Creature

Oh, wow.

This is fantastic.

Yeah.

The CD unit says these structures

are over 200,000 years old.

I can believe that.

Hey, Ted. There's something over here.

What is it?

It's a skeleton of something.

Oh, I gotta get a picture of this.

Hey, Ted. This one looks unbroken.

Unbroken?

Let's get it out of there.

Wait a minute.

- Let's think about this. - What?

Well, whatever's in here's probably been in here for

a quarter of a million years, right?

- So what? - So...

If we wake up, it's liable to be very pissed.

And very hungry.

What kind of a scientist are you?

Come on.

All right.

Be careful, don't drop him.

I'm not kidding, Ted. I don't like this.

Howard, would you stop being stupid?

Whatever's in here has probably been dead

for 100 centuries.

Oh, it's heavy.

Oh, man.

What do you think it is?

I don't know.

Looks like a face.

I'll tell you, wherever this thing came from,

it wasn't bred for looks.

Hand me my light.

Oh, Jesus Christ!

What happened?

- I think it opened its eyes. - Are you sure?

Well...

I don't know, maybe it was the lightning.

Hey, sorry.

You cracked it when you dropped your light there.

Oh, yeah. Well, looks okay.

Uh, come over here for a second.

Why?

Would you just come over here?

Why?

Howard, would you come over here?

I have to take a picture and I need you for scale.

All right.

How's this?

Yeah.

Oh. Oh, no, wait a minute, I can't get you all in.

Uh, why don't you sit on it?

You sit on it.

Howard, this is gonna make us famous back home.

Now, would you sit down on it?

Oh, shit. All right.

- That's great. - How's this?

Let me get a ruler.

Here. Hold that, just like that.

You know, on second thought, Ted,

maybe you should be sitting here and I should be...

Howard, are you okay?

Howard!

Oh my god!

Uh, roger. We have you confirmed at 839LB

at section five.

Your ETA is 9601 and you have compu-sync.

Roger.

Sir, I've got something very odd here.

I've got an approaching craft

on an intercept course with Concorde

and it's approaching at 10,000 kps.

Can you confirm that?

Yeah, it's there all right. Try to raise them.

This is Concorde calling spacecraft

approaching from section three.

Please identify yourself. You are on a collision course.

Please alter your course to point five KW.

Please respond. Do you read me?

Please respond.

Why didn't you see this before?

It must've been masked behind another ship.

Go to red. Condition red.

Station control, condition red.

Repeat: Condition red.

Unidentified craft will impact Concorde in 45 seconds.

We've got a visual here.

What the hell?

Holy shit!

Whatever your personal reasons are

for volunteering for this mission, this is an NTI venture

and our obligations are to NTI because of it.

Now, your job here is simply to set claim

to an archeological discovery of alien origin.

The find was discovered a few meters below the surface

of Titan by a geological research team from NTI.

Why didn't the team claim it?

Because the only survivor crashed

into the Concorde on his return,

and we can only assume that the rest of the team is dead.

Here are your coordinates.

Are we supposed to bring this back with us?

Look, our job here is to officially mark it, document it,

and return any samples to NTI.

Uh, if we're on a research mission,

why do we have to have a security officer?

Just in case.

In case of what?

I don't know, I've never been there.

Bryce, you can't take these.

These are prescription drugs!

Look, can we...

I'm gonna be in a lot of trouble here.

You have got no right to take these!

What's the matter? What did Bryce want?

Drugs. Heavy sedatives, mostly.

Hmm. What does she want those for?

- Well, you've got me. - She didn't bother to say.

As a matter of fact, she didn't say anything.

What I don't understand is, how could you be on a ship

for three months and not say anything to anybody?

I don't even know her first name.

Mmm, I think it's Melanie.

Terrific.

Hi, Doc.

Hi.

- Hi. - Hi, what're you doing here?

You told me to meet you at the medical bay.

- I said the observation bay. - Oh, no.

Boy, you've been somewhere else lately.

Come on, there's a great view of Titan. You wanna see it?

Okay, sure.

Uh, would you like me to talk to Davison about Bryce?

No, don't bother. I'm gonna speak to Perkins.

I think he's the person holding her leash.

- Okay. - See ya, Doc.

- Well, hello, Sladen. - Hi.

Three moves, I'll have checkmate.

No way.

We'll see.

After all, a commander doesn't have to have any brains,

just a good, strong voice.

How many times are you gonna read the same book?

I happen to like this book.

Besides, it's the only one I brought with me.

That stuff is gonna rot your brain.

I see Susan's been here.

You shouldn't drink so much coffee. Bad for your health.

- Yeah, I know. - I've heard that somewhere.

Hey, why don't you stick around

so I can beat the crap outta your king?

Thanks for the invitation,

but they need me on the bridge.

I never knew this was here.

Well, most of the time the shield's in place,

and you probably wouldn't notice it.

You know I sleep here sometimes?

It's beautiful.

I love lookin' out at the stars.

It makes me think of where I grew up in Michigan,

going to sleep on the back porch on an August night.

There it is.

One gigantic ball of methane gas and ice.

I know, it's...

It's creepy.

What's the matter?

I don't know, it's kind of hard to talk about.

It's this trip.

Is Perkins getting to you?

No, not that.

You must've been listening to some of those rumors

on Concorde about the first expedition.

Maybe, but every time I look up there,

I get a feeling I'm being smothered.

I guess I'm being kind of silly, but...

something about this trip.

It's the fear of the unknown. It's natural.

I'm not coming back.

- Of course you are. - What're you talking about?

No, I... I can feel it.

Make love to me.

Please?

Confirmation on scan, please.

I have an LRV of a spacecraft back about three degrees.

Give me a replay, please.

You bet.

So, what've you got?

Let me enhance this.

- Is this right? - Yeah.

Are you trying to tell me they landed in a crater?

All right, the specs on this craft

show that it's a Richter Dynamics design.

Richter Dynamics.

Damn it.

So this has been your little secret, huh, Perkins?

You knew we were racing Richter Dynamics up here.

Well, great. It looks like they won.