Interstellar Page #15

water.

Cooper hastily fits his rebreather and follows.

EXT. UNDERWATER, BAY -- DAY

Cooper sinks underwater and begins swimming after Brand, who

is descending at a rapid clip.

She pulls out a flashlight and turns it on. A tiny beam

picks out details at the bottom.

Cooper stops breathing.

The bottom of the ocean is covered with an entire fleet of

the US navy. Nuclear subs. Battleships. Destroyers.

Cooper remembers to breath again. Then he hurries to catch

up with Brand.

INT. LAUNCH TUBES, NUCLEAR SUB, UNDERWATER -- DAY

Cooper holds the light as Brand efficiently disassembles a

ballistic missile and removes the telemetry board.

She holds it up for Cooper. He nods. She swims on.

INT. RESEARCH LAB, UNDERGROUND FACILITY -- NIGHT

Cooper, dripping wet, holding the telemetry board, struggles

to keep pace with Brand through stacks of equipment and years

of research and experimentation.

BRAND:

You can set that down over there.

Cooper sets the board down. His eye is drawn to a bizarre

experiment -- an ant colony built into a massive spinning

centrifuge. Brand notices.

BRAND (CONT'D)

We didn't know what kind of gravity

to expect. We experimented with

collective organisms in high g

environments.

COOPER:

We're taking ants with us?

BRAND:

Humans are also collective organisms.

45.

COOPER:

I thought humans were more solitary.

BRAND:

(WRY)

Why am I not surprised?

Cooper looks at the tiny colonies of ants struggling to go

about their business in the raised gravity.

COOPER:

Looks like hard work.

BRAND:

It's a paradox. Life couldn't form

without gravity. No stars. No

planets. The component pieces would

just drift apart. But too much of

it and you're trapped.

Brand's guard relaxes a tiny bit as she talks about her work.

The moment passes quickly, and she continues on into the

stack of equipment.

INT. MISSION CONTROL, UNDERGROUND HANGAR -- NIGHT

Cooper watches with the rest of the crew as Case pulls up

the holographical maps for their journey.

Brand steps into the back of the room. Cooper notices her

and nods. She ignores him.

CASE:

We've updated our mission parameters

based on the data from the probe.

Case switches the map to a vista filled with stars and black

holes.

CASE (CONT'D)

Based on our latest modelling we

think the region on the far side of

the wormhole is the center of a

galaxy.

Case zooms in on the center of the hologram: an incredibly

bright mass with plasma jets firing off in either direction.

COOPER:

Is that a star?

ROTH, 50s, the crew's brilliant and blunt physicist, zooms

the map in, revealing, at the center, a black heart.

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ROTH:

No. A black hole. There are several

in the region, but this is the largest --

a billion times heavier than the

sun. I call it Gargantua.

(SMILES)

Beautiful, isn't it? It's a shame

we won't get to see it up close.

DOYLE:

(LAUGHS)

You'd like that, wouldn't you, Roth?

Falling into a massive black hole.

ROTH:

(SHRUGS)

It would answer a great deal of

questions I've had.

Case continues. Doyle leans over to Cooper, conspiratorially.

DOYLE:

(LOW)

Don't worry about Roth. He's nuts.

But Case says that means he's ideally

suited for space travel.

Case repositions the map near a much smaller black hole that

is orbiting Gargantua.

CASE:

We're headed for this smaller black

hole. Roth calls it Pantagruel. We

think the ice planet is here-

Case draws a finger through the air, leaving a red trail.

He traces the trajectory their ship will take.

CASE (CONT'D)

We exit the wormhole here. And we

slingshot around Pantagruel to reach

the ice planet. This is the period

in which we'll lose time.

COOPER:

Lose time?

Roth shifts the hologram -- the stars and black holes flatten

onto a sheet that bends, revealing the curvature of gravity.

ROTH:

High speed or high gravity both slow

down time, relative to earth.

(MORE)

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ROTH (CONT'D)

The trip around the black hole will

take us only a few days. But far

more time will be passing back home.

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