Defying Gravity

Previously on Defying Gravity:

Five other signals have communicated with Beta

The Gamma object is on Venus.

I'm gonna guess its our job to pick these things up.

That is the primary goal of the Antares mission.

The crews physiology is changing

lining up like points on a grid.

We could be looking at serious medical problems

down the line.

What's gonna happen when they pick up Gamma?

We have to tell them.

Is that your hallucination?

If the objects are keen on our guilt or shame,

then you have to pursue it.

You're just questioning my faith

because you have none of your own.

Paula, we are not finished here.

Yes we are.

There's a huge amount of public funding

in this project.

I think the public has a right to be informed.

Don't you?

She's in a coma. - Oh my god.

Keep this to yourself. This never happened.

May not have killed her, but she probably

never walk again, but nothing ever happened?

Did it, Mike!?

You're back on the floor starting tomorrow.

I think that's the first time we've

slept together without screwing.

Probably.

It was nice, Donner. Thank you.

I needed it.

I should probably get up now.

Yes. Today is the day

Yeah

Today's the day. - Yeah, today's the day.

Go ahead, you first. - Oh no, please,

you look like you have the need.

Did Nadia give you a send off?

Beg your pardon? - Did Nadia give you

a send off? One last hurrah before you

incinerate on an alien planet.

I don't know what you're talking about.

Oh. Well, you should know that a nearly

naked hallucination just ran from your bay

into Nadias. - It's not what you think.

Doesn't matter, Donner. Really.

Today, it doesn't matter.

There are a handful of days in everyones lives

that they can point to and say:

"That day changed me"

"That day helped make me who I am"

They usually happen on big event days;

The day you married,

have your first kid.

The day you land on Venus.

But they can also happen on regular days.

In unlikely moments, with events that

may seem like nothing at the time.

Or they're so huge

that they literally take your breath away.

5 years earlier

So, are we just going to lie here, or,

are you going to screw me again?

God, woman, feels like it's gonna fall off now.

Then don't waste my time teasing.

What's the big rush? - You know damn well

what the rush is.

You're gonna make the cut.

Of course I'm gonna make the cut.

I wanna know if I'm ranked first.

Who is on the cusp? Spence, DeRoe and Barnes.

We can add one more.

Cost five million dollars to train a candidate.

One more isn't in the budget.

You want Wassenfelder, you have to deal.

I was 28th last time. 8 places below the line.

You've been doing great. They won't axe you.

Says the woman who last time was ranked 12th.

Might as well call my mother. Start packing.

There's that open teaching job at the university.

Would you stop talking like that?

Okay, they know how much this means to you.

Yeah. You know how much this means to all of us.

They probably look at me as damaged goods.

Yeah, or someone who really sacrificed.

That's not the way it works.

You know it. I know it.

Only thing holding me together

is the eagle. - Eagle?

Yeah, this morning first thing I saw

when I woke up, was an eagle.

Good omen.

Well than that's different. You're a shoe-in.

Yeah.

Hey. - Hey

You missed forum.

I don't think there's anything for me to do.

Anything that they trust me with

Kind of how I feel. Generally.

It is brutal.

Yeah.

So you know what they did?

They put us both on your classroom in space thing.

I'm like your new camera man.

Do you believe in miracles, Steven?

I believe that amazing stuff goes on in the

universe every single day.

But that they all have an explanation.

Miracles are reality with parts missing.

So they're lies? - No, they're incomplete.

It's like we smooth over the missing stuff

with what we want to believe.

It's just that Mintz wants me to examine

every moment of my miracle with Hector.

So? Who's to say

that examining every moment is gonna

make it any less of a miracle?

The most religious people I know

are physicists.

The explanation is what makes them

believe in a higher power.

This could be the most important day of

all of our careers.

Not only do we have a huge task at hand,

but we have to manage and control every bit

of information that leaves this building.

Then why all the press?

Because this is history. It's essential that the

public and press witness the landing.

Many of you will be called on for interview,

I remind you, keep the subject on Venus.

Obviously, we don't want anyone to see Gamma.

So with that in mind, we've been working

on a 50/50 plan.

50% live feed, 50% prerecorded.

The video is from a training in Arizona.

And, they got some movie effect people

to make it look like Venus.

Basically, it will be Zoe leaving the lander

walking around, picking up some rocks

and getting back in.

I knew the moon landing was a hoax.

It's like a bad conspiracy movie.

This isn't why I signed up.

It' difficult for all of us to take this in.

You don't seem to have a problem

It's because I'm Hindu. I see this as our destiny.

But, imagine the general public

with this information, it would be a disaster.

You can't want that.

What I want doesn't matter. We don't have a choice.

Kind of worried about Zoe.

We just don't know what these things are.

We don't know what they do, what they want

No, we don't. And it's a bitch.

And it's scary, and it's unfair,

but we do the best we can.

You're not up here.

Believe me, it's scary down here too.

I don't doubt that.

I've lost you, I can't loose Zoe too.

You have not lost me.

Well for the next six years, - For the next six years,

I will be as close to you as this damn

comm will allow me to be.

And I need you as much as you need me,

so do not ever say that you've lost me.

I really should get going.

Kinda got a big day ahead of us.

Yeah.

Thought I might find you here.

Woman alights on the breast of Venus.

Beauty that burns bright and hot,

and has never felt the touch of man.

Poetic.

And slightly Sappho-erotic. - Better than "one small step"

Or Walkers: "The red planet conquered"

Men. - Men.

Rollie's acting weird. Needy.

Donner slept with Nadia last night.

You win.

And I'm oddly untroubled by it.

* Oh, or not. I dunno,

Not meant that way. That, didn't come out right.

Truly, I would die if I lost you.

You're not gonna lose me.

It's as if I'm wearing a suit of armor today.

Nothing can touch me. Not Venus, not Donner.

Not Beta.

Think I'm gonna be able to see this new one?

There's only one way to find out.

For the last three months you have been poked,

prodded and tested in a thousand ways.

Now 20 of you will move on.

10 of you will accept our sincere thanks and go home tomorrow.

For those who make the cut, congratulations.

Finish your day and enjoy your weekend,

because on Monday it all gets a lot tougher.