All language subtitles for The Outer Limits_S04E04_In Another Life.srt - 2

[elevator dings]

-[phones ringing]
-[man] Morning.

[indistinct chatter]

Why is he still here?

He's been like that
for the last hour.

I told Stark to be out
of his office by noon.

Oh, I tried to give him
his severance package.

Gary insisted that
I should hold off for a bit.

Come on, Cynthia,
what's the harm

in giving the man
a little extra time?

You tell me. How much
have you accomplished

in the last hour
feeling sorry for him?

[Cynthia] Wrap it up.

[Kristin] I love you, Mason.

[Gary] Mason?

Come in.

This is from Balmer.

It's your severance package.

At least you won't have to
put up with that
bean counter anymore.

Yeah.

Look.

I can imagine
how you feel right now,

but you're gonna
catch on somewhere.

You're too smart not to.

[Gary] You have
plenty of time.

You got three months' pay.

Your medical insurance
keeps going until
you get settled again.

You know...

Your coverage does include
psychiatric services...

Like counseling, therapy--

You got something to
say to me, Gary?

Say it.

Mase...

Kristin's been gone
for over a year now.

There's nothing wrong
in getting some help
if you needed it.

It may help you come
to terms with what happened.

I know what happened.

I was there.

There was nothing
I could do to stop it.

I'm not saying that there was.

I'm not the son of a bitch
who shot her, all right?

It just happened!

Thanks for the advice!
Get the hell out of my office!

-[mumbles]
-I said get out!

No!

[indistinct chatter]

That went well.

He's just a little upset,
that's all.

Get security up here.

Right away, Miss Larmor.

[sobbing]

[distorted noises]

[shrill distorted
noises continue]

[distorted noises]

[man] Hello?

Now, look-- Oh, great!

Another one
that looks like me!

What the hell
are you doing?

I can't look
at these other two guys,

And you thought you
would bring another one in?

[sobbing]

[man continues shouting]

[tapping]

[breathing heavily]

Oh, no. No... No...

[Control Voice]
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 the 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.

You are about to experience
the awe and mystery

which reaches from
the deepest inner mind

to The Outer Limits.

[Control Voice]
Do we have the power
to shape our lives?

Or are we predestined
to be who we are?

If our fate is but
one amongst many,

then whose life,
if anyone's, is real?

[grunts]

[exclaims in pain]

[warning buzzer sounding]

[exclaiming in pain]

No.

Mason?

You understand me?

I'm dead.
I've got to be dead.

I know how strange
this must seem,
but you're not dead.

You're alive,
flesh and blood, just like me.

Who are you?

I'm you, Mason. In a sense.

Where am I?

In another life.

I need you to answer
some questions for me.

Can you do that?

You're currently
a project manager
at Eigenphase Systems.

Is that correct?

Yes.

[exclaims in pain]

What was that?

That chair monitors
the electrical activity
in your nervous system

to determine whether
or not you're lying.

An untruthful
or unresponsive subject

is prompted
with a brief electric shock.

I said I'd
answer your questions.

You don't have to torture me.

It's not torture.

It's a necessary precaution.

I'm sorry.

Now, again.

Are you currently a project
manager at Eigenphase Systems?

No. I was fired this morning.

That's the answer
I was hoping for.

One night, when you were
15 years old, your father
came home late from work.

He'd been drinking.
You began to argue.

He started beating you.

Did you stop him?

Did you stop him?

No.

I let him beat me, all right?

If I hadn't, he would
have hurt Mom again.

I don't need to know
your excuses.
Just your choices.

You were strong enough
to handle him.

You could have forced
him into detox, dried him out.

Helped him
get his life together.

That's easy for you to say.

That's what I did.

Three years ago, you met
a girl named Kristin Fields.

A year later,
she asked you to marry her.

-Did you?
-Yes.

Did it work out?

Not exactly.

She died.

How did it happen?

[Kristin]
Thinking it's going
to beat you down.

We were, uh...

[Kristin] Aw, sweetheart.

We were just taking a walk.

[Kristin]
You've earned this job.

You should start learning
to enjoy your success.

I enjoy my success
every day.

The fact that I convinced
you to marry me.

[Kristin laughs]
Oh, and how did you
manage to do that?

Very funny.

Give me your wallet!

[cocks gun]

Are you deaf? I said now!

Mason, give him
what he wants.

All right, here.
Here, take it all!
Just please, don't hurt us!

He shot her.

Why her and not you?

I don't know.

[exclaiming in pain]

There's no point in lying.
Why did he shoot her?

Here! Here, take it all!
Just please, don't hurt us!

Help!

Get down!

Help!

Why did he shoot her?

[exclaims in pain]

He shot her because I let him!

I could have saved her!
I could have tried!

But I was too afraid.

All right? Is that
what you wanted to hear?

I've had enough of
your damn questions!

If you're not gonna
tell me why I'm here, fine!

Then kill me now
and get it over with!

I don't care anymore!

Then I'm gonna
have to make you care.

[beeps]

Have you ever wondered
what would have happened

if only you'd made different
choices in your life?

Everybody has.

Yes, well, not everybody
can make those choices real.

Every choice we make affects
which path in life we follow.

And quantum physics dictates

that every one
of those different choices,

those alternate paths in life,
must still occur,

but in an alternate reality.

You mean the choices
I never made still happened?

That's right.

I built a quantum mirror
to help me understand

the paths in life
I didn't take.

You mean you're me
the way I might have been?

The way you might have been
if you'd finished
graduate school,

worked your way up through
the ranks at Eigenphase

until you became CEO.

You expect me to believe this?

How would you explain

-the other Masons
in these cells?
-[thudding]

Open it up!
I'm talking to you!

Hey! Hey! Hey!

Open it up!

All right, suppose
what you say is true,

why did you pick me?

See what the path
of a screw-up might be?

No, I brought you here
because I need your help.

First time I used the mirror,

I wasn't as careful
as I should have been.

The version I brought here

was more different from me
than I ever
could have imagined.

Who the hell are you?

He was injured
when I brought him through.

He wouldn't say how.

Cleaned his wound.
Explained to him where he was.

And once he got over
his initial shock,

we began to talk,
to get to know each other.

It was fascinating,
see the living result

of choices I never made.

Everything
seemed to be going fine.

Took him to my home.

At night, I woke up
to find him with a knife
at my wife's throat.

He was enraged.
Practically insane.

He said he was
gonna put things back

the way they were
supposed to be.

And then he...

He slit her throat.

She died in my arms.

I brought you here
to help me stop him...

before he kills again.

-Mr. Stark.
-Hey, Gary.

-Got a minute?
-Of course.

That's quite a scar, sir.
What happened?

Eh. Rent-a-cop shot me
in the head.

Just grazed me.

[whistles] Nice car
you got there.

That's very funny, sir.

What did you say
when you bought it for me?

You didn't want
your head of R&D

to be seen driving a Geo.
[laughs]

[mockingly] Head of R&D? Right.

Mr. Stark, is there something
I can do for you?

No.

There is something
I have to do.

Actually, I already
did it once.

I'm just gonna
have to do it again.

[grunts]

Look... What do I call you?

Mr. Stark will do.

All right, Mr. Stark.

Why would this other Mason
want to kill your wife?

I don't know.
I only know I had to do
something to stop him.

But I couldn't report it
to the police.

I would have become
a suspect myself.

The press would
have destroyed me.

I couldn't understand
the way he was thinking.

So I decided
I'd find someone who could.

I used the quantum mirror
to find other
versions of myself

that were similar
to the one who'd
murdered my wife.

[groaning]

Most of the other
Masons I found were psychotics

of some form or another,

even more violent
and dangerous
than the first one.

Others were more rational,
but equally useless to me.

And no longer necessary,
because now I've got you.

[Mason] What's it doing?

[Mr. Stark]
Finding the right life.

[machine powers down]

[Mason] I'm nothing
like that murderer.

How do you know
I'll be able to think like him?

I wasn't questioning you
for my entertainment.

From what little
I was able to learn

of the first
Mason's background,

your lives
were nearly identical.

I'll put all my resources
at your disposal,

anything you need to stop him.

Stop? You mean kill.

You want an assassin,
somebody expendable.

The man murdered my wife.

If I could find him myself,
I would.

But I can't do it alone.

I am giving you a chance

to do something worthwhile
with your life.

I'm giving you a chance
to stop a killer.

[Mason] Cynthia?

You married Cynthia,
not Kristin?

Yes, I met Cynthia
when I joined the company.

We built Eigenphase
into what it is today.

Kristin and I did have a brief
relationship some years ago.

She didn't understand my work.

She wasn't
interested in success.

I didn't think
she was right for me.

She was for me.

You really loved her,
didn't you?

She's still alive, Mason,
in this world.

I can find her for you.

I'll give you a new identity.

I'll help the two of you
start all over again.

All you have to do
is help me first.

[phone ringing]

[Mr. Stark] Thank you.

Gary Zeeman's dead.

Another innocent
person butchered.

I doubt he'll be the last.

All right, I'll help you.

[Mr. Stark] He's killing
everybody close to me.

My wife,
my business partners.

I don't think that's
what he's doing.

Why?

You're looking at this
from your point of view.

Those people are
important in your life,

not his.

You told me he said he
was going to put things back

the way they
were supposed to be.

He means the way
things were for him.

Why kill Cynthia and Gary?

You know, don't you?

If you hadn't brought me here,
I'd probably be dead.

I was going to shoot myself.

I guess I'd been
thinking about it for a while.

But right then,
just for a second,

I thought about killing
everybody in my office.

But I couldn't
go through with it.

I knew it wasn't
anybody's fault, but my own.

I remember
grabbing the gun.

I had my finger
on the trigger.

Then all of a sudden,
everything went
crazy around me.

I felt as if
I was being flooded

with a million thoughts from
a million different people,

except all of them were me.

And for a second,

I felt as if some part of me

had actually gone
through that door...

[screams]

[gunshots]

As if I'd actually killed them.

That's how
the quantum mirror works.

When you come through,

all the different versions
of you overlap for an instant.

You must have
somehow sensed the thoughts

of the Mason who
was most similar to you,

the one who made
the choice to kill.

When you brought
that other Mason through,

and he realized that all
the people he'd just killed

in his own reality
were still alive here,

he must have decided
to kill them all over again

to put things back
the way they were
supposed to be.

So, Cynthia was one of the
people outside your office?

Yeah.

And Gary must have
been there, too?

Yeah.

Who else?

That jerk, Balmer.

He was working late tonight
with his assistant.

[beeping]

[phone ringing]

Damn.

No answer from his office.

That's a perfect place
for the other Mason to strike.

It's our financial
systems division.

It's practically deserted
this time of night.

There's a car waiting
outside for you.

This will get you
in and out of the office.

Private entrance,
no one will see you.

[footsteps approaching]

Finish it.

[punching and grunting]

[Balmer grunting]

Come on, Balmer.

How do you like my version
of a severance package?

[Balmer grunting in pain]

Get away from him.

Ah, how nice
to see a familiar face...

Mr. St--

Well, I see Mr. Stark found
someone to clean up his mess.

Move away from him... Please.

How's this?

Look, I understand
how you feel.

You know something?

I actually believe you.

But this isn't
the world you left.

These aren't
the people you knew.

You don't have to
do this all over again.

I'm not.

First time,
it was just an impulse,

it was all over in a second.

This time, I decided
I'm gonna let myself enjoy it.

I intend to savor each moment.

[gunshot]

[gun clicks]

It's clear.

Sweep the place.

Make sure there's nothing
linking any of this to me.

And don't touch the bodies.

Someone will find them
in the morning.

What happened?

I... I had a chance.
I couldn't do it.

I couldn't pull the trigger.

Why the hell not?

I... I don't know.

Damn you.

Damn you!

Send me back.

[scoffs] You can't
just walk away.

The hell I can't.

Maybe I never
took responsibility
for my own life,

but I'll be damned
if I'm gonna take
responsibility for yours.

You brought that maniac
into your world.

You, not me.

Your world, not mine.

It's your problem
and you can deal with it.

Send me back.

All right, I will.

If you insist.

Something you might
want to know before you go.

The quantum mirror doorway
does work both ways,

but only at the
point of choice.

If you go back,
you return to your world

at the precise point of choice
you were at when you left,

a point you told me you were
just about to kill yourself.

Think about it, Mason.
Did you pull that trigger?

Are you willing to find out
if you didn't?

I can make your life here
a good one,

but only if you help me
catch that psychopath first.

Without me,
you'll be stuck here

in a world where you don't
even have your own identity,

where no one cares about you,
not even Kristin.

If you don't help me,
I'll do everything in my power

to make sure
you never find her again.

Just get away from me.
Leave me alone!

It's all right.
He just needs a little space.

But not too much.
Keep an eye on him.

Maybe we can go
somewhere else.

It's fine, Mason.

I like it here.

[chuckles] Besides, we have
the whole place to ourselves.

[Kristin giggles]

We can still go to a movie
if you want.

[sighs] Would you stop
second guessing yourself?

A lot of times your first
instinct's right, you know.

Well, you can't
always be sure.

So what?

How many times have you tried
to make the right choices,

then a whole bunch of things
happen that you never saw
coming in the first place?

Every day
for the last 20 years.

Very funny.

You can never
be sure of anything.

That's life.

Why did you ask me out?

Because if I had waited
for you to ask me out,

I'd probably still be waiting.

You're probably right.

Mason, you've been coming
to the same coffee shop
for a year.

I give you all
the right signals.

I do the hair thing.

[Kristin laughs]

I do the touching thing.

I laugh at your jokes.

My jokes aren't funny?

The point is... Is that...

You never follow through.

You always back off.

Mason, I like you.

You're an intelligent
decent man.

You just have to start
believing in yourself a little.

It helps when someone else
believes in you, too.

Yes, it does.

Just ask yourself what
kind of man you want to be,

and then try to be that man.

I think I want to be
the kind of man...

that a woman like you
would marry.

Gee.

I guess I give a pretty
good pep talk, huh?

-Mmm-hmm.
-[Kristin chuckles]

Hey, me.

Look...

We both work for Stark now.

No! No!

[grunting]

You leave Kristin alone!

[grunts]

I'm not here for her!

[both grunting]

I'm through with Stark now.
I'm not here to kill you.

That's nice to hear,
you stupid bastard.

'Cause I'm not here
to kill you either!

[groaning]

I came here to help you.

Why would you
want to help me?

Because you were about
to make a big mistake.

I decided to spare you
the embarrassment.

[indistinct conversation]

They've been meeting here
for the last couple of days.

Doesn't look all that serious,
but you never know.

Our Kristins have died
a long time ago...

In this world, in any world.

Mason Stark doesn't
mean a thing to her.

I know how that
must make you feel.

You don't know
a thing about me.

I don't?

Would you like to know
why you didn't stop me

from killing Balmer
when you had the chance?

I didn't have a chance.

Bullshit you didn't
have a chance.

You wanted him to die
the same as I did.

The only difference was
you didn't have the nerve
to kill him yourself.

In my reality,
when I went in that office,

with one pull of the trigger
I changed everything.

In that moment,

for the first time in my life
I stopped being a victim.

You still are.

Well, maybe I am.

But I'd rather stay
the way that I am,

than become
whatever it is you are.

You still don't get it.

Do you know why Stark
built the machine
in the first place?

He did it because
he hates his life.

Despite everything he has,

that poor, arrogant,
insecure son of a bitch

still is unhappy.

He built the mirror

to find a version of himself
that was happy

and take his place.

He didn't tell you why
he picked me first, did he?

No.

It was the image of me
on his machine.

He said I looked happier
than any other Mason
he'd ever seen.

And I was.

[scoffing]
Because I'd just killed
everyone I hated.

You might look like Stark,

but you're never
going to be him.

The best you can hope for
is to take what he has.

You're going to
kill him, aren't you?

You're going
to help me do it.

[scoffs]

You don't owe Stark a thing.

He used both of us.

And if you don't help me,
I'll kill Kristin right now.

-[gun clicks]
-Maybe this time you'll
make the right choice.

[inaudible conversation]

[gun clicks]

Stark, I'm back.

It's about time.
We still have work to do.

[grunts]

It just keeps getting easier
for you, doesn't it?

Yes.

That isn't Stark.

Mason.

[grunts]

Don't you ever get tired
of being wrong?

I always expected him
to come after me,

but I never thought
you'd help him.

[beeping]

How did he
convince you? Revenge?

No, he used Kristin
to threaten me,

just like you did.

Move.

I did what I had to do.
The man was a murderer.

And what are you?

The distinction
between us is clear.

If you can't
see the difference,

you're even dumber
than I thought.

It's time for you to go back
to where you came from.

You never intended
to let me stay here, did you?

No matter what happened.

You're one step removed
from a psychopath.

You seriously think
I'd let you loose
in this world?

You did it once.

You know what
the funny thing is?

Both of you tried so hard
to convince me how much
I was like each of you,

but you two are the ones
who are really alike.

Shut up.

That's right, the two of you.

You're the same!

You tried to use him.
He tried to use me.

Neither one of you
gave a damn

about who you hurt
or killed in the process.

-You got that right!
-[grunts]

You wanted another life, Stark?

You can have mine.

This is my life!

You don't deserve it!

Neither do you!

[distorted noises]

[grunts]

[distorted noises continue]

[screaming]

Security's on their way up,
Miss Larmor.

Good.

[Gary] What the hell is that?

[gunshot]

Oh, Mase.

Oh, God.

There was only
one shot, right?

Yeah.

[Gary] Then how did he get
that scar on his head?

Oh, God. No, no.

This isn't my world.

I said put the gun down!

[grunts]

Hello, Kristin.

Mason?

[chuckles]

It's been years.
What are you doing here?

I was looking for you.

Yeah, right.

You're serious.

Why?

This is where
we had our first date.

You remember that?

Probably not quite
the way you do.

Well, why don't we
hear your version?

[Control Voice]
If our lives are indeed

the sum total
of the choices we've made,

then we cannot change
who we are.

But with every new choice
we're given,

we can change
who we're going to be.