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[soft piano music plays]

[people softly chattering]

- Big day.

- I guess so.

- Seriously, you should be very proud.

- Thanks.

- Time to get started, everybody.

So who's up first?

[pulsing electronic music]

[woman sighs]

[pulsing electronic music]

- [Man] Can we get this rolling?

- We're almost there.

- Tell me it'll work. - It'll work.

- Everything is online.

- Thank you for your patience.

What we're presenting here today

is nothing short of a breakthrough.

I think you'll be pleased to see

it aligns with your goals at Syntec Lab, Mr. Montgomery,

and, certainly, it puts the university

on the cutting-edge of human sensory research.

All right, ready to go?

Everyone, this is Quinn.

Quinn has been working with us the past couple months

on a project that we're calling the Sonic Sleeves.

It's relatively simple.

Based, in part, on the early work of Paul Bach-y-Rita,

we're using the mechanoreceptors in the skin

to turn sounds, like my voice,

into pulses that are felt by Quinn,

who, as you may have noticed, is deaf.

And these pulses cause patterns of vibration,

which help Quinn to, in essence, hear by feeling.

Are you ready?

Hello. [beeping]

Hello. [beeping]

Hello. [beeping]

[soft music]

- That's a little easy.

Most interactions begin that way.

- Downtown, downtown. [beeping]

Downtown. [beeping]

We'll go again.

Cheeseburger. [beeping]

Cheeseburger. [beeping]

Happy days. [beeping]

Happy days. [beeping]

- Let's go ahead and stop right there.

Apologies, Ted, Diana, I was assured

we had some of these bugs worked out.

- [Ted] Well, let's hope we do next time.

- If you just give us a little bit more time.

They were working perfectly, I assure you.

It's not your fault.

- Was there a reason you started

with a device for the deaf?

Was it personal to you?

- Who are you?

How do you know what I'm working on?

I'm Dr. Frederick Amberger.

- Should I have heard of you? - No.

My work has always been done behind closed doors,

attributed to others or just plain forgotten.

But I think you can help change that.

- Your work?

- Seeking out a path to new sensory experiences,

through our sensory-enlightened counterparts.

- Sensory-enlightened?

- Where others see disability,

I see transformative individuals

with a great aptitude for realigning their sensory inputs.

See for yourself.

I believe you can unlock the sixth sense

by combining the strengths of five individuals,

each lacking one of the five fundamental senses.

Sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell.

- Combining, how, that's not possible.

- I thought so, too, until I witnessed it.

I've witnessed many things that would be deemed impossible.

- How are you defining the sixth sense?

- As a new way to understand, feel, visualize,

and experience the physical world around us,

illuminating the entire electromagnetic spectrum

into information that can be perceived

as easily as me looking at you right now.

- Look, this sounds interesting, but I-

- You know as well as I do,

the next frontier of discovery isn't out there.

It's in here.

Don't let the small failures define you.

Instead, ask yourself how far you're willing to go

to find the answers you seek.

I look forward to hearing from you.

[swirling electronic music]

[discordant piano pounding]

[swirling electronic music]

- Seriously, Bob, you can't wait until after dinner?

- Well, I still have to get through dinner.

- It's fine, Mom.

- Well, according to the court order, she should be.

- So, Jules, catch us up.

How's school going?

- It's fine.

- Care to elaborate?

- Good Lord, Jules, give her something.

She's had the courtesy to invite you into our home.

- So this isn't my home anymore?

The house I was raised in.

How long do I have to serve out this penance for?

Three years obviously isn't enough.

Four, five, the rest of my life?

- You made your bed. - All right.

If you two aren't going to bother to try, why should I?

- I had a horrible day, Mom.

Is that what you wanna hear?

- My project failed.

- [Mom] What project?

- It's a sensory device for the deaf.

It's a wearable technology that helps you hear

through the vibrations of the skin.

- No.

- You realize you can't make her whole again, right?

- Bob!

- I'm not ready, Kath.

- I'm sorry, this was a mistake.

[pulsing electronic music]

[sighing]

[pulsing electronic music]

[Jules sighs]

[pulsing electronic music]

[siren wails]

[droning music]

What's the meaning of this?

- So it was personal, then.

- Why do you have something about my sister in here?

- You like tea?

I'll make tea.

- Why are you cataloging people's suffering?

- I'm not cataloging suffering.

- These people's lives are changed forever.

Dana's life has changed completely.

What shaped her, what drove her can't be reclaimed.

- Isn't that what you're trying to do with your contraption?

- It's a path forward, hopefully.

- What if there's another path?

- [Jules] What, this?

- On second thought, I think breakfast is in order.

The human body is made up of layers of cells,

each with receptors that translate the energy of a stimulus

into electrical signals ending in the somatosensory cortex.

Generally, we categorize these as our five senses.

On their own, these senses are imperfect.

Imagine what it would be like if you ate this piece of bread

and it smelled like nothing.

Imagine if you touched it and it felt

like a gooey, dripping liquid,

devoid of shape and structure.

What do you have?

- A mess.

- No, you'd have our breakfast.

[sizzling]

And when you turn on the heat.

- They all come together.

- Exactly.

- But how, how do they come together

when we're talking about people?

- Initially, a controlled environment.

Isolate the sensory enhancements

for each enlightened individual,

identify the pathways of their sensory realignment.

Then provide a little direction

via some technological augmentation

to unlock what is already present within them.

- [Jules] Why the five?

- Well, imagine an electrical current when it's overloaded.

The five together help balance the load.

Eventually, we'll move beyond this need,

but it's where we start.

- But that's impossible.

What you're proposing, there's no precedent.

- We have to strike that word "impossible"

from your vocabulary.

The work in that notebook contains precedent.

We just have to go further.

- But why we?

I don't know what I bring to this.

- A curious mind, a penchant for discovery, longevity.

While you may not be able to articulate it,

you, too, see the transcendent nature

of our sensory-enlightened counterparts.

I need someone like you to help me carry this work forward.

- Who are you, really?

[eerie music] [whispering]

[shimmering electronic music]

- You want tea?

I'll make tea.

- We already have tea.

[knocking]

- Dad?

How come you're not dressed?

We have an appointment.

Hi?

Dad, it's a little late to be getting help around here.

We're way past that.

- I'm not help.

- She's a colleague.

- [sighs] Not this again.

College student?

- [Jules] Yeah.

- Well, my apologies.

My father, I'm afraid to say,

is not his best self these days.

And we have an appointment.

- My son has little imagination.

He knows not of what he speaks.

- And it's time for you to go.

[shimmering electronic music]

- You've got roughly a quadrillion synapses in your brain,

a quadrillion connections between nerves,

all happening right now, carving out the pathways

that make us who we are.

To give you a little perspective,

the number of stars in the Milky Way

is about 300 billion.

So you've got 1000 times more synapses

happening inside your brain than all the stars

in the Milky Way galaxy.

- [Frederick Voiceover] We have to strike that word

"impossible" from your vocabulary.

The work in that notebook contains precedent.

We just have to go further. - Doing all this computational

work, well, that's what we're here for.

[shimmering electronic music]

- Day one, October 12th, 1985.

Now what's your name, young man?

- [Young Man] Anthony. - Anthony.

We've invited several potential candidates in for interview.

- Why are you doing it?

- A way to better understand our senses.

It's our belief that those deemed disabled

by our society hold the key to understanding

how the brain rewires itself in the face

of faulty, damaged, or missing sensory inputs.

- Oh, that's easy.

Smell with your nose,

touch with your fingers and toes,

taste with your tongue,

hear with your ears,

and see with your eyes.

- You need Missy to tell you that?

[shimmering electronic music]

- [Frederick Voiceover] Day 23.

We've selected our initial candidates

for phase one of the study.

At H's prompting, these candidates

represent the loss of the primary five senses,

taste, touch, smell, hearing, and sight.

[shimmering electronic music]

Day 98.

Breakthrough.

Testing Subject Three, representing loss of sight.

- 15. - We detect enhanced

hearing capabilities, as well as an advanced olfactory.

- Seven o'clock.

- [Frederick Voiceover] Day 132.

At this point, we've detected a myriad of enhanced senses

to varying degrees in all our subjects,

with consistent results against our control group.

H has suggested placing our subjects in a group setting

to study the effects of social interaction

on sensory input, the human factor, if you will.

[shimmering electronic music]

Day 172.

After noting interesting effects

based on social interaction, we've decided

to test if we can, essentially, link

our subjects' sensory experiences.

We shall attempt this through restricting

our subjects' usable sensory inputs,

monitoring their brain activity via one set of sensors,

while creating a shared feed

of their combined electromagnetic brainwaves.

[shimmering electronic music]

- Can anybody else see this?

[shimmering electronic music]

- It's incredible.

- How am I seeing this?

This is rad!

- What are they seeing, experiencing?

[shimmering electronic music]

- [Man] This is nuts.

- Amberger's onto something truly game-changing,

evolution and advancement to understanding

of the human brain.

Game-changing.

- [Woman] Don't do this, Jules.

- Do what?

- [Man] Lose focus.

We're getting one more chance with the sleeves,

and that's where our head should be.

- [Woman] He's right.

- Skip to one file, and then read it on the way.

- [Man] On the way where?

- Breakfast.

[pulsing electronic music]

- I don't understand, what did they see?

- I think they somehow experienced

the entire electromagnetic spectrum,

allowing them to feel the energy

of the world surrounding them, including each other.

- That sounds terrible.

You wouldn't want to sense that much noise.

- Exactly.

- How long have you not been able to taste?

Can you smell?

- Yeah, I can still smell.

- Every tested your acuity for smell?

- Just because I can't taste doesn't mean

I've somehow got a world class nose.

- Just curious.

What about you?

- What about me?

- Do you think that you're more or less

aware of your surroundings now?

- This requires me to be more aware of my surroundings.

- [Amberger] And would you say that, because of the chair,

you feel space differently now?

- I guess.

- [Amberger] And would you say that the loss of taste

has shifted how you approach your daily life?

- That goes without saying.

- Currently, we have limited control

over our brain's ability to rewire

and realign sensory inputs, but I believe

that with your help, we can finish the work

I started in here.

Unlock the code to guiding these sensory pathways

and we're on our way to expanding

the human sensory experience.

- I'm perfectly fine how I am.

- You're more than fine, you're enlightened.

- I'm sorry, I can't help but feel

like this is a little beyond what's actually possible.

Sure, we had a little hiccough with the sleeves,

but we can figure that out.

It's tangible, real.

- And something that not too long ago

was thought to be impossible.

- Without thinking, what do you smell right now?

- Bubblegum.

♪ Is this just a dream

♪ Or is this the real thing

- You both know why I started down this path.

You both know I can't do any of this without you.

- So what exactly are we talking about doing here?

- First, we all need to get up to speed on Amberger's work

and seek out any supporting data we can find.

[pulsing electronic music]

Then we compile, blending Amberger's research

with our current track into a possible thesis.

When we feel we've nailed it,

I'll go have a conversation with Professor Johnston.

- [Professor] Hard no.

- You didn't even read it.

- I skimmed enough.

Creating new sensory inputs,

feeling the world around us.

This is a little touchy-feely New Agey

for a science lab, don't you think?

It has "enlightened" in the title, for hell's sake,

and who in the world is this Dr. Amberger character?

Actually, don't care.

The reality is we are about to lose

a large chunk of funding because the experiment

you assured me was ready for prime time obviously wasn't.

You have a chance to fix this,

and that's exactly what you're gonna do.

This is you simply spinning your wheels

after experiencing a little bit of failure.

Get focused and make those sleeves work.

[pulsing electronic music]

- So?

- We're a go. - Seriously?

- We'll have to move forward the sleeves, but, yeah.

Let's do this.

- So what's the plan?

- We need subjects.

- I posted on every local disability group

I could find online, and I'm already getting

some positive responses.

- Great.

I'll drive these by the school for the deaf and blind.

Sam's taking the health clubs.

Maybe post some at coffee shops

and stuff like that, too?

- Yeah, is he okay?

- What do you mean?

- Something's off.

- He disappears sometimes.

- Let's just concentrate on getting these out.

- Okay.

[pulsing electronic music]

- I think you should ask your sister

to come join the study.

- She, well, my family isn't that really fond of me

at this point.

- Family's difficult to navigate at times.

- Does your son know?

What we're doing. I mean.

- Family's difficult to navigate.

- I mean, he seemed concerned.

Is everything okay?

- Our time on this planet is short,

and mine, perhaps a bit shorter now.

Thanks for giving me a second chance.

- [Jules] See you tomorrow.

- Tomorrow.

[Jules sighs]

[Amberger gasps]

[rolling, tinkling electronic music]

- You wanna try it?

Sir, sir?

Are you okay?

I've been sleepwalking.

Sir, sir?

You gotta wake up, man.

Oh, damn.

- I have no ID here.

- Sir, can you tell me your name?

- What is this?

- Sir, we think you were sleepwalking.

Can you tell me your name, where you live?

- I'm meeting Jules.

- Who's Jules?

- She's helping me with my experiments.

- Experiments?

Do you know where you were meeting her?

[haunting ambient music]

- I don't remember.

- [Cop] Whoa, whoa.

What is your name, sir?

- I don't know.

- [Cop] It's okay, it'll come.

Why don't you take a ride with us?

- Where are we going?

- Somewhere we can get you all sorted out.

Take a seat.

- I think we should just get started.

- He'll be here, I promise.

Let's just give it a minute.

- Not a great way to start the grand experiment, Jules.

[people chattering]

- Jules, a word.

Jules, the sensory lab is for legitimate, scientific study,

preferably the type of study that's going to bring

research funding into the university.

And I finally read this.

I can say with complete confidence

that this is nonsense, the stuff of science fiction.

- Professor, with all due respect,

we know that what we perceive with the human senses

is just a fraction of what's occurring around us,

and we also know that we can rewire the brain.

If we can figure out how to guide that rewiring,

we unlock limitless sensory potential.

- You're square pegging it.

Rewiring the brain is one thing, but this sixth sense,

seeing beyond what is seeable mumbo jumbo is lunacy.

- We don't see with our eyes.

We don't hear with our ears.

We don't taste with our tongue.

It's all done in the brain.

And since that's true, it's possible,

truly possible, that, with the right sensory input,

that- - Stop!

Okay, please, just stop.

No more soliciting subjects,

no more of this so-called doctor of yours,

and no more of this movie of the week gobbledygook.

You have a directive already.

Stick to it or I'm banning you from the lab

and turning your project over to another team.

- What the hell, Jules?

- What?

- You lied to us.

- Now he's threatening to take our project away.

Why would you do this?

- Because it won't fix her.

- The sleeves?

Of course it won't fix her.

That's not the point.

- [Student] You realize your sister's still here, right?

- Of course I do.

- Maybe instead of avoiding her on your quest to fix her,

you could actually try to be part of her life.

I'm sure she'd appreciate being seen

as more than a reminder of your stupid mistake.

[soft electronic music]

- I gotta go.

[soft electronic music]

- No.

No.

I don't wanna see you.

Don't you understand?

I have so little time, and I have to finish.

- You just need to get all the pieces.

And then you can come home.

[soft electronic music]

[phone chimes]

- Hello?

Yes, this is she.

Mister who?

Oh.

Oh, yes.

Is everything okay?

I'm sorry that I lied to you.

And I know you're both really mad at me,

and I screwed up,

and that you both probably think I'm crazy,

but they found Amberger,

and I really want your help.

- Who's they?

- [Cop] You ever make it over to Idaho?

- Oh, hey.

- Boise PD ran some prints.

- I lost the biggest fish of my life in Idaho.

Fought that thing for nearly an hour.

Then it just slipped the line.

Nicknamed him Goliath.

Anyway, what have you got?

- [Cop] Boise PD ran some prints for an old case.

- Heinrich Kline. - Yeah.

Apparently, he was developing some top secret tech

and then decided he wanted to keep it.

- I can't imagine 30-year-old technology's worth a damn now.

- Well, Uncle Sam seems to think it's worth a trip.

- Fishing alone is worth a trip.

Have you alerted Boise PD?

- Yeah.

They're making the call right now.

- [Cop] Lucky we found your number stuffed inside his pocket.

- Well, is he okay now?

- He seems to have his head screwed on straight,

for now at least.

- Jules. - Doc!

What happened, are you okay?

- Yeah, I'm much better now.

- This is Officer Sternes.

- We better jump on this one right away.

- Are we talking about the fishing or the case?

- Exactly.

- Who's Mr. Kline?

Why have you been lying to us?

- I assure you, everything I shared with you

is real and possible.

- He's wanted by the FBI.

- He's what? - He's what?

Why?

- Stealing government property.

- I didn't steal anything.

I simply kept my research.

- We'll keep him here.

FBI, they want us to hold that Kline character.

- That might be a bit of a problem.

- I've put a lot of faith in you.

This means a lot more to me

than I think that you understand,

so, please, tell us what is going on.

- Smell with your nose,

touch with your fingers [speaker drowned out].

- [Amberger Voiceover] Her name was Hilda.

She was my whole world, my partner in everything.

- See with your eyes.

- You need Missy to tell you that?

- [Amberger Voiceover] She's the one who helped guide

out experiments to their initial success.

[shimmering electronic music]

It started slowly.

Her muscles would give out suddenly

or she'd be stricken with episodes of fatigue.

Before we could get a handle on what was happening,

it accelerated.

Hilda insisted on continuing the work.

She was convinced the Five held the key to her cure.

- Does anybody else see this?

- It's incredible.

- Just as we had our first breakthrough,

we faced being shut down.

What are they seeing, experiencing?

[shimmering electronic music]

Our higher-ups wanted actionable, usable technology.

I tried to buy some time

with another project we had developed.

We called it the Sonar Suit,

based on bats' use of echolocation,

sonar data translated to electronic pulse

to provide a 360 degree view that subjects

would see all at once.

[shimmering electronic music] [beeping]

[gun bangs]

[shimmering electronic music] [beeping]

[gun bangs]

The problem was, initial tests were so successful,

it caused them to abandon our other sensory research

to concentrate solely on the suit.

So, before all of our work with the Five

was to be filed away in some cavernous void,

and the Sonar Suit sent off to war, I liberated it.

One of the original Five, Toby,

had a quiet place, far from prying eyes,

which he offered up as a safe haven

to continue the work.

So we left and began living as the Ambergers.

There, Hilda helped us reconfigure the Sonar Suit

into a device that we hoped would mimic

the experience of the Five.

- So Hilda's H in the notebook.

- [Amberger] Yes.

- [Sam] What happened to her?

- I don't like this.

I don't think we're ready.

- We've reversed the polarity of the sensors.

We've tested all of our modifications.

- Yeah, but doing this out here, it's too dangerous.

- You and I both know this is the only viable option,

free of electrical interference, radio waves.

- We could've gone into the middle of a field.

- Sure, but it wouldn't have been as romantic.

- Fine...

- But, I am pulling the plug...

- if anything looks like it's going wrong.

Just kiss me.

[quiet music]

Help me get this on.

Here's to discovery.

- Are you sure?

- Never more.

[clicking]

[buzzing]

Tingles.

[buzzing]

- [Amberger] What are you doing?

- It's beautiful.

- Hilda, sit down.

- All those things they saw.

- Sit down!

- The full spectrum.

- Hilda, sit!

Hilda.

[buzzing]

Hilda.

Hilda!

Hilda!

She passed away.

- Is that why you stopped?

- That, and I didn't have all the pieces.

Hilda was gone.

I had a son to raise.

I had to make a choice.

[quiet music]

- You think someone will be coming now?

- [Amberger] The government tends to have

a very long memory.

- How do we finish then?

- Jules, you can't be suggesting we continue this.

- I want to see it through, Max.

- But the man's a fugitive.

- You two have shown me time and again

your remarkable resilience,

meeting all the challenges that life throws at you,

and, Max, you're right, I need to stop seeing

Dana through the lens of my own guilt

and start seeing the same thing I see in both of you,

the thing that Dr. Amberger has finally given me

the language for, sensory enlightenment.

We all know there's something to all this,

something worth exploring.

- Still, Jules, we don't have subjects,

we don't have a lab, equipment.

The government may be after him.

- What if you two are the subjects?

That only leaves three more.

- Only two more, if we return to the quiet place,

and the equipment is there.

- I don't know, Jules.

This is crazy.

[pulsing electronic music]

- Sometimes you have to ask yourself

how far you're willing to go to find the answers you seek.

The next frontier isn't out there,

it's in here.

[pulsing electronic music]

- No matter what, we agree to finish the sleeves.

- Of course.

Sam, how about it?

Are we all in for discovery?

[pulsing electronic music]

- If the paper gets authored, we get top billing,

since we're the enlightened ones.

- Obviously.

- So, the local PD accidentally released our Mr. Kline.

Apparently, he left with a young woman

named Jules Christopher.

I guess she's a university student

working something they call a sensory lab,

which, based on Kline's file, is right up his alley.

I'd say that's our first stop.

Hey.

- Oh, great work.

Hey, there's a local fly shop nearby.

What do we say we hit that along the way?

This way, if we get stuck in some cross-country chase,

I have my license.

- I can't tell if you're joking or not.

- I never joke about fishing.

- If we leave now, we can be there before nightfall,

and I'm sure we can find some other subjects on the way.

- Be where by nightfall?

And where have you been?

I thought I warned you about this one.

You missed our appointment.

I've been all over town looking for you,

and then I find you in the company of your colleague,

planning an escape somewhere?

- It's none of your concern.

- Dad, you are my concern.

That's why we're making this move,

so you can get the medical attention you need

and be cared for properly.

- I am much too busy for that nonsense.

- This isn't a negotiation.

Dad, stop!

If only you could put that big brain

of yours to work saving yourself.

- What do you think I'm doing, son?

- Honestly, I have no idea.

I never have with you.

I know I've already lost one parent

to this obsession of yours.

I know I'm barely coming to terms

with what we are facing right now.

- All I'm facing is a deadline to complete the work.

Excuse the pun.

- How can you joke?

- Because what you see as a frightening unknown,

I see as an opportunity for discovery,

my last opportunity.

I miss her, too,

every day, but she, like me,

lived for the discovery.

- So neither one of you took the time to consider me.

- I was trying to save her!

- Yeah?

How'd that work out?

Thank you for bringing him home.

I have him from here.

- Dr. Amberger.

- Thank you, Jules.

I'm very sorry, but I think it's probably best

if you go.

- Wow, Nichols, you gotta get a load of this one.

Look at the size of that brute.

- I was told someone was looking for the sensory lab.

- Yeah, that's us.

[Jules sighs]

- What gives? - His son.

Second person to pull the plug today.

He's putting Doc into a home.

- So what's the plan?

Are we gonna spring him or something?

What?

I thought we were all in for discovery.

- No, I've never heard of a Heinrich Kline.

- Well, we have reason to believe

he may have been in contact with one of your students,

a Jules Christopher.

- Of course. - So you have heard of him.

- Well, no, but...

He may not be going by that name.

- Welcome to the last place you're ever going

to call home, most likely.

- Well, I can certainly smell the death.

- Well, color me lucky 'cause I can't smell a thing.

I think that's what keeps my sunny disposition

going all day long.

- No sense of smell?

Very interesting.

- Well, let's just say I really enjoyed [sniffs] the '80s.

But I'm clean and sober now.

Darned if the old sniffer didn't give up on me, though.

[pulsing electronic music]

- He may have figured out we were coming.

Or we might not be the only thing

catching up with him.

- I study something called sensory enlightenment

in individuals like you.

- I'm gonna have to have you hold that thought right now

as I introduce you to your [whistles] new abode.

There's the dresser, closet.

Restroom's through there.

You can add to or subtract furnishings

and bring in some personal bling, if you prefer.

Important details.

Breakfast is at 6:30, lunch 11:00, dinner 4:45.

We've got games, we've got TV,

we've got exercise classes, field trips to the zoo,

local plays, things like that.

Now I'm on the day shift,

although there's talk of moving me to the night shift.

That's on account of the head of scheduling,

Joni, who used to be my girlfriend,

is now my ex-girlfriend, and that's on account

of Brenda, who's on the day shift with me,

and the night shift, if you know what I mean.

My name is Stevie.

If you need anything from me, just press that button.

Any questions?

- Peppermint?

- [Stevie] Oh, I don't mind if I do.

- Any sign of him?

- Nothing yet.

- How's that taste?

- Like peppermint I guess.

- Very interesting.

- It is?

- Oh, there's his son.

- I'll come to you, where are you?

[pulsing electronic music]

Never mind, I'll just find your phone.

- Excuse me, son, would you escort me to my room?

- Sure. - It's through the lobby

and down the hall.

- All right.

We're all set up.

We meet a specialist in the morning.

Dinner is in an hour.

What do you wanna do?

You wanna watch some TV or something?

- You should've let me go with her.

I had a plan.

[pulsing electronic music]

- Dad, this is the best place for you now.

- I know what's happening to me, Noah.

- Okay, okay.

But can you just admit that you can't battle

this on your own?

There's a team of doctors here,

specialists that can help you.

- I appreciate what you're saying,

but none of these people can help me.

Only I can help me.

- You'll love my room.

It's decorated in an homage

to America's greatest movie star, Burt Reynolds.

What a dreamboat. - I've gotta go.

Sorry.

- [Nichols] Agent Nichols, FBI.

We need to speak with a patient of yours.

The name's Amberger.

He should've checked in earlier today.

- You never understood.

- You never took the time to explain it.

[phone buzzes]

- Hello?

- The FBI is in the building.

I repeat, they are in the building.

- Who's there?

- Hi.

- You've gotta be kidding me.

For God's sakes, do none of you

get the seriousness of what's happening here?

- We have to go.

- We are not going anywhere.

My father is a sick man, he needs to be here.

- Doc, you don't happen to be on the run

from Johnny Law or something?

- The FBI is coming.

- Yeah, that, apparently for you.

- What, why?

- You think this place is bad,

you don't wanna try federal prison.

It's a real downer.

- [Noah] Dad, what is this?

- [Amberger] The past catching up, son.

- What did you do?

- They wanted to lock everything away,

and I was trying to save your mother.

You're right, I never explained it properly or fully,

and I'm sorry for that.

- I think this is a conversation to have on the way.

- The way?

- [Jules] Out of here.

- Are you sure they're coming for my father?

- Absolutely.

- Thank you.

[pulsing electronic music]

- [Max] Let's go.

- [Stevie] Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

Did you guys plan this?

- What is happening, Dad?

- The work is happening.

Are you coming?

- Me? - Me?

- Both of you.

- If I come with you and finish this,

whatever it is, will you come back here with me

and face what you've done,

face what is happening with you?

- Whatever you want, son.

- All right.

- [Nichols] Where else would residents

normally be right now?

- Well, dinner's not for another 45 minutes,

and it's free time right now,

so anywhere, I guess.

- We could really use that nose of yours, Stevie.

- What nose? - Exactly.

[pulsing electronic music]

- Joni sure can hold a grudge.

What the hell!

[pulsing electronic music]

Woo, yeah, turn on the Dead, fire up a blunt,

it'll be just like the summer of '83.

- Let's go.

- Just one little stop.

[pulsing electronic music]

- I got the plate.

- Great.

Maybe this is a good opportunity for us to regroup-

- John, if you say the word "fishing" right now,

I am going to shoot you!

- Fishing.

- Hello?

Anybody home?

- What are you doing?

- You're feeling the music?

Well, that's what my project does.

Well, is supposed to do.

It's supposed to help you feel sound.

- Yeah.

[Jules sighs]

I'm sorry, I know that I've been distant,

and I feel like I've made an awful situation worse.

- Well, of course, if we get it to work.

Actually, I think that you just solved it.

- Would you be wiling to help me with something?

- Are you up for a road trip?

- We got him. - Yeah?

- Well, we know where they're going anyways.

We think they're headed to a town called McCall.

- All right, when do we head out?

- I sent out an APB with the local sheriff.

We'll head out tomorrow.

- Well, in that case, you need a drinking buddy?

- I drink alone.

- I drink alone.

[waves crash] [soft music]

- [Amberger] Place has hardly changed.

- If it ain't broke.

Gotta say, never thought you'd set foot in here again.

You dying or something?

- Aren't we all?

- Who's the girlfriend?

Seems a little young for you.

- Jules, and how?

- The way the air moves around you when you walk,

and you don't smell old like this one.

- She's a colleague.

Jules, meet Toby, one of the original Five.

- So, that's why you're here.

- It's time, it's time we finished the work.

Is it all still here?

- It's here.

Not sure if it's of much use anymore.

Didn't go so well last time.

- We didn't have all the pieces then.

- So that's what you've got waiting in that old bus.

- Seriously, how are you-

- I'm assuming that you discussed the notion

of sensory enlightenment, being that you

just trekked all the way out here.

- It's just so amazing.

- Well, anyone can get good at anything,

given enough time or practice.

Let's have a look.

- You think they're gonna let us in soon?

I'm starving.

- I think that's his mom.

- You know, you cut something out of your life,

you think it's gone, that's done,

but then you see it again,

and then you realize it was always there

just under the surface,

waiting for you.

- How do we turn it all on?

[machinery hums]

What happened?

- Power surge, I'm guessing.

There's a breaker box in the corner.

- [Jules] Oh, found it.

All right, try now.

- It's not the wiring.

- Can we fix it? - It'll take a while.

We'll have to go through every piece of machinery.

- We don't have a lot of time.

- Do we have a Plan B?

- We improvise.

[gentle electronic music]

- Each one of you represents a loss

of one of the five primary senses.

We believe that you're what's called sensory enlightened,

and we want to explore that enlightenment

and how we might focus it,

working together in a group setting

towards the goal of unlocking what we'll

simply refer to as the sixth sense, for now.

- All right, okay, so this is some sort of club thing?

Right?

I mean, sorry, I'm new.

I just sort of tagged along on this one.

Seemed like a good idea at the time.

- [Jules] [sighs] Maybe you can explain

it better, Dr. Amberger.

- You're doing fine.

- Okay. [sighs]

This is my sister Dana.

And, Dana, you can't hear.

- But you can see.

What are you seeing now?

- So you see me talking,

and you understand what I'm saying.

- While looking at me, can you point

to the painting of the deer in this room?

Look.

- That you're experiencing a level of sensory enlightenment,

the opportunity to experience more of the world

that exists around us beyond what is

limited by our biology.

And, just today, I witnessed Toby

catch and filet a fish without skipping a beat.

- Practice makes perfect.

- Yeah, but you can hear, what is it,

frequencies up to 22 kilohertz?

- Like a bat.

- And our Max here has had ageusia

for as long as he can remember.

- Not as fun as it sounds.

- But that has led to hyperosmia.

- I mean I did smell bubblegum

from across the dining room recently, once.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves.

- Max, it was remarkable.

And, Stevie, you lost your ability to smell,

but you can still taste,

and since the nose is responsible

for part of the flavor of food,

it's remarkable that you still have the receptors

for sweet and sour, salty and bitter.

- This is really cool.

Do her next!

- People like my lovely friend Sam here,

who are paralyzed,

often have something called proprioception.

They can sense what's around them

even though it's not being detected

by any other sense.

- Far out.

- Yeah, exactly.

Alone, these senses are remarkable.

Layered on top of each other, it's possible

that they're, well, superhuman.

- Is he going to get food?

[waves crush]

[Stevie hums]

If we had a bonfire and a case of Keystone Light,

it'd be just like 1989 all over again.

Tough crowd.

- I'm not down with any of this.

- Well, I'm not sure I am, either.

I mean, I'm not even sure what I'm doing here even.

No idea what that girl was going on about.

- [Noah] You can leave, you know.

- Well, not like I thought this through.

You were there.

Had neither car, money, ID.

I am curious.

What if something, something truly amazing was gonna happen,

and I missed it?

I'd hate to miss it.

Wouldn't you?

- Nothing amazing is going to happen.

- It's true then?

- What?

- That your mother died here.

- Yes, it is.

[waves lap]

- [Amberger] You salvaged it.

- I did.

It wasn't easy, either.

- Still work?

- It was short-circuited, but I fiddled

around with it over the years.

What are you planning here, Freddy?

You can't bring her back,

and there ain't no amount of brain rewiring

that's gonna save you.

- I just wanna finish.

- The work?

I know, but why?

Have you even told these kids what happened

the last time you tried this?

Does Noah even know the truth?

- Because of Hilda, we now know it has to be all of you,

just like the first time. - Hell of a cost

for that tidbit of knowledge.

- No, she wanted to see it, Toby,

to feel what you all felt.

There was nothing I could do to stop her.

You know how convinced she was

that it would help her understand how to heal herself.

- And there it is.

If you can honestly tell me right now

that this isn't some cockamamie scheme

to try to save yourself, I might, might,

consider getting the rest of this antique junk

up and running again.

- I've accepted my fate, Toby.

[gentle music]

- Okay, everyone, so until we're up

and operational with our equipment,

we're going to improvise some tactile sensory experiments,

starting with this.

I'm gonna pass this box around to each of you,

and you must draw a picture of what you think is inside.

You can hold it, shake it, smell it, whatever.

The only rule is you cannot look inside the box.

Once everyone has a go, we'll open it,

see what's inside, compare drawings,

and discuss how you made your decisions, okay?

♪ There's been a whole lot of talking, babe ♪

♪ Things I don't want to hear

♪ The only thing that I long to listen to ♪

♪ Is your breathing when you're near ♪

♪ It's dark and lonesome

♪ When you're gone

♪ I hope to see you now

♪ Before too long

♪ Forget what your troubles - How's it coming, old friend?

- Almost done, don't you worry.

♪ Come on home to me

♪ Forget what your troubles seem to be ♪

♪ And come on home to me

- Not long now. ♪ There's lots of things

♪ To see out on the road

♪ Things you won't see back here ♪

Toby? - Yeah?

- I think you're remarkable.

You know, you're the one who made me believe in all this.

- You okay, Freddy?

- I'm perfect. ♪ You've got some place

♪ To get to instead of just going ♪

♪ Forget what your troubles seem to be ♪

I'll be seeing you.

♪ Come on home to me

♪ Forget what your troubles seem to be ♪

♪ And come on home to me

[chattering]

- You can do it, you can do it!

- Dad, what happened that day?

- Well, I realize how this will sound,

but it was something magical.

- I should've known better.

- Our work explored individuals

able to transcend their disabilities,

to find a higher sense.

I think your mother took that transcendence

to another level.

I mean, you feel her, don't you?

I mean, I know you can't see her or touch her,

but you feel her, don't you, son?

She knew her time with us was short

so she figured out how to stay with us a little longer.

Sadly, it meant she needed to take another form.

Cosmic dust to cosmic dust.

- You really are losing your mind, aren't you?

[shouting]

- Why don't you join them, son?

Have a bit of fun.

I think it's time I have a little rest.

- Dad.

[gentle music]

It's a good story.

You're crazy, but thank you.

[gentle music]

♪ Forget what your troubles seem to be ♪

♪ And come on home to me

♪ Forget what your troubles seem to be ♪

♪ And come on home to me

- Are you sure this isn't just an excuse to go fishing?

- Listen, you cover the road, I'll cover the water.

We know they're in one of these cabins

on the east side of the lake.

This way, we get a 360 degree view if we split up.

- I really wanna believe you.

- Let's go get this guy.

[Toby sighs]

[machinery hums]

- [Toby] Yes!

[shouting]

- [Stevie] So close, so close.

- Hello, it's working, Freddy.

Freddy?

♪ I wish I could swim

♪ Just like the dolphins

♪ Like dolphins can swim

- Almost, almost! - You're amazing!

- Wait, something's wrong.

Something's coming.

- Why does it smell like gunmetal and Chanel Number Five?

- He's gone, he's gone!

- Freeze. [gun clicks]

Turn around slowly.

Now where's Heinrich Kline?

Amberger, or whatever he's calling himself now.

- Gone.

- What is he doing?

[jagged music]

- Sir, are you blind?

- Just my eyes.

Say, if you don't mind lowering that,

I gotta go see a friend of mine

before he does something really foolish.

- Is your friend Amberger?

- That's the one.

♪ You will be queen

♪ And nothing

♪ Can drive us away - What is he doing?

- Something stupid.

♪ We could be heroes

- You should've let me go with her.

I had a plan.

- We've already had this talk.

I'm not doing it again.

- But none of these people can help me.

Only I can help me.

Cosmic dust to cosmic dust.

- What is he doing?

Does that boat run?

- It does.

♪ Standing

♪ By the wall

♪ And the guns, the guns

- The doctor is in trouble.

- What do we do?

♪ And we kiss

- [Sam] We go get him.

♪ So nothing could fall

♪ And the shame

♪ Was on the other side

♪ Oh, we can beat them

♪ For ever and ever

♪ Then we can be heroes

♪ Just for one day

- It's almost time.

♪ We can be heroes

- Haven't seen him.

- Unbelievable.

♪ We can be heroes

♪ We

♪ We can be heroes

♪ Just for one day

♪ We can be heroes

- Dad.

[buzzing]

- It is beautiful.

- Doc!

[buzzing]

[gentle music]

- Hey, hey, guys, are you seeing this?

[buzzing music]

- What is it?

- I have no idea.

[gentle music]

- I do.

[gentle music]

- [Amberger Voiceover] You may be asking yourself, why,

why bring you to this place and then leave you.

Well, it's simple.

You have everything you need right in front of you,

and I, well, I am needed elsewhere.

I chose you because the work is personal to you,

and when it's personal, you see it through,

and, despite others trying to beat it out of you,

you haven't lost your sense of wonder

and your zeal for discovery.

I'm going to guess that when I push out in a moment,

our sensory-enabled friends are going

to be the first to notice and probably

the first to start out after me.

Let them be your guide as you take this work

further than I could have ever imagined.

By now, you may have figured out

you just had your first experience

with the multiplier effect,

those senses layered on top of one another

to reveal the sixth sense,

which is ultimately our shared humanity.

You're probably also thinking that it was

a failed experiment, but you're wrong.

If everyone came together in that water,

and if they're standing beside your right now,

I can tell you, it succeeded beyond my wildest dreams.

Now, take a breath, and go forward.

- What's next?

- [Amberger Voiceover] You know what to do.

- We finish the work.

[pulsing electronic music]

[piano music]

[shimmering music]