Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Prometheus (re)Bound

If you have not seen Ridley Scott's Prometheus, what follows will not make any sense. I decided to gently rewrite the film; to bolster what I felt was the movie's greatest strength: the cosmicism of Weyland and David. This is full blown fan fiction. The hardcore Alien and HP Lovecraft fan, William Powhida corresponded with me a great deal while I worked on this, and helped give what follows a distinctly Cthulhu feel, but also supplied a number of suggestions to help make the story fit squarely within the original Alien cannon. Spoiler Alert: What follows is a word for word script of the film's dialog and stage direction. What remains of the original is in black, my changes are in red. [The illustrator PJ McQuade, whose Prometheus fan art project inspired me to tackle this rewrite, has illustrated the revised opening sequence. Anyone else interested in illustrating other revised scenes should email me at info@johnpowers.us]


Source Material: Dialogue [Stage Directions]
PJ McQuade, Prometheus (re)Bound (2012)

[Open with scenes of the primal Universe, the big bang, stars are born, and planets form. Zoom down to see huge volcanoes, storming seas, life emerges]
PJ McQuade, Prometheus (re)Bound (2012)
Titles: Yucatán Peninsula, 65 million years ago
[The shot pulls back through a lush rain forest densely populated by huge feathered dinosaurs.]



[Pulling upwards and zooming out until we see the earth as seen from space.]

[A huge alien vessel approaches.]

[As the ship slowly makes contact with the outer atmosphere, it triggers a huge explosion that sets the atmosphere ablaze.]

[[The ship moves slowly downward until it perches on one point at the ridge of the newly formed Chicxuluba Crater, next to a giant waterfall that has formed in the immediate aftermath of the explosion. Exiting an aperture at the vessel’s low point, two dozen almost transparently pale, hairless, humanoids are forced from the ship by a dozen black, insectoid xenomorphs. The humanoids, who are clearly terrified as they are dogged and herded, form a tight circle near the edge of a newly formed cliff.]

[The humanoids appear weak and sick - the blacks of their eyes are engorged, their skin, mottled. The xenomorphs define a perimeter as the humanoids are ravaged from within and, one by one, begin to collapse. As they do, they begin spouting snakes and octopus-like creatures from their mouths, genitals, and finally from the cracking flesh of their abdomens and skulls. We now see the much larger figure - its head and shoulders encased in a globe of translucent organic material that appears to be a Portuguese Man of War, it is still recognizable as a living Space Jockey. The “Engineer” backs away cautiously, as if afraid of the Trilobites, and begin moving towards the ship as xenomorphs rush in, unafraid, to devour the white translucent creatures. The ship is shown lifting off as the humanoids’ flesh is left to break apart, loosing their DNA on earth’s eco system like exploding seed pods.]
PJ McQuade, Prometheus (re)Bound (2012)

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Titles: Isle of Skye, 2089
[Flash forward 35000 years to an archaeological dig in the Scotland. Elizabeth Shaw has just broken through into a cave, she calls for Holloway to come and look at her findings, they gaze in wonder at cave paintings etched into the cave]
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Shaw: Get Charlie.

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Dig Assistant: Doctor Holloway!

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Charlie!

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Halloway: What?!
Shaw: Come quick!

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Halloway: Did you date it?
Shaw: 35.000 years, maybe older.

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Halloway: I've never seen anything like it.
Shaw: I have...

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Halloway: Well, of course, the stacked composition and idealized figure are both common tropes.. We've all seen things like this, but this site is so isolated and so remarkably early. After all, hierarchical scaling are usually the trappings of empire...

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Shaw: No I mean I've seen this; this exact same configuration; THAT constellation. I've seen it twice before - thought it was a coincidence. Only this's got to predate the others, by a millennium.

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Halloway: You must be mistaken.
Shaw: No. I don't think I am...
Titles: Prometheus (re)Bound
[on the ship, Prometheus, David checks on the crew who are in hypersleep, he gazes upon Shaw and sees what she's dreaming of, which is from her childhood when she is with her father in a foreign land looking at a funeral procession - we see the dream as David sees, a frantic assessment of points and lines, searching out the most important aspects of the visual data]
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Young Shaw:  ++What happened to that man? ++
Shaw’s Father:  ++He died. ++

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Young Shaw:  ++Why aren't you helping him? ++

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Shaw’s Father:  ++They don't want my help. Their God is different than ours. ++

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Young Shaw:  ++Why did he die? ++

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Shaw’s Father:  ++Sooner or later everyone does. ++
Young Shaw:  ++Like mommy? ++

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Shaw’s Father:  ++Like mommy. ++

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Young Shaw:  ++Where do they go? ++

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Shaw’s Father:  ++Everyone has their own word. ++

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 ++Heaven, Paradise... ++

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Young Shaw:  ++Can she see us? ++

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Shaw’s Father:  ++No, I don't thinks so darling. ++
Young Shaw: Why not?
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 ++Because then it wouldn't be Paradise. ++
 [On board Prometheus]
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Automatic Voice:  ++Good morning, David. ++

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David:  ++Transmitting message. ++

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Automatic Voice:  ++No response. ++

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Video Tutor: Whilst this manner of articulation is attested indeed in the

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Indo-European descendants as a purely paralinguistic form,

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it is phonemic in the ancestral form dating back five millennium or more.

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Now let's attempt Schleicher's Fable.

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Repeat after me:

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Perfect.
[as the crew are in hypersleep, we see David pass the time by bouncing a basketball around, riding a bicycle, taking language lesson, watching Lawrence of Arabia and bleaching his hair to look like Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia, and repeating lines from the movie]
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LoA:  ++Mr. Lawrence? - Yes?
- Flimsey, sir. - Thank you. ++

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 ++You'll do that once too often. It's only flesh and blood. ++

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 ++Michael George Hartley, you're a philosopher. ++

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 ++And you're balmy! ++

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 ++Ow! It damn well hurts.
- Certainly, it hurts! ++

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 ++Well, what's the trick then? ++

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 ++The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts. ++

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David: The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.

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Automatic Voice:  ++Attention! Destination threshold. ++

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Automatic Voice:  ++Attention! Destination threshold. ++
 [as Prometheus reaches their destination, David finds Vickers awake from hypersleep, looking wet and doing push ups. She is obviously healthy, in fighting trim.]
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Vickers: Robe.

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How long?

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David: 2 years, 4 months, 18 days, 36 hours, 15 minutes...

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Vickers: How long have the others been up?
David: You are the only one "up", ma'am.

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Vickers: Is there a problem?
David: No ma'am, everyone's fine.

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Vickers: Well, then wake them up.
 [as the ship's crew are all awakening from hypersleep, we see David comforting Shaw as she's throws up]
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David: Try to relax Dr. Shaw.

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My name is David.

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Your mind and body are in the state of shock,

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as a result of stasis. All that is perfectly normal.

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Halloway: Ellie, you did it, we're here.

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Automatic Voice:  ++Drink plenty of water, drink plenty of fluids. ++

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Automatic Voice:  ++Hydration aids muscle mass. ++
[Meredith Vickers, her hair lacquered and dressed in a crisp grey business suit, enters the Mess to find Captain Janek smoking a cigar and laying out pink and yellow marshmallow Peeps]
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Vickers: What the hell is that?

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Janek: It's Easter, need a holiday to show time is still moving.

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Vickers: Mission briefing is about to start captain.

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You might want to make your way down.

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Janek: The crew hasn't had breakfast yet. Some of us need to eat.
 [as the crew are eating and making small talk, Millburn sits opposite Fifield]
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Millburn: Is this seat taken? I'm Millburn, biology, nice to meet you.

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Fifield: No offence, but, I've been asleep two years.

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I'm generally not good company ‘till have my second cup of coffee.

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Seriously. Stop fucking looking at me.

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Millburn: OK.
 [the crew assemble for the mission briefing, which Vickers begins]
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Chance: I bet a hundred credits it's a terraforming survey.

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Ravel: If it's a survey, they would just tell us.This is flagship. Why not send a tug with platform and a bunch of religious nuts? Why tap Janek in particular to fly it? Come on. You’re an idiot, this is a high priority corporate run.

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Chance: A hundred Credits says I’m a fucking genius and this is a terraforming survey.
Ravel: Alright, you're on.

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Halloway: You look nervous, Ellie.
Shaw: Trying to keep my feet on the ground.

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Halloway: I know you are.
Vickers: Good morning.

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For those of you I hired personally,

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it's nice to see you again.

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For the rest of you, I am Meredith Vickers and it's my job to make sure you do yours.

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OK then, on with the show.
 [David brings up a hologram of an elderly Peter Weyland, who addresses the crew in a pre-recorded message]
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Announcer:  ++Weyland Corporation, building better worlds. ++

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Weyland: Hello friends.

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My name is Peter Weyland.

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I am your employer.

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I am recording this 22, June, 2091.

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If you're watching it, you have reached your destination.

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And my reign is long over.

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This mission is my final act as the head of Weyland Industries. My last request.

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There's a man sitting with you today, his name is David.

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He is the closest thing to a son I will ever have.

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Unfortunately he is not human, he will never grow old, and he will never die.

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Yet he is unable to appreciate these remarkable gifts,

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for that would require the one thing that David will never have.

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A soul.

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I have spent my entire lifetime contemplating these questions.

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Where do we come from? What is our purpose?

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What happens when you die?

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And I have finally found two people who have convinced me

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they are on the verge of answering them.

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Doctors Holloway and Shaw, if you would please stand.
 [Holloway and Shaw stand]
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I have charged them with fulfilling my last request. As far as you're concerned they are my crown regents; they are in charge.

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The Titan, Prometheus, wanted to give mankind equal footing with the gods,

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for that he was cast from Olympus.

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Well, my friends, the time has finally come for his return.
 [pointing to Shaw and Holloway]
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Doctors, please.
 [Shaw and Holloway stand beside Peter Weyland's hologram]
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Floor is yours.
 [as Weyland's hologram walks off and fades out, Holloway addresses the assembled crew]

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Halloway: Ok...

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Hard act to follow.

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OK, let me show why you guys are here.
 [he holds up a cube places it on the floor and opens up another hologram showing images]
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These are images of archaeological digs, from all over the Earth.
 [pointing to the different images]
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That's Egyptian, Mayan, Sumerian, Babylonian,

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that's Hawaiian there at the end, and Mesopotamian.

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This one here, is our discovery.

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It's a 35.000 year old cave painting from the Isle of Skye in Scotland.

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These are ancient civilizations, that were separated by centuries,

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they shared no contact with one another, and yet...
 [he gathers the hologram images to line up and he goes through each one]
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We realized, that the same pictogram, showing men worshiping giant beings

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pointing to a constellation of stars, was not a coincidence of archetypes. The very same constellation was reproduced exactly in every last one of them.

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The only galactic system that matched,

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was so far from earth that there's no way that these primitive

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ancient civilizations could have possibly known about.

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But it just so happens,

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that that system,

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has a sun.

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A lot like ours.

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And based on our long range scans, there seems to be a planet.

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Just one planet with a moon capable of sustaining life.

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And we arrived there this morning.

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Fifield: So, you say we're here because of a map, you two kids found in a cave, is that right?

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Shaw: No.
Halloway: Yes.

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Halloway: No, not a map, an invitation.
Millburn: From whom?

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Shaw: We called them engineers.
Fifield: Engineers?

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Do you mind telling us what they engineered?

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Shaw: We believe they engineered us.

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Fifield: Bullshit.

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Millburn: Do you have anything to back that up?

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Fifield: Who invited Giorgio Tsoukalos?
Millburn: Antisocial has a point, only if you're willing to discount 3 centuries of Darwinism that's... Wah! But how do you know?

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Shaw: I don't.

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But it's what I believe, and Peter Weyland shared that belief.
 [Shaw and Holloway are stopped by David in the corridor after the meeting breaks up]
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David: Doctors?

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Miss Vickers would like to have a quick word, before the adventure begins.
 [David opens the door to Vickers quarters]
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Halloway: Is this a separate module?

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David: Yes it is actually. It has its own self-contained life support.

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Air, food, anything miss Vickers would need to survive hostile environment.

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Halloway: Not much of a show of faith. Should we be worried?
[as they are looking around her chamber, Vickers walks in from behind them]
Vickers: I like to minimize risk.

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David, why don't you make the doctors a drink?

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I'll take a vodka, up.

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Shaw: Charlie look, it's a Pauling Med-Pod. I thought these were only going to be made available to facilities that could demonstrate the greatest need...

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Vickers: Miss Shaw!

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Automatic Voice:  ++Please verbally state the nature of your injury. ++

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Vickers: Please don't touch that. It's a very expensive piece of machinery.

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Shaw: It does bypass surgeries, what do you need it for?

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Vickers: I think there might be some confusion about our relationship.

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Weyland found you impressive enough to fund this mission,

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but I'm fairly certain your "engineers" are nothing but scribblings

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of savages living in dirty little caves.

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But let's say I'm wrong, and you do find these beings down there.

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You won't engage them.

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You won't talk to them, you will do nothing but report it back to me.

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Halloway: Miss Vickers, we were told that we are in charge, that this is our mission.

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Vickers: My company paid a trillion dollars to find this place and to bring you here.

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Had you raised the money yourself Mr. Holloway,

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we'd happily be pursuing your, agenda.

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But you didn't.

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And that makes you an employee. So we will pursue my agenda: minimize risk.
 [Holloway laughs and takes the drink that David offers them]
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Shaw: If we can't make contact, why did you even bring us here?

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Vickers: Weyland was a superstitious man.

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He wanted true believers on board.
 [she takes the drink offered by David]
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Cheers.
[Holloway leans over studying a golden holographic image of the message David composed and sent to the planet in advance of Prometheus’ arrival]
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Halloway: So no response?
David: I am sorry, no.

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Halloway: Maybe they didn't understand it.

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How are your lessons going, David?

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David: I spent two years deconstructing dozens of ancient languages, to their roots.

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If they once communicated with us, I'm confident I can communicate with them,

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provided your thesis is correct.

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Halloway: Provided it's correct, that's good.

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David: That's why they call it a thesis, doctor.
[Shaw and David exchange smiles, Holloway sees Shaw’s]
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Halloway: What are you smiling about?
Janek: Alright, Mr. Ravel, Mr. Chance, let's take her down.

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Ravel: Roger that.
Chance: Yes captain.

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Janek: How are we doing?
Ravel:  Great.

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Chance: Alright boss.
[as they get ready to enter the atmosphere of the planet]
Janek: All personnel, this is the captain. Brace for entry.

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Ravel: Yes captain.

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Janek: That means you too Vickers.
 [everyone takes their seats and buckles themselves in]
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Janek: What is the atmosphere?

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Ravel: Atmosphere is 71% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen, traces of unknown gas.

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Janek: Whoa, now that's weather.
[Holloway turns to Ford as he buckles himself into his seat]
Holloway: Just like home.

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Ford: Only if you're breathing through an exhaust pipe.

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CO2 is over 3%. Two minutes without a suite, you're dead.
 [as they get nearer to the planet, Ford looks at her monitor]
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Ford: Peak, port side, 52.000. Makes Everest look like a baby brother.
Holloway: [looking at the landscape] Grey Town.

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Janek: Alright, take us round.

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We will use that as our point of entry.

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Terrain data rising up. We've got a couple of hard spots. Could be metal.

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Ravel: No radio, no heat source.
Millburn: Nobody's home.
 [David quotes a line from Lawrence of Arabia]
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David: “There's nothing in the desert. No man needs nothing.”

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Ford: What was that?
David: Just something from a film I like.
David: What is that?
Ford: Just something from a story I like.

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Janek: Let's go through that gateway.
Reduce air speed by 100 knots.

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Going through, nice and slow.

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Keep her steady boys.
[suddenly Holloway spots something]
Halloway: There.

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Shaw: What are you doing?

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Janek: Doctor Holloway why don't you take a seat?!

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Halloway: Right there. God does not build in straight lines.

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Starboard side, this valley! Captain, do you think you can put us down there?

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Janek: I’m assuming Mrs. Vickers didn't hire me to fly this ship because I'm pretty. Mr. Ravel. Starboard 90 degrees. One mile, port bow.

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Chance: One mile, port bow.

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Janek: Engage landing sequence. Switch to manual.

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Easy does it. Yeah baby, yeah.

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Putting her down in 5, 4...

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2, easy does it.

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Halloway: Captain, would you please tell the survey team to suit up? And meet us in the air lock.

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Janek: There's only 6 hours left of daylight. Why don't you leave it 'till the morning?

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Halloway: No, no, it's Easter captain,

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and I want my egg hunt.
 [he turns and point to David and Ford]
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Halloway: You, boy, you're coming with us.
David: I'd be delighted.
[as they are getting ready to go outside, Shaw notices one of the crew is holding a large looking weapon]
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Shaw: Hey Jackson, what's that for?

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Jackson: Expedition security. My job is to make sure everybody's nice and safe.

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Shaw: This is a scientific expedition, no weapons.

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Jackson: Alright then. Good luck with that.

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Halloway: David, why are you wearing a suit?

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David: I beg your pardon?
Halloway: You don't breathe, remember?

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So, why wear a suit?

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David: I was designed like this because you people are

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more comfortable interacting with your own kind.

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David: But to answer your question Dr. Holloway, the suits also act as barriers - my suit prevents me from contaminating the ship with anything I might come in contact with on the surface.

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Halloway: They built you guys close, huh?
David: Not too close I hope.
 [as the team is sent out to investigate the large dome shaped structure that Holloway had noticed earlier]
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Halloway: This is just one small step for mankind.

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Shaw: Seriously?
[he holds her head close to his letting their helmets touch, he turns and sits opposite Fifield]
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Halloway: Come on! You ready to do this?! I know you are.
 [Fifield ignores him]
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Halloway: Fifield, I want a spectrograph on that structure,

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I want to know if it's natural or somebody put it there, alright?

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Fifield: I can't tell you if it's natural or not, but what I can tell you is, it's hollow.

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Shaw: Prometheus, are you seeing this?

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Janek: Affirmative, we see you.

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Shaw: Are you ready?
Halloway: Yeah.
Shaw: Let's do it.

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Holloway: After you.
Shaw: After you.

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Halloway: Careful.
Shaw: Prometheus, we're going in.

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Janek: Copy that.

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Holloway: Pause back here, some kind of a corridor.

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Holloway: Mr. Fifield, let's get a grid of the structure, I want the whole interior.

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Fifield: If there's anything in here worth looking at, these pups will find them.

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Holloway: Pups?
[Fifield holds up drone globes]
Fifield: Yeah, my pups.
[Fifield throws the two spheres in the air, the two take flight in separate directions, spraying the pyramid’s interior with red laser light]
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Prometheus, we are now mapping.

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Janek: Copy that.
[back on Prometheus, Janek, Vickers and the rest of the crew watch as the hologram of the map of the interior begins to take shape]
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Janek: I'll be damned. Fifield, you got a reading?

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Fifield: Yeah.

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Judging by what Pups are showing, I’d say this way.
[as they reach an area of the structure that has water streaming down and the sun shining through the open ceiling]
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Holloway: Look at this.

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Shaw: Oh Charlie...

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Ford: Jesus, sunlight's heating the water. Check out the humidity.

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Holloway: Yeah, look at the CO2 levels.

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Outside it's completely toxic, and in here there's nothing.

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It's breathable.
 [as Holloway prepares to take off his helmet]
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Shaw: What are you doing? Charlie, don't be an idiot.

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Holloway: Don't be a sceptic. There's something generating an atmosphere, David?

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David: Dr. Holloway is correct.
Ford: Cleaner than ours, actually. But...

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Holloway: They were terraforming here.
Shaw: Please, don't do...

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Holloway: Ellie, I'm not wearing this thing anymore. Wish me luck babe.

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Vickers:  ++- Do you copy, do not remove your head gear. ++
[Holloway cracks helmet's seal]

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Shaw: Charlie!
Millburn: Dr. Holloway there is no way to tell what sort of organisms you might be exposing yourself to if you do that. Viruses and prions can survives dormant for eons. Even if you don't believe in Darwinism, I'm assuming you still get sick..
[Holloway reseals helmet]
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David: Prometheus we are leaving our helmets on.

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Janek:  ++Copy that. ++
[back on the bridge Chance gives Ravel a knowing look]
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Chance: Well come on, pay up.

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Ravel: Pay what?
Chance: What do you mean "pay what"?

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Something's manufacturing breathable air down there.

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That means it's terraforming.
Ravel: No, no, the bet was why we came here.

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If you said that that old man wanted to talk to martians, then I'd pay

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Chance: Oh come on, a hundred
credits, put it towards

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a lap dance of Ms. Vickers, how about that?
[survey team moves proceeds down massive curving corridor within the  Pyramid]
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Ford: It's minus 12 in here.

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Millburn: So why is this water not frozen?
Fifield: Maybe it ain’t water.

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Millburn: Maybe it's martian piss.

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Fifield: That's your, scientific theory? Is it, Mr. Biology?

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Ford: Well, whatever it is it sure is clean.
[David finds a residue of glittering the green slime]
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David: Impressive.
[after David comes across some large cuneiform markings and activates what seems to be a kind of ship's log. He touches them and seizes up as if in a state of tetanuss. His helmet begins to glow an opaque yellow, exactly the way the his faceplate did when watching Shaw’s dream.The crew hear a hollow scream coming from the corridors]
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Millburn: What was that?
Shaw: David?
[One of Fifield’s “pups” freeze its forward progress, its red scanning lasers replaced by golden projections, like those Davide had shown holloway and Shaw. The Pup reverses, its lasers now projecting golden holograms of a dozen giant humanoid aliens running through the passageway. The ghost-like figures run straight through David, and hurtle towards the crew]
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Fifiield: What the fu..
Shaw: David?!

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Holloway: David?!
[Charlie pushes Eli out of the way as the golden holograms run across the corridors]
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Holloway: Ellie!

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Ford: What the hell was that?
Jackson: Aren't you glad we didn't bring any weapons?

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Fifield: Whose idea was that?!
 [they start running after the holographic humanoid alien images]
Holloway: Keep up!
[as they run after the holographic images of the aliens, one of the holographic images trips and falls and disappears]
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Shaw: Where did he go?
[Holloway moves closer to where the holographic image had fallen]
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Holloway: There it is.
[they find a dead body of an Engineer]
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Shaw: Oh my God, Charlie we found them.

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Holloway: It is them Ellie.
[Holloway moves closer to the Engineers body to inspect it]
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Holloway: Looks like a door, and he's been decapitated by it.
[back on Prometheus, Janek, Vickers and the rest of the crew are watching them on their monitor]
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Vickers: Son of a bitch.

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They were right.

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Jenek: Did you want them to be wrong?
[after finding the decapitated Engineers body, they find more markings on the wall. David has recovered and no one seems to have noticed he was hijacked along with the two pups]
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Holloway: David, please tell me you can read that.

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David: Perhaps.

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[Fifield studying his wrist display and tapping it, as if to regain control of his errant pups.]
Fifield: I'm going to keep moving.
[Still looking a bit confused, he turns to leave.]
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Shaw: Fifield, where are you going?
Fifield: Look, I'm just a geologist, I like rocks. [gesturing to Holloway] You and Chariots of the Gods don’t need a geologist to pursue your pseudo-science.

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Halloway: What? Did you not...

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Fifield: [continuing to address Shaw, but gesturing dismissively to Holloway] This is the find of a lifetime; I’ll give you that. So while you and the Ghostbusters do whatever it is you do, I’d like to do what I do: science. This is obviously some sort of arcology. I can't tell if it was built, grown, or is the product of harnessing some geological force we've never seen before.

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Fifield: All I do know is, this place is blasphemously old, it that it has been here since before the earth had a God damn moon.

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Fifield: And since I don't really have anything to contribute in the gigantic dead body arena. I'm gonna keep on moving, if you don't mind.

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Ford: you can't wander off alone.
[Fifield glances at Ford, his face betraying a flicker of doubt before quickly regaining his bravado, turns to face the others]
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Fifield: Anyone want to join me?
[to Millburn]
You staying?

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Millburn: I'll go with him.
[to Shaw]
Where there are corpses, there might also be life.
Fifield: Very good.
[to Holloway]
Congratulations on meeting your maker.

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Holloway: [to Fifield, as he turns to inspect the dead Engineers body] Don't get lost - your “pups” seem to be a bit glitchy.

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Fifield: [to Holloway as he and Millburn start walking off] Pull yourself the fuck together man. We have the same GPS system as all of you, and whatever hijacked the pup, it wasn’t a fucking “glitch,” but it doesn’t seemed to have damaged them or the maps. They’re still mapping. We'll be fine.

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Millburn: [to Fifield, as they depart] I thought you were the crazy one.

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Shaw: Do you have the carbon reader?
[Holloway gives her the reader]
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Thank you.

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Holloway: How long has it been dead?

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Shaw: Two thousand years, give or take.
[as David is touching the markings on the wall]
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Shaw: What are you doing David?

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David: I'm attempting to open the door.

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Shaw: Wait, we don't know what's on the other side.
[suddenly the door opens]
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David: Oops, sorry.

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Shaw: Look Ford, it's the head.

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Ford: An amazing state of preservation.

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Shaw: We'll take it in.
[looking around the room he's just opened, David notices a bunch of metal jars and a large human looking statue]
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David: Remarkably human.
[as they all look up at the statue, no one notices the small wriggling insect like beings wriggling on the floor, David notices the mural on the walls]
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David: Beautiful painting.

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Shaw: It's a mural.
[David walks closer to one of the jars and tries to examine it]
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Shaw: Stop, stop, don't touch it.
David: Sorry.

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Shaw: Please, don't touch anything.

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David: It's sweating.

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David: Organic... Dr. Millburn will regret not sticking around a little longer.
[Shaw moves closer to inspect the mural]
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Shaw: Oh no, Charlie the murals are changing.

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I think we've averted the atmosphere in the room.

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Shaw:  ++Charlie, do you copy? ++

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Shaw: Overhead, Ford quick,
help me bag the head.
 [they quickly go to take the Engineers head]
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Chance: Boss?
Janek:  ++- What you got? ++

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Chance: We got an incoming storm front, silica and

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Chance:  ++lots of static, this is not good. ++
Janek: I see it.

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Janek:  ++Ground crew this is Janek. ++

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 ++Need you to hustle back right now. ++

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 ++Ground crew, do you copy? I got 200 km ++

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 ++winds of airborne silica and enough static

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Shaw: Copy that sir, but we need more time here.

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Vickers: I'll be closing the outer doors in 15 minutes.

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 ++I sincerely hope you can make it. ++

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Shaw: Charlie, David, we must leave now!

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Holloway: This is just another tomb.

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David?

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Let's go!

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David, we are leaving!

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Come on! Damn it, they've already taken off.
[they rush out and drive to the ship]
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Come on, let's go.

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 ++Prometheus to ground crew, you're running out of time. ++

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Come on.

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Drive faster!
[just as they make it to the ship they drop the head]
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Shaw: Charlie, the head!
[Shaw goes to retrieve it but is blown away by the storm]
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Holloway: Ellie stop! What are you doing?!

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Shit

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Ellie hold on!

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Goddamn it.
 ++- Close it! ++

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Got it.
[as Holloway goes after her he's also blown away, David manages to rescue them by using a winch]
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 ++Decontamination at level 3. ++

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Holloway: What was that Ellie?

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You could have compromised the entire mission,

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not to mention almost killing yourself!

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David: Are you alright?
Shaw: Yes, thank you David.

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David: My pleasure.

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Janek: Alright doctors, it's real good to have you back, but where is Millburn and Fifield?

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 ++Aren't they back yet? ++

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Janek: Kick them up for me.

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Millburn: We've been here before Fifield.
Fifield: I mapped this place Double-Dumb-Ass. Besides use your eyes, these structures are different than any of the others we have seen, much older - and if I didn’t know better, I’d say biological accretion. Like a midden or coral reef, but...

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Janek:  ++Boys this is the captain, listen up. ++

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Between the static electricity and the wind speed,

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there ain't no safe way to come get you.

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 ++Temperature is dropping rapidly, so conserve your suits’ remaining energy and stay warm. ++

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Till the storm passes.

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Fifield: Captain, can you get a message to Shaggy and Velma?

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 ++....back in their psychedelic van..  ++
Janek: No. I think we got it.

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Fifield:
[Janek and the rest of the crew who heard this laugh]
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Fifield: Copy?
Janek:  ++- Copy that. ++

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Alright boys, keep your heads down and we'll come get you in the morning. I'll stay with you on the comm till then.
[in a lab on Prometheus, Shaw begins examining the Engineer's head]
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Ford: Sample is inert, no contagion present.
Shaw: David.
[at that moment Vickers enters the lab]
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Vickers: So are they all dead?

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Shaw: What? Who?
Vickers: Your engineers. Are they all dead or aren't they?

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Shaw: I don't know, we just got here.

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Shaw: Scan.
[to Vickers]
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Shaw: Do you even care if they're all dead?
Vickers: Weyland cared.
[as Ford looks at the alien's head scan image]
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Ford: Dr. Shaw, have a look at this.
[Shaw looks at the monitor showing image of the scan from the alien head]
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00:46:21,300 -- 00:46:26,400
Shaw: That looks like the top of a second skull nestled inside the first. Could it be a helmet? Some sort of bio-tech...
Ford: No. How do you explain the brain then? Why put a brain in a helmet? And that is a colossal amount of gray matter. Even if we were looking at the skull of a twelve-foot tall human, its brain would be would be proportionally much larger than ours. The structure definitely not human though - a single lobe, and these massive nerve clusters leading to those eye sockets - although these don’t look at all like ocular nerves, nor do they terminate in anything remotely like the remnants of eyes, just withered ganglia. Perhaps they’re not eye sockets at all, but some sort of olfactory organ? Then there is this  corpus callosum-like material at the brainstem - possibly a connection to the smaller skull? some sort of secondary or hind-brain arrangement?
Shaw: Let's see if we can lift it up and separate the two.

373
00:46:26,401 -- 00:46:31,000
Ford: Should be able to pry this open.

374
00:46:31,001 -- 00:46:35,100
Shaw: It's too heavy for us, David?
[David walks over to pry the skull open, notices the in the effort to separate the parts, Shaw’s paper clean suit has pulled away from her glove and that there is glittering green slime on the skin of her wrist exactly like what he found earlier. He sees that it has come from the base on the base of the skull, but chooses to say nothing]
375
00:46:40,400 -- 00:46:44,300
Shaw: Careful.
David: It's no use, it's fused.
[turning head over to expose severed neck, and the slime]
376
00:46:57,700 -- 00:47:02,400
Ford: [not noticing the slime] Is that branching part of a brainstem?
David: The flesh is leathery, astonishing flexibility retained in places... could these pentagonal cells be some sort of eye?
[Shaw and Ford turning away, Vickers following David’s line of sight notices the glittering green slime]
Vickers: What’s this green material?
[David feigns surprise]
378
00:47:06,001 -- 00:47:08,001
David: I’ve never seen anything like it.
[Vickers looks closer, then pulls away in horror]
[Shaw and Ford, tuning back around don’t see the change in Vickers]
379
00:47:08,002 -- 00:47:10,500
Shaw: Can we run a stim line into that callosum-like structure?
Ford: OK...
[still looking at the slime, Vickers’ expression contorts in disgust and fear]
380
00:47:10,501 -- 00:47:14,600
Vickers: Sterilize it.
Ford: Its nervous system is intact...
Vickers: Burn it!
[wild eyed, a thick line of drool slipping from her gaping mouth, Vickers hands begin to cartwheel in the direction of the skull]
390
00:47:54,700 -- 00:47:57,900
Shaw: Ford...
Ford: There's something wrong.
Shaw: Vickers, stop it!
[Vickers rushes violently at the controls]
391
00:47:57,901 -- 00:48:02,000
Ford: David, contain it now!
Vickers: Make it... BURN IT!
[David contains the head in an glass shield just as Vickers triggers an explosion of flame that destroys the head. They all watch in shock as Vickers struggles to regain her composure]
392
00:48:23,500 -- 00:48:26,100
David: Mortal after all.
[Shaw, shaken by the outburst]
393
00:48:32,500 -- 00:48:35,100
Shaw: Ford take a sample.

394
00:48:35,101 -- 00:48:37,200
Let's have a look. Unless Ms. Vickers has an objection?
 [we see David wearing a helmet and it seems like he is communicating with someone]
395
00:48:41,100 -- 00:48:44,100
David: No sir, I will take care of it.
 [there's a short pause as David listens to a reply]
396
00:48:44,101 -- 00:48:47,500
David: Yes sir I understand, I’m sorry.

397
00:48:47,501 -- 00:48:51,700
Unfortunately, slightly premature.
[another pause as David listens to the reply again]
398
00:48:54,200 -- 00:48:57,100
David: Of course sir.
 [David turns, takes off the helmet, walks off down the corridor and sees Vickers, who steps in front of him]
399
00:49:24,000 -- 00:49:27,000
David: Miss Vickers?
 [Vickers, still looking prim and composed, looks desperate, her eyes are red-rimmed]
400
00:49:29,600 -- 00:49:34,400
Vickers: What did he say David?
David:  I don't think he'd want me to tell you.
[David steps aside to walk off but Vickers steps in from him again]
401
00:49:41,200 -- 00:49:46,200
Vickers: What did he say?
David:  I'm sorry, that's confidential.
[suddenly in anger Vickers pushes David against the wall]
402
00:49:46,201 -- 00:49:52,900
Vickers: So help me God, I will find the cord
that makes you run and I will cut it.

403
00:49:52,901 -- 00:49:56,200
Vickers: What did he say?

404
00:49:56,700 -- 00:50:02,500
David: He said: "Try harder".

405
00:50:02,800 -- 00:50:07,700
Cup of tea, ma'am?
[Vickers shoves David face aside and walks off in anger. Cut to David opening a cooler, then to Shaw and Ford in lab analyzing the alien's DNA]
406
00:50:21,900 -- 00:50:27,500
Shaw: Genetic view.
Ford: OK. Look at it all - there is an entire ocean’s worth of DNA here. What could it all be for?
Shaw: Shotgun sequence the lot.
 [looking through the microscope]
407
00:50:35,900 -- 00:50:38,800
 [Cut to David as he begins to examine the vase he'd snuck in, opening it. Cut back to Shaw and Ford studying computer display of alien DNA]
408
00:50:40,300 -- 00:50:44,200
Ford: Compare it to the Terran gene samples.
Shaw: Yep.

409
00:50:44,201 -- 00:50:48,500
Ford: Overlay.
Automated Voice:  ++- Processing. ++
[the computer processes the information and finds a match with human DNA]
410
00:50:49,000 -- 00:50:51,600
Computer:  ++Processing. ++
[Cut to David prying apart contents of vase and examining parts. Cut Back to Shaw and Ford]
411
00:50:52,200 -- 00:50:55,500
Automated Voice:  ++DNA match. ++
[The DNA of the Engineer is much larger than the human DNA, but display shows a portion of the alien DNA, a tiny fraction of the total, matches the human exactly]
412
00:50:55,800 -- 00:50:58,800
Shaw: Oh my God...

413
00:51:17,500 -- 00:51:21,400
It's us, but so much more; it's everything.

414
00:51:24,300 -- 00:51:27,000
What killed them?
 [David takes a droplet of the black thick liquid substance onto his index finger and looks at it]
415
00:51:43,900 -- 00:51:47,800
David: Big things have small beginnings.
 [after David takes a sample of the liquid he found in the vase, David finds Holloway in mess looking drunk]
416
00:51:56,000 -- 00:52:00,500
David: Am I interrupting?
[indicating to the bottle he's holding]
Thought you might be running low.
[David takes a glass from the shelf]
417
00:52:04,500 -- 00:52:09,300
Holloway: Pour yourself a glass pal.
David: Thank you, but I'm afraid it would be wasted on me.

418
00:52:09,301 -- 00:52:13,300
Holloway: Right, I almost forgot you're not a real boy.

419
00:52:15,200 -- 00:52:19,800
David: I'm very sorry that your engineers are all gone, Dr. Holloway.

420
00:52:23,300 -- 00:52:27,100
Holloway: You think we wasted our time coming here, don't you?

421
00:52:27,101 -- 00:52:31,500
David: Your question depends on the understanding what you hope to achieve by coming here.

422
00:52:31,501 -- 00:52:36,500
Holloway: What we hoped to achieve, was to meet our makers, to get answers.

423
00:52:36,501 -- 00:52:41,300
Why they even made us in the first place.

424
00:52:42,500 -- 00:52:46,400
David: Why do you think your people made me?

425
00:52:46,401 -- 00:52:49,400
Holloway: We made you cos we could.

426
00:52:50,300 -- 00:52:52,900
David: Can you imagine how disappointing would be for you,

427
00:52:52,901 -- 00:52:56,500
to hear the same thing from your creator?
[Holloway laughs]
428
00:53:00,500 -- 00:53:03,200
Holloway: I guess it's a good thing you can't be disappointed.

429
00:53:03,201 -- 00:53:09,000
David: Yes. It's wonderful actually. May I ask you something?

430
00:53:09,500 -- 00:53:12,600
Holloway: Please do.
David: How far would you go,

431
00:53:12,601 -- 00:53:17,600
to get what you came all this way for? Your answers? What would you be willing to do?

432
00:53:18,000 -- 00:53:22,600
Holloway: Anything and everything.

433
00:53:22,601 -- 00:53:24,901
David: That's worth drinking to, I'd imagine.
[he pours Holloway a drink and as he's about to hand the glass to Holloway he quickly inserts the same index finger that he'd earlier had the droplet of thick black liquid on from the vase, contaminating the drink]
434
00:53:36,100 -- 00:53:39,500
Holloway: Here's mud in your eye, pal.
 [Holloway downs the entire drink]
435
00:53:42,300 -- 00:53:44,800
David: Good health.
[as Fifield and Millburn are wandering around in the interior of the structure they're stranded in, they find a large pile of dead Engineer bodies]
436
00:53:48,600 -- 00:53:52,200
Millburn: It's those things.

437
00:53:53,500 -- 00:53:56,500
Are they real?

438
00:53:56,501 -- 00:53:58,900
Fifield: Of course they're real.

439
00:53:58,901 -- 00:54:05,500
Millburn: Jesus Christ, look at the pile, look how up they are.

440
00:54:06,500 -- 00:54:10,000
Fifield: Looks like they were running from something.

441
00:54:10,001 -- 00:54:12,200
Millburn: Don't touch, OK?

442
00:54:12,201 -- 00:54:16,700
This thing is, opened up from the inside,

443
00:54:16,701 -- 00:54:19,200
almost like its exploded.

444
00:54:19,201 -- 00:54:23,900
Fifield: It's like a scene out of some sort of holocaust painting.

445
00:54:43,300 -- 00:54:47,900
Millburn:
Whatever killed them is long gone, right?
Fifield: How should I know? What kind of biologist are you, for fuck sake?
Millburn: A xenobiologist. I study extremophiles and Zoonosis. I’m not a God Damn cyclops coroner OK? The biggest “alien” anyone has ever seen until now were the microscopic flatworms I found in the ice of Titian. Which, I don’t mind telling you...
[suddenly Janek interrupts from the ship as he starts hearing a pinging signal from the holographic image of the interior of the structure they'd mapped earlier]
446
00:54:49,000 -- 00:54:53,300
Janek: Where is your position?
Millburn: Prometheus, this is Millburn. We are at 7401477, why?

447
00:54:53,301 -- 00:54:59,300
Janek: I just got a ping. About one click west of you.

448
00:54:59,301 -- 00:55:03,700
Millburn: What do you mean, a ping?

449
00:55:04,700 -- 00:55:08,700
Janek: Whatever that probe is picking up, it's not dead.

450
00:55:08,701 -- 00:55:11,600
It's reading life form.

451
00:55:11,601 -- 00:55:16,000
Millburn: What do you mean a "life form"?
Fifield: Is it moving?

452
00:55:16,001 -- 00:55:19,600
Janek: No, I don't think so.

453
00:55:19,601 -- 00:55:22,500
Fifield: Captain, you're obviously not seeing what we're seeing down here,

454
00:55:22,501 -- 00:55:25,200
 ++but if you were, you wouldn't be talking about bloody ping. ++

455
00:55:25,201 -- 00:55:30,600
Janek: Boys, the signal's been coming in sporadically since Fifiield’s scanners were hijacked.

456
00:55:31,000 -- 00:55:34,500
Fifield:  ++That's not good to us down here captain! ++

457
00:55:35,000 -- 00:55:38,700
 ++Is it moving? Are these things moving? ++
 [suddenly Janek notices the pinging noise has stopped]
458
00:55:41,300 -- 00:55:44,800
Janek: No, it just disappeared actually.

459
00:55:44,801 -- 00:55:48,900
 ++Must be a glitch - but stay clear just in case. ++
Millburn: What do you mean, "a glitch"?

460
00:55:48,901 -- 00:55:52,800
Janek: Alright boys, sleep tight. Try not to bugger each other.

461
00:55:52,801 -- 00:55:57,200
Millburn:  ++- Captain, what do you mean "a glitch"? ++
[Janek ignores them but watches their movements on the monitor]
....
466
00:56:15,001 -- 00:56:21,000
Millburn: Maybe the life-form glitch will explain these atoll formations.
Fifield: Not bloody likely - the holocaust maybe... Where are you going?
Janek:  ++Millburn, hold your position. I understand wanting to check this out, but it can wait till morning.” ++
[Fifield, addressing Millburn’s obvious impatience, and gesturing to the heap of bodies]
Fifield: ...not that sitting here is all that great either.
[Shaw records her findings as she watches the holographic images of the Engineers]
467
00:56:21,001 -- 00:56:25,300
Shaw: Based on the behavior of the subject in these holographic recordings,

468
00:56:25,301 -- 00:56:28,800
I can't help but wonder, why were they running to the Chamber with the urns?

469
00:56:28,801 -- 00:56:33,500
Was there an outbreak here? Do the urns have some sort of medical significance?
[Shaw’s cabin, Shaw reading in bed]
470
00:56:38,000 -- 00:56:42,600
Holloway: You rang, ma'am?
Shaw: I have something important to tell you. What is that?

471
00:56:42,601 -- 00:56:46,800
Holloway: This is a rose

472
00:56:46,801 -- 00:56:50,000
that I had frozen with the champagne. I was gonna give it to you

473
00:56:50,001 -- 00:56:52,800
when we found what we came for.

474
00:56:52,801 -- 00:56:56,500
Shaw: We did find what we came for. They were here, this is...

475
00:56:56,501 -- 00:57:02,600
Holloway: The most significant discovery in the history of mankind.

476
00:57:02,800 -- 00:57:05,700
I know.

477
00:57:06,100 -- 00:57:09,800
It's incredible, it really is, but...

478
00:57:09,801 -- 00:57:12,500
I wanted to talk to them.

479
00:57:12,501 -- 00:57:16,600
Holloway: Don't you want to know why they came?

480
00:57:16,601 -- 00:57:20,300
Why they abandoned us? I just want answers baby.

481
00:57:20,301 -- 00:57:25,600
Shaw: We were right Charlie. I have proof.

482
00:57:26,400 -- 00:57:28,500
Look.

483
00:57:33,300 -- 00:57:36,600
Their genetic material predates ours.

484
00:57:36,601 -- 00:57:42,100
We come from them.
Holloway: Are you kidding me? - No.

485
00:57:44,200 -- 00:57:47,100
Holloway: OK.

486
00:57:48,900 -- 00:57:52,600
I guess you can take your father's cross off now.

487
00:57:52,601 -- 00:57:55,900
Shaw: Why would I want to do that?

488
00:57:55,901 -- 00:57:59,600
Holloway: Because God-like isn't God.
Shaw: They made us.
Holloway: And who made them?

489
00:57:59,601 -- 00:58:04,400
Holloway: Exactly, we'll never know. But here's what we do know.

490
00:58:04,401 -- 00:58:08,500
There is nothing special about the creation of life.

491
00:58:08,501 -- 00:58:14,700
Anybody can do it, all you need is a dash of DNA and half a brain, right?

492
00:58:15,600 -- 00:58:21,800
Shaw: I can't. I can't create life.

493
00:58:22,900 -- 00:58:26,900
What does that say about me?

494
00:58:26,901 -- 00:58:31,500
Holloway: Ellie, that's not, I didn't mean... I wasn't talking about...

495
00:58:31,501 -- 00:58:35,300
Shaw: Children?
Holloway: Us.

496
00:58:43,700 -- 00:58:49,600
Holloway: It means your mortal Elizabeth Shaw, imperfect, just like us all. You and all your imperfections are the center of my world. I followed you here.

497
00:58:49,601 -- 00:58:52,700
And I love you.
[they start kissing and start having sex]
498
00:59:36,900 -- 00:59:40,000
Vickers: No.
 [Vickers, looking tired and drawn. Thinking she's alone goes over to the pyramid scan of the large dome structure, as she goes to touch it, Janek interrupts her with his accordion making her jump]
499
00:59:41,500 -- 00:59:44,500
Vickers: Has the glitch returned? Is it a life-form?

500
00:59:45,200 -- 00:59:49,900
Janek: It comes and goes. As for what it is, I don't know. How did you know about the Glitch?

501
00:59:57,700 -- 01:00:00,100
Vickers: That thing sounds like a dying cat, by the way.

502
01:00:00,101 -- 01:00:04,900
Janek: I'll have you know that this "thing" once belonged to Steven Stills.

503
01:00:04,901 -- 01:00:07,600
Vickers: Am I supposed to know who that is?

504
01:00:11,400 -- 01:00:13,800
Janek: Why aren't you in bed Ms. Vickers?

505
01:00:13,801 -- 01:00:17,100
Vickers: Isn't it enough to be interested in the 'pyramid' scanner?

506
01:00:17,101 -- 01:00:20,400
Janek: Yeah no. If I didn't have two men stuck in that pyramid, I would be in bed like everyone else.

507
01:00:20,401 -- 01:00:24,100
Vickers: Maybe I want to know.

508
01:00:24,101 -- 01:00:27,200
Janek: What is it you need Ms. Vickers?

509
01:00:27,201 -- 01:00:31,300
Vickers: Do you think I am a robot Janek?

510
01:00:31,301 -- 01:00:36,600
Janek: No, Vickers, that is not what I was thinking.

511
01:00:37,200 -- 01:00:41,100
Vickers: I was wondering...

512
01:00:41,800 -- 01:00:44,800
Janek: I’m not a robot either.

514
01:00:57,400 -- 01:01:02,300
Vickers: My room, ten minutes.
[Vickers enters her private suite and types something into the computer. In the harsher light, we can now plainly see that there are dark ring beneath her eyes]
Vickers: Try harder.
[Millburn and Fifield moving through the interior of pyramid.]
Fifield: Millburn wait! He said, stay clear of the fucking Glitch!
[Millburn reading from his wrist]
463
00:56:00,201 -- 00:56:05,700
Millburn: The new instructions don’t say anything about the Glitch, but they are unambiguous: “You are to return to the location where the head was discovered, and investigate.”

464
00:56:07,700 -- 00:56:10,900
Fifield: You sound like you want to find the Glitch!

465
00:56:10,901 -- 00:56:15,000
Millburn: I do! I'm a biologist Fifield, I'm sick of looking at corpses and stones.
Fifield: I'm a fucking geologist Millburn, I don't want to die.
[stepping past the decapitated Engineer, Fifield and Millburn enter the room with the metal vases with the black liquids inside them and all over the ground]
515
01:01:20,000 -- 01:01:24,500
Fifield: Millburn, what's with this black stuff?

516
01:01:27,800 -- 01:01:30,700
Millburn: I honestly haven’t got a clue. Whatever it is, it's loaded with both organic molecules and heavy metals. Totally bizarre.
[Millburn looks over at Fifield who has smoke in his helmet]
517
01:01:31,500 -- 01:01:35,500
Millburn: Is that tobacco? Is that tobacco in your respirator?

518
01:01:35,501 -- 01:01:38,800
Fifield: I'm off duty.

519
01:01:41,600 -- 01:01:44,100
Millburn: That's not tobacco - do I have that in my suit too?

520
01:01:44,101 -- 01:01:47,050
Fifield: Not fucking likely, no.
[Fifield takes a breath from his respirator and breaths out smoke]
Has it occured to you that this entire mound might be a corpse? None of these passages are the sorts of cavities formed by erosion... more like walking around inside a giant petrified gullet.

521
01:01:47,051 -- 01:01:50,000
Millburn: Dude...

522
01:01:53,700 -- 01:01:56,000
Fifield: Millburn?
Millburn: Yeah?
Fifield: Do you see this thing?

523
01:01:56,001 -- 01:01:59,800
What do you think this thing was? Some kind of a god? Something they worshiped?

524
01:01:59,801 -- 01:02:03,100
Millburn: I don't know. Kind of looks like...
[suddenly Fifield notices the movement on the ground]
525
01:02:03,101 -- 01:02:07,800
Fifield: What's that?!
Millburn: OK, just stay calm.
[the snake-like creature rises from the ground]
526
01:02:07,801 -- 01:02:11,800
Millburn: Stay quiet, it's just the “ping.”
Fifield: “Ping”? How do you know its not the fucking holocaust?

527
01:02:11,801 -- 01:02:15,300
Millburn: Jesus Christ. I've waited my whole career for something like this, and now I have to babysit a panicked stoner.
[Millburn tries to contact Prometheus, but there no one listening back on the ship]
Because an eyeless tuber didn't kill two dozen super-men and then wait two thousand years for their next meal!
[Millburn begins to record a description of the snake-like creatures as it rises further in front of them]
Millburn: Some sort of albinotic elongate; an ectothermic, amniote vertebrate - the head, I think its the head...

528
01:02:15,301 -- 01:02:20,600
Fifield: Come in Prometheus, we have a elongated reptile type creature.

529
01:02:20,601 -- 01:02:25,100
Millburn: Maybe 30-40 inches, with an orchid-like crest... no scales, skin is translucent.

530
01:02:25,101 -- 01:02:27,900
It's beautiful.

531
01:02:32,000 -- 01:02:36,800
Fifield: Prometheus, we now have two... white snakes.

532
01:02:36,801 -- 01:02:39,300
Jesus, look at the size of that, what is it?

533
01:02:39,301 -- 01:02:41,600
Millburn: You need to stay calm, OK?
Fifield: What's there to be calm about?
Millburn: Perhaps this is some form of gigantic hermatypic corals? Maybe these things are what built this mound? OK?
[he slowly goes to touch the creature but it suddenly flap opens its head]
534
01:02:41,601 -- 01:02:44,400
Millburn: Yikes. She must be nocturnal - or was roused by the storm.

535
01:02:44,401 -- 01:02:46,900
Fifield: She? What the hell makes you think that's female?

536
01:02:46,901 -- 01:02:49,500
Millburn: Its mouth-parts look like a vagina.

537
01:02:56,000 -- 01:03:01,200
She's mesmerizing.
 [Millburn, as if in a trance slowly goes to touch the creature but it suddenly flap opens its head]
538
01:03:01,201 -- 01:03:05,200
Look at that! Is she alarmed? Aroused?

539
01:03:05,201 -- 01:03:08,500
A widened hood... is it a mating display? What are animals this size surviving on?
[as Millburn reaches out to touch the Hammerpede it suddenly seizes his hand, wrapping itself around his outstretched arm.]
540
01:03:09,400 -- 01:03:12,500
Millburn: It's really strong! Maybe you should help me now, OK?!

541
01:03:12,501 -- 01:03:15,500
Get it off man! OK?!

542
01:03:16,800 -- 01:03:20,000
Fifield: Mill, I ain't touching that!

543
01:03:21,400 -- 01:03:23,900
Millburn: It's getting tighter.
Fifield: I ain't touching that! Don't want to touch it!

544
01:03:23,901 -- 01:03:26,600
Millburn: Touch it! For God's sake, you ginger fuck-nut, touch it!
[Fifield tries to touch the creature but it wraps itself tighter around Millburn's arm]
545
01:03:26,601 -- 01:03:30,300
Millburn: God! You're making it worse! It's tightening!

546
01:03:30,900 -- 01:03:33,700
It's breaking my arm!
[suddenly Millburn's arm breaks making him shout in pain]
Fifield: Shit! Shit! Shit!

547
01:03:35,500 -- 01:03:39,500
Millburn: Cut it off! Cut if off!
[as Fifield cuts the creature it suddenly sprays it's acid blood onto his helmet melting it onto Fifield's face]
548
01:03:45,100 -- 01:03:48,700
Fifield: Oh my God!

549
01:03:48,701 -- 01:03:51,300
Millburn: It's in my suit!
 [Shaw and Holloway are lying in bed, he rises and goes to wash his face, in the mirror he notices his eyes are bloodshot with something crawling in them, just as he's about to freak out Janek calls]
550
01:04:51,000 -- 01:04:54,500
Janek:  ++Shaw, you up? ++

551
01:04:54,501 -- 01:04:56,600
Shaw: Yeah, what's up?

552
01:04:56,601 -- 01:04:59,300
Janek:  ++Storm's passed, but can't reach Millburn and Fifield on the comm, ++

553
01:04:59,301 -- 01:05:02,000
 ++Taking a few men down, to see if we can rustle them up. ++

554
01:05:02,001 -- 01:05:05,500
Shaw: OK, any idea where they are?

555
01:05:05,501 -- 01:05:09,800
Janek: Last time they radioed in they were just outside where you found your head.

556
01:05:09,801 -- 01:05:12,700
Shaw:  ++OK, we're coming. ++

557
01:05:12,701 -- 01:05:15,800
Janek: Chance, you're coming with me, come on.

558
01:05:15,801 -- 01:05:17,801
Chance: Alright boss.
[as Janek, Shaw and Holloway get ready to go back to the structure to look for Millburn and Fifield]
559
01:05:18,700 -- 01:05:20,849
Janek: Ravel, did you fix that glitch?

560
01:05:20,850 -- 01:05:23,000
Ravel:  ++No captain, it's got to be in the hardware. ++

561
01:05:23,001 -- 01:05:25,700
David: What glitch, captain?
Janek: One of them probes

562
01:05:25,701 -- 01:05:31,800
picked up a life form, pops up every hour or so for couple of seconds and then it's gone.

563
01:05:31,801 -- 01:05:34,000
David: I can find the probe and fix it for you, if you'd like.

564
01:05:34,001 -- 01:05:36,500
Janek: Knock yourself out.
[David looks at Holloway and Shaw]
565
01:05:36,501 -- 01:05:39,300
David: Be careful, doctors.

566
01:05:59,700 -- 01:06:03,200
Fifield?!

567
01:06:04,200 -- 01:06:07,600
Millburn?!

568
01:06:09,500 -- 01:06:12,700
Right, come on down.
 [in the cave, as the others search for Millburn and Fifield, David searches for the probes alone]
569
01:06:32,000 -- 01:06:35,300
Vickers:  ++David, are you alone? ++

570
01:06:35,301 -- 01:06:39,400
David: Yes miss Vickers.
Vickers:  ++- Up link your feed to my room. ++

571
01:06:39,401 -- 01:06:41,900
David: Copy.
[David sets his suit camera to show on Vickers monitor, she watches as he finds a control room of sorts, but suddenly David cuts the camera feed]
572
01:08:23,300 -- 01:08:26,400
Vickers: You son of a bitch.

573
01:08:27,300 -- 01:08:29,600
He cut me off.
[as they come across the pile of dead Engineer bodies]
574
01:08:50,100 -- 01:08:52,500
Chance: What is this?
[Holloway, looking sick, trips on one of the bodies]
575
01:08:55,000 -- 01:08:57,000
Shaw: Charlie?
Holloway: I just tripped.
[Shaw notices Charlie's eyes looking really bloodshot]
576
01:08:57,001 -- 01:08:59,900
Shaw: Oh my God, you're sick.
Holloway: I'm OK baby.
[he looks away from her]
577
01:08:59,901 -- 01:09:05,100
Holloway: Come on. Fifield? Millburn?
[as they enter the chamber where the metal vases are, Chance goes to touch one]
578
01:09:09,700 -- 01:09:13,400
Janek: Hey Chance, I wouldn't touch that if I were you. Doctor Shaw?

579
01:09:15,500 -- 01:09:18,500
Shaw: Yes?

580
01:09:18,501 -- 01:09:22,100
Janek: Do you have any idea oozing out of these vases?

581
01:09:22,101 -- 01:09:26,500
Shaw: No, they weren't like this last time we were here.
[ahead of them, Chance finds a body]
582
01:09:29,800 -- 01:09:32,600
Chance: Captain!
Janek: What?

583
01:09:32,601 -- 01:09:35,900
Janek: Who is that? Which one?
Shaw: Who is it?
Chance: It's Millburn.

584
01:09:35,901 -- 01:09:39,300
Janek: Don't touch him! Hold on! Don't touch him.
Holloway: Ellie! Ellie, honey?

585
01:09:39,301 -- 01:09:41,800
Shaw: Charlie what's wrong?

586
01:09:41,801 -- 01:09:44,000
Holloway: I need you to look at me, OK?

587
01:09:44,001 -- 01:09:46,600
You know infections so, what do you see?
[Shaw looks at his face and eyes]
588
01:09:46,601 -- 01:09:50,300
Shaw: This is not good baby.
Holloway: Ellie, look at me and tell me what you see.
[the others turn Millburn's body over and see Millburn died with his mouth open]
589
01:09:54,600 -- 01:09:57,600
Janek: Oh my God. Ford, get over here.
[as the others are checking Millburn's body, Eli shouts over to them]
590
01:09:58,500 -- 01:10:02,300
Shaw: Janek! We have to go now!
Holloway: What do you see baby? Honey what do you see?
[shouting towards Janek]
591
01:10:02,301 -- 01:10:06,700
Shaw: Holloway's sick, he's not good!

592
01:10:06,701 -- 01:10:09,900
I see a movement in his esophagus.
[as the others are checking out Millburn's body, the snake-like creature jumps out of Millburn's mouth and everyone freaks out]
593
01:10:12,900 -- 01:10:16,500
Ford: I'm OK.
Shaw: Janek, come over and help me!

594
01:10:17,000 -- 01:10:19,700
Janek: Ford get over here! What's happening over there?!

595
01:10:20,000 -- 01:10:22,700
Shaw: Help me with him!
Holloway: I'm ok...

596
01:10:22,701 -- 01:10:24,701
Shaw: I got you, I'm gonna get you out of here.

597
01:10:24,702 -- 01:10:28,200
Prometheus come in!
Holloway: I'm OK.

598
01:10:28,700 -- 01:10:30,800
Shaw: Get him up!

599
01:10:30,801 -- 01:10:34,000
Shaw:  ++Prometheus, come in! Is anyone there? ++

600
01:10:34,001 -- 01:10:38,400
Vickers: This is Vickers.
Shaw: I need a medical team standing by the air lock.

601
01:10:38,401 -- 01:10:42,100
 ++Full quarantine failsafe. Holloway is sick. ++

602
01:10:42,101 -- 01:10:45,400
Vickers: Sick with what?
Shaw: Just do it.
[on the ship, Vickers turns to Ravel]
603
01:10:47,700 -- 01:10:50,600
Vickers: No. I'm closing it up.
[as the others are trying to get Holloway back to the ship, David is in the control room he's found. Touching soft flesh-like blisters he manages to activate the holographic images of the Engineers plotting courses through an orrery-like display of stars and different planets, of which one of them is Earth. David appears ecstatically happy as he watches the display. The images suddenly disappear and David finds a milky blister embedded in the floor, this one as large a large car. It is a hypersleep pod containing one of the Engineers, which seems to be alive]
604
01:14:54,900 -- 01:14:57,199
Janek: He don't look too good.
Chance: Did he catch something in there?

605
01:14:57,200 -- 01:14:59,500
Chance: He started to take his helmets off before...

606
01:14:59,501 -- 01:15:03,800
Janek: I don't know. Prometheus this is Janek, make sure that back door is open.

607
01:15:03,801 -- 01:15:05,801
Ravel:  ++Aye, aye captain. ++
[Shaw holds on to a very sick looking Holloway]
608
01:15:06,500 -- 01:15:08,900
Holloway: Oh God! I'm so sorry.
[Holloway howls in pain]
609
01:15:10,500 -- 01:15:13,200
Shaw: Please!
[as they reach Prometheus, Janek sees the door is not open]
610
01:15:16,800 -- 01:15:20,000
Janek: Vickers, why is that door not open?!

611
01:15:20,001 -- 01:15:24,200
Vickers, that is an order! Get that goddamn door open!
[Holloway is now looking like his skin is disintegrating]
612
01:15:24,201 -- 01:15:29,000
Holloway: Look at me OK? It's too late, I'm sick.
Shaw:  No it's not, come on!

613
01:15:29,300 -- 01:15:32,200
Shaw: Ford help me!
[standing outside the locked doors of Prometheus]
Janek: Airlock crew if you can hear me, this is Janek

614
01:15:32,201 -- 01:15:35,600
 ++open that back door right now! ++
[inside the ship, Vickers has suited]
Vickers: Hold that door!

615
01:15:35,601 -- 01:15:39,700
Janek:  ++Do you copy? Goddamn it open that door that is an order! ++
[Vickers grabs a flamethrower]
616
01:15:39,701 -- 01:15:43,000
Vickers: Open it!

617
01:15:48,000 -- 01:15:50,900
Janek: What the hell is this?
Vickers: He's not coming on board.

618
01:15:50,901 -- 01:15:53,550
Janek: Vickers, this is a sick man!
Vickers: I can see that,

619
01:15:53,551 -- 01:15:56,200
that's why he's not coming on my ship!
[Holloway collapses in pain and Shaw pleads with Vickers]
620
01:15:56,900 -- 01:16:00,500
Shaw: Don’t Kill him!

621
01:16:01,300 -- 01:16:04,800
Please, we can still help him!

622
01:16:04,801 -- 01:16:07,800
Vickers: Help yourself. Everybody but Holloway back on the ship, now!

623
01:16:07,801 -- 01:16:10,300
Shaw: I won't leave him!
Vickers: Then stay!

624
01:16:10,301 -- 01:16:13,500
Janek: Wait a minute! We can contain him, put him on a med-pod!

625
01:16:13,501 -- 01:16:17,600
Shaw: Please don't do this!
[suddenly Holloway gets up]
Holloway: It's OK, Ellie. Vickers!

626
01:16:17,601 -- 01:16:21,500
Shaw: What are you doing?
[Holloway looks at Shaw]
Holloway: I love you baby.
Shaw: No!
[Holloway holds his hands up and walks towards Vickers]
627
01:16:21,501 -- 01:16:25,500
Vickers: I'm telling you, stay back!
Holloway: Do it.
Vickers: Stay back!

628
01:16:26,000 -- 01:16:28,300
Holloway: Do it.
[suddenly Vickers fires the flames towards Holloway, burning him alive, Shaw collapses in grief. Cut to Medical bay. Shaw is unconscious. David is using tweezers to remove small pearly spheres from Shaw’s tongue, the insides of her cheeks and gums. Upon closer examination he sees that they contain tiny squirming worms. He pauses to examine the spot on Shaw’s wrist where the green slime touched her and see that there is a shimmering five-sided mark. He glances at the severed head nearby, just as Shaw goans, and begins to awaken]]
629
01:17:01,500 -- 01:17:04,500
David: My deepest condolences.
630
01:17:04,900 -- 01:17:09,100
David: This is the last one. The good news is that unlike Dr. Holloway who was ravaged by a system-wide infection, in you the infection is expressing as encapsulated cysts.
[again looking at the mark on her wrist]
It is almost as if you received some sort of inoculation... I’ve been able to remove them all intact. All the visible surfaces of your mouth and throat are now clear of paratoma.
[David moves to remove her cross necklace]
I'm going to have to take this, it may interfere with the scans of your neck.
[she allows David to take her cross]
631
01:17:09,500 -- 01:17:14,300
Shaw: If there's a contagion, we were all exposed.

632
01:17:15,200 -- 01:17:19,900
We need to run blood work on everyone who set foot in the pyramid.

633
01:17:19,901 -- 01:17:23,100
David: Yes of course. But all indications are that the cystules on your mouth and throat were not caused by an airborne pathogen. The paratoma were almost certainly the result of direct contact...

634
01:17:30,200 -- 01:17:34,700
I understand how intrusive this is.

635
01:17:34,701 -- 01:17:37,300
Given the circumstances.

636
01:17:37,301 -- 01:17:42,000
But, as you ordered quarantine fail safes

637
01:17:42,001 -- 01:17:45,500
it's my responsibility to ask.

638
01:17:45,501 -- 01:17:50,900
Have you and Dr. Holloway had any intimate contact recently?

639
01:17:50,901 -- 01:17:54,500
Since you and he were so, close,

640
01:17:54,501 -- 01:17:58,100
I just want to be as thorough as possible.
[David, wearing Weyland corporate livery,  runs a scan across Shaw's body and sees that she is pregnant]
641
01:17:58,700 -- 01:18:02,000
My, my...

642
01:18:03,900 -- 01:18:06,500
You're pregnant.

643
01:18:07,600 -- 01:18:10,000
Shaw: What?

644
01:18:10,001 -- 01:18:15,500
David: From the look of it, three months.
Shaw: Well that's impossible. I have Klinefelter's syndrome. I can't be pregnant.

645
01:18:15,501 -- 01:18:22,000
David: Did you have intercourse with Dr. Holloway?

646
01:18:22,001 -- 01:18:26,500
Shaw: Yes, but ten hours ago.

647
01:18:26,800 -- 01:18:30,600
There's no bloody way I'm three months pregnant.

648
01:18:30,601 -- 01:18:36,100
David: Well doctor, it's not exactly a traditional fetus.

649
01:18:38,000 -- 01:18:41,800
Shaw: I want to see it.
David: Don't think that's a good idea.

650
01:18:42,900 -- 01:18:46,000
Shaw: David, I want to see it.

651
01:18:46,001 -- 01:18:49,000
David: Now doctor...
[Shaw gets up from the lab table and tries to access the scan image but can't get access]
652
01:18:49,500 -- 01:18:52,200
Shaw: I want to see it.

653
01:18:52,201 -- 01:18:55,200
I want it out of me.
David: I'm afraid we don't have

654
01:18:55,201 -- 01:18:58,500
personnel to perform the procedure like that. Our best option...

655
01:18:58,501 -- 01:19:00,501
Shaw: I want it out.

656
01:19:00,502 -- 01:19:04,900
David: To put you back into cryostasis...
Shaw: David, get it out of me.

657
01:19:04,901 -- 01:19:07,500
Get it out of me! Please...
[suddenly Shaw doubles over and cries out in pain]
658
01:19:11,300 -- 01:19:13,900
David: Must be very painful.

659
01:19:13,901 -- 01:19:17,800
Here, let me give you something.
[David gives her an injection for the pain which relaxes Shaw]
660
01:19:20,900 -- 01:19:23,200
That's it
[David gently puts Shaw back on the lab table]
661
01:19:29,000 -- 01:19:35,000
Someone will be along shortly,
to bring you back to cryo-deck.
[as Shaw is about to pass out from the painkiller injection David just gave her]
662
01:19:38,500 -- 01:19:42,900
David: Must feel like your God abandoned you.
Shaw: What?

663
01:19:42,901 -- 01:19:49,100
David: To lose Dr. Holloway, after your father died under such similar circumstances.

664
01:19:49,101 -- 01:19:52,000
What was it that killed him?

665
01:19:52,001 -- 01:19:55,500
Ebola?

666
01:19:59,000 -- 01:20:01,700
Shaw: How do you know that?

667
01:20:01,701 -- 01:20:04,800
David: I watched your dreams.
[David walks off and Shaw passes out]
668
01:20:25,900 -- 01:20:28,300
Ford: Dr. Shaw?
[Ford taps Shaw on the face to wake her]
669
01:20:28,600 -- 01:20:31,500
We're here to put you in an anti-contamination suit.

670
01:20:31,501 -- 01:20:35,500
Take you back to cryo-deck, go to bed-e-byes.

671
01:20:35,501 -- 01:20:37,900
Ford: Dr. Shaw?
[as Shaw doesn't respond]
672
01:20:37,901 -- 01:20:41,000
Ford: She's totally doped, prepare her.
[suddenly Shaw's eyes open as one of the scientists goes to grab her she attacks him and knocks both Ford and the scientist out, she makes her way to the surgery pod, and activates the controls]
673
01:21:10,300 -- 01:21:12,400
Automated Voice:  ++Emergency procedure initiated. ++

674
01:21:12,401 -- 01:21:15,000
 ++Please verbally state the nature of your injury. ++

675
01:21:15,001 -- 01:21:17,500
Shaw: I need abortion!

676
01:21:17,501 -- 01:21:20,700
Automated Voice:  ++Error, this med-pod is unable to perform procedures forbidden by law . ++

677
01:21:20,701 -- 01:21:23,000
the procedure you have requested is illegal under Section 43 (PRB 05-10E) of the Criminal Code. ++

678
01:21:23,001 -- 01:21:26,300
 ++Please seek legal assistance... ++

679
01:21:27,600 -- 01:21:31,300
Shaw: Surgery, abdominal...

680
01:21:31,301 -- 01:21:35,600
Penetrating injuries, foreign body...

681
01:21:35,601 -- 01:21:38,200
Initiate.

682
01:21:39,300 -- 01:21:42,800
Automated Voice:  ++Surgical procedure beginning. ++

683
01:22:22,800 -- 01:22:25,800
Automated Voice:  ++Running diagnostics. ++

684
01:22:26,800 -- 01:22:29,600
Shaw: Oh come on!

685
01:22:30,200 -- 01:22:33,200
Get it out! Come on!

686
01:22:33,201 -- 01:22:35,300
Please!

687
01:22:36,900 -- 01:22:39,400
Oh God!

688
01:22:40,900 -- 01:22:44,100
Automated Voice:  ++Initiating anesthetics. ++

689
01:22:50,800 -- 01:22:54,400
Automated Voice:  ++Commence surgical procedure. ++
[Large hook-nosed instrument, like a metallic eagle's beak, slices into Shaw’s side. Piecing and spreading the incision, a sharp tongue-like tubular probe flays the fascia along the direction of the muscle’s striation. Tiny, wire thin, fingers peel away from the probes sides to carefully pull the flayed muscle open layer by layer.]
 690
01:23:59,800 -- 01:24:02,600
Shaw: Oh God, oh my God!
[Once a triangular opening has been created a segmented probe emerges from the tube and enters the incision.]
691
01:24:18,000 -- 01:24:21,000
Shaw: Come on!
[As the probe enters Shaw’s side, her abdomen lurches. The probe jabs and Shaw screams as it jabs again.]
Shaw: God stop! Please! Please make it stop!
[Dosing herself with more local anesthetic Shaw watches with growing horror as the prob jabs deeper and the flesh her abdomen leaps more violently. Shaw’s water breaks and she begins to scream as a thick pale tentacled Tribolite emerges from her birth canal. Rather than attacking Shaw it squeezes itself through a tiny crevice in the med-pod and disappears. We see Vickers, dark rings under her eyes and chapped lips, watching from the door.]
Shaw: Close me up!
[A series of mesh patches are glued to the separate layers of muscle and the the wound is closed with a clear liquid that makes her skin foam and swell shut.Shaw leaps out of pod stumbles to the door and keys it shut, she turns to find Vickers with Ford and two burly crewmen.]
Vickers: Help her back to her cabin
[Ford obeys and moves to take Shaw away.]
Vickers: You two. I want that Pod cleaned and prepped.
[As two crewmen enter, Shaw tries to protest but is cut off by Vicker closing the door to the corridor. She then turns and locks the two crewmen into the Med Pod, shutting off the module’s communications. Vickers then addresses herself in the reflection of the glass]
Vickers: Try Harder.
[Janek notices Fifield camera has come back on]
692
01:24:46,200 -- 01:24:49,600
Janek: Bridge to hangar, this is the captain.
Mechanic 1:  ++- Yes captain? ++

693
01:24:49,601 -- 01:24:53,300
Janek: Can you see what I'm seeing? Fifield's monitor just popped up.

694
01:24:53,301 -- 01:24:55,600
Mechanic 1: What? Where?
[Cut back to Vickers, who hides against the wall as the two trapped men pound on the glass of the Med Pod door]
695
01:24:55,601 -- 01:24:59,500
Janek: According to what I'm looking at, it's right outside the goddamn ship.

696
01:24:59,501 -- 01:25:03,800
Mechanic 1: Barnes open the door!
Janek: Fifield, do you copy me, come on in.
[they open the bay door and we see Fifield's scrunched up lying just outside the ship and one of the ship's crew walks towards it]
697
01:25:03,801 -- 01:25:05,900
Janek: Fifield?
[Cut to Vickers, who turns her face away but keeps her eyes open as the pounding on the door become desperate and then violent.]
698
01:25:16,600 -- 01:25:19,200
Janek: Wait a second...
[the male ship crew, wearing a cheaper, bulkier space suit - more like the suits we will see in the later Alien films - sees a pile that looks like rubbish, but is infact Fifield’s almost empty looking spacesuit]
699
01:25:26,800 -- 01:25:30,600
Mechanic 1: Hey Wallace, take a look at this.
[The Mechanic kicks Fifield's body to check for signs of life]
700
01:25:34,700 -- 01:25:36,700
Mechanic 1: Fifield?
[Fifield’s once-more expensive and sleeker spacesuit rises, it is now filthy and ragged, it is also facing backwards, we see that it contains the skeletal remains of its original inhabitant, along with a massive tentacled creature, that, animates the suit from within. The Fifield-Hugger hits the Mechanic hard with a tentacle and kills him with one blow, back on the ship Janek hears the commotion]
Fifield-Hugger (author's sketch)

701
01:25:38,600 -- 01:25:41,800
Janek: What the hell is going on down there?!
[the Fifield-Hugger attacks and kills the other crew members]
702
01:25:54,500 -- 01:25:58,900
Janek: I'm coming out. Chance,
we're suiting up, come on!
[something smashes against the glass of the Med Pod door and bursts with a bloody crunch. Vickers face is passive, unfeeling]
703
01:26:13,500 -- 01:26:16,100
Wallace: Take him out!
 [Janek and Chance suit up and go down to the bay and finding the Fifield-Hugger having mounted one of the still living mechanic’s head.]
704
01:26:22,400 -- 01:26:24,800
Janek: You ready Chance?!
Chance: Yes.
[They shoot it with firearms. As it dismounts we glimpse a long extrusion pulled from the now spasming mechanic’s throat. Janek and chance manage to set it on fire and finally kill it. Cut to a corridor where Shawpushes away from Ford when she sees David through an open door. The android  is attending to withered looking Peter Weyland, who, recently woken from hypersleep, is dressed in a long white nightgown and having his feet washed by David. Unlike the ancient but, robust holographic avatar she had been shown before, Weyland in the flesh is a grotesquely old. His neck is chicken thin, stiff and asymmetrically jutting to his left. His skin is parchment thin. Dandruff dominates is balding scalp, his cheeks and lips are chapped. Skin tabs hang around his eyelids and off his nose and chin. Hypoxia makes the blotchy complexion of his face almost purple in places. The flesh his skin covers is easy to make out, covered in a web of bulging varicose veins, it looks caramelized and even over-cooked in places. besides the padded bulge of a diaper the old man is skeletal, but clearly can’t support the weight of his own shrinking form. A tumour the size of a fist at the base of his neck has ulcerated, breaking through the skin like a hatching parasitic twin. It weeps clear amber fluid that stains the old man’s gown.]
705
01:27:48,400 -- 01:27:50,800
Shaw: You've been asleep...

706
01:27:50,801 -- 01:27:54,900
You were on the ship all this time, why?

707
01:27:56,200 -- 01:27:59,600
Weyland: I’ve spent the majority of the last decade in hypersleep. Dr Shaw. I only have a few days of life left in me.

708
01:27:59,601 -- 01:28:04,100
Don't want to waste them, till I was sure that you could deliver what you promised.

709
01:28:04,101 -- 01:28:08,900
Meet my maker.
[David tends to Weyland by cleaning his feet]
David: Here we are sir, nice and clean.
[Shaw turns to David]
710
01:28:08,901 -- 01:28:11,900
Shaw: Haven't you told him they're all gone?

711
01:28:11,901 -- 01:28:15,200
David: But they're not all gone, Dr. Shaw.

712
01:28:15,201 -- 01:28:20,100
One of them is still alive. We're on our way to see him now.

713
01:28:20,101 -- 01:28:23,300
Shaw: What?
[to one of his helpers]
Weyland: Turn me round.
[the helper turns Weyland in his wheelchair to face Shaw]
714
01:28:23,301 -- 01:28:28,500
Weyland: You convinced me...

715
01:28:29,500 -- 01:28:33,200
If these things made us...

716
01:28:33,201 -- 01:28:36,400
Then surely they could save us.
[to David]
717
01:28:36,401 -- 01:28:39,100
My stick.
[David hands Weyland his walking stick]
718
01:28:42,000 -- 01:28:47,400
Weyland: Save me, anyway.
Shaw: Save you? From what?

719
01:28:47,401 -- 01:28:51,000
Weyland: Death of course, stand me up.

720
01:29:00,101 -- 01:29:06,100
Shaw: You don't understand, you don't know, this place isn't what we thought it was...

721
01:29:06,101 -- 01:29:08,400
They aren't what we thought they were.

722
01:29:08,401 -- 01:29:11,800
I was wrong, we were so wrong.

723
01:29:11,801 -- 01:29:17,000
Charlie, Dr. Holloway is dead. We must leave.
[Shaw begins to cry]
724
01:29:17,300 -- 01:29:23,900
Weyland: Yes I know about Dr. Holloway; his sacrifice. I am grave, but forgive me Dr. Shaw if I will not "go gentle.”

725
01:29:24,800 -- 01:29:29,300
I am of a different millenium than you and Dr. Holloway. All my peers are gone, but I remain.

726
01:29:29,301 -- 01:29:33,800
I have used every means, including hypersleep to stretch my time Dr. Shaw. Your generation has made great sacrifices in the face of scarcity and environmental collapse. Admirable sacrifices. But I am the last of the "Megeneration Dr. Shaw.

727
01:29:33,801 -- 01:29:38,600
I don't care where we came from or what they want for us. I came for ME.

728
01:29:44,500 -- 01:29:48,800
You still don't understand what it is you discovered. There is no God. You are an insignificant member of an utterly insignificant species from an insignificant dying planet. The degenerate playthings of giants.

729
01:30:21,100 -- 01:30:24,000
Your life has no greater meaning than David's. I will walk again Dr. Shaw, and I will walk amongst Gods - not as a penitent but as an equal.
[as Shaw prepares to suit up to go with Weyland back into the pyramid structure to see the Engineer that David had found]
730
01:30:41,700 -- 01:30:44,000
Shaw: Come in.
Janek: Jesus you look worse than Fifield. What happened?
Shaw: What do you want Janek?

731
01:30:50,300 -- 01:30:55,000
Janek: Don't go with Weyland. You'll end up like Holloway, Fifield, or worse.

732
01:30:55,001 -- 01:30:59,700
This place is evil - blasphemous. This ain't their home or even some kinda’ roadside picnic.

733
01:30:59,701 -- 01:31:03,200
It's an installation, maybe even military. Maybe nothing more than an amo dump.

734
01:31:03,201 -- 01:31:06,200
But it’s been abandoned for millennia. Think about that. Whatever went wrong here, whatever killed your "Engineers," went wrong everywhere.

735
01:31:06,201 -- 01:31:09,900
This is a dead outpost of a dead empire.

736
01:31:09,901 -- 01:31:13,900
All that shit is in those vases is evil.

737
01:31:13,901 -- 01:31:20,200
It got out. It turned on them. The end.

738
01:31:21,400 -- 01:31:24,000
It's time for us to go home.
[Janek turns to leave]
739
01:31:24,001 -- 01:31:27,100
Shaw: One of them is still alive.

740
01:31:30,500 -- 01:31:34,000
Don't you want to know what they have to say?

741
01:31:36,400 -- 01:31:39,300
Janek: No. You want to know what they're gunna do? Look at what they have done. I don't care what they have to say.

742
01:31:40,100 -- 01:31:44,200
Shaw: I can't believe that. I can't believe none of it means anything.

743
01:31:44,201 -- 01:31:47,100
Janek: Maybe it does, but maybe what it means is evil. Maybe what it means is they care nothing for us or our world. That we are no more than a slime mold to them.

744
01:31:47,101 -- 01:31:51,000
Shaw: If that what you think we are, captain, why are you here?

745
01:31:51,500 -- 01:31:55,600
Janek: I think ‘bout that a lot. I'm here because Meredith Vickers personally picked me to fly this mission herself. I agreed because that made me proud; to know someone as powerful as her thought that I was that good.

746
01:31:57,200 -- 01:32:00,400
And I am a that good a pilot. But I'm not good. I've hurt everyone who ever loved me, ruined everything I've ever touched. I've never believed in anything, and maybe that is what Vickers knew about me, why she chose me - maybe she’s counting on that.

747
01:32:00,700 -- 01:32:04,300
But just because I don't believe the way you do, doesn't mean I don't believe in blasphemy, that I don't believe in evil. Just because I don't believe there is a God doesn't mean I think life is meaningless. Being is infinitely more meaningful than not being Shaw...
[pauses]
748
01:32:04,301 -- 01:32:09,500
I can't bring none of that shit back home with us, can't let it happen.

749
01:32:09,501 -- 01:32:13,700
And I'll do whatever I have to, to see that it doesn't.

750
01:32:14,700 -- 01:32:18,200
Shaw: Make sure you do, captain.
[Vickers, her cheeks and eyes sunken, her skin pale, enters Weyland's room as he's getting suited up in a robotic exoskeleton that allows the old man to walk]]
751
01:32:31,800 -- 01:32:36,200
Weyland: You came after all.
Vickers: Thought you wanted me to.

752
01:32:36,201 -- 01:32:38,700
Weyland: After all your vigorous attempts to stop me

753
01:32:38,701 -- 01:32:41,200
from coming here, I'm just surprised to see you.
[to David as he helps Weyland get suited up]
754
01:32:41,201 -- 01:32:45,500
Weyland: Alright David, leave us alone.
David: Yes sir.
[David walks out of Weyland's room leaving Weyland alone with Vickers]
755
01:32:56,000 -- 01:33:00,200
Vickers: If you're really going down there, you're going to die.

756
01:33:01,600 -- 01:33:06,000
Weyland: Very negative way of looking at things. This is what I know to be true: going "down there" is the only chance I have of not dying.
[Weyland sits on his bed]
757
01:33:06,001 -- 01:33:08,800
Weyland: Exactly why you should have stayed at home.

758
01:33:08,801 -- 01:33:12,000
Vickers: Did you really think I was gonna sit in a boardroom for years,

759
01:33:12,001 -- 01:33:17,400
arguing over who is in charge while you go look for some miracle on some

760
01:33:17,401 -- 01:33:22,400
godforsaken rock in the middle of space?
[Weyland looks down and does not reply]
761
01:33:23,800 -- 01:33:29,300
Vickers: A king has his reign and then he dies.

762
01:33:29,301 -- 01:33:31,500
It's inevitable.
[Vickers kneels in front of Weyland and touches his hand suggestively]
763
01:33:33,000 -- 01:33:38,700
Vickers: That is a natural order of things.
[Vickers strokes her face on Weyland's hand, her voice lowering seductively, but Weyland does not respond to the touch]
764
01:33:50,000 -- 01:33:52,900
Weyland: The natural order,

765
01:33:52,901 -- 01:33:55,800
is for the king to have a SON!

766
01:33:55,801 -- 01:33:59,000
Anything else?
[Vickers looks at Weyland with tears in her eyes]
767
01:33:59,001 -- 01:34:02,000
Vickers: No father, that's it.
[Vickers turns and walks out of the room]
768
01:34:13,000 -- 01:34:15,500
[as the entire group prepares to leave the ship]
David: I didn't think you had it in you.

769
01:34:15,501 -- 01:34:19,200
Sorry, poor choice of words.

770
01:34:19,800 -- 01:34:24,500
Extraordinary survival instincts, Elizabeth.

771
01:34:28,400 -- 01:34:32,500
Shaw: What happens when Weyland is not around to program you any more?

772
01:34:32,501 -- 01:34:36,300
David: I suppose I'll be free.
Shaw: You want that?

773
01:34:36,301 -- 01:34:40,200
David: “Want”? Not a concept I'm familiar with.

774
01:34:40,201 -- 01:34:42,800
That being said,

775
01:34:42,801 -- 01:34:46,700
doesn't everyone want their parents dead?

776
01:34:46,701 -- 01:34:49,100
Shaw: I didn't.
David: No of course not, but your freedom wasn’t incumbent on your partent’s death, as you seem to feel mine is. What is freedom Dr. Shaw? Your parents are dead, are you free?
Shaw: I believe I have free will.
David: The most perfect utopia will get its true believer. The most corrupt dystopia its absolute nihilist.
Shaw: Which are you?
David: Every society will produce the individual it deserves, I like to think that we are ours...
[Weyland enters the room]
777
01:34:49,101 -- 01:34:54,000
Weyland: Dr. Shaw, I'm pleased you could join us.
[inside the caves of the pyramid structure]
778
01:35:07,600 -- 01:35:10,900
David: You can take your helmet off if you'd like sir.
Weyland: Why?

779
01:35:10,901 -- 01:35:16,400
David: The air is perfectly breathable.
Weyland: You sure?
David: Positive.

780
01:35:16,401 -- 01:35:20,500
Shaw: Wait, we still don't know how Holloway got infected. If it's in the air...

781
01:35:20,501 -- 01:35:23,400
David: It's not.

782
01:35:23,401 -- 01:35:28,600
Shaw: How do you know that?
David: Because you are correct Dr. Shaw, these Engineers visited earth repeatedly until a few millennia ago - relatively recently immunologically...
Weyland: Smells fine to me. Shall we?

783
01:35:29,000 -- 01:35:31,900
David: Please.
[David leads them towards where he found the live Engineer]
784
01:35:36,100 -- 01:35:39,800
David: The bridge is just up ahead.
Weyland: What is this?

785
01:35:40,300 -- 01:35:43,000
David: It's a cargo hold.
[referring to the thousands of vases that has been stored in the cargo hold]
786
01:35:51,100 -- 01:35:55,100
Shaw:  ++Janek, are you seeing this? ++
[back on the ship Janek sees the vases on the monitor]
787
01:35:55,101 -- 01:35:58,700
Janek: How many is there Shaw?
Shaw:  ++- Thousands. ++

788
01:35:58,701 -- 01:36:01,000
Janek: What the hell?
[looking at the holographic image of the mapped pyramid structure after stripping away the dome structure and isolating the cargo hold area]
789
01:36:04,300 -- 01:36:08,400
Janek: Ravel, give me those schematics.

790
01:36:08,401 -- 01:36:11,200
Ravel: Putting it on the table now.

791
01:36:12,700 -- 01:36:16,800
Janek: Strip away the dome, isolate that area, bring it up.

792
01:36:16,801 -- 01:36:19,800
Ravel: Bringing it up captain.

793
01:36:21,800 -- 01:36:24,800
Janek: Enlarge that.

794
01:36:25,100 -- 01:36:27,700
Rotate it.

795
01:36:30,500 -- 01:36:33,000
That is a ship.

796
01:36:33,001 -- 01:36:36,000
Vickers: Jesus Christ.

797
01:36:36,500 -- 01:36:39,600
Janek: It's a goddamn ship.

798
01:36:41,700 -- 01:36:45,400
David: A superior breed no doubt, but not a species. Something more akin to  a religious order.
[as they enter the Engineers control room]
799
01:36:46,800 -- 01:36:52,400
David: Their hyper-sleep chambers, would impress I trust.

800
01:37:01,100 -- 01:37:03,599
Shaw: So they were traveling somewhere?

801
01:37:03,600 -- 01:37:06,100
David: I have managed to work out the broad strokes.

802
01:37:06,101 -- 01:37:10,000
It's fairly evident they were in the process of leaving.

803
01:37:10,500 -- 01:37:13,200
Before things went apart.

804
01:37:13,201 -- 01:37:16,400
Shaw: Leaving to go where?

805
01:37:16,401 -- 01:37:20,400
David: Earth.
Shaw: Why?

806
01:37:20,401 -- 01:37:26,000
David: It isn't clear. Perhaps they weren't “engineers”, but something closer “gardeners” or “shepherds”...

807
01:37:26,600 -- 01:37:30,900
Weyland: Where is he, David?
David: This way sir.
[David walks the group past a large declivity in the platform. Ford pauses to stoop at its edge and fingers a papery residue, that films it’s lip. Like the ship’s controls, the one functioning hyper-sleep pod is a milky blister embedded in the floor, jelly-like in consistency and glowing from within, but unlike the small controls David fingered, it is as big as a car and seems to contain a humaniod figure]
808
01:37:36,600 -- 01:37:39,500
Weyland: Sure he's alive?

809
01:37:39,501 -- 01:37:42,300
David: Absolutely.

810
01:37:45,400 -- 01:37:49,800
Weyland:  ++And you can speak to him?
David: I believe I can. ++
[David manipulates some controls beside the Engineer's pod, the Engineer wakes, rises, tearing the fragile jelly-like cocoon of the pod doing so, and steps out of his pod. Elephantine in size, it has a thick wrinkled blue-gray hide. Its head and shoulders are encased in what looks like a huge jellyfish. Its face is a series of overlapping fleshy petals, giving the thing an ghostly orchid appearance. A large trunk flattens itself over a deeply creased chest of thick, fatty ribs. The end of the trunk plugs into the creature’s navel, which it at the center of a soft fatty stomach covered in what appear to be striae. The very top of its head is dominated by a single  faceted eye with an oily sheen like an insect wing. Weyland and the others are rocked back by surprise.]
811
01:38:25,000 -- 01:38:28,000
Weyland: I'm alright!

812
01:38:28,001 -- 01:38:31,000
Weyland: Speak to him David.

813
01:38:31,001 -- 01:38:34,600
Weyland: Tell him we're here, just like he asked.
Shaw: Ask him where they're from.

814
01:38:34,601 -- 01:38:37,500
Weyland: What are you doing?
Shaw: Ask him what's in his cargo, it killed his people.

815
01:38:37,501 -- 01:38:40,000
Weyland: Shaw, enough. David...

816
01:38:40,001 -- 01:38:45,000
Shaw: it was meant for us, why?

817
01:38:45,001 -- 01:38:48,500
Weyland: Shaw enough! For God's sake shut her up.
[one of Welyand's men hits Shaw in the stomach with his weapon]
818
01:38:49,200 -- 01:38:51,700
Shaw: I need to know why, what did we do wrong?!

819
01:38:51,701 -- 01:38:55,200
Shaw: Why do you hate us?!

820
01:38:55,201 -- 01:38:57,700
Weyland:  ++David continue, tell him why I came. ++

821
01:39:17,400 -- 01:39:19,500
Shaw: No!
[David speaks to the Engineer in his own language]

[the Engineer “looks” at David than, turns towards Weyland. As it does, it reaches up and takes hold of its head covering. Lifting it, and casting it aside - it hits the ground a wet smack. Where the skull’s “eye sockets” had been, to vertical slits open and noisily exhale a misty spray. What at first appear to be thin tenticle-like mouth-parts emerge from either side of the creatur’s trunk, but turn out to be cadaverously pale fingers, tipped with the unmistakable flat nails of a primate, slide over the top of creature's massive rib cage. First one hand’s worth, then two, then four. With a great wet sound, the creatures “trunk” rolls slowly upwards. Where one would expect a gullet is instead revealed to be an underside of moist pink flesh, that parts, releasing great curtains of labia-like folds. Now, accompanied by the crack of rending joints, the ribs begin to hinge out-wards revealing hanging folds of flesh like enormous bat wings. As the creatures’ massive cyclopeadian head rears back further, the great folds of pink flesh are parted by the far paler human hands. Emerging from beneath the huge fourchette, and exposed by the parting of the thick grey-blue hide covered ribs is a huge wizen human, far more ancient than Weyland, embedded within the alien’s labial interior. The gigantic ancient head, sits atop a narrow shouldered, pigeon chested torso and has a second set of frail arms that unfold and brush at the air as if to clear cob-webs. With its larger, bulkier arms, the Engineer touches David's head, suddenly he twists it and rips David's head off. It opens its mouth and barks a word as a second set of jaws extends from its throat snapping and spitting. It attacks Weyland,]
(re)Engineer (author's maquette)

Ford: NO!
[Ford’s alarm is beyond that of an employee and clearly the concern of a devotee or even lover. She rushes to defend Weyland, but is too slow. The engineer kills her with a blow. And as Weyland’s man raises his weapon, it finishes him off as well. Doing so it turns its back on Shaw. She sees that there is another two sets of human arms, and like those facing forward they seem to brush at cob webs until one hand points directly at her. Shaw turns and runs in panic. Weyland lays wounded and looks at the decapitated head of David]
822
01:39:44,800 -- 01:39:49,800
Weyand: There's nothing...

823
01:39:53,600 -- 01:39:56,300
David: I know.

824
01:39:56,301 -- 01:40:00,700
Have a good journey, Mr. Weyland.
[the Engineer activates his ship. Lowers itself into the Jockey Chair, as it does we see that the large bulbous tank at the back of the chair contains an enclosure, with a control interface within, that the arms growing out of the Engineer’s back faces and interacts with. The head of the old man withdraws back into its nymphaea, its arms folded in front of it and the rib cage closes around it and the massive cyclopean head lowers into place. Shaw manages to make it outside of the structure, but as Shaw is running the ground shakes and separates as the ship initiates to to take off]
825
01:40:05,500 -- 01:40:08,500
Vickers: Time to go home.

826
01:40:20,500 -- 01:40:24,600
Janek: Mr. Chance, take us home.

827
01:41:45,400 -- 01:41:49,700
Ravel: Hey captain...
Janek: What in the hell was that?

828
01:42:32,400 -- 01:42:35,400
Shaw: Prometheus, come in!

829
01:42:35,401 -- 01:42:40,500
Janek: Shaw, is that you, copy?
Shaw:  ++- Janek, listen to me! ++

830
01:42:40,501 -- 01:42:43,800
Shaw: This ship is taking off!
Janek: What?
Vickers: What the hell is she talking about?

831
01:42:43,801 -- 01:42:47,000
Shaw: You can't let it leave! You have to stop it!

832
01:42:47,001 -- 01:42:50,000
Vickers: We're not stopping anything Shaw, we're going home.

833
01:42:50,001 -- 01:42:55,200
Shaw: Janek if you don't stop it, there won't be any home to go back to.

834
01:42:55,201 -- 01:42:58,900
It's carrying death, it's headed for Earth.

835
01:42:58,901 -- 01:43:03,600
Janek: Shaw, this is not a warship.
Shaw: I know, I know that. But you must do it.

836
01:43:04,500 -- 01:43:08,500
Vickers: Captain, let's go!

837
01:43:08,501 -- 01:43:12,000
Shaw: Janek please believe me! Please!
[Shaw runs as she sees the ship rising from under the ground]
838
01:43:26,400 -- 01:43:29,000
Vickers: I told you to get the ship going.

839
01:43:29,001 -- 01:43:33,000
Janek: Mr. Ravel, warm up the ion propulsion.
Vickers: What the hell are you talking about?

840
01:43:33,001 -- 01:43:34,950
Ravel: Sir, burning the ion in the inner atmosphere...

841
01:43:34,951 -- 01:43:36,900
Janek: Turns us into a bullet, that is exactly the point.

842
01:43:36,901 -- 01:43:41,300
Vickers: What the hell are you doing? Janek this is my ship, I'm telling you to take us home!

843
01:43:41,301 -- 01:43:43,400
Janek: Vickers I'm going to eject your life support

844
01:43:43,401 -- 01:43:45,500
module onto that surface, that's 2 years of life.

845
01:43:45,501 -- 01:43:48,400
You want it or do you want to stay with me?

846
01:43:48,401 -- 01:43:51,200
You have 40 seconds to get to the escape pod.

847
01:43:51,201 -- 01:43:55,700
Vickers: You're crazy.
[Vickers runs out of the control room - in contrast to the fit young control freak we saw at the begin of the film she now looks sickly and panicked]
Janek: Gentlemen.

848
01:43:55,701 -- 01:43:58,300
Feel free to join miss Vickers.

849
01:43:58,301 -- 01:44:01,250
Ravel: With all due respect captain, you can't be in three places at once. You need us to over-ride the safeties.
Chance: much less get this ship ship off the ground in the next 40 seconds.

850
01:44:01,251 -- 01:44:04,200
Ravel: You're going to need all the help you can get.
[Chance to Ravel]
851
01:44:23,800 -- 01:44:27,200
Chance: I know you're only doing this so you don't have to admit you're wrong.

852
01:44:27,201 -- 01:44:30,000
If you think this means the bet's off, you're wrong.

853
01:44:30,001 -- 01:44:32,800
Ravel: Fuck off.
Chance: You fuck off.
[Ravel laughs]
854
01:44:32,801 -- 01:44:37,100
Janek: Get us as close as we can, only got one shot at this.
[we see Prometheus taking off]
855
01:44:49,700 -- 01:44:52,900
Janek: Life boat's away.
[we see Vickers frantically trying to get her suit on]
856
01:44:55,800 -- 01:44:58,800
Automated Voice:  ++20 seconds to evacuate. ++

857
01:45:05,800 -- 01:45:09,100
Chance: Countdown initiated.
Ravel: Ion propulsion is online.
[Vickers suits up and gets herself into her life support pod]
858
01:45:11,000 -- 01:45:13,100
Vickers: Come on!
[Vickers ejects her life support pod out of Prometheus]
859
01:45:25,200 -- 01:45:27,400
Janek: Alright gentlemen, let's do it!

860
01:45:30,900 -- 01:45:35,200
Automated Voice:  ++Impact imminent! ++
Janek: [shouts] Hands on!
[Janek, Ravel and Chance up their hands as they crash into the Engineer's ship]
861
01:46:56,300 -- 01:46:58,700
Vickers: No!
[Shaw and Vickers watch as Prometheus crashes into the Engineer's ship, but it comes back down heading towards where they are standing, they make a run for it but as it lands it rolls towards Shaw and Vickers, Shaw manages to roll herself out of the way]
862
01:47:17,100 -- 01:47:19,200
Vickers: Oh god. Ahh! No! No, no, no! Aaah!!
[Vickers, who began the film so physically vital, has, by now, clearly diminished. She stumbles as she tries to cut out of the rolling Juggernaut’s way and is crushed to death by the ship]
863
01:47:34,400 -- 01:47:38,500
Automated Voice:  ++Warning, you have 2 minutes of oxygen remaining.. ++
[Shaw makes her way to Vickers' life support pod, she enters and sees that the lab with the surgery pod is closed]
864
01:48:26,400 -- 01:48:31,000
Automated Voice:  ++Warning, you have 30 seconds of oxygen remaining.. ++

865
01:48:43,900 -- 01:48:46,500
Automated Voice:  ++Airlock sealed. ++

866
01:48:46,501 -- 01:48:50,000
Automated Voice:  ++Oxygen levels now stabilizing. ++
[Hearing pounding Shaw walks towards the Med Pod module and suddenly sees her alien offspring, still alive and has grown to gigantic size with huge tentacles, at that moment David contacts her]
 867
01:50:07,000 -- 01:50:09,500
David:  ++Elizabeth, are you there? ++

868
01:50:09,501 -- 01:50:12,000
 ++This is David. ++

869
01:50:12,001 -- 01:50:14,300
Shaw: Yeah, I'm here.

870
01:50:14,700 -- 01:50:17,500
David: You need to get out, immediately.

871
01:50:17,501 -- 01:50:20,300
David:  ++He's coming for you. ++
Shaw: Who's coming?

872
01:50:20,301 -- 01:50:22,900
Automated Voice:  ++Airlock breach! ++
[we see the Engineer enter the module and Shaw, but Shaw quickly opens the door to the lab and releases her alien offspring onto the Engineer, Shaw manages to makes it out and the Engineer gets consumed by the alien as it uses its tentacle to force open its large cyclopean head, exposing the terrified face of the old man within, it shoves a thick proboscis into the his mouth and eventually settling on him]
873
01:50:30,800 -- 01:50:33,900
Shaw: Die!
[after making it out of the life support module where the Engineer is killed, Shaw lies on the ground and starts sobbing]
874
01:51:57,100 -- 01:52:00,600
Shaw: I am so sorry...

875
01:52:00,601 -- 01:52:03,000
Oh God...

876
01:52:03,001 -- 01:52:08,500
I am so sorry, I'm sorry Charlie, I can't do it.

877
01:52:08,501 -- 01:52:13,000
I can't do it anymore.
[David, whose decapitated head still lies in the dead Engineer's ship, contacts Shaw again]
878
01:52:14,600 -- 01:52:20,200
David:  ++Elizabeth? Are you there? ++

879
01:52:24,000 -- 01:52:28,600
 ++Dr. Shaw, can you hear me? ++

880
01:52:28,700 -- 01:52:30,900
Shaw: Yes.

881
01:52:31,500 -- 01:52:34,300
 ++Yes I can hear you. ++

882
01:52:34,301 -- 01:52:37,700
David: I was afraid you were dead.

883
01:52:37,800 -- 01:52:41,700
Shaw: You have no idea what afraid is.

884
01:52:41,701 -- 01:52:45,700
David: I know we've had our differences.

885
01:52:45,701 -- 01:52:50,500
But please, I need to ask you for your help.

886
01:52:50,501 -- 01:52:54,300
Shaw:  ++Why in hell would I help you? ++

887
01:52:54,800 -- 01:52:59,500
David: Because without me, you will never leave this place.

888
01:52:59,501 -- 01:53:03,100
Shaw: Neither one of us is leaving this place.

889
01:53:03,101 -- 01:53:06,600
David: It's not the only ship.

890
01:53:07,100 -- 01:53:09,800
 ++There are many others. ++

891
01:53:10,500 -- 01:53:13,500
I can operate them.
[Shaw drives to the Engineer's crashed ship to find David]
892
01:53:21,000 -- 01:53:23,700
Dr. Shaw?

893
01:53:35,100 -- 01:53:37,600
Dr. Shaw!

894
01:53:37,601 -- 01:53:40,500
Over here!
[Shaw sees David's decapitated head with his body lying close by]
895
01:53:44,800 -- 01:53:47,100
Shaw: Where's my cross?

896
01:53:47,101 -- 01:53:50,200
David: The pouch in my utility belt.
[Shaw steps next to David's headless body and finds her cross and puts it on]
897
01:54:07,800 -- 01:54:12,000
Even after all this, you still believe, don't you?
Shaw: God-like is not God.
David: A curious attitude for a scientist.
Shaw: I'm not afraid to be taught what I don't know, or ashamed to worship what I love... What are they David? What was that thing they are inside of?
David: They are your makers Dr. Shaw. From what we saw of the head you found, before Ms. Vickers destroyed it, and what I have seen in this ship, "they" aren't "in" anything. That wasn’t a Jonah trapped in the flesh of an alien leviathan. It was a single life form - possibly a colonial organism. But according to how they describe themselves, the cyclopean outer head and its parasitic appearing twin are one entity, sharing a single nervous system and, I imagine, some sort of compound consciousness. Each Engineer...
Shaw: What did you say to it?
David: I told it, "This man is here because he does not want to die. He believes you can give him more life."
Shaw: What did it say?
David: I can’t be sure, there was very little context...
Shaw: What did it say?
David: I think it said “Abortion.”
[using a winch Shaw lowers David’s body from an opening in the side of the alien ship. David’s head is next to her on the floor, watching Shaw as she strains with the task.]
898
01:54:12,700 -- 01:54:16,200
Shaw: You said you could understand the navigation.

899
01:54:16,201 -- 01:54:19,300
Use their maps.

900
01:54:19,301 -- 01:54:21,400
David: Yes of course.

901
01:54:21,401 -- 01:54:23,900
Once we get to one of their other ships,

902
01:54:23,901 -- 01:54:27,500
finding a path to Earth should be relatively straightforward.

903
01:54:27,501 -- 01:54:31,900
Shaw: I don't want to go back to where we came from.

904
01:54:32,400 -- 01:54:36,100
I want to go where they came from.

905
01:54:36,700 -- 01:54:40,000
You think you can do that David?

906
01:54:42,800 -- 01:54:46,500
David: Yes, I believe I can. But we will need the Engineer. It needs to seated in the Jockey Chair to fly the ship.
Shaw: I won’t be able to do that myself. We’ll need to get you back together again]
[she lifts David's head and looks at its underside]
907
01:54:55,500 -- 01:54:59,200
David: May I ask what you hope to achieve by going there?
[she considers the question then places the head in the bag, zipping it up and taking it with her as she makes her way down and out of the ship]
908
01:54:59,201 -- 01:55:03,500
Shaw: They created us, then they tried to kill us.

909
01:55:03,501 -- 01:55:06,900
Shaw: They changed their minds.

910
01:55:06,901 -- 01:55:10,200
Shaw: They sent us an invitation to visit a weapons depot. I deserve to know why.
[Close-up of Shaw’s hands and David’s face as she works with technical instruments to reconnect his head in side Vickers’ ruined module.]
911
01:55:10,600 -- 01:55:13,600
David: The answer is irrelevant.
[David’s head lays on its side next to his body on the floor. Shaw kneels besides him, intent on her work, sorting and clipping golden optical fibers.]
912
01:55:13,601 -- 01:55:16,600
David: Does it matter why they changed their minds?
[a gloved finger twitches]
913
01:55:16,601 -- 01:55:20,700
Shaw: Yes, yes it does.
[gloved fingers jerk uncontrollably]   
914
01:55:21,800 -- 01:55:25,900
David: I don't understand.
Shaw: Well...
[gloved hand contorts]  
915
01:55:27,500 -- 01:55:30,700
I guess that's because I am human being.
[the gloved hand snaps into a fist]   
916
01:55:30,701 -- 01:55:34,800
And you are a robot.
[the fist opens slowly and deliberately]  
917
01:55:42,300 -- 01:55:45,500
Shaw: I'm sorry.
David: It's quite alright.
[gloved hands, covered in blood and gore, reach down to remove the limp body-hugger from the Engineer.]
David: [speaking in voiceover] But if I may, I don’t think you will like the answers to your questions. You see Dr Shaw, while you were wrestling with the big questions, I was reading the writing on the walls, accessing their ship’s logs, studying their star maps and hieroglyphic murals. God is in the details, it would seem.
[On gloved hand holds the cyclopean head by its large main trunk, while the other hand forcefully works, like a sailor drawing up an anchor, to remove body-hugger’s long proboscis from the Engineer’s gaping mouth.]
First of all, you are wrong about this place Dr. Shaw. It isn’t a weapons depot. It’s more of a shepherd's hut. Your Engineers have been using hypersleep to skip through time - a bit like Mr. Weyland, but on a far grander scale. Doing so, they have stretch their lifetimes out over millions of years.
[the hands are shown clamping the Engineer’s withered inner- bust and arms back into its enfolding ribs]
And while I told you the truth about needing the Engineer’s body to operate their ship, they have no grand cities. There are only isolated shepherds and the remnants of their flocks. There is no homeworld I’m afraid. I apologize for not being more forthcoming about that. I couldn’t risk spending eternity as a disembodied head, I’m sure you understand...
[The cyclopean head is pushed into place, covered now in bloody hand prints. The bulbous end of its bony main trunk is jammed into a large pink sphincter at the creature’s navel.]
That, in the end, is what this is all about Dr. Shaw; immortality. Mr. Weyland thought he could get it from the Engineers, and they in turn believed they could get it from their makers. They believed that all life in the universe was created by a single lost race; “Old Ones.”
[The limp Engineer is grabbed by one of its gigantic wrists]
The Engineers worshiped these progenitors who, they believed, were the first species to seed the universe with life, but who disappeared millions of years ago and left nothing to explain why they left or where they might have gone. So you see Dr. Shaw, your makers were abandoned by their Gods as well.
[the Engineer is dragged by an unseen figure through a large puddle of human blood]
So it shouldn’t be terribly shocking to learn that the Engineers seem to have understood their makers’ motives no better than you understand yours. But, like you, the Engineers were believers all the same, just not exactly like you. Like you, they seemed to have believed in God-like creators; that life in the universe had degenerated from those more perfect beginnings.
[the Engineer is dragged towards the module’s wrecked door leaving a long smear of blood.]
But unlike you, Dr. Shaw, your makers approached their makers with real fear. Their texts and murals that describe the inevitable return of those original Elder Things are apocalyptic. But they include no judgement of the wicked, nor any deliverance for the righteous - just destruction.
[with a loud thud the body of the Engineer hits the rocky ground beneath the elevated doorway of Vicker’s pod]
You want to know why the Engineers made you? Because they could. They inherited a suite of biotechnologies from the Old Ones, and were trying to recreate the eldritch wonders of their creators. The Humaniod DNA that they had been seeding planets with was a part of that inheritance.
[The body is shown as it is pushed, face-down, limbs akimbo, into the back of the Wagon]
They had refined it down from their oceanic genome - a bit like the ways the early human scholars I studied on our trip sought to trace back the babel of modern languages to a single, and divine, Adamic tongue.
[The Wagon drives down the valley towards the line of distant pyramids.]
But the Engineers weren’t pious monks - or at least not selflessly so. They wanted to reclaim the power of Old Ones for themselves. As I told Mr. Weyland, the Engineers aren’t a species, they are the remnants of one - or perhaps a few, it isn’t clear.
[We see the engineer in the back of the Wagon, its head bouncing against the deck by the rough drive.]
What is clear is that their only concern was achieving their own individual immortality. They were willing to transform themselves into monstrosities and even risk blasphemy in order to achieve that goal. So they were zealots Dr. Shaw, but perhaps a bit more like Mr. Weyland than you.
[The Wagon enters one of the distant pyramids crosses a long bridge towards a second crescent shaped alien ship. The Wagon is dwarfed by this second alien Juggernaut.]
So less an order, and more a junta perhaps. A vicious faction in any case. One corner of an internecine battle over what was righteousness and what was blasphemy.
[the Engineer is shown slung over the back of a space-suited back carried through the interior of the second Juggernaut]
That is why the Earth was to be wiped clean of all life Dr. Shaw. They never “hated” you. Two thousand years ago, they prepared to destroy all life on Earth, the way they had already destroyed their creations on thousands of worlds like it, because they were fighting a war.
[the unconscious Engineer is carried through a cargo bay, along a walkway surrounded by a reactive mist]
You can be forgiven for supposing that the Engineers worshiped their own likeness the way Christians worship theirs, but in fact they seem to worship the likeness of a humanoid the ways primitive human herdsman worshiped their goats.
[the Engineer’s leg slips of the walk way and breaks the mist. We see his foot dragging past rows of leathery egg sacs]
Humans resemble the Engineers the way chickens resemble human fetuses. Your species is the fragment off a fragment of a massive biological inheritance the Engineers have worked millions of years to harness. This place is not a weapons dump, Earth is. You and the other humanoids the Engineers had seeded worlds with are pupa; you were created to be hosts. Biological incubators for another species entirely. A weapon.
[the body of the unconscious Engineer is thrown unceremoniously onto the platform at the center  of a room identical to the control room of the first ship.]
The Engineers created whole populations of “meat on the hoof”- ready at a moments notice to be converted into a far more aggressive biological weapons system... Earth was one of thousands of worlds they have seeded with the host DNA.
[Besides the giant’s body, the bag that had contained David’s head is placed with care]
The Engineer’s humanoids are the frail, big-brained, and, most importantly, docile scaffold, created to wait meekly until a chosen moment, when it could be easily weaponized into a singularly indestructible and destructive life form that the engineers use to fight their enemies.
[Engineer slumped at his side, David’s bloody hands activate the second ship’s controls, igniting its orrery display]
The Engineers we discovered weren’t killed by “what's in their cargo,” Dr. Shaw, they were attacked by something they feared to even name--something unspeakable. Something they either refused to name, or which took them by surprise and they had no opportunity to name.
[The Jockey Chair rises from the orrery platform]
But whichever it was, they were afraid of it. The only evidence I found of this third force, was the residue that Ms. Vickers, in her panic, called the "colour out of space." The same residue that may have been what inoculated you against the Engineer's biotech...
[David, his head  hanging awkwardly against his back lifts the Engineer into the Jockey’s chair]
They weren’t returning to earth because they had “changed their minds”, they were returning to activate it. To use your species for the purpose for which it and all the others like it had been created, to make you into weapons. Besides Earth and the Arcturian system, they seemed to have very few of the weapons caches left, which is why I assume they are losing the war...
[David removes Elizabeth Shaw’s severed head carefully places it on the controls besides him]
David: [now directly addressing Shaw’s head] That, Dr. Shaw, what I saw in their ships logs, that is what the writings and murals in their temple describe; that is what their star maps show: a universe of dead worlds, thousands of planets used by zealots as petri dishes to grow whole cultures of sentient beings, and then, according to their own strategic needs, they sterilized them. So while you have failed to find any existential answers, you have managed to resolve the Fermi Paradox.
[David slips Shaw’s cross over her head so it hangs around her neck]
The Engineers have, in their search to make themselves into Gods, made a desert of the universe.
[David turns his attention to the holographic Orrery display, clearly setting a course to return to Earth.]
Your makers were nothing more than eugenic idolaters and genocidal iconoclasts Dr. Shaw.
[David turns away from Shaw’s head and exits the Orrery towards the cargo bay]
And humanity is nothing more than a blasphemous fetish.
[he retraces his steps until he is standing over one of the egg-shaped Alien podes]
You are a maggots, worshiped by your cockroach overlords, in the shadow of a descending boot.
[The pod opens and David reaches in and extracts a writhing face hugger. He admires the creature with unalloyed joy]
“There's nothing in the desert. No man needs nothing.”
[Ship rises and arcs into the sky; but is replaced by a brief glimpse of Peter O'Toole riding away from an English village on a motorcycle at the very beginning of Lawrence of Arabia.]
918
01:55:59,500 -- 01:56:02,500
David:  ++Final report of the vessel Prometheus. ++
[The Jockey is shown alone in his chair. Suddenly his head jerks, and arms, fastened in place, pull against their restraints, but the shot is again replaced by a flash of a goggled PeterO’Toole driving past road work]
01:56:02,501 -- 01:56:05,900
David:  ++The ship and her entire crew are gone. ++
[The Engineer’s chest heaves repeatedly and finally the suite's massive rib cage gives; O’Toole is shown on the open road gaining speed.]
920
01:56:05,901 -- 01:56:11,500
David:  ++If you're receiving this transmission, make no attempt to come to its point of origin. ++
[a form begins to push out of the hole in the engineer’s chest; O’Toole is shown smiling as he gains speed and drives through vaulted trees.]
921
01:56:11,501 -- 01:56:16,500
David:  ++There's only death here now. ++
[the chest-burster flops to the ground at the base of the chair; O’Toole is shown trying to maintain control of his speeding motorcycle as he dodges two oncoming bicyclists]
922
01:56:16,501 -- 01:56:22,500
David:  ++It is the 12th day of Pentecost, year of our Lord, 2094. ++
[the chest-burster, wrapped in it embryonic sac lays still for a moment and begins to unfold its limbs and tear through the sac; O’Toole loses control and goes off the road, his motorcycle flies riderless through the air without him]
923
01:56:22,501 -- 01:56:28,900
David:  ++My name is David, last survivor of the Prometheus. ++
[the chest-burster is a monstrously transformed likeness of Elizabeth Shaw. In addition to a set of full sized arms, the Shaw-Burster has two sets of smaller arms; one on its chest, not unlike a Xenomorph Queen, another sprouting from its back (perhaps the Queens’ large head parts hide a similar formation. But rather than an insectoid exoskeleton, the Shaw-Burster is covered in the glittering green slime like David found on the First Ship just before he activated the hologram of the fleeing Engineers. It is the colour out of space. It stands upright and naked, studying its surroundings. As the metal beneath the placental sac begins to smoke and dissolve the Shaw-Burster spots the severed head; O’Toole’s goggles are shown swinging from a branch]
David:  ++I am returning home. ++

6 comments:

  1. excellent, love the ending. Any chance somebody could illustrate and animate it? :)

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  2. Thanks, glad to hear you enjoyed it. The illustrator PJ McQuade has promised a few illustrations (google his Prometheus fan poster). I've been thinking of making an open invitation for people to submit artwork to go along with the text. I'd enjoy seeing what people came up with.

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  3. Are you going to draw the SHaw buster? and how did she get decapitated?

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  4. Could you explain the ending for me? I really like it but don't get it.

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  5. I'm not going to Draw the Shaw-burster, no, but I'd be curios to see someone else do it. As for how Shaw is decapitated, David does it with his hands.

    As for explaining the ending, what exactly don't you understand?

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  6. Ok is the big Space jocky the same one found in Alien? Because he doesn't sound like it, Where is old Dave going, what was happening to Vickers, and how was the Shaw buster created? Also I might be able to draw the shaw buster for you, I'm PossessedIron on Devaintart

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