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Out of the fire of earth attraction, beyond the limits of the world, where

and machine and spirit unite.

Born by the power of lightning, into the 21st century.

It is the end of the beginning. It is the time of super force.

Tell me, tell me.

She's like a woman, huh?

Break the cross, but don't hurt us inside.

Dr. Denonville, you think everything is like a woman. So what's wrong? I think

you're like a woman as well.

I am a woman.

Here.

This could be it, Teddy. Look at this.

Beside this, a large biomass.

Something, something started, something very old.

From the northwest corner of the peat bog, eight feet down. It could be Pete

Hollis. It could be. Yes, it could be, huh?

It's a tree.

A burned tree.

Don't be so stupid, Katie. Look at the image. There's someone inside here.

Come on, give me a hand with this.

Careful, careful.

I know. She's like a woman.

It's an old woman.

This is almost vital.

Quick, get some samples here. It's filled with the fluid.

Take some blood, huh?

Doctor, this specimen came from inside a tree dating over a million years old.

Do you think... I don't think. I know this could be a perfectly preserved

specimen over a missing link.

This is incredible.

With this much tissue intact.

Do you know what we could learn?

We're going to sample the internal organs.

Go and keep a snap of the pictures here. I want everything documented.

We'll be famous.

What do you mean, we?

What should we do?

I'm a nice guy.

Stay near here.

Katie, hand me the syringe, huh?

All right.

All right. All right, baby, huh?

All right, baby boy. Now, take it easy here, huh?

Take it easy. It's going to be over in just a second, huh?

All right, now. It's a good boy.

Give me your arm, huh? It is a nice boy.

It's a...

deal with every day.

Working on your new lounge, Jack Merkle?

Yeah.

Here's my first joke, Stone.

Pretty, ain't it?

All right, let's get to it.

This thing is a valuable lab specimen.

Now, the professor at the university doesn't want it hurt, but of course,

make every attempt to find it. Bring it down in one piece.

This thing's like a wild animal. You should see the lab when it escaped. You

know, it broke the professor's back.

Now, I don't want any civilians getting hurt, and I especially don't want any of

you men getting hurt.

So I've applied for and received authorization to use holoform.

You know, Merkel, I'm sure they would have called animal regulations if they

wanted to go hunting.

But this thing, as you call it, looks human to me.

Stone, number one...

This thing's got no social security entitlement number. And number two,

been no judicial ruling on its genotype.

Therefore, it ain't human.

It's a piece of property we're bringing in. Dead or alive.

You got a problem with that?

He might.

Now,

let me get this straight.

You're a policeman, but this is not your case?

Yes, that's right.

And your friend here, he's another policeman.

FX is a fellow scientist.

I thought he could help me with the right questions so that I understand.

Well, I don't understand me. What is your interest here?

Well, I don't think the case is being handled properly.

That could be serious.

We need the bog man back.

That's an important point right there. You said bog man.

Is he a man?

Is he human? He's a lab specimen. He's my property.

We can't type the fluid samples until our equipment's restored, but we're sure

he's pre -human, and as such, he'll have no legal rights.

But it must think. It must be sentient.

Thor Dolphin.

Thor Chimpanzee. You said his case is not being handled right. What do you

Well, for one thing, if he resists capture, he'll be killed.

What, you think I'm crazy?

Of course this specimen is more valuable to me alive, but it's better to get him

back dead than not get him back at all, right?

Worse, he could wind up in the wrong hands. Like a competing university?

I found him. He's mine.

And if I want to cut him up into little sandwiches, that's my business.

Look, Dr. DiNunzio, he's exhausted.

The excitement of this discovery, then the anxiety over escaping.

Of course, we want it returned alive.

How can we help?

Well, forget about this proprietary discovery nonsense.

We leaf the fluid samples.

If there's any human genetic material...

We can offer him complete constitutional protection.

But if he's ruled human, he won't belong to us anymore.

Do you think he should?

Interesting.

A heavy brow structure, but no cranial crest.

Vendibular axis well forward, characteristic of an omnivore.

Are you sure the carbon dating showed it to come from the pre -holocene era?

Well, that's what all the tests showed.

Impossible. None of these characteristics fit our understanding of

development.

But you're saying this isn't human?

I mean, it fits nowhere on the time scale. It seems out of time.

An anomaly.

You know, it's weird.

I just tested the blood that I lifted from Denunzio's lab.

No hemoglobin.

It's full of xanthanone.

What's that?

Xanthanone holds oxygen like hemoglobin, but it lies closer in the chemical

chain to chlorophyll.

And Zach...

Doesn't occur anywhere in nature.

Not anywhere.

This guy definitely isn't the missing link.

This creature is not even in the evolutionary chain as we know it.

Well, Stone, in the last 12 hours we've had several break -ins.

Galleries, museums.

And last night, the estate of Gailey Broxton.

You know Gailey Broxton, Stone.

The billionaire who single -handedly financed Police Commissioner Pfister's

-election? So?

I've got stills from several security systems.

It's your hirsute caballero stone, your monkey buddy, the missing link.

Oh, yeah.

Lab specimens of klepto. Piece of property with a record now.

What's he stolen?

Well, that's the best part.

Stones from a pond, twigs from a museum.

This junk kind of proves it, don't it?

Proves what?

That it's just a dumb animal.

You know, Merkle, maybe he's got a reason for it.

Oh, why don't you patch up your bleeding hearts, don't? Somebody's going to slip

in a puddle and sue you.

Thank you.

I think it is that creature.

I think he killed Spike.

I'm calling for backup.

It's right there in the alley, right over there. I think I got my dog.

Okay, man. Hollow point's in.

Lysander, you have the gas grenade?

All right, it's showtime.

Just hold your horses, Merkel.

Out of the way, Stone.

This is a splat operation.

The creature's in that alley, and it's already killed a police dog.

Well, if he hurt the dog, it's because the dog attacked him.

Yeah, who'd you talk to? The creature's mother? What'd she say? He's a good boy,

and he didn't hurt anybody? Who are you, anyway?

Get out of here. You're not even a cop.

Listen, Merkel, that's a very unique thing you've got in there.

It's a little confused, and it doesn't know our world, but it is a thinking

being.

Well, I'm going to smoke him out and blow him away. Let him think about that.

Okay, men.

Stone, where do you think you're going? Hey, come on out.

I'm not going to hurt you.

Get back here.

Spike, Spike, you're all right.

Hey, it's okay, the dog... No,

don't go out there.

Keep an eye on it.

Next time you try to reason with a monster stone, try using an

ultrataser. They're easy to understand.

Medic!

But the DNA test, it shows that this thing is not a human.

Ergo, it's my property and I want it returned to me.

Oh, I'll grant you it's not human.

But it's not that simple.

It attacked a police officer.

So now I have to wait on a judicial ruling.

A ruling for what?

If they find it uncontrollable and dangerous, it may have to be destroyed.

That's a crazy attack responsibility.

Yeah, and I'll take that into account, but I've got to follow procedure here.

If I can have my specimen, I at least want to take these things and look at

them. You can't.

They're, um... What, Stone?

They belong to him?

They're evidence in the case against the creature.

Oh, yes. I'm afraid he's right, Doctor.

I was going to talk to him.

If this creature must be destroyed, I want the body.

I'm sure that could be arranged.

Thank you.

Ciao, gentlemen.

How's the hand?

Fine.

You never thanked me for saving your life.

Thanks, Michael.

You're welcome.

Zach.

Zach.

No.

No.

No. I mean, how do we communicate?

It's like a river, but within.

I understand.

I understand.

It wasn't like we talked.

It was more of an exchange of images.

Was it his ability or your new powers?

Little of both. See, Eow...

He's a priest with his people. He's king of the trees.

His world isn't like another world in outer space. It's next to ours,

like another dimension.

Parallel dimensions are a mathematic certainty.

These people can travel through dimensions with their minds.

They've never done it physically before, although a rival group of priests

tried, and they kind of botched the job, momentarily causing our two worlds

to... to interface and collide.

And that's how this guy got here?

No. What happened was the collision caused Eow's people to lose their sacred

flame. And Eow, being the most advanced priest, had to do what had never been

done before, which was to physically cross over and retrieve the flame.

Has he found it?

I don't know.

You know those...

Those supposedly worthless objects that he stole? The rocks and stuff. Yeah.

They were all in universities and museums for one reason.

What? They're time anomalies.

In what way? They're all objects that don't fit in the geological strata where

they were found.

Let's say that rock dates back a million years.

It was found in an area where everything around it dates back eight million

years. See, now I think these are all objects that...

collectively are what E .L.'s people call the sacred flame.

And when it crossed over, it kind of blew apart and scattered all over.

And to different places in space and time.

Did he get it all?

I don't know. I mean, only he does.

But here's the kicker.

He seems to know where everything is.

Well, you've got to let him out so he can get back.

And you'd better hurry.

I've been monitoring the Seventh Circuit Review Board.

They've just logged on to the judicial computer downtown.

They've ruled in favor of Dr. DiNunzio.

Oh, no. When that ruling becomes official in the morning, E .I. is going

taken out of your hands back.

He'll legally become the property of that crazy guy.

Yeah, I can't let that happen. I can't let him become a lab specimen.

All I know is this guy shows up at my door with his ID saying he's DiNunzio's

assistant. I'm DiNunzio's assistant.

The judicial court has ruled, and you can't wait until morning. I cannot wait

till morning.

Gotta have his thing now.

I gotta have.

And when I argue with him, he doesn't speak English.

Presto, presto, pellegrino con carne. All right, all right, look. Let's -a go,

let's -a go.

Fine, fine, look. Open this thing up for me, will you? This guy's threatening

me.

Mamma mia.

I suppose you want those artifacts too, right?

Absolutamente.

So are you going to get in trouble for doing this?

Well, most I'll get as a reprimand for it. I'm not checking the ID of an

imposter. See, the judicial ruling made Eyal stolen property. He's not a

criminal.

He sure is big, huh? Yeah, you just noticed that, huh?

What?

I think he wants his stuff.

Oh.

Well, there you go, Eyal.

You're a free man now.

Go back to your people.

Think he's got everything he needs?

Well, if he doesn't, he sure knows how to get it better than we do.

How's he going to get back to his world?

Well, he probably knows that, too.

Check it out. It's healed.

You don't think?

Yeah. Yeah, I do.

And he said doctors don't make house calls anymore.

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