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I mean like somebody,

who might be worried about you.

- Are you interrogating me?

- Just curious.

- What, you a cop?

- Used to be.

What's out there?

But I'd stay away from there

if I were you.

So why the change of scene?

Doesn't it ever get to you?

I love the space.

Well, scale and isolation can bring out

the strangest things in people.

- Excuse me?

- Doesn't it ever get to a city boy like you?

Tell me about the project.

Well about six days ago, just under 47,000 feet,

the driller broke to the top of the cavity.

- It was great.

- And?

The truth is we know very little about what

lies before the outer crust.

even on average, it's only

If the world were an apple,

that would be thinner than a skin.

Nobody's ever seen below it.

Let alone taking samples of it.

Takes at least five minutes

to reach the bottom.

You won't hear anything

of that depth.

and when the wind blew...

... the driller sends a noise,

that was like the howling of demons...

- What? The SouthWest Wind?

- Yeah. Hidden superstitions.

Like all the garbage, they scroll

in the dorm walls.

- Do you know what it says?

- I don't have to.

- Are you okay?

- Yes, I'm just a little dizzy.

- Why did they write it?

- I don't know.

Seem more like a ritual

than a celebration.

Why weren't you in the video?

Who do you think

took the video?

And you went to have their photos.

Oh God, Jack.

Are you okay?

One moment,

let me help you.

Put your arm around me.

There've been a lot of

strange accidents lately.

Here, lie down.

I'm gonna go get you some ice.

The sooner we can get out of here

the better.

Jack?

God, you looked like you've seen a ghost.

Come on, come lie back down.

It's okay.

Jack...

Do believe in the supernatural?

No. Why?

- Did you see something?

- No. No.

It's just,

there's so many things we can't explain...

... and I just thought I'll

get a scientific opinion.

The way believing the supernatural

doesn't explain anything.

We can't have any irrational thought,

just because we don't understand something.

- There is always a logical explanation.

- Says who...?

Some people fear the unknown.

And that is dangerous.

But some fear make sense.

As life of fear and pain...

- is a security mechanism.

- Sure, when we still live in caves.

Our instinct to fears

have become a liability.

They lead us to kill each other.

Khamsinia Base, Mobile 4.

Base, Mobile 4.

Khamsinia Base, Mobile 4.

Pick up for me, Jack.

Mobile 4.

They found a guy stranded in the desert,

Dr. Ivanov from the drilling team.

Ivanov?

- Alive?

- Barely.

But he has some kind of gas sample with him.

We've sent it to the lab for testing.

When are the cops getting here?

Their priority's the missing crew

so they've asked them to keep you posted there.

- Did Ivanov say anything?

- Not much.

He's in bad shape, ranting in Russian.

- We got Alex to translate.

- Yeah, he was mumbling about...

... something evil being there.

I have no idea what he meant though.

That's weird. JC seems pretty

rattled by something too.

That's the other thing:

According to JaMc, the company leasing

the site, it was an all-Male team.

- There were no women on the project.

- What? Say it again.

They got no record of a Jenny

Christianson, doctor or otherwise.

Are you there?

Jack?

Yeah, yeah, I'm here, Kat.

Send us a photo of her,

we'll check her ID.

and the picture of that grafitti,

and I'll get Yousef to translate them.

I'll get you those photos.

Out.

JC?

JC?

JC!

Jack!

Where were you?

- Where were you?

- Please don't do that.

I couldn't stand being left out here,

alone again.

- I gotta get out of here.

- But we can't.

I'll be over this thing,

in case any crew returns.

- They'll never return.

- How'd you know that?

I'm sorry, I'm...

- How long before help arrives?

- I have no idea.

We're waiting for the police investigation.

- Why don't we just drive out on your truck?

- I already told you.

When did you join the project, JC?

Were you there from the start or you just signed up later?

From the start,

I told you.

My records said,

there were no women on the team.

There was no

Dr. Jenny Christianson.

You think, I'm lying?

Come with me.

This is dated July 12th to

July 19th.

The first shot the week

of our arrival.

When Borman leasing arrangements,

there were some concerns..

that a single woman

among men..

Union rules about separate showers

and toilet facilities and so on...

Our research budget was already stretched

and I would have lost my place on the team...

... had I not agreed to share with the men...

... so Borman falsified my name and gender.

There.

Do you still have doubts?

Just your not in the records.

Brooks.

I'm registered as Dr. Alan Brooks.

They found Ivanov.

Alive.

That's uhmm..wonderful.

Okay, JC.

What's the full story?

You know if I tell you, you'll be like us.

You won't be able to not know.

Try me.

Well, after we penetrated the cavity...

... we were very keen to find out

what was down there.

We stationed a number of remote sensors.

One of them transmits live audio data. Sound.

This is what we're picking up.

- It's almost like wind? Right?

- Yeah. And you agree with me.

- Thank God

- Wait. Wait.

All that sound...

Who are them?...

Like people in pain.

No one believed it at first.

That's just bizarre.

- I mean, it's like it's..

- That's how we all felt.

And for a time, none of us

wanted to talk about it.

This, the drilling crew they begin

mouldering we've released something.

They started seeing things

wandering around the corridors at night.

What things?

Spirits, Poltergeist, Genies...

And, who knows?

Obviously, some kind of mass hysteria.

But they believed what they were seeing.

What about the scientists?

Dr. Varga said, he woke to see

his dead mother sitting at the foot of his bed.

Carrying the corpse of a

still born twin.

I'm certain it contributed

to his heart attack.

I don't know about you...

but I think I need a drink.

Why didn't you tell me

this earlier?

I didn't wanna encourage the

same symptoms in you.

Visions.

Like at the shaft head?

And at the infirmary?

That's how it starts, Jack.

Sake.

Yeah...cheers.

and you attribute all

of these to...

- Like it's some...

- Why not just say the word, Jack?

What? Hell?

Is that what I'm supposed to think?

That hell is a physical place,

that lies just mile beneath us?

and that Borman well,

they drilled into it.

People once thought it geographically

real as Cairo and Jerusalem.

Those inclined to accept the literal

hell still do.

but hell is no more than a spiritual

creation used to instill fear in others.

It's all in our minds.

Hey Yousef...

Would you look at these?

Jack just sent them from Jemalafram.

Crazy.

These are characters from old fairy tales.

- Do they mean anything?

- They write to vanish evil spirits.

- Genia Duwayce...

- What?

A devil woman,

she seduce men.

It's a morality fairy tale.

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