danger now.
Listen, Dave, I will sent you
to the Plateau with one term ...
Are you going
to frighten me ?
Not at all, just
the area is very tough.
Almost all the area is mined
by the ground charges.
There's some zones which
are impassable at all.
But a prospecting is necessary.
You know, veterans are
retiring, but whom the
Earth sends to us instead?
Unskilled youngs, who itch
to get to the place with
no knowledge of this.
How many things you can do
with them in this situation, to keep
them alive till next flying to vacations.
That's what I like in you.
Well, from our graduation,
only you and me are
working right now.
Kizimov and Yonghe
are already retired.
I know, I met them in the
Moon Capital while going to here.
I am about to retire
soon too, Ivan.
So and you too...
Well, go, you can now
relax some.
When you'll come back
from The Plateau, we meet
again and talk.
- May I sit here with you ?
- Yes, please.
You don't know how to eat.
You eat passionless.
You're talking to me ?
Let's introduce ourselves.
Lyudmila Bystrova.
David Norton.
- May I ask you ?
- Yes, please.
How does your wife
treat your occupation
of space commando ?
With no delight.
If I had a power,
I'd forbid for space
commandos to get married.
Don't look at me like that.
You, extraterrestrial workers,
might have the psychic
extremely changed.
At start you consider
yourselves heroes and braves,
then you begin to
treat the words "hero",
"bravery" with bias.
These concepts start to
disappear for you.
Tell me, Norton, how much
lives every planet you were
on, have been paid.
You don't like
thinking about your
lost colleagues.
Is it so ?
There's no guarantee
that also you, not
today but tomorrow ...
You see, I'm superstitious...
You commandos make
us superstitious.
There is one. Came to me and
asked to be my friend for eternity.
And what is his eternity ?
Will he be alive today ?
So you rejected him ?
Yes, completely.
I can't... I can't see
the commandos uniform.
You're extra superstitious.
What could happen to that guy,
whom you've completely ...
Anything ...
Anything could happen.
When a man wearing your
damn uniform flies to
The Plateau of Firesnakes --
anything could happen to him.
It is Mercury, Norton.
Well I gotta go.
There was a time when I wanted
to look at your eyes, Moon Dave.
Wait, how do you
know my nickname ?
No, I want to know why ?
To look at your eyes ?
Yes.
Maybe because you're married.
Kizimov, Yonghe, Lourais.
They were single.
It was all clear with them.
They had nobody and nothing.
Except normal job.
How do you know
Kizimov, Yonghe, Lourais ?
Excuse me, forgot your name.
Lyudmila Bystrova ?
Bakulina. Married name.
Yes, Norton, I had a
husband, Mstislav Bakulin.
There, together
with you on Oberon.
Though why with you ?
You're here. And he is there.
I understand, there
was nothing to do.
But still you're here.
Mstislav !
Norton, we've reported about
your start to Jober's
group at The Plateau.
The power of proton's burst
is up to 19 points today.
Therefore, your
path is in shadow.
Roger that!
You have a terminator
in 200km to the right.
Positioning monitors will
follow you for 1000 km.
Then you will independently
pass along the Plateau,
and then while flying over the crater,
you will see the luminescence of
firesnakes straight ahead the course
Roger that!
Be careful over the Plateau,
land only on the area
of Assaulting Camp.
It is the only safe
area in there.
We've just enveloped an elevation,
taken as a reference point by us.
Play us the video overlayed on
the map for the route support.
Roger that!
Be extremely careful.
Our instruments can't
afford to register all the flashes
of the ground electricity.
It is dangerous to go ahead.
It's better to come back.
It is now unclear
what's more dangerous -
going ahead or returning back.
Guys, what happened ?
Answer! Please come
back immediately.