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

Phillip and a colleague watch Kate’s outburst in horror.

Scene 58 of 205 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Damain

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Begins 44 min into a 2:06 film

The story so farBefore scene 58

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.
Scene 27
After Orlean tells them to wait until after the midterms, Oglethorpe and Kate decide to leak the evidence to the press.
Just before
Scene 55
Randall begins explaining that Kate found the comet while observing supernovas.
Scene 56
At Autopsy, a colleague asks Phillip whether Kate is his girlfriend.
Scene 57
Kate explains the comet’s impact course, but Jack and Brie joke about its danger until she angrily walks off set.
Scene 58
This scene

58INT. AUTOPSY - CONTINUOUS

Phillip and Damain stare at the tv horrified.

DAMAIN

Hey man, my brother has bipolar

disorder. If you ever need to talk

to anyone-