"Good sleep?" "Not bad." "So, where are we?" "Where'd they bring you in from?" "San Diego, left yesterday." "So you came Honolulu, Guam, Pago, here?" "Yeah." "Long trip." "What kind of work do you do sir?" "I'm a psychologist." "Hey, a shrink." "Yeah." "Why not." "They've called in just about everything else." "How do you mean?" "We've been ferrying people out of Guam for the last 2 days." "Physicists, biologists, mathematicians, you name it." "Everybody being flown to the middle of nowhere in the Pacific Ocean." "What's going on?" "They're not telling us anything, sir." "What about you?" "What did they tell you?" "They told me that there was an airplane crash." "You get called on crashes?" "I'm on a list of psychologists the FAA brings in when a plane goes down." "So where exactly are we now?" "That's where we're headed, over there." "Here." "Take a look." "What is that?" "All this for an airplane crash." "I never mentioned a plane crash." "You have any other gear, sir?" "Watch your step." "I'd like to call my family." "We'll get you settled in quarters first, sir." "You're to remain there until we send for you." "I'd like to get started right away." "We'll send for you." "This is critical I see them, because..." "See who sir?" "The survivors." "If I don't get to them within the first 24 hours..." "What survivors?" "The survivors, of the plane crash." "Plane crash?" "Listen carefully, I deal in post-traumatic stress and survivor guilt." "Maybe I should talk to someone who knows what's going on." "You can talk to the ship's psychiatrist." "I'm a psychologist." "That's why I was sent down here." "Look, I told you people over an hour ago I need a phone." "You'll have to discuss that with Mr.Barnes." "That's fine Barnes." "Give me a phone, I'll call him." "Norman." "What are you doing here?" "Would you take your hands off me, please." "Do you have any idea who I am?" "Tell him the name of the book you wrote." "Astrophysics You Can Use." "It was a Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection." "Never heard of it." "Now back in your quarters." "You really thought that he read your book?" "After all these years you haven't changed." "Well, it's written for the layman." "He's not impressed." "They don't read." "Is there a phone in here?" "Would you stop doing that!" "I can go to the room myself." "I've been trying to call my wife for the last 15 hours." "Wait a minute I..." "Beth?" "Goodman!" "Yeah." "You been here long?" "I've been here 3 hours." "Welcome aboard." "I don't mind telling you, this thing scares the hell out of me." "It's probably already too late you might, put me on a helicopter and send me back, because whatever damage is done to the survivors is already done." "You know what I mean?" "Hold on, we'll get to that." "I don't even know who you are." "Well, I sure know who you are." "Who are you?" "Navy?" "Military?" "What are you?" "You ever hear of the OSSA?" "Yes." "Well, they don't know who I am." "That should reassure you." "Look Goodman, you haven't talked to anybody about this, have you?" "Yeah, I talked to the helicopter pilot." "What'd you tell him?" "What did I tell him." "I told him I was here to see the plane crash." "That's my job." "Plane crash." "Good." "There was no plane crash." "Spacecraft." "A spacecraft?" "Well." "I guess that explains a lot." "NASA?" "That doesn't surprise you?" "Well at least it explains the secrecy." "The secrecy's critical, Norman." "You made that explicit in your report." "What report?" "ULF." "I wrote that for the Bush administration." "And that's our Bible here." "Every jot and tittle." "But that was a report about a possible encounter with an alien being." "You want to come with me?" "Oh, boy." "About 3 weeks ago... a ship laying fiber-optic cable between Honolulu and Sydney., hit an obstruction 1,000 feet underwater." "Cut this cable here clean as a shears." "The Navy got interested, sent out a search ship." "It turned out that what did it, was this." "We took this with the side-looking sonar." "This is an aerodynamic fin longer than a football field, bigger than any known wingspan." "This is the fuselage." "This is ultrahigh-res SLS bottom scan." "Came in a week ago." "There it is, buried under about 8 yards of coral." "There's something wrong with that measurement." "Pacific coral grows at a rate of an inch a year." "You can set your watch by it." "That's right." "Yeah, so you're saying this spacecraft crashed in the year... 1709." "So you're saying this spacecraft crashed 300 years ago?" "288." "But that's impossible." "But it's not impossible if this spacecraft came to earth from an alien civilization." "Wait a minute." "You think this is an alien spacecraft?" "You see, it's not impossible." "It's ridiculous." "We think there's an Unknown Life Form on the spacecraft, that's why you're here." "You are the human contact team that was recommended in the Goodman Report." "We have a biochemist, to assess the physiology of the Unknown Life Form." "We have a mathematician, because that'll probably be our common language." "And we have an astrophysicist to locate its place in the cosmos." "Led by a psychologist." "That's right." "That's what the little green men say nowadays?" "Take me to your therapist?" "Listen up." "Contact teams meeting an Unknown Life Form or ULF, must be prepared for severe psychological impact." "Stress reaction when confronted by unknown life has not been sufficiently studied, and cannot be entirely predicted in advance." "But the most likely consequence of contact is... absolute terror." "That's from Norman's report." "I'm sorry, are these parameters correct?" "Yep." "So you're saying that you have a fuselage from a spacecraft, over a half a mile long, crashed into the ocean 300 years ago and it's completely intact?" "That's right." "And the kicker is, our sonar is picking up a low-level hum." "Something's still running inside." "Hold on a second." "There's no way this coral could've grown faster than an inch a year?" "No." "Well, that's why we're going down there to see, isn't it?" "What?" "Who said we're going down there?" "Harry, that's a joke, right?" "You're kidding?" "This is the greatest... scientific discovery since Copernicus!" "It's a bigger than Copernicus!" "The idea that we're not alone, it'll change everything." "Look physical evidence that there's extra terrestrial life." "You don't want to see that?" "Like I have say, I resent this briefing very much." "Oh, Jesus." "And how's that Harry?" "If Norman's report calls for a biologist, a mathematician, an astrophysicist and a psychologist... why are you here?" "Physical protocols start in a half an hour." "Do you wear glasses all the time?" "I just started wearing these..." "Why the glasses are a problem?" "Because I don't actually need them." "Clinically speaking they're just for reading." "And they're more of a crutch." "I see fine without them." "They said there was no problem, but they didn't anticipate that I would be going a 1,000 feet under the water." "Do you take prescription medication?" "No." "None at all?" "You know once in a while sometimes I might take like a... a piece of Xanax or something if I'm nervous." "Something like that." "But not... much." "Knee surgery." "Complete reconstruction of ACL, right knee." "Still have steel pin here, steel pin up here, little medial collateral damage." "I see that you have a scar on your neck." "Car accident." "Were you drinking?" "Yeah." "But I wasn't driving." "Wait, I just want to apologize for putting your name on the list." "What are you talking about?" "When I made the report a few years ago, I just picked names of people I knew." "And?" "Well you know, I know Ted because of his father, you know." "Yeah, so what?" "What's up?" "Beth was a patient." "Ok." "It's a bogus report." "What?" "Did you tell Barnes?" "No." "You can't do that." "That's..." "That's a fraud." "They came to me, you know, new administration, right?" "Political agenda." "They said, look." "They said, in case of an alien invasion, do's and don'ts." "Why didn't you just say no?" "$35,000." "It paid the down payment on my house." "The new administration, they wanted to prove to the public they're doing something new." "How'd you come up with this team, of a biologist, an astrophysicist and a mathematician?" "Right." "How?" "I don't know." "It sounded good, I mean, right?" "Made them come to me." "Ok." "Look I forgive you, Norman." "I forgive you." "But I don't forgive you for Ted." "He's a pain in the ass." "You're right." "You only..." "I'll talk to him." "We'll be there 2 hours." "You don't have to be around him." "He idolizes you anyways, but I'll talk to him." "I'll buy you dinner." "All right." "I'm sorry." "Your secret's safe with me." "Come on." "I can't believe this thing could." "Like a dream." "Have you called your wife?" "No." "Why not?" "This'll be a saturation dive." "You're going to a Habitat at a thousand feet of water." "A sub will take you to the Habitat and you'll transfer aboard." "Once you're at 1,000 feet, your body will be pressurized for that depth." "You could actually hold your breath and take a short dip, because the pressure wouldn't bother you." "Although I wouldn't recommend it, because the water is so cold, you'd suffer hypothermia and you'd freeze to death in less than 2 minutes." "That's the reason for the diving suits." "Your helmet has a rebreather for your air supply." "Now directly following this briefing, I'll take you to an on board dive tank." "Well, for the next 8 hours, you'll train in deep-saturation dive techniques and emergency procedures." "Once you've gone down 1,000 feet, if you return to the surface, you'll have to commit several days of decompression." "There is no real quick return." "However, there is a mini-sub, that may be used as an emergency escape vehicle." "But there must be a ship at the surface to mate to for decompression." "Without decompression, your body would literally burst." "Under these circumstances, you're very well-controlled." "The dive has been planned well and professionally monitored." "All right the descent will take about 13 minutes, descending at 80 feet a minute." "It's going to get chilly." "Try to relax." "Next time, just tell us when you're going to push the button." "Mozart..." "Horn Concerto in E-flat..." "K-447." "How you holding up, Captain Nautical?" "I'm loose." "You're loose?" "I'm loose." "I'm loose." "I'm uptight." "We Ok?" "We're in the river now." "What river?" "It's a temperature salinity differential." "It flows like a river inside the ocean." "We're in the middle of the ocean and the ocean as a river." "That's right." "You Ok?" "No." "Right now, I'm not Ok." "Would you please not touch me?" "We're both nervous." "Yes?" "Would you cut that out, please Harry?" "You're having a stress reaction." "That's Harry's stress reaction, Ok?" "Those noises we're hearing, that's normal?" "Those noises is the pressure of the water attacking the integrity of this sub." "You know a little something about that, don't you, Norman?" "How the pressure can attack your integrity." "Come on, you be nice this trip." "Were you nice last time?" "You two want to sit together?" "My God!" "Norman, look at this, look at this." "Jesus!" "That's just the fin." "That's the Habitat." "The Navy moved it in sections and set it up as a base... as soon as the spaceship was discovered." "It's manned by 2 naval personnel." "It will be your home-away-from-home while we investigate the spacecraft." "It ain't the Motel 6." "Approaching docking bay from R-4." "All personnel, descent sub one engaging lock area." "Descent sub one, you are now depressurized." "All right, we're going to pressurize you now." "I know it's hot in there, but you're going to feel coolness." "That's the helium." "Helium?" "Was I the only one paying attention?" "Oxygen is a corrosive gas, in the same family as fluorine and chlorine... hydrochloric acid, hydrofluoric acid." "That's why we're breathing helium down here." "Because oxygen at any level higher than 2.3 becomes toxic." "Can you run that by me again, Ted?" "I don't speak balloon." "What?" "That's my voice." "The helium resonates differently with my vocal chords." "Follow the yellow brick road." "All right kiddies, cut it out." "The voice regulators are behind you." "Put them on." "The Navy dive team is setting up a hydraulic robot, in the air lock outside the spacecraft." "We'll use that to open its door." "Is that the door?" "Yeah, we used sonar imaging to pinpoint it before the divers went down." "How tall is that robot?" "Five feet." "And it's roughly the same size as an airplane door, isn't it?" "Excuse me, Ted." "I think that's worth taking note of you." "Excuse me." "Tell them our team is in place and ready, Ok?" "This is Habitat to Navy dive." "Our team are in place." "Has it occurred to anyone maybe we shouldn't open that door?" "Why do you say that?" "We've always assume these creatures will be green, or insect like basically human." "But what if they inhale air and exhale cyanide gas?" "Perfect plausible." "Or live forever like a virus or a yeast." "But why would you assume that an unknown life form would want to kill us?" "A creature that can't be killed wouldn't think killing was right or wrong." "They'd simply have no concept of it." "Instant eradication." "It's what all the serious scientific stuff talks about." "What little there is on the subject." "You did put that in your report, you know Norman?" "Oh yeah, it's in there." "Ok." "Yeah." "Good." "Get us the ETD for team's departure to surface." "Tell them we're in ready and thank them." "Habitat to Navy Dive." "Our team's ready to take over." "Descent sub ready for your return to surface." "Thanks for all your help." "We'll let you know what we find." "I'm not too thrilled at the prospect of this you know." "What if you have to go to the bathroom?" "Just go down your leg, Ted." "Really?" "You can urinate in these?" "You can." "The question is, do you want to?" "Where's the switch?" "Ok, let's go." "All right, Fletcher... we're at 1,022 feet." "The ambient temperature, 34 degrees." "Heading out north-northwest, 330." "It's a firm bottom." "Intermittent coral." "This is great, you guys." "Look at the size of that thing!" "My God!" "You see that tunnel?" "That's where we're going." "Into the heart of darkness." "We're in the coral pipe now, Fletcher, approaching the air lock." "I'm feeling pressure in my ears." "Is that normal?" "Just use your equalizer." "A little better." "You know the most toxic creatures on Earth live down here." "The venom of the land animal is nothing by comparison." "Even the weakest sea snake is invariably lethal." "Is that supposed to make me feel good, Beth?" "This is our air lock." "It'll take us from a wet to a dry environment." "We're assuming the inside of the ship is sealed." "This thing is enormous." "That's not budging, is it?" "Turn it at 45 degrees." "What's happening here guys?" "Is that piston broken?" "Can you get the suction cup flat to the plane of the door?" "Maybe it's the hydraulics." "The pressure messes everything up at this depth." "Time for a demonstration in basic physics, gentlemen." "What is it, Harry?" "Take a look." "It's chipped." "All right, it's chipped." "So what?" "I thought you said this thing wasn't damaged when it crashed, that this titanium alloy was so super-strong, you can't hurt it." "I did." "So why does it chip when this scientist just bangs it with a hammer?" "Is there heat coming off this thing?" "You're right." "Get out of there." "Back up." "Just a minute." "I mean, get back now!" "Get back." "Jesus." "Anybody else wonder who the hell opened that door?" "How did that happen?" "I'm not sure about the atmosphere." "Helmets stay on." "All right." "We come in peace." "Always wanted to say that." "All right Fletcher, inform the Navy we've gained access to the spacecraft." "There's a hell of a lot of radiation shielding in here." "Huge grids of catwalks and plumbing... and a lot of steam." "It's endless." "We'll stay in touch here." "Somebody's been here." "There's footsteps and they ain't ours." "So what do you say, Norman?" "Time to turn back?" "I'm a little curious." "Break up into 2 squads." "We'll never cover the territory otherwise." "Split up?" "He's got a point." "We've only got about a half-hour of breathing time left." "Ted and Harry, you come with me." "Beth, Norman, stick together." "Come on." "I think the people who built this place would call that divide and conquer." "Whoever built this thing wanted us dead, we'd be dead already." "These guys offer a federal grant to study the effects of an alien invasion." "I told all this to Harry." "You know..." "Made up the report?" "No, not all of it." "I mean, I did research on half of it." "Who did the other half?" "I borrowed from, you know, good writers." "Isaac Asimov, Rod Serling..." "Rod Serling?" "Who would've thought anyone even reads those government reports." "What's the odds of it?" "You know what I mean?" "I show up here, half the Pacific fleet is here." "I just didn't know what to do." "I wanted to tell you, that's all." "Would this fall under the same category as, Gee Beth, I thought you knew I was married?" "I don't think we have enough oxygen..." "Oh, my God." "Did you push something?" "No." "It did it on its own." "That must be the cockpit." "Hold on." "Look at this." "Cross-stress bracing on the outer hulls." "All axes supported." "Look at this stuff." "This is interesting?" "Soft and strong at the same time." "It's like better than rubber, better than steel." "I think you know a lot about this stuff." "Yeah." "I studied aeronautical engineering at M.I.T." "Isn't that where you got your Ph.D?" "It's where I got mine." "All 3 of them." "I hated M.I.T." "Envy?" "Puberty." "How old?" "First Ph.D, 18." "Damn." "One year, Harry." "You beat me by one year." "Let's push on." "Let's go." "Man, they didn't tell you how heavy these things were out of the water." "Look at this." "Come here." "Trash." "Basura." "Trash?" "Oh, God." "Jesus!" "It's human." "You mean humanoid." "No, Norman, I mean human." "Blunt force trauma." "You can see by the direction that the fracture runs... that he was hit in the back of the head." "What's in his hand?" "I don't know." "What is it?" "Smokehouse Almonds?" "My God, it's an American spaceship." "It can't be an American spaceship." "It's 300 years old." "There weren't even Americans, let alone spaceships." "Look it can't be, but it is." "Ok." "Ok." "Let's see if there's some kind of flight recorder, or data computer where we can ring up some kind of... a, a, a flight history I mean..." "Look at this." "It's in English." "Come here." "Ok." "Ok, good." "Right there." "And there." "Look at the dates!" "Can't be." "Could be." "It could be 2043 year." "1643, I don't know which one is weirder." "Unknown Entry Event." "Press it." "You sure?" "Oh, Norman." "This is Barnes, Norman." "Yeah, I can hear you." "I..." "I can't explain it, but I think we're inside an American spaceship." "It gets better." "What the hell is it?" "Whatever it is, it seems to be what this bird was designed to do." "Go out into space and gather things like this up and bring it back." "Yeah, but back from where?" "Don't get too excited, Ted." "Turn this thing over, it'll probably say Made in Korea." "Somehow I doubt that Harry." "No doors." "No hinges of any kind." "I'll bet if you put a laser micrometer on this thing, it'd be a perfect sphere." "I mean perfect to a thousandth of an inch." "That's a message in and of itself." "Really?" "What do you mean?" "Well..." "When Pope Benedict asked Giotto to prove his worth as an artist," "Giotto drew a perfect circle... freehand." "Perfection." "It's a powerful message." "I know what the Zen masters would say." "What's that?" "This ball wants to be caught." "No nobody built this thing looking into their third eye Beth." "They went to a lot of trouble and they didn't do it for nothing." "Something put this thing out there to get picked up and brought back here." "Have you forgotten the Trojan horse?" "It could be a trap." "Don't you think that's a little paranoid Barnes?" "No, I'm going to put a video camera on this thing and keep an eye on it." "Can I ask you something about this reflective surface?" "Yeah, it appears to be mercury, doesn't it?" "Except mercury's liquid at this temperature." "That's not what I'm talking about." "What worries me is that it's reflecting everything but us." "I hate to be the one non-scientist that picks this up, guys." "You know what I mean?" "What do you think it is?" "I don't know." "Whatever it is... it's alien." "Ok, an American spacecraft, materials, technology more advanced than what we know, crashes into the ocean." "Crashes?" "Why wasn't it damaged?" "The materials are obviously super-strong." "If that's the case, how come the door chipped just from you banging on it?" "Ok." "Better." "It didn't crash." "It arrived... 300 years ago." "From where?" "Not from where, from when." "So you're saying this thing took a wrong turn?" "Yeah." "That's right." "I mean, what if the craft... inadvertently flew into a black hole?" "It arrived in our past from its present." "What about those dates you saw on the flight recorder." "43, 47." "That's right." "That has to be 2043, 2047." "That image that you told me you saw on the monitor from what you describe that sounds exactly like a black hole, a tear in the space..." "We know what a black hole is Ted." "I don't know what a black hole is." "A black hole is a collapsed dead star, that has so much gravity it acts like a huge vacuum cleaner, sucking everything into it." "A light interstellar dust, time," "Time?" "It's possible, but not plausible." "It's more than probable." "It's rudimentary astrophysics." "We just haven't been able to fly into one and prove it." "Well." "I just got off the horn topside." "They're expecting a bad blow up there." "And they're pulling us out." "Pulling us out." "Wait a minute!" "Pulling us out what do you mean pulling us out?" "What part of pull out don't you understand?" "Extraction." "We're leaving." "No, no, no." "That's ridiculous." "We haven't even begun to scratch the surface here." "If you've ever seen a Pacific cyclone, what we call a tornado is a little fart." "So I suggest you go back to the dormitory and take a nap." "You need to lower your metabolism before we start the decompression." "You're just gonna leave a time-traveling spacecraft at the bottom of the coean?" "I'm just following my orders, Ted." "We're the Welcome Wagon for the aliens, Ted?" "There's no aliens." "It was made in America." "What's your point?" "My point is, I'm a biochemist and there's no life down here." "What is wrong with all of you?" "That doesn't mean there's nothing to learn, to explore!" "Jesus." "She's right, Ted." "You guys are the human contact team for an Unknown Life Form." "There is no Unknown Life Form, so we pull out at 0900." "Norman, will you please say something to him." "What?" "I don't know." "Do you not have an opinion about this?" "Yes." "I'm delighted we're going back up top." "You know what I mean?" "I mean, I don't know about you, this might look like a road-side diner, but in the meantime, my ears won't pop and if I pull this thing away from my neck," "I sound like someone's squeezing my testicles." "Let's go home." "Barnes is wrong, you know." "What do you mean?" "Wrong about the storm?" "No, about the sphere." "What about the sphere?" "It's alive." "Why do you say that, Harry?" "There's something inside it." "How could there be anything inside it?" "There's no doors, no seams." "The sphere chooses what it will and won't reflect." "Doesn't that seem like the actions of a conscious being to you?" "Ok." "Pop psychology, you want to know what this is really about I think, for what it's worth?" "Your anger towards our friend, Ted in there, because he figured this out before you did." "You really think so?" "I don't know." "This is my first underwater session." "You're right." "Ted did figure it out first, didn't he?" "Good shrinkage." "We're all going to die down here, you know." "What?" "What?" "You see, it's curious." "Ted did figure it out." "Time travel." "And when we get back, we're going to tell everyone, how it's possible, how it's done, what the dangers are." "But why 50 years in the future, when the spacecraft encounters a black hole, does the computer call it an Unknown Entry Event?" "Why don't they know?" "If they don't know, it means we never told anyone." "And if we never told anyone, it means we never made it back." "Hence, we die down here." "Just as a matter of deductive logic, Norman." "Damn, I wish I could get inside that sphere." "What's wrong?" "Talk to Mr. Barnes." "Where is he?" "Video feed room." "Where is that?" "I don't know where the hell anything is." "Where am I?" "Where?" "What's going on?" "I don't know, Norman." "You tell me." "What the hell is he doing?" "I don't know what he's doing." "Do you know what he's doing?" "Come on, Norman, there's no time." "I need to know what you know." "Nothing." "He said he wanted to go inside, I just didn't think..." "We are inside, Norman." "You mean outside?" "He said, inside." "Inside what?" "Inside the spacecraft?" "I think inside the sphere." "The Sphe..." "Holy shit!" "Oh My God." "Did he go inside?" "I don't know." "I don't think he went inside." "Well, what the hell's going on?" "He didn't just disappear." "I don't know." "I don't think he disappeared." "I think it's a glitch in the video." "Fletcher, can we get playback on that?" "You'll have it in a minute." "You knew he was going to do this and you did nothing." "I didn't think..." "You didn't think, Norman?" "I didn't think it possible." "Where are Beth and Ted?" "I don't know." "You don't know?" "No, I don't know." "I woke up." "I heard bells ringing." "I'm not getting an image on the sub." "And I star running," "That's impossible!" "I got a cable in my quarters!" "They'll be here in 25 minutes or less!" "The only logical explanation is that the sub is still at the surface." "Is it also logically possible your sonar is messed up?" "Let's just calm down, all right?" "He didn't just disappear." "We are not going to leave him." "You got that right Norman." "We're not going to leave without him." "I am not going to lose a civilian on my watch." "So you have just screwed up our trip to the surface." "We are not going up to the surface." "We're not going..." "Harry!" "We are not going up!" "Harry!" "Can you hear me?" "Harry!" "Harry, can you hear me?" "Harry!" "You know Norman, this is not a triage situa..." "Norman!" "Norman!" "Jane go find me Ted and Beth." "Norman." "Norman, stop." "Still no reading on the sub." "Forget the goddamn sonar, Teeny." "When Beth and Ted get here," "Keep on eye of them and make sure they don't go anywhere, all right?" "What the hell?" "Harry can you hear me?" "Harry?" "Harry?" "Harry?" "Harry?" "Harry?" "Norman he is alive?" "Barnes we have a problem." "Harry's out cold." "His pulse is normal." "All his vitals are normal... but I don't get it." "Harry?" "Hello." "Hello!" "Norman, can you hear me?" "We lost video here." "Can you hear me Norman?" "Norman?" "That tears it." "What, sir?" "We're on internal power." "I don't follow you." "They cut us loose, Teeny." "For some reason the sub turned back." "Break out your 5-day deodorant pads." "We're here for the duration." "Everything's normal." "What's going on?" "Is he all right?" "Is it true?" "Did he go inside?" "What did he say?" "I get it, he didn't say." "He can't talk." "He's aphasic." "He's asleep, Ted." "I can't believe he went into the sphere." "He didn't say anything." "How?" "There's no door." "No entry hatch." "How'd he get in?" "Can I have your attention, please?" "We've lost contact with the surface." "The Habitat is now operating solely under internal power." "We have plenty of food, oxygen and fresh water, to sustain us until the storm is over, and we reestablish contact with the surface." "But until that time, this mission is subject to emergency authority under my command." "I'm going to take this out to the mini-sub, sir." "Are you up on the duty roster?" "Yes, sir." "Where's she going?" "Procedures." "Everything in the Habitat is videoed." "So every 12 hours we take the videos storage out to the mini-sub and press the reset button." "The idea is, if something happens to us and we don't reset it, the sub goes to the surface automatically." "If we're all dead, they at least have a partial record of what went wrong." "Cheerful thought?" "Mind the store a minute." "I'm going to the head." "What the hell's that?" "It's so beautiful down here." "It's so tranquil." "This is beautiful." "It's hard to believe we have a typhoon 1,000 feet above our heads." "Hey, it's snowing down here." "You see them?" "There's got to be a million... jellyfish down here." "Man, this is really beautiful." "These jellyfish are getting a little friendly." "Having a hard time seeing." "Hey, guys, you getting this?" "It's getting thick down here." "Hello, hello." "Hello, hello." "I can't see what I'm doing." "Hello, hello." "They're sticking to my faceplate." "Fletcher, this is Dr. Fielding." "Just swim through them." "They're harmless." "Hey guys, these jellyfish are everywhere." "Fletcher, get out of there." "What are jellyfish doing at 1,000 feet?" "Hey, guys." "I think they feel the heat from my body." "I can't get them off me!" "They're stinging through my suit!" "Fletcher, I want you back at the habitat on the double." "I can't move my legs!" "Come back to the Habitat." "They're inside my suit!" "Keep moving!" "Just keep moving!" "Help me!" "Jesus, Barnes, she's dead!" "There's no bubbles." "Edmunds." "Yes, sir?" "Come on down here." "Something... happened to Fletcher." "God!" "When I was 5 years old I went out on a boat with my father." "He told me not to jump in the water, so of course I did and..." "I..." "I..." "Oh, my!" "I jumped right into a school of these guys." "Not this big, though." "I think every one had a shot at me." "I don't know what this lady felt but... man, it went beyond pain." "It was, it was... afraid of them since." "Would you feel any better if I told you this wasn't exactly a jellyfish?" "What do you mean?" "I mean, jellyfish like this are unheard of." "I don't know what this is, but it isn't God's creation." "Come on in." "Hello." "Norman." "Hi." "Hi." "Have a seat." "You want some coffee Norman?" "No, thanks." "How well do you know Dr. Halperin?" "I used to teach at UC San Diego years ago, she came for her master's." "Well, don't take this personally, but I assume she wasn't a romantic interest of yours." "I'm sorry, don't take what personally?" "Well, she's a tall, vibrant, younger woman." "It's Ok, what's your point?" "So you knew her as a patient." "I'm not at liberty to discuss that." "You understand." "I understand an exotic-gas environment 1,000 feet under water with no lifeline to the surface, is about the most dangerous environment on the planet, Norman." "If there's a problem, I got to know about it." "Beth is fine." "Beth is fine." "Yep." "Beth's fine." "She's very fine." "Ok." "Would you like to read this and tell me what it says?" "Are these my actual notes." "What does it say Norman?" "How in the world did you get..." "Does it say suicide attempt?" "She was having some problems..." "Does it say electric shock therapy?" "Isn't that what it says, Norman?" "What's your point?" "Didn't it seem important enough to tell somebody?" "You're willing to jeopardize the lives of all of these people, to have someone here who could in fact bementally unstable?" "Are you aware of the term, overreact?" "We're 160 fathoms down." "And we've got a nutbag down here who can flip out and crack up." "You selected the team, Norman." "Why didn't you tell me?" "When I wrote this report, I didn't know the team was going to be a thousand feet... thousand feet or ten feet it makes no difference, why didn't you tell me about Beth mental history?" "I didn't think it was pertinent." "That was not your call to make Norman." "Yes, it was and it still is." "It was a passive attempt." "A passive attempt?" "Yes." "People who really want to kill themselves get a gun and shoot themselves or go off a bridge, they don't call their boyfriend and say, I just took 20 Nebutol." "Help me." "She took 20 yellows, and you're telling me she's perfect." "What is it?" "Come in." "What?" "It's Harry." "What?" "He's awake?" "He's really awake." "Man, oh, man!" "Barnes?" "You're going to have a real problem with me." "If my good buddy Norman keeps cooking like this, I ain't going nowhere." "This toast is good." "Bacon?" "Better." "But these eggs!" "These eggs are fantastic!" "Norman, what did you put in these eggs?" "No, no, no, no, no, wait." "Don't tell me." "I got it." "Parsley." "Correct." "Chives." "Yeah." "Tarragon and..." "What is that?" "Chervil." "Is that chervil?" "Yes, it is." "I'm glad you like it, Harry." "I love eggs!" "They sure seem to cheer you up." "Harry, with you and the sphere, do you remember what happened?" "Yeah." "I went inside." "How did you get inside?" "There are no doors." "Hey, there are doors all over this place, and we can't get out." "We're still here." "Yes, we are." "You didn't answer my question Harry." "Norman." "Yeah." "Why are you looking at me like that?" "Harry, are you saying we shouldn't still be here?" "Where's Teeny?" "I thought she did all the cooking around here." "She had an unfortunate accident, Harry." "She was killed." "Killed?" "How?" "Jellyfish." "Jellyfish?" "That's strange." "Yes, it is strange, isn't it?" "Here you go, Harry." "Little onion rings." "Look at that." "It's not onion rings." "Good, though." "Guess what it is." "What." "Calamari!" "You all right?" "Cough, cough, cough." "No, you're doing it wrong." "I know what I'm doing Norman." "Bring it up Harry." "Come on, bring it up." "Bring it up Harry." "Come on!" "Bring it up!" "Stop it!" "He's trying to talk." "Come on!" "Bring it up!" "Ted!" "What?" "You don't listen." "He wants to say something!" "I'm not choking, you asshole!" "See?" "I hate squid." "I hate squid." "I'm sorry." "I was trying to help." "You Ok?" "Yeah." "Harry, let me ask you something." "Before you went in the sphere, you were convinced that we were all going to die down here." "Yeah, I remember that." "You still believe it?" "You afraid of dying, Norman?" "Bullshit." "What?" "Bullshit!" "He's hiding something and you know it." "He was in there, he went inside the sphere and whatever it is he saw, he won't tell us." "He said he doesn't remember anything." "Oh, come on, Norman." "You bought that?" "Yeah." "No, no." "That whole food thing, it was all a diversion." "Think about it." "The guy's willing to put all of our lives on the line, because he doesn't want to share information." "Ted, I think..." "I can see it right now." "He's making notes for a book." "He wants to win the Nobel Prize." "And you don't?" "No!" "Norman, you've known me since I was 17 years old." "I would love to be the guy who gets some recognition..." "Have you any idea how respected in your field you are?" "I'm not!" "What have I done?" "No." "I've written one "Fun With Dick and Jane" book on physics." "I mean, for christ sake," "Neils Bohr, he published "The Quantum Theory of Atomic Structure" at 28." "Einstein, relativity, 26." "Newton, gravity, 23." "In physics, if you haven't done it by 35, chances are you never will." "This doesn't have anything to do with your competitiveness with Harry?" "Harry?" "Harry." "Harry." "Harry." "19." "Wunderkind!" "I rest my case." "Mr. Barnes would like to see you, Ted." "Why?" "There's something wrong with the computer system." "Try purging it." "I tried purging it." "It just keeps coming back." "What about a discharge from the buffer memory?" "You know, I ruled that out." "I think the helium is getting to the chips." "It's probably a saturation effect." "If that's true, what are our options?" "Well, you have to change all the chips." "Forget it." "Run this place on manual?" "It's going to be a long 4 days." "Hey, boss." "Ted?" "You figure that?" "Yes." "It's a saturation effect Harry." "I don't think so." "What do you mean?" "If it's a saturation effect, it would be random." "What do you mean?" "This has a pattern." "See?" "It's like a code." "A code from where?" "How'd you do that?" "How'd you see that?" "Try it in binary." "See?" "Letter breaks." "You think this is coming from the sphere?" "I don't know." "Harry, this mission is classified Ultra Top Secret." "Anything you translate are for my eyes only." "If you were it, how would you know our alphabet?" "Same way it's configured on a keyboard." "But reflected in an orb, spherically." "A keyboard, but spherical." "Take a keyboard, wrap it around a sphere, then starting at the center key, G, number the letters... spiraling out." "Ted!" "You're the man!" "You got it Harry?" "I still got it." "I still got the juice." "Keyboard." "Now you keep those?" "Here, you want them?" "No." "I did!" "All we got to do now is plug in the numbers." "Friends, in the 8,000 years of recorded history, this is a first." "You're now on-line with an alien intelligence." "You got to be kidding." "You must've messed up the translation." "No, I don't think so." "If this translation is right, this alien sounds like an idiot." "Well, that's something to consider a stupid alien." "They must have them." "Well, I will admit the message is a little childlike but actually it's quite perfect." "It's short, to the point, non-threatening, kind of the way you talk to a small child or a dog." "Look at this." "He's making a speech." "Ask him for his last name." "What?" "I want a full name for my report." "I'm not putting in my report I lost a crew member on a deepsat expedition, to find an alien named Jerry." "Please!" "Jerry?" "Harry." "Harry." "I think we should tell him we're enjoying it too." "Ask him where he's from." "Where are you from?" "I make a journey." "You make a journey." "We make a journey together." "I think Jerry's channeling Deepak Chopra." "A journey from where?" "He's happy." "He's crafty." "What happened?" "Damn, I think we lost him." "We're not alone." "We are definitely, not alone." "Harry, it's trying to make contact with us." "Or whatever it is, it was inside that sphere." "Now it's out and free to act." "What do you mean by that?" "Free to take over our computers." "Free to call us on the phone, free to come knock on the door if it wants to." "A physical presence." "What are you thinking about Norman?" "That last part where he said, I am happy." "Well, don't you want Jerry to be happy Norman?" "Honestly?" "Yeah, what's on your mind?" "I would be happy if Jerry had no emotions whatsoever." "Because the thing of it is, once you go down that road, here's Jerry, this emotional being cooped up for 300 years with no one to talk to, none of the socialization, the emotional growth that comes from contact with other emotional beings." "So?" "What happens if Jerry gets mad?" "Ted?" "What's that sound?" "Did you hear it?" "You hear that thump?" "Edmunds, what is that sound?" "Edmunds, can you hear me?" "Did you hear that sound?" "You are a hell of a woman." "I wish I knew you in the old days." "Norman told me you were..." "Norman told you what?" "Let's put it this way, that if Jerry could read your mind, he'd be bored with ours." "Edmunds what is that sound?" "Edmunds can you hear me?" "Barnes?" "Barnes this is Norman." "I get no answer from Edmunds and there's strange noises." "Something's going on." "Barnes?" "Norman?" "Ted?" "I can't see very clearly but looks like Edmunds is up on the side of the Habitat." "I'm not getting anything on sonar, but watch yourselves out there." "Ted?" "Norman?" "Do you get your callback buttons, please?" "What'd you tell Barnes?" "About what?" "About me Norman." "You told him I took 20 Nebutol and tried to kill myself." "Didn't you?" "He had my notes Beth." "What do you want me to do?" "Did you tell him who I called Norman?" "Oh, God." "Norman?" "Come in." "Ted?" "Norman?" "Ted?" "Did you guys find that thumping yet?" "Beth, I don't get it." "What could've done this to her?" "My God!" "Norman she's like a rag doll." "Her body's been completely pulverized." "Oh my God." "Tentacles 27 feet long." "That would make a formidable monster." "Let's go." "Come on." "What?" "Beth?" "What is that?" "What does this mean?" "Talk to me." "What does this mean, Beth?" "Norman there's something up there!" "Guys, I'm getting a reading on the sonar." "You're not alone out there." "What the hell makes eggs this size?" "Come on Norman!" "Jesus, let's go!" "All right." "All right." "Norman, let's go." "Come on." "Let's go!" "All right." "All right." "All right." "What the hell is going on?" "Norman it's 80 yards and closing." "Get out of there." "What the hell?" "What the hell is it?" "Come on, Norman!" "Come on, let's go!" "60 yards." "How close are you?" "I can't breathe." "What is it?" "What the hell is it?" "40 yards." "Move, move, move, move, move!" "Come on." "It's something big!" "Let's go!" "Where is it?" "What is it?" "20 yards!" "Move!" "I need a report, Beth." "I don't know what the hell's going on out there." "There are eggs everywhere." "You should've brought one back." "I wasn't up for an Easter egg hunt." "Maybe that's what Edmunds was doing." "I want to talk to Jerry." "Norman if we're going to talk to this thing, we got to have a game plan." "We need to be specific." "What is our objective, what do we want to address?" "We have to be specifics." "Oh my God." "Jesus." "Jerry?" "Jerry?" "Can you hear me?" "Jerry you've heard everything we've talked about." "That's great." "Jerry." "Hi, this is Ted here..." "You know I'm the guy who actually... decoded the keyboard thing..." "Shut up!" "Tell him we need to discuss this together alone." "Jerry." "Jerry." "Jerry use your words." "He's mad." "Jerry use your words." "Let's just pull the plug." "It may not be that simple." "Yes it's that easy." "We leave him alone, he leaves us alone." "Maybe he doesn't want to be left alone." "He's been down here in isolation for 300 years." "Maybe Jerry's lonely." "Lonely?" "What's that?" "It's our sonar picking up something outside." "Jerry, we all think that you're a fascinating and wonderful entity, and wish to talk to you for hours and hours." "Do you know that, don't you?" "Jerry, in your great understanding and wisdom you must know that entities such as ourselves... need to be private." "You know we have to talk alone sometime." "Oh no, no, we're..." "Jerry you know what it is?" "Jerry?" "Jerry." "Where'd he go?" "Shit!" "Something's clogging everything up out there." "It's back." "Positive thermals on the in-line perimeter." "What's that?" "Something is hitting the sensor grid." "Do we have any defenses?" "A high voltage of electricity, we can sent the current on the skin of the Habitat." "But every time we try it, we start an electrical fire." "Peripheral sensor's activated." "I'll try to image it on the fast-acting sonar." "Building an image." "80 yards, closing fast." "Jesus Christ, it's 40 feet long." "50 yards." "Re-imaging." "That's the same image I saw when you were looking for Edmunds." "It looks like a giant squid." "A squid the size of the entire Habitat?" "There's no such animal." "That may be, but that doesn't mean it isn't here." "Re-imaging. 30 yards." "What the hell is going on?" "Jerry." "Jerry." "Jerry, if you can hear me, it's Norman." "If we've made you angry..." "We got a pressure drop." "Ted, go to the control room and wait for me." "Why?" "Just go, please!" "Go!" "I'll tell you!" "Ok, look, what's that sound?" "What is that?" "It sounds like it's right above us." "I know where it is, but what is it?" "I'm in the control shaft!" "We got a leak in here!" "Hello?" "Ted?" "Ted?" "Holy shit!" "Ted do you hear me?" "Yeah!" "You got to increase the positive air pressure and drive the water out." "You understand that?" "Increase the pressure?" "Won't that use up our air supply?" "If the Habitat is full of water, you'll be dead." "Now open the red gate valve." "Ted, the pressure is dropping!" "We'll be crushed like a tin can!" "Find the red knob Ted!" "It's the only one in the room!" "Got it!" "All right good." "Good." "We're getting positive pressure." "Alright, not too much now." "Start to ease it back." "Ted turn it back!" "The pressure is too high!" "Ted!" "We'll explode!" "Can you hear me?" "Ted turn it back!" "We're here!" "Jesus!" "Norman can you hear me?" "I got him, I got him." "What?" "Norman can you hear me?" "Norman?" "Turn the red gate valve." "Which way?" "Clockwise." "Close it." "Done!" "Barnes?" "We're still leaking!" "It's not the outer shell, it's the internal pipes." "They're just leaking." "We're ok." "What the hell is out there?" "Norman." "Listen to me." "Whatever it is, it's not letting go." "You've got to pull the green lever marked 'High Voltage Defense System.'" "No!" "He said it would start a fire!" "Don't do it!" "Barnes you said it would start a fire!" "We're going to die down here." "Pull it." "Barnes, do you hear her?" "Don't listen to her." "She's crazy." "Pull the green lever." "Norman!" "Pull the lever!" "What are you trying to pull?" "He's trying to pull something." "Don't do it!" "Do you hear her?" "Don't listen to her." "Pull the goddamn lever!" "Don't do it Norman." "If we start a fire..." "Pull it!" "It'll eat up all our oxygen." "Don't do it!" "We've got failures all over the place!" "We're taking on water!" "It'll set a fire!" "There's no way out!" "Shut up!" "What am I going to do?" "You're going to be squid food!" "Pull it!" "What am I going to do?" "We're falling apart!" "We're Ok." "You don't have to be right all the time." "Yeah." "Right?" "Yeah." "Ok?" "Ok." "Anybody got some Advil?" "Norman we got a fire in the comm room." "Get up there." "I'll meet you with gas masks, in case we need them." "Where is the fire extinguisher?" "Over here, there's one there." "I got it!" "How do you work it?" "Pull the pin." "Are there any more?" "I saw some in the dorm." "Alert, alert." "Emergency doors now activated." "Alert, alert." "Emergency doors secured." "Alert, alert." "Emergency doors now activated." "Harry!" "Harry wake up!" "Harry what are you doing Harry?" "Harry, wake up!" "Shit!" "Alert, alert." "Emergency doors now activated." "Alert, alert." "Emergency doors now activated." "Doors secured." "It's coming through the ceiling panels." "Try to get it through the cafeteria!" "Ok, I'm going up." "Get back!" "Don't, Jerry!" "Don't." "Norman!" "Norman." "You ok?" "Hang on!" "Get out!" "Norman!" "Get out!" "This is Norman, Jerry." "Can you hear me?" "Jerry." "Jerry." "It's Norman." "Is that you, Jerry?" "It's Norman." "Jerry?" "Who put out the fire?" "Jerry, who put the fire out?" "He's dead." "Barnes is dead." "He got cut in half by the door." "Beth and I put him in a body bag." "I know." "Something happened to Ted, Jerry." "I can't." "I can't, it's not in my power." "There was a fire and..." "And I froze." "I didn't help him." "I wanted to but I didn't help him." "I knew him since he was 17 years old, and I let him go." "But I'd like to just deal with this at a later time." "You made that, Jerry?" "No, no, that's all right." "Jerry?" "Jerry?" "Very important." "Nothing more right now." "Please." "Ok." "Jerry, you have to stop." "Jerry listen to me." "This is critical." "Your..." "Your manifestations injure our entities." "And pretty soon there'll be no more entities left, to play wit and you'll be all alone again because... because you can't control yourself." "Because with all your power, you don't have the power to stop, do you Jerry?" "What name do you want?" "Jerry?" "Jerry?" "What name do you want?" "Jerry?" "Hi, Harry." "How you doing?" "Norman." "Can you believe what happened?" "What?" "You know, the attack on the Habitat." "You know there was an attack on this place?" "No." "I must've slept through it." "You slept through it." "I was dead tired." "So..." "Smoke didn't bother you?" "All the leaking, you know." "Norman you ever read this book, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea?" "I found it in the john." "Someone's misguided attempt at levity." "I always loved this book." "I could never get past page 87 though." "Too scary." "You seem strangely detached, given our predicament." "I don't know, Norman." "With all your running around, what have you accomplished?" "You knew I was running around?" "Have you seen Beth?" "No." "Thought she's with the others." "What others?" "Barnes and Ted are dead, Harry." "There's nobody left down here that knows how to run the place." "Right?" "The fire screwed up the electronics." "We've used up most of our reserve gas." "You're reading your book." "Somebody has to go reset the mini-sub." "If you don't reset it every 12 hours, it will float to the surface." "I'll go." "No." "I'll go." "You sure?" "Oh yeah." "If the storm clears, it might be our only way out." "Can I talk to you for a second?" "I don't want Harry anywhere near that mini-sub." "Why you think he'll leave without us?" "Oh I think he already left without us." "I think Harry's in a whole other place." "Did you know he slept through the attack?" "You don't think that's a little strange?" "Well, I guess it's just you and me, babe." "You and me Beth." "Yeah." "I'll keep my eye on you from the control room." "Reset." "Reset, where are you?" "There you are." "Beth?" "Beth, are this supposed to be bubbles?" "coming out of... out of here too?" "Beth, I have bubbles coming out of my hose or something." "Beth!" "Beth, can you tell me what to do?" "It's fogging me all up here." "Beth!" "Beth, there's something wrong here!" "I got to get out of here!" "Tell me what to do!" "What do I push?" "Beth, where the hell are you?" "Help me." "Beth, I don't think I'll ever get back!" "Beth!" "Beth!" "Beth, tell me what to do!" "Beth, tell me what to do!" "I can't..." "I can't breathe here." "Hey, watch out for that rock." "It's me, Harry." "Harry!" "Come around the rock." "Harry!" "Go to the right of the stanchion." "Tell me what to do Harry." "I'm hurting." "Come around which way?" "I can't breathe Harry!" "Yes, you can breathe." "You just a faulty valve." "It won't kill you." "You got plenty of gas." "Please tell which way Harry." "See the air lock?" "Right in front of you." "I can't..." "I can't bear the feeling in my ears!" "I can't breathe." "Where is she?" "Slow your breathing." "Slow down." "You'll hyperventilate." "Where is she?" "She said she'd keep an eye out for me." "I looked all over the Habitat for her, I couldn't find her." "I thought maybe she was with you." "Where is she?" "Where is she?" "Did she tell you she was going out?" "Beth?" "Norman?" "I can't hear you." "If she can't hear, why'd she answer?" "Beth what are you doing?" "I went looking for food." "We're out of food." "I was just up there." "They have stuff all over the place, but there's plenty of food." "You went to look for food in the spacecraft." "That seems a little odd, don't you think?" "No." "What seems odd about it?" "Well even if there was food, wouldn't it be at least 300 years old?" "Here I was hoping for a cryogenic freezer, you know?" "Maybe a bottle of Bordeaux." "She's lying." "She's lying about everything." "Is Harry up there with you?" "Why don't we just talk when you get back." "Meet me in the galley..." "I'll buy you a cup of coffee." "There's still coffee, isn't there?" "Very funny." "I'll take mine black, like my mood." "All right." "See you soon." "We got 2 ingredients here:" "Beth and this underwater environment." "Put them together, you got one big-ass bomb." "Hey!" "How did it go in the mini-sub?" "It was a little disconcerting out there, actually." "Oh!" "Yeah." "Weren't you supposed to be watching out for me from the control room?" "Yeah, but..." "Harry said he'd take over for me." "You sat down at the monitors." "What happened?" "I was in trouble." "Where were you?" "What's going on?" "What's going on?" "Well, all I know is going out to look for 300-year-old food in that spaceship when there's plenty of food here isn't exactly normal." "Plenty of food?" "There isn't any..." "A veritable horn of plenty." "He must have hidden it." "You think I hid all that food?" "I don't know what's going on here but..." "I was standing," "I was standing right here." "And there was no food in the cupboards." "And there was no food in the fridge." "Why Beth?" "Why would Harry do that?" "Why would he set you up?" "I don't know." "Norman I just..." "You don't know?" "I'm telling you..." "I was standing here... and this food was not here!" "Calling Dr. Halperin." "Dr. Beth Halperin." "Please return to reality." "Shut up." "Ok, you can see what he's doing to me." "You said you'd watch me." "You didn't." "You think Harry said something he didn't." "You said that cupboards are empty when they're full." "Clinically, we would call that evidence of a psychotic break, alright." "I am not crazy, Norman!" "But you going to write me a prescription?" "And just get rid of me again, it's not that convenient down here Norman, Ok!" "I am not psychotic!" "How about a mini-psychotic break?" "That's not fair." "Fair?" "What?" "I'm down there." "I can't breathe." "I'm hyperventilating." "The man saved me." "But I..." "Wait a minute!" "Now you want me to believe that he set you up!" "Why?" "This isn't Alice In Wonderland!" "Remember, just you and me, babe?" "Is it unrealistic to think that at this point, you are a danger to yourself, you are a danger to all of us, because of your anger toward me, which happened whatever was," "10 or 15 years ago, which is so distorted in your head!" "I was out there." "You almost got me killed!" "The man tried to save my life!" "You now want me to disbelieve Harry!" "Yes, I want you to disbelieve Harry!" "I want you to look at me and believe for one time Norman." "Look at me Norman." "Am I telling you the truth?" "You weren't there Beth." "You want to believe Harry, Norman then that's fine." "Ok, because he's done everything but part the sea for you since we've been here, Ok." "But I'm telling you... that he is not... telling you the truth." "This is not about Harry." "Is it?" "Who's this about?" "He didn't tell you what's inside the sphere, did he?" "You didn't tell him, did you?" "You didn't tell him what's inside the sphere?" "And how would you know that Beth?" "Did you go inside the sphere?" "Answer me." "Did you go inside the sphere?" "Why won't you answer me Beth?" "It's a question." "You don't want to talk to me." "Remember?" "Answer a question." "What do you think?" "You think she went in the sphere?" "Here." "You dropped your book." "Jerry." "What isn't Harry telling me?" "Jerry I know you're there." "You're always there." "What's inside the sphere?" "Harry is reading this bookm" "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea." "What makes me nervous is that after page... 87... it's all blank pages." "Why?" "Why did he go into the sphere... and come out like this?" "Why?" "Why?" "Why, Jerry?" "Why is this book half a book, Jerry?" "Why?" "Why?" "What's going on?" "He's got G equals one." "That's right." "He's got B equals two." "He's got..." "H equals three." "That's not right." "Harry's got the code wrong." "H doesn't equal three." "Harry not only makes it real for himself, Beth." "He makes it real for you." "He makes it real for me." "He has made it real for everybody." "It's really frightening because you don't know whether it's really real... or whether he's made it real for us to believe it's real." "And it's because of the sphere." "Our Harry..." "Our Harry is Jerry?" "Come on, Beth, I'm just as tired as you are." "Come on, just..." "I know you can get this." "Ok?" "Harry said he couldn't get past page 87 because he said it was too scary, Ok." "There's nothing on the pages." "Where's the rest of the book?" "Read what's on page 87." "According to calculations of some naturalists, one of these animals, only 6 feet long, would have tentacles 27 feet long." "That would make a formidable monster." "What does Harry hate?" "Squid." "And when he read that, it scared him." "Getting the picture?" "Remember all those... jellyfish that attacked. right?" "What was Harry doing then?" "Sleeping." "He was dreaming." "And this is the really wild part, what he dreamed..." "Happened?" "It happened." "You're telling me that... because Harry went inside the sphere, he now has the power to manifest... his dreams, his fantasies..." "Manifest." "He manifested it." "He made it happen." "We better not piss him off." "It's not that different from a child, right?" "A child imagines that what it's imagining happens." "But it doesn't." "But with Harry, it does." "In fact, it's so real, it's not only real to Harry, it's real to all of us." "And what I can't understand is that ever since he went in the sphere, the sphere has some kind of power, that projects every subconscious thought Harry has onto the computer." "It prints it out and we interact with it." "We thought it was Jerry." "It's not Jerry." "It's Harry." "Harry's Jerry." "Does Harry know this?" "No." "And what I don't understand, is that you went in the sphere and nothing happened." "Obviously, I didn't go in the sphere." "Beth." "You never went inside the sphere?" "You didn't go in there?" "I was so angry at you." "I wanted you to be scared." "Maybe you had a right to be." "Thanks." "You sure you didn't go in there?" "I don't know about you, but I don't feel like dying down here." "What we're going to do is find something to put Harry under." "We can put him in some kind of deep unconscious sleep." "Dreamless sleep, I hope." "A dreamless sleep, yes." "How do we do that?" "I got a bunch of drugs up there." "Fancy that." "Diphenylpyraline." "Burns." "Ephedrine hydrochloride." "Motion sickness." "Valdomet?" "Ulcers." "You might want to keep that." "Sintag." "Sintag is a synthetic opiate." "It's a painkiller." "I might want to keep that." "What about parasolutrine?" "Really?" "I got paracin trichloride." "That's an anesthetic." "Do you combine it?" "You give about 20 cc's of this one, 6 of this one." "You're in business." "Here's some more paracin trichloride." "Good." "We'll knock him out for about 3 to 6 hours." "I'm going to hold him." "What's going on?" "Ok go back to sleep." "Jesus, I didn't know it would be that fast-acting." "We didn't kill him, did we?" "I don't think so." "Ok." "Come on, come on, come on." "Here we go." "It's a code." "How the hell are we supposed to..." "Oh, it's decoding itself." "Weather conditions normal." "Surface support vessels return." "6 hours and counting, we're out of here." "It's over." "If you trust it." "You know me, I believe everything." "Get out!" "Get off!" "They're Belcher sea snakes, Norman." "The most poisonous snakes in the world." "But they're nocturnal." "They're only dangerous at night." "Norman, can you meet me at the lab, please?" "I have something I need to show you." "Norman?" "Beth." "Beth, what are you doing?" "I'm here." "Beth?" "What are you doing?" "Beth." "Beth" "Hey Beth!" "What did you do?" "Why are you locking me in?" "Beth!" "Norman." "You manifested the snakes." "What?" "Norman, up here." "up here Norman." "You're the only one who could be manifesting these snakes." "Turn around." "Turn around and look on the table." "See the hypodermic needle?" "Yeah." "I want you to inject yourself Norman." "I what?" "It's that the same thing that we used to inject to Harry." "We gave Harry this stuff because he was manifesting and we wanted to..." "Norman you're manifesting your fears." "The jellyfish, now the snakes." "Ok the squid thing was Harry, but he's asleep." "He's in a dreamless sleep." "It couldn't be him." "You are the only one left Norman." "Beth, why would the snakes have anything to do with me?" "I didn't go inside the sphere." "See the jars Normam?" "I put the snakes in there and they disappeared in front of my eyes." "Who's manifesting them, Norman?" "You are." "I don't have anything to do with snakes." "If you don't use the hypodermic needle, I'm going to have to defend myself." "I'd remember if I went in the sphere!" "Don't make me do this." "I don't want to do this." "I didn't manifest anything." "I didn't manifest the squid." "I didn't manifest the..." "I shouldn't be talking to you like this." "Why are you taking the gas out of the room Beth?" "That's my air." "Beth, what's with this water?" "Norman think it through." "Whose childhood fears with the jellyfish?" "Jellyfish?" "Remember, Norman?" "I'm not the only one who's afraid of jellyfish." "This wasn't exactly a jellyfish." "Jellyfish like this are unheard of." "Anybody can be... can be afraid of jellyfish." "A lot of people are afraid of jellyfish." "Isn't it possible that you went inside the sphere, and you just don't remember?" "I didn't go inside the sphere!" "You would've seen it on the video!" "I didn't go inside the sphere." "Yes, you did." "Is he alive?" "You went inside the sphere, and you just don't remember." "That's the problem." "It's not me!" "I'm not going to use it!" "Inject yourself with the hypodermic needle." "It's your snakes Norman, see." "It's all a fear." "It's just a fear." "Norman you can make it go away." "Just use the hypodermic needle." "Snakes go away and the ships will come and we'll get out of here." "Beth!" "What are you doing?" "You're going to kill me!" "Norman you can stop it." "Try to pull yourself together Norman." "Your fears are going to kill all of us." "Please, Norman don't open the hatch." "You'll freeze to death in the water." "No!" "Norman!" "No!" "Norman you'll kill yourself!" "Don't open the hatch!" "I know enough not to get killed down here." "Kill them." "Are you the most qualified in your field?" "What exactly are your qualifications?" "Why are you here?" "What exactly are your qualifications?" "Why are you here?" "Why are you here?" "Why are you here?" "Why are you here?" "Why are you here?" "Are you the most qualified?" "You almost got me killed." "You're a danger to all of us." "Come back to reality." "Beth." "Beth!" "What are you doing?" "Beth." "Beth." "Norman." "Are you real?" "As real as the water that almost drowned me." "You tried to kill me." "What are you doing there?" "Beth, you went into the sphere." "Didn't you?" "Beth?" "Beth?" "You want to answer me?" "I don't know what to think Norman." "I just, I feel like I can't breathe." "I'm losing it, you know?" "I'm trying, I'm trying to keep it together..." "What's going on?" "Why'd you put me out?" "Just what are you guys up to?" "You went in the sphere, Harry." "So did Beth." "So did I." "I think." "And if so, what?" "Everything that we feel Everything that we think, just... happens." "That's what happened to the astronauts." "Guys the astronaut in the chair, what did you say about his head?" "He had... blunt force trauma." "He got hit in the head." "They went into the sphere one by one, and maybe became more more afraid of each othertill they killed each other off." "And we're doing the same thing." "I don't want to kill you." "Your attention, please." "All construction personnel must exit the blast area immediately." "Panther explosives are now activated." "Mark 13 minutes and counting." "Does anyone want to tell me who that voice is?" "They had explosives down here, you know, to blow up the coral." "So when I went out before," "I set up a defense perimeter around the door of the spaceship." "Something must have triggered it." "What?" "Something from inside the sphere." "Nothing in the sphere Beth, you know that, you've been inside." "Then what?" "I don't know." "Then who?" "It's me." "Oh, God." "I was just thinking about the explosives." "It just flashed inside my mind." "It must've triggered them." "I was thinking about wanting to die." "You put explosives near the spacecraft?" "Yeah, I did." "But they're about 100 yards away." "There's a lot of liquid hydrogen left on that spacecraft." "If it explodes, it'll disintegrate everything." "Mini-sub, now!" "Let's go!" "I hope there's a ship up there." "Your attention, please." "All construction personnel must exit the blast area immediately." "Panther explosives are now activated." "Mark 10 minutes and counting." "Let's go!" "Let's go!" "Come on, come on!" "Come on, move!" "Keep moving." "We're not going to make it!" "There's not enough time." "Beth." "Just keep moving." "We're not out of time." "We're not going to die here." "Keep moving." "Let's go, Norman." "Wait, wait, it's not like I drive subs, Beth, Ok." "Norman you're driving one now." "Oh, my God!" "What's going on?" "I don't know." "Why are we inside the spaceship?" "I don't know." "Let's go!" "Now alert, alert." "5 minutes and counting." "We're not moving." "Anybody hit the button?" "What the hell?" "Wait a minute, this was an elevator before, right?" "Which one of us is doing this?" "Oh, God." "Alert, alert, alert." "Panther explosives armed." "Wait, wait." "We were here already!" "How much time we got?" "Come on!" "Come on!" "It's a dead end." "Where are we?" "An illusion." "It doesn't look right, guys." "Come on." "Beth, which way?" "Harry, where do we go?" "Where?" "Where's where, Norman?" "Around that corner, down this corridor?" "And what's there?" "Just another blind alley in the maze of our minds." "Illusion." "Maybe he's right Norman." "If he's right, we believe that, we're dead." "Just go on." "Leave me." "You're not going to die down here." "I'm not going to let you die." "Come on." "I'm not going to die." "Come on, come on, come on, I'm not going to die." "You have to push the button Norman." "I can't see a button." "I can't see the button." "I can't see the button." "It's no use." "We die down here." "We're running out of time." "They all look the same." "I don't know where we are, I don't know we're stuck in." "Where we are is stuck in the illusion that we can change the future." "It's a dead end Norman." "Just like I said all along." "We die down here." "Maybe he's right." "Maybe he's right Norman." "Maybe he's right." "I'm not going to die here." "Beth's not going to die here." "And you're not going to die here." "Look, just leave me." "Harry we're not in the spacecraft!" "We're in the mini-sub!" "This isn't real!" "This is your manifestation!" "Let it go!" "It's a dead end." "We're not going to die here Harry." "It's not our time to die." "Thank God, we're out of here." "Don't start celebrating yet." "Why not?" "I don't think we're going fast enough." "Fast enough for what?" "An underwater blast creates a suction." "It'll pull us right back down there." "That is, if the shock wave doesn't kill us first." "Alert, alert." "Mark 20 seconds and counting." "Panther explosives are now activated." "640 feet." "630." "620." "610." "You a religious man, Norman?" "Atheist." "But I'm flexible." "Pull up, Norman!" "Pull up!" "Come on, pull up!" "This is Escort 7." "We have sighted OSSA mini-sub, bearing 105." "Repeat." "Bearing 105." "Preparing to make contact for decompression procedure." "What's going on?" "More of nothing." "I want to thank you for saving my life." "Interesting life to save." "You get some sleep." "I have no idea what to tell them when they debrief us." "My back is killing me." "Next time I have to remember to stretch before I jettison from a mini-sub." "Look we've been trapped in here for about 3 days alright." "They want some kind of explanation." "We ought to figure out what we want to tell them." "Killer jellyfish, squid, sea snakes, and an alien being in the form of a giant totemic golden ball?" "Please." "Look, we destroyed $100 million worth of equipment down there, and people died." "Now they want some answers." "How what do you guys want to tell them?" "Harry?" "Why aren't we dead?" "What?" "Remember what you said, the future can't be changed." "It can't." "Yeah." "But in the spaceship they called it an Unknown Entry Event." "An Unknown, like we never got here alive, to tell them about it." "You said we wouldn't survive, remember." "If you can't change the future, we'd be dead." "We're alive, we're not dead." "Yeah and in 2 minutes we'll be in a room full of military guys, alright?" "And they know about the sphere." "We know Barnes, got a hold of them before we lost contact to the surface." "So what do you want to tell them?" "Why bother, the sphere's destroyed." "But, we still have the power, am I right?" "Look, I don't know if I trust them with it alright." "frightening thought I don't know if I trust you guys." "But I tell you this much," "I don't want to not be able to sleep, afraid I'll wake up. it's... having manifested some... nightmare and there's all kinds of weird things in my apartment." "That's a frightening thought." "Yeah, no kidding." "So... if we still have the power... what do you want to do with it?" "If God knows what they'll do with it." "Are you saying you worried about what will happen if it falls into the wrong hands?" "Yeah." "Frankly, I don't know what the wrong hands are." "Or what's worse, the wrong hands or our hands." "We are the wrong hands." "Ok." "We proved it." "Like, you know, the 3 of us are 3 enlightened people, we're intelligent, we even recycle our cans and bottles." "But when we got our shot, we manifested every mean, distorting, vengeful, paranoid thought you could think of." "We did." "Right?" "So you believe we still have the power." "Of course we still have it." "And that's the answer to the equation." "We can't change the future." "We're not dead but they don't know." "Why?" "I'm not following you." "Because we have the power, to forget." "To forget?" "You want us to agree to forget?" "Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, are we sure that we want to do this?" "Yes." "I mean this is the greatest discovery in the history of mankind, and now we're just going to white it out like some kind of typing error?" "Norman." "I'm sure." "What about you, Beth?" "What's the matter, Norman?" "It's a little hard to let go you know." "Yes." "Something that could've been... this gift?" "The power to make your dreams come true." "We're given the greatest gift in the history of mankind." "We're given this magic ball." "And it says, imagine what you will and you can have it." "Well, that's an extraordinary gift, but we're so primitive, we..." "We..." "We manifested the worst in us, because what we have inside us, is what we have inside of us, instead of the best of us." "What does that say?" "We weren't ready, Norman." "We have what's called an imagination." "I mean, I mean look what we're capable of." "We can..." "We're, we're not ready." "A long time ago..." "I did something very... very inappropriate with you, and I'm sorry." "Ok?" "Ok." "I don't have any answers, Norman, but these guys are coming so let's..." "Ok, we're going to agree to forget... the sphere... the power... all that ever was." "I don't know how to get this going Harry." "You're the mathematician." "How about we just count to 3?" "I couldn't have come up with that." "I'll start." "One." "Two." "Three." "Can somebody tell me what the hell that's supposed to be?" "Why are you holding my hand?" "No, you were holding my hand."