table.
Would you pull them out, please?
Secure your safety belts.
Miss Peterson, this is your chair right here.
- Doctor, let me help you.
- No, it's all right. I can manage.
- Doctor?
- Yes, Cora.
I...
I wanted to say that...
What is it? Is anything wrong?
No, nothing. I...just wanted to say...
thank you for taking me along.
Thank you for volunteering.
Right, Mr Grant.
You can tell them the Proteus is ready.
- The Proteus? What's that?
- The name of this vessel.
Sounds better than calling it the U-91035.
Proteus reports all secured, sir.
Miniaturiser.
All stations, stand by.
All medical posts, stand by.
Check scanner. Computer 9-5.
Checks out on radar.
Instruct computer for a plus 6-0-9.
Phase one.
- Colonel?
- OK to proceed.
Phase two.
Elevate zero module.
Lower zero module.
Halt and transfer.
HDR in order.
Elevate zero module.
We'll submerge manually.
Mr Grant, open induction valves one and two.
- Where are they?
- There's one port and one starboard.
On the bulkhead right behind you.
- I'll get the other.
- Fine.
- You ready?
- Yeah.
Induction valve open.
Valve open.
Close valves.
Valve closed.
Right. That's all for the present.
- I can't breathe.
- Dr Michaels.
- Dr Michaels!
- I've got to get out.
It's too late for that.
Now, we must go on.
I'm sorry. I...
I've got claustrophobia. I was...
I was buried alive in an air raid in England.
Two days.
I thought I'd got over it.
Please forgive me.
I'll really be all right now.
Come on.
You'll feel better once we're underway.
Thank you.
Lock and hold.
- OK, Colonel.
- OK.
Phase three.
All stations, 60 and counting.
- Inform Proteusthey are at full reduction.
- Yes, sir.
- At full reduction.
- Right.
- That air feels good.
- Yes.
- Are you all right?
- Yes, I'm OK.
Mr Grant, tell them the Proteus is on power.
- Proteus on power, sir.
- OK, Don, it's all yours.
Phase four.
Elevate zero module.
Check thermal blanket.
Tracking.
Contact Proteus.
- Stand by for injection.
- Right.
Inject.
Tracking post.
The medieval philosophers were right.
Man is the centre of the universe.
We stand in the middle of infinity,
between outer and inner space.
And there's no limit to either.
I never imagined
it could be anything like this.
- No, I always thought it was nothing but red.
- Only to the naked eye.
Those corpuscles carrying oxygen
give the stream its colour.
The rest of the plasma's
very much like sea water.
- An ocean of life.
- End to end, 100,000 miles long.
Dr Duval?
What could those be?
That looks like
the molecular structure of proteins.
I don't agree.
- We should stop and investigate.
- I'm afraid we haven't time.
Captain, keep your present heading
until we're in the clear.
Arterial wall to the left.
- What's our speed?
- 15 knots.
You should reach
the main branching artery in two minutes.
Keep the wall at this distance
when you turn.
That should bring you safely
into the middle of the branch.
- Captain, correctyour course and speed.
- She won't respond. We're in a current.
- That isn't possible.
- Not in a sealed vessel like an artery.
There's something wrong with your controls.
No, it's a current. It's too strong.
I can't seem to break out of it.
Whirlpool. Strap yourselves in.
Anyone hurt?
Cora?
I'm all right. Thank you, Doctor.
Where are we?
The corpuscles are blue.
Captain, what's your compass heading?
Proteus off course.
They've... they've crossed over
into the jugular vein!
That can't be. There's no direct
connection between the two.
Well, normally not.
Unless there's an arteriovenous fistula.
A what?
It's a forced joining of a vein and an artery.
It must have happened when Benes was hurt.
Yes, a fistula too small
to show up in the tests.
- But big enough for us.
- Can you head back into the artery?
No, we can't fight that current.
It's impossible.
Well, try not to drift down any further.
I'll do what I can.
Is there an alternate