The Last Days on Mars

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(WIND BLOWS)

WOMAN:

First big one of the season.

MAN:
Yep.

It's heading right for base.

WOMAN:

It's gonna mess up Kim's dig.

She's not gonna like that.

Yeah, well, I don't

like it much either.

There's a surprise.

Lighten up, Vince,

a bit of dust never hurt anyone.

It's not the dust

I'm worried about.

- VINCE:
Harrington, you seeing this?

- Yeah, it's a beast.

Cycle down the backup grids

in case we lose anything.

- (JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING)

- We'll be back as soon as we pick up Kim.

(DRILLING)

VINCE:
Campbell to Aldrich.

VINCE:
Campbell to Aldrich.

(VINCE SIGHS)

Campbell to Aldrich.

Come in, Kim.

It's 15:
30, Kim.

Come on, Kim, time to wrap it up.

F*ck off.

Actually, I'd be happy to, Kim.

Unfortunately, Brunel

wants you back at the briefing.

KIM:
Well, he'll have to wait,

won't he?

(SIGHS)

Ten things about Mars you won't

miss when you're back on Earth.

Only ten?

Uh... storms.

Your driving.

Kim.

Kim.

- Kim.

- (CHUCKLES)

A six-month commute home

in a floating coffin. With Kim.

Is that ten?

I've lost count already.

It's not a coffin, Vince.

But that's an interesting

choice of words.

Okay. A nice big spaceship.

What do you want me to say?

WOMAN:
We get out

and walk at the end.

On green grass.

Under blue skies.

Yeah.

Green grass. Blue skies.

(VINCE SINGING)

Blue skies around the corner

Everything's gonna be right

Never a cloud

in those bright blue skies

(HUMS)

WOMAN:
Running late, Kim.

KIM:

Don't worry, I'll take the heat.

Did you get all the

samples you wanted?

Does it matter?

We're still going back empty-handed.

Come on, Kim. That's not fair.

We've achieved a lot here.

Yeah, like what?

As far as I'm concerned, we're just

sharpening pencils for the next crew.

Whoever remembered the second man

on the moon anyway?

WOMAN:
It was Buzz Aldrin.

VINCE:
Yeah, first man

to piss on the moon.

What?

He pissed himself on the moon.

You didn't know that?

Well, that's something for us all

to aspire to, isn't it?

I just don't want to go

home with nothing.

- Six months isn't enough time.

- You could always stay.

Vincent, why don't you just go...

Let's go.

MAN 1:
Rover One, where are you?

We've got circuits failing all over.

VINCE:
Sorry. Got held up.

On our way.

All right,

but we need you back here.

We've lost our link to the Aurora

and Harrington can't handle it alone.

Where's Vincent?

I wanna talk to my daughter.

On his way, I hope.

Six months cruising and now this.

Bit of a mess.

Be all right. We're in the home

stretch. One more day.

Hey. When you wake up,

I'd love to know how long it'll

be before skylink's restored.

Sorry. Uh...

- Yeah, nearly there.

- (COMPUTER BEEPS)

Ah, yeah. This should be it.

Here we go.

MAN:
We've lost your signal,

do you copy?

Sorry, guys. We had a power

outage due to the storm.

We can see it from Sat Four.

You had us worried for a minute.

All right, time check: final approach

burn in 19 hours, 56 minutes.

Copy that. Safe orbit.

Be great to see you guys again.

Brunel out.

- MAN 1:
For f*ck's sake.

- MAN 2:
Jesus, no.

BRUNEL:
All right.

Manual check everything.

All systems.

WOMAN:

What are you so happy about?

HARRINGTON:

Vince, tell me you're close by.

We're on our own until you get

these systems back online.

VINCE:
Roger that.

Almost there.

Keep losing charge on this thing.

Don't want to push it too hard.

Roger that, Vince.

MAN:
I need a word.

BRUNEL:
All right. Okay.

- I need to go back out again.

- Forget it.

We've got a briefing.

We need everyone on base.

What's going on?

Gamma sensor on Site Nine

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