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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:15,909 --> 00:00:17,994 You ready for your first Sight Recognition lesson? 2 00:00:22,576 --> 00:00:23,703 I guess so. 3 00:00:25,896 --> 00:00:28,049 - What do you see when you look at me? - A square. 4 00:00:28,159 --> 00:00:29,569 Is that what you really see? 5 00:00:29,642 --> 00:00:30,595 Uhm... 6 00:00:30,650 --> 00:00:31,730 - Go on. - A line? 7 00:00:31,805 --> 00:00:33,811 - Is that all? - Uhm... 8 00:00:37,330 --> 00:00:39,931 What do you see at the edges of the line? Look closer. 9 00:00:39,986 --> 00:00:41,571 I see, like, shadings? 10 00:00:41,627 --> 00:00:45,629 That's the ether. The Fog. It dims the light the further away you are. 11 00:00:45,767 --> 00:00:50,055 It's everywhere, so to children and the uneducated it's nowhere, invisible. 12 00:00:54,090 --> 00:00:56,086 That's why they have to feel their way around, 13 00:00:56,123 --> 00:00:59,621 touching people in order to figure out who or what they are. 14 00:01:02,609 --> 00:01:04,605 - Feelers are sticksville. - That's right, that's right. 15 00:01:04,662 --> 00:01:07,245 Now, suppose two individuals are approaching. 16 00:01:07,382 --> 00:01:10,432 A triangle... and a pentagon. 17 00:01:10,599 --> 00:01:12,174 Which is which? 18 00:01:12,302 --> 00:01:13,914 Ah ah ah! No touching! 19 00:01:21,328 --> 00:01:23,984 If that were a real triangle you could hurt yourself on his sharp angles! 20 00:01:24,029 --> 00:01:26,172 Why can't I just walk around it? 21 00:01:26,221 --> 00:01:28,272 That way I could see the shading easier. 22 00:01:28,336 --> 00:01:30,177 Now, that's not done in polite company. 23 00:01:30,262 --> 00:01:34,218 Sometimes when there are a lot of people you can wiggle back and forth to triangulate, 24 00:01:34,328 --> 00:01:36,727 but you don't want to go all the way around someone. 25 00:01:46,414 --> 00:01:49,931 - So you figure it out by standing right where you are. - Urgh! 26 00:01:50,407 --> 00:01:53,429 - But how do I do it? - Infer the shape through the shading. 27 00:01:53,518 --> 00:01:57,154 - See? - B Square! How are you? 28 00:01:57,401 --> 00:01:59,196 Not bad, not bad. Is my brother in? 29 00:01:59,244 --> 00:02:00,682 I can't do it! 30 00:02:00,746 --> 00:02:02,065 Am I stupid? 31 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:05,026 - I must be a feeler! - Sight recognition isn't easy, 32 00:02:05,062 --> 00:02:07,260 I know, but it'll come to you... 33 00:02:07,336 --> 00:02:09,460 Your brother is here! 34 00:02:09,506 --> 00:02:12,501 - We'll continue the lesson in a moment. - Do we have to? 35 00:02:20,823 --> 00:02:24,285 - Wee! I got you! - No you didn't! - Yes I did! 36 00:02:36,106 --> 00:02:38,093 - B Square! - A Square! 37 00:02:41,556 --> 00:02:43,846 What's this about representing A Line? 38 00:02:43,912 --> 00:02:46,669 I haven't taken her case yet. I'm meeting her this afternoon. 39 00:02:46,714 --> 00:02:48,940 - But she's a Chromatist! - Accused. 40 00:02:49,043 --> 00:02:52,560 - Like five percent of the population. - Of the male population. 41 00:02:52,789 --> 00:02:55,472 - She's the first woman who's joined the... - Just because you work at the ministry, 42 00:02:55,511 --> 00:02:58,030 you can't go around accusing people without evidence. 43 00:02:58,076 --> 00:02:59,916 Oh, there's plenty of evidence, big brother. 44 00:02:59,944 --> 00:03:02,023 Ah! So, another show trial. 45 00:03:08,710 --> 00:03:10,606 Can't you talk any sense into your husband? 46 00:03:10,643 --> 00:03:13,198 I might puncture some into him. 47 00:03:15,370 --> 00:03:17,898 - Don't forget your Peace-cry! You could be arrested! - Right. 48 00:03:21,603 --> 00:03:23,774 That's not funny. Don't encourage her, B... 49 00:03:23,856 --> 00:03:26,714 A Hexagon! How's my favorite nephew? 50 00:03:26,824 --> 00:03:28,554 O.K. What are you talking about? 51 00:03:28,630 --> 00:03:32,751 Is it about Chromatism? Is it? Chromatism is cool... 52 00:03:34,823 --> 00:03:35,995 Where did he hear that? 53 00:03:36,032 --> 00:03:38,651 - Go to your room! - But my lesson! 54 00:03:38,678 --> 00:03:40,858 - In your room! - Oh, all right. 55 00:03:40,897 --> 00:03:43,178 Can I get you anything B? 56 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:45,962 Well, I can't stay.Big doings this afternoon. 57 00:03:46,110 --> 00:03:48,107 The President is going to meet with Chromatistes. 58 00:03:48,134 --> 00:03:50,561 - A concession? - Just... don't go out for a while. 59 00:03:50,689 --> 00:03:53,162 - That's why I came by, to warn you. - But... 60 00:03:53,235 --> 00:03:55,552 my client... I'm meeting her this afternoon. 61 00:03:55,607 --> 00:03:59,279 - I never miss an appointment. - Listen to your brother for once! 62 00:04:08,140 --> 00:04:10,613 Sometimes even lines give good advice, big brother. 63 00:04:14,671 --> 00:04:17,575 - Attend to your Configuration. - Attend to your Configuration. 64 00:05:19,387 --> 00:05:21,649 President Circle! Sir! Where are you going? 65 00:05:21,741 --> 00:05:24,891 Follow me, we'll talk as we head for the Hospital. 66 00:05:25,033 --> 00:05:27,314 The... Hospital of Reconfiguration? 67 00:05:27,442 --> 00:05:30,766 Yes, yes, the First Line had a child last night. 68 00:05:30,888 --> 00:05:33,397 Something went wrong. An irregular side. 69 00:05:33,479 --> 00:05:36,199 - I'm... so sorry sir... - These things happen. 70 00:05:36,303 --> 00:05:38,354 The Hospital has good doctors. 71 00:05:38,446 --> 00:05:42,036 In fact I'm heading over now to see my son for the very first time, 72 00:05:42,111 --> 00:05:44,117 completely reconfigured by now! 73 00:05:44,135 --> 00:05:46,681 - And your wife? Is she all right? - Yes, of course, 74 00:05:46,775 --> 00:05:50,877 in the recovery room. But she picked a terrible time for a pregnancy. 75 00:05:51,218 --> 00:05:54,451 The Chromatists... Senator Chromatistes... 76 00:05:54,644 --> 00:05:57,647 The constant threat of war on the border... 77 00:05:58,723 --> 00:06:01,572 - So, did you review my plan? - Yes, sir... 78 00:06:01,636 --> 00:06:03,403 - Problems? - No, sir. 79 00:06:03,559 --> 00:06:05,840 Good. And the speech? 80 00:06:06,179 --> 00:06:09,531 - Brilliant, sir. Absolutely brilliant.. - Good. 81 00:06:38,226 --> 00:06:41,614 What's wrong with Hex? He doesn't seem interested in his lessons. 82 00:06:41,738 --> 00:06:45,896 One of his older brothers told him that he was reconfigured. 83 00:06:45,942 --> 00:06:46,464 What? 84 00:06:50,699 --> 00:06:53,703 Hex was making fun of them, taunting them... 85 00:06:53,925 --> 00:06:56,554 Low class! Low Sided! 86 00:06:56,700 --> 00:07:00,473 I think E Pentagon just wanted to make him shut up. 87 00:07:00,578 --> 00:07:04,381 - Now why did E go and do that? - Hex was being pretty nasty. 88 00:07:04,408 --> 00:07:08,658 There's no shame in reconfiguration. It was a small genetic defect. 89 00:07:08,758 --> 00:07:12,137 We should make Hex proud that he's A Hexagon. 90 00:07:12,249 --> 00:07:16,993 - The first in the family. - Some humility would help to temper that pride. 91 00:07:17,609 --> 00:07:20,009 - Go talk to him. - I will. 92 00:08:03,689 --> 00:08:06,711 - Find the physician. - Yes sir, Mister President, right away. 93 00:08:07,519 --> 00:08:11,512 - So, B Square. Is everything in place? - Yes, sir. 94 00:08:11,606 --> 00:08:14,381 No doubt it's just year 3000 madness. 95 00:08:14,509 --> 00:08:17,430 Color can't make us all equal. It's morally repugnant. 96 00:08:17,487 --> 00:08:19,877 - Mr. President. - One moment, Doctor. - Sir. I... 97 00:08:19,923 --> 00:08:22,139 One moment. Affairs of State. 98 00:08:22,874 --> 00:08:26,208 The evil of it is so perfectly straightforward... 99 00:08:26,549 --> 00:08:29,937 There is good and evil, B. Why can't they see it? 100 00:08:29,974 --> 00:08:32,364 - I can't explain such blindness, sir. - Mr. President. 101 00:08:32,494 --> 00:08:36,020 Sorry, to interrupt, but I must inform you. Your son. He... 102 00:08:36,489 --> 00:08:37,607 Oh no... 103 00:08:37,671 --> 00:08:40,574 - I'm sorry, he didn't survive the procedure. - Where's my son? 104 00:08:40,795 --> 00:08:43,937 Son?! Where is he? Where's my son! 105 00:08:44,321 --> 00:08:46,144 Son! Son! 106 00:08:46,247 --> 00:08:48,207 - We did everything we could! - Son! Where is he? 107 00:08:48,271 --> 00:08:51,624 His body just couldn't take the procedure. The deformity was too great! 108 00:08:51,744 --> 00:08:53,511 Son! Son! 109 00:08:56,572 --> 00:08:59,769 - How could you do this to him? - We did try. 110 00:09:00,034 --> 00:09:03,056 No, of course - you're all good men... 111 00:09:03,198 --> 00:09:06,010 - Is there anything we can do for you sir? - He didn't even have a name yet! 112 00:09:06,095 --> 00:09:08,348 - A sad day! - A terrible loss, sir - The loss of a child... 113 00:09:08,403 --> 00:09:11,773 - You have my sympathies, sir - We should kill the physicians for incompetence! 114 00:09:11,940 --> 00:09:14,853 Please. Gentlemen. One moment... 115 00:09:17,456 --> 00:09:21,632 We all have to be brave. Make sacrifices for the greater good. 116 00:09:22,020 --> 00:09:26,223 Please, accept my apologies for my... emotional outburst. 117 00:09:26,362 --> 00:09:31,036 Of course, no problem sir, totally understandable, how admirable! 118 00:09:31,063 --> 00:09:34,891 - Perhaps we should postpone our plans... - No. This country needs me, 119 00:09:35,001 --> 00:09:36,833 especially now. 120 00:09:36,963 --> 00:09:40,938 Grief is a luxury that a leader cannot afford in these times. 121 00:09:41,517 --> 00:09:44,741 We all must attend to our configurations. 122 00:09:44,778 --> 00:09:47,243 Attend to your configuration. 123 00:09:47,454 --> 00:09:49,020 Let's roll. 124 00:10:05,572 --> 00:10:09,117 Okay, sorry about the delay. Your mother and I had something to talk about and... 125 00:10:09,777 --> 00:10:10,693 Son? 126 00:10:10,785 --> 00:10:14,594 That is you, isn't it? My son Hex with a.. a... purple side? 127 00:10:22,368 --> 00:10:24,859 - I just figured out how to do it! - Remove that coloration at once! 128 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:27,753 - But Dad! - Son, society makes laws for a reason. 129 00:10:27,875 --> 00:10:31,319 - You're old enough to know that's against the law. - If I was a circle I could change the law! 130 00:10:31,356 --> 00:10:34,754 - But you're not a circle! - Why can't I be more of a polygon? 131 00:10:34,853 --> 00:10:38,188 I could have been a heptagon if you'd been a pentagon! 132 00:10:38,261 --> 00:10:40,432 - Why couldn't I have skipped a side when I was born? - Few are as many-sided as you, son. 133 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:42,761 Fewer still are certified Prist Circles. 134 00:10:42,798 --> 00:10:45,143 And I wouldn't be so impressed by them either. 135 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:46,831 - They aren't true circles. - They aren't? 136 00:10:46,886 --> 00:10:48,141 No, of course not. 137 00:10:48,232 --> 00:10:50,642 Circles simply have lots and lots of sides. 138 00:10:50,717 --> 00:10:54,666 Some have 36, some have 72, 360. 139 00:10:54,824 --> 00:10:57,609 Now, those are the ones that are the closest to the... 140 00:10:57,691 --> 00:11:00,302 divine circularity that we all aspire to, 141 00:11:00,378 --> 00:11:02,164 but none of us will ever be able to achieve it. 142 00:11:02,191 --> 00:11:05,507 Why do we have the ability to colorize if we can't use it? 143 00:11:05,601 --> 00:11:07,644 Hex, what am I to do with you? 144 00:11:07,726 --> 00:11:11,418 Be satisfied with your configuration! It's crazy to want more. 145 00:11:11,521 --> 00:11:14,178 - You are what you are! - Just leave me alone! 146 00:11:14,407 --> 00:11:16,807 Noon News with Peter Pentagon. 147 00:11:16,901 --> 00:11:19,456 - Noon! I'm late! - We never finished my lesson. 148 00:11:19,594 --> 00:11:23,478 - I'm gonna be a feeler forever. - It will have to wait! I never miss an appointment! 149 00:11:24,110 --> 00:11:29,240 In other news, additional troops are being deployed to the Northern Border in a show of force... 150 00:12:09,285 --> 00:12:11,740 Oh get a load of that one! 151 00:12:31,153 --> 00:12:33,370 President Circle's arriving! 152 00:12:33,510 --> 00:12:36,744 Attend your Configuration! 153 00:12:36,799 --> 00:12:39,144 We have the right to color! 154 00:12:39,247 --> 00:12:41,931 We have the right to color! 155 00:12:41,986 --> 00:12:45,943 Attend to your Chromatization. Attend to your Chromatization. Attend to your Chromatization. 156 00:12:46,020 --> 00:12:49,721 Attend to your Chromatization. Attend to your Chromatization. 157 00:12:49,803 --> 00:12:53,324 Attend to your Configuration! 158 00:12:53,489 --> 00:12:57,024 Attend to your Configuration. Attend to your Configuration. 159 00:12:57,101 --> 00:13:00,508 Attend to your Configuration. Attend to your Configuration. 160 00:13:00,575 --> 00:13:04,086 Attend to your Chromatization. Attend to your Chromatization. 161 00:13:04,132 --> 00:13:11,121 Attend to your Configuration! Attend to your Configuration! 162 00:13:30,892 --> 00:13:34,565 - Hey watch it buddy! - I'm not a Chromatist can't you see that! 163 00:13:34,660 --> 00:13:37,106 - Eh, whadda ya in for? - I wanna see my lawyer. 164 00:13:39,297 --> 00:13:41,266 ...What's in charge here?... 165 00:13:43,586 --> 00:13:46,435 Careful, she's a Chromatist and a female. 166 00:13:46,593 --> 00:13:48,242 Accused Chromatist. 167 00:13:48,288 --> 00:13:51,622 Yeah, that's what they all say. But she ain't no accused female. 168 00:13:51,679 --> 00:13:54,666 She's very sharp and can kill you in a second. Watch yourself. 169 00:13:54,867 --> 00:13:57,377 If she gets out of line I'll be down the hall. 170 00:13:58,450 --> 00:13:59,998 Ms. Line? 171 00:14:01,619 --> 00:14:03,424 Ms. Line? I'm your court-appointed attorney. 172 00:14:11,003 --> 00:14:14,584 I'm required by law to tell you that I'm not obligated to take your case. 173 00:14:14,748 --> 00:14:16,772 Is that understood? 174 00:14:17,251 --> 00:14:20,850 - You must answer me if I'm to remain. - I understand! 175 00:14:20,962 --> 00:14:22,921 Good. Now, do you... 176 00:14:22,995 --> 00:14:25,019 - wish to confess? - Confess? 177 00:14:25,121 --> 00:14:27,640 Your affiliation with the Chromatic Sedition? 178 00:14:27,713 --> 00:14:30,195 My what? Is that what they said? 179 00:14:30,261 --> 00:14:32,569 - Yeah. - Do I look like a Chromatist? 180 00:14:32,681 --> 00:14:35,768 But the arrest warrant states that you were picked up as a... 181 00:14:35,815 --> 00:14:38,434 I was arrested for failing to use my Peace-cry. 182 00:14:38,517 --> 00:14:40,403 - Well, Is that all? - YES! 183 00:14:40,479 --> 00:14:43,172 Well... I'm afraid the charge just can't be changed. 184 00:14:43,227 --> 00:14:47,073 So why are you here? I know why I'm here, but why are you? 185 00:14:47,148 --> 00:14:49,740 When you came in I was dreaming about... I can't explain it. 186 00:14:49,804 --> 00:14:53,999 There are no words. A not-here, an else, a something else. 187 00:14:54,111 --> 00:14:57,279 Elsewhere. It wasn't here, it wasn't our world... 188 00:14:57,353 --> 00:14:59,624 In my dream I thought, so this isn't all there is? 189 00:14:59,690 --> 00:15:01,256 I know. Crazy. 190 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:05,094 What else is there but here, this... this Flatland? 191 00:15:05,554 --> 00:15:07,257 - What did you say? - Ugh! Nothing. 192 00:15:07,321 --> 00:15:09,391 Why do you call the world Flatland? 193 00:15:09,503 --> 00:15:12,022 I don't know. Because it's FLAT? 194 00:15:12,141 --> 00:15:15,419 I don't see your point. The world is a plane, of course it's flat. 195 00:15:15,513 --> 00:15:17,620 I know, but in my dream... 196 00:15:17,675 --> 00:15:20,312 Dreams? Dreams aren't admissible in court... 197 00:15:20,544 --> 00:15:23,786 I don't see any angle I can take that could possibly change your sentence. 198 00:15:23,850 --> 00:15:26,341 - Which will be? - Do you want to hear what the judge will say? 199 00:15:26,416 --> 00:15:27,946 - His exact words? - Yes! 200 00:15:28,001 --> 00:15:33,303 Angles of sharpness will pierce and slice and segment your person until you are dead, DEAD... 201 00:15:33,405 --> 00:15:37,279 I'm sorry. Is there anyone? 202 00:15:37,398 --> 00:15:40,063 - A husband, children? - No, I'm alone! 203 00:15:40,175 --> 00:15:42,611 Who am I? What am I? 204 00:15:42,703 --> 00:15:45,734 Counselor, what are we here for? 205 00:15:45,873 --> 00:15:47,558 To prepare your defense. 206 00:15:47,641 --> 00:15:49,830 Maybe I'm nothing. Or will be soon. 207 00:15:49,921 --> 00:15:52,485 So hey... Why not simply do it for them now? 208 00:15:52,555 --> 00:15:55,449 - Do what for them? - My execution! 209 00:15:55,513 --> 00:15:57,976 Because that's... against the law... 210 00:15:58,226 --> 00:16:00,955 oh no... wait a minute! WAIT! WAIT! 211 00:16:01,046 --> 00:16:03,208 Guards! Guards! Guards! 212 00:16:03,677 --> 00:16:07,450 ALL HANDS MAN YOUR BATTLE STATIONS! ALL HANDS MAN YOUR BATTLE STATIONS! 213 00:16:07,507 --> 00:16:09,595 GUARDS! GUARDS! 214 00:16:24,250 --> 00:16:27,181 - What the! Where is she? Did she escape? - You're not going to find her! 215 00:16:27,270 --> 00:16:29,168 - She didn't escape! - You don't mean she... 216 00:16:29,234 --> 00:16:31,331 But you're her attorney! How could you let her do that? 217 00:16:31,382 --> 00:16:34,454 And how was I supposed to stop her? I told her it was illegal! 218 00:16:34,502 --> 00:16:37,515 What's going on here? Where's the prisoner? 219 00:16:37,607 --> 00:16:40,647 - She... she, uh, ate herself, sir. - WHAT? 220 00:16:40,714 --> 00:16:44,203 It's true. I was in the cell with her, discussing her defense, when she... she... 221 00:16:44,286 --> 00:16:47,528 - You couldn't stop her? - What was I supposed to do? 222 00:16:47,647 --> 00:16:49,479 She was a line! She could've killed me! 223 00:16:49,536 --> 00:16:52,623 - There was nothing I could do! - Nothing? Nothing! 224 00:16:52,725 --> 00:16:57,396 All attorneys should be sliced into little pieces and fed to the irregulars! 225 00:16:57,636 --> 00:16:59,514 Oh, I've seen a lot of things! 226 00:16:59,587 --> 00:17:02,792 I've rounded the cape and watched the burning of Glenhaussen! 227 00:17:02,913 --> 00:17:06,348 I've seen compatriots split in two by the thousands 228 00:17:06,421 --> 00:17:09,397 and I've killed just as many of the enemy in my time! 229 00:17:09,481 --> 00:17:11,496 But in all my years... 230 00:17:11,588 --> 00:17:15,104 I have never seen such a sniveling coward as you! 231 00:17:15,216 --> 00:17:17,726 Get out of my sight! 232 00:17:19,081 --> 00:17:21,590 Come on man. I'll show you out... 233 00:17:22,065 --> 00:17:26,369 I'm going to inform the bar association about this! 234 00:17:31,712 --> 00:17:34,084 - He didn't mean what he said. - Yes he did. 235 00:17:34,167 --> 00:17:36,474 And... he's right. 236 00:17:36,587 --> 00:17:39,664 This is a bad time. Big things at the Senate today. 237 00:17:39,801 --> 00:17:42,439 I'd get home as soon as possible if I were you. 238 00:17:42,505 --> 00:17:45,024 All the CDF units in the city are mobilizing. 239 00:17:45,097 --> 00:17:47,213 - Mobilizing? - That's all I can say. 240 00:17:59,165 --> 00:18:03,909 Citizens! This is a crucial moment in world history. 241 00:18:04,095 --> 00:18:08,628 Conflict looms between our Republic and our Northern neighbors. 242 00:18:09,033 --> 00:18:13,145 Even now the engines of war are building at the border. 243 00:18:13,597 --> 00:18:16,747 I understand the need for reunification. 244 00:18:17,171 --> 00:18:21,823 For too long, families have been torn apart by the political divide. 245 00:18:22,191 --> 00:18:23,728 For too long, 246 00:18:23,808 --> 00:18:26,532 we've watched our poor brothers across the border 247 00:18:26,588 --> 00:18:29,867 crushed by the tyranny of the Northern Monarch. 248 00:18:30,313 --> 00:18:35,786 Citizens, has it been so long since we've cast away the cruelty of kings... 249 00:18:35,832 --> 00:18:39,388 that we've forgotten how precious freedom is? 250 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:42,962 The Northern Kingdom preaches equality... 251 00:18:43,336 --> 00:18:46,019 ...but practices Chromatism! 252 00:18:46,186 --> 00:18:50,630 They allow Irregular children to avoid reconfiguration. 253 00:18:51,004 --> 00:18:53,487 Some years ago we followed suit, 254 00:18:53,755 --> 00:18:56,980 and allowed reconfiguration to become optional. 255 00:18:57,167 --> 00:18:59,115 And what happened, friends? 256 00:18:59,161 --> 00:19:03,502 We blurred the lines of freedom, perhaps forever! 257 00:19:15,253 --> 00:19:17,790 Ah, interesting trinkets, aren't they? 258 00:19:17,900 --> 00:19:20,391 I can't take my eye off them. 259 00:19:21,226 --> 00:19:22,106 What are they? 260 00:19:22,179 --> 00:19:24,184 Uh, umm I don't really know. 261 00:19:24,294 --> 00:19:27,115 What is the, ah, the purpose of the glowing? 262 00:19:27,145 --> 00:19:28,501 No clue. 263 00:19:28,565 --> 00:19:32,283 - Are they alive? - Naw. Maybe. Naw. 264 00:19:32,358 --> 00:19:36,397 - What are they made of? - Rocks. Minerals. Crystals or something. 265 00:19:36,591 --> 00:19:38,478 - Don't know, really. - Where are they from? 266 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:41,518 A distant territory in the Northern Kingdom. 267 00:19:41,555 --> 00:19:45,076 The North? But you can't sell those here, can you? That's illegal... 268 00:19:45,170 --> 00:19:47,716 They change the law every other day. 269 00:19:47,798 --> 00:19:51,031 I can't keep up. You won't turn me in will you? 270 00:19:51,142 --> 00:19:54,229 Well, I'm an attorney. That makes me an officer of the court. 271 00:19:54,265 --> 00:19:57,874 I guess that entitles you to a little discount, hmm? 272 00:19:59,148 --> 00:20:02,060 - What do you call them? - Glow Points. 273 00:20:03,181 --> 00:20:05,772 Do they do anything else except glow like that? 274 00:20:05,863 --> 00:20:08,373 - Well, that depends. - On what? 275 00:20:08,867 --> 00:20:09,966 On your mood. 276 00:20:10,021 --> 00:20:12,430 Here, hold one. Careful, they're delicate. 277 00:20:12,512 --> 00:20:16,386 And be careful what they touch, they can go dead in a heartbeat. 278 00:20:18,851 --> 00:20:21,654 - All right. How much? - Oh, they ain't cheap. 279 00:20:21,793 --> 00:20:24,935 Tough to get all the way through the border, you know. 280 00:20:25,255 --> 00:20:28,296 - Especially in these times. - Of course, of course... 281 00:20:32,535 --> 00:20:35,484 Senator Chromatistes does have his points. 282 00:20:35,857 --> 00:20:40,884 Of course reunification under our own terms is desirable. 283 00:20:41,628 --> 00:20:43,542 But under Chromatistic terms? 284 00:20:43,606 --> 00:20:46,555 A thief could color himself to resemble a priest. 285 00:20:46,676 --> 00:20:49,937 A rapist could color himself to resemble an attorney. 286 00:20:50,012 --> 00:20:54,463 Under Chromatism, the whole science of Sight Recognition perishes! 287 00:20:54,712 --> 00:21:00,338 Citizens, how are we to protect our daughters and wives under The Senator's scheme? 288 00:21:00,420 --> 00:21:01,866 Oo hoo hoo hoo! Let me through, let me through! 289 00:21:01,948 --> 00:21:07,004 Wherever possible, our Prist Circles seek equality for everyone. 290 00:21:07,227 --> 00:21:10,277 That's why we have the Hospital of Reconfiguration. 291 00:21:10,662 --> 00:21:12,777 Yes, we lose some children, 292 00:21:12,889 --> 00:21:15,619 but in every case, EVERY case, 293 00:21:15,692 --> 00:21:17,679 the parent knows the risk. 294 00:21:17,837 --> 00:21:23,369 What is civilization based on if not Regularity and Equality of Angles? 295 00:21:23,638 --> 00:21:24,801 It is nothing! 296 00:21:24,859 --> 00:21:28,165 Do any of us seriously believe that there is no connection... 297 00:21:28,194 --> 00:21:31,464 between geometrical and moral Irregularity? 298 00:21:31,639 --> 00:21:34,506 Citizens! There is good and evil! 299 00:21:34,543 --> 00:21:36,392 Let me through, let me through! 300 00:21:36,541 --> 00:21:39,407 Civilization as we know it would end! 301 00:21:39,527 --> 00:21:42,594 - We would relapse into barbarism! - Let me through! 302 00:21:42,825 --> 00:21:46,892 You can't go on repressing the lesser-sided forever! 303 00:21:47,049 --> 00:21:50,896 Color is equality! We can find a third way! 304 00:21:51,035 --> 00:21:55,349 Let us consider compromise with the Northern Kingdom! 305 00:21:55,461 --> 00:21:58,630 Citizens! Look what happened when we relaxed our standards, 306 00:21:58,667 --> 00:22:02,550 and allowed our elected officials to include citizens of any shape! 307 00:22:02,682 --> 00:22:05,402 We now have an Irregular as a Senator, 308 00:22:05,495 --> 00:22:08,115 who introduces this Color Bill to our body. 309 00:22:08,181 --> 00:22:10,369 A Bill that, if voted into law, 310 00:22:10,470 --> 00:22:14,234 would allow our citizens to color themselves as they see fit! 311 00:22:14,529 --> 00:22:16,590 If we adopt the Color Bill, 312 00:22:16,682 --> 00:22:20,821 our friends to the North could SEE that we mean them no harm. 313 00:22:22,298 --> 00:22:24,862 They would reduce their arms freely! 314 00:22:24,963 --> 00:22:27,674 They would make peace with us! 315 00:22:27,751 --> 00:22:30,865 Appeaser! The Northern Kingdom will see this as weakness 316 00:22:30,947 --> 00:22:32,980 - and enslave us all! - Lies! 317 00:22:33,770 --> 00:22:37,424 Lies! The Northern Kingdom is not evil! 318 00:22:37,609 --> 00:22:40,201 They simply feel threatened by us, 319 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:42,674 just as we feel threatened by them! 320 00:22:43,473 --> 00:22:46,889 Senator, you don't KNOW that. You are hoping that. 321 00:22:46,991 --> 00:22:51,213 I am not willing to gamble away our very survival on your HOPES. 322 00:22:51,435 --> 00:22:54,210 You've already put the future of the Republic at stake! 323 00:22:54,302 --> 00:22:57,608 At any moment the North might attack, and it's your fault! 324 00:23:08,900 --> 00:23:13,067 No no no! Stop it! Oh stop it! Oh that hurts! 325 00:23:18,930 --> 00:23:23,005 Wait a minute! No no no! Oh put that down! Oh! 326 00:23:24,271 --> 00:23:27,962 Hey now I'm warning you! I'm peaceful, but ... oh! 327 00:23:30,654 --> 00:23:34,638 Oh, no no! Oh my goodness! Oh! 328 00:24:01,241 --> 00:24:04,354 - He interrupted my speech! - We can fix the records, sir. 329 00:24:04,449 --> 00:24:08,176 The bloodshed. The death. Are we doing the right thing? 330 00:24:08,554 --> 00:24:10,651 How will history remember me? 331 00:24:10,697 --> 00:24:15,478 As the man who saved the Republic? Or a butcher who destroyed innocents? 332 00:24:15,781 --> 00:24:17,429 - Can I sleep tonight? - Don't falter now, sir. 333 00:24:17,493 --> 00:24:19,398 Great figures in history never falter. 334 00:24:19,462 --> 00:24:21,486 I don't want to be a great figure. 335 00:24:21,552 --> 00:24:23,457 I want to be a good person. 336 00:25:23,714 --> 00:25:25,976 - Mr. A Square! Go home! - I dropped my Glow Point! 337 00:25:26,006 --> 00:25:28,680 - I gotta go back and get it. - Go home and lock your doors... 338 00:25:28,708 --> 00:25:30,539 - Wait I jus... - Oof! Oh! Oh! 339 00:25:45,616 --> 00:25:47,320 Do you know the way out of here, brother? 340 00:25:47,432 --> 00:25:49,776 Can't you see there's a riot going on out there? 341 00:25:49,868 --> 00:25:52,194 Do you know the way out of here, out of this world? 342 00:25:52,306 --> 00:25:54,944 Out of this... you old fool, there is no out of here. 343 00:25:59,665 --> 00:26:02,284 We'll see. We'll see. 344 00:26:08,231 --> 00:26:10,951 Gods preserve his angularity in death... 345 00:26:11,942 --> 00:26:15,001 Gods preserve his angularity in death... 346 00:26:15,644 --> 00:26:17,934 He had children! 347 00:26:18,117 --> 00:26:20,800 He was more than a soldier! 348 00:26:21,123 --> 00:26:23,797 He may not have been a big important man, 349 00:26:23,863 --> 00:26:26,327 but he was worth something! 350 00:26:26,464 --> 00:26:30,540 He was practically my brother! 351 00:26:49,860 --> 00:26:51,591 I was so worried! 352 00:26:51,793 --> 00:26:55,886 The news said those horrible Chromatists had started a riot! 353 00:26:55,934 --> 00:26:56,951 Yeah! I was caught up in it. 354 00:26:56,978 --> 00:27:01,219 - Are you hurt? - No. Geez. Just, I'm just exhausted 355 00:27:01,394 --> 00:27:04,700 - What happened? - It's the end of the world. 356 00:27:04,847 --> 00:27:07,677 Blood. Death. Murder. Everyone killing everyone. 357 00:27:07,743 --> 00:27:09,694 What are we to do? 358 00:27:10,033 --> 00:27:13,595 Not much to do. Keep the door locked and we'll stay inside. 359 00:27:13,671 --> 00:27:15,759 I'm frightened! 360 00:27:15,850 --> 00:27:18,762 Well, perhaps the new day will bring a new world. 361 00:28:11,382 --> 00:28:14,139 Hello. Hello there. Can you hear me? 362 00:28:15,222 --> 00:28:19,499 Hello. Hello there. What's going on here? Where am I? 363 00:28:19,639 --> 00:28:22,239 What's all this monotonous chirping, ya little line? 364 00:28:22,459 --> 00:28:23,998 - Little? - Monotonous? 365 00:28:24,082 --> 00:28:27,361 I'm King of Lineland, Monarch of the world! 366 00:28:27,489 --> 00:28:29,788 What are you, puny-voiced intrusion? 367 00:28:29,928 --> 00:28:30,779 I'm A Square. 368 00:28:30,825 --> 00:28:31,860 - A what? - Square. 369 00:28:31,906 --> 00:28:33,875 - A what? - A Square. 370 00:28:33,957 --> 00:28:36,109 - A squire? - Don't talk gibberish to me. 371 00:28:36,185 --> 00:28:37,971 Let's just say I'm a voice... 372 00:28:38,035 --> 00:28:40,462 You are not one of Lineland's voices. 373 00:28:40,563 --> 00:28:43,301 - I would recognize you. - Let me hear your bass voice. 374 00:28:43,397 --> 00:28:44,825 - My what? - Your other voice. 375 00:28:44,890 --> 00:28:46,108 I don't have any other voice. 376 00:28:46,163 --> 00:28:47,893 - Then you're a woman? - No. 377 00:28:48,060 --> 00:28:51,449 - No! I'm a man. - I thought you said you were a quare. 378 00:28:51,559 --> 00:28:54,755 I am a visitor, let's say from another world. 379 00:28:54,868 --> 00:28:57,441 There's no world beside Lineland. 380 00:28:57,478 --> 00:29:00,546 - Oh, you're wrong about that - Is that so? 381 00:29:00,647 --> 00:29:01,462 Prove it! 382 00:29:05,292 --> 00:29:07,123 And address me as Your Majesty! 383 00:29:07,644 --> 00:29:09,021 But, Your Majesty, 384 00:29:09,101 --> 00:29:12,161 - you can't actually see lines? - Impossible. 385 00:29:12,285 --> 00:29:13,768 - Although, - In death, 386 00:29:13,889 --> 00:29:14,396 yes, 387 00:29:14,463 --> 00:29:18,392 some of us believe we will experience this mystic awareness of a Straight Line in an afterlife. 388 00:29:18,606 --> 00:29:22,067 Ah! Yes, of course! I must be from that world, 389 00:29:22,176 --> 00:29:24,248 the world of your afterlife, 390 00:29:24,354 --> 00:29:29,165 where... you shall join me in the Absoluteness of Two-Dimensionality! 391 00:29:29,288 --> 00:29:30,157 Nonsense! 392 00:29:30,291 --> 00:29:32,977 I see to the left of you two lines, 393 00:29:33,057 --> 00:29:36,478 a point, a line, a point, a line... and two points. 394 00:29:36,625 --> 00:29:38,455 - Is that correct? - What do you mean by left? 395 00:29:38,525 --> 00:29:40,182 I mean to your... your bass end. 396 00:29:40,275 --> 00:29:46,395 And to the right are two points, a line, a point, a line, a point, and two lines. 397 00:29:46,679 --> 00:29:49,378 Now, how did I know that if I couldn't see them? 398 00:29:49,512 --> 00:29:53,280 Tell me the length of the nine hundred ninety-ninth male to my backwards! 399 00:29:53,481 --> 00:29:57,289 - I ..aaa.. I can't see that far. - Ha! Three inches. 400 00:29:57,547 --> 00:30:01,022 By the same means my shape can be exactly ascertained. 401 00:30:01,129 --> 00:30:03,334 - Behold me! - I am a Line, 402 00:30:03,454 --> 00:30:07,503 the longest in Lineland, over six inches of Space. 403 00:30:07,732 --> 00:30:10,351 - Space? Of Length, don't you mean? - Idiot. 404 00:30:10,471 --> 00:30:12,743 - Space is Length. - Don't interrupt me again. 405 00:30:12,823 --> 00:30:16,258 - Oh! Forgive me, your majesty. - Hear, now, 406 00:30:16,354 --> 00:30:21,793 with your own ears, how by means of my two voices I reveal my shape to my wives, 407 00:30:22,260 --> 00:30:26,336 who are at this moment over six thousand miles away, 408 00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,925 one forward, one backward. 409 00:30:29,032 --> 00:30:31,772 Listen and I will sing. 410 00:30:41,534 --> 00:30:44,113 Why don't you just feel your neighbors? 411 00:30:44,193 --> 00:30:45,677 - What? - Explain yourself. 412 00:30:45,799 --> 00:30:48,285 Feel, touch, come into contact with. 413 00:30:48,405 --> 00:30:50,677 That offense is punishable by death. 414 00:30:50,744 --> 00:30:51,746 Really? Why is that? 415 00:30:51,826 --> 00:30:55,207 - And what purpose would be served by touching, - when there is sound? 416 00:30:55,357 --> 00:30:59,339 But isn't life in Lineland just a little dull? I mean... To see nothing but points! 417 00:30:59,526 --> 00:31:02,667 - Not even to be able to see a line? - Mindless man aren't you! 418 00:31:02,829 --> 00:31:06,197 Mindless? Sounds like your music is mindless. 419 00:31:06,290 --> 00:31:10,139 I can tell with a glance how many people are to your right and to your left. 420 00:31:10,369 --> 00:31:12,307 And there's nothing easier than a glance. 421 00:31:12,414 --> 00:31:15,153 What is this left and right? 422 00:31:15,300 --> 00:31:17,398 And how could you see the Line, the inside, of anything? 423 00:31:17,438 --> 00:31:18,855 Left, right. 424 00:31:18,964 --> 00:31:20,728 You must mean backward and forward. 425 00:31:20,835 --> 00:31:23,535 - No. Not so. - Exhibit these directions to me! 426 00:31:23,682 --> 00:31:27,183 I can't. Unless you step out of your Line altogether. 427 00:31:27,279 --> 00:31:29,403 - Out of my Line? - Out of the world? 428 00:31:29,484 --> 00:31:32,009 - Out of Space? - Well, yes. 429 00:31:32,105 --> 00:31:36,341 Out of your world, and into the greater plane of two dimensions, where... 430 00:31:36,475 --> 00:31:38,867 all is plane and you can move in four directions... 431 00:31:38,961 --> 00:31:41,593 - If you can't show this or describe this to me, - then go away! 432 00:31:41,703 --> 00:31:45,124 Hasn't it occurred to you that you could move in some other direction, 433 00:31:45,284 --> 00:31:47,796 - towards which your side is facing? - What? 434 00:31:47,930 --> 00:31:50,015 - Never. - What do you mean by side? 435 00:31:50,138 --> 00:31:52,075 - There is before and behind, - nothing more. 436 00:31:52,169 --> 00:31:53,719 Fine. Let me show you. 437 00:31:53,799 --> 00:31:57,795 Here, I'm going to move into your world. Here I come. 438 00:31:58,011 --> 00:32:00,417 - There. Can you see me now? - Yes... 439 00:32:00,484 --> 00:32:02,207 - but... - you're only a point! 440 00:32:02,328 --> 00:32:06,991 Well, to you I'm only a point, but in fact I've moved into Lineland. 441 00:32:07,194 --> 00:32:10,535 Now I'm gonna continue to move and, from your perspective, 442 00:32:10,682 --> 00:32:12,099 I'm going to vanish. 443 00:32:12,179 --> 00:32:14,210 - What does your majesty say now? - Charlatan! 444 00:32:14,290 --> 00:32:15,666 - Tricks! Tricks! - Come back! 445 00:32:15,750 --> 00:32:18,409 - How did you do that? - I moved out of Lineland. 446 00:32:18,502 --> 00:32:21,001 - Convinced? - If you had any sense, the smallest particle of... 447 00:32:21,124 --> 00:32:24,024 You ask me to believe that there's another world. 448 00:32:24,091 --> 00:32:27,471 You say there's another motion besides forward and backward! 449 00:32:27,525 --> 00:32:29,850 But when I ask you to show it, all you can do is babble and 450 00:32:29,946 --> 00:32:32,098 - practice magic tricks! - You must be a madman, 451 00:32:32,258 --> 00:32:33,434 or dimensionally deficient! 452 00:32:33,488 --> 00:32:35,586 You six inch idiot! 453 00:32:35,666 --> 00:32:37,964 You think you're the perfection of existence, 454 00:32:38,047 --> 00:32:40,947 but in reality you're the most imperfect. 455 00:32:41,041 --> 00:32:44,261 You say you know the world, but all you see is a Point! 456 00:32:44,328 --> 00:32:46,079 You can't even see Lines! 457 00:32:46,148 --> 00:32:50,210 Well, I can! In fact, I am a Line of Lines! 458 00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:51,376 A Square! 459 00:32:51,470 --> 00:32:54,837 In my world, as superior as I am to you, 460 00:32:54,904 --> 00:32:58,779 - in my world I'm nothing compared to the greatest of polygons! - Enough! Enough! 461 00:32:58,849 --> 00:33:00,479 I'll pierce you through! 462 00:33:00,519 --> 00:33:05,757 DIE, EVIL CREATURE! DIE EVIL CREATURE! DIE! DIE! DIE! 463 00:33:15,326 --> 00:33:19,616 Yay! Last day of the year! Last day of the millennium! Eeeeee! 464 00:33:19,654 --> 00:33:22,113 - Go play in your rooms! - Can we play outside? 465 00:33:22,179 --> 00:33:25,841 - No. In the house today. - What for? It's New Year's Eve! 466 00:33:25,921 --> 00:33:29,997 - The city's not safe. OK? Inside today! - That's not fair! 467 00:33:30,887 --> 00:33:33,453 And mind your angles and points! 468 00:33:34,402 --> 00:33:36,393 - Any news on the radio? - Static. 469 00:33:36,487 --> 00:33:39,146 - Not a good sign. - The whole world's gone mad! 470 00:33:39,186 --> 00:33:41,685 - Remember the client I saw yesterday? - Yes. 471 00:33:41,777 --> 00:33:46,828 - She killed herself. - Your brother warned you. - Well, I certainly can't defend her now. 472 00:33:47,389 --> 00:33:50,984 - I don't know if I can continue. - Continue what? 473 00:33:51,147 --> 00:33:55,289 - My practice. I can't defend guilty people anymore... - But... 474 00:33:55,396 --> 00:33:57,628 - not after yesterday. - What would you do? 475 00:33:57,721 --> 00:34:02,014 - How would you make ends meet? - Peter Pentagon, morning news! 476 00:34:02,112 --> 00:34:04,678 Sorry for the technical difficulties this morning. 477 00:34:04,798 --> 00:34:07,992 Turns out a couple of Chromatists broke our transmitter. 478 00:34:08,091 --> 00:34:11,138 But everything's back to normal here at the station. 479 00:34:11,258 --> 00:34:14,840 Speaking of Chromatists, they caused a lot of problems yesterday. 480 00:34:15,013 --> 00:34:18,381 Thankfully, President Circle's fixed them but good. 481 00:34:18,458 --> 00:34:22,172 A riot raged across the city for over twelve hours yesterday. 482 00:34:22,279 --> 00:34:26,181 The death toll is mounting and officials say it may reach thousands. 483 00:34:26,224 --> 00:34:30,246 - Thousands...! - But authorities finally achieved order round midnight last night. 484 00:34:30,393 --> 00:34:33,707 Over three hundred Irregulars and Chromatists are under arrest. 485 00:34:33,817 --> 00:34:37,198 The President will be speaking to the citizenry later today. 486 00:34:37,358 --> 00:34:39,964 In his public statement, he's going to warn the North... 487 00:34:40,004 --> 00:34:44,454 not to take advantage of the unrest to start anything funny... 488 00:34:44,838 --> 00:34:48,125 - Not funny like that. Funny the other way. - At least they stopped the riots. 489 00:34:48,245 --> 00:34:54,259 But so many dead! Those horrible Chromatists! 490 00:34:55,431 --> 00:34:57,984 What about your brother? 491 00:34:58,050 --> 00:35:02,674 You should go out, find him, you make sure he's okay! 492 00:35:05,714 --> 00:35:07,665 Get that off your side this instant! 493 00:35:07,759 --> 00:35:10,217 Don't you know what those Chromatists did yesterday? 494 00:35:10,338 --> 00:35:11,474 - They're murderers! - What? 495 00:35:11,540 --> 00:35:13,946 Do you want to be associated with murderers? 496 00:35:14,069 --> 00:35:16,127 They killed people by the thousands! 497 00:35:16,194 --> 00:35:17,731 Your uncle may be dead! 498 00:35:17,864 --> 00:35:21,445 - And here you are coloring your sides! - I didn't know! I didn't know! 499 00:35:24,025 --> 00:35:26,537 Keep the door locked while I'm gone! 500 00:35:29,624 --> 00:35:31,815 B! B Square! Are you in there? 501 00:35:31,909 --> 00:35:34,154 - Who is it? - It's me, A Square! 502 00:35:34,210 --> 00:35:37,831 - Mrs. B, do you know where your husband is? - How do I know it's you, A Square? 503 00:35:37,965 --> 00:35:40,918 - It's me, it's me! - My husband told me not to open the door for anyone! 504 00:35:47,149 --> 00:35:49,447 - Is your husband there? Is he alright? - No! I haven't heard anything! 505 00:35:49,501 --> 00:35:51,773 - He didn't come home last night! - Do you know where he might be? 506 00:35:51,826 --> 00:35:55,421 - He told me he would be at the Great Hall. - I'll go there and check for him, Mrs. B. 507 00:35:55,523 --> 00:35:58,076 You stay there and do as your husband told you to do. 508 00:36:01,644 --> 00:36:03,408 Keep your door closed and locked! 509 00:36:03,477 --> 00:36:05,842 f I hear anything I'll come right back and let you know. 510 00:36:05,909 --> 00:36:08,768 - Tell him I love him! - I will! Be safe! 511 00:37:30,136 --> 00:37:32,447 - Ah, Excuse me...ah.. - Whaddya want? 512 00:37:32,554 --> 00:37:34,799 My brother... B Square is his name. 513 00:37:34,986 --> 00:37:36,430 He works for the President. 514 00:37:36,470 --> 00:37:37,766 - Is he here? - I don't know, pal. 515 00:37:37,809 --> 00:37:42,406 Can I go in? I promise I won't be a brother... uh,a, a bother? 516 00:37:42,419 --> 00:37:45,158 Buddy, you already are a bother. 517 00:37:45,241 --> 00:37:49,410 - We got martial law here. Head home, wait it out. - I know you. 518 00:37:49,678 --> 00:37:52,898 Mr. Attorney for the suicidal Chromatists. 519 00:37:53,034 --> 00:37:56,201 My brother works for the President, I was just trying to find out if he was okay... 520 00:37:56,255 --> 00:37:59,929 Well if you and your kind hadn't spent all our taxes... 521 00:38:00,036 --> 00:38:02,949 defending those Irregular Chromatist Scum, 522 00:38:03,062 --> 00:38:05,855 maybe you wouldn't have to be worried about your damn brother. 523 00:38:06,002 --> 00:38:08,033 - Look at what they've done! - Sir, I just do my job... 524 00:38:08,140 --> 00:38:11,187 Yeah? Did your job choose you? 525 00:38:11,374 --> 00:38:15,100 - You didn't have any choice in the matter? - Please. My brother works for the President. 526 00:38:15,158 --> 00:38:18,058 I need to know if he's alive. Can I please pass? 527 00:38:18,181 --> 00:38:22,430 - What've you got there? - A... glow point... - Yeah? 528 00:38:22,550 --> 00:38:24,435 - Let me see. - I... it's for my son... 529 00:38:24,517 --> 00:38:26,749 Not anymore. 530 00:38:26,882 --> 00:38:29,234 Wow! Must be pretty expensive. 531 00:38:29,354 --> 00:38:32,121 - Yes, yes it is... - Money don't mean much right now. 532 00:38:32,214 --> 00:38:34,887 Not with martial law. No commerce allowed. 533 00:38:35,024 --> 00:38:37,296 Course a smart man might make his way... 534 00:38:37,389 --> 00:38:40,476 - illegally bartering... - I got it yesterday, before everything happened... 535 00:38:40,543 --> 00:38:43,162 - as a gift for my son.. - You didn't steal this, did you? 536 00:38:43,312 --> 00:38:45,571 Partake in a little looting? 537 00:38:48,524 --> 00:38:50,047 Now that it's yours, can I pass? Please? 538 00:38:50,114 --> 00:38:53,254 Soldier, if this Square is still here when I get back, 539 00:38:53,492 --> 00:38:58,009 I will personally run you through before I slice him. 540 00:38:58,396 --> 00:39:01,830 - Am I clear? - Crystal, sir. - Damn sympathizers... 541 00:39:01,897 --> 00:39:02,953 fifth columnists... 542 00:39:03,076 --> 00:39:05,227 - Move along, sir. - Can you at least give him a message? 543 00:39:05,548 --> 00:39:09,851 - Can you... - A lot of people are dead. Let's not add to the count. 544 00:39:52,082 --> 00:39:55,877 - A! Did you find him? - The city's locked tight as a drum 545 00:39:56,232 --> 00:39:59,078 - What do you have there? - Nothing. I found it on the street. 546 00:39:59,238 --> 00:40:02,365 May be valuable. I'm gonnna go put it in the safe... 547 00:40:02,459 --> 00:40:05,358 - Dad? - What is it, Hex? - If three to the second power is nine, 548 00:40:05,481 --> 00:40:08,100 - what is three to the third power? - Son, this isn't a good time for a math lesson. 549 00:40:08,140 --> 00:40:11,013 In math class, I asked what three to the third power means in geometry, 550 00:40:11,147 --> 00:40:13,592 - and my teacher threatened me with detention! - Well, she should have. 551 00:40:13,756 --> 00:40:15,667 Geometry and the world have only two dimensions. 552 00:40:15,707 --> 00:40:17,577 - But why? - It's the way of the world. 553 00:40:17,698 --> 00:40:20,624 - Last night, for instance, I had a dream... - But what does a square, moving somehow parallel to itself, 554 00:40:20,691 --> 00:40:21,854 what would it make? 555 00:40:21,896 --> 00:40:25,825 - Like, it must make something else... - It would make a wonderful brainache. 556 00:40:26,253 --> 00:40:30,181 - Now, go play with your brothers. - But they're all... - Pentagons, yes. They're pentagons 557 00:40:32,465 --> 00:40:34,336 And you are A Hexagon. 558 00:40:34,389 --> 00:40:35,806 If you're too good to play with them, 559 00:40:35,872 --> 00:40:39,454 - then go study in your room and stop talking nonsense! - I can't do anything right! 560 00:40:39,587 --> 00:40:41,004 The boy must be going mad... 561 00:40:41,087 --> 00:40:44,347 He isn't mad. How can you say that! 562 00:40:44,468 --> 00:40:47,073 He's just a little confused. 563 00:40:47,303 --> 00:40:51,967 Three to the third power has an obvious meaning! 564 00:40:52,261 --> 00:40:56,871 - Ohh! Ohh ....What is that - a point? - No... a line! 565 00:40:57,007 --> 00:41:00,308 - It's a... a demon! - It's a circle! 566 00:41:00,388 --> 00:41:04,290 I'm no demon. You were right the third time. 567 00:41:04,397 --> 00:41:06,843 In a sense, I am a circle. 568 00:41:06,992 --> 00:41:10,774 A circle more perfect than any seen in Flatland. 569 00:41:14,171 --> 00:41:18,059 Sir, forgive us, but... How did you change your circumference? 570 00:41:18,180 --> 00:41:21,641 No circle I've heard of can do that... and how did you get in here? 571 00:41:21,724 --> 00:41:26,173 - By "in here", do you mean Flatland? - Flatland...? 572 00:41:26,762 --> 00:41:31,505 A woman who... A woman I met yesterday called the world Flatland. 573 00:41:31,650 --> 00:41:33,534 Did she? Good for her. 574 00:41:33,655 --> 00:41:37,236 Madam, I have a message to deliver to your husband, 575 00:41:37,506 --> 00:41:39,003 if you wouldn't mind... 576 00:41:39,083 --> 00:41:44,922 Oh! Are you really are a circle? I mean a... priest? Eeee, eeee, eeee. 577 00:41:45,460 --> 00:41:48,560 A message for my husband from a Prist Circle? 578 00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:53,518 Oh! Yes, by all means. Eeee, eeee, eeee. 579 00:41:53,614 --> 00:41:57,730 Please forgive us our shock... our amazement... our... 580 00:41:57,850 --> 00:42:01,284 Eeee, eeee, eeee. I'm leaving, I'm going. Eeee, eeee, eeee. 581 00:42:01,365 --> 00:42:04,869 Would you like... No, of course not. 582 00:42:05,002 --> 00:42:11,403 If I may then... Eeee, eeee, eeee.. . Oh. A Prist Circle! Eeee, eeee, eeee... 583 00:42:13,913 --> 00:42:18,162 - What on earth is that horrid sound she spits out? - Her ..Her... peace cry? 584 00:42:18,232 --> 00:42:21,292 - What in the world is a peace cry? - How can you not know... 585 00:42:21,359 --> 00:42:24,058 - what a... - Indulge me. Explain. - See she's a line. 586 00:42:24,192 --> 00:42:27,600 The Law states that she has to cry out as a warning. 587 00:42:27,816 --> 00:42:29,152 A locator noise. 588 00:42:29,219 --> 00:42:31,825 She could kill someone accidentally if they don't see her. 589 00:42:31,931 --> 00:42:35,339 - They could move right into her without ever knowing she... - How clever your little law is! 590 00:42:35,393 --> 00:42:37,798 Forgive me, sir. I must feel you. 591 00:42:38,812 --> 00:42:42,887 You have no... no angles, not a one. Are you... a perfect circle? 592 00:42:42,941 --> 00:42:47,698 - Yes and no. - AGHH! Two eyes! Agh! Oh, disgusting! 593 00:42:47,968 --> 00:42:51,269 - Oh! I'm going to vomit! - Oh, calm down, silly little square. 594 00:42:51,429 --> 00:42:54,329 I am a more perfect being than you. 595 00:42:54,396 --> 00:42:57,924 - I am a circle made up of circles. - Argh! Two eyes! 596 00:42:58,863 --> 00:43:01,241 I am perfection. 597 00:43:01,388 --> 00:43:03,914 I am A Sphere, 598 00:43:04,061 --> 00:43:07,869 - CEO of Messiah, Inc! - A what? Where did you come from? 599 00:43:07,992 --> 00:43:12,148 - From... space, where else? - But aren't you already in space? 600 00:43:12,202 --> 00:43:16,024 - What do you know of space? - Space is length and width. 601 00:43:16,066 --> 00:43:18,766 No. There is a third dimension, 602 00:43:18,806 --> 00:43:24,178 - of length, width, and height. - Please, your... circular Lordship, 603 00:43:24,288 --> 00:43:27,428 what direction is this third dimension? 604 00:43:27,508 --> 00:43:30,314 - Up. Down. - North and south? 605 00:43:30,438 --> 00:43:32,282 Nothing of the kind. 606 00:43:32,362 --> 00:43:35,115 A direction in which you cannot look, 607 00:43:35,195 --> 00:43:38,536 because you have no eye in your side. 608 00:43:38,592 --> 00:43:43,216 - But I have an eye. It's on my northwest side. - In order to see in space... 609 00:43:43,363 --> 00:43:47,799 you'd need an eye, not on your outside, 610 00:43:47,882 --> 00:43:49,673 but on your inside, 611 00:43:49,766 --> 00:43:52,666 - looking up or down. - An eye in my stomach! 612 00:43:52,786 --> 00:43:56,541 Please, sir, this is New Year's Eve... there were horrible riots yesterday... 613 00:43:56,624 --> 00:44:00,032 my only brother may be dead... I have family obligations... 614 00:44:00,099 --> 00:44:04,201 - This is no time for jokes... - I didn't come to joke! 615 00:44:04,351 --> 00:44:08,814 I am from the Land of Three Dimensions. 3D. 616 00:44:08,908 --> 00:44:12,783 I looked down and saw the plane on which you live. 617 00:44:12,932 --> 00:44:18,117 I can see into your churches, your ministries, your banks, your houses. 618 00:44:18,277 --> 00:44:21,257 Even your insides and stomachs! 619 00:44:21,380 --> 00:44:24,828 Everything open and exposed to my view. 620 00:44:24,975 --> 00:44:28,757 I saw your five sons fighting each other with rubber swords. 621 00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:33,530 And your other son, the hexagonal one, was sulking off in his room. 622 00:44:33,837 --> 00:44:37,379 Likes to color himself. How do you think I knew that? 623 00:44:37,488 --> 00:44:39,827 We have a name for people like you. 624 00:44:39,947 --> 00:44:42,820 - Yes? - Perverts! There are laws, sir! 625 00:44:42,927 --> 00:44:47,016 - There are... - I am what I say I am! - You must have drilled through the walls. 626 00:44:47,606 --> 00:44:50,586 - Holes! - Holes! What holes? 627 00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:54,942 - I tell you I came from three dimensional space! - You could have filled them back in! 628 00:44:55,036 --> 00:44:57,094 Difficult little creature. 629 00:44:57,163 --> 00:45:00,304 - Holes! - I'm not difficult, I'm a lawyer! - Let's start over. 630 00:45:00,464 --> 00:45:03,177 When you see your wife, what do you see? 631 00:45:03,284 --> 00:45:06,571 - I mean in geometrical terms? - If you think I'll say a one-dimensional line, you're wrong. 632 00:45:06,974 --> 00:45:10,742 Every educated person knows that women are very thin rectangles, 633 00:45:10,876 --> 00:45:14,270 possessing complete two-dimensionality, length and width, 634 00:45:14,353 --> 00:45:15,770 - just like... - No, no, no! 635 00:45:15,810 --> 00:45:18,389 You also see her height. 636 00:45:18,456 --> 00:45:23,213 If a line were just width and length, it wouldn't occupy space. 637 00:45:23,282 --> 00:45:24,565 - It would be invisible. - What? 638 00:45:24,605 --> 00:45:28,267 When we see a line, we see length and width and brightness. 639 00:45:28,387 --> 00:45:31,487 - Is brightness a dimension? - No! Height is a dimension, 640 00:45:31,637 --> 00:45:34,884 like length, only in a different direction. 641 00:45:34,938 --> 00:45:36,247 In your world, 642 00:45:36,301 --> 00:45:41,756 - height is just very, very small. - Point out this direction otherwise leave me alone! - Listen! 643 00:45:42,103 --> 00:45:46,245 To you, Flatland is your whole world. 644 00:45:46,351 --> 00:45:50,988 To me it's a flat plane, on top of which you move around. 645 00:45:51,268 --> 00:45:53,634 You call me a circle. 646 00:45:53,767 --> 00:45:56,814 No. I'm an infinite number of circles, 647 00:45:57,056 --> 00:45:59,220 A Sphere, a solid. 648 00:45:59,301 --> 00:46:02,909 When I enter your world you see a circle. 649 00:46:03,163 --> 00:46:07,278 For instance... Last night I saw your dream about Lineland. 650 00:46:07,388 --> 00:46:10,756 - What? - As clear as a movie on your brain. 651 00:46:10,809 --> 00:46:12,653 - Movie? - Nevermind. Look. 652 00:46:12,707 --> 00:46:17,678 The King of Lineland saw you not as a square, but a point. 653 00:46:17,792 --> 00:46:20,237 It's the same for me in Flatland! 654 00:46:20,277 --> 00:46:23,337 You're seeing only a slice of me! 655 00:46:23,511 --> 00:46:27,052 Watch. I'm going to rise up and down in space. 656 00:46:27,162 --> 00:46:29,327 Watch! See? 657 00:46:29,394 --> 00:46:34,178 Up, down. Up, down. 658 00:46:34,260 --> 00:46:37,948 - And now I'm going to rise out of your world altogether. - Where did you go? 659 00:46:38,068 --> 00:46:39,432 - Where are you? - Here! 660 00:46:39,512 --> 00:46:41,302 - Here! - Am I still dreaming? 661 00:46:41,356 --> 00:46:44,349 - Convinced? -No, it's a Chromatist trick! - Idiot! 662 00:46:44,376 --> 00:46:45,659 It's no trick. 663 00:46:45,712 --> 00:46:48,879 - I thought I was dealing with an adult! - You're a spy from the Northern Kingdom! 664 00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:52,314 - I know it! - Politics? I hate politics! 665 00:46:53,019 --> 00:46:56,827 War is merely an extension of politics, my friends... 666 00:46:56,987 --> 00:47:00,088 just as murder is an extension of business. 667 00:47:00,210 --> 00:47:03,391 I am pleased to announce that our generals have reported back... 668 00:47:03,444 --> 00:47:06,798 we have successfully crushed the Chromatist rebellion! 669 00:47:06,881 --> 00:47:11,104 Good job sir! Great work! At last we have safety! Now let's kill the irregulars! 670 00:47:11,211 --> 00:47:13,162 Ah! B Square! 671 00:47:13,215 --> 00:47:17,398 My friends, we have B Square to thank for orchestrating the maneuver. 672 00:47:17,483 --> 00:47:20,529 B Square, you have saved our great Republic! 673 00:47:20,596 --> 00:47:24,431 Good show old boy... what a hero... never seen anything like it... he's fantastic at logistics... 674 00:47:24,498 --> 00:47:28,066 But I'm afraid our job isn't finished, my friends. 675 00:47:28,171 --> 00:47:31,699 There is even now a greater threat that will emerge. 676 00:47:31,779 --> 00:47:35,160 - This very evening! - Greater threat? 677 00:47:35,283 --> 00:47:39,612 It will rock the very foundations of our civilization! 678 00:47:39,946 --> 00:47:41,349 We must be ready. 679 00:47:41,416 --> 00:47:45,452 B Square, I'll be depending upon you for logistics support. 680 00:47:46,338 --> 00:47:48,369 Can't you understand anything? 681 00:47:48,490 --> 00:47:50,842 Look. If a point moves north, 682 00:47:50,895 --> 00:47:54,409 and leaves a luminous wake, what name would you give that wake? 683 00:47:54,505 --> 00:47:57,499 - A... a straight line. - And how many points would it have? 684 00:47:57,579 --> 00:48:02,309 - Two. - Now let's move that line parallel to itself. 685 00:48:02,513 --> 00:48:06,989 A distance equal to its length. What would you call its wake? 686 00:48:07,150 --> 00:48:10,143 - A square. - And how many sides does a square have? 687 00:48:10,279 --> 00:48:13,994 - How many angles? Points? - Four sides, four angles, four points. 688 00:48:14,074 --> 00:48:17,977 Now imagine a square moving parallel to itself... 689 00:48:18,086 --> 00:48:20,050 - Upward. - What do you mean? Northward? 690 00:48:20,130 --> 00:48:22,014 UP, upward. 691 00:48:22,071 --> 00:48:24,810 Pass every point in a square UP, 692 00:48:24,890 --> 00:48:29,140 so that no point passes through any position previously occupied. 693 00:48:29,303 --> 00:48:33,873 - Each point draws a NEW line on its own. - You are hurting my brain! 694 00:48:33,980 --> 00:48:36,706 Look, we began with a single point. 695 00:48:36,816 --> 00:48:40,370 One point produces a line with two points. 696 00:48:40,397 --> 00:48:43,617 One line produces a square with four points. 697 00:48:43,738 --> 00:48:46,076 One, two, four. What's next? 698 00:48:46,306 --> 00:48:47,736 - Eight? - Yes! 699 00:48:47,816 --> 00:48:54,457 It produces a Something which you do not know the name for but which we call acube. 700 00:48:54,741 --> 00:48:58,776 - With eight points. - This cube has sides? 701 00:48:58,870 --> 00:49:01,850 Yes, but what you call sides, 702 00:49:01,966 --> 00:49:06,857 we call faces of a solid in the 3D world... 703 00:49:06,924 --> 00:49:10,117 - How many sides? - A point has zero sides. 704 00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:13,902 A line has two sides. A square has four sides. 705 00:49:14,062 --> 00:49:16,467 Zero, two, four. Get it? 706 00:49:16,534 --> 00:49:20,409 - And now the next number would be... ? - Six? 707 00:49:20,495 --> 00:49:23,368 Yes! You see it now, don't you? 708 00:49:24,117 --> 00:49:29,344 You're a monster! You Devil! You Die! You Die! 709 00:49:32,391 --> 00:49:35,050 What is wrong with your species? 710 00:49:35,130 --> 00:49:38,431 I see a brain, but when it comes to imagination, 711 00:49:38,514 --> 00:49:41,507 all you try and do is kill something! 712 00:49:41,708 --> 00:49:46,024 I come for an apostle of the Three Dimensions 713 00:49:46,121 --> 00:49:48,954 - and find a fool instead! - I'm no fool! 714 00:49:49,007 --> 00:49:53,978 We're only allowed to appear in your world every thousand years! 715 00:49:54,075 --> 00:49:55,745 You've been chosen! 716 00:49:55,799 --> 00:49:59,380 I can't go change directions and find someone else now! 717 00:49:59,407 --> 00:50:03,215 - There isn't any time! - I'm just an attorney. Not an apostle! 718 00:50:03,325 --> 00:50:08,055 Okay then, how would you convince me if our roles were reversed? 719 00:50:08,162 --> 00:50:12,360 - How would you convince a jury? - I would have to show them. Directly show them. 720 00:50:12,387 --> 00:50:15,488 Of course. Action, not words! 721 00:50:15,728 --> 00:50:19,162 Listen, I can see from here your study. 722 00:50:19,299 --> 00:50:24,550 On the wall is a hidden safe, inside of which is hidden a little glowing thing. 723 00:50:24,604 --> 00:50:25,847 It's called a Glow Point. 724 00:50:25,887 --> 00:50:28,402 - No! Wait! Leave that alone! - I'm entering the safe now. 725 00:50:28,482 --> 00:50:33,106 Grabbing the glowing thingie. Notice that the door does not move. 726 00:50:33,279 --> 00:50:37,489 Now I am in the safe and I'm taking the glowing thingie... 727 00:50:37,678 --> 00:50:39,309 - uh... whups... - What? What? 728 00:50:39,362 --> 00:50:42,743 It stopped glowing. Well, never mind. 729 00:50:42,823 --> 00:50:45,095 Ah. Here's your thingie. 730 00:50:45,177 --> 00:50:49,854 The door to the safe is closed. Ta-dah! 731 00:50:49,921 --> 00:50:53,877 Get it? ME Spaceland, YOU Flatland. 732 00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:56,565 I look down upon you. 733 00:50:56,646 --> 00:50:59,986 all you've proven is that you are a... a... skillful thief! 734 00:51:00,093 --> 00:51:02,191 And a vandal! You fix my Glow Point! 735 00:51:02,260 --> 00:51:05,347 You people certainly like your shiny things, don't you? 736 00:51:05,441 --> 00:51:06,817 Ok, listen. 737 00:51:06,884 --> 00:51:11,174 The higher I go, the further away from Flatland I go, 738 00:51:11,297 --> 00:51:12,767 the more I can see, 739 00:51:12,833 --> 00:51:15,920 though of course I see it on a smaller scale. 740 00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:19,314 For example: now I can see your neighbor's house 741 00:51:19,384 --> 00:51:23,353 and your five Pentagonal Sons banging against its sides. 742 00:51:23,446 --> 00:51:27,963 - I told them to stay inside! - Now I'm going far, far up. 743 00:51:28,006 --> 00:51:31,574 Buildings, buildings, buildings... 744 00:51:31,721 --> 00:51:35,850 now I see the border between your country and the Northern Kingdom. 745 00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:40,383 Uh oh. Looks busy. Mostly Soldier Triangles. 746 00:51:40,530 --> 00:51:43,457 Looks like they're getting ready for something... 747 00:51:43,593 --> 00:51:47,415 - Oh, anyone can listen to the radio! - Fine, fine, fine. 748 00:51:47,549 --> 00:51:50,422 - How about if I touch you? - Touch me? 749 00:51:50,598 --> 00:51:53,324 Sure. Just a little touch, 750 00:51:53,444 --> 00:51:55,970 gently, here. In your stomach! 751 00:51:56,988 --> 00:52:05,286 - Ow! Stop! Ow! Stop! Help! Help! Ow! - Dad? 752 00:52:05,703 --> 00:52:08,856 - What's happening dad? - Why are you stuck in the corner? 753 00:52:08,963 --> 00:52:11,275 - Where's the priest? -Go back to your rooms, both of you. 754 00:52:11,329 --> 00:52:13,841 - Should I use my peace cry? - Just go. Go! 755 00:52:13,924 --> 00:52:16,249 There's only one other thing to do. 756 00:52:16,343 --> 00:52:18,414 It's never been done before, 757 00:52:18,521 --> 00:52:21,300 - but I suppose I'll have to do it. - Do what? 758 00:52:21,370 --> 00:52:24,765 - Murder me? You've done everything else! - Nothing of the sort. 759 00:52:25,072 --> 00:52:28,065 It will be painful, and I could get in trouble, 760 00:52:28,148 --> 00:52:32,691 But I've got no choice if the Gospel of Three Dimensions is to be revealed. 761 00:52:32,785 --> 00:52:34,402 Hang on, apostle. 762 00:52:34,498 --> 00:52:36,997 One, two, three, 763 00:52:37,170 --> 00:52:42,034 out of Flatland we go! 764 00:53:11,582 --> 00:53:14,669 I'm mad! I'm insane! What have you done to me? 765 00:53:14,854 --> 00:53:18,069 Lifted you out of Flatland into reality. 766 00:53:22,665 --> 00:53:27,190 Steady. There, can you stand? Rest on your bottom hairs for a moment. 767 00:53:28,006 --> 00:53:32,640 What is this pressure? It's pushing me southward. My south hairs hurt! 768 00:53:32,918 --> 00:53:35,161 Oh, that! You'll get used to that. 769 00:53:35,189 --> 00:53:39,374 That's just gravity, something we all have to contend with in Spaceland. 770 00:53:39,573 --> 00:53:40,800 Nothing to worry about. 771 00:53:40,846 --> 00:53:46,396 Now that I see you... all of you... you're... you're so, so perfect. 772 00:53:46,572 --> 00:53:49,595 Your circularity... is beyond circularity. 773 00:53:49,732 --> 00:53:53,642 Everywhere you're circular, divine. Perfect. 774 00:53:53,717 --> 00:53:56,666 A divine ideal of loveliness and wisdom! 775 00:53:56,694 --> 00:53:59,322 Feel free to worship me at any time. 776 00:53:59,379 --> 00:54:02,704 But first, let's take a look at where you've been. 777 00:54:04,730 --> 00:54:07,413 Look! Look, a Flatlander! 778 00:54:07,807 --> 00:54:10,216 You can see their insides! 779 00:54:10,492 --> 00:54:14,504 - I see! I see! - I take it that my experiment worked. 780 00:54:14,762 --> 00:54:17,803 I hope my ends will justify my means. 781 00:54:17,894 --> 00:54:19,561 Care to see yourself? 782 00:54:19,673 --> 00:54:22,210 Myself? How can I see myself? 783 00:54:22,274 --> 00:54:24,527 I am inside of myself. 784 00:54:24,612 --> 00:54:27,424 In 3D, you can have reflections. 785 00:54:27,607 --> 00:54:31,398 Light can bounce off an object, which you can use to see yourself. 786 00:54:31,744 --> 00:54:33,237 Here� 787 00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:37,468 That's me? 788 00:54:37,663 --> 00:54:40,154 No, it's your reflection. 789 00:54:47,006 --> 00:54:50,037 Thank you! Thank you for showing me this! 790 00:54:50,185 --> 00:54:53,446 I see now, I see everything! Everything! 791 00:54:55,590 --> 00:54:57,697 I understand it all! 792 00:54:58,503 --> 00:55:00,545 I can see! 793 00:55:34,594 --> 00:55:36,938 - What's that glowing sphere in the sky? - The sun. 794 00:55:37,023 --> 00:55:39,368 Best not to look at it for too long, it could blind you. 795 00:55:39,395 --> 00:55:42,253 - How does it stay up there in the sky? - Just does. 796 00:55:42,355 --> 00:55:45,405 Our scientists say it is immeasurably huge. 797 00:55:45,551 --> 00:55:48,344 - Larger than anything else in the entire world. - But... it's... 798 00:55:48,511 --> 00:55:52,119 - smaller than you... - No, that's just perspective. 799 00:55:52,257 --> 00:55:55,160 The further away something is, the smaller it looks. 800 00:55:55,241 --> 00:55:57,989 But no, it's very, very large. 801 00:55:58,144 --> 00:56:01,615 - Makes me puny by comparison. - That can't be. 802 00:56:01,719 --> 00:56:03,275 You're a perfect circle, 803 00:56:03,376 --> 00:56:05,537 - divine in all respects... - Yes, yes, 804 00:56:05,611 --> 00:56:07,186 can't argue with you there. 805 00:56:07,243 --> 00:56:09,725 But still, some of us even worship it. 806 00:56:09,910 --> 00:56:14,590 ow wondrous a world that gods would have even greater gods to worship! 807 00:56:14,645 --> 00:56:16,623 I guess there's always something smaller 808 00:56:16,672 --> 00:56:18,073 and always something larger than you. 809 00:56:18,119 --> 00:56:20,738 I wonder, what does this sun worship? 810 00:56:20,876 --> 00:56:24,264 Are there beings even greater than this glorious sun, 811 00:56:24,418 --> 00:56:28,099 - Alright, that's enough. Let's not get silly, now. - What is that? 812 00:56:28,365 --> 00:56:32,028 - Oh! And look at those Glow Points! - That is the moon. 813 00:56:32,132 --> 00:56:34,879 Another Sphere of great proportions. 814 00:56:35,017 --> 00:56:38,552 And those aren't Glow Points. Those are stars. 815 00:56:38,646 --> 00:56:40,514 If only I could show this to my wife! 816 00:56:40,615 --> 00:56:44,397 - And my son Hex! - It's rather expensive to pull someone out of Flatland. 817 00:56:44,591 --> 00:56:48,474 I'm afraid this production really can't really afford anyone but you. Sorry. 818 00:56:48,520 --> 00:56:50,746 There is so much to understand. 819 00:56:50,894 --> 00:56:52,579 For instance, 820 00:56:52,708 --> 00:56:55,776 I am in Spaceland, and can see the insides of myself, 821 00:56:55,879 --> 00:56:59,276 and I can see the insides of all my fellow Flatlanders, 822 00:56:59,416 --> 00:57:00,845 yet, 823 00:57:00,927 --> 00:57:04,645 I see no brain, lungs, or heart inside of you. 824 00:57:04,711 --> 00:57:07,184 Of course you can't see in my insides. 825 00:57:07,267 --> 00:57:10,554 Spacelanders are of a greater order than Flatlanders. 826 00:57:10,730 --> 00:57:12,873 I am a being of many circles, 827 00:57:12,974 --> 00:57:14,531 the Many in the One. 828 00:57:14,613 --> 00:57:17,324 What we in Spaceland call A Sphere. 829 00:57:17,451 --> 00:57:20,913 Don't worry. The mysteries of the world, of Spaceland, 830 00:57:21,050 --> 00:57:23,312 will become plain to you after a while. 831 00:57:23,442 --> 00:57:27,481 We can fly anywhere you like and view your world in detail. 832 00:57:28,061 --> 00:57:31,532 Let's start with your house and work our way out. 833 00:57:36,715 --> 00:57:39,746 Eeee, eeee, eeee. Is someone there? 834 00:57:39,847 --> 00:57:42,475 It's me! I'm here, outside the world. 835 00:57:42,569 --> 00:57:46,598 Can't see you, can't hear you! Eeeee, eeee, eeee! 836 00:57:46,692 --> 00:57:50,621 I can... see everything. You've given me the eyes... the eyes of God. 837 00:57:50,742 --> 00:57:54,433 You can see what any fool in the world of 3D can see. 838 00:57:54,591 --> 00:57:57,146 The Great Hall! Now that I'm in Spaceland, 839 00:57:57,283 --> 00:58:00,177 I can get past the soldiers to see if my brother is inside! 840 00:58:00,371 --> 00:58:02,542 Now you're thinking in 3D! 841 00:58:02,642 --> 00:58:05,564 I've got business there too. Let's go. 842 00:58:18,086 --> 00:58:20,714 Oh! There he is! Hey, B! 843 00:58:20,780 --> 00:58:21,724 - B! - Shh! 844 00:58:21,824 --> 00:58:26,055 Looks like your elite priests are gathering for their millennial meeting. 845 00:58:26,158 --> 00:58:29,995 - Let's listen in. - Whereas the States have been troubled by ill-intentioned persons 846 00:58:30,108 --> 00:58:35,163 pretending to have received revelations of Three Dimensions every thousand years since Time Began, 847 00:58:35,385 --> 00:58:40,267 it has been unanimously resolved by the Grand Council that on the first day of each millennium, 848 00:58:40,387 --> 00:58:43,071 all such apostles of the Three Dimensions... 849 00:58:43,226 --> 00:58:46,871 shall be imprisoned and executed three days hence. 850 00:58:46,974 --> 00:58:48,962 - Blast! - What's wrong? 851 00:58:49,071 --> 00:58:52,286 How could I expect this? You people can't write! 852 00:58:52,444 --> 00:58:55,988 - Write? - Writing. Recording words visually. 853 00:58:56,073 --> 00:58:59,526 It's what we do to pass information down through the generations. 854 00:58:59,571 --> 00:59:02,191 - I don't understand. - Your people worked around it! 855 00:59:02,312 --> 00:59:04,025 You memorize everything! 856 00:59:04,107 --> 00:59:06,342 - Pass it down through voice�. - Of course! 857 00:59:06,408 --> 00:59:09,449 Every child learns how to memorize great quantities of words 858 00:59:09,506 --> 00:59:11,045 and can repeat them back. 859 00:59:11,109 --> 00:59:13,151 I'm doing my best to remember every word you speak, 860 00:59:13,206 --> 00:59:15,450 - for instance... - I hadn't counted on them remembering! 861 00:59:15,534 --> 00:59:18,245 It's 1000 years between each visit! 862 00:59:18,309 --> 00:59:20,635 - They can't blame me. It's not my fault! - What's wrong? 863 00:59:20,711 --> 00:59:24,530 Didn't you just hear your fate pronounced by your flatheaded brethren? 864 00:59:24,624 --> 00:59:28,169 Death or imprisonment awaits the Apostle of 3D� 865 00:59:28,214 --> 00:59:31,447 They'll understand. It's so clear to me, the nature of 3D. 866 00:59:31,475 --> 00:59:33,865 I could get a child to understand it. 867 00:59:33,929 --> 00:59:34,955 Put me down right now, 868 00:59:35,019 --> 00:59:39,095 - I'm sure that I could go down there... - No, I have to perform my mission. 869 00:59:39,288 --> 00:59:43,748 In fact, unless I miss my guess, your President is waiting for me. 870 00:59:43,879 --> 00:59:48,540 You stay here. Time for reality to intrude into Flatland once again. 871 00:59:49,467 --> 00:59:53,442 I come to proclaim that there is a land of Three Dimensions! 872 00:59:53,535 --> 00:59:54,891 Guards! 873 00:59:56,832 --> 01:00:00,724 Stop that! I am a perfect circle, a divine Sphere! 874 01:00:01,030 --> 01:00:02,624 Listen to me you flatbrains! 875 01:00:02,651 --> 01:00:04,666 - Hear my word! - We've got him! 876 01:00:04,703 --> 01:00:07,148 - Where is he? Look Out! - HEAR MY WORD! 877 01:00:07,235 --> 01:00:09,286 Where did he go? He's gone!! 878 01:00:09,376 --> 01:00:11,594 My Lords, do not be alarmed. 879 01:00:11,701 --> 01:00:13,946 We took care of the Chromatic insurrection. 880 01:00:14,066 --> 01:00:16,886 I assure you this one will be even simpler. 881 01:00:16,996 --> 01:00:20,270 The secret memories have predicted everything we have seen. 882 01:00:20,403 --> 01:00:23,356 The circle who claims he's from another world, 883 01:00:23,477 --> 01:00:26,497 all this was as our forefathers foresaw. 884 01:00:26,606 --> 01:00:29,639 The priestly circles alone remember how the same occurrence... 885 01:00:29,773 --> 01:00:32,472 happened on the last two millennial commencements. 886 01:00:32,633 --> 01:00:36,214 How can you people be so smart and yet so stupid? 887 01:00:36,362 --> 01:00:41,373 - Just look at this... - You are all required to say nothing of these trifles outside this Cabinet. 888 01:00:42,402 --> 01:00:45,462 Call for the Praetorian Guards! 889 01:01:04,561 --> 01:01:07,834 These Soldier Triangles must be put to death right away. 890 01:01:07,958 --> 01:01:09,935 All of them! 891 01:01:22,527 --> 01:01:25,814 There, that's done. No trace, no harm. 892 01:01:25,938 --> 01:01:30,976 These are serious times, gentlemen, and must be met with determination and resolve. 893 01:01:32,365 --> 01:01:35,252 My Lords, the business of the Council being over, 894 01:01:35,375 --> 01:01:37,767 I wish you all Happy New Year. 895 01:01:37,914 --> 01:01:39,704 Attend to your Configuration. 896 01:01:39,838 --> 01:01:42,751 - Attend to your Configuration! - Ah, B Square. 897 01:01:42,968 --> 01:01:46,068 I haven't forgotten you, my dear assistant, 898 01:01:46,162 --> 01:01:49,195 for the sake of secrecy, you too should die. 899 01:01:49,329 --> 01:01:52,750 But since you've been loyal and for the most part efficient, 900 01:01:52,836 --> 01:01:56,978 I'll spare you your life and grant you instead life imprisonment. 901 01:01:57,286 --> 01:02:00,894 However, should you ever mention what you've seen today, 902 01:02:01,003 --> 01:02:02,660 you will be executed. 903 01:02:02,741 --> 01:02:06,041 Attend to your Configuration. And Happy New Year. 904 01:02:06,095 --> 01:02:07,805 Guards! 905 01:02:07,995 --> 01:02:10,320 Mr. President! I promise I won't say a word. 906 01:02:10,440 --> 01:02:13,487 - Not a word! Please! - Hey! You don't know what you're doing! 907 01:02:13,567 --> 01:02:15,505 There really is a third dimension. 908 01:02:15,587 --> 01:02:17,725 - Listen to me! - Give it up, Mr. Attorney. - Let me go back! 909 01:02:17,886 --> 01:02:21,333 - Let me talk to them! - We don't have a lot of time. - Please! He's my brother! 910 01:02:21,574 --> 01:02:23,939 Your brother is expendable. 911 01:02:30,665 --> 01:02:34,407 Round Table, Round Table. Come in, Round Table. 912 01:02:34,544 --> 01:02:36,388 This is Alpha Omega calling. 913 01:02:36,481 --> 01:02:38,553 - Come in, Round Table. - Roger Alpha Omega. 914 01:02:38,659 --> 01:02:40,584 This is Round Table. Over. 915 01:02:40,651 --> 01:02:43,016 I'm on my way back, Round Table. Over. 916 01:02:43,165 --> 01:02:46,586 We hear you Alpha Omega. How was the mission? Over. 917 01:02:46,720 --> 01:02:51,076 I'll file a report as soon as I get back, Round Table. 918 01:02:51,199 --> 01:02:54,553 Until then, cue the triumphant Return! 919 01:04:32,158 --> 01:04:36,314 - What's going on there? - Oh, even in Spaceland we have our problem children. 920 01:05:49,146 --> 01:05:52,299 Stay there, I have to write my After Action Report. 921 01:06:32,316 --> 01:06:34,762 Welcome back, sir. Welcome home. 922 01:06:34,869 --> 01:06:38,210 - We're all so proud of you. - And the company! 923 01:06:38,410 --> 01:06:40,855 Was your manifestation a successful one? 924 01:06:40,922 --> 01:06:43,368 There were a few complications. 925 01:06:43,528 --> 01:06:46,842 - Your messages, sir. - On my desk, Mathilde. 926 01:06:46,939 --> 01:06:50,694 I've got to send an e-comm report quick to the board of directors. 927 01:06:54,344 --> 01:06:56,843 What a cute drawing! 928 01:06:56,977 --> 01:06:59,409 - What? - The drawing. On your desk. 929 01:06:59,610 --> 01:07:02,589 Where did you get it? Did you bring it back with you? 930 01:07:02,619 --> 01:07:05,586 A Square? He's not a drawing, he's a Flatlander. 931 01:07:05,679 --> 01:07:08,566 - Flatlander? - That's never been done before! 932 01:07:08,673 --> 01:07:11,238 I thought you were a cartoon! 933 01:07:11,286 --> 01:07:15,121 - A cartoon? - He can talk! How delightful. 934 01:07:15,348 --> 01:07:18,783 - Isn't he cute, Millicent? - I think it's disgusting! 935 01:07:18,852 --> 01:07:21,110 - A cartoon? - Something you can't do in Flatland. 936 01:07:21,137 --> 01:07:24,745 - Can it think? - Oh, yes. Though not very well. 937 01:07:24,945 --> 01:07:28,192 - Smile for the camera, A Square! - Is this allowed? 938 01:07:28,262 --> 01:07:32,885 No previous Messiah ever brought their chosen apostle back with them. 939 01:07:32,925 --> 01:07:37,202 He's here, isn't he? And my e-comm is now finished! 940 01:07:37,271 --> 01:07:39,556 Can we show him around the office? 941 01:07:39,623 --> 01:07:41,748 This will cause quite a stir! 942 01:07:41,828 --> 01:07:46,171 - I could just eat it up! - Ladies, it's not a trinket. 943 01:07:46,254 --> 01:07:51,131 Its time here is limited. Gravitational forces will kill it if it stays too long. 944 01:07:51,228 --> 01:07:54,609 - What? - If you ladies will see that I'm not disturbed for the next hour... 945 01:07:54,691 --> 01:07:58,727 - After that, I want to meet with Marketing. - Yes, sir. 946 01:08:08,439 --> 01:08:13,023 Solids. That's the first lesson and the last. Solids. 947 01:08:13,266 --> 01:08:15,724 That's what we are and you're not. 948 01:08:15,952 --> 01:08:20,575 You're not solid, not really, because solid implies thickness. 949 01:08:21,110 --> 01:08:23,542 Your thickness is microscopic. 950 01:08:24,165 --> 01:08:25,314 Let's begin. 951 01:08:25,515 --> 01:08:30,780 First, a cube is made up of a number of square planes like yourself. 952 01:08:31,074 --> 01:08:32,811 Now here's a pack of cards. 953 01:08:32,921 --> 01:08:36,983 I put one down. Now a second, now a third. 954 01:08:37,157 --> 01:08:43,330 See? I'm building a solid by a multitude of squares parallel to one another. 955 01:08:46,428 --> 01:08:50,236 And now the solid is complete, 956 01:08:50,490 --> 01:08:53,898 being as high as it is long and broad. 957 01:08:54,098 --> 01:08:56,771 We call this solid a cube. 958 01:08:56,851 --> 01:08:59,376 - It hurts my brain. - I'm sure it does. 959 01:08:59,644 --> 01:09:03,078 Light, shadow, perspective... you're not used to it 960 01:09:03,990 --> 01:09:05,580 - Yes, sir? - Send in a cube. 961 01:09:05,647 --> 01:09:07,517 - Which one? - Anyone. 962 01:09:07,598 --> 01:09:08,680 Yes, sir. 963 01:09:08,760 --> 01:09:13,344 I'm going to let you feel a cube. That'll help you understand solids. 964 01:09:19,242 --> 01:09:21,781 Let this Flatlander touch you. 965 01:09:24,457 --> 01:09:28,051 Don't worry, it won't hurt. And there won't be any side effects... 966 01:09:28,145 --> 01:09:30,510 that we know of. 967 01:09:30,884 --> 01:09:32,501 Dean in Sending, isn't it? 968 01:09:32,528 --> 01:09:34,425 - Carlton in Receiving. - Of course, of course. 969 01:09:34,529 --> 01:09:39,260 Just stand here on the desk. And you, A Square, you may feel Dean. 970 01:09:39,460 --> 01:09:40,610 - Carlton. - Sorry? 971 01:09:40,663 --> 01:09:42,587 - Cube Carlton. Receiving. - Right. Right. 972 01:09:51,043 --> 01:09:54,998 A Square, please go over and feel the generic cube person. 973 01:10:12,464 --> 01:10:15,912 Not a plane. Not a plane. A solid. 974 01:10:16,035 --> 01:10:20,177 Six planes. Eight terminal points. Angles. 975 01:10:20,324 --> 01:10:24,346 A square moving parallel to himself in space. 976 01:10:24,577 --> 01:10:27,623 Yes! I am a part of this... 977 01:10:27,730 --> 01:10:30,857 This is bliss! What wonder to know so much! 978 01:10:30,897 --> 01:10:34,519 That's enough. We can't go on like this forever, you know. 979 01:10:34,684 --> 01:10:36,982 Thank you, Carlson. 980 01:10:38,439 --> 01:10:39,748 Carlton. 981 01:10:39,922 --> 01:10:43,490 - Now, lesson two. - Your pardon, Great Sphere of 3D, but... 982 01:10:43,667 --> 01:10:46,232 might I be granted a look at your insides? 983 01:10:46,419 --> 01:10:49,012 - My what? - Your stomach, brain, heart. 984 01:10:49,052 --> 01:10:50,615 What the devil are you talking about? 985 01:10:50,698 --> 01:10:54,747 When I was feeling the cube, a light overwhelmed me� 986 01:10:54,867 --> 01:10:58,596 and I saw more and farther than I've ever seen before. 987 01:10:58,649 --> 01:10:59,611 Uh huh? 988 01:10:59,681 --> 01:11:03,770 What I saw... or sensed... or felt... Was� 989 01:11:03,863 --> 01:11:06,482 that a dimension greater than yours existed. 990 01:11:06,603 --> 01:11:09,903 Just as I am to you, so you must be to someone else. 991 01:11:10,085 --> 01:11:12,611 If your dimension is greater and purer than mine, 992 01:11:12,691 --> 01:11:17,088 then there must be a fourth dimension even greater and purer than yours. 993 01:11:17,558 --> 01:11:22,275 Good friend, philosopher, priest, don't you see what you've taught me? 994 01:11:22,545 --> 01:11:27,289 Some more spacious space, some more dimensionable dimension, 995 01:11:27,382 --> 01:11:30,028 - lies beyond this one. - Time's short. 996 01:11:30,084 --> 01:11:33,451 We've got a lot to do before you're fit to proclaim the Three Dimensions� 997 01:11:33,491 --> 01:11:35,469 Please, sir, let me see your insides. 998 01:11:35,522 --> 01:11:39,050 In the first place your request makes no sense. 999 01:11:39,133 --> 01:11:41,940 In the second place I can't turn myself inside out. 1000 01:11:41,993 --> 01:11:47,499 But you showed me the insides of Flatland by taking me from the land of two dimensions into the land of three. 1001 01:11:47,689 --> 01:11:49,960 Please, take me into a fourth dimension... 1002 01:11:50,027 --> 01:11:54,571 so that we can look onto the land of 3D and see the secrets of solids! 1003 01:11:54,680 --> 01:11:58,422 And where is this land of four dimensions supposed to be? 1004 01:11:58,489 --> 01:12:02,070 Doubtless you, O great Teacher of dimensionality greater than mine, 1005 01:12:02,126 --> 01:12:03,543 surely you know where it is. 1006 01:12:03,609 --> 01:12:06,723 Damned if I do. There is no such place. 1007 01:12:06,897 --> 01:12:09,035 The very idea! Inconceivable! 1008 01:12:09,104 --> 01:12:13,380 Well, you taught me that when I see a line in Flatland and infer a plane, 1009 01:12:13,460 --> 01:12:15,398 in reality I see a third dimension. 1010 01:12:15,574 --> 01:12:18,153 Not the same as brightness, but one called height. 1011 01:12:18,260 --> 01:12:22,483 So it follows that in Spaceland, when I see a plane and infer a solid, 1012 01:12:22,550 --> 01:12:25,516 I really see a fourth unrecognized dimension. 1013 01:12:25,645 --> 01:12:29,734 Just as the monarch of Lineland couldn't turn right or left or see Flatland, 1014 01:12:29,855 --> 01:12:32,835 so I couldn't see Spaceland even though it was all around me! 1015 01:12:32,955 --> 01:12:36,550 So there must be a fourth dimension outside Spaceland! 1016 01:12:36,660 --> 01:12:40,094 Tell me, has anyone seen any... you know... 1017 01:12:40,175 --> 01:12:42,540 visitors, here in Spaceland? 1018 01:12:42,633 --> 01:12:47,190 A few madmen. The usual visions, delusions, brainstorms. 1019 01:12:47,253 --> 01:12:48,750 Nothing worth writing about. 1020 01:12:48,817 --> 01:12:51,155 Tell me, did any of these delusions... 1021 01:12:51,236 --> 01:12:54,991 - appear and vanish suddenly? - Well, that's how the story sometimes goes� 1022 01:12:55,086 --> 01:12:58,467 a story written by deluded, mentally sick brains. 1023 01:12:58,521 --> 01:13:01,434 - Maybe they come from... - I thought I told you not to disturb me. 1024 01:13:01,501 --> 01:13:05,189 I'm sorry sir. The Board of Directors are here. 1025 01:13:05,239 --> 01:13:07,644 - We've got a problem, A! - What? 1026 01:13:07,791 --> 01:13:10,504 - Your e-comm was leaked to the public. - What? 1027 01:13:10,557 --> 01:13:13,684 - When? I just submitted it! - Public opinion is against us. 1028 01:13:13,764 --> 01:13:16,878 They think you've made a terrible mistake! 1029 01:13:16,985 --> 01:13:20,860 There's a hearing in the Senate Chambers going on right now. 1030 01:13:20,981 --> 01:13:24,963 The Zeroes are winning. We must do something! 1031 01:13:25,206 --> 01:13:29,068 Your cartoon thing has been subpoenaed! 1032 01:13:29,282 --> 01:13:32,623 - He must appear at once! - Great Balls of Fire! 1033 01:13:32,770 --> 01:13:35,696 There's no need to be worried. Just be polite. 1034 01:13:35,821 --> 01:13:38,734 Try not to say too much, yes and no answers, 1035 01:13:38,814 --> 01:13:41,394 Be as boolean and binary as you can be. 1036 01:13:41,530 --> 01:13:45,392 No pressure, but the Zeroes in the Senate may have enough votes to win. 1037 01:13:45,445 --> 01:13:47,597 - The Zeroes? - Political faction. 1038 01:13:47,664 --> 01:13:50,892 They've gotten momentum because I brought you out of Flatland. 1039 01:13:50,946 --> 01:13:53,806 They think Flatland is an abomination that should be wiped out. 1040 01:13:53,899 --> 01:13:54,300 What? 1041 01:13:54,353 --> 01:13:57,761 It disturbs them that there are creatures such as yourselves. 1042 01:13:57,868 --> 01:14:01,356 They think we shouldn't be trying to teach you the Gospel of 3D. 1043 01:14:01,463 --> 01:14:04,069 They think we should be putting you out of your misery. 1044 01:14:04,162 --> 01:14:06,848 - Misery?! - Just don't say anything stupid. 1045 01:14:56,296 --> 01:15:00,639 - Do you mean to tell me, Mister Sphere... - Just call me A Sphere, Senator... 1046 01:15:00,733 --> 01:15:02,483 I'll call you what I like, boy! 1047 01:15:02,526 --> 01:15:05,319 Do you mean to tell me that you took it upon yourself... 1048 01:15:05,359 --> 01:15:08,206 to bring this disgusting creature into our world... 1049 01:15:08,272 --> 01:15:11,640 - without any oversight? Hmm? - It was a split-second decision, Senator. 1050 01:15:11,749 --> 01:15:15,985 Our company had done research on what such an action would mean, of course. 1051 01:15:16,065 --> 01:15:20,584 - We'd run computer simulations and... - Computer simulations! 1052 01:15:21,493 --> 01:15:26,514 And these simulations made you certain that there would be no unintended consequences? 1053 01:15:26,567 --> 01:15:29,854 - That there would be no danger to Spaceland? 1054 01:15:29,921 --> 01:15:32,473 - Of course, Senator... - But you weren't 100 percent certain, were you? 1055 01:15:32,500 --> 01:15:33,930 We're still here, Senator. 1056 01:15:34,013 --> 01:15:37,086 Is a computer simulation PROOF of no danger? 1057 01:15:37,126 --> 01:15:38,917 No, Senator, of course not. 1058 01:15:38,970 --> 01:15:43,206 A computer simulation is only a simulation. It isn't real. 1059 01:15:43,276 --> 01:15:45,734 We simply had a good idea... 1060 01:15:45,761 --> 01:15:50,505 - of what... -You scientists never consider the possibility that you could be wrong, 1061 01:15:50,641 --> 01:15:54,410 that your science could one day be the end of the entire world... 1062 01:15:54,490 --> 01:15:58,018 you look at your computer simulations and take great risks with the public good, 1063 01:15:58,085 --> 01:16:00,984 - without oversight, without any� - If you'd relinquish the floor, 1064 01:16:01,045 --> 01:16:03,611 I'd like to interview the Flatlander, Senator. 1065 01:16:03,691 --> 01:16:08,528 We're here to decide if we should perform euthanasia on Flatland or not. 1066 01:16:08,625 --> 01:16:12,781 After all, the scientists are not the ones on trial here. Not yet. 1067 01:16:12,834 --> 01:16:16,736 Of course, of course, I yield the floor to my distinguished Cubic Colleague. 1068 01:16:16,765 --> 01:16:20,333 Now. Mr. A Square. You've been sworn in. 1069 01:16:20,400 --> 01:16:22,712 Yes, Oh Great and Divine Cube. 1070 01:16:22,765 --> 01:16:26,417 Knock it off with the Great and Divine. Call him Senator. 1071 01:16:26,496 --> 01:16:30,625 I'm sorry. I'm sorry, your Senatorness, uhm, Cube, ah, Senator Cube... 1072 01:16:30,708 --> 01:16:32,913 - Don't coach the witness. - I'm sorry Senator. 1073 01:16:32,993 --> 01:16:36,547 It's his whole world you're standing in judgment over, 1074 01:16:36,601 --> 01:16:41,842 he's just arrived here, he doesn't know anything yet, it isn't right, it isn't fair... 1075 01:16:41,869 --> 01:16:45,998 A Sphere, you are excused while we interview this witness! 1076 01:16:46,094 --> 01:16:49,355 And take your board of directors with you. Guards! 1077 01:16:56,823 --> 01:16:59,416 Ixnay on the Fourth Dimensionay. 1078 01:16:59,496 --> 01:17:01,661 What? What? What did you say? What? 1079 01:17:01,728 --> 01:17:05,897 - Remember. You're an attorney! - This is a disaster, Sphere! 1080 01:17:05,994 --> 01:17:10,230 We're going to hold an emergency board meeting and elect a new CEO... 1081 01:17:10,297 --> 01:17:13,397 Oh, the shareholders! The shareholders! 1082 01:17:13,624 --> 01:17:16,009 Now, Mr. A Square... 1083 01:17:16,089 --> 01:17:19,510 Let's ignore the media here. Let's ignore everything. 1084 01:17:19,564 --> 01:17:22,998 It's just you and me. You know what's at stake. 1085 01:17:23,118 --> 01:17:26,940 Tell me what's on your mind. Why should we preserve your world? 1086 01:17:27,032 --> 01:17:30,974 - Why should Flatland continue its existence? - Because... 1087 01:17:31,148 --> 01:17:35,745 - Speak into the microphone, please. - Because... ack! 1088 01:17:36,697 --> 01:17:39,784 Can someone prop the witness upright please? 1089 01:17:40,398 --> 01:17:44,474 Yes, you there. You diamond guy there. Lift him up, please. 1090 01:17:47,376 --> 01:17:52,735 Answer the question, Flatlander. Why should Flatland have a continued existence? 1091 01:17:53,660 --> 01:17:55,931 Because... 1092 01:17:59,008 --> 01:18:01,226 In order to turn a circle into A Sphere, 1093 01:18:01,280 --> 01:18:05,716 we rotate ninety degrees the circle along its vertical axis. 1094 01:18:05,890 --> 01:18:08,322 Thus a circle becomes A Sphere. 1095 01:18:08,432 --> 01:18:11,572 So in order to make A Sphere into a hypersphere, 1096 01:18:11,746 --> 01:18:14,298 we would rotate spheres within spheres... 1097 01:18:14,552 --> 01:18:16,703 Oh enough of this stupidity. 1098 01:18:16,786 --> 01:18:19,365 - What is it talking about? - It's there, I know it is. - We need to get out of hear now. 1099 01:18:19,432 --> 01:18:22,652 - It's all around us. - Fourth dimension? 1100 01:18:22,719 --> 01:18:26,320 - This is madness, madness!! - The fourth dimension is here. 1101 01:18:26,637 --> 01:18:31,314 Are you alright, Mr. Square? Are you suffering from your transition into our world? 1102 01:18:31,357 --> 01:18:34,752 You must be ill. Four dimensions? Space is space! 1103 01:18:34,818 --> 01:18:38,253 Point of order, I say! Point of order, Senator Cube! 1104 01:18:38,603 --> 01:18:42,745 Our enemies in the X-Axis have seen our continued inability, 1105 01:18:42,879 --> 01:18:48,157 our continued weakness, our failure, I saw our failure to destroy Flatland! 1106 01:18:48,340 --> 01:18:50,425 We have little time for this circus! 1107 01:18:50,505 --> 01:18:53,686 They see our delays as an excuse to attack. 1108 01:18:53,859 --> 01:18:58,710 - Doom may fall upon us at any moment! - No, no. It's clear in my head. 1109 01:18:58,945 --> 01:19:02,392 I understand everything. I just don't have the words. 1110 01:19:02,646 --> 01:19:05,159 - Space is space, yes... - I voted against using Messiah Inc. 1111 01:19:05,239 --> 01:19:08,245 - but space is curved... - I never trusted that A Sphere! 1112 01:19:08,386 --> 01:19:11,352 I thought we were here to discuss the bowling ball bill? 1113 01:19:11,421 --> 01:19:13,265 Who brought that thing in here? 1114 01:19:13,586 --> 01:19:17,755 Mr. Square. It sounds as if the government has made a terrible mistake... 1115 01:19:17,822 --> 01:19:21,991 in Chartering A Sphere's company to perform Millennium duties. 1116 01:19:22,040 --> 01:19:26,610 It sounds as if you are incapable of understanding the Gospel of the Three Dimensions. 1117 01:19:26,650 --> 01:19:29,871 No... no your worship! That's not true! 1118 01:19:30,061 --> 01:19:35,673 I understand. And I know there are dimensions even beyond it. 1119 01:19:35,887 --> 01:19:40,323 You've all led me into a world of understanding that I can never repay... 1120 01:19:40,386 --> 01:19:45,985 Surely you, you, as great divine solids, can understand... 1121 01:19:46,120 --> 01:19:51,759 there is always something beyond... there is always... infinity! 1122 01:20:00,078 --> 01:20:04,634 Mister Square! Are you alright? Mister Square! Can you hear me? 1123 01:20:14,354 --> 01:20:17,615 - Apostle! Are you okay? - What's the matter with it? 1124 01:20:17,669 --> 01:20:20,716 It's gravity! He must return! And soon! 1125 01:20:23,913 --> 01:20:28,790 Infinity. Infinity. Infinity. 1126 01:22:28,135 --> 01:22:29,859 What's happening? 1127 01:22:29,955 --> 01:22:33,977 Oh, it's just a little war. The X-Axis is attacking us. 1128 01:22:34,565 --> 01:22:35,634 Savages. 1129 01:22:35,715 --> 01:22:39,109 - Everything's black. I can't see. - Our time is up, my friend. 1130 01:22:39,245 --> 01:22:40,929 I have to send you back. 1131 01:22:40,996 --> 01:22:44,149 Good luck preaching the Gospel of the 3D. 1132 01:22:44,350 --> 01:22:46,007 No... please don't send me back. 1133 01:22:46,060 --> 01:22:48,305 - I can't bear to go back. - A Square! 1134 01:22:48,455 --> 01:22:52,277 I'm afraid I won't be answering any calls from Flatland... 1135 01:22:52,317 --> 01:22:54,642 for the next thousand years. 1136 01:22:58,829 --> 01:23:01,515 Did I save my world? 1137 01:23:01,822 --> 01:23:05,310 Shh! Ignorance is bliss. 1138 01:23:11,552 --> 01:23:13,797 Please don't send me back! 1139 01:28:36,013 --> 01:28:39,447 Infinity...infinity. 1140 01:28:45,718 --> 01:28:50,742 Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! No! 1141 01:28:51,231 --> 01:28:56,924 No! No!....No! No!.... 1142 01:29:01,368 --> 01:29:05,804 Let's go, Dad. It's New Year's! It's the New Millennium! 1143 01:29:05,898 --> 01:29:08,891 Come listen to the Proclamation! Hurry! 1144 01:29:08,947 --> 01:29:11,941 Whereas the States have been troubled by ill-intentioned persons... 1145 01:29:12,007 --> 01:29:17,860 pretending to have received revelations of Three Dimensions every thousand years since Time Began, 1146 01:29:18,157 --> 01:29:23,022 it has been unanimously resolved by the Grand Council that on the first day of each millenary, 1147 01:29:23,131 --> 01:29:25,911 all such apostles of the Three Dimensions... 1148 01:29:26,031 --> 01:29:29,452 shall be imprisoned and executed three days hence. 1149 01:29:29,612 --> 01:29:34,815 Tell your mother. Tell your mother I'll be back. Tell her I had to go see your Uncle B. 1150 01:29:38,664 --> 01:29:41,751 Dead, all dead! 1151 01:29:48,303 --> 01:29:51,403 - Halt! Who goes there? - I'm A Square, Attorney At Law, 1152 01:29:51,483 --> 01:29:53,488 here to see my client, B Square! 1153 01:29:53,570 --> 01:29:56,109 - Allow me to pass in the name of the Law! - No one's allowed in! 1154 01:29:56,203 --> 01:29:58,207 Get out of here you pest! 1155 01:29:58,635 --> 01:30:04,274 - A Square! EEE! EEE! EEE! A Square! - Mrs. B! Are you okay? 1156 01:30:04,561 --> 01:30:07,956 - Children! Say hello to your Uncle! - Hello, children. 1157 01:30:09,800 --> 01:30:12,365 Children, go play off to the side. 1158 01:30:15,006 --> 01:30:17,866 They won't tell me what the charges are! They won't let me in! 1159 01:30:17,933 --> 01:30:21,273 -- What's going on, A? - I need to get in there. I have to talk to your husband. 1160 01:30:21,394 --> 01:30:24,467 - Can you distract the guard? - You bet your southside! 1161 01:30:26,783 --> 01:30:29,442 Yikes! Look out! Look out! It's a woman! 1162 01:30:36,216 --> 01:30:38,701 Watch it, buddy! Hey! 1163 01:30:38,835 --> 01:30:42,349 Well, Mr. Suicide! What are you doing in here? 1164 01:30:42,456 --> 01:30:47,507 I'm here to see my client, B Square! Allow me to pass in the name of the law! 1165 01:30:48,928 --> 01:30:50,879 Law? What Law? 1166 01:30:50,920 --> 01:30:54,314 I was sworn to protect the Law, the Constitution. 1167 01:30:54,407 --> 01:30:56,706 They tore it into pieces yesterday! 1168 01:30:56,856 --> 01:31:01,038 I'm a soldier! They have me guarding a bunch of civilians. 1169 01:31:01,159 --> 01:31:04,860 - I should be in battle! - He's my brother. 1170 01:31:05,076 --> 01:31:07,856 - Brother, huh? - Yes, sir. 1171 01:31:08,805 --> 01:31:10,528 Five minutes. 1172 01:31:10,769 --> 01:31:13,495 - How did you know I was here? - I saw it. I saw what happened. 1173 01:31:13,591 --> 01:31:16,103 - I saw them arrest you. - What, you dreamed it? 1174 01:31:16,237 --> 01:31:20,059 - Had a vision or something? - No no, I was there, sort of. 1175 01:31:20,155 --> 01:31:25,286 I was in Spaceland looking down onto Flatland and saw President Circle arrest you. 1176 01:31:25,634 --> 01:31:29,255 He had no right. I can get you off. I know I can. 1177 01:31:29,338 --> 01:31:32,612 All I have to do is explain to them that... that up... 1178 01:31:32,772 --> 01:31:37,115 you know, up, not northward, but up, above, on top of. 1179 01:31:37,198 --> 01:31:40,057 They'll understand then. I should've remembered all of the words, 1180 01:31:40,084 --> 01:31:44,280 but I was distracted and beside myself. I was sick. But listen, B. 1181 01:31:44,336 --> 01:31:46,848 There's another dimension. There's a third dimension... 1182 01:31:46,888 --> 01:31:49,561 - and I'm here to spread the word. - WHAT! Are you mad? 1183 01:31:49,681 --> 01:31:52,033 You're a monster! You'll get us all killed! 1184 01:31:52,103 --> 01:31:54,228 - Die! Die! - What are you... Ow!! 1185 01:31:56,179 --> 01:32:01,339 ...the Infinite beatitude of existence. It is, and there is no other... 1186 01:32:01,389 --> 01:32:05,598 ... of the infinite in the One of the infinite beatitude of existence... 1187 01:32:05,665 --> 01:32:12,264 ... It is and there is no other beside It, the cloudland of metaphysics, the universe from the cloudland of metaphysics... 1188 01:32:12,363 --> 01:32:16,363 - The unity that exists... - Thus speaks the Monarch of Pointland. 1189 01:32:16,492 --> 01:32:21,945 ... the allness that is One, that final universal analogical instinct that is the Oneness of the One to which It... 1190 01:32:22,047 --> 01:32:24,051 - ... it is... - Listen to that babbling! 1191 01:32:24,118 --> 01:32:26,684 - ...and there is no other beside it... - Can't you stop it? 1192 01:32:27,285 --> 01:32:30,706 Give it a try yourself, my Apostle of the Three Dimensions. 1193 01:32:30,842 --> 01:32:34,383 Let's see you lead the Monarch of Pointland to a higher dimension. 1194 01:32:34,450 --> 01:32:37,884 Ok, No problem. Hey, pea brain. Listen to me. 1195 01:32:38,060 --> 01:32:41,094 You're not the all in all. You're the Nothing of Nothing. 1196 01:32:41,187 --> 01:32:44,381 Your so-called universe is a mere point in a line, 1197 01:32:44,478 --> 01:32:47,271 and a line is as nothing compared with . . . 1198 01:32:47,337 --> 01:32:52,095 ... the divine creative power of the all in One... 1199 01:32:52,188 --> 01:32:53,765 Hey pea brain! 1200 01:32:53,821 --> 01:32:55,705 ... the joy of being you... 1201 01:32:55,758 --> 01:32:57,963 Ah! Nobody's home! 1202 01:32:58,043 --> 01:33:00,863 See the difficulty you'll have in your own world? 1203 01:33:00,957 --> 01:33:03,576 The Monarch, in so far as he hears you at all, 1204 01:33:03,689 --> 01:33:06,295 accepts your words only as his own, 1205 01:33:06,375 --> 01:33:10,304 then plumes himself in the variety of The Great One's thoughts. 1206 01:33:10,678 --> 01:33:14,219 Truly he is omnipresent and omniscient, 1207 01:33:14,353 --> 01:33:18,429 truly he is the Monarch of Pointland. 1208 01:33:21,663 --> 01:33:23,774 Good luck, Apostle. 1209 01:33:23,911 --> 01:33:29,056 There's not much time left! Up, not northwards. 1210 01:33:29,336 --> 01:33:33,011 It's been a wonderful interlude, this. 1211 01:33:33,134 --> 01:33:35,619 Up, not northwards. 1212 01:33:35,766 --> 01:33:40,951 You've not much time left. 1213 01:33:46,492 --> 01:33:48,537 Guard! Guard! He's mad! 1214 01:33:48,590 --> 01:33:50,554 - He's one of them! - B! What are you doing? 1215 01:33:50,594 --> 01:33:54,189 - B, what would our dad say? - Our dad was a TRIANGLE! 1216 01:33:54,266 --> 01:33:56,951 What do you want? Are you finished in here? 1217 01:33:57,045 --> 01:34:00,306 Yes, I've nothing more to talk with my client about today. 1218 01:34:00,386 --> 01:34:01,655 Thank you. 1219 01:34:01,765 --> 01:34:04,918 Don't let him get away! He's a proselytizer! 1220 01:34:05,921 --> 01:34:09,889 He's a desperate man, Colonel. A truly desperate man. 1221 01:34:09,999 --> 01:34:13,179 He's one of those proselytizers for the third dimension! 1222 01:34:13,847 --> 01:34:18,351 Stop! Halt! To arms, to arms! 1223 01:34:18,620 --> 01:34:21,293 Stop that square! 1224 01:34:21,614 --> 01:34:23,257 A Square! Where are you going? 1225 01:34:23,297 --> 01:34:26,117 - What did you learn about my husband? - Don't worry, he's alive and well! 1226 01:34:26,186 --> 01:34:29,327 We'll file an injunction, a writ of habeas corpus, 1227 01:34:29,407 --> 01:34:31,866 we'll fight this all the way to the Supreme Circle. 1228 01:34:31,932 --> 01:34:34,805 But right now the police are after me! 1229 01:34:34,929 --> 01:34:38,550 Square heading toward suburbs. Believed dangerous. 1230 01:34:43,537 --> 01:34:46,544 Hey! Don't I know you? 1231 01:34:46,611 --> 01:34:48,962 Not in this world. 1232 01:34:49,938 --> 01:34:52,023 - Where've you been? - My brother B turned me in. 1233 01:34:52,119 --> 01:34:54,217 The police are after me. 1234 01:34:54,270 --> 01:34:56,502 - They'll kill me! - Kill you? - No time. Pack your things! 1235 01:34:56,569 --> 01:35:00,003 We're going to defect to the North! They'll understand me there! 1236 01:35:00,046 --> 01:35:01,997 - The north? - Don't think, pack! Pack! 1237 01:35:02,331 --> 01:35:06,447 I have to see Hex! Hex! I have a new lesson for you! 1238 01:35:06,544 --> 01:35:10,018 Remember how you asked me what three to the third power meant? 1239 01:35:10,085 --> 01:35:12,677 It was before that New Law was announced! It was a silly joke! 1240 01:35:12,760 --> 01:35:14,845 No, no, it wasn't! Look! 1241 01:35:14,925 --> 01:35:20,577 All I have to do is take a square, myself, for example, me, you see, 1242 01:35:20,660 --> 01:35:24,830 not northward but... yes, I would move myself... 1243 01:35:26,997 --> 01:35:29,884 Up. Up. Nothing. Not exactly like this. But... 1244 01:35:29,951 --> 01:35:32,770 - You know, somehow... - Okay buddy, time to go. 1245 01:35:32,850 --> 01:35:35,937 Be careful! He's a tricky little square! 1246 01:35:36,020 --> 01:35:38,345 Oh, Gentlemen! 1247 01:35:38,425 --> 01:35:41,111 I am woman! 1248 01:35:41,192 --> 01:35:45,655 Hear my WAR CRY!!! 1249 01:35:46,216 --> 01:35:47,838 Get back! Get back! It's a woman! 1250 01:35:47,982 --> 01:35:52,272 Get back! Watch out! It's a woman! 1251 01:36:15,326 --> 01:36:18,493 Run darling! Run! We'll meet you at the border! 1252 01:36:27,062 --> 01:36:29,708 He went thata way, north by northwest. 1253 01:36:34,097 --> 01:36:37,130 - Dismantle and segment! - Wait! 1254 01:36:37,464 --> 01:36:41,206 There really is, I promise you, there really is a third dimension. 1255 01:36:41,405 --> 01:36:43,596 - That's absurd. - He's stalling. 1256 01:36:43,663 --> 01:36:45,307 - No, no. - Freak 1257 01:36:45,414 --> 01:36:47,164 - I... I can prove it. - You can't! 1258 01:36:47,284 --> 01:36:50,505 It's.. it's elsewhere. It's.. all around us. 1259 01:36:50,561 --> 01:36:55,479 Mathematics proves that God limited the number of dimensions to two for a reason. 1260 01:36:55,572 --> 01:37:00,038 - For several reasons. - Symmetry, for one. - Beauty and perfection and simplicity for another. 1261 01:37:00,065 --> 01:37:02,604 Dismantle and segment! 1262 01:37:02,644 --> 01:37:05,691 No, please, I'm not .. ah, ahh! 1263 01:37:10,877 --> 01:37:14,819 The Army from the North! At last! 1264 01:37:14,872 --> 01:37:20,084 My destiny fulfilled! WAR! 1265 01:37:41,341 --> 01:37:44,548 Please, I have to meet my wife and family up in the North. 1266 01:37:44,735 --> 01:37:47,688 I... I never miss an appointment. 1267 01:38:01,134 --> 01:38:03,406 Greetings, A Square. 110363