Perestroika

We get back to base camp,

I still gotta write up this geo field report for Site 42.

You're gonna update the techniques and methods sheet too, right?

Yeah. Yeah, I'll make sure to include it.

File the report once you get back to Happy Valley.

And cross-check the--

Hey, do you see that over there?

Where?

Ten o'clock.

What is that?

I don't know. I'm gonna go check it out.

PROTECT THE LEADER AT ALL COSTS

Taylor, I gotta go monitor the ionizer cooldown sequence.

Keep an eye out for anything unusual.

Aye, aye, sir.

Happy Valley, Ranger-2 .

Ion engine deactivation is complete.

All argon fuel injectors have been rerouted to the plasma drive

for the final burn .

Copy, Ranger-2.

Deactivation confirmed.

Any issues with the changeover?

Negative. All systems nominal.

Good.

After we authenticate the final command sequence

for the slingshot from Houston,

we will remotely initiate the final Earth burn.

Copy that. Ranger-2 out.

Commander Poole, I have the final fuel consumption estimates...

Message from Dev.

All right. They're checking the final plasma drive start-up numbers.

We gotta keep everything on track.

Make sure to mirror that last diagnostic upload to Ranger .

Copy. Transmitting.

Looks like Ranger-2 's on target.

Two hours, four minutes till final burn.

Good. All right. I'll be right back.

How's he doing?

I think I must take him to medical bay.

No way. He saw our faces.

When he wakes up in there, we're gonna be fucked.

If we keep him here, he could die.

Yeah, I don't think we have a choice.

Easy for you to say, Ed.

You're not the one who's gonna go to jail when he picks you out of a lineup.

I take him.

All right?

Decision final.

What are you gonna say to the doc?

Accident with cargo loader.

Okay. That's good.

And when he wakes up?

We have to cross that bridge when we get to it.

I'm sure Dima will help out.

He has before.

It will be fine.

I hope so.

We're running out of time, Dale.

Tell us who else is involved and you are free to go.

Like I told you before, I don't know anything.

Just let me go.

Please, you gotta stop this.

What you doing?

Increasing CO2 levels in room.

You ever have carbon dioxide poisoning before, Miles?

Very quickly it will become hard to breathe.

Your heart rate will increase.

Your head will feel like it's gonna explode.

And soon, you'll wish it had.

Please don't do this.

Give us the names of those involved,

and we'll stop this right now.

I told you, I don't know anything.

You should start feeling the effects of the CO2 quite soon.

Please don't do this.

Who were you working with?

Tell us what you know and we'll stop this.

I don't know anything. I swear.

Where are they?

Please. I'm gonna be sick.

Just tell us where they are.

You got some on my shoe!

Please.

I don't know anything. Please.

This isn't working, and we're running out of time.

We gotta try something else.

Please. Please let me go.

Please, man. I just wanna see my family.

Just let me see my family.

Please.

Miss Madison?

Come in.

Good morning.

Yes?

Sorry.

Eli was wondering if you'd be able to come to his office.

- Can't it wait? - He says it's important.

I'm feeling pretty confident

that the security on Happy Valley has it in hand,

as your people well know, because my people detected them attempt--

Margo, thank you for coming by.

Hello, Margo.

Director Morozova.

I...

I wish I'd known you were coming.

I would have prepared.

No preparations are necessary.

A nice surprise, isn't it?

Yes.

Yes, it is.

Feels like she and I talk pretty much every day lately

over this damn thing.

But I haven't seen Irina in person since Leningrad.

We had the best dinner at that place.

They served that little fried fish with the mashed potatoes--

- Koryushka. - Koryushka.

Honestly, I haven't been able to stop thinking about it.

Well, I've come to observe the culmination of our efforts

to bring the asteroid to Earth.

It's gonna be a special moment for all of us.

Eli tells me you have settled right back in.

Kinda hard to settle in when you're followed everywhere you go.

I can imagine.

Well, you don't have to endure it much longer.

After asteroid has been put on a correct trajectory for Earth,

you and I are returning to Star City.

Wonderful.

Great.

We need to make sure we don't miss any contributors to comm latency.

We've run 50 end-to-end tests. Results match predictions.

Make sure we get those test reports back ASAP.

- Excuse me. - Yes, sir.

What's going on?

Irina Morozova is here.

In Houston?

She was supposed to be in Moscow with Korzhenko when the burn happens.

You know, maybe it's about this sabotage rumor.

Whatever it is, we need to get word to our mutual acquaintance.

Have you been in touch with him?

I sent him the latest kinetic impact calculations this morning,

but I haven't heard back.

He's not answering his phone.

You may need to go to him in person.

We're less than two hours away to burn.

- I can't-- - Aleida, please.

I'll cover for you while you're gone.

I'd go myself, but I've got a lot of eyes on me.

Okay.

Tell him he needs to leave Houston. It's not safe for him here anymore.

He's not gonna listen.

Make him.

Please.

Commander.

Any update on Miles Dale?

He's not talking yet.

But I think we should be making progress soon.

Keep questioning him.

My gut says that he's involved in this somehow.

And any news about the missing equipment downstairs?

No, ma'am. Just a lot of people pissed off at being searched repeatedly.

I want everyone who doesn't have a mission-essential job

to be confined to their quarters until this is all over.

And continue the sweep of the base.

If someone really is planning something against Ranger ,

we need to figure it out fast.

Yes, ma'am.

Team two, start mods at nine through 15.

Team three, mods 16 through 22.

Team one, you're with me.

What's going on?

You all need to return to your quarters immediately.

- Why? - Orders of base commander.

Mandatory curfew.

All non-essential personnel are restricted to quarters.

Bullshit.

Take him.

- Let's go. - Get your hands off of me.

Return to your quarters immediately if you are not...

Non-essential workers are to stay in lockdown for the next 36 hours.

Return to your quarters immediately.

I repeat, non-essential workers, stay in your rooms.

Check-in's at 4:00.

I'm-- I'm not here for a room.

Do you know which room Sergei Bezukhov is in?

That was so sad.

What was sad?

Wha-- He stayed here for a few weeks.

I figured he was here for some sort of business thing.

Yeah, we do get businessmen every once in a while.

He was from Yugoslavia, I think, or maybe it was Sweden.

And yesterday he just... ...ups and shoots himself.

He shot himself?

It's such a shame.

He was just a-- Seemed like a real sweet guy.

Always had a smile.

Water?

You were just down here hiding among us this whole time?

We all have things to hide, no?

Mr. Black Market.

My friend was very helpful.