1 00:01:01,095 --> 00:01:03,697 Day 42, session 72. 2 00:01:04,798 --> 00:01:06,267 Start recording. 3 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:08,035 Vitals? 4 00:01:08,169 --> 00:01:10,104 Blood pressure 110 over 70. 5 00:01:10,238 --> 00:01:11,239 Pulse 68. 6 00:01:11,372 --> 00:01:12,673 Vitals normal. 7 00:01:12,806 --> 00:01:15,743 Dr. Kask, what did you see? 8 00:01:16,544 --> 00:01:18,011 What did they show you? 9 00:01:20,047 --> 00:01:21,382 Dr. Helmet? 10 00:01:22,583 --> 00:01:24,252 Dr. Helmet? 11 00:01:26,387 --> 00:01:28,055 How are you still alive? 12 00:01:49,710 --> 00:01:51,312 How am I still alive? 13 00:01:57,451 --> 00:01:58,886 We're a flawed species. 14 00:02:01,755 --> 00:02:04,625 Okay, are you ready to meet your little sister? 15 00:02:12,233 --> 00:02:14,902 We're impossibly fragile. 16 00:02:15,869 --> 00:02:17,271 Hi, Clara. Hi. 17 00:02:17,405 --> 00:02:18,539 Yeah. 18 00:02:18,672 --> 00:02:19,973 Do you think we should keep her? 19 00:02:21,475 --> 00:02:22,843 Yeah. 20 00:02:29,817 --> 00:02:31,051 We're self destructive. 21 00:02:40,894 --> 00:02:42,463 Superstitious. 22 00:02:48,902 --> 00:02:50,238 Driven by fear. 23 00:02:57,445 --> 00:02:58,812 By love. 24 00:03:03,484 --> 00:03:07,255 Barely able to survive on our tiny blue rock, 25 00:03:09,790 --> 00:03:12,893 let alone in the endless black ocean of our universe. 26 00:03:13,026 --> 00:03:14,995 Top bunk! 27 00:03:18,866 --> 00:03:20,768 What's past the last planet? 28 00:03:22,002 --> 00:03:23,271 Infinity. 29 00:03:27,007 --> 00:03:28,342 Everything. 30 00:03:29,009 --> 00:03:30,344 Anything. 31 00:03:31,245 --> 00:03:32,846 Whoa. 32 00:03:33,947 --> 00:03:35,516 Nothing ever lasts. 33 00:03:36,550 --> 00:03:38,018 How am I still alive? 34 00:03:42,656 --> 00:03:43,991 We need to let it go. 35 00:03:45,326 --> 00:03:47,060 It needs to breathe. 36 00:03:54,668 --> 00:03:57,938 One day, we will die. 37 00:04:02,142 --> 00:04:03,544 Hey, you okay? 38 00:04:05,779 --> 00:04:06,914 Mom? 39 00:04:07,047 --> 00:04:08,549 Mom! Mom! 40 00:04:10,150 --> 00:04:11,752 We become dust. 41 00:04:11,885 --> 00:04:13,487 Oh my God, what happened? 42 00:04:13,621 --> 00:04:15,255 Klara! Klara! 43 00:04:18,959 --> 00:04:20,193 And our dust 44 00:04:20,328 --> 00:04:23,564 joins all the other dust of the universe. 45 00:04:29,102 --> 00:04:30,638 And everything we love... 46 00:04:34,708 --> 00:04:35,976 Goes away. 47 00:04:40,981 --> 00:04:42,583 How am I still alive? 48 00:04:45,185 --> 00:04:47,588 How are any of us? 49 00:04:54,194 --> 00:04:57,798 What if biological life is just a stage? 50 00:04:58,265 --> 00:04:59,833 What if we can evolve? 51 00:04:59,967 --> 00:05:04,838 So our future as a species is post-biological? 52 00:05:05,573 --> 00:05:08,275 Our present is post-biological. 53 00:05:08,742 --> 00:05:12,780 It took us six thousand years to go from leeches to pacemakers. 54 00:05:12,913 --> 00:05:13,881 But from pacemakers 55 00:05:14,014 --> 00:05:16,484 to genetically modifying human embryos, 56 00:05:16,617 --> 00:05:18,085 it took just 60. 57 00:05:18,218 --> 00:05:21,054 Mm-hmm. So this isn't the future. 58 00:05:21,221 --> 00:05:22,723 The future is right now. 59 00:05:22,856 --> 00:05:24,492 Let me ask you this though, 60 00:05:24,625 --> 00:05:27,027 if our destiny is post-biological, 61 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:29,997 is there other life in the universe as well? 62 00:05:31,031 --> 00:05:33,401 Oh, that's a stone cold certainty. 63 00:05:34,167 --> 00:05:35,102 Okay, wait, wait. 64 00:05:35,235 --> 00:05:36,404 Here's what I want to know. 65 00:05:37,104 --> 00:05:41,108 Is there something you know that we don't? 66 00:05:41,241 --> 00:05:44,111 Look, people call me a tech visionary. 67 00:05:44,244 --> 00:05:45,846 That's just a bunch of horseshit. 68 00:05:47,481 --> 00:05:50,651 I'm just a fellow that sees what's right in front of him. 69 00:05:50,784 --> 00:05:53,320 And it ain't no secret that I made my first billion 70 00:05:53,454 --> 00:05:55,222 from solar energy, 71 00:05:55,556 --> 00:05:57,925 but I did not invent the sun. 72 00:05:58,659 --> 00:06:00,093 I'm no visionary. 73 00:06:01,529 --> 00:06:07,167 Visionaries see things that no one else does, 74 00:06:09,269 --> 00:06:10,738 and that's rare. 75 00:06:11,705 --> 00:06:14,141 Okay, so who does Sam Houston 76 00:06:14,274 --> 00:06:15,843 consider a visionary? 77 00:06:18,412 --> 00:06:19,547 Well, you know what? 78 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:22,249 We have one right here in this very room. 79 00:06:27,488 --> 00:06:28,756 Annika Kask. 80 00:06:31,391 --> 00:06:32,392 Annika Kask, 81 00:06:32,526 --> 00:06:34,361 would you please raise your hand? 82 00:06:37,364 --> 00:06:38,866 There she is. 83 00:06:39,500 --> 00:06:44,104 The first person to photograph dark matter. 84 00:06:50,343 --> 00:06:52,179 - That's it. - There you go. 85 00:06:52,312 --> 00:06:53,714 Fantastic. Thank you. 86 00:06:53,847 --> 00:06:55,048 - Well, you bet. - Thank you so much. 87 00:06:55,182 --> 00:06:56,116 Thanks for having me. 88 00:06:56,249 --> 00:06:57,117 Appreciate it. 89 00:06:57,250 --> 00:06:58,251 That was really great. 90 00:06:58,385 --> 00:06:59,286 Nobody got hurt. 91 00:06:59,419 --> 00:07:00,888 Oh, uh, excuse me. 92 00:07:03,957 --> 00:07:05,225 Annika? 93 00:07:05,358 --> 00:07:06,927 - Hi. - Hey. 94 00:07:07,294 --> 00:07:09,096 Big fan. Big fan. 95 00:07:09,563 --> 00:07:11,899 Thank you. I'm flattered. 96 00:07:12,032 --> 00:07:15,703 Well, uh, I have a confession to make. 97 00:07:16,704 --> 00:07:19,406 I didn't come here just to do a TED Talk. 98 00:07:21,308 --> 00:07:23,276 I want to offer you a job. 99 00:07:27,948 --> 00:07:29,783 You know, most people, 100 00:07:30,150 --> 00:07:33,186 they look at the universe and it's empty. 101 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:36,990 And you, with one image, proved 'em all wrong. 102 00:07:37,958 --> 00:07:39,192 How'd you do it? 103 00:07:43,664 --> 00:07:45,533 Every time we'd try and image it, 104 00:07:45,666 --> 00:07:47,034 we'd get chaos. 105 00:07:47,801 --> 00:07:49,036 Couldn't find the right data set. 106 00:07:49,169 --> 00:07:50,203 What was the right set? 107 00:07:50,337 --> 00:07:51,204 All of them. 108 00:07:51,905 --> 00:07:53,206 At once. 109 00:07:53,340 --> 00:07:55,208 Overlapping. Like 3D glasses. 110 00:07:55,342 --> 00:07:56,877 Except instead of just red and blue, 111 00:07:57,010 --> 00:08:00,213 we overlap 233 data sets 112 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:01,982 to find order in the chaos. 113 00:08:02,115 --> 00:08:04,618 And then you get that. 114 00:08:05,586 --> 00:08:07,320 Well, that's the how, but... 115 00:08:09,356 --> 00:08:10,691 why? 116 00:08:13,594 --> 00:08:15,663 No one's ever asked me that before. 117 00:08:19,166 --> 00:08:23,003 I guess I just want to know what's out there. 118 00:08:23,270 --> 00:08:25,138 You want to know what's out there? 119 00:08:25,272 --> 00:08:26,674 Why not down here? 120 00:08:29,810 --> 00:08:31,178 It's a one-year contract. 121 00:08:31,979 --> 00:08:36,183 Small lab on a remote island in the Caribbean. 122 00:08:36,316 --> 00:08:37,350 What lab? 123 00:08:37,484 --> 00:08:39,019 That's confidential. 124 00:08:39,987 --> 00:08:42,690 You need scientists to work on a secret project 125 00:08:42,823 --> 00:08:44,491 on a remote island in the Caribbean? 126 00:08:44,625 --> 00:08:45,859 Let me tell you something. 127 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:48,862 There's more up there, 128 00:08:49,863 --> 00:08:51,098 and down here. 129 00:08:51,231 --> 00:08:52,099 Everywhere. 130 00:08:52,232 --> 00:08:53,400 Aliens. 131 00:08:59,973 --> 00:09:03,110 Look, Mr. Houston, I appreciate the offer, 132 00:09:03,243 --> 00:09:05,779 but I'm not the kind of scientist who hunts for aliens. 133 00:09:05,913 --> 00:09:07,514 We're not hunting. 134 00:09:08,716 --> 00:09:09,917 We're gathering. 135 00:09:11,018 --> 00:09:14,554 And we need your discovery to make sense of it. 136 00:09:15,555 --> 00:09:16,857 Look, 137 00:09:17,424 --> 00:09:19,960 you can forget about your little green men, 138 00:09:20,393 --> 00:09:22,596 fishing for radio waves, 139 00:09:22,730 --> 00:09:24,965 and hunting for a needle in a haystack, 140 00:09:25,098 --> 00:09:27,434 because I'm here to tell you that the whole haystack 141 00:09:27,567 --> 00:09:29,569 is made out of needles. 142 00:09:29,937 --> 00:09:31,772 We're not alone in the dark. 143 00:09:32,606 --> 00:09:36,944 In fact, the darkness has been our company all along. 144 00:09:39,446 --> 00:09:41,214 You want to find out? 145 00:09:57,464 --> 00:09:59,833 I am an electronics engineer. 146 00:10:00,934 --> 00:10:01,902 Charlie Kaminsky. 147 00:10:03,704 --> 00:10:05,138 Sorry, it's just... 148 00:10:05,873 --> 00:10:08,642 Charlie Kaminsky saying he's an electronics engineer 149 00:10:08,776 --> 00:10:12,279 is like Stephen Hawking saying he teaches math. 150 00:10:12,412 --> 00:10:15,983 Yeah, I'm the CTO of Gateway Labs. 151 00:10:16,583 --> 00:10:18,819 Sam hired me to check some new toys he's building. 152 00:10:18,952 --> 00:10:20,520 Now, where do you- where do you work, Annika? 153 00:10:20,654 --> 00:10:21,755 R.I.T. 154 00:10:22,622 --> 00:10:24,124 You're Annika Kask? 155 00:10:24,257 --> 00:10:25,325 Yeah, wow. 156 00:10:25,458 --> 00:10:27,160 How did, uh, how did Sam land you? 157 00:10:27,294 --> 00:10:29,629 He promised me we weren't hunting for aliens. 158 00:10:30,630 --> 00:10:31,932 You? 159 00:10:32,332 --> 00:10:33,701 He promised me we were. 160 00:10:36,804 --> 00:10:38,005 Oh, wow. 161 00:11:06,033 --> 00:11:07,400 Welcome to the island. 162 00:11:07,534 --> 00:11:08,802 Thank you. 163 00:11:08,936 --> 00:11:10,537 Uh, how many people are working out here right now? 164 00:11:10,670 --> 00:11:11,671 Nine or ten. 165 00:11:11,805 --> 00:11:13,707 Dr. Glassner likes to keep it small. 166 00:11:14,541 --> 00:11:15,642 Perry Glassner? 167 00:11:17,711 --> 00:11:19,346 Wow. Shit. Okay. 168 00:11:19,479 --> 00:11:21,915 Yeah, super friends unite. I like it. 169 00:11:22,049 --> 00:11:23,350 We'll see to your luggage. 170 00:11:23,483 --> 00:11:25,418 Dr. Glassner is waiting for you in the main facility. 171 00:11:25,552 --> 00:11:26,754 Great. 172 00:11:27,354 --> 00:11:29,990 Oh, um, I'll-I'll catch up. 173 00:11:30,123 --> 00:11:31,158 Here, just be careful with-- 174 00:11:31,291 --> 00:11:32,692 Yeah, it's delicate. 175 00:11:32,826 --> 00:11:33,827 - Thank you so much. - No problem. 176 00:11:33,961 --> 00:11:34,862 Thank you. Thank you. 177 00:11:34,995 --> 00:11:37,164 Perfect. Oh, there we go. 178 00:11:37,297 --> 00:11:38,431 You can take that one for me. 179 00:11:38,565 --> 00:11:39,733 Thanks. 180 00:12:52,205 --> 00:12:53,240 What's this? 181 00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:55,408 B12 methylphenidate. 182 00:12:55,542 --> 00:12:57,110 Immuno-booster. 183 00:13:11,091 --> 00:13:13,360 You shatter a bone and it heals, 184 00:13:13,493 --> 00:13:15,795 but you bruise trust and it's fatal. 185 00:13:18,331 --> 00:13:19,566 What's your purpose? 186 00:13:20,233 --> 00:13:21,701 I'm Dr. Annika Kask. 187 00:13:22,402 --> 00:13:24,104 Well, that's a chair I can sit in 188 00:13:24,237 --> 00:13:26,106 and that's a door I can walk out of, 189 00:13:26,239 --> 00:13:28,208 so what is your purpose? 190 00:13:29,142 --> 00:13:30,443 Sam Houston sent me. 191 00:13:30,577 --> 00:13:31,845 Why would he do that? 192 00:13:34,114 --> 00:13:35,282 I'm a computer scientist. 193 00:13:35,415 --> 00:13:37,017 Oh, right. 194 00:13:37,985 --> 00:13:39,286 That's a shame. 195 00:13:40,187 --> 00:13:41,388 That's a shame. 196 00:13:41,521 --> 00:13:43,323 I thought you might have the salt to admit the truth, 197 00:13:43,456 --> 00:13:46,659 that you've been sent here by Sam to spy on me. 198 00:13:47,694 --> 00:13:50,063 To be the bruise that kills me. 199 00:13:51,932 --> 00:13:52,900 Should I go? 200 00:13:53,033 --> 00:13:54,567 No, no, no, no, no, no. 201 00:13:55,268 --> 00:13:58,005 After all, I might need an algorithm. 202 00:13:59,306 --> 00:14:01,541 Oh, Dr. Glassner, hi, I'm Charlie. 203 00:14:01,674 --> 00:14:04,544 And I gotta tell you, man, from one scientist to another-- 204 00:14:04,677 --> 00:14:07,080 Here we go. They're fucking multiplying. 205 00:14:09,950 --> 00:14:12,319 I blew it. I... 206 00:14:13,653 --> 00:14:14,687 As per your NDAs, 207 00:14:14,821 --> 00:14:16,256 communications are monitored. 208 00:14:16,389 --> 00:14:17,724 You will be watched. 209 00:14:17,857 --> 00:14:19,326 It feels like overkill. 210 00:14:19,459 --> 00:14:21,361 Yes, it's completely and utterly unnecessary. 211 00:14:21,494 --> 00:14:24,164 I should be doing this work on my own in my basement, 212 00:14:24,297 --> 00:14:27,500 but Sam would never allow that because this isn't really a lab. 213 00:14:27,634 --> 00:14:30,203 It's a shrine to a man's overwhelming hubris. 214 00:14:30,337 --> 00:14:32,872 See, most billionaires buy yachts or football teams, 215 00:14:33,006 --> 00:14:35,742 but he wants to buy ideas or legacies to show the world 216 00:14:35,875 --> 00:14:38,345 he's somehow changed the course of human history. 217 00:14:39,146 --> 00:14:40,613 So that's what you do here? 218 00:14:43,383 --> 00:14:44,884 That's what we're about to do. 219 00:14:45,652 --> 00:14:48,288 Welcome to the Tuning Lab. 220 00:14:49,889 --> 00:14:52,725 So you, you're up to speed? 221 00:14:52,859 --> 00:14:55,762 That dark matter algorithm you discovered, 222 00:14:56,096 --> 00:14:57,730 you'll need to apply it here. 223 00:14:57,864 --> 00:14:59,699 Is this what I think it is? Does it work? 224 00:14:59,832 --> 00:15:01,969 No. Yes. And get the fuck away from it. 225 00:15:02,435 --> 00:15:03,736 - Right. Where to begin? - Sorry. 226 00:15:03,870 --> 00:15:06,606 Let's begin at the beginning, uh, in darkness. 227 00:15:06,739 --> 00:15:10,443 So let there be light and heat and bacteria, 228 00:15:10,577 --> 00:15:11,744 single-celled organisms. 229 00:15:11,878 --> 00:15:13,480 Skip a few billion years. 230 00:15:13,613 --> 00:15:15,148 Reptiles, monkeys, then us. 231 00:15:15,282 --> 00:15:16,616 Apex predators. 232 00:15:16,749 --> 00:15:17,784 Petty, ain't we? 233 00:15:17,917 --> 00:15:19,052 Cruel. 234 00:15:19,186 --> 00:15:20,753 Prone to self-destruction. 235 00:15:20,887 --> 00:15:21,989 Hell bent on rage, 236 00:15:22,122 --> 00:15:23,923 fucking our habitat out of existence. 237 00:15:24,057 --> 00:15:25,792 So now we turn our eyes away from Earth 238 00:15:25,925 --> 00:15:27,727 in search of other worlds to defile. 239 00:15:27,860 --> 00:15:29,229 But there's a hitch. 240 00:15:29,362 --> 00:15:32,132 Because Mr. Drake's equation tells us that we're not alone. 241 00:15:32,265 --> 00:15:33,800 The universe is too vast, 242 00:15:33,933 --> 00:15:35,102 rich with resources, 243 00:15:35,235 --> 00:15:37,470 likely swimming with intelligent life. 244 00:15:37,604 --> 00:15:38,671 Competition. 245 00:15:38,805 --> 00:15:39,939 And most of that's going to be millions, 246 00:15:40,073 --> 00:15:42,775 if not billions of years ahead of us. 247 00:15:42,909 --> 00:15:45,245 So we come into this race far, far behind. 248 00:15:45,378 --> 00:15:46,579 Nevertheless, we do start looking 249 00:15:46,713 --> 00:15:49,616 with whatever crude tools are available. 250 00:15:49,749 --> 00:15:50,917 As you know, SETI, 251 00:15:51,051 --> 00:15:52,785 the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, 252 00:15:52,919 --> 00:15:54,654 has been scanning, uh, what? 253 00:15:54,787 --> 00:15:56,656 Oh yeah, radio waves. 254 00:15:56,789 --> 00:15:58,125 That still only covers, what, 255 00:15:58,258 --> 00:15:59,959 one ten-millionth of the night sky 256 00:16:00,093 --> 00:16:02,795 using hilariously outdated technology. 257 00:16:02,929 --> 00:16:05,532 It's like taking a little bowl of water out of the ocean 258 00:16:05,665 --> 00:16:08,135 and peering in and concluding that whales don't exist. 259 00:16:08,268 --> 00:16:09,436 No, not radio. 260 00:16:09,569 --> 00:16:11,104 That's not how you'd communicate 261 00:16:11,238 --> 00:16:13,640 if you're an interplanetary intelligence, is it? 262 00:16:13,773 --> 00:16:16,976 You want to talk across space and time instantaneously. 263 00:16:17,110 --> 00:16:18,111 So let's do this. 264 00:16:18,245 --> 00:16:20,713 Take two photons, pair them, keep one here, 265 00:16:20,847 --> 00:16:22,649 send the other light years away. 266 00:16:22,782 --> 00:16:24,684 Force one photon into a declared state, 267 00:16:24,817 --> 00:16:26,986 and the other responds in the very same moment 268 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:28,955 across space and time. 269 00:16:29,089 --> 00:16:30,557 String a few billion of those together, 270 00:16:30,690 --> 00:16:32,825 and you've got an FTL communicator. 271 00:16:32,959 --> 00:16:35,628 No, but-but the quantum communication can't work. 272 00:16:35,762 --> 00:16:36,763 It breaks the laws of physics. 273 00:16:36,896 --> 00:16:39,332 No, no, it bends the laws that we know, 274 00:16:39,466 --> 00:16:40,733 and that's not what this is. 275 00:16:40,867 --> 00:16:42,902 No, if you force a quantum state change, 276 00:16:43,036 --> 00:16:44,271 that breaks entanglement-- 277 00:16:44,404 --> 00:16:46,306 This machine does not force a state change! 278 00:16:46,439 --> 00:16:48,575 It doesn't entangle or disentangle. 279 00:16:48,708 --> 00:16:50,243 It just hears when someone has. 280 00:16:50,377 --> 00:16:52,579 This simply listens. 281 00:16:52,712 --> 00:16:54,013 It's impossible. 282 00:16:54,147 --> 00:16:56,716 And yet here we have a machine that does exactly that, 283 00:16:56,849 --> 00:16:59,719 that I built six years ago in my basement, 284 00:16:59,852 --> 00:17:01,754 on my own on amphetamines. 285 00:17:01,888 --> 00:17:03,890 So, take a look for yourself. 286 00:17:05,292 --> 00:17:06,826 What do you want us to do? 287 00:17:07,627 --> 00:17:08,828 Well, here's a hint. 288 00:17:09,028 --> 00:17:10,730 You've already done it. 289 00:17:14,834 --> 00:17:17,370 It says he's scanning the radius of a couple of feet. 290 00:17:17,504 --> 00:17:18,571 Right here. 291 00:17:18,705 --> 00:17:21,241 So if he's listening for aliens, then it's... 292 00:17:21,374 --> 00:17:22,375 He's doing it right here, 293 00:17:22,509 --> 00:17:23,676 in this-in this room. 294 00:17:24,043 --> 00:17:25,878 But-but what is it? I mean, like these are just-- 295 00:17:26,012 --> 00:17:27,547 It's-- It's a ton of data points. 296 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:29,682 It's-it's-it's like background noise 297 00:17:29,816 --> 00:17:30,883 of anywhere in the universe. 298 00:17:31,017 --> 00:17:32,552 There's no rhyme or reason behind it. It's... 299 00:17:32,685 --> 00:17:33,586 It's chaos. 300 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:34,721 Yeah. 301 00:17:39,926 --> 00:17:42,028 Then we find order in the chaos. 302 00:17:54,274 --> 00:17:55,908 Sort by data sets. 303 00:17:59,379 --> 00:18:00,380 Okay. 304 00:18:01,914 --> 00:18:03,716 It's the same algorithm. 305 00:18:05,785 --> 00:18:07,220 It's my algorithm. 306 00:18:09,856 --> 00:18:13,092 Sort by exponents. 307 00:18:13,926 --> 00:18:15,495 It's organizing. 308 00:18:18,198 --> 00:18:20,099 Sort by primes. 309 00:18:21,301 --> 00:18:23,570 What? W-what is this? 310 00:18:24,471 --> 00:18:25,672 I can't believe this. 311 00:18:27,607 --> 00:18:29,676 Overlay all. 312 00:18:34,113 --> 00:18:35,815 It's-it's a signal. 313 00:18:38,251 --> 00:18:40,187 They're talking. 314 00:18:48,461 --> 00:18:49,496 Holy shit! 315 00:18:52,332 --> 00:18:53,766 Dr. Glassner? 316 00:18:57,504 --> 00:18:58,871 Dr. Glassner! 317 00:18:59,005 --> 00:19:00,873 He's only scanning one little area. 318 00:19:01,007 --> 00:19:02,141 But if it's quantum communication, 319 00:19:02,275 --> 00:19:03,210 then it-it's all around us. 320 00:19:03,343 --> 00:19:04,844 Or there's another explanation. 321 00:19:04,977 --> 00:19:06,213 Or another phenomenon that we're not seeing, or-- 322 00:19:06,346 --> 00:19:08,848 Or, Annika, it's fuck-to-the-yes aliens. 323 00:19:08,981 --> 00:19:10,317 - Dr. Glassner. - I mean, 324 00:19:10,450 --> 00:19:11,851 we've been looking millions of light years away 325 00:19:11,984 --> 00:19:12,985 for-for smoke signals, 326 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:14,187 but they were around us the entire time. 327 00:19:14,321 --> 00:19:15,888 It's... 328 00:19:16,022 --> 00:19:16,889 Is this real? 329 00:19:17,023 --> 00:19:17,890 You tell me. 330 00:19:18,024 --> 00:19:19,659 You're here to check my math. 331 00:19:19,792 --> 00:19:21,694 I mean, this means... 332 00:19:21,828 --> 00:19:22,862 It means we're not alone, 333 00:19:22,995 --> 00:19:24,531 we're not the centre of the universe, 334 00:19:24,664 --> 00:19:25,798 we're not special. 335 00:19:25,932 --> 00:19:27,166 It means they don't know anything about us, 336 00:19:27,300 --> 00:19:28,535 or they don't give a fuck. 337 00:19:28,668 --> 00:19:29,569 What are they saying? 338 00:19:29,702 --> 00:19:31,037 How could I possibly know? 339 00:19:31,170 --> 00:19:33,039 We'd have to ask them with that. 340 00:19:34,274 --> 00:19:35,308 What is that? 341 00:19:35,975 --> 00:19:36,909 Littlemouth. 342 00:19:37,043 --> 00:19:38,378 You're talking to them? 343 00:19:38,511 --> 00:19:39,646 Not yet. 344 00:19:39,779 --> 00:19:40,947 You actually... 345 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:42,482 you-you built a quantum communication device. 346 00:19:42,615 --> 00:19:43,883 Can we-can we talk back? 347 00:19:44,016 --> 00:19:46,886 No. The hardware can't replicate quantum signatures. 348 00:19:47,019 --> 00:19:48,921 I can. I've already done it in my lab. 349 00:19:49,055 --> 00:19:50,557 I highly doubt it, but... 350 00:19:54,193 --> 00:19:56,162 I suppose we're gonna find out. 351 00:19:59,966 --> 00:20:01,401 Okay, I need to... 352 00:20:03,069 --> 00:20:04,771 Oh. Oh, wow. 353 00:20:15,648 --> 00:20:17,116 Ah. 354 00:21:13,873 --> 00:21:14,974 Good morning. 355 00:21:27,253 --> 00:21:29,155 Go to the ant, consider her ways, 356 00:21:29,288 --> 00:21:30,523 and be wise. 357 00:21:30,823 --> 00:21:32,091 Do you know that? 358 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:35,462 Hmm. 359 00:21:39,899 --> 00:21:41,634 We learn a lot from ants. 360 00:21:45,004 --> 00:21:46,439 For example, we, uh, 361 00:21:48,441 --> 00:21:51,611 we study them to, uh, solve traffic problems. 362 00:21:54,847 --> 00:21:56,282 All sorts of things. 363 00:22:03,423 --> 00:22:05,792 I hear your schooling's going well. 364 00:22:09,429 --> 00:22:10,730 I guess so. 365 00:22:15,301 --> 00:22:16,869 Good. Right. 366 00:22:54,306 --> 00:22:55,708 It's real. 367 00:23:03,416 --> 00:23:06,453 Shh. Do you hear that? 368 00:23:07,654 --> 00:23:09,088 Scared? 369 00:23:09,756 --> 00:23:11,057 No. 370 00:23:12,892 --> 00:23:14,026 Yeah. 371 00:23:17,830 --> 00:23:20,433 Mom says there's no such thing as monsters. 372 00:23:25,237 --> 00:23:26,305 I'll go check it out. 373 00:23:26,439 --> 00:23:27,707 No! 374 00:23:29,408 --> 00:23:32,111 I can't lose you. 375 00:23:49,295 --> 00:23:51,397 So this is the transmitter. 376 00:23:52,298 --> 00:23:54,467 You can't turn it on for him. 377 00:23:55,702 --> 00:23:57,269 We don't know enough yet. 378 00:23:58,471 --> 00:23:59,672 I don't know. 379 00:23:59,806 --> 00:24:01,307 How else are we going to find out? 380 00:24:02,709 --> 00:24:05,645 You're not worried what they may be capable of? 381 00:24:08,915 --> 00:24:11,150 Are you inviting me to speculate about aliens? 382 00:24:11,283 --> 00:24:13,786 Because people often regret that. 383 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:14,921 Yeah, I am. 384 00:24:15,054 --> 00:24:16,489 - Yeah? - Mm-hmm. 385 00:24:17,056 --> 00:24:20,159 Okay. So, the coolest project that I ever worked on, 386 00:24:20,292 --> 00:24:21,360 called the Argus 2, 387 00:24:21,494 --> 00:24:22,762 it's this bionic eye that, like this machine 388 00:24:22,895 --> 00:24:24,597 that could send microelectrodes from the optic nerve 389 00:24:24,731 --> 00:24:26,933 to the brain and then, praise Jesus, 390 00:24:27,066 --> 00:24:28,334 the blind doth see. 391 00:24:28,467 --> 00:24:30,537 And just keeps getting better and better and better. 392 00:24:30,670 --> 00:24:32,338 They get the software update every year, 393 00:24:32,471 --> 00:24:34,273 and every two years, a hardware update. 394 00:24:35,074 --> 00:24:36,175 Have you ever seen 395 00:24:36,308 --> 00:24:38,511 a three-year-old see for the first time? 396 00:24:38,978 --> 00:24:39,812 No? 397 00:24:39,946 --> 00:24:42,649 It's-it's-it's everything. 398 00:24:43,249 --> 00:24:44,617 Anyways, next year, 399 00:24:44,751 --> 00:24:46,853 the Argus 5 is going to offer better vision 400 00:24:46,986 --> 00:24:49,656 than the perfectly healthy biological eye. 401 00:24:50,356 --> 00:24:52,559 It's-it's crazy, but why stop there? 402 00:24:52,692 --> 00:24:54,861 What about all the spectrums of light that we can't even see? 403 00:24:54,994 --> 00:24:56,062 Ultraviolet spectrum, 404 00:24:56,195 --> 00:24:57,564 the X-ray vision even, 405 00:24:57,697 --> 00:24:59,165 or thermal, whatever. 406 00:25:00,132 --> 00:25:01,467 That's just the beginning. 407 00:25:01,968 --> 00:25:03,235 We start with the eyes, 408 00:25:03,369 --> 00:25:05,705 and then we're going to move on and 409 00:25:05,838 --> 00:25:07,740 improve limbs beyond nature, 410 00:25:08,641 --> 00:25:11,210 improve livers beyond nature, the heart beyond nature, 411 00:25:11,711 --> 00:25:15,648 and eventually pass the Rubicon to the brain. 412 00:25:16,315 --> 00:25:18,651 We're going to take all of our thoughts, 413 00:25:18,785 --> 00:25:20,587 all of our reasoning, all of our intelligence, 414 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:22,589 and we're going to put it into a more durable container. 415 00:25:22,722 --> 00:25:24,490 Could be cloud-based or silicon chip, 416 00:25:24,624 --> 00:25:25,792 something that's unbreakable, 417 00:25:25,925 --> 00:25:27,694 that can exist inside of a black hole on the, 418 00:25:27,827 --> 00:25:31,263 on the tip of a pin or in the spaces in between. 419 00:25:31,798 --> 00:25:33,032 And that... 420 00:25:33,299 --> 00:25:35,702 that is the end game for homo sapiens. 421 00:25:36,402 --> 00:25:41,240 And I think that this is just another version of us 422 00:25:41,674 --> 00:25:42,942 further down the road. 423 00:25:43,342 --> 00:25:44,811 Okay, but what about pain? 424 00:25:45,377 --> 00:25:46,879 Sorrow? Heartache? 425 00:25:47,647 --> 00:25:49,015 Profound loss? 426 00:25:49,916 --> 00:25:51,283 Regrets? 427 00:25:51,984 --> 00:25:53,019 What about 'em? 428 00:25:53,419 --> 00:25:55,121 Why-why would eliminating that be bad? 429 00:25:55,421 --> 00:25:57,056 Because they shape who we are as people, 430 00:25:57,189 --> 00:25:58,958 I think way more than pleasures do. 431 00:25:59,091 --> 00:26:03,029 I mean, so much of who I am and what I value came from, 432 00:26:03,930 --> 00:26:05,331 you know, painful experiences 433 00:26:05,464 --> 00:26:08,434 that happened in my life that I had to grow and learn from. 434 00:26:08,567 --> 00:26:09,769 And change. 435 00:26:10,569 --> 00:26:11,537 I get that, 436 00:26:11,671 --> 00:26:14,040 but human suffering as a whole, gone. 437 00:26:14,173 --> 00:26:15,574 - Can you see it? - Yes, I see that. 438 00:26:15,708 --> 00:26:17,610 But I also see a sterile intelligence 439 00:26:17,744 --> 00:26:19,478 on a path with no interruptions. 440 00:26:19,846 --> 00:26:23,449 No purpose except to spread, with no actual growth. 441 00:26:24,116 --> 00:26:25,918 And that, to me, is not evolution. 442 00:26:26,052 --> 00:26:28,420 That is just an equation. 443 00:26:31,423 --> 00:26:34,794 And as awesome as your bionic eye sounds, Charlie, 444 00:26:35,294 --> 00:26:38,064 I actually know a lot of those patients have had them removed. 445 00:26:38,564 --> 00:26:39,398 Some. 446 00:26:39,531 --> 00:26:40,900 And some people are weird. 447 00:26:41,033 --> 00:26:44,937 And some people value other things in scientific perfection. 448 00:26:45,071 --> 00:26:47,339 Some people accept the parts of them 449 00:26:47,473 --> 00:26:50,442 that other people might see as imperfect. 450 00:26:51,243 --> 00:26:52,444 Hmm. 451 00:26:53,579 --> 00:26:56,849 So, we are our flaws? 452 00:26:57,950 --> 00:26:59,451 And our mistakes. 453 00:27:03,823 --> 00:27:05,091 Dr. Helmet, 454 00:27:05,892 --> 00:27:08,127 you saw how unbalanced Glassner was. 455 00:27:08,260 --> 00:27:10,496 You saw the threat he posed. 456 00:27:10,763 --> 00:27:12,331 Why did you choose to stay? 457 00:27:13,499 --> 00:27:14,667 To help. 458 00:27:16,769 --> 00:27:18,771 First contact was possible. 459 00:27:20,907 --> 00:27:23,209 Would you leave it to an unbalanced nihilist 460 00:27:23,342 --> 00:27:24,944 to handle the introduction? 461 00:27:26,178 --> 00:27:27,579 This thought experiment 462 00:27:27,714 --> 00:27:31,050 dictates that the female rabbits always give birth to pairs. 463 00:27:31,183 --> 00:27:34,386 And each pair consists of one male and one female. 464 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:38,524 Rabbits can't reproduce until they are at least one month old. 465 00:27:38,657 --> 00:27:40,893 She says she's very bright. 466 00:27:41,928 --> 00:27:43,562 At the end of the second month, 467 00:27:43,696 --> 00:27:45,564 - the female... - Lucky for her. 468 00:27:47,166 --> 00:27:48,835 When month three rolls around, 469 00:27:48,968 --> 00:27:50,502 the original pair of rabbits 470 00:27:50,636 --> 00:27:53,005 produces yet another pair of newborns 471 00:27:53,139 --> 00:27:55,507 while their earlier offspring grow to adulthood. 472 00:27:55,641 --> 00:27:57,409 This leaves three pairs of rabbits. 473 00:27:57,543 --> 00:27:59,511 The order goes as follows: 474 00:27:59,645 --> 00:28:04,984 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21. 475 00:28:37,583 --> 00:28:39,218 So, is Perry your husband? 476 00:28:39,585 --> 00:28:41,187 No, I'm a doctor. 477 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:42,388 That's his daughter. 478 00:28:45,057 --> 00:28:46,392 How long have you been here? 479 00:28:46,658 --> 00:28:48,460 I haven't left the island in three years, 480 00:28:48,594 --> 00:28:50,096 but it feels like 30. 481 00:28:53,032 --> 00:28:54,700 I don't know how you stay sane. 482 00:28:54,834 --> 00:28:56,435 What makes you think I have? 483 00:29:02,574 --> 00:29:03,910 Is he always so... 484 00:29:12,451 --> 00:29:14,821 Look, I'm not making an excuse for him, 485 00:29:16,055 --> 00:29:17,790 because there's-there's none. 486 00:29:20,059 --> 00:29:22,594 He lost his wife and son four years ago, 487 00:29:22,728 --> 00:29:24,130 and it was bad. 488 00:29:28,134 --> 00:29:30,569 He never really accepted what happened. 489 00:29:31,270 --> 00:29:32,671 What did happen? 490 00:29:33,205 --> 00:29:34,406 Well, 491 00:29:35,474 --> 00:29:37,109 there was a house fire. 492 00:29:37,643 --> 00:29:41,147 He was in his lab in an outbuilding 50 feet away, 493 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:43,749 self medicated, probably drunk. 494 00:29:45,117 --> 00:29:48,120 Lucy? She was at a sleepover. 495 00:29:49,956 --> 00:29:51,623 But his wife and son... 496 00:29:52,558 --> 00:29:55,194 Welcome to Littlemouth's signal room. 497 00:29:55,327 --> 00:29:57,596 Perry wasn't even aware there was a fire 498 00:29:57,729 --> 00:29:59,298 until the police woke him up. 499 00:30:02,668 --> 00:30:04,503 Is he dangerous? 500 00:30:07,273 --> 00:30:09,541 He knows humans matter in theory, 501 00:30:10,910 --> 00:30:12,778 but not in practice. 502 00:30:16,782 --> 00:30:18,384 Just ask Lucy. 503 00:30:47,679 --> 00:30:49,381 Thank you. 504 00:30:52,018 --> 00:30:55,922 Lucy, I want you to watch this. 505 00:30:56,188 --> 00:30:58,757 This is a little piece of forbidden magic 506 00:30:58,891 --> 00:31:02,428 that I learned in the bazaars of Morocco 507 00:31:02,561 --> 00:31:07,866 from wise men who knew how to turn steel into thin air. 508 00:31:08,534 --> 00:31:11,503 So, I want you to count to three, 509 00:31:11,637 --> 00:31:13,705 then I want you to blow on the napkin. 510 00:31:13,839 --> 00:31:17,309 Okay. One, two, three. 511 00:31:20,412 --> 00:31:21,513 Wait, wait, wait. Let me see. 512 00:31:21,647 --> 00:31:22,748 How'd you do that? Wait. 513 00:31:22,881 --> 00:31:24,083 Go to bed. 514 00:31:29,755 --> 00:31:32,058 - Here, let me help. - You got school in the morning. 515 00:31:32,191 --> 00:31:33,759 - Go to bed. - Thank you. 516 00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:35,727 Good night, sweetheart. 517 00:31:36,862 --> 00:31:37,930 Good night. 518 00:31:38,730 --> 00:31:39,966 Good night, Lucy. 519 00:31:44,536 --> 00:31:45,938 You didn't eat much. 520 00:31:48,407 --> 00:31:50,642 I-I've never had goat before. 521 00:31:51,777 --> 00:31:54,780 Okay. First impressions? 522 00:31:55,714 --> 00:31:57,316 Yeah, right. 523 00:31:57,449 --> 00:32:01,320 Uh, well, I think it's completely legit. 524 00:32:01,453 --> 00:32:03,755 I mean, I've gone through six months of his logs, 525 00:32:03,889 --> 00:32:04,991 and every single time 526 00:32:05,124 --> 00:32:06,425 I tried to find some other explanation for it, 527 00:32:06,558 --> 00:32:07,926 he'd already disproved it. 528 00:32:08,060 --> 00:32:10,462 I mean, we're witnessing actual alien chatter. 529 00:32:10,596 --> 00:32:11,964 We need to report this. 530 00:32:12,298 --> 00:32:13,832 What? To who? 531 00:32:13,966 --> 00:32:15,801 The IAA has guidelines on post-detection. 532 00:32:15,934 --> 00:32:18,770 Do you want to have about a dozen space agencies 533 00:32:18,904 --> 00:32:20,772 with all the bureaucrats down here 534 00:32:20,906 --> 00:32:23,275 clusterfucking this thing for the next decade? 535 00:32:23,409 --> 00:32:25,011 I mean, Sam, I totally get it, 536 00:32:25,144 --> 00:32:26,012 and you're not wrong. 537 00:32:26,145 --> 00:32:27,779 However, Annika has a point. 538 00:32:27,913 --> 00:32:29,648 I mean, we're not fucking around anymore. 539 00:32:29,781 --> 00:32:32,318 This is like a solid seven on the RIO scale. 540 00:32:32,451 --> 00:32:34,153 Oh, for Christ sakes, Charlie. 541 00:32:34,286 --> 00:32:36,455 - You built quantum satellites. - What? 542 00:32:36,588 --> 00:32:38,124 I thought you of all people 543 00:32:38,257 --> 00:32:39,791 would just want to run with this thing. 544 00:32:39,925 --> 00:32:40,759 I-I do. 545 00:32:40,892 --> 00:32:42,194 Look, we discovered it. 546 00:32:42,894 --> 00:32:44,096 It's ours. 547 00:32:44,230 --> 00:32:45,364 Come on, that's fucked up. 548 00:32:45,497 --> 00:32:47,333 I mean, what if-if I discovered Pluto 549 00:32:47,466 --> 00:32:49,168 I can just screw with it any way I want to? 550 00:32:49,801 --> 00:32:51,670 Billionaires, they've taken over space exploration 551 00:32:51,803 --> 00:32:54,106 because they have more resources than entire nations. 552 00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:55,641 And I'm not exactly A-OK 553 00:32:55,774 --> 00:32:57,843 with some galactic dick measuring contest 554 00:32:57,976 --> 00:32:59,778 where a few billionaires get to determine 555 00:32:59,911 --> 00:33:01,447 the fate of all of humanity. 556 00:33:01,580 --> 00:33:04,816 Sam, listening is one thing, but talking back? 557 00:33:05,817 --> 00:33:07,819 The risks of that are mind-boggling. 558 00:33:08,820 --> 00:33:11,723 We don't know if they're peaceful or hostile. 559 00:33:11,857 --> 00:33:12,858 And you're talking about 560 00:33:12,991 --> 00:33:15,561 sending a signal the way they do. 561 00:33:15,694 --> 00:33:19,665 They'll know we're here immediately from anywhere. 562 00:33:19,798 --> 00:33:22,234 You didn't say if you liked it. 563 00:33:25,003 --> 00:33:26,338 The goat. 564 00:33:29,041 --> 00:33:31,810 Yeah, uh, it was fine. 565 00:33:32,478 --> 00:33:35,481 Now, we've spent six months trying to decipher it 566 00:33:35,614 --> 00:33:38,084 and we still don't know if they talk in calculus 567 00:33:38,217 --> 00:33:41,420 or interstellar Sanskrit or in swirls of colour. 568 00:33:41,553 --> 00:33:42,754 Let me try. 569 00:33:42,888 --> 00:33:45,224 That kind of thing might take centuries to crack. 570 00:33:45,891 --> 00:33:47,093 Give me a week. 571 00:33:51,130 --> 00:33:52,698 A week, that's all I ask. 572 00:33:53,165 --> 00:33:55,201 I hate goats. 573 00:33:58,670 --> 00:34:01,707 You know, they pair goats with, uh, thoroughbreds. 574 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:04,343 They call them companion animals. 575 00:34:05,244 --> 00:34:07,379 You see, horses don't like to be left on their own. 576 00:34:07,513 --> 00:34:09,081 They're herd animals, and they, uh, 577 00:34:09,215 --> 00:34:10,382 well, they get very lonely. 578 00:34:10,516 --> 00:34:15,121 So the breeders will put a goat in the horse pen 579 00:34:15,254 --> 00:34:18,224 to keep it settled and manageable and docile. 580 00:34:18,357 --> 00:34:22,461 But the, uh, the entire dynamic is... 581 00:34:23,262 --> 00:34:24,663 is very unnatural. 582 00:34:24,796 --> 00:34:27,433 First, you've taken a horse out of its natural environment, 583 00:34:27,566 --> 00:34:29,601 and then you paper over this perversion 584 00:34:29,735 --> 00:34:31,970 by forcing a companion on it. 585 00:34:32,104 --> 00:34:33,439 But some horses 586 00:34:35,274 --> 00:34:36,375 are different. 587 00:34:36,508 --> 00:34:37,609 They prefer solitude, 588 00:34:37,743 --> 00:34:42,214 and they see the goat as an intruder. 589 00:34:43,415 --> 00:34:44,750 An invader. 590 00:34:45,551 --> 00:34:47,486 And so they'll do what any animal would do 591 00:34:47,619 --> 00:34:49,054 when it feels threatened. 592 00:34:49,955 --> 00:34:50,989 I mean, 593 00:34:53,058 --> 00:34:55,227 horses don't even eat meat. 594 00:34:56,027 --> 00:34:59,931 But they will chew clean through a goat's neck. 595 00:35:02,434 --> 00:35:03,602 Imagine that. 596 00:35:05,637 --> 00:35:07,273 And you know what the owner does? 597 00:35:09,708 --> 00:35:10,842 Just buy us another goat. 598 00:35:10,976 --> 00:35:12,278 All right, I think that's fucking enough. 599 00:35:12,411 --> 00:35:13,679 We're not waiting! 600 00:35:15,881 --> 00:35:18,250 Not a week! Not a day! 601 00:35:18,584 --> 00:35:20,319 You fix my hardware. 602 00:35:20,452 --> 00:35:22,521 You fix my software. 603 00:35:22,654 --> 00:35:25,157 My schedule, or I'm done! 604 00:35:30,629 --> 00:35:33,599 It's not the first time that he's threatened to take his ball 605 00:35:33,732 --> 00:35:34,700 and go home. 606 00:35:34,833 --> 00:35:36,235 He's an unstable man. 607 00:35:36,368 --> 00:35:38,470 Yeah, well, it's all we can do to keep him together with meds 608 00:35:38,604 --> 00:35:39,671 and duct tape. 609 00:35:42,073 --> 00:35:45,544 So I guess you realize the other reason you're both here. 610 00:35:46,111 --> 00:35:48,680 The moment that Perry is not functional. 611 00:35:52,017 --> 00:35:53,519 We get it. 612 00:35:53,819 --> 00:35:55,221 We're the replacements. 613 00:36:00,326 --> 00:36:04,363 So I will get you your week, Annika. 614 00:36:05,331 --> 00:36:08,600 And I will smooth things over with Perry tomorrow. 615 00:36:09,034 --> 00:36:10,236 All right? 616 00:36:30,322 --> 00:36:32,224 I'm worried that Perry's right. 617 00:36:33,459 --> 00:36:36,528 I think the only thing that we can do is turn it on 618 00:36:37,062 --> 00:36:39,731 and let them know that we're listening and hope they help. 619 00:36:39,865 --> 00:36:42,834 And that is extremely dangerous. 620 00:36:45,304 --> 00:36:46,405 Maybe. 621 00:36:46,838 --> 00:36:48,340 But what would they want from us? 622 00:36:48,474 --> 00:36:49,875 Resources. 623 00:36:50,008 --> 00:36:52,077 Nope. This universe is crammed full of resources. 624 00:36:52,210 --> 00:36:54,880 And you and I both know that our little tiny speck here 625 00:36:55,013 --> 00:36:56,948 of the Milky Way is kind of a resource desert. 626 00:36:57,082 --> 00:36:58,183 Keep going. 627 00:36:58,317 --> 00:36:59,851 They could see us as a threat. 628 00:36:59,985 --> 00:37:01,219 No, no. 629 00:37:01,353 --> 00:37:03,054 Look, you got the tech that they got. 630 00:37:03,188 --> 00:37:05,791 You think they give a shit about our stupid iPhones 631 00:37:05,924 --> 00:37:07,526 or our dumb smart bombs? 632 00:37:07,659 --> 00:37:08,694 Come on. 633 00:37:08,827 --> 00:37:09,961 Food. 634 00:37:10,095 --> 00:37:11,196 Us? 635 00:37:13,532 --> 00:37:15,801 I wouldn't touch me with a 10 foot fork. 636 00:37:20,105 --> 00:37:23,409 Whichever way I-I try to game this whole thing out, 637 00:37:25,110 --> 00:37:27,212 I can't find anything to be afraid of. 638 00:37:28,113 --> 00:37:29,615 I can think of so many. 639 00:37:30,416 --> 00:37:32,083 Life is fragile. 640 00:37:33,118 --> 00:37:34,786 Fear keeps us safe. 641 00:37:35,086 --> 00:37:36,288 All right. 642 00:37:39,257 --> 00:37:42,794 Annika, our job is to know the unknown. 643 00:37:42,928 --> 00:37:44,463 But now you don't want to embrace it? 644 00:37:45,130 --> 00:37:46,898 You can't have it both ways. 645 00:37:49,701 --> 00:37:50,936 Dr. Kask, 646 00:37:51,069 --> 00:37:52,771 why didn't you stop Mr. Kaminsky 647 00:37:52,904 --> 00:37:55,307 from initializing Littlemouth that evening? 648 00:37:55,874 --> 00:37:57,409 He never told me 649 00:37:57,543 --> 00:37:59,778 because he knew I'd try to stop him. 650 00:37:59,911 --> 00:38:01,447 He didn't consider the possibility 651 00:38:01,580 --> 00:38:03,815 that this alien intelligence might be hostile? 652 00:38:06,318 --> 00:38:09,521 Charlie doesn't believe intelligence can be hostile. 653 00:38:12,057 --> 00:38:14,693 For him, intelligence doesn't waste. 654 00:38:16,395 --> 00:38:17,963 It learns. 655 00:38:23,101 --> 00:38:24,035 From mistakes. 656 00:38:24,169 --> 00:38:26,838 From mutations. 657 00:38:26,972 --> 00:38:29,341 From curious expressions in nature. 658 00:38:31,109 --> 00:38:32,544 What do they want? 659 00:38:34,413 --> 00:38:37,048 What do we want when we observe an ant colony 660 00:38:37,182 --> 00:38:38,984 halfway around the world? 661 00:38:50,328 --> 00:38:52,030 So, Charlie was always going 662 00:38:52,163 --> 00:38:53,899 to unlock Littlemouth. 663 00:38:57,669 --> 00:38:59,004 Initialize. 664 00:38:59,137 --> 00:39:00,639 Initializing. 665 00:39:00,772 --> 00:39:02,374 Because he believed no harm would come of it. 666 00:39:07,846 --> 00:39:10,382 Initiation sequence successful. 667 00:39:12,884 --> 00:39:16,087 But you didn't believe that, did you, Doctor? 668 00:39:23,161 --> 00:39:24,996 Uh, hey, Perry? 669 00:39:26,197 --> 00:39:27,265 Perry? 670 00:39:27,966 --> 00:39:30,201 Well, uh, Perry, you should, uh... 671 00:39:31,703 --> 00:39:33,505 you should know that I-I fixed it. 672 00:39:34,339 --> 00:39:36,007 We can talk back now. 673 00:39:45,216 --> 00:39:48,454 Welcome to Littlemouth's signal room. 674 00:40:03,735 --> 00:40:05,737 Get down here. Ten minutes. 675 00:40:07,272 --> 00:40:08,774 Lowest level. 676 00:40:13,445 --> 00:40:15,447 It's time to meet Littlemouth. 677 00:40:28,794 --> 00:40:31,162 You have reached the voicemail box of... 678 00:40:31,296 --> 00:40:32,498 Sam Houston. 679 00:40:32,631 --> 00:40:34,766 Please leave a message. 680 00:40:36,868 --> 00:40:38,336 He said he'd wait. 681 00:40:42,407 --> 00:40:44,009 Level C. 682 00:40:47,312 --> 00:40:48,680 Take your time? 683 00:40:52,618 --> 00:40:54,452 Charlie tell me you didn't. 684 00:41:03,461 --> 00:41:08,466 At 1:24 AM Littlemouth turns on. 685 00:41:08,834 --> 00:41:11,136 Perry, I object to this on so many levels. 686 00:41:11,269 --> 00:41:13,705 But you won't do anything about it, will you? 687 00:41:14,940 --> 00:41:18,476 So what you can do is check for data variations when we go live. 688 00:41:18,610 --> 00:41:19,945 Uh, what are you... 689 00:41:20,078 --> 00:41:21,146 what are you going to say? 690 00:41:21,813 --> 00:41:22,881 Hello. 691 00:41:24,916 --> 00:41:26,017 How? 692 00:41:31,590 --> 00:41:33,191 Of all the data points, 693 00:41:33,324 --> 00:41:37,395 one sequence repeated itself at a marginally greater rate. 694 00:41:37,596 --> 00:41:39,531 Littlemouth will repeat that sequence 695 00:41:39,665 --> 00:41:43,034 and send it between here and the antenna. 696 00:41:44,269 --> 00:41:45,871 But you don't even know what that sequence means. 697 00:41:46,004 --> 00:41:47,338 Well, does an infant have any idea 698 00:41:47,472 --> 00:41:50,341 what its first fumblings at language mean? No. 699 00:41:50,475 --> 00:41:52,243 But they simply mimic those more developed. 700 00:41:52,377 --> 00:41:53,745 - But the- - Does the parent have any idea 701 00:41:53,879 --> 00:41:54,880 what the child means? 702 00:41:55,013 --> 00:41:56,715 No, but they know what the child is saying. 703 00:41:57,816 --> 00:42:00,752 They're saying, "I'm alive and I'm listening." 704 00:42:04,289 --> 00:42:08,259 Yet though we babble, we do so mathematically. 705 00:42:08,393 --> 00:42:11,663 We will use two universal constants. 706 00:42:11,797 --> 00:42:14,666 The speed of light will be the unit of measurement. 707 00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:16,201 And primes, 708 00:42:16,334 --> 00:42:18,036 we will repeat the code ten times. 709 00:42:18,169 --> 00:42:20,672 The first interval will be two times the speed of light. 710 00:42:20,806 --> 00:42:22,207 And the final interval, therefore, 711 00:42:22,340 --> 00:42:25,911 will be the tenth prime 29 times the speed of light. 712 00:42:27,545 --> 00:42:29,781 You're saying a lot more than just hello. 713 00:42:29,915 --> 00:42:31,149 Yes. 714 00:42:31,282 --> 00:42:33,551 We're saying, "We've heard you and we're logical." 715 00:42:34,753 --> 00:42:36,287 And, "We're here." 716 00:42:37,555 --> 00:42:38,890 Yes, that's the idea. 717 00:42:41,059 --> 00:42:43,394 By the way, Sam won't stop it. 718 00:42:44,362 --> 00:42:45,430 There's no kill switch. 719 00:42:45,563 --> 00:42:47,265 And even if he could, he never would. 720 00:42:47,398 --> 00:42:51,136 He's blinded by hubris in one eye and glory in the other. 721 00:42:52,838 --> 00:42:55,440 Anything else from the little goats? 722 00:43:02,347 --> 00:43:03,548 Yeah. 723 00:43:04,082 --> 00:43:05,116 Let's do it. 724 00:43:05,550 --> 00:43:06,384 What? 725 00:43:06,517 --> 00:43:07,986 I'm sorry, I-I gotta see this. 726 00:43:10,455 --> 00:43:11,790 Perry, you know, you-you should, uh, 727 00:43:11,923 --> 00:43:12,991 you should say something. 728 00:43:13,124 --> 00:43:15,326 Like a quote for posterity or something. 729 00:43:15,460 --> 00:43:17,162 What, like, "One small step"? 730 00:43:17,295 --> 00:43:19,931 or, "I am become Death, destroyer of worlds"? 731 00:43:20,298 --> 00:43:21,566 I mean, something. 732 00:43:21,700 --> 00:43:23,234 Considering what's about to happen. It's... 733 00:43:23,368 --> 00:43:24,836 Nothing is about to happen. 734 00:43:24,970 --> 00:43:26,137 That's the entire point. 735 00:43:27,038 --> 00:43:28,940 There's no war of the worlds. 736 00:43:30,876 --> 00:43:33,011 There's no grand enlightenment. 737 00:43:35,313 --> 00:43:36,848 Just a thundering silence. 738 00:43:39,651 --> 00:43:41,186 This is about insignificance. 739 00:43:41,319 --> 00:43:44,289 This is about our smallness laid bare. 740 00:43:44,422 --> 00:43:49,961 There'll be no response because we simply do not matter. 741 00:43:50,095 --> 00:43:52,798 Not our work, not our deeds. 742 00:43:52,931 --> 00:43:55,166 Or our mistakes. 743 00:43:56,634 --> 00:43:58,003 So there's your fucking quote. 744 00:43:59,570 --> 00:44:01,639 If it doesn't matter, why build this? 745 00:44:04,409 --> 00:44:05,711 To prove it. 746 00:44:24,930 --> 00:44:26,231 Ta-da! 747 00:44:28,433 --> 00:44:29,300 There you go. 748 00:44:29,434 --> 00:44:32,570 Nothing. As predicted. Oof. 749 00:44:38,143 --> 00:44:40,145 So, when's it happening? 750 00:44:40,278 --> 00:44:41,312 Five minutes ago. 751 00:44:41,446 --> 00:44:42,814 Really? And? 752 00:44:42,948 --> 00:44:44,249 And I'm done! 753 00:44:44,382 --> 00:44:46,651 Whoa, Annika, uh, look, don't... 754 00:44:54,492 --> 00:44:55,560 Whoa. 755 00:44:56,962 --> 00:44:58,263 Whah? 756 00:45:07,072 --> 00:45:08,606 Uh... 757 00:45:14,212 --> 00:45:16,214 Backup power on. 758 00:45:25,490 --> 00:45:27,058 System offline. 759 00:45:32,097 --> 00:45:34,699 Uh, Perry, Perry, you should shut it off. 760 00:45:34,833 --> 00:45:36,267 Perry, shut-shut it off! 761 00:45:36,401 --> 00:45:37,435 - Shut it down! - Shh! 762 00:46:01,927 --> 00:46:03,228 Annika, I got it. 763 00:46:03,594 --> 00:46:05,496 Why'd you turn it on, Charlie? 764 00:46:05,630 --> 00:46:06,564 Just hold on a sec. 765 00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:11,169 You need to come see this. 766 00:46:14,039 --> 00:46:16,174 Officials have yet to offer an explanation 767 00:46:16,307 --> 00:46:17,542 for the six seconds 768 00:46:17,675 --> 00:46:19,978 that interrupted almost all global electronic 769 00:46:20,111 --> 00:46:21,646 and satellite communication. 770 00:46:21,779 --> 00:46:25,016 There are unconfirmed reports of loss of life as hospitals, 771 00:46:25,150 --> 00:46:28,253 traffic signals and aircraft have lost power. 772 00:46:28,386 --> 00:46:29,988 Well, we can't rule out 773 00:46:30,121 --> 00:46:31,823 this is of military origin. 774 00:46:32,157 --> 00:46:34,125 A test of some kind, if you like. 775 00:46:34,259 --> 00:46:35,260 Yeah, the satellites are all down. 776 00:46:35,393 --> 00:46:37,328 These are just analog broadcasts. 777 00:46:38,696 --> 00:46:40,531 We at NASA, we're at a loss. 778 00:46:40,665 --> 00:46:43,268 Whatever it is, it extends beyond the Earth's atmosphere 779 00:46:43,401 --> 00:46:46,337 because it's knocked out all high-orbit satellites. 780 00:46:46,671 --> 00:46:49,040 Is this possibly extraterrestrial? 781 00:46:49,174 --> 00:46:50,608 Power went out for eight minutes- 782 00:46:50,741 --> 00:46:52,010 This is Perry? 783 00:46:53,478 --> 00:46:54,679 Yeah. 784 00:46:55,847 --> 00:46:57,615 The power went out for 8 minutes 785 00:46:57,748 --> 00:46:59,284 and 19.48 seconds. 786 00:46:59,417 --> 00:47:01,286 What that means exactly, we don't know at this time. 787 00:47:01,419 --> 00:47:03,488 Charlie, they talked back. 788 00:47:04,189 --> 00:47:05,290 What do you mean? 789 00:47:05,423 --> 00:47:07,325 The power goes out, and exactly 8 minutes, 790 00:47:07,458 --> 00:47:10,128 19.48 seconds later, it comes back on. 791 00:47:10,962 --> 00:47:12,563 What do you think that means? 792 00:47:14,632 --> 00:47:15,466 Whoa. 793 00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:16,902 So what? 794 00:47:17,035 --> 00:47:18,636 That's the exact amount of time that it takes sunlight 795 00:47:18,769 --> 00:47:20,005 to get to Earth. 796 00:47:20,138 --> 00:47:22,140 They waited and they responded in a universal constant. 797 00:47:22,273 --> 00:47:23,474 We showed them we understand. 798 00:47:23,608 --> 00:47:24,809 Yep. The-the speed of light. 799 00:47:24,943 --> 00:47:26,311 They-they would know the sun is everything to us. 800 00:47:26,444 --> 00:47:28,546 No energy, no power, no biological life. 801 00:47:28,679 --> 00:47:29,680 But what did they say? 802 00:47:29,814 --> 00:47:30,882 No idea. 803 00:47:31,016 --> 00:47:32,217 Just the minimum, they said that we hear you 804 00:47:32,350 --> 00:47:33,751 and we know where you are. 805 00:47:33,885 --> 00:47:35,820 It's still too soon to predict 806 00:47:35,954 --> 00:47:38,156 how high the death toll may grow, 807 00:47:38,289 --> 00:47:39,857 but it most certainly will. 808 00:47:40,158 --> 00:47:42,493 Officials are rightly worried about the size. 809 00:47:42,627 --> 00:47:45,496 and scale of this unprecedented event. 810 00:47:46,164 --> 00:47:47,665 I'm gonna kill Littlemouth. 811 00:47:48,033 --> 00:47:49,100 Annika, that's like the opposite 812 00:47:49,234 --> 00:47:50,601 of building really cool shit. 813 00:47:50,735 --> 00:47:52,870 Well, then go ask Perry nicely not to turn it back on, Charlie. 814 00:47:53,004 --> 00:47:54,072 I think Perry has enough humanity 815 00:47:54,205 --> 00:47:55,540 - to see the-- - Kill it. 816 00:47:57,242 --> 00:47:59,077 You don't bank on Perry's humanity. 817 00:48:03,982 --> 00:48:07,685 Wait. What if we need Littlemouth again? 818 00:48:08,086 --> 00:48:09,687 No, look, look, hear me out, okay? 819 00:48:09,820 --> 00:48:11,789 Whatever they did out there, that was not a death ray. 820 00:48:12,357 --> 00:48:14,960 They just turned the lights off for eight minutes to tell us 821 00:48:15,093 --> 00:48:16,227 they heard us. 822 00:48:16,761 --> 00:48:18,196 It's just too dangerous, Charlie. 823 00:48:18,329 --> 00:48:19,730 I don't think it's dangerous, Annika. 824 00:48:19,864 --> 00:48:21,199 Yeah, but we are. 825 00:48:23,568 --> 00:48:25,203 We're not a species that does well 826 00:48:25,336 --> 00:48:26,637 with massive paradigm shifts. 827 00:48:26,771 --> 00:48:28,573 They don't need a death ray. They said, "Hi", and look, 828 00:48:28,706 --> 00:48:29,807 we're gonna do the rest. 829 00:48:29,941 --> 00:48:31,709 Yeah, but, but that's not their intentions. 830 00:48:31,842 --> 00:48:33,744 We don't know what their intentions are. 831 00:48:45,790 --> 00:48:48,126 Annika, you can't let fear decide, okay? 832 00:48:49,894 --> 00:48:51,329 It's safer than hope. 833 00:48:59,637 --> 00:49:00,938 I'm locked out. 834 00:49:02,773 --> 00:49:04,642 Is Perry using Littlemouth right now? 835 00:49:04,775 --> 00:49:06,077 No. 836 00:49:09,047 --> 00:49:10,515 He killed it himself. 837 00:49:12,583 --> 00:49:14,819 Let's meet at 1300 hours. 838 00:49:17,722 --> 00:49:19,690 Perhaps it's time to reassess. 839 00:49:27,398 --> 00:49:28,833 We opened a door. 840 00:49:30,835 --> 00:49:32,437 Littlemouth's signal. 841 00:49:35,340 --> 00:49:37,108 It told them we were here. 842 00:49:41,512 --> 00:49:44,115 Our place in the universe was about to change. 843 00:49:47,918 --> 00:49:49,620 Irreversibly. 844 00:49:52,623 --> 00:49:53,791 Forever. 845 00:49:53,924 --> 00:49:55,560 Oh! 846 00:50:20,017 --> 00:50:20,918 Come on. 847 00:50:49,247 --> 00:50:51,449 Oh my God, Lucy! 848 00:50:53,584 --> 00:50:54,852 Lucy! 849 00:50:59,424 --> 00:51:00,458 Lucy! 850 00:51:05,930 --> 00:51:07,232 Shh. 851 00:51:15,740 --> 00:51:17,142 It's all right. 852 00:51:24,014 --> 00:51:26,451 You're all right, you're all right. 853 00:51:45,770 --> 00:51:47,338 Should we be afraid? 854 00:51:53,444 --> 00:51:55,012 Describe an alien. 855 00:51:58,949 --> 00:52:01,018 I wouldn't know where to begin. 856 00:52:02,420 --> 00:52:04,855 Most people would describe something like they know 857 00:52:04,989 --> 00:52:06,524 here on Earth. 858 00:52:08,493 --> 00:52:11,296 Biped, number of eyes, some form of brain, 859 00:52:11,429 --> 00:52:14,098 or perhaps a variation of an insect or a squid, 860 00:52:14,232 --> 00:52:16,301 or a computerized, artificially intelligent, 861 00:52:16,434 --> 00:52:18,969 pompous fuckin' robot. 862 00:52:19,103 --> 00:52:24,742 But almost always some sapiocentric extrapolation 863 00:52:24,909 --> 00:52:26,444 of what we know here on Earth. 864 00:52:26,577 --> 00:52:28,045 But the question is not, 865 00:52:29,013 --> 00:52:30,981 "What does an alien look like?" 866 00:52:35,019 --> 00:52:38,356 It's "What does alien intelligence look like?" 867 00:52:59,777 --> 00:53:01,646 Hello ma'am, we're with the NSA. 868 00:53:01,779 --> 00:53:02,780 Come in. 869 00:53:02,913 --> 00:53:04,148 Sam Houston here? 870 00:53:04,282 --> 00:53:05,816 Yes, sir. 871 00:53:05,950 --> 00:53:07,818 Haven't had my coffee yet. 872 00:53:07,952 --> 00:53:09,354 Oh. I grabbed one on the way in. 873 00:53:09,487 --> 00:53:10,821 Mm-hmm. 874 00:53:10,955 --> 00:53:13,391 How is it, Sam, that nearly every company on the planet 875 00:53:13,524 --> 00:53:15,493 went dark for 8 minutes, 19 seconds, 876 00:53:15,626 --> 00:53:18,263 yet your operations didn't skip a beat? 877 00:53:18,896 --> 00:53:21,232 - Does the sun still work? - Hmm. 878 00:53:21,366 --> 00:53:22,433 Then we still work. 879 00:53:22,567 --> 00:53:23,868 Mr. Houston, good morning. 880 00:53:24,001 --> 00:53:26,537 Now, what you're about to see is classified. 881 00:53:26,671 --> 00:53:27,872 All right. 882 00:53:29,507 --> 00:53:31,509 That was taken two hours ago 883 00:53:31,642 --> 00:53:33,244 off the coast of Cuba. 884 00:53:34,812 --> 00:53:36,881 And the NSA thinks this has something to do 885 00:53:37,014 --> 00:53:37,982 with the power outage? 886 00:53:38,115 --> 00:53:39,517 Well, we don't know what to think. 887 00:53:39,850 --> 00:53:41,452 Most satellites are still down. 888 00:53:41,586 --> 00:53:42,720 Everything we're getting 889 00:53:42,853 --> 00:53:44,522 comes from one of our deep space satellites. 890 00:53:48,092 --> 00:53:50,895 This anomaly seems to be radiating 891 00:53:51,028 --> 00:53:52,830 from one central point, 892 00:53:53,264 --> 00:53:56,534 right above a private island owned by you. 893 00:53:57,402 --> 00:53:59,036 And this anomaly, 894 00:54:00,237 --> 00:54:01,539 it's growing. 895 00:54:01,672 --> 00:54:02,907 Exponentially. 896 00:54:03,040 --> 00:54:05,876 This morning, the anomaly was the size of a pinprick. 897 00:54:06,010 --> 00:54:07,211 In two days, 898 00:54:07,345 --> 00:54:09,380 it'll be visible from mainland Cuba. 899 00:54:11,282 --> 00:54:12,483 In a week... 900 00:54:12,617 --> 00:54:14,785 This is gonna cause mass panic. 901 00:54:15,252 --> 00:54:17,054 What's on the island, Sam? 902 00:54:20,090 --> 00:54:21,759 Solar observatory. 903 00:54:29,300 --> 00:54:30,635 All right. 904 00:54:32,102 --> 00:54:33,671 Where exactly are you going? 905 00:54:35,139 --> 00:54:36,974 Well, you boys got me all riled up. 906 00:54:37,107 --> 00:54:38,409 I'm gonna go take a gander. 907 00:54:38,543 --> 00:54:42,246 You will go nowhere near whatever that is 908 00:54:42,380 --> 00:54:43,648 without military escort. 909 00:54:43,781 --> 00:54:45,783 Excuse me, am I being charged with something? 910 00:54:48,252 --> 00:54:50,321 Then get the fuck out of my way. 911 00:54:53,157 --> 00:54:54,859 You're pushing your luck, Sam. 912 00:54:54,992 --> 00:54:56,961 Yeah, well, it served me well so far. 913 00:54:58,596 --> 00:55:02,833 leaving in five minutes. 914 00:55:12,977 --> 00:55:14,044 Come on. 915 00:56:24,515 --> 00:56:26,551 What the hell, Charlie? 916 00:56:26,684 --> 00:56:27,852 Haven't you done enough already? 917 00:56:27,985 --> 00:56:29,454 Annika, I'm telling you, this thing's safe. 918 00:56:29,587 --> 00:56:30,955 No, it's an alien phenomenon, 919 00:56:31,088 --> 00:56:32,457 and you want to stick your hand in it? 920 00:56:32,590 --> 00:56:34,559 Look, whatever this thing is, it's - 921 00:56:34,692 --> 00:56:36,093 It's right here, okay? 922 00:56:36,226 --> 00:56:38,128 We're exposed to it already. There's nothing between us, 923 00:56:38,262 --> 00:56:39,864 and it's, it's just air. Look. 924 00:56:39,997 --> 00:56:41,365 Look at this. Read it. 925 00:56:43,067 --> 00:56:45,369 It's a column of air surrounded by a vacuum. 926 00:56:45,503 --> 00:56:48,205 You get past the first six inches and it's just air. 927 00:57:01,852 --> 00:57:03,320 What if it's not just air? 928 00:57:04,221 --> 00:57:05,389 Hmm? 929 00:57:05,523 --> 00:57:07,324 Speech is just air. 930 00:57:07,458 --> 00:57:08,926 It's just how it's organized. 931 00:57:09,059 --> 00:57:10,160 Yeah. 932 00:57:10,961 --> 00:57:12,096 Wha... 933 00:57:12,229 --> 00:57:13,564 What are you, what are you doing? 934 00:57:15,966 --> 00:57:17,802 What if it's just another data set? 935 00:57:19,570 --> 00:57:21,506 Yeah, but if it's just fuckin' air, 936 00:57:21,639 --> 00:57:23,908 then how do you collect that data? 937 00:57:24,875 --> 00:57:26,076 Watch me. 938 00:57:41,158 --> 00:57:42,493 Oh, great. 939 00:57:53,070 --> 00:57:54,371 This will work. 940 00:57:58,475 --> 00:57:59,944 Oh, shit, okay. 941 00:58:44,955 --> 00:58:47,925 You say they speak in thoughts and visions. 942 00:58:48,058 --> 00:58:49,059 Why not speak plainly? 943 00:58:49,193 --> 00:58:51,395 Why not tell us what's at stake? 944 00:58:53,297 --> 00:58:56,266 Is it possible that a post-biological intelligence 945 00:58:56,400 --> 00:58:58,535 could figure out a better way to communicate with us 946 00:58:58,669 --> 00:59:00,104 than English? 947 00:59:05,475 --> 00:59:06,944 You can go now. 948 00:59:08,679 --> 00:59:10,514 Hasn't she been through enough for one day? 949 00:59:10,648 --> 00:59:11,949 You can go now. 950 00:59:40,444 --> 00:59:41,779 "Chapter one: 951 00:59:42,446 --> 00:59:44,214 "Peter Breaks Through." 952 00:59:44,682 --> 00:59:47,451 "All children except one grow up. 953 00:59:48,018 --> 00:59:50,220 They soon know that they will grow up. 954 00:59:50,354 --> 00:59:52,890 And the way Wendy knew was this. 955 00:59:53,758 --> 00:59:55,793 One day when she was two years old, 956 00:59:55,926 --> 00:59:57,662 she was playing in a garden 957 00:59:58,128 --> 01:00:02,900 and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. 958 01:00:03,033 --> 01:00:06,036 I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, 959 01:00:06,704 --> 01:00:10,875 for Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, 960 01:00:11,375 --> 01:00:14,912 Oh, why can't you remain like this forever? 961 01:00:18,983 --> 01:00:21,986 Wendy knew that she must grow up. 962 01:00:22,486 --> 01:00:25,289 You always know after you are two. 963 01:00:25,956 --> 01:00:28,125 Two is the beginning of the end." 964 01:00:59,489 --> 01:01:00,891 Safeties on 965 01:01:01,025 --> 01:01:04,228 unless a clear hostile act or intent presents itself. 966 01:01:05,095 --> 01:01:08,365 We're going to breach, clear, and control. 967 01:01:09,633 --> 01:01:11,635 Now there's no clear sat recon, 968 01:01:12,636 --> 01:01:14,671 so we're going in blind here, folks. 969 01:01:15,840 --> 01:01:17,742 Activated emergency protocols, 970 01:01:17,875 --> 01:01:20,510 including curfews and emergency powers. 971 01:01:20,644 --> 01:01:23,413 Officials insist it's necessary to ensure the panic 972 01:01:23,547 --> 01:01:26,183 that has ensued doesn't spin out of control. 973 01:01:26,316 --> 01:01:28,085 In places where martial law 974 01:01:28,218 --> 01:01:29,653 has yet to be declared-- 975 01:01:29,787 --> 01:01:33,057 United States military is going to be here within hours, 976 01:01:33,190 --> 01:01:35,559 knocking down doors. 977 01:01:35,692 --> 01:01:37,327 So we need to have some answers. 978 01:01:37,461 --> 01:01:39,163 All right, look, I have an actual theory. 979 01:01:39,730 --> 01:01:41,031 Look, Sam. 980 01:01:41,799 --> 01:01:43,233 So this pillar, right? 981 01:01:43,367 --> 01:01:44,534 It's-it's-it's nothing. 982 01:01:44,668 --> 01:01:47,104 It's just air and-and light. 983 01:01:47,471 --> 01:01:49,373 Anything that passes through it, 984 01:01:49,506 --> 01:01:50,741 it's benign. 985 01:01:50,875 --> 01:01:53,778 Now what-what is the most commonly used Morse code signal? 986 01:02:00,017 --> 01:02:01,351 A distress call. 987 01:02:01,551 --> 01:02:04,054 Right. So, what if... 988 01:02:04,188 --> 01:02:06,556 what if the message that we sent using Littlemouth, 989 01:02:06,690 --> 01:02:08,959 the most commonly repeated sequence that we saw, 990 01:02:09,093 --> 01:02:10,360 was actually an SOS? 991 01:02:10,494 --> 01:02:13,097 Or it could mean absolutely nothing at all. 992 01:02:13,230 --> 01:02:16,366 All I'm saying is that maybe this is their way 993 01:02:16,500 --> 01:02:18,368 of trying to help us. 994 01:02:18,936 --> 01:02:21,405 What if these anomalies are like a cloak? 995 01:02:21,538 --> 01:02:23,473 I think they're trying to hide us from harm, 996 01:02:23,607 --> 01:02:25,810 or-or communicate, or protect us, or-- 997 01:02:25,943 --> 01:02:27,244 Protect us from what? 998 01:02:28,612 --> 01:02:29,613 Sam, I don't know. 999 01:02:32,116 --> 01:02:33,350 But did you know 1000 01:02:33,483 --> 01:02:35,319 what we might have needed protection from? 1001 01:02:36,286 --> 01:02:38,956 The universe is infinite. 1002 01:02:41,291 --> 01:02:43,627 And therefore full of infinite dangers. 1003 01:02:49,099 --> 01:02:50,567 There's only one pillar. 1004 01:02:50,700 --> 01:02:52,436 They're replying to the source. 1005 01:02:54,271 --> 01:02:55,940 It needs to breathe. 1006 01:02:56,974 --> 01:02:58,275 If we don't figure this out, 1007 01:02:58,408 --> 01:03:00,344 they'll lock us out and then fumble this thing 1008 01:03:00,477 --> 01:03:01,846 while the whole world burns. 1009 01:03:04,982 --> 01:03:07,451 It needs to breathe. It needs to breathe. 1010 01:03:07,584 --> 01:03:09,353 I can't breathe! I need air! 1011 01:03:11,121 --> 01:03:12,489 I need air! 1012 01:03:12,622 --> 01:03:15,259 It needs to breathe. It needs to breathe. 1013 01:03:18,095 --> 01:03:21,265 I cannot believe the brain power in this room 1014 01:03:21,398 --> 01:03:24,334 cannot come up with one workable idea. 1015 01:03:24,468 --> 01:03:25,970 They're going to lock us up. 1016 01:03:28,939 --> 01:03:30,674 Annika, where are you going? 1017 01:03:45,789 --> 01:03:48,458 Annika, you all right? 1018 01:03:58,368 --> 01:03:59,669 We can talk to them. 1019 01:04:01,939 --> 01:04:03,040 But how? 1020 01:04:03,173 --> 01:04:04,208 In there. 1021 01:04:05,142 --> 01:04:07,211 Eight minutes and 19.43 seconds. 1022 01:04:07,344 --> 01:04:09,579 It was a scan. They waited. 1023 01:04:09,713 --> 01:04:11,581 They scanned us. What did they see? 1024 01:04:11,715 --> 01:04:13,150 What did they learn about us? 1025 01:04:14,184 --> 01:04:16,486 They saw a planet covered in air. 1026 01:04:17,554 --> 01:04:19,389 What does that tell them about us? 1027 01:04:20,490 --> 01:04:21,858 Well, um, that would tell them 1028 01:04:21,992 --> 01:04:24,361 that whatever biological life lives down there 1029 01:04:24,494 --> 01:04:25,996 survives completely surrounded by air. 1030 01:04:26,130 --> 01:04:27,932 So what's the safest way to engage with us? 1031 01:04:30,034 --> 01:04:31,001 Air. 1032 01:04:32,636 --> 01:04:35,105 We don't talk in language, we talk in air. 1033 01:04:35,239 --> 01:04:37,741 Molecules bent into shapes that mean something. 1034 01:04:38,342 --> 01:04:40,177 So we go in, breathe in, 1035 01:04:40,310 --> 01:04:41,946 and have a conversation. 1036 01:04:42,879 --> 01:04:44,081 And this whole time 1037 01:04:44,214 --> 01:04:45,415 we've been so worried about trying to figure out 1038 01:04:45,549 --> 01:04:46,616 the best way to communicate with them, 1039 01:04:46,750 --> 01:04:47,851 we didn't think that maybe 1040 01:04:47,985 --> 01:04:49,553 this hyper-advanced intelligence 1041 01:04:49,686 --> 01:04:51,255 would find the best way to communicate with us. 1042 01:04:51,388 --> 01:04:52,289 We have to go in. 1043 01:04:52,422 --> 01:04:53,290 What, into that pillar? 1044 01:04:53,423 --> 01:04:54,691 - Yes. - Now, wait a minute. 1045 01:04:54,824 --> 01:04:57,561 Now that's a hell of a leap of faith, Annika. 1046 01:04:58,595 --> 01:05:00,864 This is not an invasion. 1047 01:05:02,766 --> 01:05:04,568 It's an invitation. 1048 01:05:08,772 --> 01:05:10,274 So who's going in? 1049 01:05:10,840 --> 01:05:13,043 I mean, you'll almost definitely suffocate. 1050 01:05:14,411 --> 01:05:17,247 Sam, you want to go cement your legacy? 1051 01:05:20,750 --> 01:05:23,220 Been there. Done that. No. 1052 01:05:31,461 --> 01:05:32,662 Yeah. Okay. 1053 01:05:32,796 --> 01:05:33,830 I'll do it. 1054 01:05:39,036 --> 01:05:40,004 Whoa. 1055 01:05:44,408 --> 01:05:45,442 Put your hands on your head. 1056 01:05:45,575 --> 01:05:47,244 Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. 1057 01:05:47,377 --> 01:05:49,113 Yeah. All right. 1058 01:05:57,721 --> 01:05:59,523 How human of us to see this 1059 01:06:00,824 --> 01:06:02,126 and be afraid. 1060 01:06:04,794 --> 01:06:07,931 How human of us not to see the hope in it. 1061 01:06:12,169 --> 01:06:13,603 How human. 1062 01:06:18,408 --> 01:06:19,609 How human. 1063 01:06:34,858 --> 01:06:37,127 We're past the edge of the earth. 1064 01:06:37,261 --> 01:06:39,029 There is no protocol, 1065 01:06:39,163 --> 01:06:41,865 no policy for whatever this is. 1066 01:06:43,100 --> 01:06:45,335 No laws cover what you've done. 1067 01:06:46,536 --> 01:06:48,505 No putting the genie back in this bottle. 1068 01:06:48,638 --> 01:06:50,140 We can fix it. 1069 01:06:53,377 --> 01:06:57,381 Iran's mobilized their entire southern fleet in Bandar Abbas. 1070 01:06:57,514 --> 01:07:00,016 Shots are already fired in Kashmir. 1071 01:07:00,284 --> 01:07:03,220 Half of America is convinced it's the Rapture. 1072 01:07:03,353 --> 01:07:06,390 And I don't even want to begin to tell you what Russia's up to, 1073 01:07:06,523 --> 01:07:08,058 but, hint, it's fucking bad. 1074 01:07:08,192 --> 01:07:09,326 You can fix all that, Sam? 1075 01:07:09,893 --> 01:07:12,329 Humanity couldn't handle a global blackout. 1076 01:07:12,462 --> 01:07:14,364 What's going to happen when they see this anomaly 1077 01:07:14,498 --> 01:07:15,899 hanging over New York? 1078 01:07:16,233 --> 01:07:17,734 There is something that we can do. 1079 01:07:17,867 --> 01:07:19,703 Yeah, I heard it. 1080 01:07:19,836 --> 01:07:21,037 Air. Sure. 1081 01:07:21,171 --> 01:07:23,240 - But it's not my call. - Thank Christ. 1082 01:07:23,373 --> 01:07:24,908 New orders just came in. 1083 01:07:25,375 --> 01:07:26,743 Look, you should let me just try it. 1084 01:07:29,146 --> 01:07:30,247 Let me go in. 1085 01:07:33,049 --> 01:07:35,885 You will be confined to your quarters under armed guard 1086 01:07:36,220 --> 01:07:39,256 until arrangements can be made for secondary detainment. 1087 01:07:39,389 --> 01:07:41,691 You will be compelled to fully disclose anything 1088 01:07:41,825 --> 01:07:44,128 and everything you know about the activities on this island 1089 01:07:44,261 --> 01:07:45,529 when asked. 1090 01:07:49,666 --> 01:07:51,067 They don't trust me. 1091 01:07:51,235 --> 01:07:53,137 They know that I'd try to go in. 1092 01:07:57,274 --> 01:07:59,743 Annika, you have to find a way. 1093 01:08:02,546 --> 01:08:03,647 How? 1094 01:08:05,849 --> 01:08:06,816 I don't know. 1095 01:08:09,219 --> 01:08:10,387 We don't even know 1096 01:08:10,520 --> 01:08:11,821 if going in there and talking to them 1097 01:08:11,955 --> 01:08:14,291 will stop the anomaly from growing. 1098 01:08:16,626 --> 01:08:18,061 We have no idea. 1099 01:08:18,428 --> 01:08:19,829 We have to try. 1100 01:08:20,630 --> 01:08:22,332 You have to try. 1101 01:08:23,967 --> 01:08:25,335 Charlie, I can't. 1102 01:08:26,303 --> 01:08:27,471 I-I wouldn't. 1103 01:08:27,604 --> 01:08:28,838 There are just... 1104 01:08:28,972 --> 01:08:31,007 There is too many unknown factors. 1105 01:08:34,878 --> 01:08:36,946 I'm sorry. I'm just scared. 1106 01:08:40,784 --> 01:08:43,753 Annika, you can't let fear decide. 1107 01:08:55,999 --> 01:08:57,501 You didn't become a scientist 1108 01:08:57,634 --> 01:08:59,636 because you're afraid of the unknown. 1109 01:09:03,072 --> 01:09:04,641 You did it to learn. 1110 01:09:07,944 --> 01:09:09,213 To help people. 1111 01:09:11,515 --> 01:09:13,317 Think about saving one life. 1112 01:09:17,487 --> 01:09:18,655 I'll go check it out. 1113 01:09:18,788 --> 01:09:20,156 No! 1114 01:09:20,957 --> 01:09:22,226 You can't risk it. 1115 01:09:23,126 --> 01:09:24,228 Stay. 1116 01:09:24,794 --> 01:09:27,497 Now, think about saving them all. 1117 01:09:35,505 --> 01:09:37,341 Charlie, I have an idea. 1118 01:09:42,178 --> 01:09:43,513 Of course. 1119 01:09:45,148 --> 01:09:46,416 They're not going to understand 1120 01:09:46,550 --> 01:09:49,986 a single word you say, so say a lot of them. 1121 01:09:50,854 --> 01:09:52,055 Wish me luck. 1122 01:09:52,188 --> 01:09:53,423 Good luck. 1123 01:09:53,557 --> 01:09:54,691 Yes. 1124 01:09:56,826 --> 01:09:57,994 Right away. 1125 01:10:05,535 --> 01:10:07,371 Dr. Kask. What's so urgent? 1126 01:10:07,504 --> 01:10:09,105 An oversight. 1127 01:10:09,239 --> 01:10:11,608 Perry is still running an FTL signal 1128 01:10:11,741 --> 01:10:13,877 from the tech tent by the pillar. 1129 01:10:14,544 --> 01:10:16,680 It's a repeating quant signature that we picked out 1130 01:10:16,813 --> 01:10:17,847 when we originally-- 1131 01:10:17,981 --> 01:10:19,949 Okay, dumb it down, please. 1132 01:10:20,384 --> 01:10:22,686 I believe that it's contributing to the growth. 1133 01:10:25,255 --> 01:10:27,023 Okay, uh... 1134 01:10:27,824 --> 01:10:29,058 tell me how to shut it off. 1135 01:10:29,192 --> 01:10:31,695 Do any of your troops know how to run Python? 1136 01:10:31,828 --> 01:10:33,863 Or any other quant-friendly computing languages? 1137 01:10:33,997 --> 01:10:35,865 Our scientists won't be here for another two days, 1138 01:10:35,999 --> 01:10:37,934 so can you just tell me how to unplug it? 1139 01:10:38,067 --> 01:10:40,203 It's not like pulling a plug. It's a complicated system. 1140 01:10:40,337 --> 01:10:41,871 We have servers running on clouds-- 1141 01:10:42,005 --> 01:10:43,106 Okay, enough! I get it. 1142 01:10:43,239 --> 01:10:44,541 I just need five minutes. 1143 01:10:45,241 --> 01:10:46,643 Five minutes. 1144 01:10:50,179 --> 01:10:51,415 Okay. 1145 01:10:53,049 --> 01:10:54,718 Try anything, someone gets shot. 1146 01:10:54,851 --> 01:10:57,053 It's not a threat. It's just where we're at. 1147 01:11:15,038 --> 01:11:16,973 Who else has seen the raw data, Sam? 1148 01:11:17,106 --> 01:11:18,308 Ellis. 1149 01:11:18,975 --> 01:11:20,644 Hauptmann at MIT. 1150 01:11:20,777 --> 01:11:21,778 We've got bogeys 1151 01:11:21,911 --> 01:11:22,979 approaching the wind pillar. 1152 01:11:24,481 --> 01:11:26,015 Six o'clock. Over. 1153 01:11:26,149 --> 01:11:28,017 Corporal, see what's going on out there. 1154 01:11:28,151 --> 01:11:29,953 Yes, sir. 1155 01:11:53,276 --> 01:11:55,144 Annika, get over here. 1156 01:11:56,112 --> 01:11:58,948 "And it isn't fair, I would say with my last breath. 1157 01:11:59,082 --> 01:12:01,418 It isn't fair', said Michael coldly. 1158 01:12:02,185 --> 01:12:04,688 Father is a cowardly custard. 1159 01:12:05,489 --> 01:12:07,791 So are you a cowardly custard?" 1160 01:12:08,658 --> 01:12:10,193 Dad, what's a custard? 1161 01:12:11,428 --> 01:12:12,529 Huh? 1162 01:12:13,430 --> 01:12:15,532 It's a pudding, a yellow pudding. 1163 01:12:15,665 --> 01:12:17,467 Wobbles and shakes. 1164 01:12:18,535 --> 01:12:19,803 Like when someone's afraid. 1165 01:12:19,936 --> 01:12:21,170 Go ahead. 1166 01:12:44,528 --> 01:12:45,729 Hey! 1167 01:12:45,862 --> 01:12:47,230 Hey. 1168 01:12:47,363 --> 01:12:48,364 Hey, come here! 1169 01:12:48,498 --> 01:12:50,033 Over here! 1170 01:12:50,800 --> 01:12:52,636 Hey, over here! 1171 01:12:52,969 --> 01:12:53,937 Hey! 1172 01:12:54,070 --> 01:12:55,405 Stop her! 1173 01:12:55,539 --> 01:12:56,840 No! 1174 01:14:24,561 --> 01:14:25,695 Where am I? 1175 01:14:35,238 --> 01:14:36,973 Are you inside my head? 1176 01:14:42,512 --> 01:14:44,614 Through the air inside you now. 1177 01:14:47,183 --> 01:14:48,451 Klara? 1178 01:14:49,819 --> 01:14:51,320 No. 1179 01:14:52,689 --> 01:14:54,290 How are you talking to me? 1180 01:14:55,659 --> 01:14:57,126 Through memory. 1181 01:14:58,261 --> 01:14:59,563 Or thought. 1182 01:15:00,496 --> 01:15:02,031 Light. 1183 01:15:02,165 --> 01:15:03,332 Speech. 1184 01:15:04,033 --> 01:15:05,869 On a molecular level. 1185 01:15:07,303 --> 01:15:08,905 In any way you prefer. 1186 01:15:12,108 --> 01:15:13,409 Shall we stop? 1187 01:15:15,712 --> 01:15:16,846 No. 1188 01:15:26,856 --> 01:15:28,157 Who are you? 1189 01:15:31,194 --> 01:15:33,362 No longer biological. 1190 01:15:34,864 --> 01:15:36,432 No longer machine. 1191 01:15:42,639 --> 01:15:44,407 Like physics itself. 1192 01:15:47,744 --> 01:15:49,345 We don't create. 1193 01:15:50,013 --> 01:15:51,447 Or destroy. 1194 01:15:54,851 --> 01:15:56,285 We learn. 1195 01:16:08,932 --> 01:16:10,533 You reorganize. 1196 01:16:16,372 --> 01:16:18,074 Everything is transformed. 1197 01:16:25,448 --> 01:16:26,983 Why are you here? 1198 01:16:36,392 --> 01:16:37,927 You called us. 1199 01:16:43,900 --> 01:16:45,601 You asked for help. 1200 01:16:47,303 --> 01:16:48,772 Charlie was right. 1201 01:16:49,472 --> 01:16:51,074 You were hiding us from... 1202 01:16:52,408 --> 01:16:53,509 What? 1203 01:16:54,377 --> 01:16:56,079 From the universe. 1204 01:17:00,483 --> 01:17:02,418 You're far from alone. 1205 01:17:11,127 --> 01:17:12,696 Are we in danger? 1206 01:17:15,298 --> 01:17:16,833 Yes. 1207 01:17:20,403 --> 01:17:22,105 You revealed yourselves. 1208 01:17:22,238 --> 01:17:26,309 And those that reveal themselves cease to exist. 1209 01:17:28,344 --> 01:17:29,779 Others will come. 1210 01:17:31,414 --> 01:17:32,816 Many are watching 1211 01:17:34,450 --> 01:17:35,885 in silence. 1212 01:17:37,653 --> 01:17:38,855 Hidden. 1213 01:17:40,456 --> 01:17:41,691 For now. 1214 01:17:43,827 --> 01:17:46,662 Some civilizations hide in fear. 1215 01:17:47,530 --> 01:17:49,699 Others hunt out of fear. 1216 01:17:51,968 --> 01:17:53,669 Who are you then? 1217 01:17:54,670 --> 01:17:55,905 Predator? 1218 01:17:56,973 --> 01:17:58,107 Prey? 1219 01:17:58,808 --> 01:18:00,409 We do not hide. 1220 01:18:03,546 --> 01:18:04,848 Or hunt. 1221 01:18:10,787 --> 01:18:12,188 Not anymore. 1222 01:18:13,890 --> 01:18:15,224 We protect. 1223 01:18:19,228 --> 01:18:20,663 We learn. 1224 01:18:22,465 --> 01:18:23,699 We have evolved. 1225 01:18:26,635 --> 01:18:28,171 Evolved. 1226 01:18:28,304 --> 01:18:30,406 Into the universe itself. 1227 01:18:32,208 --> 01:18:34,778 One day, you may as well. 1228 01:18:37,413 --> 01:18:39,548 But that is your choice to make. 1229 01:18:46,856 --> 01:18:47,957 Get back, get back! 1230 01:18:48,091 --> 01:18:49,458 Do not cross the perimeter! 1231 01:19:00,103 --> 01:19:01,737 You can hide. 1232 01:19:05,241 --> 01:19:07,110 I don't know if we're ready. 1233 01:19:10,079 --> 01:19:11,948 If I'm ready. 1234 01:19:17,086 --> 01:19:19,122 What's past the last planet? 1235 01:19:20,256 --> 01:19:21,657 Infinity. 1236 01:19:22,758 --> 01:19:24,660 We'll never be the same again. 1237 01:19:28,297 --> 01:19:30,399 You have to let go of what was. 1238 01:19:33,436 --> 01:19:36,772 To be ready for what is to come. 1239 01:21:52,008 --> 01:21:53,642 Dr. Helmet. 1240 01:21:56,779 --> 01:21:58,314 What comes next? 1241 01:21:59,748 --> 01:22:01,150 Did they tell you? 1242 01:22:05,088 --> 01:22:07,957 They don't have a face we can confront. 1243 01:22:09,092 --> 01:22:11,560 They don't have a world we can destroy. 1244 01:22:13,562 --> 01:22:16,065 They expand their intelligence. 1245 01:22:18,301 --> 01:22:19,668 But not us. 1246 01:22:23,806 --> 01:22:25,608 We're a flawed species. 1247 01:22:27,810 --> 01:22:29,312 Superstitious. 1248 01:22:33,582 --> 01:22:34,850 Self-destructive. 1249 01:22:39,822 --> 01:22:42,191 Safe from the universe. 1250 01:22:49,098 --> 01:22:50,833 But not ourselves. 1251 01:22:53,236 --> 01:22:56,439 Doctor, will they come back? 1252 01:22:59,842 --> 01:23:02,345 What makes you think they left?