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Moonbase Alpha status report.

892 days after leaving Earth's orbit.

Dr. Helena Russell recording.

We have just passed through a space storm,

duration, 42 days.

Our sensors have picked up a medium size planet

in the north quadrant.

Commander Koenig is exploring the planet.

The surface is rich in vegetation.

It is our hope that it might prove habitable.

- Maya?

Sensor reading?

- Surface temperature, 73 degrees, atmosphere, breathable.

- Alright, let's put it down.

- Okay.

Oxygen leak life support system.

- Take over, Tony.

- Aye.

- Four hours until critical level.

- Do we abort?

- No.

You go back to Alpha, pick up another Eagle.

Maya and I will have completed our survey

by the time you get back.

- Check.

- Moonbase Alpha to Commander Koenig, go ahead.

- Eagle One has developed a malfunction and is

returning to Alpha.

Maya and I will continue our survey until Tony returns

and picks us up.

Anything we can do, commander?

- Just stay in touch.

We'll contact you every 30 minutes

to make sure you're alright.

- We'll take to you in half an hour, out.

- They're edible.

- Great.

Cannibals, murderers.

You will be punished

as cannibals and murders deserved to be punished.

- Koenig to Alpha, Koenig to Alpha, come in Alpha.

Koenig to Moonbase Alpha, come in Alpha.

Murder, you have your last communication

with Alpha.

- Who are you?

We are the judges of Luton.

- What is the crime?

You destroyed life forms on this planet.

- We picked a flower and ate some berries.

That is your crime.

You killed members of our society.

- We didn't realize.

But we are merciful even to criminals

of such magnitude.

- Please believe us, if we committed a crime,

it was out of ignorance.

You will be given a chance to prove

your innocent intent.

These are your adversaries.

They too are criminals from space who violated our laws.

They too claim innocence due to ignorance.

Your innocence will be tested in the crucible of combat.

The survivors will be given their freedom.

- Move.

Back.

Ah hah.

- This I useless, we'll need a weapon.

- If we break a branch or injure a tree,

they'll condemn us without a chance.

- Yeah, we better not get hungry before this over.

Come on.

Come on.

These would make good arrowheads.

- Arrowheads?

- Yeah, American Indians used arrow and bows.

- Oh.

- We can probably make a bow, but we need some string.

I bet we can make a spear.

- Must we kill them?

- Maya, yes if we want to survive.

- Well, if we reveal ourselves, it's a sign of good faith.

It's obvious we mean them no harm.

- You've got a point.

- We'll make a contact.

- Yes, but first, let's make sure we've got some

security between them and us.

Like a canyon.

They're tracking us.

Stay on hard ground.

He can tear a mountain apart with his bare hands.

You're right, Maya, I'd rather them as a friend

then as an enemy.

Hello, hello.

We don't wanna fight with you.

We wanna be friends.

But he doesn't.

We're not your enemy.

- Moonbase Alpha to Command Koenig.

Moonbase Alpha to Command Koenig.

Moonbase Alpha to Command Koenig.

Eagle One requesting clearance for touchdown.

- Eagle One, you're cleared for touchdown.

Thanks, Alpha.

Do you have another Eagle standing by for me?

- Ready for liftoff as soon as you clear

the launchpad, Tony.

Thanks, Helena.

- Moonbase Alpha to Command Koenig.

Moonbase Alpha to Command Koenig.

- Yasko, get that planet on the screen.

Where is it?

It should be there.

- It's got to be.

Check your scanners.

- Not registering.

- The sensors are giving no readings.

- Eagle Four ready for liftoff.

Abort Eagle Four, abort.

- What?

- Abort.

- I've gotta get the commander off that planet.

- Tony, we don't know where that planet is.

- They don't like the water.

- Maybe they can't swim.

Stay here.

Listen to me.

Please, listen to me.

We've no reason to fight.

Don't let them make us kill each other.

Listen, to me.

- Even if they can't understand us,

they must know we want to talk.

Why won't they talk?

- Maybe it's in their nature to kill, not talk.

Well, that river gives us some breathing space.

Maybe they're leaving.

- No, just trying to figure out a way across.

Well, it'll be awhile before they catch up to us.

We've gotta find someway to defend ourselves.

What is it, commander?

- Haven't noticed any live animals.

Those vines look like they have a strangle hold on that one.

- The plant killed the animal?

- Let's just say it eliminated a natural enemy.

Koenig to Alpha.

Koenig to Moonbase Alpha, come in Alpha.

Commander Koenig, you waste valuable time.

Devote yourselves to saving your lives.

- Why must we kill to save our lives?

Because those are the rules of Luton.

- We will not submit to those rules.

They're cruel and vicious.

Cruel, vicious?

We pride ourselves on our justice, on our fairness.

As proof of our fairness, we have given your adversaries

abilities to match yours.

Otherwise, the contest would be too one sided.

- We will not fight.

We will not submit to those rules.

Kill or die.

- I thought they were against killing?

- Obviously animals are a lower form of life on this planet.

If we all kill each other, it's acceptable.

- I wonder what abilities they gave our adversaries.

- Three against two aren't having enough odds?

- Maybe a lion or a tiger might even out the odds.

- No, Maya, he'd tear you apart if he got close enough

no matter what form you took.

But wait, maybe we could use your abilities

to give us an edge?

That way we'd know where they are at all times.

Don't stay at any one place too long.

- Maya, stop him, stop him.

Stop him, we must talk to him.

- Come back, come back, we won't hurt you.

Your shoulder.

Come on, sit down.

Come on.

- Well, now we know the abilities the judges of Luton

gave to two of them.

- Hmm, one they gave the strength to tear mountains apart

and the other, they made a transport.

- Yeah, one second, the other side of the river,

the next second, this side.

If he could transport, why didn't he do it again to escape?

- Perhaps they're only permitted to

use their abilities once.

- Yeah, it could be.

Anyway, thanks.

- Nothing to thank me for.

- Alright, then I thank the bird for its key eyesight.

And the lion for its terrible roar.

Oh.

- Oh I'm sorry but I've got to stop the bleeding.

- Don't look so sad, it doesn't hurt that much.

- Be careful when you move.

- Okay mom.

I won't get it infected and I won't get any dirt in it.

- What you need is some rest.

- Right, and some peace and quiet.

I'm afraid we're not gonna get much of that.

We'd better take that with us.

Give it to me.

- It's too heavy for you.

- Don't waste time arguing.

Okay.

Eagle Four to command center.

- Go ahead, Tony.

- I'm getting no reading on my sensors.

That was expected, wasn't it?

- Well, how about yours?

- Still negative.

And I still think you're out of your mind.

- When I approach the planet or at least when I think

I'm in the area of the planet, I'll check in.

Be careful, Tony.

- Oh you never know, I might even be lucky

and make visual contact when I get there.

- You should have a co-pilot with you.

- I'm not letting anybody else share this risk, Helena.

- Remember, you said you'd give yourself a good margin

for safety.

- What I'm remembering is that I told John and Maya

I'd be write back for them.

- Maya, we'd better get moving again.

- You'd better rest.

- We can't stray too far from where the Eagle touched down.

When it comes back, we've gotta be there.

- You're getting weaker.

What you need is some nourishment.

- Oh sure, how about some pheasant under glass,

asparagus hollandaise, topped off with chocolate mousse

and coffee espresso, hmm.

- Some broth, maybe chicken, rabbit, beef.

- Sure, all we need for that are the ingredients.

And on this planet, there are no such ingredients anymore.

- Well, maybe they didn't kill off all the animals.

Not every animal is a plant eater.

- Have you seen any around?

The only bird we saw was you.

If you take another form,

don't stay in any one place too long.

We mustn't give them a chance to get at you.

We also need more weapons.

That lance isn't gonna be enough.

Company, huh?

- Yeah.

Careful.

Oh you can't go on.

- Who says I can't?

- Any questions?

- Yeah.

Why'd I get you into this?

Better check out the area.

- Uh huh.

There's a long line of animal skeletons

all along the rim.

Looks like they're in formation.

- Battle formation.

Could be that this is where the animals

made their last stand.

The animals wipe out all the plant life in that area

to protect their rear.

Could you imagine the battle that must have

taken place on the rim of this cliff?

- And the animals lost.

- Yeah.

Better check out our friends below, huh.

- Yeah.

There's nothing I could see from here.

- Why don't you take a closer look, huh?

- Right.

You were supposed to be resting.

- Yeah, I will as soon as I finish this.

I had a great birds eye of the valley

but I only saw one of them.

I'd sure like to know where the one is.

On the valley floor somewhere I imagine.

What are you making?

- It's a bolo.

In ancient times on Earth, bush natives

invented a very effective weapon.

- A bolo.

Can I help?

- Yeah, you can get some more walks about this size.

No, make them a little bigger, and around.

- Are you alright?

- Well it only hurts when I laugh.

- Hmm?

- It's an old Earth joke.

- It's not funny.

- Well it was on Earth.

- 50 years ago.

- Okay, then tell me some old Psychon jokes.

I'm sorry Maya, I didn't mean to bring up sad memories.

- The memories aren't sad, except at the end.

Psychon was a happy place.

That's why most of us wouldn't leave it

even when we knew we faced disaster.

- Your brother left.

- My brother like Mentor, my father,

was on Psychon's High Scientific Council.

He knew there was no hope when our planet began to boil.

So, my brother and a thousand others went off

into unchartered space.

Preferring to take their chances than face sure death.

- Did they find another planet?

- We never heard from him again.

Or any of the others who build spaceships after

that and left.

As Psychon's temperature kept rising.

- If the breakup of the planet was inevitable,

why didn't Mentor leave?

- My father's dream was to restore Psychon,

to make it a beautiful planet it once was.

Nobody shared his dream.

They all left.

Preferring to take their chances in the unknown.

- But if every scientist on Psychon knew it was coming,

why did Mentor remain so stubborn?

- He wasn't only stubborn, he was in love.

My mother's tomb was on Psychon and he wouldn't leave her.

- What about you?

- Oh he tried to make me go, but I wouldn't.

I couldn't let him stay alone.

- He should have made you go.

- You don't understand.

He really believed he could perform the miracle

of restoring Psychon.

Oh and I got caught up on that dream.

Mentor was a great scientist.

And he was my father.

I knew he could do anything.

I don't see anything.

Yeah.

- Must you keep at it?

- Fire power, Maya.

In a combat situation, there's nothing as persuasive

as fire power.

- What about you, commander?

Did you have any brothers?

Sisters, mother, father?

You had nobody?

- I had a wife.

- Had?

- Weren't there any wars on Psychon?

- No, unlike your planet, we were all of one race.

One religion, one government.

Our planet was so rich in resources, that there was

no separation of classes.

- In 1987, all the hatreds on earth between races,

classes, and religions all came to a head.

The war was global and awful.

It was finally the war to end all wars because the survivors

realized that if there was another one,

it would be the end of humanity.

- You mean people killed people

just because they were different from each other?

That's disgusting.

- The one virtue of that war,

if war can have a virtue,

is that prejudice was wiped out.

People realized that if they were going to survive,

they would have to work together,

accept each other for what they were.

So, we began to create a brand new wonderful civilization.

But it was too late for my wife.

She was a casualty of that war.

- What was she like?

- She was like Helena.

- A weapon.

- It's just like ours.

- He's down there then.

- Careful, he knows we're alerted.

- His weapon is still there but I don't see him.

He's gotta be down there.

I don't see him anywhere.

- Wind's blowing this direction.

Good.

Come on, come on let's move back.

If my hunch is right, we've just discovered the

third ability given them by the judges of Luton.

We may not be able to see him, but he's up here somewhere.

Maya, you could pick up his scent.

Go find him, Maya.

- Eagle Four to Alpha, Eagle Four to Alpha.

- Alpha to Eagle Four, go ahead, Tony.

I'm close to the planet or where it should be.

- You don't have visual, can you see it?

- Nope.

But I do have you on the monitor.

Do you have me on the screen?

- Yes.

How about the planet?

- We'll try again.

Yasko.

Tony, we can't get a fix on that planet

and you can't stay out there forever.

- Oh yes I can.

Send another Eagle to refuel me.

- It's alright, it's alright.

It's alright, shh, hey.

Oh, are you better now?

- What'd I do, pass out?

- No, you fell asleep.

- As long as I was only delirious.

I'd hate to have recurring nightmares like that again.

- Alright, if it'll make you happy, you were delirious.

- That bad huh?

- It has to be cleaned.

I've got to find some water.

- Ahh.

- Judges of Luton, free her and I will go down to him.

We will not interfere.

- I will let him kill me.

No.

- She can keep that form for only an hour.

She will be crushed.

Free her and he could kill me.

We cannot.

You're the judges of Luton, you can do anything.

It is against the rules of Luton.

- Wait, please wait, wait.

- Eagle Four to commander center, refueling Eagle

coming alongside.

- Refueling Eagle is carrying relief pilot.

- I don't wanna relief pilot, all I want is refueling.

- Don't be stubborn, Tony, let your relief takeover.

- No way Helena, one of us taking this risk

is all that Alpha can afford.

- Tony, according to our computer, you're coming very

close to our recorder position of that planet.

- According to my instruments, I'm uncomfortably close.

- That's what I said, too close.

- I'm still hoping for a visual.

- Give yourself more room, Tony.

You know the slightest miscalculation, you'll crash.

- Well, I'm not in the mood for miscalculations, Helena.

How long do you expect to stay there?

- Forever if I have to.

- We're fools if we fight.

- I don't want to kill you but I must.

- You, you understand me.

- It pleases the judges of Luton to let us communicate

at the moment of combat.

- Let her out of the cage.

- She'll be crushed.

- It is regrettable but necessary that you both die

so that I may live.

- Maya.

Kill, kill.

Kill and you will be freed.

- No, I will not kill.

Kill the criminal that committed murder on Luton.

Kill.

- No, you are the criminals.

You could have stopped us before tore up those plants

and destroyed flowers.

You have defeated the enemy, you are free.

- You wanna see things die.

You would like everything here to die,

to satisfy your lust for death.

Hear me, citizens.

Listen to me.

Go, go.

You are free.

- I've checked and I've rechecked, Alpha.

According to my inboard computer, I'm at the planet

and yet, nothing.

Whew, okay Alpha, I found the planet.

- John and Maya, see if you can get through.

- Moonbase Alpha to Commander Koenig.

Moonbase Alpha to Commander Koenig.

- They'll letting Alpha make contact.

- Anything to get rid of us before we start an uprising.

Moonbase Alpha to Commander Koenig.

Moonbase Alpha, this is Maya, go ahead.

- Eagle Four is ready to touchdown if you will

give your position.

- No need, we have visual contact.

- Where did that come from?

- Hydroponics.

- Tony gave them to me.

He thought that might cheer me up after our ordeal.

- So, he gave you a plant.

Well, nobody can say that Tony does not have a

sense of humor.

- I think Tony needs to have a sense of humor retooled.

- Oh I thought it was a nice gesture.

- I thought so too.

- He could have given you a bucket of his abominable beer.

They're quite nice.

- Do you want one Helena?

- I'd like one.

- Hold it, do me a favor.

While I'm around, never pick a flower.

Back to hydroponic.