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Can you identify the nature of the interference?

We seemed to pick up a signal that might have come from deep space.

What kind of signal?

That signal we heard is a spaceship coming from his galaxy.

A rocket is being launched.

I've sent the Warrior to stop it.

If he fails, all on this planet will die.

JIM: It's still heading straight towards us.

All stations, this is Flight Control.

Liquid oxygen has pressurized within the green marks.

Start instrument recorders.

Going into terminal phase at T minus two minutes and counting.

All down range stations are on the line.

We are go on flight path. We are go on global net.

Mount Carson, are you green for launch?

(SIGNAL BEEPING)

Negative, Flight. This is Range Liaison Officer.

I'm suggesting a hold at present status.

Say why, Mount Carson.

(BEEPING CONTINUES)

RLO: It may sound crazy, but I think we're receiving

some kind of radio interference from deep space.

CHRIS: Attention all units, we are initiating a hold.

Repeat, holding at T minus one minute, 15 seconds.

Mount Carson, can you identify the nature of the interference?

RLO: Negative, Flight. - The source is from outside the solar system.

RLO, do you have an explanation?

It might be an echo bounce, or a star noise phenomena of a new type.

Jim, transfer image to our telemetry board.

JIM: Flight, the beam is apparently striking the coastline

near the old fort on Cape MacArthur.

(BEEPING CONTINUES)

(BEEPING STOPS)

RLO: Mission Control, the interference has now cleared.

Very good. Report the occurrence to Mount Palomar

for further investigation.

All units, previous hold is canceled

at T minus one minute, 15 seconds and counting.

Transfer TDC power.

Automatic sequence is go. Launch panel is on.

Roger. Facility is now on automatic sequence.

Stand by for terminal count.

CHRIS: RLO? - RLO: Go.

Electrical? TECHNICIAN: Go.

Roger.

Coming up on T minus 10 seconds.

Mark. Nine.

Eight, seven, six, five, four,

three, two, one.

We have ignition.

All right.

How's she flying, Jim?

Hot, true, and normal.

Time to chemical dispersal point is D minus 30 seconds.

I've got my fingers crossed.

So do the scientists of 22 nations, Jim.

Unless we restore the ozone layer,

solar radiation will continue to increase to the danger level.

JIM: Panel is on automatic sequence for chemical dispersal.

Roger. Coming up on dispersal altitude in five seconds.

Four, three, two, one.

We have dispersal.

RLO: We have the spectrograph results, Flight.

Thank you, Mount Carson. Ejection of chemical load was successful.

Particle distribution within acceptable parameters.

The ozone layer in the immediate vicinity of the dispersion point

has increased 2.7%.

TECHNICIAN: All right. - We did it.

Good work, men.

All right, all right. Now that was just a test.

We'll see what happens when we load the Saturn with a full load.

Hopefully, it'll increase the ozone level all over the planet.

See you tomorrow for the big bang.

This is Flight Control, out.

Good work, Chris.

(SIGHS)

Gentlemen, if you will excuse me, I have a date with a very attractive young lady.

Is she a willowy blonde, about this tall?

Teaches school, a lady who I lost my heart to years ago?

That's the one. Uh-huh.

She's picking me up for a dinner party. I'll see you later.

Have a good time. Okay.

Oh, my, oh, my, oh my.

Lady, you are something else.

Well, I'm glad you approve. Hi.

I'd approve of you in anything.

(LAUGHS) But when you look like this...

Uh...

Why don't you hold this thought until after dinner?

Because I'm starving.

That's what I like about you, sweetheart.

You're such a romanticist. Yeah.

Drive.

JAIME: How'd the launch go? - CHRIS: 100% successful.

Great. Something interesting, too.

Right in the middle, we picked up a signal

that seemed to come from deep space.

Looked like it was aimed right at Fort MacArthur.

So that's why you wanted me to come this way.

Jaime, it'll only take a minute to look.

Please? It's the next turn.

Oh, it's the next turn. Okay.

I certainly hope I don't faint from hunger.

I know your kind. A lot stronger than you look.

I bet you say that to all the guys.

JAIME: What is that?

Well, in the good ol' days, 14-inch naval guns in those positions

waiting to exchange broadsides with the Japanese Imperial Fleet

if they decided to take California.

Terrific.

You know, it's strange.

I have been teaching about this era year after year

and I have never experienced the reality of it until just now.

It's really sad that men spent years out of their lives here

waiting for a battle that never happened.

Which is the best kind, I guess.

It's locked.

Well good. I'm ready to go.

All right, all right. Just give me a couple minutes to look around. Okay?

(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)

(SIGNAL BEEPING)

What's that?

What's what?

Maybe... Maybe we should just look around a little bit more.

That's okay. I don't mind.

Good girl.

(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)

How'd you do that?

It was already broken. I guess it was just rusted through.

Oh.

(SIGNAL BEEPING)

(SIGHS)

Well, that's it. End of the line.

Um, why don't you see if you could find something to pry with.

Maybe we could, you know...

You've got to be kidding?

Please.

(SIGHS)

Boy, you're lucky I really like you, because you're a crazy lady.

I do it, but...

(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)

This is...

Haven't you got something you want to tell me?

What?

Well, maybe that was rusted, uh, through, too, huh?

Yeah, I think that was rusted. Yeah.

Yeah. Bionic, right?

Well, Rudy told me it existed. He even wanted me to work on it.

He just forgot one little detail.

A face. A name. A body.

Is it...

Is it a turn-off to you?

Well, not as long as you don't go around beating up my friends.

Hey.

It's a bad joke.

Does that answer your question?

Wait a minute, you were hearing something before that I couldn't.

Is that bionic, too?

It's the other one.

The other one?

Wait a minute, just how much of you is...

Not too much.

Let's go.

(SIGNAL BEEPING)

Well, there is something further down here.

Couldn't be. We're at bedrock now.

Uh-uh.

It's coming from right behind here.

(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)

Okay, now you're not seeing this.

Who'd believe it anyway? Do you, uh, do this a lot?

Mmm.

(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)

Here. Come on.

There seems to be some kind of a corridor here, huh?

What do you think?

(SIGHS)

After everything I've seen today, I don't know why

my masculine pride is telling me to go first.

Give me the light.

Chris?

Chris?

Chris?

(SCREAMS)

Chris.

(STAMMERING) Look, I'm just trying to help him. Come on.

(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)

(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)

Hello, Laure.

LAURE: Hi, Oscar.

Hey, Jim. What's going on here?

Where's Chris? Where's Jaime?

They're already five hours late. What?

We've been trying to track them down.

They never arrived at the party and they aren't at his place or hers.

We called the highway patrol and all the local hospitals.

There's no report of an accident.

What's the status of the launch?

The deep space beam has been coming in intermittently.

Mount Palomar's working on it.

They'll check out Cape MacArthur when the launch is over

and they've got some time.

Marriage of the Saturn to the gantry is on schedule

and we're not anticipating any problems.

All right, stay on top of it until Chris and Jaime get back here.

Laure, I'm going to take over Chris' spot temporarily.

Take over mine, okay?

JAIME: I don’t know what happened to me? What did I see?

I got to get up.

I'm paralyzed.

Okay, easy. Don’t panic. Don’t panic. Keep your mind working.

What is this place?

Look at that machinery. I wonder what it's for.

Stonehenge?

And that's hieroglyphics.

Ancient spacemen like the cave drawings at Tassili.

The Mayan Jaguar God.

The markings from the plains of Nazca?

I showed those to the kids at school.

Who is he? What is he?

(SIGNAL BEEPING)

Chris. Where's Chris? I wonder if he's paralyzed too.

Was that a coincidence, or did he read my mind?

Who are you? What is this place?

Above us is that pyramid.

Long ago, it stood in the sun.

Now, the Earth has sunk beneath it

and the winds of ages have covered it.

(PULSING SOUND)

What did he do?

I can move. Chris. Oh, please, don't be badly hurt.

I've got to get us out of here.

(PULSING SOUND)

Yes, I heard your thoughts.

It is no great gift.

All the animals in the field sense hostility, friendship, danger.

Your friend isn't dead or injured,

but his mind remains immobile until I release it.

I'm glad he's getting out of here. The old one doesn't look that bad.

(PULSING SOUND) You can move now.

My name is Ky.

Long ago, we came to teach people here.

Teach them many things.

How to read the stars, how to build with stone.

They called us gods

because we knew so much more than they.

They couldn't understand that the moving of great weights

and carving great stones is not God,

only God-like to the simple mind.

Thinking it would please us,

they cut out hearts and sacrificed them to us.

They were too primitive to know it was not what we wanted.

Most of my people went back.

I was left as a sentinel to await their return.

(SIGNAL BEEPING)

Now they return again and I cannot warn them.

If they come, they will be destroyed.

I don't understand. I want to.

But, uh, who's going to be destroyed? Where? How?

A rocket is being launched near here.

I saw it in your friend's mind.

I sent the Warrior to stop it.

If he fails, all on this planet will die.

LAURE: Flight, command receiver checks are complete.

All units standing by.

Roger, ALD.

Oscar, we're down to biting the bullet.

Weather conditions in the ozone layer are optimum at the moment.

Any change in the jet stream might inhibit chemical dispersal.

So in other words the time is now.

Yeah.

All right. Proceed with the launch.

Proceed with launch.

Start to calibrate all instrumentation recorders.

All down range are on the grid.

This is Oscar Goldman speaking.

I want an APB put out on Jaime SOMMERS and Chris Williams.

CMV on panel two verifies IVS fuel load.

We are go on primary. We are go on second stage.

That rocket is no threat to anyone.

They're just seeding the ozone layer.

But the sodium-chemical chain you are using

will conflict with the electromagnetic propulsion system of our ship.

When it strikes the chemical concentration, the ship will explode.

Our people will think you destroyed it and retaliate.

They remember you as primitives.

You have no defense against their weapons.

Well, that makes them sound a little primitive, too.

T minus 30 seconds. All systems are go.

Facility is now on automatic sequence. Stand by for terminal count.

Ten, nine, eight, seven,

six, five, four, three, two, one.

We have ignition.

We have liftoff.

Bird flying hot, true and normal.

Sequence to chemical dispersal point is five seconds.

Four, three, two, one.

What is it?

What happened?

We've lost.

The Warrior failed.

(SIGNAL BEEPING)

Mission Control, this is RLO.

We are picking up a UFO near Saturn.

At present velocity, it will reach Earth in six hours.

Why, that's impossible.

It took the Viking nearly two years just to get to Mars.

(SIGNAL BEEPING)

Can't you bring him to now, please?

(PULSING SOUND)

Hi. Hi.

What the... Wait, wait, wait, wait.

Don't ask any questions. Don't even think any questions. Okay?

I wouldn't know where to begin anyway.

You okay?

Somehow, I don't think so.

Why don't you signal your ship?

This oscillating crystal is the heart of the transmitter.

It didn't stand time well.

Second, when we taught people to build pyramids,

such as the one we are in.

They didn't understand that the form

captured and stored bio-cosmic energy.

They thought of the pyramid only as tombs for the dead.

All that we did was for the purpose of teaching.

And all that we did,

misunderstood and used for purposes never intended.

The skills that we taught wasted

in false glorification of ourselves and other men.

Come.

Even here,

they thought this was my tomb

and left food and treasures for my journey to the afterlife.

Grain

protected by the preserving power of pyramid energy.

Planted and watered, it would still spring to life

after all your centuries.

But when time buried this pyramid,

it lowered the stored power of bio-cosmic energy.

My brain hasn't the power to activate the transmitter,

even if the crystal were intact.

Can't we find another source of power?

We had cyborgs before we ever came here.

I know that you are bionic and have an atomic power-pack.

If the crystal were intact, I wouldn't hesitate to use it.

Do you fear that?

Considerably. Yes.

Rudy's always put me on a life-support system when he's had it out.

You see, we don't know that much about bionics yet.

There is dependency and rejection factors that we're not sure of.

I don't have any idea how long I'd live without the power-pack.

So yes, I fear it.

The gain would justify the risk, and I would still take it.

Jaime, you don't have to start at the beginning, but what's going on?

That signal we heard is a spaceship coming from his galaxy.

Spaceship? Yes.

Now when it hits the chemicals that we've seeded into the ozone layer,

it's going to explode.

And you need a crystal like that one to, uh, warn them off?

You've see another crystal like that?

No.

He has. He remembers it from somewhere.

Are you doing this to protect me?

I said, no.

Come on. Tell me.

Jaime, you just said if they remove your power-pack, you might die.

There's a lot more involved here, Chris, than just you and me.

If that ship explodes, this planet will be destroyed.

Rudy's been experimenting with artificial crystalline forms.

He's had some success. Radioactive isotope, U-96.

When perfected, he thinks it'll be useful for interstellar communication.

Where is it?

Last time I saw it, it was in Rudy's office safe.

There's a man named Oscar Goldman who can get the crystal for us.

We will tell no one else. You get the crystal.

I'll send the Warrior with you. He remains until you return.

Okay, I'll be back.

I'll be waiting.

(SIGNAL BEEPING)

JIM: It's passing Jupiter and still heading straight towards us.

At present speed, it should enter our atmosphere within an hour.

Call Mount Carson. Get an estimate of its size.

If it is a meteor and hits a populated area,

it could cause more damage than 50 hydrogen bombs.

Carson? Come in please, Carson?

Look, I can't wait for you. Okay?

Thank you.

Okay, alarm tapes, please don't break. Come on.

(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)

(GLASS SHATTERS)

(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)

(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)

(LOCK CLICKS)

(LOCK CLICKS)

GUARD: Hold it.

Don't you move.

Don't move. Stay real still.

(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING) Yeah, put the Sarge on. Well, go get him.

This is important. It's Sanchez. Station 221A.

Hello, Sarge? Yeah, this is Sanchez at 221A.

Listen, I just surprised two of the strangest looking burglars you've ever seen.

Well, one of them got away. But I've got the other one right here.

(GRUNTS)

(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)

(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)

(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)

(FOOTSTEPS PATTERING)

(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)

JIM: It's still heading straight towards us.

(PHONE BUZZING)

Yeah. O.S.I. security for you.

Goldman.

Yeah, Mr. Goldman, this is Sanchez, security.

There was an APB put out on the SOMMERS girl. I just saw her.

Jaime?

Where? Here in Dr. Well '5 lab.

She and some weird looking guy came in and stole a U-96 isotope crystal.

Are you sure?

Well, she picked up a barbell and threw it at me.

I'll be there in 15 minutes.

This is Oscar Goldman speaking.

Send a car to pick up Jaime SOMMERS' dog

and take him to Dr. Rudy Well's laboratory immediately.

Are you all right? Yeah. Here.

What's wrong?

The configuration.

Under load, it will probably prove unstable.

(SIGNAL BEEPING)

They're wondering why I don't answer.

You still need something from me. The atomic power-pack is right about there.

What are you going to do? What...

We knew about psychic surgery before we taught you anything else.

Ooh.

I've got to sit down.

(BARKING)

Max, Jaime's in trouble.

I need your help, boy.

(BARKING)

Oh.

You okay? Yeah.

(SIGNAL BEEPING)

The crystal is oscillating. I'll have to risk an overload.

You must leave now.

What about you?

I've waited 5,000 years for them to return.

You expect me to leave my post now?

There are other pyramids and other groups of our people here.

If they survive, I will be safe

and they will take care of me.

You must keep our secret. Tell no one what happened here

and thank you for all you've done. Go. Quickly.

God be with you.

I've got to get you out of here.

Okay.

(RUMBLING)

(JAIME GRUNTING)

KY: We've succeeded. - They've gotten the message.

It's changing course.

I'm going to need some help, Jaime. Gonna need some help.

All right, you're all right.

(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)

Obviously a friend of yours.

Oscar, her power-pack's been removed.

Get an ambulance over here.

Tell the hospital to have the bionic life support systems ready.

Send a car around for Rudy Wells.

You'll be all right, babe.

I think I already am.

What went on in there?

Well, maybe you'll tell me about it someday.

Just between the two of us. About it someday.