B Brand
I told you to leave me.
Cooper
And I told you to get your ass back here! Difference is, only one of us was thinking about the mission—
B Brand
Cooper, you were thinking about getting home — I was trying to do the right thing!
Cooper
Tell that to Doyle. [pause] How long to drain, CASE?
CASE
Forty-five to an hour.
Cooper
The stuff of life, huh? What's this gonna cost us, Brand?
Cooper
What happened to Miller?
B Brand
Judging by the wreckage, she was broken up by a wave shortly after impact.
Cooper
How could the wreckage still be together after all these years?
B Brand
Because of the time slippage. On this planet's time, she landed here just hours ago. She might have died only minutes ago.
CASE
The data Doyle collected was just the initial status, echoing endlessly.
Cooper
We're not prepared for this, Brand. You're a bunch of eggheads without the survival skills of a boy-scout troop.
B Brand
We got this far on our brains, farther than any humans in history...
Cooper
No, not far enough. And we're stuck here till there won't be anyone left on Earth to save—
B Brand
I'm counting every second, same as you, Cooper.
Cooper
Don't you have some clever way we jump into a black hole and get back the years? [Brand shakes her head] Don't you shake your head at me!
B Brand
Time is relative, it can stretch and squeeze, but it can't run backwards. The only thing that can move across dimensions like time is gravity.
Cooper
The beings that led us here ... they communicate through gravity ... Could they be talking to us from the future?
Cooper
Well, if they can—
B Brand
Look, Cooper, they're creatures of at least five dimensions, to them the past might be a canyon they can climb into and the future a mountain they can climb up... but to us it's not, okay? I'm sorry, Cooper. I screwed up. But you know about relativity.
Cooper
My daughter was ten. I couldn't explain Einstein's theories before I left.
B Brand
Could you tell her you were going to save the world?
Cooper
No. I wasn't much of a parent, but I understood the most important thing — let your kids feel safe. Which rules out telling ten-year-old that the world's ending.
Cooper
It is hard leaving everything... my kids, your father...
B Brand
We're gonna be spending a lot of time together.
Cooper
We should learn to talk.
B Brand
And when not to? … Just being honest.
Cooper
I don't think you need to be that honest. Hey TARS, what’s your honesty Parameter?
TARS
Ninety percent.
Cooper
Ninety percent?
TARS
Absolute honesty isn’t always the most diplomatic, nor the safest form of communication with emotional beings.
Cooper
Okay. Ninety percent it is, Dr. Brand.
Cooper
We no longer have the fuel to visit both prospects, so, we have to choose.
R Romilly
But how? They’re both promising. Edmunds’ data is better, but Dr. Mann is the one still transmitting, so…
B Brand
We’ve no reason to suspect Endmunds’s data would have soured. His world has key elements to sustain human life.
Cooper
As does Dr. Mann’s.
B Brand
Cooper, this is my field. And I really believe Edmunds’ is the better prospect.
Cooper
Why?
B Brand
Gargantua, that’s why. Look at Miller’s planet. Hydrocarbons, organics, yes, but no life. Sterile. We’ll find the same thing on Mann’s.
R Romilly
Because of the black hole?
B Brand
Murphy’s Law. Whatever can happen will happen. Accident is the first building block of evolution. But when you’re orbiting a black hole not enough can happen. It sucks in asteroids and comets, other events which would otherwise reach you. We need to go further afield.
Cooper
You once said that Dr. Mann was the best of us.
B Brand
He’s remarkable, we’re only here because of him.
Cooper
And yet here he is. He’s on the ground, and he’s sending a very unambiguous message, telling us to come to his planet.
B Brand
Granted, but Edmunds’ data is more promising.
R Romilly
We should vote.
Cooper
Well, if we vote, there’s something you should know. Brand? He has a right to know.
B Brand
That has nothing to do with it.
Cooper
She’s in love with Wolf Edmunds.
B Brand
Yes. And that makes me want to follow my heart. But maybe we’ve spent too long trying to figure all this out with theory.
Cooper
You’re a scientist, Brand.
B Brand
So listen to me when I say that love isn’t something we invented. It’s observable, powerful. It has to mean something.
Cooper
Love has meaning, yes. Social utility, social bonding, child rearing…
B Brand
We love people who have died. Where’s the social utility in that?
Cooper
None
B Brand
Maybe it means something more, something we can’t yet understand. May it’s some evidence, something artifact of a higher dimension that we can’t consciously perceive. I’m drawn across the universe to someone I haven’t seen in a decade, who I know is probably dead. Love is the one thing that we’re capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space. Maybe we should trust that, even if we can’t understand it yet. [Stays quiet.] All right, Cooper, yes, the tiniest possibility of seeing Wolf again excites me. That doesn’t mean I’m wrong.
Cooper
Honestly, Amelia, it might. [Brand leaves] TARS, chart a course for Dr. Mann’s.
Cooper
You don't believe we went to the Moon?
H Ms. Hanley
I believe it was a brilliant piece of propaganda, that the Soviets bankrupted themselves pouring resources into rockets and other useless machines...
Cooper
Useless machines?
H Ms. Hanley
..and if we don't want to repeat of the excess and wastefulness of the 20th Century then we need to teach our kids about this planet, not tales of leaving it.
Cooper
You know, one of those useless machines they used to make was called an MRI, and if we had one of those left the doctors would have been able to find the cyst in my wife's brain, before she died instead of afterwards, and then she would've been the one sitting here, listening to this instead of me. Which would've been a good thing because she was always the ... calmer one.
Cooper
You're ruling out college for my son now? He's 15.
P Principal
Tom's score simply isn't high enough.
Cooper
What's your waist line? What 32, 33 inseam?
P Principal
I'm not sure I see what you're getting at.
Cooper
You're telling me it takes two numbers to measure your own ass but only one to measure my son's future?
D Doyle
The lost communications came through.
D Doyle
The relay on this side cached them. Years of basic data, no real surprises. Miller's site has kept pinging thumbs up, as has Mann... but Edmunds went down three years ago.
B Brand
Transmitter failure?
D Doyle
Maybe. He was sending thumbs up right till it went dark.
R Romilly
Miller still looks good? [Doyle nods, and Romilly begins drawing on a whiteboard] She's coming up fast ... with one complication: the planet is much closer to Gargantua than we thought.
Cooper
Gargantua?
D Doyle
A very large black hole. Miller's and Dr. Mann's planets orbit it.
B Brand
And Miller's is right on the horizon?
R Romilly
A basketball on the hoop. Landing there takes us dangerously close. A black hole that big has a huge gravitational pull.
Cooper
Look, I can swing around that neutron star and decelerate—
B Brand
It's not that, it's time. That gravity will slow our clock compared to Earth. Drastically.
Cooper
How bad?
R Romilly
Every hour we spend down there will be maybe... seven years back on Earth.
Cooper
Jesus...
R Romilly
That's relativity, folks.
PB Prof. Brand
We must confront the reality that nothing in our solar system can help us.
Cooper
Now you need to tell me what your plan is to save the world.
PB Prof. Brand
We're not meant to save the world. We're meant to leave it, and this is the mission you were trained for.
Cooper
I've got kids, Professor.
PB Prof. Brand
Then get out there and save them. We must reach far beyond our own lifespans. We must think not as individuals but as a species. We must confront the reality of interstellar travel.
TARS
[As Cooper suddenly accelerates towards an out-of-control Endurance]
Cooper, there's no point in using our fuel to chase-
Cooper
Analyze the Endurance's spin.
B Brand
Cooper, what are you doing?!
Cooper
Docking.
