"The lab areas have been experiencing power surges over the last several hours." "So, you have to check the chambers every few minutes." "I thought the cryogenics lab was tied to the mother ship's main power core." "No, the labs have an independent power supply." "These are the normal settings for each of the containment tanks." "Make sure the readings never vary more than plus or minus 2% from the normal." "Are we clear?" "Yes, ma'am." "As I was saying, stay alert." "Interdimensional drives engaged." "The shuttle docking cleared." "Liam, Liam." "Check this out." "Cleared for entry to shuttle bay 4." "All landing bays are currently occupied." "Shuttle take off in 40 seconds." "Shuttle take off in 40 seconds, huh?" "I'm plugged directly into the air traffic control system of the mother ship." "You hacked in there on your own?" "I can monitor all incoming and outgoing transmissions from every Taelon craft." "Sandoval just reprogrammed all the security codes." "You're telling me you broke them already?" "Alright, alright, Lili did lift the security codes from Sandoval." "Big deal!" "That was the easy part, I was the one that put them to use." " Good work, Augur." "I mean it." " Damn right it is." "Oh, I'd love to sit here and sing your praises all day, but I get to pick up Da'an on the mother ship." "Just jealous." "Subtitled by Axarion" "They are the Companions." "Aliens come to Earth on a mission of peace." "Their true mission, the secrets they hide, forever alter humanity." "Caught in the struggle between these Taelon Companions and the Human Resistance is Liam Kincaid." "A man who is more than human." "The mysteries of his past hold the key to Earth's future and the fate of mankind." "On Earth Final Conflict." "And you are required to provide full details of all Taelons programs to the Synod." "You are the only Synod member who has requested such information." "So be it." "I will have Agent Sandoval deliver a detailed report to your quarters." "Ready the shuttle." "I will wait here for Agent Sandoval to complete the report." "Interdimensional drive is scheduled for maintenance." "Contact me on the bridge when you're done." "Fly me away from here." "The Jaridian has escaped from the hyber chamber." "Close down the shuttle bay." "Security, to the shuttle bay." "The alien had stolen the shuttle and taken Marquette as hostage." "Open the shuttle bay doors!" "Send me a video feed." " What's the destination?" " Silence!" "Explain this." "We are being pursued by another shuttle." "Evade him." "The Jaridian must be killed." "Destroy the shuttle as soon as you have the lock." "Marquette's on board, I'm gonna try..." "I gave you an order, Major!" "Capt. Marquette will have to be sacrificed." "Initiate the interdimensional drive." "This is the location." "Major, fire!" "Kincaid failed to hit the target." "Capt. Marquette's shuttle jumped into interdimensional just as he fired." "Both crafts have moved out the communication range." "We're being pulled off course!" "By what?" "Some kind of focused gravitational beam." "The shuttle's still in pursuit." "Not at this time." "And again." " Can you fire?" " I can't even steer!" "Everything's dead." "Something's governing shuttle's controls and draining its power." "Follow me." "What's your plan?" "We'll destroy whatever is shuttling down our powers." "Then we'll continue to our destination." "Are you familiar with the origin of this craft?" "Never seen anything like it in my life." "Come on!" "How did you learn to speak my language?" "Years of captivity." "Listening to your kind speak as they conducted experiments on me." "You're after the shuttle's interdimensional drive unit, aren't you?" "When we reach the Jaridian homeworld with interdimensional technology, we will return to Earth in force." "Taelons will cease to exist!" "What the hell was that?" "The Taelons are responsible for this." "No other race is capable of build a ship like this!" "I don't think so." "This doesn't look like something the Taelons would create." "Why should I trust you?" "You work for the Taelons." "I should kill you!" "Then do it!" "Kill me!" "Kill me now!" "You do not fear death." "What's it look like to you?" "Explain yourself." "I've been to war." "I've seen enough death, I don't fear it." "You fought the Taelons!" "No." "Other human beings." "What kind of animal kills its own kind?" "What are you staring at?" "I find it a contradiction." "That a being of such a strong aggressive nature could exist in such a fragile shell." "Women on your planet don't go to war?" "In my world, male and female fight side by side as equals, as they should!" "So you're a soldier too, aren't you?" "Like all Jaridians!" "Because that is what the Taelons have forced us to be." "Taelons!" "You both have traveled a long way to die." "The Jaridian should never have been brought aboard this ship." "You are wrong." "Our years of observation will prove to be invaluable when the Jaridians arrive on Earth." "By holding the Jaridian prisoner this long, disaster was inevitable." "You should have heeded my warning." " He will be recovered." " And if not?" "If he is successful in escaping with the interdimensional technology?" "This foolhardy decision is not worthy of the leader of the Synod!" "Liam, look out!" "You have Shaqarava?" "A gift from my father." "I am part Kimera." "Liar!" "There's no more Kimera." "Then how do you explain these?" "You were sent to kill me." "I could've killed you from my shuttle before you jumped into interdimensional." "And anyway, you need my help if you wanna get out of here alive." "Because this ship is Kimera too." "I knew the second I saw it." "It's so familiar." "It must be a warship." "The Kimera would not build a warship." "You can read this?" "Yes, I can." "It's a repository." "Holding the accumulated knowledge of the entire Kimera race." "That doesn't make any sense." "This ship dragged us here by force and now it's trying to kill us, why?" " I can't explain it." " How do we get off?" "We should be able to get out any time we want." "This ship is designed only for those wishing to seek the knowledge of the Kimera." "Clearly it's holding us here against our will." "The programming must be damaged." "What happens if somebody wants to seek the Kimera's knowledge?" "These chambers determine if a being is worthy in the eyes of the Kimera." "The eyes of a race that no longer exists." "That's the purpose of this ship." "It puts you through a series of physical and psychological tests to determine if it'll let you its core, the repository itself." "But this isn't a test, Liam, this is for real, life and death." "Only because the programming has been damaged." "The Kimera wouldn't kill like this." "We have to deal with the reality of this Kimera ship." "Our only option is to get to the guts of the ship control systems so we can figure out a way from there." "How do you know that?" "We can go back to our dead shuttles, or we can go to the core and take our chances." " I'm going to the core." " Where is it?" "I'll have to show you the way." "I want you in a shuttle hunting the Jaridian yourself." "Zo'or, I can be more effective if I can coordinate the search efforts from the bridge." "Do I need to remind you who is responsible from security aboard this ship, Agent Sandoval?" "The ship from which the Jaridian escaped." "I'm fully aware of my responsibilities, Zo'or." "If the Jaridian is not killed, the Synod will show neither of us mercy." "Do you trust Major Kincaid and Capt. Marquette to kill the Jaridian for us?" "So the ship created the creature that attacked from the water?" "The obstacles are designed to test our reactions to danger." "How did you become a captive of the Taelons?" "I was in a deep space patrol when my ship was caught in the planet's gravitational field." "I crashed on an asteroid." "I was near of what you would consider death." "So the Taelons saved your life?" "They brought me from the honorable death I deserved." "They locked me in a box for their scientists to experiment on." "What were they trying to find?" "A way to destroy us." "Do you deny that you allowed human technicians access to the Jaridian?" "No, I do not deny it." "It was necessary." "It is in direct violation of the Synod edict that no human being shall be exposed to the Jaridian." "I am the leader of the Synod." "I have been granted broad discretion in how I manage Taelon affairs." "Your arrogance is unprecedented." "I demand that the Synod consider your removal as our leader." "My priority now is to kill the Jaridian." "Once that is accomplished you will have no basis for such a demand." "Do you not understand?" "The damage is already done." "What damage?" "When a human being looks into the eyes of a Jaridian," "Who will he see?" "The enemy we have portrayed as evil incarnate, or someone more like himself?" "Are you certain this is the right way to the ship's core?" "Positive." " Stop!" " What's the matter?" "It's a trap." "How do you think he was killed?" "I'll go." "No!" "I will lead." "Did you notice his eyes?" "He must be able to enhance his vision." "It's a dead end." "I'll be back." "Follow me, I can remember his moves." "I hope so." "We got to go up!" "I can do it myself." "We don't have time." "And sector 4,700 through 5,000 are reporting no trace of the stolen shuttle, sir." "Continue searching in sector 5,000." "These sectors are uncharted, sir, even in the Taelon databanks." "I don't care." "Do it!" "Why are the Jaridians hunting the Taelons?" "The Jaridians and Taelons are genetic brethren." "We were one race." "We split apart over the Shaqarava." "The Shaqarava?" "The Taelons could not control the dark side of the Shaqarava." "So they gave it up in their quest for spiritual perfection." "And the Jaridians aren't afraid of the Shaqarava?" "No." "We are more afraid of the Commonality." "We do not want to lose our passion," "our joy, our ability to love," "to hate, and to reproduce." "The Taelons can't reproduce?" "In their quest for spiritual perfection, the Taelons did not realized they were on a path to eventual extinction." "But the Jaridians have had no problems with reproducing?" "The Jaridians are multiplying." "While the Taelons are dying off." "They're desperate." "Desperate for what?" "To rejoin the Jaridian and Taelon races." "So we can give them back what once they lost." "So they can survive at our expense." "Why are you hunting the Taelons?" "Only because they are hunting us." "They wish to use humanity as the tool to bring us to our knees." "Have you located the Jaridian?" "No, not yet, but we are.." "You must find the Jaridian within an hour." "We're now searching in uncharted sectors, Zo'or." "It will slow the process." "Da'an has called a meeting" "To petition for my removal as leader of the Synod." "We have to find another way." "We gotta go down here." "I'll check it out." "I'll go." "I know the way." "Just give a tug and we'll bring you back up." " You okay?" " So far." "I can't see a thing down here." "There's no more rope." "Alright, that's it, we're pulling you back up." "No, I'm gonna drop the rest of the way." "You don't know how far the bottom is!" "We have no other choice, we gotta keep moving to the core." "Liam!" "You okay?" "A door's here." "Just like the writing on the wall said it would be." "Liam!" "What happened?" "Liam!" "Liam!" "Damn it!" "No breath." "No pulse." "One, two, three, four..." "Come on, Liam, fight!" "Why do you try so hard?" "I thought you did not fear death." "Because he's my friend, and he's our best shot against the Taelons." "And against the Jaridians." "If it came to that, yes, and against the Jaridians." "Now, fight, Liam." "One, two, three, four..." "Let me." "No!" "Get away from him!" "Get your hands off of him!" "Oh, what happened?" "The explosion almost killed you." "But he saved him." "I owe you one." "You don't owe me anything." "We need each other to get off this ship." "What does that say?" "It's a greeting." "A welcome." "It says the ship will make itself known..." "I have taken this form to communicate with you." "In your journey through this ship, you showed sacrifice, bravery, strength." "But our final judgment is that you're not yet ready to receive the Kimera wisdom." "We took everything you threw at us." "You will share!" "We accept your judgment." "We just want to get off this ship." "No." "I have not yet completed my study of your species." "I demand you share the Kimera knowledge, so that I can take it back to my fellow Jaridians." "That is precisely the reason why you're not ready, because you would use our teachings to destroy another race." "I will not allow you to condemn." "Nothing." "I can't feel anything." "We report of an unidentified alien vessel in sector 5047." "Transmit the exact location." "Proceed to this location at maximum speed." "What is the status of your search?" "We are on route to an unidentified craft in sector..." "You are too late." "The Synod is ready to be convene." "I am part Kimera." "You are entitled to no special treatment." "I'm not looking for special treatment." "But my heritage entitles me to demand answers from this ship." "Go on." "The Kimera were celestial anthropologists, were they not?" "Yes." "The knowledge contained in this repository was accumulated during thousands of centuries of studying species across the galaxies." "And the Kimera philosophy is the same as that for all anthropologists." "Never interfere with the development of any species." "Correct." "Would you then agree that every being is unique, and therefore able to impact the development of its species?" "Of course." "Then this ship is violating the Kimera directive." "It is interfering with the development of the species you brought here." "Because it's killing them." "He's not dead." "The Kimera would not kill him for this purpose, to study different races." "Exactly." "Yet, you're killing." "The only explanation is that your programming has been damaged." "You are correct." "The programming has been damaged." "I shall institute repair efforts at once." "No, that isn't sufficient." "The programming could get damaged again, and then what?" "Then I shall repair it again." "But you were not aware it had been damaged." "There is a flaw in your basic programming." "If you kill again, you will destroy everything that Kimera stand for." "I cannot find fault with that argument." "Then you have only one option." "Obviously." "You have 4 minutes to depart the ship." "4 minutes?" "The chambers have been deactivated and the self-destruct sequence commenced." "Detonation in 3 minutes 45 seconds." "I will have the honor of death I deserve." "Not just yet." "Let's go!" "Detonation in 3 minutes 30 seconds." "Do you have any defense to the charges brought against you by Da'an?" "We are fighting for the life of our species." "Every decision I have made is in furtherance of that imperative." "You have violated a clear directive from the Synod, to avoid any interaction between humanity and the Jaridian." "The knowledge we gained by studying our enemy outweighs the risk of exposing him to the humans." "This was not your decision to make." "You are serving your own interests." "Not the interest of the Commonality." "I was named leader of the Synod because I know exactly where I am leading the Taelons." "I am not afraid to make difficult decisions." "I challenge any of you to state that I have acted improperly." "You have betrayed the spirit of the Commonality." "I demand that you step down." "It appears that Da'an is the only one to challenge me." "And since I was named leader of the Synod over Da'an," "I believe this meeting is over." "I will not tolerate opposition." "Detonation in 1 minute 30 seconds." "Get it ready, I'll be there!" "Liam, we've got power." "Come on, let's get out of here!" "You got one shot to get home." "The interdimensional drives will engage once and then they'll incinerate." "I wouldn't think about it too long." "Why did you save me?" "I told you." "I owe you one." "If you stand against me when Jaridians come to Earth" "I will kill you." "Unless I kill you first." "Safe travels, my friend." "Detonation in 15 seconds." "13. 12. 11." "10. 9. 8." "7. 6. 5." "4. 3. 2." "1." "Detonation." "You think he made it?" "Oh, I hope so." "Major." "Yes, Sandoval." "Where's the Jaridian?" "We were aboard an alien vessel that exploded." "The Jaridian was killed in the blast." "Are you certain?" "And Capt. Marquette and I sustained only minor injuries." "Thanks for your concern." "If the Jaridian input is destination, it should be here." "You can trace any shuttle communication?" "I'm impressed." "Impressed, but not surprised, I hope." " Never." " Okay, here it is." "Any idea where this is?" "His home." "Subtitled by Axarion"