Episode 478 - Tuesday, October 9, 1979

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                             LIZ
              Jon let it on board.  Jon let it
              grow inside the turkey.  Jon blew the
              warning signal.

                             LYMAN
              Why.

                             LIZ
              Special Order 937.

                             IRMA
              What's that.

                             LIZ
              That's what I want to know.

    Jon's head is placed on the table.
    His eyes flicker into consciousness.

                             LIZ
              What is Special Order 937.

                             JON
              You know I can't tell you that.

                             LIZ
              Then there's not point in talking
              to you.  Pull the plug.

                             JON
              Special Order 937 in essence
              asked me to direct the ship to
              the planet, investigate a life
              form, possibly hostile and bring
              it back for observation.  With
              discretion, of course.

                             LIZ
              Why.  Why not tell us.

                             JON
              Would you have gone.

                             IRMA
              It wasn't in the contract.

                             JON
              My very point.

                             LIZ
              They wanted to investigate the
              Garfield.  No matter what happened
              to us.

                             JON
              That's unfair.  Actually, you
              weren't mentioned in the order.

                             LYMAN
              Those bastards.

                             JON
              See it from their point of view.
              They didn't know what the Garfield is.

                             LIZ
              How do we kill it.

                             JON
              I don't think you can.  Not
              in this ship, given its life
              support systems.  But I might
              be able to.

                             LIZ
              How.

                             JON
              I don't know quite yet.  I'm not
              exactly at my best at the moment.
              If you would reconnect...

                             LIZ
              No way.

                             JON
              Don't be so hasty.  You'll never
              kill it without my help.

                             LIZ
              We've had enough of your help.

                             JON
              You've barely got any oxygen left.
              If you don't go into hypersleep,
              you'll die with or without the
              Garfield.

                             LIZ
              Nice try, Jon.

                             JON
              I will do whatever I can to help
              you.  I swear it.

                             IRMA
              Pull the plug.

                             LYMAN
              I agree.

                             JON
              You idiots.  You still don't
              realize what you're dealing with.
              The Garfield is a perfect organism.
              Superbly structured, cunning,
              quintessentially violent.  With
              your limited capabilities you have
              no chance against it.

                             LYMAN
              You admire it.

                             JON
              How can one not admire perfection.
              I will kill it because I am
              programmed to protect human life
              as you know.

                             LIZ
              Even if you have contempt for it.

                             JON
              Even then.

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