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Through all the legends of ancient peoples,

Assyrian, Babylonian,

Sumerican, Semitic,

runs the saga of the eternal man.

The one who never dies,

called by various names in various times,

but historically known as Gilgamesh,

the man who has never tasted death,

the hero who strides through the centuries.

I was born 10 days ago.

A full-grown man, born 10 days ago.

I woke on a street of this city.

I don't know who I am, or where I've been,

or where I'm going.

Someone wiped my memories clean,

and they tracked me down and tried to kill me.

Why? Who are you?

I ran. I managed to escape them the first time.

Then the hand, my hand.

Told me what to do.

What can I do? Who are they?

Programming data insufficient.

"Who are they?"

Random collation of possibilities.

"What can I do?",

in order of factors of success, are as follows...

Each pursuer wears a gold medallion.

Remove these medallions.

The time mirror permits only 2 travelers at one time,

but they are replenishable.

If possible, destroy the mirror.

Stay alive. Above all, stay alive.

Destiny is in your whole hand.

I am incomplete.

I can serve you better if I am complete.

Easier said than done, staying alive.

There is nothing wrong with your television set.

Do not attempt to adjust the picture.

We are controlling transmission.

For the next hour, we will control all that you see and hear.

You are about to experience the awe and mystery.

Which reaches from the inner mind to...

The outer limits.

Please, Mr. Trent, I can't stand pain.

There's nothing I can tell you.

Why are you trying to kill me?

This is your last chance, Breech.

Who are you and the others that are with you?

Are you from this time or from the future?

We are from the future.

We come from Kyba.

We're the Kyban from another world,

from the future of this world.

We've been altered to look like humans.

It was necessary to come back into time and find you.

Why?

We're at war.

What do you want with me? What are you after?

Your hand.

Why?

We were told it holds all knowledge.

What kind of knowledge?

We were told we have 3 fingers of your hand,

that the whole hand is so import...

I... I don't know.

I know this,

you were the last man on the earth of the future.

You are the last hope of earth.

Now you... you can send me up...

But that's all I know.

It's the truth.

Explain the gold medallions to me.

The time mirror works safely only one way,

coming into the past from the future.

And when the medallions are pulled off?

They're focusing elements for the mirror.

It's... it's... it's as if time were a rubber band,

and you were on one end stretched out tight.

As long as the medallion's present,

the band stays tight.

But when you rip it off,

we snap back up to the future.

I'm wearing one, that makes me vulnerable?

Yes, you're vulnerable.

And we'll get you.

We'll have to get you, finally.

If you kill me, another will take my place.

And if you kill him, another.

And where is this time mirror?

The Dixon building, downtown.

We took an office.

The time mirror's set up there, we...

You come from the earth, 1,000 years in the future.

The Kyban came from the stars,

and men had no defense against them.

They conquered the planet earth in a month.

But before they could slaughter the millions of humans left,

overnight, without warning, without explanation,

every man, woman and child of earth vanished.

You were the only one left, Mr. Trent,

with the glass hand the vanished earthmen had given you.

To help you.

They called you the last hope of humanity.

The medallion you stole let you escape.

Into now, the present, today.

And now you are among all the men of earth.

Who are alive today.

But the Kyban gained possession of 3 parts of your hand,

the computer that could answer all the questions.

You have to get those 3 lobes to me,

the computer brain,

and find out what the alien Kyban really want from you.

Why you were the only man left alive,

1,000 years in the future,

on the planet earth.

You must destroy the time mirror,

to keep them from sending more Kyban through to the present,

to close that doorway completely.

Is this it?

The Dixon building,

once the most exclusive office building in the city,

it has become the center of a slum.

Now it houses cut-rate garment, piece-goods offices,

passport photographers, and the like.

One of the offices is a front for the Kyban.

And their time mirror.

Welcome, Mr. Trent.

I see Breech died a hero, Mr. Trent.

He brought you to us.

Infinitely easier than going to look for you.

Ah, come along, Mr. Trent.

We're here, all of us,

and we're waiting for you.

You don't think you can escape us, do you?

1,000 years in the future,

we conquered your planet in 19 days.

What chance do you think you have in the present?

We've thrown a force bubble around the building.

Invisible,

impossible to break.

You're trapped.

What do you want?

You, Mr. Trent. Give yourself up.

Give yourself up,

and we'll let you live.

What is it you want? What?

I want the 70 billion future earthmen.

And you know where they are.

Where are the future people of the earth?

In hiding. You are the key to releasing them.

Where? Tell me?

I am unable to answer.

My mechanism is not whole.

Hey, I have nothing. Nothing here.

Please, mister, don't kill me, please.

Don't kill me, mister. Come on.

Please don't kill me, don't...

Don't kill me, please.

Please.

Wasn't on the roof.

He can't get away. The force bubble is sealed.

We'll find him.

They want to kill me.

I didn't know there was anyone was in here.

I have to hide.

Believe me,

I need help, I need your help.

No, now listen to me, please.

I'm all alone.

I need your help.

If you scream,

if you let them know where we are...

Please...

Trust me.

And be very, very still.

This is going to sound insane.

But it's true, it's real.

And you must listen to me.

This is not a human being.

He's from another planet, another solar system.

He wants to kill me.

He and the others like him.

There's more, much more, but, uh...

I have to get you to believe me

and there's only one way to do it.

Now watch.

Gone!

Where?

It doesn't matter where, just gone.

Now do you believe me?

I believe you.

Where did he go? What did you do to him?

He went forward, to another time,

1,000 years from now.

The future, he came from the future,

and so do I.

But you said that he wasn't human,

that he was some other kind of being.

Another world and another time.

Look, I worked late tonight.

It's a poor living, will you let me go home, please?

You can't leave the building, it's sealed off.

What do you mean, sealed off?

A force bubble, uh, it's an invisible barrier.

Keeps anyone from getting out.

It's designed to keep me inside,

but it keeps everyone else in, too.

I'm sorry.

I don't understand this at all.

Wait!

They want to kill me, do you understand that?

They've come through time,

from the future, to kill me.

That's about as much as I understand myself.

But I've got to survive, not just for my own sake,

but for a larger objective.

They use a time mirror for time travel.

It's somewhere in the building.

I've got to find it and destroy it before they destroy me.

Now, is there a place to hide?

Maybe the basement.

If they're all through the building...

Come, there's another way to get down there.

Move this away from the wall.

It's been sealed off for years, blocked,

so there was only one entrance to the shop.

All right. Go ahead, lead.

What are you going to do with him?

What I did with the other one.

After I talk to him.

Do you have to?

Do you have to kill him?

What would you suggest?

I'm sorry, it's just that I can't stand violence.

When it's gone this far, it's more than just violence.

What's your name?

Trent.

Trent?

Trent.

My name is Consuelo Biros.

And you hate violence.

It was because of my husband, Esteban.

The "E" on the door.

"The 'E' on the door."

"C. And E. Biros, ladies apparel."

Oh, yes.

He was always hitting me. He had a rotten temper.

That was his answer to everything, hitting me.

I... I shouldn't talk about him that way.

He did the best he could.

Being poor is what made him so rotten.

Please...

You have to kill him?

Do you?

I'm prepared to die.

How prepared?

Why not give yourself a couple of minutes?

We all knew we'd die when we came on this mission.

It was worth it.

You can stay alive in this time.

I don't care about that.

Helping my race is more important.

Bargain week on patriots.

Call it what you like.

I'm not afraid to die.

Really?

Then why are you whispering?

You Kyban were always super patriots.

Especially when you bombed earth from 10 miles out.

How does your patriotism sit with burning women and children alive?

It's war.

So is this.

Now,

let's talk, shall we?

You'll never get out of this building alive.

We'll bring more Kyban through the time mirror.

That's my problem.

Right now, you have one of your own.

I want to know

who's carrying the other 3 parts of my brain?

I can tell you. It wouldn't matter.

There's only one piece, here in this time.

They're keeping the other 2 up in the future till they get to you.

But there is one piece, one finger, here, now.

And when you go after it, they'll be waiting for you.

Arch?

He has one.

And 1,000 years from now,

Bonn and Durn have the other 2.

When we need them, they'll bring them through.

Trent, let him go. Let him go!

Stay out of it!

I found him! I found him!

Up here! I found him!

Come on.

I'm trapped in the building with the Kyban.

There's a woman with me.

We can't escape. Tell me, what can I do?

100 percent possibility of success is not available.

Next success quotient, only 47 percent probable.

Well, tell me, what is it?

Let them kill you.

He's dead.

Very dead.

As soon as we bring Durn and Bonn

through the mirror with the other 2 fingers,

we shall know exactly where humankind is hiding,

and put an end to every last one of them.

Why are we keeping the woman? Isn't that dangerous?

She hasn't spoken yet. No one knows who she is.

That's why we're keeping her alive.

Till we find out.

Bonn and Durn will be coming through the mirror soon.

When we put that glass brain together, and ourjob is done,

perhaps it'll have a method for us to go back up safely.

I'm so frightened.

Dear Mary...

Please help me.

I'm so frightened.

Will you save me, please?

You can save...

Yourself.

What?

You asked a question.

It activated my programming.

Can you get a moist cloth?

Is he dead?

Yes, he is dead.

Do you have the moist cloth?

Yes, I have it.

Listen carefully.

Wring it out. Not wet, moist.

Then apply it lightly to the exact center of the forehead.

There is a soft spot, you will find.

It will stimulate the gliomus, the brain substance itself.

Then touch it to the frontal sinus between the eyes.

And the carotid artery,

the thick artery in his neck, supplying blood to the brain.

16, blood pressure: 40 over 0.

Pupils dilated. Motor reflexes erratic.

5 breaths per minute.

60 degrees temperature.

- 182. - 300 over 150.

36.

40, 49.

112 degrees.

112 degrees?

Remove the cloth quickly, he is rising too fast.

I was in a dark place.

Someone was calling my name, over and over.

Down a long corridor.

You were dead.

The hand, it brought you back.

No blood, no bullet holes.

I'm alive.

If it can do all that with just one lobe of his brain,

what can it do with all 3 missing parts?

Fill in my memory? Answer all my questions?

I heard them talking and they said that

the other 2 parts will come through with Durn and Bonn.

Through the mirror.

I've got to find it. I've got to find that office.

Now are you...

Complete enough to tell me what to do?

Ambiguous. I can now extrapolate.

What is "extrapolate"?

Draw a conclusion from a series of facts.

Can you tell me what they're after?

Why have they been sent back to kill me?

You carry the lives of 70 billion earthmen.

They want your glass hand.

It will tell them,

where the people of earth are hiding.

How to return to the future without dying.

How to exist in this time, safely.

But where?

Where are the people of earth?

I will need my 2nd brain lobe to answer.

I have registered an energy drain.

Durn is through the mirror.

Arch, Arch! It's Durn! I've got Trent!

He's alive.

Where are you?

Protect yourself. Protect the 2nd finger.

Durn, answer! Where are you?

Durn!

The 2nd finger.

No! No!

I'm sorry, I can't.

Shh.

Now,

where are my people?

The 70 billion people of earth, where are they hiding?

Trent,

your people knew they could not defeat the Kyban,

but they had a terrible weapon.

A radioactive plague with a half-life of 99 years.

But to turn it loose in the atmosphere.

Meant death for humans as well as Kyban.

The plague destroys all intelligent life.

They died?

70 billion died?

No.

They had to find a way to get off the earth for 200 years,

till the plague had dissipated and the earth was clean once more.

And they did. They vanished, all of them, overnight.

Where did they go?

A device was used to translate.

Every man, woman, and child on earth.

Into their primal electrical components.

The population of earth, 70 billion people,

were turned into electrical impulses,

and they were stored on a thin strand of gold-copper alloy wire.

A piece of wire?

I, uh, I cannot believe.

Uh... uh, a wire?

Reiterate, a wire.

In this time, the time of this woman,

they put sounds and odors and pictures on wire.

1,000 years from now, in your time frame,

it is a commonplace means of preserving life.

That still doesn't explain why they want to kill me.

I don't have this...

Wire.

I carry nothing.

Reiterate, the wire was entrusted to you.

Well, where is it?

I cannot answer. I am not yet complete.

The 3rd part of your brain,

do you know where it is?

Can you tell me anything further?

Reiterate, you are the last hope of mankind, Trent.

Do not fail.

To save all of man...

I have to become a killer.

Arch!

The mirror is due. Bonn is coming through.

I'll be right down.

We searched the whole building.

No sign of them or Durn.

I know. Don't worry, we'll find them.

How long has it been since you've slept?

I don't know. Funny.

I never seem to get tired.

But I know I haven't slept since this thing began.

I've got to get you out of here, clear of me.

I think there's no place to hide.

There has to be, somewhere.

I think I'm part of your trouble.

Now that you brought me into this.

You can't be with me.

But I am.

Consuelo, they're not human.

They'll walk over anything to get to me.

Destroy anything that's close to me.

Trent...

I'm going through this thing on blind luck.

I don't want you with me if it runs out.

Trent...

Oh, Trent...

I think I'm falling in love with you.

Not me, Consuelo.

I'm not in love.

I know.

I know.

But I don't care.

Doesn't matter.

If one of us loves, that's enough.

By tomorrow morning, very probably, both of us will be dead.

Well then, there's no time to wait for you to fall in love with me.

It's safer out there.

No. Yes.

They'll never look for us outside the building.

Trust me.

Look at me.

Don't look down.

What are you... what are you going to do?

Try to beat the devil.

Which office, Arch?

You got Durn, you sent him up.

Which office?

Or do you get sent up, too?

Tell me, what's it like?

Is it quick, all of a sudden, like a switch off?

Or is it soft, slow, like jelly?

3rd floor, P.O. 2, Alvarado passport photos.

We'll win, Trent.

In the end, we'll win.

They're all gone. Every last man on earth.

Just you.

Arch! Hey, Arch!

Bonn's going to want you down here.

He'll want to see us all.

Arch! Where are you?

Be right there.

Just checking the hall. Go on in.

Hurry!

Bonn's coming through right away!

There's trouble up ahead!

I am Budge. Bonn is right behind me.

I was sent down to make sure everything was safe for transmission.

The Kyban are starting to die up there.

From what?

We don't know.

It started almost as soon as Trent escaped through the mirror.

Seems to be some sort of plague.

The earthmen?

No, we still can't find them.

They're vanished. Every last one of them. And all in one night.

And our bacteriology tests show that it is something which is not native

to the earth's atmosphere.

And you saved your hide by escaping into this past?

I was sent on to protect Bonn and the 3rd finger.

We were told to get the glass hand.

It has the answer and the reason for the plague. It has all the answers.

Here comes Bonn.

He's got the 3rd finger of the glass hand.

Grab it as soon as it solidifies,

in case something goes wrong with the transmission.

God, forgive me. God, forgive me!

Oh, is it over?

Almost.

The mirror is gone.

And the Kyban, are they all dead?

All but one.

I'll have to take care of that.

You go on down in the garment shop. I'll be there.

Go on.

Oh! It's been a nightmare.

But it's over, it's done.

Yes.

Mmm.

Except for humanity.

People of earth are still missing.

But the computer is complete. Now I can ask the hand.

Do you have sufficient data now to answer my questions?

My segments are complete. Ask your question.

Where is the wire on which the people of earth are electronically transcribed?

It is wound around an insulating coil.

Inside your central thorax control solenoid.

It has been demagnetized and protected from your circuits.

What circuits? What are you talking about?

Trent, push the 3 middle fingers of the computer together,

and bend them back as far as they will go.

70 billion earthmen.

All of them went onto the wire,

and the wire went into you.

They programmed you to think you were a human.

With a surgically attached computer for a hand.

But you are a robot, Trent.

You are the guardian of the human race.

That's why when they killed me,

no bullets, no blood.

Once I had one of the missing lobes to my brain,

I was able to help your machinery repair itself.

Like the eternal man of Babylonian legend,

like Gilgamesh,

1,000 plus 200 years stretches before Trent.

Without love, without friendship,

alone, neither man nor machine,

waiting...

Waiting for the day he will be called to free the humans.

Who gave him mobility.

Movement, but not life.

We now return control of your television set to you.

Until next week, at the same time,

when the control voice will take you to...

The outer limits.