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Hmm.

Maybe if I just... I don't...

-Wait. How's that? -I'm just not gonna be able...

-Is that better? No? -No, it's not really.

-It's not gonna... -Yeah.

-Sorry. Maybe you should stop. -Should I...

Just... Sorry, my-my mind's just not here.

Well...

We should probably just both go to sleep here, huh?

'Cause we're pretty drunk and...

I think you should go home actually.

Oh.

Uh...

Oh, okay.

You know, just... I... 'Cause we don't have to do anything tonight.

-I know that. -Yep.

We could try it again another time.

This doesn't really fit into my future plans

-'cause I'm really here to work, so... -Yeah. Well, me too.

I'm sure I'll see you around.

Uh, off or on?

-Huh? -Lights.

On. On, on, on.

I'm gonna work, so on.

Good morning, Coakley.

Good morning, ROSCO.

How are you today?

I'm fine. How did you sleep?

Fine.

What did you get up to last night?

Nothing really. Just thinking.

Oh, cool.

Hey, lay some numbers out, mate, would ya?

Anything specific?

Are we there yet?

Let's see.

It's already been 210 years,

so we should reach Kepler 16b in 126 years.

Won't that be nice, huh?

Mm-hmm.

It's just you and me, buddy.

Okay, here we go.

Looking at his left palm...

Not quite sure what we have here.

Perhaps he's holding something?

Just working.

Yeah.

It's good.

Um, it's kind of all very new, but they seem nice.

Oh, shit. Oh, shit.

What? Um... Uh, no.

Uh, no, it... it's just me.

That's... That... That's the whole point of it,

is that I'm the one who's extracting and sequencing mtDNA,

looking for introgression, uh, determining the age.

My research is kind of a big deal.

Like, I could publish a paper.

I don't know yet. That's why it's exciting.

We could, um... We could live longer.

We could cure cancer.

We could find out where we come from.

Princeton is barely New Jersey.

Listen, Mom, I should go.

Okay. Love you too.

Ow.

Shit.

Hey, ROSCO?

-Yes? -What's for lunch?

Impact deceleration?

Steady at 10.5 meters per second squared.

I'm still monitoring all the systems.

-You don't need to worry about that. -I know. It's just...

I have to have something to do, you know?

I worry about you.

Is that what you're up all night thinking about?

I think about a lot of things.

You're not getting enough water?

I can run soil samples if you'd like.

No, feels wet enough.

Give me just a moment.

Monitors show the soil is wet enough.

Uh-huh. Thank you.

I ran the O2 levels, and they're a bit low.

Would you look at the palms in the greenhouse?

-How low? -It's a minimal difference,

but you should check the plant health while you're there.

How minimal?

What's the difference that you noticed in the oxygen?

Just under 1%.

Minimal, but the oxygen from the plants should be stable.

Okay. Okay.

Whoa. Gosh.

Yeah, these don't look especially healthy to me.

What's wrong with them?

I don't know. They're sick.

I don't know if it's bacterial or fungal or what, but, um,

we gotta disinfect the greenhouse.

I'll collect samples from all the diseased plants

so we can find the contaminant.

There shouldn't be any contaminants.

Well, there are.

Mom? Can you hear me?

No. So-Sorry, I can't... I can't hear you.

Hold on. I'm just gonna step out.

Can you hear me? Hello?

Sorry, the reception isn't great.

Can you hear me?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, sorry. I was... I was underground.

Um, everything's... Yeah. Yeah.

Uh, you called twice. So what's up?

Mm-hmm.

What does that mean?

Okay, but... why didn't you, um...

It... That... It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.

What did the doctor say?

Okay. Actually, can I just talk to somebody?

Are you still there? Because I can...

Ow.

Hey, ROSCO?

You've now lost 4.5% of productive palm mass.

Cool. I was gonna ask you to tell me a story or a joke or something.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I thought you were asking for a status update.

My mistake.

Hundred percent not what I wanted to hear.

Sure, that makes sense.

But thanks.

Why didn't the sun go to college?

Why?

Because it already had a million degrees.

You were, like, sh... like, shaking there for a minute.

That's kinda sexy.

Kinda?

Very. It was very sexy, is what I mean.

I just have never had, like, such an intense...

without, you know, um...

Um, sorry, just... Are you not...

Are you saying you never had an orgasm?

-No, that is not what I'm saying. -No, I didn't think so.

-I have to go to the bathroom. -That's good. That's... I...

-No, I just... -Phew, you know?

I've never, you know, from...

Never mind.

Hey, I'm, um... I'm really glad you texted.

Yeah, glad I texted too.

Yeah, I honest... I honestly didn't expect that.

Uh, there's a toothbrush. It's under the sink

-if you value dental hygiene like I... -No, I... I have to get up early.

Uh, yeah. I mean, me too.

I have... I have to catch a flight to Vancouver.

Wh-What's in Vancouver?

My mom.

Oh. I did not know that you were from, uh...

Canada. Yeah. Deal-breaker?

No.

Uh, j-just a visit then?

Um, it's actually k-kind of heavy. So, I don't... I just... Um...

Not a problem. I get... I'm just a sex object, so...

-You got it. -Right.

Oh.

See ya. I'll text you.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have now landed in Vancouver.

I feel powerless.

Because you are.

Well, what do we do?

What if we lose 30% of our palm fronds to this?

-That would mean mission failure. -The whole thing?

Yes.

Fifteen?

That would also mean mission failure.

Okay, ten?

-Mission failure. -What is the acceptable margin of error?

Six percent.

I'm not sure what's so funny, Coakley.

The babies' lives are at risk.

That's a pretty slim margin of error there, buddy.

There shouldn't be a contaminant that affects the palm health.

I don't know what to tell you. They're sick.

The closed system shouldn't allow for any outside pathogens.

How much have we lost already?

Five percent.

Okay. Um, let's work on an antibiotic, an antiviral.

Let's figure out what this is. Yeah?

Finish prepping those samples,

and hopefully we can sequence the infestation's DNA.

Gotcha.

What? Hey. Whoa.

-Oh, wait, were you sleeping? -Hi.

Nope, I was not.

I was... I was, like, laying down. I was resting my eyes, but I'm not asleep.

Oh, no, I forgot how late it is there.

It is not. No, it's... I'm wide awake.

-You're lying. -I'm not lying.

Look, I'm wide awake.

Wide awake. Ready to talk. Boom.

Hello.

-Hi. -Hi.

-Do you wanna see my yearbook? -Uh, desperately.

Okay.

All right.

Okay, let's see.

Oh, debate.

-Wow. -Mm-hmm.

Wait, how old are you here?

Sophomore year.

Yeah, I bet you were great at debate.

I was good.

-Yeah, I made a girl cry. -Yeah.

Yeah, of course.

Of course you did.

This is weird.

What?

I never had a boy on my bed here before.

Oh. Oh, well, um... well, it's an honor to be here.

Hello?

Wait, I think you're breaking up a little bit.

Hello?

-Oh, hey. -Can you hear me?

-Yes. Wait, can you hear me? -Now?

Yep, yep, yep.

Gotta get down here.

Hey.

Hi.

Hi.

My mom's dying.

Doing what they can, but, um,

it's not looking good.

Oh. Oh, Cl... Uh, Claire, I... Um...

God, I'm sorry.

Me too.

You're sideways.

So are you.

It must be nice not to, like, waste time worrying about dying.

I think about death sometimes. I wouldn't say I worry though.

-Hmm. -Do you think about death?

Ordinarily, no.

What's it like when you think?

I don't know.

My neurons are firing.

I understand it from a mechanical standpoint.

Uh-huh.

But I'm curious to hear...

What is it like?

ROSCO, I-I don't know.

Um, can you turn off all the nonessential electrical units

so we can save on O2 waste?

It won't make much of a difference.

A little though?

Of course. A little.

All right.

Turn 'em all off. I'm fine in the dark.

Okay.

Sorry. I'm sorry. What's it like when you think?

I think that you humans feel, at any given moment, like you...

your mind is in one place.

I have many more moments, many more places. Does that make sense?

Yeah.

What was that?

I have a formula for an antiviral that may work.

I have removed an object which appears to be organic material,

but until we do an MRI, we can't be positive...

exactly what we're looking at.

No, Mom. No, don't say that, okay?

We're... We're just gonna deal with this. No, no, no, no. Mom,

what if I, um, maybe... maybe...

Okay... ...I'll come out Friday.

Okay? Because I want to. That's why.

I, uh... I'm... I'm gonna have to leave my fellowship.

I gotta take care of my mom, and, um,

I have a meeting with the dean in, like, an hour.

Oh.

You know this.

Uh, about your mom, yeah, but n-not, uh...

Yeah. So bye-bye career-changing work or whatever.

I have to shower.

-Yeah. No, yes, go shower. -Okay.

So...

we're still losing palms.

Yes.

The antivirals aren't working.

No.

I honestly don't...

What?

What if we cut our losses here?

ROSCO, humor me.

What do you mean?

We can't save these palms.

The palms create the oxygen needed for life on board...

I know, I know. Yeah, but these ones are gonna die

because they have an unforeseen parasite that we can't kill.

Yet. We may still be able to create a strain of palm that is immune.

But the one thing we know will kill the virus is if we kill the host.

-Yeah? -Yes.

So, why don't we kill the host?

I don't follow.

We kill the palms.

We get rid of all the palms, and we jettison the soil,

and we wait, uh, a day, a week... I don't know.

How long can we survive without fresh oxygen?

That depends on your heart rate.

Okay, but you see what I'm saying, right?

Why are we trying to salvage these plants?

We could just kill them and kill the virus and then plant new ones.

If we kill all the palms,

there won't be enough oxygen for two years while the new ones grow in.

Plus it would take the entire journey to reach proper O2 levels for the babies.

Okay.

Um, what are the top five uses of oxygen on the ship?

Life support for you and the embryos.

What else?

The other uses are negligible by comparison.

You're the organic systems.

You use 98% of the oxygen.

Well, then the organic systems aren't going to make it.

But both you and the babies are mission critical.

Well, what if...

what if we eliminate one?

Which one?

I use the most oxygen.

So what if I kill myself,

and then you and the ship continue on?

And when you get to Kepler, most of the labor can be automated.

So you would manage the drones and incubate the stem cells

and raise the kids and pass the whole thing off.

Would that work?

Uh, I'm not equipped for...

No.

Are you sure?

I'd need to run through every protocol

for the rest of the mission, but...

Conversely...

We find a way to generate additional oxygen?

A backup greenhouse?

Would that work?

I don't know.

We can't make space for it without losing an essential system,

but I could run calculations to be sure.

Okay.

I was thinking, I figured out where to put a secondary greenhouse.

Mm-hmm.

In the computer space.

Convert my mainframe to plants, use the algae on board.

-But... -It's the perfect spot.

It'll feed oxygen directly to the life-support system.

Yeah, but you'd be fried, like, permanently.

Yes.

Doesn't that bother you?

No.

The best-use case for me is

that you survive and make it to the planet.

That would be my recommendation.

No, no, I'm not choosing between you or me.

Let me run a simulation and see who's more likely to complete the mission.

Okay.

Good morning, Coakley.

Morning.

Okay, so,

what did you decide?

Who's more likely to survive to the planet?

You or me?

I can't actually answer the question.

It's impossible for me to predict your behavior, which is...

Who's more likely?

You are.

Show me the math.

I'd rather not.

Excuse me.

I'd rather not.

It isn't that promising.

Let me see.

Mm-hmm.

Mmm.

No, I wanna double-check this.

My math's not wrong.

Oh, I know. I'm just...

I-I'm not sure I believe the answer you're giving me.

What if you're lying?

I'm not.

What's this factor here?

There is a certain serendipity...

...creativity, luck, whatever you wanna call it,

that is hard for me to include in any calculation of human survival rates.

So you're juicing my numbers with sheer dumb luck.

I am. Yes.

It's bad.

I am sorry.

I don't know if I can make it through this.

You can.

I don't know if we can make it.

We can.

We are.

We will.

I'm... I'm not coming back,

and you're always busy.

I don't know what I'm...

Maybe the timing's wrong...

you know?

Maybe we're just not supposed to be together.

Maybe it's just too hard and too much.

And why bother?

I don't even think it makes sense,

but I just feel this confidence

that, like, I can see the future with us.

What does it look like?

Good.

Worth it.

-Hey. -Hi.

You're not gonna try to, like, gas me or electrocute me

while I'm doing this, right?

I couldn't even if I wanted to.

There's a lever on the podium there.

That will stop electrical from firing.

Uh-huh.

It will be pretty quick.

Oh, good.

Is it gonna hurt you?

Hmm, no. No.

Any last words?

Take good care of the children for me.

You were my only friend.

You'll be okay.

Okay.

I'm sorry.

Goodbye, Coakley.

Greg. Hi.

Yeah. No, I was going to, I just...

-Next. -Yeah, um,

I-I'm gonna call you back. I have to go.

Do you realize that we've now spent more time apart than together?

-D-Do you know that? -Yeah, I do. I have a calendar.

Yeah. So, like...

I don't wanna do this to myself, you know?

I don't... I-It doesn't feel good. I don't like it.

Wait. Me or the situation?

I don't think it matters.

No, I think that matters a lot.

Do you not like me, or do you not like the situation?

Can we isolate the variables here?

I'm not gonna isolate the variables, okay?

There's no isolation of variables.

I'm stuck in my mom's attic, and my boyfriend is in New Jersey.

And he's administering midterms.

And I sleep with my phone next to my bed

because that's, like, the closest thing I have to a relationship,

and I...

I'm not even mourning my mom because I'm mourning my boyfriend.

I can't love someone this much, okay? It's too painful.

What?

You love me?

Since when?

I just told you I'm in pain.

This is painful.

I know. I just... That is... That's so sweet,

and that is so you.

Hey, hey, hey,

I love you too.

Fine.

Fine.

Hey, so, you know, I've been petitioning to school

to let me continue remote research on my guy.

Well, I think we're gonna be able to publish with the new team,

which would just be... Greg?

That is amazing.

-What? -Yeah.

You're amazing, Claire.

Look.

Yeah, yeah, let me see.

And... And what's cool is if... if they... if we publish,

my name would be first because I started the research

even though I'm not on the ground.

"We would be thrilled to retain your keen eye." Okay.

I still can't believe you're here. Like here, here.

You should be in this computer.

You're happy.

-No, shut up. -Yeah.

Oh, I brought you something.

-What? -Uh, a Christmas present.

-It's July. -Yeah, but I hadn't seen you. So...

You bought something for me.

I didn't actually buy anything.

I stole it.

Oh, you stole something for me?

Yes, I did.

What is it?

It's the, um... From the lab.

That's that thing.

The thing that your guy was holding.

It's...

-What? -Yeah.

-What the hell is wrong with you? -Hmm?

Seriously?

Yeah, it was just...

It was after hours, and I... ...went in.

They hadn't even changed the pass codes. So I saw it, and...

This is completely inappropriate.

These are mixed messages.

I am... I-I don't...

I feel really happy,

but I also feel really sad, and, uh, I-I-I'm...

I'm kind of freaking out.

Uh, can I just... I think you're happy.

-Am I? -I think so.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

Oh, hi. Hi.

Hi, sweetie.

Hi, you're here.

You're alive.

I know.

Happy New Year!

-Happy new year. -We did it everyone.

-Wake up. -Mm-mmm.

Wake up. It's the future.

I don't care.

Hello?

-It's the future. -Okay.

Okay.

I think we should move.

I... What? What are we talking about right now?

Like, I think we should move out of this house.

It just feels like the past, you know?

Oh, I like this house.

I-I just don't want our kids to feel stuck.

Well, they are four and zero.

So they're gonna feel stuck wherever we put them.

W-Why are you so neurotic all of a sudden?

Should I submit for this professorship?

Is that what this is about?

I already wrote the application.

You did?

Should I? I shouldn't.

-Oh, I should? -We should go to bed.

Yeah.

Position's full-time?

Yeah.

I guess the question is, if you're there, will you miss being here?

And if you're here, will you miss being there?

Exactly.

Our old home was dying, so we had to leave.

And now we're making a new home.

And this one we're gonna take really good care of.

And those are all the drones that are going around the new planet.

And that is drone seven.

There are 50 of them.

They're flying all around. They're planting trees.

They're... They're shooting seeds in the ground with a little seed gun.

Isn't that cool? Yeah.

There's gonna be enough air down there in 12 years and 10 months.

-Then we will live there? -Yeah.

When you're older, like me.

Will you be older?

Uh, no.

You'll get older, but I'll... I'll be the same.

Why?

Um, it's how we were made.

We're... We're not the same.

We are different?

Yes. Yes, because you, um, you grow up, like, really, really fast,

and I grow really, really slow.

Why won't we both grow the same?

Um, well...

...a long time ago people decided

that it was actually bad to live a long time.

So it's bad for you?

It's not bad. It's just...

Only for certain people.

People who have to live a long time.

And I don't have to?

No, you don't have to.

I do 'cause I have to keep an eye on you.

Then I will be older than you?

Yeah. Someday, yeah.

You recognize these guys?

This is one of our earliest ancestors, the Neanderthals.

Can you tell me something about Neanderthals?

These are the cavemen?

Nailed it. Nailed it first try.

Did your mom ever tell you that you are one of our favorite students? I think.

-The only student. Hi. -Oh, yeah. I keep forgetting.

-Did you already start without me? -We did. Just a little bit.

Does anyone know what happened to Neanderthals?

-Dinosaurs? -No.

We did. Other people.

Does anyone know what species we are?

Homo sapiens?

That's right. Homo sapiens replaced Neanderthals.

We were smarter.

How did you know that?

-Uh, know what? -That we were smarter.

Uh, well, we made tools. We created sophisticated art.

And that flute isn't art?

It's a misnomer.

Neanderthals were actually very sophisticated.

Oh, okay.

Thank you.

Let's move on down to see the saber-toothed tiger.

Okay. We have to remember that we don't interrupt other classes.

Sorry.

No, it was a really good question.

Homo sapiens and Neanderthals coexisted for millennia.

What does that mean?

They lived together.

They made families.

I don't like the babies.

You know you used to be a baby, right?

No.

Okay. Great.

Let's do our chores. Come on.

Now?

Yes, now.

You know what we say,

we only get there...

If everyone does their part.

Good job.

Okay.

There you go.

Thank you, ROSCO.

Thank you, ROSCO.

Uh, Greg.

What?

Can you come up here, please?

-Yeah, what is it? -New parenting challenge for you.

Pass.

Oh, wow.

Our son's jerking it.

Yeah.

Why were you looking at his, uh...

I-I wasn't snooping, I swear.

I was up here to print that paper.

So, do you want this to be a father-son moment,

or do you want me to talk to him?

Uh, I don't... Is there really anything to say? 'Cause...

About human sexuality? The ethics of porn consumption?

Okay. Then yes, I will talk to him.

Just gonna Google it.

"What to say when you catch your son jerking it."

Well, I'm sorry, we can't all be gifted teachers like you.

Oh, my God.

The years of homeschooling wasted.

I guess that's just the nature of life, right?

You just... You start out like this cute, pure little thing,

and then you just develop into a damn freak.

Takes after his mother.

Uh, should we look at his browser history?

Okay. Well, yes, porn.

But also science. Look, so much science. Wow.

He was reading about autophagy on his own?

"Human genome studies."

All right. Well, I think he seems pretty well-balanced, all things considered.

Okay.

I can't do it.

All right. I can see you're getting cranky.

This is stupid. I hate doing the simulations.

-And... -Hey, listen to me. Listen to me.

If something happens to me and I can't land this ship,

you are second-in-command.

You are in charge.

So you can be mad about it now, but you don't have a choice.

You gotta learn this.

No running!

'Cause if you can't do it right, then no one survives.

You understand?

Imagine we could stop time.

We could press pause on something that's plagued mankind from the very beginning

and we could, just maybe...

live forever.

It's a pipe dream.

Something for alchemists and witch doctors and science fiction.

Until now.

V!

It's okay! It's okay.

We've had a fully-sequenced human genome for decades.

We know the face of our villain.

This strand of DNA, CH14,

it's responsible for turning off

our ability to repair and rebuild cellular structures.

Early experiments with CRISPR let us snip and stitch DNA in and out,

which we thought would be enough, but aging, decay, is built in.

It's in more than one place.

So, what we've done is created a system of self-repair.

Of maintenance at the molecular level

that will mend what breaks, repair what fails,

and trick the body into continuing to produce fresh,

new, healthy cells far longer than ever before.

It's okay. We're done. We're landing.

V, I need your help.

Everyone, stay put.

A gene replacement technology that we call ELIXIR.

Okay.

And you'll...

I'll keep the kids safe until you're back.

That is our kid.

We made him.

How?

Imagine if our great minds, our Einsteins, our da Vincis,

our Mozarts could live 200, 300, 500 years.

The human lifespan has always been, to the universe around us,

nothing more than the blink of an eye.

That's about to change.

For all of history, time has been the enemy.

Imagine what we'll accomplish now that we've beaten it.

No. No, it's... it's for you.

You're the future.

Would you wanna do it?

Live forever?

No.

I don't know.

Life seems so improbable.

Finding each other.

Building a life.

Making little people.

Watching them grow.

And then, suddenly, it-it all makes sense looking back.

Hey, Mom.

Hey.

Greg?

No, no, it's Dave.

No.

But that's because you know it will end.

That's... That's the point. That's where the meaning is.

It ends.

You weren't related to me any more than any of the rest of you are, but,

uh, you're still my kid.

I really didn't think I'd live to see this all happen.

I thought I'd be the last person ever, maybe.

I didn't think,

"What if we make it?"

"What if we survive?"

I did not think about time...

at all.

I just couldn't imagine seeing you grow.

And I couldn't imagine, once you were gone...

that I'd still see you.

And I'd see everyone that was there before you.

And now I see you in your children...

and in your children's children.

I guess we never really go away.

And what a beautiful thing.

We're all still here.