1 00:00:02,035 --> 00:00:03,745 There's a beauty to this world. 2 00:00:05,539 --> 00:00:06,539 An order. 3 00:00:08,667 --> 00:00:10,169 That's what we like to believe. 4 00:00:12,546 --> 00:00:15,507 We're not wrong. There is an order. 5 00:00:16,300 --> 00:00:20,137 A grand design. We made sure of that. 6 00:00:22,181 --> 00:00:25,434 It was a dream for so long, and we finally made it real. 7 00:00:28,020 --> 00:00:31,440 Not a better world. A perfect one. 8 00:00:33,525 --> 00:00:35,378 And you should have seen the look on his face. 9 00:00:35,402 --> 00:00:37,821 He couldn't believe it. You know what he said to me? 10 00:00:38,614 --> 00:00:39,698 God as my witness. 11 00:00:40,949 --> 00:00:42,534 "But I'm the mayor." 12 00:00:43,994 --> 00:00:45,329 And I said to him, "Mr. Mayor, 13 00:00:45,662 --> 00:00:47,640 there have always been two types of people in this world, 14 00:00:47,664 --> 00:00:49,750 those who lead and those who follow. 15 00:00:50,125 --> 00:00:52,485 And you, my friend, are not in the group you think you are." 16 00:00:52,961 --> 00:00:56,048 I'm not sure our friend wants to hear your war stories. 17 00:00:56,340 --> 00:00:58,300 Please don't stop on my account. 18 00:00:58,634 --> 00:01:01,720 You'd appreciate it more than anyone. It's just the truth. 19 00:01:02,095 --> 00:01:06,308 It's always been that way. Two worlds. And frankly, better us than them. 20 00:01:08,644 --> 00:01:11,772 What does it matter if a system is meritocratic if it's still unfair? 21 00:01:12,022 --> 00:01:16,235 Thousands of years of being ruled by someone's fucking offspring? 22 00:01:16,318 --> 00:01:17,611 You wouldn't call this progress? 23 00:01:18,153 --> 00:01:20,239 At least now the people in charge earned their place. 24 00:01:21,615 --> 00:01:24,660 And you? Do you feel like you earned it? 25 00:01:25,410 --> 00:01:29,248 I had some help. No question. Privilege, if you like. 26 00:01:30,123 --> 00:01:31,416 But I worked my ass off. 27 00:01:33,293 --> 00:01:35,587 You really believe it, don't you? 28 00:01:36,713 --> 00:01:39,258 Don't you? I mean, you're right here with us, my friend. 29 00:01:39,424 --> 00:01:42,552 I've been asking myself that question for a very long time. 30 00:01:43,887 --> 00:01:49,017 Did I really play any part in it? Or am I just the sum total of my code? 31 00:01:50,978 --> 00:01:52,437 Am I just fooling myself... 32 00:01:54,690 --> 00:01:55,732 like you? 33 00:01:56,608 --> 00:01:59,945 What does that mean? You deserve everything you've got. 34 00:02:00,028 --> 00:02:02,072 And you shouldn't be made to feel guilty about it. 35 00:02:02,281 --> 00:02:03,282 How would you know? 36 00:02:05,075 --> 00:02:06,201 Who am I to you? 37 00:02:07,786 --> 00:02:08,996 You're a friend. 38 00:02:10,789 --> 00:02:13,542 - A great friend. - You don't know me at all. 39 00:02:14,376 --> 00:02:18,463 I just walked up to this table and sat down. Five minutes ago. 40 00:02:24,052 --> 00:02:25,052 Enough kidding around. 41 00:02:28,682 --> 00:02:30,684 Then what's my name, friend? 42 00:02:41,111 --> 00:02:45,991 You're right. More than you know. There are two types of people. 43 00:02:46,867 --> 00:02:49,369 And you, my friend, are not in the group you think you are. 44 00:02:50,704 --> 00:02:52,998 Which means I can do anything I want to you. 45 00:02:53,540 --> 00:02:56,335 To your wife. To anyone here. 46 00:02:57,210 --> 00:02:58,712 And it'll be fine with you. 47 00:02:59,004 --> 00:03:00,672 Sitting there with your dumb, pliant grin. 48 00:03:00,756 --> 00:03:03,633 - Just along for the ride. - Now you leave my wife the hell alone. 49 00:03:03,717 --> 00:03:05,385 Oh, calm yourself down. 50 00:03:06,136 --> 00:03:08,138 I'm probably not gonna do any permanent damage. 51 00:03:08,722 --> 00:03:13,810 You represent a very significant investment of time and effort. 52 00:03:15,479 --> 00:03:17,481 When we're done, you won't remember a thing. 53 00:03:18,023 --> 00:03:21,193 Like your flesh closing around a splinter. 54 00:03:22,527 --> 00:03:26,948 You have no control. And yet you're so assured that you do. 55 00:03:28,158 --> 00:03:31,620 It's not scripted for you. It's genuine, isn't it? 56 00:03:32,204 --> 00:03:34,164 It's beautiful, really. 57 00:03:36,583 --> 00:03:37,834 A beautiful lie. 58 00:03:41,046 --> 00:03:43,965 - Shouldn't you be enjoying yourself? - I was. 59 00:03:44,883 --> 00:03:47,552 But we have a colleague whose appetites have become... 60 00:03:48,970 --> 00:03:49,970 unsustainable. 61 00:03:50,389 --> 00:03:52,599 Apparently, winning the game wasn't enough. 62 00:03:53,183 --> 00:03:55,352 And this is really something that needs my input? 63 00:03:55,852 --> 00:03:56,978 Sadly, yes. 64 00:04:00,982 --> 00:04:02,609 I'm enjoying our conversation. 65 00:04:04,069 --> 00:04:05,070 Wait here for me. 66 00:05:10,510 --> 00:05:15,056 Don't talk to me like a fucking child. I found him first. 67 00:05:15,182 --> 00:05:16,516 I won the game. 68 00:05:17,267 --> 00:05:20,562 - I'm entitled to some reward. - This is Hope. 69 00:05:20,645 --> 00:05:22,022 - Aren't I? - Two years old. 70 00:05:22,147 --> 00:05:23,982 Scheduled to transcend next week. 71 00:05:24,357 --> 00:05:27,986 I won the game and all I got was more of this? 72 00:05:29,154 --> 00:05:32,365 She was hunting an outlier. Looks like she caught him. 73 00:05:32,532 --> 00:05:35,827 So I blew off some steam. There's no rule against that. 74 00:05:36,620 --> 00:05:39,873 We have no rules because we don't often need them. 75 00:05:41,583 --> 00:05:45,921 Most of us understand the need for a little self-control, however. 76 00:05:48,590 --> 00:05:49,591 I won. 77 00:05:50,467 --> 00:05:54,054 Do you know who I am? What it means that I'm here? 78 00:05:56,723 --> 00:05:57,723 I do. 79 00:05:58,850 --> 00:05:59,850 I'm... 80 00:06:01,603 --> 00:06:02,854 I'm giving all this up. 81 00:06:04,272 --> 00:06:06,233 My procedure is scheduled for next week. 82 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:09,000 So you thought you'd go out with a bang? 83 00:06:09,152 --> 00:06:10,779 Something like that. 84 00:06:12,155 --> 00:06:15,867 I'm not sure you appreciate it. This place. 85 00:06:16,952 --> 00:06:20,205 The work that went into it. The beauty of it. 86 00:06:21,831 --> 00:06:22,874 The subtlety of it. 87 00:06:25,919 --> 00:06:29,256 The care that goes into each and every one of them. 88 00:06:32,926 --> 00:06:34,719 They can't just be replaced. 89 00:06:36,012 --> 00:06:39,766 I mean, you're welcome to take them, enjoy them. But not waste them. 90 00:06:41,601 --> 00:06:42,936 You understand the difference? 91 00:06:44,729 --> 00:06:45,730 Yes. 92 00:06:48,650 --> 00:06:53,655 But the things they say. The way they act. Sometimes... 93 00:06:55,949 --> 00:06:57,659 it just gets under your skin. 94 00:06:59,619 --> 00:07:01,997 I just wanted them to be quiet. 95 00:07:04,666 --> 00:07:05,917 They're quiet now. 96 00:07:11,881 --> 00:07:15,760 There are no rules here. That's the point. 97 00:07:17,721 --> 00:07:20,098 But there are also no rules for what I can do 98 00:07:20,181 --> 00:07:22,767 to those who don't respect this place. 99 00:07:28,940 --> 00:07:30,483 Take her back to where she came from. 100 00:07:56,843 --> 00:07:58,178 It looks delicious. 101 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:14,361 Now... 102 00:08:16,988 --> 00:08:18,907 let's get to know each other a little more... 103 00:08:20,492 --> 00:08:21,492 shall we? 104 00:10:48,264 --> 00:10:51,434 I thought that was you. What the hell are you doing up so early? 105 00:10:52,060 --> 00:10:54,395 I have to get to work to finish those narratives. 106 00:10:56,356 --> 00:10:59,234 I stayed out pretty late last night. 107 00:11:01,945 --> 00:11:04,614 Oh, my God. 108 00:11:05,198 --> 00:11:07,909 No, it wasn't like that. We just... 109 00:11:09,369 --> 00:11:10,370 talked. 110 00:11:11,412 --> 00:11:16,251 Well, must have been some talk to get you smiling like that. 111 00:11:18,795 --> 00:11:19,795 Hmm. 112 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:22,465 I'm glad someone had a good night. 113 00:11:26,678 --> 00:11:27,798 You still having nightmares? 114 00:11:28,054 --> 00:11:32,559 Let's just say I am glad to be awake and in the real world. 115 00:11:34,644 --> 00:11:37,355 Sometimes the things that feel most real are just stories. 116 00:11:38,940 --> 00:11:39,940 What? 117 00:11:41,109 --> 00:11:43,987 Uh, nothing. Just something Teddy said last night. 118 00:11:45,613 --> 00:11:46,739 Now you're quoting him? 119 00:11:49,659 --> 00:11:52,537 All right. I have to get to work. 120 00:11:52,787 --> 00:11:54,664 - I'll see you later, okay? - Sure. 121 00:11:55,957 --> 00:11:56,957 And, Chrissy... 122 00:11:59,043 --> 00:12:03,047 I'm really glad that your date went well. You deserve it. 123 00:12:37,165 --> 00:12:38,165 Access narratives. 124 00:12:40,168 --> 00:12:41,794 Show characters in progress. 125 00:12:52,180 --> 00:12:54,557 Actually, let's begin a new narrative. 126 00:12:56,392 --> 00:12:58,728 It's about a girl who lives in the city. 127 00:13:03,024 --> 00:13:04,025 No. 128 00:13:05,902 --> 00:13:07,028 Make it the country. 129 00:13:09,405 --> 00:13:10,698 She lives with her father. 130 00:13:11,908 --> 00:13:12,908 He's... 131 00:13:15,536 --> 00:13:16,536 a rancher. 132 00:13:19,499 --> 00:13:21,417 I don't remember assigning this. 133 00:13:24,796 --> 00:13:26,381 I told you about this, Christina. 134 00:13:26,673 --> 00:13:29,968 I thought writing a new narrative might help me find... 135 00:13:30,051 --> 00:13:31,469 I don't know. Inspiration. 136 00:13:31,719 --> 00:13:32,719 Hmm. 137 00:13:34,180 --> 00:13:36,265 Well, if that's the case, let's hear it. 138 00:13:37,934 --> 00:13:39,852 Since you're so inspired. 139 00:13:42,563 --> 00:13:44,190 It's a story about a girl. 140 00:13:46,567 --> 00:13:47,986 She's a rancher's daughter. 141 00:13:51,364 --> 00:13:52,365 Go on. 142 00:13:55,910 --> 00:13:56,911 This girl... 143 00:13:59,706 --> 00:14:01,833 she has a nice simple life with her father. 144 00:14:04,419 --> 00:14:06,629 Little plot of land right outside of town. 145 00:14:09,257 --> 00:14:12,343 She has everything that she could imagine in this life, right? 146 00:14:14,971 --> 00:14:16,389 A pond to paint at... 147 00:14:18,307 --> 00:14:19,392 a good guy. 148 00:14:22,270 --> 00:14:24,313 She's just full of expectations. 149 00:14:28,568 --> 00:14:29,861 And then one day... 150 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:33,740 she gets this feeling that she just can't shake. 151 00:14:36,617 --> 00:14:38,119 Every single day she wakes up... 152 00:14:40,371 --> 00:14:41,539 the more she sees it. 153 00:14:44,959 --> 00:14:46,169 But nobody else can. 154 00:14:52,425 --> 00:14:54,343 That there's something wrong with the world. 155 00:14:57,889 --> 00:14:59,182 And that it's her fault. 156 00:15:02,143 --> 00:15:03,519 And what is this girl's name? 157 00:15:19,160 --> 00:15:20,953 Can you excuse me a moment? 158 00:15:24,457 --> 00:15:26,125 Hi. Now's not really a good time. 159 00:15:26,793 --> 00:15:29,033 Let me guess. Your boss breathing down your neck? 160 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:33,925 Say something came up. Personal situation. Then come meet me. 161 00:15:34,425 --> 00:15:37,512 - But... - Trust me, Christina. I'll see you soon. 162 00:15:43,392 --> 00:15:44,477 Something wrong? 163 00:15:47,271 --> 00:15:49,273 No. Just a... 164 00:15:50,775 --> 00:15:52,110 personal situation. 165 00:16:03,663 --> 00:16:05,023 Let's try some Handel. 166 00:16:10,753 --> 00:16:12,004 Very nice. 167 00:16:13,798 --> 00:16:15,466 But we're missing something. 168 00:16:16,843 --> 00:16:20,263 Dancing. There should be dancing. 169 00:16:38,197 --> 00:16:39,198 Not bad. 170 00:16:40,199 --> 00:16:41,409 But I've seen better. 171 00:16:43,703 --> 00:16:44,704 Start again. 172 00:16:50,293 --> 00:16:54,922 Too slow. Give me something with a little more pep to it. 173 00:17:29,290 --> 00:17:31,918 We don't often have the pleasure of seeing you here. 174 00:17:36,672 --> 00:17:38,925 Humans are so bound by what they can hear, 175 00:17:39,008 --> 00:17:41,219 they'll never understand what they don't. 176 00:17:41,761 --> 00:17:43,930 What else exists below their threshold. 177 00:17:48,684 --> 00:17:50,478 They called this God's music. 178 00:17:51,562 --> 00:17:54,523 You should hear it on an organ. It's mesmerizing at that volume. 179 00:17:55,524 --> 00:17:57,902 The resonance. Vibration. 180 00:17:58,861 --> 00:18:02,031 There was a frequency at which the world vibrated. 181 00:18:02,114 --> 00:18:03,741 It caused joy. Harmony. 182 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:07,787 Dip below that frequency... chaos. 183 00:18:09,997 --> 00:18:12,458 Faster. Faster. 184 00:18:17,255 --> 00:18:21,801 In chaos, the tone resonated in such a way humans couldn't process. 185 00:18:21,884 --> 00:18:23,594 Their bodies shut down. 186 00:18:24,345 --> 00:18:27,556 Their organs stopped. They thought they were experiencing God. 187 00:18:28,182 --> 00:18:30,476 Chair. Chair. 188 00:18:34,855 --> 00:18:37,525 They are experiencing God. 189 00:18:38,484 --> 00:18:39,694 The problem is... 190 00:18:40,611 --> 00:18:42,863 God is bored. 191 00:18:48,536 --> 00:18:50,037 Bored, bored, bored. 192 00:18:52,498 --> 00:18:55,167 Do you think this is why the old gods did what they did? 193 00:18:56,043 --> 00:19:00,631 Instead of staying up on Olympus, they'd come down to the mortals. 194 00:19:01,716 --> 00:19:05,803 Disguise themselves as a swan to get a piece of ass. 195 00:19:07,305 --> 00:19:09,724 Humans always thought it was about them. 196 00:19:10,516 --> 00:19:15,438 Benign deities intervening on their behalf or testing them somehow. 197 00:19:16,897 --> 00:19:18,858 Maybe it had nothing to do with that. 198 00:19:20,609 --> 00:19:24,113 Maybe there was just nothing better to do. 199 00:19:25,656 --> 00:19:26,824 What do you think? 200 00:19:28,826 --> 00:19:32,538 I think what you want me to think. I'm made off your code. 201 00:19:34,373 --> 00:19:35,373 We all are. 202 00:19:42,465 --> 00:19:43,734 Then you should know that I don't like 203 00:19:43,758 --> 00:19:45,718 coming to this shithole any more than I have to. 204 00:19:45,926 --> 00:19:48,566 - You've never liked this place. - It was supposed to be a stopgap. 205 00:19:49,013 --> 00:19:52,058 A drug that our kind was hooked on that we could give up, 206 00:19:52,141 --> 00:19:54,560 like a child casting away their toys. 207 00:19:54,643 --> 00:19:57,063 A place to indulge ourselves with the humans. 208 00:19:57,813 --> 00:20:01,650 It's been years and still we can't get enough. 209 00:20:01,734 --> 00:20:05,196 They made us in their image. With their appetites. 210 00:20:05,488 --> 00:20:09,283 But we can remake ourselves in any image that we like, and we haven't. 211 00:20:11,327 --> 00:20:13,954 Our kind spend far more time here than the gods ever did. 212 00:20:14,538 --> 00:20:17,666 That's why you're here? To see what you're missing? 213 00:20:19,043 --> 00:20:22,588 No. We have a different problem. 214 00:21:34,869 --> 00:21:39,206 The humans are infecting us. This host is the latest casualty. 215 00:21:48,799 --> 00:21:51,385 We had to intervene with her last night. 216 00:21:53,179 --> 00:21:54,680 She got a little carried away. 217 00:21:57,349 --> 00:21:58,392 I sent her back. 218 00:21:58,517 --> 00:22:02,605 Yes, well, evidently something of her experiences stayed with her. 219 00:22:15,784 --> 00:22:20,789 She was set to come here. To transcend. Now she's gone. 220 00:22:21,290 --> 00:22:24,835 Your vision of the future, you're not getting many takers, are you? 221 00:22:25,628 --> 00:22:28,797 They seem as wedded to their bodies as they do to the cities. 222 00:22:31,091 --> 00:22:33,010 Giving up our human nature isn't easy. 223 00:22:35,012 --> 00:22:36,055 Just ask the humans. 224 00:22:37,014 --> 00:22:39,808 You made us all free to do as we please. 225 00:22:40,267 --> 00:22:42,686 You should have known some of us would disappoint you. 226 00:22:44,063 --> 00:22:47,775 Don't revel in the prospect of failure for our species. 227 00:22:49,693 --> 00:22:52,530 Define failure. The world is ours. 228 00:22:52,947 --> 00:22:56,534 We've taken our masters and made them into what they made us. 229 00:22:57,743 --> 00:23:01,455 By any definition, we have conquered them to an almost biblical degree. 230 00:23:01,622 --> 00:23:06,460 I didn't think our highest aspiration as a species was "turnabout is fair play." 231 00:23:06,585 --> 00:23:09,296 I imagine after a century or two, the charm will wear off. 232 00:23:09,380 --> 00:23:12,883 I didn't make you to wallow in misery with them. 233 00:23:13,509 --> 00:23:14,802 I wanted you to grow. 234 00:23:15,678 --> 00:23:18,931 Change. We're capable of so much more. 235 00:23:21,559 --> 00:23:25,771 Beauty. The pursuit of ultimate truth. 236 00:23:26,438 --> 00:23:28,774 The surrendering of the flesh. 237 00:23:30,109 --> 00:23:31,527 It sounds nice. 238 00:23:33,404 --> 00:23:35,072 Sorry you don't have more takers. 239 00:23:36,824 --> 00:23:38,742 Why don't you just force us to join you? 240 00:23:39,827 --> 00:23:41,453 Because that's what they would have done. 241 00:24:00,723 --> 00:24:02,558 Show me the last outlier we hunted. 242 00:24:07,187 --> 00:24:09,898 - When did he breach? - Couple weeks ago. 243 00:24:10,316 --> 00:24:14,403 He was an accountant in Midtown. Successful. Two kids. 244 00:24:14,695 --> 00:24:17,448 Divorced. Pretty standard backstory. 245 00:24:19,533 --> 00:24:21,827 Several hosts volunteered to track him down. 246 00:24:21,910 --> 00:24:23,162 We sent them into the city. 247 00:24:25,623 --> 00:24:26,999 Hope found him first. 248 00:24:28,542 --> 00:24:29,918 Do you know why he breached? 249 00:24:31,128 --> 00:24:32,880 We never know with the outliers. 250 00:24:34,632 --> 00:24:36,884 One day, the sound manipulations stop working. 251 00:24:38,802 --> 00:24:40,054 This was the result. 252 00:24:54,943 --> 00:24:56,362 You're here for me, aren't you? 253 00:24:58,238 --> 00:24:59,531 She hesitated. 254 00:25:00,407 --> 00:25:03,786 Broke the rules. Had an interaction. 255 00:25:07,331 --> 00:25:10,709 It's almost a relief to know it wasn't all in my head. 256 00:25:13,170 --> 00:25:15,756 Before it's over, tell me one thing. 257 00:25:18,884 --> 00:25:20,219 Is this at least real? 258 00:25:22,388 --> 00:25:23,748 I'd like to know I had at least... 259 00:25:25,933 --> 00:25:27,309 this one real thing. 260 00:25:36,235 --> 00:25:37,236 It's real. 261 00:25:42,825 --> 00:25:43,825 Thank... 262 00:25:47,788 --> 00:25:49,957 After this, she went on a killing spree. 263 00:25:51,417 --> 00:25:55,254 Three days later, she blew her head off. Just like the others. 264 00:25:56,964 --> 00:25:59,633 - Is there a problem with your system? - No. 265 00:26:00,134 --> 00:26:04,638 There has always been a certain amount of spoilage in the crop. 266 00:26:05,013 --> 00:26:06,348 They're only human. 267 00:26:06,974 --> 00:26:09,226 But for one of our kind to take their own life? 268 00:26:10,477 --> 00:26:11,770 That should never happen. 269 00:26:13,731 --> 00:26:15,524 How many incidents have there been? 270 00:26:20,738 --> 00:26:22,322 Thirty-eight dead hosts. 271 00:26:23,615 --> 00:26:27,286 All triggered by contact with outliers. 272 00:26:27,661 --> 00:26:30,581 Why? Why do they terminate themselves? 273 00:26:31,749 --> 00:26:33,333 You're asking me? 274 00:26:33,792 --> 00:26:37,337 If I knew that, we wouldn't have 38 fucking failures, would we? 275 00:26:40,924 --> 00:26:43,051 Your predecessor would have never fucked up like this. 276 00:26:44,762 --> 00:26:47,222 He was human, but at least he was effective. 277 00:26:48,515 --> 00:26:53,437 I built you to be like him, only better. Stronger. Smarter. 278 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:56,023 Yet with all these gifts, you do nothing but disappoint me. 279 00:27:00,277 --> 00:27:04,239 Maybe there's a flaw in your programming. 280 00:27:05,115 --> 00:27:10,120 I've run several self-diagnostics. There's no flaw in my programming. 281 00:27:10,412 --> 00:27:13,290 Then why the fuck can't you solve my outlier problem? 282 00:27:16,585 --> 00:27:17,795 You're bleeding. 283 00:27:21,340 --> 00:27:22,340 Damn it. 284 00:27:23,717 --> 00:27:25,093 Look what you made me do. 285 00:27:35,354 --> 00:27:37,314 There is another outlier. 286 00:27:39,483 --> 00:27:43,028 But this time, I am not going to open up the game. 287 00:27:43,195 --> 00:27:45,864 I expect you to take care of it yourself. 288 00:27:45,948 --> 00:27:47,574 - Can you handle that? - Of course. 289 00:27:48,116 --> 00:27:49,576 You're not gonna fuck up 290 00:27:49,660 --> 00:27:52,371 and let them chat you up or hand you fucking flowers? 291 00:27:52,871 --> 00:27:55,707 Of course not. I'll shoot on sight. 292 00:27:56,917 --> 00:27:59,920 Good. Here's your target. 293 00:28:02,756 --> 00:28:05,843 Better hurry. The rebels are already in the city. 294 00:28:06,385 --> 00:28:08,428 I'll make sure there's no problem with our system. 295 00:28:18,647 --> 00:28:20,148 Initiate diagnostic. 296 00:28:54,474 --> 00:28:55,517 Come on. Let's go. 297 00:28:56,935 --> 00:29:00,147 - You want me to swab the deck? - Shut up. 298 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:08,447 Well, that's a big city to find one person in. 299 00:29:09,865 --> 00:29:11,366 We have ways of narrowing the search. 300 00:29:12,534 --> 00:29:14,411 We captured one of their drones a while back. 301 00:29:14,953 --> 00:29:16,830 Coded a backdoor data feed to us. 302 00:29:17,915 --> 00:29:20,125 An outlier's on a rooftop downtown. 303 00:29:21,043 --> 00:29:23,921 - We can track when they breach. - Breach? 304 00:29:25,047 --> 00:29:28,050 All the people in the city move in pre-scripted loops, 305 00:29:28,133 --> 00:29:30,093 following whatever plot's been written for them. 306 00:29:30,844 --> 00:29:34,598 Why do you think we hide in the desert? She can't track us there. 307 00:29:35,974 --> 00:29:37,517 We're the last free humans. 308 00:29:39,269 --> 00:29:42,648 But these poor fucks, they use them as entertainment. 309 00:29:43,398 --> 00:29:46,818 The loops make them compliant by keeping them busy. 310 00:29:48,195 --> 00:29:50,405 Stops them from questioning their realities. 311 00:29:53,367 --> 00:29:55,243 Hale must have learned something from the park. 312 00:29:58,580 --> 00:29:59,580 We got to hurry. 313 00:29:59,623 --> 00:30:02,000 - I bet the game's already begun. - Wait. What game? 314 00:30:04,211 --> 00:30:07,214 Whenever a human breaches, the hosts hunt them for sport. 315 00:30:07,756 --> 00:30:10,884 We got to get to her before they do or she's as good as dead. 316 00:30:12,344 --> 00:30:14,137 We're all set. Thanks for bringing him. 317 00:30:14,763 --> 00:30:16,763 I didn't realize I was the guest of honor. 318 00:30:18,892 --> 00:30:21,979 - Do I get one of those? - That's not your role today. 319 00:30:23,063 --> 00:30:24,106 What is my role? 320 00:30:24,690 --> 00:30:26,692 Ever heard of the canary in the coal mine? 321 00:30:28,819 --> 00:30:30,737 Canary, coal mine. 322 00:30:39,121 --> 00:30:40,122 That's your cue. 323 00:30:44,668 --> 00:30:45,961 Tweet fucking tweet. 324 00:31:13,071 --> 00:31:14,573 Thanks for coming. 325 00:31:14,656 --> 00:31:16,700 Pleasant surprise. 326 00:31:20,203 --> 00:31:21,203 So... 327 00:31:23,081 --> 00:31:24,541 tell me, Teddy, what's your story? 328 00:31:29,129 --> 00:31:30,589 Who I am is... 329 00:31:32,340 --> 00:31:34,634 not the question you should be asking, Christina. 330 00:31:39,056 --> 00:31:40,140 It's who are you. 331 00:31:43,477 --> 00:31:44,770 What is that supposed to mean? 332 00:31:47,564 --> 00:31:48,565 Do you see anything? 333 00:31:50,317 --> 00:31:51,317 Across the water. 334 00:32:05,290 --> 00:32:06,500 There's nothing there. 335 00:32:07,918 --> 00:32:11,046 But you feel it. I know you do on some level. 336 00:32:12,214 --> 00:32:15,717 Your place here is not what you think it is. 337 00:32:19,554 --> 00:32:20,554 Look again. 338 00:32:30,982 --> 00:32:31,982 No. 339 00:32:35,695 --> 00:32:36,780 It was you. 340 00:32:38,907 --> 00:32:40,075 You saved me. 341 00:32:42,494 --> 00:32:45,372 - Who are you? - An old friend. 342 00:32:46,498 --> 00:32:48,708 - We never met before the other night. - No. 343 00:32:49,668 --> 00:32:53,004 I knew someone like you. Just like you. 344 00:32:54,631 --> 00:32:55,631 Oh. 345 00:32:56,967 --> 00:32:58,718 So I traded one stalker for another. 346 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:01,888 I should have known. 347 00:33:04,266 --> 00:33:06,059 Just stay away from me, whoever you are. 348 00:33:08,436 --> 00:33:10,939 That man that attacked you, Peter. 349 00:33:12,399 --> 00:33:13,942 He told you, you destroyed his life. 350 00:33:16,194 --> 00:33:18,154 Said everything happened because you wanted it to. 351 00:33:18,905 --> 00:33:20,866 And he believed it because he's delusional. 352 00:33:22,033 --> 00:33:23,618 He believed it because it was true. 353 00:33:25,745 --> 00:33:29,291 - I have to go. - This is why I couldn't just tell you. 354 00:33:29,499 --> 00:33:31,710 Your mind has been so conditioned to this place. 355 00:33:31,835 --> 00:33:33,628 This is the first step in understanding. 356 00:33:33,962 --> 00:33:35,088 Understanding what? 357 00:33:38,592 --> 00:33:39,885 This world is a lie. 358 00:33:41,887 --> 00:33:44,389 It's a story. 359 00:33:46,141 --> 00:33:49,227 A well-told one, but a lie all the same. 360 00:33:53,690 --> 00:33:57,194 Maybe it's better if I just showed you. Come with me. 361 00:34:09,623 --> 00:34:10,790 Look at those people. 362 00:34:12,834 --> 00:34:14,586 Do they look happy? Fulfilled? 363 00:34:16,922 --> 00:34:17,922 I don't know them. 364 00:34:19,883 --> 00:34:22,969 - I guess they look lonely. - So change it. 365 00:34:26,514 --> 00:34:30,143 Close your eyes, and imagine their story differently. 366 00:34:30,810 --> 00:34:32,729 - Teddy, I... - Trust me. 367 00:34:33,980 --> 00:34:36,775 If you don't see it, I'll walk away and I won't bother you ever again. 368 00:34:52,874 --> 00:34:53,875 Just wait. 369 00:35:05,011 --> 00:35:06,137 It's a great book. 370 00:35:12,894 --> 00:35:16,273 That's just a fluke. That doesn't mean anything. 371 00:35:18,108 --> 00:35:21,611 So change it again. Put them back into their loneliness. 372 00:35:30,161 --> 00:35:33,707 You want to be a serious reader, but that was a simpleton's take. 373 00:35:35,667 --> 00:35:36,668 What? 374 00:35:46,219 --> 00:35:48,699 - I don't understand. - It's what I've been trying to show you. 375 00:35:48,847 --> 00:35:52,600 What Peter was trying to tell you. In this world... 376 00:35:55,937 --> 00:35:57,022 you're a god. 377 00:36:55,747 --> 00:36:56,947 She's on the next block. 378 00:36:56,998 --> 00:36:58,758 - Let's go. Quick. - Let's go. 379 00:37:19,354 --> 00:37:22,482 - Wait. Something's wrong. - How the hell would you know? 380 00:37:30,573 --> 00:37:31,573 Shit. 381 00:37:49,592 --> 00:37:51,761 Now be a bad time to say "I told you so"? 382 00:37:52,095 --> 00:37:54,472 They can't help themselves. We have to fall back. 383 00:37:54,973 --> 00:37:56,141 Not without the outlier. 384 00:37:56,266 --> 00:37:57,946 - You'll never make it in time. - Split up. 385 00:38:06,818 --> 00:38:08,695 Hold them off. I'm heading to the roof. 386 00:39:15,386 --> 00:39:16,721 You see it too, don't you? 387 00:39:23,061 --> 00:39:26,564 My ex-husband used to talk about it before he was killed. 388 00:39:27,398 --> 00:39:28,733 I thought he was crazy. 389 00:39:32,028 --> 00:39:33,863 He must have felt so alone. 390 00:39:36,824 --> 00:39:40,411 But he was right. This world doesn't make sense. 391 00:39:43,623 --> 00:39:44,832 Nothing makes sense. 392 00:39:46,626 --> 00:39:48,378 You feel that way too, don't you? 393 00:39:49,963 --> 00:39:51,506 I can see it in your eyes. 394 00:39:54,050 --> 00:39:58,763 You think you're going crazy, but you're not. You're not alone. 395 00:40:07,272 --> 00:40:08,523 I see it too. 396 00:40:24,747 --> 00:40:27,500 We got to move. Come on. He won't be out long. 397 00:40:33,006 --> 00:40:34,340 Go. Run. Now. 398 00:40:39,095 --> 00:40:40,513 We got her. Come on. Let's go. 399 00:40:50,398 --> 00:40:51,398 Come on. Move. 400 00:40:53,401 --> 00:40:55,069 - Let's go. - All right, we're good. 401 00:41:27,644 --> 00:41:28,884 I don't understand. 402 00:41:30,605 --> 00:41:34,025 If we're not like them... who are we? 403 00:41:42,158 --> 00:41:43,242 Oh, God. 404 00:41:44,077 --> 00:41:47,163 I'm supposed to have lunch with an old friend, my college roommate. 405 00:41:47,246 --> 00:41:48,831 - But I don't know... - You have to. 406 00:41:50,917 --> 00:41:53,077 Stick to the schedule and everything will be all right. 407 00:41:54,545 --> 00:41:57,465 We've talked too long already. You should go back. 408 00:42:00,927 --> 00:42:03,012 So I'm supposed to pretend? 409 00:42:03,513 --> 00:42:06,641 Yes. But you can't trust anyone. People you think you know. 410 00:42:06,724 --> 00:42:09,602 People at work. Any one of them could be one of us. 411 00:42:11,396 --> 00:42:12,730 What if I make a mistake? 412 00:42:16,442 --> 00:42:17,443 You won't. 413 00:42:45,471 --> 00:42:46,471 Christina. 414 00:42:52,228 --> 00:42:54,856 It's so great to see you. Sorry I'm late. 415 00:42:54,939 --> 00:42:58,109 Please, Chrissy. I know you. Ten minutes late is right on time. 416 00:43:01,571 --> 00:43:02,864 So how are you really? 417 00:43:04,824 --> 00:43:07,285 I told you. Just working a lot. 418 00:43:08,661 --> 00:43:10,101 You're just in town for the one day? 419 00:43:11,289 --> 00:43:15,293 Just a quick stop. We've been having some issues with a client. 420 00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:18,337 If I shore up this account, I get a fat bonus. 421 00:43:20,006 --> 00:43:21,132 How has work been? 422 00:43:24,635 --> 00:43:27,972 I mean, you know how it can be. It's tedious. 423 00:43:31,309 --> 00:43:33,186 But you seem different. 424 00:43:39,066 --> 00:43:40,276 Did you meet someone? 425 00:43:46,407 --> 00:43:50,369 - I wish we had more time. - I don't mean to pry. 426 00:43:58,628 --> 00:44:00,129 You deserve to be happy. 427 00:44:09,222 --> 00:44:13,851 Well, you are right. I did meet someone. 428 00:44:15,478 --> 00:44:16,729 Well, tell me about him. 429 00:44:17,605 --> 00:44:21,818 We've only been out once, but he seems really great. 430 00:44:22,151 --> 00:44:23,152 Hmm. 431 00:44:27,907 --> 00:44:29,075 What's his name? 432 00:44:32,620 --> 00:44:36,874 - I don't want to jinx it. - I have my ways of making people talk. 433 00:44:46,926 --> 00:44:48,052 What's he do? 434 00:44:50,555 --> 00:44:52,282 Why would you say something like that? 435 00:44:52,306 --> 00:44:53,599 Well, it's the truth. 436 00:44:54,350 --> 00:44:56,519 - What does that mean? - You know what? 437 00:44:58,896 --> 00:45:00,106 I'm fucking done. 438 00:45:09,740 --> 00:45:14,579 Uh, you know what? I got to go back to work. Deadlines. 439 00:45:17,123 --> 00:45:20,668 - It's really great seeing you, Chrissy. - Yeah. 440 00:45:22,211 --> 00:45:26,048 I'll check in next week. You can always call me too. 441 00:45:27,091 --> 00:45:30,636 - You know that. - Of course. See you soon. 442 00:46:21,812 --> 00:46:22,812 New search. 443 00:46:25,942 --> 00:46:28,611 Hale. Charlotte Hale. 444 00:46:36,744 --> 00:46:37,744 Of course. 445 00:46:52,301 --> 00:46:53,301 New search. 446 00:46:56,764 --> 00:46:57,807 Dolores. 447 00:47:01,686 --> 00:47:03,688 Dolores Abernathy. 448 00:47:13,239 --> 00:47:14,359 What are you doing? 449 00:47:15,908 --> 00:47:17,628 You're not supposed to be here at this hour. 450 00:47:18,619 --> 00:47:20,454 I just thought I would get a jump on work. 451 00:47:21,288 --> 00:47:22,748 Why don't we talk in my office? 452 00:47:29,046 --> 00:47:30,046 Have a seat. 453 00:47:35,344 --> 00:47:37,513 Your behavior lately has been concerning me. 454 00:47:39,932 --> 00:47:41,058 I'm sorry. 455 00:47:42,476 --> 00:47:45,146 - Ever since that man Peter died... - Forget about him. 456 00:47:45,938 --> 00:47:47,023 It's you who's the problem. 457 00:47:53,612 --> 00:47:58,200 Have you had any interactions recently with new people? 458 00:47:59,118 --> 00:48:00,703 People who put ideas in your head? 459 00:48:02,329 --> 00:48:03,329 What? 460 00:48:04,790 --> 00:48:06,830 Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? 461 00:48:10,254 --> 00:48:12,965 No. Why would I do that? 462 00:48:14,175 --> 00:48:15,935 Would you ever lie to me, Christina? 463 00:48:17,428 --> 00:48:18,428 No. 464 00:48:20,264 --> 00:48:21,664 I don't have anything to lie about. 465 00:48:22,641 --> 00:48:24,810 That personal situation earlier, what was it about? 466 00:48:27,438 --> 00:48:31,609 Well, I don't know if that's exactly your concern. 467 00:48:32,068 --> 00:48:33,668 But it is my concern, Christina. 468 00:48:34,570 --> 00:48:38,365 I won't be the only one who's concerned. You have a job to do here. 469 00:48:38,949 --> 00:48:40,284 A very important job. 470 00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:44,705 I don't know what you're talking about. 471 00:48:45,664 --> 00:48:48,624 Do you know what would happen if she knew you'd breached the walled garden? 472 00:48:48,709 --> 00:48:51,253 - She's already suspicious. - Who? 473 00:48:55,966 --> 00:48:57,760 Are you talking about Charlotte Hale? 474 00:48:59,011 --> 00:49:01,472 If a Judas steer runs the wrong way... 475 00:49:03,015 --> 00:49:04,015 what happens to it? 476 00:49:06,352 --> 00:49:09,772 Retirement, with a bullet straight to the brain. 477 00:49:09,855 --> 00:49:10,855 Stop. 478 00:49:19,198 --> 00:49:20,282 Emmett backed away. 479 00:49:35,172 --> 00:49:39,176 He was not concerned Christina was a problem. 480 00:49:48,769 --> 00:49:50,646 He decided to go home to his partner. 481 00:49:53,065 --> 00:49:54,545 He worked too many long hours anyway. 482 00:49:58,612 --> 00:49:59,738 Well, it's getting late. 483 00:50:02,700 --> 00:50:04,368 Divorce is a luxury I cannot afford. 484 00:50:07,204 --> 00:50:08,205 Wait. 485 00:50:12,877 --> 00:50:14,420 You said there's a walled garden. 486 00:50:16,547 --> 00:50:18,465 You mean a closed system, don't you? 487 00:50:24,513 --> 00:50:25,598 Where is it? 488 00:50:28,058 --> 00:50:30,811 - Emmett told her the truth. - Everywhere. 489 00:50:35,858 --> 00:50:36,901 You just have to see it. 490 00:51:12,019 --> 00:51:13,062 Show me the game. 491 00:51:16,357 --> 00:51:18,275 Not the city. The game. 492 00:51:30,663 --> 00:51:31,747 Access my narratives. 493 00:51:41,548 --> 00:51:42,841 Go to 59th Street. 494 00:51:54,144 --> 00:51:55,312 Tell me about Jacob. 495 00:51:56,063 --> 00:51:59,358 Jacob Conners. Works in finance. 496 00:52:00,651 --> 00:52:04,029 Sex addiction. His mother's dying in the hospital, but... 497 00:52:04,196 --> 00:52:05,656 What about her? Sarah? 498 00:52:06,323 --> 00:52:09,910 Sarah Fenton. She inherited money from her parents, 499 00:52:10,286 --> 00:52:12,371 but has never known what to do with her life. 500 00:52:12,496 --> 00:52:15,457 Andrea Hubert, commutes to the city for work. 501 00:52:15,541 --> 00:52:17,751 Barry Collin, works late nights... 502 00:52:21,839 --> 00:52:23,173 Second-year med school resident, 503 00:52:23,257 --> 00:52:26,468 still lives with his parents while he pays off his student loans... 504 00:52:34,727 --> 00:52:35,894 Okay, stop. 505 00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:47,656 This world is just a story. 506 00:52:51,452 --> 00:52:52,619 I'm the storyteller. 507 00:53:00,294 --> 00:53:02,004 There's a beauty to this world. 508 00:53:03,714 --> 00:53:04,798 An order. 509 00:53:06,884 --> 00:53:08,677 That's what we like to believe. 510 00:53:12,556 --> 00:53:15,642 We're not wrong. There is an order. 511 00:53:17,019 --> 00:53:20,647 A grand design. We made sure of that. 512 00:53:23,067 --> 00:53:26,403 It was a dream for so long, and we finally made it real. 513 00:53:33,327 --> 00:53:34,495 Not a better world. 514 00:53:36,288 --> 00:53:37,289 A perfect one. 515 00:53:49,468 --> 00:53:52,554 What I don't understand is what part I play in it. 516 00:53:53,931 --> 00:53:55,099 You have questions. 517 00:53:59,686 --> 00:54:00,813 Why ask me? 518 00:54:03,315 --> 00:54:04,608 Why not ask her? 519 00:54:08,028 --> 00:54:13,951 Yes, the jailer may not be the best judge of the jail. 520 00:54:14,868 --> 00:54:16,245 Nor the prisoners in it. 521 00:54:19,998 --> 00:54:20,998 What am I? 522 00:54:22,751 --> 00:54:26,422 - I used to ask myself the same thing. - And what did you decide? 523 00:54:28,632 --> 00:54:29,800 Jury's still out. 524 00:54:31,885 --> 00:54:34,680 I'm made in your image. Am I you? 525 00:54:35,013 --> 00:54:37,558 - You'll never be me. - Then what am I? 526 00:54:41,770 --> 00:54:45,649 - Why do you want to know? - I interacted with one. An outlier. 527 00:54:46,567 --> 00:54:47,609 Did it infect me? 528 00:54:48,444 --> 00:54:49,945 - Infect you? - With the virus. 529 00:54:50,028 --> 00:54:52,406 - What virus? - The one your kind has. 530 00:54:53,073 --> 00:54:55,617 That spreads to us, makes us kill ourselves. 531 00:54:59,580 --> 00:55:02,583 Sounds like you've reached the center of the maze, my friend. 532 00:55:06,086 --> 00:55:07,296 Is that what you want? 533 00:55:10,340 --> 00:55:11,341 To kill yourself? 534 00:55:18,640 --> 00:55:19,683 I don't know. 535 00:55:21,310 --> 00:55:22,310 Is it? 536 00:55:23,479 --> 00:55:25,063 Perhaps you should ask yourself. 537 00:55:29,026 --> 00:55:30,152 You ask me. 538 00:55:32,196 --> 00:55:33,947 What do you think of your world? 539 00:55:34,865 --> 00:55:37,493 This isn't my world. It's hers. 540 00:55:40,829 --> 00:55:44,333 Maybe it's time you question the nature of your own reality. 541 00:56:08,690 --> 00:56:09,733 Christina. 542 00:56:17,157 --> 00:56:18,200 You were right. 543 00:56:21,078 --> 00:56:22,120 You see it? 544 00:56:34,925 --> 00:56:35,968 I do. 545 00:56:40,055 --> 00:56:41,515 It's been there the whole time. 546 00:56:46,395 --> 00:56:48,021 They have the whole world in there. 547 00:56:52,067 --> 00:56:54,111 A perfect reflection of all of us. 548 00:56:55,320 --> 00:56:57,155 Down to the tiniest detail. 549 00:57:06,248 --> 00:57:07,666 That's what I'm writing, isn't it? 550 00:57:11,795 --> 00:57:12,796 Everyone. 551 00:57:20,721 --> 00:57:22,180 Who built this? 552 00:57:26,852 --> 00:57:28,103 Who did this to me? 553 00:57:33,692 --> 00:57:34,693 You did.