WEBVTT FILE 1 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:07.000 Downloaded from YTS.BZ 2 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:13.000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.BZ 3 00:01:01.095 --> 00:01:03.697 Day 42, session 72. 4 00:01:04.798 --> 00:01:06.267 Start recording. 5 00:01:06.800 --> 00:01:08.035 Vitals? 6 00:01:08.169 --> 00:01:10.104 Blood pressure 110 over 70. 7 00:01:10.238 --> 00:01:11.239 Pulse 68. 8 00:01:11.372 --> 00:01:12.673 Vitals normal. 9 00:01:12.806 --> 00:01:15.743 Dr. Kask, what did you see? 10 00:01:16.544 --> 00:01:18.011 What did they show you? 11 00:01:20.047 --> 00:01:21.382 Dr. Kask? 12 00:01:22.583 --> 00:01:24.252 Dr. Kask? 13 00:01:26.387 --> 00:01:28.055 How are you still alive? 14 00:01:49.710 --> 00:01:51.312 How am I still alive? 15 00:01:57.451 --> 00:01:58.886 We're a flawed species. 16 00:02:01.755 --> 00:02:04.625 Okay, are you ready to meet your little sister? 17 00:02:12.233 --> 00:02:14.902 We're impossibly fragile. 18 00:02:15.869 --> 00:02:17.271 Hi, Klara. Hi. 19 00:02:17.405 --> 00:02:18.539 Yeah. 20 00:02:18.672 --> 00:02:19.973 Do you think we should keep her? 21 00:02:21.475 --> 00:02:22.843 Yeah. 22 00:02:29.817 --> 00:02:31.051 We're self destructive. 23 00:02:40.894 --> 00:02:42.463 Superstitious. 24 00:02:48.902 --> 00:02:50.238 Driven by fear. 25 00:02:57.445 --> 00:02:58.812 By love. 26 00:03:03.484 --> 00:03:07.255 Barely able to survive on our tiny blue rock, 27 00:03:09.790 --> 00:03:12.893 let alone in the endless black ocean of our universe. 28 00:03:13.026 --> 00:03:14.995 Top bunk! 29 00:03:18.866 --> 00:03:20.768 What's past the last planet? 30 00:03:22.002 --> 00:03:23.271 Infinity. 31 00:03:27.007 --> 00:03:28.342 Everything. 32 00:03:29.009 --> 00:03:30.344 Anything. 33 00:03:31.245 --> 00:03:32.846 Whoa. 34 00:03:33.947 --> 00:03:35.516 Nothing ever lasts. 35 00:03:36.550 --> 00:03:38.018 How am I still alive? 36 00:03:42.656 --> 00:03:43.991 We need to let it go. 37 00:03:45.326 --> 00:03:47.060 It needs to breathe. 38 00:03:54.668 --> 00:03:57.938 One day, we will die. 39 00:04:02.142 --> 00:04:03.544 Hey, you okay? 40 00:04:05.779 --> 00:04:06.914 Mom? 41 00:04:07.047 --> 00:04:08.549 Mom! Mom! 42 00:04:10.150 --> 00:04:11.752 We become dust. 43 00:04:11.885 --> 00:04:13.487 Oh my God, what happened? 44 00:04:13.621 --> 00:04:15.255 Klara! Klara! 45 00:04:18.959 --> 00:04:20.193 And our dust 46 00:04:20.328 --> 00:04:23.564 joins all the other dust of the universe. 47 00:04:29.102 --> 00:04:30.638 And everything we love... 48 00:04:34.708 --> 00:04:35.976 Goes away. 49 00:04:40.981 --> 00:04:42.583 How am I still alive? 50 00:04:45.185 --> 00:04:47.588 How are any of us? 51 00:04:54.194 --> 00:04:57.798 What if biological life is just a stage? 52 00:04:58.265 --> 00:04:59.833 What if we can evolve? 53 00:04:59.967 --> 00:05:04.838 So our future as a species is post-biological? 54 00:05:05.573 --> 00:05:08.275 Our present is post-biological. 55 00:05:08.742 --> 00:05:12.780 It took us six thousand years to go from leeches to pacemakers. 56 00:05:12.913 --> 00:05:13.881 But from pacemakers 57 00:05:14.014 --> 00:05:16.484 to genetically modifying human embryos, 58 00:05:16.617 --> 00:05:18.085 it took just 60. 59 00:05:18.218 --> 00:05:21.054 Mm-hmm. So this isn't the future. 60 00:05:21.221 --> 00:05:22.723 The future is right now. 61 00:05:22.856 --> 00:05:24.492 Let me ask you this though, 62 00:05:24.625 --> 00:05:27.027 if our destiny is post-biological, 63 00:05:27.160 --> 00:05:29.997 is there other life in the universe as well? 64 00:05:31.031 --> 00:05:33.401 Oh, that's a stone cold certainty. 65 00:05:34.167 --> 00:05:35.102 Okay, wait, wait. 66 00:05:35.235 --> 00:05:36.404 Here's what I want to know. 67 00:05:37.104 --> 00:05:41.108 Is there something you know that we don't? 68 00:05:41.241 --> 00:05:44.111 Look, people call me a tech visionary. 69 00:05:44.244 --> 00:05:45.846 That's just a bunch of horseshit. 70 00:05:47.481 --> 00:05:50.651 I'm just a fellow that sees what's right in front of him. 71 00:05:50.784 --> 00:05:53.320 And it ain't no secret that I made my first billion 72 00:05:53.454 --> 00:05:55.222 from solar energy, 73 00:05:55.556 --> 00:05:57.925 but I did not invent the sun. 74 00:05:58.659 --> 00:06:00.093 I'm no visionary. 75 00:06:01.529 --> 00:06:07.167 Visionaries see things that no one else does, 76 00:06:09.269 --> 00:06:10.738 and that's rare. 77 00:06:11.705 --> 00:06:14.141 Okay, so who does Sam Houston 78 00:06:14.274 --> 00:06:15.843 consider a visionary? 79 00:06:18.412 --> 00:06:19.547 Well, you know what? 80 00:06:19.680 --> 00:06:22.249 We have one right here in this very room. 81 00:06:27.488 --> 00:06:28.756 Annika Kask. 82 00:06:31.391 --> 00:06:32.392 Annika Kask, 83 00:06:32.526 --> 00:06:34.361 would you please raise your hand? 84 00:06:37.364 --> 00:06:38.866 There she is. 85 00:06:39.500 --> 00:06:44.104 The first person to photograph dark matter. 86 00:06:50.343 --> 00:06:52.179 - That's it. - There you go. 87 00:06:52.312 --> 00:06:53.714 Fantastic. Thank you. 88 00:06:53.847 --> 00:06:55.048 - Well, you bet. - Thank you so much. 89 00:06:55.182 --> 00:06:56.116 Thanks for having me. 90 00:06:56.249 --> 00:06:57.117 Appreciate it. 91 00:06:57.250 --> 00:06:58.251 That was really great. 92 00:06:58.385 --> 00:06:59.286 Nobody got hurt. 93 00:06:59.419 --> 00:07:00.888 Oh, uh, excuse me. 94 00:07:03.957 --> 00:07:05.225 Annika? 95 00:07:05.358 --> 00:07:06.927 - Hi. - Hey. 96 00:07:07.294 --> 00:07:09.096 Big fan. Big fan. 97 00:07:09.563 --> 00:07:11.899 Thank you. I'm flattered. 98 00:07:12.032 --> 00:07:15.703 Well, uh, I have a confession to make. 99 00:07:16.704 --> 00:07:19.406 I didn't come here just to do a TED Talk. 100 00:07:21.308 --> 00:07:23.276 I want to offer you a job. 101 00:07:27.948 --> 00:07:29.783 You know, most people, 102 00:07:30.150 --> 00:07:33.186 they look at the universe and it's empty. 103 00:07:33.320 --> 00:07:36.990 And you, with one image, proved 'em all wrong. 104 00:07:37.958 --> 00:07:39.192 How'd you do it? 105 00:07:43.664 --> 00:07:45.533 Every time we'd try and image it, 106 00:07:45.666 --> 00:07:47.034 we'd get chaos. 107 00:07:47.801 --> 00:07:49.036 Couldn't find the right data set. 108 00:07:49.169 --> 00:07:50.203 What was the right set? 109 00:07:50.337 --> 00:07:51.204 All of them. 110 00:07:51.905 --> 00:07:53.206 At once. 111 00:07:53.340 --> 00:07:55.208 Overlapping. Like 3D glasses. 112 00:07:55.342 --> 00:07:56.877 Except instead of just red and blue, 113 00:07:57.010 --> 00:08:00.213 we overlap 233 data sets 114 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:01.982 to find order in the chaos. 115 00:08:02.115 --> 00:08:04.618 And then you get that. 116 00:08:05.586 --> 00:08:07.320 Well, that's the how, but... 117 00:08:09.356 --> 00:08:10.691 why? 118 00:08:13.594 --> 00:08:15.663 No one's ever asked me that before. 119 00:08:19.166 --> 00:08:23.003 I guess I just want to know what's out there. 120 00:08:23.270 --> 00:08:25.138 You want to know what's out there? 121 00:08:25.272 --> 00:08:26.674 Why not down here? 122 00:08:29.810 --> 00:08:31.178 It's a one-year contract. 123 00:08:31.979 --> 00:08:36.183 Small lab on a remote island in the Caribbean. 124 00:08:36.316 --> 00:08:37.350 What lab? 125 00:08:37.484 --> 00:08:39.019 That's confidential. 126 00:08:39.987 --> 00:08:42.690 You need scientists to work on a secret project 127 00:08:42.823 --> 00:08:44.491 on a remote island in the Caribbean? 128 00:08:44.625 --> 00:08:45.859 Let me tell you something. 129 00:08:47.360 --> 00:08:48.862 There's more up there, 130 00:08:49.863 --> 00:08:51.098 and down here. 131 00:08:51.231 --> 00:08:52.099 Everywhere. 132 00:08:52.232 --> 00:08:53.400 Aliens. 133 00:08:59.973 --> 00:09:03.110 Look, Mr. Houston, I appreciate the offer, 134 00:09:03.243 --> 00:09:05.779 but I'm not the kind of scientist who hunts for aliens. 135 00:09:05.913 --> 00:09:07.514 We're not hunting. 136 00:09:08.716 --> 00:09:09.917 We're gathering. 137 00:09:11.018 --> 00:09:14.554 And we need your discovery to make sense of it. 138 00:09:15.555 --> 00:09:16.857 Look, 139 00:09:17.424 --> 00:09:19.960 you can forget about your little green men, 140 00:09:20.393 --> 00:09:22.596 fishing for radio waves, 141 00:09:22.730 --> 00:09:24.965 and hunting for a needle in a haystack, 142 00:09:25.098 --> 00:09:27.434 because I'm here to tell you that the whole haystack 143 00:09:27.567 --> 00:09:29.569 is made out of needles. 144 00:09:29.937 --> 00:09:31.772 We're not alone in the dark. 145 00:09:32.606 --> 00:09:36.944 In fact, the darkness has been our company all along. 146 00:09:39.446 --> 00:09:41.214 You want to find out? 147 00:09:57.464 --> 00:09:59.833 I am an electronics engineer. 148 00:10:00.934 --> 00:10:01.902 Charlie Kaminsky. 149 00:10:03.704 --> 00:10:05.138 Sorry, it's just... 150 00:10:05.873 --> 00:10:08.642 Charlie Kaminsky saying he's an electronics engineer 151 00:10:08.776 --> 00:10:12.279 is like Stephen Hawking saying he teaches math. 152 00:10:12.412 --> 00:10:15.983 Yeah, I'm the CTO of Gateway Labs. 153 00:10:16.583 --> 00:10:18.819 Sam hired me to check some new toys he's building. 154 00:10:18.952 --> 00:10:20.520 Now, where do you- where do you work, Annika? 155 00:10:20.654 --> 00:10:21.755 R.I.T. 156 00:10:22.622 --> 00:10:24.124 You're Annika Kask? 157 00:10:24.257 --> 00:10:25.325 Yeah, wow. 158 00:10:25.458 --> 00:10:27.160 How did, uh, how did Sam land you? 159 00:10:27.294 --> 00:10:29.629 He promised me we weren't hunting for aliens. 160 00:10:30.630 --> 00:10:31.932 You? 161 00:10:32.332 --> 00:10:33.701 He promised me we were. 162 00:10:36.804 --> 00:10:38.005 Oh, wow. 163 00:11:06.033 --> 00:11:07.400 Welcome to the island. 164 00:11:07.534 --> 00:11:08.802 Thank you. 165 00:11:08.936 --> 00:11:10.537 Uh, how many people are working out here right now? 166 00:11:10.670 --> 00:11:11.671 Nine or ten. 167 00:11:11.805 --> 00:11:13.707 Dr. Glassner likes to keep it small. 168 00:11:14.541 --> 00:11:15.642 Perry Glassner? 169 00:11:17.711 --> 00:11:19.346 Wow. Shit. Okay. 170 00:11:19.479 --> 00:11:21.915 Yeah, super friends unite. I like it. 171 00:11:22.049 --> 00:11:23.350 We'll see to your luggage. 172 00:11:23.483 --> 00:11:25.418 Dr. Glassner is waiting for you in the main facility. 173 00:11:25.552 --> 00:11:26.754 Great. 174 00:11:27.354 --> 00:11:29.990 Oh, um, I'll-I'll catch up. 175 00:11:30.123 --> 00:11:31.158 Here, just be careful with-- 176 00:11:31.291 --> 00:11:32.692 Yeah, it's delicate. 177 00:11:32.826 --> 00:11:33.827 - Thank you so much. - No problem. 178 00:11:33.961 --> 00:11:34.862 Thank you. Thank you. 179 00:11:34.995 --> 00:11:37.164 Perfect. Oh, there we go. 180 00:11:37.297 --> 00:11:38.431 You can take that one for me. 181 00:11:38.565 --> 00:11:39.733 Thanks. 182 00:12:52.205 --> 00:12:53.240 What's this? 183 00:12:53.640 --> 00:12:55.408 B12 methylphenidate. 184 00:12:55.542 --> 00:12:57.110 Immuno-booster. 185 00:13:11.091 --> 00:13:13.360 You shatter a bone and it heals, 186 00:13:13.493 --> 00:13:15.795 but you bruise trust and it's fatal. 187 00:13:18.331 --> 00:13:19.566 What's your purpose? 188 00:13:20.233 --> 00:13:21.701 I'm Dr. Annika Kask. 189 00:13:22.402 --> 00:13:24.104 Well, that's a chair I can sit in 190 00:13:24.237 --> 00:13:26.106 and that's a door I can walk out of, 191 00:13:26.239 --> 00:13:28.208 so what is your purpose? 192 00:13:29.142 --> 00:13:30.443 Sam Houston sent me. 193 00:13:30.577 --> 00:13:31.845 Why would he do that? 194 00:13:34.114 --> 00:13:35.282 I'm a computer scientist. 195 00:13:35.415 --> 00:13:37.017 Oh, right. 196 00:13:37.985 --> 00:13:39.286 That's a shame. 197 00:13:40.187 --> 00:13:41.388 That's a shame. 198 00:13:41.521 --> 00:13:43.323 I thought you might have the salt to admit the truth, 199 00:13:43.456 --> 00:13:46.659 that you've been sent here by Sam to spy on me. 200 00:13:47.694 --> 00:13:50.063 To be the bruise that kills me. 201 00:13:51.932 --> 00:13:52.900 Should I go? 202 00:13:53.033 --> 00:13:54.567 No, no, no, no, no, no. 203 00:13:55.268 --> 00:13:58.005 After all, I might need an algorithm. 204 00:13:59.306 --> 00:14:01.541 Oh, Dr. Glassner, hi, I'm Charlie. 205 00:14:01.674 --> 00:14:04.544 And I gotta tell you, man, from one scientist to another-- 206 00:14:04.677 --> 00:14:07.080 Here we go. They're fucking multiplying. 207 00:14:09.950 --> 00:14:12.319 I blew it. I... 208 00:14:13.653 --> 00:14:14.687 As per your NDAs, 209 00:14:14.821 --> 00:14:16.256 communications are monitored. 210 00:14:16.389 --> 00:14:17.724 You will be watched. 211 00:14:17.857 --> 00:14:19.326 It feels like overkill. 212 00:14:19.459 --> 00:14:21.361 Yes, it's completely and utterly unnecessary. 213 00:14:21.494 --> 00:14:24.164 I should be doing this work on my own in my basement, 214 00:14:24.297 --> 00:14:27.500 but Sam would never allow that because this isn't really a lab. 215 00:14:27.634 --> 00:14:30.203 It's a shrine to a man's overwhelming hubris. 216 00:14:30.337 --> 00:14:32.872 See, most billionaires buy yachts or football teams, 217 00:14:33.006 --> 00:14:35.742 but he wants to buy ideas or legacies to show the world 218 00:14:35.875 --> 00:14:38.345 he's somehow changed the course of human history. 219 00:14:39.146 --> 00:14:40.613 So that's what you do here? 220 00:14:43.383 --> 00:14:44.884 That's what we're about to do. 221 00:14:45.652 --> 00:14:48.288 Welcome to the Tuning Lab. 222 00:14:49.889 --> 00:14:52.725 So you, you're up to speed? 223 00:14:52.859 --> 00:14:55.762 That dark matter algorithm you discovered, 224 00:14:56.096 --> 00:14:57.730 you'll need to apply it here. 225 00:14:57.864 --> 00:14:59.699 Is this what I think it is? Does it work? 226 00:14:59.832 --> 00:15:01.969 No. Yes. And get the fuck away from it. 227 00:15:02.435 --> 00:15:03.736 - Right. Where to begin? - Sorry. 228 00:15:03.870 --> 00:15:06.606 Let's begin at the beginning, uh, in darkness. 229 00:15:06.739 --> 00:15:10.443 So let there be light and heat and bacteria, 230 00:15:10.577 --> 00:15:11.744 single-celled organisms. 231 00:15:11.878 --> 00:15:13.480 Skip a few billion years. 232 00:15:13.613 --> 00:15:15.148 Reptiles, monkeys, then us. 233 00:15:15.282 --> 00:15:16.616 Apex predators. 234 00:15:16.749 --> 00:15:17.784 Petty, ain't we? 235 00:15:17.917 --> 00:15:19.052 Cruel. 236 00:15:19.186 --> 00:15:20.753 Prone to self-destruction. 237 00:15:20.887 --> 00:15:21.989 Hell bent on rage, 238 00:15:22.122 --> 00:15:23.923 fucking our habitat out of existence. 239 00:15:24.057 --> 00:15:25.792 So now we turn our eyes away from Earth 240 00:15:25.925 --> 00:15:27.727 in search of other worlds to defile. 241 00:15:27.860 --> 00:15:29.229 But there's a hitch. 242 00:15:29.362 --> 00:15:32.132 Because Mr. Drake's equation tells us that we're not alone. 243 00:15:32.265 --> 00:15:33.800 The universe is too vast, 244 00:15:33.933 --> 00:15:35.102 rich with resources, 245 00:15:35.235 --> 00:15:37.470 likely swimming with intelligent life. 246 00:15:37.604 --> 00:15:38.671 Competition. 247 00:15:38.805 --> 00:15:39.939 And most of that's going to be millions, 248 00:15:40.073 --> 00:15:42.775 if not billions of years ahead of us. 249 00:15:42.909 --> 00:15:45.245 So we come into this race far, far behind. 250 00:15:45.378 --> 00:15:46.579 Nevertheless, we do start looking 251 00:15:46.713 --> 00:15:49.616 with whatever crude tools are available. 252 00:15:49.749 --> 00:15:50.917 As you know, SETI, 253 00:15:51.051 --> 00:15:52.785 the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, 254 00:15:52.919 --> 00:15:54.654 has been scanning, uh, what? 255 00:15:54.787 --> 00:15:56.656 Oh yeah, radio waves. 256 00:15:56.789 --> 00:15:58.125 That still only covers, what, 257 00:15:58.258 --> 00:15:59.959 one ten-millionth of the night sky 258 00:16:00.093 --> 00:16:02.795 using hilariously outdated technology. 259 00:16:02.929 --> 00:16:05.532 It's like taking a little bowl of water out of the ocean 260 00:16:05.665 --> 00:16:08.135 and peering in and concluding that whales don't exist. 261 00:16:08.268 --> 00:16:09.436 No, not radio. 262 00:16:09.569 --> 00:16:11.104 That's not how you'd communicate 263 00:16:11.238 --> 00:16:13.640 if you're an interplanetary intelligence, is it? 264 00:16:13.773 --> 00:16:16.976 You want to talk across space and time instantaneously. 265 00:16:17.110 --> 00:16:18.111 So let's do this. 266 00:16:18.245 --> 00:16:20.713 Take two photons, pair them, keep one here, 267 00:16:20.847 --> 00:16:22.649 send the other light years away. 268 00:16:22.782 --> 00:16:24.684 Force one photon into a declared state, 269 00:16:24.817 --> 00:16:26.986 and the other responds in the very same moment 270 00:16:27.120 --> 00:16:28.955 across space and time. 271 00:16:29.089 --> 00:16:30.557 String a few billion of those together, 272 00:16:30.690 --> 00:16:32.825 and you've got an FTL communicator. 273 00:16:32.959 --> 00:16:35.628 No, but-but the quantum communication can't work. 274 00:16:35.762 --> 00:16:36.763 It breaks the laws of physics. 275 00:16:36.896 --> 00:16:39.332 No, no, it bends the laws that we know, 276 00:16:39.466 --> 00:16:40.733 and that's not what this is. 277 00:16:40.867 --> 00:16:42.902 No, if you force a quantum state change, 278 00:16:43.036 --> 00:16:44.271 that breaks entanglement-- 279 00:16:44.404 --> 00:16:46.306 This machine does not force a state change! 280 00:16:46.439 --> 00:16:48.575 It doesn't entangle or disentangle. 281 00:16:48.708 --> 00:16:50.243 It just hears when someone has. 282 00:16:50.377 --> 00:16:52.579 This simply listens. 283 00:16:52.712 --> 00:16:54.013 It's impossible. 284 00:16:54.147 --> 00:16:56.716 And yet here we have a machine that does exactly that, 285 00:16:56.849 --> 00:16:59.719 that I built six years ago in my basement, 286 00:16:59.852 --> 00:17:01.754 on my own on amphetamines. 287 00:17:01.888 --> 00:17:03.890 So, take a look for yourself. 288 00:17:05.292 --> 00:17:06.826 What do you want us to do? 289 00:17:07.627 --> 00:17:08.828 Well, here's a hint. 290 00:17:09.028 --> 00:17:10.730 You've already done it. 291 00:17:14.834 --> 00:17:17.370 It says he's scanning the radius of a couple of feet. 292 00:17:17.504 --> 00:17:18.571 Right here. 293 00:17:18.705 --> 00:17:21.241 So if he's listening for aliens, then it's... 294 00:17:21.374 --> 00:17:22.375 He's doing it right here, 295 00:17:22.509 --> 00:17:23.676 in this-in this room. 296 00:17:24.043 --> 00:17:25.878 But-but what is it? I mean, like these are just-- 297 00:17:26.012 --> 00:17:27.547 It's-- It's a ton of data points. 298 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:29.682 It's-it's-it's like background noise 299 00:17:29.816 --> 00:17:30.883 of anywhere in the universe. 300 00:17:31.017 --> 00:17:32.552 There's no rhyme or reason behind it. It's... 301 00:17:32.685 --> 00:17:33.586 It's chaos. 302 00:17:33.720 --> 00:17:34.721 Yeah. 303 00:17:39.926 --> 00:17:42.028 Then we find order in the chaos. 304 00:17:54.274 --> 00:17:55.908 Sort by data sets. 305 00:17:59.379 --> 00:18:00.380 Okay. 306 00:18:01.914 --> 00:18:03.716 It's the same algorithm. 307 00:18:05.785 --> 00:18:07.220 It's my algorithm. 308 00:18:09.856 --> 00:18:13.092 Sort by exponents. 309 00:18:13.926 --> 00:18:15.495 It's organizing. 310 00:18:18.198 --> 00:18:20.099 Sort by primes. 311 00:18:21.301 --> 00:18:23.570 What? W-what is this? 312 00:18:24.471 --> 00:18:25.672 I can't believe this. 313 00:18:27.607 --> 00:18:29.676 Overlay all. 314 00:18:34.113 --> 00:18:35.815 It's-it's a signal. 315 00:18:38.251 --> 00:18:40.187 They're talking. 316 00:18:48.461 --> 00:18:49.496 Holy shit! 317 00:18:52.332 --> 00:18:53.766 Dr. Glassner? 318 00:18:57.504 --> 00:18:58.871 Dr. Glassner! 319 00:18:59.005 --> 00:19:00.873 He's only scanning one little area. 320 00:19:01.007 --> 00:19:02.141 But if it's quantum communication, 321 00:19:02.275 --> 00:19:03.210 then it-it's all around us. 322 00:19:03.343 --> 00:19:04.844 Or there's another explanation. 323 00:19:04.977 --> 00:19:06.213 Or another phenomenon that we're not seeing, or-- 324 00:19:06.346 --> 00:19:08.848 Or, Annika, it's fuck-to-the-yes aliens. 325 00:19:08.981 --> 00:19:10.317 - Dr. Glassner. - I mean, 326 00:19:10.450 --> 00:19:11.851 we've been looking millions of light years away 327 00:19:11.984 --> 00:19:12.985 for-for smoke signals, 328 00:19:13.119 --> 00:19:14.187 but they were around us the entire time. 329 00:19:14.321 --> 00:19:15.888 It's... 330 00:19:16.022 --> 00:19:16.889 Is this real? 331 00:19:17.023 --> 00:19:17.890 You tell me. 332 00:19:18.024 --> 00:19:19.659 You're here to check my math. 333 00:19:19.792 --> 00:19:21.694 I mean, this means... 334 00:19:21.828 --> 00:19:22.862 It means we're not alone, 335 00:19:22.995 --> 00:19:24.531 we're not the centre of the universe, 336 00:19:24.664 --> 00:19:25.798 we're not special. 337 00:19:25.932 --> 00:19:27.166 It means they don't know anything about us, 338 00:19:27.300 --> 00:19:28.535 or they don't give a fuck. 339 00:19:28.668 --> 00:19:29.569 What are they saying? 340 00:19:29.702 --> 00:19:31.037 How could I possibly know? 341 00:19:31.170 --> 00:19:33.039 We'd have to ask them with that. 342 00:19:34.274 --> 00:19:35.308 What is that? 343 00:19:35.975 --> 00:19:36.909 Littlemouth. 344 00:19:37.043 --> 00:19:38.378 You're talking to them? 345 00:19:38.511 --> 00:19:39.646 Not yet. 346 00:19:39.779 --> 00:19:40.947 You actually... 347 00:19:41.080 --> 00:19:42.482 you-you built a quantum communication device. 348 00:19:42.615 --> 00:19:43.883 Can we-can we talk back? 349 00:19:44.016 --> 00:19:46.886 No. The hardware can't replicate quantum signatures. 350 00:19:47.019 --> 00:19:48.921 I can. I've already done it in my lab. 351 00:19:49.055 --> 00:19:50.557 I highly doubt it, but... 352 00:19:54.193 --> 00:19:56.162 I suppose we're gonna find out. 353 00:19:59.966 --> 00:20:01.401 Okay, I need to... 354 00:20:03.069 --> 00:20:04.771 Oh. Oh, wow. 355 00:20:15.648 --> 00:20:17.116 Ah. 356 00:21:13.873 --> 00:21:14.974 Good morning. 357 00:21:27.253 --> 00:21:29.155 Go to the ant, consider her ways, 358 00:21:29.288 --> 00:21:30.523 and be wise. 359 00:21:30.823 --> 00:21:32.091 Do you know that? 360 00:21:34.160 --> 00:21:35.462 Hmm. 361 00:21:39.899 --> 00:21:41.634 We learn a lot from ants. 362 00:21:45.004 --> 00:21:46.439 For example, we, uh, 363 00:21:48.441 --> 00:21:51.611 we study them to, uh, solve traffic problems. 364 00:21:54.847 --> 00:21:56.282 All sorts of things. 365 00:22:03.423 --> 00:22:05.792 I hear your schooling's going well. 366 00:22:09.429 --> 00:22:10.730 I guess so. 367 00:22:15.301 --> 00:22:16.869 Good. Right. 368 00:22:54.306 --> 00:22:55.708 It's real. 369 00:23:03.416 --> 00:23:06.453 Shh. Do you hear that? 370 00:23:07.654 --> 00:23:09.088 Scared? 371 00:23:09.756 --> 00:23:11.057 No. 372 00:23:12.892 --> 00:23:14.026 Yeah. 373 00:23:17.830 --> 00:23:20.433 Mom says there's no such thing as monsters. 374 00:23:25.237 --> 00:23:26.305 I'll go check it out. 375 00:23:26.439 --> 00:23:27.707 No! 376 00:23:29.408 --> 00:23:32.111 I can't lose you. 377 00:23:49.295 --> 00:23:51.397 So this is the transmitter. 378 00:23:52.298 --> 00:23:54.467 You can't turn it on for him. 379 00:23:55.702 --> 00:23:57.269 We don't know enough yet. 380 00:23:58.471 --> 00:23:59.672 I don't know. 381 00:23:59.806 --> 00:24:01.307 How else are we going to find out? 382 00:24:02.709 --> 00:24:05.645 You're not worried what they may be capable of? 383 00:24:08.915 --> 00:24:11.150 Are you inviting me to speculate about aliens? 384 00:24:11.283 --> 00:24:13.786 Because people often regret that. 385 00:24:13.920 --> 00:24:14.921 Yeah, I am. 386 00:24:15.054 --> 00:24:16.489 - Yeah? - Mm-hmm. 387 00:24:17.056 --> 00:24:20.159 Okay. So, the coolest project that I ever worked on, 388 00:24:20.292 --> 00:24:21.360 called the Argus 2, 389 00:24:21.494 --> 00:24:22.762 it's this bionic eye that, like this machine 390 00:24:22.895 --> 00:24:24.597 that could send microelectrodes from the optic nerve 391 00:24:24.731 --> 00:24:26.933 to the brain and then, praise Jesus, 392 00:24:27.066 --> 00:24:28.334 the blind doth see. 393 00:24:28.467 --> 00:24:30.537 And just keeps getting better and better and better. 394 00:24:30.670 --> 00:24:32.338 They get the software update every year, 395 00:24:32.471 --> 00:24:34.273 and every two years, a hardware update. 396 00:24:35.074 --> 00:24:36.175 Have you ever seen 397 00:24:36.308 --> 00:24:38.511 a three-year-old see for the first time? 398 00:24:38.978 --> 00:24:39.812 No? 399 00:24:39.946 --> 00:24:42.649 It's-it's-it's everything. 400 00:24:43.249 --> 00:24:44.617 Anyways, next year, 401 00:24:44.751 --> 00:24:46.853 the Argus 5 is going to offer better vision 402 00:24:46.986 --> 00:24:49.656 than the perfectly healthy biological eye. 403 00:24:50.356 --> 00:24:52.559 It's-it's crazy, but why stop there? 404 00:24:52.692 --> 00:24:54.861 What about all the spectrums of light that we can't even see? 405 00:24:54.994 --> 00:24:56.062 Ultraviolet spectrum, 406 00:24:56.195 --> 00:24:57.564 the X-ray vision even, 407 00:24:57.697 --> 00:24:59.165 or thermal, whatever. 408 00:25:00.132 --> 00:25:01.467 That's just the beginning. 409 00:25:01.968 --> 00:25:03.235 We start with the eyes, 410 00:25:03.369 --> 00:25:05.705 and then we're going to move on and 411 00:25:05.838 --> 00:25:07.740 improve limbs beyond nature, 412 00:25:08.641 --> 00:25:11.210 improve livers beyond nature, the heart beyond nature, 413 00:25:11.711 --> 00:25:15.648 and eventually pass the Rubicon to the brain. 414 00:25:16.315 --> 00:25:18.651 We're going to take all of our thoughts, 415 00:25:18.785 --> 00:25:20.587 all of our reasoning, all of our intelligence, 416 00:25:20.720 --> 00:25:22.589 and we're going to put it into a more durable container. 417 00:25:22.722 --> 00:25:24.490 Could be cloud-based or silicon chip, 418 00:25:24.624 --> 00:25:25.792 something that's unbreakable, 419 00:25:25.925 --> 00:25:27.694 that can exist inside of a black hole on the, 420 00:25:27.827 --> 00:25:31.263 on the tip of a pin or in the spaces in between. 421 00:25:31.798 --> 00:25:33.032 And that... 422 00:25:33.299 --> 00:25:35.702 that is the end game for homo sapiens. 423 00:25:36.402 --> 00:25:41.240 And I think that this is just another version of us 424 00:25:41.674 --> 00:25:42.942 further down the road. 425 00:25:43.342 --> 00:25:44.811 Okay, but what about pain? 426 00:25:45.377 --> 00:25:46.879 Sorrow? Heartache? 427 00:25:47.647 --> 00:25:49.015 Profound loss? 428 00:25:49.916 --> 00:25:51.283 Regrets? 429 00:25:51.984 --> 00:25:53.019 What about 'em? 430 00:25:53.419 --> 00:25:55.121 Why-why would eliminating that be bad? 431 00:25:55.421 --> 00:25:57.056 Because they shape who we are as people, 432 00:25:57.189 --> 00:25:58.958 I think way more than pleasures do. 433 00:25:59.091 --> 00:26:03.029 I mean, so much of who I am and what I value came from, 434 00:26:03.930 --> 00:26:05.331 you know, painful experiences 435 00:26:05.464 --> 00:26:08.434 that happened in my life that I had to grow and learn from. 436 00:26:08.567 --> 00:26:09.769 And change. 437 00:26:10.569 --> 00:26:11.537 I get that, 438 00:26:11.671 --> 00:26:14.040 but human suffering as a whole, gone. 439 00:26:14.173 --> 00:26:15.574 - Can you see it? - Yes, I see that. 440 00:26:15.708 --> 00:26:17.610 But I also see a sterile intelligence 441 00:26:17.744 --> 00:26:19.478 on a path with no interruptions. 442 00:26:19.846 --> 00:26:23.449 No purpose except to spread, with no actual growth. 443 00:26:24.116 --> 00:26:25.918 And that, to me, is not evolution. 444 00:26:26.052 --> 00:26:28.420 That is just an equation. 445 00:26:31.423 --> 00:26:34.794 And as awesome as your bionic eye sounds, Charlie, 446 00:26:35.294 --> 00:26:38.064 I actually know a lot of those patients have had them removed. 447 00:26:38.564 --> 00:26:39.398 Some. 448 00:26:39.531 --> 00:26:40.900 And some people are weird. 449 00:26:41.033 --> 00:26:44.937 And some people value other things in scientific perfection. 450 00:26:45.071 --> 00:26:47.339 Some people accept the parts of them 451 00:26:47.473 --> 00:26:50.442 that other people might see as imperfect. 452 00:26:51.243 --> 00:26:52.444 Hmm. 453 00:26:53.579 --> 00:26:56.849 So, we are our flaws? 454 00:26:57.950 --> 00:26:59.451 And our mistakes. 455 00:27:03.823 --> 00:27:05.091 Dr. Kask, 456 00:27:05.892 --> 00:27:08.127 you saw how unbalanced Glassner was. 457 00:27:08.260 --> 00:27:10.496 You saw the threat he posed. 458 00:27:10.763 --> 00:27:12.331 Why did you choose to stay? 459 00:27:13.499 --> 00:27:14.667 To help. 460 00:27:16.769 --> 00:27:18.771 First contact was possible. 461 00:27:20.907 --> 00:27:23.209 Would you leave it to an unbalanced nihilist 462 00:27:23.342 --> 00:27:24.944 to handle the introduction? 463 00:27:26.178 --> 00:27:27.579 This thought experiment 464 00:27:27.714 --> 00:27:31.050 dictates that the female rabbits always give birth to pairs. 465 00:27:31.183 --> 00:27:34.386 And each pair consists of one male and one female. 466 00:27:34.520 --> 00:27:38.524 Rabbits can't reproduce until they are at least one month old. 467 00:27:38.657 --> 00:27:40.893 She says she's very bright. 468 00:27:41.928 --> 00:27:43.562 At the end of the second month, 469 00:27:43.696 --> 00:27:45.564 - the female... - Lucky for her. 470 00:27:47.166 --> 00:27:48.835 When month three rolls around, 471 00:27:48.968 --> 00:27:50.502 the original pair of rabbits 472 00:27:50.636 --> 00:27:53.005 produces yet another pair of newborns 473 00:27:53.139 --> 00:27:55.507 while their earlier offspring grow to adulthood. 474 00:27:55.641 --> 00:27:57.409 This leaves three pairs of rabbits. 475 00:27:57.543 --> 00:27:59.511 The order goes as follows: 476 00:27:59.645 --> 00:28:04.984 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21. 477 00:28:37.583 --> 00:28:39.218 So, is Perry your husband? 478 00:28:39.585 --> 00:28:41.187 No, I'm a doctor. 479 00:28:41.320 --> 00:28:42.388 That's his daughter. 480 00:28:45.057 --> 00:28:46.392 How long have you been here? 481 00:28:46.658 --> 00:28:48.460 I haven't left the island in three years, 482 00:28:48.594 --> 00:28:50.096 but it feels like 30. 483 00:28:53.032 --> 00:28:54.700 I don't know how you stay sane. 484 00:28:54.834 --> 00:28:56.435 What makes you think I have? 485 00:29:02.574 --> 00:29:03.910 Is he always so... 486 00:29:12.451 --> 00:29:14.821 Look, I'm not making an excuse for him, 487 00:29:16.055 --> 00:29:17.790 because there's-there's none. 488 00:29:20.059 --> 00:29:22.594 He lost his wife and son four years ago, 489 00:29:22.728 --> 00:29:24.130 and it was bad. 490 00:29:28.134 --> 00:29:30.569 He never really accepted what happened. 491 00:29:31.270 --> 00:29:32.671 What did happen? 492 00:29:33.205 --> 00:29:34.406 Well, 493 00:29:35.474 --> 00:29:37.109 there was a house fire. 494 00:29:37.643 --> 00:29:41.147 He was in his lab in an outbuilding 50 feet away, 495 00:29:41.280 --> 00:29:43.749 self medicated, probably drunk. 496 00:29:45.117 --> 00:29:48.120 Lucy? She was at a sleepover. 497 00:29:49.956 --> 00:29:51.623 But his wife and son... 498 00:29:52.558 --> 00:29:55.194 Welcome to Littlemouth's signal room. 499 00:29:55.327 --> 00:29:57.596 Perry wasn't even aware there was a fire 500 00:29:57.729 --> 00:29:59.298 until the police woke him up. 501 00:30:02.668 --> 00:30:04.503 Is he dangerous? 502 00:30:07.273 --> 00:30:09.541 He knows humans matter in theory, 503 00:30:10.910 --> 00:30:12.778 but not in practice. 504 00:30:16.782 --> 00:30:18.384 Just ask Lucy. 505 00:30:47.679 --> 00:30:49.381 Thank you. 506 00:30:52.018 --> 00:30:55.922 Lucy, I want you to watch this. 507 00:30:56.188 --> 00:30:58.757 This is a little piece of forbidden magic 508 00:30:58.891 --> 00:31:02.428 that I learned in the bazaars of Morocco 509 00:31:02.561 --> 00:31:07.866 from wise men who knew how to turn steel into thin air. 510 00:31:08.534 --> 00:31:11.503 So, I want you to count to three, 511 00:31:11.637 --> 00:31:13.705 then I want you to blow on the napkin. 512 00:31:13.839 --> 00:31:17.309 Okay. One, two, three. 513 00:31:20.412 --> 00:31:21.513 Wait, wait, wait. Let me see. 514 00:31:21.647 --> 00:31:22.748 How'd you do that? Wait. 515 00:31:22.881 --> 00:31:24.083 Go to bed. 516 00:31:29.755 --> 00:31:32.058 - Here, let me help. - You got school in the morning. 517 00:31:32.191 --> 00:31:33.759 - Go to bed. - Thank you. 518 00:31:34.360 --> 00:31:35.727 Good night, sweetheart. 519 00:31:36.862 --> 00:31:37.930 Good night. 520 00:31:38.730 --> 00:31:39.966 Good night, Lucy. 521 00:31:44.536 --> 00:31:45.938 You didn't eat much. 522 00:31:48.407 --> 00:31:50.642 I-I've never had goat before. 523 00:31:51.777 --> 00:31:54.780 Okay. First impressions? 524 00:31:55.714 --> 00:31:57.316 Yeah, right. 525 00:31:57.449 --> 00:32:01.320 Uh, well, I think it's completely legit. 526 00:32:01.453 --> 00:32:03.755 I mean, I've gone through six months of his logs, 527 00:32:03.889 --> 00:32:04.991 and every single time 528 00:32:05.124 --> 00:32:06.425 I tried to find some other explanation for it, 529 00:32:06.558 --> 00:32:07.926 he'd already disproved it. 530 00:32:08.060 --> 00:32:10.462 I mean, we're witnessing actual alien chatter. 531 00:32:10.596 --> 00:32:11.964 We need to report this. 532 00:32:12.298 --> 00:32:13.832 What? To who? 533 00:32:13.966 --> 00:32:15.801 The IAA has guidelines on post-detection. 534 00:32:15.934 --> 00:32:18.770 Do you want to have about a dozen space agencies 535 00:32:18.904 --> 00:32:20.772 with all the bureaucrats down here 536 00:32:20.906 --> 00:32:23.275 clusterfucking this thing for the next decade? 537 00:32:23.409 --> 00:32:25.011 I mean, Sam, I totally get it, 538 00:32:25.144 --> 00:32:26.012 and you're not wrong. 539 00:32:26.145 --> 00:32:27.779 However, Annika has a point. 540 00:32:27.913 --> 00:32:29.648 I mean, we're not fucking around anymore. 541 00:32:29.781 --> 00:32:32.318 This is like a solid seven on the RIO scale. 542 00:32:32.451 --> 00:32:34.153 Oh, for Christ sakes, Charlie. 543 00:32:34.286 --> 00:32:36.455 - You built quantum satellites. - What? 544 00:32:36.588 --> 00:32:38.124 I thought you of all people 545 00:32:38.257 --> 00:32:39.791 would just want to run with this thing. 546 00:32:39.925 --> 00:32:40.759 I-I do. 547 00:32:40.892 --> 00:32:42.194 Look, we discovered it. 548 00:32:42.894 --> 00:32:44.096 It's ours. 549 00:32:44.230 --> 00:32:45.364 Come on, that's fucked up. 550 00:32:45.497 --> 00:32:47.333 I mean, what if-if I discovered Pluto 551 00:32:47.466 --> 00:32:49.168 I can just screw with it any way I want to? 552 00:32:49.801 --> 00:32:51.670 Billionaires, they've taken over space exploration 553 00:32:51.803 --> 00:32:54.106 because they have more resources than entire nations. 554 00:32:54.240 --> 00:32:55.641 And I'm not exactly A-OK 555 00:32:55.774 --> 00:32:57.843 with some galactic dick measuring contest 556 00:32:57.976 --> 00:32:59.778 where a few billionaires get to determine 557 00:32:59.911 --> 00:33:01.447 the fate of all of humanity. 558 00:33:01.580 --> 00:33:04.816 Sam, listening is one thing, but talking back? 559 00:33:05.817 --> 00:33:07.819 The risks of that are mind-boggling. 560 00:33:08.820 --> 00:33:11.723 We don't know if they're peaceful or hostile. 561 00:33:11.857 --> 00:33:12.858 And you're talking about 562 00:33:12.991 --> 00:33:15.561 sending a signal the way they do. 563 00:33:15.694 --> 00:33:19.665 They'll know we're here immediately from anywhere. 564 00:33:19.798 --> 00:33:22.234 You didn't say if you liked it. 565 00:33:25.003 --> 00:33:26.338 The goat. 566 00:33:29.041 --> 00:33:31.810 Yeah, uh, it was fine. 567 00:33:32.478 --> 00:33:35.481 Now, we've spent six months trying to decipher it 568 00:33:35.614 --> 00:33:38.084 and we still don't know if they talk in calculus 569 00:33:38.217 --> 00:33:41.420 or interstellar Sanskrit or in swirls of colour. 570 00:33:41.553 --> 00:33:42.754 Let me try. 571 00:33:42.888 --> 00:33:45.224 That kind of thing might take centuries to crack. 572 00:33:45.891 --> 00:33:47.093 Give me a week. 573 00:33:51.130 --> 00:33:52.698 A week, that's all I ask. 574 00:33:53.165 --> 00:33:55.201 I hate goats. 575 00:33:58.670 --> 00:34:01.707 You know, they pair goats with, uh, thoroughbreds. 576 00:34:01.840 --> 00:34:04.343 They call them companion animals. 577 00:34:05.244 --> 00:34:07.379 You see, horses don't like to be left on their own. 578 00:34:07.513 --> 00:34:09.081 They're herd animals, and they, uh, 579 00:34:09.215 --> 00:34:10.382 well, they get very lonely. 580 00:34:10.516 --> 00:34:15.121 So the breeders will put a goat in the horse pen 581 00:34:15.254 --> 00:34:18.224 to keep it settled and manageable and docile. 582 00:34:18.357 --> 00:34:22.461 But the, uh, the entire dynamic is... 583 00:34:23.262 --> 00:34:24.663 is very unnatural. 584 00:34:24.796 --> 00:34:27.433 First, you've taken a horse out of its natural environment, 585 00:34:27.566 --> 00:34:29.601 and then you paper over this perversion 586 00:34:29.735 --> 00:34:31.970 by forcing a companion on it. 587 00:34:32.104 --> 00:34:33.439 But some horses 588 00:34:35.274 --> 00:34:36.375 are different. 589 00:34:36.508 --> 00:34:37.609 They prefer solitude, 590 00:34:37.743 --> 00:34:42.214 and they see the goat as an intruder. 591 00:34:43.415 --> 00:34:44.750 An invader. 592 00:34:45.551 --> 00:34:47.486 And so they'll do what any animal would do 593 00:34:47.619 --> 00:34:49.054 when it feels threatened. 594 00:34:49.955 --> 00:34:50.989 I mean, 595 00:34:53.058 --> 00:34:55.227 horses don't even eat meat. 596 00:34:56.027 --> 00:34:59.931 But they will chew clean through a goat's neck. 597 00:35:02.434 --> 00:35:03.602 Imagine that. 598 00:35:05.637 --> 00:35:07.273 And you know what the owner does? 599 00:35:09.708 --> 00:35:10.842 Just buy us another goat. 600 00:35:10.976 --> 00:35:12.278 All right, I think that's fucking enough. 601 00:35:12.411 --> 00:35:13.679 We're not waiting! 602 00:35:15.881 --> 00:35:18.250 Not a week! Not a day! 603 00:35:18.584 --> 00:35:20.319 You fix my hardware. 604 00:35:20.452 --> 00:35:22.521 You fix my software. 605 00:35:22.654 --> 00:35:25.157 My schedule, or I'm done! 606 00:35:30.629 --> 00:35:33.599 It's not the first time that he's threatened to take his ball 607 00:35:33.732 --> 00:35:34.700 and go home. 608 00:35:34.833 --> 00:35:36.235 He's an unstable man. 609 00:35:36.368 --> 00:35:38.470 Yeah, well, it's all we can do to keep him together with meds 610 00:35:38.604 --> 00:35:39.671 and duct tape. 611 00:35:42.073 --> 00:35:45.544 So I guess you realize the other reason you're both here. 612 00:35:46.111 --> 00:35:48.680 The moment that Perry is not functional. 613 00:35:52.017 --> 00:35:53.519 We get it. 614 00:35:53.819 --> 00:35:55.221 We're the replacements. 615 00:36:00.326 --> 00:36:04.363 So I will get you your week, Annika. 616 00:36:05.331 --> 00:36:08.600 And I will smooth things over with Perry tomorrow. 617 00:36:09.034 --> 00:36:10.236 All right? 618 00:36:30.322 --> 00:36:32.224 I'm worried that Perry's right. 619 00:36:33.459 --> 00:36:36.528 I think the only thing that we can do is turn it on 620 00:36:37.062 --> 00:36:39.731 and let them know that we're listening and hope they help. 621 00:36:39.865 --> 00:36:42.834 And that is extremely dangerous. 622 00:36:45.304 --> 00:36:46.405 Maybe. 623 00:36:46.838 --> 00:36:48.340 But what would they want from us? 624 00:36:48.474 --> 00:36:49.875 Resources. 625 00:36:50.008 --> 00:36:52.077 Nope. This universe is crammed full of resources. 626 00:36:52.210 --> 00:36:54.880 And you and I both know that our little tiny speck here 627 00:36:55.013 --> 00:36:56.948 of the Milky Way is kind of a resource desert. 628 00:36:57.082 --> 00:36:58.183 Keep going. 629 00:36:58.317 --> 00:36:59.851 They could see us as a threat. 630 00:36:59.985 --> 00:37:01.219 No, no. 631 00:37:01.353 --> 00:37:03.054 Look, you got the tech that they got. 632 00:37:03.188 --> 00:37:05.791 You think they give a shit about our stupid iPhones 633 00:37:05.924 --> 00:37:07.526 or our dumb smart bombs? 634 00:37:07.659 --> 00:37:08.694 Come on. 635 00:37:08.827 --> 00:37:09.961 Food. 636 00:37:10.095 --> 00:37:11.196 Us? 637 00:37:13.532 --> 00:37:15.801 I wouldn't touch me with a 10 foot fork. 638 00:37:20.105 --> 00:37:23.409 Whichever way I-I try to game this whole thing out, 639 00:37:25.110 --> 00:37:27.212 I can't find anything to be afraid of. 640 00:37:28.113 --> 00:37:29.615 I can think of so many. 641 00:37:30.416 --> 00:37:32.083 Life is fragile. 642 00:37:33.118 --> 00:37:34.786 Fear keeps us safe. 643 00:37:35.086 --> 00:37:36.288 All right. 644 00:37:39.257 --> 00:37:42.794 Annika, our job is to know the unknown. 645 00:37:42.928 --> 00:37:44.463 But now you don't want to embrace it? 646 00:37:45.130 --> 00:37:46.898 You can't have it both ways. 647 00:37:49.701 --> 00:37:50.936 Dr. Kask, 648 00:37:51.069 --> 00:37:52.771 why didn't you stop Mr. Kaminsky 649 00:37:52.904 --> 00:37:55.307 from initializing Littlemouth that evening? 650 00:37:55.874 --> 00:37:57.409 He never told me 651 00:37:57.543 --> 00:37:59.778 because he knew I'd try to stop him. 652 00:37:59.911 --> 00:38:01.447 He didn't consider the possibility 653 00:38:01.580 --> 00:38:03.815 that this alien intelligence might be hostile? 654 00:38:06.318 --> 00:38:09.521 Charlie doesn't believe intelligence can be hostile. 655 00:38:12.057 --> 00:38:14.693 For him, intelligence doesn't waste. 656 00:38:16.395 --> 00:38:17.963 It learns. 657 00:38:23.101 --> 00:38:24.035 From mistakes. 658 00:38:24.169 --> 00:38:26.838 From mutations. 659 00:38:26.972 --> 00:38:29.341 From curious expressions in nature. 660 00:38:31.109 --> 00:38:32.544 What do they want? 661 00:38:34.413 --> 00:38:37.048 What do we want when we observe an ant colony 662 00:38:37.182 --> 00:38:38.984 halfway around the world? 663 00:38:50.328 --> 00:38:52.030 So, Charlie was always going 664 00:38:52.163 --> 00:38:53.899 to unlock Littlemouth. 665 00:38:57.669 --> 00:38:59.004 Initialize. 666 00:38:59.137 --> 00:39:00.639 Initializing. 667 00:39:00.772 --> 00:39:02.374 Because he believed no harm would come of it. 668 00:39:07.846 --> 00:39:10.382 Initiation sequence successful. 669 00:39:12.884 --> 00:39:16.087 But you didn't believe that, did you, Doctor? 670 00:39:23.161 --> 00:39:24.996 Uh, hey, Perry? 671 00:39:26.197 --> 00:39:27.265 Perry? 672 00:39:27.966 --> 00:39:30.201 Well, uh, Perry, you should, uh... 673 00:39:31.703 --> 00:39:33.505 you should know that I-I fixed it. 674 00:39:34.339 --> 00:39:36.007 We can talk back now. 675 00:39:45.216 --> 00:39:48.454 Welcome to Littlemouth's signal room. 676 00:40:03.735 --> 00:40:05.737 Get down here. Ten minutes. 677 00:40:07.272 --> 00:40:08.774 Lowest level. 678 00:40:13.445 --> 00:40:15.447 It's time to meet Littlemouth. 679 00:40:28.794 --> 00:40:31.162 You have reached the voicemail box of... 680 00:40:31.296 --> 00:40:32.498 Sam Houston. 681 00:40:32.631 --> 00:40:34.766 Please leave a message. 682 00:40:36.868 --> 00:40:38.336 He said he'd wait. 683 00:40:42.407 --> 00:40:44.009 Level C. 684 00:40:47.312 --> 00:40:48.680 Take your time? 685 00:40:52.618 --> 00:40:54.452 Charlie tell me you didn't. 686 00:41:03.461 --> 00:41:08.466 At 1:24 AM Littlemouth turns on. 687 00:41:08.834 --> 00:41:11.136 Perry, I object to this on so many levels. 688 00:41:11.269 --> 00:41:13.705 But you won't do anything about it, will you? 689 00:41:14.940 --> 00:41:18.476 So what you can do is check for data variations when we go live. 690 00:41:18.610 --> 00:41:19.945 Uh, what are you... 691 00:41:20.078 --> 00:41:21.146 what are you going to say? 692 00:41:21.813 --> 00:41:22.881 Hello. 693 00:41:24.916 --> 00:41:26.017 How? 694 00:41:31.590 --> 00:41:33.191 Of all the data points, 695 00:41:33.324 --> 00:41:37.395 one sequence repeated itself at a marginally greater rate. 696 00:41:37.596 --> 00:41:39.531 Littlemouth will repeat that sequence 697 00:41:39.665 --> 00:41:43.034 and send it between here and the antenna. 698 00:41:44.269 --> 00:41:45.871 But you don't even know what that sequence means. 699 00:41:46.004 --> 00:41:47.338 Well, does an infant have any idea 700 00:41:47.472 --> 00:41:50.341 what its first fumblings at language mean? No. 701 00:41:50.475 --> 00:41:52.243 But they simply mimic those more developed. 702 00:41:52.377 --> 00:41:53.745 - But the- - Does the parent have any idea 703 00:41:53.879 --> 00:41:54.880 what the child means? 704 00:41:55.013 --> 00:41:56.715 No, but they know what the child is saying. 705 00:41:57.816 --> 00:42:00.752 They're saying, "I'm alive and I'm listening." 706 00:42:04.289 --> 00:42:08.259 Yet though we babble, we do so mathematically. 707 00:42:08.393 --> 00:42:11.663 We will use two universal constants. 708 00:42:11.797 --> 00:42:14.666 The speed of light will be the unit of measurement. 709 00:42:15.200 --> 00:42:16.201 And primes, 710 00:42:16.334 --> 00:42:18.036 we will repeat the code ten times. 711 00:42:18.169 --> 00:42:20.672 The first interval will be two times the speed of light. 712 00:42:20.806 --> 00:42:22.207 And the final interval, therefore, 713 00:42:22.340 --> 00:42:25.911 will be the tenth prime 29 times the speed of light. 714 00:42:27.545 --> 00:42:29.781 You're saying a lot more than just hello. 715 00:42:29.915 --> 00:42:31.149 Yes. 716 00:42:31.282 --> 00:42:33.551 We're saying, "We've heard you and we're logical." 717 00:42:34.753 --> 00:42:36.287 And, "We're here." 718 00:42:37.555 --> 00:42:38.890 Yes, that's the idea. 719 00:42:41.059 --> 00:42:43.394 By the way, Sam won't stop it. 720 00:42:44.362 --> 00:42:45.430 There's no kill switch. 721 00:42:45.563 --> 00:42:47.265 And even if he could, he never would. 722 00:42:47.398 --> 00:42:51.136 He's blinded by hubris in one eye and glory in the other. 723 00:42:52.838 --> 00:42:55.440 Anything else from the little goats? 724 00:43:02.347 --> 00:43:03.548 Yeah. 725 00:43:04.082 --> 00:43:05.116 Let's do it. 726 00:43:05.550 --> 00:43:06.384 What? 727 00:43:06.517 --> 00:43:07.986 I'm sorry, I-I gotta see this. 728 00:43:10.455 --> 00:43:11.790 Perry, you know, you-you should, uh, 729 00:43:11.923 --> 00:43:12.991 you should say something. 730 00:43:13.124 --> 00:43:15.326 Like a quote for posterity or something. 731 00:43:15.460 --> 00:43:17.162 What, like, "One small step"? 732 00:43:17.295 --> 00:43:19.931 or, "I am become Death, destroyer of worlds"? 733 00:43:20.298 --> 00:43:21.566 I mean, something. 734 00:43:21.700 --> 00:43:23.234 Considering what's about to happen. It's... 735 00:43:23.368 --> 00:43:24.836 Nothing is about to happen. 736 00:43:24.970 --> 00:43:26.137 That's the entire point. 737 00:43:27.038 --> 00:43:28.940 There's no war of the worlds. 738 00:43:30.876 --> 00:43:33.011 There's no grand enlightenment. 739 00:43:35.313 --> 00:43:36.848 Just a thundering silence. 740 00:43:39.651 --> 00:43:41.186 This is about insignificance. 741 00:43:41.319 --> 00:43:44.289 This is about our smallness laid bare. 742 00:43:44.422 --> 00:43:49.961 There'll be no response because we simply do not matter. 743 00:43:50.095 --> 00:43:52.798 Not our work, not our deeds. 744 00:43:52.931 --> 00:43:55.166 Or our mistakes. 745 00:43:56.634 --> 00:43:58.003 So there's your fucking quote. 746 00:43:59.570 --> 00:44:01.639 If it doesn't matter, why build this? 747 00:44:04.409 --> 00:44:05.711 To prove it. 748 00:44:24.930 --> 00:44:26.231 Ta-da! 749 00:44:28.433 --> 00:44:29.300 There you go. 750 00:44:29.434 --> 00:44:32.570 Nothing. As predicted. Oof. 751 00:44:38.143 --> 00:44:40.145 So, when's it happening? 752 00:44:40.278 --> 00:44:41.312 Five minutes ago. 753 00:44:41.446 --> 00:44:42.814 Really? And? 754 00:44:42.948 --> 00:44:44.249 And I'm done! 755 00:44:44.382 --> 00:44:46.651 Whoa, Annika, uh, look, don't... 756 00:44:54.492 --> 00:44:55.560 Whoa. 757 00:44:56.962 --> 00:44:58.263 Whah? 758 00:45:07.072 --> 00:45:08.606 Uh... 759 00:45:14.212 --> 00:45:16.214 Backup power on. 760 00:45:25.490 --> 00:45:27.058 System offline. 761 00:45:32.097 --> 00:45:34.699 Uh, Perry, Perry, you should shut it off. 762 00:45:34.833 --> 00:45:36.267 Perry, shut-shut it off! 763 00:45:36.401 --> 00:45:37.435 - Shut it down! - Shh! 764 00:46:01.927 --> 00:46:03.228 Annika, I got it. 765 00:46:03.594 --> 00:46:05.496 Why'd you turn it on, Charlie? 766 00:46:05.630 --> 00:46:06.564 Just hold on a sec. 767 00:46:09.600 --> 00:46:11.169 You need to come see this. 768 00:46:14.039 --> 00:46:16.174 Officials have yet to offer an explanation 769 00:46:16.307 --> 00:46:17.542 for the six seconds 770 00:46:17.675 --> 00:46:19.978 that interrupted almost all global electronic 771 00:46:20.111 --> 00:46:21.646 and satellite communication. 772 00:46:21.779 --> 00:46:25.016 There are unconfirmed reports of loss of life as hospitals, 773 00:46:25.150 --> 00:46:28.253 traffic signals and aircraft have lost power. 774 00:46:28.386 --> 00:46:29.988 Well, we can't rule out 775 00:46:30.121 --> 00:46:31.823 this is of military origin. 776 00:46:32.157 --> 00:46:34.125 A test of some kind, if you like. 777 00:46:34.259 --> 00:46:35.260 Yeah, the satellites are all down. 778 00:46:35.393 --> 00:46:37.328 These are just analog broadcasts. 779 00:46:38.696 --> 00:46:40.531 We at NASA, we're at a loss. 780 00:46:40.665 --> 00:46:43.268 Whatever it is, it extends beyond the Earth's atmosphere 781 00:46:43.401 --> 00:46:46.337 because it's knocked out all high-orbit satellites. 782 00:46:46.671 --> 00:46:49.040 Is this possibly extraterrestrial? 783 00:46:49.174 --> 00:46:50.608 Power went out for eight minutes- 784 00:46:50.741 --> 00:46:52.010 This is Perry? 785 00:46:53.478 --> 00:46:54.679 Yeah. 786 00:46:55.847 --> 00:46:57.615 The power went out for 8 minutes 787 00:46:57.748 --> 00:46:59.284 and 19.48 seconds. 788 00:46:59.417 --> 00:47:01.286 What that means exactly, we don't know at this time. 789 00:47:01.419 --> 00:47:03.488 Charlie, they talked back. 790 00:47:04.189 --> 00:47:05.290 What do you mean? 791 00:47:05.423 --> 00:47:07.325 The power goes out, and exactly 8 minutes, 792 00:47:07.458 --> 00:47:10.128 19.48 seconds later, it comes back on. 793 00:47:10.962 --> 00:47:12.563 What do you think that means? 794 00:47:14.632 --> 00:47:15.466 Whoa. 795 00:47:15.600 --> 00:47:16.902 So what? 796 00:47:17.035 --> 00:47:18.636 That's the exact amount of time that it takes sunlight 797 00:47:18.769 --> 00:47:20.005 to get to Earth. 798 00:47:20.138 --> 00:47:22.140 They waited and they responded in a universal constant. 799 00:47:22.273 --> 00:47:23.474 We showed them we understand. 800 00:47:23.608 --> 00:47:24.809 Yep. The-the speed of light. 801 00:47:24.943 --> 00:47:26.311 They-they would know the sun is everything to us. 802 00:47:26.444 --> 00:47:28.546 No energy, no power, no biological life. 803 00:47:28.679 --> 00:47:29.680 But what did they say? 804 00:47:29.814 --> 00:47:30.882 No idea. 805 00:47:31.016 --> 00:47:32.217 Bare minimum, they said that we hear you 806 00:47:32.350 --> 00:47:33.751 and we know where you are. 807 00:47:33.885 --> 00:47:35.820 It's still too soon to predict 808 00:47:35.954 --> 00:47:38.156 how high the death toll may grow, 809 00:47:38.289 --> 00:47:39.857 but it most certainly will. 810 00:47:40.158 --> 00:47:42.493 Officials are rightly worried about the size. 811 00:47:42.627 --> 00:47:45.496 and scale of this unprecedented event. 812 00:47:46.164 --> 00:47:47.665 I'm gonna kill Littlemouth. 813 00:47:48.033 --> 00:47:49.100 Annika, that's like the opposite 814 00:47:49.234 --> 00:47:50.601 of building really cool shit. 815 00:47:50.735 --> 00:47:52.870 Well, then go ask Perry nicely not to turn it back on, Charlie. 816 00:47:53.004 --> 00:47:54.072 I think Perry has enough humanity 817 00:47:54.205 --> 00:47:55.540 - to see the-- - Kill it. 818 00:47:57.242 --> 00:47:59.077 You don't bank on Perry's humanity. 819 00:48:03.982 --> 00:48:07.685 Wait. What if we need Littlemouth again? 820 00:48:08.086 --> 00:48:09.687 No, look, look, hear me out, okay? 821 00:48:09.820 --> 00:48:11.789 Whatever they did out there, that was not a death ray. 822 00:48:12.357 --> 00:48:14.960 They just turned the lights off for eight minutes to tell us 823 00:48:15.093 --> 00:48:16.227 they heard us. 824 00:48:16.761 --> 00:48:18.196 It's just too dangerous, Charlie. 825 00:48:18.329 --> 00:48:19.730 I don't think it's dangerous, Annika. 826 00:48:19.864 --> 00:48:21.199 Yeah, but we are. 827 00:48:23.568 --> 00:48:25.203 We're not a species that does well 828 00:48:25.336 --> 00:48:26.637 with massive paradigm shifts. 829 00:48:26.771 --> 00:48:28.573 They don't need a death ray. They said, "Hi", and look, 830 00:48:28.706 --> 00:48:29.807 we're gonna do the rest. 831 00:48:29.941 --> 00:48:31.709 Yeah, but, but that's not their intentions. 832 00:48:31.842 --> 00:48:33.744 We don't know what their intentions are. 833 00:48:45.790 --> 00:48:48.126 Annika, you can't let fear decide, okay? 834 00:48:49.894 --> 00:48:51.329 It's safer than hope. 835 00:48:59.637 --> 00:49:00.938 I'm locked out. 836 00:49:02.773 --> 00:49:04.642 Is Perry using Littlemouth right now? 837 00:49:04.775 --> 00:49:06.077 No. 838 00:49:09.047 --> 00:49:10.515 He killed it himself. 839 00:49:12.583 --> 00:49:14.819 Let's meet at 1300 hours. 840 00:49:17.722 --> 00:49:19.690 Perhaps it's time to reassess. 841 00:49:27.398 --> 00:49:28.833 We opened a door. 842 00:49:30.835 --> 00:49:32.437 Littlemouth's signal. 843 00:49:35.340 --> 00:49:37.108 It told them we were here. 844 00:49:41.512 --> 00:49:44.115 Our place in the universe was about to change. 845 00:49:47.918 --> 00:49:49.620 Irreversibly. 846 00:49:52.623 --> 00:49:53.791 Forever. 847 00:49:53.924 --> 00:49:55.560 Oh! 848 00:50:20.017 --> 00:50:20.918 Come on. 849 00:50:49.247 --> 00:50:51.449 Oh my God, Lucy! 850 00:50:53.584 --> 00:50:54.852 Lucy! 851 00:50:59.424 --> 00:51:00.458 Lucy! 852 00:51:05.930 --> 00:51:07.232 Shh. 853 00:51:15.740 --> 00:51:17.142 It's all right. 854 00:51:24.014 --> 00:51:26.451 You're all right, you're all right. 855 00:51:45.770 --> 00:51:47.338 Should we be afraid? 856 00:51:53.444 --> 00:51:55.012 Describe an alien. 857 00:51:58.949 --> 00:52:01.018 I wouldn't know where to begin. 858 00:52:02.420 --> 00:52:04.855 Most people would describe something like they know 859 00:52:04.989 --> 00:52:06.524 here on Earth. 860 00:52:08.493 --> 00:52:11.296 Biped, number of eyes, some form of brain, 861 00:52:11.429 --> 00:52:14.098 or perhaps a variation of an insect or a squid, 862 00:52:14.232 --> 00:52:16.301 or a computerized, artificially intelligent, 863 00:52:16.434 --> 00:52:18.969 pompous fuckin' robot. 864 00:52:19.103 --> 00:52:24.742 But almost always some sapiocentric extrapolation 865 00:52:24.909 --> 00:52:26.444 of what we know here on Earth. 866 00:52:26.577 --> 00:52:28.045 But the question is not, 867 00:52:29.013 --> 00:52:30.981 "What does an alien look like?" 868 00:52:35.019 --> 00:52:38.356 It's "What does alien intelligence look like?" 869 00:52:59.777 --> 00:53:01.646 Hello, ma'am, we're with the NSA. 870 00:53:01.779 --> 00:53:02.780 Come in. 871 00:53:02.913 --> 00:53:04.148 Sam Houston here? 872 00:53:04.282 --> 00:53:05.816 Yes, sir. 873 00:53:05.950 --> 00:53:07.818 Haven't had my coffee yet. 874 00:53:07.952 --> 00:53:09.354 Oh. I grabbed one on the way in. 875 00:53:09.487 --> 00:53:10.821 Mm-hmm. 876 00:53:10.955 --> 00:53:13.391 How is it, Sam, that nearly every company on the planet 877 00:53:13.524 --> 00:53:15.493 went dark for 8 minutes, 19 seconds, 878 00:53:15.626 --> 00:53:18.263 yet your operations didn't skip a beat? 879 00:53:18.896 --> 00:53:21.232 - Does the sun still work? - Hmm. 880 00:53:21.366 --> 00:53:22.433 Then we still work. 881 00:53:22.567 --> 00:53:23.868 Mr. Houston, good morning. 882 00:53:24.001 --> 00:53:26.537 Now, what you're about to see is classified. 883 00:53:26.671 --> 00:53:27.872 All right. 884 00:53:29.507 --> 00:53:31.509 That was taken two hours ago 885 00:53:31.642 --> 00:53:33.244 off the coast of Cuba. 886 00:53:34.812 --> 00:53:36.881 And the NSA thinks this has something to do 887 00:53:37.014 --> 00:53:37.982 with the power outage? 888 00:53:38.115 --> 00:53:39.517 Well, we don't know what to think. 889 00:53:39.850 --> 00:53:41.452 Most satellites are still down. 890 00:53:41.586 --> 00:53:42.720 Everything we're getting 891 00:53:42.853 --> 00:53:44.522 comes from one of our deep space satellites. 892 00:53:48.092 --> 00:53:50.895 This anomaly seems to be radiating 893 00:53:51.028 --> 00:53:52.830 from one central point, 894 00:53:53.264 --> 00:53:56.534 right above a private island owned by you. 895 00:53:57.402 --> 00:53:59.036 And this anomaly, 896 00:54:00.237 --> 00:54:01.539 it's growing. 897 00:54:01.672 --> 00:54:02.907 Exponentially. 898 00:54:03.040 --> 00:54:05.876 This morning, the anomaly was the size of a pinprick. 899 00:54:06.010 --> 00:54:07.211 In two days, 900 00:54:07.345 --> 00:54:09.380 it'll be visible from mainland Cuba. 901 00:54:11.282 --> 00:54:12.483 In a week... 902 00:54:12.617 --> 00:54:14.785 This is gonna cause mass panic. 903 00:54:15.252 --> 00:54:17.054 What's on the island, Sam? 904 00:54:20.090 --> 00:54:21.759 Solar observatory. 905 00:54:29.300 --> 00:54:30.635 All right. 906 00:54:32.102 --> 00:54:33.671 Where exactly are you going? 907 00:54:35.139 --> 00:54:36.974 Well, you boys got me all riled up. 908 00:54:37.107 --> 00:54:38.409 I'm gonna go take a gander. 909 00:54:38.543 --> 00:54:42.246 You will go nowhere near whatever that is 910 00:54:42.380 --> 00:54:43.648 without military escort. 911 00:54:43.781 --> 00:54:45.783 Excuse me, am I being charged with something? 912 00:54:48.252 --> 00:54:50.321 Then get the fuck out of my way. 913 00:54:53.157 --> 00:54:54.859 You're pushing your luck, Sam. 914 00:54:54.992 --> 00:54:56.961 Yeah, well, it served me well so far. 915 00:54:58.596 --> 00:55:02.833 leaving in five minutes. 916 00:55:12.977 --> 00:55:14.044 Come on. 917 00:56:24.515 --> 00:56:26.551 What the hell, Charlie? 918 00:56:26.684 --> 00:56:27.852 Haven't you done enough already? 919 00:56:27.985 --> 00:56:29.454 Annika, I'm telling you, this thing's safe. 920 00:56:29.587 --> 00:56:30.955 No, it's an alien phenomenon, 921 00:56:31.088 --> 00:56:32.457 and you want to stick your hand in it? 922 00:56:32.590 --> 00:56:34.559 Look, whatever this thing is, it's - 923 00:56:34.692 --> 00:56:36.093 It's right here, okay? 924 00:56:36.226 --> 00:56:38.128 We're exposed to it already. There's nothing between us, 925 00:56:38.262 --> 00:56:39.864 and it's, it's just air. Look. 926 00:56:39.997 --> 00:56:41.365 Look at this. Read it. 927 00:56:43.067 --> 00:56:45.369 It's a column of air surrounded by a vacuum. 928 00:56:45.503 --> 00:56:48.205 You get past the first six inches and it's just air. 929 00:57:01.852 --> 00:57:03.320 What if it's not just air? 930 00:57:04.221 --> 00:57:05.389 Hmm? 931 00:57:05.523 --> 00:57:07.324 Speech is just air. 932 00:57:07.458 --> 00:57:08.926 It's just how it's organized. 933 00:57:09.059 --> 00:57:10.160 Yeah. 934 00:57:10.961 --> 00:57:12.096 Wha... 935 00:57:12.229 --> 00:57:13.564 What are you, what are you doing? 936 00:57:15.966 --> 00:57:17.802 What if it's just another data set? 937 00:57:19.570 --> 00:57:21.506 Yeah, but if it's just fuckin' air, 938 00:57:21.639 --> 00:57:23.908 then how do you collect that data? 939 00:57:24.875 --> 00:57:26.076 Watch me. 940 00:57:41.158 --> 00:57:42.493 Oh, great. 941 00:57:53.070 --> 00:57:54.371 This will work. 942 00:57:58.475 --> 00:57:59.944 Oh, shit, okay. 943 00:58:44.955 --> 00:58:47.925 You say they speak in thoughts and visions. 944 00:58:48.058 --> 00:58:49.059 Why not speak plainly? 945 00:58:49.193 --> 00:58:51.395 Why not tell us what's at stake? 946 00:58:53.297 --> 00:58:56.266 Is it possible that a post-biological intelligence 947 00:58:56.400 --> 00:58:58.535 could figure out a better way to communicate with us 948 00:58:58.669 --> 00:59:00.104 than English? 949 00:59:05.475 --> 00:59:06.944 You can go now. 950 00:59:08.679 --> 00:59:10.514 Hasn't she been through enough for one day? 951 00:59:10.648 --> 00:59:11.949 You can go now. 952 00:59:40.444 --> 00:59:41.779 "Chapter one: 953 00:59:42.446 --> 00:59:44.214 "Peter Breaks Through." 954 00:59:44.682 --> 00:59:47.451 "All children except one grow up. 955 00:59:48.018 --> 00:59:50.220 They soon know that they will grow up. 956 00:59:50.354 --> 00:59:52.890 And the way Wendy knew was this. 957 00:59:53.758 --> 00:59:55.793 One day when she was two years old, 958 00:59:55.926 --> 00:59:57.662 she was playing in a garden 959 00:59:58.128 --> 01:00:02.900 and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. 960 01:00:03.033 --> 01:00:06.036 I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, 961 01:00:06.704 --> 01:00:10.875 for Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, 962 01:00:11.375 --> 01:00:14.912 Oh, why can't you remain like this forever? 963 01:00:18.983 --> 01:00:21.986 Wendy knew that she must grow up. 964 01:00:22.486 --> 01:00:25.289 You always know after you are two. 965 01:00:25.956 --> 01:00:28.125 Two is the beginning of the end." 966 01:00:59.489 --> 01:01:00.891 Safeties on 967 01:01:01.025 --> 01:01:04.228 unless a clear hostile act or intent presents itself. 968 01:01:05.095 --> 01:01:08.365 We're going to breach, clear, and control. 969 01:01:09.633 --> 01:01:11.635 Now there's no clear sat recon, 970 01:01:12.636 --> 01:01:14.671 so we're going in blind here, folks. 971 01:01:15.840 --> 01:01:17.742 Activated emergency protocols, 972 01:01:17.875 --> 01:01:20.510 including curfews and emergency powers. 973 01:01:20.644 --> 01:01:23.413 Officials insist it's necessary to ensure the panic 974 01:01:23.547 --> 01:01:26.183 that has ensued doesn't spin out of control. 975 01:01:26.316 --> 01:01:28.085 In places where martial law 976 01:01:28.218 --> 01:01:29.653 has yet to be declared-- 977 01:01:29.787 --> 01:01:33.057 United States military is going to be here within hours, 978 01:01:33.190 --> 01:01:35.559 knocking down doors. 979 01:01:35.692 --> 01:01:37.327 So we need to have some answers. 980 01:01:37.461 --> 01:01:39.163 All right, look, I have an actual theory. 981 01:01:39.730 --> 01:01:41.031 Look, Sam. 982 01:01:41.799 --> 01:01:43.233 So this pillar, right? 983 01:01:43.367 --> 01:01:44.534 It's-it's-it's nothing. 984 01:01:44.668 --> 01:01:47.104 It's just air and-and light. 985 01:01:47.471 --> 01:01:49.373 Anything that passes through it, 986 01:01:49.506 --> 01:01:50.741 it's benign. 987 01:01:50.875 --> 01:01:53.778 Now what-what is the most commonly used Morse code signal? 988 01:02:00.017 --> 01:02:01.351 A distress call. 989 01:02:01.551 --> 01:02:04.054 Right. So, what if... 990 01:02:04.188 --> 01:02:06.556 what if the message that we sent using Littlemouth, 991 01:02:06.690 --> 01:02:08.959 the most commonly repeated sequence that we saw, 992 01:02:09.093 --> 01:02:10.360 was actually an SOS? 993 01:02:10.494 --> 01:02:13.097 Or it could mean absolutely nothing at all. 994 01:02:13.230 --> 01:02:16.366 All I'm saying is that maybe this is their way 995 01:02:16.500 --> 01:02:18.368 of trying to help us. 996 01:02:18.936 --> 01:02:21.405 What if these anomalies are like a cloak? 997 01:02:21.538 --> 01:02:23.473 I think they're trying to hide us from harm, 998 01:02:23.607 --> 01:02:25.810 or-or communicate, or protect us, or-- 999 01:02:25.943 --> 01:02:27.244 Protect us from what? 1000 01:02:28.612 --> 01:02:29.613 Sam, I don't know. 1001 01:02:32.116 --> 01:02:33.350 But did you know 1002 01:02:33.483 --> 01:02:35.319 what we might have needed protection from? 1003 01:02:36.286 --> 01:02:38.956 The universe is infinite. 1004 01:02:41.291 --> 01:02:43.627 And therefore full of infinite dangers. 1005 01:02:49.099 --> 01:02:50.567 There's only one pillar. 1006 01:02:50.700 --> 01:02:52.436 They're replying to the source. 1007 01:02:54.271 --> 01:02:55.940 It needs to breathe. 1008 01:02:56.974 --> 01:02:58.275 If we don't figure this out, 1009 01:02:58.408 --> 01:03:00.344 they'll lock us out and then fumble this thing 1010 01:03:00.477 --> 01:03:01.846 while the whole world burns. 1011 01:03:04.982 --> 01:03:07.451 It needs to breathe. It needs to breathe. 1012 01:03:07.584 --> 01:03:09.353 I can't breathe! I need air! 1013 01:03:11.121 --> 01:03:12.489 I need air! 1014 01:03:12.622 --> 01:03:15.259 It needs to breathe. It needs to breathe. 1015 01:03:18.095 --> 01:03:21.265 I cannot believe the brain power in this room 1016 01:03:21.398 --> 01:03:24.334 cannot come up with one workable idea. 1017 01:03:24.468 --> 01:03:25.970 They're going to lock us up. 1018 01:03:28.939 --> 01:03:30.674 Annika, where are you going? 1019 01:03:45.789 --> 01:03:48.458 Annika, you all right? 1020 01:03:58.368 --> 01:03:59.669 We can talk to them. 1021 01:04:01.939 --> 01:04:03.040 But how? 1022 01:04:03.173 --> 01:04:04.208 In there. 1023 01:04:05.142 --> 01:04:07.211 Eight minutes and 19.43 seconds. 1024 01:04:07.344 --> 01:04:09.579 It was a scan. They waited. 1025 01:04:09.713 --> 01:04:11.581 They scanned us. What did they see? 1026 01:04:11.715 --> 01:04:13.150 What did they learn about us? 1027 01:04:14.184 --> 01:04:16.486 They saw a planet covered in air. 1028 01:04:17.554 --> 01:04:19.389 What does that tell them about us? 1029 01:04:20.490 --> 01:04:21.858 Well, um, that would tell them 1030 01:04:21.992 --> 01:04:24.361 that whatever biological life lives down there 1031 01:04:24.494 --> 01:04:25.996 survives completely surrounded by air. 1032 01:04:26.130 --> 01:04:27.932 So what's the safest way to engage with us? 1033 01:04:30.034 --> 01:04:31.001 Air. 1034 01:04:32.636 --> 01:04:35.105 We don't talk in language, we talk in air. 1035 01:04:35.239 --> 01:04:37.741 Molecules bent into shapes that mean something. 1036 01:04:38.342 --> 01:04:40.177 So we go in, breathe in, 1037 01:04:40.310 --> 01:04:41.946 and have a conversation. 1038 01:04:42.879 --> 01:04:44.081 And this whole time 1039 01:04:44.214 --> 01:04:45.415 we've been so worried about trying to figure out 1040 01:04:45.549 --> 01:04:46.616 the best way to communicate with them, 1041 01:04:46.750 --> 01:04:47.851 we didn't think that maybe 1042 01:04:47.985 --> 01:04:49.553 this hyper-advanced intelligence 1043 01:04:49.686 --> 01:04:51.255 would find the best way to communicate with us. 1044 01:04:51.388 --> 01:04:52.289 We have to go in. 1045 01:04:52.422 --> 01:04:53.290 What, into that pillar? 1046 01:04:53.423 --> 01:04:54.691 - Yes. - Now, wait a minute. 1047 01:04:54.824 --> 01:04:57.561 Now that's a hell of a leap of faith, Annika. 1048 01:04:58.595 --> 01:05:00.864 This is not an invasion. 1049 01:05:02.766 --> 01:05:04.568 It's an invitation. 1050 01:05:08.772 --> 01:05:10.274 So who's going in? 1051 01:05:10.840 --> 01:05:13.043 I mean, you'll almost definitely suffocate. 1052 01:05:14.411 --> 01:05:17.247 Sam, you want to go cement your legacy? 1053 01:05:20.750 --> 01:05:23.220 Been there. Done that. No. 1054 01:05:31.461 --> 01:05:32.662 Yeah. Okay. 1055 01:05:32.796 --> 01:05:33.830 I'll do it. 1056 01:05:39.036 --> 01:05:40.004 Whoa. 1057 01:05:44.408 --> 01:05:45.442 Put your hands on your head. 1058 01:05:45.575 --> 01:05:47.244 Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. 1059 01:05:47.377 --> 01:05:49.113 Yeah. All right. 1060 01:05:57.721 --> 01:05:59.523 How human of us to see this 1061 01:06:00.824 --> 01:06:02.126 and be afraid. 1062 01:06:04.794 --> 01:06:07.931 How human of us not to see the hope in it. 1063 01:06:12.169 --> 01:06:13.603 How human. 1064 01:06:18.408 --> 01:06:19.609 How human. 1065 01:06:34.858 --> 01:06:37.127 We're past the edge of the earth. 1066 01:06:37.261 --> 01:06:39.029 There is no protocol, 1067 01:06:39.163 --> 01:06:41.865 no policy for whatever this is. 1068 01:06:43.100 --> 01:06:45.335 No laws cover what you've done. 1069 01:06:46.536 --> 01:06:48.505 No putting the genie back in this bottle. 1070 01:06:48.638 --> 01:06:50.140 We can fix it. 1071 01:06:53.377 --> 01:06:57.381 Iran's mobilized their entire southern fleet in Bandar Abbas. 1072 01:06:57.514 --> 01:07:00.016 Shots are already fired in Kashmir. 1073 01:07:00.284 --> 01:07:03.220 Half of America is convinced it's the Rapture. 1074 01:07:03.353 --> 01:07:06.390 And I don't even want to begin to tell you what Russia's up to, 1075 01:07:06.523 --> 01:07:08.058 but, hint, it's fucking bad. 1076 01:07:08.192 --> 01:07:09.326 You can fix all that, Sam? 1077 01:07:09.893 --> 01:07:12.329 Humanity couldn't handle a global blackout. 1078 01:07:12.462 --> 01:07:14.364 What's going to happen when they see this anomaly 1079 01:07:14.498 --> 01:07:15.899 hanging over New York? 1080 01:07:16.233 --> 01:07:17.734 There is something that we can do. 1081 01:07:17.867 --> 01:07:19.703 Yeah, I heard it. 1082 01:07:19.836 --> 01:07:21.037 Air. Sure. 1083 01:07:21.171 --> 01:07:23.240 - But it's not my call. - Thank Christ. 1084 01:07:23.373 --> 01:07:24.908 New orders just came in. 1085 01:07:25.375 --> 01:07:26.743 Look, you should let me just try it. 1086 01:07:29.146 --> 01:07:30.247 Let me go in. 1087 01:07:33.049 --> 01:07:35.885 You will be confined to your quarters under armed guard 1088 01:07:36.220 --> 01:07:39.256 until arrangements can be made for secondary detainment. 1089 01:07:39.389 --> 01:07:41.691 You will be compelled to fully disclose anything 1090 01:07:41.825 --> 01:07:44.128 and everything you know about the activities on this island 1091 01:07:44.261 --> 01:07:45.529 when asked. 1092 01:07:49.666 --> 01:07:51.067 They don't trust me. 1093 01:07:51.235 --> 01:07:53.137 They know that I'd try to go in. 1094 01:07:57.274 --> 01:07:59.743 Annika, you have to find a way. 1095 01:08:02.546 --> 01:08:03.647 How? 1096 01:08:05.849 --> 01:08:06.816 I don't know. 1097 01:08:09.219 --> 01:08:10.387 We don't even know 1098 01:08:10.520 --> 01:08:11.821 if going in there and talking to them 1099 01:08:11.955 --> 01:08:14.291 will stop the anomaly from growing. 1100 01:08:16.626 --> 01:08:18.061 We have no idea. 1101 01:08:18.428 --> 01:08:19.829 We have to try. 1102 01:08:20.630 --> 01:08:22.332 You have to try. 1103 01:08:23.967 --> 01:08:25.335 Charlie, I can't. 1104 01:08:26.303 --> 01:08:27.471 I-I wouldn't. 1105 01:08:27.604 --> 01:08:28.838 There are just... 1106 01:08:28.972 --> 01:08:31.007 There is too many unknown factors. 1107 01:08:34.878 --> 01:08:36.946 I'm sorry. I'm just scared. 1108 01:08:40.784 --> 01:08:43.753 Annika, you can't let fear decide. 1109 01:08:55.999 --> 01:08:57.501 You didn't become a scientist 1110 01:08:57.634 --> 01:08:59.636 because you're afraid of the unknown. 1111 01:09:03.072 --> 01:09:04.641 You did it to learn. 1112 01:09:07.944 --> 01:09:09.213 To help people. 1113 01:09:11.515 --> 01:09:13.317 Think about saving one life. 1114 01:09:17.487 --> 01:09:18.655 I'll go check it out. 1115 01:09:18.788 --> 01:09:20.156 No! 1116 01:09:20.957 --> 01:09:22.226 You can't risk it. 1117 01:09:23.126 --> 01:09:24.228 Stay. 1118 01:09:24.794 --> 01:09:27.497 Now, think about saving them all. 1119 01:09:35.505 --> 01:09:37.341 Charlie, I have an idea. 1120 01:09:42.178 --> 01:09:43.513 Of course. 1121 01:09:45.148 --> 01:09:46.416 They're not going to understand 1122 01:09:46.550 --> 01:09:49.986 a single word you say, so say a lot of them. 1123 01:09:50.854 --> 01:09:52.055 Wish me luck. 1124 01:09:52.188 --> 01:09:53.423 Good luck. 1125 01:09:53.557 --> 01:09:54.691 Yes. 1126 01:09:56.826 --> 01:09:57.994 Right away. 1127 01:10:05.535 --> 01:10:07.371 Dr. Kask. What's so urgent? 1128 01:10:07.504 --> 01:10:09.105 An oversight. 1129 01:10:09.239 --> 01:10:11.608 Perry is still running an FTL signal 1130 01:10:11.741 --> 01:10:13.877 from the tech tent by the pillar. 1131 01:10:14.544 --> 01:10:16.680 It's a repeating quant signature that we picked out 1132 01:10:16.813 --> 01:10:17.847 when we originally-- 1133 01:10:17.981 --> 01:10:19.949 Okay, dumb it down, please. 1134 01:10:20.384 --> 01:10:22.686 I believe that it's contributing to the growth. 1135 01:10:25.255 --> 01:10:27.023 Okay, uh... 1136 01:10:27.824 --> 01:10:29.058 tell me how to shut it off. 1137 01:10:29.192 --> 01:10:31.695 Do any of your troops know how to run Python? 1138 01:10:31.828 --> 01:10:33.863 Or any other quant-friendly computing languages? 1139 01:10:33.997 --> 01:10:35.865 Our scientists won't be here for another two days, 1140 01:10:35.999 --> 01:10:37.934 so can you just tell me how to unplug it? 1141 01:10:38.067 --> 01:10:40.203 It's not like pulling a plug. It's a complicated system. 1142 01:10:40.337 --> 01:10:41.871 We have servers running on clouds-- 1143 01:10:42.005 --> 01:10:43.106 Okay, enough! I get it. 1144 01:10:43.239 --> 01:10:44.541 I just need five minutes. 1145 01:10:45.241 --> 01:10:46.643 Five minutes. 1146 01:10:50.179 --> 01:10:51.415 Okay. 1147 01:10:53.049 --> 01:10:54.718 Try anything, someone gets shot. 1148 01:10:54.851 --> 01:10:57.053 It's not a threat. It's just where we're at. 1149 01:11:15.038 --> 01:11:16.973 Who else has seen the raw data, Sam? 1150 01:11:17.106 --> 01:11:18.308 Ellis. 1151 01:11:18.975 --> 01:11:20.644 Hauptmann at MIT. 1152 01:11:20.777 --> 01:11:21.778 We've got bogeys 1153 01:11:21.911 --> 01:11:22.979 approaching the wind pillar. 1154 01:11:24.481 --> 01:11:26.015 Six o'clock. Over. 1155 01:11:26.149 --> 01:11:28.017 Corporal, see what's going on out there. 1156 01:11:28.151 --> 01:11:29.953 Yes, sir. 1157 01:11:53.276 --> 01:11:55.144 Annika, get over here. 1158 01:11:56.112 --> 01:11:58.948 "And it isn't fair, I would say with my last breath. 1159 01:11:59.082 --> 01:12:01.418 It isn't fair', said Michael coldly. 1160 01:12:02.185 --> 01:12:04.688 Father is a cowardly custard. 1161 01:12:05.489 --> 01:12:07.791 So are you a cowardly custard?" 1162 01:12:08.658 --> 01:12:10.193 Dad, what's a custard? 1163 01:12:11.428 --> 01:12:12.529 Huh? 1164 01:12:13.430 --> 01:12:15.532 It's a pudding, a yellow pudding. 1165 01:12:15.665 --> 01:12:17.467 Wobbles and shakes. 1166 01:12:18.535 --> 01:12:19.803 Like when someone's afraid. 1167 01:12:19.936 --> 01:12:21.170 Go ahead. 1168 01:12:44.528 --> 01:12:45.729 Hey! 1169 01:12:45.862 --> 01:12:47.230 Hey. 1170 01:12:47.363 --> 01:12:48.364 Hey, come here! 1171 01:12:48.498 --> 01:12:50.033 Over here! 1172 01:12:50.800 --> 01:12:52.636 Hey, over here! 1173 01:12:52.969 --> 01:12:53.937 Hey! 1174 01:12:54.070 --> 01:12:55.405 Stop her! 1175 01:12:55.539 --> 01:12:56.840 No! 1176 01:14:24.561 --> 01:14:25.695 Where am I? 1177 01:14:35.238 --> 01:14:36.973 Are you inside my head? 1178 01:14:42.512 --> 01:14:44.614 Through the air inside you now. 1179 01:14:47.183 --> 01:14:48.451 Klara? 1180 01:14:49.819 --> 01:14:51.320 No. 1181 01:14:52.689 --> 01:14:54.290 How are you talking to me? 1182 01:14:55.659 --> 01:14:57.126 Through memory. 1183 01:14:58.261 --> 01:14:59.563 Or thought. 1184 01:15:00.496 --> 01:15:02.031 Light. 1185 01:15:02.165 --> 01:15:03.332 Speech. 1186 01:15:04.033 --> 01:15:05.869 On a molecular level. 1187 01:15:07.303 --> 01:15:08.905 In any way you prefer. 1188 01:15:12.108 --> 01:15:13.409 Shall we stop? 1189 01:15:15.712 --> 01:15:16.846 No. 1190 01:15:26.856 --> 01:15:28.157 Who are you? 1191 01:15:31.194 --> 01:15:33.362 No longer biological. 1192 01:15:34.864 --> 01:15:36.432 No longer machine. 1193 01:15:42.639 --> 01:15:44.407 Like physics itself. 1194 01:15:47.744 --> 01:15:49.345 We don't create. 1195 01:15:50.013 --> 01:15:51.447 Or destroy. 1196 01:15:54.851 --> 01:15:56.285 We learn. 1197 01:16:08.932 --> 01:16:10.533 You reorganize. 1198 01:16:16.372 --> 01:16:18.074 Everything is transformed. 1199 01:16:25.448 --> 01:16:26.983 Why are you here? 1200 01:16:36.392 --> 01:16:37.927 You called us. 1201 01:16:43.900 --> 01:16:45.601 You asked for help. 1202 01:16:47.303 --> 01:16:48.772 Charlie was right. 1203 01:16:49.472 --> 01:16:51.074 You were hiding us from... 1204 01:16:52.408 --> 01:16:53.509 What? 1205 01:16:54.377 --> 01:16:56.079 From the universe. 1206 01:17:00.483 --> 01:17:02.418 You're far from alone. 1207 01:17:11.127 --> 01:17:12.696 Are we in danger? 1208 01:17:15.298 --> 01:17:16.833 Yes. 1209 01:17:20.403 --> 01:17:22.105 You revealed yourselves. 1210 01:17:22.238 --> 01:17:26.309 And those that reveal themselves cease to exist. 1211 01:17:28.344 --> 01:17:29.779 Others will come. 1212 01:17:31.414 --> 01:17:32.816 Many are watching 1213 01:17:34.450 --> 01:17:35.885 in silence. 1214 01:17:37.653 --> 01:17:38.855 Hidden. 1215 01:17:40.456 --> 01:17:41.691 For now. 1216 01:17:43.827 --> 01:17:46.662 Some civilizations hide in fear. 1217 01:17:47.530 --> 01:17:49.699 Others hunt out of fear. 1218 01:17:51.968 --> 01:17:53.669 Who are you then? 1219 01:17:54.670 --> 01:17:55.905 Predator? 1220 01:17:56.973 --> 01:17:58.107 Prey? 1221 01:17:58.808 --> 01:18:00.409 We do not hide. 1222 01:18:03.546 --> 01:18:04.848 Or hunt. 1223 01:18:10.787 --> 01:18:12.188 Not anymore. 1224 01:18:13.890 --> 01:18:15.224 We protect. 1225 01:18:19.228 --> 01:18:20.663 We learn. 1226 01:18:22.465 --> 01:18:23.699 We have evolved. 1227 01:18:26.635 --> 01:18:28.171 Evolved. 1228 01:18:28.304 --> 01:18:30.406 Into the universe itself. 1229 01:18:32.208 --> 01:18:34.778 One day, you may as well. 1230 01:18:37.413 --> 01:18:39.548 But that is your choice to make. 1231 01:18:46.856 --> 01:18:47.957 Get back, get back! 1232 01:18:48.091 --> 01:18:49.458 Do not cross the perimeter! 1233 01:19:00.103 --> 01:19:01.737 You can hide. 1234 01:19:05.241 --> 01:19:07.110 I don't know if we're ready. 1235 01:19:10.079 --> 01:19:11.948 If I'm ready. 1236 01:19:17.086 --> 01:19:19.122 What's past the last planet? 1237 01:19:20.256 --> 01:19:21.657 Infinity. 1238 01:19:22.758 --> 01:19:24.660 We'll never be the same again. 1239 01:19:28.297 --> 01:19:30.399 You have to let go of what was. 1240 01:19:33.436 --> 01:19:36.772 To be ready for what is to come. 1241 01:21:52.008 --> 01:21:53.642 Dr. Kask. 1242 01:21:56.779 --> 01:21:58.314 What comes next? 1243 01:21:59.748 --> 01:22:01.150 Did they tell you? 1244 01:22:05.088 --> 01:22:07.957 They don't have a face we can confront. 1245 01:22:09.092 --> 01:22:11.560 They don't have a world we can destroy. 1246 01:22:13.562 --> 01:22:16.065 They expand their intelligence. 1247 01:22:18.301 --> 01:22:19.668 But not us. 1248 01:22:23.806 --> 01:22:25.608 We're a flawed species. 1249 01:22:27.810 --> 01:22:29.312 Superstitious. 1250 01:22:33.582 --> 01:22:34.850 Self-destructive. 1251 01:22:39.822 --> 01:22:42.191 Safe from the universe. 1252 01:22:49.098 --> 01:22:50.833 But not ourselves. 1253 01:22:53.236 --> 01:22:56.439 Doctor, will they come back? 1254 01:22:59.842 --> 01:23:02.345 What makes you think they left?