Earth: Final Conflict s04e13 Episode Script
Dark Matter
Previously on Gene Roddenberry's Earth Final Conflict Just over a year ago, an alien named Ha'Gel used Sandoval's body to create a son.
Me Liam is part human and part of an alien proto-species called the Kimera.
I grew into the body looking at in less than 5 minutes.
There were vestigial organs in my hands called Shakara'va but the longer I'm on Earth the more human I become.
We build the mother ship and gave her a primary mission to come here and preserve us, once we all enter the death stasis.
Preserve you for what? For your evolution We want you to save us Liam - Zo'or! - I said initiate protocol 716.
- Why have we not fired yet? - We are unable to achieve a sensor lock on the object.
That's impossible! Unless Unless what Zo'or? - What's happening? - Collision in 10 seconds.
Initiate emergency override.
Emergency override, unsuccesful.
Zo'or? Still alive.
Computer.
Initiate verbal response protocol.
I.
D Ronald Sandoval.
security code 50034.
I need a damage report.
Damage contained on decks 111 through 133 ship stabilised.
What is your next order, Sir? Repeat.
What is your next order agent Sandoval? You are now in command.
They have come to Earth with the promise of peace.
An alien race called the Taelons.
But there are those who resist these alien Companions.
For the Taelons true mission the secrets they hide will forever alter our world.
Transcription: Team Trad.
EFC The fate of humanity now relies on those who dare challenge the future of Earth.
Team Trad EFC: Earth Final Conflict 4x13 Dark Matter You all have A.
3 clearance by even so my agents are taking a great risk in revealing themselves to you.
They have intelligence on recent events which in the opinion of the President pushes up the ANA time table for removal of the Taelons.
Ladies and gentlemen.
This is what was left to the Caya Islands after the mothership induced Tsunami at them two months ago.
The death toll was estimated at nearly 30,000 most of the island was simply washed away.
We have documented thousands of cases of illegal confinement brutal and even fatal interrogations, forced labour in Kriss fields.
In short, our benevolent guests from the stars are acting more like a dictatorial army of occupation.
As you know we've ascertain the Taelons are dying.
Now, they have the technology to measure their energy down to the final minutes.
This technologie is a crystal bar which must be driving them mad.
The Synode isn't dodging their leader in more more desperate acts.
Bottom line, ladies and gentleman we have a maniac orbiting Earth with enough fire power to pulverize our planet on a whim.
Zo'or is deteriorating into a Caligula-like madness, it's so that simple.
We believe the time is right for a bloodless coup in wich Da'an with our backing prevails on the Synode to put him in charge.
Some of us are concerned about Zo'or's reaction.
What he did to the Caya Islands might look like a sunday picknick compared to he might do if we force him to a corner With all due respect, Sir he might just do it anyway.
Feel of Da'an.
Use your special relationship to find how he thinks about this.
But make no further moves until we say.
Sorry to disturbe you Sir, but we have a situation on the mothership.
It seems to have collided with a large piece of space debris.
- Damage report? - Undetermined at this point Sir.
Haven't you spoken anyone up there it yet? That's a problem, Sir.
Our telemetry and communication seem to be fonctioning, and within hailing of sensors happen but no one on board is responding.
I want an immediate analysis of orbit, potential dangers and I want a headcount of every Human and Taelons on board that thing! And I want it two days ago.
Yes Sir! What did you do? Nothing! Whatever hit the ship seems to have dumping his energy flux.
It's there.
Just not flowing.
Damned! The entire ship is composed of living taelon bioslurry.
But the impact zone is frozen around, whatever hit us.
Decks 111 through 133 sealed, but inert.
Is this a problem? The bioslurry should be repairing itself, healing the ship, expelling the toxin It's not! And what the hell are we doing here? Someone has to be in command and after many years of loyal service, I'm sure Zo'or wouldn't hesitate to appoint me as that commander.
Yeaaah! right! - What about the volonteers? - I've send them back to Earth for their own safety.
How kind.
- And these drones? - They're implants! They'll do whatever the helm says and at least for the time being I'm at the helm.
Well what are we going to do now? Work fast Do an inventory of the entire ship, anything of value Did you see that? What? Nothing, nothing Report back in an hour.
Trafic reports before impact identified 42 Taelons on board besides Zo'or Our friend Sandoval.
Something done a great deal of damage to the mothership.
What could it be? The comet and asteroid alert grid didn't detect any rock debris.
The problem is not the damage It is that the ship is not healing.
The ANA satellite system shows that the ship has sealed its itself around the mass.
Biometric supports, life supports systems aren't operative.
The ship is weakened.
Zo'or and the others may not even be alive.
I'd say now it's the perfect oportunity for what we discussed.
Coups d'état are unprecedented in Taelon culture.
The taelon's work is down here.
Your leadership it's your species only hope for a future.
Perhaps Computer I'm confused about this data.
Why is Zo'or's energy not flowing? It is at 0.
00003% of its capacity.
Everything slowed down then, not stopped.
Affirmative.
So, from his perspective, one second would seem like one day? Affirmative.
Estimated duration? If current variables remain the same, indefinitly.
I have completed my analysis of the datas that has been collected.
Any conclusions? Only one substance in the universe has this type of effect on taelon energy We call it "Dark matter".
- Is that what hit the ship? - Yes.
Dark matter is off the "anti-universe".
It reverses taelon polarity, slowing time for any Taelon within a certain radius The time vibration is so immeasurable it is as if we're frozen.
Is that why the mothership can't repair itself? Indeed.
We must expell the dark matter.
If not, it will slowly devour the ship and kill it.
If the 42 Taelons on board are incapacitated, who's running that ship? May be the ship is running itself.
Or worse Sandoval.
This place is a gold mine! Its' about a billion box for the taelon medecines, core energy, a all bunch of high tech gizmos Zo'or's been holding back.
I mean if we can ID half of the stuff off here, we make a mint in a black market.
Well done Tate.
I'm sure it'll be obvious to use one day.
Boss! We talk about a king's ransom here.
One day, is today! No! Today is reserved for a more important matter.
What's that? See those blips.
Those are Taelons.
In a very short time, I will have all of them on Earth locked in Locked in? You mean like targets? All of my work, the conspirancy with the Jaridians, selling what's left of my soul to earn the Synod's trust have all led to this moment.
Once I'll have them all targeted, I'm going to ID them aboard one by one, and eliminate them.
Can we do that? Do you see anyone stopping us? This is our moral imperative as human beings.
These bastards are thieves and murderers.
They killed my wife, Tate, they obliterated my birthplace! Now it's their turn! Then we'll strip the ship of anything usefull and send her on the direct course to Jaridia.
So we kill all the Taelons, what will we get of it? Not much, we'll merely be the liberators of Earth.
How does that grab you? Who's first? I've got your message.
You sound stressed in major way.
The dark matter, I need a refresher.
Impressive.
You're dabbling in quantum physics in your sparetime now.
Just give me what you got.
Here is the basics.
Way back in the 1940's, some physicit determined mass of the entire universe.
Fritz Zwicky right? Smart and handsome.
So Zwicky decides to give this mass a name: One omega.
You're following so far? You just keep going off at the keep up.
Good! So then he decides to find the mass of everything we can see: rocks, peoples, stars, gaz, "Earth, Wind and Fire", basically everything.
So what does all that end up to? Only one tenth of One Omega.
In other words 90% of the universe is made up of something we can't see.
Dark matter.
It has mass and gravitation but doesn't give off any visible radiation.
No X-Ray, no gamma, nada.
So there is a whole universe out there ten times bigger and more complicated, and we have no idea.
Creepy, uh? I'm just telling you the basics.
Dark matter has hit the mothership incapacited Zo'or and the other Taelons Either the ship is in autodefense mode or someone else is in control, odds are it's Ronald Sandoval.
If is hijacking the mothership it'd be a deadman.
what's his demands ***? There's more.
I used our secret backdoors to sneep around in the FBI database.
he IDed all the volonteers off the ship and brought his aid Franck Tate, aboard.
He's called up the troops.
So we've got not only a Sandoval uncontrolled, he's got an agenda.
What do you like to do? What about the bullet pod? - No.
- I aggree.
It's our only chance.
Bullet pod technology is in its infancy.
They were designed as a military application with taelon crash bubble technology for this exact purpose! - They're unproven! - Five were tested at Los Alamos.
And three of the test pilots died that's why the project was shut.
Look, you think we like the idea of a maniac and a homicide *** running the mothership? - But it's no help if you kill yourself.
- It's our only option.
I can do this! I'm not sending my best man on a kamikaze mission! Thanks for your support.
Call it like I see it.
So this is where it ends, Zo'or.
You've abused me, tortured me, humiliated me, but now I stand in judgement of you.
If you can still hear me in there, I want you to have this as your last thought before I portal you into Oblivion.
Ronald Sandoval has won! Activate the portal.
Everything should be normal.
Hold on, something's happening.
The mothership is beaming down a multispectrum radiation barrage.
Analog broadcast band, microwave, digital hollo works.
Why is it been sent here? It's not, it's been sent everywhere in every known language.
What it's sayin'? I'm isolating an english version.
Attention humanity, our final stasis has begun, our salvation is in your hands.
We await you.
This is our chance! The mothership shuts down and floats off in the forever with the Taelons in stasis! No more Zo'or! Another shot fire! I feel like, breaking out the bottle of the good stuff.
He's got a point.
We can get rid of Sandoval and Tate at the same time, is 3 birds with 1 stone.
I don't like it! Final stasis is the mothership's core mission That's why they're here! It's what they want! Most of the Taelons are in stasis on the ship already, we're saving their race by letting this happen.
You don't believe that.
The mothership has a huge hole and can't heal, it'll be out of reach and the dark matter'll eat it alive.
One possible scenario.
And, there are still a few Taelons walking around.
They're trapped here.
No stasis, no energy supply! They came to Earth on a mission with evolutionary repercussions.
We can't just let them die! The Atlantic National Alliance disagrees.
If the ANA leadership won't save them, then I will.
What are you doing? Contemplating an ancient human custom.
I believe you call it "drinking oneself to death".
With real Kriss, didn't you say you won't gonna use this anymore? You do not understand.
The dark matter has severed the communality puting Zo'or and the others on board into a stasis-like state.
Conditions are perfect for the mothership to believe that all Taelons are already in stasis.
- So, we convince it otherwise.
- We cannot! Once the ship has completed shutdown, it is programmed to travel to the Horse Head nebula and wait.
Wait? Until what? Till we contact it? Yes until humanity breaks the code embedded in the ship's final transmission.
It is a test, to ensure you have evolved to a level where you may solve our crisis.
Evolved? That will take millennia.
Perhaps A code of this level transcends your currant reasoning skills.
All we need to do is get you on board and reverse the shutdown.
Convince the ship that not all the Taelons are on stasis.
How? Within a few kilometers of the Dark Matter, I too will suffer of restricted time flow just as Zo'or and the others did.
Unless we can find a way to remove the dark matter first IF! IF! There is no time for "ifs".
Soon the mothership will be gone - and my species will be no more.
- Da'an please! You came here, because no other beings in the universe have a stronger will to survive than humanity.
Are your superior taelon brain is telling you to turn and run? My human heart is telling me that this fight has just begun All other decks are sealed off so there's no acces to the shuttle bay.
In top of that the computer's taking all of the ID portals offline and puts some kind of a block on portable portals.
No one can get on or off the ship.
Life support systems are cycling off as well and the computers are refusing input and the drones are dropping like flies.
For some reason, the entire damned ship is shutting down.
We're trapped.
Stop here! Any closer and the Dark matter will cause me to loose consciousness.
Maintaining orbit.
Activating the distorsion field.
I don't want any surprises.
She looks as she's shutting down.
How much time do we have? goes into final stasis.
We're ready for go.
Check! check! Microphone operative.
Video, operative! Now the fireworks.
- One two tones photon bomb.
- For taking out a small mountain, Liam this is insane.
Well, it's directional and I'll duck.
If you survive the G force needed for the pod to penetrate the mothership hull and if you can plant the bomb close enough to the dark matter to blow it out.
Then I may approach close enough for the ship to sense my energy.
And if I can't do this? Then my brothers will die with you.
I don't like this.
Is there anything you do like? Countdown to propulsion in 3 2 1 Launch pod.
We're in.
And Liam? Liam do you copy? I'm here.
You getting this? Yeah! It's like a ghost ship! All energy is flowing into the stasis deck.
The walls are ripped to shreds.
We cannot plant the bomb.
That is the passage way to the stasis deck.
You are to near Liam.
Hundreds of my kind lay hopeless behind it! we we must find another way! There's no time.
We have less than an hour.
Liam? Liam, what's happening? Liam, where are you? Welcome aboard Major.
A photon bomb and what were you planning on doing with this? The piece of space junk overthere is called Dark matter, I was gonna blow it out of the hull, so the ship can heal, but I can't.
Why is this? Hundreds of Taelons are in a stasis deck fifty yards from here.
If we detonate the bomb now, we'll kill them all! Why are they in stasis? For running out of core energy.
The ship is shutting down because it thinks no sentients Taelon are left.
But when the Dark matter is expelled Zo'or and the other Taelons will awake.
And the ship will revive.
That was the plan.
It is also possible that you came aboard to sabotage the ship.
And as Zo'or's protector, it is my dutty to detain you while I investigate.
Arrest him! This is crazy! In a half of an hour, there'll be no heat left, ten minutes later no air! You're killing us all! Do you know how to set that bomb? - Doesn't bear! - Do it! Make sure it's close to the stasis deck to insure sufficient damage.
Bring me Zo'or's body.
What is he doing here? You heard the major.
Once the dark matter is expelled the ship will reverse the shutdown, tragically.
Zo'or will not survive the crisis.
But how do we keep control with 41 Taelons back in action? All this means is that victory is delayed.
The stasis deck will be destroyed and the remaining Taelons will soon run out of core energy.
Well I think you deserve the honor.
In ten seconds, nine tenth of the taelon race will no longer be.
The sign of a good leader, Tate, is being able to turn every liability into opportunity.
Let's go.
It needs a failsafe authorization! Kincaid has got it.
Come on.
Any luck with the taelon code? Not yet this thing is tricky.
I was up all night developping an all new form of mathematics before I can even get started.
Keep trying How things go on up there? Given that we have less than a hour left.
There's no how doing, all right? She will not solve the code.
It is a nine dimension matrix.
She must solve all nine.
Humans are only now beginning to comprehend four.
Think with a positive attitude! There may be another way.
Since the communality has been severed I cannot end the shutdown unless I am on the ship.
But you can't board the ship, - or dark matter will freeze you too.
- Yes.
But perhaps a part of me could.
I'm not following.
There is a backup pod.
If you would agree to be infused with a portion of my energy you might take it to the bridge.
Then the ship would sense my return and reverse the shutdown.
We would have more time to expell the dark matter.
I have never trusted your race not from beginning and now you want me to take on your energy to become Taelon? To become what Zo'or is? If you are willing to let us die in this way, then you have already become as morally destitute as Zo'or.
Something wrong? Give me the code for the bomb or you die.
I'm gonna die anyway.
But not with the annihiliation of an entire species on my hands.
A CVI will allow us to review his most recents thoughts.
- Do we have enouhgh juice for the gear? - Leave that to me, just watch him.
Sorry Tate.
What for? For this! - You don't look so good! - No, I feel so good.
Let's go! Who is it? Who are you? Reveal yourself! Damnit.
Yes! He's gone! I get blind sided.
I don't know who hit me! Computer! Locate major Liam Kincaid! Identify secondary energy shadow.
Energy identified as Da'an Error! Da'an is not on board! Negative Confirmed as Da'an.
Tate, check on Zo'or! Meet me on the bridge.
What's wrong with you? Da'an gave me a dose of his energy, but it's reacting to the dark matter.
I've got to get to the command console.
Computer, seal the bridge.
Kincaid security code 50079.
Da'an's presence has been acknowledged on the bridge.
Energy conservation phase complete.
Commencing reactivation phase.
Awaiting code.
What's happening? The ship is programmed to receive the code immediately after the wakens.
I thought my energy would override it.
And what happen if it doesn't? Valid code needed in two minutes, or shutdown will resume.
Street, what have you got? Headake! This thing's an *** drying.
I'm bumping head against what looks like fourth dimensional computations.
I'm lost! Whatever you have, I need it, now! I'll do my best.
What are you doing? Getting you off here before this place shuts down again.
You can't stay here, you'll die! Don't buy my coffin yet.
I'm sending it now.
Dimension one accepted.
Dimension two accepted.
Dimension three accepted.
Dimension four error! Code invalid.
Resume shutdown.
Liam.
I can hardly see you.
The mothership is shutting down again.
It's jamming all long range communications.
Oh my god.
Oh my god you gonna and it's my fault.
If I could have broken the code! You did everything a human being could do and and handsome I wanted to thank you for that and for being a friend.
Liam? Liam! Explain yourself Major! There's no more to explain.
It's over! In less than a minute this ship would be as lifeless as an asteroid.
This is not possible.
Explain what you've done! You don't take failure very well, do you? Humans and Taelons Both have much to learn Ha'Gel.
Where am I? Am I dead? No, my son You are very much alive.
The time has come for you to fulfill the first step of your destiny, to end your by-species existence.
You must use your Shakara'va to expell the dark matter and heal the ship.
Am I capable of that? It was given to you for this specific purpose, but it will take all of your Kimera energy to do so.
Do it, and you will become fully human.
What have you learned as a human being? That there is a lot of pain in being human, but through it we still learn and grow and find our way by exercising our greatest gift free will.
You have learned well.
Your freedom makes humanity a unique species.
But if I choose the freedom of humanity I give up the knowledge of the infinite.
Isn't that true? Ha'Gel, I I don't want to leave you.
Yet, I know that I must Will I ever see you again? You are closer to us than ever before, Liam Kincaid.
Closer even that when you had the Shakara'va.
This was only one of many steps you must take to find your soul's purpose.
We will reveal ourselves again when you are ready.
I'm proud of you my son! Is that explain what you've done? You first! My report will say major Kincaid, Da'an, agent Franck Tate and myself bravely worked together to save you and the ship from impending doom.
I'm recomanding major Kincaid and agent Tate for commandations for their selfless acts.
Since I have no proofs stating otherwise, I will accept your report Unless of course Da'an or Major Kincaid have anything to add.
No.
No Zo'or.
Have you reconsidered my coup d'état proposal? I have, and my answer is still no.
The recents events have made Zo'or more paranoid than ever.
This is not the time for such action.
I don't know what you did to remove the dark matter but my species owes you, more than any Taelon has ever owed.
If there is anything I can ever do to repay you.
Lead!
Me Liam is part human and part of an alien proto-species called the Kimera.
I grew into the body looking at in less than 5 minutes.
There were vestigial organs in my hands called Shakara'va but the longer I'm on Earth the more human I become.
We build the mother ship and gave her a primary mission to come here and preserve us, once we all enter the death stasis.
Preserve you for what? For your evolution We want you to save us Liam - Zo'or! - I said initiate protocol 716.
- Why have we not fired yet? - We are unable to achieve a sensor lock on the object.
That's impossible! Unless Unless what Zo'or? - What's happening? - Collision in 10 seconds.
Initiate emergency override.
Emergency override, unsuccesful.
Zo'or? Still alive.
Computer.
Initiate verbal response protocol.
I.
D Ronald Sandoval.
security code 50034.
I need a damage report.
Damage contained on decks 111 through 133 ship stabilised.
What is your next order, Sir? Repeat.
What is your next order agent Sandoval? You are now in command.
They have come to Earth with the promise of peace.
An alien race called the Taelons.
But there are those who resist these alien Companions.
For the Taelons true mission the secrets they hide will forever alter our world.
Transcription: Team Trad.
EFC The fate of humanity now relies on those who dare challenge the future of Earth.
Team Trad EFC: Earth Final Conflict 4x13 Dark Matter You all have A.
3 clearance by even so my agents are taking a great risk in revealing themselves to you.
They have intelligence on recent events which in the opinion of the President pushes up the ANA time table for removal of the Taelons.
Ladies and gentlemen.
This is what was left to the Caya Islands after the mothership induced Tsunami at them two months ago.
The death toll was estimated at nearly 30,000 most of the island was simply washed away.
We have documented thousands of cases of illegal confinement brutal and even fatal interrogations, forced labour in Kriss fields.
In short, our benevolent guests from the stars are acting more like a dictatorial army of occupation.
As you know we've ascertain the Taelons are dying.
Now, they have the technology to measure their energy down to the final minutes.
This technologie is a crystal bar which must be driving them mad.
The Synode isn't dodging their leader in more more desperate acts.
Bottom line, ladies and gentleman we have a maniac orbiting Earth with enough fire power to pulverize our planet on a whim.
Zo'or is deteriorating into a Caligula-like madness, it's so that simple.
We believe the time is right for a bloodless coup in wich Da'an with our backing prevails on the Synode to put him in charge.
Some of us are concerned about Zo'or's reaction.
What he did to the Caya Islands might look like a sunday picknick compared to he might do if we force him to a corner With all due respect, Sir he might just do it anyway.
Feel of Da'an.
Use your special relationship to find how he thinks about this.
But make no further moves until we say.
Sorry to disturbe you Sir, but we have a situation on the mothership.
It seems to have collided with a large piece of space debris.
- Damage report? - Undetermined at this point Sir.
Haven't you spoken anyone up there it yet? That's a problem, Sir.
Our telemetry and communication seem to be fonctioning, and within hailing of sensors happen but no one on board is responding.
I want an immediate analysis of orbit, potential dangers and I want a headcount of every Human and Taelons on board that thing! And I want it two days ago.
Yes Sir! What did you do? Nothing! Whatever hit the ship seems to have dumping his energy flux.
It's there.
Just not flowing.
Damned! The entire ship is composed of living taelon bioslurry.
But the impact zone is frozen around, whatever hit us.
Decks 111 through 133 sealed, but inert.
Is this a problem? The bioslurry should be repairing itself, healing the ship, expelling the toxin It's not! And what the hell are we doing here? Someone has to be in command and after many years of loyal service, I'm sure Zo'or wouldn't hesitate to appoint me as that commander.
Yeaaah! right! - What about the volonteers? - I've send them back to Earth for their own safety.
How kind.
- And these drones? - They're implants! They'll do whatever the helm says and at least for the time being I'm at the helm.
Well what are we going to do now? Work fast Do an inventory of the entire ship, anything of value Did you see that? What? Nothing, nothing Report back in an hour.
Trafic reports before impact identified 42 Taelons on board besides Zo'or Our friend Sandoval.
Something done a great deal of damage to the mothership.
What could it be? The comet and asteroid alert grid didn't detect any rock debris.
The problem is not the damage It is that the ship is not healing.
The ANA satellite system shows that the ship has sealed its itself around the mass.
Biometric supports, life supports systems aren't operative.
The ship is weakened.
Zo'or and the others may not even be alive.
I'd say now it's the perfect oportunity for what we discussed.
Coups d'état are unprecedented in Taelon culture.
The taelon's work is down here.
Your leadership it's your species only hope for a future.
Perhaps Computer I'm confused about this data.
Why is Zo'or's energy not flowing? It is at 0.
00003% of its capacity.
Everything slowed down then, not stopped.
Affirmative.
So, from his perspective, one second would seem like one day? Affirmative.
Estimated duration? If current variables remain the same, indefinitly.
I have completed my analysis of the datas that has been collected.
Any conclusions? Only one substance in the universe has this type of effect on taelon energy We call it "Dark matter".
- Is that what hit the ship? - Yes.
Dark matter is off the "anti-universe".
It reverses taelon polarity, slowing time for any Taelon within a certain radius The time vibration is so immeasurable it is as if we're frozen.
Is that why the mothership can't repair itself? Indeed.
We must expell the dark matter.
If not, it will slowly devour the ship and kill it.
If the 42 Taelons on board are incapacitated, who's running that ship? May be the ship is running itself.
Or worse Sandoval.
This place is a gold mine! Its' about a billion box for the taelon medecines, core energy, a all bunch of high tech gizmos Zo'or's been holding back.
I mean if we can ID half of the stuff off here, we make a mint in a black market.
Well done Tate.
I'm sure it'll be obvious to use one day.
Boss! We talk about a king's ransom here.
One day, is today! No! Today is reserved for a more important matter.
What's that? See those blips.
Those are Taelons.
In a very short time, I will have all of them on Earth locked in Locked in? You mean like targets? All of my work, the conspirancy with the Jaridians, selling what's left of my soul to earn the Synod's trust have all led to this moment.
Once I'll have them all targeted, I'm going to ID them aboard one by one, and eliminate them.
Can we do that? Do you see anyone stopping us? This is our moral imperative as human beings.
These bastards are thieves and murderers.
They killed my wife, Tate, they obliterated my birthplace! Now it's their turn! Then we'll strip the ship of anything usefull and send her on the direct course to Jaridia.
So we kill all the Taelons, what will we get of it? Not much, we'll merely be the liberators of Earth.
How does that grab you? Who's first? I've got your message.
You sound stressed in major way.
The dark matter, I need a refresher.
Impressive.
You're dabbling in quantum physics in your sparetime now.
Just give me what you got.
Here is the basics.
Way back in the 1940's, some physicit determined mass of the entire universe.
Fritz Zwicky right? Smart and handsome.
So Zwicky decides to give this mass a name: One omega.
You're following so far? You just keep going off at the keep up.
Good! So then he decides to find the mass of everything we can see: rocks, peoples, stars, gaz, "Earth, Wind and Fire", basically everything.
So what does all that end up to? Only one tenth of One Omega.
In other words 90% of the universe is made up of something we can't see.
Dark matter.
It has mass and gravitation but doesn't give off any visible radiation.
No X-Ray, no gamma, nada.
So there is a whole universe out there ten times bigger and more complicated, and we have no idea.
Creepy, uh? I'm just telling you the basics.
Dark matter has hit the mothership incapacited Zo'or and the other Taelons Either the ship is in autodefense mode or someone else is in control, odds are it's Ronald Sandoval.
If is hijacking the mothership it'd be a deadman.
what's his demands ***? There's more.
I used our secret backdoors to sneep around in the FBI database.
he IDed all the volonteers off the ship and brought his aid Franck Tate, aboard.
He's called up the troops.
So we've got not only a Sandoval uncontrolled, he's got an agenda.
What do you like to do? What about the bullet pod? - No.
- I aggree.
It's our only chance.
Bullet pod technology is in its infancy.
They were designed as a military application with taelon crash bubble technology for this exact purpose! - They're unproven! - Five were tested at Los Alamos.
And three of the test pilots died that's why the project was shut.
Look, you think we like the idea of a maniac and a homicide *** running the mothership? - But it's no help if you kill yourself.
- It's our only option.
I can do this! I'm not sending my best man on a kamikaze mission! Thanks for your support.
Call it like I see it.
So this is where it ends, Zo'or.
You've abused me, tortured me, humiliated me, but now I stand in judgement of you.
If you can still hear me in there, I want you to have this as your last thought before I portal you into Oblivion.
Ronald Sandoval has won! Activate the portal.
Everything should be normal.
Hold on, something's happening.
The mothership is beaming down a multispectrum radiation barrage.
Analog broadcast band, microwave, digital hollo works.
Why is it been sent here? It's not, it's been sent everywhere in every known language.
What it's sayin'? I'm isolating an english version.
Attention humanity, our final stasis has begun, our salvation is in your hands.
We await you.
This is our chance! The mothership shuts down and floats off in the forever with the Taelons in stasis! No more Zo'or! Another shot fire! I feel like, breaking out the bottle of the good stuff.
He's got a point.
We can get rid of Sandoval and Tate at the same time, is 3 birds with 1 stone.
I don't like it! Final stasis is the mothership's core mission That's why they're here! It's what they want! Most of the Taelons are in stasis on the ship already, we're saving their race by letting this happen.
You don't believe that.
The mothership has a huge hole and can't heal, it'll be out of reach and the dark matter'll eat it alive.
One possible scenario.
And, there are still a few Taelons walking around.
They're trapped here.
No stasis, no energy supply! They came to Earth on a mission with evolutionary repercussions.
We can't just let them die! The Atlantic National Alliance disagrees.
If the ANA leadership won't save them, then I will.
What are you doing? Contemplating an ancient human custom.
I believe you call it "drinking oneself to death".
With real Kriss, didn't you say you won't gonna use this anymore? You do not understand.
The dark matter has severed the communality puting Zo'or and the others on board into a stasis-like state.
Conditions are perfect for the mothership to believe that all Taelons are already in stasis.
- So, we convince it otherwise.
- We cannot! Once the ship has completed shutdown, it is programmed to travel to the Horse Head nebula and wait.
Wait? Until what? Till we contact it? Yes until humanity breaks the code embedded in the ship's final transmission.
It is a test, to ensure you have evolved to a level where you may solve our crisis.
Evolved? That will take millennia.
Perhaps A code of this level transcends your currant reasoning skills.
All we need to do is get you on board and reverse the shutdown.
Convince the ship that not all the Taelons are on stasis.
How? Within a few kilometers of the Dark Matter, I too will suffer of restricted time flow just as Zo'or and the others did.
Unless we can find a way to remove the dark matter first IF! IF! There is no time for "ifs".
Soon the mothership will be gone - and my species will be no more.
- Da'an please! You came here, because no other beings in the universe have a stronger will to survive than humanity.
Are your superior taelon brain is telling you to turn and run? My human heart is telling me that this fight has just begun All other decks are sealed off so there's no acces to the shuttle bay.
In top of that the computer's taking all of the ID portals offline and puts some kind of a block on portable portals.
No one can get on or off the ship.
Life support systems are cycling off as well and the computers are refusing input and the drones are dropping like flies.
For some reason, the entire damned ship is shutting down.
We're trapped.
Stop here! Any closer and the Dark matter will cause me to loose consciousness.
Maintaining orbit.
Activating the distorsion field.
I don't want any surprises.
She looks as she's shutting down.
How much time do we have? goes into final stasis.
We're ready for go.
Check! check! Microphone operative.
Video, operative! Now the fireworks.
- One two tones photon bomb.
- For taking out a small mountain, Liam this is insane.
Well, it's directional and I'll duck.
If you survive the G force needed for the pod to penetrate the mothership hull and if you can plant the bomb close enough to the dark matter to blow it out.
Then I may approach close enough for the ship to sense my energy.
And if I can't do this? Then my brothers will die with you.
I don't like this.
Is there anything you do like? Countdown to propulsion in 3 2 1 Launch pod.
We're in.
And Liam? Liam do you copy? I'm here.
You getting this? Yeah! It's like a ghost ship! All energy is flowing into the stasis deck.
The walls are ripped to shreds.
We cannot plant the bomb.
That is the passage way to the stasis deck.
You are to near Liam.
Hundreds of my kind lay hopeless behind it! we we must find another way! There's no time.
We have less than an hour.
Liam? Liam, what's happening? Liam, where are you? Welcome aboard Major.
A photon bomb and what were you planning on doing with this? The piece of space junk overthere is called Dark matter, I was gonna blow it out of the hull, so the ship can heal, but I can't.
Why is this? Hundreds of Taelons are in a stasis deck fifty yards from here.
If we detonate the bomb now, we'll kill them all! Why are they in stasis? For running out of core energy.
The ship is shutting down because it thinks no sentients Taelon are left.
But when the Dark matter is expelled Zo'or and the other Taelons will awake.
And the ship will revive.
That was the plan.
It is also possible that you came aboard to sabotage the ship.
And as Zo'or's protector, it is my dutty to detain you while I investigate.
Arrest him! This is crazy! In a half of an hour, there'll be no heat left, ten minutes later no air! You're killing us all! Do you know how to set that bomb? - Doesn't bear! - Do it! Make sure it's close to the stasis deck to insure sufficient damage.
Bring me Zo'or's body.
What is he doing here? You heard the major.
Once the dark matter is expelled the ship will reverse the shutdown, tragically.
Zo'or will not survive the crisis.
But how do we keep control with 41 Taelons back in action? All this means is that victory is delayed.
The stasis deck will be destroyed and the remaining Taelons will soon run out of core energy.
Well I think you deserve the honor.
In ten seconds, nine tenth of the taelon race will no longer be.
The sign of a good leader, Tate, is being able to turn every liability into opportunity.
Let's go.
It needs a failsafe authorization! Kincaid has got it.
Come on.
Any luck with the taelon code? Not yet this thing is tricky.
I was up all night developping an all new form of mathematics before I can even get started.
Keep trying How things go on up there? Given that we have less than a hour left.
There's no how doing, all right? She will not solve the code.
It is a nine dimension matrix.
She must solve all nine.
Humans are only now beginning to comprehend four.
Think with a positive attitude! There may be another way.
Since the communality has been severed I cannot end the shutdown unless I am on the ship.
But you can't board the ship, - or dark matter will freeze you too.
- Yes.
But perhaps a part of me could.
I'm not following.
There is a backup pod.
If you would agree to be infused with a portion of my energy you might take it to the bridge.
Then the ship would sense my return and reverse the shutdown.
We would have more time to expell the dark matter.
I have never trusted your race not from beginning and now you want me to take on your energy to become Taelon? To become what Zo'or is? If you are willing to let us die in this way, then you have already become as morally destitute as Zo'or.
Something wrong? Give me the code for the bomb or you die.
I'm gonna die anyway.
But not with the annihiliation of an entire species on my hands.
A CVI will allow us to review his most recents thoughts.
- Do we have enouhgh juice for the gear? - Leave that to me, just watch him.
Sorry Tate.
What for? For this! - You don't look so good! - No, I feel so good.
Let's go! Who is it? Who are you? Reveal yourself! Damnit.
Yes! He's gone! I get blind sided.
I don't know who hit me! Computer! Locate major Liam Kincaid! Identify secondary energy shadow.
Energy identified as Da'an Error! Da'an is not on board! Negative Confirmed as Da'an.
Tate, check on Zo'or! Meet me on the bridge.
What's wrong with you? Da'an gave me a dose of his energy, but it's reacting to the dark matter.
I've got to get to the command console.
Computer, seal the bridge.
Kincaid security code 50079.
Da'an's presence has been acknowledged on the bridge.
Energy conservation phase complete.
Commencing reactivation phase.
Awaiting code.
What's happening? The ship is programmed to receive the code immediately after the wakens.
I thought my energy would override it.
And what happen if it doesn't? Valid code needed in two minutes, or shutdown will resume.
Street, what have you got? Headake! This thing's an *** drying.
I'm bumping head against what looks like fourth dimensional computations.
I'm lost! Whatever you have, I need it, now! I'll do my best.
What are you doing? Getting you off here before this place shuts down again.
You can't stay here, you'll die! Don't buy my coffin yet.
I'm sending it now.
Dimension one accepted.
Dimension two accepted.
Dimension three accepted.
Dimension four error! Code invalid.
Resume shutdown.
Liam.
I can hardly see you.
The mothership is shutting down again.
It's jamming all long range communications.
Oh my god.
Oh my god you gonna and it's my fault.
If I could have broken the code! You did everything a human being could do and and handsome I wanted to thank you for that and for being a friend.
Liam? Liam! Explain yourself Major! There's no more to explain.
It's over! In less than a minute this ship would be as lifeless as an asteroid.
This is not possible.
Explain what you've done! You don't take failure very well, do you? Humans and Taelons Both have much to learn Ha'Gel.
Where am I? Am I dead? No, my son You are very much alive.
The time has come for you to fulfill the first step of your destiny, to end your by-species existence.
You must use your Shakara'va to expell the dark matter and heal the ship.
Am I capable of that? It was given to you for this specific purpose, but it will take all of your Kimera energy to do so.
Do it, and you will become fully human.
What have you learned as a human being? That there is a lot of pain in being human, but through it we still learn and grow and find our way by exercising our greatest gift free will.
You have learned well.
Your freedom makes humanity a unique species.
But if I choose the freedom of humanity I give up the knowledge of the infinite.
Isn't that true? Ha'Gel, I I don't want to leave you.
Yet, I know that I must Will I ever see you again? You are closer to us than ever before, Liam Kincaid.
Closer even that when you had the Shakara'va.
This was only one of many steps you must take to find your soul's purpose.
We will reveal ourselves again when you are ready.
I'm proud of you my son! Is that explain what you've done? You first! My report will say major Kincaid, Da'an, agent Franck Tate and myself bravely worked together to save you and the ship from impending doom.
I'm recomanding major Kincaid and agent Tate for commandations for their selfless acts.
Since I have no proofs stating otherwise, I will accept your report Unless of course Da'an or Major Kincaid have anything to add.
No.
No Zo'or.
Have you reconsidered my coup d'état proposal? I have, and my answer is still no.
The recents events have made Zo'or more paranoid than ever.
This is not the time for such action.
I don't know what you did to remove the dark matter but my species owes you, more than any Taelon has ever owed.
If there is anything I can ever do to repay you.
Lead!