5th Passenger

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[whooshing]

[lively music]

[dramatic music]

[clanging]

[hissing]

[door clangs]

- Franklin!?

Franklin.

It's Kanelo.

Franklin, are you here!?

Tell me what the scan says.

- Pod 396 was accessed by...

- I know who accessed it!

Are there survivors?

- Well, it's been over a month

so the probability of survival

is...

- Tell me.

- There is a bio signature.

Something or someone is alive.

Wait, no there are two,

there are two bio signatures.

[dramatic music]

[Alana gasps]

- She's still alive.

[beeping]

- How did you get on that pod?

That was priority craft

for essential personnel.

Where is Commander Franklin?

- She's suffered a severe

trauma and dehydration.

She's nearly comatose.

- Can we Mem her?

- I'd question its reliability.

Let's give time for the

stimulant to work.

- How long until she comes out

of it?

- [Doctor] Hard to say.

Maybe several hours, maybe

never.

I'll come back to update her

status.

- Thank you, doctor.

[dramatic music]

That's all.

[door hisses]

[beeping]

Mem her.

- Yes, sir

if you're willing to take

the risk considering...

- Don't you dare rub that in my

face.

Mem her.

[dramatic music]

[buzzing]

- [Reporter] With air quality

now reaching toxic levels

a group of insurgents have tried

to breach the domes reserved for

citizens.

This comes on the eve of

the migration to Hesperides.

[dramatic music]

[birds tweet]

[dramatic music]

[beeping]

- Lieutenant, is everything

okay?

- Yes, captain.

We're back online now, sir.

[dramatic music]

- Mr. Langdon, it's an

honor and a pleasure

to have you with us, sir.

- Thank you, Captain.

- As you can see our

crew have little to do

but monitor the magnificently

designed nav

and control systems.

- Now there's no need

to flatter me, captain.

I'm well aware of the

beauty of my inventions

and your systems command manager

is a non-citizen?

- Yes, sir.

This is Lieutenant Miller.

- I hope she didn't buy into

those rumors about Hesperides.

They're not accepting

citizenship applications,

not even for employees of UGS.

[laughing]

[beeping]

- Is everything stable,

lieutenant?

- Sir, request permission

for manual override.

- She's allowed to do that?

- Sir, I am authorized...

- You don't ever speak to me.

If I may, sir?

- Please.

- On my ship non-citizen crew

are held to the same standards

as any citizen member.

I trained Lieutenant Miller

myself.

- Sir, do I have your

permission to proceed.

- I designed the system

to be a better pilot

than any human, citizen or not.

- Lieutenant,

keep the auto drive engaged.

- Yes, captain.

- When I have control of my own

ship

the only thing a roach,

a non-citizen will be doing

is cleaning the toilets.

[gagging]

- Mr. Langdon, let us see

the view from the bow.

I believe Kapteyn's Star is in

sight.

It is a beautiful little red

dwarf.

- We would enjoy that.

- Lieutenant.

- I'm okay.

- You look terrible.

Go to the medic bay.

Officer Xian, assume

command for the Lieutenant.

- Yes, sir.

[door hisses]

[gagging]

[dramatic music]

- Good morning, Lieutenant.

[dramatic music]

- Lieutenant Miller, what's

going on?

- You shouldn't have come

in here if you need...

- I'm fine, I'm just

feeling a bit nauseated.

- All right, let's have a look.

She did get the contraceptive

implants.

- Yes, I reported for

implementation

along with all the other female

crew.

- Well, she's pregnant.

Sit down, we'll take care of it.

[sighing]

[booming]

I should go back to the command

bridge.

Are you okay?

- Yes, go.

Sir?

- [Computer] All UGS personnel

report

to assignment immediately.

Warning, warning.

- Sir, 17 sections have been

breached.

- [Computer] Breach.

[booming]

- Evacuate the bridge.

[booming]

- Safe has been deployed.

- [Computer] Breach.

- The nuclear core chamber

has been compromised.

- Save yourselves.

[booming]

- Let go of me.

- Come on.

[screaming]

[booming]

- Myers, this way.

- I'm coming.

- No, protocol must be kept at

all costs!

- Come on, man, you've got

room for four people in there.

- I'm closing the door.

- Maybe we should make an

exception.

- I would advise against it,

sir.

- Get out of my way, Domer.

[moaning]

I'm closing the hatch.

- Wait.

[groaning]

[booming]

- It won't work.

There's only citizens on this

floor.

- How'd you get up here?

- What, you're not

happy to see me?

[booming]

This is the last one up here.

I came up the service

shaft from level four.

- We need to get back

down there.

Show me how.

- It's not use, level four is

gone.

- What do you mean gone?

- I mean it's gone.

I went up the shaft. the whole

corridor just broke apart.

- Excuse me.

[door hisses]

- This is not for you.

- What the hell is your deal,

man?

- There are other pods for

non-citizens.

- Those are all gone.

- Not my problem.

[booming]

[groaning]

- Help me with him.

I hope we don't regret this.

[beeping]

Get locked in.

We need to seal the inner door

and eject

before the ship's reactor is

compromised.

[booming]

- Just leave him.

He's knocked out cold,

he won't mind.

[beeping and booming]

Hey Domer, not the first-class

trip you paid for, huh?

[buzzing]

- Shouldn't we have ejected?

- We aren't disengaging!

- What does that mean!?

- It means we are stuck!

- You got to be kidding me.

Get us out of here.

[buzzing and booming]

- The reactor is going into

meltdown.

- These pods were designed

to withstand that.

- And you really believe that?

[dramatic music]

We're gonna die.

[booming]

Last chance to say you love me.

[booming and scraping]

- What are you doing?

Put it back.

- Sir, I'm afraid she'll have an

aneurysm.

- It's not your decision to

make, Alana.

- We won't learn anything

from a vegetable.

- I need to know.

- We'll find your brother.

- You stay here with her, no one

else

and ping me the very moment

she's awake.

- Understood, sir.

- She knows

and so will I

even if I have to rip it out of

her.

[door hisses]

[dramatic music]

[rumbling]

[suspenseful music]

[clanging]

- I'm hungry.

- They're programmed to dispense

every 24 hours and no more.

- You mean this is the only

system

that survived intact?

- Yes, its circuitry remained

unaffected.

It's designed that way as a fail

safe.

The same for auxiliary

breather for life support.

It's why we're still alive

after the main system failure.

- Wow, well, maybe whoever

designed the food dispenser

should have designed the

rest of the ship, huh?

[laughing]

- Silence, enough.

You, come here.

Li, you as well.

- Sir, I'm Eve Miller.

- I don't care who you are.

I'm only concerned with

what you did on the Sagan

and how it will help us survive.

- You mean how she and these

other roaches broke protocol

and have endangered us both?

- Sir, I am a Lieutenant with

the UGS,

a lead navigation systems

manager.

- Lieutenant means

nothing on a non-citizen.

Where are we?

- I'm not quite.

- What do you know?

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