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[ominous music playing]

[beeps, swooshes]

Briggs.

Hey, Briggs.

They want you at work.

They want you now.

[sighs]

It's 39 degrees with island gust to 20 knots.

Put on your hat.

[swooshes]

-[airplane juddering] -[alarm beeps]

[air hissing]

[grunting]

Jesus! What a mess!

Ah. Dumb son of a bitch busted a pipe.

I'm going to have to dial up another one.

These mungos ain't cheap neither.

They sure do look real, don't they?

I mean, regular.

I know. I know.

Hey, you won't remember.

[panting]

I've got your code. I'll fix it.

[ominous music playing]

No, to Galapagos. He's a mungo.

[camera shutter clicks]

[car horn honks]

Bring him this way.

Briggs, what are you doing here?

There's trouble?

What the hell do I know?

Yes, no other suspects?

No other suspects. Covered in blood.

I didn't do the coding on this one, but I know who did.

-[Officer Zelda] Is this the guy? -Yeah, I'll talk to him.

Briggs this one killed someone.

You did the work on him, didn't you? The basic stuff.

Yeah.

Standard mungo.

Probably for a landfill, maybe high steel.

Who did he kill?

A gutter punk in a church.

You added something, didn't you? To the code. Something off the sheet.

It was standard mungo, that's all.

You mind telling me what's standard around here?

[sighs]

Steady work ethic, no memory, no sense of humor, low IQ.

We modify them.

We dumb them down a bit, so they don't ask questions, but they're content.

How could he kill if it's not in the specs?

He went off the rails, that's all.

-[Officer Zelda] How many you have out there? -Maybe a hundred.

They're still new.

Yeah, you can have him. I don't want to see any more of this.

Stay alert.

-Briggs? -The work is imperfect. What can I say?

Imperfect? Mashita wants answers.

Finish him. Break him down for marrow and stems.

Just leave Briggs what he needs for diagnostics.

Yes, Sir.

Count on it.

Fix this.

[ominous music playing]

[beeping]

[man 1] Speak Mr. Blaine. I know you're there. We need to move money fast.

-[beeps] -[woman 1] I need to see Mr. Blaine.

[woman 1] Mr. Blaine, there was trouble last night at Galapagos.

-[Wendell] Trouble? -[woman 1] A killing in the east quarter.

Police were called in.

-They're asking questions. -[Wendell] Get Leslie Carr on the phone

and don't wire funds until we know more.

[Carr] This mungo killed somebody.

You're lucky you have sway on the island.

Did he say anything to you when you brought him in?

Nothing but a grunt.

[Carr] How could he kill if it's not the specs?

-[beeps] -[woman 1] Should we tell the investors?

[sighs] Of course.

[woman 2] He's on a call with Washington.

[man 7] The market's falling. Everyone's affected.

All right, I've got a few minutes. Clue me into the hit parade.

Climate assets.

Erratic performance. Steady demand for targeted range.

Shaanxi, north-eastern Brazil.

All right. We'll move to wheat and coffee

and increase stakes in gates rain. Go.

Flood indemnities under pressure from high disbursements,

capitals exhausted.

Tornado walls of stranded asset.

The sheer scale of a thousand-foot high wall, 200 miles long,

government bonds are stuck and private equity is nowhere.

Insurance brokers, they want guidance.

All right. Well, thank you.

-[door closes] -[beeps]

[man 1] Mr. Blaine. You can't avoid us, Mr. Blaine.

Washington isn't happy.

We need your decision.

Have you reviewed the details?

The details don't bother me, it's the chaos.

[man 1] Chaos is a strong word, Mr. Blaine.

Every time the White House has a tantrum, the federal reserve capitulates.

[man 1] Tantrum and capitulate are also strong words.

I am programmed to report every word you say.

600 billion is a lot of cash.

-I say no more bailouts. -What's done is done and we bailed you out, remember?

To salvage your bad investments at Galapagos.

I can't talk about Galapagos.

[man 1] For Christ's sake, Blaine, can't you take the heat?

The Fed's under pressure. We need your decision.

Goodbye.

[beeps]

[Wendell] Let's get going.

I have a question about your job, about money.

All right.

My wife says I should talk to you.

Uh, your wife, but I didn't even know you were married.

She says, the papers say you aren't doing anything

and that's going to cause trouble.

And what else did she say?

She says you've lost your nerve.

Well, you could call it that.

That's as good a way of putting it as any other,

but I have new idea.

Good.

[car revs]

Here.

He's coming.

Hey, Mister. [spits]

Can you make us mungos?

There's a line.

I'll send someone out.

[Krupp] What's your problem?

Come on, I've heard it all before.

You got family?

You done time in jail?

When under your deal, we send you out for work.

What kind of work?

For new mungos, the straits maybe, the wall.

You get lucky casing stuff.

Well, got time for your procedure next Thursday.

I guess that's why I'm here.

You've taken people at the end of their rope.

[Briggs] Yes, mungos.

We provide genetic modifications that help people.

-Says here your job was-- -Music, piano.

It was my life, but on stage, everything went bad.

I couldn't do it.

I took drugs for it.

Hard stuff.

I got sweaty and I couldn't breathe.

I took more pills and then I couldn't work.

You know, my marriage flat lined.

He took my baby. I OD'd and...

Tell me about your baby.

I can't.

I mean, what kind of jobs are you going to get me?

We might like you to work on a special assignment and plus.

You mean different from the mungos on the island

and the kitchen help and the cleanup

and the mungos who hung people and their names show up on the wall.

Yes, different from all of that.

It's just starting.

Higher grade.

Like jobs collecting conversations you hear,

connecting the dots, taking action.

Snooping around, spy stuff.

I've got your file.

-Says you're an activist. -[Kay] Was.

Climate change, Fugees.

I had a Syrian guy. He got arrested. I flipped out, went to jail.

I was against the mungos at first, the whole idea of it.

Look, I need the job. This is going to come up the works?

No.

We erase all that.

You won't remember.

No one will care.

-So, do you like the idea of it? -Look, I've made a lot of mistakes.

Well, you've come to the right place.

You're not going to remember any of the things you just described.

-Can I take things with me? -[Briggs] No photographs.

Anything else you want is fine, although you won't have associations with them anymore.

They'll just be old junk.

[light clicks]

[ominous music playing]

-[beeps] -[Briggs] Subject six, female prototype, growing room two,

neural network expurgation ready to initiate.

[beeps]

[Clock] You look worried, Briggs.

[beeps, swooshes]

Are you okay?

Do I look okay?

You look like you've been ice skating on your eyelids.

And your blood pressures are 160 over 90.

Briggs, you're getting worse

and you're up to something, aren't you?

I don't have time for this, Clock.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock,

but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

[ominous music playing]

[clicks]

[ominous music playing]

[ominous music playing]

I need a decision, Wendell.

Do we make M-Plus operational or do we scrap it? I want to know.

Good morning to you, Ms. Carr.

My sources say you had a spot of trouble with your mungos the other night.

R&D investment group backed out, you're the only one left.

We need four million wired by Thursday.

Have you firmed up your market?

German KSK, SSG Pakistan, Navy SEALs.

They're ready to pay what it costs

for genetically altered commandoes?

Yes, but they want to see M-Plus prototypes in field tests.

So do I, soon.

Briggs is programming new codes, higher intelligence, strategic thinking.

[Wendell] I advised against that. They're going into war.

They need to follow orders.

Wire the funds, Wendell, we'll talk about it.

[Wendell] Look, is this going to work?

You sold me on advanced gene slicing to stop traumatic response.

That's what I bought to keep them going into battle, when it gets rough.

-When you're ready to deliver, call me. -[beeps]

Female prototype, blood pressure 110 over 70.

[dreamy music playing]

[beeps]

Briggs, upstairs now.

Yeah, just checking bio functions.

It can wait.

[beeps]

-Read to me. -[door closes]

Shh.

[beeps]

[door closes]

[water burbling]

[sighs]

Do you think fish can survive anymore in the bay?

Mechanical fish.

Mutants that can stand the heavy metals. They propagate too.

I've got some in the works.

[scoffs] Appetizing.

I think Blaine might be in for the 4 million.

Good news.

With Blaine, there's always strings attached.

He now authorizes all strategic investments in military climate,

germ warfare, espionage that includes us.

He wants to see a test next Tuesday.

Tell Blaine I can get him 50 message mice by Tuesday

and they will tap dance on a dime,

-but I cannot get Jack and Kay up to speed-- -They have names now?

Yeah, Jack Portman.

And the female?

Kay.

Kay Remilard.

Nice to see you're getting so cozy.

They're human.

No more than they have to be, remember that.

[suspenseful music playing]

[panting]

You're tough as leather, Jack.

I do better on my own.

I don't like the name Jack.

I'll call you Bruce.

Don't.

Briggs says we'll get to go to Mars,

but I need to get harder and smarter.

A lot of smart people on Mars?

He says we're M-Plus, it's just a matter of time.

[Kay] You go. I'll stay.

-You go. I'll stay. -What's this about Mars?

[beeps]

Motivation, aspirations, they need goals.

Aspiration is fun, maybe,

but the ordered aspiration causes problems.

They'll be Special Forces, Briggs.

Military, intelligence, you know this.

And you know they're not ready for field tests.

It's out of my hands.

Where's your partner?

[Jack] She's ready for the test.

We have a few questions for you, Jack.

[Jack] I'm ready.

I found a way to solve quadratic equations. It's simple.

You put in the basic form of a squared plus two ab plus b squared.

It's pretty rudimentary.

Briggs, get the prototype. She can't be up there alone.

Jack, stop.

Briggs told you we need to do a combat test.

I shouldn't. The stress on my bones could open me to infection.

You'll be okay.

Are you ready?

[ominous music playing]

Is Jack okay?

Yeah, of course.

[grunting]

[gasps]

[grunts]

[man 2] Get up.

I expected better than this.

[panting]

All right, let's go.

That's enough. Get him out of there.

I studied what you gave me, Briggs.

Covert operations, espionage, maybe sabotage,

find secrets, make friends, maybe some enemies, get them to act.

You made us like this.

Do you remember?

Mungos don't remember.

[beeps]

[beeps]

Look, we don't assign you.

We make a contract; they decide your missions.

You go where they tell you. Do what they say.

Are there more of us?

There will be, but you and Jack are the first prototypes,

which is what I imagined, what I hoped for.

I've been dreaming of you, Kay, like a buzz, like a hunger.

[sighs]

What do you see when you close your eyes?

Why are we out here?

Close your eyes.

What do you see?

It's part of the test.

A hawk beats its wings, drops fast.

When I close my eyes, I think of you.

Oh!

[grunts]

Did I pass the test?

[coughs]

[suspenseful music playing]

[eerie music playing]

[sighs]

[gasps]

Don't worry.

-[Briggs] I do worry, Jack. -Briggs.

What are you doing?

What are you doing to me?

-I feel like I'm growing copper things and breathing poison. -It's okay. I'm here with you.

You didn't answer my question. What are you doing to me?

Gene splicing.

Editing your DNA to make you stronger, sharper, less afraid.

Who was I?

[Briggs] Look at me.

How do you feel about me?

I want my life back even if it was bad.

I'm giving you the capacity to feel, to love.

You don't own me.

Actually, we do.

[sighs]

[somber music playing]

I need you.

[footsteps approaching]

[Carr] Briggs.

I made a mistake.

It's in the coding.

She has too many questions and Jack doesn't ask any.

[Carr] Mungos don't ask questions.

They're soldiers, Briggs, but expendable. That's their value.

She's starting to care for me.

You coded her to fall in love with you.

Come on. Look, Carr, this will help us.

Leave the building, don't return until I contact you.

Great passion inspires the road--

Give your access pass to security.

No, no, no. Her attachment makes it possible.

Not that it matters but you're about to become a very lonely man.

[scoffs]

[Kay sighs] I was there in the dark.

I had a baby.

Was this a dream?

A bad dream?

What do you mean?

Think of yourself, your life, anything that comes to you before all this.

From another time?

Briggs reads Blake.

He says that's from another time.

"If thought is life and strength and breath:

and the want of thought is death;

then am I a happy fly, if I live, or if I die."

Wow.

Briggs says I'll die.

What else does Briggs say?

He says he is who he wishes to be when he's with me.

He says to keep it to myself.

You should, Kay. You should keep it to yourself.

[computerized voice 1] Facial recognition, protocol gamma zeta.

[beeps]

Access, granted.

-[keyboard clacking] - Select prototype.

-[keyboard clacking] -[beeping]

Kay Remilard.

[beeps]

Krupp.

Just checking.

Why are you working at night?

[Krupp] I've got stuff to do.

I want to see your data, Krupp.

Don't worry about what I know.

Give me what you got.

[sighs]

Who are you really working for?

Same as you.

I don't see the prototypes medical files.

[Krupp] But she just got those.

We'll need everything.

Okay, but we're waiting on immunizations, Mashita's orders.

He's pinching pennies.

I don't care.

Briggs has been taking them outside.

I need full medical work-ups.

[Krupp] I'll speak to Mashita.

No, you'll do as I say.

I want them here now.

All right, you're the boss.

Remember when you used to come in late and I'd tell you jokes?

You remember the one about the...

the hammer, the nail and the clumsy ox?

Nope.

Yeah, well.

I just wanted to say...

[door closes]

-[beeps] -[computerized voice 1] M-plus prototype, Kay Remilard,

uploading charts.

Immunizations, negative.

[keyboard clacking]

Inventory of weaponized pathogens,

pre-select pathogen for timed release.

Auto regulation of blood flow through iris and retina now in process.

Virus to fully exploit and consume subject after six days.

Maximum radial contamination within 24 hours.

Pathogen insert now complete.

Insert mission parameters.

Mission set.

Transaction fulfilled.

Goodnight.

[classical music playing]

You're quiet.

It's work.

We need to rethink our plans.

Krupps working for you on the inside?

Everyone's working for me, including you.

Briggs changed the codes on the prototypes.

No more work.

Have you ever been so intoxicated by someone that it's driven you insane?

Can't say that I have.

Me neither.

[chuckles]

[sighs]

[beeping]

-[computerized voice 2] What's going on? -[Kay] Jack.

[computerized voice 2] Subject offline.

What's going on?

[beeping]

How did you get it?

It was on the floor.

-That's odd. -[computerized voice 2] Alert protocol kappa.

It's better if you come with me.

I want to see what's out there.

If you stay, they'll blame you.

[computerized voice 1] Security breach. Proto room 2.

Alert! Proto room 2.

Subject offline.

Security breach. Prototype 2.

Security to proto room 2, situation delta.

[man 3] Security. Approaching...

[grunting]

[man 3] Approaching mainland's dock 4. Have IDs ready for scanning.

[airplane juddering]

Here.

Signs of new cleaning.

[Kay] Jack, we have company.

Hey, what the hell are you doing on my car?

I'm sorry. I didn't mean nothing by it.

Mungo.

Hey, come with us. I'm going to show you something.

[woman 3] Is it a job?

Yeah, sure.

I'm supposed to sweep till the end of the street.

[Jack] Leave her alone.

Hey Murph, Murph.

[Jack] Drop the blade.

Fine. Psycho.

Jack.

Jack.

[car revs]

[tires screech]

-[man coughing] -[door closes]

Hey, guys. What'll it be?

[Jack] Just to sleep.

[Kay] Here.

Oh, why didn't you tell me you had cash?

That makes it a whole lot easier.

Here.

Just between the three of us.

[cries]

What's wrong with her?

You're feigning for a fix of morphine.

Here, take another towel.

I'll give you a couple of nights and then we'll talk.

[sighs]

[eerie music playing]

Jack, I'm cold.

I'm hungry.

There are so many words to say how we feel.

[swooshes]

Briggs. Briggs.

Briggs, you've got a message.

-[groans] -Briggs, technician called, no specifics,

sounds like trouble.

At Galapagos?

Where else?

I mean, when I was in Florence...

When were you in Florence?

I just thought I'd change the conversation.

Not that I have ever been to Florence, but I do have a file.

No, I'm fine.

I won't cite your vitals, Briggs, but you don't seem fine.

[sighs]

Back in.

[swooshes]

-[groans] -[computerized voice 3] Attention all personnel,

condition red facility broad lockdown is in effect.

Security teams, six, seven, thirteen,

now on modified patrol schedules.

Someone has to.

No.

Hey, Briggs.

Finito, huh?

Why what happened?

You need some help cleaning out your office?

Frank!

Your skin jobs are gone, escaped.

[Mashita] And if they know how to escape, what else do they know?

You're an open book, Briggs.

The prototypes escaped because of you.

No, I was home.

It was you.

Who else? Always spying.

Briggs, the male prototype is cued to kill to survive.

Should we worry?

And the female one is cued to get rid of him if he does.

[Briggs] Look, Jack and Kay are incomplete.

What's going to happen to them?

Did you tell Briggs, Mashita?

I learned from Mr. Krupp that they took off without vaccines

-or medical checks. -What?

[Carr] They may not survive long.

Is this true, Krupp? I... I exposed them.

They could have gotten sick while they were here.

Do you remember, Briggs, when I told you that fate has a sense of irony?

Sure.

Well, it doesn't.

You're through here. We're transferring you.

But I... I didn't clear that, Mashita.

It's final.

Well, where would you have me go?

-Somewhere more commercial. -Like a coal mine.

What about the project?

No police.

This remains our secret.

We will find them and bring them in.

Yeah.

[ominous music playing]

[beeps]

[Carr] I've got your back on this, Briggs.

Really?

I was just saying the same thing to myself about you.

-You don't need to get huffy. -This isn't huffy. You want to see what huffy is?

Look, it's not my fault.

[scoffs]

Time will tell.

-What do you mean by that? -You should have known about the immunizations.

I would never tell Mashita this, but they could be carrying a new disease.

-They might not get it, but still be contagious. -I wouldn't dwell on it.

I can't think of anything else.

How do you look for something you've never seen before?

What can we do?

[scoffs]

What's wrong with us, Jack?

[sighs]

Uh?

[Jack] I found it.

-This is right? -[Jack] No.

Like this.

[mellow music playing]

[sighs]

I want to see Briggs.

We need money.

[sighs]

[Jack] What are you doing?

[ominous music playing]

Stay on him. We'll text Carr.

[slow music playing]

Hey, do I have any messages?

Hey, good to see you, Briggs.

No, nothing. No messages.

Look, I need a device. I'm being tracked. I threw mine away.

[sighs]

Relax with us.

[sighs]

[dings]

I had a question about Galapagos.

If they can't work, if they're injured, we will take them.

Thanks.

Listen, I was just here for a moment,

but two prototypes escaped from the lab.

I need you to let me know if you see them.

We're always here.

Thanks.

I think so.

-When? -[woman 4] Almost right way. Almost ready.

[sighs]

[Carr] Surely, it's no secret, Briggs,

what happens to people who tamper with artificial life.

Sit down.

[Carr clears throat]

So, did you meet any of the assigned specifications,

the handgun stuff, lack of remorse,

the ability of one of them to kill the other when cued?

You programmed Kay to aspire, to be happy,

to know the poetry of William Blake.

I programmed Kay for the capacity to recognize beauty,

maybe to love.

The capacity to love you.

Look, I have made mistakes, but giving Kay the ability to care was not entirely selfish.

Convince me.

She's programmed to circulate and collect chatter,

to attract people, take risks for them,

undermine dictators, track down war criminals, take them off the field.

But you've incapacitated your Kay.

She's incapable of carrying out any mission,

-let alone the one for which she is supposed to be programmed. -Yeah, as what?

An expendable?

Suicide bomber for the good guys? You would make us like them.

Okay, fine. So, you won't admit what you've done.

But I need to know about Jack.

Could he go rogue?

He's not strategic.

Kay is more developed, but they both have transplanted and spliced genes

that could interact with native genes in unpredictable ways.

So, what if your altered creatures can spread a new disease?

One that we haven't seen yet.

-You said they could. -I really don't know.

[Carr] I think that you do.

We need a vaccine.

How?

I saw you take DNA samples from the growing room.

Where are they?

That DNA belongs to Galapagos.

Okay, okay.

Just one more question.

Can she reproduce?

Is that part of your magic with her?

The ability to spread her dodgy genome into the population?

Goodbye, Carr.

[Man] If their name's on the wall, we find them,

bring them in, keep it quiet, don't get shaky about it.

Your name up there?

No, not yet.

Then get out of here, if you know what's good for you.

Do you know who I am?

I made you.

Then go to hell.

Who's behind the wall?

Who decides the names?

Hate for me to know.

You find who you're looking for?

No, not yet.

We will, but we're not smart.

Rough, pretty tough, but slow.

[clacking]

[woman 5] The old man dressed in black, he gave me dumplings,

dead rabbits in the window,

skinned little membranes looking like ice.

You okay?

It's just a nosebleed.

What's a nosebleed?

It's nothing. I never get them.

Could be a sign of infection.

Here.

I don't know why? It just happens.

Why don't you go wash up?

-Yeah, but what if someone comes in and wants a room. -I'll watch it.

Thanks.

-Do you think you could do something with that? -Are you kidding?

-Yeah. -That's good.

See, Kay.

I could take one of these jackasses here.

Like him.

I don't want to do that.

Maybe take him someplace, talk a little,

then take his money.

No, all right.

Look, we can take this and get away, no one would know.

That guy would know and what if he gave you any trouble?

So?

You've got something against killing one of these dopes?

Then what would we do?

[clerk groans]

Hm.

Thanks.

Mm-hm.

Hey, look, I think they put money in there.

Yeah.

What about him?

Sure.

Hey, you play these games?

You know one, you know them all, right?

Is that it?

I'll play you.

That's all you got?

I'll go with you.

-What? -If you win, I'll go with you.

If I win, I get 500 cash.

Oh...

looks like you have yourself a bet.

[suspenseful music playing]

[whirs]

[whirs]

[sighs]

[computerized voice 3] Welcome to Shadow Elixir Red, a neural feedback interface.

[echoing] This is the place... is the place.

It's like riding a bike, once you know how.

[thuds]

Forbidden zone, option one.

Forbidden zone, output.

Through the loops look around,

lighten your step.

[thuds]

Up ahead like that.

That's right.

Of course, that's the way it works.

This is the place. Something bigger is out there.

Time is infinite when you're alive.

You're warm out here like the sun, like a caress,

time is infinite when you're alive.

Connect the stream.

Do you recognize it?

Go a little faster.

Just stay on track.

Something bigger is out there.

Avoid it or approach it slowly.

Wild side, option two.

I need to think for a minute.

So, hey...

And where have you been?

Haven't seen me for a while.

Plateau one, abomination, abnormal, abyss.

Are you in the zone?

Face off to the temptation.

Where are you?

You're going down.

Down, down, down.

I don't think you want to go there.

Back to the abyss.

Can we find you?

The machine, you know.

It's how you know, you know.

-[groans] -I need to think for a minute.

-So, hey! -[thuds]

Can you get out?

Frankly, I don't know why you want to do it this way.

Even cheap wounds have a way out.

-Don't be vain. -[thuds]

Feel the bump under your fingers.

What is it?

Fingernails, knuckles, wrist, skin, vein,

down, down, down, down.

Goodbye.

[pants]

What happened?

[pants]

You lost.

That's what happened.

-Something was different. -[Kay] I'll take the money.

You got to be coming to win this game.

Like a wolf.

Well, you lost.

How about a kiss?

Come on, you beat me.

We're friends.

Come on.

Pay her the money.

A man outside, he had a paper napkin, wiped his lips.

I... can't afford this.

We had a deal.

There will be men outside.

You said you would do this.

Go, baby girls.

I'll catch up.

Start home.

[sighs]

-You are? -Gloria.

I met Jack at the rink out back.

Jack, let's get out of here.

There's plenty to occupy me here.

-I'll catch up with you later. -No.

Let's go.

Just one thing.

Wait outside.

What will you do?

Where will you go?

I don't know, but it feels right.

Don't go far.

[Jack] I can't.

I don't have the pesos.

Hey, I know someone who is looking for you.

-Briggs? -You could let him know where you are.

Come with me.

[ominous music playing]

Here.

[man 4] Now for the dump.

[man 5] An old hand - far too rough.

[beeps]

But doesn't look too good.

[Wendell] We're exposed. These bailouts will destroy Galapagos.

I'm simply asking for the authority to do what needs to be done.

And what is that, Wendell? There's labor unrest in Peru.

30,000 killed in strikes in India in a single day, and problems at Galapagos.

Galapagos has nothing to do with monetary policy.

We put up the cash.

Panic in the markets is spreading.

[man 7] We need to make a decision, Wendell.

Sorry, I'm late.

I missed you at the meeting this morning.

I've got a plan to salvage the Galapagos project.

There's a lot to discuss.

If we don't talk soon, we won't get it right.

This may not be the best time.

I have news to report.

You need to know and we need to act.

I bet you're going to that concert tomorrow night.

I am.

Would you like to join?

We can talk after.

[clinks]

[hostess] Hey, Briggs.

I've got something for you.

A message.

[whirs]

[eerie music playing]

I thought you'd never come to find me, so I'm leaving you this message.

Is that okay?

Yes.

So hot.

Where are you staying?

Where's Jack?

You wanted to see if you could make me fall in love with you?

Well, I think it worked.

I could come see you.

Would you like that?

Yes.

I'll come to you, to where you live, your apartment.

One promise, no capture.

No capture.

I want to be with you.

I feel sick when I'm not with you.

Kay, has anyone around you gotten sick?

[sighs]

I'm sleepy now.

[sniffles]

[breathes heavily]

I miss you.

[panting]

So, how was it?

It was all right.

Where did she go?

[chuckles] No idea.

I was just here.

[light music playing]

[Kay] Where are you, Briggs?

Maybe we haven't got a lot of time.

[swooshes]

Of course, I was expecting you.

Who are you?

I'm with the program.

Who programmed you?

I'm with the program, too.

Right.

-You are. -[beeps]

We might like you to work on a special assignment, M-Plus.

[Kay] So, now you know about me and what's up with you?

[Briggs] Not much. I live alone.

Join the club. Everybody lives alone. [scoffs]

I've got to go.

[Kay] I mean, what kind of jobs are you going to give me?

Like jobs collecting conversations you hear,

-connecting the dots, taking action... -Snooping around, spy stuff.

-Look, if I'm a spy, there's plenty of things... -[beeps]

-Says here your job was-- -Music, piano.

It was my life, but on stage, everything went bad.

I couldn't do it.

I took drugs for it.

[classical music playing]

That was exquisite, here.

Your violin is so quiet yet speaks so eloquently.

[piano playing]

Keep playing, Kay.

Where's Briggs?

He needs me.

I can't bear to look at him, at least I can admit to that.

I promised I'd find him and complete my mission.

I have your mission that's why I'm here.

I learn fast.

We'll place a great deal of trust in your hands.

You'll take risks, rendezvous with a powerful man,

convince him to make the right move before it's too late.

Convince him with love or hatred?

With kindness, indifference.

You'll meet him tomorrow night.

[piano plays]

Do you understand?

[Jack] That was my first time.

[Gloria] Oh, come on.

What are you doing here, Jack?

Just visiting, but I may go to Mars any day.

Oh, Jack.

Don't tell me any lies, okay?

-[Kay] Hi. -Hi.

This is Gloria.

Yes, we met.

Well, I better be going.

Gloria!

Wait!

[door closes]

What's that?

Good.

How come everyone has someone except for me?

You'll get your chance.

I've got to warn you though.

It isn't something you'll want to do just once.

Like you get your curiosity satisfied and that's it.

It's more like you want to keep at it.

Maybe that's not such a bad thing.

I'm tired of being this way.

Well, why is that?

[Kay groans]

[whimpering]

What's wrong with you?

Maybe... maybe it's the flu.

Maybe.

I don't want to get sick.

Do you object?

Tell me the truth.

To what? To Gloria?

Go on, say it.

I don't know what I think.

You and I should split up.

[sighs]

We're good friends, aren't we, Jack?

No one was ever a better friend.

I knew this moment was coming.

To face up to things.

I want to see Briggs.

Oh, tonight's review is posted.

[Wendell scoffs]

Perfect.

Our prototypes are lost.

I've terminated the project.

I think they're deadly sick and contagious.

No talk about work.

There's no vaccine.

It may be too late, but I'll send through a status report.

I'm going home.

[ominous music playing]

[keyboard clacking]

[beeps]

"Reports of serious illnesses, gags, nosebleeds,

mouth and lips are black, medical crews sent away,

told it was a false alarm, pimp and prostitute hotel." [exhales]

[mellow music playing]

[door closes]

How do you feel kid?

Well, me? Never better. Why?

We had a report someone here was sick.

Oh, that, yeah.

They had a wrong number. You want a room?

I was just wondering if you were the one who was sick.

Are you a cop?

No.

It's in there.

Oh, geez.

Shh!

[gulps]

I has to go pee.

You need help getting to the bathroom?

[groans] No.

-[coughs] -Come on, I'll give you a hand.

[clerk] No, wait.

It's bad when I do it.

It comes out icky, itches too.

I can't tell you how it itches.

[beeps]

[Briggs] Yeah, we need an ambulance.

[coughs]

435 Cherry. Very sick man, contagious.

Doctors scare me, but maybe I need one.

That's what the others said.

Which others?

Uh, Jack and Kay, little goofy.

Where are they now?

I don't know.

They checked out.

[suspenseful music playing]

[sighs]

How's he doing?

He's dead.

Jesus!

If you get sick, you go to a doctor. You don't wait around.

[suspenseful music playing]

[beeps]

[keyboard clacking]

[beeping]

[keyboard clacking]

[beeping]

[swooshes]

Why hasn't Kay contacted me?

Briggs, I've been meaning to ask you, am I a mungo or not?

[knock on door]

-[swooshes] -[knocks]

He says he's a salesman.

His name is Bob White.

I forgot how to sew when I learned how to cook.

You can cook?

No.

[knocks]

I hate it when that happens. When you lose a button.

Ah, yeah. I'll sew it on tonight.

[Bob] First thing you need to know, I give you good stuff.

No bad batches and I don't skin you like the discount houses do,

they just mix a bunch of batches, odd colors, dregs,

-so it's cheaper, see? -Yeah, I know.

And there's something else.

Discounts don't cut you in for 10% of the deal.

I need vaccine and antibiotic blanks.

All stains, red, purple, yellow, unknowns too. The works.

Alrighty, 15%.

[chuckles]

You're dickering, that's what this is about?

God, what a character!

Yeah, that's fine. I just need the blanks.

See, we understand each other.

If you're up to tricks you can't talk about, it's okay.

I understand.

But if you get funded big time, you order through me, right?

So, don't worry.

You're dealing with Robert P. White. That's me.

Yeah, that's fine.

[sighs]

[suspenseful music playing]

[clattering]

[beeps]

[beeping]

-[burbles] -[Briggs grunts]

[sighs]

[exhales]

[suspenseful music playing]

[sighs] Pardon me.

Oh, excuse me.

It's my fault.

What can fault possibly have to do with a spark of electricity?

I didn't mean to.

[Wendell] You didn't mean to shock me?

Yeah, I didn't mean to shock you.

-Wendell Blaine. -Kay Remilard.

[Wendell] Ow!

[chuckles]

Let's be careful not to electrocute each other.

Yeah, it's nice to meet you, whatever the voltage.

[Wendell] Kay, isn't it?

Yes, and I'd like to join you for dinner.

Did you know that Mozart never owned a piano?

He couldn't afford one.

That's right.

[Wendell] Do you play piano, Ms. Remilard?

I did.

You just realized.

What do you mean you just realized?

Recently, I confess my past is just coming back to me.

Fascinating.

May I confess two things to you.

You hardly know me, but yes.

Firstly, the financial world is about to collapse

and I didn't say or act or warn anyone about it.

Well...

Much will be lost.

Pensions, savings, stocks.

Your other secret?

My other secret is that I've always wanted to come to dinner

with a young lady such as yourself

and feel exactly the way I'm feeling right now.

I don't want to seem forward but I have an idea.

[mellow piano music playing]

You look tired.

Why don't you continue playing Chopin?

Don't you have to make decisions about the markets, the panic?

I do.

I have to make a decision tonight.

[sighs] Come on.

Honestly, I'd rather shoot myself than have to think about it.

You know, what would help is if you continue to play the piano.

[mellow piano music playing]

[piano keys clanks]

[coughing]

[Wendell] What's wrong? Are... are you sick?

[coughing]

-Please. -[Wendell] Please, what?

I don't want to hear your voice.

Please.

Why did you stop playing?

I can't feel the music.

I... I want to be in love.

Have you never been in love?

I think I have.

Of course, not with you.

But we just met.

[Kay] Make your decisions.

Kay, where are you going?

I have to go.

I'm in a hurry.

I'll find you, soon.

[somber music playing]

[beeps]

-Hi. -Come on, Kay.

Let's have some fun skating.

Gloria can teach you.

We don't get to do anything.

I've got some things on my mind.

That's what I mean.

They've got skates here.

Don't you ever get homesick?

I just want to know if I get to go to Mars.

You won't, Jack.

I don't know what I'm supposed to do, but I'm remembering things.

Maybe you're just worried about the way this is supposed to work out.

That you used me and after I do what you want, you get rid of me.

I figured you want me to maybe get rid of Briggs or someone.

Or I save you from something.

I'll do it, too.

Anything for you.

I won't get rid of you.

You mean it?

Yeah.

I'm going. See you soon.

[suspenseful music playing]

[gunshot]

[man 8] Bang. Bang.

[sighs]

[crying]

[Evelyn] Well, Wendell.

You're a hard man to reach these days.

I've been busy.

[Evelyn] Have you? Well, I'm glad to hear that.

What in Christ's name have you been doing?

-[sighs] Evelyn. -[Evelyn] Evelyn, what?

I'm doing my best. You know that.

I'll... I'll announce my decision today.

Is that all you have to say?

My entire life savings is tied up with you.

Evelyn, we've been friends.

Wendell, this isn't a friendly call.

Do I have to spell it out for you?

[beeps]

[beeps]

-Hey. -[Wendell] Kay.

Kay, where are you?

[Kay] I'm out for a walk at the end of your street.

[breathes heavily]

I'll be here for a while.

I've been thinking about you.

Yes, me, too.

Strange really, when you think we just met.

When can I see you?

Now.

[beeps]

-Did you make your decisions? -Not yet. Soon.

I need you to know that you have me, if you want me.

Do you?

How could you ask that?

More than you know.

I just need to be certain of you before I climb into your bed.

Okay.

When?

Soon.

Now?

[sighs]

I'm going.

Kay.

[airplane juddering]

[dramatic music playing]

[men speaking indistinctly]

What's the big deal?

I didn't think it would be this way.

[man 9] Do you remember, Briggs?

How he used to talk?

Stop.

Look at him, Briggs.

-He's getting away. -No.

Briggs.

Kay, hide.

[man 10] Briggs would know.

[man 11] Can't see him.

Kay.

[panting]

Jack's dead.

Was he sick?

[sighs]

Are you?

No, but, Kay, you have to tell me was he sick?

Of course, he was shot.

[sighs]

I never thought it would be like this.

What?

Being able to touch you.

[sighs]

Kay.

[man 12] Where are we going?

-Kay. -[Kay] Isn't that nice?

Kay.

You won't kiss me.

Kay.

Kay, are you sick?

[sighs]

Just tell me.

Are you sick?

[sighs] Oh, my God.

Where are you going?

Oh, what's this?

Get in.

This is not good.

Where are we?

Blaine's at his office making decisions.

He's saving the markets.

Blaine?

Is this his place?

So much better than a hotel room.

No, no, no, no. This is not a good idea.

[Kay] Do you love me?

Yes, but...

You're going to say you don't want to?

Look at me.

[moaning]

Kay.

It's still clear.

What else would it be?

It would turn black.

The cells would be dead, but you're sick.

They didn't give that to you?

I took a shot. I think I'll be okay, but I have to give one to you.

-Give me your arm. -No, I don't want you to do anything else to me.

Look, Kay. This wasn't anything I did, okay?

-They were corrupt. -But I trust you.

Yeah, of course.

Why would you do for me what I did for you?

I would, Kay.

I want to be in love to be at my best, don't you?

Yeah, I made it so you could be in love.

No, you made it so I had to be in love.

Look, Kay, maybe what I did was wrong.

[Kay] What's this?

Allergies.

It's part of it. They didn't expose you to ordinary germs.

Your immune system gets overcharged, it creates allergies.

Let me give you a shot.

Is it going to get worse?

Kay, put it down, okay.

We can treat this.

I have new DNA from a man who died at your hotel.

The clerk, he died?

[Briggs] Kay, put it down.

[cries]

No. Kay.

[Kay] Kay, what?

Can't you see? You can go home.

[crying]

No.

Kay, you don't have to do this.

Go, get out of here.

[scoffs]

[sad music playing]

[crying, coughs]

[coughing]

[grunts]

[belches]

[panting]

[beeps]

Call Carr.

[device ringing]

-[beeps] -Hey, Briggs.

[sighs] I want to warn you.

I've seen Kay.

[Carr] Where can I find her?

[Briggs] I don't think it's a good idea.

I need to know.

[Briggs panting]] Esty Street, near the Docks.

[Carr] One more thing.

Are you at home?

No. Why?

I'd be careful at home if I were you.

[beeps]

[sighs]

[suspenseful music playing]

[clacking]

[device ringing]

I'm ready to sign off on your new vaccine.

The money's in your account.

It's underway. We're replicating the formula now.

But we need to test it before production.

Have you confirmed the prototypes are infected?

The female prototype is getting sick. Briggs is handling that.

-I thought we fired Briggs. -Everything he's done belongs to us.

Even his mistakes? What about the prototypes?

We need to test against the live infection.

I'm heading over to the docks now. I expect to see Briggs there.

We're closing in on the female prototype.

We'll feel a hell of a lot better when we've got this under control.

Of course, and how are you feeling?

[sighs] Never better.

Carr.

[beeps]

-Carr. -Kay.

Briggs said I can find you here.

[Wendell] Kay?

[Carr] Blaine made the decision. We've now got a vaccine.

Run, Carr.

[Carr] Does he know that you're sick?

-[Wendell] Sick? -[Carr] Is Blaine sick?

I'm a mungo. I don't remember.

Fulfill your mission. Is Blaine sick?

[Kay] That's my secret.

[scoffs]

Kay, stop.

-Kay, I am the one that gave you-- -[Kay] Gave me what?

Gave me what?

I'll count to four.

[inhales deeply]

One, two...

three.

-[gunshot] -[grunts]

[panting]

[suspenseful music playing]

"If thought is life and strength and breath:

and the want of thought is death;

then am I a happy fly, if I live, or if I die."

[car approaching]

[Kay groaning]

Oh, my God! What have we done?

[Kay gasping]

You can't know what this means to me.

-[Kay groaning] -Kay.

I'm sorry.

[gasps] Okay, Kay.

[moans]

[sad music playing]

Briggs, what are you doing here?

I need to talk to someone upstairs.

Sure. You got a pass?

Afraid not.

It's got to be the new one.

Look.

No pass, no entry.

-You don't work here anymore. -Yeah, it's urgent.

Don't even think about it.

[sighs]

Briggs, listen, we have to talk. You've got a problem.

You think?

Kay's dead.

Blaine's hospitalized.

I warned you. I protected you.

You never told me what you added to the prototypes, but now I know.

How could you? I hid everything.

-You can't know what I did. -You infected Kay with the virus.

Then you engineered her escape using my pass.

After the field test, you thought you'd hedge your bets.

You learned Krupp was working inside for Blaine.

You found out from him they weren't immunized

and Krupp helped you plant the pathogens.

You know nothing.

You knew and you did nothing.

We've started production on a new vaccine

that will save hundreds of thousands of lives, maybe millions.

The mungos were expendable, Briggs.

You knew that, so did they.

They're soldiers. They signed their lives over to us to relieve their pain.

The prototypes gave their lives to advance science.

This is the way it works.

We own them. They serve us.

You'll make a fortune.

You know, I've always liked you, Briggs.

No, thanks.

And you created the vaccine.

Good work.

Because I loved Kay.

To what end?

[somber music playing]

Hey, Briggs.

Good to have you back.

Strange how your name went up on the wall

and then just came right back down again.

Must have been the new guys in charge, huh?

It's what I think.

Gum?

Phase two prototypes are ready for you, Briggs.

Yeah.

[sighs]

[ominous music playing]

[somber music playing]