Europa Report (2013) Movie Script
Hey, buddy.
Space is great.
Umm...
I miss you guys.
We're a long way away now.
I can't even see, uh...
I can't even
see earth anymore.
And, uh... It's peaceful.
You know?
Don't tell your mom this,
but I think
I actually sleep...
Better up here, away from her snoring.
Over.
Tanks b-7 and b-9 are
showing early signs
of freezing. Over.
What would you do
if you get out there
and you find nothing?
Well, even if
we found nothing,
it's in effect
a discovery.
It would make
me very frustrated.
I know there's
something there.
Check on nav bays 3 and 4.
You might want to update...
Mission control,
repeat please. Over.
- Do you want me to show you how to beat 'em?
- Europa one.
William, I've got some static
in the comm array feed up here.
It looks like a radiation spike.
Have you tried
recycling the system?
Rosa, we've lost your feed.
Europa one, come in.
Europa one.
These were the
last images we received
from the Europe one craft.
At the time,
it had already gone farther
than any human being
had ever traveled before.
For 16 long months
I've been asked
"What happened?"
All... I'm sorry.
We have to tell
his family.
We can't.
The communication fix
was never completed.
The system
is fried!
Last sync with mission
control was 19 hours ago.
We're all alone now.
So what happens?
Do we go on?
I was on a plane,
a transatlantic flight,
when the mission feed
went dark.
When I landed, mission
control was still saying
"maybe it's just
a transmission delay."
But, by the time I made it
into mission control,
we were looking at over
15 hours of dead feed.
After James was lost,
the joy of the mission,
the exhilaration
of it all just...
it just left.
I stopped feeling like
a kid on a family trip.
The mission has
stretched on ahead of us,
somehow longer
than it had been before.
No one at home
knows we're alive.
We're doing
the right thing, right?
Absolutely.
Andrei, have you
looked out at Jupiter yet?
Something
to be excited about.
- Are you okay?
- Mmm.
You haven't said
a word to me in a week.
I woke up
one morning... - okay.
I woke up
at some point and...
Didn't recognize myself.
Objectively,
I know it's the zero g
and the isolation that changes you.
But that doesn't make it
any less strange.
It doesn't stop you
from slowly breaking.
I started living my life
in tune with the mission
that I hoped was still going on.
- That's good.
- Okay.
How's your appetite?
I'm fine.
And you're sleeping
kind of...
I'm not.
It's been a year
since we lost him.
Tell me we can still...
Good morning. I am very...
We are all very excited
to be here today.
It has certainly
been a long road
and all of us up here
started
with the shared dream
of space and possibility.
And this really is
a new first-step for mankind.
From one perspective,
you can say our mission
actually began 400 years ago.
That's when Galileo first saw...
...Jupiter and its moons
through his telescope.
For something
this big, you get one shot.
An unmanned mission simply
wasn't going to cut it for us.
You put men
and women into space
because they have strength
in the face of cosmic odds.
Europa one
is cleared for launch.
T- minus 10,
nine, eight,
seven, six...
- ...five, four...
- We're go for main engine.
...three, two, one.
Ignition.
Liftoff!
On the trek to Europe.
Our engines
at 98% thrust.
Fuel rate is nominal.
Rolling right
in zero-point-six degrees.
Telemetry nominal.
Loft at
225 meters-per-second.
Altitude,
2.3 nautical Miles.
And in three, two, one.
We have good
booster separation.
Vehicle is supersonic.
Command module
jettison in three,
two, one.
We have
a good shell separation.
Initial burn is complete.
Staging in three,
two, one.
Copy. We
have good stage separation.
We have visual
of command module.
Beginning turn
for docking.
Trajectory is good.
Thrust is good.
We hadn't left
near-earth orbit since 1972.
Our company was tasked
with moving forward
where the space programs of the
20th century had left off.
- 10 meters to docking.
- I believe
if you have the scent
of a discovery this big...
- Five meters.
- ...You do not simply wait and see what happens next.
Contact.
You go after it.
Copy. We
are green on hard dock.
Locks b through d
are green.
- Connects are stable.
- We are green on dock.
Mission control,
we are proud to report that
we are officially underway.
Roger that.
We'll be here for you
when you get back.
We've prepped some light
traveling music for you.
Internal cam check is a go.
Must be peaceful up there.
External cam check is a go.
# Come on in!
Hello.
Please don't
vote me off.
There's a camera.
What do ya know?
Reality TV.
Okay, Jamie,
this is your own
personal tour
of Europe one.
Oh look. It's you, Jamie.
Hi, Jamie.
"Hi, dad."
Hey, Dan. You still upset
that you got the bottom bunk?
How'd you know I was thinking about that?
I really was
"I'm so cramped."
Look at my spacious bunk.
- Film me for a second.
- Okay.
Okay, so this is actually
one of two living quarters.
What they do is they rotate
around the core module
so this gives us
simulated gravity.
But watch this.
We also get
to experience
real gravity-free
space excitement.
Whoo!
And the head rush
that goes with it.
- Crew meeting in one hour, guys.
- Okay.
Now the thing
about zero gravity is that
it makes our bones
and muscles really weak.
This is why we spend
as much time as possible
in these living modules.
Yeah, okay. Just pass it up.
I got it.
Okay. And there's
the lovely Katya.
Now these are some
of the science tools
that we're using to test
for life on Europe.
And your dad has to fix them
if any of them break.
When you're done
playing tourist,
you can come over here
and help me.
If you're not afraid
to chip a nail.
Now... whoa...
this is the cockpit.
Mission control...
...Sync.
Copy, Rosa. We have sync.
And Rosa, our
pilot, used to fly jets
before she started
flying us around.
And what's she doing? She's
setting up the camera system
which monitors everything
that happens on the ship.
Smile for Jamie, Rosa.
And now... last thing
I want to show you...
have a look at this.
The view.
Kind of ironic, really.
So little space in here
and so much space out there.
Whoa.
As the ship passed the moon,
it had already gone farther
than any human being
had ever traveled before.
Think about that.
Across all of human history,
that moment was the farthest
anyone had ever gone.
But they still had millions
upon millions of Miles to go.
Our craft was heading
for a moon of Jupiter
known as Europe.
This mission is riding
on the shoulders
of many great men and women.
And so if we have
any legacy at all,
I would hope
that it would be
that we would inspire
those who come after us
to keep exploring,
to keep pushing
the boundaries,
to keep looking
for the answers
to those
really tough questions...
who are we?
Why are we here?
Where do we come from?
And... are we alone?
For a very long time,
Europe has seemed to be
just a solid sphere of ice.
But even just looking
at its surface,
there are clues,
you know?
There might be water
underneath the ice.
And then
in the fall of 2011,
scientists realized...
they released data
showing the presence
of sub-surface lakes...
of liquid!
And... wow!
Wherever we have found water...
we have found life.
But what
came next was, um...
Even more startling.
NASA discovered
heat signatures
under an area known as
the conamara chaos.
Well, they teased
the idea that...
that simple
mono-cellular life
in our solar system might
not just be possible,
it might be probable.
I wanna go to Europe
and go ice fishing.
Cut through the ice,
lower a submersible,
look around,
see what's there.
See what swims up to the
camera lens and licks it.
If life exists on Europe,
it will be
the single most profound
discovery
in human history.
Dasque to mission control.
Over.
We read you, Rosa. Over.
Data sync is live.
How's everyone holding up?
I think it's potato soup.
- Get something to drink.
- Dude, why...
why would you put garlic
into a space dish?
It's very rich.
- It's delicious.
- I have to say, though...
Okay, look look...
I've got another mile to go.
Not bad, eh?
What about after your run?
When are you gonna
actually call someone?
None of your business.
Hey. It's time.
I should have learned
mandarin before we left.
- He's probably talking about me.
- Gun it.
One, two, one, two, one, two, one...
- How did you feel?
- I said yes
before the question
even sunk in.
They had to ask me four times
before I could even respond.
No trouble
on the ping requests.
We see a sticking valve
in v-tech.
Andrei is already working on a fix.
If it leaks anymore,
we'll isolate the manifold.
Oh, and we have a series
of fuse events
in Rosa's station.
Can you have the team on
duty investigate? Over.
Copy that.
But you might have it fixed
before we finish
the review.
You're making us feel
two steps behind.
Over.
You'll make him blush. Over.
Mission control, can you hear me?
Andrei is in the shower
right now,
so I want to take
this opportunity
to tell you that your shower
system is totally inadequate.
And I don't buy
your theories about
the body adjusting
to the new hygiene regime.
You know what
I can't adjust to?
The drinking of
the distilled urine.
Oh! James!
I'm just saying...
you're worried
about my smell
and you're
drinking my urine?
You know what I think
they're really pissed off about?
You guys only gave them
four outfits.
So sometimes they wake up
in the morning,
they find out they're wearing
the same thing the entire day.
They get
totally pissed off.
And the shoes...
You gave
them two pairs of shoes
for women.
I'm just saying.
Rosa, dinner!
Where is she?
- Coming.
- Who's the lasagna?
- Yeah.
- That's you?
- Oh God.
- Who's the pod macaroni and cheese. Ish?
- I guess I'll take that.
- To six months!
- Okay, eyes. Eyes.
- Wait, you're not looking into my eyes.
Oh, sorry.
- Can I see?
- Did you see any polar bears?
No, really.
We pooled our astronauts
from the very best space
programs across the globe.
Our captain is William xu.
I think this mission
will show people that
we're still capable
of achieving impossible things.
Dr. Daniel Luxembourg.
My entire adult life
has been dedicated
to exploring
extreme environments.
I became an astronaut
specifically
to have the opportunity
to do something like this.
Dr. Katya Petrovna.
Life on earth began in the
ocean, so in some ways
this mission will be like
taking a trip back in time.
My background is in marine
biology and oceanography.
To be honest, sometimes
I'm terrified of flying.
Andrei blok.
I think I have
349 days in outer space,
so I'm what
you call a veteran.
The only thing
I can't face is...
The food.
James Corrigan.
I remember watching
footage at school
of Neil Armstrong
on the moon,
and just... just knowing
"I want to do this."
- Rosa dasque.
- Call me immature, reckless, arrogant.
I just want to go faster and
farther than anyone has before.
We had to design a spacecraft
unlike by any before it.
Of course, once the decision was
made to put people on board,
the requirements ballooned.
Human beings need
food, shelter.
They need an environment
that is survivable
and has some level
of comfort.
It's cracking the ice.
We're a month away, Andrei.
We're still concerned
about your recovery.
So how should I be
recovering, exactly?
Excuse me.
So what do you think?
I still wouldn't advise leaving him
in the orbiter alone for three weeks.
I'd rather not leave
our only engineer behind.
So we take him down
with us then.
Yeah.
Jupiter.
Being so close to our
destination lifted our spirits.
It felt that everything
made sense again.
The thickness
in the air cleared.
But what cleared it
was sheer adrenaline.
Prep for orbital transfer.
We're gonna feel
some gs here.
Pitch maneuver.
We are clear
of Jupiter's orbit.
Beginning
orbital transfer.
Pitching for power descent.
Daniel, can you keep
Andrei abreast
of any of those changes
in the readouts, please?
- Roger that.
- Orbit trajectory, clear.
Current speed
60 kilometers per second.
- Ready?
- Yes.
Surface
conditions in the I.Z.?
I've got heat plume and
radiation analysis incoming,
but the data is variable.
Heat is fluctuating.
Not far now.
All systems online.
Showing green light.
Landing gear armed
and ready to deploy.
Ladies and
gentlemen, hold on.
Here we go.
Trajectory and speed?
Heading 270.3.
Coming in low
across thera macula
at 458.4 meters
per second.
Target site lining up.
Landing gear deployed.
20 seconds to...
It's like a thermal vent.
Sort of an eruptive feature.
- Can you stabilize us?
- I'm trying!
Andrei, I need an option
for emergency landing.
Vent's coming from the
area around our target site.
There's a low gradation of ice just
past the I.Z., along thrace macula.
Okay. Land us long.
Get us past the vent area.
- 100 meters to contact
10 seconds of fuel.
Back off the burners
on approach
or we'll melt
our landing site.
Roger that. 10 meters.
- Five meters.
- Contact lights.
Shut down.
I think
we've got it.
Everything
okay up here?
Sorry.
I can't pull
my eyes away from it.
It takes your breath away.
That night I went out
and found Jupiter
in the night sky and...
I spent a long time
looking at it, just...
Hoping.
Surface temp in current position
is holding
at absolute zero.
Prelim service data has us on a
bed of what looks like ice 11.
We should be there,
but we're here.
We flew
590 million kilometers
and then landed
100 meters off the mark.
It seems insignificant,
but it will be difficult
to get useful surface analysis.
Ironically, what threw the ship
off course from the original target zone
was a reconfirmation
of what we had hoped for.
If such heat-plume eruptions were
escaping through the cracks in the ice,
it suggested strong underwater thermal
activity and the potential for life.
If they had landed
on the target area
which was ripe
for surface analysis,
the mission would have begun
with extensive surface tests
using the ship's
robotic arm
followed by a few hours
of drilling through the ice
to deploy
a remote underwater probe.
So how will that affect procedure?
What it means is we won't get
the data we want very easily.
That's why I want to move
back Daniel's surface test
and start the drill
immediately.
Our best hopes of success
lies under the ice.
Daniel,
what do you think?
- I wanna argue...
- I'm sure you would.
...But with our
current position in the ice,
we won't get key data.
Let's go for a swim.
Drill head is locked and prepped.
Beginning extension.
Thermal is live.
Entering ice layer now.
- Do you hear that?
- Uh-huh.
- Are you getting it?
- Yeah.
I think that's
just the ice shifting.
We can expect more of
that as the temperature drops.
That was stronger
than our data projected it.
- Are we stable?
- Re-working the analysis now.
Katya, let's try the
frequency of these quakes.
Increased
tidal activity means
there could be more heat than
we thought beneath the surface.
- You're recording this?
- Yeah.
Okay, let's run
some diagnostics here,
because it seems to be
escalating a little bit.
Might be some subsurface aftershocks...
You saw it.
You got to check
out this activity.
- It's incredible.
- Everything's fine here.
What about the E.C.S.?
- How about the hull and landing gear?
- You see this?
- Check out the activity. Incredible.
- Yeah, no deflection.
- E.C.S.?
- E.C.S. Okay.
No problems here.
Guys, I saw something.
What do you mean?
Uh, umm...
I saw something
outside the ship.
From up there,
through the porthole.
Maybe 100 meters out.
I tried to get a video,
but I missed it.
It was a light
down the linea.
I was working one of the
servers when the ice shook.
And... it was there.
- A light source outside the ship?
- I know that I saw it.
- It was flickering.
- How strong was the light?
Well...
It was like an I.E.D.,
but dull from refraction.
But the...
oh, it happened so fast.
It was there
and then it was gone.
You mean it moved?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, it moved.
I can check
the heat signatures.
Do you see anything?
I've checked this
footage three times.
- There's nothing to see.
- Yeah,
but that doesn't mean
there was nothing there.
If it was too dim, these cameras
wouldn't have caught it.
That's true. A weak
chemiluminescence maybe?
Triggered by shifts
in the ice?
A chemical iridescence
doesn't fit this description.
Maybe. When we prepare
the surface test, we'll know.
I find the idea of bacteria clinging to
the underside of the ice more likely.
Something that has a luminescent
response to radioactivity.
Yeah, but do you think
it actually moved?
Scientifically I doubt it.
Wait, did you notice that?
What?
Radiation interference.
It's on all the cameras.
I think there's another version
of this that we have to consider.
It's entirely possible Andrei
didn't see anything at all.
It's very dark out there and his
mind could be filling in the blanks.
But it could also be
our first indication
of exactly what
we came out here to find.
- Is Andrei sleeping yet?
- No.
In those days
there was a raw...
a raw mix of emotions.
We'd come so far,
weathered so much.
I think we were
all in a place
where excitement
blended with awe...
And fear.
Okay, so Daniel is my witness.
You find a single microbe
up there and I win.
If you find a still-living
microbe, you win.
What? Evidence of extinction
doesn't win me the bet?
You always find a technicality like that
- for winning.
- No no no. It's not a technicality.
It means that at some point
in time we were not alone.
It is a technicality.
- Daniel.
- What?
What are you doing, buddy?
What's happening?
- You lost something?
- I lost my toothbrush.
- What?
- He's unpacking his entire bunk.
- We have to return to earth.
- We better call housekeeping.
You should get some rest.
Not until I know
what I saw out there.
We're working on it.
We'll figure it out.
What if I can't believe
or trust my own eyes?
You need to sleep.
We need you
to sleep.
There's pills,
sedatives.
No pills.
I need to stay alert.
I need to stay focused.
How are you holding up?
Good.
We've broken through.
Water.
Probe microphone live.
Wow. This is a completely
untouched environment.
Just waiting.
Hmm.
We're so far
from home, but...
It's like looking
at lake vostok right now.
Radiation levels
down here are minimal.
And there's definitely a heat source
somewhere in our target zone.
122 meters
to heat-plume area.
There's 100 kilometers
of water down there.
It puts the trench zones
back on earth to shame.
I think we're seeing
some tectonic plates here.
The sulfur concentration
is showing
that the thermal vents
are closer than expected.
Creepy.
That's your scientific
assessment, is it?
- Yep.
- "Creepy"?
Is that the weathering of the ice?
Maybe.
Could be a bacteria.
Grabbing samples
and... moving on.
20 meters
to target zone.
Look at how the sunlight
penetrates the ice here.
It must be much thinner
than we thought.
You hear that?
It could be coming
from reverberations,
deeper caverns
caught in currents.
It's almost
like a male whale sound.
Hey, a little presumptuous,
don't you think?
- Maybe.
- Oh yeah.
I've got some irregularities
in our data here.
I'm getting
a radiation spike.
Rosa, are you
picking up on this?
There's something
in the video feed too.
It's similar to what we saw
after the last ice shift.
That doesn't
make any sense.
The ice should be shielding
the probe from radiation.
It's not coming from above.
It's coming from deeper
into the target zone.
Yeah.
Let's adjust course
and depth to investigate.
Bringing us down.
What was that?
What's our
temperature down here?
Get ready to expand
the probe arm
to get samples.
What was that? Oh shit.
Cycle power.
All right, let's run some tests.
There was an abnormal shift
in the velocity
of the current.
- It's not reacting.
- Is it a remote issue?
- I've lost control of it.
- Shit.
Can you play
back the video?
Did something hit the probe?
- What data do we have?
- It'll take time to process,
but I'll tell you right now, not much.
It seemed like it was
right under the probe.
What was the
last bits of data it saved?
The heat surged 50,
but that couldn't have
caused a critical...
Shit!
A surface walk
was always heavily debated
at all stages
of our mission planning.
And our main concern then
was the radiation from Jupiter.
I will walk
to the target zone
and I'll get the body
of samples we need.
Katya, the radiation alone...
the radiation
is fluctuating.
It was 200 ram
last time I checked.
I'm willing
to take that risk.
- What about everything else that could go wrong?
- It's 100 meters!
Having lost the probe,
the only way to get the data
was to explore
the chaos zones
where the ice had cracked
and re-cracked.
And this process would
expose any microorganisms
that have been
trapped inside the ice.
Somebody's gotta go out there!
- It's too risky.
- Enough! Enough!
I feel like it's a
critical phase and I'm not there.
I just...
I just didn't realize
it would be this hard.
Over.
Sounds like a car.
You know take him
to the game, if you want.
Umm...
I miss you guys.
Love you.
Over.
You okay?
Yeah, I am good.
I'm good.
Not so easy,
is it?
No.
No, it's not.
You know, my boy's gonna be
six when I see him again.
He's gonna
be proud of you.
What would you do
if you get out there
and you find nothing?
Well, even if
we found nothing,
it's in effect
a discovery.
It would make
me very frustrated.
I know there's
something there.
Check on nav bays 3 and 4.
Mission control,
repeat please. Over.
William, I've got some static
in the comm array feed up here.
It looks like
a radiation spike.
Have you tried
recycling the system?
Rosa, we've lost your feed.
Come in, Europe one.
Europa one, come in.
Come in, Europe one.
Europa one, come in.
Europa one.
Europa
one, Europe one, do you...
Now try as you might
to prepare for everything,
there will always be
that unknown element.
In this case
a solar storm hit,
damaging key systems, including
communication with mission control.
Okay. Oxygen is flowing.
We're good.
This never gets old.
Okay, commencing egress.
William, I'm
gonna tether the emus
once we're...
On the hull.
Roger that.
Andrei and James had to do
an E.V.A.
To repair the system...
a bit like performing ballet
and rocket science
at 125,000 Miles an hour.
This reminds me of the
iss thrust fix all over again.
5 hours, 13
minutes remaining on eva.
You know what time
it is back on earth?
Battery block
d is non-functional.
2 hours 55 minutes.
All right, I've got green
lights on the fan arrays.
How are we doing
on the comm power supply?
So I said to
the guy, "you know,
I can't just come along
and stay as long as you want.
You have to tell me
how long it's gonna take."
Okay, guys, 50 minutes
remaining on eva.
I can't keep you
out there much longer.
Panels one
through six are clear.
Moving onto seven.
We just need a
little more time, William.
I think it's a blown fuse
in the communication panel.
You've got 37 minutes.
If you don't find it,
we'll need to begin regress.
Okay we're at the
communication panel.
Opening up the door.
What do you got, Andrei?
James, get a look at this.
Whoo.
The receptors are shot.
Yeah, William, the
whole board is fried.
I gotta take
the pins out.
Okay.
Taking out
the first pin.
Come on.
And first pin is clear.
Going for number two.
Proceed.
Come on.
Shit.
It's not coming.
Okay. William,
we've got a frozen pin.
Okay, guys, leave
that last panel for now.
What do you think?
We can't tell how bad
it is till we get in there.
You sure, man? You don't want
to put heat on there first?
- It just feels...
- The damage could spread.
- Okay.
- What the hell is going on out there?
Okay. I'm set.
Come on.
Ah! Shit!
It snapped.
The panel snapped.
I ripped my glove.
I ripped...
It's okay. Andrei's okay.
- We're tethered.
- It's a tear of one inch.
- I've cut my skin.
- I got him hooked to me.
Andrei, do not attempt
to climb back in on your own.
- James?
- I see him, I see him.
I got him.
I'm going for him. Hang on.
- It's a small rip.
- Take it easy.
- Just relax big guy.
- Keep calm, Andrei.
- I'm bleeding.
- Save your oxygen.
He's losing air,
but he's got his hand on it.
I got you.
- I got you.
- Oxygen pressure is dropping steadily.
You don't have much time.
James, listen to me.
His oxygen level
is red-lighting.
Get him back
inside the ship.
Okay.
We're at the lock.
I'm coming in.
Stop, don't go in.
- Why?
- There's something on your suit.
It's hydrazine.
Uh, guys,
we've got a problem.
I've got hydrazine
on my suit.
It must have hit me
when we popped the panel.
He's covered in it.
It's in the seams.
It's... it's everywhere.
- What can we do to decontaminate?
- We can't.
If we bring him in, the air on
the ship will become toxic.
Come on.
Shit.
We should get him in the
lock, get a v-cam reading.
We can't. There'd be too much
risk of lingering contamination.
We gotta figure out
a way to get the suit clean.
It's not coming out.
I'm totally screwed.
Andrei, get in the lock.
We need to depressurize
your suit now.
Then we'll figure out
how to get James in.
Seriously?!
Come on, man, I got...
I've got 20 minutes
of oxygen.
Is there no way
to get it clean?
- Andrei.
- I'm not going in.
I'll get you
out of the suit...
- What?
- ...Into the airlock.
You'll be out of the suit
less than two minutes.
- It's survivable.
- Is that even possible?
I'll get you out of this.
I'll fix it.
No. Andrei,
you're gonna black out.
- No, I'm not.
- This isn't gonna work.
- We're going to lose them both.
- James, he's fading.
You have to get him
in the lock.
Okay. Shit.
Rosa, close the airlock now!
James is no longer
attached to the hull.
- I said close the lock!
- Rosa, close the lock!
Airlock is closed.
Oxygen is flowing.
Repressurization in 10 minutes.
This is insane.
You gotta go get him.
We can't. By the time
we get there, he'd...
James?
Yeah yeah yeah,
I'm here. Umm...
Oh, Christ, I can't...
I'm gone.
Oh shit.
Is Andrei okay?
Yeah. He's okay.
I'm sorry, James.
Don't be sorry.
It was an accident,
you know?
Um...
I... I don't have much time,
so tell Andrei...
Tell Andrei he's a...
He's a crazy
son of a bitch, you know?
And I love him for trying
to save my life and...
If that had been Jamie, I...
I love you so much.
Forgive me.
I thought I was trying to do
something great for mankind.
I always said it was
worth the risk but...
Forgive me for...
for hurting you.
A part of me wishes I could just
float out here forever, you know?
I can't s...
i can't see anything.
I can't see any...
It's stupid
to argue like this.
Katya, no way you can go out
there without us behind you.
And, William,
with all due respect,
I think we should all decide
together how to do this.
I know what
you think, William.
What about you, Daniel?
It's ill-advised.
A surface walk was
always a question mark.
Well, we can do it.
I'll walk the equipment out
and you can run
the analysis from here.
We can get
what we came for.
And if she goes out there
and we never see her again?
Think hard about that.
I think she should do it.
I'm sorry, William.
Thank you.
- Andrei?
- It's too dangerous.
I vote no.
Absolutely.
So that's a tie then.
Rosa?
Katya made our complete
cosmic insignificance
seem like a call to arms.
What can I say?
She was right.
She's still right.
Two hours of E.V.A.
210 meters out.
Search the top layer of ice
while Daniel runs
analysis back here.
Copy that.
Be careful.
Compared to the breadth
of knowledge yet to be known,
what does your life actually matter?
30 minutes
for depressurization.
Batteries live.
Switching to battery power.
Pressure's at 30 kpa.
How's your prep?
30 seconds to egress.
Good luck.
I'm ready.
I can't believe I'm here.
We're here.
This is incredible.
Radiation is
holding steady.
We're at 50 millisieverts
per hour...
- within acceptable limits.
- I'll check
if I can see her
from upstairs.
It's so still out here.
It's so...
I don't know what the word is.
Creepy?
I was going to go
with "cosmically outstanding."
I wish I could take one of these
gloves off and touch the ice.
- Really feel it.
- Please don't.
I have visual
of her from here.
I'm heading towards
the target zone now.
We've got your back.
Life support systems
look good.
Okay, Katya,
you are crossing
into the target zone.
You see that?
Where the ice
is less deteriorated?
Just set up
in the middle of that.
- Here?
- Exactly.
She must have been
out there for an hour.
But it... it felt
like an eternity.
Each minute seemed to
divide and divide again
into endless moments.
First sample
ready for scan.
Sending data
back to you now.
Are you reading?
Running
analysis, stand by.
We're negative for trace
carbon and chemotropic processes.
Can you try ice
with more trace rust?
You could feel...
Every minute is
somehow longer
than it had
ever been before.
- Let's give it another shot.
- Why don't you take
the equipment down
the linea to zone three?
Radiation is
trending upwards, Katya.
You've been out there
70 minutes.
We're so close.
How much time can
you give me, William?
You've only got time
for a few more sample sets.
All right, Katya,
it's time to come back.
Okay.
I'm digging out
a sub-surface sample
that isn't
radiation blasted.
Are you guys
seeing this?
Here.
I'm getting imaging... now.
It's a unicellular organism,
something akin
to an algae.
I knew it.
- What is it?
- I don't know for sure, but...
I mean, it's not like
it has a name.
It looks like something
precambrian to me.
That's my first guess
on an earth-based analogue.
I don't believe it.
We did it.
Okay, Katya, let's
get you back into the ship
- and sort out this data.
- Packing up.
I hope
the champagne's ready.
Look at that.
Do you guys read
that light in the distance?
We're not reading anything.
It looks like some kind
of chemical iridescence.
I'm going to get closer
to investigate.
Reserve oxygen will
give her another 90 minutes.
Okay, Katya.
Proceed with caution.
I can't see her.
She's moving farther out.
It's beautiful.
Andrei.
This looks like
it could be the light
you were describing.
I can see it again.
Can you check
on my readouts?
It's... it's... it's...
it's hard to say.
I mean maybe there's
other microbial organisms
out there that eat
through the ice.
This is a much more
complex ecosystem
than we'd previously
thought.
I wanna see if it's
reacting to my lights.
I'm going
to turn them off.
I'm going
to get closer.
Hold that action, Katya.
Katya, do you read me?
We have severe
electromagnetic interference.
Did you see that?
She has to come back.
...have visual.
I'm going to try
to get it back.
I'm seeing it
through the ice.
I think it's some sort
of bioluminescence.
We've got the data, Katya.
Heat radiation levels
are moving with it.
I can't wrap
my head around this.
Okay, the ice is thin here,
but it seems stable.
If I get close,
- I should be able to get a better look.
- Keep your line open.
I want to know what's
happening out there.
The ground is not stable!
The ice is breaking.
Katya, can you hear me?
Come back to the ship now!
It's cracking the ice!
My foot is...
- Katya, do you read me? Come in!
- Get her back in!
- Get her back in!
- Katya, come in. Do you read me?
- She's not listening.
- Rosa, do you see her out there?
Nothing. Just the ice.
- She's under the ice.
- What?
Under the water.
We've still got
her helmet cam.
Whatever it was,
it was reacting
to the light on her helmet.
That's the behavior
of a complex organism.
The logs, the data...
they don't show
any proof of complex life.
We can't leave
until we have that.
We don't know how
long we'll be stable here.
And we've
lost two of our crew.
If we never leave,
no one on earth will ever
know what we discovered.
I agree.
We need
to leave now.
When the next launch
window opens, we take off.
Mmm.
I want all the data
secured and double-checked...
Especially everything Katya found.
T- minus 32 seconds to liftoff.
Prepping
for ascent ignition.
Orbital sync
is established.
Docking operation
in t-minus eight minutes.
- Give me a systems check.
- Engine temperature's rising.
Andrei?
Booster 3
is stuck at 30%.
We've got to launch now.
Launch in three, two, one.
What the hell?
I can't keep it steady.
Our trajectory is
way off course.
Injectors are melting!
We've got engine
mixture ratio errors
in engines two and three.
- We're nowhere near orbital transfer!
- Hey!
I can try to correct
course at apogee.
- The vernier thrusters might do it!
- We need to shut
- the valves down!
- Get us back down on the surface.
- What?
- Don't engage the second burn.
You mean crash us?
What's
happening up there?
Valves dow...
2,000 meters.
I can't
keep it steady.
- ...still dropping!
- ...Coming in too fast!
What are you doing?
William!
- William!
- I'm going to slow us down.
I'm going to blow the water shielding.
It'll create... thrust!
- Brace for impact!
- 200 meters!
Andrei? Andrei?
- Huh?
- Wake up, wake up!
William?
Okay.
He's dead.
He saved us.
Europa wasn't
ready to let us go yet.
It quickly
became apparent that
we crashed into
the original landing zone.
Ironic, I suppose.
This zone was much warmer,
much more active than any
previous data had suggested.
Underwater vents had
rendered the ice brittle
and unstable
and constantly shifting
and then you add onto that
William had jettisoned
the water shielding
on descent
and that had saved them,
but it also left them
dangerously exposed
to radiation.
We're leaking oxygen.
And we're also
losing heat...
three degrees since
I started checking.
If I would bet, we'd freeze
before we suffocate.
The exterior light
should be working.
Daniel,
can you check?
- Daniel?
- I am.
It's not good.
The ice is cracking
under the ship.
You can almost see
the ice/water interface.
We're gonna be under the ice
in a matter of hours.
Our last shot is
docking with the orbiter...
And using its back-up
life support systems.
If the propulsion system
is still alive...
I can get us
into orbit.
Come help me.
It's pointless.
Is this what you're looking for?
Yeah.
Thank you.
Shit!
- Are you all right?
- The ice broke through.
This is it.
It's happening.
It's the end.
We'll find a way.
We have to.
The fuel line
is partially frozen.
That caused
the loss of thrust.
We're lodged in the ice.
Can we even
take off properly?
If we time it right, maybe.
Two hours is the fastest
we can fix it,
but that is if...
Two of us
is working on it.
- You mean the three of us?
- No.
You have to stay inside,
prep engines.
The fix must happen
outside the ship.
That was that.
Are you ready?
Are you?
Daniel and Andrei
entered the airlock
for final
de-pressurization.
Here.
Two hours.
Then I'll see you both
back here. Yeah?
And that...
...brings us to now.
If we don't make it...
This record...
One day...
Just in case.
Just in case.
Depressurization complete.
Pressure is 25 kilopascals.
I'll go first,
make sure
the ice is stable.
Beginning egress.
Roger that.
System signals are strong.
Hatch is open.
Oh shit.
The ladder is
a bit skewed,
but I think
I can make it.
The ice beneath
the ship is cracked,
but it looks sturdy.
Taking my first step now.
Be careful.
We're picking up
the same radiation signature.
Okay.
Taking my first step now.
I am on the ice.
Oh God.
I can feel it...
Daniel? Daniel?!
- Do you read me?
- Daniel?!
Daniel? Andrei?
Talk to me!
Rosa, shut off the exterior lights.
- Turn off the exterior lights!
- Okay.
I'm getting nothing.
His Mike is dead.
His camera is dead.
He just vanished.
Do you read me?
What the hell is
going on out there?
I don't know.
What?
I lost him. I lost him.
The ice cracked
beneath him.
Daniel? Daniel?
He was surrounded
by lights,
then he was gone.
Tell me...
Tell me we can still patch
the fuel line.
Andrei?
Say something.
- Andrei?
- We can't.
There's one thing
still worth trying.
The communication array
is still salvageable.
I can fix it
if I take parts
from the life support.
I don't know.
Can you still prep
data sync?
Rosa, we can do this.
How will I know when?
When I remove
life support batteries
you'll lose power
in the command module.
Then data sync...
Keep talking to me.
Keep the line open.
It's dark.
It's not gonna be easy.
Andrei?
I've lost
your camera again.
- Can you hear me?
- Uh-huh.
- Okay.
- It's not far.
Camera's back up.
10 paces...
Andrei?
Come on, come on.
Andrei, I can see
the light behind you.
Hurry, please.
I can see water
under the ship.
Come on, hold on.
Another malfunction.
I need to check
the drives.
Work, please.
- It's just one more tweak and I'm done.
- Andrei?
Do you read me?
Do you read me?!
There's a cabinet
in the cockpit...
...That I've been working with.
Join the wires...
And the systems
will start.
Command module is
just about dead.
We're losing
cameras here.
I'm moving to the...
Andrei?
I'm connecting
the wires.
Almost there.
Almost there.
Rosa, it's working!
It's working!
- Oh God.
- We're running out of time!
Communications are up.
You did it!
You need to see this!
Are you getting this?!
The luminescence is
all around the ship now!
The exterior cameras
are dying.
Can you hear me?
Andrei?
The ship is sinking
into the ice!
Oh!
Andrei?
Do... do you read?
Andrei?
Andrei, do you read?
Talk to me.
Talk to me.
Andrei, talk to me!
Compared to the breadth
of knowledge yet to be known...
...what does your life
actually matter?
In those final moments,
knowing communication
had been re-established,
Rosa chose
to open the airlock.
I got the call
at 3:00 A.M.
Telling me that communication
had been re-established.
By the time I got
into our mission control
our servers were flooded
with images of our crew.
Our mission had
finally come back to us.
We saw the sacrifices
they made for each other
to keep the mission alive,
to push
the discovery further.
And that final image...
startling.
Terrifying.
Completely beyond
our wildest
theoretic models.
The discovery
of this creature
is simply extraordinary.
We now know
that our universe
is far stranger,
far more alive
than we had ever imagined.
The crew of Europe one
changed
the fundamental context
in which all of humanity
understands itself.
I don't know what greater
measure of success
they could have achieved.
- Is this smiling? Smiling?
- Wet your lip.
- Yeah.
- Uh-huh.
Space is great.
Umm...
I miss you guys.
We're a long way away now.
I can't even see, uh...
I can't even
see earth anymore.
And, uh... It's peaceful.
You know?
Don't tell your mom this,
but I think
I actually sleep...
Better up here, away from her snoring.
Over.
Tanks b-7 and b-9 are
showing early signs
of freezing. Over.
What would you do
if you get out there
and you find nothing?
Well, even if
we found nothing,
it's in effect
a discovery.
It would make
me very frustrated.
I know there's
something there.
Check on nav bays 3 and 4.
You might want to update...
Mission control,
repeat please. Over.
- Do you want me to show you how to beat 'em?
- Europa one.
William, I've got some static
in the comm array feed up here.
It looks like a radiation spike.
Have you tried
recycling the system?
Rosa, we've lost your feed.
Europa one, come in.
Europa one.
These were the
last images we received
from the Europe one craft.
At the time,
it had already gone farther
than any human being
had ever traveled before.
For 16 long months
I've been asked
"What happened?"
All... I'm sorry.
We have to tell
his family.
We can't.
The communication fix
was never completed.
The system
is fried!
Last sync with mission
control was 19 hours ago.
We're all alone now.
So what happens?
Do we go on?
I was on a plane,
a transatlantic flight,
when the mission feed
went dark.
When I landed, mission
control was still saying
"maybe it's just
a transmission delay."
But, by the time I made it
into mission control,
we were looking at over
15 hours of dead feed.
After James was lost,
the joy of the mission,
the exhilaration
of it all just...
it just left.
I stopped feeling like
a kid on a family trip.
The mission has
stretched on ahead of us,
somehow longer
than it had been before.
No one at home
knows we're alive.
We're doing
the right thing, right?
Absolutely.
Andrei, have you
looked out at Jupiter yet?
Something
to be excited about.
- Are you okay?
- Mmm.
You haven't said
a word to me in a week.
I woke up
one morning... - okay.
I woke up
at some point and...
Didn't recognize myself.
Objectively,
I know it's the zero g
and the isolation that changes you.
But that doesn't make it
any less strange.
It doesn't stop you
from slowly breaking.
I started living my life
in tune with the mission
that I hoped was still going on.
- That's good.
- Okay.
How's your appetite?
I'm fine.
And you're sleeping
kind of...
I'm not.
It's been a year
since we lost him.
Tell me we can still...
Good morning. I am very...
We are all very excited
to be here today.
It has certainly
been a long road
and all of us up here
started
with the shared dream
of space and possibility.
And this really is
a new first-step for mankind.
From one perspective,
you can say our mission
actually began 400 years ago.
That's when Galileo first saw...
...Jupiter and its moons
through his telescope.
For something
this big, you get one shot.
An unmanned mission simply
wasn't going to cut it for us.
You put men
and women into space
because they have strength
in the face of cosmic odds.
Europa one
is cleared for launch.
T- minus 10,
nine, eight,
seven, six...
- ...five, four...
- We're go for main engine.
...three, two, one.
Ignition.
Liftoff!
On the trek to Europe.
Our engines
at 98% thrust.
Fuel rate is nominal.
Rolling right
in zero-point-six degrees.
Telemetry nominal.
Loft at
225 meters-per-second.
Altitude,
2.3 nautical Miles.
And in three, two, one.
We have good
booster separation.
Vehicle is supersonic.
Command module
jettison in three,
two, one.
We have
a good shell separation.
Initial burn is complete.
Staging in three,
two, one.
Copy. We
have good stage separation.
We have visual
of command module.
Beginning turn
for docking.
Trajectory is good.
Thrust is good.
We hadn't left
near-earth orbit since 1972.
Our company was tasked
with moving forward
where the space programs of the
20th century had left off.
- 10 meters to docking.
- I believe
if you have the scent
of a discovery this big...
- Five meters.
- ...You do not simply wait and see what happens next.
Contact.
You go after it.
Copy. We
are green on hard dock.
Locks b through d
are green.
- Connects are stable.
- We are green on dock.
Mission control,
we are proud to report that
we are officially underway.
Roger that.
We'll be here for you
when you get back.
We've prepped some light
traveling music for you.
Internal cam check is a go.
Must be peaceful up there.
External cam check is a go.
# Come on in!
Hello.
Please don't
vote me off.
There's a camera.
What do ya know?
Reality TV.
Okay, Jamie,
this is your own
personal tour
of Europe one.
Oh look. It's you, Jamie.
Hi, Jamie.
"Hi, dad."
Hey, Dan. You still upset
that you got the bottom bunk?
How'd you know I was thinking about that?
I really was
"I'm so cramped."
Look at my spacious bunk.
- Film me for a second.
- Okay.
Okay, so this is actually
one of two living quarters.
What they do is they rotate
around the core module
so this gives us
simulated gravity.
But watch this.
We also get
to experience
real gravity-free
space excitement.
Whoo!
And the head rush
that goes with it.
- Crew meeting in one hour, guys.
- Okay.
Now the thing
about zero gravity is that
it makes our bones
and muscles really weak.
This is why we spend
as much time as possible
in these living modules.
Yeah, okay. Just pass it up.
I got it.
Okay. And there's
the lovely Katya.
Now these are some
of the science tools
that we're using to test
for life on Europe.
And your dad has to fix them
if any of them break.
When you're done
playing tourist,
you can come over here
and help me.
If you're not afraid
to chip a nail.
Now... whoa...
this is the cockpit.
Mission control...
...Sync.
Copy, Rosa. We have sync.
And Rosa, our
pilot, used to fly jets
before she started
flying us around.
And what's she doing? She's
setting up the camera system
which monitors everything
that happens on the ship.
Smile for Jamie, Rosa.
And now... last thing
I want to show you...
have a look at this.
The view.
Kind of ironic, really.
So little space in here
and so much space out there.
Whoa.
As the ship passed the moon,
it had already gone farther
than any human being
had ever traveled before.
Think about that.
Across all of human history,
that moment was the farthest
anyone had ever gone.
But they still had millions
upon millions of Miles to go.
Our craft was heading
for a moon of Jupiter
known as Europe.
This mission is riding
on the shoulders
of many great men and women.
And so if we have
any legacy at all,
I would hope
that it would be
that we would inspire
those who come after us
to keep exploring,
to keep pushing
the boundaries,
to keep looking
for the answers
to those
really tough questions...
who are we?
Why are we here?
Where do we come from?
And... are we alone?
For a very long time,
Europe has seemed to be
just a solid sphere of ice.
But even just looking
at its surface,
there are clues,
you know?
There might be water
underneath the ice.
And then
in the fall of 2011,
scientists realized...
they released data
showing the presence
of sub-surface lakes...
of liquid!
And... wow!
Wherever we have found water...
we have found life.
But what
came next was, um...
Even more startling.
NASA discovered
heat signatures
under an area known as
the conamara chaos.
Well, they teased
the idea that...
that simple
mono-cellular life
in our solar system might
not just be possible,
it might be probable.
I wanna go to Europe
and go ice fishing.
Cut through the ice,
lower a submersible,
look around,
see what's there.
See what swims up to the
camera lens and licks it.
If life exists on Europe,
it will be
the single most profound
discovery
in human history.
Dasque to mission control.
Over.
We read you, Rosa. Over.
Data sync is live.
How's everyone holding up?
I think it's potato soup.
- Get something to drink.
- Dude, why...
why would you put garlic
into a space dish?
It's very rich.
- It's delicious.
- I have to say, though...
Okay, look look...
I've got another mile to go.
Not bad, eh?
What about after your run?
When are you gonna
actually call someone?
None of your business.
Hey. It's time.
I should have learned
mandarin before we left.
- He's probably talking about me.
- Gun it.
One, two, one, two, one, two, one...
- How did you feel?
- I said yes
before the question
even sunk in.
They had to ask me four times
before I could even respond.
No trouble
on the ping requests.
We see a sticking valve
in v-tech.
Andrei is already working on a fix.
If it leaks anymore,
we'll isolate the manifold.
Oh, and we have a series
of fuse events
in Rosa's station.
Can you have the team on
duty investigate? Over.
Copy that.
But you might have it fixed
before we finish
the review.
You're making us feel
two steps behind.
Over.
You'll make him blush. Over.
Mission control, can you hear me?
Andrei is in the shower
right now,
so I want to take
this opportunity
to tell you that your shower
system is totally inadequate.
And I don't buy
your theories about
the body adjusting
to the new hygiene regime.
You know what
I can't adjust to?
The drinking of
the distilled urine.
Oh! James!
I'm just saying...
you're worried
about my smell
and you're
drinking my urine?
You know what I think
they're really pissed off about?
You guys only gave them
four outfits.
So sometimes they wake up
in the morning,
they find out they're wearing
the same thing the entire day.
They get
totally pissed off.
And the shoes...
You gave
them two pairs of shoes
for women.
I'm just saying.
Rosa, dinner!
Where is she?
- Coming.
- Who's the lasagna?
- Yeah.
- That's you?
- Oh God.
- Who's the pod macaroni and cheese. Ish?
- I guess I'll take that.
- To six months!
- Okay, eyes. Eyes.
- Wait, you're not looking into my eyes.
Oh, sorry.
- Can I see?
- Did you see any polar bears?
No, really.
We pooled our astronauts
from the very best space
programs across the globe.
Our captain is William xu.
I think this mission
will show people that
we're still capable
of achieving impossible things.
Dr. Daniel Luxembourg.
My entire adult life
has been dedicated
to exploring
extreme environments.
I became an astronaut
specifically
to have the opportunity
to do something like this.
Dr. Katya Petrovna.
Life on earth began in the
ocean, so in some ways
this mission will be like
taking a trip back in time.
My background is in marine
biology and oceanography.
To be honest, sometimes
I'm terrified of flying.
Andrei blok.
I think I have
349 days in outer space,
so I'm what
you call a veteran.
The only thing
I can't face is...
The food.
James Corrigan.
I remember watching
footage at school
of Neil Armstrong
on the moon,
and just... just knowing
"I want to do this."
- Rosa dasque.
- Call me immature, reckless, arrogant.
I just want to go faster and
farther than anyone has before.
We had to design a spacecraft
unlike by any before it.
Of course, once the decision was
made to put people on board,
the requirements ballooned.
Human beings need
food, shelter.
They need an environment
that is survivable
and has some level
of comfort.
It's cracking the ice.
We're a month away, Andrei.
We're still concerned
about your recovery.
So how should I be
recovering, exactly?
Excuse me.
So what do you think?
I still wouldn't advise leaving him
in the orbiter alone for three weeks.
I'd rather not leave
our only engineer behind.
So we take him down
with us then.
Yeah.
Jupiter.
Being so close to our
destination lifted our spirits.
It felt that everything
made sense again.
The thickness
in the air cleared.
But what cleared it
was sheer adrenaline.
Prep for orbital transfer.
We're gonna feel
some gs here.
Pitch maneuver.
We are clear
of Jupiter's orbit.
Beginning
orbital transfer.
Pitching for power descent.
Daniel, can you keep
Andrei abreast
of any of those changes
in the readouts, please?
- Roger that.
- Orbit trajectory, clear.
Current speed
60 kilometers per second.
- Ready?
- Yes.
Surface
conditions in the I.Z.?
I've got heat plume and
radiation analysis incoming,
but the data is variable.
Heat is fluctuating.
Not far now.
All systems online.
Showing green light.
Landing gear armed
and ready to deploy.
Ladies and
gentlemen, hold on.
Here we go.
Trajectory and speed?
Heading 270.3.
Coming in low
across thera macula
at 458.4 meters
per second.
Target site lining up.
Landing gear deployed.
20 seconds to...
It's like a thermal vent.
Sort of an eruptive feature.
- Can you stabilize us?
- I'm trying!
Andrei, I need an option
for emergency landing.
Vent's coming from the
area around our target site.
There's a low gradation of ice just
past the I.Z., along thrace macula.
Okay. Land us long.
Get us past the vent area.
- 100 meters to contact
10 seconds of fuel.
Back off the burners
on approach
or we'll melt
our landing site.
Roger that. 10 meters.
- Five meters.
- Contact lights.
Shut down.
I think
we've got it.
Everything
okay up here?
Sorry.
I can't pull
my eyes away from it.
It takes your breath away.
That night I went out
and found Jupiter
in the night sky and...
I spent a long time
looking at it, just...
Hoping.
Surface temp in current position
is holding
at absolute zero.
Prelim service data has us on a
bed of what looks like ice 11.
We should be there,
but we're here.
We flew
590 million kilometers
and then landed
100 meters off the mark.
It seems insignificant,
but it will be difficult
to get useful surface analysis.
Ironically, what threw the ship
off course from the original target zone
was a reconfirmation
of what we had hoped for.
If such heat-plume eruptions were
escaping through the cracks in the ice,
it suggested strong underwater thermal
activity and the potential for life.
If they had landed
on the target area
which was ripe
for surface analysis,
the mission would have begun
with extensive surface tests
using the ship's
robotic arm
followed by a few hours
of drilling through the ice
to deploy
a remote underwater probe.
So how will that affect procedure?
What it means is we won't get
the data we want very easily.
That's why I want to move
back Daniel's surface test
and start the drill
immediately.
Our best hopes of success
lies under the ice.
Daniel,
what do you think?
- I wanna argue...
- I'm sure you would.
...But with our
current position in the ice,
we won't get key data.
Let's go for a swim.
Drill head is locked and prepped.
Beginning extension.
Thermal is live.
Entering ice layer now.
- Do you hear that?
- Uh-huh.
- Are you getting it?
- Yeah.
I think that's
just the ice shifting.
We can expect more of
that as the temperature drops.
That was stronger
than our data projected it.
- Are we stable?
- Re-working the analysis now.
Katya, let's try the
frequency of these quakes.
Increased
tidal activity means
there could be more heat than
we thought beneath the surface.
- You're recording this?
- Yeah.
Okay, let's run
some diagnostics here,
because it seems to be
escalating a little bit.
Might be some subsurface aftershocks...
You saw it.
You got to check
out this activity.
- It's incredible.
- Everything's fine here.
What about the E.C.S.?
- How about the hull and landing gear?
- You see this?
- Check out the activity. Incredible.
- Yeah, no deflection.
- E.C.S.?
- E.C.S. Okay.
No problems here.
Guys, I saw something.
What do you mean?
Uh, umm...
I saw something
outside the ship.
From up there,
through the porthole.
Maybe 100 meters out.
I tried to get a video,
but I missed it.
It was a light
down the linea.
I was working one of the
servers when the ice shook.
And... it was there.
- A light source outside the ship?
- I know that I saw it.
- It was flickering.
- How strong was the light?
Well...
It was like an I.E.D.,
but dull from refraction.
But the...
oh, it happened so fast.
It was there
and then it was gone.
You mean it moved?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, it moved.
I can check
the heat signatures.
Do you see anything?
I've checked this
footage three times.
- There's nothing to see.
- Yeah,
but that doesn't mean
there was nothing there.
If it was too dim, these cameras
wouldn't have caught it.
That's true. A weak
chemiluminescence maybe?
Triggered by shifts
in the ice?
A chemical iridescence
doesn't fit this description.
Maybe. When we prepare
the surface test, we'll know.
I find the idea of bacteria clinging to
the underside of the ice more likely.
Something that has a luminescent
response to radioactivity.
Yeah, but do you think
it actually moved?
Scientifically I doubt it.
Wait, did you notice that?
What?
Radiation interference.
It's on all the cameras.
I think there's another version
of this that we have to consider.
It's entirely possible Andrei
didn't see anything at all.
It's very dark out there and his
mind could be filling in the blanks.
But it could also be
our first indication
of exactly what
we came out here to find.
- Is Andrei sleeping yet?
- No.
In those days
there was a raw...
a raw mix of emotions.
We'd come so far,
weathered so much.
I think we were
all in a place
where excitement
blended with awe...
And fear.
Okay, so Daniel is my witness.
You find a single microbe
up there and I win.
If you find a still-living
microbe, you win.
What? Evidence of extinction
doesn't win me the bet?
You always find a technicality like that
- for winning.
- No no no. It's not a technicality.
It means that at some point
in time we were not alone.
It is a technicality.
- Daniel.
- What?
What are you doing, buddy?
What's happening?
- You lost something?
- I lost my toothbrush.
- What?
- He's unpacking his entire bunk.
- We have to return to earth.
- We better call housekeeping.
You should get some rest.
Not until I know
what I saw out there.
We're working on it.
We'll figure it out.
What if I can't believe
or trust my own eyes?
You need to sleep.
We need you
to sleep.
There's pills,
sedatives.
No pills.
I need to stay alert.
I need to stay focused.
How are you holding up?
Good.
We've broken through.
Water.
Probe microphone live.
Wow. This is a completely
untouched environment.
Just waiting.
Hmm.
We're so far
from home, but...
It's like looking
at lake vostok right now.
Radiation levels
down here are minimal.
And there's definitely a heat source
somewhere in our target zone.
122 meters
to heat-plume area.
There's 100 kilometers
of water down there.
It puts the trench zones
back on earth to shame.
I think we're seeing
some tectonic plates here.
The sulfur concentration
is showing
that the thermal vents
are closer than expected.
Creepy.
That's your scientific
assessment, is it?
- Yep.
- "Creepy"?
Is that the weathering of the ice?
Maybe.
Could be a bacteria.
Grabbing samples
and... moving on.
20 meters
to target zone.
Look at how the sunlight
penetrates the ice here.
It must be much thinner
than we thought.
You hear that?
It could be coming
from reverberations,
deeper caverns
caught in currents.
It's almost
like a male whale sound.
Hey, a little presumptuous,
don't you think?
- Maybe.
- Oh yeah.
I've got some irregularities
in our data here.
I'm getting
a radiation spike.
Rosa, are you
picking up on this?
There's something
in the video feed too.
It's similar to what we saw
after the last ice shift.
That doesn't
make any sense.
The ice should be shielding
the probe from radiation.
It's not coming from above.
It's coming from deeper
into the target zone.
Yeah.
Let's adjust course
and depth to investigate.
Bringing us down.
What was that?
What's our
temperature down here?
Get ready to expand
the probe arm
to get samples.
What was that? Oh shit.
Cycle power.
All right, let's run some tests.
There was an abnormal shift
in the velocity
of the current.
- It's not reacting.
- Is it a remote issue?
- I've lost control of it.
- Shit.
Can you play
back the video?
Did something hit the probe?
- What data do we have?
- It'll take time to process,
but I'll tell you right now, not much.
It seemed like it was
right under the probe.
What was the
last bits of data it saved?
The heat surged 50,
but that couldn't have
caused a critical...
Shit!
A surface walk
was always heavily debated
at all stages
of our mission planning.
And our main concern then
was the radiation from Jupiter.
I will walk
to the target zone
and I'll get the body
of samples we need.
Katya, the radiation alone...
the radiation
is fluctuating.
It was 200 ram
last time I checked.
I'm willing
to take that risk.
- What about everything else that could go wrong?
- It's 100 meters!
Having lost the probe,
the only way to get the data
was to explore
the chaos zones
where the ice had cracked
and re-cracked.
And this process would
expose any microorganisms
that have been
trapped inside the ice.
Somebody's gotta go out there!
- It's too risky.
- Enough! Enough!
I feel like it's a
critical phase and I'm not there.
I just...
I just didn't realize
it would be this hard.
Over.
Sounds like a car.
You know take him
to the game, if you want.
Umm...
I miss you guys.
Love you.
Over.
You okay?
Yeah, I am good.
I'm good.
Not so easy,
is it?
No.
No, it's not.
You know, my boy's gonna be
six when I see him again.
He's gonna
be proud of you.
What would you do
if you get out there
and you find nothing?
Well, even if
we found nothing,
it's in effect
a discovery.
It would make
me very frustrated.
I know there's
something there.
Check on nav bays 3 and 4.
Mission control,
repeat please. Over.
William, I've got some static
in the comm array feed up here.
It looks like
a radiation spike.
Have you tried
recycling the system?
Rosa, we've lost your feed.
Come in, Europe one.
Europa one, come in.
Come in, Europe one.
Europa one, come in.
Europa one.
Europa
one, Europe one, do you...
Now try as you might
to prepare for everything,
there will always be
that unknown element.
In this case
a solar storm hit,
damaging key systems, including
communication with mission control.
Okay. Oxygen is flowing.
We're good.
This never gets old.
Okay, commencing egress.
William, I'm
gonna tether the emus
once we're...
On the hull.
Roger that.
Andrei and James had to do
an E.V.A.
To repair the system...
a bit like performing ballet
and rocket science
at 125,000 Miles an hour.
This reminds me of the
iss thrust fix all over again.
5 hours, 13
minutes remaining on eva.
You know what time
it is back on earth?
Battery block
d is non-functional.
2 hours 55 minutes.
All right, I've got green
lights on the fan arrays.
How are we doing
on the comm power supply?
So I said to
the guy, "you know,
I can't just come along
and stay as long as you want.
You have to tell me
how long it's gonna take."
Okay, guys, 50 minutes
remaining on eva.
I can't keep you
out there much longer.
Panels one
through six are clear.
Moving onto seven.
We just need a
little more time, William.
I think it's a blown fuse
in the communication panel.
You've got 37 minutes.
If you don't find it,
we'll need to begin regress.
Okay we're at the
communication panel.
Opening up the door.
What do you got, Andrei?
James, get a look at this.
Whoo.
The receptors are shot.
Yeah, William, the
whole board is fried.
I gotta take
the pins out.
Okay.
Taking out
the first pin.
Come on.
And first pin is clear.
Going for number two.
Proceed.
Come on.
Shit.
It's not coming.
Okay. William,
we've got a frozen pin.
Okay, guys, leave
that last panel for now.
What do you think?
We can't tell how bad
it is till we get in there.
You sure, man? You don't want
to put heat on there first?
- It just feels...
- The damage could spread.
- Okay.
- What the hell is going on out there?
Okay. I'm set.
Come on.
Ah! Shit!
It snapped.
The panel snapped.
I ripped my glove.
I ripped...
It's okay. Andrei's okay.
- We're tethered.
- It's a tear of one inch.
- I've cut my skin.
- I got him hooked to me.
Andrei, do not attempt
to climb back in on your own.
- James?
- I see him, I see him.
I got him.
I'm going for him. Hang on.
- It's a small rip.
- Take it easy.
- Just relax big guy.
- Keep calm, Andrei.
- I'm bleeding.
- Save your oxygen.
He's losing air,
but he's got his hand on it.
I got you.
- I got you.
- Oxygen pressure is dropping steadily.
You don't have much time.
James, listen to me.
His oxygen level
is red-lighting.
Get him back
inside the ship.
Okay.
We're at the lock.
I'm coming in.
Stop, don't go in.
- Why?
- There's something on your suit.
It's hydrazine.
Uh, guys,
we've got a problem.
I've got hydrazine
on my suit.
It must have hit me
when we popped the panel.
He's covered in it.
It's in the seams.
It's... it's everywhere.
- What can we do to decontaminate?
- We can't.
If we bring him in, the air on
the ship will become toxic.
Come on.
Shit.
We should get him in the
lock, get a v-cam reading.
We can't. There'd be too much
risk of lingering contamination.
We gotta figure out
a way to get the suit clean.
It's not coming out.
I'm totally screwed.
Andrei, get in the lock.
We need to depressurize
your suit now.
Then we'll figure out
how to get James in.
Seriously?!
Come on, man, I got...
I've got 20 minutes
of oxygen.
Is there no way
to get it clean?
- Andrei.
- I'm not going in.
I'll get you
out of the suit...
- What?
- ...Into the airlock.
You'll be out of the suit
less than two minutes.
- It's survivable.
- Is that even possible?
I'll get you out of this.
I'll fix it.
No. Andrei,
you're gonna black out.
- No, I'm not.
- This isn't gonna work.
- We're going to lose them both.
- James, he's fading.
You have to get him
in the lock.
Okay. Shit.
Rosa, close the airlock now!
James is no longer
attached to the hull.
- I said close the lock!
- Rosa, close the lock!
Airlock is closed.
Oxygen is flowing.
Repressurization in 10 minutes.
This is insane.
You gotta go get him.
We can't. By the time
we get there, he'd...
James?
Yeah yeah yeah,
I'm here. Umm...
Oh, Christ, I can't...
I'm gone.
Oh shit.
Is Andrei okay?
Yeah. He's okay.
I'm sorry, James.
Don't be sorry.
It was an accident,
you know?
Um...
I... I don't have much time,
so tell Andrei...
Tell Andrei he's a...
He's a crazy
son of a bitch, you know?
And I love him for trying
to save my life and...
If that had been Jamie, I...
I love you so much.
Forgive me.
I thought I was trying to do
something great for mankind.
I always said it was
worth the risk but...
Forgive me for...
for hurting you.
A part of me wishes I could just
float out here forever, you know?
I can't s...
i can't see anything.
I can't see any...
It's stupid
to argue like this.
Katya, no way you can go out
there without us behind you.
And, William,
with all due respect,
I think we should all decide
together how to do this.
I know what
you think, William.
What about you, Daniel?
It's ill-advised.
A surface walk was
always a question mark.
Well, we can do it.
I'll walk the equipment out
and you can run
the analysis from here.
We can get
what we came for.
And if she goes out there
and we never see her again?
Think hard about that.
I think she should do it.
I'm sorry, William.
Thank you.
- Andrei?
- It's too dangerous.
I vote no.
Absolutely.
So that's a tie then.
Rosa?
Katya made our complete
cosmic insignificance
seem like a call to arms.
What can I say?
She was right.
She's still right.
Two hours of E.V.A.
210 meters out.
Search the top layer of ice
while Daniel runs
analysis back here.
Copy that.
Be careful.
Compared to the breadth
of knowledge yet to be known,
what does your life actually matter?
30 minutes
for depressurization.
Batteries live.
Switching to battery power.
Pressure's at 30 kpa.
How's your prep?
30 seconds to egress.
Good luck.
I'm ready.
I can't believe I'm here.
We're here.
This is incredible.
Radiation is
holding steady.
We're at 50 millisieverts
per hour...
- within acceptable limits.
- I'll check
if I can see her
from upstairs.
It's so still out here.
It's so...
I don't know what the word is.
Creepy?
I was going to go
with "cosmically outstanding."
I wish I could take one of these
gloves off and touch the ice.
- Really feel it.
- Please don't.
I have visual
of her from here.
I'm heading towards
the target zone now.
We've got your back.
Life support systems
look good.
Okay, Katya,
you are crossing
into the target zone.
You see that?
Where the ice
is less deteriorated?
Just set up
in the middle of that.
- Here?
- Exactly.
She must have been
out there for an hour.
But it... it felt
like an eternity.
Each minute seemed to
divide and divide again
into endless moments.
First sample
ready for scan.
Sending data
back to you now.
Are you reading?
Running
analysis, stand by.
We're negative for trace
carbon and chemotropic processes.
Can you try ice
with more trace rust?
You could feel...
Every minute is
somehow longer
than it had
ever been before.
- Let's give it another shot.
- Why don't you take
the equipment down
the linea to zone three?
Radiation is
trending upwards, Katya.
You've been out there
70 minutes.
We're so close.
How much time can
you give me, William?
You've only got time
for a few more sample sets.
All right, Katya,
it's time to come back.
Okay.
I'm digging out
a sub-surface sample
that isn't
radiation blasted.
Are you guys
seeing this?
Here.
I'm getting imaging... now.
It's a unicellular organism,
something akin
to an algae.
I knew it.
- What is it?
- I don't know for sure, but...
I mean, it's not like
it has a name.
It looks like something
precambrian to me.
That's my first guess
on an earth-based analogue.
I don't believe it.
We did it.
Okay, Katya, let's
get you back into the ship
- and sort out this data.
- Packing up.
I hope
the champagne's ready.
Look at that.
Do you guys read
that light in the distance?
We're not reading anything.
It looks like some kind
of chemical iridescence.
I'm going to get closer
to investigate.
Reserve oxygen will
give her another 90 minutes.
Okay, Katya.
Proceed with caution.
I can't see her.
She's moving farther out.
It's beautiful.
Andrei.
This looks like
it could be the light
you were describing.
I can see it again.
Can you check
on my readouts?
It's... it's... it's...
it's hard to say.
I mean maybe there's
other microbial organisms
out there that eat
through the ice.
This is a much more
complex ecosystem
than we'd previously
thought.
I wanna see if it's
reacting to my lights.
I'm going
to turn them off.
I'm going
to get closer.
Hold that action, Katya.
Katya, do you read me?
We have severe
electromagnetic interference.
Did you see that?
She has to come back.
...have visual.
I'm going to try
to get it back.
I'm seeing it
through the ice.
I think it's some sort
of bioluminescence.
We've got the data, Katya.
Heat radiation levels
are moving with it.
I can't wrap
my head around this.
Okay, the ice is thin here,
but it seems stable.
If I get close,
- I should be able to get a better look.
- Keep your line open.
I want to know what's
happening out there.
The ground is not stable!
The ice is breaking.
Katya, can you hear me?
Come back to the ship now!
It's cracking the ice!
My foot is...
- Katya, do you read me? Come in!
- Get her back in!
- Get her back in!
- Katya, come in. Do you read me?
- She's not listening.
- Rosa, do you see her out there?
Nothing. Just the ice.
- She's under the ice.
- What?
Under the water.
We've still got
her helmet cam.
Whatever it was,
it was reacting
to the light on her helmet.
That's the behavior
of a complex organism.
The logs, the data...
they don't show
any proof of complex life.
We can't leave
until we have that.
We don't know how
long we'll be stable here.
And we've
lost two of our crew.
If we never leave,
no one on earth will ever
know what we discovered.
I agree.
We need
to leave now.
When the next launch
window opens, we take off.
Mmm.
I want all the data
secured and double-checked...
Especially everything Katya found.
T- minus 32 seconds to liftoff.
Prepping
for ascent ignition.
Orbital sync
is established.
Docking operation
in t-minus eight minutes.
- Give me a systems check.
- Engine temperature's rising.
Andrei?
Booster 3
is stuck at 30%.
We've got to launch now.
Launch in three, two, one.
What the hell?
I can't keep it steady.
Our trajectory is
way off course.
Injectors are melting!
We've got engine
mixture ratio errors
in engines two and three.
- We're nowhere near orbital transfer!
- Hey!
I can try to correct
course at apogee.
- The vernier thrusters might do it!
- We need to shut
- the valves down!
- Get us back down on the surface.
- What?
- Don't engage the second burn.
You mean crash us?
What's
happening up there?
Valves dow...
2,000 meters.
I can't
keep it steady.
- ...still dropping!
- ...Coming in too fast!
What are you doing?
William!
- William!
- I'm going to slow us down.
I'm going to blow the water shielding.
It'll create... thrust!
- Brace for impact!
- 200 meters!
Andrei? Andrei?
- Huh?
- Wake up, wake up!
William?
Okay.
He's dead.
He saved us.
Europa wasn't
ready to let us go yet.
It quickly
became apparent that
we crashed into
the original landing zone.
Ironic, I suppose.
This zone was much warmer,
much more active than any
previous data had suggested.
Underwater vents had
rendered the ice brittle
and unstable
and constantly shifting
and then you add onto that
William had jettisoned
the water shielding
on descent
and that had saved them,
but it also left them
dangerously exposed
to radiation.
We're leaking oxygen.
And we're also
losing heat...
three degrees since
I started checking.
If I would bet, we'd freeze
before we suffocate.
The exterior light
should be working.
Daniel,
can you check?
- Daniel?
- I am.
It's not good.
The ice is cracking
under the ship.
You can almost see
the ice/water interface.
We're gonna be under the ice
in a matter of hours.
Our last shot is
docking with the orbiter...
And using its back-up
life support systems.
If the propulsion system
is still alive...
I can get us
into orbit.
Come help me.
It's pointless.
Is this what you're looking for?
Yeah.
Thank you.
Shit!
- Are you all right?
- The ice broke through.
This is it.
It's happening.
It's the end.
We'll find a way.
We have to.
The fuel line
is partially frozen.
That caused
the loss of thrust.
We're lodged in the ice.
Can we even
take off properly?
If we time it right, maybe.
Two hours is the fastest
we can fix it,
but that is if...
Two of us
is working on it.
- You mean the three of us?
- No.
You have to stay inside,
prep engines.
The fix must happen
outside the ship.
That was that.
Are you ready?
Are you?
Daniel and Andrei
entered the airlock
for final
de-pressurization.
Here.
Two hours.
Then I'll see you both
back here. Yeah?
And that...
...brings us to now.
If we don't make it...
This record...
One day...
Just in case.
Just in case.
Depressurization complete.
Pressure is 25 kilopascals.
I'll go first,
make sure
the ice is stable.
Beginning egress.
Roger that.
System signals are strong.
Hatch is open.
Oh shit.
The ladder is
a bit skewed,
but I think
I can make it.
The ice beneath
the ship is cracked,
but it looks sturdy.
Taking my first step now.
Be careful.
We're picking up
the same radiation signature.
Okay.
Taking my first step now.
I am on the ice.
Oh God.
I can feel it...
Daniel? Daniel?!
- Do you read me?
- Daniel?!
Daniel? Andrei?
Talk to me!
Rosa, shut off the exterior lights.
- Turn off the exterior lights!
- Okay.
I'm getting nothing.
His Mike is dead.
His camera is dead.
He just vanished.
Do you read me?
What the hell is
going on out there?
I don't know.
What?
I lost him. I lost him.
The ice cracked
beneath him.
Daniel? Daniel?
He was surrounded
by lights,
then he was gone.
Tell me...
Tell me we can still patch
the fuel line.
Andrei?
Say something.
- Andrei?
- We can't.
There's one thing
still worth trying.
The communication array
is still salvageable.
I can fix it
if I take parts
from the life support.
I don't know.
Can you still prep
data sync?
Rosa, we can do this.
How will I know when?
When I remove
life support batteries
you'll lose power
in the command module.
Then data sync...
Keep talking to me.
Keep the line open.
It's dark.
It's not gonna be easy.
Andrei?
I've lost
your camera again.
- Can you hear me?
- Uh-huh.
- Okay.
- It's not far.
Camera's back up.
10 paces...
Andrei?
Come on, come on.
Andrei, I can see
the light behind you.
Hurry, please.
I can see water
under the ship.
Come on, hold on.
Another malfunction.
I need to check
the drives.
Work, please.
- It's just one more tweak and I'm done.
- Andrei?
Do you read me?
Do you read me?!
There's a cabinet
in the cockpit...
...That I've been working with.
Join the wires...
And the systems
will start.
Command module is
just about dead.
We're losing
cameras here.
I'm moving to the...
Andrei?
I'm connecting
the wires.
Almost there.
Almost there.
Rosa, it's working!
It's working!
- Oh God.
- We're running out of time!
Communications are up.
You did it!
You need to see this!
Are you getting this?!
The luminescence is
all around the ship now!
The exterior cameras
are dying.
Can you hear me?
Andrei?
The ship is sinking
into the ice!
Oh!
Andrei?
Do... do you read?
Andrei?
Andrei, do you read?
Talk to me.
Talk to me.
Andrei, talk to me!
Compared to the breadth
of knowledge yet to be known...
...what does your life
actually matter?
In those final moments,
knowing communication
had been re-established,
Rosa chose
to open the airlock.
I got the call
at 3:00 A.M.
Telling me that communication
had been re-established.
By the time I got
into our mission control
our servers were flooded
with images of our crew.
Our mission had
finally come back to us.
We saw the sacrifices
they made for each other
to keep the mission alive,
to push
the discovery further.
And that final image...
startling.
Terrifying.
Completely beyond
our wildest
theoretic models.
The discovery
of this creature
is simply extraordinary.
We now know
that our universe
is far stranger,
far more alive
than we had ever imagined.
The crew of Europe one
changed
the fundamental context
in which all of humanity
understands itself.
I don't know what greater
measure of success
they could have achieved.
- Is this smiling? Smiling?
- Wet your lip.
- Yeah.
- Uh-huh.