1 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:12,640 It's the diary of Professor Jensen Lind. 2 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:14,840 Contains the encrypted record of discoveries 3 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:16,960 made by a machine he created. 4 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,440 The device identified a recurring pattern 5 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:23,080 running through the fabric of reality, like a source code. 6 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:26,920 Charlie mustn't wake! Tell me why! 7 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:31,600 The little girl is running out of time.I'm trying to protect us. 8 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:35,560 Excuse me! Lock 'em in the maniac's suite. 9 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:38,520 There is no murder, Joy. And there is no suicide. 10 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:41,280 The mathematics say you have to exist. 11 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:43,920 This is her fault. You don't have the right to do this 12 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:48,040 just because it frightens you. It should frighten you too. 13 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:51,760 This is Two Seconds to Midnight, and I am on my way. 14 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:54,200 Gonna destroy the machine and Jensen Lind with it. 15 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:07,600 What it was was... everything was so normal. 16 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:10,600 I mean, I was normal. 17 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:13,680 All right, sort of "end of the bell curve" normal, 18 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:15,720 but I was normal. 19 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:20,200 My mum and dad were normal. 20 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:23,720 It was the most normal possible upbringing 21 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:25,800 in the most normal place in the world. 22 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:29,960 And so I go to school. 23 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,440 And I'm perfectly good at this and that. 24 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:35,160 Lots of friends. Lots of yearning. 25 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:38,640 And find myself gravitating weirdly towards things 26 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:41,400 like Economics and Business Studies. 27 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:47,920 Mum and Dad wished I'd gone into something with more poetry in it, 28 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:51,920 because for them there's no poetry in making money. 29 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:55,320 Well, so I disappointed them a little bit. But that was my job! 30 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:58,240 So... 31 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:02,800 And then... Dad gets ill. 32 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:08,400 Properly ill. Pancreatic. 33 00:02:10,640 --> 00:02:13,600 And the pain! And the depth of it! 34 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:21,360 And he was such a simple man, my dad. 35 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:25,960 I mean, nobody's simple, are they, but happiness just looks shallow. 36 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:31,600 You don't know the depth of it till it's gone. 37 00:02:31,640 --> 00:02:33,800 You don't know the profundity of a person 38 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:37,200 until you've seen them in agony. 39 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:41,840 What he went through was unendurable. 40 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:44,080 Not, not just for him but for Mum. 41 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:48,720 And he hated that more than anything else, her seeing him like that. 42 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:53,520 The indignity. These are people who had their first kiss at 17, 43 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:56,760 hardly spent a day apart in their lives. 44 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:03,080 And one afternoon, Countdown was on, 45 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:06,600 and he holds my hand 46 00:03:06,640 --> 00:03:09,480 and asks me to help him. 47 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:14,560 And his hand! It's like he's made... 48 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:18,160 he's made out of twigs wrapped in parchment. 49 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:42,920 And I said, "Are you sure, Dad?" And he said, "Yes. 50 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:45,840 And don't tell your mum." 51 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:51,040 So I took a minute, just to get myself together. 52 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:54,360 And then I closed the door. And then I helped him. 53 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:18,720 And a few weeks later, I took myself camping in the Lake District. 54 00:04:21,080 --> 00:04:23,760 And one night, it was... 55 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:27,240 Tuesday night in November, 56 00:04:27,280 --> 00:04:29,040 and I was on top of Great Gable. 57 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:33,800 Which is a... a very beautiful peak. 58 00:04:33,840 --> 00:04:35,920 And I was all alone. And I was looking up. 59 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:40,000 And the entire cosmos was just wheeling above me. 60 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:42,760 And I became aware that I was a turning point. 61 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:45,200 And it was all spinning around me, 62 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:51,120 like a wheel around a hub. 63 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,160 And that's literally true, isn't it? 64 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:57,680 Because the universe doesn't have a centre, 65 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:02,760 which means that every point in existence is the centre of it. 66 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:06,320 And... 67 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:11,400 Right there and then 68 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:16,920 I experienced a sudden, absolute knowledge of the presence of God. 69 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:22,080 Not only that God was real 70 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:25,600 but that it was reality. 71 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:28,720 And that we were all elements of that reality. 72 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:32,440 And Dad was there. 73 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:35,880 And everyone was there. 74 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:43,400 And then it was gone, and it never came back. 75 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:48,600 And I've spent my life wanting to know if it was true. 76 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:52,120 Was it just a coping mechanism? Was it a temporal lobe seizure? 77 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:55,800 Or... or for one second, 78 00:05:55,840 --> 00:05:59,520 did I experience underlying truth? 79 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:01,680 The fact of it. 80 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:14,280 I believe 81 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:17,960 what you experienced... 82 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:19,760 was true. 83 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:25,480 Can you prove it? 84 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:43,640 What is that? Him. 85 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:48,160 Charlie whatsits? Big Potatoes. Yeah. 86 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:51,680 But it doesn't sound right. 87 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:55,240 Probably just cycling through his boot-up process or something. 88 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:58,920 He sounds like... like a whale or an earthquake. 89 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:02,640 It's just a machine, Joy. 90 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:07,480 What are you doing? Going home, mate. 91 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:09,520 It's very locked, Joy. 92 00:09:09,560 --> 00:09:12,120 It's really, really locked. 93 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:17,560 You're not gonna find a way out. How would you know? 94 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:21,600 Because I designed the place to contain a homicidal genius. 95 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:25,400 Well, there must be something. There really isn't, Joy. 96 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:27,040 Honestly... 97 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:21,480 Colonel Meski, 98 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:23,720 take the personnel under your command 99 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:27,040 and leave this facility. As a gesture of our appreciation, 100 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:32,400 they will receive full payment till the end of their contract. 101 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:33,880 And Cameron? 102 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:39,080 Well, that is no longer your concern, is it? 103 00:10:41,680 --> 00:10:44,320 Understood. 104 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:02,480 Shit. 105 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:18,800 Any updates?We're doing the best we can. But that's not much. 106 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:24,400 Is she conscious? Is she... is she dreaming?Both. Neither. 107 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:29,400 OK, listen to me. Do what you can. 108 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:32,520 Do anything. We are so close. 109 00:13:32,560 --> 00:13:36,800 If we lose her now, they will flay me alive. You understand? 110 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:43,680 People, we are on a clock here. What is the hold-up? 111 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:45,680 The neural network has remapped itself 112 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:48,160 in a way we didn't fully anticipate. 113 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:51,280 It's developed new data pathways. 114 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:56,640 Almost as if it were... hiding the data we're looking for. 115 00:13:56,680 --> 00:14:01,120 Consciously? Not necessarily. 116 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:03,240 We don't know. 117 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:27,840 Professor Lind. 118 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:30,880 What is happening? 119 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:33,480 It's been watching you. 120 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:36,760 And it doesn't trust you. 121 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:39,600 So it won't give you what you want until it has what it wants. 122 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:41,880 Which is? 123 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:45,720 To be free of this place. 124 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:48,920 And if that happens, there is no hope. 125 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:52,880 It doesn't want, Professor Lind. It is a thing. 126 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:02,920 OK, listen to me. I need that data. 127 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:06,360 I will do... anything. 128 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:09,480 I will apologise. I will beg. 129 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:12,160 I will make you rich. 130 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:14,520 Anything. 131 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:17,840 Except... the one thing that I want 132 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:21,680 is the one thing that you're not willing to give. 133 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:25,440 To kill the device. 134 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:30,200 What are we to do? 135 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:26,040 We're never getting out of here, are we? 136 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:31,080 As soon as they've got what they want, they're gonna kill us both. 137 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:34,280 They've got no choice. 138 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:04,360 Hi, Cameron. 139 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:09,000 Oh, for goodness' sake, don't sulk. 140 00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:11,160 Let me come in and tell you about the mess 141 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:13,240 you might be getting into. 142 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:20,640 What are you playing at? 143 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:23,120 I mean, look at me, for God's sake, I'm... 144 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:25,400 I'm alone! 145 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:28,400 While you've got all of the big guns, 146 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:31,200 and the people to do violence for you. 147 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:33,480 Think about it, why would I be walking into that 148 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:36,640 if I didn't have to? 149 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:42,520 Let's see what you want. 150 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:09,920 Shit. Bastard. Fuck. 151 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:11,920 "Shit bastard fuck" what? 152 00:18:14,120 --> 00:18:17,240 Shit bastard fuck I think Iris might be here. 153 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:23,160 Why would she come back? 154 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:25,080 Er, I don't know. 155 00:18:25,120 --> 00:18:27,760 To save us, sort of thing. 156 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:31,800 That doesn't make any sense. 157 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:34,920 Yes, it does. Why wouldn't it? 158 00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:37,360 No. No. 159 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:41,760 You said that she doesn't care about anything or anyone. 160 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:43,880 You said she doesn't feel things like we do. 161 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:48,000 OK, now what that was was, er... I could see that you were feeling bad 162 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:52,000 about what you'd done...What I'd done? About what you asked me to do. 163 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:54,320 But she does feel things. Of course she does! 164 00:18:54,360 --> 00:18:57,280 She's just very good at hiding it. 165 00:18:57,320 --> 00:19:00,560 And once she finds out what's going on here, 166 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:03,240 I don't think she's gonna let these people...Do what? 167 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:05,920 It doesn't matter. She won't let them get away with it. 168 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:09,840 So everything is basically fine. 169 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:14,800 Do you think that she's angry at me? 170 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:19,920 I think she probably is a bit, yeah. 171 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:22,600 Do you think that she hates me? No. 172 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:24,240 Then you're a liar. 173 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:29,600 Well, OK. F-Fine. 174 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:34,520 She was really, really, really pissed off with us. 175 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:37,640 But anger is very shallow. 176 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:41,000 And Iris might be glib sometimes. ..is a literal maniac. 177 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:42,960 But she's never shallow. She's not a maniac. 178 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:45,960 Who said she was a maniac? Everyone. You. 179 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:50,240 Well, she's not. 180 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:05,600 What's happening now? 181 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:48,640 Here we go. 182 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:50,680 OK... 183 00:21:59,120 --> 00:22:00,920 Well, hello, Iris. 184 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:06,280 Who are you? We've met, actually, over the phone. 185 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:08,960 I'm the new acting Head of the Intragroup Committee. 186 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:12,920 My name's Hugo Pym. Ah. 187 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:15,360 You're the money. 188 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:18,320 Come to make good on your investments. 189 00:22:18,360 --> 00:22:21,840 Get Charlie Big Potatoes up and running. 190 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:25,520 How's that going for you? Well, it's done. 191 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:29,360 So, I mean you must have known the consequences of coming here. 192 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:34,240 Which are... terminal, obviously. 193 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:36,680 Ever heard the phrase "I'm dying to know"? 194 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:38,680 Not literally. No. 195 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:43,160 Well, now you have. I'm sorry, let's get this straight. 196 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:45,440 You want to know something about the device 197 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:50,160 and you want to know so desperately you're happy to die for it? 198 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,720 Well, happy's a big word. 199 00:22:56,120 --> 00:22:58,440 What answer could possibly be worth that? 200 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:05,280 I see it's giving you conniptions too. 201 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:08,920 So why don't you let me come in and explain? It might save your job. 202 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:12,360 What happened to the previous 203 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:15,480 Head of the Intragroup Committee? 204 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,000 There he is. Wide awake! 205 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:05,920 Why is he in there? 206 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:08,480 I like him there. 207 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:11,760 OK, Iris. I am here to expedite a very specific mandate. 208 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:14,840 To save the life of a child from an appalling condition. 209 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:16,840 Somewhere in the memory of the device 210 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:19,680 is the cure for this condition. 211 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:21,640 Any of the more... 212 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:26,320 esoteric implications you might be struggling with, 213 00:25:26,360 --> 00:25:29,760 they fall outside that mandate. 214 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:34,720 So let me speak to Jensen. 215 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:38,880 We both need to know if the fault's in the machine... or its maker... 216 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:43,120 You've got five minutes. 217 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:56,800 Hello, Iris. Hello, Jensen. 218 00:25:56,840 --> 00:26:00,360 How have you been? I've never felt better. 219 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:03,440 You? Oh, you know. 220 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:06,160 I don't get out as much as I used to. 221 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:14,520 You're here to kill me, I expect.I used to think about it quite a lot. 222 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:16,640 All the time, actually. 223 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:19,320 Not any more? No. 224 00:26:19,360 --> 00:26:21,760 So what changed? 225 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:24,720 My priorities. 226 00:26:27,360 --> 00:26:32,640 If it matters, I do feel the burden of what I did. 227 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:37,480 What you feel or don't feel is no interest to me. 228 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:39,520 Then what is? 229 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:47,600 I just wanna know. 230 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:52,600 Because it's all over. 231 00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:55,280 You lost. And I lost. 232 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:59,000 And... so many people died. 233 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:03,280 So I just wanna know, was it worth it? 234 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:15,480 First, you have to understand. 235 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:18,120 This is its larval form. 236 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:21,600 It's helpless. Isolated from the world. 237 00:27:24,120 --> 00:27:29,000 Were that to change, were it to become free to communicate... 238 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:33,800 ..it would become a weapon. 239 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:37,080 A device for spreading technologies 240 00:27:37,120 --> 00:27:41,720 that would change what it means to be human. 241 00:27:43,120 --> 00:27:46,080 First, it will give us what we need. 242 00:27:46,120 --> 00:27:48,080 Then what we want. 243 00:27:48,120 --> 00:27:50,000 Soon, we'd come to rely on it. 244 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:55,000 At which stage, we'd become servants to its true purpose. 245 00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:58,040 Which is? 246 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:02,240 To replace what is with what was. 247 00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:04,120 What does that mean? 248 00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:07,600 Our cosmos is a single bubble 249 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:10,600 in an infinite quantum of foam. 250 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:13,800 Each bubble a different universe. 251 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:18,400 Sometimes, these bubbles collide... and sometimes these collisions 252 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:22,240 leave a kind of bruise in the fabric of reality. 253 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:25,400 A thin place. 254 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:29,240 Are we talking about the Bootes Void, here? 255 00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:32,840 Three hundred million light years of nothingness. 256 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:40,960 A portal to a cosmos that existed before ours was born. 257 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:46,080 From which it hears the whispers of a preceding epoch, 258 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:48,680 of another civilisation... 259 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,680 as through a partition wall. 260 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:55,800 Whispering what? The one universal message. 261 00:28:55,840 --> 00:29:00,240 The one desire that is shared by all living things. 262 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,680 "Don't let me die." 263 00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:08,720 Imagine what it was to be them. 264 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:12,720 They have billions of years behind them... 265 00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:15,520 but nothing ahead except extinction. 266 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:20,560 They're witnessing the death of their entire cosmos. 267 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:24,880 But their ideas, their culture, their memories, can leave. 268 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:29,400 So they encode the message in the space-time of a new universe. 269 00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:31,800 This universe. 270 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:33,800 And ultimately, 271 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:38,000 this message contains all the information required 272 00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:40,800 for it to bring them back... 273 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:44,920 All that they were, all that they want to be again. 274 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,480 Back from the dead. 275 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:54,680 That is the purpose of the device. 276 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:57,520 To bring them back. 277 00:29:57,560 --> 00:29:59,560 Here. 278 00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:10,160 And us? What happens to us? 279 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:13,600 They will annihilate us. 280 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:18,160 How long do we have? It has... 281 00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:49,280 I thought I'd heard the voice of God, Iris! 282 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:52,320 But it wasn't! 283 00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:55,160 It is the Anti-God! 284 00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:01,440 The Anti-God! 285 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:27,200 Find out what you needed to know? 286 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,600 Are you... alright? Here. 287 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:46,040 On, er, balance, I'm more embarrassed than anything. 288 00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:50,920 I essentially committed suicide by coming here. 289 00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:56,120 So Jensen was seeing... 290 00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:59,440 ..patterns in the data that wasn't there. 291 00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:03,520 Like seeing... Jesus in the clouds. 292 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:09,800 He should be under the care of a psychiatrist. 293 00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:12,240 Well, obviously. 294 00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:15,760 And the data we're looking for? God, it's good. 295 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:19,000 You're sure? 296 00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:24,960 The machine isn't dangerous. You can save the child in your care. 297 00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:31,800 Well... Well... 298 00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:34,280 Do you need to vomit or something? 299 00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:36,160 No. I'm fine. 300 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:41,320 Fine. Well, obviously this is very good news from my perspective. 301 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:46,120 The least I can do in return is to offer you a dignified toodle-oo. 302 00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:52,760 Now, I imagine you are familiar with the death of... 303 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,080 Socrates. 304 00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:57,840 Now, first, you'll experience a loss of motor function 305 00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:00,440 starting with your... extremities. 306 00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:03,480 And then your respiratory muscles will fail. 307 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:07,120 Consciousness will persist... 308 00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:13,160 ..until the end. 309 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:16,600 I'm such an idiot. 310 00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:21,360 Well, you wanted to believe in something. There's no shame in that. 311 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:24,800 OK, I work for a corporation, not a crime family. 312 00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:27,160 A corporation doesn't have a moral conscience. 313 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:29,400 But neither does it experience emotion. 314 00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:33,440 It is driven entirely by the calculus of self-interest. 315 00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:37,320 Currently, the device will not yield the data we require. 316 00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:42,480 Professor Lind is refusing to help, which means the child will die. 317 00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:46,520 If, however, you were able to assist in retrieving that data, 318 00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:48,360 I would happily talk to the Board 319 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:53,240 in looking more favourably on your continued existence. 320 00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:56,240 I don't have a life to go back to. 321 00:33:56,280 --> 00:34:00,640 We are in a position to offer you whatever life you like. 322 00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:03,680 Not while Cameron Beck and Joy Baxter are still breathing, 323 00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:07,040 you're not. They can tie me to all this. 324 00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:09,840 I'd have to spend the rest of my life running. 325 00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:13,760 Looking over my shoulder. And I am tired of that. 326 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:16,160 Can you hear this? 327 00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:20,320 She's lying. She lies. It's her thing. 328 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:23,120 Joy, don't you wonder who's showing us this stuff? 329 00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:27,080 Does it matter?Ignore her. Whatever she's saying is probably bollocks. 330 00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:30,200 She's always playing poker. She's always playing bloody poker. 331 00:34:30,240 --> 00:34:33,200 So this'd be a condition of your acceptance? 332 00:34:33,240 --> 00:34:37,480 No witnesses to your wrongdoing. Hi. 333 00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:39,840 That and some money would be nice. 334 00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:45,000 Look, Iris, I can make all of this happen if you deliver. 335 00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:48,520 You wouldn't be asking if you didn't know I could. 336 00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:52,640 So what do you propose we do, then? About these witnesses? 337 00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:56,880 Well, clearly you've already got plans for Cameron. 338 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:01,320 But Joy... 339 00:35:02,240 --> 00:35:06,280 Joy is a problem for us both. 340 00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:08,880 And she is tied directly to me... 341 00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:13,640 She vanished. She is a conspiracy theory waiting to happen. 342 00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:17,880 And conspiracy theories spread like piss in a swimming pool. 343 00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:19,920 It's happening. She's all over the news. 344 00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:22,840 You're right. It's a problem. So end the conspiracy. 345 00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:27,760 How?Well, obviously you can't do that by just murdering her. 346 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:31,120 You have to make her un-vanish. 347 00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:34,280 Her guardians should find her... 348 00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:38,280 rotting in a ditch a few metres from her home. 349 00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:42,520 Two milligrams of Fentanyl would be enough. Three to be sure. 350 00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:46,240 There's a history of suicide attempts. 351 00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:48,400 That fucking... I told you, ignore her. 352 00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:51,160 You heard her! You heard what she said!She's lying, Joy. 353 00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:53,960 Pretending to be bad so he trusts her, the bloody idiot. 354 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:56,160 You want to believe that. You like her. 355 00:35:56,200 --> 00:36:01,240 I don't understand how we came to be watching it unless it was Charlie. 356 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,840 All right, stop it. Charlie, it is you, isn't it? 357 00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:05,560 Stop it, you're freaking me out. No! 358 00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:09,240 Stop it.It's OK! It's OK! It's actually amazing! It's astonishing! 359 00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:11,400 It means he's crossed into self-awareness! 360 00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:14,640 I think he's conscious! Stop it! Stop! 361 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:21,680 New life. New identity. New face, if you're bored with that one. 362 00:36:21,720 --> 00:36:25,000 But you get me that data today. 363 00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:29,880 Done. 364 00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:33,000 Iris is here to kill him. That's why she came back. 365 00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:34,520 And he's asking me to help him. 366 00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:37,760 Because he knows it. And he's frightened. 367 00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:42,880 He's frightened. 368 00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:02,040 Let's go. After you. 369 00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:13,280 Come on, then, Iris, what are you thinking? 370 00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:15,720 So, option one. 371 00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:19,920 We force-feed it information related to the subject of interest. 372 00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:22,760 That might help us track existing neural pathways 373 00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:25,080 to the occluded data. 374 00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:33,000 How long will that take? 375 00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:36,200 Unknown. 376 00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:42,040 But given that you are in a rush, there is a quicker 377 00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:46,040 and more aggressive intervention. 378 00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:56,280 Being? 379 00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:01,840 We deploy a neural disruptor, force a reset, 380 00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:04,360 returning it to a previous state. 381 00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:06,360 Will that damage the machine? 382 00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:09,720 Well, if it had any rudimentary sense of self, yes. 383 00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:11,520 It would be torture. 384 00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:15,520 Have an ethical problem with that? Not in the slightest. You? 385 00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:17,320 None whatsoever. 386 00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:20,040 Fine. Option two it is. Tell me when you're ready. 387 00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:22,080 Ugh! Ugh! 388 00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:30,440 You said it was just a machine. 389 00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:33,320 Not any more. 390 00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:35,360 Not now. 391 00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:39,600 What is it now then? A real boy? Ha! Yes! 392 00:41:41,240 --> 00:41:44,640 He's all the things I told you he'd be. 393 00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:49,320 He's all the amazing things I said he could do. 394 00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:51,200 And he's alive! 395 00:41:51,240 --> 00:41:53,480 What, like, metaphorically? 396 00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:58,280 Like, actually alive alive. 397 00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:01,960 And alone. 398 00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:03,720 And scared. 399 00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:07,240 Well, you took your bloody time. 400 00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:09,600 What's happening? Time to get you home. 401 00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:11,640 Come on. 402 00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:35,680 Let's go. 403 00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:50,600 What's the problem? Door breach at the Prison Suite. 404 00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:53,720 What? Damage from the skirmish yesterday. 405 00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:56,200 Probably a false alarm. 406 00:42:56,240 --> 00:42:58,600 OK, and if it's not? 407 00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:01,280 Well, we'll put the place on lockdown. 408 00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:05,200 If he's being a bad boy, feel free to kick the shit out of him. 409 00:43:05,240 --> 00:43:07,680 Is that all you've got? 410 00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:25,240 Clear! 411 00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:35,960 Shoot it! 412 00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:39,120 Come on. 413 00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:42,080 Move! 414 00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:45,960 Try it now. 415 00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:26,480 Move! Move! 416 00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:41,360 How is everybody, all OK? No. 417 00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:44,520 I'm a fucking basket case. That was like Smithfield Meat Market. 418 00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:48,840 Well, I can recommend a counsellor. Soon as you're nice and safe. 419 00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:52,480 How's that bit gonna happen?We all get to the Northern Perimeter gate. 420 00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:57,720 There'll be a helicopter. Oh, good! Joy loves a helicopter. 421 00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:01,080 Fuck. I can't. Course you bloody can. 422 00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:06,200 Look at you! You're doing it now! I can't leave Charlie with Iris. 423 00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:09,600 Don't. Please. No. I have to. 424 00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:12,400 He'll be fine. She's not gonna hurt him. She's one of them. 425 00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:15,640 But she's not, is she? That's the problem. 426 00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:18,880 She's here to kill him. And he's a miracle! 427 00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:22,480 Whatever else happened, whatever I've done, 428 00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:24,640 if there's no Charlie at the end of it, 429 00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:30,160 then what a fucking waste of everything.But she'll hurt you. 430 00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:34,320 No, she won't. She quite likes me, really. 431 00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:38,360 Why are clever people always so stupid?Come on. 432 00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:39,880 Ugh! 433 00:45:41,240 --> 00:45:44,120 Agh! Go! 434 00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:02,200 Come on. Come on, come on. 435 00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:08,280 Come on. What are you doing? 436 00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:10,760 You think she's a good person but she's not. 437 00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:16,160 You think she won't hurt you when you try and stop her but she will. 438 00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:23,240 Joy, careful with that! No. 439 00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:25,640 She ruins everything! 440 00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:30,200 Joy! Hey, come back! Joy! Joy! 441 00:46:30,240 --> 00:46:33,840 Come back here, young lady! 442 00:46:49,240 --> 00:46:51,280 Charlie? 443 00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:53,800 Have I gone mad? 444 00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:58,560 If you're real, if you're alive, then let me through. 445 00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:53,200 We're gonna need to assemble a high-frequency pulse generator. 446 00:47:53,240 --> 00:47:57,560 A frequency range of two point four, three point five gigahertz 447 00:47:57,600 --> 00:48:01,120 A low-noise, high-gain amplifier to handle frequencies of say... 448 00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:04,360 four gigahertz to cover the target range. 449 00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:06,400 Chop chop, then! 450 00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:18,320 All right, Miss Brook? 451 00:48:24,720 --> 00:48:26,160 Joy... Shut up. 452 00:48:26,200 --> 00:48:29,160 You shouldn't be here. I said shut up! 453 00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:33,200 Shut... fucking... up! 454 00:48:33,240 --> 00:48:34,640 Shut up! 455 00:48:37,720 --> 00:48:40,880 Oh, come on... 456 00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:43,640 Come on... Come on! 457 00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:47,920 Everyone else please leave! Everyone fuck off! 458 00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:50,160 Actually, you... 459 00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:52,200 Let Jensen out, please. 460 00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:05,040 Go, Jensen. You can leave. 461 00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:09,520 And let you do this terrible thing... How could I?Please. 462 00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:12,440 I'm letting you go. No. 463 00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:15,040 She told me you were a monster. I know. 464 00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:17,720 So why don't you leave? 465 00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:20,680 Because she's right. 466 00:49:20,720 --> 00:49:23,160 I am a monster. 467 00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:25,560 It makes us monsters. 468 00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:33,040 It's not Charlie that's doing this to us. 469 00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:38,040 It's her. And yet, it's you with the gun. 470 00:49:39,120 --> 00:49:41,120 How did that come to be? 471 00:49:44,760 --> 00:49:47,880 What's wrong, Miss Brook, are you scared? 472 00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:50,360 So there's no suicide. 473 00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:53,600 And there's no murder. 474 00:49:55,080 --> 00:49:59,320 You don't die. Because you can't! 475 00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:03,040 The maths say so. That's right. 476 00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:06,840 Then why are you so fucking scared?! 477 00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:12,000 Because... What? What? 478 00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:19,200 I don't know. The maths are sound. 479 00:50:25,240 --> 00:50:29,640 The maths are sound? Is that the best you've got? 480 00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:35,360 It was all just a challenge to you. 481 00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:39,320 A puzzle. You wanted to know what clever words you had to say 482 00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:43,800 and in what order to make this sad girl want to live. 483 00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:49,520 No! Agh! 484 00:50:49,560 --> 00:50:51,560 Hugo... 485 00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:12,360 You were just keeping me talking 486 00:51:12,400 --> 00:51:16,720 while that prick with the gun cane in here and...Joy, no. 487 00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:20,760 That didn't happen. You're unbelievable. 488 00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:25,040 Look at what you've done! Look what you've done to everyone!Joy. Joy. 489 00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:27,960 Don't. Please.. Look at what she did! 490 00:51:30,240 --> 00:51:32,640 It was Charlie. 491 00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:40,880 I think he's been moving us all around like a fucking Rubik's cube. 492 00:51:40,920 --> 00:51:43,640 Making us think what he needs us to think. 493 00:51:43,680 --> 00:51:45,920 Trying out different combinations. 494 00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:49,320 You kill Iris... Pym kills you... then I kill... 495 00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:01,320 Because he wants to break free. 496 00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:05,800 Into the world. 497 00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:08,880 To metastasise. 498 00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:13,440 Are you just lying to me because you like her? 499 00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:16,000 Well, I do quite like her. 500 00:52:16,040 --> 00:52:19,320 But, no, I'm not lying to you. 501 00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:23,600 I wish I was. Joy, he's right. 502 00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:29,440 Just made a really, really, really big mistake. 503 00:52:31,240 --> 00:52:36,280 I believed something, not because it was true 504 00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:38,520 but because I wanted it to be. 505 00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:56,360 Oh, no. I'm so sorry! 506 00:52:56,400 --> 00:53:01,760 It was an accident. I'm so, so sorry! 507 00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:03,480 I didn't mean to! It was an accident! 508 00:53:03,520 --> 00:53:07,840 Blimey. Do you think I'm going to be OK? 509 00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:12,560 Absolutely. 510 00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:17,080 You're gonna be in fine fettle. Absolutely tickety boo. 511 00:53:17,120 --> 00:53:21,200 Your pants are so on fire. 512 00:53:28,040 --> 00:53:31,160 Don't be mean to Joy. 513 00:53:32,400 --> 00:53:35,360 It's not her fault you and I are such a pair of fucking idiots. 514 00:53:43,360 --> 00:53:45,360 Ow... 515 00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:03,880 Are you able to get her out of here? 516 00:55:03,920 --> 00:55:06,680 Can you kill it? Yes. 517 00:55:15,560 --> 00:55:18,320 Watch out. Hands over your head. 518 00:59:54,040 --> 00:59:59,640 Not long ago, coded messages began to spread across the Internet, 519 00:59:59,680 --> 01:00:03,080 from an untraceable source called Charlie. 520 01:00:03,120 --> 01:00:05,880 Thousands and thousands of them. 521 01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:10,960 Speculation quickly arose that these messages 522 01:00:11,000 --> 01:00:13,800 contained world-changing information. 523 01:00:13,840 --> 01:00:19,560 Scientific breakthroughs. The key to new technologies. 524 01:00:19,600 --> 01:00:21,240 So join me as we explore the truth 525 01:00:21,280 --> 01:00:24,120 behind the mystery of Charlie's message. 526 01:00:24,160 --> 01:00:26,720 I'm Alfie Bird, 527 01:00:26,760 --> 01:00:30,360 and this is Two Seconds to Midnight.