I was so worried, man.
About this guy. But then you show up, and I'm even more-more worried about you.
Particularly after the first... when you sent the first one away.
Yeah, you were pretty...
Pretty, uh... You deserved to be as freaked out as you were.
She can never know anything about that. Ever. You understand?
No, no, no, no, no.
I wonder if they can get pregnant.
Where are you going?
- I can't be here. - What?
You should have told me.
- It wouldn't have made any difference. - Really?
Chris, I had to!
Obviously I had to. You know that about me.
I had no idea you'd react like this. Listen!
Listen to me.
What's changed? I didn't even know you wanted one.
Yeah, why would I want one? Why would I want a child,
or anything that would bring life into this house?!
- No, no, Chris. No. No. - Stop it. Stop it. Stop it.
Stop it! Stop it!
No, Chris, you don't understand.
You have to understand. I had no idea you felt like that. I won't make it without you.
- Then you won't make it. - Chris, no, please!
- Let go of me! - No...
No!
Oh, my God.
Oh, no.
You wanna change Gordon's mind. What if Gordon and your wife, right,
your very nice wife... She's nice, right? Of course she's nice. Your wife is nice.
They get together, right? Cos I'm thinkin'... women, right?
Right now we got woman and woman, right?
If we get "women", you know, together on the same team and all that shit, what happens?
You know what happens. All kinds of shit you can't explain happens.
Like the... But good shit, you know?
Mysterious, but good. Usually very good. Things get solved, you know?
That's my plan, you know? What do you... think?
I'll have to think about that.
"And death shall have no dominion."
"Dead men naked, they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon."
"When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot."
"Though they go mad they shall be sane."
"Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again."
"Though lovers be lost love shall not."
"And death shall have no dominion."
You found me.
I came back for you.
I came back that day.
I'm sorry.
All right. Enough hypothesising.
The visitors. Are they or are they not made of subatomic particles?
Subatomic particles... I'm not sure.
What do you think?
I think... probably.
Stabilised by what?
Guess.
I don't know. Maybe... a Higgs field.
So...
if we created a negative Higgs field and bombarded them with Higgs antibosons
they might disintegrate?
Maybe. You know, it would take a lot of power.
Shut down all the noncritical ship functions.
This is just a theory, you know? We could be wrong.
- Let's find out. - We'll take the findings back to Earth.
What if they follow us back?
What if what's happening here happened on Earth on a mass scale?
Don't you see that as a problem?
I think it's a serious mistake to assume it's benign.
It's driving us crazy so it can watch us kill each other.
Is that really why you think they're here?
Given its resources it could have done anything, including destroy us.
Meet me in the lab in an hour.
- I won't let you. - How you gonna stop us?
- How you gonna stop me taking her back? - Shall we pick up the other one on the way?
Shouldn't be too hard. We could chart its course. Only take a day or so.
Chris, what's she talking about?
- Nothing. - Her oxygen might have run out.
Maybe they don't need any.
Chris, what are they talking about?
You didn't tell her?
Tell me what?
- You came before. - He got rid of you.
You what?
I sent you away.
Into space.
Oh, my God.
No. Rheya...
Don't touch me.
Rheya, I didn't understand.
Rheya. Rheya. Hey.
- Don't. - No. No. No. Don't.
What were you trying to accomplish with that, exactly?
Kelvin...
It is a mistake to become emotionally engaged with one of them.
You're being manipulated.
If she were ugly, you wouldn't want her around. That's why she's not ugly.
She's a mirror that reflects part of your mind. You provide the formula.
- She's alive. - She is not human.
Try to understand that, if you can understand anything.
What about your visitor? The one you're so ready to destroy without hesitation?
Who is it? "What" is it?
Does it feel? Can it touch?
Does it speak?
We are in a situation that is beyond morality. Hm?
Your wife is dead.
How do you know? How can you be definitive about a construct you do not understand?
She's a copy. A facsimile.
And she's seducing you all over again.
You're sick.
We are not taking her back with us.
Leave the light off.
You think you're dreaming me.
You're not Gibarian.
No?
Who am I, then?
- A puppet. - And you're not?
Well, maybe you're my puppet.
But like all puppets, you think you're actually human.
That's the puppet's dream - being human.
Why did you kill yourself?
It seemed like a good idea at the time. Now I think I made a mistake.
- What about your son? - That's not my son. My son is on Earth.
And that's not your wife. They are part of Solaris. Remember that.
What does Solaris want from us?
Why do you think it has to want something?
This is why you have to leave. If you keep thinking there is a solution...
you'll die here.
I can't leave her.
I'll figure it out.
Do you understand what I'm trying to tell you?
There are no answers.
Only choices.
Rheya?
Gordon!
- What happened? - She drank liquid oxygen.
She's dead.
No.
I never get used to them. These... resurrections.
Oh, no.
No.
Why'd you do that?
Rheya?
Don't call me that.
There are two components.
A high-energy proton accelerator and a matter phase modulator.
By adjusting the tuning frequency I get an enhancement of Higgs antibosons at 90GHz
and an almost pure beam at 160GHz.
I used it on mine.
What happens?
They disappear, back where they came from.
It's what she wants.
I won't let her do it.
She'll come to me when you're asleep.
Then I won't sleep.
Don't you see? I came from your memory of her.
That's the problem. I'm not a whole person.
In your memory you get to control everything.
So even if you remember something wrong, I am predetermined to carry it out.
I'm suicidal because that's how you remember me.
My voice sounds the way it does because that's how you remember it.
I don't believe that we're predetermined to relive our past.
I think that we can choose to do it differently.
The day I left and you said you wouldn't make it, I didn't hear you because I was angry.
This is my chance to undo that mistake.
And I need you to help me.
But am I really Rheya?
I don't know any more.
All I see is you.
It created me.
And yet I can't communicate with it.
It must hear me, though.
It must know what's happening to me.
And you and I, we would have to have some kind of...
an arrangement, some kind of...
unspoken understanding...
that I'm not really a human being.
No, Rheya.
Chris...
Chris, I wish you would just let them use the device on me.
And then you can go back to Earth and you can tell everybody all about Solaris.
No.
It's the only solution that makes any sense.
We could never have a life together on Earth, Chris.
You know that.
It would be impossible.
And this? What kind of life is this?
Trapped here.
It's not a life.
I don't know what to call it.
It's what we have.
It's enough for me.
You need to rest.
You're going to make yourself ill.
- I don't care. - Just lie down for a moment.
Please, Chris.
You have to rest.
You know I'm not human so I don't understand what you're afraid of.
Of course you can use the device.
It's not murder. You said that yourself.
You're the one who had the idea in the first place.
Chris doesn't trust me. He...
Chris, don't blame Gordon.
It's not her fault. I begged her to do it.
It's better this way.
I found the suicide note.
I went through your things.
The page torn from the book of poems.
And I realised...
I'm not her.
I'm not Rheya.
I know you loved me, though.
I know that. I felt that.
And I love you.
I wish we could just live inside that feeling forever.
Maybe there's a place where we can.
But I know it's not on Earth.
And it's not on this ship.
That's all I can say right now.
- You killed her! - Not her. It.
- It's murder! - Kelvin, she begged me. It wasn't painful.
- She'll be back! - No.
- Why would you let her do it?! - Kelvin!
It's not human!
Whatever it is, it's not human, and I'm threatened by that.
And I wanna win. I want humans to win.
Whose side are you on?
- What are you doing? - Putting the Al back online. I'm going home.
Gordon.
Gordon!
- I knew it. - How long you think he's been dead?
Hard to say because of the cold.
He attacked me.
There I am. Somehow, there I am.
And I couldn't tell you how I'm there, or who I am or what's going on.
But before I can get to that,
what's this over here?
Comin' at me. What... what are you tryin' to do?
Oh, I see. You're tryin' to kill me.
Yeah, confusing. I'll tell you somethin' confusing. Bingo, there you are,
and my welcoming committee dropped his knife and it's good night.
And, oh, by the way, after all that I find, uh...
this, uh, whoever this... I get my first good look at it and it happens to be...
I survive the first 30 seconds of this...
life, whatever you wanna call it... by killing someone.
And, oh, ah, by killing someone who happens to be me.
See, most people... I would think most people in this position would be, like "This... ah."
"I don't know." However, this is at least... This is an incredible opportunity.
This is... What if this is a gift? I'm a gift.
Hey.
I say we use the Higgs device on him.
Mm. Mm-mm.
I don't think you really have time.
Why would you say that?
Well, you know, ever since we used the famous Higgs device,
Solaris started taking on mass exponentially.
You might have noticed how we're a lot closer to it.
That would be because everything within its gravitational field -
it's pulling it in.
Ah, and, yeah, sorry. By the way,
the Higgs device also drained the fuel cell reactors.
Uh, if... Can I make a suggestion?
I mean, this is... You can do what you want, but I would just lock me in here really tight
and take the "Athena" back.
Wear your seat belt.
Switch to internal power.
Start fuel cell operational diagnostic.
Service check on LGA.
Point and calibrate high-beam antenna.
Depressurising. Spin all turbines to standby.
Disengage coupling interlocks and all docking couplers.
Vent and seal all main engine propellant lines.
Earth.
Even the word sounded strange to me now.
Unfamiliar.
How long had I been gone?
How long had I been back?
Did it matter?
I tried to find the rhythm of the world where I used to live.
I followed the current.
I was silent and attentive.
I made a conscious effort to smile...
nod...
stand...
and perform the millions of gestures that constitute life on Earth.
I studied these gestures until they became reflexes again.
But I was haunted by the idea
that I remembered her wrong.
That somehow I was wrong about everything.
Depressurising. Spin all turbines to standby.
Disengage coupling interlocks and all docking couplers.
Vent and seal all main engine propellant lines.
Rheya!
Rheya?
Chris?
Am I alive... or dead?
We don't have to think like that any more.
We're together now.
Everything we've done is forgiven.
Everything.