![]() The contact starts explaining that the mission's telemetry is completely wrong, but when Caulfield gets distracted, his contact has vanished. Cue the Billiard Shot: A rack is broken to open the scene where Intrepid Reporter Caulfield meets his contact in a bar.Crying Wolf: Robert Caulfield, as a journalist, has lied so often, his editor/boss doesn't believe him, and is scornful, when he has a real scoop.Crooked Contractor: What sets off the whole mess is the contractors that built the ship were so cheap that it's basically a death trap.Conspiracy Thriller: Though it's also partly a Deconstructive Parody / Stealth Parody of theories about the supposed Apollo Moon landing hoax.More literally, their capsule burns up in the atmosphere. Coming in Hot: The escaped astronauts belly-land a hijacked business jet.Turns out to be those Black Helicopters, though. One of the astronauts being hunted by government agents in the desert, delirious from heat and thirst, thinks he sees "birds" circling above him - and in the camera shot depicting his blurred vision, it does look like vultures circling. Black Site: The compound where the astronauts have been sequestered to.They fly and maneuver in a way that makes them seem alive and predatorial (pointing and looking with their "noses") and at one point a delirious astronaut sees them as Circling Vultures. You don't actually see much of the search other than the helicopters so they end up being an abstract representation of the conspiracy. OK, they're actually olive drab, but still, they're used to highly ominous effect when the astronaut crew are trying to escape through the desert. Black Helicopter: A matched set of Army Loaches (LOH-6 Cayuses).The novelization confirms that the recaptured astronauts were killed.Of the three astronauts on the run, it's the black dude who gets recaptured first (although the audience may rightly assume that they subsequently killed him - he was supposed to have died during "re-entry", after all). which is the very same tale the man then says when he speaks about the protagonist's mother committing suicide. The joke's protagonist tells the friend that it would have been better to tell a tale about how the cat went up on the rooftop and died a comedic death. ![]() Willis, running through the desert to avoid getting killed by a Government Conspiracy, improvises a joke to cheer himself up about a man who encounters a friend after a long time of not seeing and the friend telling the joke's protagonist that his pet cat died horribly. James Kelloway, the NASA official who's the main orchestrator of the Mars landing hoax and is determined to dispose of anything and anyone who poses a threat to exposing it.
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