1
00:00:01,126 --> 00:00:03,795
[Eerie music playing]

2
00:00:06,173 --> 00:00:10,260
(Narrator) You unlock this door
with the k e y of ima Gina t/on.

3
00:00:10,344 --> 00:00:12,262
Beyond it is another dimension.

4
00:00:12,346 --> 00:00:14,848
A dimension of sound.

5
00:00:14,890 --> 00:00:18,852
A dimension of sight.
A dimension of mind.

6
00:00:18,894 --> 00:00:21,855
You're moving into a land of
both shadowand substance,

7
00:00:21,939 --> 00:00:23,815
of things and ideas.

8
00:00:23,899 --> 00:00:27,277
You've just crossed over
into the twilight zone.

9
00:00:33,700 --> 00:00:36,286
(Narrator) It ma y be said
with a degree of assurance

10
00:00:36,370 --> 00:00:39,915
tha t not everything tha t
meets the eye is as itappears.

11
00:00:39,998 --> 00:00:42,459
Case in point: The scene
you're wa tch/ng.

12
00:00:42,543 --> 00:00:46,380
This is nota hospital, nota
morgue, not a mausoleum,

13
00:00:46,463 --> 00:00:48,882
notan undertaker's
parl or of the future.

14
00:00:48,924 --> 00:00:52,135
Wha t it is is the
bell y of a spacesh/p.

15
00:00:52,219 --> 00:00:54,763
It is en route to another
planetary s ys tem,

16
00:00:54,846 --> 00:00:57,224
an incredible distance
from the earth.

17
00:00:57,266 --> 00:01:00,269
This is the crux of our
story, a flight into spa ce.

18
00:01:00,352 --> 00:01:03,772
It is also the story of the things
thatm/ght happen to human beings

19
00:01:03,855 --> 00:01:07,943
who takea step beyond,
unable to ant/c/pa te everything

20
00:01:08,026 --> 00:01:09,861
tha t might a wait
them out there.

21
00:01:17,119 --> 00:01:19,329
(Man) I remember things.

22
00:01:19,413 --> 00:01:23,292
It's more than just void,
darkness, unconsc/ousness.

23
00:01:23,375 --> 00:01:27,004
The mind does work.
There are images, pa tterns,

24
00:01:27,087 --> 00:01:28,672
things to recollect.

25
00:01:28,755 --> 00:01:31,508
It's not just
the long, deep sleep

26
00:01:31,592 --> 00:01:34,303
tha t comes when
the fear has left.

27
00:01:34,386 --> 00:01:39,099
The cold is felt, the sl/pp/ng a way of
feeling is noted and then succumbed to.

28
00:01:39,141 --> 00:01:41,602
The mind functions.

29
00:01:41,643 --> 00:01:44,771
Time is distorted, jumbled,
telescoped, accord/oned,

30
00:01:44,855 --> 00:01:49,443
but there is a
sense of time even so,

31
00:01:49,526 --> 00:01:52,446
and I remember things. I
remember the way it began.

32
00:01:52,529 --> 00:01:56,116
I remember the way
it was in the beginning.

33
00:01:57,909 --> 00:02:01,038
[Knocking]

34
00:02:01,121 --> 00:02:02,789
Come in, commander stansfield.

35
00:02:02,873 --> 00:02:04,666
Dr. Bixler.

36
00:02:07,169 --> 00:02:10,714
Please, be comfortable. The
figure of speech, commander.

37
00:02:10,797 --> 00:02:14,635
Be comfortable in the sense that
there's no need to stand on ceremony.

38
00:02:14,676 --> 00:02:16,970
But there are no seats
to sit down on, either.

39
00:02:17,012 --> 00:02:18,722
I've heard much of you, doctor.

40
00:02:18,805 --> 00:02:22,476
And I of you, and that's
the reason you're here.

41
00:02:24,811 --> 00:02:27,230
You've been an
astronaut for 11 years.

42
00:02:27,314 --> 00:02:29,441
Is that a question, sir?

43
00:02:29,524 --> 00:02:31,985
It's an observa t/on. Should
you not ha ve real/zed it,

44
00:02:32,027 --> 00:02:35,489
you've been the object of considerable
observation for the past several months.

45
00:02:35,572 --> 00:02:37,574
I've been aware of some, doctor.

46
00:02:37,658 --> 00:02:40,744
When the space agency
put me on my project,

47
00:02:40,827 --> 00:02:43,997
they told me to keep in
mind the scientific problems,

48
00:02:44,081 --> 00:02:46,667
but also to be aware
of the human factor.

49
00:02:46,750 --> 00:02:51,004
You, commander stansfield,
are the human factor.

50
00:02:51,088 --> 00:02:53,256
Go on, doctor.

51
00:02:59,638 --> 00:03:02,057
You recognize this, don't you?

52
00:03:02,140 --> 00:03:05,018
Well, this is our solar
system. This is the sun

53
00:03:05,102 --> 00:03:08,563
and here is the earth,
Jupiter, Venus, pluto, Mars.

54
00:03:08,647 --> 00:03:11,525
And what do we know about
our neighbors, commander?

55
00:03:11,566 --> 00:03:13,402
Mars is a vast, scrubby desert

56
00:03:13,485 --> 00:03:15,278
with an unbreathable atmosphere.

57
00:03:15,362 --> 00:03:18,907
Pl uto is poisonous
and extremel y cold.

58
00:03:18,990 --> 00:03:21,201
The moon is barren,
Jupiter, volcan/c.

59
00:03:21,243 --> 00:03:23,203
In short, commander,

60
00:03:23,286 --> 00:03:26,373
our neighbors offer us only
one asset: They're accessible.

61
00:03:26,415 --> 00:03:28,291
They're wi thin rea ch.

62
00:03:28,375 --> 00:03:31,294
Beyond tha t,
they offer us nothing.

63
00:03:31,378 --> 00:03:34,631
Scientific, social,
economic. Anything.

64
00:03:36,133 --> 00:03:38,427
They're the mount
Everest of space.

65
00:03:38,510 --> 00:03:40,303
Once, they offered
us challenges.

66
00:03:40,387 --> 00:03:43,390
Where is the next
mount Everest, doctor?

67
00:03:43,432 --> 00:03:47,602
That's perhaps the most pertinent
question you've ever asked.

68
00:03:47,686 --> 00:03:50,647
This is a planetary system.

69
00:03:50,731 --> 00:03:53,817
To date seen only through
the lens of a telescope.

70
00:03:53,900 --> 00:03:56,737
We know nothing of it except
that there are six bodies,

71
00:03:56,778 --> 00:03:59,990
one of which we can
only assume is the sun.

72
00:04:00,073 --> 00:04:02,576
It's flaming and gaseous,

73
00:04:02,617 --> 00:04:06,288
and it must provide heat and
light for these five bodies here.

74
00:04:06,371 --> 00:04:08,582
It's a small system
like our own.

75
00:04:08,623 --> 00:04:11,752
The planets run roughly
in the same orbital pattern

76
00:04:11,793 --> 00:04:13,670
as we do around our own sun.

77
00:04:13,754 --> 00:04:15,464
Does it have a name?

78
00:04:15,547 --> 00:04:17,841
You may call it
stansfield's mount Everest.

79
00:04:17,924 --> 00:04:21,261
That's where I'm going.

80
00:04:21,303 --> 00:04:23,138
When?

81
00:04:23,221 --> 00:04:26,349
In about six months.
The ship's being built now.

82
00:04:26,433 --> 00:04:29,770
It's off the drawing
board. The keel is being laid.

83
00:04:29,811 --> 00:04:33,523
But it'll take only one man, and
that man should be right there

84
00:04:33,607 --> 00:04:36,151
watching every
rivet, every bolt,

85
00:04:36,234 --> 00:04:39,362
every item of
equipment going in there.

86
00:04:39,446 --> 00:04:41,782
You are that man, commander.

87
00:04:41,865 --> 00:04:44,534
You will be the sole occupant

88
00:04:44,618 --> 00:04:46,369
and you will be its pilot.

89
00:04:46,453 --> 00:04:48,455
Doctor, I...

90
00:04:48,497 --> 00:04:51,291
I like this
assignment very much.

91
00:04:51,374 --> 00:04:54,711
That's precisely
why you were chosen.

92
00:04:54,795 --> 00:04:58,799
Of course, there will be the
usual dangers, the usual unknowns.

93
00:04:58,882 --> 00:05:01,802
In the past, you've had meteor
showers to contend with.

94
00:05:01,885 --> 00:05:05,305
You've had the usual calculated
risk of mechanical difficulties,

95
00:05:05,388 --> 00:05:08,642
landing difficulties, ejection
troubles and the rest of it.

96
00:05:08,683 --> 00:05:11,728
Well, you'll still have those.

97
00:05:11,812 --> 00:05:13,980
Compounded.

98
00:05:14,022 --> 00:05:16,358
We have another factor here.

99
00:05:16,441 --> 00:05:18,568
Another problem.

100
00:05:18,652 --> 00:05:20,695
Distance.

101
00:05:20,779 --> 00:05:25,200
Distance. This system is perhaps
141 light years away from us.

102
00:05:25,283 --> 00:05:27,536
That's a rough
estimate, but a good one.

103
00:05:27,619 --> 00:05:29,120
The ship is...

104
00:05:29,204 --> 00:05:31,164
The ship will have
interstellar drive

105
00:05:31,248 --> 00:05:33,083
and an antigravity device.

106
00:05:33,166 --> 00:05:36,503
It'll be the fastest man-made
object ever conceived,

107
00:05:36,545 --> 00:05:38,547
ever brought to life.

108
00:05:38,630 --> 00:05:42,342
It'll go 70 times faster
than the speed of light.

109
00:05:42,425 --> 00:05:45,679
But in terms of the
space you must conquer.

110
00:05:45,762 --> 00:05:49,683
It'll be like an ant
crawling across the Sahara.

111
00:05:49,766 --> 00:05:51,852
In short, commander,

112
00:05:51,935 --> 00:05:55,856
your trip to these planetary
bodies and back to earth

113
00:05:55,897 --> 00:05:59,943
will take
approximately 40 years.

114
00:06:03,238 --> 00:06:06,116
(Narrator) Commander Douglas
s tansf/el d, as trona ut,

115
00:06:06,199 --> 00:06:10,036
a man about to embark on one
of history's longest journeys.

116
00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:14,249
Forty years out into endless
space and hopefull y ba ckaga/n.

117
00:06:14,332 --> 00:06:16,293
This is the beginning.

118
00:06:16,376 --> 00:06:19,754
The first step toward man's
longest leap into the unknown.

119
00:06:19,838 --> 00:06:22,090
Science has solved
the mechanical details,

120
00:06:22,173 --> 00:06:23,884
and now it's up
to one human being

121
00:06:23,967 --> 00:06:26,553
to breathe life into
blueprints and computers,

122
00:06:26,636 --> 00:06:29,556
to prove once and for all
that man can live half a lifetime

123
00:06:29,598 --> 00:06:33,894
in the total void of outer space,
40 years alone in the unknown.

124
00:06:33,935 --> 00:06:37,480
This is earth. Ahead
lies a planetary system.

125
00:06:37,564 --> 00:06:41,610
The vast region in
between is the twilight zone.

126
00:06:46,364 --> 00:06:49,659
[Slow, steady heartbeat]

127
00:06:59,252 --> 00:07:01,338
(Stansfie/d)
Tha t was the beginning,

128
00:07:01,421 --> 00:07:04,925
tha t brief, unemo t/onal,
very ma tter-of-fa ct coll oouy

129
00:07:05,008 --> 00:07:08,470
between the scientist
and the practitioner.

130
00:07:08,553 --> 00:07:11,806
A small cast of two characters.

131
00:07:11,890 --> 00:07:14,517
And that was the way
it should ha ve been.

132
00:07:15,644 --> 00:07:17,938
But I remember,

133
00:07:18,021 --> 00:07:22,275
I very clearl y remember the
entrance of character number three.

134
00:07:27,072 --> 00:07:29,783
[Man over loudspeaker] Will
commun/ca t/ons team 5-8.

135
00:07:29,866 --> 00:07:33,828
Communications team b-8
report to central control.

136
00:07:33,912 --> 00:07:37,707
Commun/ca t/ons team b-8,
central control.

137
00:07:47,926 --> 00:07:49,678
Oh, a friend in need.

138
00:07:49,761 --> 00:07:51,179
Oh, that's my job.

139
00:07:51,262 --> 00:07:53,473
Picking up papers?

140
00:07:53,556 --> 00:07:56,685
I'm the new morale officer. I follow
people around who look stricken.

141
00:07:56,768 --> 00:07:58,311
Oh, and do I look stricken?

142
00:07:58,395 --> 00:08:00,438
You looked
momentarily nonplussed.

143
00:08:00,522 --> 00:08:03,316
I don't believe we've met. Are
you permanently stationed here?

144
00:08:03,358 --> 00:08:06,653
I'm with the space
agency. And you're?

145
00:08:06,736 --> 00:08:08,989
Stansfield. Commander, u.S.N.

146
00:08:10,365 --> 00:08:14,160
Oh. You're the one.

147
00:08:14,202 --> 00:08:18,081
I don't know whether I should thank
you or report you for insubordination?

148
00:08:18,164 --> 00:08:20,166
I've always wanted to meet you.

149
00:08:20,208 --> 00:08:22,502
Well, I've always
wanted to meet you, too.

150
00:08:22,585 --> 00:08:26,381
No, tha t's true.
I ha ve esp and I, uh...

151
00:08:26,464 --> 00:08:30,260
A long time ago I woke up one early
morning and some inner voice told me

152
00:08:30,343 --> 00:08:34,180
with some intensity that I would
meet a girl with a stricken look

153
00:08:34,222 --> 00:08:37,517
who would drop
papers in corridors.

154
00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:40,228
And did your esp
tell you the name?

155
00:08:40,311 --> 00:08:42,272
Mm, Sandra horn.

156
00:08:48,028 --> 00:08:50,697
Subtle astronaut.

157
00:08:50,739 --> 00:08:53,199
It's been an honor meeting you.

158
00:09:04,294 --> 00:09:06,880
I don't suppose that,
uh, the space agency

159
00:09:06,963 --> 00:09:09,966
could do without your services
for a couple of hours this evening,

160
00:09:10,050 --> 00:09:11,676
just long enough for dinner.

161
00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:22,395
Well, despite the fact
that I am invaluable

162
00:09:22,479 --> 00:09:27,400
and that the whole space
program rests on me alone,

163
00:09:27,484 --> 00:09:31,946
I think a two or three-hour-period
could be carved out.

164
00:09:32,030 --> 00:09:35,909
I'm in the book,
commander. Please, phone.

165
00:09:35,992 --> 00:09:39,746
No, I won't call. I'll pick
you up. I'll be there at 8:00.

166
00:09:39,829 --> 00:09:42,290
Arr/vederci, lady
from the space agency.

167
00:09:42,373 --> 00:09:45,293
At 8:00, astronaut.

168
00:09:46,628 --> 00:09:48,129
Arr/vederci.

169
00:09:54,677 --> 00:09:56,971
(Dr. Bix/er) You are 31
years old, commander.

170
00:09:57,055 --> 00:09:59,641
When you return from this trip,

171
00:09:59,724 --> 00:10:02,310
the earth will have aged
almost half a century.

172
00:10:02,393 --> 00:10:06,147
That's something to contemplate.
I'll be over 70 years old.

173
00:10:06,231 --> 00:10:10,527
I will have lived the better part
of my life out in space and alone.

174
00:10:10,610 --> 00:10:13,988
You will have lived the better
part of it, but you will not have aged.

175
00:10:14,072 --> 00:10:17,951
We intend to try
something new, also a risk,

176
00:10:17,992 --> 00:10:19,619
also dec/dedl y Cal cula Ted.

177
00:10:19,702 --> 00:10:21,412
Freezing?

178
00:10:21,496 --> 00:10:25,125
An extension of that,
but much more complicated.

179
00:10:25,166 --> 00:10:28,878
It'll be a suspended
animation in its purest form.

180
00:10:28,962 --> 00:10:30,713
We've developed a substance

181
00:10:30,797 --> 00:10:33,299
from the lymphoid tissue
of hibernating animals,

182
00:10:33,383 --> 00:10:36,469
plus several vitamin absorbents
and a collection of drugs.

183
00:10:36,511 --> 00:10:39,973
The earth will have aged,
commander, but you will not.

184
00:10:40,056 --> 00:10:42,892
You'll be only a few weeks
older when you return.

185
00:10:42,976 --> 00:10:47,230
Hm. Sort of like dying
and coming to life again.

186
00:10:47,313 --> 00:10:48,523
After a fashion.

187
00:10:48,606 --> 00:10:51,025
But coming to life again

188
00:10:51,109 --> 00:10:53,570
in the sense that there'll
be very few people here

189
00:10:53,653 --> 00:10:56,406
that you will know
or who will know you.

190
00:10:56,489 --> 00:10:58,658
Life will have
changed, commander.

191
00:10:58,741 --> 00:11:01,327
You'll have to begin
living it all over again

192
00:11:01,369 --> 00:11:06,166
as a stranger, as a... well,
as an anachronism, if you will.

193
00:11:06,249 --> 00:11:09,544
All right, doctor.
When do I begin?

194
00:11:09,627 --> 00:11:13,381
You have begun. As of this moment,
you are very much committed, commander.

195
00:11:13,464 --> 00:11:16,259
I'm on the payroll, doctor,
and I just checked in.

196
00:11:25,518 --> 00:11:27,145
Something?

197
00:11:30,356 --> 00:11:33,526
A month from now
you'll be off to space.

198
00:11:35,653 --> 00:11:38,531
And by the time you
come back down again...

199
00:11:43,328 --> 00:11:44,996
You want to talk about that now?

200
00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:51,044
Only for the following
absurd reason.

201
00:11:53,379 --> 00:11:56,716
I've known you for exactly
three and a half hours.

202
00:11:56,799 --> 00:11:59,302
That's what it's been.

203
00:11:59,385 --> 00:12:02,263
Three and a half hours.

204
00:12:02,347 --> 00:12:04,515
A long dinner

205
00:12:06,643 --> 00:12:09,062
and a short dance.

206
00:12:09,103 --> 00:12:10,897
An d already,

207
00:12:12,232 --> 00:12:14,901
already...

208
00:12:14,943 --> 00:12:16,486
Already what, San dy?

209
00:12:18,196 --> 00:12:19,739
Already...

210
00:12:21,407 --> 00:12:25,245
I feel a sense of... loss.

211
00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:32,877
(Stansfie/d)
My life had been space.

212
00:12:32,961 --> 00:12:35,546
It had been missions,
projects and expedit/ons.

213
00:12:35,630 --> 00:12:39,676
There had been no time for intrus/ons
tha t took the form of a woman's face,

214
00:12:39,759 --> 00:12:43,972
a voice, a short month of a man
and a woman drawing together,

215
00:12:44,055 --> 00:12:47,100
becoming a part of one another,

216
00:12:47,141 --> 00:12:52,272
rea ch/ng tenta ti vel y into tha t
strange and mys ter/ous pond of I o ve

217
00:12:52,313 --> 00:12:57,360
and then watching the
r/pples tha t came from it.

218
00:12:58,987 --> 00:13:02,115
But now/ think of these things.

219
00:13:02,198 --> 00:13:07,287
Now they come to mind, now in the
darkness, in the cold, the sol/tude,

220
00:13:07,370 --> 00:13:10,039
the... st/llness,

221
00:13:10,123 --> 00:13:12,625
the I onel iness.

222
00:13:12,709 --> 00:13:15,461
Now there comes
a feeling of warmth.

223
00:13:15,545 --> 00:13:20,091
Sandy. Where are you
now, Sandy, across the void?

224
00:13:21,968 --> 00:13:25,179
My dear Sandy, through
the millions of miles

225
00:13:25,263 --> 00:13:29,475
of cold, empty space.

226
00:13:29,517 --> 00:13:34,480
Through the vastness of a
naked desert of skyand stars,

227
00:13:34,564 --> 00:13:36,691
I love you.

228
00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:42,071
I love you, Sandy.

229
00:13:56,669 --> 00:13:58,671
(Man) Minus 2-30.

230
00:13:58,713 --> 00:14:01,507
[Men speaking
indistinot/ y over radio]

231
00:14:14,979 --> 00:14:17,857
Small, unofficial gesture

232
00:14:17,940 --> 00:14:20,860
from one of the
lesser bureaucrats

233
00:14:20,902 --> 00:14:24,572
of our good,
respectable government.

234
00:14:36,042 --> 00:14:38,586
Unofficial

235
00:14:38,669 --> 00:14:41,381
and very much
apart from protocol.

236
00:14:47,470 --> 00:14:51,224
But I-I couldn't let
you leave, Doug,

237
00:14:51,265 --> 00:14:53,726
not without saying goodbye.

238
00:14:55,353 --> 00:14:57,230
Not without tell you I...

239
00:14:58,856 --> 00:15:01,067
I loved you very much.

240
00:15:03,277 --> 00:15:05,947
And I shall sorely miss you.

241
00:15:07,407 --> 00:15:09,075
And that my life,

242
00:15:11,077 --> 00:15:13,121
whatever there is left of it,

243
00:15:15,415 --> 00:15:18,751
shall be a strangely
meaningless,

244
00:15:18,835 --> 00:15:21,003
dull and

245
00:15:21,087 --> 00:15:24,173
empty thing without
you to share it.

246
00:15:28,386 --> 00:15:30,680
It's Avery odd thing,
Sandy, when I get back,

247
00:15:30,763 --> 00:15:33,808
when I... touch
this earth again,

248
00:15:33,891 --> 00:15:36,018
I know the first
thought I'll have, I know

249
00:15:37,562 --> 00:15:39,439
the first thing
that I'll wanna see,

250
00:15:39,522 --> 00:15:42,442
I know the first

251
00:15:45,111 --> 00:15:47,405
thing that I'll want to touch.

252
00:15:51,617 --> 00:15:53,077
I'll be the

253
00:15:54,787 --> 00:15:57,623
little old lady
in the lace shawl.

254
00:15:59,459 --> 00:16:02,336
The one waving the
"welcome home" sign.

255
00:16:05,715 --> 00:16:08,801
So, look for me. Will you, Doug?

256
00:16:20,062 --> 00:16:22,815
(Man) Two, one, zero.

257
00:16:22,899 --> 00:16:27,653
One, two, three, four and five.

258
00:16:27,695 --> 00:16:30,740
[Engines rumbling loudly]

259
00:16:47,089 --> 00:16:49,550
(Stansfie/d) I move now, I
streakacross the sky,

260
00:16:49,634 --> 00:16:52,929
I Lea ve an earth behind tha t
changes beyond my closed eyes.

261
00:16:53,012 --> 00:16:55,264
Froma warm place
of Lea ves and trees

262
00:16:55,348 --> 00:16:57,892
to a cold orb
hanging ina dark sky

263
00:16:57,975 --> 00:16:59,685
and growing smaller

264
00:16:59,727 --> 00:17:02,772
and smaller and smaller.

265
00:17:02,855 --> 00:17:04,732
And time passes.

266
00:17:04,815 --> 00:17:07,443
It inexorabl y passes.

267
00:17:07,527 --> 00:17:10,071
And I can do nothing about it.

268
00:17:12,114 --> 00:17:15,868
General Walters? Space
contact, sir. A craft spiraling in.

269
00:17:15,910 --> 00:17:18,120
All right, let's
hear the report.

270
00:17:18,204 --> 00:17:20,748
An expedition called
stansfield's mount Everest.

271
00:17:20,831 --> 00:17:22,416
Commanded by Douglas stansfield.

272
00:17:22,500 --> 00:17:24,043
What was the date of departure?

273
00:17:24,126 --> 00:17:26,754
This one's one
of the old jobs, sir.

274
00:17:26,837 --> 00:17:29,048
Departure, December 31,1987.

275
00:17:29,131 --> 00:17:31,717
"Old" is putting it mildly.

276
00:17:31,759 --> 00:17:35,805
All right, check it out in
your report. Let me know.

277
00:17:35,888 --> 00:17:38,099
This one's one of the pioneers.

278
00:17:38,182 --> 00:17:39,767
Been in spa ce 40 years.

279
00:17:39,850 --> 00:17:42,395
First voice
communication we've had.

280
00:17:42,478 --> 00:17:44,146
It's been tracked on radar,

281
00:17:44,230 --> 00:17:46,691
but his communications
must have malfunctioned

282
00:17:46,774 --> 00:17:49,151
a few hours after
he left the atmosphere.

283
00:17:50,736 --> 00:17:52,405
Now, here's a funny one.

284
00:17:52,446 --> 00:17:54,282
How's that, sir?

285
00:17:54,365 --> 00:17:57,577
Well, there's an insertion
from a man named bixler.

286
00:17:57,618 --> 00:18:01,956
He was one of the project people
years and years ago as I recall.

287
00:18:02,039 --> 00:18:05,793
He must have been in charge
of the stansfield mission.

288
00:18:05,876 --> 00:18:08,629
It says we're to contact

289
00:18:08,713 --> 00:18:11,841
a girl named Sandra horn.

290
00:18:11,924 --> 00:18:13,426
Who?

291
00:18:13,467 --> 00:18:15,595
A miss Sandra horn,

292
00:18:15,636 --> 00:18:17,680
a friend of
commander stansfield.

293
00:18:17,763 --> 00:18:19,765
Where would we find her, sir?

294
00:18:19,807 --> 00:18:21,934
An old lady's home?

295
00:18:22,018 --> 00:18:25,271
No, you'll find her
in a hibernation room.

296
00:18:25,313 --> 00:18:30,943
You'll find her a young
woman of 26 years of age.

297
00:18:33,154 --> 00:18:35,656
I hope you find her alive.

298
00:18:48,252 --> 00:18:50,046
General Walters.

299
00:18:50,129 --> 00:18:52,006
Miss horn.

300
00:18:52,089 --> 00:18:55,134
You're looking very
well indeed. You look fine.

301
00:18:55,217 --> 00:18:58,137
Sounds idiotic, doesn't it? But,

302
00:18:58,179 --> 00:19:02,141
what do you say to somebody
who's been asleep for 40 years?

303
00:19:02,183 --> 00:19:04,518
I was told
commander stansfield...

304
00:19:04,602 --> 00:19:07,647
Yes, his ship landed
six hours ago.

305
00:19:07,688 --> 00:19:10,149
I asked to see you.

306
00:19:10,232 --> 00:19:12,068
What about him?

307
00:19:12,151 --> 00:19:13,736
In good health.

308
00:19:13,819 --> 00:19:16,238
Naturally... very tired.

309
00:19:16,322 --> 00:19:19,492
I want to see him.
I must see him.

310
00:19:19,533 --> 00:19:21,577
You shall see him
in just a moment.

311
00:19:21,661 --> 00:19:24,413
I-I had to speak to you first.

312
00:19:26,332 --> 00:19:29,669
I'll try to make this
as brief as possible.

313
00:19:29,710 --> 00:19:33,547
Commander stansfield suffered
a communications failure.

314
00:19:33,631 --> 00:19:38,552
It probably occurred within the
first 12 hours after his departure.

315
00:19:38,636 --> 00:19:40,596
There was only
sporadic contact made

316
00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:43,849
during the entire flight
both there and back.

317
00:19:43,891 --> 00:19:47,103
He reached the other
solar system?

318
00:19:47,186 --> 00:19:49,063
Yes, he reached it.

319
00:19:49,146 --> 00:19:52,191
He landed, he took
off, he returned.

320
00:19:52,274 --> 00:19:56,612
He found no life. But we
found that 20 years ago.

321
00:19:56,696 --> 00:20:00,408
That's one of the ironies
of progress, miss horn.

322
00:20:00,491 --> 00:20:02,702
Could have saved the trip.

323
00:20:03,994 --> 00:20:05,871
Could have saved him

324
00:20:05,913 --> 00:20:07,289
his anguish.

325
00:20:07,373 --> 00:20:10,376
His anguish being the following:

326
00:20:10,459 --> 00:20:12,920
Unknown to us here on earth,

327
00:20:13,003 --> 00:20:15,214
to my predecessors
and to theirs.

328
00:20:15,297 --> 00:20:17,383
Because of the lack
of communication,

329
00:20:17,425 --> 00:20:20,636
commander stansfield arbitrarily

330
00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:23,973
removed himself from hibernation

331
00:20:24,056 --> 00:20:26,809
six months after leaving earth.

332
00:20:28,310 --> 00:20:29,770
He did this because...

333
00:20:29,854 --> 00:20:32,064
I know why.

334
00:20:34,734 --> 00:20:36,152
Oh, god help me.

335
00:20:37,945 --> 00:20:40,072
I know why.

336
00:20:40,156 --> 00:20:44,076
Over 40 years, miss horn.

337
00:20:44,118 --> 00:20:46,245
Forty years in the
cockpit of a ship.

338
00:20:46,328 --> 00:20:48,289
Forty years.

339
00:20:49,707 --> 00:20:52,334
His loneliness must have been

340
00:20:52,418 --> 00:20:56,756
something brand-new
in the human experience.

341
00:20:56,839 --> 00:20:59,842
I wish to heaven he could have
returned to you just as he left,

342
00:20:59,925 --> 00:21:02,428
but as it is, he...

343
00:21:42,927 --> 00:21:44,887
Doug.

344
00:21:47,473 --> 00:21:50,351
You remember me, don't you?

345
00:21:51,685 --> 00:21:53,813
Remember you?

346
00:21:57,441 --> 00:21:59,151
I've spent...

347
00:22:01,362 --> 00:22:04,990
I've spent 40 years
remembering you, Sandy.

348
00:22:05,074 --> 00:22:08,661
Painting a picture
inside my head.

349
00:22:11,747 --> 00:22:13,666
Listening to your voice.

350
00:22:13,707 --> 00:22:17,753
Thinking about your touch.

351
00:22:22,007 --> 00:22:24,677
I've spent

352
00:22:24,718 --> 00:22:26,595
forty years

353
00:22:26,679 --> 00:22:29,515
surviving for you, Sandy.

354
00:22:29,557 --> 00:22:31,684
Oh, Doug.

355
00:22:33,519 --> 00:22:35,938
It can still be that way.

356
00:22:37,565 --> 00:22:39,316
The way you are.

357
00:22:40,943 --> 00:22:43,028
The way I am.

358
00:22:44,780 --> 00:22:47,032
It doesn't make any difference.

359
00:22:47,116 --> 00:22:49,785
Oh, it makes
a difference, Sandy.

360
00:22:49,869 --> 00:22:53,372
It's 40 years difference.
That's too much difference.

361
00:22:53,414 --> 00:22:55,791
You 're, uh,

362
00:22:55,875 --> 00:22:58,961
still beautiful.

363
00:22:59,044 --> 00:23:01,547
Ver y bea ut/ful.

364
00:23:05,426 --> 00:23:10,222
No, you go away now, Sandy.

365
00:23:13,559 --> 00:23:15,269
Please go, hm?

366
00:23:31,243 --> 00:23:32,745
Stansfield,

367
00:23:34,413 --> 00:23:38,500
you are really quite
an incredible man.

368
00:23:38,584 --> 00:23:41,795
It may be the one
distinction in my entire life

369
00:23:41,879 --> 00:23:44,173
that I knew you.

370
00:23:44,256 --> 00:23:48,093
That I knewa man who put
such a premium on love.

371
00:23:49,136 --> 00:23:51,847
Truly,

372
00:23:51,931 --> 00:23:54,308
truly quite a
distinction, stansfield.

373
00:24:05,945 --> 00:24:08,530
(Narrator) Commander
Douglas s tansf/el d,

374
00:24:08,614 --> 00:24:12,034
one of the forgotten
pioneers of the spaceage.

375
00:24:12,117 --> 00:24:15,829
He's been pushed as/de by the flow
of progress and the passage of years

376
00:24:15,913 --> 00:24:18,999
and the feroc/ous
tra ves Ty of fa te.

377
00:24:19,083 --> 00:24:22,044
Tonight's tale of
the ionosphere and irony

378
00:24:22,127 --> 00:24:25,130
delivered from
the twilight zone.

379
00:24:28,467 --> 00:24:30,552
(Male presenter)
And now, Mr. Serl/ng.

380
00:24:30,636 --> 00:24:32,471
Next time out on
the twilight zone

381
00:24:32,554 --> 00:24:35,224
an unusual little item from
the pen of Jerry mcneely

382
00:24:35,307 --> 00:24:38,560
based on a story by Henry slesar
and called intriguingly enough,

383
00:24:38,644 --> 00:24:42,314
"the self-improvement of sal vadore
Ross." This one poses the question,

384
00:24:42,398 --> 00:24:45,484
"if you don't like what you are,
how do you go about changing?"

385
00:24:45,526 --> 00:24:48,070
Don Gordon portrays a man
who really goes the route

386
00:24:48,153 --> 00:24:52,992
when it comes to some basic changing
and the results are most unexpected.

387
00:24:54,994 --> 00:24:57,454
[Eerie music playing]