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We need to tell them the truth.

- Dude, where have you been? - Hey. I'm right here.

Come on. Let's go. Ready? After you.

Put my bag down.

Okay, let's start from the top.

So, for those of you who don't know me,

I come from a background of predictive modeling

with an environmental focus.

I started out as a post-grad with the idea of predicting variation

in bird migration patterns based on climate change projections.

What can I say, I like birds.

Okay, pause here for polite laughter.

No one's gonna laugh. I like birds.

Just try not to look at your notes so much and have fun.

Previous methods of doing that mostly relied

on statistical correlative analysis of tracking data.

But the way I started out, I was correlating bird movement

using decision byte rules drawn from statistical mechanics.

And, yeah, it went from there.

Pretty soon, I'd cooked up a recursively self-improving predictive,

non-obvious relationship matrix. That's pretty dry.

Yeah, but just remember, have fun.

- This is fun. - Okay.

Then a couple of years back, Pavani here stumbled across my work.

- That's your turn. I get to sit down. - Okay. Yes.

Some super obscure research paper.

Long story short... And this is all my bit. Yeah, okay.

We seed investment, offer Allie a spot on the incubator.

Because at this point, it is very clear

that the relationship matrix has a number of real-world applications.

That's you.

For example, governments and NGOs

are using satellite data to predict the spread of H1N1,

avian flu, cholera, malaria.

And sure, they get decent results.

They get workable results.

But we, we get better results.

By extrapolating data in a way that hadn't been possible until now,

we can micro-target populations vulnerable to climate-based disruption.

Because political instability, climate change,

economic unrest, famine, war,

Pandemics, these things exist in

- kind of a weather pattern... - Okay, wait.

We need to work that middle section. It's not...

Why?

Because we're selling positives here, not disasterbation.

- That's a stupid word. - I appreciate you very much too.

But let's dial back on the famines and pandemics,

the whole end of days vibe.

And, you know, throw in a couple of pandas.

Keep things upbeat.

Hey, where you going?

Let's just start again tomorrow.

Dude, we're almost there. Just one more rehearsal.

Just think less Ebola and more dolphins, couple of penguins.

All right, more penguins.

Come on, man, just... It's super important.

- I have to go talk to my wife. - What? Is this good news?

Are you guys back together?

- It... - Yeah.

Look, do what you gotta do. But let's just...

let's pick up tomorrow, okay?

- Bright and early, do not be late. - Totally. I won't be late.

Okay.

Jesus Christ.

Hey, how are you? Good to see you.

Hey, it's good to see you too.

So?

So, yeah. Sorry, I'm here. Just...

I've been noodling with this idea that might help you guys out.

Ice.

You see that? Civilization, right?

It's hot there. You're gonna need that.

Do you know what's civilization?

It's basic infrastructure, sewage, water, lights.

We need builders and engineers, Allie.

You know I would love to, but I can't.

Why not?

I got responsibilities.

To what?

It's not what, it's them.

And you know that.

Except she doesn't want you, Allie.

She's made that perfectly clear. But us?

We could really use you down here.

Well, the invitation's open.

If you ever decide you wanna get away,

you know you've got a place down here, people who need you.

- You're late. - Didn't really sleep.

But I'm sorry.

Are you okay? You look a little...

Yeah. Just... I got this thing coming up.

You know, they're making me jump through hoops with the East Coast guys.

That's what happens when you sell your soul.

To support our family, so your parents didn't have to?

No. It was about you, validated by the money.

Margot...

It's not about the money.

Daddy!

There she is. Hi there.

I got a silly monkey around my neck.

How am I supposed to get you off?

What did you do? What are you doing?

- Should I unleash the tickle guns? - No.

No?

- Where's your bag, honey? - Up your butt.

How'd a bag get up my butt?

The cookie monster did it.

- The cookie monster did it? What? - Dina?

Come get your things, sweetheart.

Yes, Mom.

Good girl. Come on.

You want to take your teddy bear? Yeah?

Dina, enough fooling around. Let's go. Daddy's waiting, sweetie.

No rush!

Still trying to get a bag out of my butt.

Okay. It's Daddy Day.

- It's Daddy Day. All right. - Sleepyhead. How are you? Hi.

- Come on. - Come, Dina.

So, how long you been seeing this guy?

- Who? - Here, give me that.

Richard. The North Dakota pipeline thing.

What does it matter?

He's having breakfast in our house.

He's a colleague.

Okay.

Come on, let's walk to the car.

Right now. Go, run! Come on!

Wow.

Come on, you know he wasn't always like this.

Of course he was. People don't change.

They just reveal themselves over time.

I don't want to talk about Allie, okay?

All you need to know is he's not gonna be a problem for us.

And you don't get to insult him in front of me.

That's not something you get to do. Okay?

Yeah. I'm sorry.

Thank you.

- Hey. - Hey.

So, did you get it?

10,000 years ago, there were a million beings.

200 years ago, there were a billion of us.

Okay.

Now, pour some of this in there.

That the melting permafrost releases CO2

and methane gas in such volumes that a cascading tipping point...

The root of the problem of environmental

and animal annihilation is human privilege.

Don't even breathe.

Come on, Allie.

From the moment it began to crystallize,

the American literary canon was regarded as essentially pastoral.

Preoccupied by...

nature and rurality versus urban and thus European and civilized.

But Marinelli suggested that "Arcadia" is, in fact,

"the landscape of an idea.

The middle country of the imagination."

The... "A place of becoming rather than being."

So however good this "good place,"

it was actually a place of better potential.

I mean, there was a whole new world to be subjugated and bound.

And not least by a coast-to-coast railroad network.

So, as a result of which,

the pioneer rather than the shepherd

becomes the key figure in the specifically American pastoral mode.

Thanks so much.

"Becoming rather than being." That was pretty cool.

Allie, I have an appointment.

Wanna, maybe, get a cup of coffee or something?

Not really. Isn't it your day? Your pitch?

In a little bit. I got time.

So, listen, the reason I'm here is...

Hey, can we just talk somewhere?

I have an appointment, Allie, I told you.

Appointment, sure. It's just that... Look, the main thing,

the big thing is your guy Richard.

He's not my guy, he's a guy.

A guy who's hanging out with my kids.

And if he's objecting to human exceptionalism over the Cheerios,

- I wanna know about it. - What's this actually about?

It's about... Tell me this. Tell me one thing.

What's an English professor doing

with a folder full of schematics for some bio-tech lab?

I just...

- You left this thing lying there. - Yeah.

Meaning you had to take a look?

Because it'd be a weird fucking thing to respect someone's privacy, right?

- It's my house. - But it's my folder.

Did he ask you to get that information for him? Richard?

I'm not having this conversation.

Listen. Just hear me out, please. Just for one second.

Now, I know you miss it. The way things were.

The tree-spiking, the batons, the pepper spray.

- The craziness of it all. - You think it was about craziness?

Truthfully? A little bit, yeah. Sometimes.

And sometimes, these days,

I think you're just a little unhappy

because things, you know, went wrong and...

Which one of us are we actually talking about here?

Doesn't matter. Just back off.

Good luck with your pitch.

Dude! Pick up your phone. Where have you been?

I know. Look, I'm sorry. I was just...

You look like shit.

Yeah.

What's wrong?

I mean, honestly, Allie,

it is such a thrilling space for us to be in.

Now, green initiatives and climate crisis mitigation are 100% core

to the company's vision going forward.

But here's the thing, I've been liaising with the OSM.

It's the Office of Strategic Management.

And it occurs to us, well,

the software has any number of marketplace applications.

It could radically disrupt online marketing or supply chain logistics.

But in terms of homeland security,

Allie, we could be looking at a form of predictive intelligence gathering

that is truly disruptive in the space.

Right. But we're not really talking about that, are we?

Now, technically it's not up for discussion.

Your work is our property to disburse as we see fit.

But we're not looking at an either-or here.

More of a both-and kind of deal.

See, government investment in the project underwrites our investment,

and so facilitates all the good and important things that you want to do.

So, I'm sorry, what are you asking?

That you help trial the program in partnership with our new client.

And who is that exactly?

The NSA? Are you fucking kidding me?

Get over yourself. No one's whoring anything to anyone.

They're asking you to trial a program for them.

That's not that much to ask, is it? You kiss one frog.

It's more than a kiss. And it's not on the fucking mouth.

So? Who cares? This is the real world, Allie.

It's the cost of doing business.

Sometimes you gotta shake the hand that feeds you.

Assuming that our species even make it to 2030 without a third world war,

I think that nature herself might take control

of the human catastrophe by producing an even more...

Well, the software has any number of marketplace applications.

It could radically disrupt online marketing or supply chain logistics.

But in terms of homeland security,

we could be looking at a form of predictive intelligence gathering

that is truly disruptive in the space.

Hey! Hey, we've got some kind of incursion here.

Somebody's in!

Kill the session.

Sir, that's the first thing I tried. This user has some sort of rootkit access.

Security assured us that couldn't happen.

A rootkit like this, it's on design level.

Sales and marketing guys won't know it's there.

All right. Let's get a team down there.

We have a team on the way. We're heading up now.

They're gone.

So that's the story? That's it.

You hacked a database?

Illegally accessed. Different thing.

What was even on it?

Metadata.

Fucking metadata.

That had been illegally gathered on American citizens.

Who gives a shit?

Turns out, only the government.

Not the people whose information got hoovered up.

Give me convenience or give me death, right?

You don't do this. You don't run away and hide.

You do what anyone does in America. You hire a lawyer.

Except we're talking about violating the Espionage Act of 1917.

Theft of government property, maybe.

Willful retention of national defense information.

Best lawyer in the world? I was facing 35 years.

For looking.

Yeah. At stuff they didn't want me to.

Mom...

And what, you just... you dropped everything

and went with him?

Yeah.

Mom, what about your career? Your life?

Why?

Because he's your dad and I love him.

We got him.

Thank you, guys.

Hey, Allie.

I'm Agent Raban. Agent Pinto.

Sorry to have kept you waiting for so long.

You comfortable? Get you anything? A cup of coffee?

No. I'm good, thanks.

Good. Good, good, good.

So... We're very interested to know what...

what you were doing, hacking into a secure government database.

I wasn't hacking anything. I was just accessing a database, you know.

You guys are running a trial using the software that I designed,

so I got curious.

- Took a peek. - You took a peek.

When you say you took a peek,

you mean you exploited some sort of undisclosed backdoor of your own design?

Which looks less like tire-kicking than malicious infiltration.

With respect, that's bullshit.

Just wanted to know what you were doing with it.

Why?

- Because it's mine. - Not by law.

By rights.

Hey, Allie, you know Orville Wright?

- Guy that invented the airplane? - Sure.

It turns out that he was around long enough

to see newsreels of Enola Gay dropping the bomb on Hiroshima.

And how'd he feel about that?

No one knows. And nobody gives a shit.

Okay. Point taken. Lesson learned. Can I go now?

So, you and your wife...

Margot, right?

- Yes. - You and she have a...

a background in, what do we call it, Agent Pinto?

Direct action?

Domestic terrorism.

If that's what you want to call a bunch of kids

waving around a bunch of pickets in front of Walmart, sure, yeah.

- You okay? - Yeah.

You ready?

No, no, no.

I think you're doing yourself a disservice there.

Looks like Margot got herself arrested a bunch of times.

Back in her wild days, huh?

Sabotaging logging operations, tree-spiking,

chaining herself to this... and that.

A naked protest at an arms fair.

She was pretty cool, right?

See, I guess the thing of it is,

we're interested in why you would piggyback into a government server

just to access information on this one particular guy.

Beaumont? Right?

What do you want me to say, you know?

The guy's sleeping with my wife,

so I just, you know, figured maybe I could dig up some dirt on him.

We've all been there, I guess.

Or somewhere like it.

Did you find anything?

Here's where we are.

I'd like us to be friends on this thing.

You're a clever guy.

It's your baby, you made it.

We'd like you to be a part of it.

Now, what happened tonight? Make no mistake, you broke the law.

But the way I see it, you were in a bad place

and you got tempted to do what any man would in your situation.

A little peek inside Pandora's Box, huh?

So I'm willing to let that slide.

But this is a one-strike deal.

You pull this kind of shit again, we hang you out to dry.

Rain down the kind of force majeure that'll make your head start spinning

like that little girl in The Exorcist.

Government will prosecute, you will go to jail,

and you'll be seeing your kids from behind glass.

We clear on that?

Hey. We clear on that?

Sure.

I guess you're free to go.

Margot, it's me.

Listen to me. Please listen to me.

You gotta stop what you're doing.

I'm coming to find you. Just stop. Just wait.

He's home.

There are people still working.

It's usually empty by 2:00 a.m.

Let's go.

- Hey! - Hey, Brendan.

- How are ya? - I'm good.

- Good. You wanna come in? I got... - No.

Say, how would you like to make the quickest 500 bucks you've ever made?

Okay, he's on the move.

Stay with him. See what he's up to.

Come on, come on, give me something.

That's it, sir. We're locked out.

Of what?

Everything. The entire project.

This guy completely salted the earth.

- Good night. - Night.

Good night.

Don't worry, they're all gone. The place is empty.

The genetic material is in here somewhere.

Then this is it.

Genetic modification at work.

Margot.

Fuck, she works here. We have to go back.

- We can't. - Yeah, we can!

- There isn't time. - There is time.

There isn't time!

Fuck!

There's nothing we can do.

You fucking prick.

Fuck you.

Shit!

Wait! Wait!

Stop! Stop.

Stop!

Hey!

Hey! Hey!

Oh, God. Oh, God.

Hey! There's a bomb.

You gotta get out!

How'd you find me?

Margot, we have to get out of here, now.

Margot, come on. Let's go.

There's no point. They're coming for me anyway.

Me too.

Allie, whatever you think you did tonight,

you know you can walk it back.

But this?

There's no way to make it right.

She left her phone. I tried to stop her.

Look, there's nowhere for me to go.

They'll be looking forever, so you need to leave and take the kids.

Please.

The kids need us both.

So, we're just going to keep lying to them?

Their whole lives?

Well, just... It seemed better for them to keep blaming me than to blame you.

What good's that going to do for anyone?

Fine, then. Go ahead, tell them. Wake them up.

Tell them. I don't know why you'd want to do that, but...

Fine, tell them.

Margot, it doesn't matter.

None of it matters.

Look, getting us this far, it didn't go the way I'd hoped, but...

I'm sorry. But that's behind us now, and we've made it.

Everything's gonna be different from now on.

Easy-breezy.

People don't change, Allie. They just reveal themselves over time.