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So what happened on the Lima Project??

posted 5 years ago by [deleted]
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Did the crew pull a mutiny or did McBride go mad?

[–] abigolcwock (517) 5 years ago

Been a while since I've seen it now, but wasn't it made pretty clear that Tommy Lee Jones' character killed them by draining the oxygen out of their part of the space station?

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

The why wasn't clear.

[–] abigolcwock (517) 5 years ago

oh, sorry, misunderstood your question. I don't think it was clearly stated, but heavily implied. But then again, it's been a while

[–] sirmartini (12) 5 years ago

they wanted to abort the mission and return to earth (without having found aliens)

[–] VanZan (904) 5 years ago

When they reached Neptune some of the crew couldn't handle the psychological effects of being so far from home. They wanted to go back and mutinied. Tommy Lee Jones was determined to complete his mission to find extra terrestrial life so he killed the mutineers by shutting off their life support.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

thanks