All language subtitles for UFO S01E13 - Close Up

In position, Captain.
IGR one-foUr-zero, two-eight-eight.

Right, take her up eight fathoms.

Prepare surface stations.

- Load tanks one through six.
- Yes, sir.

Steady at eight fathoms, sir.

Right.

Nothing in sight, prepare to sUrtace.

SUrtace stations.

Maintain visUal and radar.
Watch for sUrtace vessels.

Where are we, LieUtenant?

Uh, right here, Captain.

Fine. Well, we've made good time.

Hover crUise at ?0 knots,
steer a coUrse one-two-six.

Tracking aerial set Up, sir.

Skydiver to Control.
We have surfaced.

'In position to check the satellite.'

Roger, Skydiver.

- What's happening, Captain?
- I think it's pretty important.

Commander Straker's
playing this one close to his chest.

- There's the signal.
- Looks good .

(BIeeping)

I have a radar sighting,
bearing two-seven-nine.

Looks like a freighter.
Take her down.

Yes, sir. Dive, dive, dive.

- Skydiver to SHADO Control.
- SHADO Control.

'We had to crash dive
to avoid a surtace vessel.'

- What was it?
- A freighter.

I'm sUre they didn't see Us.
We managed to pick up the satellite.

- Its orbit looked good .
- Thank you, I'll tell the Commander.

- (Freeman) How far is it now?
- AroUnd eight miles.

Do yoU think it'll work?

I think so.

BUt then I always was a.. .
an eternal optimist.

FoUr minUtes, Doctor.

Right.

Check area Iatitude.

Ten seconds
to transmission check, sir.

(Clicking)

There it is. Smack on the nose.

The first transmissions
are coming through, sir.

Signal strength zero-one-two,
one-foUr-seven.

- What's the distortion?
- Minimal. Decimal-zero-seven-two.

Fine. Keep tracking.

(Clicks)

I think Dr YoUng was a little put oUt
at not being able to see the resUIts.

Yes, security's a word
I don't Iike to throw at a man

who goes oUt of his way to cooperate.

Maybe we can send him some prints.

Let's see if there's anything
on the tape to print.

- AII set up, Ford?
- Yes, sir.

(Straker) Look at that.

Look at that detail. That's taken
from nearly 500 miles out!

(Straker) Fantastic pUality.

It's fantastic. A real breakthroUgh.

See this one? Range 400 miles,
magnification times ?50.

It's Iike a helicopter shot.

I'm convinced. We'll throw everything
into getting this project approved .

- How's it going, Kelly?
- Pretty well, Commander.

The test rUn was so sUccessful there
are very few modifications needed.

It's pUite a set-Up.

When can l tell the Commission
we'II be ready to go?

Three, foUr weeks, we jUst
have to check the link systems.

That's what I wanted to hear.

Oh, Commander?
CoUId I have a word with yoU?

- Do you mind, John?
- No, not at all.

Well, what's on yoUr mind?

Tomorrow you're asking the Commission
for a billion dollars.

Yes - for one of the most important
projects we've ever Undertaken.

SUre. It's the first item
on the agenda. There are 53 others.

Mine's number 52, it comes right after
what we spend on new coffee machines.

All I want is $50,000
and the chances are I won't get it.

I can't help you, Kelly.

I think my project's important, sir.
You could help.

Wait a minute. You've done a great
job on the device, bUt yoUr groUp...

Group? There are jUst two of Us,
Commander.

BUt with that $50,000, we coUId
complete the stereo-scan development.

I'd Iike to help, bUt I think you're
looking the wrong way, Kelly.

Space. That's where
yoU shoUId turn yoUr talent.

- Well, I hope you get yoUr billion.
- Oh, l'II get it.

It's a space project.

All very pretty!

BUt don't pUII a bUIIdozer job
in here, Straker.

I won't have to.

Nice to see you again.

(Gavel bangs)

Gentlemen.

The financial committee of the Astro
Space Commission is in session.

You all know Commander Straker.

And by the billion-dollar cost
estimate beside it,

you will have realised that the first
project on the agenda is his.

Thank you, General.

Now, gentlemen, this drawing shows a
standard B-one-foUr-two space probe.

The project will use a modified
version of this spacecraft.

I'd Iike you to notice
the domed strUctUre here.

From this cross-section,

you'Il see that it incorporates
a device which, in layman's terms,

can best be described
as an electronic telescope.

The principle is very simple.

It is a telescope which,
instead of Using light,

operates with a stream of electrons.

And it's capable of scanning with
a magnification of up to times 2,500.

LieUtenant Masters.

These shots of the Earth

were taken from an orbit
between 450 and 500 miles out.

The electron telescope scans an area,
radios the information to Earth

and the impulses are transmitted
into these pictUres.

As yoU can see, the definition
is as good as any photograph.

The tracking and homing
mechanisms are also very elaborate

but they've been fUIIy tested,

and will enable the probe
to home in on the planet

from two million miles oUt.

I'm sorry to disillUsion yoU ,
Straker,

but I can get great shots of Earth
with a $2 camera from a balloon.

Yes, I shoUId have been
more explicit, General.

By "the planet", l didn't
mean Earth.

The purpose of the project,
gentlemen,

is to enable a probe to track
and follow a U FO to its origin.

To home in and get high definition
close-ups of the alien planet.

My project is to IaUnch a

standard or a modified
B-one-four-two space probe

and place it into a parking orbit
around the Moon.

- SHADO don't have those facilities.
- No.

We woUId have to Use NASA
for the IaUnch.

The telescope and electronics
are still on the secret Iist,

so they would have to be
fitted by Moonbase astronaUts

after the probe
had been placed in orbit.

Well?

Find Foster and bring him
to my office, Alec.

Well? Did they approve it?

We've got ourselves a deal.

We even got a time slot
from NASA.

LaUnch seven-one-two
in four weeks' time.

- (Freeman) That's great.
- Yes.

We coUId be a lot closer
to some of the answers.

- Well, there she is, ready to go.
- Yeah.

You know, I've learned a Iot
in these Iast weeks.

- Listen, have yoU got a pen?
- Hmm? Mm-hmm.

I thought I'd just
write out the chepUe for 50,000.

That's all right. I can cash in
some of the family jewels.

Anyway, there's always next year
or the year after.

She's all yours, Lieutenant.
I hope it gets yoU those shots.

Yeah. I'll see you aroUnd .

(PA) 'Will Lieutenant Masters report
for pre-Iunar medical right away.'

- Long day?
- Long month.

Well, I think we're set.

Listen, l'm thinking of taking
Keith Ford with me to Moonbase.

Good idea. YoU're gonna need
all the help yoU can get.

Yes. Now, you'd better keep all Earth-Iunar
communication to a minimUm.

SUre.

What's the situation on the launch?

The launch?

Well, I think we can safely
leave that with nASA.

Give me a read-oUt
on the master computer.

Electronic read-oUt, A-OK.

Countdown continUes at T minUs foUr
hoUrs, 3? minutes, eight seconds.

Missile power...

Go.

Water system...

Go.

Fuel system ...

Go.

Telemetry...

Go.

T minus three minutes.

We have green on all read-oUts.
T minus 60 seconds.

'?0...?6.. . ?7.. .'

We have go for ignition
at minus 1 2...

'?4...?3.. . ?2.. . ?1 .. .'

'1 6... 1 7.. .'

Main stage ignition.

'1 5... 1 4.. . 1 3...

'1 2... 11 .. . 1 0...

'0. . . 6...

'7. . . 6.. . 5...

'4. . . 3.. . ?. .. 1 ...

'Zero.'

- We have liftoff.
- 'We have Iiftoff.'

T plus 55.

T plus 60.

T plus 65. She Iooks good.

NASA reports the IaUnch is
successfUI, sir.

Right.

Moonbase Control to LUnar ModUIe.

Switch to aUtomatic LLS,
we'II bring yoU in by radio beam.

- ToUchdown minus 20 seconds.
- Right.

- Welcome to Moonbase, Commander.
- Thank you.

- L'II show you to yoUr pUarters.
- You two go along.

Paul, Iet's go to Control. I want
to check on that space probe report.

- Hello, Commander.
- LieUtenant. Nina. Joan.

- How was the flight?
- Very smooth, thanks.

- How's everything here?
- Fine.

Do yoU have the space probe report?

Oh, good.

Apogee zero-decimal-one-two-foUr
below repUirement,

but we can easily correct it.

I've worked oUt a roUgh schedUIe
for the astronauts.

We Understand the probe
is to be modified in space.

This is great.

We'II have to go throUgh it
together of coUrse.

I did say it was
a roUgh schedUIe, sir.

Excuse me, sir.

(Straker) BecaUse of
the radio-security clampdown,

no one on Moonbase knows
the pUrpose of Project Discovery -

as it has been code-named.

BUt I do know how hard
some of you have worked on it.

As yoU know, a modified
B-one-four-two space probe

has been placed
into a parking orbit aroUnd the Moon.

The first phase is to fit
specialised equipment into the probe.

This epUipment has already been
shipped to Moonbase from Earth.

Phase two is to manoeUvre
a U FO into a position

where the probe can be activated
into a flight pattern

which will enable it to follow
the alien back to its origin.

'When the probe gets within
two million miles of its target,

'it will start to transmit.'

With Iuck, we shoUld get the first
close-up shots of another world.

It will be oUr first step in bringing
the fight back to the alien planet.

Thank you.

- An exciting situation, Lieutenant.
- Yes, it is.

You'd better set things Up quickly.

Right. Who's going out on the probe?

Colonel Foster
and LieUtenant Masters.

Moonbase Control to LUnar ModUIe.

Your flight pattern is
go for rendezvous.

(Foster)
'Right, confirm one-decimal-foUr.'

Zero-two-two-foUr-one-seven.

'Roger, Control.
We have visUal contact.

'We're in position. Onboard compUter
reads go for space-walk.'

We have green on all systems.

Moonbase Control to LUnar ModUIe.
Confirm go for space-walk.

(Masters) 'Safety lines checked.

'Send up a camera on my signal.'

'About to board satellite.
Condition green.

'Stage one completed.'

Control to space team. Roger.

Great work, PaUI. Pass
my congratulations on to your team.

I've asked yoU all here to
explain the

next and most vital
phase of the operation.

The space probe is in orbit,

the epuipment has been installed
and fUIIy tested.

LieUtenant EIIis.

The problem is to force a U FO

into an orbit complementary
to the space probe's.

Then we can activate the tracking
systems on the B-one-four-two

and enable it to latch on to the U FO.

This'll involve scheduling
the lnterceptors very precisely.

We've made a compUter study
of UFO approaches,

and the general pattern is marked,
as yoU can see.

LieUtenant EIIis has compiled
an Interceptor schedule.

BUt a Iot of decisions
will have to be made on the spot.

- So we have to play this one by ear?
- Right.

- Isn't that dangerous?
- It involves a certain risk.

A calculated risk,

based on a careful weighing
of human factors as mUch as Iogic.

All we have to do now
is wait for a U FO.

(SID) 'Red alert.
UFO bearing one-four-two, blUe.

'U FO maintaining course.'

(Barry) 'This is Control.
I have a red alert.

'I repeat, a red alert.'

Have U FO on positive track -
one-foUr-two, blue.

'Speed SOL eight-decimal-three-five.'

One-foUr-zero, one-three-nine.

SID has just confirmed. It's coming
in on the predicted flight path.

Good. She's all yoUrs, LieUtenant.

(EIIis) 'Control to Interceptors.'

Immediate IaUnch.

Repeat, immediate IaUnch.

Right, let's go.

'This is Commander Straker.

'YoU all realise
how important this mission is.'

Your controller
will be LieUtenant EIIis.

FIight plans will be relayed
by LieUtenant Ford.

(SID) 'U FO maintaining course.

'Speed SOL minus
eight-point-three-five.'

U FO maintaining coUrse and speed.

Stand by for on-board
computer read-in.

'Zero-zero-one-oh-two. One-three-one-
nine-zero-one-two-foUr. lnpUt N'

Roger, Control.

(SID) 'U FO maintaining course,
bearing one-four-two, blUe.

'Range 1 6 million miles.

'1 7 million miles.'

Entering area red, zero-eight-one.

There it is.

It's changing coUrse.

U FO entering area red ,
zero-eight-four.

Speed, SOL eight-decimal-three-seven.

We'II have to readjUst the schedule.

Right. CompUte for a new flight plan.

Right, sir.

'Control to Interceptor,
stand by for new flight plan.'

Zero-four-two-one-four-eight,
two-one-four-eight.

Increase speed to SOL
one-decimal-one-two-seven.

- AIter coUrse to two-one-four-eight.
- Roger.

Interceptors losing contact, sir.

We've got to tUrn it.

If we Use a detonation here,

the U FO will be forced to swing away
onto this sort of a coUrse.

Tell the Interceptors to explode
a missile in area blue.

One-two-eight.

Control to Interceptors.
Break formation.

Will relay new flight plans.

Control to Interceptors.

'Missile timing,
one-five-decimal-one-eight seconds.'

Thank you, Control.
Commencing missile sequence.

Firing minUs
five-decimal-two seconds.

- Detonation positive.
- (Harrington) It's altered coUrse.

- U FO entering area blUe, one-three-two.
- (Barry) Maintaining speed.

(Ford) Crossing into blUe,
one-three-three.

It's coming aroUnd jUst right.

(EIIis) lt's accelerating, sir.

Decimal-three-eight.
Eight-decimal-three-nine.

We have to Use a second missile.

- Are yoU sUre?
- Yes.

- Right. CompUte it.
- Yes, sir.

Well?

I think a missile in area blUe,
two-seven shoUId do it, Commander.

- Order the missile IaUnch.
- Yes, sir.

Missile timing one-zero-four,
zero-one-eight, eight-two-six.

Roger.

Detonation confirmed, sir.

(SID) 'U FO veered to new coUrse -
three-zero-one.

'Compute B-one-four-two.

'Will link Up in foUr-three seconds.'

- Lieutenant.
- Oh, Commander Straker.

- How do yoU feel?
- Fine, thanks.

- Uh, how aboUt a cup of coffee?
- Yes, I'd like that.

- How do yoU like yoUr coffee?
- No sugar.

- Here we are.
- Thanks.

Well, ah...
here's to Project Discovery.

Cheers.

I want to thank you, Gay, for all the
hard work yoU pUt into this project.

And the long hours.
You know, l think...

I think yoU push yourself
a little too hard.

You're doing a fine job, Gay,
a man's job, bUt...

you don't have to do it any better
becaUse you're a woman.

Don't ever forget
yoU're a very attractive girl.

Thanks for the coffee.

And. . . thank yoU.

LieUtenant.

- Colonel Foster.
- Sir.

- When do we leave?
- 1 6:00 hours tomorrow, sir.

Good.

Let me give you
a piece of advice, PaUI.

Don't ever judge a sitUation
by the end of a conversation.

Lunar Module,
take-off minUs 1 6 minutes.

I just came to say thank you, girls.

When will the first pictUres
be through?

The experts tell me four months, so
let's hope they're worth waiting for.

- Goodbye.
- Goodbye, sir.

- Goodbye, Lieutenant.
- Goodbye, Commander.

Oh, Gay, next time yoU're on Earth
furloUgh, drop in and see me.

Yes, I will.

(Clicks)

- They're coming through now, sir.
- Right.

Feed it throUgh the decoder
to printout.

Right, sir.

(Clicking)

(Foster) Fantastic.

Look at that!

Tell the lab I want the preliminary
report in 24 hours.

Yes, sir.

We've got the answers, Alec.
We've got the answers.

- Commander.
- I did say 24 hours, Kelly.

Yes, sir, bUt we haven't had time
to type Up a report.

Then give it to me verbally.

There was a faUIt in the device.

A faUIt?

The range and magnification
on each shot wasn't transmitted .

What is that supposed to mean?

Except for sUpertlUoUs detail,
these shots tell us very Iittle.

What are you trying to sell me?

Look at that detail!
It mUst tell yoU something.

Yes, but was it taken
from 500 or 1 00 miles?

- Is the magnification one or 1 ,000?
- Oh, come on.

Look, if I take a pictUre of a girl
from three feet or 1 00 yards,

I can still see it's a girl.

I want to show yoU something,
Commander.

Whatever the range,
that's a shot of the alien planet -

a close-Up of the sUrtace.

Yes. I'm no expert, bUt that
mUst be some form of vegetation.

Some form of vegetation, you think.
You could be right.

BUt why don't we take
another Iook?

Now, Iet's pUII back.

You'II notice the cUrvatUre
of the horizon.

SUrely from that, we can work out
an approximation of the overall size?

(Kelly) Let's pUII back
a little more.

What is this, Kelly?
Some sort of joke?

You said earlier, Commander,

you coUId recognise a girl
from three feet or 1 00 yards.

What about when the shot
is from 30 inches,

with a magnification
varying from zero to 1 0,000?

Hello, Commander.

- Lieutenant.
- Thank you, you can relax now.

Hold it there a moment,
will you, Lieutenant?

Magnification zero...

times ten...

one hUndred ...

a thoUsand .

Not the most flattering of pin-Ups,
nor the best way to spend a fUrlough.

- Thanks for all yoUr help, Gay.
- Pleasure.

- Goodbye, Commander.
- LieUtenant.

Yes, I'm beginning to see
the problem.

I'd Iike you to have a look
at that monitor.

What would you say this is,
Commander?

Before your demonstration, I woUId've
said a lava formation of some kind.

Actually, it's a section
of fractUred polystyrene.

- It's incredible.
- Here's another.

From the structure in the centre
it coUId be a bUilding.

In fact, Commander,
it's a grain of pollen.

Another shot which could well be
taken for a strange rock formation.

- Yes, I have to agree.
- PUffed wheat, sir.

Without knowing details of
range and magnification,

the Iava flow becomes
a piece of shattered polystyrene -

magnification times 2, 1 55.

A pollen grain becomes a
futUristic bUilding.

And a grain of pUffed wheat,
a rock formation.

Tell me, how are
these shots produced?

Micro-photography is well established,

but the secret is three-dimensional
effect, the depth of focUs.

It's been known for 25 years,
but it needs development.

So, while we've all been looking
into oUter space,

men like yoU have been sitting
on this - inner space.

- YoUr pet project.
- Yes.

It's a vast area,
almost completely Unexplored.

BUt I believe it will give Us
the answers

to some of the basic pUestions aboUt
the universe, and even life itself.

Maybe we've all been Iooking
the wrong way.

You know,
when yoU really think about it...

everything in this office,
every object -

even a speck of dust -
contains billions of particles.

And each particle
is made up of millions of atoms.

A whole universe
within these foUr walls.

I walk along a beach,

stand with millions of grains
of sand beneath my feet...

Is everything we know -
this office, our world,

the vastness of space itself -

inside one grain of sand
on another beach, on another world ,

in another universe?

Space is infinite, both ways -

outward and inward .

You can tell Kelly
he'II get his appropriation.

It'll be more than he expects.

I get the picture.

A greatly magnified pictUre, General.