All language subtitles for Charlie Jade s01e16 The Shortening Of The Way

Previously on Charlie J. They told us
parallel universes couldn't exist.

We were living a lie.

You're alive!

You're from a parallel universe.

We still cuddle from beta and gamma. And
our fate rests in the hands of your

son. I'm the one who can travel.

This is Krog's report.

If that link becomes permanent, this
universe just disappears!

I don't believe Charlie's dead.

I took a job with a lexicon.

For you.

What have you done to me? Call it a
personality program.

Create a latent personality that can
fulfill directives. You are going to

me, aren't you?

Yeah.

Charlie? I seem to be getting worse.

I'm going to be going home at some
point. Get out.

I almost had her. She was in the kill
zone and then, bam.

You had a vision.

Yeah.

The only reason I'm still breathing is
dumb luck.

Who is she? It's what they call a
hunter.

She's genetically modified and handed.

Put a hunter after you.

You're as good as dead.

We're in trouble, aren't we?

Yeah, a little bit.

Look, if I were you, I'd leave town for
a little while.

How long?

I don't know. A couple days.

Maybe a week, tops.

Or until she kills you.

I got lucky.

I surprised her this time, but she's not
stupid.

She's not going to be this sloppy again.

Those pills you used to take.

Something wrong?

Headache.

Can't you find somebody to synthesize
them for you here?

I don't know if those pills ever even
help with the visions.

Maybe there's another way.

Such as?

I've worked a lot with, uh, uh,
paranormals. You know, shamans,

men.

They've all had to learn how to control
their gifts. Maybe they can help you

some way. So you're telling me some
shaman freak is going to help me not

visions? Or help you learn how to
control them?

Hey, you.

This is one guy.

Yeah, he's a bit of a freak, but he's
very knowledgeable.

In a freaky sort of way.

I'm looking for a guy called Puntzis.

Wrong address?

Karl Lubinsky told me I could find him
here.

Just tell him I sent you.

Yeah, well, Karlovensky's got a big
mouth.

Yeah, he certainly does.

You told me Puntke knows about visions.

What are you doing here?

I see things that aren't there.

Mm -hmm.

Then why aren't you scared to be here?

Maybe I'm just stupid.

Then you've come to the right place.

Happy?

Come here. Come, come.

Let's go.

Go.

You trust me?

Right.

Are you, um, okay?

Yeah, I'm holding it together.

Well, you come this far.

Come on in.

Uh, Charlie?

He's not here. I don't know when he's
coming back.

Why don't I get you something to eat?

I will get him alone.

It's only a matter of time. And I'm not
sure whether we have time.

This is how I work, Mr. Galt.

If you want another mistake, hire
another porter.

a C1 health insurance policy.

Let me pass it over to you.

If ever you're in an emergency, there's
nothing that won't do for you.

Stasis field, organ cloning,
rejuvenation therapy.

You look sad.

None of them has even claimed on their
insurance policies.

As if they never existed.

Why do you care about a few messing
vexed executives?

Because no one just disappears in our
world. It's impossible.

And when something impossible happens,
it violates the nature of the world. And

it's up to you to unviolate it?

Strange, though. Why are you here?

Do you see devils inside you?

Devils with your own face.

What do you see?

I see... I see a city.

Ten million people.

Death.

Smog.

Strange things for a vision.

Why am I seeing this?

You're not looking inside your soul.
You're looking everywhere else.

Yeah, that's my problem.

Well, you won't learn nothing until you
look inside.

Until then, you're wasting my time.

I'm running out of time.

Why am I seeing this?

How do I make it stop?

Do you know anybody else who sees the
things you do?

the stalls.

Who ordered a pizza here?

A tourist came through here last night.

Where is he?

Tourist? What tourist?

Don't lie to me.

Sorry.

I still haven't heard from Charlie.

Are you still holding on?

Yeah.

Better if we don't talk about it.

Sure.

What if no one can help me and I kill
people again?

It just goes against my better judgment,
but... You know Owen Boxer, right?

Sure, yeah.

He helped me in my world.

Helped you?

We're talking about the same person,
right?

Thick -knit humor, tattoos,
psychopathic.

He's a great man.

Right.

Well... Here, he owns a club down a long
street.

Here.

He's here.

Yeah. Oh, my God.

If he's here, that means he can go home.

He can help me get home.

Look, I don't know what he's like back
home, but here he's pretty scary. Look,

you sure you want to get involved with
somebody like this?

He helped me. He helped us.

Can you take me to him?

Okay, look, he's got a whole lot of
reasons to want to hurt me, so... I'll

you to the front of the building, but do
yourself a favor.

Don't mention my name.

Anybody heard from Ellis?

Last anybody saw him...

He had a meeting with Ethel Robkin. He's
supposed to be on a top -secret

business trip.

You've been through the link 13 times.

We believe your molecular structure is
unique.

And that is something that Mr. Boxer at
Vexco needs.

Well, that's just great.

That's seven of us who've been through
the link.

All on top -secret.

Business trips.

I'm the last one.

Look, this whole place is collapsing.

I mean, I've heard the Waverly Field's
gone dry.

And nobody's explained why the Kyle
Leach reactor went offline.

Ellis' wife.

They gave her an upgrade.

Did you know about that?

No, of course not.

How does an accountant write an upgrade
to C1?

You have to practically give your life
for the company.

Oh, my God.

You know exactly what they've done to
him, don't you?

You again.

Where's your shotgun?

Near enough.

What do you want with her?

She's not having visions anymore.

Have you heard from Andrea?

I got a postcard from her.

She said you helped her.

Why do you want to talk to my daughter?

The things your daughter sees.

Andrea sees him, too.

And I think I might be able to help.

But I need you to be honest with me.

Is she still having visions or not?

She's been seeing the invisible people
more and more.

What is she seeing?

I'm not really sure, but I've got an
idea.

Can I talk to her?

All right.

You talk to her.

But you both stay in sight.

spark plugs sound fouled.

Of course.

I'll be there.

Run.

I've been in the city. Oh, that's so
exciting.

I've never been to the city.

Still clean invisible people.

I'm bored with invisible people.

It's all they have to do around here.
Just watch them work.

Come.

Jodi, your mom wants us to stay inside.

Cape Town?

Cape City.

Where the invisible people live.

You're from there, aren't you?

Yeah.

Listen, I'll make you a deal.

I'll tell you about Cape City if you
tell me about seeing invisible people.

Fair enough?

When did you start?

Well, since always. Ever since I've been
a little girl.

Well?

In Cape City, there's a building.

It's almost a mile high.

Who lives in it?

Nobody.

It's an office building.

Your visions, have they gotten worse?

Well, it's not like they're bad in the
first place.

You don't get headaches?

Never.

Have you been having more visions?

Like in the past couple weeks.

Well, I don't count them, do I?

Well, what did you do back in Cape City
when you were invisible?

I found missing people.

I was a private investigator.

Well, what do you do now?

Well, turns out the people in that tall
building, they want

to hurt people.

Everybody.

Trying to stop them.

You're fighting supervillains.

Super villains.

No one really has superpowers, do they?

Nobody good, anyway.

I see things, too.

Only problem is when I see them, I'm
liable to get hit by a truck.

Well, why do you try to see things when
it's dangerous?

I don't try to see them.

Ever.

It just happens.

I only see visions when I want to.

Are you thin?

How do you think?

You just let yourself.

Maybe your head hurts because you don't
like seeing the invisible people.

Like, it doesn't hurt to breathe, but if
you hold your breath, you're going to

get a headache, and then you just have
to breathe anyway.

So just let it happen.

Like, if you think too hard about it,
you can't sneeze.

But if you just let yourself sneeze, it
just sort of comes.

You're full of examples, aren't you?

Try it.

Who's that woman?

Esa Romkin.

You can see her?

She works in that building.

Are you going to be okay here?

I live here, don't I?

Told you it'd work.

Rompkin.

What the hell was she doing out here in
the desert?

She never leaves that tower.

Unbelievable. They rebuilt it.

Yeah? I see he got here before me.

Who? Charlie Jade. I'm an old army
buddy.

We're supposed to meet here.

What is this?

Central Station.

Listen, I don't know... Oopie. Charlie
Jade.

Please don't hurt her.

I'm not here for her.

Owen?

In the flesh.

It's me.

Reena.

Oh my God, you're here.

The new face of terror.

I thought that looked like you.

Owen. Not very discreet, is it?

For somebody who blew up a couple
hundred people.

Please don't say that.

I came here for help.

What a surprise.

How did you find me?

Carl Lubinsky said you could help me.

He said you'd probably try and kill him
if he showed up here.

He said

I've been programmed.

He said you can help me.

Big people.

I don't know who they were.

Let's ask her then.

Who?

The strong one.

The one who knows.

I only want to talk.

What are you doing?

You can show me.

Please, Owen. Please, Owen.

There's that needy Gammaverse wine.

No wonder your world is being raped.

I came here for help.

So, if you've got nothing to hide, why
were you running away?

I have a right to leave work if I need
to.

Not through the offshore data tunnel,
you don't.

As if you're trying to steal something,
and yet all you had on you was lost

personal effects.

I'm trying to steal something that damn
well belongs to me.

What are you talking about? Oh, come on.

Don't tell me the security office hasn't
noticed how many execs have been

disappearing.

Of course not.

That's the police's job.

And they're too busy to notice anything.

I used to be a police detective.

I noticed old families disappear and
nobody wanted to know where they went.

They know.

Do you?

Do you really want to know?

Ken would like Mr. De Beers escorted to
her office immediately.

Well, that's it.

It's going to kill me.

I don't even know why.

Immediately, Mr. Dukas.

Of course.

Send him up right away.

Give me a second.

Now, you listen to me.

Every one of us who's gone over there,
we've all been sent up to Essa.

And none of us came back.

Everyone who's been through the link.

We're all gone.

What did you see?

I don't know.

I don't know.

Try someplace else.

These are all real universes.

How did I know?

I was wondering where you got this.

Vagacore.

You have a friend in Vagascore?

If I say yes, then you're going to want
to know who, and I can't tell you.

And if I say no, then that means this
report was stolen, so you're not going

like my answer either way.

You think Charlie will tell me?

I'll ask him if I see him.

If?

When.

When I see him.

Is he all right?

I'll tell him to call you when he gets
back.

Right.

This is my home number.

In case... In case my daughter...

Hello little one. Hi.

Have you seen Charlie Jade?

Oh he's not here.

I see. Do you have any idea which way he
went?

Thanks.

You sent me in the wrong direction.

No, I didn't. You shouldn't mislead
people.

I didn't see where he was going.

Whatever.

What am I speaking with?

I was not named.

I exist only to perform the task.

Okay.

Then who put you in there?

You do not know them.

They know you.

Board now.

Boxer 087 Theta 49.

Execute.

Boxer 087 Theta 49. You do not control
me with word.

Okay.

Not a VexCore job.

Fascinating, Captain.

Release me.

I will execute the design.

Which is?

If the link is reopened, it will all
fall away in the middle. We cannot allow

this to happen.

Krog's famous last words. This universe
is toast.

If the link is opened, it will all fall
away. If the link is reopened, I will

blow it up.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

There are only three left who can
rebuild the link.

Find the three.

Molarian, Curly.

Erdings, Goldman, and Verdandi. Of
course.

I was...

I told some things today about the
missing people.

Vex call.

Yeah. Your company.

People were taken to Ether.

They didn't come back.

People had been up there, he said.

Let it go.

And the mystery gets deeper and deeper.

I can't lose you, too.

Don't you want to know where they went?

What happened to Charlie?

You know, I was wrong.

I like the old Rena better.

She was a better conversationalist.

Oh, it's Rena.

Impressive. You managed to unlock the
programming.

So, why don't you get out of her and
leave her alone?

Let my Rena stretch her legs.

She's still in there.

Oh, I'd rather make my own choice. The
program must survive.

Well, that's good.

A lot of people have died in this club.

I call the service.

Next clean -up's free.

I got a card and everything.

No.

Our goal is the same.

You need what I know.

Yeah.

But what I don't need is you hanging
around in Rena's head.

The programming's failsafe worked.

She believes you are dead.

See, her and I are family.

So if she's got something, I want it
too.

So if you want your program to survive,
you're just going to have to give me the

keys.

Now integrate or die.

Integrate or die.

It's inadvisable.

No one comes back here. If others have
discovered the candidate, we must

relocate our operations.

You did a great job, kid.

I couldn't have done it better myself.

Let it go, Rina.

Now it's over.

Joanie. Oh, you're back.

Did you pour water on me?

If I told you I was going to, you would
have thought about it too hard.

You can't think about it too hard if you
want to go for a visit.

A visit?

I used to go for visits when I was
young.

Now my mom doesn't like it.

So now I just watch.

If you don't use water, all you can do
is watch.

Oh, there was a woman looking for you.

She looked very serious.

Don't worry, she was nice to me.

Yeah.

Can you do it again?

Put wood on you.

Sure.

So that woman's after me.

I don't think she's going to hurt you,
but this is the key to my car. I want

to give this to your mom, and you two
get out of here, okay?

Okay, cool.

Are you going on a visit?

No.

How does it go?

Follow the yellow brick road.

Home is where you are.

And here I am.

Home sweet home.

At last.

of your congratulations.