INT.

SPACECRAFT BATHROOM - DAY

A MAN, late 20s, stands with his hands planted firmly on the
edges of a sink. He looks down at the plug hole and up again
at the mirror, stretching his arms out as he does so. When he
lifts his hands he leaves vague SWEATY outlines on the metal
sink. The entire bathroom reeks of sterility with all the
hard metal edges about. He continues to stare at the mirror.
The whirring of machinery and the twangs of metal resonate
softly in the background.
Two pieces of paper are on the mirror. One is a small hand
drawn monthly calender with a year on it is up in the right
hand corner of the mirror. The year 2063 is at the top
written in large BLACK LETTERS. BLACK CROSSES blot out the
individual days. The MAN reaches to the top of the mirror a
small shelf sits a toothbrush and black marker on it. He
takes both, crossing out the day at the end of the line-up of
black crosses.
He grabs a tube of toothpaste from the holder below the sink
and pours a microscopic speck on the brush and starts
brushing. He picks up the other piece of paper. A newspaper
picture of him shaking JFKs hand. Neither are smiling. It
features a subtitle that says simply ADAM JONES MEETS WITH
JFK 2 MONTHS BEFORE LIFTOFF. He sticks it back on the mirror
with care right as a ALARM rings through the bathroom.
ADAMS BRUSHING SLOWS TO A HALT. He drops the brush and spits
the toothpaste out, wiping his mouth as he leaves the
bathroom. The ALARM gets louder, and is consistently pulsing.
INT. SPACECRAFT BEDROOM - DAY
ADAM walks fast out of the bathroom and into his bedroom.
Connected by a simple doorway, the room looks comfortable and
simple. A BED, TABLE, WARDROBE and KITCHENETTE are all there.
There is a faint 60s tinge that can be seen through the
workmanlike simplicity to the furniture. THe kitchenette is a
separate walled off section, that looks like it is straight
out of a 60s sitcom, minus the housewife. There a two chairs
at the table, one of which has a pile of blankets or pillows
on it, taped and strung together into a crude human form,
complete with a newspaper advertisement of woman taped to the
top pillow as some kind of face. A RECORD PLAYER sits on the
table and one of the walls covered in newspaper clippings. A
pile of newspapers sit on the bed clipped to pieces.
ADAM crosses the room to a BIG RED LEVER on the wall. There
is a simple white letter A painted at the top of the switch.
ADAM takes the plastic protective cover off and has to pull
it with both hands to get it from the up position to down. It
snaps over with a metallic THUD.

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The ALARM doesnt stop. ADAM grabs the switch again, moving
his body to a more powerful stance before flicking the switch
back and forward rapidly. Lots of loud CLICKS. The ALARM
shuts down.
ADAM sighs.
CUT TO:
INT. SPACECRAFT KITCHENETTE - MOMENTS LATER
ADAM goes to the kitchenette. He opens a cupboard and grabs
the first pre-packed meal he can find. He chucks it in the
microwave. He looks at the ground while it whirls around
slowly. The MICROWAVE provides ADAM with a meditative sound
track for his thoughts. He looks over at the pile of pillows
which can be seen through the kitchenettes little doorway.
ADAM
You hungry?
The pillows dont respond. A loud DING rings out as it
finishes. He walks out of the little kitchenette.
ADAM (CONTD)
Good. Not enough for you anyway.
INT. SPACECRAFT BEDROOM - MOMENTS LATER
ADAM grabs his food and sits it down on the small table.
Underneath the table there is a large stack of RECORDS. He
picks the one off the top of the pile, takes it out of its
sleeve and spins it in between his finger tips. He puts it on
the player and gently rests the needle on top of it. MUSIC
starts playing, ROCK AND ROLL stuff. ADAM moves across the
room to his wall of newspaper clippings, one of which is a
music chart from June 1961, he crosses the album that is
playing now out with a marker from the table. Theres still
another 50 or so albums on the list.
ADAM sits at the table to eat. He eats with an easygoing pace
as he takes in the music. The machines that are beyond the
walls of the room buzz and click softly. Any major influence
they may have had over the sound scape before is drowned out
by the RECORD PLAYER.
The bowl of food is running close to the end. ADAMs fork
scrapes at it over and over picking up the last flakes of
whatevers there. Theyre all bundled together on the fork
when he lifts and shakes it a little, offering it up to the
PILLOW STACK.
No response again. He shrugs and puts the fork in his own
mouth and gets up. He walks back into the kitchenette, fork
in mouth. The room shakes and theres a loud bang. The record
player STOPS as the needle jumps off the record mid song.

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The ALARM sounds again. Louder this time and with no pulsing
pattern, its just a constant series of noise. The room still
shakes a little.
ADAM emerges from the kitchenette looking more concerned than
when the last alarm rang. He walks quickly over to the red
switch and flicks it once, but nothing happens. He looks
around, up at the roof and around at the walls. Still shaking
a little bit. He MUTTERS to himself then looks at the PILLOW
STACK. He watches the record still spin on the table without
its needle. The ALARM feels like its getting louder but
its just so constant it sort of builds into your
consciousness so it becomes all you can think about. ADAM
takes a couple of steps towards the bed and gets down on his
hands and knees to look underneath it.
RATTLES of metal and plastic can be heard only faintly under
the sounds of the alarm. ADAM pulls out a toolbox. Its
unorgansied and brimming with tools and bits and bobs. It
rattles even more as he picks it up and carries it out of the
archway that leads to his room. This archway is bigger and
more clearly defined than the one that leads from his ensuite
bathroom.
INT. SPACECRAFT CORRIDOR - DAY
The 60s DECOR is in full swing in the spaceship corridor.
Tiny window holes allow brief glimpses of the dark and starry
sky outside. ADAM bursts into the hallway gathering speed.
The ALARM still rings loudly but it echoes differently in the
hallway, it has more room to move and so it sounds less
alarming. ADAM certainly doesnt look less alarmed though.
The hallway looks rattled, the paint work is wearing away
with age and any details like codes written under the port
hole windows have all well and truly worn away. Gas pipes can
be heard breaking, you can hear the rush of gas and feel it
sometimes through the vents on the ceiling.
The hallway is really long and wraps around in a circle-like
shape. Toolbox still ringing ADAM is picking up his speed. He
slows down only at a doorway. There he slides back a hatch
and types in a four-digit number. Underneath the screeching
ALARM a BOOP that rises towards a crescendo sounds. THe doors
slide open with a metallic woosh.
INT. SPACECRAFT CONTROL ROOM - MOMENTS LATER
ADAM enters a window less room that contains upwards of ten
computer screens which feature various readings and graphs.
They sit above a desk with a comfortable chair. A microphone
and a whole manner of technological contraptions are on the
desk in front of him. He sits at the chair and types on the
keyboard. BIG RED LETTERS appear on the screen before his
eyes. COMMUNICATIONS ARRAY DISABLED. JETTISON DEBRIS NOW. 4
MINUTES OF SIGNAL REMAINING.

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ADAM
NO. NO. No.
ADAM clicks more on the keyboard. Instead of a short burst as
before, ADAM types for a sustained period. The ALARM has been
switched to a single blast at regular intervals. ADAM flicks
more switches, presses more buttons and pulls more levers.
The ship has stopped its irregular shaking. Suddenly the
screens flicker to all display variations on the same image.
A broken dish on the roof of the ship. ADAM twists to look at
screen after screen, continuing to MUMBLE to himself. More
keyboard clacks as ADAM starts to rewind the video. The video
rushes back in time like a blur before pausing and fast
forwarding but at a slower rate. ADAM finds the point, where
the dish starts to disintegrate. Nothing physically
intervenes with the dish, it spontaneously starts to break
apart.
ADAM rewinds and fasts forward the video a few times. A
familiar BLOOP of the ALARM pulse waking him out of trance.
He spins on his chair and looks around. The crumbling 60s
decor reveals no secrets, it doesnt look remarkably
different to the rest of the ship. Well worn, well lived in
and as well maintained as a simple box of tool can allow it
to be. ADAM kicks the tool box hard, sending tools flying all
over the floor and bumping his chair backward into the desk.
Everything shudders.
ADAM takes a breath and picks up a pair of pliers and a roll
of electrical tape. The roll is nearing the end. He half-runs
to the door again.
INT. SPACECRAFT CORRIDOR - MOMENTS LATER
ADAM gallops up the corridor. He speeds past the little
windows and a couple of doors, paying little attention to
them. They have labels like GYM and MEDICAL inscribed on the
doors. Suddenly his path turns into an arc and with perfect
timing he turns to face a door at the apex of the semicircle.
Putting the electrical tape roll in his MOUTH and holding the
pliers between his thighs, ADAM starts to pat himself down,
hitting his chest and sides as he frisks himself. On his way
to his backside his right hand bumps a tiny leather wallet
that holds a set of keys. The keys are wrapped in tape
individually. ADAM starts to unwrap one of the keys and tries
it in the lock of the door in front of him. It doesnt work.
He tries the next key, barely still clutching the pliers
between his knees. It doesnt work either. As he unwraps the
next key his knees let go of the pliers and drool starts to
build up around the edges of his mouth as his teeth grip the
tape. THIS KEY WORKS. But the door doesnt pop open straight
away. ADAM puts a shoulder into it and the door springs open
with a solid pop. You can hear a gush of stale air rush by
and the sound of baubles jingling.

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INT. SPACECRAFT STORAGE CUPBOARD - MOMENTS LATER

As ADAM shoves the door open more baubles and ornaments
jingle and crash to the floor. The sounds of Christmas
smashing itself up into a million tiny pieces. The room is
dark and small. Its for all intents and purposes a storage
closet. Metal brackets and sleeves line the walls and each is
loaded with variously themed trinkets and items. The baubles
have fallen from the top shelf on the left. The Christmas
shelf. Othe rshelves at the back have little rungs on them,
where ropes and chains could hang, but theyre empty.
ADAM looks around after giving himself a moment to let his
eyes adjust to the dark room and to re-gather his bearings.
Theres junk in between the shelves that is ankle deep. ADAM
wades through towards the middle of the room. The shelves are
tall, the highest one towers above ADAM. He uses the bottom
shelf as a step up to reach the top. After shuffling around a
medium sized christmas tree, ADAM grabs a medium sized box.
The room is still dark save for a beam of light shining in
from the corridor. ADAM shuffles about bumping the box into
various things as he slides it off the shelf. More ornaments
and equipment falls to the floor. One is a box of newspapers
with the top one on the pile loudly proclaiming HOW LONG IS
FOREVER? Another displeased image of ADAM accompanies the
title. Things dont make as much noise when they fall now
that items are just falling on top of one another. The ALARM
still sounds every few seconds and the regular lighting has
started to occasionally flash red. As ADAM leaves the room he
grabs a long stepladder from behind the door. Tape and pliers
in mouth, box in one arm and ladder under the other ADAM
heads back into the hallway.
INT. SPACECRAFT CORRIDOR - MOMENTS LATER
Arms loaded ADAM stumbles up the hallway as fast as he can.
He passes doors and port-holes again, this time however hes
looking toward the roof where every few metres there is a
hatch. He gets almost all the way back to his room before he
stops at a hatch labelled ROOF/COMMS ACCESS. He sets the
ladder down underneath it and dumps the box beside it.
ADAM crouches down to open the box. Christmas lights. Metres
and metres of them. He sticks his hand into the box and they
just seem to keep coming out like twine. He stops with the
single handed pulling and just turns the box upside down
dumping the enormous tangle of cords, bound in loops with
long black twist ties onto the ground. ADAM starts to unwind
the bunch throwing the ends up the hallway to try and
straighten them out. The ALARM rings again.
Five strands of Christmas lights are all laid parallel next
to each other up the hallway. They are strecthed a
significant distance, near 5 metres.

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ADAM gets down on his hands and knees and starts to BIND them
together with the roll of electrical tape, using the pliers
to pull the cords as tight as he can.
A ROPE OF CHRISTMAS LIGHTS now sits in the hallway, ending at
the ladder. ADAM pulls at the lights several times without
breaking it. ADAM quickly moves to the end of the light rope
and creates a loop. The LIGHT ROPE is now a LIGHT LASOO.
LIGHT LASOO in hand, ADAM climbs the ladder and grabs the
handle on the latch. A WARNING LABEL on the hatch reads
BEWARE: GRAVITISED BUT NOT OXYGENATED WHEN OPEN. ANother sign
just below that one reads HEAT FROM NEARBY SOURCES COULD BE
DANGEROUS SHIELD YOURSELF BEFORE OPENING. ADAM grips the
LIGHT LASOO tighter while with his left hand cracks open the
hatch just a tiny bit. Enough to get the LASOO out the gap.
The sound of the alarm is gone. All sound is in fact gone as
the air gets literally sucked out of the room with a single
slurp. ADAM continues to look through the crack craning his
head back and forth before stopping and watching a specific
point. He has no physiological reaction to the lack of
oxygen. His body only moves briefly because of the gust of
wind. The damaged satellite dish can be seen. Its still
falling apart.
ADAM threads the LIGHT LASOO through the crack. He slowly
gets more and more of it out of the hole and into space.
There is still a gravitational pull to the craft that gives
him a physical control over the loop.
INT. SPACECRAFT CONTROL ROOM
On the monitors a thick green, electrically taped rope of
christmas lights appears from a hatch adjacent to the damaged
dish. It moves around a bit, as more of it comes through the
hole.
INT. SPACECRAFT CORRIDOR
ADAM jiggles the cable now. He gives the cable some longer
pushes, attempting to propel the looped end further towards
the damage.
INT. SPACECRAFT CONTROL ROOM
The monitors show the LASOO edging even closer. The edge of
the LASOO bumping the dish. The rope of lights itself starts
to drop a bit.

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INT. SPACECRAFT CORRIDOR

ADAM
Gotta get it over the top. Gotta
drag the thing in.
ADAM attempts to get the cable to lift over the top of the
dish. He pulls up hard.
INT. SPACECRAFT CONTROL ROOM
The electrical tape bindings on the rope of Christmas lights
break apart. SENDING GREEN TENTACLES OF CHRISTMAS LIGHTS
SPIRALING AROUND OUTSIDE as they float beyond the gravity
enabled zone.
INT. SPACECRAFT CORRIDOR
ADAM feels the cable go light. He screams in frustration. He
looks down from the top of his ladder toward the ground. The
roll of electrical tape sits there, nearly empty. Through the
gap he can see the LIGHTS FLYING LOOSE. He lets them go.. The
trail of lights slowly sliding through the gap until theyre
all gone and then he closes the hatch. The oxygen supply
kicks back in and the pressure equalises.
Once ADAM is off the ladder he kicks it over.
INT. SPACECRAFT CONTROL ROOM
We see the monitors now showing a countdown timer for one
minute. Red letters say that THE DAMAGED GOODS WILL BE
JETTISONED AT THIS TIME.
INT. SPACECRAFT CORRIDOR
ADAM runs up the corridor towards the CONTROL ROOM. He double
checks the storage room as he passes. Sticking is hea din
briefly to look around.
CUT TO:
INT. SPACECRAFT CONTROL ROOM
ADAM enters the control tom again. The screen has 35 SECONDS
on the clock. He screams and punches the desk. He punches the
chair too, it spins away wildly. The screens show the dish
crumbling a way more and more, bit by bit.
STATIC pours out of the speakers. Followed by a calm. Human
voice.

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SPEAKER VOICE
Adam! Before you go dark we need to
clarify that the mission will still
proceed. You do not need Comms
access to complete the mission.
ADAM
Fuck you! You cant just leave me
here!
SPEAKER VOICE
Youll outlive everybody Adam.
Weve already left you.
The STATIC disappears and with it the voice. The timer ticks
to ZERO and the last of the dish breaks away into space. The
ALARM stops sounding.
A MESSAGE appears on the screen. SORRY. The simple black text
blinks for a few seconds and then disappears. ADAM sits in
the chair, surrounded only by the mechanical pops and twangs
of a spacecraft operating away around him.
INT. SPACECRAFT BEDROOM
A shot of the wall of newspapers. One of them carries the
headline: IMMORTAL TO TAKE GIANT LEAP FOR MAN KIND. ADAM is
in the accompanying picture, handcuffed and forced into a
space craft by gun toting police.