1 00:00:22,380 --> 00:00:25,060 tyr, command. code black. 2 00:00:30,820 --> 00:00:31,945 multiple fighters, 3 00:00:31,980 --> 00:00:33,105 two light-minutes away and closing. 4 00:00:33,140 --> 00:00:34,660 protect that convoy. prep defensive missiles 5 00:00:35,060 --> 00:00:36,545 to cover the transit. 6 00:00:36,580 --> 00:00:37,740 i'm detecting 13 battle cruisers 7 00:00:38,140 --> 00:00:39,660 and 11 geruda-class fighters. 8 00:00:42,340 --> 00:00:44,080 nietzscheans. drago-kazov. 9 00:00:44,115 --> 00:00:45,820 whoa! that's my dream. 10 00:00:46,180 --> 00:00:47,740 that was my dream! 11 00:00:48,500 --> 00:00:49,660 to escort this lousy commonwealth convoy 12 00:00:49,695 --> 00:00:51,145 deep into the dmz. 13 00:00:51,180 --> 00:00:52,720 we were ambushed by nietzscheans. 14 00:00:52,755 --> 00:00:54,260 before you go all "trance" on us, 15 00:00:54,660 --> 00:00:55,385 this is not an ambush. 16 00:00:55,420 --> 00:00:57,340 that's nietzschean- on-nietzschean action. 17 00:00:58,860 --> 00:01:00,600 the dragans vs. the who-cares pride. 18 00:01:00,635 --> 00:01:02,340 their orphaned children will care. 19 00:01:02,700 --> 00:01:04,225 tell that convoy 20 00:01:04,260 --> 00:01:05,780 to go to slipstream now. 21 00:01:13,460 --> 00:01:14,945 boy, doesn't it just warm the heart 22 00:01:14,980 --> 00:01:16,540 to see how the dragans have bounced back 23 00:01:16,575 --> 00:01:17,665 from their little slave rebellion, 24 00:01:17,700 --> 00:01:19,620 to reach out and touch the whole universe 25 00:01:19,655 --> 00:01:21,157 with their charm and good will? 26 00:01:21,192 --> 00:01:22,625 if their forces keep growing, 27 00:01:22,660 --> 00:01:24,580 pretty soon they'll be reaching out and touching us. 28 00:01:24,615 --> 00:01:26,500 they may have already started. three hostile ships 29 00:01:26,535 --> 00:01:28,060 vectoring away toward us. 30 00:01:29,980 --> 00:01:30,740 mr. anasazi, 31 00:01:31,140 --> 00:01:32,660 would you like to join our party? 32 00:01:34,580 --> 00:01:35,340 according to my sensor drones, 33 00:01:35,375 --> 00:01:36,465 a drago-kazov 34 00:01:36,500 --> 00:01:37,660 geruda-class fighter is in pursuit 35 00:01:37,695 --> 00:01:38,820 of two other geruda-class fighters 36 00:01:39,180 --> 00:01:41,100 from an unknown pride. 37 00:01:47,260 --> 00:01:48,385 whoa. 38 00:01:48,420 --> 00:01:49,940 the drago just destroyed that ship, 39 00:01:49,975 --> 00:01:50,917 obliterated it. 40 00:01:50,952 --> 00:01:51,860 what's going on? 41 00:01:51,895 --> 00:01:53,745 well, 42 00:01:53,780 --> 00:01:54,940 one of them is on a collision course with us, 43 00:01:54,975 --> 00:01:56,100 while the other keeps chasing. 44 00:01:56,135 --> 00:01:57,620 hail it. 45 00:01:59,140 --> 00:02:00,265 no response. 46 00:02:00,300 --> 00:02:01,460 plot an intercept course. 47 00:02:01,860 --> 00:02:03,780 isn't that a little dangerous for a good deed? 48 00:02:03,815 --> 00:02:04,900 we're on theandromeda, mr. harper. 49 00:02:04,935 --> 00:02:06,820 i like our odds. 50 00:02:13,380 --> 00:02:15,480 the nietzschean fighter is painting us... 51 00:02:15,515 --> 00:02:17,580 and now he's firing. incoming missiles. 52 00:02:17,615 --> 00:02:19,900 engage pdls and take him out. 53 00:02:26,420 --> 00:02:27,940 what about the lost sheep? 54 00:02:27,975 --> 00:02:29,065 let him go? 55 00:02:29,100 --> 00:02:32,180 no, let's bring him in. i want answers. 56 00:02:39,460 --> 00:02:41,780 that spike-haired chip-head of yours 57 00:02:41,815 --> 00:02:42,905 called me a rat. 58 00:02:42,940 --> 00:02:44,480 well, he's a charmer. 59 00:02:44,515 --> 00:02:45,985 i guess he expected 60 00:02:46,020 --> 00:02:47,540 a little more gratitude 61 00:02:47,940 --> 00:02:49,460 for saving your life. 62 00:02:49,495 --> 00:02:51,345 yes... 63 00:02:51,380 --> 00:02:52,865 well, thanks for nothing. 64 00:02:52,900 --> 00:02:55,400 you could save my children's lives 65 00:02:55,435 --> 00:02:57,865 and i'd still hate the kludge. 66 00:02:57,900 --> 00:03:00,980 even so, i'd still save your children. 67 00:03:01,380 --> 00:03:02,900 i'd leave you behind, though. 68 00:03:05,980 --> 00:03:07,520 are you nietzschean? 69 00:03:07,555 --> 00:03:09,060 are you an idiot? 70 00:03:10,580 --> 00:03:11,340 or do you really expect me to believe 71 00:03:11,740 --> 00:03:12,900 that you don't know the answer to that question? 72 00:03:14,020 --> 00:03:16,340 tell me why the dragans attacked you. 73 00:03:18,660 --> 00:03:21,700 i'm sorry, i guess you didn't hear me. 74 00:03:22,860 --> 00:03:25,180 tell me why the dragans attacked you. 75 00:03:26,340 --> 00:03:29,020 they think we have deep midnight's voice. 76 00:03:29,380 --> 00:03:31,700 you'll have to be a little clearer than that. 77 00:03:32,100 --> 00:03:34,020 it's an old nietzschean slip-scout. 78 00:03:37,460 --> 00:03:39,345 nietzscheans don't have slip-scouts. 79 00:03:39,380 --> 00:03:44,345 oh, we did before the fall, a fleet of them, 80 00:03:44,380 --> 00:03:48,580 and they mapped out every meter of the slipstream, 81 00:03:48,980 --> 00:03:52,240 from the local group to the virgo cluster, 82 00:03:52,275 --> 00:03:56,187 and 10 billion transit points between. 83 00:03:56,222 --> 00:04:00,100 ridiculous. you can't map the slipstream. 84 00:04:00,500 --> 00:04:05,100 he who maps it, owns it. 85 00:04:12,780 --> 00:04:15,100 the universe is a dangerous place, 86 00:04:15,135 --> 00:04:16,620 but in our future, 87 00:04:17,020 --> 00:04:19,700 my crew and i fight to make it safe. 88 00:04:19,735 --> 00:04:21,585 i am dylan hunt, 89 00:04:21,620 --> 00:04:23,540 captain of theandromeda ascendant, 90 00:04:23,575 --> 00:04:25,860 and these are our adventures. 91 00:05:04,900 --> 00:05:07,220 well, what a great guy he is, huh? 92 00:05:07,255 --> 00:05:09,105 he is what he is. 93 00:05:09,140 --> 00:05:12,020 i've often heard a rumor, 94 00:05:12,055 --> 00:05:14,900 among my people, mostly... 95 00:05:21,420 --> 00:05:23,740 this rumor, of an early nietzschean project 96 00:05:23,775 --> 00:05:25,297 to map the cosmos, 97 00:05:25,332 --> 00:05:26,785 prior to the fall- 98 00:05:26,820 --> 00:05:27,905 you couldn't have known- 99 00:05:27,940 --> 00:05:31,420 but it was said that their nav-tech 100 00:05:31,455 --> 00:05:32,180 was far superior 101 00:05:32,580 --> 00:05:33,700 to even that of the high guard. 102 00:05:33,735 --> 00:05:35,620 a rumor. 103 00:05:36,020 --> 00:05:38,700 yeah, it's a 300-year-old rumor. 104 00:05:38,735 --> 00:05:39,825 i mean, if it's true, 105 00:05:39,860 --> 00:05:41,580 we would have heard about it by now. 106 00:05:41,615 --> 00:05:43,997 perhaps now we have heard about it. 107 00:05:44,032 --> 00:05:46,345 that probe will change everything. 108 00:05:46,380 --> 00:05:50,980 if the dragans found it, they'd destroy the sabra-jaguar. 109 00:05:51,015 --> 00:05:52,105 no, because if the sabra-jaguar 110 00:05:52,140 --> 00:05:53,700 even thought that they might have found it, 111 00:05:54,060 --> 00:05:55,620 they would have long since allied themselves 112 00:05:55,655 --> 00:05:57,557 with their sworn dragan enemy. 113 00:05:57,592 --> 00:05:59,866 then we'd better find that probe, 114 00:05:59,901 --> 00:06:02,560 or we're in for one hell of a fight. 115 00:06:02,595 --> 00:06:05,247 ladies and gentlemen, and harper, 116 00:06:05,282 --> 00:06:07,900 may i present deep midnight's voice. 117 00:06:08,260 --> 00:06:09,060 this is necessarily theoretical, 118 00:06:09,420 --> 00:06:11,740 as no one has ever actually seen a slip-scout, 119 00:06:11,775 --> 00:06:12,900 nor the probe it carries, 120 00:06:13,260 --> 00:06:14,820 except for the nietzscheans 121 00:06:15,180 --> 00:06:16,920 and the pilots who generated the maps. 122 00:06:16,955 --> 00:06:18,625 and it chooses the best sliproutes? 123 00:06:18,660 --> 00:06:20,940 well, beka, as you know, in the slipstream, 124 00:06:21,340 --> 00:06:23,260 an a. i.'s ability to guess the correct route 125 00:06:23,295 --> 00:06:24,385 is 50-50. 126 00:06:24,420 --> 00:06:29,020 your organic intuition raises that ability to 99.977%, 127 00:06:29,055 --> 00:06:30,940 but the navigational chart 128 00:06:30,975 --> 00:06:32,100 recorded in the probe 129 00:06:32,460 --> 00:06:34,760 takes guessing out of the equation completely. 130 00:06:34,795 --> 00:06:37,060 it makes you and i both right 100% of the time. 131 00:06:37,095 --> 00:06:38,585 that is possibly 132 00:06:38,620 --> 00:06:40,900 the coolest technology in the universe. 133 00:06:40,935 --> 00:06:42,820 and possibly the most dangerous. 134 00:06:42,855 --> 00:06:45,540 they must have spent years 135 00:06:45,575 --> 00:06:46,625 riding the rails, 136 00:06:46,660 --> 00:06:48,220 recording every slip-point 137 00:06:49,380 --> 00:06:51,660 it'd be easier to plot a molecule in a whirlwind. 138 00:06:51,695 --> 00:06:54,740 and still, it's so simple and beautiful. 139 00:06:54,775 --> 00:06:56,225 you sure the nietzscheans did this? 140 00:06:56,260 --> 00:06:58,580 yeah, i thought the dragans fathered bullies, and bandits, 141 00:06:58,980 --> 00:07:00,065 and people like tyr. 142 00:07:00,100 --> 00:07:03,580 drago musevini created a race of loyal overachievers. 143 00:07:03,615 --> 00:07:05,100 they stood among the commonwealth's 144 00:07:05,500 --> 00:07:07,020 greatest poets, artists, 145 00:07:07,420 --> 00:07:08,180 mathematicians and architects. 146 00:07:08,580 --> 00:07:10,500 that's why no one saw their betrayal coming. 147 00:07:13,940 --> 00:07:15,425 smart. 148 00:07:15,460 --> 00:07:16,585 what's that? 149 00:07:16,620 --> 00:07:17,780 removing your bone blades, 150 00:07:18,180 --> 00:07:21,620 so that you can pass as human. 151 00:07:21,655 --> 00:07:25,060 bone blades or no bone blades, 152 00:07:25,095 --> 00:07:26,185 it is immediately evident 153 00:07:26,220 --> 00:07:27,780 that i have more of drago's blood 154 00:07:27,815 --> 00:07:28,900 in my smallest finger 155 00:07:29,300 --> 00:07:30,460 than exists in all the line 156 00:07:30,495 --> 00:07:31,945 of sorry specimens 157 00:07:31,980 --> 00:07:33,900 that might have spawned the likes of you. 158 00:07:34,300 --> 00:07:35,425 i couldn't know that, friend. 159 00:07:35,460 --> 00:07:38,720 i have yet to dissect your smallest finger... 160 00:07:38,755 --> 00:07:41,980 and the dragans wiped out my entire lineage. 161 00:07:44,260 --> 00:07:46,545 i've been solo since... 162 00:07:46,580 --> 00:07:49,260 since i shot my mentor's killer in the face. 163 00:07:49,660 --> 00:07:51,940 and enjoyed his three wives. 164 00:07:51,975 --> 00:07:53,500 you're a mercenary. 165 00:07:55,780 --> 00:07:57,520 now and then... 166 00:07:57,555 --> 00:07:59,260 but this... 167 00:07:59,620 --> 00:08:02,700 oh, i've waited my entire life for a score like this. 168 00:08:03,100 --> 00:08:06,180 "for a score like this"? 169 00:08:06,215 --> 00:08:07,300 come now. 170 00:08:07,700 --> 00:08:09,620 it's all loot when you work for the kludge. 171 00:08:18,060 --> 00:08:19,620 your entire pride is destroyed, 172 00:08:19,655 --> 00:08:20,705 only you get away. 173 00:08:20,740 --> 00:08:22,300 you could have blown up the two smallest ships, 174 00:08:22,660 --> 00:08:24,580 but we had to save you. 175 00:08:24,615 --> 00:08:25,740 then... 176 00:08:26,140 --> 00:08:27,265 well, then you tell us 177 00:08:27,300 --> 00:08:28,420 about the dragan's secret search 178 00:08:28,455 --> 00:08:29,580 fordeep midnight's voice. 179 00:08:29,980 --> 00:08:31,865 it's all too easy. 180 00:08:31,900 --> 00:08:34,200 must be your lucky day. 181 00:08:34,235 --> 00:08:36,500 i don't believe in luck. 182 00:08:36,535 --> 00:08:37,660 oh, you're right. 183 00:08:38,020 --> 00:08:39,940 i know more than i'm telling, 184 00:08:39,975 --> 00:08:41,825 but then again, 185 00:08:41,860 --> 00:08:44,580 that's why you won't kill me. 186 00:08:44,615 --> 00:08:45,700 try me. 187 00:08:47,620 --> 00:08:49,940 i know you're not working alone. who sent you? 188 00:08:50,340 --> 00:08:51,860 i must really scare you, captain. 189 00:08:52,260 --> 00:08:54,940 an independent nietzschean. 190 00:08:59,140 --> 00:09:01,060 that's enough, tyr. 191 00:09:01,095 --> 00:09:02,980 i said that's enough. 192 00:09:04,900 --> 00:09:07,220 tyr! 193 00:09:07,620 --> 00:09:08,960 sorry. 194 00:09:08,995 --> 00:09:10,265 i was... 195 00:09:10,300 --> 00:09:12,220 asserting my independence. 196 00:09:15,660 --> 00:09:17,000 you're right. 197 00:09:17,035 --> 00:09:18,340 i'm scared 198 00:09:18,740 --> 00:09:19,900 because you're such an improvement 199 00:09:20,260 --> 00:09:21,025 to the nietzschean race. 200 00:09:21,060 --> 00:09:22,180 is there really such a difference 201 00:09:22,580 --> 00:09:24,500 between my ancestors and me? 202 00:09:24,535 --> 00:09:27,580 yeah. they're dead. 203 00:09:29,860 --> 00:09:31,780 assert your independence. 204 00:09:34,860 --> 00:09:36,420 if the finest minds in the universe 205 00:09:36,455 --> 00:09:38,340 have been searching 305 years 206 00:09:38,375 --> 00:09:39,460 fordeep midnight's voice, 207 00:09:39,495 --> 00:09:40,585 then locating it 208 00:09:40,620 --> 00:09:41,780 must be extraordinarily difficult. 209 00:09:42,180 --> 00:09:45,620 yes, extraordinarily difficult. 210 00:09:45,655 --> 00:09:46,745 well, 211 00:09:46,780 --> 00:09:48,265 using regression analysis, 212 00:09:48,300 --> 00:09:51,345 stochastic modeling, and quantum theory... 213 00:09:51,380 --> 00:09:53,700 i found the system where it's probably located, 214 00:09:53,735 --> 00:09:56,380 all in about seven hours, 33 minutes. 215 00:09:56,415 --> 00:09:57,540 it's good to be smart. 216 00:09:57,900 --> 00:09:59,460 yeah, but i noticed she used the word "probably. " 217 00:09:59,820 --> 00:10:00,945 yes. 218 00:10:00,980 --> 00:10:02,140 i concentrated my search 219 00:10:02,500 --> 00:10:04,420 on remote systems cut off from average nav technology, 220 00:10:04,455 --> 00:10:05,980 but still containing the necessary variables 221 00:10:06,015 --> 00:10:07,105 to sustain life. 222 00:10:07,140 --> 00:10:10,145 that reduced my subset to 11,370,000 systems. 223 00:10:10,180 --> 00:10:12,500 additional co-variations reduced it to "probably. " 224 00:10:12,535 --> 00:10:13,625 works for me. 225 00:10:13,660 --> 00:10:15,180 and a system that sustains life 226 00:10:15,215 --> 00:10:16,305 is a very good "probably. " 227 00:10:16,340 --> 00:10:17,860 if the pilots ran into engine problems, 228 00:10:17,895 --> 00:10:19,237 they'd only dump out of slipstream 229 00:10:19,272 --> 00:10:20,580 where they could support repairs. 230 00:10:20,615 --> 00:10:22,500 it is good to be smart. 231 00:10:22,860 --> 00:10:24,385 not to mention hot. 232 00:10:24,420 --> 00:10:26,700 beka, take us to slipstream. 233 00:10:39,780 --> 00:10:40,865 the threads are pretty thin. 234 00:10:40,900 --> 00:10:42,820 no one's ridden them in over 100 years, at least. 235 00:10:42,855 --> 00:10:43,997 well, now it's as well traveled 236 00:10:44,032 --> 00:10:45,140 as the main expressway on sinti. 237 00:10:45,175 --> 00:10:46,300 we're being followed. 238 00:10:54,740 --> 00:10:55,465 nietzscheans? 239 00:10:55,500 --> 00:10:57,385 i can only read energy signatures. 240 00:10:57,420 --> 00:10:58,760 it could be nietzscheans, could be anybody. 241 00:10:58,795 --> 00:11:00,100 yeah, i'm pretty sure it has something to do 242 00:11:00,500 --> 00:11:01,660 with our friend in the brig. 243 00:11:01,695 --> 00:11:02,785 good. 244 00:11:02,820 --> 00:11:03,580 let's blow them up with a missile barrage. 245 00:11:03,615 --> 00:11:05,500 harper, you are so spiteful. 246 00:11:06,660 --> 00:11:08,180 wait for whoever it is to fight us for the probe? 247 00:11:08,215 --> 00:11:11,585 rommie, jettison cargo 248 00:11:11,620 --> 00:11:12,780 in bays five through eight. 249 00:11:13,180 --> 00:11:14,700 what? no, that's my junk collection! 250 00:11:14,735 --> 00:11:16,260 and other things. 251 00:11:26,980 --> 00:11:28,900 well, you're welcome to go after it. 252 00:11:28,935 --> 00:11:30,025 never mind. 253 00:11:30,060 --> 00:11:31,620 prepare for entry into target system. 254 00:11:36,580 --> 00:11:39,080 welcome to the system so remote 255 00:11:39,115 --> 00:11:41,580 the perseids forgot to name it. 256 00:11:41,615 --> 00:11:43,105 what's in a name anyway? 257 00:11:43,140 --> 00:11:45,060 let's concentrate on finding that probe. 258 00:11:45,095 --> 00:11:46,545 activate long-range sensors. 259 00:11:46,580 --> 00:11:48,300 you think it's still floating around out there? 260 00:11:48,335 --> 00:11:50,020 why not? unless it crashed into that gas giant. 261 00:11:50,420 --> 00:11:52,740 oh, it crashed, all right, but not there. 262 00:11:52,775 --> 00:11:55,420 here. the signal's weak, 263 00:11:55,780 --> 00:11:56,940 but i'm detecting a pre-fall signature 264 00:11:57,340 --> 00:11:58,100 on that planet. 265 00:11:58,500 --> 00:11:59,620 it must be from the probe's transponder. 266 00:11:59,655 --> 00:12:01,177 my god, it's beautiful. 267 00:12:01,212 --> 00:12:02,665 well, congratulations. 268 00:12:02,700 --> 00:12:03,825 besides the slip-scout pilots, 269 00:12:03,860 --> 00:12:05,400 we are the first to lay eyes on it. 270 00:12:05,435 --> 00:12:06,905 that planet is definitely inhabited, 271 00:12:06,940 --> 00:12:09,620 although their technology is quite primitive. 272 00:12:09,655 --> 00:12:11,540 i'm detecting short- and long-range 273 00:12:11,575 --> 00:12:12,665 radio transmissions, 274 00:12:12,700 --> 00:12:14,185 even general cocktail chatter. 275 00:12:14,220 --> 00:12:16,140 i wonder if they still think they're alone in the universe. 276 00:12:16,175 --> 00:12:18,820 well, if they do, then they are... 277 00:12:18,855 --> 00:12:20,740 very, very lucky. 278 00:12:29,580 --> 00:12:31,105 all right, 279 00:12:31,140 --> 00:12:32,225 so this planet is inhabited. 280 00:12:32,260 --> 00:12:33,820 i need a description of the race. 281 00:12:34,180 --> 00:12:35,340 you have quite a bit in common. they're human. 282 00:12:35,740 --> 00:12:36,900 excuse me? how? 283 00:12:37,260 --> 00:12:38,385 according to my archives, 284 00:12:38,420 --> 00:12:40,340 it's a colony founded 10,000 years ago 285 00:12:40,375 --> 00:12:41,100 by perseids, 286 00:12:41,500 --> 00:12:42,225 seeded with humans from earth. 287 00:12:42,260 --> 00:12:43,780 good, then they would know about us. 288 00:12:44,180 --> 00:12:46,300 no, the perseids lost contact after a slipstream rupture. 289 00:12:46,335 --> 00:12:48,897 the planet's been isolated in a gravity knot ever since. 290 00:12:48,932 --> 00:12:51,460 then that crashed probe would be quite a mystery to them. 291 00:12:51,495 --> 00:12:52,985 most likely, 292 00:12:53,020 --> 00:12:56,100 although i am detecting historical references 293 00:12:56,135 --> 00:12:58,020 to something they call "the alien myth. " 294 00:12:58,380 --> 00:12:59,940 the probe crashed in a remote back-country region 295 00:12:59,975 --> 00:13:01,425 on an isolated shelf. 296 00:13:01,460 --> 00:13:02,620 they haven't discovered it yet. 297 00:13:02,980 --> 00:13:03,745 and they never will. 298 00:13:03,780 --> 00:13:06,060 we'll go in, get it, and get out. 299 00:13:06,095 --> 00:13:07,997 this is a bad idea. 300 00:13:08,032 --> 00:13:09,865 i thought harper 301 00:13:09,900 --> 00:13:11,060 programmed you for optimism. 302 00:13:11,095 --> 00:13:12,220 i was thinking 303 00:13:12,580 --> 00:13:13,380 about the commonwealth's first contact mission 304 00:13:13,415 --> 00:13:14,465 to jespin-dover. 305 00:13:14,500 --> 00:13:15,660 like i said, i thought harper 306 00:13:15,695 --> 00:13:16,837 programmed you for optimism? 307 00:13:16,872 --> 00:13:17,980 one single miscommunication 308 00:13:18,015 --> 00:13:19,105 sent that planet 309 00:13:19,140 --> 00:13:20,660 into non-stop rioting and chaos, 310 00:13:20,695 --> 00:13:21,785 until, of course, 311 00:13:21,820 --> 00:13:22,980 the high guard managed to subjugate them 312 00:13:23,340 --> 00:13:24,500 with the threat of total annihilation. 313 00:13:24,535 --> 00:13:26,385 rommie, beka, tyr, and i 314 00:13:26,420 --> 00:13:27,580 will be more discreet than to use words 315 00:13:27,940 --> 00:13:30,225 that translate into "apocalypse. " 316 00:13:30,260 --> 00:13:32,580 dylan, you just used two words in a sentence 317 00:13:32,615 --> 00:13:33,340 that should never be put together. 318 00:13:33,375 --> 00:13:34,100 what's that? 319 00:13:34,500 --> 00:13:35,620 "tyr" and "discreet. " 320 00:13:35,655 --> 00:13:37,505 oh, you see? 321 00:13:37,540 --> 00:13:39,460 at least harper programmed you for a sense of humor. 322 00:13:39,495 --> 00:13:40,620 that was funny. 323 00:13:41,020 --> 00:13:42,180 it was good. 324 00:13:43,700 --> 00:13:45,220 they still use paper and plastics, 325 00:13:45,255 --> 00:13:46,745 so thanks 326 00:13:46,780 --> 00:13:49,060 to an authentically replicated lamination technique, 327 00:13:49,460 --> 00:13:51,780 you're all officially pledged citizens 328 00:13:51,815 --> 00:13:52,865 of the obscure 329 00:13:52,900 --> 00:13:54,820 and politically isolated country of north sodzee, 330 00:13:55,220 --> 00:13:57,140 not to be confused with tyr anasazi. 331 00:13:57,175 --> 00:13:59,060 it says i'm a common farmer. 332 00:13:59,095 --> 00:14:00,797 yes, it does, 333 00:14:00,832 --> 00:14:02,465 but remember, 334 00:14:02,500 --> 00:14:03,660 if you're discovered, you're a tourist. 335 00:14:03,695 --> 00:14:04,785 yeah, yeah. 336 00:14:04,820 --> 00:14:05,980 specifically, an "adventure tourist," 337 00:14:06,015 --> 00:14:07,140 discovering the rugged outback 338 00:14:07,175 --> 00:14:07,900 of a distant country. 339 00:14:08,260 --> 00:14:10,945 i have no need for this cheap mask. 340 00:14:10,980 --> 00:14:19,020 well, i think you do, especially dressed like that. 341 00:14:19,055 --> 00:14:20,145 what good are all these papers 342 00:14:20,180 --> 00:14:20,940 if we can't even speak their language? 343 00:14:21,340 --> 00:14:23,440 ah, to avoid that nasty embarrassment, 344 00:14:23,475 --> 00:14:25,540 i present to you my modified invention 345 00:14:25,575 --> 00:14:27,460 for simultaneous translations, 346 00:14:27,495 --> 00:14:29,380 the emulator. 347 00:14:29,415 --> 00:14:30,505 huh? 348 00:14:30,540 --> 00:14:31,665 it's an unknown society. 349 00:14:31,700 --> 00:14:33,620 what would the emulator possibly emulate? 350 00:14:34,020 --> 00:14:35,540 well, we did a little creative eavesdropping, 351 00:14:35,575 --> 00:14:36,665 cross-referenced it 352 00:14:36,700 --> 00:14:38,620 with rommie's language data archives, 353 00:14:38,655 --> 00:14:39,745 and voila. 354 00:14:39,780 --> 00:14:40,900 consider it a friendly little tiny robot 355 00:14:40,935 --> 00:14:42,025 sitting on your shoulder, 356 00:14:42,060 --> 00:14:43,980 whispering sweet little somethings into your ear. 357 00:14:44,015 --> 00:14:45,865 you're good. 358 00:14:45,900 --> 00:14:48,185 all right, listen up. 359 00:14:48,220 --> 00:14:49,740 this is not a first contact mission. 360 00:14:49,775 --> 00:14:50,500 we are covert, 361 00:14:50,900 --> 00:14:51,660 with an aim towards minimal interface. 362 00:14:52,060 --> 00:14:53,185 anybody who blows their cover 363 00:14:53,220 --> 00:14:53,980 may end up on this planet for good. 364 00:14:54,015 --> 00:14:56,097 understood? 365 00:14:56,132 --> 00:14:58,696 absolutely. 366 00:14:58,731 --> 00:15:01,260 let's go. 367 00:15:05,860 --> 00:15:07,020 their deep space network 368 00:15:07,420 --> 00:15:09,140 only consists of 13 x-ray satellites. 369 00:15:09,175 --> 00:15:10,860 themaru'svisual signature is low enough, 370 00:15:11,260 --> 00:15:12,020 you can land on the planet undetected. 371 00:15:12,420 --> 00:15:13,940 good. we'll take themarudown 372 00:15:13,975 --> 00:15:15,425 under the cover of darkness. 373 00:15:15,460 --> 00:15:17,380 worst case, they'll think we're a falling star. 374 00:15:17,780 --> 00:15:18,940 i don't get it. 375 00:15:19,300 --> 00:15:20,460 uh, rommie, 376 00:15:20,860 --> 00:15:22,380 a falling star is really a meteorite, 377 00:15:22,780 --> 00:15:25,060 burning up as it enters the atmosphere- 378 00:15:25,095 --> 00:15:26,037 no, no, that, i got. 379 00:15:26,072 --> 00:15:26,945 what i don't get 380 00:15:26,980 --> 00:15:28,520 is if they're such an immature society, 381 00:15:28,555 --> 00:15:30,060 why don't we simply re-program them? 382 00:15:30,095 --> 00:15:31,620 "re-program" them? 383 00:15:31,980 --> 00:15:33,140 within minutes, i could update their technology 384 00:15:33,175 --> 00:15:35,025 by at least a thousand years. 385 00:15:35,060 --> 00:15:37,740 yeah, i'm afraid that would be a bit overwhelming. 386 00:15:38,140 --> 00:15:39,625 it's a little hard 387 00:15:39,660 --> 00:15:41,980 to upgrade their hearts or their minds. 388 00:15:42,015 --> 00:15:43,105 unfortunately, that takes time, 389 00:15:43,140 --> 00:15:46,180 and the guidance of an invisible hand. 390 00:15:46,580 --> 00:15:47,305 guidance? 391 00:15:47,340 --> 00:15:48,500 you make them sound like children. 392 00:15:48,535 --> 00:15:50,020 well, they are children... 393 00:15:50,820 --> 00:15:52,305 ...for the most part. 394 00:15:52,340 --> 00:15:55,020 i mean, they have no idea how dangerous the universe is. 395 00:15:55,055 --> 00:15:57,665 maybe it's the universe that needs to be re-programmed. 396 00:15:57,700 --> 00:16:00,020 until then, it would be better to leave the nietzschean behind. 397 00:16:00,055 --> 00:16:02,157 [ dylan ]: tyr will keep him on a short leash. 398 00:16:02,192 --> 00:16:04,260 [ beka ]: gaiton knows more than he's telling us. 399 00:16:04,295 --> 00:16:07,700 [ dylan ]: exactly. he'll tell tyr. 400 00:16:13,460 --> 00:16:15,345 the probe's signal 401 00:16:15,380 --> 00:16:18,060 is 2.3 kilometers north, northwest from here. 402 00:16:18,095 --> 00:16:20,705 air's wet. 403 00:16:20,740 --> 00:16:23,060 reminds me of a hot summer night on tarn vedra. 404 00:16:23,095 --> 00:16:25,345 i still find it highly unwise of you, captain, 405 00:16:25,380 --> 00:16:26,900 not to carry your weapon in an unknown environment. 406 00:16:26,935 --> 00:16:29,580 like i said, no weapons. we are going native. 407 00:16:29,980 --> 00:16:31,900 as loathe as i am to agree with him, 408 00:16:31,935 --> 00:16:33,385 i'll have to concur. 409 00:16:33,420 --> 00:16:36,100 it is highly imprudent not to carry some- 410 00:16:37,260 --> 00:16:39,580 great. now what? 411 00:16:39,940 --> 00:16:42,260 well, now we activate our emulators 412 00:16:42,660 --> 00:16:43,780 and smile. 413 00:16:45,340 --> 00:16:47,260 hello? is there someone there? 414 00:16:47,295 --> 00:16:48,420 they're coming over here. 415 00:16:48,455 --> 00:16:49,905 find that probe. 416 00:16:49,940 --> 00:16:51,280 we'll meet you back at themaru. 417 00:16:51,315 --> 00:16:52,620 we'll keep these guys occupied. 418 00:16:52,655 --> 00:16:54,145 oh, 419 00:16:54,180 --> 00:16:55,700 and its launch sequence only responds to my dna, 420 00:16:55,735 --> 00:16:56,860 so you will meet us back at themaru. 421 00:16:57,220 --> 00:16:59,140 nobody gets hurt. 422 00:17:00,300 --> 00:17:01,460 let's just kill them and be done with it. 423 00:17:01,860 --> 00:17:02,585 try it 424 00:17:02,620 --> 00:17:04,540 and only one person will die here. 425 00:17:06,820 --> 00:17:09,900 well, have fun with your new friends, captain. 426 00:17:18,940 --> 00:17:20,100 she was acting kind of strange, 427 00:17:20,460 --> 00:17:21,585 and then she got dizzy, 428 00:17:21,620 --> 00:17:22,780 so our friends went back to the base camp 429 00:17:23,140 --> 00:17:24,265 to get, you know, some help, 430 00:17:24,300 --> 00:17:26,800 so i'm just thinking it's the humidity. 431 00:17:26,835 --> 00:17:29,300 maybe you could take a look at her. 432 00:17:29,700 --> 00:17:30,460 i'm afraid my expertise 433 00:17:30,820 --> 00:17:32,740 is limited to the stars and planets. 434 00:17:32,775 --> 00:17:33,865 i'm an astronomer, 435 00:17:33,900 --> 00:17:36,980 but dr. semel might be able to help. 436 00:17:40,060 --> 00:17:41,600 you're a doctor? 437 00:17:41,635 --> 00:17:43,105 of astrophysics, 438 00:17:43,140 --> 00:17:44,660 although i am familiar 439 00:17:44,695 --> 00:17:46,180 with basic anatomy. 440 00:17:46,580 --> 00:17:48,500 i'll bet you are. 441 00:17:50,420 --> 00:17:52,340 it all started with a sharp pain 442 00:17:52,375 --> 00:17:53,860 right here. 443 00:17:55,420 --> 00:17:56,545 are you out here 444 00:17:56,580 --> 00:17:58,300 for the meteorite event too? 445 00:17:58,335 --> 00:18:00,020 you know, the falling star? 446 00:18:00,055 --> 00:18:02,305 oh, the falling star. 447 00:18:02,340 --> 00:18:05,780 uh, no, we're not here for the meteorites. 448 00:18:05,815 --> 00:18:06,540 well, i know you're not this far 449 00:18:06,940 --> 00:18:07,665 into the back country 450 00:18:07,700 --> 00:18:09,220 for the great jazz and gourmet food. 451 00:18:09,255 --> 00:18:11,140 well, we are adventure tourists 452 00:18:11,175 --> 00:18:12,300 from north sodzee. 453 00:18:12,700 --> 00:18:13,860 north sodzee? 454 00:18:14,220 --> 00:18:14,980 yes. 455 00:18:15,380 --> 00:18:16,900 i'm tori layton. 456 00:18:17,300 --> 00:18:18,425 i'm cap- 457 00:18:18,460 --> 00:18:19,620 i'm dylan hunt. 458 00:18:19,980 --> 00:18:21,140 nice to meet you. 459 00:18:22,660 --> 00:18:24,220 you met henry. 460 00:18:24,980 --> 00:18:26,900 we're from belden. 461 00:18:28,060 --> 00:18:30,740 belden university. 462 00:18:31,140 --> 00:18:33,420 don't tell me you've never heard of belden university. 463 00:18:33,455 --> 00:18:34,145 sorry. 464 00:18:34,180 --> 00:18:35,305 i keep telling you, 465 00:18:35,340 --> 00:18:37,460 we still don't know enough about our own world. 466 00:18:37,495 --> 00:18:39,580 mm... there's so much we could teach each other. 467 00:18:41,500 --> 00:18:44,180 you know, our observatory's over that hill. 468 00:18:44,580 --> 00:18:45,700 we have water and air conditioning. 469 00:18:45,735 --> 00:18:46,860 you know, that's not necessary. 470 00:18:47,260 --> 00:18:47,620 if she stays out in this heat 471 00:18:47,655 --> 00:18:48,745 much longer, 472 00:18:48,780 --> 00:18:49,740 she might dehydrate. 473 00:18:49,775 --> 00:18:50,700 no, she'll be fine. 474 00:18:51,100 --> 00:18:52,260 [ clears throat ] 475 00:18:53,020 --> 00:18:54,540 he is a doctor. 476 00:18:54,940 --> 00:18:56,860 oh, jeez... 477 00:18:58,380 --> 00:19:01,060 it's 1.7 kilometers through this brush. 478 00:19:01,095 --> 00:19:02,585 your captain hunt, 479 00:19:02,620 --> 00:19:07,220 he must be a very great man to command theandromeda. 480 00:19:07,255 --> 00:19:09,900 he's worthy, deserving of respect. 481 00:19:09,935 --> 00:19:14,140 is that why you serve him? 482 00:19:14,175 --> 00:19:15,660 i don't serve anyone. 483 00:19:16,060 --> 00:19:17,545 i must have missed that 484 00:19:17,580 --> 00:19:19,140 when you obeyed his order not to kill those humans. 485 00:19:23,740 --> 00:19:26,820 you've missed a great many things. 486 00:19:27,180 --> 00:19:28,740 and no one in your country 487 00:19:29,100 --> 00:19:30,260 has ever heard of the alien myth? 488 00:19:30,295 --> 00:19:32,545 why chase a myth 489 00:19:32,580 --> 00:19:33,340 when there's still so much to learn 490 00:19:33,375 --> 00:19:35,225 about our own world? 491 00:19:35,260 --> 00:19:39,065 well... but look up there. 492 00:19:39,100 --> 00:19:40,620 isn't the best way to learn about our world 493 00:19:41,020 --> 00:19:43,520 understanding its place in the universe? 494 00:19:43,555 --> 00:19:46,020 i mean, we have no idea whether we're alone 495 00:19:46,380 --> 00:19:49,060 or part of something too remarkable and vast 496 00:19:49,460 --> 00:19:52,140 to even imagine. 497 00:19:52,540 --> 00:19:54,425 maybe we are alone. 498 00:19:54,460 --> 00:19:55,620 you know, we still haven't proven 499 00:19:55,655 --> 00:19:56,977 that there's life out there. 500 00:19:57,012 --> 00:19:58,300 i don't need a mathematician 501 00:19:58,335 --> 00:19:59,025 to tell me 502 00:19:59,060 --> 00:20:01,380 that the universe is designed for life. 503 00:20:02,500 --> 00:20:03,660 what? 504 00:20:04,060 --> 00:20:07,900 it's nothing. you remind me of someone. 505 00:20:07,935 --> 00:20:11,740 and that's where tori and i part company. 506 00:20:11,775 --> 00:20:13,260 she's a hopeless romantic, 507 00:20:13,295 --> 00:20:14,785 believing this myth 508 00:20:14,820 --> 00:20:16,340 that we spring from aliens. 509 00:20:16,375 --> 00:20:17,860 i rely on what's known. 510 00:20:17,895 --> 00:20:20,905 that we're alone. 511 00:20:20,940 --> 00:20:23,260 that we have each other. 512 00:20:24,780 --> 00:20:27,860 that's my sense of hopeless romance. 513 00:20:27,895 --> 00:20:29,380 mm. 514 00:20:32,100 --> 00:20:34,020 we're home. 515 00:20:39,780 --> 00:20:41,700 you know, maybe first contact 516 00:20:42,060 --> 00:20:43,620 isn't such a bad idea after all. 517 00:20:43,980 --> 00:20:45,105 when it comes time 518 00:20:45,140 --> 00:20:47,060 to scoot out from behind this gassy giant, 519 00:20:47,095 --> 00:20:48,220 maybe i'll get a little first contact 520 00:20:48,580 --> 00:20:50,320 of my own. 521 00:20:50,355 --> 00:20:52,025 if that system 522 00:20:52,060 --> 00:20:52,820 weren't locked in a slipstream knot, 523 00:20:53,220 --> 00:20:54,360 that planet would be a sideshow 524 00:20:54,395 --> 00:20:55,500 in a nightsider theme casino. 525 00:20:55,535 --> 00:20:57,025 yeah, but if this system 526 00:20:57,060 --> 00:20:59,160 weren't locked inside a slipstream knot, 527 00:20:59,195 --> 00:21:01,567 it also wouldn't be a garden of eden 528 00:21:01,602 --> 00:21:03,940 with hot babes, cool toys, and beer. 529 00:21:04,340 --> 00:21:06,260 then they're really, really primitive. 530 00:21:06,295 --> 00:21:08,905 yep. ignorance is bliss. 531 00:21:08,940 --> 00:21:11,620 detecting transit entry three light hours away. 532 00:21:12,020 --> 00:21:14,340 but not for long. 533 00:21:16,260 --> 00:21:19,300 say hello to rigel 2-85. 534 00:21:19,335 --> 00:21:23,140 hello, rigel 2-85. 535 00:21:23,175 --> 00:21:24,665 what is it? 536 00:21:24,700 --> 00:21:27,760 a star about the size of the sun, 537 00:21:27,795 --> 00:21:30,820 only no one's ever laid eyes on it 538 00:21:30,855 --> 00:21:31,945 until me. 539 00:21:31,980 --> 00:21:33,540 i knew there was something i liked 540 00:21:33,900 --> 00:21:36,220 about your eyes. 541 00:21:37,380 --> 00:21:39,300 okay, maybe i had a little help 542 00:21:39,660 --> 00:21:41,580 from the world's most powerful telescope. 543 00:21:41,615 --> 00:21:44,260 keep looking through your telescope. 544 00:21:44,660 --> 00:21:45,820 who knows what you'll find? 545 00:21:46,180 --> 00:21:47,305 one day, 546 00:21:47,340 --> 00:21:48,500 our telescope may even be able 547 00:21:48,535 --> 00:21:49,225 to prove the existence 548 00:21:49,260 --> 00:21:50,820 of something we call a black hole. 549 00:21:50,855 --> 00:21:51,940 mm-hmm. 550 00:21:59,260 --> 00:22:01,940 i can't get a wink of dead man's sleep tonight. 551 00:22:01,975 --> 00:22:03,065 good morning, amory. 552 00:22:03,100 --> 00:22:06,180 we ran into some tourists from north sodzee. 553 00:22:06,215 --> 00:22:10,020 dylan, this is amory sutton, 554 00:22:10,380 --> 00:22:12,300 our resident government grouch. 555 00:22:12,700 --> 00:22:15,380 well, we all have our purposes, dear. 556 00:22:15,415 --> 00:22:16,937 and that ain't coffee. 557 00:22:16,972 --> 00:22:18,425 in about two hours, 558 00:22:18,460 --> 00:22:20,740 he's going to be under his desk sleeping like a baby. 559 00:22:21,140 --> 00:22:22,300 [ beeping ] 560 00:22:24,220 --> 00:22:26,105 um... 561 00:22:26,140 --> 00:22:29,980 i have to go see how beka is doing. 562 00:22:30,340 --> 00:22:31,900 excuse me. 563 00:22:35,340 --> 00:22:38,420 i still think you need physical therapy, 564 00:22:38,455 --> 00:22:41,065 under my supervision, of course. 565 00:22:41,100 --> 00:22:45,340 doctor, i'll be under whatever you want. 566 00:22:50,340 --> 00:22:51,825 excuse me. 567 00:22:51,860 --> 00:22:54,180 i hope i'm interrupting something. 568 00:22:58,020 --> 00:23:00,120 andromeda sent a burst transmission. 569 00:23:00,155 --> 00:23:02,220 the nietzscheans are in the system. 570 00:23:02,620 --> 00:23:04,540 damn. i was looking forward to my therapy. 571 00:23:04,575 --> 00:23:05,665 all right. let's go. 572 00:23:05,700 --> 00:23:07,220 we have another problem. 573 00:23:07,255 --> 00:23:08,740 tori saw my bracer. 574 00:23:09,900 --> 00:23:12,980 all right, so we lie, or do a neural extraction. 575 00:23:13,015 --> 00:23:16,060 i was thinking of something a little more low-tech. 576 00:23:16,095 --> 00:23:17,580 you know, like the truth? 577 00:23:17,615 --> 00:23:18,340 okay. 578 00:23:18,740 --> 00:23:20,260 i just have to say goodbye to my doctor. 579 00:23:20,295 --> 00:23:22,545 oh, jeez. five minutes. 580 00:23:22,580 --> 00:23:24,065 if you're truly your own man, 581 00:23:24,100 --> 00:23:26,420 perhaps you'll entertain a proposal, 582 00:23:26,455 --> 00:23:27,545 that is, 583 00:23:27,580 --> 00:23:28,740 if you're courageous enough to make some money 584 00:23:29,100 --> 00:23:30,660 and defy the kludge- 585 00:23:34,500 --> 00:23:37,145 i should snap your neck and be done with you. 586 00:23:37,180 --> 00:23:41,780 i am so very sick of you and every nietzschean like you, 587 00:23:41,815 --> 00:23:44,477 sick of your rancid stink 588 00:23:44,512 --> 00:23:47,105 of failure and inferiority, 589 00:23:47,140 --> 00:23:50,020 sick of your souls that have grown so stale. 590 00:23:50,055 --> 00:23:52,900 it is only a mask to hide a sweeter purpose. 591 00:23:52,935 --> 00:23:53,665 oh, truly? 592 00:23:53,700 --> 00:23:55,185 and what is that purpose? 593 00:23:55,220 --> 00:23:56,740 i'm a spy for the drago-kazov. 594 00:23:57,140 --> 00:23:58,625 they sent me to find you, 595 00:23:58,660 --> 00:24:01,740 and depending upon how i found you, 596 00:24:02,140 --> 00:24:03,300 to give you their simple answer. 597 00:24:05,220 --> 00:24:07,140 and their answer is? 598 00:24:09,060 --> 00:24:10,580 "yes. " 599 00:24:17,100 --> 00:24:20,580 we travel faster than the speed of light 600 00:24:20,615 --> 00:24:23,225 on something called a slipstream. 601 00:24:23,260 --> 00:24:25,540 it's a series of gravity strings connecting entire solar systems. 602 00:24:25,575 --> 00:24:27,425 you could even say 603 00:24:27,460 --> 00:24:29,380 it holds the universe together. 604 00:24:29,780 --> 00:24:31,320 you don't believe me, do you? 605 00:24:31,355 --> 00:24:32,860 oh, no, that's my problem. 606 00:24:33,220 --> 00:24:34,020 i do believe you. 607 00:24:34,055 --> 00:24:35,105 and? 608 00:24:35,140 --> 00:24:36,700 and i want you to tell me everything. 609 00:24:37,060 --> 00:24:38,600 i want you to tell me how a ship 610 00:24:38,635 --> 00:24:40,547 the size of seven aircraft carriers 611 00:24:40,582 --> 00:24:42,101 can shrink its mass to near zero 612 00:24:42,136 --> 00:24:43,620 and ride these cosmic strings. 613 00:24:43,655 --> 00:24:44,380 i want you to tell me 614 00:24:44,740 --> 00:24:46,625 about the races and species and beings 615 00:24:46,660 --> 00:24:48,980 that you've encountered and call your friends. 616 00:24:50,140 --> 00:24:53,220 so that we can finally really belong to the universe, 617 00:24:53,255 --> 00:24:55,105 and people like dr. semel will realize 618 00:24:55,140 --> 00:24:56,260 that i am not some hopeless kook after all, 619 00:24:56,660 --> 00:24:57,420 because i am right. 620 00:24:57,455 --> 00:24:59,305 no. no. 621 00:24:59,340 --> 00:25:03,905 you can't tell anyone, ever. 622 00:25:03,940 --> 00:25:05,065 tori, you don't know what's out there, 623 00:25:05,100 --> 00:25:06,660 and i don't have seven lifetimes to explain it to you, 624 00:25:07,020 --> 00:25:08,180 but the future of your world depends 625 00:25:08,215 --> 00:25:10,500 on your keeping this secret. 626 00:25:11,620 --> 00:25:13,180 i've trusted you. 627 00:25:15,100 --> 00:25:16,620 now you have to trust me. 628 00:25:19,300 --> 00:25:21,620 my parents would have been so proud. 629 00:25:25,060 --> 00:25:28,900 they will be proud. 630 00:25:30,180 --> 00:25:32,460 they're real and they're here. 631 00:25:34,020 --> 00:25:35,505 yes, sir, i understand. 632 00:25:35,540 --> 00:25:38,980 containment by any means necessary. 633 00:25:39,015 --> 00:25:40,900 yes, sir. 634 00:25:43,620 --> 00:25:45,105 what? nothing. 635 00:25:45,140 --> 00:25:47,820 oh, come on. you have to tell me. 636 00:25:47,855 --> 00:25:48,545 okay. 637 00:25:48,580 --> 00:25:50,500 uh, i just always thought 638 00:25:50,900 --> 00:25:55,900 that aliens would be two feet tall and green. 639 00:25:56,260 --> 00:25:57,420 what? 640 00:25:57,820 --> 00:25:58,945 maybe i am. 641 00:25:58,980 --> 00:26:02,420 this is what we call a hand-held compact field phone. 642 00:26:02,455 --> 00:26:05,065 now, if you feel dizzy 643 00:26:05,100 --> 00:26:06,225 or you need me for any reason, 644 00:26:06,260 --> 00:26:09,340 all you have to do is press these seven buttons. 645 00:26:10,500 --> 00:26:12,420 and if you're ever up in north sodzee, 646 00:26:12,780 --> 00:26:13,940 look me up. 647 00:26:16,620 --> 00:26:18,540 governmental intelligence. 648 00:26:18,575 --> 00:26:20,460 nobody's going anywhere. 649 00:26:20,860 --> 00:26:22,380 i have a few questions 650 00:26:22,415 --> 00:26:23,905 to ask you. 651 00:26:23,940 --> 00:26:24,700 i'll see if i can answer them. 652 00:26:24,735 --> 00:26:26,257 cuff him, please. 653 00:26:26,292 --> 00:26:27,780 you'd better back up. 654 00:26:41,980 --> 00:26:45,060 what do you know? i'm all better. 655 00:26:46,980 --> 00:26:48,500 they won't get away, you know. 656 00:26:48,535 --> 00:26:50,020 the militia's already after them 657 00:26:50,055 --> 00:26:51,940 and the other two. 658 00:26:51,975 --> 00:26:52,917 dylan! 659 00:26:52,952 --> 00:26:53,860 what? 660 00:26:54,260 --> 00:26:54,985 dylan! 661 00:26:55,020 --> 00:26:57,305 you'd better go to your spaceplane. 662 00:26:57,340 --> 00:26:58,860 they've already got a lot of people on the way, 663 00:26:58,895 --> 00:26:59,620 and they'll kill you to keep this secret. 664 00:27:00,020 --> 00:27:01,360 why should this day be any different? 665 00:27:01,395 --> 00:27:02,700 we still have something else to find. 666 00:27:02,735 --> 00:27:04,620 come on, let's go. 667 00:27:05,780 --> 00:27:08,460 "spaceplane", huh? that's cute. 668 00:27:09,620 --> 00:27:12,265 oh, to be all-powerful, 669 00:27:12,300 --> 00:27:14,620 traveling slipstream in total confidence, 670 00:27:14,655 --> 00:27:18,060 no fear of disaster or detection. 671 00:27:18,095 --> 00:27:19,185 remarkable. 672 00:27:19,220 --> 00:27:21,140 our people created this. 673 00:27:21,175 --> 00:27:22,877 the detail... 674 00:27:22,912 --> 00:27:24,545 the beauty... 675 00:27:24,580 --> 00:27:31,900 it's science and art and poetry unified. 676 00:27:33,420 --> 00:27:35,740 our people created this... 677 00:27:38,820 --> 00:27:40,740 and yet i can't even recognize myself. 678 00:27:43,420 --> 00:27:47,260 but there you are... 679 00:27:47,295 --> 00:27:48,385 there you are, 680 00:27:48,420 --> 00:27:50,340 reflected in the mind of drago musevini. 681 00:27:50,700 --> 00:27:52,240 how could i have convinced myself? 682 00:27:52,275 --> 00:27:53,987 how could i have let them convince me 683 00:27:54,022 --> 00:27:55,700 that he was just some rich old man? 684 00:27:58,020 --> 00:27:59,540 he was a poet, 685 00:27:59,575 --> 00:28:01,060 a scholar, 686 00:28:01,460 --> 00:28:04,140 a magnificent warrior. 687 00:28:04,175 --> 00:28:06,820 he was a living god. 688 00:28:07,980 --> 00:28:09,540 what happened to us? 689 00:28:09,900 --> 00:28:11,025 time happened to us. 690 00:28:11,060 --> 00:28:13,740 time changed the universe... 691 00:28:15,300 --> 00:28:18,340 but, gaiton, 692 00:28:18,740 --> 00:28:20,260 if the ancestors could do that, 693 00:28:20,295 --> 00:28:22,545 you and i, 694 00:28:22,580 --> 00:28:27,180 we can change the universe again if we will it. 695 00:28:34,860 --> 00:28:39,460 shall we bury these warrior's remains? 696 00:28:41,380 --> 00:28:43,300 aye, brother. 697 00:28:43,335 --> 00:28:45,220 we shall. 698 00:28:57,540 --> 00:29:00,580 [ both sniffing ] 699 00:29:44,380 --> 00:29:46,300 gaiton! 700 00:29:54,740 --> 00:29:56,660 [ nietzschean battle cry ] 701 00:30:03,940 --> 00:30:04,740 how many nietzschean vessels? 702 00:30:05,100 --> 00:30:06,225 i can't tell. 703 00:30:06,260 --> 00:30:08,580 i've got a faint sensor contact at extreme range. 704 00:30:08,615 --> 00:30:11,225 but at 75 psl, 705 00:30:11,260 --> 00:30:12,800 they should have cleared the gas giant by now. 706 00:30:12,835 --> 00:30:14,340 andromeda,you're sure they're still in the system? 707 00:30:14,375 --> 00:30:17,020 i haven't detected any slipstream events. 708 00:30:17,380 --> 00:30:18,540 what about long-range drones? 709 00:30:18,575 --> 00:30:22,020 searching. 710 00:30:22,380 --> 00:30:25,060 okay, all right, where are they? 711 00:30:26,980 --> 00:30:28,900 so much for not hurting anybody. 712 00:30:29,300 --> 00:30:30,820 what could have caused this much destruction? 713 00:30:32,380 --> 00:30:33,900 oh, i've got a pretty good idea... 714 00:30:34,300 --> 00:30:36,980 speaking of which, still no word from tyr. 715 00:30:37,015 --> 00:30:38,500 he'd better be back at themaru. 716 00:30:38,535 --> 00:30:40,385 themaru? 717 00:30:40,420 --> 00:30:42,340 our "spaceplane. " 718 00:30:42,740 --> 00:30:44,660 [ beeping ] 719 00:30:45,420 --> 00:30:46,945 it's theandromeda. 720 00:30:46,980 --> 00:30:48,100 it's confirmed-nietzscheans, headed to the planet. 721 00:30:48,135 --> 00:30:49,260 nietzscheans? 722 00:30:49,660 --> 00:30:51,545 the bad guys. 723 00:30:51,580 --> 00:30:53,500 they're after the same thing we are. 724 00:30:57,620 --> 00:31:00,265 so it looks like my parents 725 00:31:00,300 --> 00:31:02,220 are going to get to be proud of me after all. 726 00:31:02,255 --> 00:31:03,777 when your spaceplane arrives, 727 00:31:03,812 --> 00:31:05,300 you're going to need a local 728 00:31:05,335 --> 00:31:06,820 to explain everything. 729 00:31:09,540 --> 00:31:12,580 i'm assuming that this threat could destroy our world, 730 00:31:12,615 --> 00:31:14,105 and i'm also assuming 731 00:31:14,140 --> 00:31:15,300 that you intend to protect us. 732 00:31:15,660 --> 00:31:16,420 if only i could. 733 00:31:16,820 --> 00:31:17,580 no. no, no, no, no. 734 00:31:17,980 --> 00:31:18,740 you have to help us. 735 00:31:19,140 --> 00:31:19,900 you are the only reason those nietzscheans 736 00:31:20,260 --> 00:31:21,060 are even here. 737 00:31:21,420 --> 00:31:22,545 they're here because of something 738 00:31:22,580 --> 00:31:23,740 that crashed on your planet over 300 years ago. 739 00:31:23,775 --> 00:31:25,625 that's not our fault. 740 00:31:25,660 --> 00:31:27,940 it's nobody's fault. just the way the universe works. 741 00:31:27,975 --> 00:31:28,705 and we have to die 742 00:31:28,740 --> 00:31:29,860 because we happen to be in the way? 743 00:31:29,895 --> 00:31:31,020 no, you have to fight to live 744 00:31:31,420 --> 00:31:33,665 because of this stupid freak accident. 745 00:31:33,700 --> 00:31:36,420 you know, it's like a tornado, a flood, a hurricane. 746 00:31:36,780 --> 00:31:38,700 we would call that an act of god, 747 00:31:39,100 --> 00:31:40,620 but maybe... 748 00:31:41,020 --> 00:31:43,665 maybe you can change god's mind. 749 00:31:43,700 --> 00:31:46,380 tori, i'm not the angel you think i am. 750 00:31:46,780 --> 00:31:49,060 tyr just sent a coded transmission. 751 00:31:49,095 --> 00:31:50,220 they're at themaru. 752 00:31:50,620 --> 00:31:51,380 we've got to go. 753 00:31:51,415 --> 00:31:53,300 okay. 754 00:31:54,820 --> 00:31:56,740 i'm sorry. 755 00:32:06,340 --> 00:32:10,180 i have worn so many masks, 756 00:32:10,215 --> 00:32:12,500 sometimes i think 757 00:32:12,900 --> 00:32:14,420 i've forgotten my real face. 758 00:32:16,740 --> 00:32:18,260 perhaps this has reminded you. 759 00:32:20,940 --> 00:32:23,260 you're right, tyr. 760 00:32:23,295 --> 00:32:25,180 it has... 761 00:32:26,340 --> 00:32:27,825 and i believe it is too valuable 762 00:32:27,860 --> 00:32:30,940 to belong to anyone who isn't nietzschean. 763 00:32:32,460 --> 00:32:34,780 it belongs to drago. 764 00:32:34,815 --> 00:32:36,700 go on. 765 00:32:37,860 --> 00:32:40,865 there is a rumor 766 00:32:40,900 --> 00:32:42,820 that geneticists on desideratum drift 767 00:32:42,855 --> 00:32:44,740 claim to have verified the existence 768 00:32:44,775 --> 00:32:46,660 of the genetic reincarnation 769 00:32:46,695 --> 00:32:48,945 of drago himself. 770 00:32:48,980 --> 00:32:50,900 it meant so little to me 771 00:32:51,300 --> 00:32:53,945 until today, 772 00:32:53,980 --> 00:32:56,660 when i dared to dream. 773 00:32:57,060 --> 00:32:58,580 surely you've thought the same thing... 774 00:32:58,980 --> 00:33:01,625 that so long 775 00:33:01,660 --> 00:33:04,740 as we continue to fight against each other, 776 00:33:04,775 --> 00:33:08,545 we will go on 777 00:33:08,580 --> 00:33:11,260 being a barbaric, stupid people. 778 00:33:11,295 --> 00:33:12,997 i know you, 779 00:33:13,032 --> 00:33:14,665 tyr anasazi, 780 00:33:14,700 --> 00:33:18,540 out of victoria by barbarosa. 781 00:33:22,380 --> 00:33:25,425 the dragans had me befriend you 782 00:33:25,460 --> 00:33:30,460 so that you would lead me to your son, tamerlane. 783 00:33:31,980 --> 00:33:34,480 but i have discarded 784 00:33:34,515 --> 00:33:36,945 my final mask... 785 00:33:36,980 --> 00:33:40,420 the mask of their loyal spy. 786 00:33:40,820 --> 00:33:45,820 today, i... i have seen my real face... 787 00:33:47,740 --> 00:33:50,020 both of our faces. 788 00:33:50,420 --> 00:33:55,020 if we possess the map inside that probe 789 00:33:55,055 --> 00:33:56,940 and have your son at our side, 790 00:33:57,340 --> 00:34:01,540 every nietzschean, dragan, and sabra-jaguar 791 00:34:01,575 --> 00:34:03,460 will rally behind us. 792 00:34:03,860 --> 00:34:07,700 together, we will conquer the universe. 793 00:34:07,735 --> 00:34:09,620 we will be living gods. 794 00:34:19,980 --> 00:34:22,300 yes, brother. 795 00:34:28,420 --> 00:34:31,140 yes. 796 00:34:32,660 --> 00:34:34,980 this is commonwealth-controlled territory... 797 00:34:36,100 --> 00:34:38,820 the way i see it, you have three options. 798 00:34:38,855 --> 00:34:41,500 one, we destroy you where you sit, 799 00:34:41,535 --> 00:34:43,420 two, we become friends, 800 00:34:43,455 --> 00:34:45,340 or three, 801 00:34:45,700 --> 00:34:47,260 you turn around and you leave effective immediately. 802 00:34:47,295 --> 00:34:48,780 what is it going to be? 803 00:34:51,460 --> 00:34:54,180 no answer. 804 00:34:54,540 --> 00:34:56,100 they could have at least asked us to repeat the question. 805 00:34:56,135 --> 00:34:57,185 andromeda, 806 00:34:57,220 --> 00:34:59,940 load offensive missiles, all tubes. 807 00:35:07,220 --> 00:35:08,345 the nietzschean cruiser 808 00:35:08,380 --> 00:35:09,540 is moving toward a transit point. 809 00:35:09,900 --> 00:35:11,025 trance! 810 00:35:11,060 --> 00:35:12,580 have i ever told you you're my golden love goddess? 811 00:35:12,615 --> 00:35:13,705 only all the time. 812 00:35:13,740 --> 00:35:15,280 check that. it's changing course. 813 00:35:15,315 --> 00:35:17,407 it's heading back toward the planet. 814 00:35:17,442 --> 00:35:19,500 they must have detected the probe. 815 00:35:22,580 --> 00:35:24,100 your ship... 816 00:35:25,660 --> 00:35:27,940 it's too remarkable for words. 817 00:35:27,975 --> 00:35:29,065 hmm. 818 00:35:29,100 --> 00:35:30,660 well, how about these words? 819 00:35:30,695 --> 00:35:33,665 uh, "bucket of bolts. " 820 00:35:33,700 --> 00:35:35,620 i just say that to bug her. 821 00:35:35,655 --> 00:35:36,780 stop calling her that. 822 00:35:36,815 --> 00:35:38,305 oops. 823 00:35:38,340 --> 00:35:41,020 speaking of calling, i can't get a response from tyr. 824 00:35:41,780 --> 00:35:42,940 you think he knows something we don't? 825 00:35:42,975 --> 00:35:44,100 [ beeping ] 826 00:35:45,620 --> 00:35:47,140 we're about to find out. 827 00:35:47,175 --> 00:35:48,265 dylan, 828 00:35:48,300 --> 00:35:49,425 the nietzschean cruisers 829 00:35:49,460 --> 00:35:50,620 are closing in on your location. 830 00:35:50,980 --> 00:35:52,140 great. if we leave now, we're toast. 831 00:35:52,175 --> 00:35:53,665 we're not going anywhere, 832 00:35:53,700 --> 00:35:54,820 not without tyr and that probe. 833 00:35:55,220 --> 00:35:56,380 we'll sit tight. you do the same. 834 00:35:56,415 --> 00:35:57,900 sit tight? 835 00:35:58,300 --> 00:35:59,785 until when, dylan? 836 00:35:59,820 --> 00:36:01,380 until those nietzscheans start blowing up our cities, 837 00:36:01,415 --> 00:36:02,140 demanding this "probe" 838 00:36:02,500 --> 00:36:03,660 that nobody's even heard of? 839 00:36:03,695 --> 00:36:05,545 she's right. 840 00:36:05,580 --> 00:36:06,740 dylan, we can't avoid first contact. 841 00:36:06,775 --> 00:36:07,500 any minute now, 842 00:36:08,660 --> 00:36:09,820 are going to pick up theandromeda. 843 00:36:09,855 --> 00:36:12,100 unless they can't. 844 00:36:12,500 --> 00:36:14,420 hit them all with an electromagnetic pulse? 845 00:36:14,455 --> 00:36:15,545 that's not a bad idea, 846 00:36:15,580 --> 00:36:17,500 but i thought i'd try a little more subtle approach. 847 00:36:17,860 --> 00:36:20,180 aim all exotic matter pulsers at the sun. 848 00:36:20,215 --> 00:36:21,305 fire on my command. 849 00:36:21,340 --> 00:36:22,500 the sun, dylan? what are you doing? 850 00:36:23,620 --> 00:36:25,940 i'm just trying to change god's mind. 851 00:36:25,975 --> 00:36:27,100 pulsers aimed. 852 00:36:27,135 --> 00:36:28,620 fire. 853 00:36:41,300 --> 00:36:43,620 [ explosions ] 854 00:36:45,140 --> 00:36:47,060 it sounds like power transponders blowing. 855 00:36:47,095 --> 00:36:47,820 what's happening? 856 00:36:48,220 --> 00:36:48,980 don't worry. that'll be fine. 857 00:36:49,015 --> 00:36:50,465 subtle, huh? 858 00:36:50,500 --> 00:36:52,025 you set off a solar flare. 859 00:36:52,060 --> 00:36:54,360 i guess that wasn't very subtle, was it? 860 00:36:54,395 --> 00:36:56,660 the nietzschean ship's been destroyed. 861 00:36:56,695 --> 00:36:58,580 here's a plausible deniability. 862 00:36:58,615 --> 00:36:59,340 if anyone ever asks, 863 00:36:59,740 --> 00:37:01,660 the solar flare incinerated it. 864 00:37:01,695 --> 00:37:02,820 i can live with that. 865 00:37:06,660 --> 00:37:08,580 satellites, communication devices, 866 00:37:08,615 --> 00:37:09,665 all knocked out. 867 00:37:09,700 --> 00:37:11,620 everyone on this planet's blind. 868 00:37:11,655 --> 00:37:14,137 well, everyone except you. 869 00:37:14,172 --> 00:37:16,620 here's your first contact. 870 00:37:30,820 --> 00:37:32,380 where's gaiton? 871 00:37:32,740 --> 00:37:35,460 he's gone native. 872 00:37:42,740 --> 00:37:45,385 andromeda... 873 00:37:45,420 --> 00:37:46,980 prep for retrieval. 874 00:37:47,015 --> 00:37:48,100 roger that. 875 00:37:51,940 --> 00:37:52,740 now, remember- 876 00:37:52,775 --> 00:37:53,825 right. 877 00:37:53,860 --> 00:37:55,745 this never happened. 878 00:37:55,780 --> 00:37:57,305 what about the government guys? 879 00:37:57,340 --> 00:38:00,020 they want to keep this secret as much as we do. 880 00:38:03,460 --> 00:38:05,200 goodbye, tori. 881 00:38:05,235 --> 00:38:06,467 take me with you. 882 00:38:06,502 --> 00:38:07,665 no one will know, 883 00:38:07,700 --> 00:38:08,860 and after everything i've seen, 884 00:38:09,220 --> 00:38:09,985 i can't go back. 885 00:38:10,020 --> 00:38:11,540 i have too many questions. 886 00:38:11,940 --> 00:38:15,380 yeah, but you have the answer to the most important question. 887 00:38:15,780 --> 00:38:18,060 "yes. " 888 00:38:20,740 --> 00:38:23,060 dylan, when we first met, 889 00:38:23,095 --> 00:38:24,185 you said 890 00:38:24,220 --> 00:38:26,465 i reminded you of someone, 891 00:38:26,500 --> 00:38:29,220 a girlfriend or another ambitious scientist? 892 00:38:29,255 --> 00:38:31,500 both. 893 00:38:33,060 --> 00:38:34,145 did you also teach her 894 00:38:34,180 --> 00:38:36,100 to put the interests of the commonwealth 895 00:38:36,135 --> 00:38:37,660 ahead of her own career? 896 00:38:41,860 --> 00:38:43,780 speaking of career... 897 00:38:44,940 --> 00:38:48,020 for you. 898 00:38:50,700 --> 00:38:53,020 i'm not familiar with this technology. 899 00:38:53,380 --> 00:38:55,665 get familiar. 900 00:38:55,700 --> 00:38:57,220 you just invented it. 901 00:39:11,460 --> 00:39:14,500 now, that's what i call first contact. 902 00:39:22,980 --> 00:39:24,120 according to my analysis, 903 00:39:24,155 --> 00:39:25,260 we aren't the first ones 904 00:39:25,660 --> 00:39:27,960 to make contact with that probe. 905 00:39:27,995 --> 00:39:30,260 a copy was made by someone else. 906 00:39:30,660 --> 00:39:32,145 of course. 907 00:39:32,180 --> 00:39:35,260 captain, according to reports, 908 00:39:35,295 --> 00:39:36,385 the drago-kazov 909 00:39:36,420 --> 00:39:37,940 have already initiated three first-contact missions 910 00:39:37,975 --> 00:39:41,380 to establish bases in case of war. 911 00:39:42,540 --> 00:39:44,460 there's an old saying. 912 00:39:46,780 --> 00:39:49,425 the universe is perfect. 913 00:39:49,460 --> 00:39:52,140 interfere with it at your peril. 914 00:39:55,220 --> 00:39:57,865 i think it's better 915 00:39:57,900 --> 00:40:01,380 if we wait until it reveals itself to us... 916 00:40:02,900 --> 00:40:04,820 and after that... 917 00:40:06,340 --> 00:40:08,260 adjust accordingly. 918 00:40:15,940 --> 00:40:18,660 hello, tyr. i believe it's time for a chat.