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Piedmont, New Mexico.
Population 68.

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Come on.

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I didn't notice them before.

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That's crazy. I didn't know
buzzards fly at night.

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That's what they look like.

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Here.

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Boy, that's some dead burg.

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Buzzards only come
when something's dead.

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I guess we'd better go in
and have a look.

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'This is Caper One
to Vandal Deca.

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'Caper One to Vandal Deca.
Are you reading? Over.'

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Yes, I'm reading. Over.

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'We're about to enter the town of Piedmont
and recover the satellite.'

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Very good, Caper One.
Leave your radio open.

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'Roger.

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'We're now inside the town.

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'It's kinda spooky.

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'I see a church steeple
ahead on the left.

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'It's quiet here.

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'It's the damnedest thing.
There's no sign of life.

21
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'The signals from the satellite
are getting very strong.'

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- 'Sir! You see that, Lieutenant?'
- 'See what, Crane?'

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'Over by the fence.
It looks like a body.'

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'Easy, Crane.
You're imagining things.'

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- 'Holy...'
- 'Sir, it's another one.'

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'You're right.
Looks dead.'

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- 'Yes, sir, shall I...'
- 'No! Stay in the van.'

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Vandal Deca to Caper One.
What's happened?

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'We see bodies, lots of them.'

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Are you certain, Caper One?

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'Dammit, Comroe,
of course we're certain.'

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Your orders are...
"Proceed to satellite and retrieve."

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'Roger, Vandal Deca.'

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Stay at your stations!
Hit that security button!

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Get me Major Manchek.

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'Somehow they don't
hardly look dead, Lieutenant.'

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'They're all over the place.
Must be dozens of them.'

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Dammit,
get this call through!

39
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'It's sort of like
they just dropped in their tracks, sir.

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'Sir!'

41
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'Good chri...!'

42
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- 'Do you see that thing in white?'
- 'Yeah, it's coming toward us.'

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Hello, Major.
This may sound crazy,

44
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but there's something strange
going on with Caper One.

45
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'Lieutenant, sir,
I think we should get out of...'

46
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Hello, ops, this is Major Manchek.
Scoop control A-12.

47
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We need a flyby over Piedmont,
New Mexico.

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Infrared. A F.L.I.R. scan, all sectors.
Film to come direct to Scoop.

49
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Assign Gunnar Wilson,
if he's not crocked someplace.

50
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Jeez!

51
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I'm declaring a state of emergency.
All personnel restricted to base.

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Everything seen and heard
in that room is top secret.

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Yes, sir.

54
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'This is a recording.

55
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'State your name and your message
and hang up.'

56
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Major Arthur Manchek,
Scoop mission control A-12.

57
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I recommend
calling a Wildfire alert.

58
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We have evidence here on film
of unnatural death

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caused by Scoop 7 returning to Earth.

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Time check 0-1-4-7 inclusive.

61
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We'd like to see
Dr. Jeremy Stone, please.

62
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Well, I'm Mrs. Stone,
and we are having a party.

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May I...

64
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Does that man have a gun?

65
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Ma'am, we must see Dr. Stone.

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- What is this?
- Please call Dr. Stone to the door.

67
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Otherwise we'll go get him, ma'am.

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Just a minute.

69
00:11:02,386 --> 00:11:04,847
I'll just wait here, ma'am.

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I'll come to Berkeley anytime, Stone.

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That $4 million must be
the largest federal grant.

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May I see you, Jeremy?

73
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The S.D.S. has arrived no doubt.

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Jeremy, there are
some army types in the hall,

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and there are two more outside with guns.
They want to see you.

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I'll take care of it.

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Jeremy! If you knew about this,
you might've told...

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I didn't.
I'll explain later.

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I'm Dr. Stone.

80
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Yes. I'm Captain Morton.

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There's a fire, sir.

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- I've got to leave.
- For God's sakes, Jeremy!

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- When will you be back?
- I'm not sure.

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The guns, is it...

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Mrs. Stone, it's our job
to protect your husband.

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From now on, nothing must be allowed
to happen to him.

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I'll be safe as in your arms.

88
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Jeremy? Jeremy!

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You tell the Senator it's his daughter!

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- 'Allison?'
- Dad?

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Dad, something very peculiar
has just happened, even for Jeremy.

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A few minutes ago...

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Dad, are you there?
What's going on?

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'This communication
is being monitored.

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'The connection has been broken
for reasons of national security.

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'You will be briefed
at the appropriate time.

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'Thank you for your cooperation,
Mrs. Stone.'

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I feel like Onassis.

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It was the fastest thing
we could arrange, sir.

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Thanks. Yes?

101
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General Sparks here.

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I just wanted to inform you that
all members of your team have been cleared

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and are now being called in.

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Except for professor Kirke.
He's in the hospital. Appendectomy.

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You'll get complete details on everything
when your team is assembled.

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You don't make sense.
You talk like you've been brainwashed.

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You don't understand.

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Germ warfare people, Dad?

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- A lab accident?
- Thank you.

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It's different this time. Don't pack, Claire,
I won't need anything.

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A hippie.
He's going to a love-in.

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I give up.

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00:14:05,986 --> 00:14:10,574
One minute you're fed up.
You talk about retiring... to Alaska yet!

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00:14:10,699 --> 00:14:12,826
Now you've turned into
a cloak-and-dagger man.

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- My glasses.
- Here they are, Dad.

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00:14:14,870 --> 00:14:18,040
Can't you at least tell me
who phoned at this ungodly hour?

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Grandpa, there's a car,
and they got guns.

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Do they now?

119
00:14:23,295 --> 00:14:25,130
Oh, that's serious.

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- I'll watch out.
- Honey, you've been dreaming.

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I wish I were!

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No.

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Uh-uh.
Get someone else.

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Dr. Leavitt,
I told you, there's a fire!

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My experiment's at the critical stage.

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I've been working around the clock.
I can't just leave now.

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00:14:48,988 --> 00:14:51,156
I want that new plate read
as soon as it's developed.

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00:14:51,281 --> 00:14:52,491
Yes, ma'am.

129
00:14:52,616 --> 00:14:54,284
My orders come from Dr. Robertson,

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the President's science advisor
in Washington.

131
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There's a phone.
Pick it up. Call Robbie.

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00:14:59,081 --> 00:15:01,375
Tell him I burnt my draft card.

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00:15:06,505 --> 00:15:09,633
Are you sick, ma'am?
We have a physician on call.

134
00:15:09,758 --> 00:15:11,552
All Dr. Leavitt needs is rest.

135
00:15:11,677 --> 00:15:13,554
Oh, knock it off, Bess.

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00:15:14,304 --> 00:15:16,724
If the physician certifies
that you are unable to continue...

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00:15:16,849 --> 00:15:18,392
No!

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00:15:20,936 --> 00:15:22,438
I'm fine.

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Relax.

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I'm going with you.

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Skin knife.

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'Hold it, Mark.
Sorry to disturb you.

143
00:15:42,666 --> 00:15:45,961
'There's just been a call from a Dr. Robertson
at the White House.

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'Your orders are to break scrub.'

145
00:15:48,756 --> 00:15:52,217
Orders?
I've got a patient all ready.

146
00:15:52,342 --> 00:15:54,553
'Kelly will take over for you.

147
00:15:54,678 --> 00:15:57,973
'It's all arranged. You're expected
in the surgeon's room in 30 seconds.'

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00:16:35,803 --> 00:16:38,013
Are you sure the satellite
isn't radioactive?

149
00:16:38,138 --> 00:16:41,058
No. Manchek showed me
the telemetry reports.

150
00:16:41,183 --> 00:16:44,561
Presumably, it could be
some form of space germ.

151
00:16:44,686 --> 00:16:47,481
Presumably this stuff is nonporous.

152
00:16:49,066 --> 00:16:51,151
Why did you pick me?

153
00:16:51,276 --> 00:16:55,989
You're an M.D., a talented surgeon
who knows blood chemistries,

154
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and you're single,
the "odd man hypothesis".

155
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What the hell is that?

156
00:17:02,246 --> 00:17:04,748
Didn't you read the Wildfire material
I've been sending you?

157
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Very little. I never went in much
for science fiction.

158
00:17:08,710 --> 00:17:09,837
Nor do I!

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00:17:22,516 --> 00:17:24,810
It seems to me, General,
Dr. Stone put one over on you.

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00:17:24,935 --> 00:17:26,395
In fact, he made us all think

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his Wildfire lab could handle
any contamination from outer space.

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00:17:30,858 --> 00:17:33,610
I disagree with
the Senator from Vermont.

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00:17:33,735 --> 00:17:35,487
Dr. Stone,
a Nobel Prize winner,

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twice President of the
National Academy of Sciences,

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00:17:38,365 --> 00:17:40,159
is well known here in Washington.

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00:17:40,284 --> 00:17:43,537
Is the implication that
Dr. Stone deliberately misled us?

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00:17:44,454 --> 00:17:46,957
Perhaps not deliberately, Senator.

168
00:17:47,082 --> 00:17:51,336
I'm reasonably certain that before the night
the Wildfire team was mobilized,

169
00:17:51,461 --> 00:17:53,380
Dr. Stone didn't know Scoop existed.

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00:17:54,131 --> 00:17:56,425
- I'm astounded.
- Reasons of national security.

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Very smart.

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We've had experiences
with scientists before.

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00:18:01,763 --> 00:18:03,515
Now, let's talk about this famous letter

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Dr. Stone sent to the President
some two years ago.

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00:18:06,518 --> 00:18:09,980
From what you're saying, General,
it was just a shot in the dark?

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00:18:10,105 --> 00:18:12,524
Perhaps that's a little unfair, Senator.

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Dr. Stone and I were consultants with NASA
on the lunar receiving lab.

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He wasn't completely satisfied with that.
He felt a more advanced lab was required.

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00:18:20,574 --> 00:18:22,826
You mean more expensive, don't you?

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00:18:23,577 --> 00:18:27,748
I call that Dr. Stone's $90 million
mash note to Uncle Sam.

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"In a true biological crisis

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00:18:29,541 --> 00:18:32,502
"which our exploration of space
could bring about,

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00:18:32,628 --> 00:18:35,505
"the present lunar receiving laboratory
might prove inadequate.

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"I therefore urge
the establishment of a facility

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"to deal specifically with
an extraterrestrial form of life.

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00:18:47,643 --> 00:18:49,728
"The purpose of this facility
would be to limit

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"the dissemination of such an unknown
organism from outer space,

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"and to provide laboratories
for its analysis.

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"I recommend
that this facility be located

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"In an uninhabited region
of the United States,

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"that it utilize all known
isolation techniques,

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00:19:03,533 --> 00:19:07,412
"and that it be equipped with
a nuclear device for self-destruction

193
00:19:07,537 --> 00:19:08,872
"in the event of an emergency.

194
00:19:08,997 --> 00:19:11,667
"Yours very truly, Jeremy Stone."

195
00:19:13,961 --> 00:19:18,465
Don't encourage the President
to think scientists are wizards, Jeremy.

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00:19:19,091 --> 00:19:21,468
If things get out of control,
and they might,

197
00:19:21,593 --> 00:19:23,053
even you can't work miracles.

198
00:19:23,929 --> 00:19:25,681
I'd expect to have your help, Charlie.

199
00:19:36,275 --> 00:19:37,859
Piedmont approaching, gentlemen.

200
00:19:38,360 --> 00:19:40,195
Go over and give us
a look first, Dempsey.

201
00:20:00,882 --> 00:20:02,467
I was afraid of that.

202
00:20:02,592 --> 00:20:06,263
The birds'll eat the infected flesh,
and then fly off and spread the disease.

203
00:20:07,139 --> 00:20:08,932
If it is a disease.

204
00:20:19,026 --> 00:20:20,694
Drop the gas canisters, Dempsey.

205
00:20:20,819 --> 00:20:22,696
Someone's supposed
to be alive down there!

206
00:20:23,488 --> 00:20:26,241
Somebody did something.
That's for sure.

207
00:20:27,617 --> 00:20:29,411
Let's give it a double dose.

208
00:20:39,463 --> 00:20:41,840
That gas will only kill the birds.

209
00:20:43,884 --> 00:20:46,887
OK, Dempsey, hover over the main street
and drop the ladder.

210
00:20:47,637 --> 00:20:51,767
- Do not attempt to land. Is that clear?
- Roger. Clearer all the time.

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00:20:51,892 --> 00:20:56,063
When we climb down, lift off to 1,000 feet
and hover at a safe distance.

212
00:20:56,188 --> 00:20:57,731
And come back when we signal.

213
00:20:57,856 --> 00:20:59,625
If anything happens to us,
you have your orders.

214
00:20:59,649 --> 00:21:04,154
Yes, sir. Proceed directly
to Wildfire and then...

215
00:21:05,989 --> 00:21:08,789
If we're eliminated, the aircraft and pilot
will have to be sterilized.

216
00:21:08,867 --> 00:21:10,660
Wait a minute!

217
00:21:10,786 --> 00:21:14,414
That's not what they told me.
Just incinerated.

218
00:22:06,216 --> 00:22:07,509
Coronary?

219
00:22:07,634 --> 00:22:09,094
I doubt it.

220
00:22:49,426 --> 00:22:50,635
Hall!

221
00:22:51,344 --> 00:22:53,096
Take a look at this.

222
00:22:53,221 --> 00:22:54,598
Are you sure that isn't coronary?

223
00:22:55,098 --> 00:22:58,727
No, coronary's painful.
They should grimace.

224
00:22:58,852 --> 00:23:01,021
If it was fast,
they wouldn't have time.

225
00:23:01,146 --> 00:23:04,232
Fast? These people
were cut down in mid-stride.

226
00:24:08,171 --> 00:24:09,673
Up there! Look.

227
00:24:11,841 --> 00:24:13,301
An air force jet.

228
00:24:13,426 --> 00:24:16,054
If we don't make it to Wildfire,
he'll see the helicopter does

229
00:24:16,179 --> 00:24:17,681
or shoot it down.

230
00:24:17,806 --> 00:24:20,350
Well, for Dempsey's sake,
we'd better not slip up.

231
00:24:38,618 --> 00:24:40,537
"The day of judgment is at hand.

232
00:24:40,662 --> 00:24:44,708
"Have mercy on my soul
and to hell with all the others. Amen."

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00:24:44,833 --> 00:24:46,293
Senile.

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00:24:46,418 --> 00:24:49,838
This took time! Regardless
of what made her do it, it took time.

235
00:24:49,963 --> 00:24:51,715
There's a chance someone's still alive.

236
00:24:59,097 --> 00:25:01,391
I wouldn't believe you could
commit suicide that way.

237
00:25:01,891 --> 00:25:04,894
Most of them died instantly,
but a few had time to go quietly nuts.

238
00:25:05,020 --> 00:25:07,272
Let's find the damn satellite.

239
00:25:25,915 --> 00:25:29,044
This injury,
there isn't any bleeding.

240
00:25:29,169 --> 00:25:32,839
A cut like this, torn veins, broken capillaries -
it should bleed like hell.

241
00:25:33,381 --> 00:25:34,799
Yes.

242
00:25:35,925 --> 00:25:37,385
There's no blood on any of them.

243
00:25:43,933 --> 00:25:46,686
Even where it's chewed,
no bleeding.

244
00:26:09,501 --> 00:26:11,461
Hold it, hold it!

245
00:26:12,504 --> 00:26:15,090
You'd better back up.
We gotta go to the... left.

246
00:26:31,398 --> 00:26:34,734
We're damn close.
Bear right.

247
00:27:01,636 --> 00:27:04,139
I'll bet they took it to the doctor.

248
00:27:16,234 --> 00:27:17,777
There it is.

249
00:27:25,702 --> 00:27:27,120
The damn fool opened it!

250
00:27:27,704 --> 00:27:31,708
Yeah, every country doctor
should run his office like the lunar lab.

251
00:27:34,210 --> 00:27:35,295
The capsule first, Hall.

252
00:27:35,420 --> 00:27:38,173
We've got about
40 minutes of oxygen left.

253
00:27:55,023 --> 00:27:56,483
Have a look at his buttocks.

254
00:27:56,608 --> 00:27:58,902
- That's not funny.
- Not meant to be.

255
00:27:59,694 --> 00:28:02,781
Normally blood in a dead person
goes to the lowest points.

256
00:28:02,906 --> 00:28:04,282
There should be marks of lividity.

257
00:28:04,407 --> 00:28:06,618
Do you see purplish marks
on his butt?

258
00:28:06,743 --> 00:28:08,036
No.

259
00:28:13,124 --> 00:28:14,604
Careful you don't puncture your suit.

260
00:28:22,091 --> 00:28:24,302
Clotted blood!

261
00:28:24,803 --> 00:28:26,221
Powdered!

262
00:28:26,805 --> 00:28:28,389
I'll be damned!

263
00:28:28,973 --> 00:28:32,185
No wonder they didn't bleed.
It's clotted throughout the entire system.

264
00:28:32,310 --> 00:28:34,938
Five quarts of blood turned to powder!

265
00:28:36,564 --> 00:28:39,108
In theory, I suppose,
a single organism could do it.

266
00:28:39,234 --> 00:28:42,278
But, in fact, there isn't
an organism on Earth...

267
00:28:42,403 --> 00:28:44,823
You mean there didn't used to be.

268
00:29:34,163 --> 00:29:36,457
- I don't...
- We heard it alright.

269
00:29:41,087 --> 00:29:43,047
Go away! Go back!

270
00:29:47,385 --> 00:29:49,929
- Get back! Get outta here.
- Go back!

271
00:29:50,805 --> 00:29:52,557
Get away!

272
00:30:29,135 --> 00:30:30,428
This must be the mother.

273
00:30:30,553 --> 00:30:32,680
He's scared
and hungry as hell.

274
00:30:32,805 --> 00:30:35,099
Can't be more than six months old.

275
00:30:35,224 --> 00:30:37,644
- There's probably a formula in the kitchen.
- Don't feed it!

276
00:30:37,769 --> 00:30:39,079
He hasn't eaten in at least 12 hours!

277
00:30:39,103 --> 00:30:41,940
We don't do anything until we get that kid
into a controlled situation.

278
00:30:42,065 --> 00:30:43,792
Maybe feeding is part
of the disease process.

279
00:30:43,816 --> 00:30:45,985
Maybe those who hadn't eaten yet
lasted longest.

280
00:30:46,110 --> 00:30:49,030
Whatever it is, with our oxygen running out,
we can't take a chance.

281
00:30:49,155 --> 00:30:51,115
Oh, wait a minute.

282
00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:53,618
This is a major break... a survivor.

283
00:30:53,743 --> 00:30:55,954
Too bad he can't tell us what happened.

284
00:30:56,079 --> 00:30:58,831
Maybe he can... if he lives.

285
00:31:38,955 --> 00:31:40,206
You!

286
00:31:47,797 --> 00:31:49,382
You... You did it!

287
00:31:51,467 --> 00:31:52,510
Give me that knife.

288
00:31:52,635 --> 00:31:54,762
You're not human.

289
00:31:55,930 --> 00:31:57,724
Everybody's dead.

290
00:31:57,849 --> 00:32:00,143
What happened?

291
00:32:00,268 --> 00:32:01,811
What is it?

292
00:32:07,233 --> 00:32:08,985
What's happened?

293
00:32:22,457 --> 00:32:25,460
The town is finished,
contaminated beyond all...

294
00:32:25,585 --> 00:32:27,837
Careful, sir.
This is an open transmission.

295
00:32:27,962 --> 00:32:31,424
I'm aware of that, Manchek.
Order up a 7-12.

296
00:32:31,549 --> 00:32:33,634
- Only the President...
- Precisely. Get on it.

297
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:36,262
The town must be neutralized immediately.

298
00:32:47,023 --> 00:32:50,443
Has the President made his decision
on directive 7-12 yet?

299
00:32:50,568 --> 00:32:53,404
He doesn't jump into things,
Dr. Robertson.

300
00:32:53,529 --> 00:32:55,490
First I've got to put together
a briefing for him.

301
00:32:55,615 --> 00:32:59,077
The President's main concern
is the international consequences.

302
00:32:59,202 --> 00:33:01,329
What do you think, Mr. Secretary?

303
00:33:01,454 --> 00:33:06,709
It's against the Moscow Treaty of 1963
to fire thermonuclear weapons above ground.

304
00:33:07,585 --> 00:33:11,672
The Russians will have to be privately
informed we're going to cauterize the area.

305
00:33:12,465 --> 00:33:14,634
Then they'll ask a flock of questions.

306
00:33:14,759 --> 00:33:16,135
Some we don't want answered.

307
00:33:16,260 --> 00:33:18,221
That'll take hours.

308
00:33:19,097 --> 00:33:21,974
God knows how far the infection
can spread in that time.

309
00:33:28,147 --> 00:33:29,899
Yes, Chief?

310
00:33:31,818 --> 00:33:33,694
Yes, sir.

311
00:33:35,196 --> 00:33:36,864
Yes, Mr. President.

312
00:33:37,865 --> 00:33:42,161
The President's decided to postpone
directive 7-12 for 24 to 48 hours.

313
00:33:42,286 --> 00:33:43,412
But...

314
00:33:43,538 --> 00:33:47,333
Instead he'll call out the National Guard
to cordon off the area around Piedmont.

315
00:33:47,458 --> 00:33:50,419
- That's your department, Ed.
- Safe and sound.

316
00:33:52,380 --> 00:33:54,966
It should've been left up to the scientists.

317
00:33:55,091 --> 00:33:57,009
It's a colossal mistake.

318
00:33:57,135 --> 00:33:59,804
Tell the President I said so.

319
00:33:59,929 --> 00:34:02,723
No, but...
I'll get you an appointment.

320
00:34:04,267 --> 00:34:06,227
By whose decision, General,

321
00:34:06,352 --> 00:34:07,979
was the site for Wildfire chosen?

322
00:34:08,104 --> 00:34:09,689
Largely Dr. Stone's.

323
00:34:09,814 --> 00:34:12,150
It seemed ideal to him
because of its remoteness.

324
00:34:12,275 --> 00:34:16,404
There was no inhabited area near Wildfire
for a radius of 112 miles.

325
00:34:16,529 --> 00:34:18,322
Las Vegas is to the north,

326
00:34:18,447 --> 00:34:21,534
Phoenix to the south,
Los Angeles, west.

327
00:34:21,659 --> 00:34:23,995
Weren't you worried the infection
might spread to them?

328
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:25,454
Yes, sir, I was.

329
00:34:25,580 --> 00:34:28,541
But Dr. Stone and Dr. Robertson
assured the President

330
00:34:28,666 --> 00:34:32,420
Wildfire was foolproof because of
its device for atomic self-destruct.

331
00:34:32,545 --> 00:34:35,006
The military had to take a backseat.

332
00:34:49,437 --> 00:34:52,899
At least they could've sent a licensed driver
to meet me at that crummy airstrip.

333
00:34:53,024 --> 00:34:56,360
They keep personnel to a minimum
for obvious reasons.

334
00:34:58,154 --> 00:35:02,325
You're lost! No one's been
down this goat path for years.

335
00:35:02,450 --> 00:35:06,454
That's how it's supposed to look.
They spent $50,000 on it.

336
00:35:06,579 --> 00:35:08,581
Putting in the potholes?

337
00:35:08,706 --> 00:35:10,333
Getting rid of the tread marks.

338
00:35:10,458 --> 00:35:13,211
Those big tractors
leave a lasting impression.

339
00:35:13,336 --> 00:35:15,504
A lot of heavy equipment
has passed this way.

340
00:35:23,221 --> 00:35:24,847
Where's our leader?

341
00:35:26,140 --> 00:35:28,309
We'll catch up to him and Hall
very soon now.

342
00:35:28,851 --> 00:35:33,356
Why'd they pick Hall? He's no scientist.
Who needs an overpriced M.D.?

343
00:35:35,399 --> 00:35:38,236
Relax and enjoy your cigarette.
It's your last.

344
00:35:40,488 --> 00:35:42,114
It starts here.

345
00:36:01,634 --> 00:36:03,594
It's a great place to grow pot.

346
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:05,680
Just a plain old crop of barley.

347
00:36:05,805 --> 00:36:08,140
Still, it is rather clever, I think.

348
00:36:39,922 --> 00:36:42,300
- Something wrong?
- I never liked red lights.

349
00:36:42,883 --> 00:36:44,927
Reminds me of my years in a bordello.

350
00:36:52,226 --> 00:36:53,477
Howdy.

351
00:36:53,602 --> 00:36:54,979
Howdy-doo-dee.

352
00:36:55,104 --> 00:36:56,355
You got the time?

353
00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:59,233
My watch stopped at 11:46.

354
00:36:59,358 --> 00:37:01,485
- Darn shame.
- Must be the heat.

355
00:37:16,667 --> 00:37:18,419
It's no fake, believe me.

356
00:37:18,544 --> 00:37:22,381
When I retire, I'd like an agricultural station
like this in Alaska.

357
00:37:22,506 --> 00:37:25,092
- You, a sourdough?
- The sourest.

358
00:37:25,217 --> 00:37:27,178
This way.

359
00:37:27,303 --> 00:37:28,637
Step in.

360
00:37:40,483 --> 00:37:41,734
Cute.

361
00:37:46,197 --> 00:37:48,157
The whole thing.

362
00:37:48,282 --> 00:37:50,034
What a world we're making.

363
00:37:50,159 --> 00:37:52,953
I can see why the kids are dropping out.
We should've.

364
00:37:53,079 --> 00:37:56,165
It's an emergency, Dutton.
We got tagged. Period.

365
00:37:56,290 --> 00:37:59,085
Till I saw those photos
from Vandenberg, I...

366
00:37:59,210 --> 00:38:01,545
- They brought it on themselves.
- Who?

367
00:38:01,670 --> 00:38:03,547
The people in Piedmont?

368
00:38:37,123 --> 00:38:38,332
What you said before,

369
00:38:38,457 --> 00:38:41,857
you don't believe the infection in that capsule
was brought back deliberately, do you?

370
00:38:42,002 --> 00:38:44,922
Skip it, skip it. I hope
I'm talking through my hat.

371
00:38:45,047 --> 00:38:47,383
Put your hands on that glass,
palms down.

372
00:38:47,508 --> 00:38:49,802
It's a finger and palm print analyzer. It...

373
00:38:49,927 --> 00:38:52,930
...reads a composite
of 10,000 dermatographic lines.

374
00:38:53,055 --> 00:38:54,682
How'd you know that?

375
00:38:54,807 --> 00:38:58,602
Oh, Dutton,
I have a long criminal record.

376
00:38:58,727 --> 00:39:01,689
Then you're in trouble.
This machine has a long memory.

377
00:39:03,732 --> 00:39:06,569
It gives you final
clearance to enter Wildfire.

378
00:39:13,576 --> 00:39:16,203
'Isothermal reading
for M.C. levels 4 and 5

379
00:39:16,328 --> 00:39:19,373
'is Z.B. and R.A. over 2.9.'

380
00:39:22,168 --> 00:39:23,928
- How's Piedmont?
- I had to order up a 7-12.

381
00:39:24,044 --> 00:39:25,147
- How are you, Ruth?
- Hello.

382
00:39:25,171 --> 00:39:27,756
- No other way to halt the infection spread.
- Oh.

383
00:39:28,549 --> 00:39:30,009
You two know each other, don't you?

384
00:39:30,134 --> 00:39:31,427
By reputation only.

385
00:39:31,552 --> 00:39:35,139
Yes, up to now we've had
to worship from afar.

386
00:39:35,264 --> 00:39:36,348
Be good, Ruth.

387
00:39:45,566 --> 00:39:47,359
Any messages for me
from the White House?

388
00:39:47,485 --> 00:39:49,987
Not a thing, Dr. Stone,
or you'd have it.

389
00:39:50,112 --> 00:39:52,031
- No personal messages?
- No, ma'am.

390
00:39:52,156 --> 00:39:54,241
Nothing from Dr. Robertson?
Are you sure, Sergeant?

391
00:39:54,867 --> 00:39:57,953
Dr. Stone, sir,
I have one thing to do. Just one.

392
00:39:58,704 --> 00:40:02,958
Everything else is fully automatic,
computerized and self-regulating.

393
00:40:03,083 --> 00:40:06,295
I listen for a little bell in here.

394
00:40:06,420 --> 00:40:09,590
Ding-a-ling. That means a message
coming in is for the Wildfire team.

395
00:40:09,715 --> 00:40:12,426
Precisely! An M.C.N. communication.
I'm expecting one.

396
00:40:12,551 --> 00:40:14,762
Yes, sir! Top priority.

397
00:40:14,887 --> 00:40:16,931
Ding-a-ling.
I push a button,

398
00:40:17,056 --> 00:40:20,976
and all five level control centers
are notified the same time you are.

399
00:40:21,101 --> 00:40:22,353
The bell hasn't rung, sir.

400
00:40:22,895 --> 00:40:25,022
Thanks for the tour, Sergeant.

401
00:40:28,234 --> 00:40:31,028
Dr. Dutton. Thank you.

402
00:40:31,153 --> 00:40:32,530
Will you follow me, Dr. Leavitt?

403
00:40:32,655 --> 00:40:35,157
- And may I have your glasses, please?
- What for?

404
00:40:35,282 --> 00:40:37,284
They'll be treated
and returned to you, Doctor.

405
00:40:37,409 --> 00:40:40,079
Well, they'd better be,
or I'll need a white cane.

406
00:40:40,996 --> 00:40:43,165
Who picked Leavitt?

407
00:40:44,500 --> 00:40:48,045
Talk about the odd man hypothesis,
which we haven't yet.

408
00:40:48,170 --> 00:40:49,588
She's really an odd ball.

409
00:40:49,713 --> 00:40:51,340
We're lucky to have her.

410
00:40:51,465 --> 00:40:54,260
She's the best-equipped of us
to double up for Kirke in microbiology.

411
00:40:54,385 --> 00:40:58,764
'When dressed, the team
will proceed directly to conference room 7.'

412
00:41:10,943 --> 00:41:12,695
Keep this with you at all times.

413
00:41:14,029 --> 00:41:15,364
What's it for?

414
00:41:15,489 --> 00:41:18,033
You're the odd man.
The key man, quite literally.

415
00:41:18,701 --> 00:41:22,663
This other key, and Wildfire itself,
depend on your key.

416
00:41:43,267 --> 00:41:46,854
Wildfire's equipped with
a nuclear device for self-destruct.

417
00:41:46,979 --> 00:41:50,274
In an emergency,
it's activated automatically.

418
00:41:50,399 --> 00:41:54,069
I've just inserted the key in the main station
that arms the mechanism.

419
00:41:54,194 --> 00:41:55,863
The device is ready for detonation.

420
00:41:56,447 --> 00:41:58,657
- When?
- Never, we hope.

421
00:41:58,782 --> 00:42:02,411
It only goes off if there's danger
of infection breaking out from here.

422
00:42:03,287 --> 00:42:05,456
That silver key can't be removed.

423
00:42:05,581 --> 00:42:08,626
You're the only one who can disarm
the mechanism by inserting your red key

424
00:42:08,751 --> 00:42:11,879
In one of the substations
located throughout the facility.

425
00:42:12,546 --> 00:42:16,175
Now, there's a five-minute delay
between the time detonation locks in

426
00:42:16,300 --> 00:42:17,551
and the bomb explodes.

427
00:42:18,177 --> 00:42:20,137
That gives you
a chance to think and...

428
00:42:21,138 --> 00:42:22,598
please God, call it off.

429
00:42:23,682 --> 00:42:26,644
- Look, I'm the new boy here. Why me?
- Because you're single!

430
00:42:27,311 --> 00:42:30,230
You should have done
your homework, sport.

431
00:42:30,356 --> 00:42:34,777
Page 255,
Robbie's odd man hypothesis.

432
00:42:35,861 --> 00:42:39,782
"Results of testing confirm
the Robertson odd man hypothesis:

433
00:42:39,907 --> 00:42:42,451
"That an unmarried male
should carry out command decisions

434
00:42:42,576 --> 00:42:45,454
"involving thermonuclear
destruct contexts."

435
00:42:45,579 --> 00:42:47,748
Let me take a look at that.

436
00:42:56,965 --> 00:42:59,486
It's of vital importance, Hall,
that you always know where you are

437
00:42:59,510 --> 00:43:01,512
in relation to the nearest substation.

438
00:43:01,637 --> 00:43:04,640
To do that, you have to be
familiar with the entire facility.

439
00:43:04,765 --> 00:43:08,560
It can be studied
on this electronic diagram

440
00:43:08,686 --> 00:43:13,482
which rotates to afford an overall view,
or can be stopped at any section.

441
00:43:16,985 --> 00:43:21,115
Detailed plans of the various levels and labs
are also stored in the system.

442
00:43:27,079 --> 00:43:30,541
We're on level 1 of a five-story
cylindrical underground structure

443
00:43:30,666 --> 00:43:32,418
surrounded by solid rock.

444
00:43:32,543 --> 00:43:36,255
Each level has three substations
indicated by the yellow lights.

445
00:43:37,965 --> 00:43:41,301
In the event the nuclear device is triggered,
you can still cancel self-destruct

446
00:43:41,427 --> 00:43:43,595
by inserting your red key in a substation.

447
00:43:45,013 --> 00:43:46,890
After our last simulation run,

448
00:43:47,015 --> 00:43:49,727
we decided to add
two more substations per level,

449
00:43:49,852 --> 00:43:53,355
but they're not finished yet,
so don't confuse them with functioning ones.

450
00:43:53,856 --> 00:43:57,985
At the bottom of the central core
is the apparatus for self-destruct.

451
00:44:03,574 --> 00:44:05,659
Each level is a different color,

452
00:44:05,784 --> 00:44:10,414
based on a navy study of the psychological
effects of color in environments.

453
00:44:10,539 --> 00:44:14,168
Also, each level is bio-medically
cleaner than the one above it.

454
00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:17,713
We don't want anything
to contaminate a possible organism.

455
00:44:17,838 --> 00:44:21,216
That would make it twice as hard
to isolate and characterize.

456
00:44:23,469 --> 00:44:25,095
It'll take us 16 hours

457
00:44:25,220 --> 00:44:27,848
to descend through the programmed
decontamination procedures

458
00:44:27,973 --> 00:44:29,808
on the first four levels,

459
00:44:29,933 --> 00:44:32,436
to level 5 where the main labs are.

460
00:44:33,854 --> 00:44:35,689
Where exactly are we now?

461
00:44:35,814 --> 00:44:38,692
There's one way you can always
locate yourself or any of us instantly.

462
00:44:38,817 --> 00:44:42,029
Simply by calling up projections
from the electronic diagram

463
00:44:42,154 --> 00:44:45,365
on any video monitor
anywhere in Wildfire.

464
00:44:45,491 --> 00:44:46,825
Views such as this.

465
00:44:47,659 --> 00:44:51,663
Now, this shows we're
in conference room 7, level 1.

466
00:44:51,789 --> 00:44:54,500
Each of us is indicated by our initial.

467
00:44:54,625 --> 00:44:57,503
Our movements are continuously
monitored on the electronic diagram.

468
00:44:58,045 --> 00:44:59,213
Where are the patients?

469
00:44:59,338 --> 00:45:00,923
Where's the capsule?

470
00:45:02,174 --> 00:45:04,051
The patients are the yellow X's.

471
00:45:04,176 --> 00:45:06,261
The red circle is the capsule.

472
00:45:06,386 --> 00:45:10,808
On level 5, the patients and capsule
will be isolated in biologically secure setups.

473
00:45:11,308 --> 00:45:13,811
Are you sure the old man
and the baby are still alive?

474
00:45:29,576 --> 00:45:31,370
What are their chances, Hall?

475
00:45:31,495 --> 00:45:32,496
Uncertain.

476
00:45:33,413 --> 00:45:37,251
I'm hoping the intravenous dextrose
and saline will hold them until we get to them.

477
00:45:38,836 --> 00:45:42,256
We start decontamination
and immunization procedures now.

478
00:45:48,554 --> 00:45:51,306
You really expect me to fire the thing?

479
00:45:52,641 --> 00:45:54,685
I'm afraid you don't understand.

480
00:45:54,810 --> 00:45:57,229
All you can do is stop it.

481
00:45:57,354 --> 00:46:01,024
In a biological emergency,
the bomb is activated automatically.

482
00:46:01,149 --> 00:46:02,776
It'll then go off within five minutes

483
00:46:02,901 --> 00:46:05,779
unless you get to a substation
and lock in your key.

484
00:46:08,448 --> 00:46:09,700
Oh.

485
00:46:13,161 --> 00:46:15,122
'Delta five to all levels.

486
00:46:15,247 --> 00:46:18,292
'We are checking out ray band
emergency communications.

487
00:46:18,417 --> 00:46:19,626
'This is a test.

488
00:46:36,435 --> 00:46:40,230
'Proceed to infrared radiation
decontamination room 1-d.'

489
00:46:45,652 --> 00:46:49,698
Also it could be an organism
from another planet released deliberately.

490
00:46:49,823 --> 00:46:51,742
To wipe us out?
Really, Charles!

491
00:46:51,867 --> 00:46:54,161
Just the opposite.
To make friendly contact.

492
00:46:54,286 --> 00:46:58,749
A kind of messenger to show us
life exists elsewhere in the universe.

493
00:46:58,874 --> 00:47:00,834
It could be benign
in its own environment.

494
00:47:00,959 --> 00:47:02,419
Pretty far-fetched.

495
00:47:02,544 --> 00:47:04,880
We can't ignore any possibility.

496
00:47:06,256 --> 00:47:08,926
'You are about
to undergo long-wave radiation.

497
00:47:09,051 --> 00:47:10,469
'A buzzer will sound.

498
00:47:10,594 --> 00:47:14,222
'Close your eyes and stand still
or blindness may result.'

499
00:47:37,579 --> 00:47:39,373
We faced quite a problem.

500
00:47:39,498 --> 00:47:42,477
How to disinfect the human body, one of
the dirtiest things in the known universe.

501
00:47:42,501 --> 00:47:44,920
That is without killing the human being
at the same time.

502
00:47:45,045 --> 00:47:46,546
It gets tougher as we go.

503
00:47:46,672 --> 00:47:49,549
Hard on the taxpayers,
the way we burn up uniforms.

504
00:47:49,675 --> 00:47:51,468
They're paper.

505
00:47:51,593 --> 00:47:54,137
- I'd swear it was cloth.
- New process.

506
00:47:54,262 --> 00:47:56,306
Where's the next substation, Hall?

507
00:47:56,431 --> 00:47:58,225
Left of elevator on level 2.

508
00:47:58,350 --> 00:48:01,937
Right. Across the corridor from
body analysis, our next port of call.

509
00:48:02,062 --> 00:48:04,147
Not for my alabaster body.

510
00:48:04,272 --> 00:48:07,275
I mean it, Stone. You can take
your body analyzer and you can...

511
00:48:12,447 --> 00:48:14,408
'Sit down, please.

512
00:48:21,164 --> 00:48:23,917
'Please look at the screen
in front of you.

513
00:48:25,585 --> 00:48:29,214
'Please place your body
so that all points are obliterated.

514
00:48:38,348 --> 00:48:40,183
'That is fine. We may proceed.

515
00:48:40,308 --> 00:48:43,437
'State your name for the records.
Surname first.'

516
00:48:43,562 --> 00:48:44,688
Mark Hall.

517
00:48:47,107 --> 00:48:48,191
Hall, Mark.

518
00:48:49,526 --> 00:48:51,028
'Thank you for your cooperation.'

519
00:48:51,153 --> 00:48:52,279
Yes, dear.

520
00:48:56,908 --> 00:49:00,078
'Please answer
the following questions, yes or no.

521
00:49:00,203 --> 00:49:03,331
- 'Have you any allergies?'
- Yes, to ragweed pollen.

522
00:49:05,375 --> 00:49:07,252
OK, I'll repeat for your memory cells...

523
00:49:07,377 --> 00:49:11,089
'Please repeat your response
for our memory cells.'

524
00:49:11,214 --> 00:49:13,884
Ragweed pollen!

525
00:49:17,220 --> 00:49:20,724
'This ends the formal questioning.
Please undress.

526
00:49:27,355 --> 00:49:29,816
'This is a scan for fungal lesions.'

527
00:49:41,244 --> 00:49:44,748
'Dr. Stone, this is level 2 control.
The answer is affirmative.

528
00:49:44,873 --> 00:49:49,544
'Major Manchek contacted the White House
at 11:23 our time this morning.'

529
00:49:50,796 --> 00:49:54,758
'Contact on all leads
is "r" for ready.

530
00:49:54,883 --> 00:49:56,343
'Do not be nervous.'

531
00:49:56,468 --> 00:49:58,553
I'm not nervous.

532
00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:02,974
'Physical parameters
are being measured.

533
00:50:03,100 --> 00:50:06,061
'There's no need to be nervous,
Dr. Leavitt.'

534
00:50:10,023 --> 00:50:11,775
'Please raise your left arm.

535
00:50:19,241 --> 00:50:23,537
'Please sit up, facing the scan screen
and watch carefully.

536
00:50:46,977 --> 00:50:51,064
'You have received pneumatic injections
of booster immunizations.

537
00:50:51,189 --> 00:50:53,692
'You may get dressed.
Thank you.

538
00:50:53,817 --> 00:50:56,236
'This recording is now ended.'

539
00:51:02,534 --> 00:51:04,119
That body analyzer!

540
00:51:04,244 --> 00:51:06,244
I want to be there
when the A.M.A. gets wind of it.

541
00:51:06,288 --> 00:51:08,928
So far it's only been used by NASA
to diagnose astronauts in space.

542
00:51:09,040 --> 00:51:11,209
You doctors better start
making house calls again.

543
00:51:21,136 --> 00:51:24,097
'This is a xenon lamp apparatus.

544
00:51:24,222 --> 00:51:28,101
'To insure complete effectiveness,
spread your feet apart.

545
00:51:32,105 --> 00:51:34,524
'To protect scalp and facial hair,

546
00:51:34,649 --> 00:51:37,611
'place the metal helmet
securely on the head.

547
00:51:42,657 --> 00:51:46,828
'Make sure the helmet is firmly seated
and the visor lowered.

548
00:51:46,953 --> 00:51:49,331
'Then raise your arms and wait.'

549
00:52:09,768 --> 00:52:12,062
'You may now remove helmet.

550
00:52:14,272 --> 00:52:17,484
'You will notice a fine white ash
on your body.

551
00:52:17,609 --> 00:52:22,239
'This is the outer epithelial layers of your skin
that have been burned away.

552
00:52:24,282 --> 00:52:26,493
'Please replace the helmet
in compartment

553
00:52:26,618 --> 00:52:29,079
'and proceed through shower
in next room.

554
00:52:29,204 --> 00:52:32,290
'Then you may dress
and descend to level 4.'

555
00:52:39,256 --> 00:52:42,801
We're required to rest for six hours on level 4
after exposure to the xenon lamp.

556
00:52:42,926 --> 00:52:45,011
So go to your rooms and sleep.

557
00:52:45,136 --> 00:52:47,806
At the end of the corridor
is the cafeteria.

558
00:52:47,931 --> 00:52:51,393
We'll meet there
at 0400 hours tomorrow.

559
00:52:55,814 --> 00:52:58,108
'Pharmacology
to maintenance L.B.

560
00:52:58,233 --> 00:53:02,654
'One of our R.S. shows six points
over normal and pressure 3.'

561
00:53:06,866 --> 00:53:10,662
'Watchdog to all levels.
Scoop 7 capsule secure.

562
00:53:10,787 --> 00:53:14,916
'Bio-check 66 plus 9 minus 0-5.'

563
00:53:29,055 --> 00:53:31,391
'Leo control to Keepsake 5.

564
00:53:31,516 --> 00:53:36,479
'The pressure integrity check
runs 2.54 g-cm to the second.

565
00:53:36,604 --> 00:53:38,398
'Please confirm.'

566
00:54:12,098 --> 00:54:15,101
'A new form of life.

567
00:54:17,270 --> 00:54:19,564
'Like Rudolph Karp's bacteria.'

568
00:54:20,231 --> 00:54:21,900
Fools!

569
00:54:22,025 --> 00:54:25,653
They refuse to believe
life exists in meteorites.

570
00:54:25,779 --> 00:54:29,574
I showed them at the Astrophysics
conference what I just showed you.

571
00:54:29,699 --> 00:54:33,286
But no, even with a microscope,
they're blind.

572
00:54:33,411 --> 00:54:35,663
What do I have to do?
Hit them over the head?

573
00:54:55,016 --> 00:54:59,187
I'm glad you're amused, gentlemen,
but it might just turn out to be true.

574
00:54:59,312 --> 00:55:01,856
During this symposium,
we'll discuss the possibility

575
00:55:01,981 --> 00:55:06,319
that intelligent life on a distant planet
may be no larger than a flea.

576
00:55:08,113 --> 00:55:10,865
Perhaps no larger than a bacterium.

577
00:55:14,577 --> 00:55:17,288
'Time to wake up, sir.

578
00:55:18,623 --> 00:55:20,542
'Time to wake up, sir!'

579
00:55:26,256 --> 00:55:28,007
Hello?

580
00:55:28,133 --> 00:55:30,718
'Time to wake up, sir.'

581
00:55:32,345 --> 00:55:33,805
Who are you?

582
00:55:33,930 --> 00:55:35,682
'Time to wake up, sir.

583
00:55:42,689 --> 00:55:44,649
'Do you wish something, sir?'

584
00:55:45,567 --> 00:55:46,943
Your name.

585
00:55:47,068 --> 00:55:49,028
'Will that be all, sir?'

586
00:55:50,071 --> 00:55:51,948
For the moment.

587
00:56:14,179 --> 00:56:16,681
'This is the answering
service supervisor.

588
00:56:16,806 --> 00:56:20,393
'We wish you'd adopt
a more serious attitude, Dr. Hall.'

589
00:56:20,518 --> 00:56:23,062
Sorry, her voice is quite luscious.

590
00:56:23,188 --> 00:56:27,275
'The voice belongs to Miss Gladys Stevens
who is 63 years old.

591
00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:28,693
'She lives in Omaha

592
00:56:28,818 --> 00:56:32,405
'and makes her living taping messages
for voice-reminder systems.'

593
00:56:32,530 --> 00:56:34,949
Much obliged.

594
00:56:35,074 --> 00:56:39,037
Let's not get sidetracked on Rudolph Karp
and his meteorite theories.

595
00:56:39,162 --> 00:56:40,747
His technique was worthless!

596
00:56:40,872 --> 00:56:44,292
- I still think we should contact him.
- Fair enough. Where is he?

597
00:56:44,918 --> 00:56:48,338
Behind the Iron Curtain.
He couldn't get a research grant here.

598
00:56:53,301 --> 00:56:55,595
'H.P. Nutrient
now available in the cafeteria

599
00:56:55,720 --> 00:56:58,973
'for staff members
from sectors 1 through 6.'

600
00:56:59,516 --> 00:57:02,143
Hemlock!
All for you, Hippocrates.

601
00:57:02,268 --> 00:57:04,437
Not your own venom?

602
00:57:07,398 --> 00:57:08,858
Tastes like orange juice.

603
00:57:08,983 --> 00:57:10,985
Nutrient 42-5.

604
00:57:11,110 --> 00:57:12,946
Developed for the astronauts.

605
00:57:13,071 --> 00:57:15,740
Eight ounces satisfy
all daily nutritional requirements.

606
00:57:15,865 --> 00:57:17,283
Except coffee.

607
00:57:17,408 --> 00:57:20,119
And lipid soluble vitamins.

608
00:57:20,245 --> 00:57:23,081
For that we have these.
Help yourself.

609
00:57:23,206 --> 00:57:25,458
So what's the point of the cafeteria?

610
00:57:25,583 --> 00:57:28,002
Wildfire isn't always on crash status.

611
00:57:28,127 --> 00:57:29,629
Maybe there's some sugar.

612
00:57:29,754 --> 00:57:32,465
Nope. Nothing that might provide
a bacterial growth medium.

613
00:57:32,590 --> 00:57:34,634
Precisely.
No sugar in the gut.

614
00:57:34,759 --> 00:57:36,928
I'd like a cigarette right now.

615
00:57:37,053 --> 00:57:40,390
- It's after meals you really miss 'em.
- You should have no trouble on level 5.

616
00:57:40,515 --> 00:57:42,141
You won't even get this close to a meal.

617
00:57:42,267 --> 00:57:44,602
We'll be entirely
on high-protein nutrients.

618
00:57:45,395 --> 00:57:47,730
I planned our work in three stages.

619
00:57:47,855 --> 00:57:49,732
One, detection.

620
00:57:49,857 --> 00:57:52,569
First step is to confirm
that an organism is present.

621
00:57:52,694 --> 00:57:56,197
Two, characterization.
How's it structured, how does it work?

622
00:57:56,322 --> 00:57:58,992
Three, control.

623
00:57:59,117 --> 00:58:01,578
How to contain and exterminate?

624
00:58:01,703 --> 00:58:05,123
Jeremy, on this matter of extermination,
we should go slowly.

625
00:58:05,248 --> 00:58:06,624
Without ever realizing it,

626
00:58:06,749 --> 00:58:09,460
we might destroy
a highly intelligent form of life.

627
00:58:09,586 --> 00:58:11,879
Why don't we get going?
I've got two patients down there.

628
00:58:12,005 --> 00:58:13,464
The team has two subjects.

629
00:58:14,465 --> 00:58:15,800
They're not guinea pigs!

630
00:58:17,176 --> 00:58:20,388
'You may now proceed
to level 5, gentlemen.'

631
00:58:27,061 --> 00:58:31,608
Um, stop by your rooms and insert these
before taking the elevator.

632
00:58:32,317 --> 00:58:34,277
I have risked drowning in that foul bath.

633
00:58:34,402 --> 00:58:37,280
I have been parboiled,
irradiated and xenon flashed.

634
00:58:37,405 --> 00:58:38,990
- And now you suggest I...
- I have to!

635
00:58:39,115 --> 00:58:41,075
We haven't done anything
about the G.I. tract yet.

636
00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:44,454
On level 5 we must be
as nearly germ free as possible.

637
00:58:46,497 --> 00:58:49,083
Anyone care to join me for a smoke?

638
00:58:51,336 --> 00:58:54,047
'Watchdog to level 2, sector D.

639
00:58:54,172 --> 00:58:56,591
'You are Red Kappa Phoenix status.'

640
00:58:57,884 --> 00:59:00,345
Off the main corridor
on the outer rim

641
00:59:00,470 --> 00:59:03,890
are the main living quarters,
conference room, cafeteria,

642
00:59:04,015 --> 00:59:06,267
bio-safety maintenance, etc.

643
00:59:06,392 --> 00:59:07,852
Inside are the labs.

644
00:59:08,561 --> 00:59:10,063
Where is the library?

645
00:59:10,188 --> 00:59:13,608
No need for books.
Everything's in the computer.

646
00:59:13,733 --> 00:59:16,694
Notice the capsule
has already been delivered

647
00:59:16,819 --> 00:59:21,949
by the sterile conveyor system
to the main control lab here.

648
00:59:22,075 --> 00:59:25,286
Your patients are here
in the hot room of miscellaneous.

649
00:59:25,411 --> 00:59:28,164
We can't have any direct contact with them.
Poor souls.

650
00:59:28,289 --> 00:59:32,710
'Dr. Dutton and Dr. Hall
are wanted in main control immediately.'

651
00:59:34,671 --> 00:59:35,672
Hey!

652
00:59:37,298 --> 00:59:40,301
If the patients are sealed off,
how do I get to them?

653
00:59:40,426 --> 00:59:42,345
- Ever used a glove box?
- No.

654
00:59:42,470 --> 00:59:44,514
Wildfire's gone a step further.

655
00:59:44,639 --> 00:59:47,183
Whole rooms that operate
like glove boxes.

656
00:59:47,308 --> 00:59:49,185
You'll be working in one shortly.

657
00:59:59,070 --> 01:00:00,571
'Level 5 to Watchdog.

658
01:00:00,697 --> 01:00:02,824
'We have a magnetic "K" indices here.

659
01:00:02,949 --> 01:00:05,201
'Give us a code 3 when you get it.'

660
01:00:22,802 --> 01:00:24,387
I wanted you here while we find out

661
01:00:24,512 --> 01:00:27,098
if there's anything still biologically active
in the capsule.

662
01:00:27,223 --> 01:00:28,474
Suggestions?

663
01:00:28,599 --> 01:00:30,810
- Use a buffalo.
- Audio.

664
01:00:51,873 --> 01:00:54,751
'Detectors "E"
through "G" correction.

665
01:00:54,876 --> 01:00:59,088
'Negative "N" scan.
Negative "N" scope in LY-1.

666
01:00:59,213 --> 01:01:03,468
'Affirmative. "N" indicator in MP-4.
I will repeat.

667
01:01:03,593 --> 01:01:08,014
'Negative "N" scan.
Negative "N" scope in LY-1.

668
01:01:08,139 --> 01:01:11,893
'Affirmative.
"N" indicator in MP-4.'

669
01:01:34,832 --> 01:01:38,336
Whatever killed them at Piedmont
is still there and still as potent as ever.

670
01:01:38,461 --> 01:01:41,547
If potent's the word.
Let's try a rhesus.

671
01:01:41,672 --> 01:01:44,425
Yeah. We'll want
a postmortem on it anyway.

672
01:01:55,853 --> 01:01:57,980
'Housekeeping to level 5.

673
01:01:58,105 --> 01:02:00,733
'Clean sweep schedule B
now in effect.

674
01:02:00,858 --> 01:02:04,779
'Germ-free animal technicians,
please consult schedule A.'

675
01:02:57,123 --> 01:02:59,375
So, OK.

676
01:02:59,500 --> 01:03:01,502
Isolate and identify.

677
01:03:01,627 --> 01:03:04,338
Right. You and I'll scan
the capsule, Ruth.

678
01:03:05,047 --> 01:03:08,634
Charlie, you work on these in autopsy.
Open the S.L., Ruth.

679
01:03:36,746 --> 01:03:40,249
'Adjust S.Y. system
for aseptricity as follows.

680
01:03:40,374 --> 01:03:42,335
'Points 2-a at 5.

681
01:03:42,460 --> 01:03:45,630
'Points 9 through 12 at plus 1.

682
01:03:45,755 --> 01:03:49,091
'Plus 3, plus 6 at minus.'

683
01:04:27,380 --> 01:04:30,967
Run an initial vector study, Charlie.
Find out how the disease enters the body.

684
01:04:33,177 --> 01:04:35,179
- Charlie?
- Yes.

685
01:04:36,514 --> 01:04:40,476
Yes, the vector study first,
then autopsy.

686
01:04:40,601 --> 01:04:41,602
Incredible.

687
01:04:44,063 --> 01:04:46,607
Dutton, be careful.

688
01:04:46,732 --> 01:04:49,026
Let our distinguished surgeon
handle the knife.

689
01:04:50,444 --> 01:04:52,071
Fine, but not for a while.

690
01:04:52,196 --> 01:04:55,741
First, I'm a pediatrician
and a geriatrist.

691
01:04:55,866 --> 01:04:58,661
Take it easy.
Charlie will have a technician.

692
01:05:14,093 --> 01:05:16,137
What's been done for them?

693
01:05:17,263 --> 01:05:20,099
Just plasma for the old man,
dextrose for the baby.

694
01:05:20,558 --> 01:05:22,518
- Your therapy?
- No.

695
01:05:23,811 --> 01:05:24,812
Medcom's.

696
01:05:25,396 --> 01:05:27,356
Do I call you Miss Medcom?

697
01:05:27,481 --> 01:05:30,985
If you like, Dr. Hall.
My name's Karen Anson.

698
01:05:31,110 --> 01:05:36,032
Good! I couldn't cope with two machines.
How does this work?

699
01:05:36,157 --> 01:05:39,994
You're lucky. Medcom's got
one of the best minds here.

700
01:05:40,619 --> 01:05:44,081
It's a medical data analyzer
that can diagnose as well as prescribe.

701
01:05:44,957 --> 01:05:47,126
It's hooked up to
the main computer on level 1.

702
01:05:47,251 --> 01:05:50,880
Every console and instrument in Wildfire
is plugged into the main computer

703
01:05:51,005 --> 01:05:52,840
on a time-sharing basis.

704
01:05:52,965 --> 01:05:55,718
All our key lab studies are done
on automated machines.

705
01:05:55,843 --> 01:05:57,678
I prefer the personal touch.

706
01:05:57,803 --> 01:06:00,264
It's hard to come by in those suits.

707
01:06:06,437 --> 01:06:07,521
Have you worked in them?

708
01:06:08,147 --> 01:06:10,733
Not for real. But I've been drilling
for three months.

709
01:06:10,858 --> 01:06:13,819
Thank God for an expert.
This sort of thing's new to me.

710
01:06:13,944 --> 01:06:15,738
It's new to all of us.

711
01:06:15,863 --> 01:06:18,532
Until now,
Wildfire's been like a game.

712
01:06:18,657 --> 01:06:21,827
We've even had simulation
biowar games here.

713
01:06:21,952 --> 01:06:24,205
With live subjects, volunteers.

714
01:06:25,998 --> 01:06:27,750
I mean, I'm scared.

715
01:06:29,210 --> 01:06:31,462
I never believed
this could really happen.

716
01:06:31,587 --> 01:06:33,297
Well, it has happened.

717
01:06:34,298 --> 01:06:36,383
I'll need some lab tests.

718
01:06:50,815 --> 01:06:53,609
Use this to check off
what you want.

719
01:06:55,027 --> 01:06:57,988
Just touch the pen to the screen.

720
01:07:14,380 --> 01:07:17,800
You draw the bloods,
I'll do the physicals.

721
01:07:21,470 --> 01:07:22,972
Use the bar.

722
01:07:23,097 --> 01:07:25,933
The tunnel seals off
automatically behind you.

723
01:07:26,058 --> 01:07:29,061
The only way you might possibly
break your suit is with a scalpel,

724
01:07:29,186 --> 01:07:32,148
and a surgeon isn't likely to do that.

725
01:07:57,214 --> 01:08:01,510
'Bio-safety to S.L.
An animal in airlock 0-9-5.

726
01:08:01,635 --> 01:08:04,638
'Re-confirm red R.D.P. status
before transfer.'

727
01:08:46,305 --> 01:08:48,766
Second scan completed.

728
01:08:48,891 --> 01:08:50,559
Score, nothing to nothing.

729
01:08:50,684 --> 01:08:52,394
Go to 100 power.

730
01:09:05,991 --> 01:09:07,868
No, Ruth.
Use only one microscanner.

731
01:09:07,993 --> 01:09:09,411
You being paid by the hour?

732
01:09:09,536 --> 01:09:11,497
We could cover the capsule
in one half the time.

733
01:09:11,622 --> 01:09:14,392
There's less chance of missing something
when we both concentrate on one screen.

734
01:09:14,416 --> 01:09:15,793
Let's go directly to the inside.

735
01:09:15,918 --> 01:09:19,463
We can assume they put the scoop
on the thing to scoop something into it.

736
01:09:19,588 --> 01:09:21,590
Brother, they sure got
what they were looking for.

737
01:09:22,216 --> 01:09:25,928
We're not here to make accusations.
We have a job to do purely as scientists.

738
01:09:26,971 --> 01:09:28,305
Maybe not so pure.

739
01:09:30,015 --> 01:09:32,935
Continue the scan, Ruth,
on the outside.

740
01:09:50,244 --> 01:09:52,913
No, don't do that.
We'll use the hands.

741
01:09:53,038 --> 01:09:55,249
Nothing can happen, sir.
I'm faster than the hands.

742
01:09:55,374 --> 01:09:57,376
I want you out of the hot room.

743
01:10:03,424 --> 01:10:05,676
'B.Z. Doris to I.Z. Alice.

744
01:10:05,801 --> 01:10:10,306
'S.D.T. energy output is 1.8,
3.0 joules,

745
01:10:10,431 --> 01:10:12,516
'with rate two to three milliradians.

746
01:10:13,309 --> 01:10:15,728
'And we still need those blankets.'

747
01:10:16,937 --> 01:10:19,106
No sweat, sir.
Those cages are airtight.

748
01:10:19,231 --> 01:10:21,066
I wish you would
sweat a little more, Toby.

749
01:10:21,191 --> 01:10:24,611
Sweat is a safeguard against
some kinds of bacteria and carelessness.

750
01:10:24,737 --> 01:10:26,488
Use the hands.

751
01:10:54,641 --> 01:10:55,642
Wow!

752
01:10:55,768 --> 01:10:58,854
Transmitted by air,
as we thought.

753
01:10:58,979 --> 01:11:01,482
Now we've got to determine its size.

754
01:11:01,607 --> 01:11:03,984
Could be a gas
or some kind of a virus.

755
01:11:04,568 --> 01:11:07,863
We'll use a hundred
angstrom filter to begin.

756
01:11:07,988 --> 01:11:10,032
About the size of a small virus.

757
01:11:28,884 --> 01:11:30,344
All systems go, sir.

758
01:11:47,903 --> 01:11:50,823
Whatever it is,
it's larger than a virus.

759
01:11:50,948 --> 01:11:52,741
We'll try one micron filter.

760
01:11:53,450 --> 01:11:54,910
Hang in there, baby.

761
01:12:05,337 --> 01:12:07,965
It must be pretty big.
I'm gonna get me a fly swatter.

762
01:12:08,090 --> 01:12:10,801
Do that.
Here goes with two microns.

763
01:12:24,064 --> 01:12:25,357
Uh-huh.

764
01:12:25,899 --> 01:12:27,443
Nasty.

765
01:12:27,568 --> 01:12:29,862
At least we'll be able
to get a good look at it.

766
01:12:29,987 --> 01:12:31,113
Dutton to Stone.

767
01:12:31,780 --> 01:12:34,992
We've just found out its size:
about two microns in diameter.

768
01:12:35,117 --> 01:12:38,120
Big enough to be a complete cell.
Interesting.

769
01:12:38,245 --> 01:12:41,748
There's a good chance it's alive.
Airborne transmission?

770
01:12:41,874 --> 01:12:44,042
Yes. What have you found?

771
01:12:44,168 --> 01:12:45,544
So far nothing.

772
01:12:45,669 --> 01:12:48,273
Our Nobel laureate here won't scan
on the inside because he says...

773
01:12:48,297 --> 01:12:49,506
Alright, Ruth.

774
01:12:49,631 --> 01:12:51,091
Thanks, Charlie.
Keep at it.

775
01:12:53,510 --> 01:12:55,888
It's pointless to go on
scanning outside.

776
01:12:56,013 --> 01:12:58,724
If it's two microns in diameter,
it would've showed up at 440.

777
01:12:59,308 --> 01:13:01,068
True, but we didn't
know that before, did we?

778
01:13:01,518 --> 01:13:04,021
We'll start with five power
on the inside.

779
01:13:04,146 --> 01:13:05,898
Stick to established procedure.

780
01:13:06,023 --> 01:13:08,317
Establishment gonna
fall down and go boom.

781
01:13:08,901 --> 01:13:10,068
Switch to manual, Ruth.

782
01:13:10,194 --> 01:13:12,821
The interior's too irregular
to probe on automatic.

783
01:13:39,932 --> 01:13:41,183
More light, huh?

784
01:14:25,227 --> 01:14:26,603
Here's his blood value now.

785
01:14:31,108 --> 01:14:33,402
Half normal.
Severely anemic.

786
01:14:39,366 --> 01:14:41,368
Wake up, sir.

787
01:14:43,370 --> 01:14:45,622
Can you hear me?

788
01:14:46,790 --> 01:14:48,750
What's your name?

789
01:14:53,714 --> 01:14:55,632
- J-Jackson.
- What?

790
01:14:59,136 --> 01:15:00,971
Jackson.

791
01:15:04,933 --> 01:15:06,977
Stay awake, Mr. Jackson.

792
01:15:08,020 --> 01:15:10,022
Stay awake!

793
01:15:21,116 --> 01:15:22,659
Tongue blade.

794
01:15:23,869 --> 01:15:26,955
'Sixty-eight degrees on 1-4-0-7.

795
01:15:27,080 --> 01:15:29,958
'Sixty-one on 1-2-0-3.

796
01:15:30,083 --> 01:15:33,712
'Loss rate is minus 0-0-12.

797
01:15:33,837 --> 01:15:37,466
'Please copy and confirm
all receiving locks.'

798
01:15:57,027 --> 01:15:59,780
- You can tell you're a bachelor.
- What was that?

799
01:16:00,322 --> 01:16:02,532
I didn't say anything.

800
01:16:05,369 --> 01:16:07,329
We're doing an isotope scan, Hall.

801
01:16:07,454 --> 01:16:09,956
How the bugs get into the body.
Thought you should watch it.

802
01:16:10,082 --> 01:16:12,125
I assume it was inhaled.

803
01:16:12,250 --> 01:16:14,044
Not likely it's absorbed
through the skin.

804
01:16:14,169 --> 01:16:17,881
That's what we'll find out now:
the mechanism of death.

805
01:17:13,145 --> 01:17:16,398
We'll look
at a replay of that at speed 6.

806
01:17:25,615 --> 01:17:27,659
That tells us what we want to know, Hall.

807
01:17:27,784 --> 01:17:29,786
The organism is inhaled.

808
01:17:29,911 --> 01:17:32,205
The clotting begins in the lungs
and spreads outward.

809
01:17:32,330 --> 01:17:34,374
I didn't think it possible.

810
01:17:34,499 --> 01:17:37,711
I didn't think the total volume of blood
could solidify that fast.

811
01:17:37,836 --> 01:17:40,172
I'd hoped maybe one crucial clot
might form in the brain,

812
01:17:40,297 --> 01:17:41,757
which was what made them go insane.

813
01:17:41,882 --> 01:17:43,884
And then the rest of the blood
clot more slowly.

814
01:17:44,009 --> 01:17:45,802
We'd have a chance to cure that.

815
01:17:45,927 --> 01:17:48,305
Cure what?
We don't know what it is.

816
01:17:48,430 --> 01:17:51,600
Stone and Leavitt haven't been able
to isolate the hellish thing.

817
01:17:52,809 --> 01:17:54,895
Of course they will in time.

818
01:17:57,898 --> 01:17:59,566
Of course.

819
01:18:32,641 --> 01:18:33,975
Hold it.

820
01:18:37,896 --> 01:18:40,690
At the edge of that shadow,
I think...

821
01:18:40,816 --> 01:18:42,567
Me too.

822
01:18:45,445 --> 01:18:47,239
It's an indentation.

823
01:18:47,364 --> 01:18:51,326
Yes, about the size
of a pencil point.

824
01:18:52,619 --> 01:18:53,620
Go to 40.

825
01:19:02,254 --> 01:19:04,047
Go to 60.

826
01:19:10,262 --> 01:19:12,681
Jeremy,
do you think maybe...

827
01:19:12,806 --> 01:19:15,433
Maybe it's just a grain of sand.

828
01:19:18,562 --> 01:19:19,896
Go to 80.

829
01:19:28,280 --> 01:19:30,198
What about the bits of green?

830
01:19:30,323 --> 01:19:32,200
- Paint.
- For God's sake!

831
01:19:32,325 --> 01:19:34,925
Pistachio ice cream! There's no basis
to assume it's anything yet.

832
01:19:34,995 --> 01:19:38,081
You're too good a scientist
not to be thinking the same thing I am.

833
01:19:39,332 --> 01:19:43,211
If this is really something new,
some brand-new form of life...

834
01:19:43,336 --> 01:19:45,672
The best hope of cracking it
is to be grindingly thorough

835
01:19:45,797 --> 01:19:48,842
with the help of computer number one.

836
01:19:48,967 --> 01:19:51,428
OK? Now let's get on with it.

837
01:20:01,396 --> 01:20:03,231
Hold it.

838
01:20:05,609 --> 01:20:07,569
More pistachio?

839
01:20:08,945 --> 01:20:10,864
I count four patches.

840
01:20:11,489 --> 01:20:14,326
Keep going. I'll computerize
the coordinates.

841
01:20:14,451 --> 01:20:16,786
Let's take a look at the rock at 100.

842
01:20:23,960 --> 01:20:26,630
I doubt that's what knocked
the capsule off trajectory.

843
01:20:26,755 --> 01:20:30,842
Unless the rock was going at tremendous
speed, or unless it's terribly heavy.

844
01:20:30,967 --> 01:20:34,679
For Pete's sake, Ruth, it can't be that heavy.
Hall and I could lift the capsule.

845
01:20:34,804 --> 01:20:37,140
However, it's possible
the rock is different in space.

846
01:20:37,265 --> 01:20:38,725
Out there it might do anything.

847
01:20:38,850 --> 01:20:41,853
Maybe it has elastic properties
we don't even know yet.

848
01:20:42,687 --> 01:20:45,231
Let's have a look
at the green patches.

849
01:20:45,357 --> 01:20:47,233
They must've come off the rock.

850
01:20:48,735 --> 01:20:50,403
If it is rock.

851
01:20:53,365 --> 01:20:55,408
You know something?

852
01:20:55,533 --> 01:20:58,453
They do look like spatters of paint.

853
01:20:59,913 --> 01:21:01,998
Let's go back to the rock
and see it at 440.

854
01:21:11,424 --> 01:21:14,386
If that's a meteor,
it's a damn peculiar one.

855
01:21:15,845 --> 01:21:19,015
This left border over here,

856
01:21:20,475 --> 01:21:24,187
it's smooth,
almost like an artificial surface.

857
01:21:24,312 --> 01:21:27,190
Painted, maybe.
Luminous paint.

858
01:21:27,899 --> 01:21:30,652
If I keep watching it,
I might think so.

859
01:21:30,777 --> 01:21:32,654
Wet paint sign and all.

860
01:21:36,408 --> 01:21:38,326
Jeremy?

861
01:21:38,451 --> 01:21:39,577
What?

862
01:21:42,956 --> 01:21:44,207
Nothing.

863
01:21:45,333 --> 01:21:46,501
You OK?

864
01:21:46,626 --> 01:21:49,754
It's just my eyes are getting tired.
We've been at it five hours straight.

865
01:21:49,879 --> 01:21:51,798
We'll take a caffeine break in a minute.

866
01:21:51,923 --> 01:21:55,260
First, though, I'd like to see one
of the separate patches of green at 1,000.

867
01:22:08,648 --> 01:22:10,692
- Did you see that?
- I saw it.

868
01:22:10,817 --> 01:22:13,445
- You didn't change the lighting?
- I didn't touch it.

869
01:22:16,531 --> 01:22:19,159
- It's alive.
- Yes.

870
01:22:19,284 --> 01:22:20,994
It's bigger than two microns.

871
01:22:21,119 --> 01:22:23,997
Which means the infection is spread
by a mere fraction of the green.

872
01:22:25,915 --> 01:22:28,543
I'm bringing down cameras.
Let's have the other microscanner.

873
01:22:34,716 --> 01:22:36,801
Stone to level control.
I need a mic-t.

874
01:22:36,926 --> 01:22:38,428
'Roger. Will send.'

875
01:22:42,098 --> 01:22:43,266
Jump it up to 1,500.

876
01:22:43,391 --> 01:22:45,310
Microscan doesn't go any higher.

877
01:22:45,435 --> 01:22:48,688
We can get 1500 light magnification
in microchemistry. I'll send the rock through.

878
01:22:53,109 --> 01:22:55,987
'Attention C.L.T.s
on levels 4 and 5.

879
01:22:56,738 --> 01:23:00,533
'Main computer shows capacity
versus access time,

880
01:23:00,658 --> 01:23:02,994
'at ten to the twelfth bit.

881
01:23:03,119 --> 01:23:05,580
'For any change
in memory configuration,

882
01:23:05,705 --> 01:23:08,541
'C.L.T.s must check their unicom op.'

883
01:23:57,882 --> 01:23:59,759
Beautiful, sir.

884
01:23:59,884 --> 01:24:01,970
I'm the mic-t.
You're real sharp on the hands.

885
01:24:02,095 --> 01:24:04,514
Thanks. Nice to know
one hasn't lost one's touch.

886
01:24:04,639 --> 01:24:06,492
The next step is to find out
what makes it grow.

887
01:24:06,516 --> 01:24:09,894
We'll need samples from the scoop to send
through maxcult for culture and isolation.

888
01:24:10,019 --> 01:24:11,104
Roger, sir. In work.

889
01:24:16,943 --> 01:24:18,361
Good God!

890
01:24:36,880 --> 01:24:39,299
It's growing.

891
01:24:55,440 --> 01:24:57,150
Not so good.

892
01:24:57,275 --> 01:25:01,112
Naturally he has acidosis.
His blood pH was nine points off normal.

893
01:25:01,237 --> 01:25:05,283
But why? Stupid machine!
What makes his blood too acid?

894
01:25:05,408 --> 01:25:07,243
Ask the patient.

895
01:25:23,760 --> 01:25:26,679
'Bio-safety to S.L.,
sectors 3 and 6.

896
01:25:26,804 --> 01:25:29,224
'Give us a code 3 when you get it.'

897
01:25:35,939 --> 01:25:37,732
Mr. Jackson?

898
01:25:43,238 --> 01:25:45,740
Now, don't be scared.
I'm a doctor.

899
01:25:48,409 --> 01:25:49,869
Bull.

900
01:25:51,996 --> 01:25:53,206
Where am I?

901
01:25:53,957 --> 01:25:56,709
A special laboratory in Nevada.

902
01:25:56,834 --> 01:26:00,046
We brought you here from Piedmont.
You're sick.

903
01:26:01,881 --> 01:26:04,467
It's this damn stomach of mine.

904
01:26:04,592 --> 01:26:05,927
Bleeding?

905
01:26:06,052 --> 01:26:07,971
Hell, yes, bleeding!

906
01:26:08,096 --> 01:26:10,390
Bleeding in your stomach?
You have an ulcer?

907
01:26:10,515 --> 01:26:14,227
Damn tootin'. Two years.

908
01:26:14,936 --> 01:26:16,896
But you must have pain.
What do you do for it?

909
01:26:19,357 --> 01:26:21,359
Aspirin...

910
01:26:22,318 --> 01:26:24,237
And squeeze.

911
01:26:24,362 --> 01:26:26,239
"Squeeze"?
What's that?

912
01:26:27,198 --> 01:26:28,658
Ain't gonna tell ya.

913
01:26:44,424 --> 01:26:47,343
So you're a Sterno drinker, huh?

914
01:26:48,886 --> 01:26:50,221
Works good.

915
01:26:55,893 --> 01:26:57,645
Give him squeeze.

916
01:27:06,988 --> 01:27:09,157
What's the baby's name,
Mr. Jackson?

917
01:27:10,616 --> 01:27:11,909
You the nurse?

918
01:27:12,452 --> 01:27:13,578
Uh-huh.

919
01:27:15,538 --> 01:27:17,832
Shoot!

920
01:27:17,957 --> 01:27:19,751
Can't see your legs.

921
01:27:23,880 --> 01:27:26,049
Do you know the baby's name?

922
01:27:27,925 --> 01:27:29,510
Give us a butt first.

923
01:27:29,635 --> 01:27:31,554
Smoking isn't allowed here.

924
01:27:33,765 --> 01:27:35,308
Then go fish.

925
01:27:41,606 --> 01:27:42,940
Yeah.

926
01:27:43,066 --> 01:27:46,736
When you're finished, we'll transfuse
Jackson and start ice water lavage.

927
01:27:46,861 --> 01:27:49,405
He has a two-year history
of bleeding ulcers.

928
01:27:49,530 --> 01:27:50,990
You seem delighted.

929
01:27:51,115 --> 01:27:53,201
It may be the reason he survived.

930
01:27:54,494 --> 01:27:57,288
If only our young gourmet
weren't so normal.

931
01:27:57,413 --> 01:28:00,249
Well, let's hope
nothing changes that.

932
01:28:00,375 --> 01:28:02,502
We might have to before this is over.

933
01:28:39,789 --> 01:28:41,416
They should've dropped the bomb.

934
01:28:41,541 --> 01:28:44,627
They should've dropped it
two days ago, General.

935
01:28:44,752 --> 01:28:47,964
This Phantom crashed a good 60 miles
beyond the cordoned area.

936
01:28:48,089 --> 01:28:50,383
Men on the ground
can't cordon off airspace, sir.

937
01:28:50,508 --> 01:28:55,763
I just don't understand why the Wildfire team
hasn't beefed about the delay in 7-12.

938
01:28:55,888 --> 01:28:58,015
It's been almost 24 hours,
and not a word from them.

939
01:28:58,141 --> 01:29:01,185
I don't think Piedmont had anything to do
with this crash, Manchek.

940
01:29:01,310 --> 01:29:02,812
It was a fluke.

941
01:29:04,313 --> 01:29:08,985
That plane was only over the WF area
for two minutes at 23,000 feet.

942
01:29:09,110 --> 01:29:11,529
It's a routine training mission
accident, I bet you.

943
01:29:11,654 --> 01:29:13,614
Pilot error. Let's go.

944
01:29:19,328 --> 01:29:21,414
Check with Wildfire
message center, delta five.

945
01:29:21,539 --> 01:29:23,059
Make sure everything there is nominal.

946
01:29:23,124 --> 01:29:25,710
Send me word on scrambler
at big head crash base.

947
01:29:25,835 --> 01:29:27,044
OK.

948
01:29:33,634 --> 01:29:37,305
Checklim program completed.
All circuit banks nominal.

949
01:29:47,023 --> 01:29:49,275
Same thing on the M.C.N. console,
Captain.

950
01:29:51,777 --> 01:29:53,196
Just a minute,
Dr. Robertson.

951
01:29:53,321 --> 01:29:56,657
You're saying Stone's $90 million facility,
which you recommended,

952
01:29:56,782 --> 01:29:59,285
was knocked out by a sliver of paper?

953
01:29:59,410 --> 01:30:02,163
You tell that to the taxpayers!

954
01:30:02,288 --> 01:30:05,249
These were highly-trained
electronics men, Senator,

955
01:30:05,374 --> 01:30:07,460
looking for an electronic fault.

956
01:30:07,585 --> 01:30:10,755
The trouble was purely mechanical
of the simplest kind.

957
01:30:10,880 --> 01:30:14,634
But for them, it was like trying to see
an elephant through a microscope.

958
01:30:14,759 --> 01:30:16,677
The sliver had peeled from the roll

959
01:30:16,802 --> 01:30:19,972
and wedged between the bell and striker,
preventing the bell from ringing.

960
01:30:27,647 --> 01:30:31,192
I'm convinced we're being held
incommunicado.

961
01:30:31,859 --> 01:30:35,363
Very flattering. We don't know
much more than when we got here.

962
01:30:35,488 --> 01:30:37,323
We know about Scoop now.

963
01:30:37,448 --> 01:30:40,826
It's possible what Scoop found
was no accident.

964
01:30:40,952 --> 01:30:43,996
I suspect they were looking
for the ultimate biological weapon.

965
01:30:44,664 --> 01:30:47,792
Sounds like you're getting a little paranoid
in this fun house.

966
01:30:48,876 --> 01:30:50,795
What does Stone think?

967
01:30:50,920 --> 01:30:53,214
About the ultimate weapon, I mean.

968
01:30:54,048 --> 01:30:56,050
We've isolated the organism.

969
01:30:56,175 --> 01:30:57,593
It's in microchemistry.

970
01:30:58,344 --> 01:30:59,345
We'll show you.

971
01:30:59,470 --> 01:31:02,056
'Watchdog to electrical support.
Sectors three to...'

972
01:32:09,457 --> 01:32:11,167
Alright, Lieutenant.

973
01:32:11,292 --> 01:32:13,169
'Albuquerque center,
Albuquerque center.

974
01:32:13,294 --> 01:32:15,755
- 'This is Air Force 561.'
- 'Go ahead 561.'

975
01:32:15,880 --> 01:32:18,215
'My air hose is coming apart,
like it's dissolving!'

976
01:32:18,341 --> 01:32:19,467
'561. Have you...'

977
01:32:19,592 --> 01:32:22,428
'Everything made of rubber
is coming apart!

978
01:32:22,553 --> 01:32:25,389
'I feel funny.'

979
01:32:29,894 --> 01:32:32,938
It's a fluke,
a vibration effect maybe.

980
01:32:33,064 --> 01:32:34,482
Let's get up there.

981
01:32:35,274 --> 01:32:36,442
Has Wildfire been informed?

982
01:32:36,567 --> 01:32:37,927
- You mean the germ people?
- Yeah.

983
01:32:37,985 --> 01:32:39,945
It went out to them
on the scrambler an hour ago.

984
01:32:40,071 --> 01:32:42,031
Well, this they can't ignore.

985
01:33:06,347 --> 01:33:09,266
'I.B. control
to cafeteria level three.

986
01:33:09,392 --> 01:33:12,311
'Number 4 charlie hatch
shows condition blue.

987
01:33:12,436 --> 01:33:16,857
'Alter responsivity characteristics
until you get condition green.'

988
01:33:25,616 --> 01:33:27,118
Ready.

989
01:33:34,750 --> 01:33:37,712
Nothing so unusual
about our rock after all.

990
01:33:37,837 --> 01:33:41,465
Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen,
sulfur, silicon, etcetera.

991
01:33:41,590 --> 01:33:44,385
Except the black rock
isn't rock at all.

992
01:33:44,510 --> 01:33:46,804
It's some kind of material
similar to plastic.

993
01:33:46,929 --> 01:33:48,597
How about that?

994
01:33:48,723 --> 01:33:50,558
The green is even simpler.

995
01:33:50,683 --> 01:33:53,602
Hydrogen, carbon,
nitrogen and oxygen.

996
01:33:53,728 --> 01:33:56,981
The four basic elements
of life on Earth, nothing else.

997
01:33:57,732 --> 01:33:58,733
That's a relief.

998
01:33:58,858 --> 01:34:01,652
I'd have been happier
if it'd turned out not to be alive.

999
01:34:02,653 --> 01:34:05,698
Green stuff,
you really had us going for a while.

1000
01:34:05,823 --> 01:34:08,868
A.A. analysis results are ready,
Dr. Dutton.

1001
01:34:12,538 --> 01:34:15,040
Something's wrong.
It's not registering.

1002
01:34:15,875 --> 01:34:16,959
Yes it is, sir.

1003
01:34:17,084 --> 01:34:20,963
It's just registering
double-zero, double-zero.

1004
01:34:21,088 --> 01:34:23,591
We'll switch to computerized analysis.

1005
01:34:30,055 --> 01:34:31,766
No amino acids!

1006
01:34:31,891 --> 01:34:35,227
No proteins,
no enzymes, no nucleic acid.

1007
01:34:35,352 --> 01:34:36,729
Impossible!

1008
01:34:36,854 --> 01:34:38,731
No organism
can maintain life without them!

1009
01:34:38,856 --> 01:34:41,442
You mean no Earth organism?

1010
01:34:41,567 --> 01:34:43,447
It must have evolved
in a totally different way.

1011
01:34:44,069 --> 01:34:45,362
You got it.

1012
01:34:46,614 --> 01:34:47,865
It doesn't come from here.

1013
01:34:47,990 --> 01:34:50,659
Without chemical reactions
there can't be life,

1014
01:34:50,785 --> 01:34:53,287
- yet it grows, reproduces...
- Wait!

1015
01:34:54,038 --> 01:34:56,457
The infection at Piedmont
has been stopped by the bomb.

1016
01:34:56,582 --> 01:34:57,875
We're secure at Wildfire.

1017
01:34:58,000 --> 01:35:00,503
We have everything we need
to achieve a breakthrough.

1018
01:35:02,296 --> 01:35:05,424
All we have to do is attack this problem
like any other in science.

1019
01:35:05,549 --> 01:35:07,676
You could spend years
working on a thing like that,

1020
01:35:07,802 --> 01:35:09,002
without solving its structure.

1021
01:35:09,094 --> 01:35:11,972
But when you do,
there'll be some red faces around.

1022
01:35:12,097 --> 01:35:13,516
It could change everything.

1023
01:35:17,812 --> 01:35:19,021
Great.

1024
01:35:19,146 --> 01:35:22,266
Ruth, since Kirke isn't here, you take over
the growth program in microbiology.

1025
01:35:22,358 --> 01:35:25,444
We're halfway home if we find out
what will keep that from growing.

1026
01:35:26,821 --> 01:35:29,406
- Charlie, you work with me on the E.M.
- Alright.

1027
01:35:29,532 --> 01:35:31,700
- All I'm...
- Let me get back to my patients.

1028
01:35:31,826 --> 01:35:33,666
I'm sure they were protected
by the same thing,

1029
01:35:33,786 --> 01:35:36,705
some simple mechanism,
I just don't recognize yet.

1030
01:35:36,831 --> 01:35:40,251
There's gotta be something that the old man
and the baby have in common.

1031
01:35:41,377 --> 01:35:42,378
Oh, Hall?

1032
01:35:43,754 --> 01:35:45,214
Five minutes.

1033
01:35:45,339 --> 01:35:46,715
You told me before.

1034
01:35:46,841 --> 01:35:50,261
Yes, we wouldn't want you to get too far
from the substation now.

1035
01:35:58,644 --> 01:36:02,439
'Now, men, keep a sharp eye open
for pieces of rubber.

1036
01:36:03,274 --> 01:36:04,400
'I'll repeat that for you.

1037
01:36:04,525 --> 01:36:07,152
'Keep a sharp eye open
for pieces of rubber.'

1038
01:36:11,031 --> 01:36:13,325
Major! Major Manchek!

1039
01:36:16,412 --> 01:36:17,955
Take a look at that, sir.

1040
01:36:20,791 --> 01:36:23,502
We just found this, General.
It's a human bone.

1041
01:36:23,627 --> 01:36:25,254
Arm, I think.

1042
01:36:26,380 --> 01:36:29,300
It looks picked clean,
almost like it was polished.

1043
01:36:29,425 --> 01:36:30,968
That's right.

1044
01:36:31,093 --> 01:36:32,386
Well, I don't get it.

1045
01:36:32,511 --> 01:36:35,347
There is no actual rubber
on the Phantom F-4, General.

1046
01:36:35,472 --> 01:36:39,143
It's all a synthetic plastic compound
called Polycron.

1047
01:36:40,227 --> 01:36:44,231
It has some of the characteristics
of human skin.

1048
01:36:44,356 --> 01:36:45,399
What the hell is that?

1049
01:36:45,524 --> 01:36:47,526
What's left of his oxygen mask.

1050
01:36:47,651 --> 01:36:49,278
It's made of Polycron.

1051
01:36:49,403 --> 01:36:52,156
I'd say it was done by
a chemical reaction of some sort.

1052
01:36:52,281 --> 01:36:54,575
- Or maybe a microorganism.
- Meaning?

1053
01:36:54,700 --> 01:36:58,037
Meaning there was something in that plane
that consumes plastic.

1054
01:37:30,027 --> 01:37:31,654
How's Maxcult coming, Ruth?

1055
01:37:31,779 --> 01:37:33,822
Will you be finished
by the midnight conference?

1056
01:37:33,948 --> 01:37:35,199
Easy.

1057
01:37:35,324 --> 01:37:38,577
Good. You can give us
the results then.

1058
01:38:42,016 --> 01:38:44,810
Feeling better, aren't you,
Mr. Jackson?

1059
01:38:46,020 --> 01:38:47,312
Yep.

1060
01:38:49,773 --> 01:38:52,568
Do you always have to wear
that iron suit?

1061
01:38:52,693 --> 01:38:54,361
Yep.

1062
01:38:54,945 --> 01:38:57,656
Maybe you'll tell us the baby's name now,
Mr. Jackson.

1063
01:38:58,407 --> 01:39:00,909
Manuel Rios. Mex.

1064
01:39:01,910 --> 01:39:04,079
Real little heller.

1065
01:39:04,204 --> 01:39:06,665
Squalls morning, noon and night.

1066
01:39:06,790 --> 01:39:08,834
Neighbors wouldn't let 'em
keep their windows open.

1067
01:39:12,296 --> 01:39:14,757
Do you sleep with your window closed?

1068
01:39:14,882 --> 01:39:16,675
No siree, Bob.

1069
01:39:17,634 --> 01:39:19,344
Fresh air fiend.

1070
01:39:22,848 --> 01:39:24,600
Tell us what happened, Mr. Jackson.

1071
01:39:27,770 --> 01:39:29,271
I don't want to think about it.

1072
01:39:31,482 --> 01:39:33,859
You know what people will say?

1073
01:39:33,984 --> 01:39:35,569
Piedmont was bad.

1074
01:39:35,694 --> 01:39:37,321
That's why it was punished.

1075
01:39:38,655 --> 01:39:42,451
First the town went crazy
and then was destroyed.

1076
01:39:42,576 --> 01:39:44,411
You're crazy.

1077
01:39:44,536 --> 01:39:48,791
Folks at Piedmont was good.
Decent, normal folks.

1078
01:39:48,916 --> 01:39:52,503
The man we found dressed up
in his Doughboy's uniform, call that normal?

1079
01:39:52,628 --> 01:39:55,297
Pete Arnold who worked at the store.

1080
01:39:56,048 --> 01:39:58,592
- It was the disease.
- How do you know?

1081
01:39:58,717 --> 01:40:02,221
Cos the only thing wrong with him
before that night was sugar.

1082
01:40:02,346 --> 01:40:04,556
Diabetes?
Did he take insulin?

1083
01:40:04,681 --> 01:40:07,017
A couple of times a day.

1084
01:40:07,142 --> 01:40:09,394
Hated the needle.

1085
01:40:09,520 --> 01:40:12,064
I tried to talk him into using squeeze.

1086
01:40:12,189 --> 01:40:14,733
Insulin. If he missed
his treatment, he'd go...

1087
01:40:19,279 --> 01:40:20,864
Thanks, Mr. Jackson.

1088
01:41:04,741 --> 01:41:06,160
Oh, my God.

1089
01:41:15,627 --> 01:41:19,756
'Central C.C.
to big P.C. control, all levels.

1090
01:41:19,882 --> 01:41:21,925
'Testing laser systems.

1091
01:41:22,050 --> 01:41:27,097
'Please maintain random fringe drift
within ten percent of initial value.'

1092
01:41:36,648 --> 01:41:38,859
'Dr. Leavitt,
you have a midnight conference.

1093
01:41:38,984 --> 01:41:40,903
'The signal has struck twice.'

1094
01:41:41,820 --> 01:41:43,322
I heard!

1095
01:41:44,114 --> 01:41:46,408
I heard. I've... I've been busy.

1096
01:41:55,626 --> 01:41:58,879
The important thing is
that something can slow it down.

1097
01:41:59,004 --> 01:42:01,381
I think it's some kind of blood disorder.

1098
01:42:01,506 --> 01:42:04,885
If the old soldier missed his insulin treatment,
he'd go into acidosis.

1099
01:42:05,010 --> 01:42:07,721
The same as Jackson on Sterno.

1100
01:42:07,846 --> 01:42:12,017
I'll bet Leavitt finds the organism shows
no growth on some of the blood cultures.

1101
01:42:12,142 --> 01:42:13,685
What's wrong
with the baby's blood?

1102
01:42:15,312 --> 01:42:17,773
Nothing. So far.

1103
01:42:18,398 --> 01:42:19,709
Then you're back where you started.

1104
01:42:19,733 --> 01:42:22,444
No, somehow they're all interrelated.

1105
01:42:22,569 --> 01:42:28,283
I'll have the answer when I know why
a 69-year-old Sterno drinker with an ulcer

1106
01:42:28,408 --> 01:42:30,827
is like a normal, six-month old baby.

1107
01:42:32,496 --> 01:42:35,666
- Did you get any no-growth readouts...
- No, but I'm not finished yet.

1108
01:42:35,791 --> 01:42:37,602
You told me you'd be finished
by the conference time.

1109
01:42:37,626 --> 01:42:39,544
I decided to play part of it back.

1110
01:42:39,670 --> 01:42:41,189
What for? The first time
around should be enough...

1111
01:42:41,213 --> 01:42:43,090
Knock it off, Hall.

1112
01:42:43,215 --> 01:42:44,841
Wait. Wait.

1113
01:42:46,802 --> 01:42:48,512
We're all tired.

1114
01:42:49,388 --> 01:42:51,223
Tired people make mistakes.

1115
01:42:51,348 --> 01:42:54,434
They draw wrong conclusions,
they drop things.

1116
01:42:54,559 --> 01:42:56,812
That mustn't happen.

1117
01:42:56,937 --> 01:43:00,357
Starting now, I want the team
to get six hours sleep out of every 24.

1118
01:43:01,483 --> 01:43:02,693
Suits me.

1119
01:43:04,569 --> 01:43:07,489
Before turning in,
shouldn't we file for a code name?

1120
01:43:07,614 --> 01:43:08,991
Yeah, good idea.

1121
01:43:11,493 --> 01:43:16,873
'Nine over four over eight
under 167.29.

1122
01:43:16,999 --> 01:43:19,001
'Auto check in grade.

1123
01:43:19,126 --> 01:43:21,211
'Auto check in grade.'

1124
01:43:56,955 --> 01:43:58,081
Why Andromeda?

1125
01:43:58,206 --> 01:44:00,459
- Andromeda's our...
- Stone.

1126
01:44:03,462 --> 01:44:08,842
"Directive 7-12 has not been acted upon.
Alternative directive 7-11 now in effect."

1127
01:44:09,843 --> 01:44:13,513
- They didn't drop the bomb!
- It's an M.C.N. transmission sent yesterday.

1128
01:44:13,638 --> 01:44:14,973
Idiots!

1129
01:44:20,812 --> 01:44:23,148
- Put me through to Dr. Robertson.
- In work, sir.

1130
01:44:23,273 --> 01:44:26,360
Burke, you didn't special alert
an M.C.N. message to us.

1131
01:44:26,485 --> 01:44:28,695
There haven't been any, sir.
The bell didn't ring.

1132
01:44:28,820 --> 01:44:31,907
Don't argue, dammit!
I've got one in my hand.

1133
01:44:34,117 --> 01:44:37,120
Well, well, about time
we heard from you.

1134
01:44:37,245 --> 01:44:39,432
There has been a communications foul-up.
Never mind that now.

1135
01:44:39,456 --> 01:44:41,375
Why hasn't that bomb
been dropped on Piedmont?

1136
01:44:41,500 --> 01:44:45,629
The decision on 7-12 isn't final.
It was just postponed 48 hours.

1137
01:44:45,754 --> 01:44:48,548
By then the disease could spread
into a worldwide epidemic.

1138
01:44:49,132 --> 01:44:52,552
It's because of rash statements like that,
the President doesn't trust scientists.

1139
01:44:52,677 --> 01:44:54,638
Warn the President
it may already be too late.

1140
01:44:54,763 --> 01:44:57,391
Stay on his back, Robbie.
You've got to make him call a 7-12.

1141
01:44:57,516 --> 01:44:59,726
Can you get me another appointment
tonight, Grimes?

1142
01:44:59,851 --> 01:45:02,687
Now let's all just keep
our heads screwed on.

1143
01:45:03,563 --> 01:45:06,149
Any thoughts about the Phantom crash?

1144
01:45:06,274 --> 01:45:08,318
We sent you a couple messages on it.

1145
01:45:09,319 --> 01:45:12,531
A Phantom jet strayed over
the cordoned area around Piedmont.

1146
01:45:12,656 --> 01:45:13,657
Any other information?

1147
01:45:13,782 --> 01:45:18,537
Well, the pilot said that
all the rubber on the plane was dissolving.

1148
01:45:18,662 --> 01:45:21,373
- His last communication was pretty weird.
- Like he was crazy?

1149
01:45:21,498 --> 01:45:23,166
He was mighty confused,
that's for sure.

1150
01:45:23,291 --> 01:45:27,379
Robbie, it's your job to get the President
to activate a 7-12 immediately.

1151
01:45:27,504 --> 01:45:30,566
If he doesn't, there's no guarantee anyone
west of Piedmont will be alive in the morning.

1152
01:45:30,590 --> 01:45:33,427
Simmer down, Professor.
I'll wake the boss.

1153
01:45:33,552 --> 01:45:35,971
But General Sparks says
the crash was just a fluke.

1154
01:45:36,096 --> 01:45:39,516
Forget the crash, Robbie.
Stay on that 7-12 and get back to me.

1155
01:45:39,641 --> 01:45:41,309
We'll be working around the clock.

1156
01:46:15,218 --> 01:46:17,971
That's a good slice.
It's too thick.

1157
01:46:23,143 --> 01:46:25,228
I'm setting it at 800 angstroms, Hall.

1158
01:46:25,353 --> 01:46:27,814
And I'm going to a higher magnification.

1159
01:46:30,734 --> 01:46:32,652
Now we're getting somewhere!

1160
01:46:32,777 --> 01:46:36,072
Yeah. But these can't be more
than a few molecules in depth.

1161
01:46:39,910 --> 01:46:42,204
That's the one.
That silver one.

1162
01:46:47,083 --> 01:46:49,461
'This is a Villabach alert,
all levels.

1163
01:46:49,586 --> 01:46:51,421
'This is a Villabach alert.

1164
01:46:51,546 --> 01:46:55,300
'Electromagnetic waves
are not registering on the D.I.R.'

1165
01:47:10,482 --> 01:47:13,485
Sample in the button and seal, Charlie.
Start the vacuum pump.

1166
01:47:23,370 --> 01:47:24,829
Stone, can I see you?

1167
01:47:24,955 --> 01:47:26,873
I have the results
of the growth cultures.

1168
01:47:26,998 --> 01:47:30,377
No, we can't leave now.
We have an Andromeda cell in the E.M.

1169
01:47:30,502 --> 01:47:32,212
OK, Charlie,
let's put it on the screen.

1170
01:47:42,514 --> 01:47:45,475
Let's run it through the computer
for contrast expansion.

1171
01:47:54,484 --> 01:47:55,569
Stone?

1172
01:47:55,694 --> 01:47:57,571
What do you think?

1173
01:47:59,781 --> 01:48:01,575
Looks like a crystal.

1174
01:48:02,325 --> 01:48:05,203
- Well, gentlemen, there's our answer.
- To what?

1175
01:48:05,328 --> 01:48:07,914
How Andromeda functions
without amino acids.

1176
01:48:08,039 --> 01:48:10,125
- Crystalline structure.
- Yes.

1177
01:48:11,418 --> 01:48:15,255
I've often thought that living matter
might be based on crystals of some kind.

1178
01:48:15,922 --> 01:48:17,674
All these wedge-shaped compartments,

1179
01:48:17,799 --> 01:48:21,136
they'd serve to separate
bio-chemical functions very well.

1180
01:48:24,139 --> 01:48:25,515
It's dividing.

1181
01:48:28,893 --> 01:48:32,939
In a vacuum, bombarded by electrons?
It shouldn't even be alive.

1182
01:48:33,064 --> 01:48:34,608
That's what I wanted to tell you.

1183
01:48:34,733 --> 01:48:37,611
The growth program shows
Andromeda can live on anything.

1184
01:48:37,736 --> 01:48:39,404
Only gas and light affect it.

1185
01:48:39,529 --> 01:48:41,656
You didn't get any no-growth
results on the cultures?

1186
01:48:41,781 --> 01:48:43,575
None. Look.

1187
01:48:48,913 --> 01:48:50,790
The poorest growth
occurs in pure oxygen,

1188
01:48:50,915 --> 01:48:53,418
incubated under infrared light.

1189
01:48:53,543 --> 01:48:56,504
Andromeda grows best
in carbon dioxide and hydrogen,

1190
01:48:56,630 --> 01:48:58,298
incubated under X-rays.

1191
01:48:58,423 --> 01:49:00,175
No excretions.

1192
01:49:00,300 --> 01:49:01,926
No waste of any kind.

1193
01:49:02,052 --> 01:49:03,470
You'd expect that.

1194
01:49:03,595 --> 01:49:06,556
Andromeda's perfect
for existence in outer space.

1195
01:49:06,681 --> 01:49:09,601
Consumes everything,
wastes nothing.

1196
01:49:13,480 --> 01:49:14,856
- Good Lord.
- What?

1197
01:49:14,981 --> 01:49:17,043
Stone to delta five.
Put me through to Robertson immediately.

1198
01:49:17,067 --> 01:49:18,777
- What?
- God, I hope we're not too late.

1199
01:49:18,902 --> 01:49:21,988
- Tell me.
- It functions like an atomic reactor.

1200
01:49:22,113 --> 01:49:24,199
An atomic blast could provide it
with enough energy

1201
01:49:24,324 --> 01:49:26,785
- to grow into a gigantic super colony.
- In one day.

1202
01:49:29,746 --> 01:49:31,039
You can relax now.

1203
01:49:31,164 --> 01:49:34,209
We've just left the President.
He agreed to drop the bomb.

1204
01:49:34,334 --> 01:49:36,334
No, you've got to stop 7-12
from being carried out.

1205
01:49:36,378 --> 01:49:39,172
Now, wait a minute.
We're not playing ping-pong.

1206
01:49:39,297 --> 01:49:42,634
- We just got through telling the President...
- For God's sake, go back.

1207
01:49:42,759 --> 01:49:45,512
It grows when exposed to X-rays
or any source of energy.

1208
01:49:45,637 --> 01:49:48,932
Tell him, no nuclear device
must be detonated anywhere near it.

1209
01:49:49,057 --> 01:49:51,559
We just found out Andromeda
works like a little reactor:

1210
01:49:51,685 --> 01:49:54,062
converts matter to energy,
energy to matter directly.

1211
01:49:55,397 --> 01:49:59,317
Then the bomb would only provide
a fantastically rich growth medium.

1212
01:49:59,442 --> 01:50:02,445
- Understand?
- No, but I'll pass along the recommendation.

1213
01:50:02,570 --> 01:50:04,531
The boss will be pleased to know

1214
01:50:04,656 --> 01:50:07,283
that he made the right decision
on 7-12 in the first place.

1215
01:50:07,409 --> 01:50:09,661
Congratulate him
on his scientific insight.

1216
01:50:11,621 --> 01:50:12,622
Oh, and Robbie?

1217
01:50:12,747 --> 01:50:16,000
You'd better get the atomic self-destruct
in here disarmed as soon as possible.

1218
01:50:16,126 --> 01:50:18,878
Right. I'll start
on the clearances now.

1219
01:50:19,003 --> 01:50:20,505
It'll be done by morning.

1220
01:50:23,633 --> 01:50:27,512
No, no, no. That won't work
until the damn thing's going.

1221
01:50:52,078 --> 01:50:54,581
All the molecules
appear to be the same.

1222
01:50:54,706 --> 01:50:55,957
Yes.

1223
01:50:56,082 --> 01:51:00,295
Andromeda isn't composed of different
substances like a normal cell.

1224
01:51:00,420 --> 01:51:02,422
All the subunits are the same.

1225
01:51:02,547 --> 01:51:06,926
Damnedest thing I've ever s...
Boy, a single substance.

1226
01:51:07,761 --> 01:51:09,596
Then how the hell
does it operate?

1227
01:51:09,721 --> 01:51:13,099
How does anything so simple
utilize energy for growth?

1228
01:51:13,224 --> 01:51:14,893
No way of telling
from that structure.

1229
01:51:15,018 --> 01:51:17,395
Yes, there is.
With this new data,

1230
01:51:17,520 --> 01:51:20,857
we can now get a computerized
version of how Andromeda functions.

1231
01:51:29,157 --> 01:51:32,368
They're not uniform.
Could be mutations.

1232
01:51:45,965 --> 01:51:48,384
- What the devil?
- 601?

1233
01:51:48,510 --> 01:51:51,888
The computer's overloaded.
Too much data coming in too fast.

1234
01:51:53,139 --> 01:51:55,642
Dividing and mutating
at the same time?

1235
01:51:55,767 --> 01:51:58,102
And nothing to stop it.

1236
01:51:58,228 --> 01:52:00,772
Normal earth checks
and balances don't exist for it.

1237
01:52:02,023 --> 01:52:05,401
We'd better get a bio-math mapping
of its new growth potential and spread.

1238
01:52:17,205 --> 01:52:19,624
According to this,
there'll be a super colony of Andromeda

1239
01:52:19,749 --> 01:52:21,960
- over the entire southwest...
- Jeremy!

1240
01:52:22,085 --> 01:52:25,296
These are biological warfare maps.

1241
01:52:27,549 --> 01:52:29,217
Yes, so they are.

1242
01:52:30,802 --> 01:52:32,971
Oh, but simulations, Charlie.

1243
01:52:34,055 --> 01:52:37,267
Defensive.
It's just a scenario.

1244
01:52:37,392 --> 01:52:40,144
That's not the point,
for God's sake.

1245
01:52:40,270 --> 01:52:42,814
Wildfire was built for germ warfare.

1246
01:52:42,939 --> 01:52:46,025
Wildfire and Scoop.
And you knew, Stone.

1247
01:52:46,150 --> 01:52:47,944
- You knew it!
- That's not true, Ruth.

1248
01:52:48,069 --> 01:52:49,789
I learned about Scoop
the same time you did.

1249
01:52:49,863 --> 01:52:52,532
They already had
Andromeda programmed.

1250
01:52:52,657 --> 01:52:55,785
The purpose of Scoop was to find
new biological weapons in outer space,

1251
01:52:55,910 --> 01:52:58,538
- and then use Wildfire to develop them.
- It stinks, Stone!

1252
01:52:58,663 --> 01:53:00,456
You're blowing your tops.
We have no proof.

1253
01:53:01,249 --> 01:53:02,876
- The map!
- Don't be an ass!

1254
01:53:03,001 --> 01:53:05,879
That map only shows what Andromeda
could do in the hands of an enemy.

1255
01:53:06,004 --> 01:53:08,715
Enemy?
We did it to ourselves.

1256
01:53:08,840 --> 01:53:12,051
Perhaps, but this is hardly the time
to organize a protest.

1257
01:53:12,176 --> 01:53:14,178
Another giant leap for mankind.

1258
01:53:15,763 --> 01:53:17,265
I wish I could believe you.

1259
01:53:17,390 --> 01:53:20,390
Whether you do or not, the only
important thing now is to find the antidote.

1260
01:53:21,144 --> 01:53:22,854
Let's get on with it, Charlie.

1261
01:53:22,979 --> 01:53:25,690
Test the cultured organisms
for biologic potency.

1262
01:53:26,858 --> 01:53:29,193
Alright, I'll run them
against a rat in autopsy.

1263
01:53:30,653 --> 01:53:33,072
- I want to seal up the capsule.
- Watch it.

1264
01:53:33,197 --> 01:53:36,951
Andromeda's altered.
Its effect might be radically different.

1265
01:53:37,076 --> 01:53:39,329
I'll try to get us
a photo of the mutated form.

1266
01:53:52,759 --> 01:53:54,636
'Photo lab to red map.

1267
01:53:54,761 --> 01:53:59,641
'The offbeat access reference
reads at 649-F, 1,500...

1268
01:54:01,643 --> 01:54:03,102
'Please copy.'

1269
01:54:15,490 --> 01:54:17,867
This may be the key
to beating Andromeda.

1270
01:54:17,992 --> 01:54:19,577
How?
By starving him to death?

1271
01:54:19,702 --> 01:54:22,455
No, but don't feed him until I tell you.

1272
01:54:25,458 --> 01:54:26,876
Contamination.

1273
01:54:33,883 --> 01:54:38,096
'A seal has broken in autopsy.
A seal has broken in autopsy.

1274
01:54:38,221 --> 01:54:39,931
'Emergency procedures are in effect.'

1275
01:54:41,015 --> 01:54:43,768
- What's the matter?
- Infection spread. Autopsy.

1276
01:54:53,903 --> 01:54:56,197
- Is he alive?
- I should've been with him! Dr. Dutton!

1277
01:54:56,322 --> 01:54:58,116
It's no use.
It's sealed off.

1278
01:54:59,492 --> 01:55:01,536
Dr. Hall!

1279
01:55:04,747 --> 01:55:06,165
She's in trouble.

1280
01:55:06,290 --> 01:55:08,126
Ruth, are you...

1281
01:55:25,977 --> 01:55:28,146
She's got the germ!

1282
01:55:36,320 --> 01:55:39,407
Someone bring 100 milligrams
of Phenobarb in a syringe fast!

1283
01:55:43,453 --> 01:55:45,830
There's no danger.
She isn't contagious.

1284
01:55:47,707 --> 01:55:49,917
There's no danger!

1285
01:55:50,752 --> 01:55:55,131
'...to L-5, P.I.E. and E.T.E.

1286
01:55:55,256 --> 01:55:58,092
'Your second quarter rest period
has been canceled.

1287
01:55:58,217 --> 01:56:02,805
'Time R.A. has been reassigned
according to crash program...'

1288
01:56:04,640 --> 01:56:06,350
Come on.

1289
01:56:06,476 --> 01:56:07,810
Come on.
She can't hurt you.

1290
01:56:08,686 --> 01:56:10,146
Wasn't she with Dr. Dutton?

1291
01:56:10,271 --> 01:56:13,691
No, it's epilepsy. Give her the injection.
She'll be alright.

1292
01:56:15,359 --> 01:56:17,195
Good girl. Thanks.

1293
01:56:20,865 --> 01:56:23,826
I'm scared.
Oh Lord, I'm scared.

1294
01:56:23,951 --> 01:56:26,712
You'll be OK, Charlie. We're pumping
pure oxygen through your lab now.

1295
01:56:26,746 --> 01:56:28,915
We know Andromeda
doesn't do well in oxygen.

1296
01:56:31,459 --> 01:56:32,919
- He's alive.
- Where have you been?

1297
01:56:33,753 --> 01:56:36,005
- Leavitt had a seizure.
- What?

1298
01:56:37,090 --> 01:56:40,468
Epilepsy. The red light flashing
at three per second brought on a fit.

1299
01:56:40,593 --> 01:56:42,193
Why the hell
didn't she tell us about it?

1300
01:56:42,220 --> 01:56:44,347
Probably no top lab
would have her if they knew.

1301
01:56:44,472 --> 01:56:46,724
Insurance, prejudice, all that crap.

1302
01:56:46,849 --> 01:56:48,559
From the middle ages.

1303
01:56:49,936 --> 01:56:51,562
Amazing he's still alive.

1304
01:56:52,271 --> 01:56:55,108
It's been three minutes.
He's on pure oxygen.

1305
01:56:55,775 --> 01:56:57,860
I don't know how long that can hold him.

1306
01:56:57,985 --> 01:57:00,655
We're, um...
working on some ideas, Charlie.

1307
01:57:02,281 --> 01:57:05,910
Ask your germ warfare friends.
They have lots.

1308
01:57:06,035 --> 01:57:08,162
Try to stay calm.

1309
01:57:09,163 --> 01:57:12,542
- What happened?
- The seal must've broken in there.

1310
01:57:12,667 --> 01:57:15,044
They had the same thing
at the lunar lab.

1311
01:57:15,169 --> 01:57:17,380
That's why we use
Polycron gaskets here.

1312
01:57:17,505 --> 01:57:19,715
At least the rest of Wildfire is secure.

1313
01:57:23,219 --> 01:57:24,303
Poor devil.

1314
01:57:25,721 --> 01:57:28,224
Look at the way he's breathing.
He's scared to death.

1315
01:57:28,349 --> 01:57:32,270
That oxygen should relax him,
slow down his breathing.

1316
01:57:32,395 --> 01:57:34,230
No, we want him to breathe fast.

1317
01:57:34,355 --> 01:57:36,232
In Piedmont,
Jackson was crocked on Sterno.

1318
01:57:36,357 --> 01:57:38,651
Sterno acidosis.
Acidosis, rapid breathing.

1319
01:57:39,610 --> 01:57:41,922
- What the hell are you doing?
- Turn off the oxygen. Put him on room air.

1320
01:57:41,946 --> 01:57:44,707
- The baby, he's normal.
- Cries all the time. Can't catch his breath.

1321
01:57:44,782 --> 01:57:47,577
- Rapid breathing? It just can't be that simple.
- It isn't.

1322
01:57:47,702 --> 01:57:50,204
Dutton,
I think rapid breathing helps.

1323
01:57:50,329 --> 01:57:53,541
Don't let the bug in your lungs long enough
to penetrate blood vessels.

1324
01:57:53,666 --> 01:57:55,626
I want to turn off the pure oxygen,

1325
01:57:55,751 --> 01:57:58,087
then you start breathing room air
as fast as you can.

1326
01:57:58,212 --> 01:58:01,465
No! No, I was running
a test in here.

1327
01:58:01,591 --> 01:58:03,301
The air is thick with Andromeda.

1328
01:58:03,426 --> 01:58:05,303
Experiment with your own life, dammit!

1329
01:58:05,428 --> 01:58:07,406
- We won't do it, Charlie. Take it easy.
- I know I'm close.

1330
01:58:07,430 --> 01:58:10,070
I'm sure it has something to do
with blood chemistry and breathing.

1331
01:58:10,141 --> 01:58:11,350
Dr. Hall!

1332
01:58:11,475 --> 01:58:15,563
May I please feed the baby now, Dr. Hall?
He's been crying steadily...

1333
01:58:15,688 --> 01:58:17,315
That's what I want.
Keep him crying.

1334
01:58:17,440 --> 01:58:20,026
And run another blood value on him.
Get his pH measurements.

1335
01:58:20,735 --> 01:58:22,111
Yes, Doctor!

1336
01:58:24,030 --> 01:58:26,157
With all the yelling,
blowing off carbon dioxide,

1337
01:58:26,282 --> 01:58:27,992
the kid should have too little acid.

1338
01:58:28,117 --> 01:58:31,037
Alkalotic, a blood condition
just the opposite from the old man.

1339
01:58:31,162 --> 01:58:32,496
Too much alkali.

1340
01:58:32,622 --> 01:58:34,165
What good does that do Dutton?

1341
01:58:35,583 --> 01:58:37,460
Karen, where's the blood test?

1342
01:58:37,585 --> 01:58:40,254
It's coming through now
on your console.

1343
01:58:41,672 --> 01:58:43,841
Hell of a way to run a hospital.

1344
01:58:47,637 --> 01:58:49,263
Just what you expected.

1345
01:58:49,388 --> 01:58:51,408
Opposite blood chemistries,
the baby and the old man.

1346
01:58:51,432 --> 01:58:54,477
- One of them should be a dead opposite.
- But he's not.

1347
01:58:54,602 --> 01:58:56,604
There must be a connection!

1348
01:58:58,606 --> 01:59:00,983
They both stayed alive at Piedmont
breathing the same air.

1349
01:59:01,108 --> 01:59:04,403
One's blood too alkaline,
the other too... acid.

1350
01:59:08,574 --> 01:59:09,992
Yes.

1351
01:59:10,868 --> 01:59:11,869
Yes!

1352
01:59:14,247 --> 01:59:17,041
Dutton, I'm turning off the oxygen.
Breathe fast and hard.

1353
01:59:17,166 --> 01:59:19,585
No, Jeremy!
Don't let him cut off my oxygen.

1354
01:59:19,710 --> 01:59:20,878
No!

1355
01:59:21,003 --> 01:59:23,381
- The air in that room is loaded...
- Air doesn't matter.

1356
01:59:23,506 --> 01:59:26,384
Blood does.
That's the answer.

1357
01:59:34,016 --> 01:59:35,810
I need 30 seconds
to run a growth program.

1358
01:59:36,978 --> 01:59:38,896
He could die in 30 seconds.

1359
01:59:39,021 --> 01:59:40,982
Besides, Leavitt checked
all the growth programs.

1360
01:59:41,107 --> 01:59:43,227
She might have missed something.
Epileptics blank out.

1361
01:59:43,276 --> 01:59:46,612
I want to see how the growth of Andromeda
is affected by blood chemistry.

1362
01:59:46,737 --> 01:59:49,156
The pH... Oh, damn.

1363
01:59:52,785 --> 01:59:53,828
You do it.

1364
02:00:10,177 --> 02:00:13,264
Excellent. The graph's
practically straight up and down.

1365
02:00:13,389 --> 02:00:17,059
That means that Andromeda
can only exist within a narrow range of pH.

1366
02:00:17,184 --> 02:00:18,519
A very narrow range.

1367
02:00:18,644 --> 02:00:21,772
On either side of the tolerance range,
no growth. Nothing, right?

1368
02:00:21,897 --> 02:00:23,149
It's exterminated.

1369
02:00:25,609 --> 02:00:28,154
- Dutton, our troubles are over.
- Look at your console.

1370
02:00:28,279 --> 02:00:30,614
It grows within
a narrow range of pH.

1371
02:00:30,740 --> 02:00:31,741
A very narrow range.

1372
02:00:31,866 --> 02:00:35,369
If your blood's abnormal,
if it's too acid or alkaline,

1373
02:00:35,494 --> 02:00:38,039
Andromeda can't survive in the body.

1374
02:00:38,164 --> 02:00:41,709
So breathe as fast as you can.
Go into respiratory alkalosis.

1375
02:00:46,756 --> 02:00:50,134
Yes, fine. That'll shoot
your blood chemistry to hell.

1376
02:00:50,259 --> 02:00:52,511
It's what happens to the baby
when he cries too much,

1377
02:00:52,636 --> 02:00:53,929
or the old man on Sterno.

1378
02:00:55,598 --> 02:00:58,017
- How do you feel?
- OK.

1379
02:00:58,142 --> 02:01:00,269
Uh... a little dizzy, but OK.

1380
02:01:01,020 --> 02:01:03,940
He can't keep breathing like that forever.
He'll hyperventilate, pass out.

1381
02:01:04,065 --> 02:01:05,917
We've got to get him something
to alkalize his blood.

1382
02:01:05,941 --> 02:01:07,818
We can't in there.

1383
02:01:09,236 --> 02:01:10,321
Charlie!

1384
02:01:10,821 --> 02:01:12,615
That cage.

1385
02:01:12,740 --> 02:01:14,533
In the hot room.

1386
02:01:14,658 --> 02:01:16,660
Right in front of you.

1387
02:01:17,870 --> 02:01:19,580
It's alive!

1388
02:01:19,705 --> 02:01:22,249
The rat's been exposed
as long as I have.

1389
02:01:22,375 --> 02:01:25,503
Longer. I exposed it to the cultures
before the seal broke.

1390
02:01:25,628 --> 02:01:27,004
Precisely.

1391
02:01:27,129 --> 02:01:29,757
Andromeda's mutated
to a noninfectious form.

1392
02:01:34,595 --> 02:01:35,888
Holy...

1393
02:01:40,643 --> 02:01:42,311
Where does that gasket lead?

1394
02:01:42,436 --> 02:01:44,897
Central core.
It connects all the labs.

1395
02:01:49,151 --> 02:01:52,279
The gaskets are decomposing.
It's Andromeda.

1396
02:01:59,120 --> 02:02:01,664
Next sector.
There's no substation in this sector.

1397
02:02:14,343 --> 02:02:17,596
'Level 5 is sealed.
Level 5 is sealed.

1398
02:02:17,721 --> 02:02:19,723
'Emergency procedures are in effect.'

1399
02:02:19,849 --> 02:02:22,893
When the bomb goes off,
there'll be a thousand mutations.

1400
02:02:23,018 --> 02:02:25,521
Andromeda will spread everywhere.
They'll never be rid of it.

1401
02:02:25,646 --> 02:02:28,107
'There are now
five minutes to self-destruct.'

1402
02:02:31,735 --> 02:02:33,112
What about the other levels?

1403
02:02:33,237 --> 02:02:36,991
Can't tell. Each sector seals off
when it's contaminated, even the elevator.

1404
02:02:40,244 --> 02:02:44,165
The defense system is perfect, Mark.
It'll even bury our mistakes.

1405
02:02:46,083 --> 02:02:48,210
What about the central core?

1406
02:02:51,005 --> 02:02:53,174
- The core's equipped with safeguards.
- Like what?

1407
02:02:53,299 --> 02:02:55,926
Gas, lasers...
To prevent escape of lab animals.

1408
02:02:56,051 --> 02:02:57,553
What would my chances be in there?

1409
02:02:57,678 --> 02:02:59,838
They don't exist for anyone,
anywhere if you stay here.

1410
02:02:59,930 --> 02:03:02,892
- How do I get into the core?
- Through that service port.

1411
02:03:04,852 --> 02:03:07,021
Go ahead. I'll ride shotgun
for you in main control.

1412
02:03:07,146 --> 02:03:09,398
I can't monitor the lasers here.

1413
02:03:09,523 --> 02:03:11,108
Karen, get me a scalpel.

1414
02:03:11,233 --> 02:03:16,155
'There are now
4 minutes and 30 seconds to self-destruct.'

1415
02:03:19,825 --> 02:03:22,620
Cut it off!
Cut the panel off.

1416
02:03:25,748 --> 02:03:27,666
Karen, cut it!

1417
02:03:29,752 --> 02:03:31,879
Come on, hurry up.

1418
02:03:42,765 --> 02:03:46,310
Hey, Doc, you ain't
leaving us here, are you?

1419
02:03:48,395 --> 02:03:51,023
The lasers are tuned low
for small animals, Mark.

1420
02:03:51,148 --> 02:03:54,109
You can make it if you're
not hit along the spinal cord.

1421
02:03:54,235 --> 02:03:59,031
'There are now
4 minutes to self-destruct.'

1422
02:04:11,752 --> 02:04:13,629
That's the ladder
across from you.

1423
02:04:13,754 --> 02:04:15,464
Go, man, before the gas starts.

1424
02:04:24,390 --> 02:04:29,144
'There are now 3 minutes
and 30 seconds to self-destruct.'

1425
02:04:29,270 --> 02:04:31,313
That's the gas.
Keep going.

1426
02:04:35,234 --> 02:04:37,820
The sensors have picked you up.
Get moving.

1427
02:04:40,698 --> 02:04:41,991
Duck!

1428
02:04:42,866 --> 02:04:43,993
Keep going.

1429
02:04:45,578 --> 02:04:46,787
Duck!

1430
02:04:47,830 --> 02:04:49,039
Keep going.

1431
02:04:49,999 --> 02:04:51,000
Duck!

1432
02:04:53,043 --> 02:04:56,797
'There are now
3 minutes to self-destruct.'

1433
02:05:01,051 --> 02:05:02,052
No, it's no good.

1434
02:05:02,177 --> 02:05:04,097
The level's contaminated.
You'll have to go to 3.

1435
02:05:05,014 --> 02:05:06,348
Go to 3!

1436
02:05:07,141 --> 02:05:11,895
'There are now
2 minutes and 45 seconds to self-destruct.'

1437
02:05:12,688 --> 02:05:14,815
Sway! Weave!

1438
02:05:17,318 --> 02:05:19,111
You're zeroed in. Duck!

1439
02:05:20,487 --> 02:05:25,034
'There are now
2 minutes and 30 seconds to self-destruct.'

1440
02:05:26,035 --> 02:05:28,621
Keep going!
You'll make it.

1441
02:05:35,502 --> 02:05:40,883
'There are now
2 minutes and 15 seconds to self-destruct.'

1442
02:05:43,177 --> 02:05:44,928
Fight the effect.
It's mostly shock.

1443
02:05:50,392 --> 02:05:53,479
You've lost some time,
but you can still do it. See the door?

1444
02:05:54,063 --> 02:05:57,274
'There are now
2 minutes to self-destruct.

1445
02:06:07,868 --> 02:06:13,832
'There is now 1 minute and 45 seconds
to self-destruct.

1446
02:06:19,880 --> 02:06:25,177
'There is now 1 minute and 30 seconds
to self-destruct.

1447
02:06:32,226 --> 02:06:33,394
'There is now...'

1448
02:06:33,519 --> 02:06:36,730
- You're in an airlock. Turn the wheel.
- '...1 minute and 15 seconds...'

1449
02:06:36,855 --> 02:06:39,817
No, no, not that one!
The one near the door!

1450
02:06:46,824 --> 02:06:50,327
'There are now
60 seconds to self-destruct.

1451
02:06:53,914 --> 02:06:58,335
'There are now
55 seconds to self-destruct.

1452
02:07:01,213 --> 02:07:05,134
'There are now
50 seconds to self-destruct.'

1453
02:07:07,344 --> 02:07:08,387
Where is it?

1454
02:07:08,512 --> 02:07:12,641
- 'There are now 45 seconds...'
- Come on, where is it?

1455
02:07:14,184 --> 02:07:15,519
Help me!

1456
02:07:15,644 --> 02:07:19,690
'There are now
40 seconds to self-destruct.

1457
02:07:22,901 --> 02:07:27,406
'There are now
35 seconds to self-destruct.

1458
02:07:30,033 --> 02:07:34,496
'There are now
30 seconds to self-destruct.

1459
02:07:37,207 --> 02:07:41,920
'There are now
25 seconds to self-destruct.

1460
02:07:44,131 --> 02:07:47,676
'20 seconds, 19, 18, 17,

1461
02:07:47,801 --> 02:07:49,845
'16, 15,

1462
02:07:49,970 --> 02:07:53,015
'14, 13, 12,

1463
02:07:53,140 --> 02:07:56,143
'11, 10, 9...

1464
02:07:56,268 --> 02:07:58,437
'Self-destruct
has been canceled.'

1465
02:08:08,614 --> 02:08:09,782
Congratulations.

1466
02:08:12,117 --> 02:08:13,619
I take it the bomb didn't...

1467
02:08:13,744 --> 02:08:15,913
No, it didn't.

1468
02:08:16,038 --> 02:08:19,041
Eight seconds to spare.
Hardly even exciting.

1469
02:08:21,168 --> 02:08:22,169
What's happening?

1470
02:08:23,420 --> 02:08:27,382
The supercolony's now off the coast,
moving southwest across the Pacific.

1471
02:08:27,508 --> 02:08:29,468
Apparently Andromeda
hasn't turned lethal again.

1472
02:08:29,593 --> 02:08:31,793
At least there hasn't been
any reports of bizarre death.

1473
02:08:32,429 --> 02:08:34,848
We're applying an adaptation
of your antidote to it, Mark.

1474
02:08:34,973 --> 02:08:36,308
Cloud seeding.

1475
02:08:36,433 --> 02:08:39,686
We're seeding the clouds
above Andromeda with silver iodide.

1476
02:08:39,812 --> 02:08:42,314
The raindrops will carry
the organism into the ocean,

1477
02:08:42,439 --> 02:08:45,108
and the alkaline reaction
from seawater should kill it.

1478
02:08:45,234 --> 02:08:48,362
Just as acids or alkali
in the blood stopped it.

1479
02:08:50,322 --> 02:08:51,824
This cloud seeding business, Stone,

1480
02:08:51,949 --> 02:08:55,285
you absolutely sure it worked?
You better be.

1481
02:08:55,410 --> 02:08:58,997
All reports continue to indicate
the experiment was successful, Senator.

1482
02:08:59,122 --> 02:09:03,168
Then we can feel confident
your so-called biological crisis is over.

1483
02:09:03,293 --> 02:09:05,003
As far as
Andromeda's concerned, yes.

1484
02:09:05,128 --> 02:09:07,714
We have the organism at Wildfire
and we continue to study it.

1485
02:09:08,507 --> 02:09:11,969
We now know beyond a doubt
that other forms of life exist in the universe.

1486
02:09:12,094 --> 02:09:13,470
Thanks to Scoop.

1487
02:09:13,595 --> 02:09:15,264
Yes.

1488
02:09:15,973 --> 02:09:18,225
However,
with this new knowledge,

1489
02:09:18,350 --> 02:09:23,021
there's no guarantee that another so-called
biological crisis won't occur again.

1490
02:09:23,730 --> 02:09:25,274
Hmm.

1491
02:09:25,399 --> 02:09:27,734
What do we do about that?

1492
02:09:27,860 --> 02:09:30,487
Precisely, Senator.

1493
02:09:30,612 --> 02:09:32,573
What do we do?