Salvation

Ladies and gentlemen, tech pioneer Darius Tanz!

Sir, my name's Liam Cole.

In 186 days, an asteroid's

gonna collide with Earth and we're all gonna die.

Previously on Salvation...

Jillian?

Liam.

Hey.

The job offer from Darius is an opportunity.

- You should take it. - I already did.

What we need is a working EmDrive we can get

to our asteroid friend here

with just enough time for a gravity tractor

to save us all from extinction.

No one has ever built a working EmDrive.

We can't trust the government.

We have to do this ourselves.

Uranium, I know where to get it.

You know that under normal circumstances,

I would never do some of the things I've done.

You've made your choices, Grace.

Now I need to make mine.

The IO Probe.

The plan would be to redirect it from Jupiter's orbit

and propel it into the asteroid.

You have an issue with this plan?

Yes. In a word, it stinks.

That high-velocity kinetic impact

could smash our asteroid friend

into several pieces,

each of which may cause cataclysmic damage.

But they will land somewhere.

Yes, Russia, China.

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Sir, we have a problem.

The probe is no longer responding to us.

We've been hacked. NASA has been hacked.

Darius, where are you?

I need to know what you did.

$750, $750.

Do I hear $800

for this remarkable neo-classical petite commode?

The last toilet used by Louis XVI

before he went to the guillotine.

$800. Do I hear $850?

$850? No, $800.

$800 once, twice...

Sold!

For $800,000

to the gentlewoman in blue Chanel.

Up next, today's premier item.

Lot 29.

George Washington's personal copy

of the Bill of Rights.

Signed by our first president,

this is quite possibly the most important document

that the auction world has seen.

Bidding will start at $5 million.

And I have $5 million from Mr. Tanz.

Thank you. Do I hear 5.5?

Do I hear six?

Do I hear six? Six from the phone bank.

6.5 from an online buyer.

$7 million. $7 million from Mr. Tanz.

$7.5 million from Mr. Bloomberg.

Do I hear eight? Eight?

Eight from Mr. Tanz. Thank you.

- 8.5 from Mr. Bloomberg. - _

And back to Mr. Tanz for $9 million.

9.5.

Pick up.

Make no mistake, we are at war.

A war we have 12 hours to win, people.

NASA's been hacked.

The EmDrive's not viable, so this is it...

Us against whomever hacked the IO Space Probe.

If we don't regain control by then, it goes into free fall,

and we will lose it forever,

along with our best hope of stopping this thing.

That cannot happen.

Can't sleep?

No, not so much.

Me, either.

First-day jitters.

What? You are going to be great.

Thank you.

Me, on the other hand...

Mm.

Hey.

I'm sorry your EmDrive project didn't go well,

but it was just a test.

I'm sure next time will...

No, I don't think there's gonna be a next time.

When you're passionate about something,

time means nothing.

Who said that?

You did.

The night we met.

Hey, how old was Isaac Newton

when that apple bonked him on his head

and he came up with the theory of gravity?

He was 23.

Hmm.

But it took him 20 more years to prove it.

Well, I have faith in you.

You'll crack it.

I know it.

Any progress from counterintelligence?

Even a shred of hope I can pass along to POTUS?

We're working on it.

Whoever hacked IO was no amateur.

Well, right now we seem like the amateurs.

We have three government agencies in this room,

supposedly the best of the best.

Prove it. Find whoever did this, now.

Give us the room.

Where is he?

I don't know. He hasn't responded.

So Darius Tanz just happened to disappear

when all hell broke loose last night?

Did he give you any indication

that he was planning something like this?

Grace, I know there's not a lot of trust

between us right now, but this is not the time to hold back.

He sent me this text last night.

I don't know what it means.

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Don't be nervous.

Too late.

But I could use a little pep talk.

Okay. Okay.

You see these?

Meteorites.

Darius's coveted collection.

Rare rocks from outer space.

And that beautiful, shimmering guy there...

That's from the Khatyrka meteor that fell in Siberia in 2011.

It's a quasicrystal

with fivefold symmetry called icosahedrite.

Meaning?

It is the only known object in the universe

with that symmetry.

Nothing like it exists on Earth.

Shimmering. One of a kind.

Like you.

Damn, you're good.

You got this.

Yeah.

Security, please report to the lobby.

Security, please report to the lobby.

Don't make me ask you this again.

- Where is he? - All due respect, sir,

Mr. Tanz doesn't permit me to give out his schedule.

Okay, nothing's private as far as the Patriot Act's concerned.

So with as much respect

as I can muster, you will tell me where he is.

Search the building.

And pull all the hard drives.

What?

What? When?

A few hours ago.

Holy hell.

- Where is he? - I don't know.

I haven't seen him since the EmDrive

crashed and burned.

Do you think Darius could have hacked NASA?

Could he or-or would he?

Those are two different questions.

Has he been acting strange lately?

He's Darius... He always acts strange.

Do you trust him?

Oh, my...

Liam, where's the uranium?

The barrels of uranium for the EmDrive.

The EmDrive doesn't need uranium.

What?

What did he do with it?

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

That document survived the War of 1812.

It better survive the ride back to my office.

My oldest friend went to New York, and all I got

was this lousy copy of the Bill of Rights.

You should have seen the look on Bloomberg's face

when he dropped out at 20 mil.

Harris, this is some welcome home party.

I'm touched. What's the occasion?

Darius Tanz, you're under arrest on suspicion of high treason

against the United States of America.

High treason? I'm not the one who's high here.

Take him.

No lawyer,

no Miranda, no water.

You really know how to make a guy feel welcome.

Darius, we have ten hours to get the probe back online.

This is no joke.

If you have an alibi, now would be the time to speak up.

I'm not a dog. I don't bark on command.

Six foreign corporations have sued you

for industrial espionage.

Hacking proprietary technology.