This is Orpheus. We're a civilian oceanographic research vessel.
You're taking us into the hydrothermal vent field?
[FRANCES]: We're inside the biggest deep-sea installation
anyone's ever seen. This is Russian.
[ARKADY]: There were 130 men on Volos last night.
Look around you. Everybody's dead!
The same thing killed everybody at the same time.
All the power from the nuclear reactor
released into one burst of radar energy.
What was it - military, this expedition?
- You're asking wrong guy. - Who's the right guy?
His name was Zubov. Just be very, very happy that he's dead.
[SAMSON]: We're following up Catherine Donnelly's research.
Catherine was with the Hermes expedition.
She went missing inside this thing.
This is about my family. Five minutes, all right? Five minutes.
Clem, we don't have five minutes!
This is Clem's choice. I can't stop him, but he can't take all of us with him.
What if he saw her? I mean, really?
[CLEM]: I don't know if you can hear me, but I found her.
[RAYMOND]: Some 2,000 ft below the ice,
following an accident on board the Volos,
only four survivors remain from an estimated crew of 60 plus.
All drilling on the sea bed has ceased.
At the time of this transmission, the Volos is barely operational.
The hull and the interior infrastructure have been severely compromised
and, as a result, are now very unstable.
Something down here is causing havoc with the Russian vessel.
Um... from a visual analysis...
Shit. Shit!
...the corrosive agent acting on the fabric of the hull.
Shit!
Volos is an enormous submersive exploration rig.
It is test-drilling oil and gas.
The Russians...
Come with me.
They're broadcasting.
I picked up a signal. They've set up a beacon.
God knows who's picking it up, but if American intelligence is listening in,
then I am completely and utterly screwed.
They're using the sea ice as a wave guide.
So fix it, Hatsuto.
OK, OK. Let me think about this, please.
We could...
we could push the K stream transmitter power.
- Push the K stream power? - Yes.
In the same bandwidth?
- [BROADCAST STOPS] - OK.
You did it.
Fantastic.
Good man. I knew you'd see sense.
Just do as you're told.
[CLEM]: ...You were dead,
and I'd find you.
It had to be a dream.
A dream in the darkness.
It wasn't.
It was you.
I want us to go home, Cath.
I'm exhausted.
I need to take you home.
Scarlet...
- Clem... look, you're shaking. - I know, I can't help it.
I'm beat.
Just sleep.
Sleep.
_
- [FRANCES: ]Can I ask how long...? - You be quiet, woman.
Tell me about the injured man.
I've measured Vincent's white blood cell count.
Gives us an idea of how severe the radiation damage is.
- And...? - The only thing we can do
for him now is pain management.
We shouldn't move him.
[ZUBOV]: Your colleague will become a walking ghost.
Walking ghost?
If he's very lucky, for a time.
Then he'll die.
We will form two groups.
Stanislav and Arkady will each lead a group.
We will find every dead body on the Volos.
And we will place each of the deceased in a body bag.
And then we will bury our dead.
We need to go now. On Orpheus, now.
Your vessel isn't safe - the hull is leaking, there's flooding...
It is safe!
I understand how you feel about your crew, I do.
But this is an unnecessary risk.
Once your mission objective has become impossible, you primary responsibility's
- for the rest of your men. - There are 78 dead men on my ship.
Do you seriously suggest I should just ignore them?
Push their bodies around, like refuse?
I will bury my men.
And I'll have them treated with honour and respect.
What kind of monsters are you?
[CATHERINE]: Captain Zubov is absolutely right.
- Hey, listen, wait. - What?
- How have you been, Catherine? - I've been OK.
- But you're so... - I'm fine.
- You're very pale. - Yeah, like a witch. I know.
It's artificial light for seven months.
We, um, take vitamin D supplements to...
Hey, listen, I saw Scarlet two weeks ago.
Don't, Frances...
- Don't what? She's great... - Please.
When you go home, she's going to be...
I can't. Not yet, I can't.
Stanislaus!
Biologicheskaya laboratiya.
It's the bio-lab, that's where I worked.
I know the people who died there.
Catherine, what is going on?
Because this is dangerous and we need to get out of here.
I worked with these people. I knew them all.
You can't avoid the question, how can she possibly still be alive?
I mean, why? Why keep her alive?
- Why risk having a witness like her? - Well, how well do you know her?
I know her very well.
We used to share a lab at Queen Mary's.
And what about us, huh?
What happens when we've bagged up the whole crew?
I don't know.
Hey, Arkady!
What has Zubov told you and Stas?
You were there. You heard him.
The dead are to be treated with honour and respect.
And then?
Then we will all go home.
[ARKADY]: Vladimir Ivanovich Bonyakovsky.
[SAMSON]: Vladimir Ivanovich?
Jesus, he's just a child.
We were at the sea bed. Maintenance on the drill house.
All the alarms rang to evacuate.
Always you should listen to the alarms, not turn them off. That's crazy madness.
Zubov did that?
Usually, during the day,
there'd be about seven scientists and technicians working in here.
- OK, let's start here. - I'm, er...
I'm going to make sure that the vault is clear.
I'll keep this guy busy. You find out what she's up to,
- cos she's definitely up to something. - Just stay with the Russian.
Catherine, what is going on?
All the samples are dead.
The samples of what?
- Do you trust them? - Do I trust who? The Russians? Do I...?
No, your own crew.
Who do you trust? I mean, really, really trust.
With your life, with everything.
- [FRANCES]: I trust all of them. - [STAS]: Eh!
[FRANCES]: Why are you asking me that?
[FRANCES]: I wouldn't be here if I didn't trust them.
I trained with them for four months, I trust them. You know Clem and I...
No, not Clem.
Not yet. He's the one we can't tell.
Catherine, what can't we tell Clem?
The lava bug.
This is why I came down here.
[FRANCES]: I don't understand why you won't even tell Clem...
Cath?
[CLEM]: She was like a...
wisp of humanity.
A little rag doll all alone in the dark.
And I had a moment to hold her
and to kiss her and to tell her goodbye.
Except...
in some far room,
my friend had other ideas.
He wasn't going to let that happen.
He stepped up.
Didn't you?
My friend.
- Man, it was hot in there. - Yeah.
Are we all going home now on the Orpheus?
Will they let us go?
[FRANCES]: Clem! Zubov wants us.
Svetlana! I would be very pleased if you would translate
so your friends may understand.
Sprosi menya lyubima...
You ask, my love, a question...
As we spin through the abyss...
With neither stars nor compass...
You ask me what it is...
That in the night of passion...
And langour of the dawn...
Roars in the tideless ocean...
Where we live as in a dream...
It is lava thundering out...
From the burst craters of the heart.
These men and women, our colleagues... friends.
We commend their souls to the sea's salt clemency.
Stas.
[ZUBOV]: Catherine... come over here and stand next to me.
Cath?
This is the last time I'll say this.
- Katerina! - Please...
_
- Go, go, go! - [ARKADY]: Get in the ship now!
Get in! Get in, they're shooting, quick!
[STAS]: Hey!
No, Catherine, if I'd been shot, I would know. I'm fine.
Clem, get us up to dive capacity.
Frances, Svetlana and Vincent!
[FRANCES]: Everything's changed, Samson.
What's changed? What are you talking about?
Everything's different. You have to trust me.
Clem, we're disengaging, are you there yet? Up to dive capacity?
- [CLEM]: 80%. - Do we just leave them?
We have to.
Stas... listen to me.
We need to help him. OK?
I'm going to help him. Yeah? OK?
Zubov?
Zubov.
[FRANCES]: I took an oath
to preserve this crew from grave and desperate circumstances
and, in that duty, I have singularly failed.
We left behind three people.
And there's nothing now, there's nothing I can do for them.
Because any attempt to reboard the Volos will mean more of us dying.
There's no way round it. They have guns, and we don't.
Well, Frances, I'm not going to argue with you.
- We have to, at the very least, try. - Try what?
Do what? Throw tins at them?!
Frances is right. We head for the surface, for the Alaska, we head home.
No, we don't.
We complete our mission,
the mission of the Orpheus, the mission of the Hermes.
What we all came here for, all of us Vincent and Svetlana too.
Catherine.
OK.
OK, then. Um...
In the sediment that the Russians have been bringing up
from the wellheads on the ocean floor, in this mud, I've isolated a new phylum.
Mesothermophilic archaea.
Lava bugs. That's what I've called them.
Tell them what they do.
They metabolise cellulose and produce hydrogen with 75% metabolic efficiency.
- 7.5? - No, 75. 75%.
- [SAMSON]: No, Catherine, no... - I know.
That's an unprecedented figure, Cath.
I've never seen any mesothermophile beyond 0.5%.
This is catalysed by a nickel-iron hydrogenase enzyme?
- Mm-hm. - Eats crap, farts clean fuel.
That's just... Oh, my God! That's just...
I know, but... everything's dead.
The entire sample. All of it.
- [SAMSON]: What happened? - The radar blast.
The one that crippled the Orpheus and killed everyone on the Volos
shut down all the support systems, so
constant temperature and pressure failed.
All the bugs in that sample are dead, and in all the samples.
Shit!
The Russians don't know of its existence.
- She never told Zubov, did you, Cath? - No.
Because it means that ten billion tonnes of oil
under the Lomonosov Ridge
has just become ten billion tonnes of worthless sludge.
We have to retrieve another sample. We have to get hold of another sample.
And how do you suggest we do that?
There's only one way - we have to go down.
To the installation on the sea bed.
- No. - What do you mean?
No, Cath, you and me, we're going home, all of us. Home.
[FRANCES]: Clem, please.
This is an opportunity to salvage something...
earth-shattering from this disaster.
In the original mission of the Orpheus,
the very reason the submarine was built
was to find something exactly like this.
- Not mine. - [FRANCES]: What?
That was never my mission. Never.
But Clem, just because you've always had a personal agenda,
it doesn't give you the right to hijack the Orpheus for your own selfish ends...
"Selfish ends"?! What are you talking about?
This! This, this here. This is what she's talking about.
You have any idea what this means to everyone? Everyone up there?
And their children? And their children's children?
You just want to cut and run because you found what you were looking for?
No, don't give me that children's children crap.
I have a child, and that's her mother, and I came down here to find her
and I am taking her home to Scarlet.
I don't need to listen to your fatuous bullshit about the planet
and the next generations, because I don't know them and I never will.
But I know my wee girl and I know what she needs out of this submarine,
and it's not bugs!
- OK. - No, Frances. He's my husband.
Gran, you've been here all night?
Hm? What?
Sweetheart, come here.
Scarlet, you know when you woke up this morning
and you opened up the bedroom curtains,
did you see that car out there, was that there then?
Yes, it was.
OK.
What are we going to do, Gran?
Pet, it's all right.
Maybe we should just give them your mum's bloomin' computer.
That's it. All my daughter's research,
all her files and records,
all reduced to splintered plastic and dust!
Now you... come into my house, near that little girl, ever again,
and I'll smash you to bits!
It's what I have to do.
You know that, don't you? You know we can't go home yet.
We've to go down, we've to secure
a live sample of the lava bug from the sediment.
We can come back, Catherine, or some other expedition.
- Someone else - just not us, Cath. - There won't be anyone else.
No-one will be back here. Not for years after this.
There'll be repercussions over the Volos and the treaty violation
that means no agreement will be reached.
- No expedition. - But not you!
Please, Clem, please try to understand this for what it means.
You're impossible.
You're an impossible woman.
You know, it was impossible I would find you alive here,
and then I did and now I can't believe what you're asking!
Well, I'm sorry.
What if you don't come back? What about Scarlet?
- She'll... - She'll what?
Listen to me, Clem.
Scarlet's already had to accept that I'm gone for ever.
She can't lose me twice.
No, she never for a moment accepted it the first time.
- What? - She knew you were down here.
She believed it with all her heart.
She never doubted for a second that I would find you.
She is the reason I came back!
She's only eight.
You made her think that.
If you hadn't brainwashed the child into believing this absurdity,
this impossibility that I'm alive at the bottom of the sea,
then she would have accepted that I was gone.
Dead.
Children adjust, they get over things, they have to.
No, they don't. You know they don't. No child ever accepts her mother...
disappearing and just being gone.
What, did you think Scarlet and me, we'd just carry...?
Oh, Jesus, Catherine.
Have you put your pearl heart in ice?
Is that what you told yourself?
That your baby just got over you?
All the time you were down here, you told yourself that?
Of course I did.
Of course I did. I had to.
[SAMSON]: The whole of this region is tectonically active.
You do not drill into volcanic rock.
There's black smokers and magma eruptions everywhere.
They have to be in a sedimentary strata.
What about the wellhead we saw in the vent field?
Oh, no, no. We lost that one.
A loader in the moon pool turned over.
We dropped that wellhead into the vent field months ago.
They have to be drilling somewhere along this plain.
The installation was much deeper than this.
What was the travel time from the Volos in the shuttle submersible?
About three hours.
- And what was the speed? - Cruising at four knots.
[FRANCES]: That would give us a radius of...
So the only possibility...
Here.
[FRANCES]: Oh, God. It would have to be.
They're drilling at the bottom of the Acheron Trench.
That's 8,500ft straight down.
We seal off the interior of the sub
from the moon pool and up the pressure in here.
Have you ever seen a vessel implode at depth?
I've seen all the same footage that you have, Clem.
Yeah, well, one minute you're looking at a submersible full of people,
the next... it's a haze of red bubbles
and a twisted lump of metal like something out of a car-compactor.
I know there's going to be a significant increase in pressure across the hull,
but I think she can take it - there's a margin for safety.
You're not that big.
[SAMSON]: We're about 1 5 minutes from the edge of the trench, guys.
Right, there's one other problem.
I know. She's gonna have to pressurize.
When she's out there in Lurch, she'll have to be at depth pressure.
And that's going to be very painful indeed.
Yeah. Breathe Neonox at 8,500ft. It's never been done before.
We don't have a choice.
[SAMSON]: Oh, my God. The Acheron Trench.
[ARKADY]: The cold down there eats into your bones.
Condensation ran from the walls, yet all the time you will sweat...
with fear and with cold. Outside, through the walls,
there was only the freezing pressure and...
the silence of the Acheron Trench.
Human beings should not go down there.
[FRANCES]: Here we go.
There. There.
Wow, a pipeline this size,
the rate of flow with this kind of pressure...
You were setting down some serious infrastructure, huh?
This is designed to be much more than a test drill.
[RAYMOND]: She calls them the lava bugs.
It's a micro-organism that produces pure hydrogen.
I'm sure I don't need to spell out the ramifications for your industry...
...and for ourindustry, if she gets this lava bug to the surface...
My employers fully understand
that you can't put the genie back in the bottle.
The everlasting light bulb, the car that runs on water -
you know what these things have in common?
They'll never see the light of day because they screw the world up.
Your world and my world.
Lava bugs, eh?
The Lomonosov Ridge belongs to Russia.
The minerals and gas, the oil.
All the natural wealth.
Russia needs this.
It is how we survive -
on minerals and oil.
But then you had to come down and spy on us, huh?
Report back to your paymasters. And this thing, this lava bug,
you know how you say you cannot put genie back in the bottle?
Well, the genie is not yet out.
This is Orpheus.
We're almost at the bottom of Acheron Trench,
deep amongst our wellheads.
Well, the sample isn't viable.
They're seeking to replace it.
Stanislav.
_
[PANTS]
Vince!
Vince.
- Vince... - Huh?
- Listen... - Am I... am I dead now?
Shh. Shh. Listen to me.
They have left us behind.
Zubov tried to kill us all.
So if he finds us, he'll have to kill us too.
So we just have to be very, very quiet.
Where is everybody?
- They left us. - No.
No, no. No, Svet... Svet...
- They wouldn't do that. - They have left us, Vincent!
[SHE SOBS]
Come on.
- Oh... - OK, we have to go.
I have to carry you on my shoulder.
We're not sitting around here waiting for Zubov to find us. Come on.
This ship is on the verge of imploding with us in it,
yet I don't believe the Russians built it this shit,
so there's a problem, right?
- Indeed there is. - Something is eating at the Volos.
Catherine Donnelly devised this.
It measures the rates of corrosion on various metallic samples.
The laser beam observes at a crystalline level.
- That's very elegant. - Elegant and indispensable.
I knew something was causing the hull of Volos to fail,
and the deeper we go, the faster the hull was cracking open.
She built this to help me understand the cause,
but she never said she found anything.
You know, my entire life, I've always been a bit of a scaredy,
always worried about the worst-case scenario, and here it is.
I don't think it's possible to get any worse than this.
So there's nothing left to be scared about, yeah?
Just... just the bit before the end.
You just have to be ready. Be prepared is the best.
[VINCENT]: Oh...
_
Ohhh. Argh!
_
Oh, the spirit was willing but the flesh is weak.
Come on.
[HE GROANS]
Shit.
[CATHERINE]: The moon pool.
Who called it that?
And why?
No-one could ever tell me the answer to that.
You know, um...
You know what was really hard when you didn't come home?
Just the sheer number of things in your name.
I had to...
What I did was, I practised your signature
until it was as natural as my own,
because the only alternative to forgery was to call them all up, you know?
The banks and the credit cards and all those bloody standing orders
and direct debits, and say to them,
"My wife is never coming home again."
"My wife is dead."
I...
I couldn't bring myself to do that.
So...
...when we get home,
if anyone asks...
...you signed for everything.
[SAMSON]: Clem, Catherine, you should clear the moon pool.
I'm going to pressurise the chamber.
[FRANCES]: 8,632 ft. We're way beyond our operational limit.
[SAMSON]: Very little alive down here. No sunlight, no hydrothermal vents.
The only food source is dead stuff drifting down from way up above.
- You cannot stay down here long. - I don't plan to.
The pressure on your boat is about the weight of a mountain.
[FRANCES]: Is all the sediment from the wellheads?
[ARKADY]: Must be.
Holy moly, look at this.
How could anyone live down here?
- They couldn't. - You guys built that on the sea bed.
That's amazing.
[ARKADY]: Drill heads, pipeline joints, seams and welds.
They began to form leaks and cracks, then ruptures.
My team were brought in from Novorossiysk.
The machine house...
imploded.
All along the pipeline, we found leaks and ruptures.
That was the accommodation block.
1 7 men died when it collapsed.
[ALARM BUZZES]
OK. Deep as we go.
Can you tell me what happened here?
That, er, was the worst affected area,
immediately around the wellhead.
So this is where it originates?
In the forensic analysis report, all around the fracture points,
there were micro-fissures.
Micro-fissures? What caused that?
We have no idea.
I can't die twice.
I'll be safe.
It's like lightning. It won't happen again.
It only happens once in a lifetime.
[FRANCES]: You have to launch now, Cath.
You're an impossible woman.
Clem, no! What are you doing? Clem, no, it's me.
No, it's me that has to, not you, Clem!
Me! Clem... Clem.
Open now, please, it's me!
Clem, oh!
Clem!
No, please!
[SAMSON]: So the wellhead is the epicentre of the damage?
[ARKADY]: Yes.
So whatever's causing the structures to fail emanates from the sediment,
and around all the links and joints, evidence of micro-fissures.
So something in the sediment was corrosive.
Something that only took effect after the drilling had progressed...
...beyond a certain depth.
It's the lava bug!
Cath, wait, the lava bug.
Micro-organisms in the sediment.
I think they might be what's causing...
Oh, my God, you knew this.
You knew this.
Nitric acid is the metabolic by-product.
Of course. Of course it is!
In a sedimentary environment it produces hydrogen,
but that same reaction in sea water,
with all the dissolved nitrogen available,
of course! HNO3!
- [FRANCES]: Catherine? - Nitric acid.
The lava bug, when it's deep in the mud, it produces hydrogen.
You take it out of the sediment and instead, it's going to make acid.
[SAMSON]: Concentrated nitric acid.
Destroyed the installation.
So the lava bug is what destroyed the Hermes, Samson?
Clem?
Ohhh.
[SAMSON]: Clem!
Ah! Yeah, I'm having a bit of difficulty hearing you, Samson.
The pressurisation is playing havoc with me Eustachian tubes and the...
um, you know, what do you call 'ems...?
Agony, in fact.
Clem, we finally understand what went wrong with the Hermes.
[CLEM]: The lava bugs, I know.
I saw the wreck of the Hermes. Acid, yeah?
That sounds about right.
It would account for the damage I saw.
The crew, they were all at the back of the Hermes,
in the bio-lab, probably,
trying to work out what it was that was eating their boat.
[GROANS]
It was Cath's bug.
The lava bug will save the world.
Handle with care.
Oh, God.
[CATHERINE]: I understood when I was working for Zubov on the Volos.
Micro-organisms from the sediment were eating away at the Russian installation.
I set up the laser,
the laser vat experiment, to try and determine which micro-organisms
were causing the damage.
I saw that in the bio-lab on the Volos. The cylindrical chamber with...
[CATHERINE]: Laser micrometers and metal samples.
And that's how you identified the lava bug?
Yes. I found a whole new phylum that was causing the corrosion, tested it.
I couldn't believe what I saw.
[CLEM]: Oh, smell of apricots. Industrial-strength. Man, that is bad.
Apricots, er... The Neonox system's on full power.
Clem, I'll pressurise the specimen bay now.
[CLEM]: Right.
Hey.
Samson?
OK...
[MACHINE WHIRS]
[POWER SHUTS DOWN]
Shit!
What the hell...?
Er...
- Frances, are you hearing me? - Receiving you, Clem.
- Lurch is dead. - [FRANCES]: Say again?
[CLEM]: Um, I think, looking at everything...
...there's been a power leakage. There must be a wet-short in the chassis.
All the power cells are practically drained. Christ...
Er...
We're going to... We're going to, er, have to, um...
OK, Frances, this is how we do this.
I'm going to manually engage the umbilical hawser
and you're going to have to lower me out of the moon pool.
I'll hang beneath Orpheus, then it's up to you guys to fly me over
the wellhead and lower me inside.
Are we all clear on this?
Whoa, whoa! Whoa, whoa, whoa! Slow down now!
No!
Slow... down... now!
The wellhead is directly in front of Lurch. He's on course.
OK.
What the hell is that?
Jeez! Take me up 10 ft.
OK, great.
We're clear.
Just not so fast next time.
Give us a bit more warning.
[CLEM]: Well, I can't. I can't see anything until we nearly hit it.
How's your vision?
It's OK.
It's getting a bit blurry but, no, it's OK.
That, what's that, there?
- [ARKADY]: He's nearly at the wellhead. - [SAMSON]: The water is so cloudy.
[CLEM]: Oh, yeah, I can see it, about 20 ft, then bring me to a complete stop.
15.
[FRANCES]: You should be pretty much on top of the wellhead now, Clem.
Yeah, I am. I'm looking at it.
OK. I'm...
...down to absolute minimum life support.
Diverting all remaining power...
to the grab arm.
OK, he's about 10 ft above the wellhead,
which means that opening must be...
No more than 15 ft.
OK, Clem, I'm relying on you. Too fast, let me know.
- Too much movement, you call it, OK? - Don't worry, I will.
[SAMSON]: We're in an updraught here. Frances is keeping as still as she can.
[FRANCES]: Bit of a lateral drift - I'm going to do what I can about it.
Problem is... any impact... you know, whatsoever, on the hull...
...would not be at all good.
SAMSON: How far down the drill shaft, Cath?
- Till we get a viable sample? - [SAMSON]: Yeah.
We've got another 100 ft of line.
The longer the line, the harder it is to keep Lurch on an even keel.
I can't take Orpheus much lower without the updraught spinning us.
Then he will hit the sides.
Cath?
Cath?!
[FRANCES]: Catherine, it's your call - how deep does Clem have to go?
Cath, please, I can't keep Orpheus at this depth for much longer.
Deeper. To be certain, deep as we can go.
The samples near the head of the well weren't viable.
We have to let him go deeper.
OK.
Keep going down, then.
[CREAKING]
- [THUD!] - Bollocks!
There's some sort of obstruction under me.
How deep in the drill shaft are you?
[CLEM]: About 20 ft.
- Can he take the sample now? - He has to go further.
Further down, Clem.
There's an obstruction under me!
I can't see what it is.
I should have clearance, but...
Er... listen, um, we'll rotate.
I'm going to rotate us clockwise, see if we can align Lurch
with the drill shaft, and you can slide past any obstruction.
Right. Like a key in a lock.
Like a key in the lock.
Doesn't seem to be any movement.
Well, that's us moved through almost 200 degrees, which brings us...
Whoa! Stop!
Clem?
[CLEM]: No, we're fine now.
Just got a bit of a fright, that's all.
Butter-fingered bastard Samson dropped me.
OK, going down.
About 70, 72 ft.
73.
74.
75.
76.
77.
78 ft.
- 79. - Stop!
That's enough, Clem - take the sample now.
Just take the sample and get out of there.
OK.
You can do this.
Got it.
OK, I got it.
Get me out of here.
What the hell is this now, please?
- That's the moon pool. - What's happening?
Nothing. It looks completely...
It's flooded.
The Neonox system couldn't maintain the pressure and...
But how's Clem going to be able...?
How's he going to be able to get out of Lurch?
He can't.
He can't, Catherine.
[ZUBOV]: I will now bring the nuclear reactor back online.
In a few seconds, we will either have full power
or we will be a vaporised cloud of compressed gas.
Are you ready?
The Orpheus is still way below us,
and we can go no deeper.
So what do we do?
We can still move laterally.
I can manoeuvre us till we are directly above the Orpheus.
And when we are 150 metres directly overhead...
- With a high-energy radar? - Yes.
When it discharged inside the Volos by accident,
its power blasted throughout the entire boat.
This time when we fire it,
we'll have deployed the transmitter.
The radar is designed to harness the power of Volos's nuclear reactor.
We will do to them
what they already did to us.
[FRANCES]: The Neonox system failed...
and...
the moon pool flooded...
...which is irrevocable.
There's just no way we can fix it at depth.
There's nowhere near enough power in the system
to re-pressurise the moon pool.
How much air is left in Lurch?
[SAMSON]: We don't know.
Clem?
[CATHERINE]: Clem?
Not enough.
OK, guys, I've been thinking. Not a lot of options here time-wise.
This is going to be a trade-off - it's the only thing I can think of.
I'm going to park the sample and then I'm going up.
I don't know about you lot, but I am sick
to death of being underwater, you know?
Nothing to do, same old faces, same old routine.
Frankly, it's doing my nut in.
I'm depositing the lava bug sample in the specimen bay.
Done.
I'm going to detach Lurch from the umbilical hawser now.
Let Lurch drop.
He's free.
As soon as I'm clear above, I'll release some ballast.
I'm going to try and co-ordinate my decompression with my rate of ascent
and my remaining air supply.
Just pray the Neonox gets me to the surface first
without decompression killing me.
So...
...could I speak to Catherine, please?
Oh, yeah.
Clem?
Hello, darlin'.
Listen to me.
I love you, Catherine.
[SOBS] I know... I know you do.
With all my heart.
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- [HATSUTO]: You're sure it's the Americans? - [LOWE]: Yes!
And I will be hoisted off in that helicopter and waterboarded
till I tell them what's going on down there.
The Russian drilling, the cover-up, and then - and only then - will the shit
hit the fan full in the face.
[ARKADY]: Zubov is on the verge of such a prize -
oil and gas worth billions and billions. A new dawn for the whole of Russia.
This is our joint enterprise, Mr Hopkins. So please...
Listen to me, Zubov. I know what has to be done.
Looks like the Volos is on course to intercept with us.
If Zubov understands that the Orpheus has something
that may compromise the Volos... all his work...
he will do everything he has to.
No...!