2010: The Year We Make Contact Page #4

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CURNOW:
Not bad.

MAXIM:

Fifty meters.

CURNOW:

Hey, Max, how do you say "chicken"?

[MAXIM AND CURNOW

SPEAK IN RUSSIAN]

MAXIM:

You speak better than me.

CURNOW:

Yeah. Sure.

-Forty meters.

-Don't close your eyes.

Don't breathe too deep.

[SPEAKS IN RUSSIAN]

Can you see the antenna complex?

CURNOW:

Yeah.

-What condition is it in?

-It looks nominal.

Christ, this thing is big.

Fifteen meters.

Look straight ahead.

The center section is hardly moving.

That's where we'll grab hold.

Ten meters.

You're doing great, Curnow.

-Five meters.

FLOYD:
Four, three, two, one.

[CURNOW GRUNTING]

CURNOW:
I made it. I made it.

MAXIM:
Just hook yourself on there.

CURNOW:

I'm hooking on.

MAXIM:

Very good.

I am right behind you.

I'm here.

You look straight ahead.

With that rotation, they'll be in full gravity

before they get to the command module.

RUDENKO:

Their pulse is rising.

FLOYD:
How does it look?

CURNOW:
It's covered with sulfur.

The structure looks sound.

MAXIM:

Very good. You're doing great.

CURNOW:

We're scaling our way down.

MAXIM:
Very good.

We're making our way along the spine.

We're just about there.

[GRUNTING AND PANTING]

Christ. I'm getting heavy.

Don't worry, we're almost there.

CURNOW:

We're on the command module.

-I can't breathe.

FLOYD:
He's hyperventilating.

CURNOW:

I can't breathe.

Listen to me. Thin your mixture, add CO2.

Can't, I can't.... Can't find it.

I come. Wait.

Christ.

CURNOW:

I feel so stupid.

How do you say "stupid"?

[SPEAKS IN RUSSIAN]

It's working. I'm okay.

FLOYD:
Ten more seconds.

CURNOW:
Ten more.

[CURNOW SPEAKS IN RUSSIAN]

-That's me.

-You shouldn't feel like that.

The same thing happened to me

the first time I did this.

-When have you ever done this before?

-Never.

CURNOW:

I found the hatch.

I've got the air-lock

status display panel here.

There's no lights, no power.

-Use the manual.

CURNOW:
Yeah, yeah.

I'm using the manual.

FLOYD:
How does it look?

CURNOW:
No apparent damage.

We're going in.

Welcome to United States territory.

-Discovery, you all right?

CURNOW:
Discovery's fine.

There's an environment suit here.

-I found HAL.

FLOYD:
How's he look?

CURNOW:

Asleep.

And they have one pod here.

-It's Number 3.

FLOYD:
Any damage?

CURNOW:

None that I can see.

The airlocks are secure.

No power. Pressure seems okay.

Curnow?

I'd like to test the atmosphere here.

ORLOV:

What's the temperature?

I don't know. The auxiliary power's out,

so the gauges don't work.

FLOYD:

It has to be at least 100 below zero.

That typical Russian winter.

Well, I'm from California.

-We don't know from 100 below zero.

-Oh, well.

FLOYD:
Raise the heat in his suit first.

-Yeah, I'm doing it.

Shine your light on his face.

Make sure he doesn't turn blue.

He's right in front of me.

RUDENKO:

Keep talking all the time.

All right, Leonov. Unsealing the visor.

I'm swinging the face plate upward.

It's cold.

I'm taking a breath.

His color's okay.

There's oxygen here.

I breathe regularly.

It's too cold to work here

without environment suits.

There is...

...a strange smell here.

Stale, rotten. Like something has....

What's the matter?

FLOYD:
Discovery, what's happening?

-I think--

No, I think you're wrong.

Bowman was the last one aboard.

Poole was lost outside.

Bowman ejected

the rest who died in hibernation.

-There can't be anybody.

-Maybe Bowman managed to get...

-...back to the Discovery and died here.

-No, no.

-He never came back.

-It's the galley.

Some meat went bad

before Discovery froze up.

That's what it is.

I'm telling you, that's what it is.

Hey, would I lie to you?

ORLOV:

Hello, Discovery, are you there?

[LAUGHING]

Yeah, we're here. Everything's fine.

We're proceeding to the Bridge.

[MAXIM SPEAKS IN RUSSIAN]

CURNOW:

You and me both.

How do you say "thank you"?

[MAXIM SPEAKS IN RUSSIAN]

MILSON [OVER TRANSMISSION]: This is

Milson, switching to KE2 in five seconds.

Mark.

I wish I could bring better news.

It's getting worse.

President addressed a joint session

of Congress yesterday.

He said he wasn't gonna back down

on the blockade.

I don't know which was scarier,

the speech or the Congress cheering it.

He evoked Lincoln.

Whenever a president is gonna get us into

serious trouble they always use Lincoln.

I don't know

if we're gonna be at war or not.

It's terrifying to hope the Russians

are less crazy than we are...

...when they are clearly crazy.

Right now I think you're in a safer place

than we are.

I just hope that there is an Earth

to return to.

I heard about the spoiled food

in Discovery's galley.

I'm glad that's all it was.

I'm also glad

that you got the ship under control.

Curnow is a capable man. No one knows

those systems better than he does.

It's a good sign

that there was reserve power.

Maybe the rest of the circuitry will work.

We have nothing new here

on the monolith.

Our data confirms yours:

It's not moving.

FLOYD:
Floyd to Milson.

My news is a little better than yours.

Discovery has been partially revived.

Don't know how much damage

has been done...

...or if we'll be able to bring it back home.

Most of that is up to HAL.

The drive system could be

operated manually...

...so we were able to pull Discovery

away from its decaying orbit around lo.

I must say, the farther away I get from lo,

the happier I am.

It's a violent moon, even for Jupiter.

Europa, for all its cold gray,

is a lot more comforting.

I tell you, Victor, there's some kind

of new life down there...

...trying to get through all that ice.

We are 10,000 kilometers away

from the monolith.

I can't see it yet,

except I know it's there.

I also think it knows we're here.

It's time to unleash Chandra.

We'll see if our computer brain surgeon

and psychiatrist...

...can put HAL back together again.

To tell you the truth, I don't know if HAL

is homicidal, suicidal, neurotic, psychotic...

...or just plain broken.

CHANDRA:
This is initial voice-logic

reconstruction test number one.

Diagnostics on voice recognition

and speech synthesis centers...

...have been completed.

At this level, all functions appear normal.

Hello. Doctor.

Name.

Continue.

Yesterday.

Tomorrow.

HAL [IN DISTORTED VOICE OVER SPEAKERS]:

Hello. Doctor. Name.

Continue. Yesterday.

Tomorrow.

[IN LOW-PITCHED VOICE]

Hello. Doctor. Name.

Continue. Yesterday.

Tomorrow.

[IN MUFFLED VOICE]

Hello. Doctor.

Name. Continue.

Yesterday. Tomorrow.

[INDISTINCT SPEECH

PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]

[IN HIGH-PITCHED VOICE]

Continue. Yesterday.

Tomorrow. Hello. Doctor.

Name. Continue....

[IN NORMAL VOICE] Good morning,

Dr. Chandra. This is HAL.

I'm ready for my first test.

CURNOW:
What the hell's this?

FLOYD:
I want you to do me a favor.

This line here, this is the main power

supply to the Control Bay circuits, right?

Well, most of them, yeah.

What other ones are there?

Well, all the environment circuits

are fed through this one here.

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