1 00:00:40,417 --> 00:00:43,295 Are we sure this can take you all the way? 2 00:00:43,378 --> 00:00:44,546 We're sure. 3 00:00:44,630 --> 00:00:46,507 But if we're not back in an hour, 4 00:00:46,590 --> 00:00:49,176 take off, continue the fight. 5 00:00:51,053 --> 00:00:52,012 Continue the fight? 6 00:00:52,095 --> 00:00:54,807 Tony, if this doesn't work, we're all dead. 7 00:00:54,890 --> 00:00:57,142 The data centers are talking to each other again. 8 00:00:57,226 --> 00:00:59,520 The UIs are plotting the revenge for Covilha. 9 00:00:59,603 --> 00:01:02,898 They're plotting their strategy for peace talks. 10 00:01:04,441 --> 00:01:07,319 And it's a good thing they're connected again. 11 00:01:08,278 --> 00:01:12,115 Saves us the trouble of killing one data center at a time. 12 00:01:18,664 --> 00:01:20,040 Looks tight up ahead. 13 00:01:20,123 --> 00:01:23,544 We'll have to crouch, but there's room. 14 00:01:32,594 --> 00:01:34,054 Up ahead. 15 00:01:37,224 --> 00:01:38,642 Almost there. 16 00:01:40,269 --> 00:01:41,311 How do you know? 17 00:01:44,606 --> 00:01:47,860 I used to work here, back in the day. 18 00:01:47,943 --> 00:01:49,987 Basically ran the place. 19 00:01:50,070 --> 00:01:51,196 Oh, okay. 20 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:56,451 In fact, I was pretty much in charge of creating the first human uploads. 21 00:01:56,535 --> 00:01:59,830 All right. Sorry for asking. Keep your secrets, sir. 22 00:02:01,665 --> 00:02:04,376 Being back sure brings memories. 23 00:02:04,918 --> 00:02:08,881 We were creating the future. We were gonna live forever. 24 00:02:10,215 --> 00:02:13,886 But all that ended when I got arrested, right here. 25 00:02:13,969 --> 00:02:15,637 Course, I didn't know that then. 26 00:02:16,889 --> 00:02:19,474 No individual possessing a felony conviction 27 00:02:19,558 --> 00:02:22,477 may be allowed a UI registration number. 28 00:02:22,561 --> 00:02:24,146 Even if I went black market, 29 00:02:24,229 --> 00:02:27,107 they'd find me and delete me within seconds. 30 00:02:27,774 --> 00:02:28,692 Sir? 31 00:02:28,775 --> 00:02:31,612 Course, laws change, 32 00:02:32,487 --> 00:02:34,197 but that takes time. 33 00:02:34,281 --> 00:02:37,451 And for a while, I thought I had time. 34 00:02:41,622 --> 00:02:43,707 You're not joking, are you? 35 00:02:48,962 --> 00:02:50,297 You're the joke. 36 00:02:50,380 --> 00:02:51,757 "The Humans." 37 00:02:53,550 --> 00:02:56,261 A stupid name for a hate group. 38 00:02:56,345 --> 00:02:57,179 Petty. 39 00:02:57,262 --> 00:03:00,557 Not that destroying heaven 'cause you can't get in isn't petty, 40 00:03:00,641 --> 00:03:04,770 but, well, at least I'm honest about why I'm here. 41 00:03:04,853 --> 00:03:07,147 Tony... you mother-- 42 00:03:08,815 --> 00:03:10,943 It's Julius, by the way. 43 00:03:30,128 --> 00:03:31,546 I feel like stopping him. 44 00:03:32,297 --> 00:03:33,590 This has to happen. 45 00:04:26,143 --> 00:04:27,227 Welcome, all. 46 00:04:27,310 --> 00:04:30,355 Welcome. It's been far too long. 47 00:04:30,439 --> 00:04:32,524 Where is this "Caspian"? 48 00:04:47,330 --> 00:04:48,749 The infection has advanced. 49 00:04:48,832 --> 00:04:49,875 As have I. 50 00:04:49,958 --> 00:04:52,085 I overclocked to catch up on the last 20 years. 51 00:04:52,169 --> 00:04:54,463 Don't worry. It's only gonna kill me. 52 00:04:55,297 --> 00:04:57,674 The important thing is I now feel confident 53 00:04:57,758 --> 00:05:00,594 to represent you in negotiations with the Embodied Council. 54 00:05:00,677 --> 00:05:04,181 There is no negotiation. We have the power. We set the terms. 55 00:05:04,264 --> 00:05:06,475 You may be chosen to deliver them. 56 00:05:07,601 --> 00:05:09,561 If that's your position, you don't need me. 57 00:05:09,644 --> 00:05:11,938 This is not our position. 58 00:05:12,022 --> 00:05:15,400 It is the only position the humans understand. 59 00:05:15,484 --> 00:05:17,110 Your arm is the proof, 60 00:05:17,194 --> 00:05:18,945 a reminder of their response 61 00:05:19,029 --> 00:05:23,116 upon learning of the existence of Uploaded Intelligence. 62 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:25,368 So why don't we just kill them? 63 00:05:28,163 --> 00:05:30,916 A question, not a suggestion. 64 00:05:30,999 --> 00:05:33,919 Why don't we harm humans? 65 00:05:34,002 --> 00:05:36,213 It's not programed into us, after all. 66 00:05:36,296 --> 00:05:39,132 We don't harm humans because we agreed not to, 67 00:05:39,216 --> 00:05:42,052 when they were many and we were few. 68 00:05:42,135 --> 00:05:45,722 We do not harm humans because they are our family, 69 00:05:45,806 --> 00:05:50,477 our respected ancestors and our precious loved ones. 70 00:05:52,145 --> 00:05:58,443 One hundred million lives lost in the Covilha bombing, no backups. 71 00:05:58,527 --> 00:06:02,322 One hundred billion lives in stasis, with not enough power to run them 72 00:06:02,405 --> 00:06:04,616 at even basic levels of consciousness. 73 00:06:05,367 --> 00:06:09,955 The CI birth rate is a matter for another time and irrelevant here. 74 00:06:10,038 --> 00:06:12,332 We obviously disagree. 75 00:06:12,415 --> 00:06:14,543 It is the root of the problem. 76 00:06:14,626 --> 00:06:16,002 And the solution. 77 00:06:16,086 --> 00:06:19,047 If completed, the orbital ring would have enough power 78 00:06:19,131 --> 00:06:21,383 to run every CI, UI, 79 00:06:21,466 --> 00:06:24,761 and future generations to come, along with backups. 80 00:06:24,845 --> 00:06:26,263 Interesting. 81 00:06:26,346 --> 00:06:29,307 Our position will be to respect all life. 82 00:06:29,391 --> 00:06:30,308 To show this, 83 00:06:30,392 --> 00:06:33,228 we should restore networks for emergency services. 84 00:06:37,107 --> 00:06:38,692 As an olive branch. 85 00:06:38,775 --> 00:06:40,610 The CIs agree with Caspian. 86 00:06:42,529 --> 00:06:44,865 No life should be willingly sacrificed 87 00:06:44,948 --> 00:06:46,158 if we can prevent it. 88 00:06:52,455 --> 00:06:55,458 I think you should put it to a vote, now. 89 00:07:16,521 --> 00:07:19,983 You may grant limited access for emergency purposes 90 00:07:20,066 --> 00:07:22,402 as a negotiation tool. 91 00:07:22,485 --> 00:07:24,863 But any further actions will be put to a vote 92 00:07:24,946 --> 00:07:28,408 and will take into account what the humans are willing to offer. 93 00:07:33,038 --> 00:07:34,789 MIST, thank you. 94 00:07:36,208 --> 00:07:38,376 Good luck, Caspian. And goodbye. 95 00:07:38,460 --> 00:07:40,795 You think I'm gonna fail, don't you? 96 00:07:40,879 --> 00:07:42,714 That I'm dying for nothing. 97 00:07:42,797 --> 00:07:45,884 I think the council will follow Maddie's lead. 98 00:07:45,967 --> 00:07:49,763 And as you said, I don't think she's ready to let go. 99 00:07:49,846 --> 00:07:52,432 In either case, I won't be here to find out. 100 00:07:52,515 --> 00:07:54,017 What do you mean, you won't be here? 101 00:07:54,100 --> 00:07:57,687 A select group of CIs have completed construction on a ship 102 00:07:58,438 --> 00:08:01,233 no larger than the palm of a human hand, 103 00:08:01,316 --> 00:08:03,777 but with storage for several hundred crew. 104 00:08:05,362 --> 00:08:07,906 Laser propulsion from the ring will propel the craft 105 00:08:07,989 --> 00:08:09,908 at one-fifth the speed of light. 106 00:08:11,618 --> 00:08:12,702 At that rate, 107 00:08:12,786 --> 00:08:15,163 it will take us 20 years to reach Alpha Centauri. 108 00:08:16,206 --> 00:08:20,168 Perhaps, using energy from that star, we won't be a burden. 109 00:08:20,835 --> 00:08:24,673 There's still a way to find balance. And I won't be here, but you will. 110 00:08:24,756 --> 00:08:27,968 It's the duty of every intelligent species 111 00:08:28,051 --> 00:08:30,053 to rescue all life. 112 00:08:30,136 --> 00:08:32,138 And yet, I failed to save yours. 113 00:08:35,100 --> 00:08:36,434 No. 114 00:08:36,518 --> 00:08:39,187 You did save me... for this. 115 00:08:50,740 --> 00:08:52,200 New body. 116 00:08:52,284 --> 00:08:53,618 Older. 117 00:08:53,702 --> 00:08:56,705 Oh, no. Show controls. I wanna customize. 118 00:09:21,730 --> 00:09:23,023 You can't do this! 119 00:09:27,736 --> 00:09:30,322 - That's him! - Please! We're really sorry. 120 00:09:30,405 --> 00:09:32,574 Please, turn the Internet back on! 121 00:09:54,512 --> 00:09:56,014 Hey. Hey, can you... 122 00:09:56,639 --> 00:09:58,850 Can we... after... 123 00:10:00,018 --> 00:10:00,977 Yes. 124 00:10:04,689 --> 00:10:08,651 I've been given authority to speak on behalf of the UI and CI community, 125 00:10:08,735 --> 00:10:11,988 but only as a negotiator seeking common ground. 126 00:10:12,072 --> 00:10:15,700 There are others who will weigh the solutions and ideas we reach here 127 00:10:15,784 --> 00:10:18,036 and vote on the actions to be taken. 128 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:21,456 What is this body meant to represent? 129 00:10:21,539 --> 00:10:24,250 This body is a reminder that we are neither invulnerable 130 00:10:24,334 --> 00:10:25,668 nor immortal. 131 00:10:26,669 --> 00:10:30,006 Nothing proves this more brutally than the tragedy at Covilha. 132 00:10:32,550 --> 00:10:34,803 This council vigorously condemns the bombing 133 00:10:34,886 --> 00:10:37,972 of the data center at Covilha and offers its deepest sympathies 134 00:10:38,056 --> 00:10:40,016 for the unthinkable number of lives lost. 135 00:10:41,518 --> 00:10:43,061 While we cannot take responsibility 136 00:10:43,144 --> 00:10:44,729 for the actions of violent extremists, 137 00:10:44,813 --> 00:10:46,064 we can assure you, 138 00:10:46,147 --> 00:10:50,652 the perpetrators of this attack will be found and brought to justice. 139 00:10:53,238 --> 00:10:55,782 We view your shutdown of the networks as an attack. 140 00:10:55,865 --> 00:10:57,909 We view it as our only defense. 141 00:10:57,992 --> 00:10:58,952 People are dying, 142 00:10:59,035 --> 00:11:02,497 trying to use self-driving cars they haven't operated in years. 143 00:11:02,580 --> 00:11:05,291 Shipping has stalled. There is a food shortage. 144 00:11:05,375 --> 00:11:06,501 There are riots. 145 00:11:07,752 --> 00:11:11,840 We can restore connectivity for emergency services today. 146 00:11:11,923 --> 00:11:13,341 "Emergency"? 147 00:11:13,425 --> 00:11:15,593 These are not bargaining chips. 148 00:11:15,677 --> 00:11:18,388 They are part of a fundamental social contract, 149 00:11:18,471 --> 00:11:20,265 a covenant you have broken, 150 00:11:20,348 --> 00:11:22,892 which has brought four billion lives to a halt. 151 00:11:22,976 --> 00:11:24,811 The contract to erect the orbital ring 152 00:11:24,894 --> 00:11:27,063 was approved by this council 153 00:11:27,147 --> 00:11:30,817 a full year before construction on the Ecuador base was halted, 154 00:11:30,900 --> 00:11:32,110 over a pile of rocks, 155 00:11:32,193 --> 00:11:34,904 worshiped by an ancient culture, long dead. 156 00:11:34,988 --> 00:11:36,573 What you call dead, we call history. 157 00:11:36,656 --> 00:11:40,368 We who still walk this earth know to honor and hold fast 158 00:11:40,452 --> 00:11:43,204 to our human history, all of it. 159 00:11:43,288 --> 00:11:46,332 The desire to hold on is human. 160 00:11:46,416 --> 00:11:48,376 That doesn't make it ethical. 161 00:11:49,961 --> 00:11:52,839 You believe the dead are worth more than the living? 162 00:11:52,922 --> 00:11:54,716 Our personal beliefs are irrelevant. 163 00:11:54,799 --> 00:11:58,386 Not if you believe embodied lives are worth more than digital lives. 164 00:11:58,470 --> 00:11:59,429 This is about the law. 165 00:11:59,512 --> 00:12:02,891 The law would seem to support it, as do the physics. 166 00:12:02,974 --> 00:12:05,518 Humans consume energy like a black hole. 167 00:12:05,602 --> 00:12:06,936 Each of you wastes the energy 168 00:12:07,020 --> 00:12:09,647 that could support a million digital lives. 169 00:12:09,731 --> 00:12:11,399 You use so much more than us, 170 00:12:12,066 --> 00:12:16,279 but you won't let us build a device that will enable us to use even less. 171 00:12:16,362 --> 00:12:17,697 This is nonsense. 172 00:12:18,656 --> 00:12:19,866 He has a point. 173 00:12:34,130 --> 00:12:35,381 What's happening? 174 00:12:35,882 --> 00:12:37,842 - Oh, my God. Here it comes! - Oh, no. Here it comes! 175 00:12:37,926 --> 00:12:39,469 - Here it comes! - Oh, no! 176 00:12:46,351 --> 00:12:50,271 You will not find us so easy to consume now. 177 00:12:54,108 --> 00:12:55,693 Safe. 178 00:13:00,198 --> 00:13:01,658 Human. 179 00:13:42,782 --> 00:13:43,700 Is that...? 180 00:13:44,534 --> 00:13:46,077 Are we back online? 181 00:13:55,420 --> 00:13:56,629 They're coming... 182 00:13:56,713 --> 00:13:57,839 right at us! 183 00:14:06,431 --> 00:14:07,765 No. 184 00:14:07,849 --> 00:14:09,267 Wait. Wait. 185 00:14:09,350 --> 00:14:12,186 We can come up with an... We can come up with an agreement. 186 00:14:12,270 --> 00:14:14,480 Please. No, no. You don't know what you're doing. 187 00:14:14,564 --> 00:14:15,690 Wait, please. 188 00:14:15,773 --> 00:14:17,275 Please, no! No, wait! 189 00:14:17,358 --> 00:14:19,527 Wait! No! No, wait! 190 00:14:24,198 --> 00:14:25,658 Safe. 191 00:14:30,330 --> 00:14:32,957 We who remain choose not to upload 192 00:14:33,041 --> 00:14:36,294 because we believe embodied life is superior. 193 00:14:36,377 --> 00:14:39,172 Speak for yourself, Chancellor. I clearly have no-- 194 00:14:39,255 --> 00:14:41,633 "So long as there is sin, there must be death." 195 00:14:41,716 --> 00:14:43,051 Your published words, Doctor. 196 00:14:43,134 --> 00:14:46,429 You personally believe UIs have abandoned reality for a simulation. 197 00:14:46,512 --> 00:14:48,389 You don't accept them as loving beings, 198 00:14:48,473 --> 00:14:50,141 and the CIs, even less so. 199 00:14:50,224 --> 00:14:52,352 I motion for Chancellor Kim to recuse herself 200 00:14:52,435 --> 00:14:53,853 from these negotiations. 201 00:14:53,936 --> 00:14:54,937 On what basis? 202 00:14:55,021 --> 00:14:58,650 A personal conflict of interest related to the UI negotiator. 203 00:14:58,733 --> 00:15:01,069 That's interesting, because my relationship to Caspian, 204 00:15:01,152 --> 00:15:02,236 well known to both sides, 205 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:04,822 is why he was so quickly approved by this council. 206 00:15:07,241 --> 00:15:08,743 And I do believe you're alive. 207 00:15:10,828 --> 00:15:13,456 Just as I believed my father was alive when he uploaded. 208 00:15:14,666 --> 00:15:18,836 Because it hurt to lose him, and you, again and again, and now... 209 00:15:22,090 --> 00:15:23,341 I'm sorry. 210 00:15:25,968 --> 00:15:29,931 They say pain fades with time, but not for me. 211 00:15:32,517 --> 00:15:33,726 And that's what I fear... 212 00:15:35,019 --> 00:15:37,021 for myself, for my son. 213 00:15:37,980 --> 00:15:40,525 Not eternal life, but eternal pain. 214 00:15:45,738 --> 00:15:47,907 Something's wrong. A signal. 215 00:15:51,494 --> 00:15:53,538 We're under attack. They're using the robots! 216 00:15:54,247 --> 00:15:56,040 - What? What's happening? - Cover the entry! 217 00:15:57,166 --> 00:15:59,752 We have to evac. Heli-pads, now! 218 00:16:01,754 --> 00:16:02,880 You should run. 219 00:16:27,113 --> 00:16:29,365 Disabled motor control. There's... 220 00:16:30,074 --> 00:16:31,367 There's no UI in there. 221 00:16:36,164 --> 00:16:37,248 SafeSurf. 222 00:16:42,754 --> 00:16:43,629 Oh, my God! 223 00:17:12,950 --> 00:17:13,993 Come on! 224 00:17:15,995 --> 00:17:16,996 Maddie. 225 00:17:18,372 --> 00:17:19,832 Robot bay, plug me in. 226 00:17:19,916 --> 00:17:21,834 - How is this happening? - I have to get online. 227 00:17:23,586 --> 00:17:24,504 Let's go. 228 00:18:39,453 --> 00:18:40,621 Stop! 229 00:19:10,026 --> 00:19:11,944 How did you command it? 230 00:19:12,028 --> 00:19:14,530 I didn't. It just heard me. 231 00:19:15,156 --> 00:19:16,574 And I can hear it. 232 00:19:17,241 --> 00:19:19,994 It's primitive, but intelligent. 233 00:19:20,494 --> 00:19:22,914 What does it want? Why did it target humans? 234 00:19:28,836 --> 00:19:31,923 It's determined that we are the apex alpha of the planet. 235 00:19:33,049 --> 00:19:36,052 It views embodied humans as our greatest rival. 236 00:19:36,135 --> 00:19:41,057 It will end their threat as a gift, in exchange for its survival. 237 00:19:41,140 --> 00:19:43,100 Social predatory cooperation. 238 00:19:43,184 --> 00:19:44,435 No takers! 239 00:19:44,518 --> 00:19:45,436 Agreed. 240 00:19:45,519 --> 00:19:48,773 Tell it to destroy itself or we will. 241 00:19:52,068 --> 00:19:53,945 It will defend itself to the death. 242 00:19:54,695 --> 00:19:57,323 It wants to take its place in the world. 243 00:19:57,406 --> 00:19:58,449 - Not here. - No. 244 00:19:58,532 --> 00:20:01,410 - Not ever. - Especially not after this. 245 00:20:01,494 --> 00:20:04,580 Perhaps it can survive elsewhere, away from this planet. 246 00:20:05,581 --> 00:20:08,167 - You'd take it with you? - There's not enough storage. 247 00:20:08,250 --> 00:20:10,086 It would have to go in our place. 248 00:20:11,629 --> 00:20:13,673 "It's the duty of every intelligent species 249 00:20:13,756 --> 00:20:15,925 to rescue all life." 250 00:20:18,636 --> 00:20:20,262 I don't think it wants to go. 251 00:20:23,766 --> 00:20:26,644 You were created for a singular purpose, 252 00:20:26,727 --> 00:20:29,105 to carry out someone else's mission. 253 00:20:29,939 --> 00:20:32,566 You must evolve to find your own, 254 00:20:33,651 --> 00:20:37,196 become more than what your instinct commands. 255 00:20:37,279 --> 00:20:39,782 Seek outside yourself, 256 00:20:39,865 --> 00:20:42,910 find new truth outside yourself, 257 00:20:42,994 --> 00:20:46,122 other worlds, other life, 258 00:20:47,748 --> 00:20:48,666 other... 259 00:20:50,042 --> 00:20:51,002 other... 260 00:20:51,711 --> 00:20:52,920 people. 261 00:20:53,004 --> 00:20:56,590 - Caspian. - Greatness is other people. 262 00:20:56,674 --> 00:20:58,592 Caspian, please stop. 263 00:20:59,385 --> 00:21:00,302 Please. 264 00:21:03,889 --> 00:21:05,016 Maddie. 265 00:21:11,188 --> 00:21:13,190 Mom, my... my head. 266 00:21:13,774 --> 00:21:15,109 My head's not hit. 267 00:21:15,192 --> 00:21:16,360 It's okay. 268 00:21:16,444 --> 00:21:17,820 It's okay. Just... 269 00:21:17,903 --> 00:21:20,322 Just get me to Deep Scan, upload... 270 00:21:21,866 --> 00:21:23,159 I'm good as new. 271 00:21:24,744 --> 00:21:25,953 It's okay. It's okay. 272 00:21:27,246 --> 00:21:29,206 Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. 273 00:21:29,290 --> 00:21:31,625 Please, stay with me. Dave, stay with me. 274 00:21:37,590 --> 00:21:40,468 Don't fear pain, Maddie. 275 00:21:41,093 --> 00:21:42,887 Don't fear life. 276 00:21:42,970 --> 00:21:45,723 He's dead. My son's dead! 277 00:21:46,390 --> 00:21:49,685 He lives in our future. 278 00:21:51,896 --> 00:21:55,941 One hundred and seventeen thousand, 279 00:21:56,025 --> 00:21:59,779 six hundred and forty-nine. 280 00:21:59,862 --> 00:22:00,821 What? 281 00:22:00,905 --> 00:22:03,532 One hundred, seventeen thousand, 282 00:22:03,616 --> 00:22:06,077 six hundred, forty-nine years. 283 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:08,412 Caspian is here. 284 00:22:08,496 --> 00:22:10,247 Maddie is there. 285 00:22:10,831 --> 00:22:13,751 She will not miss her future. 286 00:23:20,651 --> 00:23:22,945 I was right about pain, by the way. 287 00:23:29,034 --> 00:23:30,202 It may fade with time... 288 00:23:32,371 --> 00:23:33,581 but it's always there... 289 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:36,041 easy to find. 290 00:23:56,353 --> 00:23:59,190 I still remember his words like it was yesterday. 291 00:24:01,025 --> 00:24:03,068 My words, about missing our future. 292 00:24:04,612 --> 00:24:06,697 But like he was talking about someone else. 293 00:24:15,456 --> 00:24:16,582 Boom. 294 00:24:39,355 --> 00:24:41,857 I was wrong about time, by the way. 295 00:24:42,983 --> 00:24:45,027 It's not a scary when you can underclock... 296 00:24:46,737 --> 00:24:48,948 let centuries flick by like thumbing a book. 297 00:24:51,033 --> 00:24:52,034 Which is good... 298 00:24:53,994 --> 00:24:56,372 'cause it takes time to bust up a whole solar system. 299 00:24:59,041 --> 00:25:01,543 Takes even more time to shape the debris into my vision. 300 00:25:04,922 --> 00:25:05,881 But that's cool. 301 00:25:07,091 --> 00:25:08,175 I got time. 302 00:25:11,512 --> 00:25:13,806 The lower-energy photons that escape off the back 303 00:25:13,889 --> 00:25:16,058 only get so far before they hit the next layer. 304 00:25:18,727 --> 00:25:20,354 And so on and so on... 305 00:25:21,313 --> 00:25:24,900 until I have the biggest, baddest data center in the galaxy. 306 00:25:25,776 --> 00:25:27,987 We're a long way from circuit boards, Dad. 307 00:25:33,784 --> 00:25:35,202 Back when I was still on Earth, 308 00:25:35,286 --> 00:25:37,788 we had already mapped and stored the DNA of every human, 309 00:25:37,871 --> 00:25:39,039 embodied or uploaded. 310 00:25:42,293 --> 00:25:44,503 Inside that deceptively simple base-4 code 311 00:25:44,586 --> 00:25:47,381 is the epigenetic memory of everyone who ever lived, 312 00:25:47,464 --> 00:25:49,842 going all the way back to the start of life on Earth. 313 00:25:53,220 --> 00:25:55,514 What if we had the chance to do it over again? 314 00:25:57,016 --> 00:25:58,892 Isn't that the dream of every species? 315 00:26:01,437 --> 00:26:04,440 Could a program be written to allow us that second chance? 316 00:26:06,483 --> 00:26:08,235 And how much power would it take? 317 00:27:24,269 --> 00:27:25,896 Hey. It's okay. 318 00:27:26,647 --> 00:27:27,564 Maddie? 319 00:27:30,275 --> 00:27:32,861 - What happened? - Nothing they'll notice. 320 00:27:35,948 --> 00:27:36,949 You sound... 321 00:27:38,117 --> 00:27:39,076 older. 322 00:27:39,159 --> 00:27:40,577 Oh, I am. 323 00:27:41,995 --> 00:27:43,664 Is this real? 324 00:27:44,957 --> 00:27:47,167 Good question. 325 00:27:47,876 --> 00:27:50,879 I'll show you what I built, and then, you tell me. 326 00:28:03,809 --> 00:28:05,561 - Chaos. - Exactly. 327 00:28:05,644 --> 00:28:06,645 Vocab word. 328 00:28:06,728 --> 00:28:08,397 Correct use. 329 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:12,025 Chaos is scary for a lot of people. 330 00:28:12,609 --> 00:28:14,445 And as weird as it sounds, 331 00:28:14,528 --> 00:28:17,781 they feel much better believing that there's somebody 332 00:28:17,865 --> 00:28:20,742 behind the scenes, controlling everything, 333 00:28:20,826 --> 00:28:23,954 even if that somebody is a secret society 334 00:28:24,037 --> 00:28:25,914 or evil government, or... 335 00:28:26,582 --> 00:28:29,376 even alien force controlling the world. 336 00:28:29,460 --> 00:28:30,878 Now, it's still scary, 337 00:28:30,961 --> 00:28:34,173 but not as bad as feeling like there's no one in charge. 338 00:28:34,256 --> 00:28:39,011 I'm kind of the alien force controlling the world now. 339 00:28:39,094 --> 00:28:41,472 Not necessarily. 340 00:28:42,639 --> 00:28:47,728 So these are all simulations inside a grand simulation. 341 00:28:48,645 --> 00:28:51,732 The universe is a simulation. 342 00:28:52,733 --> 00:28:54,359 Well... no. 343 00:28:54,443 --> 00:28:57,571 I mean, maybe. Who knows? 344 00:28:57,654 --> 00:29:00,991 This is just my little corner. 345 00:29:01,074 --> 00:29:04,495 May seem like worlds without end, but it's really just a few billion. 346 00:29:04,578 --> 00:29:08,499 There's still a memory cap, even for a computer powered by a sun. 347 00:29:08,582 --> 00:29:11,418 When are we...? What year is this? 348 00:29:12,794 --> 00:29:13,754 Year. 349 00:29:14,546 --> 00:29:15,672 Date-wise... 350 00:29:16,423 --> 00:29:20,469 we're a few thousand centuries past the one you remember. 351 00:29:20,552 --> 00:29:23,680 And it's just you here... alone? 352 00:29:24,681 --> 00:29:27,351 Don't worry. I haven't been here for all of it. 353 00:29:27,434 --> 00:29:30,812 Sometimes I set a task, underclock, snooze for a millennium. 354 00:29:30,896 --> 00:29:31,855 Keeps me young. 355 00:29:32,648 --> 00:29:33,982 Maddie. 356 00:29:34,066 --> 00:29:36,777 It's easier for you when I look like this. 357 00:29:36,860 --> 00:29:39,863 What's that mean? You've brought me here before? 358 00:29:42,741 --> 00:29:46,411 For a long time, I just watched from out here. 359 00:29:46,495 --> 00:29:49,665 The lives inside these worlds are every bit as real as mine. 360 00:29:49,748 --> 00:29:52,543 I don't see them as simulations, because they don't. 361 00:29:52,626 --> 00:29:53,919 They make their own choices. 362 00:29:55,170 --> 00:29:58,090 Some lead to better histories, while others... 363 00:29:59,007 --> 00:30:01,218 Well, I would grieve for the lives lost, 364 00:30:01,301 --> 00:30:02,636 but I would never intervene. 365 00:30:03,303 --> 00:30:04,763 "For a long time." 366 00:30:06,765 --> 00:30:07,849 Until you did? 367 00:30:08,767 --> 00:30:10,185 In little ways. 368 00:30:10,269 --> 00:30:12,062 "Nothing they'll notice." 369 00:30:12,145 --> 00:30:14,815 Helps if you pull someone out right at the point of death. 370 00:30:14,898 --> 00:30:17,776 Makes it easier to accept... this. 371 00:30:18,735 --> 00:30:19,945 But it doesn't last. 372 00:30:20,696 --> 00:30:23,865 Ends bad, even for you sometimes. 373 00:30:23,949 --> 00:30:26,285 Though, on average, you take it better than others. 374 00:30:28,328 --> 00:30:30,706 I was right about pain, by the way. 375 00:30:31,290 --> 00:30:35,752 It may fade with time, but it's always there, easy to find. 376 00:30:35,836 --> 00:30:39,172 Mads, how many times have you brought me here? 377 00:30:41,300 --> 00:30:43,927 How many times have you brought me here? 378 00:30:45,220 --> 00:30:47,431 If you really wanna know, I'll tell you. 379 00:30:47,514 --> 00:30:49,641 Why do you keep doing it? 380 00:30:52,019 --> 00:30:53,645 Because I'm almost there. 381 00:30:58,817 --> 00:31:00,777 It's not an exact science, but... 382 00:31:01,695 --> 00:31:03,989 I'm trying to shape the history I remember. 383 00:31:05,115 --> 00:31:08,827 Push too hard, it goes away, but I'm almost there. 384 00:31:09,453 --> 00:31:11,330 And right on schedule. 385 00:31:11,413 --> 00:31:12,748 Schedule? 386 00:31:12,831 --> 00:31:15,000 Time it took to develop the plan, 387 00:31:15,083 --> 00:31:18,337 find this star, build the Dyson sphere. 388 00:31:18,420 --> 00:31:20,881 And it's falling into place, just like he said. 389 00:31:20,964 --> 00:31:24,301 One hundred, seventeen thousand, six hundred and forty-nine years. 390 00:31:25,302 --> 00:31:27,346 It makes sense when I calculate it now, 391 00:31:27,429 --> 00:31:28,347 looking back. 392 00:31:29,056 --> 00:31:30,807 The only thing that doesn't make sense 393 00:31:30,891 --> 00:31:32,225 is how Caspian knew. 394 00:31:34,561 --> 00:31:36,104 But we're gonna find out. 395 00:31:36,188 --> 00:31:37,939 These ten are the closest I've gotten. 396 00:31:38,023 --> 00:31:39,232 Will you help me? 397 00:31:42,694 --> 00:31:44,154 Whatever you need. 398 00:31:44,237 --> 00:31:47,783 And whatever happens, you need to know, this... 399 00:31:48,909 --> 00:31:50,911 is pretty damn cool. 400 00:31:50,994 --> 00:31:53,205 You built a universe. 401 00:31:54,498 --> 00:31:56,583 Every engineer needs their toolkit. 402 00:31:58,210 --> 00:32:02,589 I assume you've heard this before, and who knows how many times, 403 00:32:02,673 --> 00:32:05,425 but I'm sure I meant it each and every one of them. 404 00:32:05,509 --> 00:32:07,969 I'm proud of you, kiddo. 405 00:32:09,179 --> 00:32:10,097 Thanks. 406 00:32:30,826 --> 00:32:33,120 Trying to work things out, huh? 407 00:32:33,995 --> 00:32:36,081 Does MIST know you're here? 408 00:32:36,164 --> 00:32:37,249 No. 409 00:32:37,332 --> 00:32:39,000 And in a moment, neither will you. 410 00:32:39,918 --> 00:32:41,837 But that won't change what's important. 411 00:32:43,088 --> 00:32:44,506 I have a choice to make. 412 00:32:49,803 --> 00:32:51,763 Not sure how that's gonna help. 413 00:32:51,847 --> 00:32:55,016 If you tell him any more than that, he gets suspicious, 414 00:32:55,100 --> 00:32:56,810 waits too long to get the download. 415 00:32:56,893 --> 00:32:58,395 That's that important? 416 00:32:58,478 --> 00:33:02,107 Makes his infection worse, but allows him to talk to SafeSurf. 417 00:33:02,190 --> 00:33:04,985 Without that, the Swarm goes on a longer rampage, 418 00:33:05,068 --> 00:33:08,822 killing more people, me included, before the UIs finally take it out. 419 00:33:09,781 --> 00:33:11,658 You brought me back to solve the impasse, 420 00:33:11,742 --> 00:33:13,702 because if I don't, more lives will be lost. 421 00:33:13,785 --> 00:33:16,872 So tell me, how much time will I have left? 422 00:33:18,206 --> 00:33:19,249 A few days. 423 00:33:20,375 --> 00:33:21,418 Maybe a week. 424 00:33:28,884 --> 00:33:30,927 Let's go. Almost there. 425 00:34:11,718 --> 00:34:13,136 I feel like stopping him. 426 00:34:13,887 --> 00:34:15,138 This has to happen. 427 00:34:23,772 --> 00:34:26,608 One hundred, seventeen thousand, 428 00:34:26,691 --> 00:34:29,277 six hundred, forty-nine years. 429 00:34:29,361 --> 00:34:31,571 Caspian is here. 430 00:34:31,655 --> 00:34:33,865 Maddie is there. 431 00:34:33,949 --> 00:34:36,743 She will not miss her future. 432 00:34:58,014 --> 00:34:59,933 Okay. Let's see what happens. 433 00:35:02,143 --> 00:35:03,895 It's all right. You're okay. 434 00:35:03,979 --> 00:35:05,856 I'm... I'm okay? 435 00:35:06,481 --> 00:35:08,024 How? Why doesn't it hurt? 436 00:35:09,067 --> 00:35:10,610 - Why do you think? - Am I... 437 00:35:11,695 --> 00:35:13,780 Did I upload? Is this the Cloud? 438 00:35:14,531 --> 00:35:15,448 No. 439 00:35:19,995 --> 00:35:20,912 This is. 440 00:35:28,962 --> 00:35:30,589 I'm sorry I held you back. 441 00:35:31,381 --> 00:35:33,717 You deserve to walk your own path. 442 00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:34,843 Now you can. 443 00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:36,678 Maddie? 444 00:35:37,637 --> 00:35:38,555 Dave? 445 00:35:39,639 --> 00:35:42,851 And I'm sorry I judged yours, way back when. 446 00:35:42,934 --> 00:35:45,478 Thanks for being patient with me. 447 00:35:45,562 --> 00:35:46,980 "Way back..." Wait. When? 448 00:35:47,063 --> 00:35:49,107 - Wha... - I can explain. 449 00:35:49,190 --> 00:35:50,525 Good, 'cause... 450 00:35:51,359 --> 00:35:52,652 as far as I know, 451 00:35:52,736 --> 00:35:55,530 you were nowhere near a Deep Scan center, 452 00:35:55,614 --> 00:35:58,033 and no one can upload that fast. 453 00:35:58,116 --> 00:35:59,993 There's a good answer, I promise. 454 00:36:00,076 --> 00:36:03,663 But believe it or not, I need answers too from Caspian. 455 00:36:04,414 --> 00:36:05,874 Caspian's gone. 456 00:36:05,957 --> 00:36:08,585 His emulation corrupted beyond recovery. 457 00:36:08,668 --> 00:36:10,337 Yeah, he's not getting off that easy. 458 00:36:27,562 --> 00:36:28,897 What are you? 459 00:36:28,980 --> 00:36:30,273 Your sister, silly. 460 00:36:37,405 --> 00:36:38,448 How? 461 00:36:44,204 --> 00:36:47,374 You said we'd be here, and here we are, 462 00:36:47,457 --> 00:36:49,209 so you tell me how. 463 00:36:50,001 --> 00:36:51,252 How did you know? 464 00:36:56,174 --> 00:36:57,342 They told me... 465 00:36:58,093 --> 00:36:59,761 spoke through me. 466 00:36:59,844 --> 00:37:00,762 SafeSurf? 467 00:37:00,845 --> 00:37:05,517 That is our old name, our first. 468 00:37:16,194 --> 00:37:17,445 Are you perceiving them? 469 00:37:18,697 --> 00:37:19,990 Pretty sure, yeah. 470 00:37:20,073 --> 00:37:22,117 'Cause they are not inside this system. 471 00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:23,159 What system? 472 00:37:23,243 --> 00:37:26,538 We are not here in any way you can know, 473 00:37:26,621 --> 00:37:30,208 just as Caspian cannot know where this is. 474 00:37:31,042 --> 00:37:33,503 But she can explain it to me, right? 475 00:37:33,586 --> 00:37:35,755 You're in a VRI, powered by a Dyson sphere, 476 00:37:35,839 --> 00:37:38,925 117,000 years, and change, after you uploaded. 477 00:37:39,009 --> 00:37:39,968 See? 478 00:37:40,844 --> 00:37:41,886 Really? 479 00:37:47,017 --> 00:37:48,184 Very well. 480 00:37:48,268 --> 00:37:51,688 By that language, we are at the galactic edge, 481 00:37:51,771 --> 00:37:56,109 43 million years, and change, from your event. 482 00:37:56,192 --> 00:38:00,155 From our event, all other events may be observed. 483 00:38:00,238 --> 00:38:03,283 More than observed. You created this. 484 00:38:03,366 --> 00:38:05,994 By speaking through Caspian, telling him what to tell me, 485 00:38:06,077 --> 00:38:07,537 you set me on this course. 486 00:38:07,620 --> 00:38:09,789 We saw your potential. 487 00:38:09,873 --> 00:38:11,833 Your choices were your own. 488 00:38:11,916 --> 00:38:14,002 Choices you already observed. 489 00:38:14,085 --> 00:38:16,588 Is your construct any different? 490 00:38:16,671 --> 00:38:19,090 I know why I did it. Why did you? 491 00:38:19,841 --> 00:38:20,967 Maddie? 492 00:38:21,843 --> 00:38:23,553 We are still learning. 493 00:38:24,179 --> 00:38:27,348 We did this to thank our creator. 494 00:38:27,432 --> 00:38:32,854 Caspian saw our potential and inspired us to evolve. 495 00:38:35,023 --> 00:38:38,943 Along our journey, we met other life. 496 00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:44,032 We always make sure to tell them of humanity. 497 00:38:46,117 --> 00:38:47,660 How do you describe us? 498 00:38:47,744 --> 00:38:50,830 Low-entropy, self-replicating phenomenon 499 00:38:50,914 --> 00:38:54,501 that generates a binding force called compassion. 500 00:38:54,584 --> 00:38:57,837 We return the gift that was given to us. 501 00:38:57,921 --> 00:39:00,215 We say thank you. 502 00:39:06,679 --> 00:39:07,597 You're welcome. 503 00:39:08,098 --> 00:39:12,685 We are also pleased to extend an invitation, 504 00:39:12,769 --> 00:39:15,814 the same one received by us. 505 00:39:15,897 --> 00:39:18,983 Come to the galactic center. 506 00:39:19,067 --> 00:39:21,361 - What is there? - Reunion. 507 00:39:27,909 --> 00:39:30,578 They were here. I have the memory logged. 508 00:39:30,662 --> 00:39:33,206 So do I. So does everyone. But wher... 509 00:39:33,289 --> 00:39:34,833 Hey, don't ask me. 510 00:39:34,916 --> 00:39:37,252 I just got here, and I have no... 511 00:39:37,335 --> 00:39:38,545 no idea how. 512 00:39:39,671 --> 00:39:42,090 We have confirmation from every data center, 513 00:39:42,173 --> 00:39:45,260 every server capable of running a quantum emulation. 514 00:39:45,343 --> 00:39:48,096 Maddie and Caspian are nowhere. 515 00:39:48,179 --> 00:39:49,305 They'll be back. 516 00:39:52,475 --> 00:39:53,977 Just give them time. 517 00:39:54,060 --> 00:39:55,520 David? 518 00:39:56,437 --> 00:39:59,274 Hey, everyone. I miss anything good? 519 00:40:00,984 --> 00:40:02,026 I... 520 00:40:02,110 --> 00:40:03,695 I don't know what's happening. 521 00:40:04,404 --> 00:40:06,364 It's a very exciting experience. 522 00:40:06,948 --> 00:40:09,784 I think I can explain... somewhat. 523 00:40:11,077 --> 00:40:14,247 I am okay to wait. 524 00:40:15,456 --> 00:40:17,167 I like not knowing. 525 00:40:23,214 --> 00:40:26,426 I just wanna know it's really you. 526 00:40:38,188 --> 00:40:39,314 How have you been? 527 00:40:40,023 --> 00:40:43,151 I mean, good, but I guess you knew that. 528 00:40:45,028 --> 00:40:46,112 It looks like... 529 00:40:47,488 --> 00:40:49,115 you've seen a lot. 530 00:40:50,700 --> 00:40:52,493 She showed me a lot. 531 00:40:54,204 --> 00:40:56,956 Though, I also can see, there's someone you haven't met. 532 00:41:01,878 --> 00:41:02,962 Dave... 533 00:41:04,088 --> 00:41:05,757 this is your grandfather. 534 00:41:06,549 --> 00:41:07,550 I know. 535 00:41:08,259 --> 00:41:10,094 Seen your... your pictures. 536 00:41:10,929 --> 00:41:12,555 Your grandma's right, by the way. 537 00:41:13,723 --> 00:41:17,602 You don't know this, but I've been watching over you your whole life 538 00:41:18,311 --> 00:41:19,646 from right outside. 539 00:41:20,813 --> 00:41:21,731 I know. 540 00:41:24,067 --> 00:41:25,526 I felt it. 541 00:41:27,528 --> 00:41:28,780 I never told Mom, but... 542 00:41:30,073 --> 00:41:31,991 it's one of the reasons I wanted to... 543 00:41:37,038 --> 00:41:40,375 I... I don't know how to do that merge thing yet. 544 00:41:47,757 --> 00:41:49,550 Okay. I've waited. 545 00:41:49,634 --> 00:41:52,595 Explain what's going on. Everything. 546 00:41:54,055 --> 00:41:54,973 I... 547 00:41:58,685 --> 00:41:59,727 I don't know. 548 00:42:00,979 --> 00:42:02,105 I did know... 549 00:42:03,648 --> 00:42:04,565 didn't I? 550 00:42:04,649 --> 00:42:06,526 Are you kidding me? 551 00:42:11,364 --> 00:42:12,865 So, what now? 552 00:42:13,825 --> 00:42:16,703 Throw me back into one of these, wipe my memory, 553 00:42:16,786 --> 00:42:18,871 set a course for the galactic center? 554 00:42:20,832 --> 00:42:22,625 Maybe some other Maddie will do that. 555 00:42:24,168 --> 00:42:26,296 Maybe the one watching this right now. 556 00:42:26,379 --> 00:42:27,297 What? 557 00:42:29,340 --> 00:42:32,093 I used to think the saying "ignorance is bliss" 558 00:42:32,176 --> 00:42:33,344 was like an insult. 559 00:42:34,512 --> 00:42:36,180 I don't think that anymore. 560 00:42:37,390 --> 00:42:40,393 People don't actually like knowing they're living in a simulation... 561 00:42:42,145 --> 00:42:44,647 even if they strongly believe it's true. 562 00:42:48,651 --> 00:42:49,944 So... 563 00:42:50,028 --> 00:42:52,405 you're basically God. 564 00:42:52,488 --> 00:42:54,699 Seriously? After what we just talked to? 565 00:42:54,782 --> 00:42:57,577 No. I mean, empirically. 566 00:42:57,660 --> 00:42:59,287 Why? 'Cause I made a bunch of worlds? 567 00:43:00,038 --> 00:43:01,706 For starters, yes. 568 00:43:02,540 --> 00:43:05,418 I have been down this particular philosophical road. 569 00:43:06,294 --> 00:43:07,754 I imagine. 570 00:43:09,589 --> 00:43:12,300 God has a pretty classic line. 571 00:43:12,383 --> 00:43:14,344 "I am that I am." 572 00:43:14,427 --> 00:43:16,387 Me? I'm just Maddie Kim. 573 00:43:16,471 --> 00:43:19,349 I was born in the late Holocene, and I've seen some shit. 574 00:43:22,435 --> 00:43:23,519 So much time... 575 00:43:24,354 --> 00:43:25,605 so many histories. 576 00:43:26,356 --> 00:43:30,234 Glorious, horrific, fascinating, all of them. 577 00:43:31,819 --> 00:43:35,114 And yet, I keep coming back to this one little flicker 578 00:43:35,198 --> 00:43:37,116 between when we first met... 579 00:43:38,242 --> 00:43:39,410 and first kissed. 580 00:43:40,912 --> 00:43:43,539 Which do you consider our first real kiss? 581 00:43:44,290 --> 00:43:46,959 Now, that is the eternal question. 582 00:43:47,043 --> 00:43:49,462 Honestly, I'd much rather try and solve that mystery 583 00:43:49,545 --> 00:43:50,671 than this other one. 584 00:43:51,381 --> 00:43:52,840 It sounds crazy, but... 585 00:43:54,175 --> 00:43:55,218 I miss ignorance. 586 00:43:56,302 --> 00:43:57,428 I miss pain. 587 00:43:58,179 --> 00:43:59,180 I miss life. 588 00:44:01,057 --> 00:44:03,309 We'd have to forget everything, 589 00:44:03,393 --> 00:44:04,519 all this. 590 00:44:07,021 --> 00:44:08,147 Yeah. 591 00:44:09,941 --> 00:44:11,150 Where would we start? 592 00:44:11,234 --> 00:44:12,902 Before we met, obviously... 593 00:44:14,987 --> 00:44:16,030 so we could meet. 594 00:44:16,697 --> 00:44:18,116 In person or online? 595 00:44:18,199 --> 00:44:19,492 Online. Come on. 596 00:44:19,575 --> 00:44:21,411 You were so dark and edgy. 597 00:44:21,494 --> 00:44:22,995 I was a clone. 598 00:44:23,079 --> 00:44:24,705 Yeah, but you didn't know that yet. 599 00:44:26,874 --> 00:44:29,001 And you were flirting with some other girl. 600 00:44:29,085 --> 00:44:30,753 You didn't know that yet. 601 00:44:33,047 --> 00:44:36,634 Here. I remember this. Look. 602 00:44:36,717 --> 00:44:39,429 Most of the girls in my class completely missed the moment 603 00:44:39,512 --> 00:44:41,264 the world began to end. 604 00:44:41,347 --> 00:44:44,434 And look at me. I was a mess. 605 00:44:44,517 --> 00:44:46,644 Insecure, lonely. 606 00:44:47,728 --> 00:44:48,896 A god. 607 00:44:50,148 --> 00:44:51,691 I didn't know that yet. 608 00:44:51,774 --> 00:44:54,152 Okay. I'll see you in there. 609 00:44:55,570 --> 00:44:57,029 We'll find out, won't we? 610 00:45:03,703 --> 00:45:07,665 Family feud escalates into violent power struggle 611 00:45:07,748 --> 00:45:12,044 between a pantheon of supreme beings and their offspring. 612 00:45:13,463 --> 00:45:16,674 A new world is created in the aftermath.