Impact (2009) s01e02 Episode Script

Easy.
You okay? I think so.
You speak English.
We need to close this.
What was that? It was the Moon.
- Is that okay? - Yeah.
Get outside.
I'll check for other survivors.
Can you walk? Yeah.
I think so, yeah.
We need to find help.
- They're not gonna find us here.
- Yeah.
High-tech crap.
We're leaving.
I thought they were picking us up.
Well, something must have happened.
Your father wants you there with him in Washington.
Seems like he wants you there pretty badly.
But, Grandpa, I thought you never leave your domain.
Yeah.
Get your bags.
We're taking the boat.
Nearly 20 percent of the country is in total blackout.
Power, phone, cellular.
Back-up generators are the only power they have.
Europe is much worse.
Germany's back online.
Alex.
We're still getting quite a lot of residual interferences here.
Our systems are reading another influx of electromagnetic energy.
We're seeing it now.
We're just not getting any levels.
We've lost too many towers to make any accurate measurements.
But it seems that the surges are getting stronger.
Alex, can you hear me? It's rolling into North America.
Only 20 miles to the freeway.
Homeland Security has issued a safety warning for all states across - power level and forcing hospitals and other emergency - Go.
- Go.
Go, Grandpa.
- Grandpa.
- Hurry, Grandpa.
- It's catching up.
- Hold on.
Holy - Grandpa! - Hold on.
Hang on, kids.
Is it over? This round.
Anything? The entire area is dark.
The E.
I.
U.
Knows the situation.
They're sending people.
She would've been in that train.
I've got to know where that is.
We're operating on one landline.
We can't get through to anybody.
I'm going myself.
Roland.
This just came in.
They want you in Washington.
They've sent a hardened military transport.
- Washington? - They're assembling a conference.
Everybody.
It has been requested by the chancellor that you attend.
Martina is still out there, Franz, I - I gotta know that she's okay.
- Hey, I will make sure of it.
- And that the president doesn't want to speak prematurely until he has had a chance to speak to emergency officials.
Now, we're just now getting the first unedited footage.
The first images coming back from the hardest hit areas.
Okay, we are just outside the town of Long Lake, Minnesota where the surge here was quite strong.
Now, myself and my crew were secured to the ground but it was still incredibly frightening.
I just need you, Jim, to pan over here.
You can see people here with broken bones cuts and scrapes, some far worse than that.
Now, most of this area is without power but we are being told, as you can see behind me that emergency crews and the National Guard from outlying areas are trying to help.
This is just unbelievable, and we will continue to bring you more At this time, we cannot be certain when or if another event will occur.
Therefore, I am invoking presidential emergency powers.
Air and train travel will remain suspended.
Curfews will be in effect.
Emergency services will continue to function as best they can.
Homeland Security will coordinate with local agencies to ensure that food, water, clothing and necessary goods remain available.
Looters, hoarding and price gouging will be dealt with swiftly and harshly.
Where's Grandpa? Grandpa? Grandpa, are you okay? And you wonder why I don't drive.
After the near miss of XL1 asteroid in 1994 engineers were commissioned to develop a way to deflect any future near-earth objects.
Now, one idea was to detonate nuclear weapons in the path of an incoming asteroid.
If the explosion nudged the asteroid, even a fraction its altered trajectory would multiply, sending it safely past.
That was considering millions of miles.
It wouldn't take much of a nudge if we use the brown dwarf to our advantage.
With the right calculations and distance from Earth the brown dwarf becomes our ally.
We give the Moon a nudge in the right direction and its new greater mass will be drawn towards the Sun instead of us.
The Sun's gravity will put it into a new safe orbit.
Okay, even if this theory works, I thought it was not possible to get conventional nuclear weapons into space.
- With CT6, they can.
- What's C T6? It's a converted Atlas V rocket designed to deliver nukes into space.
And it exists now? To the best of our knowledge, it does, yeah.
Well, a lot of parameters, which would have to be worked out, but Excuse me.
- Hello.
- Maddie, I know everything.
Thirty odd days and counting.
Meet me down by the river walk.
It's about four blocks from you.
David.
Thanks for coming.
I don't have much time.
I guess that goes for everyone.
You got your information wrong.
Then why are you here? To make sure you don't print the wrong story.
We were married for 10 years, Maddie.
I know when you're lying.
Funny, because I never knew when you were.
I'm not lying now.
I got it from a White House staff member.
I just can't believe this information is being withheld from the public.
So I need you, face-to-face, you tell me I got it wrong.
Amazing.
Even if the world were coming to an end all you're concerned about is your story.
Look, I care about the truth.
Look, it's not just the story.
I need to know if I have a month to live.
I need to know that.
You can't print a story like this, David.
Try and imagine the consequences.
That's exactly what I'm trying not to imagine.
You got it wrong.
We thought we were in trouble but the Moon has re-attained a stable orbit.
You're no good at it.
You can't lie.
You never could.
Don't do it, David.
For once in your life, try and show a little decency.
Hold up, guys.
Jake, check your cell phone again.
Nothing.
Not a car in sight.
Come on, let's keep walking.
We'll be all right.
Any word? No.
They haven't even reached the house yet.
It's amazing, you know.
We have such incredible technology.
My 10-year-old can beam this to me from across the country and still, nothing we can come up with will even hold a candle to Mother Nature.
Still drink coffee? Oh, yeah.
This? Why not? It's funny, I remember when I was a kid went away to camp for a month.
God, a month seemed like an eternity back then.
You know, Maddie, if it is over, we should be with our families.
It's not over, Alex.
This could work.
You sharing? Yeah, grab a cup.
Thank you.
So We're close.
Let's hope your president has an open mind.
Yeah.
Let's hope.
What about Martina? She's strong.
I can feel it in my gut, as you say, that she's safe.
Otherwise, I wouldn't be here.
Cheers.
So where were you headed, anyway? To see my mother.
We're headed in the opposite direction now.
I know, but Leidensburg is this way.
It's closer.
We can get some help there.
The proposed change in the acceleration and vector of the brown-dwarf mass trapped in the Moon would, in theory, kick the Moon out into Earth's L4, L5 points where the Sun's gravity would stabilize it far enough from Earth to prevent any further electromagnetic surges.
How many nuclear warheads are we talking about? Professor Blankenship is our expert on this type of weapon's technology.
Eleven hundred warheads, 20 megatons each detonated in two-minute intervals from a post-orbital distance of 100 kilometers.
The near-simultaneous explosions will create a continuous exponential outward force that will accelerate the Moon's velocity away from the Earth without fragmenting the target allowing the Sun's gravity to literally grab hold of it.
Now, it is critical that this be done while the Moon is still moving away.
You plan to get that many missiles to launch concurrently? By using Atlas Vs and converted Russian and perhaps Chinese rockets.
Russia and China don't have that technology.
Then we'll need to share it.
The only way we can achieve this in the specified timetable.
I don't know about anybody else but I'm not comfortable with offering the Russians and the Chinese the ability to rain nuclear missiles down on us from space.
The Moon is on a collision course with the Earth, Mr.
Secretary.
What the hell's the difference? This is gonna take a coordinated effort, the likes of which we've never achieved.
Dr.
Kittner.
Our advisory team, Mr.
President, has come up with another option.
Sorry, I thought we were the advisory team.
Did you think you were the only one giving advice? All right, hang on.
Let's keep on track here.
- Yes, general.
- Thank you, sir.
Precision nuclear strikes into the newly exposed area of the Moon.
Eighty-seven warheads will penetrate the already weakened fault lines.
The Moon will break apart, releasing it from Earth's gravity.
And the brown dwarf, twice as heavy as the Earth will slam down in our backyard.
By our calculations, the brown dwarf will be disintegrated.
Most debris will be caught by the Sun's gravity.
No, the risk is too high if stray debris.
That debris alone could easily destroy the planet.
Is this correct? There is a risk but we have run this through every simulation possible.
This is our best option.
I know the U.
S.
Military likes blowing things up but this will not work.
The heat blast from the original impact has fused the compounds.
There is We have taken that into consideration, Dr.
Emerson.
We have weapons that will penetrate far enough beneath before detonating.
Bunker busters will only penetrate 30 meters, general.
The ones you know about.
We're not just a bunch of trigger-happy cowboys.
- We have families too.
- All right.
Doctor what are the realistic chances of your plan working? And, as my mother used to say, leave the frosting in the fridge.
I can't give you percentages, Mr.
President.
But I can assure you, we have considered other options including one very similar to the general's.
There's just so much we don't know.
And too much you've gotten wrong already.
This is new science, general.
Don't get this one wrong yourself.
Sir, our window of opportunity is short.
These Atlas V rockets have a limited range.
If another plan is implemented first and it fails the Moon will move beyond those parameters.
When the Moon starts back, it will be in range again, won't it? When the Moon begins its orbit back to Earth it will begin an exponential increase in velocity.
Nothing will stop it from hitting this planet.
All right.
We're gonna weigh each option without prejudice and we'll choose the plan that has the best chance of success.
Politics will not play a part.
I can assure you that.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mr.
President.
Dr.
Rhodes? You need to see this.
How did you first come across this information? Something about this whole thing never felt to right to me.
I suspected there was more to the story, so I began to ask questions.
I was introduced to a source who confirmed that my suspicions were correct.
- How did you react? - In shock.
I find it quite remarkable that this information has not been made available to the public.
This is a source inside the White House? Yes, confirmed by a reliable source within the president's inner circle.
I was told the Moon is on a collision course with Earth and will impact in 36 days.
Has there been any official comment? Any word from the White House? Very much trying to keep this whole thing under wraps.
Obviously, they're scared.
They don't wanna tell people that life on this planet may be extinguished.
- My God.
- They're concerned about panic.
What the hell do we do now? I feel that the public is better than We make sure the public knows we're doing everything.
I think most people of the world would agree with you.
They'll know that tomorrow.
- Dr.
Kittner? - Absolutely, absolutely.
I've been asked to give you a message.
Emergency crews reached your home.
Your children weren't there, nor your father-in-law.
The house was empty.
They're continuing their search.
I think most people in the world would agree with you.
Now, is there any evidence that other world leaders have? World leaders gathering now to discuss the crisis while the world waits for a solution anything that can stop this apocalypse.
Meanwhile, tension and panic has begun to rear its ugly head.
They're going with General Vaughn's plan.
My fellow Americans we have all been witness to the horrific events that have taken place over the past several days.
I wish I could come to you now and tell you that the worst is over.
As has been recently reported the Moon has, in fact, moved into an orbit that has put it on a collision course with Earth.
We have 36 days to stop it.
The United States, along with other nations of the world have implemented Operation Safeguard using nuclear weapons to destroy the Moon before it reaches us.
Engineers and scientists have been working together from all over the world to accomplish this enormous undertaking.
The missiles will be launched today.
This is not the end.
This will be our finest hour.
It will be remembered as the moment when our world became one people with one common cause.
We are not American.
We are not Chinese or French or Russian.
We are one people on a lonely planet.
We will pray together.
We will help each other and we will not abandon our values, our self-respect or the rule of law in this time of anxiety.
Be with your loved ones and be comforted in the knowledge that this government and all our friends throughout the world are doing everything we can.
Thank you and God bless you all.
Hello? We have people who need help.
We were on a train.
It derailed.
- There are others hurt.
- Okay.
Bring the truck.
Get these people to the shelter.
Thank you.
Anything? Nothing yet.
And I have no idea where they could possibly be, you know.
Or where we would begin to start looking, I mean They'll be okay.
They're with their grandfather, right? Yeah.
Lloyd is an old cuss but he would never let anything happen to those kids.
It's still cool.
It kind of feels like London.
I always thought I'd move back there.
Funny how things don't always turn out the way you expect.
No, they don't.
Hey, look.
Careful, now.
Hey.
Those are spoken for.
What's wrong with you, you deaf? - Cafe is closed.
- Let go! Hey, let go.
Grandpa.
- Grandpa.
- Take your hands off them.
Grandpa? Sadie, get some water.
How long? Five minutes.
Where's Space Command satellite? Coming up.
The data we're getting looks strange.
There's something going on, guys.
What is it? Nuclear weapons caused the Moon to tumble erratically.
Has it increased the Moon's velocity? Yes.
It's gonna make impact five days earlier.
Their plan didn't work.
Yeah.
Thanks.
It failed, Mr.
President.
Assemble Dr.
Rhodes and her team.
I want another plan.
Yes, Mr.
President.
- The president wants more options.
- Little late.
We gave him the only option.
Maybe not.
I might have an idea.
The Moon is now tumbling, rotating, unevenly.
- Why? - Have to be from the hypermass pushed off-center.
The nukes may have done something for us after all.
I think they have partially dislodged our brown dwarf moved it back closer towards the surface of the Moon.
So, what's your plan? Actually, it's yours.
As some of you are aware at NASA I headed a team developing a zero-gravity propulsion machine by means of manipulating electromagnetic energy.
This is the original design.
What does it do? Generates extreme electromagnetic current.
We are going to magnetize the Moon's core literally turn it into one gigantic electromagnet.
The machine is self-powered, nuclear.
This machine will create an instant of reverse polarity start a chain reaction within the core.
The brown dwarf and the Moon's core will repel each other positive to positive, like trying to connect positive sides of a magnet.
If we do this when the Moon is at its furthest point, its axis peak the brown dwarf will be expelled by the Moon and drawn into the Sun's gravity, not Earth's.
The Moon will then retain a normal orbit around Earth.
You can do that with this machine? First we have to build it.
Wait a minute, build it where? Most of the mechanisms can be built here.
The rest will be assembled on the Moon.
You've gotta be kidding.
ESA had planned the manned phase of their lunar operation next month so the infrastructure is already in place.
How do you use this thing to magnetize the core? Drill a hole and drop it down? A thin steel carbon-fullerene nanowire developed by the U.
S.
Military for transfer of electromagnetic energy will be attached to a converted cruise missile with the other end connected to the EM machine.
And we've Alex, can you put up the? Thank you.
We've done some extensive spectrographic analysis of the Moon.
We believe that deep fissure canyons have been exploited to the core.
However, because of blast debris continued residual effects from the impact it is impossible for us to do any detailed thermal readings from here.
The astronauts will have to determine the appropriate canyon to launch our missile into depending on which of these canyons best suit our needs.
Now, once the canyon has been chosen the astronauts will descend into it via a jet-propelled rover and with thermal equipment, begin subsurface terrain mapping for the guidance system, which will direct the missile down.
This is fantasy.
How are you gonna attach that much wire? It won't actually be that difficult.
A.
S.
E.
P? That's what we intended, general.
What? What's A.
S.
E.
P? American Space Elevator Prototype.
The idea is to use ultra-thin cable to lift cargo to an orbiting base.
It's still in development.
The nanowire is both highly conductive and incredibly strong.
We use the wire from that technology as the conductor from the EM machine to the warhead.
Now, we will convert the missile to a copper-plasma-based warhead.
After the canyon has been mapped, the missile's guidance system will be programmed via fire control from within the lunar module.
As the missile embeds itself in the Moon's core the dead warhead's copper liner will collapse, melt, form a plasma jet which will be directed out of the missile into the Moon's core effectively transferring the EM current forcing the brown dwarf out of the Moon.
There is, however, one caveat.
It is unlikely the astronauts will make it back to the lunar module before the Moon's core has been magnetized.
But even if they do there's little chance of the module escaping the magnetic field.
It's essentially a one-way trip.
It should be voluntary.
Can we pull this off? The brown dwarf must be ejected when the Moon reaches its axis peak.
Otherwise, it will hit us instead of the Sun.
If there are any delays or hiccups, it will be too late.
That's why we have 16 days to launch to give the Soyuz time to catch up to the Moon and our astronauts time to implement.
Sir, we spend years training our astronauts for a single mission.
The Russian Advanced Crew Transport is already prepped for their mission.
Sixteen days? It can't be done.
We need to reprogram every code from scratch.
That's true, we will, but it's not impossible.
Damn near.
The alternative, gentlemen, is damn near.
All right, I'm sold.
Let's consult our allies, get a consensus.
Contact ESA 's lunar-mission commander and the rest of the space-flight team.
Do it.
Get it built.
- That's enough, thanks.
- You're welcome.
We can't stay here.
We've got Grandpa! Oh, it's my heart.
I lost my pills.
Jake, go over there and see if you can find some aspirin.
My grandpa, he needs aspirin.
He's got a bad heart.
Yeah, well, thanks to your grandpa, I got a bad headache.
Hey.
Hey, kid.
You stay away from them.
Hello.
This is Terrence Young.
He's the mission director of the European Space Agency's lunar expedition.
Hello.
The Euro-Soyuz spacecraft is being prepped at their launch facility in Kazakhstan.
Now, the Russian space control was damaged during the last surge so mission control will now be the European Space Agency in Darmstadt, Germany.
It will take a miracle to pull this off, but I do believe we can.
Our biggest concern is the assembly of that machine on the Moon.
Most of it can be assembled here.
Our mission specialists will practice final assembly on dummy parts.
- I'll supervise.
- We understand that.
But with the electromagnetic interference there is some concern Mission Control may lose communication with the astronauts.
Now, we need someone up there with the specialized and in-depth knowledge of that machine.
What, are you joking? I have no training for this.
This is your brainchild, Dr.
Kittner.
Dr.
Emerson, as you've stated there is no way to map the canyon's terrain from here.
An expert in Moon geology with a vast understanding of what has happened since the impact is essential.
There's simply no way we can train anyone down here to do that.
No, I'm not an astronaut.
There is no room for error here and we are running out of time.
I'm sorry to you both, but that is the situation.
It's a thousand-to-one that the astronauts are coming back.
We understand that too.
We cannot take a chance with someone else.
Our best hope lies in your hands.
My children are still out there, sir.
I want them found.
FEMA has nothing yet.
It was unfair proposition.
No one is gonna force you to do this.
I know that.
Look, we still have time.
We can train someone else.
Remember when I said that things don't always turn out the way we expect? I remember.
I was talking about us.
We had something.
Been thinking a lot about it.
I know, Alex.
Me too.
I need you to do something for me, Maddie.
I need you to say goodbye to my kids for me.
Alex, we don't know whether Listen, I made arrangements and I promised I'd never leave without saying goodbye so I need you to do that.
I want you to tell them that I'm sorry, okay? - Alex - Look, they're right.
There's just no room for error.
I'm the only one who can build that machine, for certain, anyway.
They're gonna be very proud of their father.
It's all right.
No, it isn't.
No, it isn't.
I gotta go.
I've got a plane to catch.
The components are being made at five locations: U.
S.
, Japan, Brazil, France and Germany.
Our facility here is hardened against EMPs so all of our systems were preserved during the last surge and are operating normally.
Because of the increased mass on the Moon you're gonna weigh twice as much there as you do here.
So we've weighted down your training suits accordingly so that you get used to it.
Believe me, over the next 10 days, you are going to sweat, vomit and wish to God that the meteor had hit us instead of the Moon.
Gentlemen, let me introduce you to Flight Commander Courtney Batterton from the U.
S and Lunar Module Pilot Sergei Pitinkov from Russia.
- Alex Kittner.
- Sergei.
- Emerson.
- Nice to meet you.
- Alex.
- Hi.
Roland Emerson.
Well, then, if we've all met Hey.
Here.
They're scarce.
Take it.
Where did you get it? Money talks.
Thanks.
You're married? Engaged.
Was he with you? I've never been married.
I'm not sure I'm the type.
I wouldn't want to change my life like that.
- Don't get me wrong, I like people - Dr.
Emerson, seen here but worrying about someone else, what they wanna do, God.
- Are confident in the mission's success.
The launch of the Euro-Soyuz is scheduled for Tuesday.
We are told there's a very specific timeline for the astronauts to reach the Moon to alter its course.
- You know him? - Yes.
- And bring you the latest news as details become available.
In other news, international Where is he? He's outside, trying to fix one of those cars.
- Our broadcast from the White House updating called the situation our best chance to stop the Moon's imminent collision with the Earth.
We will continue updates throughout the evening.
Emergency crews are stretched to their limit and they're concentrating their work in the cities.
A national curfew has been put into effect and for their own safety, citizens are prohibited from leaving their homes.
Here.
See if he'll eat it.
Can we have another candy bar? We're both hungry.
Fine.
There.
- You should be nicer to people.
- Yeah, why is that? Because maybe they'll be nicer to you.
No, you can't come with us.
But I must get to Cologne.
No room.
We have to get these supplies to another shelter.
If you can just get me to a military base.
They can contact my fiancé, Dr.
Roland Emerson.
He's one of the astronauts.
He is on the scientific-advisory team.
He's advising the government.
Please, I must get to him.
I'm sorry.
Now, please, go back to the tent.
Hey, buddy.
- Lady needs a ride, squeeze her in? - I can't.
Hey, you are hurt, yeah? I'm pregnant.
You're what? Hey, look, I'm buying her ticket, all right? Take it.
I can't do that, sir.
Look, the woman's pregnant.
I'm asking you, can you just please help her out? Yeah.
Thank you.
- Thank you.
- No problem.
Hey, good luck.
What's your name? Pierce, Bob Pierce.
I'm Martina Altmann.
Thank you, Mr.
Pierce.
No problem.
The successful launch of the American Atlas V with supplies begins the first phase of the lunar mission.
The cargo module will lie in orbit waiting for the astronauts to arrive only a few days from now.
The astronauts, including two civilians Alex Kittner and Roland Emerson have been training vigorously for several days.
Both will be going into space for the very first time both an essential part I didn't tell you that Martina's pregnant.
Hey, that's great, Roland.
Congratulations.
- Mission Control will remain based at the European Space Agency control center in Germany.
The incredible effort has only been made possible by widespread international support.
- Yeah.
Mr.
Emerson.
Yeah? Your fiancée, she has been found.
She's on her way here.
Thank you.
Martina.
I'm okay.
Jake, reach in my shirt pocket.
I wanna tell you a story about your mom.
When you were babies still in your cribs even when you were older your mother she'd come into your room late at night.
Just to stare.
To adore you.
You never woke.
You never knew.
But some part of you must have known she was there.
You need to listen to that now to the part that knows she's always there watching over you.
We'll be there with you always.
Your mom and I.
Count on it.
Your father's a A good man.
He'll find you.
He Grandpa! We leave for the launch facility tomorrow morning.
Can I come with you? To Kazakhstan? To the Moon.
Yes.
Is it a dangerous mission? Yes.
But we will be okay? No.
No.
No.
You are coming back.
We are having a baby.
You're going to be here.
You're going to be here.
No, no, no.
Look at me.
Look at me.
I will do everything I can to get back here.
I promise you.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, I am.
I want to be your husband.
Did you hear what I said? I want to be your husband.
Will you marry me? Yes.
Do you, Martina Altmann, take Roland Emerson to be your lawfully wedded husband for better or worse, richer or poorer till death do you part? I do.
And do you, Roland Emerson, take Martina Altmann to be your lawfully wedded wife, for better or worse richer or poorer, till death do you part? I do.
You may kiss.
- Where are you going? - None of your business.
Where were you going when you came here? None of your business.
Wait.
You can't just leave us here.
Look, kid, I'm sorry about your gramps, all right but it's survival of the fittest now.
All you have to do is take us into town.
My dad, he's in Washington.
Alex Kittner, he's advising the president.
You'll get a reward! Here, you can keep them.
What? - I don't want this.
- Good luck, kid.
Stop! Stop! Please! Get in.
Auxiliary power.
Switching to auxiliary power.
Access arm retract and crew fallback.
- Main engine start.
- Go with main engine start.
Ten, nine, eight, seven, six five, four, three, two, one.
Ignition.
Lift-off.
Dr.
Emerson, do we have final-trajectory points? That's affirmative, Center.
I've got a crystal clear view from here and our thermal gear is reading beautifully.
We've discovered the best crevice for our missile launch and the landing will proceed.
- Thank you.
Sergei? - Copy, Center.
It's well within our landing parameters.
I'm downloading coordinates now.
Dr.
Rhodes, what's our S TP? No change, all lunar conditions remain as predicted.
Lunar conditions are valid.
Commander Batterton, how do we look? - Systems are go from here, Control.
- Good.
We'll take control of the cargo-vessel launch from here so stand by for lunar-module prep.
Copy that.
Well, so far so good.
Provided nothing untoward happens, we should get them there.
Dr.
Rhodes.
We just got a call.
A military checkpoint is holding a man who claims to have Dr.
Kittner's children with him.
Dr.
Kittner, this is Mission Control.
We have something for you, if you'd like to look at your monitor.
- Hi, Daddy.
- Hi, Dad.
Hey, guys.
- What are you doing? - I'm going to the Moon.
Where's your grandfather? He He died.
When are you coming home, Daddy? I'm not sure, pumpkin.
Why not? Well, there's something I have to do.
I need to save the man in the Moon.
Dad? Take good care of your sister, okay? You're the man of the house now, remember? I love you both very much.
I love you too, Dad.
I love you, Daddy.
Goodbye, Jake.
Goodbye, Sadie.
Dr.
Kittner, we're running out of time.
Are you able to move any faster? We'll have to try but this heightened gravity is wearing us down.
Control, coupling on Coil 4 complete.
Interval a go.
Continue sequence through to the next linkage.
The Moon will reach its axis peak in six hours.
They have to complete the EM machine.
Their meds are peaked.
They can't keep up this pace up much longer.
Do they have enough oxygen? We'll have to tap the reserve.
Well, we don't have a choice.
Right.
It's not connected.
Try it again.
Coil 5 isn't taking the coupling.
Sergei, run a diagnostic, find out what the computer's doing.
Copy.
It's a failed coil interface inside the linkage chassis.
Port H-4.
Five hours to axis peak.
Copy that.
Orbit 1, it's getting tight.
How much longer? Need to replace Coil 5.
It will take at least five hours.
- What? - That's too long.
We won't have enough time to launch the missile.
You have to begin subsurface mapping now.
We need guidance information for the missile.
Dr.
Kittner? I can assemble the remaining couplers.
The nanowire is secured to the missile.
Dr.
Emerson? Yeah.
Mapping equipment loaded.
We are ready to go.
We need to get that mapping done and get this machine online now.
Dr.
Rhodes? They're way behind.
Then maybe it's time to start praying for a miracle.
Who's to say science got it right? Three hours, four minutes to axis peak.
Time? There isn't enough time.
As our final hours tick away we do not hear reports of panic or lawlessness.
Instead, oddly calm.
A strange and beautiful peace that has eluded us until now.
The irony matters not as many people spend these final hours fulfilling their last wishes doing things they've never taken time to do.
Conquering fears.
Finding love.
Finding faith.
Control, all coils are go.
Assembly complete.
He did it.
It's done.
Come on, Alex.
Turn it on.
Turn it on.
Preliminary power activated.
Sergei, what are the levels? Levels are holding.
All is go.
- Locked and ready for plasma ignition.
- Copy.
The subsurface fractures are wider than we thought.
We can accelerate our descent.
Any increase in velocity and you will be shattered against the side.
Sergei, we have no other chance.
Sergei, recalculate the rate of descent.
We'll try and make up the time.
Copy.
One hour, 15 minutes to axis peak.
The machine is ready.
What's the hold-up? Almost in position.
Mapping almost complete.
Let's not give up just yet.
Courtney, the EM machine is locked and powered.
All systems remain go.
Waiting on mapping sequence.
Copy, Alex.
We're getting very high EM levels down here.
Copy.
Filters are peaked.
- Signal strength is good.
- I just need a little bit more time here.
Straight, good.
Good, keep it steady.
Just a few more seconds.
Okay.
It's opening up now.
I've got a good view from up here.
Yes.
Yes, we've got a line of sight.
- Go.
- Fire control, stand by.
Prepare for sequence transfer.
What's happening? What happened? - She lost control.
- Thrust control's gone.
I see a slight outcropping.
I can't keep this descent altitude.
We're going in too steep.
Roland? Do you copy? - Don't let go.
- I got you.
I'm slipping.
Hold tight.
Don't let go.
Hold on! Hold on! No.
Alex.
I've lost Courtney.
I'm I'm on some sort of a cliff top.
Roland, we need the missile's final-guidance sequence.
Can you transmit? There's been some damage.
- Are you reading anything? - No.
Dr.
Emerson, the transmitter has been disconnected from the hovercraft.
The missile is still blind, Roland.
It will take seven minutes to reach the core which means we have less than 10 minutes to fire it.
We'll be past the point of no return.
Copy.
Come on.
Come on.
Transmitting.
- We have to launch now.
- Still uploading.
Come on, we're gonna miss the window.
Come on, Kittner.
Missile away.
The missile's been fired.
- The missile is in the canyon.
- Tracking missile.
Dr.
Kittner? I've done some calculations.
There may still be time for us to escape the EM field if we launch now.
We're waiting for Roland.
The hovercraft is inoperable We are not leaving anyone behind.
Understood? Alex, he's right.
I'm stuck here.
We still have a chance.
- Roland - No.
Alex, listen to me.
Go home.
Go to your kids.
We've finished our job here.
Start the launching sequence, Sergei.
We're not leaving without you.
You have no choice.
Start it now, Sergei.
- Now.
- Don't do it.
Three minutes until detonation.
One minute to detonation.
Thirty seconds to detonation.
Ten seconds to detonation.
Seven, six, five four, three, two, one.
Hey, where are you going? To see if it worked.
Let's go.
Oh, my God.
Orbit 1, this is Mission Control.
Do you copy? Orbit 1, this is Mission Control.
Do you copy? Orbit 1, do you copy? This is Orbit 1.
Copy, Control.
We hear you.
We are away.
Myself and Dr.
Kittner.
All right, folks.
Let's get them home safely.
We're not gonna lose them now.
Dr.
Rhodes.
Dr.
Kittner and cosmonaut Pitinkov, they were not on the Moon.
They're alive.
Yeah.
So? Well, it looks like the magnetic pulse exploded the complex of fault lines.
Is it stable? Yes, it's stable.
Congratulations.
Well done, well done.
- Mr.
Director, congratulations.
- Thank you.
Everyone, thank you.
Good job.
Thank you.
It's over.
It worked.
Congratulations.
There will be countless casualties to be sure and our prayers go with them.
But our world has not been extinguished.
We are here.
We are alive.
Temperatures will drop.
Despite this, millions have gathered in spontaneous celebrations throughout the world christening what many are calling a new beginning.
Hostilities throughout the world have ceased.
A time to heal perhaps a second chance to get it right.
- Well done.
- Thank you, general.
- Dad! - Dad! Let me see you.
I love you, guys.
Let's go home, guys.