
The film opens with a dramatic scene of helicopters and speedboats rushing to retrieve a space capsule from the ocean. Inside, they find Sam (Kate Mara) unconscious, with a damaged helmet and a hole in the capsule – a mystery, as it’s unclear how anything survived the fiery re-entry. The next day, Sam wakes up in a hospital, feeling slightly disoriented and with a bruise on her arm, but generally okay. She’s happily reunited with her father, General William Harris (Laurence Fishburne), her young daughter Izzy (Scarlett Holmes), and her husband Mark (Gabriel Luna), from whom she’s been separated.