Coming Clean - Almost

It was time to get out of this mess. There was nothing left to do but get back to where he was before all of this started. For Nomi's sake and for Larry's and his own, he had to make a clean cut away from all the nonsense. This meant fronting up to what the Vulture actually had on him. These silly false salvage operations. These games they'd been playing had been wrong and that was all there was to it. That would mean the end of his career. He might be able to get Heshy off by taking all the blame himself, but that was it. All the college, all the technical training, all the time on their salvage missions, was over for him. He had to do it. He sat down and started to report his emergency. "Mayday, Mayday, Mayday..." , he began. "Hold it. What are you doing?" Heshy interrupted. "I'm sending out an emergency call", Jim quickly answered. "What are you going to say? How will you explain our being here?" Heshy insisted. "I'm just going to tell them the truth Heshy. It's time to own up to all the wrong decisions I've made." He was resigned to get it all out on the table. "Not so fast Jim, I'm part of this too you know." Jim dismissed this. "I'll tell them that you just did what I told you to. You had no idea what was going on." Heshy looked right at him. "That's not true Jim, and If that's what you're doing, I'm not going to let you take all the blame yourself." Jim had forgotten all that. Now he realized that it wasn't just him and it wasn't quite as simple as he thought. Something had intervened and it wasn't going to let Jim's life be totally destroyed. "Tell them we got raided and marooned here." Just then his mayday message was answered. OP16d this is the Great Beyond we received your mayday. What's going on?" A nearby ship was on their screen.