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People! Hello!

Why is there an atomic resolution
scanning electron microscope?

Why do I know that?

Am I smart?

Person in charge.

The, uh, captain. Captain Yao Li Jai,
deceased.

Yeah, where, um, are the, 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.

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 far.

Sorry,

son.

That's the right one.

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 MHPC will be coming from the onboard
microscope.

Sound waves are physical.

And at different frequencies, they make
different

patter. No, patter.

They make different patter.

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

Whoa.

Yeah. Are they really eating the sun?

The space dots?

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!

telescope enthusiast named Irina
Petrova, she noticed that there was a

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.

We're all going to die.

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.

Grace.

Shut up!

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 sidewalk.

Wicked Lord.

And there's nothing short of life.

Half as lonesome as the sound.

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 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, uh, Kevin, no
running. I'm not.

Joke's on them because I don't even
care, so... I think you do care. You're

running away because you're scared.

No, I'm not.

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

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

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

arrives 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

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 this.

Nothing happened.

I can't be 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! Guys!

This is first contact with 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 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 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.

Doctor. 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.

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 this little space
dot's like?

is the name of the dance.

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.

Sick.

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

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

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

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

Okay, so just put this box in another
box.

Go ahead and close it over.

I can hear you.

Entering phase two.

Carl and I made a baby.

What?

We forgot how ostrich breeds.

Don't know.

What was that?

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.

Where are we? The ocean.

The ester page reproduction.

Can you do it at scale? Oh, in theory,
you just get a bunch of elbow -shaped

pipes, put sunlight in one of them.
Excuse me for a second.

Write it down.

And IR light and CO2 in the other.

Repeat. Anything else you need for that?
Some water. He gave me a pill and it's

still in my throat.

Two fancy 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 can't.

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? What is the 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'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?

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

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.

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

Kansas.

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

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.

They'd be in coma for months with it.

But is that even safe?

Nothing about it 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.

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.

Launching Tau Ceti orbit.

Prepare for engine cutoff.

What?

Why engine cutoff?

That's a pilot!

What happened to zero? I mean, what
happened?

Operational. Retrofiscope operational.

This is time 30.

You have a patrol line.

But you're not dimming.

Why?

detected. What's a blip? Hey.

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. It's correct.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Welcome to the Hail Mary.

Is it this thing?

Flip B detected.

What's up, sir? Current distance from
Hail Mary is 800 meters. It's telling me

something.

It could be a message.

Could be a bomb.

Is it a bomb?

Shield up! There are no shields on board
the Hail Mary. Why not?

Sir, me.

He has.

Well, I guess there's Dagger 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?

Yeah.

It's crazy.

I think this thing's broken.

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

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 loosies.

I mean... Oh, no!

Foreign presence detected.

You're a long way from home.

I'm a long way from home too.

Lip D, detective.

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.

Thank you.

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.

Sorry! You scared me when you went...

Wow.

She's crazy.

Mysterious.

Faces are overrated.

You like tapping, huh?

Fine. You're pointing.

You're not tapping. Sorry.

Another present.

have one of these.

I love it.

Thank you.

Want to 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.

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 going to take that as a yes.

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

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

if that's true.

You see the numbers?

Oh, you want this?

Whoa!

Christmas Eve, that is.

It's really hot in there.

Is that ammonia?

Anyway, that... Look for 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.

Wow.

Wow.

How about something else?

Look at this.

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... Don't go anywhere. Dave.

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 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, uh, clock bros.

Right.

Um, I gotta be honest, I... 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 the

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 names.

Okay, I'll start with you.

Rocky.

You done?

My name... Can't wait to hear this.

It is great.

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 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. It's kind of growing on
me. At least it'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.

Wow what happened to them?

How did they die?

There were three of us and two died on
the way here.

I wish I knew why.

Not only me.

Correction.

Deal.

Call a 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

protobole.

Ho, ho, ho.

Do 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.

One sec. What? What?

That is a great question.

You know what?

Why

is

a

schoolteacher in

space?

Meryl Streep?

Why is a schoolteacher in space?

She can do anything.

Why is a schoolteacher in space?

Why is a schoolteacher in space?

That's not 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 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 watched Grace 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. It sounds
like something can unpack that tomorrow.

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

Right now I'm seeing the underside of
you.

Kind of a side sleeper anyway.

Good night.

Oh, 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 science officer.

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... Okay.

You're doing great. What?

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

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

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? No.

Forest. Detective.

Grace and Rocky, big science.

How to kill after a page together.

I keep going this way?

This room's boring.

Science. Save Earth. Save Earth. Good
plan.

What's this down here?

Amazing, amazing.

Rocky, what is the 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. Dirty.

What's this?

What's this?

What's this?

That makes me happy.

Rocky will build a workshop here.

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

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

collect... And when you say we, where?

I see Grace.

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's my bedroom?

Bedroom?

What? Now I have a new roommate now.

Be careful back there, okay?

The drawer wheel's pretty 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.

You have the, like, Hellraiser thing
that you sleep on. What do you need a

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?

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.

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

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.

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 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're
pointing at me again.

What? A species doesn't know about
things like relativity and radiation.

And the rest of the crew?

In the 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 in.

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

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

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

show.

This is us. And we're, you know, flying
along. The problem is, because the solar

system is constantly moving, the Petrova
line is going to constantly be moving.

Right? Am I still doing it? You still
want it? Yes, yes. It's showtime. So

not going to have time to get the
sample. No, no, no. Use planet gravity

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.

150 million kilometers away.

Racing along at 162 kilometers per
second.

You should arrive at Tau Ceti E at...
Arrival at Tau Ceti E in 11 days, 3

and 14 minutes. Thank you, Mary.

You're welcome, Dr. Graham. Thank you,
Mary.

You're welcome.

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.

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

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

Touch the wave, Rob.

Touching the wave.

He's wiping out hanging pants.

Hey! Oh!

Big Apple, baby. In three, Apollo trains
him. And in seven, he trains Apollo's

kids. Yeah, yeah.

I say either, you say... Say either.

No. I say neither, you say... Me either.

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 you been together?

186 .3 years.

Like the honeymoon phase?

No, understand.

That's a joke, right? That's a long
time. We'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 sang in an
Eastern German youth choir.

You're very mysterious.

No, I'm not.

I always wanted to be.

Talk too much. That's my problem.

Like right now, I didn't mean to bother
you. You don't bother me.

It is such a weird party.

Is it?

Yeah, with 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... You know.

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?

It beats the alternative.

Just stop your crying, it's the sign of
the times.

Welcome to the final show.

I hope you're wearing your best clothes.

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

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

Test.

And that is enough.

Rocky can't 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 to go.

What is Grace doing? Question?

Take a moment.

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, wouldn't it have a

backup?

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.

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.

Why? It's not just astrophage. It's
bacteria.

It's protozoa. It's like cells on arid.
And earth.

What does this mean? Question.

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

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.

No, no, no. You said it, buddy.

No, no, understand.

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

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?

There is some kind of microbial predator
on Adrian. It'll be in the clouds 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 chains. I make
long chains. I put collection device on

end. Oh, yeah, yeah. Five kilometers of
chains, sure. Garbage!

Like this chain, look.

You can do that?

Yes. I like fishing.

What's that?

Oh! Oh!

Fishing! It works.

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

pilot experience.

I've been practicing, haven't I?

More. No, no, no. Left. Be left. More
left. More left.

Wrong. Wrong.

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 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.

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 of 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, hey, Grace, go home.

Listen. No. 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 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 see.

Okay?

Yeah.

You are... Need word.

What word do you need?

To risk help another.

Uh, dumb.

Astrophage, 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 think 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. 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. 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?

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?

Go.

It's full good.

Time to go fishing, question?

No, we're never.

3 ,000 meters.

Probe signal.

Good.

Now comes the fun part.

Greats go out on hulls to retrieve
collector.

No fun at all. It's a joke.

Oh, humor.

Confusing.

Oh!

You've got to be kidding me.

What problem, question?

It's fine.

It's just... This guy is... He's laying
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. Important.

Yep.

Status update.

Grace?

Grace is safe. Question?

Okay.

Good, good, good. Come inside with
creditor and collector now.

Uh... Why not moving? Question?

Warning. Exterior temperature elevated.

Must move now. Go. Go.

No, Grace. Bad idea. Come inside.

Be there in a minute.

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

Can't repeat mission. 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, good.
Where is that noise coming from? It's

all around. It's loudest at port side of
bedroom.

Gravity, turn the ship apart.

We leave now. Question?

Leave now.

Statement.

and big room below bedroom. That's the
blue, thanks.

Oh, that's not great.

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

Try to keep yourself together, Harry.
Stop 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.

Wait.

Why should move in question?

There's a hole in it!

Hole breach.

Port side fuel compartment 11 and 12.

What happened in question?

The fuel is migrating to Adrian.

It's that bad fuel bay. Question.

Jettison port fuel tank compartment 12.

Confirmed.

Jessica,

report field -type compartment 11.

Confirmed. Look it, Jack. Up here.

You'll pay.

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

The quartermaster gave him one milligram
for a mistake.

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

Healed my entire science team. It
doesn't matter. We have to learn.

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'm not an astronaut.

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.

You 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

Some people don't rise to the challenge.

You've been present for every major
scientific or strategic meeting we've

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

suicide part.

Grace, you'd be in 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.

Good morning, Dr Grace.

I want you to sleep, pal.

But, uh, you gotta wake up.

I'm not sure what to do.

I've done everything I can think of.

I'm eating 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 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

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 Tameba.

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

wake up because I don't know how to get
your half of the Tameba to air it.

So, no pressure.

But we did make a deal.

Could you just give me a little chance
please to sleep, Will?

Did we find Predator?

No is yes.

Amaze, amaze, amaze.

Rocky, breeder tag design.

Good job, Rocky. 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?

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? If you don't mind.

Rocky, Rocky, get one. There you go.

It's good.

Oh, yeah.

Not much. A little something.

Very own laptop.

My portable earth -thinking 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.

You gave me everything.

I were to give you something.

I mean, 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 doubled 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.

What is this?

Mission plan will say that we induced
your 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?

This 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.

Let's keep talking about it.

Sit down and we do it differently.

Yeah,

he's running.

I can't do it.

Don't do it. Don't do it.

You know who you are.

You're going to do great.

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.

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

Grace, no one to watch you sleep.

Yeah.

You are very brave.

I don't know about that.

You are the 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.

It's a good joke.

All right.

Well... Goodbye.

No understand word.

See you later.

But I won't see you later.

How do you say goodbye back home?

We don't.

We do this.

Thank you.

Family detected.

There's a leak.

The problem is the Xenonite.

They tell me we can 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 has built a Xenonite.

They tell me it will already be in its
fuel lines.

It 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 Talmiba for you

start your very own Talmiba 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 time.

You and I have memories Longer than the
road

that stretches out ahead Two

of us wearing raincoats Standing solo in
the

sun You and me chasing paper

I'm here, buddy.

Earth.

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 rylan grace reporting
from the hail mary as the iridians say

let's

begin

Morning, Armando.

You shouldn't have.

Tanuki.

I'm coming.

Why do I always have to be so early?

Yeah, I know.

And I ignored you.

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.

Oh, no.

You know I'm a sucker for the fog.

Yeah, Paul.

Can I think about it?

Good morning, class.

Okay, everyone take their seats.

Wake up.

Who can tell me to be the light?

Glory, glory.