Lily C.A.T. (1987) - full transcript
A captain and his crew travel across the universe in a ship that can travel for 20 years while the crew will age only 1 year. Soon the crew realizes that a criminal is onboard who is hoping to escape civilization. The crew must find who the criminal is, and find the source of a deadly virus that is destroying them one by one.
(light banging)
(cat shrieking)
(deep, solemn music)
- [Man] It's gonna be awhile before
we encounter real food again.
- [Man] Yeah, they told me I shouldn't
eat a big meal before this case.
- What scares me the most I
guess is what it'll feel like.
- There's really not a
thing to be worried about,
it's exactly like going to sleep at night,
only it lasts a lot longer
and it's much less stressful.
The computer'll show an
elapsed time of 20 years
when we wake up, but we'll have
aged only a year physically.
And you won't have felt a thing.
- I'm sure you're right, but
are you absolutely positive?
I mean at the space lab
they kept telling us
about all that stuff
but I would not be happy
if I woke up a wrinkled old bag.
- Hm.
- Oh yes,
last night was a meal to remember.
- [Man] She'll be right back.
- [Man] Gonna have to
remember that for a long time.
- [Nancy] It's okay, Lily.
(Lily meowing)
- Ah, don't tell me you're bringing it
into deep sleep with you.
- Oh course, like I'm gonna
leave her at home for 20 years.
If I don't bring her with
me, I'll never see her again.
- Oh yeah, and she'll be
real practical to have around
for all those space mice.
- A lot more practical than
your little pea shooter.
- Hm, aw, this little baby?
(gun cocking)
I'm the careful type,
there might be aliens, kid.
- There might be, mate, but
since our number crunchers
indicate planet LA003 was
created about 4 1/2 billion
years back and is currently
going through a sort of
Cambrian Era geological
state, I somewhat doubt
you'll find anything bigger than a flee.
- Guess I'll have to shoot low.
- [Man] Can record you know, right?
- What the heck is that for?
- Nice guy.
- Our Mr. Headquarters doesn't
know the corporation flag?
- Listen, funny boy, I'm perfectly aware
it's the corporate flag, I'm asking you
what you brought it on board for.
- [Dick] Leave the kid alone
Morgan, what do you care?
- We gotta have a flag
to raise on our property.
- Ha, look bud.
- Jimmy.
- Right, hey, go for the promotion,
whatever twists your tits.
- [Jimmy] Huh?
- What I'm interested in is
the money, special mission pay.
- [Jimmy] Risk bonuses?
- Now you're singin' my song.
Can't beat that with
a stick, right Harris?
When we come back home after 40 years
we'll be able to retire and still be
young enough to do some damage.
- Don't worry, I'll make
sure the contract's honored.
Just don't forget who's keeping an eye on
your efficiency reports for
the board of directors, guys.
- Well, I was wondering what
the president's daughter
was doing on this bucket of bolts.
Don't despise her, she's
very sweet for a barracuda,
but don't touch her pussy cat.
- [Man] They've never lost one yet.
- I haven't had the pleasure
of welcoming the gents
from the Japanese sector, see
I'm from the Australian office
the name's Berry, Dick Berry,
this your first interstellar run?
(laughing) Boy, the company
sure knows how to pick 'em.
- Sometimes I wish we could
just take off without them.
The noise they're making,
you'd think this was a picnic.
Can you believe the stuff
they brought aboard?
Weapons, animals.
- Hey, lighten up a little,
we all like to bring something
on board, a keepsake, a good luck piece,
I've got a lucky charm I've brought on
every voyage I've made.
- [Man] I would never have
thought of it that way.
- Come on, that's hogwash, captain.
- Yeah, well, I can't
exactly make too much fuss
about anybody else now, right?
- It's too bad they never
taught us at the space training
camp some way of not putting
our foot in our mouth.
I just put mine in up to the hip.
- Forget it, but now that you mention it,
there's something we're going
to have to be dealing with
sometime soon, and that's
the quality of the engineers
the camp's turning out.
With every multinational
looking to stake a claim,
there's a real shortage
of qualified personnel.
The captain of the Bycall was telling me
they have the same problem.
- I have to admit, I was
wondering why we always seem
to end up working with a
gang of incompetent amateurs
that act like they escaped
from a fraternity party.
- Just keep your blood
pressure down because they're
the employees of the mother
company, and we're here
to assist them on their mission.
Don't get bent out of
shape, we're interplanetary
taxi drivers, everybody else
is just along for the ride.
And speaking of which, I
think this one's it for me.
- You're not thinking
of retiring, are you?
- Yep, as a famous comic
book character once said,
I'm getting to old for this kinda shit.
(deep, solemn orchestral music)
(adventurous orchestral music)
(screeching)
(mysterious, adventurous music)
(mysterious orchestral music)
(screen clicking)
(deep, solemn music)
(spacecraft blasting)
(rumbling)
(buzzing and whirring)
(screen beeping)
(mysterious music)
(screen beeping)
(hissing and roaring)
(deep, solemn music)
(ringing)
(whirring)
(suspenseful music)
(hissing)
(liquid gurgling)
(hissing)
(deep, tense music)
(Lily screeching)
(screen beeping)
(whizzing)
(gurgling)
(people yawning and groaning)
(Lily meowing)
- There you are my baby,
I was so completely worried about you.
when I saw you weren't in
your capsule when I woke up.
- Morning, Guy.
- Hey, another day, another decade.
- As briefly as possible,
Wat, how are they?
- Well, they're all a
little wobbly on their pins,
but nothing out of the
ordinary for amateurs.
- I think it's better if
we push the start time back
a little for the exploratory party.
And send some probes down to
pick up surface information.
(blasting)
(beeping)
- Sir, I got something.
- Yeah, what's up?
- Looks like over 20
years ago we picked up
a priority transmission.
- What level was it?
- [Carolyn] Emergency level
sir, it came in 3 1/2 months
after leaving Earth orbit.
- All right, put it through,
let's get it over with.
(screen beeping)
- I am Syncam Corporation's
personnel manager,
interplanetary division, I have a message
of the upmost importance
for Mr. Mike Hamilton,
commanding officer of the starship Saldes.
I am switching to priority scramble now.
- Put him through, it'd
be impossible to keep
anything secret on a ship this small.
- Captain Hamilton, I'm afraid I have some
rather unpleasant news to report.
It appears that you have two people aboard
who are not who they claim to be,
nor are they employees of Syncam.
Evidently, they managed to
enter the training program
at the center with false identification,
and then joined the crew on your ship.
We've investigated this of course.
I have their names and
photos, which I'll put up
at end of the transmission,
but captain I must emphasize
the grave (muffled by
TV static) immediately.
(TV static buzzing)
- Hm?
- The rest has been erased, captain.
- How are we suppose
to identify these bums
if we haven't even got a picture of 'em?
- I just don't see how a
bunch of people who work for
the same company wouldn't be
able to recognize an imposter.
You'd think they'd pick up on
who the fakes were right away.
- That'd be impossible, sir.
- Impossible?
- Syncam Corporation's a
multinational conglomerate
with affiliates all
over the world, captain,
so when they put a crew
together those people
could come from Japan,
Italy, France, Australia,
it'd be impossible for
them to know each other.
- So the first time any of
them ever met each other
would be at the space training center.
No reason for anybody to think
anything was weird about them.
- Right, and having cleared
personnel checkpoints,
the ID card would be
their only identification.
- They were certainly
well prepared in advance.
- To leave the capsules
early and erase the message,
they'd have to be a systems expert.
- You mean they came out of
deep sleep, checked the message,
and got back to the
capsules before we woke up?
- Yes.
- And of course they erased
all the good parts, but what
I don't get is why they
didn't wipe the whole thing.
- Well, if they monkeyed the
timers on their own hibernators
I suppose they could
figure a way to screw up
that transmission, but
maybe there's some sort of
time limit they were under to do the job.
- I can't imagine what it'd be.
- We can't let them run
around free on the ship.
- Nobody's crazy enough to
go on a 40 year round trip
to some rock in the middle of nowhere
just to play Robinson Crusoe.
- Time jumpers, we're dealing with
a couple of criminals sir, that's it.
- He's probably right,
captain, once in awhile
these guys fake their way
onto a starship so they can
spend 40 or 50 years hibernating in space
without getting much older.
When they get back to Earth,
no one's around anymore
to remember their crime.
- They wouldn't have a
snowball's chance in hell
of pulling it off if we didn't
have the deep sleep capsules,
but this way they can start
from scratch to make new crimes,
it's a pretty slick way
of beatin' the system.
- Some time jumpers, just great.
- We gotta do it.
- We have to do what?
- We need to find who the jumpers are
and put 'em in custody.
- You've got to be kidding,
on a ship this size
we're all prisoners, just let
'em be, it's not that serious.
Besides, there's not much
we can do about it anyhow.
Here they come now.
- Ah-ha, hello there, captain.
Or perhaps I should say, good morning.
At any rate, allow me to introduce myself.
I'm Harris Mead, and I've been
assigned as ship's doctor.
- Dr. Mead, welcome, I'm glad to see
you're feeling all right.
Since none of you appear
to be the worse for wear
after your sleep, let me
explain our present situation.
We're orbiting LA003 after
an elapsed Earth time
of 20 years, one month, and 10 days.
We're at quota 34,000, and our
speed is 17,000 kilometers.
You'll build a temporary
command base to investigate
resources available for
possible utilization
by the corporation, and facilitate--
- Captain, the temperature
at number four block
is dropping rapidly.
- All right Carolyn, put it on the screen.
(adventurous music)
Hold it, go back.
Dammit, an AC duct's been
damaged and frozen air
is spilling into the block.
Dular, take a couple of
them and repair it, come on.
What's your name?
- My last name's Takagi, Tokyo affiliate.
- And how 'bout you,
big guy, what's yours?
- Morgan W. Scott, and I'm
from the home office, captain.
- That's fine, I want
you boys to help Dular
in taking care of that busted AC deck.
Oh and you can leave your weapon with me,
it won't be necessary.
- I don't know captain, I
feel strange without it.
- No worries, mate, give it to me.
(footsteps clicking)
- [Man] There, you see, I told
you they wouldn't match up.
- [Man] Okay, but since the
spectometer readings were
the same, it really doesn't
make that much difference.
- [Man] How can you say that,
you never even looked at
the gas chromatograph for a comparison.
- [Man] So what, lighten up.
- Captain.
- I'm sorry.
- Something's odd but--
- What's on your mind?
- Well I was going through
some of the old back up data
and this is going to sound strange,
but the remote manipulator tore that duct.
- The remote manipulator,
you sure about it?
- I still haven't figured out
how they managed to get in.
But I do know one thing,
while we were asleep,
somebody reprogrammed it.
- (gasping) Hm?
- Huh?
- (laughing loudly) That's
great, so then what happened?
- Nothing happened, that's it.
- [Morgan] What? (laughing)
- Wonder which ones
it could be.
- You sure know
how to kill a joke.
- You think Wat's idea holds water?
- [Woman At Other Table] I liked it.
- I don't know.
- We'll never know their plans,
only if one of them talks.
- I'm sure we could find a way
to make these thugs open up.
Right, Guy?
- Listen man, we're not the damn military.
This mission's startin' to bug me already.
- You know, we could interview them all
and then run their stories
through the computer
for discrepancies in
their personal history.
- Nobody'd ever go for it, and besides,
It'd violate their rights to privacy.
I'd prefer it if everybody
just left it alone
and took care of the ship's business
instead of playing private eye.
(Lily yelling)
- That goddamn cat is nuts.
- Hey, I warned you not to bother her.
- Uh!
- (gasping) Come back, Lily.
(clicking tongue)
(Lily meowing)
- Pretty fond of cats are you?
- I suppose I am, they're
a lot better than a dog.
- Hey, but I love dogs myself.
- Got that right.
I've got 10 of them at home in Florida,
and I'm proud of them all.
(Lily meowing)
- Thank you, Hiro.
- Yeah.
- Aw, this thing's
killing my nose, see ya.
Hey captain, when are
we gonna get to work?
Things are gettin' boring.
- We can't do much of anything
before we analyze the probe's information.
You'll have plenty to do after that.
- I hope so, 'cause I
don't wanna be cooped up
in this tin can for too
long, I'll go bananas.
- Oh, you wanna put some money on that?
- It's obvious nobody's
been around this part
of the ship in years,
couple of hundred of 'em.
Mm.
(static buzzing)
(clanking)
(deep, suspenseful music)
Who's there?
- Well, it oughta be done by now.
Carolyn, you put together the probe data.
You two take the transport ship,
give it a complete diagnostic.
- [Wat] Okay, maybe you're
right, suppose Morgan is
one of the two jumpers, who
do you think is the other one?
- I'm almost positive
it's that Jimmy dork.
- Oh yeah, nah, it's probably
that Hong Kong woman,
what's her name, um--
- [Guy] Dorothy, no way.
- How do you know?
- 'Cause, she's my kinda woman.
- [Wat] Now there's a hell of a reason.
(Guy and Wat laughing)
(man yelling)
(man breathing heavily)
(alarm blaring)
(gasping)
(meowing)
- Lily.
(dramatic music)
(drumming music)
(breathing heavily)
(machine beeping)
- Captain, if I didn't
know better, I'd swear
he suffocated from Legionnaires' Disease..
His lungs are full of bacteria.
- Bacteria, how can that be
if the ship was sterilized?
- I never said that the
bacteria were from Earth.
Take a look inside his lungs, fascinating.
I've never seen anything move like that.
I'll be able to come up
with more information
once I've run a few tests.
Of course I'll have to
admit I'm a little surprised
I've been given my own job to do so soon.
- [Mike] Wat, Guy stem to stern
check of the transport ship.
I want all the rest of you to check
the main ship in two groups.
- Tell us what's going on.
- I'm not completely
positive, but something
was brought into this ship.
And some kind of deadly bacteria
were brought in with it.
Half of you go over number four block,
and the others check the
gangway where Morgan was found.
(adventurous music)
- Victim number one and 12 to go.
- Told you I had a bad feeling.
(adventurous music)
- Hm?
(laughing) Come here little
pussy cat. (clicking tongue)
Yes, that a girl.
- (groaning) Not a thing, captain.
Thanks.
- (sighing) How the hell could
anything get into the ship?
Hm, just what do you think
you're doing, Mr. Berry?
- I told him not to touch it.
- Ah, don't blame her
captain, she did what she was
suppose to, I was only
wondering if there were
any messages from my family,
but what do you know,
look what I found instead.
- I am Syncam Corporation's
personnel manager,
interplanetary division, I
have a message of the utmost
importance for Mr. Mike
Hamilton, commanding officer
of the starship Saldes,
I am switching to--
(computer beeping)
- He claims that there
are two people on board
with false identification.
Then the most important
part of the message,
the part with the names on it, was erased.
You wouldn't happen to
have any explanation
for that, would you?
- As a matter of fact, I
don't have any explanation.
But if we don't destroy what
was brought aboard this ship,
it's not going to make
much difference anyway.
- Come on now, captain, we've both got
bigger fish to fry, so to waste time--
- Captain, come to
sickbay, Dr. Mead is dead.
(dramatic music)
- [Walt] Same as Morgan, sir.
- Wonder where he picked up the infection,
from Morgan or somewhere else.
Dammit, alien bacteria and no doctor.
- [Dick] It's like I said,
the first thing we have to do
is to find who those two people are.
(computer beeping)
- [Walt] Nationality?
- [Farrah] Hong Kong.
- Date of birth?
(gasping)
Come on Dorothy, I'm not
thrilled with this either,
but since all of you agreed,
we have to go through with it.
Date of birth please.
- I was born on May 10, 2241.
- You're 23?
(gasping)
- Education?
- I graduated from Washington University.
- And had a baby while you were at it.
Now that's the kinda higher
education that really
builds your brain muscle, eh?
- Hm, just what do you think you're--
- Berry, shut up, now let's continue.
- You prying son of a bitch!
We all have something we
don't wanna tell anybody.
We wanna keep our lives secret,
but if I knew what yours was
I wouldn't laugh about that.
- That's a fairly pretty speech.
I think for the good of the
corporation, your turn's up.
(grumbling and sighing)
- Carolyn, any word on the
transport ship's status?
We'll be at our first landing
point in under an hour.
- [Carolyn] But sir, Guy and
Wat haven't reported in yet.
- They what?
- [Walt] Nationality?
(adventurous music)
- Give me a look inside the hangar.
Wat, Guy, come in, what's
the transport ship's status?
- [Carolyn] Uh, just a second
captain, let me zoom in on it.
(dramatic music)
(sighing)
(adventurous music)
- I'm afraid we're
going to have to give up
our first landing position.
- Any idea how long
it'll be before we reach
the second point, captain?
- [Mike] Yeah, three hours.
- [Walt] Do you want us to continue
the background checks until then?
- [Mike] Now that we've started,
everyone has to go through it.
- Lily?
Lily?
Could you give me a hand?
- My pleasure.
- I hope you two realize,
we're not on a bleedin' picnic
here, you come straight
back after you've found her.
And next time, put a string
on so you'll stop losing her,
do you hear that I'm saying?
Otherwise, I'll put one round her neck.
(clunking)
- [Nancy] I don't believe
it, he is so mean.
- I wonder why none of
them seem to have anything
better to do that to look into
other people's private secrets.
- Well, company loyalty's very important,
it has to be insured somehow.
Lily!
- If she were alive, she'd
be around your age now.
- Huh?
- [Hiro] Nothin', I'll
look around this way.
- Lily!
Lily?
(light, rhythmic banging)
(gasping)
There you are.
(mysterious music)
Lily!
- Jimmy Mengel, you've got
a drug conviction here.
- Huh, but I never touched
that stuff in my life, Dick.
- Well, the company records
show you were placed
on probation for some kind
of drug bust when you were
in high school, what've you got to say?
- Wait a minute, wait a minute,
they've got it all wrong.
I can remember perfectly what happened.
It wasn't me, it was one
of the guys in my class
with me, Jimmy Hengle.
I can't believe they still have
it on the records like that.
Jimmy Hengle was arrested for
drugs in high school, not me.
They were always mixing up the two of us,
calling me Hengel and him
Mengel, it was terrible!
- Do you expect us to believe
and excuse like that, Jimmy?
- Even the police can make
a mistake inputting data.
Why should I be the one
to suffer for something
that I never had anything to do with?
- Well, that was all we were able to find
in your entire record.
None of it has any bearing on
what we're looking for anyway.
What happened to that Japanese fella?
- Captain Hamilton!
- Well, well, speak of the
devil, here he comes now.
- Yes, what is it?
- Come to sickbay right now, sir.
All the bodies have vanished.
(adventurous music)
- Hm, damnedest thing I've ever seen,
disappearing into thin air like that,
leaving only their clothes behind 'em.
- And just why were you in sick bay?
- Uh, I was here looking for the cat.
- Oh I'm sure it's only
me who thinks it's funny
you happened to come
here looking for a cat
you knew you wouldn't find.
(adventurous music)
- Lily, come back.
(alarm blaring)
(yelling and crying)
- Nancy, what happened?
(crumbling)
(Lily yelling)
(people gasping)
(Lily moaning)
- No!
- Oh my, what in blazes is happening?
(deep gurgling)
- It's been completely destroyed by rust.
- The wall's made of solid
super alloy, it's impossible.
It's got to be somethin' else, but--
- Bacteria, I'm positive it's
been eroded by that bacteria.
- Yeah, but if it's--
(man yelling and groaning)
(rumbling)
- What can we do, sir?
- Since we've got absolutely nothing
on this bacteria, what can we do?
We'll lock this block off
for possible infection
and retreat to the main bridge,
come on everybody, move it!
(rapid, adventurous music)
(blasting)
- Do you think we've escaped
the buggers, captain?
- I hope so.
- We're coming up awfully fast on our
second landing point, sir.
- Oh yeah, we still have our jobs to do.
The transport ship, why
don't you cover that
with Dular, and the hangar bays will both
need to be decontaminated.
- You ready to go?
- Plus we have to select
six members for the
- Let's go.
- exploratory probe, since
Walt and Dular are going
to be two of them, you better choose
the other four from among yourselves.
- We've plenty of time to do that in yet.
We still have our little game of checkin'
the backgrounds of the people from Syncam.
And that means Nancy and that
fellow from Japan, obviously.
- (gasping) How dare you
even think of suspecting me?
- Morgan from headquarters
knew who you were,
but I'm from the Australian
branch and I only met you
for the very first time here.
(computer buzzing and whirring)
(sighing)
(light buzzing)
(rapid electronic beeping)
(sighing)
(computer whirring)
(yelling)
- I cannot believe it, wait'll
my dad hears about this.
- Hey, I hope you find your criminals.
- Don't worry, I will.
You little smart ass, I'll find 'em.
(cocking gun)
- Well, painful as you
thought it would be?
- [Nancy] Way worse, you
cannot believe how mean he is.
- What if the company'd been
given rotten information.
And that guy's message was
nothing but a lousy fake,
they wouldn't try to drive us crazy
for no reason, would they?
- You don't think--
(gasping)
- Hey, anybody seen Dorothy?
- She hasn't been on the bridge,
I thought she was with you two.
- Um, no.
- Huh?
- She might be, she could be in sickbay.
- Sick bay?
- I--
- Now what would she be doin' there mate,
if I may ask, and how
would you know about it?
- Well, Mr. Berry, perhaps you
should ask her that yourself.
Or better yet, why don't the both of us
go see what she's doing?
- Listen, mate,
you be real careful, how you--
- Captain, look!
- What is it?
Why in the hell is the
hangar deck opening?
Carolyn what--
- My commands are being
overwritten by the motherboard,
captain, I have nothing to do with it.
(gasping) Sir, I, my control
board's been cut off.
- What?
- [Carolyn] We can no longer
control the ship from the bridge.
- Dular, Walt, get your asses
out of there, do you hear me?
This is a full-on emergency.
I want you to get off of
the hangar deck immediately.
(tense music)
(yelling)
(adventurous music)
- Oh-oh!
(adventurous music)
(groaning)
(adventurous music)
(swishing)
(exploding)
(screen beeping)
- It's been deactivated, it won't unlock.
Who's in there?
Who hasn't been accounted for other than
the first four casualties
and the rest of us here?
- Well the gal from Hong
Kong, what's her name,
she hasn't been seen around for awhile.
I'll bet big money it's
probably here in there.
- I'm telling you, she's not in there.
- What makes you so
almighty sure of yourself?
You know an awful lot about
the doings of other people.
Perhaps you can explain it to me.
- Yeah, if I can.
There's no other way, Captain Hamilton,
come with me please sir.
(adventurous music)
- Disappeared like the rest of 'em.
What's happening here?
- She was checking the
pathology of her lungs
with the x-ray scanner by herself.
- How'd you figure that out?
- It wasn't tough, because I,
because someone had done
the same thing in here.
- You mean besides you, eh?
Come off it, Hiro, that business
about looking for the cat
and finding the bodies
was a bunch of crap.
- What do you have to say about that?
- Yes, I was using the x-ray scanner.
I was afraid that the
bacteria had already invaded
our bodies, and that was the
only way I had to make sure.
(gasping)
I remembered something Dr. Mead had said
when he was examining Morgan.
He thought something about
it was very familiar.
It reminded him of Legionnaires' Disease,
or a strain similar to that one.
He told me the last
outbreak was years ago.
Some veterans were at a
convention, 12 hours later,
they began dropping like
flies for no reason.
Their lungs were filled with bacteria,
which caused them all to suffocate.
- Could it be the same
thing that infected Morgan?
- [Hiro] I can't be sure,
but the disease that killed
those veterans was caused by
the hotel's air conditioners.
That's what started me
thinking, the bacteria were
piped directly into every
room through the AC ducts.
- And then?
- Well, we know there was a damaged duct
in the number four section, okay.
How do we know something
couldn't have come through
that hole and into the ship?
- [Man] Oh my god.
- And suppose that something was
some kind of alien bacteria.
(swishing)
If it were strong enough,
it could've passed untouched
through the water separation
tanks and filters.
And then, it'd be a cinch
for it to penetrate inside--
- Into the entire ventilation matrix
where it could infiltrate
the ship's air supply!
(blowing)
- I think depending on
the physical environment,
it won't survive everywhere
on board the Saldes,
and that's uh, I think
that's why Dorothy came here.
- [Nancy] Uh, I don't wanna hear this!
- Yeah, but what happened to all of 'em?
Did the bacteria eat 'em?
- I don't think we'll ever know that.
There are bacteria that'll
metabolize on Earth
in a short period of
time, but no terrestrial
aerobic bacteria that I'm
aware of can completely
dissolve a set of human
bones without a trace.
- Very intriguing, medical man, eh?
- It's a hobby.
- Now that's funny, something
just doesn't seem right.
Maybe it's 'cause company
data have Mr. Hiro Takagi
specialized in space
engineering and not medicine.
I guess they must've gotten
things all backwards.
- Huh, yeah, now I think I got it.
I don't know why I didn't pick it up.
You're not an employee
of the corporation either
now, are you, you're a detective.
- Huh?
- All I ever said was
that medicine was a hobby.
I don't remember saying
that I specialized in it.
What do you have up your sleeve?
- The game's done kid, you
shouldn't have said either.
- Very good, Mr. Detective,
your patience has been rewarded.
You found the mad gunman who murdered
those three men on King Street.
(gasping)
I figured I was safe hiding
on a starship for 40 years.
I never thought you'd be willing
to tail me quite this far.
- Thanks for the
confession, I appreciate it.
When everything goes well
in those rare moments,
it's nice to see your efforts rewarded.
- Just a minute, you
can't arrest him here.
- Normally you'd have a point there.
I usually leave everything
up to the captain of the ship
since whatever happens during
the run is under his command.
Oh, I don't much care to
get involved with the stuff
that doesn't concern me directly.
But our jobs here are different, captain.
Yours is to bring the ship home.
However, my responsibility is to bring
this here bad guy home.
- I assume that message then from
the personnel manager was your trick?
- Oh I'm afraid it was at that.
The company was very cooperative.
When I was first given
this file, the only bit
of information I had was the
murderer was a medical student
who'd escaped to the moon
on a false Syncam ID card.
That message was my one last hope.
- If this were any kind of
a normal situation, I'd have
nothing at all to say about
how the affair was handled.
But take a word of advice,
if I were you, I'd certainly
have my lungs checked for
any trace of bacteria.
- Huh, come on, captain, being a detective
I've run up against trouble
a hell of a lot worse
than some outer space chicken pox.
I'm talkin' about your armed
gangs with submachine guns
and high tech explosives,
and pissed off to boot.
Now, you just may be right,
my body could be riddled
with the stuff, and so perhaps
I'll snuff out like Morgan.
But as of this moment, I'm still alive.
And so is this murdering bastard!
And as long as I'm alive,
it's my responsibility
to get him back to Earth for trial.
He's the criminal and
I have to arrest him.
- You're far too young.
- What do you mean, I'm too young?
Well I've gotta be the
same age as you, captain.
- You think so, how old am I then?
- Uh--
- How 'bout her?
I just passed 240, Carolyn
is 150 years old, right?
- I'm 151.
- [Group] Huh?
(gasping)
- Wat, Guy, Walt, Dular,
they were all of them,
anywhere between 150 and 200 years old
if you go by Earth time computation.
Space navigation isn't really everything
it's cracked up to be.
Thanks to the ship's
cryohibernation system,
our bodies don't get much
older with every trip.
Well at least not physically, that is.
The trouble starts when we
return from a voyage in space.
Everyone's thrilled to be
home, till they realize
that 40, 50, or 60 years have elapsed
back where they came from.
You become, I was so
excited by my first voyage.
I got back to Earth and met my
son, who I'd left as a baby,
he'd grown into a man older than I was.
But not even that could
kill the fascination for me.
No, that died after the second trip.
There was no more reason
to come home, all my family
and friends were long dead.
But even more than that,
I can't catch up with
the new age, new science, new theories,
a flood of new information.
People treated me like a living fossil
and I realized, I'm an anachronism,
not quite useless, but
annoying to have around.
So I escaped back into space
and returned to a different new age.
I've done it many times.
It doesn't really matter
what I tell you after all,
you can go ahead and bring
him back for his trial,
but you'll find out, you'll
experience it for yourself.
There'll be nobody left to
welcome you except the computer
keeping records of a crime
committed 40 years ago.
(tense music)
- Dorothy?
(blowing)
(monstrous yelling)
(yelling)
- [Hiro] What is it?
(Nancy crying out)
(swishing and howling)
(gun cocking)
- Don't shoot it.
(gun firing)
(dramatic music)
(Dick yelling)
Because we've got gravity generators
doesn't mean you can blast
away anytime you feel like it.
- What the bloody hell was that?
- You're telling me that
thing got into the ship
along with the bacteria?
- Could be, anyway, whoever or
whatever has locked us out of
the control room knows a lot
more about it than we do.
Carolyn, Jimmy, you
come along with me too.
- [Jimmy] Um-hm.
- Hiro, since you know some medicine,
take care of Dick, all right?
Take off his handcuffs and be very happy
you're already in sickbay.
(screen beeping)
I'll have to cut the
door, wait for me here,
I'm going to rig a torch
in the engine room.
- Uh, I know some
welding, let me help you.
(screen beeping)
(rumbling)
(roaring)
(growling)
It's probably too late
to regret this but uh,
I shouldn't have volunteered
for this mission,
I must've been crazy or something.
If I were on Earth right
now, I'd probably be happy,
married, and teaching elementary school.
(groaning) I was never fairly
evaluated by the company,
and I never got any of the
promotions I put in for.
I did my best, but I wasn't
getting anywhere, you know.
- I've met a few others who felt the same.
- Then the home office
announced this mission.
They tried to recruit crew
members but nobody was buying it.
Some people just have better
instincts about this stuff.
The pay they were offering was terrific,
but it made you really
think, how much money
would make it worth it to leave
your family and friends for so long?
- Well, why'd you apply if
it wasn't what you wanted?
- My manager recommended
me for the very first time.
Huh, maybe he thought I was
the best man for the job
because I was spending a
lot of lonely weekends.
You know, putting in
extra hours at work, huh.
Well then I kinda had this
crazy dream, you know?
I kept thinking, wouldn't
it be great if I surprised
everybody in the company, and volunteered?
Now that'd make my stock go
up with the office manager.
It was an adventure.
Of course given the choice between that
and the situation we're in
now, I think I would've chosen
to remain back on Earth and be
despised, what do you think?
- Well, I can understand what
you went through pretty well.
Every space sailor I
ever met had some kind of
bad experience in their past.
They try to wipe out every memory of it
during a 40 year stint.
They usually don't manage it.
Yep, I've known an awful
lot of people like you.
There.
- I'm sorry, Hiro, I guess
I must've lost the key
to the cuffs when I blasted
that bugger, I apologize.
- It doesn't matter, I managed okay.
What's important is
that the bandage holds.
Thank you, Nancy. (sighing)
(light, twinkling music)
- Do you mind, um--
- Go ahead.
- I can't believe, you
know, I just can't believe
what he was saying about you,
you couldn't murder anyone.
- Appearances can be very
misleading, but it's true,
I killed three people in broad daylight.
- What reason could you possibly have had?
- They made my sister into a drug addict.
- But, how?
- She was so beautiful, she
used to write me all the time.
She'd left home and enrolled
overseas in a big university.
Then she just disappeared.
I inquired everywhere, no
one had any information.
When I went to talk to her roommate,
she told me she didn't know anything.
So when I found her about
one year after that,
she wasn't anything like she had been.
I barely recognized her
when I saw her again.
And you know where that was, Nancy?
Prostituting for a King Street pimp.
- (gasping) That's
terrible, is she all right?
- She's dead.
(gasping)
My brain just clicked off,
and I avenged the death
of my sister and the men responsible.
- It's true that drugs have
completely contaminated
the Earth and the moon, but
you had no right to kill them.
We were on their tracks for
months, and if we'd only
been able to arrest them, we
coulda split their drug ring,
closed down that prostitution operation,
and that'd have been the end of them.
You bollocks'd up everything
mate, and cost me my promotion.
- Damn their operation,
my job was to avenge
the death of my sister.
- I'll buy that mate, maybe
you can understand how I felt,
you cost me 2 1/2 years of
back-breaking investigative work
you know, and I'm not likely
to forgive you for that
in the foreseeable future.
- How were you able to
get on board as a member
of the expedition if you didn't
have an identification card?
- I have a close friend who
works for the Japanese branch
and he suggested I escape
with this expedition.
His name's Hiro Takagi, he
was in love with my sister
and he had planned to marry her.
(adventurous music)
- What happened to Carolyn?
- We have to find her.
(adventurous music)
(blasting)
(tense music)
- Carolyn are you there? (gasping)
Oh my god, it's amazing.
(deep, tense music)
(electronic squealing)
(roaring)
(Lily yelling)
- Lily?
(Lily yelling)
(hissing)
- Huh-huh!
(deep piano music)
What the hell is it?
(hissing)
(adventurous music)
(computer beeping)
What's a diagram of the
bacterial invasion doing?
(screen beeping)
Lily cat?
(footsteps clicking rapidly)
This block is completely infested,
get up to the main bridge now.
- Yeah, but Jimmy and
Carolyn, what happened?
- Forget it, I'm afraid
they're missing, or dead.
Come on, now.
(adventurous music)
(gasping)
(adventurous music)
- It's metabolized even the bulkhead.
(swishing and whirring)
(gasping)
(yelling)
(adventurous music)
(growling)
(adventurous music)
- Come!
(adventurous music)
(yelling)
(Nancy yelling)
(adventurous music)
(man coughing)
(Nancy crying)
- I can't put up with it anymore.
I can't, I'm gonna go crazy.
- Does Syncam Corporation have a science
and technology development division?
- Oh of course they do,
every company has it,
what's it have to do with what's
happening aboard this ship?
- Well, it could have something
to do with registration
number 2-3-7-0-3 Lily Cat.
- Huh?
- It's a robotic cat,
unbelievably advanced.
Perfect replica of the
cat you brought on board.
- A cat, what for?
- That robot's controlled the ship
ever since we left Earth's orbit.
The engineers that maintain
this tub for Syncam
obviously believe we're
obsolete and out of date.
They don't particularly think
humans can handle the job.
I suppose they feel we can't be trusted
because all we've got is
old-fashioned experience
and no scientific know
how, so they gave control
of the ship to that thing.
Machines don't need to eat or sleep.
They worked hard while
we lay on the couches.
If they found anything
floating outside the ship,
they hauled it in according
to preset commands.
They probably even have a full data aspect
on the planet below us.
The machines are the most reliable
and faithful employees the company's got.
They're not gonna rely on a bunch of
incompetent humans like us.
And Lily cat's too faithful
and reliable an employee
to have let a bacteria onto
the ship to wipe out the crew.
- It's crazy. (cying)
(light piano music)
(screen beeping)
(clanking)
(Dick gasping)
(dramatic music)
(screaming)
(dramatic music)
(crying out)
(crying and yelling)
- (sighing) The reversal syndrome.
- Reversal syndrome?
- It's a function of
some very rare bacteria
where they reverse the
mitosis of the nuclei
and accelerate the growth
process of normally
dormant cells in a short period of time.
What's weird is the
absorption of the human tissue
into the alien cell makeup.
It's as though the bacteria
have used the human bodies
to metamorphosis from a
caterpillar into a butterfly.
- If what you're saying is what happened,
that those monsters
and the recycled bodies
of Dorothy, Carolyn, Morgan, and the rest,
then what's to stop it from changing again
into something even more horrible?
- Yeah, but why metabolize
everything but our clothing?
(deep, solemn music)
Huh?
(clinking)
Hm.
- (gasping) I've never met anyone so mean.
- Come to think of it, I'd
have done the same thing.
He followed his principles
through, even though
he already knew the
bacteria had infected him.
He came on board this
ship with one objective,
and that was to put handcuffs
on an escaping murderer.
And once he accomplished that objective,
he never even thought
about looking back again.
I'll say one thing for him,
you have to respect him.
(crashing)
(gasping)
- The ship's reacting
to the infected blocks,
and doing the same thing
it did with the hangar pod.
It's protecting itself
by cutting them loose
and blowing them up away from us.
(exploding)
- Well, what if the computer decides
it's gonna dump this block?
- I'm not going to worry
just yet about that,
this block isn't the same
as the cargo compartments
that were jettisoned, even though
the other ones are contaminated.
- Let's not forget it's a machine, folks,
desperately trying to save
itself even though it knows
it's going to be eaten by
the bacteria after all.
- What are you doing?
- We have nowhere to run,
we can wait in this block
but that means we'll die of starvation
or become another monster
like the rest of them,
which doesn't tickle my
fancy at this moment in time.
So for me, the only answer
is for us to kill ourselves.
Okay, how 'bout you, what's it gonna be?
Chamber's got three shells
ready and waiting for us.
(gasping and crying)
- Oh, I can't believe it.
Why did I ever get on this stupid ship?
I was only trying to have a little fun.
I have this friend who's
so smart and really cute,
it's all her fault, I hate her,
and she stole my boyfriend.
I wanted to get back at her, get revenge.
I know exactly how she's gonna feel
when I go back to Earth almost as young
as when I left, and she's an ugly old bag.
I never thought it would end
like this, I never thought.
(exploding)
(adventurous music)
- At least I can see my sister again.
- Wait, stop!
- There's nothing more
to say about it, captain.
- The bacteria won't eat everything.
Even if we wind up dead,
the ship will make it back in one piece.
- What do you mean,
the bacteria'll destroy
everything on the ship.
- And I am positive it won't.
On the motherboard I saw
a readout of the corrosion
on board, and the cargo blocks
and storage compartments
were almost completely devastated.
But, bridge, sub-commands, and engine room
were absolutely free of it.
Residual magnetic fields are
built up by our impulse system.
The impulse drive powers
the on-board electricity.
That means an electromagnetic
field, and I guess
the bacteria must be, that's
it, the magnetic field
kills them or repels them.
- If the robot knows that
it could bring the ship
back home, all it would
need are the bridge
and the main drive system.
- Of course it knows the situation.
What possible reason
could it have to blow up
the cargo blocks except to lighten
the ship for the trip home?
Do you understand what I'm talking about?
I'm saying that even if all
13 members of the crew were to
die somewhere out in deep
space, nobody gives a damn.
The only thing the corporation
cares about is getting
its precious data, without
paying us, if possible.
- Does any of that really matter
if there's nothing we can do about it?
Our only choice is to die or be killed.
- We're living.
Remember what Detective Berry said.
We may die any minute, but
right now, dammit we are alive.
Listen to me, every moment you're alive,
you have a duty to
survive any way you can.
- But we can't, it's impossible.
- You've got a big, brand
new planet right below you.
With any luck, you could
survive there forever.
- That's ridiculous, we haven't
got any more probe ships.
- Wrong. (laughing)
I still have my lucky charm, kid.
Come on, follow me.
(somber music)
(rapid, adventurous music)
- You brought a shuttle.
- I had it my first
trip, and ever since then
I've brought this little baby with me
every mission I ever made.
Walt, he laughed at me all
the time, but I just couldn't
trash it, our memories are powerful
and that little machine recalls
every experience I ever had.
(adventurous music)
- You can't, what are you doing?
- It's a pity I couldn't have been
a little better skipper after all.
- Captain, it's--
- Be alive, do everything
you can to be alive.
(adventurous music)
Registration number, 2-3-7-0-3 Lily cat.
They're not going to bring
this plagued ship back
except over my dead body.
(bold, adventurous music)
(hissing)
(slow, solemn music)
(computer beeping)
(swishing)
(groaning)
(upbeat pop music)
(groaning and grunting)
(swishing)
(exploding)
(hissing)
(grunting)
And, well, it appears it's going to be
a little quicker than we thought.
(whooshing)
(exploding)
(screeching)
(exploding)
(loud howling)
- I'm so sad about this.
All of us should've been able to land
on the planet, you know.
Is anything wrong, what're
you thinking about Hiro?
- I was wondering about
butterflies and if they
ever regretted that, if
they ever even thought of
their past as caterpillars.
And, if the caterpillar
ever thinks of its future
up there as that exquisite
creature in the air.
We'll be metamorphosing somewhere
onto another level some day.
Some other kind or frequency of existence
if that's our promised end.
We'll have to live out
whatever our destiny is.
And nobody can know
what the future'll bring
in this world or even the next one.
("Listening to the Angels")
♪ The angel said, are
your wings broken dear ♪
♪ Can you fly ♪
♪ I will float, I'll float forever here ♪
♪ In the room ♪
♪ 'Cause I have held the heavens ♪
♪ 'Cause I have heard the
small songs of the stars ♪
♪ Because I've learned
to fly oh so very well ♪
♪ Without wings ♪
♪ I am alone, I fly above the world ♪
♪ And I open their arms ♪
♪ I hear the angels sing ♪
♪ To fly this far is only in dreams ♪
♪ But when our dreams fall ♪
♪ Oh when our dreams fall ♪
("Listening to the Angels")
♪ Listening to the angels ♪
("Listening to the Angels")
(clanking)
(cat meowing)
(cat shrieking)
(deep, solemn music)
- [Man] It's gonna be awhile before
we encounter real food again.
- [Man] Yeah, they told me I shouldn't
eat a big meal before this case.
- What scares me the most I
guess is what it'll feel like.
- There's really not a
thing to be worried about,
it's exactly like going to sleep at night,
only it lasts a lot longer
and it's much less stressful.
The computer'll show an
elapsed time of 20 years
when we wake up, but we'll have
aged only a year physically.
And you won't have felt a thing.
- I'm sure you're right, but
are you absolutely positive?
I mean at the space lab
they kept telling us
about all that stuff
but I would not be happy
if I woke up a wrinkled old bag.
- Hm.
- Oh yes,
last night was a meal to remember.
- [Man] She'll be right back.
- [Man] Gonna have to
remember that for a long time.
- [Nancy] It's okay, Lily.
(Lily meowing)
- Ah, don't tell me you're bringing it
into deep sleep with you.
- Oh course, like I'm gonna
leave her at home for 20 years.
If I don't bring her with
me, I'll never see her again.
- Oh yeah, and she'll be
real practical to have around
for all those space mice.
- A lot more practical than
your little pea shooter.
- Hm, aw, this little baby?
(gun cocking)
I'm the careful type,
there might be aliens, kid.
- There might be, mate, but
since our number crunchers
indicate planet LA003 was
created about 4 1/2 billion
years back and is currently
going through a sort of
Cambrian Era geological
state, I somewhat doubt
you'll find anything bigger than a flee.
- Guess I'll have to shoot low.
- [Man] Can record you know, right?
- What the heck is that for?
- Nice guy.
- Our Mr. Headquarters doesn't
know the corporation flag?
- Listen, funny boy, I'm perfectly aware
it's the corporate flag, I'm asking you
what you brought it on board for.
- [Dick] Leave the kid alone
Morgan, what do you care?
- We gotta have a flag
to raise on our property.
- Ha, look bud.
- Jimmy.
- Right, hey, go for the promotion,
whatever twists your tits.
- [Jimmy] Huh?
- What I'm interested in is
the money, special mission pay.
- [Jimmy] Risk bonuses?
- Now you're singin' my song.
Can't beat that with
a stick, right Harris?
When we come back home after 40 years
we'll be able to retire and still be
young enough to do some damage.
- Don't worry, I'll make
sure the contract's honored.
Just don't forget who's keeping an eye on
your efficiency reports for
the board of directors, guys.
- Well, I was wondering what
the president's daughter
was doing on this bucket of bolts.
Don't despise her, she's
very sweet for a barracuda,
but don't touch her pussy cat.
- [Man] They've never lost one yet.
- I haven't had the pleasure
of welcoming the gents
from the Japanese sector, see
I'm from the Australian office
the name's Berry, Dick Berry,
this your first interstellar run?
(laughing) Boy, the company
sure knows how to pick 'em.
- Sometimes I wish we could
just take off without them.
The noise they're making,
you'd think this was a picnic.
Can you believe the stuff
they brought aboard?
Weapons, animals.
- Hey, lighten up a little,
we all like to bring something
on board, a keepsake, a good luck piece,
I've got a lucky charm I've brought on
every voyage I've made.
- [Man] I would never have
thought of it that way.
- Come on, that's hogwash, captain.
- Yeah, well, I can't
exactly make too much fuss
about anybody else now, right?
- It's too bad they never
taught us at the space training
camp some way of not putting
our foot in our mouth.
I just put mine in up to the hip.
- Forget it, but now that you mention it,
there's something we're going
to have to be dealing with
sometime soon, and that's
the quality of the engineers
the camp's turning out.
With every multinational
looking to stake a claim,
there's a real shortage
of qualified personnel.
The captain of the Bycall was telling me
they have the same problem.
- I have to admit, I was
wondering why we always seem
to end up working with a
gang of incompetent amateurs
that act like they escaped
from a fraternity party.
- Just keep your blood
pressure down because they're
the employees of the mother
company, and we're here
to assist them on their mission.
Don't get bent out of
shape, we're interplanetary
taxi drivers, everybody else
is just along for the ride.
And speaking of which, I
think this one's it for me.
- You're not thinking
of retiring, are you?
- Yep, as a famous comic
book character once said,
I'm getting to old for this kinda shit.
(deep, solemn orchestral music)
(adventurous orchestral music)
(screeching)
(mysterious, adventurous music)
(mysterious orchestral music)
(screen clicking)
(deep, solemn music)
(spacecraft blasting)
(rumbling)
(buzzing and whirring)
(screen beeping)
(mysterious music)
(screen beeping)
(hissing and roaring)
(deep, solemn music)
(ringing)
(whirring)
(suspenseful music)
(hissing)
(liquid gurgling)
(hissing)
(deep, tense music)
(Lily screeching)
(screen beeping)
(whizzing)
(gurgling)
(people yawning and groaning)
(Lily meowing)
- There you are my baby,
I was so completely worried about you.
when I saw you weren't in
your capsule when I woke up.
- Morning, Guy.
- Hey, another day, another decade.
- As briefly as possible,
Wat, how are they?
- Well, they're all a
little wobbly on their pins,
but nothing out of the
ordinary for amateurs.
- I think it's better if
we push the start time back
a little for the exploratory party.
And send some probes down to
pick up surface information.
(blasting)
(beeping)
- Sir, I got something.
- Yeah, what's up?
- Looks like over 20
years ago we picked up
a priority transmission.
- What level was it?
- [Carolyn] Emergency level
sir, it came in 3 1/2 months
after leaving Earth orbit.
- All right, put it through,
let's get it over with.
(screen beeping)
- I am Syncam Corporation's
personnel manager,
interplanetary division, I have a message
of the upmost importance
for Mr. Mike Hamilton,
commanding officer of the starship Saldes.
I am switching to priority scramble now.
- Put him through, it'd
be impossible to keep
anything secret on a ship this small.
- Captain Hamilton, I'm afraid I have some
rather unpleasant news to report.
It appears that you have two people aboard
who are not who they claim to be,
nor are they employees of Syncam.
Evidently, they managed to
enter the training program
at the center with false identification,
and then joined the crew on your ship.
We've investigated this of course.
I have their names and
photos, which I'll put up
at end of the transmission,
but captain I must emphasize
the grave (muffled by
TV static) immediately.
(TV static buzzing)
- Hm?
- The rest has been erased, captain.
- How are we suppose
to identify these bums
if we haven't even got a picture of 'em?
- I just don't see how a
bunch of people who work for
the same company wouldn't be
able to recognize an imposter.
You'd think they'd pick up on
who the fakes were right away.
- That'd be impossible, sir.
- Impossible?
- Syncam Corporation's a
multinational conglomerate
with affiliates all
over the world, captain,
so when they put a crew
together those people
could come from Japan,
Italy, France, Australia,
it'd be impossible for
them to know each other.
- So the first time any of
them ever met each other
would be at the space training center.
No reason for anybody to think
anything was weird about them.
- Right, and having cleared
personnel checkpoints,
the ID card would be
their only identification.
- They were certainly
well prepared in advance.
- To leave the capsules
early and erase the message,
they'd have to be a systems expert.
- You mean they came out of
deep sleep, checked the message,
and got back to the
capsules before we woke up?
- Yes.
- And of course they erased
all the good parts, but what
I don't get is why they
didn't wipe the whole thing.
- Well, if they monkeyed the
timers on their own hibernators
I suppose they could
figure a way to screw up
that transmission, but
maybe there's some sort of
time limit they were under to do the job.
- I can't imagine what it'd be.
- We can't let them run
around free on the ship.
- Nobody's crazy enough to
go on a 40 year round trip
to some rock in the middle of nowhere
just to play Robinson Crusoe.
- Time jumpers, we're dealing with
a couple of criminals sir, that's it.
- He's probably right,
captain, once in awhile
these guys fake their way
onto a starship so they can
spend 40 or 50 years hibernating in space
without getting much older.
When they get back to Earth,
no one's around anymore
to remember their crime.
- They wouldn't have a
snowball's chance in hell
of pulling it off if we didn't
have the deep sleep capsules,
but this way they can start
from scratch to make new crimes,
it's a pretty slick way
of beatin' the system.
- Some time jumpers, just great.
- We gotta do it.
- We have to do what?
- We need to find who the jumpers are
and put 'em in custody.
- You've got to be kidding,
on a ship this size
we're all prisoners, just let
'em be, it's not that serious.
Besides, there's not much
we can do about it anyhow.
Here they come now.
- Ah-ha, hello there, captain.
Or perhaps I should say, good morning.
At any rate, allow me to introduce myself.
I'm Harris Mead, and I've been
assigned as ship's doctor.
- Dr. Mead, welcome, I'm glad to see
you're feeling all right.
Since none of you appear
to be the worse for wear
after your sleep, let me
explain our present situation.
We're orbiting LA003 after
an elapsed Earth time
of 20 years, one month, and 10 days.
We're at quota 34,000, and our
speed is 17,000 kilometers.
You'll build a temporary
command base to investigate
resources available for
possible utilization
by the corporation, and facilitate--
- Captain, the temperature
at number four block
is dropping rapidly.
- All right Carolyn, put it on the screen.
(adventurous music)
Hold it, go back.
Dammit, an AC duct's been
damaged and frozen air
is spilling into the block.
Dular, take a couple of
them and repair it, come on.
What's your name?
- My last name's Takagi, Tokyo affiliate.
- And how 'bout you,
big guy, what's yours?
- Morgan W. Scott, and I'm
from the home office, captain.
- That's fine, I want
you boys to help Dular
in taking care of that busted AC deck.
Oh and you can leave your weapon with me,
it won't be necessary.
- I don't know captain, I
feel strange without it.
- No worries, mate, give it to me.
(footsteps clicking)
- [Man] There, you see, I told
you they wouldn't match up.
- [Man] Okay, but since the
spectometer readings were
the same, it really doesn't
make that much difference.
- [Man] How can you say that,
you never even looked at
the gas chromatograph for a comparison.
- [Man] So what, lighten up.
- Captain.
- I'm sorry.
- Something's odd but--
- What's on your mind?
- Well I was going through
some of the old back up data
and this is going to sound strange,
but the remote manipulator tore that duct.
- The remote manipulator,
you sure about it?
- I still haven't figured out
how they managed to get in.
But I do know one thing,
while we were asleep,
somebody reprogrammed it.
- (gasping) Hm?
- Huh?
- (laughing loudly) That's
great, so then what happened?
- Nothing happened, that's it.
- [Morgan] What? (laughing)
- Wonder which ones
it could be.
- You sure know
how to kill a joke.
- You think Wat's idea holds water?
- [Woman At Other Table] I liked it.
- I don't know.
- We'll never know their plans,
only if one of them talks.
- I'm sure we could find a way
to make these thugs open up.
Right, Guy?
- Listen man, we're not the damn military.
This mission's startin' to bug me already.
- You know, we could interview them all
and then run their stories
through the computer
for discrepancies in
their personal history.
- Nobody'd ever go for it, and besides,
It'd violate their rights to privacy.
I'd prefer it if everybody
just left it alone
and took care of the ship's business
instead of playing private eye.
(Lily yelling)
- That goddamn cat is nuts.
- Hey, I warned you not to bother her.
- Uh!
- (gasping) Come back, Lily.
(clicking tongue)
(Lily meowing)
- Pretty fond of cats are you?
- I suppose I am, they're
a lot better than a dog.
- Hey, but I love dogs myself.
- Got that right.
I've got 10 of them at home in Florida,
and I'm proud of them all.
(Lily meowing)
- Thank you, Hiro.
- Yeah.
- Aw, this thing's
killing my nose, see ya.
Hey captain, when are
we gonna get to work?
Things are gettin' boring.
- We can't do much of anything
before we analyze the probe's information.
You'll have plenty to do after that.
- I hope so, 'cause I
don't wanna be cooped up
in this tin can for too
long, I'll go bananas.
- Oh, you wanna put some money on that?
- It's obvious nobody's
been around this part
of the ship in years,
couple of hundred of 'em.
Mm.
(static buzzing)
(clanking)
(deep, suspenseful music)
Who's there?
- Well, it oughta be done by now.
Carolyn, you put together the probe data.
You two take the transport ship,
give it a complete diagnostic.
- [Wat] Okay, maybe you're
right, suppose Morgan is
one of the two jumpers, who
do you think is the other one?
- I'm almost positive
it's that Jimmy dork.
- Oh yeah, nah, it's probably
that Hong Kong woman,
what's her name, um--
- [Guy] Dorothy, no way.
- How do you know?
- 'Cause, she's my kinda woman.
- [Wat] Now there's a hell of a reason.
(Guy and Wat laughing)
(man yelling)
(man breathing heavily)
(alarm blaring)
(gasping)
(meowing)
- Lily.
(dramatic music)
(drumming music)
(breathing heavily)
(machine beeping)
- Captain, if I didn't
know better, I'd swear
he suffocated from Legionnaires' Disease..
His lungs are full of bacteria.
- Bacteria, how can that be
if the ship was sterilized?
- I never said that the
bacteria were from Earth.
Take a look inside his lungs, fascinating.
I've never seen anything move like that.
I'll be able to come up
with more information
once I've run a few tests.
Of course I'll have to
admit I'm a little surprised
I've been given my own job to do so soon.
- [Mike] Wat, Guy stem to stern
check of the transport ship.
I want all the rest of you to check
the main ship in two groups.
- Tell us what's going on.
- I'm not completely
positive, but something
was brought into this ship.
And some kind of deadly bacteria
were brought in with it.
Half of you go over number four block,
and the others check the
gangway where Morgan was found.
(adventurous music)
- Victim number one and 12 to go.
- Told you I had a bad feeling.
(adventurous music)
- Hm?
(laughing) Come here little
pussy cat. (clicking tongue)
Yes, that a girl.
- (groaning) Not a thing, captain.
Thanks.
- (sighing) How the hell could
anything get into the ship?
Hm, just what do you think
you're doing, Mr. Berry?
- I told him not to touch it.
- Ah, don't blame her
captain, she did what she was
suppose to, I was only
wondering if there were
any messages from my family,
but what do you know,
look what I found instead.
- I am Syncam Corporation's
personnel manager,
interplanetary division, I
have a message of the utmost
importance for Mr. Mike
Hamilton, commanding officer
of the starship Saldes,
I am switching to--
(computer beeping)
- He claims that there
are two people on board
with false identification.
Then the most important
part of the message,
the part with the names on it, was erased.
You wouldn't happen to
have any explanation
for that, would you?
- As a matter of fact, I
don't have any explanation.
But if we don't destroy what
was brought aboard this ship,
it's not going to make
much difference anyway.
- Come on now, captain, we've both got
bigger fish to fry, so to waste time--
- Captain, come to
sickbay, Dr. Mead is dead.
(dramatic music)
- [Walt] Same as Morgan, sir.
- Wonder where he picked up the infection,
from Morgan or somewhere else.
Dammit, alien bacteria and no doctor.
- [Dick] It's like I said,
the first thing we have to do
is to find who those two people are.
(computer beeping)
- [Walt] Nationality?
- [Farrah] Hong Kong.
- Date of birth?
(gasping)
Come on Dorothy, I'm not
thrilled with this either,
but since all of you agreed,
we have to go through with it.
Date of birth please.
- I was born on May 10, 2241.
- You're 23?
(gasping)
- Education?
- I graduated from Washington University.
- And had a baby while you were at it.
Now that's the kinda higher
education that really
builds your brain muscle, eh?
- Hm, just what do you think you're--
- Berry, shut up, now let's continue.
- You prying son of a bitch!
We all have something we
don't wanna tell anybody.
We wanna keep our lives secret,
but if I knew what yours was
I wouldn't laugh about that.
- That's a fairly pretty speech.
I think for the good of the
corporation, your turn's up.
(grumbling and sighing)
- Carolyn, any word on the
transport ship's status?
We'll be at our first landing
point in under an hour.
- [Carolyn] But sir, Guy and
Wat haven't reported in yet.
- They what?
- [Walt] Nationality?
(adventurous music)
- Give me a look inside the hangar.
Wat, Guy, come in, what's
the transport ship's status?
- [Carolyn] Uh, just a second
captain, let me zoom in on it.
(dramatic music)
(sighing)
(adventurous music)
- I'm afraid we're
going to have to give up
our first landing position.
- Any idea how long
it'll be before we reach
the second point, captain?
- [Mike] Yeah, three hours.
- [Walt] Do you want us to continue
the background checks until then?
- [Mike] Now that we've started,
everyone has to go through it.
- Lily?
Lily?
Could you give me a hand?
- My pleasure.
- I hope you two realize,
we're not on a bleedin' picnic
here, you come straight
back after you've found her.
And next time, put a string
on so you'll stop losing her,
do you hear that I'm saying?
Otherwise, I'll put one round her neck.
(clunking)
- [Nancy] I don't believe
it, he is so mean.
- I wonder why none of
them seem to have anything
better to do that to look into
other people's private secrets.
- Well, company loyalty's very important,
it has to be insured somehow.
Lily!
- If she were alive, she'd
be around your age now.
- Huh?
- [Hiro] Nothin', I'll
look around this way.
- Lily!
Lily?
(light, rhythmic banging)
(gasping)
There you are.
(mysterious music)
Lily!
- Jimmy Mengel, you've got
a drug conviction here.
- Huh, but I never touched
that stuff in my life, Dick.
- Well, the company records
show you were placed
on probation for some kind
of drug bust when you were
in high school, what've you got to say?
- Wait a minute, wait a minute,
they've got it all wrong.
I can remember perfectly what happened.
It wasn't me, it was one
of the guys in my class
with me, Jimmy Hengle.
I can't believe they still have
it on the records like that.
Jimmy Hengle was arrested for
drugs in high school, not me.
They were always mixing up the two of us,
calling me Hengel and him
Mengel, it was terrible!
- Do you expect us to believe
and excuse like that, Jimmy?
- Even the police can make
a mistake inputting data.
Why should I be the one
to suffer for something
that I never had anything to do with?
- Well, that was all we were able to find
in your entire record.
None of it has any bearing on
what we're looking for anyway.
What happened to that Japanese fella?
- Captain Hamilton!
- Well, well, speak of the
devil, here he comes now.
- Yes, what is it?
- Come to sickbay right now, sir.
All the bodies have vanished.
(adventurous music)
- Hm, damnedest thing I've ever seen,
disappearing into thin air like that,
leaving only their clothes behind 'em.
- And just why were you in sick bay?
- Uh, I was here looking for the cat.
- Oh I'm sure it's only
me who thinks it's funny
you happened to come
here looking for a cat
you knew you wouldn't find.
(adventurous music)
- Lily, come back.
(alarm blaring)
(yelling and crying)
- Nancy, what happened?
(crumbling)
(Lily yelling)
(people gasping)
(Lily moaning)
- No!
- Oh my, what in blazes is happening?
(deep gurgling)
- It's been completely destroyed by rust.
- The wall's made of solid
super alloy, it's impossible.
It's got to be somethin' else, but--
- Bacteria, I'm positive it's
been eroded by that bacteria.
- Yeah, but if it's--
(man yelling and groaning)
(rumbling)
- What can we do, sir?
- Since we've got absolutely nothing
on this bacteria, what can we do?
We'll lock this block off
for possible infection
and retreat to the main bridge,
come on everybody, move it!
(rapid, adventurous music)
(blasting)
- Do you think we've escaped
the buggers, captain?
- I hope so.
- We're coming up awfully fast on our
second landing point, sir.
- Oh yeah, we still have our jobs to do.
The transport ship, why
don't you cover that
with Dular, and the hangar bays will both
need to be decontaminated.
- You ready to go?
- Plus we have to select
six members for the
- Let's go.
- exploratory probe, since
Walt and Dular are going
to be two of them, you better choose
the other four from among yourselves.
- We've plenty of time to do that in yet.
We still have our little game of checkin'
the backgrounds of the people from Syncam.
And that means Nancy and that
fellow from Japan, obviously.
- (gasping) How dare you
even think of suspecting me?
- Morgan from headquarters
knew who you were,
but I'm from the Australian
branch and I only met you
for the very first time here.
(computer buzzing and whirring)
(sighing)
(light buzzing)
(rapid electronic beeping)
(sighing)
(computer whirring)
(yelling)
- I cannot believe it, wait'll
my dad hears about this.
- Hey, I hope you find your criminals.
- Don't worry, I will.
You little smart ass, I'll find 'em.
(cocking gun)
- Well, painful as you
thought it would be?
- [Nancy] Way worse, you
cannot believe how mean he is.
- What if the company'd been
given rotten information.
And that guy's message was
nothing but a lousy fake,
they wouldn't try to drive us crazy
for no reason, would they?
- You don't think--
(gasping)
- Hey, anybody seen Dorothy?
- She hasn't been on the bridge,
I thought she was with you two.
- Um, no.
- Huh?
- She might be, she could be in sickbay.
- Sick bay?
- I--
- Now what would she be doin' there mate,
if I may ask, and how
would you know about it?
- Well, Mr. Berry, perhaps you
should ask her that yourself.
Or better yet, why don't the both of us
go see what she's doing?
- Listen, mate,
you be real careful, how you--
- Captain, look!
- What is it?
Why in the hell is the
hangar deck opening?
Carolyn what--
- My commands are being
overwritten by the motherboard,
captain, I have nothing to do with it.
(gasping) Sir, I, my control
board's been cut off.
- What?
- [Carolyn] We can no longer
control the ship from the bridge.
- Dular, Walt, get your asses
out of there, do you hear me?
This is a full-on emergency.
I want you to get off of
the hangar deck immediately.
(tense music)
(yelling)
(adventurous music)
- Oh-oh!
(adventurous music)
(groaning)
(adventurous music)
(swishing)
(exploding)
(screen beeping)
- It's been deactivated, it won't unlock.
Who's in there?
Who hasn't been accounted for other than
the first four casualties
and the rest of us here?
- Well the gal from Hong
Kong, what's her name,
she hasn't been seen around for awhile.
I'll bet big money it's
probably here in there.
- I'm telling you, she's not in there.
- What makes you so
almighty sure of yourself?
You know an awful lot about
the doings of other people.
Perhaps you can explain it to me.
- Yeah, if I can.
There's no other way, Captain Hamilton,
come with me please sir.
(adventurous music)
- Disappeared like the rest of 'em.
What's happening here?
- She was checking the
pathology of her lungs
with the x-ray scanner by herself.
- How'd you figure that out?
- It wasn't tough, because I,
because someone had done
the same thing in here.
- You mean besides you, eh?
Come off it, Hiro, that business
about looking for the cat
and finding the bodies
was a bunch of crap.
- What do you have to say about that?
- Yes, I was using the x-ray scanner.
I was afraid that the
bacteria had already invaded
our bodies, and that was the
only way I had to make sure.
(gasping)
I remembered something Dr. Mead had said
when he was examining Morgan.
He thought something about
it was very familiar.
It reminded him of Legionnaires' Disease,
or a strain similar to that one.
He told me the last
outbreak was years ago.
Some veterans were at a
convention, 12 hours later,
they began dropping like
flies for no reason.
Their lungs were filled with bacteria,
which caused them all to suffocate.
- Could it be the same
thing that infected Morgan?
- [Hiro] I can't be sure,
but the disease that killed
those veterans was caused by
the hotel's air conditioners.
That's what started me
thinking, the bacteria were
piped directly into every
room through the AC ducts.
- And then?
- Well, we know there was a damaged duct
in the number four section, okay.
How do we know something
couldn't have come through
that hole and into the ship?
- [Man] Oh my god.
- And suppose that something was
some kind of alien bacteria.
(swishing)
If it were strong enough,
it could've passed untouched
through the water separation
tanks and filters.
And then, it'd be a cinch
for it to penetrate inside--
- Into the entire ventilation matrix
where it could infiltrate
the ship's air supply!
(blowing)
- I think depending on
the physical environment,
it won't survive everywhere
on board the Saldes,
and that's uh, I think
that's why Dorothy came here.
- [Nancy] Uh, I don't wanna hear this!
- Yeah, but what happened to all of 'em?
Did the bacteria eat 'em?
- I don't think we'll ever know that.
There are bacteria that'll
metabolize on Earth
in a short period of
time, but no terrestrial
aerobic bacteria that I'm
aware of can completely
dissolve a set of human
bones without a trace.
- Very intriguing, medical man, eh?
- It's a hobby.
- Now that's funny, something
just doesn't seem right.
Maybe it's 'cause company
data have Mr. Hiro Takagi
specialized in space
engineering and not medicine.
I guess they must've gotten
things all backwards.
- Huh, yeah, now I think I got it.
I don't know why I didn't pick it up.
You're not an employee
of the corporation either
now, are you, you're a detective.
- Huh?
- All I ever said was
that medicine was a hobby.
I don't remember saying
that I specialized in it.
What do you have up your sleeve?
- The game's done kid, you
shouldn't have said either.
- Very good, Mr. Detective,
your patience has been rewarded.
You found the mad gunman who murdered
those three men on King Street.
(gasping)
I figured I was safe hiding
on a starship for 40 years.
I never thought you'd be willing
to tail me quite this far.
- Thanks for the
confession, I appreciate it.
When everything goes well
in those rare moments,
it's nice to see your efforts rewarded.
- Just a minute, you
can't arrest him here.
- Normally you'd have a point there.
I usually leave everything
up to the captain of the ship
since whatever happens during
the run is under his command.
Oh, I don't much care to
get involved with the stuff
that doesn't concern me directly.
But our jobs here are different, captain.
Yours is to bring the ship home.
However, my responsibility is to bring
this here bad guy home.
- I assume that message then from
the personnel manager was your trick?
- Oh I'm afraid it was at that.
The company was very cooperative.
When I was first given
this file, the only bit
of information I had was the
murderer was a medical student
who'd escaped to the moon
on a false Syncam ID card.
That message was my one last hope.
- If this were any kind of
a normal situation, I'd have
nothing at all to say about
how the affair was handled.
But take a word of advice,
if I were you, I'd certainly
have my lungs checked for
any trace of bacteria.
- Huh, come on, captain, being a detective
I've run up against trouble
a hell of a lot worse
than some outer space chicken pox.
I'm talkin' about your armed
gangs with submachine guns
and high tech explosives,
and pissed off to boot.
Now, you just may be right,
my body could be riddled
with the stuff, and so perhaps
I'll snuff out like Morgan.
But as of this moment, I'm still alive.
And so is this murdering bastard!
And as long as I'm alive,
it's my responsibility
to get him back to Earth for trial.
He's the criminal and
I have to arrest him.
- You're far too young.
- What do you mean, I'm too young?
Well I've gotta be the
same age as you, captain.
- You think so, how old am I then?
- Uh--
- How 'bout her?
I just passed 240, Carolyn
is 150 years old, right?
- I'm 151.
- [Group] Huh?
(gasping)
- Wat, Guy, Walt, Dular,
they were all of them,
anywhere between 150 and 200 years old
if you go by Earth time computation.
Space navigation isn't really everything
it's cracked up to be.
Thanks to the ship's
cryohibernation system,
our bodies don't get much
older with every trip.
Well at least not physically, that is.
The trouble starts when we
return from a voyage in space.
Everyone's thrilled to be
home, till they realize
that 40, 50, or 60 years have elapsed
back where they came from.
You become, I was so
excited by my first voyage.
I got back to Earth and met my
son, who I'd left as a baby,
he'd grown into a man older than I was.
But not even that could
kill the fascination for me.
No, that died after the second trip.
There was no more reason
to come home, all my family
and friends were long dead.
But even more than that,
I can't catch up with
the new age, new science, new theories,
a flood of new information.
People treated me like a living fossil
and I realized, I'm an anachronism,
not quite useless, but
annoying to have around.
So I escaped back into space
and returned to a different new age.
I've done it many times.
It doesn't really matter
what I tell you after all,
you can go ahead and bring
him back for his trial,
but you'll find out, you'll
experience it for yourself.
There'll be nobody left to
welcome you except the computer
keeping records of a crime
committed 40 years ago.
(tense music)
- Dorothy?
(blowing)
(monstrous yelling)
(yelling)
- [Hiro] What is it?
(Nancy crying out)
(swishing and howling)
(gun cocking)
- Don't shoot it.
(gun firing)
(dramatic music)
(Dick yelling)
Because we've got gravity generators
doesn't mean you can blast
away anytime you feel like it.
- What the bloody hell was that?
- You're telling me that
thing got into the ship
along with the bacteria?
- Could be, anyway, whoever or
whatever has locked us out of
the control room knows a lot
more about it than we do.
Carolyn, Jimmy, you
come along with me too.
- [Jimmy] Um-hm.
- Hiro, since you know some medicine,
take care of Dick, all right?
Take off his handcuffs and be very happy
you're already in sickbay.
(screen beeping)
I'll have to cut the
door, wait for me here,
I'm going to rig a torch
in the engine room.
- Uh, I know some
welding, let me help you.
(screen beeping)
(rumbling)
(roaring)
(growling)
It's probably too late
to regret this but uh,
I shouldn't have volunteered
for this mission,
I must've been crazy or something.
If I were on Earth right
now, I'd probably be happy,
married, and teaching elementary school.
(groaning) I was never fairly
evaluated by the company,
and I never got any of the
promotions I put in for.
I did my best, but I wasn't
getting anywhere, you know.
- I've met a few others who felt the same.
- Then the home office
announced this mission.
They tried to recruit crew
members but nobody was buying it.
Some people just have better
instincts about this stuff.
The pay they were offering was terrific,
but it made you really
think, how much money
would make it worth it to leave
your family and friends for so long?
- Well, why'd you apply if
it wasn't what you wanted?
- My manager recommended
me for the very first time.
Huh, maybe he thought I was
the best man for the job
because I was spending a
lot of lonely weekends.
You know, putting in
extra hours at work, huh.
Well then I kinda had this
crazy dream, you know?
I kept thinking, wouldn't
it be great if I surprised
everybody in the company, and volunteered?
Now that'd make my stock go
up with the office manager.
It was an adventure.
Of course given the choice between that
and the situation we're in
now, I think I would've chosen
to remain back on Earth and be
despised, what do you think?
- Well, I can understand what
you went through pretty well.
Every space sailor I
ever met had some kind of
bad experience in their past.
They try to wipe out every memory of it
during a 40 year stint.
They usually don't manage it.
Yep, I've known an awful
lot of people like you.
There.
- I'm sorry, Hiro, I guess
I must've lost the key
to the cuffs when I blasted
that bugger, I apologize.
- It doesn't matter, I managed okay.
What's important is
that the bandage holds.
Thank you, Nancy. (sighing)
(light, twinkling music)
- Do you mind, um--
- Go ahead.
- I can't believe, you
know, I just can't believe
what he was saying about you,
you couldn't murder anyone.
- Appearances can be very
misleading, but it's true,
I killed three people in broad daylight.
- What reason could you possibly have had?
- They made my sister into a drug addict.
- But, how?
- She was so beautiful, she
used to write me all the time.
She'd left home and enrolled
overseas in a big university.
Then she just disappeared.
I inquired everywhere, no
one had any information.
When I went to talk to her roommate,
she told me she didn't know anything.
So when I found her about
one year after that,
she wasn't anything like she had been.
I barely recognized her
when I saw her again.
And you know where that was, Nancy?
Prostituting for a King Street pimp.
- (gasping) That's
terrible, is she all right?
- She's dead.
(gasping)
My brain just clicked off,
and I avenged the death
of my sister and the men responsible.
- It's true that drugs have
completely contaminated
the Earth and the moon, but
you had no right to kill them.
We were on their tracks for
months, and if we'd only
been able to arrest them, we
coulda split their drug ring,
closed down that prostitution operation,
and that'd have been the end of them.
You bollocks'd up everything
mate, and cost me my promotion.
- Damn their operation,
my job was to avenge
the death of my sister.
- I'll buy that mate, maybe
you can understand how I felt,
you cost me 2 1/2 years of
back-breaking investigative work
you know, and I'm not likely
to forgive you for that
in the foreseeable future.
- How were you able to
get on board as a member
of the expedition if you didn't
have an identification card?
- I have a close friend who
works for the Japanese branch
and he suggested I escape
with this expedition.
His name's Hiro Takagi, he
was in love with my sister
and he had planned to marry her.
(adventurous music)
- What happened to Carolyn?
- We have to find her.
(adventurous music)
(blasting)
(tense music)
- Carolyn are you there? (gasping)
Oh my god, it's amazing.
(deep, tense music)
(electronic squealing)
(roaring)
(Lily yelling)
- Lily?
(Lily yelling)
(hissing)
- Huh-huh!
(deep piano music)
What the hell is it?
(hissing)
(adventurous music)
(computer beeping)
What's a diagram of the
bacterial invasion doing?
(screen beeping)
Lily cat?
(footsteps clicking rapidly)
This block is completely infested,
get up to the main bridge now.
- Yeah, but Jimmy and
Carolyn, what happened?
- Forget it, I'm afraid
they're missing, or dead.
Come on, now.
(adventurous music)
(gasping)
(adventurous music)
- It's metabolized even the bulkhead.
(swishing and whirring)
(gasping)
(yelling)
(adventurous music)
(growling)
(adventurous music)
- Come!
(adventurous music)
(yelling)
(Nancy yelling)
(adventurous music)
(man coughing)
(Nancy crying)
- I can't put up with it anymore.
I can't, I'm gonna go crazy.
- Does Syncam Corporation have a science
and technology development division?
- Oh of course they do,
every company has it,
what's it have to do with what's
happening aboard this ship?
- Well, it could have something
to do with registration
number 2-3-7-0-3 Lily Cat.
- Huh?
- It's a robotic cat,
unbelievably advanced.
Perfect replica of the
cat you brought on board.
- A cat, what for?
- That robot's controlled the ship
ever since we left Earth's orbit.
The engineers that maintain
this tub for Syncam
obviously believe we're
obsolete and out of date.
They don't particularly think
humans can handle the job.
I suppose they feel we can't be trusted
because all we've got is
old-fashioned experience
and no scientific know
how, so they gave control
of the ship to that thing.
Machines don't need to eat or sleep.
They worked hard while
we lay on the couches.
If they found anything
floating outside the ship,
they hauled it in according
to preset commands.
They probably even have a full data aspect
on the planet below us.
The machines are the most reliable
and faithful employees the company's got.
They're not gonna rely on a bunch of
incompetent humans like us.
And Lily cat's too faithful
and reliable an employee
to have let a bacteria onto
the ship to wipe out the crew.
- It's crazy. (cying)
(light piano music)
(screen beeping)
(clanking)
(Dick gasping)
(dramatic music)
(screaming)
(dramatic music)
(crying out)
(crying and yelling)
- (sighing) The reversal syndrome.
- Reversal syndrome?
- It's a function of
some very rare bacteria
where they reverse the
mitosis of the nuclei
and accelerate the growth
process of normally
dormant cells in a short period of time.
What's weird is the
absorption of the human tissue
into the alien cell makeup.
It's as though the bacteria
have used the human bodies
to metamorphosis from a
caterpillar into a butterfly.
- If what you're saying is what happened,
that those monsters
and the recycled bodies
of Dorothy, Carolyn, Morgan, and the rest,
then what's to stop it from changing again
into something even more horrible?
- Yeah, but why metabolize
everything but our clothing?
(deep, solemn music)
Huh?
(clinking)
Hm.
- (gasping) I've never met anyone so mean.
- Come to think of it, I'd
have done the same thing.
He followed his principles
through, even though
he already knew the
bacteria had infected him.
He came on board this
ship with one objective,
and that was to put handcuffs
on an escaping murderer.
And once he accomplished that objective,
he never even thought
about looking back again.
I'll say one thing for him,
you have to respect him.
(crashing)
(gasping)
- The ship's reacting
to the infected blocks,
and doing the same thing
it did with the hangar pod.
It's protecting itself
by cutting them loose
and blowing them up away from us.
(exploding)
- Well, what if the computer decides
it's gonna dump this block?
- I'm not going to worry
just yet about that,
this block isn't the same
as the cargo compartments
that were jettisoned, even though
the other ones are contaminated.
- Let's not forget it's a machine, folks,
desperately trying to save
itself even though it knows
it's going to be eaten by
the bacteria after all.
- What are you doing?
- We have nowhere to run,
we can wait in this block
but that means we'll die of starvation
or become another monster
like the rest of them,
which doesn't tickle my
fancy at this moment in time.
So for me, the only answer
is for us to kill ourselves.
Okay, how 'bout you, what's it gonna be?
Chamber's got three shells
ready and waiting for us.
(gasping and crying)
- Oh, I can't believe it.
Why did I ever get on this stupid ship?
I was only trying to have a little fun.
I have this friend who's
so smart and really cute,
it's all her fault, I hate her,
and she stole my boyfriend.
I wanted to get back at her, get revenge.
I know exactly how she's gonna feel
when I go back to Earth almost as young
as when I left, and she's an ugly old bag.
I never thought it would end
like this, I never thought.
(exploding)
(adventurous music)
- At least I can see my sister again.
- Wait, stop!
- There's nothing more
to say about it, captain.
- The bacteria won't eat everything.
Even if we wind up dead,
the ship will make it back in one piece.
- What do you mean,
the bacteria'll destroy
everything on the ship.
- And I am positive it won't.
On the motherboard I saw
a readout of the corrosion
on board, and the cargo blocks
and storage compartments
were almost completely devastated.
But, bridge, sub-commands, and engine room
were absolutely free of it.
Residual magnetic fields are
built up by our impulse system.
The impulse drive powers
the on-board electricity.
That means an electromagnetic
field, and I guess
the bacteria must be, that's
it, the magnetic field
kills them or repels them.
- If the robot knows that
it could bring the ship
back home, all it would
need are the bridge
and the main drive system.
- Of course it knows the situation.
What possible reason
could it have to blow up
the cargo blocks except to lighten
the ship for the trip home?
Do you understand what I'm talking about?
I'm saying that even if all
13 members of the crew were to
die somewhere out in deep
space, nobody gives a damn.
The only thing the corporation
cares about is getting
its precious data, without
paying us, if possible.
- Does any of that really matter
if there's nothing we can do about it?
Our only choice is to die or be killed.
- We're living.
Remember what Detective Berry said.
We may die any minute, but
right now, dammit we are alive.
Listen to me, every moment you're alive,
you have a duty to
survive any way you can.
- But we can't, it's impossible.
- You've got a big, brand
new planet right below you.
With any luck, you could
survive there forever.
- That's ridiculous, we haven't
got any more probe ships.
- Wrong. (laughing)
I still have my lucky charm, kid.
Come on, follow me.
(somber music)
(rapid, adventurous music)
- You brought a shuttle.
- I had it my first
trip, and ever since then
I've brought this little baby with me
every mission I ever made.
Walt, he laughed at me all
the time, but I just couldn't
trash it, our memories are powerful
and that little machine recalls
every experience I ever had.
(adventurous music)
- You can't, what are you doing?
- It's a pity I couldn't have been
a little better skipper after all.
- Captain, it's--
- Be alive, do everything
you can to be alive.
(adventurous music)
Registration number, 2-3-7-0-3 Lily cat.
They're not going to bring
this plagued ship back
except over my dead body.
(bold, adventurous music)
(hissing)
(slow, solemn music)
(computer beeping)
(swishing)
(groaning)
(upbeat pop music)
(groaning and grunting)
(swishing)
(exploding)
(hissing)
(grunting)
And, well, it appears it's going to be
a little quicker than we thought.
(whooshing)
(exploding)
(screeching)
(exploding)
(loud howling)
- I'm so sad about this.
All of us should've been able to land
on the planet, you know.
Is anything wrong, what're
you thinking about Hiro?
- I was wondering about
butterflies and if they
ever regretted that, if
they ever even thought of
their past as caterpillars.
And, if the caterpillar
ever thinks of its future
up there as that exquisite
creature in the air.
We'll be metamorphosing somewhere
onto another level some day.
Some other kind or frequency of existence
if that's our promised end.
We'll have to live out
whatever our destiny is.
And nobody can know
what the future'll bring
in this world or even the next one.
("Listening to the Angels")
♪ The angel said, are
your wings broken dear ♪
♪ Can you fly ♪
♪ I will float, I'll float forever here ♪
♪ In the room ♪
♪ 'Cause I have held the heavens ♪
♪ 'Cause I have heard the
small songs of the stars ♪
♪ Because I've learned
to fly oh so very well ♪
♪ Without wings ♪
♪ I am alone, I fly above the world ♪
♪ And I open their arms ♪
♪ I hear the angels sing ♪
♪ To fly this far is only in dreams ♪
♪ But when our dreams fall ♪
♪ Oh when our dreams fall ♪
("Listening to the Angels")
♪ Listening to the angels ♪
("Listening to the Angels")
(clanking)
(cat meowing)