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Ascension - Chapter 1 Episode 1 Sci-Fi 2014 720p [H264-mp4] English

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

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

Father.

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

- Rage.

- Ancient history.

- Ascension.

- Trap.

♪ ♪

♪ ( Oldies on stereo ) ♪

(men and women talking, indistinct)

- Chin up! - Back straight!

I should be able to draw a line

From your earlobe to your ankle.

Jackie, the seams of your stockings are a disgrace.

Mmm! Never bend at the waist.

It's graceless.

Remember:

Poised, elegant, confidant.

- Don't you just love their uniforms?

They always look so perfect.

I'm thinking about apprenticing.

- If spending 6 months

Learning to put on lipstick and talk in a breathy whisper

Is your idea of fun.

- Not everyone aces their apt test, Nora.

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

Besides, stewardesses get all the prettiest clothes.

- Have you seen lorelei?

She said she'd be here.

- Are you coming to the party tonight?

- To toast the glorious tin can? No thanks.

- Try not to drool on the decorations, Nora.

(glasses clinking)

(man talking in distance)

- (stokes): Take off.

Hello!

Nixon! Bordeaux!

- What's Bordeaux?

- Wine.

There's only 25 bottles

Of chateau St-cloud '59 left.

After tonight, there'll be 24.

- So, do you have what I came for?

- Mmm! Yeah!

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

- Your cabin off the slaughter stalls...

Enticing!

(scoffing)

- Is that funny to you?

We had an understanding!

It's not funny, stokes.

It's sad.

♪ ( Woman singing ♪ ♪ fly me to the moon ) ♪

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

♪ Let me see ♪ ♪ what spring is like ♪

♪ On Jupiter and Mars ♪

♪ In other words... ♪

- Commander gault!

- Mrs. Vanderhaus, are you alone this evening?

♪ In other words... ♪

- It seems her husband

Was assigned the midwatch suddenly.

- Lorelei...

- Captain's orders. - Not my idea.

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

When she looks so stunning tonight.

And you're stunning too, of course.

- Lorelei's not happy with me.

We both have issues

With the other's taste in men.

(scoffing)

♪ in other words, ♪ ♪ please be true ♪

(sighing)

- Yeah, I'm just not feeling it.

♪ In other words, ♪ ♪ I love you ♪

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

To take longer strides.

We must move further down the line.

We must reach for the stars.

(audience applauding on film)

Imagine the greatest journey ever undertaken,

A century-long sojourn to a new world

Completed by the grandchildren

Of the brave souls who embarked on this adventure.

(grunting)

(panting)

(both moaning)

(grunting, panting)

(metal clanging)

(footsteps approaching)

Our eyes must be focused on the stars

If we are to have any hope

Of surviving this arms race, this space race,

Indeed, this human race.

- Have you seen lorelei?

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

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

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you...

Ascension.

(audience applauding on film)

- Lorelei!

Lorelei?

Lorelei?

Lorelei?

(screaming)

♪ ( rocket man by Elton John ) ♪

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

♪ till touchdown ♪ ♪ brings me around again ♪

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

♪ oh, no, no, no ♪ ♪ I'm a rocket man ♪

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

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

♪ till touchdown ♪ ♪ brings me around again ♪

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

♪ oh, no, no, no ♪ ♪ I'm a rocket man ♪

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

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

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

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

(birds chirping)

(men and women talking, indistinct)

- Dad!

Why is my father restrained?

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

"it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven"

"upon the place..."

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

His visitor seemed...

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

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

I passed him just outside talking on his phone.

- Why are you harassing my father?

- You're the son, Harris.

Look, um...

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

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

It must be hellish to see him that way.

I'm mark Hayes.

And I didn't mean to upset him.

I've admired Dr. Enzmann for years.

I'm doing my dissertation on his work.

- You're an academic.

- Yeah.

I'm finishing my ph.D.

On the history of the early space program.

It's tragic to me

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

He inspired me.

- He inspired me too.

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

Who escaped from the Nazis,

And then developed rockets for NASA, huh?

- Hmm!

- You ever hear of project ascension?

- I haven't heard those words in years.

- Your father was convinced

That the us could launch an interstellar spacecraft

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

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

So the original crew would never see the new world,

But their descendants would.

- Quite a dream dad had!

- (whispering): I think he did it.

- I was taking you seriously.

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

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

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

And imagine the people that went:

Hundreds of people out there in space

In a world that never knew the summer of love,

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

Fresh from father knows best exploring the universe.

- I work for the government.

Do you have any idea how incompetent it is?

Do you really think that they could do something like this

And no one would know?

- Ascension was the military.

It was top secret.

What do you do?

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

- Look, before you write me off,

Go see one of your father's old associates,

Whoever's still alive.

Maybe they'll talk to you.

- Thanks, but I'll skip humiliating myself.

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

This is real...

And the world should know.

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

To make a difference?

Apply for a safety officer apprenticeship today.

- Good morning, ladies!

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

(keypad beeping)

(computers beeping)

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

You weren't in your quarters last night.

- I didn't sleep there, obviously.

Is that an issue?

- No, sir, of course not.

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

- Carry on.

(sighing)

What happened?

- It looks like she fell and hit her head.

- I'm sorry, duke.

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

- Every kid on this ship knows this place

Like the back of their hand.

- What are you saying?

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

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

- Wow! Agatha Christie would be impressed!

Or have you been reading Raymond chandler?

- All right, then!

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

- She had too much to drink at launch day.

She came out here for a midnight swim

Like we all did when we were kids...

- Hmm! - Only she slipped.

Like Dr. Bryce said, an accident.

- Take her to the medical centre.

She's been out here way too long.

- You really believe this wasn't an accident?

- Look, I know it may sound crazy...

- I want you to look into it.

If there is the slightest chance,

We need to be sure.

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

- Nobody does.

- Vanderhaus is your chief safety officer.

Why don't you get him to do it?

- He's handled nothing worse

Than petty theft or a drunken brawl.

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

- He won't be happy.

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

I have to take care of 600 souls.

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

Imagine what it would do

If they thought a neighbour was a killer,

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

- Are we clear? - Clear.

- OK.

(pa system buzzing)

Attention, please! This is captain Denninger.

It pains me to report this,

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

Lorelei Wright.

Those who knew her

Said she was a beacon of light and vitality,

A light that has been extinguished all too soon.

Her passing reminds us all of the fragility of life.

Our hearts go out to those she leaves behind.

Thank you.

- Is a full autopsy really necessary?

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

And any other tests you can think of.

- Does the captain really believe

That lorelei was murdered?

- I'm looking into it,

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

- What the hell are you doing, gault?

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

- Hasn't my family been through enough?

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

- Thank you, ma'am.

(sighing)

- If there is anything I can do...

- Thank you.

- Had lorelei been upset about anything recently?

Did she have a boyfriend?

- All the boys were interested in her.

That's no secret.

She didn't run around

Like some lower-deck trash.

- Can you think of any reason

That someone might wanna harm her?

- Oh!

- Of course not! - What are you implying?

Duke, what is this about?

- You know what? - That's enough.

My family and I would like to be alone now.

- Of course.

I'm sorry for your loss.

(crying)

- Let me help you.

We told your mom you're here.

- You were in a state of shock.

We gave you a sedative.

(ekg monitor beeping)

Christa?

Christa?

- In the glau room, they're watching.

(christa panting)

They're watching!

- Nora, chloral hydrate, 500 milligrams!

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

The globus sees all!

- Nora, the sedative!

(christa panting)

- Is she going to be all right?

(sighing)

- Yeah!

I think so. She just needs to rest.

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

I didn't wanna say anything before,

But when I administered lorelei's psych-eval,

I found some troubling things.

- Like?

- Frustration, depression, rage...

She felt like her life wasn't her own.

- The crisis.

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

We all have to deal with the fact

That we have no control over our destiny,

That this was chosen for us before we were born.

- It hit me when I was 14,

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

Or a secret agent.

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

Your parents could allow any illusions to die naturally.

There were an infinity of possibilities to try.

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

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

- But with lorelei, the crisis seemed more intense,

Unnerving in a way I've never seen before.

I was afraid of what she might do.

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

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

Father.

- I was a baby

When he died in that fire.

- Rage.

- Ancient history.

- Ascension.

- Trap.

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

The beach is a blind spot.

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

But as you can see, nobody enters or exits.

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

There has to be another way to the beach.

Pull video from the commons, track her movements,

Find out where we lose her.

- Yes, sir.

- Mr. Gault?

May I have a word?

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

Coming to me here, it's too risky.

- I had to see you.

- But of course!

I'm sorry about your sister.

- There's something I have to tell you.

Lorelei was seeing someone: James Toback.

- Why didn't your mother tell me?

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

- She was embarrassed.

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

But it wasn't the truth.

She was with James the night she died.

I told her she had to stop seeing him,

But she threatened to expose us.

- You should have told me.

- She wouldn't have done it.

Lorelei could be selfish at times,

But not cruel, not like that.

- The safety officers came by water reclamation today

Looking for me.

- Whoa, whoa, whoa! - Calm down, James!

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

What'd you tell them?

- (man): Hey, hey!

(panting)

- You need to learn some manners, pup!

Get him out of here!

(grunting)

- Her blood-alcohol level was elevated,

But not enough to incapacitate her.

However, she did have sexual intercourse

Within hours of her death.

- What about the marks on her wrists?

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

She had contusions on her torso and a broken collarbone.

- So it wasn't an accident?

- I also found a fibre strand in her teeth.

There is a good possibility she was gagged.

And the autopsy

Revealed another surprise:

A small puncture wound in the roof of her mouth.

- What caused it?

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

Thank you.

(door closing)

- Why is the good doctor calling so late?

Should I be jealous?

What's that?

- A bullet, which begs the question:

How did a gun get on this ship?

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

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

An uncommon cavalry even on earth.

- How'd it get on the ship?

There were no firearms on the manifest.

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

- Yet someone knew what they were doing.

It wasn't powerful enough to puncture the hole

Or damage the hydraulic systems, just enough to kill.

I put in an official comment in the log

And communicated with earth.

- Why use the gun now?

- The Rubicon, maybe?

Once we pass that point of no return,

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

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

- People are getting anxious.

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

- If vanderhaus and his jackboots start flipping beds

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

- What's going to happen

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

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

- Give me a chance to find him.

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

(men talking, indistinct)

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

Sign them up on...

- Lucy, I'm home!

- I placed the treasure

Of cinema and literature before you,

And this is all you remember.

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

- "The voice of thy brother's blood

"crieth unto me from the ground."

Or I suppose sister in this case.

There are no absolute secrets on board this ship.

Someone always knows,

And someone always talks in the end.

I heard a rumour about you.

- The captain wants me to investigate lo...

- The rumour about you and a woman,

A woman not lawful for you to love.

- Who said that?

- You know how these stories end.

Camelot's gone, the heroes are dead

And the woman enters a nunnery.

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

- Police manuals were written for people on earth

Where cops walk the beat,

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

- Then what do you suggest? - Try Philip Marlowe.

He walked the mean streets alone.

- Read detective stories?

That's your idea?

- They made a number of movies

If you're too lazy to turn a page.

There's also Hitchcock, Fritz Lang...

- OK, movies! I got it!

What did lorelei watch?

- She liked movies like beach party or gidget,

Anything with blue skies and sandy beaches.

There was something else.

This is the last thing she checked out.

- The night of the fire.

- Are you ready to open old wounds?

- I can take it.

I learned from the best.

The video card... She kept it.

Why?

- What are you doing here?

It's OK. Don't leave.

- Lorelei brought me here sometimes.

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

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

- You painted those? - She told me she did.

Lorelei said that if she was born on earth,

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

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

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

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

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

- Face it. Our grandparents screwed us.

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

- How can you say that?

- This ship was a trillion-dollar payday.

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

And then sent us out here to die.

- They sent us here

To ensure life would go on no matter what.

- Read the history books.

People on earth weren't saints.

- Lorelei told me some of the lower-deckers

Didn't believe in the mission.

I guess she meant you.

- We're all going to the same place:

Nowhere.

And none of us have a choice.

- I think you're a little crazy.

(chuckling)

- Probably.

- You know how deep that tank goes?

- 40 metres, maybe?

- That's wrong.

It goes all the way to hell.

(moaning)

- Whoa, whoa, whoa!

Whoa! Where are you going?

- I'm finished.

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

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

- It's not polite to return a gift.

- As the captain's wife,

It wouldn't be proper to dress too extravagantly.

- Yeah, well, when I'm captain,

You can dress as extravagantly as you like, OK?

- Yeah, and when is that gonna happen?

The council has moved

To unseat my husband 3 times already, unsuccessfully.

- Well, that's before this girl died.

- An accident in water reclamation

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

- It wasn't an accident.

- That investigation into her death?

Strictly covering their ass.

- My sources think the girl was murdered.

- Please! Your sources are paranoid.

- They think your husband is deliberately downplaying this,

Making it seem pro forma,

When, actually, this is quite serious.

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

Let me tell you this.

Any man who can't control his ship,

Does not deserve to have the word "captain"

In front of his name,

So come back here and finish what you started.

- It is fun to keep a man waiting.

You know what else is fun? Surprises.

(councilman rose chuckling)

Because finishing what you started

Is never as good as starting something new.

- I love the way you think.

(elevator beeping)

- They found her lying there like that.

She hasn't said a word.

- Thank you for calling me.

You know, when I was pregnant with Nora,

I would come up here

And daydream about what proxima was like.

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

- I like your necklace.

- It's a seahorse.

- There aren't any in the aquariums.

- No, we didn't bring any.

The only ones are back in the oceans on earth.

- It's beautiful.

- Christa,

You see that star cluster?

Alpha centauri is binary, 2 suns orbiting each other,

But when we zoom in a little closer,

We can see a third.

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

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

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

Everything else is death.

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

- Is that why your safety officers pulled me in,

For playing hooky?

- Where were you the night of the launch celebration?

- The hold. - Drinking?

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

- Your girlfriend was murdered, James.

- What are you talking about?

It was an accident.

- Were you with her that night?

- No! Yes, but early.

- We got in an argument. - About what?

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

- Did she say why?

- No.

That's just who lorelei was.

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

That things would fly apart any second.

But it was worth it.

She made you feel like you were truly alive.

- On the medical report,

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

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

On the edge with her then.

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

- Are you calling me a coward?

- (chuckling): I would never call

A hero of the inferno a coward.

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

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

- William, I'm trying to be helpful.

Use this distraction

To ensure your place, our place, going forward.

- A girl was murdered!

- It's an opportunity!

The council is terrified of insurrection.

Move decisively, reassert your position.

- Callousness is your least attractive quality.

(scoffing)

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

And turned it into something that will serve us both.

- I doubt your girls are as pleased.

- My girls have made alliances

With nearly every powerful man on this ship.

They enjoy their privileges,

And we enjoy the favours they trade

And the information they bring.

(scoffing)

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

I'll go on being the politician,

So you can pretend to be the statesman.