To the Core and Back Page #10

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- Bill, where are they headed?

Looks like she found

a space between

some tectonic plates

somewhere near Hawaii.

- Josh...

- Yeah?

They're closing in on us too fast.

- I don't know if I can...

- Beck, you got it.

[beeping]

Um... [stammers]

We lost them, Stick, and I...

[Beck] Where'd our power go?

[Josh] We were powered by the heat.

It's stone cold down here.

Well...

Look on the bright side.

At least we're not

going to boil to death.

- You always look on the bright side?

- Always.

OK, let's assess:

We've got no communications,

we're probably 800 feet down,

but we might as well be 800 miles.

We're in an Unobtanium

cigar tube with the sonar

signature of a rock.

We've got just enough power

to make the ultrasonics burp,

but no one's listening

on those frequencies anyway, and...

...nobody even knows we're alive.

OK.

Give me a minute on this one.

This is hopeless.

Come on, General, we've got to be

getting close. We can't...

Mr. Rat, even if they were still alive,

there's no way they could contact us.

[telephone rings]

Bdge.

Skipper, Combat relays that our

sub has something on the sonar.

- Where do they think?

- Bill, put it up on the hydrophone.

[whale sounds]

Whales, sir.

They're a long way off their usual path,

but that's not uncommon since that...

What are they calling it?

Orbital wobble?

Yeah, that's what they call it.

Well, thank you very much, Captain,

but I think we're done here.

General.

J.O., this is the captain.

Stand down from SAR Operations.

It's whales! It's whales!

Hey! General! Stick!

It's whales! The ultrasonics!

They're singing to them!

You gotta find the whales!

[man] Alpha X Ray, this is

November Echo six one zero.

I'm changing...

Hold on, I'm seeing those whales now.

Whoa! OK, ball's in the water.

This is neat. Those whales

are circling something.

Hold on, hold on.

We have a strong echo here.

Depth, 800 feet.

There's something down there.

There's definitely

something down there.

I told you pulsing the

ultrasonics would work.

Do you ever get tired

of being right?

Yes.

So, what's next for you?

- A shower.

- [laughs]

Then back to NASA, I guess.

You?

Deep-dish pepperoni pizza,

green peppers, onions,

- extra mushrooms, then a shower...

- Mmm.

...and then back to the classroom.

NASA could use

a few good men, you know.

Yeah. Unfortunately, so could my

freshmen geophysics students.

You know what makes me

really, really angry?

Bob, Serge, Braz, Zimsky...

No one's going to ever know

what they did or why they died.

Unless... it all got out somehow.

- That's unthinkable.

- Yeah.

[chattering]

[cracks knuckles] OK, here we go.

[beeping]

- [all computers beeping]

- [people murmuring]

Sweet.

[woman] It is now emerging that

the world owes its survival

to the heroism of six

remarkable individuals:

- Shuttle Commander Robert Iverson...

- [man 1] This extraordinary craft...

[woman] ...French Scientist,

Dr. Serge...

[man 1] ...was captained

by NASA astronaut Dr. Bob Iverson.

[man 2] Edward Brazze/ton is a name...

[man 3] ...Dr. Conrad Zimsky

will be best remembered...

[man 4] On Capitol Hill today,

everyone's asking the same question:

What is Project Destiny?

[reporters overlapping]

Destiny, meet world.

World, meet Destiny.

[man] Dr. Brazze/ton, Dr. Zimsky...

[reporters fade]

[I 30 Seconds to Mars: "Echelon"]

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