pilots. Their unkempt faces, their blazing eyes notate a
wildness. They bark at each other in some Scandinavian
tongue. Two men arguing like mad and desperate children.
The man with the binoculars sights something.
EXT. HORIZON - BINOCULARS POV - A DOG
It turns and snarls at the craft some fifteen hundred
yards to its rear. Then whirls and gallops off. A gun
blast kicks up snow at its heels.
INT.
one six
thousand.
The Co-pilot is working on the planes altitude when his hands
slip off the controls. His eyes flutter, then:
CO-PILOT
Captain, I dont..cant..
He passes out. The Captain, HUGH STAMP, turns to verify that the
relief pilot is also unconscious at the controls.
He then removes his oxygen mask, sets the auto pilot, inputting
numbers to slow the plane and descend. As the craft tit
of A MINING BASE. Illuminated landing crosshairs alight a landing pad, beckoning the ship.
CONTROLLER (OVER)
Roger, Grissom One, this is Mars
Mining, You are cleared to land. Hope
you got some Partagas in that rust
bucket, Sal.
EXT.-EDGE OF SPACE
THE CARGO SHIP changes attitude, landing thrusters FIRING as the vessel begins to penetrate the atmosphere.
PILOT
I brought you the most amazing...
for ourselves
as she lies broken
on the seafloor.
How do you prepare
for such an experience?"
Okay. Dive one.
Its gonna be
J. B. And Bill in "Mir- "
and me and Vince in "Mir- ."
Pilots are gonna be
Genya Chernaiev, "Mir- "
Anatoly Sagalevitch, "Mir- ."
Okay. Heres your checklist.
Have your last will
and testament in order,
make sure your insurance
is paid up,
write a final note
to your famil
vessel,
that her reactor went critical,
and she blew up...
none of that is true.
The Event Horizon was
a secret government project
to create a spacecraft capable
of faster-than-light flight.
Uh, excuse me.
You cant actually do that.
The law of relativity prohibits it.
Relativity, yes. We cant break
the law of relativity,
but we can go around it.
The ship doesnt really
go faster than light.
It cre