This ends here!
Y-You're...
You two okay?
James!
Why are you here?
The same reason you two are.
I came here to figure out why the G-reactors have stopped working.
And just look at this mess.
We were too late.
That man killed Professor Odewald.
I see.
But the sample is safe.
All right, let's get this analyzed right away.
He vanished!
Let's return to the Labyrinth Organization for now.
Come with me please.
This is a record from Britain's Film Archives of the angel hair experiment.
The tape recorder you see on the right is powered by a G-reactive battery.
Next, they irradiate the angel hair sample on the left with gamma rays,
which are emitted by sun spots.
So this is why the G-reactors malfunctioned.
We believe the Buguans have seeded the same material throughout the atmosphere.
But why has even the G-reactor on the Invincible,
which is outside the atmosphere, been affected?
Some of the angel hair must have adhered to the Invincible when it passed through the atmosphere.
If so, then if we remove the angel hair during an EVA,
the Invincible will be operational again.
But how do you suggest we communicate that to the Invincible?
We have the Space Boat.
Space Boat?
You're talking about that little spaceship you made ages ago, aren't you, Billy?
Yes.
It's a single-seater, so I didn't think it could be used for the rescue...
but it can fly far enough to get close to the Invincible.
Haven't you had enough yet?!
Can't you clue in to the fact that if you launch a rocket now,
you'll just get another Frontier II?
Either way, we must find a way to remove the angel hair first.
Then we can discuss rescue operations.
No effect.
Next.
It withstands heat and chemical reactions,
and it cannot be incinerated by laser beams.
Eight hours left...
Okay, everyone!
They do say that you cannot wage war on an empty stomach.
Let's have a meal first.
Lotta...
We're hardly in the mood for that.
Hey!
Oh no! What have I done?
Are you all right?
Yes.
Sorry, Washington.
Hey look!
The angel hair!
What did we do to it?
Why did it disappear?
It's salt.
Doctor.
Yes.
Emily, please take my daughter to the infirmary as a precaution.
Yes, Doctor.
Commander, please gather as much salt as possible immediately.
We will begin developing an angel hair removal device right away.
Understood.
Power levels in Metropolitan-X have fallen to eight percent.
Route all remaining power to the Kennedy Space Center.
Understood.
Fifteen minutes until the transfer of liquid fuel to the Saturn rocket is complete.
The rocket has already been equipped with the new sodium missiles.
We're just waiting for the launch now, Doctor.
Are the UN forces ready?
The Air Force has been incapacitated by the lack of functional G-reactors, but not to worry.
We have mobilized all of our land-based forces that are still able.
What is the meaning of this?
How can you launch a rocket in these circumstances?!
Captain.
We even have patients waiting for surgery at the hospital.
Please stand down, Captain.
Once we neutralize the angel hair,
the G-reactors will be restored.
Please be patient.
Billy, Penny!
Don't tell me you two are...
I'm afraid so, Captain.
We'll be going into space for a bit.
That's ridiculous!
Why?!
My father is waiting for me.
He's on board the Invincible,
which is currently stranded in satellite orbit.
I have volunteered for this mission in order to save my father—and to save the Earth.
I am of the same mind.
But...!
Don't worry, Captain.
James!
I will be their navigator.
I swear on my honor as a former ace pilot
that I will safely deliver them into outer space.
James...
Why do you always spring stuff like this on me without any warning?!
Ow, ow, ow...
Are you all right, Captain?
It's nothing.
Doctor, we are at T minus two hours.
Very well.
All men to your stations.
We will now begin the angel hair removal operation.
Fueling complete.
T minus twenty minutes to launch.
Beginning countdown.
Transmission from our ground forces:
they are being attacked by invisible airborne enemies.
So they came. As expected.
Helmet Worms.
Commander, please authorize the use of special paint shots.
Very well.
Order the first line of defense to withdraw twenty miles and fire the special paint shots.
Firing the special paint shots.
It's a success.
Vaporization rate of the paint shots is eighty percent.
T minus five seconds until incineration.
What the—
Large-scale ground-based enemy weapons have appeared!
What?
The cavalry battalion has been destroyed!
Second line of defense has been breached.
The enemy worm tanks are eighty miles from the Saturn.
T minus two minutes to launch.
I shouldn't have come up with this operation.
We should be the only ones to risk our lives...
Don't cry over spilt milk.
Everyone's fighting desperately to defend the Earth.
As one of them, you should just give your best shot at what you can do.
Yes, sir!
It won't be long before they penetrate our defenses!
I'm saying that we should withdraw our lines!
Goddammit!
Cancel the launch!
Who the hell are you?!
Captain!
I'm telling you to cancel that launch.
That's impossible.
The liquid fuel has already been loaded.
Even if we cancel the launch, we can't evacuate the rocket itself!
What the hell!
T minus thirty seconds to launch.
T minus ten seconds to launch.
9...
8...
7...
Ignition.
4...
3...
2...
1...
0.
Billy...
Penny...
James!
Dammit.
Dammit!
The Saturn has been destroyed.
Operation complete.
Withdraw our surviving troops.
Understood.
Fuckin' bastards!
How dare you rob the Earth of its hope!
Of young lives full of promise!
You'll pay!
You'll pay for this!
This is Brutus to the Labyrinth Organization.
That voice...
James!
Branch point in three minutes.
Awaiting orders, over.
Good.
Moving to phase two of the operation.
We are in phase two of the operation.
Brutus is currently cruising at an altitude of sixty thousand feet.
James is alive?
Then... Billy and Penny are as well?
What's going on?
You want to volunteer as the pilot?
But we have no rockets available that are capable of immediate flight.
We have my Space Boat.
Are you still going on about that?
It's a single-seater,
but if we can piggyback it on an aircraft, it can escape the atmosphere.
In other words, beyond the angel hair net.
I see.
If we can then disperse the sodium chloride,
we can eliminate the angel hair.
However, if we are to equip it with enough sodium chloride to cover the entire planet...
If we use a special explosive missile, I believe 120 pounds would be sufficient.
That'd be fine!
We can fly!
How long would it take to assemble the blast missile?
I can have it ready for you in two—no, one hour.
But that would require another crew member
in addition to the pilot to operate the missile.
Fine.
I'll go.
Even a single-seater will fit the two of us.
Then it's decided, isn't it?
No, I will not allow it.
Why not?
We cannot let young men with such promise engage in a life-threatening mission.
But we don't have any alternative.
James!
If we do not risk our lives to fight now,
we'll simply be conquered by the Buguans.
Then we'll lose all of our hopes and dreams anyway.
Very well then.
But we cannot allow you two to fly alone.
We have an unused rocket
at the Kennedy Space Center—the Saturn.
We'll use that.
A decoy?
Yes.
We will deploy all UN forces at our disposal to divert the enemy's focus.
But...!
Don't worry.
We'll get you two into space, even if it costs all of our lives.
This is the Labyrinth Organization to Brutus.
You are approaching the detach point.
Understood.
Here they come.
Prepare to fire boosters!
James!
You just worry about yourselves!
Complete your mission!
Don't waste the lives that were lost in order to preserve hope!
Detaching!
James!
Th-That's...
Dad!
Billy, we're reaching the launch point for the sodium missile.
Adjust trajectory by minus zero five.
I know.
I know, but...
My glasses have fogged over, and I can't see in front of me.
What?
It's the Invincible!
What?!
We have a confirmed hit on that first shot.
Damn aliens.
Got a taste of my ship's true power, didn't you?
Prepare to discharge second round of G-energy!
Discharging.
Amazing.
So this is the Invincible's power.
We did it!
Dad!
Billy!
I knew you'd come for me!
I'm so happy!
You're hurting me, Dad!
Billy...
Hey, stop that.
Good job.
I can't really be happy about this.
Too many lives were lost today.
The rocket's crew,
the UN forces...
And James.
Oh, he's fine.
See?
Talk about the invincible man.
Washington?
Hey wait!
Where are you going?
What's the matter?
I don't know, but...
A Buguan...
Is that... the enemy?
Its body can be categorized into three parts: head, thorax, and abdomen.
Its skin is covered by a thick exoskeleton,
and that's what appears to support the body.
It's like some kind of bug.
Its cerebrum weighs 2800 grams,
approximately twice as much as ours.
What?
We can assume their civilization is considerably more advanced than ours.
Dr. Anderson, please continue with the analysis.
Understood.
I must say, your ability to heal is extraordinary.
Your body has basically regained full functionality over the last twenty-four hours.
Our science couldn't possibly—
What's the matter?
I have a headache.
A headache?
Something's coming.
What's going on?
An alarm in the dissection room!
What?
Are you all right?
Yes...
What vitality.
He was a real workaholic.
Once he'd started any kind of research, that'd be the end of it.
He was even late for our wedding because of it.
He was very...
Who was that eerie man who attacked Professor Odewald?
Probably a human who had his soul taken by the Buguans, but...
But it's different from what happened with Mom.
He's...
Hey look.
That's...!
No mistake.
That's her!
But why?!
Do you recognize someone in those photographs?
Yes, this one!
Oh that.
He used to say it was a picture of a ghost.
A... A picture of a ghost?
He said it just appeared while a photograph was being taken during an experiment.
Who is the gentleman with the beard?
That would be Professor Steamson.
Professor Steamson?!
He was a trifle strange.
He'd do things like take this photograph and send it to us,
and go around ranting that the world would end.
Where is Professor Steamson now?
He passed away.
It's been about thirty years now since he died.
Understood.
Professor Steamson's surviving relatives still live where his laboratory used to be.
So that picture was taken over thirty years ago...
And yet she looked exactly the same as when we saw her.
Maybe she really is a ghost.
No way.
We'll figure something out when we get there.
All our questions lead back to Professor Steamson.
A word of advice:
You're better off not going anywhere near that place.
Why?
We're just—
It's haunted.
By Steamson's... ghost...
I've seen him.
I've seen Steamson's pale face in the window.
That's his lab.
You'd best hightail it out of here if you don't want to get cursed by him.
What do you want to do?
Ghosts? In this glorious age of science? Ridiculous, I say.
You're...!
Do you need something?
Who are you?!
Why are you here?!
Huh?
Excuse us. We came here because we heard this used to be Professor Steamson's residence.
Hey!
Hello!
Please go away!
I have nothing to say!
Hey, wait a minute!
Even if you don't, we have a ton to say!
Penny.
Let's go back.
But—!
It can't be helped.
I'll have the Organization put her under surveillance.
She's right.
We shouldn't force her.
Let's give it another try.
Checkmate.
Hey, wait a minute!
That's the third time in a row.
Only the second!
No, it's the third.
Dammit, I want another match!
It'll be the same no matter how many games you play.
What the—?!
What?!
Are you okay?
Yeah.
I thought we were done for.
Damn.
I think the generator is down.
Wh-What the hell is that?!
Margaret Steamson...
Professor Steamson's granddaughter.
She is definitely the key.
But how can we draw her out?
Snow?
This is the Daily Town News' Ryo Saiga, reporting:
Who would have guessed it'd snow in the middle of summer in Metropolitan-X?
Next up is today's weather report.
Lotta, I want to hear the weather report.
No way!
The Bucky Show is about to start.
The Bucky Show?
A radio drama in which the hero from outer space, Bucky, defeats villains.
And just who is sponsoring this show?
That'd be me, actually.
Dad?!
Lotta, I have presents for you.
Thank you, Uncle!
What are they?
What?
They're Bucky dolls, of course.
I've been wanting one.
They've been sold out at all the stores I've tried.
This program is brought to you by the Kimura Conglomerate.
Yesterday, softball-sized hail fell in Europe;
the damage was severe.
North America was hit by the seventh hurricane to make landfall.
In Micronesia, 1200 islands are on the verge of being submerged due to abnormal tidal levels.
An aberrant climate indeed.
Is Metropolitan-X going to be all right?
This island is designed to withstand all kinds of natural disasters.
However, if these "natural" disasters are engineered,
it will be a different matter entirely.
What do you mean by that?
This image was taken by a weather satellite.
There is a low pressure system stalled over Antarctica.
At its center, the atmospheric pressure is 780 millibars.
That's impossible!
How can a low pressure system like that develop there?
Is it the Buguans' doing?
Anything from the Antarctic Observation Base?
We have been attempting to make contact, but there's been no response.
Launch the Invincible with D-class equipment immediately.
Roger.
Invincible: stand by for launch.
Sky Knight and Super Mole are loaded.
Good.
Invincible, launch!
Thomas Steamson:
Born in 1907.
Graduated from the National Institute of Technology at the top of his class,
then entered graduate school to earn a doctorate.
During World War II, he worked as a technical advisor to the US military.
In 1943, he participated in the Philadelphia Experiment.
The Philadelphia Experiment?
The one in which they attempted to neutralize radar?
After the war, he published his theory on x-light waves.
I've heard of it.
It's a theory that completely discounts the theory of relativity.
The professor was exiled from academic circles for of it.
He immersed himself in a solitary search for extraterrestrial life in his later years.
He predicted that extraterrestrials living on a planet unlike Earth
that had a thin atmosphere and high levels of UV radiation
would have bodies covered by a hard outer shell like that of insects.
A life form evolved from insects...
Its name would be the Inferbel.
When the comet falls into the sea, the Inferbels' era will begin.
There's no mistake!
She knew that the Buguans would invade!
Let's go see her again.
The engine appears to have frozen.
This car is the newest model from Kimura Heavy Industries!
I can't do anything about it.
We'll just have to walk.
You've got to be kidding.
It's hundreds of miles from here to Professor Steamson's lab!
Captain Clayton!
Hop in.
Abnormal climate?
Yeah.
Seawater temperatures around the world have dropped
by an average of five degrees over the last three days.
The media's going on right now about the return of the ice age.
Judging from the looks on your faces, I'd say you two had no idea.
I'm sorry.
No need for you to apologize.
This is a bigger problem.
Earth Alteration Operation?
It's a global-scale project to convert the deserts in eastern Asia into arable land
by sealing off the Aleutian Islands with massive levees and altering the course of sea currents.
The project itself hit an impasse,
but the man who was most deeply involved in its planning was...
...Professor Steamson!
If he was researching climate manipulation,
then this snow might also be...
Please leave!
No matter how many times you come back,
I have nothing to say!
There's no mistake.
You said in the submarine that there would be invaders from outer space.
What are you talking about?
That's not all.
You've warned us several times with prophetic pronouncements.
Why?!
I've never seen you two before, and I don't intend to see you ever again.
Goodbye.
Why you...
Wait a minute.
You have no clue how to handle women, do you?
Huh?
Listen, women are like kitchen knives.
If you force 'em, you still can't cut with 'em.
The trick lies in restraint and drawing 'em back delicately.
Oh...
I'm impressed, Captain.
I guess they do say wisdom comes with age.
That's one compliment too many.
So what are we going to do?
What else?
We're going to wait out here until she opens that door.
What?!
What if she doesn't?
She will.
That's how I persuaded my first wife.
Uh? First?
You're divorced, Captain?
I married three times.
Anyway, just do as I say.
Forgive me.
I have sinned by venturing into the realm of God.
Don't worry.
I won't let anyone take away your research, Grandfather.
This is 602.
Nothing out of the ordinary.
Roger that.
Hey.
What's the matter?
You!
You're alive!
Where is element X?
Where is element X?!
I... I don't know...
Get away from her!
Look out!
Bastard!
Margaret!
He vanished.
Are you all right?
Hey!
We have to call an ambulance!
Get the car, Captain!
Got it!
Hey! Hang in there!
Hey!
I can't get through at all.
It's no good.
He destroyed the engine.
It can't be repaired.
I'll go get a doctor.
It's too dangerous!
You're going to go out in this snow?
We can't just let her die!
Hey!
I'll go with him.
You two keep watch over her.
Penny...
Be careful.
This is the Invincible.
Antarctic Observation Base, respond.
No good, Captain.
There's no response.
We're going in.
Crew, prepare for landing.
High energy heat source ahead!
Deploy the shields!
Evasive maneuvers!
Set course for the shadow of Mt. Erebus!
Launch Sky Knight!
Sky Knight launching.
Captain, I've found it.
As we suspected, it's the Buguan's forward base.
So the abnormal climate has been...
Helmet Worms incoming!
We estimate a hundred bogeys.
Prepare to attack!
Target enemy UFOs!
The Invincible has finally tracked down the Buguans' base.
What will become of Penny and Clayton, who have plunged into the blizzard?
The next episode of Project Blue SOS will not fail to draw you, dear viewers,
into a maelstrom of excitement yet again!
Stay tuned with keen interest!
Hi! This is Billy!
This is Lotta!
I'm here today as a substitute because Penny's MIA in a blizzard.
In any case, it's freezing!
It sure is!
They even say it's an ice age!
Oh no! Really?
If it is an ice age, then you mean the roadside "no parking" signs and "one way" sign—
Translator's Note: Lotta is confusing "hyougaki" (ice age) with "hyoushiki" (road signs), "uwabaki" (school shoes), and "warugaki" (rascals).
Those are road signs.
Then what about those smelly things in shoe cupboards at schools—
Those are school shoes.
People who look up your skirt and put graffiti on walls?
Those are just neighborhood rascals!
I'm getting fed up with you!
Okay, excuse us!
Bucky will play a big role in the next episode, too.