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So, Jamie. Tell me...

What exactly is the story
between you and Lily?

Actually, don't tell
me. I'm gonna guess.

You're a puppy dog.

And you're devoted to
her, forever and ever.

And you'll do anything she wants,

in case she chucks you a bone.

I hit the bull's-eye, didn't I?

Okay.

You're good. Let's talk.

So, in case you don't
know, my name is Kenton,

I'm the head of security at Amaya.

And I've got a problem.

My problem is I have to contain

a very complex situation.

But the situation is
refusing to be contained.

In fact...

it's cascading.

Once a cascade starts,
the impulse is to panic.

You feel like you're standing
in front of an avalanche

with a fucking bucket and spade.

But I'm not panicking.

I'll tell you why.

Long ago...

when I was about your age,

maybe a little older,

I was in the CIA.

I was based in Hong Kong,

and we were working
towards what we called

"The American Century".

The Twentieth Century
was all about war in Europe

and Communism in Russia and Asia,

but the Twenty First Century
was going to be all for

the stars and stripes.

Things seemed to be going pretty well.

The Soviet Union had collapsed,

Europe was nicely weak and stable,

and on my beat,

a popular uprising had
started on mainland China.

The focus point was Beijing.

Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators

had occupied Tiananmen Square.

Wouldn't fucking budge.

And at a certain point,

my bureau chief called us
into his office and said...

China was finished.

Whatever the government did
wouldn't make a difference.

The protests would
spread across the country,

the system would collapse.

The tipping point was reached.

The cascade was unstoppable.

You know what happened next?

The Chinese government

sent in soldiers and
tanks to Tiananmen Square,

shot everybody they could.

Took the revolution by the neck

and crushed the fucking life out of it.

Today, China is the most
powerful force on the planet,

the most powerful force
the world has ever known.

And it turned out to
be the Chinese Century.

Story over.

My point?

Everything's containable.

But only if you're willing
to do what it takes.

I'm willing to do what it takes.

Do you believe me?

You are a dissident, I am a tank.

Do you believe me?

Yes.

I think you believe me.

But I need to be sure.

Shut up!

Shut up.

Shut up.

Whatever you and Lily were doing,

whoever you were talking to,

whatever you're planning,
it stops right now.

Unless you do exactly as I say...

no one you care about is safe.

Are we clear?

Yes.

Good.

Oh, Jesus.

Hey. Are you okay?

Sorry. Yeah. I'm fine.

If you want to be left
alone, that's okay.

I can leave you alone.

It's nothing serious. No one died.

You just broke up.

Well... that counts as serious.

I guess.

So... yeah, I feel like shit.

Presumably you broke up for a reason.

Uh-huh.

Because he's not the right guy.

Yeah.

So, it is what it is.

That was blunt.

You're absolutely
right. I'm... I'm sorry.

You know what, I was
talking to myself. Not you.

What do you mean?

I'm in the same boat.

Except a few months
further down the line.

And I've become seriously
expert at beating myself up.

So, I say shit like "It is what it is",

because it makes me feel
like I am assertive...

instead of a punching bag.

In other words, ignore me.

Actually, to be honest, you're right.

It is what it is.

Don't worry.

Break-ups aren't all bad.

It means you have the endless
pleasure of dating ahead of you.

Christ. What a thought.

Seriously, however bad you remember it,

it's so much worse.

I mean the app thing is out of control.

But there's no choice if
you want to meet someone.

And I don't mean meet someone special,

I mean, literally, meet anyone.

Well, I think I've done
enough cheering you up.

Yeah. Great job.

I'll see you around. On Tinder.

No.

No, me neither.

I'll see you around here.

Sure.

Look down there.

Would you really feel any pity

if one of those dots
stopped moving forever?

If I offered you 20,000 pounds
for every dot that stopped,

would you really, old man,

tell me to keep my money,
or would you...

calculate how many dots
you could afford to spend?

Free of income tax, old man.
Free of income tax.

Lily...

I'm in love with you.

Whoa.

It's the first time either
of us have said that.

You are creative,

you are unexpected,

funny,

clever,

hot.

Awesome in every way.

So, yeah. I'm in love with you.

I'm in love with you too.

Really?

Mm-hmm.

Cool.

... you can save money now-a-days.

Lot of good your
money'll do you in jail.

That jail is in another zone.

I should be pretty easy to get rid of.

Pretty easy.

Gun. Barrier. Sensor.

The dual slit experiment.
I'm sure you are all familiar.

A stream of single quantum particles,

let's say photons, are fired
at two slits in a barrier.

Now, mysteriously, the single photon

appears to pass through
both slits at the same time,

as evidenced by the interference pattern

that starts to appear

when the photon hits the back sensor.

We conclude that the single photon

is somehow interacting with itself.

And now we have prima facie evidence

of the superposition
of quantum particles,

that they can exist in more
than one place at the same time.

That idea makes us uncomfortable.

We're not used to things

being in more than one
place at the same time.

It's in conflict

with our direct experience of the world.

I am not in a superposition,
I am standing only here.

And you are not in a superposition,

you are sitting only there.

So, we decide we need more information,

we place a detector on
one of the two slits,

so we can tell when the
photon is passing through.

But as soon as the
detector is activated,

the interference pattern on
the back sensor disappears.

The superposition photon
has suddenly collapsed

to a classical single position.

The photon is now only in one place.

The act of our observing the particle

has somehow changed it.

It's a complex problem,

which leads to a simple question.

- What the hell just happened?
- Now watch.

I asked the professor to provoke her.

There is no shortage

of proposed answers to that question.

The Copenhagen Interpretation,

which states that the act of measurement

affects the system.

Please.

The Penrose Interpretation,

which suggests that the
wave function collapse

is caused by space-time curvature.

But I wanna talk to you

about the Von Neumann-Wigner
Interpretation,

which states that human consciousness

is the key modifier in decoherence.

Are you fucking kidding?

Katie?

You're offering a lecture
on Von Neumann-Wigner?

Eh... Are you serious?

Half the people in this
room are undergrads,

they might actually
believe what you're saying.

There are many interesting
conjectures within the theory.

It's dualist bullshit.

Which is the worst kind of bullshit.

- You would prefer...
- The Everett Interpretation.

- Which you didn't even mention.
- Ah. Everett.

Whose interpretation states

that there is no change
to the superposition

of the humble quantum particle.

Rather, there is a change
to the entire universe

It states that the macroscopic
superposition exists.

And just so we're all
clear what that means...

it means the universe
is constantly splitting,

like the trunk and branches and twigs,

of an infinitely large tree.

And on that tree, all
possible worlds will exist.

All possible events will happen.
All histories, and all futures,

a near infinite number of times.

It's deterministic, it's
supported by the math,

and it's supported by the experiment.

But it's not supported
by the real world.

Whatever.

Enjoy, dweebs.

Bye.

Von Neumann-Wigner. A fucking joke.

Katie? Katie? Katie? Katie...

Yes?

Uh, one of your professors
is a friend of mine.

She's told me you're the best student

she's had in years, perhaps ever.

That's nice.

She also told me...

your family can no longer
cover your college fees.

I want to pay for your college fees...

and offer you a job when you graduate.

Who are you?

Do you understand what I'm asking?

Yes.

I do.

Is it madness?

Is there a world in which it could work?

Whoa. This is way better than last time.

My sugar cube doesn't have
a single error package.

I got a few here in the shell.

Are those errors?

I think those are actual
gaps in the structure.

Oh... yeah, you might be right.

The skull is good too.

I'm now at 1.2 times
10 to the power of 18.

Still clean.

I mean look at these sucrose molecules.

My sugar is sweet!

I think the mouse is sweet.

- The mouse is dead.
- He's still sweet.

He's got a cute little face.

Forest. I think we're good.

We can try to extrapolate inwards.

Cool.

So do it.

Okay.

Let's see.

Silence from the team.

So, it worked?

Yeah. It worked.

- Keep going.
- Keep extrapolating?

You mean outwards?

Why not?

We'll run out of memory
pretty fucking quick,

but, yeah, why not. No harm it can do.

Fuck.

And he made a house called a cocoon

and he stayed in there
for, like, two weeks.

More than two weeks

and puff, and puff, he was a butterfly.

A beautiful, nice, beautiful butterfly.

The end.

- Is that the end?
- Yes...

the end.

Hey, sweetheart. Just
wondering where you are.

The milk. Shit.

No, totally forgot.

I was going over papers
all morning and...

Uh, anyway, yeah, I forgot.

Are you?

Yeah, I see you.

So, look, bring Amaya back,

and then I'll take the
car and go to the store.

I'll get stuff for dinner too.

I don't know. Pasta?

I know we can discuss it in 30 seconds!

We can also discuss it now!

No.

No!

No!

No!

No.

No! No! No!

No! No! No!

Do you think any of them

understand what we're really doing here?

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure you even understand
what we're really doing here.

What do you mean?

I think Devs is how you've
put yourself on trial.

It's judge and jury.

If it works,

determinism precludes free will,

and you're absolved, you did no wrong.

But if it doesn't work, you had choices.

And you're guilty.

And if it doesn't work, I'm damned.

Yes. Pretty much.

What's my place in this trial?

You're a witness.

No.

I'm the lawyer for the defense.

I'm gonna make my opening argument.

Are you ready?

Um... no.

Yeah.

If I, uh...

If I asked you to do me a favor,

but I couldn't tell you why,

do you think you could trust me,

and not ask any
questions, and just do it?

Ne... I'm being serious.

Okay. So, I need you to get Mom.

And get Lucy and Tom and their kids.

And take them to the place
we used to go on vacation

when me and Lucy were kids.

Ne, the hotel by the lake.

For one week.

And I don't care what any
of them say about school,

or jobs, or feeding pets,
or anything, I just...

They have to do it. You
have to make them do it.

I said I can't tell you why.

No, Dad, you...

You know how I work for
an internet security firm?

Well we've been
subcontracting for the NSA

and a foreign power hacked our system

and got all our personal details.

So, the NSA instructed us to...

to make sure our immediate
families were safe,

until they made everything... okay.

Yeah, we've got major protection here.

Guys with guns, you name
it, 'round the clock.

So, will you do it, Dad? Jebal.

Thank you.

Yeah, I'm totally fine.

I love you too. All you guys.

Okay, Dad. I've got to go.

Ye... Yeonlaghallkeyo.

Okay. Bye.

So I need to add an important caveat

to our working relationship.

I'm not going to prison.
Do you understand?

You need to fully take that on board.

You don't need to worry
about going to prison, Kenton.

I disagree.

I killed a guy, I put
his girl in a nuthouse,

and I terrorized her
friend into silence.

Hopefully that does the
trick. But if it doesn't...

and I feel this shit
is catching up with me,

then the terms of our
deal are null and void.

I will act in a self-interested manner.

What does that mean?

I just told you. I'm
not going to prison.

You can't fuck me
without fucking yourself.

Lily Chan is a threat.

It's not in your power
to kill her, Kenton.

Have we met?

I didn't say you lack
the ability to kill her,

I said it's not in your power.

Well, I'll tell you what.

You just let me worry about that.

Lily?

Lily?

I'm getting you out.

What?

I love you, baby.

I wish you did, but you don't.
It's just the dope talking.

Come on. Let's go.

That's it.

There you go.

Okay.

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