片名:飞碟征空 翻译制作anthrax06
再来一张
就再拍一张，Meacham博士
请再等一下
先生，请你离机翼再近一些
请你再稍微侧下身，Meacham博士
他想来个远景，给人一种无尽畅想的感觉 Yeah, he wants to get that faraway, visionary look.
Cal,我们知道你一定很累了
我们会尽可能的缩短时间
尽管来吧，先生们
但我提醒你们
我已经开始觉得有些心不在焉了 I am beginning to feel faraway and visionary.
你和原子能委员会 How about your conference
召开的会议怎么样了? with the Committee on Atomic Power?
哦，那可不是我的会议 Oh, not my conference.
有二十名工程师和科学家参加 20 engineers and scientists were there.
二十名? 20?
你不是说只是个例行会议吗? Hardly a routine meeting, would you say?
听我说, Cal Yeah, and look, Cal,
我们可不信委员会只是把 we won't buy the committee's
你们这些大人物请去参加鸡尾酒会 getting you VIPs together for a cocktail party.
好吧，伙计们，我就告诉你这么多 All right, boys, I'll tell you this much.
会上讨论的是我们曾近处理过的 一些重要工作 Under discussion was the biggest job we've ever tackled,
核能源的工业应用 the industrial application of atomic energy.
但那已经不是新闻了, Cal But that's not news, Cal.
我们都知道有几个工业用反应堆 We all know there've been several industrial reactors
已经投入使用了 in work already.
要这么说的话 Well, let us say then that,
按照最新的情况来看 in the light of recent developments,
那些装置可能已经过时了 those plants may already be obsolescent.
你的专业是电子技术 Electronics is your specialty.
这和核能又有什么关系呢？ How does that fit in with atomic energy?
你们喜欢把这称为是按电钮的时代 You boys like to call this a push-button age.
其实还不是 It isn't, not yet.
除非我们能把核能和电子技术结合起来
那时，我们不但拥有它，又能有效驾驭它
博士，我们的军队还有多久才能装备喷气式战斗机?
这一架是洛克希德公司的人给我的
我希望你们这些纳税人不会介意
Cal,什么时候我们才能进入这种按键的时代?
当像我这样的科学家不用再参加什么会议
而是一心在实验室做研究的时候
回头见了先生们
- 再见 - 回头见
Cal
Cal,你现在是在
研究你提到的那些事吗?
差不多吧
你能跟我透露一些吗?
我的重点是将某些常见元素
重新转化为核能源
会这样吗?
这正是我要研究的重点
我知道了
祝你成功, Cal
谢谢
再见
2XD341，呼叫Ryberg控制塔，收到请回答
2XD341,这里是Ryberg控制塔
请讲
可以降落吗, Webb?
一切正常, Cal
风向偏南,风力大约每小时20英里
嗨Webb
Cal预计几点到?
14:10,但是他
晚了半个小时
那就是我的老板
世界上唯一个
坐喷气飞机旅行还迟到的人
看来我不在的时候，你们都在谈论我
你在哪?
看窗外
Cal,出什么事了?
飞机失去控制了
别管它了, Cal
快跳伞！
不行
我飞的太低了
飞机晃来晃去一定是尾焰熄灭了
失去动力了
完蛋了
Cal,你没事吧?
我没事
发生什么事了?
你怎么把它开回来的?
我没有
不是我
不是你，这是什么意思?
控制器坏了
没错，失去控制，没有了动力
飞机在天上不听使唤了
我应该没命的
Cal,我想很多人说看到了飞碟
天上还有奇怪的亮光
你也可以觉得我是在胡言乱语
但是我发誓
我看到这架飞机发出绿色的光
你确定吗,Joe?
绝对的
你听到什么了吗?
是的
一种高频声响
非常高
你的飞机一直都在...
发着绿光?
Webb看到了?
除非他瞎了
问问他
好的
还有Joe
在我们弄清楚发生了什么之前，我们三个什么都没看到
我们的小巨人怎么样了?
在茁壮成长
准备好震惊世界吧
让我们来看看
我想应该好了
它已经准备就绪了
Lowering the cylinder.
增加反应速度
检查下放射频率衰变
正常
和你离开前一星期的数据一样
委员会那边都说了什么?
哦，他们有一点兴奋
一点?
没有读数了
XC电容器肯定又短路了
去拿备件吧
昨天也烧了
别问我为什么不买新的
我买了
XC电容器装在信封里?
这肯定是收发部门的恶作剧
我订了两个XC电容器
但总部配件部却给我发来了这些珠子 and Supreme Equipment sent me these beads.
你说是恶作剧，但这些确实是电容器
我用仪器检查了其中一个的电容和电压
然后它就炸成了碎片
没错
但它经受住了33000伏的电压，而且没有发生漏电
如果那是真的，我们可以造一台发电机
一个就可以提供整个工厂
所需的电力
它只有火柴盒大小
可它却能承受33,000伏的电压
我要对它进行电压测试
我已经给你准备了一个
完全消失了 Into thin air.
35,000伏
给总部的Pete Knowles打电话 Call Pete Knowles at Supreme.
好的
请找下Pete Knowles
Pete?
我是Cal Meacham
我定了两个XC电容器，你们却给我了一些珠子 and you sent me some beads.
是，是珠子
当然，我没开玩笑
我刚对其中一个进行了电压测试
哦?
好的，谢谢
总部没有寄这些东西 Supreme didn't send them.
他们胡说
Pete说他们六周以来都没有接到过
我们的电容器订单
这是三天前我用电传打字机
发出的订单副本
寄这些珠子来的信封上
有地址吗?
没有地址
看啊
亲爱的Meacham博士
我们给您送来了AB-619型电容器
用来替代您订购的型号
我们相信您一定会感兴趣的
电子设备维修16分部主任 "Director, Electronic Service, Unit 16."
我还以为这是总部的一个部门 I thought it was a subsection of Supreme.
电子设备维修16分部 Electronic Service, Unit 16.
至少我们查清了这些是什么
金刚石钻头，这已经是我们最坚硬的零件了
这珠子甚至连划痕都没有
科学实验室，我是
是的，当然
Sam想跟你通话
他在机库，他已经检查完飞机了
好极了
你好Sam
Sam没有发现任何有问题的地方
你能再把控制器检查一遍吗?
当然不是
现在再检看一下那里, Sam
好的, Sam, 你赢了
也许我该去喝两杯，但是 Maybe I did have just a couple, but,
好的
晚安
也许我该去喝两杯 Maybe I should have had a couple.
也许我会的 Maybe I will.
早上好
在这签字
谢谢
你订什么了?
我不知道
也没有寄件的地址
16分部电子设备操作手册 Electronics Service, Unit Number 16.
A catherimine tube with an endiom complex of plus four.
上面说的是什么 What are they talking about?
我也不知道，但这上面 I don't know, but this outfit has them.
这不是纸
这像是某种金属
合并行星发电机的电容器 "Interocitor incorporating planetary generator.
伏特电阻干扰器 "Interocitor with Volterator.
使用天文望远镜 "With Astrascope."
Here's something my wife could use in the house,
an "Interocitor incorporating an electron sorter."
它替你妻子干了所有活的话
估计她得长胖20磅
知道嘛Joe,根据这本手册
简直可以无所不能
以每分钟一英里的速度
铺设一条四车道的高速公路是小菜一碟
Cal,也许我们工作太辛苦了 Cal, maybe we've been working too hard.
这一整套电容器简直超过了 "Complete line of Interocitor parts,
迄今为止我们所知的
在电子领域取得的最高成就 "than hitherto known in the field of electronics."
干扰器到底是干什么用的？ What exactly is an Interocitor?
我不知道
而且我也不想知道 And I don't want to know.
但我想 Well, I do.
我想知道它到底是什么，有什么用处
订购这些页面上的零件清单 Order the list of parts on these pages.
我们要照着造一个吗 How are we gonna build it?
这些符号简直就是天书 These symbols, they're like a foreign language.
另外，我们也不会知道订货的地址 And anyway, we don't know the address.
你用电传机从最高部门订到了那些电容器 Well, you ordered the condensers from Supreme by teletype.
是吗
那就是说有人截获了订单
并且给我们寄来了这些珠子
给你，再试一次 Here, try it again.
你太聪明了
我可能是这世上最笨的人了,Joe
这是发票
既没收钱，也没留地址 No charge and no address.
而且你听这个 And listen to this,
干扰器的任何一个部件都不可替代 "No Interocitor part can be replaced.
在安装的时候记住这一点
我们开始收拾东西吧
一共有2486个零件 There's 2,486 parts.
每个零件在目录上都有一个对应的符号图案 Each part is cross-indexed into a symbol pattern.
应该不会太难 Shouldn't be too hard at all.
当然 Sure.
很简单，大师 A snap, maestro.
只是我们从哪开始呢 Only, where do we start?
这里 Right here.
你知道我的孩子会怎么说吗 You know what my kids would say.
Dig this crazy, mixed-up plumbing!
插上电源, Joe
我们看看会发生什么
现在我该做什么?
请靠近屏幕
你能听到我说话 You can hear me?
当然 Of course.
使用增强磁盘
就是你手上的东西
把它放到右边的位置上
现在想做转动18度
你已经成功完成了任务，Meacham博士
你成功组装了一台干扰器 You've assembled an Interocitor,
很少有人能做到这一点
你是谁?
我叫Exeter
我像你一样也是名科学家
我们可以说是同事
我的同事可不会从奇怪的机器里冒出来
他们都是有血有肉的真人
我也是的,Meacham博士
我希望你很快就会知道 as I hope you'll soon find out.
我不得不承认我确实无关紧要 Although I admit at the moment, I do appear immaterial.
但是没关系
我代表的是一个四处网罗
能力非凡的科学家的组织
所有的候选人都必须通过能力测试
你刚刚做到了
我真是受宠若惊
只是我不记得我申请过什么工作
你当然没有
请原谅,Wilson先生
你的相机除了黑影什么也拍不到
干扰器上的图像是不会被记录在胶片上的
把它收起来,Joe
我们继续,Meacham博士
我们在人们不知情的情况下测试他们
我们不能冒任何风险
别说什么风险
我对你们的团队一点也不感兴趣
得了吧博士，像你这样
如此有好奇心的人
不可能不想知道我是谁，我来自什么地方
Wouldn't give his right arm for more examples
of our superior technical knowledge.
Meacham博士，我想我可以假设
那就是你对这一切很感兴趣
会立刻做出决定
我们想让你加入我们的团队，你可能会说，我这就加入 as you might say, at once.
你要做出安排，立刻离开
等一下
我可没说...
星期三早上五点
我们的飞机会降落在你们的机场
我们会等你五分钟，然后准时出发
不管我来与不来?
请把那本目录和桌子上的图纸放在一起
现在请站到一边去
你也是，Wilson先生
等一下
请退后，否则你们可能会受伤
再远一点
你没事吧?
没事, within reason.
If there is any reason around here.
现在一点读数都没有
Cal
怎么了,Joe?
不管Exeter是什么人，我不喜欢他
你也这样认为吗, Joe?
但他说对了一件事
我要上那架飞机
Cal,你不重新考虑一下吗?
我考虑了一夜
作为委员会的一员
只是喝几杯咖啡的时间
我就作出了一系列的判断
第一
不管Exeter这个人掌握有什么样的科技知识 whatever scientific knowledge this Exeter character has
我们都应该在书上见过他的名字 should be in our textbooks.
第二，Joe Wilson,你是我最得力的助手
即使我离开一段时间，以你对试验的了解 knows enough about a certain experiment
也可以继续进行下去 to carry on without me for a while.
我真的不敢保证行，Cal I'm not sure of that, Cal.
听我说,Joe,对委员会来说我并非不可或缺的
你说什么都改变不了这一点
你一直都这么固执
哦，好吧, 我不瞎操心了
这样的天气，就连萤火虫都飞不进来 Not even a moth equipped with a lightning bug
更别说是飞机了... could fly in here this morning, so no plane is...
它竟然来了 He made it.
没有飞行员 No pilot.
没有窗户 No windows.
Cal，你真要坐这样的飞机吗 Cal, you'll really be flying blind.
请坐下，Meacham博士 Please be seated, Dr. Meacham.
欢迎登机 And welcome aboard.
不需要系安全带，博士 A seat belt is not required, Doctor.
请离开梯子 Please clear the stairs.
谢谢 Thank you.
再见，Joe So long, Joe.
我会给你寄明信片的 I'll be dropping you a card.
Cal，快下飞机吧，快点 Cal, get off, right away!
这整件事都透着邪乎 This whole thing smells to high heaven!
Cal，我求你了 Cal, I'm begging you!
不要走 Don't go!
求你了，不要走了 Please, don't go!
早上好，Meacham博士 Good morning, Dr. Meacham.
希望你这一觉睡的还好 Hope you slept well.
我们很快就要着陆了 We'll be landing shortly.
早上好 Good morning.
我在哪 Where am I?
乔治亚州 Georgia.
我还以为已经到海王星或火星了呢 I kind of expected Neptune or Mars.
Exeter让我向你问好 Exeter asked me to greet you.
我是Ruth Adams博士 I'm Dr. Ruth Adams.
Ruth Adams!
这真是太不可思议了 But this is wonderful!
我从来没有想到 I never expected,
Ruth，我是Cal Meacham Ruth, I'm Cal Meacham.
Cal
当然了，Meacham博士 Dr. Meacham, of course.
四五年前 Four or five years ago,
核反应堆热能问题会议 conference on thermal problems in nuclear reactors.
在波士顿对吗？ Boston, wasn't it?
是佛蒙特州 Vermont.
我们在给研究生召开专题研讨会
三年前的夏天 Summer, three years ago.
下课后，我们去学校附近的
小河里游泳
那冰凉的河水激的你不停的尖叫 You were an awful sissy about that icy water.
Ruth,别告诉我你都忘了
Meacham博士,我只能说我真是受宠若惊
或许还有点嫉妒
你把我误认成另外一个女孩
我想现在Exeter正在恭候你
我想你一定很困惑，博士
我也永远不会忘记我刚抵达时那天的感受
Exeter招募人的方式非常特立独行
或者说是他选人的标准
我觉得这听起来你们像是有些私人恩怨
一旦你到了俱乐部
我相信你会更喜欢我们这里的
俱乐部?
我们都喜欢这样称呼它 That's what we like to call it.
Exeter不惜一切，为了让我们的工作
感到舒适和便利
里面的环境更棒, 博士
他们会把你的行李送过去的
送你来的那架飞机
那部电梯直通Exeter的奴役区
也就是我们的实验室
这我们的客厅，活动中心，图书馆 Our living room, social center, library.
这是Exeter的办公室
跟你想的不太一样，是吗Meacham博士?
早上好，博士
把外套给我吧
早上好，Herr博士
早上好
Engelborg,他来自慕尼黑
他每天早上都要出去锻炼健身
他已经来这一周了
但他的英语和我们的德语...
那个人是谁?
那是Brack,Exeter的助手之一
你会发现他们都非常乐于助人
他们说什么语言?
你想说什么就说什么
英语、印度语、刚果语
什么都行
Meacham博士
早上好
你们两位
请进来吧
请坐
Adams博士
是的Steve
Ruth,关于原子核衰减系数
恐怕我的公式行不通了
我希望你稍后能抽点时间
和我一起研究一下
我还是觉得基本原理没有什么问题
也许我们可以相信...
好的，谢谢你, Adams博士
哦你可来了,Adams博士
我只是在提醒Meacham博士
我曾经答应要给他介绍一些
生龙活现的同事
我可以拿你作为范例吗?
我恐怕曾和Meacham博士发生了一些误会
在机场,他以为我是他的老朋友
显然是我认错了
这位女士一点也不记得我
但更重要的是...
我们是什么人,我们在这里干什么
Meacham博士
以我为首的这批科学家
他们的工作只有一个目的
那就是结束战争
当然,没有能力非凡
又富有远见桌的人
这个目标是无法实现的
博士，很多像你这样的人
聚集在这里, 日以继夜的工作
抛弃所有个人成功的想法
我们希望能够取得令人欣喜的新技术
足以领先其他人许多年
我想不用明言你也能想到
当我们的成就被全世界知道的时候
我们的话语权有多重要
就是这样
Nothing new, perhaps, but then, what is?
而且,我向你保证，博士
我们这里的人都极具献身精神
而这可以让我们创造奇迹
怎么样?
你对我们有什么看法?
这听起来很伟大,但是Exeter先生,为什么会选我?
Meacham博士,因为我们碰巧得知
你即将开始开发
取之不竭的价格低廉的核能源 limitless amounts of free nuclear energy.
更确切地说，是把铅变成铀 More specifically, the conversion of lead into uranium.
Adams博士和你一样
一直在研究同样的课题
也许只比你慢了一步 Perhaps just a step behind you.
不过我要补充一点
你们两个的研究在这个领域都处于遥遥领先的地位 are way ahead of anyone else in your field.
你可得当心了
Exeter会奉承死你的
这是事实不是奉承,Adams博士
现在, 你先放松一下，好好考虑考虑
如果我考虑好了,结果是我和你一起走呢?
当然了，我们期望你对你所看到的这些
能够保持谨慎态度 about what you've seen here.
否则,你也可以自由离开,Meacham博士
像空气一样自由
然而现在, 我想我们可以继续带你看一看 suppose we continue your tour of inspection,
你就坐在那把椅子上 right from our chairs.
节约能源是我们首要关注的问题之一
对不对，博士?
这是你的实验室，博士
我想，应该就在这间办公室下面
还在建设中，但是只要再过几天
我们会给你带来惊喜
Brack?
一切正常吗?
是的
谢谢Brack
Any reason why you can't start in the morning, Doctor?
No.
你的实验室的另一个画面
当然也安装了我们的中继器
除此之外，我们希望能为你提供...
我们其他部门的人打电话来了,博士
其它部门?
是的,我们有很多的重要部门
遍布全世界
请原谅
我们可以晚餐的时候再聊,Meacham.
顺便说一句，那绝对是美味佳肴
就像这里的其他人一样
即使是厨师，也要全身心的投入工作
穿过客厅你就能找到楼梯
在你的右侧
你的房间在楼上
谢谢
Meacham博士
我还是很抱歉我不是佛蒙特州的那个女孩
什么事?
你的进度报告不令人满意
你没能按计划完成任务
为什么?
因为议会强加给我的某些方法
在这里并不奏效
我想和议会讨论一下
那不可能
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你觉得Mozart先生怎么样, Exeter?
I'm afraid I don't know the gentleman.
My mind must have been wandering.
Your composer, of course.
Our composer?
He belongs to the world.
Yes, indeed.
The dinner, Exeter, was even more perfect
than you promised.
Now, if you'll excuse me,
I could do with some fresh air myself.
Would you care to join me, Dr. Adams?
You, Dr. Carlson?
Why don't you?
Show him the grounds.
We won't start cracking the whip on Meacham until tomorrow.
That's quite a group Exeter has collected.
Quite.
That's Dr. Hu Ling Tang.
Tang's field is titanium, the same as Dr. Engelborg.
Dr. Marie Pitchener, U-235.
Dr. Blorfield, plutonium.
Hmm, that puts all of us in the production
of nuclear energy, doesn't it, Carlson?
What are you getting at, Meacham?
Why no biochemists?
Electronic experts, mechanical engineers?
People equipped to make practical application
of the energy the rest of us produce.
I seem to remember that was part of Exeter's pitch.
We try to make it a rule around here, Doctor,
not to discuss our work after hours.
Now, how about that fresh air?
How about you and Dr. Adams
showing me my laboratory instead?
After all I've heard today,
I can hardly wait to add my little contribution
to the good work.
This way, Doctor.
Your lab and my lab are in this wing.
Steve and the others are on the right.
This is yours, over here.
It's only Neutron.
We call him that because he's so positive.
Stay off Dr. Meacham's equipment.
Well, what do you think of it?
It's not bad.
Should be able to get started very quickly.
Fine, but a word of warning.
Don't let Exeter push you too hard.
He's the kind of man who wants results yesterday.
This is the same size lead slab I use in my own lab.
I guess you're right.
I guess Exeter doesn't expect me to waste any time.
This is very interesting.
Now,
standing here with the lead slab in front of us,
the lead reactor panel behind us,
we're shielded from nuclear rays.
Could be even from the prying eyes of Exeter's Interocitor.
What's your opinion, Doctors?
All right, I'll spell it out for you.
The two of you walk around here
as if you're scared of your own shadows.
Ruth's even afraid to admit
she and I once might have held hands.
Well, that's okay with me.
But either I've got to figure I'm a little cracked,
or that Exeter's cat has got both your tongues.
You ever stop to think that we have a right to throw
a few questions at you, Meacham?
What are you doing here?
Look, I received a darn fool catalog.
I couldn't resist it.
I built an Interocitor,
arrived on that trick plane and that's all I know.
But so help me,
in the next 10 minutes, I'm gonna know a lot more.
I believe him, Steve.
Well, I guess I do, too.
Now we're getting somewhere.
To begin with, Cal,
I was the girl in Vermont.
Then why all of that...
Because we couldn't take a chance.
There's always the possibility
you spent a few minutes under one of Exeter's sun lamps
before you got here.
Sun lamp?
That's what it looks like.
Only instead of a sun tan,
you get your brain cells rearranged.
Steve had a peek at one.
Yeah, it's similar to a lobotomy.
Renders useless certain areas of the brain.
Those areas controlling the power of the will.
Up until now, Steve and I have been spared.
We think Engelborg, too,
but we haven't the slightest idea why.
And what about the others?
Try talking to them.
Well, that leaves the big one.
Who's Exeter working for?
We don't know.
All we do know is what you've already guessed.
Exeter is desperately trying to come up
with new sources of atomic energy.
And we're the geniuses
he's depending upon to deliver for him.
Well, he might get a surprise.
Why did you wait, Brack?
You should have told me.
I was busy elsewhere.
If you're so concerned,
why don't you let me use the transformer?
The transformer is not the only answer.
The council differs.
It says it's infallible.
The council is wrong.
I told the Monitor so today.
The transformer is morally abhorrent to the subjects.
It sets up subconscious blocks
which defeat our very purposes.
You're being sentimental.
I am being practical!
No, Brack.
Use a machine to control a man's brain,
you destroy his initiative.
You destroy his power to help us, as we need help.
We can both see it right here.
It maybe true, but are you sure?
We're 30 miles from nowhere.
Steve and I know, we've tried.
And if we did get out, who'd believe all this?
I don't blame you doctors
for being excited about working for Exeter.
It's a rare privilege.
He's a rare man.
Our little Neutron gave us away.
He felt the impulses.
That cat, I could...
Put Neutron under the thought transformer?
Why not, Brack?
And perhaps you'd like me to step in with him.
Turn it off, Brack.
Our friends won't be giving us any more information tonight.
And the log of 236 plus 1.008 to the ninth.
It's an interesting equation.
I'll check it.
You may find it'll help you
over some of the more difficult obstacles, Meacham.
And now, Doctor, I'd like to acquaint you
with another of our accomplishments.
Notice that section of lead plate behind you.
Please bring it forward, about eight feet.
Now, please move back.
By the door, Doctor.
When your lead-to-uranium process is working properly,
the effectiveness of this ray will be increased enormously.
Tell me, Exeter,
why should a communication device
be equipped with a destructive ray?
Television waves can't penetrate mountains.
With the aid of neutrino rays, we can.
Neutrino rays?
You've just observed one in action.
I suppose the neutrino could be described
as the missing link between energy and matter.
Fascinating, if destruction is our goal.
On the contrary.
Just recently, one of our rays
was used for quite another purpose.
More specifically, to save your life.
The green light?
Exactly.
Picking your plane up in midair
and conveying it safely to Earth.
After it first immobilized my controls.
Meacham, I must ask you to have faith
in our ultimate aims.
I must also ask you to refrain from meeting
with any of your co-workers again,
except in our usual channels.
Any way you want it.
Very good, Doctor.
And your patience, I promise you,
will be rewarded.
Here's a sketch of the Interocitor.
I also have rough notes on its working controls.
It's guesswork, mostly, but better than nothing.
And these are portraits of Exeter and Brack.
Do you notice the peculiar indentations
in both their foreheads?
Coincidental, no doubt.
And this is the one we're really proud of, Cal.
We discovered this about a week ago,
two miles south of here.
The side of this hill has been hollowed out.
And here's an acre of canvas covering the excavation.
You tell me what's in there.
Steve wanted to go back and find out what was inside,
but I guess I got cold feet.
Just like Vermont, still a sissy.
They're fine, Steve.
When we get out of here,
I'll have them framed at my own expense.
If we get out.
He's just hungry.
Goodbye, Neutron.
Confirm, please.
Plan A abandoned.
Alternate plan in effect.
Correct.
Our ionization layer is failing rapidly.
We may need transportation.
Are you prepared to leave?
We have been since your last communication.
Although Meacham and Adams are achieving positive results.
Can you give us another time period?
Impossible, but it is hoped
that you will be able to complete the project here.
Bring them.
Good.
You will keep in contact until moment of departure,
then remove all evidence of installation.
That is all.
Take over.
What is it?
Something I've seen before.
Get off the road, quick!
They're playing with us.
We're sitting ducks in this thing.
If we're gonna make the airport,
we'll have to do it on foot.
When I stop, we'll pile out.
Take cover, fast.
Steve!
We've got to get out of here.
Get down!
Get away!
We'll try and make the airport.
Let's go.
Is it flyable?
It should be.
Exeter keeps it here for the staff.
They're pulling us up.
Remain here.
I want a report on temperature control immediately,
and use extreme caution through the thermal barrier.
Our two passengers are very sensitive to heat.
The passengers are here.
Allow me to welcome you.
I'm sorry that our visit below
had to be terminated so dramatically,
but time allowed for nothing else.
I can assure you, we mean you no harm.
Like Steve Carlson and Engelborg?
Like the others in that house?
What happened was beyond my control.
What happened was mass murder.
We're not all masters of our souls, Meacham.
That's a nice little phrase, coming from you.
I learned it on Earth.
Look, the two of you are beginning a strange journey.
A journey that no Earth people have ever undertaken before.
Now, whether you consider me
a devil or a saint is unimportant.
What is important is that you're here on this spaceship.
Suppose then, for the time being, we call a truce.
As scientists at least, Meacham.
Ruth, don't tell me that as a woman
you're not curious about our destination.
Where are we going?
To a planet we call Metaluna.
Metaluna?
There's no such planet in the solar system.
Metaluna lies far beyond your solar system,
in outer space.
The Stellar Scope will convince you.
Come.
Observer, prepare a view of the second quadrant, please.
I won't ask you to condone what we've done.
All I ask is that,
when you understand the plight of my people,
you try to have more sympathy for our deeds.
Earth.
It's being left far behind.
Cal, it's getting hard to breathe.
We're going through the thermal barrier.
I'm afraid you'll find the temperature unpleasant
for a short time.
Prepare to leave Earth's orbit.
All conversion must be completed during this time period.
Follow me, if you will.
Exeter, what are you using for power?
How are you controlling the fantastic temperature
on this ship?
What's to prevent us from floating around
like a bunch of balloons
once we get away from Earth's gravity?
Well, to answer the last question first.
We create our own gravitational field,
which means that no matter what position our ship
takes in space, we here inside remain right-side-up.
But, at the moment,
if we're going to get you to Metaluna alive,
there's a little procedure you'll have to go through.
What are you doing to them?
Metaluna's atmospheric pressure
is like that in your greatest oceans.
If we entered Metaluna's orbit
without conversion, we'd be crushed to death.
Then in going from Metaluna to Earth,
the tissues of our bodies would dwindle.
We'd disintegrate completely.
Correct, Meacham.
If we're fortunate enough to return to Earth.
Brack!
Yes?
You will prepare the doctors for the tubes.
You'll change into clothes such as ours,
especially conditioned for life on Metaluna.
Come with me.
Place your hands above the rails.
They're magnetized.
There's an intercom system in the tubes.
You may converse as long as you're able to.
Ruth?
Yes?
You okay?
And you?
Feel like a new toothbrush.
Ruth.
Cal.
Approaching enemy-control sector.
This is Master Control awaiting instructions.
We'll energize only as necessary.
Conserve power.
Avoid contact with enemy
until safety of ship is in danger.
You'll feel stronger in a few moments.
Now, I know you both feel as though you could sleep
for at least 1,000 years,
but then you would miss observing our approach to Metaluna.
And with your curiosity, you'd never forgive me for that.
I don't understand.
What don't you understand, Doctor?
Those two objects,
they appear to be comets, but their paths are identical,
almost as though some intelligence were controlling them.
Your deduction is quite correct, Doctor.
Although the objects are not comets,
they're meteors controlled by spacecraft of Zagon.
They're gonna hit us, they're gonna hit us!
We've offered to make peace with Zagon,
but to no avail.
Is Zagon a planet?
A planet that was once a comet, as you can see.
Their spacecraft are actually
guiding the meteors against us.
Now on fourth quadrant.
Metaluna contact in three time periods.
Observer, a closer view.
View in third quadrant.
Contact in two time periods.
View in second quadrant.
Contact in one time period.
View in first quadrant at ionization layer.
What you're observing may well be the beginning
of the end for our world.
The Zagon meteors are beginning
to get through our ionized layer.
That haze, a field of intense radiation.
As you can well imagine,
such a screen requires the output of great amounts
of atomic energy.
And you're running out, that's why you were sent to Earth.
And why you sent for us.
You need uranium.
In gigantic quantities.
Our own deposits are exhausted.
As our power diminishes, our protection fails.
That's enough, normal view.
Entering ionized layer.
Metaluna.
Brack, remove the equipment
of our two doctors to turbine center.
Have it all set up for immediate use.
Oh, Brack, I'm sure personnel will need everyone.
Have the crew report immediately for reassignment.
Now, we must report to the Monitor.
Step in.
Our means of interior transportation.
Before the war forced us to move inside of our planet,
these tubes covered the surface of our Earth.
Our educational complexes.
Now, rubble.
Over there was a recreation center.
This way.
The Monitor's structure.
Welcome, Exeter.
Observed your flight.
Almost counted you lost.
Your Earth creatures.
Dr. Adams.
Dr. Meacham.
The Monitor, the supreme head of our government.
Regrettable, there is no time for amenities.
I am certain your minds
have difficulty grasping this transition
from Earth to Metaluna.
I have given them as much indoctrination as possible.
Then you know that shortly
we can expect Zagon to commence
and sustain an all-out attack.
Our ionization layer must be maintained
until our relocation is effected.
Relocation?
To where?
To your Earth.
A peaceful relocation.
We hope to live in harmony
with the citizens of your Earth.
In harmony?
Our knowledge and weapons
would make us your superiors, naturally.
Then why haven't your superior brains
solved the problem of synthesizing uranium?
Most of our scientists are dead.
Our major laboratories, destroyed.
The war has reduced our population to a mere handful.
That is true, Meacham.
It is indeed typical that you Earth people
refuse to believe in the superiority
of any world but your own.
Children looking into a magnifying glass,
imagining the image you see
is the image of your true size.
Our true size is the size of our God.
Do you still insist, Exeter,
that we can allow any of these Earth creatures
to have free minds?
I do.
I know them.
I have lived with them.
You have wasted our time.
Take them to the thought-transference chamber.
Please come with me,
I'm afraid you have no choice.
Interocitor control, hear me.
lonization failing at prime sector.
Use emergency power and repel attack.
Power transfer will begin immediately.
Our Zagon friends seem to be hitting
this prime sector quite regularly.
Is that where it is, in there?
My mind is my own and nobody's gonna change it.
I'm not going into that room.
Nobody is, come on.
I'm sorry.
I'd hoped to have prepared you somewhat beforehand.
This is a mutant.
We've been breeding them here for ages to do menial work.
Well, actually, they're similar
to some of the insect life on your own planet,
larger, of course, with a higher degree of intelligence.
This one has been given orders to guard
this corridor as long as we're here.
I beg of you, go inside, cooperate voluntarily.
If you do, I give you my word that you will not be harmed
or your minds changed in any way.
You'd defy the Monitor?
I already have.
Do you believe him, Cal?
In this place, I wouldn't believe my grandmother.
Come on.
The travel cart, come on!
Where are we going?
The spaceship, at least it's safer there.
Don't you understand?
Let it happen now.
Meacham!
Ruth!
Stand back, Exeter.
Meacham, believe me, I wanna help you.
Time is short.
Get into the car.
He appears badly hurt.
Stay close to me.
Stand back.
I command you, stand back!
Cal!
Are you badly hurt?
I'll be all right.
Close off all hatches.
Control room, quick.
I'm all right.
Ruth, activate the Stellar Scope,
right control, 45 degrees left.
Our ionization layer has failed completely.
Will we be able to get out?
Depends on the amount of energy we have left.
If we have to ward off any heavy Zagon attacks,
I don't know.
That may be the last of them.
Yes.
They're concentrating all their attention on Metaluna.
Those flashes of light,
they're meteors, hundreds of them.
The intense heat is turning Metaluna into a radioactive sun.
The temperature must be thousands of degrees by now.
A lifeless planet.
And yet,
yet still serving a useful purpose, I hope.
Yes, a sun.
Warming the surface of some other world.
Giving light to those who may need it.
Now, into the converter tubes.
Ruth, you take the first tube.
You, the next.
What about you?
I'll use the third tube.
Exeter, are these tubes strong enough to keep him out?
Possibly, he's bleeding badly.
In a very few moments, the pressure should destroy him.
Run, Ruth, run!
Our speed is diminishing.
We're now in the atmosphere of Earth.
Your plane is where you left it, in the cargo hold.
A conventional way for you to return to Earth, I admit,
but perhaps the most practical.
Where are you going?
Our universe is vast, full of wonders.
I'll explore, perhaps find another Metaluna.
A place inhabited by beings not unlike myself.
You see, I'm more adventurous than you imagined me.
Exeter, you're a liar.
You've used all your power bringing us here.
Even if you had a place to go, you couldn't make it.
Come with us.
We'll heal your wounds.
I'm afraid my wounds can never be healed.
You've things to teach us.
Thank you.
We're over your Earth now.
It's time for you to go.
Farewell.
Home.
Thank God, it's still here.