All language subtitles for Ad.Vitam.S01E03

PREVIOUSLY

Your son passed away last night.

Énoch?

My Énoch?

Found this morning.
Three girls, four boys, from 18 to 23.

Some reported missing a few days ago,
others months ago.

Is it starting again?

A call linked to the suicides?

-A list of members?
-Checking and monitoring...

If that worked,
those seven kids wouldn't be dead.

-I'm waiting.
-Linus?

The only survivor
of the stadium collective suicide.

It hurts to feel alive, eh?

How did you survive?
Did Caron survive too?

I saw him.

-Who?
-Caron.

Did Linus talk about suicide?

We're waiting for the signal.

Who'll give the signal?

Their fucking code.

Do you understand?

Our day is coming, Nahel.

I'm ready.

-Recognise her?
-Samian Vanghen.

She came to your foundation a lot.

-We get--
-Thousands, yeah.

Virgil, they're evacuating the hall
and closing us down!

Only actions speak!
Only actions don't lie!

Only actions speak.

Only actions don't lie.

Christa.

Get your stuff,
you're going back to the centre.

We're going in ten minutes.

Is that all you could offer her?

A day in the police station,
then back to prison. Lovely!

A nice balance!

It's a special centre, not a prison.

Do you know
what those centres are like? I do.

Darius.

A judge signed the permission
for her release.

You haven't been a lawyer
for 20 years.

She has rights.
You can't just use her like that.

Christa,
you have the right to contest it.

I'm glad we met.

Don't worry about me.

I've focused on the most fragile:
school dropouts, runaways,

drug takers, psychiatric cases...

Those most at risk of radicalisation.

277 missing over the last six months.

277?

It fits with what Linus said.

-Captain, can I have a word?
-Mrs Ritt...

No one will explain!
Why do they want to die?

Énoch isn't like that.
Wasn't like that.

Explain it to me.

You can't stay here.
I'll see you out.

Get in touch with the families.
Some minors have reappeared.

Compare all the disappearances.

-We need to whittle them down.
-Take two officers.

There are 300 of them!

Two hundred and seventy-seven.
And the priority remains Linus.

Darius, we've found
Samian Venghen's guardian.

An uncle.

All handwritten code?

No, there are hard drives
of data too.

What are you hoping to find?

Names, dates, places...
Whatever will give us a lead.

I've installed a transcriber.

-Is there a connection?
-No.

-I want one.
-Your shrinks say no.

Please.

I'll see what I can do.

Anything interesting, tell Barbeau.

-Lesky, let's go.
-Coming.

Look, you even have a desk.

How cool!

-Lesky!
-Yes, I'm coming!

Do you ever get itchy toes,
but you resist scratching them?

Turinapsis idraecula
was first described

80 years ago
by Augustus and Paula Stern,

biologists specialising
in the biotopes of the Miocene.

They noticed its infinite faculty
for regeneration.

The jellyfish were able
to block the ageing process...

It's like being back at school.

A visit every year.
Always the same film.

Charles Vanghen has been told.

It's on the first floor.

-If you'll come this way.
-Very well.

I lost my cherry
in one of the projection rooms.

Concentrate, Lesky!

EVA HELPED PAULA AND AUGUSTUS STERN

UNDERSTAND THE REGENERATION PROCESS.

You wanted to see me?

Are you Samian Vanghen's uncle?

Our condolences.
Psychological support is on its way.

How did you hear about it?
We didn't...

On the news last night.

Why didn't you contact us
as her guardian?

Work. I was snowed under.

I hadn't seen her for two years.

I'm an informal sort of guardian.

-Mr Vanghen...
-I never asked for that kid.

The judge foisted her on me
when her parents died.

Do you recognise him?

No.

It's a face you'd remember.

I hadn't seen Samian for two years.

Excuse me.

Wait for me.

Yes, speaking.

Careful how you talk to him.
He's a bit wound up.

A scar on the right side.

Can I ask you something?

What's your problem with minors?

Who cares
if they top themselves?

-Sorry?
-No, I mean it.

We have an overpopulation problem

but we're stopping kids
killing themselves.

Isn't that absurd?

Hospital? Which hospital?

The truth,
even if no one dares utter it,

is that we no longer need children.

Lesky, let's go.
We may have something.

He got in
through accident and emergency.

It's him.

It's Linus.

How long has he been in there?

Since 12:12 p.m.

He's been banging on the walls
for exactly 50 minutes.

Want to see something weird?

That was an hour ago.

"He went to his death without fear,

not balking at the sacrifice
which he was offered,

nor being tempted by lies...

The only solution is action,
the ultimate sacrifice.

Our mission is to save humanity.

Do not be afraid.

The Lord will be your shield,

girding you against ten thousand."

How old are you?

-Twenty-four. Why?
-Want a scoop?

There's no shield, you're all alone.
All that awaits is nothingness.

If you need to talk,
I have a good address.

You've got your connection.

RESEARCH
ADDRESS

Hey, where are you going?

Hey, to the toilet!
I need, hey, a piss!

I'll take you.

Everything OK?

-A problem?
-No, I'm good.

Hurry up, the boss is waiting.

-Which boss?
-Your boss.

Two hundred and eighty minors, Linus.

We know you're not clever enough
to organise it by yourself.

Did you get them
at the Future Foundation?

Tell us how you go about it.

You pick the most fragile?

Then you give them your spiel, yeah?

Telling them they're unique?

-How did you find him?
-In the morgue.

He wanted to sneak out
his pal's body.

To bury him.

Getting himself caught for that,
it's ridiculous!

We're not complaining.

-How did the decoding go?
-It's been sent to you.

"The road ends here,
but the true existence awaits

in the World Outside.

Don't be afraid.
Everything there will be made right."

More of the same?

It gets even more "inspired,"
if you like mystical crazy shit.

It's still convincing people.

Anyone ready to go
doesn't need much convincing.

Lesky, take her back.

You can carry on tomorrow.

Why the cage?

Are you scared I'll attack you?

The new rules.

Don't sulk. With Linus caught,
our collaboration will soon be over.

You sound happy about that.

Aren't you?

I'm starting to find you
less twattish than I expected.

What?

Nothing.

We'll talk about what happened
with your parents some other time.

Don't blame yourself.

You weren't ready to face all that.
Not yet.

In a way,
you were sending us a message...

Yeah, I get the idea!

And your hallucinations?

They're fine.

I've spent almost 100 years
in this police station.

I know these walls by heart.

I remember spending a night
questioning a dealer.

I'd had a terrible headache for weeks
because of chemotherapy.

They'd tried everything
against that scourge.

No treatment worked.

The epidemic started
in North America

and then spread really quickly.

Millions died of it
in just a few months.

A hecatomb.

In the terminal stage

red blotches appeared on the skin.

I'd got to that stage.

That night I'd puked blood.

I'd thought about quitting the job,

using the time I had left
to make the most of...

the sunshine, my family, my son...

But I kept thinking of the two kids
who'd overdosed that morning.

They'd choked on their own tongues.

So I carried on
with the interrogation.

I forgot about the sunshine
and the red blotches.

And, one week later,

I was one of the pioneers.

A priority case
among the first to be regenerated.

It was miraculous.

In a few weeks it all cleared up,
the blotches were gone.

I started feeling better, stronger,

younger...

And the world opened up once again.

It became vast.

You think you've thought
a lot about this, right?

But when I read what you've written,

I just think
that you don't know a thing.

Death to you is just an abstraction.

"The other world," "the beyond,"

"paradise," "the heavenly realm"...

They're just images.

When you've lived
with the stench of disease,

when you've felt
your own skin rotting,

when you've cried
every time you piss...

then you necessarily see things
quite differently.

That deterioration...

that feeling that the world
is shrinking inexorably

has only one equivalent
outside disease.

It's this cell.

It's here, right now.

These walls.

This stink.

I won't let you do it any more.

All that spiel
to justify pointless deaths,

that whole
anachronistic performance.

I talk to the living,
not to the dead!

You're nothing but a ghost.

A ghost!

An unknown species of creature
was found today

in a shrimp net in the bay.

Neither the health services,
port authorities or fishermen

have so far been able to identify
this creature from the depths,

causing the craziest rumours
to spread.

The crew that made the discovery
are in good health.

The five men
have been put in quarantine

and the boat placed in dry dock
to be disinfected.

The health services

say they have taken every measure
to avoid any risk

from this unidentified organism.

Food delivery, I'm Violette!

Sorry.

Goodbye.

Just a second.

Yes, I'm here.

We've arrested the suspect.

I'll be questioning him all night.

I'm pregnant, Darius.

It's yours, in case you wondered.

OK.

I borrowed some of your stuff
while you were away. You don't mind?

I don't suppose you lacked anything.

Good money,
whoring yourself to the cops?

I need your help.

That's new!

Are you serious?

Absolutely.

I need a weapon.

It's good to have a plan.
But you can't afford it.

NDE, latest formula.

I have an address.
I can contact someone outside.

Contact them. Tell them
I'll be there in the next few days.

-Who's it for?
-None of your business.

Your dad?

Your mum?

It's not easy, you know.

You can plan it all you like,
rehearse what you're going to say,

but once you're facing them
it's totally different.

A word of advice.

Avoid eye contact.

Or you won't be able to do it.

Hand it over.

Don't mug me off.

It hurts
that you still don't trust me.

Christa, your lawyer is here.

My lawyer?

You can refuse.

I didn't wait, I was starving.

Sit down.

Sorry you had to come back here.

It's all right.

Thanks, anyway.
My real lawyer never brought food.

What actually is your job now?

I'm trying to secure
a biodiversity reserve.

It's an island.

Well, an archipelago
a few kilometres north of the bay.

An ecosystem
that's never been touched by humans.

It's wonderful.

A real paradise.

-Listen to this, I recorded it--
-What's the point?

Everyone says we won't have
enough inhabitable land.

Can I ask you a question?

What happened with your parents?
How--

How did we fall so low?

I don't think we fell at all.

It was always
more or less like that.

What do you mean?

In a way I understand them.

When they had me
their combined age was 173.

Three retrainings each.

They'd come to the end of something
and wanted something new,

an experience
or something to keep them busy.

They should have gone for something
easier. Or less irreversible.

Drugs or a world trip
in alphabetical order.

A kid for eternity...
That's a long time!

Having dinner the other night
it was obvious.

They're afraid of me.

They've always been afraid of me.

Like we're not even
the same species.

Maybe they don't know
how to show you they love you.

In my cell there's this girl, Lana.

She killed her parents,
yet she keeps saying she loved them.

Parricide
is now the main cause of death.

I've heard that, yes.

But it can be different.

Different how?

I don't know.

Having a child is also a gift
from one's own self.

My parents replaced me
with a jellyfish.

I'm not joking.

Dessert?

Darius, the juvenile squad
got a call from a kid

about one of the missing kids:
Linn Gonzales.

I think we should see him.

OK.

That's her.

Linn.

We're listening, Maxime.

She wanted us to go together.

I said yes, I wanted to,

but I didn't dare.

At the last moment I couldn't do it.

Had she met any new people
recently?

Someone she was in touch with,
who may have...

got her mixed up in this.

A man or woman.

I don't know.

Where was it
you were supposed to go?

To join some others.

Others?

Yes, other minors.

Did you have a destination?

Or a meeting place?

She said at the bus station.

On 26th April.

Really early.

At 5:40 a.m.

I saw it as a sort of trip.

I never thought it was...

to prepare for suicides.

She never mentioned that?

Killing herself?

Never, I swear.

I wouldn't have let her do it.

She just said
that there was this place

where we'd be free.

That we'd have a place there.

The World Outside, she called it.

The World Outside?

I don't know any more than that,
I don't know where it is. Sorry.

You must find her! Before she ends up
like those on the beach.

Don't worry.

Thanks, Maxime.

WORLD OUTSIDE

She's barely translated a quarter,
and it's come up 23 times.

"The way to the World Outside."

"The World Outside opens up to us."

-Twenty-three times?
-Twenty-three times!

It's not a metaphor.

Leyla, check the bus station.

Find the trail of Linn Gonzales.

What was she doing on 26th April?

Where did she go? With whom?
How did she buy her ticket?

And bring Linus back up.

-He's been taken to the judge.
-Already?

Five minutes ago.
You could catch him.

Azuelo!

I have to question him.

He's a minor,
we can't keep him any longer.

Something new has come up.

-Which judge?
-Muller.

Look away.

-What's up?
-He's going to the judge.

Look away, I said!

Hey, look at me!

Don't do it. Don't do it!

Open your mouth.

Mana, listen to me.

The fucking defibrillator!

NO TO CLOSING OF MATERNITY CLINICS!

18,000 JOBS AT RISK!

He's out of danger.

You can see him soon.

Thank you.

He hasn't died.

OK.

You don't have to get
right back to it.

I know.

If you need to talk to someone,

they've set up
a psychological counselling unit.

I've seen enough shrinks
to last me for the next 100 years.

"The eternal is not of this world.
It awaits.

The World Outside
is our quest and our path.

I am sure of the way.

I show the way
and my actions are the truth..."

Are you OK?

Yeah, I'm OK.

Sorry, I don't know
what's wrong with me.

Is it your first time?

Seeing someone die?

Were you afraid?

Yeah.

And you?

And thank you.

For shielding me.

You'll be a great cop.

Ah, they're fakes!

I was wondering
why you kept wearing them.

You're regenerated,
you must have 20/20 vision.

Super cop eyes!

How old are you?

Thirty-one.

It'll disappear soon...

but for now it's still there.

What will disappear?

What will disappear?

IT'LL DISAPPEAR SOON...
BUT FOR NOW IT'S STILL THERE.

WHAT WILL DISAPPEAR?

Don't feel guilty.

I wanted it, you wanted it.

OK.

That's why it bothers me
to ask you this.

Ask me what?

I need three hours in town,
with no one knowing.

-Is that why you...?
-I wanted it, I said.

That wasn't a lie.

I'm sorry.

You can stop here.

Three hours.

It all went well.

They're preparing your regeneration.
You'll be out in two days.

It was close.

And Linus?

He's dead.

Do we know what happened?

The mother of one of the suicides
on the beach.

You saw her yesterday morning.

The grievers weren't able to help.

You surprise me!

Have you ever listened to them?

With their stupid gadgets
and soundbites about "the beyond."

Some talk about the dead
as if they're still alive

and waiting for us somewhere.

It's about time they got real.

There is no beyond, Darius.

There's nothing after death.

The doctors said
I was gone for four minutes.

Four minutes
during which I was clinically dead.

All that stuff about a tunnel,

angels, your life passing by...

That's all bollocks!

There's nothing but blackness.

It's here...

The only light is here.

The feeling is between
an electric shock and a hornet sting.

It's really unique.

And the venom's deadly?

They all are,
but it depends on the dose.

After a number of stings
from this one,

you feel a sort of fullness

or abandon, as the body lets go.

Interesting.

It's an amazing feeling.

Without risk,
because we supply the antidote.

There's a bruise,
but it fades after two regenerations.

-Thanks, I'll think about it.
-At your service.

Is it for you or a gift?

A gift.

Can't you read? No minors.
Now clear off!

Lana sent me.

You're Christa?

No, no, you can't afford that.

-But Lana...
-She doesn't know the prices.

I'd get 30 years
for selling a gun to a minor.

You'd get 15
if you were caught with it.

These are for you.

-What's that?
-That?

A garrotte.

Remote-controlled tightening
from up to 15 metres away.

Using this.

I sell them in the shop.

Couples can flirt closely
with asphyxiation.

The sensation of dying
is very realistic.

It's a toy, then.

This one has no safety device.

Keep pressing and it will kill.

Joseph!

No, no, don't hide the product.

I'll take it.

I'm at the police station
where, this morning...

One dead and one wounded
was the result.

We don't yet know by whom or why.

Léonard Ader, 22,

known by the police
after he was part of...

-Hello.
-She wants to talk to you.

-Now?
-Come with me.

I'm coming.

Is that all?

What more can I do?

You tell me!

You're through to Béat's voicemail.

-Yes, Leyla?
-Are you OK?

-And Azuelo?
-Yeah, he's OK.

So, the bus station? Linn Gonzales?
Tell me you got something

That's why I'm calling.

Get over here, Darius.
We've found her.

On my way.

She's been here for 36 hours,
but they couldn't ID her.

You'll see why.

Subtitle translation by Howard Bonsor