Solaris Page #4

I don't know any more.

All I see is you.

All I see is you.

It created me.

And yet I can't communicate with it.

It must hear me, though.

It must know what's happening to me.

And you and I, we would

have to have some kind of...

an arrangement, some kind of...

unspoken understanding...

that I'm not really a human being.

No, Rheya.

Chris...

Chris, I wish you would just

let them use the device on me.

And then you can go back to Earth

and you can tell everybody all about Solaris.

No.

It's the only solution that makes any sense.

We could never have

a life together on Earth, Chris.

You know that.

It would be impossible.

And this? What kind of life is this?

Trapped here.

It's not a life.

I don't know what to call it.

It's what we have.

It's enough for me.

You need to rest.

You're going to make yourself ill.

- I don't care.

- Just lie down for a moment.

Please, Chris.

You have to rest.

You know I'm not human

so I don't understand what you're afraid of.

Of course you can use the device.

It's not murder. You said that yourself.

You're the one who had

the idea in the first place.

Chris doesn't trust me. He...

Chris, don't blame Gordon.

It's not her fault. I begged her to do it.

It's better this way.

I found the suicide note.

I went through your things.

The page torn from the book of poems.

And I realised...

I'm not her.

I'm not Rheya.

I know you loved me, though.

I know that. I felt that.

And I love you.

I wish we could just

live inside that feeling forever.

Maybe there's a place where we can.

But I know it's not on Earth.

And it's not on this ship.

That's all I can say right now.

- You killed her!

- Not her. It.

- It's murder!

- Kelvin, she begged me. It wasn't painful.

- She'll be back!

- No.

- Why would you let her do it?!

- Kelvin!

It's not human!

Whatever it is, it's not human,

and I'm threatened by that.

And I wanna win. I want humans to win.

Whose side are you on?

- What are you doing?

- Putting the Al back online. I'm going home.

Gordon.

Gordon!

- I knew it.

- How long you think he's been dead?

Hard to say because of the cold.

He attacked me.

There I am. Somehow, there I am.

And I couldn't tell you how I'm there,

or who I am or what's going on.

But before I can get to that,

what's this over here?

Comin' at me. What...

what are you tryin' to do?

Oh, I see. You're tryin' to kill me.

Yeah, confusing. I'll tell you somethin'

confusing. Bingo, there you are,

and my welcoming committee

dropped his knife and it's good night.

And, oh, by the way, after all that I find, uh...

this, uh, whoever this... I get my first

good look at it and it happens to be...

I survive the first 30 seconds of this...

life, whatever you wanna call it...

by killing someone.

And, oh, ah, by killing someone

who happens to be me.

See, most people... I would think most people

in this position would be, like "This... ah."

"I don't know." However, this is at least...

This is an incredible opportunity.

This is... What if this is a gift? I'm a gift.

Hey.

I say we use the Higgs device on him.

Mm. Mm-mm.

I don't think you really have time.

Why would you say that?

Well, you know, ever since

we used the famous Higgs device,

Solaris started taking on mass exponentially.

You might have noticed

how we're a lot closer to it.

That would be because everything

within its gravitational field -

it's pulling it in.

Ah, and, yeah, sorry. By the way,

the Higgs device also

drained the fuel cell reactors.

Uh, if... Can I make a suggestion?

I mean, this is... You can do what you want,

but I would just lock me in here really tight

and take the "Athena" back.

Wear your seat belt.

Switch to internal power.

Start fuel cell operational diagnostic.

Service check on LGA.

Point and calibrate high-beam antenna.

Depressurising. Spin all turbines to standby.

Disengage coupling interlocks

and all docking couplers.

Vent and seal

all main engine propellant lines.

Earth.

Even the word sounded strange to me now.

Unfamiliar.

How long had I been gone?

How long had I been back?

Did it matter?

I tried to find the rhythm

of the world where I used to live.

I followed the current.

I was silent and attentive.

I made a conscious effort to smile...

nod...

stand...

and perform the millions of gestures

that constitute life on Earth.

I studied these gestures

until they became reflexes again.

But I was haunted by the idea

that I remembered her wrong.

That somehow I was wrong about everything.

Depressurising.

Spin all turbines to standby.

Disengage coupling interlocks

and all docking couplers.

Vent and seal

all main engine propellant lines.

Rheya!

Rheya?

Chris?

Chris?

Am I alive... or dead?

We don't have to think like that any more.

We're together now.

Everything we've done is forgiven.

Everything.

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