No definitive traces of human life are found these inconclusive sensor readings lead Captain Miller, Engineer Justin ( Jack Noseworthy) and Medical Tech Peters ( Kathleen Quinlan) to board the Horizon in space suits to search for survivors. Sensors indicate the artificial gravity is off-line, as well as the climate system. After a short fly-over, the Lewis and Clark docks with the Horizon. Starck ( Joely Richardson) tries to contact the ship, but there is no response. Upon approaching the drifting vessel, X.O. ( Jason Isaacs) identifies it as a Latin phrase, "liberate me" ("save me"). A human voice that was embedded in the transmission was filtered from the recording.
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Weir plays for the crew the only audio transmission received since the ship's reappearance: a series of garbled and intensely disturbing screams and shouts. When asked where the ship has been those seven years, Weir answers that they are here to find out. The ship had been on its initial test flight, intended to reach Proxima Centauri, but subsequently vanished without a trace, and a cover story of the reactor going critical and blowing up the ship was fed to the public. The drive creates an artificial black hole that bridges two very distant points in space, allowing the ship to make the trip instantaneously it significantly reduces journey time and creates the illusion of faster-than-light travel. After several incredulous reactions from the crew, who still believe that the ship was destroyed, Weir explains that the Event Horizon was actually built by the government to test a secret, experimental, faster-than-light gravity drive. Weir informs them that their mission is to salvage the Event Horizon, which has reappeared in a decaying orbit around Neptune, more than three billion kilometers from the nearest outpost on Saturn's moon Titan. After a short recovery and a meal, the crew is anxious to learn on what secret mission they have been dispatched in such a hurry. Screaming, he suddenly wakes up back in his stasis tank, as the Lewis and Clark is nearing its target apparently, he just had a vivid nightmare, and is released from the tank. While making his way to the bridge, he finds his late wife Claire ( Holley Chant) sitting naked at the helm when she turns around, her eyes are missing from their sockets. He walks around the ship, learning that he is the only one awake. Weir suddenly wakes up, and is released from his tank. The crew is put into stasis (which means being put in an induced sleep in a water tank) due to the immense G-forces released during the flight to Neptune. Aboard the ship, Weir tries to introduce himself to the captain and crew, but there is very little time to socialize, as most team members were hastily pulled from shore leave for this mission.
Miller ( Laurence Fishburne), is dispatched on a secret mission, with Dr.
The rescue ship Lewis and Clark, commanded by Capt. William Weir ( Sam Neill), who is living on a space station orbiting Earth and is tormented by the memory of his dead wife, receives a call that he has to report to the station's dock. In the year 2040, the starship Event Horizon was sent on a secret mission, but it disappeared without a trace beyond the planet Neptune at the outer rim of the solar system her loss was considered the worst space disaster on record, with her entire 18-person crew missing and presumed dead. In the near future, humanity has successfully colonized the Moon and several planets in the solar system, and is venturing deeper into space.The synopsis below may give away important plot points.