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- This programme contains some strong language.

- If I get just one chance to play with God,

then I'm willing to take that risk.

Who is she?

SHE GASPS

You're not coming, son. We need a witness.

- The portal's closed.

- RUMBLING

ALARM RINGS

RUMBLING CONTINUES

RUMBLING STOPS ABRUPTLY

TENSE MUSIC BUILDS TO CRESCENDO

And that's when I lost consciousness.

I don't know what happened after that.

I woke up here.

- Hm.

You were very lucky.

What about the light?

- I guess I was just hallucinating.

- I'd like to go back to what happened on Mars before you left.

- I already explained everything.

They all went out to explore a rugged valley a few kilometres away.

I stayed on the ship.

I tried to make contact several times. They did not answer.

That's the whole story. They never came back.

- Why didn't you look for them?

- Their oxygen tanks would have been empty by then.

- I understand.

Could you have done it earlier?

- It wasn't protocol.

- Protocol?

- Meyer is my employer.

I'd like to talk to the folks at ASE.

- Your isolation is almost over now.

- Wait. Where are we?

I mean, really?

- It's just an ordinary military hospital, Mr Becker.

You'll get some rest now.

- DOOR BEEPS OPEN, CLOSES

INDISTINCT TANNOY ANNOUNCEMENT

So, what do you think?

- It's interesting.

- As in...?

- As in...

..he seems to believe in everything he says...

..for the most part, at least.

- So do you think he's lying about the rest?

- I don't understand what you want from him.

He's just...

- Just what?

- The man's insane.

- What makes you say that?

- Well, do I really have to say it?

Because nobody's ever been to Mars,

unless there's something I don't know.

Look, that guy made up a whole identity.

He lives in some sort of delusion, fairy tale.

Probably adds things as he goes along.

Adrian...

..I know you.

You didn't bring me here just to chat with him.

What do you want?

- You know very well what I want.

- It's out of the question. You wanted a psychological evaluation.

There you go, you got it.

It's all you get from me.

- OK.

I'd like to show you something before you leave, Peter.

Follow me.

- What am I looking at?

- Mr Becker showed up unannounced in this.

It landed casually in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

This ship flooded NASA and ESA frequencies

with automatic radio messages.

Nobody believed it until we found him.

Something went south during re-entry, though. He almost died.

- When?

- Two weeks ago. You're one of the first people allowed to talk to him.

I insisted it should be you.

- So he's not insane.

- I need you to interview him, the way you do it.

I want to know what's in his head. - I don't do that...

- Do that any more. I know. But I need your help.

- Who sent him up there? - Officially? No-one.

I'm not hiding anything from you, Peter. - Come on.

I mean, it shouldn't be that hard to find out whoever built the ship.

Isn't there, like, an onboard computer or something?

- Of course there's one. But it's protected.

Our algorithm team has been trying to crack it for two weeks

but everything has failed.

We need the password.

- Did you ask him?

- That's literally the first thing we did but he wouldn't say anything.

- That was a mistake - he's going to be suspicious now.

You've just made it more difficult to get through to him.

- Does that mean you're in?

- I'll stay for a little while, but only if we do it my way.

- Thanks.

DOOR BEEPS OPEN, CLOSES

- Mr Becker, you deserve an explanation.

- BECKER SPEAKS IN FRENCH

- That's my crew. - Yeah.

- I told you everything I knew about them and...

- I know. This is not going to be anything about the missions to Mars.

I'm not going to ask you any more questions.

- What the fuck is he doing?

I thought he was not supposed to show him anything.

- Wait, that's why he's here.

To surprise us.

- What's his trick?

- Body language.

Facial micro-expressions.

Everything that betrays us, that's outside of our control.

He watches and interprets people.

That's his trick. He's a man who can't be lied to.

- William Meyer, Swiss, third richest man in the world.

President of a group focused on network infrastructure

and pharmaceuticals.

He has never been on Mars...

..or even in space.

Simon Gramat. Reserve astronaut at the European Space Agency.

He still hopes to be a part of his first mission in orbit one day.

Alessandra Sassosi. After a short mission on the ISS, she left ASE.

She's been a doctor for six years now in a small town in Italy.

- I don't understand, what is all this? Why are you doing this to me?

- You'll soon get it.

Gemma Williams is corporate secretary at Z-Space.

Her boss believes he'll be able to launch his first commercial

space flight within three years.

Allan Brody, currently works on the second stage engine

of Nasa's Lunar Rocket project.

The mission has just been postponed for at least five years.

Alice Meyer.

28.

Only daughter of William Meyer.

No official position in the corporation

but she's the head of Healing The World,

her father's philanthropic foundation.

- I don't get it.

You're lying to me but I don't understand why.

- Mr Becker, I'm not finished just yet

because there's still one person missing.

You.

Samuel Becker, 31 years old.

Anonymous engineer at ASE in Toulouse.

As of now, you are studying the consequences of micro-impacts

on multi-walled satellites.

A very precise subject to study. I'm sure it's fascinating.

You have never been a part of any space mission.

- Tell me why you're lying. Why?

- Mr Becker, you tell me why you're lying.

Because neither you nor anyone else of these people,

or anyone else in the world, has ever been to Mars.

So I would just ask you to look at these photos again

and these files and tell me what's going on.

- I know who I am.

- What if he doesn't tell him anything?

- He will.

They always do.

DISTANT CALL TO PRAYER, CAR HORNS

HE CHUCKLES

What's so funny?

- A degree in English literature at Oxford?

Just not what I expected.

Which period?

- Um, Middle English, mostly the 14th century.

- Hm.

Authors I might know?

- Geoffrey Chaucer.

William Langland.

William of Ockham, maybe?

Then, no, no-one.

- Is that why you went to Afghanistan?

To study the Middle Ages first-hand?

- You find yourself funny?

- Er...

Um...

My apologies.

You're right.

- I don't know where my husband is.

You'll never find him.

He never says anything to me.

There's nothing more I can tell you.

You do know that, don't you?

- You're lying but it's not important right now.

How did you two meet?

- Isn't it in this file of yours?

SHE SIGHS

On the campus. I had just arrived from Pakistan, I was lonely.

We got closer.

- You were allowed to talk to men back then?

- No-one has ever forbidden me anything.

- You're lying again.

Alice Meyer, 28.

Only daughter of William Meyer.

No official position in the corporation

but she is the head of Healing The World,

her father's philanthropic foundation.

What are you both hiding?

When did you join ASE?

- More than six years ago, seven actually.

It was an internship at first.

- Were you in a relationship back then?

- Yes, for a year.

It ended when I moved to Toulouse. She didn't want to follow me.

- When did you join ASE?

- I get it now. It's a test, right?

- Just answer the question.

- Seven years ago, after college, I was an intern.

Then I applied for the position and I was hired right away.

- Were you in a relationship back then?

- Yes, for a year. It ended when I moved to Toulouse.

She did not want to follow me.

- Why?

- You should ask her.

- Just answer the question, please.

- I think it was a way of breaking up smoothly, persuading me to leave.

- What project did you work on when you arrived?

- On the Constellation programme at first.

And after Constellation I wanted a change of position.

- A change of position?

- I was transferred to the engine and structure department.

- For how long were you there?

- I am still there.

- For how long?

- A whole year.

After that were the first missions to Mars,

those of Meyer and Zillion.

That's where things were happening and I had to be there,

so I applied to Meyer and you already know what happened next.

- So without Meyer and without the missions to Mars...

..do you think you would have stayed at ASE?

Do you think you would have stayed there?

- Maybe, I don't know. I guess we'll never find out.

- I guess not.

- So...

..what's your take on all this?

- Do you know William of Ockham?

- No.

- He was a 14th century philosopher.

He wrote, "plurality should not be posited without necessity."

- What does that mean?

- The simplest hypothesis should be considered first.

It's called Ockham's razor.

- Go on.

- Maybe this whole thing is a conspiracy.

Two French twins agreed to tell us the same story

by pretending to be the same person.

Maybe William Meyer secretly financed a space programme

and sent one of those twins into orbit to tell us he'd been to Mars.

A story I think Becker is absolutely convinced to be true.

It sounds completely nuts.

And for what?

Cos I don't fucking know.

Or...

- Or what?

- Or we look for simplicity.

We decide to trust him.

We believe everything he says and that means...

..he's from another dimension, another timeline.

- That doesn't make any sense.

- OK, hear me out.

That here, that's the arrow of time. Yeah? - Mm-hm.

- Up to a certain point, both of their stories are exactly the same.

Then, something makes them diverge.

So what causes this point of separation? It's impossible to know.

In our timeline, Becker just continues his life.

But in the other one,

somehow something decides for a few billionaires

to race each other to Mars.

Becker went there.

Then, between Mars and Earth...

..on his way back, something went wrong...

..and he ended up here...

..in our timeline.

- Peter...

- Look, between both possibilities, I know which one I'm leaning towards.

The simplest, the most logical.

Ockham's razor.

- Because time travel and parallel universes are simple.

OK.

Let's pretend for a minute that you're right.

What does that mean for us?

And what about the computer?