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to be somewhere else.

You said it.

Well, say you could snap your fingers

and be wherever you wanted to be.

I bet you'd still feel this way.

Not in the right place.

Point is, you can't get so hung up

on where you'd rather be

that you forget how to make

the most of where you are.

What are you telling me?

Take a break from worrying

about what you can't control.

Live a little.

Live a little.

Welcome to the Vienna Suite.

Yeah.

What?

- Yeah! Yeah!

- Yeah!

Make that a double jumbo shrimp.

Triple.

Dance-off.

All right.

I did exactly what you just did.

Large coffee.

You have had many, seor.

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

Get out of here!

Come back. Hey.

Come here.

Welcome, Jim.

Please turn your attention

to the screens displaying safety tips.

These spacesuits are designed

to withstand the harsh environment of space.

The carbon fiber and polyamide construction

means your suit is both flexible

and durable.

Remember, your spacesuit is your lifeline.

Slide the handle on the right

to release the air pressure.

Your magnetic boots are now engaged.

They can be deactivated

using the control panel on your arm.

Press the red button

to open the airlock door.

Have a wonderful time.

Tether attached.

Welcome back, Jim.

We hope you decide to join us again soon

for another thrilling experience.

Have a wonderful time.

Aurora.

Searching passenger profiles.

I'm Aurora Lane.

Passenger 1456. I'm a writer.

I think we tell each other stories

to know we're not alone, to make contact.

Your father was Oliver Lane,

a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

No pressure, right?

My dad used to say,

"If you live an ordinary life,

"all you'll have are ordinary stories.

"You have to live a life of adventure."

So...

Here I am.

Good morning.

We're starting over in every way.

I'll have to figure out

where to live, how to live,

who my friends will be.

It's like the first day of school.

If the school bus

took 120 years to get there.

We're creating a culture...

You are funny.

Do you ever read something

and feel like it's written just for you?

I don't do a lot of reading.

She's good.

Who's that?

Aurora.

The sleeping girl.

You know, I'm not saying

the universe is evil,

but it sure has a nasty sense of humor.

How is that?

You get to fly to another planet,

but you'll die along the way.

And you find the perfect woman

right in front of you...

Yet she's completely out of reach.

Yeah, I'll miss New York City.

Give me a cup of coffee and a view of the

Chrysler Building, and I can write all day.

They do have coffee on Homestead II, right?

They better have coffee.

If they don't, I have to turn around

and come back to Earth.

Is there anything you regret leaving behind?

Yeah, I'll miss the trees in Central Park

turning in the fall.

I'll also miss crowds...

Say you were trapped on a desert island,

and you had the power

to wish somebody there with you.

You wouldn't be alone anymore.

But you'd be stranding the person

on the island.

Would you make that wish?

I don't know. I've never been on an island.

Okay, well, yeah.

Forget the island.

Let's say you figured out

how to do something

that would make your life

a million times better,

but you knew it was wrong

and there's no taking it back.

How do you do the math?

Jim, these are not robot questions.

I know how to wake Aurora up.

Well, that seems like a fine idea.

You could use some company.

I'd be stranding her on this ship

for the rest of her life.

Well, you can't do that.

What am I gonna do?

I'm here for you.

Arthur, you're a machine.

See? You can't feel that.

You don't have feelings.

See?

That doesn't hurt.

And you don't even mind.

'Cause you're not a person.

Don't even think about it.

No more Aurora talk.

I'm over it.

I'm moving on.

Don't even think about it!

What am I gonna do?

I'm just gonna sit and think about it?

I can't think about it, so I'm not going to.

That's the deal. I've made my decision.

I know what I'm doing.

I just cut it off.

I'm not... No more.

You won't hear me bring up her name again.

I'll never even mention her name again.

Done.

You can't do it.

Shaving off my beard.

Please don't do it.

Good morning, Aurora.

How are you feeling?

It's perfectly normal to feel confused.

You just spent 120 years

in suspended animation.

Grand concourse.

Hello?

Anybody?

Hello.

Hi.

Are you passenger or crew?

Passenger.

Jim Preston.

Aurora Lane.

Do you know what's going on?

Nobody else from my row woke up.

Same for me.

The crew's supposed to wake up

a month before we do,

but I haven't seen anybody.

The crew is still asleep.

Are you saying nobody's awake?

Just me.

Just you?

It's just us.

But somebody's got to land the ship

in a few weeks.

We will arrive in approximately 89 years.

Eighty-nine years?

The other passengers aren't late waking up.

We were early.

We need help.

Where's the crew?

The crew's in a secure hibernation room.

Everything important, the controls,

the reactors, the engines...

It's all behind firewalls.

There's no way through.

How long have you been awake?

A year and three weeks.

No. No, no, no.

No, this can't be happening.

We have to go back to sleep.

Aurora, we can't.

We just have to get back to our pods

and start them up again.

I can't find my pod. I can't find my pod.

I can't find my pod. I don't know which...

It doesn't matter.

- Aurora...

- I can't find it!

- Stop. Aurora...

- I can't find which one is mine!

- Stop.

- I don't know which one is mine!

- I'll help you.

- I can't...

Stop! It doesn't matter.

Putting somebody into hibernation

requires special equipment.

Remember the facility

where they put us under,

all the procedures we went through?

These pods are designed

to keep us in hibernation,

to wake us up at the right time,

but they can't put us back to sleep.

You don't think there's a way

back into hibernation?

No.

But there has to be.

There has to be.

9:
00. Nighttime.

I know I should be

working the problem, but...

I can't even keep my eyes open.

You just came out of hibernation.

It's going to be a couple of days

before you're 100%.

You should get some rest.

Think I'm gonna have to.

I'll walk you to your cabin.

No, it's okay. I'll be all right.

Okay.

Good night, Aurora.

More than a year?

I can't imagine.

It must have been so hard for you.

It was.

Good night, Jim.

Please buckle up and secure any loose items.

- Whiskey, neat.

- Sure thing.

How's your day been?

Aurora's awake.

Congratulations.

You don't look happy.

Arthur, can you keep a secret?

Jim...

I'm not just a bartender, I'm a gentleman.

Don't tell Aurora that I woke her up.

She thinks it was an accident.

Let me tell her.

Of course.

How can there be no way

to put someone back into hibernation?

What if a pod breaks down?

No hibernation pod has malfunctioned

in thousands of interstellar flights.

Well, I'm awake.

Hibernation pods are fail-safe.

Good morning.

- Have you eaten?

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