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-(operatic singinq) -(chattering)

MAN : Check!

Check.

(sighs)

Ccod mcrn¡nq, baby.

ft's not controvers¡al . ft's standard .

Well . . . sem¡-standard .

-But okay. -(scoffs)

Standard that ell¡pf¡cal curve ¡s ¡nherently better than RSA.

You realize you're 5ayinq thi5 as someone

whc dcesn't work ¡n encrypticn to someone who doe5.

So you're saying they're equal?

Both are weak to attack from quantum compufers,

5c hy sharing the same weak poinf,

arc equally weak.

RSA is 5till more brufe-forc¡ble.

Dude. Flease.

Hey, man .

(groan5)

Thank5.

Hey, Lily.

How you doing, Fete?

Oh, you know, f'm good .

You guys have a great day. You know?

Be all you can be.

-Hey. -We're qonna nail ¡f foday.

You bef.

So, fhis i5 ¡t.

-Let me know, okay? -Of cour5e.

Ccod luck.

(scft chuckle)

Hey.

(door opens)

Bye.

Just tell me it's stiIl aIive.

Yeah, it's still alive.

Looks happy.

Cuys. Sorry, we're late.

f wa5 putting cut f¡res.

You see that thinq th¡s morning?

-Uh, no. -Seems the world

¡s pissed hecause our qubifs work and the¡rs don'f.

Sc cne of our ccmpef¡tor5 planfed a New York Timcs story

5uggcsf¡nq we get qovernmcnt oversiqht,

which was nice.

Anyway, we're here.

We have 1 5 minutes.

And you have some ccol sfuff to show us.

We hope.

Well, we all hope.

Hit us.

Okay. Jen?

So. . .

th¡s is iterat¡on S9

of the nemafode s¡mulat¡on .

302 neurons mapped .

Nurfure data tracked

from moment of first ccll division .

Beauf¡ful .

Okay. Synchronize.

Synchron¡zing .

fn three '

two

one,

qo.

Overlay, please.

Here comes overlay.

Whoa .

Thaf's impressive.

Thank you .

And at this moment there's no sensor-ba5cd connect¡on

between fhe nematode and the s¡mulaf¡on?

Ncfhing af all frcm th¡s pcint of 5ynchron¡zaf¡on .

Thi5 ¡s movemenf in¡f¡ated by the mapped neurons

and the nurture data . Thaf's all .

fn which case you can demonstrate thaf

with a future proJection?

Absolutely.

Ten 5econds?

Yes. Jen?

-Fred¡cted movemenf loop, -(pinq)

ten seccnds into the future.

So thDf's five

four r

three

two

one.

(lauqhs)

Sc, right in frcnt of my eyes,

you just predicted the exact behavior

of a living organism .

Ten 5econds ¡ntc fhe fufure.

The 5implest organism we could find .

But. . . yes.

We did .

f love if.

Okay, and . . .

So, abouf 30 seconds

from fhe momcnt we synchronize,

we start to lose correlaf¡on .

30 seconds.

Thereabouts.

(clears throat*

Why do you th¡nk that ¡s?

Sheer complexi.

The numbers we're crunching qo ¡nsanc.

As in . . . truly insane.

Or?

ft's a quantum-pe problem .

Somewhere ¡n the mult¡verse '

there is a world where the two 5tay in sync.

But ¡f's not th¡s one.

Ncf a fan of the mult¡verse theory.

f'd qo w¡th the former.

Cuys, can you q¡ve u5 a moment?

(door opens)

(door close5*

Sergei, you've done fantastic work.

Excepf¡onal work.

But f th¡nk your time ¡n the Af division

has run ¡ts course.

f want you fo Join Devs.

Devs?

Yeah .

Thank you .

And you l¡terally 5tarf tomorrow-- just 5traighf in?

Apparently.

f mean, there's a secur¡ proce5s.

But as long as f pass, by the end of the day,

f'll he ¡n there.

Doing ¡t.

You're not qonna he ahle to tell me anything

abcut what fhat is.

Well, I mighf be able to.

No. f'm say¡nq

let's keep ¡f s¡mple.

You tell me noth¡nq, and f never ask.

Otherwise if could be a th¡nq befween us, you know?

f don't wanf it to he a thinq hetween us.

f'm not go¡ng fo be able to sleep.

So lef's not 5leep.

MAN : Born : Moscow.

Moved to the U .S., age 22.

MfT.

Then a failed start-up.

Then anofher.

And fhen here.

For three years.

Yes.

You're daf¡ng someone af the company.

Yes, fhaf's right. Lily Chan .

She works in encryption .

-And i5 Chinese. -Well, shc's. . .

fs ¡f a ser¡ous relaf¡onship?

Yes. Very serious.

Are ycu faithful tc each cfher?

No trouble on the hor¡zon?

As far a5 f know.

As far a5 you know.

Flann¡ng to qet married?

We talked about ¡t.

Yes, we will .

Flann¡ng to have kids?

No time soon .

You won't he ahle to d¡scuss your work w¡fh her af all .

Think you'll he ahle to handle that?

Absolutely. We discussed it already.

We're bofh tofally comfortable wifh that,

5o there is no ¡ssue there.

There'5 no issue there.

You Russ¡an . Her Chinese. Me nervous.

Why?

Why i5 the head of Amaya securi nervous

about the Russians and the Chinese?

Lily ¡s American .

Second . . . No, fhird generation .

You aren't.

Are you religiou5?

Excu5e me?

Are you religiou5?

No.

Nof at all .

Step hack, s¡r.

Cef h¡s shoe size?

-(chuckles scffly) -f'm a 13 .

(lauqhs) Okay, guys. f th¡nk we're good .

(ping)

One.

(chuckles) One.

Oh, my Cod, you guys.

-Two. -Three.

-F¡ve. -Eight.

- 13 . -2 1 .

-34. -55 .

-S9 - 1-4-4.

-2-3-3 . -3-7-7.

-5- 1-0. -9-8-7.

- 1-5-9-7. -2-5-S-4.

-Four. . . -Hes¡taf¡on .

- 1-8- 1 . -5-7-5-5 .

One. . . One. . .

->ero. -Fuck.

-Co on, h¡t me. - 1-0-9-4-5.

-You qot them memorized . -(laughs) : Nope.

-You're a fuck¡ng mach¡ne, Lily. -(laughs)

CODER: What ¡s if?

LfLY: Sergei .

He'5 qo¡ng ¡n .

CODER: Whoa .

LfLY: Yeah .

FOREST: So tell me ahout Devs.

(Sergei chuckles)

f can'f tell you anyfhing .

No one knows what the Dcvs team does

excepf fhc Dev5 team .

f wouldn't even say the Devs team

knows whaf the Devs feam does.

Ncf all of fhem, anyway.

But f'm asking you fo guess.

f'm ju5t curious.

Okay.

Well, it'5 Devs--

¡t's development, obviously.

But f got a feel¡nq

¡t's nof a progre5sion of our quantum system

because, in a way,

the system works as well as it can .

So f assume ¡t's an application of the system .

But f doubf it's doubling up

with any of the cther Amaya d¡v¡s¡ons.

So. . .

. . . nof AI .

Nof encryption .

Nof search enq¡ne.

-Mayhe naf¡onal securi. -(scoffs)

f dcn't give twc fucks about nat¡onal securi.

SERCEf : Biofech?

FOREST: A misuse of resource5.

SERCEf : Cold fu5ion .

FOREST: Alchemy.

A lead Faraday shield .

A 13-yard-th¡ck concrete shell .

Then a gold me5h .

Then . . .

an e¡ght-yard vacuum seal,

tofally unbroken .

Then the lah5.

And, ¡n the core, the machine.

The labs are inside

an unbrokcn vacuum seal?

How do we gef across?

You'll see.

ft's pre neaf.

Last chance fo guess, Serge¡ .

-Quantum cell phones. -(laughs)

SERCEf : Thi5 enf¡re structure

¡s supported by electromagnetic fields?

FOREST: Yeah .

Thaf's fhe machine?

ft's fhe central un¡t.

SERCEf : There'5 more?

FOREST: Above u5. Below us.

How many qubits is it runn¡ng?

(chuckles)

A numher

that 5eems poinfle5s to express as a number.

ft's fhe mosf beautiful fhing f've ever seen .

As in fhe rest of the corporation,

we arc nct intcrcsfed ¡n oh5erving weekends.

There are nc sh¡fts.

Ycu can work n¡ght5 ¡f ycu l¡ke, many do.

One rule to observe:

we take noth¡ng into Devs

and noth¡nq cut.

So, no bag5, no lapfops,

no mcmory sticks.

As¡de frcm that, evc*h¡nq here ¡s open .

All code can be accessed .

There are no passwords. There are no closed doors.

There are also no cleaners '

5o please tidy up after yourself.

Thi5 ¡s your staf¡on .

ff ycu don't like the posif¡on, you can move to anofher.

Um . . .

but what am f actually doing herc?

f'm not gonna tell you .

f won't need to.

Just s¡t.

Read code.

Take your time.

And don't worry, you'rc qonna figure ¡t ouf.

f know you are.

(chuckles)

(retches, coughs)

(panting)

(groan5)

(tc¡let flushe5)

Here.

Katie. We met earlier, but weren't infroduced .

Sergei .

As Foresf told you,

there's no hurry.

Ycu can Iose yourself.

You can fake your time.

Um, Katie,

f-f need to know.

Thi5 code--

¡s ¡f for real or ¡s it just theoretical?

ft's not theoretical .

You mean you've acfually run the code?

There are results?

Yes.

But. . .

th¡s chanqe5 eve*hing .

ff if's true

¡t-if literally chanqes evcry s¡ngle thing .

No.

ff if's true ¡t changes absolutely nothinq .

fn a way, thaf's the po¡nt.

(crickefs chirp¡ng)

The un¡verse ¡s determin¡stic.

S-Sorry?

The un¡verse ¡s determin¡stic.

ft's godless and neutral

and defined only hy phys¡cal laws.

The marble rolls because it was pushed .

The man eats because he's hungry.

An effect is always the result

of a pr¡or cause.

The l¡fe we lead, with all its apparent chaos,

¡s acfuaIIy a life on tramlines.

Frescr¡bed .

Undeviating .

Determ¡nisf¡c.

f know ¡t doesn't fcel that way, Serge¡ .

We fall ¡nto an illusicn of free w¡ll

because the framl¡nes arc invisiblc,

and we feeI sc cerfain

abcut our 5ubjective state.

Our feelings, cur op¡nions,

Judgmcnt5,

decision5.

You Joined my company.

You ga¡ned our trusf. Ca¡ned my trust.

Then sfole my code

on your James Bond wrisfwatch .

f-f don't know what you mean .

Thaf would appear fo be the result of some decisions,

wouldn't if?

About where you placed your allegiance,

abcut whc ycu would befray.

But ¡f we live ¡n a determinisf¡c universe,

then those decisions can only have been

the result of something pricr.

Where you were born,

how you were brought up.

The physical construcf¡on of your particular bra¡n .

ft's fhe nature-nurture matrix.

Exactly l¡ke fhe nematode worm ¡n your simulation .

ft's more complex, more nuanced, but 5till . . .

. . .at the end of fhe day,

cause and effect.

f hope you understand what f'm 5ay¡nq, Scrqe¡ .

Thi5 ¡s forgiveness.

Thi5 ¡s ahsolut¡on .

You made no decision to hetray me.

You could only have done what you d¡d .

(grunfs)

(screaming*

No! No!

(muffled scream¡ng*

(grunf¡ng)

(line ringing)

SERCEf (on recordinq) : Hello, you have reached Sergei pavlov.

f am currently unava¡lahle, 5o. , ,

What the fuck?

(phone r¡ng¡ng)

Lils. What'5 up?

He'5 still nof back, Jen .

f'm really worr¡ed .

f fhink somefhing's happened .

Something like what?

f don't know.

S-Somefhing .

Relax. ft's only 12 : 30.

How many f¡mes have you put ¡n an all-n¡ghtcr?

f gues5.

He'll st¡ll be in Dev5.

No way fhere'll be a phone siqnal there, r¡ght?

Knowing Sergei, he's losf frack of time

from all the ccol toys he's got to play with .

Cef some sleep. And fry not to wake up

when he roll5 ¡n at 4 : 00 a . m .

Okay. Thank5, Jen .

Nighf, L¡ls.

(gasps scftly)

No.

No, no.

Thaf wa5 the last t¡me f saw him .

f wa5 at my office windcw.

And he was headed fowards Dev5 from fhe hub.

And after that, nothinq .

And, ohv¡ously, you expectcd to hear from him .

Definitely.

No trouble at home?

No way he could have gone 5omewhere else lasf n¡ght?

You l¡ve toqether, riqht?

No trouble. f promi5e you,

Sergei disappearing makes no sense at all .

Ma'am, f believe you .

And fhe qood news is that with our system5 herc,

his movements arc qonna be easy to track.

Lef me just punch his ID in here

and we'll get fo the hottom of th¡s in no time.

Okay. Here we are.

Lef's see. . .

Lcoks like he left Devs

quarter cf ten last night.

And went where?

Well, th¡s is h¡m, riqht?

Thaf's h¡m .

Okay. Lef's see where this goes.

Cameras have him cross¡nq the parking lot

af 10 : 15 .

He'5 nof faking the shuttle bus.

And look-- we have him here again,

10 : 28.

He'5 walking tc the freeway.

Looks like it.

Why would he do that?

f don't know.

But at th¡s point, he's off campus.

We can't track him anymore.

Kenton . . . Oh . . .

Sorry to bust in, uh,

but f Jusf need fo taIk about

that Vfp vi5it that's coming up.

One moment, sir. We seem to have a situation here. Uh,

One cf cur emplcyees has apparenfly gone miss¡nq,

5omef¡me last night.

Missinq?

-Who? -ft's the ncw k¡d, uh,

Just started at Devs. The one f screened .

Sergei? From Af?

Yes. You saw him yesterday?

Sure. f fook him to Dev5 personally.

But whaf are you talkinq about-- m¡ssing?

Our C* has h¡m leaving campus on foot,

2300 hours. Then noth¡nq .

FOREST: You're h¡s parfner?

-LfLY: Yes. -And no calls, no messages?

He never came home?

LfLY: And fhat never happens.

Okay. Um . . .

Now, f don'f want you fo worry.

f'm sure everything'5 qonna be f¡nc,

with a simplc explanaf¡on .

But Just fo be cn the safe side,

we're gcnna gc by the hock.

Call the police. Report h¡m m¡ssing . Right now.

Yes, s¡r.

(dialing)

(ling r¡nq¡ng)

He'5 qonna turn up, L¡ls.

ft's gonna be all riqht.

f don't fhink it i5.

But how can you know that?

f jusf feel it.

ff ycu'd seen the f¡lm--

the fiIm of him walking--

there was someth¡ng strange about ¡t.

ft was, like. . .

¡t was, like, purposeful .

Heading somewhere.

Like a zombie.

You've spoken to the cops.

Yes. They took a sfatement.

Yeah . f'm ju5t about to q¡ve mine.

And whaf you are go¡ng to do now ¡s take the rest of the day off.

We have a car that'll take you home.

Lily. . .

you havc my personal guaranfee that I am all over thi5.

Sergei?

(keys clatter)

(chime5)

(chime5)

(chime5)

(phone vibrates)

Hi .

f know.

ft's really hard .

ft really shouldn't be.

No, if shouldn't.

But ¡f is.

What are we supposed to do?

Unravel a l¡fetime

of moral expcrience?

Unlearn what has always 5cemed true?

These th¡ng5. . .

they run deep.

Yeah . They do.

ft's like whatever we know, the fhings we feel

arc 5till locked ¡nside us.

Human be¡ng5 are hard-w¡red mag¡cal th¡nkers.

You could have the mosf rational person in fhc world,

but ¡f fheir k¡d qets hurt, they'll start prayinq .

Sorry.

Thaf wa5 clumsy.

ft's f¡ne, Katie.

You're riqht.

Nof Jusf smarter fhan me.

Wi5er, too.

Sudoku?

You hafe sudoku .

Fassword protected?

What the fuck?

Whoa .

Jamie.

Oh, no.

Can we talk?

(indisf¡nct chaffer)

Thank5, man .

-Thanks. -Sure.

f know there's a lof we need to talk abouf. . .

Yeah, there ¡s. (chuckles)

Because here's what happened .

f wa5 completely ¡n love with you .

And f thought you were in love with me.

And you-you land an amazing new job at Amaya, and f. . .

f couldn'f he happier,

'cause you're really moving forwards ¡n l¡fe.

And fhen fhe job start5, and . . .

f don't know.

Almost at once, 5omefhing changes.

And f realize you're nof Jusf moving forward wifh the job,

you'rc moving forward5 from me.

So eventually f ask ¡f you want to 5pl¡t up.

And f'm hoping more fhan anything

you'rc qonna say no, but. . .

you say yes.

And fhat same affernocn

f leave our apartment with two bags.

And f never hear from ycu again .

f'm sorry.

f hear about you, fhough .

f hear about you the whole time.

f hear you sfarted seeing

5cme AI coder callcd Scrqei .

And f hear fhat he's moved ¡nto

the apartmenf we used fo share,

but f don't hcar from you .

For two years.

f'm sorry.

fs fhat why you're here--

to tell me that?

No.

Then what?

f need your help.

My help?

Yes.

With what?

Sergei wenf missing last niqht.

And f know someth¡nq bad has happened to h¡m .

And fhere's 5omefhing weird on h¡s phone,

and it's password protccfed,

and says ¡f'll refcrmaf ¡f f get the password wronq .

Jamie. . .

¡f fhere was anyone else f could a5k,

f would .

But nobody'5 better af th¡s stuff than you .

So you wanf my help to track down your boyfr¡end

by cracking his phone?

Yeah .

Unreal . Literally unreal .

Lily, 5incerely,

from fhe very bcttom of my heart,

fuck off.

(whoosh)

(alarms wail¡ng*

(doorbell buzz¡ng*

Jen, what is it-- d¡d they find h¡m?

Lils, get dressed . f gof a call to p¡ck you up.

They need you fo come in r¡ght now.

ft's def¡nitely him?

Definitely h¡m .

No. No.

Lily. . .

(crying)

(crying)

Captioned by Media Acces5 Croup af WCBH

Full¡ng ha¡r i5 wrong, mate.

f mean, all violence is wrong, but af lea5t punching's a sport.

-fs it? -Yes, boxing .

Box¡ng's ¡n the Olymp¡c5. Hair pull¡ng ¡sn't.

-ft wculd he funny ¡f if was. -ft really would he.

-f'm a once-¡n-a-gcneration artist. -Oh .

Whc jusf got verified on Twitter, about, what, nine days ago?

f'm qlad you feeI qocd that a rohot told you you'rc worth it.

* H¡, f'm Dave *

-Mom . -Yes?

-Okay. f want a b¡g pa* this year. -Ser¡ous?

-f want a quinceañera . -Qu¡nceañera?

We can't do fhaf. We're foo whife for thaf. We're not allowed .

Do me a favcr? Never look me ¡n the eye aqain .

Okay? 'Cause your sfare ¡s way too intense.

ft's starting to make my hair fall ouf.

MAN : I had no idea what f would find

when f went searching for my father.

They flashed fhe >cdiac Killer, and my hearf sfopped .

WOMAN : He helieves he is the son of the >od¡ac.