Supernova Page #3

Now, is there anything else|that you need to know?

He was the Hazen addict.

How long was I out for?

About 20 minutes.

- How do you feel?|- Better than that transport.

That fire really finished it off!

How embarrassing. I'm Troy.

Danika.

I'm sorry. You're very pretty.

I haven't been around a girl in a while.

Let me go get you some clothes.

- We've only got five DSUs left.|- And there's only five of us.

We have a patient on board.|There's six of us!

We jump as scheduled.|I'll stay behind, take my chances.

- You won't have one.|- Call a rescue craft once you've jumped.

I'll be pretty far down in orbit|by the time they get here.

- No, you'll be dead. I'm not goin' for this!|- It's your job to go for this.

Marley would be asking you|to do the same.

- I'm not going.|- You want me to pull rank, I will.

Fine. That's an order.

I'm Doctor Evers. How are you feeling?

Happy

to be here.

There's no one else down on Titan?

Not even close.|That whole place is like a ghost ship.

The distress call came from Karl Larson.

Yeah. That's my dad.

Was my dad. He died three years ago.

Aneurysm. Real sudden.

Sorry.

Don't be. I'm not.

He's probably one of the worst people|that ever lived.

I'm sure you'd agree on that.

I tried to stay as far away|from him as possible.

But I went to see him when he was dying.

He said that if I ever got into trouble|that you were the person to call.

I guess that's the best advice|he ever gave me.

- You seem to have made out OK.|- Yeah.

Seems like you did too.

This is just some vitamins.

You know, up until the end, when he said|that I should call you if I needed help,

he said he was sorry he didn't change|his ways while you were with him.

Because now he'd never get a chance|to make it up to you.

He said that's what he regretted most.

This is Nick Vanzant, our captain.

This is Troy.

He's Karl Larson's son.

How you doin', captain?

I want to ask you a few questions.

Look.

I know what you're gonna ask.

I was scavenging, OK? Strip mining.

It's amazing what the government leaves|behind when they abandon a place.

I was with a group of people|I thought were my friends.

We didn't find much.|Which is why they took the mother ship

and stranded me with|that junk heap I flew in here.

Friends, huh?

I thought they were friends.

So can you tell us|where your friends are?

I'm not the type of guy that names names.

Why'd you use your father's name|on the signal?

I've been doing that for a while now.|Ever since he passed away.

I guess I figured might as well|be good for somethin', right?

Tell me about Titan.

How much fuel is down there?

- Why?|- We had an accident when we jumped.

We lost almost all of it|before the tanks sealed.

Well, if it's fuel you want, you got it.|There's plenty of it down there.

That's one of the things we were down|there scavenging. Lucky for us, huh?

I'm gonna prep the shuttle.

- How's the patient?|- Cute.

I'm gonna go see if|Doctor Evers needs any help.

Yerzy. Yerzy!

Check out every corner of this guy's ship,|every piece of equipment.

Anything looks suspicious,|I wanna know about it.

Why don't you get Flyboy to do it?

- I'm asking you.|- Why do I get the grunt work?

I'm a trained technician -|which is different from a robot!

I'm asking you because of the difference.

Can Sweetie access the Titan computer,|see if it's still operational?

Yeah, it's another C-1 1 . No problem.

If I go down, I'll need a full layout.

I wanna know what the hell|I'm walking into.

You think there are more survivors?

I don't know. If there are, I want to know|about them before they know about me.

So, is this Nick always like that?

He really likes to swing it around, huh?

Pretty intense|for an ambulance ship captain.

We lost our captain in the jump.|Nick had to take over.

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to say|anything bad about him.

You two aren't...?

No. No, but...

Nick and Doctor Evers!

You know,

your eyes are pretty.

Really? Thanks.

I guess everybody needs|a little romance now and then, huh?

- Shuttle. You there?|- Yeah. What is it?

Listen, I found

something.

- You betterget down here.|- On my way.

Yerzy?

Let me tell you somethin'.|Whatever it is,

it's the most amazing thing|any of us is ever gonna see.

You've played around|with this thing, haven't you?

Now, why would I do something like that?

Robotic link engaged.

Transporing possible|biohazard to quarantine.

Of course I didn't tell you.

I'm a treasure hunter.

There's two parts to that job -|finding it and keeping it.

And keeping it's a lot harder!

I intercepted a stray transmission|three years ago.

Ice miners.

They'd dug something up|on a rogue moon.

I didn't know what it was,|but I didn't need to.

Just knowing where was enough. Frozen.

In the middle of a rogue moon.

I knew whatever they'd found

was a lot older than that moon.

So I did the research, grabbed|some of my friends, and we went hunting.

And then I found the Titan 37.

There were no signs of the miners,

no signs of anything.

My friends blamed me|and they took my ship.

I stayed on, took my time,

searching every inch

and then searching again.

And then I found the treasure.

And now there's nothing to stop us.

- Us?|- Yeah, us.

You know how much|the government'll pay for this?

Who knows what new technologies|it could lead to?

We'll all be in on it.

If you guys help me out here,|I'll cut you in for five per cent.

- Each.|- Five per cent each, huh?

How about we give you that?|I found it last.

Am I missing something?|We don't even know what it is.

It's either human-made or it's not.

It's not man-made.|It was buried in an ice moon.

Look, there's no question. This is it.|Primary contact.

- It's been a dream for thousands of years.|- Exactly.

I'm not sure we shouldn't|blow it out the closest airlock.

Do you have any idea|what you're saying?

I'm saying I don't know what it is,|and nothing you've said indicates you do.

Maybe it is an alien artefact,|maybe it's a magic trick.

Maybe it's a distillation of knowledge,

maybe it's just a toy - an alien child's toy.

Or an alien sex object. It looks like it...

Or maybe it was so dangerous that the|only way to get rid of it was to bury it.

Maybe.

It has no business being on this ship.

- It's harmless.|- You had contact with it.

- And you have abnormal bone growth.|- I've had that my whole life!

We don't have uplink. We can't confirm it.

Scan it and log it on record. When we|get to clear space we tag it and float it.

- I think you're making a big mistake.|- Oh, yeah?

Do you want to clarify that?

I'm offering you|the opportunity of a lifetime

and you're passing it up.

- For all of us.|- For all of us?

Your "opportunity"|has cost us our captain,

endangered this crew|and wasted critical time.

All this for some delusional belief|that you'll get rich.

There's no opportunity.|And there is no "us"!

It stays in sealed quarantine|till we get to clear space.

I want a rescue return transport|on the shuttle.

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