Screenplay

Act One: 1. An infinity of stars in the vastness of space. Danny Shepherd watches from his ship’s observation hatch.// Aurora (Rory) Reynolds pounds away on a treadmill, a blast of loud music shaking through the Triton Moon base as she runs.// Sam Shepherd arrives late for work on Earth, too jubilant to care. 2. Sam checks in over the comms with Rory before moving on to the rest of the crew, who note there’s possible damage to a reactor core in Sector 2. Plan to go survey it once Danny’s ship has arrived. Commander Angela Hawkins reports that the ashes of Luis Wallis have been interred. 3. Sam leaves his desk & moves to a separate suite of rooms where Danny’s ship & crew is being monitored. Insists on speaking to his brother before he lands & they share their excitement at Danny’s first professional job. 4. Danny’s ship is piloted badly as it approaches the base. The crew are unharmed but the ship is disabled and won’t be able to work again until repairs have been carried out. THIS WAS ALL I FIT IN MY FIRST 10 PAGES ^^^^^ 5. The old and new crew set out to Sector 2 to fix the reported fault, leaving Aziz, Rory and Danny behind. Aziz taunts Rory until she decides to break protocol and leave the base, taking Danny and Aziz with her. 6. Sam tries to make Rory turn back, worried for all of them but especially Danny. Rory’s made up her mind and tells him to relax. She promises she won’t let any harm come to Danny. 7. At Base 2, the crew starts to spread out, with some exploring and others going to assess the fault. Buoyed by the new arrivals though, they’re not focusing properly and mistakes are being made. 8. Rory, Danny & Aziz arrive. Aziz rushes into the Base, but Rory stays on the surface, determined to prove she’s not afraid of the silence, as Aziz claims she is. Danny stays, wanting to enjoy the fact that they’re standing on a distant moon. 9. Rory breaks, insisting they should go in. Danny laughs but acquiesces. Inside, something is going terribly wrong with the reactor core. Distracted by the excitement of the new arrivals, nobody has noticed the severity of the problem. 10. Danny and Rory step inside moments before the reactor core blows. Inside, the crew realise what’s about to happen after it’s too late. They set off the evacuation alarms as something explodes. 11. Rory reacts a split second sooner to the evacuation alarms, realising what they are before Danny. Rory’s mostly unharmed, though bruised. Danny’s injured, pinned down by

debris, though alive. A fire begins to sweep through the base and Rory realises she has no choice but to get them both outside as quickly as possible. 12. Rory drags Danny outside and assesses the extent of his injuries. They’re bad. His helmet is cracking too. Rory tries to reach the surface buggy they arrived in, but Danny is in agony at each step she takes & she is unable to get them both there. 13. Danny admits what they’re both thinking: he’s not going to make it. He tells her to leave him behind and get to the buggy before her oxygen runs out. 14.Rory refuses to leave him. Over comms, Sam listens to his brother die. 15. Rory’s oxygen begins to run out. In order to make it back to base before that happens she is forced to leave Danny’s body behind. 16. Rory arrives back at base and goes into shock/has a panic attack. Sam is forced to emit an airborne sedative to subdue her. She blacks out.