Prometheus

Get Charlie.

Dr. Holloway!

Charlie!

What?

Come quick!

- Did you date it? - Thirty-five thousand...

...years. Maybe older.

You gotta be kidding me.

It's the same configuration.

I mean, it's gotta predate the others by millennia.

I think they want us to come and find them.

Yeah.

What happened to that man?

He died.

Why aren't you helping them?

They don't want my help.

Their God is different from ours.

Why did he die?

Because sooner or later, everyone does.

Like Mommy?

Like Mommy.

Where do they go?

Everyone has their own word.

Heaven.

Paradise.

Whatever it's called, it's someplace beautiful.

How do you know it's beautiful?

That's what I choose to believe.

What do you believe, Ellie?

Good morning, David.

Transmitting message.

No response.

While this articulation...

...is attested in the Indo-European descendants...

...as a purely paralinguistic form...

...it is phonemic in the ancestral form dating back...

...five millennia or more.

Let's attempt Schleichefs fable.

Repeat after me.

Perfect.

- Mr. Lawrence? - Yes?

- Flimsy, sir. - Thank you.

You do that once too often. It's only flesh and blood!

Michael George Hartley, you're a philosopher.

And you're barmy.

- Oh! It damn hurts! - Certainly, it hurts.

Well, what's the trick, then?

The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.

The trick, William Potter...

...is not minding that it hurts.

The trick, William Potter...

...is not minding that it hurts.

Attention:

Destination threshold.

Attention:

Destination threshold.

Attention: Destination threshold.

Robe.

How long?

Two years, four months, 18 days...

...36 hours, 15 minutes.

Any casualties?

Casualties, ma'am?

Has anyone died?

No, ma'am. Everyone is fine.

Well, then wake them up.

Try to relax, Dr. Shaw.

My name is David.

Your mind and body are in a state of shock...

...as a result of the stasis.

It's all right. Perfectly normal.

Ellie.

We're here, baby.

There, there.

Drink plenty of water. Drink plenty of fluids.

Hydration aids muscle mass.

All crew, consume shakes with high caloric content.

What the hell is that?

It's Christmas.

We need the holidays...

...to show time is still moving.

Mission briefing...

...is about to start, captain.

Might wanna make your way down.

Well, I haven't had any breakfast yet.

Is this seat taken?

Hi, I'm Millburn, Biology. Nice to meet you.

Okay.

Look, no offense, but...

...I've been asleep two years.

I ain't here to be your friend.

I'm here to make money.

You got that?

Okay.

I bet a hundred credits it's a terraforming survey.

No, if it's a survey, they would tell us.

It's a corporate run, they're not telling us shit.

Come on.

- A hundred. - All right, you're on.

You look nervous, El.

- I'll try to keep my feet on the ground. - I know you will.

Good morning.

For those of you I hired personally...

...it's nice to see you again.

For the rest of you, I am Meredith Vickers. It's my job to make sure you do yours.

Okay, then. On with the show.

Weyland Corporation.

Building better worlds.

Hello, friends.

My name is Peter Weyland.

I am your employer.

I am recording this, 22 June, 2091. And if you're watching it...

...you have reached your destination.

And I am long dead.

May I rest in peace.

There's a man sitting with you today. His name is David.

And he is the closest thing to a son I will ever have.

Unfortunately, he is not human.

He will never grow old...

...and he will never die.

And yet he is unable to appreciate these remarkable gifts...

...for that would require the one thing that David will never have.

A soul.

I have spent my entire...

...lifetime contemplating the questions:

Where do we come from?

What is our purpose?

What happens when we die?

And I have finally found two people who have convinced me they're on the verge of answering them.

Doctors Holloway and Shaw, if you would please stand.

As far as you're concerned, they're in charge.

The Titan Prometheus wanted to give mankind equal footing with the gods...

...and for that, he was cast from Olympus.

Well, my friends, the time has finally come for his return.

Doctors, please.

The floor is yours.

Okay, wow.

All right.

I never had to follow a ghost before.

Okay, let me show you why you guys...

...are here.

These are images of archeological digs from all over the Earth.

That's...

...Egyptian, Mayan, Sumerian, Babylonian.

That's Hawaiian there at the end, then Mesopotamian.

Now, this one here is our most recent discovery.

It's a 35,000-year-old cave painting from the Isle of Skye in Scotland.

These are ancient civilizations. They were separated by centuries.

They shared no contact with one another, and yet...

The same pictogram...

...showing men worshiping giant beings, pointing to the stars...

...was discovered at every last one of them.

And the only galactic system that matched...

...was so far from Earth that there's no way...

...that these primitive, ancient civilizations could have possibly known about it.

But it just so happens...

...that that system...

...has a sun...

...a lot like ours.

And, based on our long-range scans, there seemed to be a planet.

Just one planet with a moon...

...capable of sustaining life.

And we arrived there this morning.

So you're saying we're here because of a map you two kids found in a cave. Is that right?

- No. - Yeah.

No. Not a map, an invitation.

From who?

We call them Engineers.

Engineers?

Do you mind...

...telling us what they engineered?

They engineered us.

Bullshit.

Okay, so do you...

...have anything to back that up?

Look, if you're willing to discount...

...three centuries of Darwinism, that's...

But how do you know?

I don't.

But it's what I choose to believe.

Doctors.

Miss Vickers would like to have a quick word before the adventure begins.

Wow, nice place.

It's actually a separate module with its own self-contained life support.

Air, food.

Anything Miss Vickers would need to survive a hostile environment.

Okay, so she lives on a lifeboat.

Yes.

I do.

I like to minimize risk.

David, why don't you make the doctors a drink?

I'll take a vodka. Up.

Charlie, look.

It's a Pauling Med-Pod.

They only made a dozen of these.

Miss Shaw.

Please verbally state the nature of your injury.

Please don't touch that.

It's a very expensive piece of machinery.

It does bypass surgery. What do you need it for?