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What is 2 plus 2?

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Cognition assessment.

What is 2 plus 2?

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who may experience memory loss, difficulty speaking, or

body movement detected.

For your own safety, please refer to the medical platform.

Please remember, muscle

function... has not yet been restored.

Oh.

Come on!

Why is there an atomic resolution scanning electron microscope?

Why do I know that?

Am I smart?

To the person in charge.

The captain.

Captain Yao Li Jai.

Deceased. Yes. Where are the living people?

Dr. Ryland Gray.

End of manifest.

I can't be the only person here, right?

Pilot detected.

Oh, no, no, no. Not the pilot.

Call Houston.

Unknown command.

Operation go home, in effect. Invalid operation.

That's the sun.

There it is.

So, what are we, like Neptune -ish?

Let's crank up the radio and call Earth.

Current transmission time to Earth is 11 years, 10 months, 14 days, and 6 hours.

No. Nope.

You're wrong.

I need a map.

Oh.

That's really fun.

That's really fun.

That's a lot of fun.

What is the fuel?

We are just minutes away from the flyby through the Petrova line near Venus.

So what can you tell us about the ArcLight probe?

What do we expect to find?

The image we see will be coming from the onboard microscope.

Oh. Oh, my God.

Sorry,

I have to go now.

Sound waves are physical, and at different

frequencies, they make different patter.

No patter.

They make different pat.

Olivia, can you help me out? Try and go. There we go.

Whoa.

Yeah. Are they really eating the sun?

The space dot?

That is a great question.

Uh, Ray, could I be curious what your parents think about that? I'm not sure

should come from me. Hey, who wants to play a game of... The beanbag is lava!

Lava! Lava!

A telescope enthusiast named Marina Petrova, she noticed that there was a

of infrared light from the sun to Venus, and that is now known as the Petrova

Line. That's it.

That's the dots?

They think so.

What dots?

These dots.

They sent a probe up to the Petrova Line, and this is what they found.

Are they eating the sun?

They seem to be dimming the sun a tiny, teeny, weeny little bit.

So no big whoop? It's a small whoop.

It's a small to medium whoop.

Over the next 30 years, the Earth could cool maybe 10 to

15 degrees.

So it is a big whoop.

I heard that all the crops will die, the economy will free fall, and half the

Earth will die of starvation.

Well, you're forgetting something. Guys, guys, that's if that were to happen,

right? They're going to figure this out right now. The best minds in the entire

world are on it.

Good morning, Dr.

Gray. And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad, so I had one more for

dessert.

Then I headed back for home and somewhere far away a lonely bell was

ringing.

And it echoed through the canyon like the disappearing dreams of yesterday.

On the Sunday morning sidewalk,

wishing Lord I was gone.

Cause there's something in a Sunday.

Makes the body feel alone.

And there's nothing short of life.

Half as lonesome as the sound.

On the sleeping city sidewalk.

Sunday morning coming down.

Knock, knock.

Who's there?

Not good at jokes.

Not good at jokes, who?

Dr. Grace?

Maybe. Eva Stratton with the Petrova Task Force. I need your help.

Me. Did you write this?

Oh. I'm interested in this section here, page 31.

The Goldilocks zone is for idiots why everyone is wrong about life.

That was a long time ago.

Do you stand by what you wrote? I was fired for standing by what I wrote.

You were fired for calling the leading scholar in your field a staggering waste

of carbon at the UNESCO conference in Denmark.

You heard about that, huh?

Look, I don't know what this is, but I think... How much is that lava?

It's not.

No one in your field wants anything to do with you because you refuse to back

down from a very unpopular view and I can give you a chance to prove them all

wrong. Kevin, no running.

I'm not.

Joke on them because I don't even care.

I think you do care. You're just running away because you're scared.

No, I'm not.

Do you still believe water is unnecessary for life to evolve?

Look, there is nothing magical about hydrogen and oxygen.

Water is required for life on Earth, sure.

But a completely different planet might have completely different conditions. I

don't know why that makes me such a nut.

I need you to come with us.

Sorry, I didn't catch your name. Carl.

Carl, hi.

Dr. Grace, for travel line samples left down last night, I want you to tell me

what they are, how they work.

I am a teacher at Grover Cleveland Middle.

You have a doctorate in molecular biology.

And I ride a bike to work.

And it's not for exercise, so I'm sure there are thousands of other people...

It's a ride on the surface of the sun.

Does that sound like a water -based life form to you?

The sun's really dying, isn't it?

Yeah.

Is all of this...

Necessary? Yes?

Please analyze the patrol sample.

Um... Just one thing. The entire room is filled with argon. Just try not to rip

your suit.

Uh... Am I expendable? Is that why you want me?

That's not the only reason.

It's almost like you don't care if I die.

Hold on, you have to talk about it?

The consensus here is that it would be preferable if you did not die.

Thanks guys.

Are they alive?

They're moving.

So they're alive.

Yes, they're moving, but that could be for many reasons.

What are they made of?

It's going to take a long time. It took like 200 years to figure out how

bacteria work.

Please do it faster.

I'm just going through the whole light spectrum here.

Wow!

You're not going to believe it.

Nothing happened.

I can't see into these bugs.

Amazing. X -rays, microwaves, gamma rays, visible light.

Nothing.

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh. I've been dying to do this all day.

It's a cell.

It's a cell. Wake up! It's a cell!

It's a tiny alien cell.

Guys, this is first contact.

There's life outside of this.

Uh -oh.

Oh, it died.

What?

This is great news.

Now we can find out what they're made of.

You guys fired up?

Right? Carbon.

Oxygen.

Hydrogen.

It's made.

Almost entirely of water.

All right.

Sorry if I overreacted in there.

Just realizing I was wrong about the only original idea I ever had.

Yeah, what else did you learn?

They give off infrared light when they move.

Like so much, I don't know how they store all that energy. But their

is exactly the Petrova frequency.

Their light is how they move?

Yeah, they consume the sun's energy and then they expel it for propulsion.

They toot as good, basically.

Why did it go to Venus?

I don't know.

Okay, we'll tell you.

What? I have 347 other biologists and 21 countries mobilizing as we speak.

So, thank you for your help. I'm glad you didn't die.

Let's pack this up.

That's it.

That's it, Carl.

You're taking all this stuff?

At the school you said there were thousands of people more qualified than

so... I was being modest. I don't need modest. I need people who think they're

right when everyone else thinks they're wrong. I need people who piss other

people off. That's me.

Do you want to be on a project?

If you... If you think I can help, then just answer the question.

I want to help the world. I lift you three dots.

Just three, huh?

That's the one you killed.

I would take the three.

Yes? I'll take the dot.

Get to work, Dr. Grace.

The world is counting on you.

For a second that you're an interstellar microorganism.

I'm not doing that.

Why would you leave the sun and go to Venus?

Why not stop at Mercury? It's closer.

Maybe fresh air.

Venus's atmosphere is mostly CO2.

Maybe that's fresh air to them.

You don't know what these little things act like.

Do you have a coupon?

We don't need a coupon. We're the government.

Which government?

All of us.

So this box is Venus.

The box is Venus.

It's set to emit the same infrared light frequency as Venus' CO2 atmosphere.

So if the dots move when you turn the light on, that means they're looking for

CO2. That's proving the Carl hypothesis.

Why are you saying, oh?

The astrophage moved off the slide.

Huh?

We lost them.

What do you mean we lost them? Go get them.

If I open the door and the light, they're going to escape, and then we'll

them forever, at least now they're in the box.

So let me just turn the lights off.

They'll still be lights. It's got to be total darkness.

Okay, so just put this box in another box.

during phase two.

I made a baby.

What?

We figured out how osteopates breathe.

Don't know.

Will's up.

No, Carl, when Strat said she was sending... Jack, I thought you meant

PJ. I know.

Take this.

It's been a long time since I've taken a pill from a stranger without knowing

what it was.

Dr. Grace, how was your flight?

Where are we? The ocean.

The estrophage reproduction, can you do it at scale? Oh, in theory, you just get

a bunch of elbow -shaped pipe, put sunlight in one end, excuse me for a

Write it down.

And IR light and CO2 in the other.

Repeat. Anything else you need? Water. He gave me a pill and it spilled in my

throat. Two venti coffees. Thank you so much. Water for him. Or coffee. I need

both. Or not.

Okay, so this is kind of a tough room, so don't take it personally. I don't

anything fancy. As long as there's a bed and a shower, I'm good. I'm sober.

Come on.

Yes, I can.

You're doing great.

Everyone, this is Dr. Ryland Grace from the United States. Please go here. Thank

you. And he figured out how to breed esophage.

How did you do it? How long does the process take? Does it reproduce by

or meiosis?

Carl and I made a mini -venus out of a

plywood box.

And as soon as the samples recognized the spectral signature of CO2, they

were...

They're like, whoop, there it is.

Whoop, there it is.

While your experiment was crude and clumsy, our scientists have replicated

results.

I'm sorry, how did you see all of it?

We estimate an eight -day doubling time under optimal conditions.

Dr. Grace is right.

It is the CO2.

That's why they're going to Venus.

That's why they're going to Venus.

So that's why they're...

That's why they're going to Venus, is what Dr. Grace wants to say. They're

to breathe.

There it is.

I really like him.

How long to make two million kilograms?

Two million?

Two million is... Why on earth would you need that much astrophage?

Nobody told him. He has no clearance.

Stand up.

I hereby grant you top secret clearance to all information pertaining to Project

Hail Mary.

What's Project Hail Mary?

All right.

The sun is not the only star dying. There is a clear pattern of infection.

star was infected by its neighbor except one.

Tau Ceti? Tau Ceti, that's right. 11 .9 light years away. It is uninfected

despite being well within the cluster of infected stars.

Why? Why? Tell him.

We don't know!

Which is why we decided to build a ship to go there and find out.

It's 11 .9 light years away. You can't just build an interstellar ship.

Oh yeah, we can. The ship is not really the problem.

The energy required to power the ship is the problem.

It was the problem.

The astrophage is the fuel.

Provided we can make enough of it. And for that, we need you, my friend.

Me?

Ooh, those little guys store a lot of energy.

One mistake and that much astrophage could vaporize California.

That's true, which is why you now live on a boat in the middle of the ocean in

case.

I live on a boat?

You do.

So you want to build a near -light -to -beat spaceship?

have it travel further than any human -made object has ever traveled and visit

star just to see what's up.

Yeah. And then what? There won't be enough fuel for a round trip, so they

their findings back to Earth on probe.

And the astronauts die in space?

Yes.

Any other plans you've thought of? Anything else you're kicking around?

There are infinite possibilities for this to go wrong. It almost certainly

work. It's what you Americans would call a long shot.

Hail Mary.

I get it. The alternative is to just do nothing and to starve and to

kill each other and watch everything on this planet go extinct, including us.

That's a long time to be in space.

Maybe in comets for most of it.

But is that even safe?

Nothing about to be safe.

We only need three.

A pilot, an engineer.

Commander Yao, I must have known you, but I just don't remember.

You make a funny face in literally every picture.

You must have been very smart and strong and brave.

Ilyukna, I owe you three bags of vodka.

You seem to have had a lot of friends.

This picture of you, what looks like sneaking into the Kremlin, is

legendary.

I wish you were still here.

I wish I wasn't alone.

I wish I was.

Doing a better job, I just...

You were both very loved.

You deserve much more than this.

I'll do my best to make sure that you don't... You know, that you

didn't...

I'll do my best.

Tau Ceti orbit.

Prepare for engine cutoff.

40, 30, 12,

11,

10. Pilot detected.

I'm not a pilot!

What happens at zero? I mean, what?

Retroboscope operational.

Retroboscope operational.

You have a Petrova line.

But you're not dimming.

Why?

What's a blip? Hey.

No, no, no, no, no. Let's go. Let's go, Mary.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Pilot detected.

Please engage restraint.

Pilot detected.

Pilot detected.

We're getting out of here. Engage spin gun.

Engage spin gun. Incorrect. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Welcome to the Hail

Mary. Is it this thing?

Jurassic Smith detected.

It could be a message.

Could be a bomb.

Is it a bomb?

Shield up!

Why not?

I guess they're Zagor Bozar faces, huh, Mary?

What's that?

Why is it moving so much slower than the last one?

They think I'm dumb.

If we were going to catch it, what would we do?

Would you like to go on a space walk, Dr. Grace?

space put on your aviation and proceed to the air

It's crazy.

Righty, tighty, lefty, loony.

Lean on the gas.

I think this thing's broken.

We need the equipment to analyze the astrophage atop that thing.

Most of this equipment won't work in zero gravity.

And we haven't seen to develop and build zero gravity versions of this

equipment. We would need years for that, and we have months.

What's the alternative?

We make gravity.

Centrifuge?

Centrifuge. They used them to make butter during the Civil War, actually.

Fun. Fun fact.

Operational.

Still xenon.

Up is down, left is right, xenons are solid, aliens are real. I'm wrong about

everything and everything's wrong.

Lefty tighty righty boofies.

I mean... Oh no!

Foreign presence detected.

You're a long way from home

I'm

a long way from home too

Detective!

Oh.

My sheep I

don't understand

You

want me

to go back in my ship?

But I just got here

Okay. Okay.

I'll talk to you later.

Bye.

Thank you Mary.

Oh, my.

This is new.

Anybody home?

I like what you've done with the gravity.

I made you a ship.

It's ramen.

I only made one. I'm not sure how many of you there are.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry!

You scared me when you went...

Wow.

It's a serious face.

Mysterious.

Faces are overrated.

You like tapping, huh?

Fine. You're pointing.

You're not tapping. Sorry.

Another present.

I don't have one of these.

I love it.

Thank you.

Do I put this on my head?

Take off my head?

Take my helmet off?

No.

It'll... That's a big ass.

This is taking a turn.

Thank you for the, what I hope is not handcuffs.

I'm sorry about the whole helmet thing.

Unfortunately, I need oxygen to breathe, so.

Two rings of eight.

O2.

You little rascal.

This is oxygen.

I still don't think I can do it, though. Sorry.

If I'm wrong, I'm really wrong.

It's the Petrova line.

We're here for the same reason.

You have a Petrova line problem too.

You need to solve it. I need to solve it. That's why you made me this.

I'm going to take that as a yes.

We're going to save our planets. We have to learn how to communicate.

You know, they say math is the universal language. I thought maybe we find out

if that's true.

You see the numbers?

Oh, you want this?

Whoa!

Crispus Eve, that is.

It's really hot in there.

Is that ammonia?

Anyway, that... Look, see the numbers?

They're on the other side.

Do it again.

If you do it again and you... Don't let it snap back.

Don't do it. Don't do it. Hold it like that.

And you look.

How about something else?

Look at this.

A clock.

We both have time, right? These are the hands, and these are the numbers. One,

two, three, they point to the numbers.

And if you'll notice, there's numbers there, and there's also numbers here.

Okay.

This is dark.

I got an idea.

Wait.

Don't... Don't go anywhere. Dag.

Oh.

Oh, yeah.

Um... I'm great.

I'm gonna call you Rocky.

You know, because you look like a giant rock.

Oh.

Um... I'm fine.

Echolocation, right? You need surfaces to see. Try this.

You see the numbers?

What is that?

Is that good?

We do this.

Your version of this is our thumbs up.

Nope. That's thumbs down.

We do the thumbs up.

It's close enough.

You want me to wait?

I wait?

Yeah, no.

I'm really, uh, really excited to be working with you on this.

Fired up. I'm sorry I'm talking so much.

I haven't been around anyone in a long time.

What have we got here?

It's a clock.

I showed you a clock and you're showing me a

clock.

We're clock bros.

I got to be honest.

I'm not sure I'm getting all of this.

Check this out.

I thought I might record you. Oh, no, no. No, that's okay. Just a microphone.

Let's start with one.

One.

No, no, wait, wait, wait. Sorry.

Okay. One.

And.

One.

Okay.

So, uh, I met an alien.

And we're learning to communicate through name.

Okay, let's start with you.

Rocky.

You done?

My name, can't wait to hear this, is great.

What's your word for my name? Go ahead.

You know, I'm not the order at restaurants. We have about 250 words.

My atmosphere would kill him and hit me, but I like to keep a wall up in my

relationships anyways.

He's a mechanic, I think. He uses a metal form of xenon. He can make

Look at this.

I'm calling it Xenonite.

And if I can't understand what he's saying, which is most of the time, he

on a little puppet show for me and my tiny brain. And you know what?

I don't mind it. He's kind of growing on me. At least he's not growing in me,

you know, which was a concern for a little while.

His son is dying too, so maybe we can help each other.

Recognize this?

We call it astrophage. It means star eater.

Astrophage on me, star bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, yeah.

Same.

How did they die?

There

were

three of us.

You died on the way here.

I wish I knew why.

Not only me.

Correction.

Deal.

Call the fifth bump, by the way.

What's that?

Fifth my bump.

No, it's fifth bump.

It's not the same.

Exactly. The astrophage has to reach Tau Ceti, otherwise we wouldn't see the

protobole.

We really need this whole model.

Right.

Oh boy.

You know, I used to have one of these in my classroom and it was a lot simpler

to set up.

What's that? What? What?

That is a great question.

You know what?

Try this.

Why is a schoolteacher in space?

Question.

No. Don't like that voice.

Can't unhear it, really. Scary.

Let's try this.

Oh. Nope. Why is a schoolteacher in space? No need to even continue. Good.

Why is a schoolteacher in space?

What's so funny? Question.

Why is a schoolteacher in space? I mean. It has charm, but never. Meryl Streep.

Why is a schoolteacher in space?

She can do anything.

Why is a schoolteacher in space?

Why is a schoolteacher in space?

Not that bad.

I like.

All right. And in answer to your question, I have no idea what I'm doing

space.

Is okay.

Grace, find out when Grace go home.

I'm going to go to sleep.

No understand. Word?

Sleep?

Just go like that?

Just die? Just die? Die? No, no, no, no. Not die. Just lay here for 29 ,000

seconds and then we... Wake up!

Oh, understand.

We call this...

Okay, here we go.

Sleep.

Good night, sir.

I watched Great Sleep.

No, that's fine. That's a little weird. I'll be good. Good night. I'm not safe.

Viridians must watch sleep.

That's really interesting. That sounds like something you can unpack that

tomorrow.

Rugby watch crew many days.

That's where you're going to be? No, it's usually closer.

On your chest.

I wonder if it would work from a little farther back.

But Grace won't feel comfortable and safe.

Well, look, I'm seeing so many sides of you lately, and it's great.

Right now I'm seeing the underside of you.

Kind of a side sleeper anyway.

Good night.

So we watch each other sleep.

Viridians don't sleep like a human does.

They seem legitimately paralyzed.

If danger comes, you can't wake up.

It's a survival norm.

Someone has to keep you safe.

Flight team, I want you to meet Dr. Ryland Grace.

He is currently the world's leading authority in astrophage biology.

Dr. Grace, these are the three astronauts going on the mission and

for redundancy.

Yao, Ilyukna, and Dubois, our pilot, engineer, and sign -up.

It's an honor.

I'm excited to share what I've learned about astrophage and spin drives.

One thousand and nine of these little engines that could on the Hail Mary and

uh... Once

the

mission is complete, we have the option...

to end our lives on alternatives.

The alternative is slow, miserable death by starvation.

I want to do a lethal injection with a little bit of heroin.

I will have what she's having.

Following on from Dr. Grace's discovery, we've built an IR emitter set to the

wavelength of CO2, which attracts the astrophage to this revolver face. The

drive then rotates outwards. We increase the IR.

The astrophage get excited, thrust the ship forward, and so on, and so on.

This is less than a gram of astrophage, and we only need a fraction of this for

this demonstration, if you want to take a look.

To do what?

To melt a metric ton of metal.

Powerful stuff.

Commander Yao, I really appreciate what you all are doing.

You would do the same. I would choose just not to go at all.

I don't have the bravery gene that you all have. Trust me.

It's not a gene. You just need to find someone to be brave for.

You're in a ball.

So, Rocky, no dying. Great atmosphere. I come up. Oh, you do? No.

Forest. Detective.

Grace and Rocky, big science. How to kill after a fish together.

I keep going this way?

This room, boring.

Science. Save Earth. Save Earth. Good plan.

What's this down here?

Amazing. Amazing.

Rocky wanted to see human technology.

Dirty. Dirty.

Dirty. Dirty, dirty.

Why room so messy? Well, I wasn't expecting company, was I?

This room for garbage?

Oh.

Dirty, dirty. The lab. The science lab. What's this? What's this?

What's this? I made the disco ball.

That makes me happy.

Rocky will build work up here.

We'll need much room for rocks and much less space for grapes. What is happening

here? We go Petrova Line. We collect astrophase. We study it. We go home. We

collect... We say we.

Uh, where?

I see grapes.

Whoa. Apology.

Apology. Apology. Rocky, stay.

Rocky, my hand is up.

We can't just show up in a space ball unannounced and move into someone else's

spaceship, right? There have to be boundaries.

Boundaries. We have one mission.

Mission? But we're two distinct individuals. Individuals. Both working

distinct individual parts of that mission. Mission.

Separately. Separately. Okay.

Where are my bedrooms?

Bedrooms!

What? So I have a new roommate now.

Be careful back there, okay?

The drawer wheel is really lopsided.

Where on earth did that go?

Not on earth. More high. It goes this way? Wall. All the way out to here? Yes.

Out pointy. What?

He tells me what to do. He tells me why to do it. He tells me how to do it. He

tells me when to do it.

And then when I do it, he's like, what are you doing?

I'm just saying you're going to get out of the ball to get into a much bigger

ball? Yes, for sleeping.

Why? You don't even use a bed.

No, you have the, like, Hellraiser thing that you sleep on. What do you need a

bed for?

Don't talk to Armando. Yes. Can I help you? You're doing this.

It's a lot of this.

I need a word. You know what the word is? Body.

I'm like one of the villains in the Superman movie. I'm just, like, trapped

hell. Get me out of here!

His eating habits are... exotic.

Grace looks disgust when he eats. How do you look when you eat?

You look beautiful.

Show me.

Oh, my God.

Oh my God.

He has incredible hearing.

He can see through walls.

Personal space is at a premium.

Who is Grace talking to? Question.

There's no way you can hear me right now. Can't hear. Who are you talking to?

You can hear this.

Yes, Grace say you can hear this.

What about this? Yes. Oh my God. Look at this. Look how far away it is.

That is where he is. Hello, Grace. He's right here. Hello, Grace friend. Okay.

Did Grace find sampler instructions?

Yes, I found the sampler instructions.

Yes, I found the sampler instructions.

He's really smart about some things.

Oh, my God, he got a gun.

Oh, this?

No, no, no.

This to screen in front, and now this to that over here.

Now Rocky can hear screen.

Please don't point at me.

Oh, point over here.

Yeah. Oh, okay. Now over there. You can point at me again.

But his species doesn't know about things like relativity and radiation.

And the rest of the crew?

In mid of ship, there.

In here? And where did you keep the astrophage?

Fuel tanks next to Rocky Workshop, there.

I think the radiation is what made your crew sick, Rock. The astrophage probably

just protected you from it.

This isn't something that you could have fixed.

But it gets together, we're, you know, pretty...

Since we're only going to be able to intersect with the patrol line for a few

seconds, we're not going to have enough time to get a good sample. Too fast. Do

puppet show. Too fast.

I don't want to do the puppet show. No. Do puppet show.

This is us.

We're flying along. The problem is, because the solar system is constantly

moving, the patrol line is going to constantly be moving. Right? Am I still

doing it? You still want it? Yes, yes. It's show time. We're not going to have

time to get the sample. No, no, no. Use planet gravity to move with line.

You mean sort of like rest in its orbit?

Yes.

I didn't think of that. I did.

We figured out a plan. We're going to orbit the planet where astrophage

collect a sample, and figure out why it's not eating Tau Ceti.

Who is Grace talking to?

I'm not talking to anyone.

I need a break.

Break from what?

Oh, my God. Forget it. This isn't going to work.

Thank you, Mary.

You're welcome, Dr.

Gray. Thank you, Mary.

Welcome to Earth.

The beach is always changing. You could go to the same spot every day. You're

always looking at a different beach.

Trees.

So excited about us both getting to go home.

There's no harm in pretending for a little while.

Touching the wave.

Wiping out. Hanging pen.

Hey! Oh!

Big Apple, baby.

In three, Apollo trains him. And in seven, he trains Apollo's kid.

Yeah, yeah.

Punch, punch, punch, punch, punch.

Punch, punch, punch, punch, punch.

I say either, you say either.

No. I say neither, you say neither.

No.

I like Earth.

What about you, Rock? What do you miss most about home?

My mate.

Wait, what?

You got a mate?

Yes. I mean, not that you, I mean, I'm sure, I'm... What's their name?

Name is...

It's

beautiful.

I mean, I did.

But she thought I had my head in the clouds and I didn't really want to live

the real world.

She was right.

Anyway, now she's with Mark.

Rocky hate Mark.

But enough about me. You have a mate.

How long have you been together?

186 .3 years.

Like the honeymoon phase?

No, I understand.

That's a joke, right? That's a long time. You've been together a long time.

It's not enough.

Permission to come aboard, Captain.

You're already aboard.

Did you get your free hat?

Yeah, I kind of bought them. Oh.

You don't sing, huh?

Yeah, I do. I actually sing in an Eastern German youth choir.

You're very mysterious.

No, I'm not.

I always wanted to be... mysterious.

Talk too much. It's my problem.

Like right now, I, uh...

Didn't mean to bother you. You don't bother me.

It is such a weird party.

Is it?

Yao is singing.

Everyone's so happy.

People are hooking up and they all know they're going to die.

Camaraderie helps them doing their job, you know.

Not so much me.

Must be hard having to ask everybody to...

Actually, it isn't.

Yeah.

So, what do you think?

You think you're going to pull it off?

What, the whole thing?

Yeah.

God willing.

You believe in God?

Who beats the alternative?

Dead wrap, you're crying, it's a sign of the times.

Welcome to the final show.

I hope you're wearing your bedclothes.

You can't write the door on your way to the sky.

You look pretty good down here, but you ain't.

And that is enough.

Rocky Canty.

Boring. What?

This is not boring.

Name of planet Tau Ceti E is same name as star plus E.

Boring. I guess it could be a little more evocative.

Astrophase sampler in position. Question?

Yep.

Trays are live looking both ways.

It is time go.

It's time to go.

You know, back on Earth, if you discover something, you get to name it. You were

technically the first one here.

Yes. The name is Medium Rough Texture Circle Planet.

Okay.

Well, if Medium Rough Texture Circle Planet was taken, we'll just have a

Maybe go with something personal.

Personal.

What's your mate's name again?

Name is... It's okay, it's okay, I remember.

Need human word for rocky mate.

Adrian.

It's beautiful.

Well, that's weird.

What?

It's the same amount, both coming and going.

But if Astrophage is going to Adrian to breed, there should be more leaving. It

should be double. It doesn't make sense.

It's either not reproducing or it's not leaving the planet for some reason.

Oh, my God.

Life. It's not just astrophage. It's bacteria.

It's protozoa. It's like cells on Earth.

And Earth.

What does this mean? Question.

Well, if there's a whole active biosphere in the Petrova line, then

whole active biosphere on Adrian, which means...

There's life on Adrian.

Oh, Grace! Grace! Yeah? Life! Life is reason! Life is reason! Yeah.

No, no, no.

No, no, understand.

No, understand. Grace, Grace, Grace. Use your word. Life is the reason for what?

Life is reason. Life is the reason for what?

Life is reason. Life is reason.

Life is reason what? Life on Adrian is reason astrophage imbalance.

Life on Adrian makes... Astrophage die.

Like a predator.

Yes. That would keep the population stable.

Great. If we bring Predator home, our stars not die.

Life is reason, star not die.

Why didn't you just say that?

If there is some kind of microbial Predator on Adrian, it'll be in the

where Astrophage breathes.

Check. Oh, the problem is this ship wasn't built to go into the atmosphere.

If we get within five kilometers, we'll be ripped into a million pieces and then

we'll burn up. Game over.

Game not over. I make chain.

I make long chain. I put collection device on end. Oh, yeah, yeah. Five

kilometers of chain. Sure. Garbage!

Like this chain. Look.

You can do that?

Yes. I like fishing.

What's that?

Oh! Oh!

Fishing! You can even... It works.

Thumbs up, baby.

Lower. Plan is like fishing.

We get very close to Adrian atmosphere and lower collector into clouds with

chain. Then Grace go on hull to reel it in. If ship not at precise angle and

speed, we die.

Example.

We must fly backwards to keep proper velocity, even though Grace still have

pilot experience.

I've been practicing, haven't I? More. No, no, no. Left. Be left. More left.

More left.

Wrong. Wrong way. Wrong way. Wrong ink. Bad, bad, bad. Good, good, good.

Bad. Not enough. Not enough. Too much. Too much. Too much. I'm barely pulling

it. No, it's bad. Grace Rocky did. All Rocky.

Plural. All.

Earth. Die. We die. We die.

Rocky has built Predator Collector. Rocky chain spooled and ready.

Grace pilot training.

Not as good.

What think, Earth?

They can't hear you, pal. What? We're not actually talking to Earth. Earth's

far away. You know, we just record these messages, and we tell them what we've

learned, and then when we're done, we'll send them all back and approve.

Why not you tell them yourself when you return home?

Question.

Yeah.

This is a one -way ticket for me, pal.

What? We had enough astrophage to get here, but not enough to get back.

So what happens, Grace?

Question. Oh, I've got enough food to last me at least a couple years.

Maybe a couple more if I stretch it out.

So, Grace die question?

Yeah, once we're done, I'm... I'm gonna die.

Why didn't you tell me?

It slipped my mind.

No. Grace said Grace go home.

Listen. No. Listen.

I got to meet you.

I got to do all this amazing stuff.

I'm good.

I've made peace with it.

What means? What mean make peace?

It means... I know I'm not going home.

I know why.

And it's okay.

Thumbs up? No. Tiny thumbs up? No.

We got stars to save.

Okay?

Great. Yeah.

What word do you mean?

To risk self to help another. Uh, dumb.

How much astrophase you need, question?

Two million kilograms.

I can give.

I go home six years slower.

That's too much.

Rocky watch crew die.

Could not fix.

Grace say grace will die.

Rocky fix

Grace

go home

Okay.

I thought you made peace.

Question?

I didn't mean any of that.

Not just something you say.

Thank you.

I feel better.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. What?

What's happening?

A hug.

Oh.

It's usually not.

Something one does by themselves.

Oh, wait, I do the same? Would you just get in here?

How do you know when the hug is done?

You just feel it.

Oh.

Are you feeling it now?

No. Oh, okay, yeah.

We ran the sampler simulation again this morning. Shapiro and Dubois nailed it

again. Okay. What about the others?

They'll be ready.

I expect so.

They have a great teacher.

Can you take a compliment, please?

No. It's an order.

Okay. Okay.

If it's an order, I'll take it. Thank you.

Good.

What do you think?

It's... Pretty impressive.

Yeah. You're... You're good.

Three days, huh?

Yeah.

So... What are you going to do for the next 20 years? You got a plan?

Manual mode activated.

It's not that bad.

It's all good.

Time for a vision question?

No, never.

3 ,000 meters.

Probe signal.

Good.

Now comes the fun part.

It's a joke.

Oh, humor.

Confusing.

You've got to be kidding me.

What problem question? The client. It's just... This guy is... Blame me on fire.

Words of encouragement.

You can't just say words of encouragement.

Words of great encouragement.

Nope.

Move winch into position.

How long is this supposed to

take?

Collector should be here soon.

Yeah, it's here.

Amaze, amaze, amaze.

Careful,

Collector. Report.

Great to see you. Question?

I'm okay.

Good, good, good. Come inside with Predator and Collector now.

Uh... Why not moving? Question?

We must move now. Go, go.

No, Grace.

Bad idea. Come inside.

Be there in a minute.

No, no, no, no, no. Grace will die.

You can repeat mission. You can try again later.

I don't think there is going to be a later.

Abort, abort, abort.

Grace will die. No, no, no, no, no, no.

Well, I'm not dead, so yes.

Good, good, good, good, good.

Where is that noise coming from? It's from all around. It's loudest at fourth

side of bedroom.

Gravity, get rid of the simple part.

We leave now. Question?

Leave now.

Statement.

bending in big room below bedroom.

That's the blue deck.

Oh, that's not great.

Okay, okay, okay. Everyone, everyone, calm down. Calm down!

Try to keep yourself together, Harry.

Not yet.

We need to get into orbit or we'll crash. I have an idea. First, no crash.

Then, not explode.

Deal? Deal.

Hold on.

I should move in question. There's a hole in it!

Hull breach.

Courtside fuel compartment, 11 and 12.

What happened in question?

The fuel is migrating to Adrian.

Is that bad fuel bay in question?

Yeah.

Jettison port fuel tank compartment 12, confirm.

Jettison port fuel tank compartment 11.

Uh, check up your fuel tank.

One nanogram of astrophase isn't enough to blow up a building.

The quartermaster gave him one milligram for a mistake. That's a billion times

the heat energy that they're prepared for. A measuring mistake.

Healed my entire science team. It doesn't matter if we have to launch.

If we miss the orbital window, it'll set us back months.

Yeah, but if no one trains to do the mission, it won't matter. Casualty

projections go up exponentially if we delay. We launch on schedule with a

replacement science officer.

Okay, but... Who?

I don't need an astronaut.

I need an expert in astrophage who's mission ready. I'm not ready.

I don't have any training.

Pick it up.

I'm not an astronaut.

I put the not an astronaut. I've never done anything. I've never done a

spacewalk. I can't even moonwalk.

I haven't done the whole pool thing.

No, no, no. This is just we do for the picture, for social media.

I'm not heroic.

In any way. I get sick on an elevator.

Perfect. There's no elevator on the ship. I cannot do this.

You're smart.

You'll figure it out.

This might be very hard for you to understand.

But some people are failures. Some people don't rise to the challenge.

been present for every major scientific or strategic meeting we've had on the

mission. You're missing out an important part of the mission, which is the

suicide part.

Great. You've been very... cool company if you don't go you die anyway yeah but

i die in 30 years with with the rest of us you have no immediate family

you don't even have a dog so just so i'm clear

you're asking me right now to give up my life

i am we all are

Can I think about this? You have three hours.

I watched the fleet pop.

But, uh, you gotta wake up.

I'm not sure what to do.

I've done everything I can think of.

Maybe even my heat lamp.

And he left me one last message.

We have our predator.

Right now I'm calling it Tau Miba.

And I'm sure that when you wake up, you'll have a lot to say about why

bad name, because it's just an amoeba from Tau Ceti, and we're putting Tau in

front of amoeba. But I would argue there's an elegance to that, a

Let's not fight about it now.

We'll table it.

I did a test of different atmospheric variables, and fun fact, every time I

introduced nitrogen, it died.

And I know you're thinking, well, that's terrible because that's a problem

because we needed to survive in the conditions of Venus.

Obviously, I had to figure out how to breed a new strain of nitrogen

amoeba.

And guess what I used?

The breeder tank that we made with your Xenonite.

And you know what?

Now we're just a couple of very cool dudes with their very own strain of

nitrogen -resistant Tau Miba.

Really, all we have to do now is breathe enough to survive the trip, and you

gotta wake up because I don't know how to get your half of the Tau Miba to air

it.

So, no pressure.

But we did make a deal.

Did we... find... Predator?

No is yes.

Amaze, amaze, amaze.

Rocky, reader tag design.

Good job, bro. We can go home statement.

We can go home.

Fist my bum.

No.

Still not right.

I'll do it. Good, good, good.

So what we do now?

It is special clothing for celebration.

You're making me think that I have to, uh... What?

Up my game.

What is this? If you don't mind.

Rocky, Rocky, get one. Here you go.

It's good.

Oh, yeah.

Not much. A little something.

Your very own laptop.

My portable earth -sinking machine. With all human knowledge.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. And just one more thing.

Yes?

What's this?

Earth.

So you can remember me.

Rocky can't forget.

I didn't get you anything.

He gave me everything.

were to give you something.

It'd be pretty cool to see your ship.

I understand that you think I'm the right person for this mission.

But... I can't do it.

I can't do it.

You'll find a solution.

You are my solution.

My place is in the classroom.

Stop pretending this is about your students. It's so insulting.

Grace, we will lose a quarter of the world's population in the next 30

years.

And that assumes that the nations of the world work together to ration food.

Which they won't.

So I double the estimate.

And if you would truly care about the children or anyone else for that matter,

you'd get on that ship.

I understand the stakes.

I do.

But I don't have it in me.

My mind is made up.

I'm sorry, but you just can't talk me into it.

Sorry.

I'm not trying to talk you into anything.

I am trying to make you understand what

I'm about to do next.

Yeah, please.

Mission plan will say that we induced a coma early to maximize your safety. You

will be remembered as a hero.

Come on.

I have to do it. You're not. Come on. What are you doing?

It may seem like me betraying you, but it's actually me believing in you. It

sure feels like you're betraying me.

Don't make this harder, please. Come on.

What are you talking about?

Sit down and we do it differently.

Yeah,

this one.

you know who you are you're gonna do great

if there's anything I forgot.

Fuel tank fix okay, question?

Oh yeah, yeah, they're working great.

Oh good. Happy, happy, happy.

Well?

My friend?

Yes, friend.

Not sure what to say, so just gonna...

you sleep.

Yeah.

You are very brave.

I don't know about that.

You are bravest human I have ever met.

Hey. It's a joke.

I know.

I only meet one human and it's you.

I get it.

It's a good joke.

Good joke.

All right.

Well... Bye.

No understand word.

Means, uh... See you later. But I won't see you later.

I know.

How do you say goodbye back home?

We don't. We do this.

me

There's a leak.

The problem is the Xenonite.

Zetamiva can't get through it.

Probably because we brought it in the Xenonite breeder tanks. It evolved to

escape it.

I was able to stop it before it ate all the astrophage on the ship.

Rocky's ship is built of Xenonite.

Zetamiva will already be in its fuel lines.

He won't be able to find the leak because the leak is the ship itself.

He'll be without any fuel, stranded.

His life support systems will fail.

And if that doesn't kill him, the radiation sickness will.

He's looking at a long, slow, painful death.

I can't do both.

I can go home.

Or I can save Rocky.

I've sent you detailed logs of all of our findings and enough Tau Miba for you

to start your very own Tau Miba farm.

At least I never have to hear you say, I told you so.

Even though you were right.

You and me Sunday driving, not arriving

on our way back home.

We're on our way home.

We're going home.

Two of us wearing raincoats Standing so

low in the sun You and me

chasing paper Getting nowhere

I'm here, buddy.

Earth.

Rocky. Rocky. Earth. Hello, Earth.

Rocky from Aaron. I am not Rocky from movie.

No, no, no, no. I'm pretty sure they know that.

I left you detailed logs of all of our findings, and I threw in a little

something else just for fun.

Hopefully it all makes sense.

And if not, you're smart.

You'll figure it out.

This is Dr.

Captain Ryland Graves reporting from the Hail Mary.

Let the Iridians say,

Let's begin.

Morning,

Armando. You shouldn't have.

Sanuki. I'm coming.

Why always got to be so early?

Yeah, I know.

And I ignored you.

Oh, yeah.

Hey.

Why? I thought this was a safe neighborhood.

Okay.

Armando likes the fresh air.

Can we talk about the water temperature a little bit?

It's amazing, just that you've done it at all.

Very cold.

And before, it was boiling.

Is there an in -between?

Please tell the

Biodome Illumination team that it's perfect now.

You know I'm a sucker for the fog.

Yeah, pal.

Can I think about it?

Good morning, class.

Okay, everyone take their seats.

Wake up.

Who can tell me to be the light?