More than enough to convince the council.
Excellent. Sound an alert. Send a squad out to eliminate them.
Alert status. Full deployment.
I have numerous Phantom contacts!
Of course you do.
Outside of Sector 31 and moving at incredible speed.
What the hell is going on?
They're in the pipes.
They're moving with the bio-etheric energy flow.
That's impossible. Nothing could survive in those pipes.
We've got a big one heading this way. Meta class, sir.
Oh, my God.
Hold your fire!
What have I done?
Come on, Neil. We need a way out. You're our man. Think.
These walls are titanium alloy and the bars are pulse-sonic lasers.
It's not like I can just wave a magic wand and...
- Neil, I'm impressed. - That makes two of us.
Proceed to the nearest evacuation facility.
We should proceed to the nearest evacuation facility.
- Here they come. - But the others! Dr. Sid!
Deep Eyes'll take care of him.
Why can we see them now?
They must be carrying a residual charge from the barrier.
Behind you!
All aboard, captain!
We need to find my ship.
If it was towed here, it would be in the military hangar.
That's a big "if."
Look out!
Get us onto the platform.
Okay, now what?
We're going through the station.
With all due respect...
- Excuse me, captain. - The station.
We're going through it.
It's the only way.
So I gather this will be somewhat of a rough ride?
You've got a talent for understatement.
Hang on, everybody!
Doc?
Interesting.
- Anybody hurt? - Captain.
Oh, God. Talk to me, sarge.
Ouch!
- Give me a hand. - Right.
We're risking further injury. We need the proper tools.
They're in my ship.
- No. No, doc. No drugs. - Captain?
You heard the man.
We'll be back.
- I'll stay with him. - Me too.
Nobody's staying.
- Just give me a gun. - You got it.
Give him a weapon. Do it!
We'll be back for you.
You hear me?
I hear you, captain. Now, get out of here.
Let's move out.
A quad-axle ATV. This is good.
It can be used to retrieve Ryan and bring him here.
We'll need to replace these spent fuel cells.
There could be some live ovo-pacs in the hangar.
Check the hangar. Neil, get us ready for takeoff.
Aki and Dr. Sid, prep the Quatro.
I'll go rotate the airtray.
This city may be lost, but we are not. Let's do this and get out.
Be careful.
You too.
Oh, yeah.
Neil, do you read me?
Loud and clear, captain.
This baby'll fly itself.
Flight path is set.
Beginning rotation.
Stop the airtray. We have a problem.
An impound tractor is attached to the ship.
Can you disengage from the cockpit?
Permission to go outside and detach the coupling.
Do it.
There's the problem.
The controls are locked, naturally.
You think we'll get out of here alive?
I wonder if anybody else has gotten out.
You think anyone's made it this far?
Will this eighth-spirit stuff work against the Phantoms?
What if it's all mumbo-jumbo?
Can we stop talking? I'm trying to concentrate here.
What's happening down there?
Nothing we can't handle.
- Neil, what's your status? - Almost there.
Get back inside.
We're fine. Jane is negotiating with extreme prejudice.
Talk to me, Jane.
No problem here, captain.
Yes! Captain, we are good to go.
Jane, get out of there.
Get out of there now! Go! Jane!
Get the hell out of there!
The shield is powered and ready.
- Where are you going? - To the cockpit.
We're in countdown to liftoff.
No, wait. It's too dangerous. Aki!
Over here, you son of a bitch!
Gray, do you read me? What's happening?
You and Sid are getting out of here now.
- No! We can't just leave everyone. - Everyone's dead!
- I'm not leaving without you. - Sorry, but you don't have a choice.
Goodbye, Aki.
Gray, come on!
I just...
I wish I could believe they were in a better place.
I enlarged the scanning perimeter...
...to include an area that we had previously overlooked.
The impact crater.
Strange place to find the eighth spirit.
Yes, really quite astonishing.
But nothing could survive in there except Phantoms.
Precisely.
Which suggests that the eighth spirit is a Phantom spirit.
I can't explain it at the moment, but once we get down there...
...you will understand... - Wait, doctor. That's a one-way trip.
Yes, I expected that's how you would evaluate our chances.
Well, am I wrong?
No, I agree. We probably...
...won't live long enough to extract the eighth spirit from the crater.
Then why even try it?
Because we don't need to extract the eighth spirit.
If we can't bring the final spirit here...
...we can go there and complete the wave inside the crater.
Yes, exactly.
And how do we do that, exactly?
I can construct a device that...
...would attach to Aki's chest plate to gather the eighth spirit and...
And what?
And then we wait and see what happens.
That's it?
That's your plan? We wait and see what happens?
Oh, good. Well, I got my own plan.
We keep scanning the surface from orbit...
...and maybe we'll find a compatible spirit somewhere else.
I say we go in.
What caused the barrier to fail, General Hein?
I'm afraid it was only a matter of time...
...before the Phantoms developed an immunity to our barriers.
But I am relieved to see that you and the council...
...were able to evacuate to Houston without incident.
It was a terrible loss suffered this evening.
The council has reconsidered your proposal to fire the Zeus cannon.
I see.
We are transmitting the access codes to you now.
And, general...
...best of luck to us all.
Prepare to fire the cannon.
The target, sir?
The Phantom crater.
Preparing to drop in three, two, one.
Powering the shield.
Okay, we're over the meteor.
Do you have it in sight, doctor?
There are so many of them.
Wait.
Yes! I'm tracking the eighth spirit along the crater's surface.
All right. Now let's take a closer look.
Ready to fire in three minutes.
Ovo-pacs at maximum. Transferring plasma flow to auto.
Counter-thrusters are engaged.
Lox flow de-coupled. Status is green.
We have something on radar over the impact site, sir.
It's her.
Sir?
Just a traitor under the influence of the enemy.
Continue the countdown.
We'll take them all out at the same time.
We're closing on the Phantom. Contact in 30 seconds.
Target locked.
Ready to fire on your command.
It's a match! It's a perfect match!
- Scanners ready. - Fire.
What was that?
It's the Zeus. They're firing on the crater.
- Are you all right? - A little shaken. Stand by.
Sid, the eighth spirit is not on our scanner. Do you have it?
The eighth spirit...
...has been destroyed.
- What will we do now? - Nothing. This mission is over.
- Let's get out of here. - Incoming!
What is that?
If you're getting us out, you better do it now.
Hold on!
I can't hold on to you.
Unable to maintain altitude.
Emergency landing procedures.
Come in. Come in, please.
Aki, Gray, can you hear me?
I need to talk to the station. Can you patch us through?
- What is that thing? - I don't know, sir.
Incoming message, sir.
General Hein, cease fire immediately.
What you're seeing is the living spirit of an alien's home world.
Their planet was destroyed and landed here.
This is not an invasion. It never was.
I see. What have we been fighting all this time? Ghosts?
Yes.
Spirits that are confused, lost and angry.
Right. And these spirits are coming out of this Gaia thing.
You have to listen.
Alien Gaia, Earth Gaia. Even if I believed that...
...the Earth's under attack from an aggressor...
...who must be destroyed at all costs.
The cost may be the entire planet, sir.
Firing on the alien Gaia will only make it stronger.
Since you're under the alien's influence, I'll take it that we're...
...taking the correct action.
So take your last few moments and prepare to meet your Gaia.
Continue to fire until the invader has been destroyed.
General, the system's overheating.
We'll hit again and keep on hitting it until it's dead.
But we're not even sure if it's having any effect.
No effect? We've got them on the run, soldier.
This is our moment of victory. I order you to fire.
- The system won't allow us to fire. - We'll see about that.
Our shield is out. We're sitting ducks. Come on!
This is not a good place to be.
What the hell is that? Is it what I think it is?
Yes, it's Gaia.
This is definitely not a good place to be.
Are you all right?
I'm fine. I have to talk to Dr. Sid.
Sid, do you read me?
Go ahead, I'm still here.
We're looking at Gaia. Do you hear me, Sid? Gaia.
This explains why the eighth spirit appeared here.
Yes.
Yes, that's it!
A Phantom changed into the eighth spirit...
...at touching a life born from our own Gaia.
It would've gotten a different energy signature...
...that set it apart from the other Phantoms.
You couldn't have hoped for a better location...
...to find a new compatible spirit.
Whatever you do, don't move. Stay right where you are.
Staying where we are isn't as easy as it sounds.
Don't shoot any of them!
You could very well destroy our last hope.
What do you suggest? Ask them to play nice?
Combat strategy is your area of expertise, captain, not mine.
I have a reading in the fissure. See it?
Yes! A compatible spirit. It must be very near you.
Well? Which one is it?
Which one?
It's difficult to narrow down. Just a moment, please.
It's getting crowded in here. Aki, we don't have time.
With the hope of new life...
...has Gaia changed the Phantom within?
I have it.
Gray, get in here. I need you!
Hear me, Sid? The wave pattern is complete.
Yes, I read you. This is wonderful.
I don't see how you found the final spirit.
It found me, doctor.
Oh, my word.
I see now. I understand.
I don't understand! What's going on?
The ovo-pac will project the wave.
- But we'll be defenseless. - Just do it!
- I hope you know what you're doing. - We'll use it to project the wave.
Dr. Sid was right. I have it. The eighth spirit.
I'm cured, Gray.
- Are you sure you have it? - Yes, I'm sure.
- How can you know? - Don't worry. A Phantom told me.
Oh, great.
That's it. Shield on.
It's not working. We have to do something.
If this doesn't work, then it's already too late.
Trust me.
I'll blast you all to hell.
Oh, no. No!
Get down!
- Warning. System overload. - I know.
- Warning. System overload. - I know!
But it must be done.
Fire.
Fire, damn you!
Fire!
Don't leave me, Gray.
Told Sid this was a one-way trip.
Looks like I was right.
No, Gray. Hang on, please.
I still have the wave.
We can get through this.
- We won't make it. - We will make it.
We both know that isn't true.
Help me.
Listen to me.
You saved my life once. Now I want you to save yourself.
Gray, no. Please?
Let me do this, Aki. Trust me.
Don't leave me, Gray.
You've been saying that death isn't the end.
Don't back out on me now that I finally believe.
I love you.
Oh, it's warm.