Anderson units up the scene by gathering the crew of his reluctant rescue ship, the Lewis and Clark, to listen to some prolonged exposition from Dr. Weir, who initially designed the Occasion Horizon and needs to clarify how she travels in house. The crew jokes round and trades pleasant barbs of their brightly lit quarters. We’re advised that the Lewis and Clark is working completely earlier than being launched to them one after the other, culminating with “gloomy Gus” D.J. (Jason Isaacs), who appears extra downbeat than the remainder.
The Occasion Horizon has been lacking since its maiden voyage to Proxima Centauri seven years in the past, and makes use of an experimental gravity drive to fold spacetime and journey huge distances, Weir tells them. It has now mysteriously popped up in orbit round Neptune, so the Lewis and Clark has been despatched to analyze its misery sign.
Now that we perceive who these individuals are and what they’re all doing right here, Anderson cuts to a scene the place Weir is able to play the Occasion Horizon’s misery sign to the crew. This transpires in a deeper, darker a part of the ship’s bridge. The intense lights of the earlier scene are gone, changed by blinking pc screens, glowing buttons, and shafts of sunshine streaming from overhead followers.
Together with his again to the digital camera, Neill’s troubled Dr. Weir rapidly leans ahead and performs the transmission obtained from the Occasion Horizon. If it’s not a set of the worst sounds you’ve ever heard in your life, it might at the least make the highest ten. Howls, screams, and a low voice uttering some determined phrases.
“What the fucking hell is that?” asks Sean Pertwee’s pilot, Smitty, who speaks for all of us. Weir responds by isolating the human voice within the recording, and D.J. interprets it from Latin as “Save me.”
There’s no ominous rating accompanying this quick scene. Simply the hum of the ship’s engine and the terrifying audio from the Occasion Horizon being performed repeatedly. After D.J. interprets it, a loud alarm interrupts the dialog, and the crew scramble to their stations. They’re about to get a style of the journey that the Occasion Horizon has been on. Just a few will save themselves from Hell.
