" We're cutting it pretty close." " Man, I don't wanna miss my ride." " The Mac Arthur will wait for us." " They gotta wait." "I've been T.D.Y. on Groombridge 34 since April." " You goin' Earthside?" " Haven't seen my wife since before the war." "She's probably forgotten what I look like." "I know." "I know." "In my case, maybe that's a good thing." "Still, it'll be nice to have dinner at home." "Man, would I love a meal that wasn't freeze-dried." "Just havin' a break's gonna be good." "Take cover!" "Take cover!" "Chig snipers in the tower!" "Chig snipers in the tower!" "Cooper, Monk, cover the right flank." "Vansen, West, take the left." "Monk, keep down!" "Medic!" "No." "Come on." " Hold on!" " I'm not gonna die." "Not yet." "Please, not yet." " Medic!" " Cooper, don't leave me." "Don't let me die alone." "Two migs morphine." "Lasix, 80 mills, I.V. push." " Vitals?" " His name's Solomon Monk." "He doesn't need a doctor, Lieutenant." "He needs a rabbi." " L-Look, maybe there's a chance..." " These men have a chance." "Tell my wife I don't mind goin' except for her." "Sh-She was my... my wife." "Cooper!" "We're takin' off in five." "We're hitching' a ride on a cargo ship." "He's dead." "His family will want these." "Come on." "Let's go." "58th, you're clear for docking." "Captain Lewelyn, I'm Colonel McQueen... 58th Air Commando Group en route from Fire Base Langston to the carrier Saratoga." "I waited for you, Colonel." "I didn't want you to miss your ride." " How bad is it down below?" " Langston's still hot." "I lost a good man to a sniper tonight." "We have new orders." "Our course will take us through Blood Alley." "It's dangerous, but it's the only way out." "I don't suppose there's a chance of a fighter escort?" " Not in this lifetime." " Careful of that!" "Sixteen pounds prime rib." " Black market." " What'd that cost you?" "I traded my only 1986 Dan Fouts card." "Better be pretty good prime rib." "InVitros." "You've come to the right place." "Every man down here's a Tank." " J.J. Keats." " Hawkes." "Cooper Hawkes." "Ashby!" "The engine room foreman." " Howdy." " Sorrell, Chief Engineer." " Everyone on the crew a Tank?" " Six of us." "Seven humans including the captain." "Computers do the rest of the work." "Ever notice how Tanks always get the dirty jobs?" "Isn't that why we were made?" "You got that right." "You did good for yourself." "There's no trick becoming chief petty officer on a tramp steamer." "Do the dirty jobs, keep your mouth shut, go along." "Captain Lewelyn..." "better than most." "I got a standing invitation to take meals in the captain's mess." "Most of the cargo is humans suspended in cryogenic sleep." "They put you under, five years later, you wake up." "It's the next day of your life." "We're carrying six containers of unborn InVitros." "They're being shipped to a plutonium mining facility... in the Corvus star system." "They don't stand a chance." "What're a few Tanks, more or less?" " Do you know who they are?" " Right now they're just numbers on a cargo manifest." "Can't believe InVitros are still being shipped like that." "Set course for the Canis Majoris star system." "Plotting course for Canis Majoris star system." " Bring us to 260 A.U.'s." " Aye, aye, sir. 260 A.U.'s." "Plot course heading 2-1-fiver." "That's Blood Alley." "The nav-channel's 200 klicks wide." "Things change, Potter." "There's a war on." "Captain, that course takes us between Adhara and Aludra." "The hydrogen gasses play havoc with the radio communication." "The solar flares screw up the onboard computers." "It's the fastest way from Groombridge 34..." " to the battleship Saratoga." " I don't recall hiring on for a suicide mission." "When I give an order, Mr. Potter, be so good as to follow it." "Plot a course heading 2-1-fiver, Mr. Harkin." "All ahead full, Mr. Mercer." "All ahead full." "Quite a cargo you've got here." "First five years out of the tank..." "I worked the uranium mines at Omicron Draconis." "Thirty four of us were shipped out." "Six came back." "I don't know if there's a hell, but if there is, I've already been there." "That was before the World Federation banned indentured servitude, Colonel." "The InVitros I'm hauling signed on for the job." "You have a cargo of unborn, Captain." "What did they sign on for?" "Janice loved your present." "I took her to Detroit Disneyland for her birthday." "She loved Mr. Toad's Wild Ride." "I miss you." "You're still my favorite wild ride." " My boyfriend's little girl." " She's cute." "Yeah." "She still misses her mother though, big time." "She'll learn to love you." "Love isn't learned, Nathan." "It just is." "How can you fall in love with someone you've never met?" "Martie and I talk every day." "You met her through a personals ad in SpaceNet, Wang." "You don't even know what she looks like." "I love the way she thinks." "She's got a great sense of humor." "Okay, let's say that you guys get along great at seven light-years." "What happens when you have to sit across a table eye to eye?" "How will you know how to act with each other?" "Is that a question or a confession?" "You writing' Monk's wife?" "How do you know what to put?" "I tell his wife he was a good man and will be missed." "Is that what it says in the regs?" "No." "That's what it says here." "How do you know what humans are feeling?" "I see the laughter and tears, and I know." "I don't feel that stuff." "They take us out of the tank at 18, Hawkes." "You can't get 18 years back in a day." "Do you ever wonder what it would be like... to have a mother or a father?" "I don't think about what never was." "But... it don't bother you that when you die... there's gonna be no blood relation there to say words over you?" "The Corps is my family, Hawkes." "The men and women I served with will know what to say." "Yeah, you got that right." "It's great to have real food, Captain." "Captain... the invitro manifest..." " Cooper, not now." " I'd like to see it." "You know what he's tryin' to do, Captain." "The same thing they all do..." "look for family." "No offense, but, uh... how can something grown in a tank consider itself related to anything else?" "Except maybe algae." "Stuff a sock in it, Potter." "What the hell..." "Take a damage control team aft." "Secure the cargo hold." "Coolant temp's spiked to 700!" " Step the rods down." " Got it." " Take it off-line." " Going off-line." "Generator Room, go to secondary power." "All right, come on, Clyde." "Don't fail me now." "Backup generators have kicked in." "Engine Room, Bridge." "Reactor's scrammed." "We're off line." "Core's unstable." " What hit us?" " Solar flare." "What else can one expect when flying between two unstable suns?" " I want you midship with Keats." " Yes, sir." " What's your weapons package?" " Two laser pulse cannons, unmanned." "Vansen!" "Wang!" "With your permission, Captain." "Just in case that wasn't a solar flare." "Under the circumstances, I think there's room for two on the bridge." " Damphousse." " I know, Colonel." "Engine room." "Hawkes, I want you to go work with Keats." "I want one of us on damage control." " Keats is one of us." " He's a civilian." "We're marines." "And Hawkes, forget the invitro manifest." "The 58th is your family." "Looking for a past you never lived can only get you hurt." "Feeling pain's part of being human." "Who said you're human?" "Hey, where're you goin'?" "What about Section 46?" "We don't inspect it?" "People are the priority here." "Oh, yeah." "I forgot." "Tanks aren't people." "Look, you just stay away, pal." "You got no business over there." "What the hell is going on here?" "Navigator was right." "White light solar flare." "I know what the machine says." "What do you say?" " There's no way to tell." " Trust your instincts, West." "That's how you stay alive." "There's something out there." "I can feel it." " Engine Room, Bridge." " Core temperature's stabilized." "Estimate to get the reactor on line?" "Maybe today." "Maybe Malaba Day." " Stored energy?" " 4.5 kilotons in the containment vessel." " Keep the engine on line." " Yes, sir!" "Clad temp... 600." "Let's go back online." "Don't know what caused the coolant temp to spike." "It could happen again." "Worst thing that can happen is we could blow up, Mr. Ashby." "Then I don't see the problem." "The coolant density's at 800 kilograms over M³." "I think we're in the clear." "Let's do it." "Raise Rod 1." "Rod 1 raised." "Raise Rod 2." "Rod 2 raised." "You know your stuff." "Bridge, this is Fire Control." "Request permission for a weapons check." "Fire Control, Bridge." "Permission granted." "Fire light status... green." " Fire light status... green." " Commence firing." "Bucks like a mule." "West, anything?" "I'd have better luck reading tea leaves, sir." "At least tea leaves would tell us something." "Let me see that." "She the girl you went AWOL for?" "Yes, sir." "This is behind you." "The only thing on your mind is that radar screen." "I figured you'd show up." "The Tank cargo manifest." "The number on the left's the date of conception." "The middle number's the gene pool." "This is the batch number on the right." "Place of conception is indicated in the margin." "I've been lookin' 10 years, Cooper, so I know what you're feelin'." "You're wondering what it would be like to have family." "Only all the time." "What are you?" "March 6, 2040." "Gene pool 16A." "Batch Alpha-3439." "The Philadelphia facility." "Brooklyn facility." "Not that it really matters." "All I know is that somewhere there's someone who's D.N.A. reads..." "A-T, C-G, T-A, G-C, C-G, A-T... that's black hair and hazel green eyes." "See, I know what my family would be like, but I can't find them." "Enjoy the read." "Hand me a reverse torque wrench." "Here's what I think." "Human beings are nothing more than highly evolved animals." " Tell that to Einstein." " We're attracted to a person because the way that they look." "The way that they smell." "The way that they feel to the touch." "Okay, so what's your point?" "How can you fall in love with a woman that you met on SpaceNet?" "You don't believe in the soul?" "In spiritual connection?" "I believe in what you can reach out and touch." "Then reach out and touch that morph head." " I'm getting something." " Range and bearing?" "Looks like an energy pulse, Colonel." "I can't get an exact reading." " It's gone." " Just tell me what you saw." "I don't know!" "Solar spike." "I need to know what's out there, West." "Figure it out." "Ceramic fuel temp..." "1200 and holding." "Bridge, Engine Room." "Reactor's on line." "Well done, Damphousse." "I'll need full power." " Full power." " So, how come you got detailed down here?" "Four years at Caltech." "Two summers I interned at San Onofre." "What kind of lunatic interns at a nuclear power plant?" "My father was chief engineer." "Lot of people won't work with nipple-necks." "Let me tell you something, Mr. Ashby." "I'll work with anyone who wants to work." "Not a lot of people feel that way." "I'm not a lot of people." "What is it with you people?" "How can you expect to be a marine?" "You can't follow a simple order?" "Huh?" "Don't ever touch me again." "Oh, and what's so special about you?" "I got a petri dish." "I can always make another Tank." "Scram it!" "Bridge, Engine Room." "Scrammed." " Taking all systems off-line." " Generator Room, Bridge." " Go to secondary power supply!" " Doing it now." "Captain, fire in the generator room!" "Potter, this is the captain." "Get a fire team to Station 4." "Help!" "Aaah!" " How bad is it?" " Bad!" " We gotta get to the emergency shutoff valve." " Bruckheimer." " Can you get to it?" " Do somethin' or we're gonna lose the generator." "There's protective gear in the cargo hold." "We don't have the time." "There's no other way." "Cooper, what're you doing?" "You don't owe them this, Cooper." "Cooper, don't do it!" "Protect yourself down there, Coop." "Protect yourself." "It's crazy, Cooper." "Come on back." "Bruckheimer." "Cargo hold." " I'm getting something." " What's its signature?" " There is no signature." " What does your gut tell you, West?" " What's the level of threat?" " I can't tell, Colonel, without more information." "All I'm getting are microwave emissions." "Enlarge it, West." "You happen to remember the U3-78 specs?" "What we have here is an unidentified blob." "Give me the U3-78 specs!" "The U3-78s... uh, alien class "D" destroyer, a hunter-killer." " Weapons package?" " Rockets, mines, guided weapons." " What else?" " Special ops thinks she has... advanced microwave technology that screw up... communications." "Causes reactor temperatures to spike." " Goes for the soft kill." " My gut tells me... that your unidentified blob is a U3-78... and he's comin' in for the hard kill." "Sir, I have radar contact." "Bearing 276." "Range... two parsecs." "Azimuth 4-niner." "There's not enough power to get us out of harm's way." "There's only one way to take the load off the second generator... cut power to one section of the cargo hold." " You mean kill people." " It's math, Colonel." "One section dies or we all die." "Is there really a choice?" "Section 46 gives us the most power for the fewest lives." "Generator Room, this is Captain Lewelyn." "Stand by to cut power to Section 46." "Repeat." "Stand by to cut power to Section 46." "Section 46 houses 12 containers of InVitros, Captain." "That's 168 lives." "It's the only way to get the reactor back online." "There has to be another way, Captain." "That's an order, Keats." "Section 46." "Stand by." "McQueen won't let this happen." "He's one of us." "You hear his voice raised in protest just now?" "What did you find?" "I got a sister in Section 46." "Engine Room, Bridge." "Can you go on line?" " Negative." "I can't give you power." " It's time to pull the plug." "Keats." "This is the captain." "Cut power to Section 46." " Negative, Captain." " Just what the hell is the problem?" " I'm the problem, Captain." " There's not a lot of room for interpretation in your orders." "I won't do it, Captain." "Too many of us have died fighting your wars." "You're putting every life on this ship at risk." "Then we die equal." "Keats!" "Some are more equal than others." "Stay right there." "Right there." "Lift him up." "Are you gonna help me save those Tanks?" "Because I know one thing..." "you're not going to kill your own people." "Keats, confirm you're cutting power to Section 46." "Keats, answer me." "Keats, what's going on?" "Cut power, or we're gonna lose the ship." "Keats!" "Keats!" "Do it, man!" "Keats!" "Keats!" "Ceramic fuel temp... 1600." " Ashby, Sorrell, come here." " Yes, sir." " What's the problem?" " Sir." "Captain's giving orders to kill the InVitros in Section 46." " You can't let him do that." " I can't stop him!" "Not alone." " Missile's launched!" " Confirm that." "They're off the rails!" "Engine Room, Bridge." "Give me everything you've got." "3.6 kilotons thrust." "Maximum power." "Vansen, Wang!" "Missile incoming!" "Lock on!" " Bingo!" " We're locked on." "Let's rock and roll." "2100 klicks." "1800 klicks." "Colonel, launch the cargo haulers." "The missiles will go for them, not us." "Launch starboard cargo haulers." "Prepare ship for impact!" "Eight, seven, six..." "Fire!" "Come to Mama." " Hard left rudder." " Hard left rudder." "West, radar contact?" "Negative." "But the U3-78's gonna come looking for confirmation of the kill." "Good call." "I'm going aft." " Come on." "Come on!" " You're a dead man, Keats." "A dead man." "I don't want to kill you." "I will if I have to." " What the hell's going on?" " A change in command." "You two stand down." "I'm not taking orders from you." "You are now." "Stand down." "How can you let him kill InVitros?" "Our operating systems are down, Hawkes." "The captain has no choice." " You can stop him." " The captain's word is law." "When someone decides to kill an InVitro... it's not my law, and it shouldn't be yours." "Keats gave you the manifest." " Who'd you find?" " A sister." "How could you kill your own people?" "How can you?" "Answer me!" "Captain!" " I'm taking the helm." " Are you adding mutiny to your résumé, Mr. Keats?" "Mutiny, Captain?" "He's adding murder." " He'll kill us all." " Whatever it takes." "As long as InVitros don't die." "Sit him down." "Stay at your post, son." "I need you alive." "Tell McQueen you need him on the bridge." "Tell him!" "I'll buy us a little more time." "I'll give Damphousse five minutes... to get the reactor back on line." "If she can't, I have to pull the plug." "Colonel McQueen, report to the bridge." " You're makin' a mistake, Keats." " It won't be the first, sir." "Don't even think about it." "This isn't what I wanted." "That's not good enough." "Get your men back to their stations." "I'm taking the bridge." "I can't allow that." "You are not going to kill him." "And you are not going to kill the Tanks." "You can't have it both ways." "I'm picking up an active gamma pulse." "He's doing a Yankee search." "Yankee search is an old navy term." "The bastard who's hunting us figures we're a pile of space garbage." "He's coming in to confirm the kill." "And right now there's not a damn thing we can do." "Bridge, Fire Control." "Fire light status... red!" "Repeat." "Fire light red." "Get us power." "What does the colonel want us to do now?" "Throw rocks?" "Pretty soon you're going to have to decide if you're gonna kill us." " Pulse intervals decreasing." " Clock's running out, Hawkes." "Time to decide." "Whose side are you on?" "There are no sides, Colonel." "Just right and wrong." "Give me the gun." "The colonel will do the right thing." "You have to trust that." "Do you, Cooper?" "Do you trust him?" "Yes." "Don't make it worse." "Sir, the bridge is yours." "Thank you, Mr. Hawkes." "Engine Room, Bridge." "We have incoming." "Get me back online." "No can do!" "Pressure shocks hit the primary system hard." "This whole damn thing's gonna melt down if I don't get some help here." "We work together... or we die." "It's that simple." "I need your help, Mr. Keats." "Be good enough to get your men back to the engine room." "Fire Control, Bridge." "The captain's dead." "We have a class nine emergency." "Report to the engine room or the nuclear reactor's gonna melt down." "Maybe later you'll tell us what the hell is going on." "You ever try to do the right thing, only it turns out wrong?" "Kick in the emergency core coolant system in... five, four, three... two, one..." "Now!" "Reload initiated." "Glad to have you back." "Bridge, Engine Room. 90 minutes to get your reactor back on line." " He's coming right at us!" " Can't fight." "We can't run." "And your five minutes are up." "Now what the hell do you expect me to do?" "Cut power to another section." "Pop quiz, Hawkes." "You cut power to Section 46, 168 Tanks die." "You cut the power to any other section, 400 humans die." "Now, how does the math work out?" "What do you do?" "We're dead center in the gamma pulse." "We have one advantage, Hawkes." "The U3-78 doesn't know we're ready to fight." "Are we?" "Are we ready to fight?" "Power's cut to Section 46." "We have generator power, sir." "Bridge, Fire Control." "Fire light green." "Hold your fire until the U3-78 closes." "At two klicks, he can't fire his missiles." "Solar flare." "I got no screen." "We lost the targeting system." "The solar flare scrambled the screen." "The only way the U3-78 can make contact is visual." "Right now, we are not on his radar screen." "Estimated time for his radar retrieval... three minutes." "We're blind and he's blind." "Let's play a little hide-and-seek." "Hard left rudder." " Hard left rudder, sir." " Fire Control, Bridge." "We don't know where she is, but she's out there." "Lower the blast shield!" "Lowering the blast shield, sir." "He's coming right at us." "Wang!" "Vansen!" "Bogey bears 3-3-niner." "1.5 klicks, azimuth 90 degrees." "Weapons hold." "Fire perigee kick motor, Mr. Mercer." " Sir, we'll break up." " Fire perigee kick motor!" " Come on." "Give the order." " What's he waiting for?" "Weapons hold." "Weapons hold." "Now!" "Fire!" "Fire!" "All screens are clear." "Pressure's at 18.5." "Climbing." "The core temp's cooling." "Bridge, Engine Room." "The reactor's stabilized." "We have 90 mikes until we're on line." "Good work, Damphousse." "I had a little help from my friends, sir." "There's gonna be hell to pay." "It was my call, Sorrell." "I'll take the responsibility." "We stand together." " Plot a new course, Mr. Harkin." " Yes, sir." "West." "Launching the cargo haulers was a great countermeasure." "I thought I had to make a point." "No." "You were right." "What I did... going after her..." "was selfish." "It won't happen again." "I know that, West." "Thanks." "My pleasure." ""How many loved your moments of glad grace..." ""and loved your beauty with love false or true;" ""but one man loved the pilgrim soul in you... and loved the sorrows of your changing face."" "Try sending that via SpaceNet." "The way I figure it, if you've had bad times and joy... then you've lived." "No, the way I see it... you'll only end up with a broken heart, and I don't have the time." "You did the right thing." "We're marines, Cooper." "Not Tanks." "What's gonna happen to Keats?" "Keats and Ashby will stand trial for mutiny." "Sorrell, for murder." "Sorry f..." "I'm sorry." "What would you know about sorrow?" "I know this much." "I never had the... courage to look for my family." "Not because I was afraid of what I might find... but because I was afraid of what I might feel." "Kate." "Kate." "I'm sorry." "Watch your hands." "Watch your hands."