01x05 - Move the Base

[bunniefuu]

[humming]

upbeat music

Mail's here!

Mail.

ominous music

[distorted voice]

For Robert Caputo's eyes only.

We have actionable intel

that Dr. Michael Skip Henai

is a double agent working

for the Russian government.

He is seeking to destroy

NASA's Moon Mission

through a series

of political assassinations.

This threat is imminent.

Underneath your mattress

you will find an untraceable

and loaded 9mm p*stol.

Your orders are to exterminate

with extreme prejudice.

Our nation's security

is relying on you.

[NASA project manager]

Your weather advisory.

Please be aware of high-speed

winds from the west.

And lastly, the urine samples

we have received

are inadequate.

Please resubmit

with proper identification.

-Thought we did that.

-Yeah.

[Rook] Always another one

to keep everything separate.

But they actually weigh more.

They weigh your suitcase down.

-The zippers? Good to know.

-Mm-hmm. 'Cause

-So

-Know that much.

It-it is enough

that once you're trying

to get through the airport

and you're in a rush

Hey, Cap?

Cap?

[Rook] Cap?

What are you doing?

Hmm. That was

kind of weird.

[crying]

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[grunts, panting]

[knocking on door]

-Rook? Rook.

-[Rook] What? What is it?

-Get up.

-What's wrong?

Got to talk to you.

[exhales]

What's the matter?

You're not gonna believe this.

-Uh

-What's going on?

I just had a bad dream.

[chuckles]

Yeah? Okay.

Well, just,

just go back to sleep.

-Okay. All right.

-Try to go back to sleep.

-It's all good, right?

-Sorry. Good night.

-You're safe here.

-Okay.

How are you?

Good night.

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[coughs]

[exhales sharply]

[sighs]

Skip, please forgive me.

-[g*n clicks]

-sh*t.

-[clicks]

-No, no--

Come on. g*dd*mn it.

[panting]

It's not a real g*n.

You passed. Well done.

-What?

-You passed my test.

The Henai test.

It's commitment to the mission,

as opposed

to personal attachments.

-It's a test?

-Yeah.

-Oh

-You did great.

You were early.

Okay.

So you You sent

the letter and-and

-Mm-hmm.

-Skip!

Come on, man.

Okay. You're crazy.

All right.

Well, have a good night.

Put that g*n away.

[chuckles]

[grunts softly]

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[tranquil music playing]

[humming]

[Skip]

Hi.

Hi.

How's it going?

Fine. Just trying to have

some downtime here, so

Oh, nice.

You wouldn't mind turning

that down a little, would you?

Well, I'm sorry, Skip,

but it's my recreation time,

and I was here first, so

Could you listen to your music

with headphones?

Yeah, I really don't want to

listen to it on headphones

-All right, don't sh**t me.

-'cause I was [sighs]

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I'm not gonna sh**t you.

You have once before, so

-What?

-Mm

Nothing.

Good batch, Cap.

Thanks.

Rook, can you pass

the napkins, please?

[Rook] Yeah, Cap,

got the napkins there?

Thanks.

[sniffles]

Here you go.

And the salts, too?

Skip, will you cut this out?

This Henai test

was your idea.

-I didn't want to k*ll you, man.

-[Skip] All right.

You know what a b*llet does

to a person, right?

-They do a lot of damage.

-[sighs]

Ending someone's life

in the pull of a trigger?

It's a lot.

I was following orders.

That's what we do here.

We follow orders.

And you weren't

conflicted at all?

Of course I was conflicted.

I haven't slept in two days.

I'm sorry, Skip. Okay?

I'm sorry!

Okay,

apology accepted.

Fine N-No need to shout.

Um, I have some work

to do in the lab,

so enjoy the rest of the meal.

Hey, Skip.

How's it going in here?

-It's going fine.

-Um You got a sec?

I'm actually trying

to focus on these tests.

Yeah, it's just,

I think Cap's a little upset

-about this whole Henai test.

-Mm-hmm.

And I think it would be

really great for all of us

if you two made up.

And you know he didn't

try to k*ll you, right?

He said that?

Yeah. I mean, he thought

you were a Russian spy, Skip.

Well, I just need

some time to think about it.

-That's all.

-All right.

But you have to understand that

he might be a little confused

by the whole concept

of the Henai test.

I mean, frankly,

I'm a little confused, too.

Well, I'm confused, too.

You know, I didn't come up with

the Henai test. My father did.

You know I had to put

a g*n to my father's head.

I was 13 years old.

And I passed. Not a big deal.

[exhales]

[quietly]

Well, it's obviously a big deal.

It's driving you two crazy.

I don't know

what I'm supposed to do here.

I'm supposed to help how?

Be a peacemaker, middleman.

Sucks.

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Hmm.

[Rook]

Hey, guys?

Can we, uh, huddle up

on something real quick?

Skipper? Sorry to break up

your workout,

but listen.

Ever since this Henai test,

you guys have been going at it

like cats and dogs.

Well, I think we know

whose fault that is.

Forget whoever's

fault it is.

We need to solve the problem,

because it's affecting morale

and it's really

a problem around here.

So I was looking

at the base manual,

and it actually has

some pretty good ideas.

It's pretty-pretty well-written.

Little boring at parts.

But there's a whole chapter

on interpersonal

conflict resolution.

They suggest that maybe

we try to get to know each other

a little bit better and have

a little fun around here.

You know? Have a game night.

So I was thinking maybe

we pop open the old

Quiz Lord board

-and have a little fun.

-Who's invited?

Well, it would be

for all three of us to play,

-obviously, Cap.

-Oh, so he's coming?

Mm-hmm. Skip?

I have a question.

Are there g*ns in this game?

[Rook]

No.

-Okay, it's fine with me.

-Okay.

-Cap?

-Okay. I'll do it for you, Rook.

Thank you, Cap. All right,

I'll go set up the board.

It's very complicated to set up.

I have to look at the rules.

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[Rook]

All right.

-Cap, why don't you go first?

-All right.

-Three.

-Three. Not great.

-[chuckles]

-One, two, three.

All right.

First question of the night.

Good luck, everybody.

Category is golf.

Okay.

"Gene Sarazan won the 1922

PGA Masters Tournament,

beating who in the final round?"

Ge u-um

[exhales]

[Rook] Who did

Gene Sarazan beat?

I mean, the first name

that jumps into my head

is Arnold Palmer, but that

Is that your answer?

-No, it's not my answer.

-'Cause you said it.

-[Rook] All right.

-No, I didn't

I was just say As an example,

it could be any name,

uh, 'cause I don't know golf.

So it wouldn't matter to me

Just relax, okay?

You're not the Quiz Lord.

I don't, I don't know.

I don't know the answer to this,

so I'm gonna pass.

-You're not allowed to pass.

-Of course I'm allowed to pass.

I don't know the answer,

so I-I'm passing.

No, in Quiz Lord:

Masters Edition,

there's no passing until

you pass the Bonnybook Bridge.

-[Cap] Since when?

-[Skip] "Player must

answer Quiz Lord question

correctly before advancing."

What you can do,

you can buy yourself some time.

That's $50, and that gives you

some more time to think about--

Well, I don't need time,

I just I-I need the answer.

But, uh I mean, okay.

-I'm buying the time.

-Just Okay.

It's your turn. Here.

Just so you know, though, this

question will come back to you

-on the next round.

-Yeah.

-[Skip] All right.

-[Rook] "Science and industry."

-That's the category.

-Okay.

"What three specialty

convertibles

did General Motors

originally introduce in 1953?"

Oh, come on.

I get the PGA in 1922

and he gets the car question.

-I know this answer, by the way.

-[Skip] Okay.

I'm gonna guess, from 1953

I'm just gonna name

some convertibles.

I was just looking at this

last night in my car book.

Uh

Buick Skylark.

-Um, Oldsmobile Fiesta.

-[Cap sighs]

And

-GM, you said?

-Yeah.

Mm, Cadillac Eldorado.

Yep. That's correct.

[laughs]

You're such a liar.

You are totally faking that

you didn't know that answer.

-I didn't know. I just, I

-Oh, give me a break.

You get all three,

just boom, boom, boom.

Cap, come on.

-Those are famous '50s cars

-[Cap] Fine. Okay.

-and they're convertibles.

-You're in the Forest of Fate.

All right.

And you are protected

from all charms and spells.

Rook, your turn. Go.

All right. Quiz Lord rolls.

30!

[whoops]

That is about as good

of a roll as you can get.

That advances me up

to the Spring of Serenity.

-[Skip] Whoa.

-And I'm absolved

from answering a question

from the Quiz Lord.

-Ooh.

-I advance

my three cubes into port.

And I get

a Fortune of Calamity card,

which I will store until later.

You, unfortunately, do not roll.

We are back to Uh

"Gene Sarazan won the 1922

PGA Masters Tournament,

beating who in the final round?"

Who did,

who did he beat?

1922. Gene--

I don't know it.

I don't know it, all right?

Stop making me feel stupid.

Stupid! They're making me answer

the thing over and over

-like I'm some idiot?

-It's supposed to be fun, Cap.

Who was it?

[sighs]

It's Emmet French.

Emmet French.

Oh.

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[clattering, scraping]

Hey, Wally.

Oh, hey. Hey, Cap.

-Uh, just finishing up with--

-No, it's all right.

Take your time,

take your time.

Okay.

Hey, man, what's wrong?

Uh, what

Dude, are you okay?

Yeah, I don't know,

I'm fine, I just

Y-You don't know golf

at all, do you?

Have you heard of a guy

named Gene Sarazan?

He won the PGA in 1922?

-No. No.

-Oh.

No, neither do I.

Have you ever heard

of the Henai test?

No, but--

Dr. Michael Henai,

one of my base mates.

I don't think

you've met him, but

-No.

-I like the guy.

And we're just

butting heads.

This place is like

a bad-energy central in there.

We're really starting

to get stir-crazy.

Yeah, yeah.

It was a matter of time, sir.

What do you mean?

You know, you're on

a magnetic field here, right?

Your feng shui is-is off.

Uh Whoev

Your proj Your

Whoever your project designer

was here, you

set you up on a magnetic field.

It And-and there's, uh,

electric, concentric circles

and-and you're on a 90 degree

angle of ley lines that are

Listen, Wally,

bottom line it for me.

-What are you saying?

-Bottom line?

If you just move

the base over here

a-a couple hundred feet

to the northeast,

you'll get off

this negative energy vortex.

This is not scientific,

what you're saying. It's like

Have you ever heard

of the Donner Party?

-Yeah.

-[laughs] Yeah.

Those people ate each other,

right?

Yeah. They got caught

in a negative,

i-in a negative

magnetic field and--

You saying we're gonna

eat each other?

Listen.

Move the base. Move the base.

Just think

about it, man.

Think about it.

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-Move the base?

-Exactly.

Sounds crazy, doesn't it?

But guess what?

This fing shui thing is real.

We are sitting,

right now,

on a bad-energy vortex,

and we need to get off it.

I mean, not everything

can be explained by science.

Look at aurora borealis.

Why is that happening?

No one will ever know.

But we look up at it,

we know that it's real.

You know, I got to say, this

base was designed to be mobile.

It's not impossible.

-Right?

-Exactly. We will show NASA

that we're a mobile unit,

if we can do this.

-Yeah.

-Okay? It's a skill builder.

That's right. What if we're

on the Moon and a meteor shower

comes down

and we got five minutes?

We got to get out of there,

we got to move the base.

It's not a crazy idea, Cap.

I like it. Let's do it.

-Great.

-What do you think, Skip?

It's great. I love it.

Let's do it.

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Okay, I like that can-do

attitude. Perfect.

You get on the kitchen stuff.

What are you gonna do, Rook?

Uh, I-I could start

on the bins over here.

Okay, I'm gonna disconnect

the water supply

and then we'll get started

on the exterior.

[Rook]

We are moving, boys.

So do you really

think this is a good idea?

It's a terrible idea.

[chuckles]

All right, well, so what,

we don't move the base?

No, we're gonna move the base.

[whispers]

Cap is insane.

He's lost his mind.

So what we're gonna do is,

we're gonna document

everything.

-Okay.

-Tape everything.

Send it over to NASA,

they watch it, they're like,

"Oh, great, that's so cool

[stammers]

Oh, what's Cap doing?

That guy has lost his mind.

Put him in a padded cell."

And then we're set.

I don't know.

The whole thing's

confusing to me, but

you're a genius, so I guess

you got it figured out.

Yeah, well,

can you imagine

if this happened on the Moon?

And Cap is like,

"Move the base?"

[rapid breathing]

[grunts]

-Cap, uh, what are you doing?

-Hey.

-You know, moving the base.

-Great.

-And on whose orders?

-Well, on the advice of a local

named Wally, we have determined

that there are evil spirts

or a negative energy underneath

the base, so we are moving it

to the west about

100 yards on my orders.

11:57 a.m. and Flight

Commander Robert Caputo,

it was on his orders

to move the base.

All right, as you were.

All right, Cap,

this is the last of the lab.

You want to break her down now?

Yeah, you pull on that cord

right there and she'll fold in

just like an accordion.

Okay, copy that.

Give it a good tug, though.

[grunting]

No, really put

your weight in.

Pull, pull hard, Rook!

-Pull hard.

-Whoa! [grunting]

Oh, crap.

-You all right?

-Yeah.

Yeah, it just slipped out.

All right, we'll just

do it by hand.

We'll take these bolts off

one by one.

We don't need to move the base.

We can sit down

and try to figure this out.

Yeah, I know,

but that's what

we said we were gonna do,

so we got to do what it takes.

All right, then we're gonna have

to pull all these cables

and retrench them.

No problem.

-Cap?

-Yeah?

I'll start doing that.

I'll get on that right now.

We got to--

we have to do something.

Can't just tell yourself

now you can't do it.

You got to try to do it

and keep doing it.

Excuse me.

If you didn't want

to get stuff done

Note that subject

is, uh, pulling up cables.

1400 hours.

Come on, Rook, pick it up!

Let's go, double-time,

double-time!

We got to get

all this over with!

I'm working on it!

I'm working on it!

How you feeling?

[Cap]

I feel fine.

Are you gonna help us?

[Skip] [chuckles]

You have a lot of work to do?

I see what you're doing.

What?

You think I'm nuts.

-That's not true.

-Yes, it is.

Hey, guys, we got some weather

activity coming in.

Do you think that

moving the base is sane?

No, it's insane,

of course.

You know what

else is insane?

I'm training to strap myself

to a solid-fuel rocket

and try to hit

a rock up in the sky.

That's insane.

I'm insane,

but you're insane, too.

So is Rook--

we're all insane.

That's why I

love you guys.

Hey, the storm's coming!

We got to get inside!

Okay, we hear

you, Rook!

We're dedicated

to a mission

that's beyond our ability,

but we're gonna

try anyway, right?

-Cap, we got a storm!

-Yes, I heard you!

Skip, I'm doing this for us.

I'm just trying to

make the base last--

Skip! Ah! Ow!

[groans]

[grunts]

Oh, the camera!

No.

Damn it!

Hey!

It works.

Hey, Skip, this is

your blender, isn't it?

-Yeah.

-Don't worry,

I'm gonna take

real good care of it.

I love that you're

documenting this. It's cool.

-[Skip] Yeah.

-[Cap] It's history, you know?

[Cap]

I got you, buddy.

One, two, three!

[grunts]

Thanks, Cap.

I hope you know what

you're doing, Caputo.

These men are my family.

Subject is having second

thoughts, but does consider us

his family, so 1700 hours.

-[grunting]

-[Rook] Skip?!

Skip. You okay?

Yeah, hold on.

Yeah, I'm good.

Come on.

Let's check on Cap.

One, two, three!

Thanks.

Listen, guys.

Moving the base was a bad idea.

I'm sorry.

No, it wasn't

a bad idea at all.

A-Actually

I'm really sorry.

I didn't mean to be so hostile

with the camera and everything.

I'll tell you what was a bad

idea was the Henai test.

[laughter]

I don't know where

that came from.

That ends with

this generation right here.

-No more Henai tests.

-I got to say

if it was my name on that letter

from NASA that you sent,

I would've k*lled myself.

It was very

convincing, Skip.

Well, thank you.

-Yeah.

-Wow.

I wish it didn't happen, but

[both chuckle]

Can I have a hug?

It's not, it's not the Henai

test-- this is a real hug.

[laughter]

[Rook]

That's what I like to see.

Ah, Skip. Hey, listen.

I got a skin-on-skin

session for you

when we get back

in that base, huh?

-You got it.

-All right. You'll feel better.

-[smooches]

-Hey, what do you say

we clean up this mess

and finish this move, huh?

Sounds good, Rook,

let's do it!

[Rook]

All right.

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-[Rook] The Sarazan question?

-[Cap] Yeah, mm-hmm.

So you're saying not English

-Right.

-not Spanish.

Think, uh,

Eiffel Tower.

Queen of England?

-No.

-Give me

a little clue on the first name.

-Just a little one.

-All right, this

All right, sounds

like Oprah's boyfriend

or husband or whatever he is.

Winfrey?

-No.

-Guys.

Cap, I got to hand it to you.

Since we've moved,

we're getting 20%

more efficiency

from the solar array,

and our comm signal

is much stronger.

Stedman French--

Edmund, Edmund French!

Bingo!

-What?

-All right, we're back in.

We got a game to finish.

Ten, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.

At the Weeping Well.

All right, name seven

of the ten cardinals

that comprised the papal

conclave and elected

Pope Nicolas V in 1447.

You just need

seven of the ten.

[sputters]

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