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00:00:00All right, you ready?
00:00:10Five, four, three, two, one.
00:00:20Hey, are you okay?
00:00:40Asher.
00:00:42Asher, wake up.
00:00:45Hey.
00:00:49Okay.
00:00:54Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:00:58Hold this there.
00:01:04Launching in five, four, three, two.
00:01:13Launch failed.
00:01:14What?
00:01:15The locking mechanism is stuck.
00:01:18Where am I?
00:01:36Momentum stabilized.
00:01:38Please stay seated.
00:01:40Shit!
00:01:42Warning, oxygen system breached.
00:01:46Whoa, whoa, whoa, sit down.
00:01:47You're hurt.
00:01:48I'm fine.
00:01:49Your head is in bad shape.
00:01:50I'm fine, let me help.
00:01:52Warning, oxygen system breached.
00:01:56We need to patch these.
00:02:00Find some XR tape.
00:02:06Warning, oxygen system breached.
00:02:20Warning, oxygen system breached.
00:02:25Got it.
00:02:27Patch this up.
00:02:37Warning, oxygen system breached.
00:02:39This one too.
00:02:52Oxygen stable at 39%.
00:02:54Time remaining, one day, 10 hours, 40 minutes.
00:03:01Oh shit, your head.
00:03:04Come on, let's go look at it.
00:03:06Wait.
00:03:07Come on.
00:03:08What's going on?
00:03:09Sit down.
00:03:12Where am I?
00:03:13An escape pod.
00:03:14I need to ask you some questions.
00:03:17Try to remember these words.
00:03:19Cat.
00:03:20Green.
00:03:21Boy.
00:03:22Hold on.
00:03:23I'll explain in a minute, just repeat those words.
00:03:26Cat.
00:03:27Green.
00:03:28Boy.
00:03:29Good.
00:03:30What ship were you on?
00:03:33None, I'm an intern.
00:03:35Okay.
00:03:37Who's the current president?
00:03:39Starline or the U.S.?
00:03:41Whatever you remember.
00:03:43Starline is Juan Gutierrez.
00:03:45U.S. is Taylor Martin.
00:03:47You're a couple years off.
00:03:48What were those words again?
00:03:51Cat.
00:03:52Green.
00:03:53Boy.
00:03:54Good.
00:03:55What is the last thing you remember before blacking out?
00:03:58I don't know.
00:04:00You don't remember anything.
00:04:02I remember working for Starline, and then I remember applying to work on the Magellan,
00:04:08and I was signing up for the entrance exam, and...
00:04:15Asher.
00:04:17Maya Oberlin.
00:04:18This might come as a bit of a shock to you, but you've been working on the Magellan III for the past five years.
00:04:23Magellan?
00:04:24Doing what?
00:04:27Your badge said upkeep technician.
00:04:34Oh, I guess I failed that exam.
00:04:41There was an explosion on the top deck.
00:04:44I was on the Orlop checking cargo when it happened.
00:04:48You were out cold by the pod door, so I pulled you in.
00:04:56You don't seem concussed, but you have severe amnesia from the head trauma.
00:05:01Give it time.
00:05:03Cosmo, where are we going?
00:05:05I'm currently navigating to the NASA diamond mine on Cupid.
00:05:09Wait, with Cupid?
00:05:11Like Alpha Centauri Cupid?
00:05:12Yeah. We're a long way from home.
00:05:14I've never been out of the solar system. I've never even been to outer space.
00:05:17I know this is a lot, but I need you to bear with me.
00:05:21Cosmo, what's our ETA?
00:05:24We will arrive in two days, four hours, and twenty-one minutes.
00:05:29Shit. Oxygen's going fast.
00:05:32Probably another leak.
00:05:34Cosmo, send a distress signal to the NASA Cupid base.
00:05:37Okay. Speak your message aloud when prompted.
00:05:42Mayday. There was an explosion on the Magellan 3 and our pod is damaged.
00:05:46We are headed in your direction, but we will not have enough oxygen to make it.
00:05:50We need a shuttle to retrieve us. Over.
00:05:54Message failed to send. Please check the DSN ship and try again.
00:05:59Cosmo, retry.
00:06:02Message failed to send.
00:06:04Dammit!
00:06:05Please check the DSN ship and try again.
00:06:08Cosmo, where's the DSN ship?
00:06:10The DSN ship is located behind the A panel on the port side.
00:06:16Do you know how to fix that?
00:06:18Nope. I didn't know how to fix a pipe either.
00:06:21Do you remember any of your pre-mission training?
00:06:24Not even college feels blurry.
00:06:29So you're a UT with no training and no education.
00:06:32Believe me, I'm not happy about it either.
00:06:45Cosmo, system reboot.
00:06:47Wait, wait, why are you rebooting?
00:06:49I'm making sure it's not an ID10T.
00:06:51A what?
00:06:52You don't remember?
00:06:54No, I told you I don't remember anything.
00:06:56Something's not working and all it needed is to be rebooted.
00:06:58It's an ID10T.
00:07:04Idiot.
00:07:06They actually teach you that?
00:07:08Day one. Starland tradition.
00:07:16Hey, I think I found it.
00:07:19It looks fine.
00:07:22Well, it's not.
00:07:24So keep looking.
00:07:26Pilot Cosmo, owned and operated by Starline Incorporated.
00:07:29It seems I was rebooted from a previous session.
00:07:32Would you like to pick up where you left off?
00:07:35Cosmo, resend distress signal to the NASA Cupid base.
00:07:39I'm sorry, I'm unable to connect to the deep space network.
00:07:43There we go.
00:07:45Cosmo, troubleshoot DSN chip.
00:07:48One of the physical connections to the DSN chip has been lost.
00:07:53There's a split wire.
00:07:55That's an easy fix, right?
00:07:59There we go. Okay.
00:08:02Cosmo, resend distress signal.
00:08:05Distress signal sent.
00:08:13Cosmo, contact another escape pod.
00:08:16I don't see any other active Starline pods near you.
00:08:20Cosmo, search for escape pods from Magellan-3, mission MDS-06.
00:08:25I don't see any active escape pods from Magellan-3, mission MDS-06.
00:08:31Maybe we're the only ones.
00:08:33Maybe no one made it down.
00:08:35How?
00:08:37All the pods are in the bottom deck.
00:08:40You remember that?
00:08:42I may have been obsessed with Magellan since I was a kid.
00:08:47Cosmo, lower the viewport shield.
00:08:50Okay. Lowering the viewport shield.
00:09:04Wow.
00:09:08It's beautiful.
00:09:10It's no Earth.
00:09:12It's beautiful.
00:09:14It's no Earth, but...
00:09:20Why are we in Alpha Centauri?
00:09:23It was a detour on a 25-year deep space mission.
00:09:2725 years? That's like a prison sentence.
00:09:32My family thought I was crazy for going.
00:09:37Why did you?
00:09:40I bought into the whole Earth has ended movement.
00:09:45Politics aren't a good enough reason to shoot yourself in the space for a quarter of your life.
00:09:49I learned that the hard way.
00:09:52These missions are long and dangerous, so Starline recruits young and naive.
00:09:57And I was both.
00:09:59Plus, I didn't feel like I could do anything else more meaningful at that age.
00:10:06What about you?
00:10:08Why would you have signed up?
00:10:11I've always loved space.
00:10:13I think about, you know, for the first time, we can finally explore other worlds.
00:10:20I think about the old scientists like Hawking or Einstein and how jealous they'd be.
00:10:27It'd be a waste if I didn't go.
00:10:30Wow.
00:10:33What'd you do on board?
00:10:35ET bio. We were looking for life.
00:10:39That's all Starline's ever been looking for.
00:10:42Yeah.
00:10:44About a month ago, we took a detour to Selene to take some samples.
00:10:49Find anything?
00:10:51Can't say.
00:10:52Come on.
00:10:53No. No. Starline is super strict about sharing classified information.
00:10:59Fair.
00:11:02You know, that cut on the DSN chip looked pretty clean.
00:11:07Clean?
00:11:09Yeah, like it was cut on purpose.
00:11:12Everything in there was completely ruined except for that one wire.
00:11:16That doesn't mean anything.
00:11:18Think about it. We took a detour to Selene. We found something on the surface.
00:11:22I didn't say that.
00:11:24It's never classified when you find nothing.
00:11:28Let's just say Selene was a lot like Europa.
00:11:35Your message to the NASA cube at base has been received.
00:11:43We should take inventory.
00:11:58Beds if we can sleep.
00:12:01Bathroom. Barely.
00:12:28Cosmo, where's the key for the lower trapdoor?
00:12:31The maintenance key is located in the black toolbox on the rear wall to the right of the exit ladder.
00:12:42Maybe it's supposed to be locked? Maintenance only?
00:12:46Then I should have a key.
00:12:57Something else is going on here.
00:12:59Not everything is a conspiracy.
00:13:02Tragedies happen. Keys get lost.
00:13:09Before, you said you were on the bottom deck looking at cargo.
00:13:15What cargo?
00:13:17Can we just focus on making it home?
00:13:20NASA is going to have questions. I want to have the answers.
00:13:25We thought we left some cargo on Selene. I was making sure we didn't.
00:13:30Lucky you were there.
00:13:32I just hope I'm not the only one who got lucky.
00:13:35You seem pretty calm considering the circumstances.
00:13:39We're trained to stay calm.
00:13:42Okay, but if we really are the last people out here, then that probably means...
00:13:45Are you trying to push me?
00:13:47I don't want to panic or get in trouble for telling you something I shouldn't.
00:13:52Yes, it's weird that a wire was cut and that there's no key.
00:13:55But these missions always take detours.
00:13:58And we didn't find anything on Selene.
00:14:00Just like Titan, and Europa, and Enceladus.
00:14:03And if there is some big conspiracy, Starline will fix it on Earth.
00:14:07But we're not on Earth. We're not even on Cupid.
00:14:10We're in a metal box with a shitty engine, no signal, light years from home.
00:14:16Incoming message from Cupid Mine SNR.
00:14:20Playing message.
00:14:22Hello, this is Commander Jack Schaefer, head of SNR from the NASA Cupid Diamond Mine.
00:14:27We've received your messages and have all of you located on radar.
00:14:31We're sending a rescue shuttle and will be there within 24 hours.
00:14:35Halt any navigation, stop your engines, and stay in place.
00:14:38We want to keep you in the same area.
00:14:40Hang tight.
00:14:43Cosmo and navigation.
00:14:45Stopping navigation to the NASA Cupid Diamond Mine.
00:14:50You made it sound like there were more pods.
00:14:54Then why couldn't we call any of them?
00:14:56Maybe there's something else wrong with our chip?
00:14:59Or we're not the only ones with a split line.
00:15:04Warning, incoming object.
00:15:07Grab the lever!
00:15:37Hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, I'm sick of it.
00:16:05Do you want to bail and get some dinner?
00:16:11Asher, Asher. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. You okay? You okay? Yeah, yeah. Come on, come on,
00:16:22come on, come on. Yeah, yeah. Here, power's out. We need to find the breaker.
00:16:29It's probably down there.
00:16:40Are you sure you're okay? I'm fine. Just help me pry it open.
00:16:46That's a lot of water. Yeah, that could explain why our oxygen is going so fast.
00:17:03Why? On the Cosmopods, it's all one system. The water is split into hydrogen and oxygen.
00:17:11You add nitrogen, boom, breathable air. You remember that, but not ID10-T?
00:17:20Yeah, I remember learning it somewhere, but I don't know.
00:17:33I found the leak.
00:17:34This is all drinking water. What about the breaker?
00:17:42I see it.
00:17:57It's on.
00:18:04Okay.
00:18:20Something's down here.
00:18:34What is that? I don't know. I couldn't see. Whatever it is, it's strong. What do we do?
00:18:47I need to know what we're fighting. I don't know. Admit it, we found something on Selene,
00:18:52and now it's in our pod. We didn't find anything that big. We found bacteria. What the hell is down
00:18:56there?
00:19:56Gross. Yeah.
00:20:15He cut our DSM line, and he locked himself down there.
00:20:21Let's see what he knows.
00:20:27I'm going to go try to fix the leak. Let me know if he wakes up. Wait, what about our oxygen?
00:20:41Maybe if I fix the leak, we can salvage some of the water. No, even if you fix the leak,
00:20:45there are three of us breathing this air. Cosmos timetable is only based on two people.
00:20:50And? And we'll suffocate before NASA gets to us, so we might consider...
00:20:57No. Look, I have this from the lab. We mix it with water, and he's gone.
00:21:03Why do you have that? It's an ingredient to something I was working on.
00:21:13We have to hear him out, at least. He tried to kill us. I don't like him either,
00:21:17but he has a right to explain himself before we just... Please! I have people at home.
00:21:21He probably does too. Murder should be our last resort, not our first.
00:21:29Fix the pipe!
00:21:59So...
00:22:19He's still out.
00:22:29Nobody's out that long unless they're dead or in a coma.
00:22:38Or they're faking it.
00:22:59I have the hammer. I will hit you with it if you don't speak up.
00:23:18Three.
00:23:29Two.
00:23:31Stop, stop, stop, stop!
00:23:43Goddamn a hammer! I could have just tickled me or something.
00:23:48Who are you?
00:23:50Gail Flanagan.
00:23:52I collect and manage off-ship samples for the Magellan.
00:23:59Do you know who I am?
00:24:02You're the upper deck UT.
00:24:04I've seen you.
00:24:08And you!
00:24:10You're the reason I'm in this mess!
00:24:12What are you talking about?
00:24:14Asher, I don't know who this guy is!
00:24:16She's lying!
00:24:18You realize sharing classified information is a breach of contract and a violation of federal law?
00:24:24Oh my god, I don't care!
00:24:29What did you find out, Selene?
00:24:31Gail, don't!
00:24:35Microbes.
00:24:37Not quite like bacteria.
00:24:39Not quite like a virus.
00:24:43The bio team couldn't figure it out.
00:24:45See? I told you.
00:24:47I can hear you from down there! I've heard all this shit you've been telling him!
00:24:51You found microbes.
00:24:53I brought them on board and took them to the bio team.
00:24:58They quarantined me, which is normal, but then I got sick.
00:25:03We couldn't let him out. It would have put the entire crew in danger.
00:25:06You tried to poison me!
00:25:07We tried to cure you!
00:25:10Fuck you!
00:25:17How'd you get on board?
00:25:20I played possum until I had a chance to escape.
00:25:23I hid on the orlop until I heard the explosions.
00:25:26Once I was on board, I caught the comm system.
00:25:30I couldn't have anyone tattling.
00:25:33Ow! Fuck!
00:25:38The bio scan says this thing's only contagious by blood.
00:25:41We found the same thing in the lab, so we should be good.
00:25:50Water?
00:26:05Now tell me everything you know about the explosion.
00:26:08He probably blew it up after he escaped.
00:26:10Why would I blow it up?
00:26:12You threatened to kill him.
00:26:14I didn't threaten to kill him.
00:26:16You threatened to kill him.
00:26:19Why would I blow it up?
00:26:20You threatened to kill everyone in the lab.
00:26:22How do we know it wasn't you?
00:26:23How? Why would I blow it up?
00:26:25Hey!
00:26:28Maya, you've told me a lot of bullshit since I woke up.
00:26:30I had to lie. I could be put in jail for sharing classified information.
00:26:34And you tried to kill us.
00:26:35I was freaking out, man. I didn't know what you were going to do to me.
00:26:38Okay, we all want to make it back to Earth alive, right?
00:26:42Yeah.
00:26:43The only way we can manage that is if we cooperate.
00:26:49Okay.
00:26:55What are you doing?
00:26:57There's a reason humans have survived all these millennia.
00:27:01It's because of our ability to work together.
00:27:04You put three gorillas in a cage, they won't cooperate to find a way out.
00:27:07Same with three tigers, same with three dogs.
00:27:10Humans, on the other hand, will.
00:27:13That's the beauty of the human animal.
00:27:15If you try anything, we will tie you right back up.
00:27:20I'm good, man. I swear.
00:27:21Asher, he's not safe. He's already shown us that.
00:27:25From now on, we cooperate to get out of the cage. Understood?
00:27:45So, where's home, Gil?
00:27:47Portland, Oregon. What about you?
00:27:50I was born in Mobile, Alabama. Raised in Birmingham.
00:27:54How did you go from the Bible Belt to outer space?
00:27:58By telling them all to go to hell.
00:28:03Good for you. Nothing like a fuck you attitude.
00:28:08The West Coast could use some more of that.
00:28:11What about you? Where's home?
00:28:13Don't fucking talk to me.
00:28:14No. Relax.
00:28:17There's a fuck you attitude.
00:28:25You okay?
00:28:26It won't stop itching. It hurts.
00:28:29Let me have a look.
00:28:31Is it bad?
00:28:34It's just gross.
00:28:35That feels gross, man.
00:28:38You know, that's just what happens when you're convinced it's bad.
00:28:43That's just what happens when you don't want your child to have it.
00:28:47You know, that's just what happens when you're not a happy parent.
00:28:51You don't want your kids to have it?
00:28:52I'm not a happy parent.
00:28:53I'm not a happy parent.
00:28:54I'm not happy with you, man.
00:28:55I'm not happy with you.
00:28:56No, it's just gross.
00:28:58Ah, it feels gross, man.
00:29:07NASA will be here in 24 hours.
00:29:09Maybe they can take a better look at you.
00:29:11Um, I know that the virus is blood-borne,
00:29:14but we'd all be just a little more comfortable if maybe...
00:29:17No! No, you are not quarantining me!
00:29:20We're not going to quarantine you, okay?
00:29:23I already busted the lock off to get down there.
00:29:27I couldn't if I tried.
00:29:54She blew it up. I saw her.
00:29:58She put explosives in the cargo area.
00:30:13What are you doing?
00:30:17I'm not doing anything.
00:30:19What are you doing?
00:30:23Hearing him out.
00:30:25He's not a good guy, Asher.
00:30:28Cosmo says we have enough oxygen for just over 24 hours.
00:30:32A third person makes that 16, so we will suffocate before NASA...
00:30:36Maya, we can't just...
00:30:37I agree, we have to work together,
00:30:39but part of that is making difficult decisions.
00:30:41He's violent, he's breathing our air,
00:30:43and he's carrying a deadly alien parasite.
00:30:46This is part of the antiparasitic I was working on for him.
00:30:49A little bit won't kill you, but any more than that...
00:30:51I'm surprised that's not classified.
00:30:54I am sorry I lied. I was trying to do the right thing.
00:30:58But we gave him a chance to explain himself,
00:31:00and I still think the best thing would be to get rid of him.
00:31:03Either he dies, or we all do.
00:31:05Come on, where's that fuck-you attitude you're so proud of?
00:31:11If I do this,
00:31:14If I do this,
00:31:16you tell me the truth. All of it.
00:31:19Yes. Yes, I just want to make it home alive.
00:31:44You're doing the right thing.
00:32:10Hey.
00:32:13I had some spare water.
00:32:15And food.
00:32:25I'll get some more.
00:32:28She'll try to kill you, too.
00:32:30I saw her.
00:32:31It was a chemical bomb, rigged to explode.
00:32:34Why would she blow up the ship?
00:32:36You should know what is wrong with you.
00:32:38You should know me.
00:32:40I hit my head during the explosion. I can't remember much.
00:32:43You should at least remember something about these people.
00:32:47Why would I?
00:32:49Because you cleaned their lab.
00:32:54I don't remember anything.
00:32:57Hey.
00:33:08Hey.
00:33:10Who's this?
00:33:19You should remember her, too.
00:33:27Did you do it?
00:33:34Yeah.
00:33:39I'm going to pour the rest out.
00:33:56Okay.
00:34:27If it was dangerous to human beings, I'd do it.
00:34:44Please.
00:34:49Are you ready?
00:34:51Yes.
00:34:53Are you ready?
00:34:58Yeah.
00:35:22As I'm looking at the stats, there's a lot of oxygen in the air.
00:35:25But I'm still in touch with a lot of oxygen.
00:35:27So, about 30% of oxygen we have just in 23 hours.
00:35:32Our oxygen status is good, but we're not convinced.
00:35:34Gail's down below.
00:35:36And as you're just talking to her, there's a lot of oxygen in the air.
00:35:39So, you guys are going to have to watch out.
00:35:41As I'm just talking to her, there's a lot of oxygen in the air.
00:35:44I don't know how sick Gail's going to be, but I think that should eliminate the problem.
00:35:47Hopefully, we'll be able to keep up.
00:35:50You scared me.
00:35:52Who are you talking to?
00:35:54No one. Just myself.
00:35:56There's no one on your earpiece or anything?
00:36:00No. We don't have any signal.
00:36:03These are standard issue. You have one too?
00:36:07If he's not contagious, and he's not violent anymore, I can't kill him.
00:36:14Are you serious?
00:36:16We have time.
00:36:18I couldn't live with myself if I didn't try everything.
00:36:22Would you stop me if I did it?
00:36:25No.
00:36:27I don't want to die.
00:36:29I don't want to die.
00:36:31I don't want to die.
00:36:33Would you stop me if I did it?
00:36:40Guys?
00:36:43I'm so nauseous.
00:36:46We told you to stay down there.
00:36:49I don't feel good.
00:36:54Here. Drink. It'll make you feel better.
00:37:03No.
00:37:19Gail, don't drink that!
00:37:25Why?
00:37:27Maya and I were talking, and there's only enough oxygen for two of us before NASA gets here.
00:37:34What's in this?
00:37:35Water.
00:37:36Poisoned water.
00:37:38One of us has to drink it or all of us will die.
00:37:41And since I'm the sick one, I should just take one for the team, right?
00:37:46Yeah.
00:37:48Fine.
00:37:59The microbe inside me is the only proof humanity has ever had of life on another planet.
00:38:04Don't you think NASA would like to see that?
00:38:07Or, I don't know, Starline?
00:38:09I'm valuable cargo.
00:38:12My first instinct is to make her drink it.
00:38:15She's a liar and she tried to kill me.
00:38:19But you, you're just a janitor.
00:38:22She's a biologist.
00:38:24She could keep me alive until we get home, where she could prove to the world that I'm not full of shit.
00:38:31And what do we do?
00:38:36We leave it to chance.
00:38:42That's only fair, right?
00:38:44Sit!
00:38:47Don't make me choose for you.
00:38:59You guys ever play spin the bottle on Earth?
00:39:02Oh, you've got to be kidding.
00:39:07Whoever it lands on, drinks.
00:39:15You really think he'll drink if it lands on him?
00:39:19Look, it's the only fair way.
00:39:21If he doesn't do it, we'll kill him ourselves.
00:39:23How do you plan on doing that?
00:39:27Okay, look, Gal, there are other things that we could try, things we could do to extend our...
00:39:31Then why'd you almost make me drink it?
00:39:34Quit stalling!
00:39:37Who goes first?
00:39:42Maya.
00:39:45Unless you forfeit.
00:40:07Oh.
00:40:15Your turn.
00:40:37You said it yourself, we haven't tried everything.
00:40:46Don't leave me with him.
00:41:07I'll drink it.
00:41:11What?
00:41:13I'll do it.
00:41:15I'll drink it.
00:41:17That doesn't even make any sense, why would you...
00:41:19I will, I'll do it.
00:41:23No, that...
00:41:24No, that doesn't...
00:41:26make any sense.
00:41:31No!
00:41:33No!
00:41:35No!
00:41:47I can feel them moving!
00:41:55I can't breathe!
00:41:59I think I'm dying, Asher!
00:42:05I can't breathe!
00:42:25I hear he's dead.
00:42:30That's so fucking bad.
00:42:39Sometimes things just resolve themselves.
00:42:44Oh, it reeks!
00:42:46It smells so, so bad!
00:42:51Oh no!
00:43:05Oh no.
00:43:23Um...
00:43:27What?
00:43:29How are you hungry after that?
00:43:32It's just puke.
00:43:34That was not just puke.
00:43:42Oh, we missed a message.
00:43:44Really?
00:43:46Cosmo, play message.
00:43:49Playing message.
00:43:51This is Commander Jack Schaefer, head of SNR at the NASA Cupid Diamond Mine.
00:43:55Our rescue pods had to detour around an asteroid cluster but are en route to your location.
00:44:00ETA is ten hours and thirty-eight minutes.
00:44:05Cosmo, how much oxygen do we have left?
00:44:08You have thirteen hours and six minutes remaining.
00:44:24We're gonna make it.
00:44:27Unless there's another explosion impact or stowaway.
00:44:32Yeah.
00:44:35I just want to make it home.
00:44:48Who do you have back home?
00:44:52My mom and dad.
00:44:54My sister.
00:44:56You.
00:44:58Um...
00:45:00I don't really have anyone.
00:45:06Do you think you'll go back up?
00:45:08Of course.
00:45:10I regret going.
00:45:14We have to make it home. I can't let this decision kill me.
00:45:21If we're gonna do this, I need to know everything.
00:45:28You heard most of it.
00:45:31Gail's team found microbes on Selene.
00:45:35But then Gail got sick a few hours later.
00:45:37And we had to keep him locked up because he would black out and go on these violent rampages.
00:45:43So when he got out, I stopped what I was doing and I put what I was working on in my pockets and chased him down to the Orlop.
00:45:53Hm.
00:45:57Who's this?
00:45:59Where did you find this?
00:46:07I don't know.
00:46:14I found it in the undercarriage. Gail said I'd remember.
00:46:18Do you?
00:46:20No.
00:46:23But I feel like he's right.
00:46:25Any memories coming back?
00:46:33I'm gonna do everything I can to get us back home.
00:46:38I promise.
00:46:54Gail?
00:47:19Cosmo, can you talk to me in my earpiece?
00:47:21Yes I can. How can I assist you?
00:47:33Cosmo, where's the key for the vent by the command module?
00:47:36There are no vents by the command module.
00:47:39Cosmo, where are all the different keys located?
00:47:42The maintenance key is located in the black toolbox on the rear wall, to the right of the exit ladder.
00:47:48Cosmo, where's the other key?
00:47:51I'm not sure I understand.
00:48:17I don't know.
00:48:47I don't know.
00:49:17What's going on?
00:49:47Ah!
00:50:18Ah!
00:50:29Ah!
00:50:31Ah!
00:50:40Ah!
00:50:44Ah!
00:50:47Ah!
00:50:50Ah!
00:50:55Ah!
00:51:12But would you blow it out?
00:51:15The procedure's painless, right? You'll be fine.
00:51:21What if I mess it all up?
00:51:25You have to blow it up.
00:51:29See you on the other side.
00:51:44Fuck.
00:52:14Fuck.
00:52:45Fuck.
00:52:47Fuck.
00:53:12Incoming call.
00:53:13Incoming call.
00:53:16Incoming call.
00:53:19Incoming call.
00:53:21Cosmo, answer!
00:53:23Hello? Can you hear me?
00:53:26Who is this?
00:53:27This is Nico Hayes with the Magellan...
00:53:29Oh my god, it's Maya!
00:53:30Maya? Ah, thank god you made it! Where were you?
00:53:34I was on the Orlop, looking for Gale.
00:53:36Ah, I was doing the same thing in the captain's quarters.
00:53:39How'd you get in?
00:53:40The door was open. I thought he broke in.
00:53:44So, you're in the captain's pod?
00:53:46Yeah. I think you and I are the only ones who made it out alive.
00:53:50What about the captain?
00:53:52I haven't seen him.
00:53:54We managed to make it on a big commander pod.
00:53:57We?
00:53:58Oh, I'm with a UT, Asher Collins.
00:54:01The upkeep guy?
00:54:03Yeah, I didn't recognize him.
00:54:05He cleaned our lab at night. You wouldn't have seen him.
00:54:07You know, Gale said I...
00:54:10Has NASA called you yet?
00:54:12Yeah. We got a message from them about an hour ago.
00:54:15Us too.
00:54:17I wonder if there's not a way for us both to...
00:54:20Don't mention Gale.
00:54:22If she finds out he was here, she'll tell NASA not to come.
00:54:25Why?
00:54:26She thought he was contagious.
00:54:28He is?
00:54:29Yes, by blood. But she thought that it might mutate and become airborne.
00:54:32Will it?
00:54:33No. No, that's impossible. Viruses take weeks to mutate.
00:54:36Well, this isn't a normal virus.
00:54:38Incoming call.
00:54:40NASA can just quarantine us, can't they?
00:54:42No. They'll send a separate shuttle and we'll suffocate before it gets here.
00:54:45Incoming call.
00:54:48Hey, sorry, our connection's bad.
00:54:50I figured. Your pod only popped up on my radar a little bit ago.
00:54:54What are you doing?
00:54:55NASA needs to know if we're a risk.
00:54:57This is life or death.
00:54:58It's life or death for them too.
00:55:00I am not getting caught up in the formalities of quarantine.
00:55:08Where did you get...
00:55:09Stop. Don't move.
00:55:13Tell me everything.
00:55:14I already did.
00:55:15You're lying.
00:55:21My earpiece.
00:55:27Asher, give it back.
00:55:29Why? There's no signal out here.
00:55:33Unless there's something you're not telling me.
00:55:35I already told you everything.
00:55:40Shit!
00:55:43You had a maintenance key this whole time.
00:55:45You went through my pockets?
00:55:47I found your stash.
00:55:48The poison and the gun.
00:55:50Okay, okay, okay. They're not my keys.
00:55:53I found them on you.
00:55:57I didn't drag you in. I found you in this chair when I got on board.
00:56:02You had a gun, which scared me. Your head was messed up.
00:56:04I didn't know who you were, but I didn't want to leave you,
00:56:06so I just took your stuff and I hid it.
00:56:10How do I know you're not lying?
00:56:14You don't.
00:56:32The med kit did not have staples.
00:56:34It had butterfly bandages.
00:56:36Who fixed me up?
00:56:38I don't know.
00:56:39You were like that when I got here.
00:56:42Then why were you putting bandages over the staples?
00:56:45Because I know that wound.
00:56:48I've seen it before.
00:56:51It's a chip.
00:56:54Designed to selectively remove your memories from the last five years.
00:57:06And this?
00:57:08That's what worried me the most.
00:57:11These chips, they're designed to remove classified information,
00:57:15and they use these remotes to punish you
00:57:18any time you remember something they don't want you to.
00:57:22That means either you stole it at gunpoint,
00:57:28or whoever put that in your head gave it to you.
00:57:31Either way, I felt it was safer if you just forgot.
00:57:54The procedure's painless. You'll be fine.
00:57:57What if I mess it all up?
00:57:58You have to blow it up.
00:57:59See you on the other side.
00:58:00But would you blow it up?
00:58:07Out of water.
00:58:12I figured it out.
00:58:17Are you alright?
00:58:19Yeah, I'm fine. I'm just...
00:58:22Wrong pipe.
00:58:23You don't look fine.
00:58:24There's something in my throat.
00:58:26Maya, if you're sick...
00:58:27I'm not sick.
00:58:33I figured it out.
00:58:54It's just like Gail.
00:59:06He was fine, and then all of a sudden he's...
00:59:09Oh, no. No, no, no. Go get the bioscanner.
00:59:24Ah!
00:59:40It mutated.
00:59:42Yeah.
00:59:44No shit.
00:59:48How long did Gail survive?
00:59:52Three and a half days.
00:59:55If NASA sends a quarantine pod, then it's just a matter of how much oxygen we have.
00:59:59We are not telling NASA.
01:00:02Maya, we can't expose them to this.
01:00:04We don't know how it manifests in other people.
01:00:07Maybe mine will be mild. Maybe it varies by sex.
01:00:10You're not sick, and you were exposed the same time as I was.
01:00:18Let's get you to bed.
01:00:25Come on.
01:00:38I don't want to die out here.
01:00:43Can I tell you something?
01:00:48Sure.
01:00:52I lied too.
01:00:55Some memories have been coming back.
01:00:58What kind of memories?
01:01:01Maya, I blew up in the jail.
01:01:09What the fuck?
01:01:17Gail?
01:01:24Don't move.
01:01:37That's impossible.
01:01:39What?
01:01:41If he's been alive this whole time, then how have we had enough oxygen?
01:01:50Oh, shit!
01:01:55Oh, shit!
01:02:16Where's that gun?
01:02:18I'm coming after her!
01:02:24Shit!
01:02:54Oh, shit!
01:03:00I got him!
01:03:07He's playing dead.
01:03:09What?
01:03:10Our oxygen levels have stayed constant since he died.
01:03:13There's no oxygen on Selene. The microbes are controlling his body.
01:03:17Grab the gun.
01:03:21Shit!
01:03:24Shit!
01:03:54Shit!
01:04:25Hey, you okay?
01:04:27Asher.
01:04:29Wake up.
01:04:32Oh, thank God.
01:04:34What happened?
01:04:35I think you got shocked.
01:04:37How long was I out?
01:04:39Less than a minute.
01:04:42And Gail?
01:04:44I think he was electrocuted.
01:04:47Well, was he or wasn't he?
01:04:51I don't really know.
01:04:53I don't really know.
01:04:55Whoa, whoa, hey, hey, take it easy. Slow down.
01:04:57I'm fine.
01:05:09And with him goes the whole pod. No power, no water, no DSM.
01:05:16When does NASA get here?
01:05:18Ten hours.
01:05:19Ten hours?
01:05:21As long as we appear healthy, we can make it on that shuttle.
01:05:32Maya, I blew up the Magellan to stop the spread of the virus to Earth.
01:05:38That doesn't make any sense.
01:05:41I've had memories come back talking to Gail and the girl on the ID about it.
01:05:45That doesn't mean you blew it up.
01:05:47Maya, think about it. I cleaned your lap.
01:05:49I knew what was going on.
01:05:51As soon as Gail got out, maybe I ran to the Captain's quarters and...
01:05:56Then why wouldn't you have taken the Captain's pod?
01:05:59And what about your chip?
01:06:01Those take hours to implant, plus recovery time.
01:06:04Your wound was fresh when I found you.
01:06:08Regardless, blowing it up was the right idea.
01:06:12Killing hundreds of people on board was the right idea?
01:06:16Maya, they were dead as soon as Gail got out of the lab.
01:06:20We need to end this here and now.
01:06:27I'm fine.
01:06:29Maya, you're not fine.
01:06:38I think we should consider blowing up the pod.
01:06:42So that's it then?
01:06:44You just decided I'm going to die up here?
01:06:46I haven't decided anything.
01:06:49I'm just saying that we should consider...
01:06:53I will lock you in the undercarriage when NASA gets here.
01:06:57You can fend for yourself.
01:06:59Then what?
01:07:01NASA quarantines you, you survive, they let you go?
01:07:04Exactly!
01:07:07Maya, look at your hand.
01:07:13You were sick.
01:07:14No.
01:07:16You were sick.
01:07:18It's only a matter of time before I get sick too.
01:07:22You can't survive this.
01:07:24How the hell do you know?
01:07:27If you want to kill yourself on this ship, that is on you.
01:07:30But I have a life on Earth.
01:07:33I was dwindled into a quarter century prison sentence.
01:07:38My mother begged me not to go.
01:07:41My sister told me she'd never forgive me.
01:07:42My father acted like I was suicidal.
01:07:45I have to see them again.
01:07:50All I'm saying is that we consider this without you pointing a gun at me.
01:07:56That's all.
01:07:57That's all.
01:08:11Remind me why you went to space.
01:08:13I told you, I bought into the whole Earth has ended bullshit and...
01:08:18You wanted to make a difference.
01:08:23Yeah.
01:08:25Maybe this is your chance.
01:08:34Maya, are you alright?
01:08:39False alarm.
01:08:45Okay.
01:08:48Let's turn the power off and blow up the pod.
01:08:55Maya?
01:09:14This water is freezing.
01:09:16That's for having your head dunked in it.
01:09:21You know, I used to swim.
01:09:22You know, I used to swim every day on Earth.
01:09:26Yeah, I actually didn't learn how to swim until I was 14.
01:09:30What? How?
01:09:32I grew up in the city and just never went to the pool.
01:09:36What made you learn?
01:09:39My mom told me it was too late.
01:09:43So then I had to learn.
01:09:45So, what, you bought some floaties and found a pool and gave it a shot?
01:09:54Pretty much, yeah.
01:09:56I don't know, it was hard.
01:09:59Proved my mom wrong.
01:10:02Proving people wrong has motivated me to do a lot.
01:10:07Did proving people wrong motivate you to go to space?
01:10:10Go to space?
01:10:13Not really.
01:10:16I've never really helped many people in high regard.
01:10:21Then why try to save them by blowing yourself up?
01:10:29This wire should hold.
01:10:33You sure about this?
01:10:36Not really.
01:10:38Come on, I have an idea.
01:10:43We're lucky.
01:10:45Not many people get to choose their last meal.
01:10:51Tube of gravy?
01:10:56Pea soup?
01:11:02Freeze-dried ice cream sandwich?
01:11:05I can't, I'm lactose intolerant.
01:11:09Will it kill you?
01:11:19Cheers.
01:11:22Cheers.
01:11:35Alright.
01:11:38Death row lightning round.
01:11:41You ready?
01:11:42Yeah.
01:11:44What's something you've never told anybody?
01:11:47Anyone.
01:11:49Ever.
01:11:52I lost my virginity in my grandparents' bed.
01:11:56What the fuck?
01:11:58Yes.
01:11:59How?
01:12:00It's not like they were there with us.
01:12:01We were house-sitting for them and it was the only bed.
01:12:07What was her name?
01:12:10Mary Kate Sherwood.
01:12:12Oh, so southern.
01:12:15Yeah, we broke up just after I applied for the Starline job.
01:12:19Do you miss her?
01:12:21I always knew it wouldn't last.
01:12:24I was going to spend my life in space no matter what.
01:12:26I was going to spend my life in space no matter what.
01:12:29Despite what she said or my mom or my teachers or ...
01:12:34But you didn't answer my question.
01:12:39A little.
01:12:41There's a few people I miss from that time.
01:12:44Like who?
01:12:46Her.
01:12:48My mom's ex-boyfriend, Mike.
01:12:52My high school best friend, Levi.
01:12:54Were you trying to prove them wrong by coming out here?
01:13:00It ...
01:13:02I don't think people know how life works.
01:13:05It seems that at some point everyone decides they're one thing
01:13:09because of what's happened to them or what they've been told or ...
01:13:13I don't know, I guess everyone I knew felt pretty small and ...
01:13:17when they looked at me they saw the same thing.
01:13:19But what are you supposed to do when all that you've wanted is something more?
01:13:25So I guess I thought that if they could hear my name or see my face
01:13:29because I discovered something bigger than all of them
01:13:32that that would be the biggest fuck you.
01:13:36So ...
01:13:38you're out here in space doing good for humanity
01:13:44that you also want to say fuck you to?
01:13:47How does that work?
01:13:49What are you getting at?
01:13:51That you have people you need to make amends with on Earth, clearly.
01:13:56And that you have so much to offer out here in space.
01:13:59I mean, you said it yourself, Asher, it would be a waste of ...
01:14:11How are you feeling?
01:14:12How are you feeling?
01:14:16Totally fine.
01:14:20Then you should go without me.
01:14:24I'll be sick soon.
01:14:26No, Asher, maybe some people are immune.
01:14:28Maya, I know that you want to make it pack, but ...
01:14:33I'm getting sicker, Asher.
01:14:36I'm not going to make it, but you have a chance.
01:14:39You're not sick and you should be.
01:14:42So you should go without me.
01:14:47Maybe you're right.
01:14:51Spacecraft approaching.
01:14:55Spacecraft approaching.
01:14:58They're early.
01:15:00Spacecraft approaching.
01:15:04Asher, you should go.
01:15:08I don't know.
01:15:10This microbe is the only proof we have that there's life on other planets.
01:15:15You could be the one to bring that to Starlight.
01:15:17How many lives are worth my own?
01:15:19If I'm immune, can I spread it?
01:15:21Would I take that back to Earth?
01:15:23What if five people from NASA die because of me?
01:15:25Or two, or even one?
01:15:27Asher, you're not sick.
01:15:31If I go, no matter what, I risk spreading the virus back to Earth.
01:15:35You don't have to do this.
01:15:36If even one person died because of my selfishness, I couldn't live with myself.
01:15:53Cosmo initiate self-destruct.
01:15:56You would like to initiate the self-destruct mechanism, is that correct?
01:16:01Yes.
01:16:03Confirmed. Self-destructing in 15, 14...
01:16:07I'm sorry it had to be this way.
01:16:0912, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
01:16:26The character and ethics section of the Starline astronaut entrance examination has been completed.
01:16:33Please make your way to the exit so that we may disable your memory chip.
01:16:40Congratulations.
01:16:43Stand back. Escape pod simulator door opening.
01:16:48Stand back. Escape pod simulator door opening.
01:16:51Stand back. Escape pod simulator door opening.
01:16:56Hey, stay back!
01:16:58Asher, it's okay.
01:17:00No, we're sick. Do not come on board.
01:17:02Asher, put the gun down.
01:17:04Asher Collins, we have a doctor ready for you.
01:17:08Asher, Asher, Asher.
01:17:10No, we're sick. Don't, stay back!
01:17:12Asher, you have to calm down or they're going to have to restrain you.
01:17:18You lied to me.
01:17:20You lied to me.
01:17:23Alright, you guys take it from here.
01:17:26Hey, hey, it was just a test.
01:17:31Give us the gun.
01:17:33Hey, hey, it was just a test.
01:17:35No, no, no.
01:17:37Stop it, stop it.
01:17:39Oh, shit.
01:17:41Relax.
01:17:43Stop it.
01:17:45Oh, thank God.
01:17:49Get off me.
01:17:55Don't worry, it'll all make sense after the procedure.
01:17:59Let's get him out.
01:18:07Oh, my God.
01:18:11Hey, Gail.
01:18:13Hey, John, how's it going?
01:18:16Asher?
01:18:17Asher?
01:18:19You nearly fucking killed me.
01:18:21But that's how it goes, so good job.
01:18:24Hey.
01:18:25Hey, what's up?
01:18:26Nice work.
01:18:28What the fuck?
01:18:48Asher.
01:18:50Hey.
01:18:54Hey, congrats.
01:18:56You too.
01:18:58What are you doing out here?
01:19:00Just enjoying the earth while I'm still on it.
01:19:04Oh, you have to tell me about your exam.
01:19:06Maya told me that it was crazy.
01:19:08Yeah, it was.
01:19:10We were pretty off script.
01:19:12Gail told me they had to buzz you because you almost electrocuted him.
01:19:15Yeah.
01:19:17Yeah, you know, I also stole a key from Maya and broke in one of the supply vents.
01:19:21What?
01:19:23You know, by the passenger chair, they had a vent that they were feeding her props.
01:19:26Like the fake gun and a buzzer and, like, extra powder.
01:19:30Did you have to take that powder?
01:19:32Oh, no. No, but apparently that was why Maya and Gail were so sick.
01:19:36It's awful. It's like baking soda and vinegar for your stomach and lungs.
01:19:40We played spin the bottle, so I had to drink it.
01:19:42Wait, did you get all the skin rashes?
01:19:46It's like a fungus.
01:19:48It dries up and scrapes off right after they give you the antidote, but still.
01:19:52You know, Maya told me they're rewriting a bunch of the exam because I exposed so many holes in it.
01:19:57Yeah, I heard you tore the freaking staples right out of your head.
01:20:00Yeah, I mean, what did they expect?
01:20:02They can't put staples there and expect you to just accept that that's brain damage?
01:20:06No. You know, I found your ID in the undercarriage too.
01:20:09The cleanup crew had completely forgotten to take it out.
01:20:10What?
01:20:12Yeah, I mean, it totally threw us off script.
01:20:14Did you hear that Jacob failed the exam?
01:20:17Yeah. Yeah, I'm glad, actually. The exam was made to weed out people like him.
01:20:22But I like Jacob.
01:20:24Look, he's nice and he did really well on all the written exams,
01:20:29but as soon as the memory chip goes in and all that training goes away,
01:20:34your true character comes out, and to be honest, I'm not really at all surprised
01:20:38that he decided to save himself and not blow up the pod.
01:20:42I could have failed. I really thought about saving myself.
01:20:48Yeah. Yeah, I guess that's kind of one thing the exam revealed.
01:20:54Like most of my reason for going to space was that I wanted to prove something to people back home.
01:21:01Same. I always imagined that I'd do something big and die with a legacy,
01:21:06not die anonymously, saving everybody from a virus they'll never know existed.
01:21:13Oh, um, that's my alarm.
01:21:19Actually, I gotta go.
01:21:21Where are you going?
01:21:23I got family to see. Just gotta clean a few things up.
01:21:26Okay.
01:21:30Do you think the food in space will be better than it was in the pods?
01:21:33Yeah, I really hope so.
01:21:34The only really good thing was those sandwiches.
01:22:04NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology