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Well?

There's nothing, sir.

What does that mean?

There's a port for electrical, but the cube isn't connected to anything,

and we can't detect any obvious power source inside it.

What the fuck?

Are you a glitch?

People go into the cube, but they don't come out.

At first, I think, "Hack magic trick."

But there's nowhere for them to go.

No hidden walls. No tunnels.

We've looked.

You know, Lockheed Martin's exploring advanced incineration.

Turning living things to dust in 60 seconds.

But the cube doesn't leave behind dust.

Fine. Okay. Someone figures that out.

Why would your friends run from us just to kill themselves?

See, I was operating under the assumption

that it was to leave behind no physical trace.

Something about their bodies they didn't want anyone to get a hold of.

It finally made sense today with the whole power puzzle.

How can the cube be drawing power

from something it isn't physically connected to?

Unless it's connected on some level we can't see.

To another place entirely.

So, then I start thinking about you.

Jason Dessen.

Quantum physicist.

Could the cube be connected at a quantum level to another cube?

Teleportation.

All these copies it made of you,

it was all a glitch.

Where does it send people when it's not glitching?

Where's its partner cube?

Wow.

Okay.

To Mars.

Which one are you?

I think you know.

May I?

What are you doing in this world?

Why are you here?

I'm making amends.

Fuck does that mean?

Hey, hey, listen.

I've had two years to think about

- what I've done to you. - I don't need another fucking apology.

Okay. Then this is not that then.

I just really wanna talk.

If you need to hurt me...

Just get on with it.

Why are you here?

Curiosity.

You and I, for 28 years, we were the same person.

Focused, determined, ambitious,

and therefore selfish.

Well, did you... just choose to...

- What? Give up? - No. No, no.

Did you choose to be good?

To be...

Okay. So you wanna be good? Now?

Come on.

It's not about choosing to be good.

It's about the people that my choices brought into my life.

Daniela. My sons.

I think they made all the difference.

No.

I do not always make the best choices.

Why? Why are you doing all this?

Why did you steal my life?

Okay.

I will tell you how to build the box in a few simple steps.

Anything that threatens your time, destroy it.

Sacrifice everything in your life that gets in the way of the work.

And when you win, and you will,

that will be the highest high that you will ever know.

But remember that high instead of asking yourself the question,

"If the greatest scientific achievement in history cannot make me whole,

what can?"

Have you ever been happy?

I was never bored.

You?

Yeah, I think I was happy. To a point.

And I was sometimes bored.

Mostly frustrated.

'Cause I never gave up wondering what it would've been like to...

chase the dream.

Question is, do you wanna know?

Are you close?

'Cause if you wanna choose this, all of this,

you gotta really choose it.

Can't wake up in 20 years and think, "Oh, where did it all go?"

You gotta really want it.

Hey. How was the ride?

Pretty good.

I'm going to the store for your mom.

Do you want anything?

Max?

No, I think I'm fine.

- No? - Thanks.

I thought you were supposed to be in school?

What? Did you flunk out?

What? No.

I didn't know you were coming home.

Are you on... on drugs or something?

No.

All right. Well, you're acting, like, super fucking weird.

And your hair?

Shit, you're even standing strange.

I'm not who you think I am.

- I'm not the Charlie that you know. - Oh, my God.

Dude, I don't care if you like dudes, okay?

No, no.

Oh, shit.

Well, hello.

What are you doing here?

I... I was missing you guys.

Missing us?

Hey.

Everything okay?

- Yeah. - Okay.

Yeah? And school?

Yeah, all good.

"All good." All right.

You've done something to your hair.

All right. Well, come on in.

It's family night. That's great. Your mom's gonna love it.

She's cooking something special. She's gonna be thrilled.

Hi there.

Hey.

Did someone come through?

Oh, gosh. Well, we have a lot of folks coming through here as you can imagine.

Wha... what did they look like?

A boy. Eighteen. My height.

Okay. Well, we'll have to check the logs.

I'm sure we can figure it out.

Every visitor that we have that comes in or out gets logged.

And the logs have a date and time stamp.

Go, go.

I'm just trying to find my son.

Get her backpack and get her out of here.

Wait.

Please.

Wait, wait. I need to find him.

Put her in the cell. Come on.

It's okay. Go ahead.

- Hey, Mom. - Hey, loves.

- Hey. Look what washed up. - Hi.

Wait, what? I didn't know you were coming.

- Yeah. - Hi.

Everything okay?

Yeah, I just wanted it to be a surprise.

Oh, my God. Are you kidding? That's the best surprise ever.

- Yeah. Do I have time for a shower? - Thank you. Perfect.

So, we should open some wine.

I think it'd be foolish not to.

Yeah. Perfect timing on this.

Glass.

Oh, fuck. Why do they make these so hard to open?

What the...

Yo.

What's all that shit about you not being who I think you are?

I'm a... a different version of your brother.

Shit, like, multiple personalities?

No.

You couldn't hack it at Rhode Island and went a little cray cray?

Your brother is still in college.

No, seriously, call him.

Fuck you.

No. Call him!

Relax.

All right, dude, why are you making me do this shit?

Keep calling him, okay. Until he answers.

- Get out, dude. Get the fuck out. - Fucking FaceTime him.

What?

I'm with people.

Wait, wait. What? Where are you right now?

At school, dick hole.

All right. How... How are you doing this shit?

Plug this in. I lost my charger. It's been dead for months.

So, you are on drugs?

Yeah, but not in the way that you mean.

What's it do?

There's an infinite number of realities all around us.

Your world is just one of them.

And you take that, and you can see...

All right, dude. Is this just because I stripped your bike for parts?

I'm not fucking with you.

I'm not.

Look, go to my phone.

Open it. Look at my photos.

- I'm gonna do it. - No. No. No. You're declaring...

- Yeah. - But you're not...

I am a super-sleuth detective

- and I'm doing it. - He's not.

Am I doing... Yes, I'm doing it. Okay, so...

- Miss Scarlet... - No.

- In the study, obviously, with the... - No.

No!

Why am I not in any of these?

When you were four, you had a heart transplant, right?

Yeah.

In my world, you didn't get one.

You died when I was four.

And all my life, it's been like I'm missing a part of myself.

Every year on our birthday,

we light a candle and look at a picture of you.

And...

I can't believe that I'm looking at you right now.

Can I... Can I?

Yeah.

It's okay.

It's okay.

You're... You're from another world, dude?

Yeah.

How?

This super shitty version of Dad built this box,

and you can take that drug and you can move between worlds.

Holy shit.

Dinner in ten, okay?

Can we...

Can we bail on dinner?

Definitely not.

Look, they can't know about...

Yeah, it's fine. No, mostly they just want to talk to each other.

God, this is so fucked up, dude.

I can say I need to leave, or...

No. I love it.

Hey.

Daniela.

Do you have a tattoo?

Tattoo?

No.

Did they do that?

This?

Yeah.

That's nothing.

Who are they?

Government.

Department of Defense.

I heard that you escaped our world with another Jason.

I'm sorry.

Sorry?

I mean, no. What were you supposed to do?

You couldn't leave with all of us.

Hey.

Have you seen Charlie?

No. Why?

He went into the box looking for Max.

You know you're missing?

Along with your son, Charlie.

Where you been?

You know, I hate doing this kind of stuff.

Really, I do.

But I need information, and...

well, I have these... techniques

that encourage folks to tell me things.

We can even let him watch.

No?

Or you can tell me where you're from, what the cube is, how it works.

Think on that.

Have they kept you here for a long time?

Two years almost.

So, if I tell them, will they even let me go?

Probably not.

If we drink them, will it work?

Yeah.

Okay, girl, come on.

Come on. Shit.

Hey. Hey, girl.

Amanda?

Come on, Amanda, please wake up.

Please.

Ryan?

Ryan.

The last time I saw my Ryan, we were at the Village Tap...

celebrating his win of the...

Pavia.

Pavia.

J.

Fuck.

- Ryan. - Hey, buddy. Hi. Hi.

Ryan.

- Is that... - Yeah, it is.

Do you know me?

Last time I saw you,

we were saying goodbye in the mile-high skyscraper in futuristic Chicago.

Do you remember?

You're safe.

Hi.

Hi.

Hi.

Where's Ryan?

He's crashed out in Charlie's room.

He's okay.

Are Charlie and Daniela here?

Charlie is in college.

And... Yeah. Daniela is... She's out.

Come on. Lay down.

I thought I would never see you again.

Yeah, I...

I loved it there. I did.

But it was just not...

Your life.

Yeah.

Yeah.

What about you?

Good. Yeah.

Things have been... good.

- Hey. Is everything okay? - Hi.

Can I just... I... No. It's not. It's not at all. I...

Blair?

No fucking way.

- Is it you? - Yes.

Hi.

- Hi. Hi. - Hi.

Thank God.

You're alive.

Hi.

Oh, God. Hi.

Oh, my God.

Hey.

So, I heard from Ryan today.

Oh, yeah?

Yeah. He got that research grant.

That was a big one, right?

Yeah, yeah. It's a game changer for him.

Good for him.

- Couscous is good. - Is it?

Yeah. Sorry.

Anyway, he wants to have a little get-together on the weekend on the boat.

Okay.

There's a storm over the lake.

You like that other world?

Yeah.

It's... It's real.

People actually talk to each other.

I think Mom and Dad are gonna get a divorce.

What?

They're, like, obsessed with each other.

Yeah.

Dad's been... different.

You know, trying to figure out the box.

It's, like, all he ever thinks about anymore.

Mom's... I don't even know what's going on with her.

That why you came to find me?

I don't know. I... I have friends...

But I feel alone a lot.

You gonna be okay?

Yeah.

I met this other version of Dad in another world on my way here to find you,

and it was crazy.

But he had sort of, like, made peace with everything.

He missed us.

But he was okay.

And he made me promise him to stop looking back, only forward.

So, that's what I'm gonna do.

I'm glad you came, man.

Yeah.

Me too, Max.

- Dickhole. - Okay, bro.

Shut the fuck up, dude.

We gotta get the fuck out of here. It's gonna rain.

I'm telling you for real, it's massive.

You can drive a transfer truck inside it.

Why is Leighton even doing this?

He can't let go of his original vision.

The best technology, brightest ideas, remember?

Yeah. I can see that totally.

Also, he is working with another version of himself,

a version of you, and you.

Wait... Which Jason?

- The one from our world. - Jesus Christ.

He was... He was here earlier.

Did he mention any of this?

No. Does the Pyramid work?

He needs more quantum computing tech, which luckily this world doesn't have,

but we need to stop him from ever using the box again,

so he can't go and find those parts.

What if we, like, just seal the box up somehow?

No, I've tried it. It doesn't work.

- Let's talk dynamite. Blow it up. - It wouldn't work.

- No. It wouldn't work either. - No?

Because if someone connects to this world, it would respawn.

- She's right. - Then we take it apart.

- Piece by piece. Just shred it. - Tried it.

No, it'll respawn.

We fill a pool with acid...

You... You're pitching a vat-of-acid amount...

I'm pitching melting that bitch down.

Am I talking to myself? It will respawn.

You guys, do we have to kill Leighton?

- No. - Ryan.

That's a terrible idea. What? I'm not saying that.

God. There are bad ideas in brainstorming. I'm sorry.

I don't have any more ideas.

Hold on.

There might be a fix.

If I could get back to the original box, the box from our world,

I could sneak a kill switch into the master code

that maintains quantum coherence.

How would doing that take the box in this world offline? I mean...

That would take all the boxes offline.

Format the qubits.

That's what he was looking at!

That's what I...

I was close.

Blair...

Right, I need a pen. Like, lightning speed. I need a pen.

- I don't know... - Right here.

Yes.

Here.

Right, so all the boxes, they're quantumly entangled

and they form a vast quantum circuit, right?

So, all the boxes derive source power

and programming from the original box, the first box.

That's how they come online.

- It's the box in your world. - Yes.

And it was programmed to actively counter decoherence.

That's what keeps the whole circuit alive.

So if we kill this box...

then all the children die.

And then no traveling across worlds.

Except how do we go about getting this done?

A little bit of time.

And a brilliant fucking physicist.

Hey. You okay?

Just clearing my head.

When did she leave?

About five weeks ago.

I was just hoping that we could get back to what we were, you know.

I think she realized before I did

that we were never gonna be those people again.

So...

Yeah.

Did Ryan tell you what's happening in our world?

- The plague. Yeah. - Yeah.

Blair thinks Leighton might have access to a cure.

I'm gonna try to find him in the morning.

See if he'll help.

And if he does?

Ryan and I will take the cure back.

You going with Blair?

She's working on building a hacking device.

And I guess I'll help.

You guess?

Yeah. I know the box has to end.

But it's fucking beautiful.

It's a perfect thing.

Almost.

You wanna know how it feels to make something like that.

Kinda hard to miss the crazy-person wallpaper motif

you got going on in there.

Is that why Jason 2 was here?

He, believe it or not, came to ask me how to make better choices.

Yeah.

Wow.

Listen, I know that I sorta lost my way.

We can't control our desires,

only what we do about them.

You're not like him.

You're not.

You'll find your way.

I don't even know what that means anymore.

Me neither.

But we keep looking.

Hey.

Hey.

Have you guys seen the latest on the cooling pump?

I think we're gonna need a new one.

You good?

There's another version of me living in the city.

A box traveler.

Oh, my God. You knew? You knew?

Did you meet him?

Is there something you wanna tell me?

Listen, I know that you've done a lot of good.

But we've opened Schrödinger's box.

The consequences, Leighton, are infinite, unpredictable, severe.

You wanna kill this thing?

I don't know.

I just think that we need to talk more.

We just really need to be sure, you know?

Well, I have to leave to get some of the parts we need.

Which ones?

The superconducting array of topological qubits.

Where from?

The Velocity hangar Blair was living out of.

Murder hornets.

We'll keep talking, all right? Nothing's decided.

Okay, listen, I know it's been a while but you do remember the original dream,

right?

I had a lot of time to think about your vision when I was trapped inside it.

Are they concerned about drastic weather changes?

Yeah, but for now their focus is food.

UV grow operations are being set up, but it's not enough.

They're projecting millions of deaths globally this year.

Millions.

They need to take action soon.

What about the world where they had several nuclear blasts?

That's right.

They managed to solve their food supply issue.

Yeah, wasn't it something to do with shade-tolerant cereals?

Pull up that world's map, I'll go see their Leighton.

Everything I've done, I had to do.

I know I've made mistakes, but...

I never wanted to hurt anyone.

Stop!

Stop.

All right.

Well?

Yeah,

I will tell you everything you wanna know.

If you let me go.

Well, that's an intriguing proposition.

I'm gonna counter with how about you tell me everything I wanna know

while you're standing there and I'm standing here.

Unlike him, I have nothing to protect here.

I'll give you what you want,

but not if you won't let me find my son.

Because then, well, nothing matters.

You can beat the shit out of me all day long and you'll get nothing.

And I fucking mean it.

If you bring me my bag, I will show you how this thing works.

But until then, we're just wasting time, so it's your call.

I'll make that deal.

He comes too.

I need him.

If he tries to run,

shoot her.

So, you've been inside the box?

Yeah.

- With the door closed? - Yep.

He wonders why nothing happens.

Because you need this.

- What the hell is that? - It's a key.

Fits a keyhole behind an interior panel.

Yeah, we haven't been able to remove any of the panels.

What do you need a key for?

Because the box is a portal.

To where?

Other worlds.

Ready?

So, we'll have to shut this for it to work.

Yeah, hang on a second.

Wait, you could... you could do with more light.

Yeah, get a flashlight.

Show me the keyhole.

It's in the corner.

Where?

- Fuck! - No, no! Don't let...

Motherfucker.

What am I seeing?

You're seeing doors to different worlds.

You stabbed me.

It's a drug.

It's what allows you to see all this.

Two years and you never said a thing about this.

You're kind of a prick, you know that?

All right.

All right.

How does it work?

You have to...

We have to clear our minds.

And then I open a door.

Wait.

I open the door.

Okay.

I'm getting a fucking promotion.

To all you fuckers I love.

Cheers!

- Hey, man! - Hey.

Fucking insane.

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes.

There will be no more death or mourning or crying or tears.

The old order of things has passed away.

- So, it's true? Yes. - So, it will be so true.

I poisoned my first husband!

Twenty seconds!

Fifteen seconds!

Till what?

Till what?

Nine! Eight! Seven! Six!

Five! Four! Three! Two! One!