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Synopsis: The whole Moon has been divided into 5 zones (related to Earthen countries), and there is one monopoly consortium which sells the oxygen to everyone. Each zone is focused on extracting precious Helium-3. The lunar-suits provide self-gravity, and they create their own invisible helmet to contain the oxygen. The North-American zone is under the control of an Army General, and the civil workers are Earthen convicts. One of those criminals finds what seems to be a red lunar-flower with blue roots in the site of an inspection, on Moon surface. Few seconds after he touches that flower, there is a huge explosion in a nearby crater which began a moon-quake that swallows the convict and others. The appointed detective for investigation is the elder brother of the convict who touched the flower. The inquiry unveils a huge mystery that involves Russians, Indians, Japanese, the consortium, Helium-3, the convict, the fragile General's daughter, a mysterious technological gay spy Russian officer, so
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Director(s): Adam Kane
Production: Universal Cable Productions
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.0
Year:
2014
90 min
68 Views


"Compromised"

suggests an intimacy

I didn't share with my brother.

Well, then you must be

hobbled by regret.

Either one comes

at the cost of objectivity.

You wanted me

to see that mugshot

in the hope that I would crack,

because you don't want

an outsider

running an investigation

you think you should

be in charge of.

I don't crack.

I find answers...

How did this happen,

and who's to blame.

You say the russians,

but you don't really say why,

which suggests to me you know

something you're not sharing,

and that makes you,

not me, general,

the one who's compromised.

Now, let's place our competency

concerns aside

and focus on answers.

Let's start with the one

that explains why the russians?

Tranquility station

sits on the Moon's

largest stores of helium.

The russians

are atop the smallest,

but have the most high-tech

drilling operations.

They're running out of gas?

So they put their straw

in our milkshake.

And you're letting them?

Oh, no, no.

We have them red-handed,

and you'd better believe

we're gonna bend 'em

over a barrel.

But their straw has to be

discovered... "Organically,"

to protect certain assets.

You've got a spy.

Velocity...

Rotation...

Altitude.

Place this in locus 276.

More moon buggy.

Marker 7-1-2,

code for priority.

It looks like ordnance.

Repeat, marker 7-1-2

is a piece of a bomb.

Ew! Ew! Dead body.

Air!

Debris ring blocking your view?

It's not the Earth

I'm looking for.

Hiya, Moose.

Never thought I'd be so happy

to hear your "moose" call.

Ow! Geez...

What's with the...

The explosion,

it, uh, wasn't an accident.

Well, what's that

got to do with me?

I don't know yet.

"Yet?"

No. Don't read into that.

How did you make it up there?

My com-link was busted,

so I bounced from one dead guy

to the next,

using their oxygen

to stay alive.

And now here you are.

And now here you are.

This is a second chance.

I-I'm gonna be...

I'm... I'm gonna...

I'm gonna be...

There was a flower.

Beg your pardon?

Growing right out

of the moon dirt.

Okay.

Fine. Uh...

Look. I love you,

and I'm glad you're alive.

Here we go.

You're the sole survivor

of a massive explosion,

there's moon-buggy footage

of you tampering

with an unknown object

at ground zero,

and I'm looking

for an inside man.

Okay, so this your idea

of a second chance?

Accusing me

of being a terrorist?

Your excuse you're not

is that you saw a flower.

And we're back!

It's only been, what,

like, two years?

And in two minutes, you're

trying to get inside my head.

Because I need to know if

you're working for the russians,

and you won't just tell me

if I ask you.

Uh... yes, I will.

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John Christopher

Sam Youd (16 April 1922 – 3 February 2012), known professionally as Christopher Samuel Youd, was a British writer, best known for science fiction under the pseudonym John Christopher, including the novels The Death of Grass, The Possessors, and the young-adult novel series The Tripods. He won the Guardian Prize in 1971 and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1976. Youd also wrote under variations of his own name and under the pseudonyms Stanley Winchester, Hilary Ford, William Godfrey, William Vine, Peter Graaf, Peter Nichols, and Anthony Rye. more…

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