(tense music)
(exclaims)
(dramatic music)
- I guarantee you that at some point,
everything's gonna go south on you.
Ready. (pressure blasts)
And you're gonna say, "This is it."
- [Woman] Watch out! (Mark yells)
- Watney!
- [Mark] This is how I end.
- Commander, Mark is dead.
We have to go, now. (engines blast)
- Now you can either accept that,
(exclaims)
or you can get to work.
This'll come as quite a shock to my crewmates.
And to NASA.
And to the entire world.
But I'm still alive.
Surprise!
("All Along The Watchtower" by Jimi Hendrix)
Here's the rub, it's gonna be four years
for another mission to reach me.
And I'm in a HAB designed to last 31 days.
So I gotta make water and grow food,
on a planet where nothing grows.
But if I can't figure out a way to make contact with NASA,
then none of this matters, anyway.
- We've got an incoming message.
- [Voiceover] Mein Gott. (laughs)
- [Voiceover] Mark Watney's still alive.
- Whoo!
In your face, Neil Armstrong.
♫ There must be some kind of way outta here ♫
Okay, so let's do the math.
I have enough food to last for 50 days.
- He's going to starve to death long before we can help.
- So, I'm gonna have to science the shit outta this.
- He's 50,000,000 miles away from home.
He's totally alone.
What the hell is he thinking right now?
- I am the greatest botanist on this planet.
- I know how to save Mark Watney.
- What, we need the Hermes crew.
- [Voiceover] We either have a high chance of killing one,
or a low chance of killing six.
- I'm not risking their lives.
It's bigger than one person.
- No, it's not.
♫ All along the watchtower ♫
- [Voiceover] NASA rejected the mission.
- So, if we do this...
- We're talking about mutiny.
If anything goes wrong, we die.
- [Voiceover] Do you realize how crazy this is?
- We have no other option.
- No matter what happens,
(fire explodes)
tell the world,
tell my family,
that I never stopped fighting to make it home.
(somber music)