believed we could control nature."

There's another inscription.

According to this there was some kind of an outbreak

brought on by rampant genetic engineering,

DNA-destroying virus that rendered

virtually the entire human population infertile.

The human race?

The whole species just died out one by one.

Maybe we could start again.

Start what? The world?

There's only seven of us.

We don't have enough

genetic diversity to repopulate anything.

We're going to die here like everyone else.

No! I refuse to believe that.

We have to go back to the ship.

Are you crazy?

The ship did this to us, okay?

It brought us here!

I'm not going back.

Look.

This time it's fully formed.

I can interface with the ship like we were supposed to.

If this journey's going to amount to anything,

we have to at least try and find some answers.

Hope, it'll kill you

just like it killed Dr. Nodel and Paul!

It's my risk, it's my life.

And I'm not going to let it end here.

Not like this.

[electricity crackling]

[echoing voice] Eons ago,

The ancestors of our race foresaw great danger.

They had once lived on this planet

and nearly destroyed themselves in a misguided effort

to genetically perfect their species.

In an attempt to prevent future generations

from making the same mistakes,

they left behind this vessel.

It was our forefathers' hope...

...that we would learn from the mistakes of the past...

...that you would avoid the genetic cataclysm

which nearly destroyed their species and ours.

It is now your task and your responsibility

to use this opportunity wisely.

Because of our illness, we could not be there with you.

But our minds, our hopes and our dreams

live on inside this vessel.

Let them now live on inside you.

[groans]

[Heather] Oh, my God.

Hope?

The ship spoke to me.

It gave me all the knowledge of our ancient ancestors.

And I know how to use it.

This ship has limitless energy.

We're going to rebuild our world.

And we're not going to make the same mistakes again.

[sighs] Hope...there just aren't enough of us.

I have something to show you.

Oh, look.

I can't believe it.

[babies cooing, gurgling]

The ship used our genetic material

to create babies.

It modified our DNA to give us enough genetic diversity

to repopulate.

[baby crying]

We can start again.

[Control Voice] It is said that those who do not learn from history

are doomed to repeat it.

Will we be wise enough to learn?