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It's 298 days since
the first man mission to Mars

left the Alpha
International Space Station.

The spaceship areas and a
crew of seven men and women

from different nations
are now going into orbit

around the red planet.

To make the journey with the
minimum energy requirement

after overcoming the Earth's
gravitational velocity,

the ship was obliged to enter
into an elliptical orbit

around the sun,
known to engineers

as Hohmann's trajectory.

The enigmatic red planet
is home to many mysteries.

In 1999 the Mars
Global Surveyor failed

to detect a global
gravitational field around Mars,

but did find dozens
of local fields

and strange
gravitational anomalies.

I'm told that we have some
exclusive comments from Andre

Vishniac, the cabin to
the mission from Mars

received just a few seconds
ago on broadcast to Earth.

This is a historic moment.

Captain, how do you feel
at a time like this?

I mean, you're flying over
Mars, one of ancient humanity's

dreams come true.

But it was a difficult
dream to achieve.

This
is our job and we've

been trained to do it.

We can't worry
about other factors.

Man landed on the moon
more than 50 years ago.

The next and obvious
step was Mars,

but it took longer
than expected.

Why Mars?

I mean, what do you
expect to find there?

There is no easy
answer to that question

why does man explore at all?

To learn and to
know more, to prove

to ourself that we
can achieve goal that

seemed impossible to reach.

Susana, you ready?

Yes, I am.

Herb?

Yeah, I'm ready.

Aries.

This is Bellows.

I am the voice checker.

Over.

Arie,
this is the pilot.

Voice check, over.

Aries?

This is Herbert.

Voice check, over.

Son, count
down to

- 4, 3, 2 1.
- Ignition.

It was like coming back
from the dead, confusion

and darkness reigned.

Do you hear me, Bellow?

Bellow, do you read me?

Can someone answer?

Bellow, do you read me?

We hear you, Lowell.
We've crashed.

Is everyone OK?

I don't know.

I don't know.

I'm OK.

But it's-- it's
pretty crazy here.

It's--

Is everyone all right?

The crash was awful.

I don't know.

Hey, hey hey, hey.

Are you all right?

Are you OK?

Get some rest, don't worry.

Get some rest, OK?

We're alive.

Jesus, it's amazing.

We're alive, we did it.

Come on, Janet, we did it.

Hey, we're alive.

Hey guys, is everybody
OK down there?

I'm all right.

Are you sure Johnson?

Yeah, I'm all right.

Come on, buddy, we did it.

Vishniac, you OK?

Vishniac?

Vishniac, answer me.

You OK?

Vishniac?

Jenny?

Jenny?

I don't know.

His neck is broken.

God bless his soul.

If anyone ever finds this tape

I want them to record the
facts exactly as they occurred.

The crash was terrible,
but the bellows

cockpit miraculously survived.

Our captain Andre
Vishniac died on impact.

The five surviving
members were soon

enforced to confront the harsh
reality of our situation.

What lay ahead wasn't
going to be easy.

- I
- can't see anything.

Christ, what a disaster.

We'll never be able to restore
pressure in the hangar,

and the rover's a wreck.

We discovered
the failure.

For a few seconds all
systems were shut.

Down with only a moment
it was enough to fool

the flight computer.

What caused it?

No way of
knowing from here.

You're gonna have to
look in your database.

I wish there was something
I could do to help you.

Uh, everyone could
be looking for ways

to get you out of this.
- Right.

Thanks, Lowell.

We'll talk later on.

We need more room.

This is too suffocating.

Now Sanchez,
you're second in command.

With Vishniac dead you're
in charge of the mission.

What do you suggest?

All
I wanted was to be somewhere

else a million miles away.

First order
from your new captain,

you can all lie down and wait.

Wait?

Wait for what?

You don't
want to know, Fidel.

Hey,
I totally refuse

to accept that possibility.

Well, you better
get used to it, Herb.

There's a ship above our
heads right now and it cannot

enter our atmosphere,
and there's no

more landing modules on board.

We expected that, Luca.

But they'll send the rescue
mission from Earth, won't they?

It's only a matter of
staying alive until then.

A rescue mission,
do you hear what you're saying?

A rescue mission.

It takes 26 months to send
a ship from Earth to Mars.

How are they going to
rescue us in 26 months?

If there's one
problem with orbit

it'll delay that another year.

I don't understand.

What are you talking about?

A rescue mission.

We all know that the only
purpose of that mission

would be to recover our bodies.

Most likely we'll be
dead in less than a year.

That's where
you're wrong, Jenny.

We're going to survive.

Yes.

How?

The systems in
this descent module

were not designed to keep
us alive for three years.

We're 191 million kilometers
from Earth, and we're alone.

There's always
a way to survive.

Any
specific ideas?

Yeah.

We must get to work, all of us.

Our mission now is
to survive, just

as others have survived before.

By the way, our situation
is not as desperate as it

might seem at first glance.

Really?

Not as desperate?

I love this guy.

I love this guy.

You know, I knew
what geologist wants.

He went on a trip from
one day to Switzerland

and he saw a black cow one day,
and he came back to America

and he wrote a big
essay on the fact

that all the cows in
Switzerland were black.

Really?

You know, I'm a
geologist, that's true,

and that's why I
know I how to keep

my feet on the ground, Luca.

Yeah, but
we are on Mars, Herb,

and we're not gonna find a
of palm trees

out there.

You can count on that.

I don't really know
what we should do,

but I do know that we all
have to find the answers.

Or die trying.

What shall we do about
water, for instance?

We know that Mars' atmosphere
contains traces of water.

It's only a matter of time.

Oh yeah, sure.

The water problem is solved.

We just have to get
used to not drinking

much or breathing much either.

Jenny, would you even consider
the idea that we may just

have a chance of surviving?

All right, OK, I'm listening.

What's your plan?

Where do we start?

Precisely as we're doing
now, assessing our situation.

Baglioni, we'll need a
detailed list of our resources.

Fine.

It's easy.

I can give you a general idea.

OK, go ahead.

OK.

First of all, we need two kilos
of oxygen per person per day.

We need approximately two
kilos of water and about a kilo

and a half of solid food.

With the supplies
that we have on board

for six people, maybe one year.

Since the captain's
dead, if we're

very careful we can probably
go, I don't know, 15 months.

That's being optimistic.

Please, go on.

OK.

All right.

Thanks to the recycling
units we could probably

have enough water for
a couple of years,

but if we use the
recycler we're going

to deplete our energy source
in about a year, one year.

The problem with
oxygen is similar.

So to be in this situation
would be miserable to be

worrying about breathing.

We're surrounded by
oxygen. This planet

is completely rusted.

That's why it's red.

All right, I got it.

But in this atmosphere it's
in the form of carbon dioxide.

Now we can separate the
oxygen using dry electrolysis,

but we'd have the same problem,
we'd use too much energy.

Yeah, and the
thermoelectric generators

would be depleted in a year.

Of
course we could

reduce heating to a
minimum, wear thermal suits,

turn all the lights off.

Are you serious?

Do you really think we
can last several years

inside our spacesuits
in the dark?

But I'll go crazy.

OK, there's something that
we have to start to accept,

we're no longer on a mission
to Mars, we're shipwrecked.

We'll have to
accept a great deal

of suffering and discomfort.

Don't worry, I'm used to
facing extreme situations.

Oh yeah, do I have
to call you sir?

No
Jenny, you don't have to.

But like Herbert said,
now I'm the captain

of this mission, or of
the gang of Castaways,

whichever you prefer.

I think we should first--

Excuse me, but
it's my turn now.

Luca, I want a detailed
inventory of all our supplies

and your estimates
as to how we can make

them last as long as possible.

And there's another
very important thing,

we have to find
out what happened.

Fidel, you can
take care of that.

Sure.

Johnson, we need more room.

The acceleration birth
won't be needed anymore.

Take 'em apart.

What about me?

Do you have anything
for me to do?

Do you have any idea how
to get the resources we

need from the surface of Mars?

I'll get working
on that right away.

So we all set out

on our new mission, survival.

Mars was the most
inhospitable place

the human mind
could ever imagine--

Hey, I'm workin'
on a great idea.

SUSANA SANCHEZ
but we

were determined to use every
available resource to survive.

OK.

We all know that
oxygen is the most

abundant element in the
rocks and Mars, don't we?

But is there any
way to make use of it?

Yeah, I think so.

We'll have to improvise
a silacote reactor.

And with it we'll be able to
produce methane and steam.

Steam?

Did you say steam?

Where are
you going to get the energy

to heat your silacote oven?

We wouldn't use electricity
from our generators,

of course not.

So how
are you going to do it?

With fuel from
the bellows engine.

Since we're not
planning to take off

we can do whatever we
want with the tanks.

Burning cryogenized fuel,
sounds very dangerous.

Luca, did you
hear Herbert's idea?

Yes, I heard his idea.

Yes, I heard his idea.

What do you think?

It's ridiculous.

We don't know what condition
the fuel tanks are in.

No one's checked them.

We're having
electrical problems,

the system is not
working at all,

we're not getting any feedback
signal from the tanks.

Let's suppose they're intact.

If we suppose they're
intact, which I think

is a bit optimistic,
we still have

to improvise some sort
of silicon reactor

from the bellows engines,
which is not easy,

and a lot of things
can go wrong.

I think we could focus on
more productive things.

But I'm not the captain,
so you make the decision.

Susana?

Oh man.

I know where we are.

We are way off the
designated landing point.

We're already at the planet's
equator at 0 latitude.

How can you be so sure?

During our descent the
self operating cameras

took several pictures.

Let me see them.

Unbelievable.

It sure is.

Look at this.

It looks like a
permanent bank of fog--

Mh-hm.

--at the bottom of the valley.

And it's just at the
point nearest to us.

Maybe I really should
take a look at that fog.

Could be water vapor.

Could it be of use to us?

I doubt it.

We need more than a
little fog to survive.

Do you have any
idea why we crashed?

Software error.

Lasted only a few
seconds, but it

misled the radial team
until that triggers

the solid fueled rockets.

Bad luck I guess.

Luca and Herbert,

start getting ready for Ava.

We'll take all of this
outside and then you'll

take a look at the engines.

All right, I'll go with them.

It's not necessary, Jenny.

Well, while they get
rid of all this junk

I'll dig a grave for Andre.

A grave?

What's the point of that?

Let's simply put the
captain's body outside.

If we lose touch with
what we believe in soon

we'll be acting like animals.

What we believe in?

You mean with our
superstitions, Jenny?

Let's focus on things
that are practical.

Let's not waste time
digging a useless grave.

Let's gather our resources
and make some plans.

Let's not waste time with that.

OK, Luca, nobody asked
you for your help in this.

I can do it alone,
all-- all right?

Just a minute you two.

I don't think we can assume
the responsibility of taking

the captain's body outside.

We'll contaminate
this planet forever.

Human bodies filled with
all kinds of bacteria.

Do you really think that
terrestrial bacteria can

survive in the--

Oh to hell with bacteria.

Come on, we're gonna die.

I don't wanna die
thinking about if we're

going to leave bacteria behind.

OK, Susana, do I
have your permission

to go outside and bury the
captain in a Christian fashion?

Well, congratulations Herbert,
you're the first man on Mars.

Baglioni's right, it's
absurd to bury the captain.

Does anybody wanna
make a memorable speech?

Why don't you do it, Luca?

You're the brains
of this mission.

OK, I think I will, Herbert.

How does this sound?

Uh, here lies Andre Vishniac,
who was born on Earth

and who traveled a long
way through time and space

to meet his final
destiny right here in

this miserable, desolate place.

I'll say a few words.

Dr. Wilson wrote them
just before meeting

his death alongside Captain
Scott in the Antarctic.

You know what I think?

I think Herbert
really is optimistic.

But you, you're doing
your part, assuming

all the responsibility.

I'm sure it must be
very hard, mustn't it?

Your position is the
most difficult of all.

Do you think I'm a pessimist?

I think you're a
very strong woman

and you know what it has to
be done at a time like this.

I'm not
strong, I can assure you.

Well, you seem to be.

I've spent all
my life pretending.

That's a fair
amount of practice.

But right now I'm
scared to death.

Don't tell the others
when they get back.

It will
be our little secret.

Gee, I wish I was
as calm as you.

All those secrets
must be hidden

until God reveals them to men.

Perhaps we are the ones he chose
to witness for the first time

the hidden heart behind
the barrier of ice,

in the warmth of the sun,
under the brilliant radiance

of its rays whilst
the raging blizzard

scorches and freezes us to the
marrow with its biting embrace.

I like to confess
something, Susana.

My case, I'm not so sure.

Something that frightens me
as much as the idea of dying,

losing my composure, allowing
the panic to take over.

That's not going
to happen, Fidel.

If that moment comes
you'll know how to react

as well as the rest of us.

I am not a
strong man, I can assure you.

But I can't control my
scientific curiosity.

That's why I joined the mission.

OK, good.

Let's go.

We're going to check
the tanks, Jenny.

The first grave on Mars.

Luca and Herbert

had checked out the ship and
done a complete damage report.

There was no need to ask.

Judging by the
look on their faces

it was clear the
news was not good.

Despite everything, Herbert
tried to bring us some hope

from the world outside.

Hey, it's ice.

We've got ice guys.

It accumulated in
the shade of bellows.

How can it be water?

The Martian atmosphere
is dry in absolute terms,

but the cold is
so intense that--

that it's always on the
verge of saturation.

Luca, did you check the
engines and fuel tanks?

The engines and fuel
tanks no longer exist.

They must have been
thrown off by the crash.

It's a miracle they didn't
blow up and kill us all.

It wasn't a
miracle but a curse.

We are doomed to die.

Even though we'll keep on
breathing for another year,

we are as dead as Andre.

Are you saying that there
is no cryogenized fuel left?

I'm saying that the
contents of this cabin

is all that we have
left to survive,

and I don't think
we're going to make it.

What's going on here?

What's going on?

Give us a break, OK, man?

Give us a break.

Is anybody listening
to what I'm saying?

This is water, water, OK?

You know what it
means, water, OK?

We didn't expect to have
any, but-- but here it is.

The problem, Herb,
isn't water or air.

The problem is that our energy
will run out within a year,

and there's no way we
can produce anymore.

We have to start
saving energy right now.

Our only chance is
to reduce energy

consumption to a minimum.

We've already lowered the inside
temperature of the module.

OK, very well.

Susana, hope it works.

Any
news in our rescue?

No.

I'm bringing my journey home.

I'm gonna be leaving
in two days that

cause an alternative
trajectory back on Earth.

I'm sorry.

Do
they have any idea

back on Earth why we crashed?

So far only theories.

Some quite intriguing
ones, but only theories.

In what way?

Well, as you know Mars has
no planetary magnetic fields,

But it does
have magnetic anomalies

and localized gravitations.

There's no satisfactory
explanation for this.

Well, we've detected the
strongest of these anomalies

where you crashed at the
bottom of the Marineris Valley.

We're dealing with something
so strong and localized

that it could have very
well have affected bellows

OCR oslitis.

And that's not all.

Go on.

There's something
hidden under the fog.

I don't know what it is.

It's just something weird.

OK, take a look at the photos.

Take a look at the new photos
and look at 'em carefully.

I'm sorry, I have to go.

I have a long journey back.

Good luck.

Lowell's departure

aboard the Aries
left the rest of us

with a deep feeling of solitude.

All our hopes had vanished.

We were victims of a tragedy
we couldn't possibly avoid.

What's goin' on?

Our useless neighbor
out there give up yet?

Don't
say that must have been

kind of frustrating for him
to be so close but unable

to do anything.

Sure, it's breaking my heart.

Yeah.

What's that?

Looks like a shot
transmitted by an SAR camera.

SAR camera?

I'm a doctor, Jim,
not an engineer.

Synthetic aperture radar.

And what's that?

Let's see.

I've seen this
somewhere before.

Yeah.

So have I.

Doesn't seem to be natural.

Looks like a maze.

I'm gonna
compare it with the image bank.

Hey, here it is.

This photo was taken near
the south pole of Mars.

Here, look they're
completely identical.

This is so weird.

I mean--

Listen, on our next trip to
Mars we'll take some pictures,

we'll do investigations,
we'll figure it all out.

Unfortunately, time is
running out for all of us.

Was that just
another comment or was

it your conclusion as engineer?

I think we need
to call a meeting.

All of us.

The minimum amount of time
for around trip between Mars

and Earth is two and 1/2 years.

There's no way to cut
down on this time.

I know that.

I know they'll never get
here in time to save us,

but they can't tell us that.

Luca, how much time
do we have if we follow

these energy saving measures?

We have about one
year and two months.

The problem is with
the recycling system,

it uses too much energy.

What do you suggest?

We have to accept
the baseline facts,

that all five of us
cannot survive on this

module for that period of time.

Luca, what you're saying is--

it's terrible.

You asked for the data and
these are the cold facts.

The module cannot
sustain the five

of us for two and 1/2 years.

How many can survive?

How many?

Two of us.

To be honest, that's
not enough, Luca.

Two out of five
doesn't make any sense.

It's ridiculous.

It's the way it is.

No, it's not.

It's not that way, Luca.

That's a way of giving up.

You're the one who compared
our situation to castaways.

That's what you said.

Well, sometimes castaways have
to make difficult decisions.

Are you crazy?

Do you expect us to start
drawing lots to see who lives

and who dies?

And what do we do about
the ones who lose, huh?

I'm not crazy.

I'm not crazy.

All I'm saying is in
a year and a half,

there's going to be five
frozen bodies in this can

unless three of us
stop using water,

air, and the recycling system.

That's it.

You and everyone else
refuses to accept them.

Right, Herb?

You think you're going
to go back to Earth

like some hero who
never lost his cool

and always knew exactly
what to do, right?

That's enough, Luca.

No, he's right.

We won't admit the
truth, but he's right.

I don't plan to
commit suicide,

it's against my religion.

Does anyone question
Luca's numbers?

No one?

Well then, in that
case, it's clear

that we all accept that
Luca's numbers are accurate.

Two of the five of us.

They
must be correct.

I-- I-- I don't know.

I don't think we d--

we should jump into anything.

I-- what-- what I'm
saying is that we

have to take time to think
before we make any decision.

You know what I mean?

Ma-- maybe we'll
find something that--

What?

that we can use--

What Herbert?

What are we gonna find?

What are we gonna
find out there?

When are you gonna get it
through your thick head,

man, we're in the most
unlivable place you can imagine?

The Earth's poles are a paradise
compared to where we are.

And how are
we going to decide who lives

and who dies?

How can we make a decision
as terrible as that?

Well, why don't you
apply Herbert's example

to this as well?

What did the castaways do, Herb?

Pull the shortest straw?

Should we decide that way?

I'm the pilot of a spaceship
that will never fly again.

Fidel, you're the
astrobiologist.

Your skills wouldn't be of
any use in this situation.

Herb's skills do
him no good either.

But Jenny is a doctor
and Luca knows how

to keep this machine running.

The decision has been
made, Luca and Jenny stay.

Fidel, Herbert, and I we'll
go outside for a walk.

That's a really euphemistic
way of putting it, Susana.

Very intelligent.

You're very intelligent, Luca.

Perhaps the most
intelligent of us all.

Tell me, did you have it all
figured out when you suggested

that only two would survive?

I-- I-- I'm sorry, I
just can't accept that.

What can't you accept, Herb?

What do you mean
you can't accept it?

Hey, we haven't exhausted
every possibility, OK?

Herb.

Susana, if I must die I
will, but not before having

used up all our resources.

That's it, Herb.

There are none.

I mean, did you
hear what I said?

That's exactly it.

There are no alternatives.
- There are.

There is not.
There is not.

What are there, Herb?
What are they?

You know everything--
- OK.

- --you know everything--
- Listen to me.

- Listen to me.
- What?

Tell me what?

What is our main problem now?
What?

- Energy.
- Energy, OK.

- Right.
- OK, OK.

So--
- So what?

So--

What?

--why don't we
build a windmill?

A windmill?

God, why didn't I
think of that, Herb?

Why did-- that's brilliant.

That's it.

We'll build a windmill.

We'll build a windmill,
then we'll get energy

and we'll fly back home.

The air is too thin here, Herb.

A windmill won't work.
- Hey--

- I thought of everything.
- --hey.

Listen to me.
Listen to me.

- No.
- Just listen--

Listen to me now.

Listen to me for a minute, OK?

I'm trying to tell
you that there

are winds of more
than 130 kilometers

waiting for us out there.

We can build it, OK?

The air is too thin.

Listen to me.

Listen to me I'm a scientist.

I thought of everything.

It's impossible.

There are no
alternatives and I am

not going to waste
energy and resources

on ideas that won't work.

It will lower the chances
of anybody surviving,

and I'm not gonna do it.

I'm sorry.
- That's so easy--

I'm sorry.

--so easy for you to say that.

So easy for you to say that.

What does that mean?
You don't understand that?

No.

You're so clever and
you don't understand that?

Stop!

I'm sorry.

I'm not leaving the module.

You can't ask me to do that.

We
decided to sleep for five hours

before preparing to leave.

Finally, the moment arrived.

What are those for?

We're taking as many
oxygen tanks as we can carry.

Is that a problem for you?

Susan, do you need
that many tanks?

Please, Luca.

All right, see ya later.

I'm gonna-- I'm gonna
go upstairs, fine.

Good luck.

Good luck.

Good luck.

Take care.

Luca?

What?

- Take care, OK?
- You too.

Fidel.

I'm sorry I arrived late.

Could you guys give me
a hand with the suit?

Sure.

My gloves.

It looks just like a
sunny winter down Earth.

Certainly no one would say
that we are on another world.

This sure is a great
day for a stroll.

I just wish we could take
these heavy suits off first.

That wouldn't be wise, Herb.

80 degrees below zero, 10
rem per year, and virtually

no atmospheric pressure.

Come on, guys.

Susana, I was
thinking that you should

start up your video cameras.

I can record
everything from here.

I think-- I think they'll
be very satisfied on Earth

with the images you can get.

Are you serious, Luca?

Won't that use up too much
of the energy reserves?

Well, I've done
some calculations

and I think we can afford it.

I think it's--
it'll be worthwhile.

Giving meaning to
their last hours.

It isn't that.

I think this is important.

There can be some
valuable shots.

I'm not being sentimental.

You're onscreen, Susana.

You can say a few
words if you want.

You already know
what our situation is.

It isn't worthwhile
repeating it now.

We are going to try to reach
the end of the Marineris Valley.

If calculated they
will have to walk

for about four or five hours.

We are carrying a few
spare tanks of oxygen,

so there is a pretty good chance
that we'll get some good shots

of the Marineris Valley.

Hope you enjoy them.

Wait a minute, guys.

Let's stop here.

I need to replace one
of my oxygen tanks.

OK, I'll help you.

How many more of the
alie towers do we have?

Judging by the position of
the sun I'd guess about two,

maybe three.

Exactly four hours, Herb.

How far are we from
the edge of the valley?

You've already covered
3/4 of the distance.

Ah, God.

Susana, is everything OK?

Yeah.

SUSANA SANCHEZ
We walked

through a landscape that
seemed to have been carved

out by catastrophic floods.

Millions and millions of
years ago that dry surface

could have been a deep chasm.

The untamed beauty of Mars,
its eye seen difference

took our breath away.

We were the first
creatures to ever

set foot on that alien terrain.

Three white creatures
from another world,

a mere anecdote in the midst
of that red desolation.

Wow.

Have you ever seen such beauty?

More than 4,000 kilometers
long and 300 wide.

There's nothing like it in
the entire solar system.

Look at those strata.

I don't know whether
the video meant

to record those subtle colors.

It's a really beautiful place.

It's quite clear, Susana.

Did they reach the valley yet?

This
place is beautiful.

You might think that
just getting here

has made it all worthwhile.

Hey, look over there.

Yeah.

We could try to make it
to that bog down there.

You're kidding.

That ravine is more than
eight kilometers deep.

But the
gravity on this planet is

a third of what it is on Earth.

It isn't as difficult
as it seems.

What do you think, Susana?

Let's go down and take a look.

All right.

Why not?

Let's go.

We don't have time to waste.

Is that supposed to be a joke?

Because just the fact
that I'm so tired

that keeps you from
crying right now.

God.

Let's go.

Good idea.

Unfortunately, it won't work.

And their supplies too--

too insufficient to
make it to the valley.

Are you nuts?

I've turned off the
microphone, don't worry.

Besides, they already know.

So they know.

That's why there's no need
for you to remind them.

You think our situation
is any better here?

Well, we have a
possibility of surviving.

They don't.

We have a possibility
if we listen to me.

You know, a few years
ago I dated a guy like you.

Oh really?

Yeah.

He thought he was the
smartest person in the world,

but he was a jerk.

Wow.

So you had one boyfriend.

Fuck you, Luca.

Fuck you.

This is a form of madness.

Nothing more, nothing less.

All of us who are
here are crazy.

Otherwise you would
have stayed on Earth

and watched this on television.

What would make a sane man
leave his wife and children?

Everything, and
climbed underneath

doesn't meet a deep ravine on
the equator for frozen planet.

We must all be
reasonably sane, Rodrigo,

or we wouldn't have passed
the psychological tests.

I lied.

I wanted to come here.

I was crazy enough to lie and
I'm intelligent enough to have

done it without being caught.

Did you lie too?

No, I answered
all the questions truthfully.

Hey, guys,
remember that all this is being

taped on the videos,
and that someday

you will be on TV on Earth.

So careful what you say.

Don't worry, Susana,
they wouldn't do anything

that would harm the image.

They'll portray us as heroes.

If we're lucky we'll
be all on a pedestal.

Shut up, Luca.

You really are living proof that
psychological tests don't work.

What about your team spirit?

Oh, I guess I lied, as
I'm sure everybody else did,

except for Herbert.

I didn't lie, Luca.

I didn't need to.

Well, perhaps you're

the only one among us who
isn't saying what an idiot

I was over and over again.

I wonder all
they'll see us on TV, at what

time, what will
be running through the minds

of the people watching this.

I've seen similar
situations before.

You are sitting comfortably
in your living room

drinking coffee after lunch, and
suddenly the broadcast images

are just before a disaster.

And you see people you know
will be dead a minute later.

You wonder how they feel
and what keeps them going.

And
have you found out?

No, not at all.

I feel like I'm
seeing this on TV.

I can't accept that
this is happening to me.

My mind can fathom
that my air supply

will run out in a
few hours, that it

will be the end of the road.

I'd like to suggest

something how about if we
concentrate on the descent?

As we talk we're using up
more oxygen than necessary.

Sure.

The
escarpment was what geologists

call a chaotic region.

They were walking
down a path that

had been carved out by a
torrential flow of water

sometime in the Martian past.

Wait a second, need
to replace a tank.

I'll help you.

Let's stop here, Susana.

OK.

It's your last bottle.

Calm down, Herb, you are
using too much oxygen.

Yeah, I know that.

Are you all right?

Everything's fine.

SUSANA SANCHEZ
Herbert

was down to his
last oxygen bottle

and we didn't have
much more than that.

We all knew we were nearing
the end of the road,

but no one said a word.

We simply concentrated on
taking one step at a time.

Look at that.

What?

Phobos.

It's moving as
fast as a satellite.

It's so beautiful.

And look, Deimos is
that brilliant star

right next to the edge.

Doesn't look all
that spectacular.

It doesn't matter how
spectacular it looks, Rodrigo.

They really are the
moons of Barsoom.

Barsoom?

Shall we continue?

SUSANA SANCHEZ
Barsoom,

that was the name given
to Mars by the inhabitants

of the Empire of Helium ruled
by the beautiful princess Dejah

Thoris and Tars Tarkas,
that fabulous warrior

with green skin and
four arms fights.

Herbert explained this to us
as we continued our descent,

and told us about the
spirit cities of helium

and the emerald green banks of
the great canal of Milo cities.

What are
you talking about, Herb?

About John Carter's
adventures on Mars.

My grandfather had all
Edgar Ric Burroughs'

novels, the Tarzan books
and those of John Carter.

But the Carter ones
were my favorites.

As a child I spent
hours devouring

those marvelous novels.

I dreamt of someday
visiting the kingdom

of Princess Dejah Thoris
and walking under the two

wild moons of Barsoom.

You two will have
to go it alone.

I think I'll stay
here for a while.

What are you talking about?

What's the matter, Herb?

I can't go on.

My air supply has--

has run out.

But I swear to you I'd
like to, but I can't.

We knew that this moment
would come, didn't we?

Hey, Susana, didn't we?

You-- you're a good person.

We should have gotten to
know each other better.

They say that the only happy
people are those have made

their useful dreams come true.

It was all over.

What were we doing.

Why were we continuing on
down stubbornly, pointlessly

towards our own graves?

Herbert was back there, alone,
under the moons of Barsoom.

He was the best of us all.

Fidel?

Fidel?

Susana?

can you hear me?

I can't get any images.

I'm not seeing anything.

Getting interference.

It looks
like the end of the road.

We can't carry along here.

Oh, shit.

Do we have to retrace
the whole route?

Not me.

There was no way out,

but suddenly I saw it.

I think I realized
immediately that there was

something strange in that cave.

The slope we had followed
led straight to it.

Susana?

Luca?

Jenny?

Do you read me?

I can't--

Luca?

Susana?

Fidel,
you have to see this.

Wait, I'm coming.

Can you hear me?

I can't get any images.

I'm not seeing anything.

Getting interference.

Ah, shit.

What does that mean?

We're dead.

Fuck.

I don't know.

What the hell.

What are you doing?

There's no sense in
continuing to conserve energy.

Why?

We have a leak in the module.

It's not as airtight
as I thought.

And we're losing air.

The pilot indicator indicates
the modules internal pressure

has dropped.

I don't understand why the
sensors didn't warn us before.

Maybe broke in the crash.

But-- we can try to
locate the leak, seal

it and re-establish pressure.

No, my calculations
were very precise

and were based on the
reserve in an airtight cabin.

I hadn't foreseen that we would
lose air because of a leak.

That variable was not
included in my equation,

and now the outcome
couldn't be worse.

Even if we could manage
to plug the crack

and make the ship airtight,
we wouldn't have enough air

to wait for a rescue mission.

I-- Well, I--

I refuse to just
give up like that.

I-- I'll find that
damn leak and plug it.

Jenny?

Jenny?

What?

It's useless.

The pressure is going down.

Perhaps the crack
is getting bigger.

The leak will be clearly
visible from the outside

as a streak of water vapor.

There is no hope.

There's no hope.

Believe me, there's no hope.

I don't want to
spend my last hours

in a pressurized suit waiting
for the air to disappear.

Listen, Jenny, please I don't--

Yeah.

So what do you want to do?

Tell me, what do you want to do?

Listen, we-- we--

we just admit that
we're gonna die.

We admit we're gonna die
and just come together,

come towards each other.

We can make each other feel
good and it would be OK.

I-- I don't want to be alone.

I don't want to just
sit here waiting to die.

Why don't we just make
each other feel good?

We can be together.

How much time do
we really have left?

I think about 12 hours.

Any thoughts like this the
whole voyage you just--

you just avoided.

You need to say that
you're an enormous talent.

Your amazing intelligence
can't find any other solution

than to die fucking.

Maybe.

That's-- that's
completely unreasonable.

I mean, it's-- it's--
that's so uptight.

Listen, Jenny, listen.

Listen to me.

Listen to me.

I've thought about this a lot.

I mean, I--

I think we can adapt
together, two of us

can adapt to the situation here.

Let me tell you what
we are going to do.

OK.
My plan, OK?

OK.

Well, I'll get into
my pressurized suit

and go outside to see if I
can look at the leak, OK?

Listen.

I don't care if
it's a waste of time.

At least I'll feel that
I'm doing something useful.

You can stay here inside,
OK, and masturbate

until you die of dehydration.

I don't want to masturbate.

When the rescue
mission arrives,

that's how they'll find you.

Why do you-- why do you
have to be so uptight?

And and-- they might
even erect a statue

of you on-- on the same spot.

This
is really weird.

It doesn't seem to
be in a phenomenon.

Would you--

I don't
understand nature could--

could have created like this.

It's kind of artificial, like
intelligent bean.

The roads are smooth
and not perfect.

There could be
another explanation for that.

Beijing frozen
water course could

have perforated
the rock this way,

like an underground glacier.

When the ice melted then--

It's
incredible, Fidel.

Can you see this?

Amazing.

The-- there are symbols
carved in the stone.

It seems to be some kind of--
some kind of writing, kind of--

Lengthy of
angles, as if they've been

carved by an intelligent bean.

But oh my God.

It's man made.

There's no doubt about it now,
but I still can't believe it.

Oh my God.

Someone built it.

Someone must have--

Someone--
it's incredible.

Oh my God.

We can't complain about it.

We have no right to.

We've discovered the remains
of an ancient civilization.

There are more symbols
carved in the stone.

Susana, I'm
really seeing them.

Oh God.

It's unbelievable.

Oh God.

SUSANA SANCHEZ
Fidel

had devoted his entire career to
proving the feasibility of life

on Mars.

We had stumbled across
evidence he would

have never dared dream of.

But as we ventured
through the tunnel

we wondered if that discovery
would die along with us.

What do you
think you're doin'?

I must find that leak.

Don't waste your time, Jen.

It's late.

We've lost too much air.

Let's find that leak.

Then we have to keep fighting.

We have to.

Jen, look at me.

Admit it, we're gonna die.

Just admit it, damn it.

Admit it, we're gonna
die, or leave me alone.

I don't wanna die.

Too bad we didn't
bring an archaeologist with us.

An archaeologist?

What, and murder
us in cold blood

for not taking precautions
before coming in here

and distorting everything
with our fingerprints.

What do you mean?

The
ground is covered in dust.

I wonder how long our
footprints will last.

1,000 years maybe.

This
tunnel keeps going down.

Do you think it'll reach
the bottom of the valley?

It's possible.

It's 8,000 meters deep.

I can't
believe we're here.

What's happening?

The air pressure's
higher here.

No way, Fidel.

Your pressure gauge
must be broken.

No.

No.

Look, there's air ducts you
can count is almost normal.

We haven't passed
through any air lock

and we haven't registered
any pressure increase.

Your instruments must be off.

My air pressure's almost zero.

I don't have much to lose if
it's the pressure gauge fault.

Decompression is a
horrible way to die.

Tired, Susana.

Very tired.

This is the end.

Don't do it, Fidel.

Don't leave me alone.

It's cold and it
has a metallic smell.

You can breathe it
without any problem.

That's impossible.

There's air here and
sufficient pressure.

Don't ask me how it's possible.

It's true.

Fidel, if there's
sufficient air here--

Yeah, we could survive.

We'd be what
this place is, what it's for.

The pyramids must be recent
in comparison to this place.

I guess those towns around us
have been here for a long time,

longer than we can imagine.

We may never know what it means.

But the symbols aren't
so strange considering

they're from an alien culture.

Well, any race of
inventors would have

developed their own symbol.

The star and the cross aren't
so difficult to imagine either.

The eye of the octopus.

What?

Its structure is identical
to that of the human eye,

parallel evolution.

Well, let's go.

Wait we still have no
contact with Bellows.

They can't help us
back at the module.

This place is a maze.

Yeah, and I feel like
an experimental rat

running around in it.

I wonder if it means anything.

It must.

If I imagined an ant that
wanders into a discarded Coke

bottle looking for food and
if it goes round and round

until it drops,
perhaps it rethinks

that such a strange
and beautiful

place must have a purpose.

But these symbols
must have a meaning.

Fidel?

Fidel?

Fidel, don't leave me please.

Please.

The corridor.

The vacuum, seal it.

How-- how do they do it?

Try to get up.

How can it be?

Don't leave me.

No, Susana.

I'm so very tired.

Fidel, don't leave me, please.

I'm
recording everything

I can see with my camera.

But I can't transmit
anything, so you'll only

be able to see these shots.

If someone bothers to
look for my corpse,

alone, more alone than
any other human being

had ever been, in a strange
and impressive place

where some mysterious
technology was operating.

Something was keeping
the air inside.

And perhaps, it
was that something

that caused the magnetic
and gravitational anomalies

recorded by the SAR.

Perhaps the anomalies
indicated the position of mazes

like this scattered over
the surface of Mars.

But I was lost inside,
wandering alone, hopelessly

through a horrific
place that had already

claimed my partner's life.

I had been going round in
circles for hours and hours.

I had begun to think, and
Rodrigo was right, that there

was no logic behind it.

Perhaps it was just a
rat trap, or who knows.

The only thing I
knew for sure was

that there was no air or
pressure in the corridors

marked with a star.

I do hope that these
arrows are taking me

in the right direction
but nothing is certain.

Rodrigo, is that you?

Two arms, two legs, it
all seems pretty human.

But who knows what it
looked like originally.

What I need is a small
trace of paper to locate

where the air is escaping.

All I need, that's all,
a small trace of it.

Jenny?

This is impossible.

Jenny?

Jenny?

Jenny?

I'm here.

Yes, that's it.

That's it.

It's Susan's signal.

Is it possible?

No.

No, it's not possible.

But that's the signal.

She can't be alive
it's impossible.

It's impossible.

Jenny?

Luca?

Do you copy?

We Copy, Susan,
but we don't have an image.

You must
try to make it over here.

It's here.

They're everywhere.

Over here.

And Rodrigo?

He didn't make it.

He's dead.

But you survived.

Breathable air here.

I think she's crazy.

Could she still be alive?

Only if Rodrigo gave
her some of his oxygen.

What if she took it from him?

What
are trying to say?

I don't know.

Maybe she's hallucinating.

We could try to reach her.

Could we?

We have one hour of
oxygen on this ship,

we have two spacesuits
with oxygen tanks filled,

and we have the one from
the captain, his reserve.

I think we can make it.

I thought you didn't want
to die in a space suit.

Well, I've come
to the conclusion

that no death is good.

I want to find out
what happened to Susan.

Come on.

I need to rest for a while.

These suits were not
designed for long walks.

You're alive see.

Jenny.

It's crazy.

So this, my friends,

is the bottom of the
Marineris Valley.

It's been tough getting
down here Urban Fidel died

without even seeing it.

But this place could mean
hope for the three of us.

There's water, air,
and organic life.

A primitive lichen
species we may be

able to extract proteins from.

So there you have
it, it's a fact,

Mars was inhabited
millions of years ago

and the civilization
thrived on this planet.

What were they like?

How did they live?

What did they feel
about their world?

What happened here?

When the planet cooled they
built devices like the tunnel,

able to retain air and sustain
life in an increasingly

inhospitable place.

But in the end,
it didn't survive.

Who knows why.

We won't be around to find out.

I'm now down to my
last camera battery

and filming as much as I can.

This is for those of
you who are viewing

this footage,
those who will seek

answers to these mysteries.

Our only objective
now is to survive.

As Herbert said, we're
stranded here like castaways.

We'll hold out till the end.

Take care of our families.