Blindpassasjer (1978–…): Season 1, Episode 1 - Stjerneskipet Marco Polo - full transcript
The Starship Marco Polo -
one of the international space administrations interstellar research ships
On its way back from accomplished missions on the planet Rossum
Rossum orbits around Barnards star...
...which is located about 5.9 light years from earth in the constellation Ophiuchus
The starship accelerates to hyperspeed travel
In this phase, control is entierly in the hands of the ships central computer
Due to the long travel time, the crew is in supervised hibernation
The section for films presents:
Elis - Maintainer of the eco-systems
Leda - Physisist / machine operator
Gaia - Biologist maintaining the bio-systems
Akeron - Maintainer of the computer systems
Jason - Sociologist / Linguist
The Stowaway
Science fiction story by Bing and Bringsv?rd
Directed by Stein-Roger Bull
Part I: The Starship Marco Polo
Good morning, good morning
Yeah right. Did you sleep well?
No, I'll never get used to this
It's like the my head lags
Artef, good morning
Good morning. 09:32:45. DAY: 113
Status function group 1
Check posistion, trajectory, velocity
Main functions checked. Status green
Status energy group 1
A to X supply
How many light days have passed
since we left Rossum?
Just over a week
On an empty stomach...
Yeah, yeah. There are already women on their way to the kitchen
There'll be enough time to eat
We're still far from station Nexus
And we have not much else to do but eat and sleep
Easy for you to say. You've practically done your
part when you have put us on the right course
Prioritized control group checked
Green all over
Roger that
Yet another bullseye Jason
Marco Polo will safely take you back to station Nexus
A machine operator is a man that ...
It's a janitor with a PhD
while I on the other hand ... I have to process god knows how many video recordings
The planet Rossum, the colony, language group, social structures etc
- Good morning
- Good morning Elis
The two of you had better check something else besides eachother soon
- Grumpy this morning Jason?
- Me? Hah!
So, feels good to get home Jason?
You haven't had it so bad during this trip, eh?
Young happiness in space
Thank you for that
That's strange
Wow
some malfunction in the surveilance I see,
only pictures from the sea-section
Please come to the control section at once
Come to the control section at once
This is the recording from the storage room
I don't believe it
- A stowaway!?
- That's what it looks like
Maybe it's a ghost
- And where is it now?
- Well, that we can quickly find out
The computer can register how many people there are aboard...
...and where they are
There we have the picture
But there are only five
Maybe your ghost theory wasn't so silly after all
He has to be aboard
What about the storage room?
- If only I understood how...
- But we saw it Leda. It's that dust...
No, no sign of other beings besides us aboard
- Strange. If there are other living beings aboard...
- We know there are Akeron
- Well, then the computer has to know
- We have to check out the storage room!
What about the machine room?
After all, it has plenty of places a stowaway can hide
I'm more interested in getting an analysis of the dust
Gaia, only living beings can be registered
Exactly, for all we know, he could be lying dead on the other side of this door
Shouldn't we have something to defend ourselves with?
What would that be?
The weapons we have aren't exactly for indoor use
We have to get this over with
We should have had infrared sensors in the machine room as well
Access denied Jason
You know the rules. No one ever thought humans would reside down there
That's exactly why.
It's the perfect hiding place for a stowaway
No one has been here
Are you sure?
As sure as I can be.
The programs seems to be in order
I was worried the stowaway could enter a password
and send us all straight to hell
Akeron, check out the radar.
Huge object in our trajectory
It's ...
I discovered an object inside the shock field
What's going on?
We are not following the locked trajectory
We were promised it would
be completely free of hindrances
That's why we have the schock field
Fucking bureaucrats at Nexus.
As if they give a damn
We're receiveing the picture
It made it
Look!
Meteorite my ass
A spaceship?
It's not from earth
There has to be a connection
It's impossible to get contact.
No signs of life aboard
I thought it was an attempt at attacking us
It would have had to been a suicide squad
We discover a stowaway aboard...
...and at the same time a foreign spaceship appears
It's clear there has to be a connection
I'm more worried about what will happend when we arrive
If we brake during light speed travel, with that wreck in front of us...
I agree with Jason. There has to be a connection
- We can't solve everything at once
- Well, you have to Akeron
Let's first get rid of that foreign spaceship
- But how?
- Later we can take care of the stowaway
- But it's a spaceship Akeron
- I could care less if it was a planet. It's blocking us
- Are you suggesting that we blow up the ship?
- Yes indeed
- Before we have explored it?
- That ship has to go
We must share the tasks among us
We need to check out that ship before we do anything with it. We have the time
Time?
To do something about that spaceship, yes. But we need to hurry to find the stowaway
What are you doing?
- The dust
- You mean you found something?
- Yes
- What did you find?
That's what I want to find out
and since we only need two people here,
I suggest you continue to search other places
Ok Madame Curie. Come on Elis
Leda, the ship will have to wait
Elis?
Cassius
Find anything?
Well, maybe. It just seems so improbable
Improbable?
Inbelievable
It's mostly common floor dust
- But I find other stuff as well
- Like what?
Some undeterminable molecules
Well, maybe not so undeterminable,
they are common enough
Almost too common
Some sort of building block molecules
Molecules that can be used for anything
Organical of course
Cassius
There we have the little escape artist
Cassius have just played the part of the stowaway
- I'm sorry, but I forgot to ...
- To close the cabin door
Cassius! Come here!
Little Cassius didn't scare you, did he?
- Did you find anything?
- No
What would a stowaway onboard Marco Polo?
- Don't we have find him first?
- Sure, but what are we looking for?
We don't even know what it is
At first it was some kind of dust...
...then it turned into some sort of human
For all we know it can transform itself into something completely different ... as well
The spacestation report
Gaia, we have been waiting
- Where is the routine report?
- We are having some problems
Everything seems to go according to plan
Well, we have ... we think we have a stowaway
- An inhabitant of the planet Rossum?
- We don't know
Don't know?
Does that mean you haven't found him...
...or her?
We don't know where to look
You could for example start by looking aboard
We're doing as best we can
That is apparently not good enough
- There are also...
- I await a thorough report
Fucking office wanker
Food! If you have the time
Oh well Elis. Food we need in any case
- Setting for five or six?
- Six?
The poor stowaway.
Surely he needs some food as well?
That might be a good idea
Try to lure him with french bread and soft boiled eggs
- Aren't you funny
- What do you want us to do then?
You're not eating Leda?
I'll just fetch something from my quarters
Honestly Jason, we have searched every single room on the entire ship, and still we haven't found him
What shall we do now?
Now, we'll eat breakfast and later we'll talk about that
- Food, food, food. Do you ever think about anything else?
- It happens
And that was egg number eight?
I'm starting to get fed up with boiled eggs
I'd really like some fried eggs and bacon
- The next time we'll bring a farm
- a piglet will do just fine
- Who has used the garbage disposer?
- The garbage disposer?
Look, it's fully opened
Someone must have thrown something in it after we left Rossum
Quite a lot by the looks of it
Let me have a look
Shit! That's a lot
hydrogen ... oxygen ... carbon ... sodium
He has commited suicide
The stowaway?
A human being has been disposed in the garbage?
Yes, a human being
Exactly like us
Oh my god!
Exactly like us ... but the stowaway weren't a human being
- He was a biomate
- A biomate? What's that?
An artificial human constructed by programmed molecules
The dust was in reality tiny organical building blocks
Programmed, by who we do not know,
to form a human
A human, exactly like us
A ... a biological computer?
I've never heard about that before
It's an old idea. Older than the robot
But I've never heard they have made anything but primitive organisms
Never a human being
But how can you know this for sure Gaia?
The analysis of the dust was quite clear
There are no other explanations
And now he's dead?
I don't understand what he was doing aboard this ship
- And first he broke five cameras
- Like a berserker
What on earth was he doing in the control section?
When he moments later was to jump into that thing there
- Something is not quite right
- Correct
- You can't do it by yourself
- What?
It's physically impossible to dispose of oneself through that disposer...
...you'd be long dead before you're halfway through
Watch
The disposer must have been supervised until the process was over
Someone must have been at the panel pushing the button
You mean one of us have ...
But that's impossible
We were all in hibernation. And no one awakes before the others
There is one other explanation
No, that's just too fantastic
But it's the only logical explanation
The biomate killed one of us?
Disposed of one of us through the garbage disposer?
And taken the victims place
But we're all ourselves and ...
- He couldn't have ...
- How can you be so sure it's a he?
A biomate can't be that similar to us
I agree with Gaia, it's the only logical explanation
So it wasn't the biomate...
...but one of us who passed through the disposer
So that's why he broke the cameras?
He was afraid he'd be recognized
So, who is it
Who among us?
Where is Leda?
She went out
Marco Polo calling Leda,
Marco Polo calling Leda
Leda, come in
LEDA! Come in!
I can't reach her
She must have turned the radio off
Damned Leda
Before we have taken a single sample
The ship might be dangerous!
Maybe she knows what she's going to?
You mean ...
Leda?
- She has entered the ship
- I'm now entering the foreign ship
- Leda? Do you read?
- I'm acting on my own responsibility...
- Leda! Come in!
- ...and against the rules
I will not answer any calls...
...but I will report everything I see
There is a vacum in the ship
It looks as if someone has opened the gate on purpose
I can see beings in spacesuits
Everything is different
They have been dead for a long time
At least...
At least for more than a hundred years
There are no apparent clues ...
... as to where the ship is from
Nor are there any clues as to ...
... what has happened here
Since the inner airlock was open ...
... it can almost look like ...
Can the explanation be suicide?
I can move naturally in here
Possibly have the same gravitational force occured here ...
... as on the Marco Polo
The writings on one of the panels reminds me of ...
... reversed gothic letters
There is no doubt in my mind that this is ..
... a starship
Judging from the equipment ...
... it's only ment to be used within ...
... a single solar system
The section for films have presented:
The Stowaway by Bing and Bringsv?rd
And the dog Cassius
Narrator: Erik Tandberg
Music: Egil Monn-Iversen
Produser: Egil Monn-Iversen
Director: Stein-Roger Bull
one of the international space administrations interstellar research ships
On its way back from accomplished missions on the planet Rossum
Rossum orbits around Barnards star...
...which is located about 5.9 light years from earth in the constellation Ophiuchus
The starship accelerates to hyperspeed travel
In this phase, control is entierly in the hands of the ships central computer
Due to the long travel time, the crew is in supervised hibernation
The section for films presents:
Elis - Maintainer of the eco-systems
Leda - Physisist / machine operator
Gaia - Biologist maintaining the bio-systems
Akeron - Maintainer of the computer systems
Jason - Sociologist / Linguist
The Stowaway
Science fiction story by Bing and Bringsv?rd
Directed by Stein-Roger Bull
Part I: The Starship Marco Polo
Good morning, good morning
Yeah right. Did you sleep well?
No, I'll never get used to this
It's like the my head lags
Artef, good morning
Good morning. 09:32:45. DAY: 113
Status function group 1
Check posistion, trajectory, velocity
Main functions checked. Status green
Status energy group 1
A to X supply
How many light days have passed
since we left Rossum?
Just over a week
On an empty stomach...
Yeah, yeah. There are already women on their way to the kitchen
There'll be enough time to eat
We're still far from station Nexus
And we have not much else to do but eat and sleep
Easy for you to say. You've practically done your
part when you have put us on the right course
Prioritized control group checked
Green all over
Roger that
Yet another bullseye Jason
Marco Polo will safely take you back to station Nexus
A machine operator is a man that ...
It's a janitor with a PhD
while I on the other hand ... I have to process god knows how many video recordings
The planet Rossum, the colony, language group, social structures etc
- Good morning
- Good morning Elis
The two of you had better check something else besides eachother soon
- Grumpy this morning Jason?
- Me? Hah!
So, feels good to get home Jason?
You haven't had it so bad during this trip, eh?
Young happiness in space
Thank you for that
That's strange
Wow
some malfunction in the surveilance I see,
only pictures from the sea-section
Please come to the control section at once
Come to the control section at once
This is the recording from the storage room
I don't believe it
- A stowaway!?
- That's what it looks like
Maybe it's a ghost
- And where is it now?
- Well, that we can quickly find out
The computer can register how many people there are aboard...
...and where they are
There we have the picture
But there are only five
Maybe your ghost theory wasn't so silly after all
He has to be aboard
What about the storage room?
- If only I understood how...
- But we saw it Leda. It's that dust...
No, no sign of other beings besides us aboard
- Strange. If there are other living beings aboard...
- We know there are Akeron
- Well, then the computer has to know
- We have to check out the storage room!
What about the machine room?
After all, it has plenty of places a stowaway can hide
I'm more interested in getting an analysis of the dust
Gaia, only living beings can be registered
Exactly, for all we know, he could be lying dead on the other side of this door
Shouldn't we have something to defend ourselves with?
What would that be?
The weapons we have aren't exactly for indoor use
We have to get this over with
We should have had infrared sensors in the machine room as well
Access denied Jason
You know the rules. No one ever thought humans would reside down there
That's exactly why.
It's the perfect hiding place for a stowaway
No one has been here
Are you sure?
As sure as I can be.
The programs seems to be in order
I was worried the stowaway could enter a password
and send us all straight to hell
Akeron, check out the radar.
Huge object in our trajectory
It's ...
I discovered an object inside the shock field
What's going on?
We are not following the locked trajectory
We were promised it would
be completely free of hindrances
That's why we have the schock field
Fucking bureaucrats at Nexus.
As if they give a damn
We're receiveing the picture
It made it
Look!
Meteorite my ass
A spaceship?
It's not from earth
There has to be a connection
It's impossible to get contact.
No signs of life aboard
I thought it was an attempt at attacking us
It would have had to been a suicide squad
We discover a stowaway aboard...
...and at the same time a foreign spaceship appears
It's clear there has to be a connection
I'm more worried about what will happend when we arrive
If we brake during light speed travel, with that wreck in front of us...
I agree with Jason. There has to be a connection
- We can't solve everything at once
- Well, you have to Akeron
Let's first get rid of that foreign spaceship
- But how?
- Later we can take care of the stowaway
- But it's a spaceship Akeron
- I could care less if it was a planet. It's blocking us
- Are you suggesting that we blow up the ship?
- Yes indeed
- Before we have explored it?
- That ship has to go
We must share the tasks among us
We need to check out that ship before we do anything with it. We have the time
Time?
To do something about that spaceship, yes. But we need to hurry to find the stowaway
What are you doing?
- The dust
- You mean you found something?
- Yes
- What did you find?
That's what I want to find out
and since we only need two people here,
I suggest you continue to search other places
Ok Madame Curie. Come on Elis
Leda, the ship will have to wait
Elis?
Cassius
Find anything?
Well, maybe. It just seems so improbable
Improbable?
Inbelievable
It's mostly common floor dust
- But I find other stuff as well
- Like what?
Some undeterminable molecules
Well, maybe not so undeterminable,
they are common enough
Almost too common
Some sort of building block molecules
Molecules that can be used for anything
Organical of course
Cassius
There we have the little escape artist
Cassius have just played the part of the stowaway
- I'm sorry, but I forgot to ...
- To close the cabin door
Cassius! Come here!
Little Cassius didn't scare you, did he?
- Did you find anything?
- No
What would a stowaway onboard Marco Polo?
- Don't we have find him first?
- Sure, but what are we looking for?
We don't even know what it is
At first it was some kind of dust...
...then it turned into some sort of human
For all we know it can transform itself into something completely different ... as well
The spacestation report
Gaia, we have been waiting
- Where is the routine report?
- We are having some problems
Everything seems to go according to plan
Well, we have ... we think we have a stowaway
- An inhabitant of the planet Rossum?
- We don't know
Don't know?
Does that mean you haven't found him...
...or her?
We don't know where to look
You could for example start by looking aboard
We're doing as best we can
That is apparently not good enough
- There are also...
- I await a thorough report
Fucking office wanker
Food! If you have the time
Oh well Elis. Food we need in any case
- Setting for five or six?
- Six?
The poor stowaway.
Surely he needs some food as well?
That might be a good idea
Try to lure him with french bread and soft boiled eggs
- Aren't you funny
- What do you want us to do then?
You're not eating Leda?
I'll just fetch something from my quarters
Honestly Jason, we have searched every single room on the entire ship, and still we haven't found him
What shall we do now?
Now, we'll eat breakfast and later we'll talk about that
- Food, food, food. Do you ever think about anything else?
- It happens
And that was egg number eight?
I'm starting to get fed up with boiled eggs
I'd really like some fried eggs and bacon
- The next time we'll bring a farm
- a piglet will do just fine
- Who has used the garbage disposer?
- The garbage disposer?
Look, it's fully opened
Someone must have thrown something in it after we left Rossum
Quite a lot by the looks of it
Let me have a look
Shit! That's a lot
hydrogen ... oxygen ... carbon ... sodium
He has commited suicide
The stowaway?
A human being has been disposed in the garbage?
Yes, a human being
Exactly like us
Oh my god!
Exactly like us ... but the stowaway weren't a human being
- He was a biomate
- A biomate? What's that?
An artificial human constructed by programmed molecules
The dust was in reality tiny organical building blocks
Programmed, by who we do not know,
to form a human
A human, exactly like us
A ... a biological computer?
I've never heard about that before
It's an old idea. Older than the robot
But I've never heard they have made anything but primitive organisms
Never a human being
But how can you know this for sure Gaia?
The analysis of the dust was quite clear
There are no other explanations
And now he's dead?
I don't understand what he was doing aboard this ship
- And first he broke five cameras
- Like a berserker
What on earth was he doing in the control section?
When he moments later was to jump into that thing there
- Something is not quite right
- Correct
- You can't do it by yourself
- What?
It's physically impossible to dispose of oneself through that disposer...
...you'd be long dead before you're halfway through
Watch
The disposer must have been supervised until the process was over
Someone must have been at the panel pushing the button
You mean one of us have ...
But that's impossible
We were all in hibernation. And no one awakes before the others
There is one other explanation
No, that's just too fantastic
But it's the only logical explanation
The biomate killed one of us?
Disposed of one of us through the garbage disposer?
And taken the victims place
But we're all ourselves and ...
- He couldn't have ...
- How can you be so sure it's a he?
A biomate can't be that similar to us
I agree with Gaia, it's the only logical explanation
So it wasn't the biomate...
...but one of us who passed through the disposer
So that's why he broke the cameras?
He was afraid he'd be recognized
So, who is it
Who among us?
Where is Leda?
She went out
Marco Polo calling Leda,
Marco Polo calling Leda
Leda, come in
LEDA! Come in!
I can't reach her
She must have turned the radio off
Damned Leda
Before we have taken a single sample
The ship might be dangerous!
Maybe she knows what she's going to?
You mean ...
Leda?
- She has entered the ship
- I'm now entering the foreign ship
- Leda? Do you read?
- I'm acting on my own responsibility...
- Leda! Come in!
- ...and against the rules
I will not answer any calls...
...but I will report everything I see
There is a vacum in the ship
It looks as if someone has opened the gate on purpose
I can see beings in spacesuits
Everything is different
They have been dead for a long time
At least...
At least for more than a hundred years
There are no apparent clues ...
... as to where the ship is from
Nor are there any clues as to ...
... what has happened here
Since the inner airlock was open ...
... it can almost look like ...
Can the explanation be suicide?
I can move naturally in here
Possibly have the same gravitational force occured here ...
... as on the Marco Polo
The writings on one of the panels reminds me of ...
... reversed gothic letters
There is no doubt in my mind that this is ..
... a starship
Judging from the equipment ...
... it's only ment to be used within ...
... a single solar system
The section for films have presented:
The Stowaway by Bing and Bringsv?rd
And the dog Cassius
Narrator: Erik Tandberg
Music: Egil Monn-Iversen
Produser: Egil Monn-Iversen
Director: Stein-Roger Bull