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Barry, come here. Look at this.

The sky.

It's amazing.

A normal solar flare shouldn't change the sky like that.

It just crashed the fusion plant.

A whole star is flashing over.

Oh, my God.

And simulations.

It's one hell of a simulation.

Are you sure you're right?

Larry? It was just supposed to be a planetary climate model. Nothing like

should have happened. Some model? You just destroyed the entire colony.

But it shouldn't have changed that much. All I did was add the new polar flare

data for Arthur Tarr.

You must have made a mistake.

No. Well, assuming the data you entered was correct.

How far in the future was that simulation?

A few days, at the most.

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 delude you with a thousand channels or expand one single image to

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.

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

mind to the outer limits it

has been said that for the truth to exist it takes two

people one to speak it and another to hear it Simov

How many times have you run that simulator?

46 times.

And you got one apocalyptic scenario?

Two, if you count this one. And that's enough for me.

Why this time and not the others?

Because I had better solar flare data for our sun. I just downloaded it off

new orbiting observatory. What the other 44 sims gave you? What, rainbows and

sunspots? Making predictions off of fractal geometry is not an exact

You know that.

Dad, I know. I don't want to believe it.

How soon is all this supposed to happen?

I don't know if these numbers are right.

Climax pulse.

Four days, 11 hours, 37 minutes.

Could you be more accurate?

Ian, it's going to happen.

How can you be absolutely certain when it's only happened in the simulations

times out of 46?

I can't. But how can we take the chance?

I don't have time for this.

Dad, wait.

You really think our son is a pulsating star? On a thousand -year cycle, then

our timing couldn't be worse.

If 30 years of planning went into this colony, you'd think someone would have

noticed this.

Janice was only discovered 140 years ago. That's plenty of margin for error.

Look, we just come back to the land. How can you even suggest this after the

groundbreaking fiasco? How can you hold that against him?

The council will. It was five years ago. For 18 months after we land, everyone

kills themselves to help build the colony.

We're 40 % done, months ahead of schedule. Then you, Larry, convinced the

council to abandon the site. Because I thought we were about to be wiped out by

an imminent volcanic eruption, I thought I had the evidence. But you didn't. I

made a mistake. We were talking about people's lives. Which you want to turn

upside down again.

I misinterpreted the data. I didn't see what it really meant. I couldn't

comprehend the enormity of what I detected. You see, what I thought was

was actually nothing, right?

No, it was actually our sun flashing over.

My mistake was that I thought all the evidence of superheated material had to

caused by a local volcano. I never imagined it to be planet -wide.

Another theory for which you have no conclusive proof.

You're a terraformer, Larry.

Climatology, botany, geology, those are your specialties, not astronomy.

And what this has to do with practicing medicine is beyond me.

It'll have a hell of a lot to do with it if our star flashes over.

You saw the data.

A single anomalous simulation.

I need something tangible. Then maybe I'll be on board. Then come back to the

lab. I've got more proof there.

You wanted more proof? Look at this.

The melting of the stone is uniform across all the pieces.

And if you look at a cross -section, the striations are gone because the heat

fused. These are the same samples you used to convince us to move the colony.

You said then this melting was the result of volcanic activity.

Like I said, I made a mistake.

These relics were exposed to radiation from a pulsating star.

Our star, 1 ,000 years ago. If I could send them back to Earth for analysis, it

would prove it. Great.

Then do it. I'll get you the authorization from Murdoch. But there

It would take six months, even in a translight speed ship.

Don't I have a reputation that people respect anymore?

People have long memories, Larry.

Without definitive proof, there's no way you'll be listened to. We're talking

about complete annihilation. Where is your sense? Where's yours?

You've got nothing.

All this can do is get you censured.

Or worse, deported back to Earth.

You should listen to your friend.

What do you want, Fenton?

You know, you're a real miracle worker, Chambers.

Aren't you late for work?

I'm on my way.

I was just passing by, and I've always got time for a friendly little chit

with my neighbor.

You know, my wife was the one with the green thumb in our family.

But you know, she left with the kids.

Right after your last great prediction.

Do I have to call Chief Bennett?

Do you have business here, Fenton?

Just watching out for my good neighbor.

Reminding him that some of us paid a hell of a price to come here.

So noted.

Get up.

Come by for coffee sometime, Chambers.

I could use a botany lesson.

In case I'm going to.

Then I'll get you more proof.

Take whatever time you need.

You should eat something.

Who's the last thing on my mind right now? Come on.

I don't want to see an old friend starve to death.

I wonder if the chairman of the council would authorize some core samples.

Murdoch? Good luck.

My dad's the most reasonable man on the council, and if you can't convince

him... What, now you're backing off, too?

I didn't want to say anything in front of Dad, but he's right. You only got

those results twice. Maybe there's something wrong with the simulation.

I also have the relics. They show the same thing. Do they? I mean, what if

you've misinterpreted them? I didn't misinterpret. Hey, I'm sorry. Listen,

sorry.

That's not what I meant. I just... Maybe there's a reason that you want to

see an apocalypse.

I mean, maybe this has something to do with Elise.

This has nothing to do with Elise.

Well, then you're holding something back.

Because you'd never be this convinced unless you had more evidence than what

I've seen. And I don't understand. Larry, what is it?

If you have something that's going to convince people, then why aren't you

telling them? I mean, hell, tell me.

If you want some trust, then you've got to give me some first.

I thought these were all buried back in the reservations.

I kept this one.

I rescued it from an archaeological site near the original groundbreak, along

with these petroglyphs. Imagine a whole civilization wiped out by disease.

Do you really think they were shapeshifters?

What do you mean? Were they like chameleons, only more advanced?

No one ever saw them do it.

That's a common myth among primitive cultures to take on the attributes of an

animal or...

Even people.

It's a way of trying to control the world around us.

What does this have to do with your theory?

Now, look. This here, I'm reckoning, is our sun, Janet.

I didn't understand it before, but now I see that there are three events, all

leading to the final apocalypse.

And if these star positions are accurate for the five brightest stars in our

night sky, then it was just 1 ,000 years ago.

You think I'm wrong?

It could mean anything.

Truth is a matter of perspective.

You're dead right there.

Chief Bennett.

I saw the door was open, the light was on. I just wanted to be sure everything

was okay.

Science never sleeps.

Nor does it usually have good air circulation.

What kind of research takes place this late at night, I wondered?

Astronomy.

More like art history, I'd say.

And someone else's art, by the looks of it.

I didn't think these artifacts were allowed in colonists' hands.

I did bend the rules a bit.

What

the

hell is that?

It's beginning to be.

We only have three days and 13 hours left.

Chairman Murdoch, you must listen to me. If we retrofit the primary cargo ship

with the reactors from the atmospheric generators, we can evacuate the entire

colony. And when we get back, just how do you propose we breathe?

We'll have to get everything up and running again. It'll be a lot of work,

no different than when we first arrived. A lot of work?

Herculean would be a better description.

You have a better idea?

Do nothing.

Your theory is preposterous. How do you explain last night's aurora?

We have the magnetic fields of three moons interacting with this planet's own

magnetic field.

During solar storms, every ion Janus kicks off, gets swept into our skies.

Janus has these storms every year. You know that.

Then authorize the funds for core samples.

You don't even have to pay for a field expedition. We have virgin soil right

here in the center of the main dome. All I have to do is knock aside a few

plants and drill a couple of hundred meters into the ground, and it will

that all life has been destroyed here every thousand years. It's a waste. It

won't prove anything.

You want us to miss the harvest, destroy our atmospheric generator, fly to the

stars to avoid an apocalypse that will never happen, and return to nothing? It

will happen. Like your volcanic eruption?

Have you asked yourself why you're trying to tear down what we worked so

create?

Larry, we've known each other a long time.

So please, don't take offense at this.

But I think there's a voice inside you telling you something much bigger than

any of this. That maybe this isn't your home anymore.

That you really want to go back to Earth and forget.

No. Just listen.

Maybe you want to see an apocalypse because inside, your world here ended

your wife died. Frank, this has nothing to do with Elisa's death. I think it

does.

Even you can't stop cancer.

If she had stayed on Earth, she would have had the facilities that would have

saved her.

I think you blame yourself and this colony for her death.

It's fair. Isn't it?

You're the one who went missing for two weeks after she died.

That sounds like a lot of grief and a lot of guilt to me.

Larry, you did a brilliant job terraforming this planet.

But I think it's time for you to start thinking about going back to Earth and

finding your own life again.

We're in danger, Frank.

And I'll do everything that I can to prove it.

What are you doing here?

You're scaring a lot of people.

And we'll be silent when our lives are at stake.

Give me Chief Bennett.

People talk.

They talk about how you've gone over the edge. About how you're trying to

destroy their homes.

But now you're trying to force us to go back to Earth, and a lot of people don't

want to go. Let him go, Fenton.

I'm here to enforce the law, not break it.

I'm just visiting, Councilman.

Don't you still have a few hours left on your shift, Fenton?

Everything okay?

Everything's fine.

Amanda, where have you been? I'm sorry, I was at the anthropology lab.

After the auroras, I went down to see the colony's records of the petroglyphs

myself to see if maybe Larry was wrong.

And?

There's nothing concrete. I mean, nothing that we could present to the

But I looked at dozens of photographs of petroglyphs, and I feel very strongly

that those drawings foretell what you said.

I think we have to get out of here, Dad.

Now.

Evacuation's not a popular idea, especially when it's based on a feeling.

have weight on the council, Dad.

You could push Murdoch to at least authorize those core samples for later.

Amanda. Well, then, Richard, please just do it for me.

This doesn't mean I endorse your theory, but I'll see what I can do.

To tell the truth, I was going to propose it to Murdoch as a way of

up.

I'll get started organizing a crew immediately.

The three witches.

Sounds so gloomy.

Well, that's what happens when a Norwegian astronomer discovers your

The goddesses of fate. Erd, Verdandi, and Skud.

Past, present, and future.

Yeah.

What do you think our fate is going to be?

Either way, it's going to be hard.

For the colony, or for me, and anyone who supported me.

I shouldn't have drawn you into this.

Larry, you didn't draw me into this.

To tell you the truth, I've been trying to find just about every excuse I can to

spend some time with you.

Sorry, I... I didn't realize.

I'm sorry I shouldn't have said anything.

I know that you still...

Miss Elise, it's just that if you're right and there isn't much time, I'm

wanting to let you know how I felt.

Initial core sample drilling complete.

Ready to begin analysis.

How long did it take?

Again, I think it took thousands of years worth of sediment.

Say, 8 to 12 hours.

I love your choice of trees to terraform this part of the colony. I love the

smell when I'm outside hiking in them.

Yeah, me too.

Reminded me of my place back on Earth.

Elise and I used to stroll through the trees.

Wind in the trees.

Made me feel safe.

When I was little on nights like this, I used to go into my backyard.

I'd stare at the stars for hours.

Now I'm looking up there and... I'm dying to go back.

I came here with a dream, too.

But when Elise died and the whole debacle with the

first groundbreaking...

Keep using you to keep me company, to persuade your father to cry on your

shoulder.

I knew what I was getting into.

We're using engineers to rig up the transfer. The ship is big enough to get

all off the planet to safety. Are you sure about this, Larry? You ruined our

lives once before. Why should we trust you now?

No, I'm not completely sure.

What about your core samples?

What do they show?

I wish they were more definitive.

What do you mean you wish?

Look, all experiments have a margin of error.

I agree, some people could look at this data and say it's not going to happen.

Don't you think I've asked myself this question a thousand times?

But how can we take the chance? I'm talking about all of us being wiped out.

Please!

Please!

Please! Let him finish.

The core samples suggest they don't show anything.

I'm surprised that you'd endorse this. I don't see any layers of ash.

All I see is some numbers.

to say statistically there's a possibility that a thin layer exists

minute to be detected visually?

I mean, if a radiation pulse is supposed to wipe out everything on this planet

every thousand years, shouldn't there be a big layer of charred plant and animal

remains every thousand years?

Maybe they don't.

Maybe they don't because all life here has adapted to Janus' solar cycle.

Survey team discovered this solar system. Virtually all life on this

disappeared. It barely seemed enough to be able to support the native alien

population. It's because of contamination from our advanced probes.

proved that.

What I think is that over millions of years, life here has adapted to Janus'

solar cycle. When a new solar flare period approaches, all life here goes

dormant. It goes underground.

This is the native soil of this planet. It should have dormant spores.

By irradiating this patch of ground...

We can simulate the Janus pulp. And because of the incredible growth rate of

native plants, we should see something in a matter of seconds.

This is absurd.

Increase the power.

All right, I've seen enough.

No, no, wait, wait.

Larry, nothing is happening here.

I have work to do. It's going to happen. If the corporation knew the planet was

unsafe, why send us here?

Who chose this planet?

Who sends the profit if this colony stays populated for 20 years?

Murdoch, bonus payments for every year that we're here.

Oh, for God's sake.

Financial incentives.

Yes, we were all granted them. But I'm not stupid enough to risk my life for

them. If we leave and come back, we'll lose the whole harvest and the

construction we started. We'll lose that, too, to the winter storms.

This is a harsh world, Larry, and these are harsh facts. Everybody getting

killed is a harsh fact. No one's going to be around to bail us out. The money

will come out of all of our pockets, and you can bet half of us will die from

hunger or exposure.

I'm staying.

This is my home.

Now, Larry, you have proved one thing.

We haven't seen anything happening here.

You proved you're wrong.

I want you to keep an eye on him.

I won't let him try and destroy this colony. Not again.

What's going on?

You were all briefed five years ago, before you even came here, that we would

subject to ionic disturbances exactly like this once the ozone levels started

rise.

We've got a lot of charged particles floating around right now, and that's

what's causing the light shift. Enough with this.

There must be some truth to what Chambers says.

His latest simulation predicted the aurora and this.

So far.

He's two for two. Maybe we should convene the council. Does this take a

we need to? Chambers had 46 simulations.

44 show nothing.

Now, please, everybody, go home. There's absolutely no danger.

Better be nothing.

It's a criminal.

More and more people are starting to believe him.

The council's on the verge of voting to leave.

In a few days, it'll blow over. They'll all be laughing at him.

What if they vote to leave before then? If only a thousand people get on a ship

and go back with Chambers, the colony won't sustain a few.

It'll collapse.

You're really worried about your bonus.

My bonus?

There are two kinds of people, Bennett.

Quitters and winners.

I know.

My father was a quitter.

Most people are.

But you want to see a portrait of a quitter, you look at Chambers.

So?

What does that make you, a winner?

As a young man, I found myself on a planet crowded with 10 billion people

room left at the top.

I mean, don't take offense at this, but on Earth, you'd be a second -rate police

sergeant with nowhere to move up to.

Maybe. Oh, you better believe it.

You don't have the connections or the elite school to win a top job.

And me, I'd be a minor administrator in a government department.

that nobody ever heard of.

But this, this is a whole new world.

They'll actually name cities after us, Ben.

Maybe you'll get a whole mountain.

And a kid in a funny beard will play you in a school pageant on Founders Day.

We can create something here.

And we can be on top of it.

Is that so very bad?

But we can't run away.

Anything yet?

Not a peep. Keep watching. I want to know when Chambers turns up and if he's

meeting with any council members.

Let me know as soon as you see something. Will do.

I've called this emergency council meeting on Fenton's behalf. Fenton, just

us what you saw.

I saw an alien coming out of Chambers' lab. If you saw anything at all, it was

fake. There aren't any aliens left alive, and if there were, we would have

by now. How can you be so sure? The colonial marines reported they were

shapeshifters.

Maybe that was Chambers.

Maybe he's an alien.

He's always been obsessed with alien artifacts and alien relics.

And now this?

It all fits.

All aliens are extinct.

Look, first we have Chambers' apocalypse. What's next here? The lost

Atlantis? This is insane.

But what if it's true?

The rest of you stay outside.

You heard me. Step back.

Fenton, guard the door.

What are you doing here?

Security officer Fenton says he saw an alien leave your lab.

And you believe him?

A lot of people outside that door do.

A lot of them believe you were that alien.

I'm just here to put their minds at rest.

You got people worked up, Larry, to the point where they'll believe anything.

I want to put a stop to it.

Where were you last night at midnight?

Here, working, alone.

Anybody see you here? This is completely insane.

No, I have no alibi, if that's what you mean.

The only way to confirm this is with a DNA scan.

Sure.

You have no right to ask me to do anything of the sort, but I'll do it

These readings aren't normal.

They're definitely not human.

For God's

sake, if I was an alien, why would I do all this? Why would I go to all the

trouble of trying to warn people about a planetary disaster?

And why wouldn't I just appear as an alien? Wouldn't that be the best way to

convince you?

Close the door.

You know why.

Revenge. When they first discovered this planet, they attempted to move you to

reservations, but you resisted. So the government sent out a unit of colonial

Marines. Oh, my God.

They butchered them?

They put out a cover story that there'd been a terrible, tragic plague.

But the soldiers reported that all of the natives had been eliminated.

Obviously, the soldiers were wrong.

So, you see, there's every reason for you to preach gloom and doom.

You want us all to leave so that you and any of your surviving race can have

your planet back.

Not to mention our satellite defenses, our ground -based laser batteries, all

our heavy weapons that we'll be forced to leave behind.

Once your kind gets control of them, we'll never be able to land here again.

Why are you doing this?

Our sun is going to flash over and then nothing is going to be left except some

hardware. Look, I have sympathy for you.

But my first responsibility is to the people of this colony.

I can't let all we've worked for, all Chambers himself worked for.

To be destroyed by this. What are you planning to do?

I'm going to hold a closed hearing before the council.

And then we're bound to follow the government's directive.

I'm very sorry.

Place him in confinement.

This is ridiculous.

Amanda, you've got a top two sentence.

You rigged this. You're just trying to get rid of me.

Amanda, they're lying.

They just don't want to leave the planet.

Now let me talk to him, please.

Please!

And then I would never hurt you.

You know me better than anyone has known me in a long time.

At least save yourself. You've got to get off this planet.

Let go of me.

You really don't think I'm Larry Chambers?

You know, I'm telling you the truth.

I am Larry Chambers.

What do you want from me, Frank?

I'll do whatever you want. Just let Amanda go. And her father. Give them one

the small star freighters and let them leave. We need every freighter we've

It's a billion dollar asset. We can't afford to lose. You know that.

What did you do to Larry Chambers? Devin, stop fooling around. Just tell me

you want. I want to keep this colony safe.

I want to keep this colony safe.

We've got to get out of here.

We're not leaving.

So now what?

You're going to kill me?

I don't feel good about that, Larry. I mean, I'm sorry. What do you call

yourself?

If you had just said earlier on that you made a mistake, none of this would have

happened.

So you framed me.

Why would I do that?

So you wouldn't have to leave.

So you could stay here and it'd be a big fish in a small pond. I don't know. If

you are Larry Chambers, what happened?

When you vanished into the woods three years ago.

I had to get away.

When Elise died, I lost control. I lost all sense of time and space.

My life was about one thing. Her.

Building a home for us. Without her, I had no life.

I just wanted to disappear and die.

But eventually, I realized I wanted to live.

And I came back.

You came back a changed man.

And now we know what that change was.

What do you want from me? It's not what I want.

It's what the law demands.

Amanda, what's going on?

I need a neutralizer.

You're the only one who can get me one. I'm not going to get you one.

What do you need it for? I have to get in to see Larry.

I have to test his blood again. There's no need to do that. You saw him test it.

They lied to us about what they did to the aliens on this planet.

What makes you think they're not lying about Larry? They could have rigged that

scan.

That's why I brought my own analyzer.

I'll talk to Murdoch, I'm sure. What, stall until we're all dead?

Dad, listen, we don't have time. Amanda, you can't ignore the law just because

it's inconvenient. Because it's costing us our lives?

I mean, I don't know what to believe. I don't know what is going on, but I just

keep coming back to the same thing.

What if he's right?

I mean, what if in spite of all the inconclusive tests and the failures,

telling us the truth?

I can't just do nothing.

You can't just do nothing, Dad.

I need to see Dr. Chambers.

I'll have to clear that with Chief Bennett first.

Sorry, wrong answer.

Put your hand in.

We've got to get out of here. Not until you put your hand in.

Please?

Well, within the parameters of a normal human reference sample.

There's nothing alien about you.

I'm sorry.

Now can we go?

We've got to get you off this planet.

We'll steal the star freighter at the docking bay.

Fenton, this is Bennett. Do you read me?

Fenton?

Something's wrong.

Sound the alarm.

Larry, what are you doing? I've got to open the hangar door. We can do that

inside the ship. No, they'll override it. Go on.

There's no time.

Larry.

I'll be right there. Larry, don't be stupid. It's your only chance.

Give me that neutralizer.

I'll be right there.

Here I am, Frank.

No reason to be afraid.

Now, with all those good, honest people behind you... Put it down, Larry, and

move away from the door.

You're afraid for the wrong reason, right?

This world is going to be destroyed in a matter of hours, and there's nothing

anyone can do about it. That's a hell of a lot more frightening than any alien

could ever be. Put it down. You know what the funny thing is?

You've already killed the colony.

You've killed its heart, its soul.

You've turned neighbor against neighbor until we're no longer a family. We're

just a mob of frightened people.

Lift off in 30 seconds.

See you later.

I'm sorry. I truly am.

Launch sequence initiated.

It was going to kill us.

We had to.

Hunter, stop the ship.

The panel's frozen.

Unfreeze. It's too late.

It's too late when I say it. It's too late.

Nine. Close the launch bay doors.

Seven.

It's too late.

for Chambers' theory.

Did you ever believe him?

Yes, I did.

For a second.

It was hard not to.

We needed that ship.

We didn't need to kill them, too.

We didn't kill Chambers.

A mob did. But we set up that mob.

Based on blood tests you doctored.

Of all the people in the colony, they were the most...

Honest humans.

And the most gentle.

I don't know how you rigged it.

And I don't want to know. It was easy.

I used my own blood.

What? You should have listened to Chambers.

He was right.

We've had millennia of experience.

Nature taught us how to adapt.

You taught us how to deceive.

What are you talking about?

You should be happy.

Because you were right also.

With the weaponry we'll be inheriting, we can defend ourselves against the next

wave of invaders. And since you didn't fly away, we'll have your starships too.

And we'll be able to move some of our people to new worlds that don't have

troublesome problem.

absolutely correct.

You missed some of us.

Mankind will be forever doomed to destruction if we continue to ask for

truth, but then refuse to listen.