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(MONITOR BEEPS)

TERRY:

Wire systems check,

All three floaters are in

full experimental mode,

I need a status update

on floater number 3,

Stage 5 non-REM,

He's in the abyss, ,,

RACHEL:

Are the other

two floaters

approaching Stage 5?

TERRY:

Negative,

Stage 1, Stage 2 at best,

RACHEL:

All right,

Let's concentrate on 3 then,

Maintain delta wave generation

of 0,2 cycles per second,

Copy that, 0,2,

He's definitely out of body,

(THUMPING HEARTBEAT)

Yeah, we've got a good clean

out-of-body going here,

Getting maximum response,

3,59,8,

Attention, everyone,

I'm afraid you're gonna have

to stop what you're doing,

-Why?

-Word just came down,

We're to terminate

all operations,

Terminate all operations!

We're right, ,,

The orders are for

a full shutdown

to begin immediately,

What did they say?

They feel the results

we're getting

don't warrant any additional

funding on their part,

We've been making progress,

They don't trust that

we're ever gonna

give them what they want,

They're concerned that

the project is too risky,

Too many negative

after-effects,

And all the time and energy, ,,

What are we, ,,

What are we supposed to do

with the test subjects?

They're practically

dead already,

If you don't have

the stomach for it, ,,

I'll take care of it,

(MONITOR BEEPING)

RACHEL:

Emergency

override engaged,

Terry, I need you to input

the abort code,

Affirmative, lead,

Abort procedure activated,

On my mark,

initiate emergency shutdown,

Three, two, one, ,,

Termination sequence enacted,

COMPUTER:

Danger, Subject's vital signs

below prescribed parameters,

Danger, Subject's vital signs

below prescribed parameters,

(GASPING)

Danger, Subject's vital signs

below prescribed parameters,

(SIREN WAILING)

EKG is flat,

-No vitals,

 -(CONTINUOUS BEEP)

(GASPING)

Time of death, 1500 hours,

36 minutes, 24 seconds,

Project aborted,

Termination complete,

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,

Heartfelt regret can sometimes

serve as compensation

for past misdeeds,

But what happens when

dark secrets resurface

unexpectedly

to claim their due?

REPORTER:

But they've not been

able to prevent the closure of

many of our country roads,

In addition, power outages

and disruption

to phone service

are expected in some areas,

This storm is now

in its fifth day

and is clearly

taking its toll,

Unfortunately, it doesn't

appear we'll be getting

any relief soon,

Tom, our weather forecaster

says there's a new storm front

looming in from the north

directly behind this one,

This means, ,,

What's the matter, Leon?

REPORTER:

Ice, snow

and generally

sub-range of temperature, ,,

He's scared of the storm,

He thinks the lights

are gonna go out,

He's nothing but a big baby

if you ask me,

-(WHIRRING)

-(GASPING)

Well, if the power dies,

the generator will go on,

There's no need to worry,

We'll be fine,

Hey, promise,

Somebody stole my crayons,

Well, are you sure you didn't

leave them somewhere?

Uh-uh,

I swear, somebody took them,

-Really,

-Mmm-hmm,

Well, it just so happens that

I have a box right here,

I love you, Dr, Harris,

(CHUCKLES) Well, just hold on

to these, okay?

(WHIRRING)

REPORTER:

When asked about

the current weather crisis,

one official quoted the Bible

saying,

"These things too shall pass,"

This breaking news just in,

About 30 minutes ago,

Midland Valley schoolteacher

Benjamin Hayes

allegedly set fire to

a waiting room

at Prior Hospital,

then brutally murdered

an emergency room doctor

who attempted to

put the fire out,

This country is going

straight to hell,

After leading

local authorities on a chase

through the corridors

of the hospital,

Hayes reportedly dove through

a second-story window

and escaped,

Police fired several shots

at the suspect,

estimating he was hit

at least once,

Witnesses say the setting

of the fire and the

subsequent attack

were totally unprovoked,

(PHONE DISCONNECTS)

It's no use,

Can't get a signal,

Give it up, Doctor,

I told you the storm's

shutting down everything,

It's gonna be a long

lonely night,

What are you looking for?

Some gum,

Loretta's always got gum,

I thought she would have

left some in

one of the drawers,

(DOOR OPENING)

Evening, Dr, Thornton,

What are you doing

up front, Mike?

I thought Carl was off-duty,

Which means you're on duty,

I just had to ask

Dr, Strickland a question,

Right, Doc?

Right,

Heading back to the ward

right this minute,

(DOOR CLOSING)

What, you calling for

an outside consultation?

The phone's not working,

I mean, you get a dial tone,

but then you dial the number,

you just get

a dial tone again,

As for the cell,

I just get static,

Sounds like we're cut off

from the outside world,

-(KNOCKING)

-KATE: What's that?

Code blue!

In the lobby now!

Code blue!

DAVID: Come on, turn over,

-(GRUNTING)

-Okay, open up,

(ALARM BLARING)

Leon, you're not

supposed to be here,

We got multiple

gunshot wounds,

KATE: I can't get through,

I dial 911

and nothing happens,

(PHONE DISCONNECTS)

How is he?

Who is he

is the real question,

We're not equipped to handle

this kind of injury,

He's lost a lot of blood,

MIKE: Doctor, ,,

Doctor, I don't know

what I'm doing here,

-Tell me, ,,

Tell me what you want!

-DAVID: Blood pressure there?

Project aborted,

DAVID: Yeah, that's good,

Right there,

-Termination complete,

-(MUTTERING)

MIKE: Doctor,

I can't stop this,

God damn it,

This gauze!

I can't get it open!

-Need 25 mg, ,,

-Bye, Rachel,

(GASPING)

(COUGHING)

(GASPING)

Leon! Let her go!

(SCREAMING)

DAVID: Leon, let her go!

(SCREAMING)

(KATE COUGHING)

Put him in isolation,

Full restraints,

I've never seen Leon act

out that way, You okay?

Yeah,

Is he dead?

Yeah,

(WIND WHOOSHING)

(SIGHS)

(GRUNTING)

(POWER SHUTS DOWN)

(GASPING)

Carl, you scared me,

I'm on my way to the basement,

Turn on the generator,

The damn thing's supposed

to go on automatically,

But you know how it is,

That guy who showed up

at our doorstep this evening,

he was bad news, Dr, Harris,

Big time killer,

He murdered an ER doctor

over at the Prior,

Yes, that's terrible,

but I don't think he'll be

hurting anyone else,

Hmm,

If you say so,

(ALL MUTTERING INDISTINCTLY)

Just a little power glitch,

that's all,

SARAH: Marty!

Sarah?

Sarah,

Now I lay me down to sleep,

I pray the Lord

my soul to keep,

If I should die before I wake,

I pray the Lord

my soul to take,

Now I lay me down to sleep,

I pray the Lord

my soul to keep,

If I should die before I wake,

I pray the Lord

my soul to take,

Now I lay me down to sleep,

I pray the Lord

my soul to keep,

If I should die before I wake,

I pray the Lord

my soul to take,

(IN MALE VOICE) Pray for

the dead, and the dead

will pray for you,

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

Tony, Angela, settle down,

-You okay?

-Yeah,

It's quite a night

we're having, huh?

Yeah,

Have you seen, David?

Uh-uh, no,

Oh, just like a man,

Never around

when you need them,

I ran into Carl,

He was going down

to check on the generator,

I thought that was

supposed to

come on automatically,

Yeah, so did I,

So did Carl,

(GRUNTING)

(GIGGLING)

(PEOPLE MUTTERING)

Sarah, I need to talk to you,

Sarah, honey,

This is important, okay?

Okay,

Do you remember seeing me

a little while ago

just out in the hall?

Just, um, right after

the lights went out?

Uh-uh,

You sure?

You were praying to yourself,

Don't you remember?

Uh-uh,

It was a, ,,

It was a children's prayer,

"Now I lay me down to sleep,"

Do you know that one?

Uh-uh, I don't know it,

(DIESEL TRICKLING)

Wonder what's taking

Carl so long,

He should have had the lights

back on by now,

-Come on, that's great,

-RACHEL: What's this?

What is he doing here?

I found him wandering around

the isolation ward

all by himself,

He swears he doesn't remember

a thing about attacking you,

Isn't that right, Leon?

Who let him

out of his restraints?

That's where the scenario

gets a little strange,

He says that

Mike set him free,

Didn't he, Leon?

Oh, it gets better than that,

I'm telling you,

I didn't do anything,

Someone knocked me out

downstairs and busted up

the diesel tanks,

The same diesel that's

on your shoes, my man,

You're gonna take the word

of a crazy like Leon?

Especially after what

the nutcase did to you

and me earlier?

Why would I set him free?

Tell me, why?

You believe me,

don't you, Dr, Harris?

I want to believe you, Mike,

Not only was the generator's

fuel tank destroyed,

the ignition coil was taken,

We couldn't even

use the fuel we had,

Why would I sabotage

the generator?

It doesn't make sense,

I also found these on him,

CARL: Dexedrine,

Let you in on a little secret,

I'm afraid of the dark,

I always have been, I, ,,

It's why I like to

work at nights,

I don't like to

sleep at night because, ,,

I have bad dreams,

I take a few Dexedrine

from the dispensary to

make sure I don't fall asleep,

This just gets

better and better,

Look, the truth is,

I blacked out

for some reason tonight,

I don't know why,

But when I woke up, my boots

reeked of diesel fuel and, ,,

I didn't do it,

I swear I didn't do it,

Mike, Mike,

what do you remember?

RACHEL: Mike?

Question is, Rachel,

(IN DEEP VOICE)

what do you remember?

(YELLING)

Carl, what are you doing, man?

What are you doing?

I didn't, ,,

I didn't do anything!

Dr, Harris, I, ,,

I didn't do it!

Oh, God, please don't, ,,

Don't leave me here alone,

You didn't have to sedate, ,,

You didn't see that?

You didn't see the way

he became another

person for a second?

You're spooked by things

you don't understand,

I can see it in your eyes,

You need to come with me,

(DOOR CLOSING)

In a related development,

the governor has threatened

to fire the snow plow crews

if they don't return

to work immediately,

In his words, this is

no time to be playing, ,,

You have your own

power supply, I see,

I never turn off the TV,

It wards away evil spirits,

, ,,and that the governor

has made no effort

to bring in additional crews

from neighboring states,

You think I'm making a joke?

But what you're going through

is no joke,

Something is not right

in this place,

I can sense it too,

I'm gonna give you

this gris-gris,

It will help keep you safe,

Safe from, ,, From what?

Calfu,

The black spirit,

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING ON TV)

Oh, yeah, he's in here,

I can feel him,

Too near,

And I know what he's up to,

He's going around stealing, ,,

Souls,

Dr, Harris,

Souls,

In other news, the identity of

the Prior hospital

emergency room doctor

whose life was tragically

cut short earlier today

has been released,

His name is Terry Collins

of Woodville,

He was 36 years old,

What is it, Rachel?

What's wrong?

You know that emergency room

doctor over at Prior?

The one that got murdered

earlier today?

Do you, ,,

You know who that was?

It was Terry Collins,

Terry, Our Terry,

How do you know?

I saw a picture of him

on the TV in Carl's room,

Terry was there

that day that we, ,,

Yes, I know he was there,

So what?

"So what?"

Don't you find it the

least bit odd that Ben Hayes

should appear tonight

after killing Terry Collins?

Well, it's a bizarre

coincidence but that's all

it is, A coincidence,

Kate, three men died that day,

One of them was in stage 5,

non REM, the abyss, which

means he wasn't really there,

His consciousness was

not in his body,

Not once did we ever witness

a single episode of

post mortem activity

-in any one of our

test subjects,

-(SIGHS)

And when his body died,

his consciousness died,

It's as simple as that,

Then he has called me by name,

Do you know what

you're saying?

Are you listening to yourself?

You didn't see the way

he looked at me,

I am telling you

he knew who I was,

I can see now that you're

harboring a tremendous

amount of guilt over this,

And what about you?

Don't you feel guilty?

I try not to live in the past,

Rachel, how am I ever

going to convince you

that what happened to

those men was out

of our hands,

We had no choice,

You know, Kate,

maybe we did have a choice,

Maybe there was something

we could have done,

Ah! Great,

(GASPING)

Look, it's right over here,

It's right, ,,

I don't understand,

It was just here a minute ago

in big red letters,

It said, "Free spirit"

right there!

Rachel, you've gotta get

a hold of yourself,

Hey, I am not delusional,

okay?

Which is why it pains me

to see you this way,

I remember the first day

you walked into my office,

Fresh out of grad school,

all ready to the show

the world what you know,

And now we're here,

This is where they stuck us,

This is what we get

for spending tens of millions

of their dollars,

We're still under contract

to them, Rachel,

and if you keep talking about

Free Spirit you'll end up

getting us both in trouble,

We're already in trouble here,

Has it ever occurred to you

that the same people

who ordered our test subjects

disposed of

could very easily have

something similar happen

to us,

You signed a non-disclosure

agreement just like I did,

I shouldn't have signed it,

Okay, that's it,

I am taking you off duty,

I want you to get some rest,

Here, I want you to

take these,

Oh, come on, Kate, ,,

-Take these, Take them,

-Okay, fine, fine, fine, Here,

Good,

Now, when you're feeling

up to it and after

you've calmed down

I could use your help

in the ward,

Okay,

Please, no more talk about

"free spirit,"

It's over, It's done with,

Now get some rest,

(CREAKING)

By the way, Carl,

my name is not Calfu,

SARAH: Rachel, ,,

Rachel, ,,

Rachel, ,,

(GASPING)

Come quick,

Dr, Strickland's hurt,

he needs help, Hurry,

(SOFTLY) Down here,

Down in the basement,

Sarah?

SARAH: In here, Rachel,

Quick, Hurry,

Sarah?

Sarah Gemma,

this is not funny,

Now I lay me down to sleep,

I pray the Lord

my soul to keep,

If I should die before I wake,

I pray the Lord

my soul to take,

Now I lay me down to sleep,

I pray the Lord

my soul to keep,

SARAH:

Pray for the dead?

MAN:

And the dead

will pray for you,

(SCREAMING)

(GASPING)

-SARAH:

In here, Rachel,

Quick,

-(GASPING)

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

(SIGHS)

(GHOSTLY WHISPER) Rachel,

Sarah, (BREATHING HEAVILY)

Where are

all the doctors and nurses?

(LAUGHING)

I'm sure you'll find them

stashed around here somewhere,

What's the matter, Rachel?

Bad dreams?

I know all about bad dreams

and I know all about

planting them in your head,

And I can do it again

and again and again

for the rest of your life,

Who are you?

Mark Gregory, Alex Hannover,

-Kevin Lockwood, ,,

-No!

No,

MAN: Help me,

(SCREAMS)

(GASPING)

Kate, No,

You thought you got away

with it, hmm?

Well, I'm here to tell you,

you didn't get away with it,

-Hey, Carl,

-Hmm,

(GRUNTING)

Kate!

(PANTING)

She's dead,

(WEEPING)

Did Carl do this?

It's all right,

(RACHEL SOBBING)

Let me see,

Did he hurt you?

Did he hurt you?

We have to take him to

isolation before he wakes up,

Doesn't matter

where you take him,

It'll just possess

someone else,

I'm not kidding, David,

It wasn't Carl,

This entity was just using

his body, just like he did

Mike and Sarah,

(SNIFFLING)

Well, say something,

You're asking me to

believe that a certain

phenomena exists

that goes against everything

I believe in as a doctor,

Human consciousness can exist

outside of the body,

Kate and I proved it,

You're saying this thing

can literally be inside

anybody,

You, me, uh,

one of the nurses,

one of the patients,

That's exactly

what I'm saying, yes,

How do you know

it's not inside me, right now?

I just know,

Yeah,

Look, it has a way

of speaking,

of looking at me, okay?

I mean, maybe, when you

knocked Carl out, you rendered

it unconscious as well,

Okay, so when Carl wakes up,

this thing is gonna wake up?

It's gonna transfer itself

into someone else's body

and take over someone else?

That's seems to be

the pattern, yeah,

Excuse me for a second,

do you know how crazy

that sounds?

-I am sorry,

-Look, David, I know

this sounds crazy,

-Look, ,,

-Okay?

-DAVID: What's Leon

doing here?

-I don't know,

Leon,

Leon, what is it?

This is no good,

No good at all, Look,

What?

It's the whole staff,

Are they dead?

No, they're alive,

They appear to be

heavily sedated,

It's taking us out one by one,

Rachel, please,

(GASPING)

RACHEL: David,

Sarah, what you doing

with that knife?

I was thinking of cutting

their hearts out,

Too late, David,

I am in Leon now,

What do you think, Rachel?

Should I possess David?

Force him to slit his wrists?

Or maybe I'll set fire to

the place as

stupid little Sarah,

Nobody would ever suspect

Sarah of anything,

I can be whoever I want to be,

Make people do whatever

I want them to do,

I think

maybe David believes

you now,

What do you think, David?

Rachel, come on!

You two have yourselves

a pleasant evening!

Okay, you've got my attention,

What's this all about?

Kate and I worked

for Cryo-sync Laboratories,

They were a research facility

devoted to the development

of a radical technology

the military couldn't wait

to get their hands on,

A new breed of

intelligence operative,

Ethereal beings

with no mass or shape

possessing

the subject's consciousness,

Silent,

Invisible,

Perfect spy,

The project was called

Free Spirit,

And that's what

these entities were,

literally,

We took three test subjects

to the brink of death

to produce

the desired ethereal effect,

(STUTTERING)

It worked,

Well, for a short periods

of time anyway,

Until we found out that humans

weren't designed to deal

with such a separation

of mind and spirit,

Subjects became delusional,

Sometimes they'd rock

back and forth uncontrollably

or scream for hours,

What happened

to the test subjects?

They're all dead,

How?

When they pulled the plug

on the project,

they pulled the plug

on the test subjects,

Instead of sending

raving lunatics home

to their families

the Corporation sent caskets

and huge settlement checks,

Their loved ones were told

that the men

were part of something

as sensitive as

the Manhattan Project,

That they were heroes

who died valiantly in

the service of their country,

And this thing is one of them?

Somehow his consciousness

lived on beyond his body,

So how do we stop it?

I don't know,

There's dial tone,

Not that it means anything,

(DIALING)

Oh, God!

DAVID: Rachel! Run!

(DIAL TONE)

-Come on, Yes!

-(RINGING)

OPERATOR:

Emergency 911,

(DOOR OPENING)

(GASPING)

It's me, it's me, it's me,

(DOOR CLOSING)

DAVID: He's gone, he's gone,

I finally got through

to the police,

They're on their way,

RACHEL: I don't know if

they're gonna be

able to help,

Oh, they will,

We just have to wait,

I'm sorry

about not believing you

considering what's going

on tonight,

And if the entity is what

you think it is,

it must be out for revenge,

I guess it didn't like it

when you pulled the plug,

Who gave the order?

The Corporation

that was funding

the project,

No, no, who actually

pushed the button?

Kate,

You know,

you're not a half bad liar,

And I should know,

After all, I was there,

(GASPING)

Kate was just the messenger,

You were the executioner,

You know who I am now?

Lockwood,

Kevin Lockwood,

Test subject number three,

The last surviving guinea pig,

in the flesh,

Well, David's flesh

anyway, for the moment,

Why now?

Why after four years?

Steep learning curve,

You know, the human mind

is not all that hard

to control

once you get the hang of it,

Now that you know how,

why not possess someone

who has a lot of money

and go back to your family

and live out the rest

of your life?

Unfortunately,

I can't possess a body

for any length of time,

So you are not

so God-like after all,

I bet you'd love to get

your hands on that,

wouldn't you?

You'd kill me all over again,

(SOBBING) I never wanted

to kill anybody,

But that didn't stop you

from carrying out

your orders, did it?

Guilt's a bitch, huh?

Guilt has been eating

all over my heart

for four years,

Am I supposed

to feel sorry for you?

You convinced me

to volunteer for the project!

You told me we were

about to embark on

a great adventure together,

I did everything

in my power to stop it,

No, you didn't!

You didn't even try!

You could have stood up

to them and you didn't,

You could have stopped

them from killing us

but you made a deal,

You saved your ass!

-(STUTTERING)

It wasn't like that,

-Shut up!

You're still doing it,

You're lying to me

with a straight face

just like you did on

my first day of the project,

Do you have any idea

what you've condemned me to?

What do you want me to do?

I want you to suffer with me,

Well, then do it,

Possess me,

Force me to kill myself,

Not a chance,

I've saved you for last,

And before carrying

out your sentence

there is something

that I would like to

share with you,

Would you like

to know what that is?

(GASPING)

DAVID:

You know

who killed Kate?

Surprise,

(RACHEL GRUNTING)

(DAVID SCREAMING)

Come on, you can do it,

You have it in you,

Drop the weapon,

Get her off! Get her off me!

Drop it, Now,

She did it,

She killed Dr, Thornton,

(GATE BUZZING)

(IN KEVIN'S VOICE)

Hey, Rachel,

Pray for the dead

and the dead will

pray for you,

See you around,

CONTROL VOICE:

If we are unwilling

to heed our conscience,

our worst moral judgments

will inevitably