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(Phone rings)

(Phone continues ringing)

ANSWERPHONE: Hi, this is Lucy. Leave me a message.

(Beep)

Are you OK?

- What happened? - I don't know.

Maybe I feel... I feel a little sick.

I'm sorry I overreacted.

- You were right. We should get to Summakor. - Yeah.

Yeah, we should.

Um...maybe we could go inside first.

- OK. - OK.

Mm...

You have no idea how much I've longed for this.

(Muzak)

WOMAN ON TV: Good morning, 6!

Good morning.

We all dream offinding our perfect partner.

Well, now it's yourturn to be matched.

I'm here to tell you about your appoint-appointment

with the Modern Love Bureau.

- You've gotta be kidding me. - Let science take the risk out of,

out of romance.

Our high-tech system-system

can find you the soul mate you deserve.

6: This came under my door this morning.

Well, it's the way couples get together here.

Why don't you try it?

- And what would be the point? - Well, you might meet someone you like.

You might learn something about yourself.

Or...or maybe you already know everything there is to know about 6 and his feelings.

What is it?

Something to do with the weather.

Ambiance anomaly, apparently.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Don't slip.

WOMAN: We usually begin by asking our clients to talk about themselves a little bit

in a relaxed but revealing sort of a way.

It's best if you don't look directly into the camera as you talk,

as it can come over as rather hectoring to a potential match.

You really think you can manufacture love?

Since the introduction of blink-match technology,

new data shows that extramarital affairs

are down to a new low of 18% in matched marriages.

Blink-match technology.

That's great.

We have enough to make a blink personality splice.

(Types on keyboard)

(Distorted) Ha ha ha!

(Distorted) Blink-match technology.

I know what you're trying to do to me.

You're trying to fix me up with some woman, some distraction.

I'm not staying here.

I must admit, I find it sexy when a man has a touch of rebellion in him.

I like the sparks. (Laughs)

I have the same thing. I...I like a relationship with a little edge to it.

A man with a touch of mystery about him makes me feel curious about him.

What do you think, 6?

She's free tomorrow. Would you like to meet her?

What?

Was that OK?

I just want to...I want to lie here...for a while.

Is that OK?

Why not?

Can I let you into a secret?

I looked in your file.

- (Chuckles) - I hope you don't mind.

No vacation.

No relationships.

I guess all those reports got to me a little bit.

Let's go.

- What? - Do something.

- In fact, hit the enemy where it hurts. - OK.

I'm so sorry. I'm sorry.

I...

I don't know what is up with me tonight.

Do you think there's a part of you that wants to betray him?

No. No part of me.

I think there is.

Or else, why do it?

Please.

Oh, of course, yeah. (Chuckles)

You have no choice in the matter.

Let's not pretend it is otherwise.

You are a dreamer...

313.

And dreamers vanish, as you know.

But betrayal, it's such a fascinating human attribute.

And since we are passing the time of day here tonight...

Do I like you?

313: I don't know.

You don't know me.

Do you dream?

Do you tell yourselfthere will be a moment to somehow spring free from all ofthis

and explain to him the impossibility ofyour predicament?

You were noble, decent, admirable.

You didn't really forsake him.

And you will be a liar. Indulge me.

To betray someone you love -

and I don't mean a kiss behind the filing cabinet,

a Thursday afternoon liaison, a seedy night in a hotel -

I mean to fundamentally betray someone you love.

That is...

Would I like you if I knew you?

I don't know.

I've long believed that we look for beauty in all the wrong places.

You see, ifyou betray the one person you love,

then there must be something you want more than her or his love.

Well, he'll be with us soon enough.

(Groans)

Good morning, 6.

Time for matching...

(Doorbell rings)

Time for matching stage two!

♪ Latin jazz

I'm 4-15.

Really?

I'm not what you expected?

Oh, yes, you are. You're...

exactly what I expected.

(Laughs)

There was something in your voice.

I don't miss that kind ofthing.

Those matching people know their stuff.

Can I ask you about yourself?

Jump in. What do you wanna know?

I don't know.

Where do you live?

Over the bridge, apartment 415.

But you haven't lived there long?

Ever since I left my parents' home.

Are you sure?

I think I would know.

(Laughs)

You're kinda strange, 6. I like it.

You can ask. It's OK.

How did it happen?

There's nothing wrong with my eyes. I was six years old.

I woke up one morning and they'd stopped working.

They said it was caused by some kind oftrauma.

Something happened when I was asleep.

Do you mind?

Oh...

Nice bones.

I like.

I feel like I know you already,

like we've met before in some...whole other life.

6...you really are strange.

But you mean it, I can hear that.

4-15...

I'd like to get to know you.

Well, that's what we're here for.

I'd like to get to know you tonight.

Oh...

This isn't like me at all...really.

Ask anyone who knows me.

No surprises. No sudden moves.

And then all this?

It's like...the dials are spinning.

And here I am...

..letting go.

Maybe that's...

What?

Maybe that's how love takes us.

(Cars horn blare)

- We should... - OK.

- What was that? - Oh, the purpose for...

Um...but then...

Who needs purpose?

Did anyone tell you...

you have the most enchanting eyes?

Are you sure you're OK?

Just some kind of bug.

(Whispered voices)

What is it?

- What if it's true? - Hm?

What ifwe had...

What ifwe had one night together?

In some other life...before the Village.

6, no-one can be so hopelessly romantic.

What if I know it's real...

..that I can remember it...

..remember us?

Come here.

You were standing in the window...

..just like this.

Lucy?

What did...? What did you call me?

You know something, don't you?

Well, yes, I know it's crazy to talk like this. Some other life?

I have to go.

I'm sorry. I promise I won't talk about these crazy things.

OK.

Let's just slow it all down, OK?

I'll go now and I'll see you tomorrow.

You and me, in this other life...

..where did our story end?

I don't recall.

(Groans)

You're a friend of 6's?

- 6 trusts you. - You'll have to ask him that.

I already did.

Oh.

What are they?

I want to know what's in them...what they do.

- Look, I'm not a chemist. I can't... - But you can find out for me.

I have a question for you.

Is 6 a crazy?

No.

No, he's not.

(Door opens and closes)

You want to know about him?

About 6?

About holes?

It's all right, 1 1-12.

It was always my intention to tell you.

I didn't bargain for 6 pushing things along... in that 6 way of his.

If you know...it will change everything.

There will be no going back to innocence.

I want to know.

You want to know.

About your mother?

To know about my mother.

Yay, yay, yay, yay, yeah!

I should report it, right?

Should I report it?

Could be a way out of here.

WOMAN: Cake's out ofthe oven!

I'm gonna have some cake and er...then maybe I'll report it.

832!

Whee!

I'll call the clinic before they find out about it.

(Laughs)

She likes you, 6.

I think it's the cake she likes.

Yeah. Yeah, I wanna report something in my garden.

How did your date go, 6?

She knows something...

..but she won't admit it.

All righty, who's going to make the toast?

- (Cork pops) - Ooh!

Even I have to admit, there must be something to this matching thing,

if it brought you two together.

(Laughter)

Yay, yay, yeah, yeah yeah!

- Cheers. - Cheers.

Where's 832?

Yay, yay, yeah.

♪ La, la, la, la, la...

Whee!

832. 832!

832!

She's... 832!

Hey, what are you doing? Hey, get off of me!

- What are you doing? My baby is down there! - It's an ambience anomaly.

- My baby is... - They can't leave.

They have to get their child back.

- What are you doing? My baby is in there! - You report any child lost at central office.

You left the door open.

TANNOY: In the latest move to combat ambiance anomalies,

the clinic has announced that every home is to be given a pig.

Studies have shown conclusively that swine breath is a proven atmosphere stabiliser,

and scientists are confident that this will reduce significantly the risk offurther disturbances

in the short to medium future.

Moreover, if you order now, you can get two.

Some friends of mine have lost their child.

She's fallen down into a hole.

It's not the weather!

People want something they can believe in, 6.

It is the weather.

They want to come together and make a difference.

They volunteer for pig distribution duties.

They love that!

And then we can all get on with our wonderful lives,

our families,

our romances.

And what about you, 6?

Don't you have a head full of her?

Tell the truth. Tell yourselfthe truth.

Wouldn't you rather be with 4-15?

Hm?

Aren't you just longing to be at her? Know what I mean?

"At her"?

Isn't that more human?

No.

It's destroying them - my friends - not knowing where their child is.

The only way of knowing,

the only possibility of getting the child back is to go after her.

You choose, you decide.

Well, if you're telling me I can go in there and save that little girl...

I'll do it.

And you'd do that without knowing what's down there,

for someone else's child?

What is this thing?

It's a nothing. It's oblivion.

It's beyond all hope.

The child is gone, 6.

(Soft buzz)

- Does he not love her enough now? 2: Oh, no.

He's hardly begun.

What he feels only scrapes at the skin of love.

Let him go where love is terrible.

Is it possible to love someone too much? I mean...

Does he have to come in here every night?

Love is a torment or it is not love.

It'll crack him right open.

And then, we can see the 6 inside.

The inside 6.

He can't understand why you don't kill him.

Perhaps, we will kill her... when we get to that place.

How would that feel?

I don't want you to kill her.

We always save our best lies for ourselves.

Do I like you?

Come up to the house.

Would you like that?

I'd like you to sit with me. Sit with me...

..and see.

(Pig grunting)

What do you make ofthis holes business, 6?

I know it's got nothing to do with the weather.

I gotta take this thing seriously, you know?

That's why we've got ourselves two pigs.

We're a two-pig family.

- Leave that alone! Come on! No! - (Pigs squeal)

No!

She was such an adventurous kid.

Damn, I've asked myself a thousand times.

Why my little girl?

29-44...

Has 4-15 been away in the last few weeks?

Away? Where, son?

We've seen our little girl every single day since she was...

since...

What did we do wrong?

Did we not love her enough?

We still hope, you know, for...

that there will be a little miracle.

Now that she's been matched, she's so happy, maybe this is it.

What do you say, 6?

Are you gonna be the one who makes it all good as gold?

♪ Oh, leave it there

♪ Take your burdens to the lord and leave it there

♪ If you trust and never doubt

♪ He will surely bring you out

♪ Take your burdens to the lord and leave it there

♪ Oh, leave it there ♪ Oh, leave it there

♪ Oh, leave it there

♪ Take your burdens to the lord and leave it there

Look, what I can tell you...

It doesn't mean that you'll find...

I have no medical records for your mother. I've not examined her.

- I don't know what her condition is. - Her condition is in those pills.

♪ Leave it there ♪ Oh, leave it there

♪ Oh, leave it there ♪ Oh, leave it there

A sedative.

A cocktail of sedatives.

Extremely powerful sleeping draught.

A hallucinogen.

A type I've never come across before.

It contains a compound that's not on our records.

This is... Well...

This has no known contents.

How could they match me with a man like that, hm?

Look at him.

He does nothing.

Sit with me, 313.

Please, w...why am I here?

If I...touch your hair...

you can refuse.

We can all refuse.

We have choices,

so long as we can live with the consequences.

Oh, damned consequences, huh?

And if I touch your face...

..if I touch you here...

in this room...

she can sense us, I know she can.

Oh, it'd break her heart.

I can remove 4-15.

And you can have 6 all to yourself.

No, I...

I want him to choose.

My question for you is the treatment.

Can you do it in reverse?

Can...you get rid ofthis longing?

I'm not sure.

B-But, yes.

It must be possible.

But the er...signs can work in a contrary direction,

and...we can make someone...

Unlove.

She's right. I...do...nothing!

We will not be doing any such thing, of course.

Why should we?

But we know that it is there, you and I...

if either of us should ever need it.

Go and be with him.

That is what you want.

6: They come in the night and take me.

I'm sure of it.

No, 6. It's in your mind, that's all.

313, please, just... help me tonight.

I trust you.

Stay with me.

2 was right.

I could have said no.

If you choose her,

I don't know if I can bear that.

They're er...

They'll be coming soon, so er...

..you just...sleep.

Just...just sleep.

(Door opens)

2: Hm!

Now see how different he looks.

He is - how shall we describe it?

He is touched.

We should be amazed by love,

by its capacity to make us and to ruin us.

But you, 313, of course,

look how far it's brought you.

You, who know all about consequences.

Oh...

313.

You see what love can do?

313...

how is it possible?

Your love, 6.

What is it?

Gene symmetry therapy.

We scanned the brains of people who'd fallen in love

and we discovered - and you'll like this, 6 -

that the more there was gene similarity between people, the more they fell in love.

And so we replicated by transplanting 4-15's genes...into you.

I feel...

Your emotions are manufactured, 6.

But what did I feel... before you gave me these feelings?

If you can do this...

..what is love?

You defied me, 313.

A little reckless, perhaps.

Your punishment is already in you.

And now that you know the way ofthings, 6,

do you still want to marry her?

- Do you? - Yes.

Good.

Now...

(Whispered voice)

This isn't me. Somebody is making this happen.

I have to go.

Yes.

One thing first. Breakfast.

Tell me what you want for breakfast.

Isn't that the same? Ifwe don't go, isn't that what they want?

I just want to buy you breakfast.

(Laughs)

Oranges.

Hey!

What?

Where are we going with this?

You tell me.

I don't know. I...

- I feel like saying... - No.

Marry me.

Ssh! It'll keep.

You like to push it, don't you, 6?

Yes.

- Marry me. - (Giggles)

Go!

Yes.

- Yes? - Yes.

(Church bell rings)

(Chattering)

(Children laugh and squeal)

Hello. How are you?

I look at the joy I bring to so many lives, and I say to myself,

"1891 , you make a difference."

313.

I didn't think you were coming.

6.

OK, er...

Look, there are...two kinds of viruses used in gene symmetry therapy.

What I gave you, 6...

it won't last.

313...

I want you to be my friend.

Here she is!

You look beautiful.

There we go.

- The veil! - You keep the veil.

(Laughs)

Celebrate with me.

(Low chatter)

(Chatter and laughter)

(Shocked gasps)

What? What is it?

- What's happening? - Did he kiss her?

Is that what happened here?

29-44: Honey. Honey.

You really are rather smitten, aren't you, 313?

What you will never know, of course, is whether your feelings are genuine...or...

I have to go.

I'm not safe for you to be around.

Whatever you do, stay away.

We'll come back to this, I promise.

No!

What's going on? Are you OK?

What ifwe said, what ifwe promised each other we'd...

we'd always come back to this, we'd never let us go?

Lucy?

Lucy.

Where am I?

We're out in the desert, Lucy.

What did you call me?

We've met before.

I know that for you to hear this might not make any sense,

but you're called Lucy.

We met in a place called New York.

We had one night together.

I am 4-15.

Who are you?

I am 4-15.

- Who are you? - I am 4-15.

Who are you?

I am Lucy.

(Sobs) I am Lucy. I am Lucy, I am Lucy.

Why did you do that, the blindness?

Be...Because they knew if I looked at you... you would know

..that they sent me here.

I came here to love you.

No! No, I'm cured of you!

You tell me why you're here!

2 brought me here to love you.

2 brought me here to break your heart.

I'm glad you're cured of me.

147...

I'm gonna find my little girl, 6.

But there's nothing down there.

Nothing.

Ifwhat you want is oblivion...then jump.

Do it.

If it's too much for you to bear...go.

But don't lie to yourself.

Don't lie to your wife.

You're not gonna find your daughter.

She's gone.

(Sobs)

Tell me you know that and you still wanna jump.

I can accept that, my friend.

I'll watch you go.

You love your wife.

You could save her.