Beyond the Time Barrier (1960)

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Good morning.

Good morning, colonel.

Oh, hi, bill.

Well, did you make
our reservations

For lunch at the club?

You and your easy living.

Boy, you better cut down
on some of that weight

Or I'm going to ground you.

Oh, yeah?
Look who's talking.

You know, Marty,
you're just jealous.

You're after my job,
and I know it.

You know, you may be right.

Okay, hero, let's get you
into your flight suit.

Right.

The flight is divided
into three phases.

Ground to maximum altitude,

Maximum speed
and controllability

In the upper thin air,

And re-entry.

Now, the turbo jet engine
will lose its efficiency

At around 50,000 feet.

Allison will coast on it
to 75,000 feet,

And then cut in
the new rocket engine.

He'll level off
at around 500,000 feet,

100 Miles above the earth,
gentlemen.

For all practical purposes,

Major Allison will be in space.

Now, at this altitude,

He'll lower
the ventral stabilizers

And make his high-speed
stability flight

Progressing from
position 1 to 20.

Now, we know the x80 is capable

Of a speed
of 5,000 Miles per hour.

In the thin air of 100 Miles
altitude

With no resistance,
who knows?

What we learn from this flight
will pretty well determine

Our next step into space,

The satellite,

A man in orbit.

You all set, major?

Yes, sir.

Excuse me gentlemen.

I'll join you
in flight control shortly.

Hello,
tracking station number two.

This is sands flight control.

X80 standing by for take-off.

With your permission, tower.

Am I clear to roll?

Weather clear.

You have a green light.

Good luck.

X80 to sands control.

Approaching altitude
40,000 feet,

Air speed 1,200,

Angle of flight 85 degrees.

Over.

50,000 feet, colonel.

Turbo power cutting out.

Hello, control.
Approaching 75,000 feet.

Cutting in rocket engine.

Hello, sands,
this is x80,

Approaching altitude
400,000 feet.

Okay, colonel.

There's a new record for you.

Good work, Allison.

How do you feel?

How's she handling?

No pain, no strain.

Leveling off.

Proceeding
with phase number two.

Over.

When you're ready, kid.

When you're ready.

This is x80 to sands control.

Approaching position number one.

Altitude 500,000.

Air speed 1,000-plus.

Ventral stabilizers in position.

You ready, colonel?

Ready any time you are.

And the lord be with you.
Over.

Sands control from x80.

Position number four.

Air speed 2,000...

Two, zero, zero, zero.

We're going all the way.

X80 to sands control.

Position number eight.

Air speed 6,000...

Six, zero, zero, zero.

Position ten.

Air speed 7,000.

- What is it, Martin?
- I'm not sure.

We've lost radio contact.

Colonel Martin, he's off the
tracking field.

Keep trying.

Keep trying.

Sands control to x80,

Sands control to X, eight, oh.

Come in, x80.

Sands control to x80.

Sands to X, eight, oh.

Come in, x80.

Re-entry glide successful.

This is x80 preparing
for a landing.

Are you reading me?

Come in, sands control.

Hey, anybody here?

Did you make our reservations
for lunch at the club?

You and your easy living.

Boy, you better cut down
on some of that weight

Or I'm going to ground you.

Oh, yeah?
Look who's talking.

You know, Marty,
you're just jealous.

You're after my job,
and I know it.

You know, you may be right.

Okay, hero, let's get you
into your flight suit.

Right.

Where is everybody?

Hey!

Anybody here?

You.

Who are you?

What are you doing to me?

I said,
"what are you doing to me?"

Can't you hear me?

Get me out of this thing!

Who... who are you people?

Where am I?

In a hospital or something?

Where am I?

What's wrong with you?

Can't you understand me?

Say something.

I said, "answer me!"

Can't you...

Let go of me!

Oh, sorry.

I didn't mean to do that.

The new prisoner
has been cleansed of radiation,

My master.

That is well.

Let us hope
we find him more cooperative

Than the previous prisoners.

I hope Trirene
has learned something

From his thoughts.

We must be very careful.

He will use
all the known tricks.

We can depend on that.

We will proceed
with the usual caution, captain.

Who are you?

Major William Allison,
U.S. air force.

Won't you sit down, major?

Sir, I'd like to ask
some questions.

I'm very confused
about what's happened to me.

Yes, of course, major.

Ask your questions.

I'd like to know where I am

And how I got here

And who all you people are.

And the airfield...

What has happened to it?

The air base, my supreme.

Yes.

I left there at 8:00
this morning,

And half hour later,

It was in shambles, deserted.

Where are colonel Martin
and the others?

I... I don't understand.

You are from a nation
of speaking peoples.

How glorious that must be.

Our society's less fortunate.

Your society?

Yes.

You see, we here in our citadel,

Save for my captain and myself,

Are deaf-mutes.

Even my own grandchild Trirene.

Deaf-mutes.

You mean everybody?

I don't understand.

There will be time
for understanding

If you are cooperative.

Now tell us of your nation.

I don't know what
you're talking about, sir.

I'm sorry.

You know very well
what we're talking about.

You're not the first spy
we've ever captured.

What do you mean spy?

I asked some civil questions.

I expect some civil answers.

I want some answers.

What is this you're wearing,
this symbol?

What is this?

New devices to deceive us,
master.

We have seen such guises before.

They do not fool us.

It would be wise
to tell us all you know.

I'm major William Allison,

United States air force, sir.

Serial number 03564629.

That's all I'm required
to tell you.

I will use other measures,
supreme.

I will get to the truth.

Wait, captain.

Major, we have saved your life.

You could have been captured
by the mutants.

Won't you cooperate with us?

With your permission, sir.

What was your purpose
in coming here?

I don't have any purpose.

You lie.

You were spying on
our solar energy installation.

How did you find us?

Find you?
I don't even know where I am.

You're searching for
Karl Kruse and Dr. Bourman.

You're one of them, aren't you?

I never heard of them.

Where are your people living?

Would you really like to know,
captain?

Yes, of course I want to know.

Well, at this very minute,
I don't know myself.

Captain...

He's impossible.

You're one of the scapes.

Admit it.

I'm an officer of
the United States air force.

I'd like someone to tell me
something that makes some sense.

Other nations, mutants?

What kind of talk is this?

He is very clever, my supreme,
but I have a plan.

I can use him to our advantage.

Trirene does not approve
of your plan, captain.

She has found some truth
in the major's thoughts.

I do not trust him,
especially his thoughts.

Even Trirene could be deceived.

Follow through with your plan,
captain.

Yes, master.

It will be done.

Wait a minute.

Let me go.

What are you doing?

It appears you have more
than the usual interest

In this young c*ptive,
Trirene.

He's very young.

This young man is an enemy.

You must be very careful.

I understand your wish, Trirene.

We see you, captain.

We see you up there.

Captain is alone.

Who are you?

I can't see you.

Good lord.

What's wrong with you?

We will k*ll you, captain.

Mutants.

I'm not the captain.
Do you understand?

Who are you?

You can talk.
Answer me!

Yes!

I will talk.

Stay or I'll break his arm.

Now, the captain and his people
are your enemies.

Why?

They are listening.

They are listening
and watching us.

I don't care.
I want some answers.

Who are these people
in this citadel?

They are hiding from us.

They have food.

They have everything.

But we will find them,
all of them,

And k*ll, k*ll, k*ll them.

Why are they hiding?

They are infected too.

They cannot escape.

Escape?

Escape from what?

You are scape,
like Karl Kruse.

Who are the scapes?

You.

You and Kruse.

You are scapes.

We know.

You left us to die.

You ran from the plague.

What plague?

When?

Long ago.

Long ago you left us here
to die.

You did this to us.

But we will find
your hiding place,

And we will k*ll all of you.

I did this?

Has the whole world gone mad?

Young man, my granddaughter
has chosen to protect you.

She has expressed faith
in what you've told us.

My captain and I
will trust her judgment.

Trirene has a gift
we do not possess.

She has an extra sensory power.

She's able to perceive
every thought within our minds.

Go with her, young man.

You will have the freedom
of our citadel.

And our child will be happy.

Oh, thank you.

Uh, thank you.

Hey, am I starved.

That looks great.

Uh, thank you.

Thank you.

Oh, hi.

I was just looking around.

I mean, Trirene,

I want to thank you
for rescuing me.

But, you know,
that captain seems determined

That I'm an enemy.

If you could only talk,

If I could only make
you understand.

I'll go out of my mind if I...

You know what I'm thinking,
don't you?

You know how important
it is to me

To find out
exactly what happened

And how I got here.

The city.

You and all the people here
once lived in this city.

Is that right?

No?

Oh, your grandfather,
the supreme,

He lived in the city.

I see.

Your father?

And your mother.

They came here
before you were born?

And you've never lived in
the air and sunlight, have you?

Trirene, tell me.

Why did they abandon that city

And move to
the subterranean world?

The mutants.

The plague.

Was it the plague
they told me about?

Trirene, try to understand this.

I was on an airfield
this morning.

In less than an hour,
everything had changed.

All the people I know were gone.

There was no plague
where I came from.

What happened?

What happened
to your father and mother?

The mutants k*lled them.

Oh, I'm...

I'm very sorry.

You know my thoughts before
I express them, so...

You know I'm going to ask you
about Karl Kruse.

Is he here in the citadel?

Look, would you take me to him?

I think if I can get
to Karl Kruse,

He can help me understand
all this.

Trirene gives me to understand
that you are one of us.

I don't know.

I'm not sure.

I think you are.

How long have you been here
in the citadel?

Since this morning.

Well, I'm not certain.

I don't know.

I've lost track.

Time has very little meaning

Here in the catalisosphere.

Trirene informs me
that you have been here

For three turns of the earth.

That is three days.

I've only been in this place
a few hours.

I took off from the field
at 0800 this morning.

I had hoped that you would be
able to explain...

Do not excite yourself.

We will explain.

There will be plenty of time.

Let me introduce myself.

I'm Karl Kruse.

Used to be general Karl Kruse.

This is Professor Bourman.

How do you do?

Major William Allison,
United States air force.

Did you say
United States air force?

Yes.

What's so unusual about that?

Major Allison,
what year was your flight in?

I told you today,
this morning.

But what day and what year,
major?

It is important we know.

March 5, 1960.

1960?

He's from before the plague.

How is this possible, Professor?

What is this plague
I keep hearing about?

You really don't know, do you?

No, I don't know.

I don't know where
I am or how I got here,

And I don't know
who these people are

In the citadel either.

Well, Trirene
has found herself

A big, good-looking playmate,
and a fiery one too.

Major Allison,
this is ex-captain Markova.

I don't know that I like what
you have on your mind, captain.

Maybe when you find out
what she has on hers,

You'll like that better.

What are you driving at?

They've given you
the run of this place,

Haven't they?

Yes.

So little Trirene here
can get busy and...

What kind of female are you?

I had to do it.

Don't you understand?

You mean she was reading
your thoughts,

Things you didn't want her
to know?

That's right.

We can talk now,
but not for long.

The captain will be up here
any minute

To see what's happened
to his gadgets.

Watch out for him.

He rules this place
with an iron fist.

Yes, so I've found out.

He's determined
I'm an enemy spy,

A "scape,"
he called it.

That's the name
they have given us,

We who escaped
the cosmic plague.

They hate us
for leaving them behind.

Luckily, we convinced them
they needed us.

Otherwise, we'd still be down
in the pit with the mutants.

We keep the solar power
system operating.

All their skilled have died off.

And the mutants are the ones
who did not escape the plague.

Is that right?

No, the people here
in this citadel didn't either.

They are all first-stage mutants
themselves.

Is that why they're deaf
and mute?

And sterile,
except for Trirene perhaps.

Sterile?

Yes.

They are a dying race.

There hasn't been a new birth
on this citadel

For the past 20 years.

That's where you fit
into the plan, Allison.

Make no mistake about it.

What do you mean?

Regeneration.

Trirene has chosen you
as her mate.

You're the last hope
for this society.

I don't understand it.

There wasn't any plague
this morning.

When did it happen?

Major Allison,
have you any idea

What year this is right here,
right now?

Of course I know
what year it is.

What's that got to do with it?

Everything.

Major, this is 2024.

It's what?

2024.

64 years into the future
for you, major.

The plague we are talking about,

It hadn't happened
in your world in 1960.

It began in 1971.

Wh...

Atomic w*r?

No, no.

The feared nuclear w*r
never occurred.

When man set foot on the moon,

All nations started to work
together to push on into space.

By 1970,
colonies had been established

On both Mars and Venus.

Then if it wasn't nuclear w*r,
what did cause it?

A bombardment of cosmic
radiation from outer space.

Bombardment from outer space?

Oh, now, wait a minute.

You wait.

Now, listen to me, Allison.

The people of your world are
concerned about nuclear fallout.

Well, the danger is in
the other extreme.

The tons of radioactive dust
that have mushroomed

Up into the ionosphere since
the very first a-b*mb test,

That dust has remained up there,

And it's slowly destroying
the protective screen

That has filtered
deadly cosmic rays from space

Since time began.

Do you understand, major?

Yes.

That all the nuclear explosions

That have ever taken place on
earth have contributed to this.

Yes.

And every human being left
has become mutant

Or sterile
or a combination of both.

If what you say is true,

Then colonel Martin and all
the others were caught up in it.

What's happened to them?

How can I find out?

There isn't any way.

Let's only hope
they were amongst the lucky ones

Who could evacuate.

Evacuate?

Yes.

In 1973,
the Mars evacuation began

To the planet colonies.

Only the uninfected ones
were permitted to go.

The ones left behind
moved underground

As fast as possible
and started building

Networks of tunnels
like this one.

More than half the population
of the world was wiped out

During the first year.

I see.

When I landed on the air base,

It was completely destroyed,

Demolished, deserted.

You landed?
You didn't crash?

The captain.

When they found you,
they destroyed your ship.

No.

No, I left the air base.

They captured me afterwards.

Then your plane is
in operating condition

Sitting out there
on the air base?

Well, I suppose so.

Unless the mutants
have found it.

Well, Kruse,

I see you've become acquainted

With our new prisoner.

Yes, captain,

And it is your good fortune,
as well as ours.

Major Allison has an
excellent technical background,

And he's eager to help us.

And as you know, captain,

We are in dire need
of skilled help.

Well, we shall see.

Where's Trirene?

I believe she's returned
to her chambers, captain.

I think she's expecting
a visitor.

Come along with me, major.

We have some things to discuss.

Kruse, I'm warning you.

I'll tolerate no more
of your scheming.

If you persist, I'll see
that you're back in the dungeon.

We've got to get to the major
before they convince him

We're his enemies.

But unfortunately,

I do not understand such things.

I am not a scientist.

My concern is a military one.

I must save the last
of my people.

Then it is true.

Your society is doomed.

Major Allison,
I must warn you.

Karl Kruse and his group
are shrewd.

They'll use you.

They're the most dangerous
scapes

I've ever encountered.

It would be wise for you
not to associate with them.

Come, I'll show you
your chambers.

Major, I must tell you
the truth.

Understand it's not an easy
thing for me to do.

What they say about us is true.

We are sick and dying.

You cannot imagine what the envy
that I look upon you,

Kruse, and Dr. Bourman.

I, myself, am in
the first stages of mutation.

You?

For this reason,

I have no love for you
who have escaped the plague.

But as the supreme has told you,

We will trust
in Trirene's judgment.

Major Allison, I ask you,

Do nothing that will
bring harm to her,

For Trirene is our only hope.

Trirene.

Trirene.

Trirene, I want to talk to you.

Look, I'm very sorry about
the things Markova said to you.

I don't believe any
of the things they told me.

You know I'm telling the truth,
don't you?

You know, you're very lovely.

I keep forgetting
you read my thoughts.

I wish you couldn't.

What can I say?

You're not angry?

You know, you have an unfair
advantage over every man.

What are you doing here?

Take it easy.

Don't you think I know
what will happen to me

If I'm caught?

You were spying on us.

Don't be foolish.
I couldn't care less.

Come here.

I better get back.

Wait.

Kruse has to see you.
He has a plan.

I don't know whether

I better be seeing
any of you or not.

We may be able
to get you out of this

And back to your own time.

How can I possibly go back
to my own time

If I don't know how I got here?

You don't,
but Kruse and Bourman do.

Look, why should it be me?

Why not Kruse or Bourman

Or even you, Markova?

There'd be nothing
to be gained

By our returning to our time.

It's different with you.

You're from before the plague.

You may be able to...

I may be able to prevent it.

Is that what you mean?

Of course.

You've got to take this chance.

If you can get back to your
people and prevent the plague,

All this will never happen.

Let's go talk
to Kruse and Bourman.

Yes, I agree.

I have to get back to my time,
to 1960.

Well, we have
a very good chance, major,

If we can reverse the phenomenon
that brought you here.

What phenomenon
did bring me here?

It is what we know
as a relativity paradox.

It's another dimension...

A fifth dimension.

Fifth dimension?

Professor Bourman's principle
of gravitation propulsion

Brought it about.

By 1970, it became
the standard system

Used to travel to the planets
at the speed of light.

Speed of light?

I thought 10,000 Miles
an hour was fast.

Yes, but there is
a pitfall in the system.

At speeds approaching
that of light,

It is possible to break
the time lock,

The barrier that holds
all things

In a normal time relationship
to each other.

That's what happened
to all of us.

We have slipped out of one
time sphere and into another.

Captain Markova broke through
in 1973 during her third flight.

She was transporting
supply from central Europe

To the Venus planet.

The captain's men
destroyed her ship.

It happened to Kruse and I
years later.

We had returned to earth for
an observation flight in 1994.

Our ship crashed.

1994?

But the speed I approached
in the x80

Was nowhere near the speed
of light.

That may be,
but it was just enough

To create certain
mathematical conditions.

Let me show you.

Here.

These symbols represent

The earth,
the sun,

And your ship.

Now, consider these known facts.

The earth is rotating
at 1,000 Miles per hour,

But it is also revolving
in orbit around the sun

At 66,000 Miles per hour.

Time, as we know it,
is relative to these movements.

But the entire solar system,

Together with other systems
of our galaxy,

Are moving through space at
over 6 million Miles per hour.

Theoretically,
you were at a velocity

Approaching the speed of light

Before you ever left the ground.

Yes, but everything
is moving at that speed

Together as one unit...

The air, the earth...
According to the law of gravity.

Time is not affected
by the laws of gravity.

This is what happened to you.

At some point during
your high-speed flight,

You approached escape velocity,

25,000 Miles per hour.

It was at this time that you
altered your flight angle.

If you hadn't, probably you
would have gone on into orbit.

It was this angle
at a specific altitude

And velocity that broke
the time barrier.

For a fraction of a second,
you were suspended in space,

No longer interlocked
with the time spheres

Of the sun and the earth.

Now, during this split second,

Our galaxy moved onward in time

For what amounted to 65 years.

An instant later, you had
re-joined our solar system.

And the rest you know.

Yes.

Then if I repeat the altitude,
angle of flight, and speed

In directly
the opposite direction,

I should go back into time
65 years.

Mm-hmm.

Precisely.

Dr. Bourman is working
on the formula.

The three factors must be exact.

And we must locate an escape
from the citadel

So I can find my ship.

Right.

We must obtain an early map
of the citadel

With the tunnel work.

Your air base surely
must be included.

They began construction
as early as 1972.

The maps are on file
in the supreme's chamber.

There is only one way
to get them, major.

You mean Trirene?

That's the only way.

No.

No, I won't turn her against
her own people.

You have to do it.

It's up to you, major.

You haven't much time to decide.

Very well.

I'll do it.

You stay here.

I'll find my way back.

Trirene, I've got
to have your help.

It's very difficult for me
to know what to do,

But there's something...

What would I do without you?

Trirene, tell me you know
I'm doing the right thing.

I've got to try and go back.

You do understand that,
don't you?

There won't have to be
any citadel.

You and your people can live
on the surface of the earth

Without fear
of any cosmic plague.

They're waiting.

I made this tracing
from the original map,

Then Trirene returned it
to the archives.

Here, let me show you.

Now, here's the citadel.

I remember a wooded area
and a hill.

The solar antenna was
atop the hill.

They must have hit me with
that paralyzing ray about here.

This outlet must be
perimeter 22b.

Here's the highway.

If I can find that,

I can follow it
directly to the air base.

We'll need the g*n
we have hidden.

And your flight suit.

Yes.

What about the time lock
formula?

I'm working on it now.

I'm almost finished.

If nothing goes wrong,
Allison,

You can be on your way
within a few hours.

It should be no great problem.

Trirene will lead us
by the guards.

Good.

No, it is not the equipment,
master.

It's another one
of their devices

To prevent us
from watching them.

They're planning an escape,
and I know it.

I'll put a stop to this scheme.

Just say the word.

They will only try again.

Trirene's helping them.

I fear our future is done,
captain.

We have returned to the cave

Where men first lived on earth.

We have returned
to our birthplace to die.

Through Allison and Trirene,
there is hope, master.

Perhaps it is
too great a hope.

There may be some truth
in what they say,

Some chance that this young man
can return

To a time before the plague.

No, it's a trick.

We must not let
the major escape.

Do not forget, master,

Our observers sighted
mutant scouts again yesterday.

This is a time
for great caution.

I will speak to him.

Perhaps I can persuade him
to accept our way.

Yes, my supreme.

Let me bring him to you.

What's the meaning of this?

Don't ask me questions.

The supreme and I trusted you.

We're aware of your scheme.

I could explain
to you forever.

You'd never understand.

I warned you to stay away
from those three.

Now you'll answer
to the supreme.

Then you don't believe
it's possible for me

To return to my own time?

Kruse and Bourman think
the plague can be prevented

If I can go back
and inform my people.

I truly wish I could believe
your reasoning,

But they are using you
for their own purpose.

They will bring others.

They will destroy our citadel.

But you don't understand.

I'm from a time before
any of this has ever happened.

I must go back.

Such things do not exist.

Kruse has created
these illusions in your mind.

Look, as far as I'm concerned,
it's 1960.

You people can believe it's 2024

Or any time you please.

None of this is real.

It's all an illusion to me.

No, my son.

You're wrong.

Here, touch my hand.

Is that not real flesh?

And these walls,
are they not solid stone?

And Trirene,
you have touched her.

Can you say she's not real?

Yes, they are all
very real things.

But you can't prove
that what you say is true.

The only proof I can offer

Is the fact that here we are
in this room.

Can you prove that you are
somewhere else?

Supreme,

Trirene believes in what
I'm trying to do.

You have faith in her judgment,
haven't you?

Yes, but Trirene has fallen
in love.

Please, I ask you,

Give up this futile scheme.

Remain here.

You will inherit our domain.

I'm sorry.

I value my freedom
more than this.

Hear me, fellow prisoners!

Hear me, fellow prisoners.

You're free.

The citadel is yours.

Hear me, mutants.

Come out of your pit of death.

Our time of vengeance has come.

Follow me, soldiers of revenge.

I'll lead you to the captain,

To food, to freedom!

So you'll attempt this escape,

Even though we'll try
and stop you?

Yes.

I'll try to escape,

Even though the captain offers
all resistance.

You will never leave
the citadel alive.

Well, that's a chance
I'll have to take.

I didn't think for one minute

The supreme would change
your mind.

Now you're my responsibility,

And I'm going to take charge.

You're going back to the pit.

They'll tear them to pieces.

Are you out of your mind?

You set them free.

It's part of the plan.

Get to your room
for your flying suit.

Move.

Where are Kruse and Bourman?

We're meeting them
at the elevator up.

You better go in
and get Trirene.

We don't need her anymore.

The citadel's in chaos.

The guards are involved in that.

You don't think I'd leave her
here to face this, do you?

I'm taking her with me.

You can't, Allison.

You can't take her back
with you.

I'll try.

Don't you understand?

You can't take her back through
the time barrier with you.

Your world is before
she was born.

I'll try anyway.

No.

From now on it's you and me.

I'm going back
to the time barrier with you.

I'm going back to my time, 1973.

The formula.

You're double crossing Kruse
and Bourman.

Not for long.

Leave her, major.

There's no time.

Come on.

We are in luck.

The guards are
being withdrawn.

What are you doing?

I had to do it.

Because, you see,

He would have k*lled us all.

Like Markova, he wanted
to take your plane, Allison.

I think you're lying Bourman.

I think you're the one that
wanted to make that flight.

That will be all,
major Allison.

Supreme was right
about you and Kruse.

Because we wanted to return
to 1994?

Yes.

You said I could prevent
the cosmic plague

If I could go back.

You could, but your people
won't believe you.

This is mass m*rder.

You're letting these people die.

I will never break through
the barrier in 2024 again.

I will never know anything
about it.

Get out of your flight suit,
Allison.

You'll have to take it off me.

Trirene.

I'm sorry.

We're going back to my world.

We're free now.

I understand.

I'll take you
to your grandfather.

Now the shadow
of death

Darkens the holes
of our citadel.

Our bright ray of hope is gone.

It is the end of us.

No.

No, it's not the end.

As long as we believe,
there is always hope.

I'll return to my time,
to my people.

We will prevent the plague.

You'll not live
in a world of darkness.

I pray that this
you believe in is not a dream.

No, it isn't.

I promise you.

I believe in you.

I'll lead you safely
to the surface.

I believe.

Sands control to x80.

Sands to X, eight, oh.

Come in, x80.

Hello, sands.
This is x80.

I'm in serious trouble.

Coming in for a landing.

Are you reading me?

Alert all crash detail
to stand by.

What room is he in, sergeant?

Operating room two, sir.

How is he?

I haven't...

Good lord!

What's happened to him,
doctor?

What could have caused this?

I don't know.

I have no explanation.

Not one word of this
to anybody.

Keep me informed, doctor.

I'll be in my office.

All right, colonel.

Call the duty officer,
sergeant.

I want a guard posted
outside this door.

This is now a restricted area.

Yes, sir.

This is the office
of the chief of staff.

Connect me with secretary
Lloyd Patterson's office.

Urgent.

Trirene was dead.

The supreme gave me her ring.

He showed me the way
out of the citadel.

I got to my plane.

That's all I remember.

30 minutes later,

Allison brought the ship in

For an emergency landing.

Now, the odd thing about it
is this...

Right after he reported in
at position six...

Major Allison
is feeling much better.

Good.

Mr. secretary, general,
as you know,

Bill Allison is
our leading research pilot

Here at the test center.

We've always considered him
fully competent and rational.

Dr. Richman and I
have been with him

For the past eight hours.

Dr. Richman and I are convinced

That he is as mentally sound
right now

As any normal,
well-balanced person can be.

I suggest we go in.

Mr. secretary,
general.

Mr. secretary.

Thank you.

How about it, kid?

Feel like talking?

I'm ready, colonel.

Now, if you feel like
you need more room,

Just say so.

Yeah, okay.

Any questions, gentlemen?

Mr. Patterson?

No, I don't believe so.

The plague, the cosmic plague.

None of us should go through it.

We've got to prevent it.

Prevent what, son?

The cosmic plague.

Marty, we've got to stop it!

Mr. secretary,
from intelligence.

They've run a check on
Professor Bourman

And Karl Kruse.

Kruse is enrolled
in a west German university.

He's a leading student
in astronautics.

And Bourman, another student
of physics and mathematics

In Amsterdam.

He's written papers on
new propulsion systems

That have astounded
the scientific world.

Colonel Martin...

This is Trirene's ring
the supreme gave me.

Gentlemen,

We have got a lot
to think about.