1 00:01:24,150 --> 00:01:25,390 What in the hell was that? 2 00:01:26,370 --> 00:01:28,290 Manchek, why did you drop the bomb? 3 00:01:28,690 --> 00:01:30,150 Well, there must have been some kind of malfunction. 4 00:01:33,430 --> 00:01:35,190 General Michelson, are your troops all right? 5 00:01:36,210 --> 00:01:38,530 A little shook up, sir, but I think we'll be okay. 6 00:01:40,950 --> 00:01:43,850 I'm sending patrols out to the outlying posts within minutes. 7 00:01:44,350 --> 00:01:47,990 Mr. President, seismic stations are picking this up all over the world. We 8 00:01:47,990 --> 00:01:49,430 to decide how we're going to respond. 9 00:01:51,970 --> 00:01:52,970 Tell them the truth. 10 00:01:54,090 --> 00:01:58,850 Tell him we lost the plane for some yet unknown mechanical reasons. 11 00:01:59,910 --> 00:02:02,170 Agnogenic systems failure, sir. 12 00:02:05,050 --> 00:02:06,970 Somehow the tactical payload went off. 13 00:02:07,370 --> 00:02:08,470 Scheduled a news conference. 14 00:02:09,150 --> 00:02:12,690 In a way to claim that the questions this raises are motivated by political 15 00:02:12,690 --> 00:02:13,690 partisanship. 16 00:02:16,270 --> 00:02:18,030 And I want to know what happened out there. 17 00:02:18,959 --> 00:02:22,420 You know as well as I do that nuclear arms have numerous fail -safe systems. 18 00:02:22,540 --> 00:02:24,140 That bomb did not go off accidentally. 19 00:02:24,540 --> 00:02:26,440 We canceled the drop. You heard it. You're lying. 20 00:02:26,860 --> 00:02:27,779 Knock it off, Stone. 21 00:02:27,780 --> 00:02:29,300 Can I see the pilot's last transmission? 22 00:02:47,820 --> 00:02:50,780 Now, what would destroy plastic resin compounds like that? 23 00:02:51,460 --> 00:02:56,000 Certain chemical agents under certain conditions can destabilize the chemical 24 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:57,000 structure of polymers. 25 00:02:57,420 --> 00:02:59,500 So could certain microorganisms. 26 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:01,760 It's mutating. 27 00:03:02,500 --> 00:03:06,540 Yeah, but the plane had to be flying at least 7 ,000 feet. It's always been an 28 00:03:06,540 --> 00:03:08,980 airborne pathogen, albeit of a very short lifespan. 29 00:03:09,940 --> 00:03:12,920 Maybe this is a new, heartier version. 30 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:15,080 But it was miles away. 31 00:03:16,010 --> 00:03:17,370 But there was a fire, remember? 32 00:03:18,510 --> 00:03:24,130 And maybe this variant, either as a separate mutation or residing in a 33 00:03:24,130 --> 00:03:29,510 host, insect, bird, rose on that column of smoke and made contact with the jet. 34 00:03:30,250 --> 00:03:31,250 No. 35 00:03:31,750 --> 00:03:34,030 No, that is too difficult to believe. 36 00:03:34,810 --> 00:03:36,330 Does anyone have a better theory? 37 00:03:41,130 --> 00:03:43,070 Does anyone even have a different theory? 38 00:03:52,850 --> 00:03:56,930 Recon reports eight casualties at a forward observation post. 39 00:03:57,870 --> 00:03:59,810 But these were not caused by the blast. 40 00:04:00,230 --> 00:04:03,550 These attacks may very well be connected to the attacks on our headquarters. 41 00:04:04,390 --> 00:04:08,230 Speaking off the record, it would be a lot easier for me to do my job if I knew 42 00:04:08,230 --> 00:04:09,230 what we were up against. 43 00:04:11,910 --> 00:04:14,490 It's some kind of virulent biological infection. 44 00:04:14,990 --> 00:04:17,649 As far as we know, it may be a prelude to a much larger attack. 45 00:04:20,529 --> 00:04:21,529 Give me wildfire. 46 00:04:22,220 --> 00:04:25,120 The event in the diner we can explain as a lapse in quarantine. 47 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:29,860 Your smoke theory might explain how it reached that jet, but this dead army 48 00:04:29,860 --> 00:04:31,980 was 50 miles away from Piedmont. 49 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:37,060 It must have adapted and formed transportation in a host, like influenza 50 00:04:37,060 --> 00:04:39,300 back and forth between animal and human population. 51 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:40,840 How do I quarantine that? 52 00:04:41,260 --> 00:04:45,120 You have to scorch the perimeter, drive everything living inside the area. The 53 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:48,580 rate of mutation is likely to increase post -blast. We have to be prepared for 54 00:04:48,580 --> 00:04:51,220 anything. The entire area is under satellite surveillance. 55 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:53,980 If something new happens out there, anything, we'll see it. 56 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:55,640 What do you need, Stone? 57 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:59,340 Tell me what you need to kill this thing, and I'll get it. 58 00:04:59,840 --> 00:05:03,900 I'm not stonewalling anyone, I assure you. I simply think it is better that 59 00:05:03,900 --> 00:05:06,480 wait for the president himself to answer all of your questions. 60 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:08,560 From Manchuk. 61 00:05:12,300 --> 00:05:15,080 there's a very real chance that we won't be able to contain it. 62 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:16,820 Get Air Force One ready. 63 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:18,480 I don't think you heard me. 64 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:22,460 And now, ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. 65 00:05:25,820 --> 00:05:26,940 Sorry to keep you waiting. 66 00:05:28,060 --> 00:05:33,680 Two hours ago, one of our Air Force jets suffered a fatal systems failure and 67 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:35,060 crashed in a remote part of Utah. 68 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:36,720 In the process... 69 00:05:37,230 --> 00:05:41,850 A tactical nuclear device was accidentally detonated. Mr. President, 70 00:05:41,850 --> 00:05:47,350 blast near those Utah National Guardsmen and are the surrounding cities in any 71 00:05:47,350 --> 00:05:50,550 immediate danger? Yes, the Guardsmen were there in the area on a training 72 00:05:50,550 --> 00:05:51,930 exercise related to border security. 73 00:05:52,270 --> 00:05:55,630 The area was already under strict quarantine, so they were in no way 74 00:05:55,630 --> 00:05:56,630 by the blast. 75 00:05:56,750 --> 00:05:58,070 Mr. President, sir, over here. 76 00:05:58,290 --> 00:06:02,170 What about radioactive fallout and why were those Guardsmen deployed there to 77 00:06:02,170 --> 00:06:04,150 begin with? Yes, we're taking steps to contain it. 78 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:08,680 I would like to assure the American public that their safety in no way has 79 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:09,680 compromised by this. 80 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:14,380 Bad time, Charlie. 81 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:15,880 Chuck, listen. 82 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:20,500 I got a report that Jack Nash disappeared while covering the 83 00:06:20,500 --> 00:06:21,500 Utah National Guard. 84 00:06:21,660 --> 00:06:23,260 So what am I, missing persons? 85 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:25,420 Come on, Charlie, contact the local authorities. 86 00:06:25,880 --> 00:06:29,460 I did. They've given me the runaround, and I happen to know that that 87 00:06:29,460 --> 00:06:30,700 order came out of your office. 88 00:06:31,950 --> 00:06:34,750 Nash was present for that terrorist attack on guard headquarters. 89 00:06:35,070 --> 00:06:36,069 What attack? 90 00:06:36,070 --> 00:06:37,450 I have no idea what you're talking about. 91 00:06:37,730 --> 00:06:38,730 Really? 92 00:06:38,850 --> 00:06:39,850 Take a look. 93 00:06:47,810 --> 00:06:48,810 Okay. 94 00:06:52,290 --> 00:06:53,290 Come on, Chuck. 95 00:06:53,370 --> 00:06:55,510 I haven't heard from Nash since he sent me those photos. 96 00:06:55,850 --> 00:06:59,290 Now you want me to just run with this and ask my questions on camera about a 97 00:06:59,290 --> 00:07:00,290 satellite going down? 98 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:04,240 teams sent in by General Mancheck to collect it are all dead. 99 00:07:04,940 --> 00:07:09,320 Okay, look, I'm going to check into this Charlie and I will get back to you. 100 00:07:10,740 --> 00:07:11,740 Are you alright? 101 00:07:12,180 --> 00:07:15,160 No. This bomb blast has got everyone freaking. 102 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:17,140 Aunt Alice is a mess. 103 00:07:18,140 --> 00:07:20,980 You know, people are saying it's just an attack by terrorists and the 104 00:07:20,980 --> 00:07:23,060 government's lying about it. It's not. 105 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:24,440 How do you know that? 106 00:07:24,620 --> 00:07:27,140 I just know is all. 107 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:28,479 Yeah, right. 108 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:30,040 The great know -it -all. That's you. 109 00:07:32,530 --> 00:07:33,650 Lance. Lance. 110 00:07:38,230 --> 00:07:42,550 The president is taking a serious pounding over this. He's announced that 111 00:07:42,550 --> 00:07:45,410 traveling to Utah to personally oversee this situation. 112 00:07:45,910 --> 00:07:46,910 I'm sure I understand. 113 00:07:47,150 --> 00:07:52,390 And Henderson at NNT is all up in arms over Nash, who apparently showed up at 114 00:07:52,390 --> 00:07:54,410 that National Guard headquarters in the desert. 115 00:07:54,770 --> 00:07:58,170 I prefer not to be embarrassed by information like that. 116 00:07:58,450 --> 00:08:00,890 Nash is in confinement now. I'm on my way there. Good. 117 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:04,920 I need to know how much information Nash has and who he shared it with. 118 00:08:05,300 --> 00:08:08,160 I also need to feel confident that he is going to shut up. 119 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:09,500 Do you think you can handle that? 120 00:08:10,820 --> 00:08:12,120 How's Manchek holding up? 121 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:15,740 I would say he's under a lot of stress right now. 122 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:19,260 We're going to take casualties on this, and Manchek may have to be one. 123 00:08:19,740 --> 00:08:23,660 But that doesn't necessarily apply to his staff, especially those who show 124 00:08:23,660 --> 00:08:26,920 boldness and initiative as we tie up these loose ends. 125 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:28,940 You can rely on me. 126 00:08:34,090 --> 00:08:35,289 What do you know about wormholes? 127 00:08:35,990 --> 00:08:37,370 What do I look like, a physicist? 128 00:08:37,970 --> 00:08:38,970 Try your best. 129 00:08:41,330 --> 00:08:45,310 All I know is that speculation centers around two basic types, Lorentzian and 130 00:08:45,310 --> 00:08:48,410 Euclidean. Both are, in theory, potentially traversable. 131 00:08:50,170 --> 00:08:51,170 That's all you know? 132 00:08:53,010 --> 00:08:56,170 So, a method of travel from one part of the universe to the other. 133 00:08:57,790 --> 00:08:59,550 Yeah, and through time. 134 00:09:00,550 --> 00:09:02,730 It's like a worm eating its way through an apple. 135 00:09:03,150 --> 00:09:04,150 instead of around it. 136 00:09:06,010 --> 00:09:08,050 Don't tell me you actually believe Manchak's story. 137 00:09:08,270 --> 00:09:09,870 It's too fantastic to be a lie. 138 00:09:16,690 --> 00:09:19,810 The North 139 00:09:19,810 --> 00:09:26,510 Koreans have announced they're abandoning the Seoul agreement and 140 00:09:26,510 --> 00:09:30,990 reopening their nuclear program because of our recent unauthorized and illegal 141 00:09:30,990 --> 00:09:31,990 nuclear testing. 142 00:09:33,390 --> 00:09:36,890 We'll contact Pyongyang, send them satellite photos of the crash sequence, 143 00:09:36,890 --> 00:09:38,750 with our assurances of compliance. Okay, Pat? 144 00:09:41,390 --> 00:09:42,390 What? 145 00:09:42,570 --> 00:09:46,130 We've also had word from the UN that the General Assembly is going to pass a 146 00:09:46,130 --> 00:09:50,350 measure that will ban all event mining, unless and until member countries are 147 00:09:50,350 --> 00:09:52,310 satisfied with a revenue -sharing system. 148 00:09:52,990 --> 00:09:58,270 There's also a rumor at the UN that the blast in Utah was staged as a deliberate 149 00:09:58,270 --> 00:10:00,010 distraction from the event mining controversy. 150 00:10:00,610 --> 00:10:01,610 Oh. 151 00:10:03,210 --> 00:10:05,410 Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how would you like to play? 152 00:10:08,990 --> 00:10:12,990 Computer, Dr. Stone examining the 10th series of exposures of potential 153 00:10:12,990 --> 00:10:14,710 inhibiting agents to Andromeda. 154 00:10:14,990 --> 00:10:18,750 None of the major classes of antifungals or antimicrobials have the least 155 00:10:18,750 --> 00:10:21,550 effect. Run all known bacteriophages. 156 00:10:23,010 --> 00:10:26,090 Commencing exposure of Andromeda to multiple strains of bacteria. 157 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:06,840 We were in such a hurry we forgot to fully autopsy the test rats. We just 158 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:09,320 assumed that the coagulation in the body was the killer. 159 00:11:10,220 --> 00:11:13,860 Whereas a blood clot in the brain... Would be both lethal and would explain 160 00:11:13,860 --> 00:11:15,680 weird and violent behavior in some of the victims. 161 00:11:16,660 --> 00:11:20,720 We started picking this up ten minutes ago. The color indicates large amounts 162 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:25,880 dead and or decaying animal matter. But a closer look reveals a massive bird die 163 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:27,300 -off just outside the blast zone. 164 00:11:27,700 --> 00:11:31,480 Which is not explicable by either the detonation or the fallout. 165 00:11:35,530 --> 00:11:36,530 a mutation. 166 00:11:37,350 --> 00:11:40,870 I've never seen anything adapt this quickly before. 167 00:11:42,290 --> 00:11:46,090 Andromeda's movement into the aviary population gives it an incredibly 168 00:11:46,090 --> 00:11:47,090 mode of transport. 169 00:11:47,630 --> 00:11:48,630 Chlorazine. 170 00:11:50,170 --> 00:11:51,590 Knocks down anything that flies. 171 00:11:52,450 --> 00:11:53,910 You have to keep it contained. 172 00:11:59,430 --> 00:12:02,570 What the hell have you guys set off out there? Is that part of Project Scoop? 173 00:12:03,670 --> 00:12:05,030 What is Project Scoop? 174 00:12:05,370 --> 00:12:08,950 I suspect you know more about that than I do. I know you asked Lisa Stone about 175 00:12:08,950 --> 00:12:10,170 it. Oh, really? 176 00:12:10,370 --> 00:12:13,230 And how do you know that, Colonel Clarence? Well, she told us. 177 00:12:13,490 --> 00:12:17,850 Lisa told... Yeah, I find that highly unlikely. Would you do wiretap or phone, 178 00:12:17,990 --> 00:12:19,690 Colonel? Was it a legal wiretap? 179 00:12:19,970 --> 00:12:21,570 I'll be asking the questions, if you're interested. 180 00:12:22,850 --> 00:12:26,190 It's a military district of D .C. patch you're wearing. Who are you working for? 181 00:12:26,270 --> 00:12:30,030 You are aware that you have knowingly violated a quarantine area and 182 00:12:30,030 --> 00:12:34,010 on a military base? Release me immediately or I'll have my lawyer over 183 00:12:34,010 --> 00:12:36,610 don't have to let you speak to a lawyer. I don't even have to acknowledge that 184 00:12:36,610 --> 00:12:40,570 you are in our custody. Under the Homeland Security Act, you can be held 185 00:12:40,570 --> 00:12:42,970 indefinitely as a terror threat. 186 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:50,000 I'm not some hapless Middle Eastern exchange student with an out -of -date 187 00:12:50,100 --> 00:12:52,360 I'm an American citizen with a very public profile. 188 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:55,580 You screw with me, and you're going to have to answer some really unpleasant 189 00:12:55,580 --> 00:13:00,900 questions. Mature is an addict with an inflated sense of self -importance who 190 00:13:00,900 --> 00:13:03,420 has screwed up in a major way. 191 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:07,780 Now, I want you to tell me everything you know about Project Scoop and who 192 00:13:07,780 --> 00:13:09,420 you've shared the information with. 193 00:13:09,950 --> 00:13:12,890 If you guys are out to stop this plague, what are you doing packing biological 194 00:13:12,890 --> 00:13:14,270 collection equipment? 195 00:13:16,090 --> 00:13:17,430 Actually, you know I prefer it this way. 196 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:17,580 Prisoners' personal belongings are deemed as evidence of Salt Lake City. 197 00:14:17,900 --> 00:14:18,900 That's not mine! 198 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:21,400 That's not mine! 199 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:23,340 That's not my dress! 200 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:34,720 You are the chief medical officer for the Utah Highway Patrol? 201 00:14:35,100 --> 00:14:39,940 I am. What can I do for you this fine day? I need some medical information on 202 00:14:39,940 --> 00:14:41,560 Sheriff Willis who shot three people. 203 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:50,620 Well, I'm sorry. I'd love to help you out, but our medical information is 204 00:14:50,620 --> 00:14:53,080 confidential. This is a matter of public safety. 205 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:59,000 Well, sweetie, that may be, but... Dr. Smithson, I'm going to give you a direct 206 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:03,760 line to General George Manchek at the Pentagon, and I suggest you call him and 207 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:07,740 jerk him around, in which case you might find yourself blindfolded and taped to 208 00:15:07,740 --> 00:15:09,840 a stretcher in a military stockade. 209 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:12,940 Where did you say you were calling from? 210 00:15:13,870 --> 00:15:17,210 Sheriff Willis must have been exposed driving through Piedmont Sunday night. 211 00:15:17,410 --> 00:15:22,170 Later, he shows up at the diner. He was diabetic, inconsistent with his insulin 212 00:15:22,170 --> 00:15:26,030 use. He'd had two incidences of ketoacidosis in the last year. 213 00:15:26,390 --> 00:15:29,770 Well, did the acidosis somehow delay the onset of the Andromeda infection? 214 00:15:30,670 --> 00:15:33,350 Most die immediately with exposure. 215 00:15:33,690 --> 00:15:36,430 Those that don't exhibit violent behavior within minutes. 216 00:15:36,970 --> 00:15:41,410 Willis lasted a longer time while Tobler and the Ritter baby continued to remain 217 00:15:41,410 --> 00:15:42,490 symptom -free. Why? 218 00:15:43,020 --> 00:15:46,540 Well, these are the temporal lobe samples from our lab rat. Note the 219 00:15:46,540 --> 00:15:47,540 amounts of Andromeda. 220 00:15:47,860 --> 00:15:51,300 Coagulation starts immediately, and death usually follows some congestion in 221 00:15:51,300 --> 00:15:55,480 lungs. If coagulation is inhibited, then Andromeda moves to the brain, creating 222 00:15:55,480 --> 00:15:57,880 a hemorrhage, provoking violent behavior. 223 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:02,740 But that doesn't explain why diabetic Willis lasted for hours with Andromeda, 224 00:16:02,780 --> 00:16:07,980 and an alcoholic man and a colicky baby continue to remain uninjured. 225 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:09,580 What do they have in common? 226 00:16:36,390 --> 00:16:37,970 Hey, what's going on back there? 227 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:22,420 Let's move two more companies into sectors nine. 228 00:17:23,180 --> 00:17:25,440 We've got a helo down just outside the quarantine area. 229 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:28,040 Survivors? Negative. We're unable to raise anybody on site. 230 00:17:28,500 --> 00:17:31,220 Get a team in there right away. Yes, sir. Get me General Manchak. Sir. 231 00:18:11,950 --> 00:18:14,210 I've never seen a cellular structure like that. 232 00:18:16,450 --> 00:18:18,750 Take a look at the Fourier electron density scans. 233 00:18:22,410 --> 00:18:23,410 It's uneven. 234 00:18:24,730 --> 00:18:26,050 Well, that doesn't make any sense. 235 00:18:26,510 --> 00:18:29,710 Unless this group of organisms is part of a larger group. 236 00:18:29,910 --> 00:18:30,910 Right. 237 00:18:31,050 --> 00:18:35,690 So is Andromeda self -sustaining like a bacterium, or is it part of a larger 238 00:18:35,690 --> 00:18:37,410 unit like an organ? 239 00:18:42,120 --> 00:18:43,300 Messenger theories. 240 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:46,640 What is messenger theory? 241 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:49,840 It's a theory in astrobiology that's been kicking around for years. 242 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:52,240 Space travel is long and arduous. 243 00:18:53,300 --> 00:18:57,420 Instead of tapping a gold plate with pictures onto a satellite like we did 244 00:18:57,420 --> 00:19:01,160 Voyager, it may be a more efficient way of sending messages in a seed -like 245 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:03,120 culture of bacterium or viruses. 246 00:19:03,820 --> 00:19:09,160 You're saying Andromeda is a signal created by an intelligent species and 247 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:10,660 sent across the universe. 248 00:19:11,580 --> 00:19:13,540 Or perhaps through the wormhole. 249 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:15,020 Well, I don't know about that. 250 00:19:15,820 --> 00:19:18,180 But what if Andromeda is like a human stem cell? 251 00:19:18,380 --> 00:19:21,440 It has the capability to change itself into many different components depending 252 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:24,720 on what it's encountering or what it's ultimately designed for. 253 00:19:25,100 --> 00:19:30,920 Okay. As long as we're playing what if, maybe it's not the message, maybe it's 254 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:31,920 the messenger. 255 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:37,140 I mean, we all assume that alien life is large, singular, and complex, but what 256 00:19:37,140 --> 00:19:38,140 if it was a colony? 257 00:19:38,180 --> 00:19:39,180 You're missing the point. 258 00:19:40,850 --> 00:19:44,910 Whether Andromeda is the newspaper or it's the delivery boy who is dropping it 259 00:19:44,910 --> 00:19:47,030 off, the message is loud and clear. 260 00:19:48,030 --> 00:19:49,030 Drop dead. 261 00:19:50,230 --> 00:19:52,470 We've got a problem. Nash has disappeared again. 262 00:19:53,490 --> 00:19:54,970 We don't have a problem, Colonel. 263 00:19:57,090 --> 00:20:01,350 You have a problem. If Nash gets to his editor, he'll put two and two together. 264 00:20:01,970 --> 00:20:03,230 Yeah, well, he's got no water. 265 00:20:11,180 --> 00:20:12,480 I want you to find him. 266 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:14,360 I want you to make him disappear. 267 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:15,920 Yes, sir. 268 00:20:24,120 --> 00:20:29,820 I miss you bad, babes. The bed's cold, and the house is two sizes too big. 269 00:20:30,300 --> 00:20:32,280 Oh, you sweet thing. 270 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:35,100 How are the kids? 271 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:37,280 High to daddy's cooking. 272 00:20:41,100 --> 00:20:43,120 Hey, desperate times call for desperate measures. 273 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:44,560 You know that? 274 00:20:45,060 --> 00:20:46,060 Hmm. 275 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:47,880 Desperate, huh? 276 00:20:49,940 --> 00:20:53,900 So... Tell me how desperate you are. 277 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:56,360 In great detail. 278 00:20:57,420 --> 00:20:58,860 Do you believe in time travel? 279 00:21:00,020 --> 00:21:04,880 Sure. As much as I believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. Which is to 280 00:21:04,940 --> 00:21:07,640 I love the idea, but I'm dubious about the reality. 281 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:12,210 But... I'm all for it. For someone like me, who's always running late, it would 282 00:21:12,210 --> 00:21:13,210 be a godsend. 283 00:21:13,810 --> 00:21:18,110 According to Chu, a Laurentian wormhole is theoretically traversable not only in 284 00:21:18,110 --> 00:21:19,570 terms of distance, but in time. 285 00:21:19,950 --> 00:21:21,370 Andromeda comes from the past? 286 00:21:21,910 --> 00:21:22,910 The future? 287 00:21:23,170 --> 00:21:26,710 Well, the sophistication of the technology involved in the black 288 00:21:26,710 --> 00:21:27,950 argue for the future. 289 00:21:28,310 --> 00:21:30,110 Why would you threaten your own path like that? 290 00:21:31,710 --> 00:21:32,710 I don't know. 291 00:21:35,210 --> 00:21:38,090 It would be nice, though, wouldn't it? Be able to go back, change things. 292 00:21:39,590 --> 00:21:45,070 I think a linear time frame is a key part of what it means to be human. 293 00:21:45,670 --> 00:21:51,510 If our really important choices could be sampled like a box of chocolates, then 294 00:21:51,510 --> 00:21:54,550 our decisions would lose their meaning. 295 00:21:54,750 --> 00:21:56,090 What would be at stake? 296 00:21:59,770 --> 00:22:00,970 Everything good at home? 297 00:22:01,290 --> 00:22:02,290 Oh, yeah. 298 00:22:04,690 --> 00:22:06,330 How about you? 299 00:22:06,890 --> 00:22:09,730 You got a girlfriend back home tying ribbons around oak trees? 300 00:22:10,150 --> 00:22:11,650 No ball and chain for me. 301 00:22:12,630 --> 00:22:13,710 Can't get a date, huh? 302 00:22:17,870 --> 00:22:19,690 If you don't ask, I won't tell. 303 00:22:25,730 --> 00:22:28,170 I always thought that was a stupid -ass policy. 304 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:34,380 It's ironic that the Army's extensive battery of psychological tests have 305 00:22:34,380 --> 00:22:38,040 conclusively determined that the person they're most afraid of is the best 306 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:39,800 suited to make the right choice in this crisis. 307 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:42,040 So what are we looking at? 308 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:44,320 Andromeda's chemical composition. 309 00:22:45,100 --> 00:22:46,100 It's weird. 310 00:22:46,260 --> 00:22:47,660 It's not carbon -based. 311 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:49,180 It's sulfur -based. 312 00:22:49,780 --> 00:22:50,780 Sulfur? 313 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:55,320 Damn. You're a long way from home, little bug. 314 00:23:00,360 --> 00:23:01,360 you an apology. 315 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:05,000 Stanford. 316 00:23:05,740 --> 00:23:07,020 I was a big girl, Jeremy. 317 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,120 I'm sure it wasn't the first time that a researcher and his associate became 318 00:23:11,120 --> 00:23:13,400 involved. Well, it was for me. 319 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:19,320 Look, I realize that's not popular opinion, but it's the truth. 320 00:23:20,300 --> 00:23:23,900 And if I really had the courage of my convictions, instead of breaking it off 321 00:23:23,900 --> 00:23:27,640 with you, I would have left Lisa instead. 322 00:23:29,900 --> 00:23:33,300 The truth is, I haven't ever really stopped thinking about you. 323 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:39,640 Dr. Stone, side ear. I found something. 324 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:51,900 You're like, I don't know, cloud of the bear cave or something. 325 00:23:52,300 --> 00:23:53,440 Cave bear. 326 00:23:54,580 --> 00:23:56,560 Daryl Hannah is so hot. 327 00:23:56,940 --> 00:23:57,940 But no. 328 00:23:58,540 --> 00:23:59,700 Quest for fire. 329 00:23:59,960 --> 00:24:01,860 Ray Dawn Strong, very hot. 330 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:03,199 Ice man. 331 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:04,200 Cold. 332 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:08,920 I know, I know. 333 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:11,840 One million years BC. 334 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:15,680 Raquel Welch is smoking, though. 335 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:17,240 Screw you. 336 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:19,280 Another clue? 337 00:24:28,010 --> 00:24:30,110 Spartan women are so hot. 338 00:24:30,950 --> 00:24:33,010 We should go. 339 00:24:33,250 --> 00:24:34,250 I gotta go. 340 00:25:39,660 --> 00:25:40,660 the living dead. 341 00:25:41,700 --> 00:25:42,860 28 days later. 342 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:45,200 Planetarium. 343 00:25:45,780 --> 00:25:50,220 I mean, they're not classic zombies. 344 00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:54,900 They're dead, they come back, but not classic in like the traditional sense. 345 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:23,700 Here at the molecular level, the black material is made up of octahedral beads. 346 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:25,340 Buckyballs. Exactly. 347 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:28,240 But notice the slight variation in color. 348 00:26:28,860 --> 00:26:32,880 Each molecule has 60 carbon atoms, but some are bonded with potassium, while 349 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:35,920 others are bonded with rubidium, giving us this slight color variation. 350 00:26:36,260 --> 00:26:37,260 And why is that? 351 00:26:38,180 --> 00:26:39,180 Why, indeed. 352 00:26:40,500 --> 00:26:43,600 The differences between potassium and rubidium are negligible. 353 00:26:43,940 --> 00:26:46,220 Neither offers any advantage in strength or conductivity. 354 00:26:46,460 --> 00:26:50,440 So the question is... Why would the designer of this material use two 355 00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:51,440 elements? 356 00:26:52,900 --> 00:26:56,020 It seems like an extraordinary amount of work to go to for no apparent good 357 00:26:56,020 --> 00:26:57,160 reason. That's what I think. 358 00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:01,260 Dr. Stone, system reports completion of assigned series. 359 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:03,300 We have a single positive encounter. 360 00:27:05,300 --> 00:27:09,100 I was taking a shot in the dark for potential Andromeda inhibitors, but 361 00:27:09,100 --> 00:27:10,100 seemed to work. 362 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:11,440 Apparently until now. 363 00:27:12,540 --> 00:27:13,540 Let's see what we got. 364 00:27:17,420 --> 00:27:18,600 This is X -234. 365 00:27:19,060 --> 00:27:20,060 Computer, show test. 366 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:30,260 My God, it's working. 367 00:27:30,980 --> 00:27:31,980 What is that? 368 00:27:32,020 --> 00:27:33,940 It's an experimental bacteriophage. 369 00:27:34,180 --> 00:27:39,360 Computer, retest another sample of Andromeda and display result. 370 00:27:50,120 --> 00:27:51,140 Was it the first time in Anomaly? 371 00:27:51,500 --> 00:27:52,500 You saw the recording. 372 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:54,500 Then Andromeda adapted to the threat? 373 00:27:56,020 --> 00:27:58,740 Cy, this is a completely different sample of Andromeda. 374 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:00,520 How is that possible? 375 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:09,440 Well, you have yourself a great time in California, okay? 376 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:10,680 And you be careful. 377 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:13,060 If the pollsters are right, you're going to be in more danger than me. 378 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:17,100 And you, young lady, you be a big girl and take care of your mommy for me. 379 00:28:17,360 --> 00:28:18,900 Okay. Okay? Give me a kiss. 380 00:28:25,930 --> 00:28:29,170 Welcome, Mr. President. I apologize. Our accommodations are somewhat spartan. 381 00:28:29,230 --> 00:28:30,350 General, I'm not here on vacation. 382 00:28:30,570 --> 00:28:31,570 Bring me up to speed. 383 00:28:32,610 --> 00:28:34,830 Andromeda has mutated again and is now in the bird population. 384 00:28:35,170 --> 00:28:37,390 We're killing everything in the quarantined area. 385 00:28:37,690 --> 00:28:42,010 The National Guard reports nine killed in action, probably related to Andromeda 386 00:28:42,010 --> 00:28:45,070 infection, and the loss of one helicopter and its crew due to 387 00:28:45,070 --> 00:28:50,510 failure. We've also had an event outside the quarantine zone that looks like 388 00:28:50,510 --> 00:28:52,650 Andromeda. How'd it get out there? We're not sure. 389 00:28:52,970 --> 00:28:54,390 We have this thing boxed in. 390 00:28:55,660 --> 00:28:59,100 So now Andromeda communicates? How else do you explain it? 391 00:29:00,140 --> 00:29:04,020 Contamination. It wouldn't be the first time the Great Stone has made a mistake. 392 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:05,640 I was there when he re -ran the test. 393 00:29:06,020 --> 00:29:09,080 The same result. Time out. How about everybody take a breath, okay? 394 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:11,100 What have we got here? 395 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:13,840 Potentially. 396 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:20,060 An alien creature that can be broken into multiple parts, separated by space, 397 00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:23,920 but somehow connected, one part still able to learn from the other. 398 00:29:25,230 --> 00:29:26,290 How might that work? 399 00:29:31,170 --> 00:29:37,370 Maybe some property of light, harmonics, or 400 00:29:37,370 --> 00:29:41,630 radiation serves as a neural network. 401 00:29:41,930 --> 00:29:43,130 It has a crystal -like structure. 402 00:29:43,730 --> 00:29:45,970 Crystals vibrate. They also receive and bend light. 403 00:29:46,750 --> 00:29:52,550 Maybe Andromeda created a subtle energy field, a harmonic field which links up 404 00:29:52,550 --> 00:29:53,710 its disparate parts. 405 00:29:54,170 --> 00:29:56,310 So we haven't just got the killer bug of all time. 406 00:29:57,130 --> 00:29:59,650 We have a bug that communicates with itself over distance. 407 00:30:00,370 --> 00:30:01,590 And learns from experience. 408 00:30:02,450 --> 00:30:03,450 And adapts quickly. 409 00:30:04,330 --> 00:30:07,330 Remember, Andromeda was initially lethal only to humans. 410 00:30:07,770 --> 00:30:11,350 And we isolated it. Thought we isolated it. But by that time it had already 411 00:30:11,350 --> 00:30:14,050 mutated and was jumping in and out of animal populations and spreading. 412 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,760 Then we made the mistake of trying to bomb it. And the third mutation, a resin 413 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:19,220 -eating variant, destroyed the airplane. 414 00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:22,980 Now there's a fourth mutation affecting birds, which allows Andromeda to spread 415 00:30:22,980 --> 00:30:24,200 further and faster than before. 416 00:30:25,020 --> 00:30:27,860 The president has joined us here at NORTHCOM. Mr. President. 417 00:30:29,940 --> 00:30:31,800 Hello, Dr. Stone. Please continue. 418 00:30:32,980 --> 00:30:38,100 We are just discussing the possibility that Andromeda somehow may be capable of 419 00:30:38,100 --> 00:30:39,760 communicating with its disparate parts. 420 00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:42,820 There is by no means a consensus on this idea, Mr. President. 421 00:30:50,860 --> 00:30:55,160 It's most concentrated in an area just to the north of the blast zone and 422 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:57,020 appears to be moving in a northwesterly direction. 423 00:30:57,680 --> 00:30:59,820 That's the direction of the storm front, yes? 424 00:31:00,300 --> 00:31:01,300 Yes, the same. 425 00:31:01,980 --> 00:31:05,320 Andromeda is being driven by natural forces. It is completely logical. 426 00:31:06,460 --> 00:31:09,840 General, what prominent features, geographic or man -made, would Andromeda 427 00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:10,819 encounter next? 428 00:31:10,820 --> 00:31:11,860 The Henry River. 429 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:14,240 The Henry River flows into the Colorado River. 430 00:31:14,820 --> 00:31:18,740 Millions of miles of watershed connecting waterways, rivers. 431 00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:23,080 including Lake Mead, which puts it within striking distance of Las Vegas. 432 00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:24,820 How many flights a day out of Vegas? 433 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:29,020 Hundreds. One international flight in Andromeda's worldwide. 434 00:31:29,500 --> 00:31:31,740 I'll expand the quarantine zone. Order an evacuation. 435 00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:34,320 And shut down all airports in the Vegas region. 436 00:31:35,140 --> 00:31:37,120 This could be our only chance to contain it. 437 00:32:13,450 --> 00:32:16,190 I'm fine. I just felt bad because I forgot to ask you about your mother. 438 00:32:16,610 --> 00:32:17,610 How's she doing? 439 00:32:18,430 --> 00:32:19,430 Mama would. 440 00:32:22,030 --> 00:32:24,370 Yeah, she's all right, I guess. 441 00:32:26,070 --> 00:32:27,070 Same old, same old. 442 00:32:28,050 --> 00:32:29,050 Well, 443 00:32:30,230 --> 00:32:31,790 maybe you're right. Maybe you should go see her. 444 00:32:32,150 --> 00:32:33,150 Take the kids. 445 00:32:33,630 --> 00:32:34,630 She'd love that. 446 00:32:35,390 --> 00:32:36,770 And be sure to give her my love. 447 00:32:38,570 --> 00:32:39,610 What's going on, Charlene? 448 00:32:46,220 --> 00:32:48,080 Nothing. Just being silly is all. 449 00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:52,180 I gotta go now. I got work to do. 450 00:32:54,420 --> 00:32:55,420 I love you, baby. 451 00:32:56,860 --> 00:32:57,860 I love you. 452 00:33:04,500 --> 00:33:06,120 Get out of there, Adrian. We gotta go. 453 00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:09,739 The number one cause of death in people under 40. 454 00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:12,040 Worse than heart attacks or cancer. 455 00:34:12,780 --> 00:34:16,360 It's the little things, you know, the small stuff that people overlook. 456 00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:18,560 It's going to kill you every time. 457 00:34:18,820 --> 00:34:20,080 Don't stop scaring her, Annie. 458 00:34:20,820 --> 00:34:21,820 Is that Sterno? 459 00:34:22,159 --> 00:34:24,480 A little hair of the dog. It's poisonous. 460 00:34:24,860 --> 00:34:25,578 And illegal. 461 00:34:25,580 --> 00:34:26,580 So it's homicide. 462 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:28,080 My head hurt. 463 00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:29,400 Take an aspirin next time. 464 00:34:29,659 --> 00:34:31,480 Drinking Sterno will kill you. 465 00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:35,420 If you're so smart, how come I'm still alive and everyone else is dead? 466 00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:37,679 Now who's trying to scare me? 467 00:34:38,179 --> 00:34:39,179 Don't get me wrong. 468 00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:42,940 I just as soon have a big bowl of chili with a cold beer and a cigarette. 469 00:34:43,620 --> 00:34:44,980 Choosers can't be beggars. 470 00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:46,380 Beggars can't be choosers. 471 00:34:46,639 --> 00:34:49,880 See, there's nothing wrong with your hearing. You just don't listen so good. 472 00:34:50,260 --> 00:34:51,520 I have an ulcer. 473 00:34:52,739 --> 00:34:54,980 Blue be red. I can't eat grapefruit. 474 00:34:55,219 --> 00:34:56,420 Messes with my blood sugar. 475 00:34:58,180 --> 00:34:59,540 You just don't... 476 00:35:05,500 --> 00:35:08,740 All the drunk who self -medicates with sterno and aspirin have in common with a 477 00:35:08,740 --> 00:35:12,540 baby. I could not make sense of it until I learned that Sheriff Willis was 478 00:35:12,540 --> 00:35:14,840 diabetic and often suffered from acidosis. 479 00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:18,220 And Tobler suffered acidosis from all the aspirin he was taking? 480 00:35:18,420 --> 00:35:21,400 Mm -hmm. But it's not like the baby was knocking back handfuls of 481 00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:22,660 acetylsalicylic acid. 482 00:35:22,940 --> 00:35:25,760 No, but Tobler said she was always crying. She was colicky. 483 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:29,480 If Sylvie breathed rapidly long enough, carbon dioxide would build up in her 484 00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:30,860 system and she would become acidotic. 485 00:35:31,370 --> 00:35:35,090 So you're saying they survived Andromeda because they have the same level of 486 00:35:35,090 --> 00:35:36,090 stomach acid. 487 00:35:36,370 --> 00:35:37,370 That's brilliant. 488 00:35:38,230 --> 00:35:42,390 Mr. Henderson, I am very sorry to inform you that while Jack Nash was being 489 00:35:42,390 --> 00:35:47,310 evacuated from guard headquarters, a helicopter sent separate mechanical 490 00:35:47,310 --> 00:35:48,490 and went down. 491 00:35:50,130 --> 00:35:51,130 Jack's dead? 492 00:35:51,770 --> 00:35:56,070 Afraid so, sir. I'm having a hard time locating the next of kin. Does Mr. Nash 493 00:35:56,070 --> 00:35:57,070 have family or friends? 494 00:36:00,460 --> 00:36:01,640 Where are you calling from? 495 00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:06,020 I'm going to have to ask you again, sir. Did Jack Nash have family or friends? 496 00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:08,500 What's your name? Where are you calling from? 497 00:36:19,860 --> 00:36:20,880 Not today. 498 00:36:23,860 --> 00:36:27,420 Dinner? Most definitely not, sir! 499 00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:52,000 I don't know how this works exactly, but... I'm sorry. 500 00:36:53,720 --> 00:36:54,720 I'll do better. 501 00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:57,620 I'll be nice to people. 502 00:36:58,280 --> 00:36:59,620 Please save my ass. 503 00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:02,320 Amen. 504 00:37:04,720 --> 00:37:05,720 Okay. 505 00:37:06,260 --> 00:37:07,580 I'll never do drugs again. 506 00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:11,440 Ever. I swear. No drugs, no booze, no cigarettes. 507 00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:15,140 No drugs, no police. How about that? 508 00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:33,320 I take it back. 509 00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:35,340 I take it back. 510 00:37:37,340 --> 00:37:38,340 Okay. 511 00:37:38,740 --> 00:37:39,740 We've got a vulnerability. 512 00:37:41,660 --> 00:37:45,360 Andromeda can only exist within a very narrow range of acidity and alkalinity. 513 00:37:45,500 --> 00:37:50,400 It pretty much falls within the parameters of human tolerance, 7 .5 to 7 514 00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:54,260 anything we hit Andromeda with, which is acidic or basic enough to kill it, 515 00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:55,880 might also be lethal to humans. 516 00:37:56,140 --> 00:37:59,800 And to make matters worse, if our test results are correct, whatever we attack 517 00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:01,780 with, Andromeda will eventually adjust. 518 00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:05,740 We'd have to hit every bit of the infection virtually simultaneously to 519 00:38:05,740 --> 00:38:06,740 its adaptation. 520 00:38:06,780 --> 00:38:09,420 And disrupt its communicative abilities at the same time. 521 00:38:09,930 --> 00:38:14,090 You know, if you set out to deliberately exterminate mankind, you couldn't do 522 00:38:14,090 --> 00:38:15,090 better than Andromeda. 523 00:38:29,470 --> 00:38:30,470 Hello? 524 00:38:30,770 --> 00:38:31,770 Get back! 525 00:38:31,850 --> 00:38:32,930 I mean it! Okay. 526 00:38:33,490 --> 00:38:34,490 What do you want? 527 00:38:35,370 --> 00:38:37,890 Well, first of all, I want a glass of water the size of a Chevy. 528 00:38:38,490 --> 00:38:42,270 But then I really need to make a phone call. Do you have a cell phone? 529 00:38:42,550 --> 00:38:43,550 What happened to you? 530 00:38:44,230 --> 00:38:45,270 My name's Jack Nash. 531 00:38:45,550 --> 00:38:47,690 I'm a reporter with NNT. You probably know my face. 532 00:38:48,330 --> 00:38:49,650 I just watched Colbert. 533 00:38:50,270 --> 00:38:52,070 Right. South Park sometime. 534 00:38:52,410 --> 00:38:56,130 Look, there was a helicopter crash. I'm the only survivor. I have some important 535 00:38:56,130 --> 00:38:59,870 information I need to deliver, and I really, really need to make a phone call 536 00:38:59,870 --> 00:39:01,610 and get some help with a tire. 537 00:39:03,130 --> 00:39:04,650 Honestly, isn't that getting a little heavy? 538 00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:22,300 How long before this Santa Ana condition reaches the infected area? And then how 539 00:39:22,300 --> 00:39:24,300 long after that until it gets to Los Angeles? 540 00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:27,420 At the rate that it's moving, it'll be at the edge of the quarantine zone in 24 541 00:39:27,420 --> 00:39:29,780 hours, which puts it about 200 miles from Los Angeles. 542 00:39:30,060 --> 00:39:32,340 Should we evacuate L .A.? Evacuate to where, Red? 543 00:39:34,660 --> 00:39:37,940 Can you imagine what it would be like if we actually asked the entire Los 544 00:39:37,940 --> 00:39:39,280 Angeles basin to leave? 545 00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:51,520 Mr. President, we have a developing situation in the mid -Atlantic. 546 00:39:51,740 --> 00:39:56,500 An extremely radical environmental group, Ocean Saviors, has mounted an 547 00:39:56,500 --> 00:39:58,640 assault against our bent mining platform. 548 00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:01,080 This came on their website moments ago. 549 00:40:46,380 --> 00:40:50,120 The Navy has two frigates and a submarine in the vicinity as a team of 550 00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:51,120 SEALs. 551 00:40:55,300 --> 00:40:56,500 Let's see what they want first. 552 00:40:59,300 --> 00:41:00,600 Enough people have died today. 553 00:41:01,620 --> 00:41:04,340 Besides, if we don't stop Andromeda, it's not going to much matter anyway, 554 00:41:04,340 --> 00:41:05,340 it? 555 00:41:05,540 --> 00:41:08,460 That thing that Bill was saying about disrupting Andromeda's communicative 556 00:41:08,460 --> 00:41:11,280 abilities, it got me thinking about messenger theory again. 557 00:41:11,500 --> 00:41:14,300 The idea that Andromeda might be a good link from the future. 558 00:41:15,370 --> 00:41:18,630 You think it's leaving the body accidental, not intentional? 559 00:41:18,990 --> 00:41:21,390 No, no, I agree that Andromeda was designed to kill humans. 560 00:41:22,290 --> 00:41:26,150 Now, I realize this is highly speculative, but maybe the message, if 561 00:41:26,150 --> 00:41:27,730 one, is in the casing. 562 00:41:28,590 --> 00:41:29,850 Maybe it is the casing. 563 00:41:30,770 --> 00:41:34,430 Now, each molecule of the black material is cemented by one of two bonding 564 00:41:34,430 --> 00:41:36,610 agents, potassium or rubidium. 565 00:41:36,850 --> 00:41:41,010 They serve no structural purpose and alternate in a seemingly random manner. 566 00:41:42,610 --> 00:41:43,810 Why go to such trouble? 567 00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:46,820 Is it random? Two agents? 568 00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:48,780 Why not three or four? 569 00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:50,240 Because it's binary. 570 00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:53,460 It's a binary code. 571 00:41:54,580 --> 00:41:57,320 Each sequence is approximately 200 molecules long. 572 00:41:57,600 --> 00:42:01,320 But if you look, there's a pattern within the larger pattern. 573 00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:04,480 Eight. 574 00:42:05,700 --> 00:42:06,700 Patterns of eight. 575 00:42:06,980 --> 00:42:11,240 In a typical binary computer code, each eight -bit sequence would stand for a 576 00:42:11,240 --> 00:42:12,240 letter. 577 00:42:12,720 --> 00:42:15,700 Computer, treat molecular sequence as binary code and search for key. 578 00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:21,700 Why would our enemies send us a message? 579 00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:23,920 Well, maybe they didn't. 580 00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:26,320 Maybe somebody else did. 581 00:42:27,260 --> 00:42:31,280 Okay, I know this is going to sound fantastic, but let's say that Manchek 582 00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:35,340 lying about the wormhole, and in fact, it was the source of Andromeda. 583 00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:38,780 Wormholes, as we understand them, are theoretical connections between distance 584 00:42:38,780 --> 00:42:39,780 and time, right? 585 00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:42,900 What if Andromeda was sent to us by our future? 586 00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:48,880 Okay, I think somebody's been working too hard and drinking way too much 587 00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:52,020 Why send something back that could destroy your own past? 588 00:42:53,420 --> 00:42:55,500 It would be a move of absolute desperation. 589 00:42:55,960 --> 00:43:00,500 A wake -up call, a cry for help. They couldn't beat Andromeda. And we can? 590 00:43:01,140 --> 00:43:05,100 Come on, future technology must be superior to ours. All right, maybe it's 591 00:43:05,100 --> 00:43:06,100 about technology. 592 00:43:06,460 --> 00:43:08,580 Maybe they lack something that we have. 593 00:43:09,070 --> 00:43:10,430 That we still have. 594 00:43:11,010 --> 00:43:12,470 Something to do with pH. 595 00:43:14,390 --> 00:43:15,390 Resources. 596 00:43:15,850 --> 00:43:16,850 Natural resources. 597 00:43:17,910 --> 00:43:22,790 Something we used up or destroyed. Some fossil fuels or some species of plants 598 00:43:22,790 --> 00:43:23,950 or animal life in the rainforest. 599 00:43:24,310 --> 00:43:25,310 And the answer is? 600 00:43:29,670 --> 00:43:33,470 Okay, if I'm sending a message back to some lab -coded geek in the past, I'd 601 00:43:33,470 --> 00:43:37,230 keep it simple. I'd use the basic American computer code for documents in 602 00:43:37,230 --> 00:43:38,230 Roman alphabet. 603 00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:39,360 ASCII. 604 00:43:40,300 --> 00:43:43,780 Computer approach pattern is ASCII code and translate. 605 00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:11,260 Hell is bacillus infernus. 606 00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:12,880 Bacterium from hell. 607 00:44:13,740 --> 00:44:14,800 What's that number? 608 00:44:16,720 --> 00:44:18,140 I did some work on this one. 609 00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:22,980 It's an extremely rare member of the Archaea genus. It's found only one place 610 00:44:22,980 --> 00:44:27,320 the planet, at the bottom of the sea, nearly three kilometers deep, next to 611 00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:28,320 thermal vents. 612 00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:32,800 The bacterium thrives under the most extreme conditions imaginable, including 613 00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:33,820 very acidic pH. 614 00:44:34,300 --> 00:44:38,380 It practices chemosynthesis to survive. In fact, its main food source... 615 00:44:38,670 --> 00:44:41,430 is the sulfur -based effluent from the vents themselves. 616 00:44:41,750 --> 00:44:44,590 The chemical composition of Andromeda is based on sulfur. 617 00:44:44,990 --> 00:44:49,070 I bet Infernus looks at Andromeda the same way a pit bull would look at a big, 618 00:44:49,110 --> 00:44:50,110 juicy steak. 619 00:44:50,350 --> 00:44:53,290 The plan to mine those vents with their mineral deposit is going to be very 620 00:44:53,290 --> 00:44:55,630 destructive. It's kind of underwater strip mining. 621 00:44:55,850 --> 00:44:59,090 Maybe that's why they needed to send a message from the future. The bacteria no 622 00:44:59,090 --> 00:45:01,070 longer exist there because we destroyed it. 623 00:45:01,420 --> 00:45:04,700 We've set plenty of precedent for this kind of weapon. We spray both mosquitoes 624 00:45:04,700 --> 00:45:06,440 and gypsy moths with lethal bacteria. 625 00:45:06,740 --> 00:45:08,700 What about Andromeda's ability to mutate? 626 00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:10,540 That's the beauty of this line of attack. 627 00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:14,680 Andromeda can't change its basic atomic composition, which is sulfur -based. 628 00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:18,280 You can run, but you can't hide. All right. Does this bacterium have any 629 00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:19,280 effect on humans? 630 00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:23,380 Nothing we can find. So we spray Infernus in the air, in the water, 631 00:45:23,380 --> 00:45:26,800 Andromeda is, and the bacteria consume it. Hold on now. We're getting ahead of 632 00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:30,500 ourselves. It makes really good theoretical sense, but we have to test 633 00:45:32,129 --> 00:45:35,170 Oh, this is horseshit. I gotta go chuck on this, sir. I mean, just too 634 00:45:35,170 --> 00:45:36,170 fantastic. 635 00:45:36,610 --> 00:45:39,410 All right, Dr. Stone, look, I'm finding all this a little difficult to accept. 636 00:45:40,270 --> 00:45:45,790 Andromeda is a biological assault, possibly a precursor to an invasion, but 637 00:45:45,790 --> 00:45:46,790 the future? 638 00:45:47,290 --> 00:45:51,990 And it was sent to us by them for our help because of this bacterium? 639 00:45:52,270 --> 00:45:53,330 Mr. President, I... 640 00:45:59,150 --> 00:46:02,810 They sent it back, safely contained within the black material we found. 641 00:46:03,210 --> 00:46:07,190 They could not have anticipated its interception by the scoop satellite or 642 00:46:07,190 --> 00:46:08,650 subsequent release in Piedmont. 643 00:46:09,130 --> 00:46:13,190 This is purely speculative. There's nothing real here, sir. How do you 644 00:46:13,190 --> 00:46:14,690 the binary code, then? Coincidence? 645 00:46:14,970 --> 00:46:16,490 It's a redundancy system. 646 00:46:16,730 --> 00:46:21,150 Standard operating procedure in aeronautics. Everything NASA builds is 647 00:46:21,150 --> 00:46:25,090 way. They coded the solution to Andromeda within the molecular structure 648 00:46:25,090 --> 00:46:29,180 container. If you analyze all the data and the only explanation that works is 649 00:46:29,180 --> 00:46:31,180 the improbable, then the improbable must be true. 650 00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:34,280 What is that, Confucius? Okay, gentlemen, gentlemen. 651 00:46:34,500 --> 00:46:35,500 Sherlock Holmes. 652 00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:40,460 Dr. Stone, this string of numbers that came with the message and the nonsense 653 00:46:40,460 --> 00:46:41,700 that followed it, what do you make of that? 654 00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:46,500 The computer hasn't been able to make any sense of the number 739528, but it's 655 00:46:46,500 --> 00:46:47,760 continuing to work at it. 656 00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:50,540 I know that's not very helpful, sir. 657 00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:53,900 Well, you don't do well in my line of work unless you're willing to roll the 658 00:46:53,900 --> 00:46:54,900 dice once or twice. 659 00:46:56,319 --> 00:46:59,200 Well, if they want my head, they can have it later. What do you need, Dr. 660 00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:01,020 Samples of the bacterium, sir. 661 00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:03,980 We need to test its lethality on Andromeda. 662 00:47:04,240 --> 00:47:06,740 The lab I worked with at UCLA still has samples. 663 00:47:07,380 --> 00:47:08,960 I'll have it sent out to Wildfire right away. 664 00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:12,500 I'll also have our biological dispersal equipment standing by at the minute you 665 00:47:12,500 --> 00:47:13,218 give the word. 666 00:47:13,220 --> 00:47:15,540 And Dr. Stone, if this doesn't work, what's your plan B? 667 00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:18,540 There is no other plan, Mr. President. This is it. 668 00:47:19,060 --> 00:47:22,560 All we can do now is work like hell to get operational and hope that Andromeda 669 00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:24,900 doesn't pull yet another adaptation out of the bag. 670 00:48:50,799 --> 00:48:51,920 Bacterium is the solution? 671 00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:54,240 He seems to think so. That's not what I asked you. 672 00:48:54,460 --> 00:48:55,460 That's my answer. 673 00:48:55,780 --> 00:48:57,440 I need something done. What? 674 00:48:57,960 --> 00:48:59,920 Find out where Dr. Bartman's family is. 675 00:49:04,860 --> 00:49:05,860 Mr. 676 00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:07,760 Bartman, can you come with me, please? 677 00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:50,380 You and I need to have a conversation about your wife. 678 00:49:51,660 --> 00:49:55,340 We lost contact with one of our units near the Henry River half hour ago. 679 00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:57,900 Predator overflight reveals no survivors. 680 00:49:58,380 --> 00:50:00,960 I think we have to assume that quarantine has been breached. 681 00:50:01,540 --> 00:50:05,620 Send the ground patrols in that area and increase overflights. Keep me posted as 682 00:50:05,620 --> 00:50:06,620 you make progress. 683 00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:11,300 I can cut short your wife's trail the minute you give the word. 684 00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:17,240 We can have her on a plane and out of danger in under an hour. 685 00:50:20,830 --> 00:50:23,210 What about all the other wives and daughters in Los Angeles, Pat? 686 00:50:23,810 --> 00:50:24,830 What are you going to do for them? 687 00:50:25,930 --> 00:50:27,250 Well, I just thought... Come on, leave me alone. 688 00:50:27,930 --> 00:50:28,930 Go on, get out of here! 689 00:50:33,910 --> 00:50:37,370 Okay, we're introducing a very modest amount of Infernus to Andromeda. 690 00:50:38,850 --> 00:50:39,850 Look at it go. 691 00:50:41,730 --> 00:50:42,730 Yes. 692 00:50:42,770 --> 00:50:43,850 2 .3 seconds. 693 00:50:44,390 --> 00:50:45,410 So we have a weapon. 694 00:50:45,770 --> 00:50:47,950 How much of this bug do we need to grow to make a difference? 695 00:50:55,570 --> 00:50:56,630 Welcome to the nursery. 696 00:50:57,710 --> 00:50:58,990 Biological breeder, Bethel. 697 00:51:00,890 --> 00:51:01,890 State of the art. 698 00:51:03,230 --> 00:51:04,230 Let's crank them up. 699 00:51:05,990 --> 00:51:09,170 Andromeda is now definitely in the watershed of the Henry River and it's 700 00:51:09,170 --> 00:51:10,170 downstream. 701 00:51:11,090 --> 00:51:12,090 Color blooms there. 702 00:51:13,050 --> 00:51:14,470 Massive aquatic die -offs. 703 00:51:16,310 --> 00:51:17,850 Evacuate the entire Lake Palladium. 704 00:51:18,110 --> 00:51:19,110 Yes, sir. 705 00:51:30,220 --> 00:51:30,879 It worked. 706 00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:32,020 The bacterium worked. 707 00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:33,780 Excellent work, Dr. Stone. 708 00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:37,980 We've started production and should have usable quantities within 10 hours. 709 00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:40,220 10 hours is cutting in close. 710 00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:41,760 How so? 711 00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:45,060 Andromeda has developed another mutation that attacks aquatic life and has 712 00:51:45,060 --> 00:51:46,780 gotten into the watershed of the Colorado River. 713 00:51:47,020 --> 00:51:51,200 At the rate it's moving, it should be in Lake Powell within 10, 11 hours. 714 00:51:51,500 --> 00:51:52,500 And the storm? 715 00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:55,620 It continues to pick up speed. Let me know the minute you're ready. 716 00:52:04,789 --> 00:52:06,030 Sam, the kid's all right? 717 00:52:06,650 --> 00:52:08,290 Did you get to your mom's? 718 00:52:08,690 --> 00:52:09,690 Something came up. 719 00:52:10,790 --> 00:52:13,290 There's somebody who wants to talk to you, Charlene, and I want you to listen 720 00:52:13,290 --> 00:52:14,290 him, baby, okay? 721 00:52:52,110 --> 00:52:54,390 Computer, assemble the team in the conference room. 722 00:53:08,950 --> 00:53:11,210 Hey, you okay? 723 00:53:29,450 --> 00:53:33,870 We have all come to accept the possibility that it was a mutation of 724 00:53:33,870 --> 00:53:34,870 that brought down that jet. 725 00:53:37,370 --> 00:53:39,330 But there's something that's always bothered me. 726 00:53:41,170 --> 00:53:46,270 The jet had been recalled, its mission aborted, and then Andromeda attacked. 727 00:53:48,430 --> 00:53:50,690 I think we might be underestimating Andromeda. 728 00:53:51,390 --> 00:53:54,790 Yes, we've discussed its phenomenal rate of mutation. We've... 729 00:53:55,370 --> 00:53:59,070 We've considered the possibility that it can communicate among its physically 730 00:53:59,070 --> 00:54:00,070 separated parts. 731 00:54:01,770 --> 00:54:05,570 But what if it knowingly crashed the jet in order to set off the onboard nuclear 732 00:54:05,570 --> 00:54:08,910 device and accelerate its own growth? 733 00:54:09,550 --> 00:54:11,110 You're saying it thinks? 734 00:54:11,590 --> 00:54:14,410 I'm saying we have to consider the possibility and act accordingly. 735 00:54:14,710 --> 00:54:15,870 We could dose it now. 736 00:54:16,430 --> 00:54:18,990 We probably have enough bacteria to hit the hotspots. 737 00:54:19,290 --> 00:54:22,750 No, I don't want to risk missing some portion of Andromeda, enabling it to 738 00:54:22,750 --> 00:54:25,590 regroup. When we strike, it has to be devastating. 739 00:54:25,810 --> 00:54:31,230 And to be safe, I think we need to destroy every last sample of Andromeda 740 00:54:31,230 --> 00:54:32,149 lab right now. 741 00:54:32,150 --> 00:54:37,190 You think Andromeda knows or could know what we're trying to do here? 742 00:54:37,590 --> 00:54:38,990 I don't think we can take that chance. 743 00:55:35,370 --> 00:55:36,370 Check the breeder vessels. 744 00:55:45,810 --> 00:55:47,670 Do you think the bacterium will work? 745 00:55:49,170 --> 00:55:50,170 What? 746 00:55:50,410 --> 00:55:52,090 Do you think the bacterium will work? 747 00:55:52,610 --> 00:55:54,890 What else have we got? 748 00:55:56,570 --> 00:56:01,930 I mean, they were damn clever, Andromeda's creators. It's a brilliantly 749 00:56:01,930 --> 00:56:02,930 construct. 750 00:56:03,710 --> 00:56:04,710 But we're... 751 00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:06,520 We're a resilient species. 752 00:56:07,260 --> 00:56:11,340 Think of the imagination those scientists had to figure out what they 753 00:56:11,340 --> 00:56:13,380 send for it in the past. 754 00:56:14,660 --> 00:56:19,900 You know what's truly ironic is that what may end up saving mankind, the 755 00:56:19,900 --> 00:56:25,160 pinnacle of creation, is this very simple, primitive bacterium from the 756 00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:26,160 the bottom of the ocean. 757 00:56:26,960 --> 00:56:31,440 A creature that we were prepared to obliterate without a moment's thought. 758 00:56:33,550 --> 00:56:35,770 There's a profound lesson in humility there, I think. 759 00:56:36,910 --> 00:56:38,750 Not usually your strong suit. 760 00:56:39,730 --> 00:56:40,810 I'm working on it. 761 00:56:41,070 --> 00:56:42,070 Yeah. 762 00:56:59,150 --> 00:57:01,330 Jeremy, come to the conference room. It's urgent. 763 00:57:11,740 --> 00:57:12,740 What is it? 764 00:57:13,260 --> 00:57:15,400 It's not numbers or letters. It's an image. 765 00:57:15,660 --> 00:57:16,740 Design of some kind. 766 00:57:17,340 --> 00:57:18,960 That's why it took so long to process. 767 00:57:20,620 --> 00:57:21,940 What is that? 768 00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:23,700 I've never seen anything like it. 769 00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:24,920 It's not scientific. 770 00:57:26,840 --> 00:57:27,840 Religious, maybe? 771 00:58:09,640 --> 00:58:12,260 That weather system is picking up speed, sir. 772 00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:18,020 If this doesn't work, Andromeda will hit Los Angeles in less than five hours. 773 00:58:22,300 --> 00:58:27,680 Also, our strike teams are in position near the mining platform, waiting for 774 00:58:27,680 --> 00:58:28,940 your word to go in, sir. 775 00:58:33,100 --> 00:58:35,680 Is there anything you'd like me to do? 776 00:58:39,500 --> 00:58:40,760 You religious man, Chuck? 777 00:58:42,440 --> 00:58:44,780 Sir? I don't mean every four years. 778 00:58:47,440 --> 00:58:48,680 I mean, do you have faith? 779 00:58:57,120 --> 00:58:58,280 Well, then you can pray. 780 00:59:24,900 --> 00:59:28,300 Yeah, it's real pretty, but mind if I try your cell phone again? 781 00:59:29,820 --> 00:59:31,680 Don't you ever just relax? 782 00:59:33,500 --> 00:59:34,500 No. 783 00:59:34,740 --> 00:59:36,120 I don't, really. I should. 784 00:59:37,280 --> 00:59:40,880 Go ahead, but the reception's not going to be any better than it was last night. 785 00:59:41,140 --> 00:59:42,960 Oh, mine looks changing. I can feel it. 786 00:59:49,100 --> 00:59:51,360 I see two people, one male, one female. 787 01:00:31,420 --> 01:00:32,420 Jack? 788 01:00:33,340 --> 01:00:34,880 What's going on out there? 789 01:01:08,840 --> 01:01:09,799 It's not us, me. 790 01:01:09,800 --> 01:01:10,800 They're shooting at me. 791 01:01:16,280 --> 01:01:21,380 Jeremy, we have got a lot of product down here, and it's all screaming feed 792 01:01:26,100 --> 01:01:27,760 Urgent message for Dr. Stone. 793 01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:29,000 Go for Dr. Stone. 794 01:01:30,840 --> 01:01:33,720 Dr. Stone, we should already be low, so your facility within minutes. We're 795 01:01:33,720 --> 01:01:34,339 going to be ready. 796 01:01:34,340 --> 01:01:35,340 Good to go. 797 01:01:35,640 --> 01:01:38,600 That storefront's closing in fast. We've got less than an hour. 798 01:01:43,900 --> 01:01:45,100 Out. What? 799 01:01:55,020 --> 01:01:57,060 Rock. Did you carry any oil? 800 01:01:57,360 --> 01:02:00,640 No, maybe. I don't know. Why were they shooting at us? Because I know things. 801 01:02:00,700 --> 01:02:02,580 Well, they think I do. That's why I need to make that call. 802 01:02:34,890 --> 01:02:35,890 You did a great job, doctor. 803 01:02:36,450 --> 01:02:37,450 You and your whole team. 804 01:02:37,590 --> 01:02:39,710 You know when this is over, I'm going to raise it up. 805 01:02:40,190 --> 01:02:43,030 Not that you have any reason to believe me, but for what it's worth, I'm 806 01:02:43,030 --> 01:02:44,030 preaching to the good bird. 807 01:02:44,970 --> 01:02:49,150 Although if it doesn't work, what you and I think isn't going to make a damn 808 01:02:49,150 --> 01:02:50,150 of difference. 809 01:03:17,770 --> 01:03:19,090 Too much oil. We have to dump this thing. 810 01:03:19,490 --> 01:03:22,330 Do you have a weapon in here? A gun? A knife? A slingshot? 811 01:03:22,710 --> 01:03:24,330 No. Check the glove box. 812 01:03:27,830 --> 01:03:28,830 Can opener? 813 01:03:29,630 --> 01:03:30,970 Great. I'll buy him a beer. 814 01:04:34,260 --> 01:04:35,260 What's happening? 815 01:04:35,880 --> 01:04:38,060 What the 816 01:04:38,060 --> 01:04:43,400 hell is that? 817 01:04:46,900 --> 01:04:47,900 Computer, 818 01:04:50,480 --> 01:04:52,360 give me this sample vault. 819 01:05:04,200 --> 01:05:05,200 What's happening? 820 01:05:07,660 --> 01:05:08,700 Darlene, we're on our way. 821 01:05:18,040 --> 01:05:22,860 Si, what is it? Is it Andromeda? No, it's a ground -ball seizure. The fail 822 01:05:22,860 --> 01:05:25,440 panel is ruined. I can't check that in the self -destruct sequence from here. 823 01:05:25,520 --> 01:05:27,580 Where's the next closest control panel? One level up. 824 01:05:27,800 --> 01:05:30,540 But you can't use the elevators. Every level is sealed off. 825 01:05:30,780 --> 01:05:33,000 How do I get up there? You can't. That's the point. 826 01:05:34,290 --> 01:05:35,290 Hold him steady. 827 01:05:35,950 --> 01:05:40,130 Hold him steady. Hold him steady. Computer, show all the mechanical 828 01:05:40,130 --> 01:05:41,230 into the central maintenance shaft. 829 01:05:41,490 --> 01:05:43,290 Break in and climb up. That's a brilliant idea. 830 01:05:43,610 --> 01:05:44,610 I'll check on Barton. 831 01:06:06,160 --> 01:06:08,680 I need you to talk to me. Talk to me. I can't help you. 832 01:06:09,060 --> 01:06:12,440 I don't know. 833 01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:16,900 There's a sample in one of the containment boxes. Why didn't you 834 01:06:16,900 --> 01:06:17,900 them? 835 01:06:18,880 --> 01:06:20,620 They've got Sam and my kids. 836 01:06:21,580 --> 01:06:23,940 They wanted to save a sample. 837 01:06:24,260 --> 01:06:27,520 And then the seal started to disintegrate and the alarm went off. 838 01:06:28,000 --> 01:06:30,140 I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm sorry. 839 01:06:30,500 --> 01:06:32,400 All right. Take it easy. Hold on. 840 01:06:33,400 --> 01:06:34,400 How are you feeling? 841 01:07:09,640 --> 01:07:12,780 Well, General, if that nuclear device explodes, then none of what you and your 842 01:07:12,780 --> 01:07:14,040 team are doing right now will matter. 843 01:07:14,680 --> 01:07:17,740 Trauma will be spread over a huge area, and we will never be able to contain it. 844 01:07:20,940 --> 01:07:24,480 Listen, if you had been exposed to a lethal strain, you'd be dead by now. 845 01:07:25,060 --> 01:07:26,800 Are you symptomatic at all? 846 01:07:27,880 --> 01:07:31,520 I'm breathing rapidly. Maybe that's what's keeping it at bay. 847 01:07:32,560 --> 01:07:33,820 Get me the hell out of here! 848 01:07:34,800 --> 01:07:36,800 Charlene, you have to calm down, okay? 849 01:07:37,280 --> 01:07:40,100 I promise we'll get you out of there, but you need to listen to Jeremy. 850 01:07:42,220 --> 01:07:43,660 Forget about me. I'll be fine. 851 01:07:44,780 --> 01:07:45,780 Don't shut it off. 852 01:07:46,560 --> 01:07:47,560 Go. 853 01:07:52,340 --> 01:07:54,300 You had a seizure. Have you had them before? 854 01:07:54,660 --> 01:07:55,660 The lights. 855 01:07:56,600 --> 01:07:57,600 That's bad. 856 01:07:58,000 --> 01:08:00,300 The lights set it off. We have a breach of containment. 857 01:08:00,780 --> 01:08:02,580 Charlene is trapped in the sample vault. 858 01:08:02,960 --> 01:08:04,260 We have to fix the contamination. 859 01:08:04,700 --> 01:08:05,700 You have to rest. 860 01:08:06,490 --> 01:08:08,010 We fix it, or we'll die. 861 01:08:32,270 --> 01:08:33,529 Get out of there. Run. 862 01:09:33,350 --> 01:09:36,189 Follow up progress on the monitor. Help us get to the next level. 863 01:09:37,490 --> 01:09:38,790 Ten minutes have counted. 864 01:09:55,110 --> 01:09:56,110 Jeremy, you okay? 865 01:09:56,970 --> 01:09:58,490 It's not wild among heights. 866 01:10:00,170 --> 01:10:01,170 Don't look down. 867 01:10:01,330 --> 01:10:02,330 Bear straight ahead. 868 01:10:45,740 --> 01:10:46,980 You can make it. Give me your hand. 869 01:10:48,760 --> 01:10:49,760 Just reach out. 870 01:10:50,020 --> 01:10:51,020 Give me your hand. 871 01:10:51,800 --> 01:10:52,980 Yeah, we're both gonna fall. 872 01:10:53,200 --> 01:10:55,080 Just do it. Give me your hand. We need you. 873 01:11:24,490 --> 01:11:25,490 Angela, I have the key. 874 01:11:25,590 --> 01:11:29,530 It won't do you any good. The system will only recognize clean subprint. 875 01:13:14,090 --> 01:13:15,230 I don't know where I'm going. 876 01:13:19,830 --> 01:13:20,970 Angela, you copy me? 877 01:13:23,450 --> 01:13:26,750 Move six feet up and three feet to your right. 878 01:13:27,510 --> 01:13:32,590 There's a, what looks to be a barge, heating -cooling conduit that might 879 01:13:34,870 --> 01:13:35,870 I see it! 880 01:14:40,360 --> 01:14:41,360 You work from the wildfire facility? 881 01:14:41,620 --> 01:14:44,420 Nothing, sir. The self -destruct sequence is still activated. 882 01:14:46,620 --> 01:14:47,920 Jeremy, are you okay? 883 01:14:51,420 --> 01:14:52,420 Which way? 884 01:14:52,760 --> 01:14:55,020 The panel is behind you. 885 01:14:55,480 --> 01:14:56,480 Fifteen feet. 886 01:15:20,430 --> 01:15:21,430 above you now. 887 01:17:02,860 --> 01:17:04,160 You know, God would be kidding me. 888 01:17:05,360 --> 01:17:06,360 That's sick. 889 01:17:12,320 --> 01:17:13,320 Machine. 890 01:17:14,320 --> 01:17:17,740 Charlie, it's Nash. Listen, somebody brought bio -collecting equipment to the 891 01:17:17,740 --> 01:17:18,740 National Guard headquarters. 892 01:17:18,940 --> 01:17:20,440 I think they're trying to sample the contagion. 893 01:17:20,660 --> 01:17:22,320 Looked for a D .C. colonel named Ferris. 894 01:17:22,520 --> 01:17:23,520 He's the link. 895 01:17:23,660 --> 01:17:24,860 He also tried to kill me. 896 01:17:25,140 --> 01:17:26,140 Twice. 897 01:17:26,540 --> 01:17:28,980 And, uh... That's it. 898 01:17:52,300 --> 01:17:53,340 Well, it's been that kind of day. 899 01:17:57,460 --> 01:17:58,460 You okay? 900 01:17:59,180 --> 01:18:00,180 Yeah. 901 01:18:01,300 --> 01:18:03,480 Didn't think sobriety was going to be this painful. 902 01:18:06,000 --> 01:18:07,280 Sorry about your car. 903 01:18:08,740 --> 01:18:09,740 Are you kidding? 904 01:18:10,580 --> 01:18:12,600 That was amazing, what you did. 905 01:18:37,640 --> 01:18:42,380 Today, America mourns the loss of two citizens who made the ultimate sacrifice 906 01:18:42,380 --> 01:18:43,500 for their country. 907 01:18:43,720 --> 01:18:49,400 Dr. William Keene, U .S. Army, and Dr. Tsai Chu, a brilliant scientist who 908 01:18:49,400 --> 01:18:53,560 immigrated to this country in a much -celebrated case some ten years ago. 909 01:18:54,220 --> 01:18:56,640 Standing to President Scott's right is Dr. 910 01:18:56,860 --> 01:19:01,100 Jeremy Stone, who headed Wildfire, and his five teammates, Dr. 911 01:19:01,380 --> 01:19:02,540 Angela Noyce and Dr. 912 01:19:02,760 --> 01:19:03,820 Sean... God, he looks terrible. 913 01:19:10,180 --> 01:19:11,180 Hero of the day. 914 01:19:13,220 --> 01:19:17,660 He did good, okay? I mean, yeah, he's not perfect, but he deserves credit for 915 01:19:17,660 --> 01:19:18,660 what he did. 916 01:19:24,520 --> 01:19:24,880 Seems 917 01:19:24,880 --> 01:19:36,260 a 918 01:19:36,260 --> 01:19:37,260 little dramatic, don't you think? 919 01:19:40,630 --> 01:19:42,650 Every bit of data confirms the same observation. 920 01:19:42,890 --> 01:19:46,230 The Andromeda infection is dead. Nothing survived here, so... 921 01:19:46,230 --> 01:19:51,650 Extraordinary achievements are a real, a real victory. 922 01:19:52,330 --> 01:19:54,610 You think that's how our part in all this is going to be remembered? 923 01:19:55,810 --> 01:19:56,810 As heroes? 924 01:19:58,430 --> 01:20:02,170 I think we might have made some mistakes, but we came through in the 925 01:20:02,170 --> 01:20:06,810 mistakes? The desire to assign blame in Project Scoop will be mitigated, as it 926 01:20:06,810 --> 01:20:08,710 always is, by the fear of public embarrassment. 927 01:20:09,720 --> 01:20:10,720 Highest level of government. 928 01:20:11,120 --> 01:20:12,800 We didn't just screw up, Colonel. 929 01:20:13,220 --> 01:20:14,720 We very nearly lost everything. 930 01:20:15,000 --> 01:20:16,000 And not just once. 931 01:20:16,820 --> 01:20:17,820 Several times. 932 01:20:20,800 --> 01:20:24,180 Why did you blackmail Dr. Barton to try and salvage a sample of Andromeda? 933 01:20:26,140 --> 01:20:28,940 I don't... I have no idea what you're talking about. 934 01:20:29,300 --> 01:20:32,720 Well, maybe I should get on the phone to Chuck Beder over at the NSA and ask him 935 01:20:32,720 --> 01:20:33,760 where that sample is. 936 01:20:37,200 --> 01:20:38,200 I know. 937 01:20:38,650 --> 01:20:40,450 What you sons of bitches did. 938 01:20:42,070 --> 01:20:44,610 There needn't be any losers in this scenario, General. 939 01:20:45,010 --> 01:20:46,390 Aside from the American people? 940 01:20:51,850 --> 01:20:56,030 Your kind of honor is a bit outdated, sir. 941 01:20:57,070 --> 01:20:59,450 I'm not going to fall on my sword for you or anybody else. 942 01:21:00,970 --> 01:21:01,970 No. 943 01:21:03,230 --> 01:21:04,270 I didn't think so. 944 01:21:06,550 --> 01:21:07,550 What? 945 01:21:12,330 --> 01:21:14,270 Jesus, what the hell are you doing not with me here? 946 01:21:24,830 --> 01:21:25,230 Thank 947 01:21:25,230 --> 01:21:32,710 you, 948 01:21:32,710 --> 01:21:36,050 Lord, for the honor and the privilege we have had to know these two 949 01:21:36,050 --> 01:21:38,570 extraordinary... I had no idea about Project Scoop. 950 01:21:39,120 --> 01:21:42,380 Or any black bag operations connected with it that may or may not have been 951 01:21:42,380 --> 01:21:43,380 running. 952 01:21:43,440 --> 01:21:46,720 Well, you may not have known, but there were those in your administration that 953 01:21:46,720 --> 01:21:47,720 did. 954 01:21:48,480 --> 01:21:51,760 It might be a good idea to tell the American people really what happened. 955 01:21:52,300 --> 01:21:54,800 And permanently shut down the vent mining project. 956 01:21:59,040 --> 01:22:00,580 I don't know what you think you have. 957 01:22:02,440 --> 01:22:03,840 But I don't see it that way. 958 01:22:08,480 --> 01:22:11,360 Well, if you'll excuse me, Mr. President, I have an interview to do. 959 01:22:13,280 --> 01:22:15,680 I'm very sorry for your loss. He was a brave man. 960 01:22:16,060 --> 01:22:17,060 Yes. 961 01:22:17,480 --> 01:22:22,120 Our technology and our science saved us in the end, yes, but it was our arrogant 962 01:22:22,120 --> 01:22:24,720 misuse of both that got us into this trouble in the first place. 963 01:22:25,580 --> 01:22:29,580 Science is and always has been about the search for the truth, and that search 964 01:22:29,580 --> 01:22:31,700 can really only take place in the full light of day. 965 01:22:32,000 --> 01:22:35,960 I think one of the lessons learned here is that just because... 966 01:22:36,490 --> 01:22:40,370 We have acquired a technological or scientific capability doesn't mean we 967 01:22:40,370 --> 01:22:41,370 rush out to use it. 968 01:22:41,830 --> 01:22:43,990 Would vent mining prove to be incredibly lucrative? 969 01:22:44,210 --> 01:22:45,210 Maybe. 970 01:22:45,510 --> 01:22:48,550 But considering what's just happened, I think the question needs to be asked. 971 01:22:49,250 --> 01:22:50,250 Would it be worth it? 972 01:22:50,670 --> 01:22:54,090 Would you care to speculate about the original source of the virus? And if 973 01:22:54,090 --> 01:22:57,310 Andromeda was a biological weapon, how do you think its creators would respond 974 01:22:57,310 --> 01:22:58,310 to what you've done? 975 01:22:59,030 --> 01:23:00,030 I have no idea. 976 01:23:00,590 --> 01:23:03,550 We would seem to have been successful in the short run, but... 977 01:23:04,050 --> 01:23:07,150 It's probably fair to say, whoever it is, we've gotten their attention. 978 01:23:08,010 --> 01:23:10,850 What happens next is anybody's guess.