Tanya?
Comrade Colonel.
This was used at the exit gate yesterday afternoon.
- Was she alone? - It appears so.
The form bears Baranov's authorization stamp,
but he denies doing it.
No, he's correct.
The form is genuine, but the signature has been forged.
The Americans must be helping them.
And very likely someone inside,
someone with the necessary access to steal the form.
Within the security division?
Yes. First, we find Mironova, then we will find who's helping her.
Where have you been?
My apologies, Comrade Colonel.
- What happened? - They've gone. Fled together.
The wife, surely his accomplice.
You listened to them. Did they ever say anything about leaving the country?
No.
I doubt she was involved.
As I'm sure you're aware, the marriage was deeply troubled.
There was an alienation of affection.
Well, in my experience, small problems divide people, and big ones unite them.
How can we be sure that the wife fled with Mironov and not from him?
Because we have a recording of the wife,
insisting a guard fetch Mironov from the training center.
And very shortly after, they disappear from Star City.
She warned him?
And fled with full knowledge of her husband's treason,
which makes her guilty of treason also.
Comrade Colonel,
Operations Directorate is ready for whatever you require.
Expand the search area, Salamov, immediately.
We need to find them before they cross the border.
And get me the dossiers
on all suspected foreign operatives in Moscow from counterintelligence.
One of them might be their handler for the Americans.
And you,
I need you to list every place she might have gone.
Parents, friends, friends of friends.
We find her, we find him.
Right away, Colonel.
It's Kozlov here. Get me the Comrade Colonel.
Give me that.
This is Colonel Raskova. Proceed.
We've just been informed by a source at Baikonur
that there was an unauthorized launch, Comrade Colonel.
You better come to Ground Control.
Quite the view, eh, Valyush?
You're quiet.
What's going on?
Nothing. I'm fine.
Please. I can smell the morosity oozing out of you.
Yeah, well, I can smell your feet. You wanna trade places?
Everyone we've ever cared about,
ever known,
they're all down there.
Listen to you. Pushkin himself.
I'm glad you're here, Valyush.
There's no one I'd rather have as co-pilot.
Who says I'm co-pilot?
Star City to Venera 7,
are you reading?
We hear you, Star City.
How are my Eagles feeling
now they've broken away from their mother's gravitational bondage?
"We're free birds in truth.
It is time, Comrade, it is time."
If only the feeling would last forever.
Chief,
Valya's been hit with an odd wave of philosophical waxing.
Comrade Chadha's unfortunately been hit
with the usual kind of wave for a first-timer.
She's been sick all morning.
I'll be fine.
Maybe in a few days, you will be.
If it's any consolation,
you're faring much better than Valya's first mission.
Didn't you set the record for the most fluid volume emitted?
I'm pretty sure that was you in one of your zero-g training flights.
Comrade Chadha, I'm sorry you're feeling poorly.
Are you joking? I wouldn't trade a second of this.
I'll remind you of that when you've been up there for a few months.
Now to some business. Sergei.
Trajectory is on track for Venus.
No need for course correction. All our systems…
Chief Designer. Colonel Raskova is coming this way.
Cease transmission.
That's all for now, Venera. Over.
Chief Designer.
Comrade Colonel.
Explain yourself.
I don't need to explain myself to you.
Well, you will to the Central Committee
once they find out that you've launched an unauthorized mission.
You see, I was waiting to tell you in person after the mission was a success,
but now you're here, I'm pleased to tell you you're witnessing a piece of history.
Venera 7.
The first manned mission to Venus.
Manned?
Interesting.
You sent six Venera probes,
all of them melted in Venus's atmosphere within seconds of trying to land.
And you send humans? It's a suicide mission.
We're not going to the surface.
And the entire Central Committee ran like scared sheep
of my plan from the moon landing
until Khrushchev got excited.
- I didn't steer us wrong then, did I? - That was then.
Now, the military want a moon base,
not a nine-month journey to a far-off death trap.
Think of what the moon landing did for the Soviet Union.
This will have an even greater impact.
Who's on the crew?
Cosmonauts Sasha Polivanov,
Lakshmi Chadha,
and Valya Mironov.
- Valya Mironov. - Yes.
Out! Everybody, out!
- All of you, now! - Wait a minute.
- They can't leave their posts! - Fine!
You and you can stay.
Understand this mission is a state secret of the highest order!
- What do you think you're doing? - Anyone found talking about it will
- be arrested. Move, move, move, move. - Don't leave your posts. Any of you.
Seal the building. No one gets in without my authorization.
- You and I need to talk, now. - This is madness.
I don't believe it. It's impossible. Not Valya.
The evidence against him is incontrovertible.
- He is a traitor. - Like Yana was a traitor?
Ugh, not this again.
Yana Akhmatova confessed to a duly authorized representative of--
Spare me. We all know how you secure a confession.
You are in no position to cross examine me!
You flouted a direct order from the Kremlin,
you have wasted millions of rubles,
you have lied to me for months,
allowing an enemy agent to take control of what is not yours,
but the Soviet people's spacecraft, you arrogant, arrogant man!
When the Central Committee hear of the amazing feats
this crew will accomplish for the glory of the Soviet Union--
What? You really believe that Brezhnev is going to care about your beautiful mission
when he finds out that there is a mole on board working for the enemy?
Valya Mironov is no more of a spy than I am.
One of your Eagles, Pavel Fetisov,
beaten, tied up, hidden in the basement of building 18.
Still so sure?
Recording for Polivanov apartment.
I've written down the date.
Comrade Raskova.
Apologies for the unannounced visit.
Please have a seat.
What brings you out here to our little town in the forest?
Well, I'll be brief, as I'm sure you'll appreciate.
The Second Directorate is concerned
about the lack of progress in the hunt for Mironov.
We're dedicating all our resources into finding him.
Your resources are limited.
Always managed before.
The Second Directorate will be taking over the search.
That's not necessary.
Well, it's not up to you what is necessary or not.
Have you had any signs as to his whereabouts,
or any leads with the active foreign operatives?
No, not as of yet.
My people are downstairs.
They'll require all the information you have. Please assist them.
I can handle it.
And yet you have not.
And who cooks dinner?
Is this what you came here to talk about?
No.
- Excuse me, Comrade. - I saw him with a woman.
Who?
Valya.
Excuse me, Comrade. Comrade?
I know you.
We both grew up in Rublyovka.
You went to Lomonosov with my cousin, Zinaida Petrovskaya.
You're Radyusha?
Sorry, I shouldn't speak with such familiarity. It's just…
she would talk about you all the time.
It's just nice knowing I'm not the only one
from our neck of the woods in this wilderness.
Yes. Yes, it is.
And I'm sure I'll see you again.
I and my team will be assisting in the search for Valya Mironov and his wife.
That's just… That's wonderful news.
We'll find them, don't worry.
Anyway, keep up the good work.
Sorry to make you wait. It was necessary to make sure you weren't followed.
He told me how to reach you.
Why? Has he been arrested?
Not that I know of.
He said…
that I could trust you. That you could help me.
Get me out.
Come with me.
Going for a walk.
Two friends, side by side.
Let me through. Let me through!
Calm down, Comrade.
What are you gonna do? You can't stop me from going in.
- I demand to see the Chief Designer. - Move.
- I demand to see him. Let-- - I'm here.
Comrade Belikova.
I'm here.
Come. Come with me.
I want you to tell me where Sasha is.
And I don't want you to tell me that he's on a training mission to Siberia.
I'm sorry, Anastasia.
I've been expressly ordered not to speak of it.
I'm not a security risk.
I'm his wife.
Where did you send him?
He's on his way to Venus.
Is that even possible?
It is now, yes.
And they're safe?
They…
They're all right for now.
They…
There's a…
There's a problem.
But it's nothing to do with the craft itself.
- What kind of problem? - I will tell you more when I can.
You should've told me he was going.
You should've sent me with him.
Perhaps you're right.
I'm sorry, Anastasia. I…
I will do everything I can to get him back to you, I promise.
Four teams will divide the city.
West of the river,
east of the river,
from here north
and from there south.
And be sure to look over the dossiers of foreign operatives.
There are some promising leads in there.
We'll test the new transmitters before using them in the field.
Directorate T says that their range has greatly improved
from the last junk they sent us, so…
What?
Colonel Raskova asked me to create a list of known associates of Mironova.
Nice work.
I saw him with a woman.
I'm sorry. You think Valya is having an affair?
It felt intimate, like they knew each other well.
He's not having an affair, Tanya.
What did she look like?
She wasn't even that pretty, to be honest.
- Did she seem Russian? - What do you mean?
Like, do you think she could have been a foreigner?
I don't know what I think.
All I know is that I saw him and some woman at the concert hall.
…saw him and some woman at the concert hall.
- Please. - Do you recognize any of these people?
No, not that I can recall.
- Do any of them look familiar? - No, sorry.
- No, I don't. - Have you seen any of these women?
None?
I'm looking for someone.
Have you seen any of them here?
- Do you recognize her? - I do. I've seen her.
She comes to maybe three, four performances a month.
She doesn't seem to like the symphony much.
She often leaves at first intermission.
Thank you.
I just can't believe he'd…
Well, you do now.
He must've been forced.
- He's a patriot. - That's irrelevant.
He knows he'll be hanged for treason. He's desperate.
Who knows what he's capable of?
We need to find out what he's up to.
Anything. I mean, sabotage or--
The last time you were worried about sabotage, an innocent man died.
Because of a device Valya Mironov planted.
They're at the beginning of a nine-month journey to another planet.
What can we do?
- He needs to be isolated from the others. - Isolated and then what?
We can't keep him locked up for that long.
There's two pilots for a reason. The mission's success depends on it--
There's more than just the mission at stake.
Valya Mironov is a national security risk.
We'd have to convince the others to somehow
physically force him onto a module.
They'd never go along with it. Sasha's his best friend.
Is there a way to isolate him without their cooperation?
If we can get him onto the utility module,
we could possibly force the doors closed
by blowing the breakers from Ground Control.
But we'd still need someone on board
to reset the electrical relay to "automatic" beforehand.
Fine. Give them the orders to do that then.
He'd hear the instructions. He'd know what we were doing, he'd…
Even if the others don't.
He knows the craft too well.
Not if the instructions were in a language he didn't understand.
- She's… - It's a shock, Comrade Chadha.
But you must be proud.
Proud?
Well, your wife will be the most famous scientist in the history of your country.
The first to visit another planet.
Have you forced her into this?
Of course not. No.
I gave her the chance and she jumped on it.
The chance to prove to the world that her work will revolutionize space travel.
So she's been lying to me.
She… That's an unfortunate necessity.
Yes, because of security reasons.
Now the mission has launched, we're able to let you in on the secret.
Provided, of course, you can keep it completely confidential.
When will she be back?
In only nine months. The same as the training mission.
We are aware it's quite a long time to be away under such trying circumstances.
So, while there's still the opportunity for direct communication,
we'd like to offer you the chance to speak with your wife.
Yes. Yes, we would.
And knowing she has your support can be very important for morale
on such a long mission.
Yeah, I'll…
I'll talk to her. It's…
- It's just a lot to process. - Thank you so much.
Sorry.
PH holding at 6.8.
Oxygen at seven milligrams per liter,
and oxygen recycle rate 99.97%.
Good. Very good. Excellent.
Now, Valya, can you give me
the overall CO2 reading for the control module, please?
Reading now, Star City.
Three millimeters Hg. Optimal.
Good. That completes the BIOS system check.
Standing by for next systems check.
We'll get to that shortly.
In the meantime, Comrade Chadha has some personal business.
Sasha, Valya, if you would want to speak amongst yourselves for a bit.
- Oh, great. - I don't wanna talk to you.
Chief Designer, what is it you want to discuss? Over.
Good news, Comrade Chadha. It's regarding your husband.
Now that Venera has been launched,
we've decided to tell him about the mission.
If I hear you correct, you told Manpreet?
Yes, yes, that's correct.
He's here now.
I'm… I'm gonna put him on to you shortly.
Wait, what?
Is Anastasia there?
Regrettably, no.
Only Comrade Chadha's spouse has been notified at this time.
Hello. You can talk to her. She can hear you.
That's bullshit.
Coddling her and keeping Stasia and Tanya in the dark.
Hello.
Lakshmi? Are you there?
Manu?
Is everything okay?
Yes.
Everything is fine.
They just…
finally told me.
I wanted to tell you so badly,
but they said it was the only way to keep the launch safe.
And they needed me.
Of course.
You've worked hard for this chance.
Are the others treating you well?
They are model roommates.
I don't know if they told you, but I've had a bit of space sickness.
Don't worry. It's nothing.
I'm sorry. I hate to interrupt,
but something's come up related to the system check we just ran.
Could you ask her to reset the electrical relay on the BIOS module?
Oh, no, no, no. She… It's fine. She knows what to do.
She knows the system well. If you could just do that for me.
Please. I need to keep my eye on the panel while sh…
- Yes. Now. - Manu?
Manu. Are you still there?
Yes, yes.
I'm here, sorry.
It's just that…
the Chief Designer needs you
to do a reset of the electrical relay in the BIOS.
Oh, yeah?
Manu, the budding engineer.
Right.
Okay.
Mission accomplished.
So…
how's everything on Earth?
Lonely.
At least you have the flies to keep you company.
- Wrap it up. - Okay.
Lakshmi, I think the Chief Designer wants his seat back.
I should go.
I love you, Lakshmi.
I love you too, Manu.
- Thank you so much. - Thank you for your understanding.
No, thank you. Thank you. That was very helpful.
- Okay. - Very nice to see you.
Of course, no talking about this to anyone. You understand?
Yes, of course.
Good.
Keep him under house arrest until further notice.
Give the order for Mironov to go into the utility module.
Okay, Venera.
Last bit of business before we sign off.
System power check.
I'll do it.
No. Let Valya do it.
He joined last.
Need to keep him up to speed.
- Always his favorite. - I'll handle it.
Good. Well, you know the drill. Start at the utility module, please.
Star City, Venera. Standing by utility module panel board.
What's the status for the prime modular voltage regulators?
Star City, Venera. Copy request for primary regulator voltage readings.
Give me a sec.
What was that? Sasha…
Hey, I'm losing pressure in here. What's going on?
Sit tight. We'll get you out of there.
The valve is stuck.
Try to reset the EQ valve manually.
I'm going to go see if I can get the hatch open from our end.
Oh, shit. The override is still not working.
- Valya. Together. - Okay, okay.
One, two, three.
Back away from the hatch, both of you, straight away.
This is Colonel Raskova speaking.
- What's going on? - Valya Mironov,
you are being confined to the utility module
until you answer my questions.
Put the Chief Designer on.
I'm here, Valya.
You need to listen to Colonel Raskova.
I don't believe this. Why are you letting her do this?
Answer her questions, please.
Valya Mironov is working for the Americans.
- He has betrayed us all. - What?
He's a danger to you, he is a danger to this mission.
Are you mad?
The mission may already be compromised.
- Are you mad? - It is your duty and mine…
- Valya? - I don't know what she's talking about,
but you need to turn this radio off so you can get me out of here.
- No. This is ridiculous. - …may have secreted on the craft.
Sasha, this is bullshit. All of this.
Just get me the fuck out of here, please.
- He assaulted Cosmonaut Fetisov… - Fucking ridiculous.
…in order to steal his place on the mission.
He planted a bugging device on Luna 17 for the Americans.
He is responsible for Vetrov's death, not you, Cosmonaut Polivanov.
He allowed you to shoulder the blame in order to conceal his crimes.
No, no, no, no, no. It's not possible.
Vetrov's wife is a widow.
- His children are fatherless… - That's bullshit.
- Shut up! Sasha, turn the radio off. - …and yet Mironov's wife fled…
- Let's go. Come on. - …the day you launched.
Valya Mironov, you are a coward and a traitor, but today it ends.
- Oh, my God. This fucking bitch. - You will do no more harm.
If there is any shred of honor or decency left in you,
any sense of redemption, you will answer me truthfully now.
What is your mission for the Americans?
This is madness. Sasha, I've done nothing wrong.
- You have to believe me. - Of course I do.
- Okay, then get me out of here. - Give me a minute.
- You've planted one bugging device… - I haven't planted anything.
Where have you put one on Venera?
I've planted nothing.
For the sake of your wife, Mironov…
- Don't talk about Tanya… - …what have you agreed…
- …to do for the enemy? - …you fucking KGB bitch!
- Sasha. Get me out of here! - Answer the question now.
- Shut up! Shut up! - Answer the question now.
Just shut u--
What's going on? Why can't I hear anything?
They must've disabled the microphones. They--
All right, well, sort it out then.
- Fix it. - Yes.
It's for your hair.
Sorry, only color in stock.
I do have some good news.
I received approval for your exit plan.
When?
- It'll be a few days still. - A few days?
Be patient. There's still a lot of people looking for you.
You're watching him? That man over there.
Is he the next person whose life you're gonna ruin?
It was unfortunate what happened to the two of you,
but there was no avoiding it.
How long were you watching Valya?
It's the other way around. It's you I was watching.
What… What are you talking about?
Your group, Zeta, was my first assignment.
You were… You were watching us?
The focus was your lover, Andrei, at the start.
Andrei?
We were tracking him for years with his music smuggling operation.
Helping him out when we could, then he brought in Tretiak, Brodsky.
Eventually you.
The impact was never what we'd hoped for.
My superiors in Washington were about to pull the plug when you met Valya.
A young officer headed to Star City
where he'd have access to secrets that really mattered.
It was a stroke of luck that he fell for you.
Or maybe I was like Cupid helping love blossom.
He was… He was a patriot. He was a good man.
And you destroyed him.
No, Tanya. You did.
We told Valya we'd make sure
his brand-new wife was fingered as a dissident.
Likely sent to the gulag or worse, if he didn't help us.
Valya never told you he was betraying his country
because he was doing it all to protect you.
I disabled the microphones. We can talk freely.
I don't believe any of this, do you?
No, but I have to tell you something.
I think I might've helped them lock him in there.
What?
I think what they had Manu tell me to do somehow locked the valve shut.
- I'm so sorry. I feel so stupid. - No, no, no, no, no.
How could you possibly have known?
This is what they do.
They turn people against each other.
Now we have to stick together. All of us.
You understand?
What is it?
The Chief Designer, he said to listen to Raskova about… about Pavel. But--
No. No, no, no. No, no. Valya wouldn't hurt anyone. He…
Sasha…
do we really know that Pavel was arrested?
It was only Valya who told us.
Just give me a minute to talk to him.
Valyush.
I know you couldn't have done this.
I know.
Just tell me I'm right.
They can't hear us in Ground Control.
We've pulled the microphone fuse. Just…
Just tell me I'm right.
I'm sorry, Sasha.
No, no.
How could you?
I'm sorry. You don't understand. I didn't have a choice.
Of course you did!
They were gonna hurt Tanya.
Valya, of course you did!
I'm sorry, Sasha.
Tanya? Tanya?
Tanya, it's Irina.
Tanya, don't!
- Get off me. - Tanya! Tanya, stop.
- Just stop. - Get off me.
- Please listen to me. - No, you're one of them.
Why can't we hear anything?
- What is going on? - Yes, just a minute.
They have manually disabled the microphones, Comrade Colonel.
It will take some time to override.
- Sort it out. - Section 14-6.
Are they helping Mironov escape the module?
No, no, no, no, no. The pressure hasn't been equalized. He's still in there.
Right.
Enough is enough. This ends now.
What do you mean by that?
Depressurize the utility module.
- Sorry, am I talking to myself? - Lyudmilla, no.
- Do it now. It's an order. - My engineers are not executioners.
- I forbid it! - They're not your engineers anymore!
I will say one last time.
Depressurize Mironov's module now.
Otherwise, you're all going to prison.
What is that?
- Sasha, get me out of here. - What's going on?
Get me out of here, Sasha. Sasha, help me get out, please.
They're gonna depressurize this fucking cabin.
Sasha, get me out of here now.
Not like this.
Fuck.
The valve is overheating. And we've got to get this hatch open.
Sasha, look at this. They're sending a way to open the hatch.
What?
Venera, do it. Now.
No.
Arrest the Chief Designer.
- Arrest him. Now. - You. Move.
No.
You're a monster.
Valya.
No, no, no, no. Lakshmi, Lakshmi, hurry. They're killing him.
I'm trying to cut the power to open the hatch.
Valya. You hold on, Valya.
Colonel Raskova, we've re-established communications with Venera.
Valya, hold on. We're gonna get you out. Lakshmi's almost got it.
The circuit is overcharged. It could short the whole system.
We don't… We don't have a choice.
Come on, Valya. Just a few more seconds.
I got it.
I got it. I got it, Sasha.
Sasha.
Cosmonauts Polivanov and Chadha, stand down now.
That is an order.
You are aiding an enemy of the Soviet Union.
If you rescue Mironov,
I will have no choice but to depressurize the entire ship.
Do you understand?
Come on. Come on.
Hey. Hey.
Wake up. Valya, wake up.
Valya. Valya.
Wake up. Valya, wake up.
Depressurize the whole ship.
No, Colonel. Please, it's a mistake.
Bring them home.
I…
I… I can't. I can't.
You. Move.
Now.
Wake up. Wake up.
Hey. Hey.
Okay. Hey.
Hey. Hey. Breathe. Breathe.
Do it.
Lakshmi, take him. Take him now.
I got him. I got him.
They're decompressing the module again.
They're depressurizing the entire ship.
Sasha. We need to cut the command transceiver.
That's the only way to stop the depress.
Sasha, hurry.
Pressure dropping here as well. Are they trying to kill us?
Plug the valves. I've got the transceiver.
Use anything you can find.
Need to stop this air vent now.
Everyone, breathe slow.
I'm at the transceiver, but only Ground Control can shut it down.
Keep working on the valves.
- Break. - Valya.
It's freezing.
Sasha.
Just another minute. Another minute. I've almost got it.
Sasha, hurry up.
It's not working.
Fuck.
I'm gonna try and disconnect the whole thing.
Look out!