After Earth Page #3

mixing with the sunlight,

shining through the water.

And I think, "wow... "

"That's really pretty. "

Everything slows down.

I see his pincer through my shoulder.

And I decide,

I don't want that in there anymore.

So I pull it out.

And it lets me go.

And more than that I can tell...

It can't find me.

It doesn't even know where to look.

And it dawned on me...

Fear is not real.

The only place that fear can exist...

...is in our thoughts of a future.

It is a product of our imagination.

Causing us to fear things

that do not at present...

...and may not ever exist.

That is near insanity, Kitai.

Now, do not misunderstand me.

Danger, is very real.

But fear is a choice.

We are all telling ourselves a story.

And that day, mine changed.

14 kilometers to the falls.

That's our midway checkpoint.

I'm reading you.

Kitai, get to the falls. ASAP.

I hear something.

I think it's water.

A lot of it.

Inventory up.

Roger.

Food rations, half available.

Flares, full.

Med-kit, half-available.

Breathing fluid...

Breathing fluid,

four vials available.

Why you're not showing me the case?

What?

Show it to me now.

I thought that I could make it, sir.

Abort mission.

Return to the ship.

That is an order.

Don't come out.

No matter what.

That's an order.

Help.

Help.

No, dad.

We... I can do it. I can...

I don't need many. I can

get across with just two.

You need a minimum

of three inhalers to make it to the tail.

You have exhausted your resources.

I can get across. I can...

I can do it with just two, Dad.

This mission has reached abort criteria.

I'll take full responsibility.

You did your best.

You have nothing more to prove.

Now, return to the ship.

What was your mistake?

Trusting me?

Depending on me?

Thinking that I can do this?

Now I'm giving you an order...

...to turn around...

...and return to this ship.

You wouldn't give

any other ranger that order.

You are not a ranger,

and I'm giving you that order.

What was I supposed to do?!

What did you want me to do?!

She gave me an order.

She said, "no matter what,

don't come out of that box. "

Was I supposed to just come out and die?

What do you think, cadet?

What do you think you should have done?

Because, really, that is all that matters.

What do you think you should have done?

And where were you?!

She called out for you.

She called your name!

And you weren't there,

cause you never there!

And you think I'm a coward?

You're wrong!

I'm not a coward.

You're the coward!

I'm not a coward!

Kitai.

Kitai, you've got incoming.

Do you copy?

You've got incoming.

No..

Kitai, dive!

Dive!

Kitai!

No!

Leave them alone!

Get away!

Dad, I'm sorry, it's just...

Where is my son?

General Cypher Raige.

This is a message for my wife.

Faia,

I have lost contact with our son.

End message.

You have six vials.

In your weight,

that should be 20-24 hours each.

That's more than enough.

I estimate four days to reach the tail.

We'll break it to sections.

You have six hours to reach

the first geothermal site.

First leg is 20K to the mouth

of the north forest.

- I'm right here.

- Five mikes out.

Keep moving.

- That's about one hour.

Take your next inhaler.

H plus 54 minutes.

There's an escarpment.

Looks like it could be a waterfall.

We will call that our midway point.

I can get across.

14 kilometers to the forest.

This is us here.

That, is the tail.

You are going to retrieve that beacon...

...or we are going to die.

Leave me alone!

Wake up.

It's time for you to wake up.

Hey.

Hey.

I was just about to come out that day.

No, you weren't.

But you did the right thing.

Dad says I should have tried.

He's just mad at himself,

that's all.

Why couldn't you ghost?

You're close right now.

I am?

Are you scared?

No. I'm tired.

That's good.

You filled your heart with something else.

Now you gotta get up.

I memorized some 'Moby-Dick'.

Kitai, get up.

'All that most maddens and

torments... ' -Kitai, wake up.

'All that stirs up the lees of things. '

- Wake up.

It's time to wake up.

- 'All truth with malice in it. '

Kitai. -'All that cracks

the sinews and cakes the brain. '

Wake up!

Hey, thanks.

No.

Dad.

Dad, it's Kitai.

I made it to...

Kitai? - Dad, I made it

to the tail, do you copy?

Kitai, I'm here.

- Are you okay?

- Dad, do you read me?

I copy.

Dad, I made it to the tail,

do you copy?

Kitai, we have electrical interference.

You're in a black zone.

I repeat, you are in a black...

Dad, the Ursa is not contained.

Please, copy.

- Dad?

- I'm here.

I swear to you, I'm here.

Take a knee.

It is the ionic layer.

And the atmosphere

above your current position,

it is causing electrical interference.

That is why the beacon is not firing.

To your north.

The peak.

You must fire the beacon...

...from the peak of that mountain.

See it, Kitai.

Please.

See it.

Good boy.

Good boy.

Good boy.

It is a pheromone trigger.

He set it to scare you...

...so he can track you.

Keep moving.

It has found you.

Run.

Just run, Kitai.

Just run.

Climb in here, okay?

It won't be able to smell you.

Dad!

Root yourself in this present moment, now.

Sight, sound.

Smell.

What do you feel?

You're still in that box.

It's time to come out.

Stand me up.

General.

I said, stand me up.

Watch his back.

Dad?

Yeah.

I wanna work with mom.

Me too.

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