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(PEOPLE CHATTERING)

1.567 makes it 8 degrees.

MAN: Altair,
Alpha Centauri, Sirius.

LEO: Matt Shepherd?

It's just a party,
and he asked me.

He's really nice.

Yeah, to you, maybe.

You guys getting some
good work done over here?

Yeah.
Yeah.

Yeah, sounds like it.

What's the bright one?

Uh...

Mizar. It's a double star.

Good. The one next to it?

Uh... Alcor.

Good, Biederman,
and the one next to that?

Uh...

I don't know.

It's Megrez.

I don't think so.

Well, you just said
you didn't know.

Well, it's not Megrez.

It's something else.

Look.

It's South about 10 degrees.

It's probably a satellite.

Let's take another picture.

We'll send it to Dr. Wolf.

Yes, sir.

It's Megrez.
Not Megrez.

It is.

It's not.

(WHISPERING) It is.

(ITALIAN MUSIC PLAYING)

(HUMMING ALONG WITH MUSIC)

(TURNS MUSIC DOWN)

Hmm.

(CONTINUES HUMMING)

Hmm.

Hmm.

Well, hello there,
little fella.

Do I know you?

Where are you going
in such a hurry?

(TYPING)

And there.

(MODEM DIALING)

(BEEPING)

Come on.

Damn it!

Biederman.

(TIRES SCREECHING)

Come on, you miserable
piece of crap.

(TIRES SCREECHING)

(COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYING
ON RADIO)

(TELEPHONE RINGING)
Come on, come on.

FEMALE RECORDED VOICE: You
have reached the department
of planetary sciences.

♪ The further he goes...

If you know the extension
of the person
you're calling...

♪ ...bottom, but he can't... ♪

Ow, Jesus!

Press that number now.

Damn it!

(SHOUTING)

This is relating to the recall
of American troops
from abroad.

Tragedy struck today
as a charter aircraft

carrying an army unit
returning from duty in Japan

crashed this morning...

STUART: White House
press office says Secretary
of the Treasury Rittenhouse

is resigning because
his wife is sick.

So who passed
Rittenhouse the hemlock?

AFL/CIO wanted him off the
council of economic advisors

for not supporting
the pension bill,

and the President's going
to need labor next fall.

And state's still fuming
about the trade office
screw-up at the G-8.

Pentagon is unhappy with his
readiness reduction proposals.

BETH: Greenspan dislikes him.

Christ, who didn't
this guy piss off?

No wonder the wife's sick.
(LAUGHING)

JENNY: She's not sick,
she's a drunk.

How do you know that?

Mike Woodward
over at treasury.

Mrs. Rittenhouse started
drinking a couple of years ago

when her husband
had a series of affairs.

Stepped it up last summer
after their son
died of leukemia.

You want to do something on
the price that wives pay?

Mike Woodward?
Wife, three kids?

He's been after me for months.

So I threw him a breakfast

and hit him up
about Rittenhouse.

Bob Campbell's leaving,
so midnight Saturday
anchor shift is opening up.

Why would I want
to give up the White House
for a graveyard weekend...

No, no, no,
not for you, for me.

No.
Beth.

We'll talk about this later.

Very calm.
The President will be back
from Camp David tomorrow.

Business news, Ira.
Beth...

You know what, just keep
working on Rittenhouse.

Maybe Mike's available
for dinner.
(SCOFFS)

Do the usual research,
background information.
Thank you.

Okay, that's it.

(CLEARS THROAT) Beth, wait.

Listen, Beth, what if
it wasn't permanent?
Oh, god, Jenny, please.

Honey, this is how it works.

You've done two years
of research.

Now do three as
a segment producer.

Five on air doing
domestic features,

another two in some
cholera-ridden hellhole.

And then, you know, I'll quit
if they don't give you
a weekend anchor shot.

Hello, Caitlin.
There you are.

Are you protecting me
or just holding me back?

Yes.
Okay.

Rittenhouse tape and text
on my desk by 4:00 tomorrow,

and we'll drop in
the reverses for the 5.

Okay.

ROBIN:
At this moment right now...
(SIGHS)

Thank you.
The pretty little girls
are walking down the aisle.

They're spreading flowers.

The twins.
What are their names?
JENNY: Emma and Susanna.

They're walking down
the aisles, and they're
dropping rose petals,

Mother, is this really
and everyone's
smiling at them,

such a good idea?
and now she's walking
down the aisle.

Yes, and she stands
beside him.
Okay.

And the priest says,
dearly beloved...
Judge.

Judge.
The judge says,
blah, blah, blah.

Sickness and health,
blah, blah, blah.

Do you, Jason Lerner take
Chlorine Whatchamacallit?
(SNORTING)

Mom, Chloe.

What did I say?

You said chlorine.

Her name's Chloe.
Oh.

(BOTH LAUGHING)

Well, it's still
a terrible name.

Jason says, lie, lie, lie,
till death do us part,

blah, blah, blah.

And she says yes,
and he says yes,

and it's kissy, kissy, kissy,
and congratulations.

(SIGHS)

Jenny, you now have
a new stepmother

who is two years older
than you.

The check.

Well, anyway,

as much as I'd like
to stay here and get
silly with you, Mom,

I can't. I gotta go.

I know, I know, I know.

I'm sorry about this.

We'll get over it.

I love you.

I love you, too.

Be good.

I was with the Secretary
since he's been Governor
of Connecticut.

I came to Washington with him.

I moved here because I was
dedicated to his career.

I trusted the man...

And then he fucked me.

He what?

No, I didn't
have sex with him.

I should say "I" didn't
have sex with him,

but somebody sure did.

It was about to come out,
so he resigned.

But because I was hired from
outside the government pool,

I don't get conveyed
to the next Secretary,

so now I'm out a job...

Because he couldn't
keep his hands off women.

Do you have proof?

He thinks he was
being so clever.

He had a private phone line
installed in his office.

Nobody else could answer it.

I picked it up once.

Said hello,
and it's nobody home.

It rings, he shuts the door.

Why not hang a sign?

Do you have a name?

(SIGHS)

This is what I get
for talking to the press.

I'm selling my soul right now.

I can feel it.
I can feel it.

I name a name and get
someone into trouble.

So you do have a name.

Just a first name.

Oh, my god.
I'm going to say it.

Ellie.

Ellie. Nothing else?

I think the president
knows about it, too.

Overheard the Secretary
talking to him about her.

(SCOFFS)

Isn't Washington sick?

(DOG BARKING)

Hi.

How you doing?

Can I help you?

Well, actually,
we're looking for your mom.

Is she around?

My mom's sick. She's not here.

Gosh, I love boats.
Are you going on a trip?

Yeah.

That's exciting. Looks
like a long trip, huh?

So, listen, do you know
where you're going?

RITTENHOUSE: She's going
back to the house.

Hey, you want to stop that?

RITTENHOUSE: Lily, please.

Lily, that's a pretty name.

Lily. Do as I say. Go on.

If we could just get
a minute of your time.

What do you want from me?

We'd like to talk
about your resignation.

My wife is sick.
She's in the hospital.

That's why I resigned.
Everybody knows this.

We could talk about your wife,

or we could just
talk about Ellie.

Turn the camera off.

If you want to talk to me,
turn it off.

Cut it.

We know everything.

Nobody knows everything.

Well, we know about
the secret phone lines

and the whispered calls
to the President

and about a Secretary
of the Treasury

who's kept his entire
department in the dark

about what
he's really doing.

About a cover story
about his resignation
that just fell through.

I mean, sir,
you want me to go on?

And you're
just gonna break it?

Well, that's what we do
for a living.

Well, congratulations.

You now have
the biggest story in history.

Good luck to you.

Personally...

I think it's a mistake
to run the story,

but hey, what the hell?

Why not?

What difference
does anything make anymore?

Look.

I know you're just a reporter,

but you used to be
a person, right?

I wanted to be with my family.

Can you understand that?

Okay, Secretary of
the Treasury Alan Rittenhouse

resigns because of a mistress
named Ellie.

The biggest story in history?

What an ego.

Now, if it was
the President...

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Okay, the President
has a mistress named Ellie,

and Rittenhouse pretends
that he's having the affair

and takes the fall
and resigns,

and the President
buys him a yacht?

(THUMPING)
Woah!

Son of a bitch.

Oh, shit.

Oh, shit.

Right! Okay, okay!

Oh, god. Oh, god.

FBI. If you would,
please, ma'am.

What do I do with my car?
We'll take care of your car.

Just step back to my car.

Get her car here.
Got it.

Let's go.

(TIRES SCREECHING)

Would you
come this way please?

Morton Entrekin, Ms. Lerner.

I'm expected back
at MSNBC at 6:00.

I think I should be there.

People knew about the
Manhattan Project, you know,

and they kept it a secret.

That was just the creation
of the atom bomb.

(CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY)

Hmm.

(DOOR OPENING)

Ms. Lerner, Tom Beck.

I understand you've come
into some information.

Ms. Lerner was just expressing
her lack of enthusiasm

for matters of national
security where journalistic
competitiveness is at stake.

Mr. President, I'm not
interested In using Ellie
to further my career.

What do you know
about E.L.E.?

I know you should have
picked a better cover story
than a sick wife.

See?

What did I tell you?

We'd always thought
the deadline for going public

was the publication
of the budget,

since we've spent
more money than we can hide.

The budget comes out
in two weeks.

I don't suppose I could
convince you to sit on this
for two weeks.

No such thing as two weeks
in the news business.

And I can't appeal to
your sense of what's in
the nation's best interest?

I always thought the truth
was in the nation's
best interest.

ENTREKIN:
You want to hold her?

What if we go public
in 48 hours?

Now that's doable, isn't it?

ENTREKIN: That would be very
difficult, Mr. President.

Morton, if she knows,
how long can it be

before CNN or the Post
breaks the story?

This was never gonna be
a secret as long as
you wanted it to be.

Give us two days, Ms. Lerner.

You'll get second row, center,

at the White House
press conference.

Now, from what I know of your
career, that's a promotion.

I want exclusivity.

Now, listen, young lady.

This is a presidential favor.

I'm letting you go
because I don't want
another headache.

And I'm trusting you
because I know what this
can do for your career.

It might seem that we have
each other over the same
barrel, Ms. Lerner,

but it just seems that way.

I want...
Want?

May I...

May I have
the first question?

We'll see you Tuesday,
Ms. Lerner.

(SIGHS)

Come on, come on.

E.L.E., E.L.E. E...

Paleontology?

Paleontology?

What's paleontology
have to do with anything?

Come on.

BETH: Hey.

Hey.

Look who's working late.
Yep.

How's Rittenhouse going?

No sign of the wife yet.

Is she missing?
No. We're still
working on it.

We'll get there.
I know, it's a dull story.

Next time we'll get you
something more exciting.

Great.

Are you okay?
Yeah.

Want to come
to dinner with us?

I can't. I have plans.

Okay. We'll see you tomorrow.

(PIANO PLAYING)

JENNY: Thank you.

Ah, here she is.

Jenny.

Hello.

Hi, Chloe.

WAITER: Would you like
some champagne, Miss?

Martini, up.

Big.

I missed you.

I mean we missed you
yesterday.

I must say, I'm...

I'm disturbed that
you didn't come
to our wedding.

Jason, you promised.

I know I promised,

but it was a beautiful event,
and I missed her.

You should have been there.

The twins, they were
running around like mad

and throwing flowers.

It was wonderful,
especially Emma.

You know, the little one.
She loves you.

It was beautiful.
She adores you. Yes.

She missed you, too.
All right.

This is from us for you.

Are you not
going to open it?

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

I knew she wouldn't...

You can exchange them
if you don't like them.

Jenny, I know this is hard.

I just want you to be happy.

Happy.

Well,

I would like to propose
a toast to happiness,

and to...

Mmm.

Mmm.

Are we going to have
an evening or not?

Jenny, I know
that you hate me.

I know that you have
terrible things that
you want to say to me.

You have to get over it.

Life goes on.

Life goes on? Okay.

(LAUGHING)

What's so funny?

Life...

(LAUGHING) We'll see.

What's so funny
about life goes on?

Life going on?

I don't think it's funny
that life goes on.

Dad, you need to get
back together with Mom.

She's all alone in the world,
and she needs you right now.

Okay?

Jenny.

I just got married.

I know, and I'm sorry.

Chloe, this has nothing
to do with you.

JASON: Well, it has
to do something for me,
for christ's sake.

This is insane.

I have to apologize
for my daughter.

(LAUGHING)
It's not your fault.

I'm sorry. I have to go.

I know you think
I'm a bad person.

I'm really not.

And I don't hate you.

I Just... I gotta go.

(REPORTERS ALL TALKING AT ONCE
IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES)

(PEOPLE CHATTERING)

'Cause for her, it doesn't...
Excuse me.

Jenny.
Hey.

What are you doing here?

Uh, yeah.

Did Stuart send you here
without telling me?

No.

If Stuart thinks he can push
me out of the White House...

Ms. Lerner. Hi, Beth.

Right this way.
I've got you right down here.

Excuse me, please.

Okay.

He'll find you
for the first question.

Then you're on your own.

Hey, how are you?

PRESS SECRETARY:
Ladies and gentlemen.

Ladies and gentlemen, please.

The President will begin
by addressing the nation.

Please hold your questions
until he's finished
his remarks.

Ladies and gentlemen,
the President
of the United States.

Hello, everybody.

REPORTERS: Hello,
Mr. President.

MAN: 10 seconds,
Mr. President.

Five, four.

Good evening.

A few minutes ago
the United States ambassadors

to every country in the world

told the leaders of those
nations what I am about
to tell you.

It's a bit complicated,
so it will take some time.

So I hope
you will bear with me,

hear what I have to say.

A little over a year ago,

two American astronomers,
Marcus Wolf and Leo Biederman,

working on a mountain top
in Arizona,

Shh. Nobody say anything.
saw something
in the night sky

that caused them
great concern.

A comet.

But the comet was, well...

There was a remote possibility
that the comet was on a path

that could bring it into
direct contact with the Earth.

(CROWD MURMURING)

Now,

we get hit all the time
by rocks and meteors,

some of them the size of cars,
some no bigger than your hand.

But the comet we discovered
is the size of New York City.

From the north side of
Central Park to the Battery.

About 7 miles long.

Put another way,

this comet is larger
than Mount Everest.

It weighs 500 billion tons.

Now, chances are...

Astrophysicists, geologists
and climatologists.

Where the hell is science?

Check with Tokyo, Tel Aviv.
I want everybody.

Get the Hale-Bopp stand-ups.

Graphics! I need graphics!

BECK: Comets begin
far out in space.

They're what's left over

from the creation
of the solar system

after the planets were formed
billions of years ago.

These chunks
of space debris

are in an elongated orbit
around our sun.

But every now and then

one of them gets bumped

like a billiard ball
on a pool table

and is knocked
into a different orbit.

Now, if this comet continues
on its path around the sun

and keeps its present course,

sometime on August 16th,
roughly a year from now,

there's a chance
that we might have impact.

So for the past eight months,
the United States and Russia

have been building the largest
spaceship ever constructed.

It's being built in orbit
around the Earth.

And we call it the Messiah.

Right now a team of American
astronauts and one Russian

are at Cape Canaveral
in Florida.

In two months, they will leave
on the shuttle Atlantis

to board the Messiah.

This is the crew
that will stop the comet.

I'd like the world to meet
some extraordinary people.

First is Mission Commander
Oren Monash.

Commander, would you
introduce us to your team?

I'd be honored, sir.

Pilot Andrea Baker.

Medical officer Gus Partenza.

From Russia,
nuclear specialist

Colonel Mikhail Tulchinsky.

Navigator Mark Simon

and rendezvous pilot
Spurgeon Tanner.

ALL: Hello, Mr. President.

Captain Tanner,
you flew six shuttle missions.

You were the last man to walk
on the moon, weren't you, sir?

Yes, sir,

but Oren here will be doing
most of the flying
on this one.

I'll just be taking us down
to the comet's surface.

Well, it's good to know
we're going to have

your kind of experience
up there, Captain.

TANNER: Thank you, sir.

Godspeed to you all.
We're counting on you.

Thank you, sir.

Got Beijing, Rome,
Sao Paulo, Cairo, Berlin!

Does anyone know
how big the one was that
killed all the dinosaurs?

Something majestic,
mysterious, with
a fanfare for the intro

and a theme
for the longer promos.

You want it hitting
the goddamn Earth?

Well, that's what he's saying.
Bring that up again.

It'll scare the shit
out of them.

BECK: We will not tolerate any
disruption of our way of life.

Our society will
continue as normal.

Work will go on.
You will pay your bills.

(CROWD LAUGHING)

There will be no hoarding.

There will be
no sudden profiteering.

I'm freezing all wages,
all prices.

What a bottle of water
cost you yesterday...

It will cost you tomorrow.

Now we'll take
a few questions.

REPORTERS: Mr. President!

Ms. Lerner.
Ahem.

Ahem. Uh, Jenny Lerner,
M... MSNBC.

Jenny Lerner?

Son of a bitch.

Um, Mr. President,

why wasn't this announcement
made sooner?

Well, until we knew
we could build the rocket

and the comet
could be intercepted,

we saw no reason
to alarm the planet.

WOMAN: Sir!
ALL: Mr. President!

Do you have another
question, Ms. Lerner?

Yeah. Um...

Is...is there a connection
between the comet

and the recall of American
troops from abroad?

BECK: Our fighting men
and women are coming home

because we felt it prudent,

in light of domestic
security concerns,

to have them available.

Although I certainly hope
we don't need to use them.

Next question.
REPORTERS: Mr. President!

Actually, Mr. President, if...

Just one final
question, sir. Um...

MSNBC has learned that
Secretary Rittenhouse

did not leave
for the reasons

announced by
your administration.

In fact, isn't it true, sir,

that not everyone
in your administration

is convinced that the Messiah
will save us?

Secretary Rittenhouse
served his country
with full devotion.

He resigned
for personal reasons.

Now, I can promise you this,
Ms. Lerner, all of you,

everyone in this room
and everyone listening
to my voice,

that at some point
over the next 10 months,

all of us will entertain
our worst fears and concerns.

But I can also
promise you this...

Life will go on.

We will prevail.

Mr. President! Please!
(REPORTERS SHOUTING)

BECK: Sally.
Sir.

Sir, what is the comet's name?

The two scientists
who found the comet

were killed in a car crash

while racing from
their observatory
to alert the world.

So we named it for them.

Wolf-Biederman.

(SCOFFS) Leo Biederman,
they said it again.

Shh!
Leo, is he talking about you?

He is, isn't he?
I'm trying to listen.

(TELEPHONE RINGS)
...the Russians brought into
the construction phase...

(DOORBELL RINGS)
Can you get that, please?

Janie, get the door.

BECK: Well, we have the
technology to build the ship.

They have the technology
to make it go.

There's someone at
the door for you, Leo.

(REPORTERS SHOUTING ON TV)

NEWSCASTER: You've been
watching live coverage

of President Tom Beck...

I can't believe this.
This is so weird.

Doctor Wolf
from astronomy club?

Yeah, I guess so.

I think it's really neat.

Nobody on our block
discovered the world
was gonna end before.

DON: He's still
very much alive.

He's still alive, everyone.

He's right here,
and he's still alive.

(CHUCKLES) Okay?

CHILD: Hey, Leo, cool!

LEO: As far as we know,

what happened was
that Doctor Wolf saw
the comet in my photograph,

so he shared
the discovery with me,

and then he was killed
in that crash

and everything got
mixed up in Washington,

so the President
thought I was dead, too.

STUDENTS: Leo! Leo!

(STUDENTS CLAMORING)

Jasmine.

How does it feel
having your name on it?

I don't want anyone to think

that I'm trying to take
something away from Dr. Wolf,

because I'm not,
but it's kind of cool.

(STUDENTS CLAMORING)

Jason.

You know, you're gonna
have sex a lot more now

than anyone else in our class.

(CROWD CHEERING)

(CROWD APPLAUDING)
(MOUTHING)

Really?

Thank you for your sexual
insight, Mr. Thurman.

You can sit down now.

Famous people always
get sex, Mr. Perry.

That's the main reason
it's good to be famous.

(CROWD APPLAUDING)

Fruit, a reactor,
bottle, a rocket, okay?

A nuclear reactor in space?
Yes.

Isn't that dangerous?

No, no, no. This is
all Russian design.

Russian science.

Uh, the same people
who designed Chernobyl.

Chernobyl?

Chernobyl almost worked.
(LAUGHING)

So what happens
after you plant the bomb?

Well, we have seven hours.

We're gonna put the
bombs inside the comet.

I'm gonna follow these two.

I don't trust
that combination.

After seven hours,
the 14-hour rotational cycle
of the comet spins.

We're gonna get married.

God knows I want
to marry you,

but the day I get back,

the last thing I'm gonna do
is step inside of a church.

I don't do churches well.

Okay, so there's only
seven hours of darkness,

and then the sun starts
hitting the surface
of the planet...

These are your orders.
(CHUCKLES)

Upon first entering
Earth's atmosphere,

proceed immediately
up the exterior

of the mother ship.

When the sun
hits the surface,

there's gonna be
explosive outgassings
that are very dangerous...

Gus, he's seven.

Brittany.

You boys were, what,

four and six when
I went to the moon?

Yeah.

Now, you saw me go into space
seven times, didn't ya?

I came back every time,
didn't I?

Yeah.
(CHUCKLES)

Your mother and I
used to play a game
when she was still alive.

Now, the game was,

if there was a chance
I might not be coming back,

she wouldn't say it,
and I wouldn't say it.

Okay?

Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.

HEFTER: Hey, Fish.

How about a beer?

You remember my boys,
don't you?

Steve and Dwight.

Of course I do.

Gentlemen,
welcome to Houston.

Let me steal
your old man for a second.

Can I take your
picture, please?

Okay.

Thank you.
(CHUCKLES)

So, what do you
think of the crew?

Heroes all.

That's the finest group
I ever had the privilege
of working with.

Yeah, yeah.

Off the record, huh?

Well, they've been trained
in ways I'll never understand.

They're smarter and in
better shape than we ever
were in the old days.

They're sober, serious.

I guess I'd be
a little happier
about this whole thing

if I thought that any of them
were as scared as I am.

Well, they're not
scared of dyin'.

They're just scared
of looking bad on tTV.

Now, look, I wish
I'd been to the moon.

I got respect for everybody
who's gone to the moon,

but this mission
ain't going to the moon.
(LAUGHING)

That's right.
Frank Gifford,

he was a great football
player in his time,

but if he played now,
he'd get his ass busted.

SIMON: That's right.

(COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYING)

All I'm saying is,
the moon did not have

a rotational cycle
of 14 hours.

I mean, we only have
seven hours of dark

when the sun's not up
to land on this thing.

It was light when he landed.

This is gonna be dark.
We're not gonna
be able to see.

You can't see now, Gus.

TULCHINSKY: Don't worry.

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

We what?
We can do it.

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

No, no, no. Sit down.

I woke up this morning,
and I realized...

None of you want me here.

You don't even really know
who I am, which is okay.

I walked on the moon,

but I didn't belong to you.
I belonged to your daddies.

Now, if I ask you
to ask your daddies

what I meant to them,

to explain to you
what I'm doing here,

that's only gonna
make things worse,

so...what do we do?

You haven't trained
for this mission.

We respect you.

I appreciate that.

But you're here...
you're here because
the powers that be

think we need a familiar
face on this trip.

You're here
for public relations.

No, no. I'm here because
the powers that be

know that I'm the only
person on this mission

who's ever landed on the moon.

And I have 500 landings
on aircraft carriers.

We've trained on...

On flight simulators.

Right?

I mean, this is
not a video game, son.

It really isn't.

(CHUCKLING)
It really isn't. No.

NASA ANNOUNCER: We are go
for auto-sequence start.

Atlantis' four onboard
computers now have
primary control

of all the vehicle's
critical functions.

HEFTER: Okay,
all flight controllers,

we're at T-minus 30 seconds
and counting.

Let's take a close look.

APUs look good,

LOX and LH2
are pressurized.

ANNOUNCER: 10, nine...

ASSISTANT FLIGHT DIRECTOR:
We're go for auto-sequence.
HEFTER: Roger, Jerry.

Good luck
and godspeed, Atlantis.

MONASH: Thanks, Mitch.

ANNOUNCER: ...three, two, one.

ANCHORMAN: Propelled by
500,000 pounds of liquid fuel,

the shuttle crew heads toward
their initial destination.

When the crew
enters the Messiah,

they will find a payload
of eight nuclear devices

that will eventually be
used to blow up the comet.

The Messiah itself will be
powered by an experimental
nuclear propulsion system

that was originally
created for a very
different purpose.

That program
was called Orion.

Now, with the help
of Russian engineers,

a technology designed
to propel weapons
of mass destruction

will power the ship
that will intercept

the greatest threat
our planet has ever faced.

TULCHINSKY: Orion burn...

In 10, nine,

eight, seven,

six, five,

four, three,

two, one, zero.

Okay, Beth,
White House reactions.

Marianne,
the whole world watching.

We have enough
satellite space?

78 uplinks.

Tim, mission control
in Houston.

Ira, the science guys
lined up?

If they got a Ph.D,
we own them.

All right, this is the most
important story of our lives.

Let's not muck it up.

Stuart, what about me?

You're on the anchor desk.
Whoa!

And you could have
been there a lot sooner.

What are you talking about?

You know what
I'm talking about.

Don't ever hold back
a story from me again.

HEFTER: Messiah, Houston.

Transfer trajectory is go.

We'll cancel MCC-1.

You're go to configure
for coast.

Roger, Houston, we're
looking good here.

Jesus, that's big.

Holy shit.

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

PARTENZA: Wow.

Sweet mother of god.

ASSISTANT FLIGHT DIRECTOR:
All circuit breakers are open.

Master arm is off.

MONASH: Roger.

And the detonator
system is safe.

HEFTER: Messiah, Houston.

Stand by for an uplink
of the final mole coordinates.

Confirm when complete.

MONASH: Wilco, Houston.

Hey, how's it comin'?

BAKER: Loading
first nuke now.

BAKER: 1,000 feet
to stand-off.

R-dot 3, 5-X, 2-Y.

500 feet,

R-dot point 3... 3-X,

1 point 5-Y.

Go for auto trajectory.

We're there.

MONASH: Residuals are nulled.

BAKER: Disengage Orion.

Orion disengaged.

You're on bi-prop.

ANNOUNCER: This is
a special presentation

of MSNBC News

with Jenny Lerner.

Good evening.

Sometime in the next hour,

the Messiah mission will
enter its most critical phase:

the interception
of Wolf-Biederman

and the setting of
the nuclear devices

that will deflect it off
its collision course
with Earth.

But first,
Captain Spurgeon Tanner

will have to guide
the spacecraft

through the blizzard
of rocks, sand, and ice

that make up
the comet's tail, or coma.

The crew will have to complete
its work before the sun rises.

Sublimator looks good, Mick.

TANNER (OVER INTERCOM):
Disengaging auto now.

I'm eyeballs out
from here on in.

How come that doesn't
make me feel any better?

TANNER: I heard that.

Lights on.

Cameras on.

TANNER: The Mississippi River
In Mark Twain's time,

there were riverboat pilots

who only knew a few miles
of the river.

I mean, conditions
changed so much,

you couldn't know
the whole trip.

Floods, sandbars,
fallen logs...

It was all a riverboat
pilot could do

was to know his little
piece of the puzzle.

So for the next few hours,
this is my ship.

We start our approach.

JENNY:
...are images from cameras

mounted inside the cargo bay
of the Messiah.

Now, these images are delayed
by approximately 20 seconds,

due to the distance
they must travel.

Okay, you can see that the
image is breaking up a bit.

Uh, Houston is prepared
for this.

They've informed us that
due to the uncertain makeup

of the comet's coma,

they're unsure whether or not
transmission will be possible.

Okay, now, now, it appears
we're losing reception here.

Okay, we've...we've
lost picture now.

But we will stay on the air.

We'll stay with you
through all of this.

BAKER (OVER INTERCOM):
Prop 96%.

Dap is in descent.

TANNER (OVER INTERCOM):
Roger, descent.

(ALARM BEEPING)

Oh, my god.

BAKER: Look at these.
They're the size of houses.

Yeah, I know.

I see.

Jesus Christ.

BAKER: Prop, 88%.

(BEEPING)

BAKER: Cabin press, 5.7.

Negative guidance errors.

Whoa!

(ALARM BLARING)
TANNER: Use your
primary thrusters.

BAKER: Primary thrusters.

TANNER:
What's the descent rate?

Three feet per second. Two.

Fire tether pitons.

Pitons fired.

She's leveling out.

(BEEP SOUNDING)

BAKER: Depressurizing bay.

TANNER: Opening payload doors.

Don't let that little bit
of gravity down there

go to your heads.

Okay.

Start the clock.

JENNY: If all is going
according to schedule,

the astronauts should
now be placing the moles

on the comet surface.

The moles are, well,
they're what they sound like.

They are drilling machines

that burrow
to a depth of 100 meters,

where they wait
to be detonated.

Each one carries
a 5,000 kiloton warhead.

How's our time?

It's getting tight. 1:36:30.

It's taking too long.

(BREATHES DEEPLY) Yep.

What happens if
they do not get off
the comet's surface in time?

The sun striking the comet
will cause the temperature

to rise 350 degrees
in just a few minutes

and activate
the high-speed gas jets.

Well, if that happens,

it will be like trying
to work in a minefield.

TANNER: Mark, what's
your mole 4 readout?

SIMON: Mole 4
running true at 75 feet.

(BEEPING)

Son of a bitch.

SIMON: What?
It's stuck.

Try backing it up.

BAKER: What's your depth?

75 feet.

Is that enough?

No. That'll just break
pieces off the surface.

That's not deep enough.

Yeah, Fish, I know
that's not deep enough.

I'm going in.

SIMON: Oren, no.

MONASH: No, I'm gonna see
if I can free it up.

Stand by, tether attached.

All right, I gotcha.

BAKER: Oren,
suit pressure, 3.5.

SIMON: Come on, come on.

How's my time?

TANNER: 23:57.

Another six minutes,
they won't have time
to get back to us.

Blow the tethers.
Let's go get 'em.

If we go after them,
we may not have enough fuel
to get off the surface.

Blow the goddamn tethers.

Mole 3 at depth.

We're heading your way, Oren.

TANNER: Calculate exactly
how much prop we need

to get off this rock.

We'll shut it down
when we hit it.

Will do.

It opens up
into a cave down here.

Mole got jammed
against the side.

PARTENZA: Okay, Fish,
Team 2 at location 4.

Give me your hand.

What the hell happened?

I don't know.
I don't know.

Everything was going great,

and we got jammed
up at 75 feet.

Okay, hold up.

MONASH: All right,
try backing it up.

Roger that.

(MOLE WHIRRING)

That's it.
TANNER: A little more.
A little more.

Shut it down.

No, they always put
extra in these tanks.

Fish, shut it down.

Okay.

Come on, you bastard!
Come on! Time!

TANNER: 01:02.

Figured we'd better pick
you kids up after school.

TANNER: Check your 6,
100 yards.

PARTENZA: I think we'd
better hurry, boys.

All right, it's going!
It's going!

(EXPLOSIONS)

Mole's at 125 feet.

The sun's rising behind you.
It's coming up fast.

Face shields down!

Oh, christ!

Get the hell out of there!

(ALARM SOUNDING)

(GRUNTING)

Aah!
TANNER: Oren,
get your visor down.

Get your visor down!

(MONASH YELLING)

Oh! My eyes!

(SCREAMING)

SIMON: All right, we got him.

MONASH: Oh, god! My eyes!

(HEAVY BREATHING)

BAKER: Oh, god,
we're losing one.

He's got escape velocity.
1,000 feet and climbing.

(SCREAMING)

Mark, Mikhail, get
the hell out of there!

TANNER: Firing
primary thrusters.

Payload doors still open.

Close 'em as we go.

(STATIC CRACKLING)

TANNER (OVER SPEAKER):
Houston, all moles
are at depth.

Nukes hot and ready.

We lost Partenza
to explosive outgassing.

And Monash is injured.

(BREATH TREMBLING)

We have to go get Gus.

TANNER: There's
no time for that.

Repressurize the cargo bay.

He's going to die out there!

We can still find him.
He has a beacon.

I don't have time
to argue with you.

Just sit down and be quiet.

Turn on the fuckin' locator!

We've used most
of our propellant

to get us out of the coma.

We can't just leave him.
We have to go back!

If we go back for Gus,
we all die.

We can't just
leave him in space!

Sit down, Mick. Sit down.

It's okay.

JENNY: The Messiah has safely
lifted off the comet.

But sadly,
Gus Partenza has been lost.

Gus Partenza, a native of
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,

and graduate of
Carnegie-Mellon University,

joined the NASA
space program

shortly after completing
his medical training
at Duke University.

Dr. Partenza was selected
specifically for this mission,

not only for his medical
expertise,

but also for his dedication

to the advancement
of space technology.

Yeah.

With the loss
of Dr. Gus Partenza

and with Oren Monash injured,

Captain Spurgeon Tanner
is now in charge
of the mission.

The Messiah
has successfully docked

with the Orion-powered
boosters

and is now prepared
to detonate the bombs
planted on Wolf-Biederman.

The Messiah's
exterior-mounted camera

will show us the detonation,

but not before being
temporarily blocked out

by the nuclear blast.

Once again, let me remind you,
there is a 20-second delay,

so when the picture
comes back to us,

the comet should already
have been knocked off

its present course.

TANNER: Prepare to remove
safeties and fire.

TULCHINSKY: Safeties removed.

Weapons armed.

(BEEPING)

Three, two, one...

Now.

JENNY:
So now we're just waiting
for the picture to come back.

Decompression in area 6.

(ALARM SOUNDING)

SIMON: Mick!

I'll get the halon!

Aah!

(ALARM STOPS)

MAN: Yes. I'm still here.

MAN: We're live in 10 seconds.

Cue the President.

Mr. President,
five, four, three...

Hello, America.

It is my unhappy duty
to report to you

that the Messiah has failed.

This computer-enhanced radar
image from Houston

shows how the detonation
succeeded,

however, did not
destroy the comet.

There are now two pieces.
One six miles wide,

the other,
a mile and a half.

Both are still on a path
towards Earth.

We've lost communication with
the Messiah spacecraft,

although we continue
to track it visually.

We don't know
how many are alive.

We don't know their condition.

Now, we have to make
some decisions together.

What do we do?

You have a choice.
We have a choice...

Right now.

Ever since the comet
was discovered,

we've been hoping
and working for the best,

but we've also been
planning for the worst.

Our strategy has been twofold.

First, our strategic
missile command

is preparing to coordinate
with the Russians

a massive strike
of Titan missiles

to intercept the comets.

If we can deflect
these comets enough,

they will bounce harmlessly
off our atmosphere

and head on out into space.

Unfortunately, the Titans
cannot be launched

until the comets
are only a few hours away.

And while we are confident
the missile attack
will succeed,

it is only prudent that we
now take cautionary steps

to ensure the continuation
of our way of life.

To guarantee that there
will be enough of us left

to rebuild a new world

in the unlikely event
that the comets do
strike the earth.

So, in the soft limestone
of Missouri,

we've been preparing
a network of immense caves,

and they're almost finished.

And we can put
a million people in them.

And that million people can
survive there, underground,

for two years,

until the air clears
and the dust settles.

Now, the cave is more
than a dormitory.

It's our new Noah's Ark.

We're storing seeds
and seedlings,

plants, animals,
enough to start over.

On August 10th, a computer

will randomly select
800,000 Americans

to join the 200,000
scientists, doctors,
engineers,

teachers, soldiers,
and artists

who have already been chosen.

Other countries
are preparing similar caves

along whatever lines
they feel are best

to preserve their way of life.

This is ours.

Beginning tonight
and continuing until
the crisis passes,

I am declaring a state
of martial law.

The armed forces
and the national guard

are working
with local law enforcement.

A national curfew begins
at midnight tonight.

Now, wherever you are,
go home.

Stay off the roads
after sunset.

Crimes against persons
or property

will be dealt with
swiftly and harshly.

News stations around the
nation are being faxed copies

of the lottery procedure
as we speak,

and they'll be broadcasting
the details to you
in a few moments.

(SIGHS)

I wish...

No.

Wishing is wrong.

It's the wrong word
right now.

That's not what I mean.

What I mean is...

I believe in God.

Relax.

BECK: I know
a lot of you don't,

but I still want
to offer a prayer,

for our survival.

Mine included.

Because I believe that God,

whomever you hold
that to be,

hears all prayers,

even if sometimes
the answer is no.

So, may the Lord bless you.

May the Lord keep you.

May the Lord lift up
his divine countenance
upon you,

and give you peace.

WOMAN: And in five,
four, three, two...

We now have the details
for the national lottery.

Those of you
who have been preselected

will be notified
within the next few minutes.

For the rest, on the night
of August 10th,

those whose social
security numbers

have been randomly selected
by computer will be notified.

While some Americans
over 50 years of age

have been preselected
for the Ark

due to their expertise
in a necessary field of study,

no men and women over 50
in the general population

will be included
in the lottery.

The...

The evac...the evacuation
of those

who have been selected
for the Ark

will take no longer
than two days,

beginning on August 12th.

During this two-day period,

no unofficial travel
will be permitted.

Those selected will be
taken by bus and train

to the underground Ark site
by military personnel.

Civil defense teams
have been formed in every town

with a population over 5,000.

They will distribute supplies
and organize group shelters

in underground
parking facilities

and other appropriate sites.

Construction plans...

(TELEPHONE RINGS)

Equipment lists,

and locations for securing
the necessary provisions...

ELLEN: Hello?

Yes, this is Ellen Biederman.

JENNY: ...on how to grow
your own food underground

and how to purify water

are now available on
the internet at www...

We've been preselected.

JENNY: ...fcda.gov.

Chuck? Chuck?
Where are you going?

Our phone.
They could be calling.

JENNY
...beginning on August 9th.

The only phones that ring

will be those
of the people selected.

That's it.

That's all there is.

TANNER: The interior
camera circuitry is shot.

So, Andy, can we get back
into the cargo bay

to reroute
the video functions?

BAKER: Starboard cargo
porthole's blown.

We could go in with the EVAs,

but there's not much left
in the life-support packs.

SIMON: We should be able
to raise Houston

on the low band
once we get closer.

And the Orion
is still functioning?

System check was okay,

but I don't know about
the radiation shielding.

So, if we fire it up,
we beat the comet
back to Earth,

but, we may end up
glowing in the dark.
(LAUGHING) Right?

TANNER: Okay, so, uh...

Anybody?

Let's go home.

Okay.

ROBIN: I have to say
it's liberating

knowing that I'm not
going to be called.

I don't think I've
ever been happier.

I've even stopped smoking.

What are you gonna do with
all that extra money you save?

Do you know
the national gallery
is saving all of the art?

They're shipping it
to the caves.

I've given them my beautiful
18th century desk

from New England and
all the Sheraton silver.

I really feel like
I'd protected something

when I gave them.

You should see my apartment.

There's nothing there.

It's practically Japanese.

Seems kind of unfair
that I got picked.

You know, I'm not
a doctor or a scientist.

People need continuity.

Everyone knows you.

And they trust you.

But I can't help you.

Don't worry about me.

I'm gonna be happy
as long as I know
you're going to live.

(HELICOPTER WHIRRING)

(SIRENS)

(HORN HONKING)

Mr. Hotchner?

Who did I think
I was going to be

when I bought that bike?

Well, every kid on
the block wants one now.

Every parent on the block
hates you for it.

Thank you, Leo.
That's the best news
I've had in years.

Um, sir?

Could you give me a hand
over here for a second?

Yes, sir.
I just want to get
these bars up.

Hi, Mrs. Hotchner.
Hi, Leo.

JENNY (ON TV): A mob
attacked and killed

a Miami rental yard operator

who was charging
$5,000 an hour

for backhoe and
tractor rentals.

Marines intervened
to stop the violence.

Mrs. Hotchner?
Sarah's on the hill.

Thank you.

(HELICOPTER WHIRRING)

Where were you today?

I've been looking
all over for you.

Why weren't you at school?

My dad said
I didn't have to go.

He said there's no point.

I talked to civil defense.

They said if
you and I got married

we'd be family,
and I could get you in.

What about my parents?
They're not your family.

I don't want to go
without my parents.

You don't have to.
I'm the famous Leo Biederman,

and I haven't used
my fame for anything,

but I got them to let
your family go, too.

You... This is your
only chance to survive.

JENNY: Across the country,

looters continue to set fire
to abandoned stores.

The fires have
been left to burn
since many firefighters

have been called
to help prepare shelters.

Throughout Latin America's
major cities,

business districts have been
abandoned to looting gangs...

...airlifts have been
ruled out as too dangerous.

More street fighting in Moscow

as food and fuel
shortages continue.

PRIEST: ...believes all
things, hopes all things,

endures all things.

When I was a child,
I spoke like a child,

I thought like a child,

I reasoned like a child.

When I became a man,
I gave up childish ways.

For now we see
in a mirror dimly,

but then face to face.

Now I know in part,

then I shall understand fully,

even as I have been
fully understood.

Do you, Leo, take Sarah
to be your wife,

to have and to hold
from this day forward,

for better, for worse,

for richer, for poorer,

to love and to cherish?

I know pronounce you
husband and wife.

(CLOCK TICKING)

(CONSOLE BEEPS)

(MONASH GROANS)

Here, let me help you.

I'll get it.

Yeah. How you feeling?

All right.
I want to tell you something.

You children didn't bring
any real books to read,

did you know that?

I brought Moby Dick
and Huckleberry Finn

and Baker and Simon
had never read them.

Now, I'm afraid to ask you,

have you ever read
Melville or Twain?

Hmm?

Hey, I'm a child
of the movies, Fish.

Okay, I see.

So...

You got a shitty deal,
Oren, you know that?

You really did.
Don't worry about me.

Yeah.

I mean that. Really.

Don't worry about me.

My whole life I...

You know how it is
for guys like us.

You...you and I,
we're the same.

What do you mean by that?
(CHUCKLES)

Gotta be the best.

Oh, I see.

Be the best.

(SIGHS)

Sometimes I see
flashes of light...

You know, like colors.

Yeah.

I fall asleep...

And I dream...

But there's a part of me
that's always awake...

And I can see myself dreaming.

I'm seeing things
differently, Fish.

Well, that's good.

Fish...

Why the hell do
they call you "Fish"?

(LAUGHS) Well, I...

Spurgeon, sturgeon, fish.

Took about 15 minutes
of my first day
at the naval academy.

Yeah.

Your kids go there?

Yeah, they did. They did.

And they're good men,
both of them.

I don't see as much
of them as I used to

when Mary was alive.

You don't have to talk
about it. It's okay.

No, it's okay. It's okay.

You're a married man.
You know what it's like.

I mean, every marriage has
its good years and bad years.

We ended on a great year.

Yeah.

Anyway, let's get started.

Moby Dick. Chapter one.

(LAUGHING)

"Call me Ishmael.

"Several years ago, never
mind how long precisely,

"Having little or
no money in my purse..."

"...grim
about the mouth..."

"Whenever it is a damp,
drizzly November in my soul,

"Whenever I find myself..."

"...knocking
people's hats off,

"Then I account it high time

"to get to sea
as soon as I can."

(DOGS BARKING)

(PEOPLE CHATTERING)

SOLDIER 1: Listen up!
SOLDIER 2:
Hold it right there!

Biederman?
Yeah, that's us.

IDs, please.

Yeah. Got them right here.

There's four of us.
LIEUTENANT: Lewis?

This is my wife Sarah.
We have a marriage license.

Um, I have it right here.

Okay.

All right. Let's go.
Let's move it out!

Mom? Wait, sir? My parents
are coming, too.

Wait! The Hotchners.

H-O-T-C...

LEO: H-N-E-R.

It's not here.

It has to be there.
FCDA sent their names
to the White House.

They're not there.
Check the list again.

DON: Leo, give me your bag.
ELLEN: They must be there.

DON: Give me
your bag, sweetie.

LIEUTENANT: No. They're not
on the list. I'm sorry.

Let's go! We have to go!

Sir! Could you check
it one more time?

I put you on the list.
They said you're on the list.

Sarah, I put them on the list!

We're not on the list.

LIEUTENANT: I need the
Biedermans on the bus now.

I want to stay with you.
What?

No, no, no, no!

I need to stay with you!

Sarah! Sarah, you need to go.

No. I have to stay with you.

I'm not going anywhere
without you!

Honey, get on the bus!

Come or stay, young lady,
this bus is moving out.

DON: On the bus!
Get on the bus!

Chuck, we'll work it out
when we get there.

(SOBBING)

Jenny? There's
a phone call for you.

Yes?

This is she.

Is Robin Lerner my mother?

When?

Uh, 61.

I'll come down there then.
Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Jenny, do you want us
to do something?

You're too late. I already
took care of everything.

Come. Inside the car.
You're getting sick. Please.

I want to talk to you.

Please, come.

I don't give a shit.

Go home and tell it to Chloe.

I can't. She left me.

She's with her mother.
They both got scared.

Come. I want to talk to you.

I need you.

How does it feel?

I feel like an orphan.

Jenny! Jenny!

Stop.

(HELICOPTERS WHIRRING)

(PEOPLE SHOUTING)

(TRUMPETING)

(SHRIEKING)

(HONKING)

(CRYING)

Welcome to the Ark. I'm
section leader for Orange 254.

Remember that. That's where
you'll be calling home
the next two years.

So gather your things
and follow me to
the orientation gallery.

(HELICOPTERS WHIRRING)

MAN ON PA:
If you have been designated

as a civilian section officer,

report to section Red 116
upon entering.

Once again, if you
have been designated

as a civilian section officer,

report to section Red 116
upon entering.

DON: Leo...

I'm not coming.

Leo, come with us right now.

I have to go back for Sarah.

Leo...
Mom, I'm going.

Don, what are you doing?

Giving him something to trade,
that's what I'm doing.

I want you to take this.

Dad, that's enough.

(CRYING) Goddamn it.

You take care
of yourself, okay?

I'm gonna make it.

WORTH: What about Entrekin?

I don't know.
He hasn't returned
my calls in two weeks.

Excuse me, Jenny? Yeah?

Your father's here.

Hello.

Hello.

I can't stay long.
I'm leaving the city,

but I wanted to show you
something.

I wanted to show you that
you're not an orphan.

I have proof that
you're not an orphan.

Here...

Look.

Where's Mom?

Behind the camera.

She took this?
Mmm-hmm.

And this one, too.

She was such an artist,
don't you think so?

You don't remember
when we take them, hmm?

I'm five years old.
How would I remember that?

Some people do remember
when they were five years old.

It was such a beautiful day.

All alone on the beach.

And, of course, she would
have been in the picture,

but there was no one else
to hold the camera,

and she insisted.

You know how she is.

How she was.

Jenny...

It was such a good day

for all of us.

Don't you remember?

Keep them.

Good-bye.

(SNIFFLES)

MAN ON RADIO: We have now
confirmed the launch

of all the Titan missiles
from their positions in
North Dakota and Wyoming.

The comets are now
approximately 14 hours

outside of
Earth's atmosphere,

and we are told it should
take these missiles

less than 20 minutes
to reach their target.

JENNY: Okay, here's what
we're looking at.

All of the Titans
have been launched.

We still won't know if
they've made a difference.

The comets have
to travel for a while

before the radar tracking
stations can see

if they've been pushed
to a safe course

that'll bypass the Earth.

So, one more time
we have to wait.

Are we on?

CAMERAMAN: We're on,
Mr. President.

Our missiles have failed.

The comets are
still headed for Earth

and there's nothing
we can do to stop them.

So, this is it.

If the world does go on...

It will not go on
for everyone.

We have now been able
to calculate

the comets'
final trajectories,

and we have determined where
they're going to strike.

The smaller of the two comets,
Biederman, will hit first,

somewhere along
the Atlantic seaboard

probably in the waters off
the coast of Cape Hatteras

in just under 12 hours
at 4:35 p.m. Eastern
daylight time.

The impact of the comet
is going to be...

Well, disastrous.

There will be
a very large tidal wave

moving quickly through
the Atlantic Ocean.

It will be 100 feet high,

traveling at
1,100 miles an hour.

That's faster than
the speed of sound.

As it reaches shallow water,
it's going to slow down,

but the wave height,

depending on the depth
of the shelf off the coast,

will be anywhere from
1,000 to 3,500 feet high.

Where the land is flat,

the wave will wash inland
600 to 700 miles.

The wave will hit
our nation's capital
40 minutes after impact.

New York City, Boston,
Atlanta, Philadelphia...

All will be destroyed.

If you have any means

of getting away
from the path of this wave,

leave now.

The impact of the larger comet

will be nothing less than
an extinction-level event.

It will strike land
in Western Canada

three hours after Biederman.

Within a week,
the skies will be dark
with dust from the impact

and they will stay dark
for two years.

All plant life
will be dead within...

Four weeks.

Animal life within...

A few months.

So that's it.

Good luck to us all.

TANNER: Could I bother
everyone for a minute?

Let's take a look
at the big one.

Now, the outgassing
has created a vent

a half mile wide and
at least two miles deep.

Comet gets closer to the sun,
sun melts the ice,

ice turns to steam,
we get a big hole, okay?

So, how many nukes do we
have left in the back?

Four.

If we can get the remaining
bombs in that vent,

there shouldn't be anything
left of that comet
bigger than a suitcase.

We can't do anything
about the little one,

but it just might
give them a chance.

Without the arming codes,
we're going to have to wait
to set the bomb timers

until we get closer to Earth
to raise Houston.

TULCHINSKY: We may not have
enough life support left
to get back into

the cargo bay for the nukes,

much less to go down
to the comet.

We sure as hell don't have
enough propellant left

in the Messiah
to maneuver with.

How are we supposed to get
back off the surface

once we've
gotten down there?

We don't.

(SIGHS)

Well, look at the bright side.

We'll all have
high schools named after us.

(STATIC CRACKLING)

TANNER: Houston,
this is Messiah.

Houston, this is Messiah.

Nice of you to call, Messiah.

We were beginning to wonder
what you were doing up there.

TANNER: Admiring
the view, Houston.

Fish, is that you?

Yep. We don't have time
to talk, Houston.

There's nothing we can do
about the smaller one,

but we do have a plan.

We need the arming codes
for the last four nukes.

Arming codes?
What the hell for?

We can do or we can teach.
What's your pleasure?

(SIGHS)

Get the arming codes!
Get the goddamn codes!

We have one helicopter.
Holds seven people.

We can ferry six people to
high ground in West Virginia

and take Jenny to the Ark.

Short stick goes.

I thought it was women
and children first.

If you get the short one,
you can give up your seat.

TIM: Thank god.

Well, that makes sense.

I got a stick.
I got a stick.

WORTH: I'm sorry, Beth.

BETH: Okay, honey,
here we go.

Let's go now.

Beth...
There's always the road.
We'll be okay.

Come on.
Ah, that's my girl.

Okay, that's it.

(SNIFFLING)

Sarah!

Sarah!

(BARKING)

Where's that key?

Where's the key?

(ENGINE STARTING)

(HORNS HONKING)

Come on!
Hurry up! Come on!

No, wait.
What are you doing?

We have to go now.
Come on! Come on!

Beth, what are you doing?

The road was so crowded.
We weren't gonna make it.

I thought if the wave comes,
we should be here

because she likes it here.

And we're on the 15th floor,
so maybe we'll be okay.

Say good-bye to Jenny...
What are you doing?

Move! Come on! Go!

Jenny!
Oh, my god! Caitlin!

Caitlin!

Faster! Faster! Come on!

BETH: No! No!

Come on! Let's go!

Hang on. No room for this!

She's going with you!

You're taking my seat!

Come on!

Go! Go!

Jenny, thank you!

Get her in there!
That's too many.

I'm not going.

What do you mean
you're not going?

I'm not going, Erik.

Go!

Sarah!

Sarah!

(HONKING)

Sarah, look!

Leo!
(HONKING)

Leo!

Leo Biederman! Leo!

Leo!

Leo!
Oh!

You don't have any time.
You have to go now.

No! Put this on!
Daddy, what are you doing?

I want you to take the baby.

What? No! Mom!

No arguments, please!

I don't want to go!

Grab his foot, honey.

Let's go.

Mom? Mom!

Sweetheart, listen to me.
Let go. Put this on.

I love you.
I love you, too.

I've always loved you.

I love you.
(BABY CRYING)

I don't want to go!

Take care, honey.
Put this on.

I'll see you soon!
I'll see you soon!

CHUCK: Get out of here, Leo.
Go to high ground.

(SOBBING)

(SIGHS)

When I was 11, I took
$32 from your wallet.

When you were a baby...

I once dropped you
on your head.

When you came to the studio
and brought those pictures,

I lied when I said
I didn't remember.

I remember everything.

I remember that we
were right over there,

and that's when Mom got
that picture of the house.

It was a perfect, happy day.

I came down here
to let you know that.

Thank you.

I've missed you since then.

I missed you, too.

Biederman.

Daddy. (SOBBING)

(SHOUTING)

(SCREAMING)

Hold on!

(SCREAMING)

(CLANGING)

TANNER: This is Messiah.

We're ready to begin our run.

Are our families there yet?

They're on their way, Messiah.

Disengage auto path.

(BEEPING)

Here we go.

We're at perigee.

Wolf contact in
4 minutes, 45 seconds.

We'll never be closer to home
than we are right now.

Come on!
Messiah, we got some people
here that want to talk to you.

Wendy, honey...

You promise me you'll keep
doing your church thing,

and I'll be there
right next to you.

Haunting you.

You better come back
and haunt me.

I love you.

There's Mommy.

Hello, Mommy.

BAKER: Hey, you take
care of Daddy for me, okay?

She does a good job.

She misses Mommy.

BAKER: I miss you.

I love you, Mommy.

I love you. Very, very much.

David...

You know what I want to say.

DAVID: I know.

(SOBBING)

(WATER RUSHING)

LEO: Come on!

BAKER: Wolf contact in
2 minutes, 30 seconds.

HEFTER: Oren, Mariette's up
at your folks' place in Utah.

We sent a plane for her,
but she isn't here yet.

Fish, your sons are
both on active duty.

We tried to get them back,
but we couldn't
get them here on time.

I'm sorry.

Well, Mitch, uh...

I want to say
good-bye to Mary.

I want to tell her
I love her.

And that ever since
we've been apart,

every day, I think about her.

Mary, I'm coming home.

BAKER: Coming up
on target, 625 miles.

Range 600 miles.

Wait! Oh, god, wait!

Wait!

I'm coming!

Oren? Oren,
are you there?

Mariette? I'm here.
I can hear you.

Hi, sweetie.
This is your father.

His name is Oren.
I named him after you.

MONASH: Hello, Oren.

Show him what you brought him.

He's holding up
a little rocket.

That's a mighty powerful
rocket you got there.

SIMON: He's laughing.
(LAUGHING)

I can hear him. I know.

Mariette...

I'm hugging you both
right now.

I'm holding you.

BAKER: 25 seconds.

Prepare to synchronize
the nukes.

23...

22...

21...

(CLICKING)
20...

19...

18...

17...

16...

15...

It's been a pleasure
serving with you, Commander.

The honor's all mine, Andy.

Be good, Oren.

Be good.

(MARIETTE SOBBING)

BECK: We watched as the bombs
shattered the second comet

into a million of pieces
of ice and rock

that burned harmlessly
in our atmosphere

and lit up the sky
for an hour.

Still, we were left with
the devastation of the first.

The waters
reached as far inland

as the Ohio
and Tennessee valleys.

It washed away
farms and towns,

forests and skyscrapers,

but the water receded.

The wave hit Europe
and Africa, too.

Millions were lost.

Countless more left homeless.

But the waters receded.

Cities fall,

but they are rebuilt.

And heroes die,

but they are remembered.

We honor them
with every brick we lay,

with every field we sow,

with every child we comfort
and then teach to rejoice

in what we have been regiven.

Our planet.

Our home.

So now,

let us begin.

(CHEERING)