Another Earth Page #4

I mean, with the Joan Tallis

costume, for Halloween?

I will be fully

trained in the Mojave Desert.

Oh. Well, that's comforting.

They made me sign

this waiver.

Basically every other line of it

says, "If you die, it's your fault."

And you seem... you

seem totally okay with that.

You know, you'll need

an executor for your will.

Do you have one?

No, but I don't have anything.

Okay, so nothing to no one.

Sounds pretty easy.

I think I could handle that.

Um, burial or cremation?

I think my body would

probably burn up on reentry.

Or be lost in space, so...

Okay. Ashes to ashes,

dust to dust.

We'll have to hold

a memorial service.

Who would you like to attend?

I don't know.

You?

Don't go.

Please don't go.

We're so close

to something here.

We can't.

Why can't we?

- You know that we can't.

- I know that we have.

Stay, please?

Let me tell you a story.

And if, after,

you still want me to stay,

I will stay.

It's about a girl.

At the start, she's...

naive,

reckless.

She does something that is...

unforgivable.

And one day,

she goes to apologize.

But she loses her nerve.

She's weak.

She lies to him.

And then...

she thinks that she might,

in the smallest ways,

be able to make his life

just a little bit better.

And so she wakes up

every day just to do that.

And some days

she thinks it's for him.

Other days, she worries

that it's for herself,

that it was really just a way

to survive what I have done.

But I think that

I do make you happy.

Oh, my God.

I know that

you make me happy.

It was my fault.

I killed your wife and your son.

You better leave.

Get out.

Get out now!

Now!

The mystery flight member

is 21-year-old Rhoda Williams,

who is rumored to be

an ex-convict.

Her records are off-limit

to the public,

as the alleged crime

occurred when she was under age.

There are reports of offers up to

three million dollars on the Web...

for a ticket

aboard USV's flight.

We're getting word now that she's

arriving at her residence in New Haven,

...where Robert Hughes is standing by.

- Oh. Oh. Can you get...

Right here.

Rhoda, are you going to space?

- Rhoda Williams.

- Rhoda.

Just one photo.

Rhoda.

You couldn't have told us?

- We had to find out from the media?

- I ju...

I just found out.

I wasn't sure I wanted to go.

I didn't...

Are you going?

I'm gonna go.

Well, now...

now, wait a minute.

I mean, don't you think we... we should

have a discussion about this?

Oh, they're in the backyard now.

Look, Rob...

Rhoda. Rhoda.

Joining me now

from Washington, D.C.,

astrophysicist

Dr. Richard Berendzen,

the original proponent of this extraordinary

Broken Mirror Theory.

Dr. Berendzen, tell me the significance

of this theory,

why it excites you

and how this changes...

the possibilities of the planet

known as Earth Two.

In the grand history of the cosmos,

more than 13,000 million years old,

our Earth is replicated elsewhere.

But maybe there's another way

of seeing this world.

If any small variation arises...

they look this way,

you look that way...

suddenly, maybe everything changes,

and now you begin to wonder,

what else is different?

Or one might say that...

you have an exact mirror image

which suddenly is shattered,

and there's a new reality.

And therein lies the opportunity...

and the mystery.

What else?

What new? What now?

Stay away!

Get away from me.

- Please let me in. Please. Just...

- Stay... Stay away from me!

Stay away!

John?

- John?

- Stay away from me.

John, please let me in.

- Stay away from me!

- Open the door.

- I'm warning you, stay away from me!

- Please.

I have something I have to explain.

I have to tell you. Please.

Wait.

Okay...

John.

Do it.

I heard on TV about a theory.

They think...

that the moment

we first saw the other Earth...

was the moment

our synchronicity was broken.

That was just

over four years ago.

Maybe they're up there.

Maybe not, but...

maybe.

We are just days before the launch...

of the United Space Ventures'

civilian shuttle.

Members of the crew

of this dangerous voyage...

have been training intensely

here at the Mojave Spaceport.

The media blackout

was finally lifted...

with a press conference

early this morning.

I'm feeling privileged,

and,

oddly, I'm proud.

And, of course,

nervous and excited.

The modified Saturn 5 rocket...

- See you, Freddie.

- ...has undergone rigorous testing...

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