Moonbase Alpha Status Report: 2515 days after leaving Earth orbit
Helena Russell and Maya show John Koenig recorded images of the pilot ship approaching Earth,
but John see's an Eagle where Helena and Maya see the pilot ship.
John asks Maya what she see's in the Command Centre and when Maya tells him that she see's people from Earth, John says
he was hoping that her different brain structure would have resisted their telepathic control.
John Koenig tells Helena and Maya that he is the only one on Alpha who
was linked up to the Ellendorf brain complex when their 'friends' from Earth arrived. He asks them to consider
the possibility that the Ellendorf machine could have protected or shielded his mind from the aliens telepathic control.
Maya agrees that it is rather strange that everyone from Earth is someone's friend, it is against probability.
Helena begins to see that John may be right, and agrees with John's suggestion
to hook Maya up to the Ellendorf brain complex machine. Following her treatment, John asks Helena to
look down the corridor and tell them what she see's. Helena does so and tells them she can see Doctor Shaw and Sandra's
fiance Peter. When John asks Maya to take a look she tells them that she can see the alien creatures that
John has been describing.
In the pilot ship, Ehrlich, Bartlett and Carter prepare to land on Earth,
but they are in fact landing close to the Nuclear Waste Domes. They believe they are checking into a hotel
whilst in fact they are entering the domes.
John Koenig asks Maya to transform into one of the alien creatures in order
to find out what they want. However, the creatures become suspicious and realising that Maya is not one of
them, they follow her down the corridor. She is barely able to transform back before they catch up with her.
Maya informs Helena and John that the creatures survive on radiation,
but only the radiation resulting from a nuclear explosion. John checks on the whereabouts of Ehrlich, Bartlett
and Carter and finds that they are still on the Moon, that their Eagle is beside the Nuclear Waste Dumps. He discovers
that the three men are loading atomic fuel from the Atomic Fuel Store into the moon buggy in order to take it to the
Nuclear Waste Dumps.
John takes the Travel Tube to try and get to an Eagle but he is stopped
by Doctor Shaw and Tony Verdeschi, who stuns him. John is taken back to Medical Centre and a guard posted in order to
make sure he does not escape again. Maya stuns the guard and she and Helena wake John.
John asks Helena how long it would take to process all Alphan's on the
Ellendorf brain complex machine in order to break the alien's control, but Helena says it would take too long. However,
she remembers a sonic anaesthetic which she sometimes uses, which would block the telepathic input of the aliens. John
tells her to broadcast the "white noise" to all of the base.
Helena, Maya and John make their way to Command Centre where John holds Tony and the rest of the crew hostage.
Helena activates the "white noise" through the computer so that it reaches the whole base and blocks the telepathic abilities
of the aliens. Tony, Sandra and the rest of the Alphans are shocked to see their 'friends' in their true form.
John Koenig checks on Ehrlich, Bartlett and Carter to find that the
two men are are making their way in the moon buggy to Bartlett with the nuclear trigger.
Tony Verdeschi, John Koenig and Maya take an Eagle to try to stop Ehrlich,
Bartlett and Alan. John orders Helena to cut all non-esssential power in order to deprive the aliens of the small amount
of power they give out.
John Koenig is lowered down to the Moon's surface by harness from the Ealge,
but his attempts to stop Alan Carter and Ehrlich fail as Alan tries to run him over with the moon buggy. Alan and Ehrlich
attack John, pulling out his oxygen tube. Maya arrives just in time and, transforming into a creature, she fights off
Alan and Ehrlich. In the fight Ehrlich's oxygen tank is punctured and whilst John and Maya try to patch it up, Alan
drives off in the moon buggy.
Alan Carter arrives at the Nuclear Waste Domes with the nuclear fuel necessary to create a nuclear explosion. Bartlett
seals the door after them, preventing John Koenig from entering. John drives the moon buggy at the door in an attempt
to break through, and finally manages to do so.
Koenig enters the Nuclear Waste Domes and contacts Maya to ask why the aliens are still able to control Alan and Bartlett.
Maya summises that the aliens are obtaining power from the electrical activity emanating from the brains of the Alphan's.
John asks Helena to knock out everyone on the base except herself and the chief engineer.
John finds Bartlett about to place the atomic fuel into the core. He stops Bartlett and breaks him free of
the control of the aliens. Bartlett realises what he was about to do, and John tells him that he has been living a dream.
The aliens ask Bartlett to consider whether he has been happier living in a dream back on Earth with his loved ones, rather
than living in a reality which he hates.
Alan Carter overpowers John and begins to strangle him. John pleads with Bartlett for help but Bartlett is partially
under the the control of the aliens so he is of little use. John loses consciousness and Alan picks up the atomic fuel
to place it in the core.
John is able to summon up enough strength to fight with Alan and succeeds
in knocking him out. He removes the atomic fuel just in time. The aliens tell Koenig that he is a truly primitive
organism, and reminds him that they could have given him and his people an eternity of happiness in a moment of time.
John replies that it is ..."better to live as your own man then as a fool in someone else's dream".
The aliens disappear.
