After leaving the sphere, Johnson decides to escape using the submarine docked at Habitat DH-7, a nearby habitat for Navy personnel, but cannot abandon the other survivors. Inside the sphere, he finds a large sea of translucent "foam," and has a conversation in his thoughts with some sort of entity that speaks in cryptic riddles, who eventually tells Johnson that the greatest power humans possess is the ability to imagine things. Rejecting the notion, Halpern decides that Johnson is an imminent threat and defends herself by planting potent explosives around the spacecraft and habitat, and then attempts to suffocate Johnson by manipulating the habitat's life-support system.Įscaping from the habitat, Johnson goes to the spacecraft and enters the presence of the sphere, then the sphere itself. While unable to recall this incident, Johnson comes close to yielding, until he watches a security video of Halpern entering the sphere herself. Halpern accuses Johnson of having entered the sphere and gaining access to the power. Johnson and Halpern sedate Adams and wait for contact to be re-established with the surface, but the manifestations continue. This is confirmed by his childhood fear of squid, especially the giant squid in the novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, manifested in the form of a vast number of small squid and later a giant squid that attacks the DH-8 Habitat. Johnson hypothesizes that the sphere is an object which allows a person's subconscious thoughts to manifest in reality, and Harry Adams has acquired the power through entering it. Johnson realizes he must use psychology to keep the remaining survivors alive namely Johnson, Adams, Halpern.Īfter re-translating the original code, Johnson realizes by transposition the entity's name is "Harry" Adams. While the team struggles to communicate with Jerry, increasingly bizarre and deadly events occur, including the appearance of impossible sea creatures that Halpern claims cannot exist (such as shrimp with no digestive organs), confirmed when Jerry informs them he is "manifesting" the creatures.Īt this point, members of the team start to die in various attacks by giant squid, and the dwindling band of survivors struggle in their dealings with the unthinkably powerful, childlike, and temperamental alien entity.
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Immediately afterwards, the team is contacted by an intelligent, seemingly friendly alien entity that calls itself "Jerry."Īt first, Jerry communicates with the scientists using a numeric code transmitted to the habitat's computer. Adams is found and returned to the DH-8 Habitat where he awakens with a terrible headache and little-to-no memory of how he opened the sphere or what occurred while he was inside. Meanwhile, on the surface, a Pacific cyclone forces the supporting Naval ships to evacuate, trapping and isolating the scientists on the ocean floor for five days. Remaining behind after the rest of the team returns to the habitat, Adams succeeds in opening and entering the sphere. Reasoning the ship's future builders were apparently unaware that it had already been found in their past, Adams becomes convinced that the team will not survive to report their discovery. In a large cargo hold, the team discovers a mysterious spherical object that is clearly of extra-terrestrial origin. The robot is unable to open a hatch leading further inside, forcing the team to don pressure suits and explore the spacecraft.
spacecraft constructed in the future and sent through time, appearing on the seabed at least 350 years before its creation. After their arrival and subsequent pressurization to the habitat's exotic-gas environment, the Navy sends a robot to enter the spacecraft first, which locates and opens a panel near the spacecraft door.Īs the robot's cameras focus on the opened panel, labels in English indicate the spacecraft is actually a U.S. The other scientists arrive safely at Habitat DH-8.
Navy personnel, travel to a deep sea habitat at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, where an enormous spacecraft has been discovered.ĭuring the descent Levine becomes claustrophobic and is returned to the surface. A group of scientists ( psychologist Norman Johnson mathematician Harry Adams zoologist Beth Halpern astrophysicist Ted Fielding and marine biologist Arthur Levine), along with U.S.
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