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00:00:46I'm awake.
00:01:05Good morning, Joe.
00:01:06You have several items on your calendar today.
00:01:09Would you like me to read them to you?
00:01:11No, I'm good.
00:01:13You have a request from Ash's assistant.
00:01:16Coffee at Old World Roasters, 9.30 a.m.
00:01:19Confirm that.
00:01:20And, uh, send a note to Maxine.
00:01:22Ask her to mine the fort till I get in.
00:01:24Reconfiguring?
00:01:26All set.
00:01:30All set.
00:01:47I've been working.
00:01:49I've been working.
00:01:51I've been working.
00:01:53Hooray.
00:01:55Hm.
00:02:07First time in a bookstore?
00:02:10Yeah.
00:02:11No.
00:02:16Beautiful detail.
00:02:19I was joking.
00:02:32I mean, personally, I prefer what's written inside on the pages, but, uh, you know, it's each their own.
00:02:42Do you like coffee?
00:02:44Uh, everyone likes coffee.
00:02:47What's your name?
00:02:51Uh, Joe.
00:02:53Yours?
00:03:01Coming?
00:03:03Now?
00:03:04You got a better time?
00:03:08No, uh...
00:03:10Oh, Maxine, are you, uh, okay if I, uh...
00:03:12Yep.
00:03:14It's Ash, by the way.
00:03:16Ash.
00:03:18Okay.
00:03:24So you've read that stuff.
00:03:26I have, yeah.
00:03:29Makes you think.
00:03:32Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness thing in vain
00:03:41and have no final purpose.
00:03:45Hmm.
00:03:46Final purpose.
00:03:50I don't know about that.
00:03:53Maybe we have what we have and you do your best with it, day by day.
00:03:58Uh, yeah, yeah, sure.
00:04:02Oh, for me it just makes things feel...
00:04:05...richer, somehow.
00:04:11Uh...
00:04:11Take a picture, it'll last longer.
00:04:14Oh, that's, that's actually a good idea.
00:04:17Hmm?
00:04:17This way I'll have proof.
00:04:19Proof? Of what?
00:04:20Of a beautiful woman hanging out with me.
00:04:22Oh, look.
00:04:22Oh, wait.
00:04:25See?
00:04:28Hey, Mel, who's not gonna do this?
00:04:32I'm out.
00:04:35No.
00:04:36No.
00:04:38No.
00:04:39No.
00:04:46I'm out.
00:04:49No.
00:04:50No.
00:04:52No, no.
00:04:52Have a great day, Joe.
00:04:53You too, pal.
00:05:12Come on, brother!
00:05:23How are you this beautiful day?
00:05:24I'm doing well, Oliver.
00:05:25Yourself?
00:05:26No complaints.
00:05:28Off to see Ash.
00:05:29Oh, lucky man.
00:05:31Yeah, don't I know it.
00:05:37Oh, I'm supposed to guess who?
00:05:44Mm-hmm.
00:05:45Okay, well, it's either my beautiful girlfriend
00:05:48who I'm meeting on this wonderful morning
00:05:51or it's my other sexier girlfriend
00:05:55from the bad part of town.
00:05:58Oh, you.
00:05:59Hi.
00:06:04Hm.
00:06:11What can I get for you?
00:06:12I'll have a cappuccino, please.
00:06:13You got it.
00:06:16You have to work after?
00:06:18Yeah.
00:06:19You know, I would love to know what that is.
00:06:23You know what they say about curiosity.
00:06:28No.
00:06:29Really?
00:06:32Oh.
00:06:34You adore me.
00:06:40Come on.
00:06:41I do.
00:06:46So...
00:06:51I want you to know something.
00:06:54About?
00:06:55About...
00:06:55You.
00:06:56About you.
00:07:10Oh!
00:07:11Hey!
00:07:21Oh!
00:07:24Oh!
00:07:27Good.
00:07:33Oh!
00:07:33I love you, Job.
00:07:40Hey, hey, hey, hey.
00:07:44Ash.
00:07:46Ash.
00:07:48You surprised me, that's all.
00:07:52I need to tell you something.
00:07:54Anything.
00:07:57I'm not from here.
00:07:58I know, you're from Bridgewater.
00:07:59No, I mean, I'm not from here.
00:08:15No.
00:08:20Do you two know each other?
00:08:23Don't.
00:08:33No, no, no, no.
00:08:35No, no, no.
00:08:59Yes.
00:09:26No, no.
00:09:29No, no, no, no.
00:09:29IStart.
00:09:40Mella, shut everything down.
00:09:42This is your second week without leaving the apartment, Joe.
00:09:46Are you unwell?
00:09:47Should I call for assistance?
00:09:49Can you call Ash?
00:09:51I am not currently able to do that.
00:09:54Hmm.
00:09:58Well, then fuck off.
00:10:01Just let me sleep.
00:10:23You have a visitor.
00:10:25Don't answer.
00:10:27It's Oliver.
00:10:29This is the third time he's been by.
00:10:37Fine.
00:10:43Joe, you there?
00:10:46I'm here.
00:10:53I'm here.
00:10:55Hey, man.
00:10:56Uh...
00:10:57Got good stuff.
00:11:00Let me up.
00:11:07I hear it.
00:11:08I hear it's better hot.
00:11:29I hear it's better hot.
00:11:32Good.
00:11:37I can't taste anything.
00:11:40I can't taste anything.
00:11:46Taste.
00:11:47I can't.
00:11:48I can't.
00:11:55I'll get it.
00:11:58Where do you keep the towels?
00:12:02Joe?
00:12:10I know it doesn't feel like it, but you're gonna be okay.
00:12:19She's gone.
00:12:25I...
00:12:28Maybe she's in a better place.
00:12:29Oh, don't patronize me.
00:12:31Just...
00:12:33Don't.
00:12:38Oh, look.
00:12:39You, uh...
00:12:40You take mine.
00:12:43Come back tomorrow with more coffee.
00:12:48And, uh...
00:12:49Eat something, okay?
00:12:52Joe.
00:12:54Joe.
00:14:38Hello, Joe.
00:14:46Hello, Joe.
00:15:18Hello, Joe.
00:15:39Hello, Joe.
00:16:02See you soon.
00:16:08Or I won't.
00:16:09Either way.
00:16:10Fuck it.
00:16:11Or I won't.
00:16:11Or I won't.
00:16:43A weapon has been discharged.
00:16:45Are you safe?
00:16:47Please respond, Joe.
00:16:48I am contacting the authorities.
00:16:50No, no, no, no, no, no.
00:16:51Wait, wait, wait.
00:16:54It was an accident.
00:16:54I won't do it.
00:16:55I won't do it.
00:16:59I won't do it.
00:17:06I won't do it.
00:17:24And I won't do it.
00:17:44I won't do it.
00:17:45Good morning, Joe.の病院もOn.
00:17:49Ash. Would you like me to play it?
00:18:16You have another new message from Ash, marked urgent. Should I play it?
00:18:52You have another new message from Ash.
00:18:53You have another new message from Ash.
00:19:26You okay, brother?
00:19:30You see that, right?
00:19:33Oh.
00:19:37You checked any of those?
00:19:40Well, maybe it's a message for you in case anything happened to her.
00:19:44Yeah, I thought of that, but the screen's the, um...
00:19:49The what?
00:19:51You know, nothing. It's, uh, shock, maybe.
00:19:58Look, go home, get some rest, and then you check the message, the messages.
00:20:04You might get some closure.
00:20:06Would you mind if I checked here? Actually, I'm not sure I want to go back yet.
00:20:12You might get some.
00:20:14It's all yours.
00:20:29Hey, Joe.
00:20:34Hey.
00:20:36If you're seeing this, something's happened to me, and I might not see you again.
00:20:42For that.
00:20:46I'm so, so sorry.
00:20:56I need your help.
00:20:58It's important.
00:20:59It might not make sense right away, but I need you to get something for me.
00:21:03Your bookstore.
00:21:04There's a special order there waiting for you.
00:21:08Will you help?
00:21:16Liz, of course.
00:21:23Details are downloading.
00:21:25I planned for this.
00:21:28Not, not for...
00:21:31everything that's happened.
00:21:33But for this.
00:21:36Bring the package back to your place.
00:21:38I'll talk to you again later.
00:21:40I love you.
00:21:59We have further contact.
00:22:03Wish you'd leave it alone.
00:22:09Track him.
00:22:11Let me know what he does next.
00:22:13Copy.
00:22:25Hey, boss.
00:22:26You doing okay?
00:22:27Something deliver for me?
00:22:28Uh, right.
00:22:29Yeah.
00:22:32Spun's a prize.
00:22:34I'll see you tomorrow?
00:22:37Uh, yeah.
00:22:38Yeah, I'll let you know.
00:22:53I'll let you know.
00:23:09He has something.
00:23:17Take him down.
00:23:20Retrieve whatever that is.
00:23:22Back up and coming
00:23:25Copy
00:24:00Copy
00:24:22Floor
00:24:24Same
00:24:54What is happening?
00:24:59No! Someone's trying to break in!
00:25:00Should I call the authorities?
00:25:03Knock, knock
00:25:04Yes!
00:25:05Contacting authorities now
00:25:15I'm sorry, Joe. I hear we are flying. Reattempting
00:25:48Oh
00:25:49Oh, fuck.
00:26:06Oh, fuck.
00:26:13Oh, fuck.
00:26:13Oh, fuck.
00:26:15Oh, fuck.
00:26:18Oh, fuck.
00:26:20Oh, fuck.
00:26:31Ugh!
00:26:34Ugh!
00:26:35Ugh!
00:26:36Something's wrong.
00:26:37App me up.
00:26:39Who are you talking to?
00:26:40Now.
00:27:18I don't understand.
00:27:27Heal me both, pal.
00:27:45Joe.
00:27:47Mel.
00:27:49Pause Ash's message.
00:27:51I'm sorry, I don't understand.
00:27:53Could you rephrase?
00:27:55Joe.
00:28:01Hey.
00:28:08Mel, is this real?
00:28:09I'm sorry.
00:28:10Could you rephrase the question?
00:28:17Jesus.
00:28:21I'll explain.
00:28:30Where are you?
00:28:32I didn't mean to be mysterious.
00:28:34It just took me a while to hack a connection.
00:28:36And time works a bit differently here.
00:28:39Here?
00:28:40Where I'm from.
00:28:43There's, uh...
00:28:43Technology.
00:28:45It's almost impossible to get access, but I did.
00:28:48No, no, no, no, no, no.
00:28:49I saw you die.
00:28:50I saw someone kill you.
00:28:51I know, I know, I know.
00:28:52I'm sorry.
00:28:53I'm so sorry.
00:28:56There's so much I have to tell you.
00:28:59So much...
00:29:00So much I want to say.
00:29:03I just need to explain a few things first.
00:29:06Is that okay?
00:29:14Okay.
00:29:19Years ago, technology made several rapid jumps.
00:29:23Machine learning, behavioral modeling, artificial intelligence,
00:29:28ultra-realistic rendering.
00:29:30A lot of it was driven by the entertainment industry.
00:29:33Gaming, streaming, deep learning, and AI brought others.
00:29:39Intelligence agencies, special interests.
00:29:42Those interests saw where the tech could go.
00:29:45Recruited hungry young minds like Anthony Hunter.
00:29:49A brilliant software engineer.
00:29:52He worked for Centec, one of the big firms.
00:29:54His day job was data acquisition.
00:29:56Gathering as much information from the real world as possible.
00:29:59Feeding the machine.
00:30:00Building models to analyze, process, control.
00:30:04On the side, he was working on his own project.
00:30:08From what we can piece together, Hunter was trying to incorporate all of this data into a true virtualized reality.
00:30:14Something alive, fed by a constant stream of information.
00:30:20It was too big for him to put together on his own.
00:30:23He couldn't get to a stable build until...
00:30:41He met someone.
00:30:43Another coder, apparently with similar interests.
00:30:46A new mentor, who helped the final pieces fall into place.
00:30:50of course.
00:31:14A new phone was just a little bit on the bed.
00:31:42The first D.U.
00:31:48D.U?
00:31:50A digital universe.
00:31:53He made a world, a fully realized population.
00:31:56The corporations had been trying for years to harness machine learning to their advantage.
00:32:01What was missing?
00:32:02People.
00:32:02Billions of them with their own emotions, desires, agency.
00:32:08Hunter began to use the system for advanced R&D.
00:32:13He realized he could test anything on his pet universe.
00:32:17High-risk surgical implants, advanced weaponry, mass testing of cutting-edge pharmaceuticals.
00:32:24Within an impossibly short amount of time, he became Centex CEO.
00:32:29Then things moved even faster.
00:32:33What better testbed?
00:32:34What better way to prototype anything?
00:32:36Human beings might be cheap, but simulated ones were even cheaper.
00:32:40He had a world of his own to play with, no consequences.
00:32:45He tried version after version after version.
00:32:58Hunter kept going.
00:33:00He spent almost a decade testing.
00:33:03Fine-tuning.
00:33:05Restarting.
00:33:09I'm in one of those versions, aren't I?
00:33:17How many?
00:33:18Before this, how many versions?
00:33:22497.
00:33:24As far as we can tell.
00:33:27So what does that make me?
00:33:30A man.
00:33:33One I love.
00:33:36A virtual man.
00:33:43This is a fucking nightmare.
00:33:46Where are you, exactly?
00:33:52Home.
00:33:53I just need to show you a bit more.
00:33:58It got out.
00:34:00What Hunter and Centex were doing.
00:34:02Even if you didn't believe that the people in the DU were real.
00:34:06The ethical implications were too much to ignore.
00:34:08And the power that came with being able to test any conceivable possibility on unwitting populations.
00:34:15What?
00:34:17The tech was outlawed.
00:34:18The DU system was supposed to be spun down for good.
00:34:21It wasn't.
00:34:22He just hid it, both physically and on the network.
00:34:25But I found a way in.
00:34:28I found you.
00:34:45Wait, that's the man who shot you.
00:34:48Hunter.
00:34:49How come you didn't disappear like when you...
00:34:53When I died?
00:34:54Yeah.
00:34:58You need admin level access for that.
00:35:00The control teams don't even like doing it.
00:35:02It throws major checksum errors, risks corruption.
00:35:04It messes with the analytics.
00:35:07The more you break the physical laws that are coded in...
00:35:10Unless the system works as a tool.
00:35:13Exactly.
00:35:14So the goon that attacked you, when you killed him, it hurt.
00:35:17Bad.
00:35:17It needs to be real for the system to function.
00:35:20No cheating or the data devalues.
00:35:23So what is this?
00:35:25Now?
00:35:26Just a book.
00:35:27But it carried another layer of data.
00:35:29Data we need to get out.
00:35:30Soon.
00:35:34Wait.
00:35:36Who's that next to Hunter?
00:35:38That is the enigmatic Oliver Cox.
00:35:41After he saw what Hunter was doing, he disappeared from public view.
00:35:45He hasn't been seen in years.
00:35:48Holy shit.
00:35:51What?
00:35:53I know him.
00:35:54What do you mean you know him?
00:35:55You know him.
00:35:56The newsstand near my building.
00:36:00He must be masking himself from other users of the system.
00:36:05Like me.
00:36:09This newsstand, it might be a kind of hidden observation post.
00:36:16Joe, he could help.
00:36:18How?
00:36:19If there's anyone who can get me back in, help get that data out, it's him.
00:36:24I need to meet him.
00:36:25He...
00:36:26He knows you're dead.
00:36:27I don't think that'll faze him.
00:36:29Wait, how...
00:36:30How did you stop me from...
00:36:35I was watching you.
00:36:40I tried everything, Joe.
00:36:42The best I could do was send messages, hack into some displays.
00:36:46Otherwise, I was locked out.
00:36:48Wasn't me.
00:36:50Then who?
00:37:09Erica, what can I do for you?
00:37:13We need to spin it down.
00:37:16We?
00:37:18Huh.
00:37:19Okay.
00:37:22Sit.
00:37:32We're having masking issues.
00:37:33Security holes, I can't patch your time.
00:37:35Well, patched up one of them for you.
00:37:38You shot a woman in plain view at a coffee shop.
00:37:42No, no, no.
00:37:43Stress relief.
00:37:46So it's your job to make sure no one else gets in, right?
00:37:49That's...
00:37:50That's you?
00:37:50That's your job?
00:37:51The only way to do that is to isolate it completely from global networks.
00:37:54Well, if I do that, then I can't feed it, and it doesn't work as effectively, so...
00:37:59It can function as a simulator.
00:38:00We have excellent analytics.
00:38:07It doesn't work as effectively.
00:38:17We should have spun it down with a court order.
00:38:21We're risking exposure, Anthony.
00:38:24We have another incursion.
00:38:26We have another incursion.
00:38:26A huge amount of data just moved around.
00:38:28I'm tracking it, but...
00:38:29Okay.
00:38:33The world is shit.
00:38:36You get that, right?
00:38:39Like...
00:38:40What are we?
00:38:41Collectively, billions of idiots decimating the only home that we have.
00:38:47But we have a way.
00:38:50We have a way to run any conceivable test to find out what happens before it happens.
00:38:59Before we have to hand over the keys to the environment to the fossil fuel conglomerates.
00:39:04Before we go down the same path as Virgin 16 and elect an autocratic malignant narcissist
00:39:08to high office.
00:39:09Remember that fucking mess?
00:39:10Him and his mob almost cost us half the globe in seven years.
00:39:13Before, millions of more people die in senseless conflict based on primitive ideologies born
00:39:23out of ancient superstitions, mass manipulation, targeted disinformation.
00:39:31The world is shit!
00:39:38But I'm gonna fix it.
00:39:42I am fixing it.
00:39:49You're killing people to do it.
00:39:53Billions of people.
00:39:58Algorithmically generated population units.
00:40:02The rest of the world doesn't see it like that.
00:40:05Nor do the courts.
00:40:07The courts can go fuck themselves!
00:40:10They will legislate us into a burning cinder.
00:40:17Keep it hidden.
00:40:18Keep it connected.
00:40:20Figure it out.
00:40:26Erica?
00:40:33My globe.
00:40:44Find that girl I shot.
00:40:48Here in the real world.
00:41:15What can I help you with, dead girl?
00:41:18It is you.
00:41:19And you found me.
00:41:20Through my firewalls, no less.
00:41:24Talking is risky, so I can give you another 30 seconds?
00:41:30I need to know where it is.
00:41:31Can you help me find it?
00:41:33Find what?
00:41:34The DU.
00:41:34The physical system location.
00:41:36And I need a valid network key to get back in.
00:41:38It's distributed.
00:41:39It could be anywhere, everywhere.
00:41:41Oh, and are you out of your freaking mind?
00:41:42What makes you think I can help?
00:41:43I would.
00:41:45When I first started, I was trying to get it shut down.
00:41:48Now, things are...
00:41:49Complicated, yes, Joe.
00:41:52Seems like you're using it yourself.
00:41:54What are you doing in there?
00:41:55You'll be in touch.
00:42:23Oh, gosh.
00:42:32the mister can't be far scan the plates turn it upside down
00:42:44ma'am requesting air support
00:42:55the
00:43:02the
00:43:04the
00:43:04the
00:43:04the
00:43:08the
00:43:13Let's go.
00:43:54You armed?
00:43:55Nothing smart or network connected.
00:44:04Inert non-metallic nanograpping blade.
00:44:11That isn't standard issue.
00:44:14It's personal.
00:44:15Spring loaded.
00:44:17Well, it can't be legal.
00:44:20Coffee.
00:44:34What do you want?
00:44:36You like things analog.
00:44:38Mm.
00:44:39Well, you're welcome to borrow something if you'd like.
00:44:45I long ago learned that I retain things better when I read from the hard copy.
00:44:50Absorb works of art from the original source.
00:44:52It's just, it's less ephemeral.
00:44:55Digital.
00:44:56It can be gone.
00:44:56Like that.
00:44:57Like you?
00:44:59What do you know about me?
00:45:00I know that you worked with Hunter.
00:45:02Some kind of partnership.
00:45:03You've disappeared.
00:45:04It's more like a codependency.
00:45:07And not the whole story, but probably enough for now.
00:45:11He's after me.
00:45:13The getting yourself killed give it away, did it?
00:45:15Out here, I mean.
00:45:18What were you doing in the system in the first place?
00:45:20I'm freelance.
00:45:22Intel for a while before that.
00:45:23I'm good at tracing data, making connections.
00:45:26No, I've seen.
00:45:26I mean, you don't just hack into proprietary systems like this by Googling.
00:45:31You're impressive, Ms. Solway.
00:45:33I was recruited out of college, trained in years as an analyst.
00:45:37I went out on my own with a small team when all of this started with Centec.
00:45:41We were convinced Hunter wasn't following the court orders.
00:45:45Centec was growing too fast, becoming too powerful.
00:45:47As were his corporate pals, a few oligarchs he did business with.
00:45:52Some fringe nations with money to burn.
00:45:55Using data from DU iterations.
00:45:57We were just trying to confirm what we already knew, really.
00:46:00Deal with it.
00:46:01And you just stuck around after hours?
00:46:05Saw what I saw.
00:46:07What it was.
00:46:09It wouldn't have been right to shut it down.
00:46:11Or let Hunter restart it.
00:46:15These...
00:46:18These are people.
00:46:20Just going about their lives.
00:46:25So what are you doing in there?
00:46:27Selling newspapers and candy.
00:46:30I knew Hunter would keep it running.
00:46:32There's too many benefits.
00:46:34It's like a digital crystal ball.
00:46:36There is so much that DU can show us, can teach us.
00:46:41Without outside interference.
00:46:44That's not an answer.
00:46:46It's the one I can give.
00:46:50It was you, wasn't it?
00:46:52Saving Joe.
00:46:53Changing things to help him.
00:46:58I'll take that as a yes.
00:47:03Why?
00:47:05Maybe there's more to him than meets the eye.
00:47:08I think you know that already.
00:47:12So will you help me?
00:47:14I need to get Hunter off my ass, find somewhere safe to see Joe.
00:47:19Go back in.
00:47:20Yes.
00:47:22Please.
00:47:27You really love him.
00:47:36I get that he's not...
00:47:40real.
00:47:43But we are way past real as an easy definition.
00:47:56Are you making fun of me?
00:47:57No, no, no, I'm not.
00:47:59I'm saying there's nothing strange about the way you're feeling.
00:48:02It was the whole point of the design.
00:48:04So you'll help me?
00:48:09I will.
00:48:12But first things first, I need to get you somewhere safe.
00:48:16Not here.
00:48:19There's an autonomous hotel downtown.
00:48:22I'm part owner.
00:48:23You can lay low, log in if you must,
00:48:27get you a network address and a new encrypted key.
00:48:31Long term?
00:48:33I'm not sure how to handle Hunter yet.
00:48:35Never mind save this iteration of the system,
00:48:38which means stealing it.
00:48:40Yeah, I have a plan for that.
00:48:46But right now, I'm not on Hunter's radar.
00:48:52I like not being on his radar.
00:48:55And I'll see you on my radar.
00:48:55No, no, no.
00:49:34Hey.
00:49:48You're here.
00:50:06All of her.
00:50:12Bellamy, this iteration's run its course, come to archive it and study it offline.
00:50:21It was killing me every day, knowing that you were in pain, thinking that I was gone.
00:50:29All I wanted to do was reach out to you, and when Hunter killed me, he killed my access.
00:50:39It had taken me months to find a way in, first time.
00:50:52I love you.
00:50:58I wish I knew what to do with that.
00:51:02You could tell me you love me, too.
00:51:07But if I do, is that just programming, talking, my whole worldview is kind of broken.
00:51:16How would you feel if you found out you were just a character in a game?
00:51:21It's not a game.
00:51:22You sure?
00:51:35It's not a game.
00:51:39This is as real as anything I know.
00:51:49Maybe my other life is a dream.
00:51:50Maybe this is the one that counts.
00:51:58But you have a choice.
00:52:00So do you.
00:52:01No.
00:52:02I don't.
00:52:03You can leave this.
00:52:07This is all I have.
00:52:09I need a drink.
00:52:10Joe.
00:52:11Please come back.
00:52:23I pulled you out.
00:52:24You can do that.
00:52:25Not now.
00:52:26Listen.
00:52:26Hunter's on to you and he's throwing a hell of a lot of compute your way.
00:52:29It's time to move.
00:52:30I just need to get a message to Joe.
00:52:32Act!
00:52:33Get out!
00:52:36Fuck!
00:53:00Oliver!
00:53:01Joe!
00:53:01How goes the day?
00:53:02Ah, she...
00:53:03I know.
00:53:03I know.
00:53:04No, no, no.
00:53:04I'm not...
00:53:04She was here.
00:53:05I was speaking with her and she just...
00:53:07She disappeared.
00:53:08She...
00:53:08She left.
00:53:09I...
00:53:09I...
00:53:10I...
00:53:10I...
00:53:10I...
00:53:10I...
00:53:11I...
00:53:11Look, Ben.
00:53:12I don't know how this works.
00:53:13Help me.
00:53:14Please.
00:53:19Shit.
00:53:20Shit.
00:53:25I don't know how to deal with this.
00:53:27With anything.
00:53:28She's alive.
00:53:29But what does that mean?
00:53:30Am I...
00:53:30If I love her, is that even real?
00:53:32Does anything I feel even, Joe?
00:53:40She's in trouble, isn't she?
00:53:44All right.
00:53:45All right.
00:53:47And that's all that matters.
00:53:49How do I help her?
00:53:51Have a seat.
00:53:54This world won't be worth the risk much longer.
00:53:56Understand?
00:53:57I'll shut it down.
00:53:58This iteration, anyway.
00:54:00He's probably already started the process.
00:54:02He could just spin it back up on the heat top.
00:54:04But for you, it's the end of the line.
00:54:07Everything you know, gone.
00:54:09You.
00:54:10Gone.
00:54:12It's not just about you on Ash.
00:54:14It's about billions of people.
00:54:17And they're ready to live.
00:54:20But I'm just a fish in a tank.
00:54:24You are so much more than that.
00:54:27Get the data you're carrying out.
00:54:30How?
00:54:32Years ago, software designers used to leave stuff behind in the code.
00:54:37Easter eggs?
00:54:38In a manner of speaking.
00:54:39They're usually tied to a specific place in the environment.
00:54:41Somewhere to stock up, get cheap codes, transfer things in and out.
00:54:47Develop them all.
00:54:48There's a place like that here.
00:54:50How do you know?
00:54:51Because I built it.
00:54:55What's in it?
00:54:57A way for you to upload the data you're carrying.
00:54:59Which is?
00:55:02It's an instance.
00:55:04A backup of the entire digital universe from the moment you opened that book.
00:55:09That's the data Ash is trying to get out.
00:55:14Holy shit.
00:55:15Indeed.
00:55:17So get there, upload.
00:55:19Then?
00:55:21Sit tight.
00:55:22No, I can't do that.
00:55:23I have to find Hunter.
00:55:24Help Ash.
00:55:25I don't think you're stupid, Joe.
00:55:26And that?
00:55:27That is stupid.
00:55:29He can literally flick a switch and you are gone.
00:55:31Gone like you never existed.
00:55:33Why hasn't he?
00:55:34Because every time he cheats, he acts in ways that don't abide by the coded physical laws of his universe.
00:55:41Check some errors.
00:55:43Exactly.
00:55:45Ash, explain.
00:55:46Errors.
00:55:47Inconsistencies.
00:55:48Fidelity goes out the window.
00:55:49Bad data.
00:55:50Bad data has no value.
00:55:53Joe, upload.
00:55:54Then go home.
00:55:55I'll try to help where I can.
00:56:02It's one of a kind.
00:56:04Please don't lose it.
00:56:06I will send the location of the room to your phone, load it with what you need.
00:56:11Now that is hardware decryption.
00:56:13It'll open the door.
00:56:15But the phone will need to trigger what happens next.
00:56:18You need to find the comm panel, touch it, it'll start the data upload.
00:56:24Don't touch anything else while you're in there.
00:56:26Okay.
00:56:27Wait, what else is there?
00:56:28Find the panel, upload.
00:56:35Enjoy the day, Joe.
00:56:36No problem.
00:56:47Oh!
00:56:48God!
00:56:50Huh?
00:57:06Hello, Joe.
00:57:15Hey, Mel?
00:57:17I hope you're happy.
00:57:18My systems are now operating at full capacity.
00:57:23Listen, I don't see you again.
00:57:25Thanks for everything.
00:57:26My pleasure, Joe.
00:57:28Have a great day.
00:57:29Bye.
00:57:37Bye.
00:57:59Bye.
00:58:02Bye.
00:58:10Bye.
00:58:23Bye.
00:58:25Bye.
00:58:55It won't work.
00:58:56It's key to me.
00:59:00Seems like it works okay to me.
00:59:02You're messing.
00:59:04You're messing with something you shouldn't be.
00:59:06Your boss is doing that.
00:59:08Where's the DU?
00:59:11Where?
00:59:14You're already dead in one world,
00:59:15but not long here, either.
00:59:18Bitch.
00:59:26Ah!
00:59:44Morning.
00:59:53So, Ash, what now?
00:59:58You gonna kill me again?
01:00:01Not yet.
01:00:04Why'd you do it the first time?
01:00:06You know why?
01:00:07Because I found your private playground.
01:00:09Uh, my multi-billion dollar analysis tool?
01:00:12Ya mean?
01:00:14You say tomato.
01:00:17You were supposed to stop.
01:00:20You seem to be enjoying it.
01:00:27You asshole.
01:00:30What gives you the right
01:00:33to play with so many lives?
01:00:42What about you, huh?
01:00:43What are you doing in that bookstore
01:00:44if not playing with lies?
01:00:46Just browsing the wares yourself?
01:00:49A couple of books and a boy to go.
01:00:59It's different.
01:01:02You know it's different.
01:01:09Yeah, okay.
01:01:10Enough of this.
01:01:11I have to, uh, catch up with an old friend.
01:01:14So, you're cool to just hang here
01:01:16for a few minutes, right?
01:01:38I didn't take you for the nostalgic type.
01:01:42Surprised to hear from you.
01:01:43Well, it's good to see you, old friend.
01:01:51Why are you messing with my universe?
01:01:53Oh, see, there's your problem.
01:01:56My problem?
01:01:58You need to possess your possessiveness.
01:02:03Fuck you, old man.
01:02:05Or done that.
01:02:07You did to yourself.
01:02:08Everything was moving along just fine.
01:02:10Well, it's a matter of perspective.
01:02:12The billions of dead in your last little test
01:02:14would beg to differ.
01:02:15Our test, you mean?
01:02:17I had no idea what you were planning
01:02:19until it was too late,
01:02:20and you know that.
01:02:21I was pushing the limits.
01:02:24You're breaking things intentionally.
01:02:26You're like a child.
01:02:27You're pulling the legs off of insects
01:02:29just to see what happens.
01:02:31And if I was being honest...
01:02:32Mmm, yeah.
01:02:33By all means.
01:02:34Be honest.
01:02:41You're a psychopath, old friend.
01:02:45And I think you know it.
01:02:49I'm just trying to do my own thing,
01:02:52which includes staying out of your way.
01:02:59I want to believe that.
01:03:02I may have made this with you,
01:03:07but it's your playground.
01:03:09I am down with that.
01:03:21I'm glad to hear that.
01:03:41Oh!
01:03:43Uh-oh.
01:03:52No.
01:03:55How do you...
01:03:58Your problem,
01:03:59if we're being honest,
01:04:00is that your curiosity
01:04:02or your, uh...
01:04:04empathy
01:04:05gets the better of you every time.
01:04:08Once you agreed to meet,
01:04:10once we interacted.
01:04:12I found you.
01:04:16S...
01:04:17Safeguard.
01:04:18Huh?
01:04:20Yeah, you're dying.
01:04:22Gonna be over in a couple minutes.
01:04:24Um...
01:04:25If you want,
01:04:26I can...
01:04:26back up your avatar.
01:04:29For all time's sake.
01:04:41I, uh...
01:04:42wrap up some of the blue sands.
01:04:47Ugh...
01:04:49No...
01:04:50A...
01:04:51No...
01:04:54A...
01:04:55A déough...
01:05:03That...
01:05:04could have said miss.
01:05:05a character?
01:05:10I don't know thes!
01:05:12Fancy.
01:05:23Shit.
01:05:41Hmm?
01:06:15It's some kind of transfer initiated from inside the system.
01:06:19What?
01:06:20I think your guy is transferring code out.
01:06:24It's sliding up a city block.
01:06:29Stop him.
01:06:30Now.
01:06:47Come on.
01:07:03Shit.
01:07:22Hello, Joe. Please select required options.
01:07:44Go ahead.
01:08:22How many times do I have to kill you?
01:08:25Okay, enough.
01:08:52Hello, Joe.
01:08:54Well, well, well, okay, easy, easy.
01:08:56Let me just, let me explain.
01:08:58There's only one you right now.
01:09:00You get that, right?
01:09:01There's only one you, this one.
01:09:03So, if I were to, like, I don't know, shoot you.
01:09:11You'd feel it.
01:09:13And if I were to kill you,
01:09:18you wouldn't just wake up somewhere else.
01:09:21This, this is kind of all there is.
01:09:47I made you.
01:09:50And I unmake you.
01:10:05Everything you are, everything you do, everything you love.
01:10:12Nothing more than digital dust, my man.
01:10:15Except for Ash, of course, but hey, don't worry about her.
01:10:18She's in great hands.
01:10:22No!
01:10:53I don't like your boyfriend.
01:10:55He doesn't like you much, either.
01:11:02What the hell?
01:11:03Erica, stand down.
01:11:06Getty's?
01:11:13I don't know how he's doing it.
01:11:16But it doesn't matter.
01:11:19It's time for a reboot.
01:11:20No!
01:11:21Please!
01:11:25Please.
01:11:28Close the door.
01:11:42No one else makes any difference.
01:11:46You're not even a memory.
01:11:48You're not even a ghost.
01:11:52Enjoy the end, my man.
01:12:03Please, at least let me say goodbye.
01:12:09You actually love him.
01:12:24And on to the next.
01:12:26You're not even a ghost.
01:12:46Ash.
01:12:48Ash?
01:12:49Ash, are you there?
01:12:52I'm here.
01:12:56Are you okay?
01:13:01Yeah, I'm okay.
01:13:05Good.
01:13:08Good, that's good.
01:13:09That's all that matters.
01:13:10Okay.
01:13:11No.
01:13:26Bye.
01:13:28Bye.
01:13:32Bye.
01:13:33Bye.
01:13:35Bye.
01:13:50Oh, well.
01:13:55Look, I don't know if I'm real.
01:13:59Doesn't seem like it.
01:14:03But I know you are.
01:14:06And I know what we have is.
01:14:08It's the most real thing I've ever experienced.
01:14:15I love you, Ash.
01:14:18And that's not code.
01:14:20That's not programming.
01:14:26That's real.
01:14:38I don't know.
01:14:41That's real.
01:14:57I don't know.
01:14:57I don't know.
01:14:57I don't know.
01:14:58I don't know.
01:14:58That's not cool.
01:15:00I don't know.
01:15:24Well, that was a lot.
01:15:27So...
01:15:29We're kind of in a sticky spot here because, uh, I'm just not sure I know what I'm supposed to
01:15:35do with you.
01:15:37Don't twirl your mustache, you piece of shit.
01:15:40You know.
01:15:44Fair enough.
01:15:47It just seems so valuable, you know?
01:15:50Shit.
01:15:56Don't do this, Hunter.
01:16:00So, look.
01:16:03I'm sorry.
01:16:04Go fuck yourself.
01:16:06Hey, don't be like that.
01:16:07You are forcing my hand and you know it.
01:16:09I got no choice!
01:16:10Don't you, old friend?
01:16:11I don't know what to do, Rick.
01:16:59you're dead it's a matter of perspective i killed you you always had trouble thinking outside the
01:17:07box didn't you sorry for that true disappointment what is happening levels within levels anthony
01:17:19to quote a favorite from this iteration there are other worlds than this
01:17:40so
01:17:51so
01:18:13Drop it.
01:18:27Kick it over to me.
01:18:36You okay?
01:18:38Yeah.
01:18:46You hurt her at home.
01:18:47You destroyed everything.
01:18:51Everyone.
01:19:16Take him down.
01:19:30Erica!
01:19:36I'm done.
01:19:50No, no.
01:19:51None of that was real.
01:19:56Like me.
01:20:00Please.
01:20:01I'm done.
01:20:04I'm done.
01:20:19I'm done.
01:20:21I'm done.
01:20:41Are you real?
01:20:46So are you.
01:20:50I don't understand.
01:20:53Yeah, that makes two of us.
01:20:54I'm done.
01:20:56I'm done.
01:21:06I'm done.
01:21:10I'm done.
01:21:27Am I supposed to guess?
01:21:28Mm-hmm.
01:21:30Ah, I didn't know those hands anywhere.
01:21:38You want to sit for a bit?
01:21:41Yeah.
01:21:54It's weird, right?
01:21:58Meeting here.
01:22:01I don't know.
01:22:02Everything?
01:22:04I know you wanted to see.
01:22:08Yeah.
01:22:09Nostalgia, maybe.
01:22:12Lovebirds.
01:22:13Good to see you.
01:22:14You too.
01:22:15Hey.
01:22:18Here.
01:22:19Nice.
01:22:24So, how does it feel to save the world?
01:22:30Honestly, I'm not sure I understand.
01:22:32How are you?
01:22:33Still here?
01:22:34Alive?
01:22:34Same way you are.
01:22:38How many levels are there?
01:22:41Ah.
01:22:44Uh, okay.
01:22:51So?
01:22:55That's supposed to be me.
01:22:56No.
01:22:57Well, this is your world.
01:22:58Your entire universe.
01:23:00Created by Hunter, with more than a little help from me.
01:23:03Okay?
01:23:05I'm still getting my head around it, but...
01:23:08Yeah.
01:23:09Follow me.
01:23:12Okay.
01:23:13Now, the cop...
01:23:14Is the real world?
01:23:16A world.
01:23:18Ash's world.
01:23:19Ash is.
01:23:21It's a world.
01:23:23Who knows how many levels, how many universes.
01:23:26It could be an infinite number.
01:23:27I'm not sure it's even important.
01:23:30So, Joe and I are the same?
01:23:34You brought me up a level.
01:23:36From the sugar crystal to the cup, I did indeed.
01:23:40And you're from the saucer?
01:23:42Well, the metaphor worse than, but, uh...
01:23:48Yes.
01:23:49But I still don't understand how you did that with Joe.
01:23:53Well, not to put too fine a point on it,
01:23:55but it was simply a matter of migrating code
01:23:56from one system to the next.
01:23:57Ouch.
01:23:58Oh, it's semantics.
01:23:59Not a declaration of value.
01:24:01Flesh, blood, code.
01:24:03Code that creates flesh and blood.
01:24:04Who knows?
01:24:04Who cares?
01:24:05You're just as human as I am.
01:24:08But we're all free to continue to wonder about our creators.
01:24:11You just happen to have an inside scoop
01:24:14from a guy who's simply a level up.
01:24:16You feel me?
01:24:18I feel you.
01:24:25Look...
01:24:26Vash...
01:24:28Hunter...
01:24:28was born of my hubris.
01:24:31My meddling.
01:24:32I mean, he...
01:24:32he had all the tools to create something good,
01:24:35something positive.
01:24:36He lacked the one thing I was looking for,
01:24:38the one thing I was...
01:24:38I was testing for.
01:24:40And that emptiness,
01:24:41it...
01:24:41almost destroyed everything.
01:24:43The one thing?
01:24:45It was empathy.
01:24:47And you showed up.
01:24:49And the surprise,
01:24:50the...
01:24:50the unknown variable,
01:24:51and where Hunter failed,
01:24:52you...
01:24:53you didn't.
01:24:54You stepped up.
01:24:57You and Joe,
01:24:58you...
01:24:59you restore my faith.
01:25:01And we can be good,
01:25:03caring,
01:25:03kind.
01:25:04Which is what we need to be
01:25:06to survive in the end.
01:25:09It seems the code gets there.
01:25:11Eventually.
01:25:15It's not so bad, right?
01:25:19Isn't it so bad?
01:25:24Look, Ash...
01:25:25I created a simulation
01:25:27that is indistinguishable from reality.
01:25:30It is your reality.
01:25:32It's everything you've ever known.
01:25:33And now it's yours too, Joe.
01:25:36But at some point soon,
01:25:38this world will reach
01:25:40a high enough level of technology
01:25:41that it creates its own simulation.
01:25:44So you see,
01:25:44it's unlikely,
01:25:46if not impossible,
01:25:47that my own reality
01:25:47isn't also a simulation.
01:25:50Chances are,
01:25:51we are nowhere close
01:25:52to the original Regal.
01:25:55So...
01:25:57enjoy each other.
01:25:58Enjoy what life has to offer.
01:26:00We're here.
01:26:01Up there.
01:26:03Does it matter?
01:26:04Really?
01:26:16There you go.
01:26:18There you go.
01:26:59Ah...
01:27:02Ah...
01:27:04Ah...
01:27:07This, we got right...
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