The Alpha Incident (1978)
An alien organism with the potential to destroy all life on Earth is inadvertently released in a small town.
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00:01:00This doesn't make any sense.
00:01:02That's what I just told you.
00:01:04Increase the magnification to a thousand and watch it.
00:01:07Could it be real?
00:01:09Could it be reacting to the dye compound?
00:01:11Not a chance, Objective.
00:01:13Let me see a different one. Same magnification.
00:01:16The report we got doesn't mention this.
00:01:19I've never seen anything like this before.
00:01:21Well, that's a reasonable remark.
00:01:24Cut the crap, Jim.
00:01:27Who got final clearance on this stage of the project?
00:01:31You, me, and Fielding.
00:01:34Does he know?
00:01:36Where is he?
00:01:38He's getting the animals ready.
00:02:08I wish I knew what the hell this was.
00:02:11Come on, ease up, will you, Frank?
00:02:13Splashdown was only yesterday afternoon.
00:02:16First team finished this report, what, three hours ago?
00:02:19They flew it here as fast as they could.
00:02:21Well, it's all in the final report.
00:02:23Here, can you help me here?
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00:02:26I'm sorry, Jim. I'm just a little edgy.
00:02:28It was a long flight, and frankly, I wasn't planning on it.
00:02:32I'm sorry.
00:02:34How much more of this substance do we have?
00:02:37Well, there was more, but after the first report was in,
00:02:40orders were issued to ship most of it
00:02:42to Colorado for underground storage.
00:02:45Near Denver? Are they nuts?
00:02:48Look, we can't control what they do with it.
00:02:51We can only suggest.
00:02:53Orders come from the top.
00:02:55How did they package it?
00:02:57Well, all necessary precautions were taken.
00:03:00Neutralized emulsion, colloidal suspension.
00:03:03I just hope the altitude doesn't throw the suspension
00:03:06into a crystallized state.
00:03:08No, it's not going by plane.
00:03:11How's it going, by pony express?
00:03:13It's going by rail, unmarked.
00:03:16Is he obvious?
00:03:18No, he's not going by plane.
00:03:20He's going by rail, unmarked.
00:03:23He's obvious to consider in this, too, you know.
00:03:26What's that?
00:03:27Publicity.
00:03:28You've been following the news reports on our wonder child?
00:03:31There's been nothing in the media
00:03:33after the preliminary Viking probe.
00:03:35Exactly.
00:03:36Lid so tight on this, Fielder's rancid suffocate.
00:03:39That's the reason for the Denver move, I'm sure.
00:03:42First team already figured out
00:03:44some of the basic properties of this stuff.
00:03:47I don't like the implication of the Denver move.
00:03:50It smells of biological warfare.
00:03:52Yeah, I don't like it either.
00:03:54Let's face it, we're not here to make policy,
00:03:57even if we'd like to.
00:03:59It's on Earth now.
00:04:01We've got no choice but to deal with it.
00:04:04I'm sure as hell I'm not going to send it back to Mars.
00:04:11Who went with it?
00:04:13Ted Sorensen, who was part of the first team.
00:04:17One man?
00:04:19See, they don't want to let anybody get the idea
00:04:22that there's anything important on board that train.
00:04:25Nobody even knows we brought the stuff back.
00:04:27I see.
00:04:28For reasons of national security,
00:04:30they're sending it to Colorado by way of Alaska.
00:04:33That's close.
00:04:34They decided to use the northern freight rails
00:04:37as much as possible.
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00:05:44Hey, it's still there, Mr. Sorensen.
00:05:46Yeah, it is.
00:05:47That's good.
00:05:49I sure wouldn't want nothing to happen to it.
00:05:52Wouldn't look good for the railroad
00:05:54to lose none of its cargo.
00:05:56No, it wouldn't.
00:05:58No, it wouldn't look good at all.
00:06:03I can see the headlines right now.
00:06:06A low-flying pigeon swoops down and shits all over us.
00:06:11A low-flying pigeon swoops down
00:06:13and shits all over the railroad cargo.
00:06:17That wouldn't look good at all, Hank.
00:06:19You're absolutely right.
00:06:21Wouldn't look good at all.
00:06:25You see, Mr. Sorensen,
00:06:27now, maybe it ain't none of my business,
00:06:29but I tell you, I worked for this railroad for 17 years,
00:06:33and I ain't never seen nothing like this before.
00:06:36Like what, Hank?
00:06:37Hey, you know.
00:06:40Mr. Sorensen,
00:06:42now, I ain't got no sure way of knowing
00:06:44that you ain't a real conductor,
00:06:46but I'm telling you, sir,
00:06:48I'm pretty sure you ain't.
00:06:50You see, sir, I just seen too many conductors in my day,
00:06:53and a real conductor don't go around
00:06:55checking the cargo all the time like you do.
00:06:58No, sir.
00:06:59See, a real conductor,
00:07:01he knows the cargo ain't going nowhere
00:07:03except where a train's going.
00:07:05Well, uh, they asked for a periodic
00:07:08check on this cargo back here.
00:07:10That's why the cars last.
00:07:11It's an important shipment.
00:07:12Mr. Sorensen, what's in that car anyway?
00:07:15Now, I don't want you to go telling me
00:07:17it's a baby you're feeding three times a day.
00:07:21They wouldn't ship a baby that way,
00:07:23anyhow, it ain't you or me.
00:07:25That's right.
00:07:27I know what it is.
00:07:29It's money.
00:07:30They ship in the car a load of money
00:07:32to be burned.
00:07:34They do that sometimes.
00:07:36Yeah, that's what they're doing.
00:07:38That's right, Hank.
00:07:39It's money.
00:07:40That's exactly what it is.
00:07:41And I'll tell you something else, Hank.
00:07:43This perpetual motion is getting to me.
00:07:45I'm going to get some sleep.
00:07:46I'm tired.
00:07:48Yes, sir.
00:07:50I told you you wasn't no real conductor,
00:07:53and you just proved it.
00:07:54Proved what?
00:07:55You never hear no real conductor
00:07:57use no words like that.
00:07:59Words like what?
00:08:00Tired?
00:08:01What, is there some special railroad lingo for tired?
00:08:04Yeah.
00:08:05I'm talking about that word,
00:08:07perpetual motion.
00:08:09Thanks, I'll remember that.
00:08:15Mr. Johnson,
00:08:17be careful you don't roll over
00:08:19on that loaded gun you're carrying.
00:08:21Well, I seen it.
00:08:23Yeah, you see, sir,
00:08:25that's how come I started figuring
00:08:27you wasn't a real conductor.
00:08:29A real conductor ain't allowed
00:08:31to carry no loaded weapon.
00:08:33That's right, Hank.
00:08:34Don't worry, I'm not going to shoot you
00:08:36unless you don't shut up.
00:08:37Well, I'll tell you one thing.
00:08:39It better not be no explosives
00:08:41or nothing like that.
00:08:42There's a law against having explosives
00:08:44in a car if you don't mark them danger.
00:08:46You got to do that so the employee
00:08:48knows what it is.
00:08:50That's right, Hank.
00:08:51It's not explosives, either.
00:08:54Dang it, I'm sorry, Mr. Johnson.
00:08:59Just that I ain't never been no good by secrets.
00:09:02Oh, no, no, no, I keep them.
00:09:04No, no, no, I keep them good.
00:09:06It's when other people's keeping them
00:09:08I just, well, it gets to me, you know.
00:09:12Hank,
00:09:14I told you,
00:09:16I don't know what's in those boxes back there.
00:09:18Boxes?
00:09:21How many boxes?
00:09:23Ten.
00:09:24There's ten boxes back there, Hank.
00:09:27Ten boxes.
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00:11:10Did Fiedler try it again with the lower organism?
00:11:12Sure did.
00:11:14He was stuck around to watch the whole gruesome process.
00:11:16And?
00:11:18Not a live one left.
00:11:20How many?
00:11:21Three. Same thing every time.
00:11:25How long?
00:11:28Let's see.
00:11:29From contact time, we clocked it at an average
00:11:31of two minutes, 37 seconds.
00:11:34And the rats?
00:11:36Any sign of anything?
00:11:38Nothing.
00:11:40You know, the expression's becoming a little overused lately,
00:11:43but none of this makes any sense.
00:11:46We know we're dealing with a disease organism.
00:11:49All the characteristics are there.
00:11:54Some of the qualities of an enzyme
00:11:57and some of a virus.
00:11:59Yet the rate of destruction is too fast.
00:12:02Fast.
00:12:04That's an understatement.
00:12:06And we know it's spread by contact contamination.
00:12:08How did those airborne experiments turn out?
00:12:10It doesn't travel in the air,
00:12:12and it's not carried through the bloodstream.
00:12:14That's the part that bothers me.
00:12:16Those rats bother me.
00:12:18Damn, they're wide awake, having a great time.
00:12:20No loss of motor coordination, no disorientation.
00:12:23You know, Jim,
00:12:25we just may have come up with the perfect pesticide.
00:12:28Mother's little helper and God's gift to the farmer.
00:12:31Yeah, now who's into the crap?
00:12:3810 bucks is my aunt Fanny's pig.
00:12:4210 bucks is my aunt Fanny's pig.
00:13:0210 bucks is my aunt Fanny's pig.
00:13:1210 bucks is my aunt Fanny's pig.
00:13:20Dang.
00:13:30There must be some kind of medicine.
00:13:42Ow!
00:13:58Ow!
00:14:12Ow!
00:14:28I didn't mean to break it.
00:14:31I just wanted to see what it was.
00:14:42I just wanted to see what it was.
00:15:04Morning, Charlie.
00:15:06Morning, Elvin.
00:15:08Never a fancy getting wait till I get here.
00:15:10We're leaving this morning at 9.25.
00:15:12Split up here, part of it will stay here
00:15:14waiting for another engine to pick it up.
00:15:16Oh, yeah, just brewed a fresh pot.
00:15:40Oh, yeah, just brewed a fresh pot.
00:16:10Hey, Hank, thanks for waking me up.
00:16:35Hey, Hank, thanks for waking me up.
00:16:37Sorry, Lachey, sorry.
00:16:39Mr. Sorensen, I just came for God, that's all.
00:16:43Look, Hank, we're going to be in Moose Point in 20 minutes.
00:16:46We're supposed to meet another engine, so get us uncoupled as quick as you can, okay?
00:16:50Sure will, Mr. Sorensen, I sure will.
00:16:53Oh, say, Mr. Sorensen, about what's in that boxcar...
00:16:58Oh, Hank!
00:17:00No, no, no, sir. What I was going to tell you is I just ain't going to ask you no more questions about it.
00:17:05Just no more talk.
00:17:07Oh, I owe that pleasure to you, Hank.
00:17:09I'll tell you, sir, while you were sleeping there last night, I got to thinking.
00:17:14Well, I'll tell you, sir.
00:17:18The way I figure it is, you already told me too much about them ten boxes,
00:17:24and I wouldn't want to see you get in trouble with the railroad,
00:17:27so I think from now on, maybe you better just make up your mind to be just like me
00:17:32and keep your mouth shut.
00:17:35Oh, say, we're going to run into some good-looking country up here.
00:17:39Yeah, some good-looking people.
00:17:41Used to be some good-looking ladies there, you know, when I was younger.
00:17:44That's quite a young's case, isn't it?
00:17:46I remember this one old gal...
00:17:50Dr. Rogers come in yet?
00:17:51Yes, sir. He came in about an hour ago.
00:17:58Mr. Mason, enzyme replacement immediately.
00:18:03Thank you.
00:18:06I want to check on Waltzing Matilda.
00:18:09Last night she and I developed this, well, let's say this fond attachment for one another.
00:18:15If she had any sense, she'd be fast asleep by now.
00:18:18Right. I wonder if she ever ran those mazes.
00:18:20You know, I always fall for the intellectual type.
00:18:23What the hell happened here?
00:18:36Good morning.
00:18:57Morning, Charlie.
00:18:58Morning.
00:18:59I'm sorry I'm late. I didn't even get a chance to have breakfast.
00:19:03Oh, how about a donut? The coffee's fresh.
00:19:06Oh, sounds good.
00:19:18You got those reports ready for me, Charlie?
00:19:20Oh, yeah, I got them all ready.
00:19:25Thanks.
00:19:27Oh, good, not too many this week.
00:19:30Oh, before I forget, Charlie, I'm leaving at noon today.
00:19:33I've already cleared it with the main office.
00:19:35Don't worry, though, I'll get the books in order first.
00:20:01Well, good morning, you two.
00:20:03How's every little thing this morning?
00:20:05Jenny?
00:20:07Well, if it isn't the bold rumble of the rail set.
00:20:10I'm just fine, Jack, and how are you? Or need I ask?
00:20:13Ah, Jenny, sweet Jenny.
00:20:16Friday's would be so dull without you around.
00:20:19Oh, I'm glad you're here, Jack.
00:20:21Oh, I'm glad you're here, too.
00:20:23Oh, I'm glad you're here, too.
00:20:25Oh, I'm glad you're here, too.
00:20:28Friday's would be so dull without you around here.
00:20:31No insult intended, Charlie.
00:20:33Sorry, didn't figure that.
00:20:37I can see my wit and charm don't carry much weight with Charlie here.
00:20:42With Charlie?
00:20:44You're trying to tell me something, my pet. I can tell.
00:20:47Okay, look, let's change the subject, Jack.
00:20:49What brings you here so early?
00:20:51I don't usually get to see your bright, shining face until afternoon.
00:20:54I would have missed you today. I'm leaving at noon.
00:20:56Well, you're trying to tell me something else.
00:20:59Sorry I mentioned it.
00:21:01Well, to answer your question, you did want an answer, didn't you?
00:21:07There's a train coming in any minute. It's gonna be split up here.
00:21:10They asked me to check the rails, make sure there weren't any hang-ups.
00:21:15Something a little peculiar there.
00:21:18Another engine's coming in at 9.45 to pick up.
00:21:22One boxcar in the caboose.
00:21:24Where's it going?
00:21:26I don't know. I just checked the switch ten miles up the track.
00:21:29Looks like they're forking up into North Dakota.
00:21:32Regular load always goes south.
00:21:34Ain't that right, Charlie?
00:21:36Hey, you know what it's carrying, Charlie?
00:21:39Nope.
00:21:41Well, I'll be back in a little while for some coffee.
00:21:45Business before pleasure.
00:21:49Take your time, Jack.
00:21:55Good to see you, Hank.
00:21:58How you been, Jack?
00:22:00Fine, Hank. How about you?
00:22:02Hey, there's a nasty sheriff down there in King County.
00:22:06Said this lady ain't been the same since you left town.
00:22:12I'll see you later, Hank.
00:22:25Well, Hank, I haven't seen you in a long time. How've you been?
00:22:29Fine, Miss Janice. Just fine.
00:22:32Hey, Charlie. How you doing?
00:22:35Well...
00:22:37Same old Charlie.
00:22:40Just can't teach an old dog new tricks there, can you, Charlie?
00:22:46Hank, what did you do to your head?
00:22:48What?
00:22:51Hank, what did you do to your head?
00:22:53Oh, I cut it on a piece of glass.
00:22:56Charlie, you got a band-aid around here?
00:22:58Yeah, right here.
00:23:00Here, let me fix it for you.
00:23:02That'd be awful nice of you, Miss Janice.
00:23:04Of course. Put a band-aid right on that.
00:23:06I don't think it's too bad.
00:23:09What happened to you?
00:23:11You're on solid ground for five minutes and you're hurt already?
00:23:14It ain't much.
00:23:21What happened to you, Hank?
00:23:23He just cut himself on a piece of glass. It's not serious.
00:23:26It ain't nothing, Mr. Sorensen. Honest.
00:23:30Mr. Sorensen, I'd like to have you meet these nice people here.
00:23:34This is, uh...
00:23:36I'll be right back.
00:23:40That's his problem.
00:23:42I don't know.
00:23:44I don't know.
00:23:47That's his problem.
00:23:49Why are you so concerned about what other people are doing?
00:23:53God, you're as bad as everybody else around here.
00:24:04What's he doing out there?
00:24:06He's opening the boxcar. What does it look like?
00:24:12Thanks, Jan, for that bit of information.
00:24:15That's a razor blade you got there, Charlie.
00:24:38Where's the phone?
00:24:45Operator, let me have Area Code 417, Operator 5, please.
00:24:51Thank you. Operator?
00:24:54Gamma Code 37984.
00:24:58Alpha 795.
00:25:02Red Code 59.
00:25:05Location? 37984.
00:25:10Red Code 59.
00:25:13Location? 3085.
00:25:18Time Code?
00:25:20734.
00:25:25Okay.
00:25:31How many people are there?
00:25:35Do they have contact?
00:25:40Well, you know what to do.
00:25:42We'll seal off the area.
00:25:45No, don't expect the engine. It'll be canceled.
00:25:49And remember, you've got a gun. Use it if you have to.
00:25:52We've got too much at stake.
00:25:55You answer the phone. We'll make arrangements for incoming calls only.
00:25:59Okay, thank you.
00:26:02Whose Oldsmobile is that outside?
00:26:05Mine.
00:26:07May I have the key to it, please?
00:26:09What do you want his key for?
00:26:11May I have the key, please?
00:26:13Hey, hang on to that key, Charlie.
00:26:15Look, I don't know who you are, but I do know this.
00:26:18No stranger comes in here,
00:26:20makes a call that sounds like a direct dial to Mars,
00:26:23then asks for and expects to get Charlie's car key.
00:26:26What's going on?
00:26:28All right, we'll do it your way.
00:26:30My name's Ted Sorenson. I'm a biochemist.
00:26:33We've got a problem here.
00:26:35May I have your key, please?
00:26:37Hang on to that damn key, Charlie,
00:26:39until this guy starts making some sense.
00:26:41What's a biochemist doing in Moose Point?
00:26:43Mister?
00:26:45Tiller. Jack Tiller.
00:26:47All right, Mr. Tiller, we've got a problem.
00:26:49You're damn straight we do. I want some answers.
00:26:51Jack.
00:26:53He's got a gun.
00:26:58That's it.
00:27:00That's so. I know how to use it.
00:27:02I'd rather not.
00:27:06I'd like that key now.
00:27:24All right, now maybe you'll tell us what's happened.
00:27:27Fair enough.
00:27:29I'm going to have to know anyway.
00:27:31The cargo in that boxcar out there.
00:27:33Wait a minute.
00:27:37I know what's in that boxcar out there.
00:27:39They're just a bunch of little bottles of medicine.
00:27:43Ain't nobody going to die
00:27:45just because I broke two or three little tiny bottles.
00:27:49Are they, Mr. Shultz?
00:27:51I hope not, Hank.
00:27:53What kind of medicine is this?
00:27:55It's a shipment of a relatively unknown,
00:27:58potentially dangerous substance.
00:28:00I don't understand.
00:28:02Well, unfortunately,
00:28:04there's not much to understand at this moment,
00:28:06except that we've all been,
00:28:09let's call it, quarantined.
00:28:12Quarantined?
00:28:14Quarantined.
00:28:16Quarantined.
00:28:18Quarantined?
00:28:25That means that we're all sick.
00:28:29Nobody can come near us or else they're going to get it too.
00:28:33Don't it?
00:28:35That's a good enough explanation for now.
00:28:37Let's say that precautions have to be taken
00:28:39because of the nature of the substance.
00:28:41Well, how long do we have to stay here?
00:28:43I don't know that yet.
00:28:45Ah, it sounds like a lot of double talk to me.
00:28:47I got work to do. I'm getting out of here.
00:28:50Jack, take it easy.
00:28:52What the lady says makes a lot of sense.
00:28:54There's no need to go into a state of panic over this.
00:28:57Let's just stay calm and take this one step at a time.
00:29:00First of all, it's important that nobody touch anybody
00:29:03until we establish what's already happened here.
00:29:06Who bandaged Hank's hand?
00:29:08I did.
00:29:10Why? What does it do?
00:29:12Just stay calm.
00:29:14Stay calm?
00:29:16What do you mean, stay calm?
00:29:18You come in here, scare us half to death,
00:29:20and then tell us to stay calm.
00:29:22What are we supposed to do, forget it?
00:29:24It's not going to do any good to get nervous.
00:29:26What's your name?
00:29:28Jenny.
00:29:30Jennifer Moore.
00:29:32You work here?
00:29:34No, I just happened to be in the neighborhood and thought I'd drop by.
00:29:36Relax. We're all in this together.
00:29:38Yes, I work here.
00:29:40I come in on Fridays to do the books.
00:29:43What about you?
00:29:45What about me?
00:29:49I'll get it.
00:29:53Hello?
00:29:55No, he's busy right now. Can I take a message for him?
00:29:59Okay.
00:30:01All right, fine. I'll tell him.
00:30:03Thank you.
00:30:05That was a notification that the engine coming to pick us up has been rerouted.
00:30:10All right, did you have any contact with Hank today?
00:30:13Yeah, we shook hands when he came in.
00:30:17What about you? What's your name?
00:30:21Charles Weigel.
00:30:23Did you have any contact with Hank today?
00:30:26No, no.
00:30:29Yeah.
00:30:31Yeah, you did, Charlie.
00:30:34I'll rumple up your hair when I come in.
00:30:36I always like to kiddo, Charlie.
00:30:39You know, we go back such a long way.
00:30:43Okay, look, everybody just sit tight. I've got to make a phone call.
00:30:54Well, operator, may I have area code 417?
00:30:57Operator 5, please.
00:30:59It's a bunch of shit.
00:31:01Operator, this is gamma code 37984.
00:31:06Alpha 795.
00:31:11Tiller!
00:31:16Tiller!
00:31:32Don't be a fool, Tiller.
00:31:36You don't want to use this.
00:31:43You ain't got the guts.
00:31:45You ain't got the guts.
00:32:01Tiller! Stop!
00:32:03Stop!
00:32:05Tiller, stop!
00:32:07Stop, Tiller!
00:32:16TILLER
00:32:28What the hell happened?
00:32:32Is he alive?
00:32:35Give me that name again.
00:32:39What about the others?
00:32:42Give me their names and status.
00:32:48How did that shipment get damaged?
00:32:52We've checked with the lab.
00:32:55Contact is strictly through epidermal tissue.
00:32:59Doesn't transmit through inorganic matter.
00:33:02At least that solves part of our problem.
00:33:04Did you find out who's touched who?
00:33:07Let's have it.
00:33:12What about you?
00:33:14I don't know.
00:33:18No, I said I don't know.
00:33:21It's possible, but I'm not sure.
00:33:25We'll have to assume you had contact.
00:33:28Now look, we're working on a direct line through.
00:33:31No one but you uses the phone.
00:33:33We can't take any chances.
00:33:35We don't know how long it'll be, but we can't release anyone to a hospital
00:33:38until we know the exact extent of damage from this stuff.
00:33:41We don't know what effect it will have on higher organisms.
00:33:44They're working on that.
00:33:46All right.
00:33:52Well?
00:33:54We wait.
00:33:57What was the reading on the hematology printout?
00:34:00No perceptible change in white count.
00:34:02Platelets slightly elongated, but all indications are
00:34:06it occurred after death.
00:34:08That's crazy.
00:34:10So's what happened to the rats.
00:34:12What could have caused that kind of brain swelling?
00:34:15Well, no blood rush to the brain,
00:34:18which further convinces me
00:34:20it has nothing to do with the circulatory system.
00:34:37The inner pressure had to be extreme
00:34:40to cause that kind of skull fracture.
00:34:42You realize how impossible that is?
00:34:44I know, Jim, but what you've got to remember
00:34:47is that we're not dealing with something ordinary here.
00:34:50What bothers me is that we shipped that stuff out
00:34:52before we knew anything about it.
00:34:55I'm going to stoke up a fire in the waiting room.
00:34:58Get the chill out of here.
00:35:00Is that all right with you?
00:35:07Look, uh, I've been afraid to ask this, but...
00:35:12I'd feel a lot better if I knew.
00:35:15Now, I understand that we came into contact with something.
00:35:19But is anything supposed to happen?
00:35:22I don't feel any different.
00:35:25It's like I'm sitting here waiting for something to happen to me,
00:35:28only I don't know what it is.
00:35:31It's trying to imagine all sorts of things.
00:35:35I'm getting peculiar pains,
00:35:37and I keep looking at my hands,
00:35:39waiting for them to turn blue or fall off or something.
00:35:42Only nothing's happening.
00:35:44Now, what did you mean when you called that stuff
00:35:46that Hank got into potentially dangerous?
00:35:48There's not much I can tell you right now.
00:35:51Listen, Sorensen.
00:35:53When somebody cuts off my civil rights the way you have,
00:35:56shoots me, keeps me locked up a prisoner here,
00:35:59I don't want to listen to that bullshit.
00:36:01I want to be told what's really going on.
00:36:03Now, I've heard enough of your freak phone calls,
00:36:05your gamma, alpha crap,
00:36:07to know that there's more to this than what you're telling us.
00:36:10I'd like to tell you more, but I just can't say anything
00:36:13except my orders are to keep us here.
00:36:15Orders from who?
00:36:17My superior.
00:36:18Oh, your superior. That's fancy.
00:36:20Also doesn't say one whole hell of a lot.
00:36:23How long are we supposed to stay here?
00:36:26A day? Five days? A year?
00:36:31Look, the only time I stay in one spot this long
00:36:34is when I'm in bed with a chick or when I'm just sleeping.
00:36:37Well, I can tell you this.
00:36:39The material in that boxcar out there
00:36:41is a microorganism that we've been experimenting with.
00:36:44There's still a lot of unanswered questions about it.
00:36:47They decided to ship it to a more secure location.
00:36:50We're just going to have to stay here
00:36:52until they determine that it's safe for us to leave.
00:36:55What do you mean, Mr. Sorensen?
00:36:57I mean, what is this stuff?
00:37:01Well, that's the problem, Hank. Nobody really knows.
00:37:11Who invented it?
00:37:13Nobody invented it. It's a living organism.
00:37:16You mean like a germ?
00:37:18Sort of a virus, you can call it that.
00:37:22Mr. Sorensen,
00:37:24just how sick are we going to get?
00:37:27I don't know, Hank.
00:37:29Oh, yes, sir.
00:37:31Yes, sir, I think you do.
00:37:34I think we're going to get awful sick.
00:37:37And I'll tell you something else.
00:37:39I don't think there's no cure for it, neither.
00:37:41Otherwise, they wouldn't quarantine us out here in the middle of nowhere.
00:37:44No, sir. No, sir.
00:37:46They'd put us in a hospital or something, now, wouldn't they?
00:37:49I don't know, Hank.
00:37:52It's all my fault.
00:37:56Everybody's going to die.
00:38:01I'm sorry I died.
00:38:06And then for my meddling, none of this would have happened.
00:38:17Mr. Sorensen?
00:38:21I just thought of something.
00:38:25I'm the only one we know who's really got it.
00:38:28I mean, I'm the only one we know who's really got the stuff inside his skin.
00:38:32Maybe these other people ain't got it from me yet.
00:38:37Yeah.
00:38:39I'm the only one they know who's really got it.
00:38:43Maybe none of you got it from me.
00:38:45I'm the only one we know who's really got it.
00:38:49I'm the only...
00:38:51Hank!
00:39:05Hank!
00:39:19Hank!
00:39:50Hank!
00:39:55Hank, stop!
00:40:19Hank!
00:40:35Let's get out of here.
00:40:36Let go of me!
00:40:38You won't quit, will you, Teller?
00:40:40What happened to Hank?
00:40:43He'll be back.
00:40:44How do you know? I wouldn't if I got that far.
00:40:47I shot him in the leg. He can't get far.
00:40:49Who's gonna stop him?
00:40:51The National Guard.
00:40:52The what?
00:40:54You heard me.
00:40:55What is this?
00:40:57A crack shot biochemist, now the National Guard.
00:41:00All this over some virus?
00:41:02Don't kid me.
00:41:05Why don't you level with us, Sorensen?
00:41:07You know more than what you're telling.
00:41:09Don't overreact.
00:41:11Who the hell are you, anyway?
00:41:13I told you, I work for the government.
00:41:15Oh, that's great.
00:41:17The goddamn bastards are at it again.
00:41:20I take a job all the way out here in the backwoods to get away from all that crap.
00:41:24Now I'm surrounded by it again.
00:41:27Believe it, Teller. Why don't you cooperate for a change?
00:41:30We've got enough problems without you.
00:41:33Come on, let's go inside. I've got to make a call.
00:41:36What about him?
00:41:39Alert Moose Point that a Hank Willis got away.
00:41:43He's not to get through under any circumstances, no matter what.
00:41:47Shoot to kill if necessary, but leave that body alone.
00:41:50Yes, sir.
00:41:53Now listen.
00:41:55Don't let anyone else get away.
00:41:57The lab hasn't come up with anything yet.
00:41:59We'll call you.
00:42:10Did you get through?
00:42:11Yes, sir. I sent in your order in your exact words.
00:42:14Good. Now get Farrell at bio-research.
00:42:19I better clue him in.
00:42:22He may be able to come up with something fast.
00:43:11Let's go.
00:43:13Let's go.
00:43:39The wrong people are making decisions.
00:43:41That's the trouble with this system.
00:43:43That stuff should have never left here.
00:43:45But who knew it would be this bad?
00:43:47That's just the point.
00:43:49Nothing should have been done till all the information was in.
00:43:52Frank, I'm sure they didn't anticipate this.
00:43:55It sounded like a really freak happening.
00:43:58Freak happening?
00:44:00With material like this, every possibility has to be anticipated.
00:44:04Everything.
00:44:06I hear things like this.
00:44:08I'm amazed that anybody in the world is alive.
00:44:11We're the only ones that have this stuff.
00:44:14Comforting thought, Jim.
00:44:16Now we have a bigger problem than we had before.
00:44:19Now we've got to come up with a counter-agent.
00:44:21Counter-agent?
00:44:23We don't even know why it does what it did to those rats.
00:44:27Did you tell them what happened?
00:44:29I told them that the effect on the rats was fatal,
00:44:33that a time factor was involved.
00:44:36I think I managed to be effectively evasive about exactly how long and why.
00:44:41Did you tell them how?
00:44:43No. I thought we'd wait to break that information
00:44:46when we know exactly what triggers it.
00:45:07Yeah?
00:45:11No, we don't want any tanks. Are you nuts?
00:45:14For five people?
00:45:18Forget it.
00:45:36Mom.
00:45:47Go.
00:45:52Mama.
00:45:55Mama.
00:46:00Mama!
00:46:03So what happened when you left Sloan?
00:46:07We were all saluting, but then who remembers?
00:46:10We walked outside in that cold air and it hit us in the face and wham!
00:46:15The next thing I remember, waking up in the back room over at Sally's place.
00:46:20That was the next afternoon.
00:46:22Was Sally mine?
00:46:24Sally mine?
00:46:27Who knows what Sally was doing all that time.
00:46:33Hey, Jen.
00:46:35What's this Tom Sheffield gonna think when you don't show up for your date?
00:46:42I figure I'd change my mind what he's supposed to think.
00:46:45Well, I know what I'd think.
00:46:48Well, that's you, Jack. Not everyone has your kind of mind.
00:46:53I already told you, I've only been out with him twice.
00:46:57He's a nice, shy type.
00:47:00Quiet, but interesting.
00:47:02Well, he can't be too shy if he asks you out for a weekend rendezvous after only two dates.
00:47:10What is your problem, Jack? Not everyone's the same as you.
00:47:14Wise up, Jenny.
00:47:16When a guy asks a gal out for a whole weekend, he's just got one thing on his mind.
00:47:23I'd like to think some men are different.
00:47:25You'll learn.
00:47:27I believe I already have.
00:47:29And it's not what you think.
00:47:31We'll see.
00:47:36Hey, Charlie.
00:47:38What about you?
00:47:40You're so quiet over there, I have to keep looking at you to remember that you're here.
00:47:44What?
00:47:45Well, Charlie, my man.
00:47:48You must do something besides keep men as in your cellar.
00:47:52I mean, you're unattached.
00:47:56There's more than one kind of fishing.
00:48:00I suppose that's right.
00:48:03What do you do for fun?
00:48:06Go fishing.
00:48:08Besides that?
00:48:11Not much, I guess.
00:48:14Relax.
00:48:16I've got my job here.
00:48:19I can't complain too much.
00:48:22Jesus, Charlie.
00:48:24You're not dead yet.
00:48:26There must be something you do for excitement.
00:48:30Not really.
00:48:32Oh, I play cards once in a while.
00:48:37Gee, it's getting chilly here.
00:48:39It's the spring.
00:48:44Why don't you leave him alone, Jack?
00:48:53Well, Sorensen?
00:48:56You ready yet? Tell us how you happen to be such a crack shot.
00:49:01I didn't know I was keeping it from you.
00:49:04What, are you writing a book?
00:49:06Yeah.
00:49:08Why don't you leave that chapter out?
00:49:10I don't think I'd come up to your expectations anyway.
00:49:13I'd like to hear about it.
00:49:16I don't feel like talking right now.
00:49:23Sounds like you're going to have to.
00:49:27All right, while you're at it, tell him I'm starving.
00:49:30I want a steak, medium rare, and baked potato.
00:49:35About a couple of hamburgers and an order of fries will do in a pinch.
00:49:40What's the matter with you?
00:49:42He hasn't done anything to you. Why do you keep picking on everybody?
00:49:45I'm just getting damn sick and tired of sitting around here doing nothing.
00:49:49I want to get out of here, relax.
00:49:52Have a drink, something to eat.
00:49:55Is there anything wrong with that?
00:49:58Not really.
00:50:00I'm not enjoying this any more than you are.
00:50:03I wouldn't say that.
00:50:06You just don't give up, do you?
00:50:20Now we have to stay awake.
00:50:23Stay awake? For what?
00:50:26I forgot I asked that question.
00:50:29Nothing surprises me. That doesn't surprise me.
00:50:33We've got to stay cooped up here in these luxurious accommodations...
00:50:37for God only knows how long.
00:50:40No phone calls, starve, piss in the wastebasket.
00:50:43Now stay awake.
00:50:46Sure, anything you want.
00:50:49While we're at it, maybe we can straighten out the country's foreign policy.
00:50:53Solve the problem of big city crimes or anything else that they'd like us to do.
00:50:57Jack, shut up.
00:51:03We can't fall asleep. If we do, we die.
00:51:11Die?
00:51:15Die?
00:51:18Die?
00:51:21I don't get it.
00:51:24I'm not sure I can explain it.
00:51:27God damn it, man, I've put up with your evasive bullshit so far, but this is where it ends.
00:51:31Now you either tell us what's happening or I'm going to get on your stinking hotline and find out for myself.
00:51:35The organism that we've come into contact with, it attacks the central nervous system.
00:51:41An unconscious state activates it.
00:51:44It's like I said before.
00:51:47We sleep, we die.
00:51:52I don't understand.
00:51:57What's different about sleep?
00:52:00Respiration is different, body temperature is lower.
00:52:04There are a lot of things that are different.
00:52:07Where'd they find this shit?
00:52:10It's classified information.
00:52:13You're a real dumb-dumb, you know that?
00:52:16This stuff's going to get you, too.
00:52:19They got you into this and you're still going to keep their secrets.
00:52:22Yeah, well, I'm not going to give up as easily as you.
00:52:26We're not dead yet, you know.
00:52:29Might as well be. We can't stay awake forever.
00:52:32The research lab is working 24 hours a day around the clock to come up with a counteragent.
00:52:36It doesn't sound so easy.
00:52:38We can do it. All we have to have is a plan.
00:52:42It's hopeless. We'll never be able to stay awake long enough.
00:52:47It's not hopeless, Jenny.
00:52:49They could come up with something in an hour.
00:52:52Hot chance of that.
00:52:54They're sending food and, well, we haven't eaten anything today.
00:52:58That'll keep us awake longer. And they're sending some amphetamines.
00:53:02What?
00:53:04That activates the system. It'll help you stay awake longer.
00:53:07Speed. You can always count on Uncle Sam.
00:53:18How long can a person stay awake?
00:53:24That depends on the person.
00:53:27Other factors involved. Drugs.
00:53:30Psychological factor. A number of different things.
00:53:33We've got to help each other. We've got to watch each other.
00:53:36Stay awake. Play games.
00:53:39There are magazines in here we can read out loud.
00:53:42Coffee. Lots of coffee.
00:53:45Ah, you sound like a tour director on a cruise.
00:53:49Charlie said he liked to play cards. You got some cards, Charlie?
00:53:52I've got some in my overnight case in the car.
00:53:54Get them.
00:53:56Cards?
00:53:59Is that what, uh... Is that what you and, uh...
00:54:03What's-his-name are going to do over the weekend?
00:54:30What in God's name was that?
00:54:33It sounded like an animal.
00:54:35No, no. It wasn't any animal.
00:54:38I've been around this country long enough to know that.
00:54:40Jack, you're scaring me.
00:54:42Come on. We've got too many other things to worry about.
00:55:00Want to play some cards, Charlie?
00:55:03Sure, Mr. Sorensen.
00:55:10That wasn't a wild animal out there.
00:55:13You're not tired, now. Let's just...
00:55:16Let's play. Charlie, it's your bet.
00:55:19Oh, sorry.
00:55:22I'm sorry.
00:55:25Quarter.
00:55:28No, call.
00:55:34Bet.
00:55:37Quarter. There isn't much coffee left.
00:55:44What have you got?
00:55:47Oh, thank you.
00:55:50I can't take this anymore.
00:55:53Yeah, that's it for me, too.
00:55:56Thanks for the change.
00:56:20Come on.
00:56:51Supplied.
00:56:54Now they're thinking about us.
00:56:57But they're thinking about a lot more than just us.
00:57:00I thought the Surgeon General decided these could be hazardous to your health.
00:57:04I guess I figured that what they got us into is even more hazardous, huh?
00:57:08Jack, please. I'm trying not to think about it.
00:57:11All right, all right.
00:57:15No cocoa?
00:57:18What's that?
00:57:25Amphetamines.
00:57:32Where's the food?
00:57:35You're looking at it.
00:57:38Oh, no, not this stuff in these plastic tubes.
00:57:41You've got to be kidding.
00:57:44Don't they have things a little bit mixed up?
00:57:47I mean, we're not exactly part of the space program.
00:57:50It works.
00:57:53Satisfies the nutritional requirement and doesn't fill the body with bulk.
00:57:59What are these things for?
00:58:02Dirty dishes?
00:58:05That's so you don't have to complain about the wastebasket.
00:58:08Well, wonders never cease.
00:58:11Is this part of the space program, too?
00:58:14It's a serious consideration.
00:58:17Once the organism gets into the body, we don't know what it does.
00:58:20We just can't take a chance on contaminating the water table with cesspool seepage.
00:58:23Oh, please don't talk about it.
00:58:26It makes me feel like something's crawling around in my body.
00:58:29Got to be realistic, Jenny.
00:58:32I mean, we can't leave a problem bigger than we had once we leave this place.
00:58:35It's another thing.
00:58:38Don't even spit outside.
00:58:41Use those plastic bags.
00:58:44Well...
00:58:47speaking of plastic bags...
00:58:50plastic bags will never look the same again.
00:58:54Yes?
00:58:57Yes, everyone's still here.
00:59:00I've just checked in with the lab.
00:59:03Still nothing.
00:59:06Just hang on.
00:59:09Do the best you can.
00:59:12They're working in shifts around the clock.
00:59:15I'll call you back.
00:59:18Do the best you can.
00:59:21They're working in shifts around the clock.
00:59:48Where are you going?
00:59:54Out dancing.
01:00:00I'm going to change my clothes.
01:00:03What?
01:00:06I'm going to change my clothes. Do you mind?
01:00:12Make it fast. I don't want to have to check on you.
01:00:15She'll love that.
01:00:45I think it's time we took some amphetamines.
01:00:51Take it with coffee. It'll take effect quicker.
01:01:15Take it with coffee.
01:01:45Take it with coffee.
01:02:15Hey, Charlie, you've been holding out on us.
01:02:18Oh?
01:02:21Oh.
01:02:24I forgot that was there.
01:02:27I don't even know if it works.
01:02:30I don't even know if it works.
01:02:33I don't even know if it works.
01:02:36I don't even know if it works.
01:02:39I don't even know if it works.
01:02:42I don't even know if it works.
01:02:57Hey, I don't believe it. There's a world out there.
01:03:02There was something on the news about all this.
01:03:05Don't count on it.
01:03:12Don't count on it.
01:03:42Ah, hell, with the National Guard out there
01:03:45and all your phone calls,
01:03:48we're probably famous by now.
01:03:51we're probably famous by now.
01:03:58not bad, baby,
01:04:01what a mess they made out there.
01:04:04Not bad, baby, not bad at all.
01:04:17Tom would have liked that.
01:04:19Here, take this.
01:04:21Thank you.
01:04:23You ain't going to hear anything.
01:04:25Well, I shouldn't be surprised about that.
01:04:28I've been through this before.
01:04:30When?
01:04:32I told you, baby.
01:04:34I haven't spent all my life back here in these backwoods.
01:04:37I realize that.
01:04:40I've been through it.
01:04:42I've been through it.
01:04:45I've been through it.
01:04:48I've been through it.
01:04:52But when could you have been through anything like this before?
01:04:55I don't mean anything like this, exactly.
01:04:58Christ, who could imagine this?
01:05:00I'm talking about news blackouts.
01:05:03I was in the Navy, down in Guantanamo in 62.
01:05:07But you might be a little young to remember that.
01:05:11Probably.
01:05:12Uncle Sam doesn't tell it all, honey.
01:05:15You can bet on that.
01:05:17There's a lot of stuff that went down in Cuba that nobody ever got to hear about.
01:05:22Hey, Charlie.
01:05:24You ever see any action?
01:05:27Which one, number two?
01:05:30Yeah, I bet there was a lot went down in that one, too, that nobody heard about.
01:05:34Christ.
01:05:36Didn't even have decent coverage then.
01:05:40There's a lot of stuff that went on that nobody knows about.
01:05:45Christ, let's liven this party up a little bit.
01:05:48Bet we don't have a couple more chicks around here.
01:05:51They'd see you two guys just sitting around twiddling your thumbs.
01:05:54You're taking a lot for granted.
01:05:56You bet your sweet ass I am.
01:05:58Don't count on it.
01:06:00What's the matter, baby?
01:06:02Saving yourself for Tom Sheffield?
01:06:04That's a joke.
01:06:06You don't even know him.
01:06:09I've got more sense than to go out with him.
01:06:12I've got more sense than to go out with anyone from around here.
01:06:16I don't need to know him.
01:06:19You don't know me, either.
01:06:22No, but I'd like to.
01:06:26I'm not one of your usual broads.
01:06:30I never said you were.
01:06:32As a matter of fact, Jen, that's what I like about you.
01:06:36You got more class.
01:06:40Thank you.
01:06:46You know, what I need right now is a drink.
01:06:49Every good party needs some booze.
01:06:53Hey, I bet Hank had some stashed out in that caboose of his.
01:06:58That's not a good idea. Stick to the amphetamines.
01:07:02I got an idea.
01:07:04Why don't you let Jack Tiller take care of himself?
01:07:08He's been doing it now for 38 years. Got a real good handle on it.
01:07:39What'd I tell you?
01:07:44Anybody want some?
01:07:47Charlie?
01:07:50Yeah.
01:07:52Good stuff.
01:07:57You know, I don't know if I'm going to be able to make it.
01:08:01I don't know if I'm going to be able to make it.
01:08:05Good stuff.
01:08:25Okay, let's get this party started.
01:08:30Look, it was Sorenson's idea that we keep busy, keep moving around.
01:08:36Don't look at me like I've gone crazy.
01:08:40I'm trying to stay alive.
01:08:48Come on, Jenny, let's dance.
01:08:53You're probably right.
01:08:57Relax, baby, you're stiff as a boar.
01:09:08I'm scared, Jack.
01:09:12I'm scared.
01:09:15I'm scared.
01:09:18I'm scared.
01:09:21I'm scared.
01:09:24I'm scared.
01:09:45Hey.
01:09:48Don't, baby.
01:09:51It'll be okay.
01:10:10How's that EEG printout?
01:10:12No change in the polarity of the cells.
01:10:17Did you try the CH compound?
01:10:19Yes.
01:10:21There was no change in the molecular structure either.
01:10:28There must be something that'll cause a breakdown.
01:10:32There is.
01:10:34A laser experiment.
01:10:36Yeah, but it's a bit too destructive for our purposes, wouldn't you say?
01:10:41Besides, a substance doesn't collect in a single mass like a tumor.
01:10:47It seems to favor the spinal column now.
01:10:50If we bombard that with a laser, forget it.
01:10:52I don't want to think about it.
01:10:56We've got to find a substance that the human organism can tolerate.
01:11:00Something that has direct affinity and the ability to neutralize when the alpha rhythms fade out.
01:11:17No.
01:11:27No, Jack.
01:11:41Come on, why don't you get up and dance?
01:11:44You just can't sit here all night and watch.
01:11:47I'm not much of a dancer.
01:11:51I'll teach you.
01:11:56Maybe later.
01:11:58I think he's waiting for you now.
01:12:03Okay.
01:12:05If that's the way you want it.
01:12:15Maybe.
01:12:17I really want you.
01:12:21No.
01:12:25You afraid of what people might say?
01:12:30I'm afraid of getting tired.
01:12:34I'm afraid of being alone.
01:12:38I'm afraid of being alone.
01:12:41I'm afraid of getting tired.
01:12:45I promise.
01:12:47You won't get tired.
01:12:50Come on, let's get out of here.
01:12:55Where can we go?
01:12:58He won't let us go anywhere.
01:13:01Sorensen.
01:13:04Me and Jenny gone.
01:13:05Take a little walk.
01:13:07Get some fresh air.
01:13:10I don't think that's too wise.
01:13:12You two had a little too much exercise already.
01:13:20Stick it.
01:13:24Where are you going?
01:13:27I need some fresh air.
01:13:54Romantic.
01:14:02I wonder if anyone has ever been here before.
01:14:06You know that better than I do.
01:14:11Hey.
01:14:13What are you doing here?
01:14:16I came to see you.
01:14:19You'd better than I would.
01:14:25I wanted you a long time.
01:14:42Stop it, Jack.
01:14:44You don't mean that.
01:14:48You know there ain't no Tom Sheffield.
01:15:18Come on.
01:15:48Come on.
01:16:12You think we'll make it?
01:16:14I think we will.
01:16:16The guys working on this project are the top men in the field.
01:16:20If anybody can solve the problem, they can.
01:16:26I sure never expected anything like this would happen in my life.
01:16:30None of us did.
01:16:33Are you feeling all right, Charlie?
01:16:35Oh, sure, sure. I'm fine, fine.
01:16:39Oh, excuse me.
01:16:41I have to go to the john.
01:16:46Bye.
01:17:08You all right?
01:17:12Where's Charlie?
01:17:14He's in the john.
01:17:18Hurry it up, Charlie. There's a line forming out here.
01:17:22Any calls while we were gone?
01:17:27No.
01:17:30Hey, hurry it up in there, man.
01:17:34If you're gonna be much longer in there, throw out one of those plastic bags, will you?
01:17:40Hey, if I wasn't so worried about our environment, I'd have taken care of it outside.
01:17:47If I wasn't so worried about our environment, I'd have taken care of it outside.
01:18:18Here, drink this.
01:18:22I wish they'd hurry and call.
01:18:25I don't know how much more of this I can take.
01:18:28I'm sure they will soon.
01:18:48Anything more hiding in here that we can fool around with?
01:18:53Anything more hiding in here that we can fool around with?
01:18:57Not that I know of.
01:19:17Hey, Charlie, you've been holding out on us.
01:19:23Thought you said you didn't do anything for excitement.
01:19:26This looks pretty exciting to me.
01:19:30They're not mine. I don't know how long they've been there.
01:19:36Not too long. This one's only two months old.
01:19:43They must belong to Alvin.
01:19:46Come on now, Charlie. You can tell me.
01:19:50You're among friends.
01:19:53You mean to tell me you never even take a peek?
01:19:58Oh, once in a while, maybe.
01:20:01But they don't belong to me.
01:20:03Why don't you leave him alone, Jack?
01:20:06You make it sound like he's done something wrong.
01:20:08You probably have your walls plastered with them.
01:20:11I don't need to, darling.
01:20:14Besides, I never said anything wrong with it.
01:20:18It just surprised me, that's all.
01:20:21Hey, Charlie, you see this, babe?
01:20:33Now, come on, Charlie.
01:20:36I bet you got some stories that'd fry my ears.
01:20:41Not too many.
01:20:43How about your younger days?
01:20:45I got a few from long ago.
01:20:48Well, let's hear them. I need a little excitement.
01:20:54Oh, don't worry about her. She's busy.
01:20:58There's nothing much, really.
01:21:01I remember in 62, down in Gitmo Bay,
01:21:07crazy things went on down there.
01:21:12We'd been on board a ship about three months, I remember.
01:21:18A bunch of guys on one ship, cooped up that long,
01:21:24and get awful hungry for a lot of things.
01:21:28Especially a piece of ass.
01:21:36I keep on thinking about those five people.
01:21:40Don't. Their job is to stay awake.
01:21:44God, the shock to the system must be unbearable.
01:21:50I wonder if it does the same thing in its own environment.
01:21:53Don't worry about that. It's here, not there.
01:21:56Look, if we can simulate the Martian environment based on the data brought back,
01:22:01maybe we can figure out what makes this baby tick.
01:22:03If so, maybe we can discover that it's static in its own environment.
01:22:07At least we'll know what it does.
01:22:09Let's give it a try.
01:22:12I hope those people can stay awake.
01:22:16I hate to think what they'll go through if they fall asleep.
01:22:19What about Tom?
01:22:22What about Jack?
01:22:26You know I don't care about Jack.
01:22:30That just happened.
01:22:33I wanted to dance with you.
01:22:38I don't think so.
01:22:41I did.
01:22:43I don't mean that.
01:22:48What do you mean?
01:22:51I mean I just didn't want to dance.
01:22:56No.
01:22:58What you're saying is you didn't want to dance with me.
01:23:02Jenny, you're working yourself up over nothing.
01:23:05No, I'm not.
01:23:06Hey, you two having a lover's quarrel over there?
01:23:09Not hardly, pal.
01:23:36Hey, Charlie.
01:24:01Tom, wait up!
01:24:21Charlie?
01:24:38What's wrong with him?
01:24:40He's dead.
01:24:44Who the hell he is? Look at his head.
01:24:48It's expanding.
01:24:50What in God's name is happening to him?
01:24:54Why didn't they tell me it was going to be this way?
01:24:58Jesus, God, what's wrong with you?
01:25:03God, stop it!
01:25:06What the hell is that, Sorensen?
01:25:36No.
01:25:45There never was.
01:25:49There never was a Tom Sheffield.
01:25:52There never was anyone.
01:25:56We weren't in this together.
01:26:03We were alone.
01:26:07I don't want to be alone anymore.
01:26:11Jenny!
01:26:18I know it's a tough decision, but it'll have to be made.
01:26:22We've got national security to worry about.
01:26:26I can't get hung up on five people.
01:26:29I don't like it either.
01:26:31If there were any hope, I'd agree with you.
01:26:34Just send out the order to notify next of kin.
01:26:37Use the story we talked about.
01:26:39I'll take care of the rest.
01:26:42No, don't notify the center.
01:26:45Let them go on working.
01:26:47We need a counteragent anyway, now that we know how bad the stuff really is.
01:26:51Call me when it's taken care of.
01:26:54Thanks.
01:27:25What the hell are they calling for now?
01:27:29Goddamn those bastards!
01:27:33What the hell are they calling for now?
01:27:54Helicopter.
01:28:24Helicopter.
01:28:55What's it say?
01:28:59It's the antidote.
01:29:07The timing's a bit off, ain't it?
01:29:24We made it.
01:29:39Cyanide.
01:29:44Bastards!
01:29:55They rethink them all at the same time.
01:30:00What difference would it make?
01:30:08What difference?
01:30:24What difference?
01:30:54What difference?
01:31:24What difference?
01:31:40I haven't... I haven't been infected.
01:31:48I'm alive.
01:31:54I'm alive.
01:32:24I'm alive.
01:32:54I'm alive.
01:33:04I'm alive.
01:33:09I'm alive.
01:33:14I'm alive.
01:33:19I'm alive.
01:33:24I'm alive.
01:33:29I'm alive.
01:33:34I'm alive.
01:33:39I'm alive.
01:33:44I'm alive.
01:33:49I'm alive.
01:33:54I'm alive.
01:33:59I'm alive.
01:34:04I'm alive.
01:34:09I'm alive.
01:34:14I'm alive.
01:34:19I'm alive.
01:34:24I'm alive.
01:34:29I'm alive.
01:34:34I'm alive.