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( Bird chirps)

( beeps )

Man: And we're rolling, sir.

( Birds chirping )

Note that this time, the X0-359 had a spontaneous reaction

to the impurities released by the cigarette smoke.

This is-- this is very good.

This is a very good sign of progress.

( Beeping )

My God.

Carbon monoxide, zero.

Ammonia, zero.

Nitrogen dioxide, zero.

All airborne impurities were completely eliminated

in a matter of seconds.

This is...

This is astonishing.

The plant has created pure air.

( Groans )

I don'! know, okay?

It doesn't look like anyone's dumping today.

I thought you were committed to catching these polluters,

Mr. Not-Gonna-Happen-On-My-Watch.

Yeah, I am. I am.

But that was before my leg fell asleep

and my obsessive girlfriend deprived me of food.

Some bastard is egregiously polluting

this mine with toxic waste.

Look, if we don't catch them in the act, Joe,

they're gonna ruin this whole area.

There'll be acidic seepage in the drinking water,

and wildlife will start dying off, and--

I know, I know. Okay.

I'm sorry.

Joe: I don't know what I was thinking.

- ( Vehicle approaching ) - Hey, we've got company.

( Unzips bag )

Joe: We got you now, buddy.

( Beeps )

( birds chirping )

Woman: He looks nervous.

Here, come on.

Kyle.

It's good to see you again.

Joe: Aguy in a suit coming out of a mine?

You gotta be kidding me.

Something's wrong with this picture, all right.

You came alone, right?

( Scoffs ) What does it look like?

Keep focused, Kyle.

The sooner you show me the product, the sooner we can get out of here.

- That the money? - 'Course.

Show me.

This guy's definitely not dumping waste.

Well, whatever's going on doesn't look kosher.

You think it's drugs?

We'll see soon enough.

Now you show me something.

Relax.

It's a demonstration.

(grunting )

Why'd that guy cut himself?

M-maybe this is, like,

some secret cult gathering or something.

I doubt that.

That guy in a suit looks like a federal agent.

I'm impressed.

Do you have the seed?

Wait here.

Whoa.

- There's a sniper up there. - Where?

Right there on the platform.

- Oh, my God. - What?

He spotted us.

Man on radio: Sir, I've got eyes on two bogeys.

- Where? - 10:00, behind the concrete block.

(grunts)

Who are your friends, Kyle?

Oh, my Revs-

You trying to set us up?

What are you talking about?

- You wearing a wire? - No.

Let me go.

Give me the seed.

Joe: He's not looking.

Whoa. All right, let's get out of here.

Man on radio: Sir, they're on the move.

Do I take them out?

KY leg

Man on radio: Take out primary target.

( Panting )

- ( gunshot, yells) - Was that a gunshot?

( gasps )

Oh, my God. They shot him.

( Groans )

(ground vibrating )

What is that?

Joe: An earthquake.

What?

(grunts)

Woman: Let's get out of here!

(yells)

Ah-- slower, please.

You might damage the specimen.

There you are.

Aren't you remarkably well-preserved?

Specimen 37 is bell-shaped. Slightly charred.

With signs of extensive hydrolysis.

Preliminary analysis leads me to believe

it's Helianthus annuus.

Another sunflower seed.

Look, I don't see anything.

Oh, my God. That was crazy.

Joe, what the heck was that?

I don't know. I've never seen anything like that before.

It looked like some kind of giant root, right?

I don't know.

But whatever just happened, people have to know about it.

( Helicopter approaching )

Well, it looks like someone's on it.

(ground rumbling)

You gotta be kidding me.

Joe: Watch out. Get in the car.

Get in the car.

Joe: Kate!

Joe: Kate, get in the car!

Kate, get in the car. Now!

( Birds chirping )

Sir...

Noel, I've asked you to move slowly

when you're in the garden.

Plants are very sensitive.

Sir, you need to see the news.

Newscaster: You are seeing live footage

of what appear to be gigantic roots

devastating the remote deserts of Nevada.

I just verified one of the seed stock is missing.

And I couldn't find Kyle.

He's not on the premises.

Damn him.

Those seeds weren't ready to be released

into an uncontrolled environment.

(thunder rumbling)

Woman: Who are these guys?

Where do they think they're going?

Woman: Hey, buddy. No, stop!

( Researchers clamoring )

Man: Hey, what are you doing?

Slop!

Slop!

What do you think you're doing?

You just trampled over a prehistoric refuse pit.

Isn't it an old garbage dump?

Very old.

Dr. Stein, I'm Special Agent Jack Tompkins.

We need you to come with us. It's a matter of national security.

National security? Are you kidding?

- Did I do something wrong? - Please get in the car.

We don't have much time to waste.

Are you sure you have the right Dr. Stein?

I study plant remains.

You may have knowledge pertaining to a geological catastrophe

unfolding in Nevada.

Now will you please get in the car?

Jeremy Frame and Matthew Kyle.

When's the last time you had contact

with either one of these gentlemen?

Three years ago.

Dr. Frame hired Kyle and I to work on

a seed excavation in Turkey.

What kind of seeds?

I don't understand. What does this have to do

with a geological disaster?

We have reason to believe this disaster could be man-made.

Well, which is it? Geological or man-made?

Could be both.

What kind of seeds?

Seeds from the Garden of Eden.

As in...

- the Garden of Eden. - That's right.

You seriously believe such seeds can exist?

I wouldn't have spent my time looking for them if I didn't.

Okay.

Frame found lost passages in the Dead Sea Scrolls

indicating that, after Adam and Eve

were banished from the garden,

Adam stole seeds in an urn to replant a new garden.

But a flood hit and the seeds were lost.

Stein: So Frame got funding for me to dig

in an unmapped area below the 11,000-year-old site

of Gobekli Tepe,

the prehistoric temple believed to be the location of Eden.

( Men speaking in foreign language)

I think we found something.

Kyle: An intact Neolithic vessel.

- This is amazing. -( rattling )

Aren't you dying to take a quick peek?

Don't even think about it, Kyle.

This can only be opened in an airtight lab.

( Rattling continues)

Unbelievable.

(phone ringing)

Stern: One week later, I got a call from Frame.

( Staticky voices )

Frame: Jocelyn, I'm afraid we have some bad news.

We've lost our funding.

Why? What about the urn?

Frame: The um was empty. There was nothing inside.

But there was. I heard something.

It was just...

chipped pottery.

Frame: I'm truly sorry.

Where's Frame now?

I have no idea. He's a bit of a recluse.

I never knew where he was based.

Do you know what Frame was planning on doing with these seeds?

Recreate the Garden of Eden.

(thunder crashing )

Oh, man. This isn't good.

No.

Now what?

(ground rumbling)

Joe.

You're in danger!

Go! Get out of here now!

Get in, get in. Hold on.

- What are you doing? - Just hold on.

Kate: Joe, where are you going?

This is crazy.

(tires squealing )

( people clamoring )

(yelling )

( door closes )

What agency is this?

- Welcome to SCOPE. - SCOPE?

- Never heard of it. - We keep a low profile.

Our mandate is to investigate threats

that fall outside the scope of known science.

Hence the catchy name.

( Office workers chattering )

Man: Got new data from Skynet 2 and Skynet 3.

- ( Phone beeping ) - You're gonna have to put that away.

Got real-time satellite imagery.

Tompkins: You're looking at infrared of Pershing County, Nevada.

This is what's going on right now?

Stein: What is it?

Tompkins: Our recon discovered massive root growth,

spreading at a rate of up to 30 miles per hour,

destroying everything in its path as we speak.

And you think Kyle and Frame are responsible for this?

Yes, we do.

Dr. Stein, I'm Director Wilson.

We picked up information that Frame was conducting

what sounded like a preposterous experiment.

Recreating the Garden of Eden using prehistoric seeds

from the original garden in order to sanitize the planet.

How did you get this information?

Our intel picked up correspondence

between Kyle and an interested party.

Seems your buddy's trying to sell those ancient seeds

on the black market.

Well, that's impossible. We never found the seeds.

Unless--

Tompkins: So Frame lied to you.

Any idea why he'd want you off the project?

I don't know.

Where's Kyle?

We don't know where he is.

But we are pursuing leads to his whereabouts.

And what about Frame?

Well, we haven't found him yet.

His so-called Garden of Eden

was being developed in a secret location

somewhere in Nevada.

- ( Camera whirrs) - Joe's voice: Kate, get in the car.

Oh, my God. This...

This is surreal.

- What are those things? - I don't know.

I don't know. I can't believe we just saw all those people get killed.

We need to go to the authorities and tell them

what we saw happen at the mine.

Look.

We're not going to the authorities, okay?

Those guys we saw at the mine, they looked like Feds.

So what if this is some

government test gone haywire?

I mean, what happens to us when powerful people

try to cover their tracks?

A lot of people are getting killed.

So until we know who's involved,

we don't know who we can trust.

Okay.

If we do this, we go all the way.

- Whatever it takes. - Yep.

(sighs)

All right, the first thing we need to do

is we need to figure out where that van came from.

( Camera whirrs )

Kate: I have an idea.

What do you want from me?

I'm not saying we buy into this whole

"Garden of Eden" thing.

But if these seeds, in fact, are prehistoric

and have something to do with it,

we need to know.

And right now you are our only lead.

( Workers chattering )

Incredible.

I've never seen a root system develop

on such a massive scale before.

Yeah, well, you're not alone.

At least the outbreak is in a remote area.

Now, break it down for me.

Give it to me in science-ese.

Tompkins: Talk to me like I'm five.

A scientific explanation for what's happening.

I warned Frame there was a danger

to awakening a prehistoric plant

in today's toxic world.

Stein: I don't have an explanation yet, but...

(sighs)

you can't ignore the warnings in the Bible.

And I can't formulate a game plan

for fighting a disaster based on a fable.

The Bible may be a fable to you, Agent Tompkins,

but archeologists have found evidence that events it depicts

have actually occurred throughout history.

Jack, there's a new development.

You need to see this.

G-L-9-4-3-X.

- What's that? - License plate.

- Kate: On the van. - Yeah? Really?

Okay, well...

now we need someone to hack into the DMV.

Both: Spit.

Wilson: We were lucky until now,

but the growth just picked up speed near Pyramid Lake.

In less than three hours, this disaster's gonna hit

its first major city.

Bob, Reno needs to be evacuated.

- That's not your call, Jack. - Well, then call the President.

This thing is destroying everything in its path.

The fatalities are gonna be staggering, Bob.

Okay, we're talking about evacuating

half a million people in a matter of hours.

Wilson: It can't be done.

You wanna save these people?

Stop the damn roots.

( Door slams )

I :Pit! Pit!

- Spit, buddy. You in there? - You there?

Hope the air in there is breathable this time.

Yeah, don't count on it. Spit.

HEY-

Hey, man. What are you guys doing here?

Don't you know what's going on? Have you seen the freakin' news?

Yeah, yeah. We know, man. We need your help.

We need you to track a plate for us.

Tompkins: Listen, we're running out of time.

This thing is effectively still just a plant, right?

So why don't we kill it like you would a weed?

Dump a bunch of herbicide on it?

Herbicides work too slowly.

The feeder roots are growing too fast and we'd need

thousands of gallons immediately.

What's a feeder root?

It's the root tip, where the growth occurs.

So if we cut the root tips leading to this thing,

we can stop its growth.

It could cripple the entire system.

That's what we'll do.

Sever the root tip. We'd launch a surgical air strike,

- we knock this thing out. - There's a catch.

If the root recovers, you risk having it regrow...

and multiply.

We don't have a choice.

Get me the President.

( Cat meowing )

We don't have much time here, Spit. You in yet?

Give me a minute, man.

(ground rumbles)

Oh, my God.

Kate: Joe, you feel that, right?

Okay, come on, Spit, man. Let's go. It's coming.

I'm offline.

I lost connection.

- Well, we gotta go now. - No, we need that address.

Can you get back on?

( Mewing )

- Oh-- cable got knocked out. - Yes.

Okay, we have to leave right now.

Seconds away.

Come on. We're running out of time.

- I'm in. - Here.

The plate number.

( Keyboard clicking ) G-L-9-4-3-X. Come on.

Kate: Hurry, Spit.

Spit: Almost there, Katie. Just a few seconds.

Come on, come on.

There's your registrant and address.

- Alamut Corp Industries. - Got it.

( Panting )

( gasps )

- Let's take my truck. - Go.

Wait.

I've got to get my cat, man.

- No, no, no! No! - No!

- Whoa. - Spit!

Whoa!

Spit.

- Get in the truck. - Kate: Okay.

This is Ace One.

We're 10 miles out and coming in low with 3-6-0.

Joe, look.

Joe: Oh, my God.

I think they're gonna bomb it.

We gotta get out of here.

Pilot on radio: Approaching targets. ETA 60 seconds.

Initiating separation.

Kate: This doesn't look good.

We're right in their line of fire.

We have visual confirmation on target.

Going weapons hot. Engaging in 20 seconds.

Can't this thing go any faster?

This thing's an old piece of crap.

Joe: I'm flooring it already.

I have missile lock.

Pilot: Firing in five, four,

three, two, one.

Engage.

Oh, my God. They've fired.

- Drive faster! - I'm trying to!

Pilot: Command, we have a direct hit.

Waiting for debris to clear to verify destruction of targets.

Have visual verification.

Targets destroyed. I repeat, targets destroyed.

( Cheering )

Wilson: Okay, that's a kill.

Good work, everyone.

- Nicely done. - Nice work, Jack.

Poor Spit.

All right. We're gonna get these bastards.

All right?

Joe: Whoever caused this.

( Computer beeping )

Jack?

Look at the screen.

Patch me through to the lead pilot.

( Man dials) Here, sir.

- This is Director Wilson speaking. - Pilot: Yes, sir.

I need another visual confirmation of the target's destruction.

Roger, sir. Give us a moment to double back.

Slow down, Joe. There's a driveway ahead.

Joe: Is this it? I don't see an address.

That's got to be it, Joe.

There's nothing else around here.

All right, well, let's go down the road.

See if we can find a way to sneak in.

Approaching visual range.

Pilot: Target remains.

I repeat, target remains.

Sir, I've got eyes on multiple targets now.

Pilot: This thing is spreading.

Stein: It's been burrowing.

It's regenerating exponentially.

Not only that. Look at where it's headed.

Right here.

Sir, confirming new target inbound on Carson City.

Okay, engage target.

I repeat, you blast that monstrosity with everything you've got.

Roger, sir. Changing vector.

Pilot: ETA one minute to new target.

The bombing isn't working. It's only making it worse.

Stern: You have to stop them.

Pilot: Going weapons hot.

45 seconds out.

Baker and Charlie, follow my lead to picking targets.

Pilot #2: Roger.

Target confirmed.

You gotta cancel this, Bob.

- Are you questioning me? - Nope.

But she's right.

If we bomb this thing again, it's just gonna get bigger.

We gotta think this thing through.

This thing is headed here.

I don't know how much time we've got to think it through.

Pilot: Eagle flight. Entering debris cloud.

- Pilot: Visibility near zero. - Bob...

We've got multiple bogeys on radar.

Command, Eagle Baker is down!

I repeat, Eagle Baker is down!

Eagle One, clarify.

It's this debris cloud, sir.

Sir, the roots are erupting all around us

and they are massive.

Command, Eagle Charlie is down.

I repeat, Eagle Charlie is down!

Pilot: Command, I've got too many bogeys to complete the mission.

Okay, abort mission. I repeat, abort mission.

Roger. I'm getting out of here.

Oh, my God. No!

Woman: Eagle One, come in.

( Static )

Woman: Eagle One, come in.

( Static continues )

Woman: Eagle One, confirm status.

All right, we gotta get out of harm's way.

Is there any way to predict this thing's movement?

Growing roots usually take the path of least resistance.

We'd be safer at a higher elevation.

All right, let's move.

Okay, people. Pack it up.

I'm calling a full evacuation. Head for the transports.

We're moving out.

( Chattering )

This has to be it.

They really don't want visitors, do they?

- Yeah. That's barbed wire. - Here.

Here we go. Here, I'll lift you up.

Okay, ready? One, two, three.

(grunting )

Noel, we have trespassers at the northwest perimeter.

Frame: At C Gate.

I'll get security on it right away, sir.

(ground rumbling)

Oh, my God.

( gasps )

Wha-.

Joe?

God. All right, go! Go!

Get off the fence!

Get off!

Okay. Okay.

Watch out.

(alarm blaring )

Man on P.A.: Please evacuate the facility.

Follow the exit path.

Get down!

Kate: Joe!

(yells)

Kate: Joe, it's coming.

(alarm continues)

Wilson: Jack!

- Joe, hurry! - ( grunts)

Kate: Get up there!

' ( Yells ) - Joe!

Kate, get out of here.

Go! Kate, go!

I'm not leaving you. Hang on, Joe.

Jack!

Follow Datsun and stay low.

- Datsun! - Dr. Stein, come on!

Kate: Joe, Joe!

Kate: You gotta get up there, now.

Joe, are you okay?

Yeah. Yeah.

That's weird. It just suddenly stopped.

Yeah.

What do you think that means?

I don't know.

But let's not stick around in case it starts again.

Okay.

(distant rumbling )

- What happened? - Incredible.

The growth was diverted.

Our garden has repelled the hostile roots.

Held them back.

- Noel: But they're still spreading. - Frame: Yes.

They're in a hypermetabolic state.

If I can find a way to reduce the rate of cell division,

I can slow them down, control them.

Like the plants in our garden.

Frame: This work must not be disturbed,

so you must be sure to secure the grounds.

It's only a matter of time before others discover

this is the only safe haven in the country.

Woman on radio: Remote base should be up and running in 20 minutes.

Copy that. ETA 20 minutes.

Mobile unit's waiting for us 40 miles north up the mountain.

Is that elevation gonna be high enough?

It should be.

- Any idea what our casualties were? - Tompkins: Substantial.

Doctor, I need to know everything you know about these seeds.

Is there anything in the Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls,

anything at all that can help us fight this disaster?

There is a warning in the Bible.

From the Book of Isaiah.

"The earth mourns and withers,

befouled by its inhabitants.

Hence a curse devours the earth,

and those who live upon it."

How does that apply to us? What does that mean exactly?

Are you starting to get your faith back, Jack?

I don't hear our science agencies coming up with any answers.

The seeds are from Eden, a time when the earth was pure.

Stein: Before pollution.

I think the Bible was warning us to take care of Mother Earth

or face her wrath.

What are you saying?

That's why they regenerated into something bigger

after we bombed them.

Right. The more toxins we throw at it, the bigger it's gonna get.

To cleanse the earth.

We're not gonna beat this thing by fighting it head-on.

We gotta find an angle.

Well, the answers we need are in there.

You see an entrance?

Joe: Bingo.

Guard on walkie-talkie: Copy that, Team 2.

- Come here, come here. - What?

There's someone out there.

Guard on walkie-talkie: Team one, check in.

- Team, go on to zone five. - Kate: He's got a gun.

- He's coming this way. - Really?

Yeah.

( Branch snaps )

Go, go. Now!

- Whoa! Go, go, go, go!

Why are they shooting at us?

I don't know. You wanna stop and ask them?

Doctor, the chopper will be here soon.

That'll give us a better look than that satellite imagery.

They just confirmed, sir.

Man: Reno's being devastated.

Jack, look.

The root growth has been destroying everything in its path.

Except here.

Why would it skip this area?

It's the same elevation as everything else it's destroyed, right?

Good question.

- We need to go there and find out. - Right.

I think we've got something here.

Understood.

Doesn't matter. We're moving on.

- Changing course. - Changing course?

Operation Safeguard's in effect.

- Sir? - What is Operation Safeguard?

It's the evacuation of all Cabinet personnel

to a fallout shelter in the Colorado mountains.

Don't you think that's a bit premature? This crisis has just begun.

The President's science advisors ran computer simulations.

In one week, the whole country will be consumed.

And in 24 hours, Cheyenne Mountain

and Colorado will be inaccessible.

Okay, that gives us 24 hours to fight it.

That's exactly what I and the Administration will be doing.

But from the safety of the shelter.

We need to protect the executive branch of government.

- You know that. - Look.

The destruction has skipped this entire area for some reason.

We need to get there, find out why.

It might hold the answer on how to stop this thing.

And what if it doesn't?

What then?

It's a waste of precious time.

Hiding in the mountains. That's a better use of our time.

The plan is to get out of harm's way until we can come up with a solution.

That's absurd. On whose orders?

The President's.

We've been assigned to join the team at Cheyenne Mountain.

Military transport will be here in 30 minutes.

You can choose to be on it or you can risk your life on a hunch.

Your choice.

Dr. Stein, you're more than welcome to join us.

After all, we need to protect great minds.

( Groans )

- You okay? - Yeah.

Joe, what...

Whoa.

Kate: It's beautiful.

What-- what is this place?

What do you think they're hiding?

Something they don'! want us to find.

Not if they're shooting at us.

Maybe we should leave, Joe.

- This is getting dangerous. - ( groans )

You're bleeding.

Oh, my God. You're shot.

It's just a graze. Don't worry about it.

No, that looks serious, Joe. You need medical attention.

Yeah, well, that's not gonna happen.

Besides, I'm not leaving until we get proof to nail these guys.

Okay?

Okay.

Try to stop the bleeding with this.

- Okay. - You're no good to me if you're dead.

( Chuckles )

- ( branches snapping ) - ( voices overlapping )

Okay, we gotta lose these guys. Let's go.

( Groans )

You want to explain to me what's going on, Bob?

As far as I know, our responsibility is to protect this country,

regardless of the risks.

We were trying to protect this country.

What are you talking about?

- We screwed up today, Jack. - What do you mean "we"?

SCOPE had a covert team in the field

when this thing went haywire.

What were they doing out there?

Securing the seeds from Kyle.

You're kidding me.

Those seeds are a security threat.

Once we had credible evidence of their existence,

we had no choice but to pursue possession of them.

Why wasn't I told about this?

I couldn't talk about it. It was top secret.

Top secret? Screw top secret.

You hid a vital piece of intel

when millions of people's lives were at stake.

( Sighs ) Bob.

That's how the game's played, Jack. You know that.

It's not a game.

There's real people out here losing their lives.

Transport will be here in 10 minutes.

You can still join us.

Give the President my regards.

- Where are you going? - To clean up the mess you made.

(walkie-talkie chattering )

There's an answer here.

We just have to find out what it is.

Couldn't agree more.

Where exactly are we going?

You're not coming.

This could be a one-way ticket.

I want you to stay here and wait for the transport, okay?

- All right. - You take care of your family, Datsun.

Thank you. Good luck, Jack.

- Doctor. - Be safe.

Tompkins: Keep your head down.

This is where we're going.

Put your headset on.

Pilot: Stand by for lift off.

Tompkins: Copy that.

( Panting )

( groans )

Joe!

Hey, look. We need to get you help.

Yeah, from who?

From those trigger-happy lunatics?

Okay, maybe we can find a first-aid kit somewhere.

Kate...

Kate...

What's happening to me?

You're healing.

This doesn't make any sense. How?

It's the leaf.

Something in the leaf healed you.

- I can't believe it. - Would you stop that?

Sorry. It hurts?