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Deleted Scenes
Episode One - Pilot (Runtime Approx 7:30 mins)
1. Sc 5/6
Zoe in bed by herself, wakes up, looks out window. Continues through window and pans back to Donner in bed, audio over him sleeping, shouting "Zoe!" (presumably in their dream), Donner wakes up.
Donner narrating: There's a reporter I know who calls space travel a fool's game. He says human beings are 60% water, they eat, they sleep, they defecate, can't follow directions and explode like panyatas when exposed to the vacuum of space. Lately I've been wondering if the bastard's right.
(Nadia comes up beside him and pats him on the back)
Nadia: You're sweating
Donner: Yeah, bad dream.
Nadia: Mars again?
Donner: No, it's this mission.
Nadia: Then you've nothing to worry about, Donner. You're not going.
Donner: (Gets out of bed) Well thanks for not rubbing that in.
Nadia: Come on! Hey, come, time for one more?
Donner: What, are you kidding me?
Nadia: No.
Donner: Feels like it's gonna fall off now.
Nadia: No pain, no gain. And besides, it's going to have six years to heal.
Donner: Yeah, as if I'd wait for you. (?)
(Kiss and roll back into bed)
2. Sc 7
(Zoe and Bev Barnes walk into Mission Control)
Bev: Beware of new endeavours, with Mercury in retrograde and Saturn-
Zoe: Mother, I don't have time for this.
(Donner approaches)
Donner: You're late. (?)
Zoe: Yeah, had some trouble getting out the door.
Donner: Good morning Mrs. Barnes.
Bev: It's Bev, Donner, and this is not a good day for scorpios either.
Donner: [Name] here is gonna take you to the family room and get you some breakfast, if you haven't had it yet.
(Donner places baseball onto his desk at MC)
Donner to Zoe: Nice makeup.
Zoe: Giant leap? (?)
Donner: I aint jumping to conclusions.
Zoe: What? (?)
Donner: It's a giant leap.
Zoe: It's a giant leap Nadia-
Donner: Can't she keep that to herself?
(Zoe and Donner walk up the stairs to the press gallery)
Zoe: She can't keep out of your pants, it's launch day.
Donner: I'm sorry, am I supposed to stay on her too? (?)
Zoe: It's for my mother, jerk.
(Walk through the press crowd)
Paula: Zoe - Spanish televation are waiting.
Zoe: Sorry, forgot we were doing this today. (?)
Paula: (Speaks Spanish)
(Donner walks through the crowd, pans to Nadia and Evram being interviewed)
Nadia: (Some German) I see nothing wrong with sex in space, the men afterall have been given vasectomies.
Evram: Each of us will be wearing HALOs behind our ears, Hormone Activated Labido Opressors, our hands will be off eachother and on the mission.
(Donner continues walking)
Rollie: Yeah, I guess we're the first married couple in space.
(Camera pans to Rollie and Jen being interviewed)
Jen: We think of it as our 6 year honeymoon.. Except with HALOs.
(Donner continues walking)
Steven: And in space, there's no pizza, so...
(Camera pans to Steven and Ajay being interviewed)
Ajay: And, no chicken vindaloo, which I will miss a great deal. I'll also miss my friend and my mentor, Maddux Donner; but he will be with me in mind and spirit.
Interviewer: But why a manned mission? (Scene end)
3. Mrs. Bev Barnes / Diane Cary
Sc 9
(Zoe hugging, music plays, no audible dialogue, Donner watches on balcony from above)
Mike (In background): Welcome to the ADISIS (?) training facility, this is Mission Control. The flight of Antares will be the most ambitious mission in-
(Scene fades to later on, astronauts gathered around in their orange outfits)
(Camera changes back to Zoe down on the ground and Donner on the balcony, they make eye contact and smile)
Donner narrating: I've always been one of those people who believes that you create your own destiny. And uh, through a few bad decisions, I've certainly made mine.
(Camera swithces to Zoe walking through MC)
Arnel to Wass: Your collection's in the vidbank-
(Scene end)
4. Sc 34
(In the research lab on the ship, Jen, Paula, Zoe, Nadia, Wass)
Paula: For both of them to come down with heart murmurs.
Zoe: Has to be an equipment error.
Jen: Yeah, has to be, right? And you said that Mercury's in retrograde, so maybe this is a Mercury in retrograde thing.
Zoe: Please don't encourage my mother.
Wass: In a strange way, your mom's kinda right, we're hopelessly dependant on playing [something] and we've got what, 28 hours, reach our [something] or we're screwed, the next flight window's in like 6 years.
Jen: Well, then we have to use Rollie and Ajay.
Wass: Actually, no.
Zoe: I'm not following.
Nadia: Then you didn't read the latest flight schedule.
Paula: There's a service pod headed for the space station tomorrow morning, and Rollie and Ajay's alternates could possibly be on it.
Nadia: Hello Ted, hello Donner.
Zoe: Don't you dare go there.
Nadia: That's six years alone up here with your old boyfriends. Although Zoe, if you want Donner, you're going to have to compete with me.
Claire (in background, at MC, camera not switched): This, is calcified plaque-
(Scene ends)
5. Sc 65 pt
(Jen and Rollie in the observation deck, making love)
(Camera pans around generally)
Jen: So do you think we were the first?
Rollie: Not even close. But it is a very elite club.
Jen: Ooohh, do you think anyone was watching?
Rollie: Oh no no no no no.
(Hatch door opens, Rollie and Jen walk into the flight deck)
Rollie: Mission Control, this is Antares.
Mike: Antares, this is Control. Do we have permission to turn the cameras back on?
6. Sc 101
(Scene in Donner's dad's house, Donner's dad in a chair, glass in hand)
(Donner comes in door)
Donner: Pap, I'm going on the mission.
(Ice hockey on TV)
Donner: It's six years, and I don't know if you're gonna be here when I get back.
D's Father: You had the sweetest slider I ever saw. Fast ball, change-up, monster curve.
(Commentator on TV in background)
D's Father: You had all the tools.
Donner: I want something else, Pap.
D's Father: Well now you have it, don'tcha? Do me a favour. Pour me another before ya leave.
7. Sc 101A
(Donner's dad's house, again, D's father in wheelchair, asleep, tv on, Donner in another chair)
(Donner gets up and turns off TV, takes ghlass out of D's father's hand and puts on table.)
Donner: Night Pap.
(Donner walks out)
Episode 2 - Natural Selection (Approx Runtime 0:15 mins)
8. Sc 19 pt
(Zoe being interviewed by a person, watched by Eve on computer)
Interviewer: Where I live is...
Zoe: In a house.
Interviewer: If I could only...
Zoe: Fly.
(Scene ends)
Episode 3 - Threshold (Approx Runtime 1:15 mins)
9. Sc 21
(Zoe and Jen in lab)
Jen: Srtitaslaxativ. (?)
(Fists knock together)
Zoe: Stitaslaxativ. (?)
10. Sc 26 pt
(Rolle in MC talking to Zoe and Donner in Venus lander test)
Rollie: Copy that Crossbow, rate gyro sensor is engaged. Moving on to page 7.
11. SCENE MISSING SC27 VENUS LANDER- DONNER/ZOE
(Rolle in MC again, as in Sc 26)
Rollie: Copy that.
12. Sc 37A pt
(Ajay outside MC, after his card was denied)
(Rollie walks out with box, sees Ajay, turns back around, heads back inside)
13. Sc 38
(Donner with Venus suit, testing with some wires)
14. Sc 41 pt
(Claire looking at genome on that clear palstic paper stuff)
Claire to Evram on comm: Ev, I've gotta go.
(Claire stands up, dramatic music, walks quickly and seirously over to Eve, while the camera toggles between the two as the music intensifies)
(Claire approaches Eve as she stands up, hands over a clear sheet with genome data on it)
Epsiode 4 - H2IK (Approx Runtime 0:56 mins)
15. Sc 54
(Jen in the lab, walking over gets torch, lights flicker, switches to the dark ambient orange glow)
Jen: Okay, ughh, buddy, you and I are gettin' outta here.
(Picks up Rufus)
Jen: As I have had enough of this.
(Light flicker)
Jen: Yeah, leaving now.
(Walks out of lab)
16. Sc 79
(Ted and Donner back in MC with Mike)
Mike: What is it?
Donner: You know how bad we want another mission. And we know you pull the strings. But a man has his limits.
Ted: And we're not gonna allow you to make us do another toast ever again.
(Mike slowly turns around and walks away)
Episode 5 - Rubicon (Approx Runtime 1:04 mins)
17. Sc 45/46
Jen to Rufus: And he wishes more than anything he was up here with both of us.
(Closes Rufus)
Jen: Okay. That might be the most ridiculous thing I've ever done.
(Ted walks in)
Ted: Jen, rubicon in 20 minutes.
Jen: Okay, thanks.
Ted: You okay?
Jen: I'm fine.
(Ted slowly turns around and walks out)
(Jen turns around and walks over to computer, Rollie vidcomm calls)
Rollie: Hey baby.
Jen: Hi.
(Switch to flight deck)
Nadia: All systems nominal and functioning.
Ted: Roger that.
Man over comm: Congratulations, Antares. You are a go for rubicon, T minus 10 minutes.
Episode 6 - Bacon (Approx Runtime 1:49 mins)
18. Sc 15/16
(At MC, presumably after Paula's thumb incident, talking about Evram)
Mike: Let's get him over to the med station.
(Camera switches to Evram in his bay, shirt off, med patches over the scars on his back)
Claire: Ev.
Mike: Let's clear the floor of everyone but critical personnel, cut the press feed, tell them we'll brief them on the half hour.
Claire: Ev. They need you now.
Evram: On my way.
19. Sc 18
(In the med bay with Paula on the table)
Evram: Surgical cover. (?) [Other indistinct requests] Alright, scope in. [More indsitinct conversation]
20. Sc 32
(Med bay with Paula on the table, Evram cuts open Paula)
Evram: Retractor. Donner, I need suction.
(Donner cringes away)
Donner: Alright.
Claire: She's sliding Ev, she's in freefall.
Jen: -dropping, heart rate's getting thready, c'mon.
Evram: I-I don't know, I'm not cuttin' her open. I was almost there, I can find it.
Donner: Ev, the camera's in the soup.
Episode 7 - Fear (Approx Runtime 0:38 mins)
21. Sc 01
(Camera zooms in on hyperbaric chamber, Paula inside)
(Paula wakes up, gasps, Hector clawing on the side)
Paula: Hector.
(Hector stares in, whines)
(Camera switches to Paula, back to where Hector was clawing, Hector is no longer there)
Episode 8 - Love, Honor, Obey (Approx Runtime 1:05 mins)
22. Sc 2-5
(Evram video diary, dated 11 01 2052)
Evram: If I take a hard look at why I applied to the astronaut programme, it was simply to get away. Away from war. From my past. From man's inhumanity to man. I wanted to get as far away from my failings as I possibly could... And something's not letting me.
(Zoe video diary, same date)
Zoe: I had the dream again last night. It was more vivid than ever.
(Donner video diary, same date)
Donner: There's Zoe, pregnant, in the airlock, there's a bright light emerging from around a planet.. The HALOs didn't cause that, they didn't cause the hallucinations, somebody's hiding something from us. Something on the ship.
(Ted video diary, same date)
Ted: Eve says trust it... Trust it.. And I say why?
Episode 9 - Eve Ate the Apple
No deleted scenes.
Episode 10 - Déjá Vu (Approx Runtime 1:52 mins)
23. Sc 25 pt
(In Nadia's bay, Nadia and Evram)
Nadia: I'm German, Evram. My ancestors pushed a few buttons without asking questions, and there's no way I'll be doing the same.
24. Sc 38/39
(In the canteen/crew quarters, all sitting around on the desks and such, election voting computer open on the table)
(Wass fiddles with tomatoes)
Evram: Want me to deal with them too?
Ted: Nope, let 'em go.
(Wass walks out)
(Votes on the camera, Ted comes up to vote, switches to MC, Arnel places down drinks)
(Camera zooms on Arnel, stares out at Trevor, Eve watches from the balcony above)
(Ajay approaches and sits down, camera wings over to Rollie)
(Switches back to Antares, Donner staring at Zoe)
(Wass back in sitting beside Zoe)
25. Sc 50 pt
(Wass's bay, Nadia and Wass, with straws and dental floss constructed in the middle of the room)
Wass: Nah, it's, no offence, as I'm a big fan of sloth myself, but not doing a capture burn, which by the way any one of us can manage, uh, isn't gonna make this thing disappear.
Nadia: So.. shut up and fly blind?!
Episode 11 - Solitary (Approx Runtime 0:23 mins)
26. Sc 35
(Evram and Claire at Major Tom's)
Evram: Look, if I didn't like you, I would just sleep with you, bring you along, and eventually stop moling. You'd be angry, and upset, and I'd be a dick. It'd end badly. Like all my relationships.
Claire: So, you like me too much to screw me?
Episode 12 - Venus (Approx Runtime 0:21 mins)
27. Sc 36
(Zoe enters apartment, puts bag down)
Episode 13 - Kiss (Approx Runtime 2:08 mins)
28. Sc 10 pt
(Zoe in tattoo parlour, Ajay looking at her back)
Ajay: She is very brave.
Rollie: Yeah, you have any tattoos?
Ajay: It's a part of our culture. Vishnu, Karishna (spelling, apologies?) have them. Personally, always been a little suspicious of the needle.
Rollie: Hurts like hell. You gotta either be drunk, in love or stupid. I got 9 of 'em.
(Jen walks in)
Jen: Here we go, bottle of Doctor Jen's lady-proof anaesthetic. Got some aspirin too.
(Offers to Zoe)
Zoe: Yeah, keep it in the bag.
Jen: What? Zoe, it'll help, trust me.
Zoe: I don't want help, I want to feel every prick of the needle. (Gasps) Oh wow, that's.. Really..
Rollie: Well, that eliminates one of the three.
(Ajay and Rollie chuckle)
(Donner walks in)
29. Sc 76
(Donner, Jen, Rollie and Ajay walk out of train station)
Ajay: It doesn't mean your paths will never cross. If it's meant to be, it will happen.
Donner: Yeah?
Ajay: But I think all of us must find a way to mark this day and somehow move on.
Rollie: You guys up for a drink?
Jen: I'm game.
Donner: Nah, I'll take a raincheck. Actually have something I need to do.
(Donner turns around and walks away)
30. Sc 115 (alt ending)
(Donner has just kissed Zoe in the medlab, Nadia and Evram are also in the room)
(Beta whalesong noises)
(Camera pans out of the medlab)
(Switches to the observation deck with Wass and Ted, staring out)
Wass: You hearin' that? There's a new one, y'hear it?
(Sigur Ros Svefn-g-englar plays)
Ted: Yes sir.
(VFX 115-01 CG VENUS- O DECK)
Ted: It's Mercury.
(Camera zooms out of the observation deck and along the ship, which has not been CGd in)
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End of deleted scenes.
Mission Accomplished - A Look at Defying Gravity (Approx Runtime 10:00 mins)
(General Defying Gravity clips, 20 seconds)
Ron Livingston (Maddux Donner): Space-tastic!
Laura Harris (Zoe Barnes): Awesome!
Paula Garces (Paula Morales): The one word that would describe Defying Gravity.. Amazing.
Florentine Lahme (Nadia Schilling): Exciting.
Andrew Airlie (Mike Goss): Mystery.
Karen LeBlanc (Eve Weller-Shaw): The first word that pops into my head is magical.
Malik Yoba (Ted Shaw): Fantastic.
Christina Cox (Jen Crane): Fresh.
Maxim Roy (Claire Dereux): I'll say intriguing.
Eyal Podell (Evram Mintz): Mysterious.
Ty Olsson (Rollie Crane): Adrenalise! One made-up word.
Peter Howitt (Trevor Williams): Fascination.
Dylan Taylor (Steven Wassenfelder): Crazy.
Zahf Paroo (Ajay Sharma): Gift.
Jim/James Parriott (Creator/Executive Producer): The central theme of Defying Gravity is man finding himself and his place in the universe. And it's about a group of astronauts on a mission that is going to take them through the solar system. There's an intrigue element, There's sort of a funny, romantic element to it, it's a good soap. And then there's the strange mission element of it. As astronauts, the life of an astronaut, 40 years from now.
Michael Edelstein (Executive Producer): What Jim has created is a complex soap opera set in space. It's you know, and also on Earth during their training process, it's a little bit of Gray's Anatomy, it's got an overarching mystery like Lost, so it's sort of a show that has never really existed before.
Ron Livingston (Maddux Donner): There's a bit of a triangle going on between Nadia Schilling, who's the ship's pilot, she's sort of like the ace German fighter pilot, um, turned astronaut. And then there's Zoe Barnes who's sort of the girl next door type.
Laura Harris (Zoe Barnes): They have it, like an intangible connection. Connected, they don't know why, or what it's supposed to look like or.. or what, but it's happening.
Ron Livingston (Maddux Donner): Zoe's that girl that you see across the playground that you can't stop looking at. To me, it was really interesting, the idea of this guy that's supposed to be a big astronaut jock womaniser, and there's this one woman that just scares the hell out of him. Whereas Nadia is uh, sort of that fire-breathing woman that scares the hell out of most guys, y'know, and he just kinda eats her up.
Florentime Lahme (Nadia Schilling): Actually I like Nadia, she is um, sometimes very cheeky, she's not in love with Donner, she just um, wants to have sex with him, but still sees him as her property.
Ron Livingston (Maddux Donner): There's a whole world that kinda jumps off the screen, the production design on it is spectacular, just the look of everything, I think they really kinda captured it dead-on. I really bought it.
Michael Edelstein (Executive Producer): Jim and I did a lot of research with NASA, about if you were to do a manned mission through the solar system, what would you need? Steve Geigan is a brilliant production designer, he and I worked very closely together to put together the look of the ship. What we set out to do was to create a space environment that looks real, and feels real, and at the same time you know it has to be dynamic and interesting.
Paula Garces (Paula Morales): I play Paula Morales, she has her own space-classroom so it's really her job to uh, explain all the scientific facts of our exploration and our six-year mission to whoever wants to listen to her on Earth.
(Clip of Donner at MC: "Anyone mind if I change the channel?")
Paula Garces (Paula Morales): She always seems to like point the camera on everybody's faces when they least want to be on camera.
(Clip of Steven/Paula cracking the 512bit code to get to Arnel's "material")
Dylan Taylor (Steven Wassenfelder): I play Steven Wassenfelder, and uh, he's a little bit of a genius. I guess he's kinda got what you call a fat-boy mentality, he's a bit atypical for an astronaut, uh, there's maybe a question as to why he's on the ship, or how he made the cut.
Christina Cox (Jen Crane): Jen's involved with Ted during the training period and um, she ultimately ends up marrying Rollie Crane, Ty Olsson, and they go on the Antares together, believing they're going to go on this six-year msision as a married couple. That doesn't exactly work out as planned... and she's just about to spend six years in space with her ex. So there's some uh, really interesting potential for drama, to say the least.
Malik Yoba (Ted Shaw): I love the fact that I've had the opportunity to be dramatic, to be comedic, to be vulnerable, to be commanding, I love that.
Ty Olsson (Rollie Crane): We have a great cast, and really easy to go along with and we gel well together and um, we've been really lucky on this show to have great directors and to have great vision; each deal with their actors in a different way but each bring something that makes you kinda laugh, and I uh, love a work day when I can laugh at something, so that's been a really good thing about this show.
Peter Howitt (Trevor Williams): The mission in Defying Gravity is being covered obviously by the world's press as it's such a huge mission and Trevor is covering it for a major British news organisation. There's quite a lot in the story that makes you suspicious - Trevor's the man who asks those tricky questions, and to try and get to the bottom of the more nofarious things that are going on.
Maxim Roy (Claire Dereux): I play Claire Dereux, who is the uh, Flight Surgeon so she's not on Antares, she works at mission control and she's basically in charge of everybody's health aboard Antares.
Jim/James Parriott (Creator/Executive Producer): Part of the stories we tell aren't just of the training portion, but are deeper stories of what made them who they are. And they all have deeper, darker secrets.
Eyal Podell (Evram Mintz): Some of the revelations that the crew are exposed to over the course of the mission really throw them for a loop. I don't think any of us are really of sound mind to have signed up for this mission in the first place, so I think each and every one of us has their own issues that we're going to come to terms with, over the course of the mission.
Zahf Paroo (Ajay Sharma): I think probably Ajay's biggest achievement is not having his faith sway because of the things that happened to him in his life. It's hard to come to terms with your world when it seems like it's crashing down on you.
Karen LeBlanc (Eve Weller-Shaw): Eve has her own agenda, and her own mission here at Mission Control, she's a decision maker and she's in charge of crew selection. She has a mysterious edge to her.
Andrew Airlie (Mike Goss); Mike Goss is the Flight Director of the International Space Organisation mission. The astronauts are supposed to be going off and investigating these planets for scientific purposes, and they are certainly doing that, but they're doing a whole lot more that they weren't really aware they were going to be doing, and Mike is one of the masterminds of the more secret element to their mission.
Ron Livingston (Maddux Donner): Everybody on this show I think brings a team mentality to it. And I think that that applies to our crew, it applies to our writer's room, it applies to our production staff and it applies to our actors, and that's actually one of the things that I think I'm proudest of on this show, is to have been a part of that.
Jim/James Parriott (Creator/Executive Producer): I do think that when people watch this, they'll go "Jeez, yeah I haven't seen anything like that before." It's sort of its own unique animal, which is what we set out to do, I mean that's the fun of it.
Michael Edelstein (Executive Producer): I think the show is a great escape, the characters are very, very engaging and what happens is you sort of get caught up in the world, and you know, the show's a little bit addictive so hopefully that becomes a guilty pleasure for a lot of people.
- Deleted scenes
- "Mission Accomplished - A Look at Defying Gravity"
- Design still photos
Deleted Scenes
Episode One - Pilot (Runtime Approx 7:30 mins)
1. Sc 5/6
Zoe in bed by herself, wakes up, looks out window. Continues through window and pans back to Donner in bed, audio over him sleeping, shouting "Zoe!" (presumably in their dream), Donner wakes up.
Donner narrating: There's a reporter I know who calls space travel a fool's game. He says human beings are 60% water, they eat, they sleep, they defecate, can't follow directions and explode like panyatas when exposed to the vacuum of space. Lately I've been wondering if the bastard's right.
(Nadia comes up beside him and pats him on the back)
Nadia: You're sweating
Donner: Yeah, bad dream.
Nadia: Mars again?
Donner: No, it's this mission.
Nadia: Then you've nothing to worry about, Donner. You're not going.
Donner: (Gets out of bed) Well thanks for not rubbing that in.
Nadia: Come on! Hey, come, time for one more?
Donner: What, are you kidding me?
Nadia: No.
Donner: Feels like it's gonna fall off now.
Nadia: No pain, no gain. And besides, it's going to have six years to heal.
Donner: Yeah, as if I'd wait for you. (?)
(Kiss and roll back into bed)
2. Sc 7
(Zoe and Bev Barnes walk into Mission Control)
Bev: Beware of new endeavours, with Mercury in retrograde and Saturn-
Zoe: Mother, I don't have time for this.
(Donner approaches)
Donner: You're late. (?)
Zoe: Yeah, had some trouble getting out the door.
Donner: Good morning Mrs. Barnes.
Bev: It's Bev, Donner, and this is not a good day for scorpios either.
Donner: [Name] here is gonna take you to the family room and get you some breakfast, if you haven't had it yet.
(Donner places baseball onto his desk at MC)
Donner to Zoe: Nice makeup.
Zoe: Giant leap? (?)
Donner: I aint jumping to conclusions.
Zoe: What? (?)
Donner: It's a giant leap.
Zoe: It's a giant leap Nadia-
Donner: Can't she keep that to herself?
(Zoe and Donner walk up the stairs to the press gallery)
Zoe: She can't keep out of your pants, it's launch day.
Donner: I'm sorry, am I supposed to stay on her too? (?)
Zoe: It's for my mother, jerk.
(Walk through the press crowd)
Paula: Zoe - Spanish televation are waiting.
Zoe: Sorry, forgot we were doing this today. (?)
Paula: (Speaks Spanish)
(Donner walks through the crowd, pans to Nadia and Evram being interviewed)
Nadia: (Some German) I see nothing wrong with sex in space, the men afterall have been given vasectomies.
Evram: Each of us will be wearing HALOs behind our ears, Hormone Activated Labido Opressors, our hands will be off eachother and on the mission.
(Donner continues walking)
Rollie: Yeah, I guess we're the first married couple in space.
(Camera pans to Rollie and Jen being interviewed)
Jen: We think of it as our 6 year honeymoon.. Except with HALOs.
(Donner continues walking)
Steven: And in space, there's no pizza, so...
(Camera pans to Steven and Ajay being interviewed)
Ajay: And, no chicken vindaloo, which I will miss a great deal. I'll also miss my friend and my mentor, Maddux Donner; but he will be with me in mind and spirit.
Interviewer: But why a manned mission? (Scene end)
3. Mrs. Bev Barnes / Diane Cary
Sc 9
(Zoe hugging, music plays, no audible dialogue, Donner watches on balcony from above)
Mike (In background): Welcome to the ADISIS (?) training facility, this is Mission Control. The flight of Antares will be the most ambitious mission in-
(Scene fades to later on, astronauts gathered around in their orange outfits)
(Camera changes back to Zoe down on the ground and Donner on the balcony, they make eye contact and smile)
Donner narrating: I've always been one of those people who believes that you create your own destiny. And uh, through a few bad decisions, I've certainly made mine.
(Camera swithces to Zoe walking through MC)
Arnel to Wass: Your collection's in the vidbank-
(Scene end)
4. Sc 34
(In the research lab on the ship, Jen, Paula, Zoe, Nadia, Wass)
Paula: For both of them to come down with heart murmurs.
Zoe: Has to be an equipment error.
Jen: Yeah, has to be, right? And you said that Mercury's in retrograde, so maybe this is a Mercury in retrograde thing.
Zoe: Please don't encourage my mother.
Wass: In a strange way, your mom's kinda right, we're hopelessly dependant on playing [something] and we've got what, 28 hours, reach our [something] or we're screwed, the next flight window's in like 6 years.
Jen: Well, then we have to use Rollie and Ajay.
Wass: Actually, no.
Zoe: I'm not following.
Nadia: Then you didn't read the latest flight schedule.
Paula: There's a service pod headed for the space station tomorrow morning, and Rollie and Ajay's alternates could possibly be on it.
Nadia: Hello Ted, hello Donner.
Zoe: Don't you dare go there.
Nadia: That's six years alone up here with your old boyfriends. Although Zoe, if you want Donner, you're going to have to compete with me.
Claire (in background, at MC, camera not switched): This, is calcified plaque-
(Scene ends)
5. Sc 65 pt
(Jen and Rollie in the observation deck, making love)
(Camera pans around generally)
Jen: So do you think we were the first?
Rollie: Not even close. But it is a very elite club.
Jen: Ooohh, do you think anyone was watching?
Rollie: Oh no no no no no.
(Hatch door opens, Rollie and Jen walk into the flight deck)
Rollie: Mission Control, this is Antares.
Mike: Antares, this is Control. Do we have permission to turn the cameras back on?
6. Sc 101
(Scene in Donner's dad's house, Donner's dad in a chair, glass in hand)
(Donner comes in door)
Donner: Pap, I'm going on the mission.
(Ice hockey on TV)
Donner: It's six years, and I don't know if you're gonna be here when I get back.
D's Father: You had the sweetest slider I ever saw. Fast ball, change-up, monster curve.
(Commentator on TV in background)
D's Father: You had all the tools.
Donner: I want something else, Pap.
D's Father: Well now you have it, don'tcha? Do me a favour. Pour me another before ya leave.
7. Sc 101A
(Donner's dad's house, again, D's father in wheelchair, asleep, tv on, Donner in another chair)
(Donner gets up and turns off TV, takes ghlass out of D's father's hand and puts on table.)
Donner: Night Pap.
(Donner walks out)
Episode 2 - Natural Selection (Approx Runtime 0:15 mins)
8. Sc 19 pt
(Zoe being interviewed by a person, watched by Eve on computer)
Interviewer: Where I live is...
Zoe: In a house.
Interviewer: If I could only...
Zoe: Fly.
(Scene ends)
Episode 3 - Threshold (Approx Runtime 1:15 mins)
9. Sc 21
(Zoe and Jen in lab)
Jen: Srtitaslaxativ. (?)
(Fists knock together)
Zoe: Stitaslaxativ. (?)
10. Sc 26 pt
(Rolle in MC talking to Zoe and Donner in Venus lander test)
Rollie: Copy that Crossbow, rate gyro sensor is engaged. Moving on to page 7.
11. SCENE MISSING SC27 VENUS LANDER- DONNER/ZOE
(Rolle in MC again, as in Sc 26)
Rollie: Copy that.
12. Sc 37A pt
(Ajay outside MC, after his card was denied)
(Rollie walks out with box, sees Ajay, turns back around, heads back inside)
13. Sc 38
(Donner with Venus suit, testing with some wires)
14. Sc 41 pt
(Claire looking at genome on that clear palstic paper stuff)
Claire to Evram on comm: Ev, I've gotta go.
(Claire stands up, dramatic music, walks quickly and seirously over to Eve, while the camera toggles between the two as the music intensifies)
(Claire approaches Eve as she stands up, hands over a clear sheet with genome data on it)
Epsiode 4 - H2IK (Approx Runtime 0:56 mins)
15. Sc 54
(Jen in the lab, walking over gets torch, lights flicker, switches to the dark ambient orange glow)
Jen: Okay, ughh, buddy, you and I are gettin' outta here.
(Picks up Rufus)
Jen: As I have had enough of this.
(Light flicker)
Jen: Yeah, leaving now.
(Walks out of lab)
16. Sc 79
(Ted and Donner back in MC with Mike)
Mike: What is it?
Donner: You know how bad we want another mission. And we know you pull the strings. But a man has his limits.
Ted: And we're not gonna allow you to make us do another toast ever again.
(Mike slowly turns around and walks away)
Episode 5 - Rubicon (Approx Runtime 1:04 mins)
17. Sc 45/46
Jen to Rufus: And he wishes more than anything he was up here with both of us.
(Closes Rufus)
Jen: Okay. That might be the most ridiculous thing I've ever done.
(Ted walks in)
Ted: Jen, rubicon in 20 minutes.
Jen: Okay, thanks.
Ted: You okay?
Jen: I'm fine.
(Ted slowly turns around and walks out)
(Jen turns around and walks over to computer, Rollie vidcomm calls)
Rollie: Hey baby.
Jen: Hi.
(Switch to flight deck)
Nadia: All systems nominal and functioning.
Ted: Roger that.
Man over comm: Congratulations, Antares. You are a go for rubicon, T minus 10 minutes.
Episode 6 - Bacon (Approx Runtime 1:49 mins)
18. Sc 15/16
(At MC, presumably after Paula's thumb incident, talking about Evram)
Mike: Let's get him over to the med station.
(Camera switches to Evram in his bay, shirt off, med patches over the scars on his back)
Claire: Ev.
Mike: Let's clear the floor of everyone but critical personnel, cut the press feed, tell them we'll brief them on the half hour.
Claire: Ev. They need you now.
Evram: On my way.
19. Sc 18
(In the med bay with Paula on the table)
Evram: Surgical cover. (?) [Other indistinct requests] Alright, scope in. [More indsitinct conversation]
20. Sc 32
(Med bay with Paula on the table, Evram cuts open Paula)
Evram: Retractor. Donner, I need suction.
(Donner cringes away)
Donner: Alright.
Claire: She's sliding Ev, she's in freefall.
Jen: -dropping, heart rate's getting thready, c'mon.
Evram: I-I don't know, I'm not cuttin' her open. I was almost there, I can find it.
Donner: Ev, the camera's in the soup.
Episode 7 - Fear (Approx Runtime 0:38 mins)
21. Sc 01
(Camera zooms in on hyperbaric chamber, Paula inside)
(Paula wakes up, gasps, Hector clawing on the side)
Paula: Hector.
(Hector stares in, whines)
(Camera switches to Paula, back to where Hector was clawing, Hector is no longer there)
Episode 8 - Love, Honor, Obey (Approx Runtime 1:05 mins)
22. Sc 2-5
(Evram video diary, dated 11 01 2052)
Evram: If I take a hard look at why I applied to the astronaut programme, it was simply to get away. Away from war. From my past. From man's inhumanity to man. I wanted to get as far away from my failings as I possibly could... And something's not letting me.
(Zoe video diary, same date)
Zoe: I had the dream again last night. It was more vivid than ever.
(Donner video diary, same date)
Donner: There's Zoe, pregnant, in the airlock, there's a bright light emerging from around a planet.. The HALOs didn't cause that, they didn't cause the hallucinations, somebody's hiding something from us. Something on the ship.
(Ted video diary, same date)
Ted: Eve says trust it... Trust it.. And I say why?
Episode 9 - Eve Ate the Apple
No deleted scenes.
Episode 10 - Déjá Vu (Approx Runtime 1:52 mins)
23. Sc 25 pt
(In Nadia's bay, Nadia and Evram)
Nadia: I'm German, Evram. My ancestors pushed a few buttons without asking questions, and there's no way I'll be doing the same.
24. Sc 38/39
(In the canteen/crew quarters, all sitting around on the desks and such, election voting computer open on the table)
(Wass fiddles with tomatoes)
Evram: Want me to deal with them too?
Ted: Nope, let 'em go.
(Wass walks out)
(Votes on the camera, Ted comes up to vote, switches to MC, Arnel places down drinks)
(Camera zooms on Arnel, stares out at Trevor, Eve watches from the balcony above)
(Ajay approaches and sits down, camera wings over to Rollie)
(Switches back to Antares, Donner staring at Zoe)
(Wass back in sitting beside Zoe)
25. Sc 50 pt
(Wass's bay, Nadia and Wass, with straws and dental floss constructed in the middle of the room)
Wass: Nah, it's, no offence, as I'm a big fan of sloth myself, but not doing a capture burn, which by the way any one of us can manage, uh, isn't gonna make this thing disappear.
Nadia: So.. shut up and fly blind?!
Episode 11 - Solitary (Approx Runtime 0:23 mins)
26. Sc 35
(Evram and Claire at Major Tom's)
Evram: Look, if I didn't like you, I would just sleep with you, bring you along, and eventually stop moling. You'd be angry, and upset, and I'd be a dick. It'd end badly. Like all my relationships.
Claire: So, you like me too much to screw me?
Episode 12 - Venus (Approx Runtime 0:21 mins)
27. Sc 36
(Zoe enters apartment, puts bag down)
Episode 13 - Kiss (Approx Runtime 2:08 mins)
28. Sc 10 pt
(Zoe in tattoo parlour, Ajay looking at her back)
Ajay: She is very brave.
Rollie: Yeah, you have any tattoos?
Ajay: It's a part of our culture. Vishnu, Karishna (spelling, apologies?) have them. Personally, always been a little suspicious of the needle.
Rollie: Hurts like hell. You gotta either be drunk, in love or stupid. I got 9 of 'em.
(Jen walks in)
Jen: Here we go, bottle of Doctor Jen's lady-proof anaesthetic. Got some aspirin too.
(Offers to Zoe)
Zoe: Yeah, keep it in the bag.
Jen: What? Zoe, it'll help, trust me.
Zoe: I don't want help, I want to feel every prick of the needle. (Gasps) Oh wow, that's.. Really..
Rollie: Well, that eliminates one of the three.
(Ajay and Rollie chuckle)
(Donner walks in)
29. Sc 76
(Donner, Jen, Rollie and Ajay walk out of train station)
Ajay: It doesn't mean your paths will never cross. If it's meant to be, it will happen.
Donner: Yeah?
Ajay: But I think all of us must find a way to mark this day and somehow move on.
Rollie: You guys up for a drink?
Jen: I'm game.
Donner: Nah, I'll take a raincheck. Actually have something I need to do.
(Donner turns around and walks away)
30. Sc 115 (alt ending)
(Donner has just kissed Zoe in the medlab, Nadia and Evram are also in the room)
(Beta whalesong noises)
(Camera pans out of the medlab)
(Switches to the observation deck with Wass and Ted, staring out)
Wass: You hearin' that? There's a new one, y'hear it?
(Sigur Ros Svefn-g-englar plays)
Ted: Yes sir.
(VFX 115-01 CG VENUS- O DECK)
Ted: It's Mercury.
(Camera zooms out of the observation deck and along the ship, which has not been CGd in)
Photo Stills of Deleted Scenes:
Full size: (24.3mb)
640px wide (2mb)
End of deleted scenes.
Mission Accomplished - A Look at Defying Gravity (Approx Runtime 10:00 mins)
(General Defying Gravity clips, 20 seconds)
Ron Livingston (Maddux Donner): Space-tastic!
Laura Harris (Zoe Barnes): Awesome!
Paula Garces (Paula Morales): The one word that would describe Defying Gravity.. Amazing.
Florentine Lahme (Nadia Schilling): Exciting.
Andrew Airlie (Mike Goss): Mystery.
Karen LeBlanc (Eve Weller-Shaw): The first word that pops into my head is magical.
Malik Yoba (Ted Shaw): Fantastic.
Christina Cox (Jen Crane): Fresh.
Maxim Roy (Claire Dereux): I'll say intriguing.
Eyal Podell (Evram Mintz): Mysterious.
Ty Olsson (Rollie Crane): Adrenalise! One made-up word.
Peter Howitt (Trevor Williams): Fascination.
Dylan Taylor (Steven Wassenfelder): Crazy.
Zahf Paroo (Ajay Sharma): Gift.
Jim/James Parriott (Creator/Executive Producer): The central theme of Defying Gravity is man finding himself and his place in the universe. And it's about a group of astronauts on a mission that is going to take them through the solar system. There's an intrigue element, There's sort of a funny, romantic element to it, it's a good soap. And then there's the strange mission element of it. As astronauts, the life of an astronaut, 40 years from now.
Michael Edelstein (Executive Producer): What Jim has created is a complex soap opera set in space. It's you know, and also on Earth during their training process, it's a little bit of Gray's Anatomy, it's got an overarching mystery like Lost, so it's sort of a show that has never really existed before.
Ron Livingston (Maddux Donner): There's a bit of a triangle going on between Nadia Schilling, who's the ship's pilot, she's sort of like the ace German fighter pilot, um, turned astronaut. And then there's Zoe Barnes who's sort of the girl next door type.
Laura Harris (Zoe Barnes): They have it, like an intangible connection. Connected, they don't know why, or what it's supposed to look like or.. or what, but it's happening.
Ron Livingston (Maddux Donner): Zoe's that girl that you see across the playground that you can't stop looking at. To me, it was really interesting, the idea of this guy that's supposed to be a big astronaut jock womaniser, and there's this one woman that just scares the hell out of him. Whereas Nadia is uh, sort of that fire-breathing woman that scares the hell out of most guys, y'know, and he just kinda eats her up.
Florentime Lahme (Nadia Schilling): Actually I like Nadia, she is um, sometimes very cheeky, she's not in love with Donner, she just um, wants to have sex with him, but still sees him as her property.
Ron Livingston (Maddux Donner): There's a whole world that kinda jumps off the screen, the production design on it is spectacular, just the look of everything, I think they really kinda captured it dead-on. I really bought it.
Michael Edelstein (Executive Producer): Jim and I did a lot of research with NASA, about if you were to do a manned mission through the solar system, what would you need? Steve Geigan is a brilliant production designer, he and I worked very closely together to put together the look of the ship. What we set out to do was to create a space environment that looks real, and feels real, and at the same time you know it has to be dynamic and interesting.
Paula Garces (Paula Morales): I play Paula Morales, she has her own space-classroom so it's really her job to uh, explain all the scientific facts of our exploration and our six-year mission to whoever wants to listen to her on Earth.
(Clip of Donner at MC: "Anyone mind if I change the channel?")
Paula Garces (Paula Morales): She always seems to like point the camera on everybody's faces when they least want to be on camera.
(Clip of Steven/Paula cracking the 512bit code to get to Arnel's "material")
Dylan Taylor (Steven Wassenfelder): I play Steven Wassenfelder, and uh, he's a little bit of a genius. I guess he's kinda got what you call a fat-boy mentality, he's a bit atypical for an astronaut, uh, there's maybe a question as to why he's on the ship, or how he made the cut.
Christina Cox (Jen Crane): Jen's involved with Ted during the training period and um, she ultimately ends up marrying Rollie Crane, Ty Olsson, and they go on the Antares together, believing they're going to go on this six-year msision as a married couple. That doesn't exactly work out as planned... and she's just about to spend six years in space with her ex. So there's some uh, really interesting potential for drama, to say the least.
Malik Yoba (Ted Shaw): I love the fact that I've had the opportunity to be dramatic, to be comedic, to be vulnerable, to be commanding, I love that.
Ty Olsson (Rollie Crane): We have a great cast, and really easy to go along with and we gel well together and um, we've been really lucky on this show to have great directors and to have great vision; each deal with their actors in a different way but each bring something that makes you kinda laugh, and I uh, love a work day when I can laugh at something, so that's been a really good thing about this show.
Peter Howitt (Trevor Williams): The mission in Defying Gravity is being covered obviously by the world's press as it's such a huge mission and Trevor is covering it for a major British news organisation. There's quite a lot in the story that makes you suspicious - Trevor's the man who asks those tricky questions, and to try and get to the bottom of the more nofarious things that are going on.
Maxim Roy (Claire Dereux): I play Claire Dereux, who is the uh, Flight Surgeon so she's not on Antares, she works at mission control and she's basically in charge of everybody's health aboard Antares.
Jim/James Parriott (Creator/Executive Producer): Part of the stories we tell aren't just of the training portion, but are deeper stories of what made them who they are. And they all have deeper, darker secrets.
Eyal Podell (Evram Mintz): Some of the revelations that the crew are exposed to over the course of the mission really throw them for a loop. I don't think any of us are really of sound mind to have signed up for this mission in the first place, so I think each and every one of us has their own issues that we're going to come to terms with, over the course of the mission.
Zahf Paroo (Ajay Sharma): I think probably Ajay's biggest achievement is not having his faith sway because of the things that happened to him in his life. It's hard to come to terms with your world when it seems like it's crashing down on you.
Karen LeBlanc (Eve Weller-Shaw): Eve has her own agenda, and her own mission here at Mission Control, she's a decision maker and she's in charge of crew selection. She has a mysterious edge to her.
Andrew Airlie (Mike Goss); Mike Goss is the Flight Director of the International Space Organisation mission. The astronauts are supposed to be going off and investigating these planets for scientific purposes, and they are certainly doing that, but they're doing a whole lot more that they weren't really aware they were going to be doing, and Mike is one of the masterminds of the more secret element to their mission.
Ron Livingston (Maddux Donner): Everybody on this show I think brings a team mentality to it. And I think that that applies to our crew, it applies to our writer's room, it applies to our production staff and it applies to our actors, and that's actually one of the things that I think I'm proudest of on this show, is to have been a part of that.
Jim/James Parriott (Creator/Executive Producer): I do think that when people watch this, they'll go "Jeez, yeah I haven't seen anything like that before." It's sort of its own unique animal, which is what we set out to do, I mean that's the fun of it.
Michael Edelstein (Executive Producer): I think the show is a great escape, the characters are very, very engaging and what happens is you sort of get caught up in the world, and you know, the show's a little bit addictive so hopefully that becomes a guilty pleasure for a lot of people.
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