Spectral Page #6

out of the area of operation.

Kept five aircraft

with the least amount of fuel,

stayed behind with one platoon.

Out of the 240 of us,

we have 19 remaining.

(Sessions) Did you get a message

to higher command?

(Orland) No.

- Is there a rescue mission planned?

- No. We intercepted radio chatter

from Moldovan friendlies

to find this place.

We sent that bird to pick you up

and bring you here.

If you'd even tried to return to base,

you'd be dead.

We're the last U.S. forces in the country?

I hope so.

So, what's the plan, sir?

Came here to regroup, major.

There's no plan.

- I recommend we fortify the entrance.

- Fortify with what?

- We wait till a rescue mission...

- Fortify with what?

They'll come through whatever you use.

- We need to take our chances on a helo...

- There's 20 minutes of flight time!

Twenty minutes of flight time

in those birds. Not more!

There's not enough room

for all of us anyway.

We need to form teams

and take the aircraft.

But where you gonna go, major?

You can't run from them.

You can't stop them.

Your weapons are useless.

We have no idea what they are!

(man 1) If they come through

that door, we're sitting ducks.

(man 2) We can't stop them!

We can't stop them!

(indistinct chattering)

(man 3) Take what we can and go.

I know what they are.

I know what they are.

I know what they are.

(chattering stops)

We think we're seeing things.

We think it can't be real, but it kills.

So, it is real.

It's something.

It's not light, it's not shadow,

or some trick of the mind.

Pass through walls, check.

Outside the visible spectrum, check.

Kills to the touch, check.

Comstock. He was under a ceramic bathtub,

is that right?

Tank armor.

It couldn't pass through tank armor.

M1 Abrams tank armor,

that's ceramic plating everywhere.

It cannot pass through ceramic.

You know what that means?

It means this stuff isn't natural.

Someone made it.

It's man-made.

Man-made how?

Okay. You have solid, liquid, gas.

Lava can turn into rock.

Ice can turn into water. Metals can melt.

These are natural states.

But there are unnatural states.

Artificial states, man-made states.

Condensate.

Bose-Einstein condensate.

A state of matter that was predicted

by Nath Bose and Albert Einstein.

It has some very unusual properties.

It can be slowed down by iron filings.

It cannot pass through ceramic,

but it can pass through walls.

It's so cold it will kill you instantly

on contact.

It can do everything

we've been seeing here.

To create Bose-Einstein condensate,

you need power, and you need a lot of it.

Masarov. The power plant.

Yes, Masarov. Where they were made.

You said this country was pouring billions

into weapons research.

This is a weapon.

- And it was set loose, or it broke loose.

- All right, but these things climb.

They're like humans.

It looks like a person.

So can marble and clay in the right hands.

And I wanna know why.

Why they look like people.

I can't tell you how they did this.

What I can tell you...

is that someone made them.

If someone made them, they don't escape

the laws of the world. Nothing does.

It shines light on new laws,

and that's what we have to learn.

- They have order and structure.

- They can be broken down.

Anything can be. It's just energy.

And since I know what they are,

- I can build the right weapons.

- What kind of weapons?

Plasmic-discharge.

They can tear apart the condensate.

- Where will we find weapons like that?

- We're gonna build them.

- Build them with what?

- Anything we can find in this bunker.

Anything with electronics.

Optics, ballistic casings.

All the gear you brought from base.

We can take it all apart,

and I can build an arsenal.

And then we can go to Masarov

and stop this before it goes any further.

Because if we don't, the condensate

will feed on all the energy in its path.

It'll grow exponentially.

There's no limit

to how far they can spread.

Unless we stop them.

(man 1)

Let's get this gear inside, guys. Come on.

(man 2) Let's move!

(man 1) Same number each side.

(man 2) All right, let's go, boys!

(indistinct yelling)

(man 1) Any med patches in there?

(man 2)

We got three of them over here.

It's a ground-to-air tracking scope.

We can use this. They have good optics.

- Good. This is good.

- (man 1) Two more over there.

(man 2) See that 305?

Half of these are labeled "defective."

We need a voltage counter.

I want you to start testing these.

(man 1) All right, open it up.

(man 2) Get that one open. Pop it.

Is that what I think it is?

(man 1) We got the lotus from base.

(Alessio) That's badass.

- Looks like a mechanical Rottweiler.

- Look at that.

Clyne's making a few changes.

(Alessio) They're taking down a chain

hoist and putting up a searchlight.

Dj vu.

- What does it fire?

- It's a focused energy pulse.

If my math is right...

(whirring)

It should break down condensate.

(Orland) Masarov.

The single largest power plant

in the region.

It's where the killings started.

If they're man-made, they were made here.

It's less than ten clicks from here.

Our birds can make that,

but... it's probably one way.

I've been digging for clues with

the civilians. I found intel on Masarov.

It's been retrofitted several times

over the last decade

by the central regime.

It's got "weapons research"

written all over it.

Okay, you and Clyne need to be

embedded to infiltrate.

It's up to the both of you

to figure out how to stop this.

We have to create a diversion.

We'll draw them out here

so you can infiltrate the structure

and try to find the source.

Clyne's predicting the charge from these

will be extremely hot.

Enough to destroy condensate.

We'll find out soon enough.

All right, boys.

This is it.

If you have any last words...

now's the time.

(guns cocking)

(Orland) All right, listen up.

You are using untested weapons...

against an enemy that, to this point,

has been unstoppable.

Now, you are heading

into unknown territory.

And hear me when I say you're gonna

see things you will not understand.

Our enemy has spread through the city

in a matter of days.

There's no telling

how far they will spread...

unless we fight back.

Most men never even come close...

to changing the future.

This is the place.

And now is the time.

Make no mistake,

you're the last line of defense.

Let's go do what we came here to do.

(guns cocking, then powering up)

(man) Let's go, let's go!

(indistinct yelling)

(sighs)

One minute.

(Sessions) Thirty seconds.

(man) Spearhead 1, proceed with descent.

(man) All right, let's go.

(man) Here we go.

(whirring)

(powering up)

Let's move!

(man over radio) We have a visual.

Hostile target gathering at 12 o'clock

on east end of platform.

(man) Move, move!

(whirring)

(man over radio) We are a go.

(powering up)

I have a confirmed spectral kill.

We're a go. I say again, all units go.

- Let's show them what we've got.

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