The Six Million Dollar Man (1974–1978): Season 3, Episode 18 - The Secret of Bigfoot: Part 2 - full transcript
Steve Austin has met a colony of space travelers living inside a California mountain. Meanwhile, Oscar Goldman and his team are preparing to trigger a small earthquake in order to prevent a larger one from happening.
ANNOUNCER:
Last on The Six Million Dollar Man:
A geologist team was in California
mountains...
planting new earthquake sensors
when suddenly...
(GROWL)
MARLENE (RADIO):
Steve! We're being a...
(STATIC)
Marlene! Marlene, do you read?
OSCAR: Well, what is it?
There's only one thing in the mountains
that leaves a track like this.
My people named him Sasquatch.
You call him Bigfoot.
(LOW GROWL)
(GROWL)
OSCAR: What, again?
You still think Bigfoot's a hoax?
MALE: Remarkable.
Look at his speed!
It is unusual.
To say the least.
FEMALE: Let's test him.
(GROWL)
(LOUD THUMP)
(HOWLS)
(LOUD RUMBLING, WAVERING TONE)
MALE: He's by far the most
interesting man we've seen.
FEMALE: He is indeed.
He's really quite remarkable.
Let's do the neuroeunasic scan now.
(BEEPING)
Right leg and right foot
definitely nyosynthenic.
Or perhaps first generation bionic.
(CLICK, LOUD TONE)
(CLICK, LOUD TONE)
How did you...
What country are you from?
(LAUGHS)
Not what country, what world?
ANNOUNCER: And Steve doesn't know
that a major earthquake...
is now predicted all along
the California coast...
and can only be prevented by
an earlier, man-made earthquake.
There may be a way to weaken
or actually prevent that major quake.
What smaller fault
do you wanna explode, Tom?
The one that starts right here,
and runs back into the mountains.
But Marlene Bekey
is in those mountains.
And so is Colonel Austin.
There could be a rockslide, there cou...
Oscar, there's not much time.
Steve, where are you?
FLIGHT COM:
It looks good at NASA One.
B- 52 >PILOT:
Roger.
BCS Arm switch is on.
FLIGHT COM:
Okay, Victor.
B-52 PILOT:
Landing Rocket Arm switch is on.
Here comes the throttle.
Circuit breakers in.
STEVE:
We have separation.
B-52 PILOT:
Inboard and outboards are on.
I'm comin' forward with the side stick.
FLIGHT COM:
Looks good.
PILOT:
Ah, Roger.
STEVE:
I've got a blowout in damper three.
SR-71 PILOT:
Get your pitch to zero.
STEVE:
Pitch is out. I can't hold altitude!
B-52 PILOT: Correction. Alpha Hold is off.
Threat selector is emergency.
STEVE: Flight Com. I can't hold it!
She's breaking up! She's breaking...
ANNOUNCER:
Steve Austin. Astronaut.
A man barely alive.
Gentlemen, we can rebuild him.
We have the technology.
We have the capability
to make the world's first bionic man.
Steve Austin will be that man.
Better than he was before.
Better, stronger, faster.
(MAIN TITLE THEME)
(EERIE MUSIC)
Marlene!
Am I glad to see you.
Marlene?
Mr. Goldman?
Mr. Goldman?
Huh? What?
Here's the missing sensor, sir.
Oh, good.
Where was she found?
We found her
in the north quadrant.
She had the sensor with her.
Marlene?
Where have you been?
What?
Where have you been, Marlene?
I don't know.
We were... we were planting the sensor...
We were...
We were planting the sensor...
Marlene, try to remember.
OSCAR: Try.
Where's Ivan?
He's fine.
You'll be joining him in a minute.
I want to ask you
just one more question.
Marlene? Colonel Austin?
Colonel Steve Austin.
Did you see him?
Steve.
He was on the radio with you.
Alright, now listen.
Just get some rest now.
Be careful.
(GROANS)
(CLICK, LOUD TONE)
(CLICK, PLAYS TONES)
(CLICK)
(TWO TONES)
Colonel Austin. We've been looking
forward to talking with you.
Please.
I am Apploy.
I'm delighted to welcome you
to our colony...
especially since you are
a fellow space traveler.
You're really not from earth.
As Shalon may have indicated to you,
we come from a rather distant place.
Distant to say the least.
We are a group of deep space explorers.
Do you come in peace?
APPLOY: Of course.
We want to disturb the progression of
life on your planet as little as possible.
Our mission is to study this relatively...
primitive and violent society...
because it closely parallels the
early evolution of our own little world.
I take it your society is
a bit more advanced than ours.
A bit more mature.
(SNEEZES)
Gesundheit.
But I see you haven't quite
conquered all the ailments yet.
Oh, the major ones,
yes, we have.
But we're still plagued by allergies.
And Faler here has developed
a superficial allergy to your world.
In more ways than one.
We're very intrigued by your
bionic construction.
I was wondering why I was so intriguing.
Shalon will have more questions for you.
Her specialty is nyosynthenics.
Highly sophisticated bionics.
It was she who built Sasquatch
from a lower form of life on our planet.
I can see she's a very talented lady.
How long have you been here?
Two years. And during that time...
Sasquatch has brought us
many people to study.
We have scanned their brains and
we've conversed with them freely...
as we are talking to you...
and then they have been returned,
safely, outside.
Marlene and Ivan Bekey?
Ah, yes. The geologist couple.
They were here.
She is being returned
to the outside even now.
But you know, when I found Ivan...
he had no memory of you or this place.
No, Dr. Bekey and his wife,
like all people who come here...
have all memory of the Sasquatch
and the colony erased.
And you'll clothe same with me?
When we're finished with you, yes.
But wait a minute, you say
you've been here two years.
The legend of the Sasquatch goes back
among the Indians over a hundred years.
This is true.
Let me show you something.
This is the most marvelous device
that our science has created.
It is a Time Line Converter or TLC.
It allows us to speed up our own
individual progression through time...
relative to our surroundings.
You could pass a whole day
in one minute?
Oh, in a second if we wanted.
We have been here for 250 years.
But as a group we've moved quickly
from time to time, so to speak...
so that while 250 years
have passed on earth...
only two years have passed for us.
It still seems like 250 years to me.
The TLC...
250 years of allergies.
The TLC has other applications. Such as...
Providing the mild amusement...
of going from place...
(CLICK, LOUD TONE)
to place,
seemingly in the blink of an eye.
Fascinating, isn't it?
Now you see him...
now you don't.
(CLICK, LOUD TONE)
(LOUD TONE)
Please be seated, Faler.
Listen, Apploy, just because...
Sit down.
(CLICK, LOUD TONE)
(BIONIC EYE SOUND EFFECT)
(LOUD TONE)
As you can see, Colonel Austin,
the hardest part of our five year mission...
are the small personality
conflicts that arise.
Yes. It's the same way among my people.
It's, um...
I was going to say it's only human.
SOLDIER:
This is Pentagon Comlink Alpha One.
OSCAR:
Roger, Alpha One. This is Goldman.
SOLDIER:
We have cleared emergency shipment
to you of one 50-megaton nuclear device...
on priority code, Snow White.
The device is being loaded at the
Goldfield, Nevada, nuclear repository.
The AEL is requesting
confirmation from you...
that this is intended
as underground burst only.
OSCAR: That is affirmative.
OSCAR: Alpha One, can you give me your
location status on the nuclear device?
ALPHA ONE: We'll be landing
in your area within 15 minutes.
Oscar,
the nuclear device has arrived.
It's a fifty megaton.
That should shake things up a bit.
Where's the detonation site?
I've got a high-intensity
laser drill going full tilt.
We should have the bomb
buried in about three hours.
Then we can detonate
immediately.
We'll have an earthquake
in this area...
that'll either trap or kill
Colonel Austin, right?
Look, Oscar,
we've got no choice.
You've seen
the computer printout.
Alright, Tom,
let me ask you a question.
What if these sensors that predict
this major earthquake...
along the San Madrian Fault
are wrong?
Of course they could be wrong.
But according to the computers,
the chances are pretty slim.
And we'll have a test
in a few minutes.
A test?
What kind of test?
The sensors indicate a minor tremor
along several of the tributary faults...
including this one in about 17 minutes.
If this minor tremor does occur?
Then the sensors prediction of the major
quake all down the California coast...
will be verified as an absolute certainty.
We'll know for sure in 17 minutes.
How long will you be here?
Three more years.
Our ship won't come
and get us until then.
Tell me something, Colonel...
what makes a woman
attractive in your world?
Well, that depends on who you talk to.
For me, a woman needs...
intelligence, a sense of humor.
Physical attributes?
Well, every little bit helps.
Why, what sort of man
would you consider attractive?
Someone like you.
You know, Doctor,
when I first met you...
your bedside manner
did surprise me a little bit.
You treat all your patients that way?
(LAUGHS)
Of course not.
But I have been stuck here with
those stuffy scientists for two years.
You were like a breath of fresh air,
not only attractive and witty...
but also bionic. My specialty.
Every little bit helps.
I have an operation
I want you to help me with.
What sort of operation?
One I think you'll enjoy.
(BEEPING)
TOM: Fifteen seconds.
That's right, General. If that
small tremor occurs as predicted...
there's going to be a major earthquake
along the California coast...
within seven hours and forty minutes.
Eight seconds.
Stand by, General.
TOM (LOUD SPEAKER).' Six seconds.
Five... four...
three... two... one.
It should have happened.
What happened to the tremor?
The sensor must be wrong.
The computer confirmed it.
No tremor now,
no earthquake later.
Thank God.
Tom? Sign those releasing papers and get
that atomic warhead back to the arsenal.
Right.
General?
General, we've got good news.
The tremor did not... I repeat...
Did not occur.
It looks like everything's
going to be alright...
and we don't have to
worry about it... again.
(LOUD RUMBLING)
(LOUD CRACKING)
(BIONIC EYE SOUND EFFECT)
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
Quick! Get the emergency
support column.
Right.
Stand clear.
Hurry!
MALE: Push!
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
Okay, I got it right...
There!
That's got it.
So that was an earthquake.
No, that was just a tremor.
I found the computer error.
One of the figures
had been entered incorrectly.
The tremor did occur exactly
as the sensors predicted.
And the major earthquake
along the California coast?
It's a certainty.
In exactly seven hours
and 36 minutes.
All right, we have no choice.
We've got to set off
the nuclear detonation.
TOM: The nuclear warhead is buried
500 feet underground.
And the detonator is in place.
OSCAR:
Alright. I'll alert the national guard.
TURNER: This is California National Guard,
San Francisco.
General Turner speaking.
OSCAR: General, this is
Oscar Goldman on the OSI.
TURNER: Yes, sir?
OSCAR: You are to place the troops
at my disposal on yellow alert.
TURNER: Right away, sir.
What's the situation profile?
OSCAR: There is a possibility...
And I repeat, possibility...
of a major earthquake
striking all along the California Coast.
TURNER: Earthquake, sir?
OS CAR: That's right.
TURNER: Shall we begin
any sort of evacuation?
OSCAR: No, but! want your units on
immediate stand by...
and I want Los Angeles and San Diego
advised right away.
We are planning to trigger a smaller quake
up here, relieve the pressure...
but if that doesn't work,
I want your men ready to inform the public...
and take emergency measures.
TURNER: Yes, sir.
We'll get right on it.
Stay on it, Tom.
Right.
Still no word about Colonel Austin?
No.
STEVE: Boy, that's a face
only a mother could love.
He's really quite sweet
once you get to know him.
Sure, just like a big ol' huggy bear.
Have you made others like him?
No. He's my baby.
The only one.
Say, why aren't we wearing
surgical outfits or something?
The air in our medical chambers is
hyper-sterilized.
No bacterial agent
could possibly survive.
Even if one did, we have this.
What's that?
Neotraxin 3.
It's an electrolytic neuroprobesis.
It works with the DNA in our bodies
to help ward off the spread of disease.
Which disease?
All diseases.
When used in concert
with other compounds.
Neotraxin's the basis
of all our wonder drugs.
(BIGFOOT EXHALES)
There we go, big fella.
You should be fine in no time at all.
Sure are attached to him, aren't you?
There's very little else down here
to become attached to.
Uh, I don't seem to have
the proper instrument.
I need one like this,
only curved.
Well, let's see.
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
There you go. How's that?
Thank you.
Alright.
Now the arm's not only
reconnected but strengthened.
Not even you could pull it off now.
I got no desire to try.
The final thing is to reinsert
the Mergeron power cell.
Right over there on that pad.
Uh, this?
What's Mergeron?
It's an anti-matter
power source.
Your people will discover it
in about a century or so.
You know, that Neotraxin serum
sounds more important.
I was just thinking of how many lives
you could save among my people.
I don't suppose there's
any chance that, uh...
Oh, no. We've never allowed anyone
to leave here with any of our secrets.
Of course...
if you would consider
staying on here a while...
in order to let us study you more closely...
purely for research, of course.
Of course.
Oh, I might be able to do that.
I'd have to get a message
out to my people that I'm alright then.
Oh, that's impossible.
Apploy would never allow it.
But, uh...
(BEEPING)
Yes, Apploy.
Shalon. Come at once.
(CLICK, LOUD TONE)
(CLICKS SWITCH)
(SOFT GROWL)
OSCAR: Have the grid coordinates
come in yet, Tom?
TOM: I just got 'em.
Tom, can you hear me?
TOM: The nuclear warhead's in place.
Nuclear warhead?
Tom, can you hear me?
CAPTAIN:
Exactly, what is it we're expecting?
OSCAR: Lay out the time table
for the Captain, Tom.
TOM: The detonation will occur
at Station 3 at 1608 hours.
This will trigger a quake
along the Angelo Fault...
which would peak at 7. 9
on the Richter scale.
7.9?
To relieve the pressure
along the San Madrian...
hopefully to prevent an earthquake
along the California coast.
The earthquake takes place
in five hours.
What?
Now, this area is being cleared.
Now, by the time your man-made quake
tears through these mountains...
there won't be a thing
left out there.
Except Colonel Austin.
TOM: Countdown to nuclear
detonation is at...
mark 12 minutes.
12 minutes.
(HIGH-PITCHED TONE)
(SOFT GROWLING)
Apploy, a major quake has been
predicted along the coast.
They're triggering an earlier quake
through these mountains to try and stop it.
We know that.
You know about it?
That's right.
But your complex is in danger.
No, no danger.
The man-made quake won't happen.
What do you mean?
Shalon has been dispatched
to the detonation site.
She will disarm the detonator
and there will be no explosion.
STEVE: Yeah, but you don't
seem to understand.
If the geological pressure isn't relieved...
by causing that quake
through these mountains...
a major quake is gonna strike
all along the California coast.
We understand.
But that's one of the most densely
populated areas of our country.
Even with adequate warning,
hundreds of people will be killed.
I'm sorry.
There's nothing to be done.
Well, stop Shalon.
Evacuate your complex here.
Regrettably, that's impossible.
Reg rettably.
How could you tell me before
what a mature society you have...
as compared to us primitives...
and then stand by and allow so many
innocent people to be killed?
Sacrifices have been made in the past.
That's the price we pay
for scientific advancement.
That is all that I can allow myself
to be concerned about.
Well, I'm concerned about my people!
I must warn you that any attempt
you make at escape will be futile.
We'll see about that.
(CLICK, LOUD TONE)
Colonel Austin, for the sake
of yourself and my people...
I beg you, don't try to escape.
I'm sorry, Apploy.
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
(METAL CREAKING)
(LOUD CRASH)
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
(LOUD RUMBLING, EXPLOSIONS)
(SOFT GROWL)
(GROWLS)
(GROWLS)
(GROWLS)
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
(SOFT GROWL)
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
(LOUD CRASH)
TOM: At my mark, two minutes
and thirty seconds till detonation.
OSCAR: Final check is
complete on the detonator.
She's ready to go, Tom.
The area is cleared.
The last search team is out,
Mr. Goldman.
No Colonel Austin.
Sorry.
(BEEPING)
(BIONIC EYE SOUND EFFECT)
(SOFT FOOTSTEPS)
(BIONIC EYE SOUND EFFECT)
TOM: At my mark...
one minute, 45 seconds.
Mark.
(BEEPING)
Don't try to stop me, Steve.
Shalon, I can't let you stop
this detonation.
I have to.
No.
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
(CLICK, LOUD TONE)
(LOUD TONE)
TOM: One minute... mark.
I must stop it for the sake of the colony.
My people.
What about my people?
I'm sorry.
Look, the colony's important.
But it's not worth the sacrifice of hundreds.
TOM: 40 seconds.
Mark.
I'm sorry.
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
(CLICK, LOUD TONE)
3O seconds... mark.
(BIONIC EYE SOUND EFFECT)
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
15 seconds, mark.
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
TOM: 10 seconds... mark.
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
Eight...
seven...
five...
four...
three...
two...
One.
God, help you, Steve.
(MUFFLED EXPLOSION)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(LOW RUMBLING)
(LOUD RUMBLING)
(SHALON COUGHING)
(COUGHING)
Shalon.
Come with me.
No.
Look, I want to help you.
Help me? To go where?
You may have succeeded in saving
your people, but you've buried mine.
There's a chance they're still alive.
If they are, they'll need our help.
Now come with me.
No, I'm afraid of what I might find.
Could you live with yourself if you didn't?
Can you use that thing
to keep up with me?
Yes.
Let's go.
Well, there's no light.
The power chamber
must be damaged.
There's an emergency light
in this compartment here.
Let's see if we can pull him out.
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
Ah, he'll be alright.
It's Apploy.
Is he alive?
Yes, but it... but it's hopeless.
Here.
He's still breathing.
What're you doing?
I'm gonna reduce the rate
of his TLC.
Slow down his metabolism
until we can operate.
Shalon. We have many more
badly injured.
Can you save him and the others?
I don't know.
We have the electro-medical techniques
and the Neotraxin compounds...
but we have to restore the power.
Where's the power chamber
you were talking about.
It's in the deepest level of the complex.
It's a special converter that uses the
Earth's internal heat to generate electricity.
The access tunnel's been sealed off.
I told you it was hopeless.
You never quit, do you?
Where's the access tunnel?
Nobody could get through it.
Not even me and my friend?
Come, I'll show you.
Sasquatch.
(GROWLS)
This is it.
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
(ELECTRICITY BUZZING)
Oh no, wait! That's the main steam line
from the volcanic vent.
That steam is super heated.
I'll be careful not to burn my fingers.
Ground the cable first!
The gold junction box over there!
Watch out!
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
(METAL CREAKING)
(SOFT GROWL)
STEVE: What do you think?
SHALON: He'll be alright.
The repairs to his leg were successful.
And the Neotraxin will ward off
any infection or disease.
Even helps
speed up the recovery.
He should've died from all those wounds.
That's really magical stuff.
Keep an eye on the ventricular.
Are you ready to go now?
I've got to.
I... all of us owe you our lives.
You'll not be forgotten.
You know, of course, we have to erase
any memory of us and our colony.
I understand.
Thank you... for everything.
Sure liked it better when
we were on the same team.
(SOFT GROWL)
(ELECTRONIC TONE)
You will not be forgotten.
I wish I could say the same.
Goodbye, Steve Austin.
(ELECTRONIC TONES)
Colonel Austin!
Colonel Austin!
OSCAR: There he is. Come on.
Steve.
Steve, are you alright?
We've been looking all over for you.
Where have you been?
Oh, I don't know.
Were you hurt in the quake?
Earthquake?
We had to trigger an earlier quake...
in order to prevent another one
down the coast.
No. I didn't feel it.
Did it work?
Yes. The geologic pressure's
been relieved.
We better get you back to camp.
What's this?
OSCAR: Where'd you get it?
I don't remember.
I'll have it analyzed.
You better get some rest.
Whatever it was you saw...
(BIONIC EYE SOUND EFFECT)
OSCAR: What is it?
It was a...
Come on, pal. Let's go.
Goodbye, Steve Austin.
(END THEME MUSIC)
Last on The Six Million Dollar Man:
A geologist team was in California
mountains...
planting new earthquake sensors
when suddenly...
(GROWL)
MARLENE (RADIO):
Steve! We're being a...
(STATIC)
Marlene! Marlene, do you read?
OSCAR: Well, what is it?
There's only one thing in the mountains
that leaves a track like this.
My people named him Sasquatch.
You call him Bigfoot.
(LOW GROWL)
(GROWL)
OSCAR: What, again?
You still think Bigfoot's a hoax?
MALE: Remarkable.
Look at his speed!
It is unusual.
To say the least.
FEMALE: Let's test him.
(GROWL)
(LOUD THUMP)
(HOWLS)
(LOUD RUMBLING, WAVERING TONE)
MALE: He's by far the most
interesting man we've seen.
FEMALE: He is indeed.
He's really quite remarkable.
Let's do the neuroeunasic scan now.
(BEEPING)
Right leg and right foot
definitely nyosynthenic.
Or perhaps first generation bionic.
(CLICK, LOUD TONE)
(CLICK, LOUD TONE)
How did you...
What country are you from?
(LAUGHS)
Not what country, what world?
ANNOUNCER: And Steve doesn't know
that a major earthquake...
is now predicted all along
the California coast...
and can only be prevented by
an earlier, man-made earthquake.
There may be a way to weaken
or actually prevent that major quake.
What smaller fault
do you wanna explode, Tom?
The one that starts right here,
and runs back into the mountains.
But Marlene Bekey
is in those mountains.
And so is Colonel Austin.
There could be a rockslide, there cou...
Oscar, there's not much time.
Steve, where are you?
FLIGHT COM:
It looks good at NASA One.
B- 52 >PILOT:
Roger.
BCS Arm switch is on.
FLIGHT COM:
Okay, Victor.
B-52 PILOT:
Landing Rocket Arm switch is on.
Here comes the throttle.
Circuit breakers in.
STEVE:
We have separation.
B-52 PILOT:
Inboard and outboards are on.
I'm comin' forward with the side stick.
FLIGHT COM:
Looks good.
PILOT:
Ah, Roger.
STEVE:
I've got a blowout in damper three.
SR-71 PILOT:
Get your pitch to zero.
STEVE:
Pitch is out. I can't hold altitude!
B-52 PILOT: Correction. Alpha Hold is off.
Threat selector is emergency.
STEVE: Flight Com. I can't hold it!
She's breaking up! She's breaking...
ANNOUNCER:
Steve Austin. Astronaut.
A man barely alive.
Gentlemen, we can rebuild him.
We have the technology.
We have the capability
to make the world's first bionic man.
Steve Austin will be that man.
Better than he was before.
Better, stronger, faster.
(MAIN TITLE THEME)
(EERIE MUSIC)
Marlene!
Am I glad to see you.
Marlene?
Mr. Goldman?
Mr. Goldman?
Huh? What?
Here's the missing sensor, sir.
Oh, good.
Where was she found?
We found her
in the north quadrant.
She had the sensor with her.
Marlene?
Where have you been?
What?
Where have you been, Marlene?
I don't know.
We were... we were planting the sensor...
We were...
We were planting the sensor...
Marlene, try to remember.
OSCAR: Try.
Where's Ivan?
He's fine.
You'll be joining him in a minute.
I want to ask you
just one more question.
Marlene? Colonel Austin?
Colonel Steve Austin.
Did you see him?
Steve.
He was on the radio with you.
Alright, now listen.
Just get some rest now.
Be careful.
(GROANS)
(CLICK, LOUD TONE)
(CLICK, PLAYS TONES)
(CLICK)
(TWO TONES)
Colonel Austin. We've been looking
forward to talking with you.
Please.
I am Apploy.
I'm delighted to welcome you
to our colony...
especially since you are
a fellow space traveler.
You're really not from earth.
As Shalon may have indicated to you,
we come from a rather distant place.
Distant to say the least.
We are a group of deep space explorers.
Do you come in peace?
APPLOY: Of course.
We want to disturb the progression of
life on your planet as little as possible.
Our mission is to study this relatively...
primitive and violent society...
because it closely parallels the
early evolution of our own little world.
I take it your society is
a bit more advanced than ours.
A bit more mature.
(SNEEZES)
Gesundheit.
But I see you haven't quite
conquered all the ailments yet.
Oh, the major ones,
yes, we have.
But we're still plagued by allergies.
And Faler here has developed
a superficial allergy to your world.
In more ways than one.
We're very intrigued by your
bionic construction.
I was wondering why I was so intriguing.
Shalon will have more questions for you.
Her specialty is nyosynthenics.
Highly sophisticated bionics.
It was she who built Sasquatch
from a lower form of life on our planet.
I can see she's a very talented lady.
How long have you been here?
Two years. And during that time...
Sasquatch has brought us
many people to study.
We have scanned their brains and
we've conversed with them freely...
as we are talking to you...
and then they have been returned,
safely, outside.
Marlene and Ivan Bekey?
Ah, yes. The geologist couple.
They were here.
She is being returned
to the outside even now.
But you know, when I found Ivan...
he had no memory of you or this place.
No, Dr. Bekey and his wife,
like all people who come here...
have all memory of the Sasquatch
and the colony erased.
And you'll clothe same with me?
When we're finished with you, yes.
But wait a minute, you say
you've been here two years.
The legend of the Sasquatch goes back
among the Indians over a hundred years.
This is true.
Let me show you something.
This is the most marvelous device
that our science has created.
It is a Time Line Converter or TLC.
It allows us to speed up our own
individual progression through time...
relative to our surroundings.
You could pass a whole day
in one minute?
Oh, in a second if we wanted.
We have been here for 250 years.
But as a group we've moved quickly
from time to time, so to speak...
so that while 250 years
have passed on earth...
only two years have passed for us.
It still seems like 250 years to me.
The TLC...
250 years of allergies.
The TLC has other applications. Such as...
Providing the mild amusement...
of going from place...
(CLICK, LOUD TONE)
to place,
seemingly in the blink of an eye.
Fascinating, isn't it?
Now you see him...
now you don't.
(CLICK, LOUD TONE)
(LOUD TONE)
Please be seated, Faler.
Listen, Apploy, just because...
Sit down.
(CLICK, LOUD TONE)
(BIONIC EYE SOUND EFFECT)
(LOUD TONE)
As you can see, Colonel Austin,
the hardest part of our five year mission...
are the small personality
conflicts that arise.
Yes. It's the same way among my people.
It's, um...
I was going to say it's only human.
SOLDIER:
This is Pentagon Comlink Alpha One.
OSCAR:
Roger, Alpha One. This is Goldman.
SOLDIER:
We have cleared emergency shipment
to you of one 50-megaton nuclear device...
on priority code, Snow White.
The device is being loaded at the
Goldfield, Nevada, nuclear repository.
The AEL is requesting
confirmation from you...
that this is intended
as underground burst only.
OSCAR: That is affirmative.
OSCAR: Alpha One, can you give me your
location status on the nuclear device?
ALPHA ONE: We'll be landing
in your area within 15 minutes.
Oscar,
the nuclear device has arrived.
It's a fifty megaton.
That should shake things up a bit.
Where's the detonation site?
I've got a high-intensity
laser drill going full tilt.
We should have the bomb
buried in about three hours.
Then we can detonate
immediately.
We'll have an earthquake
in this area...
that'll either trap or kill
Colonel Austin, right?
Look, Oscar,
we've got no choice.
You've seen
the computer printout.
Alright, Tom,
let me ask you a question.
What if these sensors that predict
this major earthquake...
along the San Madrian Fault
are wrong?
Of course they could be wrong.
But according to the computers,
the chances are pretty slim.
And we'll have a test
in a few minutes.
A test?
What kind of test?
The sensors indicate a minor tremor
along several of the tributary faults...
including this one in about 17 minutes.
If this minor tremor does occur?
Then the sensors prediction of the major
quake all down the California coast...
will be verified as an absolute certainty.
We'll know for sure in 17 minutes.
How long will you be here?
Three more years.
Our ship won't come
and get us until then.
Tell me something, Colonel...
what makes a woman
attractive in your world?
Well, that depends on who you talk to.
For me, a woman needs...
intelligence, a sense of humor.
Physical attributes?
Well, every little bit helps.
Why, what sort of man
would you consider attractive?
Someone like you.
You know, Doctor,
when I first met you...
your bedside manner
did surprise me a little bit.
You treat all your patients that way?
(LAUGHS)
Of course not.
But I have been stuck here with
those stuffy scientists for two years.
You were like a breath of fresh air,
not only attractive and witty...
but also bionic. My specialty.
Every little bit helps.
I have an operation
I want you to help me with.
What sort of operation?
One I think you'll enjoy.
(BEEPING)
TOM: Fifteen seconds.
That's right, General. If that
small tremor occurs as predicted...
there's going to be a major earthquake
along the California coast...
within seven hours and forty minutes.
Eight seconds.
Stand by, General.
TOM (LOUD SPEAKER).' Six seconds.
Five... four...
three... two... one.
It should have happened.
What happened to the tremor?
The sensor must be wrong.
The computer confirmed it.
No tremor now,
no earthquake later.
Thank God.
Tom? Sign those releasing papers and get
that atomic warhead back to the arsenal.
Right.
General?
General, we've got good news.
The tremor did not... I repeat...
Did not occur.
It looks like everything's
going to be alright...
and we don't have to
worry about it... again.
(LOUD RUMBLING)
(LOUD CRACKING)
(BIONIC EYE SOUND EFFECT)
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
Quick! Get the emergency
support column.
Right.
Stand clear.
Hurry!
MALE: Push!
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
Okay, I got it right...
There!
That's got it.
So that was an earthquake.
No, that was just a tremor.
I found the computer error.
One of the figures
had been entered incorrectly.
The tremor did occur exactly
as the sensors predicted.
And the major earthquake
along the California coast?
It's a certainty.
In exactly seven hours
and 36 minutes.
All right, we have no choice.
We've got to set off
the nuclear detonation.
TOM: The nuclear warhead is buried
500 feet underground.
And the detonator is in place.
OSCAR:
Alright. I'll alert the national guard.
TURNER: This is California National Guard,
San Francisco.
General Turner speaking.
OSCAR: General, this is
Oscar Goldman on the OSI.
TURNER: Yes, sir?
OSCAR: You are to place the troops
at my disposal on yellow alert.
TURNER: Right away, sir.
What's the situation profile?
OSCAR: There is a possibility...
And I repeat, possibility...
of a major earthquake
striking all along the California Coast.
TURNER: Earthquake, sir?
OS CAR: That's right.
TURNER: Shall we begin
any sort of evacuation?
OSCAR: No, but! want your units on
immediate stand by...
and I want Los Angeles and San Diego
advised right away.
We are planning to trigger a smaller quake
up here, relieve the pressure...
but if that doesn't work,
I want your men ready to inform the public...
and take emergency measures.
TURNER: Yes, sir.
We'll get right on it.
Stay on it, Tom.
Right.
Still no word about Colonel Austin?
No.
STEVE: Boy, that's a face
only a mother could love.
He's really quite sweet
once you get to know him.
Sure, just like a big ol' huggy bear.
Have you made others like him?
No. He's my baby.
The only one.
Say, why aren't we wearing
surgical outfits or something?
The air in our medical chambers is
hyper-sterilized.
No bacterial agent
could possibly survive.
Even if one did, we have this.
What's that?
Neotraxin 3.
It's an electrolytic neuroprobesis.
It works with the DNA in our bodies
to help ward off the spread of disease.
Which disease?
All diseases.
When used in concert
with other compounds.
Neotraxin's the basis
of all our wonder drugs.
(BIGFOOT EXHALES)
There we go, big fella.
You should be fine in no time at all.
Sure are attached to him, aren't you?
There's very little else down here
to become attached to.
Uh, I don't seem to have
the proper instrument.
I need one like this,
only curved.
Well, let's see.
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
There you go. How's that?
Thank you.
Alright.
Now the arm's not only
reconnected but strengthened.
Not even you could pull it off now.
I got no desire to try.
The final thing is to reinsert
the Mergeron power cell.
Right over there on that pad.
Uh, this?
What's Mergeron?
It's an anti-matter
power source.
Your people will discover it
in about a century or so.
You know, that Neotraxin serum
sounds more important.
I was just thinking of how many lives
you could save among my people.
I don't suppose there's
any chance that, uh...
Oh, no. We've never allowed anyone
to leave here with any of our secrets.
Of course...
if you would consider
staying on here a while...
in order to let us study you more closely...
purely for research, of course.
Of course.
Oh, I might be able to do that.
I'd have to get a message
out to my people that I'm alright then.
Oh, that's impossible.
Apploy would never allow it.
But, uh...
(BEEPING)
Yes, Apploy.
Shalon. Come at once.
(CLICK, LOUD TONE)
(CLICKS SWITCH)
(SOFT GROWL)
OSCAR: Have the grid coordinates
come in yet, Tom?
TOM: I just got 'em.
Tom, can you hear me?
TOM: The nuclear warhead's in place.
Nuclear warhead?
Tom, can you hear me?
CAPTAIN:
Exactly, what is it we're expecting?
OSCAR: Lay out the time table
for the Captain, Tom.
TOM: The detonation will occur
at Station 3 at 1608 hours.
This will trigger a quake
along the Angelo Fault...
which would peak at 7. 9
on the Richter scale.
7.9?
To relieve the pressure
along the San Madrian...
hopefully to prevent an earthquake
along the California coast.
The earthquake takes place
in five hours.
What?
Now, this area is being cleared.
Now, by the time your man-made quake
tears through these mountains...
there won't be a thing
left out there.
Except Colonel Austin.
TOM: Countdown to nuclear
detonation is at...
mark 12 minutes.
12 minutes.
(HIGH-PITCHED TONE)
(SOFT GROWLING)
Apploy, a major quake has been
predicted along the coast.
They're triggering an earlier quake
through these mountains to try and stop it.
We know that.
You know about it?
That's right.
But your complex is in danger.
No, no danger.
The man-made quake won't happen.
What do you mean?
Shalon has been dispatched
to the detonation site.
She will disarm the detonator
and there will be no explosion.
STEVE: Yeah, but you don't
seem to understand.
If the geological pressure isn't relieved...
by causing that quake
through these mountains...
a major quake is gonna strike
all along the California coast.
We understand.
But that's one of the most densely
populated areas of our country.
Even with adequate warning,
hundreds of people will be killed.
I'm sorry.
There's nothing to be done.
Well, stop Shalon.
Evacuate your complex here.
Regrettably, that's impossible.
Reg rettably.
How could you tell me before
what a mature society you have...
as compared to us primitives...
and then stand by and allow so many
innocent people to be killed?
Sacrifices have been made in the past.
That's the price we pay
for scientific advancement.
That is all that I can allow myself
to be concerned about.
Well, I'm concerned about my people!
I must warn you that any attempt
you make at escape will be futile.
We'll see about that.
(CLICK, LOUD TONE)
Colonel Austin, for the sake
of yourself and my people...
I beg you, don't try to escape.
I'm sorry, Apploy.
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
(METAL CREAKING)
(LOUD CRASH)
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
(LOUD RUMBLING, EXPLOSIONS)
(SOFT GROWL)
(GROWLS)
(GROWLS)
(GROWLS)
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
(SOFT GROWL)
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
(LOUD CRASH)
TOM: At my mark, two minutes
and thirty seconds till detonation.
OSCAR: Final check is
complete on the detonator.
She's ready to go, Tom.
The area is cleared.
The last search team is out,
Mr. Goldman.
No Colonel Austin.
Sorry.
(BEEPING)
(BIONIC EYE SOUND EFFECT)
(SOFT FOOTSTEPS)
(BIONIC EYE SOUND EFFECT)
TOM: At my mark...
one minute, 45 seconds.
Mark.
(BEEPING)
Don't try to stop me, Steve.
Shalon, I can't let you stop
this detonation.
I have to.
No.
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
(CLICK, LOUD TONE)
(LOUD TONE)
TOM: One minute... mark.
I must stop it for the sake of the colony.
My people.
What about my people?
I'm sorry.
Look, the colony's important.
But it's not worth the sacrifice of hundreds.
TOM: 40 seconds.
Mark.
I'm sorry.
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
(CLICK, LOUD TONE)
3O seconds... mark.
(BIONIC EYE SOUND EFFECT)
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
15 seconds, mark.
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
TOM: 10 seconds... mark.
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
Eight...
seven...
five...
four...
three...
two...
One.
God, help you, Steve.
(MUFFLED EXPLOSION)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(LOW RUMBLING)
(LOUD RUMBLING)
(SHALON COUGHING)
(COUGHING)
Shalon.
Come with me.
No.
Look, I want to help you.
Help me? To go where?
You may have succeeded in saving
your people, but you've buried mine.
There's a chance they're still alive.
If they are, they'll need our help.
Now come with me.
No, I'm afraid of what I might find.
Could you live with yourself if you didn't?
Can you use that thing
to keep up with me?
Yes.
Let's go.
Well, there's no light.
The power chamber
must be damaged.
There's an emergency light
in this compartment here.
Let's see if we can pull him out.
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
Ah, he'll be alright.
It's Apploy.
Is he alive?
Yes, but it... but it's hopeless.
Here.
He's still breathing.
What're you doing?
I'm gonna reduce the rate
of his TLC.
Slow down his metabolism
until we can operate.
Shalon. We have many more
badly injured.
Can you save him and the others?
I don't know.
We have the electro-medical techniques
and the Neotraxin compounds...
but we have to restore the power.
Where's the power chamber
you were talking about.
It's in the deepest level of the complex.
It's a special converter that uses the
Earth's internal heat to generate electricity.
The access tunnel's been sealed off.
I told you it was hopeless.
You never quit, do you?
Where's the access tunnel?
Nobody could get through it.
Not even me and my friend?
Come, I'll show you.
Sasquatch.
(GROWLS)
This is it.
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
(ELECTRICITY BUZZING)
Oh no, wait! That's the main steam line
from the volcanic vent.
That steam is super heated.
I'll be careful not to burn my fingers.
Ground the cable first!
The gold junction box over there!
Watch out!
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
(METAL CREAKING)
(SOFT GROWL)
STEVE: What do you think?
SHALON: He'll be alright.
The repairs to his leg were successful.
And the Neotraxin will ward off
any infection or disease.
Even helps
speed up the recovery.
He should've died from all those wounds.
That's really magical stuff.
Keep an eye on the ventricular.
Are you ready to go now?
I've got to.
I... all of us owe you our lives.
You'll not be forgotten.
You know, of course, we have to erase
any memory of us and our colony.
I understand.
Thank you... for everything.
Sure liked it better when
we were on the same team.
(SOFT GROWL)
(ELECTRONIC TONE)
You will not be forgotten.
I wish I could say the same.
Goodbye, Steve Austin.
(ELECTRONIC TONES)
Colonel Austin!
Colonel Austin!
OSCAR: There he is. Come on.
Steve.
Steve, are you alright?
We've been looking all over for you.
Where have you been?
Oh, I don't know.
Were you hurt in the quake?
Earthquake?
We had to trigger an earlier quake...
in order to prevent another one
down the coast.
No. I didn't feel it.
Did it work?
Yes. The geologic pressure's
been relieved.
We better get you back to camp.
What's this?
OSCAR: Where'd you get it?
I don't remember.
I'll have it analyzed.
You better get some rest.
Whatever it was you saw...
(BIONIC EYE SOUND EFFECT)
OSCAR: What is it?
It was a...
Come on, pal. Let's go.
Goodbye, Steve Austin.
(END THEME MUSIC)