Good evening, I'm Xavier Fitch. I'm in charge of this operation, would you sit a little...

Xavier Fitch: Good evening, I'm Xavier Fitch. I'm in charge of this operation, would you sit a little closer please? [They all sit closer] Xavier Fitch: in November of 1974, a small group from S.E.T.I. S-E-T-I, search for extraterrestrial intelligence, used the radio dishes at Arecibo to send out a message to whoever might be listening. They sent about a quarter of a kilobyte including structure of human DNA, a map of our solar system, population of the Earth. Helpful facts like that. In January of 1993, Arecibo received a message back from an extraterrestrial unknown source. Dan Smithson, Empath: That's great. Dr. Laura Baker: Intelligent life beyond this planet? Xavier Fitch: Yes. There were two distinct communications. The first message turned out to be a superior catalyst for methane. We now have the potential to produce an infinite amount of energy from this clean burning fuel. This convinced us that we were dealing with a friendly intelligence. The second message turned out to be a new sequence of DNA with the rather friendly instructions on how to combine it with ours. Here's some technical data on the whole operation. You can get feedback on it from Dr Baker here. Basically the new combined DNA sequence was injected into 100 human ova. We got seven to divide. Four petered out, two were stored in liquid nitrogen, and we allowed one to grow. That's its code name there, Sil [video shows cells dividing] Xavier Fitch: that's after 2 hours. [Sil is now a fetus] Xavier Fitch: one day [Sil is now a more fully developed fetus] Xavier Fitch: two days. Dr. Stephen Arden: My god. Dr. Laura Baker: [amazed] It's growth is amazing. Xavier Fitch: [the video shows Sil as a fully developed fetus] it's a week. Dan Smithson, Empath: It's a girl. Xavier Fitch: Yes, l... [Amazed] Xavier Fitch: we decided to make it female so that it would be more docile and controllable. Preston Lennox: More docile and controllable huh? Well I guess you guys don't get out much. Xavier Fitch: [Sil is one month on the video] that's her one month after she was born. Dr. Laura Baker: So you kept her caged in there? Xavier Fitch: We decided it would be safer to keep her in isolation. Dan Smithson, Empath: She didn't like being locked up like that. She didn't like being alone like that. Xavier Fitch: Didn't she? Dan Smithson, Empath: She's hiding something, something inside her. Xavier Fitch: You're right, Dan. [Sil is shown on the video monitor at 3 months old she is shown sleeping] Xavier Fitch: this is 3 months after she was born, and you watch carefully [she screeches in her sleep] Preston Lennox: What the hell was that? Dr. Stephen Arden: Back the tape up. Watch her eyes. Rapid eye movement. she's dreaming. Dan Smithson, Empath: She's having horrible nightmares. Dr. Laura Baker: It's some kind of anxiety reaction. Preston Lennox: Got me a little anxious. Xavier Fitch: Well it made the research team a little anxious, too. So the decision was made to terminate the experiment to run more research so that we could determine what we were dealing with. Dr. Laura Baker: [the video monitor show Sil inside the gas chamber] you were going to gas her? Xavier Fitch: That was the decision. Dan Smithson, Empath: It makes you feel bad. It makes you feel bad that you had to kill her doesn't it? Xavier Fitch: I don't know. Preston Lennox: [Sil is shown jumping through the glass escaping the gas chamber] Wow. Xavier Fitch: Yes. Yesterday morning the body of a transient was found in a boxcar on a siding near Salt Lake City. Preliminary DNA tests conclude he was killed by our creation, by our Sil. Dr. Stephen Arden: Have you found any other bodies? Xavier Fitch: No, we haven't. Not yet. Dan Smithson, Empath: You will. She's a predator. Her eyes are in front. Her eyes are in front so she can judge the distance to her prey. Dr. Laura Baker: That's right. Dr. Stephen Arden: Where'd you learn that fact, Dan? Dan Smithson, Empath: I saw it on a documentary on the Discovery Channel. Preston Lennox: I caught that show myself.