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without a suit on!

Can we override the elevator from here?

Hello?

Carol?

I'm trying to keep my composure...

...and like everything else I do,

I think I'm messing this up.

I despise these message things.

I'm just such a coward.

I couldn't look at your face and say

what I'm about to say. I just couldn't.

If you were in front of me,

I'd change my mind.

And I don't want to change my mind.

I love you. Please know that.

I hadn't planned this.

I really hadn't.

Oh, God.

I just can't take it anymore.

That's what it amounts to.

I know we've been over this

so many times before.

The same crying from me,

and the same assurances from you.

That the next place will be different.

But it never is. Lt can't be.

So yesterday, something snapped in me.

I just couldn't bear to see Paulie...

...clatter around yet another

bleak place. L just couldn't.

He's a child.

He's never set foot on Earth.

Never!

He looks at pictures

and reads books of Earth...

...all day long. And he hides them

from you so your feelings won't be hurt.

Don't you see

he deserves a childhood?

He deserves a chance

to breathe air, real outside air...

...where you don't broil or explode.

Air that smells like life!

Not like a ventilating unit!

I'm just not as good as you are.

I don't think it's worth it.

So I'm taking Paulie back home.

I love you.

You don't deserve this.

You deserve the best.

I've just got to go now, my love.

I'll contact you...

...in a few days from the space station

before we finally leave for Earth.

What do we have here?

What's happening with the purser's area?

We've put monitors

on the whole area for 36 hours...

...and things have been quiet.

Keep the monitors on for two weeks.

- And the detonators?

- Oh, they were found.

Where?

I don't know.

The foreman reported them found...

...then told me to forget about it.

Nelson, we're talking about

nuclear detonators.

You just don't lose them

and then find them.

You lose your comb, then find it.

Not detonators.

I want to know where they were found

and who found them. Get it?

Yes, sir.

Good for you, Nelson.

Slater, what about

the incident in the mine elevator?

Nothing much to tell, Sarge.

Some cupcake named Cane decided

he didn't need an environment suit.

They're still sponging him

off the elevator walls.

He was alone. Nobody near enough

to have thrown him in.

Some guys tried

to get into the airlock...

...except he'd sealed it.

No way it was homicide.

- Had to have been a suicide.

Did he leave a note?

I beg your pardon?

Did he leave a note?

None that we know of, sir.

Then how do you know it was suicide?

There's no other explanation.

He knew what he was doing,

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