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Take Gene back to the car. I must get this.

Minister, this is Colonel Stryker.

How do you do, sir? A shattering business, Colonel.

The Prime Minister's already at Chequers.

We'll be there in 30 minutes.

We've been in constant communication with Paris, Moscow and Bonn during your

visits. I think the British government's approval will be a formality.

The evidence is absolutely conclusive.

If I might join it may speak things up

The

clincher is at the back

It's an enlarged single frame from the cine

film sir It couldn't possibly be a fake.

The film was found undeveloped still in the camera.

It's genuine.

Take my word for it.

Keep pace with the escort.

I'll take the file, sir.

Good morning.

Good morning, sir.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Miss Eland. The report.

Thank you.

Messages.

Information.

QQ1, answer negative.

Q46, satellite link effective.

Q9700. The computer readouts available from today.

Have them put straight through to me, will you? Yes, sir.

Mr. Freeman to see you, sir.

All right, Mr. Freeman.

But the girl in reception calls me Alec.

So? Well, doesn't that inflame you with jealousy?

Obviously it doesn't.

But soft, what light through yonder window breaks.

It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

Voice print positive identification 97 Freeman Alec E.

Good morning, sir.

Good morning.

You're new here, aren't you?

Uh-huh.

You must have passed all the tests.

All of them.

I bet.

I'll keep you a moment, Alec.

Trouble? Why else would I send for you?

Take a look at this.

That's Westbrook Electronics, isn't it?

Yeah.

What's left of it.

Well, what happened?

For ten years, there have been setbacks.

We've had accidents, miscalculations, errors of judgment, and other mishaps.

Let's put Westbrook Electronics down to other mishaps.

You mean a UFO?

Well, there's no proof.

So bang goes the eutronic project.

Just when we thought we really had something to track them down. Now, don't

panic, Alec. The eutronic equipment is safe.

it wasn't in the building it's intact fully tested and ready for shipment the

breakthrough shadow have had moon base and the other satellites operational for

the past few months there have been a few ufo sightings but no interceptions

we've got the teeth soon we'll have the eyes now freeman you know how important

this is to our whole organization now the eutronic design team and the

equipment are ready to be picked up in los angeles and flown here to england

Now, I'm making you responsible for the security of the entire operation.

I mean you, personally.

Right.

Well, it must be quite a while since you landed an SST.

Just let's say it's part of the personal service.

Shadow Control, this is Seagull X-ray.

Los Angeles, 0835.

Takeoff schedule, 1100 hours.

Roger, Seagull X-ray.

Call Moonbase, will you?

Yes, sir.

Status check.

Target? Affirmative.

Magnetic field?

Check.

Saturation density?

Green.

Resonator?

Affirmative. Code?

Okay.

Displacements? Go.

Filters? Check.

Fluctuation? Affirmative.

Reflex? Excuse me.

Right. Shadow control for you, Lieutenant.

Right.

Lieutenant Ellis?

Good morning, Gay.

I think I might have some action for you.

I want Moonbase put on yellow alert from 1045 to track Seagull X-ray.

Now it's carrying shadow VIPs on the U-tronic equipment.

So let's keep everybody on their toes.

We can't afford to take chances.

Roger.

Joan, announce a yellow alert for 1045.

Yes, Lieutenant.

And complete the status check.

I think this is going to be for real.

I'm going to take a break.

I'll be back about 1030. Okay.

Moon base will be on yellow alert from 1045 Earth elapsed time.

Repeat, 1045 EET.

All space trackers to be fully operational by 1045 EET.

Astronauts to be on standby.

Joanna?

Be right with you, Lou.

No hurry.

I want to run a computer check on the interceptor systems in about 10 minutes.

Hi, Gay. Hello, Lou.

Do you think this could be it, Lieutenant?

Looks like it, Lou.

An SST traveling at Mach 4 is a pretty tempting target, particularly since it's

carrying the new eutronic equipment.

Hello, Ken.

Hi. Hi.

Hi, Mark.

Kay, this alert, what do you think? Another false alarm?

Don't think so, Mark.

So this time it could be real?

Yeah, it could be.

Well, I guess we could all do with a bit of action.

Well, I could do with a cup of coffee.

Sure. Thanks.

But skydiver in the picture.

Yes, sir.

Message from Shadow Control, sir. Yellow alert at 10.45.

Right.

At last entry.

Did you send it?

Yes, sir.

A refueling schedule.

Transmitted on security code B.

Sorry, sir.

How long you been with us, Ford?

Just over two years, sir. Two years.

Long enough to know how important security is to Shadow.

Now look.

This headquarters, controlling Moonbase, the satellites, and a fleet of

submarines, is 80 feet below a film studio, right?

Now, 400 people work up there, and not one of them knows all this exists.

I have to play games, pretending to be the studio's chief executive.

No one even dreams what my real function is.

That's what security's all about.

I'm sorry, sir.

Sometimes it's pretty difficult.

Difficult?

So you think it's difficult, huh, Ford?

Well, I'll tell you when it gets difficult.

Have you ever thought about the victims of UFO incidents?

Have you ever considered their parents, brothers, sisters?

What do we tell them?

They can never know the truth.

So they live in agony for years, praying that someday their loved one may turn

up, clinging to a thread of hope.

Don't ever tell me that security's difficult.

Sometimes it gets pretty close to home.

The yellow alert starts in two minutes, sir.

Be right with you.

Stevenson Base, this is Seagull X-ray.

Liftoff check complete.

Liftoff clearance.

Roger, Seagull X-ray. You are clear to go.

Una, 10-45.

Right.

Brakes. On.

Airspeed building.

130.

140.

160 V1.

VR. Rotate.

This is moon base calling CID.

This is space intruder detector.

Pass your message.

Seagull X-ray carrying...

and eutronic equipment is airborne.

Track progress of aircraft until further notice.

Keep sharp lookout for UFO.

Please pass your code so that your instructions can be complied with.

Stand by to receive code.

Standing by.

Thank you.

Your code is correct.

I have Seagull X-ray on scanners.

It is on course.

Speed?

1500 knots moon base computers confirmed course correct airspeed 1500 knots right

maintain tracking

i had to play this check complete sir okay steer zero four two steer zero four

two zero four two maintain present speed maintain speed

40 knots take over will you bill i'm going

back to do my stuff with the passengers all right

Herr Mahler, good morning. Colonel Alec Freeman.

Ah, Colonel.

I'd like to congratulate you and your team, Herr Mahler. This looks like the

breakthrough we've been waiting for.

Not my team, Colonel. May I introduce our chief designer, Virginia Lake.

How do you do, Colonel?

Well, for the first time in my career, I wish I was flying subsonic aircraft.

The trip would take that much longer.

Just in case anyone's interested, I'm Phil Wade.

Oh, how are you?

Well, looks like you're the answer to all our prayers.

Would you like to see the eutronic equipment, Colonel?

I think your equipment is fabulous, but I am familiar with it.

Really? Yes.

For instance, I know that a eutronic beam travels instantaneously.

Almost instantaneously.

Well, anyway, it means we'll be able to detect UFOs even when they're flying

many times the speed of light in deep space.

Go on.

So, our moon-based interceptors will have a chance to destroy them before

they reach the Earth.

Very good.

I could tell you more over dinner.

Don't you think you better get back to your little seat up front?

I suppose so.

I'll be seeing you.

Colonel.

You were right.

You are familiar.

With the equipment.

Everything okay?

Yes, sir.

No sign of any activity.

Good.

I'll be

in my office.

What's up?

Red alert.

Red alert.

UFO 428, 146 green.

Got it.

428, 146 green.

Speed. Solid.

Trajectory termination.

coming up this is moon base

to shadow control predictive trajectory termination north atlantic speed solid

going for intercept out interceptors immediate launch

interceptors immediate launch

Moon base to all shadow stations.

Moon base to all shadow stations.

UFO sighted 428146 green will report.

Attention all defense systems. This is a maximum security alert.

Attention all defense systems.

I say again, this is a maximum security alert.

Condition red.

Speed, 1.5 million miles per second.

Range, 75 million miles.

Okay. Yes.

70 million miles.

Maintaining sol 8. Red, 129046.

Right. Trajectory? Still as predicted.

Lieutenant, I have green on interceptors 1, 2, and 3.

Moon-based interceptor.

Right. MCC read-in 1-0-1, 2-6-4, 1-1-0.

Missile timing 2-4-9-6.

Missile program completed.

Range 8 million miles closing.

7 million miles.

Missile firing 5 decimal 4 seconds.

Confirmed.

Negative.

It's through.

Well, don't just sit there.

Warn Skydiver. And get me Alec Freeman.

Yes, sir.

Gentlemen, Miss Lake.

Shadow Control have just informed me that a UFO is approaching the North

Atlantic.

I'm afraid we must assume that this aircraft is its target.

I'm going to reduce height in order to gain the advantage of cloud cover.

This will mean we'll have to reduce speed, but of course in the dense

atmosphere, so will the UFO.

Presumably that increases Shadow's chances of intercepting it.

Yes, it does.

I'd fasten your seatbelts if I were you.

Look, don't worry.

it'll be okay anyway we have a dinner date i wouldn't let anything interfere

with that thank you

UFO entering visual speed range.

Radar and visual alert.

UFO on radar track speed Mach 5.

Thank God for the atmosphere.

It's the best protection we have.

I have positive radar fix.

Well, it's up to Skydiver now.

In position, sir. Right.

Stand by. Five, four, three, two, one, zero.

Launch stations.

Launch stations. Player one.

One clear.

Player two. Two clear.

Ready for takeoff, sir. Okay, lift off stations.

Lift off stations.

Checking boosters. Circuits.

Cut boosters. H-pulse circuits, okay. Cut boosters.

Relays, okay.

Let's get back.

Interlocks engaged.

Stabilized gyro. Trigger circuits, okay.

Right. Standby for liftoff.

Shadow control from Sky 1. Airborne.

Position 020.

Red. Roger, Sky 1.

Airspeed down to 600 knots.

Right. Lower heat shield.

Right.

I don't like it.

These clouds give about as much cover as a G-string on a belly dancer.

Sky one to Seagull X-ray. Over.

Oh, Peter, am I glad to hear you.

What's your position?

Right above you.

Level off at 20,000.

Sky One to Seagull X-ray. Have UFO on screen.

Closing rapidly.

Roger. Ten degrees port.

Right.

UFO at 12 o'clock. You are the target.

Coming in to attack.

UFO ant at cloud layer. Keep a sharp lookout.

Roger.

Sky One to Shadow Control.

Reporting direct hit on UFO.

It's going to crash into the sea.

Quit shooting, Sky One.

Come in, Seagull X-ray.

Alec, are you okay?

I've aged about five years, but we're still in one piece.

Hello, Sky One.

Follow it down, Captain.

Use your reconnaissance cameras.

Roger, will do.

It went straight under.

It seems to be breaking up.

Hold it.

There's a body.

Please confirm.

Did you say body?

Yes, it's a body.

Everything's fine. Good, good.

Moonbase and the other tracker stations will have the eutronic system fitted and

operational within a week.

Oh, that's just great.

Oh, you look tired, Alec. Why don't you help yourself to a drink?

Thanks. I think I will.

You never touch it, do you?

Uh-uh.

Self-control.

Maybe drinking needs more self-control.

When does it arrive?

Any time now.

We've waited a long time for this one.

Yes.

Ten years.

It's been ten years since we had the first confirmed UFO landing on Earth.

And that was after a decade of speculation, reports, official denials,

you name it.

You know, Alec, when I was made commander of Shadow, I thought it was

all going to happen.

you've done a good job the best well i've tried but how far have we

progressed i mean what do we really know about ufos what are they where do they

come from what do they want

Shadow Section. Your special patient has arrived, sir.

We will use Underground Corridor 32 to Shadow Medical Center.

Right.

Well, maybe some of the answers are coming in now.

Well done, Peter.

Thanks. You're wanted in debriefing immediately.

Right. See you later.

What's the position, Doctor?

Alive and in a critical condition.

Excuse me.

What are the chances of survival?

Well, he was equipped with an advanced apparatus that enabled him to breathe

liquid.

The helmet was removed as soon as he was picked up. An attempt was made to

restore normal breathing.

The problem is that there's still some liquid left in his lungs.

So it's too early to say yet.

Excuse me.

Space travel in a liquid environment.

The very thing we've been experimenting with.

Yes. Well, apparently they've done it.

I must ask you to leave now.

Right. Let me know the moment you have anything, Doctor.

you

Is he alive, doctor?

Yes.

Well?

Well, the general analysis has shown that he's humanoid.

You mean, like us?

More or less.

Body temperature, three degrees, paranormal.

Blood pressure, rather low. Muscular development, poor.

The skin has an artificial green coloration, probably absorbed from the

liquid. The interesting thing here is that the hair hasn't picked up this

tint, which suggests that the liquid contains a bioacrophilic compound.

Also, the fact that the eyes were protected by plastic shells seems to

support this theory.

Anyway, we'll know more when we get the computer readout from the first

electromedical check.

It'll be a few minutes.

From a solar system probably 100 million million miles from Earth.

It's incredible.

What is?

Well, we can't be certain yet, but this preliminary test shows organ and gland

transplants.

Heart, liver, left lung, thyroid.

Do you realize what this could mean, Alec? It's still theory. Theory.

Fact.

After almost ten years of possible, probable, and confirmed UFO incidents.

Fact. On a number of fully documented occasions, mutilated bodies found after

UFO attacks.

Organs missing.

Fact. An electromedical examination on the first alien we lay our hands on

shows organ transplants.

The doctors aren't certain.

No. Not yet.

But I'm willing to bet that our proof lies at the end of that corridor.

Dr. Schroeder?

Intensive care unit. We have an emergency.

I'm afraid he's dead.

I have a postmortem.

48 hours.

Make it 24.

Not the details.

Just what really matters.

The rapid aging isn't documented in the report.

We're not sure why it happened, but it's certainly connected with the reaction of

Earth's atmosphere on the body.

Now, gentlemen, let's concern ourselves with the three main questions regarding

UFOs.

One, where do they come from?

The fact that the lungs were filled with an oxygenated liquid seems to indicate a

subjection to phenomenal acceleration and fantastic speed over a long period.

long enough for the skin to pick up the green coloration of the liquid.

Now, all this would appear to add up to an extended journey through space,

perhaps several months, at many times the speed of light.

Question number two.

Who are they?

Well, obviously, in science and technology, several hundred years in

advance of man.

But everything in this report seems to add up to a dying race.

Hereditary sterility was evident.

But by using drugs and advanced transplant techniques, they could have

found a way to stop the natural aging process.

They're also highly intelligent, so they presumably come to Earth knowing the

risk of contact with our atmosphere.

Which brings us inevitably to question number three.

Why do they come?

This report...

indicates five major organ and gland transplants.

In the case of the heart, tissue compatibility test shows that it was

human in origin.

It came from Earth, gentlemen.

Therefore, one of the reasons they must obviously come is to obtain organ

replacements.

But there may be other reasons.

Imagine a dying planet in some distant corner of the universe.

Its natural resources exhausted, its inhabitants sterile, doomed to

extinction.

Situation we may one day find ourselves in, gentlemen.

So they discover Earth, abundant and fertile, able to satisfy their needs.

They look upon us not with animosity, but with callousness, as we look upon

our animals whom we depend on for food.

Yes. Would appear they are driven by circumstance across a billion miles of

space.

Driven on by the greatest force in the universe.

Survival.

on the test, sir.

There's no possible doubt?

No, sir.

Electronic tissue analysis is as positive as a voice print.

Right.

Wanted to tell me something.

Yes.

I wanted to have a word with you before you flew out.

It's about my sister, isn't it?

Yes.

I'm afraid she's dead, Peter.

There's no longer any doubt.

I think you know how sorry I am.

What happened?

I don't think you'd like to know the details.

I think I'd like to know.

Your sister was last seen in the vicinity of a UFO incident nearly 10

years ago.

The alien's body recovered from the sea was subjected to intense medical

examination.

The heart was a transplant.

The donor was Lila Carlin.

What will you tell your parents?

I don't know.

You realize, of course, that they can never know the truth.

A funeral without a body.

A symbol of human compassion.

The long finger of...

A tragic coincidence stretching across a billion miles of space.

Is this the end or the beginning?

Where does the universe end?

Where does it begin?