Original subtitles

Good morning, Steve,

Morning,

The jump chamber

is primed,

Are you ready?

Yes,

Let's go, then,

You have not eaten

since 06:00 yesterday?

No,

You have removed all jewelry

and artificial devices,

including contacts,

hearing implants,

and other

sensory-Enhancement devices?

Yes,

You have signed

the release documents?

Yes,

All right, then,

One last thing, ,,

I hear they're working

on grape flavor,

Approach chamber,

Remember,

stay as still

as possible,

It's important

to breathe normally,

especially

when the solution covers you,

You must aspirate it

so that solution

coats All mucous membranes,

Do you understand?

Do you understand?

Yes,

Um, doc?

You haven't lost anyone

in this thing, have you?

Don't worry, Steve,

We're going to

take good care of you,

Now, try to relax,

and remember what I said

about breathing,

Jumper will enter chamber,

Burr to your station,

Jumper is ready,

Closing chamber,

Process initiated,

Here we go, Steve,

Just relax,

Breathe, Steve,

Transfer initiated,

Transmitting,

Transmission complete,

Achieve balance,

[ beeping ]

equation is balanced,

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

The outer limits,

We believe

that human Advancement Should be attained

at almost any cost,

but what if

that ultimate payment

is one's soul?

Burr,

you will meet Carson,

Will Carson, actually,

Hi,

Michael Burr,

The dinos aren't much

for first names,

Welcome to the snake pit,

Thanks,

Carson replaces Jackson,

who has been sent back to earth,

You will train Carson,

Uh, thank you,

administrator linna,

Warm and fuzzy,

aren't they?

I think etiquette

kind of embarrasses them,

if that's possible,

Um, well, ,,

don't worry about it,

You'll get

used to it,

Come on, I'll buy you

a cup of coffee,

You call them dinos

to their face?

They don't care,

In order to hurt

their feelings,

they have to have

them first, right?

But to insult them

to their face, ,,

Oh, hell, they've got

worse names for us,

They call us weeps

and the babies,

not that I blame them,

given how much more

advanced they are,

I'm just glad they stay

behind that glass,

Didn't they train you

before you got here?

The glass is

for atmosphere,

Their air is three times

as dense as ours,

and it's mostly

carbon dioxide,

I know what

the glass is for,

but tell me it doesn't

make you nervous

looking at those incisors

all day,

The hanen

are a truly advanced species,

They're not driven

by ANGER or fear or hatred

like those wonderful

human emotions,

In fact,

they're pacifists,

totally nonviolent,

and despite those incisors,

they're vegetarian to boot,

Wait a second,

They don't eat burgers?

I thought you said

they were advanced,

Earth shuttle docking in T-minus five minutes,

Damn, I forgot

about the shuttle,

Let's go meet our next customer,

How often do these things run?

About every eight hours,

Some are supply ships,

Some bring jumpers

or take the ones

that arrive here

back to earth,

Get a lot of returning jumpers?

A few,

mostly people are dying

to get off earth,

not come back,

Kamala shastri,

I'm Michael Burr,

I'm your jump

supervisor,

This is will Carson,

He'll be assisting me,

Nice to meet you both,

You're scheduled

to jump

at 08:00 tomorrow morning,

It's important that your body

acclimate itself here

for 12 hours beforehand,

If you'll follow me,

I'll show you to your quarters,

That'd be great, Thanks,

Thanks, will,

I'll meet you

in the common room

in half an hour,

See you in the

morning, Kamala,

Well, maybe

winning the lottery

isn't the exact

analogy,

but it's

pretty close,

I mean, of 250,000 or so

applications for jumps,

how many do you

accept a year...

300?

275, at least

in this pilot program,

Once this initial testing

is done,

there'll be

a lot more,

Eventually, we'll have

1,000 Jump stations

doing 10 million jumps a year,

Of course,

that's still a few years away, ,,

which will be way too late

for my doctoral thesis,

That's why I feel so lucky,

I 't travel to gend

the conventional way,

It would take me

over a hundred years,

You'll be having lunch

with the gendians tomorrow,

Wow,

After all these years of study,

to finally be there,

Well, here we are,

It's not exactly Swank,

but you'll only be here

till morning,

As you know, no food tonight,

Water only,

Well, good night,

Michael,

do you think

I could see it,

the jump room, I mean?

The room is off-Limits

except during jumps,

It's against regulations to...

I won't touch anything,

I just want to see it

before I have to, ,,

before the jump,

Please?

We're not allowed to

go into the room itself,

It's kept sterile

until just

before the jump,

but you can see the room

and the jump chamber from here,

This is the control room,

You read about it

and see the vids,

but it's just not the same,

It's amazing,

Yeah,

The hanen control

from in there,

And this?

This is the human

supervisor's control,

What's it for?

Once the transfer

is complete and confirmed,

we have two copies

of the Jumper...

One here,

and an exact duplicate

at the destination point,

They told us of it in training,

It's called a redundancy,

That's right,

So you have to destroy

the Jumper left behind?

The hanen call it

balancing the equation,

How cute, ,,

and euphemistic,

Oh, that's them,

sentimental to a fault,

Does it hurt?

Not a bit,

You'll close your eyes here

and open them in gend,

It must be hard for you, though,

to push that button, ,,

I mean, knowing that it...

Before the hanen

will trust us

with this technology,

they must know

that we will unflinchingly

balance the equation every time,

This is the whole reason

for this pilot program,

and it's the reason I'm here,

I have four advanced degrees,

and my only responsibility

is to push that button,

I don't think twice,

I'm sorry,

I didn't mean to imply...

It's all right,

I'm sorry if, ,,

Burr!

This is irregular,

I know, silloin,

I, ,,I just wanted...

You will follow protocol,

and the Jumper

will return to quarters,

Of course,

Good night,

This is will Carson,

I'm in,

No one suspects anything,

Excellent,

Keep us informed,

Good morning,

Already?

Are you ready?

Yes,

No,

Gendian, isn't it?

A meditation sphere,

It's supposed to reflect

your inner emotions,

I find it relaxing,

Judging by its color,

I'd say you were more queasy

than Relaxed

right now,

No kidding,

I should be excited,

but frankly, I'm not sure

I can get out of this chair,

You will,

They all do,

Shall we?

So, ,,

patriarchal

power hierarchies, huh?

Excuse me?

Well, in your profile,

you said You were going to gend

for the next two years

to chronicle gendian

patriarchal power hierarchies

within

the transgenic populations,

Sounds like

a bunch of Heady stuff,

Well, the truth be told,

the anthropology

is only part of it,

It's really about peary,

Peary?

And galileo and Armstrong

and Goodall,

The thrill

of being the first human

to explore a new world,

Yeah, it's pretty cliche, huh?

No, just honest,

Most jumpers are the same,

They want to escape

the smog and overcrowding

of the earth,

The mission statements

on the front

of those applications

are just the academic veneer,

You're pretty insightful

for someone with four degrees,

I thought you academic Types

were withdrawn and bookish,

Well, it's just an image

we want to promote,

Helps hide

our social dysfunction,

Well, ,,

the dinos are nothing

if not punctual,

My bag,

It's okay,

We'll store it for you,

along with your clothes,

until you return,

Thanks for talking to me,

Michael,

It really helped,

It's all part of the service,

How is the subject?

Calm and in control,

We can't afford

another breakdown

in protocol

with the hanen,

I understand,

I'm going to observe the jump

now,

So far Michael has shown

no overt signs of stress,

I have no cause for concern,

I'll be in touch,

,, ,including contacts,

hearing implants,

and other sensory-

Enhancement devices?

Yes,

You've reviewed

and signed

the release documents?

Yes,

Your stasis solution,

L'chaim,

Is it good?

Delicious,

if you like

mercury-Ethyl-Chloride,

Would you keep this for me

until I get back?

Sure,

Who knows,

maybe you'll have better luck

making it work than I did,

I doubt it,

but you can show me

how to use it

when you return,

I will,

The Jumper

will enter chamber,

It's okay,

Here goes nothing,

You'll be fine,

Don't worry,

I'll walk you through it,

Thanks,

Process initiated,

Okay, Kamala,

remember to stay

as still as possible,

It's important

to breathe normally,

especially when

the solution covers you,

It has to coat

all mucous membranes,

Do you

understand?

Yes,

That's the stasis solution,

It immobilizes the tissues

until a COMPLETE scan

can be done,

Does it really

stop the heart?

Heart, brain, lungs,

Everything has to be

in complete stasis

for the scan

to be a success,

Complete stasis? For how long?

Just under two seconds,

Ouch,

But the Jumper

barely feels it,

because they're

reconstituted

at their destination point

long before the effects

of the stasis

can be felt,

You're doing great,

Kamala,

Just try to keep

breathing normally,

Breathe in

the solution,

You can do it,

Transfer initiated,

Scan complete,

Transmitting,

Stop,

What's up?

I don't know,

It's never happened before,

Non-Confirmation

of transmission retrieval,

Do not balance equation,

Aborting

procedure,

What do you mean,

aborting?

Did she reconstitute

in gend or not?

Retrieve subject,

Did she make it to gend or not,

administrator?

Confirming this information,

Communication with gend

was interrupted,

And when will you know?

We will inform,

What about Kamala?

Kamala?

The Jumper,

The procedure was aborted,

She is unharmed,

Physically, maybe,

but it took me an hour

to calm her down,

She was nearly psychotic,

Mental States do not concern us,

She is structurally uncorrupted,

Yeah, structurally uncorrupted,

Great,

I will contact you

when I know more,

Michael? So?

They don't know

when they'll confirm

transmission,

Looks like Kamala

will have to jump again,

She's going to love that,

No kidding,

What about the hanen?

What about them?

Are they angry

that Kamala lost it?

Why is it you're so worried

about how the hanen feel,

and what is it

with all those questions

in the jump room?

For a replacement tech,

you don't know a lot

about jump technology,

Of course I know

about jump procedure,

Not for someone with

a double phd in physics,

I know I'm new, but...

When two jump transmitters

are in phase,

what's the quantum

differential?

Okay, I'm not going

to be questioned...

Who the hell

are you really?

Michael, it's not as nefarious

as it seems,

I'm with psych ops,

You're a shrink?

I did my quarterlies,

And passed with flying colors,

I know, just like Jackson,

But Jackson bugged out,

It made the brass nervous,

I was sent here to watch you,

You son of a bitch,

You're here to spy on me,

I'm sorry for the deceit,

but we cannot afford

another protocol breach,

Unbelievable,

Unbelievable,

Is this what you'd call

establishing

Good doctor-Patient Trust?

Look, I...

Save it,

You just stay out of my way,

Okay?

And you can tell your handlers

that if they're worried

about my sanity,

sending squirrels like you

to spy on me

isn't going to help the cause,

How do you feel?

Like I just woke up

from a terrible nightmare

and realized it all

really happened,

It was horrible, Michael...

The darkness,

the suffocation,

and then the pain,

like your whole body's

being set on fire

from the inside,

You wish for death,

Do you know what that's like?

It's over now,

If it makes you feel any better,

the hanen are trying

to figure out what went wrong,

I don't care if they fix it,

I'm not doing it again,

I'm not getting back

into that machine,

Okay, It's okay,

You don't have to,

This whole program is voluntary,

It's hanen sweet tea,

Believe it or not,

the dinos

have quite a sweet tooth,

It's good,

It can't be easy living here

with creatures

so different from you,

with only one other human being

as company,

It's not so bad,

You get used to it after awhile,

How long have you been here?

Just over two years,

Wow,

and the walls

don't close in?

I mean, earth is better

than this tin can,

The work I have to do

is important,

No, of course it is,

There's got to be more to it

than that,

There's something

keeping you here,

isn't there?

I'm sorry, I'm prying,

It's a bad habit,

I'm an anthropologist,

Nosiness kind of comes

with the job,

No, it's okay,

It's just that

it's just been so long

since I sat and talked,

Five years ago I lost someone,

someone very close to me, and, ,,

do you know what e, S, S, Is?

Environment

sensitivity syndrome,

Of course,

My wife woke up choking

one morning,

and her lungs shut down,

She went into

anaphylactic shock,

and by the time

we got 8er to the hospital,

she was dead,

My god,

and the doctors?

Well, they said it was e, S, S,,

that Karen literally

had an allergic reaction

to the poisons

in the air around her,

I'm so sorry,

I lost it,

I withdrew,

I went into

deep, deep depression,

I even thought about,

you know,

What stopped you?

Molly,

She's with her grandparents now,

When Karen died,

I just couldn't, ,,

it's the best

that she's with them,

You know,

and the terrible thing, though,

is knowing that Karen's death

could happen again with Molly,

You want to know

what keeps me here?

Hope,

the knowledge that one day

Molly might get off earth,

that she and I

could find a place like gend,

a place that has

fresh air and trees,

and we'll never look back,

My daughter will not die

the same way her mother did,

Burr, I will see you,

I'll be right there,

We have discovered the reason

for the irregularity

in the procedure,

Yes?

The transmission was sent

without corruption,

It has been received

at the destination station,

Kamala arrived on gend?

The transmission

has been received,

But I don't understand,

What about the alarms?

Silloin said the Transmission

never went through,

An error was made

in receiving confirmation,

The communication

was not according to protocol,

But the jump

transmission

has been received

without corruption,

therefore,

you will balance the equation,

Wait a minute,

You mean I have to kill Kamala?

You will balance the equation,

So the jump transmission

actually went through,

and now you have to

balance the equation?

Like that's going to be

a walk in the park now,

What if I don't do it?

Look, Michael,

I know you're angry at me,

but do not joke...

I'm not!

Just for the sake of argument,

what if I don't agree

to kill her?

The hanen

will shut down the program

and take their toys home,

Do I even need to tell you

that this technology

will liberate our planet?

No, but are we

prepared to get it

by any means necessary,

at the death

of an innocent woman?

What about the millions

that are dying every year

because they're living

in Pollution and filth?

I can't believe I'm even having

this conversation with you

after what happened

to your own wife,

You, ,,you leave Karen

out of this,

I am talking

about one other person,

that's Kamala,

That is not Kamala,

It is a redundancy, a mistake,

The real Kamala is on gend,

You tell that to the Kamala

drinking tea in her quarters,

And what about the Kamala

that will return home

two years from now?

What are you going to tell her

when she finds

a version of herself

living in her house,

working at her job?

The redundancy-

Elimination rule

is there for a reason,

You know this,

We cannot afford

to screw this up,

Michael,

One way or the other,

we have to kill Kamala,

If you're not prepared to do it,

I will,

Stay away from her,

I will deal with this,

but my way,

Is that clear?

Or I'll show the hanen

some erratic behavior

that will blow Jackson's

out of the water,

Hi,

Is the shuttle here?

Soon,

Another hour or so,

Actually, Kamala,

I wanted to talk to you

about that,

Yes?

Are you sure about this,

about going home?

All the time

and effort,

all the work

you went through,

Are you sure you're ready

to give it all up?

I can't go through

that process again, Michael,

What happened to you

was an accident,

It was a fluke,

The jump process

is uncomfortable,

but I promise you,

it's nothing like

what you went through,

How do you know?

Because I've seen jumpers

come back through,

It is uncomfortable,

but they're hardly

traumatized by it,

The truth is that the hanen

screwed this one up,

but are you ready

to give up this opportunity

because of it?

I mean, you can jump again now,

or lose this chance forever,

You promise

it won't happen again?

The hanen are meticulous,

They won't let it happen again,

What do you say?

You can take a step forward

Toward your new life

or go back to the old one,

I'll do it,

Subject will enter chamber,

Michael, ,,

it's okay,

I'm here,

You can do this,

The subject will enter chamber,

I don't think I can do this,

Yeah,

I'll help you

through it,

I'm sorry, I can't,

What's wrong?

The equation must be balanced,

Subject will enter chamber,

What does she mean,

equation must be balanced?

You have to get in the chamber,

Kamala,

Wait a minute,

What's going on here?

This isn't about

me jumping, is it?

The original transmission

went through to gend okay,

What?

But that would mean, ,,

you're a redundancy,

And you wanted to get me

into the jump chamber again,

We have to finish the process,

Kill me?

Burr,

subject will comply,

No,

Kamala, listen,

No!

Kamala, ,,

you lied to me,

No, I told you we needed to

complete the process,

Semantics, Don't pull that,

You know what you did,

You're right, I'm sorry,

Would you have gotten in

if I'd told you the truth?

Of course not,

We need to finish the process,

Kamala,

The equation

needs to be balanced,

Stop saying that,

If you're going to do this,

at least call it by what it is,

You need to kill me,

Just say it,

I need to kill you,

So I'm just supposed

to get back in that device

and be turned into ash?

Forget it,

You knew this was part

of the jump process,

Of course, but not like this,

I was supposed

to close my eyes here

and open them in gend, Remember?

Look, a mistake's

been made,

I'm sorry for it,

but it's not my fault,

I'm not getting back

into that machine,

You signed an agreement,

You knew the risks,

Don't give me that

contractual obligation crap,

This is different,

and you know it,

I'm not going to do it,

The next shuttle leaves

in about an hour, right?

When it leaves,

I'm going to be on it,

Where is she?

I need a moment with silloin,

will,

Please?

Wait for me in your Chambers,

I need a word, silloin,

I want to talk to you

about Kamala shastri,

the Jumper,

Yes?

Well, she refuses to return

and finish the process,

She must,

Look, can't we

just let this one go?

I mean, we made the mistake,

Can't we just...

No,

You must balance the equation,

It is our primary law,

The consequences

are grave,

And the Hanen would pull out

if we let one Jumper go?

There are those among the hanen,

including linna,

who want to deny humans

our technology,

They say your crude

emotional States

do not support

our work,

Letting a

redundancy live

is just what they need

to stop us from

helping your species advance,

It is an unforgivable breach

of our protocol,

I know how important

your protocols are,

but please, silloin,

can't you help them understand?

I cannot,

I know it is hard for you, Burr,

but you must do this,

You must terminate

the redundancy,

Do you understand?

Do it quickly, then,

Get up,

You're not going to kill me?

I'm getting you off

on the next shuttle,

We don't have

much time,

Let's go,

The shuttle

will be landing soon,

Why are you

doing this?

We'll sneak you on,

but if all else fails,

we'll have to hijack it,

What about

the hanen?

They won't stop us,

They're pacifists,

don't believe in violence

in any form...

A truly advanced

species,

But, Michael, the program,

If you get me out of here...

Do you want to die?

No,

Then stop arguing with me,

and do as I say,

I want you

to stay in here,

I'll greet the Shuttle

and then come for you,

If all goes well,

we'll be able

to smuggle you onboard

for the return flight

without anyone seeing,

Thank you, Michael,

Earth shuttle docking in T-minus five minutes,

Michael!

What do you think you're doing?

Don't get in my way, will,

Or what?

Are you going to shoot me?

Just stay out of my way,

I see,

so you're going to save one life

by taking another?

This isn't right, will,

She doesn't deserve to die,

Kamala shastri is not dying,

She's alive and well on gend,

You are not saving Kamala,

You are dooming the rest of us,

No,

You know it's True,

I can see it in your eyes,

Why are you

doing this?

Because I care about her, will,

And you can't watch

another woman you care about

die,

Don't you

understand, Michael?

The Kamala on this station

is already dead,

as dead as Karen is,

It's all just formalities now,

You make it sound so easy,

No, ,,

it's just inevitable,

It's time you stopped this,

that you did what's right,

You must,

The hanen are watching,

and you know that,

If you let that redundancy

leave this station,

you doom us,

You doom your daughter,

Are you going to choose

Kamala over Molly?

No!

Come on,

We've got to go,

What's going on?

If the shuttle crew

come onto the station,

will will warn them

about you,

We're going to have

to force our way on

as soon as they open

the outer door,

Okay, My bag, ,,

Wait, wait,

I'll get it,

I see the shuttle,

It's about

100 meters away,

What is it?

I'm sorry,

No!

Michael!

Don't do this,

Michael, please,

don't do this,

Michael!

No!

Michael, no!

Warning,

Outer airlock door opening to negative atmosphere,

No!

Thank you,

Wow, that's definitely easier

the second time,

Michael, isn't it?

Excuse me?

It's me, Kamala,

You were my jump supervisor

two years ago, weren't you?

You were very kind to me,

I'm sorry,

That was somebody else,

As we pursue technological advancement,

we should be careful

not to abandon our humanity