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InCo Season 2 Episode 19: The Box
00:13
HATOV
Nova!
00:16
NOVA
Huh?...ah, Pretty Boy, how was it?
00:21
HATOV
It was (beat) interesting.
00:23
NOVA
Is that so?
00:24
JEANNE
We’ll go over everything on the ship.
00:26
NOVA
Well, it sounds like you found something.
00:28
HATOV
I (beat) I don’t want to talk about it.
00:31
JEANNE
How much did you get?
00:32
NOVA
Well, the medicine was pricey, so were the shoes, and I guessed on your size, Galaxy Eyes.
00:39
JEANNE
The upgrade?
00:40
NOVA
I have it.
00:41
JEANNE
Good.
00:42
SAWA
Captain would you like me to
00:43
NOVA
SAWA it’s fine. You’ll be fine.
00:45
SAWA
I am not concerned for my
00:47
NOVA
Shut up. I’m fine, I just don’t like it.
00:49
SAWA
Understood.
00:52
HATOV
Is this all that’s left?
00:54
NOVA
Uh, yeah, uhm, nobody wants the chips, even if you erase them, they still have the potential to be restored and can fuck your day up. (beat) Do you always carry that with you?
01:06
HATOV
I still can't open it.
01:08
NOVA
Well, that figures.
01:10
HATOV
(frustrated)
No, you don’t get it, I’ve read her diaries
01:15
NOVA
And?
01:16
HATOV
She was simple. She was simple and she left behind a puzzle, so the puzzle should be simple, right?
01:23
JEANNE
You don’t understand who she was at all.
01:25
HATOV
It shouldn’t be this hard!
01:28
NOVA
...what if you’re thinking about it wrong.
01:31
HATOV
Then what am I supposed to do?
01:33
NOVA
I don’t know (beat) think like her?
01:34
HATOV
Well, if that's the case, then I’d just go by the stupid colors and not the numbers and the shapes and [box opens]...I hate everything about this puzzle
01:48
NOVA
(laughing)
Are you kidding me? Lulu, what the actual fuck?
01:54
HATOV
That shouldn’t have—
01:56
NOVA
(still laughing)
Jeanne (gasp) I, I need you to take over (gasp) or we’re gonna fucking crash. Shit.
02:04
JEANNE
What's inside?
02:07
HATOV
Is she okay?
02:08
JEANNE
Hey, how’re you doing?
02:10
NOVA
I...I can't...I can’t breathe. God that’s such a fucking Lulu thing to do.
02:18
HATOV
I can’t tell if she was very smart or very stupid.
02:21
JEANNE
She did that. What’s in the box?
02:27
HATOV
(papers rustling)
It’s just (beat) It’s (beat) they’re her papers.
02:33
JEANNE
What papers?
02:34
HATOV
Her citizenship papers (beat) for Eolara.
02:39
JEANNE
Is there a location there?
02:41
HATOV
(turning paper)
Eh (beat) does (loud, ringing beep)
02:44
NOVA
What the fuck, Galaxy Eyes?
02:45
HATOV
I don’t think (beat) we don’t use the same coordinate system, and I’m not an astronomer. I can’t tell you where the stars are meant to be in order to make this work.
02:59
JEANNE
But it gave us coordinates?
03:01
HATOV
Well, yes, but I don’t think they’ll be very
03:04
JEANNE
You don’t get to decide that. What else is in there?
03:06
HATOV
(beat)
More citizenship papers, her region of origin, her (beat) rank?
03:16
JEANNE
Her rank in what?
03:21
HATOV
(quietly)
(beat) It says she was an Eolaran ambassador.
03:25
JEANNE
A what?
03:26
HATOV
I’m reading it over, but (beat) it, it just says she was an Eolaran ambassador meant to negotiate with the Galactic Union, the purpose of her mission was to “initiate contact with Union affiliated planets and judge the safety of continued interaction”
03:41
NOVA
But she didn’t. Could she have been sending information back for all those years?
03:46
HATOV
No (beat) this is (beat) What I’m trying to (beat) We’ve never had an ambassador, no one has been cleared to leave the planet. Ever.
03:57
JEANNE
Except you brother and whoever tried to kill you.
03:59
HATOV
(beat, quietly)
No, you don't...you don’t understand, we weren’t cleared we just left.
04:06
JEANNE
Then where did the ships come from?
04:09
HATOV
The what?
04:11
JEANNE
The ships (beat) the ships designed to navigate space for extended periods of time. Where did they come from? Why were they there?
04:18
HATOV
Well (beat) the union had some, I guess we were studying them? But (beat) if we didn’t plan to leave then (peters out) this is father’s seal.
04:29
JEANNE
Is there anything else in there?
04:31
HATOV
I, I think this is it?
04:35
JEANNE
Give me it to me.
Hands over the box
Cracking
04:40
NOVA
(shocked)
Jeanne
04:42
JEANNE
We have to check.
04:45
NOVA
But that (beat) you didn’t have to (beat) he opened it!
04:51
JEANNE
Sit down and breathe.
04:56
NOVA
Shit
04:57
SAWA
Nova would you like me to walk you through some
04:59
NOVA
(irritated)
I have this, just...just a few minutes, okay?
05:03
SAWA
Understood
05:05
NOVA
Shit
05:20
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