Teleios Page #4

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tries to stop us.

-Operations are fully online.

-Don't get too excited about it.

What've you found?

From the beginning, nothing

has been a coincidence.

The ship was never in any real danger.

It was purposely put close to Titan's

atmosphere shortly before we arrived.

- What for?

- I think it's a part of O'Neill's narrative.

- Narrative? All he's done is

mutt around nonsense.

- He's trying to tell us something.

This was embedded

in the noise that we heard

when we first arrived.

Play first vocal track.

- The cargo will not be compromised!

I order the use

of deadly force against

anyone who goes near it!

- Identify voice.

- Former Commander of the Atromitos.

-The crew didn't randomly go crazy.

There was a dispute about the cargo

that led to warring factions.

Over profits, no doubt.

I don't think that the cargo

is what we've been told.

- What about you? Have you noticed

anything about yourself? That's different?

You have, haven't you?

- Show transverse hallway aft.

Switch to ultraviolet light.

These aren't just squiggly lines.

It's chemistry.

This is a water base liquid compound

reacting with a foreign substance.

Show transverse hallway forward.

The symbolism here is water.

Show cargo bay starboard side.

This is where O'Neill was

right after his jailbreak.

I thought it curious

that when I moved, he

didn't shift the barrel

of his rifle to follow.

That's because he wasn't aiming at me,

he was aiming at the panel behind me.

This is the panel for the main

water filtration system.

Whatever the compound is,

it reacts badly with water.

And the cargo

bay door opening?

That's where the cargo

was jettisoned from.

- None of this helps us find it.

- What about the nature of the cargo?

What if it's

harmful to humans?

Let's find it before we

make that determination.

All we have at the moment is cryptic

messages from a socially deranged inferior.

- I'm gonna pretend that you didn't

just called him "inferior".

- If it wasn't for people like

him we wouldn't even be here.

- If it wasn't for people like

him, we might not exist at all.

-Focus on what we came here for.

-Clever messages.

I suppose it would have

been too much trouble

for you to come right out and

tell us these things?

What did the compound do?

The name of your ship Teleios

in Greek means "perfect",

-Yes, it does.

- Named after its crew

of flawless humans.

We didn't name our ship.

Don't suppose you

protested the name, either.

- You've made your point about

language acumen. For what purpose?

-Maybe you missed the Tolstoy quote.

"The higher a man stands on the social

ladder the greater the number..."

- "the number of people

that he is connected

with, The more power he

has over other people" -

- "the more obvious is the predestination

and inevitability of his every action."

What do you presume

our predestination to be?

- To bring about the destruction

of imperfect people like me.

What does the compound do?

Tell me!

- Duncan, What's wrong with your hand?

- Nothing.

-I was going to...

I don't remember what I was going to tell you..

- If it were released, the cargo would

have been pulled into Titan's atmosphere.

- The container was designed to

withstand re-entry and landing.

-How do we locate it?

- Without more information, it would be

like hunting for a single grain of sand on a beach.

The crowd volcanoes set

off a chain reaction.

In days surface visibility will be

almost nonexistent across Titan.

- This is our only trump card.

If this doesn't work we can

expect nothing from him.

Which is no different than

what he's told us so far.

He's told us a great deal.

-Do it.

- Does anyone care what I think?

- What do you think, Duncan?

-No permanent damage.

I see you've taken advantage of

Zimmer fixing voice control.

I have just one question

and I need a direct answer.

Where's the cargo?

Where is the cargo?

-Sit down over there, Lulu.

Raise your left arm.

-Last chance to answer.

-Well-made, these AH-320 units.

Titanium. Endoskeleton.

Very lifelike.

- We can't do this.

- Why?

- Our mission. We have to stay focused...

- F*** our mission!

-What?

How can you say that?

- When 's the last time you did

something just because you wanted to do it?

You've always been expected to do things.

We all have.

We're the chosen ones, but the one thing

we don't seem to have is a choice.

-Because of who we are.

We have obligations.

-Says who?

- Why do you want me? I can't

even control my own emotions.

-Neither can I.

-Linden was right. I...

I shouldn't have made those mistakes.

I never would have before. I...

I'm distracted.

I try to look at this data,

I try to do my job, but

the only thing that I can think about, the

only thing that... means anything to me,

is you.

-But why?

- I'm a mess.

- No.

I'm seeing you for the first time.

And you are the most beautiful

thing I have ever laid eyes on.

- I didn't tell you

you could get up.

The AH-320s have most of their

vital functions well protected.

Except, there is a soft spot, right...

here.

But you already knew that, right?

Because you have been doing

some changing up here.

There is another soft access panel...

right behind the cranium.

-Stop!

-He speaks.

-Stop.

-Tracking codes.

Tracking codes!

DI713.

Delta, Beta.

Kat was set.

-See?

That wasn't so hard.

-It shouldn't have come to this.

-What does the compound do?

- I've already told you

all you need to know.

- You've seen how the hard way works.

- Okay, I'll explain everything.

Just allow me to repair her.

There's a set of tools in

the cargo bay. Please?

- Zimmer, report to the bridge.

Zimmer, report!

-Goddammit, open the door.

What are you doing?

- What are you doing?

-Your belligerent piece of sh*t.

- F*** you!

- Stop it, both of you calm down!

- Hey...

- Calm down!

-Commander...

We have work to do.

- Detecting rectangular object composed of

A.S.T.M.A. A-588 alloy.

- There's a metal container

at the tracking coordinates he gave us.

Too much methane to get a visual, though.

- Can we get dimensions? I want to

make sure this is not another game.

- I don't think he'd be screwing around

after what he's been through.

-We only have a short window.

- Zimmer, you're coming with me

on the landing pod to Titan.

Orson, stay back with

Anderson and Duncan.

-Talk first.

- Sometimes... terrible mistakes can only

be made right by equally terrible choices.

For a year I tried to forget.

I jettisoned the bodies and cargo,

erased all memory of it on the ship,

including Lulu's.

No matter how hard I tried, I

couldn't erase my own memories.

It's the curse of

the human brain.

So I tried something else.

I embraced it.

I visualized the death and

carnage over and over.

Everything I learned and read, I saw

reflections of what had happened to me.

Though alone I realized I

was connected with human

experience in a way I

never understood before.

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