"Goodmorning,James." "Howareyoufeeling?" "Wait." "What?" "It'sperfectlynormal tofeelconfused." "Youjustspent120 years insuspendedanimation." "What?" "It'sokay,James." "It's Jim." "Jim." "Justbreathe." "Everythingisokay." "Where am I?" "You'rea passengeron  thestarshipavalon, thehomesteadcompany's premierinterstellar starliner." "We'venearlycompleted thevoyagefromearth toyournewhome." "Thecolonyworld ofhomesteadii ." "Anewworld." "Afreshstart ." "Roomtogrow." "Oh, yeah." "Theavalonison finalapproach." "Forthenextfourmonths, you'llenjoyspacetravel atitsmostluxurious." "Food." "Fun." "Friends." "My friends." "That'sright,Jim." "TheIDbandon yourwristis yourkey  tothewonders oftheavalon." "You'rein perfecthealth,Jim." "Let'sgetyoutoyour cabin, whereyoucanget somerest ." "Youmaybe experiencing post-hibernationsickness." "Yourdoorwill illuminateforyou." "Welcometoyourcabin, yourhomeuntil wemakelandfall." "Overthenextfourmonths, you'llprepare foryournewlife onhomesteadii , meetyourfellowpassengers, takeskill-buildingclasses, andlearnabout colonialliving." "You'vebeenassigned tolearninggroup38 forpassengers withengineering andtechnical tradeskills." "PleasescanyourID toconfirmluggagedelivery." "Jim." "PleasescanyourID toconfirmluggagedelivery." "Tohelpyourecover fromhibernation, besureto drink plentyoffluids." "Enjoytherestofyour  voyageontheavalon, ahomesteadcompanystarship." "Goodmorning, oneandall." "It'sa beautifulmorning hereonthestarshipavalon." "Whateveryoudo , don'tgethomesick, gethomestead." "Let'sstartthingsoff  withoneof my favorites backonearth." "No." "That's stupid." "Just own it." "Own it, Jim." "You got a cool jacket." "Hello,passengers." "Willyouall pleasetakeaseat." "Welcome,learninggroup38." "Yourintroduction tocoloniallife." "Earthisaprosperousplanet, thecradleof civilization." "Butformany, it'salsooverpopulated, overpriced,overrated." "I'm sorry, I think i may be in the wrong..." "Holdallquestions tilltheend,please." "Oh, sorry." "Thecolonies offeranalternative, abetterwayoflife ." "Where are all the other..." "Andthere'sno colony morebeautiful thanhomesteadii , theJewelof  theoccupiedworld." "I'm sorry." "Where is everybody?" "Weareallon thestarshipavalon." "But I'm the only one here." "Thereare 5,000passengers and258crewmembers." "So why am I alone?" "We'reallin thistogether." "Hello?" "Anybody here?" "Hello?" "Pleasebuckleup  andsecureanylooseitems." "Thiselevatorwillexperience amomentarylapseingravity." "Grandconcourse." "Hello." "Welcometo thegrandconcourse aboardtheavalon." "CanI helpyou?" "I need to talk to a person." "A real live person, please?" "Whatsortof person?" "Personaltrainer?" "Travelplanner?" "Therapist?" "I..." "I don't know." "Somebody in charge." "Theship'ssteward handlespassengeraffairs." "It'sonlevelthree ofthegrandconcourse." "Thank you." "Happytohelp." "Not good." "Hello." "Who's flying the ship?" "Theflightcrew, thecaptain,thepilot, thechiefnavigator..." "Captain." "I want to speak to the captain." "Thecaptainrarelyhandles passengerqueries..." "It's an emergency!" "Please." "Thecaptain isusuallyfound onthebridge, inthecommandring." "Bridgeaccessrequires specialauthorization." "Bridgeaccessrequires specialauthorization." "You got to be kidding me." "Welcometotheobservatory." "WhatcanIshowyou?" "We're supposed to land soon." "I'm..." "I'm the only one awake." "Idon'tunderstand." "WhatcanIshowyou?" "Show me homestead ii." "Homesteadiiis  thefourthplanet inthebhaktisystem." "Right." "And where are we?" "We'reintransitfrom earthtohomesteadii." "Wewillarrivein approximately90years." "What?" "Wearriveat homesteadii in90years,threeweeks andoneday." "No." "Wait." "How long ago did we leave earth?" "Approximately30yearsago ." "I woke up too soon." "Hello." "How do I send a message to earth?" "Interstellarmessages aresentby laserarray." "Thisisan  expensiveservice." "Bite me." "Happytohelp." "Planetandconnection?" "Earth." "The homestead company." "Thereare30,826contacts listedunder homesteadcompany." "I'm emigrating to homestead ii and I have an emergency." "Ihaveacustomer helpline." "Sounds about right." "Beginmessage." "Hi." "Uh, I'm Jim Preston." "I'm a passenger on the  avalon." "I, uh..." "I think something went wrong with my hibernation pod." "Iwokeup toosoon." "AndI mean, waytoosoon." "Nobodyelseis awake, and..." "Idon'tknowhow to getbackto sleep." "And the thing is, there's 90 years to go." "At this rate, I'm..." "I'm sorry, I'm trying to fix this." "Maybe I missed something." "I could use a hand." "That's all." "Thank you." "Messagesent." "Outstanding." "Messagewill arrivein19 years." "Wait, what?" "Earliestreply in55years." "Fifty-five years?" "Weapologizeforthe delay." "Thatwillbe $6,012." "Afternoon." "Oh, man!" "Is it good to see another face!" "Thought I was the only one awake." "Who wants to sleep on a beautiful day like this?" "No, I mean we're in trouble." "We're not supposed to be here." "Well, I won't tell if you don't." "Huh?" "Our little secret." "What can i get for you?" "What?" "You look like a whiskey man." "Uh, okay." "Oh, you're a robot." "Android." "Technically." "Arthur's the name." "Jim." "Pleased to meet you, Jim." "How much do you know about this ship?" "I don't know." "I know some things." "What do I do if my hibernation pod malfunctions?" "Oh, hibernation pods are fail-safe." "They never malfunction." "Well, I woke up early." "Can't happen." "How long until we get to homestead ii?" "About 90 years or so." "And when are all the passengers supposed to wake up?" "Not till the last four months." "How is it that I'm sitting here with you with 90 years to go?" "Hmm?" "It's not possible for you to be here." "Well, I am." "Goodmorning." "It'sa beautifulday hereontheavalon." "Sowakeup ,sunshine." "It'stimeto relax andenjoyyourstay." "Pleasemake aselection." "Sorry." "Themocha cappuccinoextreme isreservedfor gold-classpassengers." "Sorry." "Themocha cappuccinoextreme isreservedfor..." "I want the mocha cappuccino extreme." "Bill my room, please." "Foodcanbe  purchased intheship's..." "Sorry." "TheFrenchroast..." "Sorry." "Thepumpkinspice..." "Sorry." "Vanillachai..." "Sorry." "Sorry." "Sorry." "Largecoffee." "Cream..." "Pleaseenjoyyourcoffee." "Oh, really?" "Crewpodroom accessrequiresspecial authorization." "Grand..." "Going..." "Pleasemake..." "level..." "Grandconcourse." "I'mscrewed,Arthur." "Completely and ridiculously screwed." "Come on, now." "Every cloud has a silver lining." "Guess I am gonna die of old age on this ship." "Oh, we all die." "Even androids end up on the scrap heap." "I'm your only customer." "Why are you always polishing a glass?" "Trick of the trade." "Makes people nervous when a bartender just stands there." "So lay some bartender wisdom on me." "I'm lost in space here." "You're not where you want to be." "You feel like you're supposed to be somewhere else." "You said it." "Well, say you could snap your fingers and be wherever you wanted to be." "I bet you'd still feel this way." "Not in the right place." "Point is, you can't get so hung up on where you'd rather be that you forget how to make the most of where you are." "What are you telling me?" "Take a break from worrying about what you can't control." "Live a little." "Live a little." "Welcome totheViennasuite." "Oh." "Oh, yeah." "Huh." "What?" "Ah!" "Oh,yeah!" "Oh ,yeah!" "Yeah!" "Make that a double jumbo shrimp." "Triple." "Dance-off." "All right." "I did exactly what you just did." "Largecoffee." "Youhave hadmany,senor." "Si,senor." "Gracias." "Oh,yeah!" "Oh,yeah!" "Oh ,yeah!" "Get out of here!" "Come back." "Hey." "Come here." "Welcome,Jim." "Pleaseturnyourattention tothescreens displayingsafetytips." "Thesespacesuitsaredesigned towithstandtheharsh environmentofspace." "Thecarbonfiberand  polyamideconstruction meansyoursuitis bothflexibleanddurable." "Remember, yourspacesuit isyourlifeline." "Slidethehandle ontheright toreleasetheair pressure." "Yourmagneticboots arenowengaged." "Theycanbe deactivated usingthecontrolpanel onyourarm." "Presstheredbutton toopentheairlockdoor ." "Havea wonderfultime." "Tetherattached." "Welcomeback,Jim." "Wehopeyoudecide tojoinus againsoon foranother thrillingexperience." "Havea wonderfultime." "Aurora." "Searching passengerprofiles." "I'mAuroraLane." "Passenger1456." "I'ma writer." "Ithinkwe tell eachotherstories toknowwe 'renotalone, tomakecontact." "Yourfather wasOliverLane, apulitzer prize-winningauthor." "Nopressure,right?" "Mydadusedtosay,  "ifyoulive anordinarylife," ""allyou'llhave areordinarystories." ""Youhaveto live alifeof adventure."" "So..." "HereI am." "Good morning." "We'restartingover ineveryway." "I'llhaveto figureout  wheretolive,how tolive , whomyfriendswillbe." "It'slike thefirstdayofschool." "Iftheschoolbus took 120yearsto getthere." "We'recreating aculture..." "You are funny." "Do you ever read something and feel like it's written just for you?" "I don't do a lot of reading." "She's good." "Who's that?" "Aurora." "Ah..." "The sleeping girl." "You know, I'm not saying the universe is evil, but it sure has a nasty sense of humor." "How is that?" "You get to fly to another planet, but you'll die along the way." "And you find the perfect woman right in front of you..." "Yet she's completely out of reach." "Yeah,I 'llmiss NewYorkCity." "Givemeacup ofcoffee anda viewof  theChryslerbuilding, andI canwriteall day ." "Theydohavecoffee onhomesteadii ,right?" "Theybetterhavecoffee." "Iftheydon't, Ihaveto turnaround andcomebacktoearth." "Isthereanything youregretleavingbehind?" "Yeah, I'llmissthetrees incentralpark turninginthefall." "I'll alsomisscrowds..." "Say you were trapped on a desert island, and you had the power to wish somebody there with you." "You wouldn't be alone anymore." "But you'd be stranding the person on the island." "How do..." "Would you make that wish?" "I don't know." "I've never been on an island." "Okay, well, yeah." "Uh... forget the island." "Let's say you figured out how to do something that would make your life a million times better, but you knew it was wrong and there's no taking it back." "How do you do the math?" "Jim, these are not robot questions." "I know how to wake Aurora up." "Oh." "Well, that seems like a fine idea." "You could use some company." "I'd be stranding her on this ship for the rest of her life." "Oh." "Well, you can't do that." "What am I gonna do?" "I'm here for you." "Arthur, you're a machine." "See?" "You can't feel that." "You don't have feelings." "See?" "That doesn't hurt." "And you don't even mind." "'Cause you're not a person." "Don't even think about it." "No more Aurora talk." "I'm over it." "I'm moving on." "Don't even think about it!" "What am I gonna do?" "I'm just gonna sit and think about it?" "I'm not..." "I can't think about it, so I'm not going to." "That's the deal." "I've made my decision." "I know what I'm doing." "I just cut it off." "I'm not... no more." "You won't hear me bring up her name again." "I'll never even mention her name again." "Done." "You can't do it." "Shaving off my beard." "Please don't do it." "Goodmorning,Aurora." "Howareyoufeeling?" "It'sperfectlynormal tofeelconfused." "Youjustspent120 years insuspendedanimation." "Grandconcourse." "Hello?" "Anybody?" "Hello." "Hi." "Are you passenger or crew?" "Passenger." "Jim Preston." "Aurora Lane." "Do you know what's going on?" "Nobody else from my row woke up." "Same for me." "The crew's supposed to wake up a month before we do, but I haven't seen anybody." "The crew is still asleep." "Are you saying nobody's awake?" "Just me." "Just you?" "It's just us." "But somebody's got to land the ship in a few weeks." "Wewillarrivein approximately89years." "Eighty-nine years?" "The other passengers aren't late waking up." "We were early." "We... we need help." "Where's the crew?" "The crew's in a secure hibernation room." "Everything important, the controls, the reactors, the engines..." "It's all behind firewalls." "There's no way through." "How long have you been awake?" "A year and three weeks." "No." "No, no, no." "No, this can't be happening." "We have to go back to sleep." "Aurora, we can't." "We just have to get back to our pods and start them up again." "I can't find my pod." "I can't find my pod." "I can't find my pod." "I don't know which..." "It doesn't matter." "Aurora..." "I can't find it!" "Stop." "Aurora..." "I can't find which one is mine!" "Stop." "I don't know which one is mine!" "I'll help you." "I can't..." "Stop!" "It doesn't matter." "Putting somebody into hibernation requires special equipment." "Remember the facility where they put us under, all the procedures we went through?" "These pods are designed to keep us in hibernation, to wake us up at the right time, but they can't put us back to sleep." "You don't think there's a way back into hibernation?" "No." "But there has to be." "There has to be." "9:00." "Nighttime." "I know I should be working the problem, but..." "I can't even keep my eyes open." "You just came out of hibernation." "It's going to be a couple of days before you're 100%." "You should get some rest." "Think I'm gonna have to." "I'll walk you to your cabin." "No, it's okay." "I'll be all right." "Okay." "Good night, Aurora." "More than a year?" "I can't imagine." "It must have been so hard for you." "It was." "Good night, Jim." "Pleasebuckleup  andsecureanylooseitems." "Whiskey, neat." "Sure thing." "How's your day been?" "Aurora's awake." "Congratulations." "You don't look happy." "Arthur, can you keep a secret?" "Jim..." "I'm not just a bartender, I'm a gentleman." "Don't tell Aurora that I woke her up." "She thinks it was an accident." "Let me tell her." "Of course." "How can there be no way to put someone back into hibernation?" "What if a pod breaks down?" "Nohibernationpod hasmalfunctioned inthousandsof  interstellarflights." "Well, I'm awake." "Hibernationpods arefail-safe." "Good morning." "Have you eaten?" "No." "I'm starving." "And this is the dumbest machine." "Happytohelp." "Gold-classbreakfast." "Well, you're a man of simple tastes." "I'm not a gold-class passenger." "French breakfast puff's above my pay grade." "What?" "This whole time?" "Yeah." "What can I get you?" "No." "No, I'm fine." "Stop it." "Really." "Okay." "Here you go." "Yeah." "So, I was thinking, maybe there's another way to go to sleep." "What about the infirmary?" "I checked it out." "It's just scanners and an autodoc." "There could be another hibernation machine in the cargo hold." "I had that thought, too." "And then i read the manifest." "It's mostly farming stuff, machines and trade goods." "Replacement parts for computers and engineering." "We're not gonna find a hibernation facility in a box." "We could build our own." "We can't." "Jim, you're not even trying." "I have tried everything." "For over a year, I..." "I tried everything." "Well..." "Well, I'm not ready to give up." "Infirmary." "What about research articles?" "Any kind of technical documents." "Hibernationtechnology isproprietary." "Thefollowingarticles dealwiththesubject ona theoreticallevel." "New file." "My voyage." "I boarded the  avalon with an idea, a destination." "Both now out of reach." "I'vebeenawake forsevendays." "Awakefartoosoon." "And I may well spend the rest of my life here, ina steelworld 1,000meterslong." "There'sanother passengerawake, amechanic namedJimPreston." "He seems to have accepted our fate." "ButI 'mscared." "I'mfightingto staycalm." "Alltheother passengerswillsleep foranother90 years" "whileI liveoutmylife  onthisship, travelingforever..." "Neverarriving..." "Myonlycompanion atotalstranger." "Why did you do it?" "Do what?" "Emigrate." "Leave earth." "I'm interviewing you." "You're what?" "You were the first hibernation failure in the history of space travel." "That makes you a story." "Who you gonna tell?" "Posterity." "So, why did you give up your life on earth?" "120-year space hibernation means you'll never see your family or friends again." "You'll wake up in a new century on a new planet." "It's the ultimate geographical suicide." "Well, I could ask you the same thing." "But it's my interview." "Were you running away from something?" "No." "Everything was okay." "So?" "Well, I guess I just wanted a new world," "I don't know, a fresh start." "That's homestead company advertising." "Is it?" "Jim." "I..." "I know." "I guess." "You're right." "Back on earth, when something breaks, you don't fix it, you replace it." "The colonies, they have problems to solve." "They're my kind of problems." "And a mechanic is somebody." "This is a new world still being built." "I could build a house and live in it." "Open country." "Room to grow." "Now you're back to slogans." "Can't slogans be true?" "Doyouknowhow much homesteadcompany made off its first planet?" "Eight quadrillion dollars." "That's eight million billions." "Colony planets are the biggest business going." "Did you pay full price for your ticket?" "No." "I'm in a desirable trade." "So they fill your head with dreams, discount your ticket, and you fly off to populate their planet and give homestead 20% of everything that you make for the rest of your life." "Not to mention the debt you run up on this fancy starship." "So all you see here is 5,000 suckers?" "I see zeros on the homestead company's bottom line." "I see 5,000 men and women changing their lives." "For 5,000 different reasons." "You don't know these people." "I'm a journalist." "I know people." "Really?" "This one." "Is he a banker, a teacher or a gardener?" "Banker." "He's a gardener." "And her." "Is she a..." "Madison, Donna or a Lola?" "Donna's too serious for that hair." "Lola." "Madison." "Shit!" "All right, chef, accountant or midwife?" "She has to be a midwife." "There's no way you just made that one up." "Yeah." "She's a midwife." "I didn't know they still had midwives." "I like her." "We'd be friends." "You think you can see that?" "Don't you?" "I do." "A round-trip ticket?" "That's right." "I was gonna fly to homestead ii, live for a year, and then right back to earth." "I don't get it." "I left earth for a new life, but you end up back where you started?" "I end up in the future." "Two hundred and fifty years in the future, on earth, which is still the center of civilization, like it or not." "And I'll be the only writer to ever travel to a colony world and come back." "I'll have a story no one else can tell." "What story?" "Humanity's flight to the stars." "The greatest migration in human history." "It's the biggest story there is." "But you won't know any of the people who are reading it." "But they'd be reading it." "Or they would have been." "I'll never write it now." "I don't know if I'll ever write again." "Jim, I can't think of anything else to try to save us." "And I don't even want to think about it anymore." "What is there to do around here?" "Are you serious?" "Dead serious." "Partner mode." "Let'sgetit on !" "Come on, get in power mode." "You just stand here." "And then we repeat what they do." "Uh, is there anything else we can do?" "Just do the..." "Okay." "You don't have to." "Okay." "I can..." "Beatdown!" "Hey!" "Here we go." "Let's see it." "Oh!" "Whoa!" "Whoa!" "Oh." "Oh!" "Why you smiling?" "Aurora!" "Aurora!" "'Cause I'm up two points." "Who's the lovely lady?" "This is Aurora." "Aurora." "A pleasure." "I can't!" "You did great!" "Okay, one more time." "One more time, let's see it." "Oh!" "Yes!" "Whoo!" "I swear, I didn't wear pants for a month." "Seven weeks and two days, to be exact." "The man has no shame." "Well, you're a little lacking in that area yourself, Arthur." "I laughed at the man with no pants until I realized i have no legs." "For a minute, i almost forgot my life is in ruins." "I'm sorry." "What for?" "I'm gonna go to bed." "Good night." "All right." "Good night, Aurora." "She is wonderful." "Excellent choice." "Hello." "Hi." "Here you go." "Isheaskingme ona date?" "Do you need a pen?" "She didn't seem that impressed." ""Love to." She wrote, "love to."" "Youhaveavisitor." "Wow." "You clean up pretty good yourself." "You went shopping." "I went shoplifting." "Evening." "What can i get for you?" "I'll have a Manhattan, please." "Whiskey, rocks." "Coming up." "You two look fine this evening." "Thank you, Arthur." "We're on a date." "Very nice." "Took you long enough to ask." "I was giving you space." "Space." "The one thing i do not need more of." "That was so good." "It wasn't easy getting a reservation." "They're probably gonna want us to give up our table." "Mmm-hmm." "I'm getting a lot of dirty looks." "Very popular tonight." "So how's your book coming?" "I don't really know what it is yet." "My dad, he used to always write about his life, but he had stories." "He'd sailed around Antarctica." "He was a war reporter." "He had lovers." "He wrote about his daughter." "He wrote about you?" "Yeah." "I grew up reading about myself in his books." "How was that?" "Not always easy." "A little more than you wanted to know about yourself." "And then, when I was 17, he had a heart attack." "Right at his keypad." "End of story." "That was so serious." "I'm sorry." "We need more wine." "I like hearing about your life." "Thanks." "Why are we here?" "You'll see." "Best show in town." "So you've done this before?" "Oh, yeah." "And it's safe?" "No." "Reasonably safe." "Hop in." "You're next." "What about my dress?" "Right." "Turn around." "Tetherattached." "Whatareyoudoing?" "Doyoutrustme?" "Thankyou." "You're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen." "You kill me." "You okay?" "Yeah." "I'm fine." "It's just..." "Yeah, I know." "So, I'mseeingsomeone." "You'llneverguesswho ." "We'rethelasttwo people intheworld whowouldever gettogether." "Butherewe are." "Thelasttwopeople intheworld." "What's that?" "I'm writing, Arthur." "Hush." "JimandIlive inaccidentalhappiness." "Likecastaways, makingtheirhome onstrangeshores." ""Strange shores." I love it." "You do?" "You don't have to say that." "I know." "You're not gonna eat this." "Does that seem fishy to you?" "Keep reading." "It'sfunny." "Weallhavedreams." "Weplanourfutures likewe'rethecaptains ofourfates." "Butwe'repassengers." "Wegowherefatetakesus." "Arthur!" "Thisisn't thelifewe planned." "Butit'sours." "Andforthefirsttime  inmylife," "Idon'tfeelalone." "Weweren'tsupposed tofindeachother." "Butwedid." "Hemakesme feel likemylifeisn 'tover." "Likeit'sjustbeginning." "How was your day?" "Good." "I wrote a few pages." "Did you find anything that can help us?" "I did." "Are they real?" "I cut them myself." "Oh, wow!" "You know, for two unlucky people, we sure got pretty lucky." "Attention." "Youmaywishtoproceed toa viewingarea." "Theavalonwill slingshot aroundthestararcturus." "Look!" "Oh, my god!" "That was amazing." "A red giant." "The universe's present to you." "What?" "Happy birthday." "A birthday drink for the birthday girl." "Aren't you going to ask for my ID?" "I might not be old enough to drink." "Oh, I would never ask your age in front of a gentleman." "Jim's no gentleman." "Anyway, there's no secrets between me and Jim." "Is that so?" "You heard the lady." "I will be right back." "This is a perfect birthday drink." "Thank you." "I remember this day a year ago." "Jim was so looking forward to meeting you." "What?" "How could he be looking forward to it?" "Oh, he spent months deciding whether to wake you up." "He couldn't stop talking about you." "Jim woke me up?" "Oh, yes." "He said it was the hardest decision of his life." "But I see it worked out just fine." "What?" "Did you wake me up?" "Yes, I woke you up." "How..." "How could you do it?" "I tried not to." "I'm gonna be sick." "I can't see." "Aurora, please..." "Stay away from me!" "I can't get off this ship." "I can't get off this ship." "I can't get off." "No!" "Oh, god." "Can I talk to you?" "Aurora," "Iknownothing Icansaywill makethisokay." "Butpleaselisten." "I was so alone for so long." "It felt like i was disappearing." "The night i first saw you, i was ready to..." "You saved my life." "AndI know that'snoexcuse forwhatIdid ." "I read everything you wrote, andI fellin love withyourvoice andwiththeway  yourmindworks." "Ifellin lovewithyou." "Andallof asudden, it was like I..." "I wasn't trapped anymore." "My pointless life suddenly had meaning." "And I wish I could take it back." "ButI can't." "Aurora,I don'twant toloseyou." "I don't care!" "I don't care what you want!" "Idon'tcare whyyouwokemeup!" "You took my life!" "Pleasestandby ." "Yoursuite'scontrolcenter isrebooting." "I envy you, Arthur." "How so?" "You have a purpose." "You're always happy." "How's your book coming along?" "I've never written about myself before." "I think it's some of the best work I've ever done, and I don't even know why I'm doing it." "There's only one person who could read it, and I can't stand him." "They say time heals all wounds." "Broken hearts aren't that simple, Arthur." "You wouldn't understand." "Arthur!" "Tuesday's my day with Arthur." "It's Wednesday." "The bar's all yours." "What'll you have?" "Whiskey?" "Coffee." "Aurora!" "Weloveyou !" "Whatarewe  gonnadowithoutyou ?" "We'llmissyouso..." "You'rethebravestwoman Iknow." "Bye,Aurora!" "Ipromisethat Iwillthinkofyou everyday." "Whenyouwakeup,  I'llbegone, butjustknow thatI willnever forgetyou." "You'remybestfriend." "Youwerenever happyhere." "Iknow." "Nothingwasever enoughforyou." "Youknow, youdon'thavetogo." "Youcoulddo whateveritis youhaveto do righthere." "But,uh..." "Sinceyou'regoing, here'smywish." "Ihopeyoufinally findsomeone whofillsyourheart, and" "Ihopeyoulet him in." "Ihopeyourealize youdon'thavetodo somethingamazing tobehappy." "Youknow,havefun , takechances." "Um,okay." "Iloveyou,Aurora." "Bye." "Morning, Arthur!" "Coffee, please." "Coming up." "Are you soiling my barstool?" "You want to make things, you got to get your hands dirty." "And what have you been making?" "Improvements." "Grandconcourse." "Firstfloor." "Gold-classbreakfast." "Thisisdeckchief Gusmancuso." "Whothehellplanted atreeon my ship?" "Who did that?" "I did." "Who are you?" "Jim Preston." "Aurora Lane." "Anybody else awake?" "Just me and him." "How far along are we?" "Eighty-eight years to go." "Hibernation failure." "They said that couldn't happen." "Three people, three pod failures." "You have no idea how long I've been trying to get in there." "Now that you're in, don't touch anything." "This is where you work?" "No, this is flight crew." "I'm a deck chief." "Hmm." "Ops, navigation, comm." "Hmm." "Unauthorized personnel." "Sorry." "If I'm reading this right, we're still on course." "So whatever's wrong with the ship, navcom is still on the job." "There's something wrong with the ship?" "Three pod failures?" "Yeah, there's something wrong." "Question is what." "That's strange." "We should be getting diagnostics from all over the ship right here, but there's no data." "Got to check all the systems manually." "Can't we turn the ship around, go back to earth?" "No, we're doing 50% of light speed." "Turning back would take just as much time as going on." "Well, there's got to be something we can do." "Sorry." "We're going where we're going." "You okay?" "Hibernation hangover." "Get it all the time." "Grandconcourse." "Two years, huh?" "Any more trees i need to know about?" "Look out!" "Never seen that before." "These robots have been breaking down." "This guy makes fifteen?" "Fifteen." "The breakfast bar went crazy today." "Yeah, and an elevator." "Last week, my door broke." "I was trapped in my cabin for two days." "You were?" "Things like that don't happen." "Not on this ship." "There are 16 of these tech stations on every deck." "Dock your slate." "Data syncs automatically." "Got it?" "Hmm." " Yeah." " Okay." "You take decks one and two." "You take decks three and four." "I'm going down to the hibernation bay, check our pods." "Well, that should be interesting." "Ain't you supposed to be making your rounds?" "I'm finished." "I checked your pod." "Problem's very simple." "The clock chip's burnt out." "It ain't supposed to happen, but pretty simple." "My pod's more complicated." "Bunch of system failures that all happened at the same time." "Whole damn thing went haywire." "Explains why I'm feeling so bad." "But Aurora's pod..." "You did this." "Yeah." "All this time, I'm thinking you're one lucky son of a bitch to get stuck with Aurora." "It wasn't luck, was it?" "No." "She knows?" "She knows." "How long were you alone?" "A year." "Still..." "Damn." "Datareceived." "Datareceived." "Datareceived." "Same as Jim's." "Interpolatingdata." "System shutdowns..." "Everywhere, but no apparent connection." "You saw the hibernation pods?" "I saw them." "Datareceived." "So you know what Jim did." "Yeah." "And?" "It's not my..." "He woke me up." "He took away my life." "I know, and I'm sorry, but there's work I'd..." "It's murder." "You're right, Aurora." "But the drowning man will always try and drag somebody down with him." "It ain't right, but the man's drowning." "This one makes 16." "Yeah." "Hey." "You okay?" "You should go rest." "Yeah." "But just a couple hours, and then back at it first thing in the morning." "I was in the pool when the gravity gave out." "Are you okay?" "We need to find Gus." "Gus!" "Gus!" "Gravity loss means that whatever's wrong is starting to hit the big-ticket items." "Not good." "Every failure's a burnt out processor." "Everything on board's thinking too hard." "Why?" "Computer, display these failures over time." "Processingtimeline." "Cascade failure." "It started two years ago." "Power surge." "Seventeen failures in one day." "Including hibernation pod 1498." "That's me." "Woke me up." "What happened that day?" "Something big." "A major system went down somewhere." "Everything else on board is trying to pick up the load, but the load's too heavy." "Whatever started this, we got to find it." "And fix it." "How bad can this get?" "Give me risk analysis based on this data." "Extrapolating." "Amission-critical failureisimminent." "Failingsystems." "Lifesupport, fusionreactor..." "So we're stranded." "Hibernationbay,iondrive..." "On a sinking ship." "Mainengineering." "Not a lot of things big enough to hit this ship that hard." "With diagnostics out, we'll have to find it ourselves." "Where do we start?" "Gus!" "Scancomplete." "Analyzingdata." "What's it say is wrong with me?" "It's a few things." "612disordersfound." "Get me out of here." "What's the prognosis?" "Criticaldiagnoses cannotbediscussed withouta doctor inattendance." "Override on my authority." "ID 2317." "Lay it on me, doc." "Pansystemicnecrosis." "Progressiveorganfailure." "Cause,unknown." "My goofy hibernation pod." "That's the cause." "What's the treatment?" "Varioustreatments arepossible." "Nonewillmeaningfully extendthepatient'slife." "How long have I got?" "Yourend-of-lifetransition isalreadyunderway." "Thesesedativeswill alleviateyoursuffering duringthesefinalhours." "Gus." "I need a minute." "Weareexperiencing difficultiesinflight." " Gus!" " Gus!" "Where could he be?" "Foryourownsafety, pleasereturnto yourcabins." "Weareexperiencing difficultiesinflight." "Foryourownsafety, pleasereturnto yourcabins." "Should've took the damn pills." "I'll go get them." "No." "Stay here with me." "Sit down." "You two take care of each other." "My ID." "Get you where you need to go." "Fix the ship." "Find out what's wrong with her." "How do I look?" "You look magnificent." "Ladies love the dress blues." "What do we do now?" "This can't be good." "I'm going back to engineering." "Can you fix this?" "I need your help." "Let's go." "Arthur!" "Let's go." "Yeah." "Mainengineering." "Can't we wake up some of the crew?" "It'll take them too long to recover." "We don't have that kind of time." "What are we even looking for?" "Something broken." "Something big." "Come on." "Is it broken?" "It seems okay." "What's next?" "Power plant." "This way." "Come on." "The whole section's closed off." "Something's wrong." "We're looking for wrong." "Try to open it." "Warning." "Pressurefault." "Lockdowninitiated." "Pleasesecurealldoors." "Hold on!" "Warning." "Dangerousoxygenlevel." "Pleasesecurealldoors." "Dangerousoxygenlevel." "Pleasesecurealldoors." "Grab it!" "Pressurizing cabinunsuccessful." "Pressurenormalized." "Oxygenlevelrestored." " There's a..." " End lockdown." "A hole in the ship." "More than one." "How did that even happen?" "The ship's supposed to be meteor-proof." "I guess one got through." "It's hot." "I think we found it." "It's the reactor-control computer." "This is what hit us two years ago." "Jim..." "How can we fix this?" "We're gonna die." "There's replacement parts for everything." "Light." "Sorry." "Soon as I pull this module, the entire computer's gonna shut down." "Well, what happens then?" "I'll get it back up as quickly as I can." "Hurry!" "Jim!" "Okay." "Control computerrestored." "Ventingreactor." " But we fixed it!" " Reactor vent failed." "Manualoverriderequired." "Ventfailure." "Come on!" "Jim." "Outerdoor nonresponsive." "What does that mean?" "The outer door is jammed." "We've got to open that door and cool the reactor down, or the whole ship is gonna blow." "How?" "I got to go out there." "Open it from the outside." "I open the door, i get clear." "You blow that fire into space." "You get clear?" "You can talk to me through this." "What happens to you when that door opens?" "Heat shield." "It might help." "You might need this." "It's gonna be okay." "I better go." "Jim." "Jim." "Come back to me." "I can't live on the ship without you." "Warning." "Temperaturecritical." "Ow!" "What'swrong?" "What'sthematter?" "Areyouokay?" "Nothing." "Go." "Yousure?" "Go." "I'mattheventtube ." "Newanchorpoint." "Resettether." "Iseethedoor." "Temperature levelrising." "Warning." "Temperaturecritical." "Containmentunstable." "Where are you?" "I'matthedoor." "I'mready." "Justsaywhen." "Heregoes." "Thedoorwon'topen." "I'llhaveto bypassit." "Temperature levelrising." "Jim,comeon !" "Pleasehurry!" "Okay, I'mtryingit again." "Tellme whenyou'reclear." "No!" "What?" "What's going on?" "Jim?" "Jim!" "Thedoorwon'tstayopen ." "IthinkIhave tostayhere." "Holdthedooropen." "What?" "No!" "Noway!" "Getout ofthere!" "Ican't." "Jim." "We'reoutof time." "Containmentunstable." "Jim?" "Ventthereactor." "No!" "Youdon'tunderstand!" "IfI openthedoor rightnow,it 'llkillyou !" "I'mhopingnot." "Come back in." "We'll think of something else." "Thereisnothingelse." "Jim!" " It's okay." " No!" "It's not okay!" "Aurora..." "Warning." "Temperaturelevelexceeded." "This isn't what you said was gonna happen!" "Aurora,thisship isgonnago ." "I don't care!" "You die, I die." "Thereare 5,000otherpeople onthisship,Aurora." "Wehaveto do this." "Maximum pressurereached." "Doit." "Now." "Maximum cabinpressurereached." "Temperaturedropping." "Jim." " Jim?" " Vent successful." "Rebootingprocessinitiated." "Jim, please say something." "Suitpressure dropping." "Returntoship immediately." "Aurora?" "It worked!" "You did it!" "You can come in!" "Uh,yeah,aboutthat." "What's the matter?" "Are you hurt?" "Igotblown outofthetube." "What?" "Mytetherbroke." "Ican'tgetback totheship." "I'll come out." "I'll come out." "I'll pull you in." "Warning." "Oxygenlevelcritical." "Returntoshipimmediately." "Aurora,I 'msorry." "Foreverything." "Shut up." "I'm coming." "Iwishwe 'd havemetin 90 years." "I'd..." "I 'dhave builtyouahouse." "I'dhavereadyourbook ." "It'sgonnabe great." "Tetherattached." "LocateJimPreston." "JimPrestonlocated." "I'mcomingto getyou ." "Jim!" "I'msorry." "Thepatientis dead." "Well, resuscitate him!" "Postmortemoperations requireauthorized medicalsupervision." "No." "Jim." "Override!" "Override on my authority!" "ID 1-7..." "Two..." "Two." "Two." "2-3-1-7." "2-3-1-7!" "ID 2-3-1-7!" "Resuscitation." "Multipleprocedures arenotrecommended." "Override!" "Do it now!" "Executing." "Hi!" "Jim!" "Hey, Jim." "You brought me back." "Yeah." "Thank you." "Be still." "Of course." "There's something i have to show you." "In command mode, it turns out the autodoc has an option called stabilize and suspend." "It stops all metabolic activity." "What are you saying?" "With Gus's ID, it can be like hibernation inside the autodoc." "You can go back to sleep." "But there's only one autodoc." "Yeah." "And you're gonna lay down in it and fall asleep." "And you'll wake up on homestead ii." "And you'll write your book." "You'd finish your journey." "You'd do what you set out to do." "You'd be alone." "I've been alone before." "And I'll be fine." "But I would never see you again." "I'll come and visit you." "Tuesday is my day with Arthur." "Lovely as ever." "Thank you, Arthur." "You're looking very well yourself." "Thanks to you." "What's that?" "Something I've wanted to give you for a long time." "It's beautiful." "Took you long enough to ask." "Champagne." "I'll wait." "Hell of a life." "Hell of a life." "Crewwake-up processinitiated." "Myfellowpassengers, ifyou'rereadingthis, thenthestarshipavalon hasreacheditsdestination." "Grandconcourse." "Alothappened whileyouslept." "Afriendoncesaid," ""youcan'tgetsohung upon  whereyou'dratherbe" ""thatyouforget tomakethemost ofwhereyouare ."" "Wegotlostalongtheway." "Butwefoundeachother." "Andwemadealife ." "Abeautifullife." "Together."