The Day The Earth Stood Still Page #4

people are voluntarily evacuating

population centers,

fearing that the sphere in Central Park

may be the vanguard

of an impending alien invasion.

The President and Vice President have

been taken to separate, secure locations.

Until this situation

has some kind of resolve,

I am the eyes and the ears

of the Presidency.

So, what do we know?

Madam Secretary, we lost contact

with one of our DSCS-3

listening satellites orbiting Earth.

What is that image?

Are you saying that sphere

in Central Park isn't the only one?

In fact, we have intelligence

that smaller spheres

have landed at other locations

around the world.

Do we have briefings on that?

And, General,

where exactly

are these spheres right now?

I think we're asking the wrong questions.

What questions should we be asking?

Well, let's start with this.

Where is our satellite?

We lost contact with it.

In the scheme of things,

the loss of one satellite

- isn't necessarily our concern.

- DSCS-3

stands for "Defense Systems

Communication Satellite. "

Remember what it communicates with?

They were able to access our

defense mainframe via that satellite.

That's how they temporarily shut down

our missile defenses

and entered our airspace.

- We've changed all the codes.

- And on top of that,

there is a vast amount

of vital intelligence on that mainframe.

They know everything about us now.

- And we know nothing about them.

- Almost nothing.

The fact that they chose

to disable our defenses

tells us something about their intentions.

Madam Secretary,

we brought in several specialists

to analyze the tissue samples

we harvested from the being.

This is our chief geneticist,

Dr. Hideo Ikegawa.

This is our chief astrobiologist,

Dr. Helen Benson.

- Hello.

- Doctor?

The being is in a nascent state.

The DNA samples we've taken seem

to represent three distinct life forms.

- Three different DNA types?

- Yes, including the being's brain.

The body tissue is human,

as far as we can tell.

The gray flesh encasing it

is organic material,

some kind of bioengineered spacesuit.

What it resembles, oddly enough,

is placental tissue.

Which makes sense, given the placenta's

a life-support system.

And that, basically,

in order to survive in our environment,

the being had to be born here,

in its human form.

They must have come here in the past

and obtained a DNA sample

from a human subject.

Now, since that birth,

the being has grown exponentially.

This is one hour after surgery.

Three hours.

Six hours.

How much can you tell us about it

by decoding its DNA?

You don't understand.

These are the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Geneticists are gonna be

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