The Bionic Woman (1976) s03e13 Episode Script
The Pyramid
1
Can you identify the
nature of the interference?
We seemed to pick up a signal that
might have come from deep space.
What kind of signal?
That signal we heard is a
spaceship coming from his galaxy.
A rocket is being launched.
I've sent the Warrior
to stop it.
If he fails,
all on this planet will die.
JIM: It's still heading
straight towards us.
All stations,
this is Flight Control.
Liquid oxygen has pressurized
within the green marks.
Start instrument recorders.
Going into terminal phase at
minus two minutes and counting.
All down range stations
are on the line,
We are go on flight path.
We are go on global net.
Mount Carson, are you green
for launch?
(SIGNAL BEEPING)
Negative, Flight.
This is Range Liaison Officer.
I'm suggesting a hold
at present status.
Say why, Mount Carson.
(BEEPING CONTINUES)
RLO: It may sound crazy,
but I think we're receiving
some kind of radio
interference from deep space.
CHRIS: Attention all units,
we are initiating a hold.
Repeat, holding at T minus
one minute, 15 seconds.
Mount Carson, can you identify
the nature of the interference?
RLO: Negative, Flight. The source
is from outside the solar system,
RLO, do you have an explanation?
It might be an echo bounce, or a
star noise phenomena of a new type.
Jim, transfer image
to our telemetry board.
JIM: Flight, the beam is
apparently striking the coastline
near the old fort
on Cape MacArthur.
(BEEPING CONTINUES)
(BEEPING STOPS)
RLO: Mission Control, the
interference has now cleared.
Very good. Report the
occurrence to Mount Palomar
for further investigation.
All units, previous hold
is canceled
at T minus one minute,
15 seconds and counting.
Transfer TDC power.
Automatic sequence is go.
Launch panel is on.
Roger. Facility is now on
automatic sequence.
Stand by for terminal count.
CHRIS: RLO?
RLO: Go.
Electrical?
TECHNICIAN: Go.
Roger.
Coming up on T minus 10 seconds.
Mark. Nine.
Eight, seven, six, five, four,
three, two, one.
We have ignition,
All right.
How's she flying, Jim?
Hot, true, and normal.
Time to chemical dispersal
point is D minus 30 seconds.
I've got my fingers crossed.
So do the scientists
of 22 nations, Jim.
Unless we restore
the ozone layer,
solar radiation will continue
to increase to the danger level.
JIM: Panel is on automatic
sequence for chemical dispersal.
Roger. Coming up on dispersal
altitude in five seconds.
Four, three, two, one.
We have dispersal.
RLO: We have the spectrograph
results, Flight.
Thank you, Mount Carson. Ejection
of chemical load was successful.
Particle distribution within
acceptable parameters.
The ozone layer in the immediate
vicinity of the dispersion point
has increased 2.7%.
TECHNICIAN: All right.
We did it.
Good work, men.
All right, all right.
Now that was just a test.
We'll see what happens when
we load the Saturn with a full load.
Hopefully, it'll increase the
ozone level all over the planet.
See you tomorrow
for the big bang.
This is Flight Control, out.
Good work, Chris.
(SIGHS)
Gentlemen, if you will excuse me, I have
a date with a very attractive young lady.
Is she a willowy blonde,
about this tall?
Teaches school, a lady who
I lost my heart to years ago?
That's the one.
Uh-huh.
She's picking me up for a
dinner party. I'll see you later.
Have a good time.
Okay.
Oh, my, oh, my, oh my.
Lady, you are something else.
Well, I'm glad
you approve. Hi.
I'd approve of you in anything.
(LAUGHS) But when
you look like this
Uh
Why don't you hold this
thought until after dinner?
Because I'm starving.
That's what I like
about you, sweetheart.
You're such a romanticist.
Yeah.
Drive.
JAIME: How'd the launch go?
CHRIS: 100% successful.
Great.
Something interesting, too.
Right in the middle,
we picked up a signal
that seemed to come
from deep space.
Looked like it was aimed
right at Fort MacArthur.
So that's why you wanted me
to come this way.
Jaime, it'll only take
a minute to look.
Please?
It's the next turn.
Oh, it's the next turn.
Okay.
I certainly hope
I don't faint from hunger.
I know your kind. A lot
stronger than you look.
I bet you say that
to all the guys.
JAIME: What is that?
Well, in the good ol' days, 14-inch
naval guns in those positions
waiting to exchange broadsides
with the Japanese Imperial Fleet
if they decided
to take California.
Terrific.
You know, it's strange.
I have been teaching about
this era year after year
and I have never experienced
the reality of it until just now.
It's really sad that men spent
years out of their lives here
waiting for a battle
that never happened.
Which is the best kind, I guess.
It's locked.
Well good. I'm ready to go.
All right, all right. Just give me a
couple minutes to look around. Okay?
(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)
(SIGNAL BEEPING)
What's that?
What's what?
Maybe Maybe we should just
look around a little bit more.
That's okay. I don't mind.
Good girl.
(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)
How'd you do that?
It was already broken. I
guess it was just rusted through.
Oh.
(SIGNAL BEEPING)
(SIGHS)
Well, that's it.
End of the line.
Um, why don't you see if you
could find something to pry with.
Maybe we could, you know
You've got to be kidding?
Please.
(SIGHS)
Boy, you're lucky I really like
you, because you're a crazy lady.
I do it, but
(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)
This is
Haven't you got something
you want to tell me?
What?
Well, maybe that was rusted,
uh, through, too, huh?
Yeah, I think that
was rusted. Yeah.
Yeah. Bionic, right?
Well, Rudy told me it existed.
He even wanted me to work on it.
He just forgot one
little detail.
A face. A name. A body.
Is it
Is it a turn-off to you?
Well, not as long as you don't
go around beating up my friends.
Hey.
It's a bad joke.
Does that answer your question?
Wait a minute, you were hearing
something before that I couldn't.
Is that bionic, too?
It's the other one.
The other one?
Wait a minute,
just how much of you is
Not too much.
Let's go.
(SIGNAL BEEPING)
Well, there is something
further down here.
Couldn't be.
We're at bedrock now.
Uh-uh.
It's coming from
right behind here.
(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)
Okay, now you're not
seeing this.
Who'd believe it anyway?
Do you, uh, do this a lot?
Mmm.
(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)
Here. Come on.
There seems to be some kind
of a corridor here, huh?
What do you think?
(SIGHS)
After everything I've seen
today, I don't know why
my masculine pride
is telling me to go first.
Give me the light.
Chris?
Chris?
Chris?
(SCREAMS)
Chris.
(STAMMERING) Look, I'm
just trying to help him. Come on.
(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)
(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)
Hello, Laure.
LAURE: Hi, Oscar.
Hey, Jim.
What's going on here?
Where's Chris?
Where's Jaime?
They're already five
hours late. What?
We've been trying
to track them down.
They never arrived at the party
and they aren't at his place or hers.
We called the highway patrol
and all the local hospitals.
There's no report
of an accident.
What's the status of the launch?
The deep space beam has been
coming in intermittently.
Mount Palomar's working on it.
They'll check out Cape
MacArthur when the launch is over
and they've got some time.
Marriage of the Saturn
to the gantry is on schedule
and we're not anticipating
any problems.
All right, stay on top of it until
Chris and Jaime get back here.
Laure, I'm going to take over
Chris' spot temporarily.
Take over mine, okay?
JAIME: [don't know what
happened to me? What did I see?
[got to get up.
I'm paralyzed.
Okay, easy. Don't panic. Don't
panic, Keep your mind working.
What is this place?
Look at that machinery.
I wonder what it's for,
Stonehenge?
And that's hieroglyphics.
Ancient spacemen like the cave
drawings at Tassili,
The Mayan Jaguar God.
The markings from
the plains of Nazca?
I showed those to the kids
at school.
Who is he? What is he?
(SIGNAL BEEPING)
Chris. Where's Chris? I
wonder if he's paralyzed too.
Was that a coincidence,
or did he read my mind?
Who are you?
What is this place?
Above us is that pyramid.
Long ago, it stood in the sun.
Now, the Earth
has sunk beneath it
and the winds of ages
have covered it.
(PULSING SOUND)
What did he do?
I can move. Chris. Oh,
please, don't be badly hurt.
I've got to get us out of here.
(PULSING SOUND)
Yes, I heard your thoughts.
It is no great gift.
All the animals in the field
sense hostility, friendship, danger.
Your friend isn't dead
or injured,
but his mind remains immobile
until I release it.
I'm glad he's getting out of here,
The old one doesn't look that bad,
(PULSING SOUND)
You can move now.
My name is Ky.
Long ago, we came to teach
people here.
Teach them many things.
How to read the stars,
how to build with stone.
They called us gods
because we knew
so much more than they.
They couldn't understand that
the moving of great weights
and carving great stones
is not God,
only God-like
to the simple mind.
Thinking it would please us,
they cut out hearts
and sacrificed them to us.
They were too primitive to
know it was not what we wanted.
Most of my people went back.
I was left as a sentinel
to await their return.
(SIGNAL BEEPING)
Now they return again
and I cannot warn them.
If they come,
they will be destroyed.
I don't understand.
I want to.
But, uh, who's going to be
destroyed? Where? How?
A rocket is being launched
near here.
I saw it in your friend's mind.
I sent the Warrior to stop it.
If he fails, all on this
planet will die.
LAURE: Flight, command
receiver checks are complete,
All units standing by.
Roger, ALD.
Oscar, we're down
to biting the bullet.
Weather conditions in the ozone
layer are optimum at the moment.
Any change in the jet stream
might inhibit chemical dispersal.
So in other words
the time is now.
Yeah.
All right.
Proceed with the launch.
Proceed with launch.
Start to calibrate all
instrumentation recorders.
All down range are on the grid.
This is Oscar Goldman speaking.
I want an APB put out on Jaime
Sommers and Chris Williams.
CMV on panel two
verifies IVS fuel load.
We are go on primary.
We are go on second stage.
That rocket is no threat
to anyone.
They're just seeding
the ozone layer.
But the sodium-chemical chain
you are using
will conflict with the electromagnetic
propulsion system of our ship.
When it strikes the chemical
concentration, the ship will explode.
Our people will think you
destroyed it and retaliate.
They remember you as primitives.
You have no defense
against their weapons.
Well, that makes them sound
a little primitive, too.
T minus 30 seconds.
All systems are go.
Facility is now on automatic
sequence. Stand by for terminal count.
Ten, nine, eight, seven,
six, five, four, three,
two, one.
We have ignition,
We have liftoff.
Bird flying hot,
true and normal.
Sequence to chemical
dispersal point is five seconds.
Four, three, two, one.
What is it?
What happened?
We've lost.
The Warrior failed.
(SIGNAL BEEPING)
Mission Control, this is RLO.
We are picking up a UFO
near Saturn.
At present velocity, it will
reach Earth in six hours,
Why, that's impossible.
It took the Viking nearly
two years just to get to Mars.
(SIGNAL BEEPING)
Can't you bring him to
now, please?
(PULSING SOUND)
Hi.
Hi.
What the
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Don't ask any questions. Don't
even think any questions. Okay?
I wouldn't know where
to begin anyway.
You okay?
Somehow, I don't think so.
Why don't you signal your ship?
This oscillating crystal is
the heart of the transmitter.
It didn't stand time well.
Second, when we taught people
to build pyramids,
such as the one we are in.
They didn't understand
that the form
captured and stored
bio-cosmic energy.
They thought of the pyramid
only as tombs for the dead.
All that we did was for
the purpose of teaching.
And all that we did,
misunderstood and used for
purposes never intended.
The skills that we taught wasted
in false glorification of
ourselves and other men.
Come.
Even here,
they thought this was my tomb
and left food and treasures
for my journey to the afterlife.
Grain
protected by the preserving
power of pyramid energy.
Planted and watered,
it would still spring to life
after all your centuries.
But when time buried
this pyramid,
it lowered the stored power
of bio-cosmic energy.
My brain hasn't the power
to activate the transmitter,
even if the crystal were intact.
Can't we find another source
of power?
We had cyborgs before
we ever came here.
I know that you are bionic
and have an atomic power-pack.
If the crystal were intact,
I wouldn't hesitate to use it.
Do you fear that?
Considerably. Yes.
Rudy's always put me on a
life-support system when he's had it out.
You see, we don't know
that much about bionics yet.
There is dependency and rejection
factors that we're not sure of.
I don't have any idea how long
I'd live without the power-pack.
So yes, I fear it.
The gain would justify the
risk, and I would still take it.
Jaime, you don't have to start at
the beginning, but what's going on?
That signal we heard is a
spaceship coming from his galaxy.
Spaceship?
Yes.
Now when it hits the chemicals that
we've seeded into the ozone layer,
it's going to explode.
And you need a crystal like
that one to, uh, warn them off?
You've see another crystal
like that?
No.
He has. He remembers it
from somewhere.
Are you doing this
to protect me?
I said, no.
Come on. Tell me.
Jaime, you just said if they remove
your power-pack, you might die.
There's a lot more involved
here, Chris, than just you and me.
If that ship explodes,
this planet will be destroyed.
Rudy's been experimenting
with artificial crystalline forms.
He's had some success.
Radioactive isotope, U-96.
When perfected, he thinks it'll be
useful for interstellar communication.
Where is it?
Last time I saw it,
it was in Rudy's office safe.
There's a man named Oscar
Goldman who can get the crystal for us.
We will tell no one else.
You get the crystal.
I'll send the Warrior with you.
He remains until you return.
Okay, I'll be back.
I'll be waiting.
(SIGNAL BEEPING)
JIM: It's passing Jupiter and
still heading straight towards us.
At present speed, it should enter
our atmosphere within an hour.
Call Mount Carson.
Get an estimate of its size.
If it is a meteor
and hits a populated area,
it could cause more damage
than 50 hydrogen bombs.
Carson?
Come in please, Carson?
Look, I can't wait for you.
Okay?
Thank you.
Okay, alarm tapes, please
don't break. Come on.
(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)
(GLASS SHATTERS)
(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)
(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)
(LOCK CLICKS)
(LOCK CLICKS)
GUARD: Hold it.
Don't you move.
Don't move. Stay real still.
(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)
Yeah, put the Sarge on. Well, go get him.
This is important.
It's Sanchez. Station 221A.
Hello, Sarge?
Yeah, this is Sanchez at 221A.
Listen, I just surprised two of the
strangest looking burglars you've ever seen.
Well, one of them got away. But
I've got the other one right here.
(GRUNTS)
(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)
(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)
(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)
(FOOTSTEPS PATTERING)
(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)
JIM: It's still heading
straight towards us.
(PHONE BUZZING)
Yeah. OSI security for you.
Goldman.
Yeah, Mr. Goldman,
this is Sanchez, security.
There was an APB put out on
the Sommers girl. I just saw her.
Jaime?
Wham?
Here in Dr, Well's lab,
She and some weird looking guy
came in and stole a U-96 isotope crystal.
Are you sure?
Well, she picked up a barbell
and threw it at me.
I'll be there in 15 minutes.
This is Oscar Goldman speaking.
Send a car to pick up
Jaime Sommers' dog
and take him to Dr. Rudy
Well's laboratory immediately.
Are you all right?
Yeah. Here.
What's wrong?
The configuration.
Under load, it will probably
prove unstable.
(SIGNAL BEEPING)
They're wondering
why I don't answer.
You still need something from me. The
atomic power-pack is right about there.
What are you going to do?
What
We knew about psychic surgery
before we taught you anything else.
Ooh.
I've got to sit down.
(BARKING)
Max, Jaime's in trouble.
I need your help, boy.
(BARKING)
Oh.
You okay?
Yeah.
(SIGNAL BEEPING)
The crystal is oscillating.
I'll have to risk an overload.
You must leave now.
What about you?
I've waited 5,000 years
for them to return.
You expect me to leave
my post now?
There are other pyramids and
other groups of our people here.
If they survive, I will be safe
and they will take care of me.
You must keep our secret.
Tell no one what happened here
and thank you for all
you've done. Go. Quickly.
God be with you.
I've got to get you out of here.
Okay.
(RUMBLING)
(JAIME GRUNTING)
KY: We've succeeded.
They've gotten the message.
It's changing course.
I'm going to need some help,
Jaime. Gonna need some help.
All right, you're all right.
(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)
Obviously a friend of yours.
Oscar, her power-pack's
been removed.
Get an ambulance over here.
Tell the hospital to have the
bionic life support systems ready.
Send a car around
for Rudy Wells.
You'll be all right, babe.
I think I already am.
What went on in there?
Well, maybe you'll tell me
about it someday.
Just between the two of us.
Can you identify the
nature of the interference?
We seemed to pick up a signal that
might have come from deep space.
What kind of signal?
That signal we heard is a
spaceship coming from his galaxy.
A rocket is being launched.
I've sent the Warrior
to stop it.
If he fails,
all on this planet will die.
JIM: It's still heading
straight towards us.
All stations,
this is Flight Control.
Liquid oxygen has pressurized
within the green marks.
Start instrument recorders.
Going into terminal phase at
minus two minutes and counting.
All down range stations
are on the line,
We are go on flight path.
We are go on global net.
Mount Carson, are you green
for launch?
(SIGNAL BEEPING)
Negative, Flight.
This is Range Liaison Officer.
I'm suggesting a hold
at present status.
Say why, Mount Carson.
(BEEPING CONTINUES)
RLO: It may sound crazy,
but I think we're receiving
some kind of radio
interference from deep space.
CHRIS: Attention all units,
we are initiating a hold.
Repeat, holding at T minus
one minute, 15 seconds.
Mount Carson, can you identify
the nature of the interference?
RLO: Negative, Flight. The source
is from outside the solar system,
RLO, do you have an explanation?
It might be an echo bounce, or a
star noise phenomena of a new type.
Jim, transfer image
to our telemetry board.
JIM: Flight, the beam is
apparently striking the coastline
near the old fort
on Cape MacArthur.
(BEEPING CONTINUES)
(BEEPING STOPS)
RLO: Mission Control, the
interference has now cleared.
Very good. Report the
occurrence to Mount Palomar
for further investigation.
All units, previous hold
is canceled
at T minus one minute,
15 seconds and counting.
Transfer TDC power.
Automatic sequence is go.
Launch panel is on.
Roger. Facility is now on
automatic sequence.
Stand by for terminal count.
CHRIS: RLO?
RLO: Go.
Electrical?
TECHNICIAN: Go.
Roger.
Coming up on T minus 10 seconds.
Mark. Nine.
Eight, seven, six, five, four,
three, two, one.
We have ignition,
All right.
How's she flying, Jim?
Hot, true, and normal.
Time to chemical dispersal
point is D minus 30 seconds.
I've got my fingers crossed.
So do the scientists
of 22 nations, Jim.
Unless we restore
the ozone layer,
solar radiation will continue
to increase to the danger level.
JIM: Panel is on automatic
sequence for chemical dispersal.
Roger. Coming up on dispersal
altitude in five seconds.
Four, three, two, one.
We have dispersal.
RLO: We have the spectrograph
results, Flight.
Thank you, Mount Carson. Ejection
of chemical load was successful.
Particle distribution within
acceptable parameters.
The ozone layer in the immediate
vicinity of the dispersion point
has increased 2.7%.
TECHNICIAN: All right.
We did it.
Good work, men.
All right, all right.
Now that was just a test.
We'll see what happens when
we load the Saturn with a full load.
Hopefully, it'll increase the
ozone level all over the planet.
See you tomorrow
for the big bang.
This is Flight Control, out.
Good work, Chris.
(SIGHS)
Gentlemen, if you will excuse me, I have
a date with a very attractive young lady.
Is she a willowy blonde,
about this tall?
Teaches school, a lady who
I lost my heart to years ago?
That's the one.
Uh-huh.
She's picking me up for a
dinner party. I'll see you later.
Have a good time.
Okay.
Oh, my, oh, my, oh my.
Lady, you are something else.
Well, I'm glad
you approve. Hi.
I'd approve of you in anything.
(LAUGHS) But when
you look like this
Uh
Why don't you hold this
thought until after dinner?
Because I'm starving.
That's what I like
about you, sweetheart.
You're such a romanticist.
Yeah.
Drive.
JAIME: How'd the launch go?
CHRIS: 100% successful.
Great.
Something interesting, too.
Right in the middle,
we picked up a signal
that seemed to come
from deep space.
Looked like it was aimed
right at Fort MacArthur.
So that's why you wanted me
to come this way.
Jaime, it'll only take
a minute to look.
Please?
It's the next turn.
Oh, it's the next turn.
Okay.
I certainly hope
I don't faint from hunger.
I know your kind. A lot
stronger than you look.
I bet you say that
to all the guys.
JAIME: What is that?
Well, in the good ol' days, 14-inch
naval guns in those positions
waiting to exchange broadsides
with the Japanese Imperial Fleet
if they decided
to take California.
Terrific.
You know, it's strange.
I have been teaching about
this era year after year
and I have never experienced
the reality of it until just now.
It's really sad that men spent
years out of their lives here
waiting for a battle
that never happened.
Which is the best kind, I guess.
It's locked.
Well good. I'm ready to go.
All right, all right. Just give me a
couple minutes to look around. Okay?
(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)
(SIGNAL BEEPING)
What's that?
What's what?
Maybe Maybe we should just
look around a little bit more.
That's okay. I don't mind.
Good girl.
(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)
How'd you do that?
It was already broken. I
guess it was just rusted through.
Oh.
(SIGNAL BEEPING)
(SIGHS)
Well, that's it.
End of the line.
Um, why don't you see if you
could find something to pry with.
Maybe we could, you know
You've got to be kidding?
Please.
(SIGHS)
Boy, you're lucky I really like
you, because you're a crazy lady.
I do it, but
(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)
This is
Haven't you got something
you want to tell me?
What?
Well, maybe that was rusted,
uh, through, too, huh?
Yeah, I think that
was rusted. Yeah.
Yeah. Bionic, right?
Well, Rudy told me it existed.
He even wanted me to work on it.
He just forgot one
little detail.
A face. A name. A body.
Is it
Is it a turn-off to you?
Well, not as long as you don't
go around beating up my friends.
Hey.
It's a bad joke.
Does that answer your question?
Wait a minute, you were hearing
something before that I couldn't.
Is that bionic, too?
It's the other one.
The other one?
Wait a minute,
just how much of you is
Not too much.
Let's go.
(SIGNAL BEEPING)
Well, there is something
further down here.
Couldn't be.
We're at bedrock now.
Uh-uh.
It's coming from
right behind here.
(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)
Okay, now you're not
seeing this.
Who'd believe it anyway?
Do you, uh, do this a lot?
Mmm.
(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)
Here. Come on.
There seems to be some kind
of a corridor here, huh?
What do you think?
(SIGHS)
After everything I've seen
today, I don't know why
my masculine pride
is telling me to go first.
Give me the light.
Chris?
Chris?
Chris?
(SCREAMS)
Chris.
(STAMMERING) Look, I'm
just trying to help him. Come on.
(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)
(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)
Hello, Laure.
LAURE: Hi, Oscar.
Hey, Jim.
What's going on here?
Where's Chris?
Where's Jaime?
They're already five
hours late. What?
We've been trying
to track them down.
They never arrived at the party
and they aren't at his place or hers.
We called the highway patrol
and all the local hospitals.
There's no report
of an accident.
What's the status of the launch?
The deep space beam has been
coming in intermittently.
Mount Palomar's working on it.
They'll check out Cape
MacArthur when the launch is over
and they've got some time.
Marriage of the Saturn
to the gantry is on schedule
and we're not anticipating
any problems.
All right, stay on top of it until
Chris and Jaime get back here.
Laure, I'm going to take over
Chris' spot temporarily.
Take over mine, okay?
JAIME: [don't know what
happened to me? What did I see?
[got to get up.
I'm paralyzed.
Okay, easy. Don't panic. Don't
panic, Keep your mind working.
What is this place?
Look at that machinery.
I wonder what it's for,
Stonehenge?
And that's hieroglyphics.
Ancient spacemen like the cave
drawings at Tassili,
The Mayan Jaguar God.
The markings from
the plains of Nazca?
I showed those to the kids
at school.
Who is he? What is he?
(SIGNAL BEEPING)
Chris. Where's Chris? I
wonder if he's paralyzed too.
Was that a coincidence,
or did he read my mind?
Who are you?
What is this place?
Above us is that pyramid.
Long ago, it stood in the sun.
Now, the Earth
has sunk beneath it
and the winds of ages
have covered it.
(PULSING SOUND)
What did he do?
I can move. Chris. Oh,
please, don't be badly hurt.
I've got to get us out of here.
(PULSING SOUND)
Yes, I heard your thoughts.
It is no great gift.
All the animals in the field
sense hostility, friendship, danger.
Your friend isn't dead
or injured,
but his mind remains immobile
until I release it.
I'm glad he's getting out of here,
The old one doesn't look that bad,
(PULSING SOUND)
You can move now.
My name is Ky.
Long ago, we came to teach
people here.
Teach them many things.
How to read the stars,
how to build with stone.
They called us gods
because we knew
so much more than they.
They couldn't understand that
the moving of great weights
and carving great stones
is not God,
only God-like
to the simple mind.
Thinking it would please us,
they cut out hearts
and sacrificed them to us.
They were too primitive to
know it was not what we wanted.
Most of my people went back.
I was left as a sentinel
to await their return.
(SIGNAL BEEPING)
Now they return again
and I cannot warn them.
If they come,
they will be destroyed.
I don't understand.
I want to.
But, uh, who's going to be
destroyed? Where? How?
A rocket is being launched
near here.
I saw it in your friend's mind.
I sent the Warrior to stop it.
If he fails, all on this
planet will die.
LAURE: Flight, command
receiver checks are complete,
All units standing by.
Roger, ALD.
Oscar, we're down
to biting the bullet.
Weather conditions in the ozone
layer are optimum at the moment.
Any change in the jet stream
might inhibit chemical dispersal.
So in other words
the time is now.
Yeah.
All right.
Proceed with the launch.
Proceed with launch.
Start to calibrate all
instrumentation recorders.
All down range are on the grid.
This is Oscar Goldman speaking.
I want an APB put out on Jaime
Sommers and Chris Williams.
CMV on panel two
verifies IVS fuel load.
We are go on primary.
We are go on second stage.
That rocket is no threat
to anyone.
They're just seeding
the ozone layer.
But the sodium-chemical chain
you are using
will conflict with the electromagnetic
propulsion system of our ship.
When it strikes the chemical
concentration, the ship will explode.
Our people will think you
destroyed it and retaliate.
They remember you as primitives.
You have no defense
against their weapons.
Well, that makes them sound
a little primitive, too.
T minus 30 seconds.
All systems are go.
Facility is now on automatic
sequence. Stand by for terminal count.
Ten, nine, eight, seven,
six, five, four, three,
two, one.
We have ignition,
We have liftoff.
Bird flying hot,
true and normal.
Sequence to chemical
dispersal point is five seconds.
Four, three, two, one.
What is it?
What happened?
We've lost.
The Warrior failed.
(SIGNAL BEEPING)
Mission Control, this is RLO.
We are picking up a UFO
near Saturn.
At present velocity, it will
reach Earth in six hours,
Why, that's impossible.
It took the Viking nearly
two years just to get to Mars.
(SIGNAL BEEPING)
Can't you bring him to
now, please?
(PULSING SOUND)
Hi.
Hi.
What the
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Don't ask any questions. Don't
even think any questions. Okay?
I wouldn't know where
to begin anyway.
You okay?
Somehow, I don't think so.
Why don't you signal your ship?
This oscillating crystal is
the heart of the transmitter.
It didn't stand time well.
Second, when we taught people
to build pyramids,
such as the one we are in.
They didn't understand
that the form
captured and stored
bio-cosmic energy.
They thought of the pyramid
only as tombs for the dead.
All that we did was for
the purpose of teaching.
And all that we did,
misunderstood and used for
purposes never intended.
The skills that we taught wasted
in false glorification of
ourselves and other men.
Come.
Even here,
they thought this was my tomb
and left food and treasures
for my journey to the afterlife.
Grain
protected by the preserving
power of pyramid energy.
Planted and watered,
it would still spring to life
after all your centuries.
But when time buried
this pyramid,
it lowered the stored power
of bio-cosmic energy.
My brain hasn't the power
to activate the transmitter,
even if the crystal were intact.
Can't we find another source
of power?
We had cyborgs before
we ever came here.
I know that you are bionic
and have an atomic power-pack.
If the crystal were intact,
I wouldn't hesitate to use it.
Do you fear that?
Considerably. Yes.
Rudy's always put me on a
life-support system when he's had it out.
You see, we don't know
that much about bionics yet.
There is dependency and rejection
factors that we're not sure of.
I don't have any idea how long
I'd live without the power-pack.
So yes, I fear it.
The gain would justify the
risk, and I would still take it.
Jaime, you don't have to start at
the beginning, but what's going on?
That signal we heard is a
spaceship coming from his galaxy.
Spaceship?
Yes.
Now when it hits the chemicals that
we've seeded into the ozone layer,
it's going to explode.
And you need a crystal like
that one to, uh, warn them off?
You've see another crystal
like that?
No.
He has. He remembers it
from somewhere.
Are you doing this
to protect me?
I said, no.
Come on. Tell me.
Jaime, you just said if they remove
your power-pack, you might die.
There's a lot more involved
here, Chris, than just you and me.
If that ship explodes,
this planet will be destroyed.
Rudy's been experimenting
with artificial crystalline forms.
He's had some success.
Radioactive isotope, U-96.
When perfected, he thinks it'll be
useful for interstellar communication.
Where is it?
Last time I saw it,
it was in Rudy's office safe.
There's a man named Oscar
Goldman who can get the crystal for us.
We will tell no one else.
You get the crystal.
I'll send the Warrior with you.
He remains until you return.
Okay, I'll be back.
I'll be waiting.
(SIGNAL BEEPING)
JIM: It's passing Jupiter and
still heading straight towards us.
At present speed, it should enter
our atmosphere within an hour.
Call Mount Carson.
Get an estimate of its size.
If it is a meteor
and hits a populated area,
it could cause more damage
than 50 hydrogen bombs.
Carson?
Come in please, Carson?
Look, I can't wait for you.
Okay?
Thank you.
Okay, alarm tapes, please
don't break. Come on.
(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)
(GLASS SHATTERS)
(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)
(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)
(LOCK CLICKS)
(LOCK CLICKS)
GUARD: Hold it.
Don't you move.
Don't move. Stay real still.
(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)
Yeah, put the Sarge on. Well, go get him.
This is important.
It's Sanchez. Station 221A.
Hello, Sarge?
Yeah, this is Sanchez at 221A.
Listen, I just surprised two of the
strangest looking burglars you've ever seen.
Well, one of them got away. But
I've got the other one right here.
(GRUNTS)
(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)
(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)
(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)
(FOOTSTEPS PATTERING)
(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)
JIM: It's still heading
straight towards us.
(PHONE BUZZING)
Yeah. OSI security for you.
Goldman.
Yeah, Mr. Goldman,
this is Sanchez, security.
There was an APB put out on
the Sommers girl. I just saw her.
Jaime?
Wham?
Here in Dr, Well's lab,
She and some weird looking guy
came in and stole a U-96 isotope crystal.
Are you sure?
Well, she picked up a barbell
and threw it at me.
I'll be there in 15 minutes.
This is Oscar Goldman speaking.
Send a car to pick up
Jaime Sommers' dog
and take him to Dr. Rudy
Well's laboratory immediately.
Are you all right?
Yeah. Here.
What's wrong?
The configuration.
Under load, it will probably
prove unstable.
(SIGNAL BEEPING)
They're wondering
why I don't answer.
You still need something from me. The
atomic power-pack is right about there.
What are you going to do?
What
We knew about psychic surgery
before we taught you anything else.
Ooh.
I've got to sit down.
(BARKING)
Max, Jaime's in trouble.
I need your help, boy.
(BARKING)
Oh.
You okay?
Yeah.
(SIGNAL BEEPING)
The crystal is oscillating.
I'll have to risk an overload.
You must leave now.
What about you?
I've waited 5,000 years
for them to return.
You expect me to leave
my post now?
There are other pyramids and
other groups of our people here.
If they survive, I will be safe
and they will take care of me.
You must keep our secret.
Tell no one what happened here
and thank you for all
you've done. Go. Quickly.
God be with you.
I've got to get you out of here.
Okay.
(RUMBLING)
(JAIME GRUNTING)
KY: We've succeeded.
They've gotten the message.
It's changing course.
I'm going to need some help,
Jaime. Gonna need some help.
All right, you're all right.
(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)
Obviously a friend of yours.
Oscar, her power-pack's
been removed.
Get an ambulance over here.
Tell the hospital to have the
bionic life support systems ready.
Send a car around
for Rudy Wells.
You'll be all right, babe.
I think I already am.
What went on in there?
Well, maybe you'll tell me
about it someday.
Just between the two of us.