Original subtitles

- Yippee!

He-ey-ey,

Whee, whoo-hoo!

- Commander Koenig?

Tony, you'd better see this.

- John, what the hell's going up there?'

- Whoo-hoo-hoo!

John, what's going on up there?

- Uh-oh!

Come in, John!

John, can you hear me?

- Hey, look Ma, no hands!

- Do you read me?

Whoa, baby!

Look out!

- There was a report of an increase in the neutron count.

The Commander went out to investigate.

- Haven't had so much fun since I burned Grandma's wig!

- Medical Unit, stand by.

- Hey, you really gotta try this!

You have to fly this baby to really believe it!

It's terrific.

Whoo!

Hallelujah!

There are angels everywhere!

- He's heading for the nuclear waste dumps.

- He's too low!

He'll hit one of the dumps.

- John, get out of there!

That's lethal!

♪ Come and join us ♪

♪ Come and join us ♪

♪ Come and join our happy band ♪

Yahoo-oo-oo!

Whee!

- Alan, take over Eagle by remote.

- Medical rescue unit to the launch area.

- Crash Unit 4 to launch area.

- He's deactivated the remote control.

I can't take over.

- If he hits one of those dumps,

he could cause a nuclear explosion.

- No, that would need a specific

stimulation with atomic fuel.

- He's gonna crash.

Alan, get over there.

Take a couple of nuclear physicists with you, just in case.

Ehrlich, Bartlett.

- Whoo-hoo-hoo!'

Keep your heads down.

Big Daddy's coming in!

John, get outta there!

Moonbase Alpha status report,

'1,912 days since leaving Earth orbit.

Dr. Helena Russell recording.

Commander Koenig, while piloting Eagle 10,

became suddenly irrational and unresponsive.

He crashed in the area of the nuclear waste dumps.

- I've got it all on film.

What's the radiation count?

- Negative, all clear.

- He was lucky.

- Will he be okay?

- He's got severe concussion.

It's a feedback complex, Maya.

It takes brain impulses, modifies them,

and feeds It back into the brain..

- It's like a brain massage.

Electronic.

- It is still experimental.

- Then you don't know the side effects.

Is it worth the risk?

- If I don't take the risk...

- What happened to him up there?

- I don't know.

- Tony, I have something on the screen.

- I'm on my way, Sahn.

Hang in there, John.

Come on, Maya.

What is it?

- It's too far away to tell.

Maya?

Sensors pick up configuration of a spaceship.

- Range?

- 90,210,000 miles.

- Heading?

- Directly at us.

Medical Center.

- Helena, how long before I can talk to John?

- 15 minutes at the earliest.

He's linked to that brain complex, Tony.

I don't dare break the sequence.

- Okay, thanks.

- Even at the speed of light, it would take

that spacecraft almost an hour to reach Alpha.

- What happened to the monitoring crew

that went to the nuclear waste area?

- They're on their way back to report.

- Tony, range 40 million miles!

It's impossible.

That means it's exceeding the speed of light.

- 32 million miles.

- Well, we're lucky.

Damage to that nuclear dump was minimal.

- Yeah, not a trace of radiation leak.

- The nuclear waste area is stable.

- Yeah, it's gonna stay that way, too

for centuries, unless some fool drills our plutonium...

- Magnify it.

Alan, What do you make of that thing?

- That is a Superswift.

- No, it can't be.

- But it is, I tell you.

The Superswift never got off the drawing board.

- Not before we left Earth.

Things have changed.

- Physics hasn't changed.

That thing is traveling faster than the speed of light.

- Sure in hell looks like the drawings of Superswift.

- It seems like human technology to me.

- It could be from Earth.

- Whatever that thing is out there,

let's not get sentimental about it.

- Tony, it's moving in to land.

- Weapon section, arm all lasers.

Open a channel.

Moonbase Alpha to spaceship, identify yourself.

Repeat, identify.

Moonbase Alpha to spaceship, identify yourself.

Repeat, identify.

- Tony, they're trying to come through.

- It's Guido!

- Hi, little brother.

- It's my brother Guido.

Guido!

- Tony!

- Guido! - Tony!

- I saw you on that screen, I didn't believe it!

- Still keeping that guard up, Carter?

- I've still got the Houston Base Championship!

- Only because I couldn't get up there for a rematch.

- Doctor Shaw!

- Helena, my dear!

- Diana?

- Peter, darling!

- Now look, brother, I'm a captain now.

I want a little respect from you.

- Yeah, well that cuts both ways.

- How's your handicap?

- Hi!

- Oh Henry, I hate to have to tell you this,

but I can put a shot in the crater at 1,600 yards.

How's your handicap?

- You are looking so fit!

- Green grass and fresh air.

- Well, hello!

- Hello.

Could you tell me where I could find Dr. Ben Vincent?

- Mm-hm.

You're his sister, right?

- No.

- Oh, his daughter?

- No.

- I know, you're his grandmother.

- No.

- Oh boy, I guess that only means you're gonna

tell me what I'm afraid you're gonna tell me.

- Yes, I'm his fiancée.

- Well done, sport.

Wonderful!

- Did you make that physiotherapy major?

- Oh, without your coaching, it was difficult.

But I made it.

- Okay, well...

Listen, I've got a lot of stiff tendons around here.

- Around here?

- Listen, hold it!

Hold it everybody, come on now.

Now listen,

and just try and contain yourselves for a little while.

You've all naturally got thousands

of things you wanna know.

- You betcha, Tens of thousands!

- How are things back on Earth...

- How are things on Earth?

- The time it took us to get here,

how we finally made it.

- When are we going to get back?

- And when you're gonna get back to Earth.

All the whys and wherefores.

Just give us a minute or two to get our breath back,

then we'll have a nice relaxed session,

we'll answer all your questions, everything you wanna know.

Okay everybody, thank you very much.

- What is that?

- Come on, I'll introduce you.

Maya, this is my brother, Guido.

- I'm his elder brother and

smarter brother and his handsomer brother.

- In every other way, he's a poor second.

- Put it there, old buddy.

- Certainly, old buddy.

- Is it always like this between you?

- No, no, I usually dominate him effortlessly.

- Oh, he has to have a little fantasy.

It comes from the fact that I always stole his girls.

- That's because he could never get any of his own!

- Oh, come on, I'll introduce you.

Helena, this is Peter Rockwell.

- Hello, how are you?

- He's a pilot.

We were going to get married

when my tour of duty on Alpha ended.

- I've heard a lot about you.

- I thought I'd lost her for good.

- Never underestimate the extent of human inventiveness.

- You always did take that view.

- You knew each other before?

- Dr. Shaw was my tutor at medical college.

He taught me everything there is

to know about being a doctor.

- What do you do, Guido?

- He's a cab driver.

- I captained the Superswift that brought us here.

- It's a miracle anybody made it!

- You...

- How did you attain a speed faster than light?

- Little old Earth has progressed.

Physics came up with a new wrinkle.

We can make loops in the continuum.

- Oh, don't let him fool you Maya,

He hasn't got the faintest idea what he's talking about!

- It was Rhinehart who made the breakthrough at Cambridge.

- Cambridge, England.

- Massachusetts.

It means we can travel anywhere in the universe now.

The journey back to Earth is just a bus ride in Earth time.

- We're just the scouting party.

The big transporters will be along soon,

and then it's goodbye, moon for everyone.

- Oh, I can't wait!

Maya?

She'll be all right.

How's Momma?

- You know Momma.

She's making you a mound of pasta the size of Vesuvius!

And the sauce!

- I know, I know,

everything in it but holy water!

How did she take it when the

news broke that we'd blown out?

- Three days of weeping, and then two weeks of

phoning the White House to demand action.

- Oh boy, that's Momma.

- And then she finally decided simply not to believe it.

The scientists were talking out of their navel

as usual, it was simply a matter of time.

- And Poppa?

- He went quiet, and he got thin.

- Yeah, sure.

- And where did you meet?

- Oh, somebody's party.

- You look a little lost.

Can I help you?

- Perhaps later.

- Trouble?

- I bet she's been looking for John ever since she got here.

She knew him before I did.

- Does that give her territorial rights?

- Well, you know Diana Morris.

She's like the Fifth Cavalry.

Wherever she plants her flag is home.

- Oh well, I think I'll leave you to it.

- Thanks a lot!

- Helena, darling!

We haven't had a proper little chat.

- No, we haven't, Diana, but there's lots of time for that.

- Oh, you poor dear.

It must have been terrible here.

It's obviously been awfully wearing.

- I think space is generally very hard on women.

How long is it that you've been...

What is it, navigating officer?

- Still, there's something to

be said for a marooned society.

It does limit the men's choices.

- And women's opportunities.

- I've always make my own opportunities.

- There are some of us who still prefer them to come to us.

- Hey Clive, you're always with a camera!

Is there anything you don't get on tape?

- This is for the record,

and this little baby's watching history being made.

- There's only one thing, Clive.

- Huh, what's that?

- You won't be in the picture.

- How do you get along with John Koenig?

- Well, in a small community,

everyone has to get along with everybody else.

- Cozy.

- Isn't it?

- Do you find him interesting?

- He's everything you said he was.

- I'm glad you can second my opinion.

- As a matter of fact, he's much more than you said he was.

There are depths to him that I'm sure

you never found out about.

- I must look for them at once.

Where is he?

- At the moment, he is linked to

an Ellendorf quadrographic brain complex.

- Oh, very wise of you, darling.

- Hi. - Hi.

- This is a medical monitor.

These are strategically placed so that

from anywhere on Alpha, we can keep a check on our patients.

- It's a good rational set-up.

- Hey, why don't we get out of this heavy traffic, huh?

I know a nice, cozy spot.

- Ben?

- I wonder if you wouldn't mind, Ben,

I have some important questions that I want to put to Louisa

about the shape of things back on Earth,

the configuration of the modern female form.

- Darling, where have you got John on this brain machine?

I'm dying to see him.

Can't I see him?

I know he's longing for me.

- Ben!

- Sandstrom was trying to kill Koenig.

He's all right.

The cycle's completed.

If it had happened earlier...

- What happened?

- Are you all right?

- I'll tell you what happened!

- Ben! - You tried to kill Koenig!

- Ben, just take it easy!

- Kill Koenig, I have to kill Koenig!

He'll destroy us!

- All right!

- He could destroy us!

- Come on, here we go.

Easy.

- What about fashion?

What's everybody wearing?

- Well, there's a lot of silver about.

Necklines tend to be a little lower.

Skirts tend to be a little higher.

- Now, where do you think you're going?

- Well, I...

I didn't want to disturb the big reunion.

- What are you talking about?

- Well, I...

I don't want to disturb everybody.

- Don't be so ridiculous!

You couldn't disturb anybody.

Now come on.

- No, no, please, Tony.

Um, I've got to check some computers.

- Maya...

come here.

- Hey Guido, what I want to know is what kind of

propulsion you used to boost you past the speed of light?

- It's a development of the ion rocket.

- Look, I always knew you were naïve.

- Me, naïve?

- Yeah.

But I never knew you were shy before.

- I do love your make-up!

- Diana, this is Maya.

- How do you do?

- Maya is a Psychon.

She's the last of her species.

- I'm not surprised.

Tell me, how do you manage to keep so fit up here?

- Well you know, a little bit of this, a little bit of that.

We manage.

- Do you jog?

- What?

- Jog.

- Oh.

- I do think exercise is so important to a man, don't you?

- I mean, I think it's so important

to his physical well-being.

- Maya!

- I do a little yoga myself.

You can get into some lovely positions.

- What happened to the Commander on the Eagle?

Do you suppose it could have anything

to do with Sandstrom going berserk?

- In what way?

- Well, could it be infectious?

Contagious?

- I found no evidence of virus

or bacteria in John's blood samples.

- Helena?

- How do you feel?

- You tell me.

- You look great to me.

You're fine.

Wait a minute, wait a minute!

Let's get this off of you, come on.

- Okay.

- Gently.

- Whoa...

- All right?

- Yeah.

Eagle 10?

- Totaled.

- What happened, John?

- How long was I out?

- Just over five hours.

- Five hours!

- You're lucky.

Your skull took quite a bang.

- Without this complex, it could have been weeks.

John, what happened?

- What do you mean what happened?

Everyone must have seen what happened.

Rocket malfunction.

Well, that's what it was, wasn't it?

- The investigation crew found

no evidence of rocket malfunction.

- That leaves pilot error.

That's terrific.

- John, it wasn't pilot error.

We don't know what happened.

You seemed to have lost control of yourself.

- I don't remember anything, other than

going out to check that neutron count.

John...

- Yeah?

- A rescue expedition has landed here on Alpha from Earth.

- What?

- From Earth, they came in a Superswift.

- A Superswift?

- Tony's brother Guido captained it and Dr. Shaw is here.

- Dr. Shaw?

- You remember Dr. Shaw, I told you all about Dr. Shaw.

- Course I remember Dr. Shaw, very, very well indeed.

- And Sahn's fiancé Peter.

- Sahn's fiancé.

- And Professor Hunter.

- Professor Hunter.

- And Diana Morris.

- Diana Morris.

Well, well.

Now, Helena, please don't even joke about that barracuda.

Only you're not joking.

- No.

- You really mean it.

You mean, somehow something worked?

- Yes.

- You mean they got it licked?

They're really here?

- Yes!

- So we can get back to Earth?

- Yes!

- Helena, Helena!

- Yes, yes, yes!

- Helena.

- Oh!

- Okay now, give it to me, give it to me.

Keep the arm straight...

Keep your arm straight and then get your eye on the ball.

- I didn't know you had such a big

thing going with Diana Morris.

- I didn't want to bore you with my romantic past.

- I wouldn't have thought she was your type.

- We were childhood sweethearts.

- Diana Morris was never a child!

- Would you believe we met in the jazz ballet group at MIT?

- You liar!

- I'm not a liar.

- The Commander's on his way.

- John, good to see you back.

- John, darling!

Don't come near me, stay away!

- John, this is my brother, Guido.

What's the matter, John?

This is Guido, my brother.

Are you all right?

- Stay back, don't come near me.

- What's the matter, John?

- Alan, what's the matter with you?

Tony, Helena?

Maya, what's the matter with you?!

- What's wrong with him?

- He was fine.

- He's as erratic as he was up in the Eagle.

John, they're friends!

- Tony, they're not your friends!

They're...

They're horrible...

Ugly, hideous!

- Take it easy, John.

- Listen to me.

- Just calm down. - Listen!

- You'll be all right.

- Listen to me! - Just calm down...

- Tony!

Clear the Command Center!

- John!

- Stay behind me.

Stay behind.

Weapon section.

- Arm all lasers.

Destroy that alien ship!

- Weapon section, abort laser guns.

- Damn you, Tony, I'm in command!

- John, it's all right.

- Stay clear, Tony.

- John, no!

Status report, supplemental.

John Koenig continues his odd behavior.

'He has no awareness that he acted

strangely just before his crash.

With great reluctance, I've put him in restraint.

- Gotta get out of here.

Things to be done, answers, answers.

Gotta find answers.

- John, take it easy.

It's all right.

- Danger, danger.

The entire base is in danger.

- Helena, can't you do something?

- I'm trying, Tony.

- His blood pressure's up,

his adrenaline level is very high.

- Gotta get out, gotta get out.

Helena!

- Yes, John?

Now, please, just take it easy.

- Those things out there.

What are they, what do they want?

- John, will you listen to me?

Those are people out there from Earth.

Now, you know some of them.

They've come to take us home.

- They're not people!

Are you blind?

- John, please trust us.

- Why can't you see what you've got out there?

- Dr. Shaw, would you please assist me?

- Get that out of here!

Get that out of here!

Get that out of here!

Get out of here!

Get it out of here!

- I'm sorry, Dr Shaw.

- Of course, Helena.

- He's the last man I would have expected to flip out.

- Tony, Helena, let me out of here, please.

I've got to get out of here, I've got...

No, Helena, don't.

Don't, please.

- If you didn't let Ben Vincent out of

your range, Koenig would be dead now.

- He interfered.

He escaped the Eagle crash we arranged and now this.

He's hard to kill, this John Koenig.

- We can arrange to control him.

Why fear him?

- He is a strong leader.

His mind is no longer under our control.

Something has interfered.

- He's in position now.

- There is resistance.

I need help.

- Helena, could that medical apparatus

have aggravated his condition?

- The complex was tested extensively.

Ellendorf's results were quite impressive.

I just don't know, Tony.

- His mind...

Oh, it wouldn't just cave in, not John Koenig.

- Command Center.

- Maya, we've got trouble in the Records Lab.

- But how do you explain his wild ride of his on Eagle 10?

And his claim that Guido and the others are monsters?

- Tony, I'm at the Records Lab, we have an emergency.

- Maya, what happened?

- He's jammed the lock on his side.

- We can't control them all at the same time.

Concentrate on Kander.

- What's happening?

- Kander's trapped inside.

- Stand back, I'll blast it open.

- Alan, wait.

The emergency oxygen supply is going full on.

You'll blow the whole place to pieces.

- Tony, I can get through the air vent.

- She's a Metamorph!

- He's dead.

- Tony, we're sorry about this tragedy you just had.

- I know this isn't the time to talk about other matters,

but we're rapidly getting out of the range of Earth

and if we're going to get you all home,

we have to address ourselves to the problem.

- There's a pilot ship that'll go back first,

there'd be room for three people on it.

If there's anyone you'd like to suggest?

Tony, we should get to it as soon as possible.

- Yeah, okay.

- All right, everybody.

This is it.

Are you ready?

I think I'm more nervous than anybody.

Ehrlich.

- Yippee!

Bramwell Beach, here I come!

- Bartlett.

Carter.

- You did it, Alan!

Fantastic!

Home at last!

- Well, you win some, you lose some.

- My eyes clear?

Pulse rate normal?

- Yes.

- Blood pressure down?

- Yes.

- Do I seem rational to you?

- Yes.

- Fine.

Now, will you believe that when

I look at our friends from Earth,

I don't see what you see?

- What do you see?

- Something hideous, something ugly

and horrendous and hostile and deadly.

Now, please, listen to me,

Please listen to me.

Please, let me get out of here!

No, please, don't do that.

Don't do that.

Please, please, don't do that.

Don't do that.

Look...

Don't you find it very strange

that all the personnel on the rescue ship

are people you know?

I mean, close relatives and friends?

What do you think the odds are against that, huh?

Aren't they pretty heavy?

- Not really.

They're all volunteers, John.

They specifically asked to come.

- Fine.

Okay, fine.

What about the pilot ship?

You said you drew lots to see who'd go first.

- Yes.

- And Ehrlich, Bartlett and Alan were the winners.

- That's right.

- Now, don't you find that strange?

The three men chosen are members

of the radioactive monitoring team?

Isn't that strange?

- John, I drew the names.

- What's the matter with you?

Can't you see you're being manipulated?!

What's happened to your instincts?

Why won't you listen to me?

You're all blind!

Hey, all systems are go here.

What's the hold-up, Alpha?'

- Tony, the pilot ship is ready for lift-off.'

- Tony, no.

Don't let them go.

Don't let them go, please!

Helena, don't let them go!

Don't, no, no.

Don't let them g...

- There it is.

Earth.

Did you ever see such a beautiful sight?

- It's incredible.

- It's only been a few hours, hasn't it?

Or has it?

- Well, that's what they said

the breakthrough they made was all about, time.

Don't you go away, blue eyes!

- I gotta tell the guys back on Alpha about this!

Hey, you guys.

It's beautiful!

Look, it's beautiful!

Maybe this will convince John,

now that somebody has actually seen Earth again.

- Are you all right?

- Oh, terrific.

What the hell happened?

- I hit him with my stick.