Infiniti (2022–…): Season 1, Episode 1 - La Tour du Silence - full transcript
Step 4.3 completed.
Target is four-by-one degrees
and the crosshairs are almost aligned.
Approach speed -
20 centimetres per second.
Preparing the automatic rendezvous system.
Keep it coming, Tony. We're good.
OK.
The target is at the centre.
The crosshairs are aligned
and we're in the final approach.
3.5 squares.
Distance to docking - 30 metres.
Alignment is good.
Docking distance - 20 metres
before activation
of the rendezvous system.
20 centimetres a second.
We're in alignment.
Anthony, how are things looking to you?
They look good.
They didn't give us time to clean up.
It's starting to stink in here.
1 minute, 10 seconds to docking.
Activating the automatic
rendezvous system.
It'll give you time to air it out.
What's happening?
The cargo camera crashed.
We've had a temporary image loss.
TsUP to Kurz, I got a visual.
You're in alignment.
50 seconds. How's it looking on our side?
We're in autopilot.
Everything is good to go.
OK, ISS to TsUP, proceed with docking.
We'll trust the computers.
40 seconds to contact.
TsUP to Kurz, you're moving off
centre. You're out of alignment.
ISS, negative. The data looks good here.
Negative. I repeat,
the cargo is not aligned.
The autopilot system is defective.
Request collision avoidance manoeuvre.
I repeat, request CAM.
Negative. Docking is imminent.
We are in the no-go zone.
TsUP, the cargo is gonna crash into us.
20 seconds.
The station's overriding the controls.
They're switching to manual.
What the hell are they doing up there?
TsUP to Kurz, I'm taking over control.
ISS, negative. Get back to procedure.
10 seconds.
Eight, seven.
Anthony, do you hear me?
Get back to procedure!
Anthony, do you hear me?
Get back to procedure. That's an order!
ISS, what the hell are you doing?!
Abort! I repeat, abort!
Come on.
It's too late. In four seconds,
it will touch the ISS.
Come on! Move, you sonofabitch.
Two. One.
We're gonna crash!
The module's depressurising.
Anna!
Anna!
Anna, go!
Get out of there!
Go now!
Get out of there! Get out of there now!
ANNA!
Anthony! Get out!
Get out!
ISS to TsUP, do you copy?
ISS to TsUP, do you copy?
Data?
Uh-uh.
Pressure?
No.
Power? Nothing. We've lost all contact.
Switch to UHF.
ISS to TsUP, do you copy?
ISS to TsUP, do you copy?
Kurz to Mikhail, do you copy?
Kurz to Mikhail, do you copy?
Nothing from the TDRS?
The station's changing its inclination.
Orbital inclination change
is an angle of two degrees.
And the cargo?
Lost.
Notify the embassies and inform the media.
The ISS isn't responding.
Hey! Hey!
Hey!
Hup, hup!
As-salaam alaikum. Wa-alaikum salaam.
As-salaam alaikum.
Hmm.
I have summoned the delegation heads
of the countries concerned -
Mr Wong, CNSA, China,
and Mr Mason, NASA, America.
We will be meeting
to determine a plan of action.
There are rumours that
Anthony Kurz disobeyed orders
during the docking procedure.
Can you confirm this?
They're just, uh, rumours -
by definition, unfounded.
The time will come to designate
those who are responsible.
For now, we must
stand together. Thank you.
It's quite clear that this
was due to a technical error…
How dare you accuse us
in front of the media!
You're acting like they're already dead,
but you cannot deny it -
Kurz was trying to save the crew.
Save the crew?! He disobeyed, Mason.
He's responsible for this tragedy.
Look at that, dammit!
If they were alive, they would have
used the Soyuz to escape.
Maybe they tried to.
Kurz didn't save anyone.
Sir?
Here's the accident report.
The automatic rendezvous system
program was thoroughly checked.
It's flawless. What are you trying to say?
What I'm trying to say
is that the cargo was aligned.
The error was human.
If you continue to publicly accuse Kurz,
I'm going to request having
the investigation handed to Houston.
Mason.
As the Cosmoros director and manager,
I must warn you,
if you do that, you're going to destroy
30 years of space collaboration.
And as the head
of the US delegation, Lydia,
I'm telling you, you are about
to destroy what's left of it.
Baikonur's days are numbered.
Private launchers are taking over.
It's a new era.
So that's all it is to you?
Just a trade war?
Would you prefer the Cold War?
Hmm.
Yeah?
Welcome to Baikonur.
Most of you don't know me yet,
but I know you, all of you.
My name is Emil Durkhov.
I am the director of operations
for what is likely to be one
of the last flights to the ISS.
I am the little voice that's going
to be whispering in your ear,
the one you can talk to, a guardian angel,
even if objectively I seem
more like the Holy Father.
Who could be in a better position
to send you to the heavens?
The Infiniti mission will be responsible
for dismantling the ISS laboratories
to be deorbited in a few months
towards a future lunar orbit platform.
Wow. I envy you.
Those ones leaving, I mean.
For the others, the backup team,
you'll just have to pray
that one of the lucky ones
comes down with a stomach flu.
But rest assured,
you are all exceptional to us.
Their day will come.
I'll let you get settled
in your rooms now.
And, uh, there will be none of that
ending up in the wrong room.
You know the rules.
There are only two loves here -
Greater Russia and outer space.
Oh!
Ooh-hoo!
Mm-hm.
Ooh…
Anna?
Is he here?
Everyone's here.
You…you can't come in.
You no longer have clearance.
Get her out of here.
Have you checked all the relay satellites?
EDRS, TDRS, Tianlian system?
Yeah, the transmitters were all destroyed.
We're in the dark.
The Soyuz is still there?
They weren't evacuated?
She shouldn't have seen this.
Can I borrow it? Mine's all dried out.
Yes, of course.
Well… Nice watch.
Thanks.
That's your mother's, right?
Yes. She'd be proud of you.
You can keep it.
I didn't introduce myself.
Anthony Kurz, NASA.
Anna Zarathi, ESOA. Yeah, I know.
I'm your new backup. I'm sorry.
Don't be. I could've been
someone else's backup.
The Russians are still sending dogs
into space, aren't they?
It's amazing.
What? Your name, Zarathi.
You know where it comes from?
From my father, but I never knew him.
It's Persian.
Yes, I know. It means 'star'.
Well, it just goes to show,
maybe everything is predestined.
Hey, have you ever heard…
have you ever heard of Zarathustra?
'Zarath' means 'star' too.
'Zaradustra' - the 'sublime star',
the sun.
You're not telling me
I'm the daughter of the sun?
No.
But you could be.
I can't believe it. You just said it.
Will you come with me? Where?
To one of the ceremonies in the area.
They build these huge bonfires
to celebrate the winter solstice.
You should see it.
I mean, got any other plans?
Goodnight, Anthony.
Hmm?
Isaak couldn't make it himself?
He's busy.
That's a shame.
How well do you know Isaak?
You didn't come here
to talk about Isaak, did you?
No.
He wants to know what it is.
We've been caught.
Nyet, nyet, nyet.
Take it. That way, at least a part
of me will be up there with you.
Something's missing.
What is it?
Starlight I.
First American spy satellite.
Launched in 1978.
They put it here, 600 kilometres away.
Just above our heads…
..to spy on the Soviets.
And now they're spying on us.
Do they know our secret?
We are all Starlight.
We're military satellites. How romantic.
Why not?
Isn't a star just a giant nuclear bomb?
300 billion megatons of TNT?
I have to go.
The universe is one huge war, Anna.
And in war, you have to fight.
Anna, are you with us?
We're here to understand.
There was an accident,
an accident directly involving
Anthony Kurz.
Is this why I'm here?
To take part of a trial against him?
No, but let's work out
what happened, why he disobeyed.
It seems that you knew him quite well.
And, um, he called out for you
during the accident.
Why?
Anna.
Is it true that you left the base
to go to Semipalatinsk with Tony Kurz?
Yes. That's against the rules.
Did you go into the contaminated zone?
We had taken iodine pills.
The level of radioactivity was low.
Did you ever wonder
if that was why you became ill?
That's absurd. Radioactivity
doesn't cause psychological trauma.
Anna, Kurz took your
backup's place at short notice,
then he took your place,
again at the last minute,
and he was directly involved
in the accident.
Unfounded speculations. Come on.
Anthony fired up the Soyuz
to change the ISS course
and reduce the inertia of the shock,
not to destroy the ISS.
Why would he do that?
How did you know that?
We haven't spoken of it yet.
That's the most logical procedure
in case of a docking failure.
Except that the cargo
was perfectly aligned.
Was it?
But, more importantly,
the service unit's thrusters
were not triggered
until 58 minutes after the impact.
How many degrees?
Two.
And where is it now?
It's gaining altitude and it's
flying over Ukraine at the moment.
In less than an hour, it will fly
over our heads in the debris field.
Over our heads? Yes.
Exactly on our vertical access.
And we can't do a thing about it.
At what altitude over our heads?
Currently, 550 kilometres. In an
hour, it'll be 600 kilometres away.
Starlight.
What did you say?
He's trying to rendezvous with me.
What do you mean?
The ISS is driven
by the SM's thrusters, right?
It's no longer a station.
It's a spaceship.
And it's heading to a very specific place.
Miss Zarathi, please.
They're alive and they're trying
to make contact with us.
This is a highly serious commission.
Let her finish.
Anthony was part of a top-secret
military program, wasn't he?
He knew about the orbit
of the American satellite.
Starlight I is a spy satellite
from the '70s,
monitoring the region for over 40 years
there, just over our heads,
600 kilometres away.
Starlight was decommissioned
many years ago.
The optical capacity was barely enough
to…to detect nuclear tests
around Semipalatinsk.
Now, the ISS would literally
have to brush up against her
for us to see anything.
But it might work.
One of your countrymen
might end up a hero after all.
Mikhail, what's the altitude of the ISS?
580 kilometres.
Get me a visual of
the sun-synchronous orbit.
The ISS should cross the Starlight
satellite at around 600 kilometres.
I'm not getting any pings.
What exactly are we looking for?
This is your time to shine, Arwel.
Almost.
Done.
The ISS is about to cross that line.
Collision risk - 24%.
Their trajectories
will intersect in 10 minutes.
Relative speed - 350 metres per second.
This is going to go very fast.
Too fast.
Don't you want to come and see?
I know he's alive.
How can you be so sure?
I know you went through a deep depression.
And that you suffer from paraphrenia.
We both know this isn't
the first time you've…
..imagined things.
Now I have proof that it's true,
that it happened.
Maybe it proves that I'm not crazy.
I have something to show you.
Or, rather, someone.
Eh?
That's impossible.
You knew him better than anyone.
Do you recognise the body?
Is it him?
Trajectories will cross in 10 seconds.
Nine. Eight. Seven.
Six. Five. Four.
Three. Two. One.
Contact.
The operation was a success.
Zoom in on the Soyuz porthole.
More.
More. More.
More.
Kurz is alive.
The universe is one huge war, Anna.
And in war, you have to fight.
Captions by Red Bee Media
2022 SBS Australia
Target is four-by-one degrees
and the crosshairs are almost aligned.
Approach speed -
20 centimetres per second.
Preparing the automatic rendezvous system.
Keep it coming, Tony. We're good.
OK.
The target is at the centre.
The crosshairs are aligned
and we're in the final approach.
3.5 squares.
Distance to docking - 30 metres.
Alignment is good.
Docking distance - 20 metres
before activation
of the rendezvous system.
20 centimetres a second.
We're in alignment.
Anthony, how are things looking to you?
They look good.
They didn't give us time to clean up.
It's starting to stink in here.
1 minute, 10 seconds to docking.
Activating the automatic
rendezvous system.
It'll give you time to air it out.
What's happening?
The cargo camera crashed.
We've had a temporary image loss.
TsUP to Kurz, I got a visual.
You're in alignment.
50 seconds. How's it looking on our side?
We're in autopilot.
Everything is good to go.
OK, ISS to TsUP, proceed with docking.
We'll trust the computers.
40 seconds to contact.
TsUP to Kurz, you're moving off
centre. You're out of alignment.
ISS, negative. The data looks good here.
Negative. I repeat,
the cargo is not aligned.
The autopilot system is defective.
Request collision avoidance manoeuvre.
I repeat, request CAM.
Negative. Docking is imminent.
We are in the no-go zone.
TsUP, the cargo is gonna crash into us.
20 seconds.
The station's overriding the controls.
They're switching to manual.
What the hell are they doing up there?
TsUP to Kurz, I'm taking over control.
ISS, negative. Get back to procedure.
10 seconds.
Eight, seven.
Anthony, do you hear me?
Get back to procedure!
Anthony, do you hear me?
Get back to procedure. That's an order!
ISS, what the hell are you doing?!
Abort! I repeat, abort!
Come on.
It's too late. In four seconds,
it will touch the ISS.
Come on! Move, you sonofabitch.
Two. One.
We're gonna crash!
The module's depressurising.
Anna!
Anna!
Anna, go!
Get out of there!
Go now!
Get out of there! Get out of there now!
ANNA!
Anthony! Get out!
Get out!
ISS to TsUP, do you copy?
ISS to TsUP, do you copy?
Data?
Uh-uh.
Pressure?
No.
Power? Nothing. We've lost all contact.
Switch to UHF.
ISS to TsUP, do you copy?
ISS to TsUP, do you copy?
Kurz to Mikhail, do you copy?
Kurz to Mikhail, do you copy?
Nothing from the TDRS?
The station's changing its inclination.
Orbital inclination change
is an angle of two degrees.
And the cargo?
Lost.
Notify the embassies and inform the media.
The ISS isn't responding.
Hey! Hey!
Hey!
Hup, hup!
As-salaam alaikum. Wa-alaikum salaam.
As-salaam alaikum.
Hmm.
I have summoned the delegation heads
of the countries concerned -
Mr Wong, CNSA, China,
and Mr Mason, NASA, America.
We will be meeting
to determine a plan of action.
There are rumours that
Anthony Kurz disobeyed orders
during the docking procedure.
Can you confirm this?
They're just, uh, rumours -
by definition, unfounded.
The time will come to designate
those who are responsible.
For now, we must
stand together. Thank you.
It's quite clear that this
was due to a technical error…
How dare you accuse us
in front of the media!
You're acting like they're already dead,
but you cannot deny it -
Kurz was trying to save the crew.
Save the crew?! He disobeyed, Mason.
He's responsible for this tragedy.
Look at that, dammit!
If they were alive, they would have
used the Soyuz to escape.
Maybe they tried to.
Kurz didn't save anyone.
Sir?
Here's the accident report.
The automatic rendezvous system
program was thoroughly checked.
It's flawless. What are you trying to say?
What I'm trying to say
is that the cargo was aligned.
The error was human.
If you continue to publicly accuse Kurz,
I'm going to request having
the investigation handed to Houston.
Mason.
As the Cosmoros director and manager,
I must warn you,
if you do that, you're going to destroy
30 years of space collaboration.
And as the head
of the US delegation, Lydia,
I'm telling you, you are about
to destroy what's left of it.
Baikonur's days are numbered.
Private launchers are taking over.
It's a new era.
So that's all it is to you?
Just a trade war?
Would you prefer the Cold War?
Hmm.
Yeah?
Welcome to Baikonur.
Most of you don't know me yet,
but I know you, all of you.
My name is Emil Durkhov.
I am the director of operations
for what is likely to be one
of the last flights to the ISS.
I am the little voice that's going
to be whispering in your ear,
the one you can talk to, a guardian angel,
even if objectively I seem
more like the Holy Father.
Who could be in a better position
to send you to the heavens?
The Infiniti mission will be responsible
for dismantling the ISS laboratories
to be deorbited in a few months
towards a future lunar orbit platform.
Wow. I envy you.
Those ones leaving, I mean.
For the others, the backup team,
you'll just have to pray
that one of the lucky ones
comes down with a stomach flu.
But rest assured,
you are all exceptional to us.
Their day will come.
I'll let you get settled
in your rooms now.
And, uh, there will be none of that
ending up in the wrong room.
You know the rules.
There are only two loves here -
Greater Russia and outer space.
Oh!
Ooh-hoo!
Mm-hm.
Ooh…
Anna?
Is he here?
Everyone's here.
You…you can't come in.
You no longer have clearance.
Get her out of here.
Have you checked all the relay satellites?
EDRS, TDRS, Tianlian system?
Yeah, the transmitters were all destroyed.
We're in the dark.
The Soyuz is still there?
They weren't evacuated?
She shouldn't have seen this.
Can I borrow it? Mine's all dried out.
Yes, of course.
Well… Nice watch.
Thanks.
That's your mother's, right?
Yes. She'd be proud of you.
You can keep it.
I didn't introduce myself.
Anthony Kurz, NASA.
Anna Zarathi, ESOA. Yeah, I know.
I'm your new backup. I'm sorry.
Don't be. I could've been
someone else's backup.
The Russians are still sending dogs
into space, aren't they?
It's amazing.
What? Your name, Zarathi.
You know where it comes from?
From my father, but I never knew him.
It's Persian.
Yes, I know. It means 'star'.
Well, it just goes to show,
maybe everything is predestined.
Hey, have you ever heard…
have you ever heard of Zarathustra?
'Zarath' means 'star' too.
'Zaradustra' - the 'sublime star',
the sun.
You're not telling me
I'm the daughter of the sun?
No.
But you could be.
I can't believe it. You just said it.
Will you come with me? Where?
To one of the ceremonies in the area.
They build these huge bonfires
to celebrate the winter solstice.
You should see it.
I mean, got any other plans?
Goodnight, Anthony.
Hmm?
Isaak couldn't make it himself?
He's busy.
That's a shame.
How well do you know Isaak?
You didn't come here
to talk about Isaak, did you?
No.
He wants to know what it is.
We've been caught.
Nyet, nyet, nyet.
Take it. That way, at least a part
of me will be up there with you.
Something's missing.
What is it?
Starlight I.
First American spy satellite.
Launched in 1978.
They put it here, 600 kilometres away.
Just above our heads…
..to spy on the Soviets.
And now they're spying on us.
Do they know our secret?
We are all Starlight.
We're military satellites. How romantic.
Why not?
Isn't a star just a giant nuclear bomb?
300 billion megatons of TNT?
I have to go.
The universe is one huge war, Anna.
And in war, you have to fight.
Anna, are you with us?
We're here to understand.
There was an accident,
an accident directly involving
Anthony Kurz.
Is this why I'm here?
To take part of a trial against him?
No, but let's work out
what happened, why he disobeyed.
It seems that you knew him quite well.
And, um, he called out for you
during the accident.
Why?
Anna.
Is it true that you left the base
to go to Semipalatinsk with Tony Kurz?
Yes. That's against the rules.
Did you go into the contaminated zone?
We had taken iodine pills.
The level of radioactivity was low.
Did you ever wonder
if that was why you became ill?
That's absurd. Radioactivity
doesn't cause psychological trauma.
Anna, Kurz took your
backup's place at short notice,
then he took your place,
again at the last minute,
and he was directly involved
in the accident.
Unfounded speculations. Come on.
Anthony fired up the Soyuz
to change the ISS course
and reduce the inertia of the shock,
not to destroy the ISS.
Why would he do that?
How did you know that?
We haven't spoken of it yet.
That's the most logical procedure
in case of a docking failure.
Except that the cargo
was perfectly aligned.
Was it?
But, more importantly,
the service unit's thrusters
were not triggered
until 58 minutes after the impact.
How many degrees?
Two.
And where is it now?
It's gaining altitude and it's
flying over Ukraine at the moment.
In less than an hour, it will fly
over our heads in the debris field.
Over our heads? Yes.
Exactly on our vertical access.
And we can't do a thing about it.
At what altitude over our heads?
Currently, 550 kilometres. In an
hour, it'll be 600 kilometres away.
Starlight.
What did you say?
He's trying to rendezvous with me.
What do you mean?
The ISS is driven
by the SM's thrusters, right?
It's no longer a station.
It's a spaceship.
And it's heading to a very specific place.
Miss Zarathi, please.
They're alive and they're trying
to make contact with us.
This is a highly serious commission.
Let her finish.
Anthony was part of a top-secret
military program, wasn't he?
He knew about the orbit
of the American satellite.
Starlight I is a spy satellite
from the '70s,
monitoring the region for over 40 years
there, just over our heads,
600 kilometres away.
Starlight was decommissioned
many years ago.
The optical capacity was barely enough
to…to detect nuclear tests
around Semipalatinsk.
Now, the ISS would literally
have to brush up against her
for us to see anything.
But it might work.
One of your countrymen
might end up a hero after all.
Mikhail, what's the altitude of the ISS?
580 kilometres.
Get me a visual of
the sun-synchronous orbit.
The ISS should cross the Starlight
satellite at around 600 kilometres.
I'm not getting any pings.
What exactly are we looking for?
This is your time to shine, Arwel.
Almost.
Done.
The ISS is about to cross that line.
Collision risk - 24%.
Their trajectories
will intersect in 10 minutes.
Relative speed - 350 metres per second.
This is going to go very fast.
Too fast.
Don't you want to come and see?
I know he's alive.
How can you be so sure?
I know you went through a deep depression.
And that you suffer from paraphrenia.
We both know this isn't
the first time you've…
..imagined things.
Now I have proof that it's true,
that it happened.
Maybe it proves that I'm not crazy.
I have something to show you.
Or, rather, someone.
Eh?
That's impossible.
You knew him better than anyone.
Do you recognise the body?
Is it him?
Trajectories will cross in 10 seconds.
Nine. Eight. Seven.
Six. Five. Four.
Three. Two. One.
Contact.
The operation was a success.
Zoom in on the Soyuz porthole.
More.
More. More.
More.
Kurz is alive.
The universe is one huge war, Anna.
And in war, you have to fight.
Captions by Red Bee Media
2022 SBS Australia