Apollo 18 Page #2

PSD5 in place.

Roger.

Proceed with startup.

Did you record the signal

frequency on the PSD5 during training?

- It was ALSEP, wasn't it?

- Thought it was.

I think they changed it.

Set astral coordinates,

four-eight-point-three on the Z

and eight-niner-point-eight

on... Record.

Initiation sequence complete.

Houston, we're getting some noise

on the high-gain again.

Collecting geological samples near

what appears to be a... impact crater.

The sample feels...

...strange.

it's great

to get out of that gear.

four days,

Commander Nathan Walker.

DOD Mission Report Three-Charlie.

Day one, EVA-One complete.

I am starving.

What's on the menu tonight?

Carrots or peas?

I'll take carrots.

- No. You get the peas.

- Perfect.

I'm mighty proud of you, boys.

- You have a good time out there?

- You know it.

I'm gettin' a lot of noise

on this frequency.

I'm gonna see if I can isolate it,

maybe clean it up a bit.

Roger that.

Astronaut Ryan Anderson

with his dad, flying through space.

- Ryan, what are you doing?

- Just playing, Mom.

Don't play

with your dad's stuff

Baby, is that recording?

Sorry, Dad. Love you.

Beverly's in a panic because

a hair appointment ran over.

Stan and Jean are already over

and nothing's ready,

so I offer to help cut

all these jalapenos.

Couple of minutes later,

I'm in the bathroom takin' a leak

with all this jalapeno nonsense

on my hands.

Next thing I know,

my crotch is on fire.

So I'm in the bathroom,

hollering in pain.

- And they can hear you?

- Oh, oh, they heard me.

And Stan's wife's a nurse,

so she sends me back into the bathroom

- with a cup of milk.

- Nate, I gotta stop you.

You're not about to tell me that you

dipped your balls in a glass of milk?

- Hey, don't knock it. It works.

- Jalapeno dick.

I can't believe you

haven't heard that story.

- Is Beverly back in Miami?

- Yeah. So I hear.

You realize she divorced

you because you snore, right?

- I don't snore.

- Yeah.

Every time.

- You all right, Benny?

- Yeah, I'm good.

- You bang your head?

- Again.

It's a big head.

Thanks for the housekeeping,

guys. Great first day.

We'll miss you over at Marybelle's.

Get some sleep.

Good night, JD.

Never should have

told you that. You little prick.

- Nate?

- Yeah, I hear it.

What can that be here?

Give me a second.

It should be on comm?

What's that?

Right.

- You hear that?

- Yeah.

All right. Uh...

Sounds like it's

coming from up here.

That doesn't sound right.

Can't find it down here.

Tommy, you think this interference could

be coming from the PSD5 setup?

We don't see anything obvious.

We'll double-check with DOD.

We'll look into it.

Go get some sleep.

I'm up! You can turn off the noise.

Good morning, Liberty.

We took care of the interference

a couple hours ago.

You guys should be OK.

Let's get ready for EVA-Two, OK?

five days,

eight hours, 34 minutes.

IMP Ben Anderson.

I gotta document this.

Now, Nate...

Nate says he never snores in his sleep.

Now I got proof.

Ha!

Well, boys, I just wanna let

you know that Freedom will be going

around the corner to the backside.

- No comm for a while.

- Roger that.

Hey, I made you breakfast.

What do I got today?

- Scrambled eggs.

- Oh, again. What do you got?

I'm going with

the delicious ham spread.

- Hm.

- It's all yours.

Just like Mom makes.

Hey, did you remove

one of my samples?

Huh?

Look, one of my samples

is on the floor.

What's that doing there, Ben?

I don't know.

I bagged and tagged everything.

- Look, uh...

- It's gotta go back in.

Yeah, grab me the scoop.

I'm going to have to mark

this one contaminated.

I don't understand.

How did it get there?

- I don't know.

- No, really, Ben, how'd that get there?

I don't know.

DOD is checking

on the interference

with the first payload setup.

Run a diagnostic...

Houston? Do you copy?

I think we lost them.

Probably got

some comm blockage.

These are some big craters.

Five days, ten hours,

Commander Nathan Walker.

We're on EVA-Two.

Initiating day two receiver setup.

Activating PSD5 transmission signal.

Houston, do you copy?

This is Liberty, over.

Still down.

There is something

with that frequency.

Comm shouldn't be cuttin' out

like that, not for this length of time.

Where are you goin'?

What the hell?

- Nate.

- What is it?

Tracks.

What?

No, that's impossible.

These aren't ours.

five days,

IMP Anderson.

Tracks appear in single...

Houston, this is 18.

Do you copy?

Houston, this is 18. Do you read?

John's on the backside.

No comm from him, either.

Well, let's see where they lead.

Impact crater.

You feel that?

Yeah. Temperature dropped.

Look at the footprints.

It doesn't make sense.

I think he was

just walking in circles.

Disoriented.

- Oxygen dep?

- I don't know.

They go off in this direction.

Get up here!

Holy sh*t.

it's Russian.

What the hell?

How could there be Russians

on the moon and nobody knows about it?

We're on the moon

and nobody knows about us.

Something's not right.

I'm gonna look inside.

Lights are off.

Somebody lost it in here.

This place is trashed.

Their systems aren't

that different from ours.

Powers up.

Oxygen reserves are good.

Can't tell if she's

fully operational, though.

- Where the hell did they go?

- I don't know.

I'm gonna take a look around.

But stay close.

Those Russians could be anywhere.

What the hell?

There's blood. A lot of it.

Somebody got hurt pretty bad.

I don't like this.

I think I see something

inside the crater.

I'm goin' down.

Wait, Ben. The suits

aren't ready for that kind of cold.

It's OK,

the crater isn't so deep.

it's so cold.

I just see rocks.

The ground, it's, uh...

it's different.

It feels... softer.

Get out of there.

Oh, God...

So cold.

Get out of there! Ben!

OK, yeah, all right.

I'm headin' back up.

Holy sh*t!

I found him!

I got the cosmonaut!

it's OK. I'm all right.

I'm on my way up!

- You all right?

- Yeah, I'm warmin' up.

Oh, Christ.

What the hell happened here?

Maybe the other cosmonaut?

You think he killed him?

There's a rip.

What are you doing?

Get your hand out of there.

Wait a minute,

there's something...

Get away from him!

What the hell was that?

It was a rock.

Must have happened

when I was dragging him out.

- I don't know.

- Let's get out of here.

All right, we're almost

at the point of no return, Ben.

If we don't go now,

we'll end up just as dead.

I don't like this.

Someone died up here...

Enough.

This is a secure line.

I'm just talking to you, right,

Tommy?

That's affirmative, Nate.

The Russians have been to the moon.

Say again?

The Russians have landed

on the south pole.

We found their LK Proton Lander,

but it didn't end well

for the cosmonaut.

- You find a crash site?

- They didn't crash.

We found his body in a crater.

You found a dead cosmonaut?

You tellin' me you didn't know this?

We land less than two clicks

from a Soviet LK,

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