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(Phones ringing)

Morning,

Why is he still here?

He's been like that

for the last hour,

I told Stark to be out

of his office by noon,

I tried to give him

his severance package,

Gary insisted that

I should hold off for a bit,

Come on, Cynthia,

what's the harm

in giving the man

a little extra time?

You tell me,

How much have you accomplished

in the last hour

feeling sorry for him?

Wrap it up,

(Kristin)

I love you, Mason,

Mason?

Come in,

This is from Balmer,

It's your severance package,

At least you won't

have to put up with

that bean counter any more,

Yeah,

Look,

I can imagine how

you feel right now,

but you're gonna

catch on somewhere,

You're too smart not to,

You have plenty of time,

You have three months' pay,

Your medical insurance

keeps going

until you get settled again,

You know, ,,

Your coverage does include

psychiatric services, ,,

Like counselling, therapy...

You got something

to say to me, Gary?

Say it,

Mase, ,,

Kristin's been gone

for over a year now,

There's nothing wrong

in getting some help

if you needed to, ,,

any help so you can come

to terms with what happened,

I know what happened,

I was there,

There was nothing I could do

to stop it,

I'm not saying there was,

I'm not the son of a bitch

who shot her, All right?

It just happened!

Thanks for the advice!

Get the hell out of my office!

I said get out!

No!

That went well,

He's just a little upset,

that's all,

Get security up here,

Right away, Miss Larmor,

Hello?

Now, look... Oh, great!

Another one that looks like me!

What the hell are you doing?

I can't look

at these other two guys,

and you bring another one in?!

Oh, no,

No, ,, no,

(Control Voice)

There is nothing wrong with

your television,

Do not attempt

to adjust the picture,

We are now controlling

the transmission,

We control the horizontal

and the vertical,

We can deluge you

with a thousand channels

or expand one single image

to crystal clarity

and beyond,

We can shape your vision

to anything our imagination

can conceive,

For the next hour,

we will control all that

you see and hear,

You are about to experience

the awe and mystery

which reaches from

the deepest inner mind to, ,,

Do we have the power

to shape our lives?

Or are we predestined

to be who we are?

If our fate

is but one amongst many,

then whose life, if anyone's,

is real?

Ow,

(Warning buzzer sounding)

No,

Mason?

You understand me?

I'm dead,

I've got to be dead,

I know how strange

this must seem,

but you're not dead,

You're alive,

flesh and blood,

just like me,

Who are you?

I'm you, Mason, ,, in a sense,

Where am I?

In another life,

I need you to answer

some questions for me,

Can you do that?

You're currently a project

manager at Eigenphase systems,

Is that correct?

Yes,

What was that?

That chair monitors

the electrical activity

in your nervous system

to determine

whether or not you're lying,

An untruthful

or unresponsive subject

is prompted

with a brief electric shock,

I said, I'd answer

your questions

You don't have to torture me,

It's not torture,

It's a, ,, necessary precaution,

I'm sorry,

Now, again,

Are you currently a project

manager at Eigenphase systems?

No, I was fired this morning,

That's the answer

I was hoping for,

One night when

you were 15 years old

your father

came home late from work,

He'd been drinking,

You began to argue,

He started beating you,

Did you stop him?

Did you stop him?

No,

I let him beat me, all right?

If I hadn't he would have

hurt mom, ,, again,

I don't need to know

your excuses,

just your choices,

You were strong enough

to handle him,

Could have forced him

into detox, dried him out,

helped him

get his life together,

That's easy for you to say,

That's what I did,

Three years ago,

you met Kristin Fields,

A year later she asked you

to marry her,

Did you?

Yes,

Did it work out?

Not exactly,

She died,

How did it happen?

(Kristin)

Thinking it's going

to beat you down,

We were, uh, ,,

Aw, sweetheart,

We were just taking a walk,

You've earned this job,

You should start learning

to enjoy your success,

I enjoy my success every day...

The fact that I convinced you

to marry me,

Oh, and how did you

manage to do that?

Very funny,

Give me your wallet!

Are you deaf?!

I said now!

Mason, give him what he wants,

All right, here,

Take it all!

Just please don't hurt us!

He shot her,

Why her and not you?

I don't know,

There's no point in lying,

Why did he shoot her?

Here! Here, take it all!

Just please don't hurt us!

Help!

Get down!

Help!

Why did he shoot her?!

He shot her because I let him!

I could have saved her!

I could have tried!

But I was too afraid,

All right? Is that what

you wanted to hear?

I've had enough of

your damn questions!

If you won't tell me

why I'm here, fine!

Then kill me now

and get it over with!

I don't care any more!

Then I'm going

to have to make you care,

Have you ever wondered

what would have happened

if you'd made different

choices in your life?

Everybody has,

Yes, well, not everybody

can make those choices real,

Every choice we make affects

which path in life we follow,

But quantum physics dictates

that every one

of those different choices,

those alternate paths in life,

must still occur

but in an alternate reality,

You mean the choices

I never made still happened?

That's right,

I built a quantum mirror

to help me understand

the paths in life I didn't take,

You mean you're me

the way I might have been?

The way you might have

been if you'd finished

graduate school,

worked your way up through

the ranks at Eigenphase

until you became CEO,

You expect me to believe this?

How would you explain the

other Masons in these cells?

Open it up!

I'm talking to you!

Hey!

Hey! Hey!

Open it up!

All right,

suppose what you say is true,

Why did you pick me?

See what the path

of a screw-up might be?

No, I brought you here

because I need your help,

First time I used the mirror,

I wasn't as careful

as I should have been,

The version I brought here

was more different from me

than I could have imagined,

Who the hell are you?

He was injured

when I brought him through,

He wouldn't say how,

Cleaned his wound,

Explained to him where he was,

And once he got over

his initial shock,

we began to talk,

to get to know each other,

It was fascinating,

see the living result

of choices I never made,

Everything

seemed to be going fine,

Took him to my home,

At night, I woke up

to find him with a knife

at my wife's throat,

He was in rage,

practically insane,

He said he was going

to put things back

the way

they were supposed to be,

And then he, ,,

He slit her throat,

She died in my arms,

I brought you here

to help me stop him, ,,

Before he kills again,

Mr, Stark, Hey, Gary,

Got a minute?

Of course,

That's quite a scar, sir,

What happened?

Rent-a-cop shot me in the head,

Just grazed me,

Nice car you got there,

That's very funny, sir,

What did you say

when you bought it for me?

You didn't want your head

of R & D seen driving a Geo,

Head of R & D?

Right,

Mr, Stark, ,, is there something

I can do for you?

No,

There is something I have to do,

Actually I already did it once,

I'll have to do it again,

Look, ,, What do I call you?

Mr, Stark will do,

All right, Mr, Stark,

Why would this other Mason

want to kill your wife?

I don't know,

I only know I had to do

something to stop him,

But I couldn't report it

to the police,

I would have become

a suspect myself,

The press

would have destroyed me,

I couldn't understand

the way he was thinking,

So I decided

I'd find someone who could,

I used the quantum mirror

to find a version of myself

similar to the one

who murdered my wife,

Most of the other Masons

I found were psychotics

of some form or another,

more violent and dangerous

than the first one,

Others were more rational

but equally useless to me, ,,

And no longer necessary,

because now I've got you,

What's it doing?

It's finding the right life,

I'm nothing like that murderer,

How do you know I'll be able

to think like him?

I wasn't questioning you

for my entertainment,

From what little

I was able to learn

of the first Mason's background,

your lives

were nearly identical,

I'll put all my resources

at your disposal,

anything you need to stop him,

Stop?

You mean kill,

You want an assassin,

somebody expendable,

The man murdered my wife,

If I could find him

myself, I would,

But I can't do it alone,

I am giving you a chance

to do something worthwhile

with your life,

I'm giving you a chance

to stop a killer,

Cynthia?

You married Cynthia,

not Kristin?

Yes, I met Cynthia

when I joined the company,

We built Eigenphase

into what it is today,

Kristin and I did have a brief

relationship some years ago,

She didn't understand my work,

She wasn't

interested in success,

I didn't think

she was right for me,

She was for me,

You really loved her,

didn't you?

She's still alive, Mason,

in this world,

I can find her for you,

I'll give you a new identity,

I'll help you two

start all over,

All you have to do

is just help me first,

(Phone ringing)

Thank you,

Gary Zeeman's dead,

Another innocent

person butchered,

I doubt he'll be the last,

All right, I'll help you,

He's killing

everybody close to me,

My wife, my business partners,

I don't think that's

what he's doing,

Why?

You're looking at this

from your point of view,

Those people are

important in your life,

Not his,

You told me, he said he was

going to put things back

the way

they were supposed to be,

He means

the way things were for him,

Why kill Cynthia and Gary?

You know, don't you?

If you hadn't brought me here,

I'd probably be dead,

I was going to shoot myself,

I guess I'd been

thinking about it for a while,

But right then,

just for a second

I thought about killing

everybody in my office,

But I couldn't

go through with it,

I knew it wasn't anybody's fault

but my own,

I remember grabbing the gun,

I had my finger on the trigger,

And then all of a sudden

everything went crazy

around me,

I felt as if I was

being flooded with a

million thoughts

from a million

different people, except

all of them were me,

And for a second,

I felt as if some part of me

had actually

gone through that door, ,,

As if I'd actually killed them,

That's how

the quantum mirror works,

When you come through,

all the different versions

of you overlap for an instant,

You must have

somehow sensed the thoughts

of the Mason

who was most similar to you,

the one

who made the choice to kill,

When you brought

that other Mason through,

and he realized that

the people he'd just killed

in his own reality

were still alive here,

he must have decided

to kill them all over again,

to put things back

the way

they were supposed to be,

So, Cynthia was one

of the people

outside your office?

Yeah,

Then Gary must have

been there too?

Yeah,

Who else?

That jerk, Balmer,

He was working late tonight

with his assistant,

(Phone ringing)

Damn,

No answer from his office,

That's a perfect place

for the other Mason to strike,

It's our

financial systems division,

It's practically deserted

this time of night,

There's a car waiting

outside for you,

This will get you

in and out of the office,

Private entrance,

no one will see you,

Finish it,

(Punching and grunting)

Come on, Balmer,

How do you like my version

of a severance package?

Get away from him,

Ah, how nice

to see a familiar face, ,,

Mr, St...

Well, I see Mr, Stark found

someone to clean up his mess,

Move away from him, ,, please,

How's this?

Look, I understand how you feel,

You know something?

I actually believe you,

But this isn't the world

you left,

These aren't

the people you knew,

You don't have to do this

all over again,

I'm not,

First time it was an impulse,

over in a second,

This time I decided I'm going

to let myself enjoy it,

I intend to savor each moment,

(Gunshot)

It's clear,

Sweep the place,

Make sure that there's

nothing linking this to me,

And don't touch the bodies,

Someone will find them

in the morning,

What happened?

I, ,, I had a chance,

I couldn't do it,

I couldn't pull the trigger,

Why the hell not?

I, ,, I don't know,

Damn you,

Damn you!

Send me back,

Can't just walk away,

The hell I can't,

Maybe I never

took responsibility

for my own life,

but I'll be damned

if I'm gonna take

responsibility for yours,

You brought that maniac

into your world,

you, not me,

Your world, not mine,

It's your problem

and you deal with it,

Send me back,

All right, I will,

If you insist,

Something you might

want to know before you go,

The quantum mirror doorway

does work both ways,

but only at the point of choice,

If you go back,

you return to your world

at the precise point of choice

you were at when you left,

A point you said you were

about to kill yourself,

Think about it, Mason,

Did you pull that trigger?

Are you willing to find out

if you didn't?

I can make your life here

a good one,

but only if you help me

catch that psychopath first,

Without me, you'll be stuck here

in a world where you don't

even have your own identity,

where no one cares about you,

not even Kristin,

If you don't help me,

I'll make sure

you never find her again,

Just get away from me,

Leave me alone!

It's all right,

He just needs

a little space,

But not too much,

Keep an eye on him,

Maybe we can go

somewhere else,

It's fine, Mason,

I like it here,

(Chuckles) Besides, we have

the whole place to ourselves,

We can still

go to a movie,

if you want,

(Sighs) Would you stop

second guessing yourself,

A lot of times your first

instinct's right, you know,

Well, ,,

you can't always be sure,

So what?

How many times have you tried

to make the right choices,

then a whole bunch

of things happen

that you never saw coming

in the first place?

Every day for the last 20 years,

Very funny,

You can never

be sure of anything,

That's life,

Why did you ask me out?

Because if I had waited

for you to ask me out,

I'd probably still be waiting,

You're probably right,

Mason, you've been coming

to the same coffee shop

for a year,

I give you all

the right signals,

I do the hair thing,

(Laughing)

I do the touching thing,

I laugh at your jokes,

My jokes aren't funny?

The point is, ,,

Is that, ,,

You never follow through,

You always back off,

Mason, I like you,

You're an intelligent,

decent man,

You just have to

start believing

in yourself a little,

It helps when someone else

believes in you, too,

Yes, it does,

Just ask yourself

what kind of man you want to be,

and then try to be that man,

I think I want to

be the kind of man, ,,

that a woman like you

would marry,

(Laughs)

Gee,

I guess I give

a pretty good pep talk, huh?

Mm-hmm, (Chuckles)

Hey, me,

Look, ,,

We both work for Stark now,

(SHOUTS) No! No!

(Grunts)

(Groans)

You leave Kristin alone!

(Grunts)

(Groans)

I'm not here for her!

(Grunts)

(Groans)

I'm through with Stark,

I'm not here to kill you,

That's nice to hear,

you stupid bastard

'cause I'm not here

to kill you either!

(Grunts)

I came here to help you,

Why would you want to help me?

Because you were

about to make

a big mistake,

I decided to spare you

the embarrassment,

They've been meeting here

for the last couple of days,

Doesn't look all that serious,

but you never know,

Our Kristins have

died a long time ago, ,,

In this world, in any world,

Mason Stark doesn't

mean a thing to her,

I know how that

must make you feel,

You don't know a thing about me,

I don't?

Would you like to know

why you didn't stop me

from killing balmer

when you had the chance?

I didn't have a chance,

Bullshit, you didn't

have a chance,

You wanted him to die

the same as I did,

The only difference

was you just didn't

have the nerve

to kill him yourself,

In my reality,

when I went out

in that office,

with one pull of the trigger

I changed everything,

In that moment,

for the first time

in my life

I stopped being a victim,

You still are,

Well, maybe I am,

But I'd rather stay

the way that I am

than become whatever

it is you are,

You still don't get it,

Do you know why Stark

built the machine

in the first place?

He did it because

he hates his life,

Despite everything he has,

that poor, arrogant,

insecure son of a bitch

still is unhappy,

He built the mirror

to find a version of himself

that was happy

and take his place,

He didn't tell you

why he picked me

first, did he?

No,

It was the image of me

on his machine,

He said I looked happier

than any other Mason

he'd ever seen,

And I was,

Because I just killed

everyone I hated,

You might look like Stark,

but you're never

going to be him,

The best you can hope for

is to take what he has,

You're going

to kill him, aren't you?

And you're going

to help me do it,

Ugh!

You don't owe Stark a thing,

He used both of us,

And if you don't help me,

I'll kill Kristin right now,

Maybe this time you'll

make the right choice,

(Gun clicks)

Stark, I'm back,

It's about time,

We still have work to do,

(Gunshots)

(Groans)

It just keeps getting easier

for you, doesn't it?

Yes,

That isn't Stark,

Mason,

(Gunshot)

(Groans)

Don't you ever get tired

of being wrong?

I always expected him

to come after me,

but I never thought

you'd help him,

(Beeping)

(Door buzzing)

How did he convice you?

Revenge?

No, he used Kristin

to threaten me,

just like you did,

Move,

I did what I had to do,

The man was a murderer,

And what are you?

STARK: The distinction

between us is clear,

You can't see the difference,

you're even dumber

than I thought,

It's time for you to go back

to where you came from,

You never intended

to let me stay here, did you?

No matter what happened,

You're one step removed

from a psychopath,

You seriously think

I'd let you loose

in this world?

You did it once,

You know what

the funny thing is?

Both of you tried

so hard to convince me

how much I was like each of you,

but you two are the ones

who are really alike,

Shut up,

(Groaning)

That's right, the two of you,

You're the same!

You tried to use him,

He tried to use me,

Neither one of you gave a damn

about who you hurt or killed

in the process,

You got that right!

(Groans)

You want another life, Stark?

You can have mine,

This is my life!

You don't

deserve it!

Neither do you!

(Grunts)

(Indistinct)

(Screaming)

Security's on their way up,

Miss Larmor,

Good,

MANl What the hell

is that?

(Gunshot)

Oh, Mase,

Oh, God,

There was only one shot, right?

Yeah,

Then how did he get

that scar on his head?

(Stark) Wake up,

No, no!

This isn't my world,

I said put the gun down!

(Gunshots)

(Groaning)

(Gun clatters)

(Ducks quacking)

Hello, Kristin,

Mason?

(Chuckles)

It's been years,

What are you doing here?

I was looking for you,

Yeah, right,

You're serious,

Why?

This is where

we had our first date,

You remember that?

Probably not quite

the way you do,

Well, why don't we

hear your version?

(Control Voice)

If our lives are indeed

the sum total

of the choices we've made,

then we cannot change

who we are,

But with every new choice

we're given,

we can change

who we're going to be,

(Theme music playing)