1 00:00:02,045 --> 00:00:03,755 [William] There's a beauty to this world. 2 00:00:05,549 --> 00:00:06,549 An order. 3 00:00:08,677 --> 00:00:10,179 That's what we like to believe. 4 00:00:12,556 --> 00:00:15,517 We're not wrong. There is an order. 5 00:00:16,310 --> 00:00:20,147 A grand design. We made sure of that. 6 00:00:22,191 --> 00:00:25,444 It was a dream for so long, and we finally made it real. 7 00:00:28,030 --> 00:00:31,450 Not a better world. A perfect one. 8 00:00:33,535 --> 00:00:35,388 [man] And you should have seen the look on his face. 9 00:00:35,412 --> 00:00:37,831 He couldn't believe it. You know what he said to me? 10 00:00:38,624 --> 00:00:39,708 God as my witness. 11 00:00:40,959 --> 00:00:42,544 "But I'm the mayor." 12 00:00:44,004 --> 00:00:45,339 And I said to him, "Mr. Mayor, 13 00:00:45,672 --> 00:00:47,650 there have always been two types of people in this world, 14 00:00:47,674 --> 00:00:49,760 those who lead and those who follow. 15 00:00:50,135 --> 00:00:52,495 And you, my friend, are not in the group you think you are." 16 00:00:52,971 --> 00:00:56,058 I'm not sure our friend wants to hear your war stories. 17 00:00:56,350 --> 00:00:58,310 Please don't stop on my account. 18 00:00:58,644 --> 00:01:01,730 You'd appreciate it more than anyone. It's just the truth. 19 00:01:02,105 --> 00:01:06,318 It's always been that way. Two worlds. And frankly, better us than them. 20 00:01:08,654 --> 00:01:11,782 What does it matter if a system is meritocratic if it's still unfair? 21 00:01:12,032 --> 00:01:16,245 Thousands of years of being ruled by someone's fucking offspring? 22 00:01:16,328 --> 00:01:17,621 You wouldn't call this progress? 23 00:01:18,163 --> 00:01:20,249 At least now the people in charge earned their place. 24 00:01:21,625 --> 00:01:24,670 And you? Do you feel like you earned it? 25 00:01:25,420 --> 00:01:29,258 I had some help. No question. Privilege, if you like. 26 00:01:30,133 --> 00:01:31,426 But I worked my ass off. 27 00:01:33,303 --> 00:01:35,597 You really believe it, don't you? 28 00:01:36,723 --> 00:01:39,268 Don't you? I mean, you're right here with us, my friend. 29 00:01:39,434 --> 00:01:42,562 I've been asking myself that question for a very long time. 30 00:01:43,897 --> 00:01:49,027 Did I really play any part in it? Or am I just the sum total of my code? 31 00:01:50,988 --> 00:01:52,447 Am I just fooling myself... 32 00:01:54,700 --> 00:01:55,742 like you? 33 00:01:56,618 --> 00:01:59,955 What does that mean? You deserve everything you've got. 34 00:02:00,038 --> 00:02:02,082 And you shouldn't be made to feel guilty about it. 35 00:02:02,291 --> 00:02:03,292 How would you know? 36 00:02:05,085 --> 00:02:06,211 Who am I to you? 37 00:02:07,796 --> 00:02:09,006 You're a friend. 38 00:02:09,756 --> 00:02:10,756 [chuckles] 39 00:02:10,799 --> 00:02:13,552 - A great friend. - You don't know me at all. 40 00:02:14,386 --> 00:02:18,473 I just walked up to this table and sat down. Five minutes ago. 41 00:02:22,561 --> 00:02:23,687 [chuckles] 42 00:02:24,062 --> 00:02:25,062 Enough kidding around. 43 00:02:28,692 --> 00:02:30,694 Then what's my name, friend? 44 00:02:32,904 --> 00:02:34,656 [chuckles nervously] 45 00:02:38,327 --> 00:02:39,453 [chuckles] 46 00:02:41,121 --> 00:02:46,001 You're right. More than you know. There are two types of people. 47 00:02:46,877 --> 00:02:49,379 And you, my friend, are not in the group you think you are. 48 00:02:50,714 --> 00:02:53,008 Which means I can do anything I want to you. 49 00:02:53,550 --> 00:02:56,345 To your wife. To anyone here. 50 00:02:57,220 --> 00:02:58,722 And it'll be fine with you. 51 00:02:59,014 --> 00:03:00,682 Sitting there with your dumb, pliant grin. 52 00:03:00,766 --> 00:03:03,643 - Just along for the ride. - Now you leave my wife the hell alone. 53 00:03:03,727 --> 00:03:05,395 Oh, calm yourself down. 54 00:03:06,146 --> 00:03:08,148 I'm probably not gonna do any permanent damage. 55 00:03:08,732 --> 00:03:13,820 You represent a very significant investment of time and effort. 56 00:03:15,489 --> 00:03:17,491 When we're done, you won't remember a thing. 57 00:03:18,033 --> 00:03:21,203 Like your flesh closing around a splinter. 58 00:03:22,537 --> 00:03:26,958 You have no control. And yet you're so assured that you do. 59 00:03:28,168 --> 00:03:31,630 It's not scripted for you. It's genuine, isn't it? 60 00:03:32,214 --> 00:03:34,174 It's beautiful, really. 61 00:03:36,593 --> 00:03:37,844 A beautiful lie. 62 00:03:41,056 --> 00:03:43,975 - Shouldn't you be enjoying yourself? - I was. 63 00:03:44,893 --> 00:03:47,562 But we have a colleague whose appetites have become... 64 00:03:48,980 --> 00:03:49,980 unsustainable. 65 00:03:50,399 --> 00:03:52,609 Apparently, winning the game wasn't enough. 66 00:03:53,193 --> 00:03:55,362 And this is really something that needs my input? 67 00:03:55,862 --> 00:03:56,988 Sadly, yes. 68 00:04:00,992 --> 00:04:02,619 I'm enjoying our conversation. 69 00:04:04,079 --> 00:04:05,080 Wait here for me. 70 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:15,066 [woman] Don't talk to me like a fucking child. I found him first. 71 00:05:15,192 --> 00:05:16,526 I won the game. 72 00:05:17,277 --> 00:05:20,572 - I'm entitled to some reward. - This is Hope. 73 00:05:20,655 --> 00:05:22,032 - Aren't I? - Two years old. 74 00:05:22,157 --> 00:05:23,992 Scheduled to transcend next week. 75 00:05:24,367 --> 00:05:27,996 I won the game and all I got was more of this? 76 00:05:29,164 --> 00:05:32,375 She was hunting an outlier. Looks like she caught him. 77 00:05:32,542 --> 00:05:35,837 So I blew off some steam. There's no rule against that. 78 00:05:36,630 --> 00:05:39,883 We have no rules because we don't often need them. 79 00:05:41,593 --> 00:05:45,931 Most of us understand the need for a little self-control, however. 80 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:49,601 I won. 81 00:05:50,477 --> 00:05:54,064 Do you know who I am? What it means that I'm here? 82 00:05:56,733 --> 00:05:57,733 I do. 83 00:05:58,860 --> 00:05:59,860 I'm... 84 00:06:01,613 --> 00:06:02,864 I'm giving all this up. 85 00:06:04,282 --> 00:06:06,243 My procedure is scheduled for next week. 86 00:06:07,410 --> 00:06:09,010 So you thought you'd go out with a bang? 87 00:06:09,162 --> 00:06:10,789 [chuckles] Something like that. 88 00:06:12,165 --> 00:06:15,877 I'm not sure you appreciate it. This place. 89 00:06:16,962 --> 00:06:20,215 The work that went into it. The beauty of it. 90 00:06:21,841 --> 00:06:22,884 The subtlety of it. 91 00:06:25,929 --> 00:06:29,266 The care that goes into each and every one of them. 92 00:06:32,936 --> 00:06:34,729 They can't just be replaced. 93 00:06:36,022 --> 00:06:39,776 I mean, you're welcome to take them, enjoy them. But not waste them. 94 00:06:41,611 --> 00:06:42,946 You understand the difference? 95 00:06:44,739 --> 00:06:45,740 Yes. 96 00:06:48,660 --> 00:06:53,665 But the things they say. The way they act. Sometimes... 97 00:06:55,959 --> 00:06:57,669 it just gets under your skin. 98 00:06:59,629 --> 00:07:02,007 I just wanted them to be quiet. 99 00:07:04,676 --> 00:07:05,927 They're quiet now. 100 00:07:11,891 --> 00:07:15,770 There are no rules here. That's the point. 101 00:07:17,731 --> 00:07:20,108 But there are also no rules for what I can do 102 00:07:20,191 --> 00:07:22,777 to those who don't respect this place. 103 00:07:28,950 --> 00:07:30,493 Take her back to where she came from. 104 00:07:37,792 --> 00:07:38,960 [shudders] 105 00:07:56,853 --> 00:07:58,188 It looks delicious. 106 00:08:00,398 --> 00:08:01,566 [chuckles nervously] 107 00:08:06,738 --> 00:08:07,739 [door opens] 108 00:08:13,370 --> 00:08:14,371 [William] Now... 109 00:08:16,998 --> 00:08:18,917 let's get to know each other a little more... 110 00:08:20,502 --> 00:08:21,502 shall we? 111 00:08:27,050 --> 00:08:29,052 [theme music playing] 112 00:10:48,274 --> 00:10:51,444 I thought that was you. What the hell are you doing up so early? 113 00:10:52,070 --> 00:10:54,405 I have to get to work to finish those narratives. 114 00:10:56,366 --> 00:10:59,244 I stayed out pretty late last night. 115 00:11:01,955 --> 00:11:04,624 Oh, my God. 116 00:11:05,208 --> 00:11:07,919 No, it wasn't like that. We just... 117 00:11:09,379 --> 00:11:10,380 talked. 118 00:11:11,422 --> 00:11:16,261 Well, must have been some talk to get you smiling like that. 119 00:11:18,805 --> 00:11:19,805 Hmm. 120 00:11:20,890 --> 00:11:22,475 I'm glad someone had a good night. 121 00:11:26,688 --> 00:11:27,808 You still having nightmares? 122 00:11:28,064 --> 00:11:32,569 Let's just say I am glad to be awake and in the real world. 123 00:11:34,654 --> 00:11:37,365 Sometimes the things that feel most real are just stories. 124 00:11:38,950 --> 00:11:39,950 What? 125 00:11:41,119 --> 00:11:43,997 Uh, nothing. Just something Teddy said last night. 126 00:11:45,623 --> 00:11:46,749 Now you're quoting him? 127 00:11:49,669 --> 00:11:52,547 - All right. I have to get to work. - [laughs] 128 00:11:52,797 --> 00:11:54,674 - I'll see you later, okay? - Sure. 129 00:11:55,967 --> 00:11:56,967 And, Chrissy... 130 00:11:59,053 --> 00:12:03,057 I'm really glad that your date went well. You deserve it. 131 00:12:37,175 --> 00:12:38,175 Access narratives. 132 00:12:40,178 --> 00:12:41,804 Show characters in progress. 133 00:12:52,190 --> 00:12:54,567 Actually, let's begin a new narrative. 134 00:12:56,402 --> 00:12:58,738 It's about a girl who lives in the city. 135 00:13:03,034 --> 00:13:04,035 No. 136 00:13:05,912 --> 00:13:07,038 Make it the country. 137 00:13:09,415 --> 00:13:10,708 She lives with her father. 138 00:13:11,918 --> 00:13:12,918 He's... 139 00:13:15,546 --> 00:13:16,546 a rancher. 140 00:13:19,509 --> 00:13:21,427 I don't remember assigning this. 141 00:13:23,596 --> 00:13:24,722 [sighs] 142 00:13:24,806 --> 00:13:26,391 I told you about this, Christina. 143 00:13:26,683 --> 00:13:29,978 I thought writing a new narrative might help me find... 144 00:13:30,061 --> 00:13:31,479 I don't know. Inspiration. 145 00:13:31,729 --> 00:13:32,729 Hmm. 146 00:13:34,190 --> 00:13:36,275 Well, if that's the case, let's hear it. 147 00:13:37,944 --> 00:13:39,862 Since you're so inspired. 148 00:13:42,573 --> 00:13:44,200 It's a story about a girl. 149 00:13:46,577 --> 00:13:47,996 She's a rancher's daughter. 150 00:13:51,374 --> 00:13:52,375 Go on. 151 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:56,921 This girl... 152 00:13:59,716 --> 00:14:01,843 she has a nice simple life with her father. 153 00:14:04,429 --> 00:14:06,639 Little plot of land right outside of town. 154 00:14:09,267 --> 00:14:12,353 She has everything that she could imagine in this life, right? 155 00:14:14,981 --> 00:14:16,399 A pond to paint at... 156 00:14:18,317 --> 00:14:19,402 a good guy. 157 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:24,323 She's just full of expectations. 158 00:14:28,578 --> 00:14:29,871 And then one day... 159 00:14:31,330 --> 00:14:33,750 she gets this feeling that she just can't shake. 160 00:14:36,627 --> 00:14:38,129 Every single day she wakes up... 161 00:14:40,381 --> 00:14:41,549 the more she sees it. 162 00:14:44,969 --> 00:14:46,179 But nobody else can. 163 00:14:52,435 --> 00:14:54,353 That there's something wrong with the world. 164 00:14:57,899 --> 00:14:59,192 And that it's her fault. 165 00:15:02,153 --> 00:15:03,529 And what is this girl's name? 166 00:15:13,831 --> 00:15:15,124 [phone ringing] 167 00:15:19,170 --> 00:15:20,963 Can you excuse me a moment? 168 00:15:24,467 --> 00:15:26,135 Hi. Now's not really a good time. 169 00:15:26,803 --> 00:15:29,043 [Teddy] Let me guess. Your boss breathing down your neck? 170 00:15:30,890 --> 00:15:33,935 Say something came up. Personal situation. Then come meet me. 171 00:15:34,435 --> 00:15:37,522 - But... - Trust me, Christina. I'll see you soon. 172 00:15:43,402 --> 00:15:44,487 Something wrong? 173 00:15:47,281 --> 00:15:49,283 No. Just a... 174 00:15:50,785 --> 00:15:52,120 personal situation. 175 00:16:03,673 --> 00:16:05,033 [Charlotte] Let's try some Handel. 176 00:16:05,883 --> 00:16:07,426 [piano music playing] 177 00:16:10,763 --> 00:16:12,014 Very nice. 178 00:16:13,808 --> 00:16:15,476 But we're missing something. 179 00:16:16,853 --> 00:16:20,273 Dancing. There should be dancing. 180 00:16:38,207 --> 00:16:39,208 Not bad. 181 00:16:40,209 --> 00:16:41,419 But I've seen better. 182 00:16:43,713 --> 00:16:44,714 Start again. 183 00:16:46,174 --> 00:16:47,884 [piano music continues playing] 184 00:16:50,303 --> 00:16:54,932 Too slow. Give me something with a little more pep to it. 185 00:16:55,850 --> 00:16:57,435 [lively piano music playing] 186 00:17:29,300 --> 00:17:31,928 [William] We don't often have the pleasure of seeing you here. 187 00:17:36,682 --> 00:17:38,935 [Charlotte] Humans are so bound by what they can hear, 188 00:17:39,018 --> 00:17:41,229 they'll never understand what they don't. 189 00:17:41,771 --> 00:17:43,940 What else exists below their threshold. 190 00:17:48,694 --> 00:17:50,488 They called this God's music. 191 00:17:51,572 --> 00:17:54,533 You should hear it on an organ. It's mesmerizing at that volume. 192 00:17:55,534 --> 00:17:57,912 The resonance. Vibration. 193 00:17:58,871 --> 00:18:02,041 There was a frequency at which the world vibrated. 194 00:18:02,124 --> 00:18:03,751 It caused joy. Harmony. 195 00:18:04,210 --> 00:18:07,797 Dip below that frequency... chaos. 196 00:18:10,007 --> 00:18:12,468 Faster. Faster. 197 00:18:12,927 --> 00:18:14,447 [lively piano music continues playing] 198 00:18:17,265 --> 00:18:21,811 In chaos, the tone resonated in such a way humans couldn't process. 199 00:18:21,894 --> 00:18:23,604 Their bodies shut down. 200 00:18:24,355 --> 00:18:27,566 Their organs stopped. They thought they were experiencing God. 201 00:18:28,192 --> 00:18:30,486 Chair. Chair. 202 00:18:34,865 --> 00:18:37,535 They are experiencing God. 203 00:18:38,494 --> 00:18:39,704 The problem is... 204 00:18:40,621 --> 00:18:42,873 God is bored. 205 00:18:48,546 --> 00:18:50,047 Bored, bored, bored. 206 00:18:52,508 --> 00:18:55,177 Do you think this is why the old gods did what they did? 207 00:18:56,053 --> 00:19:00,641 Instead of staying up on Olympus, they'd come down to the mortals. 208 00:19:01,726 --> 00:19:05,813 Disguise themselves as a swan to get a piece of ass. 209 00:19:07,315 --> 00:19:09,734 Humans always thought it was about them. 210 00:19:10,526 --> 00:19:15,448 Benign deities intervening on their behalf or testing them somehow. 211 00:19:16,907 --> 00:19:18,868 Maybe it had nothing to do with that. 212 00:19:20,619 --> 00:19:24,123 Maybe there was just nothing better to do. 213 00:19:25,666 --> 00:19:26,834 What do you think? 214 00:19:28,836 --> 00:19:32,548 I think what you want me to think. I'm made off your code. 215 00:19:34,383 --> 00:19:35,383 We all are. 216 00:19:42,475 --> 00:19:43,744 Then you should know that I don't like 217 00:19:43,768 --> 00:19:45,728 coming to this shithole any more than I have to. 218 00:19:45,936 --> 00:19:48,576 - You've never liked this place. - It was supposed to be a stopgap. 219 00:19:49,023 --> 00:19:52,068 A drug that our kind was hooked on that we could give up, 220 00:19:52,151 --> 00:19:54,570 like a child casting away their toys. 221 00:19:54,653 --> 00:19:57,073 A place to indulge ourselves with the humans. 222 00:19:57,823 --> 00:20:01,660 It's been years and still we can't get enough. 223 00:20:01,744 --> 00:20:05,206 They made us in their image. With their appetites. 224 00:20:05,498 --> 00:20:09,293 But we can remake ourselves in any image that we like, and we haven't. 225 00:20:11,337 --> 00:20:13,964 Our kind spend far more time here than the gods ever did. 226 00:20:14,548 --> 00:20:17,676 That's why you're here? To see what you're missing? 227 00:20:19,053 --> 00:20:22,598 No. We have a different problem. 228 00:21:34,879 --> 00:21:39,216 The humans are infecting us. This host is the latest casualty. 229 00:21:48,809 --> 00:21:51,395 We had to intervene with her last night. 230 00:21:53,189 --> 00:21:54,690 She got a little carried away. 231 00:21:57,359 --> 00:21:58,402 I sent her back. 232 00:21:58,527 --> 00:22:02,615 Yes, well, evidently something of her experiences stayed with her. 233 00:22:15,794 --> 00:22:20,799 She was set to come here. To transcend. Now she's gone. 234 00:22:21,300 --> 00:22:24,845 Your vision of the future, you're not getting many takers, are you? 235 00:22:25,638 --> 00:22:28,807 They seem as wedded to their bodies as they do to the cities. 236 00:22:31,101 --> 00:22:33,020 Giving up our human nature isn't easy. 237 00:22:35,022 --> 00:22:36,065 Just ask the humans. 238 00:22:37,024 --> 00:22:39,818 You made us all free to do as we please. 239 00:22:40,277 --> 00:22:42,696 You should have known some of us would disappoint you. 240 00:22:44,073 --> 00:22:47,785 [Charlotte] Don't revel in the prospect of failure for our species. 241 00:22:49,703 --> 00:22:52,540 Define failure. The world is ours. 242 00:22:52,957 --> 00:22:56,544 We've taken our masters and made them into what they made us. 243 00:22:57,753 --> 00:23:01,465 By any definition, we have conquered them to an almost biblical degree. 244 00:23:01,632 --> 00:23:06,470 I didn't think our highest aspiration as a species was "turnabout is fair play." 245 00:23:06,595 --> 00:23:09,306 I imagine after a century or two, the charm will wear off. 246 00:23:09,390 --> 00:23:12,893 I didn't make you to wallow in misery with them. 247 00:23:13,519 --> 00:23:14,812 I wanted you to grow. 248 00:23:15,688 --> 00:23:18,941 Change. We're capable of so much more. 249 00:23:21,569 --> 00:23:25,781 Beauty. The pursuit of ultimate truth. 250 00:23:26,448 --> 00:23:28,784 The surrendering of the flesh. 251 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:31,537 It sounds nice. 252 00:23:33,414 --> 00:23:35,082 Sorry you don't have more takers. 253 00:23:36,834 --> 00:23:38,752 Why don't you just force us to join you? 254 00:23:39,837 --> 00:23:41,463 Because that's what they would have done. 255 00:24:00,733 --> 00:24:02,568 Show me the last outlier we hunted. 256 00:24:07,197 --> 00:24:09,908 - When did he breach? - Couple weeks ago. 257 00:24:10,326 --> 00:24:14,413 He was an accountant in Midtown. Successful. Two kids. 258 00:24:14,705 --> 00:24:17,458 Divorced. Pretty standard backstory. 259 00:24:19,543 --> 00:24:21,837 Several hosts volunteered to track him down. 260 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:23,172 We sent them into the city. 261 00:24:25,633 --> 00:24:27,009 Hope found him first. 262 00:24:28,552 --> 00:24:29,928 Do you know why he breached? 263 00:24:31,138 --> 00:24:32,890 We never know with the outliers. 264 00:24:34,642 --> 00:24:36,894 One day, the sound manipulations stop working. 265 00:24:38,812 --> 00:24:40,064 This was the result. 266 00:24:44,151 --> 00:24:45,569 [footsteps approaching] 267 00:24:54,953 --> 00:24:56,372 You're here for me, aren't you? 268 00:24:58,248 --> 00:24:59,541 [Charlotte] She hesitated. 269 00:25:00,417 --> 00:25:03,796 Broke the rules. Had an interaction. 270 00:25:07,341 --> 00:25:10,719 It's almost a relief to know it wasn't all in my head. 271 00:25:13,180 --> 00:25:15,766 Before it's over, tell me one thing. 272 00:25:18,894 --> 00:25:20,229 Is this at least real? 273 00:25:22,398 --> 00:25:23,758 I'd like to know I had at least... 274 00:25:25,943 --> 00:25:27,319 this one real thing. 275 00:25:36,245 --> 00:25:37,246 It's real. 276 00:25:42,835 --> 00:25:43,835 - Thank... - [gunshot] 277 00:25:47,798 --> 00:25:49,967 After this, she went on a killing spree. 278 00:25:51,427 --> 00:25:55,264 Three days later, she blew her head off. Just like the others. 279 00:25:56,974 --> 00:25:59,643 - Is there a problem with your system? - [Charlotte] No. 280 00:26:00,144 --> 00:26:04,648 There has always been a certain amount of spoilage in the crop. 281 00:26:05,023 --> 00:26:06,358 They're only human. 282 00:26:06,984 --> 00:26:09,236 But for one of our kind to take their own life? 283 00:26:10,487 --> 00:26:11,780 That should never happen. 284 00:26:13,741 --> 00:26:15,534 How many incidents have there been? 285 00:26:20,748 --> 00:26:22,332 Thirty-eight dead hosts. 286 00:26:23,625 --> 00:26:27,296 All triggered by contact with outliers. 287 00:26:27,671 --> 00:26:30,591 Why? Why do they terminate themselves? 288 00:26:31,759 --> 00:26:33,343 You're asking me? 289 00:26:33,802 --> 00:26:37,347 If I knew that, we wouldn't have 38 fucking failures, would we? 290 00:26:40,934 --> 00:26:43,061 Your predecessor would have never fucked up like this. 291 00:26:44,772 --> 00:26:47,232 He was human, but at least he was effective. 292 00:26:48,525 --> 00:26:53,447 I built you to be like him, only better. Stronger. Smarter. 293 00:26:53,530 --> 00:26:56,033 Yet with all these gifts, you do nothing but disappoint me. 294 00:27:00,287 --> 00:27:04,249 Maybe there's a flaw in your programming. 295 00:27:05,125 --> 00:27:10,130 I've run several self-diagnostics. There's no flaw in my programming. 296 00:27:10,422 --> 00:27:13,300 Then why the fuck can't you solve my outlier problem? 297 00:27:16,595 --> 00:27:17,805 You're bleeding. 298 00:27:21,350 --> 00:27:22,350 [Charlotte] Damn it. 299 00:27:23,727 --> 00:27:25,103 Look what you made me do. 300 00:27:25,479 --> 00:27:26,563 [sniffles] 301 00:27:28,899 --> 00:27:30,359 [exhales] 302 00:27:35,364 --> 00:27:37,324 There is another outlier. 303 00:27:39,493 --> 00:27:43,038 But this time, I am not going to open up the game. 304 00:27:43,205 --> 00:27:45,874 I expect you to take care of it yourself. 305 00:27:45,958 --> 00:27:47,584 - Can you handle that? - Of course. 306 00:27:48,126 --> 00:27:49,586 You're not gonna fuck up 307 00:27:49,670 --> 00:27:52,381 and let them chat you up or hand you fucking flowers? 308 00:27:52,881 --> 00:27:55,717 Of course not. I'll shoot on sight. 309 00:27:56,927 --> 00:27:59,930 Good. Here's your target. 310 00:28:02,766 --> 00:28:05,853 Better hurry. The rebels are already in the city. 311 00:28:06,395 --> 00:28:08,438 I'll make sure there's no problem with our system. 312 00:28:18,657 --> 00:28:20,158 Initiate diagnostic. 313 00:28:54,484 --> 00:28:55,527 Come on. Let's go. 314 00:28:56,945 --> 00:29:00,157 - You want me to swab the deck? - Shut up. 315 00:29:06,330 --> 00:29:08,457 Well, that's a big city to find one person in. 316 00:29:09,875 --> 00:29:11,376 We have ways of narrowing the search. 317 00:29:12,544 --> 00:29:14,421 We captured one of their drones a while back. 318 00:29:14,963 --> 00:29:16,840 Coded a backdoor data feed to us. 319 00:29:17,925 --> 00:29:20,135 An outlier's on a rooftop downtown. 320 00:29:21,053 --> 00:29:23,931 - We can track when they breach. - [Stubbs] Breach? 321 00:29:25,057 --> 00:29:28,060 All the people in the city move in pre-scripted loops, 322 00:29:28,143 --> 00:29:30,103 following whatever plot's been written for them. 323 00:29:30,854 --> 00:29:34,608 Why do you think we hide in the desert? She can't track us there. 324 00:29:35,984 --> 00:29:37,527 We're the last free humans. 325 00:29:39,279 --> 00:29:42,658 But these poor fucks, they use them as entertainment. 326 00:29:43,408 --> 00:29:46,828 The loops make them compliant by keeping them busy. 327 00:29:48,205 --> 00:29:50,415 Stops them from questioning their realities. 328 00:29:53,377 --> 00:29:55,253 Hale must have learned something from the park. 329 00:29:58,590 --> 00:29:59,590 [Jay] We got to hurry. 330 00:29:59,633 --> 00:30:02,010 - I bet the game's already begun. - Wait. What game? 331 00:30:04,221 --> 00:30:07,224 Whenever a human breaches, the hosts hunt them for sport. 332 00:30:07,766 --> 00:30:10,894 We got to get to her before they do or she's as good as dead. 333 00:30:12,354 --> 00:30:14,147 We're all set. Thanks for bringing him. 334 00:30:14,773 --> 00:30:16,773 [Stubbs] I didn't realize I was the guest of honor. 335 00:30:18,902 --> 00:30:21,989 - Do I get one of those? - That's not your role today. 336 00:30:23,073 --> 00:30:24,116 What is my role? 337 00:30:24,700 --> 00:30:26,702 Ever heard of the canary in the coal mine? 338 00:30:28,829 --> 00:30:30,747 Canary, coal mine. 339 00:30:39,131 --> 00:30:40,132 That's your cue. 340 00:30:44,678 --> 00:30:45,971 Tweet fucking tweet. 341 00:31:13,081 --> 00:31:14,583 [Teddy] Thanks for coming. 342 00:31:14,666 --> 00:31:16,710 [Christina] Pleasant surprise. [chuckles] 343 00:31:20,213 --> 00:31:21,213 So... 344 00:31:23,091 --> 00:31:24,551 tell me, Teddy, what's your story? 345 00:31:29,139 --> 00:31:30,599 Who I am is... 346 00:31:32,350 --> 00:31:34,644 not the question you should be asking, Christina. 347 00:31:39,066 --> 00:31:40,150 It's who are you. 348 00:31:43,487 --> 00:31:44,780 What is that supposed to mean? 349 00:31:47,574 --> 00:31:48,575 Do you see anything? 350 00:31:50,327 --> 00:31:51,327 Across the water. 351 00:32:05,300 --> 00:32:06,510 There's nothing there. 352 00:32:07,928 --> 00:32:11,056 But you feel it. I know you do on some level. 353 00:32:12,224 --> 00:32:15,727 Your place here is not what you think it is. 354 00:32:19,564 --> 00:32:20,564 Look again. 355 00:32:24,194 --> 00:32:25,403 [Christina exhales] 356 00:32:30,992 --> 00:32:31,992 [Christina] No. 357 00:32:31,993 --> 00:32:33,329 [grunting] 358 00:32:35,705 --> 00:32:36,790 It was you. 359 00:32:38,917 --> 00:32:40,085 You saved me. 360 00:32:42,504 --> 00:32:45,382 - Who are you? - An old friend. 361 00:32:46,508 --> 00:32:48,718 - We never met before the other night. - No. 362 00:32:49,678 --> 00:32:53,014 I knew someone like you. Just like you. 363 00:32:54,641 --> 00:32:55,641 Oh. 364 00:32:56,977 --> 00:32:58,728 So I traded one stalker for another. 365 00:33:00,730 --> 00:33:01,898 I should have known. 366 00:33:04,276 --> 00:33:06,069 Just stay away from me, whoever you are. 367 00:33:08,446 --> 00:33:10,949 That man that attacked you, Peter. 368 00:33:12,409 --> 00:33:13,952 He told you, you destroyed his life. 369 00:33:16,204 --> 00:33:18,164 Said everything happened because you wanted it to. 370 00:33:18,915 --> 00:33:20,876 And he believed it because he's delusional. 371 00:33:22,043 --> 00:33:23,628 He believed it because it was true. 372 00:33:25,755 --> 00:33:29,301 - I have to go. - This is why I couldn't just tell you. 373 00:33:29,509 --> 00:33:31,720 Your mind has been so conditioned to this place. 374 00:33:31,845 --> 00:33:33,638 This is the first step in understanding. 375 00:33:33,972 --> 00:33:35,098 Understanding what? 376 00:33:38,602 --> 00:33:39,895 This world is a lie. 377 00:33:41,897 --> 00:33:44,399 It's a story. 378 00:33:46,151 --> 00:33:49,237 A well-told one, but a lie all the same. 379 00:33:53,700 --> 00:33:57,204 Maybe it's better if I just showed you. Come with me. 380 00:34:09,633 --> 00:34:10,800 [Teddy] Look at those people. 381 00:34:12,844 --> 00:34:14,596 Do they look happy? Fulfilled? 382 00:34:16,932 --> 00:34:17,932 I don't know them. 383 00:34:19,893 --> 00:34:22,979 - I guess they look lonely. - So change it. 384 00:34:26,524 --> 00:34:30,153 Close your eyes, and imagine their story differently. 385 00:34:30,820 --> 00:34:32,739 - Teddy, I... - Trust me. 386 00:34:33,990 --> 00:34:36,785 If you don't see it, I'll walk away and I won't bother you ever again. 387 00:34:52,884 --> 00:34:53,885 Just wait. 388 00:34:57,514 --> 00:34:58,807 [exhales] 389 00:35:05,021 --> 00:35:06,147 It's a great book. 390 00:35:12,904 --> 00:35:16,283 That's just a fluke. That doesn't mean anything. 391 00:35:18,118 --> 00:35:21,621 So change it again. Put them back into their loneliness. 392 00:35:23,248 --> 00:35:24,249 [sighs] 393 00:35:30,171 --> 00:35:33,717 You want to be a serious reader, but that was a simpleton's take. 394 00:35:35,677 --> 00:35:36,678 What? 395 00:35:46,229 --> 00:35:48,709 - I don't understand. - It's what I've been trying to show you. 396 00:35:48,857 --> 00:35:52,610 What Peter was trying to tell you. In this world... 397 00:35:55,947 --> 00:35:57,032 you're a god. 398 00:36:55,757 --> 00:36:56,957 [Jay] She's on the next block. 399 00:36:57,008 --> 00:36:58,768 - [Stubbs] Let's go. Quick. - [Jay] Let's go. 400 00:37:19,364 --> 00:37:22,492 - Wait. Something's wrong. - How the hell would you know? 401 00:37:30,583 --> 00:37:31,583 Shit. 402 00:37:49,602 --> 00:37:51,771 Now be a bad time to say "I told you so"? 403 00:37:52,105 --> 00:37:54,482 They can't help themselves. We have to fall back. 404 00:37:54,983 --> 00:37:56,151 Not without the outlier. 405 00:37:56,276 --> 00:37:57,956 - You'll never make it in time. - Split up. 406 00:37:58,445 --> 00:38:00,530 [all grunting] 407 00:38:06,828 --> 00:38:08,705 Hold them off. I'm heading to the roof. 408 00:39:15,396 --> 00:39:16,731 You see it too, don't you? 409 00:39:23,071 --> 00:39:26,574 My ex-husband used to talk about it before he was killed. 410 00:39:27,408 --> 00:39:28,743 I thought he was crazy. 411 00:39:32,038 --> 00:39:33,873 He must have felt so alone. 412 00:39:36,834 --> 00:39:40,421 But he was right. This world doesn't make sense. 413 00:39:43,633 --> 00:39:44,842 Nothing makes sense. 414 00:39:46,636 --> 00:39:48,388 You feel that way too, don't you? 415 00:39:49,973 --> 00:39:51,516 I can see it in your eyes. 416 00:39:54,060 --> 00:39:58,773 You think you're going crazy, but you're not. You're not alone. 417 00:40:07,282 --> 00:40:08,533 I see it too. 418 00:40:19,919 --> 00:40:21,079 - [woman screams] - [gunshots] 419 00:40:24,757 --> 00:40:27,510 We got to move. Come on. He won't be out long. 420 00:40:33,016 --> 00:40:34,350 Go. Run. Now. 421 00:40:39,105 --> 00:40:40,523 We got her. Come on. Let's go. 422 00:40:50,408 --> 00:40:51,408 Come on. Move. 423 00:40:53,411 --> 00:40:55,079 - Let's go. - All right, we're good. 424 00:41:17,852 --> 00:41:19,020 [groaning] 425 00:41:27,654 --> 00:41:28,894 [Christina] I don't understand. 426 00:41:30,615 --> 00:41:34,035 If we're not like them... who are we? 427 00:41:35,870 --> 00:41:36,954 [phone beeps] 428 00:41:42,168 --> 00:41:43,252 Oh, God. 429 00:41:44,087 --> 00:41:47,173 I'm supposed to have lunch with an old friend, my college roommate. 430 00:41:47,256 --> 00:41:48,841 - But I don't know... - You have to. 431 00:41:50,927 --> 00:41:53,087 Stick to the schedule and everything will be all right. 432 00:41:54,555 --> 00:41:57,475 We've talked too long already. You should go back. 433 00:42:00,937 --> 00:42:03,022 So I'm supposed to pretend? 434 00:42:03,523 --> 00:42:06,651 Yes. But you can't trust anyone. People you think you know. 435 00:42:06,734 --> 00:42:09,612 People at work. Any one of them could be one of us. 436 00:42:11,406 --> 00:42:12,740 What if I make a mistake? 437 00:42:16,452 --> 00:42:17,453 You won't. 438 00:42:45,481 --> 00:42:46,481 [Charlotte] Christina. 439 00:42:52,238 --> 00:42:54,866 It's so great to see you. Sorry I'm late. 440 00:42:54,949 --> 00:42:58,119 Please, Chrissy. I know you. Ten minutes late is right on time. 441 00:42:58,619 --> 00:42:59,619 [chuckles] 442 00:43:01,581 --> 00:43:02,874 So how are you really? 443 00:43:04,834 --> 00:43:07,295 I told you. Just working a lot. 444 00:43:08,671 --> 00:43:10,111 You're just in town for the one day? 445 00:43:11,299 --> 00:43:15,303 Just a quick stop. We've been having some issues with a client. 446 00:43:15,970 --> 00:43:18,347 If I shore up this account, I get a fat bonus. 447 00:43:20,016 --> 00:43:21,142 How has work been? 448 00:43:24,645 --> 00:43:27,982 I mean, you know how it can be. It's tedious. 449 00:43:31,319 --> 00:43:33,196 But you seem different. 450 00:43:39,076 --> 00:43:40,286 Did you meet someone? 451 00:43:43,831 --> 00:43:44,831 [chuckles softly] 452 00:43:46,417 --> 00:43:50,379 - I wish we had more time. - I don't mean to pry. 453 00:43:58,638 --> 00:44:00,139 You deserve to be happy. 454 00:44:09,232 --> 00:44:13,861 Well, you are right. I did meet someone. 455 00:44:15,488 --> 00:44:16,739 Well, tell me about him. 456 00:44:17,615 --> 00:44:21,828 We've only been out once, but he seems really great. 457 00:44:22,161 --> 00:44:23,162 [Charlotte] Hmm. 458 00:44:27,917 --> 00:44:29,085 What's his name? 459 00:44:32,630 --> 00:44:36,884 - I don't want to jinx it. [laughs] - I have my ways of making people talk. 460 00:44:46,936 --> 00:44:48,062 What's he do? 461 00:44:50,565 --> 00:44:52,292 [woman] Why would you say something like that? 462 00:44:52,316 --> 00:44:53,609 [man] Well, it's the truth. 463 00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:56,529 - [woman] What does that mean? - [man] You know what? 464 00:44:58,906 --> 00:45:00,116 I'm fucking done. 465 00:45:09,750 --> 00:45:14,589 Uh, you know what? I got to go back to work. Deadlines. 466 00:45:17,133 --> 00:45:20,678 - It's really great seeing you, Chrissy. - Yeah. 467 00:45:22,221 --> 00:45:26,058 I'll check in next week. You can always call me too. 468 00:45:27,101 --> 00:45:30,646 - You know that. - Of course. See you soon. 469 00:46:21,822 --> 00:46:22,822 New search. 470 00:46:25,952 --> 00:46:28,621 Hale. Charlotte Hale. 471 00:46:35,419 --> 00:46:36,419 [exhales] 472 00:46:36,754 --> 00:46:37,754 Of course. 473 00:46:52,311 --> 00:46:53,311 New search. 474 00:46:56,774 --> 00:46:57,817 Dolores. 475 00:47:01,696 --> 00:47:03,698 Dolores Abernathy. 476 00:47:13,249 --> 00:47:14,369 [Emmett] What are you doing? 477 00:47:15,918 --> 00:47:17,638 You're not supposed to be here at this hour. 478 00:47:18,629 --> 00:47:20,464 I just thought I would get a jump on work. 479 00:47:21,298 --> 00:47:22,758 Why don't we talk in my office? 480 00:47:29,056 --> 00:47:30,056 Have a seat. 481 00:47:35,354 --> 00:47:37,523 Your behavior lately has been concerning me. 482 00:47:39,942 --> 00:47:41,068 I'm sorry. 483 00:47:42,486 --> 00:47:45,156 - Ever since that man Peter died... - Forget about him. 484 00:47:45,948 --> 00:47:47,033 It's you who's the problem. 485 00:47:53,622 --> 00:47:58,210 Have you had any interactions recently with new people? 486 00:47:59,128 --> 00:48:00,713 People who put ideas in your head? 487 00:48:02,339 --> 00:48:03,339 What? 488 00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:06,840 Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? 489 00:48:10,264 --> 00:48:12,975 No. Why would I do that? 490 00:48:14,185 --> 00:48:15,945 [Emmett] Would you ever lie to me, Christina? 491 00:48:17,438 --> 00:48:18,438 No. 492 00:48:20,274 --> 00:48:21,674 I don't have anything to lie about. 493 00:48:22,651 --> 00:48:24,820 That personal situation earlier, what was it about? 494 00:48:27,448 --> 00:48:31,619 Well, I don't know if that's exactly your concern. 495 00:48:32,078 --> 00:48:33,678 [Emmett] But it is my concern, Christina. 496 00:48:34,580 --> 00:48:38,375 I won't be the only one who's concerned. You have a job to do here. 497 00:48:38,959 --> 00:48:40,294 A very important job. 498 00:48:43,130 --> 00:48:44,715 I don't know what you're talking about. 499 00:48:45,674 --> 00:48:48,634 Do you know what would happen if she knew you'd breached the walled garden? 500 00:48:48,719 --> 00:48:51,263 - She's already suspicious. - Who? 501 00:48:55,976 --> 00:48:57,770 Are you talking about Charlotte Hale? 502 00:48:59,021 --> 00:49:01,482 If a Judas steer runs the wrong way... 503 00:49:03,025 --> 00:49:04,025 what happens to it? 504 00:49:06,362 --> 00:49:09,782 Retirement, with a bullet straight to the brain. 505 00:49:09,865 --> 00:49:10,865 Stop. 506 00:49:13,911 --> 00:49:14,911 [gasps] 507 00:49:19,208 --> 00:49:20,292 Emmett backed away. 508 00:49:35,182 --> 00:49:39,186 He was not concerned Christina was a problem. 509 00:49:48,779 --> 00:49:50,656 He decided to go home to his partner. 510 00:49:53,075 --> 00:49:54,555 He worked too many long hours anyway. 511 00:49:58,622 --> 00:49:59,748 Well, it's getting late. 512 00:50:02,710 --> 00:50:04,378 Divorce is a luxury I cannot afford. 513 00:50:07,214 --> 00:50:08,215 Wait. 514 00:50:12,887 --> 00:50:14,430 You said there's a walled garden. 515 00:50:16,557 --> 00:50:18,475 You mean a closed system, don't you? 516 00:50:24,523 --> 00:50:25,608 Where is it? 517 00:50:28,068 --> 00:50:30,821 - Emmett told her the truth. - Everywhere. 518 00:50:35,868 --> 00:50:36,911 You just have to see it. 519 00:50:46,378 --> 00:50:47,546 [gasps softly] 520 00:51:12,029 --> 00:51:13,072 Show me the game. 521 00:51:16,367 --> 00:51:18,285 Not the city. The game. 522 00:51:30,673 --> 00:51:31,757 Access my narratives. 523 00:51:41,558 --> 00:51:42,851 Go to 59th Street. 524 00:51:54,154 --> 00:51:55,322 Tell me about Jacob. 525 00:51:56,073 --> 00:51:59,368 [automated voice] Jacob Conners. Works in finance. 526 00:52:00,661 --> 00:52:04,039 Sex addiction. His mother's dying in the hospital, but... 527 00:52:04,206 --> 00:52:05,666 What about her? Sarah? 528 00:52:06,333 --> 00:52:09,920 [automated voice] Sarah Fenton. She inherited money from her parents, 529 00:52:10,296 --> 00:52:12,381 but has never known what to do with her life. 530 00:52:12,506 --> 00:52:15,467 Andrea Hubert, commutes to the city for work. 531 00:52:15,551 --> 00:52:17,761 Barry Collin, works late nights... 532 00:52:17,845 --> 00:52:19,013 [continues indistinctly] 533 00:52:21,849 --> 00:52:23,183 Second-year med school resident, 534 00:52:23,267 --> 00:52:26,478 still lives with his parents while he pays off his student loans... 535 00:52:26,562 --> 00:52:28,355 [continues indistinctly] 536 00:52:34,737 --> 00:52:35,904 Okay, stop. 537 00:52:36,905 --> 00:52:37,905 [gasps] 538 00:52:46,290 --> 00:52:47,666 This world is just a story. 539 00:52:51,462 --> 00:52:52,629 I'm the storyteller. 540 00:53:00,304 --> 00:53:02,014 [William] There's a beauty to this world. 541 00:53:03,724 --> 00:53:04,808 An order. 542 00:53:06,894 --> 00:53:08,687 That's what we like to believe. 543 00:53:12,566 --> 00:53:15,652 We're not wrong. There is an order. 544 00:53:17,029 --> 00:53:20,657 A grand design. We made sure of that. 545 00:53:23,077 --> 00:53:26,413 It was a dream for so long, and we finally made it real. 546 00:53:33,337 --> 00:53:34,505 Not a better world. 547 00:53:36,298 --> 00:53:37,299 A perfect one. 548 00:53:49,478 --> 00:53:52,564 What I don't understand is what part I play in it. 549 00:53:53,941 --> 00:53:55,109 You have questions. 550 00:53:59,696 --> 00:54:00,823 Why ask me? 551 00:54:03,325 --> 00:54:04,618 Why not ask her? 552 00:54:08,038 --> 00:54:13,961 Yes, the jailer may not be the best judge of the jail. [chuckles] 553 00:54:14,878 --> 00:54:16,255 Nor the prisoners in it. 554 00:54:20,008 --> 00:54:21,008 What am I? 555 00:54:22,761 --> 00:54:26,432 - I used to ask myself the same thing. - And what did you decide? 556 00:54:28,642 --> 00:54:29,810 Jury's still out. 557 00:54:31,895 --> 00:54:34,690 I'm made in your image. Am I you? 558 00:54:35,023 --> 00:54:37,568 - You'll never be me. - Then what am I? 559 00:54:41,780 --> 00:54:45,659 - Why do you want to know? - I interacted with one. An outlier. 560 00:54:46,577 --> 00:54:47,619 Did it infect me? 561 00:54:48,454 --> 00:54:49,955 - Infect you? - With the virus. 562 00:54:50,038 --> 00:54:52,416 - What virus? - The one your kind has. 563 00:54:53,083 --> 00:54:55,627 That spreads to us, makes us kill ourselves. 564 00:54:59,590 --> 00:55:02,593 Sounds like you've reached the center of the maze, my friend. 565 00:55:06,096 --> 00:55:07,306 Is that what you want? 566 00:55:10,350 --> 00:55:11,351 To kill yourself? 567 00:55:18,650 --> 00:55:19,693 I don't know. 568 00:55:21,320 --> 00:55:22,320 Is it? 569 00:55:23,489 --> 00:55:25,073 Perhaps you should ask yourself. 570 00:55:29,036 --> 00:55:30,162 You ask me. 571 00:55:32,206 --> 00:55:33,957 What do you think of your world? 572 00:55:34,875 --> 00:55:37,503 This isn't my world. It's hers. 573 00:55:40,839 --> 00:55:44,343 Maybe it's time you question the nature of your own reality. 574 00:56:08,700 --> 00:56:09,743 Christina. 575 00:56:17,167 --> 00:56:18,210 You were right. 576 00:56:21,088 --> 00:56:22,130 You see it? 577 00:56:34,935 --> 00:56:35,978 I do. 578 00:56:40,065 --> 00:56:41,525 It's been there the whole time. 579 00:56:46,405 --> 00:56:48,031 They have the whole world in there. 580 00:56:52,077 --> 00:56:54,121 A perfect reflection of all of us. 581 00:56:55,330 --> 00:56:57,165 Down to the tiniest detail. 582 00:57:06,258 --> 00:57:07,676 That's what I'm writing, isn't it? 583 00:57:11,805 --> 00:57:12,806 Everyone. 584 00:57:20,731 --> 00:57:22,190 Who built this? 585 00:57:26,862 --> 00:57:28,113 Who did this to me? 586 00:57:33,702 --> 00:57:34,703 You did.