The Last Scout Page #7

Oh, I want to, but I can't.

There's been an accident

and I'm stuck over here.

It's really silly.

But, listen.

Everything's going

to be okay because Hayley is-

What's going to happen?

Ok...

in about a minute

I'm going to die.

But listen.

It's going to be very quick

and it's okay because

for that minute

I get to talk to you.

And I get to tell you that...

I get to tell you

that I love you very, very much.

And I'm so happy because you,

because you're going to go see

the ocean

and I helped you get there.

Don't be sad, baby.

I love you very much.

And I need you to...

I need you to keep a secret

for me.

Can you do that?

Okay, lean real, real close,

real close to the monitor.

I need you to tell Hayley

that I'm sorry

I didn't tell her everything

I should have already told her.

Okay.

Can you do that for me?

I haven't got very long.

Do you understand?

Don't be sad, baby.

Everything's going to be okay.

I lo-

I love you.

What did I tell you, Captain?

I warned you

about meddling with the Chinese.

No one could have predicted

this would happen.

Well, I'm glad that

you would think so.

Because we just lost

the only man

that could keep

this ship running.

Fortunately now,

we're in the system.

I don't know how else this

crate is going to keep going.

Mike, change out the suit.

Jane, get us back on course.

Replaying now 8470.

All right, I'm removing

the last screw now.

Make sure you keep a hold of it.

Relax, man.

These are steady hands.

I just don't want

to lose any if we can help it.

Yeah, there is already

enough screws loose around here.

Michael,

are you disparaging the sanity

of certain crew

members on board,

or are you making

libelous insinuations

about the stability of my ship?

Your ship? F*** you, man.

This ship, sweetheart, is mine.

Woah, woah, woah, fly boy.

Anybody can point this crate

in a direction

and press the button marked "Go"

but it takes a genius,

and let's not forget, Mike,

- I'm a genius, to keep her:

Are you okay?

A moving and B,

from falling apart.

All right? That makes it mine.

Sorry to interrupt you ladies,

but this crate,

as you so elegantly call it,

Pete, is mine.

- Captain.

- Whose ship is it?

Jon's ship Jon's ship

Good girls. Now, how much

longer on this work?

I'm just installing

the new valve now.

Copy that.

Quick as you can, gentlemen.

I want engines

restarted inside of an hour.

There's a desk cloud

headed this way

that'll require more

than a valve

being fixed if it hits us.

Understood, sir.

Moving double quick.

Where were we?

Let me just make sure

he's not still listening.

Captain? Ok, yes.

Where were we?

This ship, Mike, is mine,

because I'm the one that keeps

it from falling apart

every time somebody called Mike

takes us too close to a star

or an asteroid belt

or into a black hole

or whatever it is

you joyriders do

when you're fumbling

at those controls.

Woah, woah,

she may not be falling apart

but you sure ain't the one

out here

fixing her right now.

Well, delegation of duties

is part of my job, you see.

There's no point

in risking me going outside

to fix a plasma valve

when I can talk

you through it, Mike.

This is a job

a seven-year-old could do.

Oh, well. Next time why

don't you just send Lila?

The suits are too big for her.

Besides which

we're supposed to only send

expendable members

of crew outside.

How are you feeling?

I'll live.

You hit me really hard.

We weren't supposed

to let them on board.

- Just obeying regulations.

- Pete's dead.

What?

Huh, how did that happen?

Will you please stop talking?

Listen to me.

Listen to me.

Listen to me. Calm down.

Do you speak English?

Call the captain.

Security breach.

Medical Bay. Security breach.

Medical Bay. Security breach.

Medical Bay. Security breach.

Medical Bay.

It's okay.

Find out what happened

to his ship.

And don't let him

out of your sight.

Or him.

She is dead.

Does that mean

I'm not hallucinating?

Come on.

You know better than all that.

I could be dead and you

could still be hallucinating me.

Great.

Best of both worlds.

Everyone should prepare

for death.

Please.

Jay.

Lila.

How was he?

Sleeping.

Get anything out of him?

Not a lot.

My Chinese isn't great

and even when I used

the translation programs

there were still questions

that he didn't want to answer.

I asked him about his parents

and the other people on the ship

and still nothing.

Something really traumatic

must have happened on that ship.

But he doesn't want to tell me.

Yeah. Mike and Edward

found the flight log.

Pete... Pete was right.

They didn't save everything

from the return flight.

They burned out

everything they had

to get here

a few months ahead of us.

The escape pod

was launched six months ago.

The boy has been on his own

for that long.

No wonder he's so feral.

You know the weird thing

is in the weeks that followed

after they launched

the escape pod,

the airlock opened like five

or six times,

but no ships docked.

He must have tried

to kill himself,

but couldn't go through with it.

Captain.

Go ahead.

We're now within range

of the planet.

Edward has confirmed

that the probe

is ready to launch.

Thank you. Tell Edward

to launch immediately.

Probe's launched successfully.

It all comes down to this.

Yeah.

Do you think we'll make it?

Yeah, I do.

I don't.

On the lower screen?

Yeah, I see it.

You call it for me?

It can't be

about the probe already.

It's too early for that.

We've got news of another one.

The Chinese probe.

What about it?

According to their computer,

the probe was sent out

a couple of hours before

their escape pod was launched,

only to a different address.

What do you mean

a different address?

The system doesn't have

just one planet

in the habitable zone.

It has two.

They occupy the same orbit.

The telescopic scans confused

the one with the other.

Do you know what this means?

Two potentially

habitable planets.

We just doubled our chances.

Have you received any data

transmission from the probe?

After they launched

their ship drifted out of range.

The probe should

have transmitted, but look.

They never received

the telemetry.

We're a lot closer

into the system,

so when we launch our probe...

So we should start to receive

the data transmission then.

I think we will.

Right now that second

planet is behind their Sun.

And if my calculations are right

then in a couple of days

that planet should just pop

right out,

will be in line the sight,

and we'll be able to receive

the transmissions

from the Chinese probe.

We get two rolls of the dice,

gentlemen.

For now we wait.

Penny for

your thoughts, Captain.

You know what I'm thinking,

Captain.

Always. Your crew don't see it,

but I can feel the sadness

washing over you

like waves on a beach.

You're thinking how old

my children would be

if we'd gone ahead

as originally planned.

I wonder who they

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