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[engine whirring]

[Bowen] How much longer, boys?

[man] Things are smooth as butter, sir.

Radiation levels are in the green.

I say another ten minutes.

[Bowen] Outstanding.

Say we check, uh, hydroponics after this.

A little stroll in the moonlight?

How romantic.

Is it that late already? Where does the time go?

[chuckles] Apparently, out of your mind.

-[Bowen] Hey! -[canister thuds]

Careful with that!

[Edwards] Sorry, sir. I'm all right.

I'm not worried about you, Edwards,

but if you crack a seal

on one of those triradium canister,

we'll all glow in the dark till the end of the next century.

Think of the paperwork that'll cause me.

That's just plain inconsiderate.

[Edwards] Yes, sir. Sorry, sir.

Amazing, a teaspoon of that stuff

can power a ship from here to the Earth and back.

Or vaporize the ship

if you make one little mistake.

A lot of things are dangerous and expensive.

Just have to know how to handle them.

I'm not going there.

No, you're not.

-[intercom beeping] -[Elliot] Major Bowen,

report to the command room immediately.

Yes, ma'am, on my way.

[whirring]

[grunts]

So we didn't resolve that hydroponics issue.

We didn't? I thought we did.

No, we didn't.

Ah, strange how we have

different interpretation of things.

Yeah, you'd almost think we were married.

-[giggles] -I thought we were

just getting warmed up.

Warmed up? Dangerous.

That's how you get burned.

That sounds like you're speaking from experience.

Oh, yeah,

it's happened to me once or twice.

-Oh, yeah? -Uh-huh.

Once by a tall, muscular,

charming, dark-haired,

slightly roguish,

only slightly funny...

Ow.

...navy colonel in Shanghai.

Oh.

So is that a yes or a no?

[speaking in Mandarin]

Gesundheit.

[chuckles]

It means...

only the rain will know when the flower will bloom.

Ah. Well, I'm glad we're clear now.

Good.

-Colonel. -[Elliot] Major.

We've got an urgent incoming

from commander-in-chief for Alliance space forces.

Oh, yeah? He probably wants to borrow

your place on Maui again.

After what his kids did to it? I don't think so.

My husband would kill me.

Besides, I promised my niece, she and her friends

could have it as a graduation present

for a week.

Oh, that'll be good. That'll work out just fine.

[computer] Code Blue Alpha.

Transmission reception in 15 seconds.

Major Talif, please return to your quarters.

According to the guidelines agreed to,

for Liaison Exchange,

your liaison officer is privy to all incoming messages,

at our Coalition base, and I'm entitled to the same.

Very well.

Going out of line of sight in five minutes,

53 seconds.

Next window...

12 hours, 18 minutes.

-[intercom beeps] -Colonel Elliot,

some major developments

have occurred on the international scene.

Twenty minutes ago, peace talks

between the Free Alliance and the Coalition

of Middle Eastern and Pacific States broke down.

They accused us

of developing a doomsday device,

a triradium-based anti-matter weapon,

at which point the secretary

accused the CMPS of the same thing.

It ended in a shouting match.

Sam, every gram of triradium that has left Mars

has been accounted for down here.

If the Coalition is working

on a doomsday weapon,

somebody is smuggling triradium to them.

Since the only place triradium exists is on Mars,

we need you to find out

if anybody has shipped some down here

-without authorization. -[explosions]

Uh, Sam, hold on.

My God.

What happened?

We're not in shadow for another five minutes.

Get him back on screen!

[Harrier] Colonel, I'm getting serious electromagnetic wash.

I've never seen anything like it.

[Elliot] Get me a visual! Anything!

Switching to main telescope array.

Oh, my God.

[static feedback]

[Control Voice] 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.

You are about to experience the awe and mystery

which reaches from the deepest inner mind

to The Outer Limits.

[Control Voice] How far will mankind have to go

before we realize that

the only antidote to self-annihilation is trust?

Get me Captain Rosen on the line.

See what our liaison officer has to say.

Ma'am, either the Chump base is not responding,

or there's too much radiation interference at the moment

to reach the other Mars base.

Keep trying. Okay, let's get to it.

Three minutes ago, we lost contact with Earth.

As hard as it may be to do,

we have to accept the fact Earth may be destroyed,

and we're the last survivors.

Maybe something else happened.

Maybe the reactor on one of the space stations blew.

That could cause a radiation cloud, long enough

to block out our view of the Earth for a few hours.

Maybe, but either way, we won't know for sure

till we can re-establish line-of-sight communications.

That'll be 12 hours, 15 minutes.

Sergeant Nichols, what's our status on supplies?

We have a year's worth of food and oxygen in storage.

As long as hydroponics

and the converters keep working,

we'll have enough to last indefinitely.

So worst case scenario, the Coalition did launch

a pre-emptive strike against Earth,

using a triradium doomsday device,

which means nobody from Earth

is going to be resupplying us for a long, long time.

Six hundred miles southwest of us

is the Coalition base.

If the Coalition was smuggling triradium,

it could mean that they're planning to launch an attack

-against us here as well. -[Nichols] Excuse me, ma'am.

But wouldn't they coordinate that

with their attack on Earth?

Maybe they needed to wait for an advantage.

Maybe they were waiting for the electromagnetic wash

to play hell with our radar which it has.

So if they have missiles,

they can launch now and we'd never know it.

We don't have any indication they were smuggling

or if they have any missiles.

Well, that's what we need to find out.

Where there is smoke, you can bet there's fire.

And up here with these pressure walls,

a first strike is a last strike.

So at the first sign of any hostile preparations

by the Coalition,

I intend to make their future very short.

-Any questions? -[Laughton] Ma'am?

The men have families on Earth.

So do I.

As soon as we can re-establish contact,

we'll do everything we can to find out and get in touch.

I know how important this is to all of us, believe me.

How the hell can they get it out?

But what if the Coalition didn't start this, ma'am?

Triradium is too important.

You don't start a war without warning

your units first to be prepared,

Especially your most valuable units.

And since we received no such warning,

I conclude we did not start it.

Besides it fits with the Coalition pattern.

Thirty years ago, they staged a surprise attack

against the Moon base.

And they did the same thing at Sagan-5...

Major?

Yes, ma'am, I agree.

Therefore, in the absence

of any communications to the contrary,

my standing orders are clear.

We are to initiate no hostilities.

But we are to defend and maintain this base at all costs.

Not just because of the triradium,

but because we may be

the last survivors of the Free Alliance

and the last chance mankind has

to repopulate Earth.

-[intercom beeping] -[technician] Incoming call

from the commander of the Chump base, ma'am.

Colonel Paz will be on in three seconds.

[beeps]

Colonel Elliot, have you had any contact with Earth?

No, Colonel, I have not. Have you?

No, I haven't.

I'd like to speak to Captain Rosen,

my liaison officer. Where is he?

He's out on a mining inspection survey.

He should be back in an hour.

So he's unable to verify the fact

that you've had no communication.

They run those surveys every Tuesday.

He should be out there.

[Elliot] What can we do for you, colonel?

There's no question

that a horrible disaster has occurred.

But neither one of us has received instructions

that we are at war.

So I assume we are still at peace.

Until one of us can lay definite blame,

I suggest we continue our policy of cooperation.

I agree.

But it's possible someone did blow up Earth

with triradium smuggled from Mars.

The same thought has occurred to us.

I suggest we search the spaceport

and see if anyone is trying

to smuggle out triradium.

And if we find any,

then together we will find out who is behind it.

I have already prepared a team.

Two teams.

We'll both send a team.

And I want my liaison officer to go with yours.

And our liaison officer, Major Talif, where is she?

She's retired to her quarters.

I'd like to speak to her.

And I'd like her to accompany your team

on their inspection. Agreed?

Agreed.

We can have a team up and running in 15 minutes.

Patch Colonel Paz through to Major Talif

-when we're finished. -Let's pray

that things are not as bad as they seem.

Absolutely.

[Nichols] Edwards!

I need you to run an immediate inventory

on all the triradium we have stored here on base

and I mean, down to the last milligram.

Sure.

Have we had any contact with the Earth yet?

Not yet, they're on it. We just have to wait.

How bad is it?

No one's sure.

-Got to know something. -Look, all I know

is that we can't get through to Earth, all right.

If I knew anything else, I would tell you.

Sarge, you got family down there, right?

Yeah. Three sisters

and a cat that needs to be declawed.

Three sisters...

Woah. Are we going to war?

No one is talking war yet, all right.

But the colonel is definitely locked, loaded

-and ready to squeeze. -But they did it, right?

We're sending a team to find out.

And if they did do it?

Then we'll all just do

what the colonel tells us to do.

Sarge, what do you think's going to happen?

If the Coalition did do this,

then some eggs are gonna get broken.

I need that inventory ASAP.

Right away, Sarge.

-[Paz on intercom] Keep me informed. -Yes, sir, I will.

[door signal beeps]

Enter.

How are you holding up?

I can't believe this.

I mean, billions of people have just died,

and I feel like I should be...

crying or something,

but I'm not.

That's because we're soldiers.

And a human second?

No, no,

we have the same emotions as everyone else.

We've just been trained not to show them.

Yeah, if we don't show them long enough,

we'll lose them.

If I think if anything, our emotions are stronger,

because we know the value of life

better than anyone...

Because we live on the edge of losing it at every moment.

[panel door opens]

[Bowen] I know it's hard to stay focused

at a time like this, but I want you all

to stay sharp and cool.

You're rendezvousing with a Coalition team at the spaceport.

I don't want anyone flying off the handle.

We're still not at war.

That means cooperation. Understood?

[man] Yes, sir.

[Bowen] All right, once you reach the spaceport,

I want you to search everywhere.

You're looking for missing triradium canisters

or anything that can be used to smuggle it out of here.

We've accounted for all of our canisters.

The Coalition says they have done the same,

which means there shouldn't be any left

at the spaceport.

You all got your detectors logging?

Yes, sir.

[Bowen] Good, all right.

Saddle up.

Good luck.

Okay.

[engine revving]

[engine roaring]

Major, good, we need to talk.

Ma'am.

Did you have a nice chat with Major Talif?

She asked me what the current situation is.

I told her. She seemed upset.

Upset? [scoffs]

Look, we're all upset.

I don't know if my husband's alive,

or my parents or my husband's parents

or any other of the thousand other people I know.

We're all in that boat, Major.

But right now, we don't have time

for individual counseling.

You know, half those kids out there are so worried,

they can barely do their jobs properly.

But they do. You know why?

'Cause they're watching us.

And if we can do it, so can they.

We lead by example.

But we don't have time for individuals,

particularly if they're from the Coalition.

I was just bringing her up-to-date, nothing more.

Don't get your back up.

I'm not sleeping with her.

She's the enemy, James.

We can't afford to trust anybody from the Coalition,

no matter what our guts tell us.

Remember she's had enough free access

to this base to screw us thoroughly.

I don't see it that way.

All right, maybe you're right.

Maybe they don't have any plans.

The thing is we don't know what they have.

So like good boy scouts, we got to be prepared.

Yes, ma'am.

Remember, James, she's a soldier.

If the situation was in reverse

and I gave you an order to do something

at Coalition base,

you'd do it, wouldn't you?

Yes, ma'am.

[man] Ma'am?

Uh, you better come look at this.

It's a simulation.

Ran it three times, three different systems,

the results are always the same.

Results to what?

According to this, if a large part of the Earth did explode,

we're going to get whacked

with one monster of shock wave in seven minutes, 43 seconds.

There's a four-second margin of error.

That's a give or take.

What if a large part didn't get blown up?

Well then, the far side of Mars

will absorb the impact

and we won't feel anything. So...

Get everybody down to the mess room now.

Harrier, contact Major Talif

and Captain Rosen on the Coalition's team.

I don't think they're gonna make it to the spaceport.

Tell them to seek whatever shelter they can.

-Yes, ma'am. -And get word

to the Coalition base.

We don't want our friends caught off guard.

Free Alliance One to Major Talif.

Free Alliance One to Coalition base.

-Seek shelter immediately. -Free Alliance one...

I repeat, seek shelter immediately.

[alarm wailing]

[indistinct chatter]

[electronic device beeping]

[computer] Shock wave will impact

in 30 seconds.

You got everybody?

Yeah, that's a full count, ma'am.

Not a minute too soon. Seal off all the doors.

-[breathing heavily] -You okay, Charlie?

Sure, sir. I mean...

The Earth can't be destroyed, can it?

I was just talking with my brother yesterday.

It's all a precaution, precaution, right?

Right, just a precaution. Get under the table.

[computer] Shock wave will impact in 10 seconds.

Brace for impact!

[man] Hang on.

[computer] Five, four,

three, two,

one.

Impact.

Two, three, four.

Give or take.

[all sighing in relief]

[indistinct chatter]

[Elliot] Okay.

[woman] Whoo!

[all speaking indistinctly]

-[rumbling] -[alarm blaring]

Everybody brace!

[all exclaiming]

[explosion]

[electricity crackling]

[objects clattering]

[Bowen] You okay?

All gone.

[sobbing] They're all gone.

[alarm continues blaring]

[breath trembling]

What's the repair bill?

Main systems are still online using the back-ups.

All our antennas are down.

We're jerry-rigging replacements.

We've lost contact with the Coalition base

and Major Talif's away team.

We're on all stations, ma'am.

This is Colonel Elliot.

How do I say this?

It seems the Earth has been either partially,

or completely destroyed.

Words are inadequate.

At this time, we face two enemies.

First, our own grief and suffering.

And second, fear of the unknown.

We still don't know exactly how bad things are,

but we're going to keep trying

to find out until we do know.

Until then, I expect and I know

that every one of you

will continue to do your duty.

[Elliot on intercom] Now more than ever,

our future depends on each other.

We must count on each other as never before

to see us through this,

and we will get through this.

Elliot out.

[Harrier] I think I've got it, sir.

Great, put it up on screen.

This is the last recorded signal

from Major Talif's suit cam.

Should give us an idea where they are.

[static feedback]

[Talif] Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!

Come on, we got to seal this hatch!

Let's go! Let's go!

Looks like they made it

to one of the fuel storage bunkers.

They could have survived.

I'll get a rescue team organized.

Harrier, play back the first part

of that transmission again.

All right, fire up opportune,

I want a three men medical team

standing by and suited up in air lock A.

[man] Yes, sir.

[tape rewinding]

Stop.

Punch in on that.

They found a Coalition fuel canister.

Damn it!

There shouldn't have been any canisters

within miles of that place.

The Coalition was smuggling triradium.

Son of a bitch!

Get me Sergeant Laughton.

-No response, ma'am. -Try the rest of the team.

No one's answering.

Bastards.

We don't want to jump to conclusions, ma'am.

Then you tell me why is no one responding?

Because they could be unconscious or dead.

They all made it to the bunker.

-Someone should have survived. -We don't know that, ma'am.

It's a Coalition canister.

Talif could have disabled their suit cam

and eliminated the team.

That's still just speculation, ma'am.

You're right, it is.

But we can't afford to be wrong about this.

Colonel,

Major Talif just showed up in airlock D.

What about the rest of the team?

Just Talif, ma'am. Nobody else.

Let's go.

[Elliot] What happened at the bunker?

We got caught in a shockwave.

We thought we were safe.

And then it just collapsed.

I was still in the airlock. It was the only place

that wasn't completely destroyed.

It smashed my comm link,

and everybody else was, uh...

crushed by debris.

It was horrible.

Where did Laughton find the canister?

I don't know.

Corporal Edwards,

confine Major Talif to her quarters.

-Yes, ma'am. -You don't believe me?

Three of my men are dead, and you're alive.

[intercom beeping]

Harrier, any word from Coalition base?

-[Harrier] No, ma'am. -[Elliot] Keep trying.

If Talif told them about the canister,

I don't think they'll be responding.

Maybe their antennas are down.

Sergeant Nichols, assemble a team.

Check out Major Talif's story.

-Yes, ma'am. -Wait a minute, Colonel.

We still need to talk to Paz.

[Elliot] I know. We're working on it.

-Edwards. -Hey, what's going on?

We're going to check out Major Talif's story.

What are they waiting for?

She could be telling the truth, you know.

Oh, yeah. Why didn't I think of that?

So what do you want to do, Edwards?

You want to go kick ass on the only other people

in the universe that could be alive?

Yeah, before they kick ours.

It doesn't make sense.

They have families on Earth, too.

Why would they blow it up?

They'd just be killing themselves.

Because they're stupid!

They're in just as much trouble as we are.

-Yeah, except they started it. -We don't know that!

What do you wanna do then, Sergeant?

Kiss butt until they blow ours...

-Go to hell! -No, you got to hell!

What did you say to me, Corporal?

The Coalition just killed my brother.

They've got to pay!

Look, Charlie, we're all a little scared.

But killing them won't change it.

Yes, it will. They'll be dead, and we'll be alive.

Edwards, open up.

Yes, sir.

Elliot's sending a team to check on your story.

Good.

Laughton was carrying a Coalition canister.

I need to know why.

No one was smuggling triradium,

all right? I'm sure of it.

[sighs]

You ever get tired

of this cat-and-mouse game we play, hmm?

I don't mean just us. Our federations.

I know I do.

And when I woke up this morning,

I wasn't thinking,

"How can I get the edge on those Coalition bastards?"

Uh-uh.

I was thinking, "Maybe I'd ask her out

to dinner tonight."

That's what's important in life.

If we'd been on Earth, I'd have taken you

to Captain Frankie's seaside chalet.

It's on the PCH, north of LA. You ever been there?

No, never been to LA.

Some people would say that's a good thing.

Ba-dum-bum, it's an old joke.

Anyway, once we were there,

we'd have gone strictly high cholesterol.

Fried potatoes, spicy rice, some serious coleslaw

and my personal favorite, blackened catfish.

All washed down

with some really nice cold beer.

Mmm.

Cold beer. God... [chuckles]

That'd be nice.

And that's your idea of a first date?

Yeah, it'd be great.

If it's still there.

But you'd have to trust me,

which is my whole point.

You have to trust first, and then find out.

Dara, what about Colonel Paz,

is he gonna play this by the book?

There is no book.

It's fear that's running the show now.

Do you have any missiles?

Missiles?

Missile systems are strictly prohibited

under the joint colonization by-laws.

What's your first-strike policy?

Do you mean to tell me

the Alliance violated the by-laws?

What's your first-strike policy?

We don't have one.

All military operations have first-strike policy.

-We don't have one! -What's your first-strike policy!

We don't have missiles, remember?

Just like you.

But if we did,

I'd say our policy

is to launch on warning of any hostile activity.

Just like you.

Thank you.

-[explosion] -[rumbling]

-What was that? -[siren wailing]

Another shockwave?

[indistinct chatter over PA]

No way.

[PA announcer] All personnel initiate

emergency response, sequence three.

-Come on! -What happened?

[Bowen] Something exploded in the mess hall.

[Elliot] Bastards! It's already sealed off.

We're gonna have to go outside and inspect the damage.

Go to DEFCON One.

[man] Over here!

[PA announcer] Alert! Moving to DEFCON One.

Alert! Alert!

-Moving to DEFCON One. -[man] Let's go! Pump it up!

[steam hissing]

Any doubts

about the Coalition's plans now?

Stadetski, initiate missile pre-launch sequence.

[Stadetski] Initiating missile pre-launch sequence.

Switching missiles to stand-by mode.

[Elliot] Major?

Colonel,

it may not have been an attack.

The oxygen conduit blew from the inside.

You can tell by the way the metal's curling outward.

Or a commando unit from just over that hill could have planted explosives.

The shockwave could have damaged the pipe and made a pinch.

And what, the tear was caused by a pressure build-up?

It doesn't fit.

And If it wasn't he commando unit,

then somebody sabotaged us from the inside.

That's pure oxygen pouring through that pipe.

It wouldn't take much to ignite it.

Especially at that pressure.

Have that thing hacked out.

Go to DEFCON two.

Terminate missile pre-launch sequence.

Downgrade missiles from stand-by to inactive.

[clangs]

Want to know my theory?

All Talif had to do was roll a thermal charge

on a timer down an access valve.

Bomb goes off,

quick change in pressure expels it outside.

How am I sounding so far?

To be honest, paranoid.

[Harrier] Colonel, Sergeant Nichols' team

has just returned from their recon

of the fuel bunker.

They're decompressing in airlock A.

-Put them on the main screen. -[Harrier] Yes, ma'am.

Coming up onto the main screen now.

Sergeant Nichols.

[Nichols] It's a real mess out there, ma'am.

The air is still murky, so visibility is way down.

But from what we could tell,

it's pretty like Major Talif said.

The airlock is partially still partially up,

but the fuel storage bunkers are toast.

We did find this.

Definitely a Chump fuel canister, ma'am.

And it has no tracking chip.

Secure that fuel canister, Sergeant,

but do not open it.

Last thing we need is a radioactive flood.

Yes, ma'am.

So now we know.

The Coalition was smuggling triradium.

All we know is that someone

was using a Chump canister to smuggle triradium.

Could be somebody from here.

-You don't give up, do you? -[alarm wails]

[computer] Missile launch indication

detected outside Coalition base.

We have incoming! Repeat, we have incoming!

Go to DEFCON one! Get Paz!

[Elliot] Time of the impact?

Twenty-four minutes and three seconds.

Too slow for a missile. What's the ID?

[computer] Coalition pilotless drone.

Where the hell is Paz?

[Harrier] Still getting no response.

Prepare to initiate arming sequence.

Maybe their antennas are still down.

The hell they are.

Prepared to initiate launching sequence.

It's a runaway, they've lost one before.

Headed straight at us?

Target missiles' one and two for Chump base.

Missile three is for the drone.

Targeting missiles one and two on Chump base.

[Stadetski] Three is on the drone.

[Bowen] It's moving too slowly to be a missile.

It's just a drone.

[Elliot] It's a drone, all right.

Filled with explosives, you can bet your life.

They're trying to trick us, James,

it's why they're not responding.

They want to make us think it's chaos over there,

communications down, drones running wild.

All we're missing now is a panicked distress call.

This is crazy. If we launch, they'll retaliate.

You know they have missiles? Did she tell you that?

What else are you holding back?

Nothing.

She wouldn't confirm anything,

but she implied that their launch policy

was the same as ours.

If that's true, think of what you're doing.

If you launch, they'll launch with everything they've got.

We could wipe each other out,

and then there'll be no one left alive.

No one.

So what, we let them kill us,

so at least someone survives?

If that means keeping the human race alive, yes.

Now all we have to do is knock down the drone.

[Elliot] The drone is a test.

Or a stall. But we don't have time to find out

whether it's a runaway or real threat.

Because by the time we do,

they'll already have launched and it'll be too late for us.

Those people have killed everyone you loved,

everyone I have loved.

They aren't the ones who deserve to continue.

Six billion people are dead down there

because of them, we're launching.

We don't have authorization to do that.

The only people who can authorize us are dead.

Punch in your code, Major.

Give me the Chump base.

-Stay as you are. -[computer] Incoming drone.

Contact in 22 minutes.

Punch in your code, Major.

You can't arm the warheads without my authorization code.

And I'm not giving them to you till we know what's going on.

-We have to talk to Colonel Paz. -The only thing

you have to do is punch in your code.

It's your duty and an order.

Now punch it in.

I can't do that, ma'am.

Sergeant Nichols, arrest Major Bowen.

And bring me the arming code from the safe in his quarters.

Sergeant Nichols, I'm placing Colonel Elliot under arrest--

I'm in charge here, Major, and I'm ordering you to move.

-I'm gonna count to three. -Sergeant Nichols,

-I am now assuming command. -One...

-Place Colonel Elliot under arrest. -Two...

[Stadetski] Ma'am.

-I can bypass his code. -Stadetski.

-Talk to me. -Okay.

If I toss a virus into the main processor,

it'll fry the initialization files.

Have a couple of minutes to uh,

bypass the system's firewalls before the backup processor

detects what's happening, eats the bug and resets.

How much time?

[exhales] It's hard to be on the money, ma'am.

Ten minutes, maybe 15.

Well I'll be the main course at a hot damn luau in 20.

You're making a mistake, Sam.

I don't have a choice, Major.

You won't give me the option.

[computer] Incoming drone...

-Contact in 21 minutes. -Do it!

[keyboard clacking]

[Elliot] Sergeant, confine Major Bowen to quarters.

[man] Go, go!

[computer] Incoming drone.

-Contact in ten minutes. -[Bowen banging on door]

[muffled] Edwards! Edwards!

-[continues banging] -Edwards!

Edwards! Open the door!

You gotta stop Colonel Elliot!

Edwards!

Damn it.

Ten minutes to go. Edwards!

Edwards!

[Talif] You gotta open the commlink

and let me try to reach my base.

Edwards!

-Damn it, all right... -Damn it.

What are you trying to do?

-[bed rattles] -Trying to break a piece off here,

use it as a crowbar.

Pry the door open.

He will shoot us.

Can't shoot both of us at once.

Forget the crowbar.

Let's get this override panel open.

Even if we get out of here,

we're not gonna be able to prove that your base

wasn't smuggling triradium.

All the chips were encoded

in your base as well as ours.

We just have to scan the chip from a canister,

and I'll show Elliot

how the records account for it.

What chip? The canister didn't have a chip.

That's how Elliot was so sure

your base was smuggling triradium.

-No chip? -[grunts]

Well, they first started testing the drones,

we used mock canisters.

[computer] Incoming drone.

Contact in nine...

-Without any chips? -Exactly.

We didn't need them because the canister

doesn't contain any triradium.

Edwards! Edwards!

I can prove the Coalition

wasn't smuggling triradium.

Edwards, open up! I can prove it.

[door beeps]

[gun cocks]

Major.

Do you really think you can stop all this?

Not from in here.

Eight minutes and 42 seconds to impact.

How much time to launch?

Missiles will be armed

and ready to launch in five, Colonel.

-Any word from Paz? -No, ma'am.

[blaring]

-Launch as soon as they're up. -[Stadetski] Yes, ma'am.

[computer] Incoming drone.

Contact in eight minutes.

You two don't need to be here.

-I'm staying. -Me too.

Get the door.

Canister they found in the bunker.

[grunts]

Easy, easy.

[exhales sharply]

[device beeping, whirring]

[Bowen] Well, there's no triradium contamination

on the outside.

That's good, right?

There's only one way to find out.

Oh, man.

Here goes.

[panel door opens]

-[gun cocks] -Drop your weapon!

He's trying to save us.

Drop your weapon!

You hit the canister,

you''re going to contaminate the whole base!

Drop your weapon.

Major!

[gasps]

[rattling]

It's sand.

[sighs in relief]

It's only sand.

-Elliot! -[intercom beeps]

[computer] Missiles are armed.

Elliot, There's only sand inside the container!

Nobody's smuggling triradium!

Then why did they launch the drone?

-[Bowen] I don't know! -To test our defenses.

Six minutes to impact.

Sam, wait. You gotta talk to Paz!

We've tried. They're not responding.

Fire missiles.

-[Stadetski] Firing missiles. -No! Wait!

Wait!

[computer] Missiles firing.

[radar pinging]

You've got to initiate self-destruct!

Sergeant, arrest these men and Major Talif.

Confine them to airlock D and keep them there.

Weld the door shut if you have ti.

[Nichols] Yes, ma'am.

Listen to me, there is no smuggling plot.

The hull breach and the mess room,

Talif's team getting killed

was all just a coincidence

caused by the shock wave. We're not at war.

[Harrier] Ma'am.

Ma'am, I'm getting an incoming transmission

from the drone.

Put it on screen!

[Harrier] We can hear them, but they can't hear us.

Why the hell aren't they answering us?

Please, this is Colonel Paz!

The shockwave has destroyed our base.

We have many injured and dying!

Please come in!

The destruct code for the missiles.

There isn't one.

What do you mean there isn't one?

The processor destroyed it when it was killing the virus.

There's no destruct code.

We can't stop our missiles.

-Then we write a new one. -[Harrier] Coalition drone

-please come in. -[Bowen] Stadetski.

Let's get those codes happening.

Coalition drone, come in please.

Free Alliance one to Coalition drone, please come in.

Free Alliance one to Coalition drone, please come in.

-[Paz] Elliot, can you hear me? -It's not working.

[computer] Alliance missiles detected.

Coalition counter-strike initiated.

Our base has detected the missiles

and has launched a counter-strike.

[computer] Six Coalition missiles incoming.

Alliance anti-missile systems activated.

What are you doing?

Stadetski?

-[Paz] Stop right now! -Stadetski?

-Yeah, I'm working on it. -[Paz] Elliot!

We've established audio contact!

You gotta tell Paz to abort those missiles.

Colonel Paz, this is Major Talif.

Abort the missiles! Abort the missiles!

Colonel Elliot, this is Captain Rosen.

Randy?

They are not armed! I repeat!

They're not armed! This is not a trick!

You must abort!

Rosen, we can't abort, we lost the abort codes!

You gotta tell Paz to abort!

Stadetski?

[computer] Destruct code rejected.

I'm not going to make it!

[computer] Destruct code rejected.

Abort all missiles.

Abort--

[gasps]

-[Elliot] Stadetski? -[static feedback]

[computer] Target destroyed.

Incoming Coalition missiles.

Impact in...

-Fire the anti-missile missiles. -...two minutes.

Maybe some of us will survive.

[Stadetski] Firing anti-missile missiles.

[computer] Anti-missile missiles fired.

[alarm blaring]

[exhales sharply]

Get everyone to the lower levels.

[Bowen] Move it! Go! Go!

Get down there! Let's go!

Right now! Move it!

[indistinct chatter]

[computer] Incoming Coalition missiles.

Impact in one minute, 30 seconds.

Sam!

[Bowen] Sam, let's go! Come on, let's go!

-[Talif] James! -Sam!

We're never going to make it. Come on! In here!

[computer] Anti-missile missiles ineffective.

Enemy missiles will impact

in 30 seconds.

-[alarm blaring] -[radar pinging]

[computer] 20 seconds to impact.

Here, we might have a chance in here.

[grunts]

[computer] Ten seconds to impact.

-[missiles whirring] -[radar pinging rapidly]

-[explosion] -[rumbling]

[screaming]

[groans in pain]

[breathing heavily]

[groans]

James?

James?

James.

[groaning]

Oh...

Oh, thank God.

[labored breathing]

-Are you okay? -Yeah.

-You okay? -Yeah.

[intercom turns on]

[Bowen on intercom] Elliot.

Elliot, this is Bowen.

Can you read? Anybody.

-Oh, God... Oh, God. -[lock clanking]

[grunting]

Come on, come on.

[turns radio on] Nichols? Stadetski?

Anyone?

[Bowen] Charlie?

[Talif] Everybody's dead.

[Talif on intercom] This is Major Talif.

Anybody, please come in.

This is Major Talif.

Anybody...

Please come in.

They're all gone.

Our oxygen can't last forever.

[Bowen] Let's see what else we have left.

[commander on intercom] This is the Earth calling

Free Alliance base.

Come in please.

Colonel Elliot, I repeat,

If you are receiving us, please respond.

[Talif] It's us.

We've had an incident.

Actually, Sam, it's a nightmare.

An Alliance base...

working on an anti-matter weapon prototype

was destroyed by reactor failure on the Moon.

The Moon completely disintegrated.

I repeat. Completely disintegrated.

I can't begin to describe the destruction here on Earth.

It's as if Hell itself has come alive.

The Alliance and the Coalition

have called an emergency meeting.

And as of two hours ago,

have declared a permanent

and immediate peace agreement

so we can concentrate on rebuilding all of our futures.

It was close, Sam.

If that prototype

had been powered by triradium,

the Earth would have been completely destroyed too.

You're lucky you're not here.

[sighs]

It's hard to believe that...

we could have come this close to complete annihilation.

Thank God, you didn't have to do that.

You and Paz are an inspiration

to everyone here on Earth.

Keep up the good work, Sam.

Commander-in-chief, space forces out.

[computer beeping]

[Bowen] Oh, my God, look at the Earth.

James.

Look.

Trust me.

We're gonna make it.

[Control Voice] If mankind is to survive,

we must learn to trust one another.

And that trust begins in the human heart.