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from the lab.

Sergeant.

Dr. Grimm.

Hello, John.

Hello, Samantha.

Hello, Samantha!

Sarge,

this operation is a code red.

We really don't have room

for passengers.

Excuse me, but I have orders

to retrieve data

from three servers:

Anthropology,

Forensic Archeology,

and Genetics.

This is a military operation,

Doctor.

We're really not here

to retrieve

your science homework.

Look, I got an idea.

Why don't you ask your CO

what your orders are?

To contain

and neutralize the threat,

protect the civilians...

and retrieve...

retrieve UAC property.

We finally done here?

Because I've got a job to do.

If you'll follow me?

You chose this, Reaper.

Is this gonna spoil my day?

No, sir.

Tell me you didn't let

a fine-looking piece of ass...

like that get away from you,

Reaper.

She's my sister.

No sh*t?

Don't do this again, man.

Do what?

There's three sections

to Carmack's lab complex.

Archeology, Genetics,

and Weapons Research.

You test weapons up here?

Well, it's a dead planet.

You want that stuff

tested here, where it's safe,

or in your own backyard?

We're primarily

an archeological operation.

Weapons Research is in

its own separate facility.

It has nothing to do

with Dr. Carmack's work.

How many inside

when the lab shut down?

Only Dr. Carmack's team.

That's six people.

In one of the carbon dating

labs, there was

an internal phone...

left off the hook.

Did you get any information

from it?

Open the door.

Portman, Goat, lead on.

Magnesium, chromium, lead.

It's all normal.

All clear.

Pinky, give us a schematic.

Uploading to you now.

Carmack's lab is isolated

from the rest of the facility.

The airlock is the only way

in or out.

Goat, Portman:
Genetics.

Kid, Destroyer:

Carmack's office,

where he sent the mayday from.

Reaper, keep Dr. Grimm here

safe on her salvage op.

Duke and I'll take

the weapons lab, make sure

all the hardware's secure.

Be safe, gentlemen.

Portman, Goat, on you.

It's on.

Clear left.

Clear right.

$5 says this sh*t ain't

nothing but a disgruntled

employee with a gun.

Fluorescent markings

as rooms are cleared. Go.

They're on the move.

You don't look like a "Mac."

Katsuhiko Kumanosuke Takaashi.

So, Mac.

What the f***!

Pinky, you getting this?

Jesus.

Very cool.

Cleared.

Where the hell is everybody?

Hey.

Lock in.

It's clear.

How much time you gonna need?

Thirty minutes, tops.

Goat, Portman.

There's another room

to the north.

Past Genetics.

Copy that.

What the hell is that?

You never did time, Portman?

What?

This is a holding cell.

Bullshit.

What makes you think that?

Touch it.

'Cause the walls

are electrified.

You a**hole!

Jeez. They leave sh*t

like this lying around?

I'd hate to see

what they lock up.

"BFG."

Hey, Sarge, what's the deal

with the sister?

Reaper's parents

led the first team

of archeologists to Olduvai.

They died in some accident

when he was a kid.

She followed in their

footsteps, and he didn't.

No, what I meant was,

is she single?

Please provide

DNA verification.

Access denied.

All units report contact.

God damn it,

all units report contact.

Hey.

It was moving.

Friendly fire, Sarge.

Wasting ghosts.

Roger that. Funny, Duke.

So, "Reaper"? As in "Grim"?

They're Marines, Sam,

not poets.

Holy sh*t!

Oh, yeah, meet Lucy.

Lucy, this is my brother,

John...

another creature

from the long lost past.

You found human remains?

Humanoid.

Lucy and her child

were our first major find.

We're bringing out more

every day.

You re-opened the dig?

I know I should have told you.

I didn't figure it was

the sort of thing...

I could jot down on

a yearly birthday card.

It's been stabilized.

Bullshit.

You wanna talk about safe?

Like you took a desk job?

I'm a forensic archeologist,

John. I'll go where

the work is.

Is that the only reason

you're up here?

You wanna know

why I'm up here?

I'll show you. Come here.

This is Lucy's chromosome

profile. Notice anything?

My molecular genetics

is a little rusty.

What's the first thing

Dad taught us to look for?

She's got 24 pairs

of chromosomes.

Humans only have 23.

But what does

the extra pair do?

Makes her superhuman.

The extra pair makes

her super strong...

super fit, super intelligent.

Her cells divide

meaning she heals

almost instantly.

The fossil record

indicates these people

had conquered disease.

We found no genetic disorders,

no viruses, no cancers.

So what, they were just

naturally superior?

No. Not naturally.

See, the earliest remains

we found only had 23.

We suspect this extra

chromosome may be synthetic.

Bioengineered?

That's a long word

for a Marine.

Does it ever bother you...

you could've spent your life

looking in a microscope...

instead of a sniper scope?

If they were so smart,

how come they're so dead?

We don't know.

Maybe they just went

with time.

You don't shield a baby

from time.

We got movement up ahead.

You stay here, okay?

Lock the door.

F***ing door has

been ripped open.

There's something

in Carmack's office.

There!

Contact!

Moving east through

Carmack's office! Fast!

Confirmed contact. Moving

fast, over south corridor.

Hold your fire!

If you have a weapon, drop it.

Don't move.

Sam, I told you to stay...

But he knows me, John.

Dr. Carmack, it's me.

Samantha.

Where are the others?

Where are they?

Steve, Hillary...

I'm not gonna hurt you.

I'm not gonna hurt you.

Ah!

Jesus Christ!

Oh, damn.

Get a med kit.

Nice.

I'm not gonna hurt you.

Duke, get him to the infirmary

with Dr. Grimm.

Portman, Kid, go to

the airlock and dig in.

Anything trying to get away

from us will get driven

straight to you.

Now let's see

if we can find the body

that goes with that arm.

It's messed up, huh?

Guy like Carmack...

who's trained to put logic

before emotion...

he's so freaked, huh...

he tears off his own ear?

I tell you, man.

It's sh*t like that

that gets under your skin.

Do you...

Do you have any?

Do I have any?

What?

You know.

I'm just a little shook up.

I need something

to get my focus, man.

My game face.

God damn it!

I took His name in vain.

Sh*t.

There is a God.

Ma'am.

Excuse me, ma'am.

Sarge...

I think we found

the rest of that arm.

No, no.

No, no, I don't do nanowalls.

Yes, you do.

You got him? Wait here.

Sh*t.

Two, three.

You okay?

Did they find the others?

Not yet.

My husband is with them.

I'm sure Steve's fine.

Dr. Carmack, I'm going to

take your blood pressure.

Hey...

It's okay, it's okay.

I can feel it.

What happened in there?

Shut it, shut it down.

Shut it down.

S-Shut it down.

It's inside.

We heard something

in Genetics.

We're re-entering.

That's affirmative, Reaper.

Looks like

we missed the party.

We were just here.

What happened

to all the animals?

Sir, RRTS. We're here to help.

Sir, are you okay?

Okay.

No, no, no. Sir, put it down.

Contact report.

Damn it.

We found another

one of the scientists.

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