Higher Power
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(typing)
(intense music playing)
(beeping)
(typing)
I know about your work.
(intense music continues)
I know they turned
their back on it.
What if I told you
I had a plan?
A plan to finally see it
come to life.
(typing)
Because I know for a fact
that it's the only thing
powerful enough to stop
what's coming.
(typing)
(music rising to crescendo)
Voice:
The end.astrophysicist Michael Swaford
from MIT's Kavli Institute
for Space Research
to discuss his new book,
In the End There Was Light.
Welcome to the show.
"The brightest and most violent
event in our known universe",
is what, exactly?
It's a gamma ray burst
or a GRB.
And you believe, Mr. Swaford,
that this light,
the last thing that mankind
will see before we are
blown out of existence?
Yes. That's correct.
Where do they come from,
these GRBs,
and how are they made?
When a high mass star
collapses,
gravity crushes its core
into a black hole.
This black hole immediately
begins to devour the dying star
around it at a rate of
1 million
Earth masses per second.
Now that's far too much energy
for the black hole
to consume at once,
so a majority of that energy
is blasted back out
into the universe.
In the form of two narrow beams
of intense radiation.
And you believe, Mr. Swaford,
right here in our own
Milky Way Galaxy, AWR104
- that could be a likely GRB candidate?
- Yes, that's right.
And that Earth is
lying directly
in the path
of the beam zone.
We are essentially staring down
the barrel of a gun.
(ominous music playing)
(eerie music playing)
(typing)
(eerie music playing)
- (soft piano music)
- (waves crashing)
(seagulls squawking)
Joe:
Hey, you know, I've beenthinking of a couple of names.
Heather:
Oh yeah?Let's hear them. (echoes)
Joe:
What about Rhea?You know, like a ray of light?
Rhea.
Rhea Steadman.
I love it.
What about if it's a boy?
Joe:
Oh, that's easy.Joe Junior.
- Joe:
What?- Yeah, I don't think so.
- (Heather laughing)
- Joe:
Yes! Come on.Uh-uh. Zoe Lorraine, let's go!
S'more time.
Joe:
No, no, I got her.Zoe:
Wait, you forgot a prize.- Joe:
A prize?- Zoe:
This one.It's got magic powers
that make you strong.
Joe:
Thank you.Zoe:
I spy a secret light!Joe:
I spy a secret light. Okay.- Is it that one?
- Zoe:
No.- Joe:
Is it that one?- Zoe:
You win!Joe:
You knowthat's a lighthouse, right?
Check this out.
Watch how it blinks.
One four three.
That stands for...
I.
L. O. V. E.
Y. O. U.
One four three.
- What does that spell?
- Zoe:
I love you!I love you, too, baby girl.
(sirens blaring)
(beeping)
Primary subject:
Joseph Steadman. Forty-five.
DNA analysis concludes
possible match.
- Joe:
What's up, man?- (indefinite chatter)
- Joe:
Anytime bro.(beeping)
Control:
Undergoing psychiatrictreatment for depression,
suicidal tendencies
and recurring
anger control issues.
And the anger.
Have we maintained control?
Yeah. Yeah, definitely. I...
- You remember what happened last time.
- I know. Yes, it's...
again.
I'm doing work. I am, really.
Psychologist:
Remember, if itstarts to happen you have to...
Joe:
Think with my head beforemy heart.
- I know.
- Psychologist:
Precisely.- Precisely.
- You're in control of your emotions.
They're not in control of you.
Control:
His condition remainsunstable.
(instrumental music playing)
Zoe Steadman.
Daughter of test subject.
Twenty-five.
Unable to forgive her father
after the mother's death,
when he left.
- Michael:
Surprise!- (gasps)
Michael:
I got take-out.Control:
Currently puttingherself through nursing school.
Zoe:
I didn't hear you come in.- Control:
She's headstrong...- Zoe:
It's okay.- Control:
...independent and self-sufficient.- It's my favorite.
younger sister, Rhea Steadman.
Substance abuse.
Started at seventeen.
When she decided to follow
in her father's footsteps.
Zoe's attempts at reaching out
have been met with resistance.
Opiates, I'm afraid, have
twisted her perspective.
(Rhea humming)
(Nico whistling)
Control:
Lost would be the best wayto describe her current situation.
Nico:
I know you're in there.Just one more time.
I... I promise.
Rhea:
Just don't do this to me.I told you I'm done
with that sh*t.
Pretty please?
Nico:
I miss your touch, baby.(door lock clicking)
(door squeaking)
(tense music playing)
Agent:
I've got eyeson Subject B.
She just entered the library
on 2nd Street.
Intercepting
Michael:
What do we have here?The Anatomy and Physiology
of Health and Illness.
Oh, sounds like a page-turner.
So are we done here? Can we go?
There's one more.
Michael:
Oh, goody.So, Dr. Apocalypse, I um...
Finally finished it. Your book.
- Oh, good. I'll just be over here...
- (Zoe chuckles)
No, it's just you're...
you're surprisingly chipper
What'd you call it? A cosmic
beam of concentrated energy?
I'm impressed. That's good.
But you know what?
Uh, I've actually been
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