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What's your plan?

Keep looking for Charlie.

Of course. Yeah.

Yeah.

Can I ask…

How is he doing?

He's okay.

Well, I mean, I thought he was okay, but here we are, so…

Yeah.

Do you remember when Max got the scissors and…

Remember, he cut Charlie's hair?

And then cried 'cause they didn't have the same haircut anymore

even though he had done it, yeah.

Yeah, I do.

And then you… smart, you shaved both of their heads

- so they'd be twins again. - Oh, my God.

And then Charlie was so mad at me because he loved the haircut that Max...

What are you doing?

It's okay.

I think you'll find him here.

You don't wanna come?

More than anything, but I can't confuse Charlie.

I can't confuse myself.

But that's okay. It's okay.

It…

Isn't fair.

It's not fair to any of us, but we keep going.

Keep going.

And…

Thank you.

Just thank you for a really great life.

You too.

Sorry to keep you two waiting.

Amanda.

Hi.

Ryan, this is Anthony.

We worked together at Velocity.

- Hey, brother. - Ryan.

And this is Oluko.

Hi.

Amanda Lucas.

And Ryan Holder.

I'm sorry.

But I feel like I know you two.

You're working with Leighton, right?

Yes. He's not here right now.

But I was told it was very urgent, so to what do I owe the honor?

So their eyes turn black just before they die?

Yes.

It sounds like the same disease we found in our grandfather's world.

They called it the Black Iris Plague.

Everything they'll need will be in the files for World HJ-274. Go.

Hey, does this mean that you're gonna help us?

Yes.

We can help you.

- Thank you. - Shit.

No.

It's the box that makes this possible.

I'm just its agent.

Yeah.

- Hey. - Hey.

- Did you get it? - Yeah.

- Was Leighton there? - No. We have to hurry.

They gave us the cure and the vaccine, but no sign of Leighton.

You think he already went in the box to get the parts?

They didn't say where he was.

So who gave you the cure?

Anthony and Olu.

He gives me major creep vibes.

Right?

Agreed. What is the plan?

Okay, so Blair and I are gonna travel back to her world…

- Yeah. - …and kill the box.

How?

Right, we built this hacking multi-tool.

Well…

Mostly, yes, Blair, and she's gonna hot-wire it into the Velocity mainframe.

And then we'll just upload some nasty code

that implements Jason's new disentanglement scenario.

So basically it'll attack not just the local qubits

but all programming for the adaptive shielding, slowly corrupting

- the error-correcting protocols. - That is awesome.

Which hopefully will decohere everything beyond recognition

- and cut off all boxes everywhere. - Yeah.

How long do you need?

Once we get there, 30 minutes.

And then we'll set it on a ten-minute time delay to activate.

And how long do you need to get the cure back?

20 minutes, 40 tops.

We should wait until they get back.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on. If… if Leighton gets the Pyramid running,

then shutting this box down

- means nothing. - Yes.

We cannot let him get back here before us.

Listen, we are going to a place we both have memories of.

We should be able to get there and back quickly.

Let's be clear, if you're not back by the time we are,

you're trapped.

It's worth the risk for me.

I'm ready.

We should pick a place to meet.

- Village Tap. - Okay.

I will be icing the Diet Cokes as I warm up your disgusting scotch.

- Gonna give you a little head start. - Okay.

All right, set watches.

Let's say in one hour, the box is dead.

Hello.

- Olu? - Sandra, hi.

I've been following them. They're at the box.

I think they're up to something.

- Is Leighton back? - No.

He's been gone too long.

You think they have something to do with it?

I don't know.

Don't let them get in that box.

Wow…

Yeah.

Max found Charlie at the record store. They're walking back.

So what'll you do now?

See how Charlie is, and… you know, what he wants.

What do you want?

I wanna be in my marriage…

If Jason wants it too.

I know we can find each other again.

As we always do.

Jason's the only one I've ever talked to about…

Our childhood.

Yeah, I…

I never talk about it with mine.

Why not?

Don't want it to be part of our story.

How does that work?

You have to forgive yourself.

I'm not saying that I have any idea how any of this has been for you…

But I know how you love.

Someone came into your home.

He threatened you and your family.

You protected them.

And you protected yourself.

You fought back.

And this isn't Jason saying this to you.

It isn't Papa.

It isn't a therapist.

This is you talking.

Forgive yourself.

For everything.

Go live your life with your beautiful family.

Hi.

- Hi. - Hi.

Hi.

Hey.

You okay?

Yeah, I'm fine.

Looks like you found some good stuff.

Yeah, it's just… some stuff I missed.

Yeah.

So…

Now what?

Now we go home.

I'll get my stuff.

I'll help.

Hi.

Well, this has been kinda weird?

Yeah, it's been… been pretty weird.

Thanks for taking care of him.

Yeah.

It's really nice to meet you.

Yeah. It's nice to meet you too.

Are you sure you're up for this?

Yeah.

I just kinda hoped to never do this again.

Yeah.

Hey, Blair.

Hi.

Who is it?

She works with Leighton, the weird one.

Oh, shit.

Is that the OG Velocity injector kit?

- Yeah. - Wow.

I'm rocking one of Ryan's new patches.

Been doing some trials with him.

Where are y'all off to?

I'm just, you know, sick of this world,

so we're gonna try to find someplace new.

Why don't we put a pause on that?

Oluko would like to speak with you.

What about?

Olu will be here as soon as...

Run! Run!

Go.

Here it comes. Go, go! Come on.

Go, go, go.

Go back.

We gotta go back. We gotta go back. We gotta go.

- Maybe… Maybe we can go around. - Good idea. Is she still there? Is she?

Yep! Get down.

Go, go. Go, go, go. Down there. Go!

Hold it right there. Get down on the ground.

- Okay! - Down now! Now!

- Wait, wait! - Okay, okay, okay.

Run!

Stop right there!

Move, move.

Cover fire! Cover fire!

We gotta go.

All right. We're gonna go!

- Hold it right there! - Don't shoot!

Now where do we go?

Oh, God.

Copy that, strike team inbound.

- Jesus. - Hold position.

Don't let 'em get away!

- Dear God. - Come on.

Oh, shit. Wait, wait.

Oh, fuck!

What is that?

We're getting ready…

- We gotta… We gotta get back to the box. - Okay.

- On three. One, two… - Okay.

- Oh, my God. - Surrender your weapon now.

Jesus!

Oh, shit.

Stop, no.

Blair. Go! Go!

Come on!

We can kill each other later.

No! No! No!

No!

No!

No!

So this is it.

This brings the Pyramid online.

Yeah.

I made a couple of stops on my way back.

What's wrong?

We fucked up.

See, there was this world where Mount Rainier had blown.

Massive crop death and starvation.

So we brought them shade-tolerant cereals.

- That's smart. - Not smart enough.

See, our plants mutated.

Became invasive and choked out all the other plants.

Just as the acid rain caused by the volcano...

Triggered blight?

Triggered blight.

So, first my plant kills all other sources of food

and then they die too.

It's great. It's fucking awesome.

You see, at first, it was only the developing countries

that were affected, right?

Nigeria, Chad, Nicaragua, Sudan.

Of course, the rest of the world let them get fucked.

But it was only a matter of time until everyone else

turned on each other, right?

And then within a year, Chicago. Chicago!

Ghost town.

- Listen... - You think that's where it stops?

No, no, no, no, no.

See, there was this other world where we had introduced a vaccine

and a treatment for a plague that made your fucking eyeballs bleed.

And only the rich got access to it.

And you wanna know what the big reveal is?

The plot twist, here it is, J.

I did it.

Me!

Another fucking version of me that wasn't even that fucking different, J.

And he, me, we actually chose to let millions of people die for money.

And all this time, me, walking around in awe of my own fucking greatness.

It wasn't you.

It was me. He's literally me.

It's not you.

This thing has brought out

the most terrifying aspects of who we are.

Blair's right.

We can't control it.

You know, it's been beautiful building this with you.

You know, we can't change what's happened, but…

We could stop the Pyramid from going online ever again.

I know.

I installed a kill-switch into the code.

In case anybody ever found it.

Wipes out the programming.

It's the OG box that I'm worried about.

I have a few ideas.

Then what?

If I don't have this…

I have nothing.

Well…

Do you remember that summer that we took sailing lessons?

Yeah. Yeah, I'd just started grad school and…

Actually, I just remember drinking a whole lot of beer on a boat.

And we joked that if the science thing didn't work out,

that we would go in on a bar.

Remember? Sea Ranch.

Sea Ranch. Yeah.

Maybe it's time for a different kind of life.

We could kill this thing together.

I just gotta talk to Olu first.

We've already burned through 15 minutes, come on.

Oh, God. All right, ready? Ready?

Yeah.

- Hopefully Ryan and Amanda… - Here.

…are already heading back.

Fuck.

- What's out there? - A swamp.

I don't understand. We both remember the world.

Why haven't we found it yet?

How are you feeling?

- I'm feeling stressed. - Me too.

How are we on time?

Twenty-five minutes till shutdown.

- Okay. Take this. - All right.

Okay.

Do it.

- People are gonna come. - So let's go.

You're back.

I was worried about you.

Sorry, I… took a small detour.

You know, the shape of the Pyramids

were thought to represent the mound that the Earth was formed from.

The bringer of life.

And light.

It's also a tomb.

Are those the quantum processing parts?

I can't believe he'd let those people die of the Black Iris.

I mean, he's us, you know?

We cannot control the actions of others.

All we can do is give them the tools to be better.

Sure, philosophically.

But we are intentionally creating global change, right?

The consequences of which are immense.

Let's take a step back, okay?

Doesn't it feel like every few years there's some society-ending thing?

Even the printing press triggered wars, genocide.

The consequences of inventions are always immense and unpredictable.

- Right. - But they pale in comparison

to going backwards.

It's always the end of the world until it's not.

You're right. The difference is, this time around, I'm the one responsible.

Look, just because I helped invent this thing

doesn't mean I get to decide what's best for the entire worlds.

- We. - I'm sorry?

We decide together.

I can't do this.

Is this about disappointing your grandpa?

- He's our grandfather. - Yeah, sure, except I never knew him.

Nah, listen to me.

Hey!

Of all the short-end-of-the-stick Leightons,

- I had it the shortest. - Oh, please.

Not you being an orphan fucked you up so bad that you blew millions,

went in and out of rehab, and got cut off.

All right, you had every opportunity.

You have no idea the privilege you come from.

So it's "you" now? We came from privilege.

When we first met, you told me we've always been alone, but that was a lie.

You've never been alone.

You had Ezekiel Vance, grandfather of the fucking century.

And your precious Jason Dessen. I had no one.

You have me now!

You're not my colleague. What are we gonna do?

This was supposed to be our purpose, I...

Olu, listen to me. I can help you.

How?

We can… We can start a meditation center.

A really nice one, okay? In any fucking world you want.

What?

Yeah, and what are you gonna do?

Jason and I are gonna shut down the original box.

Stop, stop.

You already talked to him?

Yes.

About all this?

Yeah.

What?

Jesus Christ, what?

What the fu...

Leight.

The f… Fuck.

You…

- Blair. Blair. - Yeah?

There's a problem.

What?

- No. No, no, no, no, no. Fuck! - It's come apart.

- Can you fix it? - I don't know.

- Can you... - Yeah, I don't know. Just take these

and remove the panels from the quantum computer.

- All the panels. - Okay.

Okay.

Shit.

Jason.

Yeah.

- See this wire right here? This one. - Yeah.

Okay, now strip it to the end. Just grab that.

Yeah.

- Where? - And then strip it.

- Yeah, right to the end. - How far?

Good. Okay. Okay. All right.

Is it gonna work?

I don't know.

Just keep watch.

- You don't know? - No.

Yes. Okay.

Okay, we've been here ten minutes.

Okay.

All right, so what do you think? Five minutes?

No, ten.

It should be at least ten minutes

to line up with what we planned with Ryan and Amanda.

It's just from the moment we start this, it can't be undone.

Yes.

Come on.

You do it.

- Me? - Yes.

Okay.

- Fuck. - Shit.

Turn it off. Off.

What's happening?

- Slow. - Okay.

Yeah, I think this is it.

What's out there?

We're in some kind of a tent.

But I recognize the guards.

Okay.

- I'm just gonna drop it. - Yeah, just do it fast.

Get on the ground! Now! On the ground!

Sir. It's all right. It's all right. It's the cure! It's the cure!

Everybody stay back until they are scanned!

Sir, please listen to me. This is a cure.

Where the hell did you come from?

We don't have fucking time! Please!

You are not going anywhere! Do you understand me?

No one's here. Maybe a false alarm? We've had a few of those.

I'll check the camera feeds.

Roger that.

- We really need to go. - I know.

Like, now.

How?

There's a soldering iron over here. It's still warm.

I'll check it out.

Ready?

- Go. - Fuck.

- Go! Go! Go! - Hey! Stop! Stop!

Please. Please. We brought you a cure.

Out of the way.

Leighton, we need you, brother.

Where is it?

Sir, the clear ones are the vaccine.

The blue one is medicine for the infected. Okay?

These are the plans to make more?

Yeah.

I can get Velocity started on synthesizing and testing right away.

A strategy would be to start producing these…

Hey. What's happening?

Why-Why is the Pyramid on?

Why is the Pyramid on?

Leighton and I spoke, and he agreed that I can use the Pyramid to find a new home.

Where is he?

Why are you sweating so much?

And how did you get those scratches on your face?

I just took a spill in the office.

- Wait. - You might…

- You might wanna look into that. - Come here. Hey!

Wait!

Oh, shit.

Oh, shit.

Come on.

Come on.

Come on.

Hey!

Leighton.

Leighton!

Leighton!

Goddamn it. I'm freaking out.

Why isn't this working?

Because we're stressed and panicking.

- Okay, let's stop. We have to stop. - Yeah.

How did you get us to Jason's world when I was passed out?

- I remembered him. - Okay.

Damn. Oh, my God.

Okay, it's just nerves.

It's nerves. That's why it's not working.

I know.

Hey. Whoa, whoa. Stop. Stop.

- I just want to get home. - I know, just…

How did you guys find this world in the first place?

It wasn't me. Wait.

It was… It was Charlie, actually.

And he got us there with some kind of prayer.

A peaceful world. Yeah.

A peaceful world.

A peaceful world.

Yes.

How much time to spare?

Fifty-eight seconds.

Hey.

I'm sorry about all this.

I… I didn't mean to scare you.

It's okay.

You got this.

Eleven, ten, nine, eight…

I didn't touch the door.

Did the drug wear off?

How? We just injected.

What if… that world isn't…

Dead?

As a doornail.

Oh, shit.

I am going to stop off for a change of clothes,

and maybe call Daniela at her dad's place.

What? Bad idea?

No, I think it's a good idea.

See you at The Tap.

See you at The Tap.

Hi.