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-Jump Point Epsilon is secure.
-Roger.

This is the captain.

A few minutes ago
at 0900 hours

the fleet passed
Jump Point Epsilon.

We are now in enemy space

and proceeding
under standard acceleration.

For security reasons,

the objectives of this fleet
have remained secret.

We're going after
their home world.

I can now inform you
that this ship carries
the most powerful weapon

ever built by man,
a sub-atomic warhead.

A doomsday bomb.

It took nearly all of
Earth's resources
to create this ultimate weapon.

As you know, humanity is
at the brink of defeat.

Men of the Light Brigade,
the tide has turned.

In six hours,
a fleet of nine warships,

manned by 600
of the best young men

the United Nations
of Earth can offer,

is going to launch
a surprise attack

and will destroy
the enemy's home world.

I'm proud to tell you
the Light Brigade itself

will deliver the warhead
that wins this war
once and for all.

Know that God is on our side,

for our enemy is godless.

Know that the millions
who have died will be avenged.

Know if we lay down our lives
in the coming battle,

it won't be in vain,

for we will have ensured
the very survival of humanity.

I would like to read you
a passage from the poem
for which this ship was named.

Captain, we've picked up
multiple hits on radar!

Oh, sweet Jesus!

Sound general quarters!

[Man on Speaker]
General quarters!
General quarters!

-All hands
to battle stations!
-[alarm buzzing]

-What's happening?
-We're under attack.

Increase speed
to emergency flight.

Light speed. Let's get
those control rods out
as far as they go.

Prepare for
maximum acceleration.

[Captain] Set a course for
the enemy home world
and lock it in.

[Man on speaker]
Launch extra fires!

All batteries firing well.

They knew we were coming.

Incoming missiles!
Brace for impact!

Engineering to bridge.

Engines at 110%,

at 1.5 gs acceleration.

[explosion]

[engines accelerating]

Chief, we've got
containment failure.

I have to get to
the next compartment.

Keep up this acceleration!

Aye, sir.

[screaming]

You try to help him!

Too late! Man your post!

But he's dying!

Get back!

You can't leave him there!

Man your post!

[screaming]

[Control Voice]
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 thousand 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.

Warriors may be forged
in the fires of battle,

but heroes are discovered
in the most unlikely of places.

[Radio] Light Brigade!

You're accelerating up.
The entire...

I'm in engineering, wedge one.

The engineer is dead.
What do I do?

Someone please respond!

Can anyone hear me?

Light brigade!

All the reactor rods down here
are maxed out

and the hydraulics
are offline.

Somebody tell me what to do!

Turn it off!

It's the comm link
to command desk.

They can't hear it
outside this ship.

Skokes.

Shine that over here,
will you?

[servos whirring]

Pretty cool, huh?

What you probably heard
was an Exeter fighter

trying to hail somebody
on the command deck.

Well, why aren't
they responding?

Maybe they can't.

Maybe they're knocked out.
Maybe they're dead.

Oh, no.

What's our status?

It doesn't matter.

Just answer the question!

Our radiation badges
are in the black.

That means
we've taken a lethal dose.

We're gonna die.

Not in the next five minutes.
And I need to know
what happened.

The reactor vented radiation
into the next compartment over.

You can see through
the view port, everyone
in there is dead.

This was our last chance.

We've lost the war now,
haven't we?

I don't want to hear that.
We've still got a job to do.

Yes, sir. I'm sorry.

I'm just really, really scared.

How long
have we been at flank speed?

I don't know.
I got knocked unconscious.

I don't know
how long I was out.

I remember
feeling kind of weightless

and then heavy
all of a sudden.
And then, I...

We're still accelerating.

So that should
tell you something.

If they could have stopped us,
they would have.

What are you saying?

That we got through?

Yeah, we got through.
We're headed towards
their home world.

We're on target,
between five and six hours out.

That's not much time.

For what?

To complete the mission.

We could be
the only two people
left alive on this ship.

How can we complete
the mission?

Keep the reactors online
and the engines running
until we reach the target,

or we die trying.

-Is that clear, cadet?
-How are we...

I said is that clear?

Yes, sir.

[generator spinning up]

[groans] What happened?

The Brigade is still
headed towards our target.

Do you hear me?

We can still use this bomb.

And the rest of the fleet?

We got the bomb.
Nothing else matters.

[grunting]

-My leg!
-Easy, easy.

Boromir, you hang in there.

I want you there
to celebrate our victory.

How did a cadet
get assigned to
The Brigade, anyhow?

My father sits
on the UNDF council
back on Earth.

You're a councilor's son?

He pulled some strings
at the last minute.

Got me assigned
to the fleet as a replacement.

Why would he do that?

To be one of the 600.

You know,
one of the heroes.

Well, I don't have time
to wait for you to grow up.

So you just do as I say,
and you might end up a hero.

-Understand?
-Yes, sir.

Good.

Check the engineer's board
for red lights.

All right.

Ready?

[grunting]

[sizzling]

We gotta slow down
the engines.

Help me
get the rods in.

So you seem to know a lot
about this ultimate weapon

the captain was talking about.

I thought
everyone knew about that.

Everything fore
the crew mess deck
is off limits to REPOWS.

Reinstated POWs.

I lost my security clearance
when I lost this.

They do that to you?

Yeah, they did.

Tell me what you know
about the weapon.

Just one of them
could destroy an entire planet.

I think it breaks down
the bonds

that hold matter together
on a subatomic level.

How do you know all that?

Right before I left Earth,
they did a test blast on
one of the Martian moons.

Lit up the sky for
three nights in a row.

You saw that?

Yeah, everybody did.
You couldn't miss it.

At first, I was scared.
I thought they were
bombing the Mars colony

and they were gonna
come after us next.

Then I saw my dad.

He was looking up at the sky

like he'd seen the most
beautiful thing in the world.

And did your father
tell you how to arm it?

No, he never talked about
things like that.

Most of the time,
he didn't really talk at all.

All the control rods
in the other compartments
are at max.

That's not good.
We got to slow down.

These engines weren't built
to handle this kind of
acceleration for long.

Closing these will help.

[grunting]

Glad he's on our side, huh?

Okay, there's three other
compartments on this deck.

We gotta do the same thing
in one of these,

or this whole ship
is gonna blow itself up.

Before we reach our target.

They knew, didn't they?

That we were coming.

Yeah, they must have.

My dad said that
the fleet was supposed
to be a secret.

That's for the officers
to decide...

If they're still alive.

Our job is to complete
our mission.

-[banging]
-What was that?

Maybe that's someone
coming to help.

Maybe we've been boarded.

By who? The enemy?

Maybe. Stand back.

Damn.

-Who are you?
-I'm a Weps!

Skokes, what are you doing?

He's chief
weapons officer.

What are you doing down here?

I thought I was
the only survivor.

I tried to contact you
on the comm,
all the channels were dead.

Why are you trying to
get into this compartment?

To complete the damn mission!

What the hell
are you doing, soldier?

Why haven't you closed
those control rods in there?

He thought you were
the enemy.

Have you ever seen
the enemy before?

Yes, sir, I have.
Real close.

And do I look like
the enemy to you?

No, sir.

You open up that bulkhead,

this compartment will be
flooded with radiation.

-We have to try.
-No, sir!

Hey! If we don't get inside,
the war is over!

You understand what
the stakes are here?

We are
the last chance!

You do what you're ordered to.
Is that understood, soldier?

Sir, with respect,
that compartment
is contaminated.

If you open up that door,
we will be dead
within 30 seconds!

Who'll complete
the mission then, sir?

Can you detonate that bomb
now from here?

No.

Till they arm it
from the bridge, it's useless.

May I suggest that we
depressurize the compartment?

We vent the contaminated air
into space.

I can do that here with
the fire suppression system.

We go back
through the conduit.
We enter through...

Through the escape hatch, yes.

[Skokes] We slow the ship down,
head for the bridge.

We'll be exposed
to some lethal doses
of gamma radiation,

there's no question about it.
But at least we'll survive
for a few hours.

Long enough
to complete the mission.

All right,
but let's get to it.

We don't have
a whole lot of time.

Yes, sir.

"Theirs was not
to reason why.

Theirs was but to do and die."

It's from The Charge
of the Light Brigade.

It's the poem the captain
was gonna read us...

I never read it.
Let's move out.

[beeping]

[warning buzzer sounding]

[Skokes] Was the bomb hurt
in the assault?

No, it's the most protected
part of the ship.

I was doing a final check
on the warhead
when we got attacked.

It got knocked out
on the second hit.

So did we.

I try to get through
to Command, but kept
running into red lights.

Radiation?

Yeah. Everybody was dead
but they're still
at their stations.

It's the same on every deck
between here and command.

Gunnery, maneuvering.

Neutron bombs.

Yeah, damn handy things.

Doesn't destroy the ship,
but it kills the crew.

They used them
to capture ships before.

So how come we're still alive?

I was working
inside the warhead casing.

You men must have been
shielded by the reactor.

[beeps]

Okay, let's go.

Damn, red light.

You can override it?

Yeah, gimme a minute.

Okay, we need the Weps
to arm the warhead.

So when I give the word,
we move in fast,
we get out fast.

Every second down there
is an hour off your life.
Is that clear?

-Yes, sir.
-I go, too.

You sure you're up to it?

That compartment
has been opened to space.

As soon as we open
these hatches,

there's going to be a hurricane
going through here like
you've never seen before.

I go.

All right. Weps?

Almost there.

Okay, ready.

Okay, listen, if we
don't make it back out...

You'll make it
if I have to get down there
and get you myself.

If anybody tries to board us,
you detonate that warhead,

take as many of them
with you as you can.

You'll make it!

All right.

Okay. Hang on to something.

[alarm blaring]

One! Two! Three! Go!

I can't budge it!

Push!

Whatever you guys do,
hurry up and get out of there!

Let's go!
Go! Go! Go!

[Skokes] Boromir,
get out there!

What are you doing?!

It's the only way!

There's too much
air pressure!

You don't know that!

I have to close it
from inside!

You can't do this!

He's right.
We'll never be able to
fully close it from up here!

Cadet, give me a hand!

The door is caught!

It's too heavy!

Go! Go!

-Come on!
-No! Boromir!

Come on!

[screaming]

No!

Go back to a vacuum
in a few seconds.

He won't suffer long.

That's a hero.

Let's go.

We're slowing down.
I can feel it.

We're slowing down
to one G or so of acceleration.

The engine should maintain
this speed all the way
to the target.

Then we'll make it.
We'll be there
in a couple of hours.

[coughs] We better
get going

before this radiation sickness
sets in.

-It's a way to go yet.
-All right.

"Into the Valley of Death."

Hey, WEP, shouldn't we have
made a turn back there?

We can't get through
the starboard access.

That half of the ship
was cooked by
the neutron bursts.

Too hot with radiation.
We'll never make it.

How are we getting it
to the command deck?

Through the core.
There's an access ladder.

[Cadet]
That's impossible!

[Skokes] Not impossible.
Just stupid.

It runs the length
of the ship.

There's an access
on every deck.

It's two feet away from
the particle stream.

[Cadet] It can't be done.

How do you think
I got down here?

I trusted you back there.
You trust me now.

All right now, listen up.

Stay in close
to the wall.

The magnetic bottle
around the particle beam

is going to make you want
to jump right out of your skin.

Just stay looking
at the ladder.

What about
the fuel pulses?

Every eight seconds.
You'll see the flash
from the emitter.

And when you do,
just stay in closer
to the wall.

What happens
if we don't get out the way?

The magnetic bottle
is designed to contain
the particle beam,

but it won't stop you.

Pulses are how hot?

10,000 degrees,
give or take.

I'd definitely
stay out of the way
if I were you.

You ready?

Okay.

Follow me.

Oh, I can't go in there.

Come on, hero.

Nothing can
stop you now.

No...

I'm going
to be sick.

Radiation. It's going to get
worse before it gets better.

Your brains
are going to feel scrambled.

You have to concentrate
and keep moving no matter what.

I never thought
I'd see this.

Congratulations.
You just became sterile.

I hope I didn't ruin
any family planning.

Oh, I can feel the heat.

Think about
something else.

Keep moving.
You're falling behind.

I can't stop thinking.

How did they know
we were coming?

They always know.

Maybe they captured a scout
that knew about the fleet.

My dad thought
that they had spies.

On Earth?

Never seen
one of them before, have you?

I know they're
big monster-looking things

with scaly lizard skin,

green blood and weird eyes.

So you figure
they'd stand out in a crowd.

Maybe they surgically altered
themselves to look like us.

We know their medicine
is superior to ours.

Yeah...
Like everything else.

I got to rest.

Everyone in UNDF
had to pass a retina scan.

I thought that was
just for us REPOWS.

Listen, I've been close
to these sons of bitches.

Real close.

You know how much bigger
they are than us?

They're seven, eight feet tall.

-Not their females.
-The kid's right.

When I was a POW,

I spent some quality time
with one female.

They're a lot
smaller than we are.

How did you get out, anyway?

Boromir led a raid
on the prison I was in.

It was on a small moon
cut right out of rock.

All I know is
Boromir got me out.

And now he's dead.

All right, what's
done is done.

Point is, if we drop that
warhead on their home world,

we win, and they lose.

It all comes down to that.

Just one more deck.

We're almost there.
Let's move out!

I can't focus.

Hang in there, kid.

[Cadet] Oh, my head.

Got to try going through
the second time.

Is that the way
to Command?

All we have to do now is...

Are you all right, kid?

[retching]

Started already.

Oh, God... I'm sorry.

I can't help myself.

It's not your fault.

We're all gonna be
like that pretty soon.

Just hang in there.
You're doing good.

All the equipment
looks intact in there.

That's good.

-[laughs]
-What?

My father didn't lose his hair
till he was 50.

I can see the humor in that.

Can you
override that?

It's secure from inside.

So what,
we can't get in there?

I didn't say that.

There's an access
through the wall.

It's too tight for me.

One of you should
be able make it.

-Okay, I'll go.
-No way, you're way too sick.

So are you.

There's another access door
on the other side
just like this one.

You should be able to
unlatch it from underneath.

When you get inside,
don't touch it.
Just open the hatch.

I can do it.

Okay, hero.

"Half a league...

Half a league...

"Half a league onward.

All in the Vallely of Death
rode the six hundred."

This your first time
above the engineering deck?

Yeah.

How long you been
aboard The Brigade?

Since the shakedown.

Two months.

I haven't been able to fly
an exeter fighter
since I lost my hand.

You?

I arrived with the bomb
just before we shipped out.

Hey, Weps, once
we're in there,

how do we arm
this thing, anyway?

Sorry, I have to do it myself.

[scoffs] Security precautions.

It'll be the end of us.

No.

It's just that
I got something you don't.

"'Forward the Light Brigade...

Charge for the guns!' he said."

You don't trust him,
do you?

Let's just say
I don't like cadets.

Why?

'Cause he's
a last-minute replacement?

The only man
I ever trusted

just died trying
to complete this mission.

I did it.

I got through.

Way to go, kid.

[Weps]
Cadet, gimme a hand.

-Take him.
-Got him.

I told you.
I got something you don't.

It's an ocular interface.

A little secret
your daddy told you?

No, I just knew
they were working on it.

It transmits and receives data

through the optic nerve.

Just arm the bomb.

Wait a minute.
I got a problem.

What?

Ah. I can't make
the connection.

Weps, keep trying.

[grunting]

Weps, keep trying!

Don't give up!

Break! Break!

Weps! Weps!
What happened?

Data stream was corrupted.

Random light, blinding noise.

[Groaning]

Did you arm the bomb?

There's nothing I could do.

When they attacked us,
one of those explosions

must have generated
a massive e-impulse.

The interface was overloaded.

Are you just giving up?

I'm saying it's over...
It's all over,

the war, the mission,

the whole damn human race.

It's over.

[vomiting]

Oh, God.

Come to think of it,

God wasn't with us
after all.

Maybe He created
them first.

[Cadet] We were
supposed to win.

This fleet was supposed
to turn the tide.

We didn't have a chance.

My father said...

Your father was
fooling himself.

We all were.

I know from experience.

I served aboard
The General Patton.

But that was a disaster.

Yeah, tell me about it.

I thought she was lost
with all hands.

All but one.

I was outside the ship
in a maintenance tug

when the enemy cruiser
showed up.

We were on the far side
of the sun.

We didn't think
the enemy knew we were there.

But still,
we were 29 ships,

among them was
the flagship of the fleet,

against one enemy cruiser.

They taught us that

that fleet was attacked
by a superior force.

It was.

A force of one

that moved among our ships
like a wolf among lambs.

And I watched from a distance
as one by one

they all charged
into their own slaughter

until only
The Patton was left.

And I thought to myself,

"Now... Now the wolf
will be punished."

But our best ship
of the line

died with the rest.

Her blood stained the stars
in a ball of red fire.

We were supposed to turn
the tide that day too.

You can't win
if you give up the fight.

Haven't done
enough, have I?

I told you there's no way.
It's over.

-There's always a way.
-Tell me what it is.

Can you detonate the bomb
without arming it?

No, to arm it,
I need the computer.

Then can you fix the computer?

We've only got
a couple of hours
before we're over the target.

So we have a few hours.
What do you need?

It's over, Skokes.

Tell me what you need!

A miracle.

Listen to me.

They detonated
a nuclear warhead less than
500 meters from this ship,

that generated
an electromagnetic pulse

That fused all the circuits
in the main computer.

-It's pointless!
-[Static over the radio]

Listen.

Light brigade!

Please!

Emergency!

Skokes!

What are you doing?

Light brigade, please!

What are you doing?
They were trying
to contact us.

That ship was 100 parsecs away.

They can't help us,
but this can.

He's right.

Why are those circuits working?

Communications has extra
shielding against RF, right?

Maybe that's enough.

It's a snowball's chance
in hell.

It's better than sitting here
waiting to die.

You don't have
to access the entire computer,

just the weapons systems.

Put this in.

You don't give up,
do you?

No.

My brother
was like that.

My father gave a speech
at a war rally
about a year ago.

He said that humanity
would triumph

so long as
we had hope.

He said that

in everyone of us,
there was a hero

and that in our darkest hour

that hero would rise up

and we would
honor them for all time.

You don't understand.

I've got a war to win.

I don't have time
to get sentimental.

We're dying now,
the three of us.

Now hand those over
to the Weps. Now!

Yes, sir.

[pieces dropping]

It's a good thing you didn't
drop the one we needed.

Your dad would have been
proud of you, kid.

We're running
out of time.

We'll be over
the target soon.

Almost there.

There, it's all I can do.

Skokes.

Are you ready?

If I can't make it...

Tell me what to do.

Go to the payload bay.

Before you open the doors,
you must type in a password.

It's "John".
That's my name.

This key initiates
a 30-second countdown.

John,

don't give up this time.

Okay, you son of a bitch,
let's dance.

I'm in.

Accessing weapons system.

Locating warhead,
arming sub-routine.

Uploading command.

Waiting for verification.

The warhead is armed.

You did it.

Way to go, John.

Wait a minute.
Something doesn't look right.

You... You're one of them.

Open the door!

Go to hell!

Open the door!

[Skokes] Your father was right.

We had spies everywhere.

We changed ourselves
to look like prisoners

and then allowed
ourselves to be rescued.

Some of us have been able
to change back.

The retina tests
were the hardest part.

We had to use
the prisoners' own eyes
to ensure we'd pass.

[groaning]

Most of our spies are female,
about my size.

Boromir was my mate.

We were rescued
from a prison together,

and have waited for
an opportunity like this one.

Looks are deceiving.

You're not getting
to that warhead, hero.

I need to get
into the payload bay now.

[grunts] Get out of my way!

No! Let go!

Get out of my way!

They're trying
to board the ship.

Keep moving.

Got to keep moving.

"Cannon to the right of them,

Cannon to the left of them,

Cannon in front of them
volleyed and thundered."

"Stormed at
with shot and shell,

boldly they rode
and well into
the jaws of death,

into the mouth of hell."

[alarm blaring]

[Computer]
30 seconds to launch.

25 seconds to launch.

20 seconds to launch.

15 seconds to launch.

10 seconds, 9,

8, 7...

You just came through
the jump point.

What's going on?

Oh, my god.

...2, 1, Launch.

Cadet, answer me.

What did you do?

Oh, my god,
Skokes turned the ship around.

What did you do?

He turned it toward earth
while we were unconscious.

[whispers] Oh, my god,
he turned the ship around.

[Control Voice]
The greatest horror of war

is the fateful transformation
of our children into heroes.