Apollo 18 Page #5

Someone died up here...

Enough.

This is a secure line.

I'm just talking to you, right,

Tommy?

That's affirmative, Nate.

The Russians have been to the moon.

Say again?

The Russians have landed

on the south pole.

We found their LK Proton Lander,

but it didn't end well

for the cosmonaut.

- You find a crash site?

- They didn't crash.

We found his body in a crater.

You found a dead cosmonaut?

You tellin' me you didn't know this?

We land less than two clicks

from a Soviet LK,

and you expect me to believe

you didn't know they were here?

You know they scrubbed their

manned flight program in'69,

That's the official word.

Did you know they were here?

- Tommy?

- This is a DOD mission, Nate.

I'm just briefed in on what I need

to know. That's all I can tell you.

You get that little prick

from DOD to give me a call.

Get some rest. I'll get the DOD

over here and we'll talk to you soon.

- Tommy's a straight shooter.

- No.

I knew something was wrong

from the beginning.

All right, what are you thinking?

DOD takin' over,

lyin' to our families.

Then they're rushing us

up here for what?

What, to set up

some listening devices?

Yeah. Makes no sense.

Come on, think about Watergate, Nate.

I mean, that was our president,

for Christ sakes, and you don't think

that DOD would just lie to us?

So, what are we

doing up here then?

What are we really doing?

Well,

it's kind of spooky, really.

Strange beauty on the backside.

I don't know if it's my

mind playin' tricks on me,

but every so often you look

out these little windows and...

...get this sense that something

might be lookin' back...

...back at you.

Nate, look at this.

- What?

- Look at this!

The flag's gone.

No, this isn't right.

Houston, this is 18, over.

Houston, Liberty.

Did you see anything unusual

on the Westinghouse last night?

Uh... We got some

interference and dropouts.

Our flag is gone.

Say again?

Say again.

Maybe the other cosmonaut took it.

If there was another cosmonaut,

he'd be away from his LK for, what,

a minimum of ten, 12 hours?

- What are you thinkin', John?

- There's no way.

He couldn't carry that kind of oxygen.

So how could he survive?

Maybe there is no he.

You saying the Soviets

flew a one-man mission?

Wouldn't be the first time.

If there's one cosmonaut,

who took the flag?

Who killed the other cosmonaut

that we found?

We need to get

DOD on the line. Now.

We suspected the Soviets might

be there, but we had no confirmation.

Intelligence warned that they

might be disguising missions

- as routine satellite launches.

- Why the hell didn't you tell us?

National security. We play our cards

pretty close to the vest, Commander.

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