Prometheus Page #3

Are you alright?

- Yes, thank you David.

My pleasure.

Alright doctors, it's real good to have

you back, but where is Millburn and Fifield?

Aren't they back yet?

Kick them up for me.

We've been here before Fifield.

- I know, it all looks the same to me.

Boys this is the captain, listen up.

Between the static

electricity and the wind speed,

there ain't no safe way to come get you.

Temperature is dropping rapidly, so

get your helmets on and stay warm.

Till the storm passes.

Captain, can you get a message to the

scientist and that zealot girlfriend of his?

Know what theyre paying me by?

- No. I think we got it.

Tell them I said... themselves.

Copy?

- Copy that.

Alright boys, keep your heads down

and we'll come get you in the morning.

Sample is sterile, no contagion present.

- David.

So are they all dead?

What? Who?

- Your engineers.

Are they all dead or aren't they?

- I don't know, we just got here.

Scan.

Do you even care if they're all dead?

- Weyland cared.

Dr. Shaw, have a look at this.

That's not an exoskeleton.

- No. - I think it's a helmet.

Let's see if we can lift it up.

- Should be able to pry this open.

It's too heavy for us, David.

Careful.

- Like so.

What is that on its head?

- It looks like neo cells.

In a state of...

- Change. - Yes.

Changing into what?

Can you run a stim line

into Locus Coeruleus?

I think we can trick the nervous

system into thinking it's still alive.

- OK. - No more.

Let me make an incision.

- OK.

Go up, 40.

OK, 40 up.

Did you see that?

See? Go up another 10.

OK, up 10.

Too much, go down 10.

- OK, down 10.

Down another 20.

- I'm trying. - Ford, down.

Ford, stop it!

David, contain it now!

- Contain it, turn it off, now!

Mortal after all.

Ford take a sample.

Let's have a look.

No sir, I will take care of it.

Yes sir I understand, Im sorry.

Unfortunately, slightly premature.

Of course sir.

Miss Vickers?

What did he say David? - I don't

think he'd want me to tell you.

What did he say?

- I'm sorry, that's confidential.

So help me God, I will find the cord

that makes you run and I will cut it.

What did he say?

He said:
"Try harder".

Cup of tea, ma'am?

Genetic view. - OK.

- Let's have a look at its DNA.

Isolate the strand.

Compare it to the gene sample.

Overlay.

- Processing.

Processing.

DNA match.

Oh my God...

It's us, it's everything.

What killed them?

Big things have small beginnings.

Am I interrupting? Thought

you might be running low.

Pour yourself a glass pal. - Thank you,

but I'm afraid it would be wasted on me.

Right, I almost forgot

you're not a real boy.

I'm very sorry that your engineers

are all gone, Dr. Holloway.

You think we wasted our

time coming here, don't you?

Your question depends on the understanding

what you hope to achieve by coming here.

What we hoped to achieve, was to

meet our makers, to get answers.

Why they even made

us in the first place.

Why do you think your people made me?

We made you cos we could.

Can you imagine how

disappointing would be for you,

to hear the same thing

from your creator?

I guess it's a good thing

you can't be disappointed.

Yes. It's wonderful actually.

May I ask you something?

Please do.

- How far would you go,

to get what you came all

this way for? Your answers?

What would you be wiling to do?

- Anything and everything.

That's worth drinking to, I'd imagine.

Here's mud in your eye, pal.

Good health.

It's those things.

Are they real?

Of course they're real.

Jesus Christ, look at the pile,

look how up they are.

Looks like they were

running from something.

Don't touch, OK?

This thing is, opened

up from the inside,

almost like its exploded.

It's like a scene out of some

sort of holocaust painting.

Whatever killed them

is long gone, right?

Where is your position?

- Prometheus, this is Millburn.

We are at 7401477, why?

- I just got a ping.

About one click west of you.

- What do you mean, a ping?

Whatever that probe is

picking up, it's not dead.

It's reading life form.

What do you mean a "life form"?

- Is it moving?

No, I don't think so.

Captain, you're obviously not

seeing what we're seeing down here,

but if you were, you wouldn't

be talking about bloody ping.

Boys, the signal's been coming

in sporadicly since the storm hit.

That's not good to us down here captain!

Is it moving? Are these things moving?

No, it just disappeared actually.

Must be a glitch.

- What do you mean, "a glitch"?

Alright boys, sleep tight.

Try not to bother each other.

- Captain, what do you mean "a glitch"?

Millburn wait!

He said, one click west?

We don't want to go check

that out, do we? - Sh*t no.

Where are we going to go?

- East.

Yeah east. - Glitch man,

glitched life form, what the f***?!

Based on the behavior of the subject

in these holographic recordings,

we're still attempting to identify

what caused the head to combust.

I can't help but wonder,

was there an outbreak here?

You rang, ma'am?

- I have something important to tell you.

What is that?

- This is a rose

that I had frozen with the

champagne. I was gonna give it to you

when we found what we came for.

We did find what we came for.

They were here, this is...

The most significant discovery

in the history of mankind.

I know.

It's incredible, it really is, but...

I wanted to talk to them.

Don't you want to know why they came?

Why they abandoned us?

I just want answers baby.

We were right Charlie. I have proof.

Look.

Their genetic material predates ours.

We come from them.

- Are you kidding me? - No.

OK.

I guess you can take your

father's cross off now.

Why would I want to do that?

Because they made us.

- And who made them?

Exactly, we'll never know.

But here's what we do know.

There is nothing special

about the creation of life.

Anybody can do it, all you need is a

dash of DNA and half a brain, right?

I can't. I can't create life.

What does that say about me?

Ellie, that's not, I didn't mean...

I wasn't talking about...

Children?

- Us.

Elizabeth Shaw, you are the most special

person I have ever met in my life.

And I love you.

No.

How much longer is this gonna take?

I don't know, I'm just the captain.

That thing sounds like

a dying cat, by the way.

I'll have you know that this "thing"

once belonged to Steven Stills.

Am I supposed to know who that is?

You know...

If you wanna get laid,

you really don't have

to pretend to be interested

in the pyramid scanner.

I mean you could just say:

"Hey, I'm trying to get laid".

I could say that, right?

But then, it wouldn't make sense why

I'd find myself half a billion miles from

every man on Earth, if I

wanted to get laid, would it?

Hey Vickers!

I was wondering...

Are you a robot?

My room, ten minutes.

Millburn, what's with this black stuff?

Gazpacho.

Is that tobacco? Is that

tobacco in your respirator?

Yeah, sure.

Tobacco.

On behalf of scientists everywhere I am

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