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Hello, I'm Red 11

and welcome to my experiment.

I'm also known as Robert Rodriguez,

and over 25 years ago,

I started my career with El Mariachi.

It's a film I made with a $7,000 budget,

a borrowed camera, and no crew.

So for its 25th anniversary,

I decided to try it again

with the film you're about to see, Red 11,

a thriller based on my experiences

in a research hospital,

where I sold my body to finance El Mariachi.

Throughout my entire career,

I found that those low budget filmmaking limitations

fueled my creativity.

There's something magical

about stripping everything away

and seeing what you can do

with nothing more than you,

a camera, and your imagination.

Red 11 is a film I made

with only my son Racer Max as my crew,

in only 14 days,

with a budget of less than $7,000.

I had a separate camera crew

document the entire process

beginning to end so that you could see

how you could write, direct, photograph, light,

edit an entire film yourself.

That became a docuseries

called Rebel Without a Crew:

The Robert Rodriguez Film School,

which, depending on how you're now viewing Red 11,

it might be already included in the extras

or as a separate component.

Find it, because it will complete this whole experience

and blow your mind at how resourceful

the film Red 11 actually is.

I wanted artists everywhere to see

that they don't need to wait for a bunch of resources

in order to get out there and start creating.

That six-part documentary series will help you

get the most out of this movie

with the kind of lessons

they don't even teach in film schools.

We've now presented Red 11

along with the Film School series

in film festivals from Paris to Bogota

and audiences from all over the world

have found its lessons extremely useful

and inspiring for their own projects.

And I hope you find it just as helpful and inspiring

for your own endeavors.

So seek out that docuseries Rebel Without a Crew:

The Robert Rodriguez Film School.

And for now, please enjoy Red 11.

[dramatic music]

[stone grinding]

[dramatic music continues]

[birds chirping] [vehicle droning]

[eerie music]

- Hey man, wake up, we're here, you really wanna do this?

- Yeah, I don't have much of a choice.

- There are much easier ways of making money.

- Yeah, says the guy who owes more money than I do.

- [Security Guard] Yeah, what do you want?

- [James] Yeah, I'm just dropping off my friend

at the medical research hospital, he's checking in.

- [Security Guard] Great. [gate buzzing]

[vehicle droning] [eerie music continues]

- The collector told me I can make easy money here.

Get room, board, it's exciting work.

You just do drugs and meet interesting people.

You should join me. [vehicle droning]

[eerie music continues] - When are you gonna learn

that quick fixes are never the answer?

[eerie music continues] [vehicle droning]

[door rattling] - [Rob] Quick fixes,

a quick fix can't be quick enough,

not when you owe money to the wrong people.

- Hey, it won't be me picking you up.

It'll be the collectors.

You come out, you hand your paycheck right over.

- Okay, I got it. - I mean it.

I'm working on my part of the money.

Don't even be five minutes late with yours.

These guys aren't screwing around anymore.

- Yeah, well, can you just like wait a couple minutes?

Not everyone that applies gets into the group.

[eerie music continues] - Well then,

you better make sure that you do.

[door slamming] [vehicle roaring]

[eerie music continues]

- Welcome, potential lab rats.

I say "potential" because some of you

may not qualify for this study

or even be interested once you hear all of the details.

You were no doubt attracted to this study

because of the high rate of pay in relation

to the short amount of time you'd be in here, correct?

The reason for the higher pay rate is the pain threshold.

Other studies that are drug tests and blood draws

are the norm and they pay less.

This study is unique.

There will be surgery involved.

There will be scarring.

This is still a Phase Four study.

Phase Four means the experimental stage is over.

They're not just putting two chemicals together,

that would be a Phase One study.

You don't wanna be a part of that.

This drug is in its final stages of testing, yeah?

- So what's the drug? - Your group will be testing

a speed healer drug. - And how do you test that?

- We wound you. [Red Seven laughing]

I'm actually not joking.

That's why this study pays more.

Upon admittance, subjects

will undergo a punch biopsy surgical procedure.

You will then remain in our care for two weeks,

at which point, the sections of arm

will be removed for further testing

and you will be surgically repaired.

Upon full completion of this study,

you will be given $7,000.

You each have a consent contract in front of you, read it.

- "Your life may be inadvertently threatened

"by our experiment," promising.

- If you accept, sign it and bring it forward.

There are 13 applicants but only 12 spots open.

If you want to be considered,

sign your forms and bring them to me.

[tense music]

- [Rob] Our group is issued scrub pants and red t-shirts.

They say it's how they can tell what drug study we're in.

- Red Five, Red Six, Red Seven, Red Eight,

Red Nine, Red 10, Red 11, Red 12.

- [Rob] We're lined up in order and each given a number.

- Follow the timings on your clipboard.

You must all do the same thing the same way

at your required intervals.

It's all a part of measuring results accurately,

and it's a part of your job.

If you mess with our procedure, we mess with your paycheck.

Follow me. [tense music continues]

You get docked for every variance,

you get docked twice, we'll make you paint walls,

you get docked three times,

we'll eject you from the study

and send your home with no pay.

This is where you're going to be eating all your meals,

you are required to eat everything on your plate.

The Teal Blue group is on a low fat diet,

so they're not as eager to eat their food as the others.

But all food will get eaten just the same.

All food must be eaten within 20 minutes

from the moment you begin.

So you better get to it Mr. Blue,

unless you wanna get docked, again.

[tense music continues]

- What the hell are you looking at, Red?

[finger thumping] - Teal Blue Five,

you just got docked $50, food waste and fighting.

Pick it up and eat it, make back 20.

[tense music continues]

- Grow eyes in the back your head, Red.

[tense music continues]

- You guys won't have any trouble.

You're on a high fat diet.

Recreation room, this way. [tense music continues]

[Teal Blue Five spitting] [chattering]

[tense music continues]

Here we have the rec room where you can watch TV,

play pool, foosball, you're free to converse,

mingle with anyone, so long as no specifics

are shared about the testing you're being subjected to.

- What if someone starts talking to us

about their study specifics? - Ask them to stop.

If somebody shares their drug studies specifics with you,

you're both going to be docked.

So if you have a headache, keep it to yourself, yeah?

- There's nothing but dudes in here.

Will there be females like in the other studies?

- You've been here before? - Many times.

- Then you'd know that we don't usually have females.

- Yeah but why, isn't that kinda sexist?

- Their cycle sometimes affect the results.

So unless there's a drug specifically made for females,

our sponsors usually prefer baseline subjects.

That being said, there will be a group of females

coming through here over the next few days.

And as a reminder, sex of any kind with anyone,

even yourselves, is not allowed, throws off the results.

- But what about if you have a dream?

And you don't mean to, but? - Please stop interrupting.

We have a lot of information to cover, okay, dude?

- Gotcha, not a peep. - Okay, thank you.

- Oh, one more thing. [chattering]

- What? - Who's that guy?

[tense music] - Black Shirt.

You'll notice he is the only Black Shirt.

He is not to be conversed with.

He is the only one in his group.

He is part of another study entirely.

- [Red Seven] What's he on?

- No one's business.

You're not to talk to him or ask about him, you understand?

[tense music continues] [chattering]

- He's probably on a placebo. - Any questions?

No questions, good, let's go get you all cut up.

[tense music continues] [chattering]

- [Rob] We're each called in.

One healthy red goes in... [chattering]

- You're gonna love this.

- [Rob] One wounded red comes out.

[chattering] - Next.

[door rattling] [door squeaking]

Come in. [tense music]

[door thumping] - [Rob] The sight of blood

makes me queasy. - Come on, you look like a big

tough guy, probably into football, huh?

Play football with your friends?

- [Rob] I try not to look. [injection whooshing]

- There we go, all right, that's good,

that's a good cut there, all right, chief.

- [Rob] The procedure is brutally simple.

- [Doctor] This side is usually--

- [Rob] A stab of anesthetic,

followed by a trephine cutter used

to rotate down through the epidermis and dermis.

[injection whooshing] - There we go,

we need it one more time just to make sure we got it.

One, two, three, there we go.

[injection whooshing] Oh, that's bleeding,

let's get him taped up.

- [Rob] And into the subcutaneous fat.

[tense music continues] - See that's

just a punch biopsy, the real scars come from

when I cut those sections off your arm

at the end of the study for analysis,

and then I sew you back up.

But they're minimal permanent scars, all done.

- [Rob] Or at least that's what they tell me as they slice.

[Rob thumping]

- Next. [eerie music]

- What, hey, where are we?

- Can't be passing out like that, it freaks 'em out.

You're already way off baseline.

- I don't like the sight of blood.

- Well, if you don't see any green, you'll start loving red.

[hands slapping] See we, at the lowest level

of the extremely lucrative legal drug business,

we're the lab rats.

Walk with me, fast, you're late for your piss.

[urine sloshing] A day in the life

of the human lab rat, you wake up

and the first thing you need to do is piss in a cup.

You miss your piss, you get docked.

For you, Red 11, that's two minutes before Red 12

and two minutes after Red 10. [urine sloshing]

[tense music] You take your medicine

at a precise time, and you drop your load, all on the clock.

You have a shit job, sweetheart.

Tick, tock, tick.

At the exact time you begin your breakfast,

and at even more exact time, you stop,

a friendly anal retentive coordinator's there

with a stopwatch for everything.

It's all routines, blood draws, mealtimes,

piss and shit times, heart monitors, EKGs,

even more freakin' blood draws.

Some drug studies I've been in,

they've had so many blood draws,

you were pincushion by the end of it.

They'd barely get the tourniquet on

and blood would be shooting out

of all the different holes in your arms.

[skin squelching] I nicknamed her Vampira,

never hits the vein, check it out.

Stab, what, no blood?

Let me just dig around 'til I find it.

Avoid her if you can.

You'll be covered with bruises

from all the internal bleeding.

[tense music continues] [game beeping]

- How many times you been in here?

- I'm going full career, it's the best job in the world.

I take drugs professionally.

I'm in here every other month.

And I'd be in here more often

if they didn't make you wash out before you reapply.

Free food, free digs, make good money,

and I can write my novel. - You're writing a novel?

[tense music continues] [game beeping]

- It's about the connection between the legal drug business

and the illegal drug business, 'cause it's connected.

[game beeping] Why are you in here?

- Just, I owe a bunch of money to some people.

- Are you nervous about it? [game beeping]

You look nervous. - I'm not that nervous.

- [Red Seven] Good, 'cause they're

strapping heart monitors onto us.

- What's this for? - Possible side effect

for the speed healer is heart palpitations.

So we need to keep you monitored.

Just stay calm. - If you get worked up

for outside reasons, you trigger an alert

and they dock your pay.

So stay cool if you want that money.

Sounds like you'll need every penny.

[wheels rattling] [placid music]

- [Rob] One thing you notice after a while

is that the different color groups tend to stick together,

[placid music continues]

Reds with Reds, Lilacs with Lilacs.

Nobody even talks to the Teal Blues.

[balls thumping] [placid music continues]

You only hang out with members of your shirt color

and instantly don't care about anyone outside of the group.

Somehow we still have that same basic need

to think we're better than the next guy.

- Shh, so this debt you're in, it's bad?

[chattering] - Yeah, it's pretty bad.

My friend James and I, we borrowed $7,000

so we can make this independent horror film

for the Spanish market.

And then, it ends up the investors were a cartel.

- Whoa. - Yeah.

[chattering] - B4.

- Poof, yeah, then the film fell through.

And now they want all the money back, C4?

[chattering] - I mean, it sucks

that the money leaves your hands as soon as you touch it,

but you're making 7,000 in here, right?

So at least you'll be in the clear, C4.

- Poof, yeah, not exactly.

They added 45,000 dollars in interest.

Yep, in pain in the ass fee or some shit, I don't know,

they hired these collectors to chase us down, B4.

- Shh, oh, shit.

Where are you gonna get the other 45,000 from?

- D4, my buddy James is taking care of that part

from the outside since this was all his idea.

Once I pay off my bit, I'm free.

His stake is so much bigger.

I have no idea how he's gonna pull off that miracle, F5.

- Well, may your friend have better luck

than you've had in this game, E4.

- Thank you, you have sunk my destroyer.

[hands thumping] - Teal Blues.

[wheels rattling] I'm calling you monkeys out.

[eerie music] I have officially beaten

every red shirt, so which one of you wants

to try your luck for only 20 bucks a ship?

- Fuck off, Red, stick to your own kind.

[eerie music continues] - Well, you've got a point

there, Blue, I have noticed

that a certain group mentality tends

to take over each designated color.

The Red Shirts, probably 'cause I'm the dominant personality

of the group, are freakin' cool as hell.

The Lilacs are debaters, conspiracy theorists.

Canary Yellows are depressives.

Magentas, well, let's just hope they're all super friendly.

And Teal Blues are chickenshit.

[wheels rattling] Right?

[hand slapping] [chattering]

You okay? [tense music]

[Teal One vomits] - I'm sorry.

[Teal One vomits] I'm sorry.

[Teal Blue thumping] [tense music continues]

[clothes rustling] [shoes skidding]

[tense music continues]

- Hey, does he get sent home with full pay?

[wheels rattling] [tense music continues]

I heard if you get sick, you get ejected with full pay.

- That's none of your business.

[tense music continues] - He's full of shit.

Last time I was in here,

a group was on a narcotic painkiller,

they all got violently sick.

All sent home, all full pay, 3,500 bucks.

- That's just if you go to an actual hospital.

Most sicknesses are taken care of in-house.

[placid music]

- An idea is brewing.

[balls clicking] [placid music continues]

- Can you knock off the elevator music!?

I'm trying to think. - Hey, sorry.

I'm practicing composition. [chattering]

- For what? - Scoring.

For TV, movies, video games, life in general.

[eerie music] I wanna be a composer.

- I'm a filmmaker. - What?

- Yeah, you should write something for one of my movies.

- I'll start right now.

I'm Red Three, but you can call me Score, nice, I know.

[placid music] The thing is about composing,

[chattering] you start by setting

the foundation for the scene, curiosity,

[tense music] trepidation,

[placid music] attraction?

Then you add a simple theme. [magical music]

Right, just a few notes for the new character.

[placid music] And then,

a character theme emerges. [magical music]

Something you return to anytime

this character reappears throughout your story.

Then you switch the lead instrument

and find what lead instrument speaks best for the character,

then I add a backbeat. [upbeat magical music]

But be ready for the mood to change

because every good scene has a button.

[tense music] [monitor beeping]

Oh shit. [monitor beeping]

[chattering] [magical music]

[chattering] Mm, wow, she really

did a number on you.

This is the first time I've seen you not look constipated.

[laughs] Cheer up, things are looking up.

- Red 11, you have a phone call.

[tense music] - I spoke too soon.

[chattering]

[tense music] [wheels rattling]

- Hello? - Rob, I'm in deep shit,

they're right on my ass.

- James, where the hell are you?

- I can't shake these guys. - What do you mean shake them?

I thought you were working on the money.

- 45 grand, are you kidding?

I'm just trying to get the hell out of this town.

But these guys are like freaking bloodhounds.

I didn't tell anyone about my plan

for leaving, not even you.

But somehow they knew.

How did they know, Rob [pants]?

[tense music continues] - What plan?

Where the hell are you going? - Mexico.

But it's too late for me, you can, you have to run.

[tense music continues] - I'm broke, man.

How the hell do I run? [monitor beeping]

- Take your seven grand and run, run, run to Canada,

run to Mexico, anywhere you can disappear.

[tense music] [blade whooshing]

[tense music continues] [monitor beeping]

- What about you? [door rattling]

- [Nurse] Hey. [door slamming]

- I'm gonna die, either my way or their's.

[tense music continues] - Jesus Christ, James.

Don't do anything stupid, don't do anything stupid.

[tense music continues] [monitor beeping]

[tense music continues] [phone rattling]

[door rattling] [wheels rattling]

- You're way off your charts here.

And if you can't calm down,

we'll have to eject you from the study entirely.

- I'm sorry, I had a distressing phone call.

It's not gonna happen again. - You're supposed

to be baseline,

we can't have your heart monitor bouncing around

because you're on some personal call.

- Okay, I got it, I will calm down.

- Calm down. - I'll calm.

- [Doctor] Calm. [machine beeping]

- [Rob] I'll calm down, I'm calm.

- Now, I can't let you leave this room

until you're baseline. [machine beeping]

- I'm calm. [machine beeping]

- Keep it in check, Red. [machine beeping]

- Okay. [door rattling]

- I mean it. [door thumping]

[tense music] - [Rob] James?

- Hello. [tense music continues]

- [Rob] Where the hell is James?

- I see people scraping him off their shoes.

He made quite a mess when he finally hit the sidewalk.

- Listen man, I'm gonna have your money in three days.

- All 52,000? - 52,000?

No, no, my portion is 7,000.

James said he was gonna pay the rest.

- Well, James is dead.

You're gonna have to cover his portion.

- I can't make that much in here.

- I'll consider your 7,000 as a down payment.

I'll give you a window so you can find the rest.

I promise I won't waste you, unless you give me no choice.

- How will I ever square that?

You keep adding fucking interest.

That's how this shit works, right, I'll never pay it off.

- We'll figure all of that out in three days

when I visit you. [chattering]

[phone slamming] [chattering]

[machine beeping] - Shut the fuck up.

[tense music] [chattering]

[wheels rattling] [tense music continues]

At least I know they can't see me in here.

I need cash and wheels

but I'm surrounded by penniless patients with non-problems.

[chattering]

- [Teal Blue] Hey Knives, what's with that thingamajig?

- Forgot I was wearing it.

They didn't tell me to take it off.

[knife whooshing] Forged it myself.

[tense music] Triple layer Japanese steel.

I call it Little Badass. [tense music continues]

Listen. [blade whooshing]

It's so sharp it sings. [tense music continues]

- [Teal Blue] What's that sound?

- It's just the air being sliced, crying for mercy.

- [Teal Blue] You better put that thing away,

they'll confiscate it.

[chattering] [knife thumping]

[tense music continues] - I'd like to see them try.

[tense music continues] [chattering]

[wheels rattling] [tense music continues]

- [Rob] What if life was just an experiment

and we were all human lab rats being tested?

[tense music continues] Ever felt like that?

I feel like that all the time.

[tense music continues]

- You've got mustard coming out of your nose.

[tense music continues] [mustard squelching]

- [vomits] I'm sorry [vomits].

[tense music continues]

- [Rob] A second person got sick today.

- [Red Seven] Bet he's getting out with full pay.

- How do you know? - You blow chunks like that?

You better be getting out with full pay.

- [Rob] People are getting sick, people that shouldn't be.

So why should I care?

The moment I leave this place,

I'm gonna have to turn over my earnings to the collectors.

[chattering] [tense music]

- What are you watching? - "Sea of Love".

- Yeah? [tense music continues]

It's not her. - What?

- Yeah, the whole movie,

they make it look like Ellen Barkin is the killer,

but it's not, it's actually her ex-husband,

but you never figured that out

because they only mentioned him like once.

[tense music continues] [chattering]

- You're a fucking bastard. - Oh, I'm sorry [laughs].

[tense music continues]

- [Rob] Then it hits me.

If I can get sick, I can get out early, full pay,

and make a run for it. [tense music continues]

Two out of seven Teals have gotten sick.

Teal One dropped yesterday, then Teal Three today.

The drug is supposed to be administered in order,

so Teal Two should have gotten sick already.

[tense music continues] Sure as hell,

Teal Two is taking his again right now.

[tense music continues] [chattering]

Which means either he's on placebo

or he's not taking the drug. [Knives coughing]

[tense music continues]

I found my way out. [tense music continues]

[tense music] [door rattling]

[tense music continues]

[hand whooshing] [knife whooshing]

- Red 11, I see you've met my favorite knife.

Made from the sharpest Japanese steel,

laminated onto a softer steel.

The perfect balance of sharpness and strength,

that'll bite down to the bone.

Right now I have it pressed against your carotid artery.

Just to tease its blood lust.

'Cause once unsheathed, it has to cut, so talk fast.

- I was just trying to steal one of your pills.

- Why? - Because I'm trying

to get sick, man, I wanna get outta here.

- [laughs] This isn't prison, Red.

You can walk out any time. - I need the money too.

I'm trying to get sick. [placid music]

Because that's the only way you get outta here with both.

[knife whooshing] - All right, you live.

[tense music]

I was holding onto these babies as evidence.

I guess I could spare one.

I support anyone who sticks it to the man.

- Wait, so you haven't taken any of them?

- I spit 'em out.

I don't wanna puke my guts out, shit the pants.

Did you see those guys? - Wouldn't they know?

- It's a double blind test,

so not even they know who's on the drug and who's not.

They'll just think I'm on placebo.

[tense music continues] Here.

[hand thumping] One condition.

[knife whooshing] You like this knife?

[tense music continues] - Yeah, okay.

[tense music continues]

I got the pill, but he made me buy a knife I didn't want.

There's another $400 I owe. [paper rustling]

[tense music continues]

[pill rattling] [water sloshing]

[alarm ringing]

[door thumping] [tense music]

Then the craziest thing happened.

A red shirt went down.

We thought the sickness was caused

by the drug that the Teal Blues were taking.

[Red Seven gasping] But our own Red Seven

got sick the same way.

[tense music continues] [Red Seven thumping]

[alarm ringing] [Red Seven vomiting]

[tense music continues] - They ain't laughing now.

[wheels rattling] [eerie music]

[chattering] [eerie music continues]

[ball thumping] [eerie music continues]

[eerie music] - Is this "Crying Game"?

- Yeah, it is, no, and don't say shit either

because not everyone's seen this yet.

- Well, I'll tell ya. - You'd better shut

the hell up right now. [chattering]

[eerie music continues] [chattering]

- She's got a dick. - You son of a bitch.

[tense music] [fist thumping]

- Kevin Spacey, yeah, he's Keyser Soze, Bruce Willis is dead

and a ghost in "The Sixth Sense",

Nicole Kidman is dead and a ghost in "The Others".

[tense music continues] [ball thumping]

"Jacob's Ladder"? - Shut the hell up,

you spoiler piece of shit. - Fucking dead too.

[fist thumping] [tense music continues]

- Leo's a patient in "Shutter Island".

[fist thumping] [tense music continues]

[ball thumping] Pitt and Norton's

the same guy in "Fight Club". [fist thumping]

[tense music continues] [hands thumping]

- I'm gonna fucking kill you. - [Teal Blue Five] Fuck you

and your stupid movies. - You Carrot Top looking

motherfucker, I will fucking kill you.

[chattering] I'll fucking kill you.

[tense music continues] [ball thumping]

[shoes squeaking]

[Rob vomiting] [tense music continues]

[Rob thumping] [wheels rattling]

[tense music] [Rob grunting]

- [Rob] This is it, an ambulance ride to a hospital

where I'll kick and scream for my pay,

and then I'm going to Mexico, I'm free.

So why the suspicion that this is all far from over?

[tense music continues] - Take him downstairs.

[tense music continues] [wheels rattling]

- [grunts] Where are we going?

I thought we were going to the hospital.

[shoes squeaking] [bell ringing]

[tense music continues] [doors rattling]

Aren't we going to the hospital?

[tense music continues] [doors whooshing]

[tense music continues]

[tense music] [machine beeping]

[metal thumping] [rubber squelching]

[finger flicking] [tense music continues]

- I need to let Jen here get a little extra practice

doing the blood draws, do you mind if she takes over?

[tense music continues] - No problem, doc.

But I don't think you're gonna get much practice here.

This guy's got monster veins.

The kind you could hit in the dark.

[tense music continues] [machine beeping]

[eerie music] [hand slapping]

- Hold still.

[eerie music continues] [flesh squelching]

- Oh, I think you missed the vein.

Ow, yeah ow, that's still not, it's still not.

Yeah, ow bitch, you're not-- - Hold still.

- Ow, you're nowhere near it, argh.

[eerie music continues] - Where are you going?

[eerie music continues]

[door rattling] [door slamming]

- Red 11, Red 11. [eerie music continues]

Red 11, man, you didn't wake up.

- Oh, Vampira stabbed the shit out of me.

[machine beeping] [sighs] I guess I was just--

- Dreaming? [machine beeping]

- Where have you been?

I saw you get sick, they said they took you to the hospital.

- They did, I'm not really here.

Come on, it's dinner time. - What's for dinner?

[machine beeping] - Red 11.

[eerie music] [Rob gasping]

- How you feeling, son? - Okay, better.

Can I go back with the group? - Not yet.

We need to observe you a little bit longer.

You remember what happened yesterday, back in the hallway?

- No. - I see.

- Didn't anyone else get sick?

I mean, there's no one else in here.

- You gave us a pretty good scare there.

But everything's good now. - I'm kind of in a hurry.

I mean I need to be outta here by the 15th

when the study ends, that's two days from now.

- It's highly unlikely that we'll be able

to release you that early.

There's some friends of mine

that are gonna wanna talk to you.

It's important that you remain at ease.

- But I can't...

[eerie music continues] [machine beeping]

- Have a good rest.

[eerie music continues] [machine beeping]

- [Rob] I guess everything is different down here,

wherever the hell down here is.

[phone ringing] [machine beeping]

[tense music] [phone ringing]

[hand thumping] [phone beeping]

- My boys haven't seen you in days, you're hiding.

- No, they moved me.

- So you want me to come find you.

- No, that's not what I meant. - See you in two days.

[phone thumping] [eerie music continues]

[machine beeping]

[eerie music] [door rattling]

- Black Shirt, the Black Shirt is in his own experiment.

[tense music]

[TV screeching] [placid music]

[upbeat music] [bomb exploding]

What are you looking for? - Something good.

- How do you know what's good if you don't stop to watch it?

- I sense things.

- What got you locked up in ICU?

- I heard the food's better here.

[placid music continues]

- You're saying you got into ICU on purpose?

How did you do that?

- I cheated, same as you. [placid music continues]

[eerie music]

- What made you decide to become a human lab rat?

[placid music]

You need the money for something?

- What makes you think I need money?

- Well, I don't know, this isn't really the type

of job people do for fun. [TV screeching]

- I'm researching to write an expose.

- Okay, great, then that's cool if it's true.

[placid music continues]

- I need the money so I can backpack across Europe.

- Okay, that's a little more plausible.

[placid music continues]

- Actually, I'm a product of the lab.

I was raised here, I can never leave.

[placid music continues]

- Are any of those actually true?

- One of them is.

[placid music continues] [machine beeping]

I'm also just trying to get this damn scar removed.

- Yeah I noticed that, I just didn't wanna say anything.

How did you get it? [placid music continues]

- I don't wanna talk about it so much that I relive it,

but let's just say it involved a switchblade,

an alleyway, and a scary guy who looked a lot like you.

[placid music continues]

- Just you don't wanna talk about it, right, got it.

[placid music continues] [machine beeping]

- Hey Red, wanna have a laugh?

- Yeah, sure. - Let's switch shirts.

[placid music continues] [machine beeping]

- Are you serious? - No, I'm a clown.

- They dock your pay for screwing around like that.

- They wouldn't know, are you kidding, these zombies?

- Why would you risk it? - Because they have

the Magenta group on a low calorie diet and it's killing me.

The red shirts, that's you, get a burger on Wednesdays,

so I say we switch shirts.

I eat your food, you eat mine,

and then we switch back, a laugh.

- I can't afford to get caught.

Seriously, they dock your pay

if you mess up their results. - Buck, buck, buck, buck,

buck, buck, buck, buck, buck, buck, buck, buck, buck, buck.

- God, okay, how about this,

if I get a burger, I will give you half.

That way it only screws up your results and not mine, deal?

- I want the whole burger, Red.

[placid music continues] [machine beeping]

- What if I say I can't?

- Then you get a scar that looks just like mine.

[placid music continues] [machine beeping]

- Deal.

[placid music continues]

[eerie music]

[burger squelching] [broccoli thumping]

[eerie music continues] [clothes rustling]

- What are you looking for?

- A tech, so I can see

how much longer I have to be down here.

- They don't know anything, they're idiots.

Besides, it's your own fault you're down here.

- How did you know I cheated?

- Because you puked a red river.

Only the Teal Blues have been getting sick like that.

So you either took the meds or you're way off baseline.

Which means you're probably gonna kick you out anyways.

[eerie music continues] [burger squelching]

[eerie music continues] - The Doc will know.

[eerie music continues] [bean pod crunching]

[door rattling] [door slamming]

Hey, Doc, Doc, can I talk to you for a second?

[door slamming] [door rattling]

[door slamming] [eerie music]

[feet scraping] [machine beeping]

I know I shouldn't be snooping around,

but there's something here.

[eerie music continues] [machine beeping]

[pill thumping] [feet scraping]

[liquid thumping] [eerie music]

What am I doing? [door rattling]

I can't afford to get caught, no matter how weird...

[tense music] - Can I help you?

- Yeah, I was just, yeah, I was just checking in.

Do you know how much longer I have to be down here?

- Resistant Red 11.

Says here that you're an aspiring filmmaker.

That's interesting, you know,

I love action and suspense thrillers.

Especially ones with ironic endings.

- Cool. - [Doctor] Yeah I'm a big fan.

- Listen, can I get outta here soon, I feel much better?

- Not according to your tests here.

Everything is elevated still.

Just try to relax and maybe you'll be cleared

by next week. - Next week?

No Doc, I need to be outta here by tomorrow.

- And I need you to relax, huh?

You're not going anywhere, are we clear?

[eerie music] - Clear.

- You know, I have quite the collection

of movie posters and movie props.

Some of them quite rare.

You'd love 'em, being a filmmaker and all [laughs].

[eerie music continues] [chattering]

[lid rattling] [clothes rustling]

[tense music]

- I hear something familiar coming

from up the hallway. [tense music continues]

It can't be.

No way, Score? [tense music continues]

- Oh, hey, buddy.

- [Rob] What the hell happened?

- Oh, I got sick. - I figured.

What did it sound like? - Oh, musically?

Here, let me show you.

I always keep this baby in record because you never know

when magic is gonna flow through these fingertips.

Here, check it out. [dramatic music]

Yeah, my puke hit the keyboard.

[tense music] - [Rob] Knives,

you're here too? - Yeah, they caught me

not swallowing the pill. - What did they do?

[weight thumping] - Made me swallow it.

[tense music continues] [weight thumping]

- Hey, you're gonna hurt yourself.

[tense music continues] - Actually,

I've never lifted this much before.

[tense music continues]

I don't know if it's me, the drugs, or what.

[weight thumping] - It's definitely the drugs.

Check this out. [tense music continues]

[cart rattling] - What the fuck?

[tense music continues]

Is any of this real, are we dreaming?

- What, all of us in the same fever dream, how?

[tense music continues] - I don't know.

We're all just hallucinating? - Do you call this

a hallucination? [cart rattling]

[tense music continues]

[cart crashing] [tense music continues]

We're below the main floor, this has to be experimental.

Those of us who've been on the drug the longest

have more potent effects. - Yeah, good for them, what?

None of this is helping me get outta here any faster

with my money. - Unless we steal the drug.

[tense music continues]

This drug has side effects that causes heightened senses,

and this shit works.

We know that drugs are a huge business.

So, I say we steal the drug,

and then we sell it on the outside.

[tense music continues] - Yeah, except these

aren't burgers we're talking about, this is heavy shit.

- The burger was just a test.

Now I know you're not chickenshit.

[tense music continues] So help me steal.

- Why do you know all this, huh, what's your angle?

I know you got one, who sent you?

- Ever heard of [beep] Pharmaceutical?

- Oh yeah, I did a study there.

It's shit compared to this place.

[tense music continues] - I worked there.

They need a drug like this to get them back

in the high stakes business.

What I mean is I have a buyer.

People who would trade a box of this shit for this.

You help me steal it and I'll give your cut

to whoever is coming to collect.

[tense music continues] - Yeah, that'd be great,

if you were telling the truth. - [Magenta] I mean it.

- You still haven't even given me a straight answer

as to why you're here. - I just did.

I worked for [beep] Pharmaceutical.

- That is such bullshit, that is such bullshit.

You, this whole study,

these freaky ass powers, it's all bullshit.

For all I know, all you guys are hallucinations.

[tense music continues] [waves whooshing]

[tense music continues]

What did you just say to me? - I didn't say anything.

- No, I heard you in my head. - Yeah, I heard it too.

- Yeah, like a whisper in my ear.

[placid music] [waves whooshing]

- I mean it, this shit works

and they pay a lot more than 7,000.

Add a few zeros to the end of that.

[Score whistling] Getting you out of debt

would be like buying gum. [tense music continues]

[waves whooshing] [tense music continues]

- I heard that too.

- P.S., you don't have any. [tense music continues]

[feet scuffling] - Shake it,

with a straight face and I'll help you steal it right now.

[tense music continues] [chair scraping]

[placid music] - Thanks.

[placid music continues]

- Mm, [chuckles] you've been busy.

Still wounded, good, 101, that's normal.

- That's normal? - It is around here.

You're a little sicky boy. [paper rustling]

- There's been some really weird shit going on down here.

- Weird shit, rule of thumb, you see something strange

or just out of the ordinary around here,

try to remember it's just a side effect

of the very heavy dose of experimental medicine

that you are on.

I mean, that makes sense, right?

- I don't know what's real anymore.

- It's not the hospital, it's not the staff, side effects.

See that? [syringe whooshing]

That is a used needle, gross.

How many times have I told my staff not

to leave their dirty, filthy needles just lying around?

Too many times. [syringe thumping]

- Oh, what the fuck? - That hurts, doesn't it?

And yet, there's nothing there.

It's just the paper covering your straw.

[paper rustling] - [Rob] Side effects?

- Just side effects. [hand slapping]

[tense music] So you know the difference,

that was real, hang in there. [chair scraping]

[tense music continues] - Jesus.

[tense music continues]

[machine beeping] [eerie music]

What is this black shit you're giving me?

- Not giving, taking.

[eerie music continues] [machine beeping]

Just draining the extra fluids.

[eerie music continues] [machine beeping]

Good morning, everyone.

We've made a breakthrough thanks to your cooperation.

We've isolated the cause of all your illnesses

to some rogue reactions that we have witnessed to the drug.

And we have found a way to neutralize it.

Now some of you may have been experiencing hallucinations

and these will all disappear with this antidote.

[eerie music continues] [machine beeping]

Now we do need to administer it via the I.V.

for faster absorption and fast relief.

There will be side effects that you may encounter.

So it is important that you wear the restraints

until the antidote has run its course, and Godspeed.

[eerie music continues] [machine beeping]

- Hey, check it out, that guy's asleep

and he's still getting drugged.

[plaster ripping] [eerie music continues]

[belt clicking] [straps rattling]

[eerie music continues] [plaster ripping]

[waves whooshing] [eerie music continues]

[belt rattling] [waves whooshing]

[belt clicking] [eerie music continues]

[belt clicking]

[eerie music continues] [machine beeping]

[patients rattling] [eerie music continues]

[sheets whooshing]

[eerie music continues] [machine beeping]

- Oh shit. - Remember me, Red?

[eerie music continues] [wheelchair rattling]

No one's leaving 'til you're all taking what I'm taking.

[eerie music continues] [hand thumping]

Take the drugs. [I.V. squelching]

[eerie music continues] [machine beeping]

Uh, uh, uh, you're cheating again, Red.

Join us, man, feels great. [eerie music]

Here, I'll help you. - Fuck.

[belts rattling] [machine beeping]

- You're hallucinating again, Red.

Take your drugs, all of you.

It's the only way to stop what you think you're seeing.

[eerie music continues] [I.V. squelching]

[tense music] [Teal Blue Five thumping]

[eerie music] [machine beeping]

[hand thumping] [belt rattling]

[waves whooshing] [eerie music continues]

[belt whooshing] [eerie music continues]

[knife whooshing] [eerie music continues]

[belt whooshing] [eerie music continues]

[belt whooshing] [eerie music continues]

[alarm ringing] [eerie music continues]

[carts rattling] [eerie music continues]

[door rattling] [tense music]

[Knife thumping] [Magenta thumping]

[tense music continues] - Score.

[tense music continues] [alarms ringing]

[feet thumping] [tense music]

Shit. [tense music continues]

[hands thumping] What the fuck?

[tense music continues] [Magenta thumping]

[syringe whooshing] - I told you, Red, your dead.

[fist thumping] [syringe whooshing]

- You never could hit a vein, Vampira.

[syringe whooshing] [flesh squelching]

[tense music continues] [syringe whooshing]

[flesh squelching] [flesh ripping]

[Jen thumping] [tense music continues]

[door thumping] [door handle rattling]

[tense music] [fist thumping]

[tense music continues] [shoes squeaking]

[light fizzing] [door thumping]

- What the hell's going on here?

Why are they giving a virus?

Are they trying to take away our powers, kill us?

- Turn us on each other.

[tense music continues] [light fizzing]

What happened? [tense music continues]

- Vampira got me, but I took care of it.

[tense music continues] [light fizzing]

- What about there? [tense music continues]

- Oops, I didn't see that one.

[tense music continues] [light fizzing]

[doors rattling] - Get into the elevator,

we're busting out of this place.

- Wait, wait, you ain't going anywhere, Red.

[tense music continues] [patients roaring]

[tense music continues] [alarm ringing]

[eerie music] [Rob thumping]

[eerie music continues]

[door rattling] [Magenta panting]

[hand thumping] - [Rob] Magenta?

- Shit. [eerie music continues]

[door rattling] [eerie music continues]

[waves whooshing] [eerie music continues]

[Magenta panting] [waves whooshing]

[eerie music continues]

[hand pounding] [eerie music continues]

[Magenta panting] [waves whooshing]

[eerie music continues]

[waves whooshing] [Magenta gasping]

- Where's Score?

[tense music]

[tense music]

[hand thumping] [door knob rattling]

- Oh, shit. [tense music continues]

Okay, theme, what's the theme?

[tense music continues] Trepidation, fear,

the tragic end to a beloved character.

[tense music continues] Okay, something's not right.

[tense music continues] That was too easy.

It needs a complication, it's [gasps] ooh, a twist ending

that nobody sees coming. [tense music continues]

Yeah, rhythmically that works, okay, doom?

Salvation. [tense music continues]

[eerie music] [patients growling]

Doom. [tense music]

- This is the Doc's office.

He collects movie props, we'll need weapons.

- But wouldn't he keep it locked?

[handle rattling] [light fizzing]

What good are movie props, they're fake?

[door thumping] - No, not necessarily.

Some filmmakers demand realism on their sets

so they create real working props.

Doc strikes me as the kinda guy

that would collect the real thing.

Oh shit. [drill rattling]

I think George Clooney handled this one.

[drill roaring] [electricity fizzing]

[tense music]

[waves whooshing]

[drill roaring] [patient screaming]

[drill droning] [waves whooshing]

[drill droning] [tense music continues]

- Day in the life of a human lab rat,

you get your ass kicked by me, tick, tock.

[electricity whooshing] [Red Seven grunting]

- Tick. [waves whooshing]

[electricity fizzing] [tense music continues]

[waves whooshing] [drill droning]

[roof bursting]

- You know how your movie ends, Red?

[eerie music] You die.

[tense music]

[eerie music] - It's different every time.

[eerie music continues] - Right about now,

they're plotting their escape, just like clockwork.

[eerie music continues] - Let them go.

- Yes sir. [eerie music continues]

[fist thumping] [eerie music continues]

- Why are they keeping us in here?

- They're messing with our heads.

It's all part of the experiment.

- Oh my God, what experiment?

This is supposed to be a Phase Four study.

- That's upstairs, down here, it's Phase One, experimental.

- Experimental, yeah well, it's Wednesday.

This is the day I was supposed to originally be outta here,

which means those collectors, they're already on their way.

And when they don't find me up there

with their money, I'm dead. [eerie music continues]

[door handle rattling] [eerie music continues]

- Try focusing your hand down to one finger.

Make your push even more potent.

[eerie music continues]

[waves whooshing] [door rattling]

[door squeaking] - That wasn't me.

[eerie music continues] - Come one.

[eerie music continues] [elevator binging]

[door rattling] It'll take us up.

- No, that's too easy. - I like easy, come on.

[eerie music continues] - I can't just leave.

I can't go up there empty handed.

- Let's just go. - I'm screwed in here

and I'm screwed out there, I want my 7,000.

- How? - Go back to your plan.

We steal the drug. [eerie music continues]

- What time do the collectors get here?

- Three o'clock. [eerie music continues]

[guns loading] [eerie music continues]

[machine beeping] [eerie music]

- [Doctor] I'm not giving, taking.

[eerie music continues] - This is the shit

that the Doc was draining for me.

[tense music] [machine beeping]

This green pill, did you take this too?

- Yeah. [tense music continues]

- Do you think they were fabricating

these high stress scenarios? - To create a reaction.

- That's why they were giving this shit

to the Teal Blues first because they're the most aggressive.

I mean, I wasn't supposed to get my hands on this shit,

and then I did, and I had the strongest reaction.

That's why they're draining me to make this.

[tense music continues]

They're trying to sell these abilities.

[tense music continues] [machine beeping]

[case rattling] I'm gonna sell it too.

[pills rattling] [tense music continues]

[machine beeping] [door rattling]

[tense music continues]

Does this look like $7,000 worth?

[tense music continues] - Probably 70,000.

[pills rattling] What, are you

just gonna sell it to them and go to Mexico?

- Is that not the plan? [tense music continues]

- What about Score, what about Knives, Red Seven?

What about me? [tense music continues]

- I do not have time for this shit.

- Every time with you it's always about saving your own ass.

- Yeah, because it's my ass on the line.

- You could do the right thing, Rob, but you never do.

[tense music continues]

- Wait, how do you know my name?

[tense music continues]

I haven't told anyone in here my name.

I said how do you know my name?

[tense music continues]

[boom rattling] [vehicle roaring]

[tense music continues] [vehicles droning]

[door rattling] [tense music continues]

[doors slamming] [birds chirping]

- And where is my money? - I don't have the cash.

[tense music continues] But I have this.

[guns loading] [tense music continues]

- Excuse my children,

they're still learning the family business.

[tense music continues] [birds chirping]

Now what's that shit?

- It's experimental, but it works

and it's worth a lot more than 7,000.

- I got plenty of that shit. - No, you don't, this is new.

[tense music continues] [birds chirping]

It's better, comes out of me, tell him.

[tense music continues] - I don't know

what he's talking about, that shit doesn't work.

He's scamming you. [tense music continues]

[guns loading] [birds chirping]

[tense music continues] - Don't make me use this.

- I could say the same shit.

[tense music continues] [birds chirping]

[air whooshing] [guns shooting]

[tense music continues]

[air whooshing] [glass shattering]

[tense music continues] Time to use real weapons.

[tense music continues]

- Dad, he shot your car. [tense music continues]

- Shit, don't kill him, shoot him in the leg.

[tense music continues] [feet scuffling]

[gun loading] [tense music continues]

[air whooshing] [glass shattering]

[feet thumping] - How the hell

did you do that? - I don't know.

[tense music continues]

- They're never gonna let you go now, follow me.

- [Rob] Hey, hey. - Get him.

- Wait, what's the point?

Pancho is shot and this little shit is too strong.

- You want him to sell his juice to the Belasco cartel?

Then we're gonna be really done for.

[gun loading] - But not today.

- Good girl, now find them

and bring them to me in one piece.

I wanna laugh when I shoot his eyes out.

Then we can drain his ass for all he's got.

[tense music continues] [feet scuffling]

- Was this your plan all along?

[tense music continues]

You're acting like you need this money more than I do.

- This is our only chance to get out.

[tense music continues] - Stop, give it to me, now.

[tense music continues] - Trust me.

[feet scuffling] [tense music continues]

- Look what you boy tried to sell me.

I thought you didn't have anything in here.

- I just extracted it, I wanted to surprise you.

- Well, I'm surprised, now I have a surprise for you.

[tense music continues] - Trust me,

you don't wanna do that, we still need him.

Well son, you made a whole mess

of things again, haven't you? - What do you mean again?

- Red, listen to me, you have to remember.

[eerie music] Remember, Red.

- I do remember. [eerie music continues]

You were telling me the truth that time, weren't you?

You're a product of this lab, you're an experiment.

You were born here. [eerie music continues]

She's how you make this stuff.

You're the real black shirt.

That's the only thing that makes sense.

[eerie music continues] - Product of the lab,

born here, can never leave. [eerie music continues]

But it's not just me, it's you,

and Knives, Score, Red Seven, [eerie music continues]

we've all been part of the same experiment our whole lives.

- Prove it. [eerie music continues]

- You wanted to know where I got this scar.

- Careful Magenta, your words could break him.

[eerie music continues] - I got it from you, Red.

[eerie music continues]

- More mind games, it has to be.

I've never been here before. [eerie music continues]

I make movies, make believe.

I'm not a full-time patient, a permanent lab rat.

What did you mean when you said I gave you the scar?

[eerie music continues] [machine beeping]

- It was from an earlier experiment,

before your reset last time.

[eerie music continues] [machine beeping]

Everything went wrong.

[eerie music continues] [machine beeping]

It always goes wrong.

- So you're saying I've been in here with you before?

- You ask me that every time. - I'm asking you again.

Why do you keep trying to help me?

[eerie music continues] [machine beeping]

- I wouldn't listen to her, son,

she's not right in the head.

- Why do you keep calling me son?

[eerie music continues] [machine beeping]

- Hell of a story, isn't it?

It's not every day that your reality shatters

before your eyes.

- What the hell's going on here?

[eerie music continues] [machine beeping]

- You're an experiment, son.

Our first successful extraction.

- Street drugs are for punks.

The real money is in the legal drug business.

Trillion dollar a year industry.

And this is gonna set us right on top.

We like addiction, we need addiction to survive.

- The lab upstairs is actually real.

It's what helps fund this lower lab.

The rest comes from our cartel friends.

- You know, there's this theory

that if you started your life over again,

you'd run into the same people

who are important in your life and you always turn on them.

Every time we erase your memory, start you over again,

you find a way to screw your friends over for your own skin.

It's your flaw, son.

Your shirt keeps changing, but you never do.

[eerie music continues] [flesh squelching]

[eerie music continues] [machine beeping]

It's taught me that you can't change your destiny

or your fate.

[eerie music continues] [machine beeping]

[chair rattling] [eerie music continues]

- [Rob] They're draining my abilities.

I'll have to start from scratch again, be reset.

Go back to being a vegetable. [tense music]

I have to fight it. [tense music continues]

The Black Shirt, it all makes sense now.

Who he is. [tense music continues]

It was right there in front of me all along.

[tense music continues]

The Black Shirt is in his own experiment.

Aren't we all? [tense music continues]

The Black Shirt is the most powerful.

[tense music continues]

[tense music] [plaster ripping]

[tense music continues] [feet thumping]

[bell ringing] [doors rattling]

- [Doctor] You find a way to screw your friends over

for your own skin. [tense music continues]

[door rattling] [door thumping]

[tense music continues]

[belt rattling] [belt whooshing]

[tense music continues] [machine beeping]

- You wanna know your movie ends, Red?

[tense music continues] You don't make it out.

- Thanks for the heads up. [tense music continues]

- Did you spoil another ending?

[tense music continues] - Don't move.

[Knives thumping] [nurse thumping]

[tense music continues]

[placid music] - So very Ennio.

[hands thumping] - The song's not over yet.

- Yeah. - Score, Knives, Red Seven,

it's payback time. - Oh, we're breaking out?

Oh yeah, I got just the thing.

[tense music]

- So we're all products of the lab.

- Yeah, now we're taking it back.

- It's time to stick it to the man.

- Hell, yeah. [tense music continues]

We got to get you a red shirt.

[tense music continues]

[Red Seven thumping] [knife whooshing]

- Hey asshole, I see you've met my favorite knife.

[tense music continues] [feet thumping]

- You came back, for all of us.

[tense music continues] [scalpel whooshing]

- Enough, I can get by with one less test subject.

- Fight him, Magenta. - She has no power

except what she gets from the drug and that faded long ago.

[tense music continues] [fists thumping]

[scalpel whooshing] [tense music continues]

- You okay? - I was always okay.

I just needed you to make the right choice

'cause only assholes can create this kind of power.

And you're not an asshole, Red.

You don't even need the drug.

All the power comes from you and he knows it.

- You really think this is happening, huh?

That you could actually shoot from your finger, pu, pu, pu?

That there's really Zombies chasing you, mm?

That she loves you? - Then let them go

and I'll never resist again,

I'm the only black shirt you need.

[tense music continues] Let them go right now

and I'll never leave.

[tense music continues] [machine beeping]

Either that or you try your best

to scoop my abilities off this fucking floor.

[tense music continues] [machine beeping]

[scalpel whooshing] [feet scraping]

[tense music continues] And give them

the money you owe me, $7,000. - Sure, son.

[tense music continues] [door rattling]

- I don't believe it, getting us out with full pay.

[dramatic music] [waves whooshing]

[dramatic music continues] [waves whooshing]

[dramatic music continues]

[placid music] [chattering]

- That reminds me.

No one talks to the black shirt.

He's in his own experiment.

[placid music] [chattering]

- [Magenta] Remember me, Red, remember us.

[placid music] [chattering]

- [Rob] Life is an experiment.

And we are its lab rats.

But how it all turns out [chess piece thumping]

is within our own power.

[tense music]

[placid music]

[upbeat music]

[knife whooshing] [placid music]

[placid music continues]