1 00:01:01,094 --> 00:01:03,698 Day 42, session 72. 2 00:01:04,799 --> 00:01:06,266 Start recording. 3 00:01:06,801 --> 00:01:08,036 Vitals? 4 00:01:08,168 --> 00:01:10,103 Blood pressure 110 over 70. 5 00:01:10,237 --> 00:01:11,238 Pulse 68. 6 00:01:11,371 --> 00:01:12,674 Vitals normal. 7 00:01:12,807 --> 00:01:15,743 Dr. Kask, what did you see? 8 00:01:16,544 --> 00:01:18,012 What did they show you? 9 00:01:20,048 --> 00:01:21,381 Dr. Kask? 10 00:01:22,584 --> 00:01:24,251 Dr. Kask? 11 00:01:26,386 --> 00:01:28,056 How are you still alive? 12 00:01:49,711 --> 00:01:51,311 How am I still alive? 13 00:01:57,484 --> 00:01:58,886 We're a flawed species. 14 00:02:01,756 --> 00:02:04,626 Okay, are you ready to meet your little sister? 15 00:02:12,232 --> 00:02:14,902 We're impossibly fragile. 16 00:02:15,870 --> 00:02:17,270 Hi, Klara. Hi. 17 00:02:17,404 --> 00:02:18,539 Yeah. 18 00:02:18,673 --> 00:02:19,974 Do you think we should keep her? 19 00:02:21,475 --> 00:02:22,844 Yeah. 20 00:02:29,817 --> 00:02:31,052 We're self destructive. 21 00:02:40,895 --> 00:02:42,462 Superstitious. 22 00:02:48,903 --> 00:02:50,237 Driven by fear. 23 00:02:57,444 --> 00:02:58,813 By love. 24 00:03:03,483 --> 00:03:07,254 Barely able to survive on our tiny blue rock, 25 00:03:09,791 --> 00:03:12,894 let alone in the endless black ocean of our universe. 26 00:03:13,027 --> 00:03:14,996 Top bunk! 27 00:03:18,866 --> 00:03:20,768 What's past the last planet? 28 00:03:22,003 --> 00:03:23,270 Infinity. 29 00:03:27,008 --> 00:03:28,341 Everything. 30 00:03:29,010 --> 00:03:30,343 Anything. 31 00:03:31,244 --> 00:03:32,847 Whoa. 32 00:03:33,948 --> 00:03:35,516 Nothing ever lasts. 33 00:03:36,551 --> 00:03:38,019 How am I still alive? 34 00:03:42,657 --> 00:03:43,991 We need to let it go. 35 00:03:45,325 --> 00:03:47,061 It needs to breathe. 36 00:03:54,669 --> 00:03:57,939 One day, we will die. 37 00:04:02,143 --> 00:04:03,544 Hey, you okay? 38 00:04:05,780 --> 00:04:06,914 Mom? 39 00:04:07,048 --> 00:04:08,549 Mom! Mom! 40 00:04:10,151 --> 00:04:11,786 We become dust. 41 00:04:11,919 --> 00:04:13,487 Oh my God, what happened? 42 00:04:13,621 --> 00:04:15,255 Klara! Klara! 43 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:20,194 And our dust 44 00:04:20,327 --> 00:04:23,564 joins all the other dust of the universe. 45 00:04:29,103 --> 00:04:30,638 And everything we love... 46 00:04:34,709 --> 00:04:35,977 Goes away. 47 00:04:40,982 --> 00:04:42,583 How am I still alive? 48 00:04:45,186 --> 00:04:47,588 How are any of us? 49 00:04:54,195 --> 00:04:57,799 What if biological life is just a stage? 50 00:04:58,266 --> 00:04:59,834 What if we can evolve? 51 00:04:59,967 --> 00:05:04,839 So our future as a species is post-biological? 52 00:05:05,573 --> 00:05:08,276 Our present is post-biological. 53 00:05:08,743 --> 00:05:12,780 It took us six thousand years to go from leeches to pacemakers. 54 00:05:12,914 --> 00:05:13,881 But from pacemakers 55 00:05:14,015 --> 00:05:16,483 to genetically modifying human embryos, 56 00:05:16,617 --> 00:05:18,119 it took just 60. 57 00:05:18,252 --> 00:05:21,055 Mm-hmm. So this isn't the future. 58 00:05:21,222 --> 00:05:22,723 The future is right now. 59 00:05:22,857 --> 00:05:24,491 Let me ask you this though, 60 00:05:24,625 --> 00:05:27,028 if our destiny is post-biological, 61 00:05:27,161 --> 00:05:29,997 is there other life in the universe as well? 62 00:05:31,032 --> 00:05:33,400 Oh, that's a stone cold certainty. 63 00:05:34,168 --> 00:05:35,102 Okay, wait, wait. 64 00:05:35,236 --> 00:05:36,403 Here's what I want to know. 65 00:05:37,104 --> 00:05:41,108 Is there something you know that we don't? 66 00:05:41,242 --> 00:05:44,111 Look, people call me a tech visionary. 67 00:05:44,245 --> 00:05:45,847 That's just a bunch of horseshit. 68 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:50,651 I'm just a fellow that sees what's right in front of him. 69 00:05:50,785 --> 00:05:53,321 And it ain't no secret that I made my first billion 70 00:05:53,453 --> 00:05:55,223 from solar energy, 71 00:05:55,556 --> 00:05:57,925 but I did not invent the sun. 72 00:05:58,659 --> 00:06:00,094 I'm no visionary. 73 00:06:01,529 --> 00:06:07,168 Visionaries see things that no one else does, 74 00:06:09,270 --> 00:06:10,738 and that's rare. 75 00:06:11,706 --> 00:06:14,141 Okay, so who does Sam Houston 76 00:06:14,275 --> 00:06:15,843 consider a visionary? 77 00:06:18,411 --> 00:06:19,547 Well, you know what? 78 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:22,250 We have one right here in this very room. 79 00:06:27,487 --> 00:06:28,756 Annika Kask. 80 00:06:31,391 --> 00:06:32,392 Annika Kask, 81 00:06:32,526 --> 00:06:34,362 would you please raise your hand? 82 00:06:37,365 --> 00:06:38,866 There she is. 83 00:06:39,499 --> 00:06:44,105 The first person to photograph dark matter. 84 00:06:50,344 --> 00:06:52,179 - That's it. - There you go. 85 00:06:52,313 --> 00:06:53,714 Fantastic. Thank you. 86 00:06:53,848 --> 00:06:55,049 - Well, you bet. - Thank you so much. 87 00:06:55,182 --> 00:06:56,117 Thanks for having me. 88 00:06:56,250 --> 00:06:57,118 Appreciate it. 89 00:06:57,251 --> 00:06:58,252 That was really great. 90 00:06:58,386 --> 00:06:59,287 Nobody got hurt. 91 00:06:59,419 --> 00:07:00,888 Oh, uh, excuse me. 92 00:07:03,958 --> 00:07:05,226 Annika? 93 00:07:05,359 --> 00:07:06,928 - Hi. - Hey. 94 00:07:07,295 --> 00:07:09,096 Big fan. Big fan. 95 00:07:09,563 --> 00:07:11,899 Thank you. I'm flattered. 96 00:07:12,033 --> 00:07:15,703 Well, uh, I have a confession to make. 97 00:07:16,704 --> 00:07:19,407 I didn't come here just to do a TED Talk. 98 00:07:21,309 --> 00:07:23,277 I want to offer you a job. 99 00:07:27,949 --> 00:07:29,784 You know, most people, 100 00:07:30,151 --> 00:07:33,187 they look at the universe and it's empty. 101 00:07:33,321 --> 00:07:36,991 And you, with one image, proved 'em all wrong. 102 00:07:37,959 --> 00:07:39,193 How'd you do it? 103 00:07:43,664 --> 00:07:45,533 Every time we'd try and image it, 104 00:07:45,666 --> 00:07:47,034 we'd get chaos. 105 00:07:47,802 --> 00:07:49,036 Couldn't find the right data set. 106 00:07:49,170 --> 00:07:50,204 What was the right set? 107 00:07:50,338 --> 00:07:51,205 All of them. 108 00:07:51,906 --> 00:07:53,207 At once. 109 00:07:53,341 --> 00:07:55,209 Overlapping. Like 3D glasses. 110 00:07:55,343 --> 00:07:56,877 Except instead of just red and blue, 111 00:07:57,011 --> 00:08:00,214 we overlap 233 data sets 112 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:01,983 to find order in the chaos. 113 00:08:02,116 --> 00:08:04,618 And then you get that. 114 00:08:05,586 --> 00:08:07,321 Well, that's the how, but... 115 00:08:09,357 --> 00:08:10,691 why? 116 00:08:13,594 --> 00:08:15,663 No one's ever asked me that before. 117 00:08:19,166 --> 00:08:23,004 I guess I just want to know what's out there. 118 00:08:23,270 --> 00:08:25,139 You want to know what's out there? 119 00:08:25,272 --> 00:08:26,674 Why not down here? 120 00:08:29,810 --> 00:08:31,178 It's a one-year contract. 121 00:08:31,979 --> 00:08:36,183 Small lab on a remote island in the Caribbean. 122 00:08:36,317 --> 00:08:37,351 What lab? 123 00:08:37,485 --> 00:08:39,020 That's confidential. 124 00:08:39,987 --> 00:08:42,690 You need scientists to work on a secret project 125 00:08:42,823 --> 00:08:44,492 on a remote island in the Caribbean? 126 00:08:44,625 --> 00:08:45,860 Let me tell you something. 127 00:08:47,361 --> 00:08:48,863 There's more up there, 128 00:08:49,864 --> 00:08:51,098 and down here. 129 00:08:51,232 --> 00:08:52,099 Everywhere. 130 00:08:52,233 --> 00:08:53,401 Aliens. 131 00:08:59,974 --> 00:09:03,110 Look, Mr. Houston, I appreciate the offer, 132 00:09:03,244 --> 00:09:05,780 but I'm not the kind of scientist who hunts for aliens. 133 00:09:05,913 --> 00:09:07,516 We're not hunting. 134 00:09:08,716 --> 00:09:09,917 We're gathering. 135 00:09:11,018 --> 00:09:14,555 And we need your discovery to make sense of it. 136 00:09:15,556 --> 00:09:16,857 Look, 137 00:09:17,425 --> 00:09:19,960 you can forget about your little green men, 138 00:09:20,394 --> 00:09:22,596 fishing for radio waves, 139 00:09:22,730 --> 00:09:24,965 and hunting for a needle in a haystack, 140 00:09:25,099 --> 00:09:27,435 because I'm here to tell you that the whole haystack 141 00:09:27,568 --> 00:09:29,570 is made out of needles. 142 00:09:29,937 --> 00:09:31,772 We're not alone in the dark. 143 00:09:32,606 --> 00:09:36,944 In fact, the darkness has been our company all along. 144 00:09:39,447 --> 00:09:41,215 You want to find out? 145 00:09:57,465 --> 00:09:59,834 I am an electronics engineer. 146 00:10:00,935 --> 00:10:01,902 Charlie Kaminsky. 147 00:10:03,704 --> 00:10:05,139 Sorry, it's just... 148 00:10:05,873 --> 00:10:08,642 Charlie Kaminsky saying he's an electronics engineer 149 00:10:08,776 --> 00:10:12,279 is like Stephen Hawking saying he teaches math. 150 00:10:12,413 --> 00:10:15,983 Yeah, I'm the CTO of Gateway Labs. 151 00:10:16,585 --> 00:10:18,853 Sam hired me to check some new toys he's building. 152 00:10:18,986 --> 00:10:20,522 Now, where do you- where do you work, Annika? 153 00:10:20,654 --> 00:10:21,755 R.I.T. 154 00:10:22,623 --> 00:10:24,125 You're Annika Kask? 155 00:10:24,258 --> 00:10:25,326 Yeah, wow. 156 00:10:25,459 --> 00:10:27,161 How did, uh, how did Sam land you? 157 00:10:27,294 --> 00:10:29,630 He promised me we weren't hunting for aliens. 158 00:10:30,631 --> 00:10:31,932 You? 159 00:10:32,333 --> 00:10:33,701 He promised me we were. 160 00:10:36,804 --> 00:10:38,005 Oh, wow. 161 00:11:06,033 --> 00:11:07,401 Welcome to the island. 162 00:11:07,536 --> 00:11:08,802 Thank you. 163 00:11:08,936 --> 00:11:10,539 Uh, how many people are working out here right now? 164 00:11:10,671 --> 00:11:11,672 Nine or ten. 165 00:11:11,805 --> 00:11:13,707 Dr. Glassner likes to keep it small. 166 00:11:14,543 --> 00:11:15,644 Perry Glassner? 167 00:11:17,711 --> 00:11:19,346 Wow. Shit. Okay. 168 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:21,916 Yeah, super friends unite. I like it. 169 00:11:22,049 --> 00:11:23,350 We'll see to your luggage. 170 00:11:23,484 --> 00:11:25,419 Dr. Glassner is waiting for you in the main facility. 171 00:11:25,554 --> 00:11:26,754 Great. 172 00:11:27,354 --> 00:11:29,990 Oh, um, I'll-I'll catch up. 173 00:11:30,124 --> 00:11:31,158 Here, just be careful with-- 174 00:11:31,292 --> 00:11:32,693 Yeah, it's delicate. 175 00:11:32,826 --> 00:11:33,827 - Thank you so much. - No problem. 176 00:11:33,961 --> 00:11:34,862 Thank you. Thank you. 177 00:11:34,995 --> 00:11:37,164 Perfect. Oh, there we go. 178 00:11:37,298 --> 00:11:38,432 You can take that one for me. 179 00:11:38,567 --> 00:11:39,733 Thanks. 180 00:12:52,206 --> 00:12:53,240 What's this? 181 00:12:53,642 --> 00:12:55,409 B12 methylphenidate. 182 00:12:55,543 --> 00:12:57,111 Immuno-booster. 183 00:13:11,091 --> 00:13:13,360 You shatter a bone and it heals, 184 00:13:13,494 --> 00:13:15,796 but you bruise trust and it's fatal. 185 00:13:18,332 --> 00:13:19,567 What's your purpose? 186 00:13:20,234 --> 00:13:21,703 I'm Dr. Annika Kask. 187 00:13:22,403 --> 00:13:24,104 Well, that's a chair I can sit in 188 00:13:24,238 --> 00:13:26,106 and that's a door I can walk out of, 189 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:28,208 so what is your purpose? 190 00:13:29,143 --> 00:13:30,444 Sam Houston sent me. 191 00:13:30,578 --> 00:13:31,845 Why would he do that? 192 00:13:34,114 --> 00:13:35,282 I'm a computer scientist. 193 00:13:35,416 --> 00:13:37,017 Oh, right. 194 00:13:37,985 --> 00:13:39,286 That's a shame. 195 00:13:40,187 --> 00:13:41,388 That's a shame. 196 00:13:41,523 --> 00:13:43,324 I thought you might have the salt to admit the truth, 197 00:13:43,457 --> 00:13:46,661 that you've been sent here by Sam to spy on me. 198 00:13:47,696 --> 00:13:50,064 To be the bruise that kills me. 199 00:13:51,932 --> 00:13:52,900 Should I go? 200 00:13:53,033 --> 00:13:54,569 No, no, no, no, no, no. 201 00:13:55,269 --> 00:13:58,005 After all, I might need an algorithm. 202 00:13:59,306 --> 00:14:01,543 Oh, Dr. Glassner, hi, I'm Charlie. 203 00:14:01,676 --> 00:14:04,546 And I gotta tell you, man, from one scientist to another-- 204 00:14:04,679 --> 00:14:07,081 Here we go. They're fucking multiplying. 205 00:14:09,950 --> 00:14:12,319 I blew it. I... 206 00:14:13,655 --> 00:14:14,689 As per your NDAs, 207 00:14:14,823 --> 00:14:16,256 communications are monitored. 208 00:14:16,390 --> 00:14:17,726 You will be watched. 209 00:14:17,858 --> 00:14:19,326 It feels like overkill. 210 00:14:19,460 --> 00:14:21,362 Yes, it's completely and utterly unnecessary. 211 00:14:21,495 --> 00:14:24,164 I should be doing this work on my own in my basement, 212 00:14:24,298 --> 00:14:27,502 but Sam would never allow that because this isn't really a lab. 213 00:14:27,635 --> 00:14:30,204 It's a shrine to a man's overwhelming hubris. 214 00:14:30,337 --> 00:14:32,873 See, most billionaires buy yachts or football teams, 215 00:14:33,006 --> 00:14:35,744 but he wants to buy ideas or legacies to show the world 216 00:14:35,876 --> 00:14:38,345 he's somehow changed the course of human history. 217 00:14:39,146 --> 00:14:40,615 So that's what you do here? 218 00:14:43,384 --> 00:14:44,885 That's what we're about to do. 219 00:14:45,653 --> 00:14:48,288 Welcome to the Tuning Lab. 220 00:14:49,890 --> 00:14:52,727 So you, you're up to speed? 221 00:14:52,861 --> 00:14:55,764 That dark matter algorithm you discovered, 222 00:14:56,096 --> 00:14:57,732 you'll need to apply it here. 223 00:14:57,866 --> 00:14:59,701 Is this what I think it is? Does it work? 224 00:14:59,834 --> 00:15:01,969 No. Yes. And get the fuck away from it. 225 00:15:02,436 --> 00:15:03,738 - Right. Where to begin? - Sorry. 226 00:15:03,872 --> 00:15:06,608 Let's begin at the beginning, uh, in darkness. 227 00:15:06,741 --> 00:15:10,444 So let there be light and heat and bacteria, 228 00:15:10,578 --> 00:15:11,746 single-celled organisms. 229 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:13,480 Skip a few billion years. 230 00:15:13,615 --> 00:15:15,149 Reptiles, monkeys, then us. 231 00:15:15,282 --> 00:15:16,618 Apex predators. 232 00:15:16,751 --> 00:15:17,786 Petty, ain't we? 233 00:15:17,918 --> 00:15:19,086 Cruel. 234 00:15:19,219 --> 00:15:20,755 Prone to self-destruction. 235 00:15:20,889 --> 00:15:21,989 Hell bent on rage, 236 00:15:22,122 --> 00:15:23,924 fucking our habitat out of existence. 237 00:15:24,057 --> 00:15:25,794 So now we turn our eyes away from Earth 238 00:15:25,926 --> 00:15:27,729 in search of other worlds to defile. 239 00:15:27,862 --> 00:15:29,229 But there's a hitch. 240 00:15:29,363 --> 00:15:32,132 Because Mr. Drake's equation tells us that we're not alone. 241 00:15:32,266 --> 00:15:33,802 The universe is too vast, 242 00:15:33,934 --> 00:15:35,102 rich with resources, 243 00:15:35,235 --> 00:15:37,471 likely swimming with intelligent life. 244 00:15:37,605 --> 00:15:38,673 Competition. 245 00:15:38,807 --> 00:15:39,940 And most of that's going to be millions, 246 00:15:40,073 --> 00:15:42,777 if not billions of years ahead of us. 247 00:15:42,911 --> 00:15:45,245 So we come into this race far, far behind. 248 00:15:45,379 --> 00:15:46,581 Nevertheless, we do start looking 249 00:15:46,714 --> 00:15:49,617 with whatever crude tools are available. 250 00:15:49,751 --> 00:15:50,919 As you know, SETI, 251 00:15:51,051 --> 00:15:52,787 the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, 252 00:15:52,921 --> 00:15:54,656 has been scanning, uh, what? 253 00:15:54,789 --> 00:15:56,658 Oh yeah, radio waves. 254 00:15:56,791 --> 00:15:58,125 That still only covers, what, 255 00:15:58,258 --> 00:15:59,960 one ten-millionth of the night sky 256 00:16:00,093 --> 00:16:02,797 using hilariously outdated technology. 257 00:16:02,931 --> 00:16:05,533 It's like taking a little bowl of water out of the ocean 258 00:16:05,667 --> 00:16:08,135 and peering in and concluding that whales don't exist. 259 00:16:08,268 --> 00:16:09,436 No, not radio. 260 00:16:09,571 --> 00:16:11,104 That's not how you'd communicate 261 00:16:11,238 --> 00:16:13,641 if you're an interplanetary intelligence, is it? 262 00:16:13,775 --> 00:16:16,977 You want to talk across space and time instantaneously. 263 00:16:17,110 --> 00:16:18,111 So let's do this. 264 00:16:18,245 --> 00:16:20,715 Take two photons, pair them, keep one here, 265 00:16:20,849 --> 00:16:22,650 send the other light years away. 266 00:16:22,784 --> 00:16:24,686 Force one photon into a declared state, 267 00:16:24,819 --> 00:16:26,987 and the other responds in the very same moment 268 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:28,957 across space and time. 269 00:16:29,089 --> 00:16:30,558 String a few billion of those together, 270 00:16:30,692 --> 00:16:32,827 and you've got an FTL communicator. 271 00:16:32,961 --> 00:16:35,630 No, but-but the quantum communication can't work. 272 00:16:35,763 --> 00:16:36,764 It breaks the laws of physics. 273 00:16:36,898 --> 00:16:39,333 No, no, it bends the laws that we know, 274 00:16:39,466 --> 00:16:40,735 and that's not what this is. 275 00:16:40,869 --> 00:16:42,904 No, if you force a quantum state change, 276 00:16:43,036 --> 00:16:44,271 that breaks entanglement-- 277 00:16:44,404 --> 00:16:46,306 This machine does not force a state change! 278 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:48,576 It doesn't entangle or disentangle. 279 00:16:48,710 --> 00:16:50,244 It just hears when someone has. 280 00:16:50,377 --> 00:16:52,580 This simply listens. 281 00:16:52,714 --> 00:16:54,014 It's impossible. 282 00:16:54,147 --> 00:16:56,718 And yet here we have a machine that does exactly that, 283 00:16:56,851 --> 00:16:59,721 that I built six years ago in my basement, 284 00:16:59,854 --> 00:17:01,756 on my own on amphetamines. 285 00:17:01,890 --> 00:17:03,892 So, take a look for yourself. 286 00:17:05,292 --> 00:17:06,828 What do you want us to do? 287 00:17:07,629 --> 00:17:08,830 Well, here's a hint. 288 00:17:09,029 --> 00:17:10,732 You've already done it. 289 00:17:14,836 --> 00:17:17,371 It says he's scanning the radius of a couple of feet. 290 00:17:17,505 --> 00:17:18,573 Right here. 291 00:17:18,706 --> 00:17:21,241 So if he's listening for aliens, then it's... 292 00:17:21,375 --> 00:17:22,376 He's doing it right here, 293 00:17:22,510 --> 00:17:23,678 in this-in this room. 294 00:17:24,044 --> 00:17:25,880 But-but what is it? I mean, like these are just-- 295 00:17:26,014 --> 00:17:27,549 It's-- It's a ton of data points. 296 00:17:27,682 --> 00:17:29,684 It's-it's-it's like background noise 297 00:17:29,817 --> 00:17:30,885 of anywhere in the universe. 298 00:17:31,019 --> 00:17:32,554 There's no rhyme or reason behind it. It's... 299 00:17:32,687 --> 00:17:33,588 It's chaos. 300 00:17:33,721 --> 00:17:34,722 Yeah. 301 00:17:39,928 --> 00:17:42,030 Then we find order in the chaos. 302 00:17:54,274 --> 00:17:55,910 Sort by data sets. 303 00:17:59,379 --> 00:18:00,380 Okay. 304 00:18:01,916 --> 00:18:03,718 It's the same algorithm. 305 00:18:05,787 --> 00:18:07,220 It's my algorithm. 306 00:18:09,857 --> 00:18:13,093 Sort by exponents. 307 00:18:13,928 --> 00:18:15,495 It's organizing. 308 00:18:18,198 --> 00:18:20,100 Sort by primes. 309 00:18:21,301 --> 00:18:23,571 What? W-what is this? 310 00:18:24,471 --> 00:18:25,673 I can't believe this. 311 00:18:27,609 --> 00:18:29,677 Overlay all. 312 00:18:34,114 --> 00:18:35,817 It's-it's a signal. 313 00:18:38,251 --> 00:18:40,187 They're talking. 314 00:18:48,462 --> 00:18:49,496 Holy shit! 315 00:18:52,332 --> 00:18:53,768 Dr. Glassner? 316 00:18:57,505 --> 00:18:58,873 Dr. Glassner! 317 00:18:59,007 --> 00:19:00,875 He's only scanning one little area. 318 00:19:01,009 --> 00:19:02,142 But if it's quantum communication, 319 00:19:02,275 --> 00:19:03,210 then it-it's all around us. 320 00:19:03,343 --> 00:19:04,846 Or there's another explanation. 321 00:19:04,979 --> 00:19:06,213 Or another phenomenon that we're not seeing, or-- 322 00:19:06,346 --> 00:19:08,850 Or, Annika, it's fuck-to-the-yes aliens. 323 00:19:08,983 --> 00:19:10,317 - Dr. Glassner. - I mean, 324 00:19:10,450 --> 00:19:11,853 we've been looking millions of light years away 325 00:19:11,986 --> 00:19:12,987 for-for smoke signals, 326 00:19:13,121 --> 00:19:14,187 but they were around us the entire time. 327 00:19:14,321 --> 00:19:15,890 It's... 328 00:19:16,024 --> 00:19:16,891 Is this real? 329 00:19:17,025 --> 00:19:17,892 You tell me. 330 00:19:18,026 --> 00:19:19,661 You're here to check my math. 331 00:19:19,794 --> 00:19:21,696 I mean, this means... 332 00:19:21,829 --> 00:19:22,864 It means we're not alone, 333 00:19:22,997 --> 00:19:24,532 we're not the centre of the universe, 334 00:19:24,666 --> 00:19:25,800 we're not special. 335 00:19:25,933 --> 00:19:27,167 It means they don't know anything about us, 336 00:19:27,300 --> 00:19:28,536 or they don't give a fuck. 337 00:19:28,670 --> 00:19:29,570 What are they saying? 338 00:19:29,704 --> 00:19:31,039 How could I possibly know? 339 00:19:31,171 --> 00:19:33,041 We'd have to ask them with that. 340 00:19:34,274 --> 00:19:35,308 What is that? 341 00:19:35,977 --> 00:19:36,911 Littlemouth. 342 00:19:37,045 --> 00:19:38,378 You're talking to them? 343 00:19:38,513 --> 00:19:39,647 Not yet. 344 00:19:39,781 --> 00:19:40,948 You actually... 345 00:19:41,082 --> 00:19:42,482 you-you built a quantum communication device. 346 00:19:42,617 --> 00:19:43,885 Can we-can we talk back? 347 00:19:44,018 --> 00:19:46,921 No. The hardware can't replicate quantum signatures. 348 00:19:47,055 --> 00:19:48,923 I can. I've already done it in my lab. 349 00:19:49,057 --> 00:19:50,558 I highly doubt it, but... 350 00:19:54,194 --> 00:19:56,164 I suppose we're gonna find out. 351 00:19:59,967 --> 00:20:01,401 Okay, I need to... 352 00:20:03,071 --> 00:20:04,772 Oh. Oh, wow. 353 00:20:15,650 --> 00:20:17,118 Ah. 354 00:21:13,875 --> 00:21:14,976 Good morning. 355 00:21:27,287 --> 00:21:29,157 Go to the ant, consider her ways, 356 00:21:29,289 --> 00:21:30,525 and be wise. 357 00:21:30,825 --> 00:21:32,093 Do you know that? 358 00:21:34,162 --> 00:21:35,462 Hmm. 359 00:21:39,901 --> 00:21:41,636 We learn a lot from ants. 360 00:21:45,006 --> 00:21:46,439 For example, we, uh, 361 00:21:48,441 --> 00:21:51,612 we study them to, uh, solve traffic problems. 362 00:21:54,849 --> 00:21:56,284 All sorts of things. 363 00:22:03,423 --> 00:22:05,793 I hear your schooling's going well. 364 00:22:09,429 --> 00:22:10,731 I guess so. 365 00:22:15,303 --> 00:22:16,871 Good. Right. 366 00:22:54,308 --> 00:22:55,710 It's real. 367 00:23:03,416 --> 00:23:06,453 Shh. Do you hear that? 368 00:23:07,655 --> 00:23:09,090 Scared? 369 00:23:09,757 --> 00:23:11,058 No. 370 00:23:12,894 --> 00:23:14,028 Yeah. 371 00:23:17,832 --> 00:23:20,433 Mom says there's no such thing as monsters. 372 00:23:25,239 --> 00:23:26,307 I'll go check it out. 373 00:23:26,439 --> 00:23:27,708 No! 374 00:23:29,409 --> 00:23:32,113 I can't lose you. 375 00:23:49,297 --> 00:23:51,399 So this is the transmitter. 376 00:23:52,300 --> 00:23:54,467 You can't turn it on for him. 377 00:23:55,703 --> 00:23:57,271 We don't know enough yet. 378 00:23:58,471 --> 00:23:59,674 I don't know. 379 00:23:59,807 --> 00:24:01,309 How else are we going to find out? 380 00:24:02,710 --> 00:24:05,646 You're not worried what they may be capable of? 381 00:24:08,916 --> 00:24:11,152 Are you inviting me to speculate about aliens? 382 00:24:11,285 --> 00:24:13,821 Because people often regret that. 383 00:24:13,955 --> 00:24:14,922 Yeah, I am. 384 00:24:15,056 --> 00:24:16,489 - Yeah? - Mm-hmm. 385 00:24:17,058 --> 00:24:20,161 Okay. So, the coolest project that I ever worked on, 386 00:24:20,294 --> 00:24:21,362 called the Argus 2, 387 00:24:21,494 --> 00:24:22,763 it's this bionic eye that, like this machine 388 00:24:22,897 --> 00:24:24,598 that could send microelectrodes from the optic nerve 389 00:24:24,732 --> 00:24:26,934 to the brain and then, praise Jesus, 390 00:24:27,068 --> 00:24:28,336 the blind doth see. 391 00:24:28,468 --> 00:24:30,538 And just keeps getting better and better and better. 392 00:24:30,671 --> 00:24:32,340 They get the software update every year, 393 00:24:32,472 --> 00:24:34,275 and every two years, a hardware update. 394 00:24:35,076 --> 00:24:36,177 Have you ever seen 395 00:24:36,310 --> 00:24:38,512 a three-year-old see for the first time? 396 00:24:38,980 --> 00:24:39,814 No? 397 00:24:39,947 --> 00:24:42,650 It's-it's-it's everything. 398 00:24:43,250 --> 00:24:44,618 Anyways, next year, 399 00:24:44,752 --> 00:24:46,887 the Argus 5 is going to offer better vision 400 00:24:47,021 --> 00:24:49,657 than the perfectly healthy biological eye. 401 00:24:50,358 --> 00:24:52,560 It's-it's crazy, but why stop there? 402 00:24:52,693 --> 00:24:54,862 What about all the spectrums of light that we can't even see? 403 00:24:54,996 --> 00:24:56,063 Ultraviolet spectrum, 404 00:24:56,197 --> 00:24:57,565 the X-ray vision even, 405 00:24:57,698 --> 00:24:59,166 or thermal, whatever. 406 00:25:00,134 --> 00:25:01,469 That's just the beginning. 407 00:25:01,969 --> 00:25:03,237 We start with the eyes, 408 00:25:03,371 --> 00:25:05,706 and then we're going to move on and 409 00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:07,742 improve limbs beyond nature, 410 00:25:08,642 --> 00:25:11,212 improve livers beyond nature, the heart beyond nature, 411 00:25:11,712 --> 00:25:15,649 and eventually pass the Rubicon to the brain. 412 00:25:16,317 --> 00:25:18,652 We're going to take all of our thoughts, 413 00:25:18,786 --> 00:25:20,621 all of our reasoning, all of our intelligence, 414 00:25:20,755 --> 00:25:22,590 and we're going to put it into a more durable container. 415 00:25:22,723 --> 00:25:24,492 Could be cloud-based or silicon chip, 416 00:25:24,625 --> 00:25:25,793 something that's unbreakable, 417 00:25:25,926 --> 00:25:27,695 that can exist inside of a black hole on the, 418 00:25:27,828 --> 00:25:31,265 on the tip of a pin or in the spaces in between. 419 00:25:31,799 --> 00:25:33,034 And that... 420 00:25:33,300 --> 00:25:35,703 that is the end game for homo sapiens. 421 00:25:36,404 --> 00:25:41,242 And I think that this is just another version of us 422 00:25:41,675 --> 00:25:42,943 further down the road. 423 00:25:43,344 --> 00:25:44,812 Okay, but what about pain? 424 00:25:45,379 --> 00:25:46,881 Sorrow? Heartache? 425 00:25:47,648 --> 00:25:49,016 Profound loss? 426 00:25:49,917 --> 00:25:51,285 Regrets? 427 00:25:51,986 --> 00:25:53,020 What about 'em? 428 00:25:53,421 --> 00:25:55,122 Why-why would eliminating that be bad? 429 00:25:55,423 --> 00:25:57,058 Because they shape who we are as people, 430 00:25:57,191 --> 00:25:58,959 I think way more than pleasures do. 431 00:25:59,093 --> 00:26:03,030 I mean, so much of who I am and what I value came from, 432 00:26:03,931 --> 00:26:05,332 you know, painful experiences 433 00:26:05,466 --> 00:26:08,436 that happened in my life that I had to grow and learn from. 434 00:26:08,569 --> 00:26:09,770 And change. 435 00:26:10,571 --> 00:26:11,540 I get that, 436 00:26:11,672 --> 00:26:14,041 but human suffering as a whole, gone. 437 00:26:14,175 --> 00:26:15,576 - Can you see it? - Yes, I see that. 438 00:26:15,709 --> 00:26:17,611 But I also see a sterile intelligence 439 00:26:17,745 --> 00:26:19,480 on a path with no interruptions. 440 00:26:19,847 --> 00:26:23,451 No purpose except to spread, with no actual growth. 441 00:26:24,118 --> 00:26:25,920 And that, to me, is not evolution. 442 00:26:26,053 --> 00:26:28,422 That is just an equation. 443 00:26:31,425 --> 00:26:34,795 And as awesome as your bionic eye sounds, Charlie, 444 00:26:35,296 --> 00:26:38,065 I actually know a lot of those patients have had them removed. 445 00:26:38,567 --> 00:26:39,400 Some. 446 00:26:39,534 --> 00:26:40,901 And some people are weird. 447 00:26:41,035 --> 00:26:44,939 And some people value other things in scientific perfection. 448 00:26:45,072 --> 00:26:47,341 Some people accept the parts of them 449 00:26:47,475 --> 00:26:50,444 that other people might see as imperfect. 450 00:26:51,245 --> 00:26:52,446 Hmm. 451 00:26:53,582 --> 00:26:56,851 So, we are our flaws? 452 00:26:57,952 --> 00:26:59,453 And our mistakes. 453 00:27:03,824 --> 00:27:05,092 Dr. Kask, 454 00:27:05,893 --> 00:27:08,129 you saw how unbalanced Glassner was. 455 00:27:08,262 --> 00:27:10,498 You saw the threat he posed. 456 00:27:10,764 --> 00:27:12,333 Why did you choose to stay? 457 00:27:13,501 --> 00:27:14,668 To help. 458 00:27:16,770 --> 00:27:18,772 First contact was possible. 459 00:27:20,908 --> 00:27:23,210 Would you leave it to an unbalanced nihilist 460 00:27:23,344 --> 00:27:24,945 to handle the introduction? 461 00:27:26,180 --> 00:27:27,582 This thought experiment 462 00:27:27,715 --> 00:27:31,051 dictates that the female rabbits always give birth to pairs. 463 00:27:31,185 --> 00:27:34,421 And each pair consists of one male and one female. 464 00:27:34,556 --> 00:27:38,527 Rabbits can't reproduce until they are at least one month old. 465 00:27:38,659 --> 00:27:40,895 She says she's very bright. 466 00:27:41,929 --> 00:27:43,565 At the end of the second month, 467 00:27:43,697 --> 00:27:45,567 - the female... - Lucky for her. 468 00:27:47,168 --> 00:27:48,836 When month three rolls around, 469 00:27:48,969 --> 00:27:50,505 the original pair of rabbits 470 00:27:50,639 --> 00:27:53,007 produces yet another pair of newborns 471 00:27:53,140 --> 00:27:55,510 while their earlier offspring grow to adulthood. 472 00:27:55,644 --> 00:27:57,411 This leaves three pairs of rabbits. 473 00:27:57,546 --> 00:27:59,514 The order goes as follows: 474 00:27:59,648 --> 00:28:04,985 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21. 475 00:28:37,586 --> 00:28:39,220 So, is Perry your husband? 476 00:28:39,588 --> 00:28:41,222 No, I'm a doctor. 477 00:28:41,355 --> 00:28:42,389 That's his daughter. 478 00:28:45,059 --> 00:28:46,393 How long have you been here? 479 00:28:46,661 --> 00:28:48,462 I haven't left the island in three years, 480 00:28:48,597 --> 00:28:50,097 but it feels like 30. 481 00:28:53,033 --> 00:28:54,703 I don't know how you stay sane. 482 00:28:54,835 --> 00:28:56,437 What makes you think I have? 483 00:29:02,577 --> 00:29:03,911 Is he always so... 484 00:29:12,453 --> 00:29:14,822 Look, I'm not making an excuse for him, 485 00:29:16,056 --> 00:29:17,791 because there's-there's none. 486 00:29:20,060 --> 00:29:22,597 He lost his wife and son four years ago, 487 00:29:22,731 --> 00:29:24,131 and it was bad. 488 00:29:28,135 --> 00:29:30,572 He never really accepted what happened. 489 00:29:31,272 --> 00:29:32,674 What did happen? 490 00:29:33,207 --> 00:29:34,408 Well, 491 00:29:35,476 --> 00:29:37,111 there was a house fire. 492 00:29:37,646 --> 00:29:41,148 He was in his lab in an outbuilding 50 feet away, 493 00:29:41,282 --> 00:29:43,752 self medicated, probably drunk. 494 00:29:45,119 --> 00:29:48,122 Lucy? She was at a sleepover. 495 00:29:49,957 --> 00:29:51,626 But his wife and son... 496 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:55,195 Welcome to Littlemouth's signal room. 497 00:29:55,329 --> 00:29:57,599 Perry wasn't even aware there was a fire 498 00:29:57,732 --> 00:29:59,300 until the police woke him up. 499 00:30:02,671 --> 00:30:04,506 Is he dangerous? 500 00:30:07,274 --> 00:30:09,544 He knows humans matter in theory, 501 00:30:10,911 --> 00:30:12,781 but not in practice. 502 00:30:16,785 --> 00:30:18,385 Just ask Lucy. 503 00:30:47,682 --> 00:30:49,383 Thank you. 504 00:30:52,019 --> 00:30:55,923 Lucy, I want you to watch this. 505 00:30:56,190 --> 00:30:58,760 This is a little piece of forbidden magic 506 00:30:58,892 --> 00:31:02,429 that I learned in the bazaars of Morocco 507 00:31:02,564 --> 00:31:07,868 from wise men who knew how to turn steel into thin air. 508 00:31:08,536 --> 00:31:11,506 So, I want you to count to three, 509 00:31:11,639 --> 00:31:13,708 then I want you to blow on the napkin. 510 00:31:13,842 --> 00:31:17,311 Okay. One, two, three. 511 00:31:20,414 --> 00:31:21,516 Wait, wait, wait. Let me see. 512 00:31:21,649 --> 00:31:22,751 How'd you do that? Wait. 513 00:31:22,883 --> 00:31:24,084 Go to bed. 514 00:31:29,758 --> 00:31:32,059 - Here, let me help. - You got school in the morning. 515 00:31:32,192 --> 00:31:33,762 - Go to bed. - Thank you. 516 00:31:34,361 --> 00:31:35,730 Good night, sweetheart. 517 00:31:36,865 --> 00:31:37,931 Good night. 518 00:31:38,733 --> 00:31:39,967 Good night, Lucy. 519 00:31:44,539 --> 00:31:45,939 You didn't eat much. 520 00:31:48,409 --> 00:31:50,645 I-I've never had goat before. 521 00:31:51,780 --> 00:31:54,783 Okay. First impressions? 522 00:31:55,717 --> 00:31:57,317 Yeah, right. 523 00:31:57,451 --> 00:32:01,355 Uh, well, I think it's completely legit. 524 00:32:01,488 --> 00:32:03,758 I mean, I've gone through six months of his logs, 525 00:32:03,892 --> 00:32:04,992 and every single time 526 00:32:05,125 --> 00:32:06,427 I tried to find some other explanation for it, 527 00:32:06,561 --> 00:32:07,928 he'd already disproved it. 528 00:32:08,061 --> 00:32:10,464 I mean, we're witnessing actual alien chatter. 529 00:32:10,598 --> 00:32:11,965 We need to report this. 530 00:32:12,299 --> 00:32:13,835 What? To who? 531 00:32:13,967 --> 00:32:15,804 The IAA has guidelines on post-detection. 532 00:32:15,936 --> 00:32:18,773 Do you want to have about a dozen space agencies 533 00:32:18,907 --> 00:32:20,775 with all the bureaucrats down here 534 00:32:20,909 --> 00:32:23,277 clusterfucking this thing for the next decade? 535 00:32:23,410 --> 00:32:25,012 I mean, Sam, I totally get it, 536 00:32:25,145 --> 00:32:26,013 and you're not wrong. 537 00:32:26,146 --> 00:32:27,782 However, Annika has a point. 538 00:32:27,916 --> 00:32:29,651 I mean, we're not fucking around anymore. 539 00:32:29,784 --> 00:32:32,319 This is like a solid seven on the RIO scale. 540 00:32:32,453 --> 00:32:34,188 Oh, for Christ sakes, Charlie. 541 00:32:34,321 --> 00:32:36,457 - You built quantum satellites. - What? 542 00:32:36,591 --> 00:32:38,125 I thought you of all people 543 00:32:38,258 --> 00:32:39,794 would just want to run with this thing. 544 00:32:39,928 --> 00:32:40,762 I-I do. 545 00:32:40,895 --> 00:32:42,196 Look, we discovered it. 546 00:32:42,897 --> 00:32:44,097 It's ours. 547 00:32:44,231 --> 00:32:45,365 Come on, that's fucked up. 548 00:32:45,499 --> 00:32:47,334 I mean, what if-if I discovered Pluto 549 00:32:47,468 --> 00:32:49,169 I can just screw with it any way I want to? 550 00:32:49,804 --> 00:32:51,673 Billionaires, they've taken over space exploration 551 00:32:51,806 --> 00:32:54,107 because they have more resources than entire nations. 552 00:32:54,241 --> 00:32:55,643 And I'm not exactly A-OK 553 00:32:55,777 --> 00:32:57,846 with some galactic dick measuring contest 554 00:32:57,978 --> 00:32:59,781 where a few billionaires get to determine 555 00:32:59,914 --> 00:33:01,448 the fate of all of humanity. 556 00:33:01,583 --> 00:33:04,819 Sam, listening is one thing, but talking back? 557 00:33:05,820 --> 00:33:07,822 The risks of that are mind-boggling. 558 00:33:08,857 --> 00:33:11,726 We don't know if they're peaceful or hostile. 559 00:33:11,860 --> 00:33:12,861 And you're talking about 560 00:33:12,993 --> 00:33:15,563 sending a signal the way they do. 561 00:33:15,697 --> 00:33:19,667 They'll know we're here immediately from anywhere. 562 00:33:19,801 --> 00:33:22,236 You didn't say if you liked it. 563 00:33:25,005 --> 00:33:26,340 The goat. 564 00:33:29,042 --> 00:33:31,813 Yeah, uh, it was fine. 565 00:33:32,479 --> 00:33:35,482 Now, we've spent six months trying to decipher it 566 00:33:35,617 --> 00:33:38,085 and we still don't know if they talk in calculus 567 00:33:38,218 --> 00:33:41,421 or interstellar Sanskrit or in swirls of colour. 568 00:33:41,556 --> 00:33:42,757 Let me try. 569 00:33:42,891 --> 00:33:45,225 That kind of thing might take centuries to crack. 570 00:33:45,894 --> 00:33:47,094 Give me a week. 571 00:33:51,131 --> 00:33:52,700 A week, that's all I ask. 572 00:33:53,166 --> 00:33:55,202 I hate goats. 573 00:33:58,673 --> 00:34:01,709 You know, they pair goats with, uh, thoroughbreds. 574 00:34:01,843 --> 00:34:04,344 They call them companion animals. 575 00:34:05,245 --> 00:34:07,381 You see, horses don't like to be left on their own. 576 00:34:07,515 --> 00:34:09,082 They're herd animals, and they, uh, 577 00:34:09,216 --> 00:34:10,384 well, they get very lonely. 578 00:34:10,518 --> 00:34:15,155 So the breeders will put a goat in the horse pen 579 00:34:15,289 --> 00:34:18,225 to keep it settled and manageable and docile. 580 00:34:18,358 --> 00:34:22,462 But the, uh, the entire dynamic is... 581 00:34:23,263 --> 00:34:24,666 is very unnatural. 582 00:34:24,799 --> 00:34:27,434 First, you've taken a horse out of its natural environment, 583 00:34:27,569 --> 00:34:29,604 and then you paper over this perversion 584 00:34:29,737 --> 00:34:31,973 by forcing a companion on it. 585 00:34:32,105 --> 00:34:33,440 But some horses 586 00:34:35,275 --> 00:34:36,376 are different. 587 00:34:36,511 --> 00:34:37,612 They prefer solitude, 588 00:34:37,745 --> 00:34:42,215 and they see the goat as an intruder. 589 00:34:43,417 --> 00:34:44,752 An invader. 590 00:34:45,553 --> 00:34:47,487 And so they'll do what any animal would do 591 00:34:47,622 --> 00:34:49,057 when it feels threatened. 592 00:34:49,958 --> 00:34:50,992 I mean, 593 00:34:53,061 --> 00:34:55,228 horses don't even eat meat. 594 00:34:56,030 --> 00:34:59,934 But they will chew clean through a goat's neck. 595 00:35:02,436 --> 00:35:03,605 Imagine that. 596 00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:07,274 And you know what the owner does? 597 00:35:09,711 --> 00:35:10,845 Just buy us another goat. 598 00:35:10,979 --> 00:35:12,279 All right, I think that's fucking enough. 599 00:35:12,412 --> 00:35:13,681 We're not waiting! 600 00:35:15,883 --> 00:35:18,251 Not a week! Not a day! 601 00:35:18,586 --> 00:35:20,320 You fix my hardware. 602 00:35:20,454 --> 00:35:22,523 You fix my software. 603 00:35:22,657 --> 00:35:25,158 My schedule, or I'm done! 604 00:35:30,632 --> 00:35:33,601 It's not the first time that he's threatened to take his ball 605 00:35:33,735 --> 00:35:34,702 and go home. 606 00:35:34,836 --> 00:35:36,236 He's an unstable man. 607 00:35:36,370 --> 00:35:38,472 Yeah, well, it's all we can do to keep him together with meds 608 00:35:38,606 --> 00:35:39,674 and duct tape. 609 00:35:42,076 --> 00:35:45,546 So I guess you realize the other reason you're both here. 610 00:35:46,114 --> 00:35:48,683 The moment that Perry is not functional. 611 00:35:52,020 --> 00:35:53,521 We get it. 612 00:35:53,821 --> 00:35:55,222 We're the replacements. 613 00:36:00,327 --> 00:36:04,364 So I will get you your week, Annika. 614 00:36:05,332 --> 00:36:08,603 And I will smooth things over with Perry tomorrow. 615 00:36:09,037 --> 00:36:10,237 All right? 616 00:36:30,323 --> 00:36:32,225 I'm worried that Perry's right. 617 00:36:33,460 --> 00:36:36,531 I think the only thing that we can do is turn it on 618 00:36:37,065 --> 00:36:39,734 and let them know that we're listening and hope they help. 619 00:36:39,867 --> 00:36:42,837 And that is extremely dangerous. 620 00:36:45,305 --> 00:36:46,406 Maybe. 621 00:36:46,841 --> 00:36:48,341 But what would they want from us? 622 00:36:48,475 --> 00:36:49,877 Resources. 623 00:36:50,011 --> 00:36:52,080 Nope. This universe is crammed full of resources. 624 00:36:52,212 --> 00:36:54,882 And you and I both know that our little tiny speck here 625 00:36:55,016 --> 00:36:56,951 of the Milky Way is kind of a resource desert. 626 00:36:57,085 --> 00:36:58,186 Keep going. 627 00:36:58,318 --> 00:36:59,854 They could see us as a threat. 628 00:36:59,987 --> 00:37:01,254 No, no. 629 00:37:01,388 --> 00:37:03,057 Look, you got the tech that they got. 630 00:37:03,191 --> 00:37:05,793 You think they give a shit about our stupid iPhones 631 00:37:05,927 --> 00:37:07,528 or our dumb smart bombs? 632 00:37:07,662 --> 00:37:08,696 Come on. 633 00:37:08,830 --> 00:37:09,964 Food. 634 00:37:10,098 --> 00:37:11,199 Us? 635 00:37:13,534 --> 00:37:15,803 I wouldn't touch me with a 10 foot fork. 636 00:37:20,108 --> 00:37:23,410 Whichever way I-I try to game this whole thing out, 637 00:37:25,113 --> 00:37:27,215 I can't find anything to be afraid of. 638 00:37:28,116 --> 00:37:29,617 I can think of so many. 639 00:37:30,417 --> 00:37:32,086 Life is fragile. 640 00:37:33,121 --> 00:37:34,789 Fear keeps us safe. 641 00:37:35,089 --> 00:37:36,289 All right. 642 00:37:39,259 --> 00:37:42,797 Annika, our job is to know the unknown. 643 00:37:42,930 --> 00:37:44,464 But now you don't want to embrace it? 644 00:37:45,133 --> 00:37:46,901 You can't have it both ways. 645 00:37:49,704 --> 00:37:50,938 Dr. Kask, 646 00:37:51,072 --> 00:37:52,774 why didn't you stop Mr. Kaminsky 647 00:37:52,907 --> 00:37:55,308 from initializing Littlemouth that evening? 648 00:37:55,877 --> 00:37:57,410 He never told me 649 00:37:57,545 --> 00:37:59,781 because he knew I'd try to stop him. 650 00:37:59,914 --> 00:38:01,448 He didn't consider the possibility 651 00:38:01,582 --> 00:38:03,818 that this alien intelligence might be hostile? 652 00:38:06,319 --> 00:38:09,524 Charlie doesn't believe intelligence can be hostile. 653 00:38:12,059 --> 00:38:14,695 For him, intelligence doesn't waste. 654 00:38:16,396 --> 00:38:17,965 It learns. 655 00:38:23,104 --> 00:38:24,038 From mistakes. 656 00:38:24,172 --> 00:38:26,841 From mutations. 657 00:38:26,974 --> 00:38:29,342 From curious expressions in nature. 658 00:38:31,112 --> 00:38:32,547 What do they want? 659 00:38:34,414 --> 00:38:37,051 What do we want when we observe an ant colony 660 00:38:37,185 --> 00:38:38,986 halfway around the world? 661 00:38:50,330 --> 00:38:52,033 So, Charlie was always going 662 00:38:52,166 --> 00:38:53,901 to unlock Littlemouth. 663 00:38:57,672 --> 00:38:59,006 Initialize. 664 00:38:59,140 --> 00:39:00,641 Initializing. 665 00:39:00,775 --> 00:39:02,375 Because he believed no harm would come of it. 666 00:39:07,849 --> 00:39:10,383 Initiation sequence successful. 667 00:39:12,887 --> 00:39:16,090 But you didn't believe that, did you, Doctor? 668 00:39:23,164 --> 00:39:24,999 Uh, hey, Perry? 669 00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:27,268 Perry? 670 00:39:27,969 --> 00:39:30,204 Well, uh, Perry, you should, uh... 671 00:39:31,706 --> 00:39:33,507 you should know that I-I fixed it. 672 00:39:34,342 --> 00:39:36,010 We can talk back now. 673 00:39:45,219 --> 00:39:48,455 Welcome to Littlemouth's signal room. 674 00:40:03,738 --> 00:40:05,740 Get down here. Ten minutes. 675 00:40:07,275 --> 00:40:08,776 Lowest level. 676 00:40:13,446 --> 00:40:15,448 It's time to meet Littlemouth. 677 00:40:28,796 --> 00:40:31,165 You have reached the voicemail box of... 678 00:40:31,299 --> 00:40:32,499 Sam Houston. 679 00:40:32,633 --> 00:40:34,769 Please leave a message. 680 00:40:36,871 --> 00:40:38,339 He said he'd wait. 681 00:40:42,410 --> 00:40:44,011 Level C. 682 00:40:47,315 --> 00:40:48,683 Take your time? 683 00:40:52,620 --> 00:40:54,454 Charlie tell me you didn't. 684 00:41:03,463 --> 00:41:08,468 At 1:24 AM Littlemouth turns on. 685 00:41:08,836 --> 00:41:11,138 Perry, I object to this on so many levels. 686 00:41:11,272 --> 00:41:13,708 But you won't do anything about it, will you? 687 00:41:14,942 --> 00:41:18,478 So what you can do is check for data variations when we go live. 688 00:41:18,612 --> 00:41:19,947 Uh, what are you... 689 00:41:20,081 --> 00:41:21,148 what are you going to say? 690 00:41:21,816 --> 00:41:22,883 Hello. 691 00:41:24,919 --> 00:41:26,020 How? 692 00:41:31,592 --> 00:41:33,194 Of all the data points, 693 00:41:33,327 --> 00:41:37,398 one sequence repeated itself at a marginally greater rate. 694 00:41:37,598 --> 00:41:39,533 Littlemouth will repeat that sequence 695 00:41:39,667 --> 00:41:43,037 and send it between here and the antenna. 696 00:41:44,271 --> 00:41:45,873 But you don't even know what that sequence means. 697 00:41:46,007 --> 00:41:47,341 Well, does an infant have any idea 698 00:41:47,475 --> 00:41:50,344 what its first fumblings at language mean? No. 699 00:41:50,478 --> 00:41:52,246 But they simply mimic those more developed. 700 00:41:52,380 --> 00:41:53,748 - But the- - Does the parent have any idea 701 00:41:53,881 --> 00:41:54,882 what the child means? 702 00:41:55,016 --> 00:41:56,717 No, but they know what the child is saying. 703 00:41:57,818 --> 00:42:00,755 They're saying, "I'm alive and I'm listening." 704 00:42:04,291 --> 00:42:08,262 Yet though we babble, we do so mathematically. 705 00:42:08,396 --> 00:42:11,665 We will use two universal constants. 706 00:42:11,799 --> 00:42:14,668 The speed of light will be the unit of measurement. 707 00:42:15,202 --> 00:42:16,203 And primes, 708 00:42:16,337 --> 00:42:18,039 we will repeat the code ten times. 709 00:42:18,172 --> 00:42:20,674 The first interval will be two times the speed of light. 710 00:42:20,808 --> 00:42:22,209 And the final interval, therefore, 711 00:42:22,343 --> 00:42:25,913 will be the tenth prime 29 times the speed of light. 712 00:42:27,548 --> 00:42:29,784 You're saying a lot more than just hello. 713 00:42:29,917 --> 00:42:31,152 Yes. 714 00:42:31,285 --> 00:42:33,554 We're saying, "We've heard you and we're logical." 715 00:42:34,755 --> 00:42:36,290 And, "We're here." 716 00:42:37,558 --> 00:42:38,893 Yes, that's the idea. 717 00:42:41,062 --> 00:42:43,397 By the way, Sam won't stop it. 718 00:42:44,365 --> 00:42:45,433 There's no kill switch. 719 00:42:45,566 --> 00:42:47,268 And even if he could, he never would. 720 00:42:47,401 --> 00:42:51,138 He's blinded by hubris in one eye and glory in the other. 721 00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:55,443 Anything else from the little goats? 722 00:43:02,349 --> 00:43:03,552 Yeah. 723 00:43:04,085 --> 00:43:05,119 Let's do it. 724 00:43:05,554 --> 00:43:06,387 What? 725 00:43:06,521 --> 00:43:07,988 I'm sorry, I-I gotta see this. 726 00:43:10,458 --> 00:43:11,792 Perry, you know, you-you should, uh, 727 00:43:11,926 --> 00:43:12,993 you should say something. 728 00:43:13,127 --> 00:43:15,329 Like a quote for posterity or something. 729 00:43:15,463 --> 00:43:17,164 What, like, "One small step"? 730 00:43:17,298 --> 00:43:19,934 or, "I am become Death, destroyer of worlds"? 731 00:43:20,301 --> 00:43:21,570 I mean, something. 732 00:43:21,702 --> 00:43:23,237 Considering what's about to happen. It's... 733 00:43:23,370 --> 00:43:24,839 Nothing is about to happen. 734 00:43:24,972 --> 00:43:26,140 That's the entire point. 735 00:43:27,041 --> 00:43:28,943 There's no war of the worlds. 736 00:43:30,878 --> 00:43:33,013 There's no grand enlightenment. 737 00:43:35,316 --> 00:43:36,851 Just a thundering silence. 738 00:43:39,653 --> 00:43:41,188 This is about insignificance. 739 00:43:41,322 --> 00:43:44,291 This is about our smallness laid bare. 740 00:43:44,425 --> 00:43:49,964 There'll be no response because we simply do not matter. 741 00:43:50,097 --> 00:43:52,800 Not our work, not our deeds. 742 00:43:52,933 --> 00:43:55,169 Or our mistakes. 743 00:43:56,637 --> 00:43:58,005 So there's your fucking quote. 744 00:43:59,574 --> 00:44:01,642 If it doesn't matter, why build this? 745 00:44:04,411 --> 00:44:05,713 To prove it. 746 00:44:24,932 --> 00:44:26,233 Ta-da! 747 00:44:28,435 --> 00:44:29,303 There you go. 748 00:44:29,436 --> 00:44:32,574 Nothing. As predicted. Oof. 749 00:44:38,145 --> 00:44:40,147 So, when's it happening? 750 00:44:40,281 --> 00:44:41,315 Five minutes ago. 751 00:44:41,448 --> 00:44:42,816 Really? And? 752 00:44:42,950 --> 00:44:44,251 And I'm done! 753 00:44:44,385 --> 00:44:46,655 Whoa, Annika, uh, look, don't... 754 00:44:54,495 --> 00:44:55,564 Whoa. 755 00:44:56,964 --> 00:44:58,265 Whah? 756 00:45:07,074 --> 00:45:08,610 Uh... 757 00:45:14,215 --> 00:45:16,217 Backup power on. 758 00:45:25,492 --> 00:45:27,061 System offline. 759 00:45:32,099 --> 00:45:34,703 Uh, Perry, Perry, you should shut it off. 760 00:45:34,835 --> 00:45:36,270 Perry, shut-shut it off! 761 00:45:36,403 --> 00:45:37,438 - Shut it down! - Shh! 762 00:46:01,929 --> 00:46:03,230 Annika, I got it. 763 00:46:03,598 --> 00:46:05,499 Why'd you turn it on, Charlie? 764 00:46:05,634 --> 00:46:06,568 Just hold on a sec. 765 00:46:09,604 --> 00:46:11,171 You need to come see this. 766 00:46:14,041 --> 00:46:16,176 Officials have yet to offer an explanation 767 00:46:16,310 --> 00:46:17,545 for the six seconds 768 00:46:17,679 --> 00:46:19,980 that interrupted almost all global electronic 769 00:46:20,114 --> 00:46:21,650 and satellite communication. 770 00:46:21,782 --> 00:46:25,019 There are unconfirmed reports of loss of life as hospitals, 771 00:46:25,152 --> 00:46:28,255 traffic signals and aircraft have lost power. 772 00:46:28,389 --> 00:46:30,024 Well, we can't rule out 773 00:46:30,157 --> 00:46:31,825 this is of military origin. 774 00:46:32,159 --> 00:46:34,128 A test of some kind, if you like. 775 00:46:34,261 --> 00:46:35,262 Yeah, the satellites are all down. 776 00:46:35,396 --> 00:46:37,331 These are just analog broadcasts. 777 00:46:38,700 --> 00:46:40,535 We at NASA, we're at a loss. 778 00:46:40,669 --> 00:46:43,270 Whatever it is, it extends beyond the Earth's atmosphere 779 00:46:43,404 --> 00:46:46,340 because it's knocked out all high-orbit satellites. 780 00:46:46,675 --> 00:46:49,043 Is this possibly extraterrestrial? 781 00:46:49,176 --> 00:46:50,612 Power went out for eight minutes- 782 00:46:50,745 --> 00:46:52,012 This is Perry? 783 00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:54,683 Yeah. 784 00:46:55,849 --> 00:46:57,619 The power went out for 8 minutes 785 00:46:57,752 --> 00:46:59,286 and 19.48 seconds. 786 00:46:59,420 --> 00:47:01,288 What that means exactly, we don't know at this time. 787 00:47:01,422 --> 00:47:03,490 Charlie, they talked back. 788 00:47:04,191 --> 00:47:05,292 What do you mean? 789 00:47:05,426 --> 00:47:07,328 The power goes out, and exactly 8 minutes, 790 00:47:07,461 --> 00:47:10,130 19.48 seconds later, it comes back on. 791 00:47:10,964 --> 00:47:12,567 What do you think that means? 792 00:47:14,636 --> 00:47:15,469 Whoa. 793 00:47:15,603 --> 00:47:16,904 So what? 794 00:47:17,037 --> 00:47:18,640 That's the exact amount of time that it takes sunlight 795 00:47:18,773 --> 00:47:20,007 to get to Earth. 796 00:47:20,140 --> 00:47:22,142 They waited and they responded in a universal constant. 797 00:47:22,276 --> 00:47:23,477 We showed them we understand. 798 00:47:23,611 --> 00:47:24,813 Yep. The-the speed of light. 799 00:47:24,945 --> 00:47:26,313 They-they would know the sun is everything to us. 800 00:47:26,447 --> 00:47:28,550 No energy, no power, no biological life. 801 00:47:28,683 --> 00:47:29,684 But what did they say? 802 00:47:29,818 --> 00:47:30,884 No idea. 803 00:47:31,018 --> 00:47:32,219 Bare minimum, they said that we hear you 804 00:47:32,353 --> 00:47:33,755 and we know where you are. 805 00:47:33,887 --> 00:47:35,824 It's still too soon to predict 806 00:47:35,989 --> 00:47:38,158 how high the death toll may grow, 807 00:47:38,292 --> 00:47:39,860 but it most certainly will. 808 00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:42,496 Officials are rightly worried about the size. 809 00:47:42,630 --> 00:47:45,499 and scale of this unprecedented event. 810 00:47:46,166 --> 00:47:47,669 I'm gonna kill Littlemouth. 811 00:47:48,035 --> 00:47:49,103 Annika, that's like the opposite 812 00:47:49,236 --> 00:47:50,605 of building really cool shit. 813 00:47:50,739 --> 00:47:52,873 Well, then go ask Perry nicely not to turn it back on, Charlie. 814 00:47:53,006 --> 00:47:54,074 I think Perry has enough humanity 815 00:47:54,208 --> 00:47:55,543 - to see the-- - Kill it. 816 00:47:57,244 --> 00:47:59,079 You don't bank on Perry's humanity. 817 00:48:03,984 --> 00:48:07,689 Wait. What if we need Littlemouth again? 818 00:48:08,088 --> 00:48:09,691 No, look, look, hear me out, okay? 819 00:48:09,824 --> 00:48:11,793 Whatever they did out there, that was not a death ray. 820 00:48:12,359 --> 00:48:14,962 They just turned the lights off for eight minutes to tell us 821 00:48:15,095 --> 00:48:16,230 they heard us. 822 00:48:16,765 --> 00:48:18,198 It's just too dangerous, Charlie. 823 00:48:18,332 --> 00:48:19,734 I don't think it's dangerous, Annika. 824 00:48:19,868 --> 00:48:21,201 Yeah, but we are. 825 00:48:23,571 --> 00:48:25,205 We're not a species that does well 826 00:48:25,339 --> 00:48:26,641 with massive paradigm shifts. 827 00:48:26,775 --> 00:48:28,576 They don't need a death ray. They said, "Hi", and look, 828 00:48:28,710 --> 00:48:29,811 we're gonna do the rest. 829 00:48:29,943 --> 00:48:31,713 Yeah, but, but that's not their intentions. 830 00:48:31,846 --> 00:48:33,748 We don't know what their intentions are. 831 00:48:45,794 --> 00:48:48,128 Annika, you can't let fear decide, okay? 832 00:48:49,898 --> 00:48:51,331 It's safer than hope. 833 00:48:59,641 --> 00:49:00,941 I'm locked out. 834 00:49:02,777 --> 00:49:04,646 Is Perry using Littlemouth right now? 835 00:49:04,779 --> 00:49:06,079 No. 836 00:49:09,049 --> 00:49:10,518 He killed it himself. 837 00:49:12,587 --> 00:49:14,823 Let's meet at 1300 hours. 838 00:49:17,725 --> 00:49:19,694 Perhaps it's time to reassess. 839 00:49:27,401 --> 00:49:28,837 We opened a door. 840 00:49:30,839 --> 00:49:32,439 Littlemouth's signal. 841 00:49:35,342 --> 00:49:37,110 It told them we were here. 842 00:49:41,516 --> 00:49:44,117 Our place in the universe was about to change. 843 00:49:47,922 --> 00:49:49,624 Irreversibly. 844 00:49:52,627 --> 00:49:53,795 Forever. 845 00:49:53,928 --> 00:49:55,563 Oh! 846 00:50:20,020 --> 00:50:20,922 Come on. 847 00:50:49,249 --> 00:50:51,451 Oh my God, Lucy! 848 00:50:53,588 --> 00:50:54,856 Lucy! 849 00:50:59,426 --> 00:51:00,460 Lucy! 850 00:51:05,934 --> 00:51:07,234 Shh. 851 00:51:15,743 --> 00:51:17,144 It's all right. 852 00:51:24,018 --> 00:51:26,453 You're all right, you're all right. 853 00:51:45,773 --> 00:51:47,341 Should we be afraid? 854 00:51:53,447 --> 00:51:55,016 Describe an alien. 855 00:51:58,953 --> 00:52:01,022 I wouldn't know where to begin. 856 00:52:02,422 --> 00:52:04,859 Most people would describe something like they know 857 00:52:04,993 --> 00:52:06,527 here on Earth. 858 00:52:08,495 --> 00:52:11,298 Biped, number of eyes, some form of brain, 859 00:52:11,431 --> 00:52:14,102 or perhaps a variation of an insect or a squid, 860 00:52:14,234 --> 00:52:16,303 or a computerized, artificially intelligent, 861 00:52:16,436 --> 00:52:18,973 pompous fuckin' robot. 862 00:52:19,107 --> 00:52:24,746 But almost always some sapiocentric extrapolation 863 00:52:24,912 --> 00:52:26,446 of what we know here on Earth. 864 00:52:26,581 --> 00:52:28,049 But the question is not, 865 00:52:29,017 --> 00:52:30,985 "What does an alien look like?" 866 00:52:35,023 --> 00:52:38,358 It's "What does alien intelligence look like?" 867 00:52:59,781 --> 00:53:01,649 Hello, ma'am, we're with the NSA. 868 00:53:01,783 --> 00:53:02,784 Come in. 869 00:53:02,917 --> 00:53:04,152 Sam Houston here? 870 00:53:04,284 --> 00:53:05,820 Yes, sir. 871 00:53:05,953 --> 00:53:07,822 Haven't had my coffee yet. 872 00:53:07,955 --> 00:53:09,356 Oh. I grabbed one on the way in. 873 00:53:09,489 --> 00:53:10,858 Mm-hmm. 874 00:53:10,992 --> 00:53:13,393 How is it, Sam, that nearly every company on the planet 875 00:53:13,528 --> 00:53:15,495 went dark for 8 minutes, 19 seconds, 876 00:53:15,630 --> 00:53:18,265 yet your operations didn't skip a beat? 877 00:53:18,900 --> 00:53:21,234 - Does the sun still work? - Hmm. 878 00:53:21,368 --> 00:53:22,436 Then we still work. 879 00:53:22,570 --> 00:53:23,871 Mr. Houston, good morning. 880 00:53:24,005 --> 00:53:26,541 Now, what you're about to see is classified. 881 00:53:26,674 --> 00:53:27,875 All right. 882 00:53:29,510 --> 00:53:31,512 That was taken two hours ago 883 00:53:31,646 --> 00:53:33,246 off the coast of Cuba. 884 00:53:34,816 --> 00:53:36,884 And the NSA thinks this has something to do 885 00:53:37,018 --> 00:53:37,985 with the power outage? 886 00:53:38,119 --> 00:53:39,520 Well, we don't know what to think. 887 00:53:39,854 --> 00:53:41,455 Most satellites are still down. 888 00:53:41,589 --> 00:53:42,724 Everything we're getting 889 00:53:42,857 --> 00:53:44,525 comes from one of our deep space satellites. 890 00:53:48,096 --> 00:53:50,898 This anomaly seems to be radiating 891 00:53:51,032 --> 00:53:52,834 from one central point, 892 00:53:53,266 --> 00:53:56,537 right above a private island owned by you. 893 00:53:57,404 --> 00:53:59,040 And this anomaly, 894 00:54:00,240 --> 00:54:01,542 it's growing. 895 00:54:01,676 --> 00:54:02,910 Exponentially. 896 00:54:03,044 --> 00:54:05,880 This morning, the anomaly was the size of a pinprick. 897 00:54:06,013 --> 00:54:07,215 In two days, 898 00:54:07,347 --> 00:54:09,382 it'll be visible from mainland Cuba. 899 00:54:11,284 --> 00:54:12,486 In a week... 900 00:54:12,620 --> 00:54:14,789 This is gonna cause mass panic. 901 00:54:15,255 --> 00:54:17,058 What's on the island, Sam? 902 00:54:20,094 --> 00:54:21,763 Solar observatory. 903 00:54:29,302 --> 00:54:30,638 All right. 904 00:54:32,106 --> 00:54:33,674 Where exactly are you going? 905 00:54:35,143 --> 00:54:36,978 Well, you boys got me all riled up. 906 00:54:37,111 --> 00:54:38,411 I'm gonna go take a gander. 907 00:54:38,546 --> 00:54:42,250 You will go nowhere near whatever that is 908 00:54:42,382 --> 00:54:43,651 without military escort. 909 00:54:43,785 --> 00:54:45,787 Excuse me, am I being charged with something? 910 00:54:48,256 --> 00:54:50,323 Then get the fuck out of my way. 911 00:54:53,161 --> 00:54:54,862 You're pushing your luck, Sam. 912 00:54:54,996 --> 00:54:56,964 Yeah, well, it served me well so far. 913 00:54:58,599 --> 00:55:02,837 leaving in five minutes. 914 00:55:12,980 --> 00:55:14,048 Come on. 915 00:56:24,518 --> 00:56:26,554 What the hell, Charlie? 916 00:56:26,687 --> 00:56:27,855 Haven't you done enough already? 917 00:56:27,989 --> 00:56:29,456 Annika, I'm telling you, this thing's safe. 918 00:56:29,590 --> 00:56:30,992 No, it's an alien phenomenon, 919 00:56:31,125 --> 00:56:32,459 and you want to stick your hand in it? 920 00:56:32,593 --> 00:56:34,562 Look, whatever this thing is, it's- 921 00:56:34,695 --> 00:56:36,097 It's right here, okay? 922 00:56:36,230 --> 00:56:38,132 We're exposed to it already. There's nothing between us, 923 00:56:38,266 --> 00:56:39,867 and it's, it's just air. Look. 924 00:56:40,001 --> 00:56:41,369 Look at this. Read it. 925 00:56:43,070 --> 00:56:45,373 It's a column of air surrounded by a vacuum. 926 00:56:45,506 --> 00:56:48,209 You get past the first six inches and it's just air. 927 00:57:01,856 --> 00:57:03,324 What if it's not just air? 928 00:57:04,225 --> 00:57:05,393 Hmm? 929 00:57:05,526 --> 00:57:07,328 Speech is just air. 930 00:57:07,460 --> 00:57:08,930 It's just how it's organized. 931 00:57:09,063 --> 00:57:10,164 Yeah. 932 00:57:10,965 --> 00:57:12,099 Wha... 933 00:57:12,233 --> 00:57:13,567 What are you, what are you doing? 934 00:57:15,970 --> 00:57:17,805 What if it's just another data set? 935 00:57:19,573 --> 00:57:21,509 Yeah, but if it's just fuckin' air, 936 00:57:21,642 --> 00:57:23,911 then how do you collect that data? 937 00:57:24,879 --> 00:57:26,080 Watch me. 938 00:57:41,162 --> 00:57:42,495 Oh, great. 939 00:57:53,074 --> 00:57:54,375 This will work. 940 00:57:58,478 --> 00:57:59,947 Oh, shit, okay. 941 00:58:44,992 --> 00:58:47,928 You say they speak in thoughts and visions. 942 00:58:48,062 --> 00:58:49,063 Why not speak plainly? 943 00:58:49,196 --> 00:58:51,399 Why not tell us what's at stake? 944 00:58:53,300 --> 00:58:56,270 Is it possible that a post-biological intelligence 945 00:58:56,404 --> 00:58:58,539 could figure out a better way to communicate with us 946 00:58:58,672 --> 00:59:00,107 than English? 947 00:59:05,479 --> 00:59:06,947 You can go now. 948 00:59:08,682 --> 00:59:10,519 Hasn't she been through enough for one day? 949 00:59:10,651 --> 00:59:11,952 You can go now. 950 00:59:40,448 --> 00:59:41,782 "Chapter one: 951 00:59:42,450 --> 00:59:44,218 "Peter Breaks Through." 952 00:59:44,685 --> 00:59:47,455 "All children except one grow up. 953 00:59:48,022 --> 00:59:50,224 They soon know that they will grow up. 954 00:59:50,357 --> 00:59:52,893 And the way Wendy knew was this. 955 00:59:53,761 --> 00:59:55,796 One day when she was two years old, 956 00:59:55,930 --> 00:59:57,665 she was playing in a garden 957 00:59:58,132 --> 01:00:02,903 and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. 958 01:00:03,037 --> 01:00:06,040 I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, 959 01:00:06,707 --> 01:00:10,878 for Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, 960 01:00:11,378 --> 01:00:14,915 Oh, why can't you remain like this forever? 961 01:00:18,986 --> 01:00:21,989 Wendy knew that she must grow up. 962 01:00:22,490 --> 01:00:25,292 You always know after you are two. 963 01:00:25,960 --> 01:00:28,129 Two is the beginning of the end." 964 01:00:59,493 --> 01:01:00,895 Safeties on 965 01:01:01,028 --> 01:01:04,231 unless a clear hostile act or intent presents itself. 966 01:01:05,099 --> 01:01:08,369 We're going to breach, clear, and control. 967 01:01:09,638 --> 01:01:11,640 Now there's no clear sat recon, 968 01:01:12,641 --> 01:01:14,675 so we're going in blind here, folks. 969 01:01:15,843 --> 01:01:17,745 Activated emergency protocols, 970 01:01:17,878 --> 01:01:20,515 including curfews and emergency powers. 971 01:01:20,649 --> 01:01:23,417 Officials insist it's necessary to ensure the panic 972 01:01:23,552 --> 01:01:26,187 that has ensued doesn't spin out of control. 973 01:01:26,320 --> 01:01:28,088 In places where martial law 974 01:01:28,222 --> 01:01:29,658 has yet to be declared-- 975 01:01:29,790 --> 01:01:33,060 United States military is going to be here within hours, 976 01:01:33,194 --> 01:01:35,564 knocking down doors. 977 01:01:35,696 --> 01:01:37,331 So we need to have some answers. 978 01:01:37,464 --> 01:01:39,166 All right, look, I have an actual theory. 979 01:01:39,733 --> 01:01:41,035 Look, Sam. 980 01:01:41,802 --> 01:01:43,237 So this pillar, right? 981 01:01:43,370 --> 01:01:44,539 It's-it's-it's nothing. 982 01:01:44,673 --> 01:01:47,107 It's just air and-and light. 983 01:01:47,474 --> 01:01:49,376 Anything that passes through it, 984 01:01:49,511 --> 01:01:50,744 it's benign. 985 01:01:50,878 --> 01:01:53,781 Now what-what is the most commonly used Morse code signal? 986 01:02:00,020 --> 01:02:01,355 A distress call. 987 01:02:01,556 --> 01:02:04,058 Right. So, what if... 988 01:02:04,191 --> 01:02:06,561 what if the message that we sent using Littlemouth, 989 01:02:06,695 --> 01:02:08,963 the most commonly repeated sequence that we saw, 990 01:02:09,096 --> 01:02:10,364 was actually an SOS? 991 01:02:10,497 --> 01:02:13,100 Or it could mean absolutely nothing at all. 992 01:02:13,234 --> 01:02:16,370 All I'm saying is that maybe this is their way 993 01:02:16,503 --> 01:02:18,372 of trying to help us. 994 01:02:18,939 --> 01:02:21,408 What if these anomalies are like a cloak? 995 01:02:21,543 --> 01:02:23,477 I think they're trying to hide us from harm, 996 01:02:23,612 --> 01:02:25,813 or-or communicate, or protect us, or-- 997 01:02:25,946 --> 01:02:27,248 Protect us from what? 998 01:02:28,617 --> 01:02:29,618 Sam, I don't know. 999 01:02:32,119 --> 01:02:33,354 But did you know 1000 01:02:33,487 --> 01:02:35,322 what we might have needed protection from? 1001 01:02:36,290 --> 01:02:38,959 The universe is infinite. 1002 01:02:41,295 --> 01:02:43,632 And therefore full of infinite dangers. 1003 01:02:49,103 --> 01:02:50,572 There's only one pillar. 1004 01:02:50,705 --> 01:02:52,439 They're replying to the source. 1005 01:02:54,275 --> 01:02:55,943 It needs to breathe. 1006 01:02:56,977 --> 01:02:58,279 If we don't figure this out, 1007 01:02:58,412 --> 01:03:00,347 they'll lock us out and then fumble this thing 1008 01:03:00,481 --> 01:03:01,849 while the whole world burns. 1009 01:03:04,985 --> 01:03:07,454 It needs to breathe. It needs to breathe. 1010 01:03:07,589 --> 01:03:09,356 I can't breathe! I need air! 1011 01:03:11,125 --> 01:03:12,527 I need air! 1012 01:03:12,661 --> 01:03:15,262 It needs to breathe. It needs to breathe. 1013 01:03:18,098 --> 01:03:21,268 I cannot believe the brain power in this room 1014 01:03:21,402 --> 01:03:24,338 cannot come up with one workable idea. 1015 01:03:24,471 --> 01:03:25,973 They're going to lock us up. 1016 01:03:28,942 --> 01:03:30,679 Annika, where are you going? 1017 01:03:45,794 --> 01:03:48,462 Annika, you all right? 1018 01:03:58,372 --> 01:03:59,674 We can talk to them. 1019 01:04:01,942 --> 01:04:03,043 But how? 1020 01:04:03,177 --> 01:04:04,211 In there. 1021 01:04:05,145 --> 01:04:07,214 Eight minutes and 19.43 seconds. 1022 01:04:07,348 --> 01:04:09,584 It was a scan. They waited. 1023 01:04:09,718 --> 01:04:11,586 They scanned us. What did they see? 1024 01:04:11,720 --> 01:04:13,153 What did they learn about us? 1025 01:04:14,188 --> 01:04:16,490 They saw a planet covered in air. 1026 01:04:17,559 --> 01:04:19,393 What does that tell them about us? 1027 01:04:20,494 --> 01:04:21,862 Well, um, that would tell them 1028 01:04:21,995 --> 01:04:24,365 that whatever biological life lives down there 1029 01:04:24,498 --> 01:04:25,999 survives completely surrounded by air. 1030 01:04:26,133 --> 01:04:27,935 So what's the safest way to engage with us? 1031 01:04:30,037 --> 01:04:31,004 Air. 1032 01:04:32,640 --> 01:04:35,109 We don't talk in language, we talk in air. 1033 01:04:35,242 --> 01:04:37,746 Molecules bent into shapes that mean something. 1034 01:04:38,345 --> 01:04:40,180 So we go in, breathe in, 1035 01:04:40,314 --> 01:04:41,949 and have a conversation. 1036 01:04:42,883 --> 01:04:44,084 And this whole time 1037 01:04:44,218 --> 01:04:45,419 we've been so worried about trying to figure out 1038 01:04:45,553 --> 01:04:46,621 the best way to communicate with them, 1039 01:04:46,755 --> 01:04:47,856 we didn't think that maybe 1040 01:04:47,988 --> 01:04:49,557 this hyper-advanced intelligence 1041 01:04:49,691 --> 01:04:51,258 would find the best way to communicate with us. 1042 01:04:51,392 --> 01:04:52,326 We have to go in. 1043 01:04:52,459 --> 01:04:53,293 What, into that pillar? 1044 01:04:53,427 --> 01:04:54,696 - Yes. - Now, wait a minute. 1045 01:04:54,829 --> 01:04:57,565 Now that's a hell of a leap of faith, Annika. 1046 01:04:58,600 --> 01:05:00,869 This is not an invasion. 1047 01:05:02,771 --> 01:05:04,572 It's an invitation. 1048 01:05:08,777 --> 01:05:10,277 So who's going in? 1049 01:05:10,845 --> 01:05:13,046 I mean, you'll almost definitely suffocate. 1050 01:05:14,415 --> 01:05:17,251 Sam, you want to go cement your legacy? 1051 01:05:20,755 --> 01:05:23,223 Been there. Done that. No. 1052 01:05:31,465 --> 01:05:32,667 Yeah. Okay. 1053 01:05:32,801 --> 01:05:33,835 I'll do it. 1054 01:05:39,039 --> 01:05:40,007 Whoa. 1055 01:05:44,411 --> 01:05:45,446 Put your hands on your head. 1056 01:05:45,580 --> 01:05:47,247 Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. 1057 01:05:47,381 --> 01:05:49,116 Yeah. All right. 1058 01:05:57,725 --> 01:05:59,527 How human of us to see this 1059 01:06:00,829 --> 01:06:02,129 and be afraid. 1060 01:06:04,799 --> 01:06:07,936 How human of us not to see the hope in it. 1061 01:06:12,172 --> 01:06:13,608 How human. 1062 01:06:18,412 --> 01:06:19,614 How human. 1063 01:06:34,863 --> 01:06:37,130 We're past the edge of the earth. 1064 01:06:37,264 --> 01:06:39,032 There is no protocol, 1065 01:06:39,166 --> 01:06:41,870 no policy for whatever this is. 1066 01:06:43,103 --> 01:06:45,339 No laws cover what you've done. 1067 01:06:46,541 --> 01:06:48,510 No putting the genie back in this bottle. 1068 01:06:48,643 --> 01:06:50,143 We can fix it. 1069 01:06:53,380 --> 01:06:57,384 Iran's mobilized their entire southern fleet in Bandar Abbas. 1070 01:06:57,519 --> 01:07:00,020 Shots are already fired in Kashmir. 1071 01:07:00,287 --> 01:07:03,223 Half of America is convinced it's the Rapture. 1072 01:07:03,357 --> 01:07:06,393 And I don't even want to begin to tell you what Russia's up to, 1073 01:07:06,528 --> 01:07:08,061 but, hint, it's fucking bad. 1074 01:07:08,195 --> 01:07:09,329 You can fix all that, Sam? 1075 01:07:09,898 --> 01:07:12,332 Humanity couldn't handle a global blackout. 1076 01:07:12,466 --> 01:07:14,368 What's going to happen when they see this anomaly 1077 01:07:14,501 --> 01:07:15,904 hanging over New York? 1078 01:07:16,236 --> 01:07:17,739 There is something that we can do. 1079 01:07:17,872 --> 01:07:19,707 Yeah, I heard it. 1080 01:07:19,841 --> 01:07:21,041 Air. Sure. 1081 01:07:21,174 --> 01:07:23,243 - But it's not my call. - Thank Christ. 1082 01:07:23,377 --> 01:07:24,913 New orders just came in. 1083 01:07:25,379 --> 01:07:26,748 Look, you should let me just try it. 1084 01:07:29,149 --> 01:07:30,250 Let me go in. 1085 01:07:33,053 --> 01:07:35,890 You will be confined to your quarters under armed guard 1086 01:07:36,223 --> 01:07:39,293 until arrangements can be made for secondary detainment. 1087 01:07:39,426 --> 01:07:41,696 You will be compelled to fully disclose anything 1088 01:07:41,829 --> 01:07:44,131 and everything you know about the activities on this island 1089 01:07:44,264 --> 01:07:45,533 when asked. 1090 01:07:49,671 --> 01:07:51,071 They don't trust me. 1091 01:07:51,238 --> 01:07:53,140 They know that I'd try to go in. 1092 01:07:57,277 --> 01:07:59,747 Annika, you have to find a way. 1093 01:08:02,550 --> 01:08:03,651 How? 1094 01:08:05,853 --> 01:08:06,821 I don't know. 1095 01:08:09,222 --> 01:08:10,390 We don't even know 1096 01:08:10,525 --> 01:08:11,826 if going in there and talking to them 1097 01:08:11,960 --> 01:08:14,294 will stop the anomaly from growing. 1098 01:08:16,631 --> 01:08:18,066 We have no idea. 1099 01:08:18,432 --> 01:08:19,834 We have to try. 1100 01:08:20,635 --> 01:08:22,336 You have to try. 1101 01:08:23,972 --> 01:08:25,339 Charlie, I can't. 1102 01:08:26,306 --> 01:08:27,474 I-I wouldn't. 1103 01:08:27,609 --> 01:08:28,843 There are just... 1104 01:08:28,977 --> 01:08:31,012 There is too many unknown factors. 1105 01:08:34,882 --> 01:08:36,951 I'm sorry. I'm just scared. 1106 01:08:40,788 --> 01:08:43,758 Annika, you can't let fear decide. 1107 01:08:56,004 --> 01:08:57,505 You didn't become a scientist 1108 01:08:57,639 --> 01:08:59,641 because you're afraid of the unknown. 1109 01:09:03,077 --> 01:09:04,646 You did it to learn. 1110 01:09:07,949 --> 01:09:09,216 To help people. 1111 01:09:11,519 --> 01:09:13,320 Think about saving one life. 1112 01:09:17,491 --> 01:09:18,660 I'll go check it out. 1113 01:09:18,793 --> 01:09:20,160 No! 1114 01:09:20,962 --> 01:09:22,229 You can't risk it. 1115 01:09:23,131 --> 01:09:24,231 Stay. 1116 01:09:24,799 --> 01:09:27,501 Now, think about saving them all. 1117 01:09:35,510 --> 01:09:37,344 Charlie, I have an idea. 1118 01:09:42,182 --> 01:09:43,518 Of course. 1119 01:09:45,153 --> 01:09:46,420 They're not going to understand 1120 01:09:46,554 --> 01:09:49,991 a single word you say, so say a lot of them. 1121 01:09:50,858 --> 01:09:52,060 Wish me luck. 1122 01:09:52,225 --> 01:09:53,427 Good luck. 1123 01:09:53,561 --> 01:09:54,696 Yes. 1124 01:09:56,831 --> 01:09:57,999 Right away. 1125 01:10:05,540 --> 01:10:07,374 Dr. Kask. What's so urgent? 1126 01:10:07,508 --> 01:10:09,110 An oversight. 1127 01:10:09,242 --> 01:10:11,612 Perry is still running an FTL signal 1128 01:10:11,746 --> 01:10:13,881 from the tech tent by the pillar. 1129 01:10:14,549 --> 01:10:16,684 It's a repeating quant signature that we picked out 1130 01:10:16,818 --> 01:10:17,852 when we originally-- 1131 01:10:17,985 --> 01:10:19,954 Okay, dumb it down, please. 1132 01:10:20,387 --> 01:10:22,690 I believe that it's contributing to the growth. 1133 01:10:25,292 --> 01:10:27,028 Okay, uh... 1134 01:10:27,829 --> 01:10:29,063 tell me how to shut it off. 1135 01:10:29,197 --> 01:10:31,699 Do any of your troops know how to run Python? 1136 01:10:31,833 --> 01:10:33,868 Or any other quant-friendly computing languages? 1137 01:10:34,001 --> 01:10:35,870 Our scientists won't be here for another two days, 1138 01:10:36,003 --> 01:10:37,939 so can you just tell me how to unplug it? 1139 01:10:38,072 --> 01:10:40,208 It's not like pulling a plug. It's a complicated system. 1140 01:10:40,340 --> 01:10:41,876 We have servers running on clouds-- 1141 01:10:42,009 --> 01:10:43,111 Okay, enough! I get it. 1142 01:10:43,243 --> 01:10:44,545 I just need five minutes. 1143 01:10:45,245 --> 01:10:46,647 Five minutes. 1144 01:10:50,184 --> 01:10:51,418 Okay. 1145 01:10:53,054 --> 01:10:54,722 Try anything, someone gets shot. 1146 01:10:54,856 --> 01:10:57,058 It's not a threat. It's just where we're at. 1147 01:11:15,042 --> 01:11:16,978 Who else has seen the raw data, Sam? 1148 01:11:17,111 --> 01:11:18,311 Ellis. 1149 01:11:18,980 --> 01:11:20,648 Hauptmann at MIT. 1150 01:11:20,782 --> 01:11:21,783 We've got bogeys 1151 01:11:21,916 --> 01:11:22,984 approaching the wind pillar. 1152 01:11:24,484 --> 01:11:26,020 Six o'clock. Over. 1153 01:11:26,154 --> 01:11:28,022 Corporal, see what's going on out there. 1154 01:11:28,156 --> 01:11:29,957 Yes, sir. 1155 01:11:53,281 --> 01:11:55,149 Annika, get over here. 1156 01:11:56,117 --> 01:11:58,953 "And it isn't fair, I would say with my last breath. 1157 01:11:59,086 --> 01:12:01,421 It isn't fair', said Michael coldly. 1158 01:12:02,190 --> 01:12:04,692 Father is a cowardly custard. 1159 01:12:05,526 --> 01:12:07,795 So are you a cowardly custard?" 1160 01:12:08,663 --> 01:12:10,198 Dad, what's a custard? 1161 01:12:11,431 --> 01:12:12,533 Huh? 1162 01:12:13,433 --> 01:12:15,536 It's a pudding, a yellow pudding. 1163 01:12:15,670 --> 01:12:17,470 Wobbles and shakes. 1164 01:12:18,539 --> 01:12:19,807 Like when someone's afraid. 1165 01:12:19,941 --> 01:12:21,175 Go ahead. 1166 01:12:44,532 --> 01:12:45,733 Hey! 1167 01:12:45,867 --> 01:12:47,235 Hey. 1168 01:12:47,367 --> 01:12:48,368 Hey, come here! 1169 01:12:48,501 --> 01:12:50,037 Over here! 1170 01:12:50,805 --> 01:12:52,640 Hey, over here! 1171 01:12:52,974 --> 01:12:53,941 Hey! 1172 01:12:54,075 --> 01:12:55,408 Stop her! 1173 01:12:55,543 --> 01:12:56,844 No! 1174 01:14:24,565 --> 01:14:25,700 Where am I? 1175 01:14:35,242 --> 01:14:36,978 Are you inside my head? 1176 01:14:42,516 --> 01:14:44,618 Through the air inside you now. 1177 01:14:47,188 --> 01:14:48,456 Klara? 1178 01:14:49,824 --> 01:14:51,325 No. 1179 01:14:52,727 --> 01:14:54,295 How are you talking to me? 1180 01:14:55,663 --> 01:14:57,131 Through memory. 1181 01:14:58,265 --> 01:14:59,567 Or thought. 1182 01:15:00,500 --> 01:15:02,036 Light. 1183 01:15:02,169 --> 01:15:03,337 Speech. 1184 01:15:04,038 --> 01:15:05,873 On a molecular level. 1185 01:15:07,308 --> 01:15:08,909 In any way you prefer. 1186 01:15:12,113 --> 01:15:13,414 Shall we stop? 1187 01:15:15,716 --> 01:15:16,851 No. 1188 01:15:26,894 --> 01:15:28,162 Who are you? 1189 01:15:31,198 --> 01:15:33,367 No longer biological. 1190 01:15:34,869 --> 01:15:36,437 No longer machine. 1191 01:15:42,643 --> 01:15:44,412 Like physics itself. 1192 01:15:47,748 --> 01:15:49,350 We don't create. 1193 01:15:50,017 --> 01:15:51,452 Or destroy. 1194 01:15:54,855 --> 01:15:56,290 We learn. 1195 01:16:08,936 --> 01:16:10,539 You reorganize. 1196 01:16:16,377 --> 01:16:18,079 Everything is transformed. 1197 01:16:25,453 --> 01:16:26,987 Why are you here? 1198 01:16:36,397 --> 01:16:37,932 You called us. 1199 01:16:43,904 --> 01:16:45,606 You asked for help. 1200 01:16:47,308 --> 01:16:48,776 Charlie was right. 1201 01:16:49,477 --> 01:16:51,078 You were hiding us from... 1202 01:16:52,413 --> 01:16:53,515 What? 1203 01:16:54,381 --> 01:16:56,083 From the universe. 1204 01:17:00,488 --> 01:17:02,423 You're far from alone. 1205 01:17:11,132 --> 01:17:12,700 Are we in danger? 1206 01:17:15,302 --> 01:17:16,837 Yes. 1207 01:17:20,407 --> 01:17:22,109 You revealed yourselves. 1208 01:17:22,243 --> 01:17:26,313 And those that reveal themselves cease to exist. 1209 01:17:28,349 --> 01:17:29,783 Others will come. 1210 01:17:31,418 --> 01:17:32,820 Many are watching 1211 01:17:34,455 --> 01:17:35,890 in silence. 1212 01:17:37,658 --> 01:17:38,859 Hidden. 1213 01:17:40,461 --> 01:17:41,695 For now. 1214 01:17:43,831 --> 01:17:46,667 Some civilizations hide in fear. 1215 01:17:47,536 --> 01:17:49,703 Others hunt out of fear. 1216 01:17:51,972 --> 01:17:53,674 Who are you then? 1217 01:17:54,675 --> 01:17:55,910 Predator? 1218 01:17:56,977 --> 01:17:58,112 Prey? 1219 01:17:58,812 --> 01:18:00,414 We do not hide. 1220 01:18:03,552 --> 01:18:04,852 Or hunt. 1221 01:18:10,791 --> 01:18:12,193 Not anymore. 1222 01:18:13,928 --> 01:18:15,229 We protect. 1223 01:18:19,233 --> 01:18:20,669 We learn. 1224 01:18:22,469 --> 01:18:23,704 We have evolved. 1225 01:18:26,641 --> 01:18:28,175 Evolved. 1226 01:18:28,309 --> 01:18:30,411 Into the universe itself. 1227 01:18:32,213 --> 01:18:34,782 One day, you may as well. 1228 01:18:37,418 --> 01:18:39,554 But that is your choice to make. 1229 01:18:46,894 --> 01:18:47,962 Get back, get back! 1230 01:18:48,095 --> 01:18:49,463 Do not cross the perimeter! 1231 01:19:00,107 --> 01:19:01,742 You can hide. 1232 01:19:05,246 --> 01:19:07,114 I don't know if we're ready. 1233 01:19:10,084 --> 01:19:11,952 If I'm ready. 1234 01:19:17,091 --> 01:19:19,126 What's past the last planet? 1235 01:19:20,261 --> 01:19:21,663 Infinity. 1236 01:19:22,763 --> 01:19:24,666 We'll never be the same again. 1237 01:19:28,302 --> 01:19:30,404 You have to let go of what was. 1238 01:19:33,440 --> 01:19:36,777 To be ready for what is to come. 1239 01:21:52,012 --> 01:21:53,648 Dr. Kask. 1240 01:21:56,785 --> 01:21:58,318 What comes next? 1241 01:21:59,754 --> 01:22:01,155 Did they tell you? 1242 01:22:05,092 --> 01:22:07,961 They don't have a face we can confront. 1243 01:22:09,096 --> 01:22:11,566 They don't have a world we can destroy. 1244 01:22:13,568 --> 01:22:16,069 They expand their intelligence. 1245 01:22:18,305 --> 01:22:19,674 But not us. 1246 01:22:23,812 --> 01:22:25,613 We're a flawed species. 1247 01:22:27,816 --> 01:22:29,316 Superstitious. 1248 01:22:33,588 --> 01:22:34,856 Self-destructive. 1249 01:22:39,828 --> 01:22:42,196 Safe from the universe. 1250 01:22:49,102 --> 01:22:50,839 But not ourselves. 1251 01:22:53,240 --> 01:22:56,443 Doctor, will they come back? 1252 01:22:59,848 --> 01:23:02,349 What makes you think they left?