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Subtitles By Weekend Pirate. Revised By Kosmikino
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The Visitors
Episode One
Earth In The Year 2484
Directed By
'The 138th Orbit welcomes you to our 'mixed-up' picture gallery.'
'An hour with Mona Lisa.'
"Do You Know The Answer?"
'A television competition for everyone.'
'Switch on your play module,'
'and try to correct,'
'what Mona Lisa has got wrong.'
'In round one,'
'we will show you paintings from the nineteenth and twentieth century.'
'The computer will mark your answers throughout.'
'Correct: Rousseau, nineteenth century.'
'Picasso, twentieth century.'
'Except they were painted a little differently.'
'Your task is to correct the paintings.'
'We are in round two.'
'Hurry, excellent.'
'Mr. Rousseau is now in the right place,'
'and our competition continues.'
'Correct.'
'A pendulum clock,'
'and a ladies'
'hat from Picasso.'
'Watch out for the violin!'
'Even though Mr. Rousseau played for his friends,'
'he was predominantly a painter, not a musician.'
'Two points to you.'
Ah!
I'm sorry, I didn't know.
'Now we hurry into round three.'
'Who was the creator of first generation telekinetics in the 23rd century?'
I know this!
- It was Anderle. - 'And what is the title of his work?'
'Do you remember?'
'Here's a hint:'
'the original is on exhibit at the Museum of Beautiful Arts on the Moon.'
But that's the...
'Tree of Dreams'!
'Yes, but one type of fruit doesn't belong on the tree.'
'Ten seconds to go.'
I think it is the 'citrojab'.
Anderle definitely has a citrojab in the original.
- Those 'amarouns' don't belong! - 'Amarouns, correct, two points to you.'
'Let's play on.'
I'd have bet on the citrojab.
What are we playing now?
First degree alarm.
Stop the game!
'C.B.H.'
'This is C.B.H.'
'Central Brain of Humanity'.
'Danger!'
'An unknown object, calculated in star sector AL 36.'
'It's heading for Earth.'
'Checks required.'
'Exclude all usual programs.'
'Message from C.B.H.'
Log entry: it's exactly 22:31.
'20th May, year 2484.'
'A date which will enter into history.'
This cannot be true.
- Double check! - Done, twice by C.B.H.
A collision with Earth is expected in one hundred and seventy-eight days.
'At this point only two people suspect the future of Earth is in danger.'
'In five minutes time the World Council's president will be told of the situation.'
Daddy, Daddy!
Dad, Dad!
Boys, stop it: Dad, it's almost over!
Er, hop!
Dad!
- Dad has it. - Where?
- Daddy, give it to us. - No, no, hop!
Take the kids away.
Boys, to bed!
No, no, no more chicken.
Take them away.
Something serious, Doggie?
Please don't call me 'Doggie'.
What's going on?
- Has C.B.H. gone mad, or have you? - C.B.H. spotted an unknown object.
'It is 8 hours, 40 minutes.'
'On a sunny day, 21st May, 2484.'
'At 9.00 hours, there is a special meeting of the World Council.'
'In order to discuss the evacuation of endangered areas.'
I excluded the amarouns, mere cucumbers.
I barely managed to put my hair on.
A place in space?
Exactly, and it's the boy’s birthday today.
I commence this emergency meeting.
Refreshments will be later, we have little time.
Because of the seriousness of the situation,
the 'Land Council' is now joined with the 'Sea Council'.
Will this take long?
Dr. Johansson has the floor.
What you see,
is star sector,
'AL 36'.
Concentrate on the centre of the screen.
This rotating cloud was spotted yesterday,
at 22:34.
It signals a grave danger to our planet.
I'll now zoom in on the object.
Data supplied to C.B.H.,
checked by Galileo's orbit.
Independently checked by Luna 3.
Home?
She is out again.
I was to be flying to Bermuda, we've been stuck half a year here.
But my latest research,
suggests fantastic scientific findings.
They used to call it the...
'Bermuda Triangle'.
The object will not hit Earth, it will miss it.
But there's a danger,
Earth will deflect from its orbit, towards or away from the Sun.
This could have catastrophic results,
for the entire existence of humanity.
We have 177 days to find a solution.
What do you propose?
Prepare two evacuation plans,
for the areas which are in danger.
To places,
with a higher chance of survival.
In one hundred days, as the comet gets closer,
we can decide which plan is the best, maybe even earlier.
Even if this means overpopulation?
I am afraid so.
- Home? - Yes, dear.
I've lots of work on, I'll fly back later.
'Observe your pictators.'
'This is C.B.H.,'
'Central Brain of Humanity.'
'Calling, Centre North,'
'The 'Earth Defence Council'.
'Centre North, connected.'
'Centre North?'
'The World Council is waiting.'
'Speak.'
'Speak.'
Earth Defence Council requests to speak.
We're on our lunch break.
I apologise, it's ten degrees below zero.
The suggested evacuation would take humanity back two centuries.
That is, back to the time,
of overpopulation.
But let's be specific.
In the first alternative,
we'll lose 30% of fertile land in the Southern Hemisphere.
Children, excuse me.
Stop, right now!
Leave Duffy alone!
Eva, be sensible.
- Ten percent of underground plantations. - In the north it's up to forty percent.
Alternative number two,
is even more catastrophic.
Zone zero: zone of overpopulation.
But the project for populating the Moon,
which the Defence Council proposed ten years ago, but was opposed,
by energy scientists and dolphins gives humanity unimagined possibilities.
In a hundred and seventy-seven days?
We don't live in fairy tales.
'C.B.H., Sea Defence Council requests to speak.'
'Connecting.'
"And what about us dolphins?", the Sea Defence Council president said.
"The possibility...", I understand.
"The possibility of evacuation to the Moon concerns people, not us dolphins."
"We don't stand a chance on the Moon."
One moment, I don't understand.
Sorry, really?
I will translate.
"We dolphins resolutely protest."
"We also wish to remind you of the existing argument,"
"about damming the Bering Strait."
Your objection is accepted,
with the exception of the Bering Strait point as it's not part of today's talks.
I understand, let me translate.
If nobody from the World Council,
has any other suggestions.
Request to speak, from academician Richard of the historical sciences.
'Adam Bernau'!
Yes!
Must I remind you of the legendary quote,
from the Nobel Prize winner,
academician, Adam Bernau,
genius of the 20th century?
'Memoirs',
'Volume One'.
I quote:
"Those beautiful days of childhood, family harmony,"
"dreams of great inventions, beneficial to the whole of mankind."
"I will never forget the day of my eleventh birthday."
"If for no other reason,"
"than on that day, in the fire which engulfed our house,"
"my book disappeared, one with notes and calculations,"
"relating to travels beyond the borders of time,"
"to which I later dedicated my entire life's work to."
"I often met with my teacher, Alois Drchlík..."
Surely this doesn't belong here, we're trying to solve future not past problems.
Me too, I will continue.
"Another notebook,"
"containing the results of experiments in the fields of physics,"
"and the natural sciences,"
"also disappeared around this time."
"I am extremely sorry,"
"a child's fantasy has no limits."
"I believe that through some naive intuition,"
"I then sketched the wider possibilities of overcoming,"
"the boundaries of..."
"space and time."
"Even more so than I managed in my later practical work."
"A simple principle,"
"allowing us to move through space,"
"entire continents,"
"even worlds."
Our civilisation still profits from the intellectual legacy of Adam Bernau.
Please repeat
the last sentence of the quote.
"A simple principle"?
"Allowing us to move in space,"
"entire continents, even worlds."
And then?
Nothing.
This is where the chapter ends.
There is description of a fatuous love the genius felt towards,
a girl called Ali.
No surname is given in the memoirs.
We leave that passage out during classes.
It doesn't relate to his work.
In fact,
it turns attention,
in an improper direction.
Although, in the commentary...
Yes, we know, that simple principle would suffice,
if it even
existed.
But we
have no right to leave out anything that may avert a catastrophe.
I suggest starting evacuation plans,
while simultaneously sending an expedition into the past,
which will attempt to find the notebook.
You've no right!
We protest!
We disagree!
I know what you want to say.
Our laws no longer allow time travel into the past,
which our ancestors in the twenty-fourth century, abused several times.
We know the law against changing history,
but this is a matter of saving Earth.
Even considering the enormous investments,
such an expedition will require.
What year we talking about?
The year, nineteen eighty-four.
I propose the expedition into the twentieth century goes ahead.
We're interfering with history.
No we are not, the notebooks don't exist.
The first burned, the second was lost.
- The expedition should be lead by... - I already have a name.
Expedition Adam,
"84".
Expedition...
Hope.
Well, bon voyage.
'Expedition Adam 84', will break our exhibit.
What are you going to do?
We will modify it for time travel.
Armour plated, automatic.
You'll destroy it.
It runs on petrol.
Do you know what that is? A small capacity automobile with...
four wheel drive.
It starts even at minus twenty-five degrees Celsius.
Why bother telling you?
'Kein Leo, engineer from the Museum of the Past.'
'Thir...'
'Thirty five years, three children.'
'Specialisation: means of transport, twentieth and twenty-first century.'
- I'll take him as expedition engineer. - Doctor?
'Jacques Michell'.
'Twenty-eight years, epidemiologist.'
'Specialisation: diseases of the past.'
'Ideal type for the expected task.'
'Selfless, single.'
'Tough.'
Yes?
Yes.
Connect me with him.
I expect complete quarantine for all participants.
I have no time to save humanity,
or take part in this experiment; on top of it, I've finally got the flu!
All the data fits perfectly.
Temperature over thirty-eight,
stuffy nose, sweat.
I am testing it on volunteers and myself, I won't use guinea pigs.
It used to be the most common illness, before the discovery of 'antifluin'.
Genius, like all simple things.
Just one little pill.
So swallow it.
In a few days you can catch it without any experiments.
Maybe even the plague.
We're sending a shuttle for you.
I don't understand this study of history; games, just games.
- Essentially a pseudoscience. - What?
I apologise, I didn't mean you.
You are a historian, Richard.
I admire you.
To have the courage to travel into a century of two world wars, starvation,
catastrophes.
There was no plague in the year 1984,
it had already...
Even so.
You want four people in total.
You already have two, a doctor and an engineer.
You still need an assistant,
who will ensure contact with us.
Translate,
collect documents.
Not her, I taught her, twice she brought rabbits to college,
and her weird views.
Mhm.
'Emilia Fernandez.'
'Twenty-three years, zoo-linguist, engineer, historian.'
'Critic of academician Richard,'
'and the works of Adam Bernau.'
'Qualities helpful to time travel and the given task.'
Would you believe C.B.H. hasn't recommended you as expedition leader?
It has no right to change a World Council ruling.
When will you start preparations?
I've already started.
Technical security will take ten days.
The same time to assemble the expedition.
'Dear children,'
'Adam Bernau was born in this house at the end of the 20th century.'
'His father was a television repairman called'
'Karel Bernau, his mother was called Alice.'
'Adam influenced his, and even our time, with his scientific work.'
'Don't touch!'
'On the right you can see his school bag and his toys.'
'We are passing a historical statue of the genius, made by Bertolucci,'
'in the twenty-second century.'
'You are welcomed by Adam's loyal dog, Fido.'
'Reconstructed according to preserved photographs.'
'And now we are entering the childhood era of the genius.'
Welcome.
'His home town...'
I don't know how to switch it off.
We had to cancel fifteen daily school excursions and close the museum,
for the needs of 'Expedition Adam 84'.
for which you were chosen, by humanity and myself.
But I've three children.
It's in the interest of their future.
Typical clothing of the time.
Do not touch.
"It is year two thousand and thirty-four."
"Professor Adam Bernau receives a Nobel Prize."
'Model of the town, Kamenice.'
'From the end of the twenty-first century.'
'Kratzenberg Castle's in the background, which was, according to legend, haunted.'
What else?
- What? - Adam 84.
Adam 84, but why me?
I don't know, but I am saving the world, and total sacrifice is necessary.
For example, I had plans this evening.
'Reconstruction of the famous landmark was completed in the 22nd century.'
'The house of Adam Bernau was then taken apart,'
'and moved from the town of Kamenice,'
'into an Academy of Sciences outdoor museum.'
"Adam, what are you doing?"
'You are listening to a recording of Adam's voice made by his father in 1978.'
'Music and his beloved violin accompanied Adam throughout his childhood.'
'In year one, he was already one of the best students in school.'
Welcome.
I can't find where...
to switch it off.
"He was a straight A stu..."
"He was a straight A stu..."
We had to cancel fifteen daily school excursions,
and close the museum.
But the goal of our expedition...
For which humanity chose us.
- I've my work and three children. - Yes, we should get to know each other.
Forget that we are people of year 2484, that I am academician Richard.
- Leo Kein. - Kein.
- Emilia Fernandez. - Dr. Jacques Michell.
Best without titles, Doctor.
We are surveyors,
and we are coming to Kamenice,
to plan out a motorway bypass.
Myself as the boss, our assistant...
- This is what they slept in. - Really?
Although I don't get why C.B.H chose you.
I hope our cooperation will be...
Yes.
The parents' bedroom.
Please,
follow me.
Our first task will be to learn to live in the given environment.
This is why Adam Bernau's house was chosen as a training centre.
What have you done?
What is this for?
A telephone.
Mouthpiece, earpiece.
This was used for communication in 1984, often over a distance.
And now let us go upstairs; be careful, the steps do not move.
The tricycle which belonged to the genius.
Guest room.
Later.
Bathroom and...
I will explain later.
Here is a simple,
modest,
study room.
I will sleep here.
End of Part One
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