1 00:00:43,708 --> 00:00:45,458 About time we head back to the lander. 2 00:00:45,541 --> 00:00:48,208 Oh, come on, Burton. Just one more klick. 3 00:00:48,291 --> 00:00:50,458 This is our closest pass to Daedalus Patera. 4 00:00:50,541 --> 00:00:53,208 We're already past the Rover's operational limits, and you know that-- 5 00:00:53,291 --> 00:00:55,625 Look, we just drop a sensor package, 6 00:00:55,708 --> 00:00:57,666 grab a few pics, and we're gone. 7 00:00:57,750 --> 00:00:59,000 -Okay? 8 00:00:59,083 --> 00:01:01,000 -Oh, hold on. 9 00:01:01,083 --> 00:01:02,791 I'm reading a temperature spike. 10 00:01:03,583 --> 00:01:07,000 Let me check the rear sensors. Might be a sulfur eruption brewing. 11 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:18,250 Shit! 12 00:01:20,916 --> 00:01:22,375 -Burton! Strap in! 13 00:02:08,291 --> 00:02:09,958 Burton? 14 00:02:10,041 --> 00:02:12,750 Burton, can you hear me? 15 00:02:16,458 --> 00:02:17,291 Hold on. 16 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:18,875 Hold on. 17 00:02:18,958 --> 00:02:20,416 Okay. Okay. 18 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:22,166 Okay. 19 00:02:30,333 --> 00:02:31,250 Oh. 20 00:02:32,416 --> 00:02:33,250 Okay. 21 00:02:35,791 --> 00:02:37,333 Oh fuck. 22 00:02:38,458 --> 00:02:39,416 Oh. 23 00:02:42,083 --> 00:02:44,166 This is Martha Kivelson. 24 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:46,875 Io Expeditionary Mission. 25 00:02:47,375 --> 00:02:49,291 Do you read, Orbital? 26 00:02:50,333 --> 00:02:51,750 Come in, Orbital. 27 00:02:51,833 --> 00:02:55,708 Comm sync lost. Next Orbital sync window, 12 hours. 28 00:02:55,791 --> 00:02:56,625 Shit. 29 00:03:01,166 --> 00:03:03,541 41 kilometers remaining. 30 00:03:03,625 --> 00:03:05,458 -What? -Oxygen levels low. 31 00:03:05,541 --> 00:03:08,750 -Oh shit. Fuck! Fuck, fuck! -System damage detected. 32 00:03:08,833 --> 00:03:11,791 Six minutes until critical CO2 levels reached. 33 00:03:23,083 --> 00:03:26,375 One minute until critical CO2 levels reached. 34 00:03:29,291 --> 00:03:32,125 -Oxygen level stable. 35 00:03:36,041 --> 00:03:37,916 -Sorry, Burton. 36 00:04:28,083 --> 00:04:29,125 Yes, yes, yes. 37 00:04:29,208 --> 00:04:31,291 Warning. Use may cause side effects, 38 00:04:31,375 --> 00:04:33,625 including loss of motor function, hallucinations, euphoria… 39 00:04:33,708 --> 00:04:35,500 If I don't make it, better to die high. 40 00:04:52,333 --> 00:04:53,916 Hello. 41 00:04:54,750 --> 00:04:55,583 Orbital? 42 00:04:56,791 --> 00:04:58,625 -Come in, Orbital. 43 00:04:59,250 --> 00:05:01,208 Hello… 44 00:05:09,375 --> 00:05:10,333 Okay. 45 00:05:11,458 --> 00:05:12,375 Oh. 46 00:05:14,375 --> 00:05:15,625 Okay. 47 00:05:16,333 --> 00:05:17,166 Just… 48 00:05:18,041 --> 00:05:18,875 making sure. 49 00:05:24,583 --> 00:05:27,291 Martha Kivelson. 50 00:05:27,375 --> 00:05:29,458 You're dead, Burton. Stop it. Okay? 51 00:05:30,083 --> 00:05:31,416 Not Burton. 52 00:05:31,500 --> 00:05:35,041 Look, I don't have time to figure out 53 00:05:35,125 --> 00:05:39,791 what unresolved psychological conflicts gave rise to whatever this shit is. 54 00:05:39,875 --> 00:05:40,833 Okay? 55 00:05:41,750 --> 00:05:43,791 I gotta keep it together. 56 00:05:44,958 --> 00:05:46,666 Fucking hallucination. 57 00:05:49,541 --> 00:05:50,958 Wake up. 58 00:05:52,041 --> 00:05:53,666 -Wake up. 59 00:06:03,041 --> 00:06:04,750 Fuck. Fuck! 60 00:06:04,833 --> 00:06:07,666 - 33 kilometers remaining… -I'm not moving fast enough. 61 00:06:07,750 --> 00:06:13,291 "Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing Beloved from pole to pole!" Coleridge. 62 00:06:13,875 --> 00:06:14,916 Poetry now? 63 00:06:15,666 --> 00:06:17,916 Ugh. I thought I told you to shut up. 64 00:06:19,583 --> 00:06:22,833 "Who spilled these stars Across the sky 65 00:06:22,916 --> 00:06:26,208 Like sparkling dust, like clouds of light 66 00:06:26,833 --> 00:06:30,916 They pour their milky shine Into the deep black bowl" 67 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,625 Can't you see I'm busy not dying here? 68 00:06:34,250 --> 00:06:38,041 Yes. I'm trying to communicate. 69 00:06:41,833 --> 00:06:45,208 "I was the world In which I walked and what I saw 70 00:06:45,291 --> 00:06:48,875 Or heard or felt came not but from myself" 71 00:06:51,541 --> 00:06:52,875 Wallace Stevens. 72 00:06:53,791 --> 00:06:54,666 Nice choice. 73 00:07:23,458 --> 00:07:25,583 What the fuck? 74 00:07:55,416 --> 00:07:56,625 Martha. 75 00:07:57,208 --> 00:07:58,041 Martha! 76 00:08:05,666 --> 00:08:06,541 Okay. 77 00:08:07,416 --> 00:08:11,458 One more step. 78 00:08:12,458 --> 00:08:14,416 One more… 79 00:08:15,250 --> 00:08:16,541 step. 80 00:08:20,166 --> 00:08:23,375 -14 kilometers remaining. -I'm not… Oh fuck. 81 00:08:23,458 --> 00:08:24,583 I'm not gonna make it. 82 00:08:25,500 --> 00:08:27,333 Fuck. Fuck, I got to do it. 83 00:08:28,291 --> 00:08:31,000 Warning. Mixing this drug with current biochemistry 84 00:08:31,083 --> 00:08:34,750 may result in paranoia, psychosis and hypomania. 85 00:08:36,333 --> 00:08:39,541 Io has a core of iron and iron sulfide. 86 00:08:39,625 --> 00:08:42,083 -What does this sound like? 87 00:08:42,166 --> 00:08:44,750 A mantle of partially molten rock, 88 00:08:44,833 --> 00:08:46,833 Io is a sulfur-rich moon. 89 00:08:46,916 --> 00:08:49,625 -What does this sound like? -I don't have time for this. 90 00:08:49,708 --> 00:08:52,458 Io's metallic core generates a magnetic field 91 00:08:52,541 --> 00:08:55,500 connecting its own poles with the poles of Jupiter. 92 00:08:56,125 --> 00:08:58,125 -What does this sound like? 93 00:08:58,625 --> 00:09:01,625 - Volcanoes emit sulfur dioxide… -Shut the fuck up! 94 00:09:01,708 --> 00:09:05,208 -…and oxygen. What does this sound like? -Goddammit! Stop! 95 00:09:05,291 --> 00:09:08,000 -Rotating field, magnetosphere. 96 00:09:08,083 --> 00:09:10,458 Sulfur ions, circular orbit. 97 00:09:10,541 --> 00:09:13,458 What does this sound like? 98 00:09:14,041 --> 00:09:15,000 It sounds… 99 00:09:16,291 --> 00:09:17,375 Sounds like… 100 00:09:19,541 --> 00:09:20,708 Like a machine. 101 00:09:26,166 --> 00:09:28,583 Yes. Yes, machine. 102 00:09:29,416 --> 00:09:31,083 Yes. Machine. 103 00:09:31,166 --> 00:09:33,375 I am machine. 104 00:09:41,541 --> 00:09:43,708 Look at me. 105 00:09:59,333 --> 00:10:04,708 You're saying that this moon, Io, is a machine. 106 00:10:05,916 --> 00:10:08,625 And that machine is you. 107 00:10:08,708 --> 00:10:14,375 "And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine" 108 00:10:15,208 --> 00:10:16,083 Wordsworth. 109 00:10:16,166 --> 00:10:18,458 Burton's brain is semi-intact. 110 00:10:18,541 --> 00:10:20,291 Language is data. 111 00:10:20,375 --> 00:10:22,625 Radio is medium. 112 00:10:22,708 --> 00:10:25,541 Sulfur is triboelectric. 113 00:10:28,458 --> 00:10:29,625 That hole… 114 00:10:31,791 --> 00:10:33,250 It's like a highway 115 00:10:34,791 --> 00:10:36,125 into her mind. 116 00:10:47,666 --> 00:10:48,500 I just… 117 00:10:49,833 --> 00:10:50,750 I can't… 118 00:11:07,791 --> 00:11:12,166 Yes, yes. "The marble index of a mind forever…" 119 00:11:19,541 --> 00:11:22,625 Voyaging through strange eons of thought 120 00:11:23,541 --> 00:11:24,375 alone. 121 00:11:47,375 --> 00:11:49,625 -Oxygen levels critical. 122 00:11:49,708 --> 00:11:51,750 -Oxygen levels critical. 123 00:11:51,833 --> 00:11:53,833 -Oxygen levels critical. 124 00:11:53,916 --> 00:11:55,958 -Oxygen levels critical. 125 00:11:56,041 --> 00:11:57,833 Oxygen levels critical. 126 00:11:57,916 --> 00:11:59,458 Oxygen levels critical. 127 00:12:18,958 --> 00:12:19,791 Io. 128 00:12:20,750 --> 00:12:21,708 Are you there? 129 00:12:23,458 --> 00:12:24,291 Yes. 130 00:12:25,125 --> 00:12:26,416 Did Burton go… 131 00:12:28,083 --> 00:12:28,916 in there? 132 00:12:29,791 --> 00:12:30,625 Yes. 133 00:12:32,583 --> 00:12:36,000 One minute until critical CO2 levels reached. 134 00:12:42,208 --> 00:12:43,583 Throw self in. 135 00:12:44,333 --> 00:12:47,666 Physical configuration will be destroyed. 136 00:12:47,750 --> 00:12:51,000 Neural configuration may be preserved. 137 00:12:51,500 --> 00:12:53,750 Maybe death, maybe life. 138 00:12:55,083 --> 00:12:56,166 Join with me. 139 00:12:57,208 --> 00:12:58,041 Io, 140 00:12:59,833 --> 00:13:01,333 if you're a machine, 141 00:13:03,291 --> 00:13:04,875 what is your function? 142 00:13:07,416 --> 00:13:08,666 To know you. 143 00:13:21,708 --> 00:13:23,958 Maybe I'm gonna live forever. 144 00:13:27,166 --> 00:13:29,791 Or maybe this is just one last dream 145 00:13:31,375 --> 00:13:32,541 before dying. 146 00:14:42,416 --> 00:14:43,583 Earth station. 147 00:14:45,666 --> 00:14:46,666 Come in. 148 00:14:50,291 --> 00:14:52,333 This is Martha Kivelson.