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ZACH: Damn!

-PETER: It's good, It's good,

-That's it? Just good?

Okay, very good,

What do you want me to say?

Well, I don't know,

You could say it's insouciant,

Or intense,

-Focused, complex,

-(GIGGLING)

Zach is the wine snob,

You should know that

by now, Peter,

A toast, To a partner who

believed in the impossible,

And to the hottest little

biotech firm in the Valley,

We're six months from

providing the world

with a virtually endless

supply of cloned organs,

Salute,

So, uh, ,,

What's the real reason

you broke out

the insouciant stuff, hmm?

You remember how we

talked about the only thing

standing between us

and fully cloned human beings?

Oh, please, (CHUCKLES)

You know what the laws are

against cloning humans,

It's 20 years I reckon,

that's with a good lawyer,

Let's say I'm

talking theoretically,

What's this all about, Nora?

We broke

the brain barrier, Peter,

Oh, hell, Don't even tell me,

We created a neuro-mapper,

Hooked to the lab's computer,

we can take a cloned brain, ,,

Cloning of brains

is a federal violation!

And give it the same

synaptic array that we map

from the alpha source,

The minds would be

absolutely identical!

Mmm-hmm,

You want to blow this

whole program,

this whole company

out of the water?

We have a billion-dollar

organ cloning patent

within our grasp,

-And you want

to jeopardize it,

-Can't you see past that?

Imagine digitally banking

the mind of a man

before he got Alzheimer's,

Then you could

restore that mind

in a new brain,

Just like rebooting

a hard drive,

Except the surgical techniques

to transplant a human brain

are God knows

how many years away!

Right now, the only way

to recreate the mind would be

to clone the whole person,

And that would put you

in prison and us

out of business!

-Peter!

-Whatever the program is,

I want it shut down,

Yesterday,

You can't fight

the future of science, Pete,

No, But I sure as hell can

keep it from destroying mine,

Do we understand each other?

Do we?

Yeah,

Yeah, understood,

Try and talk some sense into

your husband, will you, Nora?

-Mmm,

-Please?

Thanks for dinner,

-Good night,

-Good night,

(DOOR SHUTS)

I told you this would happen,

We never should have told him,

Well, we had to, He's not just

our partner, he's our friend,

What if he goes

to the government?

He won't,

Not without hurting himself,

I mean, he's going to be

watching us like a hawk now,

This could be the last chance

we can access the computer,

Wait, ,, Wait a minute, Nora,

Where are you going?

Peter is a businessman,

He doesn't care about science,

By tomorrow morning we

may not have the neuro-mapper,

Wait a minute,

What are you going to do?

Gotta document this procedure

before that happens,

(BEEP)

Nora, we already have

the animal studies,

I'm not talking about animals,

Six months from now

the organ replication system

will be fully operational,

Peter's right, you know?

We are taking

a big chance with this,

And we can't exactly run

the neuro-mapping program

on your laptop,

We created this to map

the human brain,

We're just speeding up

our timetable,

We haven't fully

tested it yet,

Damn it!

We did not come all this way

to turn back now,

I mean, worst thing

that happens,

the download fails,

But we'll never know if

we can copy the contents of

a human brain unless we try!

Then I'll be the guinea pig,

But you're the only one that

knows the control sequence,

Relax, If it doesn't work,

you can go out with one of

those blonde grad students

who's been eying you,

That isn't funny,

Look, I love you,

But you know we're

doing the right thing,

Okay,

Hope your storage

medium is adequate,

I've got a pretty big brain,

you know,

All right, Stop bragging

and hold still,

-I love you,

-I love you, too,

You sure about this?

Keep yapping and Peter's

gonna walk through the door

with the goon squad,

-Okay, try to relax,

-Okay,

NORA: Daddy!

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(SCREAMING)

Nora?

Oh my God! Nora!

Nora, wake up, honey!

Come on, talk to me,

Nora?

Nora!

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God is said to have reached

into the firmament

and made humankind

in his own image,

But whose image

will be mirrored

when we gain the same

awesome power?

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

And that is

Dr, Zachary Griffiths,

He and his wife

are responsible for most

of the proprietary technology

that made all this possible,

I heard his wife died,

Well, actually, she's been

in a deep coma

ever since a drowning

incident a year ago,

What are they doing now?

That device is the final stage

of assembling a new heart,

molecule by molecule,

cell by cell,

Pretty much the way

DNA duplicates

to form living tissue,

Peter's schmoozing

another investor,

Don't screw this up,

Who me?

I'm still getting a touch

of receptor bias in the

nucleotide sequencing,

You hear what God said,

-If creation was that simple

everyone would be doing it,

-(CHUCKLES)

I am tweaking the gamma,

That looks better,

-Is it soup yet?

-(SCOFFS) Come on,

I think we're there,

Dr, Meares,

please initiate Phase 1,

Certainly,

ADAM: Activating hydraulics,

NORA:

We broke

the brain barrier, Peter,

-I love you,

-I love you, too,

WOMAN ON PA:

Maintenance to room 312,

Maintenance to room 312,

Hey, sweetie,

It's a gorgeous day

out there today,

It's the kind of day

you used to say was too good

to be wasted on working

(EKG BEEPING)

You're still so beautiful,

you know that?

I mean, I know

you'd argue the point but, ,,

I miss those arguments,

We replicated

another heart today,

You know, I still have

to pinch myself,

We take this vat

of amino acids

and create something

more precious than gold

or diamonds,

It's the ultimate alchemy,

And we're doing it, Nora,

It's everything

we ever dreamed,

Everything we ever dreamed,

It won't be long now, darling,

We're gonna make this happen,

I love you,

ZACH:

Nora and I were

planning on two little girls,

She always said that

with our luck,

they'd have my singing voice

and her temper,

We all miss her, Zach,

Not like I do, Adam,

I can't go on

like this anymore,

I need your help,

I'm gonna clone her,

Run that by me again,

I'm gonna clone Nora,

I mean, we can do it now,

When we began this program

two years ago, we, ,,

We archived the body scans

of a dozen volunteers,

including Nora and myself,

-All right, that takes care

of her body, but you, ,,

-It's all right, Adam,

Nora didn't go into a coma

because of a pool accident,

That was just a story

I concocted,

We were working

on something secretly,

A neural mapping system,

We tried it on Nora,

A moment after her

engrams downloaded,

something happened,

I found out later it was

because the circuits

were overloaded,

The machine red-lined

and she had a seizure,

But her engrams

are in the computer,

So you really would be

replicating Nora,

mind and all,

If it worked,

the clone would wake up

with exactly the same

mental state that Nora had

the instant the replicator

short-circuited,

This is insane,

She's the only woman

I've ever loved, Adam,

I want her back,

-Does Peter know?

-You kidding?

-He'd have our heads,

-Or am I missing something?

I mean, how would you

keep this clone,

the second Nora a secret?

For months now, the doctors

have been asking me to, ,,

Pull the plug on

Nora's life support,

I was just gonna take her home

and say I wanted her

to die with dignity,

And when she does, that's when

you bring out the copy,

Doctors would call it

a miraculous recovery,

Nobody would, ,,

Nobody would be the wiser,

Lab rats are one thing, Zach,

Talk about playing God,

Just tell me you'll

help me, Adam, Please?

Adam, I was afraid

you weren't, ,,

-Peter, hey!

-Zach,

Burning the night oil

again, huh?

Well, I just thought I'd do

a couple of runs of these

new protocols,

you know, make sure

there's no bugs,

Well, that's the kind of

dedication that got us where

we are,

How's the

number-crunching coming?

Well, unless I miss my bet,

we are on our way

to becoming

obscenely rich,

I thought we hit that

threshold months ago,

-Is everything all right?

-Sure, why?

We're not putting

any undue pressure

on your team, are we,

-doubling the projected

output?

-No, we're okay,

Good,

Good,

Anyway, I'm late

for a round of drinks,

There's an investment banker

who wants to fund

the expansion,

Happy courting,

Good night, Zach,

Adam,

You don't let that man

work you too hard, huh?

It's too late for that,

Good night,

I wasn't sure you were

gonna show up,

To tell you the truth,

neither was I,

Initiating the plasma

infusion now,

Downloading bio-scan,

Come on,

Come on,

That's it, She's breathing,

She's breathing,

-Get her out of there, Adam,

-Activating hydraulics,

Initiate the neuro-matrix

uploader,

Initiating uploader,

NORA:

Daddy!

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

Come back to me Nora,

Zach,

Nora,

Did it work?

Did it?

ZACH: She doesn't remember

much about last night,

No, she was really out of it,

No, no, the sedative

I gave her was really strong,

She's still sleeping it off,

Let me get back

to you, Adam,

Oh, what the hell

happened to me?

Well, you were, ,,

You were exhausted,

I thought it was best

to just let you sleep,

Mmm,

Feel like I've been

backed over by a cement truck,

Why you looking at me

like that?

Oh, the download,

Were the engrams captured?

I think it's safe to say that

the experiment

was a complete success,

But you don't look

very pleased,

Oh, of course I am,

I couldn't be happier,

Zach, why did you

take my ring off?

What?

What, what's going on?

There's no easy way

to say this,

except to just say it,

What?

What do you think

happened last night,

that you and I went

to Trangenics and downloaded

your memory and, ,,

That didn't happen at all,

What in God's name

are you talking about?

Do you remember how we

used to talk about the, ,,

The theoretical possibility

of cloning a human,

but then giving that clone

a complete mental matrix

of the original person?

Don't patronize me, Zach,

I mean, I had to twist your

arm to do the experiment,

Right, but, ,,

You didn't actually take part

in that experiment,

Not the download part anyway,

You're not Nora,

You're Nora, ,,

You're Nora's clone,

Oh!

(CHUCKLES) Stop it!

Come on!

I'm much too out of it

for this to be any fun, okay?

Just think about it,

How would you know?

Assuming our procedures

went perfectly,

if you were Nora's clone,

with every bit

of her consciousness and

all of her memories,

How would you know

you weren't her?

All right, very clever,

The epistemology

of disproving a negative,

Never argue with a summa

cum laude who minored

in rhetoric,

It's 11:30, Did you call

Peter and tell him

we were coming in late?

You aren't hearing me,

When Nora underwent

the download a year ago,

she suffered a seizure

Nora is in a coma

at Saint Vincent's,

Zach, this is a little

too perverse,

You were my only hope,

My only hope in re-uniting

with the woman that I loved

In every way you are Nora,

I mean,

someday this will all be

purely academic,

Zach this joke is going

too far okay?

When we scanned your body,

Nora's body,

for the archives,

she was two years younger

She hadn't had that surgery

to remove the benign fibroma

from her back,

So if I'm really a clone,

I won't have a scar

on my back,

Is that what you're saying?

Look in the mirror,

It's impossible!

(PHONE RINGING)

(OPERATOR ANSWERS)

Yes, operator, can you please

give me the date?

OPERATOR:

It is April 25th,

And what year is it?

OPERATOR:

What year?

Are you serious?

I'm serious, What is the year?

(OPERATOR REPLIES, INAUDIBLE)

I want to see her,

Make it fast!

(EKG BEEPING)

It's okay,

ZACH: It's okay,

Come on, let's get you

out of here before

somebody sees you,

-Listen, just give me

a minute, all right?

-What you gonna do?

Just wait for me in the car,

both of you,

Al right, Come on,

This was your victory

as much as anybody's, Nora,

I hope you can forgive me,

No matter what happens,

no one will ever

take your place,

Never

Dr, Griffiths?

Oh!

I was just leaving,

If you're going

to invite visitors,

you should really

have them checked in

at the nurse's station,

Of course,

(DOOR SHUTS)

-What's the matter?

-Nothing,

You're thinking of her,

Have you thought about

what this last week

has been like for me, Zach?

I'm sorry, I don't mean

to be insensitive,

It's not my choice to be here,

it was yours,

Yours and Nora's

It certainly wasn't

Nora's decision,

You still miss her

even with me here,

We just have to be

patient, all right?

-You're not having

second thoughts, are you?

-No! No,

I am so grateful

to have you here,

(SCOFFS) Is that the best

you can do?

Please don't do this,

You know there's only

one thing that's gonna

make this right,

As long as there's two

of us breathing and, ,,

Haunting your dreams and

dredging up these memories, ,,

My God, this is crazy!

Are you saying that

you're jealous of yourself?

You have to give her up, Zach,

I told you,

When the time is right,

I'm gonna bring

her to the house, ,,

I don't want her in my house,

I want her gone,

She is gone,

By any real measure,

You know, we just made love

and you can't even

say my name,

As long as she's alive

I'm not your wife,

I'm just a copy,

-I can't live like that,

-Okay,

Okay,

I'm sorry,

I'll take care of her,

-I'll take care

of her tomorrow, I promise,

-Nora!

Please just say my name,

I promise, Nora,

-Dr, Griffiths,

-Yes?

-We tried reaching you but, ,,

-Oh my God,

-Did something happen to Nora?

Answer me!

-Well, ,,

Zach,

Oh my God,

They said you never lost hope,

not once,

DR, PASTORE: But we were just

as surprised as you

were, Dr, Griffiths,

But I don't have to tell you

how the human brain

continues to confound us,

Suffice it to say this one's

for the medical journals,

How soon before

I can take her home?

Well, fortunately, we've

kept up the physical therapy

all through these months,

So the muscular recovery

should be relatively smooth,

But we would like to keep her

under observation for at least

a few more days,

-Just to make sure

there's no relapse,

-Of course,

Well, uh, ,,

Thank you, Doctor,

Well, I'd like to take credit,

but I'm afraid

you're going to have to

go to a higher authority,

Did you do it?

Something happened,

She came out of her coma,

She, ,, She just, ,,

She just sat up,

Her mind clear as a bell,

So what happens now?

I mean, what happens to me?

Nothing, Nothing is gonna

happen to you,

Oh really?

You're just going to have

two of us floating around?

Do you really think

I'm that stupid?

Nora, listen to me, I brought

you into this world for one

reason, because I love you,

You don't love me,

You love Nora,

You love your wife,

Not some reasonable facsimile,

Don't talk like this,

I'm sorry,

There's nothing

to be sorry for,

We'll figure out what to do,

When are you

gonna bring her home?

Soon, A few days,

Oh God,

It is so great

to get out of here,

(WHISTLES)

A whole week in this place,

Actually, it's been

more like a year, hasn't it?

I'm so glad this

nightmare is over,

Zach, what's wrong?

There's something

you need to know,

-I can't blame you

for hating me,

-I don't hate you,

I suppose if the situation

had been reversed I would

have done the same thing,

We'll figure out some way

to deal with this,

What if you can't tell, ,,

I mean, you say

she's a perfect copy,

But what if you can't tell

whether you're talking

to her or to me?

There's differences,

They're subtle,

but I can tell,

We're more than

identical twins, Zach,

I mean, you gave her my mind,

my thought processes,

my memories, ,,

All based on some

rather brilliant science

which you'll recall

you helped develop,

I never considered

the consequences,

Have you been with her?

You don't know what it was

like, Nora, Being told

I could never get you back,

I couldn't bear to

lose you that way,

So I guess you cheated

on death more than

you cheated on me,

Things were crazy for me,

-What are we gonna do?

-I don't know,

You're just gonna

have to trust me, that's all,

What choice do I have?

I guess I'm ready to

go home now,

(SCREAMING)

Nora, I'd like you

to meet Nora,

NORA: I'm seeing it,

but I'm not believing it,

It's like talking to a mirror

and the mirror talks back,

Zach, can you please give us

some time alone?

Oh, I don't know,

I really think I should

be here right now,

I'll be in the study,

He was never very good

at handling one of us,

Tell me, what is it like, ,,

To have a lifetime

of someone else's memories?

It's all there?

You want to test it,

don't you?

No, it's just, ,,

Yes,

(SIGHS) Fire away,

-Our honeymoon,

-Italy,

We drove down the Adriatic

to a little beach town, ,,

Brindisi,

We were gonna take

a ship to Piraeus,

The weather?

100 degrees and 100% humidity,

Zach and I were both

sopping wet,

He leaned over to kiss me,

It tasted like salt,

I liked that,

This is impossible,

I know,

-My father,

-Mmm,

Your father,

My father,

He didn't just

walk out on Mom,

He walked out on you,

On me,

I still remember

those feelings,

Yeah,

Sick, empty feeling of

watching someone you love

turn and walk away,

All those years

of not trusting, ,,

Not wanting to feel

that vulnerable again,

And then I found Zach,

Or should I say you found him?

What, ,, What do you want?

I want, ,,

What's best for Zach,

You have my body,

you have my brain,

I'm not about to

give you my life,

We're not exactly

the same, you know?

Only one of us has been

in a coma for the last year,

You could have

another seizure,

Zach could lose you

all over again,

Is that fair to him?

What do you expect me to do?

Give up the only man

I've ever loved?

That's what you're

asking me to do!

There's one other thing,

Zach brought me to life

and I think if you ask him,

he'll say I did

the same for him,

She's upstairs sound asleep,

I think she took

one of your sleeping pills,

Well, if she did,

she'll be out for hours,

You've created a monster,

You do realize that,

don't you?

She's passionate,

she's determined,

she's not anxious to have

anything taken away from her,

Remind you of anyone?

Are you still gonna find it

this amusing when we're

being arraigned

for violation of the

anti-cloning statutes?

Nobody knows

about this but Adam,

What about Peter?

You said that he knows

you used the replicator,

Even if Peter was stupid

enough to go to the police,

he doesn't have any proof,

The only real proof

is here in this house,

Yeah, well, that's

exactly my point,

How long do you expect

to keep this little secret?

Okay, we can change

the physical similarities

with some judicious

cosmetic surgery,

If I know this woman,

and believe me, I do,

she's not gonna relinquish

her identity without a fight,

Do you have a better idea?

We could erase her,

Are you out of your mind?

I don't mean killing her,

for God's sake,

We can use the neuro-mapper

to erase her memory,

You want to electronically

lobotomize her, is that, ,,

I am talking about

inducing amnesia,

And then what do we do?

Just drop her

by the side of the road?

(SIGHS)

We get her as far away

from here as possible,

Let her start over,

There's nothing to say that

she can't have a decent life,

The only she'll be missing

is a memory,

My memory,

It is me that you love,

isn't it?

Of course,

of course I love you,

ZACH:

I mean, I only created

her so, I wouldn't lose you,

NORA:

We can go

to the lab tonight,

Nobody will be there,

It will take only about

four hours for us to

reconfigure the computer,

The real question is

how the hell do we

talk her into the device?

Well, we've got sedatives

at the lab,

Syringes, ,,

One shot and she's out cold,

She's asleep upstairs,

Let's go get the lab set up

and then we'll come back

and get her,

Almost done, Then you can go

back to the house and get her,

You see that?

Yeah, power fluctuation,

I'll get it,

Oh my God!

What have you done?

Zach, I couldn't let her

take my memories,

Don't worry,

It's all gonna be okay,

Zach! Zach, thank God!

-Oh, how long have I been out?

-Over three hours,

-Three hours!

-She knocked you out

and came after me,

but I managed to

inject her instead,

-I'm just finished

with the settings,

-What?

I've got the mapper programed

to full restore,

except for the memory,

You'll have to do

the control sequence,

-Just stop it!

-What?

-How can I tell?

-What?

How do, ,, How do I know

which one of you

is the real Nora?

-Honey, ,,

-Look, I'm serious!

We had a private conversation

earlier tonight,

We made this plan,

do you remember?

Okay, what did I

suggest to you?

Just before you proposed

blanking her memory?

I believe the phrase was,

"The judicious use

of cosmetic surgery,"

You gonna help me or not?

What the hell are you doing?

Zach, she's a clone,

What do you expect her to say?

She injected me

with something,

I mean, of course

she's gonna pretend, ,,

Shut up! Shut up, both of you!

You're physically

identical in every way,

except for the scar

on Nora's back,

No, Look, please,

Please, Zach, please!

Stop! Please just

try and understand,

I was only doing what

you and Nora were

gonna do to me,

I'm, ,, I'm fighting

for my life!

Put that down, Nora,

You don't wanna do this,

See, you called me Nora,

(SOBBING)

I am Nora,

I mean as much as she is,

can't you understand that?

I can't do this,

I can't either,

All my life I've looked

to science for the answers,

But there is no answer

to this, is there?

Of course,

Of course!

Of course what?

-Hey, it wasn't that funny,

-(CHUCKLING)

What, that look on your face

when you wiped out?

-Glad I could entertain,

-(GIGGLES)

I always wanted to ski

the Alps and now I know why,

Well, don't get

too comfortable,

-Remember we go back

to the lab on Wednesday,

-Mmm,

You mean you two

are going back,

I'm sorry, he didn't

mean to sound insensitive,

That's okay, Somehow,

now I can live with it,

-Here you go, sweetie,

-Mmm,

A toast,

-To science,

-To science,

CONTROL VOICE:

The desire to be an individual

is one of humankind's

deepest longings,

surpassed only