The Cloverfield Paradox

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Government sources tell us

the world's energy resources

will be fully exhausted

within five years.

Space Station was

completed today...

designed for a risky experimental mission.

Onboard the orbiting lab,

is the Shepard Particle Accelerator.

If astronauts can get

the Shepard working,

it would produce free energy,

solving the earth's energy crisis forever.

.....as French officials

announce

new energy rationing provisions...

...the dissolution of

these international alliances--

...international effort

is merely a drain on financial

and energy resources...

Yes.

I'll tell him.

Okay.

Thanks.

Did you move at all?

Forward or side to side?

Joe says you owe him a call.

Did he ask you?

I feel like honking a horn.

Yeah, because that will make

loads of difference.

Are you serious?

Stop.

You've started a trend.

Come on.

That's like the fourth blackout today.

Fifth.

Did he ask you?

And?

You know what I said.

I'm not leaving you.

That mission could be years.

You said you could be back in six months.

Do you want me to go?

Joe knows what we've been through.

And yet he still wants you on the crew.

-There are other officers.

-Yeah, but he called you.

Why are you pushing this?

Why do you think?

Forget about me and what I want,

which is for you to stay.

Why do you think?

Because you are sweet.

Because people are starving.

Because our energy supplies

are running out.

And this mission could unlock

an endless supply of power

that could save us all.

If you go...

you and I...

will survive.

I'm afraid if you don't...

No one will.

TAD throttle control, 8636.

Line secure.

Accelerator system status?

It's holding for pre-ignition.

Shepard team, you are go

for countdown.

We've all got fingers

crossed here at Mission Control.

Let's makethis first one count.

- Status boosters?

- Go.

-The GNC.

- Go.

Power up.

Commander, Shepard team

standing by for your go.

On my count...

Three...two...one...mark.

Huntsville, this is Commander Kiel.

Firing...has failed.

Morning, beautiful.

-Sorry, I woke you.

-No. Look.

I'm working.

I've got a patient today with...

Camptodactyly-arthropathy-

coxa vara-pericarditis syndrome.

-What's that?

-I'll tell you after I do my homework.

I'm getting sick of only seeing you

on a screen.

-You okay?

-Yeah.

It's the rest of the world

I'm worried about.

You see the same news that I do.

It's madness.

Oil wars are spreading.

Russia is threatening

ground invasion now.

Can you believe that?

Ground invasion, which will

waste their oil reserves.

Anyway...

normal life is

hanging by a thread.

You?

We're all on edge.

And we only have enough fuel

for three more firings.

-I remember.

-If this doesn't work...

I can't even think about what happens

down there.

I don't think any of us are feeling...

hopeful.

I miss you more everyday.

Like I miss them.

And maybe I'm an idiot...

but I'm hopeful.

And not just for the work

that you're doing.

We can't go back in time

and know what we know now.

But I was thinking...

Maybe when you get back--

Welcome to American Sunrise...

Two-one.

Six hundred and ninety-four.

Six hundred and ninety-four days

I've kept our O2,

CO2, N2, hydrogen, water vapor and methane

at optimal levels.

You know how many pressure leaks

we've had?

Not one.

No microbe overgrowth, nothing.

-You know why?

-This is a long speech, Volkov.

Because I disinfect the decks

every 72 hours.

I disinfect the decks, actually.

If you have a point, I'd make it now.

There's one part of this station.

One part that is not working.

This is interesting.

Do you know what part that is?

The Shepard Accelerator.

Eight billion

are counting on us. What are you saying?

I don't have a problem with you.

But your German boyfriend

over here, I do.

-Go back to your quarters.

-Don't treat me like you're my mother.

You're not.

-Okay, that's enough.

- Hey, chill out, Volky.

Two years on this station,

and this man has delivered nothing.

Volkov!

You need to think very carefully

about what you're saying.

We've both heard the reports.

Germany is preparing for war

and everyday that goes by,

more and more Russians are starving.

Maybe you're not in a hurry

to get the Shepard working.

Easy! Easy!

This stops now!

If we can't keep our sh*t together

up here,

how can we ever expect them

to do it down there?

-Maybe they won't!

-Keep your mouth shut!

We have a job to do.

Another test aboard

the Cloverfield Space Station.

The 47th test in just over two years

is scheduled for

8:
00 AM Eastern Standard Time.

All eyes are on--

This is Huntsville...

we've got eyes and ears.

Morning, Huntsville.

Copy that.

-Schmidt, system status?

-Green across the board.

Right this minute, they are

testing a particle accelerator up there,

so we can learn how to make

unlimited energy down here.

But those who have accepted

the Cloverfield Paradox is real...

Shepard holding

for pre-ignition.

Commander, Shepard team standing by

for your go.

Diagnostic mode off.

X-Deck modification complete.

Stabilizer active.

Qinhuangdao, confirm pre-ignition

sequencing authorization.

You're a go

for accelerator pre-ignition.

Huntsville and Qinhuangdao Control,

we'll call you post blackout.

-Copy.

- Stand by for protocol go.

Why does the accelerator

worry you so much?

Because that accelerator is

1000 times more powerful

than any ever built.

Every time they test it, they risk

ripping open the membrane of space time,

smashing together multiple dimensions,

shattering reality.

And not just on that station,

everywhere.

This experiment could unleash chaos...

the likes of which we have never seen.

Monsters, demons, beasts from the sea--

To clarify,

you believe their efforts

to solve the energy crisis

might unleash demons?

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Volkov, we're ready to take

the Shepard online.

-How's your station?

-Hold on,

I'm calibrating our expensive compass.

And not just here and now...

in the past...

in the future, in other dimensions...

You have no idea how much I would

love to be wrong about this.

Monk.

-If you want to know more...

- Turn that sh*t off.

read my book--

Gyro is calibrating.

Our station is good.

You should ask Schmidt,

is his station good?

Jesus Christ.

Please, Mr. Monk,

hit us with your holy stick.

Oh, come on.

-Not now when we're--

-Schmidt.

The farther we travel from home,

the clearer it becomes

that there is a power infinitely

greater than us.

Please show Your mercy.

And allow the Shepard to work this time.

To provide the energy we need.

To prevent our countries

from going to war.

Please, God, be on our side.

Amen.

Amen.

That was righteous.

Back to work.

Sunday School over yet?

Schmidt, power up.

Sequence running.

Thirty to ignition.

Commander?

Three...two...one...

mark.

Please don't break up on me, baby.

Yes, yes. Yes!

We have a successful collision.

What's our output?

We have positive energy flow.

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