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Always too big.

Shrink a big circuit down. That never works.

You can't just make them small. You have to think small.

Dr. Morton?

Professor?

It's time to call it a night. Already?

I'm not done yet. I just have to adjust something here. It'll be here tomorrow.

And so will you.

All right.

I think you can fix it.

If it was designed better, I wouldn't have to fix it.

Yeah, sure, kid stuff.

I don't know how you do it, Professor.

All right, boys, shift's over.

Let's go.

All right, I'm setting it down.

We're good on that one.

Lock down in 15 minutes.

Keep it up.

That's what's in that.

Hey, Professor.

How much longer do you think it's going to be?

I'll man my payback.

Oh, yeah.

End of the week. There's still two ahead of you.

president accounted for.

Something magical.

Look at you.

Those stranglers.

Make your papa proud.

There is nothing wrong with your television.

Do not attempt to adjust the picture.

We are now controlling the transmission.

We control the horizontal.

And vertical.

We can deluge you with a thousand channels or expand one single image to

crystal clarity.

And beyond.

We can shape your vision to anything our imagination can conceive.

For the next hour, we will control all that you see and hear.

reaches from the deepest inner mind to the outer limits.

Please stand by.

The longing for redemption can express itself in many forms and sometimes

indeed the greatest obstacle we face is found within our own conscience.

Before the parole board makes its determination, Mr. Black, Do you have

to add?

Yes, sir, I do.

Gene Morton is not a common criminal.

He's a man of ability and ideas, a man who appreciates beauty,

a man of science.

And yes, Gene Morton is a man who made a terrible mistake.

Fifteen years ago, in a moment of passion, he took the life of someone

trying to steal credit for his pioneering research in microtechnology.

Dr. Morton envisioned a day when tiny machines would build microscopic

computers, cured disease by repairing individual cells, transforming the world

as we know it.

He's earned the right to realize that dream.

We owe it to him, to ourselves, to set him free.

Dr. Morton, is there anything you'd like to say?

Oh, I think you've said plenty.

Dr. Morton, I'd like to ask a question.

When you think about your crime, when you consider the life you took, indeed,

what you took yourself away from, if the situation happened again, do

you think you would do the same thing?

Are you asking me if I think I'm capable of killing again?

That's right.

I wish I knew the answer to that.

The situation were truly the same.

I just don't know.

You know, Professor, if you were going to sucker punch me like that, You could

at least let me know. I'm sorry, Walter.

But don't worry. I'm sure they'll do the right thing.

Hey, Grandpa.

Look at you.

Every time I turn around, you've grown an inch.

I missed you.

Are you coming home soon, Grandpa?

Well, that's not up to me.

Dad, you didn't even try.

Couldn't you have pretended that it mattered? Nothing changes with you, Dad.

We'll see you soon.

Bye.

How did it go, Professor?

Same as usual, Lawrence. Ah, look on the bright side.

Give more time for my saxophone.

Hey, Professor, you a free bird?

Hey, professor,

you got money in this game?

If you really are a professor, you must be rich, right?

Only in spirit.

Well, either way, you should have money on this team.

My team, because it's got me on it. Or at least, you know, you ought to bet a

big pile of chapter bars or miss a beef jerky or something.

What the hell is in beef jerky anyways?

I don't think anybody knows.

Sure, they call it beef, but what is it?

Mystery meat. Nobody knows.

Not even you, professor, and you're the smartest dude in this place. Hey,

Lawrence, you're going to talk or you're going to play?

Hey, hey, hey, come on, come on.

Cool. Tito, do you know what kind of meat is beef jerky?

You don't even know how to get your sorry ass by me. I'll tell you what I

I know you're meat now. Oh, man.

I'm really sorry, man.

It was a total accident.

I just got that.

Um... Maybe I could buy you a brand new one or something.

My brother gave me that.

It had my name on it. Hey, Marlon, maybe I could fix it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the

professor, he fixed this thing. No, no, this is your problem, not his. Let me

take a look at it.

Walk away, professor, unless you want this to be your problem.

It's basketball, man.

People run into people.

Tomorrow morning, I want it fixed or you're going down. You know what I'm

saying? You're going down.

Look how you talk to me.

Ain't that right, Professor?

Professor, you gotta help me here.

I don't know how to fix this damn thing.

This ain't nothing for you.

You pulling something on me?

You said fix it by morning.

Still morning, ain't it?

Yeah, well, this isn't over.

I'll see you later, little man.

Of course they denied your parole. You didn't give them any

choice.

They asked me a question.

I had to give them an honest answer.

You're not supposed to tell a lie, right?

That's right.

Go get yourself a soda, okay?

Okay.

Sweetheart.

Dad? What's wrong?

Just we're not exactly having an easy time right now.

Look, back there, talking about giving me a little raise.

I know I don't send you much, but... It's not about the money, Dad.

Philip needs a man in his life.

Dad, he adores you.

Don't you want to spend some time with him outside of this place?

Maybe it's for the best.

If he got to know me better, maybe he wouldn't like what he finds.

Hey, I almost forgot.

I got something for you.

I made it. Some little army men.

That's not army men. That's a tank.

I know.

They're inside.

Cool.

Professor, you got a minute?

Less every day.

You've been avoiding me.

That was one strange night last night, don't you think?

Every night here is strange by definition.

You know what I mean.

Why don't you just leave me alone?

Because I like you, Professor.

You remind me of my Uncle Walter.

He was a weird old dude just like you.

You must have made him very proud.

Want to tell me what the hell that was in my cell? You got what you wanted.

Why don't you just forget about it? You start sending pixie dust across the tier

and fixing things while I'm asleep? I didn't want to see you get hurt.

And if you keep talking about this, I could get hurt.

Look, whatever it is, it won't go any farther than me. I promise you.

I should have never helped you.

You had to, Professor.

Because that's who you are.

You don't know squat about me.

But I know you.

Dumb as a punk.

Always looking for the angle.

Shooting off your mouth.

Always looking for the easy way out.

Selfish. Just like all the rest of them.

Well, I guess you got me figured out, huh, Professor?

So now you figure this.

If you want to keep your little buzzy fly -ass magic thing secret, you better

share that secret with me.

I save your butt, and you threaten me?

That's prison for you.

It's one ugly place.

All right.

Tonight in the clean room.

After the last shift.

You gotta be a trustee to get in there. You leave that to me.

I'll fix it with the warden.

And don't go shooting off your mouth about this when the deal's off.

There's cameras all over this place. How come they can't see what you're doing?

Once this is on, it screws up the cameras completely.

All they can see in here now is snow.

They think I don't know.

All right.

I get it.

Now tell me, what the heck is all this about? I mean... Shut up.

And listen for once.

Those things you saw in your house, they're MEMS.

Microelectromechanical Systems.

Machines. No way.

They want machines.

It was more like... Swarm of fireflies, I know.

They're that small?

Smaller. This is what controls them.

Hello, children.

It's something I like to call...

Made them from micro scraps from the assembly line.

Stole fabrication time whenever I could.

Took me years, but once I understood how, it got easier.

And the things they can do.

You can touch them.

Don't worry, they don't bite.

They

can

even generate enough heat to boil water.

Those little models in your house.

You didn't make it. No, they did.

Just like they fixed your CD player.

Satisfied?

Oh, yeah.

Now that you know about them, you have to realize this is a tremendous

responsibility.

Nobody can know they exist.

The memes are not ready for the world.

Look ready to me?

How would you know?

They have a lot to learn.

And nobody can teach them but me. I won't let anyone else. I won't let them.

Sorry.

So, um, how many are there in the swamp I got?

Dozens.

Here.

Take a look.

Here.

Oh, you gotta be kidding me.

That little turbine impeller on top, that's how they move, like dust.

Dust. One jolt from that impeller and they ride the winds.

There's a real advantage to being small.

Well, I gotta tell you, I don't get it.

Don't worry about it. It's a very sophisticated technology.

That's not what I mean.

I mean, you know how to put these things together and get them to do whatever

you want.

And you're in this place?

Let me give you some advice.

Never let yourself think that you really know anyone.

Outside, I'd never be allowed to keep this a secret.

Somebody would take them from me and use them for war or to make money because

that's what people do. They use things.

They use each other.

If that happened, I'd never have a chance.

To do what?

To atone.

Locked down in one minute.

It made you return to yourself.

Whoa, shh. Hey,

Chip Dada.

you want.

Well, you know, Professor, you got me a theory.

What the hell are you doing?

Testing my theory.

Show me what you got.

You're gonna die in there, Professor.

Do what you gotta do.

I can't be more help, Warden.

When the place was on fire, I was desperate.

All I remember is pulling on the door as hard as I could.

You pulled open the door to yourself.

Excuse me, sir.

Didn't happen to doctor the wiring on that lock recently.

No, sir, Warden Taylor.

Because that would cause a fire like this.

I wouldn't know.

People are saying you might have some kind of lock -picking mechanism.

An electronic switch to open your cell any time you want.

You know my record?

I do, but I can't take any chances.

Gabriel!

It's clean.

The work you do gives you certain privileges.

But you start abusing those privileges, and they will disappear in the blink of

an eye.

Don't be stupid.

All right, children.

You can come out now.

That's it.

Don't be scared.

What's the matter?

You're hurt.

How you doing, Professor?

I'm busy.

Any idea why Marlon did what he did? Yeah, he's a psychopath.

He's seen them, Lawrence.

He knows.

Oh, poor little guy.

His impeller's broken.

The motion controller's almost fried.

I don't know if I can fix him.

It's so hard to repair.

Why don't you just build a new one?

Number three was one of my first.

I can't just throw them away.

When one dies, they're all affected. They need each other.

Wait a minute.

You're trying to tell me that these things actually talk to each other? They

don't just talk.

They learn.

I gave them neurochips, artificial intelligence, so that they could learn

their experiences.

Evolve. Is that possible?

Who's to say what's possible?

Lawrence, there's so much in this world that needs mending.

So many broken machines, broken bodies, broken hearts.

So much wasted, hurt and suffering.

But my children are ready.

Really ready.

There's so much they could make up for.

Hi, sweetheart.

Hey, where's my hug?

Hello.

What is it?

I got in a fight.

Are you okay?

Robert and Spencer.

Why are you fighting Spencer? He's your friend.

He called Grandpa a loser.

And you always said family sticks up for family.

Grandpa's family, too.

Yes. Yes, he is.

Hey.

We need to talk.

All right.

Alone.

Get lost.

All right, we're alone.

What happened last night?

You never said you were going to mess him up.

Well, you play with fire, you might get burned.

Or didn't your mommy tell you that?

This is way out of control, man.

I think we should just forget about it.

I need the professor alone.

Uh -uh, little man. You were right. He's got what I need.

We do like we agreed.

Come on, three.

You can do it.

Atta boy.

What are you doing here?

You're not supposed to be here.

Oh, I agree.

That's why you and your little worker bees are going to get me out.

It's not what they're for.

I'm not going to help you. Yeah.

Maybe you better talk that over with your daughter and your grandson first.

Because what I can do to you doesn't stop in this place. You can't. You know

can. You're going to get me out of this place, and you're going to do it

tonight.

Tonight?

Tonight. You got that, Professor?

Tonight.

You

said

he was going to kill me.

If I didn't tell him how his CD got fixed, I had no other choice. Just get

of here.

I need to talk to the warden.

You might want to take this call first.

Your daughter says it's an emergency.

Becky?

I have a problem here, Dad.

What do you mean?

Are you and Phillip all right?

I'm scared.

I need your help. Did somebody threaten you? If they did, I'll talk to the

warden. I don't care what happens to me. No, please don't do that.

Is somebody there with you?

Yes.

you or Philip.

That's what they said they're going to do unless you do what they want.

Dad, please.

Do whatever they say.

Sorry.

Some trick with the locks. Yeah, she can get your end up. Yeah, yeah, I got the

guards cleared all the way to the clean room. After that, you're on your own.

But if I don't get paid... Oh, no, I got you paid.

You kill him, and I'm out, I swear to God. You got no choice, remember? I

got a choice.

Let go!

You touch me again, and your grandson dies.

And I'll do worse than kill your daughter.

Knock out all communications in this place and figure out a way to get us to

east fence and from here I don't tell me you don't know how this is kids stuff

for you get the flashlights little man

That's

the quickest way out

We'll end up just outside the fence.

Now make him open up the security locks all along the way.

Now!

It's just where he said it would be. It's done.

Hey, come on.

Hurry.

Come on, old man, move it.

I'm moving. What are we going to do now?

We're ten miles from the city.

I got it covered. The car's over the hill.

Hold it right there!

Go, go, go!

Jesus! Under the street!

Damn

it! Are

you all right?

What happened? What the hell do you think? Buy me some band -aids.

Chuggy! Don't touch her. Leave her alone. There's no need for that, man.

It's going to be all right.

Okay, Professor.

Now I want you to show me what those things can do.

You better do what he says.

Now.

What are they, Grandpa?

They're some friends.

Give me that.

It's coming to Marlin now.

It's not working. It's not working. What's wrong?

I'm not sure.

In the box.

Looks like your family's a little bigger than I thought, Professor.

From here on in, it's easy.

When we move, we use your car.

I thought we went our separate ways from here. What you thought doesn't matter.

You got what you wanted.

Yeah, and now I want some more.

I told you I'd help you if you left my family alone. Well, the way I see it,

we're partners now.

Your little friends got us out of jail, which means they can get me into banks.

You show me how to do that, and I'll leave your family alone some more.

I don't believe you.

I just saw you kill a man.

So what makes you think I won't do it again?

These are mine.

I control them. I control you. You work them how and when I say. Do you

understand me? You can't be serious about this.

Be careful, Norad.

You're not looking real necessary to me right now.

Why don't you take the happy little family upstairs?

Make sure they can't get away.

Then go down and load up the car, huh?

Come on, Professor.

Come on, now.

All right, girl.

Are you going to hurt his grandpa? No, I won't let him.

Becky, I'm sorry.

I wish I could have been a better father.

Given Phillip a... A family he could be proud of. Then why did you keep yourself

in jail? I killed a man, Beck.

Took him away from his family forever.

Nothing can change that.

I had to try to make up for it.

Dad, being there for the ones who love you can make up for a lot of things,

Gotta do this quick while they're outside.

Finders keepers.

Mom left you little friends on the table downstairs.

You know, I've always been good with my hands.

I never should have let it get this far.

I had a responsibility.

Thank you.

Thank me for getting the hell out of here.

Professor, just want to let you know, I'm sorry.

And just how sorry are you now, huh?

I thought you were a lot smarter than that little man.

Go!

Get out of here now!

Go!

Some streets are calling the cops.

You, let her go. You don't have a prayer. Then either does she. You're

have to go through her to get to me.

You witch.

Dad.

Dad,

it's okay.

I know.

There I go.

Leaving you again. Dad, no.

You saved me.

You saved us. Oh, I wanted to do so much more.

I'm going in here.

I'm really sorry.

Your dad was a good man. Come on.

Hey, there's no need for that.

He hadn't hurt us.

He tried to help us.

Hey, baby.

How are you doing?

I can't believe he's gone.

I'm gonna miss him.

Me too.

Are we gonna be okay?

We absolutely are.

Come here.

I love you.

Me too.

It is said that our lives are measured by what we leave behind.

But for rich man and poor, the most valuable legacy of all is love.