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- Doctor? - He'll be alright.

- Alright, now tell me what happened here.

- We were helping Mateo with his experiment.

- What equipment were you using?

- The transmitter.

- Victor, check it out.

- I warned him.

I, I, I, I, I warned him repeatedly.

- You had no right to interfere.

You could have killed him with what you did.

- I will not tolerate this experiment.

Not in my department. - Just calm down.

I want to know exactly what happened here.

Commander, I told Mateo

his experiments were dangerous.

- Dangerous?

How?

Why look what happened to him.

- Something did happen.

He went into some sort of trance.

- You see what I mean commander?

Now I did warn him.

- Warren please.

What kind of a trance?

- It was all quite scientific.

- Yes Paul?

- Momentary drop in temperature

recorded in all Alpha sections.

- Have you traced the source?

We have no idea what it was.

All we know is it originated in the section you're in.

Uh, John?

- I want the four of you to fill

out full reports right away.

Yes commander.

- Nothing wrong with that equipment.

In fact there's equipment here that

could have caused that drop in temperature.

- Something caused it Victor.

And it started here.

It's okay.

- How long have I been out?

- Not long.

Do you remember what happened?

Let's say Mateo believes that

we an innate affinity with plants.

Yep.

Even the possibility of communicating.

- Oh yes.

This works based on some scientific principles

'cause those human beings have thoughts,

have nervous systems.

We both respond to pain, hunger.

Even happiness.

- So let's say he's convinced

that certain wave patterns in the human brain

correspond precisely with wave patterns blasted send out.

- Yep.

And what Mateo was trying to do in tonight's experiment,

was to tap in those human wave patterns at source,

boost them by using the combined

mental powers of his friends, project them,

and then measure the results.

All leading to the ultimate goal of communication

between human beings and plants.

- So what went wrong?

Could that experiment have caused what happened on Alpha?

- Oh, I can't see how.

- Victor,

that computer didn't imagine that drop in temperature.

- This was the first time I used

the mental resources of other people,

and have felt the difference immediately.

A feeling that uh,

something unusual would happen.

Our concentration,

I,

Was aware of any feeling.

A coldness seemed to grow inside my mind, my body.

With it came fear.

A part of my mind struggled, wanted, trying to assist.

Then I,

burning, intense pain.

And nothing.

You're probably into areas of

the mind we know very little about.

Course, that's what makes it so fascinating.

- We need a new way doctor.

A new direction.

And I'm convinced we are the right track.

- You should be careful then.

- You seem to be particularly susceptible

to psychic phenomenons.

Sometimes, oh.

Oh.

Nora.

I'm sorry.

- How is he?

- Oh he'll be fine.

I will keep him in the medical center tonight.

Needs a good night’s sleep.

- Hi.

- Hi yourself.

Mateo?

Warren's going to stop your experiments.

- Warren.

He doesn't even understand what I'm trying to do.

He thinks it's too dangerous to continue.

- It is, to him.

If he succeeds he'll be as much

use around here as a gardener.

- I think you should stop them too.

That's ridiculous.

- I'm serious.

I was there I saw, I felt what happened.

- I thought you at least understood.

- I'm scared Mateo.

- Well?

- We checked.

There's been no reoccurrence anywhere on Alpha.

Whatever happened was sudden and swift.

- Kano?

- Computer cannot trace the source of the disturbance.

It tells us everything else except that.

- I will not give up my work.

Not now.

Not for anybody.

- Not for anybody, for yourself.

Why are you so stubborn?

- If you won't help me I'll do it alone.

Time for your night cap.

- We could all do with a good night’s sleep.

- Just relax.

Okay now.

Sleep well.

- Goodnight.

- Mateo?

Is that you?

Mateo?

No.

No!

- Mateo's still under sedation.

- We searched the whole section commander.

There's no one in here.

- Alright stand down.

Bob, give me a few minutes.

- Sure.

Nurse.

- Helena, there are only two people in this area.

You and Mateo.

And he was in a drugged sleep.

You're sure about what you saw?

- I don't know.

I'm not sure of anything anymore.

Wait a minute.

I, I, I am sure about what I felt and what I think I saw.

Mateo was telling me certain things

that happened to him during his experiment.

Feelings of coldness and dread.

That's precisely what happened to me

just before I saw that.

- Helena what are you saying?

That it was some kind of psychic experience?

- All I know is what I felt and what I saw.

- Well?

Did you check on it?

- Yes commander.

Computer recorded a definite temperature

drop in the medical area identical to the first.

Still no reason why.

- Something else John.

The scan equipment picked up a strong

wave pattern in the medical area.

The same pattern our friend Mateo uses and very strong.

- Warren?

I'm putting a temporary stop to Dr. Mateo's work.

- A very wise decision commander.

- What are you doing?

- This experiment is now finished.

There's more important work for Mateo to do.

For all of you to do.

- Leave it I'll do it.

Huh?

- Don't worry, I said I'll do it.

Alright.

- Kano, I want a round the

clock check on temperature levels.

Any sign of a drop inform me immediately.

Commander?

What are we looking for?

- I wish I knew.

- I'm not going to let him do this.

- It's just for the time being.

- I've heard that before too.

Look Doctor,

we are living out here in space living on borrowed time.

If anyone of our essential support systems fail,

maybe we survive.

But if our food chain goes,

we are finished.

My work is important.

Because I know we can increase the margin of survival.

- Mateo, it was Commander Koenig's decision.

- Yes.

With a big push from Warren.

Well, we'll see.

- Mateo?

- Warren!

Mateo!

- Have to forgive Mateo.

I don't want you in my department.

- I'll kill you if you say another word.

Mateo!

- You convinced?

You were the witness.

- Mateo!

- Commander, temperature drop registering.

Source unidentified.

Hydroponic unit.

- Alan.

Warren.

Warren.

Who's there?

Why?

Who is it?

- Commander I wasn't even in here when he died.

It's true I couldn't stand the man but killed?

- Mateo no one is accusing you.

But you did quarrel with the man

and minutes later he was dead.

You excuse us?

Please.

Three times we experienced temperature drops.

Each time something strange happened.

First you had some kind of a mental attack.

And Dr. Russell is terrorized by an Alpha who doesn't exist.

And now this.

And damn it nothing like this ever happened

on Alpha before your experiment.

- Yes I know.

- Mateo, do you know we've recorded

the wave pattern you used in your experiment?

- That's impossible.

You're equipment cannot record that wave pattern.

A source like it hardly exists.

- We did.

It was recorded each time the temperature dropped.

Including this time when Warren died.

- And how do you record psychic energy?

A very rare and very powerful source of psychic energy.

- Psychic energy.

- 'Cause that's what we've got John,

right here on Alpha.

Totally shattered spinal column.

- I've never seen anything like it.

- Fear generated to an unimaginable intensity.

- Helena,

you're positive no person could have caused this?

A blow of some kind.

- No blow could have caused this John.

- Paul?

Command conference.

- You want us to believe that Alpha is being terrorized

by some kind of psychic being?

A spook?

- Call it what you like Alan.

What it adds up to is a destructive force

that has killed and may do so again.

- Commander, most of us here are scientists.

Rational human beings and we believe

in the laws of cause and effect.

Now what happened to Warren was an effect.

But can we really except that the cause was supernatural?

- Yes but Paul, we all know that human beings

use no more than about 18% of their actual brain potential.

Now what happens in that other 82% is anybody’s guess.

- So you reject the idea that these events

have a supernatural origin?

- Ah, supernatural yes.

Paranormal, no.

- What we're talking about is a wave pattern

that's created by electrical activity

and originates in the most primitive,

least understood area of the human brain.

Now we do know that people that have psychic powers

possess this wave pattern in greater strength than others,

and that something happened in Mateo's experiment

which boosted his wave pattern

to a previously unknown intensity.

- Doesn't matter what it is or where it came from.

The important thing is is it is here amongst us.

- Mateo?

You're deliberately disobeying orders.

I know what I'm doing.

- I'll tell you what you're doing.

You're destroying everything you've ever worked for.

- You don't understand.

- Warren was right.

Your experiment is too dangerous

and you have got to stop it right now.

Listen to me.

- No!

- Listen to me carefully Nora.

It's possible something did happen in here.

If Bergman did record that wave pattern,

then we are on the verge of some tremendous break through.

How, how it happened I don't know.

But, don't you see I must pursue it?

- All I see is that I'm frightened.

- Well then don't be frightened.

I must try to recreate what happened.

To locate and identify this force if it exists.

Don't you see?

- No.

- But it's the only way we can

understand what's happening here.

Give it to me.

- No.

- Give it to me.

- No.

No!

Okay then I shall have to tell Commander Koenig.

Go!

- But it's a totally acetary supposition.

- Hold it.

Hold it.

We're not getting anywhere.

Now, the simple fact is...

- Commander?

Hydroponic unit.

Temperature drop.

- She died the same way as Warren.

- It's all my fault.

It's my fault.

I wouldn't listen.

Now she's dead and, and I did it.

Do you hear?

- Mateo.

- This thing on Alpha, is my fault.

It is my fault.

I raised it.

- It's not a question of who's...

- It's, it's here now.

In this place.

It's waiting to kill again.

To kill us

all.

- Mateo?

Mateo?

Come with me.

Come on.

Come on.

- Helena, since the experiment,

I've known.

I've sensed this thing.

A presence.

I,

Tried to convince myself I was mistaken.

That I imagined it.

But no.

It is with me everywhere I go.

Watching.

Waiting for something.

You know I threatened to kill Warren?

- You are not responsible for Warren's death.

- But, but, he died only minutes after I threatened him.

And Nora.

- Just take it easy.

It's alright.

Just take it easy.

- She was going to tell the Commander.

I was trying to recreate the experiment.

I tried to stop her.

She wouldn't listen.

A few minutes later,

she was dead.

- This force has some bizarre connection with Mateo.

But he understands it.

It's seizing on the destructive urges

within him and carrying them out.

- What do you think?

- John, I've seen this being.

I believe it.

Mateo wants to recreate the experiment

to try to bring it out into the open.

- Could be dangerous.

- Let him John.

Let him recreate the experiment.

- Victor my concerns are with the safety of Alpha.

- Yeah yeah but we can't fight this

thing unless we know what it is.

I say let him,

and give him all the help we can.

- Everybody put it on their right wrist.

I've told you what to do.

Please follow my instructions and do not break the circle.

Now, concentrate.

John?

That's it.

That what I saw.

- Bergman! - Don't break the circle!

Mateo?

- I was once who you say.

- What do you want from us?

- Mateo lives.

He is one of us.

You have no existence here.

- You took my existence from me.

Your legacy.

Witness the result of your actions.

- Your presence here is an accident.

- No accident.

I have returned.

My being cries out for vengeance.

For the collective act which destroyed my existence.

Don't.

No!

- Well?

- He's in deep shock.

Of course, he's under heavy sedation.

What I'm concerned about is what happens when it wears off.

When full awareness returns.

- Whether we believe in the occult or not,

there is a tradition in our culture

of ghosts, spirits, some force which continues

to work after death coming back in search

of revenge or justice or whatever.

But this thing that Mateo has summoned up,

is coming back to avenge a terrible death.

Its own death.

Which has not happened yet.

- Right now it draws its existence from Mateo,

and is capable of carrying out his aggressive urges.

- Yep.

- The present danger is restricted to just that.

What if it gets stronger,

and starts acting independently against us?

- Well aren't we getting ahead of ourselves?

I mean surely the present problem

is just keep him quiet, keep him sedated until

we can find some way of dealing with it.

- No, no Victor.

Sedation will not keep his unconscious from operating.

Helena's experience occurred

while he was already under sedation.

- Yeah.

- So, how do we deal with it?

How?

Course, there is the traditional

way of dealing with demons and spirits and such.

- You mean metal book and candle?

Exorcism?

- Yes.

That and the use of occult symbols

like the pentagram is one way.

But no what I've got in mind is

an extension of those techniques.

Now this being has power.

It has energy.

And we know where that energy originates.

It has a structure.

So what we've got to do is to determine

what that structure is and then maybe,

just maybe,

we can deal with it.

- Methedrine?

That will bring out the most violent aggressive responses.

- Exactly.

And that's just why we have to try it.

Helena if we can summon this creature at a time

and place of our own choosing,

we might just be able to contain it.

- Well it should work but,

it could destroy him.

- Yeah I know.

That has to be my responsibility.

Paul?

Withdraw all personnel from Alpha Section Five

and restrict access to everyone except Dr. Russell,

Professor Bergman, Dr. Mathias and myself.

- Is he ready?

Go on.

- The area within those four terminals is lethal.

So whatever happens, nobody go in there.

Ready.

- What is it?

What are you doing to me?

Let me go Commander.

Doctor?

Do you hear?

Do you hear me?

Let me go!

- If those straps don't hold, he'll harm himself.

- Helena we've got to go through with it.

- Do you hear?

Let me go!

You will pay for this.

All of you!

Let me out!

I'll kill you Koenig!

Koenig!

Koenig!

Koenig!

Koenig!

Koenig!

Let me out of here!

No.

Leave him alone.

Leave him alone!

Oh no!

He's dying!

No!

- You mustn't blame yourself John.

- Every death on this base is personal to me Helena.

But Mateo, I feel his just that little bit more.

- Mateo was burned in precisely

the same way as the spirit we saw.

It was inevitable that he would die like that.

It was pre-ordained.

He was beyond our kind of help.

- I just can't get it out of my mind.

I mean life after death.

Maybe, maybe not.

But to be haunted by your own ghost even before you die,

what's that all about?

- Life and death.

Still the big questions.

The greatest mysteries.