7بخش

What was that

The first handshake.

Were.

Were here.

So the lost communications came through.

How

The relay on this side cached them.

So years of basic data.

No real surprises.

Millers site has kept pinging thumbs up, as has Dr. Manns.

Um.

Edmunds went down three years ago.

Transmitter failure

Maybe.

He was sending the thumbs up right until it went dark.

But Millers still looks good though, right

Because she’s coming up fast.

Mm-hm.

With one complication.

The planet is much closer to Gargantua than we thought.

Gargantua

It’s what were calling the black hole.

Millers and Dr. Manns planets both orbit it.

And Millers is on the horizon

As a basketball around a hoop.

Landing there takes us dangerously close.

And a black hole that big has a huge gravitational pull.

Look, I could swing around that neutron star to decelerate.

No, it’s not that.

It’s time.

The gravity on that planet will slow our clock compared to Earths drastically.

How bad

Every hour we spend on that planet will be seven years back on Earth.

Jesus.

Well, that’s relativity, folks.

Well, we cant just drop down there without.

Cooper, we have a mission.

Yeah, Doyle, we have a mission, and our mission Plan A is to find a planet that can habitate the people that are living on Earth now.

You cant just think about your family.

Now you have to think bigger.

I am thinking about my family and millions of other families, okay

Plan A does not work if the people on Earth are dead by the time we pull it off.

No, It doesn’t.

That’s why there;s a Plan B.

Okay.

Coopers right.

We need to think of time as a resource, like oxygen and food going down will cost us.

All right, look.

Dr. Manns data is promising, but it will take months to get there.

And Edmunds, its even further.

Miller hasn’t sent much, but what she has is very promising.

It’s water, it’s organics.

You don’t find that every day.

No, you don’t.

And just think about the resources, including time that would be spent trying to get back here.

Romilly

Yeah

how far off from Millers planet do we have to be to stay out of the time shift

Just back from the cusp.

All right, which is here, just outside of Millers planet.

Right.

Okay.

Here’s Gargantua.

Here’s Millers planet.

Instead of taking the Endurance into orbit around Millers planet which would conserve fuel, but we would lose a lot of time

what if we take a wider orbit around Gargantua, parallel with Millers planet outside of this time shift, to here

Then we take the Ranger down, we get Miller, we get her samples.

We come back, we analyze, we debrief.

Were in, were out.

We lose a little fuel, but we save a whole lot of time.

That’ll work.

That’s good.

There’s no time for monkey business or chit-chat down there.

So, TARS, you should definitely stay here.

CASE, you’re with me.

Anyone else can stay.

If were talking about a couple years, I could use the time to research gravity.

Observations from the wormhole, that’s gold to Professor Brand.

TARS, factor an orbit of Gargantua.

Conserve fuel, minimize thrusting, but make sure we stay in range of Millers planet.

You got it

I wouldn’t leave you behind Dr. Brand.

You ready, CASE

Yup.

You don’t say much, do you

TARS talks plenty for both of us.

Detach.

Romilly, are you reading these forces

It’s unbelievable.

A literal heart of darkness.

If we could just see the collapsed star inside the singularity, yeah, wed solve gravity.

And we cant get anything from it

Nothing escapes that horizon.

Not even light.

The answers there, just no way to see it.

There’s Millers planet.

Goodbye, Ranger.

This is fast for atmospheric entry.

Should we use the thrusters to slow

No.

I’m gonna use the Rangers aerodynamics to save some fuel.

Air brake

We want to get down fast, don’t we

We want to get there in one piece.

Hang on.

Brand, Doyle, get ready.

We should ease

Hands where I can see them.

The only time I went down was when a machine was easing at the wrong time.

A little caution Can get you killed, like reckless driving.

Cooper, its too damn fast

I got this.

Should I disable the feedback

No, I need to feel the air.

Here we go.

It’s just water

The stuff of life.

Twelve hundred meters.

Do we have a fix on the beacon

Got it

Can you maneuver

I’ll need to shave some speed.

I’m gonna spiral down on top of it.

Everybody hang on

Seven hundred.

On my cue, CASE.

On my cue.

Five hundred meters.

Fire

Very graceful.

No.

But very efficient.

What are you waiting for

Let’s go

Go, go, go

Seven years per hour here.

Let’s make it count

This way.

About 200 meters.

The gravity’s punishing.

Been floating through space too long

One hundred and thirty percent Earth gravity.

Come on.

Come on.

There’s nothing here.

Should be right here.

If the signals coming from here, then.

Her beacon.

Wreckage.

Where’s the rest

Towards the mountains

Those aren’t mountains.

They’re waves.

Oh, shit.

Oh, shit.

Oh, shit.

That ones moving away from us.

We need the recorder.