- Mayday! Mayday!
This is Kaya Torres of the DSV Intrepid.
We've suffered a massive catastrophe. Requesting immediate assistance!
Mayday. This is Kaya Torres.
I'm a sole survivor of the DSV Intrepid.
Everyone else has gone.
I don't know how I'm getting out of this one mama.
Mayday. Mayday. This is Kaya Torres.
Please respond.
Mayday. Mayday. This is Lieutenant Kaya Torres.
Please respond.
Cosmic beings, space pirates.
Come on, throw me a bone here.
This is Lieutenant Kaya Torres, please respond.
- [Voice On The Radio] Hello?
- Yes.
- Hello? - Yes,
- Can you hear?
- Yes! Yes!
Why's the fucking signal so- fucking gravity.
Survey says,
3543% increase.
Yeah. That should work.
Hello stranger.
My name is Kaya Torres.
I'm marooned on my life pod.
I have a busted ship
and I am circling a black hole against my will.
Please send help.
Are you kidding me?
- Kaya Torres
Wow, a real actual person!
wish I could say I'm sending a rescue crew but...
I'm in the same situation you are,
not circling a black hole though.
Did you take a wrong turn?
Navigation didn't have the latest,
here's a black hole you shouldn't fly here update?
- Funny.
- Honestly I'm surprised you reached me at all,
the atmosphere here.
Oh, did I mention I'm on a planet?
I'm a cartographer.
I make maps for a living. Or I did, until I crashed on a rock
so massive it won't let me back out.
Gravity,
always fun.
I've been trying to initiate a proper call link
between your gravity problems and mine
we have a serious time displacement going on,
Kaya Torres from the doomed Intrepid
If you want an interstellar pen pal,
feel free to drop me a line.
No one should be alone out there.
- So what do I call you?
Map boy?
I've been busy fighting physics.
This pod has just enough juice to keep me from,
getting swallowed up.
But if I modify the power flow
I think I can punch my way out of the well,
that's the idea anyway.
You don't realize how quiet space can be
until you're drifting in it.
I thought I'd be okay but fuck
I could really use a pen pal right now.
- You're still there.
I wasn't expecting to hear from you again.
Hammer. My name is Hammer
- Hammer?
- Yes. That's my real actual name.
I think my father wanted me to be a blacksmith or a lawman.
Definitely not a cartographer.
You hear that?
It's a massive sand storm going on outside my cave
planet has them constantly.
You'd die if you stood in the middle of one,
they scare me. Every time.
is fuck a curse word?
Fuuuuuuuuck.
That little click at the end.
Lovely.
(laughter) What?
- How have you never heard the glory which is the F word?
It's fucking timeless.
Also why cartography?
Was it to get back to your parents for naming you Hammer?
- I wanted to explore.
find places no one had ever seen be remembered
for something when I'm gone.
Wow. That sounds really egotistical
when you say it out loud, doesn't it?
What do you do Kaya?
What's your passion?
I'm an engineer.
I tinker. I,
fix things.
When you're a mechanic,
you're constantly solving puzzles.
Space has the best puzzles.
- I've cooked this local abomination
of a vegetable 46 different ways.
Crispy, steamed,
fried, it doesn't matter. It's always disgusting.
At least you don't have to suffer through
pre-processed rations and nutritional pills every day.
I'm eating a fucking mystery meat.
God, I miss meat.
Here's a list of foods I wish I was eating,
a block of cheddar cheese,
an avocado.
actually just an avocado.
- Nah they're long gone.
Yours?
- Used to be me and my mom.
She was a master mechanic,
lover of puzzles,
all around firecracker.
Taught me everything I know.
A few years ago she got metha-rash.
You're prone to it when you work in
the belly of a ship long enough.
and the lining in your lungs breaks down, and...
it's shitty how frail we are.
What's your biggest fear Hammer?
you can trust me I won't tell.
- To be forgotten.
What's yours?
- To die alone.
Now or never.
(mechanical sounds)
(crash)
No!
No no no no no no.
Ahh!
It put me even closer than before.
Trying to conserve resources as much as I can.
I'm losing ground.
Bit by bit.
Maybe I should stop trying.
One final adventure.
There are worse ways to go right?
I'm so scared Hammer.
- Hey,
don't give up.
I'm not going anywhere.
I'll keep my line open okay?
One of us needs to escape.
- Hey,
can I get a picture of you?
I want to put a face to this voice.
(snaps photo)
- Words don't do you justice Kaya.
- Guess what I'm drinking?
Vodka.
It's supposed to be for cleaning. but...
I have a confession.
I have been thinking about you.
And I kind of wish
I was on that planet right now.
Um...
I don't know what vodka is, but I like the mood
it's putting you in.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on. Wait.
You don't know what vodka is?
How?
I'm beginning to wonder if you're real at all.
Explain sir,
- is my sheltered upbringing showing? Figures.
This is what I get for being raised on Tremamine.
- Tremamine
- I suppose you're going to tell me I wouldn't be fit for,
- Tremamine
- coupling either?
Let it be known, I am fully knowledgeable in,
such things,
if you were here.
- Timeout, I've never heard of Tremamine,
is it near Titan?
Jupiter?
Is it one of those weird Jupiter moons
No one talks about?
- Jupiter?
Titan?
Kaya, I've memorized every colonized system.
I've never heard of those planets.
How is that possible?
- No fucking way.
- Hammer I'm sending you an energy signature.
Do a scan on your end tell me what you find.
- Fuck. I found it,
but the signal's reversed.
What does that mean?
- It's the little stuff.
It's the different curse words.
It's the different planets.
The alcohol,
your messages come in at the same delay every time.
What if you heard my broadcast
because it's not a black hole at all?
I mean shit What if it-
What if it's a wormhole?
But not to another spot in the galaxy, it's um,
to another universe, Hammer.
You're in an alternate universe.
And I think I can get to you.
Slow down, remember gravity?
Even if what you're orbiting isn't a black hole,
you can be crushed just by crossing over.
I can't fix my bucket of a ship without your help Kaya.
Don't plow into the unknown on a hunch.
Don't leave me.
- There's nothing left the other way.
Not anymore.
If I burn full throttle, I can make it to your planet.
Someone's got to save your sorry ass.
We're going to escape together.
That's how we solve this puzzle.
Hang on hammer. I'll see you soon.
(screaming)
(multiple voices screaming)
This is Kaya Torres of the DSE Intrepid --"
Can you hear me?
We’ve suffered a massive catastrophe -- I’m losing ground.
Maybe I should stop trying.
Don’t give up...
To die alone.
There’s worse ways to go, huh?
It’s shitty how frail we are.
How frail we are.
I'm so scared.
- No one should be alone out there.
Hello Kaya.
If you're watching this,
it means you finally made it.
I'm glad you did.
You're probably confused right now.
If you want to know the answer,
it's gravity.
Your favorite subject.
When you traveled through the wormhole,
time on your end slowed down,
what you experienced in days.
Well.
In the meantime, I tried my best.
I did.
There's a storm coming in and,
I think I wanna go for a walk.
There's worse ways to go huh?
I waited as long as I could Kaya.
I'm so tired.
I left some recordings for you on this terminal.
At least one a day. Every day.
And hopefully it'll keep you from being so lonely.
If you fix my ship,
and you get off this rock,
don't forget about me.
I never forgot about you.
- Hello, new universe.
My name is Kaya Torres.
I'm trapped on a planet in the middle of fucking nowhere.
I have two busted ships,
and my odds of escaping are terrible.
But I'm alive.
So if you need someone to talk to drop me a line.
No one should be alone out there.