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- Shermeen, this time I think we finally got it.

Go get some glasses, will you?

- Okay.

- Shermeen?

- Yes, Eddie?

- Shermeen, you're not listening to me.

- Sure I am!

- Look since you started cultivating those hops

for Tony Verdeschi's poison beer,

you don't even know I don't even exist.

- Tony's beer is not poison!

- Shermeen...

the moment of truth has arrived.

Well?

- It's terrific.

- Hey, Eddie, how about a sip of beer?

- No, thanks.

- Happier today than usual, huh?

Come on.

- See you, Eddie.

- Yeah, sure.

- Sensors are picking something up out there, Commander.

Anything specific?

- Can't tell yet.

I'm on my way.

- All right, everybody,

get ready for the taste of a lifetime.

Verdeschi's brew number 29.

Made from a generation of Alpha hops,

especially brewed by our famous

hydroponics botanist, Shermeen Williams.

Shermeen, you do the honors, please.

- No, thanks.

I'd hate to ruin our beautiful friendship.

- No, as chief medical officer, I must retain my sanity.

- Well.

- Uh, thanks, no, I happen to be on a liquid-free diet.

- I see.

Okay.

Well, ha ha, very funny.

It didn't taste like that in Hydroponics.

- Maybe we misjudged the fermentation?

- We sure misjudged something.

- There is another string of hops, Tony.

We could try again.

- No, thanks, Shermeen.

Hydroponics is out!

I wanna try something different.

- You think it's my fault?

- Well, I wasn't accusing her.

- She's a very sensitive girl.

Very impressionable.

- What's going on?

- Someone needs a little comfort.

- Shermeen has a teenage crush on you, Tony.

You have to handle her with care.

- But just because she cultivated a few hops for my beer?

Oh, come on, you're all overreacting.

- No.

No.

No!

- Moonbase Alpha, status report.

1,702 days after leaving Earth orbit.

Dr. Helena Russell recording.

After countless number of days of serenity,

a simple case of teenage infatuation

has broken out on Alpha.

I'm on my way to treat it now,

and expect that it can be cured

without any serious complications.

Shermeen?

You all right?

- Yeah, I must have fallen asleep.

This dream there was this face

staring at me in the darkness.

- A nightmare, probably.

You were very upset when you left Command Center.

- The eyes, they were wanting me to stare back,

they were coming closer.

- I could give you a tranquilizer.

It'll make you feel better.

- Oh, no.

Doctor, I'm really all right.

After all, it was only a dream, wasn't it?

I'd like to go back to Hydroponics now.

I have a few plantings I want to look after.

- Okay.

Come along with me to Medical Center first.

- Magnify.

Maya, give me a reading.

- Constellation, Pintarus.

Star 19, Pintarus.

Planet, uncharted satellite.

Atmosphere compatible.

Temperature at constant 78 degrees.

Suitable for human habitation.

Abundant vegetation.

No sign of animal life.

- Bill, locate a landing site.

We'll see just how good it is.

Right.

- Medical Center.

- Helena, I'd like you to join the landing party.

- I have some sequential lab tests I'm monitoring, John.

I'll have to see them through.

- All right, I understand.

- John, I just left Shermeen.

She was very upset.

She said she saw a disembodied face

staring at her from the wall.

- She must have been having a nightmare.

- Well I'm not sure.

I gave her some tranquilizers and let her go back on duty.

- Well good, 'cause I'd like her to join the landing party.

- I don't think she's in a condition

to join a landing party.

I think you'd better find a substitute.

- All right, Helena.

Thank you.

Bill, tell Eddie Collins I want him

to join the landing party.

Now, what's bothering you, young Tony?

- Shermeen's been on the first team a long time, John.

She's gonna be very hurt.

- Well, she looks up to you, Tony.

You explain it to her, okay?

- Shermeen.

Shermeen.

Shermeen.

Shermeen.

- Shermeen?

Shermeen.

- What do you want?

- I've come to apologize.

- What for?

- For being an unfeeling, insensitive boor.

- Oh, you're not that, Tony.

- I didn't mean to be rough on you.

I know you put in a lot of time and effort to help me,

and well, I wish I had an excuse for acting the way I did.

- It's all right, I understand.

It's okay.

Shall we try again?

- Oh, sure, we should try again, yeah.

As a matter of fact I got a hunch

we'll come up with the right combination next time.

- I was thinking maybe if we

cross-pollinated the barley hybrids.

- Oh, sure that sounds like a great idea.

Look, there's something else, Shermeen.

You know that planet that's hanging out there?

Well the Commander is sending a small landing party.

- I can be ready!

- Hang on.

You've been upset and Eddie Collins

is the botanist that we're taking.

- But you know I've been collecting specimens

from every place we've been to.

- I know, I tried to tell them that.

- You tried to tell them?

It was probably your idea that I don't go!

Oh, you're a hypocrite!

- Shermeen.

- That's why you came up here!

Not to apologize!

Oh, I hate you!

I don't ever want to see you again!

- Oh, Shermeen.

- Don't touch me!

- I'm sorry.

- I bet you are.

- Shermeen.

Don't resist, Shermeen.

Let me come through.

I won't harm you, Shermeen.

Let me come through.

No, Shermeen, I am not a figment of your imagination.

- Who are you?

Where are you from?

- My name is Vindrus.

And I suppose you could say I come from Sunim.

- Sunim?

- The planet that you are now approaching,

where you will find the answer to your present unhappiness.

You will see it soon.

- That's not possible.

- Oh, I assure you it is.

You have my word.

- I'm not going down to Sunim.

Eddie's going.

- So I heard.

But trust me, Shermeen.

Just do as I ask and you will go with the landing party

and Tony will never upset you again.

Is that the magnus lilarium?

- Yes.

- Break open the pod and select a healthy seed.

Now, put it on the propagatoscope.

Now bombard it with protons.

Increase the bombardment.

Continue.

Switch off.

Plant it.

But be careful.

Now return to your quarters and prepare to embark.

- I don't understand.

Why would they?

- There isn't time to explain, Shermeen.

Go, quickly!

Hurry, Shermeen, hurry!

- Hey, Shermeen!

Hey, Shermeen, don't be mad!

- Is all the gear on board Eagle One?

- Yep, all on board.

- Where's Eddie Collins?

- I don't know, shoulda been here.

- Shermeen?

I thought you were supposed to be in Hydroponics.

- You need a botanist.

- Yes, but I thought Eddie Collins.

- Eddie Collins has suddenly been taken sick.

He's on his way to the Medical Center.

Dr. Russell said I was fit for duty.

- You sure you're okay?

No nightmares?

- No nightmares.

- Good.

- Well, good luck.

- Maya, everything all right back there?

- Everything under control, Commander.

- You, Shermeen?

Shermeen?

- I'm all prepared.

- Maya, is there any variation on previous readings?

- No hostile environment.

Temperature still constant at 78 degrees.

No life forms.

- Everything down here is exactly like Earth.

There should be life forms.

Keep checking.

Bill?

- Commander?

- You all right?

- Yeah.

Just disembarkation readjustment.

- Commander?

You shuddered.

But not from cold.

- I felt as if a ghost had.

I had a superstitious grandmother.

- Well, if you want to knock on wood

there's plenty of that about.

- Maya, that structure,

obviously built by intelligent life.

- My sensors still record no life forms.

- Shermeen.

Shermeen.

This way.

- Bill, Maya!

Stop, he won't come past the obelisk.

Shermeen.

Better find her.

Koenig to Alpha.

Koenig to Alpha.

Koenig to Moonbase Alpha.

Koenig to Alpha.

Come in, Alpha.

Shermeen!

Shermeen!

Shermeen!

Shermeen! - Shermeen!

Where are you?

We're over here!

- Don't be afraid, Shermeen.

He's one of us.

He won't attack you.

You're quite safe.

Go on, Shermeen.

That's right.

Go on, Shermeen, past him.

- Why didn't that?

- Thaed.

- Thaed.

Why didn't it attack me?

- I promised that you wouldn't be harmed.

- I wasn't even frightened.

- You will not fear on Sunim, Shermeen.

My only concern is for your wellbeing.

But first I must cross from my world into yours.

- I don't understand.

I thought you were already here.

- Only in spirit, not in substance.

This machine will enable my solid body

to come over into your world...

if you will assist me.

- How?

- An unfortunate accident.

Sometime in the past, the generator exploded.

So before I can help you,

you must help me,

if you will detach this cylinder and take it to Alpha.

- But you were on Alpha.

Why didn't you take it there yourself?

- I cannot.

As I have explained to you,

I'm only here in spirit, not in substance.

- What'll I do with it?

- That will be explained to you.

For the time being just put it

with the clippings in your specimen bag.

- I can't find her.

- Shermeen gone, I can't raise Alpha,

our sensors recorded no animal life,

yet we saw that creature.

- Well, there could be a shield

force coming from that structure,

cutting out our communications and blocking out our sensors.

- Commander!

She's been here.

I just found this.

And her footprints lead towards the structure.

How did she get past that creature?

- I don't know.

- Even though the tracks lead in that direction,

could be she never made it inside.

- There's one way to find out.

Maya.

- Shermeen?

- Yes?

- Shermeen.

Are you all right?

- Of course.

Why shouldn't I be?

- Well, how did you get in here?

- I walked in.

- The creature must have been concentrating

on us and missed you.

Come on, let's get outside.

The Commander's worried.

Oh, wait a minute.

I want to get this down on video.

- Koenig to Alpha.

Koenig to Alpha, come in, Alpha.

- Shermeen!

Shermeen, wait!

- Bill, hold it.

- It's all right, Maya.

He won't attack us.

Come on.

- Just wait.

Come on.

Yes, it's okay.

It really won't attack us.

Come on, look, I'll show you.

See?

There you are, you see.

I told you.

- Are you all right?

- Yeah, fine.

- Bill.

- You saw?

- Yeah, Shermeen seems to have some kind of immunity.

Let's go.

When?

When?

When?

When?

- Patience.

When?

- When?

When?

- Patience.

When?

When?

- It will be soon.

- Bill, take over.

- Right.

- Shermeen.

Mind if we have a little chat?

- No.

- I'm curious.

How did you get into that temple?

- Just walked in, Commander.

- Well I know, but when I tried to do that,

the creature attacked me.

What I'm trying to find out, Shermeen,

is why didn't the creature attack you?

- I don't know.

Maybe it knew that I wouldn't attack him.

- Why did you go in there?

- It was just very peaceful.

- You could have been hurt.

- No harm will come to me on Sunim, Commander.

- On where?

- On the planet.

- Is that what it's called, Sunim?

- Yes.

- How do you know that?

- I don't know.

Someone must have told me.

- Someone, who?

- I don't remember.

Look, why are you asking me all these questions?

I haven't done anything wrong!

- Of course you haven't.

I'm not even suggesting you have.

Shermeen, I'm very glad you came along with us.

In fact I'll be curious to find out about those.

You will give me a report, won't you?

- Yes.

Yes, I will.

- Good.

- I found these on the walls.

They depict the whole evolutionary process of man.

Emerging from a sea of primeval slime,

then advancing through all stages of development:

Simian, Australopithecus, Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon to modern.

- Well, they sure look human enough.

- I'm not sure, Commander.

- What do you mean?

- There's something strange.

Somewhere up the ladder of development,

at some period in time something happened.

There was violent death.

Whoever they were, they must have died

in some searing burst of energy.

- Well that would explain why our

sensors recorded no life forms.

Yet you did see a life form.

- Yeah.

So what's the explanation?

- Well, based on what I've observed and computer hypothesis,

I think we're dealing with a form of

antimatter against matter.

This accelerator was set up in the temple.

I've seen a similar one once before on my own planet.

- What's its function?

It's used to convert antimatter into matter.

- Huh, that's a theory I never did understand.

- Well, this is made up of particles of matter and

this is made of particles of matter,

even this is made up of particles of matter.

- I don't have to be a genius to understand that.

- For every particle of matter,

there's a balancing particle of antimatter.

It's called the Law of Symmetry.

In other words, it's nature's way of maintaining a balance.

- We live in a world of matter, so in theory,

there must be an antimatter world.

- Existing where?

- Here, now.

- Occupying our space?

- No, occupying their own anti-space.

If there was an antimatter being here, right now,

my hand would go straight through him.

- I see.

- Tony, something happened to Shermeen on that planet.

I want to know what it was.

- Well, why don't you ask her?

- I did, but she was holding back.

- Oh, I see.

You want me to ask her, right?

- Right.

I think you can reach her.

- Not anymore, I don't think.

- Try, Tony.

'Cause if we don't find out.

Okay.

I'll try.

- What you must do, Shermeen,

is to take that cylinder to the equipment room.

I have many nuclear generators in there,

you must find one into which that cylinder fits.

- Shermeen, I'd like to talk to you.

- What about?

- About the way you've been behaving.

You haven't been yourself.

You used to be so happy, full of life,

and now you walk around...

as if you're sleepwalking.

Where did you get that?

- Sunim.

My name is Vindrus.

Shermeen has very kindly volunteered to assist me.

- Assist you?

To do what?

- To cross over into your world.

- I see, our world is more attractive than yours.

- Not really.

But you see, you and your world

have started your evolutionary process

from the slime in the ocean,

and are ascending towards perfection

sometime in the distant future.

We, in the antimatter world, however,

started our evolutionary process at the top,

and are descending towards the slime.

So our future is extinction.

Don't try to give the alarm, Mr. Verdeschi,

you will never reach it.

- We have no objection to your

crossing over into our world, Vindrus,

if it'll keep you from ending up in the slime.

Why don't you let us help you cross over.

- Thank you for your offer,

but you would not do it willingly.

- Why not?

- Because nature has to be kept in balance.

For every one who crosses into your world,

one of you must cross into ours.

You will forget everything that took place here.

You know what you have to do, Shermeen.

- Hello, Chris.

- Hello, Shermeen.

What can I do for you?

- I brought you a plant.

You said you wanted something

to brighten up the equipment room.

- Oh, come on, Shermeen.

You know if there's one thing I can do without, it's plants.

- Not this one though.

This one's very special.

- Uh huh.

- You'll like it.

It has a really beautiful fragrance.

Bill.

- Shermeen.

- I have a surprise for you.

- Oh.

- It has a lovely fragrance.

- You must take us to Sunim.

- Oh.

Wow, do I feel lousy.

- Yeah, so does Chris Potter.

We found him in the equipment room

in the same state you're in.

- What?

- Yeah.

Not only that,

one of our miniature nuclear generators is missing.

- Commander?

- Yes, Maya?

- Eagle One has just taken off without authorization.

- What?

Who's aboard her?

- Fraser was piloting.

Shermeen was with him.

- Well, that figures, doesn't it?

I want Eagle Two on the pad ready for immediate lift-off.

Come on, let's go.

- Now just turn the green dial a fraction more to the right.

Excellent.

Now all that remains is for me

to come into your world, Shermeen.

- Is everything set now?

- Everything's set.

- Shermeen!

Shermeen!

Shermeen!

Bill!

Bill!

- He's in a trance, hypnotic.

- Look, the temple.

- You will not be harmed, Shermeen.

Take her down.

- No!

No, I want to stay!

I want to stay!

- No, Tony!

Don't fire the laser, it'll bounce back to us.

It won't come past that point.

Hold its attention.

- He won't go past the obelisk.

- Hey!

- How did you know?

- Our sensors showed no life forms on Sunim.

So it had to be antimatter.

Vindrus.

Vindrus.

- We have three more ready for the transfer.

Welcome.

Welcome to Sunim.

My name is Vindrus.

- What?

- Well, I know it's crazy, but I feel I've seen him before.

- How is it our lasers bounce off antimatter?

- We have evolved certain techniques

in our many attempts to cross over.

As you have witnessed we can reflect electrical beams.

- And project into our minds the illusion

that an antimatter form may appear solid?

- Yes.

- Are you antimatter?

- There's only one way to find out.

- Obviously, I am no longer antimatter.

- You've taken over one of our technicians.

She's here somewhere.

I want her back.

- She's inside the temple.

- Send her out.

- I wanted her to come out with me, but she refuses.

Perhaps it would be better if you came in

and got her yourself.

- John, don't go in there.

Don't ask me howl know,

but there's terrible danger in there.

- Maya, stay with Tony.

- I'm going in with him.

You stay out here as a backup, Maya.

- Where is she, Vindrus?

- Commander!

Tony!

- Now I remember.

- Yes.

Now you are permitted to remember.

- You sent her into your world

so that you could come into ours.

- We have to maintain the balance.

We would prefer it to be different of course,

but unfortunately it is the only way we can come over.

- Where is she, Vindrus?

- You're going to see her very soon, Commander.

My coming here is an act of self-survival.

If it was the other way around you'd do the same.

- What about Shermeen's survival?

- She can expect an anti-life of hundreds of years.

And so can you, Commander.

And Mr. Verdeschi, and Maya.

- How many others, Vindrus?

How many others?

Certainly not just us!

Not even just Alpha!

- Eventually, we will establish machines

such as this throughout the universe.

- No, Tony!

- Commander Koenig is already aware

that your lasers are, shall we say, counterproductive.

However, we have weapons that are quite effective.

- Vindrus we're no good to you dead.

You need us alive so you can make the exchange.

- Accept the exchange, both of you.

As individuals you will have an extended anti-lifespan.

- And our species?

- Please, into the cabinets, gentlemen.

- Vindrus.

Vindrus.

Shermeen's coming back.

She's coming back.

- Impossible!

- No, Vindrus, it's not.

She never got fully into your world, Vindrus.

She only got halfway.

I knew what you were after,

so I programmed the generator so

it couldn't function on full power.

It's no use, Vindrus, she'll be back.

She didn't go all the way.

There wasn't enough power.

- Vindrus.

Vindrus, come here!

I'm over here, Vindrus.

Come to me.

Do not be afraid, Vindrus.

You have to try again.

They're waiting for me.

I cannot reach them.

We will be destroyed!

Stop, no!

Do not be afraid!

No, Vindrus.

Stop.

You have to try again, Vindrus.

They're waiting for me.

Stop.

No, stop.

Vindrus, stop!

Now, Tony, get him in!

Commander!

Commander, help me!

Help me!

- Come on, Maya, hurry it up!

- I'm trying to remember the one on Psychon.

Commander!

- If I make a mistake, matter and antimatter will collide.

- Right, and this corner of the universe will be blotted out.

Help me!

Commander!

Commander, help me!

- I can't remember!

- Left.

Left.

No, no, no, no!

The green one!

The green one!

Get me out!

- It's all right, it's all right.

- I'm setting this to self-destruct.

Better get the door open so we can get out of here.

- There's gotta be a switch here somewhere.

Wait a minute!

He was standing there when he closed it.

I'll take Eagle One!

- All right, Maya, go with him!

Shermeen, you come with me, this way!

- Get him in the back.

- What about Vindrus's people,

they'll all be destroyed!

- Only matter will be destroyed, not antimatter.

- Hey, look at that.

The whole planet has just disappeared right from under us.

- It's gone back to being antimatter.

Eagle Two, Commander,

this is Moonbase Alpha.

Can you read me?

- Loud and clear, Alpha.

Loud and clear.

We're on our way back to Alpha now.

Out.

- The problem is mechanical.

It's not creative, no way.

Proper flow at the proper time to the proper place.

That's the trick.

Oh, Shermeen, you brought me some new hops.

Thanks.

Be right with you as soon as I fix this.

- Not the new ones, Tony, they're the old ones.

- Yeah?

Oh.

Well how about storing them for me till I'm ready?

- I'm sorry, Tony,

I don't have the room in Hydroponics anymore.

I'm clearing out that area.

No more hops.

- Huh?

No more hops?

- Eddie Collins has a rather

interesting theory on plant growth,

and Eddie and I need that area for own cultivating.

- How about that?

A couple of days ago Shermeen was

pining away due to unrequited love.

- Yeah, but now she looks straight through me like I was...

- Antimatter.

- Yeah.

Hey!

Antimatter!

Yeah!

Now if I could blend some antimatter

hops with some hydroponic barley

or some antimatter barley with hydroponic hops.

Where would I get the antimatter grain from?

Hmm.

And then if I did come up with a great beer

would I be able to see it?

Or taste it?