Original subtitles

Just a minute,

Got it,

I keep telling you,

machines and women...

If you're too gentle with them,

you're asking for trouble,

Oh, another pearl of wisdom

from Franklin

the knuckle scraper?

Put a lid on it, people,

Okay, here we go,

Uh, 7/17/63, 1800 hours,

per s, O, P,

This is the visual log of

science Officer William olsten

of the U, F, S, Mercury,

We were

en route

to the planet trion

when we received

a distress signal

from the U, F, S,

Rhesos,

a c-Class battleship

which was returning

from the planet,

We are preparing to board,

Captain Abbott, anything else

you'd like to put on Record?

Uh, no, that's good,

Take a seat, prepare to dock,

( Hannah )

U, F, S,

Rhesos,

this is U, F, S,

Mercury,

Just put this thing on,

Is this straight?

Did your mom have to dress you

when you were a little kid?

You've seen my closet,

I need all the help I can get,

Yeah, you need to work on that,

U, F, S,

Rhesos,

this is U, F, S,

Mercury,

Do you copy?

Slow and easy, Hannah,

Piece of cake,

Cuing the zoom,

Look at the size of that mother,

Still no response

from the

rhesos,

Captain,

Okay, let's go in,

Okay, docking on my mark,

10, 9, 8,

7, 6, 5,

4, 3, 2, 1,

Mark,

Nice landing,

Think you can do better?

Come grab the stick,

I got your stick, baby,

Hey, stow it,

It was a good landing, Hannah,

Umbilical locked,

Seal integrity high,

Taking Air sample from rhesos,

Scrubbers functioning,

air is breathable and sterile,

All right, let's do it,

50 Rounds per second,

Turn a horse into puppy Chow

before you can say "Fetch,"

All right, let's do this

right and tight, huh?

Hannah, you hold the Fort down,

Will, Megan, you come with me,

Franklin, bring up the rear,

Hey, why don't you also stay

on board with Hannah?

What, why?

Because we're

civilian consultants,

We're not here to become

involved in military missions,

I was trained in

military engagements

before I came on board, will,

Sorry, doc, I need every hand,

All right, let's keep the volume

low and controlled,

All right?

No action without verification,

I don't want to put a hole

in one of our own,

Did you hear that, Franklin?

All right, clear the Hatch open,

I love you, will,

but I do not need you

thinking for me, okay?

Keep the motor running

and the beer cold, sweetheart,

Try not to shoot

yourself, sport,

( buzzer sounding )

Mercury Hatch sealed, sir,

This is the fun part,

All right, let's go in,

Well, hell,

Hannah, we just lost the light

in the umbilical,

( Hannah )

My board's green, captain,

I can't explain it,

Just give me a sec,

Hey, Franklin,

See what you can do

about Getting some lights on

in here, would you?

At least the generator's

still on line,

Circuit override

for the main lights

is probably on the bridge,

We're entering the

rhesos

now, Hannah,

Franklin,

Doc and I are going to head

for the bridge,

see if we can gear up the ops,

You take Megan,

check out the crew's quarters,

engineering,

Yes, sir,

Keep your heads, people,

Don't assume the worst,

Just find the crew and report,

I want to maintain

constant radio contact,

Do you got that?

You got it, sir, Yes, sir,

Olsten, you're with me,

Let's go,

Olsten, let's go,

Where in the hell's the crew?

Doesn't make sense,

Should be 35 people here,

Franklin, report,

We're almost at engineering,

No one in Sight,

Everything seems to be in place,

No signs of struggle,

It's quiet as a damn grave,

Something about this

doesn't quite feel right,

Bridge seems intact,

Everything seems to be

operational,

Just in shutdown mode,

Captain?

Yeah,

Somebody didn't finish

their lunch,

Or wasn't given the chance to,

( Megan )

Oh, my god! Will!

Franklin, report,

What is it?

Oh, god,

( control voice )

There is nothing wrong

with your television,

Do not attempt

to adjust the picture,

We are now controlling

the transmission,

We control the horizontal

and the vertical,

We can deluge you

with a THOUSAND channels

or expand ONE single image

to crystal clarity

and beyond,

We can shape your vision

to anything our imagination

can conceive,

For the next hour,

we will control

all that you see and hear,

( ♪ )

you are about to experience

the awe and mystery

which reaches from

the deepest inner mind

to The outer limits,

Human history is marked

by our desire

to expand our boundaries,

But what happens when our reach

exceeds our grasp?

It's been about half an hour

since we discovered engineering,

so far the only sign

of the

rhesos'

35-Person crew,

The remains are so small

that only a dna analysis

will be able

to accurately determine

exactly how many people

actually died in that room,

Whether it was an accident

or an act of violence

is also unclear,

There's no detonation device

Nor residue

That would suggest an explosion,

Not quite what you expected

when you signed on

to terraform trion,

huh, doc?

You okay?

Thanks,

We may be civilian consultants,

captain,

but this is hardly

our first jump to a new planet,

I don't doubt your ability,

doctor,

it's just that military

procedures can be unpredictable,

Franklin, what do you got

on the logs?

I've skimmed over

the official versions,

I haven't gotten

to the personal entries yet,

Their mission seems to be

a textbook dust-Off,

Dust-off?

You throw in some

three-Megaton neutrons,

Bye-Bye to Bambi

and his little friends,

Basically wipes out

every living thing,

Not standard operating

practice, I know,

but in this case

it was necessary,

Apparently the indigenous

wildlife on the planet

was what you'd call

rather Ferocious,

What else you got, Franklin?

Everything on the

rhesos

was done by the book

until two days ago,

Then transcripts, crew data,

they just stop,

That's when

the distress signal

came in,

But check this out,

Every Officer is required

to keep a log, right?

It's pretty dry stuff,

We've just taken off

from Planet trion

after our last bombing run,

This is rhesos' first Officer,

Yeah, Virgil Mason,

The mission was

a complete success,

No bio readings from the planet,

The trionids proved to be

far more frail than we thought,

Captain O'Brien has ordered

the cooks to pull out the stops

for a special celebration,

Okay, he goes on to describe

a routine system check,

what they had for dinner...

Very exciting stuff,

But look at this next entry,

It's two days later,

I've ordered a search

for captain O'Brien,

He's gone missing,

I keep, ,,

I keep thinking about

my '44 vette,

It's in pristine condition,

no different from the day

my father bought it,

Driving along the coast

with the top down,

Sunsets,

My head feels like

there's this, ,,

what?

Okay,

Is that all there is?

That's it,

Run it back four frames,

Right there,

So he was pulled off,

Right,

I want you to pull up

the off-Mic line,

( distorted voice )

Clarify it with the computer,

( distorted voice )

Sounds like "Core-Test,"

Again,

( distorted )

Cortez,

Cortez,

There's no crew member

on board named Cortez,

Could have been a stowaway,

Or someone

boarded the ship

to kill the crew,

Space Pirates?

Yeah, space pirates, It happens,

If that's what's going on

on this ship,

why didn't they

plunder the ship?

Normally They steal everything

that isn't nailed down,

What about the Hatch openings?

The ship has an onboard computer

that records all Hatch activity,

Okay, here we go,

The Hatch was opened only once

in the last week,

It was by us,

Before that?

Back up, more, more,

Okay, we got a half a dozen

times in 3 1/2 hours,

Before that, nothing else

since the trion,

Six times in three hours,

Why?

Might explain what we saw

in engineering,

No, no, explosive decompression

doesn't turn a body

into confetti,

Yeah, besides, nothing else

on the ship was disturbed,

You open a Hatch,

the place is going to be messy,

So why was the Hatch opened?

Bodies,

Someone was doing

some house-Cleaning,

Flushing the crew into Space,

Yeah, but if somebody

cleaned up,

then that person or persons,

they're still here,

Ah!

It's okay, it's all right,

It's just a grounding discharge,

The son of a bitch is

supposed to be shielded,

All the Hatch activity

has to be authorized,

Can you tell me who

opened the Hatch last?

Captain milius O'Brien,

You want to bet

he's still aboard?

If he is aboard, we're going

to find the good captain,

but this time

we all stay together,

Stay close to me, please,

What if something

got on board

when it landed?

Like one of these trionids,

Especially if they're as wild

as They would indicate,

No, the

rhesos

Didn't land until

After they dropped the bombs

and no biologic can survive

a neutron blast,

What if it wasn't an alien?

What if o'Brien just lost it?

I served under the man

for five years,

He was solid as a rock,

There are lots of cases

of hysteria

and paranoia in space,

This ship wasn't out long enough

for that, Megan,

I heard a story once about

a ship in the riga system,

They found it adrift,

every crew member gone,

Even found their meals

on the table in the galley,

Like they'd been snatched

while they were eating lunch,

I heard the same story,

It's apocryphal,

and you know it,

Yeah, even Fairy Tales

start somewhere,

( sighing )

this one,

This is O'Brien's quarters,

Watch my back,

Holy, ,,

( Megan )

What does it mean?

Your guess is as good as mine,

Oh, yeah, cop,

You're right...

This guy is a rock,

Guess we found our killer,

You don't want to piss me off

right now, Franklin,

Trust me,

Captain, I'd like to check

O'Brien's personal log,

There might be something there,

You do that,

Megan, stay with him,

Franklin, you come with me,

Right behind you, captain,

Over here, Megan,

Let's see what we can see,

Look at this,

The captain's log postdates

the official ship's log,

They're not dead,

I can feel them while, ,,

going to get us all,

I can't let them, ,,earth, ,,

can't get there,

Only one way,

He's either lost it,

or someone's driven him to this,

Either way,

we can't assume he's alone,

There appears to be

a portion of the log

that can only be accessed with

a beta-Level encryption code,

( banging )

Open the door,

( breathing heavily )

( Megan screaming )

is it going to work?

Looks that way,

Hey, you okay?

I'll live,

You're sure it was O'Brien?

Yeah, he was a mess,

but it was definitely him,

The guy's a nut,

He cut his crew up

into little pieces

And shot them out the airlock,

Either that or he ate them,

I doubt he was a cannibal,

Franklin,

but there is something

very strange here,

Hmm, stranger than this?

Well, if psychotics

clean up a murder scene

they'll obsessively

scrub it down, right?

Well, O'Brien got rid

of the bodies

but then left blood everywhere,

so he wasn't cleaning up,

He had another agenda,

How do you explain

the writing, doc?

Well, looks latin,

I only read cicero,

He studied it,

Mundus est intermea,

Hannah,

Hannah, you watching this?

Yes, captain,

Can you give me a translation,

please?

Okay, just a moment,

Damn it,

Okay, here it is,

"The world is within me,"

"The world is within me,"

What the hell's that mean?

It means he's a nut,

Or it could be a clue

to what's going on,

Hannah, shut down

the access code

to the Hatch on the mercury,

I don't want O'Brien

to be able to get to you,

Hannah, did you copy?

Affirmative,

Entry code's locked out,

All right, keep in touch,

Safeties off,

Going to try

and take O'Brien alive,

but we protect ourselves first

till we make

a clean sweep of the ship,

We don't know

if anybody else is on board,

Let's go, Franklin,

Franklin, move!

Let's go,

Right behind you,

Will, what if they picked up

some kind of foreign virus

from the planet?

Could they transmit it

other ways besides the air?

No, no, not likely,

There would have been

a total scrubdown

After Every recon mission

outside

and any standard Scan

would turn up an alien virus,

It could be food poisoning,

lead or mercury,

We need to check

the medical records,

It wasn't poisoning or a virus,

You want to know what it was?

Yeah, what?

Ghosts,

Ghosts in the machine,

Willie-Boy,

Ghosts,

That's, uh, that's very funny,

Franklin,

There he is! Where?

I saw him,

Franklin, get back here!

He went through here, I saw him,

I gave you a command, soldier,

Franklin!

I'm not crazy,

I saw him,

Nobody said you were

crazy, all right?

Nobody said that,

If he was here,

he's not here now,

But we'll find him, all right?

Now let's go,

What are you looking at?

Captain, I'd like to get

to the infirmary,

check the crew's medical charts,

Might give us a better idea

of whether O'Brien's breakdown

was an isolated illness

or something bigger,

We'll go, but we stay together,

No running off, You got that?

You got it?

Ah!

Damn it,

All right, stand clear,

It's O'Brien,

He's here,

Hey, milius,

It's me, Sam, Sam Abbott,

Vox Clemantis en deserto,

Nobody's going

to hurt you, Milius,

Look,

Have a sedative ready, doc,

It's me, It's Sam,

Nobody's going to hurt you,

Vox Clemantis en deserto,

Franklin, be ready,

Nobody's going to hurt you,

It's me,

Franklin,

He was right behind us,

( yelling )

Tie him to the bed,

God, he bit me,

Son of a bitch,

That son of a bitch bit me,

Looks like he broke the skin,

I'm going to give you

an antibiotic injection,

Ah!

Where the hell's Franklin?

Franklin!

Hannah,

Hannah, is Franklin with you?

Hannah, do you copy?

( gunshots, alarm sounding )

( Megan )

it's coming from the bridge!

Lieutenant, hang on,

Franklin, what are you doing?

Lieutenant, I command you

to stand down!

Can't you see them?

Can't you see

the little bastards?

They're everywhere!

They're everywhere!

I can't stop them,

I can't stop them,

Stay here,

I can't...

my god, they're everywhere,

Franklin! Franklin! Franklin!

Franklin!

Franklin, put your weapon down,

Franklin, calm down,

just calm down, Buddy,

Franklin, I see them too,

I see them too,

Just calm down,

Just put the weapon down,

Thatta boy,

Just set your weapon down,

Everything's going

to be all right,

It's okay,

Jesus!

I got shot,

Ghosts in the machine, ,,

Franklin!

Franklin, talk to me,

Stay with me, Buddy,

Stay with me,

Franklin, Franklin,

He's dead,

I don't understand it,

Franklin could be

a pain in the ass

but he was not psychotic,

It's bad,

Long-Range communications

are down,

Rhesos

is still

on a course for earth,

but the navigational system

needs heavy repairs,

I rerouted life support,

so that's working,

Main Power grid seems intact,

so does propulsion,

but without navigation,

it's useless,

I thought you said it was bad,

All right, doc, it's your turn,

First O'Brien, now Franklin,

Well, it's not my field,

but Franklin seemed

schizophrenic,

So does O'Brien,

Yeah, but one couldn't have

caught it from the other,

Schizophrenia's

not a contagious disease,

If that's even

what we're dealing with,

I'd like to test

Franklin's blood,

In the meantime,

nobody leaves this ship,

If there's some bug

trying to make us crazy,

I don't want it to infect

the

mercury,

I'm going to try Hannah

through the Hatch com,

Franklin's blood has

an extremely high level of nts,

English, doc, English, please,

Neurotransmitters,

Uh, an extremely high level

means that impulses

keep firing across synapses,

The brain literally

short-Circuits,

But in order for the sym

to be so acute,

something must be causing, ,,

I'd like to inject us all

with l-Thora,

It's an anti-Psychotic,

Go on, Do it,

There's no response, captain,

and she's disabled

the outer Hatch,

Get in there, it's your turn,

Trust me,

Till we find Hannah, we have

to assume that we're alone,

I'm going to head down

to engineering

and try to get

the navigation system running,

You two head to the infirmary,

do your tests on O'Brien,

Wait a minute,

Megan is rated

for Delta 9 electronics,

If she stayed here

and got the com Patch working

then we'd have

communications again,

Do it,

Any sign of threat at all,

shoot to kill,

O'Brien,

( muttering )

Hold still,

Raised Nts just like Franklin,

I'll give you a dose of l-Thora

and a stimulant, captain,

It should help,

Who are you?

I'm Dr, William olsten

of the U, F, S,

Mercury,

Can you tell me anything

that you remember

about what happened, sir?

Trion, bomb, planet,

lives, bodies, ,,

all bodies,

Lives, then darkness,

A darkness, ,,

Ex spiritus sanctus...

the darkness,

Did anything

get on the ship, sir?

Yeah,

We took some of them on,

Froze them like popsicles,

Trophies for the big boys,

Trophies, trophies,

Cortez, Cortez...

Beware Cortez, beware,

Conquistadors March,

Time marches on,

Ides of March,

Just rest for now,

Rest for now,

Yeah, rest,

Rest,

Froze them,

What the hell?

( banging )

( ship's voice )

Warning...

Outer Hull stress levels

exceed maximum allowance,

Hannah, it's Megan,

Can you hear me?

Come on, Hannah, listen to me,

It's Megan,

What the hell's going on?

Shut up!

Hannah, turn off the engines!

No, no lies,

I know what you are,

I've been listening,

You've all been infected,

You want to kill me, I know,

Don't deny it!

I know!

( engines rumbling )

Hannah, listen to me,

You have got to disconnect

the umbilical,

You're going to tear

the Hatch off the

mercury,

( banging )

We've lost the mercury,

Hannah and Franklin are dead,

The lower three decks

of the

rhesos

Were compromised

when the mercury Hit us,

but so far the emergency

bulkheads are holding

and we're still on course

for earth,

I'm still not sure

what's affecting us

or what killed the rhesos Crew,

but the l-Thora injections

seem to have stabilized

our mental degradation,

And I found something,

Something terrible,

How's O'Brien?

He's sleeping,

You wanted to talk to me

about something?

Yeah,

Over here,

That's an ugly mother,

Yes, we were told that

the indigenous population

of the planet were all

vicious, predatory creatures,

But look... a humanoid,

Opposable Thumbs

and other bipedal qualities,

So?

So, ,,

so we just committed wholesale

murder of this species,

one which actually showed signs

of advanced evolution,

I know what this is,

Our leaders found

the easy solution

to earth's overpopulation,

They wipe out this species

and they move on in,

Not that that would be

the first time,

O'Brien told me a little

something about Cortez,

No, we already established

that there was

no crew member

named Cortez,

Cortez was a conquistador,

His army killed thousands

and thousands of indians,

conquered a continent

because they thought

it was their right,

their manifest destiny,

Listen, I appreciate

the history lesson,

I'm a little more concerned

with the safety

of my crew right now,

I found something else,

something I think

you will be interested in,

( sighing )

Now, like I said, this creature

is on the evolutionary scale

of early man,

which means it should have

an advanced brain, right?

Well, look what I found

during the autopsy,

Yeah, I'd say

that's a brain,

all right,

Look at the convolutions,

The cerebral cortex is smooth,

It's too smooth,

Oh, come on, doc,

This brain hasn't passed

the evolutionary level

of a house cat,

I did analysis on the blood,

See this yellow tint

and how it turns green

as it dries?

That means it's rich in copper,

The blood is rich in copper,

This creature's entire body is

highly conductive

of electricity,

Now, I asked myself how Hannah

could have been infected

since she wasn't

breathing our air,

Then I remembered

all these electrical shocks

we've been getting,

so I pulled up the record

of our conversation

with Hannah in O'Brien's cabin,

Yes, captain,

Okay, just a moment,

Damn it,

There,

When she first said that,

I thought it was her frustration

at not being able to find

the translation,

but what if she, ,,

She got shocked,

She got shocked,

like the rest of us,

Exactly,

I think that this illness

is somehow transmitted

through the electrical

circuitry,

It's as if the trionids are

able to transfer

their neural engrams

into electrical Impulses

and then somehow infect

our nervous system,

We shut down

the main power grid,

We shut it down

and then we isolate...

We should be able to stop

our mental degradation,

It's worth a try,

All right, here's what we do,

You get to the main bridge,

shut down the main power supply,

all right?

Switch it over

to Manual override,

I'll go to engineering,

I can shut it down

the rest of the way from there,

Now, when it's down,

we'll get the emergency

power packs,

we'll try firing it up then,

If it works, if it works, ,,

Wait, wait, wait,

Here, take these,

They're insulating gloves,

We should avoid contact

With anything that harbors

electrical current,

What are you doing here?

We're going to shut down

the main power grid,

Here, put these on,

Will, ,,

they're insulating gloves,

If you shut down the power,

how are we going to run

communications?

We're going to run it through

emergency POWER packs

once you've got the com

repatched,

Captain Abbott, you can start

your shutdown of the grid,

Captain Abbott,

( yelling )

That sounded like O'Brien,

Where's your gun?

My gun?

I, ,,I have no idea,

Here, just take mine,

Close this bulkhead door

behind me, understand?

And don't open it for anyone,

you understand me?

I'll be back,

It's O'Brien,

I heard him scream,

By the time I got back here,

he was gone,

Come on, what are you

waiting for?

He'd tear the whole ship up,

He could make the ship explode,

Where's your gun?

I, uh, I left it with Megan,

All right, here, take this one,

What are you waiting for?

Come on, soldier,

O'Brien, he's one hell

of an Officer,

He's smart, cagey,

Under the influence

of these creatures,

there's no telling

what he's capable of,

I think we should go back

and get Megan,

You don't have to worry

about Megan,

She's solid as a rock,

What you got to worry about,

boy, is the situation,

Yeah, one situation at a time,

soldier,

Sir, what situation

are you talking about?

I know that you and O'Brien

talked,

Now, what I want you to do is

I want you to tell me

exactly what you talked about,

Do it right now,

Sir, I already told you...

Don't lie to me!

Don't you lie to me,

From the very start

it's been lies

and insubordination,

Oh, god,

Sir?

Drop the gun, sir,

Please just drop the gun,

You're not well,

and I don't want to have

to hurt you,

You don't want to hurt me,

You think you're man enough

to hurt me?

You think you're

soldier enough to hurt me?

Well, then do it, Go ahead,

Shoot me,

I said, shoot me!

They work better

when they're loaded,

You're not dying so easy,

traitor,

I want some answers first,

Captain, please, listen to me!

I know what you really are

ever since I got bit

and you infected me,

Now you're trying

to get inside my head,

aren't you?

You're trying

to get inside my head,

You're one of them,

what?

No, captain,

Please just, ,,

what did you think

I was going to do?

Did you think I was going

to let you and your filthy race

take over the earth?

Huh?

Did you think I was going

to let you take over my mind

like you did Hannah

and Franklin and olsten?

What?

No, please, captain,

captain, just listen to me

please, okay?

Look, I am olsten,

Okay?

You're very, very sick,

Shut up,

There's some sort of

electrical...

Shut the hell up!

What are you doing to me?

( panting )

Megan, if you can hear me,

captain Abbott, ,,

captain Abbott's gone crazy,

Do you hear me?

He's gone crazy,

Whatever he says,

whatever he does,

do not let him onto the bridge,

Don't let him onto the bridge,

Will?

Will, I know you're here,

Whatever you are, ,,

whatever you are, ,,

O'Brien!

Enough of this!

( gun firing )

Megan!

Megan, if you can hear me

Megan, if you can hear me,

I'm on my way

back to the bridge,

( panting and gasping )

( gasping and groaning )

I, ,,I understand it now,

I can hear them...

They're in my head like voices,

No, not voices,

Like some sort of basic

consciousness driven by revenge,

spinning around in my head

like bees... Desperate, angry,

They fear, anger,

Millions, ,,

we killed millions of them

and now, now,

now they fight to the death

like some sort of,

some sort of doomsday virus,

and now they're in our heads,

In our heads and in our ship,

Megan, we've got to warn them,

we've got to warn them

away from the ship,

Megan, we've got to call earth,

Fixing the com

may be our only hope,

I heard you, will,

Don't you trust me?

Always treating me

like some delicate doll,

watching, ,,watching

over my shoulder!

What are you, ,,

what are you doing, Megan?

It's done,

( screaming )

no! No! No!

No!

No, no, no, no,

No, no, no, no, no,

Will,

No, you're okay,

Everything's going to be okay,

Everything's going to be okay,

I'm sorry,

No,

No,

No,

( crying )

No!

Everyone's dead now,

All dead,

And I'm on the devil's chariot,

And they're going round

and round inside my head, ,,

like rats,

No, like bees,

Buzzing,

The conquistadors killed

the indians,

but the indians got them back,

The indians infected them

with syphilis,

Gave them a little

going away present,

And we killed millions

and millions of trionid bodies

and now their consciousness is

here inside our heads,

infecting us,

Another little

going away present,

One that Fries our brains

and makes us crazy,

Oh, Megan,

I loved you,

And I failed you,

And now there's only one thing

left to do,

Our arrogance,

our manifest destiny,

masters of the universe,

whatever you do,

don't touch anything

on this ship,

Don't touch it,

The trionids are here,

They're waiting,

They're waiting to run,

Stop there,

Lieutenant, have we, ,,

sir,

We've already downloaded

everything

from the rhesos to earth,

No,

( control voice )

Ultimately, our survival

May depend less

on our ability to overcome

our enemies

than the weakness

of our own character,

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