There is a fifth dimension
beyond tha t which is known to man.
It is a dimension as vastas space
and as timeless as infinity.
It is the middle ground between lightand shadovll,
between science and s upers tit/on
and it lies between the pit of man's fears
and the summit of his knowledge.
This is the dimension of ima Gina tion.
It is an area which we call the twilightz one.
System ready?
Lox tanking secured?
Lox tanking secured.
Her name is the arrow 1.
She represen ts four and a half years
of planning, prepara tion and training
and a thousand years of science and ma thema tics
and the projected dreams and hopes
of not onl ya na tion, buta world.
She is the first manned aircraft into spa ce,
and this is the countdown. The last five seconds
before man shotanarrow into the air.
Three, two, one, zero.
One, two, three, four, five.
I still don't understand how we could have lost it
with all the monitors we have going.
If we had 15,000 monitors going,
the situation would be the same. We lost contact.
She's off her vector path, she's off the radar screen.
Gone, completely gone.
When did you first lose contact?
Less than half hour ago.
There was a short period of heavy interference.
Now, that was probably solar.
We haven't been able to identify it yet.
In any case, when it was over, the contact was broken.
Couldn't a change in their course account for that?
The course was prese t.
Noi/I/, the pilot wouldn't change it
without notifying us. Bob donolan's commanding.
So, an aircraft with an eight-man crew
just disappears like a puff of smoke.
One moment she's there, the next moment she's gone.
"I shot an arrow into the air.
It landed I know not where."
A nursery rhyme of the age of space.
Gentlemen, wherever you are, god help you.
”First entry, log, arrow 1
"col onel r. G. Donolan commanding.
"We ha ve cra sh-landed
"on what? tappears to be an unchar Ted as teroid.
”Ca use of malfunction and ul tima te crash unknown.
There was an explosion, the electrical system went out."
That's all any of us remember.
”An y of us being flight officers core yand Pearson
"a nd na viga Tor huda ck, who has been seriousl yhur t
”and myself.
”The res t of the crei/I/, dead.
”There is very little left of the aircraft.
”The radio is gone.
”The bulk of the s uppl ies ha ve been des tro yed in the crash
"and as of this moment
”there is little cer tain Ty tha t we ha ve been tra cked
and our whereabou ts known."
Begging the colonel's pa rdon
but this is no time to write your memoirs.
Oore y, we 're in bad shape.
That's for sure.
But we're still a crew, and as long as we are a crew
there'll be discipline and there'll be protocol.
Until I'm lying in the hole then we'll operate from the book!
Get over there and sit down.
Colonel donolan, it's hot, see?
It's very hot, and it makes it hard to think.
So if you're going to expend all that energy,
you use it to figure a way out of here.
A way to let them know where we are!
Corey! You heard the colonel.
Pearson, you were with Corey during the crash.
What happened to him?
Nothing that I know of, sir.
I can't understand it either.
How much water is there?
A five-gallon can, what? t we ha ve on us.
Then why waste it?
I mean, he's not going to live through the afternoon.
Are you the consulting surgeon, Corey?
I'm one man out of three who's going to need water,
and five gallons isn't going to last very long.
If the situation were reversed, and it was you lying there,
I'll give you odds you wouldn't want to be written off.
Five gallons of water or no.
Colonel, this man's going to die!
If he dies he dies, but nobody gets behind to push.
If he's thirsty, we give him water.
If he's hot, we move him into the shade.
Then if he goes, we give him a prayer or two.
Pearson, start making the graves.
I'll relieve you in five minutes,
then Corey will relieve me.
Wha t's the ma tter, oore y?
You want him on the detail, too?
Colonel, that's odd.
Signs of the sun, I mean.
Yes, I noticed.
It's hardly any different
than we knew it on earth.
Which means that whatever asteroid we've landed on
is in the same orbit as the earth.
Well, wherever we are, it's a cinch it isn't heaven.
You can count on that.
We've got one thing in our fa vor.
The air is perfect, there's no ra dia tion count to speak of.
It took four and a half years to build that ship.
There wasn't any prototype, just the one ship.
The only one of its kind.
And it took four and a half years to build her.
So, if they know where we are
and they want to come and get us,
they're gonna have to build another ship.
How is he?
The same. Breathing seems shallower, though.
See anything, sir?
Yeah, we saw something,
rocks, rocks and those scrubby mountains over there.
This is no asteroid. It's an eight ball.
And hot, Pearson, hot like nothing you've ever felt before.
It'll be cooler, sir, at night,
if there is a night,
I'll head south towards the moun ta ins,
I'll I ook in tha t dire c ti on.
Colonel!
No t this time, colonel!
Not this time!
I want an even shake. I want a chance.
You're alive.
It's a better shake than those four got.
And I want to stay alive so don't give him my water!
Ool onel!
You'll be happy to hear, Corey,
he's not gonna drink any more of your water.
It's a long way from home.
For the record, Corey, there's just the three of us now,
and the big problem's gonna be to stay alive,
I mean, the three of us.
But if I catch you filching just once more...
Just once... I'll kill you!
The same thing goes for you.
Knock it off, Pearson.
But, colonel, this guy...
Silence!
All right, we'll wait until sundown.
It'll be cooler.
Then we're going to start taking some treks
across the mountain, down the flats
in all four directions.
We 're going to see if there's anything
in this god forsaken place tha t can help keep us alive.
This is home now, gentlemen.
Pearson?
Corey?
Well?
Nothing, not a thing.
I must have gone 12 or 15 miles.
Rocks and hills, that's all there was, just rocks and hills!
I thought maybe I could get some kind of a fix using the stars.
But it's overcast.
Wha tabout Pearson?
Well, what about him?
You were with him.
He went south towards the moun ta ins.
I went west towards... I went west towards nothing.
I told you men to stay together.
Corey?
Yeah?
You didn't see Pearson or hear him or anything?
I already told you, colonel.
We went in different directions.
It's hot out there, huh?
You know it.
It made you thirsty, huh?
I'm getting accustomed to it.
Obviously.
Very accustomed to it!
So accustomed to it that you didn't drink any water.
You were out there 6 hours and you didn't touch a drop!
Put me in for a medal.
Buddy, what I'm going to give you can't be pinned on a uniform.
I want to know why you started out
six hours ago with half a canteen
and then came back with it three-quarters full!
Come on, Corey. I want to know where you left Pearson's body
and what you did with him!
Come on, Corey, come on!
I found him face down.
He must have hit his head on a rock.
He was dead.
Where did this happen?
At the foot of the mountain.
I had to change directions coming back.
You better change your story.
Colonel, I swear to you, I didn't touch him.
I found him... he was dead.
I saw his canteen. I poured his water into mine.
I knew you wouldn't believe me.
Tha t's why I told you I didn't see him.
We're going to bring him back.
You're out of your mind!
It's seven or eight miles out there!
I can't make it again! I'm dead!
Correction, you're not quite dead yet.
All right, Corey, I want to conduct a tour
to Pearson's body.
I want to see for myself. Move on!
I can't make it, colonel.
I got to rest.
All right, let's move out.
Well, this is where he was.
I swear, this is where he was.
Well, he's not here now.
Look, colonel, he must have crawled away.
You said he was dead.
I was wrong.
Well, I must have been wrong.
But you were so sure he was dead, Corey.
You were so positive.
Corey, Corey, did you do anything for him at all?
Did you check him? Did you do anything for him, Corey?
Or did you just steal his water and make a beeline back?
I thought he was dead,
and I was so thirsty.
My tongue was swelling up.
I swear my tongue was swelling up!
Pearson!
Pea rs on!
Pea rs on, I t's col onel donola n.
Answer me!
Answer me, pea rs on! I t's colonel donolan!
Pearson.
Pearson?
Pearson, you're going to be all right, boy.
Here, we're going to take you home.
You'll be all right.
What, are you trying to tell me something, Pearson?
What? What are you trying to say?
What?
You went up there, you...
You sa w something up here?
What?
He drew this.
A sign or,
or a symbol or, or something.
He was trying to tell us something.
What do you suppose he...
Col onel!
Two men can live maybe five days.
One man can live ten.
You'll forgive me.
You killed Pearson, didn't you, Corey?
You killed him.
You're demented, Corey.
You're out of your mind. You've already killed once.
You alread y...
I'm genuinel y s orr y, col onel.
I really am.
But you brought the book to the wrong place.
You brought the protocol,
the chain of command and the numbers.
And none of them fit here.
You know, colonel, this is a jungle
where only the tough animals survive,
and they don't do it according to the rules.
You know your trouble, colonel?
You were looking for morality in the wrong place.
Now you make tracks, Mr. Corey.
You move outand up,
like some kind of ghos tl y bill y cl ub was tapping a t your ankles
and telling you that it was la ter than you think.
You scrabble up rock hills
and feel hot sand undernea th your feet
and every nowand then takea look over your shoulder
a ta giant sun suspended ina dead and motionless sky
like an unblinking eye
tha t probes a t the ba ck of your head
in a prol onged a ccusa tion.
Mr. Core y, la s t remaining member
of a doomed crei/I/, keep moving.
Make tracks, Mr. Corey.
Push up and push out, because if you stop
if you stop, ma ybe sani Ty will get you by the throa t.
Ma ybe realiza tion will pry open your mind
and the horror you left down in the sand will seep in.
Yeah, Mr. Corey, yeah, you better keep moving.
Tha t's the order of the moment. Keep moving.
Pearson!
Now I know what you meant.
Now I know what you were trying to describe.
Telephone Poles.
You were trying to draw telephone Poles.
We never left the earth.
That's why nobody tracked us.
We never left the earth.
We just
we just crashed back into...
Donolan, Pearson, what have I done?
I'm sorry.
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