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[Will] All right, you see the Big Dipper?
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Now, keep going up
to those two stars up there
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along that same line
that sort of form the handle of the pan.
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Uh-huh.
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Keep going up.
It's the first star that you see.
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-[Saul] All right, got it.
-That's it.
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That's DX3906.
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That's not DX3906.
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Yeah, it is. The Stars Our Destination
people pointed it out in their telescope.
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No. No, that's… that's not it.
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It is. As soon as the paperwork came in,
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I checked its position
against the IAU designation.
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Fuck. Did I get the parallax wrong?
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[laughing]
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Dude, how the fuck would I know
which one is DX3906?
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-You're an arsehole.
-No, no, no.
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That's DX3905. [laughs]
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You're a fucking arsehole.
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[Saul sighs, chuckles]
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Oh shit. [sniffles]
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[both sigh]
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[Saul] How far away?
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Four hundred and 1.5 light-years.
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[sighs]
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Think about the light
Jin's star is emitting right now.
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I mean, by the time it gets here,
the San-Ti will be here too.
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Don't ruin it.
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It's actually kinda red.
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That's why I picked it.
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Visible to the naked eye.
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I wanted her to be able
to look into the night sky and say,
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"That one is mine."
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It feel good doin' something that crazy?
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Spending 19 million on--
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Nineteen point five.
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And yes, it did.
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Couldn't think of any better place
to put that money?
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[Will] Nope.
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You know,
you could just tell her it was you.
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-[Will] I'm not telling her.
-If you did--
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-[Will] I'm not telling her.
-But you never know.
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You're not fuckin' telling her either.
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You have to swear someone
to secrecy before--
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Promise me you will never tell her.
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[sighs] Whatever, dude.
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[huffs]
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-[loud thud]
-[Saul gasps]
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Will.
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[tense music playing]
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Will? Hey. Wake up, bud. Come on. Wake up.
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Will? Will!
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{\an8}-[tense music fades]
-[futuristic piano theme playing]
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[theme music fades]
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[birds singing]
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[Jin] You're there now, right?
How's he doing?
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-[Saul] He's good.
-[Jin] Yeah?
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[Saul] Yeah. In fact,
he's better than good.
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Hey, Will. Check this out.
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Look who it is.
He's as high as Willie Nelson right now.
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-[Jin and Saul laugh]
-You're as high as Willie Nelson.
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Hey.
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Hi, Jin.
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Hi, Will.
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[laughs] How you feeling?
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"No immediate danger."
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[laughs] That's what the doctor said.
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"No immediate danger."
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How many people can say that for sure?
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-Hey, not me.
-[Will] Oh!
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-This is a really good room.
-[Saul] Yeah.
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-[Jin laughs]
-Fuck.
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-Look at this.
-[Saul] No. Don't touch that.
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-[Jin] Wow.
-[Will] Look.
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-All for me.
-[Jin] You deserve it.
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-'Kay. Get some rest, okay? [kisses]
-[Will] Yeah.
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[monitor beeping]
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You get some rest.
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All right, buddy.
She's gonna get some rest.
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Yeah. So we're gonna hang here
for a while.
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We'll probably watch Rick and Morty later.
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-Cool.
-So, um…
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Uh, come when… come when you can.
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-Uh…
-Yeah, I will.
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Thanks, Saul.
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[Saul] See ya.
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[tablet beeps]
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[footsteps approach]
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[Raj] Something came for you.
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[Raj] Fuck me.
Aren't those insanely expensive?
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No sign at all who it's from?
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-Nope.
-Uh…
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Well, you've had
lots of fancy suitors, I'd imagine.
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I have.
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-[scoffs]
-But none with that kind of money.
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I haven't known anyone
like that since Jack.
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Maybe Wade gave it to you.
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And why would he do that?
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Because he fancies you.
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-Oh, come on.
-No, you come on.
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Jin, you seem to be in denial
about how weird this is.
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This is weird?
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This is maybe the 28th weirdest thing
I've seen this month.
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Adjust your weirdness horizons.
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Some crazy-rich person bought me a star,
or someone's taking the piss.
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Almost certainly
someone's taking the piss.
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Either way,
I don't have time to worry about it.
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This is stupid. No one owns a star.
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Well, according to these documents,
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you are the legal owner
of star number DX3906.
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[Wade] For many years now,
Dr. Demikhov has been doing good work
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keeping things alive
under extreme conditions.
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[whimpering inside tube]
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-[tube whirs]
-[whimpering stops]
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-Uh, Dr. Cheng?
-[Jin] Mm?
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Something to say?
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Well…
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We were just wondering
if we belong in this meeting.
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Traveling 1% of light speed,
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how long will it take the Staircase probe
to reach the San-Ti fleet?
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Two hundred years.
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And what will happen
to the probe's occupant during that time?
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-Death.
-[Wade] See?
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You do belong in this meeting.
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It's been a long struggle
with many setbacks, but we've done it.
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-[tense, rhythmic music playing]
-[woman sighs]
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[onlookers murmuring]
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Is it alive?
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[Demikhov] He's not dead. He's not alive.
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He's… somewhere in between.
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For a month now.
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[Jin exhales] How long
can he stay that way?
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[Demikhov] As long as we like.
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Kolya's cells have been flushed
with an antifreeze cryoprotectant
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and cooled to minus 150 degrees.
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Slowed down a thousandfold
but not stopped.
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-[alert beeps]
-[tube whirs]
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[onlookers murmuring]
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[gentle music playing]
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[Demikhov] If it works for Kolya,
it will work for a person.
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[Kolya inhales]
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[Demikhov in Belarusian] Hello, Kolya.
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[Demikhov speaking Belarusian gently]
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Mm-hmm.
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[Kolya whimpers]
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Say hello, Kolya.
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Good boy.
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[speaks softly]
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Kolya.
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Touch the orange square.
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[Kolya grunts]
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-[Jin gasps]
-[Demikhov] Ah.
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Not yet.
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Touch the circle
with four squares inside it.
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[Kolya grunts]
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Good boy, Kolya.
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[gibbers happily]
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[squeals]
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[grunts]
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-[groans, retches]
-[onlookers gasp]
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[Demikhov in English]
It's a typical side effect.
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[Wade] There it is.
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-Our ticket to the end of the world.
-[group groans]
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The Doomsday Express
just pulled into the station.
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You can all queue up behind me.
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[Kolya whimpers softly]
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[Jin] I thought
this was about the passenger.
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-You're going into hibernation?
-As soon as I can.
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-Who's gonna run things here?
-I am.
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I'm gonna wake up for a week every year,
fix the fuckups, visit Mum,
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hire people, fire people, go to Wimbledon,
and then go back under.
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[Jin] For 400 years?
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[Wade] Someone has to welcome them
when they arrive.
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Someone has to keep the plan on track.
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[Jin] You could just train someone
to run Staircase.
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Staircase is a project, not a plan.
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Even you could run that.
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There are dozens of people
who could oversee the project.
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There's only one person on Earth
can oversee the plan.
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On Earth? That's a bit much.
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Aristotle thought false humility
was just as bad as arrogance.
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Aristotle thought rocks fell down instead
of up because they loved the ground.
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Why only you? Why not someone else?
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No one else can handle it.
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What is this plan, this amazing plan,
that no one else but you can handle?
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Only advance.
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-I don't know what that means.
-You will when you get there.
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The future's not as far as it used to be.
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Not for us.
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The Staircase probe needs a sail.
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It's a nanofiber weave,
not the single strand we've made so far.
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It's a lot more complicated.
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There's also heat
and stress tolerance to be considered,
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and the fibers need to connect
the probe to the sail and…
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And you can make it work?
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[Auggie sighs]
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[clicks tongue] I can make it work, yes.
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I'm glad you're here.
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You know why I started doing this work?
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[exhales sharply]
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00:10:09,233 --> 00:10:13,112
The people I saw around me,
my mother's family…
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00:10:15,865 --> 00:10:17,950
I saw what the world did to them.
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00:10:18,868 --> 00:10:20,911
I wanted to build something for them.
203
00:10:24,123 --> 00:10:26,208
I ended up on the wrong side.
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[Jin sighs]
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You're not on the wrong side.
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00:10:31,464 --> 00:10:33,507
Soon, we may be faced with a choice.
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Leave or die.
208
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Four hundred years is soon?
209
00:10:37,219 --> 00:10:38,429
[Jin] It's the blink of an eye.
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And without the work we're doing,
there won't be a choice at all.
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We're building something for everyone.
We're building them a future.
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You believe that?
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Don't you?
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I want to. And some days,
I think it's possible.
215
00:10:54,487 --> 00:10:58,783
And some days, I think the people getting
fucked over will always get fucked over.
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They will always be the last in line.
217
00:11:04,163 --> 00:11:06,332
And none of them will get to sail away.
218
00:11:07,625 --> 00:11:09,627
[somber piano music playing]
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00:11:15,257 --> 00:11:16,217
[woman] Will?
220
00:11:18,094 --> 00:11:19,220
Will?
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00:11:20,304 --> 00:11:21,764
Wilbur?
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00:11:22,723 --> 00:11:25,267
[woman] Will, can you hear me?
223
00:11:27,812 --> 00:11:28,771
Will?
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00:11:32,817 --> 00:11:33,859
[Will groans]
225
00:11:37,530 --> 00:11:38,906
You all right, love?
226
00:11:38,989 --> 00:11:40,616
[Will] How'd you know I was here?
227
00:11:41,409 --> 00:11:43,452
The hospital contacted us.
228
00:11:44,245 --> 00:11:46,330
Roxanne is down as your next of kin.
229
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How you feeling?
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00:11:50,292 --> 00:11:53,129
Well, I'm dying. So, there's that.
231
00:11:57,842 --> 00:11:58,926
It's been a while.
232
00:11:59,552 --> 00:12:02,430
It has. I know.
Um, we feel bad about that.
233
00:12:02,513 --> 00:12:03,431
We do.
234
00:12:03,514 --> 00:12:09,061
You know, Will, my job took us
to Spain and then Dubai.
235
00:12:09,145 --> 00:12:10,980
You didn't much like it abroad?
236
00:12:11,981 --> 00:12:16,569
Well, in the world of digital marketing,
it can get very political very fast.
237
00:12:16,652 --> 00:12:21,073
I mean, it's not about your skills.
It's all about playing the game.
238
00:12:21,157 --> 00:12:23,409
Yeah, it's probably the same
in what you do, Will.
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Physics and that.
240
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You were always the smartest one.
241
00:12:28,247 --> 00:12:33,335
That's why Mum and Dad sent you
to public school and uni and more uni.
242
00:12:33,419 --> 00:12:34,754
[sighs]
243
00:12:35,254 --> 00:12:38,966
But you never got where you belonged
because you're not a game player.
244
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I got exactly where I belonged.
245
00:12:43,554 --> 00:12:45,890
I didn't get any further
because I wasn't smart enough.
246
00:12:45,973 --> 00:12:48,851
Well, you were smart enough
to do almost anything.
247
00:12:48,934 --> 00:12:50,644
You could've gone to work in the city.
248
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You could've started your own business.
You were the smartest person we knew.
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I didn't get to do physics.
250
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I had to go off
and do waitressing and filing and--
251
00:13:03,199 --> 00:13:05,201
Well… [sighs]
252
00:13:06,535 --> 00:13:08,370
We want to start a family, Will.
253
00:13:09,121 --> 00:13:10,956
We want to be able to buy a home.
254
00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:13,834
Look, we haven't been
what we should have been to each other.
255
00:13:13,918 --> 00:13:17,254
I know that,
and I take my portion of the blame for it.
256
00:13:18,214 --> 00:13:20,591
What's happened to you is fucking unfair.
257
00:13:22,218 --> 00:13:24,011
And fucking terrible.
258
00:13:26,055 --> 00:13:27,515
But it's happened.
259
00:13:29,183 --> 00:13:30,392
[exhales heavily]
260
00:13:31,310 --> 00:13:33,145
And you said yourself, you're dying.
261
00:13:33,938 --> 00:13:38,609
So we came to… to ask you,
since you don't have anyone--
262
00:13:38,692 --> 00:13:40,986
Who says I don't have anyone?
263
00:13:41,070 --> 00:13:42,905
-[Roxanne] Well, do you?
-I might.
264
00:13:44,281 --> 00:13:47,159
-What if I love somebody?
-Well, whoever she is--
265
00:13:47,243 --> 00:13:48,661
Maybe it's a he.
266
00:13:48,744 --> 00:13:50,830
Whatever. I… [chuckles]
267
00:13:50,913 --> 00:13:52,581
I don't care what they are.
268
00:13:52,665 --> 00:13:55,376
If you have someone,
you haven't had them for long.
269
00:13:55,459 --> 00:13:57,461
And we're your family, Will.
270
00:13:59,046 --> 00:14:00,881
Maybe not the best family, but…
271
00:14:02,174 --> 00:14:03,300
here we are.
272
00:14:04,301 --> 00:14:05,594
And whatever Mum left you,
273
00:14:07,221 --> 00:14:08,597
it should go to us.
274
00:14:09,723 --> 00:14:11,183
[somber music playing]
275
00:14:17,731 --> 00:14:18,816
You're right.
276
00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:23,237
My life didn't amount to much.
277
00:14:24,154 --> 00:14:26,574
I never loved anybody who loved me back.
278
00:14:30,369 --> 00:14:32,121
Whatever Mum left me is yours.
279
00:14:32,788 --> 00:14:34,582
I won't touch a penny of it.
280
00:14:43,340 --> 00:14:46,427
We needed 1,000 bombs for Staircase.
281
00:14:46,510 --> 00:14:49,096
We've got just over 300.
We're not getting any more.
282
00:14:49,179 --> 00:14:50,306
[sighs and whispering]
283
00:14:50,389 --> 00:14:53,726
[Demikhov] The smallest hibernation rig
I can supply weighs over a ton.
284
00:14:53,809 --> 00:14:56,437
If we want to accelerate the probe
to the required speed,
285
00:14:56,520 --> 00:14:58,522
with the propellant available to us--
286
00:14:58,606 --> 00:15:01,984
The heaviest payload it can carry
is under two kilograms.
287
00:15:02,067 --> 00:15:03,944
That's a very small person.
288
00:15:05,529 --> 00:15:08,198
I would say a person is
the ever-changing pattern
289
00:15:08,282 --> 00:15:10,242
dancing through the neurons
of their brain.
290
00:15:10,326 --> 00:15:12,578
If that exists, the person exists.
291
00:15:13,871 --> 00:15:17,583
We would, however, have to remove
that brain from their skull.
292
00:15:18,167 --> 00:15:19,960
It'll be enough for them
to rebuild the rest.
293
00:15:20,044 --> 00:15:22,630
If they do, we have a man on the inside.
294
00:15:22,713 --> 00:15:24,757
Sorry. Are we talking about
killing someone for this?
295
00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:26,508
And we weren't before?
296
00:15:26,592 --> 00:15:28,761
[unsettling music plays]
297
00:15:32,806 --> 00:15:34,433
[Wade] San-Ti.
298
00:15:34,516 --> 00:15:35,893
Hello out there.
299
00:15:36,810 --> 00:15:37,686
In here.
300
00:15:37,770 --> 00:15:40,147
Wherever your Sophons may be.
301
00:15:40,940 --> 00:15:42,483
You've read Wikipedia.
302
00:15:43,275 --> 00:15:46,862
You know all about Genghis Khan,
QAnon and The Tale of Genji
303
00:15:46,946 --> 00:15:48,739
and the President of Bolivia
and Bob Seger,
304
00:15:48,822 --> 00:15:51,158
but you don't know
what it feels like to be us.
305
00:15:51,659 --> 00:15:53,077
All that we are is up here.
306
00:15:54,244 --> 00:15:57,665
What's going on up here
and here, that's humanity.
307
00:15:57,748 --> 00:15:59,333
You want to understand us?
308
00:15:59,416 --> 00:16:03,629
You'll need to get your hands or tentacles
or whatever the fuck appendages you have
309
00:16:03,712 --> 00:16:04,964
on the thing itself.
310
00:16:05,047 --> 00:16:06,966
Don't worry. We'll send you someone smart.
311
00:16:07,049 --> 00:16:10,844
You need someone who actually understands
the people who make decisions around here.
312
00:16:10,928 --> 00:16:14,765
Someone who can learn about you.
Someone like the people in this room.
313
00:16:20,187 --> 00:16:21,146
What about it?
314
00:16:22,898 --> 00:16:23,774
I'll go.
315
00:16:23,857 --> 00:16:24,900
-Who are you?
-Edgar.
316
00:16:24,984 --> 00:16:27,528
Don't be a retard, Edgar.
I'm talking about serious people.
317
00:16:28,362 --> 00:16:29,947
What about it, serious people?
318
00:16:30,030 --> 00:16:32,282
Who wants to meet the enemy? Hmm?
319
00:16:34,743 --> 00:16:36,787
Hmm? Course not.
320
00:16:36,870 --> 00:16:38,831
You have too much to lose.
You don't wanna go.
321
00:16:38,914 --> 00:16:41,083
And I wouldn't let you.
You're all too valuable.
322
00:16:41,166 --> 00:16:45,504
But we need someone who knows
about physics, chemistry, rocket science.
323
00:16:45,587 --> 00:16:48,424
Someone who's willing to die.
Likely for nothing.
324
00:16:48,507 --> 00:16:50,968
Which probably means
someone who's dying already.
325
00:16:53,095 --> 00:16:55,347
Any of you know
someone of that description?
326
00:16:56,974 --> 00:16:57,933
[Jin sighs]
327
00:16:59,101 --> 00:17:01,603
[birds singing]
328
00:17:01,687 --> 00:17:03,188
[Jin] It's fucking barbaric.
329
00:17:03,897 --> 00:17:05,566
We need the Staircase Project.
330
00:17:05,649 --> 00:17:07,776
Propulsion, cryogenics, material sciences…
331
00:17:07,860 --> 00:17:10,279
It'll shoot us forward
two generations in all of them,
332
00:17:10,362 --> 00:17:12,031
even if it's a failure.
333
00:17:12,114 --> 00:17:14,575
But we need a reason
for the project to exist,
334
00:17:14,658 --> 00:17:15,868
and the person inside--
335
00:17:15,951 --> 00:17:17,161
The severed fucking head.
336
00:17:17,244 --> 00:17:19,163
The person inside is that reason.
337
00:17:19,246 --> 00:17:20,998
Your friend Will is that reason.
338
00:17:21,081 --> 00:17:24,209
And if they find him, he can learn about
things we wouldn't know otherwise
339
00:17:24,293 --> 00:17:26,879
before they get here and it's too late.
340
00:17:26,962 --> 00:17:28,547
Only advance.
341
00:17:28,630 --> 00:17:31,800
"Only advance"? What kind
of Magic Eight-Ball shit is that?
342
00:17:31,884 --> 00:17:34,636
It doesn't matter what Will learns.
How could he tell anyone about it?
343
00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:36,013
He seems a smart enough fella.
344
00:17:36,096 --> 00:17:37,347
They're listening to everything.
345
00:17:37,431 --> 00:17:39,641
You can't outsmart them.
You can't plot against them.
346
00:17:39,725 --> 00:17:40,559
Maybe he can.
347
00:17:40,642 --> 00:17:43,353
-No, he can't. That's not who he is.
-I'll chat with him anyway.
348
00:17:43,437 --> 00:17:45,731
Who knows what's going on
in that svelte three-pound brain.
349
00:17:45,814 --> 00:17:48,150
Not you. You don't know him.
350
00:17:48,233 --> 00:17:50,819
That's right. Neither do you.
Or the San-Ti.
351
00:17:50,903 --> 00:17:53,447
Only Will Downing
truly knows Will Downing.
352
00:17:53,530 --> 00:17:55,532
[tense, energetic music playing]
353
00:17:58,035 --> 00:17:59,119
[Auggie] What?
354
00:18:01,246 --> 00:18:03,123
I'm thinking of a number
between one and 1,000.
355
00:18:03,207 --> 00:18:04,416
Do you know what it is?
356
00:18:05,542 --> 00:18:07,503
-[Auggie] No.
-That's right. You don't.
357
00:18:08,962 --> 00:18:10,214
Neither do they.
358
00:18:10,297 --> 00:18:11,632
I have to make a call.
359
00:18:11,715 --> 00:18:13,050
[Jin] You can't force him into it.
360
00:18:13,133 --> 00:18:15,135
He'd be no use to us if I did.
361
00:18:15,219 --> 00:18:18,097
-[Jin] We're gonna tell him not to do it.
-[Wade] You do that.
362
00:18:24,311 --> 00:18:26,146
We'll tell him not to do it.
He'll listen to us.
363
00:18:26,230 --> 00:18:28,857
He'll listen to you. You don't need me.
364
00:18:29,691 --> 00:18:31,568
-Of course I need you.
-I can't stay.
365
00:18:32,736 --> 00:18:36,073
I never should have come to work
for that man. For any of these men.
366
00:18:36,156 --> 00:18:38,742
I fucked up. I need to fix it.
367
00:18:39,952 --> 00:18:40,994
I'm leaving.
368
00:18:45,833 --> 00:18:48,168
[in Mandarin] So long, boss.
369
00:18:52,548 --> 00:18:53,799
[in English] It's Wade.
370
00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:56,760
[man on speakerphone]
How can I help you, Mr. Wade?
371
00:18:56,844 --> 00:18:59,972
I have a new project that's going
to require everyone's participation.
372
00:19:00,055 --> 00:19:00,889
Everyone.
373
00:19:00,973 --> 00:19:03,976
I want you to spearhead this project
and bring them all into line.
374
00:19:04,059 --> 00:19:05,435
I'm very busy, Mr. Wade.
375
00:19:05,519 --> 00:19:07,813
Yes. These are busy times.
376
00:19:13,193 --> 00:19:14,903
Tell me about your project.
377
00:19:16,697 --> 00:19:19,491
Have you ever heard the term "Wallfacer"?
378
00:19:20,284 --> 00:19:23,704
-[mashing buttons]
-[fighters groaning on TV]
379
00:19:27,749 --> 00:19:28,917
[Clarence groans]
380
00:19:30,460 --> 00:19:31,670
[grunts]
381
00:19:31,753 --> 00:19:33,005
[huffs]
382
00:19:34,548 --> 00:19:35,966
[exhales heavily]
383
00:19:37,009 --> 00:19:38,135
[Clarence] Ah.
384
00:19:39,803 --> 00:19:42,014
Heart Snatcher, innit?
385
00:19:42,097 --> 00:19:46,226
[sighs] You're just button-mashing.
Got to learn some combos.
386
00:19:47,269 --> 00:19:48,228
[Clarence] Hmm.
387
00:19:50,022 --> 00:19:50,981
What's up?
388
00:19:59,573 --> 00:20:01,283
What's "The Great Escape"?
389
00:20:02,284 --> 00:20:05,245
It's my business. Mine and Ally's.
390
00:20:06,038 --> 00:20:08,832
It's legit.
We set up a private limited company.
391
00:20:08,916 --> 00:20:11,501
How'd you do that?
Some lawyers take your money?
392
00:20:11,585 --> 00:20:14,087
A guy on YouTube explained it.
Just go on the website.
393
00:20:15,047 --> 00:20:16,465
We're working on a deck.
394
00:20:16,548 --> 00:20:19,343
[Clarence] "A safe future
for your descendants on Mars
395
00:20:19,426 --> 00:20:22,095
or other habitable planets."
396
00:20:22,179 --> 00:20:24,723
[Reg] And branding concepts
on the next page.
397
00:20:26,892 --> 00:20:27,851
That's, um…
398
00:20:28,894 --> 00:20:30,103
That design's pretty good.
399
00:20:30,187 --> 00:20:31,855
Classy, right?
400
00:20:31,939 --> 00:20:33,023
Uh-huh.
401
00:20:33,774 --> 00:20:38,237
How's someone going to escape
into outer space for 40 quid a month?
402
00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:39,613
It's like a pension account.
403
00:20:39,696 --> 00:20:42,157
Put in money every month,
and that grows and creates more money.
404
00:20:42,241 --> 00:20:45,035
So the next month, there's
an even bigger pile of money growing.
405
00:20:45,118 --> 00:20:47,079
And, you know, do the maths.
406
00:20:47,955 --> 00:20:50,916
-Did you do the maths?
-[Reg] Working on setting up meetings.
407
00:20:50,999 --> 00:20:53,585
There's a guy named Denys Porlock
who's interested.
408
00:20:53,669 --> 00:20:56,213
He's legit. Look him up. Denys with a Y.
409
00:20:57,005 --> 00:21:00,133
This is impressive, Reg,
that you've done this all on your own.
410
00:21:01,843 --> 00:21:02,803
I'm impressed.
411
00:21:03,595 --> 00:21:05,264
[chuckles] Yeah?
412
00:21:12,145 --> 00:21:13,272
But it is bollocks.
413
00:21:15,107 --> 00:21:16,400
It's not real.
414
00:21:17,943 --> 00:21:19,361
So help me make it real.
415
00:21:19,444 --> 00:21:21,446
[tense music playing]
416
00:21:24,116 --> 00:21:25,742
I don't know how. [chuckles]
417
00:21:29,371 --> 00:21:33,417
So, this, all of this, is this real?
418
00:21:34,376 --> 00:21:37,087
Because if this is what real is,
I'm not interested.
419
00:21:47,723 --> 00:21:49,099
[sighs deeply]
420
00:21:49,599 --> 00:21:52,894
{\an8}[man] In any case,
in the new world we're living in,
421
00:21:52,978 --> 00:21:55,439
{\an8}I'm afraid I can't afford
to wait any longer.
422
00:21:56,982 --> 00:21:59,818
I wanted to tell you in person.
I feel I owe you that.
423
00:22:00,861 --> 00:22:02,696
I appreciate it, Denys. Thank you.
424
00:22:02,779 --> 00:22:06,283
Surely you understand that.
I have no choice in the matter.
425
00:22:07,117 --> 00:22:08,827
We all have choices.
426
00:22:11,496 --> 00:22:13,957
I've never been less happy
about a business decision,
427
00:22:14,041 --> 00:22:16,501
but the potential for future applications…
428
00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:20,839
I'm doing what I have to do.
429
00:22:25,469 --> 00:22:27,512
By all means, finish your tweet.
430
00:22:27,596 --> 00:22:29,389
Just doing what I have to do.
431
00:22:30,307 --> 00:22:32,351
What I should've been doing all along.
432
00:22:32,434 --> 00:22:34,561
-And I'm taking my work with me.
-[scoffs]
433
00:22:35,228 --> 00:22:36,730
It doesn't belong to you, Auggie.
434
00:22:38,607 --> 00:22:39,524
It doesn't.
435
00:22:40,776 --> 00:22:41,943
It shouldn't, right?
436
00:22:42,027 --> 00:22:44,905
It can make life better
for the people who need it most.
437
00:22:44,988 --> 00:22:46,865
It shouldn't belong to anybody.
438
00:22:47,491 --> 00:22:49,284
It should belong to everybody.
439
00:22:49,368 --> 00:22:50,994
I'm afraid that's not how it works.
440
00:22:51,078 --> 00:22:52,621
It does if I give it to them.
441
00:22:53,705 --> 00:22:55,665
All of our research,
the specs on our equipment,
442
00:22:55,749 --> 00:22:57,793
our work on upscaling and applications,
443
00:22:58,710 --> 00:23:02,381
{\an8}all on Wikileaks and arXiv
and a dozen other open-source platforms.
444
00:23:03,590 --> 00:23:04,508
You wouldn't.
445
00:23:04,591 --> 00:23:05,842
I just did.
446
00:23:05,926 --> 00:23:07,094
[cell phone vibrates]
447
00:23:12,224 --> 00:23:13,225
[exhales sharply]
448
00:23:15,477 --> 00:23:16,728
No one can use it.
449
00:23:17,479 --> 00:23:19,731
It belongs to the company,
and our investors will sue them.
450
00:23:19,815 --> 00:23:23,235
Well, they can use clean room design,
separate their designers from your IP,
451
00:23:23,318 --> 00:23:25,862
and cover their asses
against copyright infringement.
452
00:23:25,946 --> 00:23:27,572
I threw in a guide for that too.
453
00:23:28,490 --> 00:23:29,658
It… it won't work.
454
00:23:29,741 --> 00:23:32,494
Worked against IBM.
Worked against Apple. Worked against Sony.
455
00:23:32,577 --> 00:23:35,080
But go ahead. Sue everyone.
456
00:23:35,163 --> 00:23:37,290
Sue all the governments
of the developing world.
457
00:23:37,374 --> 00:23:38,792
That'll make you popular.
458
00:23:38,875 --> 00:23:40,627
Maybe I'll just start with you.
459
00:23:42,712 --> 00:23:44,214
You'll end up in prison.
460
00:23:44,297 --> 00:23:46,967
Well, they better arrest me fast.
My flight leaves in three hours.
461
00:23:47,050 --> 00:23:50,262
[sighs] So that's your plan
for your life's work? For your life?
462
00:23:50,345 --> 00:23:52,681
Burn it all down and go and get drunk?
463
00:23:54,808 --> 00:23:55,767
It's not for me.
464
00:23:58,270 --> 00:23:59,229
But…
465
00:24:01,565 --> 00:24:02,732
[Jin sighs]
466
00:24:03,567 --> 00:24:05,527
And that's what she got you, huh?
467
00:24:05,610 --> 00:24:06,611
Yeah.
468
00:24:07,529 --> 00:24:11,158
Did she, um… say where she was going?
469
00:24:11,241 --> 00:24:12,075
[Will] No.
470
00:24:12,659 --> 00:24:13,702
[Jin sighs]
471
00:24:14,578 --> 00:24:15,954
So it's all real, then?
472
00:24:19,332 --> 00:24:20,584
-Yeah.
-Fuck.
473
00:24:20,667 --> 00:24:23,795
What's it called again,
Stairway to Heaven?
474
00:24:23,879 --> 00:24:26,131
-The Staircase Project. Yeah.
-[chuckles]
475
00:24:26,214 --> 00:24:27,674
Doesn't sound real.
476
00:24:27,757 --> 00:24:29,426
None of it sounds real.
477
00:24:29,509 --> 00:24:31,803
Big Eye in the Sky calling us all bugs.
478
00:24:31,887 --> 00:24:33,263
It's science fiction.
479
00:24:33,346 --> 00:24:34,473
[Jin] Mm.
480
00:24:34,556 --> 00:24:35,849
Fairy tales.
481
00:24:40,937 --> 00:24:42,022
[chuckles]
482
00:24:42,105 --> 00:24:43,940
-You still have that?
-Of course.
483
00:24:44,024 --> 00:24:45,859
[Jin laughs]
484
00:24:45,942 --> 00:24:47,194
When did I give it to you?
485
00:24:47,277 --> 00:24:50,697
June 10, 2015,
four days after my birthday.
486
00:24:56,786 --> 00:25:00,665
So, uh, who would this Staircase Project
turn me into?
487
00:25:01,333 --> 00:25:04,711
Maybe some kind of
a Sleeping Beauty character?
488
00:25:09,382 --> 00:25:11,218
Anyway, it's simple.
489
00:25:11,301 --> 00:25:13,220
You tell Wade you're not gonna do it.
490
00:25:14,262 --> 00:25:16,223
1% of light speed?
491
00:25:17,098 --> 00:25:19,226
That's almost 2,000 miles per second.
492
00:25:20,519 --> 00:25:22,020
You always worked big.
493
00:25:22,729 --> 00:25:24,481
No, I didn't come up with it.
494
00:25:24,564 --> 00:25:26,107
I just got the math right.
495
00:25:26,191 --> 00:25:27,984
Oh, that's all. [sighs]
496
00:25:28,860 --> 00:25:31,029
But it would be an amazing accomplishment.
497
00:25:33,323 --> 00:25:35,909
A historic accomplishment.
498
00:25:36,785 --> 00:25:37,661
Yeah.
499
00:25:38,662 --> 00:25:39,788
Yeah, it would.
500
00:25:40,622 --> 00:25:41,790
[inhales sharply]
501
00:25:41,873 --> 00:25:45,085
But you don't have to worry about that
because we're gonna find someone else.
502
00:25:45,168 --> 00:25:46,336
Who else have you got?
503
00:25:46,419 --> 00:25:47,504
We have options.
504
00:25:48,421 --> 00:25:50,924
I know my main qualification
is that I'm dying,
505
00:25:51,007 --> 00:25:53,802
but you can't just send anyone.
506
00:25:53,885 --> 00:25:54,761
So…
507
00:25:55,554 --> 00:25:56,638
who else is there?
508
00:25:56,721 --> 00:25:58,598
I'm afraid that's classified.
509
00:25:58,682 --> 00:26:00,600
And everything else you've told me isn't?
510
00:26:00,684 --> 00:26:02,561
I'm not supposed to talk about it.
511
00:26:05,564 --> 00:26:07,274
You haven't got anyone.
512
00:26:08,733 --> 00:26:13,280
Well, if you don't have a passenger,
it doesn't really work then, does it?
513
00:26:16,157 --> 00:26:17,284
[sighs]
514
00:26:27,168 --> 00:26:28,253
[Jin exhales]
515
00:26:29,963 --> 00:26:31,548
You always worked big.
516
00:26:32,882 --> 00:26:33,842
I couldn't.
517
00:26:33,925 --> 00:26:35,677
I wanted to, but I couldn't.
518
00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:37,804
-I just didn't have the equipment.
-Stop it.
519
00:26:37,887 --> 00:26:40,390
It's all right.
I've made my peace with it.
520
00:26:42,267 --> 00:26:43,893
But now we could both work big.
521
00:26:44,811 --> 00:26:46,021
Not like this.
522
00:26:50,191 --> 00:26:51,359
What?
523
00:26:52,068 --> 00:26:53,862
Why are you staring at me?
524
00:26:55,238 --> 00:26:56,239
I'm not.
525
00:26:57,991 --> 00:26:59,367
I'm seeing you.
526
00:27:00,452 --> 00:27:02,454
[tender music playing]
527
00:27:03,038 --> 00:27:07,250
Sometimes, when you're really high,
you see people.
528
00:27:09,419 --> 00:27:11,338
Or maybe it's when you're dying.
529
00:27:14,841 --> 00:27:16,092
But I see you.
530
00:27:20,555 --> 00:27:21,765
And I love you.
531
00:27:27,812 --> 00:27:28,938
And it's all right.
532
00:27:38,615 --> 00:27:40,575
Tell me not to do it, and I won't.
533
00:27:44,871 --> 00:27:46,873
[Jin crying softly]
534
00:27:48,750 --> 00:27:49,668
It's all right.
535
00:28:35,004 --> 00:28:37,006
[tender music swells]
536
00:29:00,530 --> 00:29:01,865
It's Dr. Ye.
537
00:29:03,658 --> 00:29:05,660
I know you don't want to see me.
538
00:29:07,412 --> 00:29:09,247
But I need to speak with you.
539
00:29:23,595 --> 00:29:24,721
[Wenjie] He's lost.
540
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:28,266
[Saul] What do you care? He's a bug.
541
00:29:33,229 --> 00:29:34,814
Vera knew what you did.
542
00:29:36,524 --> 00:29:37,901
She knew you called them here.
543
00:29:42,697 --> 00:29:46,493
It never made sense,
her killing herself over the work.
544
00:29:47,118 --> 00:29:51,998
She must have come across, I don't know,
an email or text or something.
545
00:29:52,916 --> 00:29:54,417
And she started digging.
546
00:29:55,043 --> 00:29:57,837
She always said you were the smartest one.
547
00:29:59,005 --> 00:30:00,924
I tried to hide it from her.
548
00:30:01,674 --> 00:30:04,219
I wanted to protect her, but I couldn't.
549
00:30:05,220 --> 00:30:06,888
She was smart like you.
550
00:30:08,056 --> 00:30:09,641
She figured things out.
551
00:30:11,684 --> 00:30:12,644
You failed her.
552
00:30:13,478 --> 00:30:16,064
I failed more people than anyone ever.
553
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:19,025
How can you live with it?
554
00:30:19,776 --> 00:30:21,778
I won't have to much longer.
555
00:30:25,573 --> 00:30:29,452
[Wenjie] Why weren't you running
your own lab instead of working at Vera's?
556
00:30:30,662 --> 00:30:33,498
[Saul] I was good at physics,
but I never loved it.
557
00:30:34,582 --> 00:30:36,334
I suppose that's why
I never amounted to much.
558
00:30:36,417 --> 00:30:39,754
[Wenjie] In the end,
we all amount to about the same.
559
00:30:42,632 --> 00:30:44,843
Would you like to hear a joke?
560
00:30:54,769 --> 00:30:56,563
So, Einstein dies.
561
00:30:57,146 --> 00:31:01,150
He finds himself in heaven,
and he has his violin.
562
00:31:01,234 --> 00:31:04,362
He's overjoyed. He loves his violin.
563
00:31:04,445 --> 00:31:06,239
More than physics.
564
00:31:06,322 --> 00:31:07,782
Even more than women.
565
00:31:08,658 --> 00:31:12,245
He's excited to find out
how well he can play in heaven.
566
00:31:12,328 --> 00:31:15,290
He imagines he'll be pretty damn good.
567
00:31:15,373 --> 00:31:18,877
So he starts tuning up,
and the angels rush at him.
568
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:20,795
"What are you doing?" they say.
569
00:31:20,879 --> 00:31:22,839
"I'm getting ready to play."
570
00:31:22,922 --> 00:31:26,009
"Don't do that. God won't like it."
571
00:31:26,092 --> 00:31:27,635
"He's a saxophonist."
572
00:31:27,719 --> 00:31:30,013
So Einstein stops.
573
00:31:30,555 --> 00:31:33,182
He doesn't play, but it's difficult.
574
00:31:33,266 --> 00:31:37,896
He loves music, and there's actually
not much to do in heaven.
575
00:31:39,022 --> 00:31:43,693
And sure enough,
from high above, he hears a saxophone.
576
00:31:43,776 --> 00:31:46,362
It's playing "Take the A Train."
Do you know that one?
577
00:31:46,446 --> 00:31:47,947
Yeah. I mean, I've heard it.
578
00:31:48,448 --> 00:31:50,992
Einstein knows it too. And he thinks,
579
00:31:51,659 --> 00:31:55,496
"I'm going to do it.
I'm going to play with Him."
580
00:31:55,580 --> 00:31:57,957
"We're going to sound great together."
581
00:31:58,499 --> 00:32:01,210
So he starts playing "Take the A Train."
582
00:32:02,045 --> 00:32:05,173
The saxophone stops, and God appears.
583
00:32:05,256 --> 00:32:08,426
He marches over to Einstein
and kicks him in the balls,
584
00:32:08,509 --> 00:32:10,136
which hurts, even in heaven.
585
00:32:10,219 --> 00:32:14,891
Then he smashes
Einstein's beloved violin to bits.
586
00:32:14,974 --> 00:32:17,226
Eternity without music.
587
00:32:17,310 --> 00:32:19,854
Heaven has become hell for Einstein.
588
00:32:19,938 --> 00:32:24,817
And, as he writhes on the ground,
holding his smashed balls,
589
00:32:24,901 --> 00:32:30,031
an angel comes over
and says, "We warned you."
590
00:32:30,114 --> 00:32:33,117
"Never play with God."
591
00:32:41,292 --> 00:32:42,835
"Never play with God"?
592
00:32:43,628 --> 00:32:45,129
You don't like it?
593
00:32:45,213 --> 00:32:47,215
No, it's… it's not that. It's just…
594
00:32:48,967 --> 00:32:50,718
"Never play with God."
595
00:32:53,304 --> 00:32:56,891
Humor is a very personal thing.
596
00:32:57,433 --> 00:33:00,687
Some people understand it,
and some people don't.
597
00:33:02,146 --> 00:33:06,401
Some jokes are so private,
they only make sense to two people.
598
00:33:06,484 --> 00:33:07,735
[tense music playing]
599
00:33:07,819 --> 00:33:09,862
But jokes are important.
600
00:33:11,406 --> 00:33:14,242
We wouldn't survive without them.
601
00:33:17,620 --> 00:33:18,788
Don't you agree?
602
00:33:26,462 --> 00:33:27,672
I have to go.
603
00:33:28,923 --> 00:33:30,383
Take care, Saul.
604
00:33:31,050 --> 00:33:33,678
I hope my joke
doesn't cause you any trouble.
605
00:33:46,482 --> 00:33:47,734
[music fades]
606
00:33:48,693 --> 00:33:52,321
Well, your test scores are good,
both cognitive and informational.
607
00:33:52,405 --> 00:33:53,698
No surprise there.
608
00:33:53,781 --> 00:33:55,450
One last thing,
609
00:33:55,533 --> 00:33:58,036
a… formality.
610
00:33:59,287 --> 00:34:00,413
A loyalty oath.
611
00:34:01,664 --> 00:34:03,082
We need you to sign it.
612
00:34:06,669 --> 00:34:09,422
"Henceforth, I swear all my endeavors
613
00:34:09,505 --> 00:34:13,051
shall be to affirm
my loyalty to the human race,
614
00:34:13,134 --> 00:34:17,430
now and into perpetuity,
superseding all other loyalties."
615
00:34:17,513 --> 00:34:20,349
"I shall never knowingly perform any act
616
00:34:21,059 --> 00:34:26,731
or divulge any information that might
cause harm to humanity as a whole."
617
00:34:30,443 --> 00:34:31,736
No. I won't sign that.
618
00:34:32,904 --> 00:34:33,821
Why not?
619
00:34:33,905 --> 00:34:36,991
Because I don't feel
any loyalty to the human race.
620
00:34:37,575 --> 00:34:39,494
[Wade] So why are you doing this?
621
00:34:39,577 --> 00:34:41,496
[Will] Well, I'm dying anyway, right?
622
00:34:42,038 --> 00:34:43,164
Who knows?
623
00:34:43,247 --> 00:34:45,750
They might end up being better than us.
624
00:34:46,584 --> 00:34:49,003
Why would I swear loyalty to us
625
00:34:49,587 --> 00:34:51,798
if they could end up being better?
626
00:34:53,257 --> 00:34:54,592
They're invading us.
627
00:34:54,675 --> 00:34:57,970
They're coming to conquer us.
Most likely wipe us out.
628
00:34:59,138 --> 00:35:00,223
So they say.
629
00:35:00,848 --> 00:35:02,767
And you don't want
to help us prevent that?
630
00:35:03,434 --> 00:35:05,103
Jin thinks it's what I should do.
631
00:35:05,686 --> 00:35:06,979
And I trust her.
632
00:35:07,688 --> 00:35:11,317
If you want me to sign
a loyalty oath to her, then I will.
633
00:35:12,276 --> 00:35:13,903
But to humanity?
634
00:35:15,154 --> 00:35:16,030
No.
635
00:35:25,289 --> 00:35:27,834
Thank you for your time, Mr. Downing.
636
00:35:32,922 --> 00:35:34,799
You're perfect for the Staircase Project.
637
00:35:34,882 --> 00:35:37,218
We'll be in touch shortly
regarding next steps.
638
00:35:41,889 --> 00:35:42,890
Hey!
639
00:35:44,642 --> 00:35:47,103
Why's he perfect for the project?
He wouldn't sign the oath.
640
00:35:47,186 --> 00:35:48,980
He's our man because he's not our man.
641
00:35:49,981 --> 00:35:51,023
He really might not be.
642
00:35:51,107 --> 00:35:52,859
I know. He really might not be.
643
00:35:52,942 --> 00:35:55,611
That's why they'll go out of their way
to pick him up.
644
00:36:00,616 --> 00:36:02,618
[birds singing]
645
00:36:20,595 --> 00:36:23,431
[man on TV] This year's cicada swarm
in the United States
646
00:36:23,514 --> 00:36:26,225
is expected to number
in the tens of billions--
647
00:36:26,309 --> 00:36:28,728
-[woman 1] Just like a magic cream.
-[woman 2] Really?
648
00:36:28,811 --> 00:36:31,606
[woman 1] Yeah, it works really well
as a moisturizer…
649
00:36:31,689 --> 00:36:34,025
[woman 3] Now, Julia,
if I can get you to slice
650
00:36:34,108 --> 00:36:35,651
some carrots dice-wise like that…
651
00:36:35,735 --> 00:36:37,570
-[woman 4] Like this?
-[static crackles]
652
00:36:37,653 --> 00:36:39,071
[Sophon] Hello, Tatiana.
653
00:36:39,155 --> 00:36:41,157
[ominous string music playing]
654
00:36:44,035 --> 00:36:46,037
[sounds distort on TV]
655
00:36:48,289 --> 00:36:50,750
I heard you were done speaking to us.
656
00:36:53,127 --> 00:36:55,004
They said you let Evans die.
657
00:36:55,630 --> 00:36:57,840
We were done speaking to him.
658
00:36:57,924 --> 00:37:00,259
But we are not done speaking to you.
659
00:37:01,761 --> 00:37:03,304
What… what am I?
660
00:37:05,139 --> 00:37:06,307
I'm nothing.
661
00:37:08,309 --> 00:37:09,352
A bug.
662
00:37:10,102 --> 00:37:11,646
We know exactly what you are.
663
00:37:12,605 --> 00:37:15,942
You are a part of something
much larger than yourself.
664
00:37:16,734 --> 00:37:17,985
You are a part of us.
665
00:37:19,528 --> 00:37:20,780
And we need you.
666
00:37:23,616 --> 00:37:26,118
[ominous music swells]
667
00:37:32,458 --> 00:37:35,169
[woman on PA]
Cathay Pacific departure to Beijing,
668
00:37:35,253 --> 00:37:40,800
flight number CX252,
is now ready for boarding.
669
00:37:41,425 --> 00:37:45,972
Passengers are requested
to proceed to gate C11.
670
00:37:46,889 --> 00:37:49,517
[boarding announcement plays in French]
671
00:38:01,153 --> 00:38:04,198
Hello. I'm Dr. Ye.
672
00:38:07,576 --> 00:38:08,703
Sorry. Do I know you?
673
00:38:09,745 --> 00:38:12,581
I changed my seat
so we could sit together.
674
00:38:12,665 --> 00:38:14,458
I hope you don't mind.
675
00:38:15,918 --> 00:38:18,421
It will be nice
to have someone to talk to.
676
00:38:22,383 --> 00:38:24,635
Yeah. It's a long flight.
677
00:38:31,934 --> 00:38:37,440
So, Mr. Downing, you have to consent
to the procedure five times.
678
00:38:37,523 --> 00:38:42,653
The questions are designed to avoid
the possibility of accidental consent.
679
00:38:44,447 --> 00:38:46,240
Take as much time as you need.
680
00:38:47,533 --> 00:38:48,826
Thank you.
681
00:38:56,500 --> 00:38:58,961
-[door closes]
-This place, it's, uh…
682
00:38:59,795 --> 00:39:00,755
It's nice.
683
00:39:01,255 --> 00:39:02,465
Yeah.
684
00:39:09,055 --> 00:39:10,306
Jin, um…
685
00:39:10,389 --> 00:39:12,058
I told her not to come.
686
00:39:16,645 --> 00:39:17,521
[knock on door]
687
00:39:18,105 --> 00:39:19,815
I'm off to Cape Canaveral.
688
00:39:20,566 --> 00:39:22,651
The first ICBM launches are on Friday.
689
00:39:22,735 --> 00:39:25,154
There and in Baikonur and Jiuquan.
690
00:39:25,237 --> 00:39:27,823
The Staircase bombs
will be in place in a few weeks,
691
00:39:27,907 --> 00:39:30,701
and we'll be ready to send
our volunteer on his journey.
692
00:39:31,494 --> 00:39:32,828
Exciting days.
693
00:39:35,748 --> 00:39:36,957
I'll leave you to it.
694
00:39:37,750 --> 00:39:41,754
Oh. I keep forgetting to ask…
did you get a chance to thank him?
695
00:39:41,837 --> 00:39:42,963
In person, I mean.
696
00:39:45,007 --> 00:39:46,384
For your star.
697
00:39:50,179 --> 00:39:51,764
Will gave me the star?
698
00:39:52,723 --> 00:39:54,600
Oh, he didn't tell you.
699
00:39:54,683 --> 00:39:56,477
Yeah, he inherited some money.
700
00:39:57,228 --> 00:39:59,355
It's a worthless piece of paper.
701
00:39:59,855 --> 00:40:02,817
Drop your price and resell it,
or you'll be left with nothing.
702
00:40:07,488 --> 00:40:10,991
-It wasn't. It was the King's Arms.
-No, it was the Eagle and Child.
703
00:40:11,075 --> 00:40:12,618
I'm tellin' you. 'Cause that's when…
704
00:40:12,701 --> 00:40:14,995
Listen. You were talking
to that blonde Christian chick,
705
00:40:15,079 --> 00:40:18,207
who was getting ready
to get very unchristian with you,
706
00:40:18,290 --> 00:40:21,710
until you told her that you thought
C.S. Lewis was a shitty writer.
707
00:40:21,794 --> 00:40:23,796
Oh. And she thought it was disrespectful
708
00:40:23,879 --> 00:40:26,882
because we were in the room
where Lewis used to drink with Tolkien.
709
00:40:26,966 --> 00:40:28,175
-Okay, you're right.
-Thank you.
710
00:40:28,259 --> 00:40:29,760
It was the Eagle and Child.
711
00:40:30,511 --> 00:40:32,012
And he was a shitty writer.
712
00:40:32,096 --> 00:40:33,681
[both laugh]
713
00:40:35,391 --> 00:40:36,600
[Saul sighs]
714
00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:38,561
[exhales]
715
00:40:46,277 --> 00:40:47,278
Well…
716
00:40:48,696 --> 00:40:50,531
I'm not getting any younger.
717
00:40:56,203 --> 00:40:57,037
Will.
718
00:40:57,121 --> 00:40:58,831
[takes a deep breath]
719
00:41:02,334 --> 00:41:03,377
[tablet chimes]
720
00:41:03,461 --> 00:41:04,378
[device clicks]
721
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:08,299
Okay, but… [hesitates] Seriously…
722
00:41:12,094 --> 00:41:15,139
You need to think this through,
what it means.
723
00:41:15,222 --> 00:41:18,434
You're floating in endless, frozen space.
724
00:41:18,976 --> 00:41:21,770
Not alive, and… and not dead.
725
00:41:23,022 --> 00:41:26,233
Maybe for thousands of years.
Maybe forever.
726
00:41:26,317 --> 00:41:28,944
And completely unaware the whole time.
727
00:41:29,028 --> 00:41:32,823
So, basically dead, which is
what I was gonna be soon anyways.
728
00:41:36,243 --> 00:41:38,037
-[Saul] No, Will, that's…
-[device clicks]
729
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:40,498
[sighs] That's best-case scenario.
730
00:41:40,998 --> 00:41:43,083
'Cause if they find you,
they'll rebuild you.
731
00:41:43,792 --> 00:41:46,420
And maybe… maybe they just…
they turn you into a program,
732
00:41:46,504 --> 00:41:49,048
and they communicate with you
through an interface.
733
00:41:49,131 --> 00:41:52,468
You can't see. You can't…
You can't hear. You can't feel.
734
00:41:52,551 --> 00:41:55,971
Like an isolation tank.
Question goes in, answer comes out.
735
00:41:56,055 --> 00:41:57,306
Whether you like it or not.
736
00:41:57,932 --> 00:41:59,517
They just read your mind.
737
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:01,685
So they read Diary of a Nobody.
738
00:42:02,478 --> 00:42:04,730
Then they switch me off,
and we're back to dead.
739
00:42:07,900 --> 00:42:09,401
-[tablet chimes]
-[device clicks]
740
00:42:09,485 --> 00:42:13,155
Okay, but… maybe
it's not an isolation tank.
741
00:42:14,657 --> 00:42:18,285
Will, they want to know everything
about what it means to be a human being.
742
00:42:18,369 --> 00:42:21,997
And maybe the only way for them
to do that is to interact with you.
743
00:42:23,082 --> 00:42:24,458
So they bring you back.
744
00:42:25,876 --> 00:42:27,753
They run experiments on you to learn
745
00:42:29,004 --> 00:42:30,756
how we experience things.
746
00:42:30,839 --> 00:42:33,551
-What makes us happy.
-That's starting to sound pretty good.
747
00:42:33,634 --> 00:42:35,386
What makes us unhappy.
748
00:42:35,469 --> 00:42:36,345
[scoffs]
749
00:42:37,721 --> 00:42:41,600
What makes us so unhappy
that it could be used against us.
750
00:42:42,351 --> 00:42:44,061
How do we feel exhaustion?
751
00:42:44,144 --> 00:42:46,146
How do we feel fear?
752
00:42:46,230 --> 00:42:48,148
How do we feel pain?
753
00:42:48,232 --> 00:42:49,400
How do we suffer?
754
00:42:50,109 --> 00:42:52,111
How much can we take?
755
00:42:52,194 --> 00:42:53,946
They can do whatever they want to you.
756
00:42:54,029 --> 00:42:57,533
They can push you to the limit
and past it, but you don't get to die.
757
00:42:58,993 --> 00:43:00,786
If you do,
they'll just bring you back again.
758
00:43:00,869 --> 00:43:02,955
And they can do that for a month.
759
00:43:03,038 --> 00:43:06,584
They can do that for a century.
They can do that for 10,000 years.
760
00:43:06,667 --> 00:43:08,669
Saul, why would they do that?
761
00:43:08,752 --> 00:43:11,255
I don't… I don't fuckin' know. I… [scoffs]
762
00:43:12,006 --> 00:43:13,882
We don't know what they are.
763
00:43:15,259 --> 00:43:17,094
And maybe we can't know what they are.
764
00:43:17,886 --> 00:43:20,180
But compared to us,
it's exactly what they told us.
765
00:43:20,264 --> 00:43:21,640
We are bugs.
766
00:43:23,934 --> 00:43:27,146
Bugs don't know why terrible things
happen to them. They're bugs.
767
00:43:27,813 --> 00:43:30,899
Right? Maybe it's an exterminator.
Maybe it's a science class.
768
00:43:30,983 --> 00:43:34,695
Maybe it's just some nasty little kid
that's ripping their legs off for fun.
769
00:43:36,196 --> 00:43:37,615
Don't try to figure it out.
770
00:43:38,991 --> 00:43:40,576
You just stay away from them.
771
00:43:49,752 --> 00:43:51,587
{\an8}-[tablet chimes]
-[device clicks]
772
00:43:54,048 --> 00:43:55,007
[sighs]
773
00:43:56,383 --> 00:43:57,801
[shakily] How many was that?
774
00:43:57,885 --> 00:43:58,969
That's four.
775
00:44:02,681 --> 00:44:04,558
The next one is the last one.
776
00:44:06,685 --> 00:44:08,562
Maybe it won't be as bad as all that.
777
00:44:08,646 --> 00:44:11,482
Maybe it would be like, um…
Like I'm a pet to them.
778
00:44:14,234 --> 00:44:16,737
Or maybe I'll be like entertainment.
779
00:44:20,908 --> 00:44:22,618
What do you do for entertainment?
780
00:44:24,370 --> 00:44:26,038
What's your favorite movie?
781
00:44:26,830 --> 00:44:27,915
[takes a deep breath]
782
00:44:27,998 --> 00:44:29,208
The Shining.
783
00:44:33,045 --> 00:44:34,838
[both laugh]
784
00:44:43,472 --> 00:44:45,683
How many people get this opportunity?
785
00:44:50,521 --> 00:44:52,940
To say a proper goodbye to a good friend.
786
00:44:55,567 --> 00:44:56,694
[softly] Not many.
787
00:45:02,199 --> 00:45:03,909
I never had many friends.
788
00:45:04,993 --> 00:45:08,622
But thanks to you guys,
always felt like enough.
789
00:45:14,670 --> 00:45:17,423
[softly] Will, I'm…
I'm gonna miss you, man.
790
00:45:24,179 --> 00:45:25,347
[inhales sharply]
791
00:45:26,348 --> 00:45:27,349
Good.
792
00:45:30,769 --> 00:45:33,272
If they bring me back, I'll miss you too.
793
00:45:56,336 --> 00:45:58,964
[somber piano music playing]
794
00:46:14,313 --> 00:46:16,315
[panting]
795
00:47:03,987 --> 00:47:07,658
[takes a deep breath]
796
00:47:09,576 --> 00:47:11,578
[somber music swells]
797
00:47:29,346 --> 00:47:31,348
[sobbing inaudibly]
798
00:47:48,866 --> 00:47:50,868
[wind gusting]
799
00:48:25,652 --> 00:48:27,446
[bird calling overhead]
800
00:48:31,241 --> 00:48:33,243
I can walk from here.
801
00:48:33,911 --> 00:48:37,664
[hesitates] If you don't mind,
could I have a few minutes alone?
802
00:48:41,793 --> 00:48:42,794
Yeah, okay.
803
00:48:42,878 --> 00:48:45,505
-Thank you.
-I'll be up there in ten.
804
00:48:48,967 --> 00:48:52,262
[pensive string music playing]
805
00:49:35,013 --> 00:49:37,057
[music fades]
806
00:49:37,140 --> 00:49:39,142
[wind whistling]
807
00:49:40,352 --> 00:49:42,354
[metal whines]
808
00:49:47,359 --> 00:49:48,443
[sighs deeply]
809
00:49:54,574 --> 00:49:56,576
[wind picks up]
810
00:50:08,797 --> 00:50:10,799
[breathing shakily]
811
00:50:22,394 --> 00:50:24,021
[Tatiana] Hello, Dr. Ye.
812
00:50:31,361 --> 00:50:32,612
Tatiana.
813
00:50:33,196 --> 00:50:34,865
[Tatiana] It's good to see you.
814
00:50:35,866 --> 00:50:37,451
Where's Officer Collins?
815
00:50:39,161 --> 00:50:40,704
Was that his name?
816
00:50:40,787 --> 00:50:41,872
[sighs]
817
00:50:45,375 --> 00:50:47,836
I thought the Lord was done with us.
818
00:50:48,545 --> 00:50:49,588
Not all of us.
819
00:50:52,215 --> 00:50:53,341
[exhales]
820
00:51:04,019 --> 00:51:08,899
I'm sorry you had to come all this way
to do something I was going to do myself.
821
00:51:21,745 --> 00:51:24,206
[wind gusting]
822
00:51:24,289 --> 00:51:25,415
[Tatiana] No.
823
00:51:26,041 --> 00:51:28,335
-You can't.
-[birds calling]
824
00:51:28,418 --> 00:51:31,004
It'll be horrible, that fall.
825
00:51:33,215 --> 00:51:35,425
It might not even happen right away.
826
00:51:46,269 --> 00:51:47,437
Please.
827
00:51:48,313 --> 00:51:50,107
I can give you something better.
828
00:51:52,901 --> 00:51:54,528
Something gentle.
829
00:51:55,946 --> 00:51:57,405
Something beautiful.
830
00:52:04,704 --> 00:52:06,289
Can we sit for a moment?
831
00:52:07,207 --> 00:52:08,333
Yes, please.
832
00:52:17,926 --> 00:52:23,098
When I was your age, this was some of
the most beautiful country in the world.
833
00:52:25,559 --> 00:52:28,270
It'll all be better
when the Lord gets here.
834
00:52:34,526 --> 00:52:35,777
I'm sure it will.
835
00:52:39,865 --> 00:52:42,659
Did the Lord tell you
why they sent you to me?
836
00:52:49,416 --> 00:52:50,417
Do you know?
837
00:52:53,879 --> 00:52:55,589
Perhaps it's just your time.
838
00:52:56,923 --> 00:52:58,717
You fulfilled your purpose.
839
00:53:02,053 --> 00:53:04,848
[melancholic string music playing]
840
00:53:06,892 --> 00:53:07,893
Well.
841
00:53:09,311 --> 00:53:11,771
I'm pleased the Lord hasn't forgotten me.
842
00:53:13,857 --> 00:53:15,692
Yes. Me too.
843
00:53:22,115 --> 00:53:25,911
I wanted to see
one more sunset from this place.
844
00:53:27,787 --> 00:53:29,497
Can we watch it together?
845
00:53:31,082 --> 00:53:32,709
I'd like that very much.
846
00:53:33,293 --> 00:53:34,336
[sniffles]
847
00:53:37,339 --> 00:53:40,425
[Wenjie breathes deeply]
848
00:53:40,508 --> 00:53:42,302
You've worked so hard
849
00:53:43,803 --> 00:53:45,013
for so long.
850
00:53:47,891 --> 00:53:49,184
[sniffles]
851
00:53:49,893 --> 00:53:51,686
You deserve a rest.
852
00:53:53,688 --> 00:53:55,690
[melancholic music building]
853
00:54:15,502 --> 00:54:18,004
[music fades out]
854
00:54:18,088 --> 00:54:20,006
[somber closing theme playing]
855
00:56:16,206 --> 00:56:18,124
[music fades]