A Girl and an Astronaut (2023) s01e01 Episode Script
Episode 1
1
[ethereal music playing]
[heart beating faintly in distance]
[heart beats louder]
[electronic beeping]
[electronic warble]
TIME IN SUB-HIBERNATION:
30 YEARS
- [computer beeps]
- [computer] Sub-hibernation completed.
Recovering vital functions has begun.
WAKING UP IN PROGRESS
- [powering on]
- [whooshing]
[dramatic music playing]
[heart beats fast]
[beeping]
[whooshing]
- [high-pitched whine]
- [heart beats faster]
[dramatic music continues]
[gasps]
[breathing heavily]
[gasps, grunts]
[beeping]
[electronic beeping]
ESTABLISHING CONNECTION
[computer] Stealth procedure deactivated.
[computer 2]
Attention: new object detected.
Attention: new object detected.
Satellite number 238,
display live footage.
[electronic beeping]
Oh my God
Have mercy.
[pleasant chime]
[Homie] Good morning, Marta.
It's 7.30 a.m.
Today is Friday, August 30th, 2052.
Outside temperature is warm with no wind.
Values of PM 2.5, PM 10,
VOC, HCHO, and NO2,
all within standard limits.
It will be a beautiful day.
I thought you might want to know.
You took this photo exactly 30 years ago.
FRIDAY – 30/08/2022
- Look.
- [sighs]
I've created for you an emotional album
of people, places and events
related to this photo.
Breathe.
[relaxing music playing]
[Marta sighs] Turn it off.
[Homie] Oh dear! Turning off.
I'm gently reminding you about
your morning dose of dietary supplements.
I'm here for you.
[slurping]
I'm worried about you.
Why is that?
[Homie] This is your eighth consecutive
night with a disrupted sleep cycle.
I advise against wine. Empty calories.
I'm checking available appointments
with the health assistant.
- Tuesday, 11 o'clock, Wednesday, 9.15 a.m.
- Piss off, Homie.
[Homie] Friday
Pissing off
to review the morning news for you.
[powering down]
[sighs]
- Well, you're up early.
- [electronic warble]
- Hey.
- Good morning.
[baby laughing]
[Marta] A new interactive exhibit
for the museum?
Our boss commissioned it.
[laughs]
- [laughs]
- [chuckles]
[Marta] I remember when you were that age.
- Just like yesterday.
- [chuckles]
Did I give you a hard time?
- [sighs]
- [chuckles]
If only I could, I'd go back.
You mean you miss the diapers?
I find that hard to believe.
[Marta exhales]
Must be that I like beginnings.
[clicks tongue]
I think I prefer the heart of the action.
- How about if it doesn't go your way?
- Then I change my expectations.
[laughs]
[sighs] Hmm.
I'll make some breakfast.
Dad didn't sleep at home?
[Marta] He took the night shift.
[clicks tongue]
As usual.
[pensive music playing]
[whirring]
[metallic thud]
[music continues]
[beeping]
- Hi.
- Good morning.
Hi.
[Homie chimes]
[Homie] Hello, Bogdan.
[message tone chiming]
Bogdan, you have a message.
[exhales]
[reporter] As we have found out
from unofficial sources,
the space orbiter Niko-One
that had gone missing 30 years ago
is heading towards Earth.
On board, the Polish astronaut,
Captain Nikodem Borowski.
SKYCOM'S SECRETS – WHAT HAPPENED IN SPACE
[in Japanese] Three decades ago,
the Russian space corporation SkyCom
was testing
an innovative stealth technology
[in Arabic] which was supposed to ensure
complete radar invisibility.
Unfortunately,
there had been a system failure.
[in English] Exactly one day
after the beginning of the mission,
the orbiter exploded.
That was the official report.
Now we know it was a lie.
LATEST NEWS:
IMPORTANT: SKYCOM'S SECRETS
Why did the SkyCom board of directors
lie to the world? We do not know.
One thing is certain however:
the famous Polish astronaut,
Captain Nikodem Borowski,
is coming back to Earth
in a cosmic coffin.
[tense music playing]
[gasps]
[breathes shakily]
[epic music playing]
[alarm blaring]
[breathes deeply]
[message tone chimes]
[Homie] New message from Marta.
"Bogdan. We need to talk."
[breathes deeply]
[birds chirping]
[pensive music playing]
This is wild.
You said there was an explosion.
That the capsule then fell apart.
That Niko was dead.
Does it really matter now
what I did or didn't say back then?
[Marta] I loved you both.
Why did you lie to me?
[dramatic music playing]
[engine starts]
A GIRL AND AN ASTRONAU
[indistinct radio chatter]
["Astronaut in the Ocean"
by Masked Wolf playing]
Astro-naut ♪
[Bogdan] Hey, Niko Borowski.
Stop staring at those stars. Get to work.
[Niko] Sure thing, Bogdan. Taking off.
rollin' down in the deep? ♪
When your brain goes numb
You can call that mental freeze ♪
Kid, posi.
[Bogdan] Visual. Eight o'clock.
Niko, I can't see you.
What the hell are you doin'?
Get back to the task.
Pull up! Pull up!
[engine roaring]
What the fuck are you doing?
[Niko] Whoo! [laughs]
[Bogdan] You done? Fuckin' A.
Let's get back to base.
[song ends]
- [jet planes soaring]
- [playing cards shuffling]
- I've got my eyes on you, Niko.
- [Niko laughs]
- [rock song playing faintly]
- Don't you trust me?
[chuckles]
- Call.
- [chip clinks]
I do trust.
Myself.
- Call.
- [chip clinks]
- I'm in too.
- [chip clinks]
Raise.
[man scoffs] Fold.
- You're the one who taught me, Boguś.
- The game.
Not how to be a cheat.
- [chips clink]
- Isn't that the same?
[man 2] I fold too.
[Niko] I call.
[chuckles]
[laughs]
[jet planes soaring]
It's not just flying I'm better at, huh?
Admit it.
[Bogdan] You could've fucking crashed.
So you wanna die doing maneuvers?
Raise.
I had everything under control.
- Call.
- [chips clink]
You were just lucky. Check.
Fortune favors the brave.
Till it doesn't.
- All in.
- Oh yeah.
[all laugh]
- Call.
- [chip clinks]
[rock song continues playing]
[jet planes soaring]
[chuckles softly]
You really shouldn't.
Because I won.
[alarm sounding]
[sirens wailing]
[brakes screeching]
[car doors closing]
I know you may already have
heard rumors about this item.
But until today, we were not authorized
to confirm this matter officially.
Madame Minister.
Thank you very much, Colonel.
Well, first of all,
it is a great pleasure to meet
all of you, gentlemen. It's an honor.
Second of all,
we've signed a cooperation agreement
with the corporation SkyCom.
You guys are the best out there.
And the Russians know it.
They want a Polish pilot
at the helm of their ship.
Please, General.
That means one of you men will be selected
to go into space by year's end.
- So let the best man win.
- Bravo, gentlemen.
Bravo!
[applauding]
[chuckling]
- Three hours on a treadmill daily!
- And there'll be a deep-dive pool!
- A human centrifuge, Barany chairs!
- And the aerotrim!
- You guys are all gonna puke!
- That will be so cool!
- Everyone does. Except me.
- [all laugh]
[rhythmic battle cries]
Two months of daily tests.
They'll make us sweat our guts out.
You're not gonna make it.
[indistinct chatter]
[both chuckle]
[Niko] Good luck beating me, Boguś!
[motorcycle engine starts]
[motorcycle revving]
[engine starts]
[car revving]
[brakes squeal]
["Z twarzą Marilyn Monroe"
by Myslovitz playing]
[in Polish] Hey, girl ♪
Don't say anything
It's time for love ♪
[cork pops]
- [woman] You know what time it is?
- [sighs]
- [drink bubbling]
- [glass clinks]
What time?
[woman] No clue! [laughs]
Time flies when you're having fun.
- [exhales]
- [woman laughs]
[chuckles]
- Here's to us, dear Marta.
- [chuckles]
Let us toast to a better life
than back there in the fucking UK.
Amen.
A night with the face
Of Marylin Monroe ♪
- [burps, laughs]
- [laughs]
Wait, you gave me your brother's room?
What about it? Did you find any porn?
- [gags]
- [laughs]
He's moved out, so chill.
Come on! [grunts]
- Nobody lives here.
- For real?
Our mom lives by the seaside
at her new boyfriend's,
so this place is ours.
We'll get settled here
and it'll be fucking amazing.
No, no, no, darling.
I'm only staying for a little bit.
I'll save up some cash
and then [whistles] I'm out of here.
Excuse me, but what cash?
[chuckling] You don't even have a job.
I'll find one.
This isn't London. It'll take a while.
That's fine, I can manage.
I always manage.
[rock music playing faintly]
- This place is fucking sick.
- [chuckling] Isn't it?
Whoo-hoo! [chuckles]
- Hey I was thinking
- Hmm?
[woman] You know almost everything
about me.
[Marta] Yup.
- [woman] But I know nothing about you.
- And let's keep it that way.
How do I know you're not gonna
suffocate me with a pillow one night?
[chuckles]
["I Believe in a Thing Called Love"
by The Darkness playing]
- [watch beeping]
- [panting]
Can't explain all the feelings
That you're making me feel ♪
[grunting]
My heart's in overdrive
And you're behind the steering wheel ♪
[exhales]
Touching you ♪
Touching me ♪
Come to me.
Touching you
God, you're touching me ♪
[both chuckling]
I believe in a thing called love ♪
Just listen to the rhythm of my heart ♪
There's a chance we could make it, now ♪
We'll be rocking
Till the sun goes down ♪
I believe in a thing called love ♪
Ooh, huh! ♪
[song ends]
- What the fuck are you doing here?
- [laughs] Standing in my bathroom.
Uh, uh, hadn't you moved out?
- Why, did you move in?
- Yeah, I kinda did.
Oh.
[door closes]
Mm-hmm.
[coffee machine beeps]
Just push the button here.
[machine beeps, whirs]
You can turn on the coffee machine?
That's really impressive.
I have many talents.
I'm Niko.
[coffee pouring]
[whirring stops]
- Marta.
- [woman] My brother's here!
I looked out the window
and saw your motorcycle!
- Come here, you shithead!
- [Niko] Sis!
[woman sighs]
[Niko] I'm so happy you're here.
So, uh have you lost weight?
Piss off, you fucker! [chuckles]
- Seriously, though! Do I look slim?
- You look absolutely fabulous.
I might add you're not the only one!
- [inhales deeply]
- [woman chuckles]
All right, if you girls need anything,
just let me know, okay?
Oh, right, you could wire me money.
Already? Seriously?
[inhales deeply]
Oh, by the way how did you like my bed?
Totally awful.
Then we've got to do
something about it, yeah?
[inhales deeply]
Do you always refer to yourself
as "we"? You know, it's really weird.
[Niko] Come by the club tonight.
[woman] What for?
[Niko] Maciek got promoted.
We're gonna celebrate.
[door opens, closes]
Just don't fall in love with him.
Girl, please, no way,
he's not even my type.
["Distance of the Modern Hearts"
by Kamp! playing]
Cast away
Distance of the modern hearts ♪
[laughing]
[screaming]
[both laugh]
You were supposed to show me the city,
so I'm looking! Very closely.
If your head gets ripped off,
you won't be able to see shit.
Jeez, Karola, I need oxygen,
I can't fucking breathe in here.
[chuckles]
You hear that? Turn on the AC
or my friend's gonna suffocate.
[driver] It's broken.
Take your clothes off if you're too warm.
- [Marta] Mmm. [chuckles]
- Screw you.
- [chuckles]
- No. Okay!
But then
you're paying for our fare, loser!
- And change the music.
- [Karola] Mmm.
- [dance music playing]
- [screaming]
[laughs]
[both laughing]
Karolina?
Hi! [laughs]
- Come on! Hey, look who's here! Hey!
- [laughs]
[vocalizing]
[laughs]
- Karolina! Whoo-hoo!
- [laughs]
What's up? You came back to us?
Yes. No. Maybe.
- No clue, my general!
- Hey! Lieutenant. As of today!
- Yeah! That's right.
- My sincere congratulations, Maciek!
Many thanks.
All right, let's drink! Let's drink!
Listen up! I'm buying this round!
Yeah! Whoo!
- Come on!
- [Karolina] I'll meet up later.
[laughter]
[indistinct chatter]
[dark disco music playing]
Dark disco in a place like this one?
Yeah. You mix?
I dabble a bit.
- Stardust.
- Stardust is in London.
May I?
You won't fuck anything up?
I don't know, we'll see.
All right. Here you go.
[music continues playing]
["I'm God" by Clams Casino
and Imogen Heap playing]
Will you quit kicking me
Under the table? ♪
Under the table ♪
[vocalizing]
["I'm God" continues playing]
It's what ♪
- Shall we change your habit?
- No, the usual.
It's what ♪
I think ♪
Bite tongue, deep breaths ♪
It's what ♪
I think ♪
Bite tongue, deep breaths ♪
It's what ♪
Bogdan! It's me!
Look at you! Mmm!
Mmm, Mr. Perfect, as always!
Did you pull a Brexit?
No, I just missed you way too much.
And my brother.
Oh, right.
I forgot about that.
[clears throat] I respect that.
You're defending our homeland.
- Come on, I'll show you something.
- [chuckling] Kiddo, chill.
Come on. There we fucking go.
[chuckles]
[people cheering]
deep breaths ♪
[laughing]
Martunia! My souvenir from London!
[laughing]
["I'm God" continues playing]
[vomiting]
[coughs]
[club music playing]
I don't want fucking chrysanthemums
on my grave, got it?
You do know you're not dead yet?
[groans] I wouldn't be so
[retching]
sure.
Wait here, okay? Just for a second.
[snorting]
I haven't congratulated you.
- [Marta] The pleasure is all mine.
- Can I have your number?
Find me on Insta.
[DJ] See you, DJ Stardust.
Bye, DJ Mihvu.
- I am resurrected!
- [chuckles]
[Karolina sighs]
It was just a strong allergic reaction.
[laughs]
To what? To rye?
- Yup.
- Okay.
It's time to go gluten-free.
- [both laugh]
- [phone vibrates]
- Oh fuck!
- [Marta] What is it?
Um, a friend wants to meet up.
- The one you were dancing with?
- Bogdan Rosa? There's no way!
Uh
Then who?
[Karolina] I thought you liked secrets?
[chuckles]
And we veer left. Flawlessly, you know.
The weather is damn perfect.
We veer right, same thing.
Listen now, what's the worst thing
a leader can hear from his wingman?
Do you know? Do you?
- "Two is blind." And what does Boguś hear?
- [chuckles]
"Two is blind."
That's right!
But that's not all, uh
When did I tell you this? When did I
Uh, listen, there was this other time
Man, this was crazy!
We were getting back
We've got mutual friends.
[club music playing]
Bogdan.
Marta. You've got a very rare name.
Is it really?
I've heard that since I was a kid.
[chuckles]
So you're
[imitates scratching]
a DJ, right?
So you must be a pilot?
You can tell?
No, it's because of your hair.
It's, like, windblown.
[laughs]
- So what do you fly?
- I fly F's.
F-16's.
Wow. Don't you get scared?
Oh yeah.
I do, but I can't live without it anymore.
[chuckles softly]
[clears throat]
So what does it feel like when
you're up there so high in the sky
flying? [laughs]
It depends. Sometimes nothing.
And sometimes like I can do anything.
- Like I'm the best, with no limits.
- [both laugh]
- Basically, you're arrogant.
- I have to believe in myself, Marta.
Otherwise, I might lose my life.
How about you? How does it feel
[imitates scratching]
[chuckles]
up there?
[club music continues]
[song ends]
Come.
["Show Me Love" by Steve Angello
& Laidback Luke Feat. Robin S playing]
Can you feel me ♪
If you're looking for devotion ♪
You got to show me love ♪
You got to show me, me, me, me, me, me ♪
Me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me ♪
Me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me ♪
Me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me ♪
[vocalizing]
Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
Yeah, yeah ♪
You got to show me love ♪
Heartbreaks and promises ♪
[laughing]
Come backstage,
the owner wants to meet you.
[Marta chuckles]
- [panting] Go ahead.
- I have to go!
[both chuckle]
["Show me Love" continues playing]
[panting]
[chuckles]
[breathing heavily]
It's been so long
Since I touched a wanting hand ♪
[club music playing]
Forget about it, Boguś.
About what?
You're just not her type.
Ah. And you know that because?
We know each other.
Check.
Raise.
[inhales deeply]
Knock, knock.
Would you like to dance with me?
Nice to see you again, Niko.
Allow me to introduce
my good friend, Bogdan Rosa.
- Congrats, but we've already met.
- Nikodem, you're completely drunk.
He's just such an irritable guy.
Always fucking meddling.
- Hey! Why are you breaking my heart, man?
- He's got no heart.
- [Niko] Wanna hear it beat?
- I want to go home.
- You want to go to the bar. The bar!
- [Marta chuckles] Mm-mm. Mm-mm.
I'll give you a ride.
[club music playing]
- [brakes screech]
- So, where are we going? My place?
To Karolina's. Uh, I'm sleeping there
till I find something.
In my bed.
No, darling, I've already
moved to the couch.
- Aw.
- [Marta] Aw. [chuckles]
[sighs]
You really have nothing better to do?
Chill out, bro. I come in peace.
- At least for now. [laughs]
- [Marta laughs]
[inserts cassette in player]
["Z twarzą Marilyn Monroe"
by Myslovitz playing]
[in Polish] Hey, girl ♪
Don't say anything ♪
It's time for love ♪
Stand before me ♪
Let me touch you ♪
[grunts]
[both panting]
What an evening ♪
[Karolina] I've missed you.
[breathing heavily]
[moaning]
[moaning]
[both panting]
A night with the face
Of Marylin Monroe ♪
Under her gaze ♪
My skin burns in a fire ♪
How do you know Karolina?
Hmm.
We used to work together. PR firm.
- Uh, Walkie Talkie in England.
- Fenchurch Street.
["Z twarzą Marilyn Monroe"
continues playing]
Extremely ugly building.
525 feet tall.
How do you know that?
Doesn't look so bad from up high.
So what brought you back?
Why does everyone keep asking me that?
- They just want to get to know you better.
- Real
- [car revving]
- Oh!
[Marta laughs]
Hey, Mr. Driver,
keep your eyes on the road, please!
You sure you haven't been drinking?
No, no, no. He never drinks.
This guy took a vow of purity
in high school.
Isn't that right, Boguś?
Yeah. I wanna make sure
the day after I party,
I won't, for instance, crash
my fucking wing into the hangar door.
- Isn't that right, Scratch?
- Ah. [laughs]
Sure, because then your daddy the colonel
might give you a spanking, right?
I don't give a shit about my father.
I do what I want.
Remind us, who flew
under the bridge in Dęblin?
- Yeah?
- The really low bridge.
- [Marta laughs]
- Mm-hmm.
And who did a slalom with a fighter plane
through those apartment towers?
Better yet, let's talk about
who the Americans begged
to come work for them.
And who flew with
the motherfucking sheikh of Dubai, huh?
[Marta laughs]
- Who was that?
- [Marta] Guys, enough with the peacocking!
Bogdan, stop the car.
- [Bogdan] Where? Here?
- [Marta] Come on. Stop, stop, stop.
Stop, stop.
[inhales sharply]
[seatbelt clicks open]
[crickets chirping]
[gasping]
[exhales, chuckles]
Pilots Whose gonna jump with me?
[chuckles]
[Niko exhales]
[ethereal music playing]
[breathing heavily]
[gentle music playing]
[welding torch crackling]
[Homie chimes]
[Homie] Urgent information
for the board members.
Meeting in the main hall.
Code red.
[Homie chimes]
JJ!
[footsteps approaching]
We're going to SkyCom.
[water dripping]
Hurry up.
[tense music playing]
[man] You want to know the facts?
You want to know
what really happened back then?
The stealth test took six hours.
We were flying towards the sun.
Niko-One disappeared from the radars
and then later reappeared,
according to plan.
And then we began the second experiment.
The secret one.
It was supposed to last only 24 hours,
but something didn't go as planned.
He had his whole life ahead of him.
And you so cruelly stole that away.
He wanted to go. No one forced him to fly.
Please, do not make me laugh.
I've got something for you, Nadia.
Your grandfather asked me to give it
to you at the appropriate moment.
[tense music playing]
[door hissing open]
[door closes]
[paper rustling]
[JJ] Is everything okay?
[heart beating]
[heart beating faster]
[grunting softly]
[high-pitched electronic whine]
- [electronic whine intensifies]
- [gasps]
- [heart beating loudly]
- [breathing heavily]
[uplifting music playing]
[music ends]
[ethereal music playing]
[heart beating faintly in distance]
[heart beats louder]
[electronic beeping]
[electronic warble]
TIME IN SUB-HIBERNATION:
30 YEARS
- [computer beeps]
- [computer] Sub-hibernation completed.
Recovering vital functions has begun.
WAKING UP IN PROGRESS
- [powering on]
- [whooshing]
[dramatic music playing]
[heart beats fast]
[beeping]
[whooshing]
- [high-pitched whine]
- [heart beats faster]
[dramatic music continues]
[gasps]
[breathing heavily]
[gasps, grunts]
[beeping]
[electronic beeping]
ESTABLISHING CONNECTION
[computer] Stealth procedure deactivated.
[computer 2]
Attention: new object detected.
Attention: new object detected.
Satellite number 238,
display live footage.
[electronic beeping]
Oh my God
Have mercy.
[pleasant chime]
[Homie] Good morning, Marta.
It's 7.30 a.m.
Today is Friday, August 30th, 2052.
Outside temperature is warm with no wind.
Values of PM 2.5, PM 10,
VOC, HCHO, and NO2,
all within standard limits.
It will be a beautiful day.
I thought you might want to know.
You took this photo exactly 30 years ago.
FRIDAY – 30/08/2022
- Look.
- [sighs]
I've created for you an emotional album
of people, places and events
related to this photo.
Breathe.
[relaxing music playing]
[Marta sighs] Turn it off.
[Homie] Oh dear! Turning off.
I'm gently reminding you about
your morning dose of dietary supplements.
I'm here for you.
[slurping]
I'm worried about you.
Why is that?
[Homie] This is your eighth consecutive
night with a disrupted sleep cycle.
I advise against wine. Empty calories.
I'm checking available appointments
with the health assistant.
- Tuesday, 11 o'clock, Wednesday, 9.15 a.m.
- Piss off, Homie.
[Homie] Friday
Pissing off
to review the morning news for you.
[powering down]
[sighs]
- Well, you're up early.
- [electronic warble]
- Hey.
- Good morning.
[baby laughing]
[Marta] A new interactive exhibit
for the museum?
Our boss commissioned it.
[laughs]
- [laughs]
- [chuckles]
[Marta] I remember when you were that age.
- Just like yesterday.
- [chuckles]
Did I give you a hard time?
- [sighs]
- [chuckles]
If only I could, I'd go back.
You mean you miss the diapers?
I find that hard to believe.
[Marta exhales]
Must be that I like beginnings.
[clicks tongue]
I think I prefer the heart of the action.
- How about if it doesn't go your way?
- Then I change my expectations.
[laughs]
[sighs] Hmm.
I'll make some breakfast.
Dad didn't sleep at home?
[Marta] He took the night shift.
[clicks tongue]
As usual.
[pensive music playing]
[whirring]
[metallic thud]
[music continues]
[beeping]
- Hi.
- Good morning.
Hi.
[Homie chimes]
[Homie] Hello, Bogdan.
[message tone chiming]
Bogdan, you have a message.
[exhales]
[reporter] As we have found out
from unofficial sources,
the space orbiter Niko-One
that had gone missing 30 years ago
is heading towards Earth.
On board, the Polish astronaut,
Captain Nikodem Borowski.
SKYCOM'S SECRETS – WHAT HAPPENED IN SPACE
[in Japanese] Three decades ago,
the Russian space corporation SkyCom
was testing
an innovative stealth technology
[in Arabic] which was supposed to ensure
complete radar invisibility.
Unfortunately,
there had been a system failure.
[in English] Exactly one day
after the beginning of the mission,
the orbiter exploded.
That was the official report.
Now we know it was a lie.
LATEST NEWS:
IMPORTANT: SKYCOM'S SECRETS
Why did the SkyCom board of directors
lie to the world? We do not know.
One thing is certain however:
the famous Polish astronaut,
Captain Nikodem Borowski,
is coming back to Earth
in a cosmic coffin.
[tense music playing]
[gasps]
[breathes shakily]
[epic music playing]
[alarm blaring]
[breathes deeply]
[message tone chimes]
[Homie] New message from Marta.
"Bogdan. We need to talk."
[breathes deeply]
[birds chirping]
[pensive music playing]
This is wild.
You said there was an explosion.
That the capsule then fell apart.
That Niko was dead.
Does it really matter now
what I did or didn't say back then?
[Marta] I loved you both.
Why did you lie to me?
[dramatic music playing]
[engine starts]
A GIRL AND AN ASTRONAU
[indistinct radio chatter]
["Astronaut in the Ocean"
by Masked Wolf playing]
Astro-naut ♪
[Bogdan] Hey, Niko Borowski.
Stop staring at those stars. Get to work.
[Niko] Sure thing, Bogdan. Taking off.
rollin' down in the deep? ♪
When your brain goes numb
You can call that mental freeze ♪
Kid, posi.
[Bogdan] Visual. Eight o'clock.
Niko, I can't see you.
What the hell are you doin'?
Get back to the task.
Pull up! Pull up!
[engine roaring]
What the fuck are you doing?
[Niko] Whoo! [laughs]
[Bogdan] You done? Fuckin' A.
Let's get back to base.
[song ends]
- [jet planes soaring]
- [playing cards shuffling]
- I've got my eyes on you, Niko.
- [Niko laughs]
- [rock song playing faintly]
- Don't you trust me?
[chuckles]
- Call.
- [chip clinks]
I do trust.
Myself.
- Call.
- [chip clinks]
- I'm in too.
- [chip clinks]
Raise.
[man scoffs] Fold.
- You're the one who taught me, Boguś.
- The game.
Not how to be a cheat.
- [chips clink]
- Isn't that the same?
[man 2] I fold too.
[Niko] I call.
[chuckles]
[laughs]
[jet planes soaring]
It's not just flying I'm better at, huh?
Admit it.
[Bogdan] You could've fucking crashed.
So you wanna die doing maneuvers?
Raise.
I had everything under control.
- Call.
- [chips clink]
You were just lucky. Check.
Fortune favors the brave.
Till it doesn't.
- All in.
- Oh yeah.
[all laugh]
- Call.
- [chip clinks]
[rock song continues playing]
[jet planes soaring]
[chuckles softly]
You really shouldn't.
Because I won.
[alarm sounding]
[sirens wailing]
[brakes screeching]
[car doors closing]
I know you may already have
heard rumors about this item.
But until today, we were not authorized
to confirm this matter officially.
Madame Minister.
Thank you very much, Colonel.
Well, first of all,
it is a great pleasure to meet
all of you, gentlemen. It's an honor.
Second of all,
we've signed a cooperation agreement
with the corporation SkyCom.
You guys are the best out there.
And the Russians know it.
They want a Polish pilot
at the helm of their ship.
Please, General.
That means one of you men will be selected
to go into space by year's end.
- So let the best man win.
- Bravo, gentlemen.
Bravo!
[applauding]
[chuckling]
- Three hours on a treadmill daily!
- And there'll be a deep-dive pool!
- A human centrifuge, Barany chairs!
- And the aerotrim!
- You guys are all gonna puke!
- That will be so cool!
- Everyone does. Except me.
- [all laugh]
[rhythmic battle cries]
Two months of daily tests.
They'll make us sweat our guts out.
You're not gonna make it.
[indistinct chatter]
[both chuckle]
[Niko] Good luck beating me, Boguś!
[motorcycle engine starts]
[motorcycle revving]
[engine starts]
[car revving]
[brakes squeal]
["Z twarzą Marilyn Monroe"
by Myslovitz playing]
[in Polish] Hey, girl ♪
Don't say anything
It's time for love ♪
[cork pops]
- [woman] You know what time it is?
- [sighs]
- [drink bubbling]
- [glass clinks]
What time?
[woman] No clue! [laughs]
Time flies when you're having fun.
- [exhales]
- [woman laughs]
[chuckles]
- Here's to us, dear Marta.
- [chuckles]
Let us toast to a better life
than back there in the fucking UK.
Amen.
A night with the face
Of Marylin Monroe ♪
- [burps, laughs]
- [laughs]
Wait, you gave me your brother's room?
What about it? Did you find any porn?
- [gags]
- [laughs]
He's moved out, so chill.
Come on! [grunts]
- Nobody lives here.
- For real?
Our mom lives by the seaside
at her new boyfriend's,
so this place is ours.
We'll get settled here
and it'll be fucking amazing.
No, no, no, darling.
I'm only staying for a little bit.
I'll save up some cash
and then [whistles] I'm out of here.
Excuse me, but what cash?
[chuckling] You don't even have a job.
I'll find one.
This isn't London. It'll take a while.
That's fine, I can manage.
I always manage.
[rock music playing faintly]
- This place is fucking sick.
- [chuckling] Isn't it?
Whoo-hoo! [chuckles]
- Hey I was thinking
- Hmm?
[woman] You know almost everything
about me.
[Marta] Yup.
- [woman] But I know nothing about you.
- And let's keep it that way.
How do I know you're not gonna
suffocate me with a pillow one night?
[chuckles]
["I Believe in a Thing Called Love"
by The Darkness playing]
- [watch beeping]
- [panting]
Can't explain all the feelings
That you're making me feel ♪
[grunting]
My heart's in overdrive
And you're behind the steering wheel ♪
[exhales]
Touching you ♪
Touching me ♪
Come to me.
Touching you
God, you're touching me ♪
[both chuckling]
I believe in a thing called love ♪
Just listen to the rhythm of my heart ♪
There's a chance we could make it, now ♪
We'll be rocking
Till the sun goes down ♪
I believe in a thing called love ♪
Ooh, huh! ♪
[song ends]
- What the fuck are you doing here?
- [laughs] Standing in my bathroom.
Uh, uh, hadn't you moved out?
- Why, did you move in?
- Yeah, I kinda did.
Oh.
[door closes]
Mm-hmm.
[coffee machine beeps]
Just push the button here.
[machine beeps, whirs]
You can turn on the coffee machine?
That's really impressive.
I have many talents.
I'm Niko.
[coffee pouring]
[whirring stops]
- Marta.
- [woman] My brother's here!
I looked out the window
and saw your motorcycle!
- Come here, you shithead!
- [Niko] Sis!
[woman sighs]
[Niko] I'm so happy you're here.
So, uh have you lost weight?
Piss off, you fucker! [chuckles]
- Seriously, though! Do I look slim?
- You look absolutely fabulous.
I might add you're not the only one!
- [inhales deeply]
- [woman chuckles]
All right, if you girls need anything,
just let me know, okay?
Oh, right, you could wire me money.
Already? Seriously?
[inhales deeply]
Oh, by the way how did you like my bed?
Totally awful.
Then we've got to do
something about it, yeah?
[inhales deeply]
Do you always refer to yourself
as "we"? You know, it's really weird.
[Niko] Come by the club tonight.
[woman] What for?
[Niko] Maciek got promoted.
We're gonna celebrate.
[door opens, closes]
Just don't fall in love with him.
Girl, please, no way,
he's not even my type.
["Distance of the Modern Hearts"
by Kamp! playing]
Cast away
Distance of the modern hearts ♪
[laughing]
[screaming]
[both laugh]
You were supposed to show me the city,
so I'm looking! Very closely.
If your head gets ripped off,
you won't be able to see shit.
Jeez, Karola, I need oxygen,
I can't fucking breathe in here.
[chuckles]
You hear that? Turn on the AC
or my friend's gonna suffocate.
[driver] It's broken.
Take your clothes off if you're too warm.
- [Marta] Mmm. [chuckles]
- Screw you.
- [chuckles]
- No. Okay!
But then
you're paying for our fare, loser!
- And change the music.
- [Karola] Mmm.
- [dance music playing]
- [screaming]
[laughs]
[both laughing]
Karolina?
Hi! [laughs]
- Come on! Hey, look who's here! Hey!
- [laughs]
[vocalizing]
[laughs]
- Karolina! Whoo-hoo!
- [laughs]
What's up? You came back to us?
Yes. No. Maybe.
- No clue, my general!
- Hey! Lieutenant. As of today!
- Yeah! That's right.
- My sincere congratulations, Maciek!
Many thanks.
All right, let's drink! Let's drink!
Listen up! I'm buying this round!
Yeah! Whoo!
- Come on!
- [Karolina] I'll meet up later.
[laughter]
[indistinct chatter]
[dark disco music playing]
Dark disco in a place like this one?
Yeah. You mix?
I dabble a bit.
- Stardust.
- Stardust is in London.
May I?
You won't fuck anything up?
I don't know, we'll see.
All right. Here you go.
[music continues playing]
["I'm God" by Clams Casino
and Imogen Heap playing]
Will you quit kicking me
Under the table? ♪
Under the table ♪
[vocalizing]
["I'm God" continues playing]
It's what ♪
- Shall we change your habit?
- No, the usual.
It's what ♪
I think ♪
Bite tongue, deep breaths ♪
It's what ♪
I think ♪
Bite tongue, deep breaths ♪
It's what ♪
Bogdan! It's me!
Look at you! Mmm!
Mmm, Mr. Perfect, as always!
Did you pull a Brexit?
No, I just missed you way too much.
And my brother.
Oh, right.
I forgot about that.
[clears throat] I respect that.
You're defending our homeland.
- Come on, I'll show you something.
- [chuckling] Kiddo, chill.
Come on. There we fucking go.
[chuckles]
[people cheering]
deep breaths ♪
[laughing]
Martunia! My souvenir from London!
[laughing]
["I'm God" continues playing]
[vomiting]
[coughs]
[club music playing]
I don't want fucking chrysanthemums
on my grave, got it?
You do know you're not dead yet?
[groans] I wouldn't be so
[retching]
sure.
Wait here, okay? Just for a second.
[snorting]
I haven't congratulated you.
- [Marta] The pleasure is all mine.
- Can I have your number?
Find me on Insta.
[DJ] See you, DJ Stardust.
Bye, DJ Mihvu.
- I am resurrected!
- [chuckles]
[Karolina sighs]
It was just a strong allergic reaction.
[laughs]
To what? To rye?
- Yup.
- Okay.
It's time to go gluten-free.
- [both laugh]
- [phone vibrates]
- Oh fuck!
- [Marta] What is it?
Um, a friend wants to meet up.
- The one you were dancing with?
- Bogdan Rosa? There's no way!
Uh
Then who?
[Karolina] I thought you liked secrets?
[chuckles]
And we veer left. Flawlessly, you know.
The weather is damn perfect.
We veer right, same thing.
Listen now, what's the worst thing
a leader can hear from his wingman?
Do you know? Do you?
- "Two is blind." And what does Boguś hear?
- [chuckles]
"Two is blind."
That's right!
But that's not all, uh
When did I tell you this? When did I
Uh, listen, there was this other time
Man, this was crazy!
We were getting back
We've got mutual friends.
[club music playing]
Bogdan.
Marta. You've got a very rare name.
Is it really?
I've heard that since I was a kid.
[chuckles]
So you're
[imitates scratching]
a DJ, right?
So you must be a pilot?
You can tell?
No, it's because of your hair.
It's, like, windblown.
[laughs]
- So what do you fly?
- I fly F's.
F-16's.
Wow. Don't you get scared?
Oh yeah.
I do, but I can't live without it anymore.
[chuckles softly]
[clears throat]
So what does it feel like when
you're up there so high in the sky
flying? [laughs]
It depends. Sometimes nothing.
And sometimes like I can do anything.
- Like I'm the best, with no limits.
- [both laugh]
- Basically, you're arrogant.
- I have to believe in myself, Marta.
Otherwise, I might lose my life.
How about you? How does it feel
[imitates scratching]
[chuckles]
up there?
[club music continues]
[song ends]
Come.
["Show Me Love" by Steve Angello
& Laidback Luke Feat. Robin S playing]
Can you feel me ♪
If you're looking for devotion ♪
You got to show me love ♪
You got to show me, me, me, me, me, me ♪
Me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me ♪
Me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me ♪
Me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me ♪
[vocalizing]
Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
Yeah, yeah ♪
You got to show me love ♪
Heartbreaks and promises ♪
[laughing]
Come backstage,
the owner wants to meet you.
[Marta chuckles]
- [panting] Go ahead.
- I have to go!
[both chuckle]
["Show me Love" continues playing]
[panting]
[chuckles]
[breathing heavily]
It's been so long
Since I touched a wanting hand ♪
[club music playing]
Forget about it, Boguś.
About what?
You're just not her type.
Ah. And you know that because?
We know each other.
Check.
Raise.
[inhales deeply]
Knock, knock.
Would you like to dance with me?
Nice to see you again, Niko.
Allow me to introduce
my good friend, Bogdan Rosa.
- Congrats, but we've already met.
- Nikodem, you're completely drunk.
He's just such an irritable guy.
Always fucking meddling.
- Hey! Why are you breaking my heart, man?
- He's got no heart.
- [Niko] Wanna hear it beat?
- I want to go home.
- You want to go to the bar. The bar!
- [Marta chuckles] Mm-mm. Mm-mm.
I'll give you a ride.
[club music playing]
- [brakes screech]
- So, where are we going? My place?
To Karolina's. Uh, I'm sleeping there
till I find something.
In my bed.
No, darling, I've already
moved to the couch.
- Aw.
- [Marta] Aw. [chuckles]
[sighs]
You really have nothing better to do?
Chill out, bro. I come in peace.
- At least for now. [laughs]
- [Marta laughs]
[inserts cassette in player]
["Z twarzą Marilyn Monroe"
by Myslovitz playing]
[in Polish] Hey, girl ♪
Don't say anything ♪
It's time for love ♪
Stand before me ♪
Let me touch you ♪
[grunts]
[both panting]
What an evening ♪
[Karolina] I've missed you.
[breathing heavily]
[moaning]
[moaning]
[both panting]
A night with the face
Of Marylin Monroe ♪
Under her gaze ♪
My skin burns in a fire ♪
How do you know Karolina?
Hmm.
We used to work together. PR firm.
- Uh, Walkie Talkie in England.
- Fenchurch Street.
["Z twarzą Marilyn Monroe"
continues playing]
Extremely ugly building.
525 feet tall.
How do you know that?
Doesn't look so bad from up high.
So what brought you back?
Why does everyone keep asking me that?
- They just want to get to know you better.
- Real
- [car revving]
- Oh!
[Marta laughs]
Hey, Mr. Driver,
keep your eyes on the road, please!
You sure you haven't been drinking?
No, no, no. He never drinks.
This guy took a vow of purity
in high school.
Isn't that right, Boguś?
Yeah. I wanna make sure
the day after I party,
I won't, for instance, crash
my fucking wing into the hangar door.
- Isn't that right, Scratch?
- Ah. [laughs]
Sure, because then your daddy the colonel
might give you a spanking, right?
I don't give a shit about my father.
I do what I want.
Remind us, who flew
under the bridge in Dęblin?
- Yeah?
- The really low bridge.
- [Marta laughs]
- Mm-hmm.
And who did a slalom with a fighter plane
through those apartment towers?
Better yet, let's talk about
who the Americans begged
to come work for them.
And who flew with
the motherfucking sheikh of Dubai, huh?
[Marta laughs]
- Who was that?
- [Marta] Guys, enough with the peacocking!
Bogdan, stop the car.
- [Bogdan] Where? Here?
- [Marta] Come on. Stop, stop, stop.
Stop, stop.
[inhales sharply]
[seatbelt clicks open]
[crickets chirping]
[gasping]
[exhales, chuckles]
Pilots Whose gonna jump with me?
[chuckles]
[Niko exhales]
[ethereal music playing]
[breathing heavily]
[gentle music playing]
[welding torch crackling]
[Homie chimes]
[Homie] Urgent information
for the board members.
Meeting in the main hall.
Code red.
[Homie chimes]
JJ!
[footsteps approaching]
We're going to SkyCom.
[water dripping]
Hurry up.
[tense music playing]
[man] You want to know the facts?
You want to know
what really happened back then?
The stealth test took six hours.
We were flying towards the sun.
Niko-One disappeared from the radars
and then later reappeared,
according to plan.
And then we began the second experiment.
The secret one.
It was supposed to last only 24 hours,
but something didn't go as planned.
He had his whole life ahead of him.
And you so cruelly stole that away.
He wanted to go. No one forced him to fly.
Please, do not make me laugh.
I've got something for you, Nadia.
Your grandfather asked me to give it
to you at the appropriate moment.
[tense music playing]
[door hissing open]
[door closes]
[paper rustling]
[JJ] Is everything okay?
[heart beating]
[heart beating faster]
[grunting softly]
[high-pitched electronic whine]
- [electronic whine intensifies]
- [gasps]
- [heart beating loudly]
- [breathing heavily]
[uplifting music playing]
[music ends]