Max Patel ( Dileep Rao), two members of the Avatar Program. And, while it's his job to keep his people alive, he says he will not succeed in this task - "not with all of you." If they wish to survive, he continues, they will have to follow "Pandora rules." Jake goes to a science lab where he meets biologist Norm Spellman ( Joel David Moore) and Dr. Quaritch, sporting a heavy set of scars on the side of his head, says they are "hard to kill" and practically everything "out there" will try to kill you. He reminds them they're "not in Kansas any more," and he tells them about Pandora's indigenous population, the Na'vi. Jake goes immediately to a military briefing where Colonel Miles Quaritch ( Stephen Lang) is addressing the assembled soldiers and a few civilians who have come along. He acknowledges through voice-over that he lost the use of his legs during one of his tours of duty on Earth, and while a spinal injury like his can be fixed it "takes money," which is tough to come by in the present economy. While the other passengers disembark and take their first steps onto the base, called "Hell's Gate," which is surrounded by a huge perimeter fence, Jake follows them in his wheelchair, earning the moniker "Meals on Wheels" from a few haughty Marines. The passengers are all instructed to wear a full-face breathing mask since the atmosphere of the planet will not support human life 20 seconds of exposure to the poisonous atmosphere of the planet causes unconsciousness, with death occurring about four minutes later. We catch views of the base and its construction and immense mining machines digging up the soil in a large quarry as Jake ponders his new role. Now being transported from the spaceship to Pandora via a shuttle, Jake is one of many soldiers and civilian personnel about to touch down on Pandora, some 4.3 light years from Earth. Acknowledging the notions of "being free" and having a "fresh start," Jake agrees to the deal as his brother's body is cremated. Because Jake and his brother are an exact genetic match, he was presented with a unique opportunity: take over his brother's contract with a corporate-military entity and travel light years away to an outpost on the previously glimpsed world, Pandora. Jake tells us that he has a deceased twin brother - Tom, a scientist - who was to be part of a high-level program overseen by corporate and military strategists to study the environment and inhabitants of Pandora. He opens his locker, which is marked SULLY T. Drifting out of his sleeping pod in zero G he's tended by the ship's staff. He is one of a large number of passengers, all waking up after almost six years of cryosleep en route to Pandora. ![]() He wakes up in a giant spaceship on its way to Pandora, a thickly-forested Earth-like moon orbiting Polyphemus, a giant blue planet similar to Jupiter. Intercut is a sequence of images of Jake Sully ( Sam Worthington), a crippled war veteran and former Marine. The story opens with a sweeping shot high across the treeline of a lush, green rainforest.
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