Life was given to us a billion years ago.
And what have we done with it?
Lucy?
It's easy as pie. In and out. All done the best thing
Then why don't you do it yourself?
The last thing the guy's expecting is a total tramp turning up with a little case.
You'll blow his mind. Come on.
What's in it? Jeez, man.
Don't get paranoia on me, alright? You trust me, don't you?
Richard, I really do like you but, I have to take care of myself.
Come on. I have to concentrate on so many things.
Hey! Hey! What are you doing? I'm going home because I have exams on Monday.
I have to shower and I have to study. Okay?
You know what? The other day I was in this museum. You know what I found out?
What? The first ever woman was named "Lucy."
That's supposed to make me feel better? Yeah.
I'll call you. Okay, okay.
I'll be honest with you. I can't deliver the case myself. I had a little falling out with the guy. It's nothing major...
but if it's you, problem solved.
You walk in there. You go up to the reception. You ask for Mr. Jang to come down.
He comes down, he takes the case, you flashing your pretty smile and bounce!
Look. You can even see the reception from here.
Come on.
What's in the case? I don't know. It's some paperwork.
Yeah. Let me see it then. It's locked. Only Mr Jang has the code.
I'm just the delivery boy.
Do you get paid to do this? Yeah, kinda.
Like how much?
Okay. We're negotiating now or what?
No, no. How much you get paid? I wanna know how much.
$1,000. You get paid $1,000 for delivering paperwork?
I don't know. He said it's 10 minutes. He pays me a grand. The rest is not my business.
Wow, it's not my business either. Listen!
We split it down the middle.
That's $500 for you and $500 for me.
Richard, I will call you.
Listen, it's the third time this week I'm showing up in the same hotel with the same cowboy hat.
Problem solved. Go, go. I'll wait for you there.
Lucy, honey. I've done this a dozen times. It's paperwork.
It's probably they decide to switch to make the copy blender. That's how it works in this country.
Even my Stetson was made there.
Look. It said so on the label "Made in Taiwan".
So long, Cowboy. It was a pleasure.
Baby, please? Richard, I gotta go.
What the hell are you doing?
Sorry. I'm so sorry. I really need your help.
Stop it. Stop it. Take this off me right now! I can't.
Take this off me right now. Mr Jang is the only one who has the key.
You have to go into the hotel and ask for him at the reception. No. Take it off me right now.
I'm so sorry. I really have no choice. The sooner you go in, the sooner you'll be back out.
I can't believe you did this to me.
I'll be right here. You have my word. Your word isn't worth shit.
It's worth $500, upfront. You're an asshole.
And you're wonderful.
Miss, may I help you?
Er...yes.
I'm here for, er, Mr. Jang.
Who should I say is here?
Richard.
Oh, no. Richard sent me. Richard sent me.
[Chinese] Hello, Mr. Jang, There is someone here for you.
What is your name?
Richard.
Richard, er, he's looking for a place to park.
[Chinese] She is here with a Mr. Richard.
Mr. Jang still wants know your name.
Lucy. Lucy what?
Just Lucy. Just...I've...
A moment. [Chinese] She says it's just Lucy.
Mr. Jang is on his way. Stay right here.
Can I sit? Mr Jang said you need to stay right here.
I think it's better you stay right here.
Excuse me. How can I help you?
Wait.
Please.
Please, I don't know anything. Please.
Do you speak English?
[Spanish] Do you speak a little Spanish?
Lucy. Yes, I'm Lucy.
It has just been a terrible mistake. I'm just supposed to deliver this case.
If you've lost the key, you don't need to chop off my hand.
You can just cut the chain, okay?
Please.
I'm begging you. Please.
No.
No!
Please!
Hello, miss. I speak English. I'll translate for Mr. Jang.
Please tell him that I haven't done anything.
I don't know anything. It's all a stupid mistake, okay?
Please, please tell him that. Yes. Okay, okay. Hold on.
Mr Jang wants to know what's in the case. I don't know what's in the case.
Do you speak English or don't you speak English? Yes, I do.
I studied one year in international high school in New York.
Richard gave me the case to give to you. That's all I know. Okay?
Please tell him that.
He gave me a paper with numbers written on it. I don't know what is this.
It's the code to open the case.
What's really in here? Nothing dangerous.
So, why won't he open it himself?
He doesn't trust Mr. Richard. I don't trust Richard either.
I only dated him for a week.
Okay, okay, okay.
Mr Jang insists that you open the case.
Please...God, help me.
He wants you to hurry up. Mr. Jang has other things to do.
Can you describe the contents of the case?
It's 4 plastic pouches fill with a blue powder, er, maybe, purple powder.
I don't know. It looks gross.
Mr. Jang wants to offer you a job.
A job?
I don't want a job.
If life starts approximately a billion years ago,
we will have to wait 400,000 years to see the aberration of the first nerve cell.
This is where life, as we know it, begins.
Brains in formation of only a few milligrams.
It's not possible to determine any sign of intelligence yet.
It acts more as a reflex. One neuron, you're alive...
two neurons, you're moving.
And with movements, interesting things begin to happen.
Animal life on earth goes back millions of years.
Yet, most species only use 3 to 5 percent of their cerebral capacity.
But, it is not until we reach human beings at the top of the animal chain...
that we finally see a specie uses more of the cerebral capacity.
10% may not seem like much, but it's a lot if you look at all that we have done with.
Now, let's discuss a special case.
The only living being that uses its brain better than us.
The dolphin.
It is estimated that this incredible animal uses up to 20% of its cerebral capacity.
In particular, this allows it to have an echo-location system that
is more efficient than any sonar invented by mankind.
But the dolphin did not invent the sonar. It developed it, naturally.
And this is the crucial part of our philosophical reflection we have today.
Can we therefore conclude that humans are concerned more with "having"...
than "being".
What did you do to my stomach?
Nothing. Just a little horizontal slit. It's very well done.
And, er, you'll find it in a month, the scar is practically invisible.
Next summer is going back to the beach.
I don't care about the scar.
Is it, er, why we opened you up?
Rest assured, we didn't harvest your organs.
We merely slip in a package into your lower tummy. It's a new drug that came to Europe named "Love". Believe me.
What is it?
Well, the scientific term is C.P.H.4.
It's not very sexy from a sales point of view. So, er, we're still working on something a bit more pop.
Any suggestion?
Welcome. Welcome, come on in.
Splendid.
Marvellous. Lovely, lovely.
How are you? Very good.
Right. Um, first of all, many thanks for taking part in this enterprise which
I'm sure will go off flawlessly.
These lovely passports and tickets will enable you to return home in the next 24 hours.
Now, upon arrival, you'll be taken in hand by our people
so that we might recover our merchandise.
And you might rediscover the freedom which you so richly deserve.
I'm sure the need to remind you, that, if any of those who, er,
may be tempted to warn or turn themselves in to the authorities,
we have the names and addresses of the families of everyone of you,
down to the distant cousins.
So, er, we rely, therefore, on your complete discretion.
Gentlemen, madam. Allow me to be the first to wish you:
Bon voyage.
Are you going to sell this? I'm afraid it's our business model.
For primitive beings like us, life seems to have only one single purpose.
Gaining time.
And it is going through time, seems to be also the only real purpose of each of the cell in our bodies.
To achieve that end, the mass of the cells that make up earthworms and human beings,
has only two solutions.
Be immortal...
or to reproduce.
If its habitat is not sufficiently favourable or nurturing...
the cells will chose immortality.
In other words, self-sufficiency and self-management.
On the other hand, if the habitat is favourable ...
they will choose to reproduce.
That way, when they die, they hand down essential information and knowledge to the next cell,
which hands it down to the next cell and so on.
Thus, knowledge and learning are handed down, through time.
Okay, okay. Keep calm. You just have to wait for the time.
You have plenty of time to think it through on the plane. Just take the flight. Take the fight and get out of here.
Save time, stay calm, you live.
You're alive. You're alive. That's all that matters.
I'm not in the mood.
Let's imagine for a few moments what our lives would be like
if we could access like, let's say, 20% of our brain's capacity.
This first stage would give us access to and control over our own bodies.
Sir. Yes?
Have it been proven scientifically? Oh...for the moment, it's just hypothesis, I confess.
But if you think about it, it's troubling to realise that...
the Greeks, Egyptians and the Indians had notion of cells ...
centuries before the invention of the microscope.
And what to say about Darwin...whom everyone took for a fool when he put forth his Theory of Evolution.
It's up to us to push the rules and laws, and go from evolution to revolution.
100 billion neurons per human...
of which only 15% are activated.
There are more connections in a human body than there are stars in the galaxy.
We possess a gigantic network of information to which we have almost no access.
Sir. Yes?
And what would be the next stage? Well, the next stage would probably be control of other people.
But for that, we would need to access at least 40% of our brain's capacity.
After control of ourselves and others, come control of matter.
But now we're entering into the realm of science fiction
and we don't know any more than the dog who watches the moon.
Excuse me, sir. Yes.
But, what would happen, if for some reason we ignore, somebody unlocked 100% of the cerebral capacity?
100%? Yes.
I have no idea.
Hey! Do you speak English? No. no. no.
Do you speak English? Yes. Yes. Take me to the hospital now
TRI-SERVICES HOSPITAL
Hospital. Wait for me.
OPERATING THEATRE Miss? Hello?
Hey! Miss! I need help. It's urgent.
You cannot be in here. We are operating.
Please. Get out.
You wouldn't have been able to save him anyway.
The tumor had already invaded the cortex on the right side of his front.
Someone put a bag of drugs in me. I need you to remove it.
Do it now. Right. I will just administer a local anesthetic.
Don't bother.
Right. Okay.
Calm down, please and put the gun down.
I'm going to examine. Okay?
Do you mind? No.
Hello. Mom.
Hey, Lucy. Baby, it's great to hear from you.
But what time is it over there?
I don't know. It's night. Hold on a sec. Let me get rid of the other line.
I'm going inside.
I'm back. You're not partying too much, are you? You promised me you'll look after yourself.
I'm trying to, Mom. I am trying to. Well, thanks for calling after a move like this.
Your father is gonna be sad he missed you.
He's not home from the gym yet. Usually you call us in the morning.
Mom? Yes.
I feel everything.
What do you mean, sweetie?
Space, the air...
...the vibrations...
...the people.
I feel the gravity.
I can feel the rotation of the earth.
The heat leaving my body.
The blood in my veins.
I feel my brain.
The deepest parts of my memory.
Sweetie, we have a bad connection. I can't hear you so well. What did you say about your memory?
The pain in my mouth.
My braces. I can remember the feeling of your hand on my forehead when I ran a fever.
I remember stroking the cat. He was so soft.
The cat? What cat, honey?
That Siamese with blue eyes and a broken tail.
Sweetie, you can't possibly remember that. You were barely a year old.
I remember the taste of your milk in my mouth.
The warm liquid.
Sweetie. What are you talking about?
I just want to tell you that I love you, mom. And dad.
Sweetie.
I want to thank you for the thousand kisses that I can still feel on my face.
I love you, Mom.
I love you too, sweetie. More than anything in the world.
How much is left?
500 grams.
And how long would it for my body to eliminate the rest of it?
To answer that, I need to know what it is. May I?
Go ahead.
C.P.H.4.
Tell me about it.
Pregnant women manufacture C.P.H.4 in the sixth week of pregnancy...
...in tiny quantities.
For a baby, it packs the power of an atomic bomb.
It's what gives the fetus the necessary energy to form all the bones in its body.
I'd heard that they tried to make a synthetic version of it.
Didn't realize that they'd succeeded.
If it really is C.P.H.4...in this quantity, I'm amazed you're still alive.
Not for long.
Learning's always a painful process.
Like when you're little and your bones are growing and you ache all over.
Do you believe I can remember the sound of my own bones growing?
Like this grinding under the skin.
Everything is different now. Like sounds are music that I can understand.
Like fluids.
It's funny. I used to be so concerned with who I was and what I wanted to be...
and, now that I have access to the furthest reaches of my brain, I see things...
clearly and realize that what makes us "us", it's primitive.
They're all obstacles.
Does that make any sense?
Like this pain you're experiencing. It's blocking you from understanding.
All you know now is pain.
That's all you know, pain.
Where are the others?
The others carrying the drugs. I need the rest of it.
For medicinal purposes.
Berlin.
Paris.
Rome.
Thank you for sharing.
Good evening, Professor..
We have you for dinner tonight? I'm afraid so. I am exhausted.
Have a good rest. Thank you.
You scared the shit out of me when you knock the door like some nut bar.
I missed you.
Me too.
You lose your key or something?
Yeah.
Can I borrow your laptop? Yeah, of course.
So, I spent all yesterday in auditions. It was awesome.
They just have you sitting around all day and they don't give a shit about you trying gabbing away in Chinese.
Who understands Chinese? I don't understand Chinese.
And then, they say they always gonna call, and they never did as they never even take your phone number, you know.
Except this one guy and he, er, he's not Chinese.
He works at the agency and he's cute. Oh, my god. He's cute.
You know, like, the kinda, kinda...like he has this thing. Oh, my god. His ass.
Let me get started on that. You'll never gonna guess where he takes me.
4 Seasons, royal suite. We make out all night.
I'm sorry. I keep talking about myself. What's up? How's Richard?
He's dead. You guys are crazy.
I'm gonna take a shower.
Yes? Professor Norman, my name is Lucy.
I just read all your research on the human brain. We need to meet.
All of my research?
Well, I'm very flattered, young lady, but I find that hard to believe.
I must have written no less than...
6,734 pages. I can recite them all to you by heart, if you wish.
Are you one of Emily's friends? This sounds like one of her silly jokes.
Is she with you? No, I'm on my own.
Who are you? I just told you.
Lucy, right? Yes. Sorry.
I read your theory on the use of the brain's capacity.
It's a little rudimentary but you're on the right track.
Thank you.
Professor, my cells are reproducing at a phenomenal speed. Several million per second.
And I'm having trouble precisely evaluating the time of my death but I doubt I'll last more than 24 hours.
What are you talking about?
What I'm saying is that your theory is not a theory. I absorbed a large quantity of synthetic C.P.H.4.
that will allow me to use 100% of my cerebral capacity.
Right now, I'm at 28%. And, if what you wrote is true...
once the brain reaches 20% and opens up and...
expands less and there are no more obstacles. They fall away like dominoes.
I'm colonizing my own brain.
Well, I...I don't know what to say.
It's true I have been working on this theory for over 20 years.
But it's only all ever been hypothesis, and research ideas.
I never thought anyone would...
You can control your own metabolism?
Yes and I can start to control other peoples' bodies.
Also, I can control magnetic and electric waves.
Not all of them. Just the most basic.Television.
Telephone.
Radio.
It's amazing.
I don't feel pain.
Fear.
Desire.
It's like all things that make us human are fading away.
It's like the less human I feel...
all this knowledge about everything; quantum physics, applied mathematics...
...the infinite capacity of the cell's nucleus...
they're all exploding inside my brain. All these knowledge.
I don't know what to do with it.
You're asking me what to do...?
You know...
...if you think about...
the very nature of life.
I mean, from the very beginning.
The development of the first cell divided into two cells.
This whole purpose of life has been to...
pass on what was learned.
There is no higher purpose.
So, if you're asking me what to do with all these knowledge you're accumulating, I'd say...
...pass it on.
Just like any simple cell
going through time.
Time.
Yes, of course.
I'll be at your door in 12 hours.
You're leaving? Yes.
What is this? A prescription.
Since when do you start writing Chinese? Since an hour ago.
Look, I do not understand any of this.
Your kidneys aren't functioning efficiently and your liver's failing you.
You need to make some lifestyle changes.
Take this medication, work out, eat organic. You'll be okay.
Last night at 11 pm, a woman shot a patient to death.
It happened at Tri-Service Hospital.
The suspect is 25, blonde, medium height.
Police are hunting nationwide. She is armed and dangerous...
I just got a weird call from an American in Taiwan.
A young woman calling to tip us off on a big drug ring.
I'll take it. I'll tape you.
Yes, I have important information about a group drug traffickers. I need to speak to someone in the position of authority.
Aha. You're very lucky there is no one with more authority in this office than me.
But, let's start at the beginning. What is your name?
Listen up here, Pierre Del Rio.
Get off your desk, sit in your chair, pick up the red pen to the left of you and take down everything I say.
There are no cameras. Hurry up. I have no time to waste.
Go ahead.
I'm gonna be sending you the details of 3 people about to arrive in Europe.
Each one is carrying a kilo of drugs.
I need you to arrest them and collect the substance. I'll need it for later.
What form are these drugs in? Powder? Capsules? Powder.
Hidden in plastic pouches inside their intestines. Excuse me?
Be sure to be careful when you remove them. The product is very powerful.
Believe me.
Got it? Yeah.
Good. I'm counting on you.
Everything good?
That's him. Hold him.
Come with me, please.
Sir, are you American? Would you come with me?
Sir, would you come with me? Yes, of course.
Go after him.
Del Rio.
Captain Marco Brezzi. Thanks for calling me back.
The package has been delivered.
Thanks very much. I'll send you the paperwork for the transfer.
There were three.
Ladies and gentlemen, we are now beginning our descent to Charles de Gaulle airport.
Miss, I'll have to ask you to put away your computers now. You should wipe your nose.
Excuse me? May I have a glass of champagne.
Yes, of course.
Miss, your champagne. Thank you.
I'm very sorry, but you really need to close the table now. Sure.
To knowledge.
If the habitat is not sufficiently favorable or nurturing,
the cell will choose immortality.
In other words, self-sufficiency and self-management.
Stay here.
Open the door.
Do something.
Open the door.
Ma'am, are you okay? Say something.
Lucy Miller, born 10 March 1988, Pennsylvania, United Sates of America
Did she have a scar? Yeah, just like that other girl.
How is she? She sleeps for the first time.
With the injection I gave, she'll sleep for a while.
Doctor, she's awake again. Are you sure?
Yes, she's sitting on her bed.
That's her.
You didn't restrain her? Sure, we did.
Miss!
Don't move. I need to talk to you alone.
And I need you to put your hands up, please.
Did you get the packets?
Yes.
Where are they? They're safe. Here...in Paris.
They'll be safer in my hands.
Don't leave the car there. Park it.
As a cop, you see some pretty weird shit.
But I have to be honest with you. What you did back there, that freaked me out.
To put everyone to sleep like that, do I need to be worried?
No.
Good.
Do you mind?
No.
What's that?
Korean. I'm gonna drive.
Hey, hey, hey. No, no, no, no. This is a police car.
You can't. No, this is not possible, lady. This is a police car.
Okay.
It's good. Come on.
Sir, sir. Excuse me, sir. I need to talk to somebody. There's the police.
Look, I am a German citizen and I demand to see a lawyer.
I'll check the surgery.
Grab us some food. You're a foodaholic.
Do you always drive like that?
I've never driven before.
Great.
Hey, that's a one-way. We're late.
I'd rather be late than dead. You never really die.
Sorry, sir. I don't feel so good.
I'm going to tell them to stop following us. Don't bother.
I got your lunch...
Give me the keys.
Kill her and get the pouch.
Don't stand there. Kill her!
Open it.
Let's go. I'm not sure I could be of any help for you.
Yes, you are. What for?
A reminder. Shall we go?
Where are we going? Take the first left.
Okay.
No, that way.
Follow that car.
Professor? Merci.
Yes? Lucy.
Ah. It's her. It's her.
How're you? You in Paris? Yes. I am.
Good, good. Excellent.
So, look, I am no longer at the hotel now. Uh, I've come to the university
where I've taken the liberty of calling together a few of my colleagues to discuss your case.
Top men in their fields.
and, er, very trustworthy. I trust you.
Oh, thank you. So, you think you could meet us here at the university?
I am very pleased to meet you. Likewise.
Captain Del Rio. How do you do?
Er, let me introduce you to my colleagues.
This is Professor Cartier. Neurosurgeon. I know who everyone is.
Of course.
Gentlemen, this is Lucy, the first woman to...
I mean...
As I mentioned earlier, Miss Lucy has, for reasons that remained a mystery to me,
unlocked certain portions of her brain
that offer access to previously unexplored cerebral zones.
She has abilities. Can you give us an example?
Your daughter, Gabrielle, aged six, died in a car accident. It was a blue car bucket seats.
A plastic bird hanging from the rearview mirror.
Some men are coming here. Can you secure the room. I need to stay focused.
How did you managed to access all this information?
Electrical impulses. Every cell knows and talks to every other cell.
They exchange a thousand bits of information between themselves per second.
Cells grouped together forming a joint web of communication,
which in turn forms matter.
Cells get together, take on one form...
deform, reform...
makes no difference, they're all the same.
Humans consider themselves unique, so they rooted their whole theory of existence
on their uniqueness. "One" is their unit of "measure" but it's not.
All social systems we put into place are mere sketch "one plus one equals two". That's all we learn.
But one plus one has never equaled two.
There are in fact no numbers and no letters.
We codify our existence to bring it down to human size.
To make it comprehensible.
We have created a scale so we can forget it's unfathomable scales.
If humans are not the unit of measure...
and the world isn't governed by mathematical laws...
what governs all that?
Normal car speeding down the road. Speed up the image...immediately
the car disappears.
So, what proof do we have of its existence?
Time gives legitimacy to its existence. Time is the only true unit of measure.
It gives proof to the existence of matter.
Without time...
...we don't exist.
Time is unity.
We won't be able to hold them for much longer.
Time to go then.
Are you sure you need such a huge doses? I'm afraid you won't survive.
Some cells inside me will fight and defend their integrity till the very end.
In order to attain the last few percent, I have to force it
to crack the cells open to their nucleus.
All this knowledge, Lucy...
...I'm not even sure that mankind is ready for it. We're so driven by power and profit.
Given man's nature...
it might bring us only instability and chaos.
Ignorance brings chaos, not knowledge.
I'll build a computer and download all my knowledge and I'll find a way for you have access to it.
I just hope we will be worthy of your sacrifice.
Nobody move!
Do you understand English?
What is she doing? She looking for energy in matter.
And she's trying to connect with our computers.
Oh, my god. What's happening?
What is she making? New generation computer, Besson.
Look. The computer. It's moving.
Hey. Where is she?
I AM EVERYWHERE
Life was given to us a billion years ago,
and now you know what to do with it.