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NARRATOR: In the city of Betaville, in the near future,

the technology we developed confronts us.

The science we created seduces us.

But will our dreams of tomorrow be turned into a nightmare?

Welcome to paradox.

[whoosh]

[theme music]

Be careful what you wish for.

Nothing is impossible anymore.

In Betaville, advances in biotechnology

have turned the unthinkable into the possible.

Cloning benefits a small number of wealthy citizens,

men like Daniel Grey, assuring them of replacement organs.

Because Daniel Grey doesn't just want a new kidney--

he wants to be young again.

But there's a hefty price to be paid--

[grunt]

--in more than just dollars.

[playing piano]

[chatter]

MAN 1: It's so lyrical.

MAN 2: It is incredible.

MAN 1: How does it come out of Daniel Grey?

Everything's ready, Daniel.

They're all dressed?

DR. BEN POLARIS: Yes.

How do they look?

Confused about the occasion.

They're always confused.

That's the way it should be.

Hi.

Sarah Dale-- she came to my party.

SARAH DALE: Terrence, you look delicious.

[music playing]

I'm honored that such a famous and beautiful--

Courtesan.

I was going to say actress.

Oh, just say slut, like a man's man.

[laughter]

I'm honored that you accepted my invitation.

Actually, I only accept invitations from strangers

who give me candy.

[laughter]

And what, you may ask, is the candy I've been offered?

Well, our host, Daniel Grey, has a stable of extras--

a clutch of little Daniel Greys--

clones.

Hmm.

And do they follow you around in a line

like little yellow ducks?

Mama Sarah wants to know.

Please, they're all waiting for you in the courtyard.

Right this way.

[music playing]

Reminds me of my first trip to the petting

zoo when I was a girl.

I'll get you some peanuts and feed them, if you like.

[laughs] Don't tempt me.

[chatter]

Ladies and gentlemen, may I present my personal researcher,

Dr. Ben Polaris.

He will give you the inside rundown.

Thank you.

Below us, all dressed for the occasion-- and a little

nervous, I might add--

are the eight clones of our host, Daniel Grey.

We have two seven-year-olds.

three 14-year-olds, two 17-year-olds,

and the handsome 24-year-old we call C7.

And where are all the others?

You said you had scores of them.

Only the jewels for your eyes.

[chuckles] It's like a family album, but all

the pictures of you are alive.

I love it.

We have, of course, altered their minds

so they're unaware they'll be used for spare body parts

and organs when the time comes.

They're slaves-- beautiful slaves

Sarah, don't rile them.

They are the slaves, and I'm the dancing girl.

WOMAN: Why is she--

Remove the children, please.

This may not be a good idea, Miss Dale.

Look, I think I'm turning that one on.

WOMAN: I think he is turned on.

I think you'd better stop now.

What, will they revolt?

You excite us all to rebellion, Sarah.

Well, I assume that's why you invited me here tonight.

Look at you-- houses on every continent, your own scientists,

enough spare body parts for 10 lifetimes.

What more could you possibly desire?

Just you, Sarah.

[chuckles]

I might be able to do something about that,

in a roundabout sort of way.

When faced withtemptation, I always want

what I haven't tasted before--

that one.

[murmuring]

Mm, he's gorgeous.

And he looks, well, innocent.

I'll try him.

Why, when you can have the original?

[laughs] Poor Daniel, so complicated,

so intellectual, so--

Old?

I think corrupt was the word I was looking for.

Oh.

Don't tell me you're shocked that I

turn away from my own kind.

I mean, what else do we have but our taste for the new?

You brought us here to be shocked

and impressed by your extras.

Let's see if they can be shocked and impressed by us.

Don't clean him up too much now.

I like them dirty.

[exclaiming and laughter]

This could be a disaster.

She's magnificent.

She should have anything that she wants.

And so should I.

But this particular extra--

there's some data on him I haven't shared with you.

Oh, and what's that?

C7 has an unusually high intelligence level.

We can't account for it.

He's undergone the same genetic engineering as all the others.

Good.

Maybe he'll have enough sense to enjoy himself.

Hose him down.

[grunting]

For any of the extras to have sex would be a trauma.

They are far more sensitive than you realize.

But this one, he's--

Doctor-- I don't want to hear about it right now.

What if he harms her?

What if she harms him?

I think that's the more likely worry, don't you?

Relax, Ben.

We'll watch all this closely.

Guards will be on hand.

It's just that if--

No more.

If he harms her, we'll destroy him.

If he enjoys himself, we'll probably destroy him too.

Now come on.

I don't want to miss any more of the preparation.

So tell me Dr. Polaris, what do you think C7 is feeling now?

I don't know.

Exactly.

We don't know, and we never will.

Even if he's an intelligent brute, he's still a brute.

Mr. Grey.

Excellent.

So, my lucky clone--

what do you think?

What lies behind those eyes of yours?

Is there something back there?

Some small spark our Sarah detects?

Yes, you're almost me.

I had the same muscle and bone when I was 24.

But I had also a mind.

You have nothing but luck--

more by far tonight than I have.

Get him out of here.

Sarah's waiting.

[piano music playing]

[chatter]

[door locks]

[music playing]

Come on in.

Don't be afraid.

The slave and the dancing girl.

Well now, I believe you're glad to see me.

MAN 3: Look at that.

You'll be the student.

And I'll be the teacher.

And before long, you'll want to tell me everything

there is to know about you.

[whispered conversations]

Seems to be a fast learner, doesn't he?

Shut up.

I want her.

I want his body.

I want it all, Dr. Polaris, and I know you can give it to me.

[chatter and birds chirping]

Bring me another pudding.

Yes, sir.

Mr. Grey is actually proud of you.

He's also angry with you.

[beep] [beep]

That's the kind of man he is.

What I don't know is what kind of man you are.

[beep]

[beep]

I know you understand me.

I don't know how much, though.

[beep]

We're going to have to run some more tests.

You and I are going to communicate.

I know we can.

[birds chirping]

Pudding-- how quaint.

Helps me think.

I think I'm mad at you.

Oh.

Why?

Last night, when I was with your beautiful slave,

I had the distinct impression we were being watched.

It was a precaution.

Something could have gone wrong.

I wanted my guards to be on hand.

Well, you didn't exactly tell me that.

Is there something you didn't want anyone to see?

No, I suppose not.

So how was I?

Extraordinary.

Hmm.

I love the morning.

But I see so few of them.

How would you like to sell me your slave?

Sell him?

My extra?

Well, unless you'd like to give him to me

as a token of your esteem.

Why take a clone when you can have the original?

A man over 40--

even very powerful men have a way of getting--

how shall I put this--

drowsy at the wrong moment.

Then it's his body.

Not only that.

There's something alive about him.

Can you imagine?

Is that something your Dr. Polaris cooked up in the lab?

I'll have to ask him.

Though, it is a problem that he can't speak,

much less think.

Think about it.

What if I were C7?

What?

My brain in his body.

What on earth are you talking about?

Please, Daniel, we should be friends.

Tomorrow, in the city, I'm having a little tea party,

and the reporters will be there.

But you could be too.

Would you?

If you want me to.

And Sarah, I want to be much more than friends.

If I have to wait for my gifts, so do you.

[music playing]

[grunt]

[grunt]

DR. BEN POLARIS: Remarkable.

[door unlocking]

I've just been monitoring C7.

You wouldn't believe what just happened.

C7 is very much on my mind, Polaris.

I want us to consider a transplant.

[monitor shuts down]

Yes I suppose we could.

He's physically very strong, but you don't have anything

wrong with you right now.

A brain transplant.

What?

They've been successful.

They're far too risky.

I know it's your job to be cautious,

but in cases where the genes are identical, isn't it true

the success rate is high?

Daniel, it could take months of intense physiotherapy

to synchronize the new brain with the body.

Sometimes it never works.

What about the case last year?

An ailing 50-year-old-- DR. BEN POLARIS: Yes--

--and his clone--

--but very successful, Daniel, yes--

But in two months, he had all five senses working perfectly,

all his memory, and a new young physique.

Daniel, please-- we've been friends for a long time.

It's not just Sarah Dale, if that's what you're thinking.

Every man wants to be young again.

I have the resources to do it.

I didn't mention Sarah Dale.

She said he seemed alive to her.

Can you imagine?

I've heard there's a team of surgeons

that specialize in older recipients

and their young clones.

Yes.

That would be Caver.

You know him?

Daniel, I want you to think this over for a while

I've lived my life taking risks.

With other bodies as insurance.

And C7, what happens to him?

What do you mean what happens to him?

What do we have him for?

I'm not used to outright killing.

So give him this body.

If he's so intelligent, he can live

another 50 years inside it.

He could-- he can make a few adjustments of his own.

A young brain seldom does well in an older body.

Find a way.

You know this could be a landmark case for you.

Yes, of course.

Find another job if you really don't like it.

[grunts]

Guards, get to the mess hall.

There's a fight brewing.

[moaning]

You're something, C7.

You just might be the most humane thing around here.

But you also might disappear before we ever know you.

- Over here! - Miss Dale!

- Miss Dale! - Miss Dale, over here!

Right here. - Answer one question.

One question!- Please, please, my dears.

One question at a time. - Miss Dale--

Do you ever plan to marry again?

Oh, no, darling.

I can't mate in captivity.

[laughter]

Miss Dale, exactly how many husbands have you had?

Hmm, let's see.

How many husbands-- do you mean apart from my own?

[laughter]

Rumor has it at a recent party you

slept with an extra, a clone.

Any truth to that?

Well, doesn't everyone like a little extra on the side?

REPORTER 1: I can't help noticing that Daniel

Grey is at your side today.

Any significance to that since the extra in question

belonged to him? - I'm the next in line.

I would like to state as a fact

that Daniel Grey has never been and isn't one of my lovers.

He is my wise counselor and friend, my guiding light.

Of course, I think we have a date for later tonight.

And Mr. Grey, you say you're next in line.

Does that mean you want to become

a closer friend of Sarah Dale?

What man on the planet wouldn't?

Miss Dale usually requires some pretty expensive gifts.

Think you can afford it?

I'm saving up.

[laughter]

Actually, I can make an extraordinary announcement

today.

I'm going to make myself considerably

more desirable to Sarah--

irresistible, I hope.

I'm going to undergo a brain transplant.

[gasps]REPORTER 2: A brain transplant?

Excuse me?

I'm risking my life to offer Sarah

the body of a 24-year-old--

my own.

You're going to undergo a brain transplant

for the love of Sarah Dale?

And I have no doubt you'll report

it in exactly those words.

Any comment?

Well, uh, it's certainly one of the most extraordinary gifts

I've ever been offered.

Will your own surgeons perform the operation, Mr. Grey?

My personal physician will assist Dr. Caver.

So I promise you there'll be no complications.

All right, all right-- REPORTER 3: Miss Dale!

Miss Dale! - --you sharks--

REPORTER 4: Miss Dale, how do you feel about--

--I'm in need of some narcotics

and an afternoon delight.

[laughter]

[murmuring]

I can't believe you'd announce this in public.

I meant every word.

[sighs] You may be the biggest fool of all.

You'll see.

Just wait.

You'll see.

[door unlocks]

I hope you like your new quarters.

You'll be here from now on.

Real privacy, better food.

I also want to run a few additional tests.

Do you understand?

Come with me.

Come on.

That's it.

A few more tests.

Ben Polaris, open.

[door unlocks]

If my guess is right, you actually

understand most of what I say.

So don't be alarmed.

Please, sit.

[beep]

Your last test revealed some very

sophisticated brain patterns.

I would just like to confirm them.

I also want to assure you you will not be harmed.

You know, a long time ago there was a Greek physician

named Hippocrates who made a promise to take

care of all his patients.

It's a promise doctors still keep.

Of course, medicine and surgeries continue to change.

We're faced with dangerous new moralities--

the new brain transplant procedures, for example.

[computing sounds]

One finds oneself tampering with the unique qualities

of human personality.

Daniel Grey is a highly educated man--

well-traveled, cultured, very powerful--

whose life our world values.

If such a life can be extended through various surgical

procedures, we believe--

[beeping]

--it should be.

[somber music playing]

This doesn't mean that I won't take care of you

the best I can.

Speak to me.

Do you understand what I'm trying to tell you?

I have no power.

I can only do what I can.

And me speak.

Yes, yes.

You speak very well.

We must speak together.

What will you do?

Of course, the portions of the extra's brain responsible

for motor control, the endocrine system, and all low-level

sensory data will be retained.

This will be a partial transplant.

That's the keyword-- partial.

There's no reason why a donor should

have to adjust to a new body's basic life processes.

Our aim is to transplant memory and personality alone.

Dr. Polaris, you will assist with the computer work--

brain function mapping, monitoring

the hormonal feedback loops.

If successful, our transplant should take from the beginning,

without weeks or months of extensive physiotherapy.

Then I'll be aware of my new body immediately.

If we do it right--

and we will-- you shouldn't have more

than a few hours of adjustment.

I understand you have an extra online

who's in wonderful physical condition.

Yes, that's right.

Well, then, there shouldn't be any problem.

Follow our diet and our strict instructions for a week.

Then let's get on with it.

Absolutely.

If your security men can accompany me back

to the city, then, Mr. Grey, I have an evening

appointment to catch.

Well, I'm sure we have everything

you might possibly desire right here at the villa, Doctor.

No doubt.

But I'm also a man of many appetites.

Sometimes the city is a necessary evil.

[sighs]

So how long have you been able to talk?

I-- I think many years.

Yet you didn't.

Better for me.

And you learned from the guards.

Even from me, I suppose.

The mind altering drugs we give you--

why do you think they don't affect you?

In sweets?

Yes.

In your food and desserts, yes.

Giving sweets to guards and older clones.

You gave your drugs away.

For how long have you been doing that?

Many years.

Now, please take children away.

Take the children extras away?

From the others? - Yes.

Why?

Are they abused?

Harmed?

We don't see anything on the monitors.

Please.

All right.

Anything else?

Give children this good food, please.

Yes.

Their food can be improved, yes.

What else?

Where is she?

Who?

Sarah?

You want to see her?

Never.

DR. BEN POLARIS: Why?

Making sex while others watch us.

Yes, yes.

I'm sorry.

I'm feeling--

I'm feeling--

Yes, I know how you must feel.

But now this room--

I'm thinking you're not feeling very much for me.

We are going to operate, yes.

[somber music playing]

We're going to put some of your master, Daniel Grey, into you.

Can you understand?

I won't be here.

You won't die.

You'll be in him.

You'll be all right, just changed.

I'm not wanting to be any part of Master Grey.

I'll take care of you.

Tell me word.

What?

You are saying physician.

Yes.

Greek physician promise.

Hippocrates, yes. You remember.

Very good.

Doctor can have more than one patient.

Oh, yes, of course.

A doctor can have several patients-- many, many.

Am I your patient?

Yes.

Please keep your promise.

DANIEL GREY: I've been trying to reach her all day.

I'll give her the message, sir.

[video feed shuts down]

[remote clatters on table]

[plays piano]

[music playing faintly]

CONCIERGE: Dr. Caver--

Dr. Caver.

Everything ready in my suite?

Yes, but Dr. Caver, the woman you requested

has been sent away.

On whose authority?

I'm afraid, Doctor, there's another woman in your suite.

Good god, my wife?

Ah, no, sir.

Um, I don't believe so.

[shower running]

[faucet turns off]

Sarah.

Sarah Dale.

Last year in Cairo you made me a very lewd offer.

I didn't refuse you.

Do you remember?

You ignored me.

You didn't even give me the satisfaction of a reply.

I remember exactly what you said.

"Sex is a very natural and wholesome thing,

but only if it isn't done right."

What do you want to now?

Dr. Caver, there are things that I want that no man now

alive can give me.

I was hoping you might help.

[suspenseful music playing]

[panicked breathing]

Ben Polaris, open.

[computing sound]

Daniel Grey, open.

[computing sound]

[IN A DEEP VOICE] Daniel Grey, open.

[door unlocks]

GUARD 1 [ON MONITOR]: Mr. Grey.

Mr. Grey.

[snorts]

Yes?

Sorry, sir, but C7 has escaped from his room.

He can't get off the grounds.

Just catch him before he hurts himself, understand?

GUARD 1 [ON MONITOR]: Yes, sir.

[running footsteps]

[rattling door]

[grunts]

He's in the lounge.

He just shut himself inside with the children.

DANIEL GREY [ON COMLINK]: Don't do anything until I get there.

Yes, sir.

We'll do that.

[grunts]

[grunts]

GUARD 2: Come here.

Look at them go.

So young and quick.

Too bad my guards aren't.

[beeping]

GUARD 2 [ON COMLINK]: I think we have him now, sir.

Good.

Nothing violent.

Take him gently.

[panting]

[OUT OF BREATH] Come on.

Come on.

[grunting]

[groaning]

[gasping]

You didn't hurt him, did you?

He's subdued, but perfectly all right, sir.

You're a beautiful thing.

Sarah Dale thinks so, so you must be very beautiful.

But you're also a pain in the ass.

Take him to the operating theater.

Dr. Caver should be arriving shortly.

[birds chirping]

[monitors beeping]

Sorry I'm late.

A little unexpected preparation to attend to.

Ready, Polaris?

DANIEL GREY: I'm ready, Doctor.

Amaze me.

You understand now, Mr. Grey, how we'll use both brains?

Keeping all the motor responses and primitive--

Yes, yes, yes, yes, I understand it all.

Daniel-- I want you to reconsider this one last time.

Are you crazy?

I've never been so certain of anything in my entire life.

You are undertaking a dangerous transplant

because you're obsessed with a woman.

That is hardly the reason to--

In my opinion, Dr. Polaris, you

won't be half as useful to me after the transplant

as you were before it.

Tell the truth-- are you worried about me or my clone?

So, what are we waiting for?

Amaze me.

Amaze you?

Yes, absolutely.

I think we'll definitely do that.

Just one minute, please.

What do you think you're doing, Ben?

I don't think I can go through with this.

Why?

Because of that clone lying there?

Something special about him I should be aware of?

What makes you say that?

If you don't go through with this now,

I'll hold you up to ridicule at every scientific organization

in the world.

Your research will be as good as dead.

This is the opportunity of a lifetime,

and I won't let you throw it away.

You think I'm joking?

Begin all systems monitoring.

[computing sounds]

[suspenseful music playing]

[liquid bubbling]

[electronic whirring]

You have an arrogant master, Dr. Polaris.

Let's amaze him.

[electric buzzing]

[laughter]

I can hardly wait to see him.

You say he's perfectly all right?

Oh, I'd say so.

Wouldn't you, Doctor?

Oh, yes.

You know this has made news everywhere.

I mean, what have you done for me lately, darling?

Oh, changed my brain.

[laughter]

[door opens]

Here he comes.

Hello, everyone.

Leave me anything to eat?

Oh, no, no. Please, please.

Come as you are.

No shirts allowed.

Mm.

Juice, Daniel?

Yes, please.

[juice pouring]

What are these?

Muffins.

DR. CAVER: It's a very good sign that you have your appetite.

Did you dream last night?

Very good dreams.

Have I been to Venice?

Yes, you have, several times.

I thought so.

I dreamt of Venice.

SARAH DALE: I have access to an apartment in Venice.

Let's go there, Daniel, just the two of us.

About my name--

I was thinking, because of this new body--

call me Carl.

SARAH DALE: The apartment looks out

towards the Grand Canal on one side

and toward the Lido on the other.

So what do you think, my brand new Carl?

I want you to begin a new program

for the younger extras--

the children.

I want them to undergo a genetic alteration and rehab.

Take them off all medicines today,

and let's improve their nutrition.

Yes, these muffins-- they'd like these very much.

I'll see to all of it.

What about the others?

I haven't decided.

For the time being, keep their dosages the same.

Well, I think it's time for me to go.

I've enjoyed our weeks together, Dr. Polaris.

I can see you'll be a great help to our fine, new specimen.

An ingenious transplant, Doctor--

opportunity of a lifetime, just as you said.

And when may I have the pleasure of your company

again, Sarah?

Well, if you loved me, you'd create an extra or two for me

as a present.

Oh, but there can only be one Sarah Dale.

Goodbye, Carl.

Goodbye, Doctor.

Thank you.

I'll see you out.

This way, please.

Venice anyone?

To tell you the truth, Sarah, I don't think I really

want to go anywhere with you.

Don't you think that's a little ungrateful?

How?

How do you think things ended up the way they did?

How do you mean?

I sacrificed myself to Dr. Caver for you.

So you owe me at least a trip to Venice

or to some other sunny spot where

we can take off all our clothes and make

love on a beautiful balcony.

Sarah, you can have almost any man you want.

Why bother with me?

[sighs] Well, I can see that I may have designed you too well.

I should have kept more of poor Daniel

after all, the way he wanted.

Then again, if I had, I wouldn't have wanted

to spend any time with him.

You'll be all right.

Easy come, easy go.

Is that it?

Goodbye then, my C7.

Carl.

Carlo I think would be sexier.

[music playing]

[crickets chirping]

DR. BEN POLARIS: Am I disturbing you?

Not at all, join me.

I was just thinking.

There are a million strange thoughts in my head.

Yes, I bet there are.

You are C7, aren't you?

It really is true.

Yes, I think so.

Did Dr. Caver really change the operation for Sarah Dale?

Dr. Caver assured me the operation

was a complete success.

That's all I know.

The night's beautiful, isn't it?

Yes, it is, and the children are safe.

They had ice cream tonight.

Good.

I should be angry with you for going through

with this operation, but I'm not.

I'm not trying to make excuses for myself,

but something about what Caver said to me let me know.

I wonder, can you play?

I don't know.

I haven't tried.

[playing piano well]

Beautiful-- as though the music is now where it belongs.

Perhaps maybe now's a good time to check

on our poor Daniel Grey.

[piano music turns dark]

[door unlocks]

Hey there.

Look what I brought you.

[stuttering]

DR. BEN POLARIS: It's your favorite pudding.

Good.

Everything is all right.

You can even have seconds, if you want.

[grunts]

[suspenseful music]

Daniel Grey wanted to be a young man again,

so he used technology to create a new body for himself.

But he didn't realize the mind inside

that body had other plans.

And now Daniel Grey finds himself trapped in a nightmare

of his own making.

Welcome to paradox.