"The Starship Marco Polo - one of the international space administrations interstellar research ships" "On its way back from accomplished missions on the planet Rossum" "Rossum orbits around Barnards star which is located about 5.9 light years from earth in the constellation Ophiuchus" "The starship accelerates to hyperspeed travel" "In this phase, control is entierly in the hands of the ships central computer" "Due to the long travel time, the crew is in supervised hibernation" "The section for films presents:" "Elis" " Maintainer of the eco-systems" "Leda" " Physisist / machine operator" "Gaia" " Biologist maintaining the bio-systems" "Akeron" " Maintainer of the computer systems" "Jason" " Sociologist / Linguist" "The Stowaway" "Science fiction story by Bing and Bringsværd" "Directed by Stein-Roger Bull" "Part I:" "The Starship Marco Polo" "Good morning, good morning" "Yeah right." "Did you sleep well?" "No, I'll never get used to this" "It's like the my head lags" "Artef, good morning" "Good morning. 09:32:45." "DAY: 113" "Status function group 1" "Check posistion, trajectory, velocity" "Main functions checked." "Status green" "Status energy group 1" "A to X supply" "How many light days have passed since we left Rossum?" "Just over a week" "On an empty stomach..." "Yeah, yeah." "There are already women on their way to the kitchen" "There'll be enough time to eat We're still far from station Nexus" "And we have not much else to do but eat and sleep" "Easy for you to say." "You've practically done your part when you have put us on the right course" "Prioritized control group checked Green all over" "Roger that" "Yet another bullseye Jason" "Marco Polo will safely take you back to station Nexus" "A machine operator is a man that ..." "It's a janitor with a PhD while I on the other hand ..." "I have to process god knows how many video recordings" "The planet Rossum, the colony, language group, social structures etc" " Good morning" " Good morning Elis" "The two of you had better check something else besides eachother soon" " Grumpy this morning Jason?" " Me?" "Hah!" "So, feels good to get home Jason?" "You haven't had it so bad during this trip, eh?" "Young happiness in space" "Thank you for that" "That's strange" "Wow some malfunction in the surveilance I see, only pictures from the sea-section" "Please come to the control section at once" "Come to the control section at once" "This is the recording from the storage room" "I don't believe it" " A stowaway!" "?" " That's what it looks like" "Maybe it's a ghost" " And where is it now?" " Well, that we can quickly find out" "The computer can register how many people there are aboard and where they are" "There we have the picture" "But there are only five" "Maybe your ghost theory wasn't so silly after all" "He has to be aboard" "What about the storage room?" " If only I understood how..." " But we saw it Leda." "It's that dust..." "No, no sign of other beings besides us aboard" " Strange." "If there are other living beings aboard..." " We know there are Akeron" " Well, then the computer has to know" " We have to check out the storage room!" "What about the machine room?" "After all, it has plenty of places a stowaway can hide" "I'm more interested in getting an analysis of the dust" "Gaia, only living beings can be registered" "Exactly, for all we know, he could be lying dead on the other side of this door" "Shouldn't we have something to defend ourselves with?" "What would that be?" "The weapons we have aren't exactly for indoor use" "We have to get this over with" "We should have had infrared sensors in the machine room as well" "Access denied Jason" "You know the rules." "No one ever thought humans would reside down there" "That's exactly why." "It's the perfect hiding place for a stowaway" "No one has been here" "Are you sure?" "As sure as I can be." "The programs seems to be in order" "I was worried the stowaway could enter a password and send us all straight to hell" "Akeron, check out the radar." "Huge object in our trajectory" "It's ..." "I discovered an object inside the shock field" "What's going on?" "We are not following the locked trajectory" "We were promised it would be completely free of hindrances" "That's why we have the schock field" "Fucking bureaucrats at Nexus." "As if they give a damn" "We're receiveing the picture" "It made it" "Look!" "Meteorite my ass" "A spaceship?" "It's not from earth" "There has to be a connection" "It's impossible to get contact." "No signs of life aboard" "I thought it was an attempt at attacking us" "It would have had to been a suicide squad" "We discover a stowaway aboard and at the same time a foreign spaceship appears It's clear there has to be a connection" "I'm more worried about what will happend when we arrive" "If we brake during light speed travel, with that wreck in front of us..." "I agree with Jason." "There has to be a connection" " We can't solve everything at once" " Well, you have to Akeron" "Let's first get rid of that foreign spaceship" " But how?" " Later we can take care of the stowaway" " But it's a spaceship Akeron" " I could care less if it was a planet." "It's blocking us" " Are you suggesting that we blow up the ship?" " Yes indeed" " Before we have explored it?" " That ship has to go" "We must share the tasks among us" "We need to check out that ship before we do anything with it." "We have the time" "Time?" "To do something about that spaceship, yes." "But we need to hurry to find the stowaway" "What are you doing?" " The dust" " You mean you found something?" " Yes" " What did you find?" "That's what I want to find out and since we only need two people here, I suggest you continue to search other places" "Ok Madame Curie." "Come on Elis" "Leda, the ship will have to wait" "Elis?" "Cassius" "Find anything?" "Well, maybe." "It just seems so improbable" "Improbable?" "Inbelievable" "It's mostly common floor dust" " But I find other stuff as well" " Like what?" "Some undeterminable molecules" "Well, maybe not so undeterminable, they are common enough" "Almost too common" "Some sort of building block molecules" "Molecules that can be used for anything" "Organical of course" "Cassius" "There we have the little escape artist" "Cassius have just played the part of the stowaway" " I'm sorry, but I forgot to ..." " To close the cabin door" "Cassius!" "Come here!" "Little Cassius didn't scare you, did he?" " Did you find anything?" " No" "What would a stowaway onboard Marco Polo?" " Don't we have find him first?" " Sure, but what are we looking for?" "We don't even know what it is At first it was some kind of dust then it turned into some sort of human" "For all we know it can transform itself into something completely different ... as well" "The spacestation report" "Gaia, we have been waiting" " Where is the routine report?" " We are having some problems" "Everything seems to go according to plan" "Well, we have ... we think we have a stowaway" " An inhabitant of the planet Rossum?" " We don't know" "Don't know?" "Does that mean you haven't found him..." "...or her?" "We don't know where to look" "You could for example start by looking aboard" "We're doing as best we can" "That is apparently not good enough" " There are also..." " I await a thorough report" "Fucking office wanker" "Food!" "If you have the time" "Oh well Elis." "Food we need in any case" " Setting for five or six?" " Six?" "The poor stowaway." "Surely he needs some food as well?" "That might be a good idea" "Try to lure him with french bread and soft boiled eggs" " Aren't you funny" " What do you want us to do then?" "You're not eating Leda?" "I'll just fetch something from my quarters" "Honestly Jason, we have searched every single room on the entire ship, and still we haven't found him" "What shall we do now?" "Now, we'll eat breakfast and later we'll talk about that" " Food, food, food." "Do you ever think about anything else?" " It happens" "And that was egg number eight?" "I'm starting to get fed up with boiled eggs" "I'd really like some fried eggs and bacon" " The next time we'll bring a farm - a piglet will do just fine" " Who has used the garbage disposer?" " The garbage disposer?" "Look, it's fully opened" "Someone must have thrown something in it after we left Rossum" "Quite a lot by the looks of it" "Let me have a look" "Shit!" "That's a lot hydrogen ... oxygen ... carbon ... sodium" "He has commited suicide" "The stowaway?" "A human being has been disposed in the garbage?" "Yes, a human being" "Exactly like us" "Oh my god!" "Exactly like us ... but the stowaway weren't a human being" " He was a biomate" " A biomate?" "What's that?" "An artificial human constructed by programmed molecules" "The dust was in reality tiny organical building blocks" "Programmed, by who we do not know, to form a human" "A human, exactly like us" "A ... a biological computer?" "I've never heard about that before" "It's an old idea." "Older than the robot" "But I've never heard they have made anything but primitive organisms" "Never a human being" "But how can you know this for sure Gaia?" "The analysis of the dust was quite clear" "There are no other explanations" "And now he's dead?" "I don't understand what he was doing aboard this ship" " And first he broke five cameras" " Like a berserker" "What on earth was he doing in the control section?" "When he moments later was to jump into that thing there" " Something is not quite right" " Correct" " You can't do it by yourself" " What?" "It's physically impossible to dispose of oneself through that disposer you'd be long dead before you're halfway through" "Watch" "The disposer must have been supervised until the process was over" "Someone must have been at the panel pushing the button" "You mean one of us have ..." "But that's impossible We were all in hibernation." "And no one awakes before the others" "There is one other explanation" "No, that's just too fantastic" "But it's the only logical explanation" "The biomate killed one of us?" "Disposed of one of us through the garbage disposer?" "And taken the victims place" "But we're all ourselves and ..." " He couldn't have ..." " How can you be so sure it's a he?" "A biomate can't be that similar to us" "I agree with Gaia, it's the only logical explanation" "So it wasn't the biomate but one of us who passed through the disposer" "So that's why he broke the cameras?" "He was afraid he'd be recognized" "So, who is it" "Who among us?" "Where is Leda?" "She went out" "Marco Polo calling Leda, Marco Polo calling Leda" "Leda, come in" "LEDA!" "Come in!" "I can't reach her" "She must have turned the radio off" "Damned Leda" "Before we have taken a single sample The ship might be dangerous!" "Maybe she knows what she's going to?" "You mean ..." "Leda?" " She has entered the ship" " I'm now entering the foreign ship" " Leda?" "Do you read?" " I'm acting on my own responsibility..." " Leda!" "Come in!" " ...and against the rules" "I will not answer any calls but I will report everything I see" "There is a vacum in the ship" "It looks as if someone has opened the gate on purpose" "I can see beings in spacesuits" "Everything is different" "They have been dead for a long time" "At least..." "At least for more than a hundred years" "There are no apparent clues   as to where the ship is from" "Nor are there any clues as to   what has happened here" "Since the inner airlock was open   it can almost look like ..." "Can the explanation be suicide?" "I can move naturally in here" "Possibly have the same gravitational force occured here   as on the Marco Polo" "The writings on one of the panels reminds me of   reversed gothic letters" "There is no doubt in my mind that this is .." "... a starship" "Judging from the equipment   it's only ment to be used within   a single solar system" "The section for films have presented:" "The Stowaway by Bing and Bringsværd" "And the dog Cassius" "Narrator:" "Erik Tandberg" "Music:" "Egil Monn-Iversen" "Produser:" "Egil Monn-Iversen" "Director:" "Stein-Roger Bull" "The Starship Marco Polo - one of the international space administrations interstellar research ships" "On its way back from accomplished missions on the planet Rossum" "Rossum orbits around Barnards star which is located about 5.9 light years from earth in the constellation Ophiuchus" "The starship accelerates to hyperspeed travel" "In this phase, control is entierly in the hands of the ships central computer" "Due to the long travel time, the crew is in supervised hibernation" "Suddenly the suveylance monitors malfunctions" "The cause of the malfunction is discovered shortly after wake-up and it turns out to be due to a faulty camera" "Going through recordings from the hibernation period the crew discovers that a humanoid creature had materialized in the storage room" "I refuse to believe it" " A Stowaway?" " Looks like it" "The search for the stowaway is at first attempt fruitless and is interrupted by a violent shaking aboard the Marco Polo" "A foreign object impacts against the force field around the star ship" "We were promised the trajectory would be completely free of hindrances" "Look!" "Meteorite my ass" "A spaceship?" "What will they do about the foreign spaceship?" " Are you suggestion that we blow up the ship?" " Yes indeed" " Before we have explored it?" " That ship has to go" "Who has used the garbage disposer?" "Jason discovers the garbage disposer has been used during hibernation" "By comparing the trashed contents with Gaias finding of organical molecules in the storage room it becomes clear that there is a biomate aboard the ship" "A biomate?" "What's that?" "It's an artificial human constructed by programmed molecules" "The biomate has killed one of the crew forced the body through the garbage disposer, and taken the victims place" "So, who is it" "Who among us?" "Leda is unaware of these findings" "She goes over to the foreign ship by herself" "She finds the inner airlock to be open close to the entrace she finds one of the three crew members" "The spaceman holds a medallion in his hand which Leda brings back" "And this is how the last episode ended ...a starship" "Judging from the equipment   it's only ment to be used within   a single solar system" "The section for films presents:" "Elis" " Maintainer of the eco-systems" "Leda" " Physisist / machine operator" "Gaia" " Biologist maintaining the bio-systems" "Akeron" " Maintainer of the computer systems" "Jason" " Sociologist / Linguist" "The Stowaway" "Science fiction story by Bing and Bringsværd" "Directed by Stein-Roger Bull" "Part II:" "The foreign ship" "No doubt" "It's the same dust" "So it wasn't suicide after all" "It's old." "It has lost some of its abilities but there's no mistake about it" "The spacesuit has once upon a time contained a biomate" "So they had their stowaway too" "Lunch everybody!" "Akeron, take care of Nexus" "Gaia, come" " We have to go back" " But who'll we send?" "I don't mind" "When you left, we didn't know one of us had been replaced by a biomate" "Now we know, that one of us is a murderer" "We can't risk it that he or ... her" "We can no longer trust eachother Leda" "And what precautions have you taken?" "We have guards here in the control section always two together." "No one may be in here alone" " What about the machine room?" " What were we supposed to do?" "We're only five" " You have of course sealed the code?" " Of course!" "We're concentrating on the control section" "The biomate must have a reason to be here" "And if its intentions are to destroy the ship or..." "Og hvis det har til hensik å ødelegge skipet eller hurt us in any way, it's here that we are the most vulnerable" "We at station Nexus agree with that assessment" "And as long as you don't know who among you are the biomate you of course always have to be at least two in the control section" "And I repeat:" "No one enters the foreign ship" "Right, not until we know who was murdered" "Untill we know that you know" "Smart ass" "The results for each and every one of us is in accordance with the information the computer has about us" " Bloodtype, fingerprint ..." " Did you remember to check yourself?" "All the tests were indentical" "Neither X-ray nor any other medical tests shows any differences" "But how?" "Of course" "It's completely pointless checking up against the computer" "What else should I have done?" "The biomate is also a kind of computer" "Even though it is organic" "And?" "So what?" "Well, it has of course drained our computer for all available information about the victim" "It knows every minor detail" "It can imitate more than just appearance, bloodtype, fingerprint and so on" "It know as much about the victims personal background as the computer" "That's quite a bit" "Intelligence, knowledge level, family background, inhibitions" "Not just a doppelgänger then" "A true copy" "I'm scared Akeron" "We have no choice" "There's something aboard." "Something that wants to hurt us" " If only I knew who" " If only it had been a who, but it's not" "It's something, a thing, disguised as a human, as one of us" "Right, and this "something" sits out there and eats lunch" "How can I know it's not you?" "You can't Elis" "No, the only thing I know, is that it isn't me" "And the only thing I know, is that it isn't me" "But even if it had been you, you'd still say that" "Yes, and so would you" "We must not let this come between us Akeron" "If so we wouldn't be much better than machines ourselves" "If only I understood its intentions" "What does it want from us?" "This is a typical scene from the planet Rossum" "First, notice the red atmoshere which is characteristic for Rossum" "We gave this village the designation K-74" "And we stayed closed by it for close to a week" "Notice the houses and the architecture" "It resembles European rural architecture from the 16th and 17th century" "Notice also that all necessary machinery have been properly disguised" "Cut to farm T-322 outside of K-74" "Again, note that we don't see any machines" "Except for the natives themselves" "Excuse me Gaia" "Leda?" "Any thoughts regarding the proto-molecules?" "I'm currently going through all available material" "Did you find anything?" "I think I understand what it's all about insanely complex carbon molecules" "Programmed to assemble and change" "It's unbelievable" "So there exists someone with the ability to build a human" "We're facing a civilisation with far superior knowledge about biology than us" "And who would have thought that?" "About the natives on Rossum" "Robots" "The natives are robots ingeniously contructed." "They look like humans" "The head is what reveals them" "Most metal parts are covered by clothes" "Which by the way should have been completely unnecessary" "Notice the hands" "They are covered by an artificial fabric with the same texture as skin" "An amazing paradox" "Efficient machines on top of a primitive agriculture" "Jason?" "Yeah?" "Can you come to the library?" "Gaia has a proposition" "On my way" "Please sit" "What's this about?" "I propose that we let the computer continuously surveil our body functions" "Still not done with medical examinations?" "I thought we had agreed they are pointless" "Maybe." "But it's the only thing I can think of, and by the way ..." "We think that a simple medical examination might not be enough" " So that's what you think?" " Yes" "We thought the biomate might be able to mimic a human being the short time during a medical examination" "But that it will give itself away if surveiled 24 hours a day by the computer" "What's this?" "My proposal is:" "That we insert small radio transmitters under the skin" "The computer will the be able to keep track of us at all time and maybe reveal who among us are the biomate" "Gaia is right Jason" " And you want me to agree to this?" " You have no choice" "I don't trust any of you." "I trust only myself" "Come on Jason" "How can we know that these transmitters is what Gaia claims them to be?" "It's her proposal." "You really want me to trust her?" " I'll wear a transmitter too" " Sure, but only you know how to insert them" "Have you considered the meaning of this?" "How can we know that Gaia wouldn't  kill us all?" "Jason!" "It's just a proposal" "And we're not all technologically challenged" "Leda, what would you have done if you were the biomate?" "The crew know about your presence and try to reveal you." "What would you have done?" "You would of course start a witch-hunt yourself in an attempt to distract attention from yourself, right?" "And if suspicion should fall on somebody else, that'd be in your favour right?" "Excuse me, but I'm not going to help create scapegoats" "We're getting nowhere like this." "Rather we have to try to understand why the biomate have snuck aboard" " Are you leaving?" " Going back to the recordings" "I think the solution will be found there" "The rest of us agree, right?" "Who want to go first?" "Akeron?" "I think that, despite the primitive first impression that a far more complex civilisation hides under the surface" "The robots are after all machines, dependent upon advanced technology" "Based on among other things advanced computers" "This is one of the places we were denied access" "I believe that this has to be the entrance to on of the subterranian laboratories" "Conclusion:" "Why is it important to the robots to hide the machines and portray themselves as primitive farmers?" "For whom is this charade acted out?" "I believe the solution to our prolem aboard Marco Polo will be found in these recordings from the planet Rossum" "Do you think it will work?" "We have to try everything" "I'm just happy we have eachother" "Do we?" "You know what I mean" "If only we can trust eachother we might together reveal who the biomate is" "And why do you think that'll be any easier?" "Well, you know what'll happen?" "We'll start to keep an eye on eachother" "After a couple of days, the tension will be so high that anything will make one..." "What do you think Jason?" "Jason?" "I don't know" "That is what's horrible about it" "We know absolutely nothing" "Heart beats, brain activity." "Everything looks normal" "It's not hard to tell what normal activities Akeron and Elis is busy doing" "Not that that is hard to simulate" "A few push-ups, some fast breathing, rapid pulse" "If the biomate can mimic everything else, then simulating that is a piece of cake" "Robots..." "Everywhere we went, We met nothing but robots" "The planet Rossum represents a complete and normal ecological system" "A system in particularily good balance" "Animals, plants, fish, birds." "Normal animal and plant life on all levels" "Only on one level do we find abnormal life, on the human level" ""Human" in quotes" "Since all the beings on this level are robots" "Shit" "But robots don't create themselves" "At least not in the outset" "Who?" "What creatures was it that created them?" "We're receiving a signal from station Nexus" "Please report to the control section immediately" "We're receiving a signal from station Nexus" "Please report to the control section immediately" "He sais he's look for a solution in these recordings" "Who knows if he's not doing the exact opposite?" "Don't focus too much on Jason" "Perhaps he's checking that we haven't captured something we're not supposed to" "Just because he refused to wear the transmitter?" "Sure, he might be deleting all information and erasing all tracks as we speak" "What about Gaia and Leda?" "Nothing pleasant to say about them?" "We also agree on the preliminary conclusions you have reached" "But we seems we have reached somewhat diverting conclusions" "Let me go over the reasoning from the start" "The threat - yes we agree there is a threat" "Is probably not directed against the starship Marco Polo only" "The bureaucrat is thinking" "The threat is also directed against us." "Against station Nexus" "Most probably the biomate is an agent from the planet Rossum" "Which in this way will erase all information, not only aboard Marco Polo but also everything that is registered her on station Nexus" "The planet apparently wishes, for unknown reasons, not to be discovered" " But it is discovered" " But only by us" "Station Nexus has no connection with earth" "We are completely isolated until we reach back to control sector M" "Should both you and we be destroyed, all information and I repeat, all information about the planet will be lost" "But there was no sign of hostile activities when we were on Rossum" "Right, they might have been a bit reserved, but not directly hostile" "Nonetheless, our decision are final" "We have taken steps to protect station Nexus" "We can not allow any member of Marco Polo to enter the station untill the biomate have been found and incapacitated" "But we're on a locked trajectory" "We'll reach Nexus in about 20 hours" "Only if the biomate is found" "If not, we see no other possibility but to destroy the ship" "We won't accept that." "We refuse to volunteer to blow up Marco Polo" "You won't have to" "We have already fired a missile on collision course with you" "What the hell are you thinking?" "It's like a death sentence" "You have a time limit of 18 hours" "The missile can at any time be defused before the time limit" "But we'll only do that if the biomate is found" "You can do this to us" "I'm sorry" "But concern for station Nexus has to come first" "Regarding the foreign spaceship; we order you to destroy it" " You want us to blow up the foreign ship?" " That's our assessment" "Before we know what's aboard?" "I'm sorry" "But concern for station nexus has to come first" "I'm not going to take this" "They've had the exact same problem as we aboard the foreign spaceship" "Gaia has even proved one of them had been replaced by a biomate" "Right, even though they didn't solve the problem, the solution might still be aboard that ship" " It might be suicide to go over there Jason" " It's suicide not going over there" "Who said anything about going over there?" "We haven't even taken a closer look at what we have" "Well, there's not much to look closer at" "A dusty finger and an old ornament" "Stop!" "We don't know what killed them." "That box might be full of virus" "It's of no importance now." "It's too late to be careful" "Careful" "Is it empty?" "A hologram" "A highway entrance to a city" "The red atmosphere" "Don't you recognize it?" "It must me some sort of souvernir, a proof you've been a certain place" "Exactly." "And we've been there too." "Can't you see it, the pictures are from Rossum" "There were no such cities on Rossum" "The section for films have presented:" "The Stowaway by Bing and Bringsværd" "And the dog Cassius" "Narrator:" "Erik Tandberg" "Music:" "Egil Monn-Iversen" "Produser:" "Egil Monn-Iversen" "Director:" "Stein-Roger Bull" "The Starship Marco Polo - one of the international space administrations interstellar research ships" "On its way back from accomplished missions on the planet Rossum" "Rossum orbits around Barnards star which is located about 5.9 light years from earth in the constellation Ophiuchus" "The starship accelerates to hyperspeed travel" "In this phase, control is entierly in the hands of the ships central computer" "Due to the long travel time, the crew is in supervised hibernation" "Suddenly the suveylance monitors malfunctions" "The cause of the malfunction is discovered shortly after wake-up and it turns out to be due to a faulty camera" "Going through recordings from the hibernation period the crew discovers that a humanoid creature had materialized in the storage room" "I refuse to believe it" " A Stowaway?" " Looks like it" "The search for the stowaway is at first attempt fruitless and is interrupted by a violent shaking aboard the Marco Polo" "A foreign object impacts against the force field around the star ship" "We were promised the trajectory would be completely free of hindrances" "Look!" " Meteorite my ass" " A spaceship?" "What will they do about the foreign spaceship?" " Are you suggestion that we blow up the ship?" " Yes indeed" " Before we have explored it?" " That ship has to go" "Who has used the garbage disposer?" "Jason discovers the garbage disposer has been used during hibernation" "By comparing the trashed contents with Gaias finding of organical molecules in the storage room it becomes clear that there is a biomate aboard the ship" "A biomate?" "What's that?" "It's an artificial human constructed by programmed molecules" "The biomate has killed one of the crew forced the body through the garbage disposer, and taken the victims place" "So, who is it" "Who among us?" "Leda is unaware of these findings" "She goes over to the foreign ship by herself" "She finds the inner airlock to be open close to the entrace she finds one of the three crew members" "The spaceman holds a medallion in his hand which Leda brings back" "She also brings back a torn off finger of a glove" "No doubt" "It's the same dust" "The relationships between the crew members becomes constrained" "We can no longer trust eachother Leda" "Gaia proposes they insert radio transmitters under the skin so they may be monitored at all times" "Everyone except Jason accepts" "Heart beats, brain activity." "Everything looks normal" "Jason goes through the recordings from Rossum" "Can the solution be found there?" "Again, note that we don't see any machines" "Except for the natives themselves" "Only on one level do we find abnormal life, on the human level" ""Human" in quotes" "Since all the beings on this level are robots" "The people on the space station Nexus have assessed the stowaway to be a threat also against them" "We can not allow any member of Marco Polo to enter the station untill the biomate have been found and incapacitated" "But we're on a locked trajectory" "We'll reach Nexus in about 20 hours" "Only if the biomate is found" "If not, we see no other possibility but to destroy the ship" "The crew are given a time limit of 18 hours" "A missile has been fired, but it may be defused at any time before the time limit as long as they figure out who is the biomate" "And this is how the last episode ended" "I'm not going to take this" "They've had the exact same problem as we aboard the foreign spaceship" "Gaia has even proved one of them had been replaced by a biomate" "Right, even though they didn't solve the problem, the solution might still be aboard that ship" " It might be suicide to go over there Jason" " It's suicide not going over there" "Who said anything about going over there?" "We haven't even taken a closer look at what we have" "Well, there's not much to look closer at" "A dusty finger and an old ornament" "Stop!" "We don't know what killed them." "That box might be full of virus" "It's of no importance now." "It's too late to be careful" "Careful" "Is it empty?" "A hologram" "A highway entrance to a city" "The red atmosphere" "Don't you recognize it?" "It must me some sort of souvernir, a proof you've been a certain place" "Exactly." "And we've been there too." "Can't you see it, the pictures are from Rossum" "The section for films presents:" "Elis" " Maintainer of the eco-systems" "Leda" " Physisist / machine operator" "Gaia" " Biologist maintaining the bio-systems" "Akeron" " Maintainer of the computer systems" "Jason" " Sociologist / Linguist" "The Stowaway" "Science fiction story by Bing and Bringsværd" "Directed by Stein-Roger Bull" "Part III:" "Who among us has been killed?" "Shhhh Cassius" "There's no doubt, this hologram has to be from Rossum" "So what?" "But there were no signs of industry on Rossum" "The spaceship came from there, the people too" "There are no people on Rossum" "But at some point in time there had to be" "Cassius, here boy!" "This is one of the herds of sheep grassing in the outskirts of village K-74" "The reason for keeping sheep is also one of the many paradoxes" "What does robotos need wool and sheep meat for?" "On the other ... what?" "But he might be right." "We don't know why the biomate is aboard" "Maybe the solution is to be found in the recordings" "Exactly, which is why it is irresponsible of Jason to work with them alone" "Just because he refused to wear the transmitter?" "He don't have to be the biomate for that reason" "No, but it doesn't make it any less probable" "But one thing we do know" "We know the biomate would be very interested in destroying those recordings" "XXX Dette synes å stå i motsetning til de opplysningene vi ellers har" "The robots deny anyone has made them" "They claim they have always been there" "And they have never seen or heard of humans, or creatures like us before" "But the creature we se here is beyond doubt a human" "Probably very primitive, but still a human" "When we comapre this with the paradox..." "Gaia?" "Quick, come to Jason cabin" " You didn't kill him, did you?" " relax" "I've just borrowed on of your syringes" "Here, go ahead, insert a transmitter in him as well" " Against his will?" " I could care less what Jasons wants" " I don't feel comfortable with this" " Just do as I say" "If I hadn't had you I think I'd end it myself" "We'll always have eachother" "We can't just sit around, waiting to be slaughtered like animals" "Leda thinks it's Jason as well" "Are you quite sure it's Jason?" "We can't prove anything" "Proof?" "You're require proof in a situation like this?" "Are you that certain?" "I completely agree" "We can't afford being polite to eachother any more" "Please explain that to the Florence Nigthingale of the universe" " She's always had feelings for Jason" " Yeah, who hasn't" " He's just as normal as the rest of us" " To err is human" "Oh well, At least we know that" " We also know one more thing" " What?" "That we'll never find the biomate this way" "It's a perfect replica of one of us" "That perfect ... is that at all possible?" "There has to be a flaw" "I'm thirsty" "Thanks" "You got enough to knock out a horse" "Enough what?" " Tranquilizer" " What the fuck?" "!" "Lay down" " I'm sorry." "Leda isn't exactly a nurse" " But why?" "The recordings!" "What the fuck is this stuff?" " I am sorry." "But you need to ..." " I bet you're satified now, right?" "Having identified me as the biomate" " No, we're still clueless" " You're wrong Gaia" "I think I know why" "What it is they are trying to hide down there" "The robots" "What about Gaia?" "Is she more suspicious than the rest of us?" "Gaia's the one who inserted the transmitters" "Sure, but that was only natural" "Gaia's the only one who has the expertise to do that" "Exactly, she's the only one who can have tampered with them" "Well, we can see she hasn't done that" "Her own for example" "It's what Jason was afraid of" "Not at all." "Jason was afraid she'd make on of us the scapegoat" "What I'm afraid of, is that she in this manner have obstructed a more thorough medical examination of herself" "Gaia, I'll prove it to you" "Gaia, we think you are the biomate" " Have you gone totally insane out there?" " Shut up Jason" "We think you've tampered with your own transmitter so that the computer couldn't reveal you" "You don't have to say anything" "The computer shows everyone to be normal, but we know one of us is not normal" " You're the only one that may have tampered with them..." " Akeron!" " It's not like you to be so damned illogical" " I'm sorry Jason, but it's the only logical thing" "No it's not." "If Gaia had been the biomate and tampered with her transmitter she'd tampered with it in such a way that someone else'd stick out" "The only thing we know after this is that Gaia probably is not the biomate" "It'd never let such an oppertunity pass" "We're running out of time, as is the biomate" "It needs to find a scapegoat" "If it fails, Marco Polo will be blow up in just a few hours" " Its mission is impossible to accomplish" " An unsolvable conflict" "If the biomate don't reveal itself, Marco Polo will be blown up" "And if it reveals itself, it will be incapacitated anyway" "It, more than us, has reasons to feel helpless" "If there only was something I could do" "This last recording is from the day we filmed at sector K-141" "Watch closely." "I have zoomed into the background of the picture." "Do you se it?" "Without doubt a human" "Well, now you've seen examples of the kind of proof I believe to have found in our archive" "And where does that leave us?" "Rossum is a planet ruled by robots" "My theory is that the robots at first was programmed to restore the ecological balance in nature" "There are several things pointing to that" "The care for all living things" "The unexplainable priority of what we used to call the primary industries agriculture, forestry, domestication" "Jason, where did the creators of the robots go?" "What about all the humans?" "If I'm right, the humans lost control over the robots" "How exactly that happened is hard to say" "It might have happened gradually, or a catastrophe, a war or something" "Anyway, they lost control and the robots continued with what the were programmed for" "Their task was to remove everything that obstructed restoration of the ecological balance in nature" "And the robots understood quite correctly that the biggest hindrance was mans own civilisation" "That's why they systematically destroyed cities factories, laboratories, all kinds of tools" "They reduced the humans to naked apes" "They literally forced man back to nature, to his natural habitat" "The robots took the place as natures own guardians" "So the foreign ship may have belonged to humans trying to escape" "Maybe" "Anyway, destiny finally caught up with them" "The robots had managed to smuggle aboard a very particular kind of stowaway" "Elis?" "You're an ecologist, what do you think about this?" "Well, it would certainly explain why we and station Nexus are regarded as enemies by the robots" "From the robots point of view, we are a threat against the ecological balance on Rossum, and so it's quite logical for them to want to destroy us too" "But even if this was the case." "How does it help us?" "Logical." "What do the humans do?" "What about the biomate?" "If these robots are so primitive." "How can they..." "They're machines, right" "They're dependent upon a very advanced technology in order to maintain themselves" "Below the surface, below the grass, there has to be advanced laboratories and factories" "The surface has to be a glorification" "Great, just great, now we know why" "When you know you're going to die, it doesn't fucking help alot to know why" "Elis is right" "We're stuck" "We have to find what seperates the biomate from the rest of us" "If only we had more time, we might have found it with the help of these monitors" "We can't expect the difference to show up immediately, we're talking about miniscule differences that'll be noticeable after a longer time period" "What we need is a situation that looks like a normal situation but which in reality is not" "A situation where the biomate has to improvise" "Exactly, we just need to find such a situation." "But where'll we find it?" "Improvise." "That's hard enough when you're aboard a spaceship" " I want you now" " Now or ..." "I think ..." "Here and now!" "Here, in the garden we can at least pretend we're somewhere else" "It's good to see some people have found a way to forget that damned timer" "We'll probably see their bars rising again" "Probably" "They should at least be aware we're watcing them" "Are you envious?" "They probably don't give a damn, at least now" "Elis seems to not give a damn at least" "But Akeron doesn't seem to be much aroused Men Akeron er ikke særlig tent" "He probably need some time" "It's him" "Don't you understand what this means?" "It's him!" "Akeron" "Please tell him he's mistaken" "NO!" "There's no need to restrain me" "I believe you" "What mistake did I make?" "Everyone knew you and Elis had a relationship" "I didn't have a relationship." "Akeron did" "Yeah, but one that you tried to mimic" "Jason, I'm not a person." "I just simulate a person" " We have no choice" " But it's Akeron" "No, I mean, it's almost like killing a person we know" "It's best for all if you leave me alone" "In a few seconds I'll disintegrate" "I'm programmed to selfdestruct when I'm discovered" "Let's go!" "The state of mind of the biomate revealed it" "Alone in the room with Elis" "Not in a public place where everyone could see them" "A private act in a private place became a private act in a public place" "The computers archives had no references" "Improvise?" "We at station Nexus acknowledge the problem as solved" "Welcome" "We'll see you soon" "The section for films have presented:" "The Stowaway by Bing and Bringsværd" "And the dog Cassius" "Narrator:" "Erik Tandberg" "Music:" "Egil Monn-Iversen" "Produser:" "Egil Monn-Iversen" "Director:" "Stein-Roger Bull"