Operation Avalanche Page #6

Too literal!

"The step of

a single man..."

"The step of

a single man.

"But for us

back at home..."

Think of what

a step is like to us.

To a man,

a step is just a step.

But to an ant

looking up at the man,

he looks like a god.

And it doesn't

look like a step,

it looks like

a towering leap.

It's like a leap.

It's like a jump.

And this is

a leap forward for...

For everything!

The next

evolutionary step.

A leap forward

in science.

- For humanity.

- Exactly!

This is good.

Okay, let's try one.

Hey.

Do you know

who that is outside?

Who?

Right there.

Look.

Where?

Tell me whose that is.

Is he running?

Did you say hi?

Did he look at you

when you came in?

Is there even

a guy in there?

He's sitting there

watching.

Shh. Shh.

Go outside,

you'll see.

I'm sure

he works for the studio.

I'll go talk to him.

They know we're here.

We're allowed to be

here, okay?

Relax.

Okay.

Hi.

Go, go, go, go!

Jared, get in the car!

Boles, what are

you doing?

What happened?

You shot your f***ing gun!

Jared, shoot

out the front,

try to get

their license plate!

Come on!

- No!

- What?

What happened?

What happened to your car?

It stalled.

They got away.

Well, did

you get a look at them?

Whoever it is,

they know we're here.

Well, we don't know

who it is.

I think it's the mole.

I think it's the mole

that you guys sent us here

to find in the first place.

Who else is waiting

outside the studio

and then the minute

we walk out...

Let's lock it up.

Let's lock it up

and call brackett.

What... lock it up?

We're in the middle of this!

We can't just

stop shooting!

Well, there might be

guys on the roof.

What do you mean,

guys on the roof?

What the f***

is going on?

And what, you got a gun?

This is CBS news

special report.

The flight of Apollo 8.

Six days

to the moon and back.

Brought to you

by Walter cronkite.

The flight of Apollo 8

is over.

And all that remains

is to remove the astronauts

from the space craft,

and carry them

less than two miles

to the deck of

the carrier yorktown.

Future plans for space

missions, of course,

have been accelerated

considerably.

It means that they

can keep to the hoped-for

schedule of the next

Apollo 9 mission,

late in February,

or early in march,

to test out

the landing module,

and, uh, then move on towards

landing a man on the moon

two flights further on

in the middle of July.

So we've got

good news and bad news.

Good news, his name

is antonin lhotsky.

Uh-huh.

- He's a kgb agent.

He's the man

from outside the studio

the other night.

Whoa, what?

We suspect

he's been the mole

the entire time.

So... so then

he knows about avalanche.

We're f***ed!

We don't think he does.

We've been

interrogating him for

the past couple of days.

He doesn't seem

to know anything.

We've raided

his house. Nothing.

This guy's the mole?

And you... you got him?

We got him.

So, then what?

We're just...

We're good?

Well, not entirely.

We, uh, got some new intel

on the Soviet progress,

and it turns out

they're doing better

than we thought.

It looks like

they could possibly make it

to the moon by the end of '69.

Which means that we need

to be done by April

at the latest.

Yeah, that puts us

on a pretty tight timeline.

They know we're here.

We're allowed

to be here, okay?

Relax.

Hi.

Go, go, go, go!

Jared, get in the car!

Hello?

Matt, we have a problem here.

...gentleman got the contract

with, I don't know, somebody.

This is who they say

the mole was.

So we interviewed him?

Yeah, over a year ago.

Remember when you asked me

to find out who was

on the phone with webb?

Of course.

I did.

...second burn

to the lunar surface.

Then we can go in after...

For 250.

250 seconds

is all we can do?

That's the maximum,

and you know that...

Did you talk to trw?

Yeah.

And you know how they

are about their fuels.

So we are in trouble...

Grumman...

What does this mean?

So the mole knew

that we couldn't make it

to the moon

for over a year?

I don't think so.

I don't think

that lhotsky's the mole,

I don't think lhotsky

was outside the studio.

I mean, lhotsky knows

that we can't make it

to the moon,

so maybe they...

He wouldn't cooperate

and they had to

make him a fall guy

by saying that

he's the mole.

They?

Yeah.

What

do you mean?

The CIA.

Okay, well then,

who's outside the studio

following us?

CIA agents.

That's why boles

didn't shoot them.

They're all

working together.

They're all watching us,

and they're lying to us.

For what?

For what purpose?

They know everything

that we're doing.

Why...

This doesn't

make any sense.

There's no reason

for them to be following us.

You... have you...

Have you heard

of a conspiracy

theory before?

Yeah.

I think we're in one.

Okay, leg out!

That

doesn't look real.

Okay,

you know what we'll do?

Jump on the count of three.

Ready?

I'm bringing

the bounce in.

That's a big jump.

Come on,

you're supposed to be

Neil Armstrong.

He's brave. Ready?

There we go.

Uh, change the background.

One more.

How about that?

Great.

That's great.

What are we getting

in the reflection

of his helmet?

Am I in it?

We'll have

to replace that after.

That looks great.

And then you just...

We have to

repress this.

Put that on

an animation stand

and reshoot it.

This is the original

from the sound stage.

And the crater textures

are added after.

Getting rid of

the details

in the studio.

You go in and you

black out the areas

with litho ink.

Let's move this

a little bit further down,

because it seems

a little too square.

Square to camera?

Yeah.

Sure.

Wow.

Ready?

That's good. Yeah, go.

It works.

Yes!

This is amazing!

Go again.

Matt.

Yes?

Have you seen this?

Have you seen this?

Do it again! Do it again!

Owen, look, look.

Hammer, feather.

Drop!

Galileo was right.

Dude, I just put

a weight in it. What?

"NASA scientist dies."

It's from

this morning's paper.

Well, what the...

Matt, it's lhotsky.

What?

Boles, he must've

known about it.

Listen, think

why lhotsky's dead.

Obviously,

he was talking to webb,

so they killed him.

They're going

to kill me...

We don't know why

that guy's dead.

Yes, we do.

They're going to kill me?

What are you talking about?

They're going to kill us both,

they're going to kill

the astronauts.

I'm sure...

Anyone who

knows about this.

I'm sure lhotsky knew too much

and so they got rid of him.

Okay? That's it.

Right! Right!

That's what I'm

talking about!

He was the mole, okay?

No... no, they're tying

off loose ends!

Yeah, and, so,

who else is

gonna die, huh?

They're gonna kill Jim webb?

The head of NASA?

He knows, too!

Maybe. Maybe.

You don't think

they would?

No! Okay, put

the suit on and get ready,

all right? Shut the f*** up.

There's a glob of something

on the... on the glass.

Owen, could you get it?

No, it's right...

You didn't get it.

It's right there.

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