Interstellar Page #17

We'll be back.

It sounds like he's trying to reassure himself as much her.

BRAND:

I won't.

Cooper looks at her, confused. As he does, the entire rocket

SHAKES as the primary rockets begin to fire.

BRAND (CONT'D)

If we find a habitable environment,

I'm staying behind to build the

colony.

Brand wipes her tears away and settles into the same fearless

mask she usually wears. She steals one last look out the

window at Earth, then looks back.

Cooper begins to say something, but stops as the entire rocket

LURCHES as the primary engines FIRE.

EXT. SANTA CRUZ ISLAND -- NIGHT

The desolate island is suddenly painted in color as the rocket

lifts off on a massive white cloud.

EXT. FIELD -- DAY

Murph sits alone on a rise overlooking the massive co-op

farms. Behind him the combines continue to work, oblivious.

Murph watches a tiny vapor trail as it races for the heavens.

His father's watch dangles from his wrist.

INT. CAPSULE -- NIGHT

The interior of the capsule SHAKES with incredible violence

as the rocket is lifted up on a giant, continuous explosion.

51.

EXT. SPACE, NEAR EARTH ORBIT

The rocket sheds one stage, then another, until finally the

naked capsule reaches the blackness of space and rockets on.

INT. CAPSULE

Cooper looks through the tiny porthole into inky blackness.

As they get closer, he makes out a looming matte black

structure that passes light from the stars directly through.

In the center of the structure, Cooper can see a globe-like

ship covered in the same refractive material: the ENDURANCE.

INT. SPACE STATION

The door cracks open and equalizes with a HISS. Case, more

comfortable in the zero gravity environment than the humans,

hauls himself through.

They are greeted by a group of robots painted in the same

material as the ship -- the engineers who built and have

maintained the Endurance for thirty years.

INT. MACHINE SHOP, SPACE STATION

One of the robots leads Cooper through a long lab-like room

filled with machines capable of fabricating almost anything

imaginable. Cooper looks like a kid in a candy store.

The robot reaches a vacuum-sealed package. Cuts it open,

revealing a bipedal frame.

Cooper begins LAUGHING -- Tar's new body is beautifully

designed, but tiny, only about four feet tall.

ENGINEER ROBOT:

Would you like me to install the

chip?

COOPER:

Oh, no. I want to see this.

Cooper takes Tars's chip out of its plastic safety case and

looks it over. The engineer opens a bay in the back of the

frame and Cooper slides the chip inside.

The frame begins its "handshake" -- lights illuminate on the

body, muscles flicker from a long gestation. The eyes open.

COOPER (CONT'D)

(SMILES)

Good morning, sunshine.

52.

Tars takes one or two steps forward, rotating his arms --

the robot equivalent of a stretch. Cooper can barely hide

his mirth at Tars's newfound lack of stature.

COOPER (CONT'D)

Bit of a demotion.

Tars turns back toward Cooper. He puffs out his chest and

suddenly his stubby arms and legs telescope, unfolding into

long, svelte limbs. When he's done he stands eight feet

tall, even more impressive than his earthbound frame.

TARS:

I wouldn't call it that, exactly.

He reaches out an arm and pats Cooper on the shoulder.

INT. ENDURANCE, SPACE STATION

Cooper and the others haul themselves into the ship. To

Cooper's surprise, it's quite compact, and divided into two

chambers, like nestled spheres.

COOPER:

The ship is tiny.

Doyle, squeezing past him, smiles at Cooper's surprise.

DOYLE:

So is the wormhole.

Doyle pats Cooper on the back. Cooper begins hauling gear

inside.

EXT. SPACE, NEAR EARTH ORBIT

In complete silence, the Endurance detaches from the space

station and rolls gently away.

After a moment, its nuclear engines fire and the Endurance

begins to accelerate steadily away from the Earth.

INT. SPACE STATION

The engineer robots who built the Endurance watch as their

creation disappears into space.

Their mission is complete. One by one, they shut down.

INT. CREW QUARTERS, ENDURANCE

The crew watch through a translucent section of the ship's

hull as the Earth gets steadily smaller.

Then they settle in for the long journey to the wormhole.

53.

INT. CREW QUARTERS, ENDURANCE

Tars is hunched over a small communications relay, one hand

is holding a paint brush -- he is making delicate strokes,

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