Silent Running (1972) - full transcript
In a future Earth barren of all flora and fauna, the planet's ecosystems exist only in large pods attached to spacecraft. When word comes in that the pods are to be jettisoned into space and destroyed, most of the crew of the Valley Forge rejoice at the prospect of going home. Not so for botanist Freeman Lowell, who loves the forest and its creatures. He kills his colleagues taking the ship deep into space. Alone on the craft with his only companions being three small robots, Lowell revels in joys of nature. When colleagues appear to "rescue" him, he realizes he has only one option available to him.
(Croaking)
(Softly) How are you today, hmm?
Feeling good? Aww.
I bet you'd like something to eat,
wouldn't ya? Hmm?
Here, I got something
in my pocket here.
Some goodies.
I'll set the table for you here. OK?
That's good.
Who-ooh! Whoa!
Do I have to put signs up here
to keep you guys off my grass?
Hey, I'm sorry.
Hey, get out of the way!
Ya-hoo!
Whoa!
What do you think you're doing?
(Tyres squealing)
- Wha-ha!
- Whoo-ooh!
MAN #1: Watch it!
MAN #2: Get out of the way, you mother!
Whoa!
(Tyres squealing)
Look out!
Whoa!
Did you see the way
Lowell threw that rake at me?
Why don't you guys lay off Lowell
for a while, huh?
BARKER: We're just having a little fun.
Oh, yeah! Now, what is this?
Really a nice catch.
You guys are outrageous.
BARKER: Hey, listen, Wolf,
we've been here for six months.
We got six months more to go.
Now doesn't that mean anything to you?
You know, he told me
a whole story this morning,
about how they're gonna
refoliate the Earth.
Again?
(Sighs)
Let's set this thing up
the way it was before.
Ooh.
Oh, it missed. It failed.
First time.
- Hey, let's not play with this thing, OK?
- OK.
I'll tell you this for old flower-face,
he sure knows how to play this thing.
Plenty of time to practise.
Hey, Lowell.
- How about a little of the old poker?
- Yeah. Later.
(♪ Slow drum cadence)
VOICE: On this first day
of a new century,
we humbly beg forgiveness
and dedicate these last forests
of our once beautiful nation,
in the hope that
they will one day return
and grace our foul Earth.
Until that day,
may God bless these gardens
and the brave men
who care for them.
- Three.
- Three.
Dealer takes one.
The deck's still open.
Your bet, Barker.
(Clears throat)
Fifty.
And 100.
Guts.
Come on, son. Throw it on in.
I fold.
You bet fifty dollars,
and then you're folding?
Right.
(Sighs)
Well, boys, here's a three.
And there's another three.
And there are three big bullets.
Now I'll just reach in
and gather up the teleports.
(Sighs)
- Beats me.
- You bet it does.
I wish they'd hurry up
with that transmission.
I want to go to bed.
I suggest that you reach
deep down inside yourself there
and try and find something that will
keep you awake a little while longer
because this transmission
coming up may just...
rekindle your will to live.
Think it'll be a recall?
Well, let's just say that
I feel my communications
may finally bear some fruit.
Hmm. Cantaloupes maybe.
I'll let that witticism slide by,
because it's my feeling
that they're about to re-establish
the parks and forest system.
With you, no doubt, as director?
You can think of anybody better?
More qualified? Huh?
KEENAN: Really, it's more likely that...
Wait a second now.
Let me just ask him a question here.
I've spent my entire last eight years
up here dedicated to this project.
Now, can you think
of anybody more qualified?
Really, it's more likely that
they're gonna announce cutbacks.
(Scoffs) Sorry.
There's no way they're gonna announce
cutbacks, not after this amount of time.
Hey, Lowell, you're dreaming.
And you don't think it's time
somebody had a dream again? Huh?
You don't think that it's time that
somebody cared enough to have a dream?
What about the forests? You don't think
anyone should care about these forests?
What's gonna happen if these forests
and all this incredible beauty
is lost for all time?
(Sighs heavily)
WOLF: It's been too long, Lowell.
People got other things to do now.
(Radio static)
RADIO: This is for Valley Forge,
Berkshire, Sequoia.
Valley Forge, Berkshire, Sequoia,
this is Con Central.
Channel open for executive order
AUC 3423.
Listen to this, boys.
This is Anderson speaking.
Boys, I have to make
an announcement.
We have just received orders
to abandon, then nuclear destruct,
all the forests
and return our ships
to commercial service.
I have received no explanation,
and we must begin
at 0900 in the morning.
May God have mercy on us all.
This is it!
We're going home!
- I can't believe it.
- I told you, I told you. What'd I say?
We can pack up those domes
and go home.
NEAL: ...auto-destruct
of all forest units.
Kiss 'em good-bye, boys.
Hey, Lowell, I'm sorry.
Makes sense, you know?
It's insane.
Let's go.
(Indistinct transmission continues)
♪ JOAN BAEZ: "Rejoice in the Sun" ♪
♪ Fields of children ♪
♪ Running wild ♪
♪ In the sun ♪
♪ Like a forest is your child ♪
♪ Growing wild ♪
♪ In the sun ♪
♪ Doomed in his innocence ♪
♪ In the sun ♪
♪ Gather your children ♪
♪ To your side ♪
♪ In the sun ♪
♪ Tell them ♪
♪ All they love will die ♪
♪ Tell them why ♪
♪ In the sun ♪
♪ Tell them ♪
♪ It's not too late ♪
♪ Cultivate one by one ♪
♪ Tell them to harvest ♪
♪ And rejoice ♪
♪ In the sun ♪
WOLF: How far out do they go
before they blow up?
BARKER: About six miles.
We should feel a hefty jolt.
KEENAN: I want a front-row seat.
BARKER: I'll bet you do.
Lowell, do you have to eat
that stuff in here? It stinks!
- You never let up, do you?
- Well...
Oh, now you hurt his feelings.
I'd like to know what any one of you
knows about real food.
What do you mean "real food"?
What, out of the dirt? That's real food?
That's right.
This happens to be nature's greatest gift.
To a celibate, maybe.
Come on, you guys. Maybe he knows
something we don't. Hmm?
Lowell, give me a slice
of that cantaloupe.
Don't ask Lowell. I'd be delighted
to give you a slice of that cantaloupe.
Just sit down and shut up!
Sit down, sit down, sit down!
Shut up and leave me alone,
all of you! Let me eat!
What's the big deal? I can't see
the difference between that and this.
You don't see the difference?
The difference is I grew it!
That's what the difference is.
That I picked it and I fixed it.
It has a taste,
and it has some colour!
And it has a smell!
It calls back a time when there
were flowers all over the Earth!
And there were valleys!
And there were plains of tall, green grass
that you could lie down in,
that you could go to sleep in!
And there were blue skies,
and there was fresh air!
And there were things
growing all over the place,
not just in domed enclosures blasted
some millions of miles out into space!
Look at that stuff.
How can you guys sit there
and really say anything to me about this.
Look at this crap!
Look at that!
Dried, synthetic crap!
And you've become so dependent on it
that I bet you can't live without it.
Why would we want to, Lowell?
Don't you realise how pitiful that is,
what you just asked me?
On Earth, everywhere you go,
the temperature is 75 degrees.
Everything is the same.
All the people are exactly the same.
What kind of life is that?
If it's so rotten,
why do you want to go back?
Because it's not too late
to change it.
What do you want, Lowell?
There's hardly any more disease.
There's no more poverty.
Nobody's out of a job.
That's right.
Every time we have the argument,
you give me the same three
answers all the time.
The same thing.
"Well, everybody has a job."
That's always the last one.
But you know what else
there's no more of, my friend?
There is no more beauty,
and there's no more imagination.
And there are no frontiers left to conquer.
And you know why?
Only one reason why!
One reason why!
The same attitude that you three guys are
giving me right here in this room today,
and that is: nobody cares.
Look on the wall behind you.
Look at that little girl's face.
I know you've seen it.
But do you know what
she's never gonna be able to see?
She's never gonna be able to see
the simple wonder of a leaf in her hand
because there's
not gonna be any trees.
Now you think about that.
(Sighs)
If people were interested, something
would have been done a long time ago.
You ready?
Yeah. Yeah, I'm ready.
Hey, wait, wait.
Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
I don't think you guys understand
what this means.
Please don't blow up the domes.
- Which one first?
- High forest.
Let's do it first. Let's hit Six.
- But they're not disposable.
- Ain't got any choice, Lowell.
But they're not replaceable.
(Crickets chirping)
BARKER: Where's that tube?
- Ow! My hand.
- KEENAN: Hey, you all right?
Ah!
- You better get Lowell to fix that for you.
- Damn!
- Really.
- Yeah.
Will you help me?
Oh, yeah.
What are you doing?
Nothing.
Get on in here now.
(Groans)
Come on.
(Radio chiming)
NEAL: Valley Forge, Valley Forge,
safe distancing manoeuvre in five minutes.
Valley Forge, Valley Forge,
please stand by for 1000 hours.
Safe distancing manoeuvre
in five minutes.
I'm gonna need your help
for that, you know, Lowell?
OK?
- OK, there you go.
- Thank you.
Here.
(Indistinct radio transmissions)
Set gyro to 4406.
(Equipment whirring)
Set gyro to 4406.
(Whirring continues)
RADIO: Valley Forge, this is Berkshire.
Are you there, Marty?
I'm on it, Neal.
OK, we're counting now
for your 4406 distancing.
About 20 seconds.
(Equipment beeping)
Set for distancing.
NEAL: 'Right.
Eight, seven, six,
five, four, three, two, one.
That's a go.
(Engines rumbling)
NEAL: Thanks, Marty,
we're clear. Stand by for updates.
Hey, Andy.
- The bomb, please.
- All right.
WOLF: Loaded and ready to go.
(Laughing)
NEAL: 99909 plus 4904
plus eight.
BARKER: Right.
NEAL: OK, lookin' real good.
That's a go.
BARKER: Right.
NEAL: We're ready for some real
fireworks here. Twenty-five seconds.
BARKER: We're looking forward
to it too, Neal.
NEAL: Keep a steady hand, Marty.
We don't want you boys getting hurt.
BARKER: Right. Will do.
Hey, where the hell
is Lowell now?
I think I saw him near One
with some empty flower pots.
(Explosion rumbles)
Oh, oh.
That must be Berkshire.
(Vehicle approaching)
Whoo!
(Brakes screech)
(Explosion)
(Indistinct radio transmissions)
- Do we need this?
- BARKER: Hmm?
Hey, Andy, easy with that.
No, we'll use the panel.
It's safer.
John, would you get those lights?
Sure. Nothing up on the board.
We'll set Six.
Gotcha.
- OK. Arm Six.
- Armed.
(Explosion in the distance)
(Explosion)
Hit it.
(Explosion)
RADIO: We're standing by
for a go for...
(Explosion)
No!
(Vehicle approaching)
You're not comin' in here.
What are you doin', Lowell?
- You're not comin' in here.
- Look, I know how you feel.
You don't know how I feel!
If you knew how I felt,
you wouldn't be in here with that.
Listen, I'm on a tight schedule,
and I don't want to have to fight with you.
I don't care about your schedule.
You are not using those things
in my forest.
I ain't got time to argue!
Now, move!
You're not gonna do it.
(Groans)
(Both grunting)
(Grunts)
You can't blow up this forest.
NEAL: Come in, Valley Forge.
Reading 4040.
Berkshire to Valley Forge.
Come in, Valley Forge.
Berkshire to Valley Forge.
(Grunts)
(Gasping)
(Indistinct radio transmissions)
NEAL: Valley Forge.
Come in, Valley Forge.
Reading 4040.
Berkshire to Valley Forge.
Come in, Valley Forge.
Valley Forge to Berkshire.
You still there, Neal?
- Yes, Barker.
- No, it's Lowell.
Oh, what's the trouble, Lowell?
Well, we seem to be experiencing
some problem with the main coupling.
NEAL: Oh, it might be
one of your pins.
LOWELL: Right. That's what
we figured it probably was.
So we're setting that right now.
We'll be gettin' back to you
just as soon as we can.
Roger.
Uh, Lowell?
Yeah.
- Everything OK over there?
- Oh, yeah, OK.
A-OK. Everything's OK.
We'll wait to hear, buddy.
Roger.
(Turns off radio)
Drone One,
Drone Two,
Drone Three,
please report immediately
to the main cargo area.
NEAL: Berkshire to Valley Forge.
Yeah, yeah.
Come in, Valley Forge.
Berkshire to Valley Forge.
Come in, Valley Forge.
Berkshire to Valley Forge.
Come in, Valley Forge.
Come in.
Berkshire to Valley Forge.
(Groans)
Valley Forge to Berkshire.
Come in, Berkshire.
How's it goin', Lowell?
It's not goin' too well, Neal. I'm afraid
we're gonna have to torch those pins.
Better move on it, buddy.
Darkness coming up on you. 33201.
Right. We'll try our best.
Boys here are getting anxious
for home.
Yeah, I understand.
- Coming into darkness at 33201.
- Right.
Blow it any old way you can, Lowell.
Big Billy wants to go.
We're tryin'.
(Equipment whirring)
(Indistinct radio transmissions)
(Beeping and static)
(Indistinct radio transmissions)
NEAL: Yellowstone reports
final jettison.
Arcadia, Blue Ridge, Glacier, Mojave
report final jettisons.
- We got a hold on Valley Forge.
- MAN #2: Right.
NEAL: Berkshire to Valley Forge.
Berkshire to Valley Forge.
You're entering darkness.
Lowell, do you read?
Right, Neal. We hear you.
Big Billy says blow it any way, Lowell.
- (Whispers) Screw Big Billy.
- Didn't catch that, buddy.
Nothing. I just said we're right on it, Neal.
We're tryin'.
(Whirring)
(Beeping)
(Rumbling)
NEAL: Valley Forge, what's wrong?
You're accelerating!
(Static and beeping)
NEAL: Valley Forge!
Berkshire to Valley Forge!
I have an emergency ignition
on Valley Forge!
Reading Red-990!
I get a 2-4 on Valley Forge reading red!
Valley Forge to Berkshire.
I've got an emergency!
- Neal? Can you read me, Neal?
- I read you.
I got a main bus blow-out
on numbers three, eight and ten panels,
I've got a premature detonation
on Dome Number Two
and I've got an explosion
in the main cargo deck!
Please advise me immediately!
I read you. Put on Wolf, Lowell.
No, no, change that. Give me Barker.
I can't find Barker!
I can't find Wolf or Keenan either!
I'm afraid, Neal, that they might
have been in Dome Number Two!
God, Dome Two just blew up.
Stand by.
Report Wolf, Keenan and Barker
accidentally jettisoned from Valley Forge.
Wolf, Keenan and Barker missing.
What the hell is taking so long?
NEAL: Coming up now, Valley Forge.
(Over radio) Lowell, this is Anderson.
How are you, boy?
(Sighs) I'm OK.
Listen, Lowell, if you continue as is,
we figure you'll hit the northeastern
quadrant of Saturn's outer rings
at 0302 tomorrow morning.
What does that mean?
We don't think you'll make it through.
It's a very bad angle.
These ships weren't built
to shoot the rapids.
The plan is to find where the explosion
chopped the main bus and reroute it.
You'll have to do some cutting.
Where do I start?
Uh, we tracked a bunch of cargo modules,
probably off your starboard side.
So we figure maybe one of the cryotanks
under the floor cut loose.
It may have exposed the main bus duct,
if we're lucky.
I'll take a look at it.
(Gasps, shuddering)
(Groans)
(Panting)
(Groaning)
Drone Number One.
(Groaning)
(Groans)
- (Beeps)
- (Lowell gasps)
(Panting)
(Machine humming)
LOWELL: This'll stop 'em.
(Machine humming)
I need you guys
to help me fix my leg.
From now on,
you guys are working for me.
Here's a little medical program.
Drone One, Drone Two,
Drone Three,
please report immediately
to surgery.
Drone Number Two...
(Gasping)
...you'll perform the operation.
And Drone Number Three,
you'll handle the oxygen anaesthesia.
(Groaning and coughing)
Drone Number One...
(Panting)
(Gasping)
Number One...
...you'll assist.
(Beeping)
(Inhaling deeply)
(Instrument buzzing)
(Sighs)
(Indistinct radio transmissions)
Commander Anderson?
I can't get anywhere near
that main bus duct.
Everything is just
all torn up down there.
ANDERSON: Uh, listen, Freeman...
That's your first name, right?
Yes.
- Any family, Freeman?
- No, sir.
Well, listen, Freeman, you've been
with this project since the start,
- and you've known the risks.
- Yes, sir.
I... I don't really know
how to say this, Freeman.
It's all right, sir.
- We've got some trouble.
- I figured.
Yes, er...
I'm really sorry, Freeman.
Sorry, sir? About what?
We'll never be able to stop you
before you hit the rings.
I see.
Freeman,
you might want to consider...
Suicide, sir?
No...
I just don't think that I'd ever be able
to do anything like that.
The best we can do then is send out
a search party the long way around,
but it's kind of like a needle
in a hay stack, if you know what I mean.
Yes.
- Freeman?
- Yes, sir?
God bless you, Freeman.
You're a hell of an American.
Thank you, sir.
(Turns off radio)
I think I am.
(Sighing)
(Sighs)
(Electronic alarm sounding)
(Alarm beeping)
(Rumbling)
(Glasses clattering)
(Wind howling)
(Intense metallic creaking)
(Panting)
Drone Number Three!
Drone Number Three, keep moving!
Follow One and Two!
Why didn't you follow them?
(Panting)
(Alarm beeping)
(Equipment sparking)
(Roaring winds cease)
(Rumbling stops)
(Sighs heavily)
LOWELL: Now dig a hole for him.
Make it seven feet long
and three feet wide.
Okay, now put him...
Put him down in it.
And then remain there
'cos I would like to say something
before you cover him over.
Er...
I, er...
I would like to be able
to say a... a prayer,
but I-I don't...
really know how to say it.
Wolf and Barker and Keenan...
They weren't exactly my friends,
but I did like them.
And, er...
Well...
I don't... I don't think
that I'll ever be able to...
...excuse what it is that I did,
but I had to do it.
And...
(Sighs)
I guess that's all that I have to say.
You can cover him over now.
(Clears throat)
Boys... Ha-ha-ha!
I'd like to make an announcement.
From now on,
Drone Number Two,
you will answer
to the name of Huey.
And Drone Number One,
you will answer
to the name of Dewey.
Little Louie, God bless him, he's...
He's not with us anymore.
Huey, you take one step forward.
That's super.
Now, Dewey,
you also take one step forward.
Hey, that's really excellent.
Now, erm...
You see, what I've done is
I've reprogrammed both of you
so that now
you'll respond directly to me.
Now that means you'll still run
the same maintenance checks
and perform the same duties
that you've been doing on the ship,
but you'll also be spending
more time with me in the forest.
And you shouldn't have much
of a problem then
making the necessary readjustments.
And I realise that...
we've really had a rough journey,
and we sure got
our work cut out for us,
but I think that
the three of us together,
as a team, we can manage okay.
Is that all right with you guys?
The three of us together
are gonna plant a tree.
We got a shovel,
watering can and a tree.
Now... this is the mulch.
That's what makes the tree grow.
Now...
Now, Huey,
you're gonna plant the tree,
and, Dewey,
you're gonna dig the ditch.
Now, we're gonna do it
right here in the side of the hill.
That's a real good hole, Dewey.
Now...
Huey, here's the tree.
Put a little mulch like that.
Okay, now plant the tree.
Well, that's pitiful. Pitiful.
That's exactly the opposite
of what it's supposed to be.
♪ JOAN BAEZ: "Silent Running" ♪
♪ Earth between my toes ♪
♪ And a flower in my hair ♪
♪ That's what I was wearing ♪
♪ When we lay ♪
♪ Among the ferns ♪
♪ Earth between my toes ♪
♪ And a flower I will wear ♪
♪ When he returns ♪
♪ Wind upon his face ♪
♪ And my fingers in his hair ♪
♪ That's what he was wearing ♪
♪ When we lay ♪
♪ Beneath the sky ♪
♪ Wind upon his face ♪
♪ And my love he will wear ♪
♪ When swallows fly ♪
♪ Tears of sorrow running deep ♪
♪ Running silent in my sleep ♪
♪ Running silent ♪
♪ In my sleep ♪
LOWELL: What's the matter?
I know you're sad about Louie.
But he got careless. See what happens
when you get careless?
Okay, now, you guys
go on back to your work.
(Tyres squealing)
Hey, how are you today?
Ow! You bit my hand.
Don't you ever bite my hand again.
(Humming)
♪ You can take a tip from Smokey
that there's nothing like a tree
♪ Oh, they're great for kids to climb in
and they're beautiful to see ♪
(Humming)
(Muttering)
Huey and Dewey,
I want you two guys
to report right away
to the recreation room.
Well, I see you're already here.
I'll bet you wonder why I gathered
you here, haven't you? Huh?
Well, I want to beg your indulgence.
Got some new programs
here for you. Here you go.
Now, Huey, come over
and sit down here.
Dewey, you come right up here
and sit down.
You can come a little closer
if you want to, Dewey.
Thattaboy. There's for you.
There's for you.
And there's for me.
(Chuckles)
Okay, boys.
Now...
I'm about to take you two guys
for every dime you got.
(Shuffling cards)
Here we go.
Two. Three.
Five, five, five.
Now, boys, let's play cards.
Okay.
Now, Dewey.
(Hisses twice)
(Hissing)
Okay.
How many cards you want, Dewey?
What are you doing?
You just threw down three kings.
- (Hisses)
- You're nuts, you know that?
Your hand is obviously dead.
Let's see what you got here.
He's got trash, so obviously
I'm the winner with three sevens.
Thank you, boys. Sorry,
you gotta be quicker than that.
You gotta get up in the morning
to beat ol' Freeman, let me tell ya.
Early in the morning.
It's all mine. We'll play another hand,
and I don't want any mistakes.
It's up to you. We're not playing for
3-in-1 Oil here, we're playing for money.
Okay, now.
Dewey, you took two.
- (Hissing)
- No, I wasn't looking.
What have I said about
talking between you guys?
Now, come on. That's not fair.
I'm by myself, and you're talking
between yourselves.
Now that's not fair.
That's a house rule, no more talking.
Now, how many cards you want?
You don't want any cards?
You saw what the man did last hand,
and you don't want any cards?
All right. Dealer's taking two.
All right, Huey.
What have you got?
Ha-ha! The man has a full house,
and he knew it!
How about that? The man had
a full house, and he knew it!
(Laughing)
Ha-ha! Huey and Dewey beat me
at my own card game!
(Laughter continues)
I know. I've actually been
eating that crap.
(Grinding)
Let's go to the forest
and get some real food.
What has happened to the forest?
Huey, go get me the grey book.
I don't know.
I just cannot figure out what's wrong.
Okay, now listen to me.
Make a slow, complete,
360-degree turn for me.
Okay. Yeah, thattaboy.
Now, hold it. Stop right there.
That's good.
Now, take a sample there. Oh, no.
We're coming to the dome.
Wait right there, Huey.
(Tyres screeching)
(Hissing and whining)
Huey, I thought I told you
to stay in the forest.
You're braced.
You can't fall back.
It's okay, Huey.
I got it, I got it.
That will make you rest
a little easier now.
Your little light...
No, no, I know where it is.
(Screwdriver whirs)
- (Hissing)
- Oh, no. That's okay, Huey.
Just hold steady now.
I won't hit that again.
There.
Now, that should be better.
Dewey, go get me
that I-arm circuit wrench.
I understand.
I think I can manage here without it.
There.
Now, I'm screwing you in tight.
I'm sorry, Huey.
That's the best that I can do.
Er...
I tried, but that...
That's all I can do for him, Dewey.
(Sighs heavily)
I don't know, Huey.
It's just not... working.
- (Hissing)
- The forest is dying.
I have tried everything.
And I just don't know
what the hell it is.
(Indistinct radio transmissions)
(Transmissions continue)
RADIO: Come in, Valley Forge.
Berkshire to Valley Forge.
Do you read me?
Valley Forge. Come in, Valley Forge.
This is Berkshire. Can you read?
Valley Forge. Come in, Valley Forge.
This is Berkshire. Can you read?
(Static and indistinct transmissions)
We got a plot on you, Lowell.
Fantastic!
We're looking forward to seeing you,
buddy. We made it.
Transmit, will ya?
Please acknowledge immediately.
Come in, Valley Forge.
Can you read?
(Indistinct transmissions continue)
ANDERSON: Please transmit
immediately.
Berkshire to Valley Forge.
Berkshire to Valley Forge.
How about a word, Lowell, huh?
- (Softly) Hi.
- Lowell?
Ha-ha! I'm mighty glad
to see you, boy.
(Laughing over radio)
- Who is this?
- This is Anderson, Lowell.
My God, we've looked
high and low for you.
How did you find me?
Why did you even try?
Hey, you must be kidding.
We couldn't just let you go
without at least trying to find you.
We said we'd send out
a search party.
I guess I forgot.
It wasn't easy finding you either,
even with our deep-space tracking.
- I don't suppose it was.
- Freeman...
You'll have to find some way
to jettison the dome.
And it's awfully dark out here,
so it'd be safer if you don't blow it up.
The sun. The sun!
That's what it is. The sun!
You hear what he said? It's the sun.
- ANDERSON: What?
- Nothing.
I was just saying
that everything is all right.
Where was your big explosion?
We can't see it.
The explosion's on the other side,
the far side of the ship.
Other side? Okay.
We'll be instrument docking
on your port side in six hours.
Six hours! Huey and Dewey,
we can still save the forest!
It's gonna work.
Dewey...
I've taught you everything that I know
about taking care of the forest here.
And, er...
...that's all that you have to do
from now on,
just maintain the forest.
Now, these lights here will do
the job that the sun would do.
They'll help revive everything.
I, er...
I just can't do it anymore.
You see, things, er...
...things just haven't worked out for me.
Take care of yourself, Dewey.
Huey, you have to come with me,
because you're just not working
well enough to help Dewey.
ANDERSON: Berkshire to Valley Forge.
Berkshire to Valley Forge.
We'll be docking on your port side
in two hours.
Stand by for updates.
LOWELL: Take good care
of the forest, Dewey.
(Sighs heavily)
You know, when I was a kid,
I put a note into a bottle,
and it had my name and address on it.
And then I threw the bottle
into the ocean.
And I never knew...
...if anybody ever found it.
♪ JOAN BAEZ: "Rejoice in the Sun" ♪
♪ Fields of children ♪
♪ Running wild ♪
♪ In the sun ♪
♪ Like a forest ♪
♪ Is your child ♪
♪ Growing wild ♪
♪ In the sun ♪
♪ Doomed ♪
♪ In his innocence ♪
♪ In the sun ♪
♪ Gather your children ♪
♪ To your side ♪
♪ In the sun ♪
♪ Tell them ♪
♪ All they love will die ♪
♪ Tell them why ♪
♪ In the sun ♪
♪ Tell them ♪
♪ It's not too late ♪
♪ Cultivate one by one ♪
♪ Tell them to harvest ♪
♪ And rejoice ♪
♪ In the sun... ♪
(Softly) How are you today, hmm?
Feeling good? Aww.
I bet you'd like something to eat,
wouldn't ya? Hmm?
Here, I got something
in my pocket here.
Some goodies.
I'll set the table for you here. OK?
That's good.
Who-ooh! Whoa!
Do I have to put signs up here
to keep you guys off my grass?
Hey, I'm sorry.
Hey, get out of the way!
Ya-hoo!
Whoa!
What do you think you're doing?
(Tyres squealing)
- Wha-ha!
- Whoo-ooh!
MAN #1: Watch it!
MAN #2: Get out of the way, you mother!
Whoa!
(Tyres squealing)
Look out!
Whoa!
Did you see the way
Lowell threw that rake at me?
Why don't you guys lay off Lowell
for a while, huh?
BARKER: We're just having a little fun.
Oh, yeah! Now, what is this?
Really a nice catch.
You guys are outrageous.
BARKER: Hey, listen, Wolf,
we've been here for six months.
We got six months more to go.
Now doesn't that mean anything to you?
You know, he told me
a whole story this morning,
about how they're gonna
refoliate the Earth.
Again?
(Sighs)
Let's set this thing up
the way it was before.
Ooh.
Oh, it missed. It failed.
First time.
- Hey, let's not play with this thing, OK?
- OK.
I'll tell you this for old flower-face,
he sure knows how to play this thing.
Plenty of time to practise.
Hey, Lowell.
- How about a little of the old poker?
- Yeah. Later.
(♪ Slow drum cadence)
VOICE: On this first day
of a new century,
we humbly beg forgiveness
and dedicate these last forests
of our once beautiful nation,
in the hope that
they will one day return
and grace our foul Earth.
Until that day,
may God bless these gardens
and the brave men
who care for them.
- Three.
- Three.
Dealer takes one.
The deck's still open.
Your bet, Barker.
(Clears throat)
Fifty.
And 100.
Guts.
Come on, son. Throw it on in.
I fold.
You bet fifty dollars,
and then you're folding?
Right.
(Sighs)
Well, boys, here's a three.
And there's another three.
And there are three big bullets.
Now I'll just reach in
and gather up the teleports.
(Sighs)
- Beats me.
- You bet it does.
I wish they'd hurry up
with that transmission.
I want to go to bed.
I suggest that you reach
deep down inside yourself there
and try and find something that will
keep you awake a little while longer
because this transmission
coming up may just...
rekindle your will to live.
Think it'll be a recall?
Well, let's just say that
I feel my communications
may finally bear some fruit.
Hmm. Cantaloupes maybe.
I'll let that witticism slide by,
because it's my feeling
that they're about to re-establish
the parks and forest system.
With you, no doubt, as director?
You can think of anybody better?
More qualified? Huh?
KEENAN: Really, it's more likely that...
Wait a second now.
Let me just ask him a question here.
I've spent my entire last eight years
up here dedicated to this project.
Now, can you think
of anybody more qualified?
Really, it's more likely that
they're gonna announce cutbacks.
(Scoffs) Sorry.
There's no way they're gonna announce
cutbacks, not after this amount of time.
Hey, Lowell, you're dreaming.
And you don't think it's time
somebody had a dream again? Huh?
You don't think that it's time that
somebody cared enough to have a dream?
What about the forests? You don't think
anyone should care about these forests?
What's gonna happen if these forests
and all this incredible beauty
is lost for all time?
(Sighs heavily)
WOLF: It's been too long, Lowell.
People got other things to do now.
(Radio static)
RADIO: This is for Valley Forge,
Berkshire, Sequoia.
Valley Forge, Berkshire, Sequoia,
this is Con Central.
Channel open for executive order
AUC 3423.
Listen to this, boys.
This is Anderson speaking.
Boys, I have to make
an announcement.
We have just received orders
to abandon, then nuclear destruct,
all the forests
and return our ships
to commercial service.
I have received no explanation,
and we must begin
at 0900 in the morning.
May God have mercy on us all.
This is it!
We're going home!
- I can't believe it.
- I told you, I told you. What'd I say?
We can pack up those domes
and go home.
NEAL: ...auto-destruct
of all forest units.
Kiss 'em good-bye, boys.
Hey, Lowell, I'm sorry.
Makes sense, you know?
It's insane.
Let's go.
(Indistinct transmission continues)
♪ JOAN BAEZ: "Rejoice in the Sun" ♪
♪ Fields of children ♪
♪ Running wild ♪
♪ In the sun ♪
♪ Like a forest is your child ♪
♪ Growing wild ♪
♪ In the sun ♪
♪ Doomed in his innocence ♪
♪ In the sun ♪
♪ Gather your children ♪
♪ To your side ♪
♪ In the sun ♪
♪ Tell them ♪
♪ All they love will die ♪
♪ Tell them why ♪
♪ In the sun ♪
♪ Tell them ♪
♪ It's not too late ♪
♪ Cultivate one by one ♪
♪ Tell them to harvest ♪
♪ And rejoice ♪
♪ In the sun ♪
WOLF: How far out do they go
before they blow up?
BARKER: About six miles.
We should feel a hefty jolt.
KEENAN: I want a front-row seat.
BARKER: I'll bet you do.
Lowell, do you have to eat
that stuff in here? It stinks!
- You never let up, do you?
- Well...
Oh, now you hurt his feelings.
I'd like to know what any one of you
knows about real food.
What do you mean "real food"?
What, out of the dirt? That's real food?
That's right.
This happens to be nature's greatest gift.
To a celibate, maybe.
Come on, you guys. Maybe he knows
something we don't. Hmm?
Lowell, give me a slice
of that cantaloupe.
Don't ask Lowell. I'd be delighted
to give you a slice of that cantaloupe.
Just sit down and shut up!
Sit down, sit down, sit down!
Shut up and leave me alone,
all of you! Let me eat!
What's the big deal? I can't see
the difference between that and this.
You don't see the difference?
The difference is I grew it!
That's what the difference is.
That I picked it and I fixed it.
It has a taste,
and it has some colour!
And it has a smell!
It calls back a time when there
were flowers all over the Earth!
And there were valleys!
And there were plains of tall, green grass
that you could lie down in,
that you could go to sleep in!
And there were blue skies,
and there was fresh air!
And there were things
growing all over the place,
not just in domed enclosures blasted
some millions of miles out into space!
Look at that stuff.
How can you guys sit there
and really say anything to me about this.
Look at this crap!
Look at that!
Dried, synthetic crap!
And you've become so dependent on it
that I bet you can't live without it.
Why would we want to, Lowell?
Don't you realise how pitiful that is,
what you just asked me?
On Earth, everywhere you go,
the temperature is 75 degrees.
Everything is the same.
All the people are exactly the same.
What kind of life is that?
If it's so rotten,
why do you want to go back?
Because it's not too late
to change it.
What do you want, Lowell?
There's hardly any more disease.
There's no more poverty.
Nobody's out of a job.
That's right.
Every time we have the argument,
you give me the same three
answers all the time.
The same thing.
"Well, everybody has a job."
That's always the last one.
But you know what else
there's no more of, my friend?
There is no more beauty,
and there's no more imagination.
And there are no frontiers left to conquer.
And you know why?
Only one reason why!
One reason why!
The same attitude that you three guys are
giving me right here in this room today,
and that is: nobody cares.
Look on the wall behind you.
Look at that little girl's face.
I know you've seen it.
But do you know what
she's never gonna be able to see?
She's never gonna be able to see
the simple wonder of a leaf in her hand
because there's
not gonna be any trees.
Now you think about that.
(Sighs)
If people were interested, something
would have been done a long time ago.
You ready?
Yeah. Yeah, I'm ready.
Hey, wait, wait.
Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
I don't think you guys understand
what this means.
Please don't blow up the domes.
- Which one first?
- High forest.
Let's do it first. Let's hit Six.
- But they're not disposable.
- Ain't got any choice, Lowell.
But they're not replaceable.
(Crickets chirping)
BARKER: Where's that tube?
- Ow! My hand.
- KEENAN: Hey, you all right?
Ah!
- You better get Lowell to fix that for you.
- Damn!
- Really.
- Yeah.
Will you help me?
Oh, yeah.
What are you doing?
Nothing.
Get on in here now.
(Groans)
Come on.
(Radio chiming)
NEAL: Valley Forge, Valley Forge,
safe distancing manoeuvre in five minutes.
Valley Forge, Valley Forge,
please stand by for 1000 hours.
Safe distancing manoeuvre
in five minutes.
I'm gonna need your help
for that, you know, Lowell?
OK?
- OK, there you go.
- Thank you.
Here.
(Indistinct radio transmissions)
Set gyro to 4406.
(Equipment whirring)
Set gyro to 4406.
(Whirring continues)
RADIO: Valley Forge, this is Berkshire.
Are you there, Marty?
I'm on it, Neal.
OK, we're counting now
for your 4406 distancing.
About 20 seconds.
(Equipment beeping)
Set for distancing.
NEAL: 'Right.
Eight, seven, six,
five, four, three, two, one.
That's a go.
(Engines rumbling)
NEAL: Thanks, Marty,
we're clear. Stand by for updates.
Hey, Andy.
- The bomb, please.
- All right.
WOLF: Loaded and ready to go.
(Laughing)
NEAL: 99909 plus 4904
plus eight.
BARKER: Right.
NEAL: OK, lookin' real good.
That's a go.
BARKER: Right.
NEAL: We're ready for some real
fireworks here. Twenty-five seconds.
BARKER: We're looking forward
to it too, Neal.
NEAL: Keep a steady hand, Marty.
We don't want you boys getting hurt.
BARKER: Right. Will do.
Hey, where the hell
is Lowell now?
I think I saw him near One
with some empty flower pots.
(Explosion rumbles)
Oh, oh.
That must be Berkshire.
(Vehicle approaching)
Whoo!
(Brakes screech)
(Explosion)
(Indistinct radio transmissions)
- Do we need this?
- BARKER: Hmm?
Hey, Andy, easy with that.
No, we'll use the panel.
It's safer.
John, would you get those lights?
Sure. Nothing up on the board.
We'll set Six.
Gotcha.
- OK. Arm Six.
- Armed.
(Explosion in the distance)
(Explosion)
Hit it.
(Explosion)
RADIO: We're standing by
for a go for...
(Explosion)
No!
(Vehicle approaching)
You're not comin' in here.
What are you doin', Lowell?
- You're not comin' in here.
- Look, I know how you feel.
You don't know how I feel!
If you knew how I felt,
you wouldn't be in here with that.
Listen, I'm on a tight schedule,
and I don't want to have to fight with you.
I don't care about your schedule.
You are not using those things
in my forest.
I ain't got time to argue!
Now, move!
You're not gonna do it.
(Groans)
(Both grunting)
(Grunts)
You can't blow up this forest.
NEAL: Come in, Valley Forge.
Reading 4040.
Berkshire to Valley Forge.
Come in, Valley Forge.
Berkshire to Valley Forge.
(Grunts)
(Gasping)
(Indistinct radio transmissions)
NEAL: Valley Forge.
Come in, Valley Forge.
Reading 4040.
Berkshire to Valley Forge.
Come in, Valley Forge.
Valley Forge to Berkshire.
You still there, Neal?
- Yes, Barker.
- No, it's Lowell.
Oh, what's the trouble, Lowell?
Well, we seem to be experiencing
some problem with the main coupling.
NEAL: Oh, it might be
one of your pins.
LOWELL: Right. That's what
we figured it probably was.
So we're setting that right now.
We'll be gettin' back to you
just as soon as we can.
Roger.
Uh, Lowell?
Yeah.
- Everything OK over there?
- Oh, yeah, OK.
A-OK. Everything's OK.
We'll wait to hear, buddy.
Roger.
(Turns off radio)
Drone One,
Drone Two,
Drone Three,
please report immediately
to the main cargo area.
NEAL: Berkshire to Valley Forge.
Yeah, yeah.
Come in, Valley Forge.
Berkshire to Valley Forge.
Come in, Valley Forge.
Berkshire to Valley Forge.
Come in, Valley Forge.
Come in.
Berkshire to Valley Forge.
(Groans)
Valley Forge to Berkshire.
Come in, Berkshire.
How's it goin', Lowell?
It's not goin' too well, Neal. I'm afraid
we're gonna have to torch those pins.
Better move on it, buddy.
Darkness coming up on you. 33201.
Right. We'll try our best.
Boys here are getting anxious
for home.
Yeah, I understand.
- Coming into darkness at 33201.
- Right.
Blow it any old way you can, Lowell.
Big Billy wants to go.
We're tryin'.
(Equipment whirring)
(Indistinct radio transmissions)
(Beeping and static)
(Indistinct radio transmissions)
NEAL: Yellowstone reports
final jettison.
Arcadia, Blue Ridge, Glacier, Mojave
report final jettisons.
- We got a hold on Valley Forge.
- MAN #2: Right.
NEAL: Berkshire to Valley Forge.
Berkshire to Valley Forge.
You're entering darkness.
Lowell, do you read?
Right, Neal. We hear you.
Big Billy says blow it any way, Lowell.
- (Whispers) Screw Big Billy.
- Didn't catch that, buddy.
Nothing. I just said we're right on it, Neal.
We're tryin'.
(Whirring)
(Beeping)
(Rumbling)
NEAL: Valley Forge, what's wrong?
You're accelerating!
(Static and beeping)
NEAL: Valley Forge!
Berkshire to Valley Forge!
I have an emergency ignition
on Valley Forge!
Reading Red-990!
I get a 2-4 on Valley Forge reading red!
Valley Forge to Berkshire.
I've got an emergency!
- Neal? Can you read me, Neal?
- I read you.
I got a main bus blow-out
on numbers three, eight and ten panels,
I've got a premature detonation
on Dome Number Two
and I've got an explosion
in the main cargo deck!
Please advise me immediately!
I read you. Put on Wolf, Lowell.
No, no, change that. Give me Barker.
I can't find Barker!
I can't find Wolf or Keenan either!
I'm afraid, Neal, that they might
have been in Dome Number Two!
God, Dome Two just blew up.
Stand by.
Report Wolf, Keenan and Barker
accidentally jettisoned from Valley Forge.
Wolf, Keenan and Barker missing.
What the hell is taking so long?
NEAL: Coming up now, Valley Forge.
(Over radio) Lowell, this is Anderson.
How are you, boy?
(Sighs) I'm OK.
Listen, Lowell, if you continue as is,
we figure you'll hit the northeastern
quadrant of Saturn's outer rings
at 0302 tomorrow morning.
What does that mean?
We don't think you'll make it through.
It's a very bad angle.
These ships weren't built
to shoot the rapids.
The plan is to find where the explosion
chopped the main bus and reroute it.
You'll have to do some cutting.
Where do I start?
Uh, we tracked a bunch of cargo modules,
probably off your starboard side.
So we figure maybe one of the cryotanks
under the floor cut loose.
It may have exposed the main bus duct,
if we're lucky.
I'll take a look at it.
(Gasps, shuddering)
(Groans)
(Panting)
(Groaning)
Drone Number One.
(Groaning)
(Groans)
- (Beeps)
- (Lowell gasps)
(Panting)
(Machine humming)
LOWELL: This'll stop 'em.
(Machine humming)
I need you guys
to help me fix my leg.
From now on,
you guys are working for me.
Here's a little medical program.
Drone One, Drone Two,
Drone Three,
please report immediately
to surgery.
Drone Number Two...
(Gasping)
...you'll perform the operation.
And Drone Number Three,
you'll handle the oxygen anaesthesia.
(Groaning and coughing)
Drone Number One...
(Panting)
(Gasping)
Number One...
...you'll assist.
(Beeping)
(Inhaling deeply)
(Instrument buzzing)
(Sighs)
(Indistinct radio transmissions)
Commander Anderson?
I can't get anywhere near
that main bus duct.
Everything is just
all torn up down there.
ANDERSON: Uh, listen, Freeman...
That's your first name, right?
Yes.
- Any family, Freeman?
- No, sir.
Well, listen, Freeman, you've been
with this project since the start,
- and you've known the risks.
- Yes, sir.
I... I don't really know
how to say this, Freeman.
It's all right, sir.
- We've got some trouble.
- I figured.
Yes, er...
I'm really sorry, Freeman.
Sorry, sir? About what?
We'll never be able to stop you
before you hit the rings.
I see.
Freeman,
you might want to consider...
Suicide, sir?
No...
I just don't think that I'd ever be able
to do anything like that.
The best we can do then is send out
a search party the long way around,
but it's kind of like a needle
in a hay stack, if you know what I mean.
Yes.
- Freeman?
- Yes, sir?
God bless you, Freeman.
You're a hell of an American.
Thank you, sir.
(Turns off radio)
I think I am.
(Sighing)
(Sighs)
(Electronic alarm sounding)
(Alarm beeping)
(Rumbling)
(Glasses clattering)
(Wind howling)
(Intense metallic creaking)
(Panting)
Drone Number Three!
Drone Number Three, keep moving!
Follow One and Two!
Why didn't you follow them?
(Panting)
(Alarm beeping)
(Equipment sparking)
(Roaring winds cease)
(Rumbling stops)
(Sighs heavily)
LOWELL: Now dig a hole for him.
Make it seven feet long
and three feet wide.
Okay, now put him...
Put him down in it.
And then remain there
'cos I would like to say something
before you cover him over.
Er...
I, er...
I would like to be able
to say a... a prayer,
but I-I don't...
really know how to say it.
Wolf and Barker and Keenan...
They weren't exactly my friends,
but I did like them.
And, er...
Well...
I don't... I don't think
that I'll ever be able to...
...excuse what it is that I did,
but I had to do it.
And...
(Sighs)
I guess that's all that I have to say.
You can cover him over now.
(Clears throat)
Boys... Ha-ha-ha!
I'd like to make an announcement.
From now on,
Drone Number Two,
you will answer
to the name of Huey.
And Drone Number One,
you will answer
to the name of Dewey.
Little Louie, God bless him, he's...
He's not with us anymore.
Huey, you take one step forward.
That's super.
Now, Dewey,
you also take one step forward.
Hey, that's really excellent.
Now, erm...
You see, what I've done is
I've reprogrammed both of you
so that now
you'll respond directly to me.
Now that means you'll still run
the same maintenance checks
and perform the same duties
that you've been doing on the ship,
but you'll also be spending
more time with me in the forest.
And you shouldn't have much
of a problem then
making the necessary readjustments.
And I realise that...
we've really had a rough journey,
and we sure got
our work cut out for us,
but I think that
the three of us together,
as a team, we can manage okay.
Is that all right with you guys?
The three of us together
are gonna plant a tree.
We got a shovel,
watering can and a tree.
Now... this is the mulch.
That's what makes the tree grow.
Now...
Now, Huey,
you're gonna plant the tree,
and, Dewey,
you're gonna dig the ditch.
Now, we're gonna do it
right here in the side of the hill.
That's a real good hole, Dewey.
Now...
Huey, here's the tree.
Put a little mulch like that.
Okay, now plant the tree.
Well, that's pitiful. Pitiful.
That's exactly the opposite
of what it's supposed to be.
♪ JOAN BAEZ: "Silent Running" ♪
♪ Earth between my toes ♪
♪ And a flower in my hair ♪
♪ That's what I was wearing ♪
♪ When we lay ♪
♪ Among the ferns ♪
♪ Earth between my toes ♪
♪ And a flower I will wear ♪
♪ When he returns ♪
♪ Wind upon his face ♪
♪ And my fingers in his hair ♪
♪ That's what he was wearing ♪
♪ When we lay ♪
♪ Beneath the sky ♪
♪ Wind upon his face ♪
♪ And my love he will wear ♪
♪ When swallows fly ♪
♪ Tears of sorrow running deep ♪
♪ Running silent in my sleep ♪
♪ Running silent ♪
♪ In my sleep ♪
LOWELL: What's the matter?
I know you're sad about Louie.
But he got careless. See what happens
when you get careless?
Okay, now, you guys
go on back to your work.
(Tyres squealing)
Hey, how are you today?
Ow! You bit my hand.
Don't you ever bite my hand again.
(Humming)
♪ You can take a tip from Smokey
that there's nothing like a tree
♪ Oh, they're great for kids to climb in
and they're beautiful to see ♪
(Humming)
(Muttering)
Huey and Dewey,
I want you two guys
to report right away
to the recreation room.
Well, I see you're already here.
I'll bet you wonder why I gathered
you here, haven't you? Huh?
Well, I want to beg your indulgence.
Got some new programs
here for you. Here you go.
Now, Huey, come over
and sit down here.
Dewey, you come right up here
and sit down.
You can come a little closer
if you want to, Dewey.
Thattaboy. There's for you.
There's for you.
And there's for me.
(Chuckles)
Okay, boys.
Now...
I'm about to take you two guys
for every dime you got.
(Shuffling cards)
Here we go.
Two. Three.
Five, five, five.
Now, boys, let's play cards.
Okay.
Now, Dewey.
(Hisses twice)
(Hissing)
Okay.
How many cards you want, Dewey?
What are you doing?
You just threw down three kings.
- (Hisses)
- You're nuts, you know that?
Your hand is obviously dead.
Let's see what you got here.
He's got trash, so obviously
I'm the winner with three sevens.
Thank you, boys. Sorry,
you gotta be quicker than that.
You gotta get up in the morning
to beat ol' Freeman, let me tell ya.
Early in the morning.
It's all mine. We'll play another hand,
and I don't want any mistakes.
It's up to you. We're not playing for
3-in-1 Oil here, we're playing for money.
Okay, now.
Dewey, you took two.
- (Hissing)
- No, I wasn't looking.
What have I said about
talking between you guys?
Now, come on. That's not fair.
I'm by myself, and you're talking
between yourselves.
Now that's not fair.
That's a house rule, no more talking.
Now, how many cards you want?
You don't want any cards?
You saw what the man did last hand,
and you don't want any cards?
All right. Dealer's taking two.
All right, Huey.
What have you got?
Ha-ha! The man has a full house,
and he knew it!
How about that? The man had
a full house, and he knew it!
(Laughing)
Ha-ha! Huey and Dewey beat me
at my own card game!
(Laughter continues)
I know. I've actually been
eating that crap.
(Grinding)
Let's go to the forest
and get some real food.
What has happened to the forest?
Huey, go get me the grey book.
I don't know.
I just cannot figure out what's wrong.
Okay, now listen to me.
Make a slow, complete,
360-degree turn for me.
Okay. Yeah, thattaboy.
Now, hold it. Stop right there.
That's good.
Now, take a sample there. Oh, no.
We're coming to the dome.
Wait right there, Huey.
(Tyres screeching)
(Hissing and whining)
Huey, I thought I told you
to stay in the forest.
You're braced.
You can't fall back.
It's okay, Huey.
I got it, I got it.
That will make you rest
a little easier now.
Your little light...
No, no, I know where it is.
(Screwdriver whirs)
- (Hissing)
- Oh, no. That's okay, Huey.
Just hold steady now.
I won't hit that again.
There.
Now, that should be better.
Dewey, go get me
that I-arm circuit wrench.
I understand.
I think I can manage here without it.
There.
Now, I'm screwing you in tight.
I'm sorry, Huey.
That's the best that I can do.
Er...
I tried, but that...
That's all I can do for him, Dewey.
(Sighs heavily)
I don't know, Huey.
It's just not... working.
- (Hissing)
- The forest is dying.
I have tried everything.
And I just don't know
what the hell it is.
(Indistinct radio transmissions)
(Transmissions continue)
RADIO: Come in, Valley Forge.
Berkshire to Valley Forge.
Do you read me?
Valley Forge. Come in, Valley Forge.
This is Berkshire. Can you read?
Valley Forge. Come in, Valley Forge.
This is Berkshire. Can you read?
(Static and indistinct transmissions)
We got a plot on you, Lowell.
Fantastic!
We're looking forward to seeing you,
buddy. We made it.
Transmit, will ya?
Please acknowledge immediately.
Come in, Valley Forge.
Can you read?
(Indistinct transmissions continue)
ANDERSON: Please transmit
immediately.
Berkshire to Valley Forge.
Berkshire to Valley Forge.
How about a word, Lowell, huh?
- (Softly) Hi.
- Lowell?
Ha-ha! I'm mighty glad
to see you, boy.
(Laughing over radio)
- Who is this?
- This is Anderson, Lowell.
My God, we've looked
high and low for you.
How did you find me?
Why did you even try?
Hey, you must be kidding.
We couldn't just let you go
without at least trying to find you.
We said we'd send out
a search party.
I guess I forgot.
It wasn't easy finding you either,
even with our deep-space tracking.
- I don't suppose it was.
- Freeman...
You'll have to find some way
to jettison the dome.
And it's awfully dark out here,
so it'd be safer if you don't blow it up.
The sun. The sun!
That's what it is. The sun!
You hear what he said? It's the sun.
- ANDERSON: What?
- Nothing.
I was just saying
that everything is all right.
Where was your big explosion?
We can't see it.
The explosion's on the other side,
the far side of the ship.
Other side? Okay.
We'll be instrument docking
on your port side in six hours.
Six hours! Huey and Dewey,
we can still save the forest!
It's gonna work.
Dewey...
I've taught you everything that I know
about taking care of the forest here.
And, er...
...that's all that you have to do
from now on,
just maintain the forest.
Now, these lights here will do
the job that the sun would do.
They'll help revive everything.
I, er...
I just can't do it anymore.
You see, things, er...
...things just haven't worked out for me.
Take care of yourself, Dewey.
Huey, you have to come with me,
because you're just not working
well enough to help Dewey.
ANDERSON: Berkshire to Valley Forge.
Berkshire to Valley Forge.
We'll be docking on your port side
in two hours.
Stand by for updates.
LOWELL: Take good care
of the forest, Dewey.
(Sighs heavily)
You know, when I was a kid,
I put a note into a bottle,
and it had my name and address on it.
And then I threw the bottle
into the ocean.
And I never knew...
...if anybody ever found it.
♪ JOAN BAEZ: "Rejoice in the Sun" ♪
♪ Fields of children ♪
♪ Running wild ♪
♪ In the sun ♪
♪ Like a forest ♪
♪ Is your child ♪
♪ Growing wild ♪
♪ In the sun ♪
♪ Doomed ♪
♪ In his innocence ♪
♪ In the sun ♪
♪ Gather your children ♪
♪ To your side ♪
♪ In the sun ♪
♪ Tell them ♪
♪ All they love will die ♪
♪ Tell them why ♪
♪ In the sun ♪
♪ Tell them ♪
♪ It's not too late ♪
♪ Cultivate one by one ♪
♪ Tell them to harvest ♪
♪ And rejoice ♪
♪ In the sun... ♪