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

Kate identifies Oglethorpe as head of planetary defense while Randall waits on hold.

Scene 5 of 205 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Randall
Kate

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Begins 5 min into a 2:06 film

The story so farBefore scene 5

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.

Scene 1
Kate works alone beneath the open observatory roof and discovers a comet in the telescope images.
Just before
Scene 2
Randall, Kate, and the graduate students calculate the comet’s orbit; Randall sends the others away after the alarming result.
Scene 3
Dr. Jocelyn Calder walks quickly down a NASA headquarters hallway in a sharp business suit.
Scene 4
Calder takes Randall’s call, reviews the comet data, and contacts Dr. Oglethorpe.
Scene 5
This scene

5INT. SUBARU TELESCOPE - SAME TIME

RANDALL

I’m on hold... She’s calling a

Doctor Oglethorpe. Who is that?

Kate on her phone.

RANDALL (CONT'D)

Jesus Christ, who is that? I’m

gonna put them on speaker.

Hold music plays.

KATE

Dr. Oglethorpe: the head of the

Planetary Defense Coordination

Office in Washington DC.

(and then)

Is that a real place?

An image of the actual Planetary Defense Coordination Office logo appears on screen.