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Moonbase Alpha status report.

2,515 days since leaving Earth orbit.

Dr. Helena Russell recording.

Commander Koenig has not responded to treatment

since becoming irrational and crashing his Eagle.

It is possible that the use of the cerebral wave machine

has worsened his condition.

He reacted psychotically to the arrival

of a rescue mission from Earth and he remains convinced

that its appearance is somehow sinister

and that evil forces are at work.

- John, darling.

- Don't come near me.

Stay away from me.

- John, it's my brother, Guido.

- Tony, Alan, Maya, what's the matter with you?

He refuses to believe that they are

friends and relatives from Earth.

Commander Koenig insists that they are monsters

determined to kill him because he is the only one

who stands in their way.

- Why won't you listen to me?

You're all blind!

The Commander remains in the Medical Center

where my old friend and teacher from Earth,

Dr. Shaw has promised to check on his condition

from time to time.

I feel helpless and frustrated because I can't free

John Koenig of the delusion that there's a plot to kill him.

- No.

- Dr. Shaw, what's your opinion?

- His vital signs are very erratic.

This could be causing his mental instability.

Well if there's anything more I can do.

- I'll ask, thank you.

All right, Maya.

Let's see if he'll respond.

John.

John.

John, Maya's here.

She has something to show you.

It's a recording.

- That's the pilot ship.

- That's an Eagle.

I can see Earth.

It's blue, blue and beautiful.

We're getting closer by the minute.

- They're in an Eagle.

- John why can't you accept what we all tell you?

- Maya, what do you see out there in the Command Center?

- People from Earth.

- Ah, I was hoping.

I thought your different brain structure

would have resisted their telepathic control.

- Whose telepathic control?

- Maya, when you look, you see people from Earth.

When I look, I see monsters from a different dimension.

- One of us is wrong.

- Will you accept that it could be you?

- Well that would mean, of course,

that everyone else is wrong.

- Maya, I'm the only one on this base

who was hooked up to that machine.

- Well, either the machine has distorted your consciousness,

- Or protected it.

- Telepathic control,

it's possible.

I find it odd that everyone from Earth

is somebody's friend.

It's against probability.

Everyone's a friend because everyone's

out of someone's memory.

Yes, they could have tapped

everyone's mind and projected what they needed

out of what they found there.

They couldn't project strangers

because people we've never seen can't be

in our memories.

- Wait a minute, Maya sees these people, too.

They can't be in her memory.

- It is possible that they could project images

from other people's minds into my mind.

- If they have control over our minds,

why are they letting us have this conversation?

- Perhaps they're letting us for a purpose.

- Or maybe they have to be present

to exert that control.

Right, Ben did say that he knew

Sandstrom was trying to kill you

but he couldn't do anything about it.

And then when Alan took Louisa away from him,

he regained control of himself.

And in the Records Lab,

Kander, they took him over, controlled his mind,

he must have made a discovery which threatened them.

He didn't go berserk.

They made him release the oxygen

causing the explosion which killed him.

If only we knew what it was that he'd found out.

- Now listen to this, we've been in space for months.

In Earth time, that's generations.

If they are from Earth,

they'd have to be hundreds of years older

than they appear.

- That should have occurred to me.

- It didn't occur to you because they wouldn't let it.

The reason they haven't been able to control my mind

is because I was hooked to that machine.

- There may be no causal effect,

but it is a tenable theory.

- Helena, please unstrap me.

Do we tell Tony?

- No, our best weapon is surprise.

If we tell Tony, they may probe his mind

and take away the one advantage we've got.

- Maya, would you let Helena give you

the same treatment I had?

- The brain complex John?

- Yes.

- Well I don't know if she can withstand that.

- I'm willing.

The Commander's right.

- Well look then it should be me not Maya.

- But you can handle the machine we can't.

- Helena, if I'm right, there are things Maya can do

that you can't.

You little beauty.

What's the first thing you're gonna do, Joe?

- Find a golf course where I don't hit a mile.

You?

- Me?

The name's Genie.

How about you Jack?

- Her name's Caroline.

She's five years old.

She's got her mother's eyes.

Hey Sam,

What would you and Peter like as a wedding present

from little old Earth?

- Just to be there.

Will you look at that weather pattern?

I swear it's snowing over California.

- Hey smile when you say that man.

- Maya,

Maya,

how do you feel?

- Normal.

Wait a minute, wait a minute.

- Well, here we go in the carousel.

Hey down there Earth Control.

This is Swift Pilot Ship Two.

Do you read me?

Do you want me to fly this crate in?

This is New York Control

reading you loud and clear.

We have you locked into the computer,

you don't have to do a thing.

Just you sit back and enjoy the ride.

I hear you oh Earth man.

Alan Carter to Moonbase Alpha,

we're now going into Earth orbit

and then on down for a landing.

- Well?

- Ticking over like a flawless machine as always.

- Good.

- Helena,

what do you see out there?

- Dr. Shaw and Sahn's fiancée Peter.

- Maya?

- Oh, they look like the plasma that forms

on some organic matter when it begins to decompose.

- Oh boy, don't they look beautiful.

- You got your historic lines ready?

- How about it's a small step for man...

- It's been done.

- Well who said it had to be original.

- What are you gonna say Alan?

- Where's the nearest john.

- Well that will make the history books.

This is New York control

you're coming in clean and neat.

We have you on automatic pilot.

You're about to touch down

right in the middle of little old New York.

Let's get this luggage into the hotel.

I sure hope we get a room with a view.

Forget the view, what I want to do

is to get to a telephone.

In the old days they used to call this town

The Big Apple.

Everything going according to plan?

Yes, one of them is to stay here

to prime the nodes.

I'll send the other two for the nuclear trigger.

- What do they want?

- There's one way to find out.

- Oh I think I know.

- I really hate to ask you Maya, but.

- Oh, they're so repulsive.

- If there was any other way.

- Maya remember, they know you're a metamorph

so be careful.

We haven't much time.

We are beginning to lose energy rapidly.

Two aliens have been dispatched

for the nuclear trigger.

Once they energize it, we will take our fill.

All the alien creatures will die.

They are of no consequence.

They are so ugly.

Naturally they are of no consequence.

Nevertheless, they will be happy

before they die.

Which of our number is that?

It has our shape,

but it is not of our species.

Come here.

Stop that one.

- Oh don't ever ask me to do that again.

They have the minds of geniuses

and the instincts of vultures.

- What do they want Maya?

- Well they're a species that live on radiation.

- Radiation?

- Yeah, it's the only kind of energy

they can assimilate.

It's what keeps them alive.

- What do they want here?

- Well their planet ran out of radiation.

They're starving.

Unless they get a huge intake soon,

they're gonna die.

They want our nuclear waste dump so they...

- Wait a minute, wait a minute.

That could be beneficial to us.

Let's give them our nuclear waste.

- It's not that easy.

- Why not?

- Well they need the kind of intense radiation

they will get from blowing up the dumps.

- Blowing them up?

That would destroy us.

- That's why they've got control

of our minds so that we don't know what we're doing

when we blow them up.

- Why haven't they just blown up the dumps themselves?

They have very little kinetic energy.

They don't seem to be able to handle physical activity.

They plan to manipulate us into exploding them for them.

How?

- By making us think that we're doing one thing

when actually we're doing something else.

- It's what they did to me in the Eagle.

Wait a minute.

Alan, Bartlett and Ehrlich

That's where they really are.

Still on the surface.

- And they were flying in an Eagle.

- I still see the Pilot Ship.

They're at the Atomic Waste Dumps.

They're gonna detonate them.

- They can't do that without atomic fuel.

There's your atomic fuel.

That's the trigger to blow up the dumps.

- They wouldn't do it.

- They won't know they're doing it.

- Computer, close and lock entrance

to Atomic Fuel Store.

I got to get to an Eagle.

- Hold it John.

Where do you think you're going?

- Tony, I must have an Eagle.

Tony listen to me.

- Stay back.

- Helena,

how did he get out of Medical Center?

- He just broke loose.

- And why the hell didn't you give the alarm?

Now he could have hurt himself and us.

- I'm sorry Tony, I'll keep him under restraints.

- Yeah, well you do that.

All right you stay with the Commander.

Make sure he's properly taken care of.

Yes, sir.

- You coming Dr. Shaw?

- Helena, Commander, Helena, John,

- Alan?

- They're still in the Atomic Fuel Store.

- Now how long would it take to process all our people

on that machine?

Make every one of our people immune to those aliens?

- It would take days.

Days John.

- Unless we can break the aliens' hold on our people,

I'll never be able to save Alpha.

- There may be a way.

Why didn't I think of it?

- What?

- I sometimes use a sonic anesthetic

instead of drugs.

It's called White Noise and it works

by blocking nerve paths and the synapses in the brain.

- That would obstruct the telepathic

input of the aliens.

- It would have to be amplified and transmitted

to all of our people.

- Right.

- All right, let's go.

Helena stay away from those aliens in Command Center.

Otherwise they'll take you over again.

- Make sure these things are set to stun.

And let's hope the aliens don't read your mind Helena.

- They'll try and use our people to stop us.

- Hold it.

- It was set to kill.

- Don't Tony.

- What the hell is going on here?

- Shut up.

- Helena.

- That's as much amplification as I can give you.

- What about Alan and the others on the surface?

Will the sound reach them?

- They'll be getting it through their helmet receivers.

But it won't be powerful enough if the aliens

choose to block it.

- Ah, oh

- Kill them.

- No Tony, they get their power from energy.

They disappeared.

They vanished.

- We've won.

- The Atomic Fuel Store.

We haven't stopped them.

They're on to Bartlett with the trigger.

Tony, Maya.

- The aliens know about the White Noise.

They must be concentrating all their power

on Alan, Ehrlich, and Bartlett.

- You said they were starving.

Where are they getting their strength?

- Well, every piece of electrical equipment

on Alpha emits a minute amount of radiation.

They must be getting it from that.

- Helena

Yes.

- Cut all non-essential power.

All except communications, out.

I can't see them John.

They've got to be down there somewhere.

- Alan, this is Commander Koenig.

Do you read me?

Alan, Alan are you receiving me?

Come in Alan.

Answer Alan.

This is Eagle One to Alan Carter.

Are you receiving?

There's something over there to the left.

Switch on scanners.

There they are.

- Alan, Ehrlich, this is Koenig.

Do you read me?

Do you read me?

Alan, do you read me?

Alan, do you read me?

Come in Alan.

Touch down in front of them Tony.

- No Commander.

The terrain is too crumbly.

With the weight of the Eagle,

we'd go straight through the surface.

We'll use our harness.

We'll drop me in front of them.

Alright.

- Maya, prepare to depressurize.

Decompression complete.

Lower away.

Alan stop.

Alan stop.

You don't know what you're doing.

Ehrlich stop him, Ehrlich.

Alan, Alan stop.

Decompression complete Tony.

All right now move it Maya, move it.

Alan, Alan.

Alan it's me, John.

Ehrlich listen to me.

Alan listen to me.

Ehrlich you don't know what you're doing.

Commander, Ehrlich's losing air,

his pack is punctured.

- Tony, Ehrlich's lost most of his air.

We've got to get him back to Alpha fast.

He needs depressurizing.

It's his only chance.

- Coming in now, John.

Alan.

Alan wait.

Alan.

Alan wait.

Alan

Alan.

Alan.

All right Tony, take him up.

Bartlett come out here and give me a hand.

When you are inside,

you will seal the door.

Maya

- Yes, Commander?

There are aliens everywhere.

All over the place.

- Well, they have no power to harm you

either mentally or physically.

They need all of their energies

to control Alan and Bartlett.

He can't get through.

They've got the door sealed.

They have reached the nuclear core.

Soon we will have all the radiation we need.

He's broken through.

It doesn't matter.

They will resist him.

- Maya

- Yes Commander.

- How come the aliens are still

controlling Alan and Bartlett?

Everything's closed down.

Where are they getting their energy?

- Well, the human brain generates electrical activity,

there may be enough among the population of Alpha

to keep them going at survival level.

- When people are unconscious their

brain activity is reduced, isn't it?

Very greatly.

- Helena, I want everyone on the base knocked out.

With the exception of yourself and the Chief Engineer.

- You mean unconscious?

- I mean unconscious.

- John.

- Don't argue with me.

Can you do it?

- Well yes I can do it.

I can use a contact gas, but John.

- Just do it, out.

- Alan, Bartlett.

- It's atomic fuel.

- You were about to plug it into the core.

We'd have blown up the whole planet.

That's right.

- You and Alan have been living an illusion,

but you've broken the alien's control.

Now help me.

Maya I think Bartlett's returned to normal.

Careful Commander, with everyone else unconscious,

they're running out of energy.

With what little they've got left,

they'll concentrate on Alan.

- Bartlett, they're still controlling him.

Alan, listen to me it's all right.

It's all over.

Is it.

- No that won't help.

You learn quickly John Koenig.

That is hopeful.

- Hopeful, hopeful for whom?

Yes, it's true Bartlett.

You have been living inside an illusion

but haven't you been happy?

Happier than you've ever been on Alpha before?

Living your life reunited with your loved ones?

Living as it were back on Earth?

- Yes, but it's not real.

You've been living in a dream.

Isn't it better to live

in a dream of happiness than to face a reality

which you hate?

- Bartlett, help me.

Will you really face

living out your lives, growing old and dying

on this piece of debris?

- How long can the dream last?

As soon as the nuclear waste is triggered,

all human life on the moon will be wiped out.

How long is a meaningless term.

A pygmy's phrase.

Time is relative.

A butterfly lives a gloriously full life in a day.

A single celled organism in a microsecond.

So long as one is fulfilled, time is irrelevant.

Bartlett don't listen.

Help me.

We can offer people of Alpha

a complete life as it would be with your loved ones

in your own homes on Earth.

A life without pain or sorrow.

Without fear or loss.

This is what we offer.

Bartlett use your laser.

Stun Alan.

Now put the trigger

in the atomic core.

Stop him.

Stop him Bartlett.

It's futile to call

on Bartlett for help.

He's immobilized.

- Alan, listen to me.

It's Koenig, it's Koenig.

- Yah.

You are a truly primitive

organism Commander.

We could have given you an eternity

of happiness in an instant of time.

Now your life will be what the lives

of your species has always been

cruel and futile.

- It's better to live as your own man

than as a fool in someone else's dream.

- So much for illusions.

- Maya I've been meaning to ask you something.

What was that creature that you transformed into?

Oh a Laryn.

- A what?

- A Laryn.

It's natural habitat was the moon of Psychon

where the atmosphere was very thin.

- Well how does it survive?

- Ah it has the ability to store oxygen.

Like a camel can store water.

And it's skin is like a space suit

and it's very strong.

- Maya put me down.

Maya, listen will you quit fooling around.

Put me down.

- How much longer before they wake up?

- About 10 minutes.

Well can't you give them something

to speed it up?

No.

- How am I supposed to run a base of sleeping beauties?

It was your idea.

That blonde, she might have been

an illusion but she was...

- I said it was your... idea.