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Just keep
your eyes closed.

2
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It's going
to be all right.

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<i>I was orphaned
by a living city.</i>

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<i>Ever changing, always in motion.</i>

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<i>A city controlled
by a great machine.</i>

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<i>The Tiangong.</i>

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<i>The city is supposed to care for</i>

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<i>and protect us...</i>

9
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<i>but something is wrong.</i>

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<i>The mechanical mind that
rules the city is failing.</i>

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<i>A mad god, for whom
everything is just a game,</i>

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<i>fortified within the
Palace of the Tiangong.</i>

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<i>How do you take
revenge on a god?</i>

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<i>No.</i>

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No, no, no, no, no, boy.
Not in there. Never.

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You...

17
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You, you're not going
in there, are you?

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I am.

19
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Then... then you're crazy!

20
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You'll end up just like the
rest of us.

21
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We'll save a place for you!

22
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You're here to
challenge the Tiangong.

23
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Yes.

24
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You're young.

25
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I'm the best Weiqi
player in Chang'an.

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And arrogant as well.

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Wonderful.

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Come in, come in.

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We have a game to play.

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From this place, The Tiangong observes
and controls every aspect of the city;

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everything that has been,
everything that will be.

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"You may face the Tiangong in
any game of your choosing."

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I know the rules.

34
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Then you know I
have to tell them to you.

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"You'll have only one chance.

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As the all-knowing
Tiangong is responsible

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for the movements
of our great city,

38
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and his moments in the
river of time are precious."

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"If you defeat the Tiangong,
you will take its power,

40
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its glory, and its burden.

41
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The fate of this city."

42
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But you won't win.

43
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Every last person who's faced
the Tiangong has come away

44
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stark raving mad.

45
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I know that.

46
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But I also know
you're losing control.

47
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This city is crumbling.

48
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As the Tiangong’s
always known it would.

49
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When I say that I know
everything, I mean every thing.

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All of history, every cause

51
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and every effect:

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One domino knocks down the next.

53
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Even a human could
understand this.

54
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But here is the world
the Tiangong sees.

55
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Every fact, every moment.

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One thing leads to the
next, and to the next,

57
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and to what comes
undeniably after that.

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For the Tiangong,
there's no difference

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between remembering the past
and imagining the future.

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I know your every move,

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long before you make it.

62
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Okay, let's play.

63
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If you're so superior to humans,
why would you want to look like us?

64
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It's for you.

65
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But I'm afraid I have no
face that's not a disguise.

66
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How would you like me to appear?
You could play against yourself.

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Or any of the Weiqi masters you
studied with and long ago surpassed.

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Or yourself as a child.

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Your whole life is here.

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Everything you ever were,

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everything you'll ever be.

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I know where you begin
and where you end.

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Pick a hand.

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You'll choose black.

75
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And I play white.

76
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Place the first stone.

77
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Why do you even
bother playing games?

78
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If you know how
everything turns out.

79
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I only know what will happen
because it will happen.

80
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So you control everything.

81
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I control nothing.

82
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But you move the city.

83
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As the Moon moves the tides.

84
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Cause and effect, that is all.

85
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You're going to tell
me why you're here.

86
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Don't use that face.

87
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As you wish.

88
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You killed my parents.

89
00:07:03,916 --> 00:07:07,249
You have not been
paying attention.

90
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Look.

91
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I know how this ends.

92
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Stop.

93
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I said, stop!

94
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There was an earthquake.
A demonic incursion.

95
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The demons had to be
returned to the underworld.

96
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Play your stone.

97
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You could have done anything.

98
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You didn't have to
kill my parents.

99
00:07:42,666 --> 00:07:46,499
If the tide rolled in
and drowned your parents,

100
00:07:46,500 --> 00:07:49,291
would you seek revenge
against the Moon?

101
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Yes.

102
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You'd rather
make the Moon an enemy

103
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than admit that cause
precedes effect.

104
00:08:04,125 --> 00:08:06,749
You still don't believe me.

105
00:08:06,750 --> 00:08:11,249
Here. This mirror reflects
one second into the future.

106
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Nothing
happens by chance.

107
00:08:13,833 --> 00:08:16,499
I could set the mirror two
minutes into the future.

108
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Or an hour.

109
00:08:18,250 --> 00:08:20,207
Do you want to
see how this ends?

110
00:08:20,208 --> 00:08:24,707
And then drive yourself crazy
trying to avoid the inevitable?

111
00:08:24,708 --> 00:08:27,749
This is the point where
people start to go insane.

112
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When you face absolute proof
that you have no control.

113
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Your brain will try to convince
itself that it's making choices.

114
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That you have free will.

115
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That you're not just one
more cog necessarily spinning

116
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in a complex but utterly
predictable machine.

117
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You only think that way...

118
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You only think that
way because you are a machine.

119
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And you're not?

120
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Some machines are made of metal,

121
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some machines are made of flesh.

122
00:08:53,125 --> 00:08:57,125
The city of Chang'an
is made of both.

123
00:09:07,625 --> 00:09:09,540
Wait. What?

124
00:09:11,250 --> 00:09:12,915
Is that real?

125
00:09:12,916 --> 00:09:14,415
How could you not know?

126
00:09:14,416 --> 00:09:17,790
We are playing for control
of the movements of Chang'an.

127
00:09:17,791 --> 00:09:20,624
That means we are
playing with Chang'an.

128
00:09:20,625 --> 00:09:23,707
What we do here
has consequences.

129
00:09:23,708 --> 00:09:25,499
Stop. Stop it.

130
00:09:27,500 --> 00:09:28,957
There are people out there.

131
00:09:28,958 --> 00:09:32,415
And this is the other point at
which people lose their minds.

132
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To be stuck in a destiny
you can't control,

133
00:09:35,583 --> 00:09:38,499
but still responsible for
the lives of thousands.

134
00:09:38,500 --> 00:09:41,165
You can't be perfect.

135
00:09:41,166 --> 00:09:42,499
You can't know everything.

136
00:09:42,500 --> 00:09:43,957
And you're failing.
You're falling apart.

137
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You're falling apart.

138
00:09:45,458 --> 00:09:49,124
This city has been falling apart
more and more my entire life.

139
00:09:49,125 --> 00:09:51,290
Nothing lasts forever.

140
00:09:51,291 --> 00:09:55,125
My end, like yours, is
built into my design.

141
00:09:56,333 --> 00:09:58,665
Of course, if it's
too much for you,

142
00:09:58,666 --> 00:10:00,957
why not just stay in the past?

143
00:10:00,958 --> 00:10:04,332
I have it all here.

144
00:10:04,333 --> 00:10:06,082
Because they're dead.

145
00:10:06,083 --> 00:10:07,540
No.

146
00:10:07,541 --> 00:10:09,832
They're only in the past.

147
00:10:09,833 --> 00:10:11,749
- They're gone.
- So certain,

148
00:10:11,750 --> 00:10:15,375
when you can't even
bear to look at it.

149
00:10:16,375 --> 00:10:18,874
You ruined my life.

150
00:10:18,875 --> 00:10:22,665
You make me an enemy
so you can hate me.

151
00:10:22,666 --> 00:10:27,707
Because once you start
hating, you can stop thinking.

152
00:10:34,333 --> 00:10:36,000
So show me.

153
00:10:39,125 --> 00:10:41,249
Show me how they died.

154
00:10:41,250 --> 00:10:44,249
<i>The earthquake
tore the city open,</i>

155
00:10:44,250 --> 00:10:47,083
<i>releasing demons
from the underworld.</i>

156
00:11:28,250 --> 00:11:30,124
<i>Citizens like your parents</i>

157
00:11:30,125 --> 00:11:32,124
<i>tried to fight them off,</i>

158
00:11:32,125 --> 00:11:34,207
<i>but there were too many.</i>

159
00:11:34,208 --> 00:11:36,665
Just
keep your eyes closed.

160
00:11:36,666 --> 00:11:39,124
It's
going to be all right.

161
00:11:52,791 --> 00:11:55,499
<i>The Tiangong gave
up a piece of the city that day</i>

162
00:11:55,500 --> 00:11:58,249
<i>to preserve the whole.</i>

163
00:11:58,250 --> 00:12:00,790
My parents saved me.

164
00:12:00,791 --> 00:12:03,207
They chose to
sacrifice themselves.

165
00:12:03,208 --> 00:12:04,874
It had to happen.

166
00:12:04,875 --> 00:12:07,290
Because they made it happen.

167
00:12:07,291 --> 00:12:10,832
How can you still believe that?

168
00:12:20,708 --> 00:12:23,458
Because I'm making
the same choice.

169
00:12:27,541 --> 00:12:29,874
The board represents Chang'an,

170
00:12:29,875 --> 00:12:31,665
with us at its heart.

171
00:12:39,500 --> 00:12:40,665
What are you doing?

172
00:12:40,666 --> 00:12:42,874
You would say,

173
00:12:42,875 --> 00:12:45,500
exactly what I'm here to do.

174
00:12:47,125 --> 00:12:49,832
Stop. Stop this.

175
00:12:49,833 --> 00:12:52,415
You would sacrifice yourself?

176
00:12:52,416 --> 00:12:56,124
I can't win, but I can
choose how this ends.

177
00:12:56,125 --> 00:12:59,457
Despite everything
I've shown you,

178
00:12:59,458 --> 00:13:03,041
you still somehow believe
you're making a choice?

179
00:13:07,625 --> 00:13:11,458
Play your stone.

180
00:13:16,750 --> 00:13:18,250
Then...

181
00:13:19,666 --> 00:13:21,583
I concede.

182
00:13:29,541 --> 00:13:33,625
This was a... fun game.

183
00:14:10,041 --> 00:14:12,374
What did you do?

184
00:14:12,375 --> 00:14:15,165
- I won.
- No.

185
00:14:15,166 --> 00:14:17,375
Not possible.

186
00:14:18,708 --> 00:14:20,790
Impossible...

187
00:14:20,791 --> 00:14:22,665
Inevitable...

188
00:14:22,666 --> 00:14:25,957
But...
what happens now?

189
00:14:25,958 --> 00:14:27,875
Exactly.

190
00:15:30,875 --> 00:15:33,958
You're here to
challenge the Tiangong.

191
00:15:35,125 --> 00:15:36,874
Yes.