Infiniti (2022) s01e01 Episode Script

1
Good night.
Captions by Red Bee Media.
(TENSE MUSIC)
(RAGGED BREATHING ECHOES)
(TENSE MUSIC BUILDS)
(MUSIC ENDS)
(RADIO BLIPS)
WOMAN ON RADIO: Step 4.3 completed.
(RADIO BLIPS)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER IN
FOREIGN LANGUAGE OVER RADIO)
Target is four-by-one degrees
and the crosshairs
are almost aligned.
MAN ON RADIO: Approach speed -
20 centimetres per second.
Preparing the automatic
rendezvous system.
Keep it coming, Tony.
We're good.
OK.
WOMAN ON RADIO:
The target is at the centre.
The crosshairs are aligned
and we're in the final approach.
3.5 squares.
MAN ON RADIO:
Distance to docking - 30 metres.
(PEOPLE CHATTER QUIETLY)
MAN 2 ON RADIO: Alignment is good.
Docking distance - 20 metres
before activation
of the rendezvous system.
20 centimetres a second.
We're in alignment.
Anthony, how are things
looking to you?
They look good.
They didn't give us time
to clean up.
It's starting to stink in here.
(CHUCKLES)
MAN: 1 minute, 10 seconds
to docking.
Activating the automatic
rendezvous system.
(ON RADIO) It'll give
you time to air it out.
(STATIC)
What's happening?
The cargo camera crashed.
WOMAN ON RADIO: We've had
a temporary image loss.
(MONITORS BEEP)
(GRUNTS)
TsUP to Kurz, I got a visual.
You're in alignment.
MAN: 50 seconds.
How's it looking on our side?
We're in autopilot.
Everything is good to go.
OK, ISS to TsUP,
proceed with docking.
We'll trust the computers.
40 seconds to contact.
TsUP to Kurz, you're moving off
centre. You're out of alignment.
ISS, negative.
The data looks good here.
Negative. I repeat,
the cargo is not aligned.
The autopilot system is defective.
Request
collision avoidance manoeuvre.
I repeat, request CAM.
Negative. Docking is imminent.
We are in the no-go zone.
TsUP, the cargo
is gonna crash into us.
MAN ON RADIO: 20 seconds.
The station's overriding
the controls.
They're switching to manual.
What the hell
are they doing up there?
TsUP to Kurz,
I'm taking over control.
ISS, negative. Get back to procedure.
10 seconds.
Eight, seven.
(ON RADIO) Anthony, do you hear me?
Get back to procedure!
Anthony, do you hear me?
Get back to procedure.
That's an order!
(MONITORS BEEP)
ISS, what the hell are you doing?!
Abort! I repeat, abort!
Come on.
(WHOOSHING)
It's too late. In four seconds,
it will touch the ISS.
(METAL GROANS)
Come on! Move, you sonofabitch.
Two. One.
We're gonna crash!
(GASPS)
(ALARM BLARES)
(METAL THUDS AND SCRAPES)
The module's depressurising.
(ALARM BEEPS)
Anna!
(GASPS AND WHEEZES)
(VOICE ECHOES) Anna!
Anna, go!
Get out of there!
Go now!
Get out of there!
Get out of there now!
ANNA!
Anthony! Get out!
Get out!
MAN ON RADIO:
ISS to TsUP, do you copy?
(SOFT STATIC)
ISS to TsUP, do you copy?
Data?
Uh-uh.
Pressure?
No.
Power?
Nothing. We've lost all contact.
Switch to UHF.
ISS to TsUP, do you copy?
ISS to TsUP, do you copy?
Kurz to Mikhail, do you copy?
Kurz to Mikhail, do you copy?
Nothing from the TDRS?
The station's changing
its inclination.
Orbital inclination change
is an angle of two degrees.
And the cargo?
Lost.
Notify the embassies
and inform the media.
The ISS isn't responding.
(PRAYS INDISTINCTLY)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO)
(SPEAKS RUSSIAN)
(REPLIES IN RUSSIAN)
(ENGINE STARTS)
(GRIM, INTENSE MUSIC)
(HORN HONKS)
(WHISTLES) Hey!
Hey!
Hey!
(WHISTLES) Hup, hup!
(GOATS BLEAT)
(CROWS CAW)
As-salaam alaikum.
Wa-alaikum salaam.
As-salaam alaikum.
(SPEAKS RUSSIAN)
MAN:
MAN:
(WIND WHISTLES)
(CROWS CAW)
(UNEASY MUSIC)
(MAN MURMURS INDISTINCTLY)
(MURMURS LOWLY)
(MOURNFUL VOCALISING)
(SIGHS)
(SPITS)
(CAMERA CLICKS)
(MOURNFUL VOCALISING CONTINUES)
(PAPER RUSTLES SOFTLY)
(SIGHS)
(EXHALES SLOWLY)
(SPEAKS FRENCH)
(REPLIES IN FRENCH)
(HALF-LAUGHS)
Hmm.
(NEWSREADER SPEAKS FRENCH ON TV)
(MAN SPEAKS FRENCH ON TV)
(REPORTERS CLAMOUR)
(WOMAN SPEAKS
(MAN TRANSLATES IN FRENCH ON TV)
I have summoned the delegation heads
of the countries concerned -
Mr Wong, CNSA, China,
and Mr Mason, NASA, America.
We will be meeting
to determine a plan of action.
(REPORTERS CLAMOUR)
(WOMAN SPEAKS RUSSIAN)
There are rumours that
Anthony Kurz disobeyed orders
during the docking procedure.
Can you confirm this?
They're just, uh, rumours -
by definition, unfounded.
The time will come to designate
those who are responsible.
For now, we must
stand together. Thank you.
NEWSREADER:
It's quite clear that this
was due to a technical error
(MAN TRANSLATES IN FRENCH)
(TURNS OFF TV)
(TENSE MUSIC)
How dare you accuse us
in front of the media!
You're acting like
they're already dead,
but you cannot deny it -
Kurz was trying to save the crew.
Save the crew?! He disobeyed, Mason.
He's responsible for this tragedy.
Look at that, dammit!
If they were alive, they would have
used the Soyuz to escape.
Maybe they tried to.
Kurz didn't save anyone.
MAN: Sir?
Here's the accident report.
The automatic rendezvous system
program was thoroughly checked.
It's flawless.
What are you trying to say?
What I'm trying to say
is that the cargo was aligned.
The error was human.
If you continue
to publicly accuse Kurz,
I'm going to request having
the investigation handed to Houston.
Mason.
As the Cosmoros
director and manager,
I must warn you,
if you do that,
you're going to destroy
30 years of space collaboration.
And as the head
of the US delegation, Lydia,
I'm telling you, you are about
to destroy what's left of it.
Baikonur's days are numbered.
Private launchers are taking over.
It's a new era.
So that's all it is to you?
Just a trade war?
Would you prefer the Cold War?
(BOTH GRUNT)
(SPEAKS RUSSIAN)
(TRADITIONAL FOLK MUSIC
PLAYS SOFTLY ON RADIO)
(MAN SPEAKS RUSSIAN)
(FLY BUZZES)
(DEVICE BUZZES)
(DEVICE BEEPS)
Hmm.
(SPEAKS RUSSIAN)
(DOOR OPENS)
(DOOR SHUTS)
Yeah?
(SCOFFS)
(QUIET, PENSIVE MUSIC)
(SPEAKS FRENCH)
(PENSIVE MUSIC CONTINUES)
MAN: Welcome to Baikonur.
Most of you don't know me yet,
but I know you, all of you.
My name is Emil Durkhov.
I am the director of operations
for what is likely to be one
of the last flights to the ISS.
I am the little voice that's going
to be whispering in your ear,
the one you can talk to,
a guardian angel,
even if objectively I seem
more like the Holy Father.
(LAUGHTER)
Who could be in a better position
to send you to the heavens?
The Infiniti mission
will be responsible
for dismantling the ISS laboratories
to be deorbited in a few months
towards a future
lunar orbit platform.
Wow. I envy you.
Those ones leaving, I mean.
For the others, the backup team,
you'll just have to pray
that one of the lucky ones
comes down with a stomach flu.
(LAUGHTER)
But rest assured,
you are all exceptional to us.
Their day will come.
I'll let you get settled
in your rooms now.
And, uh, there will be none of that
ending up in the wrong room.
You know the rules.
There are only two loves here -
Greater Russia and outer space.
(LOW, TENSE MUSIC)
(MOURNFUL VOCALISING RISES)
(DOG BARKS)
(CAR RATTLES)
(WIND BLUSTERS)
(FAINT WHISPERING ECHOES)
(MURMURS LOWLY)
(WOMAN SPEAKS RUSSIAN)
ISAAK:
(SCOFFS) Oh!
Ooh-hoo!
(FAINT ETHEREAL MUSIC)
(WHISPERING VOICE ECHOES)
(CHUCKLES)
Mm-hm.
Ooh
(CHUCKLES)
(GRIM MUSIC)
MAN: Anna?
Is he here?
Everyone's here.
Youyou can't come in.
You no longer have clearance.
(EMIL MUTTERS) Get her out of here.
Have you checked
all the relay satellites?
EDRS, TDRS, Tianlian system?
Yeah, the transmitters
were all destroyed.
We're in the dark.
The Soyuz is still there?
They weren't evacuated?
She shouldn't have seen this.
(SPEAKS FRENCH)
(SIGHS)
(SOLEMN MUSIC)
(EXHALES)
Can I borrow it?
Mine's all dried out.
Yes, of course.
Well
Nice watch.
Thanks.
That's your mother's, right?
Yes.
She'd be proud of you.
You can keep it.
(SOLEMN MUSIC CONTINUES)
(MUSIC DARKENS)
(KNOCK AT DOOR)
(KNOCK AT DOOR)
I didn't introduce myself.
Anthony Kurz, NASA.
Anna Zarathi, ESOA.
Yeah, I know.
I'm your new backup.
I'm sorry.
Don't be. I could've been
someone else's backup.
The Russians are still sending dogs
into space, aren't they?
It's amazing.
What?
Your name, Zarathi.
You know where it comes from?
From my father, but I never knew him.
It's Persian.
Yes, I know. It means 'star'.
Well, it just goes to show,
maybe everything is predestined.
(CHUCKLES)
Hey, have you ever heard
have you ever heard of Zarathustra?
'Zarath' means 'star' too.
'Zaradustra' - the 'sublime star',
the sun.
You're not telling me
I'm the daughter of the sun?
No.
But you could be.
I can't believe it. You just said it.
Will you come with me?
Where?
To one of the ceremonies
in the area.
They build these huge bonfires
to celebrate the winter solstice.
You should see it.
I mean, got any other plans?
Goodnight, Anthony.
(UNEASY MUSIC)
(BRAKES SQUEAK)
(ENGINE SHUTS OFF)
(WHISTLES)
Hmm?
BOY:
(SIGHS)
(PENSIVE MUSIC)
Isaak couldn't make it himself?
He's busy.
That's a shame.
(DOOR CLOSES)
How well do you know Isaak?
You didn't come here
to talk about Isaak, did you?
No.
He wants to know what it is.
(COMPUTER BEEPS AND WHIRRS)
(BEEPING)
(PENSIVE MUSIC CONTINUES)
(BEEPS AND TRILLS)
(COMPUTER BEEPS)
(RAPID BEEPING)
We've been caught.
(PHONE RINGS)
Nyet, nyet, nyet.
(ENGINE STARTS)
(WOMAN REPLIES IN RUSSIAN)
(LOW CHATTER ON TV)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER ON TV)
(IMITATES WHOOSHING AND CHUCKLES)
(TENDER MUSIC)
(TENDER MUSIC CONTINUES)
Take it. That way, at least a part
of me will be up there with you.
KURZ: Something's missing.
What is it?
Starlight I.
First American spy satellite.
Launched in 1978.
They put it here,
600 kilometres away.
Just above our heads
..to spy on the Soviets.
(WHISPERS) And now
they're spying on us.
Do they know our secret?
We are all Starlight.
We're military satellites.
How romantic.
Why not?
(CHUCKLES)
Isn't a star just
a giant nuclear bomb?
300 billion megatons of TNT?
I have to go.
The universe is one huge war, Anna.
And in war, you have to fight.
LYDIA: Anna, are you with us?
We're here to understand.
There was an accident,
an accident directly involving
Anthony Kurz.
Is this why I'm here?
To take part of a trial against him?
No, but let's work out
what happened, why he disobeyed.
It seems that
you knew him quite well.
And, um, he called out for you
during the accident.
Why?
EMIL: Anna.
Is it true that you left the base
to go to Semipalatinsk
with Tony Kurz?
Yes.
That's against the rules.
Did you go into
the contaminated zone?
We had taken iodine pills.
The level of radioactivity was low.
Did you ever wonder
if that was why you became ill?
That's absurd. Radioactivity
doesn't cause psychological trauma.
Anna, Kurz took your
backup's place at short notice,
then he took your place,
again at the last minute,
and he was directly involved
in the accident.
MASON: Unfounded speculations.
Come on.
Anthony fired up the Soyuz
to change the ISS course
and reduce the inertia of the shock,
not to destroy the ISS.
Why would he do that?
How did you know that?
We haven't spoken of it yet.
That's the most logical procedure
in case of a docking failure.
(SIGHS) Except that the cargo
was perfectly aligned.
Was it?
But, more importantly,
the service unit's thrusters
were not triggered
until 58 minutes after the impact.
How many degrees?
Two.
And where is it now?
It's gaining altitude and it's
flying over Ukraine at the moment.
In less than an hour, it will fly
over our heads in the debris field.
Over our heads?
Yes.
WONG: Exactly on
our vertical access.
And we can't do a thing about it.
At what altitude over our heads?
Currently, 550 kilometres. In an
hour, it'll be 600 kilometres away.
Starlight.
LYDIA: What did you say?
He's trying to rendezvous with me.
What do you mean?
The ISS is driven
by the SM's thrusters, right?
It's no longer a station.
It's a spaceship.
And it's heading
to a very specific place.
Miss Zarathi, please.
They're alive and they're trying
to make contact with us.
This is a highly serious commission.
Let her finish.
Anthony was part of a top-secret
military program, wasn't he?
He knew about the orbit
of the American satellite.
Starlight I is a spy satellite
from the '70s,
monitoring the region
for over 40 years
there, just over our heads,
600 kilometres away.
Starlight was decommissioned
many years ago.
The optical capacity
was barely enough
toto detect nuclear tests
around Semipalatinsk.
Now, the ISS would literally
have to brush up against her
for us to see anything.
EMIL: But it might work.
One of your countrymen
might end up a hero after all.
Mikhail, what's
the altitude of the ISS?
580 kilometres.
Get me a visual of
the sun-synchronous orbit.
The ISS should cross the Starlight
satellite at around 600 kilometres.
I'm not getting any pings.
What exactly are we looking for?
This is your time to shine, Arwel.
Almost.
(COMPUTER TRILLS)
Done.
The ISS is about to cross that line.
Collision risk - 24%.
MIKHAIL: Their trajectories
will intersect in 10 minutes.
Relative speed -
350 metres per second.
This is going to go very fast.
Too fast.
Don't you want to come and see?
I know he's alive.
How can you be so sure?
I know you went through
a deep depression.
And that you suffer
from paraphrenia.
We both know this isn't
the first time you've
..imagined things.
Now I have proof that it's true,
that it happened.
Maybe it proves that I'm not crazy.
I have something to show you.
Or, rather, someone.
(BRAKES SQUEAK)
ISAAK:
(DOOR OPENS AND SHUTS)
(BOTTLE CLATTERS)
Eh?
(DOOR OPENS AND SHUTS)
(EXHALES SHARPLY)
(WHISPERS) That's impossible.
You knew him better than anyone.
Do you recognise the body?
(EXHALES)
Is it him?
(BREATHES SHAKILY)
MAN: Trajectories
will cross in 10 seconds.
(TIMER BEEPS)
(MOURNFUL VOCALISING)
Nine. Eight. Seven.
Six. Five. Four.
Three. Two. One.
Contact.
The operation was a success.
(TENSE MUSIC)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER ON RADIO)
Zoom in on the Soyuz porthole.
More.
More. More.
More.
Kurz is alive.
KURZ: The universe
is one huge war, Anna.
And in war, you have to fight.
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