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These are the journals of Darian Lambert, Captain, Fugitive Retrieval

.D.

2193.

Captain, I have detected an urgent message from space.

Selma, those monsters are from the ocean, not space.

I do not refer to your television show, Captain. I have been receiving an actual

transmission from space.

Visual mode, Selma.

What are you receiving? A signal from the space shuttle? A satellite?

No, Captain. It is a binary code unique to the Procardians.

The Procardians?

That doesn't make any sense.

They won't communicate with Earth until 2142.

I have no explanation, Captain, but I am receiving a prokaryote distress signal.

Can you locate it?

I can angulate the signal to within five kilometers.

Projection rod.

Is it going to land?

From the urgency of the transmission, it will be an unscheduled landing.

I think we should start a little bit earlier tomorrow.

Why?

I'm supposed to be relaxed.

Getting no sleep ain't relaxed.

Hey, Bubba, you want to sleep?

There's one way to find out.

Reach.

Don't move or I'll kill you. Keith, take it easy. You take it easy.

Whatever you are, you better stop.

This will blow a hole in the size of your head.

It began in the future.

A time machine called Trax.

Criminals who vanish.

And a lawman who must pursue into the past.

Now he is among us.

A special breed of man.

He has one weapon and a computer named Selma. Good morning, Captain Lambert.

With her, he will travel through our world.

Searching for fugitives from his own.

Knowing he cannot go home until he has found them all.

His name is Darian Lambert. And this is his story.

I called a friend of mine who is a neurological expert at Duke.

Sent him all the x -rays, EEGs and such.

But he can't figure it out either.

Nobody's ever seen anything like this.

There has to be something you can do, Mike.

As long as he's stable, the best thing we can do is wait.

Hopefully, he'll come out of his coma on his own.

Okay.

Start organizing the search party.

I want everybody in town out there looking for that thing.

And tell them to bring their guns.

You got it, Sheriff. We're on it.

Come on, little brother.

I need you here.

Captain! May I point out that you have been exceeding the legal speed limit for

eight hours?

Would it not be wise to slow down?

I remember my study of Procardian transmissions.

They're peaceful and gentle.

What happens if someone not so friendly comes across them before we do?

You are concerned for their safety?

Exactly.

If they're still alive.

Good luck.

Doesn't look good, gentlemen.

Call up your archive file on Smith Mountain.

We're going to need a cover story for these people.

a good cup of coffee.

Seems to be a lot of excitement going on outside.

Don't mind my daughter.

She means well.

She just can't talk.

Never has.

Oh, I'm sorry.

It ain't your fault.

What can I get you?

What's good?

Grits?

Grits? Okay, I'll have one.

Where are you going?

To join the sheriff on the search party.

You mind if I ask you what you're searching for?

A lost child or something?

No, nothing like that.

Then what?

Well, it seems that somebody or something almost killed the sheriff's

last night up in Beaver Woods.

What do you mean, somebody or something?

Say, who are you?

Oh, uh, Dan Blackwell.

Roy Blackwell, he's my uncle.

Oh, dear.

Afraid I got bad news for you, son. You're...

Uncle passed on last month.

Oh, no.

He was a good man.

Lived a long life.

Actually, I never met him.

Well, listen, son, I'd love to spend the time talking to you about your uncle,

but right now I've got to get out there.

Could you use another set of eyes?

Sure, if you want to come along.

Yeah, let's go.

I'll take a rain check on that grit.

Okay, move out.

And remember, this creature is dangerous.

If it raises its hand to you like this, do not hesitate to shoot.

Otherwise, you could end up like my brother.

All right, let's go.

Yes, sir.

Hey, Ralph.

Hey, Jake.

I'd like you to meet Dan Blackwell. He's Roy's nephew.

Nice to meet you. How you doing? Your uncle was a good man.

Thank you.

Any idea what caused this?

You wouldn't believe me if I told you.

Jake!

Excuse me.

I'm a little busy.

Yeah, I'm coming with you.

So, there's nothing left.

Procardium crafts are programmed to vaporize after impact.

We'd better find that Procardium before these people do.

Any ideas?

Yes, Captain.

I'm detecting an unusual alpha wave fluctuation approximately 425 meters

bearing 35 degrees.

Which way, Selma?

Look up, Captain.

Oh, my God.

Greetings.

I won't hurt you.

Selma, he's just a boy.

Are you injured?

Um... May I try, Captain?

My friend will now appear.

Don't be frightened.

Visual mode, Selma.

He is asking

who we are, Captain.

You speak for Cardian?

Yes. What shall I tell him?

Tell him we know where he comes from and that we are friends.

He says he understands English.

How?

I have been studying humans for many years and have learned the language.

However, he does not have the vocal anatomy to form the sounds required to

the language.

I'm Darien Lambert, and this is Selma.

We don't have much time.

You are in a great deal of danger.

Now, can you climb down that tree?

Voice mode.

Selma, project a high -intensity sound into the woods that way.

Bearing 260 degrees, Captain. Transmitting.

It's okay.

They're gone.

Okay?

Come on down and let's get the heck out of Dodge.

Captain, we are not in Dodge.

We are in Smith Mountain, North Carolina.

Cowboy talk, Selma.

Come on down.

Here, put these on.

He does not understand the purpose of covering his body with artificial skin.

You understand the concept of camouflage?

Blending in.

Captain, he asks where we are going.

I don't know.

As far away from here as we can get.

He doesn't want to go.

You have no choice.

We have to get out of here.

I'm not sure that I understand how he accomplished it, but I believe our

caused the sudden termination of forward motion.

He almost killed us.

Why did you do that?

He apologizes. He did not intend to hurt anyone, but he cannot leave this place.

Why?

He's looking for his mate.

His mate?

That's who he came for.

How did she get here?

On an earlier exploration, she became separated from the group and had

to be left behind.

Wait a minute. Are you telling me this is the second landing of Picardians that

we haven't heard about?

Apparently so, Captain.

Okay. Okay, okay. Let's deal with one problem at a time.

Understand this. We will look for your mate later.

But right now, you have to get to safety.

He said he will not leave Smith Mountain without her.

Visual mode, Selma.

Hold it.

Hold on a minute.

Well, if I'm going to help you, you're going to need to answer some questions.

Like, um... What do I call you?

His name is not translatable, Captain, and the human tongue cannot approximate

it. He suggests you give him a name for the duration of his stay on Earth.

Okay.

What's it going to be?

Sam, Bill, David? He likes Bill.

Bill it is.

Now, Bill, is there anyone from Procardia who's coming to look for you?

No, Captain.

No one on Procardia knows he came.

Doesn't he have to... Find a flight plan or something like that? He couldn't.

Travel to Earth has been forbidden.

Procarians consider humans too violent and primitive at this time.

I guess we advance enough to satisfy them in the next 150 years.

He asks what you meant by that.

Never mind. Did you attack the sheriff's brother?

He did not intend to hurt the man.

His TMTI discharged for self -preservation.

TMTI.

Transitory molecular transfer inhibitor. It is triggered in the procardion

involuntarily, much like human adrenaline.

How is it triggered?

The sheriff's brother was pointing a rifle at him.

So it was self -defense.

Not that anyone in this town is going to believe it.

He asks if we can look for his mate now.

You better relax, Bill. You're liable to get lynched.

He would prefer to...

To die than to live without his mate.

All right.

I'll tell you what I'm going to do.

I'll look for her, I'll find her, and I'll bring her to you.

But you have to stay here out of sight.

Good boy.

Now, give me a description of her.

Where she will die.

There she is, wonderful.

Warm and generous, selfless and caring.

Phil, Phil, not that kind of description.

Tell me what she looks like.

He doesn't know.

He doesn't know?

Procarians don't age as humans do.

Instead, they develop in spurts. At each change, they take on an entirely new

look.

Bill's mate was ready for change when she came here. The fear and stress of

being left behind would certainly have triggered it. Great.

I don't know what she looks like, where she is, or even if she's still alive.

What do we know?

She's young.

She glows if she's frightened.

Anything else?

Of course.

Why didn't I realize this sooner?

She doesn't talk.

Bill, stay here.

Don't open the door for anybody. Do you understand?

I'd like to take you up on that grid.

I'm a little busy right now.

What about your daughter?

Can she help out?

She's out delivering sandwiches to the church party.

Sweet girl.

And she's been unable to talk since she was born?

I'm not sure.

You're not sure?

Why are you asking all these questions all of a sudden?

I'm sorry.

I just wanted to find out more about your daughter.

What? I thought maybe I could help her.

I'm a speech pathologist.

And you might be able to help Rachel?

Maybe. I need to find out some more about her. I may need to examine her.

Do you have any other relatives with Rachel's condition?

Viv, honey, why don't you go down to the cellar and get us some more fresh eggs?

Yeah. Vivian don't like to talk about this.

But Rachel is not our blood kin.

We adopted her about two years ago.

There's nothing to be so edgy about.

Yeah.

Well, you see, there was another little girl.

And her name was Rachel, too.

Only she died at birth.

And that door is apart.

I'm sorry.

When we found that lost child, we took her as a gift from God, a replacement

our own Rachel.

What do you mean you found her?

She came wandering into town one day out of the woods.

She wasn't wearing no clothes.

She couldn't speak.

She couldn't write nothing.

Do you know where she came from?

No.

No. Sheriff looked into it, but he couldn't find any reports of any missing

children.

And the county, why, they wanted to put her in an institution. They figured she

was retarded.

But me and Vivian, we knew that she was... as smart as the rest of them.

Maybe even smarter.

So you think you can help her, huh?

I don't know.

When can I see her?

Well, she'll be back in a bit. Tell you what, why don't you come back here about

8 o 'clock?

We'll be closing up then.

I'll be here.

Oh, and by the way, you be very careful about what you say about Rachel in front

of her mama.

Because as far as Vivian is concerned, she is our original daughter sent down

to us by God.

She's working at a coffee shop.

She's a little older than you remember.

Captain, he wants you to take him to her immediately. No, no. Bad idea.

We wait until the coffee shop closes.

Then we go when there aren't people there who can see you.

He refuses to wait.

Why? You've waited this long. When's a few more hours going to hurt?

Bill, come back here.

Bill.

Bill.

Think about her for a minute.

It's going to be a big shock to you.

You're going to have to have patience.

Trust me.

She'll be there tonight.

Stop acting like a child!

He said he's going to find her himself.

I can't let you do that.

It's too dangerous for you out there.

Captain, can you hear me?

Can I help you?

We want that at the table or the counter.

We got plenty of room at both.

Boy, you can't go back there.

Rachel? What are you doing?

Rachel's in there.

Come on. Come on, go get him.

This

is

the sheriff. Frankie, I need a roadblock near the fork on 32.

Captain, I must take the initiative.

Attempting radical therapy.

No, no!

No, no, no!

Oh,

Captain.

It worked.

Okay, get ready. Here it comes.

Stop!

It just ran the roadblock. It turned up under the dirt road.

Which way did they go, Selma?

Bearing 2 -9 -0.

Captain, may I point out that you are in a severely weakened state, and the

sheriff has at least 20 armed men.

Well, how am I going to help Bill?

A stratagem would be in order.

Okay,

okay, wait a minute.

How did you wake me up?

The field Bill used on you was modulated to reduce molecular damage.

Apparently, he did not want to hurt you.

Do you understand how it works?

It is probable that the energy field inhibits transfer of atoms between

molecules, obstructing chemical or electrical response.

Stop talking technical.

It causes a coma.

Why didn't you say so in the first place?

what we have to do now.

Visual mode, someone.

It's not working.

It seems he was subjected to a more violent charge.

I cannot generate sufficient voltage to revive him.

This is a fibrillator. It might do the job.

Yes, Captain, it might. I suggest turning the voltage to the maximum

Now, hold the paddles in the air on either side of his head.

The paddles must be within seven centimeters of his head, but not

got it.

Be ready for a jolt between the paddles when I activate them.

Let's try it again.

All right, people, pan out. They can't

go far.

Now, remember, he has a hostage with him.

We do not want Rachel Johnson to get hurt.

So no fast moves This time captain try reversing the polarity

He's

coming around some

Jake, is it true?

Right so, Ralph. It's not, Rachel. So what are you going to do?

Jake, Jake, you've got to promise me you won't do nothing until she's safe.

Don't worry. We'll wait until she's a safe distance from him.

Then what?

Then we'll kill him.

Real slow.

My Lord, what kind of power she got over her.

Come to me, sugar.

You'd think he's got her under some kind of spell.

I don't know what any more than you do.

Jake, don't.

I don't know if you can understand me, mister, but that man you near killed

yesterday was my brother.

Now you let her go.

Or I'll shoot.

Don't, Bill!

Here's your brother, Jake.

Keep him covered.

You all right?

Still pretty stiff.

He saved my life.

Who the hell are you, mister?

My name is Darian Lambert. I work for the government.

I'm here to protect these people.

What part of the government?

An organization called CETA.

Hey, I heard of them.

They listen for space signals from aliens.

This man is from Procardia.

It's a planet in an ex -solar system, and he means you no harm.

Yeah? Well, how about what he did to my brother?

He only intended to stun him long enough to get away.

Besides, Key's fine.

No harm, no foul, right?

Are you sure you're okay?

All right.

Put him away, boys.

What has he done to my girl?

Now, you tell him to let our girl go.

I'm sorry, sir. I can't do that.

What do you mean you can't do that?

Because she's the reason he came here in the first place.

I don't follow you.

The girl you call Rachel is an alien who was left behind from a previous

expedition. No.

She's his mate.

That's not true.

She's a human being just like you and me.

I'm sorry, ma 'am.

She's our little girl.

Viv, honey, you take a look for yourself. It's true.

No.

She's saying thank you for taking such good care of her.

Do you really want to go with her?

That man.

What's going to happen to them?

I'm going to take them to a place where they can contact their own people.

I always knew that someday some boy's going to come by here looking for her

hand.

But who could have foreseen this?

Take good care of my girl, now, you hear me?

I... love... you.

I love you too, baby.

God bless you both.

Listen, folks.

I know you're all going to want to talk about this.

It'll be hard not to.

But please, for your own good, forget all that you've seen here today.

My agency will disavow any knowledge of it.

And I think you can understand why.

I actually think I'm starting to understand some of your language.

You asked me who I am.

What does that mean?

I didn't quite catch that one.

Visual mode, Selma.

Translate? He asks which planet we are from.

We're from Earth.

Thank you.

What did he say?

He observed that I am much more advanced than other computers.

He asked that we explain.

Have your scientists developed time travel technology?

No,

it is thought to be impossible.

He asks if we are from the future.

He asks if you meant it when you said you would take them to meet their own

people. Yes, I meant it.

He asks how.

A good question, Captain.

The Picardians were about to arrive when we left our time, right?

Ah.

So we transport Bill and Rachel to 2194.

Rachel said that all their friends and relatives will be dead in 2194.

You'll never see your friends and relatives again if you stay here.

At least in the future, you can live with your own people.

And maybe even someday you can go home.

you both have a bright future

you won't feel any pain

you're

welcome have a good trip

Transmission tone.

Selma, you'd better place a long ad in the Washington Post for the chief.

Those two are going to take some explaining.

Time Tracks is a Gary Nardino production in association with Warner Brothers

Television.