Source Material: Dialogue [Stage Directions]
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[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]
Titles: Yucatán Peninsula, 65 million years ago
[The shot pulls back through a lush rain forest densely populated by huge feathered dinosaurs.]
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[Pulling upwards and zooming out until we see the earth as seen from space.]
[A huge alien vessel approaches.]
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[As the ship slowly makes contact with the outer atmosphere, it triggers a huge explosion that sets the atmosphere ablaze.]
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[[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.]
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[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.]
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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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-- 00:23:12,600
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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-- 00:23:15,600
Ravel: Yes captain.
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-- 00:23:19,000
Janek:
That means you too Vickers.
[everyone
takes their seats and buckles themselves in]
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-- 00:23:29,000
Janek:
What is the atmosphere?
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-- 00:23:34,200
Ravel: Atmosphere is 71% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen, traces of
unknown gas.
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-- 00:23:37,300
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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-- 00:23:39,900
Ford: Only if you're breathing through an exhaust pipe.
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-- 00:23:45,400
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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-- 00:23:53,300
Ford: Peak, port side, 52.000. Makes Everest look like a
baby brother.
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-- 00:23:55,800
Janek:
Alright, take us round.
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-- 00:23:59,000
We
will use that as our point of entry.
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-- 00:24:06,000
Terrain
data rising up. We've got a couple of hard spots. Could be metal.
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-- 00:24:30,500
Ravel:
No radio, no heat source.
Millburn: Nobody's home.
[David
quotes a line from Lawrence of Arabia]
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-- 00:24:35,300
David: “There's nothing in the desert. No man needs
nothing.”
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-- 00:24:40,100
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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-- 00:24:49,100
Janek:
Let's go through that gateway.
Reduce
air speed by 100 knots.
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-- 00:24:56,200
Going
through, nice and slow.
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-- 00:25:03,700
Keep
her steady boys.
[suddenly
Holloway spots something]
Halloway: There.
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-- 00:25:05,800
Shaw: What are you doing?
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-- 00:25:08,700
Janek:
Doctor Holloway why don't you take a
seat?!
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-- 00:25:12,800
Halloway: Right there. God does not build in straight lines.
195
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-- 00:25:16,900
Starboard
side, this valley! Captain, do you think you can put us down there?
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-- 00:25:22,900
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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-- 00:25:31,000
Chance: One mile, port bow.
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-- 00:25:33,600
Janek:
Engage landing sequence. Switch to
manual.
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-- 00:25:38,500
Easy
does it. Yeah baby, yeah.
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00:25:40,000
-- 00:25:44,800
Putting
her down in 5, 4...
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-- 00:25:49,900
2,
easy does it.
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-- 00:26:27,000
Halloway: Captain, would you please tell the survey team to
suit up? And meet us in the air lock.
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-- 00:26:30,400
Janek: There's only 6 hours left of daylight. Why don't you
leave it 'till the morning?
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-- 00:26:34,500
Halloway: No, no, it's Easter captain,
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-- 00:26:36,800
and I want my egg hunt.
[he turns
and point to David and Ford]
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-- 00:26:41,500
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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-- 00:26:54,500
Shaw: Hey Jackson, what's that for?
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-- 00:27:00,000
Jackson: Expedition security. My job is to make sure
everybody's nice and safe.
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00:27:00,500
-- 00:27:04,000
Shaw: This is a scientific expedition, no weapons.
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00:27:04,001
-- 00:27:07,500
Jackson:
Alright then. Good luck with that.
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-- 00:27:12,900
Halloway: David, why are you wearing a suit?
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-- 00:27:16,800
David:
I beg your pardon?
Halloway: You don't breathe, remember?
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00:27:16,801
-- 00:27:18,900
So,
why wear a suit?
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00:27:18,901
-- 00:27:22,500
David:
I was designed like this because you
people are
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00:27:22,501
-- 00:27:26,100
more
comfortable interacting with your own kind.
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00:27:26,400
-- 00:27:30,800
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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00:27:30,801
-- 00:27:35,700
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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00:28:17,600
-- 00:28:21,000
Halloway:
This is just one small step for
mankind.
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00:28:21,001
-- 00:28:23,600
Shaw: Seriously?
[he
holds her head close to his letting their helmets touch, he turns and sits
opposite Fifield]
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00:28:27,600
-- 00:28:31,200
Halloway:
Come on! You ready to do this?! I
know you are.
[Fifield
ignores him]
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-- 00:28:42,999
Halloway:
Fifield, I want a spectrograph on
that structure,
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00:28:43,000
-- 00:28:45,400
I
want to know if it's natural or somebody put it there, alright?
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00:28:45,401
-- 00:28:51,200
Fifield: I can't tell you if it's natural or not, but what I can tell you is, it's hollow.
224
00:29:14,500
-- 00:29:18,600
Shaw: Prometheus, are you seeing this?
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00:29:18,601
-- 00:29:21,900
Janek: Affirmative, we see you.
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00:29:28,500
-- 00:29:32,000
Shaw: Are you ready?
Halloway:
Yeah.
Shaw: Let's do it.
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00:30:04,400
-- 00:30:07,500
Holloway: After you.
Shaw:
After you.
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00:30:07,700
-- 00:30:11,700
Halloway: Careful.
Shaw: Prometheus, we're going in.
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00:30:11,701
-- 00:30:13,701
Janek:
Copy that.
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00:30:46,200
-- 00:30:50,500
Holloway: Pause back here, some kind of a corridor.
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00:30:50,501
-- 00:30:55,600
Holloway: Mr. Fifield, let's get a grid of the structure, I
want the whole interior.
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-- 00:30:58,000
Fifield: If there's anything in here worth looking at, these
pups will find them.
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00:30:58,001
-- 00:31:02,800
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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00:31:15,400
-- 00:31:18,800
Prometheus,
we are now mapping.
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00:31:22,100
-- 00:31:24,700
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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00:31:35,700
-- 00:31:38,800
Janek:
I'll be damned. Fifield, you got a
reading?
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00:31:51,100
-- 00:31:54,600
Fifield: Yeah.
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00:31:54,601
-- 00:31:58,800
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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00:32:16,000
-- 00:32:18,800
Holloway: Look at this.
240
00:32:24,800
-- 00:32:28,000
Shaw: Oh Charlie...
241
00:32:30,500
-- 00:32:34,200
Ford: Jesus, sunlight's heating the water. Check out the
humidity.
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00:32:34,201
-- 00:32:38,100
Holloway: Yeah, look at the CO2 levels.
243
00:32:38,101
-- 00:32:43,000
Outside
it's completely toxic, and in here there's nothing.
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00:32:43,001
-- 00:32:45,600
It's
breathable.
[as
Holloway prepares to take off his helmet]
245
00:32:46,000
-- 00:32:49,000
Shaw: What are you doing? Charlie, don't be an idiot.
246
00:32:49,001
-- 00:32:54,100
Holloway: Don't be a sceptic. There's something generating an
atmosphere, David?
247
00:32:54,101
-- 00:32:57,300
David: Dr. Holloway is correct.
Ford: Cleaner than ours, actually. But...
248
00:32:57,301
-- 00:33:00,300
Holloway:
They were terraforming here.
Shaw:
Please, don't do...
249
00:33:00,301
-- 00:33:03,000
Holloway: Ellie, I'm not wearing this thing anymore. Wish me
luck babe.
250
00:33:03,001
-- 00:33:07,600
Vickers: ++- Do
you copy, do not remove your head gear. ++
[Holloway cracks helmet's seal]
251
00:33:23,700
-- 00:33:27,100
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]
252
00:33:30,400
-- 00:33:33,749
David:
Prometheus we are leaving
our helmets on.
254
00:33:37,101
-- 00:33:40,000
Janek:
++Copy that. ++
[back
on the bridge Chance gives Ravel a knowing look]
255
00:33:40,800
-- 00:33:43,800
Chance: Well come on, pay up.
256
00:33:43,801
-- 00:33:46,700
Ravel: Pay what?
Chance: What do you mean "pay what"?
257
00:33:46,701
-- 00:33:49,100
Something's
manufacturing breathable air down there.
258
00:33:49,101
-- 00:33:53,100
That
means it's terraforming.
Ravel:
No, no, the bet was why we came here.
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00:33:53,101
-- 00:33:56,500
If
you said that that old man wanted to talk to martians, then I'd pay
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00:33:56,501
-- 00:33:59,000
Chance: Oh come on, a hundred
credits,
put it towards
261
00:33:59,001
-- 00:34:01,500
a
lap dance of Ms. Vickers, how about that?
[survey team moves proceeds down massive curving
corridor within the Pyramid]
262
00:34:02,700
-- 00:34:05,300
Ford:
It's minus 12 in here.
263
00:34:05,301
-- 00:34:09,600
Millburn:
So why is this water not frozen?
Fifield:
Maybe it ain’t water.
264
00:34:09,601
-- 00:34:12,300
Millburn: Maybe it's martian piss.
265
00:34:12,301
-- 00:34:18,500
Fifield: That's your, scientific theory? Is it, Mr. Biology?
266
00:34:22,400
-- 00:34:28,500
Ford:
Well, whatever it is it sure is
clean.
[David finds a residue of glittering the
green slime]
267
00:34:47,100
-- 00:34:49,300
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]
268
00:35:07,800
-- 00:35:11,700
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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00:35:11,701
-- 00:35:14,300
Fifiield: What
the fu..
Shaw:
David?!
270
00:35:17,000
-- 00:35:19,600
Holloway:
David?!
[Charlie
pushes Eli out of the way as the golden holograms run across the corridors]
271
00:35:26,600
-- 00:35:28,600
Holloway:
Ellie!
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00:35:33,000
-- 00:35:37,500
Ford: What the hell was that?
Jackson: Aren't you
glad we didn't bring any weapons?
273
00:35:37,501
-- 00:35:41,200
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]
274
00:35:51,200
-- 00:35:54,000
Shaw:
Where did he go?
[Holloway
moves closer to where the holographic image had fallen]
275
00:36:05,300
-- 00:36:08,500
Holloway: There it is.
[they
find a dead body of an Engineer]
276
00:36:08,501
-- 00:36:13,200
Shaw: Oh my God, Charlie we found them.
277
00:36:13,900
-- 00:36:16,300
Holloway: It is them Ellie.
[Holloway
moves closer to the Engineers body to inspect it]
278
00:36:16,301
-- 00:36:22,500
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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00:36:23,400
-- 00:36:26,700
Vickers: Son of a bitch.
280
00:36:26,701
-- 00:36:29,600
They
were right.
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00:36:31,500
-- 00:36:34,600
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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00:36:37,300
-- 00:36:41,600
Holloway:
David, please tell me you can read
that.
283
00:36:41,601
-- 00:36:44,100
David:
Perhaps.
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00:36:45,000
-- 00:36:48,600
[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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00:36:48,601
-- 00:36:52,000
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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00:36:52,001
-- 00:36:55,000
Halloway:
What? Did you not...
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00:36:55,001
-- 00:37:00,600
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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00:37:00,601
-- 00:37:03,400
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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00:37:06,901
-- 00:37:12,800
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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00:37:12,801
-- 00:37:17,900
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]
292
00:37:19,900
-- 00:37:24,300
Fifield: Anyone
want to join me?
[to
Millburn]
You
staying?
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00:37:24,800
-- 00:37:28,900
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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00:37:28,901
-- 00:37:35,100
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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00:37:35,101
-- 00:37:38,900
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.
296
00:37:40,100
-- 00:37:43,100
Millburn: [to Fifield, as they depart] I thought
you were the crazy one.
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00:37:50,700
-- 00:37:53,900
Shaw: Do you have the carbon reader?
[Holloway
gives her the reader]
298
00:37:54,500
-- 00:37:57,400
Thank
you.
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00:38:02,700
-- 00:38:05,800
Holloway:
How long has it been dead?
300
00:38:06,300
-- 00:38:10,300
Shaw: Two thousand years, give or take.
[as
David is touching the markings on the wall]
301
00:38:12,400
-- 00:38:15,000
Shaw:
What are you doing David?
302
00:38:15,001
-- 00:38:17,800
David: I'm attempting to open the door.
303
00:38:17,801
-- 00:38:20,600
Shaw: Wait, we don't know what's on the other side.
[suddenly
the door opens]
304
00:38:21,400
-- 00:38:24,900
David:
Oops, sorry.
305
00:38:27,300
-- 00:38:31,100
Shaw: Look Ford, it's the head.
306
00:38:39,600
-- 00:38:42,900
Ford: An amazing state of preservation.
307
00:38:42,901
-- 00:38:46,600
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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00:38:48,800
-- 00:38:52,300
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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00:39:08,000
-- 00:39:11,000
David:
Beautiful painting.
310
00:39:11,001
-- 00:39:14,300
Shaw:
It's a mural.
[David
walks closer to one of the jars and tries to examine it]
311
00:39:24,800
-- 00:39:28,700
Shaw:
Stop, stop, don't touch it.
David: Sorry.
312
00:39:29,100
-- 00:39:32,000
Shaw: Please, don't touch anything.
313
00:39:32,001
-- 00:39:34,301
David:
It's sweating.
314
00:40:11,500
-- 00:40:14,500
David:
Organic... Dr. Millburn
will regret not sticking around a little longer.
[Shaw
moves closer to inspect the mural]
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0040:19,300
-- 00:40:23,500
Shaw: Oh no, Charlie the murals are changing.
316
00:40:23,501
-- 00:40:26,000
I
think we've averted the atmosphere in the room.
317
00:40:26,001
-- 00:40:28,900
Shaw:
++Charlie, do you copy? ++
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00:40:28,901
-- 00:40:33,900
Shaw: Overhead, Ford quick,
help
me bag the head.
[they
quickly go to take the Engineers head]
319
00:40:43,600
-- 00:40:46,500
Chance:
Boss?
Janek: ++- What
you got? ++
320
00:40:46,501
-- 00:40:49,900
Chance: We got an incoming storm front, silica and
321
00:40:49,901
-- 00:40:54,300
Chance: ++lots
of static, this is not good. ++
Janek:
I see it.
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00:40:56,700
-- 00:40:58,800
Janek: ++Ground
crew this is Janek. ++
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00:40:58,801
-- 00:41:01,300
++Need you to hustle back right now. ++
324
00:41:01,301
-- 00:41:03,499
++Ground crew, do you copy? I got 200 km
++
325
00:41:03,500
-- 00:41:07,700
++winds of airborne silica and enough
static
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00:41:07,701
-- 00:41:11,100
Shaw: Copy that sir, but we need more time here.
327
00:41:11,101
-- 00:41:14,000
Vickers: I'll be closing the outer doors in 15 minutes.
328
00:41:14,001
-- 00:41:17,100
++I sincerely hope you can make it. ++
329
00:41:18,600
-- 00:41:23,600
Shaw: Charlie, David, we must leave now!
330
00:41:24,500
-- 00:41:28,500
Holloway: This is just another tomb.
331
00:41:30,800
-- 00:41:33,400
David?
332
00:41:36,700
-- 00:41:38,700
Let's
go!
333
00:41:43,700
-- 00:41:47,100
David,
we are leaving!
334
00:41:55,900
-- 00:41:58,900
Come
on! Damn it, they've already taken off.
[they
rush out and drive to the ship]
335
00:41:58,901
-- 00:42:01,300
Come
on, let's go.
336
00:42:01,301
-- 00:42:04,800
++Prometheus to ground crew, you're
running out of time. ++
337
00:42:04,801
-- 00:42:07,300
Come
on.
338
00:42:21,700
-- 00:42:24,400
Drive
faster!
[just
as they make it to the ship they drop the head]
00:42:46,900
-- 00:42:49,300
Shaw: Charlie, the head!
[Shaw goes to retrieve it but is blown away by the
storm]
339
340
00:42:49,301
-- 00:42:52,200
Holloway: Ellie stop! What are you doing?!
341
00:43:01,000
-- 00:43:03,000
Shit
342
00:43:03,001
-- 00:43:05,300
Ellie
hold on!
343
00:43:05,700
-- 00:43:08,300
Goddamn
it.
++- Close it! ++
344
00:44:14,400
-- 00:44:16,800
Got
it.
[as
Holloway goes after her he's also blown away, David manages to rescue them by
using a winch]
345
00:44:21,400
-- 00:44:23,400
++Decontamination at level 3. ++
346
00:44:23,401
-- 00:44:25,500
Holloway:
What was that Ellie?
347
00:44:25,501
-- 00:44:27,650
You
could have compromised the entire mission,
348
00:44:27,651
-- 00:44:29,800
not
to mention almost killing yourself!
349
00:44:29,801
-- 00:44:34,500
David:
Are you alright?
Shaw: Yes, thank you David.
350
00:44:34,501
-- 00:44:36,600
David: My pleasure.
351
00:44:36,601
-- 00:44:40,800
Janek: Alright doctors, it's real good to have you back, but
where is Millburn and Fifield?
352
00:44:40,801
-- 00:44:44,000
++Aren't they back yet? ++
353
00:44:44,001
-- 00:44:46,500
Janek:
Kick them up for me.
354
00:44:48,400
-- 00:44:53,900
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...
355
00:44:53,901
-- 00:44:56,600
Janek: ++Boys
this is the captain, listen up. ++
356
00:44:56,601
-- 00:45:00,200
Between
the static electricity and the wind speed,
357
00:45:00,201
-- 00:45:03,100
there
ain't no safe way to come get you.
358
00:45:03,101
-- 00:45:07,500
++Temperature is dropping rapidly, so conserve your suits’ remaining energy and
stay warm. ++
359
00:45:07,501
-- 00:45:10,700
Till
the storm passes.
360
00:45:10,701
-- 00:45:15,200
Fifield: Captain, can you get a message to Shaggy and Velma?
361
00:45:15,201
-- 00:45:18,800
++....back in their
psychedelic van.. ++
Janek: No. I think we got it.
362
00:45:18,801
-- 00:45:22,100
Fifield:
[Janek
and the rest of the crew who heard this laugh]
363
00:45:22,101
-- 00:45:24,400
Fifield: Copy?
Janek:
++- Copy that. ++
364
00:45:24,401
-- 00:45:29,100
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]
365
00:45:46,900
-- 00:45:52,300
Ford: Sample
is inert, no contagion present.
Shaw: David.
[at
that moment Vickers enters the lab]
366
00:45:54,100
-- 00:45:57,400
Vickers: So are they all dead?
367
00:45:57,401
-- 00:46:01,900
Shaw:
What? Who?
Vickers:
Your engineers. Are they all dead or
aren't they?
368
00:46:01,901
-- 00:46:07,000
Shaw: I don't know, we just got here.
369
00:46:07,001
-- 00:46:09,201
Shaw: Scan.
[to
Vickers]
370
00:46:10,200
-- 00:46:14,500
Shaw: Do you even care if they're all dead?
Vickers: Weyland cared.
[as
Ford looks at the alien's head scan image]
371
00:46:14,501
-- 00:46:18,300
Ford: Dr. Shaw, have a look at this.
[Shaw
looks at the monitor showing image of the scan from the alien head]
372
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?
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.
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]
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 "Me” generation
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
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,]
Engineer.jpg)
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. ++
excellent, love the ending. Any chance somebody could illustrate and animate it? :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, 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.
ReplyDeleteAre you going to draw the SHaw buster? and how did she get decapitated?
ReplyDeleteCould you explain the ending for me? I really like it but don't get it.
ReplyDeleteI'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.
ReplyDeleteAs for explaining the ending, what exactly don't you understand?
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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