Satellite in the Sky Page #3

Dinner at home for me.

Anything else, Mike?

No. Don't keep that dinner waiting.

Barbara's gonna be thrilled

it's happening.

- Good night, sir.

- Good night, Larry.

There's a great deal to be done.

Where will you be if I want to speak?

I'll be around. I could do with a drink.

- I wonder if the press left any free stuff.

- Why not go and find out?

By the way, you might let Ross know

exactly where you are.

Yes, of course.

KIM:

Okay, I'm finished.

All right.

- Will you have those photographs ready?

- Yeah, as soon as I get back to the office.

Good.

Oh, Bill.

Put this on the editor's desk for me.

You'll be in later?

You really do believe in all this,

don't you, commander?

You don't spend five years of your life

on this if it means nothing to you.

Someday men are going to

explore the universe.

- And when they do finally...

- But that's just it. Do what?

What are you gonna find

that's worth so much?

Perhaps a new world.

The better world they're talking about.

Anyway, it's important to find out.

I know that some people

can't understand.

- You don't see it either, do you?

- Well, I can't say I agree with you.

- All the same, will you do me a favor?

- I don't know. It depends what it is.

Let me see the Stardust.

Why?

So you can write a sarcastic story

about something you don't understand.

"I saw the Stardust last night...

...the plane that's being launched

into nowhere for no reason.

And what is it? Just a mass of metal.

Plain, ordinary metal."

- That's what you want to write.

- It has nothing to do with what I write.

I have a very special reason

for wanting to see it.

If you use this to ridicule the project,

I promise to come back...

...just to pay you back.

I only wanna look at it. Can we go, then?

All right. Let's use this door.

MICHAEL:

Jimmy, have you checked your equipment?

Yeah, everything's checked and stored.

Oh, this is Jimmy Wheeler.

He's our telescreen operator

and photographer.

- Miss Hamilton.

- How do you do?

- Quite a tie you got, Jimmy.

- Yeah.

Pretty smart, eh? There's nothing like

a new tie to give a guy courage.

- Especially when he's got a problem.

- Problem? Like which girl to take out?

I'm a one-girl man now.

I'm shooting the works.

- Oh, it's that serious?

- It sure is.

- Say, Lefty?

- Yep.

- Can you keep a secret?

- Oh, I think so.

Look, if you were a girl, a really

beautiful girl, would you marry me?

If this is a proposal, Jimmy,

save it for the girl.

- Best of luck anyway.

- Thanks. I'll need it.

- I don't think I'm...

- You're not worthy of her.

If I didn't know you better,

I'd say you were kidding me.

Look, Lefty. Why don't you

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