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He came back

It was him all the time I didn’t know.

It was him

Dad’s gonna save us.

Eureka

It’s traditional.

Eureka

Did it work?

I think it might have.

How do you know?

Because the bulk beings are closing the tesseract.

Don’t you get it yet, TARS?

They’re not beings.

They’re us.

What I’ve been doing for Murph, they’re doing for me.

For all of us.

Cooper, people couldn’t build this.

No.

No, not yet.

But one day.

Not you and me.

But people.

A civilization that’s evolved past the four dimensions we know.

What happens now?

Mr Cooper.

All right.

Let’s take it slow, sir.

Nice and easy, Mr Cooper.

Remember, you’re no spring chicken anymore.

Actually, you are 124 years old.

Take it slow, sir.

You were, uh, extremely lucky.

The Rangers found you with only minutes left in your oxygen supply.

Where am I?

Cooper Station.

Currently orbiting Saturn.

Cooper Station.

Nice of you to name it after me.

What?

The station isn’t named after you, sir.

It’s, uh, named after your daughter.

Although she’s always maintained just how important you were.

Is she still alive?

She’ll be here in a couple weeks.

She is far too old to be transferring from another station but when she heard that you’d been found

well, this is, uh, Murphy Cooper were talking about.

Yes, it is.

Well have you checked out of here in a couple days.

I’m sure you’ll be excited to see what’s in store.

I actually, uh, did a paper on you in high school.

I know all about your life back on Earth.

Oh, yeah.

Right.

If, If you’ll follow me, we’ve got a really good situation for you.

So, uh, when I made my suggestion to Miss Cooper I was delighted to hear that she thought it was perfect.

It was just constant.

Just that steady blow of dirt.

Of course, I didn’t speak to her personally.

We always set the plate upside down glasses or cups, whatever it was, upside down.

Well, my dad was a farmer.

Uh, like everybody else back then.

There just wasn’t enough food.

We wore little things, little strips of sheet over our nose and mouth so we wouldn’t breathe so much of it.

Well, it was pretty exciting for me because it was hope.

I don’t care who describes it, there is no way for it to be exaggerated.

It was that bad.

She did confirm just how much you loved farming.

Oh, she did, did she?

Yeah.

Come here.

Home sweet home.

Everything replaced and put back where it.

Hey, is this?

Oh, yeah.

The machine we found out near Saturn when we found you.

Yes.

It’s, uh, power source was shot, but we could get you another one.

Yes.

Please.

Settings.

General settings.

Security settings.

Honesty, new setting

95 percent.

Confirmed.

Additional customization?

Humor

75 percent.

Confirmed.

Auto selfdestruct Tminus 10, nine.

Let’s make that 60 percent.

Sixty percent confirmed.

Knock knock.

You want 55?

Is this really what it was like?

It was never this clean, Slick.

Heh.

I don’t care much for this pretending were back where we started.

I want to know where we are.

Where were going.

Mr Cooper.

The family’s all in there.

Yeah.

Family?

Yeah, they all came out to see her.

She’s been in cryosleep for almost two years.