All language subtitles for S02E19 - The Bringers Of Wonder 2

'Moonbase Alpha status report,

'2,515 days since leaving Earth's
orbit. Dr Helena Russell recording.

'Commander Koenig
has not responded to treatment

'since becoming
irrational and crashing his Eagle.

'It is possible that the use
of the cerebral wave machine

'has worsened his condition.

'He reacted psychotically to the
arrival of a rescue party from Earth

'and remains convinced
that it's appearance is sinister

'and that evil forces are at work.'

- John, darling.
- Stay away from me!

John, this is my brother Guido.

Tony...Alan...Maya,
what's the matter with YOU?!

'He refuses to believe
they are friends from Earth

'and insists that they
are monsters determined to kill him

'because he's the only one
who stands in their way.'

Why won't you listen to me?
You're all blind!

'The Commander remains
in the Medical Centre

'where my old teacher, Dr Shaw,

'has promised to check
on his condition.

'I feel helpless and frustrated
because I can't free John

'of the delusion
that there is a plot to kill him.'

No!

Dr Shaw, what's your opinion?

His vital signs are very erratic.

This could be causing
his mental instability.

- If there's anything more I can do.
- I'll ask, thank you.

All right, Maya,
let's see if he'll respond. John...

John?

John, Maya's here.
She has something to show you.

It's a recording.

That's the pilot ship.

That's an Eagle.

'I can see Earth.

'It's blue and beautiful and we're
getting closer by the minute.'

They're in an Eagle.

Why can't you accept
what we all tell you?

Maya, what do you see out there
in the Command Centre?

People from Earth.

Oh, I was hoping...

I thought your different
brain structure

would have resisted
their telepathic control.

Whose telepathic control?

Maya, when you look,
you see people from Earth.

When I look...

I see monsters
from a different dimension.

One of us is wrong.

Will you accept
that it could be you?

Well, that would mean, of course,
that everyone else is wrong.

I'm the only one on this base
who is hooked up to that machine.

Either the machine
has distorted your consciousness...

Or protected it.

Telepathic control...

'It's...possible.

'I find it odd that everyone
from Earth is somebody's friend.

'It's against probability.'

'That's because
everyone is out of someone's memory.'

'Yes, they
could have tapped everyone's mind

'and projected what they needed
out of what they found there.'

'It couldn't project strangers
as they can't be in our memories.'

Wait, Maya sees these people, too,
and they can't be in her memory.

It is possible
that they could project images

from other people's minds
into my mind.

If they have control over our minds,

why are they letting us
have this conversation?

Perhaps it's for a purpose.

Maybe they have to be present
to control.

'Ben did say that he knew
Sandstrom was trying to kill you

'but he couldn't
do anything about it.

'When Alan took Louisa away from him,
he regained control of himself.'

'And in the records lab -
Kander - they took him over...

'controlled his mind.

'He must have made a discovery
which threatened them.

'He didn't go berserk -
they made him release the oxygen

'causing the explosion
which killed him.

'If only we knew
what it was that he'd found out.'

We've been in space for months,
in Earth time that's generations.

If they are from Earth, they'd be
hundreds of years older than us.

That should have occurred to me.

But they wouldn't let it.

They haven't been able
to control my mind

because...I was hooked
to that machine.

There may be no causal effect
but...it is a tenable theory.

Helena...

please, unstrap me.

Do we tell Tony?

No. Our best weapon is surprise.

If we tell Tony,

they may probe his mind and take
away the one advantage we've got.

Maya, would you let Helena
give you the same treatment I had?

- The brain complex?
- Yes.

I don't know if she can stand that.

I'm willing.
If the Commander's right...

It should be me, not Maya.

But you can handle the machine,
we can't.

Helena, if I'm right, there are
things Maya can do that you can't.

You little beauty!

What's the first thing
you're gonna do, Joe?

Find a golf course
where I don't hit a mile. You?

Me?

Her name's Jeannie.
How about you, Jack?

Her name's Caroline.

She's five years old.
She's got her mother's eyes.

'San, what would you and Peter like

'as a wedding present from Earth?'

Just to be there.

'Look at that weather
pattern! It's snowing in California.'

Hey! Smile when you say that, man.

Maya?

Maya?

How do you feel?

- Normal.
- Wait a minute.

Well, here we go on the carousel.

Earth Control, this is
Swift Pilot Ship 2. Do you read me?

Do you want me to fly
this crate in?

'This is New York Control
reading you loud and clear.

'You're locked into the computer,
you don't have to do a thing.

'Just sit back and enjoy the ride.'

I hear you, Oh, Earthman!

Alan Carter to Moonbase Alpha.

'We're now going into Earth orbit
then on down for a landing.'

Well?

Ticking over
like a flawless machine, as always.

Good.

Helena.

What do you see out there?

Dr Shaw and San's fiance Peter.

Maya?

Oh! They look like the plasma
that forms on some organic matter

when it begins to decompose.

Boy! Don't they look beautiful? !

You got your historic lines ready?

How about, "It's a small step for...

- It's been done.
- Who said it had to be original?

What are you going to say, Alan?

Where is the nearest john?

That will make the history books!

'This is New York Control.
We have you on automatic pilot.

'You're about to
touch down in New York.'

Let's get this luggage
into the hotel.

I hope we get a room with a view.

Forget the view,
I want to get to a telephone.

In the old days, they used
to call this town the Big Apple.

Everything going according to plan?

Yes, one of them will stay here
to prime the domes.

I'll send the other two
for the nuclear trigger.

- What do they want?
- There's one way to find out.

Oh, I think I know!

I really hate to ask you, Maya,
but...

Oh, they're so...

repulsive.

If there was any other way...

Maya, remember, they know
you're a Metamorph, so be careful.

We haven't much time.

We're beginning
to lose energy rapidly.

Two aliens have been dispatched
for the nuclear trigger.

Once they energise it,
we will take our fill.

All the alien creatures will die.

They are of no consequence,
they are so ugly.

Naturally they are of no consequence.

Nevertheless, they will be
happy before they die.

Which of our number is that?

It has our shape,
but it is not of our species.

Come here!

Stop that one!

Oh, don't ever ask me
to do that again.

They had the minds of geniuses
and the instincts of vultures.

What do they want?

They're a species
that live on radiation.

Radiation?

It's the only kind
of energy they can assimilate.

What do they want here?

Their planet ran out of radiation.

They're starving. Unless they get a
huge intake soon, they're gonna die.

They want our nuclear waste dumps...

Wait a minute, that could benefit us.
Let's give them our nuclear waste.

- It's not that easy.
- Why not?

They need the intense radiation they
will get from blowing up the dumps.

Blow up? That would destroy us.

They've got control of our minds
so that we'll blow them up.

Why haven't they
blown up the dumps themselves?

They have little kinetic energy.
They can't handle physical activity.

They plan to manipulate us
to explode them.

How?

By making us think we're doing
one thing when we're doing another.

That's what they did to me in the
Eagle. Alan, Bartlett and Ehrlich!

That's where they really are.
They're still on the surface.

And they were flying in an Eagle.

I still see the pilot ship.

They're at the atomic waste dumps.
They're going to detonate them.

They can't do that
without atomic fuel.

There's your atomic fuel.

That's the trigger
to blow up the dumps.

- They won't do it.
- They won't know they're doing it.

Computer, lock entrance
to atomic fuel store.

I've got to get to an Eagle.

Hold it, John!
Where do you think you're going?

Tony, I must have an Eagle.
Listen to me.

Stay back.

Helena...

How did he get out
of Medical Centre?

He just broke loose.

Then why didn't you give the alarm?
He could've hurt himself and us.

I'm sorry, Tony.
I'll keep him under restraints.

Yeah. You do that.

Stay with the commander.

Make sure he's taken care of.
Coming, Dr Shaw?

Helena!

Commander! Helena. John.

- Alan?
- Still in the atomic fuel store.

How long would it take
to process our people,

make all of them immune
to the aliens?

It would take days, John.

Unless we can break
the aliens' hold on our people,

I'll never save Alpha.

- There may be a way.
- What?

I sometimes use a sonic anaesthetic.

It's called White Noise. It works
by blocking nerve pads in the brain.

That would obstruct
the telepathic input of the aliens.

Amplify it and transmit it
to all of our people.

Let's go. Helena, stay away
from those aliens in Command Centre,

or they'll take you over again.

Make sure these things
are set to stun.

Let's hope the aliens
don't read your mind, Helena.

They'll try and use our people
to stop us.

Hold it!

It was set to kill.

Don't, Tony!

- What's going on here?
- Shut up!

Helena!

That's as much as I can give it.

What about Alan and the others?
Will the sound reach them?

They'll get it through their helmets.

But it won't be powerful enough
if the aliens choose to block it.

Kill them!

No! They get their power from energy.

They've disappeared. Vanished.

- We've won.
- The atomic fuel store.

We haven't stopped them. They're
going to Bartlett with the trigger.

Tony, Maya.

The aliens know about White Noise.

They must be concentrating
on Alan, Ehrlich and Bartlett.

Where are they getting
their strength?

All electrical equipment on Alpha
emits a minute amount of radiation.

They must be getting it from that.

Helena, cut all non-essential power,
all except communications. Out.

- I can't see them.
- They're there somewhere.

Alan, this is Commander Koenig.
Do you read me? Alan?

'Alan, are you receiving me?
Come in, Alan. Answer, Alan!

'This is Eagle 1 to Alan Carter.
Are you receiving?'

- There, on the left.
- Switch on scanners.

There they are!

Alan! Ehrlich!
This is Koenig. Do you read me?

'Alan, do you read me?

'Alan, do you read me?
Come in, Alan.'

- Touch down in front of them.
- No, Commander.

The terrain is too crumbly,
we'd go straight through.

- Drop me in front of them.
- All right.

Maya, prepare to depressurise.

'Decompression complete.
Lower away.'

Alan, stop!

Alan, stop.
You don't know what you're doing.

Ehrlich, stop him. Ehrlich!

Alan, stop!

'Decompression complete.'

All right, now move it, Maya!

No, Ehrlich. Ehrlich!

Alan, it's me, John.

Ehrlich, listen to me. Listen to me!

Ehrlich, you don't know
what you're doing!

Aagh!

Commander, Ehrlich's
losing air. His pack is punctured.

Tony, we've got to get Ehrlich
back to Alpha fast.

- 'He needs depressurising.'
- Coming in now, John.

Alan!

Alan, wait!

Alan! Alan, WAIT!

Alan!

ALAN!

ALAN!

'Tony, take him up.'

Bartlett, come out here
and give me a hand.

When you're inside,
you will seal the door.

Maya.

Yes, Commander?

'There are aliens everywhere.
All over the place.'

They can't harm you. They need their
energy to control Alan and Bartlett.

He can't get through.
They've got the door sealed.

They have reached the nuclear core.

Soon we will have
all the radiation we need.

He has broken through!

It doesn't matter.
They will resist him.

- Maya.
- 'Yes, Commander?'

How come the aliens
are still controlling them?

Everything's off.
Where are they getting the energy?

The human brain
generates electrical activity.

There may be enough
to keep them going at survival level.

When people are unconscious, their
brain activity is reduced, right?

'Very greatly.'

'Knock everyone out
except you and the chief engineer.'

Unconscious?

- Unconscious.
- 'John...'

- Don't argue. Can you do it?
- Yes, I can, but...

Just do it! Out.

Alan! Bartlett!

It's atomic fuel!

You were about to
plug it into the core.

- We'd have blown up the planet!
- Right.

You and Alan
have been living an illusion!

But you've broken
the aliens' control. Now help ME!

Maya, Bartlett's returned to normal.

'Careful.
They're running out of energy.

'The little they have left
will be focused on Alan.'

Bartlett,
they're still controlling him.

Alan, it's all right. It's all over.

Is it?

No, that won't help.

You learn quickly, John Koenig.

- That is hopeful.
- Hopeful for whom?

Yes, it's true, Bartlett,
you have been living in an illusion.

But haven't you been happier
than you've ever been on Alpha?

Living your life reunited
with your loved ones,

living, as it were, back on Earth.

Yes, but it's not real,
you've been living a dream.

Isn't a dream of happiness
better than a reality you hate?

Bartlett, help me.

Can you really face growing old

and dying on this piece of debris?

How long can the dream last?
When the nuclear waste is triggered,

all...all human life...
on the moon will be wiped out.

'How long' is a meaningless term.

A pygmy's phrase. Time is relative.

A butterfly lives
a gloriously full life in a day,

a single-celled organism
in a microsecond.

So long as one is fulfilled,
time is irrelevant.

Bartlett, don't listen. Help me!

We can offer the people of Alpha
a complete life,

as it would be with your loved ones
in your homes on Earth.

A life without pain or sorrow,
without fear or loss.

This is what we offer.

Bartlett, use your laser. Stun Alan.

Now, put the trigger
in the atomic core.

Stop him! Stop him, Bartlett.

It's futile to call on Bartlett
for help. He's immobilised.

Alan, listen to me!
It's Koenig. It's Koenig!

You're a truly primitive organism,
Commander.

We could have given you an eternity
of happiness in an instant of time.

Now your life will be what the life
of your species has always been -

cruel and futile.

It's better to live
as your own man...

than as a fool
in someone else's dream.

So much for illusions.

Maya, what was that creature
that you transformed into?

- A laren.
- A what?

A laren.

Its natural habitat
was a moon of Psychon.

How does it survive?

It can store oxygen
like a camel can store water.

- And it's very strong.
- Maya, put me down.

Maya, quit fooling around.
Put me down!

- How long before they wake up?
- About ten minutes.

Can't you speed it up?

No!

How am I supposed to run
a base of Sleeping Beauties?

It was your idea.

She might have been
an illusion but...

I said it was your...idea.