"EUROSEC European Space Exploration Complex Portugal, Gate 7." "Good evening, Sergeant." "Good evening, Dr. Hassler." "File 7842." "Authority, please." "Thank you." "Your pen, Dr. Hassler." "Sorry, Sergeant." "Oh, well, now my plan is ruined." "See, it is not a pen at all, it is a secret camera." "A better luck next time, Doctor." "Vault nine." "Thank you, Sergeant." "Now, we shall see." "EUROSEC-OPERATION SUN PROBE TOP SECURITY" "My mistake." "You were right." " I am sorry." " That's all right, doctor." "All right." "EUROSEC-OPERATION SUN PROBE TOP SECRET" "FURTHER DATA FROM ON BOARD INSTRUMENTATION AWAITING PROCESSING" "JOURNEY TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE SUN" "SISTEM " " BASIC" "NEW FILE NAME SUNPROBE." "WAIT." "READY RUN" "OPERATION SUN PROBE" " Cigar?" " Isn't it a little premature?" "You didn't won yet." " Do you wonna bet?" " Yeah." "3 thousand million pounds." " All right?" " Everything's fine." "One minute to go." "Last as usual..." "NASALIAISON." "He's only got a hundred yards to walk." "Security, Lisa." "Scrambling's operative." "Gentlemen, gentlemen, please." "The 67-th meeting of the European Space Exploration Counsel is now in session." "This is a momentous occasion for our organization." "Sun Probe 1 was an unqualified success." "We have some spectacular results." "However, this meeting is coiled considering one single result, startling in its implications." "Dr. John Kane, the project Director." "Gentlemen, an unmanned satellite is naturally limited in the transmission of information." "Part of the Sun Probe's equipment was a cine camera, set to take one picture a minute for the duration of the flight." "Roll the film, please." "The far side of the Sun, over 100 million miles from Earth, hidden from the eyes of radiotelescopes by the Sun itself." "Now, at this point of the flight a strange thing happened." "The gyro mechanisms aboard were influenced by another magnetic field and the capsule slowly started to rotate." "Now, if you watch your screens carefully, you will see, that the capsule's sunny camera was panned of the Sun to watch the force, that was attracting it." "That force, gentlemen, was the gravitational pull of another planet." "Now I am going to hold the film here to show you the first complete photographic evidende for the new planet." "Hold and zoom." "A new planet in our Solar system." "Thank you." "Photographic evidence is only part of the story." "Instruments aboard capsule report, that it is in the same orbit, as Earth, but directly on the opposite side of the Sun." "Orbital speed, precisely the same as ours, is the reason, that it remained undetected." "What information do we have from the other systems on board?" "Not enough." "Which brings me to the purpose of this meeting." "A proposal from the Chair, that we should mount a manned flight to the new planet." "Lisa, book me a scrambled satellite call to the NASA Headquarter at the end of this meeting, please." " It is allready in hand, David." " How come?" "Instructions from Jason Webb." "Oh." "Thanks." "Now, Jason, how much is it going to cost us this time?" "A point of order, Mr. Chairman." "Another one?" "Mr. Chairman will agree, will he not, that all delegates are entitled to share the EUROSEC information." "Correct!" "Then, perhaps, the Chairman will share with us the estimative costs of this manned expedition." "A realistic estimate, Gentlemen, 3 thousand million pounds sterling." "Mr. Chairman, I am sure, I am speaking for the whole of the community, when I say, that such a sum is out of the question." "Trust a German to louse it up!" "They lecture us on penny-pinching economics." "The French are only too glad to agree with them." "The rest of the Comunity goes wichever way the wind blows." "America is our only hope." " If they contribute, the rest might follow." " Oh, face it, Jason, we've had it." "Had what?" "This is only a temporary setback!" "Did you see the the Poulson's face, when you pitched the price?" " No, I didn't." " Well I did, and he's not gonna buy it." " He'll buy it!" " Oh, for God's sake!" " Yes?" " David Poulson on the internal." "Are you free to see him?" " Send him right up." " Yes, sir." "You're gonna sit there and watch me take command for 1 billion dollars." "The words of an egocentrical megalomaniac." "Maniac?" "Remind me to be as charitable to you, when one of your rockets blows up on the pad." "And you better attend that cardiac warning." "Just a minute." "I will make a deal with you." "You stick to the science, let me handle the politics." "I will accept that deal." "I will stick to the science, if you handle the politics." "Hello, John." "Hi, Jason." "How are you, David?" "Some scotch?" "Thanks." "Hope you don't mind if I do." "Straight." "All right." "Now, why don't you give it to me, straight?" "Well, as you know, the United States has always cooperated with EUROSEC." " But in this case we feel..." " I said straight!" "O'k, Jason," "It's "no go"." "We discover a new planet in our own Solar system." "Military and scientific implications beyond comprehension." "We ask our friends for a few dollars." "And it's "no go"." "One billion dollars, Jason." "Cheap at twice the price." " Are you sure about this?" " Yes." "Give it to Jason tonight." "Delay could be dangerous." "Oh, no, thanks." "You wouldn't want anybody else get there first, could you?" "But how could they?" "When we have sole access to the information." "Who else would know of the planet's existence?" "You know perfectly well, that we have a security leak." "Well, we all have our problems." "I see." "I get the message." "I know how you feel about this project, Jason." "But the answer ist "no"." "I am sorry, I really am." "So am I." "Miss Kurby!" "I am going home now." "Tell Newman and Lisa, I want to see them at 7:30." "Yes, Mr. Webb." "Oh, and..." "John Kane asked me to give you this." "Sorry, Jason, but I am through." "John." "Come in!" "I want a run-down on the current security position." " Deffensively?" " H-m-m-m." "We haused all findings, computer programs and visual data from Sun Probe 1 in Vault 2." "Access?" " Restricted!" " To whom?" "Yourself, John Kane and Mark." "And offensively?" "I've already reported the near certainty of a security leak, especially..." "And so?" "We picked up a radio signal again this morning." " I am gonna burry him." " Why not a fake?" "Listen, Jason, that information is coded and radioed out in a 2-seconds transmission." "And there are 86,400 seconds in a day." "All right." "You made your point." " But when are you gonna nail him?" " What?" "When are you going to nail him?" "Depends on how much rope we'll give him." "All right." "Lisa, that access restriction must be widened." "To whom?" "Hassler." "Dr. Hassler." "You are serving the information on a plate to our prime suspect?" "That is my responsibility." "Your responsibility is this:" "If he shows his hand, I don't want an arrest." "Undestood?" "Undestood." "Has any of this information been transmitted?" "He certainly wasn't broadcasting record requests." "So by now, the existence of the new planet could be known outside Europe and the States." "I am afraid so." "And preparation for a manned flight should be under way by somebody else." "Don't panic." "It would take some time." "Yes, we have to check out your information, to examine Hassler's body, to see the transmissions you monitored, to check the manufacturing origins of this photographic equipment." "Arrange all that for Mr. Poulson immediately." "And put John Kane in the picture." "Right." "Oh, can I have a look at the photographic equipment?" "Sure." "Does our side have anything like this?" "We have now." "Oh, Mark..." "Give that back to Kane, will you?" "Tell him..." "I accept his apologies." "Right." "So, you are convinced now there have been a leak." "Yes." "And I am left with no choice." "I agree." "But it'll be up to you to persuade the rest of the Community." "But you be prepared to recommend, that the United States should contribute 1 billion dollars to a manned flight conducted by EUROSEC." "Yes." "Full information share." "Guaranteed." "By you?" "What else do you suggest?" "Putting an American astronaut on the team." "Who?" "I have already called Cape Kennedy." "They've come up with our most experienced." "50 days of space flight, 2 manned projects to Mars..." "Glenn Ross?" "ThepassengersfromNASAflight155 will arrive at Gate seven." "Thankyou." "Hold it, Mrs Ross!" "Thank you, Colonel." "I am Jason Webb." "Welcome to EUROSEC!" "Glenn Ross." "My wife Sharon." " How do you do?" " Hello!" "This is Lisa Hartman, security." " How do you do?" " Hello!" " Miss Hartman." " Nice to meet you." " Dr. Kane, our Project Director." " How do you do?" " Delighted to meet you." " Me too." "Paulo Landi, public relations." "He will be lookng after both of you." " How do you do, Missis Ross?" " Hello!" " Would you like me to bring you a drink?" " A scotch, please." " What's on your mind?" " I have been thinking, John  about the second astronaut of Captain Ross." "Now, Baldwin is the obvious choice." "Or Mitchell..." "If we want just an astronaut, I agree." " But?" " It occurs to me, that we need someone more flexible." " But I trained them..." " I mean in terms of knowledge." "Someone who could take full advantage of any findings on the new planet." "However bizarre and unusual they happen to be." "You mean an astrophysicist?" "Me?" "Yeah." "The idea doesn't appeal to you?" " You must be joking." " 't'll grow on you." "Well, there she is." "Watch the gantry." "We have been developing a lift body for controlled landings." "If analysis confirms an atmosphere on the new planet, we'll use that as a last stage." "Without seeming too eager, when does the training start?" "Tomorrow." "I can hardly wait." "400." "400." "450." "500." "600." "650." "700." "700." " Fire retros!" " Hold it!" " 750." " Jason!" "800!" "What are you trying to do?" "Kill him?" "800!" " 850!" " Now!" " Retros!" "No!" "Are you o'k, John?" "O'k." "Yes, I am o'k." "Hi!" "I didn't know you would be back." " You are late." " We... drove to Lisbon to see the Cathedral, and then stopped over for dinner." "Oh, I could sleep for a week!" "I had my first medical today." "Did you?" "How did it go?" "The doctors say everything's alright, as usual." "Good." "Everythingis allright." "We are not starting that one again, are we?" "Look, face it, Glenn, it is your job." "You're up in space hundreds of days, you are subjected to radiation effects and that is why we can't have children." "The doctors said differend." "They were employed by politicians." "Do you really think they'd tell you even the truth?" "Great publicity." "America's top astronaut... sterile." "Your doctors don't work for politicians, so we know it is not you." "For God's sake, I am not about to go trough this again!" "The brutal truth of the matter is that you went up there a man, but you came less than a man." "May be this is why we are not having kids, huh?" "If you have anything to say, you better say it now." "It'so how you prove your virility!" "?" "It really was the only way of attracting your attention." "You look like a man with problems." "Yeah, I'll tell you about them some day." "Thank you." "WouldMisterEdwards, please contact reception?" "We don't often see you at the administration." "Jason wants to see me." "How is the training going?" "It's tough enough for me, but it's hard for John." "So it's crash course of space preparation." "Glenn..." "There is something I shouldn't tell you." "What's that?" " I know why Jason wants to see you." " Why?" "He plans to put the launch date forward." " Forward?" " Hmm." "Well, we'll see about that." "Good luck, Glenn." " Lisa..." " Hmm?" "Thanks for the warning." "I am forwarding the launching day four weeks." "You are pushing too hard, Jason." "You don't understand." "In Germany budgetary troubles, in France political troubles..." "Someone is going to suggest withdrawing from the project, any day." "You are an administrator, you know when a rocket's ready, but you don't know when a man is ready." "Kane isn't." "I know more about human nature than anybody else at EUROSEC." "That's why I am in this office." "And I am telling you, Kane will make it." "And I am telling you he won't." "Where do we go from here?" "There are other American astronauts..." "That's right." "You'd be right back to zero again." "Nevertheless," "I am informing you officially, that the launching day will be brought forward... two weeks." "Two weeks." "Now?" "Now." "My instincts tell me, there is a little bit of transportation around here somewhere." "Don't the rule say we walk?" "Sure." "What is it like up there?" " Where?" " There." "Lonely." "How lonely?" "Same as down here, no difference." "You mean, you have got someone with you down here, up there?" "Yes." "It has to be the right person." "Otherways makes no difference." "No difference." " Home again." " Yeah." "This is the part we have to make look good, we are back uncomfortably early." "I could grow attached to them." "That's the idea." "Now you could be hooked up to the heart, lung and kidney machine during the flight." "With sedation, you will sleep... for tree weeks there... and tree weeks back." "That part I'm looking forward to." "UEROSECLaunchControl." " Dock one in stand by." "Docktwo:operational." "Four down." "Clean ejectors." "Procedures check." "I have three greens." "All go." "Roger." "Switch to R2-410 computers." "Roger." "Operatingnow." " Roger, Green." "Scopethreestandingby," "Allscopesblue." " Roger, Blue." "Fuellingfirststage:complete." "Roger, fueling." "Worp index: 2.7." "Lift-off:" "Now minus 7 hours, 46 minutes." "QRS complex: good." "(part of ECG)" "No T-wave depression." "(no infarct, no coronary ischaemy)" "Cardiac response: normal." "ThisisEUROSECLaunchControl." "Lift-offnowminus 6 hours, 51 minutes." "Astronauts,pre-flight check in 4 minutes." "Irepeat:" "Astronauts, pre-flight check in 4 minutes." "Glenn?" "I wanted to wish you luck." "What a disapointment!" "I tought you were coming with us." "No, I mean it." "Ihavethreegreens." "Electric?" " All go." " Five under control." " Stand by." "Arewe offthe count?" " No, continue counting, Control." "Read data again right now, please." "3 Y 4 Z minus 7." "Thankyou,Control." "Environmentalsystemsgo ." "Captions from Launch Control:" " Switch to the external." "External." "Capsule's condition?" "Standby." "ThisisEUROSECLaunchControl:" "Lift-offnow minus 3 hours." "Standby,capsule, to recieve astronauts." "I think we are expected." "EUROSEC AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY" "Jason." "Secondsearch,tankispressurized." "Waterchilleroperational." "WaterseparatorunitreadingAo'k ." "WaterbicarbevaporatorreadingAo'k ." "Steam vent line clear." "Cabin pressure refill." "HereSwitchControlRoom ." " Roger." "Check." "Suitheatexchangeroperational." "Mainwatersystemgo." "Mainoxigensystemgo." "Mainsearchsystemgo." "Cabintemperaturecontrolsystemgo." "Wehaveacomputerreport." "Orange suit beta reading 47532." "All phase 3 stations, in progress position X24, check back." "Allsecurityareas, switch control motor,  tower-jetisonmotor, launch-escape motor are all go." "Nowwe'lldrivesomejump check." "Allsystemsarego." "Control?" "This is Phoenix command." "Hatch secure." "Ready for all systems check." "Affirmative." " Gas circulation: normal." "Procedurescheck." "Electricsgreen." " Goes." " Flight control,..." " Gas mixture o'k." "I have a low-pressure reading on oxygen inlet number 3." "Down two and a half pounds." "Roger." " Fuel temperature: correct." "Lift-off now minus 1 hour, 26 minutes." "Countdown continues." "Medical 1 to Flight control, Colonel Ross." "Pulse..." "Flightstrikingin progress." "Flightguardis over, security first stage: completed." "Remove gantry." "Roger." "Standby ." "Remove fuel injectors." "Roger." " Control, have X-ray Bravo keep us informed about that weather front." "Check." "Cabin pressure seems a little bit low." "It'sbeencheckedrightnow." "Medical 1 to Flight control." "Colonel Ross:" "pulse: 74, blood pressure normal." "Respiration normal." "Medical 2 to Flight control." "Dr. Kane, pulse 110," "Blood pressure raised 150 over 100, respiration: normal." "Phoenix," "switchto internal." " Roger, internal." "Remove umbilical!" "Lift-off: minus 2 minutes." "Stagescheck." "Command done, internal?" "Affirmative." "Telemetryin launchcondition?" " Affirmative." "Missileon internalD.C.(DisplayConsole)?" " Affirmative." "Pressurizationcomplete?" " Affirmative." "Ihaveacheck-completelight." "Locktankingsecured." "This is EUROSEC Launch control, ignition sequence commences." "T( Time),minus27  seconds and counting." "Allrecordersandoscillographs to fast vario start." "Thisis Computercontrol..." " Lock water is pressurized." "Ten seconds, nine, eight... seven, six... five, four... tree, two, one..." "Ignition." "Flight control, this is Phoenix." "We have ignition, I say again, we have ignition." "All systems go." "Lift-off." "Well, she flies." "Off cource she bloody well flies!" "You can see how they imagined at that time the dream of the medicals - a direct continuous venous approach for infusions." "Nowadays there are already avaiable implantable port-a-cath systems for chemotherapy and infusions for oncological and other patients." "See you in three weeks." "Let us hope the alarm clock goes off." "Better." "You made it." "Good morning." "Bang on target." "Clouds." "There are clouds, Glenn!" "So, there is an atmosphere." "All right." "Preliminary orbit: 34 thousand miles from the planet's surface's plane, right?" "Right." "O'k, two orbits to mark out electronic survey and we decide..." "To land or not to land?" "Well, let's have it." "Mass and gravitational pull:" "similar to Earth, there is an atmosphere, oxygen present." "Suitable landing site?" "Established." "Seascape and vegetation, so far no sign of life." "All right, mate." "What's the next move?" "Well, like you said:" "to land or not to land." "Well, this is one we can't put through the computer." "What do you think?" "I think, on the result of the survay, we don't have a choice." " You?" " I am for go." "Let's go, then." "Landing orbit, coming up." "EXPLOSIVES" "Cabinpressure:zero." "Readyfortransferto the landing lift body." "30seconds." " O'k." "Theonboardcomputershouldtakeus within 5 miles from the selected landing site." "10seconds." " Right." "Ifwehaveany troublewith theguiding system, give me manual straight away." "Check." "Therewego ." "Computerchecks, main retros: 5 seconds." "Roger." "Tree,two,one..." "Timecheck?" "Threeminutesto manual, four minutes to touch-down." "Manual!" "Givememanual!" "Landinglights." "Verticaljets,fullflaps." "Do you speak English?" "I am Air-Sea Rescue." "Ulan Bator." "I will get your friend." " Well?" " The results of the electronic medical check..." "He is in a pretty good shape." "But the readouts of the items 20, 27 and 32 don't make sense." "They certainly don't." "Check the computer." " It was checked out this morning." " Then check it out again!" "Never trust them." " Any improvement?" " No." "Has he spoken?" "Desjointedly." "It's impossible to make out a meaning." "Arrange for everything he says to be recorded." "Mark," "I want a total security black-out on news of their return." "Till we find out what the devil has gone wrong!" "What about that Mongolian rescue team?" "I have already called my opposite number in the Soviet Academy of Space Science." "They agreed to cooperate." "Does the clamp-down include Missis Ross?" "No, tell her to stand by." "Pontini!" "No one, except authorized personel, has to see any of the results, till all of the computers have been completely rechecked." "You are responsible." "It's my department." "Well?" " Dr. Kane is still unconscious..." " And Colonel Ross?" "Apart of the shock and the surperficial burning," " located in..." " Is he fit?" "I don't want details." "I want to know one thing:" " Is he fit questioning?" " Yes." "Do I have to go through with this?" "It's your job." "Before we get started, this is an interrogation room, not a debriefing center." "That's right." "Sit down, please." "Why did you turn back?" "We did not turn back." "You continue to claim that you completed your mission?" "We reached the new planet." "Yes." "You agree that the flight to the planet and return is a journey of six weeks?" " Yes." " You accept that you have in fact returned three weeks after launching?" "All right, I... can't exlplain that." "What I can say is that..." "You completed the electronic survey?" "Yes." "On the new planet?" " Yes." " And returned to Earth?" "We crashed!" "On Earth!" "?" "On the planet!" "You are here..." "... on Earth!" "To the planet and back in three weeks?" "I don't know." "There is a lot I can't explain." "You left Earth." "Three weeks later you returned." "Crashed." "It takes six weeks to travel to the new planet and return." "You were gone three weeks." "So, you turned back!" " We did not turned back!" " Why?" "Why?" "WHY?" "I am sending Ross home." "You won't get any more out of him today." "The interrogation leaves us with two possibilities:" "One:" "Ross aborted the mission and turned back." "If that was the case, he would deny for obvious reasons." "Two:" "Ross genuinely believes he made the journey to the new planet." "And he is as surprised as we are, that when he landed, he found himself back on Earth." "This is the theory I prefer to believe." "Only one snag:" "Why was there "no sign of life" on his electronic survey?" "But that could be explained." "The orbit took them over the Pacific, the Atlantic and the Poles." "The few land masses they crossed are mainly uninhabited." "All right." "So we prefer the second theory." "But...three weeks to the planet... three weeks back, that's six weeks in all." " They were only away three weeks." " That's right." "So...they turned back." "It still doesn't make sense." "The world's most experienced astronaut... and the leading scientist..." "Why?" "The Council felt railroaded into this project from the start." "They'll turn like a pack of wolves, when they know that it has failed." "They don't know yet." "And they won't know, until I establish exactly what happened." "You can't do that without the flight recorder." "And it's still on the Phoenix." "Arrangements must be made to bring that back." "When is Poulson due back from the States?" "Not till the 17th." "Thank God for that!" "Was it rough?" "Yeah." "Glenn, what really happened?" "What do you mean?" "What made you turn back?" "We didn't turn back." "Then it doesn't make sense." "Right." "You are covering for John Kane, aren't you?" "No." "There ist nothing to cover for." "Look out!" "What the hell are you doing?" "He was on the wrong side of the road." "It must have been rough." "I'll go make some coffee." "Sharon, what's going on?" "Sharon!" " What is it, Glenn?" " You know damn well what it is." "This rom." " What about the room?" " It's changed!" "Everything is changed!" "What the hell's happened here?" "Well, some desorientation isn't unusual, after a protracted period in space." "I undersand that, but it has never happened after the previous space flights." "All right." "Keep me informed." "If the things get worse, I promise immediate action." "Fresh Appeal Cologne" "What is it?" "What's wrong?" "The wrighting is reversed." "Everything is reversed!" "Jason Webb, please." "Jason, this is urgent." "I must see you right away." "Excuse me, Colonel." " Yeah, what is it?" " Over here, Colonel!" "What the hell is this all about?" "Do what they say, Glenn." " He called me." " From where?" "From the bathroom in here." "See for yourself." "He shouldn't have been send home." "He could have killed me." "This does it." "I am getting out of here." "You don't mean that, Sharon!" "You bet I do." "What happened after he smashed off the bottles?" "He went crazy." "He sayd his own handwrighting was reversed, my watch  everything." "Look at this." "Does this look reversed to you?" "This man has gone out of his mind." "We don't know that yet." "Well, you may not, but I do." "I am his wife, remember that." "He has been violent before." "Like this?" "He hit me." " It was that flight." " It was before the flight." "And, like I said, I am getting out of here." "We know about your personal life, Mrs. Ross." "It's our job." "But you better forget this idea about leaving." "You can't stop me." "I can't stop you leaving this house." "But I can and I will stop you leaving EUROSEC." "You can talk to him now." "So..." "Everything is reversed, huh?" " Everything." " But, Glenn,... we are going to check a few things." "All right." "Set it up." "Now, watch the mirror, please." "Thank you." "Read it!" "Fire emergency check list:" "In event of fire priorities are assigned as follows:" "First-Documentation, Second-Research specimens," "Thirth" " Photographic material, Fourth" " Progress report..." "All right." "Good enough for you?" "What the hell more do you want?" "I don't envy him." "Youcompletedyourmission?" "Whydidyouturnback ?" "Wecrashed!" "Why?" "Why?" "Why?" "Why?" "WHY?" "WHY?" "Youcompletedyourmission?" "Whydidyouturnback ?" "Wecrashed!" "Why?" "Why?" "Why?" "Why?" "WHY?" "WHY?" "Satisfied?" "Satisfied?" "Satisfied, that I was telling the truth about the new planet." "You are bound to be a little confused, until the drug wears off." " You are trying to check up my story, right?" " Yeah." "You couldn't fault it, right?" " No, we coludn't fault it." " Right." "You will hear the same story from John Kane." "Whathappened?" "Tellme!" "I am sorry I am late." "I was detained at the medical centre." "Come and sit down." "What I have to say to you, is very important." "No, Jason, you sit down." "You checked me, interrogated me, you looked in to my brain and you found out nothing." "I want you to sit down and listen to me." "I am listening." "Now, what I am going to tell you, is bizarre, weird." "But it's the only theory, that fits the facts." "I propose a complete duplication of matter." "A situation, where every single atom, every molecule here  is duplicated here." "Except that it is in reverse." "Then, when I left Earth to travel to the new planet, another man left the new planet, at precisely the same time to travel to Earth." "Another Colonel Ross." "The man you know as Colonel Ross, is on the other planet, standing in an identical, except reversed, room, talking to an identical Jason Webb, who is sitting in an identical chair, rubbing his hands together in this exact moment." "Look here." "Now, what do you see?" "Go on." "You see the mirrored images of Jason Webb and Glenn Ross." "There are four people in this room." "Two Jason Webbs, two Glenn Rosses." "What I am trying to say is, these two planets have a physical connection." "One is the mirrored image of the other." "But unlike the reflection in the mirror, they both exist." "For every person on one planet there is a double on the other." "Don't you understand?" "Until a few days ago you and I have never met." "Are you trying to tell me, that you don't know any of the people here?" "Your wife?" "Lisa, Newman?" "Only their Doppelgängers. (from German: mythology, folklore, literature (romanticism): evil twin, astral body, bilocation phenomenon or disastrous prophesy.)" " Dopp..." "What?" " Doppelgängers." "Doubles." "(Literature:" "Gilgamesh, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Sheley, Dostoyevsky, Andersen, Hawthorn, Salvatore, R. L. Stevenson, J. Conrad etc.)" "In a literal translation, the mirrored imaghes of themselves. (Movie:" "David Linch- Tween Peaks, Stanley Kubrik-Eyes Wide Shut etc.)" "I better get you a drink." "All right, I know how it sounds." "Could you think of anything better?" "I wish to God I could." "When I got your call," " Dr. Pontini had just completed the post-mortem of John Kane." " And?" "Kane's internal organs were found to be on the oposite side from normal." "My normal, that is." "It was all there, on the computer readouts, when you had your electronic medicals," "I assumed wrongly, that it was a fault." "Lesson number one:" "never distrust a computer." "So you see your theory holds up." "It would seem I am not that Jason Webb, that you know." "Only... an impish Doppelgänger." "How do you do, Coronel Ross?" " It's only a theory." " But it's the best that you could come up with." "But we can't prove it, till we recover the Phoenix." "And what if we are right?" "You realize, that your version of the "Dove" would not be able to dock with the Phoenix." "We'll have to reverse the controls and the electrical systems." "Or does the polarity of the electricity remain the same?" "Well?" "Does it?" "If we are wrong  you do realize what would happen to you?" "Chance I am willing to take." "And the other Colonel Ross?" "Are you willing to take the chance on him too?" "That was a penny for your toughts." "If they are as confused as mine, maybe sharing them would help?" "Did you say a penny?" "Well, it's a buyers' market." "What would you like to know?" " Sharon has left?" " Yes." "In a way, she left a long time ago." " Are you going to recover the Phoenix?" " Yes." "With reversed vision, how will you operate the controls?" "Eh, it should be interesting." "Don't do it, Glenn." "You have done enough for Jason." "Well, it's not really just for Jason." "I don't understand?" "Well, you know how it is, there is so much I am not supposed to talk about." "Do you mind me coming over?" "No, as a matter of fact, I am glad you are here." "Someone to talk to." "Why did you reverse DOPPELGÄNGER, Coronel?" "It's an inside joke between me and myself." " Good luck, Sir." " Thank you." " Network check completed?" " All set." "Proceed condition." "Proceed condition." "This is EUROSEC launch control." "Phoenix on horizon." "Lift-off eight seconds." "Roger,Control." "On board computer indicates lift-off five seconds." "Four, three, two, one..." "Report on ground systems." "Procedurescheck:" "All systems go." "Roger." "You couldn't stay away, hm?" "Launchcontrol, this is Doppelgänger." "Airspeed: 12,500." "Roger, Doppelgänger." "Countdown for second stage: 10 seconds." "5 seconds." "four, three, two, one..." "Control, this is Doppelgänger." "Now leaving the Earth's atmosphere." "Roger, Doppelgänger." "Rocket shut-down." "5 seconds." "three, two, one..." "Launch control, this is Doppelgänger, in orbit." "Roger, Doppelgänger." "Stand by for the computer report on Phoenix position." "Doppelgänger, this is EUROSEC Launch control." "Computer reports Phoenix 20 miles ahead." "Your orbital position is correct for automatic approach to EUROSEC, shouldtherebe an  emergency condition." "Thank you, Control." "I see it now." "See it now, Control." "Beginning docking manoeuvers." "From now on it will be just as easy, as ... parking a car." "For a man with reversed vision?" "To Launch control from Doppelgänger, is Jason Webb there?" "Jason Webb here." "About to dock, Jason." "Any additional orders?" "Proceed with docking." "Roger." "Rolls Royce E.S.V. = Earth Station on board Vessel REACTOR" "Reactor Cooling System" "ToLaunchControl from Doppelgänger," "Jason,wewereright..." "There are two planets." "There are definitely two identic ..." "Doppelgänger, say again, we lost your last trans..." "Jason, I'm not reading..." "I repeat, we lost your last transmission." "Jason,I 'mnotreadingyou , may be you're reading me." "Theretroson thePhoenixhave fired, I don't know why, but they've fired." "Iampullingout ." "Isayagain,thereare definitely two planets." "Identical,butreversedinsome way." "Launchcolntrol,if youare  reading me, come in, please." "Give him the automatic approach system." ""Dove" now on automatic control." "Roger." "Yellow condition!" "All stations, stand by!" "ThisisDoppelgängertoLaunchcontrol, ifyouarereadingme, come in, please." "IpulledoutofthePhoenix, extensive damages of all systems." "Onethingis notreversed:" "it's the polarity of electricity." "Instrumentsindicate:" "negativeisstillnegative, positive is still positive." "Phoenix re-entry." "Is there a separate reading for "Dove"?" "No, sir." "Re-entry speed?" "Speed: 19,000 reducing." "Second bleep on screen." " Could be the "Dove"." " Speed?" "Stand by." "Speed: 12,000 reducing." "Controlled re-entry?" "As far as I can see, sir." "Angle of entry: fair." "Launchcontrol,cut automatic approach system!" "Isayagain,cut  automatic approach system!" "UnabletoaffectlandingatEUROSEC." "All vertical thrust is a..." "Maintain automatic approach system." "We'll bring him right down the beam, until the breaks contact the final approach." "Launchcontrol,if youreadme, cut automatic approach system!" "I'munableget-offbeam." "Anlge of approach:" "30 degrees!" "Red alert!" "Repeat:" "Red alert!" "All stations:" "Redalert!" "All stations:" "Red alert!" "Launchcontrol,cut automatic approach system!" "Unabletoaffect a landing at EUROSEC." "Allverticalthrustisa fail !" "There is no sign of manual control, sir." "Cut automatic approach system!" "Break contact." "Mayday, Mayday!" "Mayday!" "GlennRoss," "JohnKane," "Dr.Pontini, theonlywitnesses...gone." "Records," "X-rays,documents, everythingdestroyed." "So...are you surprized that no one beleves me?" "Come along now, Mister Webb." "Once you get talking..." "Putmethroughonanemergency signal to Dr. Green." "That'sright..." "Extension402." "THE END" "English subtitles by Asen Zlatarev and John Atanasov." "Redaction Rozalina Zlatareva"