"Every night, the same dream, the same strange planet." "But why?" "What are they trying to tell me?" "It's been 34 years since they arrived on this planet." "And not a day passes that the survivors forced to live in barrier cities, do not live in fear." "I have vowed to end that fear." "I believe my dreams hold the key." "The question is, will I be in time to save the Earth?" "Where are you?" "This is a restricted area." "Do not move!" "What's she doing here captain?" "I don't know, but we're getting her out." "You're coming with us." "Behind you!" "Hold it right there!" "Damn it." "Let's move, people!" "Two coming through the wall!" "Hold your fire." "Those tanks are flammable!" "Ryan, Neil, let's go!" "Just what the hell do you think you're doing?" "There's a life form in here." "There hasn't been life here in years." "Well, there is now." "Life form or not, I'm taking you in." "Fine!" "Arrest me." "But I'm not leaving without that life form." "It's gonna be one of those days." "Captain, the transport is not going to wait for us much longer." "I understand that." "It's in bad shape." "Oh please!" "Tell me we're not risking our necks for this plant!" "I wouldn't even call it a plant." "It's a weed." "I wouldn't even call it a weed." "I need a minute to extract it." "Miss." "That's a minute we do not have." "I'm afraid he's right about that ma'am." "Phantoms!" "We have incoming." "Captain, we need to get out of here." "Understood, sergeant." "Could you hurry please Miss?" "Done." "Captain?" "Yes, Neil?" "Just so you know?" "I agree with the "let's get out of here thing."" "Duly noted." "Can I have this, please?" "Thank you." "We're surrounded!" "No shit!" "Alright everybody!" "Just relax." "Captain, we gotta get to higher ground." "Everyone, up top!" "Go, go, go!" "Transport, requesting immediate evac." "Affirmative." "Up here!" "Captain!" "They're right behind you!" "Captain, come on!" "I've got you!" "You okay?" "Yeah." "All right, everybody, here they come." "You okay?" "You gonna be all right." "Can you give me one good reason why I shouldn't arrest you?" "I am Dr. Aki Ross." "I have clearance to be here." "Not unlimited clearance." "Not without authorization." "Listen captain." "I don't have time for this." "Do you realize you just risked the lives of my squad?" "Look!" "I don't wanna talk about it." "The fact of the matter is..." "...it was worth the lives of you and your men." "You and your men?" "She thinks you're a man." "I think she's an idiot." "I know you're not a man." "I think you're an idiot too." "Very funny." "Well, I do wanna talk about it." "Did it ever occur to you that we would've volunteered to risk our lives had we been given a choice?" "Well, nobody asked you to save me." "I don't believe this." "You have not changed a bit!" "Gray?" "Yeah." "Nice to see you too." "Welcome back, captain." "We're clean." "Let's make sure of that shall we?" "I hate getting scanned." "So, the scanners are probably worse for us than the Phantoms." "No probably about it captain." "These machines are suspected of causing sterility." "And I wanna have a little Neil Jr." "calling me Daddy someday." "That's a spooky thought." "Why are you always busting my chops?" "People, let's just do this thing." "Alright?" "Yes, sir." "Yes, sir." "Yes, sir." "Okay, next." "Looks like you've gained some weight." "It's called upper-body strength, Neil." "Get a girlfriend." "I'm working on it." "You know, my security rating allows me to bypass this." "Not today it doesn't." "Something's not right." "About this mission?" "Or that woman?" "Both." "Next." "Listen, captain.." "I think" "I don't care what you think, doctor." "You're getting scanned just like everybody else." "Oh shit!" "Captain!" "They got him." "There must be a mistake." "You came in contact with a Phantom sir." "Please remain calm." "Administering treatment shield." "What level is he?" "Blue." "It will be code red in 3-1/2 minutes." "We have to treat him." "Now!" "I'm sorry, but that's impossible." "We'll transfer him to the treatment center." "There's no time for that." "Get him to the table." "Hang in there, captain." "Locating pathogens." "Jesus, look at that thing!" "How much more time?" "Not enough." "When he reaches code red, the treatment shield won't be able to hold the alien particles." "Engaging bio-etheric laser." "What's going on?" "Where'd it go?" "What the hell is going on?" "We've lost contact." "Infestation is moving deeper." "Tracking." "There's no time." "Tracking." "There is no time!" "You're gonna lose him!" "His treatment shield is failing." "Found it." "Come on." "It's all right." "Don't worry." "You'll be back to normal in no time." "Uh.." "Doctor, we need to scan you for infestation." "That won't be necessary." "I'll take responsibility." "Hey, doc." "Thanks for saving him." "Are you all right?" "Yeah, but the military has impounded my ship." "What's with her?" "What's with her and the captain?" "What's with her and that stupid plant?" "What?" "Forward me the Phantom data and everything regarding the five spirits collected so far." "Yes, doctor." "Spirits?" "I thought we weren't supposed to use the "S" word." "Don't get smart with me." "Now let's see if that plant does the trick." "It's a match." "We've found it." "Yes." "The sixth spirit." "It seemed today you broke nearly every protocol." "How long do you think this would have survived outside the barrier?" "Aki, you know there are elements in the council and military just waiting for an excuse to shut us down." "Look, 20 years ago, who discovered this energy in the Phantoms?" "You." "And who proved the same energy source existed in humans and every life form?" "You." "You made it possible to harness that energy for ovo-pacs, scanners, even the barrier." "The council knows that." "They trust you doctor." "We're so close to proving it." "But we still need this part." "And this one here." "Exactly two more pieces and we've solved the puzzle!" "And we need to be free to find those pieces." "I want to show you something Aki." "What is this?" "Read." ""All life is born of Gaia and each life has a spirit." "Each new spirit is housed in a physical body."" "Doctor?" "Go on." ""Through their experiences on Earth, each spirit matures and grows." "When the physical body dies the mature spirit, enriched by its life on Earth, returns to Gaia bringing with it the experiences enabling Gaia to live and grow."" "It's my old diary." "I wrote that 43 years ago, when I was the age you are now." "Dr. Sid!" "Remember what happened to Galileo?" "They threw him in jail because he said the Earth was not the center of the universe." "That could happen to us." "Our ideas are unpopular, Aki." "If you have any notes or records that could be used against you destroy them." "Keep them up here." "Right." "And stay away from your friend, the captain." "He saves your life, you save his life, this leads to that." "I was young once too, you know." "Doctor, there is a war going on." "No one's young anymore." "Ladies and gentlemen of the council could you please explain why?" "Zeus was completed a month ago." "If we attack the meteor with this, we will eliminate the Phantoms at their source." "General Hein, calm down." "At our last meeting, We voted 6 to 2 to postpone using the Zeus cannon to attack the Leonid Meteor." "We have re-convened today to vote on that very issue again." "Now, I'd like to ask the director of the Bio-Etheric Center to speak." "Dr." "Sid, please." "Thank you." "As you all know, the Phantoms' nest is in the Leonid Meteor that landed here 34 years ago." "What you see now are the records of every assault on the meteor to date." "Physical attacks have had utterly no effect." "This scene took place three months ago during a full-scale bombardment." "Now please note the Phantoms outside the meteor are indeed destroyed." "However, inside, many that were dormant come to life and as you see, overall Phantom density remains the same." "The newly risen aliens respond to the attack by burrowing even deeper into the Earth." "Now, this is very interesting to me Dr. Sid because we see the same thing during surgery when using bio-etheric lasers on Phantom particles, do we not?" "Yes, indeed we do." "You see. the injured particles escape burying or digging themselves deeper into a patient's body." "And when we increase the laser power to destroy these deeper particles we have had incidents resulting in further injury to a patient and in some cases death." "And what exactly does that mean doctor?" "It means there's a very good chance the beam from the Zeus cannon will burn the Phantoms in the meteor." "Exactly!" "Thank you." "However, it also means that the beam energy may be too strong injuring the Earth." "Injure the Earth?" "You mean the Gaia." "I mean" "You mean the spirit of the Earth." "Yes, the spirit of the Earth." "Did he say what I think he said?" "What are you doing?" "I know what I'm doing and whatever you do, keep your mouth shut." "This is ridiculous." "Doctor, with all due respect did you come here just to talk about some Gaia theory?" "To tell us that the planet is alive?" "That it has a spirit?" "That's a fairy tale doctor and I'm sorry, but we don't have time for that." "It is not a fairy tale." "It is true." "Ahh.." "Oh.." "So if I point a gun at the Earth and fire I'm not just making a hole on the ground, I'm killing the planet." "Dr. Sid, the Gaia theory has not been proven." "Even if Gaia does exist, won't we still have to remove the Phantoms?" "I think if there's any chance of success, we should take it." "Don't you agree?" "Well, of course i do." "But there is an alternative to the space cannon." "Another method?" "Yes." "A means of disabling the Phantoms." "Please." "As we know, the aliens display a distinct energy pattern." "Now, it is a fact that two opposing bio-etheric waves placed one over the other will cancel each other out." "It is theoretically possible to construct a wave pattern in direct opposition to the Phantom energy." "We are currently assembling such a wave and are nearing completion." "Members of the council gathering plants and animals from around the world to fight the Phantoms is utter nonsense." "The Zeus cannon is a proven, effective weapon." "It will kill Phantoms." "Can we afford to wait for some crazy invention some army of touchy-feely plants and animals An invention that offers no solid evidence that it will destroy the aliens?" "There is evidence!" "Our partially completed energy wave has successfully stopped Phantom particles from spreading through a terminally-infected patient." "Doctor, do you claim to have evidence that a terminal patient has been cured?" "Not cured." "The wave is not complete." "But we've succeeded in containing the particles safely inside the patient." "Where is the proof?" "Here." "You may have bought us some time Aki, but i wonder at what cost?" "Doctor, I can't keep hiding in the background while you protect me." "I want what life I have left to mean something." "Will you listen to me?" "When we find the seventh and eighth spirits" "If we find them." "What we need now is some luck." "Luck has nothing to do with it." "Faith and hard work, girl coz I'll be damned if you're going to die before me." "The council decided to postpone firing the Zeus cannon." "I guess I put on a good show." "Mind if I tag along?" "You'll probably get bored." "So, what are you doing?" "Oh, I see." "You're giving me the silent treatment." "I'm scanning the city for the seventh spirit." "Hurry up, Neil." "Relax sergeant." "Almost got it." "What do you think you're doing?" "We're just gonna strand them for a while." "Hey, don't look at me." "It was his idea." "This was your idea?" "We're just helping the captain out a little." "Yeah, come on Jane." "Where's your sense of romance?" "You've seen how the captain looks at her." "It's amore, baby." "What's going on?" "It's probably just a glitch." "Listen, Aki" "I'm still mad at you." "You're mad at me?" "Leaving your helmet on." "Not telling me who you were." "That doesn't seem a little childish?" "Hey!" "Well, I was just a little upset when you just packed up and left for the Zeus Station without saying a word." "Well, now you know what was going on." "Alright?" "Yeah." "Now I know." "My operation had to be done in zero grav." "Okay?" "Fine." "And how about the fact that I was sent there on a job and you wouldn't even see me." "I was probably helping Dr. Sid collect spirit waves." "Well, now I know." "So I'm sorry!" "Well, me too!" "So we're both sorry." "So will you tell me about them?" "About what?" "About the spirits you've collected." "I was infected by a Phantom during an experiment." "Normally, no one could have survived." "How did you?" "Dr. Sid created a membrane around the infection, keeping me alive." "So the first spirit wave was me." "The second was a fish." "A fish?" "The third was a deer I found in a wildlife preserve outside Moscow." "The fourth was a bird." "Ever tried to track a sparrow from outer space?" "It's no fun." "What am I saying?" "You probably would love that." "You're right." "I probably would." "And then there was that plant I collected from Times Square." "I thought that was number six." "What?" "You skipped one." "The fifth was a little girl dying in a hospital emergency room." "I retrieved the sample in time, but she...." "I told her everything had a spirit:" "Dogs, cats, trees, little girls." "Even the Earth." "I told her that she wasn't dying just returning to the Earth's spirit to Gaia." "She told me that she was ready to die." "She said I didn't have to make up stories to make her feel better." "Only 7 years old and ready to die." "I'm sorry." "I have work to do." "I have to find the seventh and eighth spirits." "Don't, please." "You don't believe any of this, do you?" "I just don't know, Aki." "Is this why you shut me out?" "You should have told me." "I don't know how much time I have left." "Who does?" "I better get back to scanning." "Captain Edwards you extracted a Dr. Ross from Old New York several days ago did you not?" "Yes, sir." "What were your impressions of Dr. Ross?" "She seemed very capable and determined, sir." "You and the Deep Eyes are being temporarily reassigned." "You will guard Dr. Ross when she reenters the wasteland." "Understood, sir." "You don't understand yet, captain." "Report any aberrant behavior in Dr. Ross to the major immediately." "Aberrant behavior sir?" "The woman carries an alien infestation, captain." "We don't know what it may be doing to her." "The alien presence could be affecting her judgment." "They may be manipulating the doctor for their very own purposes." "Is the general suggesting that Dr. Ross is a spy?" "The general is wondering why he's explaining himself to a captain." "She's had prolonged exposure to Phantom tissue." "If this begins to manifest itself in any way Dr. Ross is to be placed under arrest and transported here for observation." "It is, in fact, for her own good, captain." "Of course, sir." "Major, send some of our men to keep an eye on the good captain." "I'm convinced that these dreams are some form of communication." "Their message still eludes me but they're coming faster now and that can only mean one thing." "The Phantoms inside me are beginning to win." "Our target is 50 klicks west of Tucson." "Roger." "Phantom concentration?" "Not good." "We've got big metas everywhere." "So it's gonna be a real picnic." "Stick close to me." "No heroics today." "Okay?" "Everything by the book." "By the book." "Right." "If we drop energy buoys here, here and here we should be able to land, acquire the target, and get out before the Phantoms even know we were there." "And the buoys will attract the Phantoms?" "Yeah." "For a while." "So you're from the 307th's right?" "Under General Hein?" "Ever done wasteland recon before?" "It can get pretty ugly." "Captain, rendezvous for evac at vector 6, coordinate 279." "Roger that." "Stay alert for hostiles." "Looks like they've taken the bait." "The seventh spirit should be just beyond that line of wreckage." "I don't see how any living thing could survive out here?" "We'll find out soon enough." "This was the Phantom cleansing Mission." "It was supposed to end the war." "My father's in here somewhere." "All right." "Let's move out, people." "I'll be damned." "A survivor." "What's it doing out here?" "Hoping for life to return." "Is that our spirit, doc?" "No." "We're closing in on the life form." "Distance?" "Hard to say." "We're very close." "I don't see anything." "You're not gonna tell me it's him?" "That's impossible." "It's not the soldier." "It's his ovo-pac." "How do you explain that?" "The pacs power our weapons, the barrier cities...." "I mean it's just bio-etheric energy." "And to create that energy we use living tissue." "Single-cell organisms." "You're telling me his backpack is the seventh spirit?" "Yes." "We have incoming." "Captain?" "Do you read me?" "Captain?" "What?" "Say again?" "You read me captain?" "We have incoming." "Ryan, get the soldier's pac." "I need a hand!" "Sarge!" "Those buoys?" "They're not working." "Yeah." "Are you all right?" "Of course I am." "Let's get the hell out of here!" "Something's not right." "This shouldn't be happening." "Something's attracting them." "Aki!" "They're right on us, sir." "Closing in fast!" "Jane, take the lead." "Fire in the hole!" "Get us out of here, Neil." "Sir, I would love to, but" "Just do it!" "Sir?" "It's okay, that's it." "That doesn't look good, captain." "We have to get her to a hospital." "You have your orders, sir." "What the hell is going on here?" "Dr. Ross is to be taken into custody now, sir." "Lower your weapons." "That's an order!" "Sir." "We have no choice, but to relieve you of your command." "I won't let you do this soldier." "You'll gonna have to shoot me." "Stand down, captain!" "Hang on, everyone!" "That's enough." "Hands where I can see them." "Everyone now!" "Deep Eyes, hard to starboard!" "Neil, get us back to New York, fast!" "The Deep Eyes are returning from the wasteland, sir." "Apparently, there was an incident." "It would seem the Phantoms were attracted to Dr. Ross." "The crew barely escaped with their lives." "And sir, Captain Edwards is still in command." "Issue an order." "I want Edwards and Dr. Ross placed under arrest." "All research materials pertaining to Dr. Sid's wave theory are to be confiscated immediately." "That might not go over too well with the council, sir." "What a tragedy that would be." "This is perfect, major." "The good captain has opened the door for us." "By tomorrow morning, the council will be at our feet thanking us for exposing the traitors and imploring us to save them from the Phantoms." "How is she, doctor?" "She is dying." "There must be something you can do." "Aki is fighting with only six of the eight spirits." "We'll have to implant the seventh directly into her chest plate." "It took a bullet." "I think it might be damaged." "We have to repair this panel quickly." "Her vital signs are dropping." "Aki is slipping away from us." "She needs a sympathetic spirit to help hold her in this world." "And I can think of no spirit better suited for that task than yours, captain." "I don't understand." "You don't have to understand." "You just be with her now." "You keep her here with us." "Aki?" "Where are we?" "On an alien planet." "How is that possible?" "I'm not entirely sure." "You seem pretty calm." "I've been having this dream every night for months." "Dream?" "Well, whatever it is." "You're really here, aren't you?" "What's happening to me?" "Dr. Sid is implanting the seventh spirit directly into your body." "Then you're my spiritual support." "Gray, how sweet of you." "Look, I don't think you realize how serious this situation is." "Something you should see here, sir." "And I am watching what, major?" "It seems Dr. Ross has been recording her dreams." "And why would I be interested in her dreams?" "This is it." "This is our evidence." "She's under the influence of the Phantoms." "Dr. Ross' dreams should be all the council needs to authorize the firing of the Zeus cannon." "The council is content to hide powering inside this barrier while the world dies a little more every day." "I believe they need a push in the right direction, major." "Get together a group of your most trusted men." "What are they doing." "Why are they staring at us?" "Not at us." "Welcome back, captain." "Is it over?" "How is she, doctor?" "She's gonna be fine." "But this is only temporary." "We'll need to find the eighth and final spirit to cure her." "Aki, can you hear me?" "I finished it." "I know what it means." "I know what the Phantoms really are." "Nobody move!" "You're all under arrest!" "We have them, sir." "Sir?" "My wife and daughter were killed by Phantoms in the San Francisco Barrier City was attacked." "Did I ever tell you that?" "I try to imagine what.." "what that must have been like seeing everyone around you fall over dead for no apparent reason." "And then, at the end, feeling something next to you invisible touching you reaching inside your body...." "You've lost family, haven't you?" "Yes, sir." "That's why I trust you." "All of you." "You know what must be done." "Security override." "Perimeter breached." "Major, arrest these men." "Take it easy." "Stand up." "Go." "You are relieved of your post." "Don't ask any questions." "Reduce power to Sector 31." "Sir, you do realize that the Phantoms" "What I realize, major is that we must force the council to take action against the enemy." "25% of energy pipe alpha redirected." "Lowering power output to Sector 31." "Barrier breached in Sector 31, general." "They're coming through now." "Oh I think we can easily handle a few Phantoms in a contained space." "Relax, major." "When this night's over, you're going to be a hero." "Aki, I don't think" "You were in my dream, Gray." "You saw it." "That's just it." "I'm not sure what I saw." "How can you be?" "Captain, please, let her continue." "Alright." "Why do you think we've never been able to determine a relationship between the human-sized Phantoms and the giant ones roaming the wastelands?" "Excuse me, doc, but what friggin' relationship?" "I mean you got your human-sized Phantoms, and your creepy caterpillary Phantoms and your flying Phantoms and let's not forget my personal favorite the big, fat, giant Phantoms." "Down, boy." "He's right." "If you've spent as much time in the field as we had you know there is no relationship." "It's like a zoo out there." "Precisely." "I think the giant ones are like our whales or elephants." "But why would an invading army bring a bunch of whales and elephants along for the ride?" "Unless their ship was kind of a crazy Noah's Ark?" "We have always assumed that the meteor was intended as a form of transportation." "Perhaps it wasn't." "The meteor is a chunk of their planet that got thrown into space when they destroyed their world." "But how could they survive the trip across outer space on a hunk of rock?" "They didn't." "Oh." "This is all beginning to make a creepy kind of sense." "What do you think about all this, captain?" "I think that explains why we never had a chance." "All our strategies are based on one assumption:" "That we were fighting alien invaders." "Think of the dream, Gray." "How they died." "Since then, all they've known is suffering." "They're not an invading army." "They're ghosts." "How many Phantoms?" "More than enough to convince the council, sir." "Excellent." "Sound an alert." "Send a squad out to eliminate them." "Yes sir." "alert status." "Full deployment." "Sir." "I have numerous Phantom contacts!" "Well, of course you do." "Outside of Sector 31, sir." "And moving at incredible speed." "Major, What the hell is going on here?" "They're in the pipes." "They're moving with the bio-etheric energy flow." "That's impossible." "No living thing could survive in those pipes." "Well, we've got a big one heading this way." "Meta class, sir." "Oh, my God." "Hold your fire!" "What have I done?" "Come on, Neil." "We need to find a way out." "You're our man." "Think." "Captain, these walls are titanium alloy and the bars are pulse-sonic lasers." "I mean it's not like I can just wave a magic wand and...." "Wow!" "Neil, I'm impressed." "That makes two of us." "Proceed to the nearest evacuation facility." "Proceed to the nearest evacuation facility." "I think we should proceed to the nearest evacuation facility." "Here they come." "But the others!" "Dr. Sid!" "Deep Eyes'll take care of him." "Come on." "What's happening." "Why can we see them now?" "They must be carrying a residual charge from passing through the barrier." "Behind you!" "All aboard, captain!" "We need to find my ship." "If it was towed inside the city, it would be in the military hangar." "That's a big "if."" "Look out!" "Get us onto the platform." "You got it." "Okay, now what?" "We're going through the station." "What?" "Captain, with all due respect" "Excuse me, captain." "The station." "We're going through it." "It's the only way." "So I gather this will be somewhat of a rough ride?" "Doc, you've got a talent for understatement." "Hang on, everybody!" "Doc?" "Interesting." "Anybody hurt?" "Captain." "Oh, God." "Talk to me, sarge." "Ouch!" "Give me a hand, Jane." "Right." "No wait!" "We're risking further injury." "We need the proper tools to cut him out." "They're in my ship." "No." "No, doc." "No drugs." "Captain?" "You heard the man." "We'll find the ship and be back for you." "I'll stay with him." "Me too." "Nobody's staying." "Just give me a gun." "You got it." "Give him a weapon." "Do it!" "We'll be back for you, sergeant." "You hear me?" "I hear you, captain." "Now, get out of here." "Let's move out." "A quad-axle ATV." "This is good." "It can be used to retrieve Ryan and transport him safely here." "However, we'll need to replace these spent fuel cells." "There could be some live ovo-pacs in the hangar." "Alright." "Jane, check the hangar." "Neil, get us ready for takeoff." "Aki and Dr. Sid, prep the Quatro." "I'll go to the tower and rotate the airtray." "This city may be lost, but we are not." "Let's do this thing and get the hell out of here." "Gray, be careful." "You too." "Oh, yeah." "Neil, do you read me?" "Loud and clear, captain." "This baby'll fly itself." "Flight path is set." "Beginning rotation." "Stop the airtray." "We have a problem." "I'm reading an impound tractor attached probably to the ship." "Can you disengage it from the cockpit?" "No sir." "Permission to go outside and detach the coupling." "Do it." "There's the problem." "The controls are locked, naturally." "Jane, let me ask you something." "You think we're gonna get out of here alive?" "I mean I wonder if anybody else has gotten out." "You think anyone's made it this far?" "Huh?" "You think this eighth-spirit stuff is really gonna work against the Phantoms?" "I mean what if it's all a bunch of mumbo-jumbo?" "Jane, do you mind if we stop talking?" "I'm trying to concentrate here." "What's happening down there?" "Nothing we can't handle." "Neil, what's your status?" "Almost there." "I want you two back inside." "We're fine, sir." "Jane is negotiating with extreme prejudice." "Talk to me, Jane." "No problem here, captain." "Yes!" "Captain, we are good to go." "Jane, get out of there." "Get out of there now!" "Go!" "Jane!" "Get the hell out of there!" "The shield is powered and ready." "Where are you going?" "To the cockpit." "The ship is set on autopilot." "We're in countdown to liftoff." "No, wait." "It's too dangerous." "Aki!" "Over here, you son of a bitch!" "Gray, do you read me?" "What's happening?" "You and Sid are getting out of here now." "No!" "We can't just leave everyone." "Everyone's dead!" "I'm not leaving without you." "I'm sorry, but you don't have a choice." "Goodbye, Aki." "Gray, come on!" "I just...." "I wish I could believe they were in a better place." "I enlarged the scanning perimeter to include an area that we had previously overlooked." "The impact crater." "That's a strange place to find the eighth spirit." "Yes, really quite astonishing." "But nothing could survive in there except Phantoms." "Precisely." "Which suggests that the eighth spirit is a Phantom spirit." "I can't explain it at the moment, but once we get down there..." "...you will understand" "Wait, doctor." "That's a one-way trip." "Yes, I expected that's how you would evaluate our chances." "Well, am I wrong?" "No, I agree." "We probably won't live long enough to extract the eighth spirit from the crater." "Then why should we even try it?" "Because we don't need to extract the eighth spirit." "If we can't bring the final spirit here we can go there and complete the wave inside the crater." "Yes, exactly." "And how do we do that, exactly?" "I can construct a device that would attach to Aki's chest plate to gather the eighth spirit and then...." "And then what?" "And then we wait and see what happens." "That's it?" "That's your plan?" "We wait and see what happens?" "Yes." "Oh, good." "Well, I got my own plan." "We keep scanning the surface from orbit..." "and maybe we'll find a compatible spirit somewhere else." "Aki?" "I say we go in." "What caused the barrier to fail, General Hein?" "I'm afraid it was only a matter of time before the Phantoms developed an immunity to our barriers." "But I am relieved to see that you and the rest of the council were able to evacuate to Houston without incident." "It was a terrible loss suffered this evening." "The council has reconsidered your proposal to fire the Zeus cannon." "I see." "We are transmitting the access codes to you now." "And, general best of luck to us all." "Prepare to fire the cannon." "The target, sir?" "The Phantom crater." "Preparing to drop in three, two, one." "Powering the shield." "Okay, we're over the meteor." "Do you have it in sight, doctor?" "There are so many of them." "Wait." "Yes!" "I'm tracking the eighth spirit moving along the crater's surface." "All right." "Now let's take a closer look." "Ready to fire in three minutes." "Ovo-pacs at maximum." "Transferring plasma flow to auto." "Counter-thrusters are engaged." "Lox flow de-coupled." "Status is green." "We have something on radar over the impact site, sir." "It's her." "Sir?" "Just a traitor under the influence of the enemy." "Continue the countdown." "We'll take them all out at the same time." "We're closing on the Phantom." "Contact in 30 seconds." "Target locked." "Ready to fire on your command." "It's a match!" "It's a perfect match!" "Target scanners ready, sir." "Fire." "What was that?" "It's the Zeus." "They're firing on the crater." "Aki, Captain, are you all right?" "A little shaken." "Stand by." "Sid, the eighth spirit is not on our scanner." "Do you have it?" "The eighth spirit has been destroyed." "What are we going to do now?" "Nothing." "This mission is over." "We have to get out of here." "Incoming!" "What is that?" "If you're getting us out of here, you better do it now." "Hold on!" "I can't hold on to you." "Unable to maintain altitude." "Initiate emergency landing procedures." "Come in." "Come in, please." "Aki, Gray, can you hear me?" "Sid, I need to talk to the station." "Can you patch us through?" "What is that thing?" "I don't know, sir." "Incoming message, sir." "General Hein, You must cease fire immediately." "What you are looking at in the crater is the living spirit of an alien's home world." "Their planet was destroyed and part of it landed here." "This is not an invasion." "It never was." "I see and what have we been fighting all this time, doctor?" "Ghosts?" "Yes." "Spirits that are confused, lost and angry." "Right." "And these spirits are coming out of this Gaia thing." "General Hein, you have to listen." "Alien Gaia, Earth Gaia." "Doctor, even if I believed in such nonsense the fact remains the Earth is under attack from an aggressor who must be destroyed at all costs." "The cost may be the entire planet, sir." "Firing on the alien Gaia will only make it stronger." "Well, since you're under the alien's influence, doctor, I will take your protest to mean that we are in fact pursuing the correct course of actions." "So i suggest you take your last few moments and prepare to meet your Gaia." "Continue to fire until the invader has been destroyed." "General, the system is overheating, sir." "We're going to hit it again and again and keep on hitting it until it's dead." "But, sir." "We're not even sure if it's having any effect on the creature." "No effect?" "We've got them on the run, soldier." "This is our moment of victory." "I order you to fire." "The system won't allow us to fire again." "We'll see about that." "Our shield is out." "We're sitting ducks in here." "Come on!" "This is not a good place to be." "What the hell is that?" "That's not what I think it is, Is it?" "Yes, it's Gaia." "This is definitely not a good place to be." "Hey, are you all right?" "I'm fine." "I have to talk to Dr. Sid." "Sid, do you read me?" "Go ahead, I'm still here." "We're looking at Gaia." "Do you hear me, Sid?" "Gaia." "I think this explains why the eighth spirit appeared here." "Yes." "Yes, that's it!" "A Phantom must have changed into the eighth spirit when it touched a new life born from our own Gaia." "If so, it would've been given a different energy signature that set it apart from the other Phantoms." "You two could not have hoped for a better location  to find a new compatible spirit." "Whatever you do, don't move." "Stay right where you are." "Staying right where we are may not be as easy as it sounds." "Don't shoot any of them!" "You could very well destroy our last hope." "And what do you suggest I do, doctor?" "Ask them to play nice?" "Combat strategy is your area of expertise, captain, not mine." "I have a reading here in the fissure." "Do you see it?" "Yes!" "A compatible spirit." "It must be very near you." "Well?" "Which one is it?" "Which one?" "I'm having difficulty narrowing it down." "Just a moment, please." "Doctor, it's getting crowded in here." "Aki, we don't have much time." "Aki." "With the hope of new life has Gaia changed the Phantom within?" "I have it." "Gray, get in here." "I need you!" "Do you hear me, Sid?" "The wave pattern is complete." "Yes, I read you." "This is wonderful." "I don't see how you could have found the final spirit." "It found me, doctor." "Oh, my word." "I see now." "I understand." "Well, I don't understand!" "What the hell is going on?" "Give me the ovo-pac." "I need to project the completed wave." "But we'll be defenseless." "Just do it!" "I hope you know what you're doing, Aki." "We can use the shield to project the wave." "What?" "Dr. Sid's theory was right." "I have it." "The eighth spirit." "I'm cured, Gray." "Are you sure you have the final spirit?" "Yes, I'm sure." "But how?" "How can you know that?" "Don't worry." "A Phantom told me." "Oh, great." "That's it." "Shield on." "It's not working." "We have to do something before it's too late." "If this doesn't work, then it's already too late." "Gray, trust me." "I'll blast you all to hell." "Oh, no." "No!" "Get down!" "Warning." "System overload." "I know." "Warning." "System overload." "I know!" "But it must be done." "Fire." "Fire, damn you!" "Fire!" "Don't leave me, Gray." "Told Sid this was a one-way trip." "Looks like I was right." "No, Gray." "Hang on, please." "I still have the wave." "We can get through this." "We're not gonna make it." "We're going to make it." "We both know that isn't true." "Help me." "Listen to me." "You saved my life once." "Now I want you to save yourself." "Gray, no." "Please?" "Let me do this, Aki." "Trust me." "Don't leave me, Gray." "You've been trying to tell me that death isn't the end." "Don't back out on me now that I finally believe." "I Iove you." "Oh, it's warm."