The story so farBefore scene 18
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.
- Scene 8
Independent calculations agree the comet will hit Earth in six months and fourteen days.
- Just before
- Scene 15
President Orlean walks past the waiting scientists to handle a political problem with her son Jason.
- Scene 16
While they wait, Kate and Oglethorpe follow celebrity news; Randall shares a Xanax with Kate.
- Scene 17
The group waits until night, then learns the President will not meet them and is sent to a hotel.
- Scene 18
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