- Ah.
Oh my God.
Dr. Darden! Dr. Darden!
The experiment's going through another change.
- All right, we'll be right there.
Don't touch anything.
This whole goddamn thing's going down the tubes.
- What, what's going on?
- Don't worry. I had accounted for this.
- Oh!
But you didn't account for this.
Commander Krieger.
We're getting a distress call.
- Put 'em through.
- It's coming from the research facility
on the planet, Fabon.
We've had an accident!
It's out of control!
We need help!
We've had an accident!
Anyone, respond!
Please, respond!
- Get 'em back.
- The transmission has cut out.
I command you terminate. RNR immediately.
Commander, there are three unidentified vessels
approaching our ship.
Your presence on the bridge would be appreciated.
- This whole thing's not going smoothly.
Throw up the deflectors. I'll be up right away.
Damage? - Nice of you to join us.
They penetrated our sector three defense shields.
- Divert power to the lasers.
- That wouldn't be my first choice commander.
- Well do me a favor. Try it.
Go evasive, re-target the lasers, use a random pattern.
Now what? - It's not my fault.
Well who's fault is it?
It's gotta be the main connection under the panel.
I told you to get it fixed this morning.
- Some of us have other responsibilities, Commander.
- Ah!
I'm gonna have to hold it together manually now.
Fire when I give you the command.
Unless you've got a better idea.
- Nope.
God!
Ah!
All right.
Fire!
- Good shot!
Fire!
Two down.
- Ah!
Fire!
Not bad for a human.
- Fire, fire, fire, fire, fire,
fire, fire, fire, - I don't wanna distract you
from some very important business,
but we got a problem.
- Fire, fire, fire, fire, fire,
fire, fire, fire, fire, fire, - Tinpan?
- Fire, fire, fire, fire, fire, fire, fire, fire, fire,
fire, fire, fire, fire, fire, fire,
Fire, fire, fire, fire, fire, fire,
fire, fire, fire, fire, fire, fire,
fire, fire, fire.
Thanks.
How's the ship?
- Defense shields are out. Lasers are out.
Generators at 30%.
- Where did you say that distress call was coming from?
- From a research lab on the planet, Fabon.
It's not far from here.
- Well we'll have to risk it. Set course for Fabon.
How much trouble could a couple of scientists
get into anyway?
You call that a landing.
I'm Commanders Steve Krieger, freelance controller,
responding to your distress signal.
This is my second in command, Tinpan.
What seems to be the problem?
- Welcome to the Fabon Research Laboratory.
I am Dr. Emily Stote, head of research.
This is Dr. Salinger.
- Marissa Salinger, genetics.
- The call was a little premature, Commander Krieger.
If our radio hadn't gone out-
- But we're happy you're here.
- Wait a minute.
Are you telling me this is a false alarm?
- There is no immediate danger.
If you follow us commander,
we'll show you to your quarters.
- Nice going. False alarm.
Well, this is very nice.
I don't believe this. You happy?
You satisfied?
You brought us all this distance
and they don't even need us.
- There does seem to be some dispute in that area.
- Oh? - Dr. Salinger
thinks it's very important we stay.
- I'll tell you what I think, sport.
We get back to the ship. We make it operable.
And we're in the star charge. We're outta here.
We're history.
- Oh, there you are. - Oh, hi, doc.
We're ready in the conference room.
- We need to talk.
- Let's talk on the way.
It was hard enough getting Emily to have this meeting.
- Not so fast.
Why don't you give it to me straight.
What's going on here?
- Well, Frank, Dr. Darden
is very committed to this experiment.
- And Dr. Stote? What about her?
- She and Frank go way back.
It's a real love-hate relationship.
I meant what I said about being glad to see you.
It's been three years since I've talked
to anybody from outside.
- I'm surprised you all haven't killed each other.
- There's time yet.
- See if we can't get this bucket up and running again,
I'm getting a bad feeling about this place.
- We have a problem with the vendor.
And you can't fix that?
Well that answers that.
- Commander Krieger, this is a high security
research facility.
We're stationed on Fabon because we can experiment
and take risks here that would be unthinkable on Earth.
- What kind of experiments?
- Genetic engineering, bacteriological velocity,
but not in this case. - What's this case?
- Uh! - Excuse me.
Should have been looking where I was going.
- It's all right. Aren't you headed the wrong way?
- Just gotta go to my room and get some stuff.
- Tim, don't leave.
Commander Krieger, please, come in.
Everyone, I would like to introduce Commander Steve Krieger
and his executive officer Tinpan.
Steve, Tinpan,
this is our chief bacteriologist, Frank Darden,
Jill Tollman, computer electronics specialist,
Sal Dickens, engineer,
and Devon Letham, the sole survivor
of the Astro Lab 6 incident.
Please sit down.
As we all know, our objective here on Fabon
is to find a cure for the Delta-5 virus.
- Oh shit.
- I'm very sorry to hear you feel that way,
Commander Krieger, but you can rest assured
it wasn't my idea to bring you here.
- Well whose was it then?
I get the distinct impression you're in charge.
- I sent the call.
And I don't think it was premature.
- Well that remains to be seen.
- We had an emergency on our hands and still do.
- It was not an emergency. It was a problem.
And that problem has been solved.
Commander, I'm sorry if we've wasted your time.
- Both of you, sit down.
One of our research assistants
has contracted a very rare disease,
possibly transmitted through one of the viruses
that we have been experimenting with.
- What?
- Why didn't you tell us this before?
- Marissa and I have discovered that the only way
to combat an aggressive virus like Delta-5
is to create an even more aggressive virus.
One that will single out and destroy Delta-5,
which renders our immune systems so helpless.
And yet co-exist with our benign cells
in a symbiotic relationship.
- Yeah.
- But we ended up creating a monster.
- It is not a monster!
- Well then what the hell do you call it?
- That is a bit melodramatic, Marissa.
However, Joe- - Joe?
- Research assistant. - Contracted dengue fever
under admittedly suspicious circumstances.
I can't believe this.
- There is no evidence.
- Joe was in the lab checking the conditions
in the incubator.
Just before we discovered him taken with the disease,
he told us the liquid in the Petri dish was bubbling.
- And shortly after it did begin to change.
- Changed? - Yes,
it appears to be a metamorphic mutant.
- A what?
- An ordinary mutant is genetically different
from its parent.
A metamorphic mutant changes its genetic structure,
mutating as it grows.
- We needed a virus that could adapt
as Delta-5 through up its defenses.
And this new virus is our most promising project yet.
- Does it work?
- Do you mean kind the mutant virus kill the Delta-5 virus?
Unfortunately, no.
But it can be harmed by it.
Jill, why don't you pull up the file for us.
- It'll be on the room monitor.
- This is the Delta-5 virus.
That's our virus moving in on Delta-5.
Notice the speed of infection
We've created the only organism that we know of
that Delta-5 can't infect.
As a matter of fact, the only way Delta-5
can harm our virus is if it found a way
to get inside it and vice versa.
- I think it's time I took a look at your monster.
- Meet our monster.
- Well this is not a Petri dish of liquid,
bubbling or otherwise.
- It began cocooning a few days ago.
- You can bombard it with lasers or x-rays
or whatever you've got and kill it.
- That's exactly what we don't want.
- Frank, you're blind! This virus is dangerous.
- And this is not a debate.
We don't have sufficient reason to terminate the experiment.
For all we know, it could be the very breakthrough
we're looking for.
- If you don't wanna kill it,
what am I doing here?
- You are here because Marissa acted rashly
and sent out a distress call.
I have explained all this out of courtesy,
Commander Krieger, but quite frankly,
you and Tinpan are free to go.
- Well, we can't go. My ship's been damaged.
I used up the last of my power getting here.
- Look! - There!
- Watch out!
No, no!
- Stop, get away! - Stop it!
Stop it! - Stop it!
Where is it?
Frank, Frank, what's happening?
- What is it?
- Goddammit! Grab her, grab her...
- Devon. - Oh God.
Oh God, this is, we gotta get her, get her out of her.
- You can't help her. - Prepare for surgery.
We've got to contain it. - Contain it?
This experiment has gone belly up!
- This way! Come on!
- What's going on with Devon?
What is happ, Marissa, what is happening here?
Why isn't anybody telling us anything?
We have a right to know.
I can't believe Dr. Stote kept this from us.
- It wasn't just Stote. The old man knew too.
- You knew too, didn't ya?
- What? You knew and you didn't tell us?
- We didn't want anybody to get hysterical.
- Oh! - We had to keep things
under control.
- Oh, this is unreal.
How can you let this happen?
- Okay, look, it's my fault.
I should have done something.
I don't know what I should have done.
- It's all right, Marissa.
Look, you called Krieger.
- Yeah, a lot of good that did.
I don't know, maybe Stote and the old man
will get that thing out of Devon and kill it.
Maybe it'll work out.
- How's she doing?
Ah, she's stable.
Heart and oxygen level.
Of course, the brain is gone.
We knew that before we started.
The cerebrum has been eaten away.
There's also partial collateral sulcus,
fourth ventricle collapse.
Okay? - Mm-hmm.
But there is life in the cerebellum.
Heart is still pumping.
Fatty tissue seems about-
- I don't know why we are wasting our time.
I thought we were being so careful.
We still might be able to capture
this thing, study it.
Find out where we went wrong.
Millions of lives are depending on this research.
We have got to keep it alive.
This is not personal, Frank.
It killed Devon. It probably killed Joe.
We've gotta find this goddamn thing, terminate it
before it kills anymore.
- We got muscle spasms.
- That's what you call a muscle spasm?
That's what I call science.
- Damn!
Your computerized vent control system won't work!
Now I need those vents closed so I can flood this thing
with gas and poison it!
- Jill, get the damn computers going
and see if it's possible. - All right, all right.
- This thing is tough and adaptable.
And it's growing at an incredible rate.
- But if it can't find another host,
it won't keep evolving.
- Is it possible we're thinking about this the wrong way?
Maybe it attacks because it feels threatened.
Maybe we give it some food or whatever attracts it,
help it escape through the atmosphere.
- How does this thing operate?
It's like any other virus.
A simple organism composed of a protein coat.
- Cut the shit.
- It's capable of growth only in other living cells.
- He means us. It wants to kill us.
- Want is not quite right. It exists to kill.
- I'd say it's high time we adopted the same creed
Can we at least locate this thing in the air vents?
- Maybe, we have a system for detecting debris
in the vents when they get backed up.
But it's not the best.
Get it on the computer.
That systems in the control room.
Look, I don't mind going, but I'd really rather
if someone watch my back while I work.
We've gotta get
those vents sealed so the thing can't get out.
- Well, the only way to do that is to get those vents
closed manually, one by one.
- Great. At least this place is only built on one level.
Tinpan and I'll start at the back and work our way forward.
- I called you here. I'll start on this end.
- No, I'll go.
Look, I know exactly where those vent locks are.
- I'm going to. I can handle myself.
I was in LiveCore.
- All right.
- Give me the gun.
- This way. - Clear this way.
- 20 closed. - All right, 19 closed.
- 18.
- 18 closed. - 17, get it.
- 17 closed. - 16 closed.
- 15, make sure you get the main vents.
All right, let's go! - Main vent closed!
- Any progress?
- This thing's so slow.
- C-vent is closed!
Watch it.
- Give me the gun.
- Be a girl.
- What's on your mind, Commander?
- That girl.
She was a survivor of the Astro Lab 6 incident.
- What does the Astro Lab 6 accident
have to do with this situation?
- That was no accident.
I nuked that lab.
And everybody in it.
- What happened?
- It was termed an unavoidable biological incident.
All that means is they had an experiment
that went wrong
Just like this.
- Where are Marissa and Sal right now?
- They're in the hallway near Tim's room.
- Krieger and Tinpan are in the genetics lab.
- All right, Frank. What's on your mind?
- Now what's on my mind, Emily,
if you continue. to let this space cowboy
take over control of this project, he'll kill it!
He hasn't got the sensitivity to understand
what we're trying to accomplish.
- I have no intentions of giving up control to anyone,
but I also have to consider the safety of everyone here.
- What about the safety of the people with Delta-5?
What about their lives?
- Punch in C3937.
- Commander, have you asked herself,
why Dr. Darden doesn't terminate this experiment?
Mm-mm.
- Can I help?
Yeah, right.
Last time you helped, we lost three programs.
- All right. Both of you, keep it civil.
Back to work, Jill.
- Shh!
This is my room.
- Sal!
Come on.
- Jesus!
- Goddammit! - Sal!
Are you okay?
Oh God.
- Well?
- His blood's not circulating properly.
The soft tissue is deteriorating.
- Gangrene.
- Yes.
We can't stop it.
- He'll be dead soon. Like the others.
- So, what now?
- This thing is sealed up in the vents for now.
So may I suggest that we all take advantage
of that fact by pairing up
and taking turns getting some rest.
- I don't think that this is a-
- Marissa.
We all need some rest.
Krieger, obviously you and Tinpan should stay together.
Frank, you and I will go back to the lab
and we will conduct some-
- Doc, why don't you get some rest too?
We'll convene back here at 0700. Okay?
Fine.
- These are my quarters.
- You gonna be okay?
- Yeah, I'll be fine.
Krieger.
You know, you were very good in there with Stote just now.
- Does that surprise you?
Tinpan.
- Bring him here.
- Well why don't you try to get some sleep?
I'm not very tired anyway.
- Forget it.
I couldn't even sleep now if I tried.
Look, why don't you just sleep and I'll read or something.
- I got a better idea.
- This doesn't sound like-
- Mm, just give it a try.
I wanna do this for you.
Try to relax.
- I haven't heard that one before.
- Jill.
- Okay.
Okay.
- That ought a do it.
Here, take a view position.
- Here are the schematics for the most of the station.
- Thanks. This could give us an edge.
Not that this has gone good.
We could use a strategic advantage.
- What do you mean?
- It's big and it's bad-tempered.
That's all we know about it so far.
It's got us cornered.
At least we've got the lay of the land on paper.
- And what do you think our chances are?
- I wouldn't make any long-range plans.
Are you okay?
- I'm sorry.
It's just that Sal was my friend.
- I know.
It's hard to lose a friend.
- It's, it's such a waste.
And what for?
- You're getting worse.
- You've known?
- You have the classic symptoms, doctor.
Nervousness, quickened heart rate.
- I found out I had it shortly before
I volunteered for this assignment.
- And why didn't you tell me?
- I wanted to keep working.
Oh, Emily.
If you had known, you would have discharged me.
And it was my only chance.
This may be our only chance.
- I wouldn't have done that, Frank.
Who knows? Maybe we still have a chance.
- Marissa. Marissa.
Are you all right?
- Mm, yeah, yeah, I'm all right.
- That's okay.
It was just a dream.
- Yeah. A dream.
- I'm gonna go find it. Tinpan, alert everybody.
You better take this. Go with him.
- Get up! Let's go!
The creature's out! Get moving!
- Come on!
- Let's go! Come on!
Let's go!
- Where are you going?
- I'm going after Steve.
- Sal.
- What are you doing here?
- I thought you might need some help.
- Why aren't you with the others?
- They got me into this. I don't trust them to get me out.
- Stay close.
- Look out!
- Marissa! Krieger!
- In there! - No, no, no,
wait, wait, wait! - What, what, what?
- We've gotta check their conditions.
- What happened? Are you all right?
- The thing escaped through the glass.
The room is sealed now.
- It's huge. It's growing.
It's bigger than I am.
- You know it's out of the lab now.
I mean, maybe we're okay.
What are the chances it'll survive?
- Well, there's your answer.
This thing you've created, it's gonna destroy your lab
either from the inside out or the outside in.
Tinpan.
Let's go make an executive decision of our own.
- He's a fool if he thinks he can stop it.
- He's not the only fool.
- I'm afraid you were right, Marissa.
- Here, let me fix this.
I don't know why I bother.
You old T2 models are always falling apart.
- Thanks for getting me out of the junkyard, Steve.
- Well, you hold your resale value.
- Tim, can you give me a hand over here?
- Sure.
- I need the code for the external monitors.
- Will we be able to follow him?
- Every move.
- I'll let Krieger now.
The external monitors are still working.
So we'll be able to watch your back
the whole time you're out there.
You're in luck. - That's not luck.
Luck would be that this thing disappeared
off the face of the planet, that'd be luck.
How long can I exist out there in this thing?
- You've got 20 minutes without any problem.
After that, the suit will deteriorate.
- Narcosis?
- Similar to it. And just as dramatic.
At first it's a high and then it will kill you.
- Sounds like fun. Let's go.
- Good luck.
- Oh God, Frank.
- Let's get to work.
- He's gotta be out here someplace.
- There's a lot of territory to cover.
- All right. Let's go look for him.
- There they are.
Stupid robot.
It's just gonna slow him down.
- This way.
- Here he comes.
Oh goddammit.
This confirms it.
- Confirms what?
It's incredibly simple.
- There he is.
- Let's go.
- Look at that.
And we know the guns don't work on it.
- What else is he gonna do?
Why is he going up there?
- I think he knows what he's doing, Tim.
- It copies there.
Whereas Delta-5 only makes us susceptible to disease,
this virus actually is disease.
God help us.
- He fell! He fell off the rocks!
- Did you get a shot at him?
- No, it moved too fast.
Help me up, all right?
Oh God, ow!
- He's going into a cave.
- Well, I don't think he's gonna find it in there.
Tim, I don't understand this.
Why are you being such a jerk?
- What's your problem?
I mean, it's obvious this guy is an idiot.
- My problem is I can't believe
I just slept with such a worm.
I mean, is this all you can do?
Stand around and criticize the guy
who trying to save our lives?
God, I must be getting really desperate.
- Well you're not the only one.
- I gotta get some rest.
- I think it's best to stay until the storm passes over.
- Oh yeah. I think I broke something when I fell.
Krieger, Krieger!
- Can you get him back? Jill?
- I can't. I lost him when he went in the cave.
- Try him on another frequency.
- It's not working. - Damn.
- Go! Go!
Can't kill it.
- Something's different, Steve.
- What are you talking about?
- After my last overhaul. Something has changed.
- What?
- Confidence.
- Confidence is something you T2 models were built with.
Come on. Let's get out of here.
- There it is. They need help.
- No, Jill, you stay here. We need you here.
Tim, you go.
- There's no time.
Commander!
Come on!
- Tinpan!
- Come on! - No, not my friend!
- He's a robot! Come on!
- Tinpan!
- God.
- Get away from there!
- What?
- Get back!
- Where's Jill?
- She's dead.
It dragged her down the main air shaft.
- Oh God. Oh God.
Tim, Tim, locate the main shaft in the files.
And tell us where it comes out.
Pull it up on the computer, Tim.
Now track it. The main air shaft.
- It's...
It leads to the control room.
- Okay. Let's take a sample of the pancreas.
- It's back! It's in the control room!
Oh God.
- You're gonna have to do better than that
if we're gonna stop this thing.
- Be careful with that.
- Be careful?
Why don't you tell it to Sal and the others!
- What do you mean, Marissa?
As head of research, I have done
what I thought I had to do!
- The hell with research!
I'm talking about survival.
It's Jill!
- Tim, don't touch her! Get back!
Get away! Don't touch her!
- Let's go! - Don't, don't touch her!
Help me get Sal off the table. Come on!
Get back!
- Get her up on the table. Help her on the table.
- Goddammit Tim, get away! She's diseased!
- What do you mean she's diseased? She's hurt!
- No, made a mistake. The virus, it carries disease.
Every disease we've ever known.
- Kill me. Please.
- She's not gonna make it.
- I can't.
- I'm gonna go look for it.
- Krieger? Krieger?
- Where did he go? - I don't know.
- Oh, I gotta save him. Okay.
- Tim! Tim!
Tim! Tim!
Shh.
- Don't, don't, don't.
Don't, Tim.
Come on. Tim.
Tim!
Tim.
- It's okay.
- Keep moving. Come on.
Oh, Tim! Help, Tim!
Tim, Tim, get the gun! - What?
- Get the gun! - Okay.
- Tim, shoot! Shoot it!
Shoot it!
What are you doing, Tim?
Shoot it! - No!
- What are you doing? Tim!
No!
- Emily.
Emily, I've got an idea.
You've got to help me.
- What is it, Frank?
- Delta-5 and this virus are hostile to each other,
yet neither can penetrate the other's defenses.
Now, I am afflicted with Delta-5
If we can get this creature to ingest some of my tissue...
Darts.
We'll fill up the dart guns with my blood
instead of the tranquilizer and then we'll shoot
this bastard and just see what happens.
- Frank, you are too weak. - No.
- And you can't stand to lose any blood.
- Emily, I am not weak.
I'm dead.
- You okay?
- Yeah.
Now please give me this much.
- It's gone. - What's that?
- I don't see it.
- Where is it?
- Krieger, wait! Don't!
- It's gotta be here. - Don't, don't!
Tim.
No, don't do it.
Look out!
- Steven!
Steve! Steve!
No!
- Get out, get out, get out! Go!
- Steven! - Go!
- No! - Go!
- Steven!
Let's go! Let's go!
- I told you to get out!
Come!
Oh God!
Steven, Steven, Frank has the disease
that will kill this thing!
His blood is infected! We've got to shoot it with these!
Oh, Frank! Frank.
Goodbye, Frank. Goodbye.
Oh goodbye, my darling.
- Steve?
Steve?
Steve! Steve!
No more!
No!
No more! No more!
No more!
No, no, no!
- Well, I guarantee you I'm gonna think twice
before I ever answer another distress signal.
- Consider yourself lucky, Commander.
You came out in one piece.
- How are you doing?
- Good.
- Another 14 days and I'll have you back to base operations.
- I don't wanna go to base operations.
Let's go home.
- This is my home.