Europa Report Page #6

life support systems.

If the propulsion system

is still alive...

I can get us

into orbit.

Come help me.

It's pointless.

Is this what you're looking for?

Yeah.

Thank you.

Sh*t!

- Are you all right?

- The ice broke through.

This is it.

It's happening.

It's the end.

We'll find a way.

We have to.

The fuel line

is partially frozen.

That caused

the loss of thrust.

We're lodged in the ice.

Can we even

take off properly?

If we time it right, maybe.

Two hours is the fastest

we can fix it,

but that is if...

Two of us

is working on it.

- You mean the three of us?

- No.

You have to stay inside,

prep engines.

The fix must happen

outside the ship.

That was that.

Are you ready?

Are you?

Daniel and Andrei

entered the airlock

for final

de-pressurization.

Here.

Two hours.

Then I'll see you both

back here. Yeah?

And that...

...brings us to now.

If we don't make it...

This record...

One day...

Just in case.

Just in case.

Depressurization complete.

Pressure is 25 kilopascals.

I'll go first,

make sure

the ice is stable.

Beginning egress.

Roger that.

System signals are strong.

Hatch is open.

Oh sh*t.

The ladder is

a bit skewed,

but I think

I can make it.

The ice beneath

the ship is cracked,

but it looks sturdy.

Taking my first step now.

Be careful.

We're picking up

the same radiation signature.

Okay.

Taking my first step now.

I am on the ice.

Oh God.

I can feel it...

Daniel? Daniel?!

- Do you read me?

- Daniel?!

Daniel? Andrei?

Talk to me!

Rosa, shut off the exterior lights.

- Turn off the exterior lights!

- Okay.

I'm getting nothing.

His Mike is dead.

His camera is dead.

He just vanished.

Do you read me?

What the hell is

going on out there?

I don't know.

What?

I lost him. I lost him.

The ice cracked

beneath him.

Daniel? Daniel?

He was surrounded

by lights,

then he was gone.

Tell me...

Tell me we can still patch

the fuel line.

Andrei?

Say something.

- Andrei?

- We can't.

There's one thing

still worth trying.

The communication array

is still salvageable.

I can fix it

if I take parts

from the life support.

I don't know.

Can you still prep

data sync?

Rosa, we can do this.

How will I know when?

When I remove

life support batteries

you'll lose power

in the command module.

Then data sync...

Keep talking to me.

Keep the line open.

It's dark.

It's not gonna be easy.

Andrei?

I've lost

your camera again.

- Can you hear me?

- Uh-huh.

- Okay.

- It's not far.

Camera's back up.

10 paces...

Andrei?

Come on, come on.

Andrei, I can see

the light behind you.

Hurry, please.

I can see water

under the ship.

Come on, hold on.

Another malfunction.

I need to check

the drives.

Work, please.

- It's just one more tweak and I'm done.

- Andrei?

Do you read me?

Do you read me?!

There's a cabinet

in the cockpit...

...That I've been working with.

Join the wires...

And the systems

will start.

Command module is

just about dead.

We're losing

cameras here.

I'm moving to the...

Andrei?

I'm connecting

the wires.

Almost there.

Almost there.

Rosa, it's working!

It's working!

- Oh God.

- We're running out of time!

Communications are up.

You did it!

You need to see this!

Are you getting this?!

The luminescence is

all around the ship now!

The exterior cameras

are dying.

Can you hear me?

Andrei?

The ship is sinking

into the ice!

Oh!

Andrei?

Do... do you read?

Andrei?

Andrei, do you read?

Talk to me.

Talk to me.

Andrei, talk to me!

Compared to the breadth

of knowledge yet to be known...

...what does your life

actually matter?

In those final moments,

knowing communication

had been re-established,

Rosa chose

to open the airlock.

I got the call

at 3:
00 A.M.

Telling me that communication

had been re-established.

By the time I got

into our mission control

our servers were flooded

with images of our crew.

Our mission had

finally come back to us.

We saw the sacrifices

they made for each other

to keep the mission alive,

to push

the discovery further.

And that final image...

startling.

Terrifying.

Completely beyond

our wildest

theoretic models.

The discovery

of this creature

is simply extraordinary.

We now know

that our universe

is far stranger,

far more alive

than we had ever imagined.

The crew of Europe one

changed

the fundamental context

in which all of humanity

understands itself.

I don't know what greater

measure of success

they could have achieved.

- Is this smiling? Smiling?

- Wet your lip.

- Yeah.

- Uh-huh.

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