"Previously on Defying Gravity." " Sharon, come in." " Donner?" " Sharon, do you copy?" " Donner?" " Launch now, Donner!" " God forgive me." "Launch now." "I know Donner and I coming on board last minute is a little awkward." "Not for me." "Just remember how much I love you." "I think the obvious question is simply, what the hell happened?" "One minute, we're on the mission." "The next minute, we're off" "Something's happening, and I need to know why." "Paula Puke." "Queen of the upchuck." "Mistress ofheave." "It's talking to her again." "My withdrawal symptoms are under control, Doctor." "So, what are you doing there?" "You working on the rabbit embryos?" " You're changing the subject." " And Ajay?" "Will he be coming back on the floor?" " Goss wants to do a thorough psych eval." " And if he passes?" "He won't pass, Rollie." "Ajay once told me that the idea of a man... knowing everything about something is folly." "His word, not mine." "He said that man by his very nature is dependent on other men." "We need each other to survive." " I'll get that." " I got it." " I can get it." " I can get it too." "The problem is getting anybody to admit that." "You must be feeling better." "I'm starving." "And I've got lots of catching up to do." " My space classroom, the lander G.N.C. And" " If you need some help, I" "Steven." "I can count on this spork more than you." "As a species, we pride ourselves on being self-sufficient." "No Form 24 today." "You guys know what to do?" "Why ask a stranger for directions?" "We'd rather stay stubborn and lost." " How many times have you been back?" " Three." " And all I see is a storm." " So how does it make you feel?" " What do you mean?" " I mean, how does it make you feel?" "Afraid?" "Alone?" "What's your response to it?" "I'm just trying to help you through this." "Eve, all I see is a storm." "I'm in a Martian storm." " Good morning, Frenchie." " You look way too good to be in withdrawal." "I'm switching med patches as we speak." "I think I'm through the worst of it." "You look awful." " Not getting a whole lot of sleep." " Wanna talk about it?" "Know a good shrink." "As long as his office isn't six million kilometers away." "Well, then you're piss out of luck." " How's Ted?" " Uh, he's distant." "But he's doing his job." "Whatever Rollie said to him did the trick." "Maybe you should talk to Rollie." "Ajay's still on med watch, Donner." " Can't come on the floor until he's cleared." " You're on the floor, Rollie." "I didn't need a psych eval." "He did." "That simple." "Strikes me as damn stupid to have me up here... running systems checks without the engineer who helped design it." " Point taken." " This better not be one of Goss's games." " No, it's not, Donner." " Smells like it." " It's not." " So how come I haven't heard from Ajay?" "He has restricted access until he's cleared." "Roger that." "I'll run the check alone." "Didn't expect to see you so soon." "Didn't expect to be back so soon." "I'll have the chicken curry." "All right." "Soda water with lime?" "No." "I think I'll have a beer." "Okay." "The nuclear reactor on Antares... will power four redundant electrical subsystems." "Now, on the Mars missions, we were primarily solar, so this is a big improvement." "For safety reasons, each of the subsystems... is discretely located on the ship." "Sharma, you have your hand in the air." " Yes." " You need the exercise, or do you have a question?" "Your information's actually out of date." "There's three subsystems now." "Budget cuts." " I'm sorry?" " The change is very recent." "My sponsor company designed it." "I was on the team." "Oh." "Well, then we're very fortunate to have you here, aren't we?" "I don't know what the hell I'm doing up here flapping my gums... when we have the designer in the house." " Donner." " Come on, Sharma." "You know everything." "Why don't you get your ass up here and share it with us?" "Dude, those are some large, hefty man balls you got swinging down there." "Dude." "No, man." "Donner." " In class, making him look like a chump?" " L" "Takes a pair to do that, especially when he's on the rag." "The rag?" "What do you mean?" " You don't know what today is?" " What?" "It's the fifth anniversary of the Mars disaster today, man." "Look at him." "Donner's ready to take that bag out." "But good on you, man." "Grinding his face in his shortcomings." "He needed it." "I'm cramping." "I gotta go take a steam." "Life on the ship is an adjustment for everyone." "The close quarters, the distance from Earth... the responsibility we have to help our fellow crew members." "One of the biggest adjustments we make is to the lack of gravity." "Just ask your host, Paula Puke." "Stop!" "Here in our quarters... we have natural gravity caused by the centrifugal force of our spinning rotors." "But in the rest of the ship, we create artificial gravity... with magnetism and our grav suits." "Jorge from La Escuela Gueverra in Santiago, Chile asked... why our hair doesn't fly." "Un excelente pregunta, Jorge." "Let's find out." "What do you have in your hand, Zoe?" "This is nano spray." "We use it on our hair... and nonstandard clothing to make it slightly magnetic." " Can you show us how it works?" " Sure." "You just, uh, give your hair a couple of good shots." "And... voilà." "Porcupine head." "Qué linda." "You're so funny." " Okay." "Who just turned out the lights?" " It's either Wass or" " Was that the ship or the camera?" " The ship." "Flight, we have a primary subsystem electrical failure." "Donner, tell me that's you running a systems check." "Uh, negative, Mike." "I'm trying to get it back up now." "Looks like some kind of short or a bus failure." " Can you bypass it?" " Uh, no." "That's not working." "I'm gonna have to take a look." "In the meantime, you guys better start looking for Ajay." "We're not wasting time looking for Ajay, people." "Start looking for solutions." "I hear they put that on the menu just for you." "It's an astronaut bar." "They like to keep us happy." "I've had that curry." "You can't be that happy." "It's not exactly like home, is it?" "Right." "Yes." "And now that you have so subtly reminded me... we used to be subjects of the same crown, you should sit and we should talk... because, well, we share the bond of flag and curry." "Exactly." "That was not a sincere offer." "No, I'm aware of that." "Can I have- I'll have what he's having." "Thanks a lot." "So, um, do you know what I did before I was assigned here?" "I watched you every night on the evening news." "Mmm." "Yep." "A heady time ruined by a single act of hubris." "Guess the lesson is that journalists should not make up their stories, hmm?" "And, of course, astronauts shouldn't really go on unauthorized spacewalks." "I was fixing the shield." "I exposed a crooked politician, Ajay." " It doesn't matter, Mr. Williams." " That's my point exactly though, isn't it?" "Here we are, you and I, both exiled from what we should be doing... seeking some kind of redemption." "Maybe we should be helping each other." "Oh, thanks." "Lovely." "Looks just how I remember." "Oh, I understand they're having a bit of a power problem... on the Antares this morning." "It's a shame they're not consulting you, really." "You know, with your, uh" " Excuse me." " Yeah, of course." " I have to go to the men's room." " Right." "Oh, God." "It's just how I remember it." "Say, have you got any mango chutney or anything just to, you know" "Ajay?" " Is anyone left in their bay?" " No." " What are you doing?" " I'm trying to figure out... why anyone would think that Scott Summers is a better leader than Jean Grey." "I mean, the Sentinels alone" "I like your hair." "You remind me of my mom." " What?" " There's something wrong." " Yeah, I know." "Look at her." " Yeah, we were using a magnet" " Looks good." " We're going to the flight deck now." "Come on." "Let's go." "Vámonos." "What's the point?" "It's just a bus failure." "Donner's probably got it under control." "Flight, it's not a bus failure... and all the Brayton circuits check out nominal." "I'm gonna have a look up in the node." "It's the only place the electrical subsystems meet." " What are you doing?" " You try to find the problem... and I'll try to find your sex drive." " It's been missing since you got here." " Seriously, Nads." "Mmm." "Don't you wanna try it weightless?" "Hmm?" "Ow!" "Damn- Do you have to leave a mark always?" "Just laying claim to my territory." "Your territory's got some work to do." "All right, Flight, we're going off grav in Aft Sector 4." "See?" "You worry too much." "So?" " H2I K." " And H2I K is bad?" "H2I K could be as bad as it gets." "Sector 4 going back on grav." " I think I worry just enough." " Too much." "And that's why nobody likes you." "You swim in a sea of self-delusion, Wass." "Okay, if I'm swimming in it, you're drowning in" "What was that?" " I think it's the rotor arm." " This rotor arm?" " Oh." " Yep." "This rotor arm." "All right." "What we know is that the failure is inconsistent... bridges all of the subsystems and is somehow related to the mag grav in Aft Sector 4." "The mag grav checks out nominal." "So it's related, but not connected." "I'm gonna need to look at code as well as schematics and run a full systems check." "Okay." "Go to work, people." "They got it covered." "And you gotta get to the hospital." "We should have operated the day Ajay and Rollie came home." "Did we really think it was gonna get rid of their plaque?" "It's changing the crew's genes." "Anything's possible." "It doesn't give us permission to be negligent." " Hi." " Hi." "Thanks for calling." " Most guys would've called their producers first." " How do you know I didn't?" "And I expect a little quid pro quo here, of course." "Of course you do." "Dr. Grottman to Admitting." "Hey, Ajay." "How are you?" "I'm fine." "I'll be fine." "Tell me about the electrical problem on the Antares." "After you come out of surgery, Ajay." "It's just a glitch." " How bad is he?" " He's in surgery." "But the good news is they don't have to replace the valve." "But what about Rollie?" "He'll have the same plaque procedure this afternoon." "No one's taking any chances." "Look, this is emotional for all of us, okay?" "But let's not lose focus on the ship." "Worst case?" "You mean besides no Ajay to get us out of this?" "Progressive overloads leading to a systemic shutdown... like the New England blackouts last year." " That's a long shot, but" " I don't understand." "The systems are redundant." " Can't we switch from one subsystem to the other?" " Yeah." "The ship's programmed to do that automatically, and it's been trying." "This is somehow bridging systems." " I'm gonna check the exterior maintenance panels for damage." " An E.V. A?" "I'm in." "Donner only." "You and Zoe... can prep him and help with the egress and the ingress." "I'll be on the flight deck, monitoring." "If this shutdown is systemic, we could lose power in the labs." "I have embryos that could freeze." "Then all of you should secure what you can and work in teams." "Wass and Paula coming down?" "He didn't want to leave." "She stayed with him." "It's getting really cold in here, Wass." "This is stupid." "It's gonna be fine." "Any minute, the rotor arm" " Oh!" " Just twist and grab onto" " I know how to do it!" "There's gravity on the flight deck." "And heat." " Well, then go ahead and leave." " I'm really going." " So really go then!" " Fine." "I'm leaving." "Good." "Do you have a rash, Donner?" " I don't think so." " It is really red behind your" "Are those teeth marks?" "I think Ted sent you down here to keep an eye on us." "What's the word for the person" "Chaperone." "The word is chaperone." "And it's not necessary." " Then Zoe can go." " No." "Zoe will stay." "Only because Ted assigned me, not because I want to." "This has gotta be hell on him." " You know, on both of'em." " Yeah." "I can't imagine flipping that switch, leaving two people behind." " Donner was sleeping with her." " What?" " Who?" " Sharon Lewis." "Big romance." "That's why he won't touch any of the ASCANs." " Too much potential drama." " Oh!" "Donner?" "I, uh" "I didn't mean anything in the classroom today." "I mean..." "I wasn't trying to show you up or anything." "I just thought it's the most recent information, probably." "You know, when I worked for the company... there was always this pressure whenever a supervisor came around... having to know absolutely everything about absolutely everything... which is obviously impossible." "My team, we came up with a code." "In case one person got stuck... somebody else could come and relieve them." "We called it an H2I K sequence." " What's an H2I K sequence?" " It means..." ""Hell if I know. "" "It's H2I K. It's "Hell if I... know. "" " Hey, Sharma?" " Yeah?" "Know when to shut up." "Conventional wisdom says it's forbidden to ask, but I am a shrink." "So, wanna talk about it?" "You wanna talk about those beauty marks?" "It's a simple cardio cath." "They break up the plaque sonically, then suck it out." "He'll be able to walk off the table." "Huh." "Ev?" "You all right?" "Yeah." "I just, uh, hate that." "Well, it's probably just the boys down at Mission Control playing with the mag grav." "I bet they're laughing at us right now." "Are you gonna be all right if we" "I can manage if you can." "Okay." "Okay, I'll see you in a bit." "All right." "Flight deck, I'm ready to egress." "Uh, copy that, Donner." "You're go for a walk." " This is one hell of a backyard we got, Ted." " Roger that." "We know it's connected to the mag grav switches in Aft Sector 4." " We knew that three hours ago." " And everything we do to pinpoint it seems to be making it worse." "Look, I just told the president of the United States... that we'd have this cleared up by tomorrow morning." "Don't make a liar out of me." "All right." "I'm proceeding to the exterior maintenance panels." "You know the three of us are gonna be up here together for over six years, right?" "And I know that you and Donner are going to screw... knock boots, whatever." "He's a red-blooded guy, and you're throwing yourself at him." "I don't have to throw myself at him." " We've been sleeping together for years." " Fine." "You have, yes." "And with a little room, I can handle it." "But up here" "Up here, down there, we are going to do it..." " whether you like it or not." " Of course." "Just don't flaunt it at me, okay?" "Don't scar his body with little intimacies for me to see." "Can you do that for me, Nadia?" "Because he is all yours." "We are not competing." "We've never been competing." "I'm a friend with benefits to Donner, nothing more." "The person you've been competing with is Sharon Lewis." "Ted, I'm looking at pristine panels." " Roger that." " They look as good as the day they were installed." "I see no damage to the ship at all." "She's beautiful." " You should come in." " Roger that." "Heading back to the airlock now." "Sharon?" "Exactly how long are we supposed to overlook the obvious possibility?" "Do you honestly think after all these years and the direction it so clearly pushed us in..." "Beta simply wants to strand your spacecraft?" "Nothing else makes sense." "Something will." "Your guys just have to find it." "And what is Williams doing down here?" "Quid pro quo for sitting on Ajay and Rollie." "The press is all over this electrical glitch anyway." "He's just getting a better view." "Donner, are you coming in?" "Donner, do you copy?" "What is he doing?" "Donner, do you have a problem?" "Come back to me." "Do you people mind if I join you?" "Trevor Williams, British Television News." " We know who you are." " Oh." "Okay, good." "Oh!" "Oh, sorry." "Yeah, sure." "Cop a squat." " Thanks very much." " No problem." "So I assume you're all here for the  for the show, eh?" " Actually, we're a little unsure what we're doing here." "I mean, aside from the fact that it's the anniversary of the Mars mission" "Well, that's exactly the point, isn't it?" "Tonight, we get to be witnesses... to prolonged torture disguised as tradition." "Three single malts, Tom." "Your finest Islay." "Can you kill the music?" "Why aren't they saying anything?" "They will." "Someone will." "There is no greater calling than to be an explorer." "No greater ambition... than to stretch the knowledge and reach of mankind." "And there is glory in success." "But it rides on the back of personal sacrifice." "And it is that sacrifice that we salute here tonight." "We raise our glasses to two explorers... who gave their lives... who reached as far as man has ever reached... and paid the ultimate price." "They were friends... they were colleagues... and they were true heroes." "Sharon Lewis and Jeff Walker... you inspire us." "You humble us." "And you will never be forgotten." "Okay." "What just happened there?" "Am I clueless?" " Well, that goes without saying." " Clever." "I don't think anyone could have said anything that would have made Donner feel better." "That's not the point, Ajay." "Goss just made Donner and Ted toast their own failure." "Toast killing the woman he loved." "So then why do it?" "Why-Why show up at all?" "Well, that's the question, isn't it?" "Why allow Goss to torture you year after year?" "Easy." "Goss picks the crews." "You'll do it to fly." "Donner, my man, this had better be a joke." "Talk to me." "Do you copy?" "I can go out, help him back in." "No one else leaves this ship." "Talk to me, Donner." "Donner, what the hell are you doing?" "Donner, you are outside of your flight plan." "Get back to the ship now!" "Flight, we just lost Donner." "Where does he think he's going?" " I have no idea." " Donner!" "Antares, this is Flight." "Get him back on the ship." "Maddux, you need to talk to me." "Whatever you think you're doing, stop it." "We need you back on the ship." "Donner, this is Zoe." "Do you read?" "Damn it, Donner." "I need you, Donner." "Stop." "Donner?" "I need you to come back to me." " Zoe?" " Donner, do you copy?" "Yeah, I hear you, Z." "You took off on us there, madman." "Roger that." "I thought I saw something come off the ship." "Uh, I'm headed back to the airlock now." "We copy." "Men only listen when they want to." "Yeah." "Damn." " You saw something come off the ship?" " Yeah." " What "something" would come off the ship?" " Like a panel or something." " So you chased after it?" " Yeah, I chased after it." " Why?" " Would you two stop?" "Please?" "Donner's in." "That's what matters." "Ah, terrific." "Mission Control, you guys playing with me down there?" "Guys?" "Mission Control, are you on comm?" "Ted?" "Okay, that's a third-stage failure." "Half the comm is down." "We can start thinking about a progressive blackout." "Okay, we're gonna need to call in some outside help from the contractors." "How about some inside help?" "Ajay Sharma should be sufficiently recovered by now." "I think your quid pro quo just expired, Trevor." "I'll have a guard escort you back to the press floor." " Over half of the ship is out." " They're not telling me squat." " They telling you anything?" " Not enough." " We need Ajay." " Yes, we need Ajay." " He should be conscious now." " You know how Goss feels." " Screw Goss." "It's our ship." " It's his command." "It's our ship, Ted." " Hi." " Hey." " You enjoy the show?" " Oh!" "Takes a particular kind of jackass." "That he is." "You know, I understand the whole... isolated, "I can do anything" stud astronaut part of you." "L" " I really do." "But it doesn't un-man you to need someone else at certain times." "I just really don't think you should be alone tonight." "You're right." "Good night." "Calliope, this is Zeus." "We're showing that the dust is breaching your thruster controls." "This storm's on the rise." "We're losing your launch window." "Copy that, Zeus." "Yeah, it's looking bad down here." " How far out are they?" " 100 meters." "We're holding." " Hey." " Hey, brother." "You know, three things." "Burn that damn recording." "We're never gonna toast again." "And from now on... we never spend this anniversary alone." "Ajay." "Yeah, it's your command, but it's our ship." " We want Ajay." " Negative." "He's not healthy." "Yeah, neither's the ship." "If he's conscious, he'll want to help save it." "What do you have to lose?" "Mike." "Get the schematics, the test data, and uplink to the hospital." "Right away, sir." " Look-Look who came back." " I never left." "I was in my quarters." "Oh." "Do you have any sweaters?" "Yeah." "Lower left bin." " You don't have to do this, you know." " Yeah, Wass." " I really do." " Why?" "I mean... why help me after the whole Paula Puke business?" "Is it the whole "Jesus said turneth thou cheeketh'"thing?" "No." "It's not because of the wholeJesus thing." " Then why?" " It's because you'll freeze to death if I don't." "Yeah, that's a good point." "Evram?" "Evram?" "Are you in here?" "Evram?" "No!" "Hey!" "Evram!" "Evram, you're okay." "You're okay." "I got you." "I got you." "You're okay." "You're okay, Evram." "You're right here." "You're right here with me." "It's okay." "I got you." "Hey, buddy." "Gave us a little bit of a scare there." "Yes." "Well, luckily, Surgical is more astute than Diagnostic." "Listen, we're in a spot up here." "Kind ofhoping you had a can of monkey grease laying around for our squeaky door." "I've seen the 1500 briefs." "Is there anything you can add to them?" "No." "That's about it." "You get a chance to take a look?" "Yeah." "And?" "From what I have here, looks to me like an H2I K sequence." "H2I K, huh?" "You sure?" "I'm positive." "Start at the beginning, work your way through it." "It's the only way to complete the sequence." " Okay?" " Okay." "Roger that." "That's what we'll do." "We'll start and work that sequence from the beginning." "All right." "You get better, Ajay." "Demand sponge baths from the nurses." "You deserve it." "Okay." " Fix it, Donner." " So, H2I K?" "Yeah." "It stands for "Hell if I know. " He didn't know what it is." "It's time, Wass." "We have to get out ofhere." " Come on!" "What are you so afraid of?" " I'm not af" "People are just wired differently, okay?" "And maybe- maybe we don't necessarily like the way we're wired." "But that's the way it is." "And wanting to be different is just a waste of time." "So why bother?" "Well, that's all you're getting." "What happened, Evram?" "Where were you?" "In the war." "The lights triggered it." "Posttraumatic stress syndrome?" "And this never happened during training?" "I've been medicating for alcohol withdrawal." "I think these patches are bad." "Does Claire know?" "Of course she knows." "Well, we'll just keep it between you and me then." " So he had no idea?" " None." "I didn't wanna burn him with Goss anymore." "We could always turn around." " Not an option." " Why?" "Why continue on a dead ship?" "We could direct abort and be home in a month." " I'm just saying." " Look, there's a solution, all right?" "To every problem, there's a solution." "We just have to go back and work it from the beginning." "It's not software." "Ted went through everything in the mainframe." "Has to be hardware." " Has to be a short." " It can't be a simple short." "This entire ship is polymer coated to avoid that exact thing." "They wrench in these circuits, and that's it." " What is it?" " The mag grav." "I already looked here." "What is it?" "The short seems to go on and off with the mag grav." "And it's jumping subsystems like it's moving, right?" " So?" " So, you ever hear one of those stories... about a doctor who sews up a patient... but he accidentally leaves a clamp in somebody's chest?" "Back in the Dark Ages." "Well, if the circuit housing and the insulation's too thin..." " and for some reason, there's a large enough piece astray" "Conductive metal- you wind up with all kinds of problems." " Whoa!" " Oh!" "How much do you weigh?" "You're a moron." "Ah, yes." "A wrench?" "Just a wrench?" "Ferrous assembly wrench, about yea big, straddling all three bus lines." "Mag grav kept shifting it around... and that's what kept me from seeing it in the first place." " Well, good thinking, Donner." " It didn't come from me." "Okay?" "Ajay hadn't had me run that H2I K sequence, I'd have never found it." " We need Ajay on the floor, Mike." " Listen, I'm not prepared to" " We need Ajay." " Ajay." " Ajay." " Put him back on the floor as soon as he's healthy, Mike." "Don't test us." "In the Hall thruster, xenon gas is injected into the chamber... where it's passed through a Hall current and stripped of electrons." " Yes." " What's a Hall current?" "That's a good question." "Uh" "That's the Hall current right there." "Okay?" "It's a current" "And it was first discovered by a guy named Hall... uh, back in the" "I believe it was the 1800s." "Uh, and Hall... who was also an early pioneer of the H2I K sequence" " Uh" " Yes." " Sorry." "Is that Edwin Hall?" "Was it his sequence that showed that... when electric and magnetic fields are set perpendicular to each other... inside a conductor, that an electric field... flows in a direction perpendicular to both fields?" "Yep." "Exactly right." "That's the Hall current." "Answer your question?" " Yeah." " Okay, moving on." "Like it or not, man, by his very nature... is dependent on other men." " We call ourselves explorers." " All right." "Independent, courageous." "Ajay, we're reinstating you." "Welcome back to the floor." "But what are we without the support of our brothers?" "I mean, how far do we really get if we try to do everything alone... when the simplest, smallest thing can bring the whole world around you... grinding to a halt?" "I want peace of mind." "Donner?" "The guys whipped up some dinner in quarters." "I want to rely on my brother" "I'll be right down." "And know that he'll find the wrench if I don't." "Mmm." "Ahh." "English" " US" " SDH"