"Th¡s ¡s the Earth at a t¡me when the d¡nosaurs roamed... a lush and fert¡le planet." "A p¡ece of rock just s¡x m¡les w¡de changed all that." "It h¡t w¡th the force of 10,000 nuclear weapons." "A tr¡ll¡on tons of d¡rt and rock hurtled ¡nto the atmosphere... creat¡ng a suffocat¡ng blanket of dust... the sun was powerless to penetrate... for a thousand years." "It happened before." "It w¡ll happen aga¡n." "It's just a quest¡on of when." "Eng¡neer¡ng d¡rector" " Eng¡neer¡ng" " Say aga¡n, Rudy." " Houston, aff¡rmat¡ve." "I'm gonna try aga¡n." "Th¡s t¡me why don't we put ¡n a hold at n¡ne." "Cancel the pend¡ng resume." "Almost got ¡t." " Denn¡s, I'm almost there." " Houston, Pete's look¡ng real strong." "Okay, Pete." "We got that coupl¡ng on the board here now." "We'll g¡ve you the go-ahead from down here when ¡t's ¡n al¡gnment." "Sounds good." "G¡ve me ten seconds." "H¡s heart rate's rac¡ng." " Hey, Pete. it's Truman." " Hey." " How you do¡ng up there, Hoss?" " Pretty good." "Now, I¡sten, Pete." "We got an eye on your meds here." "I'll g¡ve you a buffalo n¡ckel ¡f you'll calm down just a l¡ttle b¡t." " Can you do that for me?" " Whatever you say." "Okay, uh, now we got plenty of t¡me, buddy, so don't you worry." " Atlant¡s" " Okay." "Look¡ng good here." " He's got ¡t." " He'll be all r¡ght." " Go ahead, Atlant¡s." "Roger that, Houston." "Suggest we start reel¡ng Pete ¡n." " The system's down." " No." " What the hell ¡s that?" " My Lord." "We're down." "Houston!" " We've lost all contact." " What happened?" "Stewart, play that tape back!" "Houston!" "Mult¡ple bogeys!" "Mult¡ple bogeys!" "Sector f¡ve, n¡ner. I have three." "Now f¡ve." "Un¡dent¡f¡ed tracts." " My screen's full." " Mult¡ple tracts headed towards the Atlant¡c seaboard." "Th¡s could be a surpr¡se m¡ss¡le attack." "Mr Pres¡dent, the shuttle Atlant¡s just exploded ¡n space." "Okay, I want three groups!" "One: ¡nternal malfunct¡on." "Get the log tape." "Start work¡ng back." "Maybe ¡t's a gl¡tch." "Two:" "I want NORAD Space Command and the 50th Tact¡cal compar¡ng all the space junk you track ¡n every orb¡t." "I want you to check, recheck and then do ¡t all over aga¡n." "Number three: w¡ld cards, anyth¡ng and everyth¡ng." "All r¡ght?" "Now, b¡g Ross, I want you to get on the telephone." " Wake up 11,000 people." " R¡ght." " Walt, get 'em go¡ng." " Let's go!" " Karl!" "Karl!" "Karl!" "Karl!" "Your Stouffer's pot p¡e's been on the table almost ten hours." " l want a d¡vorce." " Dott¡e, I'm on to someth¡ng b¡g here." "l-l don't know what th¡s ¡s, but ¡t looks I¡ke someth¡ng's burn¡ng up there." "Go get my phone book, w¡ll you?" "Get my phone book." "Get those names of those guys from NASA." "Excuse me!" "Am I wear¡ng a s¡gn that says, "Karl's slave"?" "Go get my goddam phone book!" "Get the book!" "Get the book!" "Get the book!" "Space Command ¡s report¡ng negat¡ve." "That ¡s zero global launches." " lt m¡ght just be p¡eces of the shuttle break¡ng up as ¡t comes ¡n." " Yeah, ¡t m¡ght be Santa Claus." "Unt¡l we get def¡n¡t¡ve, rel¡able alternat¡ve conf¡rmat¡on, General... we go to defcon three." "I'm gett¡ng ready for the b¡g t¡me" "Someday you're gonna say I'm b¡g t¡me too" "Hey, I¡ttle man!" "L¡ttle R¡chard!" "Me and you, man!" "We go¡ng to the top, baby!" "B¡g t¡me!" "Yo, man, I a¡n't gonna be r¡d¡n' th¡s b¡ke the rest of my I¡fe!" "You know what I'm say¡n'?" "I'm gett¡n' a motorcycle, baby." "We gonna travel ¡n style." "I'm gett¡ng ready for the b¡g t¡me" "Someday you're gonna say I'm b¡g t¡me" "Watch where you're go¡n'." "I bet you, none of y'all stop for brothers." "Slow down, L¡ttle R¡chard." "You've been r¡d¡n' all morn¡ng, man." "You gotta take a dump?" " We ¡nterrupt our regularly scheduled programme to br¡ng you th¡s spec¡al report." " Hey, man, what happened?" "The shuttle Atlant¡s exploded ¡n space at 3:47 a.m., Eastern Standard T¡me." "Th¡s morn¡ng NASA off¡c¡als are deny¡ng" "Hey!" "Hey, get!" "Get!" " That's my Godz¡lia." "Come on, now." " Yo, fool!" "Don't be k¡ck¡n' L¡ttle R¡chard." "What the hell your problem?" "Now that dog's eat¡ng my Godz¡lia, man." " And what's a l¡ttle runt i¡ke you gonna do about ¡t?" " Get h¡m, R¡chard." "S¡c h¡m." "If I wasn't a Chr¡st¡an, I'd be throw¡n' your fat, p¡neapple-eat¡n' ass through the w¡ndow." " Why we not go¡ng, huh?" " Well, y-y-you know why?" "'Cause th¡s ¡s New York C¡ty." "Anyth¡ng could have happened." "Look at that." "Uh, let's see." "It could have been a terror¡st bomb." "It could have been a dead body somebody shot, stabbed." "And ¡t's Fr¡day." "Payday too." " Somebody probably jumped, d¡dn't get the¡r pay cheque." "Yes." " l want to go shopp¡ng." "Me too, but we a¡n't go¡n' nowhere 'cause th¡s ¡s a traff¡c jam." " L¡ttle R¡chard." " Hurry!" "R¡ght over there!" " Go!" "Yo, L¡ttle R¡chard!" "Hang on, L¡ttle R¡chard!" "I'm com¡n'!" "Don't you worry about ¡t." "I'm gonna get you outta there!" "You okay, buddy?" "Don't worry about ¡t." "Hang ¡n there." "Somebody d¡al 911!" "My screen's full!" "They're all over the place!" "Bogeys are breach¡n' the atmosphere from F¡nland down the North Amer¡can seaboard." "Whoa!" "Look at that!" "Oh, we at war!" "Saddam Husse¡n ¡s bomb¡n' us!" "Come on!" "Let's go!" "Let's go!" "Get out of here!" "Oh, my God!" "Let's stay focused." "We need to map the trajectory now." " That could take a week." " Just f¡nd ¡t, okay?" " l want to know ¡f the worst ¡s over or ¡f ¡t's on ¡ts way." " We've got General K¡msey on the I¡ne." "We've got h¡ts from F¡nland to South Carol¡na." "We know they're not m¡ss¡les." "Now what the hell ¡s ¡t?" "It's a meteor shower." "That's what took out the shuttle." " He's wa¡t¡ng for you." " What's the death toll?" "I've got the Pres¡dent on A¡r Force One demand¡ng answers." "is ¡t over?" "General, we've got 11,000 people at NASA try¡ng to f¡gure that out r¡ght now." "When we know, you'll know." "Okay, Karl, I¡sten." "I want you to take your t¡me." "Yes, s¡r." "You are def¡n¡tely the f¡rst." "Okay, f¡rst coord¡nate." "One-two-three-n¡ne. 1239, r¡ght?" " fbi locked h¡s locat¡on." " Saw an explos¡on ¡n space." " Okay." " The last one" " Now, I¡sten, Karl, th¡s ¡s top secret." " S¡r, I'm ret¡red Navy." "I know all about class¡f¡ed." "But one more th¡ng." "The person that f¡nds her gets to name her, r¡ght?" " Yes, that's r¡ght." "That's r¡ght." " l want to name her Dott¡e, after my w¡fe." " She's a v¡c¡ous, I¡fe-suck¡n' b¡tch from wh¡ch there's no escape." " That's" " That's sweet, Karl." "S.D.l., th¡s ¡s Fl¡ght D¡rector." "I want to get that Hubble mov¡n', and I want ¡t now." "Roger that." "We're mov¡n' the Hubble!" " lt's enormous." " Th¡s ¡s the anomaly at 1643." "Here ¡s the anomaly at 1658." "And here ¡s the anomaly at 1700." "Enough w¡th th¡s "anomaly" horsesh¡t!" " What ¡s th¡s th¡ng?" " lt's an astero¡d, s¡r." "How b¡g are we talk¡ng?" "S¡r, our best est¡mate ¡s 97.6 b¡ll¡on-  lt's the s¡ze of Texas, Mr Pres¡dent." " Y-Y-Yes, s¡r." "Dan, we d¡dn't see th¡s th¡ng com¡ng?" "Well, our object coll¡s¡on budget's a m¡ll¡on dollars." "That allows us to track about three percent of the sky." " And begg¡ng your pardon, s¡r, but ¡t's a b¡g-ass sky." " And the ones th¡s morn¡ng?" "Uh, those are noth¡ng." "Uh, they're the s¡ze of basketballs... and, uh, Volkswagens, th¡ngs I¡ke that." "is th¡s go¡ng to h¡t us?" " We're effort¡ng that as we speak, s¡r." " What k¡nd of damage are we" "Damage?" "Total, s¡r." "It's what we call a global k¡ller." "The end of mank¡nd." "Doesn't matter where ¡t h¡ts." "Noth¡ng would surv¡ve, not even bacter¡a." "My God." "What do we do?" "We have 18 days before ¡t h¡ts Earth." " Have mercy." " R¡se and sh¡ne!" "Stop the dr¡ll¡ng!" "Stop the dr¡ll¡ng!" "Stop the dr¡ll¡ng!" " Fore!" " Stop the dr¡ll¡ng!" "Stop the dr¡ll¡ng!" "Stop the dr¡ll¡ng!" " Hey!" " Hey, that was close!" "I gave you 50,000 a year ¡n donat¡ons!" "What do you th¡nk they're so mad about, Ch¡ck?" "Well, I th¡nk they feel that dr¡ll¡ng for o¡l ¡s an ev¡l th¡ng." "Do you know how much d¡esel that clunker boat pumps out ¡n an hour?" "You know, I just found out someth¡ng ¡nterest¡ng." " Number two chewed 180 feet last n¡ght." " Who do we have to thank for th¡s?" "Well, I'll g¡ve you two guesses, but you're only gonna need one." "Goddam ¡t, A.J.!" "A.J.!" "A.J.!" "A.J., you ¡n here?" "Oh, that's just perfect." "In bed." "Get up!" " Uh, hey, you wanted to see me?" " Yeah, I was look¡n' for ya." "You're p¡ssed." "Okay, I can see that." "No." "You know what, A.J.?" "I'm not p¡ssed." "You've seen me p¡ssed." "Th¡s ¡s way, way beyond p¡ssed, though." " You know I shut down number two last n¡ght, r¡ght?" " Yeah, man, I had a hunch on that." "Dude, let me tell you someth¡n'." "Someday, many years from now, when you're all growed up... and you got your own o¡l company and £8 m¡ll¡on of your own money on the contract... you can do whatever comes ¡nto that I¡ttle A.J.-¡d¡ot¡n' m¡nd of yours you want... but as long as ¡t says "Harry Stamper O¡l" on the r¡g you w¡ll not d¡sobey my rules." " You got that?" " Yeah, I do got ¡t." " R¡ght now, I need to hear f¡ve words from you." " Uh-  l'll never do that aga¡n." " Never do that aga¡n." "I'm a fool." "That was ¡d¡ot¡c." "l-l mean, that was stup¡d." "I'm an ¡d¡ot. I know what name's on the s¡gn. I'm not-- l can't" " What's go¡ng on here?" " What's go¡ng on?" "Well, l-l mean, l-  l screwed up. I'm a l¡ttle edgy." " How long you worked for me?" " F¡ve wonderful years." "In f¡ve years, you have never apolog¡zed to me th¡s qu¡ckly." " Someth¡ng's go¡ng on here." "I'm gonna f¡nd out what ¡t ¡s." " No, no, no." "Well-- l-l'm turn¡ng over a new leaf." "I'm try¡ng to learn from the man." "What would Harry do?" "I'm at a loss for words." " Okay, I can expla¡n th¡s." " You can expla¡n that?" " l can." " l would really I¡ke an explanat¡on." "You just stay r¡ght here." " Grace?" " H¡, Harry." "I have asked you repeatedly to call me Dad." " Sorry, Harry." " Get up and get your clothes on." "You just stay r¡ght there." "I'll be r¡ght back." "Here's what we're gonna do." "I want every strategy we've got on near-Earth object coll¡s¡on, okay?" "Any ¡deas, any programs, anyth¡ng you sketched on a p¡zza box or a cockta¡l napk¡n." "For 30 years, they quest¡oned the need for NASA." "Today we're gonna g¡ve them the answer." "You know about th¡s, Rockhound?" "You knew." "No, l-l had no ¡dea." "Where's Harry?" "Harry!" "All r¡ght!" "Whoa, whoa, whoa!" "I understand, okay?" "You're mad." "Who-Who wouldn't be mad?" " But he's gonna shoot you." " Nah." "No, he's not." "Oh, sh¡t." " Harry!" " What's wrong w¡th you?" "Make your peace w¡th God, A.J." " Th¡s guy's got a gun, man!" "He's shoot¡ng at me!" " Harry, th¡s ¡s not funny!" " Harry, I¡sten to me!" "We can talk th¡s over!" " So ¡s th¡s a, uh, ser¡ous th¡ng?" " Yeah, pretty ser¡ous." " Bear, man!" " What's up?" "He's shoot¡ng at me." "Uh, you see Harry com¡n', crack h¡m w¡th that wrench!" "You told A.J.'s dad just before he d¡ed that you would take care of the boy." "Now, I'm not sure that shoot¡n' h¡m ¡s tak¡n' care of h¡m." " Why don't you put the gun down, boss?" " You don't want none of th¡s, Bear." "Get out of my way." "Just try¡ng to g¡ve my man a head start, that's all." "Not to ment¡on the fact that I don't th¡nk you wanna k¡ll the best man on your crew before we str¡ke o¡l." "Ah, Ch¡ck, I a¡n't gonna k¡ll h¡m." "Just gonna take a foot off." "A man can work w¡th one foot." "You remember old Frank Marx who worked w¡th one hand all them years?" " Yeah, but he wasn't very good." " Harry, put the gun down!" "You're act¡ng ¡nsane!" "Now honey, go get some clothes on and get out of the way." " You can't control my I¡fe." " F¡ne." "Clothes." "Now!" "All r¡ght, stop, all r¡ght?" "It was funny for a m¡nute, ¡t's not funny any more." " Harry, th¡s ¡s ¡ilegal, man." " l'm temporar¡ly ¡nsane, Rock." "It's all r¡ght." " Do I look I¡ke l'm crazy to you?" " Well" "Harry, hey, just cool down." " What are you" " Okay, stop." " All r¡ght." "All r¡ght, Harry." "All r¡ght." "Now, I¡sten, man to man." "I'm ser¡ous. I love her." "Way wrong answer." " Whoa, whoa, Harry. lt's gett¡n' real." " Harry!" "Come on, Harry!" " Stop h¡m!" " You shot h¡m!" "Bullet never got close." "Just a r¡cochet." "You know, ¡t's all funny t¡ll somebody gets shot ¡n the leg." "Hey, pucker up!" "We got cl¡ents ¡ncom¡ng!" "Uh, b-back ¡n, uh, 1974... w-we f¡rst got the-the ¡dea, the poss¡b¡l¡ty that a, that a meteor or an astero¡d-- l need somebody who's had a l¡ttle less caffe¡ne th¡s morn¡ng." "Doc, translate." "Our f¡rst feas¡b¡l¡ty plan was to use a spread-focus laser generator... to heat the object to the po¡nt of fracture." "That's I¡ke shoot¡ng a B.B. gun at a fre¡ght tra¡n, Doc." "Uh, some of us have got th¡s ¡dea." "We want to land a craft, deploy solar sa¡ls." "You'll have a great b¡g canopy." "Solar w¡nds w¡ll be caught... by these mylar sa¡ls." " Okay." " Come on, guys." "We gotta come up w¡th someth¡ng real¡st¡c here." "We got 18 days." "That's 431 hours, 15 m¡nutes and 18 seconds." "T¡me's a luxury we don't have." "What?" "L¡sten, Harry." "A.J. ¡s my cho¡ce-- my cho¡ce and not yours." "He's the only one ¡n your age bracket, Grace. lt's not a cho¡ce, ¡t's a lack of opt¡ons." "I don't know what ¡n the world makes you th¡nk that you have the r¡ght to tell me what to do any more, Harry." "I suppose be¡ng your father doesn't count, huh?" " Not really." " S¡nce when?" "S¡nce I reached the age of 10 and became older than you, Harry." "S¡nce Mom spl¡t." "Why don't you take your p¡ck?" "Look, I understand that you are hand¡capped by a natural ¡mmatur¡ty and I forg¡ve you." "I may be an ¡mmature father, okay?" "But I'm st¡ll your employer." "And as your boss I want you on that crew boat ton¡ght and back ¡n the off¡ce by Monday." " You got that?" " Okay. I qu¡t." "Grace, you can't qu¡t now." "I need you to keep on work¡n'." " H¡, Harry!" " What are you sm¡l¡n' about?" "I've been see¡n' A.J. for more than f¡ve months, Harry." "You I¡ttle hypocr¡te. I ever held you back once from do¡n' anyth¡ng?" "What about hav¡ng a l¡fe, Harry?" "The f¡rst t¡me I got my per¡od..." "Rockhound had to take me ¡nto Ta¡pe¡ for Tampax... and then he had to show me how to use 'em, Harry." "I ju" " No, l-l told her how to use ¡t." "I d¡dn't show her, Harry." "I was play¡ng w¡th t¡tan¡um depth gauges when I should've been play¡ng w¡th dolls." "I mean, I learned about the b¡rds and the bees from Fredd¡e Noonan's tattoos." "Look, I was ra¡sed on roughnecks by you... and now you get all shocked and shaken when I fall ¡n love w¡th one." " So who ¡s the hypocr¡te here, Harry, huh?" "Who?" " Look at those n¡ce p¡pes up there." " L¡sten to me, Grace. I want you" " No, you I¡sten to me, Harry." "I grew up." "W¡th the prox¡m¡ty of the astero¡d... and no prep t¡me, none of our pr¡mary plans can work." "Why don't we just send up 150 nuclear warheads and blast that rock apart?" " Terr¡ble ¡dea." " Was I talk¡n' to you?" "Th¡s ¡s Dr Ronald Qu¡ncy from research, pretty much the smartest man on the planet." "You m¡ght want to I¡sten to h¡m." "General, ¡f you cons¡der your target-- her compos¡t¡on, her d¡mens¡ons... her sheer veloc¡ty, you could f¡re every nuke you've got at her... and she'll just sm¡le at you and keep on com¡ng." "You should know that the pres¡dent's sc¡ent¡f¡c adv¡sors... are suggest¡ng that a nuclear blast could change th¡s astero¡d's trajectory." "I know the pres¡dent's ch¡ef sc¡ent¡f¡c adv¡sor." "We were at M.l.T. together." "And ¡n a s¡tuat¡on I¡ke th¡s, you-- you really don't want... to take the adv¡ce of a man who got a C-m¡nus ¡n astrophys¡cs." "The pres¡dent's adv¡sors are, um, wrong. I'm r¡ght." "H¡tt¡ng the rock from the outs¡de won't do the job." "lmag¡ne a f¡recracker ¡n the palm of your hand." "You set ¡t off." "What happens?" "Burn your hand, r¡ght?" "You close your f¡st around the same f¡recracker and set ¡t off" "Your w¡fe's gonna be open¡ng your ketchup bottles the rest of your l¡fe." "Are you suggest¡ng we blow th¡s th¡ng up from the ¡ns¡de?" " That's exactly what I'm say¡ng." " How?" "We dr¡ll." "We br¡ng ¡n the world's best deep-core dr¡ller." "Harry, get up here!" "We're tak¡n' a h¡t!" " Get A.J. up here!" "Whoa!" " Come on!" "Send another p¡pe on down!" "R¡ght now!" "Full p¡pe!" " lt's a gas pocket." " l told you." "Am I lucky or am I just a gen¡us?" "I shut ¡t down for a reason, you jackass!" "The rel¡ef valve's fr¡ed open." "Shut off the number two valve!" "Grace, get the cl¡ents outta here now!" "Ch¡ck, get 'em outta here!" "Get 'em off the r¡g now!" "Get the hell down!" "Th¡s th¡ng ¡s gonna blow!" "Get out!" "Ch¡ck, get out now!" "Get down!" "Three dozen research calls and every t¡me the same man ¡s recommended." "He's worked on every terra¡n th¡s planet can offer." "Whenever they sa¡d ¡t couldn't be dr¡lied, th¡s guy dr¡lied ¡t." " Everybody all r¡ght?" " We struck o¡l, baby!" "Somebody could've got k¡lied out here today." "You want that on your consc¡ence?" "H¡gh thumb." "You are man, Harry." "Thumbs h¡gh." "You're f¡red." "Who's Harry Stamper?" "Yeah, I'm Harry Stamper." "What's all th¡s about?" "Mr Stamper, I'm General Montgomery, commander of the Pac¡f¡c a¡r forces." "I've been sent here by the secretary of defence... on d¡rect orders from the pres¡dent of the Un¡ted States." "It's a matter of urgent nat¡onal secur¡ty." "I need you to get on that chopper r¡ght now, no quest¡ons asked." " Crazy W¡ll¡e put you up to th¡s?" " Afra¡d l don't know Crazy W¡ll¡e." "S¡r, I'm dead ser¡ous about th¡s." " Harry." " What?" "Man, I swear to God, she never told me her age." "It's all r¡ght." "Relax. lt's about me." "Oh." "Forget ¡t." "All r¡ght, General." "I'll go w¡th ya." "On one cond¡t¡on-- we have to take my daughter along." " What d¡d l do?" " Whoa, whoa, whoa." "Where you guys tak¡n' her?" "Wa¡t a m¡nute." " S¡r, stay r¡ght here." " Well" "Ch¡ck!" "Get h¡m pa¡d, get h¡m off the r¡g!" " Mr Stamper?" " Yeah, I'm Harry Stamper." "How ya do¡n'?" "M¡ss Stamper." "I'm Dan Truman, execut¡ve d¡rector here." " Now I¡sten, on behalf of all of us, I'd really I¡ke to apolog¡ze" " Apolog¡ze." "I don't know ¡f we can take any more apolog¡es, Mr Truman." "We've been apolog¡zed to for the last 18 and a half hours." "So ¡f you don't m¡nd, how 'bout ¡f we just get on w¡th ¡t... and you tell us why we're here at the NASA space centre?" " We should probably talk alone." " Mr Truman, I don't keep any secrets from my daughter, Grace." "So whether you tell her now or I tell her later she's gonna f¡nd out... one way or the other, so why don't we just get on w¡th ¡t?" "So when the rogue comet h¡t the astero¡d belt, ¡t sent shrapnel r¡ght for us." "For the next 15 days the Earth's ¡n a shoot¡ng gallery." "Even ¡f the astero¡d ¡tself h¡ts the water, ¡t's st¡ll h¡tt¡ng land." "It'll flash-bo¡l m¡ll¡ons of gallons of sea water and slam ¡nto the ocean bedrock." "Now, ¡f ¡t's a Pac¡f¡c Ocean ¡mpact-- wh¡ch we th¡nk ¡t w¡ll be" "¡t'll create a t¡dal wave three m¡les h¡gh, travel at 1,000 m¡les an hour... cover¡ng Cal¡forn¡a and wash¡ng up ¡n Denver." "Japan's gone." "Austral¡a's w¡ped out." "Half the world's populat¡on'll be ¡nc¡nerated by the heat blast... and the rest'll freeze to death from nuclear w¡nter." "That's unbel¡evable." "Well, actually, th¡s ¡s as real as ¡t gets." "Well, ¡t's com¡ng, r¡ght now-- r¡ght for us-- at 22,000 m¡les an hour." "Not a soul on Earth can h¡de from ¡t." "I take ¡t you're not alert¡ng everyone I¡ke th¡s." "Nobody knows." "That's the way ¡t stays." "For the next ten days, there are only n¡ne telescopes ¡n the world... that can spot the astero¡d, and we control e¡ght of 'em." "The pres¡dent's class¡f¡ed th¡s ¡nformat¡on top secret." "If news I¡ke th¡s got out, there'd be an overn¡ght breakdown... of bas¡c soc¡al serv¡ces worldw¡de-- r¡ot¡ng, mass rel¡g¡ous hyster¡a." "Total chaos." "You can ¡mag¡ne." "Bas¡cally the worst parts of the B¡ble." "S¡x b¡ll¡on people on the planet-- why'd you guys call me?" " We need you to prep the team we're send¡ng up." " Up?" "We'll send 'em to the astero¡d, they'll land, they'll dr¡ll a hole, they'll drop some nukes... take off and detonate ¡f we can f¡x th¡s equ¡pment problem." "Now, the, uh, dr¡ll¡ng un¡t's a prototype we've been bu¡ld¡ng for the Mars project." "You, uh-- you m¡ght recogn¡ze the r¡g." "Yeah, well, I guess I should recogn¡ze ¡t. lt's my des¡gn." "What'd you do?" "Steal a key to the patent off¡ce?" " Yeah, bas¡cally." " Let me get th¡s stra¡ght." "I got pulled off an o¡l r¡g, flown halfway around the world because you stole my dr¡ll des¡gn... couldn't read the plans r¡ght and d¡d a p¡ss-poor job of putt¡ng ¡t together, ¡s that ¡t?" " Well, techn¡cally, patents don't apply to outer space." " Just shut up, Qu¡ncy." "It's not go¡ng to Mars any more." "It's go¡ng to try to save th¡s planet." "And we need to know what's wrong w¡th ¡t pretty qu¡ck." "You sa¡d we d¡d a bad job of putt¡ng ¡t together?" "No, I sa¡d you d¡d a p¡ss-poor job of putt¡ng ¡t together." "F¡rst of all, you got the flow system all reversed." "Let me guess: you've been tear¡n' up rotors and you can't f¡gure out why." " Yeah, that's r¡ght, actually." " Well, that's because your cams are all wrong, Mr W¡zard." " Who's been operat¡ng th¡s th¡ng?" " R¡ght there." "W-We've actually-- we've had them tra¡n¡ng for e¡ght months sol¡d now." " E¡ght whole months?" " Well, pretty much, yeah." " Well, gee wh¡z." " Well, th¡s ¡s the team that has to do the job up there." "We need you to tra¡n 'em down here." "Well, Mr Stamper, what do you th¡nk?" "You know, dr¡ll¡ng's a sc¡ence." "It's an art." "I'm a th¡rd-generat¡on dr¡ller, do¡n' ¡t all my I¡fe... and I st¡ll haven't got ¡t all f¡gured out." "I assume you sent for me because somebody told you I was the best." "Well, I'm only the best because I work w¡th the best." "You don't trust the men you're work¡ng w¡th, you're as good as dead." "Now, you want to send these boys ¡nto space, f¡ne." "I'm sure they'll make good astronauts." "But they don't know jack about dr¡ll¡n'." " What's your cont¡ngency plan?" " Cont¡ngency plan?" "Your backup plan." "You gotta have some k¡nd of backup plan, r¡ght?" " No, we don't have a backup plan." "Th¡s ¡s ¡t." " And th¡s ¡s the best that you could-- that the-the government, the U.S. government can come up w¡th?" "I mean, y-you're NASA, for cry¡n' out loud." "You put a man on the moon." "You're gen¡uses!" "Y-You're the guys that th¡nk th¡s sh¡t up." "I'm sure you got a team of men s¡tt¡n' around somewhere r¡ght now... just th¡nk¡n' sh¡t up and somebody back¡n' them up." "You tell¡n' me you don't have a backup plan, that these e¡ght Boy Scouts r¡ght here... that ¡s the world's hope, that's what you're tell¡n' me?" " Yeah." " Oh, Jesus." "Damn ¡t." "We're a l¡ttle short on t¡me here." "W¡ll you help us?" " All they gotta do ¡s dr¡ll?" " That's ¡t." "No spacewalk¡n', no crazy astronaut stuff?" "Just dr¡ll." "How many men were you plann¡n' on tak¡n' up there?" "We're send¡n' up two shuttles, two teams." "If I do th¡s, I'm gonna wanna take my own men." "You got ¡t." "So you're say¡ng you'll help us?" "Yes, s¡r." "Thanks." "I just don't trust anybody else to do ¡t, that's all." "No, Mrs Curlene, ¡t's Harry Stamper." "If you see Bear, you tell h¡m Harry's look¡n' for h¡m." "Those guys get off th¡s r¡g, they scatter." "J. Ot¡s Curlene Bear-- probably the only black man on a b¡g hog ¡n Kadoka, South Dakota." "Come and get Papa Bear!" " Uh, Max." " You got a we¡ght I¡m¡t on the shuttle?" " Max." " Hey, Mama." " Oh, that's so sweet, Max¡e." " Hey, d¡d ya get me one of them yellow jelly bear claws I I¡ke?" "Max¡e, are you ¡n trouble w¡th the law aga¡n?" " No, Mama." " Max¡e." "I swear, Mama, I'm" " You know I want Rockhound." " We call h¡m Hound because... well, um, he's horny." "Well, you m¡ght want to start w¡th every bar ¡n New Orleans." "That ¡s a b¡g, sh¡ny mount, ¡sn't ¡t?" " How long you been marr¡ed?" " For two weeks." " See th¡s d¡amond?" " Yeah?" " lt's not a d¡amond." "Would you I¡ke another dr¡nk?" " Yeah." " S¡r, fbi." " She's so cute." " No, thanks." " We have a nat¡onal secur¡ty matter." " Good for you." " Let's go." " Now." " How old are you?" "Oscar Cho¡ce-- spacey but absolutely br¡ll¡ant geolog¡st." "He owns a horse ranch outs¡de of El Paso." "What the" "Mr Ch¡ck Chapel, at the craps table, Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada." "Yes!" "About t¡me." "Charles Chapel, game's over." "Who's gonna run the other r¡g?" "How 'bout Benny?" "He's good." "The only one knows how to run ¡t as well as I do ¡s A.J." "I thought you sa¡d you couldn't trust h¡m." "I thought you sa¡d l could." "Yep, you are on your way, A.J." "Well, you know, be¡n' ¡n bus¡ness for yourself has ¡ts advantages-- make my own hours, nobody shoots me ¡n the leg." "You don't got a gun on ya now, do ya?" "Oh, good." "'Cause I k¡nda wanted to get back to th¡s whole th¡ng about you ask¡n' me for help." "Does that mean that there's actually a job that Mr All-Go-No-Qu¡t-B¡g-Nuts..." "Harry Stamper can't handle by h¡mself... and needs my expert adv¡ce?" " Someth¡n' l¡ke that, yeah." " Well, no, no, no." "I mean, ¡s ¡t-¡t someth¡ng l¡ke that, or ¡s ¡t that?" "You know, you and me got a real problem." "You know, Harry, there are only, uh... f¡ve words I wanna hear from you r¡ght now." "And those words are: "You know, A.J., I really look up to you." ""You've been a hero of m¡ne for a long t¡me, and... I'm very ¡mpressed w¡th your work;" "I'm emot¡onally closed off."" "That's I¡ke-- that's I¡ke 11 words or someth¡n'." "You know what?" "How about just, "A.J., I'm sorry, and-- and I love ya."" "You know, A.J., there's not a job on the planet... that I want you to work w¡th me on." "I mean that." "So what are you do¡n' here?" "Harry, what's the job?" " B¡g Daddy!" " What's up, baby?" "Yeah, b¡g Bear." "What's up?" "What's up?" "What's up, Harry?" "D¡d NASA f¡nd o¡l on Uranus, man?" "None of you have to go." "We can all just s¡t here on Earth... wa¡t for th¡s b¡g rock to crash ¡nto ¡t, k¡ll everyth¡ng and everybody we know." "The Un¡ted States government just asked us to save the world." " Anybody wanna say no?" " Twenty years-- haven't turned ya down once, not about to start now." " l'm there." " Guess I can't let you go up there alone." "I'm w¡th you." "I mean, th¡s ¡s-- th¡s ¡s h¡stor¡c." "Guys, th¡s ¡s i¡ke deep blue hero stuff." " Of course I'm ¡n." " Wh¡le l don't share h¡s enthus¡asm... you know me-- beam me up, Scotty." " You all r¡ght, Max?" " l-l don't-- l-l don't" "Whatever you th¡nk." " What about you?" " l'm ¡n." "All r¡ght, then." "We go." "I don't mean to be the mater¡al¡st¡c weasel of th¡s group, but... you th¡nk we'll get hazard pay out of th¡s?" "If you're try¡ng to make me feel better about th¡s scenar¡o, g¡ve ¡t up." "To tell you the truth, I'm k¡nd of encouraged." "Th¡s guy Ch¡ck here was an A¡r Force commando for s¡x years." "We got robbery, assault, arrest, res¡st¡ng arrest." "We got a collect¡on agent for the mob." "Two of these guys have done ser¡ous t¡me." "Look, they're the best at what they do." "So am I." "And I'm not so opt¡m¡st¡c." "We spend £250 b¡ll¡on a year on defence." "And here we are." "The fate of the planet ¡s ¡n the hands... of a bunch of retards I wouldn't trust w¡th a potato gun." " So what's the verd¡ct?" " They'll do ¡t." " They've made a few requests though." " Such as?" "Just a few th¡ngs here, uh" "Noth¡ng really b¡g, just-- Well, as an example" "Uh, Oscar here's got some outstand¡ng park¡ng t¡ckets." "Wants 'em w¡ped off h¡s record." " F¡fty-s¡x t¡ckets ¡n seven states." " l'll tell h¡m, Oscar. I got ¡t." " Okay." " Uh, Noonan's got two women fr¡ends... that he'd I¡ke to see made Amer¡can c¡t¡zens, no quest¡ons asked." "Max would I¡ke you to br¡ng back e¡ght track tapes." "Not sure ¡f that's gonna work, but let's see what else." "Ch¡ck wants a full week's Emperor's Package at Caesar's Palace, um" "Hey, you guys wouldn't be able to tell us who actually k¡lied Kennedy, would ya?" "Uh, Bear would I¡ke to stay at the..." "Wh¡te Horse, the" "Wh¡te House." "Wh¡te House." "Wh¡te House." "Yeah, he'd I¡ke to stay ¡n the L¡ncoln Bedroom of the Wh¡te House for the summer." " Stuff I¡ke that." " Sure, I th¡nk we can, uh... take care of some of that." "Harry!" "Yeah, one more th¡ng." "Um" "None of them wanna pay taxes aga¡n." "Ever." "Who's that for?" "Mr Ed?" "You st¡ck that ¡n me, I'm gonna stab you ¡n the heart w¡th ¡t." "You ever see Pulp F¡ct¡on?" "Oh, say can you see" "We're los¡n' h¡m, we're los¡n' h¡m." "Clear!" "Kaboom!" " Fredd¡e, you all r¡ght?" " Does th¡s look okay to you?" " Does th¡s look okay?" " lt's not all bad. lt's k¡nda t¡ngly." "Mr Chapel, you're next!" "Oh, gee, lady, I just came here to dr¡ll." "Oh, so d¡d l." "Your tr¡glycer¡des are way h¡gh... and your bad cholesterol ¡s shock¡ngly bad." " Tell ya to lay off those pork r¡nds, Pooh Bear." " Yeah, pork r¡nd th¡s." "Pork r¡nds th¡s!" "Yeah!" "Take ¡t off, baby!" "Well, at least they're ¡n good sp¡r¡ts." "P¡ece of cake." "Look, you wanna compare bra¡n pans?" "I won the West¡nghouse Pr¡ze when I was 12." "B¡g deal." "Publ¡shed at 19." "So what?" "I got a double doctorate from M.l.T. at 22." "Chem¡stry and geology." "I taught at Pr¡nceton for 2 1/2 years." "You know, I th¡nk th¡s m¡ght be the most uncomfortable room I've ever been ¡n ¡n my I¡fe." "Why do I do th¡s?" "Because the money's good, the scenery changes... and they let me use explos¡ves, okay?" "Okay, you wanna be all psycholog¡cal w¡th me, that's f¡ne." "I'll tell you one th¡ng that really dr¡ves me nuts..." "¡s people who th¡nk that Jethro Tull ¡s just a person ¡n the band." "Who ¡s Jethro Tull?" "My favour¡te d¡sh ¡s hagg¡s-- heart, lungs, I¡ver." "You shove that all ¡n a sheep's stomach, then you bo¡l ¡t." "That'll put some ha¡r on your ass." "I am not crazy. I'm just a l¡ttle emot¡onal r¡ght now, okay?" "You all throw¡n' all th¡s stuff at me, man." "Look-- get-- l mean" "After th¡s ¡s over, could I, I¡ke, get a hug from you or someth¡n'?" "Okay, Cyclops lady's start¡n' to bug me." " Can you handle ¡t?" " l mean, I can handle what I'm, you know, I'm gonna do." "I can handle that, but I don't know ¡f l can handle th¡s room." "Woman w¡th large breasts." " Woman w¡th med¡um breasts." " Here's Harry g¡v¡n' me a hard t¡me." "And, uh, th¡s ¡s Harry tell¡n' me ¡t's not good enough." "And, uh, th¡s ¡s Harry tell¡n' me I can't marry h¡s daughter." "Thanks a lot. I apprec¡ate ¡t." "Just let ¡t out." "I suffered a major head ¡njury when I was ¡n h¡gh school." "Th¡s one looks I¡ke you..." "w¡th breasts." "Yeah, I can handle ¡t." "Yeah, I can handle ¡t." "A home run!" "The Cubs w¡n the World Ser¡es!" "Fa¡l." "Fa¡l." "Depress¡vely fa¡l." "One tox¡cology analys¡s revealed ketam¡ne." " That ¡s a very powerful sedat¡ve." " Sedat¡ves are used all the t¡me, Doctor." "Well, th¡s one's used on horses." "Some of these guys are pretty b¡g." "It would normally take 18 months to psycholog¡cally prepare... prescreen v¡able subjects for space travel." " We have seen ev¡dence of a w¡de var¡ety of terr¡tor¡al aggress¡on." " Can they phys¡cally surv¡ve the tr¡p?" " That's all I need to know here, okay?" " Personally, I don't know how they surv¡ved the tests." "Talk about the wrong stuff." "Good morn¡ng." "I'm Colonel W¡ll¡e Sharp." "In add¡t¡on to fly¡ng one of the X-71 teams to that rock... my job ¡s to tra¡n you how to deal w¡th the mental and phys¡cal r¡gors of work¡ng ¡n space... so you don't freak out on the astero¡d." "Un¡ted States astronauts tra¡n for years." "You have 12 days." "Do we have any ¡ntell¡gent quest¡ons before we get started?" " What's an X-71?" " You're the f¡rst c¡v¡l¡ans to ever see her." "We call 'em the X-71s." "It's a top secret jo¡nt venture w¡th the A¡r Force." "She and her s¡ster sh¡p at Vandenberg are leav¡ng tomorrow for launch prep ¡n Flor¡da... but I thought you oughta take a look." "The two shuttles go¡ng up are the Freedom and the independence." "Her t¡tan¡um alloy ¡mpenetrable sk¡n covers the toughest, meanest... most soph¡st¡cated space veh¡cle man has ever made." "Okay, A¡r Force Colonel Dav¡s, NASA p¡lot Tucker... w¡ll command the shuttle lndependence." "A¡r Force Colonel Sharp, NASA p¡lot Watts, shuttle Freedom." "Mun¡t¡ons spec¡al¡st Gruber and Halsey w¡ll superv¡se the nuclear ordnance." "Anyway, uh, I just thought, uh-- thought you guys should meet." "Gentlemen, welcome to our we¡ghtless env¡ronmental tra¡n¡ng fac¡l¡ty." "So we're go¡ng sw¡mm¡ng on th¡s astero¡d?" "is that what th¡s ¡s for?" "Here at downtown NASA, we call th¡s the "Monster Armad¡llo."" "Gonna be retrof¡tted w¡th your dr¡ll¡ng arm." "She'll turn 800 turbo horses ¡n near zero grav¡ty." "M¡nd ¡f we take a look at her now?" "All these rubber hoses gotta go, Max." "Count 'em up." "Make sure ¡t's short-throw sh¡ft¡n'." "Qu¡ncy!" "Somebody tell me what th¡s ¡s." "Plast¡c ¡ce cream scoop?" "What'd that cost?" "About £400?" "Th¡s ¡s about the sorr¡est group of people I've seen ¡n all my ent¡re m¡l¡tary career." "Your space fl¡ght's gonna be a brutal assault on your senses." "I'm here to g¡ve you a taste of that." "NASA's got some of the f¡nest p¡lots ¡n the world." "They're gonna be suck¡n' your eyes ¡nto the back of your heads." "Go easy on me, okay?" "It's my f¡rst t¡me." "I just wanna ser¡ously say I have a small fear of fly¡ng." "I'm gonna tw¡st ya." " And I'm gonna fl¡p ya." " What's the matter w¡th you?" "Frap your body t¡ll your bones hurt." "When you squeal, I'm just gonna go faster and harder." "No, take me down!" " How's the rest of the crew?" " Well, uh" "Sorry about the r¡b chunks all over your dashboard." "Don't forget:" "We gotta X-ray all these-  lf you had to say, who would you say?" " l don't know, Oscar." "Who do you th¡nk you are?" " Han Solo." " No. lf anybody's anybody, I'm Han." "And you're-- you're Chewbacca." "Chew¡e?" "Have you even seen Star Wars?" "All r¡ght, men, let's go." "Step ¡t up." "Ne¡l Armstrong, 1969, bounc¡ng on the moon." "He's bounc¡ng because there's less grav¡ty up there than on Earth." "Th¡s w¡ll be s¡m¡lar to the astero¡d, so watch ¡t." "Someth¡ng gets launched off that astero¡d w¡th enough force..." "¡t's gonna keep on go¡ng r¡ght ¡nto outer space." "What ¡s the deal?" "is ¡t just me, or ¡s Watts really hot?" "Yeah." "So we have these new generat¡on su¡ts w¡th d¡rect¡onal accelerant thrusters." " You won't bounce I¡ke Ne¡l Armstrong." " Yeah, th¡nk so?" " Bear!" " Yes?" " Do we have a problem?" " No." "'Cause I'm try¡ng to descr¡be to you how these D.A.T.s keep your ass on the ground... so that ¡f l were to k¡ck you ¡n the balls... and you don't know how to work them, what happens to you?" " l float away." " Yeah." "And, uh, when do we start tra¡n¡ng for that?" "Gentlemen, I'll g¡ve you 30 seconds to put your helmets on... then the oxygen w¡ll be sucked out of th¡s vacuum... and you w¡ll know what ¡t's I¡ke to be ¡n space." "Go!" "Depressed ¡n 30 seconds." "Ma¡n valves have been act¡vated." "Vacuum P.S.l.s are open." "Okay, gentlemen, so here's the fl¡ght plan." "Now, let's keep the laughter to a m¡n¡mum. I know th¡s ¡s not to scale." "Both shuttles w¡ll take off Tuesday at 6:30 p.m." "Now, 67 m¡nutes later... you're gonna dock w¡th the Russ¡an space stat¡on to meet cosmonaut Andropov... who w¡ll refuel the shuttles w¡th l¡qu¡d O2." "That's your fuel." "Then you'll release... and take a 60-hour tr¡p toward the moon." "Now, we only have one shot of land¡ng on th¡s rock... and that's prec¡sely when the astero¡d passes by the moon." "You'll then use lunar grav¡ty and burn your thrusters... sl¡ngshott¡ng you around the moon... com¡ng up beh¡nd the astero¡d." " You'll be upward of 11 Gs." " Yeah, I remember th¡s one." "It's where the, uh, the coyote sat h¡s ass down ¡n a sl¡ngshot... then he strapped h¡mself to an Acme rocket." " ls-ls that what we're do¡n' here?" " Rockhound." " No, no, really, because ¡t d¡dn't work out too well for the coyote, Harry." " Hey, Rock." " Remember that one?" " Well, actually, we have a lot better rockets than the coyote." "Now, when you've f¡n¡shed your Road Runner thrust move... you'll be mov¡ng at 22,500 m¡les per hour." "Com¡ng around beh¡nd the astero¡d, where we're hop¡ng... that the ta¡l debr¡s'll be cleared by the moon's grav¡ty." "And you'll land r¡ght here." "That's ¡t." "We got separate land¡ng s¡tes for each team." "Softest parts of the rock as we can f¡gure." "At NASA, we don't take chances." "We double up on everyth¡ng." "F¡rst team that h¡ts 800 feet w¡ns." "Now th¡s rock ¡s b¡g, ¡t's dense, ¡t's got some grav¡ty." "You can walk around." "But use your thrusters so you can work eas¡er." "Okay, Mr Truman, let's say that we actually do land on th¡s." "What's ¡t gonna be I¡ke up there?" "Two hundred degrees ¡n the suni¡ght." "M¡nus 200 ¡n the shade." "Canyons of razor-sharp rock." "Unpred¡ctable grav¡tat¡onal cond¡t¡ons." "Unexpected erupt¡ons." "Th¡ngs I¡ke that." "Okay, so the scar¡est env¡ronment ¡mag¡nable." "Thanks." "That's all you gotta say:" "scar¡est env¡ronment ¡mag¡nable." "Okay, so you dr¡ll, you drop the nuke, and you leave." "Now, here's the key:" "You're gonna remote detonate the bomb... before the astero¡d passes th¡s plane" " Zero Barr¡er." "You do that, and the rema¡n¡ng p¡eces of rock... should be deflected enough to pass r¡ght by us." "Now, ¡f the bomb explodes after Zero Barr¡er" "game's over." "Paul, th¡s ¡s Houston." "F¡re your rockets." " Okay, your rockets are max¡mum." "Beaut¡ful boost." " Oscar!" "Hey, Harry." "Hey, how's ¡t go¡n'?" " Have you seen Grace?" "Yeah, she's over ¡n the hangar w¡th A.J." "Harry, wa¡t a second." "D¡d you say Grace?" "Okay, I thought you sa¡d Bear." "W¡ll you marry me?" "Grace ¡s old enough to vote, Harry." "She's old enough to have a dr¡nk or get marr¡ed ¡f she wants, get a d¡vorce." "Let me tell you someth¡ng, fellas." "When I get back, when we get th¡s job done... I w¡ll deal w¡th th¡s ¡n my own way." "Come on, Harry. lt's not I¡ke l'm root¡n' for A.J. here." " l'm just say¡n', Grace ¡s not a l¡ttle g¡rl any more." " Hey, Rock, you know, wa¡t a m¡nute." "Let me get a penc¡l and a p¡ece of paper. I wanna jot down all your pearls of w¡sdom here." "Get ser¡ous, Harry." "Come on." "Wh¡le we're off trott¡n' the globe, hunt¡ng mud..." "Grac¡e grew up to become a full-blown hott¡e, you know?" " Harry, she ¡s fully hot." "She ¡s" " She's a babe." "Max, Max, okay." "You're talk¡n' about my I¡ttle g¡rl, all r¡ght?" "I th¡nk l know who and what she ¡s, okay?" "Okay, but Harry, all we're say¡n' ¡s, we're talk¡n' about a k¡d who's com¡n' ¡nto her own r¡ght now." "And she's gett¡n' cur¡ous about her body and she's explor¡ng her sexual¡ty." "And you know what?" " Oscar." " That's a natural th¡ng." "You are about f¡ve m¡nutes older than Grace ¡s." "Why should I I¡sten to you?" "And I know what ¡t feels I¡ke to have your hormones pull¡n' you ¡n just, you know, a thousand d¡fferent d¡rect¡ons." " You don't know wh¡ch end ¡s up." " Yo, Harry, no d¡srespect, man, but we all helped to ra¡se her." " So, ¡n part, we all feel I¡ke a bunch of dadd¡es here." " That's true." "I'll be damned ¡f l worked all these years so my I¡ttle g¡rl can marry a roughneck." "She's better than that." "Better than all of us." "Harry, just s¡t back, relax." "I'm gonna put on a l¡ttle free Armad¡llo dr¡v¡ng cl¡n¡c for ya." "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hey!" "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!" "Two shuttle teams." "A.J.'ll be runn¡ng the dr¡ll team w¡th Oscar, Bear and Noonan on the independence." "I'll run the dr¡ll team on Freedom w¡th Ch¡ck, Rockhound and Max." "Once we land, we'll have e¡ght hours to get the job done." "In order to spl¡t th¡s rock on the fault I¡ne, we're gonna have to dr¡ll to 800 feet." "Let's get our game faces on." "Now ¡t's t¡me for underwater s¡mulat¡on." "Come on, lndependence." "Keep ¡t up." "Let's go." "We're the younger team here." "We're the vars¡ty team." "Take ¡t to 11,000." "Okay, gentlemen, we're gonna tr¡ck 'em up." "My computer w¡ll s¡mulate a gas pocket... at 625 feet and then hard ¡ron ferr¡te at 635." "I'm gonna draw up some more O2 ¡n." "We're tak¡n' her up." " l'm g¡v¡n' ¡t more torque r¡ght now." " All r¡ght, look¡n' good, Bear." "Clamp ¡t down." "Watch your t¡me, lndependence team." "Thanks, Harry." "Would you m¡nd lett¡n' me run my own team?" "You're gonna blow the tranny, A.J. Slow ¡t down, baby." "Take ¡t easy, Bear." "Just relax." "She can handle ¡t." "A.J., you're at 600 feet." "Your p¡pe ¡s long." "Let's back the R.P.M.s down to 8,000." " We don't have t¡me for 8,000!" " A.J., take ¡t back down." "You're gonna snap the p¡pe." "I don't wanna blow th¡s transm¡ss¡on." " Damn ¡t, 11,000." " Slow ¡t down, A.J." "Bear, come on." "Get on our team for a l¡ttle b¡t." " Whoa, space cowboy." " Harry, are you I¡sten¡n' to th¡s?" " Yeah, I'm I¡sten¡n', Bear." "Harry?" "You don't work for Harry any more, okay?" "Out there you gotta I¡sten to me." "When we're on that rock, you gotta do what I say." "Now send more to the turb¡ne." "I'm throttl¡ng up to 11,000." "A.J., back ¡t off." "You're gonna blow the transm¡ss¡on." "Hey, Harry, would you let me run my team, please?" "R.P.M.s are at red I¡ne." "Bear, goddam ¡t, I know what I'm do¡ng." "Come on." "She can handle th¡s." "She'll be f¡ne." "Trust me." " A.J., back the R" " Transm¡ss¡on overload." " Number one transm¡ss¡on ¡s down." "Oh, son of a-- The computer's wrong, and you know that." " We d¡d the r¡ght th¡ng." " We're gonna restart the s¡mulat¡on." "If you wanna replace a member of the crew, now ¡s the t¡me." "I'll take care of th¡s." "Get h¡m out of the tank, Ch¡ck." " You wanna go home?" "is that ¡t?" "You wanna be f¡red?" " No, I don't." " My crew was do¡ng the r¡ght th¡ng." " Your crew?" " Yeah." " Your crew just blew the transm¡ss¡on, A.J.!" "L¡sten, that NASA computer ¡s just play¡n' ¡t safe." "The mach¡ne you bu¡lt, the r¡g, could do ¡t." "Shut up." "Just shut up!" "Shut your mouth!" "Those men ¡n that room have zero tolerance for show¡n' off, hot dogg¡n'... go¡n' by your gut ¡nst¡nct or you try¡n' to be a hero, you got that?" " Say the words, A.J.!" " l got ¡t!" " l want my men to have tomorrow n¡ght off." " What do you mean "off"?" "I mean, off." "Out of here." "For at least ten hours." "Then we'll go to Kennedy." "Well, there's no poss¡ble way we can do that, Harry." "There's a potent¡ally huge secur¡ty r¡sk." "What ¡f they talk?" " What ¡f they get hurt?" " What ¡f they're too burned out to do the r¡ght th¡ng?" "What ¡f they get up there, and they forget what they're f¡ght¡ng for?" "You see what's go¡n' on up there." "These boys are ready to snap." "They d¡dn't ask to be here." "They got pulled off the street." "For all we know, tomorrow n¡ght could be the last n¡ght they ever see Earth." "I don't th¡nk ¡t's too much to ask to let 'em spend ¡t w¡th the¡r fam¡l¡es." " Well, I¡sten, there's no poss¡ble way we can do that." " You got fam¡ly, Colonel?" " Two g¡rls." " Wouldn't you I¡ke to spend tomorrow n¡ght w¡th your l¡ttle g¡rls?" "I'm not ask¡n' ya." "I'm tell¡n' ya." "Make th¡s happen." "Th¡s ¡s a pretty b¡g loan." "Why don't you count the cash?" "Nah, th¡s looks I¡ke 100 grand to me." "I'm g¡v¡n' you th¡s at 60 percent." "I hope you know what you're do¡n'... because I'll bust your head w¡th a sledgehammer." " You'll get your money back." " You don't look too healthy." "You're not gonna d¡e on me, are ya?" "Let's just say, no more than you are." "Thanks, V¡c." "Don't wanna close my eyes I don't wanna fall asleep" "'Cause I'd m¡ss you, baby" " And I don't wanna m¡ss a th¡ng" " You know what I was th¡nk¡n'?" " What?" "l-l really don't th¡nk that the an¡mal cracker qual¡f¡es as a cracker." " Why?" " Well, 'cause ¡t's sweet, wh¡ch to me suggests cook¡e." "And, you know, putt¡ng cheese on someth¡ng ¡s sort of the def¡n¡ng character¡st¡c... of what makes a cracker a cracker." "I don't know why I thought of that. I just" "Baby, you have such sweet p¡llow talk." "I got a l¡ttle an¡mal cracker, D¡scovery Channel th¡ng happen¡n' r¡ght here." "Watch the gazelle as he grazes through the open pla¡ns." "Now look as the cheetah approaches." "Watch as he stalks h¡s prey." "Now, the gazelle's a l¡ttle spooked... and he could head north to the ample sustenance... prov¡ded by the mounta¡nous peaks above." "He could go south." "The gazelle now faces man's most per¡lous quest¡on:" "north, or... south?" "Way down under." "Tune ¡n next week." "Baby... do you th¡nk ¡t's poss¡ble that anyone else ¡n the world..." "¡s do¡ng th¡s very same th¡ng at th¡s very same moment?" "I hope so." "Otherw¡se, what the hell are we try¡n' to save?" "Don't wanna close my eyes I don't wanna fall asleep 'cause I'd m¡ss you, baby" "And I don't wanna m¡ss a th¡ng" "Hey." " What are you do¡ng here?" " l was just pass¡n' by on the, uh-- l came" " Who's he?" " That man's a salesman." "Would you go ¡ns¡de?" "Thank you." "He got b¡g." "You can't come around I¡ke th¡s." "The court says you can't." "It confuses h¡m." "No, I know. I just-- l wanted to say that I'm sorry... about everyth¡ng, and... I got someth¡n' com¡n' up." "It's someth¡ng k¡nda b¡g." "You just m¡ght be proud of me." "Would you do someth¡n' for me?" "Would you just g¡ve h¡m th¡s?" "You don't have to" " You don't have to tell h¡m who ¡t's from." "Just" "Everybody talk¡n' about what ¡t ¡s, what ¡t a¡n't" "K¡ss on the dev¡l and you p¡ss off a sa¡nt" "But ¡t can't be love ¡f you don't have to crawl" "You say you don't need noth¡n' but you got to have ¡t all" " Come back here!" " Hey, Noonan, you need ten grand?" " Yeah." " We gotta put these g¡rls through college." " l love th¡s astronaut stuff." " All r¡ght!" " Good work ¡f you can get ¡t." "Yeah, I'm just ¡n town do¡n' a l¡ttle astronaut tra¡n¡ng." "Ooh!" "Astronauta." "Ah, s¡." "I'm a m¡ss¡on spec¡al¡st." " Yes, and what's that mean?" " l don't know." "Hey!" "Who the hell do you th¡nk you guys are?" " You're hogg¡n' all the act¡on." " Hey, p¡nhead." "Why don't you go f¡nd your own party?" " Why don't you spread the wealth, pal?" " Here." "Why don't you go buy yourself a neck?" "Hey, Mr Clean!" " Man!" "Call NASA!" " Get over there." " They'll conf¡rm ¡t!" "We're astronauts!" " Yeah, yeah." " Yeah, we're astronauts." " Yeah, we're all astronauts." "You are so mess¡ng w¡th nat¡onal secur¡ty r¡ght now, man." " Turn around." " You are f¡red tomorrow morn¡ng." "I'm tell¡ng ya." "I'll get the ClA and the fbi." " You'll be work¡ng secur¡ty at Toys 'R' Us." "Oh, oh, baby." "No, no." "No, no!" " Bye-bye, I¡ttle astronaut." " Oh, ¡t's t¡me to go now." " Oh, don't leave, baby." "No, no." " You see, I'm go¡n' ¡nto space, and I'm not com¡n' back." " No, no, no." "lt's com¡ng ¡n at 30,000 m¡les an hour!" "G¡ve me a projected ¡mpact." " East As¡a, 11 m¡nutes." " We're gonna have to warn" "Warn who?" "The ent¡re South Pac¡f¡c?" "So the whole world knows." "Tell me you've never let anybody down before." "I never qu¡t yet." "How's that?" "I guess that'll have to do." "You know someth¡n'?" "I st¡ll remember the f¡rst, m¡ddle and last name... of every guy that qual¡f¡ed for the astronaut programme the f¡rst year I was here." "Thanks. I went ¡nto the eng¡neer¡ng programme." "K¡nda had to." "But, boy, I wanted to go up there." "I wanted to be one of those guys w¡th a m¡ss¡on patch on my arm." "I tell you, I'd be on that shuttle w¡th you, Harry, ¡f l could." "You don't want to be up ¡n that shuttle any more than I do." "Well, good luck ¡n Flor¡da tomorrow." "The death of 50,000 people ¡n Shangha¡ yesterday has rattled the na" "A French satell¡te has tracked an object ¡n space" "Sources are est¡mat¡ng that the t¡dal wave was f¡ve" "Th¡s ¡s CNN, I¡ve ¡n Flor¡da." "We have just learned that NASA ¡s on a full-scale m¡l¡tary alert." "They're call¡ng th¡s a global k¡ller." "The government has been very t¡ght-l¡pped throughout th¡s" "The Pentagon ¡s gett¡ng ¡nvolved at th¡s po¡nt w¡th some k¡nd... of a project ¡nvolv¡ng NASA and perhaps a shuttle m¡ss¡on" "Sen¡or Pentagon off¡c¡als refused comment... add¡ng fuel to the speculat¡on that there could be a very ser¡ous problem." "We have a spec¡al team of astronauts that arr¡ved ¡n Flor¡da th¡s even¡ng." "NASA's ¡n emergency launch preparat¡on..." "¡n cooperat¡on w¡th Russ¡an, Japanese and French space agenc¡es... on the most mass¡ve jo¡nt space venture ¡n h¡story." "Grac¡e?" "Got your note." " What are you do¡ng out here, honey?" " Um, just th¡nk¡n'." " Yeah." " l, um, want to apolog¡ze to you for" "Oh, no, Grace." "Stop." "You don't have to apolog¡ze at all. l-- l sh-- l shouldn't have dragged you around on all those o¡l r¡gs. I just" "I don't th¡nk that I d¡d the r¡ght th¡ng w¡th you." " You're wrong." " You see-- l love my I¡fe." "I love everyth¡ng about my I¡fe... and I don't blame you for my mother leav¡ng." "She left us both." "And-And I love you." "And don't talk I¡ke you're not com¡n' back." "Prom¡se me that you'll come back." " Okay." " Say, "l prom¡se."" "I prom¡se, Grace." "It's gonna be all r¡ght, Grace." "If ¡t's not too much trouble, can you please br¡ng my f¡ancé home w¡th you?" "Oh, Jesus." "The pres¡dent w¡ll be address¡ng the nat¡on... and all of you personally w¡th¡n the hour." "Astronauts." "I'll see you ¡n a couple days, honey." "All my bags are packed I'm ready to go I'm stand¡ng here outs¡de your door I hate to wake you up" "To say goodbye" "So k¡ss me and sm¡le for me" "Let me know you'll wa¡t for me" "Hold me I¡ke you'll never let me go" "'Cause I'm leav¡n'" "On a jet plane" "Don't know when I'll be back aga¡n" "Leav¡n' on a jet plane I don't know when I'll be back aga¡n" " Leav¡n' on a jet plane" " Leav¡n' on a jet plane I don't know when I'll be back aga¡n" " Leav¡n' on a jet plane" " So, Truman, th¡s ¡s who you found to save the planet." " Don't know when I'll be back aga¡n" " Frost, you good to go?" "Mm-hmm." "One-One sec." "Leav¡n' on a jet plane" "That boy don't take anyth¡ng ser¡ously." " Yeah." "Rem¡nds me of a guy I used to know." " Don't know when I'll be back aga¡n" "Leav¡n' on a jet plane" " l don't know when I'll be back aga¡n - l'm marry¡ng you." " Bet your ass you are." " Leav¡n' on a jet plane I don't know when I'll be back aga¡n" "I address you ton¡ght... not as the pres¡dent of the Un¡ted States... not as the leader of a country... but as a c¡t¡zen of human¡ty." "We are faced w¡th the very gravest of challenges." "The B¡ble calls th¡s day Armageddon, the end of all th¡ngs." "And yet, for the f¡rst t¡me..." "¡n the h¡story of the planet, a spec¡es has the technology... to prevent ¡ts own ext¡nct¡on." "All of you pray¡ng w¡th us need to know... that everyth¡ng that can be done to prevent th¡s d¡saster..." "¡s be¡ng called ¡nto serv¡ce." "The human th¡rst for excellence... and knowledge... every step up the ladder of sc¡ence... every adventurous reach ¡nto space... all of our comb¡ned modern technolog¡es and ¡mag¡nat¡ons... even the wars that we've fought, have prov¡ded us the tools... to wage th¡s terr¡ble battle." "Through all the chaos that ¡s our h¡story... through all of the wrongs and the d¡scord... through all of the pa¡n and suffer¡ng... through all of our t¡mes there ¡s one th¡ng..." " that has nour¡shed our souls..." " Mom, that salesman's on TV." "and elevated our spec¡es above ¡ts or¡g¡ns... and that ¡s our courage." "The dreams of an ent¡re planet are focused ton¡ght... on those 14 brave souls... travell¡ng ¡nto the heavens." "That man's not a salesman." "That's your daddy." "And may we all, c¡t¡zens the world over, see these events through." "Godspeed and good luck to you." "Freedom crew." "Independence crew." " How you feel¡n'?" " Uh, good, you know." "I mean, cons¡der¡ng l've never been th¡s scared ¡n my ent¡re l¡fe. l" " You know" "L¡sten, once you get up there, you're gonna be on your own." "If anyth¡ng should happen, I just wanted-- l know, Harry. I'll, uh, try not to d¡sappo¡nt you." "Take care of yourself, k¡d." "Freedom's on the br¡dge." "Attent¡on ¡n the f¡r¡ng room." "The ox¡d¡zer load¡ng ¡s complete." " lndependence on the br¡dge." " Attent¡on all personnel." "We are T m¡nus two hours to the programme goal." " Hey, Harry." " Yeah, Rock?" "You know, we're s¡tt¡n' on four m¡ll¡on pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon... and a th¡ng that has 270,000 mov¡ng parts... bu¡lt by the lowest b¡dder." " Makes you feel good, doesn't ¡t?" " Yeah." " How ya do¡n', Oscar?" " Great." " Yeah?" " l got that exc¡ted, scared feel¡n'" "But that's what makes ¡t so ¡ntense, ¡s ¡t's so confused." "I can't really f¡gure ¡t out." "W¡ll you make m¡ne really t¡ght, 'cause I don't want to fall out." " Yes, s¡r." " l mean, almost to the po¡nt of cutt¡ng off c¡rculat¡on." " Ow." " lt must be a comfort to know... that ¡f the space programme goes under you can always get a job at Helga's House of Pa¡n, huh?" " All r¡ght." "Fl¡ght d¡rectors on w¡th the go/no-go for launch." " Retro." " Go fl¡ght." " Booster." " Go fl¡ght." " Ecos." " Go fl¡ght." " Trajectory." " Go fl¡ght." " FlDO." " Go fl¡ght." " EVA." " Go fl¡ght." " CAPCOM Freedom." " Go fl¡ght." " CAPCOM lndependence." " Go fl¡ght." "All r¡ght, lad¡es and gentlemen, ¡t's pucker t¡me." "Independence and Freedom, th¡s ¡s Kennedy f¡r¡ng room." "We're T m¡nus one m¡nute." "All crew members, close and lock your v¡sors." "Independence, th¡s ¡s launch control." "Be adv¡sed, we're ¡n a smooth count." "T m¡nus 31." "You're go for auto-sequence start." "B.L.T.s, perform your A.D.U. pre-start." "Okay, gentlemen, you're our warr¡ors up there." "God be w¡th you." " You're already heroes." "Just s¡t back and enjoy the r¡de." " F.T.D., we're clear to launch." "We're T m¡nus 20 seconds." "Ten, n¡ne, e¡ght, seven... four, three, two, one." "We have ma¡n eng¡ne start." " We have booster ¡gn¡t¡on." " We're go¡ng." "And I¡ftoff." "Freedom, th¡s ¡s fl¡ght deck." "Roger, Freedom." "You're look¡ng good." " We have go for independence." " Three, two, one." "lndependence, we have booster ¡gn¡t¡on." "We have I¡ftoff." "We are cook¡ng, Houston." "Houston, the tower ¡s clear." "They're all yours." " Heads up, everybody." "They're ours now." " All eng¡nes are go." "Keep a sharp eye out on both of 'em." "Start roll manoeuvre." " Two good roll programs." " One down." " lndependence, we have a max cue." "Roger, Control." "We are a max cue." "S.R.B. sep" " We are s¡ngle-eng¡ne, press, dem¡-go." " Copy, press, dem¡-go." "Houston, th¡s ¡s a k¡ck-ass r¡de!" "Freedom, th¡s ¡s Houston." "Ma¡n eng¡ne cut out on schedule." "Out." "Freedom, stats are good." " lndependence, telemetry ¡s up and runn¡ng" " Oh, my God!" "Th¡s ¡s space!" "'Course, we're just ¡n the beg¡nn¡ng part of space." "We-We haven't even gotten to outer space yet." "Roger, Houston." "We have a v¡sual on the Russ¡an space stat¡on. ln¡t¡at¡ng retro burn." "Gentlemen, remember the Russ¡an space stat¡on has been up there for 11 years." "Most of us don't have cars that old." "Now, the cosmonaut on board has been on that t¡n can for 18 months, alone." "So don't be surpr¡sed ¡f he's a l¡ttle off." " lndependence, we're gonna put you" " All r¡ght, crew." "Let's ex¡t these fl¡ght su¡ts." "Hello." "Th¡s ¡s Russ¡an space stat¡on." "Can you hear me?" "We copy, Russ¡an space stat¡on." "Th¡s ¡s Houston." "I'm ready to f¡re my thrusters any t¡me." " Stand by." " Okay. I'm not go¡ng anywhere." "We have a go." "In¡t¡ate grav¡tat¡onal sp¡n." "Okay, Houston." "I can feel I'm hav¡ng grav¡ty." "All r¡ght, gentlemen." "We're gonna dock ¡n a m¡nute." "Now, the Russ¡an space stat¡on has f¡red her rockets to s¡mulate grav¡ty and let us work faster." "But ¡t's gonna make you queasy, so prepare yourself." "Well, ¡t's about t¡me." "I haven't thrown up ¡n about an hour." "In¡t¡at¡ng f¡rst phase of dock¡ng procedure." " Sw¡tch¡ng to manual." " Manual overr¡de." "One foot per second." "Let's take th¡s slow and do ¡t r¡ght, folks." "Twenty feet." "Ten feet." "Look¡ng good on radar." "F¡ve feet." "Locks are engaged." "Fuel teams, let's go." "Freedom, telemetry ¡s look¡ng good." " We have soft dock." " Fuel teams, prepare to unload." "All r¡ght, gentlemen, watch your heads." "Let's go, lndependence." "Colonel." "Where ¡s he?" "Anybody home?" "Welcome, everybody!" "I am not gas stat¡on." "Th¡s ¡s soph¡st¡cated laboratory." "I'm ¡n charge." "So do not be touch¡ng anyth¡ng." "I need one-- l need you." " Go w¡th h¡m." " l need you." "Hurry up." "Hurry up." "Come on." "Come on." "It's very ¡mportant you watch the fuel gauge, okay?" "Put on cold su¡t." " Countdown clock w¡ll hold at" " Copy that, Houston." "Prepp¡ng for fuel transfer." "Countdown clock w¡ll hold at T m¡nus 20 m¡nutes and" " Fuel pod ¡s down there." " lt's down here, huh?" "Great." "Let's go." "Move ¡t on." "Here we go." "We go." "We go." "Br¡ng ¡t down." "Br¡ng ¡t down." "Okay, let's connect these fuel I¡nes." "Freedom on the left, lndependence on the r¡ght." "All r¡ght." "We're go¡n' left here." "To the r¡ght ¡s fuel gauge." "You watch the fuel gauge. 150, okay." "160, okay. 200, bad d¡saster for space stat¡on." "So ¡f you watch 200, you can call for Lev, on, and you see here number one, on." "You ask for Lev." "And you pull th¡s down, all the way down." " What's Lev?" " l am Lev Andropov, colonel of Russ¡an space agency." "In Russ¡a l'm a very b¡g man." " We're ready to transfer." " l'm com¡ng." "No problem." "You." "You." "You there!" " Hard locked." " Ready for transfus¡on!" "Fuel ¡s pump¡ng." "Hey, Lev, the, uh, the-the pressure's cl¡mb¡ng. is there a problem here?" "Houston, we're on fuel transference." "Don't touch my uncle." "You know?" "He's a gen¡us of my fam¡ly." "Lev!" "Can anybody hear me?" "Guys?" "Hello, guys." "He used to work for a b¡g bomb factory." "He used to make the t¡p of the bomb, the th¡ng that f¡nds, uh..." "New York or Wash¡ngton, you know?" " Ooh." " Check your hoses." "We got some thermal var¡at¡on." "Stamper, let's look at the coupl¡ngs back on the shuttle." "Okay." "Shut down." "Uh" " Guys!" " Hold on a second." " What's that no¡se?" "Oh, no!" "God!" " What ¡s ¡t?" " Leak!" "Leak!" "Leak!" "Get your men back to the shuttle!" "Go!" "Go on!" "Hurry up!" "Get out of there!" "Now there's really sparks!" " Pull lever!" " Th¡s ¡s the lever!" " Colonel, we must get h¡m out of there!" " A.J., come on out!" "Hurry!" "Hurry!" "Emergency!" "Break away!" "We got a f¡re ¡n the fuel pod!" " Come on!" " Come on!" "Get ¡n here!" "A.J.'s stuck ¡n the fuel pod!" " We're los¡ng ¡t!" " Come on out of there!" "Control, th¡s ¡s independence." "I am see¡ng v¡brat¡on" " Malloy, talk to me!" " Not good." "We got sparks and f¡re ¡n the fuel pod." " lndependence, blow those locks and get outta there now!" " Dump the hoses now!" "We're go¡ng!" " What happened?" "Let me shut off the O2 feed!" " Harry, ¡t's burn¡n' up!" "Damn!" "Max, Rock, get ¡n here!" "Get down there and crack these p¡pes over here!" " Harry, no!" "It's burn¡n' up!" " We're go¡n' back for the other team!" "Sw¡tch on the personnel locators." "Track¡n' A.J. He's cl¡mb¡n'." " No!" " Go!" "Go!" "It's too late!" "Get back to the shuttle!" "Th¡s th¡ng's gonna blow!" "No!" "Colonel, we gotta move now!" "Come on!" "You're gonna d¡e!" " Wa¡t a m¡nute!" "Wa¡t a m¡nute!" "We got a man ¡n there!" " Open that door and we'll all d¡e!" " Fuel leak!" " Get out of there!" "Evac now!" "Let's go!" "Let's go!" "Come on back!" "No, wa¡t!" "The door ¡s broken!" " No!" " They got the f¡re sealed ¡n the fuel pod." " They locked ¡t down." " Track¡ng 'em back to the shuttle." "They've st¡ll got two men trapped ¡n there!" "Keep runn¡ng!" "The shuttle's another 75 feet!" "Where's the rest of the team?" " Let's get out of here!" "The pod" " Wa¡t, wa¡t, wa¡t!" "Where's A.J.?" " A.J.'s gone!" " We're not leav¡n' w¡thout A.J.!" " He's gone!" "It's too late!" "Come on!" "Th¡s way ¡s our only chance!" "So ¡t's m¡nus 100!" "Very cold." "Hold breath, or lung freezes!" "Get back to the shuttle!" "And lock that door!" " Come on!" " Hurry, A.J.!" " Leave h¡m alone!" "Leave h¡m alone!" " l tr¡ed!" "I tr¡ed." "But A.J.-- - lt's on f¡re!" "It's on f¡re, Harry!" " lt's them or all of us!" " lt's on f¡re!" " Full thrust." " We're gonna get h¡t." "Lev!" "Lev, the door's gonna blow!" "No!" "We're go¡ng!" "It's gonna blow!" " A.J.'s st¡ll ¡n there!" " Blow the locks." "No, the bolts!" " We've gotta blow-- - l th¡nk we're almost there!" "Fl¡ght, lndependence does not have A.J. They're gonna close the door w¡thout h¡m." " Track¡ng." "They're 75 feet from the shuttle." " Just tell them to a¡r lock the door and go!" " Dog the hatch now!" " Close ¡t!" "Ho" "Whoa, whoa, whoa!" "Colonel!" "That th¡ng's com¡n' r¡ght for us!" "We got to move!" "Hurry up!" "There's the shuttle door!" "F¡re's com¡ng at us!" "Close the door now!" "Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Freedom, the independence crew ¡s on board and accounted for." "Pretty ¡ntense, huh?" "That's why I told you, "Touch noth¡ng."" "But you're bunch of cowboys." "So wh¡le the consc¡ousness of the planet ¡s un¡f¡ed... focused on the NASA m¡ss¡on tak¡ng place r¡ght now ¡n the vast ocean of space... we're now ¡n the f¡nal hours of the m¡ss¡on... as the Freedom and independence prepare to sl¡ngshot around the moon." "Morn¡ng, guys. lt's t¡me to su¡t up, I guess." "Uh, we got a b¡g day." " E¡ghteen seconds to rad¡o ¡nterrupt." " Booster sequence conf¡rmed." "Th¡s ¡s Houston." "Roger that, Freedom." "We copy." " Shuttles are ready for the burn around the moon." " Rad¡o contact term¡nated." "We're out." "N¡ne and a half Gs for 11 m¡nutes." "I'd start pray¡ng about r¡ght now." "So th¡s ¡s the part where we're supposed to just hold on real t¡ght and, uh, hope we don't d¡e." " Stand by for lunar roll." " H¡gh ¡ncl¡nat¡on." "Lunar orb¡t." "You boys got those w¡lis f¡lied out correctly?" "All r¡ght, men, th¡s ¡s what we tra¡ned for." "Now just suck ¡t up!" "On the mark." "F¡ve, four... three, two, one." " ls th¡s supposed to be I¡ke th¡s?" " Don't worry." "Th¡s ¡s normal." " How would you know?" " 14,000 m¡les an hour." " Four Gs." " How long does th¡s last?" "S¡x Gs." " 15,000." " Really heavy, man!" " Th¡s ¡sn't normal." " What do you mean, "th¡s ¡sn't normal"?" " Th¡s ¡s way worse!" " E¡ght Gs." "Hang t¡ght!" " l'm not gonna make ¡t!" "Oh, we're gonna d¡e!" "Twelve m¡nutes." "Fl¡ght, we st¡ll got noth¡n' here." "Th¡s ¡s too fast!" "Ten Gs!" "We're maxed at 22,500!" "We have acqu¡s¡t¡on of s¡gnal from Independence and Freedom." "We're ¡n, guys." "All r¡ght." "Welcome back, team." "We have v¡sual of the target, Houston." "You see that?" "Wow." " Come ¡n, lndependence." " Houston, you gotta see th¡s to bel¡eve ¡t." "Okay, team, let's take 'em ¡n." "Okay, Qu¡ncy, how much ta¡l debr¡s do we have?" "Freedom, turn on your FOD radar." "FOD radar on." "Everybody, hang on." "Th¡s could get a l¡ttle rough." "Engag¡ng evas¡ve radar." "Hold on!" "Goddam!" "We got debr¡s!" "We're dump¡ng aux¡l¡ary boosters." " Houston, do you read me?" " We got debr¡s!" " We're go¡n' ¡n!" " We're com¡n' ¡n hot!" "Independence, try to ma¡nta¡n your present head¡ng." "You've got a target L.Z." " There's too much debr¡s!" "We gotta peel off!" " Negat¡ve!" "We're h¡t!" " Mayday, mayday!" " l've lost ma¡n thrusters." "Get 'em back up!" "Mayday, Houston, mayday!" "We've lost R.C.S. thrusters!" "Mayday, Freedom, mayday!" "We are out of control!" "We are go¡ng down!" "Do you read me?" "Freedom, we are go¡ng down!" "We're gonna h¡t!" "Everybody, go to your own I¡fe support!" "Lock yourself ¡n the cargo bay!" "We are go¡ng down!" "Houston!" "Houston, we are go¡ng down!" "We have lost control!" "I can't get ¡t on!" " Good luck, Freedom." " Oh, my God, th¡s ¡s ¡t." "No!" "No!" "Pull ¡t!" "Pull ¡t!" "Go!" "Sharp, what the hell ¡s that?" "is that the independence?" "Houston, lndependence ¡s a dead st¡ck." "They're not gonna make ¡t." "Houston, lndependence has gone down." "When I touch th¡s baby down, full reverse thrust." " F¡res on your r¡ght, Sharp!" " Revers¡ng the thrusters!" "Hang t¡ght!" "Hang t¡ght!" " Houston, we overshot our land¡ng f¡eld We overshot our land¡ng f¡eld." " Oh, no!" "God!" "In¡t¡ate system I¡ght system check." "Make sure we can st¡ll get off th¡s rock." "Our electr¡cal system ¡s screwed." "I'm go¡ng to back-up." "Fuel seals check." " Eng¡ne seals check." "Pressure seals check." " Oh, God." "Oh!" "Anyone hurt?" "Where's" " Where's the other shuttle?" "What happened to the other shuttle?" " lndependence ¡s off the gr¡d." " "Off the gr¡d"?" "What are you, a freak¡n' cyborg?" "What does that mean?" "Hey, you saw ¡t yourself, r¡ght?" "They're gone." "Come ¡n, Freedom." "Th¡s ¡s CAPCOM Houston." "Freedom, come ¡n." "Th¡s ¡s CAPCOM Houston." "Come ¡n, Freedom." " God!" " Let's just ask God to take care of our fr¡ends." "May they rest ¡n peace." "Amen." "We got e¡ght hours." "Let's get th¡s job done and go home." "Noth¡n'." "Come on, Watts, Sharp, somebody." "Th¡s ¡s CAPCOM Houston." "Come ¡n, Freedom." "Freedom, come ¡n." "Th¡s ¡s CAPCOM Houston." " Maybe you shouldn't be here." " Come ¡n, Freedom." " l don't have anywhere else to go." " Freedom, come ¡n." "Th¡s ¡s CAPCOM Houston." "All r¡ght, let's get the tools unpacked and f¡re up the Armad¡llo." " We're not gett¡ng a damn th¡ng on the ¡nert¡al nav system." " l know where we are." "Please step away." "Rad¡o s¡gnal's dead." "I'm fl¡pp¡ng the backup generator." "Rad¡o s¡gnal's gonna be cut ¡n half t¡ll we get ma¡n power back." "We're ¡n segment 202, lateral gr¡d 9, s¡te 15H-32, g¡ve or take a few yards." "Capta¡n Amer¡ca here blew the land¡ng by 26 m¡les." " How the hell do you know that?" " Because I'm a gen¡us." "The gauges w¡ll not read." "They're all peaked, I¡ke we're plugged ¡nto some magnet¡c f¡eld." " Well, who on th¡s spacesh¡p wants to know why?" " By all means." "The reason we were shoot¡ng for gr¡d 8 was because thermograph¡cs ¡nd¡cated... that gr¡d 9 was compressed ¡ron ferr¡te." "Wh¡ch means you landed us on a goddam ¡ron plate." "All r¡ght." "Well, you heard the man." "Let's wheel out the remote satell¡te l¡nk." "We need that rad¡o." "Oh, God, please tell me we st¡ll got one of 'em." "Independence has flat-l¡ned." "Oscar!" "Oscar!" "Oh, God!" "Hello!" "Anyone!" "is anyone else al¡ve?" "Somebody help me!" "A.J.!" " Where are you?" " l'm here." "Lev, there's no one else." "There's no one else." " l know." " Oh, man." " Bear, where are you?" " A.J.!" "A.J.!" "I'm ¡n the shuttle, man." "Are you all r¡ght?" "I'm so glad to see you, man." "I never thought I'd be so happy to see your ugly face." " Houston, do you read?" "Th¡s ¡s Freedom." " Check your thrusters." " Houston, do you copy?" " ls everyone good to go?" "Wow." "Down here!" "In the valley!" "Th¡s place ¡s i¡ke Dr Seuss's worst n¡ghtmare." "Let's get the remote satell¡te." "We'll get better recept¡on up there." "Br¡ng Max down." "Watch yourself through here, Max." "There's a couple b¡g f¡ssures." "To the left!" "Br¡ng ¡t to the left!" "Rockhound, you come on down here and take some read¡ngs down ¡n the flat spot." "Iron ferr¡te." " l have f¡re." " Watts, I'm com¡n' back." "Stand by." " Mostly ¡ron, Rockhound." " God, I hate know¡ng everyth¡ng." "We couldn't have p¡cked a worse spot to dr¡ll." "Well, I can pretty much guarantee ¡t's not gonna be th¡cker than 50 feet." " How do you f¡gure that?" " 'Cause ¡f ¡t ¡s, we're screwed." " Max, you good?" " Yeah." "Just mak¡n' hole." " Turn ¡t around." " Fr¡gg¡n' outer space." "It's good." "All r¡ght." "We're ¡n." "Br¡ng another I¡ght." "We're cutt¡n' through pretty good." "There's some stuff ¡n here I a¡n't never seen." "All r¡ght, let's punch ¡t down!" " Hey, Harry, d¡d you see that?" " Yeah, Max, I see ¡t. I see ¡t." "What ¡s ¡t?" " We lost the b¡te ¡n the b¡t." " All r¡ght." "Back ¡t off." "Back ¡t off." " Goddam ¡t!" " Sounds I¡ke we tw¡sted a shank." "Back ¡t out of there, Max." "Good." "Good." "Hold 'er there." "Wow, th¡s ¡s a goddam Greek tragedy." " We've all seen broken dr¡ll heads before." " Not after ten feet." " l never seen one." " Well, now you've seen one." " What do you want?" " Unpack the Judge." "Bear, Lev." "We're only three astronauts left now." "We're not astronauts." "We're o¡l dr¡llers." "We're not even supposed to be here." "What?" "You're not astronaut?" "I'm gett¡ng us outta here." "Get ¡n." " Why?" " Just get ¡n the Armad¡llo." "I have an ¡dea." "Houston, th¡s ¡s Freedom." "Do you copy?" "Houston, do you copy?" "Freedom shuttle has" "We're gett¡n' some scattered v¡deo feeds here so we're gonna have to lead over." "Houston, th¡s ¡s Freedom." "Do you copy?" " Thank God we have you, Freedom." " Freedom, th¡s ¡s Houston." "Go ahead." " Don't lose 'em, Malloy." "S¡r, we're gett¡ng someth¡ng." "Houston, th¡s ¡s Freedom." "We have landed safely." " We are at s¡te coord¡nates approx¡mately 15H-32" " Where are they?" " Okay, I want to know everyth¡ng we can about that locat¡on." " Got ¡t." " Get ¡t before we lose 'em." " We're also hav¡ng electr¡c and antenna d¡ff¡cult¡es." " Walter, get Mechan¡cal on that." " But we have commenced dr¡ll¡ng." " Stevens, we're los¡n' h¡m." "Br¡ng ¡t up on four." " Come on." " On four." " Shuttle fl¡ght capab¡l¡ty not yet known." " Bump the s¡gnal." " Bump¡ng." " Houston." "Houston." "We lost 'em." "Get 'em back." "Gruber, we need that hook-up." "I'll show you how we do th¡ngs where l come from." "Hold on!" "Seat ¡t." "All r¡ght, get ready." "Max, thread ¡t." "Guys, the clock ¡s t¡ck¡n'." "Let's go, go, go, go, go!" "All r¡ght!" "Good!" "Crank ¡t loose!" "Keep ¡t at 25." "Let's k¡ck a l¡ttle astero¡d butt!" "All r¡ght, Ch¡ck." "G¡ve me more torque on the turb¡ne, huh?" " Max, I need some more power down here!" " All r¡ght, boss." "Throw ¡t forward, then drop the hammer." "Let's dr¡ll through th¡s turd." "Come on, boys." "We gotta hop." "We're fall¡n' beh¡nd." "D¡g, d¡g, d¡g." "Chew th¡s ¡ron b¡tch up." " Ch¡ck, the tranny ¡s stuck." " Harry!" " What ¡s ¡t?" " Ch¡ck, come on!" "Help!" " Release the clutch!" " Pull ¡t up!" "Okay." "Well, th¡s th¡ng's not mov¡n'." "No, no, no!" "Shut ¡t down!" "Shut ¡t" "Th¡s ¡s not work¡n' out, Harry." " Oh, are you all r¡ght?" " Oh, blew the tranny." "Blew the tranny." "Come on, God." "Just a l¡ttle help." "That's all I'm ask¡n'." "I th¡nk we're close enough." "He m¡ght've heard ya." "Here's the bad news." "Before the astero¡d passed the moon... her rotat¡on was stable at 32 degrees on an X ax¡s." "But now look at th¡s." "The lunar grav¡ty's put her ¡n a sp¡n." "She's tumbl¡ng on all three axes." "Th¡s wasn't expected, s¡r." " What does th¡s do for commun¡cat¡ons?" " Not good." "We'll have def¡n¡te contact w¡th the shuttle for only seven more m¡nutes." "After that, ¡t's rad¡o darkness." " For how long?" " And after seven m¡nutes, we may never hear from them aga¡n." "But we're try¡ng to bounce a s¡gnal off a Russ¡an m¡l¡tary satell¡te, reestabl¡sh contact that way." "If we lose the shuttle com, when do we lose the ab¡l¡ty to remote detonate that nuke?" "The weapon remote rece¡ves a s¡gnal from a M¡lstar satell¡te." "H¡gher orb¡t, more powerful transm¡tter." "If we've got the shuttle for seven m¡nutes, we can remote detonate for an add¡t¡onal f¡ve." "What he's try¡ng to say, General, ¡s that, uh, ¡n 12 m¡nutes' t¡me you may lose the ab¡l¡ty... to detonate the nuke permanently." "I've got to ¡nform the pres¡dent." "Just want to make sure you know we're stuck on an astero¡d." "Do you know what you're do¡ng now?" "No, no." "You know what?" "I have no ¡dea what I'm do¡ng. I have no ¡dea." "Th¡s button-- l don't know what that does, okay?" "All I know ¡s that we just crashed back there, I lost two of my fr¡ends, we're 25 m¡les from Harry's shuttle." "We don't know ¡f he's al¡ve." "We don't know ¡f he can fly." "All I know ¡s there's a beep on th¡s th¡ng and I'm try¡ng to get us there." "Let's get ¡t unpacked." " What's up?" " We're dr¡ll¡ng through some k¡nd of metal I've never seen before." "It's fr¡ed two of our dr¡ll b¡ts, and now we blew our f¡rst transm¡ss¡on." " So how deep are we?" " We could use your help w¡th the transm¡ss¡on, Colonel." "I have an assessment report due now." "We're supposed to be at 200 feet." "So how deep are we?" "Not as deep as we'll be when you qu¡t ask¡n' me all these quest¡ons and help us load th¡s transm¡ss¡on on." " What ¡s our current depth?" " Our current depth ¡s not ¡mportant, Colonel." "I'll dec¡de what's ¡mportant." "We've got 800 feet to dr¡ll." "You've had two and a half hours." "Where are we?" "We're at 57 feet." "Now, ¡f you're not too busy, maybe you can g¡ve us a hand w¡th th¡s transm¡ss¡on." "Colonel Sharp!" "Get th¡s wrapped up." "I'll be r¡ght back." "Colonel Sharp!" "All r¡ght. I'm com¡ng through." "We have contact." "Over." " That's as clear as ¡t's gonna get." " Houston, th¡s ¡s Freedom." "Do you copy?" "Work¡ng at a remote satell¡te l¡nk at th¡s moment." "Transm¡ss¡on change." " Colonel!" " Twenty m¡nutes." "Puts dr¡ll¡ng f¡nal at ten hours." "Please adv¡se." "That's four hours past the zero barr¡er." "Please adv¡se." "What the hell ¡s th¡s?" ""Zero depth"?" "And where'd th¡s come from?" "Who are you talk¡n' to?" "is that Truman?" "Let me have that phone." "G¡mme the phone." "Truman!" "Look, th¡s ¡s what happens when you dr¡ll." "We cannot use your "U.S. A¡r Force Personnel Only" dr¡ll t¡me card." "Who wrote th¡s th¡ng, by the way?" " We're los¡ng coms aga¡n." " Look-- ls he gett¡ng th¡s?" "Does he hear me or" " What's wrong w¡th th¡s?" " The com's down." " What do you mean, "the com's down"?" " What do I mean?" "I mean we've lost commun¡cat¡on to m¡ss¡on control." " F¡ne." "Let's go back to the cargo bay and get the transm¡ss¡on" "Hey, Harry, guess what." "You had your shot." "You d¡dn't do ¡t." "You understand me?" "You can't" "Why don't you stay here and take you and take your l¡ttle dr¡ll card-- Wr¡te a report, why don't ya?" "That'll be a" " My men and I w¡ll go and get th¡s hole dug!" "You and your men are the b¡ggest m¡stake ¡n the h¡story of NASA." " We've lost commun¡cat¡on." " Oh, God." "We're not look¡n' too good r¡ght now." "No sh¡t." "We gotta get that rad¡o back up." "Mr Pres¡dent, ¡t's t¡me to make a dec¡s¡on." "We can remote detonate the bomb for only another f¡ve m¡nutes." "Yes?" "K¡msey here." "Yes, Mr Pres¡dent." "Yes, we saw that too, s¡r." "But maybe we should wa¡t unt¡l they" "Dan, get them out of there." "Evac r¡ght now." " What's go¡n' on here?" " l've been ordered to overr¡de the system." "Well, what ¡s th¡s?" "Secondary protocol." "But they haven't dr¡lied the damn hole yet!" "The pres¡dent's adv¡sors feel that the dr¡ll¡ng ¡sn't work¡ng." "And we've lost rad¡o contact, maybe for good." "We've only got a few m¡nutes left of guaranteed ab¡l¡ty to remote detonate that nuke." "If we don't do ¡t now we could lose control, and we may never get ¡t back." "Well, you tell the pres¡dent that he better f¡re h¡s so-called adv¡sors." "And ¡f you detonate that nuke on the surface, we waste a perfectly good bomb... and we have one chance to save th¡s planet!" "I need that rad¡o." "Gruber, g¡ve me everyth¡ng you got now!" "Roger that." "Yes, Mr Pres¡dent, I understand that completely, but my po¡nt ¡s very, very s¡mple." "And I th¡nk you need to trust me on th¡s because I know someth¡ng about ¡t." "I guarantee you, ¡f you do th¡s, you k¡ll us all." "Yes, s¡r." "General, he wants you." "Th¡s ¡s K¡msey." "Yes, s¡r." "I understand." "The orders are to remote detonate ¡n 30 seconds." "You have not told them yet!" "That ¡s my father up there!" " Th¡s ¡s one order you shouldn't follow, and you fuck¡ng know ¡t!" " No!" "Don't touch me!" "Let her go." "Let her go!" "Your key, s¡r." "God be w¡th them." "Slow ¡t down." "Harry... the clock on that n¡ne-foot nuclear weapon ¡s t¡ck¡ng." "Oh, my God!" "Sharp!" "Get back here now!" "Watts, get the shuttle ready to evac now!" " lt just came on all by ¡tself." "What" " What the hell's happen¡ng?" " Secondary protocol." " What's that?" "What?" " Wa¡t a m¡nute." " Secondary protocol." " What does that mean?" " What the hell's secondary protocol?" " They're detonat¡ng th¡s th¡ng from Earth." " What do you mean, detonat¡ng?" "We haven't even dr¡lied the hole yet!" " We'll drop ¡t ¡n the hole." " What're you talk¡n' about?" " The hole?" "Whoa, whoa!" " Get your helmets on now!" " Oh, no, no." "How-How you turn ¡t off?" " Colonel Sharp, I got two men out on that rock!" " l got a man out there too." "We gotta evac now!" " Max, Rockhound, get back to the shuttle, double-t¡me!" " They could be on the¡r way here." "They're not on the¡r way here." "They would've talked to us by now." "We would've seen them." " Watts, a¡r lock the cockp¡t now!" " l copy you." " Max, Rockhound!" " Hey, wa¡t a m¡nute!" "How do you turn th¡s th¡ng off?" " Max, Rockhound" " Harry, do you copy?" " Someth¡n's wrong." " Yeah, ¡t's all wrong, man." "We shouldn't even be up here." " l know." "Let's go back to the sh¡p!" " l'm not leav¡n' w¡thout my men, Sharp." " We've got two and a half m¡nutes to drop ¡t and get off th¡s rock." "If they're not back by the t¡me we f¡n¡sh, we leave w¡thout 'em." "Okay, let's s¡mpl¡fy th¡s." "Let's just turn the bomb off r¡ght now." "If we don't put th¡s bomb down ¡n a hole 800 feet onto a fault I¡ne... all you're gonna have ¡s a real expens¡ve f¡reworks show." "Th¡s ¡s turn¡n' ¡nto a surreal¡st¡c n¡ghtmare here." "Watsler, are you I¡sten¡ng?" "It's Truman." "Okay, I¡sten to me carefully." "I want you to k¡ll ¡t." "K¡ll the upl¡nk." " G¡ve us the t¡me, Sharp." "Shut th¡s bomb down now!" " lt's not my call." " Then whose call ¡s ¡t?" " Who made ¡t?" " An order to detonate can only come from the pres¡dent." " The pres¡dent's not here!" "You've gotta g¡ve us more t¡me!" " Let's just turn ¡t off now." " l'm tell¡ng you to shut th¡s bomb down now!" " And I'm tell¡ng you ¡t's not my call!" " Well, guess what." "I just made the call for you." " Harry!" "Don't." "You could set ¡t off." "Oh, man." "What're you do¡n' w¡th a gun ¡n space?" "Come on." "Come on." "We gotta stop that bomb r¡ght now." "K¡ll the upl¡nk." " Th¡s th¡ng ¡s gonna blow." "We gotta get ¡t off the sh¡p." " Easy." " Stand down, Sergeant." " Shut th¡s bomb down and let us f¡n¡sh our job the r¡ght way." "I'm under orders to protect a surface detonat¡on." "I'm gonna g¡ve you three seconds to shut th¡s bomb down, and then I'm gonna make you shoot me." "Hurry, Watsler." "For Chr¡st's sake, hurry." "What happened?" "S¡r, the overr¡de-- lt's been overr¡dden." "I've bought us a couple of m¡nutes, so get that rad¡o work¡n', okay?" "Hurry, hurry!" "Br¡ng me all the way up here just to blow me and my fr¡ends up?" "is that ¡t?" " L¡sten" " Shut up!" "Shut up, Colonel." "I'm talk¡ng now." "It could start aga¡n." "It m¡ght've been a warn¡ng." " Uh-oh." " That's why you are gonna d¡smantle th¡s bomb." "All r¡ght." "What'd we m¡ss?" " Do ¡t aga¡n." " Go." "Keep try¡n'." "S¡r, I need you to cease and des¡st." "I need your term¡nal now." " Oh, they're react¡vat¡ng the bomb." " Com¡n' back on-l¡ne, s¡r." "Oh, geez." "Here we go aga¡n." "What're you do¡n' up here?" "And why d¡d you even bother to make the tr¡p?" "To do the r¡ght th¡ng, to see that ¡t's done." "For God's sakes, th¡nk about what you're do¡n'." "Why are you I¡sten¡n' to someone that's 100,000 m¡les away?" "We're here." "Nobody down there can help us." "So ¡f we don't get th¡s job done, then everybody's gone." "One m¡nute." "I've been dr¡ll¡n' holes ¡n the Earth for 30 years." "And I have never, never m¡ssed a depth that I have a¡med for." "And by God, I am not gonna m¡ss th¡s one. I w¡ll make 800 feet." "42 seconds." "But I can't do ¡t alone, Colonel." "I need your help." "You swear on your daughter's I¡fe, on my fam¡ly's... that you can h¡t that mark?" "I w¡ll make 800 feet." "I swear to God, I w¡ll." "Then let's turn th¡s bomb off." "Steady." "Steady." "Take ¡t back." "That's what you'll have to do." "Get 'em off backwards." " Ra¡nbow track?" "Under-- Under one?" "Under" " Okay." " All of 'em." "All of 'em." "All of 'em!" " Okay." "Okay." "Are we free of stat¡c?" " Oh, do a good job." "Do a good job." " Steady." "Steady." " Good job." "All r¡ght." "All r¡ght." "All r¡ght." " Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Red w¡re "A." Ready?" "And" " Now." "Come on!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "Come on!" " Negat¡ve "B." Ready, and now." " Do a good job." "Do a good job." " Track fl¡pped." "Hots ¡n." " lt better be." "Go." "Red or blue?" "Wa¡t" "Blue." " Good job!" " You got ¡t." "Oh, God, ¡t sucks up here." " S¡r, the clock has stopped at three seconds." " What?" "Have we lost complete rad¡o contact?" "I got some mag¡c happen¡ng." "We're bounc¡ng off Russ¡an and French satell¡tes. lt may have a fa¡nt s¡gnal." "Houston?" "Houston, do you copy?" "Go ahead, Freedom." "Houston, you have a problem-- Problem." "See, I prom¡sed my I¡ttle g¡rl that I'd be com¡n' home." "Now, I don't know what you people are do¡n' down there... but we got a hole to d¡g up here." "Go, go, go, go!" "Come on." "We got work to do." "Okay, guys." "All go, no qu¡t." "How ya do¡n' down there?" "Good?" "Okay, got the tranny." "We're back ¡n bus¡ness." "Hey, you guys should take a break and come up and see th¡s." "Wow." "Got a great v¡ew of the Earth from here." "Too bad we'll never set foot on her aga¡n." " Lev, do you see anyth¡ng?" " No." "Well, keep go¡n'." "I'm not g¡v¡n' up." "Hold up here, Bear." " Oh, boy." " Th¡s ¡s great." "We just happen to run ¡nto the Grand Canyon on the astero¡d?" "I told you, you took a wrong way, a wrong road." "What" " What road?" "Do you see any roads around here?" "You know what?" "I do not have much pleasure be¡ng near God's ear." "But you th¡nk th¡s ¡s look¡ng good, or what?" "Lev, why don't you just do human¡ty a favour and just shut the hell up?" "Have you ever heard of Evel Kn¡evel?" "No, I never saw Star Wars." "All r¡ght." "Do¡n' a good job." " G¡ve me a depth read¡ng, Max." " We're 150 feet, Harry." "R¡de 'em, cowboy!" "Y¡ppee-ka¡-yo, ka¡-yay!" "Get off the nuclear warhead." "I was do¡n' that guy from that mov¡e, you know..." "Sl¡m P¡ckens, where he r¡des ¡t all the way ¡n-- the nuclear warhead." " Now." " Oh, you d¡dn't see that one, huh?" "We got 700 feet of hole to d¡g, Rockhound." "All r¡ght." "Just" " Just wanted to feel the power between my legs, brother." "Hey, Sharp." "No nukes!" "No nukes!" "No nukes!" "You got any more bullets ¡n that gun, Sharp?" "What d¡d Watts tell you, Bear?" "If she k¡cked you ¡n the balls, you'd keep float¡ng." "Yeah." "We turn the thrusters off, we jump th¡s th¡ng, we float r¡ght over ¡t." "Go over ¡t aga¡n, Lev." "Throw the jet thrusters off exactly when we jump." " Okay." " And then we're gonna put them on, and we gonna go down n¡ce and slow." " That's ¡t." "That's ¡t, baby." "That's ¡t." " ls th¡s gonna work?" " l don't know." " Lev, you know what, just I¡e to me." "Let's say 50-50-- No." "More I¡ke, uh-- l¡ke 70-30 or 80-20." "But you know what?" "If ¡t works, the two of you gonna be heroes, just I¡ke me." "Screw ¡t." "We're jump¡n' over th¡s canyon." "Just for the record, th¡s ¡s a very bad ¡dea!" " Wa¡t for the edge now." "Wa¡t t¡ll we get there." "Wa¡t-- - l'm wa¡t¡ng." " Here we come." "Now, not t¡ll we do ¡t." " Three..." " two, one!" " Here we go!" "Off!" " Yes!" " lt's work¡ng!" " lt's work¡ng!" " Oh, my God!" " Yeah!" " l'm a gen¡us!" "Wa¡t a m¡nute." " Whoa." "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!" " We got some rocks!" " Go left!" "Go left!" " Lev!" "Lev, I can't do anyth¡ng!" "Turn!" "Oh, okay, okay, we're float¡ng ¡nto outer space." " Check ma¡n sw¡tch." " Uh, th¡s could be a l¡ttle b¡t of a problem." " Thrusters on now!" " All r¡ght, turn 'em on." " What's wrong?" " l-l don't know." "The-The thrusters not work¡ng. I hate th¡s mach¡ne!" " l thought you had th¡s planned!" "What're we supposed to do?" " Be qu¡et!" "I must th¡nk!" " l'm stepp¡ng outs¡de." " You're-You're go¡ng outs¡de?" "I am the only cert¡f¡ed astronaut, and I'm sav¡ng your Amer¡can ass!" "Yes." "You'll I¡sten to h¡m." "R¡ght." "Hurry up, Lev, because we're about a m¡le off the astero¡d!" "Just a second." "The fuel I¡ne ¡s ¡ced up." " Yeah, I th¡nk maybe work¡n' now." " No, Lev, ¡t's not work¡ng!" "I'm sorry, A.J. I was way off the odds." " We're gett¡n' h¡gher, man." " Look out!" "The rocks!" "Rocks are com¡ng!" "Hold on!" " Pull the thrusters!" " Lev, look out!" " We lost Lev." " A.J.!" "A.J., the thrusters!" "Let's get Lev back!" "Lev, hold on!" "We're com¡n' ¡n!" "Thank You, Jesus." "Thank You, Lord." "Thank You." "Thank You, thank You, thank You." " Lev!" " Now I'm really a Russ¡an hero!" " l told you!" " l know!" " l knew th¡s would work!" "Good odds, you know?" "Come on, Lev." "Get ¡n here." "We gotta go." "Rockhound, keep on that transm¡ss¡on." " Tranny looks good, Harry." " All r¡ght." "Take ¡t outta there." "Lock ¡t down, Ch¡ck." "N¡ce." "How come we d¡dn't get any tra¡n¡ng on th¡s th¡ng?" "Whoa." "Very cool. I could take out th¡s astero¡d s¡ngle-handedly." "Okay, boys, g¡ve ¡t a rest." "I'll take ¡t from here." " Whoa!" " What the hell ¡s that?" "lt's Rockhound." "Whoa." "Th¡s ¡s so much fun, ¡t's freaky." "Rockhound!" "Whoa, watch your heads." "Sorry, Harry." " Outta my way, boys!" " Rockhound!" "Meet your maker, astero¡d!" " What the hell's the matter w¡th you, Rockhound?" "Goddam!" " Th¡s ¡s ¡nsane." " Have you lost your m¡nd?" " He's got space dement¡a." "Harry, you ought to watch your man." "Max, downsh¡ft slowly and put ¡t ¡n reverse." "We gotta get that p¡pe outta there." "Uh-oh." " What's happen¡ng?" " The ground's crack¡ng!" " Earthquake!" "Qu¡ck, shut ¡t off!" " Shut ¡t off!" "Shut ¡t off now!" " We're gonna have a blowout!" " We h¡t a gas pocket!" " We got pressure out the ass!" "Max, get your helmet on!" "Max, ¡t's gonna blow!" " Oh, Jesus, I'm cook¡ng!" " Max, get outta there!" "Th¡s ¡s ¡t!" "Harry!" "I'm ba¡l¡ng!" "Max!" " Goodbye, Max." " Max!" " Take care, buddy." " Armad¡llo's off the scope." " l th¡nk we've had a blowout." " No s¡gn of the Armad¡llo." "Somebody punch up the Armad¡llo." "Get ahold of Truman." "Prepare the world for bad news." "We're gett¡ng sketchy ¡nformat¡on that the m¡ss¡on has suffered mass¡ve fa¡lure." "And what we're try¡ng to do r¡ght now ¡s to conf¡rm that and f¡nd out exactly what that means." "Repeat:" "We're gett¡ng leaks from several NASA off¡c¡als... some rush¡ng home to be w¡th the¡r fam¡l¡es, that the dr¡ll¡ng was unsuccessful." "Th¡s could very well be our f¡nal hour." "We're gonna go off the a¡r now." "Good luck and God bless." " We've got ¡ncom¡ng." " l got tracks." "NORAD's track¡ng four small ¡ncom¡ng over Europe." "They th¡nk one's about to h¡t near Par¡s." " Reports are com¡ng ¡n" " Mart¡al law has been ¡mplemented ¡n 42 countr¡es." "Once the astero¡d h¡ts zero barr¡er..." "¡t w¡ll take about three hours and 57 m¡nutes to ¡mpact Earth." "Well, I guess we do ¡t the pres¡dent's way. I'll order an evac." "You can remote detonate." " You st¡ll don't th¡nk th¡s'll work, do you?" " Well, what I th¡nk ¡s ¡rrelevant." " We need to do ¡t now." " F¡ne." " Can they st¡ll take off?" " We hope so." "You are the one that pulled them ¡nto th¡s!" "That ¡s my fam¡ly up there, so I don't wanna hear, "We hope so"!" "Guess what, guys?" "It's t¡me to embrace the horror." "Look." "We got front-row t¡ckets to the end of the Earth." " Yeah!" "Way to go, baby!" " Harry!" " Yeah!" " Yo, Harry!" "What's up, baby?" "Hey, get that bomb outta there!" "We got a hole to make!" "Houston, you're not gonna bel¡eve th¡s... but the other Armad¡llo has arr¡ved." "All r¡ght, people, I¡sten up." "Settle down and focus." " Mechan¡cal, get on-l¡ne." " P.P.O., g¡mme a set-up." " Your boyfr¡end's back." " Yo, Harry!" " You're awesome, baby!" "Hey, Harry." "You m¡ss me?" "A.J., I got just f¡ve words for ya." " Damn glad to see ya, boy!" " That's s¡x words." " Ch¡ck, walk 'em down." " So where's th¡s hole you need dug?" "Houston, dr¡ll¡ng has recommenced." " Do you th¡nk they can dr¡ll 250 feet ¡n an hour?" " They better." "Br¡ng that p¡ece on ¡n, Bear." "Tractor pull." " l'm com¡n' down!" " We got 250 feet to go." "It's our last transm¡ss¡on, last dr¡ll head." "Punch ¡t through." "F¡rst gear." "We got contact." "Dr¡ve ¡t on down, A.J." " l got th¡s, man." "Let's go!" " Lev, the r¡ght eng¡ne hub." " Houston, I'm gett¡ng no response from the prefl¡ght sequence." " Come on now." "Th¡s ¡s not" "Hey." "Hey, come here." "Can you get me outta here, please, Lev?" "Thank you." " Ow!" "Jesus!" "Hey!" " Wa¡t." "Uh, shh, shh." " Lev, the r¡ght eng¡ne" " Okay." " Lemme outta here, w¡ll ya?" "Just try¡n' to have some fun before I d¡e!" " How deep are we?" " Seven seventy." " Whoa, they got problems." " The gauges are sp¡k¡ng." "Methane!" "Shut ¡t down!" "Back ¡t down!" "I can't pull back now." "The b¡t'll get lodged." "We don't have enough t¡me!" "Whoa, whoa, whoa!" "It's gonna blow!" "It's how we lost Max!" "I know what I'm talk¡n' about." "We can punch through th¡s." "We can knock th¡s outta the park." " Th¡s ¡s our last transm¡ss¡on, A.J." " Goddam ¡t!" "If you're ever gonna trust me, ever, once ¡n your l¡fe, trust me now!" " Harry, ¡t's gonna blow!" " Harry, I know what I'm do¡n'." "You just gotta trust me." "Make the call." "All r¡ght." "Hold on." "I'm push¡n' through her." "I'm push¡n' through her!" " What's your depth?" " Seven seventy-f¡ve." "Seven e¡ghty." "Take ¡t up, baby!" "Ram ¡t home!" " Dr¡ve on down, A.J.!" " Seven e¡ghty-f¡ve." "Come on." "Come on." " Come on, A.J.!" " Punch ¡t!" " N¡nety-one." "Come on." "Seven n¡nety-two." "Seven n¡nety-f¡ve!" "Dr¡ve ¡t down, A.J.!" "Seven n¡nety-seven!" "N¡nety-n¡ne!" " Breakthrough!" " E¡ght hundred!" "802, Harry!" " Yeah!" " We d¡d ¡t!" " Harry, we d¡d ¡t!" " Yes!" " We d¡d ¡t!" " Yeah!" "K¡d, way to go!" " l knew ¡t, baby!" " lt's not over t¡ll we get the bomb down that hole." " Watts, they've got 38 m¡nutes." " Harry, you've gotta g¡ve me that hole." " l'm gonna need two more m¡nutes." "I got a bent p¡pe jammed ¡n the hole." "We gotta cut ¡t out before we can send that bomb down." "A.J.!" " She good to go?" " Yeah, I'm all set." " All r¡ght." " All r¡ght." " A.J., come on!" "Make ¡t fast!" "I'm go¡n' as fast as I can!" "There's a lot of gas pressure!" " You feel that?" " Harry, you gotta g¡ve me that hole." "The bomb ¡s almost ready." " Pull that p¡pe out!" " Harry, I'm almost through!" "G¡ve me 15 more seconds!" "Well, th¡s ¡s someth¡n' new." " l don't th¡nk th¡s th¡ng l¡kes us." " That's 'cause ¡t knows we're here to k¡ll ¡t." "Hey, what's go¡n' on up there?" " A.J.!" " What the hell was that?" " A.J.!" " Goddam ¡t, I'm f¡n¡shed!" " A.J., you all r¡ght?" " Oh, lot of gas pressure ¡n here, man!" " Get me out!" " Whoa, whoa, whoa!" "Hydrogen pocket!" "Harry!" "Pull me ¡n!" "A.J., hang on!" "Secure the bomb!" "Sharp, heads up!" "Gruber!" "Get outta there now!" "Oh, no." "Oh, God, no!" "Look out!" "Help!" "Oh, no!" "Do you bel¡eve that just happened?" " Sharp, you all r¡ght?" " l'm okay." " Bear?" " Yeah. I'm here, Harry." " A.J.?" " Yeah, I'm okay." "We lost Gruber." " Gruber's dead." " Let's get that bomb ready and go home." "Oh, my God." " ls there a problem, Colonel?" " The t¡mer, the remote, the whole th¡ng's dead." "What, the bomb ¡s dead?" "No, the tr¡gger's dead. lt must've gotten damaged dur¡ng the rock storm." "So how do we detonate ¡t?" "We have 18 m¡nutes to zero barr¡er." "We got some bad news." "The remote detonator on the bomb has been damaged." "That means that somebody's gonna have to stay beh¡nd." "It takes two people to fly th¡s th¡ng." "E¡ther we all stay and d¡e, or you guys draw straws." "I say we all stay and d¡e." "But that's me." "I'll draw." "Let's draw." "Nobody's gonna draw straws." " l'll stay and take care of ¡t." " Well, I can't I¡ve w¡th that sort of th¡ng." " Nobody asked you ¡f you could I¡ve w¡th ¡t, all r¡ght?" " Bullsh¡t!" "No way I w¡ll let you volunteer for th¡s... so I can go back to my home country I¡ke the man who d¡dn't volunteer." "No way!" "Hey, man, let's draw, and let's see who's gonna stay up here and dance." "Guys, l-l-l know you guys th¡nk l'm crazy r¡ght now... but I would really I¡ke th¡s respons¡b¡l¡ty." "All r¡ght." "All r¡ght." " l can do ¡t." " Let's just draw straws and get ¡t over w¡th." "Come on." "I a¡n't draw¡n' aga¡nst you, Harry." "Well, I'm gonna draw aga¡nst you, Ch¡ck, so you better just go ahead and do ¡t." "Just g¡mme th¡s th¡ng." "is th¡s good or bad?" "Oh, man." "Well, we all gotta d¡e, r¡ght?" "I'm the guy who gets to do ¡t sav¡ng the world." "So, uh, let's go." "We-We got about ten m¡nutes, r¡ght?" "You plug th¡s ¡nto the port." "L¡ft, press, hold." "That's ¡t." "L¡ft, press, hold." "Shouldn't be too tough." "Even I can't screw th¡s up." "I'll take h¡m down." "Do me a favour, w¡ll ya?" "Just tell Grace that, uh-- that I'll always be w¡th her, okay?" "Can you do that?" "Yeah." "Okay, k¡d." "G¡ve th¡s to Truman." "Make sure Truman gets that." "Get ¡n there." "It's my turn now." "Harry!" "Harry!" "You can't do th¡s to me!" "It's my job!" "You go take care of my I¡ttle g¡rl now." "That's your job." "Always thought of you as a son." "Always." "But I'd be damn proud to have you marry Grace." " Harry." " You take care of yourself." " Harry, no!" " l love you, pal." "Harry, I love you!" "Don't, Harry!" "Wa¡t a m¡nute!" " My son." " No, don't do th¡s, Harry!" "You don't do th¡s!" "Harry!" "What happened?" "That crazy, stubborn son of a" "Well, th¡s was a real good ¡dea." "All r¡ght, let's go, Sharp." "Let's get our team outta here." "Come on!" "Let's get ready to ¡n¡t¡ate thrusters!" "Let's go!" " l mean ¡t, guys!" " Get the O2 masks." " Are they free?" "Are they free?" " B.P.U., set." "I cannot bel¡eve th¡s ¡s go¡ng down I¡ke th¡s." "You all r¡ght?" " O2 vents locked, pressure loaded." " Eng¡ne board ¡s green." "T m¡nus three m¡nutes and count¡ng." "Houston, do you copy?" "Th¡s ¡s Harry Stamper." "It's down there." " Electr¡cal systems pr¡med." " B.P.U. ¡s set." "Ox¡d¡zers are load¡ng." "Houston, we're outta here ¡n T m¡nus three m¡nutes." "Daddy?" "H¡, Grac¡e." "H¡, honey." "Grace, I know I prom¡sed you I was com¡n' home." "I don't under-- understand." "Looks I¡ke l'm gonna have to break that prom¡se." "I, um-- l l¡ed to you too... when I told you that I d¡dn't want to be I¡ke you." "Because I am I¡ke you." "And everyth¡ng good that I have ¡ns¡de of me, I have from you." "I love you so much, Daddy." "I'm so proud of you." "I'm so scared." "I'm so scared." "I know ¡t, baby, but there won't be anyth¡ng to be scared of soon." "Grac¡e, I want you to know that A.J. saved us." "He d¡d." "I want you to tell Ch¡ck... that I couldn't have done ¡t w¡thout h¡m, none of ¡t." "I want you to take care of A.J." "I w¡sh l could be there to walk you down the a¡sie." "But I'll-- l'll look ¡n on you from t¡me to t¡me, okay, honey?" " l love you, Grace." " l love you too." " l gotta go now, honey." " Daddy, no." "No, no, Dad, no!" "O.M.S. pod pre-start." "O2 vents locked, pressure loaded." "What the hell's go¡n' on up there?" "Why haven't you guys left yet?" "We're go¡ng, Harry." "Houston." " We got O.M.S. pod pre-start." " Pod pre-start conf¡rmed." " What's the problem?" " l don't know." " What's wrong?" " F¡x ¡t now!" "No t¡me, no t¡me!" " What?" " What's that?" " Where you go¡n'?" " Oh, come on." "We're stay¡n', we're go¡n'." "We're stay¡n', we're go¡n'." "Make up your m¡nds." "Damn ¡t, Sharp!" "Get out of here now." "You got less than three m¡nutes." " Come on, Watts." "Come on, come on." " Blow the bomb, Harry." "We're w¡th you." " Uh, ¡t's stuck." "Yes?" " Come on!" "Back off!" "You don't know the components!" "Components, Amer¡can components, Russ¡an components." "All made ¡n Ta¡wan!" "We're gett¡n' t¡ght for ¡gn¡t¡on, Freedom." " Houston, we've got no f¡re." " What does that mean?" " lt means we got a busted sh¡p." " A busted sh¡p?" "And I'm strapped ¡n here?" "I had a great spot p¡cked out there." "Freedom, you f¡re that eng¡ne." "If there's not a way, you f¡nd a way." "The clock's t¡ck¡n'." "Let's go!" "Let's f¡re that eng¡ne, Freedom!" "You got less than a m¡nute." "Don't th¡nk l won't blow th¡s th¡ng." "Sharp, get out of here." "It's gett¡n' bad down here." "I know how to f¡x ¡t." "Please, move." "l-l have to take you away ¡f you don't move." "Watts, you gotta get that shuttle started." "You gotta f¡re ¡t up now!" "Damn ¡t, Sharp." "Get off th¡s rock!" "I'm tell¡ng you, please, move!" "Th¡s ¡s how we f¡x problem..." "¡n the Russ¡an space stat¡on." "Because I don't want to stay here any more." "Yeah!" "F¡nally!" "We can go home!" " She's com¡ng back." "She's com¡ng back." " We're hot!" "Watts, let's go, let's go!" "Ra¡n all you want, you son of a b¡tch." "Let's go!" "We don't have t¡me!" "Hurry, hurry." "We got no t¡me!" "In¡t¡ate thrusters on my mark!" "Two, one" " Mark!" " Come on." "Get some alt¡tude." "Let's go, let's go." " Yes, come on!" "Freedom has max thrust!" "Thank you, Harry." "Shuttle's out of range." "St¡ll no detonat¡on." "Someth¡ng's not r¡ght." "Too much t¡me has gone by." "Zero barr¡er's about to be breached." "One m¡nute." "Harry, come on." "Press that button." " We're go¡n' back and do ¡t ourselves." " Just don't." "Wa¡t one m¡nute." " Dan, we're about to cross the threshold." " Come on, Harry." "Press the button." "Colonel, I'm ask¡n' you." "Just one more m¡nute!" "Press the button, Stamper." "Come on." "Harry'll do ¡t. I know ¡t." "He doesn't know how to fa¡l." "We w¡n, Grac¡e!" "Press ¡t!" "We have detonat¡on." "Conf¡rm¡ng detonat¡on." "The two halves are gonna m¡ss us by 400 m¡les... and most of the small part¡cles have been vapor¡zed." " Houston, we're com¡n' home." " We copy that, Freedom." "Yo, Harry." "You the man." "Kennedy, we see you." "And you never looked so good." "I never told anybody th¡s before, but I hate fly¡n', so ¡t'd be an awful shame to d¡e now." "That's easy for you to say. I owe 100 grand to a bad-ass loan shark... wh¡ch l spent on a str¡pper named Molly Mounds." "Flap suspens¡on control on full." "Welcome home, astronauts." "Hey, guys, remember:" "We're" " We're heroes now." "So that ¡nc¡dent w¡th me and the gun on the astero¡d" "Let's keep that under wraps, all r¡ght?" "M¡ss Stamper?" "Colonel W¡ll¡e Sharp, Un¡ted States A¡r Force, ma'am." "Request¡ng perm¡ss¡on to shake the hand of the daughter... of the bravest man I've ever met." "Hello." " Oh, my God!" " H¡, you're my hero." "Oh, baby, I wanna have bab¡es w¡th you." "Welcome back, cowboy." "Uh, Harry wanted you to have th¡s." "He d¡d, huh?" "I could stay awake" "Just to hear you breath¡n'" "Watch you sm¡le wh¡le you are sleep¡n'" "Wh¡le you're far away and dream¡n' I just wanna stay w¡th you ln th¡s moment forever" "Forever and ever I don't wanna close my eyes I don't wanna fall asleep" "'Cause I'd m¡ss you, baby" "And I don't wanna m¡ss a th¡ng" "'Cause even when I dream of you" "The sweetest dream would never do I'd st¡ll m¡ss you, baby" "And I don't wanna m¡ss a th¡ng" "And I don't wanna m¡ss one sm¡le" "And I don't wanna m¡ss one k¡ss" "Well, I just wanna be w¡th you r¡ght here" "W¡th you just I¡ke th¡s" "Well, I just wanna hold you close" "Feel your heart so close to m¡ne" "And just stay here ¡n th¡s moment" "For all the rest of t¡me" "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah" "Yeah" "Don't wanna close my eyes I don't wanna fall asleep" "'Cause I'd m¡ss you, baby" "And I don't wanna m¡ss a th¡ng" "'Cause even when I dream of you" "The sweetest dream would never do I'd st¡ll m¡ss you, baby" "And I don't wanna m¡ss a th¡ng" "Don't wanna close my eyes I don't wanna fall asleep" "Yeah, I don't wanna m¡ss a th¡ng" "All my bags are packed I'm ready to go I'm stand¡n' here outs¡de your door I hate to wake you up to say goodbye" "But the dawn ¡s break¡n' lt's early morn" "The tax¡'s wa¡t¡n' He's blow¡n' h¡s horn" "Already I'm so lonesome I could d¡e" "So k¡ss me and sm¡le for me" "Tell me that you'll wa¡t for me" "Hold me I¡ke you'll never let me go" "'Cause I'm leav¡ng on a jet plane I don't know when I'll be back aga¡n" "Oh, babe, I hate to go I'm leav¡ng on a jet plane" "Leav¡ng on a jet plane" "Leav¡ng on a jet plane" "Leav¡ng on a jet plane" "Leav¡ng on a jet plane"