To The Stars By Hard Ways (Через тернии к звёздам)

To the Stars by Hard Ways New Version

- Second engine slow down. Speed 5 meters. - Got it.

- Third sector; Are you ready? - We need two more minutes.

It's a strange ship.

Look it up in the Somov's atlas.

It's not listed.

I don't understand.

What's up with Lebedev?

Sergei, they're waiting for you in the third sector. Are you ready?

Coming

Remember, the ship is broken. You'll have to work in vacuum. Good luck.

We're moving through the hallway. Can you see us?

See you fairly well. What's there?

Just dust floating here.

The equipment compartments are damaged significantly.

We could use some additional light here.

Can you determine the time of catastrophe?

At least a few months ago.

I' m taking the samples.

This was a laboratory.

Sergei; you're a contact specialist. Does it remind you of anything?

I don't see any analogies so far.

Many damages...

Narrow corridor...

Wow! People there!

DNA testing.

Who are they? Humanoids?

Looks like embrions.

DNA differs from ours by 40 percents.

They are not earthlings

It's a like museum of physiological anomalies.

It looks like a cloning laboratory.

- What makes you think so? - They're all identical.

Damn it! They're all identical? - Attention!

- Is it spacesuit? - Yes, but it is not like standard model.

It has no deformations and damages.

Sergei; why did you fall silent?

You're not watching your son?

He'll forgive me.

I don't have a single free minute.

All my sperm whales have gone crazy!

and besides, from a biological point of view

it holds no fascination at all!

Grandpa, you're a conservative... she's from up there.

We're dealing with a alien kind of mindset.

The very principal of growing humans in vitro

must serve some secret goal.

For all we know she may be

a source of danger for all humanity.

What do you suggest?

We'll quarantine this creature in our institute of Cosmic Bio Robo Technics,

and will conduct thorough tests. Tests of it's brain first of all.

When we'll understand everything...

then we'll talk about contacts.

I disagree with Nadezhda Ivanova.

Contact is a two-way street.

I don't argue, but it seems that you've forgotten about our responsibility.

No, I didn't. But I also didn't forget about our responsibility toward her.

Nadezhda! Sergei! I don't understand the point of your argument.

It's pretty obvious that we're dealing not with a robot but a human being.

And a pretty girl at that.

Something's scary.

That poor child has force of a robot.

I'm asking the Council to let her stay at my house.

What if she was created to kill?

Any contact with an alien mind implies some degree of risk.

And sooner or later this risk has to be taken.

In your institute she'll be completely isolated. And this is bad.

Let not only us understand her, but also her understand us.

A human being must have a house.

It needs to be proved that she's a human.

Let her become a human.

I repeat, I'm asking the Council

to consider my proposition.

Okay; but how are you going to provide bio-control in your house?

Maybe you could help with it?

Yes of course, but...

That's all for today.

Members of the Contacts Council

Please stay a bit longer.

You forgot completely...

I didn't forget anything, Mother.

You haven't changed a bit; You're still not overly affectionate.

Come here.

This is your house, and this is your family.

Hello!

She's new here and we're looking at her as if she is a hippo. It's not very nice.

Mother.

The mysterious beauty may bite?

Stepa; shame on you!

- Father, she's never seen the grass. - Maybe.

Come; come here. Don't be afraid.

Come in.

You're just as selfish as your father.

You've been gone for a year. Now you're back. But I don't believe that you're back.

Because all you can think of is this creature; It's more important to you than me.

It's more important that Stepan, it's... - You're wrong, Mother.

I missed you all a lot.

You, Stepan, Tanya...

All of you.

But I have my job.

It's my job, understand?

- Did Dad bring this shell from Java? - I brought this shell.

You didn't let me finish. What was I talking about?

About my job.

No, I was talking about Stepan.

You completely forgot that you have a son.

You bring him these idiotic stones, you see him once a year

He's going through changes; He has to go to space, but he's rude to his teachers.

I went through those changes a long time ago.

- You simply didn't notice it, Grandma. - Did you hear that?

Yes, yes, yes.

She'll live here at Tanya's.

A technician will be here tonight.

And he'll install a forcefield on the window.

You see Sergei? You're turning our house into a test site.

Excuse me, but I have to take some elementary safety measures.

You're afraid of her.

She may get scared. She' very lonely.

If we don't become close with her, she may die.

You see, Sergei,

In the end you'll leave for your next expedition and I'll have to take care of everything myself.

Like that time when you brought that predator

the one that was sneezing all the time.

- What was its name? - Legocephal Son'ka.

And I had to treat cuts on Stepan's hands.

Mother, you're a doctor. Moreover, you're a gynecologist. You've always dealt with kids.

With human kids.

This is Nadezhda.

Peace to you home! Everybody have a good day!

- Hello! Can I have a ride? - Go ahead.

Hello, Sergei.

Hello, Maria Pavlovna.

I read your latest article... it's very fascinating.

Thank you. How are you?

- Any complaints about you? - No, I'm trying not to let you down.

Thank you, it's very important to me.

My new hobby; Collecting autographs. Can I have one, please?

You're not consistent.

- Are you here on business? - Of course.

Please.

Oh, there she is.

I wouldn't leave her without supervision, if I were you.

Where are you going to keep her?

Keep? She'll live in Tanya's room until Tanya gets back.

- Upstairs on the right. - What are you gonna look at up there?

Maria Pavlovna, the Contacts Council charged me with keeping bio-control of this creature.

Trust me, it's not just curiosity.

Sergei?

Nadezda's right. It was a Council decision.

Don't be angry with Mother. She was waiting for me, and here came this girl...

And then me.

Is it so hard to forgive what happened 20 years ago.

- That wall is new? - How did you guess?

- I remember everything. Is it a concrete wall? - No.

These days it's plastosteel.

It will have to be removed.

What do you mean "removed"?

It will interfere with bio-control.

- It will have to be removed. - Very well.

Sergei, I'm protesting.

Mother, it's necessary. You're a scientist yourself.

No, now I'm not a scientist.

Now I'm the keeper of this house.

We'll replace it in a half an hour. You won't even notice.

It's not a problem of time, It's not even a problem of the wall

The problem is, Nadezhda, that you've never had children.

What does this have to do with anything else?

It's cruel to mention it, especially by you.

My life's function is not connected with maternity, is it?

- Sergei, they'll bring a new wall in a half an hour. - OK

So, in this house I'm not heard anymore.

Then I'm leaving. Glasha!

- Mother, it's chilly outside. - I'm upset with you.

How are you?

- Everything's OK? - We're OK.

Hello!

Hello!

- I'm sorry I couldn't meet you. - I know you had an emergency.

We spent almost three days underwater.

I thought I'd grow gills.

- You lost some weight. - You too.

- I heard the girl will live with us? - Yes

OK, you know what you're doing.

- Thanks. Glasha is merciless. - What's the score? As always.

Where is she?

I don't know.

Nadezhda, where is she?

She's in a closet wearing a spacesuit.

Nadya, why didn't you say it earlier?

It would interfere with the experiment.

What's wrong?

You broke dishes...

Come out.

Listen, are you a human being or not?

Okay guys it's time for breakfast.

And I have to go to the clinic soon.

She can teleport.

Try to catch her yourself.

Catch her? She's not a butterfly.