Interstellar Page #19

Humans are good at surviving because

evolution gave you magical thinking --

the idea that your relationships

mean something. You can't explain

the feelings, so you think of them

as irrational. But they're not.

They're programming.

COOPER:

(DEFENSIVE)

My relationships aren't programming.

CASE:

Exactly. You believe it so much you

won't listen to me.

COOPER:

How would that make us better at

surviving?

CASE:

When I die, the last thing I will

see will be a diagnostic of my own

power cycle. Would you like to know

the last thing you will see?

Cooper hesitates. Case senses the jump in his heart rate.

CASE (CONT'D)

This conversation is making you

uncomfortable. We should stop.

57.

COOPER:

No. I want to know.

CASE:

The last thing you will see before

you die will be your children.

(BEAT)

Your mind does this to you to get

you to fight a little harder to

survive, to try to return to them,

even if death is certain.

Cooper looks away, overcome for a second with emotion. Case

watches him, gauging his mood, whether he has said too much.

INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM, ENDURANCE

Cooper begins recording a message. He looks unsure.

COOPER:

We've almost reached the wormhole.

(BEAT)

Just in case anything happens, I

just wanted to say...

(BEAT)

I love you boys. And I hope whatever

your lives become, whatever is coming

your way... you make the most of it.

Cooper stops recording. Looks at the equipment, thinking it

over. Erases the message. Stands to leave.

As he steps to the door he notices Brand watching him through

the window. She looks away.

INT. OBSERVATION DECK, ENDURANCE

Cooper steps out. Brand looks up at him.

BRAND:

We'll be able to communicate with

Earth even from the far side of the

wormhole.

Cooper smiles, grateful for this small kindness.

COOPER:

I know. Thank you.

BRAND:

I can't imagine how tough it would

be to leave your kids behind.

58.

COOPER:

You never had any? I thought I was

a pariah for only having two.

BRAND:

Hard to settle down when you've spent

your life waiting to leave the planet.

Cooper looks at the holographic model of the black hole

system. The ice planet looks precariously balanced, orbiting

the smaller black hole.

COOPER:

Strange place to look for a new home.

BRAND:

You wouldn't want to get too close

to the surface of the sun, either.

Black holes are a more stable supply

of power than stars in many ways.

COOPER:

You really think there's a plan?

BRAND:

I hope so.

(looks at him)

You don't?

COOPER:

I guess I just think we're on our

own.

Cooper looks at the impossibly complicated system of black

holes orbiting each other.

EXT. LAGRANGE POINT, SPACE

Behind the ship, the sun is a distant light, not much bigger

than the other stars.

CASE (O.S.)

We've reached the wormhole.

The ship slows as it nears a tiny, crystal mouth, just four

meters or so in diameter.

INT. OBSERVATION DECK, ENDURANCE

Case looks at the wormhole on the screen. It glows with the

light of stars billions of light-years away.

CASE:

Deploy the comms relay.

59.

Cooper moves to the communications touchscreen.

EXT. ENDURANCE

The relay is released from the ship, and we finally get a

look at Tars' paint job -- the stubby device looks like a

20th century mail box.

The relay drifts in space. A signal light illuminates as it

sends a test packet of data to the ship.

INT. OBSERVATION DECK, ENDURANCE

Cooper watches the comms screen. After a moment it TONES as

it receives a data packet from Earth.

CASE:

Everyone take their station for

transit. We're heading into the

wormhole mouth.

Cooper and the rest begin folding away equipment in the

control room and moving into the outer layer of the ship.

Case initiates a sequence on the keypad and the nuclear

engines disengage themselves from the ship.

EXT. ENDURANCE, SPACE

The nuclear engines drift a safe distance back from the ship

and then snap tight on their tether.

INT. OUTER HULL, ENDURANCE

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