The Outer Limits (1995–2002): Season 4, Episode 14 - To Tell the Truth - full transcript
The founder of a colony on Janus V believes that their sun will explode. However, the council chairman resists his pleas to move the colony because he was found to have been wrong before.
Larry, come here.
Look at this.
The sky...
It's amazing.
LARRY: Normal solar flares
shouldn't change
the sky like that.
AMANDA: It just trashed
the fusion plant.
LARRY: The whole star
is flashing over.
Oh, my God.
End simulation.
That's one hell
of a simulation.
Are you sure you're right?
-Larry?
-It was just supposed to be
a planetary climate model.
Nothing like that should
have happened.
Some model.
You just destroyed
the entire colony.
(STUTTERING) But it shouldn't
have changed that much.
All I did was add the new
solar flare data for our star.
You must have
made a mistake.
-No.
-Well, assuming the data
you entered was correct...
How far in the future
was that simulation?
Larry?
Few days. At the most.
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It has been said,
that for the truth to exist
it takes two people.
One to speak it
and another to hear it.
LARRY: Sim off.
How many times have you
run that simulation?
46 times.
And you got one
apocalyptic scenario?
Two, If you count this one.
And that's enough for me.
Why this time
and not the others?
Because I had better
solar flare data for our sun.
I just downloaded it off
the new orbiting observatory.
But the other 44 sims
gave you what?
Rainbows and sunspots.
Making predictions
of a fractal geometry
is not an exact science,
you know that.
Dad, I know.
I don't want to believe it.
How soon is all this
supposed to happen?
Well, if these numbers
are right.
Climax pulse, four days,
11 hours, 37 minutes.
Could you be more accurate?
It's going to happen.
How can you be
absolutely certain when
it's only happened
in the simulations,
two times out of 46?
I can't. But how can we
take the chance?
I don't have time for this.
Dad, wait.
IAN: You really think
our sun is a pulsating star?
On a thousand year cycle
and our timing
couldn't be worse.
Thirty years of planning
went into this colony,
you think someone would
have noticed this.
Janus was only discovered
140 years ago.
It's plenty of margin
for error.
But we just come back
to the lab.
How can you even suggest this
after the ground break fiasco?
How can you hold
that against him?
-The council will.
-It was five years ago.
For 18 months after we land,
everyone kills themselves
to help build the colony.
With 40% done
months ahead of schedule.
Then you, Larry,
convinced the council
to abandon the site.
Because I thought we were
about to be wiped out
by an imminent
volcanic eruption.
I thought
I had the evidence.
-But you didn't.
-I made a mistake.
We were talking
about people's lives.
Which you want to turn
upside down again.
I miss interpreted the data.
I didn't see what it
really meant.
I couldn't comprehend
the enormity of
what I detected.
You see, what I thought
was volcanic, was actually...
Nothing, right?
No, it was actually our
sun flashing over.
My mistake was
that I thought that
all this evidence of
super heating material
had to be caused
by a local volcano.
I never imagined it to be
planet-wide.
Another theory for which
you have no conclusive proof.
You're a terraformer, Larry.
Hematology, botany, geology,
those are your specialties.
Not astronomy.
And what this has to do
with practicing medicine
is beyond me.
We'll have a hell of
a lot to do with it
if our star flashes over.
You saw the data.
A single anomalous simulation.
I need something tangible,
then maybe I'll be onboard.
Then come back to the lab.
I've got more proof there.
LARRY: You wanted more proof,
look at this.
The melting of the stone is
uniform across all the pieces.
And if you look
at a cross-section,
the striations are gone
because the heat fused them.
These are the same samples
you used to convince us
to move the colony.
You said then
this melting was the result
of volcanic activity.
Like I said,
I made a mistake.
These relics were
exposed to radiation
from a pulsating star.
Our star, 1,000 years ago.
If I could send them back
to earth for analysis,
it would prove it.
Great. Then do it.
I'll get you the authorization
from Murdoch.
But there isn't time.
It would take six months
even in a translate speech.
Don't I have a reputation
that people respect anymore?
People have
long memories, Larry.
Without definitive proof,
there's no way
you'll be listened to.
We're talking about
complete annihilation.
-Where is your sense?
-Where's yours?
You've got nothing.
All this can do is get
you censured.
Or worse,
deported back to earth.
You should listen
to your friend.
LARRY: What do
you want, Fenton?
You know, you're a real
miracle worker, Chambers.
Aren't you late for work?
I'm on my way.
I was just passing by
and I've always got time
for a friendly little
chit-chat with my neighbor.
You know, my wife is
the one with the green
thumb in our family.
You know, she left
with the kids.
Right after your last
great prediction.
Do I have to call
Chief Bennett?
IAN: Do you have
business here, Fenton?
I'm just watching out
for my good neighbor.
Reminding him that some
of us paid a hell of a price
to come here.
So noted. Get out.
Come by for coffee
sometime, Chambers.
You could use
a botany lesson.
Case in point.
Then I'll get you more proof.
Take whatever time you need.
Wish I could.
COMPUTER:
Climax pulse,
four days, 3 hours,
14 minutes.
(SIGHS)
You should eat something.
-Food's the last thing
on my mind right now.
-Come on.
I don't want to see
an old friend starve to death.
(CHUCKLES)
I wonder if the chairman
of the council
would authorize
some core samples.
Murdoch? Good luck.
My dad's the most reasonable
man on the council
and if you can't
convince him...
What? Now you're
backing off too?
I didn't want to say anything
in front of dad, but...
He's right. You only got
those results twice.
Maybe there's something
wrong with the simulation.
I also have the relics,
they show the same thing.
Do they?
I mean, what if you've
misinterpreted them again.
-I didn't misinterpret...
-Hey, I'm sorry.
Listen, I'm sorry.
That's not what I meant.
I just...
Maybe there's a reason that
you want to see
an apocalypse.
I mean, maybe this has
something to with Elise.
This has nothing
to do with Elise.
Well, then you're holding
something back.
Because you'd never be this
convinced unless you had more
evidence then what I've seen.
And I don't understand,
Larry, what is it?
If you have something that's
gonna convince people,
then why aren't you
telling them?
I mean, hell, tell me!
If you want some trust,
then you've got to give
me some first.
AMANDA: You found
an alien skeleton.
I thought these were
all buried back
in the reservations.
I kept this one.
I rescued it from
an archeological site near
the original ground break.
Along with these petroglyphs.
AMANDA: Imagine
a whole civilization
wiped out by disease.
Do you really think
they were shape shifters?
Well, I mean,
they're like chameleons,
only more advanced.
No one ever
saw them do it.
That's a common myth
among primitive cultures
to take on the attributes
of an animal or even people.
It's a way of trying
to control the world
around them.
AMANDA: And what does this
have to do with your theory?
Now, look, this here,
I'm reckoning is our sun,
Janus.
I didn't understand it before,
but now I see that
there are three events.
All leading to
the final apocalypse.
And if these star positions
are accurate
for the five brightest
stars in our night sky,
then it was just
1,000 years ago.
What, you think I'm wrong?
It could mean anything.
Truth is a matter
of perspective.
CHIEF BENNETT:
You're dead right there.
LARRY: Chief Bennett.
I saw the door was open
and the light was on,
I just wanted to be sure
everything was okay.
Science never sleeps.
-Nor does it usually have
good air circulation.
-(CHUCKLES)
What kind of research
takes place this late
at night, I wondered.
-Astronomy.
-AMANDA: Anthropology.
More like art history,
I'd say.
And someone else's art,
by the looks of it.
I didn't think these
artifacts were allowed
in colonists' hands.
LARRY: I did bend
the rules a bit.
(PEOPLE SCREAMING)
Look over here!
What the hell is that?
Beginning of the end.
LARRY:
We only have three days
and 13 hours left.
Chairman Murdoch,
you must listen to me.
If you retrofit
the primary cargo ship
with the reactors from
the atmospheric generators,
we can evacuate
the entire colony.
And when we get back,
just how do you suppose
we breathe?
We'll have to get everything
up and running again.
It'll be a lot of work,
but no different than
when we first arrived.
A lot of work?
"Herculean" would be
a better description.
You have a better idea?
Do nothing.
Your theory is preposterous.
How do explain
last night's aurora?
We have the magnetic fields
of three moons
interacting with this planet's
own magnetic field.
During solar storms,
every ion Janus kicks off
gets swept into our skies.
Janus has these storms
every year, you know that.
Then authorize the funds
for core samples.
You don't even have to pay
for a field expedition.
We have virgin soil
right here in the center
of the main dome.
All I have to do is
knock aside a few plants
and drill a couple of
hundred meters into the ground
and it will prove that
all life has been destroyed
here every thousand years.
It's a waste.
It won't prove anything.
You want us to
miss the harvest,
destroy our atmospheric
generator,
fly to the stars to avoid
an apocalypse
that will never happen
and return to nothing.
It will happen!
Like you're volcanic eruption.
Have you asked yourself why
you're trying to tear down
what we worked so hard
to create?
Larry, we've known
each other long time.
So please don't take
offense at this.
But I think there's
a voice inside you
telling you something
much bigger than any of this.
That maybe this isn't
your home anymore.
That you really want to go
back to earth and forget.
-No.
-Just listen.
Maybe you want to see
an apocalypse
because inside
your world here ended
when your wife died.
Frank, this has nothing to do
with Elise's death.
I think it does.
Even you can't stop cancer.
If she had stayed on earth,
she would have had
the facilities that would
have saved her.
I think you blame yourself
and this colony for her death.
-That isn't fair.
-Isn't it?
You're the one who went
missing for two weeks
after she died.
That sounds like
a lot of grief and
a lot of guilt to me.
Larry, you did a brilliant job
terraforming this planet.
But I think it's time for you
to start thinking about
going back to earth
and finding your
own life again.
We're in danger, Frank.
And I'll do everything that
I can to prove it.
What are you doing here?
You're scaring
a lot of people.
I won't be silent when
our lives are at stake.
Give me Chief Bennett.
People talk.
They talk about how you've
gone over the edge.
About how you're trying
to destroy their homes.
And how you're trying
to force us to go
back to earth.
And a lot of people
don't wanna go.
Let him go, Fenton!
You're here to
enforce the law,
not break it.
I'm just a visiting
councilman.
CHIEF BENNETT: Don't you
still have a few hours left
on your shift, Fenton?
-Is everything okay?
-Everything's fine.
CHIEF BENNETT:
Amanda, where
have you been?
I'm sorry I was at
the anthropology lab.
After the auroras,
I went down to see
the colonies records
of the petroglyphs myself,
-to see if maybe
Larry was wrong.
-And?
There's nothing concrete.
I mean, nothing that we could
present to the council.
But I looked at dozens
of photograph of petroglyphs
and I feel very strongly
that those drawing foretell
what you said.
I think we have to get out
of here, Dad. Now.
Evacuation's not
a popular idea,
especially when it's
based on feelings.
You have weight
on the council, Dad.
You could push Murdoch
to at least authorize those
core samples for me.
-Amanda.
-Well, then would you
please just do it for me?
This doesn't mean
I endorse your theory,
but I'll see what I can do.
To tell the truth,
I was going to
propose it to Murdoch
as a way of
shutting you up.
I'll get started organizing
a crew immediately.
AMANDA: The three witches.
It sounds so gloomy.
Well, that's what happens
when a Norwegian astronomer
discovers your planet.
The goddesses of fate.
Urd, Verandi and Skuld.
-Past, present and future.
-Yeah.
What do you think our fate
is going to be?
Either way, it's going
to be hard.
For the colony
or for me.
And anyone
who supported me.
I shouldn't have drawn
you into this.
Larry, you didn't draw
me into this.
To tell you the truth,
I've been trying to find
just about every excuse I can
to spend some time with you.
(CHUCKLES)
Sorry, I...
(SIGHS) I didn't realize.
But I'm sorry, I shouldn't
have said anything.
I know that you still
miss Elise.
It's just that if you're right
and there isn't much time,
I wanted to let you know
how I felt.
(POWERING DOWN)
COMPUTER:
Initial core
sample drilling complete.
Ready to begin analysis.
How long will it take?
LARRY: The scan has to sift
through thousands of years
worth of sediment.
Say, eight to 12 hours
I love your choice of trees to
terraform this part
of the colony.
I love the smell
when I'm outside
hiking in them.
Yeah, me too.
Reminded me of my place
back on earth.
Elise and I used to
stroll through the trees.
It was so peaceful, you know.
Just wind in the trees,
made me feel safe.
When I was little,
on nights like this,
I used to go
into my backyard,
I'd stare at the stars
for hours. (CHUCKLES)
Now I'm looking up there and
I'm dying to go back.
I came here
with a dream to...
To... When Elise died
and the whole debacle
with the first ground break...
(CHUCKLES) I'm sorry.
I just keep using you
to keep me company,
to persuade your father,
-to cry on your shoulders.
-Listen,
I knew what I was
getting into.
I'm gonna make sure you
get off this planet, Amanda.
Somehow, someway,
I'll make sure
that you survive.
LARRY:
All we need now...
All we need now is
for the fusion engineers
to rig up the transmitter.
The ship is big enough
to get us all off the planet
to safety.
Are you sure
about this, Larry?
You've ruined our lives
once before, why should
we trust you now?
(ALL MURMURING)
WOMAN: But are you sure?
No, I'm not completely sure.
What about your core samples?
What do they show?
I wish they were
more definitive.
What do you mean,
you wish?
Look, all experiments have
a margin of error.
I agree some people could
look at this data and say
it's not going to happen.
Don't you think I've asked
myself this question
a thousand times?
But how can we
take the chance?
I'm talking about all of us
being wiped out.
-Oh, please.
-(CROWD MURMURING)
Please! Please! Please!
Let him finish.
The core sample suggest...
FRANKLIN: They don't
show anything.
I'm surprised that
you'd endorse this.
I don't see any layers of ash.
All I see is some numbers.
That say statically
there's a possibility
that a thin layer exists?
It's too minute to be
detected visually?
I mean, if a radiation pulse
is supposed to
wipe out everything
on this planet
every 1,000 years,
shouldn't there be a big layer
of charred plants and animals
remains every thousand years?
(CROWD AGREEING)
Maybe they don't!
Maybe they don't because
all life here has adapted
to Janus' solar cycle.
(CROWD DISAGREEING)
Wait! Wait!
I can show you!
When survey team discovered
this solar system,
virtually all life on
this planet had disappeared.
It barely seemed enough
to be able to support the
native alien population.
It's because of contamination
from our advance probes.
No one every proved that.
(POWERING UP)
What I think is that
over millions of years
life here has adapted
to Janus' solar cycles.
When a new solar flare
period approaches,
all life here goes dormant.
Goes underground.
This is the native soil
of this planet, it should
have dormant spores.
By irradiating this
patch of ground
we can simulate
the Janus pulse.
And because of the
incredible growth rate
of the native plants,
we should see something
in a matter of seconds.
This is absurd.
No, I mean...
I'll increase the power
(RADIATION INTENSIFYING)
All right,
I've seen enough.
No. No. Wait. Wait.
Larry, nothing is
happening here.
I have work to do.
It's going to happen.
If the corporation knew
the planet was unsafe,
why send us here?
Who chose this planet?
Who shares the profit if this
colony stays populated
for 20 years.
Murdoch. Bonus payments
for every year
that we're here.
Oh, for God sake.
Financial incentives.
Yes, We were all granted them.
But I'm not stupid enough
to risk my life for them.
If we leave and come back,
we'll lose the whole harvest.
And the construction we
started, we'll lose that too.
To the winter storms.
This is a harsh world, Larry.
And these are harsh facts.
Everybody getting killed
is a harsh fact.
No one's going to be
around to bail us out.
The money will come out
of all our pockets
and you can bet half
of us will die.
From hunger or exposure.
I'm staying.
This is my home.
Now, Larry,
you have proved one thing,
we haven't seen
anything happening here.
You've proved
you're wrong.
I want you to keep
an eye on him.
I won't let him try
and destroy this colony.
Not again.
Larry?
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
Larry.
(CROWD CLAMORING)
ROARK: What's going on?
You were all briefed
five years before
you even came here.
That we would be subject
to ionic disturbances
exactly like this,
once the ozone level
started to rise.
We've got a lot
of charged particles
floating around right now
-and that's what's causing
the light shift.
-Enough of this.
-There must be some truth
to what Chambers says.
-MAN: Yeah.
His latest simulation
predicted the aurora and this.
So far,
he's two for two.
Maybe we should convene
the council over this,
take a vote if we need too.
Chambers had 46 simulations,
44 show nothing.
Now, please, everybody,
go home.
There's absolutely no danger.
(CROWD MURMURING)
He's a criminal.
More and more people
are starting to believe him.
The council's on the verge
of voting to leave.
In a few days it'll
blow over, they'll
all be laughing at him.
What if they vote to leave
before that?
If only a thousand people
get on the ship and go back
with Chambers,
the colony won't
sustain itself.
It will collapse.
You're really worried
about your bonus.
My bonus?
There're two kinds
of people, Bennett.
Quitters and winners.
I know.
My father was a quitter.
Most people are.
But you want to see
a portrait of a quitter,
you look at Chambers.
So what does that make you?
A winner?
(LAUGHING)
As a young man, Bennett,
I found myself on
a planet crowded with
10 billion people
and no room left
at the top.
I mean, don't take offense
of this, but on earth
you'd be a second-rate
police sergeant and
nowhere to move up to.
-Maybe.
-Oh, you better believe it.
You don't have the connections
or the elite school
to win the top job.
And me?
I'd be a minor administrator
in a government department
that nobody ever heard of.
But this,
this is a whole new world.
They'll actually name cities
after us, Bennett.
Maybe you'll get
a whole mountain.
And a kid in a funny beard
will play you in
his school pageant
on founders day.
We can create something here.
And we can be on top of it.
Is that so very bad?
But we can't run away.
FRANKLIN OVER INTERCOM:
Anything yet?
FENTON:
Not a peep.
FRANKLIN:
Keep watching.
I wanna know when Chambers
turns up and if he's meeting
with any council members.
-Let me know as soon as
you see something.
-Will do.
(GROWLING)
FRANKLIN:
I've called this
emergency council meeting
on Fenton's behalf.
Fenton, just tell us
what you saw.
I saw an alien coming
out of Chambers' lab.
If you saw anything at all
it was a fake.
There aren't any aliens
left alive and if there were,
we would have known by now.
How can you be so sure?
The colonial marines reported
they were shape shifters.
Maybe that was Chambers.
Maybe he's an alien.
He's always been obsessed with
alien artifacts
and alien relics.
And now this.
It all fits.
All aliens are extinct.
Look, first we have Chambers
apocalypse, what's next here?
The lost city of Atlantis?
This is insane.
What if it's true?
(CROWD MURMURING)
The rest of you stay outside.
You heard me.
Step back.
Fenton, guard the door.
What are you doing here?
Security Officer Fenton says
he saw an alien
leave your lab.
And you believe him?
Lot of people
outside that door do.
A lot of them believe
you were that alien.
I'm just here to put
their minds at rest.
You got people worked up,
Larry, to the point where
they'll believe anything.
I wanna put a stop to it.
Where were you last night
at midnight?
Here, working alone.
Anybody see you here?
This is completely insane.
No, I have no alibi,
if that's what you mean.
The only way to confirm this
is with a DNA scan.
Sure.
You have no right to ask me
to do anything of this sort,
but I'll do it anyway.
(SCANNER BEEPING)
(SCANNER BEEPING)
(EXHALES) His readings
aren't normal.
They're definitely not human.
(CROWD CLAMORING)
MAN: He's an alien!
For God's sake,
if I was an alien
why would I do all this?
Why would I go
to all the trouble
trying to warn people
about a planetary disaster?
And why wouldn't I
just appear as an alien?
Wouldn't that be the best way
to convince you?
Close the door.
(CROWD CLAMORING)
You know why.
Revenge.
When they first discovered
this planet,
they attempted to move you
to reservations.
But you resisted.
So the government
sent out a unit
of colonial marines.
Oh, my God.
They butchered them?
They put out a cover story
that there had been
a terrible tragic plague.
But the soldiers reported
that all of the natives
had been eliminated.
Obviously, the soldiers
were wrong.
So, you see, there's
every reason for you
to preach gloom and doom.
You want us all to leave.
So that you and any
of your surviving race
can have your planet back.
Not to mention,
our satellite defenses,
our round base
laser batteries,
all our heavy weapons
that we'll be forced
to leave behind.
Once your kind
gets control of them,
we'll never be able
to land here again.
Why are you doing this?
Our sun is going to flash over
and then nothing
is going to be left
except some hardware.
Look, I have sympathy for you.
But my first responsibility
is to the people
of this colony.
I can't let all
we worked for,
all Chambers
himself worked for,
to be destroyed by this.
What are you planning to do?
I'm gonna hold
a closed hearing
before the council.
And then, we're
bound to follow
the government's directive.
I'm very sorry.
Place him in confinement.
This is ridiculous.
Amanda, you've got to talk
some sense into them.
You rigged this.
You're just trying
to get rid of me.
(CROWD CLAMORING)
Amanda, they're lying.
They just don't wanna
leave the planet.
No, let me
talk to her, please.
Please.
Amanda, I would
never hurt you.
You know me.
Better than anyone
has known me
in a long time.
At least, save yourself.
You've got to get off
this planet.
Let go off me.
You really don't think
I'm Larry Chambers?
I don't know what to think.
Don't think.
Just, just listen
to your heart.
You know I'm telling you
the truth.
I am Larry Chambers.
(DOOR CLOSES)
(DOOR SLIDES OPEN)
What do you want
from me, Frank?
I'll do whatever you want,
just let Amanda go
and her father.
Get them one of the
small star freighters
and let them leave.
We need every freighter
we've got.
It's a billion dollar asset
we can't afford to lose,
you know that.
What did you do
to Larry Chambers?
Damn it,
stop fooling around!
Just tell me
what you want!
I want to keep
this colony safe!
I wanna keep
this colony safe.
Then we've gotta
get out of here.
We're not leaving.
(SIGHS)
So now what?
You're gonna kill me?
I don't feel good
about that, Larry.
I mean, I'm sorry,
what do you call yourself?
(SCOFFS)
If you had just said
earlier on
that you made a mistake,
none of this would
have happened.
So you framed me?
Why would I do that?
So you wouldn't have to leave.
So you could stay here
and then be a big fish
in a small pond,
I don't know...
If you are Larry Chambers,
what happened
when you vanished
into the woods
three years ago?
(SIGHS) I had to get away.
When Elise died,
I lost control,
I lost all sense
of time and space.
My life was
about one thing. Her.
Building a home for us.
Without her I had no life.
I just wanted to disappear
and die. But...
Eventually, I realized
I wanted to live.
And I came back.
You came back
a changed man.
And now we know
what that change was.
What do you want from me?
It's not what I want.
It's what the law demands.
Amanda?
What's going on?
I need a neutralizer.
You're the only one
who can get me one.
I'm not going
to get you one.
-What do you need it for?
-I have to get in
to see Larry.
I have to test
his blood again.
There's no need to do that.
You saw him test it.
If they lied to us
about what they did
to the aliens on this planet,
what makes you think
they're not lying about Larry.
They could have
rigged that scan.
(SIGHS)
That's why I brought
my own analyzer.
-I'll talk to Murdoch.
I'm sure...
-What? Stall until...
We're all dead?
Dad, listen we don't
have time.
Amanda, you can't
ignore the law
just because
it's inconvenient.
Even if it's costing
us our lives?
I mean, I don't know
what to believe.
I don't know
what is going on,
but I just keep coming
back to the same thing.
What if he's right?
I mean, what if
in spite of all
the inconclusive tests
and the failures,
he's telling us the truth?
I can't just do nothing.
You can't just
do nothing, Dad.
I need to see Dr. Chambers.
I'll have to clear that
with Chief Bennett first.
Sorry, wrong answer.
(DOOR SLIDES OPEN)
-LARRY: Amanda.
-Wait.
Put your hand in.
-We've gotta get out of here.
-Not until you put
your hand in.
Please.
Now.
(SCANNER BEEPING)
(MACHINE BEEPS)
I'm only seeing the parameters
of a normal human
reference sample.
So nothing alien about you.
-I'm sorry.
-Now, can we go?
Come on, we've gotta get you
off this planet.
We'll steal the star freighter
at the docking bay.
CHIEF BENNETT:
Fenton, this is Bennett.
Do you read me?
Fenton?
Something's wrong.
Sound the alarm.
(ALARM BLARING)
They're going for the ship!
Larry, what are you doing?
I've gotta open
the hangar door.
We can do that
from inside the ship.
No, they'll override it.
Go on.
There's no time.
Larry.
I'll be right there.
Larry, don't be stupid.
It's your only chance.
Give me that neutralizer.
I'll be right there.
(GUARDS CLAMORING)
Here I am, Frank.
LARRY: No reason to be afraid.
Not with all those
good, honest people
behind you.
Put it down, Larry,
and move away from the door.
You're afraid for
the wrong reason, right?
This world is going to be
destroyed in a matter
of hours
and there's nothing
anyone can do about it.
That's a hell of
a lot more frightening
than any alien could ever be.
-Put it down.
-You know what
the funny thing is?
You've already killed
the colony.
You've killed its heart,
its soul.
You've turned neighbor
against neighbor
until we're no longer
a family. We're just a...
A mob of frightened people.
All right, Frank.
You win.
-(MACHINE BEEPS)
-No!
(GUARDS CLAMORING)
No!
-No!
-Strap in.
Powering. Lift off
in 30 seconds.
SCREAMS) Larry!
AMANDA: Larry!
Let me out.
(GRUNTS)
Wait!
Stop it!
Pull away from him!
No!
Get away!
Dr. Chambers.
What are you saying?
See Elise can...
I'm sorry.
I truly am.
COMPUTER:
Launch sequence initiated.
It was gonna kill us.
We had to.
Fenton.
Stop the ship.
-Panel's frozen.
-Unfreeze it.
It's too late.
It's too late when I say
it's too late.
COMPUTER: Nine.
-FRANKLIN: Close the launch
bay doors.
-Eight.
-Seven, six.
-It's too late.
Five, four,
three, two, one.
Launching.
(CRYING)
(WATCH BEEPS)
Ten, nine, eight, seven...
FRANKLIN ON PA:
Six, five, four...
Three, two, one.
-Zero.
-(CLICKS)
So much for Chambers theory.
Did you ever believe him?
Yes, I did.
For a second.
It was hard not to.
We needed that ship.
We didn't need
to kill them too.
We didn't kill Chambers.
A mob did.
But we set up that mob.
Based on blood tests
you doctored.
Of all the people
in the colony
they were the most
honest humans.
And the most gentle.
I don't know
how you rigged it.
-And I don't wanna know.
-It was easy.
I used my own blood.
What?
You should have
listened to Chambers.
He was right.
We've had millennia
of experience.
Nature taught us
how to adapt.
You taught us
how to deceive.
-What are you talking about?
-(THUNDER RUMBLING)
CHIEF BENNETT:
You should be happy.
Because you were right also.
With the weaponry
we'll be inheriting,
we can defend ourselves
against the next wave
of invaders.
And since you
didn't fly away,
we'll have your starships too.
And we'll be able to move
some of our people
to new worlds
that don't have
this troublesome problem.
(CRACKING)
I'm afraid you were
absolutely correct.
You missed some of us.
No. No.
No! No!
(SNARLING)
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
CONTROL VOICE:
Mankind will be forever
doomed to destruction
if we continue
to ask for the truth,
but then refuse to listen.
Look at this.
The sky...
It's amazing.
LARRY: Normal solar flares
shouldn't change
the sky like that.
AMANDA: It just trashed
the fusion plant.
LARRY: The whole star
is flashing over.
Oh, my God.
End simulation.
That's one hell
of a simulation.
Are you sure you're right?
-Larry?
-It was just supposed to be
a planetary climate model.
Nothing like that should
have happened.
Some model.
You just destroyed
the entire colony.
(STUTTERING) But it shouldn't
have changed that much.
All I did was add the new
solar flare data for our star.
You must have
made a mistake.
-No.
-Well, assuming the data
you entered was correct...
How far in the future
was that simulation?
Larry?
Few days. At the most.
CONTROL VOICE:
There is nothing wrong
with your television.
Do not attempt
to adjust the picture.
We are now controlling
the transmission.
We control the horizontal
and the vertical.
We can deluge you
with a thousand channels
or expand one single image
to crystal clarity
and beyond.
We can shape your vision
to anything our imagination
can conceive.
For the next hour,
we will control
all that you see and hear.
You are about to experience
the awe and mystery
which reaches from
the deepest inner mind
to
--The Outer Limits.
It has been said,
that for the truth to exist
it takes two people.
One to speak it
and another to hear it.
LARRY: Sim off.
How many times have you
run that simulation?
46 times.
And you got one
apocalyptic scenario?
Two, If you count this one.
And that's enough for me.
Why this time
and not the others?
Because I had better
solar flare data for our sun.
I just downloaded it off
the new orbiting observatory.
But the other 44 sims
gave you what?
Rainbows and sunspots.
Making predictions
of a fractal geometry
is not an exact science,
you know that.
Dad, I know.
I don't want to believe it.
How soon is all this
supposed to happen?
Well, if these numbers
are right.
Climax pulse, four days,
11 hours, 37 minutes.
Could you be more accurate?
It's going to happen.
How can you be
absolutely certain when
it's only happened
in the simulations,
two times out of 46?
I can't. But how can we
take the chance?
I don't have time for this.
Dad, wait.
IAN: You really think
our sun is a pulsating star?
On a thousand year cycle
and our timing
couldn't be worse.
Thirty years of planning
went into this colony,
you think someone would
have noticed this.
Janus was only discovered
140 years ago.
It's plenty of margin
for error.
But we just come back
to the lab.
How can you even suggest this
after the ground break fiasco?
How can you hold
that against him?
-The council will.
-It was five years ago.
For 18 months after we land,
everyone kills themselves
to help build the colony.
With 40% done
months ahead of schedule.
Then you, Larry,
convinced the council
to abandon the site.
Because I thought we were
about to be wiped out
by an imminent
volcanic eruption.
I thought
I had the evidence.
-But you didn't.
-I made a mistake.
We were talking
about people's lives.
Which you want to turn
upside down again.
I miss interpreted the data.
I didn't see what it
really meant.
I couldn't comprehend
the enormity of
what I detected.
You see, what I thought
was volcanic, was actually...
Nothing, right?
No, it was actually our
sun flashing over.
My mistake was
that I thought that
all this evidence of
super heating material
had to be caused
by a local volcano.
I never imagined it to be
planet-wide.
Another theory for which
you have no conclusive proof.
You're a terraformer, Larry.
Hematology, botany, geology,
those are your specialties.
Not astronomy.
And what this has to do
with practicing medicine
is beyond me.
We'll have a hell of
a lot to do with it
if our star flashes over.
You saw the data.
A single anomalous simulation.
I need something tangible,
then maybe I'll be onboard.
Then come back to the lab.
I've got more proof there.
LARRY: You wanted more proof,
look at this.
The melting of the stone is
uniform across all the pieces.
And if you look
at a cross-section,
the striations are gone
because the heat fused them.
These are the same samples
you used to convince us
to move the colony.
You said then
this melting was the result
of volcanic activity.
Like I said,
I made a mistake.
These relics were
exposed to radiation
from a pulsating star.
Our star, 1,000 years ago.
If I could send them back
to earth for analysis,
it would prove it.
Great. Then do it.
I'll get you the authorization
from Murdoch.
But there isn't time.
It would take six months
even in a translate speech.
Don't I have a reputation
that people respect anymore?
People have
long memories, Larry.
Without definitive proof,
there's no way
you'll be listened to.
We're talking about
complete annihilation.
-Where is your sense?
-Where's yours?
You've got nothing.
All this can do is get
you censured.
Or worse,
deported back to earth.
You should listen
to your friend.
LARRY: What do
you want, Fenton?
You know, you're a real
miracle worker, Chambers.
Aren't you late for work?
I'm on my way.
I was just passing by
and I've always got time
for a friendly little
chit-chat with my neighbor.
You know, my wife is
the one with the green
thumb in our family.
You know, she left
with the kids.
Right after your last
great prediction.
Do I have to call
Chief Bennett?
IAN: Do you have
business here, Fenton?
I'm just watching out
for my good neighbor.
Reminding him that some
of us paid a hell of a price
to come here.
So noted. Get out.
Come by for coffee
sometime, Chambers.
You could use
a botany lesson.
Case in point.
Then I'll get you more proof.
Take whatever time you need.
Wish I could.
COMPUTER:
Climax pulse,
four days, 3 hours,
14 minutes.
(SIGHS)
You should eat something.
-Food's the last thing
on my mind right now.
-Come on.
I don't want to see
an old friend starve to death.
(CHUCKLES)
I wonder if the chairman
of the council
would authorize
some core samples.
Murdoch? Good luck.
My dad's the most reasonable
man on the council
and if you can't
convince him...
What? Now you're
backing off too?
I didn't want to say anything
in front of dad, but...
He's right. You only got
those results twice.
Maybe there's something
wrong with the simulation.
I also have the relics,
they show the same thing.
Do they?
I mean, what if you've
misinterpreted them again.
-I didn't misinterpret...
-Hey, I'm sorry.
Listen, I'm sorry.
That's not what I meant.
I just...
Maybe there's a reason that
you want to see
an apocalypse.
I mean, maybe this has
something to with Elise.
This has nothing
to do with Elise.
Well, then you're holding
something back.
Because you'd never be this
convinced unless you had more
evidence then what I've seen.
And I don't understand,
Larry, what is it?
If you have something that's
gonna convince people,
then why aren't you
telling them?
I mean, hell, tell me!
If you want some trust,
then you've got to give
me some first.
AMANDA: You found
an alien skeleton.
I thought these were
all buried back
in the reservations.
I kept this one.
I rescued it from
an archeological site near
the original ground break.
Along with these petroglyphs.
AMANDA: Imagine
a whole civilization
wiped out by disease.
Do you really think
they were shape shifters?
Well, I mean,
they're like chameleons,
only more advanced.
No one ever
saw them do it.
That's a common myth
among primitive cultures
to take on the attributes
of an animal or even people.
It's a way of trying
to control the world
around them.
AMANDA: And what does this
have to do with your theory?
Now, look, this here,
I'm reckoning is our sun,
Janus.
I didn't understand it before,
but now I see that
there are three events.
All leading to
the final apocalypse.
And if these star positions
are accurate
for the five brightest
stars in our night sky,
then it was just
1,000 years ago.
What, you think I'm wrong?
It could mean anything.
Truth is a matter
of perspective.
CHIEF BENNETT:
You're dead right there.
LARRY: Chief Bennett.
I saw the door was open
and the light was on,
I just wanted to be sure
everything was okay.
Science never sleeps.
-Nor does it usually have
good air circulation.
-(CHUCKLES)
What kind of research
takes place this late
at night, I wondered.
-Astronomy.
-AMANDA: Anthropology.
More like art history,
I'd say.
And someone else's art,
by the looks of it.
I didn't think these
artifacts were allowed
in colonists' hands.
LARRY: I did bend
the rules a bit.
(PEOPLE SCREAMING)
Look over here!
What the hell is that?
Beginning of the end.
LARRY:
We only have three days
and 13 hours left.
Chairman Murdoch,
you must listen to me.
If you retrofit
the primary cargo ship
with the reactors from
the atmospheric generators,
we can evacuate
the entire colony.
And when we get back,
just how do you suppose
we breathe?
We'll have to get everything
up and running again.
It'll be a lot of work,
but no different than
when we first arrived.
A lot of work?
"Herculean" would be
a better description.
You have a better idea?
Do nothing.
Your theory is preposterous.
How do explain
last night's aurora?
We have the magnetic fields
of three moons
interacting with this planet's
own magnetic field.
During solar storms,
every ion Janus kicks off
gets swept into our skies.
Janus has these storms
every year, you know that.
Then authorize the funds
for core samples.
You don't even have to pay
for a field expedition.
We have virgin soil
right here in the center
of the main dome.
All I have to do is
knock aside a few plants
and drill a couple of
hundred meters into the ground
and it will prove that
all life has been destroyed
here every thousand years.
It's a waste.
It won't prove anything.
You want us to
miss the harvest,
destroy our atmospheric
generator,
fly to the stars to avoid
an apocalypse
that will never happen
and return to nothing.
It will happen!
Like you're volcanic eruption.
Have you asked yourself why
you're trying to tear down
what we worked so hard
to create?
Larry, we've known
each other long time.
So please don't take
offense at this.
But I think there's
a voice inside you
telling you something
much bigger than any of this.
That maybe this isn't
your home anymore.
That you really want to go
back to earth and forget.
-No.
-Just listen.
Maybe you want to see
an apocalypse
because inside
your world here ended
when your wife died.
Frank, this has nothing to do
with Elise's death.
I think it does.
Even you can't stop cancer.
If she had stayed on earth,
she would have had
the facilities that would
have saved her.
I think you blame yourself
and this colony for her death.
-That isn't fair.
-Isn't it?
You're the one who went
missing for two weeks
after she died.
That sounds like
a lot of grief and
a lot of guilt to me.
Larry, you did a brilliant job
terraforming this planet.
But I think it's time for you
to start thinking about
going back to earth
and finding your
own life again.
We're in danger, Frank.
And I'll do everything that
I can to prove it.
What are you doing here?
You're scaring
a lot of people.
I won't be silent when
our lives are at stake.
Give me Chief Bennett.
People talk.
They talk about how you've
gone over the edge.
About how you're trying
to destroy their homes.
And how you're trying
to force us to go
back to earth.
And a lot of people
don't wanna go.
Let him go, Fenton!
You're here to
enforce the law,
not break it.
I'm just a visiting
councilman.
CHIEF BENNETT: Don't you
still have a few hours left
on your shift, Fenton?
-Is everything okay?
-Everything's fine.
CHIEF BENNETT:
Amanda, where
have you been?
I'm sorry I was at
the anthropology lab.
After the auroras,
I went down to see
the colonies records
of the petroglyphs myself,
-to see if maybe
Larry was wrong.
-And?
There's nothing concrete.
I mean, nothing that we could
present to the council.
But I looked at dozens
of photograph of petroglyphs
and I feel very strongly
that those drawing foretell
what you said.
I think we have to get out
of here, Dad. Now.
Evacuation's not
a popular idea,
especially when it's
based on feelings.
You have weight
on the council, Dad.
You could push Murdoch
to at least authorize those
core samples for me.
-Amanda.
-Well, then would you
please just do it for me?
This doesn't mean
I endorse your theory,
but I'll see what I can do.
To tell the truth,
I was going to
propose it to Murdoch
as a way of
shutting you up.
I'll get started organizing
a crew immediately.
AMANDA: The three witches.
It sounds so gloomy.
Well, that's what happens
when a Norwegian astronomer
discovers your planet.
The goddesses of fate.
Urd, Verandi and Skuld.
-Past, present and future.
-Yeah.
What do you think our fate
is going to be?
Either way, it's going
to be hard.
For the colony
or for me.
And anyone
who supported me.
I shouldn't have drawn
you into this.
Larry, you didn't draw
me into this.
To tell you the truth,
I've been trying to find
just about every excuse I can
to spend some time with you.
(CHUCKLES)
Sorry, I...
(SIGHS) I didn't realize.
But I'm sorry, I shouldn't
have said anything.
I know that you still
miss Elise.
It's just that if you're right
and there isn't much time,
I wanted to let you know
how I felt.
(POWERING DOWN)
COMPUTER:
Initial core
sample drilling complete.
Ready to begin analysis.
How long will it take?
LARRY: The scan has to sift
through thousands of years
worth of sediment.
Say, eight to 12 hours
I love your choice of trees to
terraform this part
of the colony.
I love the smell
when I'm outside
hiking in them.
Yeah, me too.
Reminded me of my place
back on earth.
Elise and I used to
stroll through the trees.
It was so peaceful, you know.
Just wind in the trees,
made me feel safe.
When I was little,
on nights like this,
I used to go
into my backyard,
I'd stare at the stars
for hours. (CHUCKLES)
Now I'm looking up there and
I'm dying to go back.
I came here
with a dream to...
To... When Elise died
and the whole debacle
with the first ground break...
(CHUCKLES) I'm sorry.
I just keep using you
to keep me company,
to persuade your father,
-to cry on your shoulders.
-Listen,
I knew what I was
getting into.
I'm gonna make sure you
get off this planet, Amanda.
Somehow, someway,
I'll make sure
that you survive.
LARRY:
All we need now...
All we need now is
for the fusion engineers
to rig up the transmitter.
The ship is big enough
to get us all off the planet
to safety.
Are you sure
about this, Larry?
You've ruined our lives
once before, why should
we trust you now?
(ALL MURMURING)
WOMAN: But are you sure?
No, I'm not completely sure.
What about your core samples?
What do they show?
I wish they were
more definitive.
What do you mean,
you wish?
Look, all experiments have
a margin of error.
I agree some people could
look at this data and say
it's not going to happen.
Don't you think I've asked
myself this question
a thousand times?
But how can we
take the chance?
I'm talking about all of us
being wiped out.
-Oh, please.
-(CROWD MURMURING)
Please! Please! Please!
Let him finish.
The core sample suggest...
FRANKLIN: They don't
show anything.
I'm surprised that
you'd endorse this.
I don't see any layers of ash.
All I see is some numbers.
That say statically
there's a possibility
that a thin layer exists?
It's too minute to be
detected visually?
I mean, if a radiation pulse
is supposed to
wipe out everything
on this planet
every 1,000 years,
shouldn't there be a big layer
of charred plants and animals
remains every thousand years?
(CROWD AGREEING)
Maybe they don't!
Maybe they don't because
all life here has adapted
to Janus' solar cycle.
(CROWD DISAGREEING)
Wait! Wait!
I can show you!
When survey team discovered
this solar system,
virtually all life on
this planet had disappeared.
It barely seemed enough
to be able to support the
native alien population.
It's because of contamination
from our advance probes.
No one every proved that.
(POWERING UP)
What I think is that
over millions of years
life here has adapted
to Janus' solar cycles.
When a new solar flare
period approaches,
all life here goes dormant.
Goes underground.
This is the native soil
of this planet, it should
have dormant spores.
By irradiating this
patch of ground
we can simulate
the Janus pulse.
And because of the
incredible growth rate
of the native plants,
we should see something
in a matter of seconds.
This is absurd.
No, I mean...
I'll increase the power
(RADIATION INTENSIFYING)
All right,
I've seen enough.
No. No. Wait. Wait.
Larry, nothing is
happening here.
I have work to do.
It's going to happen.
If the corporation knew
the planet was unsafe,
why send us here?
Who chose this planet?
Who shares the profit if this
colony stays populated
for 20 years.
Murdoch. Bonus payments
for every year
that we're here.
Oh, for God sake.
Financial incentives.
Yes, We were all granted them.
But I'm not stupid enough
to risk my life for them.
If we leave and come back,
we'll lose the whole harvest.
And the construction we
started, we'll lose that too.
To the winter storms.
This is a harsh world, Larry.
And these are harsh facts.
Everybody getting killed
is a harsh fact.
No one's going to be
around to bail us out.
The money will come out
of all our pockets
and you can bet half
of us will die.
From hunger or exposure.
I'm staying.
This is my home.
Now, Larry,
you have proved one thing,
we haven't seen
anything happening here.
You've proved
you're wrong.
I want you to keep
an eye on him.
I won't let him try
and destroy this colony.
Not again.
Larry?
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
Larry.
(CROWD CLAMORING)
ROARK: What's going on?
You were all briefed
five years before
you even came here.
That we would be subject
to ionic disturbances
exactly like this,
once the ozone level
started to rise.
We've got a lot
of charged particles
floating around right now
-and that's what's causing
the light shift.
-Enough of this.
-There must be some truth
to what Chambers says.
-MAN: Yeah.
His latest simulation
predicted the aurora and this.
So far,
he's two for two.
Maybe we should convene
the council over this,
take a vote if we need too.
Chambers had 46 simulations,
44 show nothing.
Now, please, everybody,
go home.
There's absolutely no danger.
(CROWD MURMURING)
He's a criminal.
More and more people
are starting to believe him.
The council's on the verge
of voting to leave.
In a few days it'll
blow over, they'll
all be laughing at him.
What if they vote to leave
before that?
If only a thousand people
get on the ship and go back
with Chambers,
the colony won't
sustain itself.
It will collapse.
You're really worried
about your bonus.
My bonus?
There're two kinds
of people, Bennett.
Quitters and winners.
I know.
My father was a quitter.
Most people are.
But you want to see
a portrait of a quitter,
you look at Chambers.
So what does that make you?
A winner?
(LAUGHING)
As a young man, Bennett,
I found myself on
a planet crowded with
10 billion people
and no room left
at the top.
I mean, don't take offense
of this, but on earth
you'd be a second-rate
police sergeant and
nowhere to move up to.
-Maybe.
-Oh, you better believe it.
You don't have the connections
or the elite school
to win the top job.
And me?
I'd be a minor administrator
in a government department
that nobody ever heard of.
But this,
this is a whole new world.
They'll actually name cities
after us, Bennett.
Maybe you'll get
a whole mountain.
And a kid in a funny beard
will play you in
his school pageant
on founders day.
We can create something here.
And we can be on top of it.
Is that so very bad?
But we can't run away.
FRANKLIN OVER INTERCOM:
Anything yet?
FENTON:
Not a peep.
FRANKLIN:
Keep watching.
I wanna know when Chambers
turns up and if he's meeting
with any council members.
-Let me know as soon as
you see something.
-Will do.
(GROWLING)
FRANKLIN:
I've called this
emergency council meeting
on Fenton's behalf.
Fenton, just tell us
what you saw.
I saw an alien coming
out of Chambers' lab.
If you saw anything at all
it was a fake.
There aren't any aliens
left alive and if there were,
we would have known by now.
How can you be so sure?
The colonial marines reported
they were shape shifters.
Maybe that was Chambers.
Maybe he's an alien.
He's always been obsessed with
alien artifacts
and alien relics.
And now this.
It all fits.
All aliens are extinct.
Look, first we have Chambers
apocalypse, what's next here?
The lost city of Atlantis?
This is insane.
What if it's true?
(CROWD MURMURING)
The rest of you stay outside.
You heard me.
Step back.
Fenton, guard the door.
What are you doing here?
Security Officer Fenton says
he saw an alien
leave your lab.
And you believe him?
Lot of people
outside that door do.
A lot of them believe
you were that alien.
I'm just here to put
their minds at rest.
You got people worked up,
Larry, to the point where
they'll believe anything.
I wanna put a stop to it.
Where were you last night
at midnight?
Here, working alone.
Anybody see you here?
This is completely insane.
No, I have no alibi,
if that's what you mean.
The only way to confirm this
is with a DNA scan.
Sure.
You have no right to ask me
to do anything of this sort,
but I'll do it anyway.
(SCANNER BEEPING)
(SCANNER BEEPING)
(EXHALES) His readings
aren't normal.
They're definitely not human.
(CROWD CLAMORING)
MAN: He's an alien!
For God's sake,
if I was an alien
why would I do all this?
Why would I go
to all the trouble
trying to warn people
about a planetary disaster?
And why wouldn't I
just appear as an alien?
Wouldn't that be the best way
to convince you?
Close the door.
(CROWD CLAMORING)
You know why.
Revenge.
When they first discovered
this planet,
they attempted to move you
to reservations.
But you resisted.
So the government
sent out a unit
of colonial marines.
Oh, my God.
They butchered them?
They put out a cover story
that there had been
a terrible tragic plague.
But the soldiers reported
that all of the natives
had been eliminated.
Obviously, the soldiers
were wrong.
So, you see, there's
every reason for you
to preach gloom and doom.
You want us all to leave.
So that you and any
of your surviving race
can have your planet back.
Not to mention,
our satellite defenses,
our round base
laser batteries,
all our heavy weapons
that we'll be forced
to leave behind.
Once your kind
gets control of them,
we'll never be able
to land here again.
Why are you doing this?
Our sun is going to flash over
and then nothing
is going to be left
except some hardware.
Look, I have sympathy for you.
But my first responsibility
is to the people
of this colony.
I can't let all
we worked for,
all Chambers
himself worked for,
to be destroyed by this.
What are you planning to do?
I'm gonna hold
a closed hearing
before the council.
And then, we're
bound to follow
the government's directive.
I'm very sorry.
Place him in confinement.
This is ridiculous.
Amanda, you've got to talk
some sense into them.
You rigged this.
You're just trying
to get rid of me.
(CROWD CLAMORING)
Amanda, they're lying.
They just don't wanna
leave the planet.
No, let me
talk to her, please.
Please.
Amanda, I would
never hurt you.
You know me.
Better than anyone
has known me
in a long time.
At least, save yourself.
You've got to get off
this planet.
Let go off me.
You really don't think
I'm Larry Chambers?
I don't know what to think.
Don't think.
Just, just listen
to your heart.
You know I'm telling you
the truth.
I am Larry Chambers.
(DOOR CLOSES)
(DOOR SLIDES OPEN)
What do you want
from me, Frank?
I'll do whatever you want,
just let Amanda go
and her father.
Get them one of the
small star freighters
and let them leave.
We need every freighter
we've got.
It's a billion dollar asset
we can't afford to lose,
you know that.
What did you do
to Larry Chambers?
Damn it,
stop fooling around!
Just tell me
what you want!
I want to keep
this colony safe!
I wanna keep
this colony safe.
Then we've gotta
get out of here.
We're not leaving.
(SIGHS)
So now what?
You're gonna kill me?
I don't feel good
about that, Larry.
I mean, I'm sorry,
what do you call yourself?
(SCOFFS)
If you had just said
earlier on
that you made a mistake,
none of this would
have happened.
So you framed me?
Why would I do that?
So you wouldn't have to leave.
So you could stay here
and then be a big fish
in a small pond,
I don't know...
If you are Larry Chambers,
what happened
when you vanished
into the woods
three years ago?
(SIGHS) I had to get away.
When Elise died,
I lost control,
I lost all sense
of time and space.
My life was
about one thing. Her.
Building a home for us.
Without her I had no life.
I just wanted to disappear
and die. But...
Eventually, I realized
I wanted to live.
And I came back.
You came back
a changed man.
And now we know
what that change was.
What do you want from me?
It's not what I want.
It's what the law demands.
Amanda?
What's going on?
I need a neutralizer.
You're the only one
who can get me one.
I'm not going
to get you one.
-What do you need it for?
-I have to get in
to see Larry.
I have to test
his blood again.
There's no need to do that.
You saw him test it.
If they lied to us
about what they did
to the aliens on this planet,
what makes you think
they're not lying about Larry.
They could have
rigged that scan.
(SIGHS)
That's why I brought
my own analyzer.
-I'll talk to Murdoch.
I'm sure...
-What? Stall until...
We're all dead?
Dad, listen we don't
have time.
Amanda, you can't
ignore the law
just because
it's inconvenient.
Even if it's costing
us our lives?
I mean, I don't know
what to believe.
I don't know
what is going on,
but I just keep coming
back to the same thing.
What if he's right?
I mean, what if
in spite of all
the inconclusive tests
and the failures,
he's telling us the truth?
I can't just do nothing.
You can't just
do nothing, Dad.
I need to see Dr. Chambers.
I'll have to clear that
with Chief Bennett first.
Sorry, wrong answer.
(DOOR SLIDES OPEN)
-LARRY: Amanda.
-Wait.
Put your hand in.
-We've gotta get out of here.
-Not until you put
your hand in.
Please.
Now.
(SCANNER BEEPING)
(MACHINE BEEPS)
I'm only seeing the parameters
of a normal human
reference sample.
So nothing alien about you.
-I'm sorry.
-Now, can we go?
Come on, we've gotta get you
off this planet.
We'll steal the star freighter
at the docking bay.
CHIEF BENNETT:
Fenton, this is Bennett.
Do you read me?
Fenton?
Something's wrong.
Sound the alarm.
(ALARM BLARING)
They're going for the ship!
Larry, what are you doing?
I've gotta open
the hangar door.
We can do that
from inside the ship.
No, they'll override it.
Go on.
There's no time.
Larry.
I'll be right there.
Larry, don't be stupid.
It's your only chance.
Give me that neutralizer.
I'll be right there.
(GUARDS CLAMORING)
Here I am, Frank.
LARRY: No reason to be afraid.
Not with all those
good, honest people
behind you.
Put it down, Larry,
and move away from the door.
You're afraid for
the wrong reason, right?
This world is going to be
destroyed in a matter
of hours
and there's nothing
anyone can do about it.
That's a hell of
a lot more frightening
than any alien could ever be.
-Put it down.
-You know what
the funny thing is?
You've already killed
the colony.
You've killed its heart,
its soul.
You've turned neighbor
against neighbor
until we're no longer
a family. We're just a...
A mob of frightened people.
All right, Frank.
You win.
-(MACHINE BEEPS)
-No!
(GUARDS CLAMORING)
No!
-No!
-Strap in.
Powering. Lift off
in 30 seconds.
SCREAMS) Larry!
AMANDA: Larry!
Let me out.
(GRUNTS)
Wait!
Stop it!
Pull away from him!
No!
Get away!
Dr. Chambers.
What are you saying?
See Elise can...
I'm sorry.
I truly am.
COMPUTER:
Launch sequence initiated.
It was gonna kill us.
We had to.
Fenton.
Stop the ship.
-Panel's frozen.
-Unfreeze it.
It's too late.
It's too late when I say
it's too late.
COMPUTER: Nine.
-FRANKLIN: Close the launch
bay doors.
-Eight.
-Seven, six.
-It's too late.
Five, four,
three, two, one.
Launching.
(CRYING)
(WATCH BEEPS)
Ten, nine, eight, seven...
FRANKLIN ON PA:
Six, five, four...
Three, two, one.
-Zero.
-(CLICKS)
So much for Chambers theory.
Did you ever believe him?
Yes, I did.
For a second.
It was hard not to.
We needed that ship.
We didn't need
to kill them too.
We didn't kill Chambers.
A mob did.
But we set up that mob.
Based on blood tests
you doctored.
Of all the people
in the colony
they were the most
honest humans.
And the most gentle.
I don't know
how you rigged it.
-And I don't wanna know.
-It was easy.
I used my own blood.
What?
You should have
listened to Chambers.
He was right.
We've had millennia
of experience.
Nature taught us
how to adapt.
You taught us
how to deceive.
-What are you talking about?
-(THUNDER RUMBLING)
CHIEF BENNETT:
You should be happy.
Because you were right also.
With the weaponry
we'll be inheriting,
we can defend ourselves
against the next wave
of invaders.
And since you
didn't fly away,
we'll have your starships too.
And we'll be able to move
some of our people
to new worlds
that don't have
this troublesome problem.
(CRACKING)
I'm afraid you were
absolutely correct.
You missed some of us.
No. No.
No! No!
(SNARLING)
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
CONTROL VOICE:
Mankind will be forever
doomed to destruction
if we continue
to ask for the truth,
but then refuse to listen.