2010 Page #4

[Alarm buzzes]

Dont forget to write.

[Heavy breathing]

[Door hisses]

MAXIM:
Dont breathe too deep.

MAXIM:
Breathe normal.

[Door hisses]

[Curnow breathes faster]

[Gasping]

FLOYD:
They cant stay exposed

to that radiation more than 15 minutes.

How's his pulse?

RUDENKO:
lts high.

Not to worry too much.

MAXIM:

Hey, do you speak any Russian?

CURNOW:
No.

MAXIM:
Thats okay. I speak English.

CURNOW:
lm fogging up.

FLOYD:
Curnow, you heard the one about

the marathon runner and the chicken?

CURNOW:
Dont patronize me.

Im getting nauseous.

MAXIM:
lf you vomit, you will choke.

FLOYD:
Don't close your eyes.

Look at the middle of Discovery.

The middle, not the ends.

Look at the part where it's moving

the least. Don't take your eyes off it.

CURNOW:
lm gonna throw up.

Im an engineer, goddamn it!

Maybe youd better patronize me a little.

What about the marathon runner?

FLOYD:
I made it up.

CURNOW:
I'm looking amidship now.

FLOYD:
You see any lights?

CURNOW:
No, no lights.

MAXIM:
Seventy meters.

FLOYD:
Youre almost there.

Hows that for patronizing?

CURNOW:
Not bad.

MAXIM:
Fifty meters.

CURNOW:
Hey, Max,

how do you say "chicken"?

MAXIM:
Kuritsa.

CURNOW:
Kuritsa...

MAXIM:
Kuritsa.

CURNOW:
Kuritsa.

MAXIM:
You speak better than me.

CURNOW:
Thank you.

MAXIM:
Sure.

Thirty meters!

Dont close your eyes.

Dont breathe too deep.

[Gasps] Kuritsa....

[Hissing]

[Curnow breathes heavily]

FLOYD:
Can you see the antenna complex?

CURNOW:
Yeah.

FLOYD:
What condition is it in?

It looks nominal.

CURNOW:
[Gasps]

Christ, this thing is big!

Fifteen meters.

MAXIM:
Look straight ahead.

The center section is hardly moving.

MAXIM:
Thats where well grab hold.

Ten meters.

Youre doing great, Curnow.

MAXIM:
Five meters.

Four, three, two...

...one.

[Groans]

CURNOW:
I made it! I made it!

MAXIM:

Yes. Hook yourself on there.

CURNOW:
lm hooking on.

MAXIM:
Very good.

[Curnow gasps]

MAXIM:
I am right behind you.

Look straight ahead.

FLOYD:
Without rotation,

theyll be in full gravity...

...before they get to the command module.

RUDENKO:
Their pulse is rising.

FLOYD:
How does it look?

CURNOW:
lts covered with...

...sulphur.

The structure looks sound.

[Curnow breathes heavily]

MAXIM:

Very good. You're doing great.

CURNOW:

Were still a long way down.

MAXIM:
Very good.

Were making our way along the spine.

Were just about there.

Christ! lm getting heavy!

MAXIM:

Dont worry, were almost there.

CURNOW:
[Gasping]

Were on the command module.

CURNOW:
I cant breathe!

FLOYD:
He's hyperventilating.

FLOYD:
Listen to me.

Thin your mixture, add CO2.

CURNOW:
I cant, cant....

Cant find it!

MAXIM:
I come.

Wait.

[Curnow gasps rapidly]

CURNOW:
I feel so stupid.

How do you say "stupid"?

Durak.

CURNOW:
lts working.

CURNOW:
I'm okay!

FLOYD:
Ten more seconds!

CURNOW:
Ten more. Durak.

Thats me.

You shouldnt feel like that.

The same thing happened to me

the first time I did this.

CURNOW:
When have you ever

done this before?

Never.

CURNOW:
I found the hatch.

Ive got the air-lock status display

down here.

CURNOW:
No lights, no power.

FLOYD:
Use the manual.

CURNOW:
Yeah, yeah.

CURNOW:
I'm using the manual.

[Hissing]

FLOYD:
How does it look?

CURNOW:
No apparent damage.

Were going in.

Welcome to United States territory.

FLOYD:
Discovery, you all right?

CURNOW:
Discoverys fine.

Theres an environment suit here.

CURNOW:
I found Hal.

FLOYD:
How's he look?

CURNOW:
Asleep.

Well, one pod here.

CURNOW:
Number three.

FLOYD:
Any damage?

CURNOW:
None that I can see.

Air locks are secure.

No power. The pressure seems okay.

MAXIM:
Curnow?

Id like to test the atmosphere here.

ORLOV:
What's the temperature?

CURNOW:
I dont know. The auxiliary

powers out, so the gauges dont work.

FLOYD:
It has to be at least

MAXIM:
A typical Russian winter.

Well, lm from California.

We dont know from 100 below zero.

FLOYD:
Raise the heat in his suit first.

CURNOW:
Yeah, lm doing it.

RUDENKO:
Shine your light on his face.

Make sure he doesnt turn blue.

CURNOW:
Hes right in front of me.

RUDENKO:
Keep talking all the time.

MAXIM:
All right, Leonov.

Im unsealing the visor.

Im swinging the face plate upward.

Its cold.

MAXIM:
I'm taking a breath.

His colors okay.

There is oxygen here.

I breathe regularly.

[Breathes deeply]

MAXIM:
It's too cold to work here

without environment suits.

There is...

...a strange smell here.

Stale, rotten.

MAXIM:
Like something has....

CURNOW:
Whats the matter?

FLOYD:

Discovery, what's happening?

MAXIM:
I think....

CURNOW:
No, youre wrong.

Bowman was the last one aboard.

Poole was lost outside.

FLOYD:
Bowman said he ejected

those who died in hibernation.

FLOYD:
There cant be anyone there!

MAXIM:
Maybe hes...

...on the Discovery and died here!

FLOYD:
No, he didnt!

FLOYD:
He never came back.

CURNOW:
lts probably the galley.

Some meat went bad

before the Discovery froze up.

CURNOW:

lm telling you, thats what it is!

Hey, would I lie to you?

ORLOV:

Hello, Discovery, are you there?

[Giggling]

CURNOW:
Yeah, were here.

Everythings fine.

Were proceeding to the bridge.

MAXIM:
Durak.

CURNOW:
You and me both.

How do you say "thank you"?

[Maxim says "thank you" in Russian]

MILSON:
This is Milson,

switching to KE-2 in five seconds.

Mark.

I wish I had better news.

It's getting worse here.

The president addressed Congress

the other day.

He said he wasn't gonna back down

on the blockade.

I don't know which was scarier,

the speech or Congress cheering him on.

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 hoping the Russians

are less crazy than we are...

...when they are clearly crazy.

Now I think you're in a safer place

than we are.

Ijust 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.

We don't know how much damage

there is...

...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.

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