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HIDDEN RESERVES

Starting identification.

Identification confirmed.

Have a safe journey.

- Excuse me, Mr. Baumann. I must ask you... - Biometric scan?

The threat level is now "substantial".

Vincent Baumann, insurance agent, death insurance field sales.

Thanks for your trouble.

Body temperature falling.

36.1 degrees Celsius.

36.0 degrees Celsius.

35.9 degrees Celsius.

Initiating vital signs simulation.

- Identity check. - Stop!

- Hands behind your heads! - Remove the masks!

Mask off!

Suspicion of assisted suicide and manipulating vital signs.

Against the fence!

Suspicion of assisted suicide and manipulating vital signs.

Identity check.

29.5 degrees Celsius and falling.

Initiate emergency resuscitation and life support! Prevent cooldown!

- Put into permanent vegetative state. - No! Let her die!

- Credit negative! - Mother!

No death insurance.

Mother!

- Stop! - Against the fence!

Most people repress thoughts of death, yet death means peace.

See what'll happen if you die in debt, Mr. Karner?

You'll be kept alive artificially to pay off your debts.

We all have capacities that can be activated after natural death.

Even if your organs or motor functions are useless, they'll find a use for you.

In the data center, perhaps. The brain is an excellent storage medium.

Your profile tells me you base your actions on reason.

You know you can never entirely eliminate the risk of dying with debt.

You can be totally secure about death only if you purchase death insurance.

More heavy breathing. Karner has a fear of suffocation.

You've got it.

You should get the policy now, while you're still of sound mind.

Moreover, I can offer you the best rate right now.

Only our personalized coverage package guarantees

that you won't spend your retirement in a permanent vegetative state.

Identity uploaded.

Stop!

Verifying identity.

Identity confirmed.

Okay. Move along.

- They got Chris and Frank. - I know. And you? Are you all right?

Someone must've betrayed us.

No one else knew about the operation.

I'm worried about Chris and Frank. They'll pressure them.

Unless we get them out in time.

We'll never get in without proper IDs.

- I have to. - Can you manage it today?

My contact is out there. I can't back out now.

Lisa!

- May I get you a drink? - Something to celebrate?

Whenever I see you, yes.

You wanted identities.

ID, Verification Level 2.

Philip, I need 3+.

I can't procure those.

Suppose I could get you Level 3 IDs, would you come with me?

Where to? To the parallel society?

- This is the parallel society. - From your point of view.

Give me two days and you'll have them.

Vincent, please!

You don't want to end up as data storage, Mrs. Hoffmansthal.

- You don't mince words. - I want to spare you Geriatrics.

The first generation, she was your age.

She is now 102 and won't be detached from the tubes for another 98 years.

You deserve to find peace.

When the time comes.

Vincent, I don't want to think about dying now.

Call it peace in the beyond.

You think only of business.

If you'd like to sleep on it, I won't pressure you.

No, let's finalize it now.

Payment in instalments or...

a one-time lump sum?

Diana Dorn, leave a message.

Hoffmansthal finalized.

So you finalized Hoffmansthal. Congrats.

You had bad luck with her. That happens.

Not to you.

I work with the profiles she gives us, just as you do.

Vincent, can you swap one of your profiles with me?

- I get only useless ones. - The profiles aren't to blame.

People sense you need to close to secure a living for you and your wife.

- Dietrich, you sweat. Clients smell that. - I need to close a deal.

Then reel him in, this Sokulov.

- If they demote me, it'll be... - Wladimir Sokulov speaking.

Mr. Sokulov, I'm glad I reached you.

This call could alter your life, or your death.

Your ASV number is 42148914.

Our profile analysis shows you are slightly underinsured

for accidents and death.

- That's distracting. - Get to the point!

Sorry. I'm back with you.

Without a death insurance policy, you...

- Congratulations. - Your profile was perfect.

- Teamwork. - Down to the music. Forever and ever...

- Why is everyone so tense? - Data sets were manipulated.

- A mole in our department? - Our outside informants are at risk.

- Keep that to yourself for now. - Copy that.

I'll see you later.

A power outage of at least 15 hours is required

for them to cool down to where they can no longer vegetate

and become economically useless.

At a body temperature of below 20 degrees, even resuscitation is futile.

And that means that they can die.

As with everything else, Geriatrics is secured against power failure.

But not against the unlikely event

of three incidents at once.

That would have a cascade effect

and trigger a power supply shutdown throughout the sector.

Geriatrics would be shut down for 48 hours as well.

The emergency generators are the real problem.

They can only be manipulated on-site,

and that means at least one of us must go in there.

I'll get Level 3 identity verification from my contact by tomorrow night.

That will give us unrestricted access to all sectors.

Diana Dorn, leave a message.

Karner finalized.

- What's up? - I was rammed. Second time this week.

- Activists? - Who else?

- Is everything under control? - Of course.

- Is the deputy there as well? - Yes.

He's very keen to promote you.

Your profile shows you are not committed to

or responsible for anyone.

Depends how you define responsibility.

Children, for example.

What relevance do children have to you?

Necessary for the preservation of society, yet also a risk.

Imaginable at a reasonable time.

Depending on the profile, of course.

I assume you know about the leak in our department.

Yes, I informed him.

Then you'll understand that verifying employee loyalty is our top priority.

We welcome your wish for promotion,

yet it means you're no longer content in your current job.

Thus, you'll be unable to do it satisfactorily in the future

as you'll no longer be as motivated as younger contenders.

So you will be demoted if your request is not granted.

- You are aware of that? - Yes.

Mr. Baumann, what do you expect from Internal Service?

Equilibrium.

Oxytocin level climbing.

Progesterone flow constant.

Estrogen level constant.

Testosterone concentration nine nanograms per milliliter

Adrenaline level attained.

Endorphin production 20 percent...

25 percent...

Maximum oxytocin circulation.

Dopamine release ensuing.

Serotonin production 97 percent.

Equilibrium attained.

Stay away from Dietrich.

What?

His company is beneath you now.

I keep no company.

Then I wonder why you didn't report it.

What?

That Dietrich asked you to swap profiles with him.

Vincent!

Philip.

- I'm back. - Congratulations.

Profiling Manager Diana Dorn.

I'm sorry to inform you that management

has parted with a longtime employee.

Mr. Dietrich was demoted.

Yet I am delighted that we could replace him

with an experienced colleague.

Allow me to introduce Philip Kessler.

I expect you all to make every effort you can to assist him.

Thank you.

May I?

Sentimental?

By no means.

A gift.

Is he leaving you in the lurch?

- Where are you going? - To his place.

- Philip? - Who is it?

- I'm looking for Philip Kessler. - No Kessler here.

- What do you want? - Where is he?

- Uh... Now listen... - Where's Kessler?

Who?

- Kessler. - We just moved in here.

- How did you get in here? - It was allotted to us.

- By whom? - The insurance company, European All Risk.

We don't know where this Kessler is and have no contact to him.

We'd really like to unpack in peace.

The corporation put them up here. That can't be a coincidence.

What exactly did you tell Kessler?

He knows nothing about our plan.

How far did you have to go to get him to provide you with identities?

Gerhard, you set me onto him.

He promised you a Level 3 identity.

Just like that?

He found out nothing from me about us or our mission.

And now I'm going to see if there's a link here.

Hello, what can I do for you?

I'd like to transfer this death policy to my unborn child.

Dietrich.

Please double-check the data.

And confirm it.

Processing transfer of insurance.

- Him, and you go into Internal Service. - Wladimir Sokulov.

- Isn't he Dietrich's... - His suicide is unrelated.

Was Dietrich in on the data manipulation?

Before jumping he signed over his death insurance to his unborn child.

And he thought he'd evade responsibility by being squashed.

- His wife is pregnant? - Management needs this deal.

A self-made man from the East, with ties to management and the board.

Widower, one daughter.

She lives in the satellite, voluntarily, no special status. Is she an activist?

You weren't just there. You tailed him.

Him recognizing me wasn't chance.

The corporation sent him. What was his task?

Task? What are you talking about?

- He was demoted. - Did he get into trouble?

They only assigned him to people they knew wouldn't sign a contract.

Was he given any contacts here?

Whatever schemes you may be involved in, my husband had no part in them.

They say everyone's responsible for his own life,

then they send him after people like that snob.

If anyone's to blame for my husband's death, it's his employers.

Or clients, like that Mr. Sokulov.

The Lisa Sokulowa file, please.

Typical corporation childhood.

Well-protected in the security zone.

WAS VODKA A FACTOR?

FAMILY TRAGEDY ON WEEKEND

Was the daughter part of Dietrich's sales strategy?

I supply the profiles, Vincent. You determine strategy yourselves.

He didn't coordinate that with me.

His daughter.

Put both profiles next to each other.

She has death insurance, he doesn't.

Yes?

Baumann, insurance agent. I have an appointment.

Please wait a moment.

- Don't smoke so much. - Don't sidestep me.

You're evading responsibility, as you did with Mom.

Now that's unfair.

After all, you exploited her condition. For profit.

Speak German to me.

One cannot behave healthily in a sick environment.

That you helped create.

Now you're blaming me for something I'm not responsible for.

I know, you had nothing to do with the further development.

You went into seclusion. You can afford to do that.

I always considered it my responsibility

to keep you out of it.

Something I obviously failed to do.

And I consider it my responsibility to intervene and help these people.

Why do you expose yourself to all that?

Why do you think? Because of you.

Sorry.

I'm well insured, if that eases your mind.

Against pain?

Mr. Sokulov will see you now.

Yes, certainly.

They have an unquenchable thirst.

Baumann, death insurance coverage.

Smell that.

- Nutmeg. - The smell keeps pests away.

And to us it is intoxicating.

May I offer you something, Mr. Baumann?

No thank you.

Thank you, Nikolai.

I assume you know my profile.

You made an enviable fortune developing IT security systems.

You're a widower with a daughter.

She is attractive, feisty, married three times

to circumvent residency rules.

Suspected of ties to activists.

I thought you were here about me

and now this is about my daughter?

It surprised me that you took out death insurance for your daughter

but not yourself.

May I?

As you know, highly-qualified debtors are often used as visionaries after death.

Their abilities as mediums surpass those of GPS systems.

And they're invaluable agents for information

that cannot be preserved via traditional means.

We all have a store of mental data that exceeds our conscious knowledge.

That data can be tapped into and decoded.

Let's assume, please allow me this hypothesis,

your daughter had contact with activists.

Then, as a visionary, your empathy for her would put us on her trail,

tip us off to potential illegal activities and help us preempt them.

Don't waste your time.

I won't be blackmailed with hypotheses.

What you're showing me here was once called torture.

And its benefit is no less questionable now than it was then.

You cannot deny the benefit of preserving vital functions

for uses no one would agree to of their own free will.

As a surrogate mother, for example.

I'm hardly suitable for that.

I'm speaking of your daughter.

We both know she is rebellious.

If she finds out that you took out death insurance for her against her will

she's very likely to transfer the policy to someone else in need.

I see that you've studied our profiles in great detail.

And you're right.

Lisa is not concerned about her own security,

but about the right to die.

Whether you treat the knowledge of my daughter's insurance with discretion

is up to you.

I won't be blackmailed with that.

You see, Mr. Baumann, I built my fortune

on people's mistrust.

In the meantime, however, I have realized

that true worth

resides in trust.

I am beginning to feel gratitude towards you and your colleagues.

You've accomplished what seemed impossible to me in recent years.

I am beginning to understand my daughter.

Mr. Baumann, goodbye.

Sokulov, not finalized.

I don't know what happened. Finding his daughter there threw me off.

In any case, nothing worked as per profile.

You had your chance, Vincent.

You know what must be done.

Due to your sensitive area of operation I must take some security precautions.

Would you please?

Please don't take it personally that we have to reprogram your RFID chip.

You'll be equipped appropriately for your new challenges.

You'll have no access to company electronics and servers.

Your communication tools will be run externally.

Personal access will be restricted.

Your ID verification will be set back to Level 1.

From now on you'll receive no salary, only commissions.

Resetting ID verification...

You'll still solicit new clients, but will not close contracts.

Your work is merely a cover.

What we need are informers.

You're trained in operational psychology, making you ideal for their recruitment.

We want the activists, Vincent.

This immunizes you against sensory impressions that cause culture shock.

I'll give you a ration of emergency vials of Desens CHK4-47 to take orally.

Take it in situations you feel you can't cope with emotionally.

For negative impressions, but also for ones that seem positive at first.

Culture shock can damage the nervous system and be lethal.

Dr. Fischer, please proceed to Neurosurgery.

Bastard! Get lost!

Welcome to the other side.

The cars are back there.

Come on.

- Reisinger? - Here. Nationwide, theft.

Here, take it.

- Janovski? - Yes. General Insurer, social security.

- The little one. - There?

- Yeah. Zuberer? - Yes. Union, liability.

Over there, the van.

- Baumann, European All Risk, death. - Enjoy the ride.

West Sector 3, Settlement N, Apartment Block 207, Number 449.

The route has been calculated.

Follow the road for another 1.5 kilometers

and then take a left-hand turn.

Money! Give me money!

- Give it here! Stop! - Money!

- The next one! - Block him!

Drive straight for 200 meters and then turn left.

Turn left 100 meters ahead.

RIGHT TO DIE

Turn left.

Get lost! Die!

You've missed the turn off.

Next possibility, turn left.

West Sector 3, Settlement N, Apartment Block 207.

You have reached your destination.

Water please.

What brings you to the backward sectors?

After admiring your show I'm tempted to say you.

- One of your sales lines? - Even I have time off.

- Spending it here? - I was transferred.

- Demoted for not swaying your dad. - Excuse my lack of pity.

Have you ever considered death insurance?

My entire life.

Chris!

Lisa!

I made it out.

They put Frank to...

They killed him and reanimated him as a visionary.

You have to get him out of there.

- In a week they'll have him ready. - What else did you find out?

Then they plan on using him to find us.

We have to get Chris out of here without the guy out there noticing.

Can you manage to get rid of him?

You'll have it tough finding friends.

It's obvious you're an insurance salesman.

- Sorry, insurance agent. - Who says I want to meet people?

Then what are you looking for here?

- I hoped to hear you sing again. - Two compliments in one evening.

Highly suspicious.

I quit.

- Now you're starting again on my account? - How's your father?

Still working? This is still about my father's insurance and you want me...

I want him to sign off, yes. But that's not why I'm here.

I know not to expect your help in that matter.

Does it say that in my profile?

- Are you going to sing again? - Tomorrow.

You coming?

Hello, Lisa.

- Is she here? - She's waiting.

- Everything ready? - Yes, ready for pickup.

WAS VODKA A FACTOR?

FAMILY TRAGEDY ON WEEKEND ALEXANDRA SOKULOWA'S MYSTERIOUS END

He's back again. Table 3.

We found out that he really was demoted.

Company loyalty wanes in such times. This is our chance.

So you want me to bait him?

We're running out of time.

Hello?

Diana?

Lisa.

Oh!

Am I disturbing you?

No, not at all. I'm surprised.

- Prepare to be disappointed. - Am I banned from the Casanova Bar?

On the contrary, I want a date with you.

A business date, that is.

- So you do want to conclude a contract? - How risky is it for my father?

I mean, to be underinsured if he dies?

Well, if an unfavorable chain of events occurs...

And what sum are we talking about?

You want to buy him a death insurance contract?

He's my father, and you need to close on him.

To be honest, I doubt you have the funds to pay your father's policy rate.

- You'd have to switch milieus. - Are you saying I should go back? No!

- Then you'll have to sway him. - No one can sway him, as you should know.

You have to blackmail him.

What do you mean?

Since my mother's death he's wanted to get me death insurance.

I could agree, provided that he insures himself too.

Mr. Baumann? Are you still there?

Ms. Sokulova,

you are insured.

What?

By my father?

- Void the policy. - You know what that means for you?

Can I transfer the policy to him?

Theoretically, yes.

But I ask you not to rush into that.

Thanks for coming.

I got the painkillers. I got sedatives as well.

You have to promise me, Lisa...

when the time comes

I don't want to be put in Geriatrics.

They'll make a visionary of me.

You can't let that happen!

- I won't let it happen. - Promise me!

Or you'll have to hire meat grinders.

We'll manage it without them.

I promise you that.

Lisa Sokulova's death insurance, class A3, is transferred to Christopher Kowalski.

D-.

Due to the credit rating risk this downgrade means a loss of 12 points.

Please double-check the data and confirm.

Processing transfer of insurance.

Credit affirmative. Death insurance present.

Withdraw!

She did what?

I thought she wanted to transfer it to her father.

Sokulov? There've been new developments.

Just after 2:00 p.m. a tragic collision occurred in the city.

Wladimir Sokulov lost control of his car.

Just like what happened to his wife.

His sedan hit eight-year old Sebastian M., who died at the scene.

Rescue workers recovered Wladimir Sokulov and took him to the public trauma center.

- Did they seize the car electronics? - Investigations are ongoing.

- But he had accident insurance. - He injured others through his own fault.

That makes this a clear case of underinsurance.

And now?

- What'll happen to him? - He's sedated due to injuries.

Till the extent of fault is determined his accounts are blocked,

all payments halted and his property sealed off.

Congratulations.

You've made an example of him.

Vincent, no conspiracy theories, please.

He provoked us, but would we go to all that effort? No.

- His daughter will... - Yes, his daughter.

Make no more mistakes with her.

If you hope to come back here,

you must regain her trust, get closer to her, deliver results.

To that end, your ID verification level will be raised back to 3+ at once.

Exploit that leeway.

I have nothing to do with it.

- It was an accident. - An accident?

- Calling it that is... - I'm sticking to the official version.

- But you know the unofficial version? - If I did, I wouldn't be here.

- If you had insured your father... - That was your plan.

As soon as I transferred my policy to someone else

my father became an insurance case.

My father is still alive.

Insure him now.

I can't do that.

Then stay out of my way.

The watch. What do you want for the watch?

Then forget it.

There's no excuse for your deceitfulness.

- And no basis for your presumption. - You're tailing me.

You're on-site at task force raids.

You let me think your dad was getting it.

Someone else needed my insurance urgently. And you initiated that.

No, not me.

I'm supposed to believe you?

Yes.

I assumed you were desensitized.

Don't leave.

Lie down with me again.

- That's gaining trust? - I was to get close to her.

And risk a culture shock. She tricked you, Vincent.

What did she use my identity for?

We now know what she was after.

3+ identities.

- I'll get her. - Leave her be.

Act sore, but stay on her. We want the entire cell.

That ID theft definitely cost us our contact.

And you did that just to get him out of the trauma center.

You're undermining our plan.

- Gerhard, he's my father. - Yes. You saved him from Geriatrics.

Thus, jeopardizing our plan to switch it off!

To you, Geriatrics symbolizes our foes.

But this is about people and their right to die.

If we don't act in the next few days we won't be able to help anymore.

The contact isn't lost yet.

I'll get him, Baumann.

- It took a bit longer. - That doesn't matter.

Go out the back, we're being watched.

Bye.

Now you know what I used your identity for.

Father!

Localize final phase positioning signal.

You can't go over there.

- Getting yourself arrested won't save him. - Determine identity.

Start emergency resuscitation and initiate life-preserving measures!

Bring into permanent vegetative state.

You can be relied on, Vincent.

- If you'd left her to the task force... - Why didn't you say she got Sokulov out?

Find out what they're planning.

Don't give up now, not so near the end.

Lisa, I didn't call them in.

I didn't know about the task force operation.

Sure, you have nothing to do with that or my father's accident.

You stalk me, yet have nothing to do with anything.

They used me.

- Used... - You used me too.

If everyone uses you, you need to decide what you really want.

I'm supposed to deliver you.

They know you have plans. I'm to inform them.

Cargo check okay. Let him pass. Drive on!

They bring them here, pre-assigned according to qualification:

visionaries, surrogate mothers, data storage, spare organ warehouse.

And how do you know your father will be loaded here as well?

You have only ever seen all of this on your screens, as video images.

Why don't you go see for yourself for once?

Contamination alarm!

Foreign element located.

Inspect the vehicle.

Begin identification of individuals.

Contamination alarm!

Foreign element located.

Begin identification of individuals.

Verify identity.

Dietrich?

Dietrich!

Identify yourself!

- Insurance agent Baumann. - You were localized.

Valid ID. Verification Level 3+.

- System error. - That can happen.

- Keep out of the transport zone limits. - Copy!

Withdraw!

Let's go.

Nothing there at all.

No expression, no stirring.

Void.

Feelings, perhaps.

Yes, perhaps.

Perhaps a remnant of consciousness that can't be communicated.

They say there isn't one, but, to be honest, we don't know.

I can't let them exploit my father in that state for years and years.

You won't manage to get him out of there.

Visionaries are kept in strict isolation.

It isn't just about my father.

You want to cool down Geriatrics entirely and need my identity?

3+.

You can have it.

On one condition.

That you're not the one who goes in.

I'd like to show you something.

Vincent, come on. It's about to start.

You wanted to show me this?

I used to come here often.

As a child.

Would you come over with me?

Where to?

To the parallel society?

You can't even go back by yourself.

It would be a prospect, with you.

You stay here.

With me.

And if it doesn't work?

Then we tried.

I want to be part of it.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, one hundred.

Not the best time to close your accounts, Mr. Baumann.

I didn't pick it myself.

You don't know me. Vincent Baumann.

- A friend of Dietrich's. - I know who you are.

- For you. - I don't want it.

Then take it for your child.

Mr. Baumann, I really can't.

Baumann closed his account.

I know.

Last night he was in the transport zone. Why was he there?

Perhaps for sentimental reasons.

- You gave him too much leeway. - Not more than you had.

You pulled me out.

Promoted. You were emotionally entangled.

So is he.

But this time it's part of the strategy.

Are you sure of this, Mr. Baumann?

- The death insurance too? - That too.

The maximum rate policy.

Death insurance transferred to Ms. Lisa...

Sokulova.

Go ahead.

Transferring insurance.

- Do you have the ID? - Level 3+.

Then we'll do it. Tonight.

He wants to be part of it.

He wants to be part of it?

- You didn't let him in on it? - It was his condition.

We'll put him in Team 1, with Lisa.

He knows we want to cool down Geriatrics. So he knows what his role is.

Here's the run-through.

2:30 a.m., Team 1 short circuits the high-voltage power line on Tower 383.

2:31 a.m., Team 2 will be in the power station.

It will contaminate the meter and signal that Geriatrics needs more power.

2:32 a.m.,

Team 3 will cut the district power supply line.

2:33 a.m., first blackout. The emergency generators will boot up.

Team 4, our man in Geriatrics, will shut down the processor

for the emergency generators with a high-energy electromagnetic pulse.

At 2:40 at the latest, the second...

and decisive blackout.

I'm going in.

Transferring insurance.

- Where's Lisa? - Deployed elsewhere.

You want to cut off all the power?

That's not your worry.

The access data is worthless in a total blackout.

That's why Lisa's already inside.

What?

Caution, automatic transport.

STAFF ROOM CONTROL CENTER

Caution, automatic transport.

Activating emergency power.

We have a malfunction. Please identify yourself biometrically.

Vincent Baumann, insurance agent, field sales.

Gerhard!

He went to get Lisa out.

- What? Baumann? - Yes.

Why aren't you at your post?

He knows Lisa can't get out afterwards without his biometrics.

Lisa! Nice to see you again.

...assumed you'd do anything to let your father die.

Why isn't he hooked up?

His release papers. He can die.

Did you...?

No, you don't have insurance.

Not anymore.

Vincent!

Run!

- Lisa? - We have her under control.

You played along perfectly, just as your profile suggested.

You've been promoted. Teamwork.

Call us when you've recovered.

Where is Lisa?

Withdraw.

Life-preserving functions deactivated.

Body temperature falling.

36.7 degrees Celsius.

36.6 degrees Celsius.

36.5 degrees Celsius.

Let him go.