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Hey, Murph?

Murph!

I think this is the end of the road.

Didn’t you bring the bolt cutters?

That’s my girl.

Step away!

Don’t shoot!

I’m not armed.

My daughters in the car.

Don’t be afraid.

Aah!

How did you find this place?

Where’s my daughter?

You had the coordinates for this facility marked on your map. Where did you get them?

Where’s my daughter?

Don’t make me take you down again.

Sit down!

Oh, you still think youre a Marine, pal?

Marines don’t exist anymore.

And I got grunts like you mowing my grass.

Where did you find those coordinates?

But you don’t look much like a lawnmower.

Think I’ll turn you into an overqualified vacuum cleaner.

No, you wont.

TARS, back down, please.

You know, you’re taking a risk using ex-military security.

They’re old, and their control units are unpredictable.

It’s what the government could spare.

Who are you?

Dr. Brand.

I knew a Dr. Brand once.

He was a professor.

What makes you think I’m not?

Wasn’t near as cute, either.

Please, Dr. Brand.

I don’t have any idea what this is.

Now I’m scared for my daughter and want her by my side.

You give me that, I’ll tell you anything you want to know.

Get the principals and the girl in the conference room, please.

Your daughter is fine.

Bright kid.

Must have a very smart mother.

It’s pretty clear you don’t want any visitors.

So why don’t you just let us back up from your fence and well be on our way?

Huh?

It’s not that simple.

Well, sure, it is.

I don’t know anything about you.

I don’t know anything about this place.

Yes, you do.

Dad!

Hello, Cooper.

Professor Brand.

Explain to me how you found this facility.

Kind of an accident.

We sort of stumbled upon it.

We were on a salvage run

You’re sitting in the best-kept secret in the world.

Nobody stumbles in here.

Nobody stumbles out.

Cooper, please.

Cooperate with these people.

Look.

It’s kind of hard to explain.

We learned these coordinates from an anomaly.

What sort of anomaly?

I hesitate to term it supernatural, but it definitely wasn’t scientific.

You’re going to have to be specific, Mr. Cooper.

Right now.

It was gravity.

Um, what sort of gravitational anomaly?

Where was this?

Now, I’m real happy that you’re excited about gravity, but but you’re not getting any answers from us until I get assurances.

Assurances?

Yeah.

Like, that were getting out of here.

And I don’t mean in the trunk of some car.

Don’t you know who we are, Coop?

No, professor, I don’t.

You know my father, Professor Brand.

Were NASA.

NASA?

NASA.

The same NASA you flew for.

I heard they shut you down, sir for refusing to drop bombs from the stratosphere onto starving people.

When they realized that killing other people was not a long-term solution, then they needed us back.

In secret.

Why secret?

Because public opinion wouldn’t allow spending on space exploration.

Not while you’re struggling to put food on the table.

Blight.

Wheat seven years ago.

Okra this year.

Now there’s just corn.

And were growing more than we ever have.

But like the potatoes in Ireland and the wheat in the Dust Bowl the corn will die.

Soon.

Well find a way, professor.

We always have.

Driven by the unshakable faith the Earth is ours.

Not just ours, no.

But it is our home.

Earth’s atmosphere is 80 percent nitrogen.

We don’t even breathe nitrogen.

Blight does.

And as it thrives, our air gets less and less oxygen.

The last people to starve will be the first to suffocate.

And your daughters generation will be the last to survive on Earth.

Murph is tired.

I was wondering if she could take a nap in my office.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Okay, now you need to tell me what your plan is to save the world.

Were not meant to save the world.

Were meant to leave it.

Rangers.

The last components of our one versatile ship in orbit, the Endurance.

Our final expedition.

You sent people out there looking for a new home?

The Lazarus missions.

Oh, that sounds cheerful.

Lazarus came back from the dead.

Sure, but he had to die in the first place.

There’s not a planet in our solar system that could sustain life and the nearest stars over a thousand years away.

That doesn’t even qualify as futile.

Where’d you send them?

Cooper, I cant tell you anymore unless you agree to pilot this craft.

You’re the best pilot we ever had.

I barely left the stratosphere.

This team never left the simulator.

We need a pilot, and this is the mission that you were trained for.

Without even knowing it?

An hour ago, you didn’t even know I was alive.

You were going anyway.

We had no choice.

But something sent you here.

They chose you.

Who’s they?

How long would I be gone?

Hard to know.

Years?

I’ve got kids, professor.

Get out there and save them.

Who’s they?

We started detecting gravitational anomalies almost 50 years ago.

Mostly small distortions to our instruments in the upper atmosphere.

In fact, I believe you encountered one yourself.

Yeah, over the Straights.

My crash.

Something tripped my fly-by-wire.

Exactly.

But of all these anomalies, the most significant is this Out near Saturn a disturbance of space-time.

Is that a wormhole?

It appeared 48 years ago.

And it leads where?

Another galaxy.

A wormholes not a naturally occurring phenomenon.

Someone placed it there.

They?

Mm.

And whoever they are, they appear to be looking out for us.

That wormhole let’s us travel to other stars.

It came along right as we needed it.

They’ve put potentially habitable worlds right within our reach.

Twelve, in fact, from our initial probes.

You sent probes into that?

Mm-hm.

We sent people into it, ten years ago.

The Lazarus missions.

Twelve possible worlds twelve Ranger launches carrying the bravest humans ever to live led by the remarkable Dr. Mann.

Each persons landing pod had enough life support for two years.

But they could use hibernation to stretch that making observations on organics over a decade or more.

Their mission was to assess their world, and if it showed potential then they could send out a signal, bed down for the long nap, wait to be rescued.

And what if the world didn’t show promise?

Hence the bravery.

You don’t have the resources to visit all 12.

No.

Data transmission back through the wormhole is rudimentary.

Simple binary pings on an annual basis give us some clue as to which worlds have potential.

And one system shows promise.

One.

That’s a bit of a long shot, isn’t it?

One system with three potential worlds?

No long shot.

Okay.

So if we find a home

then what?

That’s the long shot.

There’s a Plan A and a Plan B.

Did you notice anything strange about the launch chamber?