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Devin, what are you listening to? Listen, listen.

Can you hear that?

I hear noise.

No, no, there's a pattern in there. It loops over and over and over again.

I can just barely make it out, can't you?

No.

There's something in there, I know it.

Uh -huh.

Did you run it through the computer?

Well, technically the pattern recognition program says that it's just

too. But it came in from the direction of Surtis. So it has to be something,

don't you think? Yeah.

I hate to be the one to break this to you, Devin, but I think you're imagining

things. Could you turn that down, please?

You know, you wouldn't be the first student of mine whose imagination turned

some background radiation or atmospheric bounce into messages from another

world.

And of course, because...

Those students were wasting valuable lab time and not listening to their

professor.

I had to kill them all and bury them in the flower garden.

Mm -hmm.

Did you at least collate that sunspot data I asked you to?

Uh, uh, yeah.

That's right there.

Good, thank you.

Now, uh, go home.

You know that place that you go to sometimes when you're not here? Doctor,

could just have five more minutes, I could... Good night, Dylan.

Oh, God.

Dad, then you weren't supposed to be home till later.

What if Dad walked in? You're supposed to be grounded.

He's working in the ER all night.

Would you please get dressed?

You could have knocked first, do you? I live here, Vic. I don't knock.

Don't call me dude.

Vic wanted to make sure you wouldn't tell Dad about anything.

Don't worry about it.

Sorry I thwarted your deflowering.

Walked in on you guys.

Oh, don't worry about it.

What are you listening to?

Uh, noise.

Nothing but noise.

I must be losing my mind.

You know, Vic only calls you Doogie as a compliment.

I mean, you were in college when he was... I know exactly what he means.

I'm going to bed.

Okay.

Night. Yeah, same to you.

There is nothing wrong with your television.

Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are now controlling the transmission.

We control the horizontal and the vertical. We can deluge you with a

channels or expand one single image to crystal clarity and beyond.

We can shape your vision to anything our imagination can conceive.

For the next hour, We will control all that you see and hear.

You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the deepest

inner mind to the outer limits.

For years, we have searched for the answer to an eternal question.

Are we alone?

As yet, there has been no answer.

Or perhaps the answer is only for those with the facility to hear it.

Joyce!

Joyce!

Have you been down here all night?

Joyce!

Isn't the music beautiful?

Music? You don't hear it?

Oh, it's the most beautiful feeling.

Listen.

What did you take this time?

I'm a doctor, I can tell.

You be honest with me, I won't be angry with you.

Nothing.

Joyce.

You gave me your word.

Daddy.

Nothing. I fell asleep listening to music.

That's all.

What time is it?

It's just after eight.

Oh, late for school. Gotta go.

You know, your mother was a lot better at this.

I just found Joyce sitting down here listening to static on the radio. The

was so loud, I could hear it through her headphones. Her pulse was over 100.

Joyce, it's my tape. I want it back.

I can't let her do this to herself again.

Pull over a second. I want you to hear this.

I'm going to be late.

Just pull over. I've got a surprise for you.

Mom?

Okay. So what's the surprise?

Close your eyes.

Oh, man.

Isn't it beautiful?

God, Joyce.

What is this?

It's music.

Perfect music.

People gotta hear this. I know.

That's what the music wants.

You gotta give me copies of this, man. We gotta spread the word. Just give me

tape back, Vic.

Why? Because it's mine.

Because you don't even know what it is you're listening to. All right?

Just give me the tape, Joyce.

I don't think he hears it.

Why not? He's the one who found it.

I hear it fine.

I just want it back.

Well, you can't have it back.

Sorry. If you could hear the music, Deb, then you wouldn't want it back. What

the hell is that supposed to mean?

It's not even music. I mean...

There's an acoustic pattern buried in the signal, but... No, no, no, no.

It's more than that.

Describe it. What do you hear?

There's a rhythm.

It moves inside you. I know just how it makes me feel, and I know we have to

share it. All right. That's crazy, okay?

I said no.

I wish you could hear it, Dev.

I really do.

Devin, don't you have a lecture?

Yeah. Actually, I was wondering if I could get a copy of that file I uploaded

into the mainframe last night.

It shouldn't take a minute.

30 seconds. Okay,

I'll get it for you. What do you want?

Uh, it's a wave file, and it should still be in the pattern analysis queue.

Certus wave, I presume? Yeah, that's it right there.

I know what you're going to say, but I just want to run some more tests on it,

all right?

There may be something happening here.

Something is happening. There is massive, totally unprecedented solar

going on.

And instead of helping me study it, my brilliant young PA is listening for E

I thought you made a tape. I did.

My little sister took it.

She, uh, she thinks it's music.

Music? Wait.

See you later.

I told you kids to disperse, or you can consider yourself suspended.

None of that matters anymore.

We'll just go somewhere else.

Moshi moshi, Kelly. It's Steph.

So, Wonderboy finally called.

How are you?

I'm fine, but I need your help.

I'm sending an audio file over for you to look at.

It came over from a blue dwarf out in Sirtis.

A wave file from space?

What's it say?

Well, I don't know, actually.

Maybe nothing. But if it does something for you, let me know, all right?

You'll understand when you hear it.

Whatever you say.

Sayonara, Kel.

So, did you talk to Joyce?

Yeah.

And?

Devin, could you turn that down, please?

Oh, right, yeah.

Sorry.

What is it?

Well, according to her and Vic, it's the most beautiful music they've ever

heard.

Vic? Uh, the new boyfriend, the one with the van.

Yeah, anyhow.

I came across this by accident, but this is what Joyce was listening to all last

night.

It's a radio signal from Sirtis.

A radio signal? Yeah. Now, it's not a quasar, and it's not encrypted

but the subharmonics in here are so complex... Devin?

No, no, I can almost hear this myself.

So now, go with this.

What if there's a message buried inside this signal that's somehow affecting

Joyce?

No, Dad, I'm serious.

I know you are.

Why don't you just take the car keys and go out for a change and see some

friends?

You think I'm nuts?

No, I don't.

I don't.

I think you're worried about your sister and you're trying to find some answers.

So am I.

But I don't think you'll find them here.

Joy! Joy!

Joy!

Sorry, I was just looking for my little sister.

You came.

We gotta get you home.

You came.

You must be able to hear it. What's happening to you?

We have to trust it, Devin.

I know that now.

I can feel it.

Can't you see?

No, I can't.

Yeah, I've got the merge

It could be poisoning. Her heart beats erratic.

There's an unusual amount of heavy metals in her skin and blood.

Metals? Could be an isolated virus.

At this point, we have 78 of these cases, all of them from this wave or

it is they call it.

I alerted the CDC.

The CDC? As a precaution.

Please, anyone!

I can't see! Please help me! Calm down, hon. Calm down. We're right here. Joyce,

Joyce, it's Dev. Now you've got to be really still, okay?

Now, tilt your head up towards the ceiling, okay?

That's good.

Ophthalmology, stat.

Jenkins, Taylor here.

My daughter is suffering some kind of corneal occlusion.

I don't know.

Dad.

They're iris. They're changing.

So you can see here where the iris is reconfigured and the clear liquid that

protects the cornea, altered chemical composition.

We don't have a clue why this is happening.

Dr. Riddle. This is my son, Devin. Devin, Dr. Riddle from the Center for

Control. Hello, Devin.

So it's a disease then, that's what's happening.

Well, we don't know what it is, Devin. We've isolated all the victims in a

biohazard ward and we know the transmission is not airborne, but...

We need more to go on, which is why it's important we take blood from the one

person exposed to the disease who didn't catch it. Right, but what's happening

to my little sister? It could be a variant of something called chromophobe

adenoma, a disorder of the pituitary gland, which affects the melanin in the

skin and promotes the release of endorphins.

Endorphins, so then it acts like a drug.

Thus far, everyone affected is a teenager.

Or they may be suffering from a reaction to a substance you didn't take.

Did you notice any or witness any drug use?

No. Any form of ecstasy or acid?

No, no.

The DJ, he didn't have it.

Oh, I'm afraid he's showing early symptoms. His fingernails have altered.

Same iridescent changes.

I'm telling you, doctor, that's not it. I don't know how or why, but this is

what's causing it.

They were dancing to it. They couldn't get enough of it.

Have there been outbreaks anywhere else?

No, we can connect just about everyone. Because I emailed that signal to my

friend Kelly in Nagamo, Japan.

If there's been an outbreak there, it proves my theory.

I don't see how sound of any frequency could have a causal relationship with a

disease, but we can do that.

Great. Thank you. In the meantime... I want to see my sister.

Now, don't let it scare you.

She's in an oxygen tent. We found that it eases their pain.

It's just me, Joyce.

Devin, it hurts so much.

I know.

Where's Vic?

He's here in the hospital.

So are all the kids from the rave.

Why'd you take away our music?

I had to, Joyce. Look what it's doing to you. If I had it, I'd be better. I know

it.

Please, Devin.

Joyce, I can't. Please.

They're going to find a way to cure you.

Dad's working on it right now, all right?

Mom was like this before she died.

She must have felt like this.

I didn't know she was hurting this much.

Don't talk about that, okay?

It hurts so much.

I know, Joyce.

I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry.

You gotta take care of Flash, okay?

He's just a baby. You gotta give him water every day.

Of course I will. I promise.

You bet.

There's no sign of the infection.

We don't know why, but you're fine.

Why don't you go home and sleep?

Come back tomorrow.

I'll watch out for Joyce.

And her eyesight is clearing.

Is she dying?

She's very sick.

Dr. Taylor to pathology staff.

Dr. Taylor to pathology staff. You know, you need some sleep too, Dad. Yeah,

well, maybe when this is over, huh?

I'll call you if anything changes.

And there's still no word as to the cause of the disease.

Speculation that it's a Legionnaire's type virus has yet to be confirmed by

officials from the CDC.

Meanwhile, scientists aboard the space shuttle Columbia conducted detailed

measurements of increased sunspot activity, which is expected to affect

patterns over the next several years.

All right, Slash, but in hamster years, you are a teen.

Trust me, though.

It's all for a good cause.

Somebody turn that damn noise off.

You Devin Taylor?

Yeah. What's going on?

Just have a seat now, son. Hey, hey.

You don't have to frighten him after what he's done.

I want all this equipment packed up.

Everything you can find. Yes, sir. What did I do?

Hey, hey, be careful with that.

Dad.

You were right about Nagamo. There's been an outbreak.

It's worse than here.

So what about Kelly?

She's infected too, but that's all we know.

Nagamo is completely isolated.

And during the night, the government declared a national state of emergency

here, too.

We're being quarantined to protect the rest of the country from becoming

infected.

They're taking you and everything you've been working on back to the hospital to

help us. We're going to fight it from there.

What have I done?

It's not your fault, Devin.

I should have listened.

Ladies and gentlemen, this briefing is classified.

At present, the infection has been limited to this city in Nagano, Japan.

But given the disease's motor transmission, the prospect of

unlikely. This disease stems from a cellular reaction to certain

a series of radio frequencies.

Essentially, it's a biological response to a sound.

If we lose containment, the number of people infected could reach...

the hundreds of millions within a few days.

Dr. Hampton, epidemiology.

How difficult can it be to keep a sound from spreading? If I may?

The sound or signal is perceived by those susceptible to the disease as

and the listener experiences an intense euphoria, which is highly addictive, and

this is accompanied by an equally intense desire to share the experience.

Several such raves have been sprouting up through the city all night despite

best efforts to impose curfew. And this signal is coming from space?

The short answer to that is yes.

A number of our observatories have now picked it up. The signal is repeating

is apparently of artificial origin.

Who's sending it?

We don't know.

The signal composition is highly complex.

It's extremely difficult to interpret. Doctors.

The military believes that this signal is no accident.

It seems very likely an act of war.

What we do know is that it was generated by a race far more advanced than we

are. The best people in the world are analyzing it, and we're currently

exploring a number of possible ways to reverse the effect.

However, at the present, there is no cure.

Excuse me, isn't it dangerous to expose yourself to the signal? Not to adults.

The disease seems to affect young people exclusively, especially those in their

teenage years. Right, and not just people. I exposed several different

and animals to the signal.

Apparently, whoever sent it intended it for a wide spectrum of life forms. You

were the one who picked up the signal in the first place.

Yeah. So, why hasn't it affected you?

It has.

He's on the cusp between his teen years and full adulthood. That is how he was

able to hear something in the signal without suffering its effects right

Between the ages of 20 and 24, these seem to progress at a much slower rate.

Over the age of 24, people seem to be completely immune.

So what you're telling us is that they're trying to hurt our children?

So it would seem.

Ladies and gentlemen.

The clock is running.

Let's get to work before this becomes pandemic.

Daddy?

Hi. How are you feeling?

Have the painkillers helped at all?

Remember when Mom said no more?

Yes, I remember.

Joyce, we have something we want to try.

A reverse of the signal. Daddy, I don't want it to go that far.

Please.

you won't do that to me. Joyce, it's going to make you better.

It's going to stop whatever this signal is doing to you.

Oh, no.

If I had my music, then everything would be the way it's supposed to be. You've

been infected longer than anyone else, so we want to try this on you first.

It's been tested on animals and it is going to hurt, but we'll do everything

can to control the pain.

You don't understand.

Sweetheart, I know you're frightened.

I'm not going anywhere. I'll be right here.

BP, 140 over 9.

Great.

Start a morphing drip. Set.

BP, 180 over 120.

Pulse to the left.

Tom, don't leave me!

Just a little longer.

Don't do this to me!

Daddy! Daddy!

To the west, please.

Code blue. Shut that down.

Devin, out of the way.

One, two, three, four, five.

One, two, three, four, five.

She's not responding.

We're losing her.

Adrenaline.

What are you doing?

What's she need? You don't know that. Turn it off. Dad, trust me. What's she

need?

We can't fight the change.

We just have to let it happen.

Let what happen?

It's all right now.

You can turn the music off.

Joyce?

It's all right now, Daddy.

Depends.

I'm ready now.

Ready for what?

I think I know what's happening.

Devin, the entire scientific community is studying this problem. We haven't

scratched the surface. Because they can't hear it like I can.

The more I listen to it, the more beautiful it sounds.

The more I learn to accept it like Joyce.

Devin, look at yourself.

You have to stop listening.

The disease is starting to affect your thinking.

But what if it's not a disease?

I mean, Dad, isn't it true that the only ones who've died so far are the ones

we've tried to cure?

Yes. Right, you see?

The signal is not meant to harm us, only to change us.

Every living thing, the more I listen to it, the more I hear that.

I feel it.

But that's the endorphin effect. It's like an opiate. No.

That's just to make the change less painful.

More easy to accept.

Didn't Joyce even say that she was ready?

Right?

Deep down inside, she knew.

Her body knew that it was time to change.

What kind of change?

Look, I bombarded everything on this table with high levels of ultraviolet

radiation, enough to kill any normal plant or animal. The only ones that

to survive...

are the ones that I exposed to the signal.

We're changing.

We're being changed for a reason.

How far back do you want me to go?

As far as possible.

60 years?

Sure.

My God. What are we looking at?

This is the star that our radio signal came from.

as it appears in 1937.

It's a yellow dwarf, much like our own sun.

And this is the star that appears today, a blue dwarf.

I don't understand.

Their sun changed.

It shifted, rather, towards the ultraviolet.

And ours is about to do the same thing. All that increased solar activity, the

sunspots, they were warning signs.

We didn't even see it coming.

But they did, because it happened to them.

To survive, they had to adapt, to change.

And they're offering us that same choice.

The music wasn't an act of war.

It's an act of mercy.

They're trying to save us.

And we have received international confirmation of our findings.

Although it's still now barely detectable, the sun's spectrum has begun

definite shift to the ultraviolet.

The CDC has made its official recommendation.

Wherever possible, the transformation should be encouraged.

To this end, a hormonal treatment is already being developed that should

everyone over the age of 20 to hear the music as well.

In light of these developments, the President has issued the following

directives effective immediately.

All civil defense installations, including the emergency broadcast

begin continuous transmission.

of the alien signal. We believe that exposure to the signal is the only way

ensure our survival in the face of the impending solar shift.

The president has ordered the launching of satellites into orbit, which will

broadcast the signal via microwaves to both unpopulated areas of this country

and to those less developed countries unable to expose their own populations

themselves. Ladies and gentlemen, for better or worse, this is a time of

momentous change for all the people of the world. And through this adversity...

We have been given this chance by friends, far, far away, to witness the

a new era.

Heaven.

When the music stops, I don't even know who I am.

I bought my prom dress because it matched my hair.

Oh, Daddy.

I must look hideous to you.

Never.

Joyce, before long, I'll be the strange -looking one. You know, most people have

decided to make the change.

Even Dr.

Riddle. You should see her. She looks very smart.

But you, you will always be the best -looking girl at the prom.

So why didn't you change, Dad?

Well, I've been thinking about your mother a lot lately. I think she would

made the same choice.

What's going to happen to you?

I'll have to stay indoors during the day for the rest of my life, but I won't be

alone. There are millions of people who decided not to make the change,

especially my generation.

What's important is the future, your future.

And besides...

This way your mother will recognize me in heaven.

I wish you could have heard the music the way we did.

I'll never forget it.

I'll never forget the 60s.

That was music.

Excuse me.

It's time to go.

They say the shift is going to happen this afternoon.

Right. Well, I better get you home, Dad.

have chosen to stay behind, including yours truly.

We hope that this new beginning, year one, the second age of man, will bring a

renewed sense of purpose to our planet.

I have just been told that the final shift will be taking place any moment

We repeat, those who have not made the change are warned to stay indoors.

Direct exposure to the new sun will kill within hours.

This is Marcus Gilded, for IBS, on the verge of the new millennium.

New Year, sir.

It is said that music is a universal bridge crossing the barriers of culture,

age, and language.

Perhaps eventually we will learn that it also spans those of time and space.

The Outer Limits will be back again on Monday at 8, with the double bill

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