Earth: Final Conflict (1997–2002): Season 4, Episode 13 - Dark Matter - full transcript
When the mother ship hits dark matter, the ship dos not begin to heal itself. Zo'or is left in an unconscious state and Sandoval takes control. He decides it is time to liberate the Earth from the Taelons.
Previously on Gene Roddenberry's
Earth Final Conflict
Just over a year ago, an alien named Ha'Gel
used Sandoval's body to create a son.
Me
Liam is part human and
part of an alien
proto-species called the Kimera.
I grew into the body looking at
in less than 5 minutes.
There were vestigial organs in my hands
called Shakara'va but...
the longer I'm on Earth
the more human I become.
We build the mother ship
and gave her a primary mission
to come here...
and preserve us, once we all enter
the death stasis.
Preserve you for what?
For your evolution
We want you to save us Liam...
- Zo'or!
- I said initiate protocol 716.
- Why have we not fired yet?
- We are unable to achieve a sensor lock on the object.
That's impossible!
Unless...
Unless what Zo'or?
- What's happening?
- Collision in 10 seconds.
Initiate emergency override.
Emergency override, unsuccesful.
Zo'or?
Still alive.
Computer.
Initiate verbal response protocol.
I.D Ronald Sandoval.
security code 50034.
I need a damage report.
Damage contained on decks 111 through 133
ship stabilised.
What is your next order, Sir?
Repeat.
What is your next order agent Sandoval?
You are now in command.
They have come to Earth with
the promise of peace.
An alien race called the Taelons.
But there are those who resist
these alien Companions.
For the Taelons true mission
the secrets they hide...
will forever alter our world.
The fate of humanity now relies
on those who dare challenge the future
of Earth.
Earth Final Conflict 4x13
Dark Matter
You all have A.3 clearance
by even so my agents
are taking a great risk
in revealing themselves to you.
They have intelligence on recent events
which in the opinion of the President
pushes up the ANA time table
for removal of the Taelons.
Ladies and gentlemen.
This is what was left to the Caya Islands
after the mothership induced Tsunami
at them two months ago.
The death toll was estimated
at nearly 30,000
most of the island was
simply washed away.
We have documented thousands of cases
of illegal confinement
brutal and even fatal interrogations,
forced labour in Kriss fields.
In short,
our benevolent guests from the stars
are acting more
like a dictatorial army of occupation.
As you know
we've ascertain the Taelons are dying. Now,
they have the technology to measure
their energy down to the final minutes.
This technologie is a crystal bar
which must be driving them mad.
The Synode isn't dodging their leader
in more more desperate acts.
Bottom line, ladies and gentleman
we have a maniac orbiting Earth
with enough fire power
to pulverize our planet
on a whim.
Zo'or is deteriorating into a
Caligula-like madness,
it's so that simple.
We believe the time is right
for a bloodless coup
in wich Da'an with our backing
prevails on the Synode to put him in charge.
Some of us are concerned about
Zo'or's reaction.
What he did to the Caya Islands
might look like a sunday picknick
compared to he might do if...
we force him to a corner
With all due respect, Sir...
he might just do it anyway.
Feel of Da'an.
Use your special relationship
to find how he thinks about this.
But make no further moves until we say.
Sorry to disturbe you Sir, but...
we have a situation on the mothership.
It seems to have collided with
a large piece of space debris.
- Damage report?
- Undetermined at this point Sir.
Haven't you spoken anyone up there it yet?
That's a problem, Sir.
Our telemetry and communication
seem to be fonctioning,
and within hailing of sensors happen but...
no one on board is responding.
I want an immediate analysis of orbit,
potential dangers and I want a headcount
of every Human and Taelons...
on board that thing!
And I want it two days ago.
Yes Sir!
What did you do?
Nothing!
Whatever hit the ship seems
to have dumping his energy flux.
It's there.
Just not flowing.
Damned!
The entire ship is composed of
living taelon bioslurry.
But the impact zone is frozen around,
whatever hit us.
Decks 111 through 133... sealed, but inert.
Is this a problem?
The bioslurry should be repairing itself,
healing the ship, expelling the toxin...
It's not!
And what the hell are we doing here?
Someone has to be in command
and after many years of loyal service,
I'm sure Zo'or wouldn't hesitate
to appoint me as that commander.
Yeaaah! right!
- What about the volonteers?
- I've send them back to Earth for their own safety.
How kind.
- And these drones?
- They're implants!
They'll do whatever the helm says
and at least for the time being
I'm at the helm.
Well...
what are we going to do now?
Work fast...
Do an inventory of the entire ship,
anything of value...
Did you see that?
What?
Nothing, nothing...
Report back in an hour.
Trafic reports before impact
identified 42 Taelons on board besides Zo'or
220 humans, 600 drones and...
Our friend Sandoval.
Something done a great deal of damage
to the mothership. What could it be?
The comet and asteroid alert grid
didn't detect any rock debris.
The problem is not the damage
It is that the ship is not healing.
The ANA satellite system shows that the ship
has sealed its itself around the mass.
Biometric supports,
life supports systems aren't operative.
The ship is weakened.
Zo'or and the others may not even be alive. I'd say
now it's the perfect oportunity for what we discussed.
Coups d'état are unprecedented in Taelon culture.
The taelon's work is down here.
Your leadership
it's your species only hope for a future.
Perhaps...
Computer...
I'm confused about this data.
Why is Zo'or's energy not flowing?
It is at 0.00003% of its capacity.
Everything slowed down then,
not stopped.
Affirmative.
So, from his perspective,
one second would seem like... one day?
Affirmative.
Estimated duration?
If current variables remain the same,
indefinitly.
I have completed my analysis of the
datas that has been collected.
Any conclusions?
Only one substance in the universe
has this type of effect on taelon energy
We call it "Dark matter".
- Is that what hit the ship?
- Yes.
Dark matter is off the "anti-universe".
It reverses taelon polarity,
slowing time
for any Taelon within
a certain radius
The time vibration is so immeasurable
it is as if we're frozen.
Is that why the mothership
can't repair itself?
Indeed.
We must expell the dark matter.
If not,
it will slowly devour the ship
and kill it.
If the 42 Taelons on board are incapacitated,
who's running that ship?
May be the ship is running itself.
Or worse...
Sandoval.
This place is a gold mine!
Its' about a billion box
for the taelon medecines,
core energy,
a all bunch of high tech
gizmos Zo'or's been holding back.
I mean if we can ID half of the stuff off here,
we make a mint in a black market.
Well done Tate.
I'm sure it'll be obvious to use one day.
Boss!
We talk about a king's ransom here.
One day, is today!
No!
Today is reserved for a more
important matter.
What's that?
See those blips.
Those are Taelons.
In a very short time, I will have all of them
on Earth locked in
Locked in?
You mean like targets?
All of my work,
the conspirancy with the Jaridians,
selling what's left of my soul
to earn the Synod's trust
have all led to this moment.
Once I'll have them all targeted,
I'm going to ID them aboard one by one,
and eliminate them.
Can we do that?
Do you see anyone stopping us?
This is our moral imperative as human beings.
These bastards are thieves and murderers.
They killed my wife, Tate,
they obliterated my birthplace!
Now it's their turn!
Then we'll strip the ship of anything usefull and
send her on the direct course to Jaridia.
So we kill all the Taelons,
what will we get of it?
Not much,
we'll merely be the liberators of Earth.
How does that grab you?
Who's first?
I've got your message.
You sound stressed in major way.
The dark matter, I need a refresher.
Impressive.
You're dabbling in quantum physics
in your sparetime now.
Just give me what you got.
Here is the basics.
Way back in the 1940's, some physicit
determined mass of the entire universe.
Fritz Zwicky right?
Smart and handsome.
So Zwicky decides to give this mass a name:
One omega.
You're following so far?
You just keep going off at the keep up.
Good!
So then he decides to find the mass
of everything we can see:
rocks, peoples, stars, gaz,
"Earth, Wind and Fire",
basically everything.
So what does all that end up to?
Only one tenth of One Omega.
In other words 90% of the universe
is made up of something we can't see.
Dark matter.
It has mass and gravitation but
doesn't give off any visible radiation.
No X-Ray, no gamma, nada.
So there is a whole universe out there
ten times bigger and more complicated,
and we have no idea.
Creepy, uh?
I'm just telling you the basics.
Dark matter has hit the mothership
incapacited Zo'or and the other Taelons
Either the ship is in autodefense mode
or someone else is in control,
odds are it's Ronald Sandoval.
If is hijacking the mothership
it'd be a deadman. what's his demands ***?
There's more.
I used our secret backdoors
to sneep around in the FBI database.
15 minutes after the accident,
he IDed all the volonteers off the ship
and brought his aid Franck Tate, aboard.
He's called up the troops.
So we've got not only a Sandoval uncontrolled,
he's got an agenda.
What do you like to do?
What about the bullet pod?
- No.
- I aggree.
It's our only chance.
Bullet pod technology is in its infancy.
They were designed as a military application
with taelon crash bubble technology
for this exact purpose!
- They're unproven!
- Five were tested at Los Alamos.
And three of the test pilots died
that's why the project was shut.
Look, you think we like the idea of a maniac
and a homicide *** running the mothership?
- But it's no help if you kill yourself.
- It's our only option. I can do this!
I'm not sending my best man
on a kamikaze mission!
Thanks for your support.
Call it like I see it.
So this is where it ends, Zo'or.
You've abused me, tortured me,
humiliated me,
but now I stand in judgement of you.
If you can still hear me in there,
I want you to have this as your last thought
before I portal you into Oblivion.
Ronald Sandoval...
has won!
Activate the portal.
Everything should be normal.
Hold on, something's happening.
The mothership is beaming down
a multispectrum radiation barrage.
Analog broadcast band,
microwave, digital hollo works.
Why is it been sent here?
It's not, it's been sent everywhere
in every known language.
What it's sayin'?
I'm isolating an english version.
Attention humanity,
our final stasis has begun,
our salvation is in your hands.
We await you.
This is our chance!
The mothership shuts down
and floats off in the forever
with the Taelons in stasis!
No more Zo'or! Another shot fire!
I feel like,
breaking out the bottle of the good stuff.
He's got a point.
We can get rid of Sandoval and Tate
at the same time, is 3 birds with 1 stone.
I don't like it!
Final stasis is the mothership's core mission
That's why they're here! It's what they want!
Most of the Taelons are in stasis
on the ship already,
we're saving their race
by letting this happen.
You don't believe that.
The mothership has a huge hole and can't heal,
it'll be out of reach
and the dark matter'll eat it alive.
One possible scenario.
And, there are still a few Taelons
walking around.
They're trapped here.
No stasis, no energy supply!
They came to Earth on a mission
with evolutionary repercussions.
We can't just let them die!
The Atlantic National Alliance disagrees.
If the ANA leadership won't save them,...
then I will.
What are you doing?
Contemplating an ancient human custom.
I believe you call it
"drinking oneself to death".
With real Kriss, didn't you say
you won't gonna use this anymore?
You do not understand.
The dark matter has severed the communality
puting Zo'or and the others on board
into a stasis-like state.
Conditions are perfect
for the mothership to believe
that all Taelons are already in stasis.
- So, we convince it otherwise.
- We cannot!
Once the ship has completed shutdown,
it is programmed to travel to
the Horse Head nebula and wait.
Wait?
Until what? Till we contact it?
Yes...
until humanity breaks the code embedded
in the ship's final transmission.
It is a test,
to ensure you have evolved to a level
where you may solve our crisis.
Evolved? That will take millennia.
Perhaps...
A code of this level
transcends your currant reasoning skills.
All we need to do is get you on board
and reverse the shutdown.
Convince the ship that not
all the Taelons are on stasis.
How?
Within a few kilometers of the Dark Matter,
I too will suffer of restricted time flow
just as Zo'or and the others did.
Unless we can find a way
to remove the dark matter first...
IF! IF!
There is no time for "ifs".
Soon the mothership will be gone
- and my species will be no more.
- Da'an please!
You came here,
because no other beings in the universe
have a stronger will to survive than humanity.
Are your superior taelon brain
is telling you to turn and run?
My human heart...
is telling me...
that this fight has just begun...
All other decks are sealed off
so there's no acces to the shuttle bay.
In top of that the computer's taking
all of the ID portals offline
and puts some kind of a block on portable portals.
No one can get on or off the ship.
Life support systems are cycling off as well
and the computers are refusing input
and the drones are dropping like flies.
For some reason, the entire damned
ship is shutting down.
We're trapped.
Stop here!
Any closer and the Dark matter
will cause me to loose consciousness.
Maintaining orbit.
Activating the distorsion field.
I don't want any surprises.
She looks as she's shutting down.
How much time do we have?
1 hour 17 minutes untill the ship
goes into final stasis.
We're ready for go.
Check! check! Microphone operative.
Video, operative!
Now the fireworks.
- One two tones photon bomb.
- For taking out a small mountain, Liam this is insane.
Well, it's directional and I'll duck.
If you survive the G force needed for
the pod to penetrate the mothership hull
and if you can plant the bomb close
enough to the dark matter to blow it out.
Then I may approach close enough
for the ship to sense my energy.
And if I can't do this?
Then my brothers will die with you.
I don't like this.
Is there anything you do like?
Countdown to propulsion
in 3...
2...
1...
Launch pod.
We're in.
And Liam?
Liam do you copy?
I'm here.
You getting this?
Yeah!
It's like a ghost ship!
All energy is flowing into the stasis deck.
The walls are ripped to shreds.
We cannot plant the bomb.
That is the passage way to the stasis deck.
You are to near Liam.
Hundreds of my kind
lay hopeless behind it! we...
we must find another way!
There's no time.
We have less than an hour.
Liam?
Liam, what's happening?
Liam, where are you?
Welcome aboard Major.
A photon bomb...
and what were you planning
on doing with this?
The piece of space junk
overthere is called Dark matter,
I was gonna blow it out of the hull,
so the ship can heal, but I can't.
Why is this?
Hundreds of Taelons are in
a stasis deck fifty yards from here.
If we detonate the bomb now,
we'll kill them all!
Why are they in stasis?
For running out of core energy.
The ship is shutting down because
it thinks no sentients Taelon are left.
But when the Dark matter is expelled
Zo'or and the other Taelons will awake.
And the ship will revive.
That was the plan.
It is also possible that you came
aboard to sabotage the ship.
And as Zo'or's protector,
it is my dutty to detain you
while I investigate.
Arrest him!
This is crazy!
In a half of an hour, there'll be no heat left,
ten minutes later no air!
You're killing us all!
Do you know how to set that bomb?
- Doesn't bear!
- Do it!
Make sure it's close to the stasis deck
to insure sufficient damage.
Bring me Zo'or's body.
What is he doing here?
You heard the major.
Once the dark matter is expelled
the ship will reverse the shutdown, tragically.
Zo'or will not survive the crisis.
But how do we keep control
with 41 Taelons back in action?
All this means is that victory is delayed.
The stasis deck will be destroyed
and the remaining Taelons
will soon run out of core energy.
Well...
I think you deserve the honor.
In ten seconds,
nine tenth of the taelon race
will no longer be.
The sign of a good leader, Tate,
is being able to turn every liability
into opportunity.
Let's go.
It needs a failsafe authorization!
Kincaid has got it.
Come on.
Any luck with the taelon code?
Not yet...
this thing is tricky.
I was up all night developping an all new form
of mathematics before I can even get started.
Keep trying...
How things go on up there?
Given that we have less than a hour left.
There's no how doing, all right?
She will not solve the code.
It is a nine dimension matrix.
She must solve all nine.
Humans are only now
beginning to comprehend four.
Think with a positive attitude!
There may be another way.
Since the communality has been severed
I cannot end the shutdown
unless I am on the ship.
But you can't board the ship,
- or dark matter will freeze you too.
- Yes.
But perhaps a part of me could.
I'm not following.
There is a backup pod.
If you would agree to be infused with a portion
of my energy you might take it to the bridge.
Then the ship would sense my return
and reverse the shutdown.
We would have more time
to expell the dark matter.
I have never trusted your race
not from beginning
and now you want me to take on
your energy to become Taelon?
To become what Zo'or is?
If you are willing to let us die in this way,
then you have already become
as morally destitute as Zo'or.
Something wrong?
Give me the code
for the bomb or you die.
I'm gonna die anyway.
But not with the annihiliation of
an entire species on my hands.
A CVI will allow us to review his
most recents thoughts.
- Do we have enouhgh juice for the gear?
- Leave that to me, just watch him.
Sorry Tate.
What for?
For this!
- You don't look so good!
- No, I feel so good. Let's go!
Who is it?
Who are you?
Reveal yourself!
Damnit.
Yes!
He's gone! I get blind sided.
I don't know who hit me!
Computer!
Locate major Liam Kincaid!
Identify secondary energy shadow.
Energy identified as...
Da'an
Error!
Da'an is not on board!
Negative...
Confirmed as Da'an.
Tate, check on Zo'or!
Meet me on the bridge.
What's wrong with you?
Da'an gave me a dose of his energy,
but it's reacting to the dark matter.
I've got to get to the command console.
Computer, seal the bridge.
Kincaid security code 50079.
Da'an's presence has been
acknowledged on the bridge.
Energy conservation phase complete.
Commencing reactivation phase.
Awaiting code.
What's happening?
The ship is programmed to receive
the code immediately after the wakens.
I thought my energy would override it.
And what happen if it doesn't?
Valid code needed in two minutes,
or shutdown will resume.
Street,
what have you got?
Headake!
This thing's an *** drying.
I'm bumping head against what
looks like fourth dimensional computations.
I'm lost!
Whatever you have,
I need it, now!
I'll do my best.
What are you doing?
Getting you off here
before this place shuts down again.
You can't stay here, you'll die!
Don't buy my coffin yet.
I'm sending it now.
Dimension one...
accepted.
Dimension two... accepted.
Dimension three...
accepted.
Dimension four... error!
Code invalid.
Resume shutdown.
Liam.
I can hardly see you.
The mothership is shutting down again.
It's jamming all long range communications.
Oh my god.
Oh my god you gonna...
and it's my fault.
If I could have broken the code!
You did everything...
a human being could do and...
and handsome I wanted
to thank you for that
and for being a friend.
Liam?
Liam!
Explain yourself Major!
There's no more to explain.
It's over!
In less than a minute this...
ship would be as lifeless as an asteroid.
This is not possible.
Explain what you've done!
You don't take failure very well, do you?
Humans and Taelons...
Both have much to learn...
Ha'Gel.
Where am I?
Am I dead?
No, my son...
You are very much alive.
The time has come for you to fulfill
the first step of your destiny,
to end your by-species existence.
You must use your Shakara'va
to expell the dark matter
and heal the ship.
Am I capable of that?
It was given to you for
this specific purpose,
but it will take all
of your Kimera energy to do so.
Do it, and you will become fully human.
What have you learned as a human being?
That there is a lot of pain in being human,
but through it...
we still learn...
and grow
and find our way...
by exercising our greatest gift...
free will.
You have learned well.
Your freedom makes humanity a unique species.
But if I choose the freedom of humanity...
I give up the knowledge of the infinite.
Isn't that true?
Ha'Gel, I...
I don't want to leave you.
Yet, I know that I must...
Will I ever see you again?
You are closer to us
than ever before, Liam Kincaid.
Closer even that
when you had the Shakara'va.
This was only one of many steps
you must take to find your soul's purpose.
We will reveal ourselves again
when you are ready.
I'm proud of you...
my son!
Is that explain what you've done?
You first!
My report will say major Kincaid, Da'an,
agent Franck Tate and myself
bravely worked together to save you
and the ship from impending doom.
I'm recomanding major Kincaid
and agent Tate for...
commandations for their selfless acts.
Since I have no proofs stating otherwise,
I will accept your report...
Unless of course...
Da'an or Major Kincaid have anything to add.
No.
No Zo'or.
Have you reconsidered my
coup d'état proposal?
I have, and my answer is still no.
The recents events have made Zo'or
more paranoid than ever.
This is not the time for such action.
I don't know what you did to
remove the dark matter
but my species owes you,
more than any Taelon has ever owed.
If there is anything
I can ever do to repay you.
Lead!
Earth Final Conflict
Just over a year ago, an alien named Ha'Gel
used Sandoval's body to create a son.
Me
Liam is part human and
part of an alien
proto-species called the Kimera.
I grew into the body looking at
in less than 5 minutes.
There were vestigial organs in my hands
called Shakara'va but...
the longer I'm on Earth
the more human I become.
We build the mother ship
and gave her a primary mission
to come here...
and preserve us, once we all enter
the death stasis.
Preserve you for what?
For your evolution
We want you to save us Liam...
- Zo'or!
- I said initiate protocol 716.
- Why have we not fired yet?
- We are unable to achieve a sensor lock on the object.
That's impossible!
Unless...
Unless what Zo'or?
- What's happening?
- Collision in 10 seconds.
Initiate emergency override.
Emergency override, unsuccesful.
Zo'or?
Still alive.
Computer.
Initiate verbal response protocol.
I.D Ronald Sandoval.
security code 50034.
I need a damage report.
Damage contained on decks 111 through 133
ship stabilised.
What is your next order, Sir?
Repeat.
What is your next order agent Sandoval?
You are now in command.
They have come to Earth with
the promise of peace.
An alien race called the Taelons.
But there are those who resist
these alien Companions.
For the Taelons true mission
the secrets they hide...
will forever alter our world.
The fate of humanity now relies
on those who dare challenge the future
of Earth.
Earth Final Conflict 4x13
Dark Matter
You all have A.3 clearance
by even so my agents
are taking a great risk
in revealing themselves to you.
They have intelligence on recent events
which in the opinion of the President
pushes up the ANA time table
for removal of the Taelons.
Ladies and gentlemen.
This is what was left to the Caya Islands
after the mothership induced Tsunami
at them two months ago.
The death toll was estimated
at nearly 30,000
most of the island was
simply washed away.
We have documented thousands of cases
of illegal confinement
brutal and even fatal interrogations,
forced labour in Kriss fields.
In short,
our benevolent guests from the stars
are acting more
like a dictatorial army of occupation.
As you know
we've ascertain the Taelons are dying. Now,
they have the technology to measure
their energy down to the final minutes.
This technologie is a crystal bar
which must be driving them mad.
The Synode isn't dodging their leader
in more more desperate acts.
Bottom line, ladies and gentleman
we have a maniac orbiting Earth
with enough fire power
to pulverize our planet
on a whim.
Zo'or is deteriorating into a
Caligula-like madness,
it's so that simple.
We believe the time is right
for a bloodless coup
in wich Da'an with our backing
prevails on the Synode to put him in charge.
Some of us are concerned about
Zo'or's reaction.
What he did to the Caya Islands
might look like a sunday picknick
compared to he might do if...
we force him to a corner
With all due respect, Sir...
he might just do it anyway.
Feel of Da'an.
Use your special relationship
to find how he thinks about this.
But make no further moves until we say.
Sorry to disturbe you Sir, but...
we have a situation on the mothership.
It seems to have collided with
a large piece of space debris.
- Damage report?
- Undetermined at this point Sir.
Haven't you spoken anyone up there it yet?
That's a problem, Sir.
Our telemetry and communication
seem to be fonctioning,
and within hailing of sensors happen but...
no one on board is responding.
I want an immediate analysis of orbit,
potential dangers and I want a headcount
of every Human and Taelons...
on board that thing!
And I want it two days ago.
Yes Sir!
What did you do?
Nothing!
Whatever hit the ship seems
to have dumping his energy flux.
It's there.
Just not flowing.
Damned!
The entire ship is composed of
living taelon bioslurry.
But the impact zone is frozen around,
whatever hit us.
Decks 111 through 133... sealed, but inert.
Is this a problem?
The bioslurry should be repairing itself,
healing the ship, expelling the toxin...
It's not!
And what the hell are we doing here?
Someone has to be in command
and after many years of loyal service,
I'm sure Zo'or wouldn't hesitate
to appoint me as that commander.
Yeaaah! right!
- What about the volonteers?
- I've send them back to Earth for their own safety.
How kind.
- And these drones?
- They're implants!
They'll do whatever the helm says
and at least for the time being
I'm at the helm.
Well...
what are we going to do now?
Work fast...
Do an inventory of the entire ship,
anything of value...
Did you see that?
What?
Nothing, nothing...
Report back in an hour.
Trafic reports before impact
identified 42 Taelons on board besides Zo'or
220 humans, 600 drones and...
Our friend Sandoval.
Something done a great deal of damage
to the mothership. What could it be?
The comet and asteroid alert grid
didn't detect any rock debris.
The problem is not the damage
It is that the ship is not healing.
The ANA satellite system shows that the ship
has sealed its itself around the mass.
Biometric supports,
life supports systems aren't operative.
The ship is weakened.
Zo'or and the others may not even be alive. I'd say
now it's the perfect oportunity for what we discussed.
Coups d'état are unprecedented in Taelon culture.
The taelon's work is down here.
Your leadership
it's your species only hope for a future.
Perhaps...
Computer...
I'm confused about this data.
Why is Zo'or's energy not flowing?
It is at 0.00003% of its capacity.
Everything slowed down then,
not stopped.
Affirmative.
So, from his perspective,
one second would seem like... one day?
Affirmative.
Estimated duration?
If current variables remain the same,
indefinitly.
I have completed my analysis of the
datas that has been collected.
Any conclusions?
Only one substance in the universe
has this type of effect on taelon energy
We call it "Dark matter".
- Is that what hit the ship?
- Yes.
Dark matter is off the "anti-universe".
It reverses taelon polarity,
slowing time
for any Taelon within
a certain radius
The time vibration is so immeasurable
it is as if we're frozen.
Is that why the mothership
can't repair itself?
Indeed.
We must expell the dark matter.
If not,
it will slowly devour the ship
and kill it.
If the 42 Taelons on board are incapacitated,
who's running that ship?
May be the ship is running itself.
Or worse...
Sandoval.
This place is a gold mine!
Its' about a billion box
for the taelon medecines,
core energy,
a all bunch of high tech
gizmos Zo'or's been holding back.
I mean if we can ID half of the stuff off here,
we make a mint in a black market.
Well done Tate.
I'm sure it'll be obvious to use one day.
Boss!
We talk about a king's ransom here.
One day, is today!
No!
Today is reserved for a more
important matter.
What's that?
See those blips.
Those are Taelons.
In a very short time, I will have all of them
on Earth locked in
Locked in?
You mean like targets?
All of my work,
the conspirancy with the Jaridians,
selling what's left of my soul
to earn the Synod's trust
have all led to this moment.
Once I'll have them all targeted,
I'm going to ID them aboard one by one,
and eliminate them.
Can we do that?
Do you see anyone stopping us?
This is our moral imperative as human beings.
These bastards are thieves and murderers.
They killed my wife, Tate,
they obliterated my birthplace!
Now it's their turn!
Then we'll strip the ship of anything usefull and
send her on the direct course to Jaridia.
So we kill all the Taelons,
what will we get of it?
Not much,
we'll merely be the liberators of Earth.
How does that grab you?
Who's first?
I've got your message.
You sound stressed in major way.
The dark matter, I need a refresher.
Impressive.
You're dabbling in quantum physics
in your sparetime now.
Just give me what you got.
Here is the basics.
Way back in the 1940's, some physicit
determined mass of the entire universe.
Fritz Zwicky right?
Smart and handsome.
So Zwicky decides to give this mass a name:
One omega.
You're following so far?
You just keep going off at the keep up.
Good!
So then he decides to find the mass
of everything we can see:
rocks, peoples, stars, gaz,
"Earth, Wind and Fire",
basically everything.
So what does all that end up to?
Only one tenth of One Omega.
In other words 90% of the universe
is made up of something we can't see.
Dark matter.
It has mass and gravitation but
doesn't give off any visible radiation.
No X-Ray, no gamma, nada.
So there is a whole universe out there
ten times bigger and more complicated,
and we have no idea.
Creepy, uh?
I'm just telling you the basics.
Dark matter has hit the mothership
incapacited Zo'or and the other Taelons
Either the ship is in autodefense mode
or someone else is in control,
odds are it's Ronald Sandoval.
If is hijacking the mothership
it'd be a deadman. what's his demands ***?
There's more.
I used our secret backdoors
to sneep around in the FBI database.
15 minutes after the accident,
he IDed all the volonteers off the ship
and brought his aid Franck Tate, aboard.
He's called up the troops.
So we've got not only a Sandoval uncontrolled,
he's got an agenda.
What do you like to do?
What about the bullet pod?
- No.
- I aggree.
It's our only chance.
Bullet pod technology is in its infancy.
They were designed as a military application
with taelon crash bubble technology
for this exact purpose!
- They're unproven!
- Five were tested at Los Alamos.
And three of the test pilots died
that's why the project was shut.
Look, you think we like the idea of a maniac
and a homicide *** running the mothership?
- But it's no help if you kill yourself.
- It's our only option. I can do this!
I'm not sending my best man
on a kamikaze mission!
Thanks for your support.
Call it like I see it.
So this is where it ends, Zo'or.
You've abused me, tortured me,
humiliated me,
but now I stand in judgement of you.
If you can still hear me in there,
I want you to have this as your last thought
before I portal you into Oblivion.
Ronald Sandoval...
has won!
Activate the portal.
Everything should be normal.
Hold on, something's happening.
The mothership is beaming down
a multispectrum radiation barrage.
Analog broadcast band,
microwave, digital hollo works.
Why is it been sent here?
It's not, it's been sent everywhere
in every known language.
What it's sayin'?
I'm isolating an english version.
Attention humanity,
our final stasis has begun,
our salvation is in your hands.
We await you.
This is our chance!
The mothership shuts down
and floats off in the forever
with the Taelons in stasis!
No more Zo'or! Another shot fire!
I feel like,
breaking out the bottle of the good stuff.
He's got a point.
We can get rid of Sandoval and Tate
at the same time, is 3 birds with 1 stone.
I don't like it!
Final stasis is the mothership's core mission
That's why they're here! It's what they want!
Most of the Taelons are in stasis
on the ship already,
we're saving their race
by letting this happen.
You don't believe that.
The mothership has a huge hole and can't heal,
it'll be out of reach
and the dark matter'll eat it alive.
One possible scenario.
And, there are still a few Taelons
walking around.
They're trapped here.
No stasis, no energy supply!
They came to Earth on a mission
with evolutionary repercussions.
We can't just let them die!
The Atlantic National Alliance disagrees.
If the ANA leadership won't save them,...
then I will.
What are you doing?
Contemplating an ancient human custom.
I believe you call it
"drinking oneself to death".
With real Kriss, didn't you say
you won't gonna use this anymore?
You do not understand.
The dark matter has severed the communality
puting Zo'or and the others on board
into a stasis-like state.
Conditions are perfect
for the mothership to believe
that all Taelons are already in stasis.
- So, we convince it otherwise.
- We cannot!
Once the ship has completed shutdown,
it is programmed to travel to
the Horse Head nebula and wait.
Wait?
Until what? Till we contact it?
Yes...
until humanity breaks the code embedded
in the ship's final transmission.
It is a test,
to ensure you have evolved to a level
where you may solve our crisis.
Evolved? That will take millennia.
Perhaps...
A code of this level
transcends your currant reasoning skills.
All we need to do is get you on board
and reverse the shutdown.
Convince the ship that not
all the Taelons are on stasis.
How?
Within a few kilometers of the Dark Matter,
I too will suffer of restricted time flow
just as Zo'or and the others did.
Unless we can find a way
to remove the dark matter first...
IF! IF!
There is no time for "ifs".
Soon the mothership will be gone
- and my species will be no more.
- Da'an please!
You came here,
because no other beings in the universe
have a stronger will to survive than humanity.
Are your superior taelon brain
is telling you to turn and run?
My human heart...
is telling me...
that this fight has just begun...
All other decks are sealed off
so there's no acces to the shuttle bay.
In top of that the computer's taking
all of the ID portals offline
and puts some kind of a block on portable portals.
No one can get on or off the ship.
Life support systems are cycling off as well
and the computers are refusing input
and the drones are dropping like flies.
For some reason, the entire damned
ship is shutting down.
We're trapped.
Stop here!
Any closer and the Dark matter
will cause me to loose consciousness.
Maintaining orbit.
Activating the distorsion field.
I don't want any surprises.
She looks as she's shutting down.
How much time do we have?
1 hour 17 minutes untill the ship
goes into final stasis.
We're ready for go.
Check! check! Microphone operative.
Video, operative!
Now the fireworks.
- One two tones photon bomb.
- For taking out a small mountain, Liam this is insane.
Well, it's directional and I'll duck.
If you survive the G force needed for
the pod to penetrate the mothership hull
and if you can plant the bomb close
enough to the dark matter to blow it out.
Then I may approach close enough
for the ship to sense my energy.
And if I can't do this?
Then my brothers will die with you.
I don't like this.
Is there anything you do like?
Countdown to propulsion
in 3...
2...
1...
Launch pod.
We're in.
And Liam?
Liam do you copy?
I'm here.
You getting this?
Yeah!
It's like a ghost ship!
All energy is flowing into the stasis deck.
The walls are ripped to shreds.
We cannot plant the bomb.
That is the passage way to the stasis deck.
You are to near Liam.
Hundreds of my kind
lay hopeless behind it! we...
we must find another way!
There's no time.
We have less than an hour.
Liam?
Liam, what's happening?
Liam, where are you?
Welcome aboard Major.
A photon bomb...
and what were you planning
on doing with this?
The piece of space junk
overthere is called Dark matter,
I was gonna blow it out of the hull,
so the ship can heal, but I can't.
Why is this?
Hundreds of Taelons are in
a stasis deck fifty yards from here.
If we detonate the bomb now,
we'll kill them all!
Why are they in stasis?
For running out of core energy.
The ship is shutting down because
it thinks no sentients Taelon are left.
But when the Dark matter is expelled
Zo'or and the other Taelons will awake.
And the ship will revive.
That was the plan.
It is also possible that you came
aboard to sabotage the ship.
And as Zo'or's protector,
it is my dutty to detain you
while I investigate.
Arrest him!
This is crazy!
In a half of an hour, there'll be no heat left,
ten minutes later no air!
You're killing us all!
Do you know how to set that bomb?
- Doesn't bear!
- Do it!
Make sure it's close to the stasis deck
to insure sufficient damage.
Bring me Zo'or's body.
What is he doing here?
You heard the major.
Once the dark matter is expelled
the ship will reverse the shutdown, tragically.
Zo'or will not survive the crisis.
But how do we keep control
with 41 Taelons back in action?
All this means is that victory is delayed.
The stasis deck will be destroyed
and the remaining Taelons
will soon run out of core energy.
Well...
I think you deserve the honor.
In ten seconds,
nine tenth of the taelon race
will no longer be.
The sign of a good leader, Tate,
is being able to turn every liability
into opportunity.
Let's go.
It needs a failsafe authorization!
Kincaid has got it.
Come on.
Any luck with the taelon code?
Not yet...
this thing is tricky.
I was up all night developping an all new form
of mathematics before I can even get started.
Keep trying...
How things go on up there?
Given that we have less than a hour left.
There's no how doing, all right?
She will not solve the code.
It is a nine dimension matrix.
She must solve all nine.
Humans are only now
beginning to comprehend four.
Think with a positive attitude!
There may be another way.
Since the communality has been severed
I cannot end the shutdown
unless I am on the ship.
But you can't board the ship,
- or dark matter will freeze you too.
- Yes.
But perhaps a part of me could.
I'm not following.
There is a backup pod.
If you would agree to be infused with a portion
of my energy you might take it to the bridge.
Then the ship would sense my return
and reverse the shutdown.
We would have more time
to expell the dark matter.
I have never trusted your race
not from beginning
and now you want me to take on
your energy to become Taelon?
To become what Zo'or is?
If you are willing to let us die in this way,
then you have already become
as morally destitute as Zo'or.
Something wrong?
Give me the code
for the bomb or you die.
I'm gonna die anyway.
But not with the annihiliation of
an entire species on my hands.
A CVI will allow us to review his
most recents thoughts.
- Do we have enouhgh juice for the gear?
- Leave that to me, just watch him.
Sorry Tate.
What for?
For this!
- You don't look so good!
- No, I feel so good. Let's go!
Who is it?
Who are you?
Reveal yourself!
Damnit.
Yes!
He's gone! I get blind sided.
I don't know who hit me!
Computer!
Locate major Liam Kincaid!
Identify secondary energy shadow.
Energy identified as...
Da'an
Error!
Da'an is not on board!
Negative...
Confirmed as Da'an.
Tate, check on Zo'or!
Meet me on the bridge.
What's wrong with you?
Da'an gave me a dose of his energy,
but it's reacting to the dark matter.
I've got to get to the command console.
Computer, seal the bridge.
Kincaid security code 50079.
Da'an's presence has been
acknowledged on the bridge.
Energy conservation phase complete.
Commencing reactivation phase.
Awaiting code.
What's happening?
The ship is programmed to receive
the code immediately after the wakens.
I thought my energy would override it.
And what happen if it doesn't?
Valid code needed in two minutes,
or shutdown will resume.
Street,
what have you got?
Headake!
This thing's an *** drying.
I'm bumping head against what
looks like fourth dimensional computations.
I'm lost!
Whatever you have,
I need it, now!
I'll do my best.
What are you doing?
Getting you off here
before this place shuts down again.
You can't stay here, you'll die!
Don't buy my coffin yet.
I'm sending it now.
Dimension one...
accepted.
Dimension two... accepted.
Dimension three...
accepted.
Dimension four... error!
Code invalid.
Resume shutdown.
Liam.
I can hardly see you.
The mothership is shutting down again.
It's jamming all long range communications.
Oh my god.
Oh my god you gonna...
and it's my fault.
If I could have broken the code!
You did everything...
a human being could do and...
and handsome I wanted
to thank you for that
and for being a friend.
Liam?
Liam!
Explain yourself Major!
There's no more to explain.
It's over!
In less than a minute this...
ship would be as lifeless as an asteroid.
This is not possible.
Explain what you've done!
You don't take failure very well, do you?
Humans and Taelons...
Both have much to learn...
Ha'Gel.
Where am I?
Am I dead?
No, my son...
You are very much alive.
The time has come for you to fulfill
the first step of your destiny,
to end your by-species existence.
You must use your Shakara'va
to expell the dark matter
and heal the ship.
Am I capable of that?
It was given to you for
this specific purpose,
but it will take all
of your Kimera energy to do so.
Do it, and you will become fully human.
What have you learned as a human being?
That there is a lot of pain in being human,
but through it...
we still learn...
and grow
and find our way...
by exercising our greatest gift...
free will.
You have learned well.
Your freedom makes humanity a unique species.
But if I choose the freedom of humanity...
I give up the knowledge of the infinite.
Isn't that true?
Ha'Gel, I...
I don't want to leave you.
Yet, I know that I must...
Will I ever see you again?
You are closer to us
than ever before, Liam Kincaid.
Closer even that
when you had the Shakara'va.
This was only one of many steps
you must take to find your soul's purpose.
We will reveal ourselves again
when you are ready.
I'm proud of you...
my son!
Is that explain what you've done?
You first!
My report will say major Kincaid, Da'an,
agent Franck Tate and myself
bravely worked together to save you
and the ship from impending doom.
I'm recomanding major Kincaid
and agent Tate for...
commandations for their selfless acts.
Since I have no proofs stating otherwise,
I will accept your report...
Unless of course...
Da'an or Major Kincaid have anything to add.
No.
No Zo'or.
Have you reconsidered my
coup d'état proposal?
I have, and my answer is still no.
The recents events have made Zo'or
more paranoid than ever.
This is not the time for such action.
I don't know what you did to
remove the dark matter
but my species owes you,
more than any Taelon has ever owed.
If there is anything
I can ever do to repay you.
Lead!