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Episode: WAKE UP: A Slingshot Story - Episode 3: Crash Landing

Author: Los Angeles Times | Wondery
Duration: 00:15:06

Episode Shownotes

When his investigation leads him to a mysterious survivor from a previous Odyssey Project mission, Ezra learns the shocking truth about his own future, and sets out to make sure that no one else suffers the same fate. But however flawed, the Project is essential to the survival of life

on Earth, and its operatives are determined to protect it at all costs. WAKE UP: A Slingshot Story is a branded podcast from LA Times Studios and paid for by Bleecker Street and Bluestone Entertainment in support of the film SLINGSHOT only in theaters August 30th.

Summary

In Episode 3: Crash Landing of "WAKE UP: A Slingshot Story," hosted by the LA Times, Ezra's investigation into the Odyssey Project intensifies as he meets Bennett Shire, a survivor from a previous mission. They discuss the severe psychological consequences of the hibernation drugs used in their training, revealing issues like psychosis and suicidal thoughts. As Ezra questions the ethics and risks of the project amidst tensions with his team, the stakes for humanity's survival on Titan become increasingly dire, raising essential questions about accountability and mental health in high-pressure environments.

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00:00:00 Speaker_06
Previously on Wake Up, a slingshot story.

00:00:03 Speaker_03
And you had a third on the lander, right? Shire. He lost it washed out before we got off Mars.

00:00:08 Speaker_02
Ezra, I'm trying to help you, but you have to let me. I'm going to recommend we keep you here under observation for 24 hours. Centrifuge activated.

00:00:18 Speaker_01
Emergency shutdown now! I'm inside the centrifuge! I am unsecured! You're gonna take me, and you're gonna tell me everything.

00:00:30 Speaker_05
or I'm gonna kill you, Doc. This is Wake Up, a Slingshot Story, a three-part podcast event from L.A. Times Studios, paid for by Bleecker Street and Bluestone Entertainment, in support of the film Slingshot, only in theaters August 30th.

00:00:53 Speaker_02
Where... Isra? Where are... Let me go.

00:01:01 Speaker_01
Can't do that, Doc.

00:01:02 Speaker_02
Let me out! No!

00:01:04 Speaker_01
Doc, what are you doing? Don't open the door! I told you not to open the door.

00:01:26 Speaker_02
Who was that? Phoebe. How you feeling, Doc? Sorry I had to hit you. Again.

00:01:30 Speaker_03
First time getting punched in the face. I don't know what you think's going on, or what this...

00:01:48 Speaker_02
This could possibly do about it, but you need to stop this car, cut me free, and we need to get you help. Well, that's where we're going, to get help. From who? Bennett Shire? Ezra, I told you, he can't help you.

00:02:04 Speaker_01
I think you're doctoring our records to make it look like we have issues in case we go sideways, like Jin did. And my question is, why are you assuming we will? Is it the drugs? Some variable you can't control?

00:02:18 Speaker_02
You don't know a goddamn thing. You clearly don't understand what we're doing. The stakes, if we fail, it's Apollo. Oppenheimer. Urgent science does not allow for perfection. You get as close as you can and live with the difference.

00:02:37 Speaker_01
I guess that makes us the difference. Sit back, Doc. We've got a ways to go. It's time to wake up. Do us both a favor and don't try to run, Doc.

00:03:11 Speaker_02
We're in the middle of nowhere.

00:03:14 Speaker_01
Where am I running to, Ezra?

00:03:16 Speaker_04
What are you doing here?

00:03:17 Speaker_01
Uh, Mr. Shire, my name is Ezra Keaton. I'm part of the Odyssey Project and training for a mission to Titan.

00:03:23 Speaker_04
That doesn't mean shit. How did you find me?

00:03:25 Speaker_01
Doc kept tabs on you.

00:03:28 Speaker_02
Hello, Ben. I wasn't going to come for you. I just needed to know where you were in case something- Come on, hey! Next one takes your legs.

00:03:39 Speaker_01
Believe me, I can appreciate wanting to shoot the Doc, truly, but you got us all wrong here. This was my idea. I just want to talk. You don't like him either.

00:03:48 Speaker_04
No, I don't. He kidnapped me. If that helps. What do you want? Go on and sit. I can see why you like it out here, Mr. Shire. It's peaceful. It's just Ben. And you don't know the first damn thing about me.

00:04:08 Speaker_01
Yeah, well, the project is seen to that. They erased you from their records, so... I was hoping you could help by telling me about Mars. About Leslie Foster. What really happened.

00:04:21 Speaker_04
You're taking the drug already, aren't you?

00:04:24 Speaker_01
For hibernation? We are.

00:04:25 Speaker_04
Conditioning ourselves for the trip. I never knew if that's what caused Foster to snap. Or me, I guess. But after we started using it, there was a darkness in me that wasn't there before. I hear things. I think about hurting people. Myself.

00:04:47 Speaker_04
You were traumatized. I told him that he didn't want to hear. I started to think they might... I didn't feel safe, so I came out here. I don't trust them, and I don't trust myself. If I do something, if something happens out here, it just happens to me.

00:05:09 Speaker_01
Ben, do you mind if I make a recording of what you're saying?

00:05:12 Speaker_04
Go on if you want.

00:05:16 Speaker_01
What happened to Leslie Foster?

00:05:23 Speaker_04
Storm. Blown up. Foster was... She... Hawks. You have eyes?

00:05:35 Speaker_03
Negative. Shire, what are we doing out here? Captain Foster. You copy? Captain Foster? Where are you? Can't even see the goddamn safety line. We can't stay out. We're gonna get lost in this shit, too. We have to find the captain. She's fucking crazy, Shire.

00:05:52 Speaker_03
If she wants to run off in the middle of the dust storm on Mars, what are we supposed to do about it? Let her go. I'm not going back without her. I'm not doing this. I'll get on the scoping side. Maybe you can spot her.

00:06:03 Speaker_03
Oh, so we have to... Captain, I see her. I've got her. Captain Foster! Captain, we have to get inside. Captain. Wait. What are you doing?

00:06:20 Speaker_04
Captain?

00:06:21 Speaker_03
Shire? What is it? Captain Foster! She's trying to take off her helmet. The fuck? Foster, stop!

00:06:36 Speaker_04
I remember dragging Foster to the Lander, trying to get her helmet on at the same time, but she was gone. And they lied about it. Him, Hawks, all of them.

00:06:52 Speaker_02
You're both delusional. He's insane, and you're listening to him.

00:06:56 Speaker_04
That man is a destroyer. He needs to be stopped.

00:07:14 Speaker_02
Ezra, it's Phoebe. Again. She's worried about you. I understand why you feel the need to do something, but you... You and I both know you're confused. You're hurting. Because of what happened to Jin. Let me help you. Put the tire iron down.

00:07:46 Speaker_02
What did you do to Shire?

00:07:48 Speaker_01
Nothing. Stop lying! What about Jen? Foster? Me? I told you you were going to tell me everything or I was going to kill you, Doc. So?

00:07:57 Speaker_02
So, are you here on the side of the road? What would it prove, Ezra? What could it possibly solve? Fuck! Stop, please. Last chance. It doesn't work. The hibernation drug. Not perfectly. in a certain person, and I don't know why.

00:08:21 Speaker_02
It causes psychosis, suicidal ideation. I think it may have something to do with the slingshot, the extreme physical trauma of the maneuver causing inflammation, increasing the production of free radicals that can damage DNA.

00:08:36 Speaker_02
But that, it's only a theory.

00:08:40 Speaker_01
So this is everyone? It happens to everyone who trains for Titan? No, not

00:08:45 Speaker_02
Yet at least. Which just makes it harder to understand. We have to reach Titan, Ezra. Go beyond. This is about saving our species. Humanity can't wait on perfection.

00:09:01 Speaker_01
So, if we die?

00:09:04 Speaker_02
Then it's for the greater good.

00:09:06 Speaker_01
Is there a way to stop it? If I withdraw from the project? Stop taking the drugs?

00:09:14 Speaker_02
You saw Shire. He's been out for years. It... it doesn't work that way.

00:09:21 Speaker_01
Just... get in the car, Doc.

00:09:36 Speaker_02
Go on in, Doc.

00:09:37 Speaker_07
Ezra? Is that you?

00:09:40 Speaker_02
What are you going to tell him?

00:09:43 Speaker_07
Hey, I've been trying to call you. I'm really sorry about before. I thought we... Oh, Dr. Sard, hi. Are you okay? Where have you been?

00:09:56 Speaker_01
What have we said, Phoebe? You too, Doc. You want a beer? God, yes.

00:10:05 Speaker_07
What's going on? What is that?

00:10:10 Speaker_01
Press play.

00:10:14 Speaker_02
Not perfectly. In a certain person, and I don't know why, it causes psychosis. Suicidal ideation, I mean. Urgent science does not allow for perfection. You get as close as you can and live with the difference.

00:10:32 Speaker_04
I remember dragging Foster to the lander, trying to get her helmet on at the same time. But she was gone. And they... Lied about it. Him. Hawks.

00:10:49 Speaker_01
Sard's changing our medical records to make it look like we're already sick in case we have a reaction to the hibernation drug. And then he can say we were depressed or unstable when we snap.

00:10:58 Speaker_01
Jyn unbuckled that harness, but those drugs made her do it, Phoebe. I'm going to the press. I need your help. You said Titan can't wait, Doc. I get why. And I know there are no guarantees in this job, but it is not just up to you if we live or die.

00:11:14 Speaker_01
People deserve to know so they can decide for themselves.

00:11:20 Speaker_07
Recordings deleted.

00:11:22 Speaker_01
Phoebe, what did you just do? What did you just do? What did you do?

00:11:28 Speaker_07
What I had to. We can't leave anything to chance. His whole fucking method is chance. That's not how we see it.

00:11:39 Speaker_04
Who the fuck is we, Phoebe? The Project Ezra. No, no, no!

00:11:49 Speaker_01
Phoebe, what are you doing with a gun?

00:11:51 Speaker_06
Ezra, I don't want to shoot you.

00:11:52 Speaker_04
Domestic disturbance detected.

00:12:01 Speaker_03
I'm contacting authorities.

00:12:40 Speaker_04
Suspect down we need an ambulance.

00:12:43 Speaker_07
He's gone We are all obviously very upset as some of you I think know Ezra and I are We'd been in a I'm sorry.

00:13:03 Speaker_03
It's all right. Look, what happened with Ezra was a tragedy. But we have a mission, and we're not going to be deterred.

00:13:12 Speaker_02
It's stressful. It's more stressful than I think anyone who isn't part of these crews could ever understand. I just wish I could have helped him.

00:13:23 Speaker_03
All we can do is remember and move forward. I hate those fucking dog and pony shows. Let's just get back to work.

00:13:36 Speaker_06
If you hadn't turned on the goddamn centrifuge when Ezra was inside, none of this would have happened.

00:13:41 Speaker_03
You don't know shit. I was just trying to solve the problem.

00:13:45 Speaker_06
That's not your job. It's mine.

00:13:48 Speaker_02
She doesn't need your help, Paul. We all need to be on our best behavior.

00:13:57 Speaker_00
Paul, Carrie, John, you are emerging from deep hibernation inside the Odyssey Project simulation facility. Please be careful. The drugs used to induce hibernation can cause mild side effects, including confusion, nausea, dizziness, and disorientation.

00:14:16 Speaker_00
Paul, can you hear me?

00:14:18 Speaker_02
It's October 21st. You've been in torpor for two weeks. Carrie, follow the light.

00:14:25 Speaker_06
Does this ever get any easier?

00:14:28 Speaker_03
You have no idea, kid. Wake up. Is anyone hearing that? What? Ezra? You don't hear that? Wake up, Cap.

00:14:50 Speaker_05
This has been Wake Up, a slingshot story from L.A. Times Studios Paid for by Bleecker Street and Bluestone Entertainment, in support of the film Slingshot. Only in theaters August 30th.