The Orbital Children (2022) s01e02 Episode Script

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Konoha.
This is my first arrest. I'm so nervous.
Under arrest?
Touya Sagami.
I am arresting you for a flagrant offense.
Well, you have the right to remain silent
and the right
to retain a legal affairs AI.
What are you doing?
Settle down!
Stop!
How are you allowed to arrest people?
It's a flagrant offense--
a violation of Article 82.
Never heard of it!
Bright!
Damn it. My breathing--
Why is it so cold?
An accident.
That's right.
There was some kind of an accident.
Hello? Mina?
Please pull yourself together.
EPISODE 2: MIST AND DARKNESS
It's pitch black.
Mina, are you hurt?
Are you okay?
Ouch.
Are you okay?
Nasa. Nasa Houston.
Can you hear me?
-Houston?
-Houston?
Nasa.
Nasa, are you okay?
-Are you hurt?
-I remember. She protected us.
Oh, no! Well--
Nasa! Houston!
Oh, no.
This is so bad. Is she dead?
She's breathing and has a heartbeat.
She is alive.
Thank goodness.
Nasa!
What should we do?
I'm requesting instructions from
the medical cloud, but cannot connect.
No, call somebody. Maybe the police.
The entire Internet is disconnected.
Well, I don't really understand.
But we'll be saved, won't we?
I don't know.
No, no, no.
OUT OF RANGE
Didn't they say it was safe?
That's why I came.
What do we do?
Nasa!
I'm cold.
My ears hurt.
It's decompressing.
If we don't hurry up and evacuate
to the shelter, we will suffocate and die.
Shelter? Where is it?
Bright! Twelve!
Don't puke!
Don't you dare puke all over me!
Slow down your breathing.
-Feeling better?
-Yes. I apologize.
Okay.
Now it's about time you got off of me.
Please don't get violent.
The shelter should be nearby.
Which way?
If we follow the wall, we'll get there.
Got it.
Ouch.
-What's wrong?
-Nothing.
It's not my fault.
It's gravity's fault.
The atmospheric pressure is dropping.
There's a breach.
We need to get away
before we run out of air.
I don't think we'll run out of it
right away.
We won't?
Mina, I am about to stop functioning.
Soon,
this elevator will descend automatically.
Don't give up. Go get help…
Twelve.
Twelve!
Excuse me.
Operator.
Hello?
Well, we're in trouble.
No way.
Anybody! Are there any adults around?
-Someone save us!
-Help!
It's dropping.
It's okay.
Twelve said
this elevator will descend automatically.
Ouch.
Nasa!
-Ouch.
-Thank goodness!
I don't think this was written
in the Seven Poem.
The shelter.
Which one?
This.
Where?
It's cold. Hurry up and open it.
Tell me in a way I can understand.
You arrested the wrong person.
-I'm requesting a legal affairs AI.
-What?
Restraint without the presence
of a legal affairs AI is prohibited.
Bright is a legal affairs AI.
Then call him. If he is not present,
I'll sue you for unlawful restraint.
Isn't there a heater?
You should just be thankful for oxygen.
I hate space. It's dark.
Can't we make a call from this panel?
Not possible.
This shelter is incomplete as well.
-Unbelievable.
-Oh, yeah.
There's some cold-protection gear
around here.
Found it!
So warm!
What about for me?
There was only enough for one.
That doesn't make sense.
This place is under construction.
It hasn't been completely equipped.
That's absurd!
That's because it went bankrupt once
and the management changed.
-There have been delays.
-I'm coming in.
-What are you doing?
-Emergency shelter.
Stop! Don't pull on it.
RESPECT OTHERS AND BE CONSIDERATE
IN THIS TIGHT SPACE
Ready, go.
-It opened!
-Nasa!
Ouch.
-It's so cold!
-I can't see anything.
Let's huddle together.
Follow along the wall.
Where is the shelter?
Ouch!
Hiroshi, don't hold on so tight.
-Idiot.
-This is why I hate kids.
-Sorry.
-Sorry.
Don't apologize.
I don't hate kids that much.
KONOHA, ARE YOU SAFE? REPLY.
MESSAGE FAILED TO SEND
Ko-ko-ro-ha?
Don't look!
Koko-ha? Konoha? Which is it?
I said don't look!
If there's a breach,
does that mean we're gonna die?
This station has a stop-gap function
for patching breaches.
YOU ARE IN THE A CYLINDER
But it might not be properly working.
FULL MAP - A CYLINDER
Furthermore, during an accident like this,
the station is supposed to stop rotating.
That doesn't work either.
What are you trying to say?
-It could be terrorism.
-Yeah?
As a UN2 employee,
I can't overlook the possibility.
What are you looking for?
There's supposed to be a printed manual
in the shelter.
Placing your hopes on paper?
This is bad. The air is getting thinner.
Here it is.
Where?
There's a manual.
Nasa!
Nasa! Don't die yet!
No, this is awful!
I can see her breath. She's alive.
Nasa! Where is the shelter?
Nasa! Wake up!
This might be it.
All we can do is sit still and wait.
No, we'll escape. We have to move.
We Japanese don't get frantic and agitated
in situations like this.
The opposite is true in zombie movies.
The guys who sit still die.
Zombies are irrelevant right now.
I hate zombie movies.
They only ever have tyrannical characters
like you in them.
-You're scared of zombies.
-What?
What are you saying?
I'm not afraid of them.
You haven't adapted to Mars gravity yet,
have you?
What?
You skipped your gravity PT appointments,
didn't you?
That's why you collapsed before.
Shut up.
Much better than spinning around
in zero gravity like you.
You're the one who can't live on Earth
because of your weak condition.
As if I want to go to Earth.
The Japanese government is planning on
cutting back manned missions next year.
What?
We got an administration that is reducing
the science and technology budget.
So?
You keep yourself locked up in space
and won't come down to Earth.
It's hard on our government.
I don't know if you understand.
You are a nuisance.
Living and having kids in space
isn't right for humans to begin with.
Are you saying I should die?
No.
It's just that there are a lot of people
saying that stuff.
Ouch!
Ouch! What are you doing? Stop!
I saved you.
I hate Earthers.
You should all get blown into extinction
by a meteorite.
You're a follower of John Doe, aren't you?
What?
Your drone hacked the system.
Then I discovered
a cognitive-limiter violation.
Right after that, this accident occurred.
You don't know who you're talking to.
I'm just tolerating you now,
but I could report you
for suspicion of terrorism.
That's ridiculous.
Then why would you unlock
your cognitive limiter?
-None of your business.
-Yes, it is! Explain yourself!
I'm going to exterminate all you Earthers
by raising a Lunatic that surpasses Seven!
Happy now?
How long was I unconscious?
About ten minutes.
Ouch!
I'm so embarrassed.
Don't look, you brat.
Ouch!
-What about painkillers?
-They're the drowsy type, aren't they?
We need to get to the shuttle.
We could get left behind.
-If only we stopped rotating.
-What do you mean?
Normally when an accident occurs,
the active brakes will activate
and zero gravity will occur.
If that happened,
we could float up to the top.
Is that so?
Was there an ONIQLO
in any of the boxes under the floor?
-ONIQLO?
-Oh, you mean an ONIQLO suit.
It is a simple space suit,
just like the shuttle suits.
According to the manual,
it should be around here.
So if we can make it outside in that,
we can go home to Earth?
It's cheap and vinyl.
You wouldn't be able to go out in it.
Vinyl?
-However, it's better than nothing.
-Found it!
There aren't any.
If we had ONIQLOs,
we could survive the cold and radiation.
They left them out?
Oxygen!
What have you been up to?
There's no Internet connection.
-Peer-to-peer?
-Don't look!
I'm wearing an ONIQLO now. It's warm.
The gloves are Smart-equipped.
It's too loose for me.
If I could do a live feed of this,
I might get 100 million followers.
If only I could at least
get the landscape outside in a selfie.
Oh, yeah. Peer-to-peer.
Is peer-to-peer Internet?
There has been no connection for awhile.
Peer-to-peer isn't Internet.
Peer-to-peer
connects devices to each other.
By pairing devices,
you can get up to 200 meters--
Found it!
Oh, a peer comm?
Like when you connect handcuffs
or a drone--
Are you trying to boot up
that illegal drone?
-I won't let you!
-Get off me!
I'll boot up Bright first
and shut your drone down.
I win!
How childish.
I have an image.
This is-- The spa hub is directly below.
Bright has paired now too.
Bright. Get up.
Explore the area.
There are containers. ONIQLO--
Found them. ONIQLO suits.
But the atmospheric pressure outside
is about the same as on Mt. Fuji's summit.
KONOHA, REPLY.
With our current equipment,
it would be very-- Touya?
You're going?
That's absurd.
Let's wait here for help.
I won't allow you to go out there alone.
It's cold!
Got it. Selfie connected.
Selfie, turn on your high-intensity light.
EARTH GRAVITY FLOOR
I can see. I wonder if there's air.
AIR PRESSURE - TEMPERATURE
Why can't he close the door?
It's cold.
There it is. An ONIQLO suit.
Okay, I think it's feet in from the top.
All right, got it on.
Quickly.
Let's climb up and get on the shuttle.
Come on, Dakky.
Wait a minute. Where are you going?
Bright.
Why are you going down?
None of your business.
Dakky, light.
-I'm not letting you get away.
-I'm not running away.
You're trying to get to that girl Konoha,
aren't you?
What is this?
It looks like a disposable mask.
Nonwoven fabric?
A light bulkhead. Made out of fabric.
A bulkhead? How are you so well-versed?
This can be manually opened?
When the air pressure
on both sides is the same.
Bright.
Don't follow me.
I can't leave you. I'll accompany you.
You said you were going to raise Lunatic
and destroy everybody on Earth.
So what?
You have no idea how horrible Lunatic is.
Shut up, Earther.
You people will never understand me.
Not ever.
Well, well. You trying to compete?
I won't be beat this time.
Do you think a PT dropout like you
can beat an Earther who lives at 1G?
Go extinct, Earther!
He's so slow.
What's that sound?
Maybe I should go back for him.
Hang on a second!
The interior contractors shouldn't be
loading materials in a place like this.
Wait!
Look out!
A fabric bulkhead?
-Why is it inflated in the back?
-Don't touch it!
Behind this, it is a vacuum.
Touch it and it's curtains for you.
Here.
Thank goodness
it's on this side of the bulkhead.
KONOHA BAIKONUR NANASE
Nobody's here.
Konoha!
Are you okay, Konoha?
Oxygen deficiency.
What's the matter? Is she dead?
We need to hurry up
and take lifesaving measures.
Damn it. The password.
-What are you doing?
-Lifesaving actions.
-Are you breaking the law again?
-Shut up!
If I followed the laws made
by Earther AIs, we'd both be dead.
Don't interfere!
Her breathing's stopped.
The password.
Damn it!
What are you doing? Out of the way!
Excuse me.
A password Nasa might use--
Maybe--
PLEASE ENTER PASSWORD
Yes.
Cardiopulmonary.
Here it is.
She's revived.
Konoha, hold on.
Implants?
The rumors were true then?
Yeah.
We have implants in our brains.
It was originally
just to adjust the balance of hormones.
But it can also access reflex,
cardiopulmonary
and other important functions.
Of the 15 moon-born,
ten died by age three.
They found out that the low gravity
on the moon's surface
has a fatal impact on growing infants.
The surviving five children
had implants embedded.
Moon child syndrome.
They worked well in infancy.
But it was uncertain what would happen
in the second period of growth
when the hormone balance changes.
Nobody knew.
So before that,
the implants were supposed to dissolve
and break down into water and nitrogen
per the design.
Due to a design flaw,
they didn't dissolve?
They started to dissolve,
but with the design flaw,
half of the implant remains.
I still have time with mine,
but Konoha's is out of time.
We have to prosecute the firm
that made them.
The firm that designed them went bankrupt.
There's nobody to sue.
Is that firm--
Seven Technology.
Seven designed them?
Yes. It is a product
from its period of peak intelligence.
Lunatic Seven.
But Seven's intelligence collapsed.
It was euthanized.
So now nobody understands
the design philosophy itself,
much less the design flaws.
No human, no AI.
Are you--
That's why the Lunatic is so--
Found them!
It's me. Mina.
-It's too bright.
-Sorry about that.
Touya, it's me.
Nasa.
Nasa is too weak
to make it to the top.
She said to bring a wheelchair.
Where is this?
It's been a long time.
Touya! Taiyou!
Hakase.
Nasa.
Touya, are you okay? Ouch.
Is everyone all right?
I've hurt a rib. But never mind that.
How is Konoha?
Is she another moon-born kid?
Yeah, probably.
She lived in Tateana City on the moon.
Tateana City?
A Japanese moon-surface city
in Marius Hills.
She might be easier to talk to.
She stopped breathing?
I restored it immediately. It's fine.
Touya, you didn't hack
the implant again, did you?
Why not?
That isn't something
you can carelessly fiddle with.
-If you made even one mistake--
-Nasa.
He saved her life.
If he hadn't done that,
Konoha would be dead right now.
I know.
I wasn't carelessly fiddling with it.
I've experimented on my own implant
in the lab many times.
I know that, but don't do it anymore.
Konoha's implant
is in worse shape than--
I knew it.
Wasn't it you and my uncle
who laughed it off as an urban legend?
Touya, there's a good reason that--
You adults were in on it
and kept it from us all this time.
Nasa.
Did I faint again?
Yes, but it's okay.
It's not your fault.
The implants.
You were listening?
Right, Touya?
I want to get better soon
and then go to Earth.
Konoha, you'll be able to go to Earth
after just a bit.
-Good luck.
-Thank you.
We're going up again?
Why did that elevator go
all the way to the bottom?
It's for safety.
It would be dangerous if it fell.
They really have no regard
for their guests.
I'm gonna sue once we've been saved.
Everybody, please stop with
the idle chatter and keep walking.
If we can get to the shuttle area,
we can probably get on a rescue ship.
Taiyou has been pretty full of himself
for quite some time, hasn't he?
I'm a temporary employee of the UN2,
so I have a duty
to rescue everybody in a disaster.
-UN2?
-The UN2?
-What's that?
-The United Nations!
You're not an employee.
You're a nonregular.
It's like a part-time job.
Taiyou.
Yes?
Sorry for any trouble
Touya's caused you.
He can be sharp tongued,
but he really is a good person.
Yes. You're right.
He is sharp tongued, isn't he?
I'm sorry for the trouble.
Stop doing that right in front of me!
What's this, a balloon?
A balloon bulkhead.
We came from the other side of it.
It automatically repairs itself.
Seems like
there is oxygen on the other side.
A spa?
This says it is a super-bathhouse--
"Anshin Springs."
I guess that's why
this is called a spa hub.
It says you can see Earth from the bath.
This is the Mars floor.
So it must be 100 meters more.
Something like a 30-story skyscraper.
As we climb higher, there's less gravity,
so it'll be easier than lower down.
Konoha.
I'm Mina. From Saitama on Earth.
Both you and Touya were born
on the moon, right?
We were raised together in Tateana City,
a city on the moon's surface.
Even so, your personalities
are like night and day, aren't they?
Konoha,
how many followers do you have?
I don't use SNS.
Really?
I didn't know people like you existed.
Wow!
Could you please do that later? Let's go.
Just one more.
Are you excited to see your parents?
-Mina.
-What?
-You shouldn't ask about her parents.
-Why not?
I think Konoha's father died
in an accident on the moon's surface.
And Touya's parents too.
I mean, it happened years ago.
What kind of accident was it?
I'm not sure.
Internet rumors say they were doing
some kind of an experiment.
All right. We just need to climb up here.
Konoha.
Konoha, what's wrong?
The snow--
It's snowing.
Snow?
There's something at the top.
-Stop the wheelchair!
-What? Did something happen?
There's snow falling in the station.
Oxygen-- The oxygen is escaping.
Run!
What's happening up there?
Run!
Run!
Hurry up and close it.
What is this?
Do what I do.
First, pull the handles.
Bring out your hoods and gloves.
Fasten everything tight.
Once everything is fastened and locked,
release the valve.
Nasa and I are all suited up.
My fastener.
Damn it! It's not catching.
Here is some oxygen. Can you hear me?
Breathe in the oxygen.
What is that? Something is here!
Oh, no. She's hallucinating
from oxygen deficiency.
There it is!
I am Anshin-kun, the station fairy.
-Chief.
-Chief?
The rift is getting wider.
Follow this guy.
Oops.
Jump!
I can't--
I can't reach it.
Subtitle translation by:
Noelle Marie Hollister