Moonbase Alpha Technical Notebook
Season 1

9. Force of Life Screenplay: JOHNNY BYRNE Director: DAVID TOMBLIN	10. Alpha Child Screenplay: CHRISTOPHER PENFOLD Director: RAY AUSTIN
Carter's laser has charred Zoref's body to the bone, yet the power that con- trols him urges the corpse on . It opens the reactor door and steps in.	"How'd you like to go for a flight?" Carter ask Jackie, not realizing that the boy cannot hear him. "We'll take an Eagle and soar around the Moon."
The body of technician Anton Zoref is in- vaded by a life force that consumes raw energy. Zoref begins to absorb energy, first from equipment, then from people as well. He leaves a trail of burnt out ma- chines and frozen, lifeless bodies around Alpha. The only chance of survival is to cut all power on Alpha, forcing Zoref to head for the source: the power station. He is confronted there by Koenig, Carter and Bergman. Deprived of energy, severely weakened, he lunges at Koenig, but Carter fires a Kill Laser at Zoref. His body is charred to the bone, but the laser has given him renewed energy. Zoref enters the power station and begins to open the re- actor. The pile begins to reach critical mass and the Alphans await a nuclear explo- sion. Anton Zoref: IAN McSHANE Eva Zoref: GAY HAMILTON Mark Dominix: JOHN HAMILL Jane: EVA RUEBER-STAIER	Jackie Crawford is the first child born in space, but Alpha's joy turns to shock when the child ages five years in a mat- ter of minutes! Though most of the Al- phans soon grow to love the deaf-mute child, he terrifies his mother and disturbs Koe- nig. Suddenly, as four spacecraft appear over Moonbase, Jackie dies and, as he lies in Medical Center, is transformed into a full-grown man named Jarak. The alien's first action is to transform Alphan Cyn- thia Crawford into Jarak's mate, Rena. The aliens and their 118 companions in the spaceships above are running from the ruthlessly imposed genetic conformity of their world. They play to hide within the bodies of 120 Alphans, but to do so, the Alphans must die. However, those pursuing Jarak have caught up with the fugitives sooner than expected and a war of the aliens begins. The fate of Alpha hangs in the balance. Jarak: JULIAN GLOVER Cynthia Crawford/Rena: CYD HAYMAN Jackie: WAYNE BROOKS