- These cliffs, they remind me of the wrinkles
on a wise old man's face,
full of stories, legends.
Epic adventures happened here, and major battles.
A long time ago, the rock giants
arrived on Earth and they endangered our very existence.
And just when everyone thought it was too late,
a legendary creature descended from the sky,
and it was so powerful that it resonated
with the air like thunder.
The Thunderbird battled the giant and defeated it.
When the battle was over, it didn't leave.
It stayed and is watching over us,
high up in the mountains above the clouds,
because the rock giant's still here,
waiting for the day when it can rise again.
I have something I want you to have.
It served its purpose for me.
It's a Thunderbird talisman.
I hope it will keep you safe.
- But Dad, you're protecting us.
- Sweetie, I'm only on this Earth
for a, a brief time in history.
The Thunderbird's forever.
- Hard right, now!
Cory! Come on, man, we gotta record this.
Hey! Come on!
Morning. - Morning, Mark.
Hey.
- Cory, I want you to make sure
that you're getting close on Alice, okay?
Yeah. Yeah.
All right. This is Alice Wright.
Now she developed pretty much every instrument
that you can see here.
- Problems?
- Just some last minute logistics.
- Because if there's a problem I need to let corporate know.
- Susan, everything is fine.
- Who is this guy and why does he have a camera?
- Yeah, wait, um,
we're about to make history here, Ms. Klaas,
and you don't want a, a record of it?
But besides, he's signed all of your NDAs.
That's right?
- Yeah, but I don't even know why I'm here.
- Good. Because you're not here.
None of us are here.
- Mark, is, is this even legal?
- Hey, new guy, she's the one that pays our bills.
Mark, what's our window?
We lose the window in four minutes. Okay.
- Four minutes, okay.
- All right, today we make history,
thanks to a coordinated effort between our team here
on the surface of the Earth
and the PAX orbiting space station.
Today we are about to execute
the first teleport experiment ever attempted.
Now we're gonna start with a small object
and then we're gonna move to bigger objects,
and then hopefully biological elements.
- Yeah, but we need the transmitter
to be perfectly aligned with PAX's orbit.
- Three minutes!
- Okay, in three minutes, PAX's orbit
will be perfectly aligned with us and well,
hey, you, you can't see it, only we can see it,
but um, that's when we're gonna make the transfer.
Here they are.
PAX, Thunderbird One here, do you copy?
- Incoming transmission from Thunderbird One.
- PAX, this is Thunderbird One.
You're entering our communication space.
Do you copy?
Commander on speakers.
- All personnel at stations.
We are entering the transverse window.
- All procedures initiated.
Entering in three sequences.
- Sir?
- Attention, gate opening.
Gate open.
This is not a simulation.
Receiving the target.
- Who's monitoring the storm?
- The storm is miles away.
- We won't have time to reposition if this storm-
- The storm is stationary.
- Storm holding steady, sir.
- They should've brought the plasma cannons.
They're gonna need the boost if this storm interferes.
- Incoming transmission.
- Good morning, everyone.
- We're busy, June.
- Be nice.
- Monitors up.
- Monitors are up.
- Countdown to transport initiated.
- Go ahead.
- Countdown confirmed.
All system holding.
- We got a Condition Red at the receiver.
- Receiver engaged.
All levels sealed.
Projector locked.
- Projectors one and two locked.
- Five, four, three, two, one.
Projector locked.
- Projector three locked.
- This is as far as we have ever been able to get.
- Alice! Get out of there, it's time.
- Emergency: energy levels at security point.
- Energy levels are too high. We need to abort.
- No!
- We can't afford a structural damage.
- The station will hold. Trust me.
It will hold.
- System alert.
Emergency! Emergency!
- Check the receiver.
- We did it!
- Well done, everyone.
Transfer completed.
- Yes! Thank God, we did it.
- Thank you.
- Incoming transmission.
- Dr. Wylde, congratulations. We made history today.
- Yeah, you sent a trinket into space. Good for you.
- Hey, Alice. Good job today.
So what about June?
Do we get to see her finally?
Maybe it's time to reconnect the family.
- I just wanna talk to Alice about tomorrow's test.
- You can talk tomorrow.
- Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
So- - See you later!
- Good night.
- Were they?
- Yes, they are in space.
- Wild. Who is June?
- My big sis. Yeah.
All of this, passion for space, Thunderbird project.
It all started from our father.
- Is he?
- Yeah. And he's up there somewhere.
Look, I need to get back to the lab at ground control.
I wanna look over our data.
- Can I go with you?
No.
Stay here and help 'em pack.
- Okay.
- Headed back to the lab?
- You're more nervous
trying to make a human connection
than actually sending people into space.
Susan, we got fire,
we got beers and the stars.
This is your chance. This is your chance.
This and that'll light up.
Hey look, it's time.
Come here. You need to see this.
All right, um, now you can't
see this during the day,
because there's too much light,
but when it's dark, go ahead.
- That is freaking cool.
- She didn't wanna-
- Danger!
Impact. Impact!
Impact!
Danger!
- I didn't know there was so many shooting stars up there.
- Cory. Cory, Cory, get up.
Take this. Take it, take it.
- Okay.
- We've got a problem.
My God!
- Help me!
- My God! Mark! - Come on.
Come on.
Mark!
Mark! Come on! - Keep going!
Keep going! Come on, Mark!
Let's go. Mark!
What the hell are you doing? We gotta go, come on!
- Ground control, do you copy?
We've just been hit with an apparent asteroid swarm.
The station has been damaged.
We're still operational,
but I'll transmit a damage report
as soon as all sectors have reported in.
- Pressure system activated.
50%.
80%.
Gravity restored.
- We have a breach at level seven.
Please report damages.
Damn!
This is all destroyed.
Cory, will you check to see if the Jeep still works?
- We're good to go.
No! No, no, no!
No.
Did we lose any more equipment?
- Well, one of the transmitters got trashed by the storm,
but we can probably repair it here.
I haven't been able to make contact
to ground control since then.
- Yeah, well they probably lost their communications too.
What about the actual send unit?
- Well, I mean, it's banged up but it's operational.
- Okay, well, we should probably contact PAX
and tell them what the heck just happened here.
I mean, we're gonna have to delay the organics test.
Yeah.
Dr. Stewart's not gonna be crazy about that,
but that is the least of our worries
because the storm trashed our link to PAX as well.
Probably the asteroid swarm
took out some of their equipment too.
I've been outta communication with them
since the start of the storm.
Crap, okay, well, do you think
you can make any of this work?
- Let's see.
All right, batteries are okay.
Um, the main console is still good, so.
- Okay. - I mean,
outside of the communication system
and some wire DI,
I can probably fix everything, yeah.
- Okay. Well, you know what, these, these should work.
I mean, we'll have about, I don't know, a 10-mile range
and ground control is about 60 miles out.
So if I'm going full speed there and back,
we'll be outta communication for about two hours.
- Yeah, I can survive with that.
- Okay, great.
- Alice, you can't go by yourself.
You don't know what you're gonna find out there.
- I'm not gonna go alone. - Susan, you come with me.
- I may be more useful here.
- No, Cory's right.
And it's better to have more options on your way.
Look, I-I'm good here. You guys go.
- I insist. My financial and technical interests are here.
- Look, I will contact you every 10 minutes
until we're outta communication, okay?
- Okay. - Right,
let's do this.
- Be careful.
- John?
- I repaired the leak in the section
aft of the hydroponics lab,
but I need to check in with the doc
before I do anything else.
I cut myself on one of the damn rocks I found inside.
- Would be great if you could get it fixed
before Stew wakes up.
He's determined to do that test today.
- If he can do it any faster,
he's welcome to do it himself.
- John, I really appreciate what you're doing.
Do you have any samples?
- Anything else I can do for you?
- Good news, no fractures, but not so good,
your DMX test shows bone density
is decreasing exponentially.
- I knew this was a risk.
- How's the pain?
- Comes and goes.
Don't look at me like that.
- June, your articular cartilage and inter vertebral disc-
- Come on, Doc, stop throwing medical jargon at me.
- All right, let's put it like this.
If you don't take the next shuttle back down to Earth,
you will lose all mobility.
Forget about walking. You won't be able to turn over in bed.
- My work here isn't done.
There's still the teleportation experiments.
I can't leave the work undone.
- Reminds me.
For you. Special tele-delivery.
Now every astronaut develops osteoarthritis
with exposure to microgravity,
and you've been here how long?
June, you've done great work here. Pioneering work.
You, you, you've done the hard part.
You can rest on your laurels.
Let someone else do the job.
- It's not just ego.
Daniel Habid had been training for this job forever.
He'd be awesome.
But my condition is incurable,
and I'd be in a lot more pain in the higher gravity.
- I'm going to add Celecoxib into your milkshake.
- Does it come in chocolate?
- It tastes like mortadella.
- Dr. Singh! Ma'am.
Ma'am.
- That looks nasty. - What happened?
- Something caught me.
- Right through the Kevlar glove.
Do you think there's any foreign debris in there?
- I don't think so.
- Good, you still have feeling.
We'll have the analysis back later today.
- I need to get back to work.
- No, no, no. I think you should stay right here.
We're gonna keep an eye on you.
John, did you happen to collect some samples?
Well, they just look like rocks.
Sometime rock is just a rock, you know?
- It just strikes me as more than a coincidence
that minutes after a successful teleportation experiment
we've been hit with the worst asteroid swarm
since PAX was constructed.
It's almost as if we woke something up.
I'll take these to Dr. Stewart for analysis.
Thanks, Doc.
- No problem.
You might as well get comfortable.
- Mark? Mark, do you copy?
- Loud and clear.
- All right, we're about nine miles away from you,
so this will probably be our last communication.
- Okay. Well, keep going, we're good here.
Transmitter's almost repaired.
- Awesome, okay, well, hang tight and we'll be back
before you start getting too hangry.
- Okay. Be careful out there.
Over and out.
Over.
Turn right here.
Ground control should be right up this road.
- Sorry to disappoint you,
but I don't think we're gonna make it there.
- What do you mean?
- When we first started the tank was full.
Now it's almost empty.
I think one of the rocks must have hit the tank.
- Okay, well, just keep going,
and we have to hit a gas station or something.
- Sector five operative.
Power lost in sectors three and four.
- Okay, thank you.
Maybe they ran to find shelter.
Weird.
- Yeah, the tank has been hit.
I could try to find something to repair it quick,
unless you wanna find another car.
- Let's try to find something.
I'm gonna go inside and see if there's anyone
that can tell us what just happened here.
You do that.
- Hello?
Hello?
That's.
- Well, that's weird.
Welcome to my world.
- Welcome to my world!
- You're silly.
- Hey, isn't this your dad?
He's talking about you here.
- Yeah, but let's not read that.
- Come on. - No, seriously.
Let's just put it back.
- Sorry, Alice, I didn't mean to.
- It's okay. Don't worry about it.
You know, he was ahead of his time.
Maybe too much.
He never got enough credibility for his theories,
so he just started to slowly lose everything.
You know, the teaching career, his money,
his family.
He just felt like a failed scientist.
A failed husband, failed father.
- I'm sorry.
- You know that day,
I don't know if it was pure chance
or if it was planned,
but we actually ran into him
on a field trip at the Grand Canyon.
We played and we talked.
It's like magic.
It's like if time never passed,
like if we were a family again.
- Now, here's.
What kinda rock is this now?
- Obsidian.
- Right. Right, you two.
Hey! Hey, hey, hey, hey, look at this.
What is this? What is this now,
- Wehrlite.
You knew that that quick?
You are the clever one, aren't you?
Now this, this is what I'm gonna get you on.
What is this?
What kinda rock is that?
It's not a rock.
It was wood, now it's petrified wood.
It's from a tree that used to grow out here
230 million years ago.
Now just because you don't know the answer
doesn't mean you're incompetent.
There's a lot of fake questions out there
and there's a lot of games that don't play by the rules.
You girls are special.
There's no one else like you in the whole universe.
Just remember that, okay?
Come on, let's go to the river.
- He gave me the Thunderbird necklace
and, and then it was time to go.
- Okay, guys, let's go.
- And as I was walking back to the car,
I realized that I left the necklace on a rock.
No, the necklace!
- Fine, I'll go get it.
- After that day, like, June doesn't even wanna
talk to me anymore.
She started focusing on her passion for space
and she just kinda forgot about me.
I guess I triggered too many memories for her.
- Come on, let's go.
Come on, come on, let's, let's leave this place.
Come on. - All right.
- All of the samples seems to be fragments
of one or more S-type asteroids.
Footnote: siliceous.
The individual fragments have smooth margins,
but sharp on the edges.
This suggests they may be part of a larger whole.
- Communication still isn't working.
- Get John back on it.
- Doctor, are you with John?
- No. - Can you please check on him?
- I'm on my way.
- Am I the only one who understands
the urgency of the situation?
If we lose our window for the experiment,
I will have to wait weeks to try again.
- There is something here you need to see.
If this happened as a result of his touching the space rock
we need to be very careful,
and we have to inform Earth to keep people away
from any that might have fallen down there.
- John was supposed to repair the comms array.
- You mean we're still out of touch with Earth?
- I'm afraid so.
- I need to understand exactly what happened.
- Any contact with Alice? - No.
- We need her to recalibrate the machine
for the organics test.
- We need to reestablish a connection with PAX.
I need to make sure those people are still in one piece.
- There's something here.
- Is that?
- Yeah. Yeah, I think so.
- Let me see. - No, no, no, no.
It's, it's fine, it's fine.
It's nothing bad.
Um, you know, we should, we should get back to work.
We got a lot more important things to do here.
Any contact yet?
Maybe try again?
- Alice? Alice, do you copy?
Alice, do you copy?
Alice?
Anybody?
- Cory, do you know where I put my radio at?
I think I left it inside.
- Sample collected.
Scan complete.
- I am still detecting a heartbeat.
- You mean John could be alive in there?
- Do you have the results of the DNA scans?
Could this be some sort of scleroderma in acceleration?
- There's no data until we're back in touch with Earth.
- We're all by ourselves out here.
- Hey, other than the water,
I couldn't find anything else useful.
- So what's this about?
- What?
- You know, the story of the petroglyph?
Well, it's a very old legend,
open to tons of interpretation.
The Thunderbird and the Giant Rock.
Yeah, it's, it's something so bizarre
that happened back in the Bronze Age.
But all stories suggest that a deity
sent creatures down as punishment.
It was a near-extinction event,
which is how most people explain the unexplained.
- What do you mean by unexplained?
- An alien encounter.
The Phoenix Petroglyph,
it dates back approximately 12,000 years ago.
It tells a story of an epic battle
that happened here on Earth,
and how it was saved from an alien organism
that scattered its seeds.
Cory, have you noticed these formations before?
Mark? Mark, Susan, do you copy?
- Shew! That should do it.
Let's try and find some fuel. Come on.
- Yeah, let's go.
We need to figure out exactly what's going on here.
Yes, ma'am?
- I've just lost power in my quarters.
Is it a system's wide failure?
- No, ma'am.
It seems to be local to the lab section.
- Illumination system compromised.
- Computer, seal the infirmary sector.
- The sensors show life forms in the sector.
- I'm in that sector.
- Two life forms detected:
one human, one undefined.
- Seal the whole sector,
but allow my override so I can leave.
Computer, open a security line with Dr. Stewart.
- What is it, June?
- Dr. Singh is dead.
- What?
- It looks like John killed him.
And it looks like John isn't John anymore.
- I'm bringing up security camera footage now.
That's odd.
June, some of the cameras are down.
- No! Susan, don't touch, don't touch me.
I can feel my body changing.
It's, it's something, something from the fragment.
If this is happening to me,
it's happening to, to anyone
that touched the space rock.
You need to find them.
You've got to find them.
I- I can't. I can barely move.
Got it, here, take that, take that, take it to 'em.
Take it, take it, take that to them.
Yes, grab that GPS. Go, go, go!
- Looks like he went on a rampage.
We need to contain him.
Where is he?
- Sector B.
- Let's seal the compartment.
Let's keep him there until we don't know what to do with it.
I'm coming to the control room.
- I'm checking the cameras.
It's barely moving.
Even motion sensor have hard time detecting it.
There!
- We need the results on that DNA.
Is there anything we can do up here?
- Can try in Dr. Singh lab and see what we can do.
- Good. Let's go.
- Professor, as second in command,
I need you to come with me first.
- Why did I wear the cute boots?
- We are here to celebrate Dr. Singh and Rose.
They've dedicated their life to-
- Are they alive?
- Open the deck. Now!
- Now look, June, we need to study this.
- One creature in my station is enough.
Do it.
- No!
- Hello?
Anybody? Hello?
Alice? Cory?
Are you there?
Let's do this.
- Is the sample corrupted?
- It's the assumption that's corrupt.
You're assuming the DNA is human.
- I'll run it again.
There has to be another explanation.
- It's pretty obvious what's happening here.
Brown's study of the Murchison meteorite
at JPL found organic matter.
- But nothing this complex.
Nothing that could create that.
- What does it want?
What does it need?
- How long before we can contain him?
- What if we can't contain him?
- We have to kill it.
- Are you insane?
The first contact with an alien life form in history
and you wanna kill it, again!
- And if it's silicon-based, like Dr. Stewart thinks,
all bets could be off.
- Our core-based are tipped with diamond blades.
- That might do it.
- Flame throwers.
Rock melts at 1,000 degrees Celsius.
- There are some stored in the utility sector.
- But maybe we can trap it.
- We're about to play a cosmic game
of rock, paper, scissors.
And I don't like our odds.
- Do we really have to do it?
- Time to be a hero.
- Where is he?
- He's moving to sector one.
He's coming here!
- Kyle, behind you!
- The flame thrower back it off,
but I'm not sure if it's hurt.
- Wounded animals are dangerous.
- Kyle, I'm coming your way.
Okay!
I think I'm outta flames here.
- The flame made the sensor crazy.
- Emergency! Emergency!
- Elisabeth, he's gone.
Access denied.
It's not working!
- I! - Emergency!
Emergency! - There's too many damages.
- System not responding.
Reboot needed. - It's not working! June!
Come on, guys,
I'm a sitting duck out here.
- Do you have access to an oxygen mask?
- There's a compartment before the lab.
- I need to reboot the whole system.
We will lose life support during the procedure.
- I'm on my way.
He's here.
Do it! Do it now.
- Reboot.
System rebooted.
- Open the door!
Open the fucking door!
No more reboots!
- Ground control.
This is one of the secret Zosgate installations.
- Access denied.
Access denied.
- Come on!
- Access denied.
- It's not working!
Okay, well, if they're out of power,
then the emergency generators must be giving energy
to the main building.
But we're gonna have to go
all the way around this mountain to reach it.
Come on!
- What was that?
You said it was way around the mountain side?
- Yeah. Yeah, I did.
Are you all right?
- It spent some time going back and forth in the hallway.
Then we lost the signal.
Any breaks in the hull?
Anyway he got sucked out the station?
- Negative. He's here somewhere.
- Well, time to be a man.
The last track we have of it is 50 feet on your left.
- I left the flame thrower towards the infirmary.
Maybe we can recover it first.
- You're going the opposite way.
- We're trying to get some weapons at least.
You can come out here, if you prefer.
It's there!
Shit!
- What? What's going on?
- June! Shoot, shoot!
- I can't! This thing is not working!
Run! Run!
Let's go!
Wait!
Door unlocked.
- Come on!
There's more of them.
Emergency generators. We'll try to turn them on.
Hey, but be careful.
We don't know what these things are
or how dangerous they can be.
- You don't have to tell me twice.
Thank God.
This is the equipment Mark was talking about.
Check if there are damages.
- Dear God.
- June, we are ready for the autopsy.
- Thank you. I'll be there shortly.
- Mother of God. What is that?
Alice? Cory, do you copy?
- What the hell were those?
- Just the beginning.
Dad knew it. He knew!
If it keeps this path, it's heading straight to Phoenix.
- What we did back there, you said this was a test.
We were trying to transport something bigger?
- We teleported a necklace, and it took years
and a multimillion investment.
- I'm no scientist, but w-what's the difference
between a necklace and a big rock?
- We need to triangulate with PAX
and the energy needed is.
A rock!
The main part of this project is to complete the transfer
of rebuilding the molecular map of an object or an organism.
But in this case, we need to do exactly the opposite.
- Sounds good to me.
- Yeah!
- The cause of death appears to be hypoxia.
- Just like any other human being?
- Yes.
We had to reboot the whole station
and we lost life support for a few minutes.
In the simulations,
we tried to project a teleported object to an off target.
That's how we have supposed to travel
to other planets, correct?
- We call it the jump.
- Yes, the jump.
What if we jumped that thing into the open space?
- Incoming transmission.
- PAX? PAX, this is ground control.
- Alice, you're alive!
- There is a giant entity
that just destroyed ground control.
It's heading straight to Phoenix,
but, but we came up with this idea.
I know it sounds crazy, but-
- We can teleport it into space.
- Okay, so we have the transmitter
but we don't have a platform big enough.
This thing is too big.
- Okay, Alice, listen.
- We don't have the chip.
We don't have the chip. It won't work.
- Alice? Cory, do you copy?
Susan?
- You will not believe what I just saw.
- We all saw it.
Susan, are you with Mark?
- No. He, he got infected by something.
But before letting me go, he gave me a small device.
It looked like a chip card.
- Susan, you just saved the world.
Susan, if we can hear you,
you should be in the 10-mile range.
Coming from the transmission site, you-
- I have a GPS. I'll send you the coordinates.
- You are a genius.
Wait, Susan, don't move from there.
Dr. Stewart, maybe we have a spot.
If the entity isn't changing its course,
then it's gonna cross Globes's path.
- So?
- Stewart, it's gonna be sitting
on the biggest plate of copper in North America.
- You have your transfer platform!
- Yes!
- We need coordinates.
We need to calculate the right triangulation.
- Okay. Cory, go get the cases, put 'em on the Jeep.
- Gravity pressure activated.
- We can start the calibration.
June, we need to correct the orbit by five degrees.
- Professor, this is not a starship.
We're trying to tow the Titanic with a raft.
- It's our only chance, June.
We need to do it and do it right.
- We're using every drop of fuel from the emergency shuttle.
Do you understand that?
We won't be able to go back on Earth.
- June, there won't be an Earth if we fail.
- Got it, Professor.
You couldn't be more clear.
- We need a 10-second blast on 2.25 clicks.
- Executing in five, four, three, two, one.
- Go! Go!
- Confirm, our orbit's changed to 2.25.
- We're on the right path now.
My God.
Okay, keep going.
We're gonna make a right up here.
Turn right.
Watch out!
Stop. Stop!
Good.
Here, take this.
I'm gonna come help you.
Okay, take this.
Hey, this is gonna work.
We just connect the monitor with the transmitter.
Like this.
Snap. Go get the activator.
Okay, so to activate the transport,
we basically need to align all three corners of a triangle.
Now we need to hit the trigger at the same time.
PAX is gonna send you a countdown
and you need to be very focused, okay?
What we need to do is turn on,
release, hold and then push.
Okay? - Right.
- Okay. This is gonna work.
It's gonna work. Gonna work.
Cory, you sure you can do this?
- Release, hold and push. Can't be that hard, right?
- Susan? Do you copy?
- Copy. - Okay, don't move
from where you are and lose the horse.
We don't want it to interfere with the transmitter.
- Copy.
- All energy converged on the cannons in three, two, one!
- We're falling apart!
- Any trajectory change?
- Zero two.
- Still acceptable. We're still there!
- Susan!
So happy to see you.
Gosh.
You drive.
- Is ground control ready?
- Ground control's gone. Nobody's left.
- Who's managing?
- Cory! - What?
- Now!
- That's it!
- Come on, come on.
I ask for just this one last thing.
Please. - Do it!
- Did it work?
- Of course it worked.
This is, this is where I left him.
This is where we were.
Cory, do you copy?
Cory.
- You're special.
There's no one else like you in the whole universe.
Remember that, okay?
The Thunderbird's forever.