1 00:00:43,751 --> 00:00:45,501 About time we head back to the lander. 2 00:00:45,584 --> 00:00:48,251 Oh, come on, Burton. Just one more klick. 3 00:00:48,334 --> 00:00:50,501 This is our closest pass to Daedalus Patera. 4 00:00:50,584 --> 00:00:53,251 We're already past the Rover's operational limits, and you know that-- 5 00:00:53,334 --> 00:00:55,668 Look, we just drop a sensor package, 6 00:00:55,751 --> 00:00:57,709 grab a few pics, and we're gone. 7 00:00:57,793 --> 00:00:59,043 -Okay? 8 00:00:59,126 --> 00:01:01,043 -Oh, hold on. 9 00:01:01,126 --> 00:01:02,834 I'm reading a temperature spike. 10 00:01:03,626 --> 00:01:07,043 Let me check the rear sensors. Might be a sulfur eruption brewing. 11 00:01:17,043 --> 00:01:18,293 Shit! 12 00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:22,418 -Burton! Strap in! 13 00:02:08,334 --> 00:02:10,001 Burton? 14 00:02:10,084 --> 00:02:12,793 Burton, can you hear me? 15 00:02:16,501 --> 00:02:17,334 Hold on. 16 00:02:18,043 --> 00:02:18,918 Hold on. 17 00:02:19,001 --> 00:02:20,459 Okay. Okay. 18 00:02:21,043 --> 00:02:22,209 Okay. 19 00:02:30,376 --> 00:02:31,293 Oh. 20 00:02:32,459 --> 00:02:33,293 Okay. 21 00:02:35,834 --> 00:02:37,376 Oh fuck. 22 00:02:38,501 --> 00:02:39,459 Oh. 23 00:02:42,126 --> 00:02:44,209 This is Martha Kivelson. 24 00:02:45,043 --> 00:02:46,918 Io Expeditionary Mission. 25 00:02:47,418 --> 00:02:49,334 Do you read, Orbital? 26 00:02:50,376 --> 00:02:51,793 Come in, Orbital. 27 00:02:51,876 --> 00:02:55,751 Comm sync lost. Next Orbital sync window, 12 hours. 28 00:02:55,834 --> 00:02:56,668 Shit. 29 00:03:01,209 --> 00:03:03,584 41 kilometers remaining. 30 00:03:03,668 --> 00:03:05,501 -What? -Oxygen levels low. 31 00:03:05,584 --> 00:03:08,793 -Oh shit. Fuck! Fuck, fuck! -System damage detected. 32 00:03:08,876 --> 00:03:11,834 Six minutes until critical CO2 levels reached. 33 00:03:23,126 --> 00:03:26,418 One minute until critical CO2 levels reached. 34 00:03:29,334 --> 00:03:32,168 -Oxygen level stable. 35 00:03:36,084 --> 00:03:37,959 -Sorry, Burton. 36 00:04:28,126 --> 00:04:29,168 Yes, yes, yes. 37 00:04:29,251 --> 00:04:31,334 Warning. Use may cause side effects, 38 00:04:31,418 --> 00:04:33,668 including loss of motor function, hallucinations, euphoria… 39 00:04:33,751 --> 00:04:35,543 If I don't make it, better to die high. 40 00:04:52,376 --> 00:04:53,959 Hello. 41 00:04:54,793 --> 00:04:55,626 Orbital? 42 00:04:56,834 --> 00:04:58,668 -Come in, Orbital. 43 00:04:59,293 --> 00:05:01,251 Hello… 44 00:05:09,418 --> 00:05:10,376 Okay. 45 00:05:11,501 --> 00:05:12,418 Oh. 46 00:05:14,418 --> 00:05:15,668 Okay. 47 00:05:16,376 --> 00:05:17,209 Just… 48 00:05:18,084 --> 00:05:18,918 making sure. 49 00:05:24,626 --> 00:05:27,334 Martha Kivelson. 50 00:05:27,418 --> 00:05:29,501 You're dead, Burton. Stop it. Okay? 51 00:05:30,126 --> 00:05:31,459 Not Burton. 52 00:05:31,543 --> 00:05:35,084 Look, I don't have time to figure out 53 00:05:35,168 --> 00:05:39,834 what unresolved psychological conflicts gave rise to whatever this shit is. 54 00:05:39,918 --> 00:05:40,876 Okay? 55 00:05:41,793 --> 00:05:43,834 I gotta keep it together. 56 00:05:45,001 --> 00:05:46,709 Fucking hallucination. 57 00:05:49,584 --> 00:05:51,001 Wake up. 58 00:05:52,084 --> 00:05:53,709 -Wake up. 59 00:06:03,084 --> 00:06:04,793 Fuck. Fuck! 60 00:06:04,876 --> 00:06:07,709 - 33 kilometers remaining… -I'm not moving fast enough. 61 00:06:07,793 --> 00:06:13,334 "Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing Beloved from pole to pole!" Coleridge. 62 00:06:13,918 --> 00:06:14,959 Poetry now? 63 00:06:15,709 --> 00:06:17,959 Ugh. I thought I told you to shut up. 64 00:06:19,626 --> 00:06:22,876 "Who spilled these stars Across the sky 65 00:06:22,959 --> 00:06:26,251 Like sparkling dust, like clouds of light 66 00:06:26,876 --> 00:06:30,959 They pour their milky shine Into the deep black bowl" 67 00:06:31,043 --> 00:06:33,668 Can't you see I'm busy not dying here? 68 00:06:34,293 --> 00:06:38,084 Yes. I'm trying to communicate. 69 00:06:41,876 --> 00:06:45,251 "I was the world In which I walked and what I saw 70 00:06:45,334 --> 00:06:48,918 Or heard or felt came not but from myself" 71 00:06:51,584 --> 00:06:52,918 Wallace Stevens. 72 00:06:53,834 --> 00:06:54,709 Nice choice. 73 00:07:23,501 --> 00:07:25,626 What the fuck? 74 00:07:55,459 --> 00:07:56,668 Martha. 75 00:07:57,251 --> 00:07:58,084 Martha! 76 00:08:05,709 --> 00:08:06,584 Okay. 77 00:08:07,459 --> 00:08:11,501 One more step. 78 00:08:12,501 --> 00:08:14,459 One more… 79 00:08:15,293 --> 00:08:16,584 step. 80 00:08:20,209 --> 00:08:23,418 -14 kilometers remaining. -I'm not… Oh fuck. 81 00:08:23,501 --> 00:08:24,626 I'm not gonna make it. 82 00:08:25,543 --> 00:08:27,376 Fuck. Fuck, I got to do it. 83 00:08:28,334 --> 00:08:31,043 Warning. Mixing this drug with current biochemistry 84 00:08:31,126 --> 00:08:34,793 may result in paranoia, psychosis and hypomania. 85 00:08:36,376 --> 00:08:39,584 Io has a core of iron and iron sulfide. 86 00:08:39,668 --> 00:08:42,126 -What does this sound like? 87 00:08:42,209 --> 00:08:44,793 A mantle of partially molten rock, 88 00:08:44,876 --> 00:08:46,876 Io is a sulfur-rich moon. 89 00:08:46,959 --> 00:08:49,668 -What does this sound like? -I don't have time for this. 90 00:08:49,751 --> 00:08:52,501 Io's metallic core generates a magnetic field 91 00:08:52,584 --> 00:08:55,543 connecting its own poles with the poles of Jupiter. 92 00:08:56,168 --> 00:08:58,168 -What does this sound like? 93 00:08:58,668 --> 00:09:01,668 - Volcanoes emit sulfur dioxide… -Shut the fuck up! 94 00:09:01,751 --> 00:09:05,251 -…and oxygen. What does this sound like? -Goddammit! Stop! 95 00:09:05,334 --> 00:09:08,043 -Rotating field, magnetosphere. 96 00:09:08,126 --> 00:09:10,501 Sulfur ions, circular orbit. 97 00:09:10,584 --> 00:09:13,501 What does this sound like? 98 00:09:14,084 --> 00:09:15,043 It sounds… 99 00:09:16,334 --> 00:09:17,418 Sounds like… 100 00:09:19,584 --> 00:09:20,751 Like a machine. 101 00:09:26,209 --> 00:09:28,626 Yes. Yes, machine. 102 00:09:29,459 --> 00:09:31,126 Yes. Machine. 103 00:09:31,209 --> 00:09:33,418 I am machine. 104 00:09:41,584 --> 00:09:43,751 Look at me. 105 00:09:59,376 --> 00:10:04,751 You're saying that this moon, Io, is a machine. 106 00:10:05,959 --> 00:10:08,668 And that machine is you. 107 00:10:08,751 --> 00:10:14,418 "And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine" 108 00:10:15,251 --> 00:10:16,126 Wordsworth. 109 00:10:16,209 --> 00:10:18,501 Burton's brain is semi-intact. 110 00:10:18,584 --> 00:10:20,334 Language is data. 111 00:10:20,418 --> 00:10:22,668 Radio is medium. 112 00:10:22,751 --> 00:10:25,584 Sulfur is triboelectric. 113 00:10:28,501 --> 00:10:29,668 That hole… 114 00:10:31,834 --> 00:10:33,293 It's like a highway 115 00:10:34,834 --> 00:10:36,168 into her mind. 116 00:10:47,709 --> 00:10:48,543 I just… 117 00:10:49,876 --> 00:10:50,793 I can't… 118 00:11:07,834 --> 00:11:12,209 Yes, yes. "The marble index of a mind forever…" 119 00:11:19,584 --> 00:11:22,668 Voyaging through strange eons of thought 120 00:11:23,584 --> 00:11:24,418 alone. 121 00:11:47,418 --> 00:11:49,668 -Oxygen levels critical. 122 00:11:49,751 --> 00:11:51,793 -Oxygen levels critical. 123 00:11:51,876 --> 00:11:53,876 -Oxygen levels critical. 124 00:11:53,959 --> 00:11:56,001 -Oxygen levels critical. 125 00:11:56,084 --> 00:11:57,876 Oxygen levels critical. 126 00:11:57,959 --> 00:11:59,501 Oxygen levels critical. 127 00:12:19,001 --> 00:12:19,834 Io. 128 00:12:20,793 --> 00:12:21,751 Are you there? 129 00:12:23,501 --> 00:12:24,334 Yes. 130 00:12:25,168 --> 00:12:26,459 Did Burton go… 131 00:12:28,126 --> 00:12:28,959 in there? 132 00:12:29,834 --> 00:12:30,668 Yes. 133 00:12:32,626 --> 00:12:36,043 One minute until critical CO2 levels reached. 134 00:12:42,251 --> 00:12:43,626 Throw self in. 135 00:12:44,376 --> 00:12:47,709 Physical configuration will be destroyed. 136 00:12:47,793 --> 00:12:51,043 Neural configuration may be preserved. 137 00:12:51,543 --> 00:12:53,793 Maybe death, maybe life. 138 00:12:55,126 --> 00:12:56,209 Join with me. 139 00:12:57,251 --> 00:12:58,084 Io, 140 00:12:59,876 --> 00:13:01,376 if you're a machine, 141 00:13:03,334 --> 00:13:04,918 what is your function? 142 00:13:07,459 --> 00:13:08,709 To know you. 143 00:13:21,751 --> 00:13:24,001 Maybe I'm gonna live forever. 144 00:13:27,209 --> 00:13:29,834 Or maybe this is just one last dream 145 00:13:31,418 --> 00:13:32,584 before dying. 146 00:14:42,459 --> 00:14:43,626 Earth station. 147 00:14:45,709 --> 00:14:46,709 Come in. 148 00:14:50,334 --> 00:14:52,376 This is Martha Kivelson.