NASA TRANSMISSION SERVER CLASSIFICATION: Cooper, Murphy - Video_msg_1 - to ENDURANCE

SYSTEM SETTINGS: 100% Honesty, 0% Humour

[ COOPER strides carefully into the room. Her footsteps are heavy, indicating a touch of anger. She begins filming almost two minutes after occupying the chair in front of the camera. Evidently, pressing record was a struggle for COOPER. ]

Hello, Dad. I, um, haven't made one of these yet. I regret that I didn't start before you... Before you went dark, but that's a choice I'll have to live with.

[ COOPER's speech is extremely formal for normal human interaction, indicating a great discomfort. Her eyes begin to well up with tears, but she quickly blinks them back. ]

Tom says that I should let you go.

[ COOPER states this after a long pause, seemingly after rigorous mental processes occurred, because there was absolutely no buildup to this thought; it appeared to come out of nowhere. This message, so far, has not been easy for COOPER to record. ]

Apparently that's what Tom's wife said to him as well. Sometimes I wonder if it's Tom I'm talking to, or his wife. What his wife says is true and what he says is true just becomes jumbled up into one big, turbulent, and indecipherable mess. I feel as if the two of them share a hive-mind; it seems like they don't have a thought different than each other.

[ She takes a pause, most likely (98% probability) thinking on what to say next. ]

He– or should I say they –said I should give up hope. On you, on the mission, on Professor Brand. He's probably right. In all likelihood, this video will be shot out, through space, to nothing, and that you are dead or Professor Brand is a lunatic whose brain has turned to mush and cannot possibly be close to solving the gravitational anomaly equation. According to probability, these things are probably all true.

[ She stops for her routine pause. COOPER seems to have a desire to use words sparingly, but accurately and eloquently when they are. COOPER has logged into her digital journal on multiple accounts before that she, "enjoys speech correctly, for it gives [her] a sense of security, knowing that [she] appears intelligent and grounded in the world. It masks the multiple insecurities [she] possesses."

But, for some incredible reason, I haven't given up hope. I still think you're alive, Dad. In the words of Grandpa, you're too damn stubborn to just go off and die. You made me a promise that you'd come home, and you never break promises.

[ COOPER's voice cracks, and her eyes begin to fill up with tears again. This time, she wipes them away with her hands instead of blinking them back. ]

But guess what, Dad? It's my birthday today. And it's a very special day today because I am the same age you are when you left. And... And it-it would be a really nice present if you came home now.

[ END OF MESSAGE ]