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

A captain directs Kate and Randall onto the only available flight to Washington.

Scene 9 of 205 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Captain
Randall

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Begins 8 min into a 2:06 film

The story so farBefore scene 9

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.
Just before
Scene 6
Oglethorpe answers Calder’s call as he walks into his Washington office building.
Scene 7
Calder studies printouts and tells Oglethorpe NASA has sighted a near-Earth object.
Scene 8
Kate, Randall, Calder, and Oglethorpe confirm a direct Earth impact in six months and fourteen days; Calder orders the team to Washington.
Scene 9
This scene

9EXT. HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE-HONOLULU-30 MINUTES LATER-NIGHT

Kate and Randall, each holding a mini suit case stand on the tarmac of a full on active air force base.

A CAPTAIN comes over to them yelling above the jets.

CAPTAIN

Word is I need you both in DC fast!

Only plane we got going there is

that one!

We see a C-5 Galaxy transport plane. The nose cone of the plane (the visor) is up as a line of trucks are being offloaded. The massive rear cargo bay doors are open.

RANDALL

Okay. I’m Dr. Mindy and this is-

CAPTAIN

Go! Go! Go!

He ushers them towards the massive plane.

RANDALL

Is there any customary seating--