 He rejects his crew's pleas to be allowed to embrace their deaths and be reunited with their loved ones, and says that they will "go over it again and again" until he figures out an alternative explanation.In compliance with Ross's order, the men are returned to the moment where Mason first spotted the E-89's wreckage, doomed to relive the past several hours of investigation over and over.The model of the hovering spaceship is that of a "C-57D Cruiser", a leftover prop from MGM's 1956 film "Forbidden Planet".