Virtuality Page #16

Synopsis: Twelve extremely talented men and women have been chosen to be part of the Phaeton mission, a 10-year trek to explore a distant planetary system. In order to endure the stress of being confined to their high-tech vessel, the crew passes the time using advanced virtual reality modules that allow them to take on various identities. But as the ship approaches a critical phase of their journey, a deadly flaw is discovered in the virtual system, forcing them to question if someone onboard might be a killer.
Director(s): Peter Berg
Production: Fox Network
  Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.9
Year:
2009
87 min
49 Views


I'm trying, I'm trying!

1559

01:
15:51,710 -- 01:15:52,910

Come on!

1560

01:
15:52,945 -- 01:15:55,806

Helmets on, gloves!

Come on, gloves, helmets now!

1561

01:
15:55,841 -- 01:15:57,554

Can't we override

the system inside here?

1562

01:
15:57,589 -- 01:15:58,343

He's doing that

right now!

1563

01:
15:58,378 -- 01:15:59,711

- Come on!

- Get the door open!

1564

01:
15:59,746 -- 01:16:00,980

I'm trying to open it!

1565

01:
16:01,011 -- 01:16:04,380

Hurry, come on!

Val, come on!

1566

01:
16:04,447 -- 01:16:06,747

Go, go, go, go, go, go!

Come on, get it open!

1567

01:
16:06,814 -- 01:16:07,483

Go!

1568

01:
16:08,650 -- 01:16:09,601

We're in!

1569

01:
16:09,882 -- 01:16:12,014

[grunting]

[thuds]

1570

01:
16:13,350 -- 01:16:15,543

Guys, I need you to do

something manual in there.

1571

01:
16:15,853 -- 01:16:18,433

Jean, is Commander Pike

still on the ship?

1572

01:
16:18,453 -- 01:16:19,753

i20 seconds./i

1573

01:
16:21,059 -- 01:16:22,721

Come on, come on,

come on, come on.

1574

01:
16:22,789 -- 01:16:25,607

[grunting]

1575

01:
16:29,430 -- 01:16:30,385

Fix it!

1576

01:
16:30,452 -- 01:16:31,386

Door closing.

1577

01:
16:34,228 -- 01:16:34,720

[coughing]

1578

01:
16:34,756 -- 01:16:37,532

iStandard atmospheric pressure

is being restored./i

1579

01:
16:40,189 -- 01:16:41,202

Frank.

1580

01:
16:41,491 -- 01:16:44,924

Val, where are you?

1581

01:
16:58,297 -- 01:17:01,173

[flat-lining]

1582

01:
17:19,505 -- 01:17:20,988

Ah, so he's...

1583

01:
17:21,706 -- 01:17:22,439

gone.

1584

01:
17:22,459 -- 01:17:24,244

And I am...

1585

01:
17:27,375 -- 01:17:28,875

in command

of the mission.

1586

01:
17:29,675 -- 01:17:30,989

Oh, happy day.

1587

01:
18:28,201 -- 01:18:31,701

[crying]

1588

01:
18:33,637 -- 01:18:35,426

So it's Saturday.

1589

01:
18:37,070 -- 01:18:38,907

Or Sunday.

I don't know which.

1590

01:
18:40,305 -- 01:18:41,856

Time's different now.

1591

01:
18:45,441 -- 01:18:47,274

Everything's different now.

1592

01:
18:50,075 -- 01:18:52,843

Everything moves faster

or slower.

1593

01:
18:52,878 -- 01:18:53,951

I don't know which.

1594

01:
18:57,912 -- 01:19:00,370

But it's Saturday somewhere,

right?

1595

01:
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[laughs]

1596

01:
19:07,650 -- 01:19:11,079

This makes no sense

whatsoever,

1597

01:
19:11,585 -- 01:19:16,605

and it makes

utter, utter sense.

1598

01:
19:17,254 -- 01:19:18,515

[exhales]

1599

01:
19:21,149 -- 01:19:22,664

I'm sorry.

It's not real.

1600

01:
19:24,285 -- 01:19:26,565

I'm just...

playing a role.

1601

01:
19:27,579 -- 01:19:29,583

I even had it written down,

what I was gonna say.

1602

01:
19:31,121 -- 01:19:35,955

Because if, in some way,

by controlling my emotions,

1603

01:
19:35,990 -- 01:19:40,209

I could control

the crew's emotions,

1604

01:
19:41,826 -- 01:19:43,996

I could control

your emotions.

1605

01:
19:44,492 -- 01:19:46,928

I mean, how are we supposed

to trust Jean?

1606

01:
19:46,963 -- 01:19:48,386

I mean,

Jean knows everything.

1607

01:
19:48,421 -- 01:19:50,703

Jean does everything, and then

the outer door just opens.

1608

01:
19:51,196 -- 01:19:53,029

Oh.

[sobbing]

1609

01:
19:53,096 -- 01:19:54,532

And then we're supposed

to complete our mission.

1610

01:
19:54,567 -- 01:19:55,836

We can't complete

our mission with--

1611

01:
19:56,697 -- 01:19:58,932

[breathing heavily]

1612

01:
19:58,999 -- 01:19:59,932

Oh.

1613

01:
19:59,999 -- 01:20:01,685

What are we supposed to do?

1614

01:
20:03,696 -- 01:20:05,058

We have ten years.

1615

01:
20:07,965 -- 01:20:09,232

No captain.

1616

01:
20:09,300 -- 01:20:10,431

[inaudible screaming]

1617

01:
20:14,301 -- 01:20:17,071

iGod, don't you touch--

Touch me!/i

1618

01:
20:17,106 -- 01:20:19,593

iShh! Shh! Shh!/i

1619

01:
20:21,804 -- 01:20:23,836

iAre you happy now,

Roger?/i

1620

01:
20:24,638 -- 01:20:26,122

iWill this boost our ratings?/i

1621

01:
20:28,674 -- 01:20:29,701

iDear Shawn,/i

1622

01:
20:30,242 -- 01:20:33,330

I don't know

why I'm still writing to you.

1623

01:
20:34,210 -- 01:20:35,612

It's not as if I'm--

I'm pretending

1624

01:
20:35,647 -- 01:20:37,167

that you'll ever

read these letters.

1625

01:
20:38,045 -- 01:20:40,512

But, um, I have to tell someone

about this,

1626

01:
20:40,580 -- 01:20:42,993

and right now there just, uh,

isn't anyone else.

1627

01:
20:43,080 -- 01:20:45,482

There was no question

about turning back.

1628

01:
20:45,517 -- 01:20:49,110

Having passed go/no go,

we're committed to the mission.

1629

01:
20:49,416 -- 01:20:52,384

There was a brief argument

about the investigation

1630

01:
20:52,420 -- 01:20:54,071

into the commander's death.

1631

01:
20:54,918 -- 01:20:58,393

iWhen we, uh, pulled apart

the, uh, air-lock mechanism,/i

1632

01:
20:58,428 -- 01:21:00,834

iwe found a short inside one

of the hydraulic relays--/i

1633

01:
21:01,088 -- 01:21:04,110

iA 20-cent fuse

that must've overloaded./i

1634

01:
21:04,121 -- 01:21:05,589

iNow, Rika felt that/i

1635

01:
21:05,656 -- 01:21:07,790

iwe should continue to study

other possible causes,/i

1636

01:
21:07,825 -- 01:21:10,088

ibut Dr. Johnson.../i

[chuckles]

1637

01:
21:10,292 -- 01:21:12,552

iDr. Johnson,

who was second-in-command,/i

1638

01:
21:13,092 -- 01:21:14,849

ideclared it an accident./i

1639

01:
21:15,328 -- 01:21:17,364

iSaid we had no choice

but to move on.../i

1640

01:
21:17,928 -- 01:21:19,250

iTry and put it

behind us./i

1641

01:
21:21,596 -- 01:21:22,798

iWell, after that,

we all just/i

1642

01:
21:23,330 -- 01:21:24,764

itried to get back

to normal./i

1643

01:
21:26,264 -- 01:21:27,366

iBut what's normal?/i

1644

01:
21:27,545 -- 01:21:28,492

iYou got to ask yourself/i

1645

01:
21:28,532 -- 01:21:30,884

i when you're hundreds of millions

of miles from Earth,/i

1646

01:
21:31,866 -- 01:21:33,312

iand you've just lost

the one man/i

1647

01:
21:33,347 -- 01:21:34,916

iwho was able

to hold you all together,/i

1648

01:
21:35,101 -- 01:21:38,309

iand you know something

that nobody else knows./i

1649

01:
21:40,918 -- 01:21:44,276

iI know every inch of this ship,

every system, every subsystem./i

1650

01:
21:46,639 -- 01:21:47,954

iAnd I also know this.../i

1651

01:
21:49,107 -- 01:21:50,907

ithere is no way that

that outer air-lock door/i

1652

01:
21:50,942 -- 01:21:52,137

icould've opened

on its own,/i

1653

01:
21:52,808 -- 01:21:54,348

ino matter how many relays

were shorted out./i

1654

01:
21:54,389 -- 01:21:55,283

iIt's impossible./i

1655

01:
21:57,949 -- 01:22:00,012

iSomeone had to do

something deliberate/i

1656

01:
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ithat caused

that door to open.../i

1657

01:
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which means that someone

on this ship is a killer.

1658

01:
22:09,349 -- 01:22:10,953

And because I don't know

who that is...

1659

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I can't trust anyone.

1660

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