Original subtitles

("K9 Theme Song")

(eerie music)

- So playful.

They just don't care what they chuck down here.

(typing on keypad)

- Cool.

(kicks can)

- Hey!

Hey.

This is a restricted area.

(screaming)

Oh no.

Oh no, no, no.

Wait.

(light curious music)

- Completely useless.

- Well you can always do it again.

- What, and produce another worthless result?

- [Starkey] Maybe K9 could help.

- Empiricism and experimentation is my middle name.

- That's two middle names.

- I don't need help, I need hygiene.

This experiment failed because of contamination.

- Elementary error I'm afraid.

- K9, I'd like to see you produce

a perfectly hygienic environment

with three teenagers and a dog running around.

I traced the contamination to the chess room.

Sodium Bisulfate Carbonic cluster.

Pepperoni pizza.

- Don't you pay Darius to tidy up?

- Oh yes, yes.

He promised to clean up the whole place today.

- [Starkey] And?

Go figure.

(fly buzzing)

- A sterile environment is difficult to maintain.

- You're telling me.

- [K9] Without the use of toxic compounds

that destroy airborne dust particles

75% of which are dead human skin cells.

- It's much easier talking about it than fixing it.

- This unit is not equipped for household duties.

- And this unit is waiting for Darius.

(electronic whirring)

- Hey?

Is anybody there?

Well this is easier than I expected.

Just the job for the housework.

- So what went wrong?

- I suspect aliens.

- Alien infiltration?

- I've used this technology before,

but nothing like this has ever happened.

- Could it have just been a malfunction?

- They're harmless microbes.

Like yeast.

And they've turned into blood-thirsty, flesh-eaters.

(machine whirring)

(fly buzzes)

(silly music)

- What's this do?

(machine turns on)

Ah!

Well, here goes nothing.

- It was just here.

And we were working in there.

- So who could have taken it?

- I don't know.

(keypad beeps)

- You were right to bring this to my attention.

I'm getting something.

Could be an alien trace.

Something not known on this planet.

- Where's the imploder?

- It's gone, sir.

- Yes, I realized that.

Where?

- Please, sir, I don't know.

Honest!

- Inspector, the man is obviously scared out of his wits.

- Can I ask what you are doing here?

- I may well ask you the same question.

Isn't this a city sanitation issue?

- The disappearance of state property

is a very serious matter.

- And another question if I may,

how did you hear about this so quickly?

- I am eternally vigilant.

- It's time you get back into your own box.

- You mean you've got me here just to help you clean up?

- We love your company.

- And?

- Your conversation.

- [Jorjie] And?

- Your sunny smile.

- And you want me to help you clean up?

- With the three of us doing it,

it should only take a minute.

- So it was my sunny smile you wanted me for.

- I'm stunned.

- Oh, so you noticed the difference.

- How did you do it?

- Elbow grease.

It's old fashioned, I know,

but it's effecient.

- [K9] Something is not quite right here.

- You can say that again.

- Something is not quite right here.

- It's like nobody's ever lived here.

- I really think you should leave me

a few credits for all this hard work.

- [Starkey] And you cleaned my clothes as well?

- Dirty work, but somebody's got to do it.

(electronic burping sound)

Come on, K9, control yourself.

- It wasn't me, as well you know.

- What's that?

- What?

- That, that thing under here.

- Oh, that.

- [K9] Yes, that.

This vessel is full of an unstable cross-species.

- Darius, what is this thing?

- My analysis indicates ordinary yeast cells

have been spliced with something more sinister.

- Don't over complicate things K9,

it's like a vacuum cleaner.

- This unit detects extreme terminologically inexactitude

in your part.

- What's that mean?

- It means you're lying.

- What?

- My advice, remove this object from the house.

- Hey, just a minute.

This could be a nice little earner.

- A nice littler earner or a nice little killer.

- You're such a panic artist K9.

The microbes are like very efficient cleaning liquid.

(scoffs)

(electronic whirring)

What are you doing now K9?

You're always spoiling everything.

- I have scanned this room,

and there is not one living thing left in it.

Not one ant, not one spider, not one moth, nothing.

- Where did you buy it Darius?

- Buy it?

- I do not want you taking to anybody.

- But Inspector Turner asked.

- Especially her.

- Sir, I'm afraid something has changed in the technology.

And it's gonna really harm whoever's got it.

- And why should we care about them?

They are criminals.

They deserve to have their bones picked white.

- Darius, you need to get this back where you found it.

- I've got a window of commercial opportunity here.

- What of everything I said didn't you understand?

Whatever's inside this thing is an unstoppable life form

that could get out of control.

- Finders keepers.

- I don't get you sometimes.

- I'm just a businessman trying to make some creds.

- It can't stay here.

- Where did you pick it up?

- [Darius] I can't remember.

- Darius!

- NE12, near the northern inceptor tunnel.

- So we need to get it back there.

- We? Ha, no, you guys have to, you're on your own.

- Darius, you created the problem,

you have to help fix it.

- Problem?

This is a genius household appliance.

- So if you didn't buy it, I presume you stole it.

- Stole, that's such a harsh word.

- [K9] When you stole it, nothing strange happened?

- [Darius] Strange?

What do you mean by strange?

- Ah, Darius.

- This is a minor miracle.

- Oh, no prof, that room is a major miracle.

- Oh professor, could you get your atomic spectrometer

to analyze exactly what's been at work here.

- Well whatever it is, it's too good to be true.

I've never seen anything like it.

Look at this.

See it's in a sample of Starkey's shirt.

These smaller microbes have been attacked

by the bigger ones.

Their corpses are everywhere.

- And that's interesting because?

- The weaker ones have been hunted and consumed.

It's nano technology I've never seen before.

- Finally scientists invented something useful.

I'd have made a million creds out of this.

- Darius, in the wrong hands, this could be lethal.

- Why?

- Somebody's been tampering with their gene coding.

- Can you dumb that down a bit prof.

- These microbes have been crossed

with ones from another planet.

My hunch is that the vicious omnivores from Pluto.

- [Darius] So what?

- They're only the most voracious

germs in the known universe.

- And that's what makes them such good cleaner uppers?

- It gets worse.

All microbes are self-limiting.

When their food supply runs out, they shut down,

they become dormant.

- Like when you've eaten too much pizza, you fall asleep?

- Exactly, but their domancy gene has been turned off.

So they're hungry all the time,

which means, they could literally eat the whole world.

- Why didn't you tell me?

- What?

- I've just received an analysis

from the microbes in the imploder.

- That was fast.

- Oh, I'm eternally vigilent.

- And what were the findings?

- Why don't you tell me.

Because it's one of your projects isn't it?

I've crossed checked, it's called Black Hunger.

- Black Hunger is just one of my many responsibilities.

- It said it was closed down because it was too unstable.

- I've solved all that.

- Really?

- The use of an electromagnetic

containment device, the imploder.

Allows us to store and transport the hunger.

- But my analysis is that

you've genetically altered the swarm

to remove it's self-limiting

dormancy characteristics, why?

- To make it more efficient.

- What if it got out of control?

- It can't.

- Inspector, you don't know who's hands it's fallen into.

- Don't panic, inspector.

- If that swarm did get out,

it'd be the end of your career.

- You'd really like that wouldn't you.

- Can't we just leave it here?

- Oy!

- Let's go!

- [K9] Don't run, we can bluff our way out.

- Hello, hello, what's going on here then?

- I'm just taking my friends for a walk.

- You're taking them for a walk?

- They just get too playful unless you tire them out.

- Maybe I'd better call this in

and get further instructions.

- Ah, no, uh ...

We've got to keep walking, otherwise --

- Otherwise we'd just start jumping around and --

- And slobbering on everybody.

- And biting people

(growls and barks)

- Yes, they're a handful, these two.

Lovely coats though, don't you think.

(panting)

- Oh, they are a handful.

I think you should muzzle that one.

- Consider it done.

- Have a light foot.

(laughs)

- Our climate is constantly threatened from within

by dissidents, anti-social undesirables,

and all those juveniles who want to buck the system.

- The people are not the problem.

The planet is surrounded by alien menace,

which needs to be defeated.

- Yes, but we must first get our hands

on the alien technology to take control

of the human problem first.

- So, that's what black hunger is all about.

- In part.

- And that's why you've tried to hijack

fallen angel technology.

To control society.

- Future generations will thank me.

- No, they'll curse you for taking away

their freedom to be themselves.

- People, they need rules.

What to do, when to do it, who to be.

Otherwise, it all becomes chaos.

- Well, I have a daughter that I don't want

growing up in your world.

That's one of the reasons I've stayed on at the department.

To make sure you don't succeed.

- I'll see you leave before I do.

- Bring it on.

- What's he doing here?

- Darius.

There's always more to this than he says.

- Why can't we just drop it here?

- Negative, you must return it to where Darius got it from.

Maybe they they haven't noticed it's missing.

- But how do we get it past them?

- [K9] Watch and learn.

I guarantee that lump of wood

couldn't catch this cutting edge unit.

Wheeee!

- What? You're on.

- [K9] Come and get me.

- Hey stop, you're nicked.

- Around here.

(footsteps leaving)

- Come on.

- Watch out!

- Backtrack?

- No, there's canards everywhere.

- What are you doing?

- Spring cleaning.

- Contact fight with suspects who have the imploder.

- Describe them.

- [CPC] Two juveniles and a robotic dog.

- Where?

- NW12.

- [Drake] Hunt them down.

- Yes sir.

- It's time to operate the fail safe.

- But there's CPC's down there sir.

- And two juveniles.

- Your point being?

Initiate countdown now!

- Initiated.

- [Computer] Imploder will self destruct

in T minus 5 minutes and counting.

- K9.

- [K9] CPC's have been eluded.

- Genius, let's go.

- Containing the nano swarm would be advisable Starkey.

- [CPC] They're up here.

- No time for that now K9, let's go.

- [Computer] T minus two minutes and counting.

- Who gave the order to secure the tunnels?

- I have located the imploder

and I need to ensure it is neutralized.

- Neutralized?

- I thought you'd approve.

- What are you going to do?

- Contained neutron explosion will sterilize the area.

- So, who's down there with it?

- The outlaws that took it, I assume.

- [Computer] T minus one minute and counting.

- Starkey, I have something problematic to report.

Sensors indicate that the imploder is about to detonate.

- What?

- A neutron explosive device inside has been activated.

- Dump it and run.

- Time remaining would not permit you

to reach there perimeter of the destruction zone.

- Can we diffuse it?

- We can try.

- Please.

- Do you know how many people are down there.

- Uhh - Do we care?

- [Computer] T minus 30 seconds and counting.

(beeping)

- It's not working.

- You pressed the green twice.

- Concentrate.

- I'm doing my best here.

- Input again from the beginning.

- Abort this now.

People will die.

- [Computer] T