Spectral Page #4

I'm hearing a click back

as soon as I sign over, but no answer.

Keep trying.

She's in shock. Keep an eye on her.

(Talbot) Archer Lima 2,

this is Dagger Team 1. Do you copy? Over.

(man 1)... over there.

- Thanks.

- (man 2) Yeah.

Where's everyone else?

Where's the rest of Utah?

I'm Sergeant Chen. I was with Utah.

We were the second team in last night.

There was eight of us.

- Do you have confirmed KIAs for Utah?

- Well, I can tell you this much.

Sergeant Comstock won't be

on your Christmas card this year.

- You saw insurgents kill Comstock?

- (Alessio) Insurgents?

Is this guy for real?

- What rock were you under?

- I was the radio operator.

We lost come.

I was stuck in the truck the whole night.

- I never saw the active camouflage.

- Active camouflage?

Even if there was a such thing,

and there's not...

how does a human wearing active camouflage

walk through walls?

(Alessio) Or through three mags

of armor-piercing ammo?

I saw Pat pump 150 rounds at one of them.

This thing's killed

at least 19 of our men.

And we have no idea what it is.

Clyne.

You saw it.

What was it?

Human.

Had a human form.

It looked at me, it was conscious.

Like a person.

(scoffs)

Is there anything that explains

what you saw?

No.

Let's pull together

all the functional goggles that we have.

- My goggles were wasted in the crash, sir.

- Yeah. Mine, too. They're trashed.

(man) Forget the goggles.

We can't recharge them anyway.

So, what do we do?

How are we supposed to see them?

Maybe that camera can still help us.

If we get to an elevated position,

we'd have a better vantage point.

Help me with this?

(Sessions) Let's go. Let's move out. Move.

(whirring)

(whirring)

(Sessions) They're everywhere.

(Alessio) Something's stopping them.

Some sort of black sand.

(Comstock) I fell in that sand.

- I had to... pick it out of my hand.

- Let me see it.

- Little, sharp pieces of metal.

- They're iron filings.

- It's pure iron.

- (man) Yeah.

And there's a trail of it...

all the way around the building.

It's a barrier. Someone put it there.

I don't think we're alone.

Let's stack up and sweep upstairs.

Point and shoot?

Point and shoot.

(indistinct chattering)

Breach! Breach!

(screaming)

(girl speaking in foreign language)

- (Sessions) I've got kids.

- (man 1) Clear.

- (man 2) Clear.

- All clear.

Tell them to take the long wall.

Ask them where they got this,

and who else is here.

(speaking in foreign language)

Ask them if there's anyone else

in the factory, and do they have guns.

(speaking in foreign language)

(in English) She says they're here alone.

Only that one gun. No soldiers are here.

- No one at all.

- (man) Major Sessions.

- What's the problem?

- This factory has a transmission tower.

It puts out a huge signal.

So, what's the problem?

Everyone within 20 miles will hear

our conversation with base.

Any insurgent radio will pick up

our transmission.

Insurgents are the least of your worries.

Connect me to General Orland

as soon as possible.

Archer Lima 2, Archer Lima 2,

this is Dagger Team. Do you copy?

(radio static)

Archer Lima 2, Archer Lima 2,

this is Dagger Team. Do you copy?

Archer Lima 2, Archer Lima 2,

this is Dagger Team. Do you copy?

(Toll) You guys are our new recruits.

And believe me... we could use the help.

(both chuckling)

Come on, tough guy. Show me what you got.

(grunting, then chuckling)

(Clyne) Hey, I need to ask you something.

Was it your idea...

to put the barrier... outside?

(speaking in foreign language)

(in English)

Their father. Their father knew.

Their father rolled open barrels

of the iron shavings around the building.

He saved their lives.

What happened to your father?

(Toll) You're a little scrapper,

aren't you? (Chuckling)

(grunting)

(Toll) Hey, buddy, you all right?

Come on, get up.

What are you doing?

(mimics swooshing)

(mimics roaring)

Are you a ghost?

Mm.

Aratare.

(speaks in foreign language)

- He says, "Don't say that word."

- Ask him what they are.

(Fran & Bogdan speaking

in foreign language)

(in English) Lost souls.

Souls of the dead.

They're trapped between life and death,

and they can't find peace.

How's that happen?

He says, "War."

Come on.

If their father put down

the iron shavings,

he knows more about these things

than any of us do.

Ask her where her father is.

(speaking in foreign language)

(speaking in foreign language)

(in English)

Her brother, Bogdan, doesn't know.

He thinks he went to get help.

He died outside,

when he was making the barrier.

She had to bring him in here.

I'm so sorry.

- Okay?

- Yeah.

Ceramic tile.

Ask her how her father knew about

the iron filings stopping the Aratare.

- What else did he know about them?

- (Fran) She doesn't know.

(Clyne) "Masarov."

- What is Masarov?

- (Fran) It's a place.

It's a district up the river.

(speaking in foreign language)

It's where it all began.

It's where the Aratare killings started.

Aratare.

I'm saying we land the helos right here.

Extract us from this roof

and get us the hell out of here.

There are power lines everywhere.

The helos would have to fly low and slow.

Easy pickings

for a teenager with a rocket.

Can you get me up to speed?

You spoke with base?

Yeah. The general's sending in helos

to come get us,

and tanks to secure the landing zone

in an open plaza

- about half a mile from here, at dawn.

- That's a long way on foot.

You think we can make it a half a mile?

With kids?

We don't have an option. Okay?

All the roads are either blocked or mined.

And since we used the tower

to talk to base,

everyone knows where we are.

We gotta move out.

(Alessio) You wanna go running around

with those things roaming the streets?

Even though we have no way to fight them?

(man 1) Better than waiting for them

to find a way in.

(Alessio) The only reason we're

still alive is that barricade out there.

Eventually they're gonna get through.

It's just a matter of time.

- (man 2) Wait.

- (Sessions) We have to take our chances.

- This is the best plan that we have.

- Major.

What if I said I can improve our chances

of making that plaza?

- I'm listening.

- Take a look around you.

Everything in this building...

is filled with this.

Iron dust.

And the iron stops the hyperspectrals.

Exactly. Weaponize it.

- Dirty bombs.

- Best idea I've heard all night.

Let's collect the grenades.

(Sessions) Clyne.

I need you to be our eyes out there.

- Can you haul that camera on foot?

- I've got a better idea.

This camera already projects

the right wavelength of UV light.

If I can turn it inside out, by reversing

the polarity of some of the components,

I might be able to turn it from a camera

into a searchlight.

We'll be able to see them

with our own eyes.

- That'd be a game-changer.

- Think I can talk to the convoy?

I'll them how to do the same

with their equipment.

When they come get us,

they're gonna need eyes, too.

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