Fuel is pumping.
Hey, Lev, the, uh, the-the pressure's climbing. ls there a problem here?
Houston, we're on fuel transference.
Don't touch my uncle. You know? He's a genius of my family.
Lev! Can anybody hear me? Guys? Hello, guys.
He used to work for a big bomb factory.
He used to make the tip of the bomb, the thing that finds, uh...
New York or Washington, you know?
- Ooh. - Check your hoses. We got some thermal variation.
Stamper, let's look at the couplings back on the shuttle.
Okay. Shut down. Uh--
- Guys! - Hold on a second. - What's that noise?
Oh, no! God!
- What is it? - Leak! Leak! Leak!
Get your men back to the shuttle! Go!
Go on! Hurry up! Get out of there!
Now there's really sparks!
- Pull lever! - This is the lever!
- Colonel, we must get him out of there! - A.J., come on out!
Hurry! Hurry!
Emergency! Break away!
We got a fire in the fuel pod!
- Come on! - Come on! Get in here! A.J.'s stuck in the fuel pod!
- We're losing it! - Come on out of there!
Control, this is lndependence. l am seeing vibration--
- Malloy, talk to me! - Not good. We got sparks and fire in the fuel pod.
- lndependence, blow those locks and get outta there now! - Dump the hoses now! We're going!
- What happened? Let me shut off the O2 feed! - Harry, it's burnin' up!
Damn! Max, Rock, get in here! Get down there and crack these pipes over here!
- Harry, no! lt's burnin' up! - We're goin' back for the other team!
Switch on the personnel locators.
Trackin' A.J. He's climbin'.
- No! - Go! Go!
lt's too late! Get back to the shuttle! This thing's gonna blow!
No!
Colonel, we gotta move now! Come on! You're gonna die!
- Wait a minute! Wait a minute! We got a man in there! - Open that door and we'll all die!
- Fuel leak! - Get out of there!
Evac now! Let's go! Let's go!
Come on back! No, wait! The door is broken!
- No! - They got the fire sealed in the fuel pod.
- They locked it down. - Tracking 'em back to the shuttle.
They've still got two men trapped in there!
Keep running! The shuttle's another 75 feet! Where's the rest of the team?
- Let's get out of here! The pod-- - Wait, wait, wait! Where's A.J.? - A.J.'s gone!
- We're not leavin' without A.J.! - He's gone! lt's too late!
Come on! This way is our only chance!
So it's minus 100!
Very cold. Hold breath, or lung freezes!
Get back to the shuttle! And lock that door!
- Come on! - Hurry, A.J.! - Leave him alone! Leave him alone!
- l tried! l tried. But A.J.-- - lt's on fire! lt's on fire, Harry!
- lt's them or all of us! - lt's on fire!
- Full thrust. - We're gonna get hit.
Lev! Lev, the door's gonna blow!
No!
We're going! lt's gonna blow!
- A.J.'s still in there! - Blow the locks. No, the bolts!
- We've gotta blow-- - l think we're almost there!
Flight, lndependence does not have A.J. They're gonna close the door without him.
- Tracking. They're 75 feet from the shuttle. - Just tell them to air lock
- Dog the hatch now! - Close it!
Ho--
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Colonel! That thing's comin' right for us! We got to move!
Hurry up! There's the shuttle door!
Fire's coming at us! Close the door now!
Go! Go! Go!
Freedom, the lndependence crew is on board and accounted for.
- We're even heavy one cosmonaut. - They got 90% of their fuel.
-Pretty intense, huh? -That's why l told you, ''Touch nothing.''
But you're bunch of cowboys.
So while the consciousness of the planet is unified...
focused on the NASA mission taking place right now in the vast ocean of space...
we're now in the final hours of the mission...
as the Freedom and lndependence prepare to slingshot around the moon.
Morning, guys. lt's time to suit up, l guess. Uh, we got a big day.
- Eighteen seconds to radio interrupt. - Booster sequence confirmed.
This is Houston. Roger that, Freedom. We copy.
- Shuttles are ready for the burn around the moon. - Radio contact terminated. We're out.
Nine and a half Gs for 11 minutes. l'd start praying about right now.
So this is the part where we're supposed to just hold on real tight and, uh, hope we don't die.
- Stand by for lunar roll. - High inclination. Lunar orbit.
You boys got those wills filled out correctly?
All right, men, this is what we trained for. Now just suck it up!
On the mark. Five, four...
three, two, one.
- ls this supposed to be like this? - Don't worry. This is normal.
- How would you know? - 14,000 miles an hour.
- Four Gs. - How long does this last?
Six Gs.
- 15,000. - Really heavy, man! - This isn't normal.
- What do you mean, ''this isn't normal''? - This is way worse!
- Eight Gs. Hang tight! - l'm not gonna make it!
Oh, we're gonna die!
Twelve minutes. Flight, we still got nothin' here.
This is too fast!
Ten Gs!
We're maxed at 22,500!
We have acquisition of signal from lndependence and Freedom.
We're in, guys. All right. Welcome back, team.
We have visual of the target, Houston.
You see that?
Wow.
- Come in, lndependence. - Houston, you gotta see this to believe it.
Okay, team, let's take 'em in. Okay, Quincy, how much tail debris do we have?
Freedom, turn on your FOD radar.
FOD radar on.
Everybody, hang on. This could get a little rough. Engaging evasive radar.
Hold on!
Goddam! We got debris!
We're dumping auxiliary boosters.
- Houston, do you read me? - We got debris!
- We're goin' in! - We're comin' in hot!
lndependence, try to maintain your present heading. You've got a target L.Z.
- There's too much debris! We gotta peel off! - Negative!
We're hit!
- Mayday, mayday! - l've lost main thrusters. Get 'em back up!
Mayday, Houston, mayday! We've lost R.C.S. thrusters!
Mayday, Freedom, mayday! We are out of control! We are going down!
Do you read me? Freedom, we are going down!
We're gonna hit!
Everybody, go to your own life support! Lock yourself in the cargo bay!
We are going down! Houston! Houston, we are going down! We have lost control!
l can't get it on!
- Good luck, Freedom. - Oh, my God, this is it.
No! No!
Pull it! Pull it! Go!
Sharp, what the hell is that? ls that the lndependence?
Houston, lndependence is a dead stick. They're not gonna make it.
Houston, lndependence has gone down.
When l touch this baby down, full reverse thrust.
- Fires on your right, Sharp! - Reversing the thrusters!
Hang tight! Hang tight!
- Houston, we overshot our landing field We overshot our landing field. - Oh, no!
God!
lnitiate system light system check. Make sure we can still get off this rock.
Our electrical system is screwed. l'm going to back-up. Fuel seals check.
- Engine seals check. Pressure seals check. - Oh, God. Oh!
Anyone hurt?
Where's-- Where's the other shuttle? What happened to the other shuttle?
- lndependence is off the grid. - ''Off the grid''?
What are you, a freakin' cyborg? What does that mean?
Hey, you saw it yourself, right? They're gone.
Come in, Freedom. This is CAPCOM Houston. Freedom, come in.
This is CAPCOM Houston. Come in, Freedom.
- God! - Let's just ask God to take care of our friends.
May they rest in peace.
Amen.
We got eight hours.
Let's get this job done and go home.
Nothin'. Come on, Watts, Sharp, somebody.
This is CAPCOM Houston.
Come in, Freedom. Freedom, come in. This is CAPCOM Houston.
- Maybe you shouldn't be here. - Come in, Freedom.
- l don't have anywhere else to go. - Freedom, come in. This is CAPCOM Houston.
All right, let's get the tools unpacked and fire up the Armadillo.
- We're not getting a damn thing on the inertial nav system. - l know where we are.
Please step away. Radio signal's dead.
l'm flipping the backup generator. Radio signal's gonna be cut in half till we get main power back.
We're in segment 202, lateral grid 9, site 15H-32, give or take a few yards.
Captain America here blew the landing by 26 miles.
- How the hell do you know that? - Because l'm a genius.
The gauges will not read. They're all peaked, like we're plugged into some magnetic field.
- Well, who on this spaceship wants to know why? - By all means.
The reason we were shooting for grid 8 was because thermographics indicated...
that grid 9 was compressed iron ferrite.
Which means you landed us on a goddam iron plate.
All right. Well, you heard the man. Let's wheel out the remote satellite link. We need that radio.
Oh, God, please tell me we still got one of 'em.
lndependence has flat-lined.
Oscar! Oscar!
Oh, God!
Hello! Anyone!
ls anyone else alive? Somebody help me!
A.J.!
- Where are you? - l'm here.
Lev, there's no one else. There's no one else.
- l know. - Oh, man.
- Bear, where are you? - A.J.! A.J.!
l'm in the shuttle, man.
Are you all right?
l'm so glad to see you, man.
l never thought l'd be so happy to see your ugly face.
- Houston, do you read? This is Freedom. - Check your thrusters.
- Houston, do you copy? - ls everyone good to go?
Wow.
Down here! ln the valley!
This place is like Dr Seuss's worst nightmare.
Let's get the remote satellite. We'll get better reception up there.
Bring Max down. Watch yourself through here, Max. There's a couple big fissures.
To the left! Bring it to the left!
Rockhound, you come on down here and take some readings down in the flat spot.
lron ferrite.
- l have fire. - Watts, l'm comin' back. Stand by.
- Mostly iron, Rockhound. - God, l hate knowing everything.
We couldn't have picked a worse spot to drill.
Well, l can pretty much guarantee it's not gonna be thicker than 50 feet.
- How do you figure that? - 'Cause if it is, we're screwed.
- Max, you good? - Yeah. Just makin' hole.
- Turn it around. - Friggin' outer space.
lt's good.
All right. We're in. Bring another light. We're cuttin' through pretty good.
There's some stuff in here l ain't never seen.
All right, let's punch it down!
- Hey, Harry, did you see that? - Yeah, Max, l see it. l see it. What is it?
- We lost the bite in the bit. - All right. Back it off. Back it off.
- Goddam it! - Sounds like we twisted a shank. Back it out of there, Max.
Good. Good. Hold 'er there.
Wow, this is a goddam Greek tragedy.
- We've all seen broken drill heads before. - Not after ten feet.
- l never seen one. - Well, now you've seen one.
- What do you want? - Unpack the Judge.
Bear, Lev.
We're only three astronauts left now.
We're not astronauts. We're oil drillers. We're not even supposed to be here.
What? You're not astronaut?
l'm getting us outta here. Get in.
- Why? - Just get in the Armadillo. l have an idea.
Houston, this is Freedom. Do you copy? Houston, do you copy? Freedom shuttle has--
We're gettin' some scattered video feeds here so we're gonna have to lead over.
Houston, this is Freedom. Do you copy?
- Thank God we have you, Freedom. - Freedom, this is Houston. Go ahead. - Don't lose 'em, Malloy.
Sir, we're getting something. Houston, this is Freedom. We have landed safely.
- We are at site coordinates approximately 15H-32-- - Where are they?
- Okay, l want to know everything we can about that location. - Got it.
- We're also having electric and antenna difficulties. - Walter, get Mechanical on that.
- But we have commenced drilling. - Stevens, we're losin' him. Bring it up on four.
- Come on. - On four. - Shuttle flight capability
- Bump the signal. - Bumping. - Houston. Houston.
We lost 'em. Get 'em back. Gruber, we need that hook-up.
l'll show you how we do things where l come from.
Hold on!
Seat it.
All right, get ready. Max, thread it.
Guys, the clock is tickin'. Let's go, go, go, go, go!
All right! Good! Crank it loose!
Keep it at 25. Let's kick a little asteroid butt!
All right, Chick. Give me more torque on the turbine, huh?
- Max, l need some more power down here! - All right, boss.
-Throw it forward, then drop the hammer. -Let's drill through this turd.
Come on, boys. We gotta hop. We're fallin' behind.
Dig, dig, dig. Chew this iron bitch up.
- Chick, the tranny is stuck. - Harry!
- What is it? - Chick, come on! Help!
- Release the clutch! - Pull it up!
Okay. Well, this thing's not movin'.
No, no, no! Shut it down! Shut it--
This is not workin' out, Harry.
- Oh, are you all right? - Oh, blew the tranny. Blew the tranny.
Come on, God.
Just a little help. That's all l'm askin'.
l think we're close enough. He might've heard ya.
Here's the bad news. Before the asteroid passed the moon...
her rotation was stable at 32 degrees on an X axis.
But now look at this. The lunar gravity's put her in a spin.
She's tumbling on all three axes. This wasn't expected, sir.
- What does this do for communications? - Not good.
We'll have definite contact with the shuttle for only seven more minutes. After that, it's radio darkness.
- For how long? - And after seven minutes, we may never hear from them again.
But we're trying to bounce a signal off a Russian military satellite, reestablish contact that way.
lf we lose the shuttle com, when do we lose the ability to remote detonate that nuke?
The weapon remote receives a signal from a Milstar satellite.
Higher orbit, more powerful transmitter.
lf we've got the shuttle for seven minutes, we can remote detonate for an additional five.
What he's trying to say, General, is that, uh, in 12 minutes' time you may lose the ability...
to detonate the nuke permanently.
l've got to inform the president.
Just want to make sure you know we're stuck on an asteroid. Do you know what you're doing now?
No, no. You know what? l have no idea what l'm doing. l have no idea.
This button-- l don't know what that does, okay?
All l know is that we just crashed back there, l lost two of my friends, we're 25 miles from Harry's shuttle.
We don't know if he's alive. We don't know if he can fly.
All l know is there's a beep on this thing and l'm trying to get us there.
Let's get it unpacked.
- What's up? - We're drilling through some kind of metal l've never seen before.
lt's fried two of our drill bits, and now we blew our first transmission.
- So how deep are we? - We could use your help with the transmission, Colonel.
l have an assessment report due now. We're supposed to be at 200 feet. So how deep are we?
Not as deep as we'll be when you quit askin' me all these questions and help us load this transmission on.
- What is our current depth? - Our current depth is not important, Colonel.
l'll decide what's important. We've got 800 feet to drill. You've had two and a half hours. Where are we?
We're at 57 feet. Now, if you're not too busy, maybe you can give us a hand with this transmission.
Colonel Sharp! Get this wrapped up. l'll be right back. Colonel Sharp!
All right. l'm coming through. We have contact. Over.
- That's as clear as it's gonna get. - Houston, this is Freedom. Do you copy?
Working at a remote satellite link at this moment. Transmission change.
- Colonel! - Twenty minutes. Puts drilling final at ten hours.
Please advise. That's four hours past the zero barrier. Please advise.
What the hell is this? ''Zero depth''?
And where'd this come from? Who are you talkin' to? ls that Truman?
Let me have that phone. Gimme the phone. Truman! Look, this is what happens when you drill.
We cannot use your ''U.S. Air Force Personnel Only'' drill time card. Who wrote this thing, by the way?
- We're losing coms again. - Look-- ls he getting this? Does he hear me or-- What's wrong with this?
- The com's down. - What do you mean, ''the com's down''?
- What do l mean? l mean we've lost communication to mission control. - Fine. Let's go back to the cargo bay
Hey, Harry, guess what. You had your shot. You didn't do it. You understand me? You can't--
Why don't you stay here and take you and take your little drill card-- Write a report, why don't ya?
That'll be a-- My men and l will go and get this hole dug!
You and your men are the biggest mistake in the history of NASA.
- We've lost communication. - Oh, God.
We're not lookin' too good right now.
No shit. We gotta get that radio back up.
Mr President, it's time to make a decision.
We can remote detonate the bomb for only another five minutes.
Yes? Kimsey here. Yes, Mr President.
Yes, we saw that too, sir.
But maybe we should wait until they--
Dan, get them out of there. Evac right now.
- What's goin' on here? - l've been ordered to override the system.
Well, what is this?
Secondary protocol.
But they haven't drilled the damn hole yet!
The president's advisors feel that the drilling isn't working. And we've lost radio contact, maybe for good.
We've only got a few minutes left of guaranteed ability to remote detonate that nuke.
lf we don't do it now we could lose control, and we may never get it back.
Well, you tell the president that he better fire his so-called advisors.
And if you detonate that nuke on the surface, we waste a perfectly good bomb...
and we have one chance to save this planet!
l need that radio.
-Gruber, give me everything you got now! -Roger that.
Yes, Mr President, l understand that completely, but my point is very, very simple.
And l think you need to trust me on this because l know something about it.
l guarantee you, if you do this, you kill us all.
Yes, sir.
General, he wants you.
This is Kimsey. Yes, sir.
l understand.
The orders are to remote detonate in 30 seconds.
You have not told them yet!
That is my father up there!
- This is one order you shouldn't follow, and you fucking know it! - No! Don't touch me!
Let her go. Let her go!
Your key, sir.
God be with them.
Slow it down.
Harry...
the clock on that nine-foot nuclear weapon is ticking.
Oh, my God! Sharp! Get back here now!
Watts, get the shuttle ready to evac now!
- lt just came on all by itself. What-- What the hell's happening? - Secondary protocol.
- What's that? What? - Wait a minute. - Secondary protocol.
- What the hell's secondary protocol? - They're detonating this thing from Earth.
- What do you mean, detonating? We haven't even drilled the hole yet! - We'll drop it in the hole.
- What're you talkin' about? - The hole? Whoa, whoa! - Get your helmets on now!
- Colonel Sharp, l got two men out on that rock! - l got a man out there too.
- Max, Rockhound, get back to the shuttle, double-time! - They could be on their way here.
They're not on their way here. They would've talked to us by now. We would've seen them.
- Watts, air lock the cockpit now! - l copy you.
- Max, Rockhound! - Hey, wait a minute! How do you turn this thing off?
- Harry, do you copy? - Somethin's wrong.
- Yeah, it's all wrong, man. We shouldn't even be up here. - l know. Let's go back to the ship!
- l'm not leavin' without my men, Sharp. - We've got two and a half minutes to drop it and get off this rock.
lf they're not back by the time we finish, we leave without 'em.
Okay, let's simplify this. Let's just turn the bomb off right now.
lf we don't put this bomb down in a hole 800 feet onto a fault line...
all you're gonna have is a real expensive fireworks show.
This is turnin' into a surrealistic nightmare here.
Watsler, are you listening? lt's Truman.
Okay, listen to me carefully. l want you to kill it. Kill the uplink.
- Give us the time, Sharp. Shut this bomb down now! - lt's not my call.
- Then whose call is it? - Who made it? - An order to detonate can only
- The president's not here! You've gotta give us more time! - Let's just turn it off now.
- l'm telling you to shut this bomb down now! - And l'm telling you it's not my call!
- Well, guess what. l just made the call for you. - Harry!
Don't. You could set it off.
Oh, man. What're you doin' with a gun in space?
Come on. Come on. We gotta stop that bomb right now. Kill the uplink.
- This thing is gonna blow. We gotta get it off the ship. - Easy.
- Stand down, Sergeant. - Shut this bomb down and let us finish our job the right way.
l'm under orders to protect a surface detonation.
l'm gonna give you three seconds to shut this bomb down, and then l'm gonna make you shoot me.
Hurry, Watsler. For Christ's sake, hurry.
What happened?
Sir, the override-- lt's been overridden.
l've bought us a couple of minutes, so get that radio workin', okay? Hurry, hurry!
Bring me all the way up here just to blow me and my friends up? ls that it?
- Listen-- - Shut up!
Shut up, Colonel. l'm talking now.
lt could start again. lt might've been a warning.
- Uh-oh. - That's why you are gonna dismantle this bomb.
All right. What'd we miss?
- Do it again. - Go.
Keep tryin'.
Sir, l need you to cease and desist. l need your terminal now.
- Oh, they're reactivating the bomb. - Comin' back on-line, sir.
Oh, geez. Here we go again.
What're you doin' up here? And why did you even bother to make the trip?
To do the right thing, to see that it's done.
For God's sakes, think about what you're doin'.
Why are you listenin' to someone that's 100,000 miles away?
We're here. Nobody down there can help us.
So if we don't get this job done, then everybody's gone.
One minute.
l've been drillin' holes in the Earth for 30 years.
And l have never, never missed a depth that l have aimed for.
And by God, l am not gonna miss this one. l will make 800 feet.
42 seconds.
But l can't do it alone, Colonel. l need your help.
You swear on your daughter's life, on my family's...
that you can hit that mark?
l will make 800 feet. l swear to God, l will.
Then let's turn this bomb off.
Steady. Steady. Take it back. That's what you'll have to do. Get 'em off backwards.
- Rainbow track? Under-- Under one? Under-- Okay. - All of 'em. All of 'em. All of 'em!
- Okay. Okay. Are we free of static? - Oh, do a good job. Do a good job.
- Steady. Steady. - Good job. All right. All right. All right.
Red wire ''A.'' Ready? And-- Now. Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on!
- Negative ''B.'' Ready, and now. - Do a good job. Do a good job.
- Track flipped. Hots in. - lt better be. Go.
Red or blue?
Wait--
Blue.
- Good job! - You got it.
Oh, God, it sucks up here.
- Sir, the clock has stopped at three seconds. - What?
Have we lost complete radio contact?
l got some magic happening. We're bouncing off Russian and French satellites. lt may have a faint signal.
Houston? Houston, do you copy?
Go ahead, Freedom.
Houston, you have a problem-- Problem.
See, l promised my little girl that l'd be comin' home.
Now, l don't know what you people are doin' down there...
but we got a hole to dig up here.
Go, go, go, go! Come on. We got work to do.
Okay, guys. All go, no quit. How ya doin' down there? Good?
Okay, got the tranny. We're back in business.
Hey, you guys should take a break and come up and see this.
Wow. Got a great view of the Earth from here.
Too bad we'll never set foot on her again.
- Lev, do you see anything? - No.
Well, keep goin'. l'm not givin' up.
Hold up here, Bear.
- Oh, boy. - This is great.
We just happen to run into the Grand Canyon on the asteroid?
l told you, you took a wrong way, a wrong road.
What-- What road? Do you see any roads around here?
You know what? l do not have much pleasure being near God's ear.
But you think this is looking good, or what?
Lev, why don't you just do humanity a favour and just shut the hell up?
Have you ever heard of Evel Knievel?
No, l never saw Star Wars.
All right. Doin' a good job.
- Give me a depth reading, Max. - We're 150 feet, Harry.
Ride 'em, cowboy! Yippee-kai-yo, kai-yay!
Get off the nuclear warhead.
l was doin' that guy from that movie, you know...
Slim Pickens, where he rides it all the way in-- the nuclear warhead.
- Now. - Oh, you didn't see that one, huh?
We got 700 feet of hole to dig, Rockhound.
All right. Just-- Just wanted to feel the power between my legs, brother.
Hey, Sharp.
No nukes! No nukes! No nukes!
You got any more bullets in that gun, Sharp?
What did Watts tell you, Bear? lf she kicked you in the balls, you'd keep floating.
Yeah.
We turn the thrusters off, we jump this thing, we float right over it.
Go over it again, Lev.
Throw the jet thrusters off exactly when we jump.
- Okay. - And then we're gonna put them on, and we gonna go down nice and slow.
- That's it. That's it, baby. That's it. - ls this gonna work?
- l don't know. - Lev, you know what, just lie to me.
Let's say 50-50-- No. More like, uh--
like 70-30 or 80-20.
But you know what? lf it works, the two of you gonna be heroes, just like me.
Screw it. We're jumpin' over this canyon.
Just for the record, this is a very bad idea!
- Wait for the edge now. Wait till we get there. Wait-- - l'm waiting.
- Here we come. Now, not till we do it. - Three...
- two, one! - Here we go!
Off!
- Yes! - lt's working! - lt's working!
- Oh, my God! - Yeah!
- l'm a genius! Wait a minute. - Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
- We got some rocks! - Go left! Go left! - Lev! Lev, l can't do anything!
Turn!
Oh, okay, okay, we're floating into outer space.
- Check main switch. - Uh, this could be a little bit of a problem.
- Thrusters on now! - All right, turn 'em on.
- What's wrong? - l-l don't know. The-The thrusters not working. l hate this machine!
- l thought you had this planned! What're we supposed to do? - Be quiet! l must think!
- l'm stepping outside. - You're-You're going outside?
l am the only certified astronaut, and l'm saving your American ass!
Yes. You'll listen to him. Right.
Hurry up, Lev, because we're about a mile off the asteroid!
Just a second. The fuel line is iced up.
- Yeah, l think maybe workin' now. - No, Lev, it's not working!
l'm sorry, A.J. l was way off the odds.
- We're gettin' higher, man. - Look out! The rocks! Rocks are coming!
Hold on!
- Pull the thrusters! - Lev, look out!
- We lost Lev. - A.J.!
A.J., the thrusters!
Let's get Lev back!
Lev, hold on! We're comin' in!
Thank You, Jesus. Thank You, Lord. Thank You. Thank You, thank You, thank You.
- Lev! - Now l'm really a Russian hero!
- l told you! - l know! - l knew this would work!
-Good odds, you know? -Come on, Lev. Get in here. We gotta go.
Rockhound, keep on that transmission.
- Tranny looks good, Harry. - All right. Take it outta there.
Lock it down, Chick.
Nice.
How come we didn't get any training on this thing?
Whoa. Very cool. l could take out this asteroid single-handedly.
Okay, boys, give it a rest. l'll take it from here.
- Whoa! - What the hell is that?
-lt's Rockhound. -Whoa. This is so much fun, it's freaky.
Rockhound!
Whoa, watch your heads. Sorry, Harry.
- Outta my way, boys! - Rockhound!
Meet your maker, asteroid!
- What the hell's the matter with you, Rockhound? Goddam! - This is insane.
- Have you lost your mind? - He's got space dementia.
Harry, you ought to watch your man.
Max, downshift slowly and put it in reverse. We gotta get that pipe outta there.
Uh-oh.
- What's happening? - The ground's cracking! - Earthquake!
Quick, shut it off!
- Shut it off! Shut it off now! - We're gonna have a blowout!
- We hit a gas pocket! - We got pressure out the ass!
Max, get your helmet on! Max, it's gonna blow!
- Oh, Jesus, l'm cooking! - Max, get outta there!
This is it!
Harry!
l'm bailing!
Max!
- Goodbye, Max. - Max!
- Take care, buddy. - Armadillo's off the scope.
- l think we've had a blowout. - No sign of the Armadillo.
Somebody punch up the Armadillo.
Get ahold of Truman.
Prepare the world for bad news.
We're getting sketchy information that the mission has suffered massive failure.
And what we're trying to do right now is to confirm that and find out exactly what that means.
Repeat: We're getting leaks from several NASA officials...
some rushing home to be with their families, that the drilling was unsuccessful.
This could very well be our final hour.
We're gonna go off the air now.
Good luck and God bless.
- We've got incoming. - l got tracks.
NORAD's tracking four small incoming over Europe. They think one's about to hit near Paris.
- Reports are coming in-- - Martial law has been implemented in 42 countries.
Once the asteroid hits zero barrier...
it will take about three hours and 57 minutes to impact Earth.
Well, l guess we do it the president's way. l'll order an evac. You can remote detonate.
- You still don't think this'll work, do you? - Well, what l think is irrelevant.
- We need to do it now. - Fine.
- Can they still take off? - We hope so.
You are the one that pulled them into this!
That is my family up there, so l don't wanna hear, ''We hope so''!
Guess what, guys? lt's time to embrace the horror.
Look. We got front-row tickets to the end of the Earth.
- Yeah! Way to go, baby! - Harry!
- Yeah! - Yo, Harry! What's up, baby?
Hey, get that bomb outta there! We got a hole to make!
Houston, you're not gonna believe this...
but the other Armadillo has arrived.
All right, people, listen up. Settle down and focus.
- Mechanical, get on-line. - P.P.O., gimme a set-up. - Your boyfriend's back.
- Yo, Harry! - You're awesome, baby!
Hey, Harry. You miss me?
A.J., l got just five words for ya.
- Damn glad to see ya, boy! - That's six words.
- Chick, walk 'em down. - So where's this hole you need dug?
Houston, drilling has recommenced.
- Do you think they can drill 250 feet in an hour? - They better.
Bring that piece on in, Bear.
Tractor pull.
- l'm comin' down! - We got 250 feet to go.
lt's our last transmission, last drill head.
Punch it through. First gear. We got contact.
Drive it on down, A.J.
- l got this, man. Let's go! - Lev, the right engine hub.
- Houston, l'm getting no response from the preflight sequence. - Come on now. This is not--
Hey. Hey, come here. Can you get me outta here, please, Lev? Thank you.
- Ow! Jesus! Hey! - Wait. Uh, shh, shh.
- Lev, the right engine-- - Okay. - Lemme outta here, will ya?
Just tryin' to have some fun before l die!
- How deep are we? - Seven seventy.
- Whoa, they got problems. - The gauges are spiking.
Methane! Shut it down! Back it down!
l can't pull back now. The bit'll get lodged. We don't have enough time!
Whoa, whoa, whoa! lt's gonna blow! lt's how we lost Max!
l know what l'm talkin' about. We can punch through this. We can knock this outta the park.
- This is our last transmission, A.J. - Goddam it!
lf you're ever gonna trust me, ever, once in your life, trust me now!
- Harry, it's gonna blow! - Harry, l know what l'm doin'. You just gotta trust me.
Make the call.
All right. Hold on. l'm pushin' through her.
l'm pushin' through her!
- What's your depth? - Seven seventy-five. Seven eighty.
Take it up, baby! Ram it home!
- Drive on down, A.J.! - Seven eighty-five. Come on. Come on.
- Come on, A.J.! - Punch it! - Ninety-one. Come on.
Seven ninety-two. Seven ninety-five!
Drive it down, A.J.!
Seven ninety-seven! Ninety-nine!
- Breakthrough! - Eight hundred! 802, Harry!
- Yeah! - We did it! - Harry, we did it!
- Yes! - We did it!
- Yeah! Kid, way to go! - l knew it, baby!
- lt's not over till we get the bomb down that hole. - Watts, they've got 38 minutes.
- Harry, you've gotta give me that hole. - l'm gonna need two more minutes. l got a bent pipe jammed in the hole.
We gotta cut it out before we can send that bomb down. A.J.!
- She good to go? - Yeah, l'm all set. - All right.
- A.J., come on! Make it fast!
l'm goin' as fast as l can! There's a lot of gas pressure!
- You feel that? - Harry, you gotta give me that hole. The bomb is almost ready.
- Pull that pipe out! - Harry, l'm almost through! Give me 15 more seconds!
Well, this is somethin' new.
- l don't think this thing likes us. - That's 'cause it knows we're here to kill it.
Hey, what's goin' on up there?
- A.J.! - What the hell was that?
- A.J.! - Goddam it, l'm finished!
- A.J., you all right? - Oh, lot of gas pressure in here, man!
- Get me out! - Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hydrogen pocket!
Harry! Pull me in!
A.J., hang on!
Secure the bomb!
Sharp, heads up!
Gruber! Get outta there now!
Oh, no.
Oh, God, no!
Look out!
Help! Oh, no!
Do you believe that just happened?
- Sharp, you all right? - l'm okay.
- Bear? - Yeah. l'm here, Harry.
- A.J.? - Yeah, l'm okay.
We lost Gruber.
- Gruber's dead. - Let's get that bomb ready and go home.
Oh, my God.
- ls there a problem, Colonel? - The timer, the remote, the whole thing's dead.
What, the bomb is dead?
No, the trigger's dead. lt must've gotten damaged during the rock storm.
So how do we detonate it?
We have 18 minutes to zero barrier. We got some bad news.
The remote detonator on the bomb has been damaged.
That means that somebody's gonna have to stay behind.
lt takes two people to fly this thing.
Either we all stay and die, or you guys draw straws.
l say we all stay and die. But that's me.
l'll draw. Let's draw.
Nobody's gonna draw straws.
- l'll stay and take care of it. - Well, l can't live with that sort of thing.
- Nobody asked you if you could live with it, all right? - Bullshit!
No way l will let you volunteer for this...
so l can go back to my home country like the man who didn't volunteer.
No way!
Hey, man, let's draw, and let's see who's gonna stay up here and dance.
Guys, l-l-l know you guys think l'm crazy right now...
but l would really like this responsibility.
All right. All right.
- l can do it. - Let's just draw straws and get it over with. Come on.
l ain't drawin' against you, Harry.
Well, l'm gonna draw against you, Chick, so you better just go ahead and do it.
Just gimme this thing.
ls this good or bad?
Oh, man.
Well, we all gotta die, right?
l'm the guy who gets to do it saving the world.
So, uh, let's go. We-We got about ten minutes, right?
You plug this into the port.
Lift, press, hold. That's it.
Lift, press, hold. Shouldn't be too tough. Even l can't screw this up.
l'll take him down.
Do me a favour, will ya? Just tell Grace that, uh--
that l'll always be with her, okay?
Can you do that?
Yeah. Okay, kid.
Give this to Truman.
Make sure Truman gets that. Get in there.
lt's my turn now.
Harry! Harry!
You can't do this to me!
lt's my job!
You go take care of my little girl now. That's your job.
Always thought of you as a son. Always.
But l'd be damn proud to have you marry Grace.
- Harry. - You take care of yourself.
- Harry, no! - l love you, pal.
Harry, l love you! Don't, Harry! Wait a minute!
- My son. - No, don't do this, Harry!
You don't do this! Harry!
What happened?
That crazy, stubborn son of a--
Well, this was a real good idea.
All right, let's go, Sharp. Let's get our team outta here.
Come on! Let's get ready to initiate thrusters! Let's go!
- l mean it, guys! - Get the O2 masks.
- Are they free? Are they free? - B.P.U., set.
l cannot believe this is going down like this. You all right?
- O2 vents locked, pressure loaded. - Engine board is green.
T minus three minutes and counting.
Houston, do you copy? This is Harry Stamper.
lt's down there.
- Electrical systems primed. - B.P.U. is set. Oxidizers are loading.
Houston, we're outta here in T minus three minutes.
Daddy?
Hi, Gracie. Hi, honey.
Grace, l know l promised you l was comin' home.
l don't under-- understand.
Looks like l'm gonna have to break that promise.
l, um-- l lied to you too...
when l told you that l didn't want to be like you.
Because l am like you.
And everything good that l have inside of me, l have from you.
l love you so much, Daddy.
l'm so proud of you.
l'm so scared.
l know it, baby, but there won't be anything to be scared of soon.
Gracie, l want you to know that A.J. saved us. He did.
l want you to tell Chick...
that l couldn't have done it without him, none of it.
l want you to take care of A.J.
l wish l could be there to walk you down the aisle.
But l'll--
l'll look in on you from time to time, okay, honey?
- l love you, Grace. - l love you too.
- l gotta go now, honey. - Daddy, no.
No, no, Dad, no!
O.M.S. pod pre-start. O2 vents locked, pressure loaded.
What the hell's goin' on up there? Why haven't you guys left yet?
We're going, Harry. Houston.
- We got O.M.S. pod pre-start. - Pod pre-start confirmed.
- What's the problem? - l don't know. - What's wrong?
No time, no time!
- What? - What's that?
- Where you goin'? - Oh, come on. We're stayin', we're goin'.
Make up your minds.
Damn it, Sharp! Get out of here now. You got less than three minutes.
- Come on, Watts. Come on, come on. - Blow the bomb, Harry. We're with you.
- Uh, it's stuck. Yes? - Come on! Back off! You don't know the components!
Components, American components, Russian components. All made in Taiwan!
We're gettin' tight for ignition, Freedom.
- Houston, we've got no fire. - What does that mean?
- lt means we got a busted ship. - A busted ship? And l'm strapped in here?
l had a great spot picked out there.
Freedom, you fire that engine. lf there's not a way, you find a way. The clock's tickin'.
Let's go! Let's fire that engine, Freedom!
You got less than a minute. Don't think l won't blow this thing.
Sharp, get out of here. lt's gettin' bad down here.
l know how to fix it. Please, move.
l-l have to take you away if you don't move.
Watts, you gotta get that shuttle started. You gotta fire it up now!
Damn it, Sharp. Get off this rock!
l'm telling you, please, move! This is how we fix problem...
in the Russian space station.
Because l don't want to stay here any more.
Yeah! Finally! We can go home!
- She's coming back. She's coming back. - We're hot!
Watts, let's go, let's go!
Rain all you want, you son of a bitch.
Let's go! We don't have time! Hurry, hurry. We got no time!
lnitiate thrusters on my mark! Two, one-- Mark!
- Come on. Get some altitude. Let's go, let's go. - Yes, come on!
Freedom has max thrust!
Thank you, Harry.
Shuttle's out of range. Still no detonation.
Something's not right. Too much time has gone by.
Zero barrier's about to be breached. One minute.
Harry, come on. Press that button.
- We're goin' back and do it ourselves. - Just don't. Wait one minute.
- Dan, we're about to cross the threshold. - Come on, Harry. Press the button.
Colonel, l'm askin' you. Just one more minute!
Press the button, Stamper.
Come on.
Harry'll do it. l know it.
He doesn't know how to fail.
We win, Gracie!
Press it!
We have detonation. Confirming detonation.
The two halves are gonna miss us by 400 miles...
and most of the small particles have been vaporized.
- Houston, we're comin' home. - We copy that, Freedom.
Yo, Harry. You the man.
Kennedy, we see you. And you never looked so good.
l never told anybody this before, but l hate flyin', so it'd be an awful shame to die now.
That's easy for you to say. l owe 100 grand to a bad-ass loan shark...
which l spent on a stripper named Molly Mounds.
- Boy, that's bad. - Kennedy, we are 100%.
Flap suspension control on full.
Welcome home, astronauts.
Hey, guys, remember: We're-- We're heroes now.
So that incident with me and the gun on the asteroid--
Let's keep that under wraps, all right?
Miss Stamper?
Colonel Willie Sharp, United States Air Force, ma'am.
Requesting permission to shake the hand of the daughter...
of the bravest man l've ever met.
Hello.
- Oh, my God! - Hi, you're my hero.
Oh, baby, l wanna have babies with you.
Welcome back, cowboy.
Uh, Harry wanted you to have this.
He did, huh?