Zone of the Enders
What do you want? You show me!
A numbing kind of touchdown!
Don't! You can't beat me!
Even God, I don't know!
About tomorrow, no problem, this hot pulsing is burning blood
Oh! Let's go, fearsome things are
No way! Get off my way!
Know where we are going?
Zone of the Enders
Danger! Craving for the danger! Obstructing everything
Give me! Give me more danger! Just break through it
Times are so bad my head spins, but open the way with love and anger!
Tight Rope
We can finally see that dear Mars.
You just wait, Rachel. This is a pre-celebration.
It's nice we're able to see it, but how are we going to get down?
It's not possible with this ship, right?
I know already.
That's why we'll sneak onto Deimos. It's plan D.
Dad, there's a defense surveillance range, isn't there?
How do you think you're going to get past it?
Don't make a fuss. I told you there's a way, didn't I?
There's a loophole for us truckers.
Smells fishy . . .
Say whatever you want! There are dangerous jobs too.
Even assuming we're able to get down,
it doesn't necessarily follow that Mama is still in Bashiria country, right?
If something happens in a backcountry place like Mars,
it'll become a rumor.
We should be able to find a clue soon.
What? What's your impression of Mars?
It's got two moons and there's desert as far as you can see
and something like this?
That's practically the scribblings of some kid.
Well, that's okay.
You'll understand as soon as you get down on Mars.
Good afternoon, Pete.
What kind of book did you bring for me today?
Oh, Uncle's book!
This is a Voice Photo, isn't it?
My . . .
A young Uncle!
James, relax more!
You're going to tell her you like her, right?
If you're like that, she'll turn you down!
Shut up! I'll make it a sure thing!
How cute! But what are those flowers in his hands for?
I wonder if they've written about it in this book?
No good! They found us!
It's the orbital surveillance satellite.
Hailing unidentified ship.
State your affiliation and ship registration nationality.
What loophole?
Damn! They've gone and changed the search pattern while I was gone.
What? That's a jalopy from more than twenty years ago.
So?
You're stupid.
Do something while I stall.
Okay. Leave it to me!
Hey, Missy!
Uncle!
Can you intercept the electromagnetic waves around here?
Yes, I can. Why?
Could you do it in a hurry?
I've adjusted the defense field
and formed an electromagnetic wave deflection field
with a radius of ten kilometers.
Good job.
Did you hear that, Leon?
We won't have to worry about its associates
swarming towards us for a while.
State your affiliation and ship registration nationality.
This is the ship Don Torres affiliated with the UN Earth Army,
acting on top-secret orders.
The ship's registration nationality codes haven't been transmitted yet!
Go ahead.
Confirming. Cannot connect to relay bureau.
That's your responsibility! We're going through!
Warning! Warning!
Comply with the directives. Comply with the directives.
Warning! Warning!
Brother! It's started firing!
It's not flexible, so while it doesn't know who we are, it can't hit us.
Dad! Microwaves or plasma, anything's fine.
Fry its insides!
It's old so it's weak against heat-type counter-measures.
Don't do something so difficult, just blow it away!
Then they'll know that we attacked it real quick, won't they?
Deep and quiet like a submarine.
Okay, Missy! Ready the microwave cannon!
What is that?
You shot it out from your chest before, right?
Just expose it to some more powerful microwaves than those.
Do it well, so that it's not detected, okay?
Yes! I'm firing the microwave cannon!
Microwave cannon, they say!
It'd be nice if she could warm up dinner too, wouldn't it?
Undirected actions during investigation will not be tolerated.
Excessive electric surge emission. . . investigation. . . unidentified ship. . .
Okay, it's working! onboard temperature rising. . . protective circuit missing. . .
maximum temperature. . . temperature. . . temp. . .
Head out in front. It'd be bad if we hit the Ender.
Yes!
It's become quiet.
It was an easy victory wasn't it, Missy?
Yes!
Dad, if you drag your feet, the other ones will get here.
What are you going to do?
There's a good place to hide.
There's a "SG 7" in the navigational computer, right?
Head for there.
What is this?
Planet seven, Sargasso.
If we get there, it should all work out.
Ugh, what is this place?
Wow! So many interesting looking things!
Sargasso?
It's not like you can't get out of it once you're in, right?
Don't worry.
The real meaning of SG is "Space Garbage dump."
Why is there a place like this?
By law, large-scale waste is to be destroyed by descent incineration.
You, from a big company,
wouldn't know but the small merchants go out of business
with just the labor and expense.
So it's an illegal dumping ground, then?
That's what it is.
I'm sure it's good for hiding,
but how do you intend to get down to Mars?
We can't go to Deimos any more, right?
Okay? A lot of garbage, especially stuff that is
difficult to incinerate by descent, collects here.
Things like heat repelling boards, heat resistant metals, and ceramics.
Then maybe you could make a landing capsule or something.
Oh? Just as expected of my daughter; catches on quick.
What? What?! You aren't serious, are you?
I said it as a joke! A joke!
We'll remodel a container as a landing capsule.
That's plan Z.
What did you say?
Are you serious when you say that, Dad?
Of course!
If you're serious, you're not sane!
That's not the way a fifty-plus adult thinks!
Fifty-plus you say?
I'm still forty-nine!
"If you want to win your children's respect,
you yourself should become a model and show them how to act."
Damn it!
Damn what?
It's nothing. More importantly, I'll leave the design to you, Leon.
Me? Why? I don't have any experience!
Are there any other qualified people then?
You know, if you make a mistake on a landing capsule like that, we'll die!
There are one or two times in a man's life
when he has to put his life at stake.
This isn't "One or two times," is it?
And in the 1st place, I'm a woman!
Last time it was "Plan D" and now it's "Z"?
Oh no, Uncle! Dirty! Last time it was "Plan D" and now it's "Z"?
Oh no, Uncle! Dirty! Do you have plans in between too?
I don't want to hear it!
They're useless plans anyway.
If you have a better plan, then tell us!
If we ride Dolores back and forth, then it's easy and safe, isn't it?
It won't work that way.
Oh! Investigative satellites?!
Yes!
A mountain load of ones like that one earlier are on the lookout.
If we go back and forth, it'll give us away, right?
It's a one chance battle. Understand?
What?! I don't want to!
Deceleration completed. We're going to enter the atmosphere!
Brother, we're going to be able to get down okay, right?
If it goes as planned, everything should be okay.
But you know, all the materials are garbage, so. . .
It looks like it's going well for now.
What do you mean, "for now?"
What?!
Don't worry. I thought this might happen,
so I used a lot of heat resistant boards as materials in the construction.
Again!
The problem is that Mars' atmospheric layer
is three times as thick as the Earth's!
It'd be nice if it held till the end, but. . .
Say, how about having Dolores push us up
from under and we decelerate that way?
I told you that the container doesn't have that kind of stability!
If you do something like that,
we'd be pushed and crushed by Dolores instead!
This isn't good.
It seems two layers peeled off at the same time and fell!
It's. . . It's no good!
That's why I said I didn't want to!
Even this plan's no good.
This makes five times we've died.
Do I have to change the way I think?
Leon, work hard! I've got my hopes on you, okay?
Hopes?
To tell the truth, at work they didn't hope for anything from me.
Missy, it's back to hauling garbage!
Yes!
Geralmin?
Some layered heat resistant titanium boards would be good, but. . .
There aren't many ideal ones, are there?
Hey! Papa!
Oh, what is it? Did you find something?
Isn't it nice?
It's a lightweight styrofoam-like fake batten.
This is good!
This'll make a cheap ceramic outer surface, at least!
Good find!
I was the boss of a construction site, you know!
Leave the building material stuff to me!
Oh? How promising!
Yahoo! Touchdown!
How about it?
Doesn't this seem like it might work somehow?
Good show! You did well!
The real thing's not the same as the simulation, you know!
If you keep on saying pessimistic things,
things that would have gone well won't.
It's just that I don't want to become a shooting star in a place like this.
Right, Pete?
Anyway, we're making this re-entry capsule, okay?
You'll do it anyway, even if I say I don't want to.
For now, we'll attach one of those heat insulating panels here, and. . .
What's with the, "for now"? How irresponsible.
I'm more used to these kinda things than you.
As if I could leave it to baby chickens like you?
I'm the one who designed it!
I don't want to be called a baby chicken.
Okay, okay. I get it already. I'll do the construction.
After all, you guys aren't used to space.
You direct. It's fine if you just watch.
It won't go that way!
If we leave it to you, Papa,
we're going to end up with some horrible fate again!
That's right! You still don't understand that?
It's empty. Hand me the next one, Noel.
Okay!
What's she doing?
You told her to stand guard earlier, didn't you, Papa?
No, it seems like she's definitely doing something else too.
Something else? What's she doing?
What is it?
Hey, what are you guys looking at? It's a waste of time!
You're the one who said it first, Dad!
Is that so?
Are you half asleep or something?
When this is done, it's "Goodbye" to the ship Ender. . .
We finished it somehow, didn't we?
I'm starting to see it as a tombstone.
Well, sorry.
This was the best we could do with the materials around here.
I've been saying you worry too much.
Hey, Missy! It's okay for you to come back now!
She's got something.
Uncle. . .
This. . . Please take this.
What's this? Is it a giant cabbage? Is it broccoli?
No, it's a rose.
Rose?
Don't you give a rose as a present to someone you love?
A rose. . .
Uncle?
Well, Uncle?
Huh? Oh. . .
Well, I'm thankful for it, but we can't take something this big.
What? But that's. . .
Well, they say, "Leave Chinese milk vetch in the field."
It's best to leave flowers in their natural habitat.
It's not a Chinese milk vetch. It's a rose.
They're both flowers, aren't they?
Flowers?
It's all right, isn't it? It's cute.
Like this?
A little more to the right. No, left, maybe? Right?
Okay!
Yes, yes, and if you rotate it a little, no one can complain, right?
But it's really well made considering the circumstances.
At this rate, maybe we should have left the capsule to Missy too.
Hey, Leon! Missy!
What? What is it?
I'm going to have you change the design a little.
What?!
What, I'm just going to add some things.
A failsafe, you know!
Guess there's no helping it.
And so. . .
One person can descend in Missy's seat of honor, but. . .
You two pick. The long one's the winner.
What about you, Dad?
The one responsible for the construction plan passes.
It's a winner.
No way!
Just a minute! That one just now, that one doesn't count, right?
Nope, Pete is family too, you know.
That's right.
You're okay with this, brother?
You're a poor loser, you know.
Oh, I want to become a cat!
Ender, you've helped me.
Please don't hold a grudge against me for leaving you behind.
Dad, that's pathetic.
Shut up!
There's no one else! Let me do what I want!
Here the chances of confiscation by the army are low,
and you may be able to recover it again later, right?
But you know, just a little longer. . .
Hey!
We have to make a hole in surveillance. We don't have time!
See ya, Ender! Live in good health!
It's time. We'll go into primary deceleration.
Let's quit after all!
Do it, Leon.
I don't want to!
The shock's pretty big, isn't it?
There's nothing we can do.
Instead of a deceleration rocket, we're exploding a spray gun, so. . .
We won't be able to return to the ship Ender anymore.
I don't want to! I don't want to! I'm getting off!
I'll wait in the ship Ender!
Resignation is important in a man.
I'm a woman!
Commencing secondary deceleration!
Don't scream each and every time!
But I don't want to die!
Is Dolores keeping up?
There's no way I'd know, is there?
We're not in a position where we can communicate. . .
No!
It seems we lost one heat resistance layer.
Yeah, but if we're wrong. . .
You made it so that it'd break from the
fixed area first to retain the balance, didn't you?
Don't get nervous about it now when it's too late!
God, Buddha, Lady Dolores!
Those words, I'd like to let Missy hear them.
If she's keeping up!
No! Not again!
It. . . It's faster than I estimated!
We did it! We're into the lower strata of the atmosphere!
Cleared the first trial!
How about it? You relaxed now, Noel?
Noel?
Well, it's not unreasonable, is it?
I guess that means she's a girl after all, right, Leon?
Really! Everybody . . .
Missy!
Missy, can you hear me?
Yes, Uncle!
I've kept you waiting. It's your turn! I'm counting on you!
Yes!
Gently now! The capsule might come apart!
Yes!
Okay, a soft landing just like this.
Uncle!
It's all right! If we've descended this far. . .
Missy, if I hadn't seen that rose you made,
I would've been on the other side, right about now.
It. . . It broke!
It. . . It. . . It'll all come apart!
Calm down! We're already down.
We got off course, and were thrown into the ocean.
Ocean?
Yes, more importantly, we have to stop the flood of water, or we'll sink!
What about the air bags for absorbing impact?
They haven't deployed.
Uncle!
The hatch won't open because of the water pressure!
Dad, the water won't stop!
Then leave it alone!
If the inside gets full of water, then the hatch will open.
We've reached the bottom of the ocean?
No, it's not supposed to be so shallow.
Oh! Uncle!
Uncle! Are you safe?
Uncle!
What's going on here?
We're floating.
I don't know what it is, but I'm grateful. Get the air bags ready.
What's this?
This is Mars Wheeze.
Mars Wheeze?
To increase in the production of oxygen,
bio-engineered seaweed was transplanted,
but because of Mars' low gravity,
it became larger than what was estimated.
We got to the surface on one of those gigantic bubbles.
We're lucky, our family is.
But, Leon, you did well.
Well. . .
But you know. . .
What are we going to do in the middle of this ocean?
Uncle! You were safe after all, weren't you?
Oh! Are you all right too?
I'm so glad! I wondered what would happen!
Caused you some worries, Missy?
What is that?
A flying ship, dreams of a journey grown cold
My memory returns inside the brilliant light
When enfolded in the gentle breeze
Frozen eyes melt, time begins to move
The bells rings, ring on, ring on
This Earth awakens life
And then it shines, ring on, ring on
Ring on, ring on, the world
Next Episode
Come over and see!
The specialty of Mars, the oxygen plant.
Oh, dear. Oh, dear. How strange!
If you decompose water. . . See, it becomes oxygen and hydrogen!
No matter what you see, if this breaks,
even Uncle will be as dead as a door knob.
Next Zone of the Enders: Dolores:
"Die Hard"
Super service on hemorrhaging!