Space Brain
| Screenplay |
Christopher Penfold |
| Director |
Charles Crichton |
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| Final shooting script 1st December 1974 |
Music:
"Mars, Bringer Of War" composed by Gustav Holst, arranged by Malcolm Sargent (published by EMI Music For Pleasure) |
Titles
| Martin Landau |
John Koenig |
| Barbara Bain |
Helena Russell |
| Barry Morse |
Victor Bergman |
In Show Credits
| guest artist |
Shane Rimmer |
Kelly |
|
Carla Romanelli |
Melita |
End Credits
| Prentis Hancock |
paul morrow |
| Clifton Jones |
david kano |
| Zienia Merton |
sandra benes |
| Anton Phillips |
dr mathias |
| Nick Tate |
alan carter |
| Derek Anders |
wayland |
Uncredited
| Suzanne Roquette |
Tanya Aleksandr |
| Loftus Burton |
Main Mission Operative Lee (Oswald) |
| Ann Maj-Britt |
Main Mission Operative Ann |
| Sarah Bullen |
Main Mission Operative Kate |
| Jaqueline Delhaye |
Main Mission Operative |
| Laurie Davis |
Main Mission Operative |
| Mike Stevens |
Main Mission Operative |
| Alan Harris |
Alphan |
| Andy Dempsey |
Main Mission Operative |
| Judith Hepburn |
Nurse |
| Diana Reeves,
Erica Svenson |
Nurses |
| Carol Dee |
Patient |
| James Snell |
Cousteau |
| Tony Allyn |
Security Guard (Tony Allan) |
| Quentin Pierre |
Security Guard (Pierce Quinton) |
| Michael Sirett |
Technician |
| Robert Atiko |
Technician |
| Eddie Stacey,
Joe Dunne,
Marc Boyle,
Dorothy Ford |
Stunts |
Int. Main Mission
Int. Command Office
Int. Alpha Corridor
Int. Kelly's Quarters
Int. Medical/Observation
Int. Technical
Int. Computer Room
Int. Eagle Pilot Section
Int. Eagle Passenger Section
Ext. Space (spacewalk)
EXT. MOONBASE ALPHA (SFX)
A.INT. COMMAND OFFICE
Koenig sits at the small round table finishing a large jigsaw puzzle; a painting of several medieval noblemen.
INT. LIVING QUARTERS
Kelly & Melita construct another jigsaw.
INT. MEDICAL
Helena sits at her desk doing a jigsaw.
A.INT. COMMAND OFFICE
Koenig puts the last piece in the puzzle & sips some coffee. He opens the doors with his comlock & walks into Main Mission.
A.INT. MAIN MISSION
KOENIG: "Paul, Sandra. I'm turning in."
PAUL: "Lucky you."
KOENIG: "Four hours, fifty two minutes and twenty seconds."
SANDRA: "Congratulations. I thought noone would break the five hour barrier."
KOENIG: "Well, it's time we had a new puzzle."
PAUL: "Time we had a new world."
KOENIG: "Keep your eyes peeled. Goodnight."
PAUL (together): "Goodnight."
SANDRA (together): "Goodnight, Commander."
Koenig walks back through his office.
B.INT. CORRIDOR
Koenig walks past a comms post & pauses. He returns to the post & activates it.
KOENIG: "Paul?"
The screen shows the test card for a second, then breaks into clicking hieroglyphics flashing past.
KOENIG: "Paul?!" ((takes comlock)) "Paul!"
The comlock screen also shows hieroglyphics. He starts back to Main Mission.
C.INT. LIVING QUARTERS
The comms post behind Kelly & Melita starts clicking.
KELLY: "What the hell is that?"
He promptly leaves.
D.INT. MEDICAL
Helena goes to the clicking comms post. She presses a button twice.
E.INT. CORRIDOR
Helena emerges as Victor passes.
HELENA: "What's happening, Victor?"
VICTOR: "I don't know; it's either a practical joke or something very interesting."
F.INT. MAIN MISSION
Big Screen/Main Mission: hieroglyphics. -Koenig reenters through his office.
PAUL: "It's coming in on every channel."
KOENIG: "Track it, Paul." ((he goes to the viewports))
G.EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Koenig's POV: a few distant stars.
F.INT. MAIN MISSION
Koenig looks out.
G.EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Koenig's POV: space.
H.INT. MAIN MISSION
Helena & Victor enter.
VICTOR: "You see anything?"
KOENIG: "No. But someone or something is trying to talk to us."
SANDRA: "Commander. It is coming from somewhere along coordinate line three nine seven."
KOENIG: "Kano. See what computer makes of it." ((goes to Alan)) "Alan. You have an Eagle crew on standby?"
ALAN: "Yes, sir. Wayland and Cousteau, they're ready to go."
KOENIG: "Alright. Have them fly along three nine seven and see what they can see."
ALAN: "Right." ((calls)) "Wayland and Cousteau, you're in Eagle One. Move it."
J.EXT. LAUNCH PAD (SFX)
Eagle lifts off.
K.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
Wayland & copilot Cousteau wear uniforms.
L.INT. MAIN MISSION
KOENIG: "Sandra. Keep the scanners on the Eagle. Helena. Monitor their life signs constantly, it's our only contact with them. Well, it's certainly eager to talk; but I'd sure like to know what Wayland has to say."
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Eagle leaves Moon.
K.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
The consoles of the Eagle show the hieroglyphics.
WAYLAND: "It's not going to let us get a word in edgeways. Well, let's, ah, hope it has a pretty face."
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Eagle heads into space.
INT. MAIN MISSION
Helena & Victor watch instruments as Koenig paces.
2.EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Eagle flies towards distant nebula.
INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
1.EXT. SPACE (SFX)
POV: the nebula, full of pulsing lights & colours.
Eagle approach it (sc 2)
WAYLAND (VO): "Eagle One to Main Mission. Commander, it's "
3.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
WAYLAND: "-it's like a giant space anemone! It's pulsating!"
5.INT. MAIN MISSION
WAYLAND (VO): "I've never seen anything like it before!"
KOENIG: "Come on, Kano. Computer must be getting some information from Eagle One."
DAVID: "We're getting a continuous relay of data from their onboard instruments, Commander."
KOENIG: "Well?"
DAVID: "There's no analysis yet, but we're still receiving."
Koenig walks forward before the Big Screen. The hieroglyphics suddenly stop. Koenig runs back to Paul.((Music: Holst's 'Mars'))
KOENIG: "Eagle One!"
WAYLAND (VO): "Commander."
6.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
WAYLAND: "Commander, it's incredible.."
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
The nebula is now large.
White flakes & strands float past the Eagle (sc 4)
INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
WAYLAND: "Outside temperature's increasing."
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
The flakes start to collect around the Eagle.
INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
WAYLAND: "There are strange shapes forming all around us."
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
More foam accretes to the Eagle.
7.INT. MAIN MISSION
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
The form of the Eagle is hidden under the mass of white.
WAYLAND (VO): "Commander-!"
Interference is heard.
7.INT. MAIN MISSION
KOENIG: "Boost to interstellar strength. Wayland! Pull away! Pull away! You hear me?!" ((music ends; scan signal pings)) "Boost scanners."
The signal fades out.
DAVID: "All transmission from onboard computer ceased."
HELENA: "John. Their life signs have disappeared."
ALAN (standing): "Commander."
Koenig pauses.
KOENIG: "Go, Alan."
ALAN (pressing button): "Kelly. Rescue Eagle to Pad Three. I'll meet you on board." ((he leaves))
8.EXT. LAUNCH PAD (SFX)
Rescue Eagle launches.
9.INT. MAIN MISSION
KOENIG: "Sandra, keep searching for them on long range scanner."
VICTOR: "Of course, it could just be a fault on Wayland's ship."
KOENIG: "Victor. They've stopped trying to talk to us and one of our Eagles has disappeared. I don't like it."
He goes to his desk.
10.EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Rescue Eagle flies on. A small meteorite hurtles past in the opposite direction.
11.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
ALAN: "What the hell was that?!"
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Object hurtles to Moon.
11A.INT. MAIN MISSION
An alarm sounds.
PAUL: "Meteorite!"
KOENIG (hurrying down): "Activate screens."
PAUL: "Activated."
EXT. MOONBASE ALPHA (SFX)
Object hurtles down.
11A.INT. MAIN MISSION
DAVID: "It's got through."
12.EXT. MOONBASE ALPHA (SFX)
Object strikes building by launch pad.
13.INT. MAIN MISSION
The shockwave shakes them.
14.EXT. MOONBASE ALPHA (SFX)
The meteorite rolls from the building.
13.INT. MAIN MISSION
KOENIG: "Meteorite strike. Section Six. Red Alert."
14.EXT. MOON SURFACE (SFX)
The boulder stops rolling. Close on it.
FADE OUT
SPACE BRAIN
guest artist Shane Rimmer, Carla Romanelli
screenplay by Christopher Penfold
moon city costumes designed by Rudi Gernreich
directed by Charles Crichton
EXT. MOONBASE ALPHA (SFX)
Cargo Eagle moves over boulder.
CU grab clamping boulder.
The Eagle rises over the Moonbase buildings.
18.INT. COMMAND OFFICE
Koenig is at his desk, Victor leaning over it. Koenig takes a report.
KOENIG: "Thank you. Well, fortunately no casualties. Just impact damage."
VICTOR: "What puzzles me is where it came from."
KOENIG: "And how it got through our defence screens."
VICTOR: "They're setting it up for analysis. I'll check it out."
KOENIG: "Good." ((stands)) "Paul." ((walks to top of steps))
18.INT. MAIN MISSION
Continuation of above scene.
PAUL: "Nothing so far, Commander. They've just disappeared. No radar trace. No radio signals. It's as if Wayland's Eagle..vaporised."
DAVID: "Commander. The meteorite. Computer estimates it must have come from between orbital references three fifty and four hundred."
KOENIG: "Now, the last reported reference point for Eagle One was three nine seven. It's possible, just possible, that Eagle One was hit by that meteorite." ((goes down to press button; Alan appears on screen)) "Alan. There's a possibility the meteor may have collided with Eagle One. Is there any sign of wreckage or anything else out there?"
ALAN (on screen): "Well, I can't tell for sure; my instruments are picking up a lot of electrical disturbance."
KOENIG: "Alright then, let's check it out visually. Have Kelly take a space walk."
ALAN (on screen): "Right." ((screen blanks))
KOENIG: "I'll be in Technical." ((leaves))
19.EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Rescue Eagle.
20.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
KELLY (wearing normal back-pack): "What do you suppose that is out there?"
ALAN: "Oh, I've no idea. And if I were you, I wouldn't wait round long enough to find out. Just look for Eagle One. Okay?"
KELLY (taking helmet from copilot seat): "Sure."
ALAN: "Hey, Kelly. Good luck."
KELLY: "You bet." ((he leaves))
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Eagle & nebula beyond.
21.INT. EAGLE PASSENGER SECTION
ALAN (VO): "Decompression complete, Kel."
KELLY: "Right, Alan."
Kelly aims his comlock at the door: it opens to space.
INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
ALAN: "Okay, Kelly. Go."
21.INT. EAGLE PASSENGER SECTION
Gripping the EVA controls, Kelly gently drifts into space. The door shuts behind him.
22.EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Kelly twists from the Eagle.
23.INT. TECHNICAL
Victor pulls a scan arm over the boulder. Koenig enters.
VICTOR: "Well, John. It may not look like much but it's very dense. And it's very heavy. We had to turn the gravity control right down to get it in here at all."
KOENIG: "How dense? How heavy?"
VICTOR: "Computer's finding out right now."
KOENIG: "Any surface marks on it? Any indication it may have hit Eagle One?"
VICTOR: "Huh..?"
KOENIG: "It's possible."
Victor goes to the computer. Helena enters.
HELENA: "I've got some early findings, on this stuff. It's a piece of the coating that I took from the surface of this meteorite. It's organic."
KOENIG: "Alive?"
HELENA: "Definitely. It's nothing we'd recognise, but- "
VICTOR (with readout): "John. Here it is." ((they go to him)) "Weight three hundred and twenty eight tons. Constituent elements titanium, stainless steel, aluminium, glass, carbon fibres, plastics, nuclear fuel cells... and a small amount of human tissue."
HELENA: "Human tissue?"
They walk back to the boulder & round it.
KOENIG: "We've found Eagle One." ((goes to comms post)) "Lee. Recall Carter immediately."
LEE (on screen): "But, sir. Kelly's out in space."
KOENIG: "Get them back immediately! Damn!" ((he starts to the door))
24.EXT. SPACE
Kelly hangs limply in space.
INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
ALAN: "Kelly, abort. We've been recalled." ((silence; presses button again)) "Kel, do you read me?" ((short pause)) "Kel? Are you receiving?" ((short pause)) "Kelly, signal if I'm getting through to you." ((silence; presses button)) "Main Mission."
INT. MAIN MISSION
ALAN (VO): "Eagle Four here."
PAUL: "Receiving you, Eagle Four."
25.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
ALAN: "Paul, check out communication line. I'm getting no response from Kelly."
PAUL (VO): "No fault registering, Alan."
ALAN: "Then Kelly's in trouble. I'm going out after him."
Alan climbs out of his seat.
26.INT. MAIN MISSION
KOENIG (running in): "Stop him! Alan. Get away from that area."
INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
KOENIG (VO): "Right now."
ALAN (putting on helmet): "Commander?"
26.INT. MAIN MISSION
KOENIG: "Just get away from there now!"
27.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
ALAN: "Commander, that's Kelly out there! You can't expect me to just leave him."
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Space Brain.
EXT. SPACE
Kelly hangs limply.
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Space Brain.
EXT. SPACE
Kelly.
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Space Brain.
EXT. SPACE
CU Kelly's face.
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Close on space brain.
EXT. SPACE
Kelly.
46.INT. EAGLE PASSENGER SECTION
The door opens & Alan floats out. The door closes.
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Alan twists away from the Eagle.
47.EXT. SPACE
Alan floats up to Kelly.
ALAN: "Kelly? Kelly, can you hear me? Kelly, I'm not receiving you. Kelly, are you receiving me? Kelly?" ((drifts close to him)) "Hey, Kel. Hey, come on buddy. Right. Got you. Let's get you back to the Eagle."
Taking Kelly, Alan moves back.
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
The space brain & the Moon.
53.INT. MEDICAL
Helena, Bob & a nurse lower Kelly onto the bed. Koenig & Victor look in through the observation window. Bob goes to the instruments.
VICTOR: "Those brain patterns are fantastic for a man who's totally anaesthetised."
BOB: "His brain activity is phenomenal. But his breathing is back to normal."
HELENA: "His heart and lungs have adjusted to what's going on inside of his brain."
KOENIG: "The question is, what is going on inside it?"
HELENA: "Well, he's suffering this non stop flow of impulses and ideas because that part of the cerebellum which controls his will is failing it's function. My hope is to stimulate the cerebellum and restore balance. Now, if we don't achieve that, very soon, he will simply burn himself up."
53.INT. OBSERVATION
Melita enters, disturbed.
KOENIG: "Melita."
MELITA: "Where is he? What has happened?"
KOENIG: "Melita."
MELITA: "They're going to operate. What's wrong, Commander?"
KOENIG: "Look, Melita. Your husband's okay. He's in good hands. His heart and lungs are fine. As soon as there's any news we'll let you know. I know it's no good to say don't worry, but try not to."
MELITA: "How can I?"
KOENIG: "Well, this isn't the best place, is it? Nurse, will you take Melita to her quarters."
MELITA: "Commander, I want to stay here.."
KOENIG (sympathetically): "I know you do. But you can't. Now go on. Please?"
Reluctantly, Melita is led out.
VICTOR: "John." ((Koenig goes to him; a monitor shows formulae)) "Mathematical formulae. That monitor only gives electronic indications of the patient's brain activity."
KOENIG: "Those are computer traces, Victor. They're certainly not Kelly's brain patterns." ((activates comms post)) "Kano. What's with computer?"
DAVID (on screen): "I can't understand it, Commander."
KOENIG: "Just tell me."
DAVID (on screen): "I've checked everything. Computer is transmitting data into Kelly's brain."
KOENIG: "Into his brain?"
DAVID (on screen): "Into him. And through him it's being beamed towards orbital reference three nine seven."
KOENIG: "Three nine seven. That's the point where Kelly was affected, and Eagle One was crushed. Kano. Shut down transmitters immediately, and analyse all data that's already gone out." ((screen blanks; Victor nods)) "Victor. Whoever was trying to talk to us, before Eagle One was crushed, is now using Kelly as a link to computer. And it's sending information out into space through Kelly."
The alien hieroglyphics now appear on the monitor.
VICTOR: "It's trying to communicate again, John."
The watch it. David reappears on the comms post.
DAVID (on screen): "The process is now reversed, Commander. Computer is now receiving data. It's coming from the same area of space and reaching computer via Kelly's brain."
KOENIG: "Kano. Let's shut them off. Close down receivers and analyse all incoming and outgoing data immediately." ((to Victor)) "Whoever was trying to talk to us is now talking to computer."
VICTOR (as hieroglyphics stop): "Maybe it couldn't get through to us. It needed Kelly as an interpreter."
KOENIG: "Yeah, but whatever it's doing, it might be reprogramming computer against us."
53.INT. MEDICAL
HELENA: "Increase anaesthesia two points."
BOB: "Two points."
HELENA: "He's still feeling pain. He could die of shock. I'm going to induce neuronic concussion."
She puts on a wielder's mask & holds an instrument above Kelly's forehead. A deep drill-like sound buzzes. She puts it down. Weakly Kelly opens his eyes.
KELLY: "What's happening?" ((he recovers awareness & rips off electrodes)) "You must not touch my brain!"
He sits up. Bob rushes to him but is thrown back into a tray. Kelly stands & Helena grabs a hypodermic; he grabs her & throws her back. Koenig runs in as Kelly backs against a door, Bob about to run at him.
KOENIG: "No! Let him go." ((Kelly leaves)) "Follow him. Take security. Let me know where he goes. But don't try to restrain him. Go!"
BOB: "Right." ((leaves))
Victor helps Helena to her feet.
KOENIG: "Helena. You alright?"
HELENA: "I'm alright."
VICTOR: "John, we can't just let him go."
KOENIG: "Victor. Whatever this thing wants it's using Kelly. So let's let Kelly lead us to it."
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Moon & space brain.
FADE OUT
54.INT. COMPUTER ROOM
Kelly enters. Beyond Bob & 2 guards appear. The door shuts before them.
55.INT. CORRIDOR
BOB (taking comlock): "Commander. Kelly's gone into the Computer Room."
KOENIG (VO): "Good. Get Kano there. But don't go in until I arrive."
BOB: "Right, Commander."
56.INT. COMPUTER ROOM
The screens display the hieroglyphics & Alpha computer traces as Kelly types with lightning speed. He answers a buzz on a panel behind him before returning to his typing.
57.INT. CORRIDOR
Koenig joins Bob & the 2 guards.
KOENIG: "Alright, I want to try to talk to him, but if he gets violent we'll have to stun him, as a last resort. What's he up to?"
DAVID (arriving): "He's reprogramming so fast I can't get any details."
KOENIG: "Alright, you two come with me."
Koenig & the 2 guards go to the door.
58.INT. COMPUTER ROOM
The 3 enter.
KOENIG (cautiously): "Kelly?" ((goes to his right)) "Kelly." ((go to left)) "Kelly." ((Koenig walks to Kelly, still typing)) "Kelly, I want to talk to you." ((no reaction)) "Who are you transmitting to?" ((Kelly turns past Koenig to press a button before continuing)) "Who's talking to Alpha! Look, answer me, damn it!" ((Kelly grabs & throws Koenig back against panels; the guards raise lasers)) "No!"
Kelly resumes typing. Koenig walks to a panel & opens a hatch: he presses the 'Essential Services Only' 'Computer Master Switch'. The lighting dims & the computer lights die. Kelly grips his head & emits a faint moan. He stumbles to Koenig, picks him up & throws him aside powerfully. A guard shoots him. Kelly falls, but rises. The guards aim again.
KOENIG: "No!" ((Koenig stands as Kelly leaves)) "Let's see where he goes. Come on."
59.INT. CORRIDOR
Kelly stumbles from one side of the corridor to the other. Behind are Koenig, Bob & the others.
BOB: "The stun is neuronic concussion: the effect should be immediate."
KOENIG: "He's building a resistance against it."
Kelly stumbles round a corner to a door.
61.INT. LIVING QUARTERS
Melita is lying on the bed. From the door comes the weak voice of Kelly.
KELLY (VO): "Melita. Melita." ((she opens the door)) "Melita."
MELITA (shocked): "Kelly!"
KELLY: "Help me,-"
MELITA (taking him to sofa): "Kelly."
KELLY: "..help me!"
MELITA: "My darling, I thought.."
KELLY: "I've got to do it. I've got to... and they won't let me!"
MELITA: "What is it? Tell me?"
KELLY: "I've got to! You must make them understand... Make them under..uhh.."
Kelly is unconscious. Melita looks up to the doorway, in which Koenig & Bob stand.
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Moon & space brain.
62.INT. COMMAND OFFICE
A command conference: Victor, Alan, David, Paul, Helena, Sandra. Koenig slowly walks round the table.
KOENIG: "Whatever that is out there, it's crushed Eagle One, it's done something to Kelly and through him taken over computer."
VICTOR: "By my calculations, we shall be at the spot where Eagle One disappeared in forty six hours."
KOENIG: "Which is exactly how long we have to take action."
ALAN: "Right, so we're back to the old problem of how to drive this Moon the way we want it to go."
VICTOR: "Only two practical schemes for that. Shockwaves and anti gravity screens."
KOENIG: "Both of those are aimed to reduce gravitational pull from another planet. This is neither a sun, a star, or a planet we're dealing with."
DAVID: "From the data we've managed to process, computer has determined the energy field has no mass."
PAUL: "So. We can't change course. What next?"
KOENIG: "Well, we know it's organic, and intelligent. So, if we load an Eagle with nuclear charges and aim it all at the centre, we might just be able to weaken it a little. Enough to reduce its crushing effect and let us get through."
ALAN: "Yeah. Well, I'd better get started on that right away, Commander."
KOENIG: "Alright, Alan. Do it." ((Alan leaves through Main Mission)) "Helena. We've got to get all the information we can from Kelly."
HELENA (defensively): "He's on life support system."
KOENIG: "Yes, I know. I'd like you and Kano to try and find out exactly what it is computer's transmitting."
HELENA: "John. The point about Kelly's condition.."
KOENIG: "Helena."
HELENA: "I don't.."
KOENIG: "We've got to try it."
EXT. LAUNCH PAD (SFX)
Eagle on pad, docked to port.
64.INT. EAGLE PASSENGER SECTION
Alan moves along the top row of charges, activating their fuses. Koenig enters.
KOENIG: "Well, how's it going?"
ALAN: "All the charges are fused, checked, and ready to go."
64.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
They walk up the access corridor.
KOENIG: "Good. The best calculation we can get without asking computer is that all on board systems should be blown at eighteen forty five."
Alan sets the control console.
ALAN: "Destruct mechanism set for eighteen forty five."
KOENIG: "By that time the ship should be locked on target. And nothing will be able to divert it."
ALAN: "Well, I feel a lot happier now we've done something."
Alan moves a lever from 'Manual' to 'Auto', then they leave.
INT. MAIN MISSION
KOENIG (enters): "Alright, Paul. Lift her off." ((Paul operates the remote control))
67.EXT. LAUNCH PAD (SFX)
Eagle launches.
69.INT. EAGLE PASSENGER SECTION
The charges.
67.EXT. LAUNCH PAD (SFX)
Eagle rises.
68.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
Control sticks move back in deserted cabin.
67.EXT. LAUNCH PAD (SFX)
Eagle rises.
70.INT. MAIN MISSION
Paul finishes & stands.
ALAN: "Well, whatever's out there, it's going to get one hell of a headache when it starts to squeeze that little bundle."
KOENIG: "I still don't like the idea of a preemptive strike against an enemy I don't understand."
ALAN: "They crushed Eagle One to a pulp, Commander. I don't see any reason to doubt they'll do the same to us too if they can."
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Eagle flies into space.
Eagle heads to space brain.
70.INT. MAIN MISSION
VICTOR (appearing on screen): "John. Can you come to Technical Section right away?"
Koenig starts off.
INT. TECHNICAL
In a glass case is a small mass of foam.
KOENIG: "Foam?"
VICTOR: "Yep. That's what it looks like."
KOENIG: "It's also what the pilots saw. Where did it come from?"
VICTOR: "It's the same material we found encrusted onto Eagle One. It's reverted back to its original form."
KOENIG: "It looks harmless enough."
VICTOR: "Looks, yes. But it's highly unstable. We don't know why, but, ah, its chemical structure changes. It gains incredible weight and density."
KOENIG: "Are you saying this foam crushed Eagle One?"
VICTOR: "In sufficient quantity, John, this..foam as you call it, could crush anything."
65.INT. MEDICAL
Helena & Bob tend Kelly in bed.
HELENA: "What did he say to Melita?"
BOB: "He was struggling to get something out. There was something he had to do. He asked her to make them understand."
HELENA: "Them. Meaning us. We're not going to find out what he had to do unless he can tell us."
BOB: "Well, he's weakening fast."
HELENA: "It's an orthodox diagnosis now. Decline due to brain damage. Strange, isn't it, that the decline began just as soon as computer was shut down. And that's when the hyper activity in his brain...stopped..."
BOB: "You mean he was dependant on computer?"
She looks away.
70.INT. MAIN MISSION
VICTOR (entering): "John. Something interesting here. Kelly transmitted an astonishing amount of information in the short time he had. Course, I've only taken random samples, so the chances are I'm on the wrong track altogether."
KOENIG: "At least you're on some track. Go ahead."
VICTOR: "A lot of the data is physical information about the Moon itself; weight, density, dimensions."
KOENIG: "Trajectory?"
VICTOR: "It's got information about the gravitational pull of our every change of course we've made since we left the Earth's orbit."
KOENIG: "Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I think it's trying to find out if we can change course now."
VICTOR: "Right!"
HELENA (appearing on screen): "John. If we're going to save Kelly, I think our only chance is to restart computer."
ALAN: "And leave Alpha wide open."
KOENIG: "Whatever that thing is...maybe...just maybe, it's trying to help us."
VICTOR: "Help us to avoid a collision that'll destroy Alpha."
KOENIG: "We've got to find some way to make contact."
VICTOR: "Well. Of course, contact's already been made. Through Kelly."
KOENIG: "That's it! Of course!" ((snaps fingers)) "Through Kelly. Symbiosis!"
HELENA (on screen): "John. If you want me to link your mind to Kelly's so you can read his thoughts..no. The results could be catastrophic."
KOENIG: "Helena. If our Moon hits that force field..it'll be a catastrophe for all of us." ((to Paul)) "How long before that remote controlled Eagle detonates?"
PAUL (after typing): "One hour thirty five, Commander."
KOENIG: "Kano. Restart computer. We don't have too much time."
FADE OUT
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Moon horizon & space brain.
73.INT. MEDICAL
Kelly's eyes are open, staring up unseeingly. A nurse tends him. Koenig lies on his right, like Kelly wearing two electrodes on his forehead. Victor & Helena stand by the monitor.
VICTOR: "Symbiosis. I don't think you should be doing this, John."
KOENIG: "I know what I'm doing."
HELENA: "I've experienced it myself doing advanced psycho analysis. That was under very different conditions. To link you and Kelly electronically at this point.."
VICTOR: "Kelly's mind is connected in some way to this..thing, and we can't be absolutely sure that your mind won't be affected in the same way."
KOENIG: "We've got to do it, Victor."
HELENA: "We'll be monitoring your physical signs. If there are any chances we'll have to stop."
KOENIG: "Alright. Let's get on with it."
HELENA: "Connected here." ((Helena & Koenig hold hands))
BOB (by Kelly): "Connected here."
Helena press a switch. Koenig straightens in pain, then relaxes.
POV: Space Brain Sequence (sc 74): blurred images, of hieroglyphics, various lights & colours superimposed over Koenig. We see the space brain.
KOENIG (VO): "...It's a living organism...like a brain...pulsating with life, and light....It's the centre of a whole galaxy...maybe even hundreds of galaxies ...planets...stars... strange life forms... and in the middle of it all ...is this brain...."
The lights & symbols fade. Helena looks at Victor, then switches off & removes Koenig's electrodes. He sits.
HELENA: "Are you alright, John?"
KOENIG: "Yeah, I'm alright." ((pause)) "I think it worked. I think it worked. Hurtling towards that brain is our Moon. Now, the Eagle was just a fragment, so the brain surrounded it with antibodies and rejected it. But our Moon is a million times bigger than that Eagle."
VICTOR: "That's right. But the Brain is a million times bigger than the Moon. Make no mistake, John. It would crush us in the same way that it crushed Wayland's Eagle."
The hieroglyphics reappear on Kelly's monitor. Kelly sits up.
KELLY: "Commander. It is trying to help us. It's working with computer. We must go to Main Mission."
75.INT. MAIN MISSION
David takes a readout from his desk; someone passes it to Koenig. Helena takes another from a panel below the Big Screen. Koenig collects both & gives them to Tanya.
KOENIG: "Give them to Kelly."
Tanya gives Kelly, in a wheelchair, the readouts. He eyes them briefly.
KELLY: "It's possible."
KOENIG: "What's possible?"
KELLY: "We can divert the Moon away from the brain. Now, the plan is to increase the Moon's rate of spin by providing a series of forces at tangents to its axis. This will give the Moon an eccentric rotation and cause it to curve away from the centre of the brain. We haven't much time. The computer has plotted precisely the points at which the series of charges should be placed along the equatorial line."
KOENIG: "It is trying to save us. Paul. We're going to carry out that brain's instructions: we'll need every nuclear charge we've got so turn that nuclear Eagle around and bring it back to Alpha."
Paul types.
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Eagle turns in a wide curve.
INT. MAIN MISSION
PAUL: "Remote controlled Eagle..now heading back for Alpha."
KOENIG: "Good. What's its position?"
PAUL: "Approximately..half way between the Moon and the brain."
KOENIG: "Which means those charges will explode the moment ..it arrives back here. Paul. Reprogram the on board computer and cancel out the detonation instruction."
PAUL: "Yes, sir."
KOENIG: "Now we're going to have to act fast if we're going to avoid collision. Alan. I want every single man standing by. As soon as that ship lands on the Moon's surface, take the charges and place them on the Moon's surface as per the brain's instruction. Victor, oversee the entire operation. Sandra,-"
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Eagle.
76.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
A bleeper signals. The central section of the console explodes.
77.INT. MAIN MISSION
Kelly's head slumps forward, unconscious.
MELITA (running to him): "Kelly! Kelly!"
PAUL: "Commander! Trouble!" ((Koenig joins him)) "There's a fault on the onboard computer!"
KOENIG: "What kind of trouble?"
PAUL: "Everything's gone dead. Which means it's locked on a course which will bring it down right in the centre of Moonbase Alpha. Where it will explode."
VICTOR: "An accident? Or is the brain intentionally going to destroy us?"
KOENIG: "No, Victor, I don't think it is intentional. Paul, I want the fastest Eagle we've got ready for immediate lift off."
Paul types & Koenig runs off.
EXT. LAUNCH PAD (SFX)
Eagle raised to surface by a buggy.
79.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
Koenig enters and sits.
80.EXT. LAUNCH PAD (SFX)
Eagle 7 lifts off.
81.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
KOENIG: "Clearing Alpha now, Paul. Check course and closing speed."
EXT. MOONBASE ALPHA (SFX)
Eagle rises from base.
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
The bomb Eagle.
82.INT. MAIN MISSION
Bob holds the distraught Melita. Alan & Helena look at Kelly, on a stretcher.
ALAN: "Kelly. Kelly, is there anything you can do?"
HELENA: "We've got to get him to Intensive Care."
A Main Mission man pushes the wheelchair out. Melita sobs as she is taken out.
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Koenig's Eagle 7.
INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
Koenig.
83.EXT. SPACE (SFX)
The bomb Eagle.
Eagle 7 turns in a tight circle round to come alongside the bomb Eagle.
84.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
Koenig.
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
The 2 Eagles alongside.
INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
KOENIG: "Paul. I'm docking now."
INT. MAIN MISSION
PAUL: "You're running out of time, Commander."
INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
PAUL (VO): "Good luck."
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
The 2 Eagles move close
85.INT. MAIN MISSION
David takes a readout from below the Big Screen.
DAVID: "Three minutes to detonation."
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
The 2 Eagles align.
INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
A bleep.
KOENIG: "Docking complete. I'm going to defuse the nuclear charges now."
He climbs out of his seat & leaves.
88.INT. EAGLE PASSENGER SECTION
Koenig enters & works along the top row of charges, pulling out the charges, which gush sparks as he does so. He then races back.
INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
Koenig jumps back in his seat & presses a button.
KOENIG: "Nuclear charges defused. I'm trying to alter the course of the remote controlled Eagle, so that it misses Alpha."
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
The Eagles.
86.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
Shaking.
KOENIG: "I can't divert it!"
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Eagles.
INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
KOENIG: "I've got no control!"
INT. MAIN MISSION
The staff watch helplessly.
89.EXT. MOONBASE ALPHA (SFX)
Eagles head to base.
INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
KOENIG: "I can't hold it! I've got to let it go!"
90.INT. MAIN MISSION
ALAN: "Stand by strike!"
92.EXT. SPACE (SFX)
The Eagles separate, one rising as the other continues to descend.
INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
Koenig.
EXT. MOONBASE ALPHA (SFX)
POV as close on base.
INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
Koenig.
93.EXT. MOONBASE ALPHA (SFX)
As one Eagle rises, the other drops to the base.
The Eagle flies over a launch pad & ploughs into the lunar surface.
94.INT. MAIN MISSION
ALAN: "Strike at Pad Four!"
EXT. MOON SURFACE (SFX)
The Eagle ploughs into the dirt, the command module rolling away.
INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
KOENIG: "Victor. We've just lost our nuclear charges. Alpha's now heading straight for that brain, there's nothing we can do."
VICTOR (on screen): "There is something, John. We could increase the atmospheric pressure inside Alpha."
KOENIG: "You mean to counteract the crushing forces? Would it work?"
VICTOR (on screen): "It's a long shot but it might just give us a chance, yes."
KOENIG: "Okay, Victor. I buy it. Set it up."
VICTOR (on screen): "I already have."
FADE OUT
96.EXT. LAUNCH PAD (SFX)
Eagle lands.
97.INT. TRAVEL TUBE (SFX)
Travel Unit stops.
98.INT. CORRIDOR
Koenig hurries past a comms post.
100.INT. MAIN MISSION
Koenig enters.
VICTOR: "Well done, John!"
PAUL (amongst other congratulation): "Glad to see you, Commander."
ALAN (amongst other approval): "Nice bit of flying, Commander."
KOENIG: "What's the situation here, Victor?"
VICTOR: "Only skeleton crews above ground, all pressure sensors linked and ready for testing."
KOENIG: "Readings, Kano?"
DAVID: "Sections A, B and C pressure readings normal."
SANDRA: "Section D coming through now."
VICTOR: "D ready for testing."
PAUL: "D checked and functional."
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Moon & space brain.
INT. MAIN MISSION
KOENIG: "Attention all Alpha personnel. This is Commander John Koenig. We're about to enter the area of the space brain. And as a result we are faced with a grave crisis. I want you all to know that we in Main Mission will do everything in our power to prevent the destruction of Alpha. Please remain calm. We cannot predict the final outcome. But, with luck, and the measures we are taking, it is my belief that we will survive. Good luck. to you all."
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Antibodies drift from brain.
Antibodies drift past Moon.
102.INT. MAIN MISSION
HELENA: "John. If we increase pressure too quickly, our people will be in trouble."
KOENIG: "Right. We do it gradually. Paul. Raise pressure two points now, and distribute pressure suits."
PAUL: "Right."
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Antibodies pass Moon.
101.EXT. MOON SURFACE (SFX)
A mass of foam builds up in small crater.
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Antibodies leave space brain.
101.EXT. MOON SURFACE (SFX)
Foam builds in crater.
Two large masses of foam creep up to launch pad.
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Space brain spews antibodies.
103.EXT. MOONBASE ALPHA (SFX)
A mass drifts over buildings.
Foam seeps over a crater wall.
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Antibodies leave space brain.
103.EXT. MOONBASE ALPHA (SFX)
Foam covers buildings below tower.
104.INT. MAIN MISSION
Two men each bring in a trolley, one with helmets & packs, the other with spacesuits.
DAVID: "External pressure reading up two points in section B."
KOENIG: "Raise internal pressure four points, Paul."
EXT. LAUNCH PAD (SFX)
Foam creeps up to Eagle on pad.
Foam drifts over surface.
104.INT. MAIN MISSION
KOENIG: "Attention. All surface sections close down. Total evacuation. Emergency services only in one minute. Seal bulkheads in two minutes." ((quietly:)) "Alright, go."
Most of the staff leave, & the office doors close.
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Antibodies leave space brain.
Antibodies pass Moon.
INT. EAGLE HANGER (SFX)
Foam pours in (no Eagles)
104.INT. MAIN MISSION
BOB (appearing on screen): "Doctor Russell. I need help."
Helena hurries to the door.
KOENIG: "Helena!" ((she looks back at the door)) "Don't go!" ((she leaves)) "Helena!"
ALAN: "Commander! Sensors indicate a burst in the crew room on Launch Pad Four."
KOENIG: "Noone in there?"
ALAN: "It's all clear, sir."
KOENIG: "Alright. Seal it off."
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Antibodies leave space brain.
105.EXT. MOONBASE ALPHA (SFX)
Foam rises to tower.
106.INT. MEDICAL
Bob, Helena & Melita stand by Kelly, as the room creaks like a ship's timbers. ((music begins: Holst's 'Mars'))
BOB (quietly): "We can't evacuate. If we disconnect him he'll die."
Helena looks at Melita, stroking Kelly's head.
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Antibodies leave space brain to Moon's horizon.
EXT. MOON SURFACE (SFX)
Foam builds on surface.
108.EXT. TECHNICAL
View in through viewports; inside technicians remove equipment. Foam rises in the foreground.
110.EXT. MEDICAL
View in through viewports as foam rises in foreground.
112.EXT. MAIN MISSION
View in through viewports as the crew suit up; foam rises in foreground.
113.INT. MAIN MISSION
KOENIG: "Switch to emergency services." ((lights fade)) "Bulkheads?"
ALAN: "Bulkheads sealed."
HELENA (appearing on screen): "John, we must have power."
KOENIG: "Damn it. Get out of there." ((he leaves))
114.INT. CORRIDOR
Koenig runs against the flow of fleeing people. The bearded guard, Alan, is ushering people.
ALLAN: "Alright, come on! Keep it moving! Down to the shelters! Hurry up. Not much more time. Come on, hurry up. Keep it moving, down to the shelters."
115.INT. MEDICAL
Koenig enters as a viewport bursts & foam pours in.
KOENIG: "Bob! Get out of here! Come on! Helena! Out! Out!"
HELENA: "John! We can't leave Kelly!"
He pushes her out after Bob & Melita. Koenig activates the comms post.
KOENIG: "Victor! It's a burst in Medical! Atmosphere pressure holding! As soon as I'm clear seal the bulkheads!"
VICTOR (on screen): "There are still men coming from the Generator section!"
KOENIG: "Well, reroute them!"
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Moon, space brain & foam.
116.INT. CORRIDOR
Koenig wades through deep foam. He looks in an open door.
KOENIG: "Section D? Anyone there?" ((a male runs up)) "Come on! Come on! Get down there! Go ahead!"
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Space brain & foam; sound of a piercing scream.
121.INT. MEDICAL
Foam swamps over Kelly.
INT. CORRIDOR
Men run along through the foam.
MAN: "Come on, this way. Come on."
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Space brain
Moon
INT. MAIN MISSION
The remaining staff, & Koenig, put their helmets on.
INT. CORRIDOR
Alphans run along corridor.
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Space brain.
INT. CORRIDOR
A woman runs through waist deep foam & slips under. A man plunges in after her, then they reappear.
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Moon.
INT. MAIN MISSION
Foam starts to enter through the arches.
KOENIG: "Sandra! Work up there on panel four! Go ahead!" ((she goes to computer))
DAVID: "Section D under severe stress."
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Moon.
120.INT. CORRIDOR
A corridor fills.
INT. MAIN MISSION
KOENIG: "Helena! Panel five!"
ALAN: "Commander. All Eagle Maintenance Areas completely flooded."
PAUL: "Transfer readout!"
KOENIG: "Atmospheric pressure?"
ALAN: "It's easing."
KOENIG: "Good."
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Moon.
Space brain.
INT. MAIN MISSION
KOENIG: "How's the pressure now?"
ALAN: "No increase, Commander."
KOENIG: "Good. Victor. What about the computer?"
VICTOR: "All linked through here."
KOENIG: "Hold out as long as you can."
VICTOR: "Right."
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Moon horizon.
Space Brain.
INT. MAIN MISSION
KOENIG: "Alright! Visors down!" ((they close visors)) "Victor! Shut down Main Computer! Shut down these controls! Shut down the other systems."
They all move to computer
122.EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Space brain.
123.INT. MAIN MISSION
The sound of a vast explosion; all stumble.
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Space brain.
INT. MAIN MISSION
KOENIG: "Helena! Get up there to the balcony! Go on, quickly! You too, Sandra!"
126.EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Space brain.
127.INT. MAIN MISSION
To sound of explosion all are shaken to the floor as foam rises around them.
128EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Moon (climax)
INT. MAIN MISSION
Koenig being shaken; shaking stops
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Moon.
INT. MAIN MISSION
Koenig. Victor raises his visor.
130.EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Moon in space.
INT. MAIN MISSION
VICTOR: "It's stopped, John. It's stopped!"
130.EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Moon in space.
INT. MAIN MISSION
KOENIG: "I think we've come through."
He clutches Helena's hand.
FADE OUT
130.EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Moon in space.
123.INT. MAIN MISSION
Koenig & Victor look out the viewports. They are in normal uniform.
VICTOR: "It's a miracle we're alive, John."
KOENIG: "We tore through it like a bullet."
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Space sky.
VICTOR (VO): "Complex as the human brain. And just as vulnerable."
123.INT. MAIN MISSION
Koenig walks to Helena.
KOENIG: "Helena. Don't make it hard on yourself."
HELENA: "John. I deserted Kelly. I-I just keep thinking that maybe we could have saved him."
KOENIG: "Helena. You can't assume the responsibility for Kelly's death no more than we can assume the responsibility for the death of that cosmic intelligence. Now, yes, we've lost Kelly. But think of all those other worlds out there that depended on that brain. Think what we've lost."
HELENA: "If only..we could have communicated."
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Moon.
FREEZE FRAME
series created by Gerry & Sylvia Anderson
An ITC RAI co-production
produced by GROUP THREE for world-wide distribution
c ITC -Incorporated Television Company Ltd. MCMLXXIV
paul morrow Prentis Hancock
david kano Clifton Jones
sandra benes Zienia Merton
dr mathias Anton Phillips
alan carter Nick Tate
wayland Derek Anders
music by Barry Gray associate Vic Elms
special effects Brian Johnson production designer Keith Wilson
production manager Ron Fry
director of photography Frank Watts BSC
casting director Michael Barnes
script editor Johnny Byrne
supervising editor David Lane
camera operator Neil Binney
assistant director Ken Baker
sound recordist David Bowen
editor Derek Hyde Chambers
sound editor Roy Lafberry
music editor Alan Willis
continuity Gladys Goldsmith
Processed at the Rank Film Laboratories
make-up Ann Cotton
hair designer Helene Bevan
wardrobe Eileen Sullivan
Filmed at Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire, England
SPECIAL EFFECTS
director Nick Allder
lighting cameraman Harry Oakes
camera operator Frank Drake
electronics Michael S. E. Downing
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