1 00:00:13,681 --> 00:00:16,017 - He said it with a straight face. - No. 2 00:00:20,980 --> 00:00:22,232 You want one... 3 00:00:22,515 --> 00:00:24,600 No. I think two is my limit. 4 00:00:24,984 --> 00:00:27,278 With that attitude, the Koreans are gonna eat us alive. 5 00:00:27,362 --> 00:00:29,405 Are we negotiating an East Asian space alliance, 6 00:00:29,489 --> 00:00:31,115 or is this gonna be a drinking contest? 7 00:00:31,198 --> 00:00:34,344 Can't have one without the other. Not in Seoul. 8 00:00:35,430 --> 00:00:37,840 You thought the UN delegates were party animals. 9 00:00:37,875 --> 00:00:38,875 Just wait. 10 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:40,875 I'm exhausted just thinking about it. 11 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:43,961 You're gonna be great. 12 00:00:45,296 --> 00:00:47,131 You were born to do this job. 13 00:00:51,469 --> 00:00:54,764 You know, Tom, I've been meaning to talk to you about something. 14 00:00:57,976 --> 00:00:59,352 I think I might... 15 00:01:00,420 --> 00:01:02,505 - You're pregnant. - No. 16 00:01:02,897 --> 00:01:04,983 No. It's not that. 17 00:01:05,066 --> 00:01:06,484 I... 18 00:01:08,570 --> 00:01:11,281 Excuse me, Ellen Wilson? Room 147? 19 00:01:11,364 --> 00:01:12,866 - Yes, thank you. - Phone for you. 20 00:01:13,449 --> 00:01:14,450 Sorry. 21 00:01:15,702 --> 00:01:16,953 This is Ellen Wilson. 22 00:01:22,125 --> 00:01:23,835 Okay. Thank you. 23 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:36,890 My father had a heart attack. It doesn't sound good. 24 00:01:38,016 --> 00:01:39,100 I'm so sorry. 25 00:01:43,062 --> 00:01:44,439 He's in Connecticut, right? 26 00:01:44,522 --> 00:01:45,815 Yeah. 27 00:01:47,233 --> 00:01:49,527 Use the limo. I'll take a taxi to the airport... 28 00:01:49,611 --> 00:01:52,447 - No, I can't do that. The Korean... - You can't not do that. 29 00:01:54,365 --> 00:01:55,617 This is family. 30 00:01:58,311 --> 00:01:59,404 Go. 31 00:02:01,706 --> 00:02:02,957 I'll call you. 32 00:02:03,583 --> 00:02:04,584 Thank you. 33 00:02:11,508 --> 00:02:15,261 Poor thing. She was so excited about going to Korea. 34 00:02:15,345 --> 00:02:19,432 Hopefully her father will recover, and she can join me in a day or two. 35 00:02:19,516 --> 00:02:21,684 Must have been a rough night for her. 36 00:02:21,768 --> 00:02:23,895 How about you? Did you get any sleep? 37 00:02:24,312 --> 00:02:27,106 Of course not. You know I can't sleep on planes. 38 00:02:27,190 --> 00:02:28,733 It's a 14-hour flight. 39 00:02:28,816 --> 00:02:29,817 Martini, sir. 40 00:02:29,901 --> 00:02:33,488 These long international flights are the only time I can really focus. 41 00:02:33,571 --> 00:02:34,822 No distractions. 42 00:02:35,490 --> 00:02:39,244 Just me, my martini and the Apollo-Soyuz budget requests. 43 00:02:40,662 --> 00:02:41,871 Some light reading, huh? 44 00:02:41,955 --> 00:02:45,542 You should try reading a novel once in a while. 45 00:02:45,625 --> 00:02:48,586 It'd be good for your mind to just... tune out. 46 00:02:49,254 --> 00:02:55,176 I just finished this one called Christine, about this 1958 homicidal Plymouth. 47 00:02:55,260 --> 00:02:58,054 Yeah. My new electric car's tried to kill me a few times. 48 00:03:10,775 --> 00:03:13,236 How are Poole and Morrison doing? 49 00:03:13,319 --> 00:03:15,238 Everything going okay in Russia? 50 00:03:15,321 --> 00:03:17,615 By all accounts the training's going smoothly. 51 00:03:17,699 --> 00:03:18,700 Good. 52 00:03:24,956 --> 00:03:26,749 Still can't quite believe it's happening. 53 00:03:26,833 --> 00:03:30,837 Our astronauts in Star City, their engineers in Houston. 54 00:03:30,920 --> 00:03:32,088 I know. 55 00:03:36,467 --> 00:03:39,804 I was calling to check in on one point on the negotiations 56 00:03:39,888 --> 00:03:41,848 for the EASA before we land. 57 00:03:43,016 --> 00:03:44,809 Check away. 58 00:03:51,441 --> 00:03:54,027 For this proposed space station, are we real... 59 00:03:57,488 --> 00:03:59,032 Tom, you there? 60 00:04:01,701 --> 00:04:02,702 Tom? 61 00:04:04,287 --> 00:04:07,665 If you'd like to make a call, please hang up and try... 62 00:05:37,630 --> 00:05:40,300 I'm sorry you missed your flight for nothing. 63 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:42,969 I blame your mother for overreacting. 64 00:05:43,052 --> 00:05:45,263 It's not nothing, Dad. You had a heart attack. 65 00:05:45,346 --> 00:05:47,265 A minor incident. I feel fine. 66 00:05:47,348 --> 00:05:48,600 A wake-up call. 67 00:05:49,267 --> 00:05:52,645 You heard the doctor. No more red meat, no more smoking. 68 00:05:52,729 --> 00:05:54,189 And you have to slow down. 69 00:05:54,772 --> 00:05:56,566 Though we all know that'll never happen. 70 00:05:56,649 --> 00:05:59,402 I'm running a half-a-billion-dollar company. 71 00:05:59,485 --> 00:06:03,615 We just extended into Asia. Got a new hub in Europe and another... 72 00:06:03,698 --> 00:06:04,699 I know. 73 00:06:05,783 --> 00:06:09,287 You want me to slow down, I'm gonna need your help. 74 00:06:10,205 --> 00:06:13,124 And obviously that's not gonna happen right now. 75 00:06:15,877 --> 00:06:18,217 Maybe you're being a little... 76 00:06:18,950 --> 00:06:20,249 shortsighted. 77 00:06:21,633 --> 00:06:22,800 What are you saying? 78 00:06:27,472 --> 00:06:29,098 I'm thinking about leaving NASA. 79 00:06:29,182 --> 00:06:30,475 Bullshit. 80 00:06:30,558 --> 00:06:32,185 I'm serious. 81 00:06:32,268 --> 00:06:33,436 I wanna get to Mars, 82 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:37,023 and I'm starting to think that private spaceflight is the only way to get there. 83 00:06:37,106 --> 00:06:38,525 Interesting. 84 00:06:39,150 --> 00:06:43,071 What does Larry have to say about you changing course? 85 00:06:43,154 --> 00:06:44,185 Larry... 86 00:06:45,109 --> 00:06:46,974 wants me to be happy. 87 00:06:47,951 --> 00:06:48,952 Wherever I am. 88 00:06:51,079 --> 00:06:53,706 One thing I don't have to worry about, 89 00:06:53,790 --> 00:06:57,085 you'll always have a solid man by your side. 90 00:06:58,086 --> 00:07:01,005 Not that I wouldn't mind a grandchild or two. 91 00:07:01,089 --> 00:07:04,425 Sorry to interrupt, ma'am, but the White House is calling for you. 92 00:07:05,927 --> 00:07:08,221 - The White House? - That's what they said. 93 00:07:15,687 --> 00:07:17,105 This is Ellen Wilson. 94 00:07:24,070 --> 00:07:27,407 ...news. Special report. Here is Dan Rather. 95 00:07:27,490 --> 00:07:28,491 Yes. 96 00:07:29,909 --> 00:07:31,870 President Reagan arriving at this moment 97 00:07:31,953 --> 00:07:34,205 at Point Mugu Naval Air Station in California, 98 00:07:34,289 --> 00:07:38,501 taking him from his California vacation back to work in Washington. 99 00:07:38,585 --> 00:07:41,421 A vacation cut short by the shooting down 100 00:07:41,504 --> 00:07:44,674 of Korean Air Lines flight 7 by the Soviets, 101 00:07:44,757 --> 00:07:48,386 with the apparent loss of as many as 269, 102 00:07:48,469 --> 00:07:50,096 all of the persons aboard. 103 00:07:50,180 --> 00:07:53,183 President Reagan is expected to deliver a statement shortly. 104 00:07:53,266 --> 00:07:57,312 From Moscow, still no official confirmation of the plane's downing. 105 00:07:57,395 --> 00:08:00,106 Just that there was, quote, "an accident", 106 00:08:00,190 --> 00:08:02,609 but not even what kind of accident from the Soviets 107 00:08:02,692 --> 00:08:04,569 and nothing in the way of an apology. 108 00:08:04,652 --> 00:08:09,490 In the wake of the barbaric act committed yesterday by the Soviet regime 109 00:08:10,074 --> 00:08:12,452 against a commercial jetliner, 110 00:08:12,535 --> 00:08:15,038 the United States and many other countries of the world 111 00:08:15,121 --> 00:08:17,415 made clear and compelling statements 112 00:08:17,999 --> 00:08:20,126 that expressed not only our outrage 113 00:08:20,210 --> 00:08:23,630 but also our demand for a truthful accounting of the facts. 114 00:08:23,713 --> 00:08:25,173 What can we think of a regime 115 00:08:25,256 --> 00:08:30,345 that so broadly trumpets its vision of peace and global disarmament 116 00:08:30,428 --> 00:08:33,765 and yet so callously and quickly commits a terrorist act 117 00:08:33,847 --> 00:08:36,433 to sacrifice the lives of innocent human beings? 118 00:08:36,518 --> 00:08:38,186 And what are we to make of a regime 119 00:08:38,269 --> 00:08:41,563 which establishes one set of standards for itself 120 00:08:41,648 --> 00:08:44,108 and another for the rest of humankind? 121 00:08:44,192 --> 00:08:47,612 To the families of Congressman Lawrence McDonald, 122 00:08:47,695 --> 00:08:52,700 NASA Administrator Thomas Paine and all those on the ill-fated aircraft, 123 00:08:53,284 --> 00:08:54,994 we send our deepest sympathy. 124 00:08:56,287 --> 00:09:00,250 And I hope they know our prayers are with them all. 125 00:09:02,961 --> 00:09:05,755 What the hell was that airliner doing flying over Sakhalin? 126 00:09:05,839 --> 00:09:07,590 It's not even on its flight path. 127 00:09:07,674 --> 00:09:09,801 Could have been a navigational error. 128 00:09:09,884 --> 00:09:12,804 Flight computer could have caused the plane to deviate from its route. 129 00:09:12,887 --> 00:09:14,514 400 miles? 130 00:09:15,181 --> 00:09:17,183 Maybe something was wrong with the autopilot. 131 00:09:17,725 --> 00:09:20,603 Poor bastard probably never even knew he'd entered Soviet airspace. 132 00:09:20,687 --> 00:09:23,690 So the pilot accidentally wanders into a protected area. 133 00:09:23,773 --> 00:09:25,149 Why shoot down the plane? 134 00:09:25,233 --> 00:09:27,819 It's a commercial airliner, for God's sake. 135 00:09:27,902 --> 00:09:29,571 It doesn't make any sense. 136 00:09:29,654 --> 00:09:32,198 We've got spy planes flying over Sakhalin all the time. 137 00:09:32,282 --> 00:09:34,242 It's a secret air base. They're paranoid. 138 00:09:34,993 --> 00:09:37,161 I'm sorry. It is beyond inconceivable 139 00:09:37,245 --> 00:09:40,540 that any pilot could mistake an American reconnaissance plane 140 00:09:40,623 --> 00:09:42,625 with a Korean passenger jumbo jet. 141 00:09:42,709 --> 00:09:44,043 I don't buy that for a second. 142 00:09:44,127 --> 00:09:48,173 It's more likely they suspected KAL 7 was being used as a spy plane. 143 00:09:50,675 --> 00:09:51,676 Was it? 144 00:09:55,680 --> 00:09:57,015 Don't be ridiculous. 145 00:09:57,891 --> 00:10:02,145 Why would the United States use another nation's passenger plane to spy? 146 00:10:02,228 --> 00:10:03,855 We are wasting time here. 147 00:10:03,938 --> 00:10:07,817 All that matters is I haven't been able to reach Poole and Morrison in Star City. 148 00:10:07,901 --> 00:10:10,778 I have tried every line. It's radio silence. 149 00:10:10,862 --> 00:10:14,866 The FBI shut down access to all Soviet officials in the US, 150 00:10:14,949 --> 00:10:17,327 including the Apollo-Soyuz engineers, 151 00:10:17,410 --> 00:10:19,120 so they're probably responding to that. 152 00:10:19,204 --> 00:10:22,248 They are holding our people hostage. That's not okay. 153 00:10:22,332 --> 00:10:23,416 She's right. 154 00:10:26,369 --> 00:10:27,504 Ellen. 155 00:10:27,587 --> 00:10:29,506 I've spoken with Jim Baker at the White House. 156 00:10:29,589 --> 00:10:32,383 Until the president appoints a permanent replacement, 157 00:10:32,467 --> 00:10:35,970 I'll be fulfilling Tom's duties as acting administrator. 158 00:10:40,391 --> 00:10:43,728 Now, reestablishing communication with our astronauts 159 00:10:43,811 --> 00:10:45,980 is our top priority at this point. 160 00:10:46,731 --> 00:10:48,375 Maybe I should get in touch with Sergei Nikulov, 161 00:10:48,399 --> 00:10:51,319 see if he could help us get in touch with our people, and... 162 00:10:51,402 --> 00:10:53,029 We just got attacked by the Soviets. 163 00:10:53,112 --> 00:10:54,798 You're gonna reach out to 'em and ask for help? 164 00:10:54,822 --> 00:10:57,242 Sergei will listen to reason. 165 00:10:57,325 --> 00:11:00,537 They have shown time and again that they can't be trusted. 166 00:11:01,412 --> 00:11:03,289 This should all run through the NSC. 167 00:11:04,290 --> 00:11:07,293 Well, I think we need to pursue all available options 168 00:11:07,377 --> 00:11:09,379 before this turns into an even bigger incident. 169 00:11:11,548 --> 00:11:14,759 Go talk to him. Hopefully he knows of a way to reach Star City. 170 00:11:17,762 --> 00:11:19,055 Thank you. 171 00:11:20,056 --> 00:11:21,057 Your call. 172 00:11:38,132 --> 00:11:39,172 Damn it! 173 00:11:46,791 --> 00:11:48,209 Let me out! 174 00:12:13,067 --> 00:12:14,068 What can I do for you? 175 00:12:14,152 --> 00:12:16,529 I'm Margo Madison. I need to see Sergei Nikulov. 176 00:12:16,613 --> 00:12:19,282 No one goes in, no one goes out. Those are my orders. 177 00:12:19,365 --> 00:12:22,076 I'm the director, Johnson Space Center. 178 00:12:22,994 --> 00:12:25,246 I'm sure you are, honey, but you're not getting in. 179 00:12:26,748 --> 00:12:29,042 - What's your name? - Sergeant John Perkins. 180 00:12:29,125 --> 00:12:33,171 Okay, Sergeant John Perkins, I know you have a job to do, but so do I. 181 00:12:33,254 --> 00:12:36,424 I'm gonna give you 15 seconds to get in touch with your superior officer, 182 00:12:36,508 --> 00:12:38,927 12 seconds to explain the situation to him, 183 00:12:39,010 --> 00:12:41,763 45 seconds for him to reach General Nelson Bradford 184 00:12:41,846 --> 00:12:43,765 and confirm I am who I say I am. 185 00:12:43,848 --> 00:12:46,184 Another 15 seconds for your boss to get back to you, 186 00:12:46,267 --> 00:12:47,769 and 10 for you to open this door. 187 00:12:47,852 --> 00:12:49,562 That puts you 97 seconds away 188 00:12:49,646 --> 00:12:51,689 from either a cold beer at the end of your shift 189 00:12:51,773 --> 00:12:52,773 or... 190 00:12:53,022 --> 00:12:56,420 an open-ended transfer to Thule, Greenland. 191 00:12:59,531 --> 00:13:00,990 Your time starts now... 192 00:13:02,830 --> 00:13:03,831 honey. 193 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:08,350 I brought borscht. 194 00:13:09,298 --> 00:13:10,299 Come in. 195 00:13:22,762 --> 00:13:24,514 Did you try the embassy? 196 00:13:24,597 --> 00:13:26,099 Radio silence. 197 00:13:30,812 --> 00:13:33,481 I don't think anything will happen to your astronauts. 198 00:13:36,734 --> 00:13:39,195 Somehow that's not making me feel any better. 199 00:13:42,365 --> 00:13:45,615 I know... it's a lot to ask, 200 00:13:46,375 --> 00:13:48,222 considering the situation... 201 00:13:48,997 --> 00:13:51,541 but do you have a way to get in touch with Star City? 202 00:13:51,624 --> 00:13:52,959 A secret line, or, 203 00:13:53,042 --> 00:13:56,796 I don't know, something that might put us closer to making contact with our people? 204 00:13:56,880 --> 00:13:59,257 What can I do? I'm trapped here with no phone. 205 00:14:01,134 --> 00:14:02,594 See? Dead? 206 00:14:03,553 --> 00:14:05,096 What if I could arrange a call? 207 00:14:05,180 --> 00:14:08,308 Astronauts Poole and Morrison, they're not a part of all this. 208 00:14:08,892 --> 00:14:11,019 Nor am I. And yet here I am. 209 00:14:11,102 --> 00:14:13,730 Also being held against my will, unable to call home. 210 00:14:13,813 --> 00:14:15,773 Thomas Paine was killed, Sergei. 211 00:14:16,482 --> 00:14:18,735 Along with 268 others. 212 00:14:18,818 --> 00:14:21,029 That's why we're here. 213 00:14:28,411 --> 00:14:30,038 I'm sorry about your colleague. 214 00:14:33,374 --> 00:14:35,126 Tom was a good man. 215 00:14:36,044 --> 00:14:37,587 Frustrating at times, 216 00:14:37,950 --> 00:14:39,870 I didn't always agree with his methods, but... 217 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:43,150 he gave everything to his job, and 218 00:14:43,520 --> 00:14:45,465 I respected the hell out of him. 219 00:14:51,392 --> 00:14:54,479 In my religion, when someone dies, 220 00:14:54,562 --> 00:14:58,191 it is custom to make the first meal you eat after the funeral 221 00:14:58,274 --> 00:15:02,654 a bowl of how you might call memorial borscht. 222 00:15:06,074 --> 00:15:10,745 It is believed that the steam will carry the soul of the departed... 223 00:15:13,081 --> 00:15:14,082 to heaven. 224 00:15:18,086 --> 00:15:19,170 Maybe it's true. 225 00:15:29,973 --> 00:15:31,182 When you get me the telephone, 226 00:15:31,266 --> 00:15:34,018 I will call Moscow and tell them that I'm not being tortured. 227 00:15:36,521 --> 00:15:38,731 Other than weak borscht. 228 00:15:43,152 --> 00:15:45,989 You know, maybe they will get in touch with your astronauts, 229 00:15:46,072 --> 00:15:47,407 but I cannot promise. 230 00:15:50,368 --> 00:15:51,661 Thank you, Sergei. 231 00:15:57,333 --> 00:15:59,627 It was another day of dramatic developments 232 00:15:59,711 --> 00:16:02,172 in the case of the plane shot from the sky. 233 00:16:02,255 --> 00:16:05,383 The shooting down of Korean Air Lines flight 007. 234 00:16:05,466 --> 00:16:07,802 The Soviets admitted for the first time 235 00:16:07,886 --> 00:16:12,724 one of their fighters shot down the jumbo jet and the 269 people on board. 236 00:16:12,807 --> 00:16:17,145 But the Russians insisted they didn't know that it was a civilian airliner. 237 00:16:17,729 --> 00:16:21,065 The United States reacts with revulsion to this attack. 238 00:16:22,066 --> 00:16:24,527 Loss of life appears to be heavy. 239 00:16:25,278 --> 00:16:30,241 We can see no excuse whatsoever for this appalling act. 240 00:16:30,325 --> 00:16:33,161 There is no possible legitimate excuse 241 00:16:33,244 --> 00:16:37,540 that the Soviet government could put forward for this despicable action. 242 00:16:37,624 --> 00:16:40,210 People throughout the free world are continuing to react... 243 00:16:40,293 --> 00:16:43,755 No, I understand, Senator. We're doing everything we can to get through to them. 244 00:16:44,672 --> 00:16:45,715 Yep. 245 00:16:46,424 --> 00:16:49,177 - President Chun Doo Hwan of South Korea... - Thank you. Yep. 246 00:16:49,260 --> 00:16:52,013 ...accused the Soviet Union of committing an act of indescribable... 247 00:16:52,096 --> 00:16:53,681 Can you put a little sugar in there? 248 00:16:53,765 --> 00:16:55,600 Ask him about the UN. 249 00:16:56,893 --> 00:16:59,979 Yes. No... yes, of course we are, Senator. 250 00:17:00,063 --> 00:17:02,565 Has anyone spoken to Ambassador Kirkpatrick? 251 00:17:02,649 --> 00:17:05,276 Hey. Is it a bad time? 252 00:17:08,863 --> 00:17:11,324 Yes. Yes, Senator, I'm still here. 253 00:17:11,866 --> 00:17:14,285 - It's nice to see you, Pam. - You too, Larry. 254 00:17:16,371 --> 00:17:17,372 How's she holding up? 255 00:17:17,454 --> 00:17:20,458 She's a machine. The phone hasn't stopped ringing all day. 256 00:17:20,541 --> 00:17:22,085 She keeps going and going. 257 00:17:22,167 --> 00:17:24,378 Hey, is Tower on the Ways and Means? 258 00:17:24,462 --> 00:17:25,839 Appropriations. 259 00:17:27,214 --> 00:17:30,051 Yes. And, Senator, in the wake of this crisis, 260 00:17:30,134 --> 00:17:33,012 NASA is going to need some additional funding for security. 261 00:17:33,096 --> 00:17:34,597 Can I count on your support? 262 00:17:37,183 --> 00:17:39,727 - That's excellent news. - Ask for t10en. 263 00:17:39,811 --> 00:17:42,313 Is 10 too much to expect? 264 00:17:43,106 --> 00:17:44,941 Wonderful, Senator. Thank you. 265 00:17:45,942 --> 00:17:48,278 We can talk more about that, of course. 266 00:17:50,363 --> 00:17:53,366 No, understood. We'll have to let him know first thing in the morning. 267 00:17:53,449 --> 00:17:55,159 I'll call Guam and relay the message. 268 00:18:00,123 --> 00:18:02,458 Oh, yeah. Try to get some sleep, Clark. 269 00:18:03,918 --> 00:18:06,588 I know. We'll get through this. 270 00:18:08,256 --> 00:18:11,134 Okay. Yeah. Bye. 271 00:18:14,220 --> 00:18:15,930 Sorry. 272 00:18:16,014 --> 00:18:18,892 I don't think I've spent this much time on the phone in my entire life. 273 00:18:19,642 --> 00:18:21,352 Don't apologize for doing your job. 274 00:18:22,020 --> 00:18:24,772 Pretty fucking amazing at it. 275 00:18:24,856 --> 00:18:27,483 Is it obvious that I have no idea what I'm doing? 276 00:18:27,567 --> 00:18:28,619 Stop it. 277 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:32,179 You're brilliant. You know that. 278 00:18:37,368 --> 00:18:39,287 Come on. Okay? 279 00:18:44,459 --> 00:18:46,503 That feels really good. 280 00:19:01,351 --> 00:19:02,644 Hi. 281 00:19:07,665 --> 00:19:08,816 How are you? 282 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:10,126 I'm fine. 283 00:19:12,695 --> 00:19:15,031 I am. I mean, I'm... 284 00:19:18,243 --> 00:19:19,410 exhausted. 285 00:19:21,204 --> 00:19:22,539 And overwhelmed. 286 00:19:23,748 --> 00:19:25,500 And, I don't know, I just... 287 00:19:26,835 --> 00:19:30,463 keep playing it over and over in my head. 288 00:19:32,590 --> 00:19:35,844 What if my dad didn't have a heart attack? I would have been on that plane. 289 00:19:35,927 --> 00:19:39,264 I would have been sitting right next to Tom. The two of us. 290 00:19:40,223 --> 00:19:42,141 He would have been the last person I ever saw. 291 00:19:42,225 --> 00:19:43,476 Stop thinking that. 292 00:19:44,853 --> 00:19:46,437 It didn't happen, okay? 293 00:19:47,647 --> 00:19:50,207 If you were meant to be on that plane, you would have been on it. 294 00:19:51,234 --> 00:19:53,069 What... Tom was meant to be on that plane? 295 00:19:53,152 --> 00:19:54,445 No. I... 296 00:19:55,071 --> 00:19:57,073 Right, Tom was meant to die. 297 00:19:59,075 --> 00:20:00,201 I'm saying... 298 00:20:02,120 --> 00:20:03,760 sometimes we don't... 299 00:20:04,421 --> 00:20:06,983 understand the way the universe works. 300 00:20:13,047 --> 00:20:14,549 He was such a good man. 301 00:20:18,052 --> 00:20:19,429 So misunderstood. 302 00:20:20,513 --> 00:20:22,223 And now he's just... 303 00:20:23,474 --> 00:20:26,728 floating somewhere in the Sea of Japan. 304 00:20:28,563 --> 00:20:31,733 All of those people, they're just floating somewhere in the Sea of Japan. 305 00:20:31,816 --> 00:20:32,817 Stop it. 306 00:20:34,819 --> 00:20:35,820 Hey. 307 00:20:37,906 --> 00:20:38,962 You're here. 308 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:40,910 Alive. 309 00:20:41,731 --> 00:20:42,931 With me. 310 00:20:45,455 --> 00:20:47,373 And I'm so damn grateful that you are. 311 00:20:50,793 --> 00:20:51,920 Come here. 312 00:21:04,307 --> 00:21:06,684 - I'm sorry. - No. It's fine. 313 00:21:10,730 --> 00:21:12,065 This is Ellen Wilson. 314 00:21:12,148 --> 00:21:15,443 This is the White House operator. Please hold for the president. 315 00:21:17,987 --> 00:21:18,988 What? 316 00:21:19,072 --> 00:21:21,199 Hello? Ellen? 317 00:21:21,282 --> 00:21:22,992 Hello, Mr. President. 318 00:21:23,785 --> 00:21:24,827 What? 319 00:21:25,453 --> 00:21:27,080 It's an honor to speak with you. 320 00:21:27,163 --> 00:21:30,917 Well, I'm sorry it's under these circumstances. 321 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:32,001 So am I. 322 00:21:32,085 --> 00:21:34,295 Tom was a great American. 323 00:21:34,379 --> 00:21:36,297 I considered him a friend. 324 00:21:36,381 --> 00:21:39,843 And I'll miss him very much, as I'm sure you will too. 325 00:21:39,926 --> 00:21:41,261 I will. 326 00:21:41,344 --> 00:21:45,849 And I have every confidence you'll do a wonderful job for me, Ellen. 327 00:21:45,932 --> 00:21:49,143 Tom was a big fan of yours. 328 00:21:49,227 --> 00:21:50,854 I'll try not to let you down. 329 00:21:50,937 --> 00:21:52,564 Are you a Christian, Ellen? 330 00:21:56,067 --> 00:21:57,083 Yes. 331 00:21:57,890 --> 00:21:59,562 Yes, I am, sir. 332 00:21:59,863 --> 00:22:03,575 Prayer sustains me in times of crisis. 333 00:22:03,658 --> 00:22:05,785 I hope it does the same for you. 334 00:22:07,078 --> 00:22:09,122 Yes, sir. It does. 335 00:22:09,205 --> 00:22:10,707 I'm glad. 336 00:22:10,790 --> 00:22:14,419 'Cause I'll need everyone on my team clear-eyed for what's ahead. 337 00:22:14,502 --> 00:22:19,382 We have to show strength in the shadow of catastrophe, or all is lost. 338 00:22:19,465 --> 00:22:20,592 I understand. 339 00:22:21,676 --> 00:22:23,428 Thank you, Ellen. 340 00:22:24,929 --> 00:22:26,347 Thank you, Mr. President. 341 00:22:26,431 --> 00:22:28,016 Good night. 342 00:22:37,525 --> 00:22:39,655 - Got a minute? - You know I don't. 343 00:22:39,861 --> 00:22:42,221 Were you able to get Nikulov to help out with our situation? 344 00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:45,825 He said he'd do his best, but we still haven't heard from Poole and Morrison. 345 00:22:45,909 --> 00:22:47,160 I expected as much. 346 00:22:47,243 --> 00:22:50,038 I still had to try, Nelson. 347 00:22:50,121 --> 00:22:52,749 Well, maybe this will help you see what they're really about. 348 00:22:52,832 --> 00:22:55,210 The Pentagon just received these reconnaissance photographs. 349 00:22:55,293 --> 00:22:58,796 It appears that the Soviets have put their Buran shuttle on the launchpad. 350 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:01,090 I didn't think it was that close to launch-ready. 351 00:23:01,174 --> 00:23:02,759 Neither did we. 352 00:23:02,842 --> 00:23:05,553 - This doesn't look like Baikonur. - That's because it isn't. 353 00:23:06,221 --> 00:23:09,557 It's Sakhalin Island. They have a secret military facility there. 354 00:23:09,641 --> 00:23:14,729 The same secret military facility that KAL was flying over when it was shot down? 355 00:23:14,812 --> 00:23:16,940 - These weren't taken by... - Of course not. 356 00:23:17,607 --> 00:23:20,068 These photos were taken by an SR-71 Blackbird. 357 00:23:20,151 --> 00:23:21,653 The KAL was a commercial airliner. 358 00:23:21,736 --> 00:23:23,363 You're telling me KAL was flying over 359 00:23:23,446 --> 00:23:25,323 the same island Buran is being launched from, 360 00:23:25,406 --> 00:23:27,116 and these two events are not connected? 361 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:28,701 That's not why I'm here. 362 00:23:30,745 --> 00:23:33,750 I need you to take a look at these and tell us... 363 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:36,190 if the Buran can be armed. 364 00:23:36,251 --> 00:23:38,886 After KAL and after what's going on in Panama, 365 00:23:39,610 --> 00:23:40,610 we're... 366 00:23:40,797 --> 00:23:44,347 concerned that they might be trying to introduce a new weapon. 367 00:23:52,183 --> 00:23:53,810 Where did you get these? 368 00:23:59,190 --> 00:24:00,817 It's confidential, I know. 369 00:24:03,444 --> 00:24:05,530 This is so bizarre. 370 00:24:06,155 --> 00:24:08,575 It's like I'm looking at plans for our shuttle. 371 00:24:08,658 --> 00:24:10,618 The orbiters are exactly alike. 372 00:24:10,702 --> 00:24:13,663 That's what happens when the KGB steals the plans for our shuttle 373 00:24:13,746 --> 00:24:14,873 right out from under us. 374 00:24:14,956 --> 00:24:17,917 It's the same, down to the payload bay. 375 00:24:18,001 --> 00:24:20,670 So it can certainly be armed, just like ours can. 376 00:24:22,213 --> 00:24:23,798 Hang on. Look at this. 377 00:24:24,549 --> 00:24:25,579 What? 378 00:24:25,700 --> 00:24:27,360 The solid rocket boosters. 379 00:24:27,427 --> 00:24:29,597 They're an exact replica of ours... 380 00:24:30,430 --> 00:24:31,921 but from two years ago. 381 00:24:33,433 --> 00:24:34,517 Okay? 382 00:24:34,601 --> 00:24:37,103 That's where we found the O-ring problem on Challenger. 383 00:24:37,187 --> 00:24:39,480 And Sakhalin gets a whole lot colder than Florida. 384 00:24:39,564 --> 00:24:41,774 So if they copied our boosters to that extent, 385 00:24:41,858 --> 00:24:44,611 it's just a matter of time until this thing blows up. 386 00:24:48,281 --> 00:24:49,741 We've gotta warn them. 387 00:24:50,700 --> 00:24:53,077 Margo, they've got smart people over there. 388 00:24:53,161 --> 00:24:55,538 We caught the O-ring. I'm sure they caught the problem. 389 00:24:55,622 --> 00:24:57,498 You don't know that. Not for sure. 390 00:24:57,582 --> 00:24:58,833 You're right, I don't. 391 00:24:58,917 --> 00:25:02,837 But I do know that this thing has the potential to be armed for use against us. 392 00:25:05,131 --> 00:25:07,592 Now, they can drop munitions on any point on Earth... 393 00:25:07,675 --> 00:25:08,927 with no warning. 394 00:25:09,010 --> 00:25:12,263 And don't tell me they don't have that potential. Not after KAL. 395 00:25:12,347 --> 00:25:13,598 Yes, I understand. 396 00:25:15,016 --> 00:25:19,771 But if they decide to use Buran as a weapon at some point in the future, 397 00:25:19,854 --> 00:25:21,231 that's their choice. 398 00:25:21,314 --> 00:25:24,025 We have a choice right now to save human lives. 399 00:25:24,984 --> 00:25:29,447 Dozens of civilians, engineers, scientists, they could be killed. 400 00:25:29,531 --> 00:25:31,199 We have the power to prevent that. 401 00:25:31,282 --> 00:25:33,027 I'm not gonna take that risk. 402 00:25:33,751 --> 00:25:34,752 I'm sorry. 403 00:25:35,787 --> 00:25:36,797 The answer's no. 404 00:25:37,194 --> 00:25:38,748 And this remains classified. 405 00:25:47,048 --> 00:25:50,593 Russian officials have denied that his country intentionally shot down 406 00:25:50,677 --> 00:25:53,263 a Korean Air Lines 747. 407 00:25:53,346 --> 00:25:54,722 The United States government, 408 00:25:54,806 --> 00:25:57,892 in cooperation with the government of Japan, 409 00:25:57,976 --> 00:26:02,814 has decided to spread the evidence before this council and the world. 410 00:26:03,439 --> 00:26:07,068 It is available on the videotape, which will be played. 411 00:26:08,820 --> 00:26:09,863 Roger. 412 00:26:11,489 --> 00:26:13,783 I'm closing in on the target. I'm in lock-on. 413 00:26:16,494 --> 00:26:18,371 I've executed the launch. 414 00:26:22,625 --> 00:26:23,877 The target is destroyed. 415 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:26,171 At approximately 1600 hours, 416 00:26:26,254 --> 00:26:29,424 the Soviet pilot reported that he fired a missile, 417 00:26:30,178 --> 00:26:31,593 and the target was destroyed. 418 00:26:31,676 --> 00:26:33,428 Japanese radar operators 419 00:26:33,511 --> 00:26:35,847 had tracked the progress of the Korean plane... 420 00:26:35,930 --> 00:26:38,474 Chardonnay and two Shirley Temples for table three. 421 00:26:39,559 --> 00:26:42,729 - Looks like you got a leak. - Yeah. Damn it. 422 00:26:42,812 --> 00:26:46,816 And the toilet in the men's bathroom is clogged again, so... 423 00:26:46,900 --> 00:26:48,193 Want me to take a look at it? 424 00:26:48,943 --> 00:26:51,029 Would you please? That'd be great. 425 00:26:51,112 --> 00:26:54,490 I should have just replaced the whole system when I remodeled, 426 00:26:54,574 --> 00:26:56,576 but I was trying to save a buck, so... 427 00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:00,705 - Howdy, Miss Karen. - Hi, Sam. 428 00:27:00,788 --> 00:27:03,124 Hey, boys, why don't you find a seat right there. 429 00:27:03,208 --> 00:27:06,127 He sure has been coming in a lot since your mom's been gone. 430 00:27:06,711 --> 00:27:07,921 Maybe he misses her. 431 00:27:08,505 --> 00:27:10,840 Probably more like a good way to remind potential investors 432 00:27:10,924 --> 00:27:12,284 that he's married to an astronaut. 433 00:27:12,342 --> 00:27:13,676 Or that. 434 00:27:14,677 --> 00:27:16,095 I need three Scotch and sodas. 435 00:27:16,179 --> 00:27:17,931 But one, only do a splash of Scotch in, 436 00:27:18,014 --> 00:27:20,433 'cause Sam only likes to look like he's pounding them back. 437 00:27:20,517 --> 00:27:21,726 No problem. 438 00:27:21,775 --> 00:27:22,843 Thank you. 439 00:27:23,061 --> 00:27:25,104 I hope this kid's not giving you too much grief. 440 00:27:25,188 --> 00:27:26,188 Of course not. 441 00:27:26,931 --> 00:27:28,767 - He's doing a great job. - Well, I'm sure. 442 00:27:28,991 --> 00:27:31,291 - He is a good kid. - Yeah, he is. 443 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:32,947 How's Trace? 444 00:27:33,530 --> 00:27:35,365 I haven't spoken to her in a couple days. 445 00:27:35,448 --> 00:27:37,588 Apparently, the moon is a very busy place. 446 00:27:38,576 --> 00:27:40,078 Yeah, tell me about it. 447 00:27:40,662 --> 00:27:42,830 - How's business? - We've had the best month yet. 448 00:27:43,581 --> 00:27:46,167 Putting those trinkets in that case, now that was a great idea. 449 00:27:46,251 --> 00:27:47,752 Yeah, believe it or not, 450 00:27:47,836 --> 00:27:51,297 those things earn almost as much profit as anything else in here. 451 00:27:51,381 --> 00:27:52,715 Well, I believe it. 452 00:27:54,300 --> 00:27:57,637 - So, you ready to sell me this place yet? - The answer's still no. 453 00:27:57,720 --> 00:27:59,180 That's too bad. 454 00:27:59,764 --> 00:28:02,484 'Cause with just a little push, this place is about ready to explode. 455 00:28:03,351 --> 00:28:05,270 Could franchise it. Go national. 456 00:28:06,437 --> 00:28:08,815 Oh, well. Maybe next time. 457 00:28:11,109 --> 00:28:12,402 Or maybe today. 458 00:28:15,864 --> 00:28:16,865 What's that? 459 00:28:16,948 --> 00:28:19,284 I said maybe I'm ready to sell you the bar today. 460 00:28:23,788 --> 00:28:25,123 Are you serious? 461 00:28:26,124 --> 00:28:27,917 Well, depends on what you're offering. 462 00:28:30,003 --> 00:28:31,421 250. 463 00:28:33,214 --> 00:28:34,215 No. 464 00:28:35,842 --> 00:28:36,885 300 then. 465 00:28:40,889 --> 00:28:42,140 450. 466 00:28:44,475 --> 00:28:45,475 350. 467 00:28:45,580 --> 00:28:47,846 This is the Outpost, not the Ritz. 468 00:28:48,229 --> 00:28:49,299 400. 469 00:28:49,397 --> 00:28:52,150 With the trinkets in the case, it's worth at least that much. 470 00:28:52,233 --> 00:28:54,068 Plus, it's only gonna appreciate over time. 471 00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:55,805 375. 472 00:28:55,870 --> 00:28:56,870 390. 473 00:28:57,390 --> 00:28:58,504 Sold. 474 00:28:59,282 --> 00:29:00,325 What? 475 00:29:01,618 --> 00:29:02,869 I'm sorry. 476 00:29:02,952 --> 00:29:07,207 Did I just sell you the Outpost for $390,000? 477 00:29:07,290 --> 00:29:08,917 Not until you shake my hand, you didn't. 478 00:29:11,044 --> 00:29:12,253 That's all it takes? 479 00:29:12,475 --> 00:29:14,268 This is Texas, darling. 480 00:29:14,714 --> 00:29:16,466 A handshake means more than a notary. 481 00:29:21,804 --> 00:29:22,805 All right. 482 00:29:23,932 --> 00:29:25,683 We'll get that paperwork signed next week. 483 00:29:28,061 --> 00:29:29,062 Okay. 484 00:30:13,030 --> 00:30:14,031 May I come in? 485 00:30:15,030 --> 00:30:16,031 Who are you? 486 00:30:17,610 --> 00:30:18,850 I am engineer. 487 00:30:19,474 --> 00:30:21,214 Come. Sit down. 488 00:30:24,158 --> 00:30:27,328 I've been locked up in this room for almost 48 hours with no explanation. 489 00:30:28,429 --> 00:30:29,359 Sit down. 490 00:30:29,414 --> 00:30:30,665 I need to talk to my people. 491 00:30:30,748 --> 00:30:31,748 Sit down. 492 00:30:32,405 --> 00:30:35,128 Let's have a drink. Slice of meat. 493 00:30:35,378 --> 00:30:38,089 I don't wanna sit down. I wanna get the hell out of here. 494 00:30:38,923 --> 00:30:40,008 Do you like vodka? 495 00:30:41,009 --> 00:30:42,385 Do I have a choice? 496 00:30:43,136 --> 00:30:44,137 No. 497 00:30:52,645 --> 00:30:55,064 I have never met American astronaut. 498 00:30:56,608 --> 00:30:59,152 Tell me, how did you get in program? 499 00:31:00,069 --> 00:31:01,279 Are you parachutist? 500 00:31:01,863 --> 00:31:02,863 No. 501 00:31:03,338 --> 00:31:04,715 I'm a pilot. 502 00:31:05,325 --> 00:31:06,719 An engineer. 503 00:31:07,043 --> 00:31:08,085 Like you. 504 00:31:10,038 --> 00:31:13,958 And did you always want to go to space ever since you were a little girl? 505 00:31:14,584 --> 00:31:17,295 When I was a little girl, women weren't allowed to go to space. 506 00:31:19,589 --> 00:31:21,007 When I was little boy... 507 00:31:22,842 --> 00:31:25,553 no rockets had ever left to space. 508 00:31:25,637 --> 00:31:26,637 Still... 509 00:31:27,331 --> 00:31:28,765 I dreamed of reaching stars. 510 00:31:28,848 --> 00:31:31,100 Well, here we are. 511 00:31:34,270 --> 00:31:35,271 Hey. 512 00:31:35,980 --> 00:31:38,274 Are you gonna tell me why I'm held prisoner here? 513 00:31:39,526 --> 00:31:40,652 This is not a prison. 514 00:31:40,735 --> 00:31:42,237 Sure as hell feels like one. 515 00:31:47,450 --> 00:31:49,452 You have never been to Soviet prison. 516 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:53,289 Being in gulag... 517 00:31:54,332 --> 00:31:56,292 is like worst dream. 518 00:31:57,669 --> 00:31:58,669 Torture. 519 00:31:59,010 --> 00:32:00,050 Starvation. 520 00:32:00,690 --> 00:32:01,690 Cold. 521 00:32:03,174 --> 00:32:04,259 So cold. 522 00:32:05,969 --> 00:32:07,345 Men frozen to death. 523 00:32:08,930 --> 00:32:11,280 Forced to betray their comrades... 524 00:32:12,252 --> 00:32:13,693 in order to survive. 525 00:32:15,353 --> 00:32:16,479 Every day... 526 00:32:18,022 --> 00:32:21,484 you wonder, will you be next, lined up against wall? 527 00:32:34,622 --> 00:32:36,082 To fallen comrades. 528 00:32:37,876 --> 00:32:39,252 You know our customs. 529 00:32:40,170 --> 00:32:41,379 I had a good teacher. 530 00:32:44,883 --> 00:32:46,259 Do you know these people? 531 00:32:48,761 --> 00:32:50,221 What people? 532 00:32:50,305 --> 00:32:51,556 The names on the door. 533 00:32:57,103 --> 00:32:58,521 I didn't realize those were names. 534 00:33:01,816 --> 00:33:02,984 Yuri Gagarin. 535 00:33:04,027 --> 00:33:05,653 Valentina Tereshkova. 536 00:33:06,077 --> 00:33:07,664 Aleksei Leonov. 537 00:33:08,364 --> 00:33:10,366 Anastasia Belikova. 538 00:33:12,785 --> 00:33:14,996 Yuri Gagarin slept in this room? 539 00:33:16,873 --> 00:33:19,542 We leave them there as symbols to remember. 540 00:33:23,546 --> 00:33:26,222 Soviet flag on the moon. 541 00:33:26,446 --> 00:33:28,167 This is symbol too. 542 00:33:29,010 --> 00:33:30,637 I remember in planning, 543 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:34,807 we had calculation, how close should flag be to lander. 544 00:33:34,891 --> 00:33:37,795 If only a meter too close, when lander takes off, 545 00:33:38,019 --> 00:33:39,046 it will... 546 00:33:41,105 --> 00:33:42,866 Fourteen years later, 547 00:33:43,170 --> 00:33:46,457 Soviet flag still stands on the moon. 548 00:33:47,195 --> 00:33:51,032 I know grown man who weep in Soviet Union at that. 549 00:33:51,950 --> 00:33:53,952 Powerful symbol. 550 00:33:56,496 --> 00:33:59,707 When I first heard about Soyuz-Apollo... 551 00:34:01,334 --> 00:34:02,460 I thought... 552 00:34:04,838 --> 00:34:06,381 Ronald Reagan, 553 00:34:06,464 --> 00:34:08,174 he is clever man. 554 00:34:09,467 --> 00:34:12,042 Symbol of astronaut and cosmonaut... 555 00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:14,051 together in space. 556 00:34:17,684 --> 00:34:20,603 Of course, I knew we had no choice but to agree, 557 00:34:20,687 --> 00:34:24,232 because we would look cynical, if we did not. 558 00:34:26,818 --> 00:34:28,069 But also... 559 00:34:29,279 --> 00:34:30,737 because maybe... 560 00:34:32,407 --> 00:34:33,482 maybe... 561 00:34:34,689 --> 00:34:37,086 it could change the world. 562 00:34:38,329 --> 00:34:40,956 It can't be anything if I don't ever leave this room. 563 00:34:54,387 --> 00:34:58,349 When you finally go out this door... 564 00:35:02,020 --> 00:35:03,563 do it with your head up. 565 00:35:32,550 --> 00:35:33,885 Hello? 566 00:35:34,844 --> 00:35:36,971 Molly. Thank God. 567 00:35:37,055 --> 00:35:39,057 Yeah, yeah, it's me. It's me. 568 00:35:39,766 --> 00:35:44,187 No, no, no. I'm okay, I'm okay. Yeah. I'm alone. 569 00:35:45,104 --> 00:35:46,314 What the hell is going on? 570 00:35:59,077 --> 00:36:01,204 Try a little negative pressure. 571 00:36:14,175 --> 00:36:15,176 Nice trick. 572 00:36:16,761 --> 00:36:18,555 You want something to wash that down? 573 00:36:19,889 --> 00:36:21,391 We got some good news. 574 00:36:21,891 --> 00:36:25,186 Finally reached our astronauts in Star City. They're okay. 575 00:36:25,979 --> 00:36:27,188 That's great. 576 00:36:27,772 --> 00:36:28,773 Come on. 577 00:36:30,608 --> 00:36:31,985 Before I change my mind. 578 00:36:45,290 --> 00:36:46,541 It's brandy. 579 00:36:48,877 --> 00:36:49,878 I know. 580 00:36:51,379 --> 00:36:52,505 You do? 581 00:36:53,381 --> 00:36:56,968 I mean, I've never had it before, but... 582 00:37:03,308 --> 00:37:05,727 Asbach Uralt. Prewar. 583 00:37:06,644 --> 00:37:07,645 The best. 584 00:37:08,438 --> 00:37:09,647 It's strong. 585 00:37:15,778 --> 00:37:18,101 I don't think I've ever seen you this... 586 00:37:18,925 --> 00:37:19,925 happy. 587 00:37:21,659 --> 00:37:23,569 Yeah, I am. 588 00:37:23,599 --> 00:37:24,926 Sometimes... 589 00:37:27,582 --> 00:37:29,125 people can surprise you. 590 00:37:29,209 --> 00:37:30,835 Restore your faith in humanity. 591 00:37:31,419 --> 00:37:33,546 Tell that to Bill Strausser. 592 00:37:34,631 --> 00:37:35,882 What's going on? 593 00:37:37,759 --> 00:37:39,374 He's the biggest jerk of all time. 594 00:37:39,765 --> 00:37:41,267 He's harmless. 595 00:37:42,305 --> 00:37:45,892 A lot of these guys are lacking in... social skills. 596 00:37:47,268 --> 00:37:50,271 Good at the work, bad with the people. 597 00:37:50,355 --> 00:37:51,481 Why is he like that? 598 00:37:52,106 --> 00:37:53,107 Bill's... 599 00:37:56,861 --> 00:37:58,071 complicated. 600 00:37:58,821 --> 00:38:02,367 He can definitely be condescending at times and stuck in his ways, but... 601 00:38:03,117 --> 00:38:05,411 he's a very good engineer. 602 00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:08,790 And committed to his work like no one else. 603 00:38:10,291 --> 00:38:13,461 Too committed sometimes. 604 00:38:14,712 --> 00:38:17,006 - What's that mean? - No, nothing. 605 00:38:17,590 --> 00:38:18,925 There was just an... 606 00:38:20,468 --> 00:38:22,136 an incident a long time ago. 607 00:38:22,220 --> 00:38:24,305 Probably shouldn't have mentioned it. 608 00:38:24,389 --> 00:38:25,480 Come on. 609 00:38:26,404 --> 00:38:27,800 Now you have to tell me. 610 00:38:32,564 --> 00:38:35,775 There was a night when he'd been at his console for 23 hours, 611 00:38:35,859 --> 00:38:38,570 and he refused to leave it. Refused. 612 00:38:38,653 --> 00:38:42,198 I guess he got caught up in all the excitement, and he... 613 00:38:45,201 --> 00:38:47,078 He peed his pants. 614 00:38:47,361 --> 00:38:49,639 All over himself. Everything. 615 00:38:50,123 --> 00:38:51,123 Just... 616 00:38:51,229 --> 00:38:52,229 wet. 617 00:38:52,792 --> 00:38:54,335 Wet. 618 00:38:55,295 --> 00:38:59,507 After that, people started calling him Mr. Peanut. 619 00:38:59,591 --> 00:39:01,509 Why Peanut? 620 00:39:01,593 --> 00:39:02,844 I have no idea, 621 00:39:02,927 --> 00:39:05,305 but that was his nickname from that day on, 622 00:39:05,388 --> 00:39:08,766 and it followed him for years. 623 00:39:09,934 --> 00:39:10,935 Years. 624 00:39:11,728 --> 00:39:15,481 People would leave peanuts on his console, peanut butter. 625 00:39:15,565 --> 00:39:19,277 Even a doll with a diaper on it. 626 00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:21,154 Jesus. 627 00:39:21,237 --> 00:39:22,530 I almost feel bad for him. 628 00:39:23,830 --> 00:39:24,830 Almost. 629 00:39:25,020 --> 00:39:26,020 I know. 630 00:39:26,616 --> 00:39:27,710 But listen. 631 00:39:28,661 --> 00:39:33,333 If I can find a way to get along with Bill, so can you. 632 00:39:33,917 --> 00:39:36,961 You need to find a way to work this out with him. 633 00:39:37,587 --> 00:39:41,799 He's not gonna be the last difficult person you come across in your career. 634 00:39:42,592 --> 00:39:43,593 Yeah. 635 00:39:44,594 --> 00:39:45,762 You're probably right. 636 00:39:49,224 --> 00:39:52,602 The Soviet Union continues to mobilize their Pacific fleet, 637 00:39:52,685 --> 00:39:55,813 harassing vessels that stray near the theorized crash site 638 00:39:55,897 --> 00:40:01,277 and blocking attempts to search for the remains of flight KAL 007. 639 00:40:01,361 --> 00:40:05,114 The United States responded by dispatching warships from the Seventh Fleet 640 00:40:05,198 --> 00:40:08,076 and has put Air Command on 24-hour alert 641 00:40:08,159 --> 00:40:11,412 as tensions continue to rise in the North Pacific. 642 00:40:16,417 --> 00:40:18,211 You have to push the button. 643 00:40:19,671 --> 00:40:20,880 Let me do it. 644 00:40:21,589 --> 00:40:22,841 Bless you. 645 00:40:28,179 --> 00:40:29,639 I couldn't sleep. 646 00:40:31,140 --> 00:40:32,225 Me neither. 647 00:40:43,236 --> 00:40:44,404 How you holding up? 648 00:40:47,198 --> 00:40:48,283 I don't know. 649 00:40:49,242 --> 00:40:50,905 I don't really know which... 650 00:40:51,929 --> 00:40:53,288 which way is "up". 651 00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:56,332 Everything's just so... 652 00:40:59,627 --> 00:41:00,712 overwhelming. 653 00:41:03,256 --> 00:41:04,507 And I can see what's coming. 654 00:41:05,425 --> 00:41:08,511 Bradford's already pushing for the military to have a stronger hand. 655 00:41:08,595 --> 00:41:11,014 And that's how this slippery slope becomes an avalanche, 656 00:41:11,097 --> 00:41:14,517 and we suddenly look around, and we're a part of the Department of Defense. 657 00:41:14,601 --> 00:41:15,768 It happens all the time. 658 00:41:15,852 --> 00:41:17,580 There's a crisis, and... 659 00:41:17,850 --> 00:41:19,610 then the military swoops in, 660 00:41:19,660 --> 00:41:20,890 and they take control. 661 00:41:20,940 --> 00:41:22,775 It'll be the end of NASA as we know it. 662 00:41:24,569 --> 00:41:25,795 You can kiss Mars goodbye. 663 00:41:26,219 --> 00:41:27,339 For a decade, at least. 664 00:41:27,363 --> 00:41:29,407 I can't let that happen. 665 00:41:29,490 --> 00:41:30,491 Well... 666 00:41:32,577 --> 00:41:33,995 what are you gonna do about it? 667 00:41:34,621 --> 00:41:35,830 I don't know. 668 00:41:39,250 --> 00:41:43,630 - Can I just point out one thing? - Sure. Please. 669 00:41:43,713 --> 00:41:45,715 You're the fucking administrator of NASA. 670 00:41:45,798 --> 00:41:47,592 Acting administrator. 671 00:41:47,675 --> 00:41:49,427 So start acting like it. 672 00:41:50,553 --> 00:41:52,847 You're not watching from the sidelines anymore. 673 00:41:52,931 --> 00:41:54,891 You're in the game, for Christ's sake. 674 00:41:54,974 --> 00:41:56,893 What exactly do you expect me to do? 675 00:41:56,976 --> 00:42:00,355 You have to prove to them that you've got things under control. 676 00:42:01,189 --> 00:42:02,690 Show them how tough you are. 677 00:42:03,399 --> 00:42:05,026 How far you're willing to go. 678 00:42:05,652 --> 00:42:07,403 Then you'll have their trust. 679 00:42:12,951 --> 00:42:15,328 We all play different roles with different people. 680 00:42:20,166 --> 00:42:21,876 Something Tom once told me. 681 00:42:35,390 --> 00:42:36,933 You know what this is about? 682 00:42:59,664 --> 00:43:02,250 The president has decided to arm Pathfinder. 683 00:43:05,587 --> 00:43:07,088 - Wow. - Just like that? 684 00:43:08,798 --> 00:43:10,633 We're putting missiles on a shuttle? 685 00:43:10,717 --> 00:43:12,844 Well, at this point he really has no choice. 686 00:43:13,970 --> 00:43:16,890 The Soviets are being very provocative. It's a defensive measure. 687 00:43:16,973 --> 00:43:18,183 Until it's not. 688 00:43:18,975 --> 00:43:22,687 We're also moving up the retaking of lunar claim site 357 Bravo. 689 00:43:22,770 --> 00:43:24,981 It will happen within 48 hours. 690 00:43:26,649 --> 00:43:29,235 But... what? It's still daylight up there. 691 00:43:29,319 --> 00:43:32,280 The whole idea was to use the cover of lunar night 692 00:43:32,363 --> 00:43:34,157 to maintain the element of surprise. 693 00:43:34,240 --> 00:43:36,560 Not to mention, these guys haven't finished their training. 694 00:43:37,118 --> 00:43:40,163 The president has been fully briefed on where we're at with the mission 695 00:43:40,246 --> 00:43:42,498 and is comfortable moving forward. 696 00:43:42,582 --> 00:43:45,001 Ellen, can't you talk to him? Get him to listen to reason? 697 00:43:45,084 --> 00:43:48,880 - He needs to understand, this is... - These were my recommendations, Margo. 698 00:44:15,740 --> 00:44:17,575 Hello, Sergei. 699 00:44:17,659 --> 00:44:18,660 Margo. 700 00:44:20,745 --> 00:44:23,081 I'm going back to Soviet Union, 701 00:44:23,164 --> 00:44:27,210 while it is decided whether Soyuz-Apollo still is to continue. 702 00:44:27,293 --> 00:44:28,711 I've heard. 703 00:44:29,295 --> 00:44:32,549 I just wanted to say thank you for your help. 704 00:44:34,092 --> 00:44:36,761 You're welcome. I'm glad to do it. 705 00:44:36,845 --> 00:44:38,096 And... 706 00:44:40,390 --> 00:44:43,977 as soon as all this gets resolved, which I'm sure it will, 707 00:44:44,060 --> 00:44:47,313 I hope to see you again and continue planning this mission together. 708 00:44:48,106 --> 00:44:50,859 Yes. I as well hope this. 709 00:44:58,199 --> 00:45:03,121 It might be a good thing to take a step back actually. 710 00:45:03,830 --> 00:45:05,540 Look at things with fresh eyes. 711 00:45:05,623 --> 00:45:09,586 See if we're missing anything with these docking module specs. 712 00:45:11,087 --> 00:45:12,964 Missing anything? What do you mean? 713 00:45:13,548 --> 00:45:17,427 I just keep wondering if we've overlooked something. 714 00:45:18,344 --> 00:45:20,054 For instance, about a year ago, 715 00:45:20,138 --> 00:45:24,100 we discovered a defective component in our shuttle design. 716 00:45:25,977 --> 00:45:29,105 A flaw with the O-ring seals in the boosters. 717 00:45:32,483 --> 00:45:33,484 What flaw? 718 00:45:34,235 --> 00:45:38,781 One of our engineers discovered that the ring would harden in cold weather 719 00:45:38,865 --> 00:45:40,700 and fail to seal the joints. 720 00:45:40,783 --> 00:45:44,621 Temperatures at Merritt Island rarely drop below 40. 721 00:45:45,205 --> 00:45:46,205 So... 722 00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:49,843 you can understand how we initially missed it. 723 00:45:52,003 --> 00:45:54,214 Yes, I can understand this. 724 00:45:55,381 --> 00:45:56,966 Thank God we found it. 725 00:45:57,050 --> 00:46:00,303 Because if temperatures were to dip unexpectedly, 726 00:46:01,137 --> 00:46:05,475 there would be a substantial risk of failure. 727 00:46:06,226 --> 00:46:07,977 So... 728 00:46:08,061 --> 00:46:14,150 I just wonder what, if anything, we're missing with these docking specs. 729 00:46:15,276 --> 00:46:16,569 Yes, I wonder too. 730 00:46:20,031 --> 00:46:21,991 I would take a look at it while you're away. 731 00:46:26,538 --> 00:46:27,538 Well... 732 00:46:28,101 --> 00:46:30,141 I have to go. I have a meeting. 733 00:46:30,625 --> 00:46:32,252 But I hope to see you again. 734 00:46:32,335 --> 00:46:35,046 Yes. I hope so... too. 735 00:46:56,860 --> 00:46:57,944 Hey, Kel. 736 00:46:59,821 --> 00:47:01,447 You hungry? 737 00:47:01,531 --> 00:47:04,325 I'm making bean sandwiches. Your favorite. 738 00:47:06,619 --> 00:47:08,204 Yeah, I'll be there in a minute. 739 00:47:10,915 --> 00:47:11,916 All right. 740 00:49:24,048 --> 00:49:25,258 Did Ashley leave? 741 00:49:25,842 --> 00:49:29,637 Yeah. She took off, but she said she'd see you tomorrow. 742 00:49:29,721 --> 00:49:30,721 Or... 743 00:49:30,821 --> 00:49:32,673 I guess that's technically today. 744 00:49:35,101 --> 00:49:36,436 Want a beer? 745 00:49:38,354 --> 00:49:40,857 I shouldn't, but yes, please. 746 00:49:43,401 --> 00:49:45,570 Are you really outta here next week? 747 00:49:46,196 --> 00:49:48,448 I can't believe that the summer's already over. 748 00:49:48,531 --> 00:49:50,033 I'm gonna miss you around here. 749 00:49:50,116 --> 00:49:51,451 To a great summer. 750 00:49:52,702 --> 00:49:54,245 And an even better school year. 751 00:49:55,580 --> 00:49:57,916 - And to you, Mrs. Baldwin. - Danny! 752 00:49:58,666 --> 00:50:00,627 - Karen. Karen. - Thank you. 753 00:50:00,710 --> 00:50:01,753 Sorry. 754 00:50:06,007 --> 00:50:07,392 So... 755 00:50:07,675 --> 00:50:09,260 how you feeling about everything? 756 00:50:10,136 --> 00:50:11,554 I mean, with selling this place. 757 00:50:16,142 --> 00:50:17,352 Honestly... 758 00:50:18,770 --> 00:50:19,963 I feel ready... 759 00:50:21,087 --> 00:50:22,398 to move on. 760 00:50:23,066 --> 00:50:25,109 Ready for a new chapter. 761 00:50:27,111 --> 00:50:30,031 Truth is, the place isn't mine. It never really was. 762 00:50:32,033 --> 00:50:33,076 Well... 763 00:50:34,810 --> 00:50:37,090 then we should celebrate. 764 00:50:37,150 --> 00:50:37,970 Well... 765 00:50:38,012 --> 00:50:39,912 isn't that what we're already doing? 766 00:50:39,949 --> 00:50:44,704 In honor of my last week, I decided to donate something to the Outpost jukebox. 767 00:50:45,338 --> 00:50:47,131 Really? That was very thoughtful. 768 00:50:59,686 --> 00:51:01,563 - What is this? - Billy Swan. 769 00:51:02,188 --> 00:51:03,940 - The country singer. - Yeah. 770 00:51:07,527 --> 00:51:08,695 You recognize that? 771 00:51:10,154 --> 00:51:11,322 Yeah... 772 00:51:12,198 --> 00:51:13,408 No. Hold on. 773 00:51:23,042 --> 00:51:24,419 Oh, my goodness. 774 00:51:26,337 --> 00:51:28,673 Danny. Oh, no. 775 00:51:30,216 --> 00:51:33,761 - Isn't it great? - Yeah, it's different. 776 00:51:58,536 --> 00:51:59,537 Come on. 777 00:53:55,195 --> 00:53:56,654 Have you been drinking? 778 00:55:17,485 --> 00:55:19,362 How soon can you prep and fuel the ISAM? 779 00:55:20,196 --> 00:55:22,407 I suppose in a few hours. Why? What's going on? 780 00:55:23,700 --> 00:55:26,286 The president wants to retake the claim at 0800 tomorrow. 781 00:55:29,455 --> 00:55:32,041 Jesus. Why are you telling me this? 782 00:55:33,501 --> 00:55:35,628 You think Charles is ready to pilot the ISAM? 783 00:55:35,712 --> 00:55:39,048 No. No. Not yet. 784 00:55:41,217 --> 00:55:43,761 If I knew he needed to be ready so soon, I would've... 785 00:55:43,845 --> 00:55:45,175 Can you do it? 786 00:55:45,305 --> 00:55:48,641 You've flown with us before. You know the mission better than anyone. 787 00:55:51,853 --> 00:55:53,053 I can't order you to do it. 788 00:55:53,900 --> 00:55:54,930 It's dangerous. 789 00:55:54,985 --> 00:55:57,126 We don't know for sure they don't have weapons, and if they do... 790 00:55:57,150 --> 00:55:58,176 I'm in. 791 00:56:00,069 --> 00:56:02,530 Okay then. Prep the ISAM for launch. 792 00:56:02,614 --> 00:56:05,283 We gotta load our gear and get ready to roll out in 17 hours. 793 00:56:07,452 --> 00:56:08,620 Yeah, let's do it. 794 00:56:15,627 --> 00:56:17,045 Thank you very much. 795 00:56:17,128 --> 00:56:20,507 Ladies and gentlemen, today I'm proud to announce 796 00:56:20,590 --> 00:56:24,844 that we have reestablished contact with two American heroes. 797 00:56:24,928 --> 00:56:27,847 Astronauts Danielle Poole and Nate Morrison, 798 00:56:27,931 --> 00:56:30,767 who were being held in the Soviet Union 799 00:56:30,850 --> 00:56:34,395 after the Korean Air Line 007 disaster. 800 00:56:35,063 --> 00:56:38,066 Like the Americans who began this country, 801 00:56:38,149 --> 00:56:41,778 history has asked much of the Americans of our own time. 802 00:56:41,861 --> 00:56:43,655 Much we have already given. 803 00:56:45,156 --> 00:56:47,742 Much more we must be prepared to give. 804 00:56:50,161 --> 00:56:52,205 But we also must remember 805 00:56:53,164 --> 00:56:56,251 the future does not belong to the fainthearted. 806 00:56:56,793 --> 00:56:59,128 It belongs to the brave. 807 00:57:05,426 --> 00:57:10,181 One of these brave Americans, Acting NASA Administrator Ellen Wilson, 808 00:57:10,265 --> 00:57:13,059 has led the effort to bring our astronauts home. 809 00:57:13,142 --> 00:57:14,644 And I'm proud to announce 810 00:57:14,727 --> 00:57:17,981 they are currently on their way to free soil in West Germany. 811 00:57:19,232 --> 00:57:22,443 Let us have faith in Abraham Lincoln's words, 812 00:57:22,527 --> 00:57:24,320 "That right makes might. 813 00:57:24,863 --> 00:57:30,118 "And in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it." 814 00:57:32,078 --> 00:57:36,457 Thank you. God bless you, and God bless America. 815 00:57:43,089 --> 00:57:44,924 Fuel at 60%. 816 00:57:45,008 --> 00:57:46,885 Copy 60. 817 00:57:49,679 --> 00:57:51,931 Beginning descent to avoid radar. 818 00:57:53,057 --> 00:57:54,475 Forty meters. 819 00:57:56,978 --> 00:57:58,271 Down at seven. 820 00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:00,982 Dropping like a stone. 821 00:58:01,691 --> 00:58:03,026 Fifteen. 822 00:58:03,109 --> 00:58:04,485 Canyon in sight. 823 00:58:05,195 --> 00:58:08,531 Final approach to canyon. Ninety seconds to drop point. 824 00:58:14,746 --> 00:58:17,624 Holding at five meters. Steady at five meters. 825 00:58:17,685 --> 00:58:18,811 Steady. 826 00:58:18,917 --> 00:58:23,004 We have canyon entrance. Hang on out there. Some tight turns coming up. 827 00:58:23,755 --> 00:58:26,049 All right, commencing final run. 828 00:58:26,132 --> 00:58:28,009 Sixty seconds to drop point. 829 00:59:07,715 --> 00:59:10,301 Approaching final turn. Ten seconds out. 830 00:59:15,306 --> 00:59:16,316 Shit. 831 00:59:17,475 --> 00:59:18,893 Landing site's not clear. 832 00:59:18,977 --> 00:59:21,104 That drilling rig wasn't on the sat map. 833 00:59:21,688 --> 00:59:24,983 - Should we abort? - Negative. Going downrange. 834 00:59:30,864 --> 00:59:32,907 Drop point located. Begin descent. 835 00:59:32,991 --> 00:59:34,868 Ten meters. Down at eight. 836 00:59:34,951 --> 00:59:36,661 Just like the drills, folks. 837 00:59:36,720 --> 00:59:37,720 Immediate dismount, 838 00:59:37,850 --> 00:59:39,622 clear the vehicle and form up on me. 839 00:59:39,706 --> 00:59:40,915 Oorah! 840 00:59:40,999 --> 00:59:43,668 Let's do this. Weapons free. 841 00:59:48,715 --> 00:59:51,384 Two meters. Kicking up a lot of dust. 842 00:59:51,467 --> 00:59:52,677 Hold on. 843 00:59:59,184 --> 01:00:01,978 Tracy Stevens, you are a badass. 844 01:00:24,959 --> 01:00:26,211 We have the site. 845 01:00:26,294 --> 01:00:27,962 I repeat, we have the site.