1 00:02:07,850 --> 00:02:09,330 Mars Echo One. 2 00:02:10,810 --> 00:02:13,330 Photoreconnaissance is now complete at wide orbit. 3 00:02:13,890 --> 00:02:16,650 Snaps from this altitude have been recorded. 4 00:02:16,950 --> 00:02:19,350 We are now ready to enter a tighter orbit. 5 00:02:20,210 --> 00:02:25,290 We will resume normal transmission upon execution of the orbital run. 6 00:02:26,220 --> 00:02:30,320 Due to static interference in the Martian atmosphere, we will be unable to 7 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:31,500 maintain transmission. 8 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:37,260 We're standing by the switchover to camera transmitter at 0900. 9 00:02:39,620 --> 00:02:43,420 In 2 minutes and 14 seconds, we will enter our tighter orbit. 10 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:45,160 All systems are go. 11 00:02:45,860 --> 00:02:47,380 Stand by for switchover. 12 00:02:56,140 --> 00:02:57,140 Oh, 900. 13 00:02:57,780 --> 00:03:00,600 Oh, and incidentally, gang, Happy New Year. 14 00:03:01,100 --> 00:03:02,100 Standing by. 15 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:05,060 Oh, and, uh, Happy New Year. 16 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:06,440 Toot -toot. 17 00:03:07,580 --> 00:03:09,100 Toot -toot -toot -toot. 18 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:11,000 Toot -toot. Toot -toot. Toot -toot. Toot -toot. 19 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:11,799 Toot -toot. 20 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:18,460 Toot -toot. Toot -toot. Toot -toot. Toot -toot. Toot 21 00:03:18,460 --> 00:03:21,180 -toot. Toot -toot. 22 00:03:31,210 --> 00:03:32,670 Wiper camera systems, check run. 23 00:03:33,930 --> 00:03:35,030 Camera scope down. 24 00:03:48,150 --> 00:03:49,190 Wide angle. 25 00:03:49,570 --> 00:03:51,810 Full scan camera systems, all go. 26 00:03:53,930 --> 00:03:55,930 Functioning, three -second sequence intervals. 27 00:03:56,510 --> 00:03:59,390 Be sure to correlate your cameras, Dorothy. We don't want any overlap. 28 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:04,500 Correlation complete and corrected. 29 00:04:05,060 --> 00:04:07,480 Narrow angle partial scan systems all go. 30 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:09,500 Functioning on two second intervals. 31 00:04:11,220 --> 00:04:12,220 Red plant. 32 00:04:12,580 --> 00:04:16,760 Give me a reading on reception, Charlie. I'm changing over to telephoto system. 33 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:20,000 Stand by to switch over all recorder instrumentation. 34 00:04:32,300 --> 00:04:34,080 View screen reception 100. 35 00:04:39,260 --> 00:04:42,900 Standing by to activate image stabilizer circuit. 36 00:04:45,980 --> 00:04:46,980 Recorder input. 37 00:04:47,820 --> 00:04:48,820 Computers. 38 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:50,380 Tapes all go. 39 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:51,920 Switch on. 40 00:04:58,980 --> 00:04:59,980 Stand by. 41 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:02,120 We are entering preorbital trajectory. 42 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:32,720 small pitch. 43 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:38,580 Stabilizer retro is correcting. 44 00:05:47,020 --> 00:05:49,340 We're corrected. Activate the camera system. 45 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:01,760 Picking up. some sort of pulpitting light. 46 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:47,120 is negative. 47 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:48,920 Heavy static interference. 48 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:58,980 Negative. I'm getting the same interference here. 49 00:07:02,900 --> 00:07:03,900 Collision alarm. 50 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:05,460 Emergency procedure. Quick. 51 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:12,520 The scanner shows that we're... We're approaching something of monstrous size. 52 00:07:12,940 --> 00:07:13,960 And fast. 53 00:07:14,540 --> 00:07:17,280 Turn up the Scanner, get a distance reading on it. 54 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:26,960 It's up to maximum magnification now. 55 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:36,160 Whatever it is, it's changing its size. 56 00:07:47,850 --> 00:07:51,590 These meters are having convulsions. Nothing I do will correct it. 57 00:07:52,250 --> 00:07:53,250 Magnetic. 58 00:07:58,690 --> 00:08:02,690 We're on a direct course with whatever it is. 59 00:08:03,150 --> 00:08:04,810 We're due to connect with it any second. 60 00:08:09,730 --> 00:08:10,870 We had to go to Mars. 61 00:08:12,150 --> 00:08:14,150 We couldn't go to the moon like everybody else. 62 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:20,120 We've got to pull up. 63 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:21,980 Activate all operable rocket systems. 64 00:08:30,220 --> 00:08:31,220 All dead. 65 00:08:32,380 --> 00:08:35,260 The rockets are inoperable except for the emergency unit. 66 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:43,120 We're going down. 67 00:08:43,260 --> 00:08:46,280 Mayday. Mayday. This is Mars Probe 1. 68 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:47,640 Mayday. 69 00:08:47,980 --> 00:08:51,140 We may have a chance. Quick, Charlie. Get us in the main stage. 70 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:54,240 Doc, you better track it in case we have to follow it down. 71 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:56,880 Main stage, get it. 72 00:08:57,540 --> 00:08:58,540 Tracking it. 73 00:08:59,380 --> 00:09:00,480 She's going down. 74 00:09:01,300 --> 00:09:02,300 There. 75 00:09:03,060 --> 00:09:04,060 Mark. 76 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:08,320 Desert region. 77 00:09:08,560 --> 00:09:09,560 No use, Steve. 78 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:12,400 We're going down. 79 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:31,620 Mayday. Mayday. This is Mars Probe 1. 80 00:09:31,980 --> 00:09:34,520 Mayday. Our pressure suit's quick. 81 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:36,180 The hull may rupture on impact. 82 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:40,680 The gyros are gone. We're rolling over. 83 00:09:41,980 --> 00:09:45,580 Come on, move. I'm switching over to automatic guidance control. 84 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:47,700 There's a little power left in the batteries. I've got them on recharge 85 00:10:47,980 --> 00:10:49,260 The transmitter works. 86 00:10:49,460 --> 00:10:50,940 We could send a call for help. 87 00:10:51,340 --> 00:10:55,160 Remember, we blew transmission with Echo One before we went into tighter orbit. 88 00:10:55,380 --> 00:10:59,680 True. We have no way of knowing if our last Mayday call was even received. 89 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:01,240 It probably wasn't. 90 00:11:01,580 --> 00:11:04,100 That storm up there played havoc with our equipment. 91 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:07,260 What's to stop us from trying a Mayday call now? 92 00:11:07,700 --> 00:11:08,740 Nothing, technically. 93 00:11:09,140 --> 00:11:12,700 We can give our exact position and wait until help comes. 94 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:13,920 If it comes. 95 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:17,660 What do you mean, if? If anyone hears it, that's what I mean. 96 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:22,280 Like Steve said, we blew transmission up there and we've no way of knowing if a 97 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:23,280 transmission is heard. 98 00:11:24,660 --> 00:11:26,560 There's another choice, though. What's that? 99 00:11:27,980 --> 00:11:31,060 After the batteries recharge, it's a one -shot deal. 100 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:32,320 The radio. 101 00:11:32,900 --> 00:11:35,760 Or open the outside hatch and take our chances out there. 102 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:37,000 And outside? 103 00:11:37,260 --> 00:11:40,820 You think we stand any chance at all? Personally, I think that's better than 104 00:11:40,820 --> 00:11:44,320 sitting here not knowing if help is coming. You don't even know what's out 105 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:45,580 there. Now, wait a minute, you two. 106 00:11:46,540 --> 00:11:48,500 Charlie's got a good point there, so take it easy. 107 00:11:48,740 --> 00:11:49,740 Doc, what's your opinion? 108 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:53,080 Yeah, Doc, how about it? Can we stay alive out there? 109 00:11:53,380 --> 00:11:57,780 Before making any rash decisions, I think we should evaluate where we are 110 00:11:57,780 --> 00:11:58,780 what we're going to do. 111 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:03,280 Well, one thing in our favor is our map and a fair idea of where the main stage 112 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:06,460 tracks. We may be stranded, but we're still alive. 113 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:11,400 There's enough fortified liquid in our nutrient reserve to last us two, maybe 114 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:13,060 three weeks if we stretch it out. 115 00:12:13,260 --> 00:12:14,300 What about the oxygen? 116 00:12:15,300 --> 00:12:16,300 It's not so good. 117 00:12:16,860 --> 00:12:19,340 The cabin tanks crack like eggshells when we hit. 118 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:22,420 We've got about a 90 -hour supply in our suit tanks. 119 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:23,760 90 hours? 120 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:25,460 That's less than four days. 121 00:12:27,100 --> 00:12:29,560 Well, Doc, think we can make it? 122 00:12:34,020 --> 00:12:35,020 We're here. 123 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:38,940 On the edge of the polar cap, near this main canal. 124 00:12:39,460 --> 00:12:42,760 Three weeks should be more than enough time if we go by raft to the desert 125 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:43,760 region. 126 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:48,280 And what do we do if we're out there, when our tanks hit zero? 127 00:12:48,500 --> 00:12:52,920 Listen, after spending nine months on this ship, I'd be willing to step 128 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:56,920 and crack the intake valve on my helmet just to feel solid ground under my feet, 129 00:12:57,080 --> 00:12:58,420 regardless of the consequences. 130 00:12:58,800 --> 00:12:59,479 That's it. 131 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:00,480 What? 132 00:13:00,860 --> 00:13:04,100 Well, crack the intake valve on our helmet. Oh, yeah. 133 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:05,720 And drop dead. 134 00:13:05,860 --> 00:13:06,860 No, I'm serious. 135 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:11,480 The Martian atmosphere contains oxygen. It's too thin to sustain life, but it's 136 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:12,480 still oxygen, right? 137 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:13,960 Basically, yes. 138 00:13:13,980 --> 00:13:14,980 All right. 139 00:13:15,140 --> 00:13:18,940 Say we keep our suit pressure below the level of atmospheric pressure on Mars. 140 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:22,500 Then we crack the valve and allow the Martian atmosphere to seep into our 141 00:13:22,680 --> 00:13:25,460 supplementing it with oxygen from our own suit tanks. 142 00:13:25,700 --> 00:13:26,700 An oxygen booster. 143 00:13:26,820 --> 00:13:28,460 Exactly. Will it work? 144 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:31,260 Sure it'll work. No reason why it shouldn't. 145 00:13:32,780 --> 00:13:33,780 Is there? 146 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:37,120 It's settled then. Looks like we're in for a little unofficial exploration. 147 00:13:40,180 --> 00:13:43,120 Never mind that official business. Let's get out of here before she explodes. 148 00:13:43,420 --> 00:13:44,560 Grab what you can. Hurry. 149 00:14:03,180 --> 00:14:04,320 What are we going to do now? 150 00:14:04,660 --> 00:14:05,860 We'll have to run for it. 151 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:07,560 Close your face plate. 152 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:10,780 Activate your oxygen supply. 153 00:14:19,420 --> 00:14:23,680 To the north of our wreckage, we can see the endless ice fields of the Martian 154 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:24,680 polar cap. 155 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:30,340 South of us, lost somewhere in the vastness of this alien world, the main 156 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:32,560 and our only hope of survival. 157 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:45,040 What do you think, Doc? 158 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:46,580 Should we keep the bank? 159 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:51,640 Well, even though we haven't seen any signs of life, I think we should stay 160 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:53,380 from the shore, at least during the night. 161 00:14:54,100 --> 00:14:57,460 Doc, how far is it to where the main stage came down? 162 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:00,040 The canal should carry us to the hill. 163 00:15:01,070 --> 00:15:04,610 Then we'll have to make our way on foot to the desert area. It should be near 164 00:15:04,610 --> 00:15:06,170 there. How long will that take? 165 00:15:06,470 --> 00:15:08,910 Well, tonight, part of tomorrow on the canal. 166 00:15:09,270 --> 00:15:12,030 If we make good time, we should reach the hills by evening. 167 00:15:17,930 --> 00:15:20,430 This should keep us from drifting apart during the night. 168 00:15:21,370 --> 00:15:22,630 We'd better be going then. 169 00:15:22,850 --> 00:15:24,990 We don't know how much daylight we have left. 170 00:15:25,230 --> 00:15:26,870 How far would you guess it to be? 171 00:15:27,110 --> 00:15:29,250 That main stage can't be far away now. 172 00:15:29,630 --> 00:15:31,930 Roughly a four -day trip. We'll be cutting it close. 173 00:15:32,690 --> 00:15:33,970 Maybe too close. 174 00:15:34,890 --> 00:15:37,350 We've barely enough oxygen for four days. 175 00:15:38,170 --> 00:15:41,650 We shouldn't require as much oxygen now that we're not exerting ourselves. 176 00:15:43,610 --> 00:15:45,950 We can cut down the mixture while we are asleep. 177 00:15:46,310 --> 00:15:49,830 The current will keep us in midstream. Maybe one of us ought to keep awake. 178 00:15:50,150 --> 00:15:52,390 Might be better at that. I'll take the first watch. 179 00:15:53,370 --> 00:15:55,050 Think you can catch a little sleep? 180 00:15:55,690 --> 00:15:58,370 I don't much care for sleeping out here. 181 00:15:58,890 --> 00:16:01,250 I'll take over when you're tired. Just wake me up. 182 00:16:04,330 --> 00:16:09,330 The cold mists of the Martian night bring an end to our first day on this 183 00:16:09,330 --> 00:16:10,330 desolate world. 184 00:16:10,850 --> 00:16:13,610 Our oxygen supply is already a quarter gone. 185 00:16:14,290 --> 00:16:18,650 A short while before sunset, Charlie picked up a weak signal echoing over the 186 00:16:18,650 --> 00:16:19,890 curve of the Martian horizon. 187 00:16:20,850 --> 00:16:26,610 If this signal is from our main stage, and if Doc's map is correct, we may 188 00:16:26,610 --> 00:16:27,910 our destination in time. 189 00:16:29,420 --> 00:16:34,400 I cannot escape the feeling of being watched by some unseen intelligence and 190 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:38,540 that perhaps our final destination will not be of our own choosing. 191 00:17:51,660 --> 00:17:53,780 Try and fit them off while we get back to the deep of water. 192 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:07,960 The mist thickens and seals us from the danger we have just escaped. 193 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:12,740 But now, what new danger hides from us in the fog? 194 00:18:13,300 --> 00:18:18,480 For the water now swirls around us, and somewhere ahead, we can hear it beating 195 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:19,880 against the walls of stone. 196 00:18:32,970 --> 00:18:33,970 most impossible. 197 00:18:34,070 --> 00:18:38,230 Building up on my visor. These rocks are as sharp as razors. We've had it if one 198 00:18:38,230 --> 00:18:39,230 of them punctures the raft. 199 00:18:39,630 --> 00:18:41,550 Time we try out our oxygen booster. 200 00:18:45,150 --> 00:18:46,390 Seems to work okay. 201 00:19:06,350 --> 00:19:08,670 We must have entered it through the fog. 202 00:19:09,690 --> 00:19:10,690 Subterranean canal. 203 00:19:11,010 --> 00:19:14,410 I pure hope it leads us in the right direction when we come to the surface 204 00:19:14,410 --> 00:19:15,410 again. 205 00:19:15,510 --> 00:19:18,910 I've never seen anything so beautiful. 206 00:19:23,590 --> 00:19:24,810 It's so quiet. 207 00:19:25,950 --> 00:19:27,150 Kind of eerie. 208 00:19:28,210 --> 00:19:29,610 Gives me the creeps. 209 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:37,280 It doesn't look like we can get out of here either. 210 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:38,980 We'll just have to ride it out. 211 00:19:42,260 --> 00:19:46,180 We've been in here five hours now, and no sign of a way out. 212 00:19:46,580 --> 00:19:50,540 I'm not sure, but it seems to be getting lighter in here. 213 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:53,000 I noticed that too. It's so hotter. 214 00:19:53,460 --> 00:19:54,460 It is lighter. 215 00:19:55,180 --> 00:19:58,180 I thought at first we were just getting accustomed to the dark. 216 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:00,220 We must be going deeper underground. 217 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,800 That would explain the heat. Then why is it getting lighter? 218 00:20:04,360 --> 00:20:07,090 Luminescent. Mineral deposits in the cavern won't. 219 00:20:07,530 --> 00:20:12,690 After everything we've seen so far, I'm afraid of where we'll end up next. 220 00:20:20,410 --> 00:20:23,250 No wonder we felt hot. That steam. 221 00:20:24,330 --> 00:20:25,510 That sound. 222 00:20:27,270 --> 00:20:28,630 There's trouble ahead. 223 00:20:29,150 --> 00:20:30,150 Fall. 224 00:20:30,810 --> 00:20:32,210 There's something worse. 225 00:20:34,700 --> 00:20:36,500 I'm convinced there are balls ahead. 226 00:20:37,300 --> 00:20:38,560 There's another sound. 227 00:20:39,100 --> 00:20:40,460 Can't quite make it out. 228 00:20:41,260 --> 00:20:42,680 Doesn't sound the same. 229 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:44,900 There's your other sound, Steve. 230 00:20:53,280 --> 00:21:00,080 What do we do 231 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:01,080 now? 232 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:03,560 We have to find some way out of this. 233 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:05,280 The rafts won't hold up long in this. 234 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:07,180 Feel the size of the raft. 235 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:09,380 We've got to get out of here before they explode. 236 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:10,680 Quick, Val. 237 00:21:10,740 --> 00:21:14,120 Quick. We'll keep them from blowing up this way, but the seams will give pretty 238 00:21:14,120 --> 00:21:15,120 soon. 239 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:20,300 Those balls are close, Steve. 240 00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:25,300 We've got to get to shore soon. No, Doc. I'm looking for... That's it. 241 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:26,760 There. See? 242 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:29,880 Come on, Charlie. 243 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:31,720 Let's get these rafts over there. 244 00:21:32,010 --> 00:21:34,450 I'm with you. We're lucky the current's not too strong yet. 245 00:22:22,540 --> 00:22:24,060 it wouldn't have lasted much longer anyway. 246 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:18,320 Wonder how far in this goes. 247 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:23,500 I don't know, but we'll soon find out. 248 00:23:49,710 --> 00:23:50,710 What are you looking at, Doc? 249 00:23:50,910 --> 00:23:52,090 This rock formation. 250 00:23:52,810 --> 00:23:55,750 Something familiar about it. I can't place it. 251 00:23:56,010 --> 00:23:57,750 Ah, come on. Rocks rock. 252 00:23:58,150 --> 00:23:59,170 Let's get a move on. 253 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:42,420 We have wandered in these caves for what now seems to be days, always with a 254 00:24:42,420 --> 00:24:45,600 feeling that we are doubling back upon our own footsteps. 255 00:24:46,620 --> 00:24:53,560 And again, that strange feeling even here that some alien intelligence still 256 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:54,560 watches us. 257 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:06,200 Steve, you don't suppose this just doubles back the way we came, do you? 258 00:25:06,510 --> 00:25:07,510 I don't know. 259 00:25:08,570 --> 00:25:10,070 It sure sounds like it. 260 00:25:14,090 --> 00:25:15,250 Well, I hope not. 261 00:25:15,570 --> 00:25:17,070 That'd mean we're really stuck. 262 00:25:41,770 --> 00:25:42,990 No sense in doubling back. 263 00:25:43,350 --> 00:25:44,990 We know it's back there. 264 00:25:45,310 --> 00:25:48,410 We may as well... We didn't double back. Look up ahead. 265 00:25:49,670 --> 00:25:51,290 Maybe. Let's go. 266 00:25:52,030 --> 00:25:53,250 It must be outside. 267 00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:59,240 I should have known we'd find this. 268 00:26:59,460 --> 00:27:01,760 How could any of us know what we'd find here? 269 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:05,140 That rock formation that was puzzling me? It was volcanic. 270 00:27:05,580 --> 00:27:08,220 Any amateur rock town would have recognized it. 271 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:12,000 Isn't there any place on this planet that isn't a death trap? 272 00:27:12,780 --> 00:27:13,900 Where do we go from here? 273 00:27:14,420 --> 00:27:16,680 Looks like the path is the only way down. 274 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:18,440 Can't go back. 275 00:27:20,340 --> 00:27:21,560 So down we go. 276 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:24,500 Straight from the frying pan into the fire. 277 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:48,720 Watch your step. 278 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:50,480 That step's hot. 279 00:27:53,740 --> 00:27:55,580 You'll be fried like a piece of bacon. 280 00:29:10,540 --> 00:29:14,360 We have no choice now but to press forward through this inferno, for it is 281 00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:17,120 impossible to return to the caves, for they lead nowhere. 282 00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:22,380 Here, at least, there may be some means of escape, for these trapped volcanic 283 00:29:22,380 --> 00:29:25,000 vapors must vent somewhere to the surface. 284 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:53,100 Does that look like a cave to you? Sure looks like it. The only thing is, how 285 00:29:53,100 --> 00:29:54,100 far back does it go? 286 00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:56,000 Well, I'm going up there to find out. 287 00:29:56,660 --> 00:29:58,940 Stay here with the others. No, Steve. I'll go. 288 00:29:59,220 --> 00:30:01,800 Uh -uh. This is my job. I am responsible. 289 00:30:28,490 --> 00:30:30,770 He made it clear in there. He's got to make it back out. 290 00:30:50,770 --> 00:30:52,930 Do you suppose something's happened? 291 00:30:58,149 --> 00:30:59,149 He's all right. 292 00:31:00,390 --> 00:31:02,110 He's waving at us to come. Let's go. 293 00:31:13,630 --> 00:31:16,170 You think you can get any kind of a bearing force, Charlie? 294 00:31:16,590 --> 00:31:18,890 My map certainly didn't show anything like this. 295 00:31:19,350 --> 00:31:20,350 Which way now? 296 00:31:20,950 --> 00:31:22,710 That way, if we can get through this. 297 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:33,240 Gabe goes in quite a way, telling how far, or if it's all like this. 298 00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:38,140 We all made it this far. Let's see if there's a way out of this inferno. 299 00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:41,780 I almost wish this weren't the right direction. 300 00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:02,700 We may as well go as far as we can. 301 00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:05,020 Nowhere else to stay on solid ground. 302 00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:06,520 Steve? 303 00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:07,680 What is it? 304 00:32:08,220 --> 00:32:09,340 It must lead outside. 305 00:32:33,100 --> 00:32:34,100 We better get out fast. 306 00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:36,120 The volcano might erupt. Let's move. 307 00:33:28,970 --> 00:33:33,570 On what we now believe to be the morning of the fourth day, we have emerged from 308 00:33:33,570 --> 00:33:35,350 the fiery depths of the Martian underworld. 309 00:33:36,310 --> 00:33:39,370 How long we have been wandering there we can only guess. 310 00:33:40,410 --> 00:33:45,070 Is it that the eternal darkness of the caverns that endlessly doubled back upon 311 00:33:45,070 --> 00:33:47,610 themselves has destroyed our sense of time? 312 00:33:48,470 --> 00:33:53,710 Our watches are useless, for they have refused to run since we cracked on the 313 00:33:53,710 --> 00:33:54,710 surface of this planet. 314 00:33:55,690 --> 00:33:57,130 Their hands frozen. 315 00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:00,280 as if time were forbidden upon this world. 316 00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:07,740 Of this we are certain, for every day of our journey, our original oxygen supply 317 00:34:07,740 --> 00:34:09,260 diminishes by a quarter. 318 00:34:10,139 --> 00:34:16,699 And now, with our map lost in the caves below, and only a faint distant signal 319 00:34:16,699 --> 00:34:22,900 to follow, the needle on our oxygen tanks marks the beginning of what could 320 00:34:22,900 --> 00:34:24,260 our last day on Mars. 321 00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:26,920 It is quite obvious now. 322 00:34:27,790 --> 00:34:33,949 that if we do not find our main stage before nightfall, it will be simply our 323 00:34:33,949 --> 00:34:34,949 last day. 324 00:34:56,679 --> 00:35:00,860 arid Martian desert stretches around us like an endless ocean of sand. 325 00:35:01,740 --> 00:35:07,920 To the west, more than a day's journey away, we can see what appears to be a 326 00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:11,440 strange dome of light pulsating on the horizon. 327 00:35:12,540 --> 00:35:19,100 Could it be the work of some alien intelligence or a weird phenomena of 328 00:35:19,100 --> 00:35:20,100 planet? 329 00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:25,600 Senseless to wonder now as our oxygen supplies drain. 330 00:35:26,490 --> 00:35:28,910 and we are running on the last of our reserve. 331 00:35:30,250 --> 00:35:34,630 At noon, Charlie's directional finder became silent. 332 00:35:35,510 --> 00:35:39,930 The signal we've been following in the hopes of reaching our main stage died, 333 00:35:40,170 --> 00:35:44,810 and with it, perhaps our last chance of survival on this planet. 334 00:35:46,290 --> 00:35:51,110 Stronger than ever now is the feeling of alien forces surrounding us. 335 00:35:55,690 --> 00:35:56,690 Crummy desert. 336 00:35:56,970 --> 00:35:59,350 Every dune looked exactly like the last. 337 00:35:59,570 --> 00:36:00,970 Like a crummy... Cut it. 338 00:36:01,390 --> 00:36:02,390 Cut the chair. 339 00:36:02,650 --> 00:36:03,850 You're wasting oxygen. 340 00:36:04,390 --> 00:36:05,510 What oxygen? 341 00:36:06,410 --> 00:36:08,810 He's right, Steve. It's almost gone. 342 00:36:09,150 --> 00:36:10,870 Fifteen minutes at the most. 343 00:36:11,770 --> 00:36:15,650 I had hoped that... Listen. 344 00:36:23,610 --> 00:36:24,610 A signal. 345 00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:26,320 The main stage. 346 00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,460 How's that for timing, huh? Thought there'd be no tomorrow. 347 00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:33,660 All right. 348 00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:35,120 Let's not just stand around. 349 00:36:35,500 --> 00:36:36,500 Let's go home. 350 00:37:21,900 --> 00:37:26,000 What we had thought to be the main stage has turned out to be a time -corroded 351 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,920 relic from an earlier chapter of the exploration of Mars. 352 00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:33,560 Just enough power left in its batteries to transmit a useless signal. 353 00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:03,460 Charlie, stop it. Now, Charlie. 354 00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:04,700 It's so funny. 355 00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:07,680 Ironically funny, don't you see? 356 00:38:08,300 --> 00:38:09,640 The Mars scout. 357 00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:14,260 We sent it here two years ago to see if man could live on Mars. 358 00:38:16,820 --> 00:38:23,240 An unmanned biological laboratory to tell us whether or not 359 00:38:23,240 --> 00:38:25,960 we could survive the elements. 360 00:38:27,380 --> 00:38:28,700 That was so funny. 361 00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:34,520 We have to travel millions of miles and find it. 362 00:38:36,100 --> 00:38:38,380 Just to prove we can't survive. 363 00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:39,960 Easy, Charlie. 364 00:38:40,340 --> 00:38:44,240 Stop it. And they can't even send a message back for us. 365 00:38:47,340 --> 00:38:49,860 Charlie, stop it. Now, Charlie. 366 00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:05,340 It's living on while we... 367 00:39:05,340 --> 00:39:11,420 He 368 00:39:11,420 --> 00:39:13,420 broke one of the fuel lines. 369 00:39:13,660 --> 00:39:15,600 There's still liquid oxygen in the tank. 370 00:39:35,150 --> 00:39:36,730 I've got to cap it off before it all escapes. 371 00:39:39,870 --> 00:39:46,870 I feel... sort of silly about... 372 00:39:46,870 --> 00:39:52,330 Well... Forget it. 373 00:39:53,910 --> 00:39:56,270 Looks like you might have saved the day, Charlie. 374 00:39:57,030 --> 00:39:58,030 That's for sure. 375 00:39:58,050 --> 00:39:59,910 If there's oxygen in any quantum... 376 00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:06,558 We're in luck. 377 00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:09,020 Almost a fourth of the original oxygen left. 378 00:40:09,500 --> 00:40:11,740 It's like a care package from home. 379 00:40:12,060 --> 00:40:12,899 A fourth? 380 00:40:12,900 --> 00:40:16,600 Why, that should be enough to last us all for four or five days. That's the 381 00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:18,520 least. The end doesn't seem so bad. 382 00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:21,800 At least when it's not right now, we've got to work fast. 383 00:40:22,260 --> 00:40:25,920 It'll be night soon. And if we don't want to freeze to death, we'd better get 384 00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:28,240 what oxygen we can and find cover for the night. 385 00:40:28,700 --> 00:40:29,840 That's a tall order. 386 00:40:30,700 --> 00:40:33,060 There's nothing but sand dunes for miles around. 387 00:40:33,740 --> 00:40:35,740 We can take shelter by the Mars scout. 388 00:40:36,020 --> 00:40:37,760 He'll give us some protection from the wind. 389 00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:40,440 That's it. 390 00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:41,359 Got it. 391 00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:42,980 We can fill the suit tanks from this. 392 00:40:58,140 --> 00:40:59,460 Beautiful, isn't it? 393 00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:01,680 In its own alien way. 394 00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:03,400 I guess it is. 395 00:41:05,720 --> 00:41:08,720 And so still and quiet. 396 00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:12,000 There's a breeze starting up. 397 00:41:12,660 --> 00:41:14,220 Feel it? Mm -hmm. 398 00:41:14,460 --> 00:41:17,520 It makes the sands look so dreamlike. 399 00:41:19,740 --> 00:41:21,540 It's another world, all right. 400 00:41:25,900 --> 00:41:28,160 I wonder what tomorrow will bring. 401 00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:30,060 Let's hope it's not. 402 00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:36,580 Looks like a storm, Roy. 403 00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:38,960 We'd better join the others and take cover. 404 00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:52,600 Looks like a big one coming up. 405 00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:06,800 What was that you said? 406 00:42:07,500 --> 00:42:08,500 Dream life? 407 00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:11,100 Perhaps I should have said nightmare. 408 00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:17,140 The storm is building in intensity. 409 00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:19,460 Our limited air supply. 410 00:42:20,020 --> 00:42:21,840 I'd sure hate to get snowed in here. 411 00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:31,800 I hope the lightning doesn't get worse. 412 00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:33,520 It may hit the scout. 413 00:42:34,060 --> 00:42:35,980 Let's hope it blows itself out by morning. 414 00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:37,640 It's better. 415 00:43:05,580 --> 00:43:07,560 Darn sand, it gets into everything. 416 00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:10,480 The batteries are running down and the signal. 417 00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:12,720 It's so faint I can't make it out. 418 00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:16,840 Are you sure it's a signal? Not just static interference? 419 00:43:17,820 --> 00:43:18,940 No, it's a signal. 420 00:43:20,020 --> 00:43:21,280 But it keeps on fading. 421 00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:44,000 I think I've found something. 422 00:43:59,980 --> 00:44:01,040 What is it, Steve? 423 00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:02,400 What did you find? 424 00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:05,280 I'm not sure what it is. 425 00:44:06,100 --> 00:44:08,560 The storm must have uncovered it during the night. 426 00:44:08,900 --> 00:44:11,080 And there's a lot more of it still covered by the sand. 427 00:44:11,630 --> 00:44:12,810 Wonder what it could be. 428 00:44:13,130 --> 00:44:14,430 Let's clear away some more. 429 00:44:14,730 --> 00:44:15,870 Sure can't tell now. 430 00:44:24,330 --> 00:44:27,750 Stone. We farm a definite pattern. 431 00:44:28,750 --> 00:44:29,750 You're right. 432 00:44:30,250 --> 00:44:32,570 They're too symmetric to have been formed by nature. 433 00:44:32,950 --> 00:44:34,810 If not by nature, how? 434 00:44:35,750 --> 00:44:38,410 Some form of intelligence was at work here. 435 00:44:38,810 --> 00:44:40,530 You mean somebody built it? 436 00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:42,360 I'm positive. 437 00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:45,080 But who? 438 00:44:47,020 --> 00:44:48,920 You mean there's life on this planet? 439 00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:50,600 Who can say? 440 00:44:51,020 --> 00:44:54,500 This is more in the nature of an archaeological discovery than life 441 00:44:54,900 --> 00:44:55,859 How's that? 442 00:44:55,860 --> 00:44:57,480 These ruins are ancient. 443 00:44:58,040 --> 00:45:01,040 Perhaps buried beneath the sand for millions of years. 444 00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:03,640 Similar to Troy on our own planet. 445 00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:07,240 That's right. For all we know, we're standing atop what was a great 446 00:45:07,240 --> 00:45:08,240 civilization. 447 00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:12,700 There's more. Look up there. 448 00:45:26,580 --> 00:45:29,020 Looks like some ancient travel route. 449 00:45:29,940 --> 00:45:31,340 A golden road. 450 00:45:32,460 --> 00:45:35,240 Yeah, but what does it lead to? That's what I'd like to know. 451 00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:38,680 You see what I see? 452 00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:43,440 All setting light. 453 00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:45,940 That's what I saw through the camera just before. 454 00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:50,700 The last directional reading. Where was it from? It's coming from... from within 455 00:45:50,700 --> 00:45:51,700 the city. 456 00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:55,840 A mysterious red dome surrounds the city. 457 00:45:56,640 --> 00:46:00,480 Its appearance as alien as the city itself. 458 00:46:01,500 --> 00:46:02,760 Our main stage. 459 00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:04,340 So this is it. 460 00:46:04,660 --> 00:46:06,540 No doubt about it. Look at this reading. 461 00:46:06,940 --> 00:46:08,340 Yes, but is it ours? 462 00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:11,600 There's only one way to find out. We've come this far. 463 00:46:12,250 --> 00:46:13,870 Might as well go the rest of the way. 464 00:46:25,470 --> 00:46:26,710 Looks like a long hike. 465 00:46:27,250 --> 00:46:29,730 Well, I hope the long hike leads us to something. 466 00:47:00,970 --> 00:47:01,970 We're on the right track. 467 00:47:02,010 --> 00:47:04,130 That's our signal, okay? I'm sure of it. 468 00:47:04,570 --> 00:47:08,930 Great. If we maintain a steady pace, we should be able to reach the plateau by 469 00:47:08,930 --> 00:47:09,970 early afternoon. 470 00:47:16,530 --> 00:47:19,170 Looks like we've come to the end of the road. 471 00:47:19,870 --> 00:47:21,850 In a way, it's beautiful. 472 00:47:25,950 --> 00:47:28,850 And from appearance, incredibly old. 473 00:47:29,580 --> 00:47:31,820 Do you suppose it could still be inhabited? 474 00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:34,840 I doubt it. It looks too deserted. 475 00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:38,040 Deserted? I'm not so sure. 476 00:47:38,500 --> 00:47:39,920 Something stopped the signal. 477 00:47:40,420 --> 00:47:43,020 Well, there's only one way to find out. I'm with you. 478 00:47:48,820 --> 00:47:51,340 Phew, it's musty but breathable. 479 00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:55,720 Yes, and lucky for us, it's enough to sustain human life. 480 00:47:56,350 --> 00:48:00,910 From the looks of the cobwebs, nobody's been in here for a long, long time. 481 00:48:01,290 --> 00:48:06,130 Nobody but the spiders, or whatever passes for spiders around here. 482 00:49:32,460 --> 00:49:33,880 Looks like they were cremated alive. 483 00:49:34,720 --> 00:49:38,220 Apparently. Whoever they were, they've been there for a long time. 484 00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:45,680 You better be careful. You don't know what that alien thing is. 485 00:49:49,380 --> 00:49:51,840 Looks like they were trying to cut through the wall here. 486 00:50:11,950 --> 00:50:13,050 It's a cutting torch of some kind. 487 00:50:14,210 --> 00:50:15,210 I think I'll keep it. 488 00:50:19,450 --> 00:50:20,450 Might come in handy. 489 00:50:24,730 --> 00:50:25,970 All right, I'll leave it here. 490 00:50:30,270 --> 00:50:34,170 Come on, let's search this place and get it over with. This place gives me the 491 00:50:34,170 --> 00:50:35,170 shivers. 492 00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:07,200 There's a definite change in the architecture ever since we passed that 493 00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:09,100 column. You mean all these columns? 494 00:51:09,580 --> 00:51:13,620 This must have been a real jazzy place in its time. Besides the change in the 495 00:51:13,620 --> 00:51:17,540 architecture, I've noticed these passageways all seem to lead in the same 496 00:51:17,540 --> 00:51:19,240 direction, no matter which ones we take. 497 00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:22,360 Almost as if at least some central area. 498 00:51:23,220 --> 00:51:25,100 Perhaps even that over here. 499 00:51:25,380 --> 00:51:26,580 What do you make of this? 500 00:51:27,700 --> 00:51:29,520 These aren't columns after all. 501 00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:32,560 Some kind of crystal -white container. 502 00:51:39,980 --> 00:51:41,280 Whatever was in there must have been valuable. 503 00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:44,000 Looks like they used a blowtorch to get at it. 504 00:51:47,220 --> 00:51:48,440 Find anything, Steve? 505 00:51:49,300 --> 00:51:52,180 Nothing but this funny red dust. 506 00:51:53,300 --> 00:51:56,680 The intelligence that erected these containers meant for them to last an 507 00:51:56,680 --> 00:51:57,680 eternity. 508 00:51:57,720 --> 00:51:58,720 And their contents. 509 00:51:59,780 --> 00:52:01,640 You got my curiosity up, Doc. 510 00:52:02,060 --> 00:52:03,680 Let's see what we find in some of these others. 511 00:52:09,100 --> 00:52:10,300 Hey, there's something in here, all right. 512 00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:11,520 What do you see? 513 00:52:13,260 --> 00:52:14,860 I can't tell for sure. Give me a hand. 514 00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:19,260 I can't make it out. Can you? 515 00:52:19,820 --> 00:52:20,820 Just iron luck. 516 00:52:21,020 --> 00:52:22,500 Looks like it's covered up completely. 517 00:52:42,220 --> 00:52:43,520 it is, I'm glad it's dead. 518 00:52:48,340 --> 00:52:50,340 We've passed thousands of these containers. 519 00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:53,100 There must be an entire civilization entombed here. 520 00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:57,280 Beings that were capable of developing an intelligence far beyond their own 521 00:52:57,280 --> 00:52:58,280 cranial capacity. 522 00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:02,360 Judging from the artificial encasement of the brain, they must have undergone 523 00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:06,820 thousands of years of mental evolution in one lifetime. Almost unbelievable. 524 00:53:07,820 --> 00:53:09,280 A race such as theirs. 525 00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:32,120 I don't think it sees it. 526 00:53:32,740 --> 00:53:34,340 It's looking right at me. 527 00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:36,500 I don't think it is, Charlie. 528 00:53:37,820 --> 00:53:40,740 I think somehow it senses our presence. 529 00:55:06,310 --> 00:55:07,310 Explore it. 530 00:55:07,710 --> 00:55:09,090 They mean us no harm. 531 00:55:09,550 --> 00:55:10,550 No harm? 532 00:55:10,930 --> 00:55:13,030 You saw what they do to intruders here. 533 00:55:13,330 --> 00:55:14,330 You don't understand. 534 00:55:16,350 --> 00:55:20,570 It's as if they were trying to communicate, to tell us something. 535 00:55:20,850 --> 00:55:21,850 Tell us what? 536 00:55:23,370 --> 00:55:24,910 I'm not sure I understand. 537 00:55:26,810 --> 00:55:33,510 Their thoughts are many, vague, as though an image was 538 00:55:33,510 --> 00:55:34,510 half -formed. 539 00:55:35,280 --> 00:55:38,520 Of a meeting place where many minds are gathering. 540 00:55:39,900 --> 00:55:42,960 They want us there now. 541 00:55:48,200 --> 00:55:49,280 But where? 542 00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:00,100 It must be in there. 543 00:56:04,910 --> 00:56:05,910 Help me out. 544 00:56:06,110 --> 00:56:07,110 I'm not going in. 545 00:57:41,380 --> 00:57:47,280 We know you want to communicate with us, but your language is foreign to us. 546 00:57:50,120 --> 00:57:53,280 I only 547 00:57:53,280 --> 00:57:58,760 understand a part of what you say. 548 00:57:59,660 --> 00:58:00,660 An evolution. 549 00:58:01,620 --> 00:58:02,620 What evolution? 550 00:58:03,820 --> 00:58:05,440 What manner of life are you? 551 00:58:05,940 --> 00:58:08,720 I see perplexity among you. 552 00:58:09,460 --> 00:58:16,100 As long as your minds are troubled with questions about our nature, we 553 00:58:16,100 --> 00:58:19,360 cannot determine your purpose upon our world. 554 00:58:21,380 --> 00:58:27,480 I am a composite being, a manifestation of the many minds 555 00:58:27,480 --> 00:58:30,840 that are the last inhabitants of this... 556 00:58:31,340 --> 00:58:33,560 the last city upon this world. 557 00:58:34,920 --> 00:58:41,760 We are the end of the evolution of a race so old its age has no equivalent 558 00:58:41,760 --> 00:58:43,760 in your concepts of time. 559 00:58:44,620 --> 00:58:51,600 Be it enough for you to know our race has witnessed during the span of 560 00:58:51,600 --> 00:58:56,860 our evolution the birth and death of sons and the world is untold. 561 00:58:57,220 --> 00:58:58,220 But enough. 562 00:58:59,660 --> 00:59:03,120 Now we must seek the satisfaction of our own curiosity. 563 00:59:04,080 --> 00:59:05,840 From where do you come? 564 00:59:06,460 --> 00:59:08,800 And what is your purpose here? 565 00:59:09,140 --> 00:59:10,680 We are from the planet Earth. 566 00:59:11,660 --> 00:59:12,660 Earth? 567 00:59:13,160 --> 00:59:14,260 Earth, you say? 568 00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:18,220 The green world somewhat from ours? 569 00:59:19,300 --> 00:59:24,180 At one time we theorized it would evolve into life. 570 00:59:24,680 --> 00:59:26,160 And so it has. 571 00:59:26,560 --> 00:59:27,720 But continue. 572 00:59:28,970 --> 00:59:30,490 What is it that you seek? 573 00:59:30,730 --> 00:59:36,730 We came here on a scientific expedition to map and study the surface of this 574 00:59:36,730 --> 00:59:40,130 planet. There have been others here before you. 575 00:59:41,530 --> 00:59:44,750 But we were the first manned space probe sent here. 576 00:59:45,170 --> 00:59:50,410 Do not laugh at yourself by believing yours to be the only intelligent life in 577 00:59:50,410 --> 00:59:51,410 the universe. 578 00:59:51,990 --> 00:59:54,550 There are other worlds teeming with life. 579 00:59:55,560 --> 00:59:58,260 with vessels that voided across the golden space. 580 00:59:59,360 --> 01:00:04,580 Those others of whom I spoke did not come here in search of knowledge. 581 01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:07,100 Their motive was greed. 582 01:00:07,740 --> 01:00:09,520 Their purpose, plunder. 583 01:00:10,500 --> 01:00:12,840 They were dealt with as intruders. 584 01:00:13,220 --> 01:00:16,040 We had no intentions of landing on your planet. 585 01:00:16,360 --> 01:00:19,280 In fact, we weren't even equipped to land. 586 01:00:19,600 --> 01:00:23,400 Am I to believe disaster befell your mission? 587 01:00:24,490 --> 01:00:28,010 Then I must inquire into the nature of this disaster. 588 01:00:28,950 --> 01:00:32,550 And it is your vessel that you seek here within our city. 589 01:00:33,330 --> 01:00:34,390 But continue. 590 01:00:35,310 --> 01:00:37,470 How did you discover the way? 591 01:00:37,990 --> 01:00:42,390 We picked up a faint signal, and believing it to be our main stage, 592 01:00:43,010 --> 01:00:44,750 It led us to the Golden Road. 593 01:00:45,430 --> 01:00:47,270 What you seek is not here. 594 01:00:48,530 --> 01:00:51,150 The signal that you receive is a warning. 595 01:00:52,560 --> 01:00:56,320 Had you been able to decipher its meaning, you would not have come here. 596 01:00:57,120 --> 01:01:04,040 However, the golden road that led you here is all that remains of a vast 597 01:01:04,040 --> 01:01:08,740 network that linked our vanished empire upon this world. 598 01:01:10,180 --> 01:01:16,300 Now our palaces have become one, and you are destined to share our fate. 599 01:01:17,260 --> 01:01:20,700 For as long as we remain imprisoned upon this world, 600 01:01:21,450 --> 01:01:23,070 So shall you remain. 601 01:01:33,570 --> 01:01:34,910 You don't understand. 602 01:01:35,950 --> 01:01:40,570 All we need is to locate our main stage and send a message back for help. 603 01:01:40,910 --> 01:01:42,710 Now why should you want to stop us? 604 01:01:43,670 --> 01:01:45,890 It is you who do not understand. 605 01:01:47,410 --> 01:01:50,330 For we can neither hinder nor help you. 606 01:01:51,500 --> 01:01:55,680 We have been incapable of physical action for ages. 607 01:01:56,960 --> 01:02:03,420 Our existence is confined within a dimension of time of our own creation. 608 01:02:04,660 --> 01:02:07,280 You are right in assuming we do not understand. 609 01:02:09,140 --> 01:02:11,860 You speak of an undecipherable warning. 610 01:02:12,940 --> 01:02:14,380 A warning from what? 611 01:02:15,140 --> 01:02:16,800 A fate of imprisonment? 612 01:02:17,440 --> 01:02:20,220 While you are incapable of physical action? 613 01:02:21,430 --> 01:02:22,590 Imprisoned by what? 614 01:02:23,590 --> 01:02:25,170 This dimension of time? 615 01:02:26,030 --> 01:02:32,670 During the span of our evolution, our race built an empire so great, its 616 01:02:32,670 --> 01:02:35,790 outermost reaches extended to the perimeter of the galaxy. 617 01:02:36,850 --> 01:02:43,270 Our fleets sailed the galactic seas and gathered the riches from many worlds. 618 01:02:44,450 --> 01:02:49,290 Wandering, we gathered the greatest of all treasures, knowledge. 619 01:02:51,310 --> 01:02:56,130 Ours was the greatest empire the galactic civilizations had ever 620 01:02:56,510 --> 01:02:59,270 We were the masters of the stars. 621 01:03:01,150 --> 01:03:05,710 But as space is vast, time is long. 622 01:03:06,890 --> 01:03:13,410 Races grow old, civilizations wither, and empires crumble. 623 01:03:13,990 --> 01:03:17,070 The stars slip through our fingers. 624 01:03:19,310 --> 01:03:22,350 been the conquerors of a thousand worlds gathered here. 625 01:03:23,010 --> 01:03:25,230 Our empire followed them. 626 01:03:25,490 --> 01:03:27,150 Our glory gone. 627 01:03:27,810 --> 01:03:33,270 All that remained of our capes were the mysteries we had gathered in our 628 01:03:33,270 --> 01:03:34,270 wonders. 629 01:03:35,050 --> 01:03:37,470 There was an irony in our twilight. 630 01:03:38,170 --> 01:03:44,950 All too soon we would return to mindless dust, leaving these mysteries behind. 631 01:03:46,230 --> 01:03:48,840 Time was insensitive to our greatness. 632 01:03:50,600 --> 01:03:53,040 The end of our evolution drew near. 633 01:03:54,200 --> 01:03:56,580 Weary, we made one last effort. 634 01:03:57,340 --> 01:04:01,620 We inquired into the very nature of the fabric of time itself. 635 01:04:03,180 --> 01:04:09,380 Time, from creation to now, turns toward all the 636 01:04:09,380 --> 01:04:15,500 yesterdays almost as strongly as the unborn tomorrows that stretch to all 637 01:04:15,500 --> 01:04:16,500 eternity. 638 01:04:17,580 --> 01:04:21,740 We struck a balance between these two great universal forces. 639 01:04:22,300 --> 01:04:25,280 The past and the future. 640 01:04:26,200 --> 01:04:29,660 It was then that we impaled time upon Nexus. 641 01:04:30,720 --> 01:04:34,640 We were in the conquerors of a thousand worlds and followed. 642 01:04:35,320 --> 01:04:41,300 Rose again to conquer death and pluck our city out of time. 643 01:04:42,400 --> 01:04:43,920 Within these halls. 644 01:04:45,550 --> 01:04:47,770 There was an eternal stillness. 645 01:04:48,670 --> 01:04:55,230 And in that stillness we pondered upon all the mysteries we had gathered from 646 01:04:55,230 --> 01:04:56,750 the vastness of the universe. 647 01:04:57,750 --> 01:04:59,690 And pondering we followed. 648 01:05:00,150 --> 01:05:02,910 We had committed a grievous error. 649 01:05:04,990 --> 01:05:10,730 That transmission upon time was contrary to the laws of the universe. 650 01:05:13,960 --> 01:05:15,920 there can be no life without birth. 651 01:05:17,740 --> 01:05:24,400 So, life itself is meaningless without 652 01:05:24,400 --> 01:05:25,400 death. 653 01:05:26,240 --> 01:05:31,600 Upon unraveling the last mystery of the universe, this we learned, 654 01:05:31,880 --> 01:05:37,500 that there exists a promise of something very strange and very great. 655 01:05:38,540 --> 01:05:42,540 A promise beckoning to us from beyond the rim of the universe. 656 01:05:44,300 --> 01:05:51,160 Thus our transgression kept us in prisons upon this world and kept 657 01:05:51,160 --> 01:05:52,420 us from our destiny. 658 01:05:55,340 --> 01:06:01,280 It's hard to believe that a race as great as yours cannot free itself from a 659 01:06:01,280 --> 01:06:02,600 prison of their own creation. 660 01:06:03,180 --> 01:06:07,560 If you stop time, why can't you start it again? 661 01:06:07,940 --> 01:06:10,400 Time can be set in motion again. 662 01:06:11,560 --> 01:06:17,020 Free to continue toward the endless future and we toward our destiny. 663 01:06:18,260 --> 01:06:22,760 But it requires an act of physical strength of which we are incapable. 664 01:06:24,400 --> 01:06:26,080 Yours will be the task. 665 01:06:26,760 --> 01:06:27,760 But how? 666 01:06:28,560 --> 01:06:31,200 We have no knowledge of how you stop time. 667 01:06:31,960 --> 01:06:34,620 Therefore, how can we start it again? 668 01:06:40,430 --> 01:06:43,350 I cannot hold this manifestation much longer. 669 01:06:45,130 --> 01:06:50,290 The process involved would not be understandable to a race as young as 670 01:06:50,530 --> 01:06:53,350 where there time left to me to explain. 671 01:06:54,410 --> 01:06:57,030 Our city was plucked out of time. 672 01:06:57,950 --> 01:06:59,370 Yours is the task. 673 01:06:59,810 --> 01:07:02,930 To replace the sphere within the mechanism. 674 01:07:05,270 --> 01:07:07,310 Wait! Don't leave! 675 01:07:07,850 --> 01:07:08,850 This mechanism! 676 01:07:11,120 --> 01:07:12,120 What is it? 677 01:07:12,500 --> 01:07:14,120 You will know it. 678 01:07:14,660 --> 01:07:19,160 For it is the symbol of time, universal to all races. 679 01:07:46,640 --> 01:07:47,680 That must be the sphere. 680 01:07:48,220 --> 01:07:50,260 But what mechanism is it part of? 681 01:07:50,600 --> 01:07:51,600 Who cares? 682 01:07:52,220 --> 01:07:55,960 Now, look, let's not get sidetracked. We haven't got time to get involved with 683 01:07:55,960 --> 01:07:57,020 somebody else's problems. 684 01:07:57,360 --> 01:07:58,700 Well, maybe it is our problem. 685 01:07:59,120 --> 01:08:01,160 What do you mean? This has nothing to do with us. 686 01:08:01,400 --> 01:08:03,640 Let's not waste our time on riddles, too. 687 01:08:04,260 --> 01:08:06,040 Now, they've been here a long time. 688 01:08:06,420 --> 01:08:08,860 And so will we if we don't find that main stage. 689 01:08:09,200 --> 01:08:11,860 Look, the main stage is lost. 690 01:08:12,620 --> 01:08:13,620 Let's face it. 691 01:08:14,090 --> 01:08:16,430 We've been chasing wild signals everywhere. 692 01:08:17,550 --> 01:08:19,790 Now let's give Doc the benefit of the doubt. 693 01:08:20,170 --> 01:08:23,109 I still don't understand how it's going to do us any good. 694 01:08:23,529 --> 01:08:26,149 Well, maybe not, but we won't know unless we try. 695 01:08:29,450 --> 01:08:30,609 This must be it. 696 01:08:31,510 --> 01:08:34,330 Now all we have to do is find the mechanism in which it fits. 697 01:08:50,380 --> 01:08:53,479 A city plucked from time. 698 01:09:13,040 --> 01:09:14,040 That does it. 699 01:09:14,340 --> 01:09:16,540 I hope this is it. There's no place else to look. 700 01:09:17,100 --> 01:09:19,640 If it is, it'll solve a lot of mysteries. 701 01:09:20,560 --> 01:09:22,779 Just as long as we don't end up like they did. 702 01:09:45,520 --> 01:09:48,040 A symbol of time. 703 01:09:48,490 --> 01:09:50,130 Universal to all races. 704 01:10:00,050 --> 01:10:01,270 Mechanism of time. 705 01:10:08,870 --> 01:10:13,070 It's so close, and yet just beyond our reach. 706 01:10:18,320 --> 01:10:19,320 I can reach it. 707 01:10:23,020 --> 01:10:24,020 Steve? 708 01:10:25,300 --> 01:10:26,300 Give me a hand. 709 01:10:51,920 --> 01:10:52,920 The city. 710 01:11:54,470 --> 01:11:55,470 Done, done. 711 01:11:55,830 --> 01:11:58,630 Time has been set in motion again. 712 01:11:59,570 --> 01:12:03,330 Freed to continue toward the endless future. 713 01:12:04,110 --> 01:12:09,570 And we toward our destiny. Do not gaze upon time too long. 714 01:12:09,930 --> 01:12:16,810 For as you do, your own destiny awaits you at the end of the golden road. 715 01:12:58,410 --> 01:13:00,030 The past and present are coming together. 716 01:13:00,390 --> 01:13:02,590 We've got to get out while the cement still exists. 717 01:14:46,280 --> 01:14:47,280 Get the gun. 718 01:15:57,610 --> 01:15:59,170 This is Mars Echo One. 719 01:15:59,570 --> 01:16:00,570 Over. 720 01:16:02,290 --> 01:16:07,490 Mars Probe One, will you please acknowledge you are two minutes overdue 721 01:16:07,490 --> 01:16:08,490 your transmission. 722 01:16:08,890 --> 01:16:10,070 Please acknowledge. 723 01:16:10,910 --> 01:16:12,010 Please acknowledge. 724 01:16:39,630 --> 01:16:40,630 This we learn. 725 01:16:41,430 --> 01:16:46,270 As without birth, there can be no life. 726 01:16:47,150 --> 01:16:51,630 So without death, life itself is meaningless. 727 01:16:52,450 --> 01:16:54,670 For without death...