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Good 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.

Oh, 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.

This is from Ballmer.

It's your severance package.

At least you won't have to put up with that bean counter anymore.

Yeah.

Look, I can imagine how you feel right now, but you're going to catch on

somewhere. You're too smart not to.

You have plenty of time, about three months' pay.

Your medical insurance keeps going until you get set up again.

You know, your coverage does include psychiatric services.

Like counseling, therapy. You got something to say to me, Gary?

Say it.

Grace.

Kristen's been gone for over a year now.

There's nothing wrong in getting some help if you need it. It may help you

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 that there was. I'm not the son of a bitch who shot her, all

right? It just happened.

Now, thanks for the advice. Now, get the hell out of my office.

I said get out!

Who loves that doll?

The security up here? Oh, right away, Miss Loma.

Thank you.

I can't look at these other two guys anymore when you bring it up, man.

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

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.

Please stand by.

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?

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?

I can face systems. Is that correct?

Yes.

What was that?

That chair monitors the electrical activity in your nervous system to

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 Eigen Faith 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.

Help them get in life together?

That's easy for you to say.

That's what I did.

Three years ago, you met a girl named Kristen 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?

Thinking it's going to be too soon.

We were, uh...

We were just taking a walk.

You need to start learning to enjoy your success.

I enjoy my success every day.

The fact that I convinced you to marry me.

And how did you manage to do that?

Very well.

Give me your wallet.

Are you done? I said now!

All right, here. Here, take it all. Just please don't hurt us.

Good shot.

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.

Then I'm going to have to make you care.

If you ever wondered what would have happened if only 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 path in life I didn't

You mean you're me, the way I might have been?

The way you might have been if you'd finished graduates.

Worked your way up through the ranks at Eigenphase until you became CEO.

All right, suppose what you say is true.

Why'd you pick me?

See what the path of a screw -up might be.

No, I brought you here because I need your help.

The first time I used the mirror, I wasn't as careful as I should have been.

The version I brought here was more different for me than I ever could have

imagined.

He was injured when I brought him through.

He wouldn't say how.

I 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 to see the living result of choices I never made.

Everything seemed to be going fine.

Took him to my home.

That night I woke up to find him with a knife in my wife's throat.

He was enraged, 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 it.

before he kills again.

Hey, Gary.

Can I have a minute?

Of course.

That's quite a scar, sir.

What happened?

A cop shot me in the head.

Just squeezed 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 to be 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'm just going to have to do it again.

Stark will do.

All right, Stark.

Why would this other mason want to kill your wife?

I don't know.

I only knew 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 other versions of myself that were similar to

the one who murdered my wife.

Most of the other masons I found were psychotics of some form or another, even

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?

Finding the right light.

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.

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 Kristen?

Yes, and that's Cynthia when I joined the company.

We built Eigen Faison to what it is today.

Kristen 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 her identity.

I'll help the two of you start all over again. All you have to do is help me

first.

Thank you.

Gary Zeman's dead.

Another innocent person butchered.

I doubt he'll be the last.

All right, I'll help.

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.

And 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.

If I had actually killed them.

That's how the quantum mirror worked.

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

you, the one who made the choice to kill.

When you brought that other mason through, and he realized that all the

he just killed in his own reality were still alive here, he must have decided

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. And Gary must have been there too?

Yeah.

Who else?

That jerk, Palmer.

He was working late tonight with his assistant.

No answer from his office.

It'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.

It's a private entrance. No one will see you.

Finish.

Do you like my version of a severance package?

Get away from him!

Ah, how nice to see a familiar face.

Well,

I'd say 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.

The first time it was just an impulse. It was all over in a second.

This time I decided I'm going to let myself enjoy.

I intend to save each moment.

Clear. Sweep the place.

Make sure there's nothing linking any of this to me.

And don't touch the body. Someone will find him in the morning.

What happened?

I... I had a chance. I couldn't do it. I couldn't pull a trigger. Why the hell

not?

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

going to take responsibility for yours.

You brought that maniac into your world. You, not me. Your world, not mine.

It's your problem and you can 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

If you go back, you return to your world at the precise point of choice you were

at when you left.

A point you told me you were just 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 Kristen.

If you don't help me, I'll do everything in my power to 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, Nathan.

I like it here.

Besides, we have the whole place to ourselves.

We can still go to a movie if you want.

Would you stop second -guessing yourself?

You know, a lot of times your first instinct's right, you know.

Well, you can't always be sure.

How many times have you tried to make the right choices and 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.

Probably right.

Mason, we've been coming to the same coffee shop for a year.

I give you all the right signals.

I do the hair thing.

I do the touching thing.

I laugh at your jokes.

My jokes aren't funny.

The point 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.

Gee, I guess I get a pretty good pep talk, huh?

Mm -hmm.

Me? What?

We both work for Stark now.

No! No!

You leave Tristan alone!

I'm not here for her!

I'm through with Stark now. I'm not here to kill you. That's nice to hear, you

stupid bastard.

Because I'm not here to kill you either.

I came here to help you.

They've been meeting here for the last couple of days.

Doesn't look all that serious, but you never know.

How Kristen's died a long time ago.

In this world, in any world, Nathan 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 Bomber when you had

the chance?

I didn't have a chance. Full spit, you didn't have a chance.

You wanted him to die the same as I did. The only difference was you 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

isn't happy. 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.

Best you can hope for is to take what he has.

You're going to kill him, aren't you? You're going to help me do it.

You don't owe Stark a thing.

He used both of us.

And if you don't help me, I'll kill Kristen right now.

Maybe this time you'll make the right choice.

Dark, I'm back.

It's about time.

We still have work to do.

Just keeps getting easier for you, doesn't it?

Yeah.

That is...

Don't you ever get tired of being wrong?

I never thought you'd help him.

How did he convince you? Revenge?

No. He used Kristen to threaten me.

Just like you did.

I did what I had to do. The man was a murderer.

And what are you?

The distinction between us is clear.

You can't see the difference. You're even dumber than I thought.

Time for you to go back 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.

Do 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 Egypt.

But you two are the ones who are really alike.

Shut up.

That's right.

The two of you.

You're the same.

You tried to use them.

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!

You wanted another livestock?

You can have mine!

Security's on their way up, Ms. Marmer. Good.

What the hell is that?

Oh, baby.

Oh, God.

There was only one shot, right?

Yeah.

Then how did he get that scar on him?

This isn't my world!

Hello, Kristen.

Mason?

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 what you do.

Well, why don't we hear your version?

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.