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Computer, playback letter from Corinne. Time index, 2242.

Hi, Virgil. If you're watching this vid disc, it means you got the serum from

Earth and you're already on your way home.

The whole colony knows you're doing your best.

And impossible as it sounds, I want you to try not to worry about us.

I admit there have been deaths. It's a terrible virus.

But both John and I are fine.

Eight more colonists were quarantined yesterday, and if we're lucky, that'll

the extent of the outbreak.

There's someone who wants to say hello. Come here, honey. Come here.

Daddy, Daddy.

Hi, Dad. No, wait, wait, wait. Come up here.

There, there.

Hope you didn't lose my Aggie.

Keep it, Charney.

It brings you luck.

Bye, bye. Bye, Dad.

You watching that again?

Those discs are only good up to 10 ,000 plays.

How much longer till we reach the colony, Commander Virgil?

Started deceleration about two hours ago, Governor. We'll drop out of Matrix

10 seconds.

I understand the new ships can make this trip in half the time.

The Tempest is such an old wreck.

I'll be amazed if we make it at all.

It was the best Earth could spare, Captain.

Okay. Check the blind spots for singularities.

Nothing. Let's park over here.

Okay. Initiating dampening sequence.

Now.

Warning, gravitational field.

Bitch! What's wrong?

I have reaction drive.

We won't be back online for 30 seconds.

Well, screw it.

What's happening?

We left Matrix within the gravity well of a planet.

Leviathans. Doctor, get the serum in the escape pod. The governor should go.

The governor can't save the colony from the virus, doctor. You can.

Go!

I'm not protecting!

Sit back in your seat and shut up, governor! I don't got time for this!

Doctor, you're going to get that serum to the colony. Six and a half million

people are going to die. Now save my family.

Sit down, Governor.

It's just speaking away.

Eight seconds till engine starts.

On the escape pod, on my mark, three, two,

one. Help!

Corinne.

There is nothing wrong with your television.

Do not attempt to adjust the picture.

We are now controlling the transmission.

We control the horizontal and the vertical.

We can deluge you with a thousand channels.

or expand one single image to crystal clarity and beyond.

We can shape your vision to anything our imagination can conceive.

For the next hour, we will control all that you see and hear.

are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the deepest

mind to the outer limits.

What is freedom but the ability to make choices between courage and cowardice,

duty and love, or even heaven and hell?

The nature of the choices we make define us as human beings. We choose the world

we inhabit.

Easy, Commander, easy.

Worker. Unconscious.

Concussion possible.

Subdural hematoma.

Where's his hat? Excuse me?

It's not dead. He needs his hat.

We don't show up in the end.

The floor has to be cut to both chambers. How?

There.

Switch mark override.

See it. On my mark.

Three, two, one.

Mark.

Escape pod failed to launch.

Wrap. I can handle it.

You take care of the captain.

All right.

Did we crash land?

Leviathan's a gas giant.

He should have been crushed by his gravity.

How could this happen?

That ship was over -attacked, Governor.

Still, it was the best that Earth could spare.

Perhaps we're adrift.

Oh, ma 'am, we landed somewhere.

We got gravity. 1 .2 Gs or something.

We had gravity before we crashed.

That's when we had a field generator.

I understand you have family around the colony. I have family, ma 'am.

And as long as the serum exists, we still have a chance.

How did Bert soon find us so quickly?

Oh.

Communication and sensor arrays must have collapsed during the crash.

Oh.

How is he?

Sprained ankle.

Internal bleeding.

Bert.

My head on?

Never came off.

So, how's my life?

Yeah, boy, you're alive.

How come?

Dan, did I know?

What the hell is he doing here?

Escape pod failed.

Lucky for you, Captain.

What's our status?

The engines are off, but so is life support.

Small mercies, it looks like fire suppression did its job.

There's a hull breach aft, but... All kids went on a lock, so we're cut off

the rest of Tempest.

Communications? They're raised now.

Where the hell are we?

Best guess, we bounced off Leviathan's atmosphere and crashed on one of his

moons. Oh!

Chances are that... We've always been lucky.

I'm gonna have to give you something for the pain.

Get a message to Corrine! Okay, okay.

No offense, Commander, but it hardly seems our first priority is to get a

message to your wife.

It is when she's the head of Tablo's colony search and rescue.

Well, that's off to me. Press that button.

I'm going to go see where the hell we are.

That doctor's worse than he looks.

There's not a lot I can do about the head injury.

How long?

Well, without surgery, the pressure inside his skull will continue to build.

long? If he moves as little as possible, perhaps.

Forty -eight hours.

You and Captain Parker served together.

Yeah, Father Earth.

End loss.

The colonies made their point, Commander.

Right. So when Tabula's colony got the Elysian sea virus, we had to go begging

for the serum.

They sent me, Commander Virgil, and at the risk of sounding immodest, I am the

best epidemiologist on Earth.

Of course.

That way, if the new colonial governor gets sick, you can save him.

That's extremely cynical.

Let's be honest, Doctor.

If Tablas is destroyed by Elysian Sea, Earth can just be colonized.

It'd be a lot simpler for everybody, wouldn't it?

I don't know, doctor.

I have no idea where we are.

It's dark and murky, so there's obviously an atmosphere.

Let's just hope it's not corrosive.

We're embedded in a smooth, sharp mud.

Ferris, maybe.

Commander Virgil, this is Governor Mudry. Where the hell else would it be?

Can you fix the ship?

Looks pretty bad.

Can you fix it enough to make some kind of distress call?

Maybe.

I think I can jerry -rig something.

What about the engine?

Commander Virgil, can we take off again?

What about the engine? What is it, Commander? What's out there?

Airlock 3.

Warning. Biohazard. Airlock 3.

Warning. Airlock 3.

to the land of the living.

Don't speak, sweetheart. Don't let me speak.

Commander Virgil, this time I think you'll stay with us. Yes, yes.

I understood that.

Perhaps it would be best if you stayed.

Oh, sweetheart.

You must want to know, I'm fine. I'm fine, and John Jr.'s fine.

Although, by the time we found Tempest floating derelict in space, he was in a

coma, and I was in the first stage of the Felicity, but...

You saved the whole colony.

You've been in a coma for three weeks.

First from your injuries, and then because you contracted lesions to

But you're going to be all right.

As long as you fight it.

Okay? You're going to fight it.

Honey, come here.

Dad?

Try to relax, Commander.

When you're awake, you'll have regained all your faculties.

Dad, you need this more than I do.

Look who decided to join us, Doc.

We're cut off from crew quarters, so we put you in there.

Not too coffin -like, I hope.

I dreamed I was back home on tablets.

Yes, you were muttering something about that.

It's the spider poison. It has a hallucinatory effect.

I've been out for 12 hours.

In your spacesuit.

It was so real.

Corrine kissed me.

The venom seeks receptors in the hypothalamus and the cortex. It has

mind -altering effect.

You're good stuff.

Satisfies your every wish.

First, the governor had wild dreams, too. She muttered something about

up the Federated Nations.

Healing the rift between the colonies and Earth.

What do you mean, at first?

You were attacked and bitten by one of the spider creatures.

Two more made their way into the airlock.

One I killed with this.

The other...

Her eyes are very sensitive to light.

My God.

Take it easy, Governor.

The spider has control.

Heart, lungs, liver, kidneys.

If I remove it, she'll die.

If it ever happens to me, just chop off my damn head.

Well, where are we, Ferris?

Outside. There's gravity, an atmosphere, so it's...

One of Leviathan's moons.

I don't know, Park. I didn't have a lot of time to look.

Hey.

The escape pod should be able to make orbit of a small moon. Now, why don't we

put the doctor in there with the serum?

I already thought of that.

The pod guidance system needs at least a 40 degree up angle for launching

gravity.

And we're stuck in the muck.

To fix the engines, yeah.

Do we have to go outside again?

Yep.

I'll suit up.

It's okay. I'm here.

I'm here. It's okay. I was aboard Tempest. No, you're here at home. You

dreaming. This, you see, causes hallucinations, Commander. Nightmares.

Most of the people here understand what you're going through. It's all right.

You must listen to me.

I can't give you much... It will cause nerve damage. You have to try to stay

conscious. Try to stay here, Johnny. If you slip away again, we'll lose you.

Please, please stay with us, honey. Try to stay with us.

Try to stay conscious, Commander Virgil. We're losing him. No, Virgil, Virgil,

you fight.

Open your eyes. Commander. Open your eyes.

Don't leave us again.

Father, dear father, have I found you at last?

Pinocchio answered the old man. Is it really you?

The great whale came out of the sea, put out its tongue and swallowed me in one

gulp. Ja.

Mom!

Mom!

You almost died, Dad.

Remarkable.

The three of us survived the Mercy mission.

You, me, and Captain Parker.

Governor Muddery died.

And the main thing is who survived.

I need to see Parker.

And then we had you on sensors when you went down.

You were too close to Leviathan.

Well, I thought you hit the light of the atmosphere.

I was in the escape pod when the engines fired. You bounced off that atmosphere.

I crashed onto a moon.

The moon? No, Virgil, we found you adrift. No life support, no power.

I was the only one conscious. I didn't know what to do. When your wife came

through the airlock, I thought she was the most beautiful creature I'd ever

seen. She is.

What about Pampas?

Oh, she wasn't worth salvaging.

I need to see him alone.

It's on the ship.

Come on.

Get it, Spider.

How's it going?

Are you all right? Only me with the Spider.

Come back for me, Spider.

We made it. Hey, Spider!

She sees it. Sees what?

Good question.

Connor?

Mark,

what's happening to me?

You hallucinate.

It's the spider poison.

Look, the dreams are just as real as this.

You know, we're pretty well screwed.

You don't pull it together, Virg. You called me back.

Or else we're gonna die, kid.

I don't know what's real.

You got squished by seven Gs.

Wrapped on the head.

Bitten by a poisonous spider as big as my butt.

You're breathing toxins more than oxygen.

That's what's real.

You look like hell. If you stayed conscious for more than five minutes,

notice the air's getting pretty skimpy.

Where's the doctor?

He's trying to fit into a spacesuit.

Why? He doesn't know anything about engines?

Have I got this thing on right?

It's backwards.

Keep looking around, Bird.

I want to see if those bugs are attacking you.

You want to know.

Can you do any combat time in the war, Doc?

As a medic.

Saved as many colonists as I did Earthers.

Oh, yeah, it was a real civilized war, all right. Kept the tragedy to a

didn't you?

Your war for independence is over, Commander.

This is no time to start another one.

I'm at the center of the raid now.

I'll park and get up like spaghetti.

How are the engines?

I can see the auxiliary.

The engines are... are stuck in the muck.

We pretty much forget flying off of this moon.

Communication's our only hope.

Roger that.

What kind of a place is this?

Leviathan has over 200 moons.

Colonies checked out.

Maybe 40.

Two are bigger than us.

Those have life.

Hell, even Leviathan has life in a separate atmosphere.

How will anybody find us in this murk?

We'll let her know where we are.

Corinne will get to us.

Looks like only the ultra -low frequency array is still functioning.

Virgil.

Corinne.

I'm reading your worship position.

Did you say Corinne?

Virgil.

Come home, Virgil.

Doc, bring him back to the airlock.

Are you all right, Commander?

I think I'm picking up search and rescue transmission. Park two here.

Negative.

Listen to me, Virgil. I want you to come home.

Corrine, I hear you. I hear you.

Please respond.

Fire it up!

Commander!

You're the guest of honor, Corrine.

You won the Medal of Valor for saving the colony.

It is my distinct pleasure to award Tablos Medals of Honor to Captain

Stanislav Parker,

Commander

John Virgil,

and

the only Earther ever to receive it,

Dr. Leo Vasquez.

Thank you, Colonel.

Thank you all.

I'm going to talk to you.

Thank you.

What's going on?

How you doing, Virgil? I tried to kill him on the other side of the ship.

You know what's going on! Let him go.

Virg, this is nuts. Let him go.

He knows what's going on.

He's an earth doctor and he has done something to my head. After any trauma,

there can be moments of disassociation. You tried to kill me!

Outside with that weapon you made. What weapon?

That I spent the last three weeks trying to save your life, Virgil. I am living

two lives.

And I don't know which one is real, but this stinking earth I died on.

Commander, when you're not here, where are you?

Aboard Tempest.

What's happening?

We crashed.

There are spiders.

Commander, you've been unconscious for almost three weeks.

I don't know how many times I've almost lost you.

No, no, no. It is no dream.

It's no hallucination.

What... What are the chances of bouncing off a gas giant?

Slim to none.

Greater than finding oneself fighting giant spiders?

What are you trying to tell me that you don't... What's going on?

Hey, we'll see you back in jail.

It's okay, Andrew.

I did.

Flying to Earth and getting the serum.

Getting back.

It wasn't to save the colony.

It wasn't?

All I cared about was getting back to you.

And your mom.

I get it.

Seems like a fair trade for your lucky Aggie.

Yeah, kind of.

I can't find it. Where is it?

Calm down, Dad. We'll find another one. No, I can't find it. It's not here.

You don't want to lose this, do you?

It was home again.

You was a long, long laugh after the good doctor shucked your shorts off.

That's right. You did try to kill me.

Why didn't you just finish me off?

I wasn't firing at you. I was trying to kill the spider on your back.

The war is over, Commander. We have to work together.

Serge.

When I'm there, this feels like a dream. And when I'm here, I can't tell

anymore.

Spider poison.

Oh, thank you very much, Doctor.

Go back home, you blame it on the Elysian Sea.

You don't have that.

How could you have gotten that? Which seems more real?

The other one's a whole lot prettier.

That's right, John.

Corinne. Everybody all right?

Better than all right.

As opposed to suffocating to death, surrounded by poisonous spiders.

Nobody say what's real?

That's reality.

Reality hurts.

Next time you want to go off to a happy land, take us along.

I fixed the landing light. It'll use up a lot of reserve power.

It'll give us an idea of where we're at.

widen the screen.

What, are we inside some kind of cavern?

What is that?

It's a ran -down.

They live in Leviathan's upper atmosphere. They're big mothers.

We've only ever detected them with deep radar.

Here, I magnified.

Oh. Oh.

Oh, is that the view of the future?

I don't know.

We've got power for another distress beacon.

Let me see what else I've got.

Firing.

We're inside a baleen.

A what? A baleen.

It's like a giant jellyfish.

We're inside something alive.

Yep.

I don't think we should have shot the beacon off inside it.

Very good.

pissed it off, huh?

100 kilometers long?

Can we let it imagine it's got that smart?

Find it, Doc?

Yeah.

He's dead.

Those hurt us, you know?

They can't take it when they're going. It's tough.

Not like us.

We are screwed.

We're colonists, eh?

They should have tattooed bone to be screwed across our behinds.

And there's six and a half million

colonists waiting for us to deliver their serum.

including John Jr.

and Corinne.

I'll be back.

Okay, stay with us, John.

This is the dream, Matt.

No, it's not, John. This is the world. This is us. And you can't let yourself

slip back.

It's too perfect.

You have to stay here, Virg. You have to stay conscious, or the virus will kill

you. You have to fight.

I can't risk it.

I had Alicia's E2. I know what it's like. This, this is what's real.

It's reality that I can die a happy man knowing you and John are safe.

No. No. I don't want you to die. Please.

This is an hallucination that you and John Jr. are dying right now.

All of you are dying.

Don't you leave me, John Virgil.

I love you too much to let that happen.

Don't leave me this way.

All you have to favor was yours.

No, Virgil.

You think if John Jr.

told me about... Are

you here or there?

Here.

Good.

When the balloon shook us up, the ship pitched forward another ten degrees.

Just enough.

So the escape pod can launch.

It'll only carry one person.

The other pods are in the aft.

That's right.

What do you want to do, wrestle for?

No.

I'm going to fire the escape pod through the point we came in.

Hark.

Check the map.

Say the pod makes it into orbit.

It could take Corinne days to find it.

I'll be dead anyway.

But before those spider creatures come through the hole, I'll be dead.

Ten seconds, Vital.

I'm coming back to you, Captain.

Please get the seal to your good wife and son.

I'm coming back, but I like you.

Only on payday.

for you, pal.

Godspeed, babe.

This is Tablo's Colony S .A .R. Healing Tempest. Please respond.

Tablo's Colony S .A .R. Healing Tempest. Please respond, Tempest.

Tablo's Colony S .A .R. Healing Tempest. Please respond, Tempest.

John Virgil of the Lightjumper Tempest.

Virgil?

In an escape pod orbiting the life.

Oh, thank God.

Are there any other survivors?

Only... Only all of you.

We have you in visual range. Hang on.

Each of us creates his own world. We conjure paradises from our hopes

and nightmares born of fear.

But what if they are both illusions?

I fear.

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