In this thrilling episode of Alien Worlds, we journey to the Arthur C. Clark Astronomical Observatory, STAR Lab, where scientists and technicians are on the brink of a groundbreaking discovery. As they track a mysterious energy mass moving through the constellation of Cygnus, space exploration team captains John Graden and Buddy Griff are dispatched to investigate. Their mission takes an unexpected turn when they encounter a massive, intelligent organism that envelops their ship, leading to a race against time to restore their oxygen supply and escape the anomaly's grasp.
As the team struggles to understand the organism's nature, they discover it is a 2,000-kilometer-wide leukocyte, a white blood cell-like entity with the power to communicate through their immune systems. With their lives hanging in the balance, John and Buddy must use their wits and the ship's laser arsenal to help the organism reconvert to its energy form. This episode explores themes of survival, the unknown, and the interconnectedness of life in the universe, leaving listeners on the edge of their seats.
(00:34) Introduction to STAR Lab and the Anomaly
(02:20) Tracking the Anomaly
(04:04) Preparing for the Mission
(09:23) Encounter with the Anomaly
(17:00) The Leukocyte Transformation
(21:02) The Leukocyte Maneuver and Resolution
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Slowly orbiting at the edge of deep space, 1,000 kilometers beyond twenty first century Earth, is the Arthur C. Clark Astronomical Observatory, STAR Lab. Here, STAR Lab research director, Mora Cassidy, and scientists and technicians of the International Space Authority watch over the countless stars and planets that fill the universe. This week, space exploration team captains John Graden and Buddy Griff encounter a massive, shapeless organism in the silent distances beyond S. T. A. R. L. A. B. An organism whose power and pathology force John and Buddy to instigate the leukocyte maneuver on alien worlds.
Star Labs' Jodrell McKenzie radio telescope has detected an unidentified energy mass slowly moving to the constellation of Cygnus, the Northern Cross. Entered in STIRLUP's Mycroft computer as stellar anomaly five zero five, the energy mass is being tracked in the radio telescope monitoring laboratory by professor Arthur Royce and astronomer technicians Karen Stone and Carl Phillips.
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Alright. Let's try and get a visual on it. Karen cross linked the three fifty optical telescope and calibrate for maximum vector scan. What about polarization? We'll let that go for the time being. Okay. Carl, switch on screens four and five and interface the azimuth grid for sickness. Full resolution on both screens? Just on five.
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There it is. Where's all travel along Sub Meridian 201? Beautiful, isn't it? Like a tiny star in silver mist.
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You think everything out there is beautiful?
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Yeah. Yeah. I do.
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Interface the DRS, Carl. Let's get a radial velocity on this thing.
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This can't be right. What's the problem, Carl? The radial velocity. I'm getting a synchronous red shift and blue shift. The anomaly is approaching and receding simultaneously.
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Yeah. Not to mention that it's still moving sideways. Look at that. It's starting to cartwheel.
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Maybe we should
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what? What happened? What happened? It's gone. Royce, look at this. I'm still picking up its radio velocity. Life wave readings when there's no right? What's going on here? It's on the screens again. Submarillion068.
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What? How long was it off? The radio time is nine
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seconds. It just traveled two light years in nine seconds.
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Karen, run a total spectrum analysis on that thing. Okay. Carl, get a kinetic temperature reading. I better let doctor Cassidy know about this.
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After a twenty minute conference with professor Royce, doctor Maura Cassidy decides to have the anomaly investigated at and stand by for launch clearance.
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Sorry about that, John. I must have got something in my nose when we walked through the Maintenance section. You sure you're not coming down with the cold? No. No. I think it's the primer that we're using on that shuttle. Every time I get within 10 feet of spray painting, my nostrils backfire. Well, keep them open. You know the rule. If you're not 100%
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sensory and perinasal, you're grounded. If you get too stuffed up, we're left to cancel the mission.
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Cancel the mission? Oh, boy.
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That's what I like about you, buddy. Your willingness to face the unknown without batting a nose. I'll do the funny stuff, Skip. Starlab control to Solaris. It's Solaris. Go ahead, Jerry. I've got an update on that energy mass radio telescope monitoring. Good. What's the story?
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The anomaly has moved to the top of the Cygnus constellation and becomes stationary one parsec away from the binary star Beta Cygni Albireo.
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Is it still generating second magnitude alpha waves?
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No. When it became stationary, its wave frequency changed. What's it generating now? They don't know. There's too much interference from the binary to get an exact reading. Hold on, John. Here's Maura.
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John, don't take any unnecessary chances out there. Just get as close to the anomaly as you have to in order to scan and transmit the data back here. We'll analyze the scan and let you know if there's anything else you have to do. Okay? Okay. Okay, buddy.
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Okay, Barbara.
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John, what's wrong with buddy?
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Nothing that can't be fixed. His sense of humor is taking a nosedive. That's all. Oh, boy. Welcome to the worst pun of the century. We'd better get this show on the road before you come up with another one. I'll certainly buy that. What's the traffic situation, Jerry? We've already handled our pre flight procedures.
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Thirty seconds, John.
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Thirty seconds. Okay, Jerry. We're online.
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Launch vector 0NinerAlpha, John. I'm opening the bay doors now.
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Remember what I said you to. No unnecessary chances. Scan and transmit the data. That's all. Not that, buddy.
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I've created a monster.
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Starlight control to ISA transport 11Niner.
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ISA 1 1 Niner. Go ahead, Terry.
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I have your revised docking orbit insertion coordinates, Rachel. Are you ready to program?
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Roger.
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DOIC Meridian 203 at SubVector17AlphaDockingBay28.
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Thanks, Jerry. ISA one one niner
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out. Starlab clear on ITS frequency 19. Hi, Jerry. How are John and Buddy doing? Everything's okay. They checked in at thirteen thirty right on schedule. Good. Where are they? Between Pluto and Neptune. They should reach their warp through coordinates in about six minutes. Well, keep me posted. I'll be up in radio telescope monitoring. Okay.
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Okay, buddy. Let's start the switch over to hyperdrive. Initiate sidereal search buffer overlap. SSB terminals are online. Parallel sequential links to substatus screen.
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BSLs are in phase.
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Primary and second are parsec refractors to parallax subroutine one. Refractors are in the grid and staple at three zero three. Charge the warp generator and synchronize for a minus 10 interface. Here we go. You sure you're not coming down with something? I'm alright.
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See you in Cygnus.
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Right.
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Alien worlds will continue. Alien worlds continues. STAR Labs giant Jodrell Mackenzie radio telescope has detected a massive energy field in the constellation of Cygnus,
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ten point six parsecs away. I've got an update on that energy mass from radio telescope monitoring. The anomaly has moved to the top of the Cygnus constellation and becomes stationary one parsec away from the binary star Beta Cygni Alperio.
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Three hours after the anomaly's discovery, space exploration team captains John Graden and Buddy Griff board the SET interceptor Solaris and rocket into deep space to investigate. Six hours later, the Solaris warps through the time space continuum and arrives in the constellation of Cygnus near the anomaly's last known location.
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I don't get it, Skipper. Nothing on the spectrometer, nothing on the Nothing on the gas amplification sensors, and nothing on the radiation scanners.
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Maybe it moved up into the Vale Nebula.
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Open the parsec frequency. Let's see if they're still tracking it on StarLab.
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To STARLab control.
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This is STARLab? Is that you, buddy? Yeah, I see you alright. I'd recognize that speed anywhere.
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What's happening out there? Well, that's just it, Jerry. Nothing's happening. There's no sign of that, whatever it was. Are they still tracking it up in radio telescope monitoring?
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Stand by. I'll check.
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You know, I was just thinking, buddy.
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Maybe that thing's some kind of an organism. Well, I don't think so, John. I mean, a 2,000 kilometer wide living organism that's invisible?
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I know. I know it sounds pretty far fetched, but if it were some sort of organism, that would explain why we aren't picking it up on the Star Labs controls the Solaris. Solaris, go ahead, Jerry. Radio telescope monitoring says the anomaly went off their screens at about the same time you got there. Omar wants you to come back to Star Labs. Okay, Jerry.
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Oh, by the way, have Doctor. Rossiter break out some of her little yellow pills, will you? In spite of all reports to the contrary, I think I'm coming down with a lunar flu or something.
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Will do. DonLab control clear on parsecs with C1.
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Solaris out.
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Hey, you better take an adiabatic and try and get some sleep. Yeah. Let's get out of
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here. What's wrong, Skipper? I don't know.
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Give me a status read on the ignition generator.
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The computer says it's okay. Try it again.
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Thruster malfunction. Shut down the system, buddy. Let's have a status readout on the thrusters.
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Physical obstruction. Something's blocking the nozzles. It's got us. Something's got
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got us. All integrity, sub credit. It's harshness.
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My god.
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Shut down the BioScan indicators before the circuits blow.
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Don't be afraid.
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John, did you hear that, or am I in shock? No. You're alright. I heard it too. What are you? Where are you?
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I am undifferentiated potential. A galactic wanderer. You are inside of me. What? Inside of you? I am the anomaly you were searching for. How do you know we were searching for an anomaly? The universe echoes with life, intelligence, voices, yours, others. I sense it all.
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Our bio scanners. You're not an energy field anymore, are you? No. I am now a leukocyte,
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a white blood cell, a corpuscle, identical in many respects to those in your own bodies.
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Why a leukocyte? Why not an enzyme, or a hemoglobin, or an amino acid molecule? I mean, is a white blood cell hipper than a red one? Hipper? And, smarter. More fun to be around. You're very amusing, buddy. Well, what do you know about that? A corpuscle with a sense of humor.
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Yeah, well, don't get too carried away. Remember, he's 2,000 kilometers wide. If he laughs, we're finished.
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You are sick, buddy.
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Oh, you mean I'm not amusing?
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I mean you're ill, physically ill. Yeah. I know. And because you are, the leukocytes in your immune system have energized to resist the illness. I sensed this when your vehicle penetrated my other form. And because I have great compassion for suffering, I affected a sympathetic metamorphosis.
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You're communicating with us through our immune systems, aren't you? Yes.
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But I'm the one who's sick. Why is John able to hear you?
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Does that answer your question? Yeah.
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Sorry, Skipper. That's okay.
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There's nothing like a cold in the heat of an emergency. Emergency? Look at the life support enunciators, buddy. Uh-oh. What's wrong?
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Well, the shaking we took when you materialized around the ship damaged the primary oxygen flow matrix. The backup system's on, but there's only enough oxygen in that for seven hours. And after we warp back to our original parsec coordinates, it's gonna take at least six hours to reach our home base. I think you'd better release us.
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I can't release you. Why not? Why don't you just reconvert yourself to energy? I was devitalized when you encountered me. And because I was born in this star region, I had come back to rest, perhaps to die. What's the problem? Maybe we can help. The leukocyte transformation process has depleted certain light wave frequencies necessary for my reconversion to energy.
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Well, then why did you transform yourself in the first place? I've never encountered beings like yourselves.
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I wanted to know you. Are you angry with me? No. I guess not. You may lose your lives because of me.
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Well, getting mad about it isn't gonna help. Do you share Buddy's feelings, John?
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Yes, I do. What remarkable creatures you are.
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Open the Parsec channel, buddy. We'd better let them know it's StarLab. Yeah. Solaris to StarLab control.
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StarLab. Pull your turn.
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Patch this transmission through tomorrow, Jerry.
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Roger. Standby.
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Alien worlds will continue. Alien Worlds continues. Ordered to investigate a massive energy field 10.6 light years from StarLab, Buddy and John warp the Solaris through the time space continuum into the constellation of Cygnus. Suddenly, the energy field transforms itself into an enormous intelligent organism. A 2,000 kilometer wide leukocyte that envelops the Solaris and damages its primary oxygen flow matrix. Meanwhile, on StarLab
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That's right, commissioner. The Solaris is impacted right in the middle of it.
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Well, if it was energy to begin with, why can't it transform itself back? Well, according to John, the light wave frequencies it needs for reconversion are exhausted. How much oxygen do they have?
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Less than seven hours.
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I just had a thought, Mara. The Solaris is outfitted with a whole arsenal of military and scientific lasers. Maybe they could use them to restore the light wave frequencies The organism needs to reconvert.
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You must have read their minds, commissioner. That's exactly what they're going to try.
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Okay, buddy. Let's put the laser generators online. Normal sequence. LG135.
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Okay, Skip. They're hot. LG246. Malfunction on number six. Shut it down.
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Okay. Put them in the grid.
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We have positive grid interface.
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Open laser port one and calibrate for a 5,000 angstrom green light discharge soft beam.
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I'm sorry, I can't be more specific concerning the color or intensity of the light Well, that's alright
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We'll figure that out by trial and error The only thing I'm worried about is if our lasers have enough saturation potential. Well, fire number one, buddy.
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I feel it, but it's not having any effect.
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Well, maybe green isn't your color. Can we show you something nice in red? Why not?
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Open laser port number two, buddy, and calibrate for a 6,000 angstrom red light discharge. Right. Fire.
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I'm sorry, but red isn't my color either.
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How much oxygen is left in the backup system? Six hours, nineteen minutes. Open up number three. Let's try 4,600 angstroms of violet.
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Starlet controlled Solaris. Solaris. Go ahead, Morrow. Turn the thing out there, John. Hey, left the lasers.
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No, not yet. We've tried green and red, and we're getting ready to dry violet. What's your life support situation? Critical. If we don't get out of here in nineteen minutes, we won't have enough oxygen to get back to star lab.
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What about the O2 pack that under pressure?
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There's only an hour of oxygen in there, Mora, and I don't think an hour is going to make that much difference.
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Like what? God, I have no help.
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It's not over yet, Mora. We've been in worse situations than this. As long as we've got oxygen and lasers and our wits about us, there's still a chance. Way to go, buddy.
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Mara?
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I hear you.
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Mara, does Commissioner White know what's going on out here?
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Yes, I talked to him a few minutes
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ago. Number three's ready to fire, Skip. Good. Mara, we'll call you back when we finish the laser procedures.
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Alright. Starlight's there. Hey, yes.
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Now let's see. Right. 4600AngstromsOfViolet. Wait a minute, buddy. Come on, Skip. Minutes are at a premium. I was just thinking about Commissioner White. So?
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White, buddy. White. I still don't follow. What happens when you spin a color wheel? All the colors blend together and the wheel turns white. And what do you see when you look at the stars? White light. What did the anomaly look like on the screens at star lab? White light. Right. That's it, buddy. That's our leukocyte maneuver. If we run all the lasers through a spectrum filter, we'll get pure white light. And if we interface all the laser generators, we'll have five times the discharge and saturation power. Yeah. Okay. Cross link all laser generators and open the rest of the laser ports. Alright.
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If this attempt succeeds, we'll no longer be able to communicate. I've enjoyed our encounter. And because you've made no attempt to destroy me, I will leave you with something you won't know you have till I'm gone. Shall we begin?
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Sure. Alright, buddy. Fire.
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I am the firstborn of the universe. I am matter and antimatter, singularity and synchronicity, the force that holds a bird in the air, the sounds you hear when androids dream of men. I am old.
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How do you feel, John?
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I don't know. I feel good. I mean, my body feels good. I'm not sick anymore.
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Yeah, neither am I. Whatever it was that made us sick, he took with him.
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He healed us.
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The leukocyte maneuver was based on a story by Anthony DeWitt, and was written by Ron Thompson, and starred Linda Gary, Chuck Olsen, Bruce Phillip Miller, Corey Burton, with special guest star Larry Moss. Associate producer, Ron Thompson. Music director, Tom Rounds. Engineer, Stu Jacobs. Assistant to the producer, Jim Cook. Technical consultant, Peter Sky. Alien Worlds was created, produced, and directed by Lee Hansen. And so, until next week, this is Roger Dressler inviting you to join us for our next adventure from the elsewhere and else when of Alien Worlds.
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Slowly orbiting at the edge of deep space, 1,000 kilometers beyond twenty first century Earth, is the Arthur C. Clark Astronomical Observatory, STAR Lab. Here, STAR Lab research director, Mora Cassidy, and scientists and technicians of the International Space Authority watch over the countless stars and planets that fill the universe. This week, space exploration team captains John Graden and Buddy Griff encounter a massive, shapeless organism in the silent distances beyond S. T. A. R. L. A. B. An organism whose power and pathology force John and Buddy to instigate the leukocyte maneuver on alien worlds.
Star Labs' Jodrell McKenzie radio telescope has detected an unidentified energy mass slowly moving to the constellation of Cygnus, the Northern Cross. Entered in STIRLUP's Mycroft computer as stellar anomaly five zero five, the energy mass is being tracked in the radio telescope monitoring laboratory by professor Arthur Royce and astronomer technicians Karen Stone and Carl Phillips.
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Alright. Let's try and get a visual on it. Karen cross linked the three fifty optical telescope and calibrate for maximum vector scan. What about polarization? We'll let that go for the time being. Okay. Carl, switch on screens four and five and interface the azimuth grid for sickness. Full resolution on both screens? Just on five.
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There it is. Where's all travel along Sub Meridian 201? Beautiful, isn't it? Like a tiny star in silver mist.
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You think everything out there is beautiful?
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Yeah. Yeah. I do.
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Interface the DRS, Carl. Let's get a radial velocity on this thing.
[00:03:07] Unknown:
This can't be right. What's the problem, Carl? The radial velocity. I'm getting a synchronous red shift and blue shift. The anomaly is approaching and receding simultaneously.
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Yeah. Not to mention that it's still moving sideways. Look at that. It's starting to cartwheel.
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Maybe we should
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what? What happened? What happened? It's gone. Royce, look at this. I'm still picking up its radio velocity. Life wave readings when there's no right? What's going on here? It's on the screens again. Submarillion068.
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What? How long was it off? The radio time is nine
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seconds. It just traveled two light years in nine seconds.
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Karen, run a total spectrum analysis on that thing. Okay. Carl, get a kinetic temperature reading. I better let doctor Cassidy know about this.
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After a twenty minute conference with professor Royce, doctor Maura Cassidy decides to have the anomaly investigated at and stand by for launch clearance.
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Sorry about that, John. I must have got something in my nose when we walked through the Maintenance section. You sure you're not coming down with the cold? No. No. I think it's the primer that we're using on that shuttle. Every time I get within 10 feet of spray painting, my nostrils backfire. Well, keep them open. You know the rule. If you're not 100%
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sensory and perinasal, you're grounded. If you get too stuffed up, we're left to cancel the mission.
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Cancel the mission? Oh, boy.
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That's what I like about you, buddy. Your willingness to face the unknown without batting a nose. I'll do the funny stuff, Skip. Starlab control to Solaris. It's Solaris. Go ahead, Jerry. I've got an update on that energy mass radio telescope monitoring. Good. What's the story?
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The anomaly has moved to the top of the Cygnus constellation and becomes stationary one parsec away from the binary star Beta Cygni Albireo.
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Is it still generating second magnitude alpha waves?
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No. When it became stationary, its wave frequency changed. What's it generating now? They don't know. There's too much interference from the binary to get an exact reading. Hold on, John. Here's Maura.
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John, don't take any unnecessary chances out there. Just get as close to the anomaly as you have to in order to scan and transmit the data back here. We'll analyze the scan and let you know if there's anything else you have to do. Okay? Okay. Okay, buddy.
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Okay, Barbara.
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John, what's wrong with buddy?
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Nothing that can't be fixed. His sense of humor is taking a nosedive. That's all. Oh, boy. Welcome to the worst pun of the century. We'd better get this show on the road before you come up with another one. I'll certainly buy that. What's the traffic situation, Jerry? We've already handled our pre flight procedures.
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Thirty seconds, John.
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Thirty seconds. Okay, Jerry. We're online.
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Launch vector 0NinerAlpha, John. I'm opening the bay doors now.
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Remember what I said you to. No unnecessary chances. Scan and transmit the data. That's all. Not that, buddy.
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I've created a monster.
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Starlight control to ISA transport 11Niner.
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ISA 1 1 Niner. Go ahead, Terry.
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I have your revised docking orbit insertion coordinates, Rachel. Are you ready to program?
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Roger.
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DOIC Meridian 203 at SubVector17AlphaDockingBay28.
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Thanks, Jerry. ISA one one niner
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out. Starlab clear on ITS frequency 19. Hi, Jerry. How are John and Buddy doing? Everything's okay. They checked in at thirteen thirty right on schedule. Good. Where are they? Between Pluto and Neptune. They should reach their warp through coordinates in about six minutes. Well, keep me posted. I'll be up in radio telescope monitoring. Okay.
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Okay, buddy. Let's start the switch over to hyperdrive. Initiate sidereal search buffer overlap. SSB terminals are online. Parallel sequential links to substatus screen.
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BSLs are in phase.
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Primary and second are parsec refractors to parallax subroutine one. Refractors are in the grid and staple at three zero three. Charge the warp generator and synchronize for a minus 10 interface. Here we go. You sure you're not coming down with something? I'm alright.
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See you in Cygnus.
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Right.
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Alien worlds will continue. Alien worlds continues. STAR Labs giant Jodrell Mackenzie radio telescope has detected a massive energy field in the constellation of Cygnus,
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ten point six parsecs away. I've got an update on that energy mass from radio telescope monitoring. The anomaly has moved to the top of the Cygnus constellation and becomes stationary one parsec away from the binary star Beta Cygni Alperio.
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Three hours after the anomaly's discovery, space exploration team captains John Graden and Buddy Griff board the SET interceptor Solaris and rocket into deep space to investigate. Six hours later, the Solaris warps through the time space continuum and arrives in the constellation of Cygnus near the anomaly's last known location.
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I don't get it, Skipper. Nothing on the spectrometer, nothing on the Nothing on the gas amplification sensors, and nothing on the radiation scanners.
[00:10:30] Unknown:
Maybe it moved up into the Vale Nebula.
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Open the parsec frequency. Let's see if they're still tracking it on StarLab.
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To STARLab control.
[00:10:41] Unknown:
This is STARLab? Is that you, buddy? Yeah, I see you alright. I'd recognize that speed anywhere.
[00:10:48] Unknown:
What's happening out there? Well, that's just it, Jerry. Nothing's happening. There's no sign of that, whatever it was. Are they still tracking it up in radio telescope monitoring?
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Stand by. I'll check.
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You know, I was just thinking, buddy.
[00:11:05] Unknown:
Maybe that thing's some kind of an organism. Well, I don't think so, John. I mean, a 2,000 kilometer wide living organism that's invisible?
[00:11:15] Unknown:
I know. I know it sounds pretty far fetched, but if it were some sort of organism, that would explain why we aren't picking it up on the Star Labs controls the Solaris. Solaris, go ahead, Jerry. Radio telescope monitoring says the anomaly went off their screens at about the same time you got there. Omar wants you to come back to Star Labs. Okay, Jerry.
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Oh, by the way, have Doctor. Rossiter break out some of her little yellow pills, will you? In spite of all reports to the contrary, I think I'm coming down with a lunar flu or something.
[00:11:47] Unknown:
Will do. DonLab control clear on parsecs with C1.
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Solaris out.
[00:11:56] Unknown:
Hey, you better take an adiabatic and try and get some sleep. Yeah. Let's get out of
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here. What's wrong, Skipper? I don't know.
[00:12:14] Unknown:
Give me a status read on the ignition generator.
[00:12:18] Unknown:
The computer says it's okay. Try it again.
[00:12:25] Unknown:
Thruster malfunction. Shut down the system, buddy. Let's have a status readout on the thrusters.
[00:12:35] Unknown:
Physical obstruction. Something's blocking the nozzles. It's got us. Something's got
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got us. All integrity, sub credit. It's harshness.
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My god.
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Shut down the BioScan indicators before the circuits blow.
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Don't be afraid.
[00:13:09] Unknown:
John, did you hear that, or am I in shock? No. You're alright. I heard it too. What are you? Where are you?
[00:13:18] Unknown:
I am undifferentiated potential. A galactic wanderer. You are inside of me. What? Inside of you? I am the anomaly you were searching for. How do you know we were searching for an anomaly? The universe echoes with life, intelligence, voices, yours, others. I sense it all.
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Our bio scanners. You're not an energy field anymore, are you? No. I am now a leukocyte,
[00:13:51] Unknown:
a white blood cell, a corpuscle, identical in many respects to those in your own bodies.
[00:13:58] Unknown:
Why a leukocyte? Why not an enzyme, or a hemoglobin, or an amino acid molecule? I mean, is a white blood cell hipper than a red one? Hipper? And, smarter. More fun to be around. You're very amusing, buddy. Well, what do you know about that? A corpuscle with a sense of humor.
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Yeah, well, don't get too carried away. Remember, he's 2,000 kilometers wide. If he laughs, we're finished.
[00:14:23] Unknown:
You are sick, buddy.
[00:14:25] Unknown:
Oh, you mean I'm not amusing?
[00:14:27] Unknown:
I mean you're ill, physically ill. Yeah. I know. And because you are, the leukocytes in your immune system have energized to resist the illness. I sensed this when your vehicle penetrated my other form. And because I have great compassion for suffering, I affected a sympathetic metamorphosis.
[00:14:48] Unknown:
You're communicating with us through our immune systems, aren't you? Yes.
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But I'm the one who's sick. Why is John able to hear you?
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Does that answer your question? Yeah.
[00:15:01] Unknown:
Sorry, Skipper. That's okay.
[00:15:04] Unknown:
There's nothing like a cold in the heat of an emergency. Emergency? Look at the life support enunciators, buddy. Uh-oh. What's wrong?
[00:15:14] Unknown:
Well, the shaking we took when you materialized around the ship damaged the primary oxygen flow matrix. The backup system's on, but there's only enough oxygen in that for seven hours. And after we warp back to our original parsec coordinates, it's gonna take at least six hours to reach our home base. I think you'd better release us.
[00:15:32] Unknown:
I can't release you. Why not? Why don't you just reconvert yourself to energy? I was devitalized when you encountered me. And because I was born in this star region, I had come back to rest, perhaps to die. What's the problem? Maybe we can help. The leukocyte transformation process has depleted certain light wave frequencies necessary for my reconversion to energy.
[00:15:57] Unknown:
Well, then why did you transform yourself in the first place? I've never encountered beings like yourselves.
[00:16:03] Unknown:
I wanted to know you. Are you angry with me? No. I guess not. You may lose your lives because of me.
[00:16:13] Unknown:
Well, getting mad about it isn't gonna help. Do you share Buddy's feelings, John?
[00:16:18] Unknown:
Yes, I do. What remarkable creatures you are.
[00:16:23] Unknown:
Open the Parsec channel, buddy. We'd better let them know it's StarLab. Yeah. Solaris to StarLab control.
[00:16:31] Unknown:
StarLab. Pull your turn.
[00:16:33] Unknown:
Patch this transmission through tomorrow, Jerry.
[00:16:36] Unknown:
Roger. Standby.
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Alien worlds will continue. Alien Worlds continues. Ordered to investigate a massive energy field 10.6 light years from StarLab, Buddy and John warp the Solaris through the time space continuum into the constellation of Cygnus. Suddenly, the energy field transforms itself into an enormous intelligent organism. A 2,000 kilometer wide leukocyte that envelops the Solaris and damages its primary oxygen flow matrix. Meanwhile, on StarLab
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That's right, commissioner. The Solaris is impacted right in the middle of it.
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Well, if it was energy to begin with, why can't it transform itself back? Well, according to John, the light wave frequencies it needs for reconversion are exhausted. How much oxygen do they have?
[00:17:54] Unknown:
Less than seven hours.
[00:17:56] Unknown:
I just had a thought, Mara. The Solaris is outfitted with a whole arsenal of military and scientific lasers. Maybe they could use them to restore the light wave frequencies The organism needs to reconvert.
[00:18:09] Unknown:
You must have read their minds, commissioner. That's exactly what they're going to try.
[00:18:18] Unknown:
Okay, buddy. Let's put the laser generators online. Normal sequence. LG135.
[00:18:28] Unknown:
Okay, Skip. They're hot. LG246. Malfunction on number six. Shut it down.
[00:18:46] Unknown:
Okay. Put them in the grid.
[00:18:50] Unknown:
We have positive grid interface.
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Open laser port one and calibrate for a 5,000 angstrom green light discharge soft beam.
[00:19:03] Unknown:
I'm sorry, I can't be more specific concerning the color or intensity of the light Well, that's alright
[00:19:13] Unknown:
We'll figure that out by trial and error The only thing I'm worried about is if our lasers have enough saturation potential. Well, fire number one, buddy.
[00:19:25] Unknown:
I feel it, but it's not having any effect.
[00:19:28] Unknown:
Well, maybe green isn't your color. Can we show you something nice in red? Why not?
[00:19:34] Unknown:
Open laser port number two, buddy, and calibrate for a 6,000 angstrom red light discharge. Right. Fire.
[00:19:46] Unknown:
I'm sorry, but red isn't my color either.
[00:19:54] Unknown:
How much oxygen is left in the backup system? Six hours, nineteen minutes. Open up number three. Let's try 4,600 angstroms of violet.
[00:20:04] Unknown:
Starlet controlled Solaris. Solaris. Go ahead, Morrow. Turn the thing out there, John. Hey, left the lasers.
[00:20:12] Unknown:
No, not yet. We've tried green and red, and we're getting ready to dry violet. What's your life support situation? Critical. If we don't get out of here in nineteen minutes, we won't have enough oxygen to get back to star lab.
[00:20:24] Unknown:
What about the O2 pack that under pressure?
[00:20:26] Unknown:
There's only an hour of oxygen in there, Mora, and I don't think an hour is going to make that much difference.
[00:20:33] Unknown:
Like what? God, I have no help.
[00:20:37] Unknown:
It's not over yet, Mora. We've been in worse situations than this. As long as we've got oxygen and lasers and our wits about us, there's still a chance. Way to go, buddy.
[00:20:48] Unknown:
Mara?
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I hear you.
[00:20:52] Unknown:
Mara, does Commissioner White know what's going on out here?
[00:20:56] Unknown:
Yes, I talked to him a few minutes
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ago. Number three's ready to fire, Skip. Good. Mara, we'll call you back when we finish the laser procedures.
[00:21:05] Unknown:
Alright. Starlight's there. Hey, yes.
[00:21:12] Unknown:
Now let's see. Right. 4600AngstromsOfViolet. Wait a minute, buddy. Come on, Skip. Minutes are at a premium. I was just thinking about Commissioner White. So?
[00:21:23] Unknown:
White, buddy. White. I still don't follow. What happens when you spin a color wheel? All the colors blend together and the wheel turns white. And what do you see when you look at the stars? White light. What did the anomaly look like on the screens at star lab? White light. Right. That's it, buddy. That's our leukocyte maneuver. If we run all the lasers through a spectrum filter, we'll get pure white light. And if we interface all the laser generators, we'll have five times the discharge and saturation power. Yeah. Okay. Cross link all laser generators and open the rest of the laser ports. Alright.
[00:22:02] Unknown:
If this attempt succeeds, we'll no longer be able to communicate. I've enjoyed our encounter. And because you've made no attempt to destroy me, I will leave you with something you won't know you have till I'm gone. Shall we begin?
[00:22:23] Unknown:
Sure. Alright, buddy. Fire.
[00:22:35] Unknown:
I am the firstborn of the universe. I am matter and antimatter, singularity and synchronicity, the force that holds a bird in the air, the sounds you hear when androids dream of men. I am old.
[00:23:02] Unknown:
How do you feel, John?
[00:23:05] Unknown:
I don't know. I feel good. I mean, my body feels good. I'm not sick anymore.
[00:23:13] Unknown:
Yeah, neither am I. Whatever it was that made us sick, he took with him.
[00:23:21] Unknown:
He healed us.
[00:23:42] Unknown:
The leukocyte maneuver was based on a story by Anthony DeWitt, and was written by Ron Thompson, and starred Linda Gary, Chuck Olsen, Bruce Phillip Miller, Corey Burton, with special guest star Larry Moss. Associate producer, Ron Thompson. Music director, Tom Rounds. Engineer, Stu Jacobs. Assistant to the producer, Jim Cook. Technical consultant, Peter Sky. Alien Worlds was created, produced, and directed by Lee Hansen. And so, until next week, this is Roger Dressler inviting you to join us for our next adventure from the elsewhere and else when of Alien Worlds.
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