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Sa.

Eye movement detected.

What is two plus two? Incorrect.

Cognition assessment.

What is two plus two? Incertain.

You have been in an introduced class.

You may experience an memory loss, difficulty speaking.

Body movement detected.

For your own safety, please return to the medical platform.

Please remember, muscle function has not yet been restored.

People. Hello.

It.

Sa.

It.

Right now.

Why is there an atomic resolution scanning electron microscope? Why do I

know that? Am I smart?

Hello? Please record video diary.

No. Can I speak to the person in charge? The captain? Captain Yaoi.

Jai deceased.

Yeah. Where are the.

The living people? Dr.

Ryland. Grace.

End of manifest.

I can't be the only person here, right? Pilot detected.

Oh, no, no, no.

Not the pilot.

Uh, call Houston.

Unknown command.

Operation go home in effect.

Invalid operation.

That's the sun.

There it is.

So what are we, like Neptune? Ish.

Let's crank up the radio and call Earth.

The current transmission time to Earth is 11 years, 10 months, 14 days, and

6 hours.

No, no, you're wrong.

I need a map.

Oh,

that's really.

That's not our son.

That's not our son.

Where is the fuel?

It's.

We are just minutes away from the flyby through the Petrova line near Venus.

So what can you tell us about the Arklide probe? What do we expect to find?

The image we see will be coming from the onboard microscope.

Oh. Oh, my God.

Sorry. I have to go now.

Sound waves are physical and at different frequencies.

They make different pattern of pattern.

They make different pattern.

Olivia, can you help me out? Try going.

There we go.

Whoa. Yeah.

Are they really eating the sun? The space dots? That is a great question,

Rekha. And I'd be curious what your parents think about that.

I'm not sure it should come from me.

Hey, who wants to play a game of the beanbag? Is lava.

Lava, lava.

What is the speed of line, Olivia? It's melting your hands, Olivia.

186,000 miles per second.

Oh. Give her a round of applause.

That is awesome.

What is the Petrova line? Ah, Bass, you can't pass.

Guys, two years ago, a radio telescope enthusiast named Irina Petrova, she

noticed that there was a streak of infrared light from the sun to Venus, and

that is now known as the Petrova line.

That's it.

That's the dots.

They think so.

What dots?

These dots.

They sent a probe up to the Petrova line, and this is what they found.

Are they eating the sun? They seem to be dimming the sun a tiny, teeny,

weeny little bit.

So no big whoop.

It's a small.

Whoop It's a small to medium whoops.

Over the next 30 years, the Earth could cool maybe 10 to 15 degrees.

So it is a big whoop.

I heard that all the crops will die, the economy will free fall, and half

the earth will die of starvation.

Well, we're all gonna die.

Yeah. You're forgetting something.

Guys, guys.

That's if that were to happen, right? They're gonna figure this out.

Right now, the best minds in the entire world are on it.

Well, I woke up Sunday morning With no way to hold my hand.

Didn't hurt.

Good morning, Dr.

Grace. And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad so I had one more for

dessert.

Then I headed back for home? And somewhere far away A lonely bell was

ringing?

And it echoed through the canyons? Like the disappearing dreams of yesterday

on the Sunday morning? S

wishing Lord, that I was stone?

Cause there's something in us I

make somebody feel alone

and there's nothing short of dying

Half as lonesome As a sound

on the sleeping city side walls Sunday morning coming down.

Knock, knock.

Who's there? Not good at jokes.

Not good at jokes.

Who?

Doctor Grace, maybe.

Eva Stratt.

I'm with the Petrova task force.

I need your help.

Me? Did you write this?

Oh, I'm interested in this section here.

Page 31.

The Goldilocks zone is for idiots.

Why Everyone is wrong about life.

That was a long time ago.

Do you stand by what you wrote? I was fired for standing by what I wrote.

You were fired for calling the leading scholar in your field a staggering

waste of carbon.

At the UNESCO conference in Denmark, you.

You heard about that, huh? Look, I don't know what this is, but I think.

I'm not sure.

That's lava.

It's not.

Okay, no one in your field wants anything to do with you because you refuse

to back down from my very unpopular view.

And I can give you a chance to prove them all wrong.

That's Kevin.

No running.

I'm not.

Joke's on them because I don't even care.

So I think you do care.

You're just running away because you're scared.

No.

Do you still believe water is unnecessary for life to evolve? Look, there is

nothing magical about hydrogen and oxygen.

Water is required for life on Earth.

Sure, a completely different planet might have completely different

conditions. I don't know why that makes me such a nut.

I need you to come with us.

Sorry. I didn't.

I didn't get your name.

Carl. Hi, Dr.

Grace. For Trine samples splashed down last night.

I want you to tell me what they are, how they work.

I am a teacher at Grover Cleveland Middle.

You have a doctorate in molecular biology.

And I ride a bike to work.

And it's not for exercise, so.

I'm sure there are thousands of other people on the surface of the sun.

Does that sound like a water based life form to you?

Sun's really dying, isn't it? Yeah.

Is all of this necessary? Yes.

Please analyze the patrol sample.

Just one thing.

The entire room is filled with argon.

Just try not to rip your suit.

Am I expendable? Is that why you want me? That's not the only reason.

It's almost like you don't care if I die.

Hold on.

You have to talk about it.

The consensus here is that it would be preferable if you did not die.

Thanks, guys.

Welcome to earth.

Are they alive? They're moving.

So they're alive? They're moving.

Yes, they're moving, but they're.

That could be for many reasons.

What are they made of? It's gonna take a long time.

It took like 200 years to figure out how bacteria work, so please do it

faster. I'm just going through the whole light spectrum here.

Wow. You're not gonna believe this.

Nothing happened.

I can't see.

See into these buggers.

Amazing. X rays, microwaves, gamma rays, visible light.

Nothing.

I've been dying to do this all day.

It's a cell.

It's a cell.

Wake up.

It's a cell.

It's a tiny alien cell.

You guys lost? Guys, this is first contact with the light outside of the.

Oh. Oh.

Died. What? This is great news.

Now we can find out what they're made of.

You guys fired up?

Yes. Right.

Carbon, oxygen,

hydrogens. Oh,

It's made almost entirely

of water.

All right.

Sorry if I overreacted in there.

Just realizing I was wrong about the only original idea I ever had.

Yeah, what else did you learn? To give off infrared light when they moved,

like so much.

I don't know how they store all that energy, but their wavelength is exactly

the Petrova frequency.

The light is how they move.

Yeah. They consume the sun's energy and then they expel it for propulsion.

They toot to scoot, basically.

Why did it go to Venus? I don't know.

Okay, we'll tell you what.

I have 347 other biologists and 21 countries mobilizing as we speak.

So thank you for your help.

I'm glad you didn't die.

Let's pack this up.

That's it.

That's it.

Cory, Talk to her.

You're taking all this stuff.

At the school, you said there were thousands of people more qualified than

you. So I must be being modest.

I don't need modest.

I need people who think they're right when everyone else thinks they're

wrong. I need people who piss other people off.

That's me.

Do you want to be on a project? If you.

If you think I can help, then just answer the question.

I want to help the world.

I left you three dots.

Just three, huh? Plus the one you killed.

I would take the three.

I'll take the dots.

Get to work.

Dr. Grace.

The world is counting on you.

This is Carl.

Imagine for a second that you're an interstellar microorganism.

I'm not doing that.

Why would you leave the sun and go to Venus? Why not stop at Mercury? It's

closer. Maybe fresh air.

Venus's atmosphere is mostly CO2.

Maybe that's fresh air to them.

You don't know what these little space stats like.

Hey Carl, do we have an expense account? We don't.

But I do.

Is the name of a dance we do down Johannesburg way and everybody starts to

move as soon as P starts to play.

Thank you.

Do you have a coupon? We don't need a coupon for the government.

Which government? All of them.

So this box is Venus.

The box is Venus.

It's set to emit the same infrared light frequency as Venus's CO2

atmosphere. So the dots move when you turn the lights on.

That means they're looking for CO2.

Thus proving the Carl hypothesis.

Sick.

All right, you ready?

Uh oh.

Why you saying uh oh? The astrophage moved off the slide.

Huh? We lost them.

What do you mean we lost them? Go get them.

If I open the door and the light, they're going to escape and then we'll

lose them forever.

At least now they're in the box.

So I'm going to just turn the lights off.

There'll still be light.

It's got to be total darkness.

Okay, so just put this box in another box.

Go ahead and close it.

Over. I can hear you.

Entering phase two.

I'm in.

Please report.

Over.

There's one.

There's two.

Come on.

Get the third one.

God. Sample three.

The three musketeers.

The three stooges.

Uh oh.

What? What? Are you sitting down? No, I'm standing like a grown man.

Cuz it's a force.

What? We're fathers, Carl.

Now I'm sitting down.

Start. Carl and I made a baby.

What? We forgot how astrophage Breeds.

Don't move.

What's up?

No, Carl.

When Strat said she was sending Jet, I thought you meant like a pj.

Take this.

It's been a long time since I've taken a pill from a stranger without

knowing what it was.

Was.

Doctor Grace.

How was your flight?

Where are we? The ocean.

The astropage reproduction.

Can you do it at scale? Oh, in theory.

You just get a bunch of elbow shaped pipe.

Put sunlight in one end.

Excuse me for a second.

Write it down.

And IR light CO2 in the other.

Repeat. Anything else you need? Water.

He gave me a pill and it's still in my throat.

Two venti coffees.

Thank you so much.

Water for or coffee? That's.

I need both.

Or not.

Okay, so this is kind of a tough room, so don't take it personally.

I don't need anything fancy.

I just.

As long as there's a bed and a shower, I'm good.

You're doing great.

Everyone, this is Dr.

Ryland Grace from the United States.

Please go.

Here. Thank you.

And he figured out how to breed estrophage.

How did you do it? How long does the process take? Does it reproduce by

mitosis or meiosis? What is the incubation period?

Carl and I made a mini Venus out of a plywood box.

And as soon as the samples recognized the spectral signature of CO2, they

were. They're like, there it is.

Okay, you can sit down.

While your experiment was crude and clumsy, our scientists have replicated

his results.

I'm sorry, how did you see or how did you.

We estimate an eight day doubling time under optimal conditions.

Dr. Grace is right.

Oh, it is the CO2.

That's why they're going to Venus.

Say it for everyone.

That's why they're going to Venus.

So that's why they're.

That's why they're going to Venus is what Dr.

Grace wants to say.

They're going to breathe.

There it is.

I really like him.

How long to make 2 million kilogram? 2 million.

2 million is.

Why on earth would you need that much astrophage? Nobody told him.

He has no clearance.

Stand up, Dr.

Price. Stand up.

I hereby grant you top secret clearance to all information pertaining to

Project Hail Mary.

What's Project Hail Mary? All right.

The sun is not the only star dying.

There is a clear pattern on the of infection.

Every star was infected by its neighbor.

Except one.

That's right.

11.9 light years away.

It is uninfected despite being well within the cluster of infected stars.

Why? Why? Tell him we don't know.

Which is why we decided to build a ship to go there and find out.

It's 11.9 light years away.

You can't just build an interstellar ship.

Oh yeah, we can.

The ship is not really the the problem.

The energy required to power the ship is the problem.

It was the problem.

The astrophage is the fuel provided we can make enough of it.

And for that we need you, my friend.

Me? Ooh, those little guys store a lot of energy.

One mistake in that much astrophage could vaporize California.

That's true.

True. Which is why you now live on a boat in the middle of the ocean in

Cairns. I live on the boat.

You do.

So you want to build a near lightspeed spaceship.

Have it travel further than any human made object has ever traveled.

And visit a star just to see what's up.

Yeah. And then what? There won't be enough fuel for a round trip.

So they send their findings back to Earth on probes.

And the astronauts

die. In space.

Yes,

space.

Any other plans you've thought of? Anything else? Any else you're kicking

around? There are infinite possibilities for this to go wrong.

It almost certainly won't work.

It's what you Americans would call a long shot.

Hail Mary.

I get it.

The alternative is to just do nothing.

And to starve and to kill each other and watch everything on this planet go

extinct. Including us.

So.

That's a long time to be in space.

They've been in comas for most of it.

But is that even safe? Nothing about this is safe.

We only need three.

A pilot, an engineer and a scientist.

Commander Yao.

I must have known you, but I just don't remember.

You make a funny face in literally every picture.

You must have been very smart.

And strong.

And brave.

Il Yukna.

First I owe you three bags of vodka.

You seem to have had a lot of friends.

This picture of you.

What looks like sneaking into the Kremlin is legendary.

I wish you were still here.

I wish I wasn't alone.

I wish I was doing a better job.

I just.

You were both very loved.

You deserve much more than this.

I'll do my best to make sure that you don't.

You know that you didn't.

I'll do my best.

Sa.

Sam.

Approaching Tau.

Steady orbit.

Prepare for engine cutoff.

40. Why engine cut off? See that? We should talk about.

Pilot detected.

I'm not a pilot.

What happens at zero? I mean.

You are now orbiting tower.

Seti.

What the.

Fudging fudge.

The troposcope operational the troposcope operational.

You have a petrol line, but you're not dimming.

Why?

A detected.

What's the blip? A clip A detected.

Sam.

Sa.

No, no, no, no, no.

Let's go.

Let's go.

Mary no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Pilot detected.

Please engage restraint.

Pilot detected.

Pilot detected.

We're getting out of here.

Engaged spin drive.

Incorrect. Welcome to the Hail Mary.

Is it this thing?

Erratic maneuver detected.

What do they want?

What.

Let be detected.

What's a blooper? Current distance from hail Mary is 800 meters.

It's sending me something.

It could be a message.

Could be a bomb.

Is it a bomb? Shields up.

There are no shields on board the hill.

Why not? 30 meters.

20m10.

Well, I guess there's egg on both our faces, huh? Mary what's that?

Why is it moving so much slower than the last?

They think I'm dumb.

If we were gonna catch it, what would we do? Would you like to go on a

spacewalk, Dr.

Grace,

To begin your space walk? Put on your heavy A suit and proceed to the

airlock. Sa.

Mama.

No. It's just crazy.

Sam.

It.

Righty tidy, lefty Lucy.

Xenon's a gas.

I think this thing's broken.

We need the equipment to analyze the astrophage at our seti.

Most of this equipment won't work in zero gravity.

And we have a team to develop and build zero gravity versions of this

equipment. We would need years for that.

And we have months.

What's the alternative? We make gravity centrifuge? Centrifuge? They used

them to make butter during the Civil War.

Actually, that's fun.

Fun fact.

Sam.

Lab operational.

Still. Xenon up is down, left is right.

Xenon's a solid.

Aliens are real.

I'm wrong about everything and everything's wrong.

Lefty tighty, righty.

Lucy. I mean.

Oh, no.

Foreign presence detected.

It.

Sam.

You're a long way from home.

I'm a long way from home too.

Lip d detected.

It.

Sam.

It.

Sa.

Is that me?

My ship.

I don't understand.

You want me to go back in my ship?

I just got here.

Oh, okay.

Okay.

I'll talk to you later.

Bye.

Sam.

What are they doing? Mary.

It is not advised to modify the central P settings of the shape.

Thank you, Mary.

Sam.

It.

What?

Oh, my.

This is new.

Anybody home?

I like what you've done with the gravity.

I made you a ship.

It's ramen.

I only made one.

I'm not sure how many of you there are.

Sam.

Sa.

I'm Sorry.

I'm sorry.

You scared me when you went by.

Can't seem to see your face.

Mysterious faces are overrated.

You like tapping? Huh?

You're pointing.

You're not tapping.

Sorry.

Another present.

I don't have one of these.

I love it.

Thank you.

I put this on my head.

Take off my head.

Take my helmet off.

No, it'll.

That's a big ask.

Oh,

This is taking a turn.

Thank you for the.

What I hope is not handcuffs.

I'm sorry about the whole helmet thing.

Unfortunately, I need oxygen to breathe, so.

Two rings of eight.

Oh, two.

You little rascal.

This is oxygen.

I still don't think I can do it, though.

Sorry. It's just.

If I'm wrong, I'm really wrong.

Sam.

Sa.

Okay.

It's the Petrova line.

We're here for the same reason.

You have a petrol line problem, too.

You need to solve it.

I need to solve it.

That's why you made me this.

I'm gonna take that as a yes.

We're gonna save our planets.

We have to learn how to communicate.

Communicate? You know, they say math is the universal language.

I thought maybe we find out if that's true.

You see the numbers? Oh, you want this? Whoa.

Christmas Eve, that is.

It's really hot in there.

Is that ammonia? Anyway, that's.

Look. See the numbers? No, you're.

They're on the other side.

Do it again.

If you do it again and you don't let it snap back.

So don't.

Don't. Don't do it.

Don't do it.

Hold it like that.

And you look.

Wow. Wow.

How about something else? Look at this clock.

We both have time, right? These are the hands, and these are the numbers.

1, 2, 3.

They point to the numbers.

And if you'll notice, there's numbers there.

And there's also numbers here.

Okay.

It is dark.

I got an idea.

Wait. Don't.

Yeah. Don't go anywhere.

Stay. Oh.

Oh, yeah.

I'm Grace.

I'm gonna call you Rocky.

You know.

Cause you look like a giant rock.

Oh, I'm fine.

Echolocation, right? You need surfaces to see.

Try this.

You see the numbers.

What is that? Is that good? Jazz hands means good.

We do this.

Your version of this is our thumbs up.

No, that's thumbs down.

We do the thumbs up.

It's close enough.

You want me to wait? I wait.

Yeah, no, I'm really, really excited to be working with you on this.

Fired up.

I'm sorry I'm talking so much.

It's just I haven't been around anyone in a long time.

What have we got here?

It's a clock.

I showed you a clock and

you're showing me a clock.

We're clock bros,

Right? I gotta be honest, I'm not sure I'm getting all of this.

Check this out.

I thought I might record you.

Oh, no, no, no.

That's okay.

It's just a microphone.

Works like they say.

Let's start with one.

One. No, no.

Wait, wait, wait.

Sorry. Okay, one and

one. Okay, so I met an alien and we're learning to communicate through

names. Okay, let's start with you, Rocky.

You done?

My name.

Can't wait to hear.

This is Grace.

What's your word for my name? Go ahead.

You know enough to order at restaurants.

We have about 250 words.

My atmosphere would kill him and his me.

But I like to keep a wall up in my relationships.

Anyways, he's a mechanic, I think.

He uses a metal form of xenon.

He can make anything.

Look at this.

I'm calling it xenonite.

And if I can't understand what he's saying, which is most of the time, he

puts on a little puppet show for me and my tiny brain.

And you know what? I don't mind it.

He's kind of growing on me.

At least he's not growing in me, you know? Which was a concern for a little

while. His son is dying too.

So maybe we can help each other.

Recognize this?

We call it astrophage.

Means star eater.

Astrophage. On me.

Star. Bad.

Bad. Bad.

Bad. Bad.

Bad. Bad.

Why are you alone?

23. Wow.

What happened to them?

Sorry.

How did they die?

Oh,

There were three of us and two died on the way here.

I wish I knew why.

Absolutely. Me.

Correction.

Deal.

Call it fist bump, by the way.

What's that? Fist.

My bump? No, it's fist bump.

It's not the same.

Exactly. The astrophage has to reach to ti Otherwise we wouldn't see the

patrol.

Do we really need this whole model? Right.

Oh, boy.

You know, I used to have one of these in my classroom.

And it was a lot simpler to set up.

One sec.

What? What? That is a great question.

You know what? Try this.

Why is a school teacher in space? Question.

No. Don't like that voice.

Can unhear it.

Really scary.

Let's try this.

Oh, no, Johnny.

No need to even continue.

Good. Nope.

Why is a school teacher in space? What's so funny? Question.

Why is a school teacher in space? I mean, it has charm, but no Meryl Streep.

Why is a school teacher in space? She can do anything.

Why is a school teacher in space?

Why is a school teacher in space? That's not bad.

I like all right.

And in answer to your question, I have no idea what I'm doing in space.

I don't remember.

Is okay.

Grace find out.

When Grace go home.

I'm going to go to sleep.

No understand word Sleep.

Just go like this.

Yeah. Died.

It's died.

Died. No, no, no.

Not die.

Just lay here for 29,000 seconds and then we wake up.

Oh. Understand.

We call this.

Okay. Here we go.

Sleep.

Good night, sir.

I watched great.

Sleep. No, that's fine.

That's a little weird.

I'll be good.

Good night.

Not safe.

Vians must watch sleep.

That's really interesting.

That sounds like something.

Can unpack that tomorrow.

Rock you watch Crew many days Crew num Wake up.

That's where you're gonna be.

No, it's usually closer on your chest.

I wonder if it would work from a little farther back.

But Grace won't feel comfortable and safe.

Well, I I look.

I'm seeing so many sides of you lately.

And it's great.

Right now I'm seeing the underside of you.

Kind of a side sleeper.

Anyway, good night.

So we watch each other sleep.

Viridians don't sleep like a human does.

They seem legitimately paralyzed.

If danger comes, you can't wake up.

It's a survival norm.

Someone has to keep you safe.

My team.

I want you to meet Dr.

Ryland Grace.

He is currently the world's leading authority in astrophage biology.

Dr. So, Grace, these are the three astronauts going on the mission and their

backups for redundancy.

Yao, Eljukna and Dubois, our pilot, engineer and science officer.

It's an honor.

I'm excited to share what I've learned about astrophage and spin drives.

We have 1,009 of these little engines that could on the Hail Mary and.

Okay. You're doing great.

What? Once the mission is complete, we have the option to end our lives on

our terms.

The alternative is slow, miserable death by starvation.

I want to do a lethal injection with a little bit of heroin.

I will have what she's having.

Following on from Dr.

Grace's discovery, we've built an IR emitter set to the wavelength of CO2

which attracts the astrophage to this revolver face.

The drive then rotates outwards.

We increase the ir.

The astrophage get excited, thrust the ship forward, and so on, so on.

This is less than a gram of astrophage and we only need a fraction of this

for this demonstration.

If you want to take a look.

To do what? To melt a metric ton of metal.

Powerful stuff.

Commander Yao, I really appreciate what you all are doing.

You would do the same.

I would choose just not to go at all.

I don't have the bravery gene that you all have.

Trust me.

It's not a gene.

You just need to find someone to be brave.

Three, four.

Movement detected.

Hi, Grace.

You're in a ball.

So Rocky no die.

And Grace.

Atmosphere. I come up.

Oh, you're coming up.

Foreign detected.

Grace and Rocky.

Big science.

How to kill Astro together.

I keep going this way.

This room boring.

Science safe.

Earth save a good slam.

Put this down here.

Amazing. Rocky.

Want to see human technology? Dirty.

Dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty.

Why room so messy? I wasn't expecting company, was I? This room for garbage.

This is where the science.

What's this? What's this? What's this? That is the disco ball.

That makes me happy.

Rocky will build workshop here.

We'll need much room for rock and much less space for grave.

What is happening here? We go patrol the line.

We collect astrophase.

We study it.

We go home.

We collect.

We savor.

When you say we.

Where I'd see Grave.

Apology. Apology.

Technology. Rocky stay.

Rocky neutral.

Rocky. My hand is up.

We can't just show up in a spaceball unannounced and move into someone

else's spaceship.

Right? There has to be boundaries.

Boundaries. We have one mission.

Mission? But we're two distinct individuals.

Both working on our distinct individual parts of that mission.

Mission Separate separately.

Okay. Where? My bedroom.

Bedroom? For what? So I have a new roommate now.

Be careful back there.

Okay. The chore wheels pretty lopsided.

Where on earth does that go? Not on Earth.

More high.

It goes this way.

All the way out to here? Yes, Out.

Pointy. What? He tells me what to do.

He tells me why to do it.

He tells me how to do it, tells me when to do it.

And then when I do it, he's like.

What are you doing? I'm just saying.

Saying you're gonna get out of the ball to get into a much bigger ball.

Yes. For sleeping.

Why? You don't even use a bed.

No, you have the like Hellraiser thing that you sleep on.

What are you doing? Don't be angry.

Stupid. How long since last sleep? Don't talk to Armando.

Yes, can I help you? You're doing this.

It's a lot of this.

And then he's like, no understand.

No understand.

And then it's like, I need a word.

You know what the word is? Bossy.

I'm like one of the villains in the Superman movie.

I'm just like, trapped in hell.

Get me out of here.

His eating habits are

exotic. Grace, look.

Disgust when eat.

How do you look when you eat? It look beautiful.

Show me.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

He has incredible hearing.

He can see through walls.

Personal space is at a premium.

Who is Grace talking to? Question.

There's no way you can hear me right now.

Can't hear.

Who are you talking to? You can hear this? Yes.

Grace, say you can hear this? Yes.

Oh, my God.

Look at this.

Look how far away he is.

That is where he is.

Hello, Grace.

He's right here.

Hello, Grace.

Friend. Okay.

Did Grace find sampler instruction? Yes, I found the sampler.

Yes, I found the sampler.

Instructions. He's really smart about some things.

Oh, my God.

He's got a gun.

Oh, this? No, no, no.

This. To screen in front.

And now this to that.

Over here.

Now Rocky can hear scream.

Please don't point it at me.

Oh, point over here.

Yes. Okay, now over there.

You're pointing at me again.

But his species doesn't know about things like relativity and radiation.

And the rest of the crew in mid of ship.

There. In here.

And where did you keep the astrophage fuel tanks? Next to Rocky workshop

there. I think the radiation is a major crusade, Rock.

The astrophage probably just protected you from it.

This isn't something that you could have fixed.

But I guess together we're, you know, pretty smart.

Since we're only going to be able to intersect with the patrol line for a

few seconds, we're not going to have enough time to get a good sample.

Too fast.

Do puppet show.

Too fast? I.

I don't want to do the puppet show.

No, do puppet show.

This is us flying along.

The problem is, because the solar system is constantly moving, the petrol

line is going to constantly be moving.

Right? Am I still doing it? You still want it? Yes.

Yes. It's showtime.

So we're not going to have time to get the sample? No, no, no.

Use planet gravity to move with line.

You mean sort of like rest in its orbit? Yes.

I didn't think of that.

I did.

We figured out a plan.

We're going to orbit the planet where astrophage breeds, collect a sample

and figure out why it's not eating Tau Ceti.

Who is Grace talking to? I'm not talking to anyone.

I need a break.

Break from what? Oh, my God.

Forget it.

This isn't gonna work.

150 million kilometers away.

Racing along at 162 kilometers per second means we should arrive at Tao

Ceti? E at arrival at Tao ceti? E in 11 days, 3 hours and 14 minutes.

Thank you, Mary.

You're welcome, Dr.

Gray. Thank you, Mary.

You're welcome, Rocky.

Welcome to earth.

The beach is always changing.

You could go to the same spot every day.

You're always looking at a different beach.

He's so excited about us both getting to go home.

There's no harm in pretending for a little while.

Touching the wave is wiping out Hanging Pen.

Hey. Oh.

Big Apple in three.

Apollo trains him.

And then seven, he trains Apollo's kid.

Yeah. Yeah.

I say either.

You say either.

No. I say neither.

You say neither.

No. I like Earth,

Mr. Fog.

What about you, Rock? What do you miss most about home? My mate.

Wait. What? You got a mate? Yes.

I mean, not that you.

I mean, I'm sure I'm.

What's their name? Name?

It's beautiful.

Grace have mate question? No.

I mean, I did,

but she thought I had my head in the clouds and I didn't really want to live

in the real world.

She was right.

Anyway, now she's with Mark.

Rocky hate Mark.

But enough about me.

You have a mate.

How long you been together? 186.3 years.

Like the honeymoon phase.

No, understand, that's a joke, Ryan.

That's a long time you've been together.

A long time is not enough.

Permission to come aboard, Captain? You're already aboard.

Did you get your free hat? Yeah, I kind of bought them.

Oh, you don't sing, huh? Yeah, I do.

I actually sang in an Eastern German youth choir.

You're very mysterious.

No, I'm not.

I always wanted to be mysterious.

Talk too much.

It's my problem.

Like, right now.

I didn't mean to bother you.

You don't bother me.

It is such a weird party.

Is it? Yeah.

Always singing.

Everyone's so happy.

People are hooking up and they all know they're gonna die.

Camaraderie helps them.

Doing good job, you know.

Not so much me.

So. Must be hard having to ask everybody to.

You know.

Actually, it isn't.

Yeah. So what do you think? You think you're going to pull it off? What, the

whole thing? Yeah.

God willing.

Believe in God,

Sam.

Sa.

Stop your crying.

It's a sign of the times.

Welcome to the final show.

I hope you're wearing your best clothes.

You can't bright the door on your way to the sky.

You look pretty good down here.

That you ain't really good.

Oh, we've never learned we've been here before why are we always stuck and

running from the bullet

the bullet.

Just stop your crying at the sign of the T

We gotta get away from here we gotta get away from here

Just stop you crying It'll be all right they told me that the end is near we

gotta get away from me

Just stop your crying have the time of your life Breaking through the

atmosphere and it all looks good from here

Remember everything will be all right

we can meet again somewhere Somewhere far away from here and that is enough.

Wish you could see this rock.

Rocky can see.

Boring. What? This is not boring.

Name of planet Tauetti E is same name as star plus E.

Boring. I guess it could be a little more evocative

as your face sampler in position.

Question. Yep.

Trays are live.

Looking both ways.

It is time.

Go. It's time.

Go.

Sam,

What is Grace doing? Question.

Having a moment.

You know, back on Earth, if you discover something, you get to name it.

You were technically the first one here, so, yes.

The name is Medium Rough Texture, Circle Planet.

Okay, well, if Medium Rough Texture Circle Planet was taken, we'll just have

a backup.

Maybe go with something personal.

Personal?

What's your mate's name again? Name is.

It's okay.

It's okay.

I remember.

Need human word for rocky mate.

Adrian is beautiful,

Sam.

Well, that's weird.

What? It's the same amount, both coming and going.

But if Nastrophage going to Adrian to Bruce, there should be more leaving.

It should be double.

It doesn't make sense.

It's either not reproducing or it's not leaving the planet for some reason.

Oh, my God.

What? What? Gracie, what? Gracie? Question.

Life.

This is not just astrophage.

It's bacteria.

It's protozoa.

It's like cells on Eris and Earth.

What this mean? Question.

Well, if there's a whole active biosphere in the Petrova line, that's stands

to reason.

There's a whole active biosphere on Adrian, which means

there's life on Adrian.

Life is reason.

Yeah.

Use your words.

Life's the reason.

For what? Life is reason.

You sure? Life is the reason.

For what? Life is reason.

Life is reason.

Life is reason.

What? Life on Adrian is reason.

Astrophage imbalance.

Life on Adrian makes astrophage die.

Like a predator.

Yes. That would keep the population stable.

Grace, if we bring predator home, our stars not die.

Life is reason.

Star not die.

Why didn't you just say that? There is some kind of microbial Predator on

Adrian. It'll be in the clouds where astrophage breeds.

Check. Oh.

The problem is this ship wasn't built to go into the atmosphere.

If we get within 5km, we'll be ripped into a million pieces and then we'll

burn up.

Game over.

Game not over.

I make chain.

I make long chain.

I put collection device on end.

Oh, yeah? Yeah.

5km of chain your guard me like this.

Strange. Look.

You can do that? Yes.

I like fishing.

What's that? Oh.

Oh, my.

A shing believe it.

You could work thumbs up, baby.

Hello. Earth plan is like fishing.

We get very close to Adrian atmosphere and lower collector into clouds with

chain. Then Grace go on hull to reel it in.

If ship not at precise angle and speed, we die.

Example. We must fly backwards to keep proper velocity.

Even though Gray still have no pilot experience.

I've been practicing, haven't I? More.

No, no, no.

Left V left.

More left.

More left.

Imperfect. No.

Wrong. Wrong way.

Wrong way.

Wrong angle.

Bad. Bad.

Bad. Good.

Good. Good.

Good. Bad.

Not enough.

Not enough.

Too much.

Too much trash.

I barely pulled.

No, it's bad.

Grace. Rocky dead.

All Rocky.

Plural. All Earth die.

We die.

We die.

Rocky has built predator collector.

Rocky chain spooled and ready.

Grace. Pilot training not as good.

What? Think Earth.

Hello? They can't hear you, pal.

What? We're not actually talking Earth.

Earth's too far away.

You know, we just record these messages and we tell them what we've learned.

And then.

And when we're done, we'll send them all back in a probe.

Why not you tell them yourself when you return home.

Question. Yeah, this is a one way ticket for me, pal.

What? We had enough astrophage to get here, but not enough to get back.

So what happens? Grace? Question.

Oh, I.

I got enough food to last me at least a couple years.

Maybe a couple more if I stretch it out.

So. Grace die.

Question. Yeah.

Once. Once we're done.

I'm going to die.

Why didn't you tell me? It slipped my mind.

No. Grace, say Grace go home.

Listen, listen.

No. Listen.

I got to meet you.

I got to do all this amazing stuff.

I'm good.

I've made peace with it.

What mean? What mean make peace.

It means I know I'm not going home.

I know why.

And it's okay.

Thumbs up.

No. Tiny thumbs up.

No. We got stars to save.

Okay?

Grace. Yeah.

You are.

Need word.

What word do you need to risk self to help another dumb.

Grace.

How much astrophase you need? Question.

2 million kg.

I can give.

I go Home six years slower.

That's too much.

Rocky Watch crew die.

Could not fix grace.

Say grace.

Will die.

Rocky fix.

Grace. Go home.

A grand.

Okay.

I thought you made peace.

Question. I didn't mean any of that.

That's just something you say.

Thank you.

Get over.

What? What's happening? A hug.

Oh. It's usually not something one does by themselves.

Oh. I.

Wait. I do the same.

Would you just get in here?

How do you know when the hug is done? You just feel it.

Oh. Are you feeling it now? No.

Oh. Oh.

Okay. Yeah.

We ran the sampler simulation again this morning.

Shapiro and Dubois nailed it.

Again. Okay.

What about the others? They'll be ready.

I expect so.

They have a great teacher.

Can you take the compliment? Please? No.

It's an order.

Okay. Okay.

If it's an order, I take it.

Thank you.

Good.

What do you think? It's pretty impressive.

Yeah. You're.

You're good.

Three days, huh? Yeah.

So what are you gonna do for the next 20 years? You got a.

It?

Manual mode activated.

Go.

It's not half bad.

It's full good.

Time. Go fishing.

Question. It's now or never.

3000 meters pro signal good.

Now comes the fun part.

Grace. Go out on hull to retrieve Collector.

No fun at all.

It's a joke.

Oh. Humor confusing.

Oh, you gotta be kidding me.

What? Problem.

Question. Fine.

It's just this guy is slightly on fire.

Words of encouragement.

Can't just say words of encouragement? Words of great encouragement.

Nope.

Feel that? Yeah.

I'm not worried.

Are you worried? Yes.

Great.

Collector is closed.

Move winch into position.

How long is this supposed to take? Collector should be here soon.

Yeah. It's here.

Amaze, amaze, amaze.

Careful. Collector important.

Yep.

Oh. Hurry, hurry,

Hurry, hurry.

Grace.

Great. Status update.

Status update.

Great. Great.

Safe question.

I'm okay.

Good, good, good.

Come inside with predator collector now.

Why not moving? Question.

Warning. Exterior temperature elevated.

Must move now.

Go, go.

No, Grace.

Bad idea.

Come inside.

Be there in a minute.

No, no, no, no, no.

Grace will die.

Can repeat mission.

Can try again later.

I don't think there is going to be a later.

Abort. Abort, abort.

Grace will die.

No, no, no, no, no,

No.

Great. I'm here.

Amaze, amaze, amaze.

Great looking question.

Well, I'm not dead, so yes.

Where is that noise coming from? Noises from all around.

It's loudest at port side of bedroom gravity during the ship apart.

We leave now.

Question. Leave now.

Statement.

Pressure Warning.

Warning. Home ending in big room below bedroom.

That's the floor tanks.

It's not great.

Okay, okay, okay.

Everybody. Everybody calm down.

Calm down.

Try and keep yourself together.

Not yet.

We need to get into orbit or we'll crash.

I have an idea.

First. No.

Crash, then not explode.

Deal? Deal.

Hold on.

Now. Wait.

Now.

Now.

Did we do it?

Why should move in question.

There's a hole in it.

Hull breach.

Port side fuel compartments 11 and 12.

What happened in question? The fuel is migrating.

Adrian,

Eject. Bad fuel bay.

Question. Yeah.

Jettison port fuel tank compartment 12.

Confirmed.

Confirmed. Other fuel bank.

There's.

It's.

Sam.

1 nanogram of astrophase just isn't enough to blow up a building.

The quartermaster gave him 1 milligram per mistake.

That's a billion times the heat energy that they're prepared for.

A measuring mistake.

Heal my entire science team.

It doesn't matter if we have to launch.

If we miss the orbital window, it'll set us back months.

Yeah, but if no one's trained to do the mission, it won't matter.

Casualty projections go up exponentially.

If we delay, we launch on schedule with a replacement science officer.

Okay, but who.

I mean that.

I'm not an astronaut.

I don't need an astronaut.

I need an expert in astrophage who's mission ready.

I'm not ready.

I don't have any training.

Pick it up.

I'm not an astronaut.

I put the knot.

An astronaut? I've never done anything.

I've never done a space.

I can't even moonwalk.

I haven't done the whole.

The pool thing.

No, no, no.

This is just.

We do for the picture, for social media.

I'm not heroic in any way.

I get sick on the.

On an elevator.

Perfect. There's no elevator on the ship.

I cannot do this.

You're smart.

You'll figure it out.

This might be very hard for you to understand, but some people are failures.

Some people don't rise to the challenge.

You've been present for every major scientific or strategic meeting we've

had on the mission.

You're missing out an important part of the mission.

Which is the suicide part.

Grace, you'd be in very cool company.

If you don't go, you die anyway.

Yeah, but I die in 30 years.

With. With the rest of us.

You have no immediate family.

You don't even have a dog.

So just so I'm clear, you're asking me right now to give up my life.

I am.

We all are.

Can I think about this? You have three hours.

Eye movement detected.

Good morning, Doctor.

Grace, it.

I want you to sleep.

Huh?

But you gotta Wake up.

I'm not sure what to do, but.

Done everything I can think of.

I made in my heat lamp.

And he left me one last message.

It.

We have our predator right now, I'm calling it Tao Meba.

And I'm sure that when you wake up, you'll have a lot to say about why

that's a bad name.

Because it's just an amoeba from Tau Ceti.

And we're putting Tau in front of amoeba.

But I would argue there's an elegance to that, a simplicity.

Let's not fight about it now.

Let's just.

We'll table it and we'll.

I did a test at different atmospheric variables and fun fact, every time I

introduce nitrogen, it died.

And I know you're thinking, well, that's terrible because that's a problem.

Because we needed to survive in the conditions of Venus, obviously I had to

figure out how to breed a new strain of nitrogen resistant Taamoeba.

And guess what? I used the breeder tanks that we made with your xenonite.

And you know what? Now we're just a couple of very cool dudes with their

very own strain of nitrogen resistant Ta Amba.

Really, all we have to do now is breed enough to survive the trip.

And. And you gotta wake up because I don't know how to get your half of the

Tamiba to air it.

So, no pressure, but we did make a deal.

Sam.

Sa.

Give me a little chance please, to sleep.

Did we find predator?

No. It's.

Yes.

Amazing. Amaze.

Amaze. Rocky breeder tank design.

Good job, bro.

We can go home.

Statement. We can go home.

Fist. My bump.

No, still not right.

I'll do it.

Good, good, good.

So what we do?

We party.

Wow. His special clothing for celebration.

You're making me think that I have to.

What up my game.

What is this? You don't mind? Rocky Rock one Go.

It's good? Oh yeah.

It's not much, just a little something.

Your very own laptop.

My portable Earth thinking machine with all human knowledge.

And just one more thing.

Yes, what? What's this? It's Earth.

So you'd be correct.

Remember me?

Rocky can't forget.

I didn't get you anything.

He gave me everything.

But if I were to give you something,

Be pretty cool to see your ship.

Sam.

Sa.

I understand that you think I'm the right person for this mission.

But.

I can't do it.

I can't do it.

You'll find a solution.

You are my solution.

My place is in the classroom.

Stop pretending this is about your students.

It's so insulting.

Grace, we will lose a quarter of the world's population in the next 30

years. And that assumes that the nations of the world work together to

ration food, which they won't.

So I double the estimate.

And if you would truly care about the children, or anyone else for that

matter, you'd get on that ship.

I understand the stakes.

I do.

But I don't have it in me.

My mind is made up.

I'm sorry, but you just can't talk me into it.

Sorry. I'm not trying to talk you into anything.

I am trying to make you understand what I'm about to do next.

Yeah. Please stay calm.

Come in.

What is this? Mission plan will stay.

That we induced your coma early to maximize your safety.

You will be remembered as a hero.

Come on, this is.

I have to do it.

You're not.

Come on.

What are you doing? This may seem like me betraying you, but it's actually

me believing in you.

Sure feels like you're betraying me.

Okay, don't make this harder.

Please.

Let's keep talking about it.

Sit down.

And we do it differently.

Yeah. He's running.

I can't do it.

No, don't do it.

Don't do it.

Don't do it.

You know who you are.

You're gonna do.

Trying to think if there's anything I forgot.

Fuel tank fix.

Okay. Question.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, they're working great.

Oh, good.

Happy, happy, happy.

Well, my friend.

Yes, friend.

Not sure what to say.

So just gonna.

Grace.

No one to watch you sleep.

Yeah. You are very brave.

I don't know about that.

You are bravest human I have ever met.

Hey. His joke.

I know I only meet one human.

And is you.

I get it.

It's a good joke.

Good joke.

All right.

Well,

Goodbye no understand word means see you later.

Good night.

We. I won't see you later.

I know.

How do you say goodbye back home? We don't.

We do this.

Im.

Will take four years, two months and 11 days.

Contempt detected.

Contempt detected.

Contempt detected.

Contempt detected.

Can tell.

There's a leak.

The problem is the xenonite.

They tell me we can get through it.

Probably because we brought it in.

The xenonite breeder tanks that evolved to escape it.

I was able to stop it before it ate all the astrophys on the ship.

Rocky ship is built to xenonite.

The Tommy boat will already be in his fuel lines.

And he won't be able to find the leak.

Because the leak is the ship itself, he'll be without any fuel, stranded.

His life support systems will fail.

And if that doesn't kill him, the radiation sickness will.

He's looking at a long, slow, painful death.

Alone.

I can't do both.

I can go home.

Where I can save Rocky.

I've said sure you detailed logs of all of our findings and enough TA for

you to start your very own TBA farm.

At least I never have to hear you say I told you so Even though you were

right.

Nowhere spending someone's modern pain you and me Sunday driving not

arriving on our way back home we're on our way home we're going home Sam.

Ahead there

two of us wearing wrinkles Standing so low in the sun? You and me chasing

baby getting nowhere on our way back home where I On our way home we're on

our way home we're going home.

Sam.

I'm here, buddy.

Earth. Rocky.

Rocky. Earth.

Hello, Earth.

I am Rocky.

I am Rocky from Erin.

I am not Rocky from movie.

No, no, no, no.

I'm pretty sure they know that.

I left you detailed logs of all of our findings.

And I threw in a little something else just for fun.

Hopefully it all makes sense.

And if not, you're smart.

You'll figure it out.

This is Dr.

Captain Ryland Grace reporting from the Hail Mary.

As the Eridians say.

Let's begin.

Sa.

Star.

Good morning.

Armando. You shouldn't have.

Tanooki, I'm coming.

Why you always got to be so early? Yeah, I.

I know.

And I ignored you.

Oh, yeah.

Hey, why? I thought this was a safe neighborhood.

Okay. Armando likes the fre.

Can we talk about the water temperature a little bit? It's amazing.

Just that you've done it at all.

Very cold and before it was boiling.

Is there an in between?

Please tell the biodome illumination team that it's perfect now.

Oh, no.

This is.

You know I'm a sucker for the fog.

Yeah.

Can I think about it?

Sam.

Good morning, class.

Okay, everyone take their seats.

Wake up.

Who can tell me to speed of light?