Captain Mathius:
Plot a course for Earth; we're getting the hell out of here.
White:
What?
Captain Mathius:
Lock down any sections of the ship affected by this disturbance. I want it contained, do you understand? We have to get the artifact home. That is our only mission now.
Dr. Kyne:
Captain, listen to me. We're not in control anymore. I'm not sure we ever were.
Captain Mathius:
What are you talking about?
Dr. Kyne:
The artifact, the mission; it's a trap, it has to be. We've brought something aboard that we didn't fully understand, something alien, and it's trying to kill us. We cannot bring the artifact to Earth.
Captain Mathius:
Have you lost your mind, Doctor? The holy artifact must be delivered to the Church if humanity is to be delivered into the welcome arms of the universal awakening!
Dr. Kyne:
Keep your voice down.
Captain Mathius:
Don't tell me what to do, I'm the captain. This is my ship!
Dr. Kyne:
You are being irrational; people are dying. We are all in danger!
Captain Mathius:
The faithless want to destroy the artifact because they fear it. I won't allow it, Kyne, I will not allow it!
Dr. Kyne:
The Marker is making us paranoid and delusional; it's the only explanation for the irrational behavior that has been plaguing the colony, the crew, and now the officers.
Captain Mathius:
This is not irrational, Doctor, this is religious persecution; and I'm not going to allow you or anyone else to destroy the artifact. White, have the Doctor restrained!
White:
Sir, he's right.
Captain Mathius:
He's speaking heresy! He's a spy, planted on my ship to destroy any hope we have of transcending death.
[White and Chic attempt to restrain Matthius as he tries to attack Kyne·]
White:
You need to calm down.
[Matthius strikes White across the face and tosses Chic aside]
Captain Mathius:
I gave you an order, Mr. White!
Chic:
Nobody cares if you're a Uni, Cap. We just want to get out of this alive!
Captain Mathius:
What is that supposed to mean?
[Captain Matthius scans the control room and sees everybody staring at him with worry]
Dr. Kyne:
Captain, please. Let me give you a sedative.
[Kyne raises another syringe like the one he used earlier on Leggio, filled with the same liquid]
Captain Mathius:
Wait a minute... You- You're all with him. He's going to poison me, isn't he?
Chic:
Fuck this, he's lost it!
[Chic and White accost Matthius and hold him down against a railing]
Captain Mathius:
You'll all be arrested for mutiny!
White:
He's out of his mind, Kyne. Give him something!
Captain Mathius:
Get your filthy... Get off of me! We have to bring the artifact back to Earth. The Church needs it. Kyne, you traitor! You're one of us; you were sent here by the Church, specifically, to retrieve the Marker. Just like me! You bastard!
Dr. Kyne:
This is a sedative. Don't fight us; it's for your own good.
Captain Mathius:
Bastard! Get away from me!
Dr. Kyne:
Hold his head!
Chic:
I'm trying.
[Matthius breaks free of Chic and White's hold, attacking Kyne and then attempting to strangle him. As Kyne gasps for air, he reaches out his hands in an attempt to get the syringe into Matthius' neck to sedate him. However, Chic and White come from behind and, in attempting to restrain Matthius once more, push the Captain into the needle. The syringe punctures his ocular cavity and Matthius cries out in pain, stumbling forward, before falling atop Kyne and smashing his face into the ground, pushing the syringe in further. As Kyne lies underneath Matthius, the Captain's health monitor on his RIG begins to drop, finally going out completely. Matthius is dead]
Dr. Kyne:
My God.
White:
Is he...
[White and Chic lift Matthius' body off of Kyne and place it on its back]
Dr. Kyne:
The sedative must have punctured his brain.
White:
You killed him, Doc.
[Looks to the crew]
White:
You all saw it; he killed the Captain.
Dr. Kyne:
It was an accident.
