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each proton bunch travels
around the main accelerator

11,245 times a second,
at nearly the speed of light,

before the journey ends

in a series of spectacular
head-on collisions.

and that's where our journey
to create dark energy begins.

i'm dr. karl dameron.

and i'm
dr. rachel reed,

and we're the
lead physicists

on the proteus dril
switch project.

dark energy
is a product of the big bang,

and it takes up 75%
of our universe.

tonight, we're here
to announce an experiment

that will shine a little light
into this darkness.

and if we're right...

and we're pretty sure
we're right.

it will change the way
we power our planet forever.

free power.

now, if the founder and ceo
of proteus, max salinger,

were here,

he'd be on his third
heart attack by now.

so it won't
actually be free,

but it will be
a hell of a lot cheaper.

in simple terms,

we're going to dig a well
in the vacuum of space,

and our shovel
will be the dril switch,

the dark radiation
integrated lattice,

and our water
will be the dark energy

in which the universe floats.

we believe
that we'll be able

to generate so much energy,

that we'll never be dependent
on fossil fuel

or dangerous nuclear power
ever again.

compliments of p53!
stop killing the planet!

so the challenge
isn't to change the world,

but to reshape it...

or in my case,

pay smart people
to do it for me.

the work of dr. rachel reed
and dr. karl dameron

will change the world.

their names written
alongside the greats...

feynman, hawking, einstein...

ali.

i hear that's one heck
of a right you got there, doc.

yeah.

you know, i started
proteus group

about 30 years ago

because i believed

that i could make the world
a better place.

but for those of us
with great ideas

comes a great responsibility...

a responsibility to try harder,

to transcend our infinitesimal
place in the universe

and to become one with it.

energy is everything,

and we are standing
on the brink

of an extraordinary
journey.

so ladies and gentlemen,
a toast.

to the adam and eve of science.

cheers!

cheers.

oh, and peebles is doing

some really interesting work
with gravity theory

at princeton.

we could make the call,
if you like.

oh, don't
listen to her.

you don't need
any more education.

what you need

is a couple years off
to have some fun!

well, i vote for max.

anyway, it's not
higher education.

it's just a lot
more complicated.

i didn't go
to college myself.

i learned everything
i needed to know

from the failures
of my competitors.

come on, i want you to meet
some interesting people.

she is ambitious.

mm-hmm.

yeah, and max went to
the sorbonne for three years...

probably went
for the cheese.

oh, look who's coming.

oh, dear.

dr. reed!

david.

dr. dameron.

it's quite a gathering
we have here tonight.

there's four ambassadors,
three nobel laureates,

two billionaires,
and a foreign minister.

yes, well, mr. salinger
has got a lot riding on this.

he's counting on you two
to get it done.

it's not a race, david.

enjoy the night.

i mean, have a drink.

charming and clever.

mm.

i thank you all
for your commitment.

this action will send
a clear message to proteus,

that we, the people,
will never tolerate

their irresponsible
dismemberment of our world.

they cannot be allowed
to play god with nature.

d d

okay. remember, guys,

we have a small window
before the next patrol.

come here!
go, go, go, go, go, go!

we're in.

guys, we've got 90 seconds,
starting...

now! let's go.

the proteus group

owns thousands of greenhouses
like this,

and in every single one
of them,

they're screwing
with mother nature.

they own 22,000
genetic patents,

and that number is growing
by 10 a week

and accelerating.

max salinger,
the founder of proteus,

claims that in 20 years,

he's going to feed the world

with high-tech food factories
like this.

forget mother nature...

he intends to manufacture
his own world.

this is a new species
of plant.

that's why this lab
is quarantined.

they don't know
what it is.

it's been engineered
with the dna

copied from the genome
of a metastasizing cancer,

designed to trigger
runaway growth

to speed up
the harvesting cycle.

they want us to eat

industrially produced
organic tumors every day

and pay a premium
for the pleasure.

the real question is...

what else are they hiding?

hey, what are you guys
doing in here?

go! go, go, go, go!
come on!

go, go, go!

hold it, now!
or i'll shoot!

you okay?

yeah, yeah,
they almost missed me.

it doesn't look good.

bastards!

we have to play tougher.

let's not jump
the gun.

i'm not.
they're shooting at us.

we need to change our game.

let's get this
to go viral, first.

do you know who did it?

not definitively.

our intelligence
strongly suggests

an eco-activist group
called p53.

we think
they're responsible

for several attacks
on our proteus servers,

but they may be trying
to raise the stakes

with more direct action.

anyways, we're watching,

but these guys, you know,
they're hard to crack.

they're all paranoid...

unpredictable.

what are the police doing?

they haven't
been notified.

good.
let's keep it that way.

no point in publicizing it
ourselves.

what's the damage?

a few thousand dollars
in experimental crop.

but what has me worried
is these guys

that seem to be stepping up
the intensity of their attacks.

well, double the security
at the lab.

a lot of angry people
out there right now.

can't say
that i blame them,

but i don't want them
in my backyard.

and this experiment
has to succeed.

good morning.

morning!

you slept late.

yeah, well,
you kinda kept me up last night.

you know, you're beginning
to become a bad habit.

did we have a conversation
about you keeping clothes here?

we don't have conversations
about lots of things.

doesn't mean they don't happen.

how are things at the lab?
everybody getting along?

good.

nothing exciting.
just science.

"just science" has costed me
north of three billion dollars,

and i didn't build that thing
for my health.

are we good to go?

relax, max,
it's all under control.

that hand still
hurting you?

what do you
expect me to do?

the guy scared the crap
out of me.

well, the evening
wasn't a total wash.

what do you mean?

you're a big hit...
on youtube.

see, there's
the power fluctuation.

0.1%.

well, that's still within
experimental tolerances.

yes, but we're not
on the denver grid,

so there should not be
any system variation.

but we can still run
the accelerator at full power.

yes, it's only
a minor deviation,

but still, i... i...

karl, karl,

i love and respect
your perfectionism,

but that?

it's probably a two-dollar
capacitor somewhere

that isn't holding charge.

find it, and swap it out, okay?

all right.

those are nice earrings.
they look real.

we are paying her too much.
make a note.

hmm.

okay, people,

the power variation
is no longer an issue.

we are good to go.

chloe, where do we stand?

the proton bunches
are in the dril accelerator.

where's the energy?

6.9 teravolts.

can you take it to 7.9, please?

the bunch interval
is 40 nanoseconds.

don't make it any shorter.

open the "b" breeder gate,
please.

get them going
in both directions.

'kay, gate is open.

proton density
in the beam is good...

cryo?

1.9 degrees kelvin.

well, keep an eye on that.
1.89 is optimal.

let's get the magnetic fields
in the superconductor

over 8.5 teslas.

okay.

we've got the beams going
in both directions.

let's get a feel
for the alignment.

the alignment
looks perfect to me.

the protons are
at experimental energy levels.

congratulations, everyone.

the accelerator
is fully functional.

we're officially ready
to go live with the experiment.

this is tough shot for her.

no way.

why is she
taking my marbles?

well...
this is the game.

she won, but... very lucky.

but i didn't even get to play.
you took all the shots.

that's because i'm trying
to show you how it's done.

i don't want you to,
uncle rus. she's better.

oy.

hand-eye co-ordination
isn't your uncle's strong suit.

i want auntie jenna
to teach me.

what? don't listen to her.

okay, i show you my technique.
give me the marble.

okay.

in russia, when i was kid,
this was my favorite game.

my papa taught me.

he was a machine.
he never missed.

get your fingers... that's it.

and just... pop!

it's okay.

your energy
fills everything.

it's in the marbles,
it's in your thumb...

and it's in you.

right there!

it's in you!

i love sundays.

i'm surprised
you remember them.

hurry!

you made us late again.

come on!

yeah, i gotta go.

please, why do you
always do this to me?

i don't always
do this to you.

well, you do it a lot.

well...
there's a lot of money

and 15 years of my life

riding on
what happens this week,

and, unfortunately, i don't have
a 9:00 to 5:00 job.

well,
that's not ruby's problem,

it's yours,

so you have to deal with it.

all right, look...

i know that i've been absent
in many ways,

and, uh, i will deal with that,

but, sometimes,

daughters have to cut
their fathers a little slack.

you just don't get it!

i do get it! i do get it!

it's bad timing.

i want you to say
one thing to ruby

that you think is important
that she may not understand.

my work does not mean
more than you.

i love you.

but when you follow
your passion,

you lose something...
maybe a lot.

but you get one shot
at this life,

and then it's over
in an instant.

you've got to push
for what you want while you can,

and i understand how important
passion and independence are.

they get you through, ruby.

those are the things
that make life worth living.

and that's, that's...
what i want to say to her.

okay, now, ruby,
what would you like to say?

i think you're depressed.

you've been depressed
since mom died.

that's 10 years.

you don't do anything.
we don't do anything.

you sit at a desk
and look at numbers.

that's not passion...

that's sticking
your head in the sand.

i think you should take
some kind of antidepressants...

or something.

this is a message

to all enemies
of free people of the world.

we are p53,

and we are the voice
and the will of the people.

attention
to all capitalist entities

and corporate
industrial interests!

we have been watching you,
and you have failed.

your time as self-appointed
guardians of the human race

is over.

this is
your one and only warning.

stop the systematic
mass murder,

mass poison of your people.

you,
the governments of the world,

have been collaborating,

corrupting the will
of the people for too long.

you directed
the industrial revolution

and manipulated
the labor of the people

into a colonialist,
expansionist, military regime

that persists
in our political culture

to this day.

yeah?

hey.

okay, i'm sorry
about this morning.

i'm sorry.

but i do think counseling
is great, and...

i want you to know
that i will be there

to listen to any of...

i have to go
to the bathroom.

ruby, ruby...

if you want to be treated
like an adult,

you've got to act like one.

do you understand me?

it's got to be all the time,
not just when you feel like it.

okay. so talk.

all right.

i just want to say thank you
for setting up that meeting

with dr. stone.

sloan. dr. sloan.

you can't even
remember her name.

look, that does not mean

that i don't appreciate
the intention.

no, it means you don't pay
attention to anything

because you're always
thinking about something else.

honey,
i never said i was perfect.

excuse me.

how is that going?

i think i got her.

she's worried
about me, right?

i sleep, like, three hours,
and then i wake up...

you should do yoga, big man.
sleep like baby.

ruslan, what part of this body
says "yoga" to you?

i can't even touch my toes
with a five iron, okay?

how do you make love
to your wife, big man?

okay.

it's a bit
of a personal question,

but i hand over my paycheck,
jump in the shower,

she takes care of the rest.

that's bad, my friend.

yeah, well...

best life in the world
is the one i got.

gotta make it work.

know what?

why don't you go home, spend
a couple hours with ruby?

i can finish up here.

not if we want to run
the experiments on time,

you can't.

come on, karl, you
can't work all the time.

you have to maintain
a little balance.

pshh...
look who's talking.

karl...

you're a hermit
obsessed with physics.

you have physics,

and on the weekends,
you have... math and physics.

just because you go out
for cocktails more often

doesn't mean you have
a bigger life than me.

'kay, that is called
"multi-tasking," my friend,

and it got us
where we are today.

hey, i'm not
disputing that,

and i understand the importance
of fundraising and glad-handing.

i get it.

but you can't tell me

that when you go
to one of these events,

that you're not keeping
an eye out

for the next place
you could ascend to.

be careful, karl.

you're getting
a little personal.

you know what?
uh...

listen, when
somebody's truthful,

it's because they care.

i mean, you always tell me
the truth, don't you?

you told me the truth
about my marriage,

you told me the truth
about ruby...

about all the mistakes
i'm always making with her.

yeah, and you weren't
very happy about it.

but i listen.

i'm really struggling
to introduce her

to a world that is violent
and unpredictable.

if we're talking about
single-minded and hermetic,

why haven't you
ever gotten married?

well, maybe the right man
was taken.

save mother earth!
save mother earth!

save mother earth!

the group
that's set up an encampment

here in a public park

is calling itself
"occupy the world"

and its message
is decidedly environmental.

they're promising to stay here
until their message is out.

the emphasis of these
protest movements...

local media.

they won't even get
a sniff from cnn.

oh, we're lucky
to get local.

corporate media
isn't going to touch this.

peaceful protest
doesn't work anymore.

police will have this place
shut down in a week,

and the kids'll yell,
and no one will listen.

you know,
the anarchists are with us.

a little chaos...
never a bad thing.

compared to our mission,

the anarchists
and the occupiers

are just a bunch of punks
with signs and gas masks.

look at julian.
right?

those cables were a statement.
instant polarization.

he created a worldwide network
of millions of people,

and nobody saw it coming.

word's out, my man.
you're a hero.

we've spoken with dozens
of people here today.

many of them
are conveying concern

about the proteus group

and its massive plan
to genetically modify food.

proteus' reliance
on its genetic portfolio

may be coming to an end,
however,

with the recent announcement

that it plans to move
into the energy sector

with the dril project.

they think they're gods,

but they have no idea
what they're dealing with.

or who
they're dealing with.

they'll know who we are
soon enough.

p53...

the protein that regulates
the cell cycle,

the cycle of life,
the guardians of the genome...

the cancer killer.

hey! what's going on?
i didn't get an update.

i thought
you were coming down.

no, i've been buried
in paperwork.

max asked me to a brief
for the executive branch.

he's still trying
to get that deal done.

mm-hmm.

so, no problems
in the dril?

ah, nothing's
gone right.

i mean, it's
all falling

within the acceptable
margins of error,

if there actually
is such a thing.

you know why we created
margins of error?

because scientists are so
good at screwing things up,

that's why.

but we'll still start
the pretests on time, yes?

boy, i remember a time

when you were the
lowly grad student

and i was the professor.

well, i remember
when i got promoted

to project director.

well, i'm aware
of the schedule.

i'll let you know
if there's a delay.

i just think
the last thing we need

is to get tangled up
in jackson's fetish

for corporate bureaucracy.

it's a necessary evil.

it's a total waste of time.

look, i think it's his job

to be obsessive
about these things...

the man who attacked you

is part of a group
known as p53.

they're fringe eco-activists
mostly looking for publicity.

oh, they've raided
our greenhouses,

you know,
things like that.

yeah, apparently,
i'm on youtube.

yeah, 37,000 hits.

well, for the safety of you
and your daughter,

we feel it'd be

in the best interest
for the project

to provide you both
with your own personal security.

i think
i demonstrated

that i'm capable
of fending off

a very fierce cream pie attack.

yes, well, we're concerned

that, next time,
they'll choose something

a little more dangerous
than a pie.

we don't want anyone
to get hurt.

so, in other words,
you can't afford delays

or bad publicity, right?

you won't even notice
our people, doctor.

yeah.

well, thanks anyway
for your gracious offer

to trample
my constitutional rights

and privacy at
the same time,

but i think i'll
take a pass, thanks.

so i ran into maria today.

i hate her facebook pages.

i mean,
paris, london, buenos aires...

it makes me feel like a...

beautiful,
sexy, fantastic,

smoking hot
bombshell?

yeah, that's it.

well, wherever she was,

she should have stayed
out of the sun

'cause she looks about 50.

see, honey?

see, that makes
me feel better.

that and the paycheck
means i'm golden...

although i'm starting to get
the feeling

that these paychecks
ain't gonna last.

you worry too much,
my friend.

they are undermanned as is.

i heard some of the guys

talking about this
proteus thing.

what's that?

i dunno. saw
it on the news.

they say they're gonna
make free energy.

dom, they will always need
line workers, okay?

your paycheck is safe.

well, i hope so.

you are my good friend, dom.

henry!

you swing like tigger.

tiger.

but you holding it all wrong.
let me show you.

let me show you.

i show you, i show you.
wait, wait, wait, wait!

i show you, i show you.

feet together.
you see now, huh?

when you swing, you...
you swing hard.

hey, henry!

get away from your uncle.
he's dangerous.

you have beautiful life,
lucky man.

now swing!

just get him on the couch.

okay...
none of my business.

all right.

uh, i'm going to take off.

you messing around
on me, ruslan?

why are you
so goddamned insecure?

maybe i wouldn't be insecure
if you weren't so distant.

you don't touch me...

you don't kiss me...

i am tired...

i'm tired of all of it,

of all this crap.

you do nothing.

you sit, you drink
and you complain.

you don't try!

take care of yourself
once in a while, huh?

maybe then
you could have kid, hmm?

maybe that's the problem.

how dare you throw that
back in my face!

you know how much i wa...

you know how much
i wanted to make you happy!

you know!

you ever think
that's maybe why i drink,

you son of a bitch?

i don't think
we missed anything...

it's hard to believe
that finally,

after all these years,

we're going to see
our dreams come to fruition.

there's our baby.

it's hard to believe
this all started over beers,

arguing about your thesis.

yeah, now it's all grown up
and ready to move out.

and change the world.

say, you wouldn't happen to have
another thesis lying around,

would you?

that depends.

you have any beer?

there you go.

all right.

what's wrong now?

i'm a vegan.

vegan.
since when?

since the planet is being
ruined by factory farms,

genetically modified food,

and superbugs created
by the overuse

of antibiotics
in animal feed.

i told you last month.

yeah, i remember.

no, you don't.

ruby, i'm not depressed,
but i appreciate your concern.

but these are mostly issues
that you need to work through...

ruby?

hey!

you feeling
all right?

fine.

y'know, uh...

jude and i
went through some rough patches,

but if you work at it,
it'll be all right.

that's not true, dom.

well...
drinkin' ain't the answer.

hey, i've been there.
i'm just saying.

no, you haven't
been there, dom.

what you have?

i lost.

that was my life, dom.

now, you think about

having all of that
taken away from you,

like that?

i'm still fighting, dom.

i'm still fighting,
but jenna, she stopped fighting.

don't you think
she at least deserves

to know about your past?

that is my burden,
not hers.

i think it's a bigger burden
for her not knowing.

i mean, she's got
to carry you, too.

you just
don't get it.

she's just like jude.

she loves you, man.

and when those girls love,
they'll do anything...

and that's the truth.

no one's doing anything to you.

you're doing it to yourself.

she deserves to know
the truth, russ.

okay...

let's get this pretest going.

are the lasers aligned
for the beam calibration?

yeah, we're making
final adjustments.

is the power
flow stable?

within a tenth of a percent.

okay, well, keep
an eye on that.

okay, what's
the proton bunch interval?

28 nanoseconds.

the protons
in the dril accelerator

are at eight teravolts.

we have full energy.

yeah, the dril switch
should be online,

but i do not see it.

where is it, please?

sorry.

sensors enabled.

okay, let's make sure
the dril is ready

to accept the proton beam.

mr. bains!

i gotta tell you,

i am so honored to have you
in my home.

come in, please.
sit down.

make yourself
comfortable, please.

now, can i get you
something to drink?

i got just about everything.

i got coffee, tea, beer,
wine, soda pop...

i got a real weakness
for soda pop.

water will be fine.

water it is.

i am just pleased as punch

that the president
of the united states

has shown this...

please, sit down!

has shown this sudden
interest in our project.

well, clean energy's
one of his top priorities.

well, it doesn't get
any cleaner than this.

well, we'll
see, won't we?

yes, we will.
yes, we will.

i have great faith
in my team.

chloe, i'm reading
a critical field distortion.

what have you got?

the accelerator's
magnetic array

is fluctuating slightly.

wh... uh, a malfunction,
or a sensor, or what?

nothing registered.

one of the dipole magnets
is bumping,

but cryo is functioning
within nominal parameters.

what do you think?

uh...

there's no need
to shut down,

but we don't want
a quench incident.

chloe?

you know the superconductors
better than anyone,

so why don't you take
maintenance down there,

check it out, and make sure
everything's okay?

we can still send a beam
through the dril

and calibrate in the meantime.

but as i said, i'm flattered
with the attention,

but i'm just...
i'm just kind of surprised

because i've been trying to get
the white house

interested in this project
for over a year now.

the president's
only interested

in getting behind a winner.

you know, clean energy
is good for the planet,

it's good for the economy,

it will create jobs,

but...

well, we don't want
another solyndra.

oh no, sir.
no, we don't.

and i guarantee that
that's not going to happen here.

but i gotta tell you, uh...

i don't recall the government
giving me any money... at all.

to my considerable
hardship, i might add.

yes, but anything
is possible,

if we get the right result.

well, yes, it's a...

it's a great big world
out there,

and i'm discovering
that i have some new friends

in china... india...

russia...

international trade
is the cornerstone

of the american empire,
isn't it?

but we feel that it's necessary

for this technology to remain
protected, shall we say.

well, i am a patriot.

the president's making
a big announcement on friday...

about the future,

about america shedding
its reliance on foreign oil.

he'd like you to be there...
if all goes well.

he does know i didn't vote
for him, doesn't he?

oh, you will.

the d.o.e. will commit
to a 1.5 billion loan guarantee.

- right now?
- friday.

you have a small window
of opportunity

to climb through here, max.

the president will look
elsewhere when it closes.

okay...

there it is.

check for damage.

see if you can plug in
and get any readings.

field of superconductivity
is steady at seven teslas.

let's get a proton bunch
circling the ring.

what exactly is this, uh...

this "quench" thing
you're talking about?

i mean, is it a problem?

sorry, it's tech-speak.

a magnetic quench incident,
like the one they had at cern,

is when
part of the superconducting coil

enters a normal, resistive
state.

thanks for clearing that up.

in other words,

the magnet overheats,
the helium evaporates,

everything goes boom...

it's very, very bad.

you're not making me
feel better, doctor.

there's no problem, david.

this is a calibration run.

we send a single proton bunch
around the accelerator

and align the beam path,

and make sure
it's bending right.

and then the next step
is the pretest.

we collide the beams
in the dril at low energy.

we know we want
a nice bright beam spot,

we focus the collisions...

and then in the main experiment,

that's when we send them through
and collide them at full energy.

that's when
the fireworks happen, right?

we drill our well.

yeah, rachel, if you're done
with your little lecture,

i'm gonna be diverting
the bunch through the dril now.

what? he asked!

there's condensation
building up.

shouldn't have that.

what do you see, chloe?

not much.

rate of change
in the magnetic field is fine.

field itself is not too large.

no sign of a quench.

we should probably swap out
the magnets when we're done.

all right, we're sending
the beam

through the switch,

so don't do anything else
until we're calibrated.

there it is.

calibrating.

don't touch that! ray!

no!

no! don't!

we lost cryo.

what happened?

hey?

what's wrong, buddy?

russ! what's wrong?

your hubby has issues.

yeah, i know.

you need to take care
of yourself.

we have a situation
with the magnetics. stand by.

dumping the beam.

we're good, aren't we?

something isn't right.

what are you
talking about?

it's probably just
a normal screw-up.

probably just something blew out
at the main substation.

dom, that wasn't normal.

let's go.

where are we goin' now?

grid control. they'll
know what happened.

chloe, what happened?

cryo blew out on that magnet.

what?

what happened?

uh, are you okay?

yeah, yeah.
i think so.

but i don't know
about ray and frank...

well, uh...
what happened?

was it a malfunction,
or a sensor, or...?

hold on.
i'll call you back...

yeah. it's me.

don't talk to anybody.
not yet. got it?

uh...

look, absolutely no one.

not even reed or dameron.
do you understand?

okay...

seal off the area.

nobody but repair
allowed in.

yes, sir.

and get a hold
of security now.

got it.

i don't want to see
any vampire movies.

vampires are ugly.

no, not these ones.

these ones apparently
all go to high school,

get boob jobs...

even the guys.

can i help you?

nothing's wrong?

no. who are you?

my name is ruslan.
i'm a line worker.

what exactly
is supposed to be wrong?

i don't know...

uh,
come on, russ...

it's lunch.

everything is normal?

sorry to bother you.

that's okay...

i guess.

russ, what's
this all about?

you're getting
freaky on me.

i thought something bad
was going to happen.

i have to see jenna.
she's not answering her phone.

she's staying with us.

you know, after last night.

jude asked me to tell you.

where are we going?

max wants to see you.

so what happened?

we were trying
to figure out

what was wrong with
the cryo unit,

when, out of nowhere,

this static charge
started to build.

i saw this weird
electrical arc.

whoa, whoa.

what do you mean, weird?

it was purple...
not natural.

okay, you know what?
that doesn't matter.

what i need to know
is if it was human error.

ours?
in the room?

no chance.

he wasn't doing anything,
and it arced.

he got electrocuted.

when ray tried to pull
him off, the pipe blew.

honestly?

i don't even think
it was the cryo unit.

yeah.

yeah, we need to talk
to salinger. come on.

marking a new era in the
world of high energy physics.

the experiment
set to run

at the cutting-edge
proteus accelerator

could turn the energy sector
on its head.

we're already seeing downward pressure

on all major energy stocks.

a spokes...

how long have you been
standing there?

i wanted to see
if you're okay.

no, i'm not okay.

why don't you come home, huh?

we can talk about it.

there's nothing to talk about,
is there?

you told me how you feel.

it's not really like that.

i didn't mean anything.

you meant it
when you said it.

that's what hurts.

i want to explain.

no, ruslan...

i'm done.

i thought
max was here?

yeah... not for long.

keeping me
out of sight?

you want me to be honest?

'kay, i'll be honest.

see, the optics of this
are much better

if this accident
was a magnetic malfunction...

at least,
if people think it was.

you know,
for the next few days.

the facts are the facts.
i can't change them.

right.

go to max's.
relax.

tomorrow's a new day.

but i have to
talk to someone!

i'm sorry, sir.
we're on a lockdown right now.

no one comes in

unless they've been cleared
directly

by the chief of operations.

you don't understand.

it's not safe.

what they are doing in there
is not safe.

i'm sorry, sir.
i can't let you in.

is there an appointment...
or something?

please,
i have to talk to someone now!

you'll have to leave, sir.

i sent her to your house.

no one outside of the medic
she saw in the infirmary

and the science team

knows she was there
when the magnet exploded.

well, they're gonna find out
sooner or later,

so just be prepared
to finesse it.

one dead.

you say the other fella's
gonna pull through?

mm.

well, talk to the families.

take good care of them.

make sure you give them
whatever they need.

the lawyers
are already drafting up

settlement proposals.

good.
what about us?

are we dead yet?

the situation
is precarious,

but it can be managed.

it's a delicate balance.
you saw the quarterly reports.

we don't have

a successful test
by friday,

we are done.

well, no one's

going to be able to talk
to the technician

for a couple of days,

so that should
buy us some time.

local police?
investigations?

city by-laws?
all that bureaucratic crap?

how are we gonna clear them
out of the way?

oh, i can deal
with that.

however, we have
two outstanding problems.

chloe.

if she starts talking
about what she saw, we're done.

i'll roll the dice with her.

but our most
immediate problem

will be our two
nobel laureates.

i mean, they're going to want
to shut this thing down

until they figure out
what happened

to the 50th decimal place.

i'll take a shot
at rachel, too.

i know a little bit
about how she operates.

okay.

i'm putting it in your hands.

frank died?

his wife just
had a baby.

so where's chloe?
i spoke to her only briefly.

she's fine.

well, what did she
say? what happened?

it was an accident...

that thing
you were talking about.

a magnetic quench?

yeah.

it looks like it was
contained to one magnet.

so how did frank get killed?

we don't know.
we're still investigating.

with all
due respect,

we should be the ones
who are doing the investigating.

i need you to determine

if this was connected
to the pretest in any way.

well,

we know the magnet wasn't
operating efficiently,

but the pretest itself
seemed okay.

and if it was
a magnetic quench,

then it's most likely
a manufacturing flaw

in the superconductor...

just look at
all the data, is what.

okay,
so why don't you do that now?

i need a few hours to sort
things out down here anyway.

there are some things

that require
more than a few hours

to sort out.

figure of speech, doctor.

we'll talk in a while.

so what do you think?

pipe's blown.

if the helium heated too fast,
it would have exploded.

and, obviously,
there was some arcing.

yeah, you're right.
look at that lead.

it's completely
burnt out.

this is not gonna tell us
anything.

we have to
talk to chloe.

yeah.

look, if there's an inquiry,
i'll have to tell the truth.

a man died,
for chrissakes...

well, why start now?

wow.
that's rich, coming from you.

i never claimed
the moral high ground.

you're just pissed
because i won't let you use me.

well, you know, it's
a little late for that.

screw you!

look, we use each other.
it's mutually beneficial.

really?
that's what i mean to you?

no, no, no.
you mean a great deal to me.

i promise i mean it.

look, it's just that
i need your help.

you're asking me
to jeopardize my entire future.

what if i were to offer you
a new one?

gotta pull the plug.
that's all.

really, karl?

15 years, we have worked
towards this day.

i can't even fathom
scrubbing it, you know,

not when we're so close.

it looked like a quench
at first glance,

but the data's not showing
any increase in resistance

before the event.

so, you know, shutting it down
is a no-brainer

until we can figure out
exactly what happened.

i know.
you're right.

i'll go tell max.

all right.
i'll come with you.

no, it's all right.

look, it's late.

go be with ruby.
i can handle him.

now you,
the patriarchy,

are taking
the war on the people

to another front.

biological warfare.

you are poisoning
the water supply with garbage.

you are diluting the
atmosphere with carbon dioxide.

you are feeding growth hormones
and unnecessary medications,

and chemical composites

and untested pesticides
into the food chain.

you will not win this battle.

hear us, citizens of the world!

proteus is the new sickness
that plagues you.

we are p53.
we are the cancer killer.

where is your father?

um... just a second.

i must talk to him.

if you wait outside,
i can go get him.

no!

i must talk to him.
i must talk to him now.

dad!

dad!

dad!

who the hell are you?

i just have to talk to...!
just let me talk to you!

who the hell are you, huh?

what the hell are you doing
in my house?

you don't know
what you're doing, do you?

what are you talking about?

lhitiska.

lhitiska?

lhitiska.
it's not on the map anymore.

they had accelerator
close there, too.

what are you
talking about?

my family lived in lhitiska,

and i watched it disappear.

there were beautiful lights
dancing in the sky,

most beautiful thing
i ever seen.

but then... it was gone!

like that!

today... today, i saw
same lights, same lightning.

you have accelerator.

why?

in lhitiska,
a thousand people died,

wiped off face of the earth.

i lost everything.

why am i the only one
to live?

can you tell me that?

tell me why.

get out of here.

you all right?

mm-hmm.

i'm sorry, max,

but we really need to know
what happened.

i mean, we have
to talk to chloe,

to the techs,

and go over that data
with a fine-tooth comb.

okay.

now, let's just...
go over the facts, all right?

sure.

now, you knew there was
a problem with the magnet,

but you gave the order
to continue the test,

and you sent workers
to the faulty unit

while the accelerator
was at full power.

standard procedure.

well, they're gonna say

that your procedure
should have been different.

who's going to say?

well, there's gonna be
an investigation, rachel,

and we just... we can't afford
that kind of press.

but i did exactly what
you and david told me to do.

am i being thrown
under the bus here?

oh, i don't recall
david or i

authorizing you or anyone

to jeopardize the safety
of a proteus employee.

you're a stone-cold bastard.

you know damn well that
we're in this position

because of your imperatives,
not mine.

now that's all well and good, as
long as you understand

that if this project is delayed
for any reason,

you undoubtedly will find
yourself on your back,

staring up
the chassis of a bus,

and the investigation

will also find your judgment
questionable, at best.

that happens, max,

and i am taking you down
with me.

you won't have to.

i'll lose everything.

dark energy will die,

along with everything
you've worked for,

for a decade... forever...
who knows.

i thought you were
a better man than this.

run the test, rachel.
it's as simple as that.

look, i have to assess
the damage.

jackson tells me

engineering
can have the magnet switched out

in eight hours.

they've already started.

of course they have.

fine.

we'll go on schedule.

for what it's worth, rach...

i'm awful sorry about this.

no, you're not.

you don't know
the meaning of the word.

guess we'd better keep
the door locked

from now on, huh?

it was locked.

well, then,

guess we shouldn't let in
any strangers,

emphasis on
the "strange."

well, if you're so worried,

then why aren't we
reporting him?

well, there's no reason to
bring the police in on this.

and he's not
coming back.

what was he talking about?

uh, i don't know, ruby.

why did his town disappear?

who knows?
he was ranting.

he's probably one
of those eco-idiots.

he didn't sound
like an idiot,

but you never listen
to anybody anyway.

oh, now, please,
don't start with me.

other people think
you're playing god at proteus.

where're you going?

ruby?

ruby!

ruby!

hey, what's up, bro?

hey! it's you!

yeah. me in real life.

i'm so happy you came.

it's great to meet you.

you going to hang out
for a while?

yeah, yeah... i want
to get involved, right?

i want to do... something.

this place is so cool.

yeah, we're fighting
the good fight.

come on.
i'll show you around.

so, it started
with the occupy movement,

but they don't really know
what they want,

so we're focusing them more

on the environmental issues
that really matter.

i mean, ultimately,

what's the difference
if you're rich or poor

if the planet
doesn't exist anymore?

you okay?

yeah, yeah...

dislocated my shoulder
last week.

police brutality.

that's terrible.

what's wrong with them,
you know?

they can't handle people
telling it like it is.

yeah, we tell the truth.

where are you?

i'm, uh, i'm staying at izzy's
tonight, okay?

i just don't want you
to worry.

yeah, what's going on there?

nothing.

we're just, uh...
we're just watching a movie.

uh-huh.

so if i were
to call izzy's mom,

she would go up to izzy's room
and she could find you?

i'm at izzy's, okay?

okay.

allo?

ilya?
it's karl dameron.

karl, my old friend.
what a nice surprise!

how are you doing?

i'm fine, i'm fine.
listen...

uh, i remember you told me once
that you did

a little post-doc stint
with the military

in arkhangelsk,

and i was wondering

if you'd heard of a town
called lhitiska?

was there an accelerator there?

up until around 10 years ago?

ilya?

i don't know, my friend.
i'm sorry.

we're walking a very fine line
here, david.

we have an
impeccable record

when it comes to
workplace safety,

but accidents happen
all the time.

it's a statistical
certainty.

well, i don't like them
happening on my watch.

how's ray doing?

he's going to be fine.

he won't be in any shape to talk
to anyone for a few weeks...

who knows what he'll remember?

but everything was reported
properly?

of course.

we have a very good relationship
with the police department.

they're letting us
handle this internally.

and what did chloe say?

that it was
a tragic accident.

when can i expect a report?

not for a few weeks.

don't let any of this
concern you, dr. reed.

you just keep your focus
on the experiment.

we'll handle everything else.

wake up!

hey, lazy!

sleepyhead.

drink.

caffeine good.
i've had lots.

yeah?

couldn't tell.
you're so calm.

i know, right?

my brother always calls me
"twitchy..."

"twitchy mcspasm."

you think this is bad,

you should try sleeping
with me.

you'll wake up with bruises.

no, no...
that didn't sound right.

i didn't mean
"sleep with me."

i'm not being creepy.

don't be silly.
i know what you meant.

i'm twitchy, too.
i just keep it inside.

what, you checking
up on us now?

well, i'm excited.
we're making history.

want to be here
when it happens.

the accelerator's
back online.

when will we
hit full power?

three hours.

didn't know if you'd
make it in today.

you feeling okay?

fine.

just needed
a good night's rest, is all.

well, you're
a very lucky young woman

to walk away from that.

jackson said

you thought it
might be a quench?

is that what
really happened?

my readouts showed
an increased impedance

before the explosion.

we didn't see that
on the main systems.

the localized data
was consistent

with a flaw in the wire.

the sudden increase
in temperature

blew the pipe.

my laptop was fried,
but i saw the data.

i'm sure of it.

hmm.

and did you see
max last night?

so did i.

so we're on
the same team then, are we?

for what it's worth, chloe,

you're walking
a very dangerous path.

and i don't know
what he said to you,

but you believe max salinger
at your own peril.

and that's the last piece
of advice

you'll ever get from me.

countdown to initiation,
four hours and 20 minutes.

activate the radiation
and safety protocols

for the accelerator ring.

all readings are normal.

all right, let's get

the magnetic field
nailed down

and get the protons
out of the breeder.

no, no, no.
what the hell you doing?

rachel!
what is this?

the pretest has started.

somebody's died.

doesn't that mean
anything to you?

we can postpone this
three days, a week, a month...

it still won't bring him back.

that's kinda cold,
wouldn't you say?

it's a fact.

and i'd think you'd
appreciate the truth of it,

being a scientist.

yeah,
you're not understanding me.

could we have
this conversation

in private, please?

please notify me

as soon the breeders
are up to capacity.

will do.

you can throw as much
corporate mumbo jumbo at me

as you like,

but i'm still shutting
this experiment down

until i know what happened.

it was a tragic
accident. a fluke.

shutting it down
will simply mean

that he died for nothing.

now, the pretest went
perfectly. correct?

uh, no, i wouldn't call
what happened perfect.

no, i mean,
there were no issues

with the dril switch,
the proton beam.

everything calibrated.
we're all good, right?

i had a visitor last night.

i know.

he's a russian lineman
from denver power and light.

he's not part of
p53. we checked.

oh, so i am
being surveilled.

well, good.

you probably know
what he was there for, then

do you remember
back in university,

there were rumors
of accelerator experiments

in western russia?
remember?

yeah, vaguely.

i checked out
this lineman's story...

and he was right.

his town, lhitiska?
gone.

it's not in any map
that i read after 2003.

and then i called ilya
to ask him about it,

and not only was he
less than forthcoming,

the guy actually hung up on me.

i'm telling you,
there is something to this.

i don't know.

i mean, i find it
hard to believe

that the russians
could keep something

like a town
disappearing

under wraps.

i mean, not in
this day and age.

rachel, i'm giving you
my gut here,

and that was always enough,

so what's changed?

this is all conjecture,

and i hate to break it to you,

but your gut is not enough
to shut this experiment down.

are you kidding me?

i'm the program director.
i pull the trigger.

wow, 15 years,
you and i doing this,

and this is what i get?

there's
a security issue.

apparently, your
daughter, ruby,

has been in contact with one
of the core members of p53.

they're an
eco-terrorist group,

the people responsible
for your early dessert

at your talk.

now, they actively recruit
through social media, whatnot.

so you're spying
on my daughter now, huh?

proteus does not keep tabs
on its employees

or family members,

but we do monitor
hostile organizations

such as p53.

currently, we believe they
may have some involvement

in yesterday's incident.

so that puts us
in a delicate position

regarding your stature here.

well, i'll tell you what.

i won't be
a problem to you anymore.

i'm out.

karl!

karl?

karl!

you're not listening to me
and i don't know why.

i don't get it.

you sabotage yourself
with people,

and now you're trying
to sabotage your career.

i am trying to protect you!

listen to me, i'm not
concerned about my career,

but there are certain things
i need to know about.

there's certain things
i need to understand.

god, it's always about things,
isn't it?

it's never about people.

i mean,
not for the longest time.

there's a lot at stake here,

and i think you've completely
lost sight of that.

we were collaborators, okay?

i taught you
everything that i know.

we're partners. we're friends.

so you're saying
that we're not friends now

because, for once,
i asked you to back me up?

you know what?
i had to make a decision.

i need you in there,
where you belong.

so you want to talk
about partnership?

that's partnership.

you're a deep sleeper.
i tried to wake you twice.

yeah, well, this protest
stuff is exhausting.

yeah? next time,
i'll poke you with my stick.

now look what you did.

that was ethiopian java.
it's a crime to spill that.

well, we have more
important things going on.

yeah, you don't
have to tell me.

i'm down with the cause.

way down.

i'm sorry
if you didn't like that,

but... i just had to.

i don't mind.

you know,
you've got a lot to offer.

no, i mean it.

i mean, you really want
to change things?

really make a difference?

yeah. that's
why i'm here.

they can't do that!
this is a peaceful protest!

hey, hey, hey.
let's not get busted.

not over this.
it's not worth it.

we got plans.

shouldn't we have stayed
back and helped?

trust me, we're better off
out of that chaos.

what is this place?

i want you to meet someone.

relax. you're gonna
love this guy.

welcome.

i'm really happy you wanted
to be a part of this.

we're looking for soldiers,
but we have to be careful.

madhatter vouches for you,

but i don't know
who the hell you are.

do you know who we are?

do you really understand
what we're doing here?

yeah.

um...

he told me you're the ones
who pied my dad.

and i totally
agree with that.

i mean, i get it.

he's the head scientist
on the dril project,

so you have to make
the point that...

no, she's gotta go.

she's gotta go.

c'mon, you gotta go.

no.

why?

because of my dad?

yeah.
i'm sorry.

he thinks
he's so smart,

but he doesn't understand
what he's dealing with.

but i'm completely against
everything he stands for.

really?

i hate that company.

they've destroyed
everything for me.

yeah, i hear you,
i hear you.

proteus is a cancer.

i can help.

can you?

huh.
welcome to the night shift.

yeah, i just woke up.

what's going on?

well, it's kind of weird.

bunch of transformers failed,

yesterday
or early this morning...

can't figure out when.

i keep finding more.

gotta send out more crews
to repair them,

or some neighborhoods
are going to go dark.

all right. on it.

i wonder if that
crazy lineman yesterday

knew something we didn't.

i doubt it.

hmm.

we need passwords
to get into the system.

every part of it...
research, security,

corporate mainframe,
whatever he's got.

yeah, uh, no sweat.
i know most of his passwords.

usually,
it's ruby-something,

like my birthday, or, uh...

mom's birthday.

like that.

okay, give me everything
he's got on his hard drive.

okay.

it's my dad.

so talk to him.

hey, dad.

hey, uh...

i'm going to be late... again.

i figured.

yeah.
so, uh...

you're staying at izzy's still?

yep.

okay.

i love you, ruby.

okay.

okay.

this is exactly
what run was talking about.

you gotta pick a side,
right now.

it's a security card
pass for the campus.

he's not supposed
to have extras,

but he left that one for me

in case i need to meet him there
after school sometimes.

i'm paired
into your computer now.

okay. i'll get you into
proteus' main server.

let me know.

is this italy?

yeah, uh...

that's my mom
in tuscany

and... piedmont, i think.

we went there
a couple years ago.

nice...
the kremlin?

germany, too.

beer garden? awesome.

is that an elephant?

yep. safari.

we went there a couple years
after my mom died.

he said he wanted to take me
before it all disappeared.

i'm in.

what do you want to do?

make a clone of the system,

so we can keep an eye
on what proteus is up to.

seal the containment chambers,
please.

acceleration to one teravolt
in the main dril accelerator.

right, get me
a reading on alignment?

no deviation.

what's the interval
between the proton bunches?

25 nanoseconds.

magnetic field density
looks good.

how's that new magnet
doing?

field strength is perfect.

we're ready on the dril.

karl?

are you happy with
where we stand?

we're set.

i'm done.

y'know,
even though your dad

is a tool for the corporate
industrial elite,

i gotta admit,
he seems kind of cool.

y'know... as a dad.

yeah, well... you don't
have to live with him.

true.

the only place
my dad ever took me

was walmart
and the liquor store.

true story.

let's get the dril
switch activated

and run the beams
through it.

both directions.

okay, beam is established
within the dril.

how's our field density?

it's perfect.

focusing magnets
have a nice bright beam spot.

right.
run the pretest sequence.

dril switch is engaged.

what is that?

what happened?

i don't know.
i got a surge in section e-44.

what's happening
at the relays?

nothing's coming in.

it's a local spike.

that's strange.

there shouldn't be
a local surge.

it's got to come from somewhere.

oh wait, it's gone.

that's impossible.

could be
a grid malfunction.

everything is spiking.

looks like
a 10-block area.

accelerator's back online.

dril switch is powered.

must have been
a computer glitch

that hid the output readings.

we'll have it checked.

i'll be right back.

what is that?

i don't know.

henry! pia!

oh, my god!

mom! mom!

get the kids out!
go! go! go!

mom, i'm coming right back
for you!

oh, god,
please let them be okay!

anti-protons
are at full energy.

the pretest data
is locked in.

thank you very much,
ladies and gentlemen.

i think we can categorize that
as an unqualified success.

we are in great shape
to run the full test.

you see, karl?

we're almost there.

you had nothing to worry about.

i'm going to get mom.

mom!

oh, my god! mom!

oh, my god, mom...

i'll put the champagne
on ice.

heh.

damn! i can't
get a line!

it's okay, dom.
we'll find them.

that's my house!

that's my house!

are there people in there?

sir!
get behind the line!

sir, you can't cross the line!

my kids are in there!

get off me!
my family is in that house!

you can't cross the line, sir!
you can't cross the line.

get off me!

no, dom!

no, no, no!
no, dom!

it's too dangerous!