Sunshine Page #3

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That's it.

Slow down the breathing.

Relaxed movement.

Approaching the first panel.

We were lucky.

Can you guys see this?

We can see it.

The hydraulics are burnt out.

Let's get this closed.

Okay, Mace.

That's it.

That's the first one closed.

You can do it?

lt'll take a while, but...

Yeah.

We can do it.

Great job.

Lots of smiling faces

in this room, guys.

- Great job.

- l love you, captain.

Moving to next panel.

Three to go.

Hey.

Don't kill yourself, man.

We got this, okay?

What's going on, guys?

The ship's moving.

We're venting O2. Sh*t.

I think we're venting O2.

Resuming computer control

of Icarus II.

Negative, lcarus. Manual control.

Negative, Cassie. Computer control.

- Returning vessel to original rotation.

- What?

lcarus, override computer

to manual control.

Negative. Mission in jeopardy.

Override command statement to

manual flight controls removed.

- Why?

- Negative, lcarus.

Negative. State reason immediately.

Fire in oxygen garden.

No.

Seal oxygen feed.

- Fireguard perimeter.

- Sealing sector. Sealing feed.

- Seal sections five through nine.

- Sealing five through nine.

Kaneda, Capa,

get back to the airlock now.

Can't.

Can't leave upright panels.

The ship will burn up if the shields

are not repaired.

- They're gonna die.

- Don't.

- They're gonna burn.

- They are not.

Override Icarus. Cassie, pilot...

... emergency command 0-0-0.

Copy command 0-0-0.

- Second human confirmation required.

- Copy.

Mace?

Mace?

Wait, Cassie.

Jesus Christ, Harvey.

Harvey, comms officer,

confirm back-up o-o-o.

Override command confirmed.

Manual control returned.

No.

lcarus, continue procedure.

What?

Captain.

- Back me up.

- Copy, Mace.

Crew priority

is to protect the payload.

Get the fire out.

lcarus, take control of the ship.

- Affirmative, captain.

- Damn it.

Returning vessel to original rotation.

- Let me in. Please.

- Negative.

Door sealed by operating superior

comms officer.

You motherf***er.

Let me in.

Hazard diagnostic complete.

Sprinkler system failing.

Fire will burn for six hours.

Sixty percent chance

of containment failure.

Seventy-five percent chance of collateral

damage to life-support systems.

What are we gonna do?

- Flood it with O2.

- What?

Lt'll cause a flashover.

Make it burn itself out.

We'll lose the whole garden.

We already lost it.

Jesus, Mace, I don't know.

lcarus, open the O2 tanks.

Cory, get the hell out of there.

Opening O2 tanks.

No.

Eighty-nine percent of shield

in full sunlight.

Capa, go back.

I'll finish this.

Please, I can do this.

Go.

Capa returning to airlock.

Do you copy?

Capa returning to airlock.

Do you copy?

Copy, Capa. Hurry.

Ninety-one percent of shield

in full sunlight.

Ninety-four percent of shield

in full sunlight.

Captain? Captain?

I'm at the edge of the shield.

Do you copy?

Captain, you must leave now.

Captain?

Ninety-seven percent of shield

in full sunlight.

Final panel closing.

The shield is secure.

You have to move now.

Captain, it's right on you.

- Kaneda's not gonna make it.

- You have to move.

You have to move now.

It's too far.

Captain, move.

Why isn't he moving?

Kaneda.

What do you see?

Searle, tell our captain to move.

Kaneda, what can you see?

Searle, do you copy?

Kaneda?

Shield rotation complete.

The breakdown is as follows.

Trey is sedated in the Med Centre.

Dr. Searle has diagnosed him

as a suicide risk.

I don't think any of us

are about to question that diagnosis.

As second in command,

l am now the captain of lcarus II.

Thanks both to Kaneda...

...and Capa, our shields are intact.

As is the payload.

But the oxygen garden

is totally destroyed.

In addition, a large amount of O2

was burned in the fire.

As it stands now...

...we don't have enough oxygen reserves

to get us to our payload delivery point.

Let alone to survive

the return journey.

So cancel the ticker-tape parade.

We now have no choice

but to rendezvous with lcarus I.

If we're gonna complete

the mission...

...the lcarus I is our only hope.

Technically, he made a mistake.

What are you trying to say, Cory?

Harvey said there's not enough oxygen

to get us to the delivery point.

But there is.

There just isn't enough oxygen

to get all of us there.

Are you suggesting

we let Trey kill himself?

No.

And in any case...

...Trey wouldn't be enough.

We need to lose two more.

Three out of seven.

That's a lot of short straws.

Capa, it's me.

It's different.

Being afraid

that you won't make it back home.

And then knowing that you won't.

Our survival depends

on what we can salvage from lcarus I.

No.

We're gonna die out here.

Like the other crew.

I know it.

So do you.

Are you scared?

When the stellar bomb is triggered...

...very little will happen at first.

And then a spark

will pop into existence...

... and it will hang for an instant,

hovering in space. And then...

...it will split into two.

And those will split again...

...and again and again.

Detonation beyond all imagining.

A big bang on a small scale.

A new star born out of a dying one.

I think it'll be beautiful.

No. I'm not scared.

I am.

Searle, Capa, they're waiting for you.

Okay, let's go.

Be careful, watch your step.

Cassie, are you getting this

on the feed?

Getting what?

The air. It's full of dust.

Human skin.

What?

Eighty percent of all dust

is human skin.

Sorry.

- No lights?

- No.

No surprise.

Anyone afraid of the dark?

We should split up.

I'm not sure that's such a good idea.

Yeah, probably right.

Might get picked off one at a time

by aliens.

lcarus I is a big ship. We can't search it

effectively in one group.

Okay. You're right.

Mace, head up for the Flight Deck,

see if you can't get her to fly.

Searle, check the social area

and the sleeping quarters.

Capa, aim for the payload.

I'll check the garden.

Let's keep in contact, guys.

Listen up, everybody.

You gotta see this.

Seven years of unchecked growth.

Can you see this?

lt's an ecosystem working beautifully

after all this time.

You seeing this readout,

O2, everybody.

It's wonderful.

Oh, my God.

Cory, look at the ferns.

That's strange.

Subsystems are fine.

Solar harvest is fine.

The ship should be running except I'm

getting nothing from the flight computer.

Got water.

Food.

No crew.

No bodies.

My God.

You can hardly walk, it's so thick.

l am Pinbacker.

Commander of the Icarus I.

We have abandoned our mission.

Our star is dying.

All our science...

... all our hopes...

... our dreams, are foolish.

ln the face of this...

... we are...

... dust. Nothing more.

And to this dust, we will return.

When he chooses for us to die.

lt is not our place...

... to challenge God.

Okay, that make sense to anyone?

Transmission code is six

and a half years ago.

That would be after they entered

the non-com zone.

That should be the time they

were supposed to deliver the payload.

Payload is fully operational.

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