Species

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry?

Sir, she's breaking out!

- Go, go! - What are we looking for?

She jumped over the fence.

She jumped over the fence!

A couple of trains came through here

around about the time she escaped.

Do you think she could have gotten this far in that time?

Is she that fast?

She is that fast.

And this, too.

- $3.10. - Three dollars and 10 cents?

Right.

Here's your change.

Thank you.

Can I help you?

The total is $17.95.

Here's your card.

Are you gonna buy those?

Have a nice trip.

It's a brown tweed bag

with leather trim, kind of like a duffel.

Do you see it anywhere?

No, Sir.

The porter said he was gonna bring it up and put it on the cart.

This is the cart, there's no bag here.

Government authorities said

this was the largest earthquake to strike

in the urban area in nearly...

He's riding Greased Lightning.

That was Shorty Kincaid.

Enjoy the view.

Excuse me.

We shouldn't be seen together.

Father hasn't been dead more than 48 hours.

Do you think Arliss suspects?

No, it's not too soon for us to be together.

Tickets, please.

Oh, are you traveling by yourself?

What, you're 12?

Someone gonna meet you in Los Angeles?

We'll say that you're 11.

That way you only have to pay half-price.

I can't believe our little girl did this.

She's not a little girl.

DNA typing and material found in those wounds

proves it was her.

She could be anywhere,

Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, anywhere.

We should stop all the trains.

And have the railroad and local police

ask a million questions we can't answer?

We'll put key personnel at every stop along these lines.

I want a team to track her.

Hunt her down.

Good morning, Jill.

Thank you for taking care of my cat.

We'll take very good care of your cat.

I won't be gone for very long.

Take care of yourself.

Bye-bye.

Are you still having problems with the people at work?

They point their finger at me saying

I'm the weird one, I'm the strange one.

Why, because I have feelings?

'Cause I feel?

There's someone at the door.

I won't answer that.

Whoever it is, they can come back at the end of the hour.

That's for me.

Sorry, I have to interrupt.

We need your help, Dan.

I know. Uh...

gotta go.

Mr. Fitch will be with you all in just a moment.

Well,

I guess we all must be here for the same reason,

whatever that is.

I'm Dan Smithson.

And I don't know why I'm here either.

But, um, they said they needed me

and that it was very important, so I came.

What do you do, Dan?

I...

am an empath.

Sometimes they show me awful things

that people have done.

And then I try to tell them why they did it.

What qualifies you for that?

I feel things deeply, that's all.

What am I feeling right now?

You wanna believe that nothing affects you, that...

you're not afraid of anything.

But you're curious,

just like the rest of us.

Stephen Arden,

Harvard Anthropology Department.

Expert at cross-cultural behavior.

Laura Baker, hi.

Molecular biologist, hi.

And who are you and what do you do?

Preston Lennox.

And if I'm here,

I think the shit has definitely hit the fan.

What exactly is your area of specialty, Mr. Lennox?

Let's just say I'm a freelance solution

to some of our government's problems.

And what exactly might they be?

The kind that people don't usually like to talk about.

You hunt people, don't you?

I guess so.

You in here, honey, it's a little late for T.V...

You in here, honey?

Good evening.

I'm Xavier Fitch.

I'm in charge of this operation.

Would you sit a little closer, please?

In November of 1974,

a small group from SETI, S-E-T-I,

Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence,

used the radio dishes at Arecibo

to send out a message to whoever might be listening.

They sent about a quarter of a kilobyte,

including structure of human DNA,

map of our solar system,

population of the Earth, you know, helpful facts like that.

In January of 1993,

Arecibo received a message back

from an extraterrestrial unknown source.

That's great.

Intelligent life beyond this planet?

Yes.

There were two distinct communications.

The first message turned out to be

a superior catalyst from methane.

We now have the potential to produce

an infinite amount of energy from this clean-burning fuel.

This convinced us that we were dealing

with a friendly intelligence.

The second message turned out to be a new sequence of DNA

with a rather friendly instructions

on how to combine it with ours.

Here's some technical data on the whole operation.

You can get feedback on it from Dr. Baker here.

Basically, the new combined DNA sequence

was injected into 100 human ova.

We got seven to divide.

Four petered out.

Two were stored in liquid nitrogen.

And we allowed one to grow.

That's its code name there, Sil.

That's after two hours.

One day.

Two days.

My God!

Its growth is amazing.

It's a week.

- It's a girl. - Yes, I...

We decided to make it female

so that it would be more docile and controllable.

More docile and controllable, huh?

Well, I guess you guys don't get out much.

That's her one month after she was born.

So you kept her caged in there?

We decided it would be safer to keep her in isolation.

She didn't like being locked up like that.

She didn't like being alone like that.

Didn't she?

She's hiding something, something inside.

You're right, Dan.

This is three months after she was born

and you watch carefully.

What the hell was that?

Back the tape up.

Watch her eyes.

Rapid eye movement, she's dreaming.

She's having horrible nightmares.

It's some kind of anxiety reaction.

Got me a little anxious.

Well, it made the research team a little anxious, too,

so, the decision was made to terminate the experiment

to run more research so that we could determine

what we were dealing with.

You were going to gas her?

That was the decision.

It makes you feel mad.

It makes you feel mad you had to kill her, doesn't it?

I don't know.

Wow.

Yes.

Yesterday morning, the body of a transient

was found in a boxcar in a sighting near Salt Lake City.

Preliminary DNA tests conclude

he was killed by our creation, by our Sil.

Have you found any other bodies?

- No, we haven't, not yet. - You will.

She's a predator.

Her eyes are in front.

Her eyes are in front so she can judge