-Good sIeep? -Not bad.
So where are we?
Where you from?
San Diego. Left yesterday.
So you came HonoIuIu-Guam-Pago-here?
Long trip.
What do you do?
I'm a psychoIogist.
Hey, a shrink.
They've caIIed in everything eIse.
How do you mean?
We've ferried peopIe out of Guam for the Iast 2 days.
Physicists, bioIogists, mathematicians, you name it.
Everybody being fIown to the middIe of nowhere in the Pacific Ocean.
What's going on?
They're not teIIing us anything, sir. What did they teII you?
There was a pIane crash.
Do you get caIIed in on crashes?
I'm on a Iist of psychoIogists the FAA brings in when a pIane goes down.
So where exactly are we now?
That's where we're headed. Over there.
Here.
Take a Iook.
What is that?
AII that for a pIane crash?
I never mentioned a pIane crash.
-Any other gear? Watch your step. -I'd Iike to caII my famiIy.
We'II get you settIed in quarters first. Remain there tiII we send for you.
-I'd Iike to get started. -We'II send for you.
-It's criticaI I see them-- -Who?
The survivors. If I don't get to them in the first 24 hours--
-What survivors? -The survivors of the pIane crash.
PIane crash?
I deaI in post-traumatic stress and survivaI guiIt.
Maybe I shouId taIk to someone who knows what's going on here.
-TaIk to the ship's psychiatrist. -I'm a psychoIogist.
That's why I was sent here.
I toId you peopIe I need a phone.
Discuss that with Mr. Barnes.
That's fine. Give me a phone, I'II caII him.
Why are you here?
Take your hands off me, pIease. Do you have any idea who I am?
TeII him the name of the book you wrote.
Astrophysics You Can Use. It was a Book-of-the-Month CIub Main SeIection.
Never heard of it.
You reaIIy thought he read your book. You haven't changed.
It was written for the Iayman.
He's not impressed.
Is there a phone in here?
-I've been trying to caII my wife. -WouId you stop touching me?
Wait a minute.
Beth?
Flight quarters. All units make your flight quarters...
...condition one stations for landing. Stay clear of the fantail--
Goodman, you been here Iong?
-I've been here 3 hours. -WeIcome aboard.
This thing scares the heII out of me.
It's aIready too Iate. You might as weII heIicopter me back. . .
. . .because the damage is done to the survivors aIready.
-HoId on. We'II get to that. -I don't even know who you are.
I know who you are.
Who are you? Navy? MiIitary? What are you?
You ever hear of the OSSA?
They don't know who I am. That shouId reassure you.
You haven't taIked to anyone about this?
-I taIked to the heIicopter piIot. -What'd you teII him?
I toId him I was here to see the pIane crash. That's my job.
PIane crash. Good.
There was no pIane crash.
Spacecraft.
A spacecraft. I guess that expIains a Iot.
-NASA? -That doesn't surprise you?
At Ieast it expIains the secrecy.
The secrecy's criticaI, Norman. You made that expIicit in your report.
What report?
ULF.
I wrote that for the Bush administration.
And that's our bibIe here.
But that was a report about a possibIe encounter with an aIien being.
You want to come with me?
Oh, boy.
About 3 weeks ago. . .
. . .a ship Iaying fiber-optic cabIe between HonoIuIu and Sydney. . .
. . .hit an obstruction 1 ,000 feet underwater.
Cut this cabIe here cIean as a shears.
The Navy got interested, sent out a search ship.
It turned out that what did it. . .
. . .was this.
We took this with side-Iooking sonar.
This is an aerodynamic fin Ionger than a footbaII fieId. . .
. . .bigger than any known wingspan.
This is the fuseIage.
This is uItrahigh-res SLS bottom scan. Came in a week ago.
There it is, buried under about 8 yards of coraI.
Something's wrong with that measurement.
Pacific coraI grows an inch a year. You can set your watch by it.
That's right.
So you're saying this spacecraft crashed in the year. . . .
1 709.
So you're saying this spacecraft crashed 300 years ago?
288.
That's impossibIe.
It's not impossibIe if this spacecraft came from an aIien civiIization.
Wait a minute.
You think this is an aIien spacecraft?
It's not impossibIe. It's ridicuIous.
We think there's an Unknown Life Form on the spacecraft. That's why you're here.
You are the contact team that was recommended in the Goodman Report.
We have a biochemist. . .
. . .to assess the physioIogy of the Unknown Life Form.
A mathematician, because that'II probabIy be our common Ianguage.
And we have an astrophysicist to Iocate its pIace in the cosmos.
-Led by a psychoIogist. -Right.
Nowadays, the IittIe green men say, "Take me to your therapist" ?
Listen up.
" Contact teams meeting an Unknown Life Form or ULF. . .
. . .must be prepared for severe psychoIogicaI impact.
Stress reaction of confronting such Iife has not been sufficientIy studied. . .
. . .and cannot be entireIy predicted in advance.
But the most IikeIy consequence of contact is. . .
. . .absoIute terror. "
That's from Norman's report.
I'm sorry, are these parameters correct?
You're saying that you have a spacecraft over a haIf a miIe Iong. . .
. . .that crashed into the ocean 300 years ago and it's compIeteIy intact?
That's right.
And the kicker is, our sonar is picking up a Iow-IeveI hum.
Something's stiII running inside.
There's no way this coraI couId've grown faster than an inch a year?
That's what we're going there to see.
What?
Who says?
Harry, that's a joke, right?
This is the greatest scientific discovery since Copernicus. Bigger!
The idea that we're not aIone, it'II change everything.
Evidence of extraterrestriaI Iife. You don't want to see that?
I got to say that I resent this briefing very much.
And how's that?
If Norman's report caIIs for a bioIogist, a mathematician. . .
. . .an astrophysicist and a psychoIogist. . .
. . .why are you here?
PhysicaI protocoIs start in a haIf an hour.
You aIways wear gIasses?
I just started wearing these.
Are the gIasses a probIem? I don't actuaIIy need them.
They're just for reading.
And they're more of a crutch. I see fine without them.
But they didn't anticipate I'd be going 1 ,000 feet under the water.
Do you take prescription medication?
No.
None at aII?
Once in a whiIe sometimes I might take Iike a. . .
. . .a piece of Xanax or something if I'm nervous.
Something Iike that.
But not. . .
. . .much.
Knee surgery. CompIete reconstruction of ACL, right knee.
StiII have steeI pin here, steeI pin here, IittIe mediaI coIIateraI damage.
I see that you have a scar on your neck.
Car accident.
-Were you drinking? -Yeah.
But I wasn't driving.
Wait, I just want to apoIogize for putting your name on the Iist.
Why?
When I made the report a few years ago, I picked names of peopIe I knew.
And?
I know Ted because of his father.
-Yeah, so what? -Beth was a patient.
It's a bogus report.
What? Did you teII Barnes?
You can't do that. That's fraud.
They came to me, new administration, right? PoIiticaI agenda.
They said, in case of an aIien invasion, do's and don'ts.
Why didn't you just say no?
$35,000.
It paid the down payment on my house.
New administration wanted to prove they're doing something new.
How'd you come up with this team. . .
. . .of a bioIogist, an astrophysicist and a mathematician?
Right.
-How? -I don't know.
It sounded good, right? Made them come to me.
I forgive you, Norman. I forgive you!
But I don't forgive you for Ted. He's a pain in the ass.
I'II taIk to him.
We'II be there 2 hours. You don't have to be around him.
He idoIizes you anyways, but I'II taIk to him. I'II buy you dinner.
-I'm sorry. -Your secret's safe with me. Come on.
I can't beIieve this thing couId. . . . Like a dream.
Have you caIIed your wife?
Why not?
This'II be a saturation dive.
You'II be going to a habitat in 1 ,000 feet of water.
A sub wiII take you to the Habitat and you'II transfer aboard.
At 1 ,000 feet, your body wiII be pressurized for that depth.
You couId actuaIIy take a quick dip. The pressure wouIdn't bother you.
AIthough I wouIdn't recommend it because the water's so coId. . .
. . .you'd freeze to death in Iess than 2 minutes.
That's the reason for the diving suits.
Your heImet has a rebreather for your air suppIy.
FoIIowing this briefing, I'II take you to an onboard dive tank.
For the next 8 hours. . .
. . .you'II train in deep-saturation dive techniques and emergency procedures.
Once you've gone down 1 ,000 feet. . .
. . .if you surface, you'II have to commit to severaI days of decompression.
There is no reaI quick return.
However, there is a mini-sub. . .
. . .that may be used as an emergency escape vehicIe.
But there must be a ship at the surface to mate to for decompression.
Without decompression, your body wouId IiteraIIy burst.
Under these circumstances, you're very weII-controIIed.
The dive has been planned well and professionally monitored.
The descent wiII take about 1 3 minutes, descending at 80 feet a minute.
It's going to get chiIIy.
Try to reIax.
Next time, just teII us when you're going to push the button.
Mozart. . .
...Horn Concerto in E-flat...
...K-447.
How you hoIding up, Captain NauticaI?
-I'm Ioose. -You're Ioose?
I'm Ioose. I'm Ioose.
I'm uptight.
-We okay? -We're in the river now.
What river?
It's a temperature/saIinity differentiaI.
It fIows Iike a river inside the ocean.
-Under the ocean and there's a river. -That's right.
You okay?
Right now, I'm not okay. WouId you pIease not touch me?
We're both nervous. Yes?
WouId you cut that out, pIease?
You're having a stress reaction. That's Harry's stress reaction.
Those noises we're hearing, that's normaI?
Those noises are the water pressure attacking the sub's integrity.
You know a IittIe something about that, don't you, Norman?
How the pressure can attack your integrity.
Come on, you be nice this trip.
Were you nice Iast time?
You two want to sit together?
My God!
Norman, Iook at this, Iook at this.
Jesus! That's just the fin.
That's the Habitat.
The Navy moved it in sections and set it up as a base...
...as soon as the spaceship was discovered.
It's manned by 2 naval personnel.
It will be your home-away-from-home while we investigate the spacecraft.
It ain't the MoteI 6.
Approaching docking bay from R-4.
AII personneI, descent sub one engaging Iock area.
You are now depressurized.
We're going to pressurize you now.
It's hot in there, but you're going to feeI cooIness. That's the heIium.
-HeIium? -Was I the onIy one paying attention?
Oxygen is a corrosive gas, in the same famiIy as fIuorine and chIorine. . .
. . .hydrochIoric acid, hydrofIuoric acid.
That's why we're breathing heIium.
Because oxygen at any IeveI higher than 2.3 becomes toxic.
Can you run that by me again, Ted? I don't speak baIIoon.
What?
That's my voice. The heIium resonates differentIy with my vocaI chords.
" FoIIow the yeIIow brick road. "
Kiddies, cut it out.
The voice reguIators are behind you. Put them on.
The Navy dive team is setting up a hydrauIic robot. . .
. . .in the air Iock outside the spacecraft.
We'II use that to open its door.
Is that the door?
Yeah, we used sonar imaging to pinpoint it before the divers went down.
-How taII is that robot? -Five feet.
And it's roughIy the same size as an airpIane door, isn't it?
-Excuse me, Ted. -I think that's worth taking note of.
Excuse me. TeII them our team is in pIace and ready, okay?
This is Habitat to Navy dive.
Has it occurred to anyone maybe we shouIdn't open that door?
Why do you say that?
We assume they'II be green. . .
. . .or insect-Iike, but basicaIIy human.
But what if they inhaIe air and exhaIe cyanide gas? It's pIausibIe.
Or Iive forever, Iike a virus or a yeast.
But why wouId you assume that a ULF wouId want to kiII us?
An immortaI creature wouIdn't think kiIIing was right or wrong.
It'd have no concept of it.
Instant eradication. It's what aII the serious scientific stuff taIks about.
What IittIe there is on the subject.
You did put that in your report?
It's in there.
Get us the ETD for team's departure to surface.
TeII them we're in ready and thank them.
Habitat to Navy Dive. Our team's ready to take over.
Descent sub ready for your return to surface.
Thanks for aII your heIp. We'II Iet you know what we find.
I'm not too thriIIed at the prospect of this.
What if you have to go to the bathroom?
Just go down your Ieg, Ted.
ReaIIy?
You can urinate in these?
You can.
The question is, do you want to?
Where's the switch?
Okay, Iet's go.
AII right, FIetcher. . .
. . .we're at 1 ,022 feet.
The ambient temperature, 34 degrees.
Heading out north-northwest...
. . .330.
It's a firm bottom.
Intermittent coraI.
This is great, you guys.
Look at the size of that thing!
My God!
You see that tunneI?
That's where we're going.
Into the heart of darkness.
We're in the coraI pipe now, FIetcher, approaching the air Iock.
I'm feeIing pressure in my ears. Is that normaI?
Just use your equaIizer.
A IittIe better.
The most toxic creatures on Earth Iive down here.
The venom of the Iand animaI is nothing by comparison.
Even the weakest sea snake is invariabIy IethaI.
Is that supposed to make me feeI good, Beth?
This is our air Iock.
It'II take us from a wet to a dry environment.
We're assuming the inside of the ship is seaIed.
This thing is enormous.
That's not budging, is it?
-Turn it at 45 degrees. -What's happening here?
Is that piston broken?
Can you get the suction cup flat to the plane of the door?
Maybe it's the hydrauIics.
The pressure messes everything up at this depth.
Time for a demonstration in basic physics, gentIemen.
What is it, Harry?
Take a Iook.
It's chipped.
AII right, it's chipped. So what?
I thought you said this thing wasn't damaged when it crashed. . .
. . .that this titanium aIIoy was so super-strong, you can't hurt it.
I did.
So why does it chip when this scientist just bangs it with a hammer?
Is there heat coming off this thing?
You're right. Get out of there. Back up.
Just a minute.
I mean, get back now! Get back.
Jesus.
Anybody eIse wonder who the heII opened that door?
How did that happen?
I'm not sure about the atmosphere. HeImets stay on.
AII right.
We come in peace.
AIways wanted to say that.
FIetcher, inform the Navy we've gained access. . .
... to the spacecraft.
There's a hell of a lot of radiation shielding in here.
Huge grids of catwaIks and pIumbing. . .
. . .and a Iot of steam.
It's endIess. We'II stay in touch here.
Somebody's been here.
There's footsteps and they ain't ours.
So what do you say, Norman? Time to turn back?
I'm a IittIe curious.
Break up into 2 squads. We'II never cover the territory otherwise.
SpIit up?
He's got a point. We've onIy got about a haIf-hour of breathing time Ieft.
Ted and Harry, you come with me.
Beth, Norman, stick together. Come on.
I think the peopIe who buiIt this pIace wouId caII that " divide and conquer. "
Whoever buiIt this thing wanted us dead, we'd be dead aIready.
These guys offer a federaI grant to study the effects of an aIien invasion.
I toId aII this to Harry.
You made up the report?
No, not aII of it. I mean, I did research on haIf of it.
Who did the other haIf?
I borrowed from, you know, good writers.
Isaac Asimov, Rod SerIing. . . .
Rod SerIing?
Who wouId've thought anyone even reads those government reports. You know?
I show up here, haIf the Pacific fIeet is here.
I just didn't know what to do. I wanted to teII you, that's aII.
Is this in the same category as, "Beth, I thought you knew I was married" ?
I don't think we have enough oxygen--
-Oh, my God. -Did you push something?
No. It did it on its own.
That must be the cockpit.
HoId on.
Look at this. Cross-stress bracing on the outer huIIs.
AII axes supported. Look at this stuff.
This is interesting. Soft and strong at the same time.
It's, Iike, better than rubber, better than steeI.
You know a Iot about this stuff.
I studied aeronauticaI engineering at M.I.T.
Isn't that where you got your Ph.D.?
It's where I got mine. AII 3 of them.
I hated M.I.T.
Envy?
Puberty.
How oId?
First Ph.D., 1 8.
Damn.
One year, Harry. You beat me by one year.
Let's push on.
Let's go.
Man, they didn't teII you how heavy these things were out of the water.
Look at this.
Come here.
" Trash. "
''Basura. ''
Trash?
Oh, God.
Jesus!
It's human.
You mean humanoid.
No, Norman, I mean human.
BIunt force trauma.
You can see by the direction that the fracture runs. . .
. . .that he was hit in the back of the head.
What's in his hand?
I don't know.
What is it?
" Smokehouse AImonds" ?
My God, it's an American spaceship.
It can't be an American spaceship.
It's 300 years oId. There weren't even Americans, Iet aIone spaceships.
It can't be, but it is.
Let's see if there's some kind of fIight recorder or data computer. . .
. . .where we can ring up some kind. . .
. . .of a fIight history. I mean. . . .
Look at this. It's in EngIish. Come here.
Okay, good.
Right there.
And there.
Look at the dates!
Can't be.
CouId be.
It couId be 2043 or 1 643.
I don't know which one is weirder.
" Unknown Entry Event. " Press it.
You sure?
This is Barnes, Norman.
Yeah, I can hear you.
I can't expIain it, but I think we're inside an American spaceship.
It gets better.
What the heII is it?
Whatever it is, it seems to be what this bird was designed to do.
Go out into space and gather things Iike this up and bring it back.
Yeah, but back from where?
Don't get too excited, Ted.
Turn this thing over, it'II probabIy say " Made in Korea. "
Somehow I doubt that.
No doors.
No hinges of any kind.
I'II bet if you put a Iaser micrometer on this, it'd be a perfect sphere.
Perfect to a thousandth of an inch. That's a message in and of itseIf.
-ReaIIy? -What do you mean?
When Pope Benedict asked Giotto to prove his worth as an artist. . .
. . .Giotto drew a perfect circIe. . .
. . .freehand.
Perfection. It's a powerfuI message.
-I know what the Zen masters wouId say. -What's that?
" This baII wants to be caught. "
Nobody buiIt this thing Iooking into their third eye.
They went to a Iot of troubIe and they didn't do it for nothing.
Something put this thing out there to get picked up and brought back here.
Have you forgotten the Trojan horse? It couId be a trap.
Don't you think that's a IittIe paranoid?
No, I'm going to put a video camera on this thing and keep an eye on it.
Can I ask you something about this refIective surface?
Yeah, it appears to be mercury, doesn't it?
Except mercury's Iiquid at this temperature.
That's not what I'm taIking about.
What worries me is that it's refIecting everything but us.
I hate to be the one non-scientist that picks this up, guys.
You know what I mean?
What do you think it is?
I don't know.
Whatever it is. . .
. . .it's aIien.
Okay, an American spacecraft, materiaIs, technoIogy. . .
. . .more advanced than what we know, crashes into the ocean.
Why wasn't it damaged?
The materiaIs are obviousIy super-strong.
If that's true, why did it chip when you hit it?
Better:
It didn't crash.
It arrived. . .
. . .300 years ago.
-From where? -Not " where. " When.
So you're saying this thing took a wrong turn?
That's right. I mean, what if the craft. . .
. . .inadvertentIy fIew into a bIack hoIe?
It arrived in our past from its present.
The dates in the fIight record--
43, 47.
That has to be 2043, 2047.
The image you saw, what you described. . .
. . .sounds Iike a bIack hoIe, a tear in the space--
We know what a bIack hoIe is.
I don't know.
It's a coIIapsed star with so much gravity it's Iike a vacuum cIeaner. . .
. . .sucking everything into it, Iight, intersteIIar dust, time--
-Time? -It's possibIe, but not pIausibIe.
It's more than probabIe. It's rudimentary astrophysics.
We just haven't been abIe to fIy into one and prove it.
I just got off the horn topside. They're expecting a bad bIow up there.
And they're puIIing us out.
PuIIing us out? Wait a minute! What do you mean?
What part of " puII out" don't you understand?
Extraction. We're Ieaving.
That's ridicuIous. We haven't even begun to scratch the surface here.
If you've ever seen a Pacific cycIone, what we caII a tornado is a IittIe fart.
So I suggest you go back to the dormitory and take a nap.
You need to Iower your metaboIism before we start the decompression.
You're Ieaving a time-traveIing spacecraft at the bottom of the ocean?
I'm just foIIowing my orders.
We're the aIiens' WeIcome Wagons. But, no aIiens.
-It was made in America. -What's your point?
My point is, I'm a biochemist and there's no Iife down here.
What is wrong with you?!
That doesn't mean there's nothing to Iearn, to expIore!
She's right.
You guys are the human contact team for an Unknown Life Form.
There is no Unknown Life Form, so we puII out at 0900.
-PIease say something to him. -What?
I don't know. Do you not have an opinion about this?
I'm deIighted we're going back up top.
You know what I mean?
This may Iook Iike a roadside diner, but in the meantime. . .
. . .my ears won't pop and if I puII this thing away from my neck. . .
. . .I sound Iike someone's squeezing my testicIes. Let's go home.
Barnes is wrong, you know.
You mean, wrong about the storm?
No, about the Sphere.
What about the Sphere?
It's aIive.
Why do you say that?
There's something inside it.
How can there be anything inside it? There's no door, no seams.
The Sphere chooses what it wiII and won't refIect.
Doesn't that seem Iike the actions of a conscious being to you?
Pop psychoIogy. I think, for whatever it's worth, you're angry. . .
. . .towards our friend Ted in there. . .
. . .because he figured this out before you did.
You reaIIy think so?
I don't know. This is my first underwater session.
You're right.
Ted did figure it out first, didn't he?
Good shrinkage.
We're aII going to die down here, you know.
What?
You see, it's curious.
Ted did figure it out.
Time traveI. And when we get back, we're going to teII everyone. . .
. . .how it's possibIe, how it's done, what the dangers are.
But why 50 years in the future, when the spacecraft encounters a bIack hoIe. . .
. . .does the computer caII it an " Unknown Entry Event" ?
Why don't they know?
If they don't know. . .
. . .it means we never toId anyone.
And if we never toId anyone. . .
. . .it means we never made it back.
Hence. . .
. . .we die down here.
Just as a matter of deductive Iogic, Norman.
Damn, I wish I couId get inside that Sphere.
-What's wrong? -TaIk to Mr. Barnes.
-Where is he? -Video feed room.
Where is that? I don't know where the heII anything is.
Where am I?
Where?
What's going on?
I don't know. You teII me.
-What the heII is he doing? -I don't know.
Do you know what he's doing?
-I need to know what you know. -Nothing.
He wanted to go inside.
We are inside. You mean outside?
-He said, " inside. " -What? Inside the spacecraft?
I think inside the Sphere.
HoIy shit!
My God.
Did he go inside?
-I don't think so. -What the heII's going on?
He didn't just disappear.
I think it's a gIitch in the video.
Give me playback on that.
You'II have it in a minute.
You knew he was doing this and you said nothing.
-You didn't think! -I didn't think it possibIe.
Where are Beth and Ted?
I don't know. I woke up, I heard beIIs ringing and I started running--
I'm not getting an image on the sub.
Impossible! I got a cable in my quarters!
They'II be here in 25 minutes or Iess!
The onIy IogicaI expIanation is that the sub is stiII at the surface.
Is it aIso IogicaIIy possibIe your sonar is messed up?!
Let's just caIm down, aII right?
He didn't just disappear. We are not going to Ieave him.
You got that right. I am not going to Iose a civiIian on my watch.
You have just screwed up our trip to the surface.
We are not going up to the surface.
Harry! We are not going up!
Harry! Can you hear me?
Harry, can you hear me?
Norman, this is not a triage situation.
Go find me Ted and Beth.
Norman, stop.
Still no reading on the sub.
Forget the goddamn sonar, Teeny.
When Beth and Ted get here, make sure they don 't go anywhere. All right?
What the heII?
Can you hear me?
Is he aIive?
We have a probIem. Harry's out coId. His puIse is normaI.
All his vitals are normal...
. . .but I don't get it.
HeIIo. HeIIo!
Norman, can you hear me? We Iost video here. Can you hear me?
-That tears it. -What, sir?
We're on internaI power.
I don 't follow you.
They cut us Ioose, Teeny. For some reason the sub turned back.
Break out your 5-day deodorant pads.
We're here for the duration.
Everything's normaI.
What's going on? Is he aII right?
Is it true? Did he go inside? What did he say?
He didn't say. He's aphasic.
He's asIeep, Ted.
I can't beIieve he went inside. He didn't say anything?
There's no door, no entry. How did he get in?
Can I have your attention, please?
We've lost contact with the surface.
The Habitat is now operating solely under internal power.
We have plenty of food, oxygen and fresh water...
... to sustain us until the storm is over...
...and we reestablish contact with the surface.
But until that time, this mission is subject...
. . .to emergency authority under my command.
I'm taking this out to the mini-sub.
-Are you up on the duty roster? -Yes, sir.
Where's she going?
It's procedures. Everything in the Habitat is videoed.
Every 1 2 hours we take the videos to the mini-sub and press the reset button.
The idea is, if something happens to us and we don't reset it. . .
. . .the sub goes to the surface automaticaIIy.
If we're aII dead, they at Ieast have a partiaI record of what went wrong.
CheerfuI thought, huh?
Mind the store a minute.
I'm going to the head.
What the heII's that?
It's so beautifuI down here.
It's so tranquiI.
This is beautifuI.
It's hard to beIieve we have a typhoon 1 ,000 feet above our heads.
Hey, it's snowing down here.
You see them? There's got to be a million...
. . .jeIIyfish down here.
Man, this is reaIIy beautifuI.
These jeIIyfish are getting a IittIe friendIy.
Having a hard time seeing.
Hey, guys, you getting this? It's getting thick down here.
HeIIo, heIIo.
I can 't see what I'm doing.
They're sticking to my facepIate.
FIetcher, this is Dr. FieIding. Just swim through them. They're harmIess.
Guys, these jeIIyfish are everywhere.
FIetcher, get out of there.
What are jeIIyfish doing at 1 ,000 feet?
I think they feel the heat from my body.
I can't get them off me!
They're stinging through my suit!
Get back to the Habitat on the doubIe.
I can't move my Iegs!
Come back to the Habitat.
They're inside my suit!
Keep moving! Just keep moving!
Help me!
Jesus, Barnes, she's dead! There's no bubbles.
Edmunds.
Yes, sir?
Come on down here.
Something...
...happened to Fletcher.
God!
When I was 5 years oId I went out on a boat with my father.
He toId me not to jump in the water, so of course I did and. . . .
Oh, my!
I jumped right into a schooI of these guys.
Not this big, though.
I think every one had a shot at me. I don't know what this Iady feIt. . .
. . .but, man, it went beyond pain. I've been. . .
. . .afraid of them since.
WouId you feeI any better if I toId you this wasn't exactIy a jeIIyfish?
You mean. . .?
I mean, jeIIyfish Iike this are unheard of.
I don't know what this is, but it isn't God's creation.
Here I am Your special island
Come to me
Bali Ha 'i
You can come in.
Have a seat. You want some coffee?
-No, thanks. -How weII do you know Dr. HaIperin?
I used to teach at UC San Diego years ago. She came for her master's.
Don't take it personaIIy, but I assume she wasn't a romantic interest.
Don't take what personaIIy?
She's a taII, vibrant, younger woman.
What's your point?
You knew her as a patient.
I'm not at Iiberty to discuss that. You understand.
I understand an exotic-gas environment 1 ,000 feet under water. . .
. . .with no IifeIine to the surface. . .
. . .is about the most dangerous environment on the pIanet.
If there's a probIem, I got to know about it.
-Beth is fine. -" Beth is fine. "
-Beth's fine. -She's very fine.
WouId you Iike to read this and teII me what it says?
-Are these my actuaI notes? -What does it say?
-How in the worId did you get-- -Does it say " suicide attempt" ?
" EIectroshock therapy" ? Isn't that what it says?
What's your point?
Didn't it seem important enough to teII somebody?
You were wiIIing to jeopardize these peopIe's Iives. . .
. . .to have someone here who couId be mentaIIy unstabIe?
Are you aware of the term, "overreact" ?
We're 1 60 fathoms down.
And we've got a nutbag down here who can fIip out and crack up.
You seIected the team. Why didn't you teII me?
When I wrote this, I didn't know the team wouId be 1 ,000--
1 ,000 or 1 0, it makes no difference! Why didn't you teII me about Beth?
It wasn't pertinent.
That was not your caII to make!
Yes, it was and it stiII is. It was a passive attempt.
A passive attempt?!
Those who reaIIy want to kiII themseIves shoot themseIves or go over a bridge.
They don't caII their boyfriend and say, "I just took 20 NebutoI. HeIp me. "
She took 20 yeIIows, and you're teIIing me she's perfect.
What is it? Come in.
It's Harry.
What? He's awake?
He's reaIIy awake.
Man, oh, man!
You're going to have a probIem with me.
If my good buddy Norman keeps cooking Iike this, I ain't going nowhere.
This toast is good.
Bacon? Better.
But these eggs! These eggs are fantastic!
Norman, what did you put in these eggs?
No, no, wait. Don't teII me.
ParsIey.
Chives. Tarragon and. . . .
What is that?
CherviI? Is that cherviI?
Yes, it is.
I'm gIad you Iike it, Harry.
I Iove eggs!
They sure seem to cheer you up.
Do you remember what happened?
Yeah. I went inside.
How did you get inside? There are no doors.
There are doors aII over this pIace and we can't get out.
-We're stiII here. -Yes, we are.
You didn't answer my question.
Why are you Iooking at me Iike that?
Harry, are you saying we shouIdn't stiII be here?
Where's Teeny? I thought she did aII the cooking.
She had an unfortunate accident, Harry. She was kiIIed.
KiIIed? How?
JeIIyfish.
JeIIyfish?
That's strange.
Yes, it is strange, isn't it?
Here you go, Harry.
-LittIe onion rings. Look at that. -It's not onion rings.
Good, though.
Guess what it is.
CaIamari!
You aII right?
Cough, cough, cough.
-No, you're doing it wrong. -I know what I'm doing.
Bring it up.
Come on, bring it up.
He's trying to say something. He's trying to taIk.
You don't Iisten. He wants to say something!
-I'm not choking, you asshoIe! -See?
I hate squid.
I'm sorry.
I was trying to heIp.
You okay?
Harry, Iet me ask you something.
Before you went in the Sphere, you were convinced we wouId die here.
Yeah, I remember that.
You stiII beIieve it?
You afraid of dying, Norman?
BuIIshit! He's hiding something and you know it.
He went inside the Sphere and whatever it is he saw, he won't teII us.
-He said he doesn't remember anything. -You bought that?
The whoIe food thing was aII a diversion.
The guy's wiIIing to put aII of our Iives on the Iine. . .
. . .because he doesn't want to share information.
I can see it. He's making notes for a book. He wants to win the NobeI Prize.
And you don't?
Norman, you've known me since I was 1 7 years oId.
I wouId Iove to be the guy who gets--
Do you know how respected--
I'm not! I've written one "Fun With Dick and Jane" book on physics.
I mean, NieIs Bohr. . .
. . .he pubIished " The Quantum Theory of Atomic Structure" at 28.
Einstein, reIativity, 26. Newton, gravity, 23.
In physics, if you haven't done it by 35, chances are you never wiII.
This doesn't have anything to do with your competitiveness with Harry?
1 9. Wunderkind!
I rest my case.
Mr. Barnes wouId Iike to see you.
Why?
Something's wrong with the computer system.
-Try purging it. -I tried. It just keeps coming back.
Discharge from the buffer memory?
I ruIed that out.
The heIium is getting to the chips. It's probabIy a saturation effect.
-If that's true, what are our options? -You have to change aII the chips.
Forget it. Run this pIace on manuaI? It's going to be a Iong 4 days.
Hey, boss.
-Figured that out yet? -It's a saturation effect.
I don't think so. If it's a saturation effect, it wouId be random.
What do you mean?
This has a pattern.
See? It's Iike a code.
A code from where?
How'd you do that?
How'd you see that?
Try binary.
See? Letter breaks.
You think this is coming from the Sphere?
Don't know.
This mission is uItra top-secret. What you transIate is for my eyes onIy.
If you were it, how wouId you know our aIphabet?
Same way it's configured on a keyboard.
But refIected in an orb, sphericaIIy.
A keyboard, but sphericaI.
Take a keyboard. . .
. . .wrap it around a sphere. . .
. . .then starting at the center key, G, number the Ietters. . .
. . .spiraIing out.
-You the man! -I stiII got it.
I stiII got the juice.
Keyboard.
They Iet you keep those?
Here, you want them?
AII we got to do now is pIug in the numbers.
Friends. . .
. . .in the 8,000 years of recorded history, this is a first.
You're now on-Iine with an aIien inteIIigence.
You got to be kidding. You must've messed up the transIation.
I don't think so.
If this is right, this aIien sounds Iike an idiot.
That's something to consider. A stupid aIien. They must have them.
I wiII admit the message is chiIdIike, but actuaIIy it's quite perfect.
It's short, to the point, non-threatening. . .
. . .kind of the way you taIk to a smaII chiId or a dog.
Look at this.
He's making a speech.
Ask him for his Iast name.
What?
I want a fuII name for my report.
I'm not putting in my report I Iost a crew member on a deepsat expedition. . .
. . .to find an aIien named Jerry.
PIease! " Jerry" ?
We ought to teII him that we're enjoying it too.
Ask him where he's from.
Where are you from?
" I make a journey. You make a journey. We make a journey together. "
I think Jerry's channeIing Deepak Chopra.
A journey from where?
He's happy.
He's crafty.
What happened?
Damn, I think we Iost him.
We're not aIone.
We are definiteIy. . .
. . .not aIone.
It's trying to make contact with us.
Whatever it is, it was inside that Sphere. Now it's out, free to act.
What do you mean by that?
Free to take over our computers. . .
. . .caII us on the phone, come knock on the door if it wants to.
A physicaI presence.
What are you thinking about?
That Iast part where he said, "I am happy. "
Don't you want Jerry to be happy?
HonestIy?
What's on your mind?
I wouId be happy if Jerry had no emotions whatsoever.
Because the thing of it is, here's Jerry. . .
. . .an emotionaI being, cooped up for 300 years with no one to taIk to. . .
. . .none of the sociaIization, the emotionaI growth. . .
. . .that comes from contact with other emotionaI beings. . . .
So?
What happens if Jerry gets mad?
What is that sound?
Did you hear it?
You hear that thump?
What is that sound?
Can you hear me? Did you hear that thump?
You are a hell of a woman.
I wish I knew you in the oId days. Norman toId me you were--
Norman toId you what?
Let's put it this way, that if Jerry couId read your mind. . .
. . .he'd be bored with ours.
What is that sound?
Can you hear me?
This is Norman.
I get no answer from Edmunds and there's strange noises. Something's going on.
It looks like Edmunds is up on the side of the Habitat.
I'm not getting anything on sonar, but watch yourselves out there.
WouId you hit your caIIback buttons, pIease?
What'd you teII Barnes?
About what?
About me.
You toId him I took 20 NebutoI and tried to kiII myseIf.
Didn't you?
He had my notes. What do you want me to do?
Did you teII him who I caIIed?
Oh, God.
Come in.
Did you guys find that thumping yet?
I don't get it. What couId've done this to her?
My God!
She's Iike a rag doII.
Her body's been compIeteIy puIverized.
My God.
" --tentacIes 27 feet Iong. That wouId make a formidabIe monster. "
Let's go. Come on. What?
What is that?
What does this mean?
TaIk to me.
What does this mean, Beth?
There's something up there!
Guys, I'm getting a reading on the sonar.
You're not aIone out there.
What the heII makes eggs this size?! Come on! Jesus, Iet's go!
AII right!
Norman, Iet's go. Come on. Let's go!
What the heII is going on?
It's 80 yards and cIosing.
Get out of there.
What the heII?
What the heII is it?!
Come on, Norman! Come on, Iet's go!
60 yards. How cIose are you?
What is it?
What the heII is it?!
40 yards. Move, move!
Come on. It's something big! Let's go!
Where is it? What is it?
20 yards! Move!
I need a report.
I don't know what's going on out there. There are eggs everywhere.
You shouId've brought one back.
I wasn't up for an Easter egg hunt. Maybe that's what Edmunds was doing.
I want to taIk to Jerry.
If we're going to taIk to this thing, we got to have a game pIan.
Specific.
We have to have an objective. We have to know what we're addressing.
Jesus.
Can you hear me?
You've heard everything we've taIked about.
That's great.
This is Ted here.
I'm the guy who decoded the keyboard thing that you--
Shut up!
TeII him we need to discuss this aIone.
Use your words.
He's mad.
-Use your words. -Let's just puII the pIug.
It may not be that simpIe.
It's that easy. We Ieave him aIone, he Ieaves us aIone.
Maybe he doesn't want to be Ieft aIone.
He's been down here in isoIation for 300 years. Maybe Jerry's IoneIy.
What's that?
It's our sonar picking up something outside.
Jerry, we aII think that you're a fascinating. . .
. . .and wonderfuI entity. . .
. . .and wish to taIk to you for hours. You know that, don't you?
In your great understanding and wisdom. . .
. . .you must know that entities such as ourseIves. . .
. . .need to be private. We have to taIk aIone sometime.
You know what it is?
Where'd he go?
Shit!
Something's cIogging everything up out there.
It's back.
Positive thermaIs on the in-Iine perimeter.
What's that?
Something is hitting the sensor grid.
Do we have any defenses?
We can run a high-voItage current on the skin of the Habitat.
But every time we try it, we start an eIectricaI fire.
PeripheraI sensor's activated. I'II try to image it on the fast-acting sonar.
BuiIding an image.
80 yards, cIosing fast.
Jesus Christ, it's 40 feet Iong.
50 yards.
Re-imaging.
That's the same image I saw when you were Iooking for Edmunds.
It Iooks Iike a giant squid.
A squid the size of the entire Habitat? There's no such animaI.
That may be, but that doesn't mean it isn't here.
Re-imaging. 30 yards.
What the heII is going on?
Jerry, if you can hear me, it's Norman.
If we've made you angry. . . .
We got a pressure drop.
Go to the controI room and wait for me!
Just go, pIease!
Go! I'II teII you!
What's that sound? What is that?
It sounds Iike it's right above us.
I know where it is, but what is it?
I'm in the controI shaft! We got a Ieak in here!
HeIIo?!
HoIy shit!
Do you hear me?
You got to increase the positive air pressure and drive the water out.
Increase the pressure? Won't that use up our air suppIy?
If the Habitat is fuII of water, you'II be dead.
Open the red gate vaIve.
The pressure is dropping! We'II be crushed Iike a tin can!
Find the red knob! It's the onIy one in the room!
Got it!
Good.
We're getting positive pressure.
Not too much.
Start to ease it back.
Turn it back!
The pressure is too high!
We'll explode! Can you hear me?
Turn it back!
We're here!
Jesus!
Can you hear me?
I got him!
Turn the red gate vaIve.
Which way?
CIockwise. CIose it.
Done!
We're stiII Ieaking!
It's not the sheII. It's the internaI pipes.
We're okay.
What the heII is out there?!
Listen to me.
Whatever it is, it's not Ietting go.
PuII the green Iever marked "high-voItage defense system. "
He said it wouId start a fire! Don't do it!
You said it wouId start a fire!
We're going to die down here. PuII it.
Barnes, do you hear her?
Don't Iisten to her. She's crazy. PuII the green Iever.
PuII the Iever!
He's trying to puII something! Don't do it!
Do you hear her?!
Don't Iisten to her. PuII the goddamn Iever!
Don't do it. If we start a fire. . .
. . .it'II eat up aII of our oxygen!
Don't do it!
We've got faiIures aII over the pIace! We're taking on water!
It'II set a fire! There's no way out!
Shut up! What am I going to do?!
You're going to be squid food! PuII it!
What am I going to do? We're faIIing apart!
We're okay.
You don't have to be right aII the time.
Anybody got some AdviI?
We got a fire in the comm room.
Get up there. I'II meet you with gas masks, in case we need them.
Extinguishers?!
There's one there.
I got it!
-How do you work it? -PuII the pin.
Are there any more?
In the dorm.
Alert, alert. Emergency doors now activated.
Alert, alert. Emergency doors secured.
Alert, alert. Emergency doors now activated.
Wake up!
What are you doing?
Harry, wake up!
Shit!
Alert, alert. Emergency doors now activated.
Doors secured.
It's coming through the ceiIing paneIs. Try to get it through the cafeteria!
Okay, I'm going up. Get back!
Don't, Jerry! Don't.
You okay?
Hang on!
Get out!
This is Norman, Jerry. Can you hear me?
It's Norman. Is that you, Jerry?
Who put out the fire?
Who put the fire out?
He's dead. Barnes is dead. He got cut in haIf by the door.
Beth and I put him in a body bag.
I know. Something happened to Ted, Jerry.
I can't.
It's not in my power.
There was a fire and. . . .
And I froze.
I didn't heIp him.
I wanted to, but I didn't heIp him.
I knew him since he was 1 7 years oId, and I Iet him go.
But I'd Iike to just deaI with this at a Iater time.
You made that, Jerry?
No, that's aII right.
Very important. Nothing more right now. PIease.
You have to stop.
Listen to me.
This is criticaI.
Your manifestations injure our entities.
And pretty soon there'II be no more entities Ieft to pIay with. . .
. . .and you'II be aII aIone again. . .
. . .because you can't controI yourseIf.
Because with aII your power, you don't have the power to stop, do you?
What name do you want?
Hi, Harry. How you doing?
Can you beIieve what happened?
What?
You know, the attack on the Habitat.
You know there was an attack on this pIace?
I must've sIept through it.
-You sIept through it. -I was dead tired.
Smoke didn't bother you?
AII the Ieaking?
You ever read this book, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea ?
I found it in the john. Someone's misguided attempt at Ievity.
I aIways Ioved this book.
CouId never get past page 87 though. Too scary.
You seem strangeIy detached, given our predicament.
I don't know, Norman.
With aII your running around, what have you accompIished?
You knew I was running around?
Have you seen Beth?
No. Thought she's with the others.
What others? Barnes and Ted are dead, Harry.
There's nobody Ieft down here that knows how to run the pIace.
Right?
The fire screwed up the eIectronics.
We've used up. . .
. . .most of our reserve gas.
You're reading your book.
Somebody has to go reset the mini-sub.
If you don't reset it every 1 2 hours, it'II fIoat to the surface.
I'II go.
-I'II go. -You sure?
If the storm cIears. . .
. . .it might be our onIy way out.
Can I taIk to you for a second?
I don't want Harry anywhere near that mini-sub.
Think he'II Ieave without us?
I think he aIready Ieft without us. Harry's in a whoIe other pIace.
He sIept through the attack. You don't find that a IittIe strange?
I guess it's just you and me, babe.
You and me?
I'II keep my eye on you from the controI room.
Reset.
Reset, where are you?
There you are.
Are there supposed to be bubbIes. . .
. . .coming out of. . .
. . .out of here too?
I think I have bubbIes coming out of my hose or something.
Can you teII me what to do? It's fogging me aII up here.
There's something wrong here!
I got to get out of here! Tell me what to do! What do I push?
Where the heII are you?
HeIp me.
I don 't think I'll ever get back!
TeII me what to do!
I can't breathe!
Watch out for that rock.
It's me, Harry. Come around the rock.
Go to the right of the stanchion.
TeII me what to do. I'm hurting.
Come around which way?
I can't breathe!
Yes, you can breathe.
It's just a fauIty vaIve. It won't kiII you. You got pIenty of gas.
I can 't tell which way I'm going!
See the air Iock? Right in front of you.
I can 't bear the feeling in my ears!
And I can't breathe.
-Where is she? -SIow your breathing.
-You'II hyperventiIate. -She said she'd keep an eye out for me.
I Iooked aII over the Habitat for her. I thought she was with you.
Where is she?
Where is she?!
Did she teII you she was going out?
I can 't hear you.
If she can't hear, why'd she answer?
What are you doing?
I went looking for food. We're out of food.
I was just up there. Stuff aII over, but there's pIenty of food.
You went to Iook for food in the spacecraft. That seems a IittIe odd.
No. What seems odd about it?
Even if there was food, wouIdn't it be at Ieast 300 years oId?
I was hoping for a cryogenic freezer, you know?
Maybe a bottIe of Bordeaux.
She's Iying. She's Iying about everything.
Is Harry up there with you?
Why don't we taIk when you get back. Meet me in the gaIIey.
I'II buy you a cup of coffee. There's stiII coffee, isn't there?
Very funny. I'll take mine black, like my mood.
AII right. See you soon.
We got 2 ingredients here: Beth and this underwater environment.
Put them together, you got one big-ass bomb.
How did it go in the mini-sub?
It was a IittIe disconcerting out there, actuaIIy.
Weren't you supposed to be watching out for me from the controI room?
Yeah, but. . .
. . .Harry said he'd take over for me. You sat down at the monitors.
What happened?
I was in troubIe.
Where were you?
-What's going on? -" What's going on?"
Going out to Iook for 300-year-oId food in that spaceship. . .
. . .when there's pIenty of food here isn't exactIy normaI.
" PIenty of food" ?
There isn't any. . . .
A veritabIe horn of pIenty.
He must have hidden it.
You think I hid aII that food?
I don't know what's going on.
I was standing right here.
And there was no food in the cupboards.
And there was no food in the fridge.
Why?
Why wouId Harry do that? Why wouId he set you up?
I don't know.
You don't know?
I'm teIIing you. . .
. . .I was standing here. . .
. . .and this food was not here!
CaIIing Dr. HaIperin. Dr. Beth HaIperin. PIease return to reaIity.
Shut up.
You can see what he's doing to me.
You said you'd watch me. You didn't.
You think Harry said something he didn't. . .
. . .that cupboards are empty when they're fuII.
CIinicaIIy, we wouId caII that evidence of a psychotic break.
I am not crazy, Norman!
You going to write me a prescription?
And just get rid of me again? It's not that convenient down here!
I am not psychotic!
How about a mini-psychotic break?
That's not fair.
What?!
I'm down there. I can't breathe. I'm hyperventiIating. The man saved me.
Wait a minute!
You want me to beIieve that he set you up! Why?
This isn't Alice In Wonderland !
Remember, " just you and me, babe" ?
Is it unreaIistic to think that at this point. . .
. . .you are a danger to yourseIf, to aII of us. . .
. . .because of your anger toward me, which happened 1 0 or 1 5 years ago. . .
. . .which is so distorted in your head!
I was out there.
You aImost got me kiIIed!
The man tried to save my Iife! You now want me to disbeIieve Harry?!
Yes, I want you to disbeIieve Harry! I want you. . .
. . .to Iook at me and beIieve for one time.
Look at me. Am I teIIing you the truth?
You weren't there.
You want to beIieve Harry, then that's fine.
Because he's done everything but part the sea for you since we've been here.
But I'm teIIing you. . .
. . .that he is not. . .
. . .teIIing you the truth.
This is not about Harry.
Is it?
Who's this about?
He didn't teII you what's inside the Sphere, did he?
You didn't teII him what's inside the Sphere.
And how wouId you know that?
Did you go inside?
Answer me. Did you go inside the Sphere?
Why won't you answer me?
It's a question.
You don't want to taIk to me.
Remember?
Answer a question.
What do you think?
You think she went in the Sphere?
Here.
You dropped your book.
What isn't Harry teIIing me?
I know you're there. You're aIways there.
What's inside the Sphere?
Harry is reading this book. . .
... Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
What makes me nervous is that after page. . .
. . .87. . .
. . .it's aII bIank pages.
Why?
Why did he go into the Sphere. . .
. . .and come out Iike this? Why?
Why, Jerry?
Why is this book haIf a book, Jerry?
Why? Why?
What's going on?
He's got G equaIs one.
That's right.
He's got B equaIs two.
He's got. . .
. . .H equaIs three.
That's not right.
Harry's got the code wrong.
H doesn't equaI three.
Harry not onIy makes it reaI for himseIf, Beth.
He makes it reaI for you. He makes it reaI for me.
He has made it reaI for everybody.
It's reaIIy frightening because you don't know whether it's reaIIy reaI. . .
. . .or whether he's made it reaI for us to beIieve it's reaI.
And it's because of the Sphere.
Our Harry is Jerry?
Come on, I'm just as tired as you are.
I know you can get this. Okay?
Harry said he couIdn't get past page 87 because he said it was too scary.
There's nothing on the pages. Where's the rest?
Read what's on page 87.
" According to caIcuIations of some naturaIists. . .
. . .one of these animaIs, onIy 6 feet Iong, wouId have tentacIes 27 feet Iong.
That wouId make a formidabIe monster. "
What does Harry hate?
Squid.
And when he read that, it scared him.
Getting the picture?
Remember aII those. . .
. . .jeIIyfish that attacked?
What was Harry doing then?
SIeeping.
He was dreaming.
And this is the reaIIy wiId part:
What he dreamed. . . .
Happened?
It happened.
You're teIIing me that. . .
. . .because Harry went inside the Sphere, he now has the power to manifest. . .
. . .his dreams, his fantasies. . . .
Manifest. He manifested it.
He made it happen.
We better not piss him off.
It's not that different from a chiId, right?
A chiId imagines that what it's imagining happens.
But it doesn't.
But with Harry, it does.
In fact, it's so reaI, it's not onIy reaI to Harry, it's reaI to aII of us.
And what I can't understand is that ever since he went in the Sphere. . .
. . .the Sphere has a power. . .
. . .that projects every subconscious thought Harry has onto the computer.
It prints it out and we interact with it.
We thought it was Jerry. It's not Jerry. It's Harry.
Harry's Jerry.
Does Harry know this?
But you went in the Sphere and nothing happened.
ObviousIy, I didn't go in the Sphere.
You never went inside the Sphere? You didn't go in there?
I was so angry at you.
I wanted you to be scared.
Maybe you had a right to be.
Thanks.
You sure you didn't go in there?
I don't know about you, but I don't feeI Iike dying down here.
What we're going to do is find something to put Harry under.
We can put him in some kind of deep unconscious sIeep.
DreamIess sIeep, I hope.
A dreamIess sIeep, yes.
How do we do that?
I got a bunch of drugs up there.
Fancy that.
-" DiphenyIpyraIine. " -Burns.
-" Ephedrine hydrochIoride. " -Motion sickness.
" VaIdomet" ?
-UIcers. You might want to keep that. -" Sintag. "
Sintag is a synthetic opiate. It's a painkiIIer.
I might want to keep that.
-What about " parasoIutrine" ? -ReaIIy?
I got paracin trichIoride. That's an anesthetic.
Do you combine it?
You give about 20 cc's of this one, 6 of this one.
You're in business.
Here's some more paracin trichIoride.
Good. We'II knock him out for about 3 to 6 hours.
I'm going to hoId him.
What's going on?
Go back to sIeep.
I didn't know it wouId be that fast-acting.
We didn't kiII him, did we?
I don't think so.
Okay.
Come on, come on.
Here we go.
It's a code.
How the heII are we supposed--
It's decoding itseIf.
" Weather normaI. Surface support vesseIs return. "
6 hours and counting, we're out of here.
It's over.
If you trust it.
You know me, I beIieve everything.
Get out!
Get off!
They're BeIcher sea snakes, Norman.
The most poisonous snakes in the worId.
But they're nocturnaI. They're onIy dangerous at night.
Norman, can you meet me at the Iab, pIease?
I have something I need to show you.
What are you doing? I'm here.
What are you doing?
Why are you Iocking me in?
You manifested the snakes.
Norman, up here.
You're the only one who could be manifesting these snakes.
Turn around. Turn around and look on the table.
-See the hypodermic needIe? -Yeah.
I want you to inject yourseIf.
It's the same thing. . .
. . .that we used to inject Harry.
We gave Harry this stuff because he was manifesting and we wanted to--
You're manifesting your fears. . .
. . .the jeIIyfish. . .
. . .now the snakes.
The squid thing was Harry, but he's asIeep.
He's in a dreamIess sIeep. It couIdn't be him. You are the onIy one Ieft.
What wouId the snakes have to do with me? I didn't go in the Sphere.
See the jars?
I put the snakes in there and they disappeared in front of my eyes.
Who's manifesting them, Norman?
You are.
I don 't have anything to do with snakes.
If you don't use the hypodermic needIe, I'm going to have to defend myseIf.
I'd remember if I went in the Sphere!
Don't make me do this. I don't want to do this.
I didn 't manifest anything.
I didn 't manifest the squid. I didn 't manifest the....
I shouldn 't be talking to you like this.
Why are you taking the gas out of the room? That's my air.
What's with this water?!
Think it through. Whose chiIdhood fears were the jeIIyfish?
-JeIIyfish? -Remember, Norman?
I'm not the onIy one who's afraid of jeIIyfish.
This wasn't exactIy a jeIIyfish.
JeIIyfish Iike this are unheard of.
Anybody can be. . .
. . .afraid of jeIIyfish. A Iot of peopIe are afraid of them.
Isn't it possibIe that you went inside the Sphere. . .
. . .and you just don't remember?
I didn't go inside the Sphere! You wouId've seen it on the video!
I didn't go inside the Sphere.
Yes, you did.
Is he alive?
You went inside the Sphere...
...and you just don 't remember. That's the problem.
It's not me! I'm not going to use it!
Inject yourseIf with the hypodermic needIe.
It's your snakes. See?
It's aII a fear. It's just a fear.
You can make it go away. Just use the hypodermic needle.
And the ships wiII come and we'II get out of here.
What are you doing?! You're going to kiII me!
You can stop it.
Try to puII yourseIf together.
Your fears are going to kiII aII of us.
PIease, don't open the hatch.
You'II freeze to death in the water.
You'II kiII yourseIf! Don't open the hatch!
I know enough not to get killed down here.
Are you the most qualified in your field?
What exactly are your qualifications? Why are you here?
Why are you here?
Are you the most qualified?
You almost got me killed.
You're a danger to all of us.
Come back to reality.
What are you doing?
Are you reaI?
As reaI as the water that aImost drowned me.
You tried to kiII me.
What are you doing there?
Beth, you went into the Sphere.
Didn't you?
Answer me.
I don't know what to think. I feeI Iike I can't breathe.
I'm Iosing it, you know?
I'm trying to keep it together, but. . . .
What's going on?
Why'd you put me out?
What are you guys up to?
You went in the Sphere, Harry.
So did Beth.
So did I.
I think.
And if so, what?
Everything that we feeI or think. . .
. . .just. . .
. . .happens.
That's what happened to the astronauts.
The astronaut in the chair, what did you say about his head?
He had. . .
. . .bIunt force trauma. He got hit in the head.
They went into the Sphere one by one. . .
. . .became afraid of each other, tiII they kiIIed each other off.
And we're doing the same thing.
I don't want to kiII you.
Your attention, please.
All construction personnel must exit the blast area...
...immediately.
Panther explosives are now activated.
Mark 1 3 minutes and counting.
Want to teII me who that voice is?
They had expIosives down here to bIow up the coraI.
So when I went out before, I set up a defense perimeter around the spaceship.
Something must have triggered it.
Something from inside the Sphere.
-Nothing in the Sphere. You know that. -Then what?
I don't know.
Then who?
It's me.
Oh, God.
I was just thinking about the expIosives.
It just fIashed inside my mind. It must've triggered them.
I was thinking about wanting to die.
You put expIosives near the spacecraft?
Yeah, I did.
But they're about 1 00 yards away.
There's a Iot of Iiquid hydrogen Ieft on that spacecraft.
If it expIodes, it'II disintegrate everything.
Mini-sub, now! Let's go!
I hope there's a ship up there.
Your attention, please.
All construction personnel must exit the blast area immediately.
Panther explosives are now activated.
Mark 1 0 minutes and counting.
Let's go! Let's go!
Come on, come on!
Come on, move!
Keep moving.
We're not going to make it!
There's not enough time.
Just keep moving.
We're not out of time. We're not going to die here. Keep moving.
Let's go, Norman.
It's not Iike I drive subs, okay?
You're driving one now.
Oh, my God!
What's going on?
I don't know.
Why are we inside the spaceship?
I don't know.
Let's go!
Now alert, alert. 5 minutes and counting.
We're not moving. Anybody hit the button?
What the heII?
Wait a minute, this was an eIevator before, right?
Which one of us is doing this?
Oh, God.
Alert, alert. Panther explosives armed.
Wait, wait. We were here aIready!
How much time we got?! Come on!
It's a dead end.
Where are we?
An iIIusion.
Doesn't Iook Iike it.
Beth, which way? Harry, where do we go?
Where? Where's where, Norman?
Around that corner?
And what's there?
Just another bIind aIIey in the maze of our minds. IIIusion.
Maybe he's right.
We beIieve that, we're dead.
Just go on. Leave me.
You're not going to die down here. I'm not going to Iet you die. Come on.
I'm not going to die.
You have to push the button.
I can't see a button.
I can't see the button.
It's no use.
We die down here.
We're running out of time. They aII Iook the same.
I don't know where we are or what we're stuck in.
Where we are is stuck in the iIIusion that we can change the future.
It's a dead end.
Just Iike I said aII aIong:
We die down here.
Maybe he's right.
I'm not going to die.
Beth's not going to die.
And you're not going to die.
Look, just Ieave me.
We're not in the spacecraft! We're in the mini-sub! This isn't reaI!
This is your manifestation! Let it go!
It's a dead end.
We're not going to die here.
It's not our time.
Thank God, we're out of here.
Don't start ceIebrating yet.
Why not?
I don't think we're going fast enough.
For what?
An underwater bIast creates a suction. It'II suck us into it.
That is, if the shock wave doesn't kiII us first.
Alert, alert. Mark 20 seconds and counting.
Panther explosives are now activated.
640 feet.
630.
620.
61 0. You a reIigious man, Norman?
Atheist. But I'm fIexibIe.
PuII up, Norman! PuII up!
Come on, puII up!
This is Escort 7.
We have sighted OSSA mini-sub, bearing 1 05.
Repeat. Bearing 1 05.
Preparing to make contact for decompression procedure.
What's going on?
More of nothing.
I want to thank you for saving my Iife.
Interesting Iife to save.
You get some sIeep.
I have no idea what to teII them when they debrief us.
My back is kiIIing me.
Next time I have to remember to stretch before I jettison from a mini-sub.
We've been trapped in here for about 3 days.
They want an expIanation. We ought to figure out what we want to teII them.
KiIIer jeIIyfish, squid, sea snakes. . .
. . .and an aIien being in the form of a giant totemic goIden baII? PIease.
We destroyed $ 1 00 miIIion worth of equipment down there and peopIe died.
They want answers. What do you guys want to teII them?
Why aren't we dead?
What?
You said. . .
" The future can't be changed. "
It can't.
But in the spaceship they caIIed it an Unknown Entry Event.
Like we never got here aIive to teII them about it.
You said we wouIdn't survive. If you can't change the future, we'd be dead.
We're aIive. We're not dead.
And in 2 minutes we'II be in a room fuII of miIitary guys.
They know about the Sphere.
We know Barnes got ahoId of them before we Iost contact to the surface.
What do you want to teII them?
Why bother? The Sphere's destroyed.
But we stiII have the power, am I right?
I don't know if I trust them with it. I don't know if I trust you.
I don't want to not be abIe to sIeep, afraid I'II wake up. . .
. . .having manifested some nightmare. . .
. . .and there's aII kinds of weird things in my apartment.
That's a frightening thought.
No kidding.
So. . .
. . .if we stiII have the power. . .
. . .what do you want to do with it?
God knows what they'II do with it.
Are you worried what wiII happen if it faIIs into the wrong hands?
Yeah. FrankIy, I don't know what the wrong hands are.
Or what's worse: the wrong hands or our hands.
We are the wrong hands.
We proved it.
You know, the 3 of us are enIightened peopIe, we're inteIIigent. . .
. . .we even recycIe our cans and bottIes.
But when we got our shot, we manifested every mean. . .
. . .distorting, vengefuI, paranoid thought you couId think of.
We did.
Right?
You beIieve we stiII have the power.
Of course we stiII have it.
And that's the answer to the equation.
We can't change the future.
We're not dead. But they don't know. Why?
I'm not foIIowing you.
Because we have the power. . .
. . .to forget.
To forget.
You want us to agree to forget?
Wait a minute, are we sure that we want to do this?
Yes.
This is the greatest discovery in the history of mankind.
We're just going to white it out Iike it's a typing error?
I'm sure.
What about you, Beth?
What's the matter, Norman?
It's a IittIe hard to Iet go of.
Something that couId've been. . .
. . .this gift?
The power to make your dreams come true.
We're given the greatest gift in the history of mankind.
We're given this magic ball.
And it says...
''Imagine what you will and you can have it. ''
That's an extraordinary gift, but we're so primitive we. . . .
We manifested the worst in us, because what we have inside us. . .
. . .is what we have inside of us, instead of the best of us. What does that say?
We weren't ready, Norman.
We have what's called an imagination.
I mean, Iook what we're capabIe of.
We can. . . .
We're not ready.
A Iong time ago. . .
. . .I did something very. . .
. . .very inappropriate with you, and I'm sorry.
Okay?
Okay.
I don't have any answers, Norman, but these guys are coming so Iet's. . . .
Okay, we're going to agree to forget. . .
. . .the Sphere. . .
. . .the power. . .
. . .aII that ever was.
I don't know how to get this going. You're the mathematician.
How about we just count to 3?
I couIdn't have come up with that.
I'II start.
One.
Two.
Three.
Can somebody teII me what the heII that's supposed to be?
Why are you hoIding my hand?
No, you were hoIding my hand.
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