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You got it?

Run the emergency backup protocol.

I'm on it.

Cheryl, you okay?

I'm fine.

I thought Yvonne said the solar blast missed us. It did. We just got sucker

punched by the solar radiation cone.

Damn it. Trust me. This is gonna be bad enough.

How bad?

Sun's gone hyperactive.

Thermal mass ejections, solar flares.

The whole planet's going to get hit by electromagnetic pulses, electrical

storms, solar radiation bursts, maybe even some earthquakes caused by the

distortion in the magnetosphere.

Day or night, it's not going to make a difference.

What's the endgame?

Either the sun calms down on its own, or we can count the days the Earth has left

on one hand.

Reggie.

What happened? The generators blew out.

I don't know, but whatever it is, our friends are back and it's killed their

trucks. It could be an EMP of some kind. Might be something to do with... What

happened to Alan?

What's an EMP?

Electromagnetic pulse.

Overloads all electronic circuits, generators, auto-ignitions.

I want you to find Nora and take her back to my tund.

I don't want them finding her and their coming down here.

Is there anything I can do for you?

Yeah.

Can you be there when it hits me that my husband's dead?

I just don't think I'm taking it in.

Have you heard from JJ?

No, phone's dead, internet's down.

Never felt so comfortable.

What is that?

We need to find the Vice President and get him to the bunker. Also, the Speaker

and Secretary of State.

And Laura.

Secret Service is looking for her.

You're telling me nobody knows where the hell my daughter is? She was pretty

scared. She's somewhere in the White House. We'll bring her here as soon as

we find her, Mr. President.

Have we made any contact with other heads of state?

France, England, Moscow, before communications went down. It's a global

situation. We managed to get word out on the emergency broadcasting system to

state and local bodies. We're doing the best we can.

Stay on it.

I want a briefing in five minutes on what we're dealing with here.

What we can expect.

Our ability to communicate and with whom. Mr. President, perhaps you'd like

some time to process what's happened to your wife.

I'm grieving, Roger.

Not incapacitated. There's a difference.

Don't forget that.

Come inside.

Come, Freddie.

Freddie, come!

Freddie!

Let go of me!

Freddie!

Freddie!

What systems do we still have online?

Roebling had many of the systems EMP hardened.

Or still works.

Mission control.

Dr. Backus, we're getting something from the space station.

Space station to mission control.

I'm struggling to get systems back up.

Ivan, what's the situation?

Not good.

We lost power and are in a deteriorating orbit.

Ivan, this is Commander Wincroft. Can you boost back to a better orbit?

No. Well, what about evacuation?

The blast damaged our Soyuz pods. We're trying to repair them now, but... Keep

working on it, buddy.

Yes, yes.

We're also collecting a ton of information from our sensors.

I will download what I can when I'm... Ivan, what is it?

I'm... looking at Earth.

How does it look?

Like...

I need a status meeting. Oh, a meeting.

I'll call for donuts.

I need to know what resources we have available, what our level of disaster

preparedness is. We need all eyes and ears up as quick as possible, Don. We

can't afford to have our people get off task.

I don't need your permission, Craig.

Like hell you don't. This is now a federal facility, and the president put

Don in charge.

Fat lot of good that did.

It wasn't my ship when the problem started, pal. Do we have to play out our

whole sad relationship right here?

it's all yours listen up everyone i need you to stop what you're doing just for a

moment i need a status update what's working for us and what is it well we

have some pretty crappy communications define crappy well we still have contact

with the space station and that's fine and we can still scan some government

frequencies but it is dead quiet out there i'm thinking most people are still

trying to get their communications back online what about cell phones or

landlines no nothing Tracking systems, telemetry, satellites, GPS.

I... We have some power to one of our radio dishes, but we can't turn it.

Looks like the motor's burned out.

Can it be fixed?

I don't know, but I really need to leave.

I haven't heard from my husband, and I don't know if he and my little girl are

okay.

I'm sorry.

I gotta go.

Look, I don't think your car's gonna be working. I'll walk. I don't live too far

away. All right, listen up, everyone. We are in the middle of a global crisis.

Everyone here are the best people to monitor the situation.

Everyone here is also a private contractor, Don.

Your boss is now dead.

And the world's staring down the barrel of a gun. As far as I'm concerned, your

contract is up.

Go home and see your husband.

We will continue to monitor every channel, collect and disseminate

information from wherever we can to whomever we can. Nobody here is under

any responsibility to listen to the people who got you into this nightmare

in the first place.

Go home.

Reggie, specifics.

Yeah. Let's look at that motor.

Craig, I'd like a minute.

Has my daughter been found? Not yet, Mr. President.

Did you or did you not send someone out to find her? We're in the middle of a

global crisis, damn it.

Mr. President, you shouldn't leave the operation center.

This is not Don's fault.

We could just as easily blame the guy who designed the roving clipper for the

mess we're all in. Maybe we should.

No, we shouldn't.

This has always been your problem.

You think if something bad happens, it has to be someone's fault. Well, guess

what? It doesn't look like that.

Life's a lot more complicated.

We're losing the space station.

Devon.

Craig, my friend. I am going to send you the data I've collected. But

in case I run out of time, here is everything we know.

Our first scenario is confirmed.

The intensity of the solar impact on Earth.

will continue to grow.

Whatever satellites are still operational will fail.

Whatever communications you have will be shut down.

Our readings from up here show that the Sun is pouring out massive amounts of

subatomic particles that will keep on striking the Earth, eventually

sterilizing the planet.

How certain are your readings?

He's a solar physicist, Don.

It is a mathematical certainty.

The Earth can survive for perhaps two more days maximum.

Ivan. Don't be sorry for us up here.

I'm afraid to say we're the lucky ones.

Good luck.

Go home.

I found him a few blocks from here.

Never do that to me again, okay?

We have to stay together.

Listen, if there's anything you need, you find me.

Thank you.

I know it's a hard time, but Claire's calling for a town meeting in the high

school gym to go over the town's disaster plan. I'm not up to that. I

know, but you're the only nurse in town.

Look, it's important to be there, but I'm sure no one will blame you if you

stay home.

You want me to walk you back so I can tell your mother? No, no. I'll do that.

Thank you.

Marta!

I'm really sorry about Jose.

He was a good guy.

Thank you.

Hey! Come on, people! We're going to go this way!

This is Roebling Spaceport in Mount Castle, Virginia.

Can anyone hear me?

I can hear you, Reggie.

Go home, man.

Go be with your family.

My family's in Portland.

Yeah.

So the chances of me getting back there before, you know... Slim.

Yeah.

You know what, though?

I am a nerd.

So if I'm gonna go, it's gonna be with a keyboard in my hand.

There's nobody special that you want to spend the last few days with?

Yeah, yeah, there is.

She's with someone else, though.

What about you?

Same here.

I think it stopped.

Pull.

I think I broke my leg.

I might have busted a rib, too.

I'll go get help.

No, no, Han.

I hope it's done.

I know we're missing something.

Like what?

Like... Craig!

Hey, you're the smartest guy I know. What haven't we thought of?

You mean to stop the sun from destroying us?

There's got to be something we can do. It's the sun, Don.

It's a fusion furnace burning at 6,000 degrees Celsius on its surface.

It's 93 million miles away.

No.

There's nothing we can do.

I won't accept that.

Son doesn't seem to care.

I'm not ready to give up yet.

Can't hear us out of this situation, Don.

Cheryl, where are you going?

I don't know.

But I'm not going to spend what little time I have left in this building.

Jesus, Don.

Take her away.

If you don't, I will.

Yeah, I guess you're right.

Let's see if we can find a car that works and try to get back home to

Silver Spring.

Thank you.

Craig, come with us.

You guys should be alone. Just go ahead.

Oh, hey.

Cheryl's right, Craig.

Come on.

Come with us.

There's too much history between us, huh?

We used to be like a family.

A dysfunctional family, but still a family.

Yeah, thanks anyway.

You guys go, all right? Just get out of here.

I'll wait it out here.

All right, well, you take care of yourself then. Yeah, you too.

It was a hell of a ride, brother.

Yeah, well, it wasn't boring. I'll give it that.

Maybe one day you'll explain to me how I lost you.

One day you'll have to explain to me how you let me go.

Wait.

I remember this picture.

Yeah.

Take it.

Good luck.

Mr. President, over here.

Honey? You okay?

Huh?

Hey, hey, hey, hey.

Shh.

It's okay.

It's okay.

You're going to be fine.

Look at me.

Lara, we are going to be fine.

Okay?

What's happening outside would have happened anyway.

I mean, even if Mom wasn't on that ship.

Yes, honey, yes.

Daddy,

what happened to Mom, it's not your fault.

I'm sorry I said it was. I know, I know.

I'm supposed to be the most powerful man in the world.

Good joke, huh?

Wait a minute.

Don!

Don!

You never told me why NASA wanted you here today.

And why you know so much about scalar drive technology.

NASA's got their own scalar drive, don't they?

They took your plans and they modified them.

They had Roebling overclock the scalar on the clipper as an experiment.

NASA wanted to see if they could increase the energy output.

Roebling knew about it and approved it?

Yeah, but I didn't. You knew NASA took Craig's plans and didn't stop them? I

objected, but they did it anyway.

And why is this important now?

Because the solar mess that's killing the Earth was caused by a scalar drive

impacting the sun's surface.

Scalar power is phased. It's polarized.

And you know how to turn a scalar drive off?

You flip its polarity. You just cancel its phase down to zero.

Now, the scalar drive that impacted on the sun's surface, that's phased on.

But the sun doesn't have the ability to flip polarity on its own to cancel it

out. but another scalar drive impacting the Sun would. Bingo.

I'm very attracted to you right now.

That's exactly right.

We've only got two days.

It's impossible to get NASA's scalar drive to the Sun in time.

Not necessarily.

How are things?

Any success raising anyone?

Mr. President, can I speak to you in private?

Why don't you say it here, Roger?

I'll make it easy for you.

I do not accept your invoking of the Presidential Succession Act.

Now, today was a difficult day, not just for me, but for the entire world, and we

have more hard days ahead of us. But I will lead.

I have a duty to protect our country.

As do I.

So the Air Force stole my design, and they built their own clipper.

Roebling had to vet your plans with NASA.

That was part of his deal. The Air Force took the plans and built their own

experimental ship, the X-57.

How close is it in design to the Clipper?

It's similar.

They made some improvements.

Advanced propulsion, solar shields, hot swappable pods.

And it runs on a scalar engine.

It uses nuclear pulse propulsion.

It'll get us to the sun in just under nine hours.

So where's the scalar drive?

It's in the cargo bay.

Why would they put it in the cargo bay?

They weaponized it.

It's a bomb.

Hold on a second. I mean, did I miss something? Somebody weaponized the

scalar drive?

Shut up.

Okay, so where's the ship?

Hopper Air Force Base.

How do we know it'll still fly?

The X-57's EMP hardened.

So if we get you to Hopper, can you fly this thing?

Absolutely. I was the lead test pilot.

She's only flown suborbital, but she's ready.

It'll go into space.

Our biggest problem is that Hopper's 200 miles from here.

Well, you could take my car.

Reggie, unless it's a classic, it's not likely to work.

Oh, she's a classic.

Operation center. Repeat, this is the Presidential Emergency Operations

Center. If anyone reads... Okay, I'll put it up on the big screen.

We're getting something.

This is Roebling's...

This is Cheryl Wincroft, science advisor to President Matheny.

Is the president all right?

Cheryl, this is Tom.

I'm so glad to hear from you.

What the hell is going on?

Pretty much our worst fears, Mr. President.

Well, please tell me your husbands have a plan.

They do, Mr. President.

Okay, everyone.

Okay, everyone, come in. Settle down.

Just before the phones went down, I spoke to the governor. Here's what we

know.

The same accident that took Jose from us also caused this situation we're now in.

Now what's happening here is happening everywhere, all around the world, and we

have no idea how long it's going to last.

We can't count on any help from the state or federal government. We are on

our own.

So we're declaring the Town of Eden disaster plan in effect as of right now.

Members of the Disaster Committee, please raise your hand.

They will be coming around to all of your houses and collecting all of your

food, medicines, and batteries.

Hold it down, everyone.

We need to pool and ration everything we have as a community.

It will all be distributed centrally right from here.

Now, those of us who have more than enough of something will be able to help

those of us without enough.

And I promise you, by the time this thing is over, every single one of us is

going to need something that somebody else has.

Next.

I need everybody who owns a gun or a rifle to volunteer for patrol duty.

Why do we need an armed patrol?

Because we are closing all roads in and out of Eden to outsiders.

The patrol will enforce that.

Look, I know it sounds harsh.

I know that one or two people coming into our town and enjoying our charity

won't deplete our reserves, but one or two will lead to hundreds.

And once we become known as a place that takes in outsiders, we will be overrun.

And then nobody will survive.

Not them, and not us.

This is not the Christian way.

Well, I would rather see us all survive as people than die as Christians.

Anybody here disagree with that?

Good.

Any outsider who tries to get into our town must turn away.

And anyone who doesn't turn away must be turned away forcefully.

Rebecca? Paul.

Rebecca! She didn't make it. You don't know that. Rebecca!

I do.

Listen to me. We have to stay focused on saving as many as we can. Are you

listening? Because I need you.

Yeah, yeah, I'm listening.

All right, so if another electrical storm comes in, can we all survive in

those pipes?

No.

We're too exposed.

We need a safe shelter and food and some clean water.

Sir, Mozart's bunkers. He's hoarding plenty of food and clean water. We go

make a deal with him.

Counting on a warlord to be compassionate is your plan? I'm counting

on finding an alternative along the way, and his gratitude for us reuniting him

with his daughter.

Are you sure about this?

The man she was supposed to marry has died, and he's still a parent.

I don't give anything to be with JJ right now.

Biayin! Inja!

Have everyone look for as much clean water, and we're leaving as soon as

possible.

Are you absolutely sure about this?

Every day the solar effects will multiply exponentially.

It's our only hope of turning things around.

Captain Wincroft, do you agree?

I do.

Well, please forgive me for being so blunt, but why should I trust the two

people who should have seen this coming but didn't?

Three people, Mr. President.

All due respect, sir, if you've got another option, we'd love to hear it.

Do it.

Is there anything we can do for you from here?

There is, sir.

If there's anyone left at Hopper Air Force Base, let them know that we're on

our way and to have the X-57 fueled and ready.

We'll do our best.

Reggie, let's see this car of yours.

Thomas. You can't authorize use of the X-57. It's powered by thermonuclear

charges. That might make the situation on Earth worse.

Worse than what?

You heard Wincroft and Backus.

We need to look into this more, get more opinions, not to mention that this is a

violation of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

Roger, I need you to try and calm down.

You're potentially authorizing the destruction of the world, and I'm the

one who needs to calm down.

I'm sorry, Roger.

Corporal. Sir.

I want Mr. Lynch removed from the PEOC.

Place him in the executive briefing room.

Yes, sir.

Mr. Lynch, please come with me.

I take no responsibility for the results of the course of this action.

You're all complicitness.

I know the way.

It is. It's the blue one.

I thought you said it was a classic. It is. That's a 1970... It's a 1970

original. We're supposed to stop the earth from burning up in that?

Nice to see God hasn't lost his sense of humor.

Whoa!

You were saying?

Head in the car.

Turn it off, Reggie. Come on, buddy.

Come on, come on, come on, come on. Ah, come on. Calm down, Reg. I'm trying to

start it now. Calm down.

Here we go. Come on, baby.

How you feeling, Dr. Beck?

Like the guy who jumped off the Empire State Building and halfway down he goes,

hey, so far so good.

I think that's the first time I've heard you tell a joke.

If I don't get this job, then I guess I'll probably be the last, huh?

What do you think's going on all around the world right now?

I guess it depends on how the solar anomalies are playing out. I don't know.

No, I mean with the people. I mean, are people rioting?

Are they finding religion? Are they helping each other out?

Oh, God knows, Reggie.

I don't exactly have the highest regard for people's ability to act civilly

under pressure.

We can do this, right?

You know, a number of random factors that actually have to coincide perfectly

in order for us to stand a chance.

If it doesn't work out, it won't because we didn't try.

Hello? Please, we're trapped.

Hold on.

I can't. I'll be back in a second, okay?

No, please don't leave.

I will be back. I promise.

These back roads are killing us.

How we doing on time? Well, we've got to be almost halfway there. No, we're not.

Why don't you let me drive for a little bit, Reggie? You're not going to drive,

Don. You've got to fly the X-57 all by yourself. Just take a rest.

I'll drive for a little bit, okay?

We need you fresh to give the once-over the scalar device, too, pal. Bomb. Don't

you mean bomb?

Enough. I think we're doing pretty good right now. No, we're not. No, we're not.

Let Craig drive.

Anybody but you.

Come on.

Reggie, don't take a shit. Pull over. Okay, that's fine.

Just try not to shoot off your foot, tough guy.

Leave those.

Sorry, Gloria, we have to take everything.

Those are our orders. For God's sake, we have a child here. What if he gets

hungry? Then he'll come to the gym like everyone else and get something.

Do you have any battery devices or cell phones?

We need to conserve everything since we're not sure how long this will last.

What about you, Freddy?

No, I don't have one.

Food distribution is gonna be from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m.

and then from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

If anybody gets sick, medicine is available 24 hours.

Marta, Claire told me to ask you that if you're feeling up to it, they could sure

use your help setting up the dispensary.

I'll try.

Daddy gave it to me.

Hang in there.

We'll wait there till it's over.

Come.

Less than a hundred miles.

How you doing?

I'm tired.

Pull over, let me drive.

Fine. You just said that you're tired.

That's because I'm tired.

That's why you should let me drive.

I'm fine. You still won't let anyone help you.

Or get close to you.

Why is that?

It's because every time I do, I end up regretting it.

I'm sorry I hurt you.

It's like the punchline of a bad joke. You left me for my best friend. I didn't

leave you for Don.

He was friends with both of us. We broke up. He was there for me.

That's just semantics.

I don't know what you're more hurt by, our failed marriage or your failed

friendship. Why can't it be both?

How you going?

Yep. How about you?

Yeah.

Ah!

Ah, maybe not.

Are you bleeding?

You should have told me.

All right, come on.

Keep the pressure.

I'll fix you up, get you out of here.

Here you go.

This is it. Yes, that's breakfast for three.

This wouldn't feed even one person. Mom, it's okay.

No, it's not okay.

Gloria. That woman.

Gloria,

is everything all right?

We need more food than this.

Everybody's getting the same amount. We're all in this together.

No, we're not.

My family has suffered more than anyone here. We've lost more than anyone. Mom,

please don't. We deserve more than anyone.

I know what you're doing. You're trying to use Jose's death to get special

treatment. You never loved him. We all know that. So stop this before you

embarrass your daughter and your grandson.

You love this, don't you?

Finally, you've got all the power you've always wanted. You think I want this job

today? Well, I don't.

But we've got a plan, and our only hope is to stick to it.

Mom!

I'm so sorry. It's okay, Marta. It's not your fault.

What is that?

Oh, shit.

What?

What?

What the hell is this?

Static electricity, first.

We drove right into it.

It's not starting.

The plugs are fried.

How far to Hopper?

25 miles.

All right, well, let's start walking.

We're just going to leave it here?

You can push it if you want.

How we doing on time?

We're tight.

This

truck

coming.

My God, he's gonna hit those people.

I'm taking this truck!

Wait! Let's wait!

Reggie!

Step away.

You okay?

Yeah, I'm okay.

Sorry, but we're going to need to commandeer this truck.

Just take it.

It's almost got me killed three times today.

Take it.

I don't think you have the balls to shoot me.

Trust me, buddy.

She does.

Look, I need to get to my family.

We're trying to save your family.

Step away.

Joan.

Joan.

Hey.

How are you doing? Great.

All right, we have to keep moving, and then we'll rest.

No, I, uh, I, uh...

We have to keep moving.

I know.

I mean, just me. You all go on. No.

Joan, I'm done.

I got a busted rib, a punctured lung, and a broken leg.

All you're gonna do by dragging me along is endanger everyone else. I'm not

leaving you here.

Yes, you are.

You've always done what it takes to help the most people.

Leaving me behind is what it takes.

All right, well, we're going to build some kind of shelter to protect you. And

once I've gotten everyone to the mountains, I'll bring some

men and come back for you.

Both know I'll be dead before you get back.

Come back and bury you.

Thank you.

Thank you for years of great aid work.

And friendship.

Alan was a lucky man.

Come.

These people need you.

Truck coming. Go get backup.

What the hell is this?

I don't know, but we don't have time for this.

We need to pass through.

Town of Eden's closed.

Kid, do we look like tourists?

Let us through. And I said the town's closed.

Go away.

That's the sound of our planet starting her death rattle. Are you going to let

us through? No way.

I got orders.

Come on.

Listen, son, I'm Commander Don Wincroft. Never heard of you.

Imagine that.

Take it easy, all right?

We have an emergency situation. We need to get to Hopper Air Force Base. We

don't have time to go around the town. We need to pass through here. I said I

got my orders.

I'm sorry. Please don't kill me.

Let me think.

You're going to be okay.

Don't worry. It's merely... Please don't say it's only a flesh wound. I won't.

But it is.

Is there a medical facility in town?

You're going to take us there.

We don't have time.

You're no good to us bleeding to death. Let's go.

I've got space.

Bring them over here.

What happened to them?

Burns. It's this weird lightning that keeps blasting.

So far it's been away from the center of town, but it gets closer.

I shot someone.

We need somebody to bandage this man up.

I'm sorry, but this town is closed.

Yeah, we keep hearing that.

You're gonna turn away a wounded man?

Somebody one of your kids shot?

Eden is under emergency lockdown.

The man who's bleeding all over your floor is Commander Don Wincroft.

The astronaut?

Hey, you feel that?

Things are going to get a whole heck of a lot worse. Shutting down your town is

going to make no difference whatsoever.

You're Dr. Bacchus? Yes.

You're the genius who caused this trouble.

Screw this.

Are those the bandages?

Hey. Hey, stop right there.

These the bandages?

Rat dog! You want to shoot me over a couple bandages? You go right ahead.

Hey!

Nice. Seriously, lady.

Your town sucks.

Still got that left hook, huh?

That hurt? Yeah. Good.

I've seen you on television. From the spaceport. I'm Marta Hernandez.

Jose Hernandez?

Yeah, my husband Jose was on the clip.

Sorry.

Can you guys stop what's happening?

I mean, can you save us?

I don't know.

We're gonna try.

Are you an astronaut?

Yes, I am.

My daddy was an astronaut.

I know he was.

Your dad was one of the bravest men I ever met.

You know what you people are doing here, shutting this town up?

If we can't stop what's happening out there, nothing you do down here is gonna

save anything.

We had a disaster plan, and we were sticking to it.

There's no plan for what we're up against now.

We're ready.

There you go.

It's just luck.

Thank you.

Tear down the barricades.

There are a lot of people out there who need our help.

We've got to be here for them.

It's okay.

We'll be safe here.

Should we try to find Uncle Robert?

Uncle Robert's not in his apartment, honey. We already checked.

We were supposed to go see my brother, but I think he left the building before

we came.

A lot of people did.

Once the lightning started, people wanted to get to lower ground, so they

left.

I'm JJ Elias.

Bloody head for you.

Amy. Nice to meet you, Amy.

This is Maya.

Maya. It's a pleasure.

Are we okay here?

Yes, we will. My apartment is completely safe.

Okay.

I have an idea.

Why don't we have an ice cream party?

Huh? I have a freezer, okay, and it's filled with ice cream, and if we don't

eat it, it's gonna melt.

What do you say?

Do you have chocolate?

Okay. Chocolate ice cream coming right up.

I got England.

Who?

10 Downing Street.

Mr. Prime Minister, this is President Matheny.

Mr. President, what is your condition?

Most, if not all, the country is without power.

We're re-establishing contact with all branches of the military.

But it's slow going.

I'm afraid it's much the same.

We're tracking the situation.

I'm seeing British relay stations.

They're going offline.

Mr. Prime Minister, are you in a safe location?

We're seeing something happening to your relay stations.

As good as can be hoped for.

We will try to survive the night.

God bless us.

God save the Queen.

It's gone.

You okay?

Has anyone heard from Cheryl and her team?

No, Mr. President.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Whoa. Easy, easy.

I'm Commander Don Wincroft.

Stand down.

Commander, it's an honor. We got a message from the President saying you

were coming.

Where's the base commandant?

Before we lost contact with command, we heard that... What the Earth was

experiencing was the beginning of the end.

A lot of people left to be with their families.

Well, who's seeing your officer, then?

At the moment, that would be you, sir.

Open the gate!

I can't believe you got in. You're

shameless. We made a few improvements.

Leather bucket seats, MP3 player.

That must be the command trailer.

Yeah, yeah, that's it. Let's go check it out.

Where are you going? Inside.

We'll see what a scalar bomb looks like.

Jesus. Military weaponize a toaster if they could.

We're almost there.

Wincraft.

We got a problem.

What? What's military protocol for detonating any high power strategic

device? Takes two command officers turning two separate keys simultaneously

located one six feet apart.

Hell. Yeah.

It's designed so that one person can't flip both switches.

You can't do this alone, buddy.

Can't you rig something so that I could do it alone?

Not in the time I got.

Well, you're not coming.

Yeah, I am.

Nope. I don't want you to.

Yeah, me neither.

I'll take somebody else, one of the guards.

Come on. They don't know the ship's systems the way I do.

Besides, that armor of yours, you can barely put your clothes on. It might be

that you need someone to actually do something a bit more than flip a switch

up there.

You're staying here.

Why's that?

So you can go off and be the hero all alone again?

Put NASA back on the map, eh?

No, damn it.

I need you here for Cheryl.

Anything happens to me, you're the only person I trust to look after her.

What?

Do I strike you as someone who needs taking care of?

I... I got news for you, Buzz.

If anything happens to you, it won't matter who you leave behind to babysit

me, because we're all screwed.

So park the testosterone and finish suiting up.

I want that crate in the air in five minutes.

You know, the second time, maybe you should come along.

Might be safer than staying here, huh?

It's time to say goodbye.

Commander, Dr. Backus.

What's up, Reggie? We're losing satellites.

I don't know how much longer I'll be getting telemetry.

Got it.

I gotta go.

Come back soon, okay?

I'm sorry for yelling.

Come on, I had that coming. I was acting like a jerk.

No, I mean ever.

Craig? Yeah?

You want to know how you lost me?

By thinking you didn't deserve me.

You want to know how I let you go?

Because I knew that I didn't.

You ever get tired of being wrong?

Here. No. Yes.

For luck.

Thank you.

You ready? Yeah, yeah.

You okay?

Yeah, I'm fine.

So you and Cheryl made up, huh?

Better late than never, right?

So what did she have to say for herself?

Said I'm a better lover than you and that while we're away I should probably

give you a few pointers.

It'll be a long flight, isn't it?

Hell yeah.

Gentlemen, you're cleared for takeoff.

Good luck.

Roger that.

It's taking way too long to get to 50,000 feet. The air is too thin. It's

making it difficult for the ship to achieve launch altitude.

We've got to get to 47.

Roger that.

42,000.

Craig, if we fail to reach launch altitude, can we still fire the nuclear

propulsion engine? Detonating a nuclear device in this volatile atmosphere is a

very bad idea.

43,000.

Damn it, we're losing altitude.

42,542.

Greg, I'm gonna fire the nuke.

Wait, just give me a chance.

Go. If this kills us, I'm gonna kill you.

Here it goes.

X-57, this is Control.

Can you hear me?

Come in, X-57.

Keep trying.

Dr. Wincroft, just because I can't raise them, it doesn't mean anything.

I mean, we've lost almost every major satellite we have. I know.

You okay?

Yeah. You?

Yeah, I'm okay.

Okay, try again. Yeah.

X-57, this is Control.

Can you hear me?

Come in, X-57.

X-57, come in.

It's getting worse.

Yeah. Yeah, it is.

Before, when you said that we were gonna be safe here, you were lying, right?

No, I wasn't lying.

I was being optimistic.

Different.

I'm sorry about your father.

The picture.

I recognized him from the news.

Yeah.

You must have been very proud of him.

You know, it takes a very special kind of kid to have parents like I did.

They weren't there.

They were... They were out there.

Helping others.

Now as I'm getting older, to... To live up to that standard, that...

That selflessness, I...

I don't think I have it in me.

It's okay, honey.

Lie down.

It's nothing. It's gonna be fine.

Hey.

Just hang in there, okay?

It's gonna be fine.

You're being optimistic again.

Don?

Hey.

Hey!

How long have we been out?

Remember that solar shield you were bragging about?

This would be a good time to deploy it.

Damn it!

It's not responding.

What a shocker.

Daddy?

Hi, baby. How are you holding up?

I'm scared.

How about you?

Well, let's not give up on hope just yet, all right?

Tom.

Thomas.

I'm sorry about before.

I didn't realize how hard I was taking this.

That's understandable.

I'm okay now.

I'm good.

I'm good.

Don't shoot. Hold your fire.

President. Thomas Matheny is no longer fit to serve.

I invoke the Presidential Succession Act and I am taking command.

Roger, stop it.

That's what I've been trying to do.

Security, I order you to place President Matheny in custody.

I order you to protect the office of the President.

Put the gun down Roger

Place

the

chief of staff under tight security this time

I know you.

You're the American who gives me so much trouble.

An educated troublemaker.

We need your help.

When Allah has decreed that the earth burn, there is very little help I can

give.

My pledge is to help these people, is to protect them.

You had many hundreds in your camp.

Where are they?

They all died in the electrical storm.

And we're the only survivors.

We need shelter, some food, some clean water.

And what can you offer me in return?

No one.

Come.

My daughter did run to you.

I kept her safe, and now I'm bringing her back to be with you in this awful

time.

You're educated, but not wise.

Noran has disgraced me by running away.

Disgraced her whole family. I understand that you're angry, but you could forgive

her. You could.

Please help us, please.

My daughter needs to be punished.

I cannot allow you to do it.

You won't?

Allow me?

Fine.

You do it.

If you avenge my family, Hannah, for me, I will give you and your people

everything you ask for.

Food.

water, and safety.

But if you don't, I'll kill Nora and myself and send you all back to the

desert to die.

It's your choice.

Nara. Nara.

You are much stronger than I expected.

It won't deploy. The circuitry must have got damaged during the launch.

Looks like your improvement isn't.

What's the external temperature?

The skin is designed to withstand the heat of reentry. It's 3,000 degrees

Celsius. Right now we're at 2228.

Is that our current speed?

If we don't get that shield open, we're going to burn up.

12 minutes.

Is there any sort of madding or overriding the shield?

We did it once in the simulator.

How long did it take?

It took four men 27 minutes.

We don't have that time. We'll be dead.

Okay.

Okay, how about this?

We flip the ship around so the tail of the ship's facing the sun.

We use the nuclear pulse shield as the solar shield.

And fly backward?

Well, your idea does have the added benefit of being the only idea we have

right now, so what the hell?

Let's do it.

So we lost the last sound bite.

of the last hours.

Don and Craig will do this.

I know them.

I hope so.

Ready?

This is gonna work, right?

Yeah, why not?

Good enough for me. All right, then.

Transition and... go!

Yeah. Did that.

Temperature's dropping.

It worked.

Way to go, Craig.

Jesus, we're not getting along, are we?

Sit down over there.

Go, go, go.

Up here.

Cousin, get down.

All right,

we're almost there. What's our time frame? Two minutes, three seconds to

threshold. Bringing the scalar bomb online right now.

I'll start prepping the cargo bay.

Why don't you tell me?

You ever feel guilty about ending up with Cheryl?

Not mad.

I'm just curious.

Well, of course I felt bad.

Good.

Dammit. I was demanding a system check. I'm gonna have to override it.

You know, I guess I was mad at you too, Craig. Mad at me?

Yeah.

You were my friend.

All I've ever wanted was to see you happy.

Cheryl was the best thing that ever happened to you. You screwed it up. You

let her go.

But ultimately, I guess I'm glad you did.

Yeah, I bet.

The scale bomb's not coming online.

Well, I can't get the cargo bay doors open either.

Can't get those bay doors open, we can't eject the bomb.

I'm on it.

How's it look?

Well, I got some bad news, and I got some really bad news.

What?

Looks like the heat caused by our premature transition fused the cargo bay

doors together.

They're not opening up again.

And also the umbilical cord that connects the scalar bomb onto the ship's

systems, it's damaged.

That's the bad news.

Can it still be detonated?

Yes.

But we're going to have to do it manually.

That means we're going to have to take it in ourselves and just detonate it by

hand.

Which I guess you could say is the really bad news.

Well, to be honest with you, I didn't fully expect to make it back anyway.

I'll start plotting our course and you prep the bomb.

Got it.

Don, was one of the improvements that you guys made turning the cargo bay into

a pod?

Yeah. It's hot-swappable.

There were plans for a medical or passenger pod.

So you can jettison it?

Yes.

Okay.

Change of plan.

You're gonna fly the ship into the sun as close as you can make it without it

burning up.

And you just jettison the pod?

Get the hell out of Dodge.

The sun's gravity's gonna pull the bomb right in.

I thought the bomb had to be detonated manually.

Yeah, it does.

I'll do it.

Like hell you will.

You don't know how to do this, Don.

You will show me how.

Don, I don't know how to fly this ship.

Just go home to Cheryl.

There's got to be another way, Craig.

There's 40 seconds to threshold.

Even the great Don Wincroft can't come up with a plan that fast.

But you could.

This is all we got.

We got to do this.

Craig, don't!

Craig, damn it!

Why the hell did you do that, Craig?

You never want to let me stay behind.

We both know that was the only way.

30 seconds.

Get the hell out of here!

In my flight binder, there's something I want you to give to Cheryl.

You're gonna recognize her the second you see her, trust me.

20 seconds.

So much for long goodbyes, huh?

Ted?

Todd? You there?

Todd! Yeah, I'm still here.

Glad we were friends, buddy.

Just wish I'd been a better one.

You did just fine.

They should have detonated the device by now.

How long until we know?

Better be soon.

They'll be okay.

They're trying to tell you.

Hold on.

Listen. I don't hear anything.

Neither do I.

Come on.

Oh, my God.

They did it.

I knew they would.

Would you help me raise this up to my head? Sure.

Is it over?

I think so.

I'm gonna be okay.

I want communications restored ASAP.

I want the country to know that we are not alone, and I want the world to know

that we got through this together.

Yes, sir, Mr. President.

Mom would be proud of you.

Mom would be proud of both of us.

Dr. Wincroft.

I'm scanning all the frequencies I can, but there's no news of the X-57.

It's okay, Reggie. You can stop.

Yeah, don't give up hope.

No, you can stop because there they are.

Sergeant!

We need your help!

Let's go.

Come on, come on, come on. Let's go, let's go.

He saved us all.

You should know that.

And he wanted you to have this again.