Don't Look Up · written by Adam McKay · 2021

Randall, Kate, and Yule shop for groceries before the BASH launch.

Scene 168 of 205 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act three

Randall
Kate
Yule

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Begins 1:52 into a 2:06 film

The story so farBefore scene 168

After PhD candidate Kate Dibiasky discovers a comet on a direct collision course with Earth, she and Professor Randall Mindy try to persuade a politically distracted President, a media-saturated public, and a powerful technology company to stop it before impact.

Scenes 1–7
Kate and Randall work within the familiar routine of astronomy and university research.
Scenes 8–26
They discover the impact deadline and need the government and public to respond, but Orlean refuses immediate action.
Scenes 27–60
Kate and Oglethorpe take the warning outside official channels, entering the press and television world to reach the public.
Scenes 61–72
The scientists navigate conspiracy claims, arrest, and political reversal as Orlean finally announces a deflection mission.
Scenes 73–122
Their warning appears to win official action and a national launch, though Randall’s celebrity role and BASH’s access undermine the effort.
Scenes 123–164
The mission turns back; BASH substitutes mining for deflection, Kate is silenced, Randall’s family breaks apart, and a rival mission fails.
Just before
Scene 165
Tenant and Pawketty lead a “Don’t Look Up” rally until a supporter sees the approaching comet and the crowd turns on Jason.
Scene 166
Randall drives Kate and Yule toward Michigan as they listen to a song about longing for home; Yule asks Kate to marry him and she smiles.
Scene 167
At BASH command, Orlean asks Isherwell what the algorithm predicts about her death; he says a Bronteroc will eat her.
Scene 168
This scene

168INT. SUPERMARKET - MICHIGAN - SAME TIME

Randall, Kate and Yule are grocery shopping.

RANDALL

Look at this, Kate. They have wild

salmon. Look at the difference

between that and the farm-raised

stuff. You see how that looks

just... I don’t know. Looks fake,

right?

Hey, why don’t you go find some...

what are the little potatoes

called, the tiny ones?

KATE

Fingerling potatoes?

RANDALL

Yeah, let’s get-

YULE

I fucking love fingerling potatoes!