All language subtitles for Ascension - S01E01 - Night One_track1_[und]

- So, what's this test
supposed to do?

- (woman): Just say the first
thing that comes to your mind.

Father.

- I was a baby
when he died in that fire.

- Rage.

- Ancient history.

- Ascension.

- Trap.

♪ ♪ ♪

(♪ oldies on stereo ♪)

(men and women talking,
indistinct)

- Chin up!
Back straight!

I should be able
to draw a line

From your earlobe
to your ankle.

Jackie, the seams of your
stockings are a disgrace.

Mmm! Never bend
at the waist.

It's graceless.

Remember:

Poised, elegant,
confidant.

- Don't you just
love their uniforms?

They always look
so perfect.

I'm thinking
about apprenticing.

- If spending 6 months

Learning to put on lipstick
and talk in a breathy whisper

Is your idea of fun.

- Not everyone aces
their apt test, nora.

There's no way i'm gonna end
up cutting hair like my mom.

Besides, stewardesses get
all the prettiest clothes.

- Have you seen
lorelei?

She said
she'd be here.

- Are you coming to
the party tonight?

- To toast the glorious
tin can? No thanks.

- Try not to drool on
the decorations, nora.

(glasses clinking)

(man talking in distance)

- (stokes): Take off.

Hello!

Nixon! Bordeaux!

- What's bordeaux?

- Wine.

There's only 25 bottles

Of chateau st-cloud '59 left.

After tonight, there'll be 24.

- So, do you have
what i came for?

- Mmm! Yeah!

I'll be in my cabin at 21:00
after your little party.

- Your cabin off
the slaughter stalls...

Enticing!

(scoffing)

- Is that funny to you?

We had an understanding!

It's not funny, stokes.

It's sad.

(♪ woman singing
fly me to the moon ♪)

- ♪♪ fly me to the moon
let me play among the stars ♪

♪ let me see
what spring is like ♪

♪ on jupiter and mars ♪

♪ in other words... ♪

- Commander gault!

- Mrs. Vanderhaus,
are you alone this evening?

♪ in other words... ♪

- It seems her husband

Was assigned
the midwatch suddenly.

- Lorelei...

- Captain's orders.
Not my idea.

I'd say it's a shame that
your sister's unaccompanied

When she looks
so stunning tonight.

And you're stunning
too, of course.

- Lorelei's not
happy with me.

We both have issues

With the other's
taste in men.

(scoffing)

♪ in other words,
please be true ♪

(sighing)

- Yeah, i'm just
not feeling it.

♪ in other words,
i love you ♪♪

- (dr. Enzmann on film):
The time has come for mankind

To take longer strides.

We must move
further down the line.

We must reach for the stars.

(audience applauding on film)

Imagine the greatest journey
ever undertaken,

A century-long sojourn
to a new world

Completed by the grandchildren

Of the brave souls
who embarked on this adventure.

(grunting)

(panting)

(both moaning)

(grunting, panting)

(metal clanging)

(footsteps approaching)

Our eyes must be
focused on the stars

If we are to have any hope

Of surviving this arms race,
this space race,

Indeed, this human race.

- Have you seen lorelei?

- No, no. I'm sure
she's around somewhere.

- (dr. Enzmann):
Esteemed colleagues, friends,

Ladies and gentlemen,
i give you...

Ascension.

(audience applauding on film)

- Lorelei!

Lorelei?

Lorelei?

Lorelei?

(screaming)

(♪ rocket man by elton john ♪)

♪♪ and i think it's gonna be
a long, long time ♪

♪ till touchdown
brings me around again ♪

♪ to find i'm not the man
they think i am at home ♪

♪ oh, no, no, no
i'm a rocket man ♪

♪ rocket man, i'm burning
out of fuse up here alone ♪

♪ and i think it's gonna be
a long, long time ♪

♪ till touchdown
brings me around again ♪

♪ to find i'm not the man
they think i am at home ♪

♪ oh, no, no, no
i'm a rocket man ♪

♪ rocket man, i'm burning
out of fuse up here alone ♪

♪ and i think it's gonna be
a long, long time ♪

♪ and i think it's gonna be
a long, long time ♪

(repeating): ♪ and i think it's
gonna be a long, long time ♪♪

(birds chirping)

(men and women talking,
indistinct)

- Dad!

Why is my father restrained?

- Restrained. "the quality
of mercy is not strained.

"it droppeth as the
gentle rain from heaven

"upon the place..."

- He was agitated earlier.
That's why we called.

His visitor seemed--

- Visitor? I'm his only visitor,
and he barely knows i'm here.

- I don't know the man,
but he's still on the grounds.

I passed him just outside
talking on his phone.

- Why are you
harassing my father?

- You're the son, harris.

Look, um...

I'm really sorry about what
your father's going through,

The stroke, and
what it's done to him.

It must be hellish
to see him that way.

I'm mark hayes.

And i didn't mean
to upset him.

I've admired
dr. Enzmann for years.

I'm doing my
dissertation on his work.

- You're an academic.

- Yeah.

I'm finishing my ph.D.

On the history of
the early space program.

It's tragic to me

That most people don't
know who your father is.

He inspired me.

- He inspired me too.

- Yeah, i guess it's
kind of hard to top a dad

Who escaped from the nazis,

And then developed
rockets for nasa, huh?

- Hmm!

- You ever hear of
project ascension?

- I haven't heard
those words in years.

- Your father
was convinced

That the us could launch
an interstellar spacecraft

Right then in the '60s
with the technology we had.

I mean, you can't go faster
than the speed of light,

So the original crew
would never see the new world,

But their descendants would.

- Quite a dream dad had!

- (whispering):
I think he did it.

- I was taking
you seriously.

- No, wait a minute! Look! Wait,
wait, wait! Look, look, look!

They had the means, right?
Kennedy was a fan.

Think of what it might be like!
A mission like no other!

And imagine the
people that went:

Hundreds of people
out there in space

In a world that never
knew the summer of love,

Betty friedan, the autobiography
of malcolm x, the clash,

Fresh from father knows best
exploring the universe.

- I work for
the government.

Do you have any idea
how incompetent it is?

Do you really think that they
could do something like this

And no one would know?

- Ascension
was the military.

It was top secret.

What do you do?

- I'm an engineer. I evaluate
government contracts.

- Look, before
you write me off,

Go see one of your
father's old associates,

Whoever's still alive.

Maybe they'll talk to you.

- Thanks, but i'll skip
humiliating myself.

- You could claim your
father's legacy for him.

This is real...

And the world
should know.

- (woman on pa):
Do you have what it takes

To make a difference?

Apply for a safety officer
apprenticeship today.

- Good morning, ladies!

- (male voice): On ascension,
safety is our priority.

(keypad beeping)

(computers beeping)

- Xo, sir, i've been
looking for you.

You weren't in your
quarters last night.

- I didn't sleep
there, obviously.

Is that an issue?

- No, sir, of course not.

It's just, the captain's
been looking for you.

- Carry on.

(sighing)

What happened?

- It looks like she fell
and hit her head.

- I'm sorry, duke.

- How am i gonna tell my wife
her sister's dead?

- Every kid on this ship
knows this place

Like the back of their hand.

- What are you saying?

- I'm saying it's hard for me to
believe it was just an accident.

Marks on her wrists...
It could be from a rope.

- Wow! Agatha christie
would be impressed!

Or have you been
reading raymond chandler?

- All right, then!

You're chief safety officer.
What's your theory?

- She had too much to drink
at launch day.

She came out here
for a midnight swim

Like we all did
when we were kids...

- Hmm!
- ...Only she slipped.

Like dr. Bryce said,
an accident.

- Take her
to the medical centre.

She's been out here
way too long.

- You really believe
this wasn't an accident?

- Look, i know it
may sound crazy--

- I want you
to look into it.

If there is
the slightest chance,

We need to be sure.

- Captain, i don't have any
experience with this.

- Nobody does.

- Vanderhaus is your
chief safety officer.

Why don't you
get him to do it?

- He's handled
nothing worse

Than petty theft
or a drunken brawl.

She's family. He can't
entertain the idea.

- He won't be happy.

- Look, i can't worry
about his feelings, gault.

I have to take care
of 600 souls.

- And you don't want a panic.
- Exactly.

Imagine what it would do

If they thought
a neighbour was a killer,

So just keep this under
the radar for the time being.

Are we clear?
- Clear.

- Ok.

(pa system buzzing)

Attention, please!
This is captain denninger.

It pains me to report this,

But last night, we lost one of
our own in a tragic accident:

Lorelei wright.

Those who knew her

Said she was a beacon
of light and vitality,

A light that has been
extinguished all too soon.

Her passing reminds us all
of the fragility of life.

Our hearts go out
to those she leaves behind.

Thank you.

- Is a full autopsy
really necessary?

- I'll also need a blood
analysis for alcohol, drugs

And any other tests
you can think of.

- Does the captain
really believe

That lorelei was murdered?

- I'm looking into it,

But remember, the official story
is that it was an accident.

- What the hell are
you doing, gault?

- I just have a few questions
for mrs. Wright.

- Hasn't my family
been through enough?

- It's fine. If it's
important, it's fine.

- Thank you, ma'am.

(sighing)

- If there is
anything i can do...

- Thank you.

- Had lorelei been upset
about anything recently?

Did she have a boyfriend?

- All the boys were
interested in her.

That's no secret.

She didn't run around

Like some lower-deck trash.

- Can you think
of any reason

That someone might
wanna harm her?

- Oh!

- Of course not!
What are you implying?

Duke, what is this about?

- You know what?
That's enough.

My family and i
would like to be alone now.

- Of course.

I'm sorry for your loss.

(crying)

- Let me help you.

We told your mom
you're here.

- You were in
a state of shock.

We gave you a sedative.

(ekg monitor beeping)

Christa?

Christa?

- In the glau room,
they're watching.

(christa panting)

They're watching!

- Nora, chloral hydrate,
500 milligrams!

- (panting, crying):
No, no, no!

The globus sees all!

- Nora, the sedative!

(christa panting)

- Is she going
to be all right?

(sighing)

- Yeah!

I think so.
She just needs to rest.

Nora, could you excuse us
for a moment, please?

I didn't wanna
say anything before,

But when i administered
lorelei's psych-eval,

I found some troubling things.

- Like?

- Frustration,
depression, rage...

She felt like her life
wasn't her own.

- The crisis.

- Usually, the crisis is
a normal part of coming of age.

We all have to deal
with the fact

That we have no control
over our destiny,

That this was chosen for us
before we were born.

- It hit me
when i was 14,

The unfairness that i couldn't
be a pro baseball player

Or a secret agent.

- Back on earth, you could dream
as big as you wanted.

Your parents could allow
any illusions to die naturally.

There were an infinity
of possibilities to try.

- We don't have infinity.
We only have the ship.

We're born in it.
We die in it.

- But with lorelei, the
crisis seemed more intense,

Unnerving in a way
i've never seen before.

I was afraid of
what she might do.

- (lorelei): So, what's
this test supposed to do?

- (juliet): Just say the first
thing that comes to your mind.

Father.

- I was a baby

When he died in that fire.

- Rage.

- Ancient history.

- Ascension.

- Trap.

- We have a camera at the
entrance to water reclamation.

The beach is a blind spot.

There! This is the time-stamp
you asked for,

But as you can see,
nobody enters or exits.

- How could she have gotten
down there without being seen?

There has to be another
way to the beach.

Pull video from the commons,
track her movements,

Find out where
we lose her.

- Yes, sir.

- Mr. Gault?

May i have
a word?

- Emily, they already know i
wasn't in my cabin last night.

Coming to me here,
it's too risky.

- I had to see you.

- But of course!

I'm sorry about
your sister.

- There's something
i have to tell you.

Lorelei was seeing
someone: James toback.

- Why didn't your
mother tell me?

- He's from the lower decks.
He works in water reclamation.

- She was embarrassed.

- She wants to maintain this
image of her as a perfect lady,

But it wasn't the truth.

She was with james
the night she died.

I told her she had
to stop seeing him,

But she threatened
to expose us.

- You should've told me.

- She wouldn't have done it.

Lorelei could be
selfish at times,

But not cruel,
not like that.

- The safety officers came by
water reclamation today

Looking for me.

- Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Calm down, james!

- Lorelei's dead, and
they're looking for me.

What'd you tell them?

- (man):
Hey, hey!

(panting)

- You need to learn
some manners, pup!

Get him out of here!

(grunting)

- Her blood-alcohol
level was elevated,

But not enough
to incapacitate her.

However, she did have
sexual intercourse

Within hours of her death.

- What about the
marks on her wrists?

- Your xo might've been right
about those rope burns.

She had contusions on her torso
and a broken collarbone.

- So it wasn't an accident?

- I also found a fibre
strand in her teeth.

There is a good
possibility she was gagged.

And the autopsy

Revealed another surprise:

A small puncture wound
in the roof of her mouth.

- What caused it?

Let me know if any new
information comes to light, ok?

Thank you.

(door closing)

- Why is the good doctor
calling so late?

Should i be jealous?

What's that?

- A bullet, which
begs the question:

How did a gun
get on this ship?

- (woman on pa): Nathan,
please report to midline.

- It was a .22 short,
i looked it up,

An uncommon cavalry
even on earth.

- How'd it get
on the ship?

There were no firearms
on the manifest.

- It must've been smuggled.
- And kept hidden for 50 years?

- Yet someone knew
what they were doing.

It wasn't powerful
enough to puncture the hole

Or damage the hydraulic systems,
just enough to kill.

I put in an official
comment in the log

And communicated
with earth.

- Why use the gun now?

- The rubicon, maybe?

Once we pass that
point of no return,

We won't have the resources
to be able to go back to earth.

We're gonna have to continue on
to proxima no matter what.

- People are
getting anxious.

- Yeah, i'm ordering
a search of the ship.

- If vanderhaus and his
jackboots start flipping beds

And rooting through underwear
drawers, it will cause a panic.

- What's going to happen

When the crew finds out
a murderer's on the loose?

- If you tip our hand with that,
the killer will dump the gun.

- Give me a chance
to find him.

- Anyone else gets hurt,
it's gonna be on you.

(men talking, indistinct)

- (woman on pa):
Have a friend feeling blue?

Sign them up on...

- Lucy, i'm home!

- I placed the treasure

Of cinema and
literature before you,

And this is all you remember.

- I came looking for books
about how police solve crimes.

- "the voice of
thy brother's blood

"crieth unto me
from the ground."

Or i suppose sister
in this case.

There are no absolute secrets
on board this ship.

Someone always knows,

And someone always
talks in the end.

I heard a rumour about you.

- The captain wants me
to investigate lo--

- The rumour about
you and a woman,

A woman not lawful
for you to love.

- Who said that?

- You know how
these stories end.

Camelot's gone,
the heroes are dead

And the woman enters a nunnery.

- It's always stores with you.
I came here to talk nonfiction.

- Police manuals were written
for people on earth

Where cops walk the beat,

And there's an infrastructure
in place to deal with criminals.

- Then what do you suggest?
- Try philip marlowe.

He walked
the mean streets alone.

- Read detective stories?

That's your idea?

- They made a
number of movies

If you're too lazy
to turn a page.

There's also hitchcock,
fritz lang--

- Ok, movies! I got it!

What did lorelei watch?

- She liked movies like
beach party or gidget,

Anything with blue skies
and sandy beaches.

There was something else.

This is the last thing
she checked out.

- The night of the fire.

- Are you ready
to open old wounds?

- I can take it.

I learned from the best.

The video card...
She kept it.

Why?

- What are you
doing here?

It's ok. Don't leave.

- Lorelei brought
me here sometimes.

- If she brought you here,
she must've liked you.

- Or maybe she just wanted
someone to paint the clouds.

- You painted those?
She told me she did.

Lorelei said that if
she was born on earth,

She would've lived on the
beach and surfed all day.

- Maybe one day,
we'll see a real one.

We'll never touch the land,
much less see a beach.

- That's not true.
We'll get there.

We'll be old,
but we'll see it.

- Face it. Our
grandparents screwed us.

They sent us on a
one-way ticket to nowhere.

- How can you say that?

- This ship was
a trillion-dollar payday.

50 years ago, a bunch
of people lined their pockets,

And then sent us
out here to die.

- They sent us here

To ensure life would
go on no matter what.

- Read the history books.

People on earth
weren't saints.

- Lorelei told me some
of the lower-deckers

Didn't believe
in the mission.

I guess she meant you.

- We're all going
to the same place:

Nowhere.

And none of us
have a choice.

- I think you're
a little crazy.

(chuckling)

- Probably.

- You know how deep
that tank goes?

- 40 metres, maybe?

- That's wrong.

It goes all the way to hell.

(moaning)

- Whoa, whoa, whoa!

Whoa! Where are you going?

- I'm finished.

- Well, i'm not!
Get back here!

- I'm gonna give back those
silk dresses you gave me.

- It's not polite
to return a gift.

- As the captain's wife,

It wouldn't be proper
to dress too extravagantly.

- Yeah, well, when i'm captain,

You can dress as extravagantly
as you like, ok?

- Yeah, and when is
that gonna happen?

The council has moved

To unseat my husband 3 times
already, unsuccessfully.

- Well, that's
before this girl died.

- An accident in
water reclamation

Isn't gonna change anything,
except to put up guard rails.

- It wasn't an accident.

- That investigation
into her death?

Strictly covering their ass.

- My sources think
the girl was murdered.

- Please! Your sources
are paranoid.

- They think your husband is
deliberately downplaying this,

Making it
seem pro forma,

When, actually,
this is quite serious.

- To prevent a panic.
- Hysteria, fear...

Let me tell you this.

Any man who can't
control his ship,

Does not deserve
to have the word "captain"

In front of his name,

So come back here
and finish what you started.

- It is fun
to keep a man waiting.

You know what else is fun?
Surprises.

(councilman rose chuckling)

Because finishing
what you started

Is never as good
as starting something new.

- I love the
way you think.

(elevator beeping)

- They found her
lying there like that.

She hasn't said a word.

- Thank you for calling me.

You know, when
i was pregnant with nora,

I would come up here

And daydream about
what proxima was like.

I'd imagine plants and animals
i'd never seen before.

- I like your necklace.

- It's a seahorse.

- There aren't
any in the aquariums.

- No, we didn't bring any.

The only ones are back
in the oceans on earth.

- It's beautiful.

- Christa,

You see that
star cluster?

Alpha centauri is binary,
2 suns orbiting each other,

But when we zoom in
a little closer,

We can see a third.

That's proxima. That's
where we're going to live.

- You're wrong.
There's no life there.

There! That's life.
That's where we have to go.

Everything else is death.

- You didn't show up
for work last night.

- Is that why your
safety officers pulled me in,

For playing hooky?

- Where were you the night
of the launch celebration?

- The hold.
- Drinking?

- Actually, i go down there for
the intellectual conversation.

- Your girlfriend
was murdered, james.

- What are you
talking about?

It was an accident.

- Were you with
her that night?

- No! Yes, but early.

We got in an argument.
- About what?

- She didn't wanna
go to the party with me.

- Did she say why?

- No.

That's just who lorelei was.

She made you feel like
you were living life on edge,

That things would
fly apart any second.

But it was worth it.

She made you feel like
you were truly alive.

- On the medical report,

It says that lorelei had sex
in the hours before death.

- Well, i guess
i wasn't the only one

On the edge with her then.

- You won't find your courage
in the bottom of a glass.

- Are you calling me a coward?

- (chuckling):
I would never call

A hero of the
inferno a coward.

- I should hope not. We owe
these quarters to my courage.

Unless the idea of going back to
the lower decks appeals to you.

- William, i'm trying
to be helpful.

Use this distraction

To ensure your place,
our place, going forward.

- A girl was murdered!

- It's an opportunity!

The council is terrified
of insurrection.

Move decisively,
reassert your position.

- Callousness is your
least attractive quality.

(scoffing)

- Yes, terrible, terrible me,
who took my joke of a job

And turned it into something
that will serve us both.

- I doubt your girls
are as pleased.

- My girls have
made alliances

With nearly every
powerful man on this ship.

They enjoy their privileges,

And we enjoy the
favours they trade

And the information
they bring.

(scoffing)

I'd keep your head in the sand
if it makes you feel better.

I'll go on being
the politician,

So you can pretend
to be the statesman.

- Christa!

I'm glad to see
you're doing better.

Would it be all right to ask you
some questions about launch day?

- Lorelei was gonna
teach me how to dance,

But i couldn't find her.

- Why did she
go to the beach?

- She was afraid of someone.
- Was it james toback?

- Not james. He was nice to her.
- Then who?

- She wouldn't say, but
she said he knew the truth.

- The truth about what?

Earlier, you told dr. Bryce
something about globus.

What does that mean?

Was it something
to do with lorelei?

- Dr. Bryce had me on
some kind of medicine.

- Look, you can tell me.

- But i'm a weirdo already.

Sometimes, i think
i know things.

- What kind of things?

- It's hard to explain.

It's like i can
still feel it...

Underneath everything,

Behind everything,

Like a skull
under the skin.

(men talking, indistinct)

- Good morning, laura!
Good to see you!

- What is that?

- You like it?

With full life-support system,
completely radiation sealed.

A couple of more tweaks,

It should be ready
to road test in proxima.

- Dr. Choi, i was wondering
if you've selected

All your apprentices
for terraforming yet.

- I have now.

- (man):
Try it now.

- Now, i read your report.

You don't think the
boyfriend killed lorelei?

- No, i don't, sir.

- This toback kid's trouble.

Vanderhaus said
he's been detained

For fighting and
drinking in the past.

- He's from the lower decks.
He's had it rough.

- Find proof that
he didn't do it.

Otherwise, he's our man.

- Bullshit!

You put me in charge
of this investigation

'cause i wouldn't be
bullied, not even by you.

- You owe me,
aaron, all right?

If the council
loses confidence,

They're gonna push me
out of the captain's chair,

And you're not
gonna be far behind.

- I'm doing this my way, sir.

If you wanna relieve me,
that's your prerogative.

- You know, aaron, if you
and i weren't born on this ship,

We could've
accomplished great things.

- We are doing
something great, sir.

- The captain who launched
and the captain who lands,

That's who history
will remember.

The guy in the middle,
who gives a shit.

Handle it your
way for now, aaron.

(keypad beeping)

(siren wailing in distance)

(dog barking, bird chirping)

- There you go, honey.
- Thanks!

- Oh, harris, that light
is still on in the car.

Harris, are you listening?
You said you'd get it fixed.

- Uh, it's just a reminder.

I'll take care
of it this weekend.

- Yeah, that's what you said
last weekend.

- What are you typing?

- It's actually
called texting, dad.

- I know that.
What are you texting?

- Nothing.
- I know what diaf means.

It means: "die in a fire."

- A kid was giving
me a hard time,

No big deal, so
i told him to diaf.

- Hello!
- It's just words on a screen.

- They're not just
words on a screen.

There's a world in here,
and when you type on it,

You become part
of that world.

You change it.

You have to take
responsibility for that.

- Harris, something's
happened at work.

(speaking german)

(door buzzing)

- Sorry about your shirt.
Your alibi checked out.

I felt the same way
when i was your age,

That i had no choice,

Then i realized this is
what we have to work with.

We find meaning
where we can.

- You done?

White shirt,
track him.

- He's moving down
the central corridor.

(computer beeping)

Where's he gone?
I don't see him.

We lost him.

- There, a-deck.

- Yeah.

- He's headed to the beach.

(birds chirping)

What are you doing
down here, james?

- You followed me?

- You know more than
you're telling me.

So, where's the launch day
tape that lorelei took?

- I don't know what
you're talking about.

- You know, i saw the movies she
watched: Surf, sand and sun.

She loved nature. That's why
she was drawn to this place.

- You call this nature?

Did you actually
watch those movies?

They took it all for granted,
the sky, the ocean.

They could run on the beach
for miles

Without slamming
into a bulkhead.

This beach represents everything
that's fake about our lives.

For lorelei to die here,
of all places.

- I don't think
she died here.

There's no video of anyone
but lorelei coming down here.

There wasn't any sign
of a struggle,

And nothing explained
the marks on her wrists.

- There's only
one way in or out.

- You're wrong.

There's more than one...

Right here.

(elevator beeping)

- Stop it!

I know you're there!

Stop watching us!

Leave us alone!

I'm not afraid of you!

I'm not afraid of you!

- I should tell
you where we're at.

- Trust me, i'm up to date.

I'm getting memos
every 10 minutes.

- What if warren finds out ab--
- she won't.

There's someone interested in my
father's work, a grad student.

He knows about ascension.

- How much
does he know?

- He speculated what the
people on board would be like.

He was convinced
a starship was launched.

- We need to tell the director!
- No!

- You're holding
off telling her

About this guy
and about the anomaly.

This thing could
blow up in her face!

- This is my father's legacy.
I won't have it tarnished.

- Harris, the crew isn't safe.

- These people have
spent the past 51 years

Dealing with the
rigours of deep space.

They're used to being unsafe.

(siren wailing in distance)

(air hissing)

- This place is a maze.
My father told me about it.

Looks like someone's
been down here.

- "n.F."

What do you think it means?

- No idea.

What's this?

Rilke. "love poems to god."

All these pages are blank.

- Here!

This is where
lorelei was murdered.

- Why would they
bleach the pages?

- Everything on board
is electronic.

Writing on
a stenotab is a risk.

- Well, this is
the water-filtration system,

The nav-computer blueprints.

- A month ago,
the nav computer crashed.

Just last week, the water-
filtration system went off line.

It's not a coincidence.
- It was sabotage.

- Who are they?
- We're not sure.

But we suspect they wanna
force the ship back to earth.

- Sir, i'm the xo.
Why wasn't i told of this?

- We believe the saboteurs
have their routes below decks.

- Now i'm a
security risk

Because i wasn't born
in the upper decks?

- If the council knew how
close we were to insurrection,

It'd be rose sitting
in this chair, not me.

Search the ship. Turn it
upside down. I want answers.

- All right, captain!

- (man): Hey,
give me a hand here!

(chickens clucking,
man shouting indistinctly)

- (vanderhaus):
Attention!

Place all contraband
on the tables in front of you

And prepare to be searched!

- What's a matter, duke?

Didn't get this month's payoff?

- Step aside, stokes!

- This isn't about lorelei.

It's about the captain denying
the lower deckers a voice.

(men exclaiming)

- Stand down, and
prepare to be searched.

- Better get your own house in
order before you come into mine.

I have it on good authority
the chief safety officer's wife

Is taking another man
into her bed.

(men laughing)

...Which leaves
only one question:

What's he got that you don't?

(men grunting
and shouting indistinctly)

(alarm sounding)

- (male voice):
Radiation alert!

- Stand down! Stand down!
Emergency protocols!

We're heading into
a radiation storm!

Hey! This is not over!

- Radiation alert!

- Let's go!

- The ship's radar says we're
heading to a big ion cloud

Unlike anything we've seen.

- We've been hit with cosmic
rays before. Is this different?

- That was before we
reached our current speed.

The radiation caused by
our speed-of-light velocity

Will cause fireworks.

- How long do we have?
- 30, maybe 40 minutes.

- Clear the decks.
Announce radiation protocol.

- The starboard blast
shields are not closing.

- Without shields, the radiation
will burn through the ship.

- Pump the grey water to the
forward tanks as a buffer.

Assemble a repair team.
Get those shields closed!

(alarms sounding)

(men and women exclaiming)

(alarms sounding)

- Nixon, i need you!

- Oh, what brings
our esteemed xo

Down to the lower decks?

Run out of people
to kiss your ass up top?

- You trained
as an electrician?

I need you onto repair.

- You can't just start ordering
us around. We got work to do.

- Wrong! I outrank you.

That's what that means.
Nixon, let's go!

- Nora! Come with me to the
beach. I need your help.

- Secure the cart.
I'll catch up.

You heard the orders.
We have to go.

- Now's the perfect time.
No one will be watching.

Lorelei hid something there.
- Tell the safety officers.

- They don't tell the truth,
nor is the captain. Come on!

- (male voice):
All hands to radiation pods!

- Ok, captain, we're here.
Nixon's checking the electrical.

- The converter's out.

We're gonna need
visual confirmation.

- (denninger):
I need an eta, gault.

- (gault):
Anytime now.

Ok, there it is! I see it.
Looks like a12.

- A12. Got it!

- We're wasting our time.
They already searched it.

- It's here!

If they found the tape, gault
wouldn't have asked about it.

- What are you doing?

- There's one place they
didn't look, in there.

- I'm coming with you.

- I've never seen
anything like it.

- (nixon):
No time for sightseeing.

- Captain, the shield doors
are closed.

- Good job, gault!

(screaming, grunting)

- Nixon? Nixon!

(panting)

Nixon, can you breathe?
- Yeah!

- Can you hear me?
- Yeah! I'm good.

- No tear.
Pressure suit holding.

(panting, sighing)

- (denninger): All right,
get back to quarters.

It's about to get rocky.

- They're pumping the tanks!

Move!

(james coughing)

(both panting)

(coughing)

(laughing)

- What is it?

- It's the missing video
card that lorelei took.

Come on!

- Wait!

There's something
you need to know.

The night lorelei died,

I saw stokes
give her something.

- What?

- A gun.

(crying)

- There is nothing
to be afraid of.

- I won't be
able to breathe.

- Yes, you will.
It's a mild sedative.

It's gonna put
you right to sleep.

Come on! Hop on in!

The seahorse
will guard you.

- Where's nora?

- I thought she
was with you.

Robert, they've
sealed the decks!

- Nora's a smart
girl, all right?

There are radiation
pods all over the ship.

We should go. Come on!

(door keypad beeping)

- And when you wake,
it'll seem like a dream.

- (male voice):
Radiation protocol!

- Where are you going?

- Follow me!

- All hands to
radiation pods.

- Hurry!

- Radiation protocol!

- What the hell is that?

- Get in! It's shielded.

(panting)

(rumbling)

- My grandfather told me once
that back on earth

You couldn't stare at the sun
without hurting your eyes.

- We'll have a sun,
someday, three of them.

- (panting): If we can get
through this, maybe.

(pa system beeping)

- This is captain denninger.
We are entering the ion cloud.

Make sure your mask is secure.
There's nothing to worry about.

It's just
a little stormy weather.

(♪ stormy weather
by lena horne on pa ♪)

♪♪ don't know why ♪

♪ there's no sun
up in the sky ♪

♪ stormy weather ♪

♪ since my man and i
ain't together ♪

♪ keeps raining all the time ♪

♪ life is bare ♪

♪ gloom and misery everywhere ♪

♪ stormy weather ♪

♪ just can't get
my poor self together ♪

♪ i'm weary all the time ♪

♪ the time ♪

♪ yes ♪

♪ yes, i'm weary all the time ♪

♪ when he went away ♪

♪ the blues walked in
and met me ♪

♪ if he stays away ♪

♪ old rocking chair
will get me ♪

(air hissing and sputtering)

(gasping, panting)

♪ ...The lord above
will let me walk... ♪

♪ can't go on ♪

♪ everything i had in life
is gone ♪

♪ stormy weather ♪

♪ since my man and i... ♪♪

(christa gasping)

(beeping)

- All right, i want status
reports from every department,

Structural integrity analysis
of the reactor's shielding.

- Yes, sir!

- Captain, a word?

After we fixed the shields,

Nixon confessed something to me
about lorelei and stokes.

- All right, ladies,
how are we doing, huh?

Yeah? Good?

(pigs grunting)

(sheep bleating)

Huh! Nixon!

- Where is it?

- Where's what?

- We know you gave
lorelei the gun.

- Screw you!
Ah, shit!

(stokes screaming)

- (man 1): Clear?

- (man 2):
Nothing up here!

- (man 1):
Now look under there!

- Sir?

I found something.

- You son of a bitch.

You set me up!

- Where have you been?

Your father and i
were worried sick.

- I waited out the storm
in the terraforming lab.

- Alone?

- With james toback.

- How do you think lorelei
would feel about that?

(sighing)

- Is nora all right?

- Yeah, honey, she's fine!

Christa, have you
seen my necklace?

I'm sure that i left it
on the dresser.

- You did. He took it
while we were sleeping.

- Christa, no one was in here.

Everyone was asleep.

- The globus never sleeps.

- Why would i give lorelei
the gun, then kill her?

This is a setup!

- Why would anyone frame
a man who shovels pig shit?

You're not
that important.

- You chose me 'cause
you need a scapegoat!

- What about after you're gone?

- W-w-what do you
mean "after i'm gone"?

- Come on, stokes, you know
we can't even add a baby

Without someone dying.

It'd be a luxury
beyond our means.

- Nobody's gonna
spend precious resources

On the killer
of a young woman.

Now, we'd have to do what every
small, isolated society does.

- Exile you.

- To where?

You're talking about spacing me.

Look, i don't know
who killed her. I just--

She asked for the gun.
I gave it to her. That's all!

- Who was she afraid of?

- Man, you really
didn't know her, did you?

The question isn't
who was she afraid of...

(scoffing)

...It's who was afraid of her?

- So, the bad man
has been caught,

And now the poor girl
can finally be put to rest.

I think a funeral
is just the thing

To bring this
ship together.

- Is there something
you're trying to tell me?

- Do you remember
when we were paired?

That romantic day
when they told us

We were number one on each
other's genetic hit parade?

My mother was
disappointed.

You didn't seem destined
for great things.

- Yeah, she made that
quite clear at the wedding.

- I'm glad you remember it.

I think of it often,

And how i told you that
night that i loved you.

I scared the hell
out of you, didn't i?

Poor man,

You were perfectly ready for
a business-like arrangement,

And i went and spoiled it.

I haven't found
rose's informant.

It will require
further digging.

- We are talking about
your girls, aren't we?

- Do you really
wanna know, william?

(sighing)

- Mr. Gault?

- Christa, yes?

- I found this in my cabin,
and i thought you might want it.

It was lorelei's,

And she told me her
boyfriend gave it to her.

- Thank you, christa.

(door buzzing)

- Lorelei wright's passing
reminds us of our place,

Our limitations.

- Individually,

We are but a small part
of something far greater,

Greater, yet essential
to the survival of the whole,

Essential to
this mission...

Essential to humanity.

- We take great strength
in this...

As we consign her body
to the infinite.

(door buzzing)

- Director warren.

- Harris, you think
i wasn't supposed to hear

That someone brought
a gun on board

Because the ship
is 50 years out?

Come on!

Did one of our
space heroes

Actually commit a murder?

- It would appear so.

- Harris...

Take care.

Your fiefdom is built

On your being able to
convince me and everyone

That you have
complete control.

Once that erodes,
let me put it this way,

Your life and the
life of this project

Have the same expectancy.

- Director warren.
What a surprise.

Excuse me!
Harris, a word?

We've got a problem.

(gun cocking)

(gasping, whimpering)

- I've got something of yours.

It probably should be in your
collection, shouldn't it?

(chuckling)

- You know, this belonged
to the first captain.

You know, people had no idea

How incredibly difficult
a journey like columbus' was.

Astrolabes told latitude
but not longitude.

Reaching a new world

Was like finding
a needle in a haystack:

Pure, blind luck.

- Is that why you had me
investigate lorelei's murder?

'cause you knew
i'd never suspect you?

- I set you
down this course,

And now you're ready
to distrust anyone.

- You should've told me.

- I couldn't help myself, gault.

Lorelei was playing me
for a fool,

But i didn't kill her.

(door opening)

- You have to believe me.

(nora panting)

- Oh, it looks like i'm
a little late for the funeral.

- Just let the girl go, stokes.

- No, i don't think so.
I'm gonna go before the council.

- Listen, you're only making
matters worse for yourself.

- You think my cell door
just opened itself?

It's a lot easier to
kill someone in a manhunt.

- I will get to the
bottom of it, i promise,

But for right now,
just let her go.

- Someone came in the stockyards
during the radiation storm,

All right, planted this gun
and--and set me up!

- No--no one was there!

Nobody could survive
the radiation.

Now listen to me.
Please, let her go!

- All i know is
i saw a boot print

After the storm where
there wasn't one before!

(alarm sounding, all grunting)

(air hissing)

- Stay here!

(nora whimpering)

(both grunting)

(keypad beeping, buzzing)

The control panel's locked!

(both grunting)

(gun clicking)

(both grunting)

(alarm sounding)

(screaming)

(screaming)

(panting)

(grunting)

(screaming, panting)

(grunting)

(groaning, panting)

- You think i don't
have total control?

Every detail

From the movement of the stars
to the flushing of the toilets

Is exactly as it would be
on the real journey.

The minute they doubt the
validity of their environment

Is the minute
the experiment fails.

- It is magnificent.

- It's more than that.

Ascension is a lifeboat
for humanity.