The Incredible Hulk (1978) s04e02 Episode Script
Prometheus (2)
NARRATOR: Last on The Incredible Hulk Where's it coming from? Deep space.
It's almost like the thing was being piloted.
No, here! (GASPING) (GROANING) Were you born without sight? A drunken driver, damage to the optic nerve.
I woke up blinded.
The Leo object's entering the atmosphere 500 miles over India.
David! David! (HIGH-PITCHED DRONING) What's happened to you? It's never happened like this.
(GASPING) What's wrong? What's wrong? Tell him that the ground-based personnel are fanning out around the impact area, evacuating anybody that we find.
I'm Jack McGee.
What's Prometheus? I'm sorry, but this area's restricted.
And this man McGee can't find out your identity.
You have to keep it secret.
(ROARS) PILO T: Look at that! Look at his eyes! Prometheus, there's something happening.
MAN: Condition red.
We're activating.
MAN: Close-up.
Get a close-up.
(ROARS) Unbelievable.
Possible ET in the impact area.
Utilize all caution.
Repeat, move with caution.
Keep a watch for hostile action.
(ROARS) PILO T: Look out.
We're going down! I can't hold it.
Let's get out of here, quick! (ROARS) NARRATOR: And now, the conclusion of "Prometheus" on The Incredible Hulk.
NARRATOR: Dr.
David Banner, physician, scientist.
Searching for a way to tap into the hidden strengths that all humans have.
Then, an accidental overdose of gamma radiation alters his body chemistry.
And now, when David Banner grows angry or outraged, a startling metamorphosis occurs.
(ROARS) The creature is driven by rage and pursued by an investigative reporter.
Mr.
McGee, don't make me angry.
You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.
The creature is wanted for a murder he didn't commit.
David Banner is believed to be dead.
And he must let the world think that he is dead until he can find a way to control the raging spirit that dwells within him.
(ROARS) (CHEERING) (ALL CHATTERING) Dr.
John Zeiderman? That's right.
We have a visitor.
Now, you save a piece of cake for me.
I have to go.
I'll call you.
Dr.
Jason Spath? Yes.
We have a visitor.
Wonderful.
Come have a look.
This cup's ceramic, see.
It's just the sort of thing that separates these people from their ancient cousins to the north.
Anthropologically, as well as socially, they were superior.
Already, they had seen the advantages in having just a half a cup of coffee.
(CHUCKLING) (HULK ROARING) (HULK ROARING) (ROARING CONTINUES) MAN 1: This is Central.
Convoy is arriving.
Standby First Encounter Units 7, 8, 9.
On my mark, operate cranes one, two.
Four, three, two, one.
Mark.
WOMAN ON PA: Attention, First Encounter Unit 4.
Attention.
Ready decontamination units and receiving areas in surgery.
(BANGING) MAN 1: Stand by radar scan and x-ray.
Keep your instruments sharp focused on the Alpha unit.
Watch for hostile action.
Unit 7, keep a close watch for hostile action.
WOMAN: Attention, Unit 8.
Adjust your magnetometers to zero volt, and please recalibrate to 517, 517.
(HULK ROARING) Second stage to release on my mark.
Three, two, one.
Mark.
WOMAN: Server drivers, calibrate to magnetic north plus 110.
MAN 1: Unit 7, seal.
Get to be on command six, before the seal is finalized.
WOMAN: Adjust your magnetometers to zero volt, and please recalibrate to 517, 517.
MAN 1: Switch to vertical guidance now.
Continue lowering the seal.
(LOUD BANGING) First encounter units, report in when you've left the holding area.
(HULK ROARING) MAN 2: Encounter Unit 9, adjust your radiation instruments to 14 sensitivity, 14 sensitivity.
(ROARING CONTINUES) Stand by for phase three, and prepare to activate all infrared and microwave scans on my mark.
Four, three, two, one.
Mark.
MAN 1: On my mark signals we'll do seven minutes even.
Three, two, one.
Mark.
Interlock internal sync pulse at 10 minutes, zero seconds flat.
WOMAN: Secondary reactor number three has joined the grid.
(ROARING WILDLY) MAN 1: Standby now, there's a breach in the Alpha unit.
We have separation.
MAN 2: Switching to vertical guidance system on my mark.
Three, two, one.
Mark.
Interior alpha units still reach 30.
6 Atmospheric data from inside the alpha chamber indicating nominal existence of un-classified bacteria.
WOMAN: Net weight reading's approximately 1052.
73 pounds.
MAN 1: Low quarters recording animal-like sounds within the alpha chamber.
Unit 7, watch yourself.
Transport passing halfway on my mark.
Three, two, one.
Mark.
(ROARING) (WOMAN CHATTERING) Three, two, one.
Mark.
(BANGING CONTINUES) MAN 2: Holding area prepared.
All personnel, keep the firearms focused on the holding area.
MAN 1: Unit 8, secure perimeter of access to the holding area.
Lasers in holding area are armed and ready.
Lasers in the holding area are armed and ready.
WOMAN: Stand by, docking level 1.
Stand by, docking level 1.
MAN 1: Release all safeties on firearms.
All units on the lower levels, be alert for hostile action.
Stand by for incineration if necessary.
Alpha unit passing 93 to touch down.
93.
WOMAN: The holding area is operable.
The holding area is operable.
Microwave shields are on standby.
Breaker circuits open.
Use all caution in the area.
(ROARING) (WOMAN CHATTERING) Standby to release all safeties.
Standby airlock seal mechanisms.
Undress her.
COLONEL: What's your instinct, John? Well, apparently a normal human female.
(O VER SPEAKERS) She was at the scene? Right in the impact zone.
(O VER SPEAKERS) Accompanying the creature that we've captured.
And you think the creature is extra terrestrial? It's very possible, John.
Wait until you see the tapes.
I want to see the creature.
Oh, you will.
Is Jason here yet? Dr.
Spath is in sterilization.
What about Charlena? Just been cleared to land.
CHARLENA: Hi, Paul.
MAN 1 ON PA: Switch to vertical guidance now.
Continue lowering the seal.
WOMAN: Stand by to evacuate the vacuum chamber, once the seal's in place.
Unit 7 personnel on level four report MAN 1: Gain potential back to minus three.
MAN 2: Gain potential back to minus four.
WOMAN: Standby to release all second safeties in the vacuum chambers on my mark.
(MAN 2 CHATTERING ON PA) WOMAN: Mark.
Soldier.
Yes, sir? Who was that you just admitted? Dr.
Charlena McGowan, sir.
Oh, rats.
Just missed her.
Open up there.
Yes, sir.
She was headed to be sterilized, sir.
Right.
(SIGHS) Recalibrations for the timing magnetometers as follows.
7743.
1002.
Decontamination chambers are on standby (BEEPING) Hello, Char.
Still hanging around those old fossils? Yes.
You still undressing women by remote control? No, I gave that up.
I bet.
Just like I gave up breathing.
You're such a cynic.
You are so transparent.
Have you seen it yet? Of course not, don't you think I'd wait for you? The master anthropologist? In other words, you just got here yourself.
That's right.
Right.
Jason, Good to see you.
Charlena, welcome back on board.
CHARLENA: Good to see you.
JASON: Tell us what we've got.
A foreign body, very large diameter, almost a quarter mile.
Of course it lost a great deal of its mass in normal burnout through the atmosphere.
But still maintained a shape you'd call cylindrical.
War of the Worlds? Don't think we haven't thought of that.
Is it a vehicle? We're still not sure.
The impact zone was in Northeastern Utah.
Mobile One and Two are on the scene.
It's still too hot for positive analysis.
We've brought some chunks of it to our receiving lab to study.
There's a lot of gamma radiation.
(DOOR OPENING) John.
Charlena, how good to see you.
Jason.
What did you find? A normal human female, still unconscious from her fall.
She's roughly In good health, except she's blind.
Blind? After the fall? No.
For about six months, I'd say.
Some damage to the optic nerve.
Who is she? We found a woman in the impact zone.
The helicopter shot these tapes, as soon as they got there.
You see the woman there.
Who's the man? He's not a man, he's something else.
Watch.
Very strong.
Yeah.
You could say that.
We employed the microwaves and then the Alpha transportation unit.
Here's before.
And after.
That creature very nearly put his fist through 14-inches of homogenized steel.
Ten more minutes and he might have gotten out.
So where's the creature now? In the holding area.
(GRUNTING) Look at it.
When we helped build Prometheus for close encounters of this kind, we never really thought that Some day we'd face an alien.
It may not be an extraterrestrial.
It's true.
If it's not, then what is it? We'll find out together.
Let's have ourselves a closer look.
(CLEARS THROAT) Excuse me, sir, I What was that, that you were watching? Nothing, sir.
Turn it on.
I didn't mean to break security, sir.
I was just checking out the circuits.
Maybe just a little curious.
Oh, no, sir.
Yes, sir.
It's all right.
I think we all are.
Where have they got that thing? Down in the holding area.
You know why it can't get away? It's all right, you better tell me what you know.
Well, sir, I heard those walls of light are microwave or something.
And the farther it extends its hand into the wall, the hotter it becomes, until it burns.
So it stays inside.
We'll see.
Get yourself a cup of coffee.
Yes, sir.
Sir, I That's all.
(DOOR CLOSES) (ELECTRONIC BEEPING) JOHN: Its respiration seems quite human.
Oxygen conversion into C02.
But there's an average of 30 breaths per minute.
Here are the x-rays.
The structure of the bones seems very human, though enlarged.
He's quite a heavy-duty fellow.
What's his body weight? Almost 320.
What about the facial structure, Char? Well, the jaw is reminiscent of Neanderthal and upper Pleistocene in general.
The brow is more like Australopithecus, though more pronounced.
JASON: It's hard to think it could fly a spacecraft.
Yes.
There's been no sign of metamorphosis back into what it was before? None.
What about the color of its skin? God only knows.
Why don't you get a tissue sample? No.
Let's try communicating first.
Hello.
Do you understand me? (GRUNTS) Can you speak? Hello? (GRUNTING) JASON ON SCREEN: Let's play his own sound back to him.
(TAPE REWINDING) (RO ARING) (ROARING) (GRUNTING) So much for that idea.
What does the computer say? The bit analysis can find no pattern to the sound.
No sign of language or communication other than the tonal quality.
Snarl by any other name Let's try the hand.
All right.
(MECHANICAL WHIRRING) (ROARING) (GRUNTING) (MECHANICAL WHIZZING) (EXCLAIMS) (ROARING) Help me! Help me! (RO ARING) You all right? I think so.
That hurt.
JOHN: Let's try a different tack.
Let's introduce a chunk of rock we brought from the meteor, and see how he responds.
(RO ARING LOUDLY) It seems to make him angrier.
(SCREAMING) We better lower it.
Too late.
(ROARING) (ROARING WILDLY) It's going through the floor.
Alert all sectors.
Red Alert.
(ROARING) (ALARM BLARING) Red Alert.
This is no drill.
Repeat, this is no drill.
We have a possible ET loose in the complex.
Red Alert.
Repeat, this is no drill.
Red Alert.
The creature is apparently on level seven.
Activate all microwave seals and adjust to maximum.
Seal the ventilation system in that area.
Repeat, seal the ventilation system in that area.
(ROARS) It's broken into corridor 15 and heading south.
Repeat, corridor 15 and heading south.
(ROARING) Tell me where I am.
Please.
Tell me where I am.
Underground.
Inside a mountain.
What? You're in a military complex called Prometheus.
It's underground.
Where? Colorado.
Come with me.
Who are you? Name's McGee.
Here are your shoes.
You work here? I'm a visitor, like yourself.
I'm trying to help your friend, the one that changes into that creature.
Did he tell you what his name was? No.
How long have you known him? Just since yesterday.
Where is he? He's escaped.
He's loose inside this place.
They're trying to find him.
They think maybe he's an alien.
What? Well, it's hard to blame them.
Where are we going? We're going to the main control room.
All we have to do is find it.
Here.
Down this way.
Now, I want to find out everything you know.
There's a reward (ROARING) Pursuit Patrol 19.
Attention! Attention! ET in the pumping area.
Pursuit Patrol 19, attention.
ET in the pumping area.
I don't know why he only metamorphosized halfway.
It frightened him as much as me.
Could it have been the meteor? It could have been.
He said it made him feel strange and sick.
Did he know why it (ROARING) Now wait.
MAN: Down this way.
Take it easy.
(ROARS) (ELECTRICITY BUZZING) This way.
KATIE: David, you've got to escape.
That man McGee is here.
This place is dangerous for you.
Do you understand me? David? David? You mean you've seen this thing before? Of course I have.
I've chased it back and forth across the country for the last three years.
I'd like to know just how in hell you chased him into here.
A good reporter doesn't give up easily.
Well, this good reporter may find himself in prison.
Easy, Brad.
No, it's okay.
Some real terrific books have been written there.
I'm sure the public would be fascinated to find out about this complex.
Just that room that I was watching from is fascinating in itself, with maps for tactical offensive, using alien influences.
What? Come on.
Don't be coy.
What room is that, Brad? The situation room, I think.
What situation room? Where military minds can plot out tactical offenses, using new techniques or weapons gleaned from alien influences, right? Is this true? Of course it's true.
But we designed Prometheus for peaceful study of what comes to us from space.
That's swell.
But look, somebody, and I think I know who, has sunk a ton of money into this mountain.
Now, don't you think they are going to want to see some practical result.
To take advantage militarily of contact with some brand new life form I just don't believe it.
Better learn to, John.
You knew of the military applications of our work? Not for sure, but I sure noticed all those uniforms around me.
Char the cynic.
Char the realist.
You've got to give to get.
John, we never would've put men on the moon if there hadn't been military applications.
And there's nothing wrong with that.
As long as it's used sanely.
Yes.
In the meantime, look at this facility we've got.
And look at the opportunity you've got.
This isn't some Martian loose inside here.
I don't think.
Yet it is one amazing creature, worthy of your closest study.
It is a man who metamorphosizes into something superhuman.
Jekyll into Hyde.
Only not fiction.
Fact.
I've seen it myself, so have you.
Do you know why it happened? No.
Maybe pain? Anger? I don't know.
All I do know is this.
That in the 3 years that I have been chasing him, this is the first time he has come close to being captured or contained.
What an opportunity you have.
And what a story you have.
Well, you've got to give to get.
COLONEL: The TV circuits? No.
Not yet.
He tore through the back up co-ax and some power circuits, too.
The men are working on it.
I want every individual on search detail armed with tranquilizers, gas and firearms, too.
I want to get this thing where we can handle it.
So you can tap into its secrets and then use it as a weapon? John, be practical.
John, let's just catch it, fast.
Good luck.
KATIE: (PANTING) Please, David, talk to me.
Please, David, talk to me.
What's happening? (SCREAMS) Where are we, David? David? I'm still not normal.
No.
You're not.
That meteor, that rock.
They brought some of it here.
It must be that you're still too close.
Who are you? Katie.
Katie? From the cabin, in the mountain, in the stream.
You saved my life.
Where are we? In a mountain.
But there's no stream.
Inside a mountain, in a military complex.
We were captured.
Cold.
What, David? Cold.
I'm cold.
We'll find some clothes for you.
Let's go.
Which way? Well, that's the way we came so let's go this way.
Hold my arm, I'm blind.
Blind? I can't see.
We're really quite a pair.
(ELECTRICAL WHIRRING) What is it? I guess it's nothing.
Well, let's keep going then.
Excuse me, Colonel, we've got power back in several sections now.
Good.
Tell security I want check outs.
There they are.
CHARLENA: He's transformed back.
There, see him there? McGEE: But still not all the way.
COLONEL: What section? CORPORAL: Radiation.
Damn.
Alert the troops.
Colonel? Send coordinated forces down to all connecting tunnels.
Colonel? Tell them not to fire unless they have to.
But if it begins attacking Colonel? You shut up! No, you shut up.
Please.
Sergeant.
Listen to me.
Now I know how this man, how this creature acts.
And reacts.
You go charging in there like the first eight bars of Tiger Rag he will tear the place apart.
What he has already done is just a taste.
You ain't seen nothing yet.
You'd kill him trying to take him.
No! He may be right.
You're damn right I'm right.
What do you suggest? Let me go talk to him.
There's nothing here, you better try the next one.
Pay dirt.
Now let's hope it fits.
Here, put it on.
Ventilation.
What? Come on.
Come on.
We're moving southwest now.
Keep all the other units on alert in all surrounding corridors.
It's kind of small, but we don't have much choice.
You think you can get the grating off? Grating? Screen.
This.
McGEE: John.
It's me, McGee.
He thinks your name is John.
Don't tell him that it's not.
You know me, Jack McGee.
And I know you.
You saved my life a couple of times, so I wanna help you.
Help me? That's right.
All these people want to help you.
That's all they want to do.
Help you.
Honestly.
I'm not sure you can trust him.
I can't trust you.
Of course you can.
You told me that you want some peace.
The chance to make the creature go away.
These people can help you, they can study you.
Find out what's wrong, and why it happens.
I don't know.
Why you're caught halfway between.
Don't trust him.
You don't like the way you are now, do you? No! I hate it.
I understand that.
And so do they.
They're scientists.
Not all of them.
Trust me.
Katie, maybe I could No! Trust them.
Trust me.
No! Don't do that! No! Let me go! Let me go! (GROANS) No! Don't hurt him! (GROANS) Don't do that to him! Stop it! (GROANING) (ALARM BLARING) (GRUNTING) (ALL CLAMORING) (ROARS) Help me! KATIE: No! No! No! Don't! MAN 1 ON PA: We've got a power overload! We're overloading! Back up! MAN 2: I got a blowout at gamma three.
Get your base to zero.
(MAN CHATTERING) The overload is burning down the grid.
(ALL SHOUTING) It's in the ventilation shaft! Close the ball valve! Seal it! Quickly! MAN ON PA: Ball valve closing.
Seal in progress.
(ALARM BLARING) MAN: Something's wrong.
We've got pressure building.
(ROARING) MAN 1: Pressure's building.
What the hell is going on in there? MAN 2: Fire! Tell them the hydraulics line's in there.
Fire's traveling toward the main oil storage tank.
MAN 3: Damage control! Damage control! MAN 4: Fuel tank area was clear of personnel.
We're getting units off to fight the fire.
(PANTING) McGEE: John, where are you? John! (GASPS) (LAUGHING) You're closing down Prometheus? Until we've redesigned it all.
Our first experience was rather a disaster.
Yeah, you could say that.
Well, how long do you figure it's gonna take you? Who knows? New technology will have to be developed.
Several years at least.
It's quite a story.
Yes, I know.
It's also classified top secret, out of a desire to avoid publicity and panic, if we ever have a close encounter.
Still, the people have the right to know.
Yes they do.
It's very delicate, the balance.
Let me talk to Washington.
Maybe it's time we loosened up a little.
Yes, I think maybe it is.
DAVID: So, will you be staying at the cabin? No, I think I'll try the city for a while.
Good.
After tramping blindly through the forest and those tunnels at Prometheus You've gained a little confidence? (CHUCKLES) Yes.
I figure if I can handle that, then getting from The Plaza to Carnegie Hall should be a piece of cake.
That's good.
My bus.
Your bus, yes.
I'm writing something, a concerto for you, in three movements.
One for each Oh! (SIGHING) I hope you find the answer to your problem, David.
I'll miss you, Katie.
I'll be thinking about you.
Me too, you.
It's almost like the thing was being piloted.
No, here! (GASPING) (GROANING) Were you born without sight? A drunken driver, damage to the optic nerve.
I woke up blinded.
The Leo object's entering the atmosphere 500 miles over India.
David! David! (HIGH-PITCHED DRONING) What's happened to you? It's never happened like this.
(GASPING) What's wrong? What's wrong? Tell him that the ground-based personnel are fanning out around the impact area, evacuating anybody that we find.
I'm Jack McGee.
What's Prometheus? I'm sorry, but this area's restricted.
And this man McGee can't find out your identity.
You have to keep it secret.
(ROARS) PILO T: Look at that! Look at his eyes! Prometheus, there's something happening.
MAN: Condition red.
We're activating.
MAN: Close-up.
Get a close-up.
(ROARS) Unbelievable.
Possible ET in the impact area.
Utilize all caution.
Repeat, move with caution.
Keep a watch for hostile action.
(ROARS) PILO T: Look out.
We're going down! I can't hold it.
Let's get out of here, quick! (ROARS) NARRATOR: And now, the conclusion of "Prometheus" on The Incredible Hulk.
NARRATOR: Dr.
David Banner, physician, scientist.
Searching for a way to tap into the hidden strengths that all humans have.
Then, an accidental overdose of gamma radiation alters his body chemistry.
And now, when David Banner grows angry or outraged, a startling metamorphosis occurs.
(ROARS) The creature is driven by rage and pursued by an investigative reporter.
Mr.
McGee, don't make me angry.
You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.
The creature is wanted for a murder he didn't commit.
David Banner is believed to be dead.
And he must let the world think that he is dead until he can find a way to control the raging spirit that dwells within him.
(ROARS) (CHEERING) (ALL CHATTERING) Dr.
John Zeiderman? That's right.
We have a visitor.
Now, you save a piece of cake for me.
I have to go.
I'll call you.
Dr.
Jason Spath? Yes.
We have a visitor.
Wonderful.
Come have a look.
This cup's ceramic, see.
It's just the sort of thing that separates these people from their ancient cousins to the north.
Anthropologically, as well as socially, they were superior.
Already, they had seen the advantages in having just a half a cup of coffee.
(CHUCKLING) (HULK ROARING) (HULK ROARING) (ROARING CONTINUES) MAN 1: This is Central.
Convoy is arriving.
Standby First Encounter Units 7, 8, 9.
On my mark, operate cranes one, two.
Four, three, two, one.
Mark.
WOMAN ON PA: Attention, First Encounter Unit 4.
Attention.
Ready decontamination units and receiving areas in surgery.
(BANGING) MAN 1: Stand by radar scan and x-ray.
Keep your instruments sharp focused on the Alpha unit.
Watch for hostile action.
Unit 7, keep a close watch for hostile action.
WOMAN: Attention, Unit 8.
Adjust your magnetometers to zero volt, and please recalibrate to 517, 517.
(HULK ROARING) Second stage to release on my mark.
Three, two, one.
Mark.
WOMAN: Server drivers, calibrate to magnetic north plus 110.
MAN 1: Unit 7, seal.
Get to be on command six, before the seal is finalized.
WOMAN: Adjust your magnetometers to zero volt, and please recalibrate to 517, 517.
MAN 1: Switch to vertical guidance now.
Continue lowering the seal.
(LOUD BANGING) First encounter units, report in when you've left the holding area.
(HULK ROARING) MAN 2: Encounter Unit 9, adjust your radiation instruments to 14 sensitivity, 14 sensitivity.
(ROARING CONTINUES) Stand by for phase three, and prepare to activate all infrared and microwave scans on my mark.
Four, three, two, one.
Mark.
MAN 1: On my mark signals we'll do seven minutes even.
Three, two, one.
Mark.
Interlock internal sync pulse at 10 minutes, zero seconds flat.
WOMAN: Secondary reactor number three has joined the grid.
(ROARING WILDLY) MAN 1: Standby now, there's a breach in the Alpha unit.
We have separation.
MAN 2: Switching to vertical guidance system on my mark.
Three, two, one.
Mark.
Interior alpha units still reach 30.
6 Atmospheric data from inside the alpha chamber indicating nominal existence of un-classified bacteria.
WOMAN: Net weight reading's approximately 1052.
73 pounds.
MAN 1: Low quarters recording animal-like sounds within the alpha chamber.
Unit 7, watch yourself.
Transport passing halfway on my mark.
Three, two, one.
Mark.
(ROARING) (WOMAN CHATTERING) Three, two, one.
Mark.
(BANGING CONTINUES) MAN 2: Holding area prepared.
All personnel, keep the firearms focused on the holding area.
MAN 1: Unit 8, secure perimeter of access to the holding area.
Lasers in holding area are armed and ready.
Lasers in the holding area are armed and ready.
WOMAN: Stand by, docking level 1.
Stand by, docking level 1.
MAN 1: Release all safeties on firearms.
All units on the lower levels, be alert for hostile action.
Stand by for incineration if necessary.
Alpha unit passing 93 to touch down.
93.
WOMAN: The holding area is operable.
The holding area is operable.
Microwave shields are on standby.
Breaker circuits open.
Use all caution in the area.
(ROARING) (WOMAN CHATTERING) Standby to release all safeties.
Standby airlock seal mechanisms.
Undress her.
COLONEL: What's your instinct, John? Well, apparently a normal human female.
(O VER SPEAKERS) She was at the scene? Right in the impact zone.
(O VER SPEAKERS) Accompanying the creature that we've captured.
And you think the creature is extra terrestrial? It's very possible, John.
Wait until you see the tapes.
I want to see the creature.
Oh, you will.
Is Jason here yet? Dr.
Spath is in sterilization.
What about Charlena? Just been cleared to land.
CHARLENA: Hi, Paul.
MAN 1 ON PA: Switch to vertical guidance now.
Continue lowering the seal.
WOMAN: Stand by to evacuate the vacuum chamber, once the seal's in place.
Unit 7 personnel on level four report MAN 1: Gain potential back to minus three.
MAN 2: Gain potential back to minus four.
WOMAN: Standby to release all second safeties in the vacuum chambers on my mark.
(MAN 2 CHATTERING ON PA) WOMAN: Mark.
Soldier.
Yes, sir? Who was that you just admitted? Dr.
Charlena McGowan, sir.
Oh, rats.
Just missed her.
Open up there.
Yes, sir.
She was headed to be sterilized, sir.
Right.
(SIGHS) Recalibrations for the timing magnetometers as follows.
7743.
1002.
Decontamination chambers are on standby (BEEPING) Hello, Char.
Still hanging around those old fossils? Yes.
You still undressing women by remote control? No, I gave that up.
I bet.
Just like I gave up breathing.
You're such a cynic.
You are so transparent.
Have you seen it yet? Of course not, don't you think I'd wait for you? The master anthropologist? In other words, you just got here yourself.
That's right.
Right.
Jason, Good to see you.
Charlena, welcome back on board.
CHARLENA: Good to see you.
JASON: Tell us what we've got.
A foreign body, very large diameter, almost a quarter mile.
Of course it lost a great deal of its mass in normal burnout through the atmosphere.
But still maintained a shape you'd call cylindrical.
War of the Worlds? Don't think we haven't thought of that.
Is it a vehicle? We're still not sure.
The impact zone was in Northeastern Utah.
Mobile One and Two are on the scene.
It's still too hot for positive analysis.
We've brought some chunks of it to our receiving lab to study.
There's a lot of gamma radiation.
(DOOR OPENING) John.
Charlena, how good to see you.
Jason.
What did you find? A normal human female, still unconscious from her fall.
She's roughly In good health, except she's blind.
Blind? After the fall? No.
For about six months, I'd say.
Some damage to the optic nerve.
Who is she? We found a woman in the impact zone.
The helicopter shot these tapes, as soon as they got there.
You see the woman there.
Who's the man? He's not a man, he's something else.
Watch.
Very strong.
Yeah.
You could say that.
We employed the microwaves and then the Alpha transportation unit.
Here's before.
And after.
That creature very nearly put his fist through 14-inches of homogenized steel.
Ten more minutes and he might have gotten out.
So where's the creature now? In the holding area.
(GRUNTING) Look at it.
When we helped build Prometheus for close encounters of this kind, we never really thought that Some day we'd face an alien.
It may not be an extraterrestrial.
It's true.
If it's not, then what is it? We'll find out together.
Let's have ourselves a closer look.
(CLEARS THROAT) Excuse me, sir, I What was that, that you were watching? Nothing, sir.
Turn it on.
I didn't mean to break security, sir.
I was just checking out the circuits.
Maybe just a little curious.
Oh, no, sir.
Yes, sir.
It's all right.
I think we all are.
Where have they got that thing? Down in the holding area.
You know why it can't get away? It's all right, you better tell me what you know.
Well, sir, I heard those walls of light are microwave or something.
And the farther it extends its hand into the wall, the hotter it becomes, until it burns.
So it stays inside.
We'll see.
Get yourself a cup of coffee.
Yes, sir.
Sir, I That's all.
(DOOR CLOSES) (ELECTRONIC BEEPING) JOHN: Its respiration seems quite human.
Oxygen conversion into C02.
But there's an average of 30 breaths per minute.
Here are the x-rays.
The structure of the bones seems very human, though enlarged.
He's quite a heavy-duty fellow.
What's his body weight? Almost 320.
What about the facial structure, Char? Well, the jaw is reminiscent of Neanderthal and upper Pleistocene in general.
The brow is more like Australopithecus, though more pronounced.
JASON: It's hard to think it could fly a spacecraft.
Yes.
There's been no sign of metamorphosis back into what it was before? None.
What about the color of its skin? God only knows.
Why don't you get a tissue sample? No.
Let's try communicating first.
Hello.
Do you understand me? (GRUNTS) Can you speak? Hello? (GRUNTING) JASON ON SCREEN: Let's play his own sound back to him.
(TAPE REWINDING) (RO ARING) (ROARING) (GRUNTING) So much for that idea.
What does the computer say? The bit analysis can find no pattern to the sound.
No sign of language or communication other than the tonal quality.
Snarl by any other name Let's try the hand.
All right.
(MECHANICAL WHIRRING) (ROARING) (GRUNTING) (MECHANICAL WHIZZING) (EXCLAIMS) (ROARING) Help me! Help me! (RO ARING) You all right? I think so.
That hurt.
JOHN: Let's try a different tack.
Let's introduce a chunk of rock we brought from the meteor, and see how he responds.
(RO ARING LOUDLY) It seems to make him angrier.
(SCREAMING) We better lower it.
Too late.
(ROARING) (ROARING WILDLY) It's going through the floor.
Alert all sectors.
Red Alert.
(ROARING) (ALARM BLARING) Red Alert.
This is no drill.
Repeat, this is no drill.
We have a possible ET loose in the complex.
Red Alert.
Repeat, this is no drill.
Red Alert.
The creature is apparently on level seven.
Activate all microwave seals and adjust to maximum.
Seal the ventilation system in that area.
Repeat, seal the ventilation system in that area.
(ROARS) It's broken into corridor 15 and heading south.
Repeat, corridor 15 and heading south.
(ROARING) Tell me where I am.
Please.
Tell me where I am.
Underground.
Inside a mountain.
What? You're in a military complex called Prometheus.
It's underground.
Where? Colorado.
Come with me.
Who are you? Name's McGee.
Here are your shoes.
You work here? I'm a visitor, like yourself.
I'm trying to help your friend, the one that changes into that creature.
Did he tell you what his name was? No.
How long have you known him? Just since yesterday.
Where is he? He's escaped.
He's loose inside this place.
They're trying to find him.
They think maybe he's an alien.
What? Well, it's hard to blame them.
Where are we going? We're going to the main control room.
All we have to do is find it.
Here.
Down this way.
Now, I want to find out everything you know.
There's a reward (ROARING) Pursuit Patrol 19.
Attention! Attention! ET in the pumping area.
Pursuit Patrol 19, attention.
ET in the pumping area.
I don't know why he only metamorphosized halfway.
It frightened him as much as me.
Could it have been the meteor? It could have been.
He said it made him feel strange and sick.
Did he know why it (ROARING) Now wait.
MAN: Down this way.
Take it easy.
(ROARS) (ELECTRICITY BUZZING) This way.
KATIE: David, you've got to escape.
That man McGee is here.
This place is dangerous for you.
Do you understand me? David? David? You mean you've seen this thing before? Of course I have.
I've chased it back and forth across the country for the last three years.
I'd like to know just how in hell you chased him into here.
A good reporter doesn't give up easily.
Well, this good reporter may find himself in prison.
Easy, Brad.
No, it's okay.
Some real terrific books have been written there.
I'm sure the public would be fascinated to find out about this complex.
Just that room that I was watching from is fascinating in itself, with maps for tactical offensive, using alien influences.
What? Come on.
Don't be coy.
What room is that, Brad? The situation room, I think.
What situation room? Where military minds can plot out tactical offenses, using new techniques or weapons gleaned from alien influences, right? Is this true? Of course it's true.
But we designed Prometheus for peaceful study of what comes to us from space.
That's swell.
But look, somebody, and I think I know who, has sunk a ton of money into this mountain.
Now, don't you think they are going to want to see some practical result.
To take advantage militarily of contact with some brand new life form I just don't believe it.
Better learn to, John.
You knew of the military applications of our work? Not for sure, but I sure noticed all those uniforms around me.
Char the cynic.
Char the realist.
You've got to give to get.
John, we never would've put men on the moon if there hadn't been military applications.
And there's nothing wrong with that.
As long as it's used sanely.
Yes.
In the meantime, look at this facility we've got.
And look at the opportunity you've got.
This isn't some Martian loose inside here.
I don't think.
Yet it is one amazing creature, worthy of your closest study.
It is a man who metamorphosizes into something superhuman.
Jekyll into Hyde.
Only not fiction.
Fact.
I've seen it myself, so have you.
Do you know why it happened? No.
Maybe pain? Anger? I don't know.
All I do know is this.
That in the 3 years that I have been chasing him, this is the first time he has come close to being captured or contained.
What an opportunity you have.
And what a story you have.
Well, you've got to give to get.
COLONEL: The TV circuits? No.
Not yet.
He tore through the back up co-ax and some power circuits, too.
The men are working on it.
I want every individual on search detail armed with tranquilizers, gas and firearms, too.
I want to get this thing where we can handle it.
So you can tap into its secrets and then use it as a weapon? John, be practical.
John, let's just catch it, fast.
Good luck.
KATIE: (PANTING) Please, David, talk to me.
Please, David, talk to me.
What's happening? (SCREAMS) Where are we, David? David? I'm still not normal.
No.
You're not.
That meteor, that rock.
They brought some of it here.
It must be that you're still too close.
Who are you? Katie.
Katie? From the cabin, in the mountain, in the stream.
You saved my life.
Where are we? In a mountain.
But there's no stream.
Inside a mountain, in a military complex.
We were captured.
Cold.
What, David? Cold.
I'm cold.
We'll find some clothes for you.
Let's go.
Which way? Well, that's the way we came so let's go this way.
Hold my arm, I'm blind.
Blind? I can't see.
We're really quite a pair.
(ELECTRICAL WHIRRING) What is it? I guess it's nothing.
Well, let's keep going then.
Excuse me, Colonel, we've got power back in several sections now.
Good.
Tell security I want check outs.
There they are.
CHARLENA: He's transformed back.
There, see him there? McGEE: But still not all the way.
COLONEL: What section? CORPORAL: Radiation.
Damn.
Alert the troops.
Colonel? Send coordinated forces down to all connecting tunnels.
Colonel? Tell them not to fire unless they have to.
But if it begins attacking Colonel? You shut up! No, you shut up.
Please.
Sergeant.
Listen to me.
Now I know how this man, how this creature acts.
And reacts.
You go charging in there like the first eight bars of Tiger Rag he will tear the place apart.
What he has already done is just a taste.
You ain't seen nothing yet.
You'd kill him trying to take him.
No! He may be right.
You're damn right I'm right.
What do you suggest? Let me go talk to him.
There's nothing here, you better try the next one.
Pay dirt.
Now let's hope it fits.
Here, put it on.
Ventilation.
What? Come on.
Come on.
We're moving southwest now.
Keep all the other units on alert in all surrounding corridors.
It's kind of small, but we don't have much choice.
You think you can get the grating off? Grating? Screen.
This.
McGEE: John.
It's me, McGee.
He thinks your name is John.
Don't tell him that it's not.
You know me, Jack McGee.
And I know you.
You saved my life a couple of times, so I wanna help you.
Help me? That's right.
All these people want to help you.
That's all they want to do.
Help you.
Honestly.
I'm not sure you can trust him.
I can't trust you.
Of course you can.
You told me that you want some peace.
The chance to make the creature go away.
These people can help you, they can study you.
Find out what's wrong, and why it happens.
I don't know.
Why you're caught halfway between.
Don't trust him.
You don't like the way you are now, do you? No! I hate it.
I understand that.
And so do they.
They're scientists.
Not all of them.
Trust me.
Katie, maybe I could No! Trust them.
Trust me.
No! Don't do that! No! Let me go! Let me go! (GROANS) No! Don't hurt him! (GROANS) Don't do that to him! Stop it! (GROANING) (ALARM BLARING) (GRUNTING) (ALL CLAMORING) (ROARS) Help me! KATIE: No! No! No! Don't! MAN 1 ON PA: We've got a power overload! We're overloading! Back up! MAN 2: I got a blowout at gamma three.
Get your base to zero.
(MAN CHATTERING) The overload is burning down the grid.
(ALL SHOUTING) It's in the ventilation shaft! Close the ball valve! Seal it! Quickly! MAN ON PA: Ball valve closing.
Seal in progress.
(ALARM BLARING) MAN: Something's wrong.
We've got pressure building.
(ROARING) MAN 1: Pressure's building.
What the hell is going on in there? MAN 2: Fire! Tell them the hydraulics line's in there.
Fire's traveling toward the main oil storage tank.
MAN 3: Damage control! Damage control! MAN 4: Fuel tank area was clear of personnel.
We're getting units off to fight the fire.
(PANTING) McGEE: John, where are you? John! (GASPS) (LAUGHING) You're closing down Prometheus? Until we've redesigned it all.
Our first experience was rather a disaster.
Yeah, you could say that.
Well, how long do you figure it's gonna take you? Who knows? New technology will have to be developed.
Several years at least.
It's quite a story.
Yes, I know.
It's also classified top secret, out of a desire to avoid publicity and panic, if we ever have a close encounter.
Still, the people have the right to know.
Yes they do.
It's very delicate, the balance.
Let me talk to Washington.
Maybe it's time we loosened up a little.
Yes, I think maybe it is.
DAVID: So, will you be staying at the cabin? No, I think I'll try the city for a while.
Good.
After tramping blindly through the forest and those tunnels at Prometheus You've gained a little confidence? (CHUCKLES) Yes.
I figure if I can handle that, then getting from The Plaza to Carnegie Hall should be a piece of cake.
That's good.
My bus.
Your bus, yes.
I'm writing something, a concerto for you, in three movements.
One for each Oh! (SIGHING) I hope you find the answer to your problem, David.
I'll miss you, Katie.
I'll be thinking about you.
Me too, you.