We Need To Talk

[Sara Stanton]

"Extreme colds seem to slow them down. The rest of them are in the osmiridium containment tubes and submerged in liquid nitrogen."

[Stan Bowen]

"Okay, that should be good for now, then.." He said, beginning to make notes, and zooming in, looking for unique features or identifiers.

"They must have been made by somebody, right? Do we have any leads?"

[Narrator]

They weren't exactly labeled and tagged, but they would look somewhat familiar to Stan, at least -- something his old friend Quinton might have cooked up when he was younger.

[Stan Bowen]

"Wait a minute..." Stan said, pulling back and stroking his beard worriedly.

[Narrator]

He had never seen anything QUITE like this, but just like an expert in architecture could identify things by Frank Lloyd Wright, this definitely looked like Stan's old colleague.

[Stan Bowen]

Stan began printing out color copies of the display images.

"Nat, I might need your skill set."

[Natalya Romanov]

"I thought you might if this is what I suspect," Natalya said.

[Stan Bowen]

"I've seen something like this before.. Not exactly the same, but the characteristics look familiar."

[Sara Stanton]

"It's Black Air, isn't it?"

[Stan Bowen]

"Possibly. It's pointing in that direction."

[Sara Stanton]

Sara frowns and there's a faint grinding sound when her clenched hands turn to stone.

[Natalya Romanov]

"Can we stop it?"

[Stan Bowen]

"Not with the equipment I have here. It's chronal based. We can try warping time by tossing all of it in a black hole or try accelerating past the speed of light.. But I think for now, keeping them as cold as possible is the best stopgap."

[Natalya Romanov]

"Well, I can't stay here and play refrigerator. Is liquid nitrogen going to be good enough?"

[Stan Bowen]

"It should be, based on these readings."