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[♪ solemn instrumental music playing]

[metal scraping]

[men chanting in Spanish]

[man speaking Spanish]

[continues in Spanish]

[Aguilar breathing deeply]

[Aguilar grunting]

[speaking in Spanish]

[♪ rock music playing]

[eagle whistling]

♪ Rollin' fast down I-35 ♪

♪ Supersonic overdrive ♪

♪ Rollin' fast down I-35 ♪

♪ Through the day and past the night ♪

[singer vocalizing]

♪ Rollin' fast down I-45 ♪

♪ I get ahead, goin' 109 ♪

♪ Rollin' fast down I-45 ♪

♪ Bendin' time, feelin' fine ♪

♪ Entrance Song ♪

[singer vocalizing]

[coughing]

Shit.

[♪ music continues]

[♪ music playing over radio]

♪ And then someday ♪

♪ You'd leave me for somebody new ♪

[♪ soft music playing]

♪ Worry ♪

Mom?

♪ Why do I let myself worry? ♪

♪ Wondering ♪

♪ What in the word did I do? ♪

♪ Crazy for thinking... ♪

[man speaking Spanish backwards]

Dad?

Your blood is not your own, Cal.

They found us.

[♪ suspenseful music playing]

Live in the shadows.

[vehicles approaching]

Go! Go, now!

[panting]

[shouting indistinct]

[Cal grunting]

[men continue shouting indistinctly]

[panting]

[eagle screeching]

[scratching]

[voices whispering indistinctly]

[buzzer blaring]

[latch unlocks]

You here to save my soul?

Something like that.

I, uh...

I understand it's your birthday.

[chuckles] Yeah.

The party's just getting started.

Sit down. You're making me nervous.

[sighs]

"Oh, Lord, wash away my sin,

and I'll be clean..."

[breathing deeply]

"...once again."

You're not much for the Bible, are you?

[man] Be it known that Callum Lynch

has been found guilty of capital murder...

and is sentenced to die on this day

October 21st, 2016.

Does the prisoner wish to make a final statement?

Tell my father I'll see him in hell.

[breathing deeply]

[breathing raggedly]

[♪ intense music playing]

My name is Dr. Sofia Rikkin.

At 6:00 p.m. yesterday evening,

you were executed and pronounced dead.

[gasps softly]

Insofar as anyone in the world knows or cares,

you no longer exist.

[sighs]

[Cal grunts]

It's better that you sit.

My eyes.

[Sofia] What you're feeling right now is normal,

if uncomfortable.

Cal...

I'm here to help you.

And you're here to help me.

[grunting]

Let him go.

[gasping]

[grunts]

Don't touch him.

[sirens blaring in distance]

[siren blaring in distance]

Go ahead, do it.

Jump.

You're not a prisoner here, Cal.

I'm here to protect you.

If you listen to me,

everything is going to make sense.

But you need to trust me.

Where am I?

You're in a rehabilitation wing

of the Abstergo Foundation in Madrid.

A private organization

dedicated to the perfection of humankind.

[laughing]

[Sofia] With your help,

we can pioneer new ways to eradicate violence.

I had this.

Your father wants him in.

He's my patient. This is my program.

-Prepare the Animus. -[door opens]

[machine whirring]

[panting]

-[Sofia] Are the blades prepared? -[man] Right here.

[Sofia] And we've confirmed their provenance?

[man] They belonged to Aguilar, recovered at his burial site.

What are these?

[Sofia] Assume final preparations.

Our regression,

Andalucia, 1492. Record everything.

[machine whirring]

[man] Arm's ready.

[machine whirring]

What is this?

I'm sorry, Cal. This is not the way I like to do things.

Then don't do it.

Insert epidural.

[screaming]

What do you want from me?

Your past.

Listen to me carefully, Cal.

You're about to enter the Animus.

What you're about to see, hear and feel...

are the memories of someone who's been dead for 500 years.

Wait a minute!

[Sofia] You can't change what happens, Cal.

Engage scanner.

[panting]

Status?

[man] Scanning DNA chains.

Searching for time frame.

[machine whirring]

First memory match locked.

DNA match identified.

Stay with it, Cal.

Attempt synchronization.

[breathing heavily]

We found him. We found Aguilar.

[man] Synchronization achieved.

There.

Commence regression.

[people clamoring]

[man shouting indistinctly]

[men grunting]

[speaking in Spanish]

[bell tolling]

[chickens clucking]

[boy grunting]

[speaking in Spanish]

[woman speaking indistinctly]

-[woman grunts] -[speaking in Spanish]

[speaking in Spanish]

[woman grunts]

[boy grunts]

[lock rattling]

[speaking in Spanish]

[grunts]

[people murmuring]

[men shouting]

Stay with the memory, Cal.

[metal scrapes]

[grunting]

[people shouting indistinctly]

[yells]

[grunting]

[shouting indistinctly]

[shouting] Ah! Ah!

[speaking in Spanish]

[♪ dramatic music playing]

[yelling]

[man grunting]

[yells]

[both grunting]

[grunting]

[speaking in Spanish]

Pull him!

[boy screaming]

[Aguilar straining]

Commence rehabilitation.

Run a systems check and log his condition.

You did well, Cal.

[voices echoing indistinctly]

[Rikkin over speakers] Looking back, it's clear

that the history of the world,

is a history of violence.

Last year, the economic impact of antisocial behavior

was $9 trillion.

We believe that man today experiences

a measure of aggression

for which he finds no acceptable outlets.

Now imagine...

if all these costs could be channeled elsewhere...

So the regression went well?

[Sofia] Lynch is the one.

A direct descendant of Aguilar.

Everything was clear in there for the first time.

...what we all dream of,

a more peaceful world.

I see you stole my lines again.

I only steal from the best.

And the Artifact?

The Apple. It's within our grasp.

What happened in there? Why did you pull him?

I had to.

We have to keep him healthy.

Earn his confidence.

And I know he'll lead us to it.

Push him.

That's not how the Animus works.

[sighs]

Here you go.

Thank you.

1917, Rutherford splits the atom.

1953, Watson and Crick find the double helix.

2016...

my daughter finds the cure for violence.

You've always been brighter than me.

[inhales deeply]

Now I'm late.

I have to report to the Elders.

[man speaking indistinctly]

[footsteps approaching]

Francisco Rizi's Grand Inquisition, 1492.

War, religious persecution,

and the closest Father Torquemada,

or any of our Order came to finding the Apple of Eden.

-How are you, my friend? -Well...

Your Excellency.

Next week when the Elders meet,

we shall vote to discontinue your Abstergo project.

We feel that giving you three billion annually

would be better spent elsewhere.

Three billion is nothing compared to...

We've won.

People no longer care about their civil liberties.

They care about their standard of life.

The modern world has outgrown notions like freedom.

They're content to follow.

The threat remains

while free will exists.

For centuries, we've tried with religion,

with politics, and now consumerism

to eliminate dissent.

Isn't it time we gave science a try?

My daughter is closer than we've ever been.

How is your beautiful daughter?

She has traced the protectors of the Apple.

Where?

Andalusia, 1492.

The descendants?

All the bloodlines have died out.

Bar one.

We've traced his back 500 years

to the Assassin's Brotherhood.

-[Aguilar grunts] -[gasps]

[wind rustling]

[daggers clinks]

[door opens]

[Sofia] The hallucinations are what we call the Bleeding Effect.

Images of your regression

layer themselves over your present-day field of vision.

If you allow me,

I can teach you how to control them.

Stand down. I have this.

[man] Let her be.

What is it?

The machine?

It's genetic memory.

By using the Animus,

we can relive lives of those who made us who we are.

[voices whispering indistinctly]

[speaking indistinctly]

What I saw in there...

it felt real.

It was.

-In a way. -[bangs]

Don't mess with me.

I feel different now.

Why the aggression?

I'm an aggressive person.

What kind of prison is this?

It's not a prison, Cal.

You'll learn more if you cooperate.

Let me go.

I'm hungry.

Come with me.

What is this?

[Sofia] I know everything about you, Cal.

Your medical data, your psychological profile,

the mutations in your MAOA gene.

I know about the foster homes,

the juvenile halls.

You're living proof of the link

between heredity and crime.

How did you find me?

We found Aguilar.

And when you were arrested, your DNA matched his.

Who's Aguilar?

Your ancestor.

His family were Assassins.

They were burned at the stake by the Templars, Torquemada,

and the black knight you saw, Ojeda.

Aguilar took up the Assassins' cause.

Do you get out much?

More than you.

[Cal] And the others in here,

-are they lab rats too? -[Sofia] They're Assassins.

Murderers, like their ancestors.

Like you, Cal.

All born with a predisposition to violence.

Murderer?

You killed a man.

A pimp.

Would you kill again?

[Cal] Happy families.

She must be very proud.

I wouldn't know.

She was killed by an Assassin.

Like your mother.

Sorry.

My old man killed my mother.

And how does that make you feel?

Like killing him.

Either we let it affect us for the rest of our lives,

or we do something about it.

You turned to violence, I turned to science.

It's the Apple of Eden, Cal.

I believe it exists.

The Bible tells us it contained

the seed of man's first disobedience.

But there are those of us who believe that

God, or some ancient civilization

has left us a road map to understand

why people are violent.

Aguilar was the last person

known to have had it in his possession.

We need you to find out where he hid it.

I thought I was here to be cured.

Violence is a disease, like cancer.

And, like cancer,

we hope to control it one day.

Violence is what kept me alive.

Well, technically, you're dead.

[chuckles]

I'm hungry.

[Cal] What's in it for me?

[Sofia] Once my research is complete,

there is no reason to keep you here.

I get my life back?

Better.

A new one.

You're hungry.

[people chattering indistinctly]

[♪ soft music playing over speakers]

You don't know who he is, what he is.

That's a dangerous man.

Give him a little more time, Emir.

The man might prove to have some noble blood in him yet.

How about here, sir?

It's an open menu, but we do recommend the chicken.

What can I get you, Mr. Lynch?

It's an open menu, but we do recommend the chicken.

I'll have steak.

Steak for the pioneer.

Who are you?

They call me Moussa.

But my name is Baptiste.

I'm dead 200 years now.

Voodoo poisoner.

I'm harmless. [chuckles]

Ah. They're watching you.

Waitin' to see who you are, pioneer.

Have you met him yet?

Have you met him yet?

We are the last to protect the Apple, my friend.

Make the wrong choice,

you gonna send us all to infinity.

This...

belongs to you.

[woman over speakers] Progress requires sacrifice.

You're gonna lead them right to it.

No. I'm going to eat it.

[woman over speaker] In quality, find peace.

What the fuck is going on?

[♪ music playing on radio]

[voice shouting indistinctly in distance]

[voices whispering indistinctly]

He has to go back in the Animus.

Now.

He needs more time before he goes in again.

We don't have time.

Why?

I won't risk his life.

Then I'll have to find someone else to do it.

[muffled shouting echoes]

[both grunting]

[both grunting]

[door opens]

[man grunts]

[Cal grunting]

You're up, slugger.

I'm crazy.

[laughing]

[singing] ♪ I'm crazy ♪

♪ Crazy for feeling so lonely... ♪

They're getting him back in again.

Then we should stop him before he betrays us.

Set the date for the 6th.

[Cal singing] ♪ Why do I let myself... ♪

If his condition deteriorates,

-pull him out. -[Cal continues] ♪ ...worry? ♪

-Your father... -I don't care what my father said.

♪ What in the world did I do? ♪

[Sofia] Cal, listen to me.

-[Cal continues singing] -Listen to me!

♪ Crazy for crying ♪

You have to stay with Aguilar.

♪ Crazy for crying ♪

Stay in sync with him or it could be dangerous.

♪ And I'm crazy for loving you ♪

[♪ intense music playing]

[people clamoring]

[chains rattling]

[speaking in Spanish]

[both speaking Spanish]

[footsteps approaching]

[chains rattling]

[bell tolling]

[drum beats]

[people clamoring]

[all shouting indistinctly]

[shouting indistinctly]

[drum beats stop]

[speaking in Spanish]

[crowd cheering]

[priest continues in Spanish]

[crowd cheering]

[crowd cheering]

[crowd shouting indistinctly]

[gasps]

[grunts]

[grunts]

He's synchronizing.

[men grunting]

[man groans]

[Maria screams]

[Torquemada speaking Spanish]

[Maria grunts]

[screams]

[people shouting indistinctly]

[shouting in Spanish]

[machine whirring]

Go!

[shouting] Ahhh!

[men shouting indistinctly]

[men shouting indistinctly]

[Maria screams]

-[grunts] -[Maria grunts]

[men shouting indistinctly]

[grunting]

[man grunts]

[shouting indistinctly]

[bell tolling in distance]

[shouting indistinctly]

[grunts]

-[yells] -[women screaming]

[man groans]

[people shouting indistinctly]

[yells]

[horse whinnies]

Ha!

[men screaming]

[men shouting indistinctly]

[men shouting]

[bell tolling]

[both grunting]

[both grunting]

[man gasps]

[grunting]

[man groans]

[all exclaiming]

[people screaming]

[grunts]

[people shouting indistinctly]

[gasps]

[panting]

Jump!

[whooshing]

Complete desynch.

Get him down!

Where are the medics?

[alarm ringing]

[Sofia] It's okay. It's okay, Cal.

Stay with me, Cal.

Stay with me. It's okay. Hurry up!

Okay. Okay. Look at me.

[softly] It's okay, look at me.

[machine clanging]

I can't feel my legs.

[Sofia] The paralysis is temporary.

What's the bad news?

It caused a neurological split,

but we got you through it.

This time.

I'm gonna die in here, aren't I?

No.

Not if you go in there of your own free will.

I can't do this.

[Sofia] Yes, you can.

The Apple.

you're the only one left who can find it.

We can put an end to pain, Cal.

For everyone.

Where'd you get this?

[Sofia] My father recovered it

from the scene of your mother's murder,

and brought it here for safekeeping.

Safekeeping?

You stole it.

It's your mother's necklace. I wanted you to have it.

Why was he there?

To save her.

-From who? -Her own people.

What's it got to do with you?

Assassins and Templars

have been at war for centuries.

I aim to change that.

[Cal] That's right, I forgot.

We're here to combat aggression.

I don't think I like your methods.

I'm a scientist.

I'm here to be cured of violence.

Who's gonna cure you?

We're feeding the beast.

We're making him stronger.

[door unlocks]

I'm Dr. Rikkin.

Alan.

I look after things here in Abstergo.

Like to keep things in the family, huh?

Yes.

I'm sorry if we've caused you any discomfort.

Is there anything I can do?

How about you let me out of here?

That's something I can't manage.

I'm here to make a deal.

We need the Apple.

And we need you to get it for us.

You've been desynching in the Animus.

We need you not to do that.

Sending me back to the machine?

No.

You've already shown us what we needed to see.

Will you let us free then?

[monitor chiming]

What do you hope to gain from the newcomer?

Something that'll benefit us all.

You too, Moussa.

[voices whispering indistinctly]

What have you done to them?

[Rikkin] It's what happens

if you don't enter a regression

of your own volition.

Do you recognize this?

It's an Assassin's blade.

This is the actual one...

that your father used to take your mother's life.

He's here, you know.

A mother's death, Cal...

Not something a boy should ever be made to see.

[door opens]

This is wrong.

You left me no choice.

He has to go in of his own free will, you said that.

I had to negotiate.

You mean manipulate.

I assured the Elders we would have the Apple for London.

That's in two days.

He doesn't want to know his past or his father.

He wants to destroy them both.

We're not in the business of creating monsters.

[Rikkin] We've neither created them nor destroyed them.

We've merely abandoned them to their own inexorable fate.

You're your mother's son.

What does that mean?

The blood that flows through you is not your own.

It belongs to the Creed.

Your mother knew that.

She died so the Creed may live.

Remind me how, exactly.

What you saw...

I did.

You murdered her.

I took her life rather than have it stolen

by that machine.

A man grows with the greatness of his task.

I ought to have killed you.

I couldn't.

Well, here.

Take it.

Do what you couldn't do 30 years ago.

It's in your hands now, Cal.

This is what they want.

Spill my blood...

but do not go back into the Animus.

Why?

The Apple...

contains the genetic code for free will.

They will use it to destroy us.

I'm gonna find it...

and watch them destroy you...

and your Creed.

You cannot kill the Creed.

It's in your blood.

The Apple is everything.

Your mother died to protect it.

She had no choice.

I do.

[beeping]

[both grunting]

You're gonna kill the Creed!

[panting]

Take me to the Animus.

Put me in.

[Sofia] Prepare the Animus.

Voluntary regression.

Do you know how Assassins came to be named?

From an Arabic word.

"Hashashin."

They were society's outcasts,

those who stole,

who murdered in cold blood.

People ridiculed them.

Rebels, fools, drug addicts.

But they were wise.

They used this reputation

to hide a dedication to principles

beyond those of even their strongest enemies.

And for that...

I admire them.

But you're not one of those men,

are you?

Let's find out.

[machine whirring]

[man] Commencing regression.

This is my life's work.

It's my life.

[♪ dramatic music playing]

[speaking in Spanish]

[Torquemada speaking Spanish]

[men shouting]

[all grunting]

[all yelling]

[man groans]

[speaking in Spanish]

[Torquemada screaming]

[both grunting]

[shouting indistinctly]

[both grunting]

[groans softly]

[screams]

[yelling]

[panting]

[groaning]

[grunts]

[exhales]

[screams]

[sword clatters]

[both grunting]

[exhales]

[screaming]

[both grunting]

[Aguilar grunting]

[groans softly]

[men shouting indistinctly]

[speaking in Spanish]

[door rattling]

[grunting]

[men shouting indistinctly]

[men shouting indistinctly]

[machine whirring]

[panting]

[men shouting indistinctly in distance]

[speaking in Spanish]

[Torquemada shouting]

[arrows whizzing]

[machine powering down]

[alarm blaring]

Leap of Faith.

[machine restarts]

Where are we?

[man] It looks like a military port.

Cadiz, Palos de la Frontera.

[eagle screeching]

[speaking in Spanish]

[conversation continues in Spanish]

[Sofia] What is it? Translation?

[man reading] "Following the light of the sun,

I shall leave this old world behind."

It's Christopher Columbus.

Where is he buried?

His remains were returned to Spain.

His tomb is in Seville Cathedral.

We found it.

[speaking in Arabic]

[people chanting softly in Arabic]

[Moussa] Hey, All Stars. Come here.

[ball thuds]

Pick one.

Any one.

[guards grunting]

Breach in the common room!

Seal the Animus.

[people chanting in Arabic]

[chanting continues softly]

Is it a memory?

[man] No.

[all yelling]

[shouting indistinctly]

-[guards shouting indistinctly] -[alarm blaring]

Come on!

[both grunting]

[man screaming]

-[electricity crackling] -[guard groaning]

-Transport? -Standing by.

Protect the Animus. Purge the facility.

I need to get you out of here first.

No!

We have to leave, Sofia.

[alarm beeping]

[shouting indistinctly]

[guard groaning]

[stabbing]

No!

No!

[grunting]

[shouting indistinctly]

[alarm beeping]

[shouting indistinctly]

You're not alone, Cal.

You never were.

[guards shouting indistinctly]

-Wake and bake, my protector. -Come on.

[guards shouting indistinctly]

[Cal's mother] Where other men

blindly follow the truth...

remember...

Nothing is true.

Where other men are limited

by their morality or law...

remember...

Everything is permitted.

We work in the darkness to serve the light.

We are Assassins.

What now, pioneer?

We fight.

[all yelling]

[shouting indistinctly]

[helicopter blades whirring]

[screaming]

[electricity crackling]

-[stabbing] -[grunting]

[grunting]

-[grunting] -[glass shattering]

[♪ intense music playing]

[bell tolling]

[people chattering indistinctly]

Your Excellency.

All the glory will go to your father.

But we both know who found it.

Your time will come, my child.

[people chattering indistinctly]

[scanner beeping]

[Rikkin] They'll give you a Nobel Peace Prize for this.

Better start writing your speech.

I've read yours.

And?

"If we eradicate free will, we eradicate the Assassins

the cancer that has menaced society for centuries."

It's not my best work...

but it gets the point across.

We've been looking for solutions.

You've eliminated the problem.

[Sofia] So my program...

Has brought order to society for the first time.

I'm accountable for this.

You've already been accounted for.

Our work belongs to the Elders.

This is their finest hour.

You lied to me.

I've always known that in your heart,

you were a scientist first and a Templar second.

Your recent work has impressed us much,

but it has confirmed our belief that mankind

cannot be redeemed.

So you've thought of everything.

Not quite. My speech,

it could do with one of your elegant openings.

"Now I am become death...

"the destroyer of worlds."

Not sure I could make that work.

[people applauding]

It is with great pleasure tonight...

that I introduce the architect of our ancient order's future.

Please welcome the CEO

-of the Abstergo Foundation... -[audience applauding]

...Dr. Alan Rikkin.

[crowd applauding and cheering]

[Rikkin] With the recovery of the Apple,

we are now in possession

of a complete genetic roadmap to humanity's instincts.

Any impulse towards independence,

resistance, or rebellion

will be crushed.

Any predisposition that might oppose

our march of progress,

can now be eradicated.

[audience applauding]

All I have to do is shout.

I'm here to help you.

And you're here to help me.

I can't help you anymore.

What about all those great plans?

Cure violence.

Combat aggression.

That's not going to happen.

You started this, Sofi.

You don't get to walk away.

We both know what happens next.

Not everything deserves to live.

I can't do this.

Yes, you can.

[applauding]

But it is not to ourselves, but to the future

that we must give glory.

A future purged of the Assassin's Creed.

[applauding and cheering]

Ladies and gentlemen...

the Apple of Eden.

[audience exclaiming]

[yelling]

[muffled screaming]

I did this.

I will retrieve the Artifact for the Elders.

Lynch, I want for me.

It is not to ourselves,

but to the future, that we must give glory.

[all clamoring]

[sirens blaring]

[♪ intense music playing]

[♪ up-tempo song playing]

♪ My God, it ain't right ♪

♪ This time I'm leaving ♪

♪ Head into the light ♪

♪ Feed me not, demon ♪

[vocalizing]

♪ The Devil need ♪

♪ He said he needs me ♪

♪ The Devil need ♪

♪ He said he needs me ♪

♪ Put my name on your lips ♪

♪ Let me know when you're done ♪

♪ Crack the window in the morning ♪

♪ Let your tears be unnoticed ♪

♪ Or is this something you're missing? ♪

♪ Like the taste of my mouth ♪

♪ Love me, love me ♪

♪ Love me, love me ♪

♪ Cross your fingers ♪

♪ Kiss me, baby ♪

♪ Pay me, pay me ♪

♪ Come save me ♪

♪ That ain't right ♪

♪ My God, it ain't right ♪

♪ That ain't right ♪

♪ Feed me not ♪

♪ Feeling you out ♪

♪ Reading your mind ♪

♪ Jesus never fed me love ♪

[vocalizing]

♪ That ain't right ♪

♪ This time I'm leaving ♪

♪ Step into the light ♪

♪ My God, it ain't right ♪

♪ My God, it ain't right ♪

♪ Feed me not, demon ♪

♪ Feed me not, demon ♪

♪ Feed me not, demon ♪

♪ Feed me not ♪

[♪ dramatic instrumental music playing]