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♪ Deep in the caverns of Alpha Moonbase ♪

♪ Through such a tunnel what mysteries unfold ♪

♪ Could be we'll find us a pot of bright gold ♪

- Yeah.

No, I'll settle for the dylenide crystals

we're looking for.

- Well this looks like a good place, Bluey.

Set her up.

- Hey, that's not dylenide crystal.

- Try to cut it.

Broaden the beam.

Cut the beam!

- It's a couple of corpses.

- That's impossible.

Hey.

I thought I just saw...

- Mr. Carter!

Mr. Carter!

- Okay, set it up over there.

- Welcome back among the living.

You had us worried for a moment.

Come on.

- Can this be some kind of cryogenic

suspended animation setup?

- Cabinet's temperature is four degrees centigrade.

- Well, then no, that's cool,

but it's well above the cryogenic temperature range.

Life signs?

- Nothing.

No sign of life at any level.

No brain activity.

No heartbeat.

I saw his eyes open, I tell you.

I saw his eyes open.

Impossible, Alan.

That's impossible.

- Now just suppose the moon was inhabited

sometime in the past.

Could this be some sort of burial ground?

- It's an elaborate cemetery

surrounded by a very strong force field.

Who are they being protected from?

- Hey wait a minute.

You see that?

On Krom Two, the inhabitants knew that as a sign of danger.

They called it Flammon, the death glow, you remember?

- Right.

It was a sign left by a godlike race

to warn the people of places where their lives

might be in danger.

- Helena.

Just a moment ago, got a heartbeat.

- Has there been a change in the volume of air

in the lungs since you began monitoring?

- Increase of 2.5 milliliters in just over seven minutes.

- What does that mean?

- He's breathing.

- Tony, that section of wall.

- That must be the power source.

And control panel.

Now that must control the force field.

- Yeah.

- Can you operate it?

- If I knew where to start.

- If Maya was here, she could figure it out in a minute.

- Well she isn't.

And we can't wait for another two days

for she and John to return from the blue quadrant survey.

Watch out!

The roof!

It's coming down.

- Wait, we can't leave them!

- Tony!

Tony!

Get out!

- Over here.

Swing him round.

That's it.

- Alan! - No Tony!

- He's a kid!

- Set him down over here.

- Brain, pulse, and heartbeat leveling off.

At norm minus 0.2.

- Get the monitor on the boy.

- Etrec.

Etrec.

- Take it easy.

You'll be fine.

Take it easy.

- I've got a heartbeat.

- Pure oxygen.

Brain pulse.

Another heartbeat.

- Levels?

- Brain pulse, seven, seven, three and rising.

Heart, 44.

45.

46.

Increasing steadily.

- Is he safe?

- Safe as we are.

Moonbase Alpha, status report.

Doctor Helena Russell recording.

640 days after leaving Earth orbit.

Special incident report.

Excavation discovery.

Supplementary, medical.

Both subjects are resting quietly.

Cardiac stimuli no longer necessary.

Monitoring of all physical functions is being maintained.

Preliminary analysis indicate cell structure

and metabolism, 91.7 percent of human norm

further investigations will be carried out of course.

Contact has been made with Commander Koenig.

He has been informed of the situation.

How are our patients?

- In deep sleep.

- Natural or sedated?

- Sedated.

They're still in somnol.

All readings stable.

- Good.

Let's cut the somnol.

- I'd like to get on with programming the computer

for a more detailed analysis.

- Right.

The somnol will hold them for a few more hours yet.

Let me know when you have things set up.

- Pasc.

- Quiet.

My son.

- Have they come back?

Have they found a way?

- We are among strangers.

There is no way but our way.

- No, Pasc.

No.

Perhaps the strangers can help.

- There is no help for me.

Soon there will be no help for you.

No.

Not yet.

- Please.

Don't let it come.

- I cannot stop it.

- Yes you can.

How?

- Kill me.

- I can't.

- Why not?

- You killed Lok and Kerak.

- I need you.

The time is coming

when you will need me.

- Did the Commander get the incident report?

- Yeah.

Went through on the last transmission.

- There's another due in a couple of minutes.

- There.

It's starting to come through now.

- Eagle One.

Come in, Eagle One.

- Eagle One to Moonbase Alpha.

Are you receiving?

- Not too well, Commander.

Visual not holding steady.

- We're in the eye of an approaching meteor storm.

We may be cut off at any second,

so let's wrap this up fast.

- Okay, I'll get Eagle Three on the launchpad

ready for immediate lift off in case

you need bringing in.

- Let's hope we won't need bringing in.

Helena, anything to add to the incident report

on the two aliens?

- They're still under sedation,

so I haven't completed a full medical analysis.

Tests so far show them to be borderline human norm.

- Tony?

- Origin unknown.

No ID.

Unable to interrogate yet.

Until we can, they're an X factor.

- Until you do, treat them as an X factor.

- Check.

And what would you like to know?

- Hey, Cobber.

You're up and doing.

- Cobber?

- Yeah.

That means you're a pal.

You know, a real close buddy.

- Our systems break down a sedative more quickly than yours.

- Your head. - A scratch.

My equilibrium was not fully restored when I stood up.

My head hit the wall.

Please, please.

I cannot allow you.

A man's blood holds deep, spiritual significance

on Archanon.

- Archanon?

Archanon?

It's the planet of peace.

- Yes, we are Archanons, the peace bringers.

I am Pasc.

This is Etrec, my son.

And you I know are Commander Koenig.

- There are legends of the coming of the peace bringers.

The conquest of evil by good.

- We've lost them.

- Keep the channel open.

They'll get back to us when there's a break in the storm.

- Conquest of evil by good.

- Violence was outlawed in our Archanon world.

We had replaced evil with good

amongst our own people.

We sent our emissaries throughout the universe

so others might see it could be done.

I was the commander of such a mission.

- For most of the races we've come across,

you don't seem to have had too much success.

- It takes time.

It takes time to reach all beings.

It was not, however, until we had reached your solar system

that we met with total failure.

My mission ended on your third planet.

- Earth.

- We established a base on your moon

and observed.

We saw such violence and hatred

that my wife Lyra begged me to leave Earth to its fate.

I overruled her.

We descended.

Like doctors entering a plague area,

we thought we were immune.

We were not.

Only Etrec and I escaped contagion.

When we returned to our moonbase,

the whole crew mutinied.

We were overpowered and placed in stasis

while they left to carry on their madness.

Your madness.

To the farthest corners of the universe.

- Why the stasis chamber?

Why didn't they kill you?

- They could not.

- The Archanons cannot die?

- Archanons cannot kill.

Not even in their madness.

The taking of any form of life

is abhorrent.

Indeed, impossible to them.

- Then how come that same race can condemn

a man and a boy to an eternal living death

in a stasis chamber?

- Your wife.

What happened to her?

- She led the mutineers.

She put us here.

- Etrec.

Hey, is he all right?

- Hold on.

All right now.

It could be the somnol.

Now let’s get him to medical.

- All right, I'll take him.

Come on.

- Take it easy.

- Got him?

- Yup.

Up you go.

- All right, let's go.

- What kind of people can do that

to one of their own race?

- What kind of mother can do that to her son?

- How is he?

- There's nothing organically wrong.

There are some things about his physical structure

I don't understand.

I'll have to do some tests.

- Hey.

Hi ya, Cobber.

How ya feeling?

- Hungry.

- Hey, did you hear that, doc?

The only thing wrong with this kid,

he hasn't had a square meal in 1000 years.

Tell you what.

There's a little place just down the corridor,

hamburgers like you wouldn't believe, right doc?

- Hamburgers?

- Well they're a little bit mixed up with hydroponic soil,

but they taste like the real thing.

Hey, is that okay, doc?

- It's okay.

But take it easy.

Like you said, he hasn't had a square meal in 1000 years.

- Come on, let's go.

Can you make it?

- I think so.

Come on.

- Oh no, I think I'd better carry you.

- No, please.

I would like to walk.

Carry me.

- Okay, okay.

Hop up on the old kangaroo.

Hey, we're out for a bite to eat.

You wanna join us?

Come on here, Cobber.

Here we go.

Hey, hey.

Hey.

- It's a virus all right.

- No question about it.

Look at those tendrils.

- They must indicate that the virus is still alive

in Pasc's sputum.

- Right.

Let's see Etrec's plate.

Now it has all the same characteristics

except for the tendrils.

- Dead?

- It could be dormant.

We'll have to check it out.

- All right, Etrec, take this pass clean.

Hey!

- Oh, that's good.

That really is good.

Now we’re gonna try the stop kick again.

You ready?

You wait here.

- Mr. Carter.

- Now remember son, two-hey, Bluey, out of the way, son.

Out of the way.

Etrec, two eyes into two hands.

You ready?

Here we go.

Long and low.

Hey!

Great.

Right.

Okay, now this is the big one.

This is the big one.

This is the try line.

You ready?

You've gotta get past me or I'm gonna tackle you.

Everything goes.

Swerving all the time.

Okay, put it in.

Run!

Go!

I'm gonna tackle you.

I'm gonna tackle you!

Whew.

What happened?

My granddad would be real proud of you.

- Excuse me sir.

- Hey, Bluey.

You're just in time.

You wanna be ref?

- Is that a real football?

- Is that a real football?

Son, this is the football.

Australia beat Great Britain, 50 to 12.

Sweden, '63.

- You're kidding.

- That's Harrison's own signature.

- Where did you get it?

- His grandfather used to play on Harrison's team.

And he gave it to him because they were mates.

- That's it, son, because they were mates.

Hey, Bluey, you gotta be referee.

I've gotta get the champ here in shape for the big match.

- No, no, Mr. Verdeschi asked me to hunt you down.

Tell you we got all the stuff out of the cavern.

- Oh, the stasis chamber and the power unit.

- Yeah, the chamber is pretty well scrap.

But the power unit is hardly touched.

They're down in tech lab three.

They'd like to see you.

- Right.

Let's go.

Come on, Etrec.

Over to you.

Attaboy. - And back to you.

- You score anything?

- Zero.

Don't even know how to open it.

Oh, Etrec, your father's on his way.

- Well, in the meantime, move over

and let an expert take a look.

- You?

- Him.

- I'm sorry.

I never handled power units.

I only got as far as wave particle analysis.

- Well, listen, I'll tell you what.

If we have any wave particle problems,

we'll send for you, okay?

- Pasc would know.

He was the commander.

- It's the same all over the universe.

In the eyes of the son,

the father is the infinite source of knowledge.

In this case, as in all others,

the confidence is somewhat misplaced.

- But you knew all about...

- As commander of the expedition,

I was merely the coordinator.

I have my specialists for this type of thing.

- Yeah, well, how about opening it.

Commander, I think you can at least show us how to do that.

- I know what that is.

It's a monitor transmitter.

- It's used in planet fall to locate the unit

and the team using it.

- Yes, we've got those.

They don't look anything like this.

What's its range?

- Range?

Whatever range is required.

- Oh, I see.

Yes, Helena.

- Tony, I'm trying to locate Pasc and Etrec.

Are they with you?

- Yes.

- Have them come to medical center.

- Could it hold just a bit?

- Right away please. It's important.

- If the good doctor says it's important,

we'd better go.

- Yeah, okay, okay, but how about this first?

- I'll come back later and tell you what I can.

Etrec.

- Pasc, it's not this way.

- We're not going to the doctor.

We've got to get away.

- But, Pasc.

- That monitoring transmitter was set to Archanon frequency.

On Archanon, they now know we are free.

- They will come for us?

- Oh they won't find us.

- Where can we go?

- Well that's that then.

You've got the whole Eagle all to yourself now.

Right down to the protective storm shield.

Just keep it on the launching pad

until the Commander asks for help.

Good luck.

- We will take the Eagle.

- But, that is to save the Commander.

If he needs help.

- We need help.

It's gonna save us.

We have no choice.

Somewhere out there, we'll find a place and make it our own.

- And when there is no one left to kill?

- There is always someone left to kill.

- Here we see it again.

Pasc's brainwave patterns peak here and here,

and there's no corresponding movement in Etrec's.

- You think it could be connected with the virus?

Active and Pasc?

Dormant in the boy?

- There is nothing more we can do without blood samples.

Then maybe we can make a serum.

- Yes, Helena.

- Are Etrec and Pasc still with you?

- No, they left here for medical center when you asked.

Aren't they there yet?

- No.

- Okay, I'll get someone right onto it.

- Please.

- Eagle One to Moonbase Alpha.

Come in Moonbase Alpha.

- How you doing, Yasko?

- That's the best I can do.

Eagle One, are you receiving?

- Hardly.

- What is your position?

- Orbital reference 367.

And highly uncomfortable.

- Do you want us to launch Eagle Three?

It can reach blue quadrant in 18 hours.

- Good idea.

You'd better.

We've got meteorite damage to the hull.

- How about damage to yourself?

And Maya?

- A few bruises and a little space sick.

But we'll be...

Yes, Alan, what is it?

- Oh, I'm in tech lab three with Johnson, Tony.

We think we've found some kind of recording device

on the power unit.

If you're still hooked into Eagle One,

we'd like a patch with Maya for an opinion.

- We lost contact.

We'll try to put you through if we regain.

- Okay, thanks.

- Pasc.

We've been looking all over for you two.

Doctor Russell wants you at medical center.

- Oh, well, we were on our way there.

- Other way around.

- Oh, I'm sorry.

We're strangers here.

- What makes you think

this is some kind of recording device?

Could be anything from an electronic pencil

to a paper weight.

- Yeah, you see it's just that...

Now this small panel, now that could be a screen.

- So could a lot of things.

I draw a blank on this one.

- Ah, you just lack the old finesse, Bluey.

- 402.

Stroke eight.

Stroke 27.

Entering small solar system in sector GL stroke 33 stroke K.

Third planet showing indications of primitive life forms.

- Hey, you've done it, Mr. Carter.

It's a data bank.

Wait a minute.

Pasc, I think we've got it.

You'd better see this.

- Doctor Russell wants...

- We'll get them to the medical center, Carson.

- Thanks.

I'll get back then.

- What should I see?

- Right.

Now let’s have a replay.

- Emergency in tech lab three.

Security, move in.

- Pasc!

Don't Pasc!

Pasc!

Don't!

Don't.

Don't!

You've killed him.

You killed him!

You didn't have to kill him.

He saved my life.

He was my friend.

- You have no friends.

Come on.

- Alan, you okay?

- Yeah, Pasc.

Find Pasc.

- Medical center.

Yes?

- Emergency, tech lab three.

Get here fast.

- Nature of the accident?

- No accident.

Pasc assaulted Alan and Johnson.

Severe head injury.

Attention security.

Find Pasc.

He's dangerous, maybe armed.

Okay, come on, let's go.

Pierce, you come with us.

Long, stay there with Johnson.

- Stop.

- Cobber. - Etrec.

Come here, by me.

You let the boy go, or I will kill the woman.

- Let the woman go, or I'll kill the boy.

- Go ahead.

Shoot the boy.

You can't do it.

The killing isn't in you.

But I can.

- I thought Archanons couldn't kill.

That mark is the sign of the killing sickness.

- So that's why you wore the bandage.

To cover it up.

- Now listen carefully.

We're gonna take Eagle Three.

Get all your men out of that section.

- Attention, security.

Clear all access corridors to Eagle Three.

- Etrec.

Etrec.

Come here to me.

You can lead the way.

- No, Pasc.

I will not go.

- You cannot stay.

They will kill you.

- The killing is not in them.

- Not now perhaps.

But soon it will be in you.

Then they will have no choice.

- They will do what they have to do.

I will stay.

- Etrec.

Come here.

Come with me or I will kill you myself.

- Oh, Etrec, Etrec.

Go ahead and cry, son.

You can be alone in here.

- All security guards.

Alert station, signal three.

Doctor Russell has been taken hostage by Pasc.

Approach with caution.

Doctor Russell's well-being takes priority.

Launch area.

I want Eagle One in the air above the pad.

Nothing else is to move up the base.

Repeat, nothing but Eagle One for lift off.

I want all men in protective suits.

There'll be a team of sharpshooters

with stun guns and anesthetic gas guns.

Where's Etrec?

- I left him in the recreation center.

- Good.

Abort mission.

Launch pad deactivated.

This order, non-voidable until code reactivates.

- Talk to the control center.

- No.

- Tell them to have the computer unlock the controls,

or I will kill you.

- You didn't kill Etrec.

You won't kill me.

- I should have killed him.

- Why didn't you?

- He chose to stay.

I choose survival.

- There may not be survival for either of you.

It's a strange virus in your systems.

In Etrec, it seems to be dormant at the moment.

In you, Pasc, it's alive, and it may be deadly.

That's why I wanted to take blood samples.

To try to help.

- I don't need your help.

- Alan, we've got to get aboard that space ship

without alerting Pasc.

How about the cargo hatch?

- Mm, there'd be too much noise for drilling.

- Well we could use an acid.

- Yeah but the most powerful acid we have

would take nearly three hours to eat through an Eagle hull.

- Well what say we go through the propulsion tubes.

The inspection plates from the engine room are thinner.

- Verdeschi.

I want Etrec in exchange for your doctor.

And I want your computer to release this Eagle.

- Etrec has already made his choice.

- Bring the boy to me, or I will kill the woman.

- Helena, are you all right?

- Get Raul.

Tell him to...

- Medical center.

- Pasc just called in from Eagle Three.

He wants to make a deal.

Swap Helena for the boy.

- You trust him?

- Oh sure.

Like standing in front of a laser beam.

But Helena tried to say something.

She said, "Get Raul.

"Tell him to... ", and then Pasc cut her off.

Now what do you think she meant?

- We discovered a virus.

Been trying to get blood samples to test.

Maybe Helena caught on to something from Pasc.

- Okay, thanks.

I'll get back to you.

Alan, the kid trusts you.

You can talk to him.

- Well he doesn't want to go with Pasc.

You heard him.

- Yes, I heard him.

But I also heard what Pasc said.

And this time I think he means it.

- Which do you want first?

The kid or his blood?

- Both.

- How you doing?

Hey, now, they are not supposed to be let out.

Oh, come on.

He'll fly back when he needs something to eat.

Hey, Cobber, we've got a very big problem.

Pasc is gonna kill Doctor Russell unless he gets you back.

- He will kill anyway.

He can't help it.

None of us can.

We have a killing sickness.

- Etrec?

Doctor Russell tried to tell us something now.

Pasc wouldn't let her.

Now Raul thinks Doctor Russell wanted him

to get a sample of your blood.

It's something to do with the killing sickness.

- An Archanon cannot give his blood.

- Look, I'm not a doctor.

I don't understand these things,

but, Cobber, this can be something really good.

This can save your life and Pasc's.

- An Archanon cannot give blood.

An Archanon can only kill.

- Can you kill me, Cobber?

Etrec, what have you done to yourself?

I wanted to cut the sign from my forehead.

You asked for Archanon blood.

This is yours.

- Haven't you got through to Eagle One yet?

- No sir.

- Well keep at it.

- I'm picking up a signal.

- Eagle One?

- Alien.

Moonbase Alpha.

Moonbase Alpha.

Are you receiving Moonbase Alpha?

Come in, Moonbase Alpha.

Moonbase Alpha, come in please.

- This is Moonbase Alpha.

Who are you?

Permission to land, Moonbase Alpha.

- Identify, please.

Get her on the big screen.

- I am from Archanon.

We're concerned for your safety.

Two Archanons have been freed from restraint

and can be a danger to you.

I need permission to land.

- You have it.

Yes, Alan.

We've got the kid's blood

and something else I think will interest you.

- Be right with you.

- Etrec sent for this.

It tells the whole story.

Now that's Lyra.

Etrec's mother.

- 402, 111.

It has happened again.

That which we of Archanon dread of above all.

The terrible scourge we thought

we had eradicated from our genes has returned.

Pasc has the killing sickness.

- We've got to let Pasc know that we know.

- Yeah, make it fast.

There's another battle going on right here.

- Okay.

Pasc?

- So.

They have come to their senses.

You have Etrec?

- We have.

- Well hurry and you will have your doctor back.

- A moment first, Pasc.

- I cannot wait.

- Hold it, Pasc.

Look at this.

- That which we of Archanon dread above all.

The terrible scourge we thought

we had eradicated from out genes has returned.

Pasc has the killing sickness.

Lok and Kerak are dead.

Destroyed by Pasc in the meaningless violence

that this disease engenders in its victims.

I, Lyra, have taken command.

Pasc has been overpowered.

I have ordered the preparation of a stasis chamber.

Pasc will be placed in stasis

where he will remain until a cure for the killing sickness

can be found.

Since it is known that the killing sickness

is passed on in the genes of the male line,

I have... I have no alternative

but to place in stasis with Pasc, my...

my son, Etrec.

I pray that one day, he will be able to give me

his forgiveness and understanding.

- Let me see Etrec.

What have you done to him?

- Nothing.

He gave us his blood.

- You took Etrec's blood?

- He took it himself, Pasc.

He gave it freely.

- We have confirmation, doctor.

This virus can be cured.

We can develop a serum.

If you can...

- What's the matter with Etrec?

- He seems to be incapable

of replacing the blood he has lost.

- It's over.

Unless this Eagle is released, Doctor Russell will die.

- All right, Pasc, you have control.

Launch pad activated.

- I have lost Etrec.

There is nothing left now.

Nothing to wait for.

You may go.

- The boy need not die.

A blood transfusion would...

- My blood.

With the active virus.

- Your blood, after its been treated with the serum,

will make with Etrec's blood.

You're the only one who can save him.

- I do not save life.

I take it.

- Even your own son?

- Even my own son's.

- You couldn't do it before.

You cannot do it now.

- I can.

I will.

I must.

- The sickness can be cured.

It's just that you and your people have accepted it

all these generations.

Is it you're afraid?

- It's too late.

- It's not too late if you'll give your blood.

- It's too late I tell you.

He cannot be saved.

Now get out or you'll go with me.

- All right.

Start your engines.

Leave your son to die.

- We're coming out.

- Yeah?

The Archanon ship has landed.

- Right.

Have them brought straight here.

- It's worked.

The virus has been destroyed.

- He's doing nicely.

Heart, blood pressure, steady.

He's failing.

Stimulators.

- Wa... waste of time.

The heart will not pump what is not there.

- Save your strength.

How is my son?

- The virus is destroyed.

He's a true Archanon again.

A peace bringer.

- Good.

- Good.

- Pasc.

Pasc!

Oh.

Pasc.

Do not leave me.

- You... you can return now

to Archanon.

To your home.

- But how?

- They will come for us both.

But they will find only you.

Clean and free from the sickness.

It is good.

Lyra?

- Pasc.

Lyra is gone these thousand years.

I am Maurna.

But of Lyra's line.

- Peace to you Maurna,

of Lyra's line.

I give into your care

your kinsman, Etrec.

Take him with you to Archanon.

- No I cannot, Pasc.

There is still no place on Archanon for the sickness.

- Etrec no longer has the sickness.

We prepared a serum,

and gave him a transfusion using Pasc's blood.

- Yes.

We know of this process on Archanon.

- You could have cured Pasc and didn't?

- We knew of the cure but could not use it.

No Archanon can give that amount of blood and live.

- You knew this.

- It's the last privilege

of the killing sickness.

To kill oneself.

- Pasc.

- Come, Etrec.

We're going home.

- Hey, cobber.

I've got something for you to take back home with you.

Now remember, two eyes, two hands.

- Thanks, Alan.

But...

- Oh come on.

Just a beat up old football.

Anyway, we're mates, aren't we?

See ya.

Football?

- It's an old Earth symbol which means

I'm glad I met you.

- Can I stay with Pasc for a time?

- Okay.

- Glad to have you back, John.

- Glad to be back.

I'm sorry I wasn't around to help

when all that flak was flying around.

Alan says I would have liked Etrec.

- You would have.

You have liked Pasc too under different circumstances.

- Helena.

You can't blame yourself for what happened.

- Pasc is dead.

- You're a doctor.

You did what any other doctor would have done.

Pasc knew what would happen if he gave blood.

You didn't know.

- As a doctor, I should have known.

Besides, it's not a very satisfactory defense.

Ignorance.

- You saved the boy.

- Yeah, I do have that to be grateful for.

Etrec.

- Is that all you have to be grateful for?