She explains that the family had actually gone to a different location, where a western movie was being filmed. Brubaker had seemed confused when her husband mentioned their last family vacation.
Kelloway sends helicopters after them Willis and Walker are found, while Brubaker evades capture.Ĭaulfield interviews Brubaker's "widow" after reviewing a televised conversation between the astronauts and their wives. They split up on foot to increase their chances of finding help and exposing the plot. They escape in a small jet which quickly runs out of fuel, forcing a crash-landing in the desert. After it is destroyed, they realize officials will never release them. The captive astronauts were supposed to be placed in the returned capsule before being recovered by the Navy. Upon returning to Earth, the empty spacecraft burns up during atmospheric reentry due to a faulty heat shield. As Caulfield investigates, several attempts are made on his life. Whitter suddenly vanishes, and when Caulfield goes to Whitter's apartment the next day, he discovers someone else living there and that all evidence of Whitter's recent life has been erased.
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Whitter partially shares his concerns with a TV journalist friend, Robert Caulfield. Whitter reports this to his supervisors, including Kelloway, but is told it is due to a faulty workstation. At the command center, only a few officials know about the conspiracy until an alert technician, Elliot Whitter, notices that ground control receives the crew's televised transmissions before the spacecraft telemetry arrives. The astronauts remain captive during the flight and appear to be filmed after landing on Mars, although they are actually inside of a makeshift TV studio at the base. Kelloway threatens their families to force their cooperation. Another failed space mission would result in NASA's funding being cut and private contractors losing millions in profits. He says they must help counterfeit the televised footage during the flight to and from Mars. At the base, NASA official Kelloway informs the astronauts that a faulty life-support system would have killed them in-flight. The launch proceeds on schedule, with the public unaware the spacecraft is empty. Bewildered, they are flown to an abandoned military base in the desert. Just before liftoff, the crew of Charles Brubaker, Peter Willis, and John Walker are suddenly removed from the spacecraft. There might be occasional lulls and moments too generic to overlook despite the band's rugged honesty (it ends with all four tracks of 1993's okay-ish Gidget 7"), but this is an otherwise consistent collection that offers one final, valuable look on the overlooked gems of Good Riddance's long and storied catalog.Capricorn One-the first crewed mission to Mars-is on the launch pad. I think the Ataris stole a bassline from "Remember When" for "Angry Nerd Rock", too. Of course, there's a ton of songs with the skatepunk tilt of their mid-'90s output, like the darker "Off the Wagon" (another 1996 split 7", this one with Ill Repute), the R.K.L.-tinted "Tragic Kingdom" (an unreleased demo from 1993) and the grit and Fat Wreck-ish guitars of "Always" (2001's Live Fat, Die Young). Rankin pretty much regards "What We Have" as a throwaway in the insightful liner notes (bonus), but in the context of this comp, it feels fresh. The excellent, straightforward hardcore approach to "What We Have" (1997 split 7" with Ensign) picks things up perfectly after the relatively forgettable, lower-fi "Free" (1995's Decoy 7"). It's a spate of early versatility on the disc sets the tone for Capricorn One: It contrasts nicely, but flows well regardless, like the Kid Dynamite shadowing of the fun and punctual "Overcoming Learned Behavior" (1999's Short Music for Short People) to the more frustration-laced, interesting major/minor key changes of the raw "Flawed" (1996 split 7" with Reliance). That means the mildly poppier slant of opener "Stand" (from 1997's Physical Fatness comp) gives way to the harder, crunchier brute of "Class War 2000", pulled from a 1996 split 7" with Ignite. All the tracks are sequenced probably however the band saw fit. Unlike most compilations you might come across, there's no chronological order here. Capricorn One: Singles & Rarities came three years after melodic hardcore/punk vets Good Riddance called it a day, and that ensures that their discography was combed well enough for this enjoyable and solid 21-track collection that spans both their social/political themes and frontman Russ Rankin's torch songs. It's great to see a B-sides collection released after a band breaks up so nothing is missed.
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