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[V.6.]

- How's it going?

- We've compiled the latest telemetry

which shows us to be
at about 96 percent of optimum.

- It's well done.

Patel, I understand that
you finished recalibrating

the sensors.
- Yes, I have.

- Show me the last transmission.

- We're getting first-rate data now.

[ Bzz ]

[ Beeping ]

We lost the signal
from the probe.

Let me replay the data
from the auxiliary sensors

to see where the problem lies.

A CME.

We may have lost
the probe for good.

- What the hell?

But we've had no advanced
warnings of CME activity.

- This morning
Dr Lucas Foster, the
billionaire entrepreneur

is spending nearly
$100 million of his own money

to launch the Galileo,

a manned scientific
exploration vehicle

also known as a MAV

which he hopes will
help mankind survive

what he calls
an uncertain future,

but which his critics are
calling Lucas' folly.

Stay tuned for a press
conference followed by

the space launch here
at Foster Aeronautics.

- I don't care what
you do up there Joe,

just make sure
you bring back some hard...

- Bring back some
hard data we can use

to convince these geniuses.

Better get up there.

- Have yourself
a hell of a ride.

- I will.

- Hey Jim, check the Q7 readout,
it looks a little high to me.

- Yeah, she's been
in flux all morning.

Don't worry though, she's still
well within operating parameter.

So you gonna talk
to the vultures out there?

- Vulture is such
a dirty bird, Jim.

Say it with me.

The media is our friend.

- Ha! Ha!

You really want me to say it
with you?

- Yes.

- The media is our friend.
- I was kidding, Jim.

You need to relax.

- Yeah. Yeah relax.

Nothing really
happening here today, right?

- Not at all.

Good morning everyone.

I'm afraid my remarks
are going to be abbreviated

because launching a vehicle into
orbit is a complex job,

especially when I have
to make every penny count

unlike my former employers
in the public sector.

[ Softly laughing ]
But the question which is really

on your minds is why would
anyone be damn fool enough

to waste 100 million
to send a vehicle

into low earth orbit to study

greenhouse gases?

We all know how manmade
pollutants are wreaking havoc

in our atmosphere,

and how these deadly emissions
are increasing exponentially

the more fossil fuels we burn.

What you don't know is that
last year alone

methane concentrations inside
our atmosphere tripled

with potentially disastrous
consequences

for the environment.

We need to do something.

The problem is
we don't know what.

My pilot Joe Johnson
has taken the Galileo up

to collect so that
we may find that answer.

Any questions?

- Yes, your old boss

Bradley Stamp categorized

this launch as sheer lunacy.

Is he right?

- It isn't the first time he's
called one of my ideas crazy.

I think Brad is still
a little upset

I didn't let him invest in my
company before I went public.

- Hilarious.
- Would you explain why

you're using a Russian built
craft today

instead of an American one.
- It was cheaper.

But the MAV Joe will be piloting
doesn't skimp on quality
or safety.

Russian built products are as
good as anything we can make
in the west.

I'm sorry I had
to cut this short,

but time is money and
I've got to go burn both.

Thank you.
- Thank you.

- The man's a magician.

Lucas is making $98 million
go up in smoke.

[ Softly laughing ]

- [Joe]: Control,
this is carrier one,

we're on the taxiway waiting
for takeoff, we need clearance.

- Galileo,
how's the startup coming?

- So far so good

- How's it compared
to the simulator.

- I remember having a bit more
legroom on the test launch.

Lucas, next time the Russians
offer you a deal

make sure it's one designed
for humans, not chimpanzees.

- In your case there might be
some confusion.

- Hmmph.

- Where is this in from?

- Brunei Island's
radio spectrometer.

- This is huge.

- Yes. Too huge.

It must be an error.

- Brunei's not known
for their errors.

- You think the probe was
in direct line

of this CME?

- Patel, a normal CME is

an ejection of
supercharged particles

from the sun's surface.

If this is correct
then that is not

just a coronal mass ejection,

that's a solar explosion on
a scale we've never seen before.

Check the databases.

In your 12 years here have you
ever seen a CME this big?

- No, let's not jump
to conclusions.

- I'm not jumping
to conclusions, yet.

The NSO in Japan
has offered to send a status,

so has Anchorage,
so has Chile so...

- So the probe was taken out
46 hours ago,

and this just showed up
from Brunei.

If this is accurate...

- Then it looks like this thing
is heading right for us.

I'm not gonna sit on my hands
and wait for this thing to hit.

We need to talk
to Europeans again

and call the NSO

and find out where the data is
that they promised me hours ago.

- [Joe]: Gentlemen,
this bird is in flight.

- [Newscaster]: At 10:15 Eastern
Standard Time we have the launch

of Lucas Foster's manned
aerospace vehicle.

As we can see in this replay

the MAV is being carried
piggyback by a converted 727,

which will climb to an altitude
of 38,000 feet

where the Galileo will separate
from the carrier plane.

It will then fire
its own rockets

and ascend into the higher
reaches of the upper atmosphere

to fulfill--
- Good for you Lucas.

- [Newscaster]: According
to Dr Foster

the focus of this mission
will be to measure

methane levels in
the thermosphere.

The Galileo will be visiting
areas Dr Foster's team believes

to have high concentrations

of these deadly gases

in order to prove once
and for all...

- That he is
a self-absorbed lunatic.

[ Softly laughing ]

- [Joe]: Carrier One has reached
launch altitude.

- MAV I have you at 38,000 feet

and I'm initiating
the drop countdown

in T-minus 10,

9,

8, 7,

6, 5,

4, 3,

2, 1.

- [Airplane pilot]: Carrier One
beginning rollout.

The sky is yours Galileo.

- Roger that.

[ Beeps ]

The separation's successful,
firing booster rockets.

- And we have MAV ignition.

- That a boy, Joe.

- All on-board systems are well
within the operating parameters.

Damn, this is one hell
of a ride Lucas.

- This is where
he always screwed up
in the flight simulator.

- Oh man, what's that red light?

It's in the rearview,
coming up fast behind me.

It's a cop, I must have broke
the speed limit.

- Galileo is out
of visual range,

switching to tracking display.
[ Beeps ]

Tracking telemetry operational.

- Climbing to 80 miles altitude.

- Hey, he's very close
to the first methane checkpoint,

he should be reaching it in...

- 6.3 seconds.
- Exactly.

- Joe, how you doin' there?

- Just fine, I'm about
to switch all the sensors

and monitoring equipment.
[ Beeping ]

- Uh, Larry, we have an alarm in
sector three, maybe a
malfunction.

Give me a reset
and a full diagnostic.

- Joe, do you read me?

We're showing an alarm
in sector three.

Give me your status.
[ Beeping ]

- We've lost telemetry.
- Try rerouting to sector 4.

- Joe?

Joe? Where'd he go.

- I don't know.

- Get him back Jim.

- This is Galileo,
come in ground control.

- A power outage?

How the hell could
that be possible?

- It's got to be
an instrument malfunction.

- On every instrument? No way.

Get me radio communications now.

- This is Galileo,

come in ground control.
[ Beeping ]

- Telemetry's back up,
we're getting a signal.

- Joe, can you hear me?

Come in Galileo.

- What the hell happened Lucas?
I had a full system shutdown.

- We lost you here.

You just vanished
from the tracking screens.

What's going on?
- I don't know,

everything just shut down;

all the instrumentation,

life support,
booster rockets, everything.

- It's not possible.

- What was it Lucas?

Tell me you got this
under control.

- We're working on it Joe,
as soon as I...

[ Alarm beeping ]

Joe?

Joe?

Joe!

- Galileo to base.

Galileo to base, do you copy?

[ Sustained beep ]

Aaah!

[ Boom ]

[ Beeping ]

- Joe!

- We have full signal loss,
no telemetry.

Larry, check the emergency
transponder frequency.

- No go.

- Satellite tracking indicates

multiple targets
on Galileo flight path.

- [Newscaster]:
We have confirmation

that Lucas Foster's space launch
has turned tragic.

Half an hour after launch

these images were filmed
over California,

detailing the doomed mission.
Foster Aeronautics won't comment

on the status
of pilot Joe Johnson

and whether he was able
to safely jettison...

- Oh my God, what happened?

- Lucas launched the MAV,
Joanna, an explosion.

- What about Joe?

- We don't know.

There's no sign
of an ejection pod.

- [Reporter]: Here he comes,
here he comes. Mr. Foster.

[ All questioning at once ]

- No comment.

I don't have any comments.
- Mr. Foster, please.

[ Cell phone ringing ]

- Lucas?
- Hello, Joanna.

- Lucas, I just heard.
I am so sorry.

Did Joe get out? Is there any
way he could have ejected?

- It doesn't appear so,
we're assuming the worst.

- If there's anything
that I can do.

- Thanks, but for now...

there isn't.

- Lucas, I'm just trying
to help you out here, please.

- What do you need?

- Access to all
the data that you have,

tracking, flights logs, SIMS.

- All right,

just before the explosion

there was a brief power loss.

- A power loss?

- I have no idea what caused it
or if it's related.

They just cut out for a second.

Joanna.
- Yeah.

- This isn't a Brad thing is it?

It's you that's asking.

- Yeah Lucas, it's me

and I am so sorry.

- Thanks.

- This is a hell of a time for
something like this.

A Russian built vehicle as well,

it's gonna do wonders for
the President's stress level.

- Excuse me Admiral,

but I fail
to see the relationship.

- The Russian submarine fleet is
running maneuvers off the
Greenland Coast.

Colonel Alby,
they got 12 submarines

in the water.

- It's a security council
approved exercise, Admiral.

- Exercise, sure.

You see the thing is

we don't them backsliding
into communism.

So we say sure,
go ahead, have fun?

- I still don't see what that
has to do with MAV explosion.

- If they so much
as float a boat

even an inch
over approved lines,

I want to know about it.
- All right.

- You all hear me?
- [Workers]: Yes, sir.

- I want to know because

the President expects me
to know.

Now these exercises
aren't hostile,

but we have good reason
to suspect

that three of their subs are
carrying nuclear missiles.

Now if a Russian built

space vehicle blows up
in midair,

Colonel, are you going
to be the one

to trust Russian subs

with onboard nukes?

- I see what you mean about
stress levels, Admiral.

- Lucas, I've been looking
all over for you.

You need to see this.

- What is it?

- I just started getting
the feeds from the MAV.

It picked up a methane spark,
it's off the charts.

- Sensors must have failed in
the explosion, this can't be.

- Yeah, but look at all the
other data, it's right on.

- This is crazy.
This can't be right.

[ Explosions ]

- Joanna, this transmission
just came in from Japan.

This is their very latest data

and this is from the Southern
Observatory in Chile,

and this is Anchorage.

The photo you are looking
at is the CME

that we believe took out
the solar probe.

According
to calculations the mass

from this emission would have
hit the earth's atmosphere...

- Right about the time
that Lucas lost his MAV.

- Yes.

- These new views show
the sun emitting multiple CMEs

in a short time span.

The sun has never done anything
like this before.

- Well, not in
recorded history anyway.

- How long has
this activity been going on?

- Seventy-two hours.

If these motion calculations are
accurate,

then the CME cluster is
on the ecliptic,

heading towards sector 12.

- Which brings earth directly
into its line of fire.

- Yes.

- Joanna.

You know I've been
looking all over for you.

- Brad, we have a big problem.

- How big?

- Where'd you get this?
Why didn't we have this?

- A friend of mine at
the Southern Observatory heard

about the MAV and he felt that
we might be intrigued,

is what he said.

- These are huge. It's like...

- The sun is shedding its skin.

- Yeah,
but why hasn't Joanna...?

She would have known about this.

Are you sure this is right?

- Well it's accurate.
- Let's run it again

[ Whoosh ]

[ Electronic noise ]

- Lucas.
What are you doing here?

You scare the hell out of me.

- Well don't worry, I'm about to
scare the hell right back
into you.

Why didn't you tell me
about the CMEs?

- When? Every news reporter in
town has turned your building

into an impenetrable fortress,

you're no longer
answering your cell phone,

and your secretary,
oh excuse me, secretaries,

all four of them,
happen to think

that you're out
of the country even though

you're doing a press conference
in the same building.

- Did you know?

Tell me you didn't know.

- I just found out
about it an hour ago.

Look Lucas, the power failure

in the MAV had to have been
caused by this.

The CME was hitting the same
area, it's the only explanation.

- The CME didn't just cause
the electrical fail,

the CME obliterated the MAV.

- That's impossible.

These solar events do not
just randomly blow things up.

- The CME didn't blow it up.

It ignited methane
in the upper atmosphere

and that blew up the MAV.

- Oh no, no, you did not come
down here

just to start in on this again,
did you Lucas?

- Joanna, before the MAV blew

it took a methane reading that
was off the charts.

There's been a shift going on
in the atmosphere,

the likes of which
we've never seen.

You mix that in
with this solar event,

and you have a recipe for--
- For destruction,

yes I know, Lucas.

I lived with
your theories for six years.

- Joanna if my theory is right

this event is no recipe
for destruction,

this is a recipe for extinction.

- Lucas what happened yesterday
was a tragedy,

it was a horrible freak accident

but the MAV was outside
of the D7 belts.

It was above the ozone,
it was vulnerable.

We are not.

- The CMEs that I saw are
like nothing we've ever
encountered before.

Not only will they take out
anything in the outer
atmosphere,

they're packing enough power
to break through the ozone,

especially with those cute
little holes we keep punching
into it.

- I am done listening to this.

This is unsubstantiated
conjecture.

- Of course it's
unsubstantiated.

The MAV was destroyed before
I could collect the evidence
to prove it.

Joanna if we don't act now

we won't be here long enough
to say I told you so.

- Lucas, I have always been
intrigued by your theories,

but we deal with hard facts and
reality here, that is
our business.

- You've been working here too
long, Joanna.

You sound just like Stamp.

Well, I gotta run.
A bit of a media nightmare

on my hands today
as you are well aware of.

Oh, and about me being
tough to reach these days,

when you called my cell
yesterday right

after the MAV was destroyed

and I was in total crisis mode,

I answered on the first ring.

[ Whoosh ]

- Hi there.

- Hi, can I have hotdog
all dressed?

- Okay.

- Lots of onions.

[ Static ]

[ Screaming ]

- [Man]: Somebody help this guy!

- [Woman]: Please!
Please help me!

- [Man]: Are you okay?

- Lucas!

It happened again.
- What?

You quoting policy like Stamp?

- Look, an old
weather satellite just crashed

in the middle
of downtown Detroit.

Its orbit took it directly
into the path of a CME.

They're already reporting
8 known casualties,

17 wounded and more missing.

I'm taking your theory to Stamp.

I thought
that you should be there.

- Okay.

We're gonna need to go over
everything you've got
on the CME cluster,

the updated telemetry and
tracking from the network.

- These CMEs are being tracked

by the European
solar imaging probe.

Could you show us the closest
one, Patel? Please.

- Look at the size
of that thing.

- Yeah, it is by far
the biggest CME

that we've ever recorded.

Could you highlight
the incoming trajectory?

- What's that in its path?

- A satellite,
a Russian satellite.

- Not just a satellite Joanna,

that is the primary

Russian Comsat.

All their military

communications go through it.

- How many more CMEs
are you picking up now?

- Dozens.

More than we've ever recorded,
but the real problem is

that the earth's orbit is
bringing us directly

into their path.

We're going to be hit repeatedly
over the next 48 hours.

- What could possibly
be causing this?

- We don't know.

No one does.

- My, my, my.

To what do we owe the gift

of your presence, Dr Foster?

- This isn't ex-employee
appreciation day?

- Uh no. I think it's security
remove someone

who has no clearance
to be here today.

- Not bad, that was pretty funny
coming from you Stamp.

- Look Lucas, I...

I know you've been through
a lot in the last few days

so I'm willing
to take that into account,

but please, you're gonna have
to excuse us.

- Actually I asked
him to be here.
[ Phone ringing ]

I believe he has a theory
that we need to explore.

- You have
no authorization to do that.

- I hate to interrupt

this fascinating
scientific discussion but

the President of the United
States is on video conference.

Shall I patch him through?

- Uh no, keep him on hold
for a few minutes,

he gets such a kick out of that.
- Lucas.

- Hang on.

- Brad,

I allocate billions of dollars
to the agency.

I would hope at least that it
would buy me some advance notice

when satellites
come raining from the sky.

- Mr. President,
I promise you we are onto this.

You have the full breadth
and scope of our resources.

- Great.

Now let's start
with the simple explanation.

There might be
some people around here

that don't know the difference
between a CME and a BLT.

- BLT sir?

- It's a sandwich, Stamp!

- Right.

Well, coronal mass ejections,

or CMEs are solar explosions.
During these explosions

highly charged solar particles
are hurled into space

at colossal speed, sir.

- And I take it these explosions
are quite powerful?

- They can pack up to 100
megatons of TNT,

maybe more.
- How many of them are there?

- Well we are tracking
several, sir,

but we have everything
under control.

There's really
nothing to worry about.

- Ahem. Mr. President,
if you'll excuse me,

Dr Parks, one of these CMEs is
currently headed

for the primary Russian Comsat,

and there are many more
of these phenomena,

all bigger than
we have ever seen.

Our updated calculations

show that some of them are going
to hit the earth.

- But doesn't the ozone layer
protect us from stuff like that?

- Well it's hard to say.

Theoretically yes,

but the problem is that all
of our satellites operate

well beyond the ozone barrier.

- What's the potential
damage assessment?

- Sir, the potential energy of
one of these CMEs could cripple
every satellite in its path.

We could be looking at major
communication disruptions,

entire hemispheres
could go dark.

- Please forgive this.

My associate is blowing this out
of proportion.

We may lose some
satellite communication sir,

and there may be some more
crackle in your radio

but we're gonna be okay.
The ozone will hold.

- Excuse me.
- Lucas?

- Mr. President.

- What are you doing there?

- I'm trying to avoid more
casualties, sir.

Mr. President, what you haven't
been told is that this is

a disaster scenario.

Sir, as we all know

manmade chemicals like

chlorofluorocarbons have
infiltrated

the upper atmosphere
and weakened the ozone,

put holes into it.

The energy that this bombardment
of CMEs is carrying can

and will penetrate
the ozone at these weak points.

That is just the beginning.

Our atmosphere has always been
a mix of nitrogen,

oxygen and 2% other gases.

That 2% has gone to 5% in
the last ten years

and most of that is methane;

highly volatile,
highly flammable methane.

So when those
CMEs break through the ozone

they will ignite
pockets of methane

and literally

set the sky on fire.

That fire will consume
the world's oxygen supply

within a few hours.

All living things

will literally suffocate
to death.

- Ha! Mr. President
with all due respect,

Dr Foster's elaborate
claims are

entirely based on speculation.

- Well,

we all agree that these things
are coming our way, right?

- Yes, we do.

- What's the time frame?

- Well the first CMEs have
already begun to hit

and it will get increasingly
worse over the next 48 hours.

- I will take all this
under consideration.

You'll let me know immediately
if you have any further
information.

- Yes, sir.
- Thank you for your time.
- Sir.

How dare you use this agency

and its good name for your
Armageddon propaganda.

- Bradley,
his theory is valid.

- I want you out
of this building.

Thank you Dr Foster.

- This is gonna be bad.

- What do you mean, Admiral?

- Never seen Simon
this scared before.

You know, if this is going to
continue for the next two days,

then Detroit could not have been
an isolated incident.

- I couldn't agree
with you more, sir.

If a single CME brought down
that satellite,

imagine what a storm
of them can do.

- Exactly.

Let's scramble the F15s,
give us some sky cover.

- Where are you going, sir?

- I'm going to see what those
Russian subs are up to.

If we're losing our satellites,

I want to be able to track 'em
the old fashioned way.

- Captain, this just came in.

- Lieutenant Troiska.

- Yes, sir.

- Set new coordinates;

10 degrees south,
5 degrees west,

increase speed five knots

and take us to 300 meters.

- Captain, it's going to take up
closer to the international
boundaries.

- That is correct Lieutenant.

- Aye, sir.

Ten degrees south,
5 degrees west,

increase speed 5 knots,
take us to 300 meters.

Captain, what is going on?

- Officially nothing.

- Unofficially?

- We're going to show the world

that Russia
will not be intimidated.

- Anyone believe you?

- I don't know.

At least the President isn't
just getting Stamp's version.

- Oh yeah,
where'd you lose him?

- Right around the part
where the sky catches fire.

- That's a tough part all right.
So what we do now?

- I'm the big money loud mouth
guy that gets us into
trouble, Jim.

I pay you to come up
with the answers

to get us out of trouble.

- Then we're in a lot
of trouble.

- We can do this Jim,

come on.

- Yuri, our experts tell us that
a huge solar flare's headed
direct towards

your main communication's
satellite.

Now when they collide
it's going to knock

your satellite right out
of the sky.

- Our scientists
have not been able

to verify these claims.

- Well you got all the data we
have, Yuri. What more
do you want?

Our satellites could also
be knocked out,

you know what'll happen then?
We will all be in the dark.

Now do I have to tell
you what will happen when

our two fleets are operating
in close proximity

with one another without
the ability

to get direct commands from us?

- I agree.

Call back your fleet

and we will do the same.

- On the contrary Yuri,

you're the one who's operating
with armed submarines near

the international border. It is
you who must pull back first.

- I have full permission
from the other members

of the security council
for these exercises

if and when we are convinced of
the authenticity of this threat.

We will join you in taking
the appropriate measures.

- Authenticity?

Yuri, 4 hours ago a satellite
dropped in downtown Detroit.

If you want to know about
causalities, it's on every
major network.

- I'm deeply sorry
for the tragedy in Detroit,

but my first
responsibility is to my country.

- Yuri there's an old saying;

after pride comes the fall.

Now why don't we both put
our pride aside

and work together to prevent
further casualties,
how about that?

- Okay, Ryan.

I will order
my subs to pull back.

I trust you will do the same
with your fleet.

- You have my word Yuri,

it will be done.

Thank you Yuri.

Colonel is there any way

to prevent the satellite
from coming down?

- No sir.

It's orbit is directly in
the path of the CME.

- Ah. Admiral Lawrence,
what's your take?

- If we position ourselves

in a perimeter
in the North Atlantic,

our subs can monitor any breach
of international waters
by their subs

during the communication
blackout.

- Then do it,

but alert our commanders that
we may also lose communication

and that
they should keep their cool.

- Yes, sir.

- I don't want any trigger
happy idiots out there.

- No one is going to believe us.

Not a word.

- Yup.

- No one will ever give me as
much as a dime

for future projects.

- Yup.

- You're going
to be working fast food

for the rest of your life.
- Yup.

- You think there could possibly
be another way?

- No. No.
Once the CMEs clear the ozone

methane will ignite.

There won't be a lot
of time to put it out.

- I agree.

Maybe 24 hour
before total flashover.

- Yeah.

- Well, we better get going.
- Where?

- Back to the space agency.

We need to put this matrix
through some real simulations.

We don't have
the processing power here.

- Lucas, they just kicked you
out of there.

- Jim, it's a space agency,

it ain't the Kremlin. Come on.

[ Beeping and static ]

- Joanna, we're a team here,

all of us.

We're part of one big team.

If a member
of that team starts screaming

like Chicken Little

that the sky is falling, then
the whole team stands to lose

and that can mean millions
of dollars in funding.

- I can't believe that
you're talking about funding

at a time like this. Have you
seen the data? We have
an obligation--

- First
and foremost to your job,

to your co-workers, to the
people that pay your salary,

not to some crazed radical
who thinks he's important

just because he has some money.
Not to some pseudo scientist,

and not to an ex-husband

do you may or may
not still have feelings for.

- How dare you say that I would
let my relationship with Lucas

sway my opinions or my actions.

You know what, Brad?
- What.

- You are being blinded
by jealously.

The only one whose judgment
is being compromised here
is you.

- Dr Parks you are way--
- Excuse me,

the next
of the CMEs has started to hit.

I think the Russian primary
Comsat is about to
be annihilated.

Come on.

Hold on.

It is not going
to stay up there.

It's too much.

- We're gonna have to get NORAD

on the phone, the satellite's
coming down.

- NORAD confirms
the probably point of impact

of the satellite just east
of Lake Eerie.

- Copy that,
we have two F15s on intercept.

- This is Delta patrol,
we've got cloud cover

but I have
the object on my radar.

- If you see it,
can you intercept?

- I think so sir.

- If you can't,
we're going to lose a section

of downtown Buffalo.
- Let's do it Delta-2.

- Copy that.

- Bogey ten miles
from Buffalo inbound.

- Presently at
18,000 feet and climbing.

- Satellite at 40,000 feet.

Satellite at 33,000 feet.

- Roger that.
We're at 27,000 feet.

- Satellite's coming in hot
at 29,000 feet, take a shot.

- I've got visual.

Arming.

Missile away.

It's not a clean kill,
we've got debris.

- There's still debris?
Get it Delta-2.

- I'm on it.

It's into the clouds

but I've got a signal.

- Roger that Delta-2,
satellite at 25,300.

- Tracking target.
[ Beeping ]

Missile away.

I don't have impact.

Repeat, I do not have impact.

- Come on gentlemen,
you can do it.

- You've only got
one shot to do this.

The satellite at 7,400.

[ Beeping ]

- I've got visual.

Missile launched.

Yeah!
- He got it.

[ Applause ]
- Yes!

- This is the second satellite
that's been destroyed

by a CME, Brad.

- Damn it.

- And there is no way to know
how many others will be affected

as the rest of the CMEs hit.

- We need to get better
informed.

I want a direct feed
from every observatory
that you can get a hold of

and I want them patched
in here as soon as possible.

- Anchorage,
Norikura, Las Companas.

- I don't care if
it's my nephew who's back there

with a pair of binoculars.
I want them all online.

I want to know if so much as
a bottle rocket goes off.

- All right.

- Anchorage.

- They'll never let us in.

- I have an update
from Anchorage.

They're on line three.

- Let's get them
on speakerphone.

- [Anchorage man]: You guys are
missing one hell of a light show
over here.

- So I heard, how soon can
you get us visuals gentlemen?

- We're still working on it.

We've been trying
to patch them through

but our satellite
connection's down.
[ Static ]

Oh my God.
- Anchorage?

- Can you hear me?

The sky is glowing!

- Anchorage. Anchorage.

[ Telephone disconnect ]
- What's this I hear about
a glowing sky?

- Hello Lucas.

- Sorry sir,
I couldn't stop him.

- You should have shot him.
Get me confirmation
on Anchorage.

I need to know
what happened there ASAP.

- Brad, I don't have to tell you
this is bad

and I think you know now
it's going to get worse.

The ozone will not hold and
we have to prepare for that.

- All right.

- Thank you. Now where are we?

- We just lost Anchorage.

- The observatory
or the whole city?

- We don't know yet.

- Show me that.

- Admiral, what is it?

- The Russians promised
they were going to downgrade

the combat status of their subs.

- And they didn't?

- Not quite.

Their Comsat went down before
they could contact
the final sub.

- So this sub has zero contact
with their commander.

- It gets worse.

The order to recall our subs
to safe water was in transit,

now our Coms are down

and not all
of them received instructions.

- Not all of them? How many?
- Two.

The Okala was

just north
of the Azures Islands.

The U.S.S. Lansing is off
the coast of Greenland
monitoring

the Russian fleet maneuvers.

- So two of our subs are out
there somewhere,

just waiting
for a Russian sub to cross

the safe water boundary.

- I just pray to God those men,

theirs and ours

show a little judgment.

- Anything?

- No, sir.
We're not picking up a thing.

- It's not an equipment
malfunction?

- No sir, everything seems
to be functioning perfectly.

- Everything
but our satellite.

- We have no outside
communications,

only what we can pick up
on short waves.

What about sonar and radar?

- Operational but there is
a great deal of interference.

- Makes it very difficult
to say the least.

- [Newscaster]: Scientists say
this massive display

of northern lights
is a visible indication

of the bombardments of
supercharged solar particles.

These particles are shorting
out satellite circuitry

and causing energy surges in
electrical transmission lines.

Due to mounting
satellite losses,

global government agencies
have taken the unprecedented

step of commandeering the use
of deep sea communication cables

that are shielded from
interference

to allow communication
to continue

as this worldwide
crisis deepens.

- Sir.
- Yeah.

- Mainland China just went dark.

- How?

- We're not a hundred percent,

it could have
been an accident

or it could have been
as Lucas predicted.

We're trying
to get some hard data,

but with our satellites
down right now

we're running deaf,
dumb and blind.

- The power of these images

is clear in this recent
footage from Eastern Europe.

- Mr. President.

- Yeah?
- You should see this.

- [Newscaster]: Throughout
the night the spectral glow

of supercharged northern
lights shone on scenes

of increasing unrest.

In Berlin government buildings
were set alight

by protestors demanding action.

Mass demonstrations
of public unease

over the solar crisis also
drew police

or military responses in
Poland, Romania...

- Captain, there is still
no response.

I cannot reach anyone.

- There must
be equipment malfunction.

- I have run
full diagnostics twice.

There is nothing wrong
with our system.

- There must be.
Run them again.

- Yes sir.

All stations to full alert.

- I do not wish
to be caught by surprise.

Lieutenant Troiska.

- Yes sir.

- Take us to 100 meters.

- But these are not
our orders, sir.

- I know this,
but perhaps

our communications will
clear up at the shallow depth.

- Or maybe we'll be
a sitting duck, captain.

- 100 m, Lieutenant.

- Yes sir.

100 m.

- [Lucas]: Mr. President,
these CMEs that have overloaded

power grids and knocked out our
communication satellites

are nothing compared
to the last few

that are going to hit
our northern

and southern hemispheres.

I'm certain these CMEs will
breach our ozone.

- And the after effects,
now disastrous?

- Far worse
than disastrous, sir.

The burning methane fires in
the stratosphere will increase

in intensity and magnitude

until they reach a point
of flashover.

We'll have complete
and total oxygen depletion.

As we scientists call it sir,

an ELE.

- An extinction level event.

- That's the bad news, sir.

The good news is we believe
there's a way out.

Jim.

- Well sir, Mr. President,

if we're facing the world's
biggest fire than

what we need is the world's
largest fire extinguisher.

Uh, the most probably point

of penetration is wherever
the ozone is the weakest,

and that would be
over the poles.

Now this is a good thing.

We've calculated that a
20 megaton nuclear device

detonated closest to
the entry point of the CME

will bring enough water vapour

into the atmosphere
to extinguish the flame.

- Wait a minute, are
you serious?

You want... you're asking me
to nuke the North Pole?

Are you out of your mind.

- It's the only scenario
which will work, sir.

- Dr. Parks,

what do you think
of this theory?

- Sir, if the ozone layer
doesn't hold

the solution proposed
is a viable one.

- Stamp?

- Sir, this is neither
my scenario nor my solution,

but I feel in light of what
we're dealing with

you should hear it all, sir.

- Okay.

Okay, so let's say
I approve this order,

then I authorize an ICBM
strike on the polar ice cap.

- Uh no, sir.

Because our outer atmosphere
is so unstable

and ICBM won't work,
it has to fly too high.

We should launch from
a submarine at close distance.

- The only subs we have close
to the North Pole

don't have that payload.

- But we know of a Russian sub
in that general area.

The Vaznesensk and it's loaded.

- The Vaznesensk.

We can make this work sir,
we need to get that sub.

- Even if we were to act
on this elaborate fantasy,

we can't contact our own subs,

let alone the Russian subs.

- [President]: As Admiral
Lawrence points out,

there are difficulties with
your proposal Lucas.

Okay, look. I'm gonna have
to take all of this

into consideration
and get back to you.

- Mr. President, time
is one thing we don't have.

We need to get this plan
into action now.

If we wait it will be
too late, sir.

- Lucas, what you propose
is very risky.

I want to weight all
these options

and I will get back to you.

- He's not gonna do it.

- Do you blame him?

- I will when we all die.

- You made your pitch.

The President has all
the information.

- He doesn't realize
we're out of time.

Excuse me.

- Lucas, where are you going?

- The Vaznesensk.
- The what?

- Look, I know that Russian
sub commander Joanna.

Before the MAV was airborne
it was tested for splashdown

in the North Atlantic.

The man in charge of the test
was a Russian sub captain

named Gregoravich.

After the final test

he was assigned to
he Vaznesensk to do routine

patrols in the Arctic.

If that's him there's a chance,
however slight,

that I will be able to
board that sub.

- Look I know you have
a relationship there,

but they're on high alert.

There's no Russian
submarine commander

is going to let an
American on board his sub.

- That's the best
shot we've got.

Look, we don't have much
time before largest

of the CMEs hits.

The real job is yours.
We can't figure out

the coordinates to launch
the ordinance until we know

exactly where that CME
has penetrated,

it's speed and trajectory.

Jim you need to run
the calcs with Joanna,

pinpoint me a location.

We'll only have one chance
at this.

- You really think they're gonna
let you on a Russian sub?

- I'm gonna give it a shot.

Get their last known
coordinates,

take my jet to Iceland

and charter a helicopter
from there.

All right.

[ Boom ]

- I see.

No, thank you sir.

I just got a fragmentary
communication, not quite sure...

- Brad, what is it?

- I think New Zealand was just
obliterated in a firestorm.

- [Newscaster]: There are
unconfirmed reports from Sydney,

Australia today that
the sky to the southeast

in the direction of New Zealand

was seen to erupt in flames.

Communications from New Zealand
including deep-sea cable

have stopped and scientists
are suggesting

a CME may have breached
the ozone

causing unforeseeable damage.

- My God.
This is really happening.

- [Newcaster]: What
is certain is that until now

the human component of this
solar storm

has been the most unpredictable.

Complete civil unrest has broken
out in several countries

leading to the imposition
of martial law,

but as events in
the Republic of Georgia

and South Africa show,

even military curfews have
been ineffective

against the near hysterical
spread of panic and violence,

as people fear the end
of the world has arrived.

- Mr. President.

- Yeah.

- We have absolute
confirmation

that New Zealand's
been destroyed.

- Oh.
- Foster was right.

The ozone
has been breached.

- You know, Frank,
I've known Lucas Foster

for more than 20 years
and he's been right

more times than
I can remember.

- Sir.

- Hmm.

- Lucas Foster has gone
off the reservation.

- What are you talking about?

- I've received word that
he is trying to link up

with a Russian sub.

- You don't mean that
Russian sub

that's off the coast
of Greenland.

- Yes, sir.

I've also received confirmation

that this Russian sub is
armed with nukes.

- Where is he now?

- Captain, you need
to take a look at this.

We've got massive
interference on the sonar.

- What the hell?

- We're losing power, sir.

- How is that possible?

Get me a read on that sonar.

Get our damned radio
to work.

- Yes, sir.

- Get me the engine room.

I need to know what's going
on with the power.

- Calling Russian
Navy submarine the Vaznesensk.

This is Lucas Foster.

I'm in a civilian helicopter,
do you read me?

Calling the Vaznesensk, this
is Lucas Foster, do you read me?

Calling Russian Navy
submarine the Vaznesensk,

this is Lucas Foster.

I'm in a civilian helicopter.
Do you read me?

- Captain, we have an
incoming craft.

I believe
it is a helicopter, sir.

- Helicopter,
all the way out here?

Are you sure?

- Yes, I can hear it,
a helicopter.

- Lieutenant Troiska.

- Yes, sir.
- Take us to periscope
depth immediately.

We need visual confirmation.

- Calling the Vaznesensk,
this is Lucas Foster,

do you read me Vaznesensk?

- [Speaker]: Captain,
this is the radio room.

We have an incoming
transmission.

- Patch this through speakers.

- It's coming in over the
short wave, sir.

[ Static ]

- Captain, we've reached
the periscope depth.

- Lieutenant Troiska,

you must see this.

What's happening up there?

- Calling Russian
Navy submarine the Vaznesensk.

[ Static ]

- Sir, it must be a trap.

The Americans have disabled
our communications

and this is just
a ploy to get us to the surface.

- [Lucas]: Calling Russian Navy
submarine the Vaznesensk.

- It is civilian helicopter.

- [Lucas]: This is Lucas Foster,

Misha, if you can hear me

I've got your favourite Cuban,
hand-rolled by Castro himself.

- Take her up.

- Captain, please reconsider.

This is against military
protocol.

- [Lucas]: If you can read
me Vaznesensk.

- You are correct, Lieutenant.

Surface now.

I will not repeat the
order again.

- Aye, sir.

- [Lucas]: Is anyone out there?
- Surfacing.

- [Lucas]: If you can hear
me Vaznesensk.

- [Misha]: Lucas, my friend,

we are receiving you

and I have given the order
to surface.

- Yes.

Misha, you are a lovely sight.

Let's take it down.
- Yup.

- Admiral, intel
has been picking up

chatter around the globe.

Several regions in
the northern hemisphere

are reporting fires
in the sky;

clouds
spontaneously combusting.

- Do they know if Foster
boarded the Russian sub yet?

- No.

- Well...

I guess we'd better
get ready for hell on earth.

- Captain.
- Lucas.

I hope you understand
I'm in violation

of strict orders having
you aboard this vessel.

- I assure you captain,
it's for a good reason.

Besides, you're not able to
communicate with your

command operations, are you?

- How do you know this?

- Because your main Comsat
dropped out of the sky.

- What is going on
up there?

The communications,
the sky.

- We're being assaulted
by a massive solar storm.

I don't have time to give
you a detailed explanation

but it's bad, it's real bad

and I'm gonna need your help

and your trust if we're
gonna stop it.

[ Phone ringing ]

- Joanna Parks.

- The clock is ticking,
have you heard from Lucas?

- Not yet. Don't worry,
he'll call.

- I hope so.

I just got the final trajectory.

I'll have the
launch coordinates soon.

Hang in there.
- Okay.

- Target the polar ice shelf
with our nuclear missiles?

- Captain the sky that you saw

was only a glimpse of the
worldwide destruction

that's been going on.

- Why not American sub?

- Yours was the closest
armed sub to the target.

- You cannot launch
from United States?

- No.

An ICBM launch from the
states would have to leave

our atmosphere and once
it did its guidance system

would be knocked out
by those solar storms.

It must be launched at
low altitudes at close range.

That's where you come in, sir.

Captain, this is
the only chance we have.

This disaster,
it's accelerating,

moving toward flashpoint.

If we don't stop it now, sir,

it can't be stopped.

- I could not
possibly authorize such an act.

Not without approval
of my commander.

- Captain, how about if you talk

to President Alyushin directly?

Would that work?

- How?

- Captain,

we are approximately here.

If we can get to here,

the Trans Atlantic cables,

we can tap in
and call the Kremlin.

- I've compiled the data sent
by the observatories

before they went offline

into a simulation
of the methane ignition pattern.

- Put it on the screen.

- The cable is somewhere
around 800 m deep.

- Approximately 2,500 feet.

- That is very deep for
a sub of our class.

- Captain, that's
the closest and shallowest

point to the cable.

- Captain, if
we go below 700 m,

there's a really good chance
that the ship's hull

will crumble
from the pressure.

- When the fires in the
sky intensify,

they will deplete our oxygen?

- All life on this planet
will suffocate

in a manner of a few hours.

We have to act now.

- Lieutenant, set course
for these coordinates,

initiate deep-dive
precautionary measures.

Now Lieutenant.

- Yes, sir.

Initiate deep-dive precautions.

- Sir, I'm picking up another
sub. It's American.

- Captain, if we make contact

there'll be no time for
explanations.

- Brake for silent running.

- Yes, sir.
Brake for silent running.

- Oh my God.

- It's heading for us!

[ Screaming ]

[ Whoosh ]

[ Boom ]
- Oh!

- 450 m.

- Captain, the American sub
is getting closer.

Eight degrees south, three
degrees west of our position.

Captain, do we keep
with this dive?

- What depth are they at?

- 275 m.

- Close enough to shout,

but they have not heard us,
have they?

- They're not behaving
as if they have.

- Stay in the dive.

Keep it smooth
and very quiet.

- Aye, sir.

Stay in the dive.

[ Alarm bells ]

[ Approaching fire sirens ]

- Let's move it, move it,
tight move, come on.

Okay guys, come on, let's go.

- Seven-hundred meters.

[ Sub structure's creaking ]

Captain, I don't think she
can take too much more pressure.

- She will have to.

[ Beeping ]

And so she will.

- Captain, we have
a leak at level three;

torpedo bay four
is flooded.

- Seal it off.

- Aye, sir. Seal it off.

- 800 m.

[ Creaking intensifies ]

Mark reached.

- Full stop.

[ Alarms and sirens ]

- [Softly]: Oh no.

Oh no, no, no.

Please work, please work.

[ Dialtone ]
Oh, thank God.

- What the hell
just happened up there?

- We got hit. The program,
is it still running?

- Yeah, yeah, it's still running

just under 11 minutes.

- Thank God. I'm on my way.

[ Someone speaking Russian ]

- President Alyushin,
this is Lucas Foster,

I need your help, sir.

- Mr. Foster, I believe I know
why you are calling.

I've spoken
with President Gordon.

We will approve your plan.

My submarine
is at your disposal.

- That's very good news,
Mr. President.

May I put you all
with Captain Gregorovich,

commander of the Vaznesensk?
- Please.

- Thank you, sir. Captain.

- Whoa, whoa, Dr. Park, you
can't go down there.

- Ned--
- It's not safe. The walls
are collapsing.

- That's a chance I'm gonna
have to take.

- Dr. Parks!

[ Alarm ]
[ Coughing ]

- It's Lucas, he's on the sub.

- Thank God.

Lucas?

- Joanna, it's good to hear
your voice.

- And yours.

- You got those launch
coordinates?

- Yeah. Here we go.

Latitude 86 degrees,

43 minutes, 17 seconds North.

Longitude, 41 degrees,

19 minutes, 4 seconds West.

- Joanna, good work.

- I've never seen anything
like it.

[ Thunder ]

- This wasn't supposed
to happen.

- There's still time to stop it.

I got the coordinates to
Lucas on the sub.

- Lieutenant, what's
the status on our com?

- The radio's still down sir, no
satellite guidance to speak of.

- I know we're still
down Lieutenant.

I want an ETA on when
they'll be restored.

- I wish I could
give you that sir

but every indication
leads us to believe

that this is an
external problem.

- External?
- Sir, I mean the problem

is not with our com equipment,

the problem is with the source.

- Are you telling me
the world's biggest superpower

has just lost its Satcom?

- Maybe it was a test.

- I have advanced notification
of all maritime scheduled tests.

- Either way we would
have had communication

which means
the only reason we haven't heard

from headquarters is that they
went dark themselves.

- Are you insinuating we may
have been attacked.

- Sir, we did
experience a power surge

and interference
consistent with nuclear EMP.

- Captain, we may be
picking up another sub.

- May be picking up another sub?

I want a confirmation
on that

and I want it now.

- Yes, sir.

- 100 m from missile
launch depth, sir.

- Input target coordinates,
Lieutenant.

[ Speaking russian]

- Da.

[ Speaking russian]

[ Speaking russian]

Launch coordinates
are set captain.

- How soon until
we reach launch position?

- In 15 seconds, sir.

- Unlock missile launch codes.

- Sir, sonar's picking up
a Russian sub.

- Are you sure?

- I'm positive, sir.

- What's their position?

- Sir, they're over
the safe-water boundary

inside Icelandic
territorial waters.

- On my mark.

3, 2, 1, mark.

Input launch code.

- Now missiles
are armed, sir.

- Prepare to fire.

- Captain, the Americans
they have located us.

Sir, we have an incoming message

from the Americans on
the shortwave.

They say we have drifted
off course,

that we are in violation
of Icelandic territorial waters

and are ordered
to surface immediately.

- Tell the Americans we are
acting under direct

orders of both President
Alyushin and President Gordon.

- Sir, they say they're acting
under the direct orders

of both President Alyushin

and President Gordon,

and that they're running
a Code Black scenario.

- What kind of game
are they playing?

- They are at missile
launch depth, sir.

- Tell them we have no way
to verify their claims,

they need to surface
immediately,

any failure to comply will
be deemed an act of aggression.

- Yes sir.

- They are giving us one minute

to service and prove the
authentication of our orders.

- If we surface now sir,
it'll be too late.

The window of opportunity
has almost closed.

We must do this now sir.

- Send another message.

Tell the Americans we
are on a time-critical mission

and that we pose no threat.
Send this.

- Yes, sir.

American submarine,
we are on a time-critical

mission and our operation
poses no danger to your vessel.

- Let him know we mean business.

- Yes sir.

[ Whoosh ]

- On my mark.

- Captain they're opening their
torpedo bay doors.

- Lieutenant Troiska.

- I will not fire missiles, sir.

- Give me your key.

- We cannot do that.

This is suicide.

- Lieutenant.

Don't.

- Lock Lieutenant Troiska
in his quarters.

- Yes sir.

- Lock him up.

- Now Captain.

- Firing missiles 1 through 5.

- Sir, the Russian
just launched five missiles

- What in God's name... ?

[ Whoosh ]

- They're awaiting your
orders, Sir.

- Prepare to fire.

We're taking them out.

- Sir, yes, Sir.
Prepare to fire.

- Send another message.

Tell them we are surfacing.

- Fire when ready.

- Fire when ready.

[ Whoosh ]

- It's too late.
Torpedoes in the water.

- Prepare countermeasures.

Full ahead.

Down right
angle 45 degrees.

[ Whoosh ]

Fire countermeasures.

- Fire countermeasures!

- Sir, the Russians
have launched countermeasures

and are moving away at
full screws.

- Prepare to fire again.

- Sir, yes, Sir.
Prepare to fire.

[ Explosions ]

- Countermeasures successful.

- Fire when ready!

- Fire when ready.

[ Whoosh ]

- Captain, the Americans have
fired two more torpedoes.

- All hands to damage
control stations.

[ Whoosh ]

- Fire countermeasures
on my mark,

and then hard turn

90 degrees starboard.

- 800 m.

700 m.

- Not yet.

- 600 m.

500 m.

- Fire countermeasures.

Initiate turn!

[ Hull creaking ]

Harder

A little more.

There.

God help us.

- Arrgh!

- Sir, the torpedoes
have missed their target.

There is no return fire.

- Load torpedoes.

Prepare to fire again.

[ Electronics beeping ]

- Damage report.

- Sub-level 1 has minor

hull beaches
in the pump room, Sir.

- Plug them and evacuate.

- Yes, Sir.
- Get me the short wave radio.

[ Whoosh ]

- American sub commander.
This is Lucas Foster.

I'm onboard the Russian
submarine Vaznesensk.

Hold your fire.

- Sir, you'd
better hear this.

- [Foster]: Hold your fire.

This is Lucas Foster.

- It didn't succeed.

- We don't know that yet.

- Ah, face it, Joanna.

The calculations
must have been off.

Or maybe it was human error.

Maybe they didn't get
the missiles off.

- He did.

I know he did.

- [American Captain]:
Mr. Foster, your presence

does merit the cessation
of hostilities.

However, you must warn
the Russian captain

to maintain a neutral posture,

to surface immediately
and to surrender.

- They're demanding your
immediate surrender.

- Never.

- Captain, it's just
a formality.

- Send a message back.

Tell them we will comply.

- But Sir...

- Someone has to take
Mr. Foster home.

[ Laughing ]

[ Crowd laughing and cheering ]

- He did it.

- Yeah!

- He really did it!

Yes!

- Mr. President.

It worked.
Lucas has done it.

- Ah, yes!

- Captain, I owe you one.

If there's anything
I can ever do for you...

- Do not be such a stranger,
Lucas Foster.

The next time

you are in
the neighbourhood, drop by.

- Oh, I believe
this is yours.

- Ah...

spasibo.

- Pozhaluista.

- Sector two, all clear.

- Lucas! Hey!

Come on!

[ Laughing ]

I'm so glad you're back.

- Thank you. Good job.

- Thank you.

- Hey, hey!

Welcome back.

- Thank you.

So, where is the rest
of the welcoming committee?

- We have a lunch with the president, Lucas,

what more do you want?

- I don't know. A marching
band would have been nice.

[ Laughing ]

- Yeah. Let's get out of here.
[V.6.]