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Eye movement detected.

What is 2 plus 2?

Incorrect.

Cognition assessment.

What is 2 plus 2?

Incorrect.

You have been in an induced coma.

You may experience memory loss, difficulty speaking...

Body movement detected.

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

Please remember, muscle function has not yet been restored.

Please remember, muscle function has not yet been restored.

People!

Where am I?

Where am I?

Why is there an atomic resolution scanning electron microscope?

Why do I know that?

Am I smart?

Can I speak to the person in charge?

The captain.

Captain Yao Li Jai, deceased.

Yeah, where are the living people?

Dr. Ryland Grace.

End of manifest.

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

Pilot detected.

No, no, no, not the pilot.

Uh, call, uh, 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.

Oh.

No.

No.

You're wrong.

I need a map.

Oh.

Uh.

Too far.

That's really far.

Uh.

That's not our sun.

That's not our sun.

It's the fuel.

We are just minutes away from the fly-by 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.

The

sound waves are physical, and at different frequencies, they make different patterns.

Olivia, can you help me out?

There we go.

Whoa!

Yeah.

Are they really... Are they eating the sun?

The space dots?

That is a great question, Rekha, and I'd be

curious what your parents think about that.

I'm not sure it should come from me.

Hey, who wants to play a game of... The beanbag is lava!

Lava!

Lava!

What is the speed of light, Olivia?

Uh... It's melting your hands, Olivia!

186,000 miles per second!

Oh!

Give her a round of applause.

That is awesome.

What is the Petroba Line?

Ah-ha!

Pass!

You can't pass.

Lava!

Lava!

Lava!

Lava!

Lava!

Two years ago, a radio telescope enthusiast named Marina Petroba,

she noticed that there was a streak of infrared light from the sun to Venus.

And that is now known as the Petroba Line.

That's it.

That's the dots?

They think so.

What dots?

These dots.

They sent a probe up to the Petroba 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 one?

It's a small one.

It's a small to medium one.

Over the next 30 years, the Earth could cool maybe 10 to 15 degrees.

So it is a big one.

I heard that all the crops will die, the economy will

free fall, and half the Earth will die of starvation.

Well... We're all gonna die!

Yeah, that's true.

You're forgetting something.

Guys, guys, that's if that were to happen.

Right?

They're gonna figure this out.

Right now, the best minds in the entire world are on it.

Well,

I woke up Sunday morning with no way to hold my head and it didn't hurt.

Good morning, Dr. Grace.

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 canyons like the disappearing dreams of yesterday.

On the Sunday morning sidewalks, wishing, Lord, that I was stoned.

Cause there's something in a Sunday.

And there's nothing short of dying.

Half as lonesome as it sounds.

On the sleeping city sidewalks, 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.

Did 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...

I'm not sure that's lava.

It's not.

Okay.

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.

Uh, that's... Kevin, no running.

I'm not.

Joke's on them because I don't even care.

So...

I think you do care.

You're just running away because you're scared.

No, no, no.

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

Uh...

Look, there is nothing magical about it.

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 get your name.

Carl.

Carl, hi.

Dr. Grace, the Petroviline samples splashed down last night.

I want you to tell me what they are, how they work.

I am a teacher at Grover Cleveland Middle.

And you have a doctorate in molecular biology.

And I ride a bike to work.

And, uh, it's not for exercise.

So I'm sure there are thousands of other people...

It survives 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 Petrovil 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.

Oh.

Welcome to Earth.

Are they alive?

They're moving.

So they're alive.

They're mov... Yes, they're moving, but they're... 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, so... Please do it faster.

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

Wow!

You're not going to believe this.

Nothing happened.

I can't see into these buggers.

Amazing.

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

Nothing.

Who, who, who, who?

I've been dying to do this all day.

It's a cell.

Wake up, it's a cell!

It's a tiny alien cell.

Guys, I've lost... Guys, this is first contact with life outside of the...

Uh-oh.

Oh, it died.

What?

This is great news.

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

You guys fired up?

Yes!

Right?

Carbon.

Oxygen.

Hydrogen.

Oh.

It's made...

almost entirely...

of water.

All right.

Sorry if I overreacted in there.

Just, uh, 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.

Mm-hmm.

Like, so much.

I don't know how they store all that energy.

But, uh, their wavelength 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 to scoot, basically.

Why did it go to Venus?

I don't know.

Okay.

We'll tell you.

What?

I have 347 other biologists in 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?

Yeah.

That's it, Carl?

Talk to her.

You just, you taking all this stuff?

At the school you said there were thousands of people more qualified than you, 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 left you three dots.

Just three, huh?

Plus the one you killed.

I would take the three.

Yes?

I'll take the dots.

Get to work, Dr. Grace.

The world is counting on you.

Hey, Carl.

Imagine 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.

Don't know what that little space dot is like?

Hey, Carl.

Did we ever expect to kill?

We don't.

Uh oh.

I'm on my way to the 70.

Maybe say hi to real people.

Hey Carl.

I heard they've got something for you.

I can't.

Okay.

Thanks.

See you later.

Thank you.

Do you have a coupon?

We don't need a coupon.

We're the government.

Which government?

All of them.

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 lights on, that means they're looking for CO2.

Thus proving the Carl hypothesis.

Sick.

All right.

All right.

You ready?

Uh-oh.

Why are you saying uh-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 lose them forever.

At least now they're in the box.

So we're just going to turn the lights off?

There'll still be light.

It's got to be total darkness.

Okay.

So just put this box in another box.

I can hear you.

Entering phase two.

Please report.

Over.

There's one.

There's two.

Come on.

Get the third one.

Got sample three.

The three musketeers.

The three stooges.

Uh-oh.

What?

What?

Are you sitting down?

No, I'm standing like a grown man.

Because there's a force.

What?

We're fathers, Carl.

No, I'm sitting down.

Stop.

Carl and I made a baby.

What?

We forgot how astrophage breathes.

Don't move.

Wheels up.

You know, Carl, when Stratt said she was sending... Jet!

I thought you meant like a PJ or something.

I thought you did.

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 astrophage 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 second.

Write it down.

And IR line CO2 in the other.

Repeat.

Anything else you need?

Just some water.

He gave me a pill and it's still in my throat.

Two venti coffees?

Thank you so much.

Water for him.

Or coffee, that's... I need both.

Or not.

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

I don't need anything fancy.

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

I'm sober.

I can't.

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 astrophage.

How did you do it?

How long does the process take?

Does it reproduce by mitosis or meiosis?

What is incubation period?

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 were like, whoomp, there it is.

Whoomp, there it is.

You can sit down.

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

Sorry, how did you seal 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.

You say it for everyone.

That's why they're going to Venus.

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

They're going to breed.

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, Dr. Grace.

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.

Every 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.

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 Kingsville.

I live on a boat?

You do.

So you want to build a near-light-speed spaceship, have it travel further than any

human-made object has ever traveled, and visit a star just to...

see what's up?

Yeah.

And then what?

There won't be enough fuel for a round trip, so

they send their findings back to Earth on probes.

And, uh, the astronauts...

die in space?

Yes.

Space...

Any other plans?

You've thought of anything else?

Anything else you're kicking around?

There are infinite possibilities for this to go wrong.

It almost certainly won't work.

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

Yeah, 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.

So...

That's a long time to be in space.

Maybe in comas for most of it.

But is that even safe?

Nothing about this is safe.

We only need three.

A pilot, an engineer, and a scientist.

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.

Ilyukhna.

First, 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.

I'll do my best.

Approaching Tau Ceti orbit.

Prepare for engine cutoff.

Fourteen... thirteen... twelve... eleven... ten... twelve... thirteen...apan...

twenty... twenty-two...

fifty-three... twenty... twenty-three... fifty-four...

So Sadie, you

have a Petrova line, but you're not dimming.

Why?

Blip A detected.

What's a blip A?

Blip A detected.

No, no, no, no, no.

Let's go.

Let's go Mary.

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

Pilot detected.

Please engage restraint.

Pilot detected.

Pilot detected.

We're getting out of here.

Engage spin drive.

Engage spin drive.

Correct.

Welcome to the Hail Mary.

Is it this thing?

Erratic maneuver detected.

Blip A detected.

What do they want?

What?

It's sending me something.

It could be a message.

Is it a bomb?

Shields up!

There are no shields on board the Hail Mary.

Why not?

30 meters.

20 meters.

10 meters.

Well, I guess there's nag on both our 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 spacewalk, Dr. Grace?

To begin your spacewalk, put on your heli-A suit and proceed to the airlock.

Come on.

Yes!

Ehh...

It's just crazy.

What is this?

How did you know?

I can't remember.

A hot wire's going in.

Lefty Lucy.

Xenon's a gas.

I think this thing's broken.

Xenon's a gas.

We need the equipment to analyze the astrophage at Tau Ceti.

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

And we have a team 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.

It's a fun, fun fact.

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, Lucy.

I mean... Oh no!

Foreign presence detected.

You're

a long way from home.

Is that me?

My ship?

I don't understand.

You want me...

to go back in my ship?

But I just got here.

But I just got here.

Oh.

Okay.

Okay.

I'll talk to you later.

Bye.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you, Mary.

What?

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.

Hi.

This is a old man.

Oh, yes, I agree.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry!

You scared me when you went...

Aah!

I...

can't seem to see your face.

Mysterious.

Oops!

Faces are overrated.

You like tapping, huh?

This is fun!

This is fun!

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 off my head?

Take my helmet off!

No.

It'll...

That's a big ask.

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.

Oh, two.

You little rascal.

This is oxygen!

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

Sorry.

It's just, uh...

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 gonna take that as a yes.

We're gonna save our planet.

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's...

Look, see the numbers?

No, 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.

Wow.

Wow.

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.

It is dark.

I got an idea.

Wait.

Don't...

Yeah.

Don't go anywhere.

Stay.

Oh.

Oh yeah.

Um...

I'm Grace.

I'm gonna call you Rocky.

You know, cause you look like a giant rock.

Oh.

I'm fine.

Echolocation.

Right?

You need surfaces to see.

Try this.

You see the numbers?

What is that?

Is that good?

Jazz hands means good?

We do this.

Version of this.

Is that our thumbs up?

No.

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.

It's just 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, uh, clock bros.

Right.

Right.

Um, I gotta be honest.

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

Check this out.

I thought I might record you.

Oh, no, no.

That's okay.

It's 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.

Let's do names.

Okay, let's start with you.

Rocky.

You done?

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

What's your word for my name?

Go ahead.

You know, enough to order at restaurants.

We have about 250 words.

My atmosphere would kill him and his meat, but I

like to keep a wall up in my relationships anyways.

He's a mechanic, I think.

He's a form of xenon.

He can make anything.

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 puts 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 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.

Yeah.

Same.

Why are you alone?

23?

Wow.

I don't know.

What happened to them?

I'm sorry.

How did they die?

Oh.

Um.

There were three of us and...

two died on the way here.

I wish I knew why.

Now it's only me.

Correction.

Deal.

Call it fist bump, by the way.

What's that?

Fist my bump?

No.

It's fist bump.

It's not the same.

Exactly.

The astrophage has to reach Tau Ceti otherwise we wouldn't see the Petrova one.

Ho ho ho.

Do we really need this whole model?

Right.

You know, I used to have one of these in my

classroom and it was a lot simpler to set up.

One sec.

What?

What?

That is a great question.

You know what?

Try this.

Why is a school leader in space?

Question.

No.

Don't like that voice.

Cannot hear it, really.

Scary.

Let's try this.

Oh.

No need to even continue.

Good.

No.

Why is a school teacher in space?

What's so funny?

Question.

Why is a school teacher in space?

I mean...

Meryl Streep?

Why is a school teacher in space?

She can do anything.

Why is a schoolteacher in space?

Why is a schoolteacher in space?

That's not bad.

I like.

Alright, and in answer to your question, I have no idea what I'm doing in space.

I don't remember.

It's okay.

Grace find out when Grace go home.

I'm gonna go to sleep.

No understand.

Word.

Sleep?

Just go like this?

Dead?

Died?

Died?

No, not died.

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 watch Grace sleep.

No, that's fine.

That's a little weird.

I'll be good.

Good night.

Not safe.

Every idiot must watch sleep.

That's really interesting.

That sounds like something you can unpack that tomorrow.

Rock, you watch crew many days.

Crew up.

Wake up.

That's where you're gonna 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, I'm... And look, I'm seeing so many sides of you lately, and it's great.

Right now, I'm seeing the underside of you.

I'm 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 their backups for redundancy.

Yao, Ilyukna, and Dubois, our pilot, engineer, and science officer.

It's an honor.

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

We have 1,009 of these little engines that could on the Hail Mary, and, uh... .

.

Okay.

You're doing great.

What?

Once the mission is complete, we have the option to end our lives on our terms.

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, Josh.

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.

Hi, Grace.

You're in a ball.

So, Rocky, Nodai, and Grace Atmosphere, I come up.

Oh, you're coming up.

Forensic, detected.

Grace and Rocky, big science.

How to kill astrophage together.

I keep going this way?

This room's boring.

Science, save Earth, save Earth, good plan.

What's this down here?

Amaze, amaze, amaze.

Rocky wanted to see human technology.

Dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty.

Why room so messy?

Well, I wasn't expecting company, was I?

Is this room for garbage?

Oh, no, this is the lab.

This is...

Where the science happens.

What's this?

What's this?

Oh, that's way back.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

What's this?

That is the disco ball.

That makes me happy.

Rocky will build a workshop here.

We'll need much room for Rocky and much less space for Grace.

What is happening here?

We go for trovoline.

We collect astrophage, we study it, we go home, we collect, we save Earth.

And when you say we, uh, where?

I see Grace.

Whoa.

Apology, apology, apology.

Rocky, stay.

Rocky, new to ball.

Rocky, my hand is up.

We can't just show up in a space ball unannounced and move into science.

We can't do that.

We can't get in someone else's station.

Right?

There has to be boundaries.

Boundaries.

We have one mission.

Mission.

But we're two distinct individuals.

Individuals.

Both working on our distinct, individual parts of that mission.

Mission.

Separately.

Separately.

Okay.

Where my bedroom?

Bedroom?

For what?

So, I have a new roommate now.

You careful back there, okay?

The drawer wheel is pretty lopsided.

Where on Earth?

Not on earth.

Does 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 gonna 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 Gonna be angry, stupid.

How long since last sleep?

Question.

Don't talk to Armando.

Yes.

Can I help you?

You're doing this.

It's a lot of this.

And then he's like, no understand, no understand.

And then it's like...

Need a word.

You know what the word is?

Bossy.

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

I'm just, like, trapped in hell.

Get me out of here!

His eating habits are... exotic.

Great look disgust when eat.

How do you look when you eat?

It 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 hear.

Who are you talking to?

You can hear this.

Yes, Grace say you can hear this.

Yes.

Oh my God.

Look at this.

Look how far away he is.

That is where he is.

Hello, Grace.

He's right here.

Hello, Grace friend.

Okay.

Did Grace find sampler instruction?

Yes, I found the sampler instruction.

Yes, I found the sampler instructions.

He's really smart about some things.

Oh my God.

He's 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.

Yes.

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.

And here?

And where did you keep the astrophage?

Fuel tanks next to Rocky workshops 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 I guess together we're, you know, pretty smart.

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.

Yes?

You know, 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.

Showtime.

So 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 breeds, collect a sample,

and figure out why it's not eating Tau Ceti.

Who is Grace talking to?

I'm not talking to anyone.

Break from what?

Oh, my God.

Forget it.

This isn't going to work.

What?

150 million kilometers away.

Racing along at 162 kilometers per second.

Means we should arrive at Tau Ceti E at...

Arrival at Tau Ceti E in 11 days, 3 hours and 14 minutes.

Thank you, Mary.

You're welcome, Dr. Grace.

Thank you, Mary.

You're welcome, Rocky.

Welcome to Earth.

You are in the mental health zone.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

Careful, Rocky.

Look out below.

The beach is always changing.

You could go to the same spot every day.

You're always looking at a different beach.

Trees.

And you climb, and you climb to the top, and you can't...

He's so excited about us both getting to go home.

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

Touch the wave, Rocky.

Touching the wave.

Wiping out.

Hanging ten.

Yeah.

Oh!

We got the wave.

In three, Apollo trains him.

And in seven, he trains Apollo's kid.

Yeah, yeah.

Punch, punch, punch, punch, punch.

Punch, punch, punch.

I say either, you say... Me neither.

No.

I say neither, you say... Me either.

No.

I like Earth.

I miss the fog.

What about you, Rock?

What do you miss most about home?

My mate.

Wait, what?

You've 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.

Grace have mate question?

No.

I mean, I did.

But she thought I had my head in the clouds.

And I didn't really want to live in 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 you been together?

186.3 years.

Like the honeymoon phase?

No understand.

That's a joke, Rock.

That's a long time.

You've been together a long time.

It's not enough.

If you choose a beer, I can feel it everywhere.

A few jewels in the air, I can feel it everywhere.

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 sang in an eastern German youth choir.

You're very mysterious.

No, I'm not.

I always wanted to be...

mysterious.

Talk too much.

That'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?

Yeah, always singing.

Everyone's so happy.

People are...

hooking up.

And they all know they're gonna 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 gonna pull it off?

What, the whole thing?

Yeah.

God willing.

You believe in God?

It beats the alternative.

Just stop your crying It's a sign of the times Welcome to the final show I hope

you're wearing your best clothes You can't bribe the door on your way to the sky You

look pretty good down here But you ain't really good Oh We

are, we are We're stuck and running from the bullets The bullets

Just stop your crying It's a sign of the times We gotta get away from here We gotta

get away from here Just stop your crying It'll be alright They told me that the end

is near We gotta get away from here Oh Just stop your crying Have the time of

your life Breaking through the atmosphere And it all looks good from here

Remember everything will be alright We can meet again

somewhere Somewhere far away from here And that is the note.

I wish you could see this, Rock.

Rocky can see.

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 go.

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

You were technically the first one here, so... Yes.

The name is Medium Rough Texture Circle Planet.

Okay.

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

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.

It's beautiful.

It's beautiful.

It's beautiful.

Well, that's weird.

What?

It's the same amount?

Both coming and going.

But if Astrophase 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.

What?

What great thing?

What great thing?

Question?

Life.

This is not just Astrophage.

It's bacteria.

It's protozoa.

It's like cells on Erid.

And Earth.

What does this mean?

Question?

Well...

If there's a whole active biosphere in the Petrova Line, that stands to reason

there's a whole active biosphere on Adrian, which means...

There's life on Adrian.

Oh!

Grace!

Grace!

Yeah?

Life.

Life is reason.

Life is reason!

Yeah.

You said it, buddy.

Why didn't you just say that?

If there is some kind of microbial predator on Adrian,

it'll be in the clouds where astrophage breeds.

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 chains.

I make long chains.

I put collection device on end.

Oh yeah, yeah, five kilometers of chain, sure.

Guard me!

Like this chain, look.

You can do that?

Yes.

I like fishing.

What's that?

Oh!

Oh!

Fishing!

Leave it!

It could work.

Thumbs up, baby.

Hello, Earth.

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 no pilot experience.

I've been practicing, haven't I?

More!

No, no, no.

Left.

Be left.

More left.

More left.

Imperfect.

No.

Wrong.

No.

Erratic maneuver detected.

Wrong way.

Wrong way.

Wrong angle.

Bad, bad, bad.

Good, 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, dead.

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?

Hello?

They can't hear you, pal.

What?

We're not actually talking to Earth.

Earth's too 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... I 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 say Grace go home.

Listen.

Listen.

No.

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 mean?

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?

Grace?

Yeah?

You are...

Need word.

What word do you need?

To risk self to help another.

Uh, dumb.

Grace?

How much astrophys 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.

That's just something you say.

Thank you.

Get over here.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

What?

What's happening?

A hug.

Oh.

It's usually not something one does by themselves.

Oh.

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?

Huh.

Manual mode activated.

Go.

That's not half bad.

It's full good.

Time coefficient question?

It's now or never.

3,000 meters.

3,000.

Probe signal.

Good.

Now comes the fun part.

Grace go out on hull to retrieve collector.

No fun at all.

It's a joke.

Oh, humor.

Confusing.

This guy is... slightly on fire.

Words of encouragement.

You can't just say words of encouragement.

Words of great encouragement.

Nope.

Feel that?

Yes.

I'm not worried.

Are you worried?

Yes.

Great.

Move winch into position.

Whoa.

How long is this supposed to take?

Collector should be here soon.

Yeah.

It's here.

Amaze, amaze, amaze.

Careful, collector.

Important.

Yep.

Status update.

Grace is safe.

What?

No.

I expected nothing like this.

I'm OK.

Good, Good, good.

Come inside with predator collector now.

Uh...

Exterior temperature elevated.

The cold must've cooled down again.

Let's move now.

Go.

Go.

No.

Grace.

Bad idea.

Come inside.

Be there in a minute.

No, no, no, no, no.

Grace will die.

Repeat mission.

Could try again later.

I don't think they're risking a human later.

Abort, abort, abort.

What the infern... Grace will die.

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

Well,

I'm not dead, so yes.

Good, good, good, good, good, good.

Where is that noise coming from?

The noise is from all around.

It's loudest at port side of bedroom.

Gravity is tearing the ship apart.

We leave now.

Question?

Leave now.

Statement.

Warning.

Warning.

Homebending in big room below bedroom.

That's the fuel tanks.

Well, it's not great.

Warning.

Okay, okay, okay.

Everybody, everybody, calm down.

Calm down!

Try to keep yourself together, Mary.

It's coming.

Is it a engine now?

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.

Now?

Wait.

Now?

Now?

Now!

Can we do it?

What?

There's a hole in it.

Hull breach.

Port side fuel compartments 11 and 12.

The

fuel is migrating to Adrian.

React back fuel bay.

Question?

Yeah?

Jettison port fuel tank compartment 12 confirmed.

It's moving.

We'll get a lift.

Jettison port fuel tank compartment 11.

Confirmed.

Eject other fuel banks.

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

The quartermaster gave him one milligram by 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.

We have to launch.

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

Yeah, but if no one's trained 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 mean, that...

I'm not an astronaut.

I don't need an astronaut.

I need an expert on astrophage who's mission ready.

I'm not ready.

I don't have any training.

You pick it up.

I'm not an astronaut.

I put the knot in astronaut.

I've never done anything.

I've never done a spacewalk.

I can't even moonwalk.

I haven't done the whole... the 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 the... 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.

You've 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.

Grace, you'd be in very cool company.

If you don't go, you die anyway.

Yeah, but I die in...

...dirty 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.

Detected.

Good morning, Dr. Grace.

I want you to sleep, Pop.

But, uh...

You gotta wake up.

I'm not sure what to do.

I've done everything I can think of.

I made him a 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 that's a 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 simplicity.

Let's not fight about it now.

Let's just... We'll table it and we'll...

I did a test at 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-resistant Tau Miba.

And guess what I used?

The breeder tanks 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 breed 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 arid.

So...

...no pressure.

But...

...we did make a deal.

So... ...let's do it.

Rock?

What'd you do this for?

Give me a little...

...chance, please?

Alright, Blue.

Did we...

...find Predator?

No...

...is yes.

Good job, bro.

We can go home.

Statement.

We can go home.

Fist my bump.

No.

Still not right.

I'll do it.

Good, good, good.

So what we do now?

Question?

We party.

Is special clothing for celebration?

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

...up my game.

What is this?

You don't mind?

Rocky, Rocky get one.

Here you go.

It's good.

Oh, yeah.

It's not much.

Just a little something.

Your very own laptop.

My portable earth-sinking machine.

With all human knowledge.

Think, think, think.

And just one more thing.

Yes?

What... What's this?

It's Earth.

So you can remember me.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Rocky can't forget.

I didn't get you anything.

You gave me everything.

But if I were to give you something...

It'd be pretty cool to see your shit up.

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

A solution.

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 thirty 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 isn't made up.

I'm sorry, but...

You just can't talk me into it.

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.

Stay calm.

Come in.

What is this?

Mission plan will state that we induced your coma early to maximize your safety.

You will be remembered as a hero.

Come on.

This is crazy.

I have to do it.

You're not... Come on.

What are you doing?

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

Sure feels like you're betraying me.

Don't make this harder, please.

Come on.

Let's keep talking about...

this.

Sit down and we do it differently.

I can't.

Yeah, he's running.

I can't do it.

Don't do it.

Don't do it.

Don't do it.

You know who you are.

Don't.

Don't.

You're gonna do great.

I'm trying to think 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.

I'm not sure what to say, so I'm just going to...

Yeah.

I don't know about that.

The only human I have ever met...

Hey.

...is Joke.

I know.

I only meet one human.

And it's you.

I get it.

It's a good joke.

Good joke.

Alright.

Well...

Goodbye.

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.

Journey to Earth will take four years, two months, and eleven days.

Thank you.

Bye.

Bye.

Bye.

Bye.

Bye.

Bye.

Bye.

Bye.

Bye.

Bye.

Bye.

Bye.

Bye.

Contamined.

Detected.

Contamined.

Detected.

There's a leak.

The problem is the Xenonite.

They tell me we 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 as Xenonite.

The Tomeva will already be in its fuel lines.

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

It'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, long time.

Painful death.

Alone.

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 Tomeva for you to start your very own Tomeva farm.

At least I never have to hear you say that.

One thing I want to say is, I told you so, even though you were right.

beya simple very useful

can you Home, food

that stretches out ahead, two of us wearing raincoats, standing solo in the sun.

You and me chasing paper, getting nowhere, on our way back home.

We're on our way home, we're on our way home, we're going home.

I'm here, buddy.

Rocky, Rocky, Earth.

Hello Earth, I am Rocky.

I am 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 Grace reporting from the Hail Mary.

As the Eridians say...

Let's begin.

Good morning, Orlando.

You shouldn't have.

Why you always gotta 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?

No.

Yeah.

Please tell the Biodome Illumination team that it's perfect, though.

Please tell the Biodome Illumination team that it's perfect, though.

Oh, no.

This is... You know I'm a sucker for the fog.

Yeah, pal.

Can I think about it?

Good morning, class.

Everyone take their seats.

Let's wake up.

Okay.

I gotta show them we're here for good.

You can think for good.

Expect represent at a regulation.

Ah, yeah.

Thank you very much.

Oh, what'll you do?