Gog

Pepe is asleep.

Test subject asleep.

Time...

Three twenty-four.

Oxygenometer?

Point five.

Blood pressure?

Normal.

Reduce temperature to ten degrees below zero.

Temperature: minus ten.

Take it down to minus forty.

Give me a reading.

Temperature: minus forty.

Body temperature: fourteen.

Heart beat: twelve.

Respiration: nine point four.

Reduce temperature to minus eighty-five.

Temperature: minus eighty-five.

Heart beat: zero.

Pulse rate: zero.

Respiration: none.

Test subject completely solidified, one minute and 54 seconds.

Doctor Kirby, increase temperature.

Temperature: minus twenty...

minus ten...

zero...

plus ten...

twenty...

thirty two.

Induce galvanic shock to the heart.

Body temperature: sixty, seventy, eighty.

Induce galvanic shock to the brain.

Body temperature: ninety...

ninety two, ninety five, ninety nine.

Cut the pumps.

Increase oxygen.

Induce galvanic shock to the central nervous system.

Now!

He's breathing.

Pulse: normal. Blood pressure: normal.

-Time? -Three, twenty-seven and 7 seconds.

Test subject alive.

Result: positive.

Nice boy, Pepe.

You'll be more famous than Pavlov's dog. Just wait and see.

Send Pepe down to the biology lab for a blood count.

Come on, Pepe.

Floyd?

Take Pepe to the biology lab for a blood count.

Have six copies of the log typed out.

And I'll want a more sensitive thermostat.

-You'll find one in the supply room. -Yes, doctor.

Doctor Kirby?

Doctor Kirby?

Doctor Kirby!

Doctor Kirby!

Help! Help! Doctor Kirby! Somebody help!

Help!

Doctor Kirby! Doctor Kirby! Help! Somebody help!

Help! Help!

Help! Help!

Help! Help! Help! Help!

Doctor Hubertus?

Doctor Hubertus?

-What happen? -Controls are jammed.

-The Brain just took over. -The Brain?

The giant brain machine that's guiding us in.

Keeps the exact location of the area a secret.

I've been here twice before and still don't know where I am.

Suppose I watch the instruments?

Wouldn't do you any good. The Brain magnetizes them too.

Control 2 from Control 1. Helicopter approaching.

Guiding in on beam four.

Now passing through sector six.

Please report helicopter approaching to Dr. Van Ness.

Sun mirror.

Yeah, focused on us, they could burn us to a crisp.

A pleasant thought.

Aircraft now descending. Open hangar.

Altitude 100 feet.

90... 80...

70... 60...

50... 40...

30... 20...

Thanks very much Al, I appreciate it.

Dr. Sheppard?

-Yes. -Dr. Van Ness is waiting for you.

-Right this way, please. -Thank you.

May I see your credentials, please?

-Better check this in the file, Andy. -Right, Julie.

Kill the light, Steve.

Alright, Steve.

Everything seems to be in order, Julie.

Thank you, Dr. Sheppard.

If you'll follow me, please.

-How far do we go? -First level. Hundred feet down.

-How many levels are there? -Four, not counting the hangar.

The fourth level contains the atomic pile. The third, the NOVAC.

-NOVAC? -The Brain.

-What do you know about the brain machine? -It's not my job to know.

Well, this is it.

-You'll have to go alone. -Alright.

Dr. Van Ness's office is right over there.

Just stand in front of the door.

-A photocell will indicate your presence. -Thank you.

Come in, come in.

You must be Dr. Sheppard. I'm Dr. Van Ness.

I attended many of your lectures, Dr. Van Ness.

Shows good sense, very good sense.

Good to get rid of those.

Here are my orders, sir.

I requested your presence, Dr. Sheppard.

Sit down.

You enjoy a very excellent reputation.

I asked for you particularly.

-So you were with OSS. -During the war.

-Then with H bomb security. -Not 'til last night.

You're used to danger. I'm not, it confuses me and I...

I can't afford to be confused.

Our research work here is much too important.

The security of the nation is at stake.

Well, I must admit I haven't had much time for a briefing.

Well, as you know from my teletype report, Doctor Hubertus...

and his assistant were found dead in the cold chamber.

Their bodies crystallized and shattered into hundreds of pieces.

What kind of an experiment were they conducting?

Hubertus believed that by pre-freezing the pilots...

we'll be able to conquer space.

A man kept frozen and refrigerated...

could avoid the danger of space flight.

Cosmic rays, meteors, lack of weight, and oxygen.

The pull of gravity.

But someone must operate the controls.

Robots!

How do you intend to bring these pilots back to life from their frozen condition?

When the rocket arrives, radar beams thaw them out.

-It's fantastic! -It worked!

With animals.

But Hubertus was murdered with his own machine.

Did you consider equipment failure, Dr. Van Ness?

No!

I've positive proof there's a saboteur in my staff.

I'd like to see the evidence.

Joanna, will you please bring in the homing devices.

Yes, sir.

We're faced with extreme emergency.

The lives of 150 top scientists are in danger.

The best in the country, and I'm responsible for their safety.

I want you to share this responsibility with me, Dr. Sheppard.

Thank you.

Joanna, this is Dr. Sheppard, of the Office of Scientific Investigation. Miss Merritt.

-How do you do, Dr. Sheppard. -It's a pleasure, Miss Merritt.

Can you recognize these gadgets?

Miniature radar beacons.

-Beautiful precision wor... -We found them hidden.

They were sending out a signal in code.

It's obvious they were designed to guide in a bomb.

Where were they found?

One was found among some equipment in the microchemistry lab,

and the other in the commissary storeroom.

How powerful would you say these were, Dr. Van Ness?

Powerful enough to beam in a plane.

Or a rocket with an atomic warhead.

Yes, but we aren't at war.

We weren't at war the night before Pearl Harbor.

Aren't we safe this far underground?

Yes, from an ordinary bomb.

The project is buried in the desert...

for security reasons.

We're on four levels.

Or five, counting the hangar where you landed in the helicopter.

It's shaped like a wheel.

With the elevator running down the center of the wheel.

Now, if a ordinary bomb were dropped,

our surface installations would be damaged, and possibly the hangar...

and some of the elevator controls.

With an atomic bomb...

the first level would go to where we are now.

And with a hydrogen bomb...

the works!

And a large part of the desert.

Are there many people in the first level now?

Almost everyone, it's noon.

Well, I suggest you clear this level at once.

But they're at lunch.

Well, from now on, why not stagger them in shifts?

Then if anything happens, your losses would be at a minimum.

Yes, that was Major Howard's suggestion.

And in view of the circumstances, I think it should be done.

Is your staff aware of the impending danger?

Only Major Howard, in charge of security. He found the devices.

Good. If you don't mind, I'd like to take this transmitter.

Then I'd like to become acquainted with your staff, and the work they're doing.

Yes, certainly.

Miss Merritt will as your guide and provide you with all necessary...

protective equipment.

This way, Dr. Sheppard.

I'll meet you in the Helio lab in 10 minutes.

-Major Howard? -Yes, Dr. Van Ness.

Clear the first level.