1 00:00:09,743 --> 00:00:14,247 [mysterious music] 2 00:00:16,649 --> 00:00:22,255 - [lively music] - [cards whooshing] 3 00:00:36,670 --> 00:00:42,275 - [tense dramatic music] - [static droning] 4 00:00:43,677 --> 00:00:49,282 ♪ 5 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:59,359 ♪ 6 00:01:01,940 --> 00:01:03,697 [interrogator] Day 42, session 72. 7 00:01:04,798 --> 00:01:06,266 Start recording. 8 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:08,340 Vitals? 9 00:01:08,134 --> 00:01:10,103 [technician] Blood pressure 110 over 70. 10 00:01:10,236 --> 00:01:11,237 Pulse 68. 11 00:01:11,371 --> 00:01:12,639 Vitals normal. 12 00:01:12,806 --> 00:01:15,742 [interrogator] Dr. Kask, what did you see? 13 00:01:16,543 --> 00:01:17,977 What did they show you? 14 00:01:20,460 --> 00:01:21,381 Dr. Kask? 15 00:01:22,582 --> 00:01:24,250 Dr. Kask? 16 00:01:26,386 --> 00:01:28,540 How are you still alive? 17 00:01:28,154 --> 00:01:33,827 [dramatic music continues] 18 00:01:35,950 --> 00:01:40,734 [mysterious music] 19 00:01:42,102 --> 00:01:47,741 ♪ 20 00:01:49,676 --> 00:01:51,311 [Annika VO] How am I still alive? 21 00:01:57,450 --> 00:01:58,852 We're a flawed species. 22 00:02:01,755 --> 00:02:04,624 [Mother VO] Okay, are you ready to meet your little sister? 23 00:02:05,859 --> 00:02:11,464 [gentle music] 24 00:02:12,198 --> 00:02:14,868 [Annika VO] We're impossibly fragile. 25 00:02:15,869 --> 00:02:17,270 [Toddler Annika] Hi, Klara. Hi. 26 00:02:17,370 --> 00:02:18,538 [Mother] Yeah. 27 00:02:18,672 --> 00:02:19,973 Do you think we should keep her? 28 00:02:21,474 --> 00:02:22,842 Yeah. 29 00:02:22,976 --> 00:02:26,946 [gentle music] 30 00:02:27,470 --> 00:02:29,683 [soft blowing] 31 00:02:29,816 --> 00:02:31,510 [Annika VO] We're self destructive. 32 00:02:31,184 --> 00:02:32,719 [laughing] 33 00:02:32,886 --> 00:02:38,525 [gentle music continues] 34 00:02:39,893 --> 00:02:40,727 ♪ 35 00:02:40,894 --> 00:02:42,462 [Annika VO] Superstitious. 36 00:02:48,902 --> 00:02:50,236 Driven by fear. 37 00:02:50,370 --> 00:02:56,900 [wondrous music] 38 00:02:57,410 --> 00:02:58,812 [Annika VO] By love. 39 00:03:03,483 --> 00:03:07,253 Barely able to survive on our tiny blue rock, 40 00:03:09,756 --> 00:03:12,892 let alone in the endless black ocean of our universe. 41 00:03:13,260 --> 00:03:14,994 [Klara] Top bunk! [giggling] 42 00:03:18,865 --> 00:03:20,767 What's past the last planet? 43 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:23,269 Infinity. 44 00:03:27,700 --> 00:03:28,341 Everything. 45 00:03:29,900 --> 00:03:30,343 Anything. 46 00:03:31,244 --> 00:03:32,846 Whoa. 47 00:03:33,947 --> 00:03:35,515 Nothing ever lasts. 48 00:03:36,549 --> 00:03:38,180 [Annika VO] How am I still alive? 49 00:03:38,118 --> 00:03:40,520 [giggling] 50 00:03:40,620 --> 00:03:42,522 [wondrous music continues] 51 00:03:42,622 --> 00:03:43,957 [Klara] We need to let it go. 52 00:03:45,291 --> 00:03:47,600 It needs to breathe. 53 00:03:47,193 --> 00:03:52,766 [wondrous music continues] 54 00:03:54,634 --> 00:03:57,937 [Annika VO] One day, we will die. 55 00:04:02,142 --> 00:04:03,543 Hey, you okay? 56 00:04:04,778 --> 00:04:05,645 [glass shattering] 57 00:04:05,779 --> 00:04:06,913 [Young Annika] Mom? 58 00:04:07,470 --> 00:04:08,548 Mom! Mom! 59 00:04:10,150 --> 00:04:11,751 [Annika VO] We become dust. 60 00:04:11,885 --> 00:04:13,486 Oh my God, what happened? 61 00:04:13,620 --> 00:04:15,255 Klara! Klara! 62 00:04:15,388 --> 00:04:18,825 [monitors beeping] 63 00:04:18,958 --> 00:04:20,160 [Annika VO] And our dust 64 00:04:20,326 --> 00:04:23,563 joins all the other dust of the universe. 65 00:04:29,102 --> 00:04:30,637 And everything we love... 66 00:04:31,171 --> 00:04:34,574 [flat-line droning] 67 00:04:34,674 --> 00:04:35,975 [Annika VO] Goes away. 68 00:04:36,109 --> 00:04:40,847 - [flat-line droning] - [soft dramatic music] 69 00:04:40,980 --> 00:04:42,582 [Annika VO] How am I still alive? 70 00:04:45,185 --> 00:04:47,587 How are any of us? 71 00:04:54,194 --> 00:04:57,797 [Sam] What if biological life is just a stage? 72 00:04:58,264 --> 00:04:59,833 What if we can evolve? 73 00:04:59,966 --> 00:05:04,838 So our future as a species is post-biological? 74 00:05:05,538 --> 00:05:08,274 Our present is post-biological. 75 00:05:08,708 --> 00:05:12,779 It took us six thousand years to go from leeches to pacemakers. 76 00:05:12,879 --> 00:05:13,880 But from pacemakers 77 00:05:14,140 --> 00:05:16,483 to genetically modifying human embryos, 78 00:05:16,616 --> 00:05:18,510 it took just 60. 79 00:05:18,218 --> 00:05:21,540 [moderator] Mm-hmm. So this isn't the future. 80 00:05:21,221 --> 00:05:22,722 The future is right now. 81 00:05:22,856 --> 00:05:24,491 [moderator] Let me ask you this though, 82 00:05:24,624 --> 00:05:27,270 if our destiny is post-biological, 83 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:29,996 is there other life in the universe as well? 84 00:05:31,310 --> 00:05:33,400 Oh, that's a stone cold certainty. 85 00:05:34,167 --> 00:05:35,680 [moderator] Okay, wait, wait. 86 00:05:35,235 --> 00:05:36,403 Here's what I want to know. 87 00:05:37,700 --> 00:05:41,740 Is there something you know that we don't? 88 00:05:41,241 --> 00:05:44,770 Look, people call me a tech visionary. 89 00:05:44,244 --> 00:05:45,845 That's just a bunch of horseshit. 90 00:05:45,979 --> 00:05:47,347 [crowd laughing] 91 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:50,650 I'm just a fellow that sees what's right in front of him. 92 00:05:50,750 --> 00:05:53,319 And it ain't no secret that I made my first billion 93 00:05:53,420 --> 00:05:55,221 from solar energy, 94 00:05:55,555 --> 00:05:57,924 but I did not invent the sun. 95 00:05:58,658 --> 00:06:00,930 I'm no visionary. 96 00:06:01,528 --> 00:06:07,167 Visionaries see things that no one else does, 97 00:06:09,269 --> 00:06:10,737 and that's rare. 98 00:06:11,705 --> 00:06:14,107 [moderator] Okay, so who does Sam Houston 99 00:06:14,274 --> 00:06:15,842 consider a visionary? 100 00:06:18,411 --> 00:06:19,546 Well, you know what? 101 00:06:19,679 --> 00:06:22,248 We have one right here in this very room. 102 00:06:27,454 --> 00:06:28,755 Annika Kask. 103 00:06:31,391 --> 00:06:32,392 [Sam] Annika Kask, 104 00:06:32,525 --> 00:06:34,361 would you please raise your hand? 105 00:06:37,364 --> 00:06:38,865 There she is. 106 00:06:39,466 --> 00:06:44,104 The first person to photograph dark matter. 107 00:06:44,237 --> 00:06:48,775 [crowd applauding] 108 00:06:50,310 --> 00:06:52,145 - [Sam] That's it. - There you go. 109 00:06:52,312 --> 00:06:53,713 Fantastic. Thank you. 110 00:06:53,813 --> 00:06:55,480 - Well, you bet. - Thank you so much. 111 00:06:55,148 --> 00:06:56,116 Thanks for having me. 112 00:06:56,249 --> 00:06:57,117 Appreciate it. 113 00:06:57,250 --> 00:06:58,251 That was really great. 114 00:06:58,385 --> 00:06:59,285 Nobody got hurt. 115 00:06:59,419 --> 00:07:00,887 Oh, uh, excuse me. 116 00:07:03,957 --> 00:07:05,225 Annika? 117 00:07:05,325 --> 00:07:06,926 - Hi. - Hey. 118 00:07:07,293 --> 00:07:09,950 Big fan. Big fan. 119 00:07:09,562 --> 00:07:11,898 Thank you. I'm flattered. 120 00:07:11,998 --> 00:07:15,669 Well, uh, I have a confession to make. 121 00:07:16,670 --> 00:07:19,406 I didn't come here just to do a TED Talk. 122 00:07:21,307 --> 00:07:23,276 I want to offer you a job. 123 00:07:27,947 --> 00:07:29,783 [Sam] You know, most people, 124 00:07:30,150 --> 00:07:33,186 they look at the universe and it's empty. 125 00:07:33,319 --> 00:07:36,990 And you, with one image, proved 'em all wrong. 126 00:07:37,957 --> 00:07:39,192 How'd you do it? 127 00:07:43,663 --> 00:07:45,532 Every time we'd try and image it, 128 00:07:45,665 --> 00:07:47,330 we'd get chaos. 129 00:07:47,801 --> 00:07:49,350 Couldn't find the right data set. 130 00:07:49,169 --> 00:07:50,203 What was the right set? 131 00:07:50,337 --> 00:07:51,204 [Annika] All of them. 132 00:07:51,871 --> 00:07:53,206 At once. 133 00:07:53,340 --> 00:07:55,208 Overlapping. Like 3D glasses. 134 00:07:55,342 --> 00:07:56,876 Except instead of just red and blue, 135 00:07:57,100 --> 00:08:00,213 we overlap 233 data sets 136 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:01,981 to find order in the chaos. 137 00:08:02,115 --> 00:08:04,617 And then you get that. 138 00:08:05,552 --> 00:08:07,320 [Sam] Well, that's the how, but... 139 00:08:09,356 --> 00:08:10,690 why? 140 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:15,662 No one's ever asked me that before. 141 00:08:19,165 --> 00:08:23,300 I guess I just want to know what's out there. 142 00:08:23,236 --> 00:08:25,138 [Sam] You want to know what's out there? 143 00:08:25,238 --> 00:08:26,673 Why not down here? 144 00:08:29,809 --> 00:08:31,177 It's a one-year contract. 145 00:08:31,978 --> 00:08:36,182 Small lab on a remote island in the Caribbean. 146 00:08:36,316 --> 00:08:37,350 What lab? 147 00:08:37,484 --> 00:08:39,190 [Sam] That's confidential. 148 00:08:39,986 --> 00:08:42,689 You need scientists to work on a secret project 149 00:08:42,822 --> 00:08:44,491 on a remote island in the Caribbean? 150 00:08:44,591 --> 00:08:45,859 Let me tell you something. 151 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:48,862 There's more up there, 152 00:08:49,863 --> 00:08:51,970 and down here. 153 00:08:51,231 --> 00:08:52,980 Everywhere. 154 00:08:52,232 --> 00:08:53,400 Aliens. 155 00:08:59,939 --> 00:09:03,109 Look, Mr. Houston, I appreciate the offer, 156 00:09:03,243 --> 00:09:05,779 but I'm not the kind of scientist who hunts for aliens. 157 00:09:05,912 --> 00:09:07,514 [Sam] We're not hunting. 158 00:09:08,715 --> 00:09:09,916 We're gathering. 159 00:09:11,170 --> 00:09:14,554 And we need your discovery to make sense of it. 160 00:09:15,555 --> 00:09:16,856 Look, 161 00:09:17,424 --> 00:09:19,959 you can forget about your little green men, 162 00:09:20,393 --> 00:09:22,595 fishing for radio waves, 163 00:09:22,729 --> 00:09:24,964 and hunting for a needle in a haystack, 164 00:09:25,980 --> 00:09:27,434 because I'm here to tell you that the whole haystack 165 00:09:27,567 --> 00:09:29,569 is made out of needles. 166 00:09:29,936 --> 00:09:31,771 We're not alone in the dark. 167 00:09:32,605 --> 00:09:36,943 In fact, the darkness has been our company all along. 168 00:09:39,446 --> 00:09:41,214 You want to find out? 169 00:09:41,314 --> 00:09:46,653 [wondrous music] 170 00:09:51,791 --> 00:09:55,729 [wondrous music continues] 171 00:09:57,464 --> 00:09:59,833 [Charlie] I am an electronics engineer. 172 00:10:00,934 --> 00:10:01,901 Charlie Kaminsky. 173 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:03,403 [Annika chuckling] 174 00:10:03,670 --> 00:10:05,138 Sorry, it's just... 175 00:10:05,839 --> 00:10:08,641 Charlie Kaminsky saying he's an electronics engineer 176 00:10:08,775 --> 00:10:12,278 is like Stephen Hawking saying he teaches math. 177 00:10:12,412 --> 00:10:15,982 [chuckles] Yeah, I'm the CTO of Gateway Labs. 178 00:10:16,583 --> 00:10:18,818 [Charilie] Sam hired me to check some new toys he's building. 179 00:10:18,952 --> 00:10:20,520 Now, where do you- where do you work, Annika? 180 00:10:20,653 --> 00:10:21,755 R.I.T. 181 00:10:22,622 --> 00:10:24,124 You're Annika Kask? 182 00:10:24,257 --> 00:10:25,325 Yeah, wow. 183 00:10:25,458 --> 00:10:27,160 How did, uh, how did Sam land you? 184 00:10:27,293 --> 00:10:29,629 He promised me we weren't hunting for aliens. 185 00:10:30,630 --> 00:10:31,931 You? 186 00:10:32,332 --> 00:10:33,700 He promised me we were. 187 00:10:36,803 --> 00:10:38,400 Oh, wow. 188 00:10:42,542 --> 00:10:48,214 [dramatic music] 189 00:10:49,150 --> 00:10:54,654 ♪ 190 00:10:59,590 --> 00:11:04,731 ♪ 191 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:07,400 [Solomon] Welcome to the island. 192 00:11:07,534 --> 00:11:08,802 Thank you. 193 00:11:08,902 --> 00:11:10,537 Uh, how many people are working out here right now? 194 00:11:10,670 --> 00:11:11,671 Nine or ten. 195 00:11:11,805 --> 00:11:13,707 Dr. Glassner likes to keep it small. 196 00:11:14,541 --> 00:11:15,642 Perry Glassner? 197 00:11:17,711 --> 00:11:19,346 [Charlie] Wow. Shit. Okay. 198 00:11:19,479 --> 00:11:21,915 Yeah, super friends unite. I like it. 199 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:23,350 [Solomon] We'll see to your luggage. 200 00:11:23,483 --> 00:11:25,418 Dr. Glassner is waiting for you in the main facility. 201 00:11:25,552 --> 00:11:26,753 Great. 202 00:11:27,354 --> 00:11:29,989 Oh, um, I'll-I'll catch up. 203 00:11:30,900 --> 00:11:31,157 Here, just be careful with-- 204 00:11:31,257 --> 00:11:32,692 Yeah, it's delicate. 205 00:11:32,826 --> 00:11:33,827 - Thank you so much. - No problem. 206 00:11:33,927 --> 00:11:34,861 Thank you. Thank you. 207 00:11:34,994 --> 00:11:37,163 Perfect. Oh, there we go. 208 00:11:37,263 --> 00:11:38,431 You can take that one for me. 209 00:11:38,565 --> 00:11:39,733 Thanks. 210 00:11:41,568 --> 00:11:47,207 [tranquil music] 211 00:11:48,675 --> 00:11:54,280 ♪ 212 00:11:58,585 --> 00:12:04,224 ♪ 213 00:12:17,637 --> 00:12:23,309 [wondrous music] 214 00:12:24,644 --> 00:12:30,316 ♪ 215 00:12:34,754 --> 00:12:40,393 ♪ 216 00:12:52,172 --> 00:12:53,239 [Perry] What's this? 217 00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:55,408 B12 methylphenidate. 218 00:12:55,508 --> 00:12:57,110 Immuno-booster. 219 00:13:11,910 --> 00:13:13,360 You shatter a bone and it heals, 220 00:13:13,493 --> 00:13:15,795 but you bruise trust and it's fatal. 221 00:13:18,331 --> 00:13:19,532 [Perry] What's your purpose? 222 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:21,701 I'm Dr. Annika Kask. 223 00:13:22,369 --> 00:13:24,104 Well, that's a chair I can sit in 224 00:13:24,204 --> 00:13:26,106 and that's a door I can walk out of, 225 00:13:26,206 --> 00:13:28,208 so what is your purpose? 226 00:13:29,142 --> 00:13:30,443 Sam Houston sent me. 227 00:13:30,543 --> 00:13:31,845 [Perry] Why would he do that? 228 00:13:34,114 --> 00:13:35,281 I'm a computer scientist. 229 00:13:35,382 --> 00:13:37,170 Oh, right. 230 00:13:37,984 --> 00:13:39,285 That's a shame. 231 00:13:40,186 --> 00:13:41,388 That's a shame. 232 00:13:41,521 --> 00:13:43,323 I thought you might have the salt to admit the truth, 233 00:13:43,456 --> 00:13:46,659 that you've been sent here by Sam to spy on me. 234 00:13:47,694 --> 00:13:50,630 To be the bruise that kills me. 235 00:13:51,898 --> 00:13:52,899 [Annika] Should I go? 236 00:13:53,330 --> 00:13:54,567 No, no, no, no, no, no. 237 00:13:55,235 --> 00:13:58,400 After all, I might need an algorithm. 238 00:13:59,305 --> 00:14:01,541 Oh, Dr. Glassner, hi, I'm Charlie. 239 00:14:01,675 --> 00:14:04,544 And I gotta tell you, man, from one scientist to another-- 240 00:14:04,678 --> 00:14:07,800 Here we go. They're ******** multiplying. 241 00:14:09,916 --> 00:14:12,318 I blew it. I... [sighs] 242 00:14:13,653 --> 00:14:14,688 [Perry] As per your NDAs, 243 00:14:14,821 --> 00:14:16,256 communications are monitored. 244 00:14:16,389 --> 00:14:17,724 You will be watched. 245 00:14:17,857 --> 00:14:19,325 [Charlie] It feels like overkill. 246 00:14:19,426 --> 00:14:21,361 Yes, it's completely and utterly unnecessary. 247 00:14:21,494 --> 00:14:24,164 I should be doing this work on my own in my basement, 248 00:14:24,264 --> 00:14:27,500 but Sam would never allow that because this isn't really a lab. 249 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:30,203 It's a shrine to a man's overwhelming hubris. 250 00:14:30,337 --> 00:14:32,872 [Perry] See, most billionaires buy yachts or football teams, 251 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:35,742 but he wants to buy ideas or legacies to show the world 252 00:14:35,875 --> 00:14:38,345 he's somehow changed the course of human history. 253 00:14:39,112 --> 00:14:40,613 So that's what you do here? 254 00:14:43,383 --> 00:14:44,884 That's what we're about to do. 255 00:14:45,618 --> 00:14:48,288 [computer voice] Welcome to the Tuning Lab. 256 00:14:49,889 --> 00:14:52,726 [Perry] So you, you're up to speed? 257 00:14:52,859 --> 00:14:55,762 That dark matter algorithm you discovered, 258 00:14:56,960 --> 00:14:57,731 you'll need to apply it here. 259 00:14:57,864 --> 00:14:59,699 Is this what I think it is? Does it work? 260 00:14:59,799 --> 00:15:01,968 No. Yes. And get the **** away from it. 261 00:15:02,435 --> 00:15:03,737 - [Perry] Right. Where to begin? - Sorry. 262 00:15:03,870 --> 00:15:06,606 [Perry] Let's begin at the beginning, uh, in darkness. 263 00:15:06,740 --> 00:15:10,443 So let there be light and heat and bacteria, 264 00:15:10,577 --> 00:15:11,745 single-celled organisms. 265 00:15:11,878 --> 00:15:13,480 Skip a few billion years. 266 00:15:13,613 --> 00:15:15,148 Reptiles, monkeys, then us. 267 00:15:15,281 --> 00:15:16,616 Apex predators. 268 00:15:16,750 --> 00:15:17,784 Petty, ain't we? 269 00:15:17,917 --> 00:15:19,520 Cruel. 270 00:15:19,152 --> 00:15:20,754 Prone to self-destruction. 271 00:15:20,887 --> 00:15:21,988 Hell bent on rage, 272 00:15:22,122 --> 00:15:23,923 ******** our habitat out of existence. 273 00:15:24,570 --> 00:15:25,792 So now we turn our eyes away from Earth 274 00:15:25,925 --> 00:15:27,727 in search of other worlds to defile. 275 00:15:27,827 --> 00:15:29,229 But there's a hitch. 276 00:15:29,329 --> 00:15:32,132 Because Mr. Drake's equation tells us that we're not alone. 277 00:15:32,265 --> 00:15:33,800 The universe is too vast, 278 00:15:33,933 --> 00:15:35,101 rich with resources, 279 00:15:35,235 --> 00:15:37,470 likely swimming with intelligent life. 280 00:15:37,604 --> 00:15:38,672 Competition. 281 00:15:38,805 --> 00:15:39,939 And most of that's going to be millions, 282 00:15:40,730 --> 00:15:42,776 if not billions of years ahead of us. 283 00:15:42,909 --> 00:15:45,245 So we come into this race far, far behind. 284 00:15:45,345 --> 00:15:46,579 Nevertheless, we do start looking 285 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:49,616 with whatever crude tools are available. 286 00:15:49,749 --> 00:15:50,917 As you know, SETI, 287 00:15:51,170 --> 00:15:52,786 the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, 288 00:15:52,919 --> 00:15:54,654 has been scanning, uh, what? 289 00:15:54,788 --> 00:15:56,656 Oh yeah, radio waves. 290 00:15:56,790 --> 00:15:58,124 That still only covers, what, 291 00:15:58,258 --> 00:15:59,959 one ten-millionth of the night sky 292 00:16:00,930 --> 00:16:02,796 using hilariously outdated technology. 293 00:16:02,929 --> 00:16:05,532 It's like taking a little bowl of water out of the ocean 294 00:16:05,665 --> 00:16:08,134 and peering in and concluding that whales don't exist. 295 00:16:08,268 --> 00:16:09,436 No, not radio. 296 00:16:09,536 --> 00:16:11,104 That's not how you'd communicate 297 00:16:11,204 --> 00:16:13,640 if you're an interplanetary intelligence, is it? 298 00:16:13,773 --> 00:16:16,976 You want to talk across space and time instantaneously. 299 00:16:17,110 --> 00:16:18,111 So let's do this. 300 00:16:18,211 --> 00:16:20,714 Take two photons, pair them, keep one here, 301 00:16:20,847 --> 00:16:22,649 send the other light years away. 302 00:16:22,782 --> 00:16:24,684 Force one photon into a declared state, 303 00:16:24,818 --> 00:16:26,986 and the other responds in the very same moment 304 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:28,955 across space and time. 305 00:16:29,550 --> 00:16:30,557 String a few billion of those together, 306 00:16:30,690 --> 00:16:32,826 and you've got an FTL communicator. 307 00:16:32,959 --> 00:16:35,628 No, but-but the quantum communication can't work. 308 00:16:35,729 --> 00:16:36,730 It breaks the laws of physics. 309 00:16:36,896 --> 00:16:39,332 No, no, it bends the laws that we know, 310 00:16:39,466 --> 00:16:40,734 and that's not what this is. 311 00:16:40,867 --> 00:16:42,902 [stammers] No, if you force a quantum state change, 312 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:44,237 that breaks entanglement-- 313 00:16:44,404 --> 00:16:46,306 [Perry] This machine does not force a state change! 314 00:16:46,406 --> 00:16:48,575 It doesn't entangle or disentangle. 315 00:16:48,708 --> 00:16:50,243 It just hears when someone has. 316 00:16:50,377 --> 00:16:52,579 This simply listens. 317 00:16:52,712 --> 00:16:54,140 It's impossible. 318 00:16:54,147 --> 00:16:56,716 And yet here we have a machine that does exactly that, 319 00:16:56,850 --> 00:16:59,719 that I built six years ago in my basement, 320 00:16:59,853 --> 00:17:01,755 on my own on amphetamines. 321 00:17:01,888 --> 00:17:03,890 So, take a look for yourself. 322 00:17:05,258 --> 00:17:06,826 What do you want us to do? 323 00:17:07,594 --> 00:17:08,828 Well, here's a hint. 324 00:17:09,290 --> 00:17:10,730 You've already done it. 325 00:17:14,834 --> 00:17:17,370 [Annika] It says he's scanning the radius of a couple of feet. 326 00:17:17,504 --> 00:17:18,571 Right here. 327 00:17:18,705 --> 00:17:21,241 So if he's listening for aliens, then it's... 328 00:17:21,374 --> 00:17:22,375 He's doing it right here, 329 00:17:22,509 --> 00:17:23,677 in this-in this room. 330 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:25,879 [Charlie] But-but what is it? I mean, like these are just-- 331 00:17:26,120 --> 00:17:27,547 It's-- It's a ton of data points. 332 00:17:27,681 --> 00:17:29,683 [stutters] It's-it's-it's like background noise 333 00:17:29,783 --> 00:17:30,884 of anywhere in the universe. 334 00:17:31,170 --> 00:17:32,552 There's no rhyme or reason behind it. It's... 335 00:17:32,686 --> 00:17:33,586 It's chaos. 336 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:34,721 [Charlie] Yeah. 337 00:17:34,854 --> 00:17:39,793 [static droning] 338 00:17:39,926 --> 00:17:42,280 Then we find order in the chaos. 339 00:17:47,467 --> 00:17:53,139 [static droning] 340 00:17:54,274 --> 00:17:55,909 Sort by data sets. 341 00:17:59,379 --> 00:18:00,380 Okay. 342 00:18:01,915 --> 00:18:03,717 It's the same algorithm. 343 00:18:05,785 --> 00:18:07,220 It's my algorithm. 344 00:18:09,823 --> 00:18:13,930 Sort by exponents. 345 00:18:13,927 --> 00:18:15,495 [Charlie] It's organizing. 346 00:18:18,164 --> 00:18:20,100 Sort by primes. 347 00:18:21,301 --> 00:18:23,570 What? W-what is this? 348 00:18:24,471 --> 00:18:25,672 I can't believe this. 349 00:18:27,607 --> 00:18:29,676 Overlay all. 350 00:18:30,610 --> 00:18:33,980 [machine rhythmically humming] 351 00:18:34,114 --> 00:18:35,815 It's-it's a signal. 352 00:18:35,949 --> 00:18:38,118 [machine rhythmically humming] 353 00:18:38,251 --> 00:18:40,186 [stuttering] They're talking. 354 00:18:42,255 --> 00:18:47,861 [machine rhythmically humming] 355 00:18:48,461 --> 00:18:49,496 Holy shit! 356 00:18:49,629 --> 00:18:52,198 [machine rhythmically humming] 357 00:18:52,332 --> 00:18:53,767 Dr. Glassner? 358 00:18:53,867 --> 00:18:57,370 [machine rhythmically humming] 359 00:18:57,504 --> 00:18:58,872 [Annika] Dr. Glassner! 360 00:18:59,500 --> 00:19:00,874 [Charlie] [stuttering] He's only scanning one little area. 361 00:19:01,700 --> 00:19:02,142 But if it's quantum communication, 362 00:19:02,275 --> 00:19:03,209 then it-it's all around us. 363 00:19:03,343 --> 00:19:04,844 Or there's another explanation. 364 00:19:04,978 --> 00:19:06,212 Or another phenomenon that we're not seeing, or-- 365 00:19:06,346 --> 00:19:08,848 Or, Annika, it's ****-to-the-yes aliens. 366 00:19:08,982 --> 00:19:10,316 - Dr. Glassner. - [Charlie] I mean, 367 00:19:10,450 --> 00:19:11,851 we've been looking millions of light years away 368 00:19:11,985 --> 00:19:12,986 for-for smoke signals, 369 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:14,187 but they were around us the entire time. 370 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:15,889 It's... 371 00:19:16,220 --> 00:19:16,890 [Annika] Is this real? 372 00:19:17,230 --> 00:19:17,891 [Perry] You tell me. 373 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:19,659 You're here to check my math. 374 00:19:19,793 --> 00:19:21,695 [Charlie] I mean, [stutters] this means... 375 00:19:21,828 --> 00:19:22,862 It means we're not alone, 376 00:19:22,996 --> 00:19:24,531 we're not the centre of the universe, 377 00:19:24,664 --> 00:19:25,799 we're not special. 378 00:19:25,899 --> 00:19:27,167 It means they don't know anything about us, 379 00:19:27,300 --> 00:19:28,535 or they don't give a ****. 380 00:19:28,668 --> 00:19:29,569 [Charlie] What are they saying? 381 00:19:29,703 --> 00:19:31,370 How could I possibly know? 382 00:19:31,171 --> 00:19:33,390 We'd have to ask them with that. 383 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:35,308 What is that? 384 00:19:35,975 --> 00:19:36,910 Littlemouth. 385 00:19:37,430 --> 00:19:38,378 You're talking to them? 386 00:19:38,511 --> 00:19:39,646 Not yet. 387 00:19:39,746 --> 00:19:40,914 [stuttering] You actually... 388 00:19:41,810 --> 00:19:42,482 you-you built a quantum communication device. 389 00:19:42,582 --> 00:19:43,883 Can we-can we talk back? 390 00:19:44,170 --> 00:19:46,886 No. The hardware can't replicate quantum signatures. 391 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:48,922 [Charlie] I can. I've already done it in my lab. 392 00:19:49,550 --> 00:19:50,557 [Perry] I highly doubt it, but... 393 00:19:54,194 --> 00:19:56,162 I suppose we're gonna find out. 394 00:19:59,933 --> 00:20:01,401 Okay, I need to... 395 00:20:03,690 --> 00:20:04,771 Oh. Oh, wow. 396 00:20:15,615 --> 00:20:17,117 Ah. 397 00:20:20,754 --> 00:20:26,393 [mysterious music] 398 00:20:27,761 --> 00:20:33,400 ♪ 399 00:20:37,871 --> 00:20:43,476 ♪ 400 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:14,974 Good morning. 401 00:21:27,253 --> 00:21:29,155 Go to the ant, consider her ways, 402 00:21:29,289 --> 00:21:30,523 and be wise. 403 00:21:30,824 --> 00:21:32,920 Do you know that? 404 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:35,462 Hmm. 405 00:21:39,866 --> 00:21:41,634 We learn a lot from ants. 406 00:21:45,500 --> 00:21:46,439 [Perry] For example, we, uh, 407 00:21:48,441 --> 00:21:51,611 we study them to, uh, solve traffic problems. 408 00:21:54,848 --> 00:21:56,282 All sorts of things. 409 00:22:03,390 --> 00:22:05,792 I hear your schooling's going well. 410 00:22:09,396 --> 00:22:10,730 I guess so. 411 00:22:15,301 --> 00:22:16,870 Good. Right. 412 00:22:29,150 --> 00:22:34,654 [machine rhythmically humming] 413 00:22:39,492 --> 00:22:45,980 [mysterious music] 414 00:22:49,736 --> 00:22:51,438 [Annika sighing] 415 00:22:51,571 --> 00:22:54,174 [mysterious music continues] 416 00:22:54,274 --> 00:22:55,709 [Annika] It's real. 417 00:23:00,180 --> 00:23:03,283 [Annika sighing] 418 00:23:03,416 --> 00:23:06,453 Shh. Do you hear that? 419 00:23:07,620 --> 00:23:09,890 Scared? 420 00:23:09,756 --> 00:23:11,570 No. 421 00:23:12,892 --> 00:23:14,270 [quietly] Yeah. 422 00:23:17,797 --> 00:23:20,433 [Klara] Mom says there's no such thing as monsters. 423 00:23:22,635 --> 00:23:25,105 - [plunking] - [high-pitched screech] 424 00:23:25,238 --> 00:23:26,306 I'll go check it out. 425 00:23:26,439 --> 00:23:27,707 No! 426 00:23:29,409 --> 00:23:32,112 I can't lose you. 427 00:23:32,579 --> 00:23:34,280 [Annika sighing] 428 00:23:34,414 --> 00:23:40,530 [mysterious music continues] 429 00:23:42,288 --> 00:23:47,927 [ominous music swells] 430 00:23:49,295 --> 00:23:51,398 [Charlie] So this is the transmitter. 431 00:23:52,298 --> 00:23:54,467 [Annika] You can't turn it on for him. 432 00:23:55,669 --> 00:23:57,270 We don't know enough yet. 433 00:23:58,471 --> 00:23:59,673 [Charlie] I don't know. 434 00:23:59,806 --> 00:24:01,307 How else are we going to find out? 435 00:24:02,676 --> 00:24:05,645 You're not worried what they may be capable of? 436 00:24:08,915 --> 00:24:11,151 Are you inviting me to speculate about aliens? 437 00:24:11,284 --> 00:24:13,787 Because people often regret that. 438 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:14,921 Yeah, I am. 439 00:24:15,210 --> 00:24:16,489 - [Charlie] Yeah? - Mm-hmm. 440 00:24:17,230 --> 00:24:20,160 Okay. So, the coolest project that I ever worked on, 441 00:24:20,293 --> 00:24:21,361 called the Argus 2, 442 00:24:21,494 --> 00:24:22,762 it's this bionic eye that, like this machine 443 00:24:22,862 --> 00:24:24,597 that could send microelectrodes from the optic nerve 444 00:24:24,698 --> 00:24:26,933 to the brain and then, praise Jesus, 445 00:24:27,330 --> 00:24:28,335 the blind doth see. 446 00:24:28,468 --> 00:24:30,537 And just keeps getting better and better and better. 447 00:24:30,670 --> 00:24:32,339 They get the software update every year, 448 00:24:32,472 --> 00:24:34,274 and every two years, a hardware update. 449 00:24:35,410 --> 00:24:36,176 Have you ever seen 450 00:24:36,309 --> 00:24:38,511 a three-year-old see for the first time? 451 00:24:38,978 --> 00:24:39,813 No? 452 00:24:39,946 --> 00:24:42,649 It's-it's-it's everything. 453 00:24:43,216 --> 00:24:44,617 Anyways, next year, 454 00:24:44,718 --> 00:24:46,853 the Argus 5 is going to offer better vision 455 00:24:46,986 --> 00:24:49,656 than the perfectly healthy biological eye. 456 00:24:50,357 --> 00:24:52,559 It's-it's crazy, but why stop there? 457 00:24:52,692 --> 00:24:54,861 What about all the spectrums of light that we can't even see? 458 00:24:54,994 --> 00:24:56,620 Ultraviolet spectrum, 459 00:24:56,196 --> 00:24:57,564 the X-ray vision even, 460 00:24:57,697 --> 00:24:59,165 or thermal, whatever. 461 00:25:00,133 --> 00:25:01,468 That's just the beginning. 462 00:25:01,968 --> 00:25:03,236 We start with the eyes, 463 00:25:03,370 --> 00:25:05,705 and then we're going to move on and [stutters] 464 00:25:05,839 --> 00:25:07,741 improve limbs beyond nature, 465 00:25:08,641 --> 00:25:11,211 improve livers beyond nature, the heart beyond nature, 466 00:25:11,711 --> 00:25:15,648 and eventually pass the Rubicon to the brain. 467 00:25:16,316 --> 00:25:18,651 We're going to take all of our thoughts, 468 00:25:18,752 --> 00:25:20,587 all of our reasoning, all of our intelligence, 469 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:22,589 and we're going to put it into a more durable container. 470 00:25:22,722 --> 00:25:24,491 Could be cloud-based or silicon chip, 471 00:25:24,591 --> 00:25:25,759 something that's unbreakable, 472 00:25:25,925 --> 00:25:27,694 that can exist inside of a black hole on the, 473 00:25:27,827 --> 00:25:31,264 on the tip of a pin or in the spaces in between. 474 00:25:31,765 --> 00:25:33,330 And that... 475 00:25:33,266 --> 00:25:35,702 that is the end game for homo sapiens. 476 00:25:36,403 --> 00:25:41,241 And I think that this is just another version of us 477 00:25:41,675 --> 00:25:42,942 further down the road. 478 00:25:43,343 --> 00:25:44,778 Okay, but what about pain? 479 00:25:45,378 --> 00:25:46,880 Sorrow? Heartache? 480 00:25:47,614 --> 00:25:49,150 Profound loss? 481 00:25:49,916 --> 00:25:51,284 Regrets? 482 00:25:51,951 --> 00:25:53,190 What about 'em? 483 00:25:53,420 --> 00:25:55,121 Why-why would eliminating that be bad? 484 00:25:55,422 --> 00:25:57,570 Because they shape who we are as people, 485 00:25:57,190 --> 00:25:58,958 I think way more than pleasures do. 486 00:25:59,920 --> 00:26:03,290 I mean, so much of who I am and what I value came from, 487 00:26:03,930 --> 00:26:05,298 you know, painful experiences 488 00:26:05,465 --> 00:26:08,435 that happened in my life that I had to grow and learn from. 489 00:26:08,568 --> 00:26:09,769 And change. 490 00:26:10,570 --> 00:26:11,538 I get that, 491 00:26:11,638 --> 00:26:14,400 but human suffering as a whole, gone. 492 00:26:14,140 --> 00:26:15,575 - Can you see it? - Yes, I see that. 493 00:26:15,709 --> 00:26:17,610 But I also see a sterile intelligence 494 00:26:17,744 --> 00:26:19,479 on a path with no interruptions. 495 00:26:19,813 --> 00:26:23,450 No purpose except to spread, with no actual growth. 496 00:26:24,117 --> 00:26:25,919 And that, to me, is not evolution. 497 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:28,421 That is just an equation. 498 00:26:31,424 --> 00:26:34,794 And as awesome as your bionic eye sounds, Charlie, 499 00:26:35,295 --> 00:26:38,640 I actually know a lot of those patients have had them removed. 500 00:26:38,565 --> 00:26:39,399 Some. 501 00:26:39,499 --> 00:26:40,900 And some people are weird. 502 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:44,938 And some people value other things in scientific perfection. 503 00:26:45,710 --> 00:26:47,340 Some people accept the parts of them 504 00:26:47,474 --> 00:26:50,443 that other people might see as imperfect. 505 00:26:51,244 --> 00:26:52,445 Hmm. 506 00:26:53,580 --> 00:26:56,850 So, we are our flaws? 507 00:26:57,951 --> 00:26:59,452 And our mistakes. 508 00:27:03,823 --> 00:27:05,910 [interrogator] Dr. Kask, 509 00:27:05,859 --> 00:27:08,128 you saw how unbalanced Glassner was. 510 00:27:08,261 --> 00:27:10,497 You saw the threat he posed. 511 00:27:10,764 --> 00:27:12,332 Why did you choose to stay? 512 00:27:13,500 --> 00:27:14,667 To help. 513 00:27:16,770 --> 00:27:18,772 [Annika] First contact was possible. 514 00:27:20,874 --> 00:27:23,209 Would you leave it to an unbalanced nihilist 515 00:27:23,343 --> 00:27:24,944 to handle the introduction? 516 00:27:26,179 --> 00:27:27,547 [AI voice on computer] This thought experiment 517 00:27:27,714 --> 00:27:31,510 dictates that the female rabbits always give birth to pairs. 518 00:27:31,184 --> 00:27:34,387 And each pair consists of one male and one female. 519 00:27:34,521 --> 00:27:38,525 Rabbits can't reproduce until they are at least one month old. 520 00:27:38,658 --> 00:27:40,894 She says she's very bright. 521 00:27:41,895 --> 00:27:43,563 [AI voice on computer] At the end of the second month, 522 00:27:43,697 --> 00:27:45,565 - the female... - Lucky for her. 523 00:27:47,167 --> 00:27:48,835 [AI voice on computer] When month three rolls around, 524 00:27:48,968 --> 00:27:50,503 the original pair of rabbits 525 00:27:50,637 --> 00:27:53,600 produces yet another pair of newborns 526 00:27:53,139 --> 00:27:55,508 while their earlier offspring grow to adulthood. 527 00:27:55,642 --> 00:27:57,410 This leaves three pairs of rabbits. 528 00:27:57,544 --> 00:27:59,512 The order goes as follows: 529 00:27:59,646 --> 00:28:04,984 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21. 530 00:28:05,850 --> 00:28:10,757 [wondrous music] 531 00:28:12,525 --> 00:28:18,164 ♪ 532 00:28:22,569 --> 00:28:28,208 ♪ 533 00:28:37,584 --> 00:28:39,219 So, is Perry your husband? 534 00:28:39,586 --> 00:28:41,187 No, I'm a doctor. 535 00:28:41,287 --> 00:28:42,389 That's his daughter. 536 00:28:45,580 --> 00:28:46,393 How long have you been here? 537 00:28:46,626 --> 00:28:48,461 [Svea] I haven't left the island in three years, 538 00:28:48,595 --> 00:28:50,960 but it feels like 30. 539 00:28:53,330 --> 00:28:54,701 I don't know how you stay sane. 540 00:28:54,801 --> 00:28:56,436 What makes you think I have? 541 00:29:02,575 --> 00:29:03,910 Is he always so... 542 00:29:12,452 --> 00:29:14,821 [Svea] Look, I'm not making an excuse for him, 543 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:17,791 because there's-there's none. 544 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:22,595 He lost his wife and son four years ago, 545 00:29:22,729 --> 00:29:24,130 and it was bad. 546 00:29:28,134 --> 00:29:30,570 He never really accepted what happened. 547 00:29:31,271 --> 00:29:32,672 What did happen? 548 00:29:33,173 --> 00:29:34,407 Well, 549 00:29:35,475 --> 00:29:37,110 there was a house fire. 550 00:29:37,644 --> 00:29:41,147 [Svea] He was in his lab in an outbuilding 50 feet away, 551 00:29:41,281 --> 00:29:43,750 self medicated, probably drunk. 552 00:29:45,118 --> 00:29:48,121 Lucy? She was at a sleepover. 553 00:29:49,956 --> 00:29:51,624 But his wife and son... 554 00:29:52,525 --> 00:29:55,195 [computer voice] Welcome to Littlemouth's signal room. 555 00:29:55,328 --> 00:29:57,597 [Svea] Perry wasn't even aware there was a fire 556 00:29:57,697 --> 00:29:59,299 until the police woke him up. 557 00:30:02,669 --> 00:30:04,504 [Annika] Is he dangerous? 558 00:30:07,273 --> 00:30:09,542 [Svea] He knows humans matter in theory, 559 00:30:10,877 --> 00:30:12,779 but not in practice. 560 00:30:16,783 --> 00:30:18,385 Just ask Lucy. 561 00:30:29,696 --> 00:30:34,300 [pensive music] 562 00:30:35,802 --> 00:30:41,408 - [helicopter droning] - [pensive music continues] 563 00:30:47,681 --> 00:30:49,382 [Charlie] Thank you. 564 00:30:52,180 --> 00:30:55,922 Lucy, I want you to watch this. 565 00:30:56,189 --> 00:30:58,758 [Sam] This is a little piece of forbidden magic 566 00:30:58,892 --> 00:31:02,429 that I learned in the bazaars of Morocco 567 00:31:02,562 --> 00:31:07,867 from wise men who knew how to turn steel into thin air. 568 00:31:08,535 --> 00:31:11,504 So, I want you to count to three, 569 00:31:11,604 --> 00:31:13,707 then I want you to blow on the napkin. 570 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:17,277 Okay. One, two, three. 571 00:31:17,744 --> 00:31:19,112 [banging] 572 00:31:19,379 --> 00:31:20,280 [giggling] 573 00:31:20,413 --> 00:31:21,514 Wait, wait, wait. Let me see. 574 00:31:21,614 --> 00:31:22,749 How'd you do that? Wait. 575 00:31:22,882 --> 00:31:24,840 [Perry] Go to bed. 576 00:31:29,756 --> 00:31:32,580 - Here, let me help. - You got school in the morning. 577 00:31:32,192 --> 00:31:33,760 - Go to bed. - Thank you. 578 00:31:34,361 --> 00:31:35,729 Good night, sweetheart. 579 00:31:36,863 --> 00:31:37,931 Good night. 580 00:31:38,732 --> 00:31:39,966 Good night, Lucy. 581 00:31:44,537 --> 00:31:45,939 You didn't eat much. 582 00:31:48,408 --> 00:31:50,643 I-I've never had goat before. 583 00:31:51,778 --> 00:31:54,781 [Sam] Okay. First impressions? 584 00:31:55,715 --> 00:31:57,317 [Charlie] Yeah, right. 585 00:31:57,450 --> 00:32:01,321 Uh, well, I think it's completely legit. 586 00:32:01,454 --> 00:32:03,757 I mean, I've gone through six months of his logs, 587 00:32:03,890 --> 00:32:04,991 and every single time 588 00:32:05,125 --> 00:32:06,426 I tried to find some other explanation for it, 589 00:32:06,559 --> 00:32:07,927 he'd already disproved it. 590 00:32:08,610 --> 00:32:10,463 I mean, we're witnessing actual alien chatter. 591 00:32:10,597 --> 00:32:11,965 We need to report this. 592 00:32:12,298 --> 00:32:13,833 What? To who? 593 00:32:13,967 --> 00:32:15,802 The IAA has guidelines on post-detection. 594 00:32:15,935 --> 00:32:18,772 Do you want to have about a dozen space agencies 595 00:32:18,905 --> 00:32:20,774 with all the bureaucrats down here 596 00:32:20,907 --> 00:32:23,276 cluster******** this thing for the next decade? 597 00:32:23,410 --> 00:32:25,110 [Charlie] I mean, Sam, I totally get it, 598 00:32:25,145 --> 00:32:26,120 and you're not wrong. 599 00:32:26,146 --> 00:32:27,781 However, Annika has a point. 600 00:32:27,914 --> 00:32:29,649 I mean, we're not ******** around anymore. 601 00:32:29,783 --> 00:32:32,318 This is like a solid seven on the RIO scale. 602 00:32:32,452 --> 00:32:34,154 Oh, for Christ sakes, Charlie. 603 00:32:34,287 --> 00:32:36,456 - You built quantum satellites. - What? 604 00:32:36,589 --> 00:32:38,124 I thought you of all people 605 00:32:38,258 --> 00:32:39,793 would just want to run with this thing. 606 00:32:39,926 --> 00:32:40,760 I-I do. 607 00:32:40,860 --> 00:32:42,195 Look, we discovered it. 608 00:32:42,862 --> 00:32:44,970 It's ours. 609 00:32:44,197 --> 00:32:45,365 [Charlie] Come on, that's ****ed up. 610 00:32:45,498 --> 00:32:47,333 I mean, what if-if I discovered Pluto 611 00:32:47,467 --> 00:32:49,169 I can just screw with it any way I want to? 612 00:32:49,803 --> 00:32:51,671 Billionaires, they've taken over space exploration 613 00:32:51,805 --> 00:32:54,107 because they have more resources than entire nations. 614 00:32:54,207 --> 00:32:55,642 And I'm not exactly A-OK 615 00:32:55,775 --> 00:32:57,844 with some galactic **** measuring contest 616 00:32:57,977 --> 00:32:59,779 where a few billionaires get to determine 617 00:32:59,879 --> 00:33:01,448 the fate of all of humanity. 618 00:33:01,548 --> 00:33:04,818 Sam, listening is one thing, but talking back? 619 00:33:05,819 --> 00:33:07,821 The risks of that are mind-boggling. 620 00:33:08,822 --> 00:33:11,725 [Annika] We don't know if they're peaceful or hostile. 621 00:33:11,858 --> 00:33:12,859 And you're talking about 622 00:33:12,992 --> 00:33:15,562 sending a signal the way they do. 623 00:33:15,695 --> 00:33:19,666 They'll know we're here immediately from anywhere. 624 00:33:19,799 --> 00:33:22,235 You didn't say if you liked it. 625 00:33:25,500 --> 00:33:26,339 The goat. 626 00:33:29,420 --> 00:33:31,811 Yeah, uh, [clears throat] it was fine. 627 00:33:32,479 --> 00:33:35,482 Now, we've spent six months trying to decipher it 628 00:33:35,582 --> 00:33:38,840 and we still don't know if they talk in calculus 629 00:33:38,218 --> 00:33:41,421 or interstellar Sanskrit or in swirls of colour. 630 00:33:41,554 --> 00:33:42,756 Let me try. 631 00:33:42,889 --> 00:33:45,225 That kind of thing might take centuries to crack. 632 00:33:45,892 --> 00:33:47,930 Give me a week. 633 00:33:51,970 --> 00:33:52,699 A week, that's all I ask. 634 00:33:53,166 --> 00:33:55,201 [Perry] I hate goats. 635 00:33:58,672 --> 00:34:01,708 You know, they pair goats with, uh, thoroughbreds. 636 00:34:01,841 --> 00:34:04,344 They call them companion animals. 637 00:34:05,245 --> 00:34:07,380 You see, horses don't like to be left on their own. 638 00:34:07,514 --> 00:34:09,820 They're herd animals, and they, uh, 639 00:34:09,215 --> 00:34:10,383 well, they get very lonely. 640 00:34:10,517 --> 00:34:15,121 So the breeders will put a goat in the horse pen 641 00:34:15,255 --> 00:34:18,224 to keep it settled and manageable and docile. 642 00:34:18,358 --> 00:34:22,462 But the, uh, the entire dynamic is... 643 00:34:23,263 --> 00:34:24,631 is very unnatural. 644 00:34:24,798 --> 00:34:27,434 First, you've taken a horse out of its natural environment, 645 00:34:27,567 --> 00:34:29,602 and then you paper over this perversion 646 00:34:29,736 --> 00:34:31,971 by forcing a companion on it. 647 00:34:32,105 --> 00:34:33,440 But some horses 648 00:34:35,275 --> 00:34:36,376 are different. 649 00:34:36,476 --> 00:34:37,610 They prefer solitude, 650 00:34:37,744 --> 00:34:42,215 and they see the goat as an intruder. 651 00:34:43,416 --> 00:34:44,751 An invader. 652 00:34:45,552 --> 00:34:47,487 And so they'll do what any animal would do 653 00:34:47,620 --> 00:34:49,550 when it feels threatened. 654 00:34:49,956 --> 00:34:50,990 I mean, 655 00:34:53,590 --> 00:34:55,228 horses don't even eat meat. 656 00:34:55,995 --> 00:34:59,933 But they will chew clean through a goat's neck. 657 00:35:02,435 --> 00:35:03,603 Imagine that. 658 00:35:05,638 --> 00:35:07,273 And you know what the owner does? 659 00:35:09,676 --> 00:35:10,844 Just buy us another goat. 660 00:35:10,977 --> 00:35:12,278 All right, I think that's ******** enough. 661 00:35:12,412 --> 00:35:13,680 [Perry] We're not waiting! 662 00:35:15,849 --> 00:35:18,251 Not a week! Not a day! 663 00:35:18,585 --> 00:35:20,320 [Perry] You fix my hardware. 664 00:35:20,453 --> 00:35:22,522 You fix my software. 665 00:35:22,655 --> 00:35:25,158 My schedule, or I'm done! 666 00:35:30,630 --> 00:35:33,600 It's not the first time that he's threatened to take his ball 667 00:35:33,700 --> 00:35:34,701 and go home. 668 00:35:34,834 --> 00:35:36,202 He's an unstable man. 669 00:35:36,369 --> 00:35:38,471 Yeah, well, it's all we can do to keep him together with meds 670 00:35:38,605 --> 00:35:39,673 and duct tape. 671 00:35:42,420 --> 00:35:45,545 So I guess you realize the other reason you're both here. 672 00:35:46,112 --> 00:35:48,682 [Sam] The moment that Perry is not functional. 673 00:35:52,180 --> 00:35:53,520 [Charlie] We get it. 674 00:35:53,820 --> 00:35:55,221 We're the replacements. 675 00:36:00,326 --> 00:36:04,364 So I will get you your week, Annika. 676 00:36:05,331 --> 00:36:08,568 And I will smooth things over with Perry tomorrow. 677 00:36:09,350 --> 00:36:10,236 All right? 678 00:36:25,180 --> 00:36:30,190 [waves crashing] 679 00:36:30,323 --> 00:36:32,225 [Annika] I'm worried that Perry's right. 680 00:36:33,426 --> 00:36:36,529 I think the only thing that we can do is turn it on 681 00:36:37,630 --> 00:36:39,733 and let them know that we're listening and hope they help. 682 00:36:39,866 --> 00:36:42,836 And that is extremely dangerous. 683 00:36:45,271 --> 00:36:46,406 Maybe. 684 00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:48,341 But what would they want from us? 685 00:36:48,441 --> 00:36:49,876 Resources. 686 00:36:50,100 --> 00:36:52,780 [Charlie] Nope. This universe is crammed full of resources. 687 00:36:52,212 --> 00:36:54,881 And you and I both know that our little tiny speck here 688 00:36:55,150 --> 00:36:56,950 of the Milky Way is kind of a resource desert. 689 00:36:57,830 --> 00:36:58,184 Keep going. 690 00:36:58,284 --> 00:36:59,853 They could see us as a threat. 691 00:36:59,953 --> 00:37:01,221 No, no. 692 00:37:01,354 --> 00:37:03,560 Look, you got the tech that they got. 693 00:37:03,189 --> 00:37:05,792 You think they give a shit about our stupid iPhones 694 00:37:05,925 --> 00:37:07,527 or our dumb smart bombs? 695 00:37:07,627 --> 00:37:08,695 Come on. 696 00:37:08,795 --> 00:37:09,963 Food. 697 00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:11,197 [Charlie] Us? 698 00:37:13,533 --> 00:37:15,802 I wouldn't touch me with a 10 foot fork. 699 00:37:15,935 --> 00:37:17,237 [Annika chuckling] 700 00:37:20,106 --> 00:37:23,410 [Charlie] Whichever way I-I try to game this whole thing out, 701 00:37:25,111 --> 00:37:27,213 I can't find anything to be afraid of. 702 00:37:28,114 --> 00:37:29,616 I can think of so many. 703 00:37:30,417 --> 00:37:32,850 [Annika] Life is fragile. 704 00:37:33,119 --> 00:37:34,788 Fear keeps us safe. 705 00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:36,289 All right. 706 00:37:39,259 --> 00:37:42,796 [Charlie] Annika, our job is to know the unknown. 707 00:37:42,929 --> 00:37:44,464 But now you don't want to embrace it? 708 00:37:45,131 --> 00:37:46,900 You can't have it both ways. 709 00:37:49,669 --> 00:37:50,937 [interrogator] Dr. Kask, 710 00:37:51,710 --> 00:37:52,772 why didn't you stop Mr. Kaminsky 711 00:37:52,906 --> 00:37:55,308 from initializing Littlemouth that evening? 712 00:37:55,842 --> 00:37:57,410 [Annika] He never told me 713 00:37:57,510 --> 00:37:59,779 because he knew I'd try to stop him. 714 00:37:59,913 --> 00:38:01,448 [interrogator] He didn't consider the possibility 715 00:38:01,581 --> 00:38:03,817 that this alien intelligence might be hostile? 716 00:38:06,319 --> 00:38:09,522 [Annika] Charlie doesn't believe intelligence can be hostile. 717 00:38:12,250 --> 00:38:14,694 For him, intelligence doesn't waste. 718 00:38:16,363 --> 00:38:17,964 It learns. 719 00:38:23,103 --> 00:38:24,370 From mistakes. 720 00:38:24,170 --> 00:38:26,840 From mutations. 721 00:38:26,973 --> 00:38:29,342 From curious expressions in nature. 722 00:38:31,111 --> 00:38:32,545 What do they want? 723 00:38:34,381 --> 00:38:37,500 What do we want when we observe an ant colony 724 00:38:37,183 --> 00:38:38,985 halfway around the world? 725 00:38:42,288 --> 00:38:47,961 [suspenseful music] 726 00:38:50,330 --> 00:38:52,320 [Annika VO] So, Charlie was always going 727 00:38:52,165 --> 00:38:53,900 to unlock Littlemouth. 728 00:38:57,671 --> 00:38:59,500 Initialize. 729 00:38:59,139 --> 00:39:00,640 [computer voice] Initializing. 730 00:39:00,807 --> 00:39:02,375 [Annika VO] Because he believed no harm would come of it. 731 00:39:05,211 --> 00:39:07,714 [wondrous music] 732 00:39:07,847 --> 00:39:10,383 [computer voice] Initiation sequence successful. 733 00:39:12,886 --> 00:39:16,890 [interrogator] But you didn't believe that, did you, Doctor? 734 00:39:16,222 --> 00:39:21,861 [suspenseful music swells] 735 00:39:23,163 --> 00:39:24,998 [Charlie on speaker] Uh, hey, Perry? 736 00:39:26,199 --> 00:39:27,267 Perry? 737 00:39:28,100 --> 00:39:30,203 Well, uh, Perry, you should, uh... 738 00:39:31,705 --> 00:39:33,506 you should know that I-I fixed it. 739 00:39:34,341 --> 00:39:36,900 We can talk back now. 740 00:39:45,218 --> 00:39:48,455 [computer voice] Welcome to Littlemouth's signal room. 741 00:40:03,737 --> 00:40:05,739 Get down here. Ten minutes. 742 00:40:07,273 --> 00:40:08,775 [Perry] Lowest level. 743 00:40:13,446 --> 00:40:15,448 It's time to meet Littlemouth. 744 00:40:20,286 --> 00:40:21,488 [helicopter droning] 745 00:40:21,621 --> 00:40:23,223 [buzzing] 746 00:40:23,390 --> 00:40:28,661 [helicopter droning] 747 00:40:28,795 --> 00:40:31,164 [voicemail voice] You have reached the voicemail box of... 748 00:40:31,297 --> 00:40:32,499 [Sam on voicemail] Sam Houston. 749 00:40:32,632 --> 00:40:34,768 [voicemail voice] Please leave a message. [beep] 750 00:40:36,903 --> 00:40:38,338 He said he'd wait. 751 00:40:42,409 --> 00:40:44,100 [computer voice] Level C. 752 00:40:47,313 --> 00:40:48,682 Take your time? 753 00:40:52,619 --> 00:40:54,454 [Annika] Charlie tell me you didn't. 754 00:40:54,587 --> 00:41:00,260 [mysterious music] 755 00:41:03,463 --> 00:41:08,468 [Perry] At 1:24 AM Littlemouth turns on. 756 00:41:08,835 --> 00:41:11,137 Perry, I object to this on so many levels. 757 00:41:11,271 --> 00:41:13,707 [Perry] But you won't do anything about it, will you? 758 00:41:14,941 --> 00:41:18,478 So what you can do is check for data variations when we go live. 759 00:41:18,611 --> 00:41:19,946 Uh, what are you... 760 00:41:20,113 --> 00:41:21,147 what are you going to say? 761 00:41:21,815 --> 00:41:22,882 Hello. 762 00:41:24,951 --> 00:41:26,190 How? 763 00:41:31,624 --> 00:41:33,193 Of all the data points, 764 00:41:33,326 --> 00:41:37,397 one sequence repeated itself at a marginally greater rate. 765 00:41:37,630 --> 00:41:39,532 [Perry] Littlemouth will repeat that sequence 766 00:41:39,666 --> 00:41:43,360 and send it between here and the antenna. 767 00:41:44,304 --> 00:41:45,872 But you don't even know what that sequence means. 768 00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:47,340 [Perry] Well, does an infant have any idea 769 00:41:47,474 --> 00:41:50,343 what its first fumblings at language mean? No. 770 00:41:50,477 --> 00:41:52,245 But they simply mimic those more developed. 771 00:41:52,379 --> 00:41:53,747 - But the- - Does the parent have any idea 772 00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:54,881 what the child means? 773 00:41:55,150 --> 00:41:56,716 No, but they know what the child is saying. 774 00:41:57,817 --> 00:42:00,754 They're saying, "I'm alive and I'm listening." 775 00:42:04,324 --> 00:42:08,261 [Perry] Yet though we babble, we do so mathematically. 776 00:42:08,395 --> 00:42:11,664 We will use two universal constants. 777 00:42:11,831 --> 00:42:14,667 The speed of light will be the unit of measurement. 778 00:42:15,201 --> 00:42:16,202 And primes, 779 00:42:16,336 --> 00:42:18,380 we will repeat the code ten times. 780 00:42:18,171 --> 00:42:20,674 The first interval will be two times the speed of light. 781 00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:22,208 And the final interval, therefore, 782 00:42:22,342 --> 00:42:25,912 will be the tenth prime 29 times the speed of light. 783 00:42:27,547 --> 00:42:29,783 [Annika] You're saying a lot more than just hello. 784 00:42:29,916 --> 00:42:31,184 [Perry] Yes. 785 00:42:31,284 --> 00:42:33,553 We're saying, "We've heard you and we're logical." 786 00:42:34,754 --> 00:42:36,289 And, "We're here." 787 00:42:37,557 --> 00:42:38,892 Yes, that's the idea. 788 00:42:39,392 --> 00:42:40,927 [buzzing] 789 00:42:41,610 --> 00:42:43,396 [Perry] By the way, Sam won't stop it. 790 00:42:44,364 --> 00:42:45,432 There's no kill switch. 791 00:42:45,565 --> 00:42:47,267 And even if he could, he never would. 792 00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:51,137 He's blinded by hubris in one eye and glory in the other. 793 00:42:52,872 --> 00:42:55,442 Anything else from the little goats? 794 00:43:02,382 --> 00:43:03,550 Yeah. 795 00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:05,118 Let's do it. 796 00:43:05,552 --> 00:43:06,386 What? 797 00:43:06,553 --> 00:43:07,987 I'm sorry, I-I gotta see this. 798 00:43:10,457 --> 00:43:11,791 [Charlie] Perry, you know, you-you should, uh, 799 00:43:11,925 --> 00:43:12,992 you should say something. 800 00:43:13,126 --> 00:43:15,328 Like a quote for posterity or something. 801 00:43:15,462 --> 00:43:17,163 What, like, "One small step"? 802 00:43:17,297 --> 00:43:19,933 or, "I am become Death, destroyer of worlds"? 803 00:43:20,300 --> 00:43:21,568 I mean, something. 804 00:43:21,735 --> 00:43:23,236 Considering what's about to happen. It's... 805 00:43:23,403 --> 00:43:24,838 Nothing is about to happen. 806 00:43:24,971 --> 00:43:26,139 That's the entire point. 807 00:43:27,730 --> 00:43:28,942 [Perry] There's no war of the worlds. 808 00:43:30,910 --> 00:43:33,130 There's no grand enlightenment. 809 00:43:33,146 --> 00:43:35,181 [machine whirring] 810 00:43:35,315 --> 00:43:36,850 Just a thundering silence. 811 00:43:36,983 --> 00:43:39,519 [machine whirring] 812 00:43:39,652 --> 00:43:41,187 This is about insignificance. 813 00:43:41,321 --> 00:43:44,290 This is about our smallness laid bare. 814 00:43:44,424 --> 00:43:49,963 There'll be no response because we simply do not matter. 815 00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:52,799 Not our work, not our deeds. 816 00:43:52,932 --> 00:43:55,168 Or our mistakes. 817 00:43:55,301 --> 00:43:56,503 [machine whirring] 818 00:43:56,636 --> 00:43:58,400 So there's your ******** quote. 819 00:43:58,138 --> 00:43:59,439 [machine whirring] 820 00:43:59,606 --> 00:44:01,641 If it doesn't matter, why build this? 821 00:44:01,775 --> 00:44:04,277 [machine whirring] 822 00:44:04,444 --> 00:44:05,712 To prove it. 823 00:44:05,845 --> 00:44:08,114 [machine whirring swells] 824 00:44:08,281 --> 00:44:09,382 [countdown beeping] 825 00:44:09,516 --> 00:44:12,485 [loud buzzing] 826 00:44:16,156 --> 00:44:21,795 [suspenseful music] 827 00:44:23,630 --> 00:44:24,798 [machine whirring] 828 00:44:24,964 --> 00:44:26,232 Ta-da! 829 00:44:28,468 --> 00:44:29,302 There you go. 830 00:44:29,469 --> 00:44:32,572 Nothing. As predicted. Oof. 831 00:44:38,144 --> 00:44:40,146 [Sam] So, when's it happening? 832 00:44:40,313 --> 00:44:41,314 [Annika on phone] Five minutes ago. 833 00:44:41,481 --> 00:44:42,816 [Sam] Really? And? 834 00:44:42,982 --> 00:44:44,250 [Annika on phone] And I'm done! 835 00:44:44,384 --> 00:44:46,653 [Sam on phone] Whoa, Annika, uh, look, don't... 836 00:44:46,820 --> 00:44:48,880 [static buzzing] 837 00:44:50,657 --> 00:44:53,560 [loud clunking] 838 00:44:54,494 --> 00:44:55,562 Whoa. 839 00:44:56,996 --> 00:44:58,264 Whah? 840 00:44:59,566 --> 00:45:02,502 [siren wailing] 841 00:45:07,730 --> 00:45:08,608 Uh... 842 00:45:11,378 --> 00:45:14,800 [whirring] 843 00:45:14,214 --> 00:45:16,216 [computer voice] Backup power on. 844 00:45:25,525 --> 00:45:27,600 System offline. 845 00:45:27,193 --> 00:45:31,965 - [siren wailing] - [tense dramatic music] 846 00:45:32,980 --> 00:45:34,701 Uh, Perry, Perry, you should shut it off. 847 00:45:34,868 --> 00:45:36,269 Perry, shut-shut it off! 848 00:45:36,403 --> 00:45:37,437 - Shut it down! - Shh! 849 00:45:37,570 --> 00:45:42,475 [machine whirring loudly] 850 00:45:42,609 --> 00:45:48,248 [machine whirring down] 851 00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:56,322 [soft dramatic music] 852 00:46:01,928 --> 00:46:03,229 Annika, I got it. 853 00:46:03,596 --> 00:46:05,498 [Annika] Why'd you turn it on, Charlie? 854 00:46:05,632 --> 00:46:06,566 [Charlie] Just hold on a sec. 855 00:46:06,733 --> 00:46:08,468 [sensor-pad buzzing] 856 00:46:09,602 --> 00:46:11,171 You need to come see this. 857 00:46:14,740 --> 00:46:16,176 [News Anchor VO] Officials have yet to offer an explanation 858 00:46:16,309 --> 00:46:17,577 for the six seconds 859 00:46:17,677 --> 00:46:19,979 that interrupted almost all global electronic 860 00:46:20,113 --> 00:46:21,648 and satellite communication. 861 00:46:21,781 --> 00:46:25,180 There are unconfirmed reports of loss of life as hospitals, 862 00:46:25,151 --> 00:46:28,254 traffic signals and aircraft have lost power. 863 00:46:28,421 --> 00:46:29,989 [Retired General VO] Well, we can't rule out 864 00:46:30,123 --> 00:46:31,825 this is of military origin. 865 00:46:32,158 --> 00:46:34,127 A test of some kind, if you like. 866 00:46:34,260 --> 00:46:35,261 Yeah, the satellites are all down. 867 00:46:35,428 --> 00:46:37,330 These are just analog broadcasts. 868 00:46:38,698 --> 00:46:40,533 [NASA Engineer VO] We at NASA, we're at a loss. 869 00:46:40,667 --> 00:46:43,269 Whatever it is, it extends beyond the Earth's atmosphere 870 00:46:43,436 --> 00:46:46,339 because it's knocked out all high-orbit satellites. 871 00:46:46,673 --> 00:46:49,420 [News Reporter 1] Is this possibly extraterrestrial? 872 00:46:49,175 --> 00:46:50,610 [News Reporter 2] Power went out for eight minutes- 873 00:46:50,777 --> 00:46:52,120 This is Perry? 874 00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:54,681 Yeah. 875 00:46:55,849 --> 00:46:57,617 [News Reporter 1] The power went out for 8 minutes 876 00:46:57,784 --> 00:46:59,285 and 19.48 seconds. 877 00:46:59,452 --> 00:47:01,287 What that means exactly, we don't know at this time. 878 00:47:01,454 --> 00:47:03,490 Charlie, they talked back. 879 00:47:04,190 --> 00:47:05,291 What do you mean? 880 00:47:05,458 --> 00:47:07,327 The power goes out, and exactly 8 minutes, 881 00:47:07,460 --> 00:47:10,130 19.48 seconds later, it comes back on. 882 00:47:10,964 --> 00:47:12,565 [Annika] What do you think that means? 883 00:47:14,634 --> 00:47:15,468 Whoa. 884 00:47:15,635 --> 00:47:16,903 So what? 885 00:47:17,370 --> 00:47:18,638 That's the exact amount of time that it takes sunlight 886 00:47:18,805 --> 00:47:20,600 to get to Earth. 887 00:47:20,140 --> 00:47:22,142 They waited and they responded in a universal constant. 888 00:47:22,308 --> 00:47:23,476 We showed them we understand. 889 00:47:23,643 --> 00:47:24,811 Yep. The-the speed of light. 890 00:47:24,978 --> 00:47:26,312 They-they would know the sun is everything to us. 891 00:47:26,479 --> 00:47:28,548 No energy, no power, no biological life. 892 00:47:28,682 --> 00:47:29,683 [Svea] But what did they say? 893 00:47:29,816 --> 00:47:30,884 [Charlie] No idea. 894 00:47:31,170 --> 00:47:32,218 Bare minimum, they said that we hear you 895 00:47:32,352 --> 00:47:33,753 and we know where you are. 896 00:47:33,887 --> 00:47:35,822 [News Anchor VO] It's still too soon to predict 897 00:47:35,989 --> 00:47:38,158 how high the death toll may grow, 898 00:47:38,324 --> 00:47:39,859 but it most certainly will. 899 00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:42,495 [News Anchor 2] Officials are rightly worried about the size. 900 00:47:42,662 --> 00:47:45,498 and scale of this unprecedented event. 901 00:47:46,166 --> 00:47:47,667 [Annika] I'm gonna kill Littlemouth. 902 00:47:48,340 --> 00:47:49,102 [Charlie] Annika, that's like the opposite 903 00:47:49,235 --> 00:47:50,603 of building really cool shit. 904 00:47:50,737 --> 00:47:52,872 Well, then go ask Perry nicely not to turn it back on, Charlie. 905 00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:54,740 I think Perry has enough humanity 906 00:47:54,207 --> 00:47:55,542 - to see the-- - [Svea] Kill it. 907 00:47:57,243 --> 00:47:59,790 You don't bank on Perry's humanity. 908 00:48:04,170 --> 00:48:07,687 [Charlie] Wait. What if we need Littlemouth again? 909 00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:09,689 No, look, look, hear me out, okay? 910 00:48:09,856 --> 00:48:11,791 Whatever they did out there, that was not a death ray. 911 00:48:12,359 --> 00:48:14,961 They just turned the lights off for eight minutes to tell us 912 00:48:15,950 --> 00:48:16,229 they heard us. 913 00:48:16,763 --> 00:48:18,198 It's just too dangerous, Charlie. 914 00:48:18,365 --> 00:48:19,733 I don't think it's dangerous, Annika. 915 00:48:19,866 --> 00:48:21,201 [Annika] Yeah, but we are. 916 00:48:23,570 --> 00:48:25,205 We're not a species that does well 917 00:48:25,372 --> 00:48:26,639 with massive paradigm shifts. 918 00:48:26,773 --> 00:48:28,575 They don't need a death ray. They said, "Hi", and look, 919 00:48:28,708 --> 00:48:29,809 we're gonna do the rest. 920 00:48:29,943 --> 00:48:31,711 Yeah, but, but that's not their intentions. 921 00:48:31,878 --> 00:48:33,747 [Annika] We don't know what their intentions are. 922 00:48:35,281 --> 00:48:37,117 [ominous music] 923 00:48:45,792 --> 00:48:48,128 Annika, you can't let fear decide, okay? 924 00:48:49,896 --> 00:48:51,331 It's safer than hope. 925 00:48:59,639 --> 00:49:00,940 [Annika] I'm locked out. 926 00:49:02,776 --> 00:49:04,644 [Charlie] Is Perry using Littlemouth right now? 927 00:49:04,778 --> 00:49:06,790 No. 928 00:49:09,820 --> 00:49:10,517 He killed it himself. 929 00:49:12,585 --> 00:49:14,821 Let's meet at 1300 hours. 930 00:49:17,757 --> 00:49:19,693 Perhaps it's time to reassess. 931 00:49:23,463 --> 00:49:27,267 [mysterious music] 932 00:49:27,434 --> 00:49:28,835 [Annika] We opened a door. 933 00:49:30,837 --> 00:49:32,439 Littlemouth's signal. 934 00:49:35,342 --> 00:49:37,110 It told them we were here. 935 00:49:41,514 --> 00:49:44,117 Our place in the universe was about to change. 936 00:49:47,954 --> 00:49:49,622 Irreversibly. 937 00:49:52,625 --> 00:49:53,793 Forever. 938 00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:55,562 [Lucy] Oh! 939 00:49:55,695 --> 00:50:01,334 - [insect buzzing] - [soft dramatic music] 940 00:50:12,879 --> 00:50:18,518 [soft dramatic music continues] 941 00:50:20,200 --> 00:50:20,920 Come on. 942 00:50:21,540 --> 00:50:23,990 [wind gusting] 943 00:50:24,157 --> 00:50:27,761 [soft dramatic music continues] 944 00:50:27,894 --> 00:50:32,665 ♪ 945 00:50:38,838 --> 00:50:44,511 [Lucy screaming] 946 00:50:46,579 --> 00:50:49,115 - [wind gusting loudly] - [mysterious music] 947 00:50:49,249 --> 00:50:51,451 [Annika] Oh my God, Lucy! 948 00:50:51,584 --> 00:50:53,453 [Lucy crying] 949 00:50:53,586 --> 00:50:54,854 [Perry] Lucy! 950 00:50:56,256 --> 00:50:59,292 [Lucy screaming] 951 00:50:59,426 --> 00:51:00,460 Lucy! 952 00:51:00,593 --> 00:51:02,462 [Lucy crying] 953 00:51:02,595 --> 00:51:05,799 - [Lucy whimpering] - [soft dramatic music] 954 00:51:05,932 --> 00:51:07,233 Shh. 955 00:51:07,367 --> 00:51:13,390 [soft dramatic music] 956 00:51:14,741 --> 00:51:15,608 [Perry shushing] 957 00:51:15,742 --> 00:51:17,143 It's all right. 958 00:51:18,578 --> 00:51:23,883 [ominous music] 959 00:51:24,500 --> 00:51:26,453 [Perry] You're all right, you're all right. 960 00:51:26,586 --> 00:51:32,225 [ominous music swells] 961 00:51:45,772 --> 00:51:47,340 Should we be afraid? 962 00:51:53,446 --> 00:51:55,150 Describe an alien. 963 00:51:58,952 --> 00:52:01,210 I wouldn't know where to begin. 964 00:52:02,422 --> 00:52:04,858 Most people would describe something like they know 965 00:52:04,991 --> 00:52:06,526 here on Earth. 966 00:52:08,495 --> 00:52:11,297 Biped, number of eyes, some form of brain, 967 00:52:11,431 --> 00:52:14,100 or perhaps a variation of an insect or a squid, 968 00:52:14,267 --> 00:52:16,302 or a computerized, artificially intelligent, 969 00:52:16,436 --> 00:52:18,972 pompous ****in' robot. 970 00:52:19,105 --> 00:52:24,778 But almost always some sapiocentric extrapolation 971 00:52:24,944 --> 00:52:26,446 of what we know here on Earth. 972 00:52:26,613 --> 00:52:28,480 But the question is not, 973 00:52:29,150 --> 00:52:30,984 "What does an alien look like?" 974 00:52:35,210 --> 00:52:38,358 It's "What does alien intelligence look like?" 975 00:52:39,959 --> 00:52:44,564 [wondrous music] 976 00:52:44,698 --> 00:52:45,899 [car horns honking] 977 00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:51,671 [wondrous music swells] 978 00:52:53,390 --> 00:52:58,678 ♪ 979 00:52:59,813 --> 00:53:01,648 [NSA Sparrow] Hello, ma'am, we're with the NSA. 980 00:53:01,815 --> 00:53:02,816 Come in. 981 00:53:02,916 --> 00:53:04,150 [NSA Sparrow] Sam Houston here? 982 00:53:04,317 --> 00:53:05,819 [woman] Yes, sir. 983 00:53:05,985 --> 00:53:07,821 [Sam] Haven't had my coffee yet. 984 00:53:07,987 --> 00:53:09,356 Oh. I grabbed one on the way in. 985 00:53:09,489 --> 00:53:10,824 Mm-hmm. 986 00:53:10,990 --> 00:53:13,393 How is it, Sam, that nearly every company on the planet 987 00:53:13,526 --> 00:53:15,495 went dark for 8 minutes, 19 seconds, 988 00:53:15,662 --> 00:53:18,264 yet your operations didn't skip a beat? 989 00:53:18,898 --> 00:53:21,234 - Does the sun still work? - Hmm. 990 00:53:21,368 --> 00:53:22,435 [Sam] Then we still work. 991 00:53:22,569 --> 00:53:23,870 [NSA Ladrillo] Mr. Houston, good morning. 992 00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:26,539 Now, what you're about to see is classified. 993 00:53:26,673 --> 00:53:27,874 All right. 994 00:53:29,509 --> 00:53:31,511 [NSA Sparrow] That was taken two hours ago 995 00:53:31,678 --> 00:53:33,246 off the coast of Cuba. 996 00:53:34,848 --> 00:53:36,883 And the NSA thinks this has something to do 997 00:53:37,170 --> 00:53:38,180 with the power outage? 998 00:53:38,118 --> 00:53:39,519 Well, we don't know what to think. 999 00:53:39,853 --> 00:53:41,454 Most satellites are still down. 1000 00:53:41,588 --> 00:53:42,722 Everything we're getting 1001 00:53:42,856 --> 00:53:44,524 comes from one of our deep space satellites. 1002 00:53:48,940 --> 00:53:50,897 This anomaly seems to be radiating 1003 00:53:51,310 --> 00:53:52,866 from one central point, 1004 00:53:53,266 --> 00:53:56,536 right above a private island owned by you. 1005 00:53:57,404 --> 00:53:59,390 [NSA Ladrillo] And this anomaly, 1006 00:54:00,240 --> 00:54:01,541 it's growing. 1007 00:54:01,708 --> 00:54:02,909 [NSA Sparrow] Exponentially. 1008 00:54:03,430 --> 00:54:05,879 This morning, the anomaly was the size of a pinprick. 1009 00:54:06,460 --> 00:54:07,213 In two days, 1010 00:54:07,380 --> 00:54:09,382 it'll be visible from mainland Cuba. 1011 00:54:11,284 --> 00:54:12,485 In a week... 1012 00:54:12,619 --> 00:54:14,788 This is gonna cause mass panic. 1013 00:54:15,255 --> 00:54:17,570 What's on the island, Sam? 1014 00:54:20,930 --> 00:54:21,761 Solar observatory. 1015 00:54:24,764 --> 00:54:27,670 [sighing] 1016 00:54:29,302 --> 00:54:30,637 All right. 1017 00:54:32,105 --> 00:54:33,673 Where exactly are you going? 1018 00:54:35,141 --> 00:54:36,976 Well, you boys got me all riled up. 1019 00:54:37,110 --> 00:54:38,411 I'm gonna go take a gander. 1020 00:54:38,578 --> 00:54:42,248 You will go nowhere near whatever that is 1021 00:54:42,415 --> 00:54:43,650 without military escort. 1022 00:54:43,783 --> 00:54:45,785 Excuse me, am I being charged with something? 1023 00:54:48,254 --> 00:54:50,323 Then get the **** out of my way. 1024 00:54:53,159 --> 00:54:54,861 You're pushing your luck, Sam. 1025 00:54:54,994 --> 00:54:56,963 [Sam] Yeah, well, it served me well so far. 1026 00:54:58,598 --> 00:55:02,836 [Computer voice] [indistinct] leaving in five minutes. 1027 00:55:04,671 --> 00:55:10,310 [mysterious music] 1028 00:55:12,979 --> 00:55:14,470 Come on. 1029 00:55:17,951 --> 00:55:23,556 [ominous music] 1030 00:55:25,792 --> 00:55:31,398 [tense music] 1031 00:55:32,799 --> 00:55:38,405 ♪ 1032 00:55:42,842 --> 00:55:48,481 ♪ 1033 00:55:58,525 --> 00:56:04,164 [wind gusting] 1034 00:56:07,233 --> 00:56:12,872 [mysterious music] [wind gusting] 1035 00:56:14,240 --> 00:56:19,879 ♪ 1036 00:56:24,517 --> 00:56:26,553 What the hell, Charlie? 1037 00:56:26,686 --> 00:56:27,854 Haven't you done enough already? 1038 00:56:28,210 --> 00:56:29,456 Annika, I'm telling you, this thing's safe. 1039 00:56:29,589 --> 00:56:30,957 No, it's an alien phenomenon, 1040 00:56:31,910 --> 00:56:32,459 and you want to stick your hand in it? 1041 00:56:32,592 --> 00:56:34,561 Look, whatever this thing is, it's [stutters]- 1042 00:56:34,694 --> 00:56:36,960 It's right here, okay? 1043 00:56:36,229 --> 00:56:38,131 We're exposed to it already. There's nothing between us, 1044 00:56:38,264 --> 00:56:39,866 and it's, it's just air. Look. 1045 00:56:40,330 --> 00:56:41,368 Look at this. Read it. 1046 00:56:43,690 --> 00:56:45,372 It's a column of air surrounded by a vacuum. 1047 00:56:45,538 --> 00:56:48,208 You get past the first six inches and it's just air. 1048 00:57:00,120 --> 00:57:01,721 [ominous music] 1049 00:57:01,888 --> 00:57:03,323 What if it's not just air? 1050 00:57:04,224 --> 00:57:05,392 Hmm? 1051 00:57:05,558 --> 00:57:07,327 Speech is just air. 1052 00:57:07,460 --> 00:57:08,928 It's just how it's organized. 1053 00:57:09,620 --> 00:57:10,163 Yeah. 1054 00:57:10,964 --> 00:57:12,980 Wha... 1055 00:57:12,232 --> 00:57:13,566 What are you, what are you doing? 1056 00:57:15,969 --> 00:57:17,804 What if it's just another data set? 1057 00:57:19,572 --> 00:57:21,508 Yeah, but if it's just ****in' air, 1058 00:57:21,641 --> 00:57:23,910 then how do you collect that data? 1059 00:57:24,911 --> 00:57:26,790 Watch me. 1060 00:57:41,161 --> 00:57:42,495 Oh, great. 1061 00:57:53,106 --> 00:57:54,374 This will work. 1062 00:57:58,478 --> 00:57:59,946 Oh, shit, okay. 1063 00:58:05,852 --> 00:58:11,491 [ominous music] [wind gusting] 1064 00:58:12,859 --> 00:58:18,498 ♪ 1065 00:58:22,969 --> 00:58:28,575 ♪ 1066 00:58:32,379 --> 00:58:38,180 [wondrous music] 1067 00:58:39,386 --> 00:58:41,221 ♪ 1068 00:58:44,991 --> 00:58:47,927 [interrogator] You say they speak in thoughts and visions. 1069 00:58:48,610 --> 00:58:49,620 Why not speak plainly? 1070 00:58:49,195 --> 00:58:51,398 Why not tell us what's at stake? 1071 00:58:53,333 --> 00:58:56,269 Is it possible that a post-biological intelligence 1072 00:58:56,403 --> 00:58:58,538 could figure out a better way to communicate with us 1073 00:58:58,672 --> 00:59:00,106 than English? 1074 00:59:05,512 --> 00:59:06,946 [Perry] You can go now. 1075 00:59:08,682 --> 00:59:10,517 [Svea] Hasn't she been through enough for one day? 1076 00:59:10,684 --> 00:59:11,951 [Perry] You can go now. 1077 00:59:40,447 --> 00:59:41,781 "Chapter one: 1078 00:59:42,449 --> 00:59:44,217 "Peter Breaks Through." 1079 00:59:44,718 --> 00:59:47,454 "All children except one grow up. 1080 00:59:48,540 --> 00:59:50,223 They soon know that they will grow up. 1081 00:59:50,390 --> 00:59:52,892 And the way Wendy knew was this. 1082 00:59:53,760 --> 00:59:55,795 One day when she was two years old, 1083 00:59:55,929 --> 00:59:57,664 she was playing in a garden 1084 00:59:58,131 --> 01:00:02,902 and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. 1085 01:00:03,690 --> 01:00:06,720 I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, 1086 01:00:06,740 --> 01:00:10,910 for Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, 1087 01:00:11,411 --> 01:00:14,914 Oh, why can't you remain like this forever? 1088 01:00:18,985 --> 01:00:21,988 Wendy knew that she must grow up. 1089 01:00:22,489 --> 01:00:25,291 You always know after you are two. 1090 01:00:25,959 --> 01:00:28,128 [Perry] Two is the beginning of the end." 1091 01:00:31,464 --> 01:00:37,103 [soft dramatic music] 1092 01:00:38,471 --> 01:00:44,110 ♪ 1093 01:00:52,352 --> 01:00:56,389 [indistinct yelling] 1094 01:00:59,492 --> 01:01:00,894 [commanding officer on headset] Safeties on 1095 01:01:01,270 --> 01:01:04,230 unless a clear hostile act or intent presents itself. 1096 01:01:05,131 --> 01:01:08,368 We're going to breach, clear, and control. 1097 01:01:09,636 --> 01:01:11,638 Now there's no clear sat recon, 1098 01:01:12,639 --> 01:01:14,674 so we're going in blind here, folks. 1099 01:01:15,842 --> 01:01:17,744 [News Anchor VO] Activated emergency protocols, 1100 01:01:17,877 --> 01:01:20,513 including curfews and emergency powers. 1101 01:01:20,647 --> 01:01:23,416 Officials insist it's necessary to ensure the panic 1102 01:01:23,550 --> 01:01:26,186 that has ensued doesn't spin out of control. 1103 01:01:26,319 --> 01:01:28,880 [News Anchor 2 VO] In places where martial law 1104 01:01:28,221 --> 01:01:29,656 has yet to be declared-- 1105 01:01:29,823 --> 01:01:33,590 United States military is going to be here within hours, 1106 01:01:33,193 --> 01:01:35,562 knocking down doors. 1107 01:01:35,695 --> 01:01:37,330 So we need to have some answers. 1108 01:01:37,497 --> 01:01:39,165 All right, look, I have an actual theory. 1109 01:01:39,733 --> 01:01:41,340 Look, Sam. 1110 01:01:41,835 --> 01:01:43,236 So this pillar, right? 1111 01:01:43,370 --> 01:01:44,537 It's-it's-it's nothing. 1112 01:01:44,671 --> 01:01:47,107 It's just air and-and light. 1113 01:01:47,507 --> 01:01:49,376 [Charlie] Anything that passes through it, 1114 01:01:49,509 --> 01:01:50,744 it's benign. 1115 01:01:50,877 --> 01:01:53,780 Now what-what is the most commonly used Morse code signal? 1116 01:02:00,200 --> 01:02:01,354 A distress call. 1117 01:02:01,554 --> 01:02:04,570 Right. So, [clears throat] what if... 1118 01:02:04,190 --> 01:02:06,559 what if the message that we sent using Littlemouth, 1119 01:02:06,693 --> 01:02:08,962 the most commonly repeated sequence that we saw, 1120 01:02:09,950 --> 01:02:10,363 was actually an SOS? 1121 01:02:10,530 --> 01:02:13,990 Or it could mean absolutely nothing at all. 1122 01:02:13,233 --> 01:02:16,369 All I'm saying is that maybe this is their way 1123 01:02:16,536 --> 01:02:18,371 of trying to help us. 1124 01:02:18,938 --> 01:02:21,408 [Charlie] What if these anomalies are like a cloak? 1125 01:02:21,541 --> 01:02:23,476 I think they're trying to hide us from harm, 1126 01:02:23,610 --> 01:02:25,812 or-or communicate, or protect us, or-- 1127 01:02:25,945 --> 01:02:27,247 Protect us from what? 1128 01:02:28,615 --> 01:02:29,616 Sam, I don't know. 1129 01:02:32,118 --> 01:02:33,386 [interrogator] But did you know 1130 01:02:33,486 --> 01:02:35,321 what we might have needed protection from? 1131 01:02:36,289 --> 01:02:38,958 The universe is infinite. 1132 01:02:41,294 --> 01:02:43,630 And therefore full of infinite dangers. 1133 01:02:49,102 --> 01:02:50,570 [Perry] [muted] There's only one pillar. 1134 01:02:50,737 --> 01:02:52,439 They're replying to the source. 1135 01:02:52,572 --> 01:02:54,140 [soft suspenseful music] 1136 01:02:54,274 --> 01:02:55,942 It needs to breathe. 1137 01:02:56,976 --> 01:02:58,278 [Sam] If we don't figure this out, 1138 01:02:58,411 --> 01:03:00,347 they'll lock us out and then fumble this thing 1139 01:03:00,480 --> 01:03:01,848 while the whole world burns. 1140 01:03:01,981 --> 01:03:03,350 [deep breathing] 1141 01:03:03,483 --> 01:03:04,851 - [muted indistinct chattering] - [soft suspenseful music] 1142 01:03:04,984 --> 01:03:07,454 [Klara VO] It needs to breathe. It needs to breathe. 1143 01:03:07,587 --> 01:03:09,356 I can't breathe! I need air! 1144 01:03:11,124 --> 01:03:12,492 [woman on screen] [echoing] I need air! 1145 01:03:12,625 --> 01:03:15,261 [Klara VO] It needs to breathe. It needs to breathe. 1146 01:03:15,428 --> 01:03:17,964 - [soft suspenseful music] - [muted indistinct chattering] 1147 01:03:18,980 --> 01:03:21,267 [Sam] I cannot believe the brain power in this room 1148 01:03:21,434 --> 01:03:24,337 cannot come up with one workable idea. 1149 01:03:24,471 --> 01:03:25,972 They're going to lock us up. 1150 01:03:26,106 --> 01:03:28,808 [soft suspenseful music] 1151 01:03:28,942 --> 01:03:30,677 [Sam] Annika, where are you going? 1152 01:03:30,810 --> 01:03:36,449 [suspenseful music continues] 1153 01:03:37,817 --> 01:03:42,222 ♪ 1154 01:03:42,355 --> 01:03:45,658 [suspenseful music swells] 1155 01:03:45,792 --> 01:03:48,461 [Sam] Annika, you all right? 1156 01:03:52,632 --> 01:03:58,238 [wondrous music] 1157 01:03:58,371 --> 01:03:59,673 We can talk to them. 1158 01:04:01,975 --> 01:04:03,430 But how? 1159 01:04:03,176 --> 01:04:04,210 In there. 1160 01:04:05,145 --> 01:04:07,213 [Annika] Eight minutes and 19.43 seconds. 1161 01:04:07,347 --> 01:04:09,582 It was a scan. They waited. 1162 01:04:09,716 --> 01:04:11,584 They scanned us. What did they see? 1163 01:04:11,718 --> 01:04:13,153 What did they learn about us? 1164 01:04:14,187 --> 01:04:16,489 They saw a planet covered in air. 1165 01:04:17,557 --> 01:04:19,392 What does that tell them about us? 1166 01:04:20,493 --> 01:04:21,861 Well, um, that would tell them 1167 01:04:21,995 --> 01:04:24,364 that whatever biological life lives down there 1168 01:04:24,497 --> 01:04:25,999 survives completely surrounded by air. 1169 01:04:26,166 --> 01:04:27,934 So what's the safest way to engage with us? 1170 01:04:30,360 --> 01:04:31,400 Air. 1171 01:04:32,672 --> 01:04:35,108 We don't talk in language, we talk in air. 1172 01:04:35,241 --> 01:04:37,744 Molecules bent into shapes that mean something. 1173 01:04:38,345 --> 01:04:40,180 [Annika] So we go in, breathe in, 1174 01:04:40,347 --> 01:04:41,948 and have a conversation. 1175 01:04:42,882 --> 01:04:44,840 And this whole time 1176 01:04:44,217 --> 01:04:45,418 we've been so worried about trying to figure out 1177 01:04:45,552 --> 01:04:46,619 the best way to communicate with them, 1178 01:04:46,753 --> 01:04:47,854 we didn't think that maybe 1179 01:04:48,210 --> 01:04:49,556 this hyper-advanced intelligence 1180 01:04:49,689 --> 01:04:51,257 would find the best way to communicate with us. 1181 01:04:51,391 --> 01:04:52,292 We have to go in. 1182 01:04:52,425 --> 01:04:53,293 What, into that pillar? 1183 01:04:53,426 --> 01:04:54,694 - Yes. - Now, wait a minute. 1184 01:04:54,861 --> 01:04:57,564 Now that's a hell of a leap of faith, Annika. 1185 01:04:58,598 --> 01:05:00,867 This is not an invasion. 1186 01:05:02,769 --> 01:05:04,571 It's an invitation. 1187 01:05:08,775 --> 01:05:10,276 So who's going in? 1188 01:05:10,877 --> 01:05:13,460 I mean, you'll almost definitely suffocate. 1189 01:05:14,414 --> 01:05:17,250 Sam, you want to go cement your legacy? 1190 01:05:20,754 --> 01:05:23,223 Been there. Done that. No. 1191 01:05:31,464 --> 01:05:32,665 Yeah. Okay. 1192 01:05:32,799 --> 01:05:33,833 I'll do it. 1193 01:05:33,967 --> 01:05:38,905 [suspenseful music] 1194 01:05:39,720 --> 01:05:40,600 Whoa. 1195 01:05:40,140 --> 01:05:41,641 [indistinct radio chatter] 1196 01:05:41,775 --> 01:05:43,176 [tense dramatic music] 1197 01:05:43,309 --> 01:05:44,277 [helicopter whirring] 1198 01:05:44,411 --> 01:05:45,445 [soldier] Put your hands on your head. 1199 01:05:45,578 --> 01:05:47,247 Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. 1200 01:05:47,414 --> 01:05:49,115 Yeah. All right. 1201 01:05:49,249 --> 01:05:50,684 - [indistinct radio chatter] - [helicopter whirring] 1202 01:05:50,817 --> 01:05:53,953 [tense music swells] 1203 01:05:57,757 --> 01:05:59,526 How human of us to see this 1204 01:06:00,827 --> 01:06:02,128 and be afraid. 1205 01:06:04,798 --> 01:06:07,934 How human of us not to see the hope in it. 1206 01:06:12,172 --> 01:06:13,606 How human. 1207 01:06:18,445 --> 01:06:19,612 [Annika] How human. 1208 01:06:20,513 --> 01:06:26,152 [soft rhythmic whirring] 1209 01:06:34,861 --> 01:06:37,130 [NSA Sparrow] We're past the edge of the earth. 1210 01:06:37,297 --> 01:06:39,320 There is no protocol, 1211 01:06:39,165 --> 01:06:41,868 no policy for whatever this is. 1212 01:06:43,136 --> 01:06:45,338 No laws cover what you've done. 1213 01:06:46,539 --> 01:06:48,508 No putting the genie back in this bottle. 1214 01:06:48,641 --> 01:06:50,143 We can fix it. 1215 01:06:53,380 --> 01:06:57,384 Iran's mobilized their entire southern fleet in Bandar Abbas. 1216 01:06:57,517 --> 01:07:00,200 Shots are already fired in Kashmir. 1217 01:07:00,320 --> 01:07:03,223 Half of America is convinced it's the Rapture. 1218 01:07:03,356 --> 01:07:06,393 And I don't even want to begin to tell you what Russia's up to, 1219 01:07:06,526 --> 01:07:08,610 but, hint, it's ******** bad. 1220 01:07:08,194 --> 01:07:09,329 You can fix all that, Sam? 1221 01:07:09,896 --> 01:07:12,332 Humanity couldn't handle a global blackout. 1222 01:07:12,499 --> 01:07:14,367 What's going to happen when they see this anomaly 1223 01:07:14,501 --> 01:07:15,902 hanging over New York? 1224 01:07:16,236 --> 01:07:17,737 There is something that we can do. 1225 01:07:17,871 --> 01:07:19,706 Yeah, I heard it. 1226 01:07:19,839 --> 01:07:21,410 Air. Sure. 1227 01:07:21,174 --> 01:07:23,243 - But it's not my call. - Thank Christ. 1228 01:07:23,376 --> 01:07:24,911 New orders just came in. 1229 01:07:25,378 --> 01:07:26,746 Look, you should let me just try it. 1230 01:07:29,182 --> 01:07:30,250 Let me go in. 1231 01:07:33,530 --> 01:07:35,889 You will be confined to your quarters under armed guard 1232 01:07:36,222 --> 01:07:39,259 until arrangements can be made for secondary detainment. 1233 01:07:39,392 --> 01:07:41,695 You will be compelled to fully disclose anything 1234 01:07:41,861 --> 01:07:44,130 and everything you know about the activities on this island 1235 01:07:44,264 --> 01:07:45,532 when asked. 1236 01:07:49,703 --> 01:07:51,710 [Charlie on speaker] They don't trust me. 1237 01:07:51,237 --> 01:07:53,139 They know that I'd try to go in. 1238 01:07:57,277 --> 01:07:59,746 Annika, you have to find a way. 1239 01:08:02,549 --> 01:08:03,650 How? 1240 01:08:05,885 --> 01:08:06,820 I don't know. 1241 01:08:09,222 --> 01:08:10,390 [Annika] We don't even know 1242 01:08:10,557 --> 01:08:11,825 if going in there and talking to them 1243 01:08:11,958 --> 01:08:14,294 will stop the anomaly from growing. 1244 01:08:16,629 --> 01:08:18,640 We have no idea. 1245 01:08:18,431 --> 01:08:19,833 [Charlie on speaker] We have to try. 1246 01:08:20,633 --> 01:08:22,335 You have to try. 1247 01:08:23,970 --> 01:08:25,338 [Annika] Charlie, I can't. 1248 01:08:26,306 --> 01:08:27,474 I-I wouldn't. 1249 01:08:27,607 --> 01:08:28,842 There are just... 1250 01:08:28,975 --> 01:08:31,110 There is too many unknown factors. 1251 01:08:34,914 --> 01:08:36,950 I'm sorry. I'm just scared. 1252 01:08:40,787 --> 01:08:43,757 [Charlie on speaker] Annika, you can't let fear decide. 1253 01:08:56,200 --> 01:08:57,504 You didn't become a scientist 1254 01:08:57,637 --> 01:08:59,639 because you're afraid of the unknown. 1255 01:09:03,109 --> 01:09:04,644 You did it to learn. 1256 01:09:07,947 --> 01:09:09,215 To help people. 1257 01:09:11,518 --> 01:09:13,319 Think about saving one life. 1258 01:09:14,154 --> 01:09:17,223 [Annika crying] 1259 01:09:17,490 --> 01:09:18,658 I'll go check it out. 1260 01:09:18,792 --> 01:09:20,160 No! 1261 01:09:20,960 --> 01:09:22,228 You can't risk it. 1262 01:09:23,129 --> 01:09:24,230 Stay. 1263 01:09:24,798 --> 01:09:27,500 [Charlie on speaker] Now, think about saving them all. 1264 01:09:33,306 --> 01:09:35,375 [Annika gasps] 1265 01:09:35,508 --> 01:09:37,344 [Annika on speaker] Charlie, I have an idea. 1266 01:09:39,450 --> 01:09:42,480 [suspenseful music] 1267 01:09:42,182 --> 01:09:43,516 Of course. 1268 01:09:45,151 --> 01:09:46,419 [Charlie on speaker] They're not going to understand 1269 01:09:46,553 --> 01:09:49,989 a single word you say, so say a lot of them. 1270 01:09:50,857 --> 01:09:52,580 Wish me luck. 1271 01:09:52,192 --> 01:09:53,426 [Charlie on speaker] Good luck. 1272 01:09:53,560 --> 01:09:54,694 Yes. 1273 01:09:56,830 --> 01:09:57,997 Right away. 1274 01:10:04,300 --> 01:10:05,405 [knocking on door] 1275 01:10:05,538 --> 01:10:07,374 Dr. Kask. What's so urgent? 1276 01:10:07,507 --> 01:10:09,109 [Annika] An oversight. 1277 01:10:09,242 --> 01:10:11,611 Perry is still running an FTL signal 1278 01:10:11,745 --> 01:10:13,880 from the tech tent by the pillar. 1279 01:10:14,547 --> 01:10:16,683 It's a repeating quant signature that we picked out 1280 01:10:16,850 --> 01:10:17,851 when we originally-- 1281 01:10:18,180 --> 01:10:19,953 Okay, dumb it down, please. 1282 01:10:20,387 --> 01:10:22,689 I believe that it's contributing to the growth. 1283 01:10:25,258 --> 01:10:27,270 Okay, uh... 1284 01:10:27,861 --> 01:10:29,620 tell me how to shut it off. 1285 01:10:29,195 --> 01:10:31,698 Do any of your troops know how to run Python? 1286 01:10:31,865 --> 01:10:33,867 Or any other quant-friendly computing languages? 1287 01:10:34,340 --> 01:10:35,869 Our scientists won't be here for another two days, 1288 01:10:36,360 --> 01:10:37,937 so can you just tell me how to unplug it? 1289 01:10:38,710 --> 01:10:40,206 It's not like pulling a plug. It's a complicated system. 1290 01:10:40,373 --> 01:10:41,875 We have servers running on clouds-- 1291 01:10:42,420 --> 01:10:43,109 Okay, enough! I get it. 1292 01:10:43,243 --> 01:10:44,544 I just need five minutes. 1293 01:10:45,245 --> 01:10:46,646 [Annika] Five minutes. 1294 01:10:50,216 --> 01:10:51,418 Okay. 1295 01:10:53,530 --> 01:10:54,721 Try anything, someone gets shot. 1296 01:10:54,888 --> 01:10:57,570 It's not a threat. It's just where we're at. 1297 01:11:04,130 --> 01:11:09,769 [soft dramatic music] 1298 01:11:11,137 --> 01:11:14,908 ♪ 1299 01:11:15,750 --> 01:11:16,976 [NSA Ladrillo] Who else has seen the raw data, Sam? 1300 01:11:17,110 --> 01:11:18,311 Ellis. 1301 01:11:18,978 --> 01:11:20,647 Hauptmann at MIT. 1302 01:11:20,780 --> 01:11:21,781 [soldier on speaker] We've got bogeys 1303 01:11:21,915 --> 01:11:22,982 approaching the wind pillar. 1304 01:11:24,484 --> 01:11:26,190 Six o'clock. Over. 1305 01:11:26,152 --> 01:11:28,210 [NSA Ladrillo] Corporal, see what's going on out there. 1306 01:11:28,154 --> 01:11:29,956 Yes, sir. 1307 01:11:30,156 --> 01:11:35,795 [dramatic music continues] 1308 01:11:37,163 --> 01:11:42,802 ♪ 1309 01:11:47,173 --> 01:11:52,812 ♪ 1310 01:11:53,279 --> 01:11:55,148 [NSA Sparrow] Annika, get over here. 1311 01:11:56,116 --> 01:11:58,952 [Lucy] "And it isn't fair, I would say with my last breath. 1312 01:11:59,119 --> 01:12:01,454 It isn't fair', said Michael coldly. 1313 01:12:02,188 --> 01:12:04,691 Father is a cowardly custard. 1314 01:12:05,492 --> 01:12:07,794 So are you a cowardly custard?" 1315 01:12:08,661 --> 01:12:10,196 Dad, what's a custard? 1316 01:12:11,464 --> 01:12:12,532 Huh? 1317 01:12:13,466 --> 01:12:15,535 It's a pudding, a yellow pudding. 1318 01:12:15,668 --> 01:12:17,470 Wobbles and shakes. 1319 01:12:18,538 --> 01:12:19,806 [Perry] Like when someone's afraid. 1320 01:12:19,973 --> 01:12:21,174 Go ahead. 1321 01:12:24,210 --> 01:12:29,849 [soft dramatic music] 1322 01:12:31,217 --> 01:12:36,856 ♪ 1323 01:12:44,531 --> 01:12:45,732 Hey! 1324 01:12:45,865 --> 01:12:47,233 [Charlie] Hey. [banging] 1325 01:12:47,367 --> 01:12:48,368 Hey, come here! 1326 01:12:48,501 --> 01:12:50,360 Over here! [banging] 1327 01:12:50,837 --> 01:12:52,672 Hey, over here! 1328 01:12:53,600 --> 01:12:53,940 Hey! 1329 01:12:54,740 --> 01:12:55,408 [soldier] Stop her! 1330 01:12:55,542 --> 01:12:56,843 No! 1331 01:12:57,100 --> 01:13:01,114 [suspenseful music] 1332 01:13:01,247 --> 01:13:06,886 [low rhythmic humming] 1333 01:13:09,255 --> 01:13:11,758 [deep breathing] 1334 01:13:11,891 --> 01:13:13,426 [gunshots blasting] 1335 01:13:13,560 --> 01:13:14,928 [Charlie gasping] 1336 01:13:15,610 --> 01:13:17,464 [tense music] 1337 01:13:17,597 --> 01:13:20,367 [Annika exhaling] 1338 01:13:20,533 --> 01:13:24,104 [low rhythmic humming] 1339 01:13:28,108 --> 01:13:29,776 [Annika gasping] 1340 01:14:24,597 --> 01:14:25,699 Where am I? 1341 01:14:25,832 --> 01:14:30,136 [low rhythmic humming] 1342 01:14:35,275 --> 01:14:36,976 [Annika VO] Are you inside my head? 1343 01:14:37,110 --> 01:14:38,845 [deep inhaling] 1344 01:14:42,515 --> 01:14:44,617 [Klara VO] Through the air inside you now. 1345 01:14:47,187 --> 01:14:48,455 Klara? 1346 01:14:49,823 --> 01:14:51,324 No. 1347 01:14:52,692 --> 01:14:54,294 [Annika] How are you talking to me? 1348 01:14:55,662 --> 01:14:57,130 [Klara VO] Through memory. 1349 01:14:58,298 --> 01:14:59,566 Or thought. 1350 01:15:00,500 --> 01:15:02,350 Light. 1351 01:15:02,168 --> 01:15:03,336 Speech. 1352 01:15:04,370 --> 01:15:05,872 On a molecular level. 1353 01:15:07,307 --> 01:15:08,908 In any way you prefer. 1354 01:15:12,145 --> 01:15:13,413 Shall we stop? 1355 01:15:15,715 --> 01:15:16,850 No. 1356 01:15:16,983 --> 01:15:20,200 - [deep breathing] - [low rhythmic humming] 1357 01:15:24,240 --> 01:15:26,726 [wondrous music] 1358 01:15:26,860 --> 01:15:28,161 Who are you? 1359 01:15:31,197 --> 01:15:33,366 [Klara VO] No longer biological. 1360 01:15:34,868 --> 01:15:36,436 No longer machine. 1361 01:15:42,676 --> 01:15:44,411 [Annika VO] Like physics itself. 1362 01:15:47,747 --> 01:15:49,349 We don't create. 1363 01:15:50,160 --> 01:15:51,451 Or destroy. 1364 01:15:54,854 --> 01:15:56,289 We learn. 1365 01:15:59,859 --> 01:16:05,532 [tinkling music] 1366 01:16:06,866 --> 01:16:08,802 ♪ 1367 01:16:08,935 --> 01:16:10,537 [Annika VO] You reorganize. 1368 01:16:16,376 --> 01:16:18,780 Everything is transformed. 1369 01:16:25,452 --> 01:16:26,986 [Annika] Why are you here? 1370 01:16:36,396 --> 01:16:37,931 [Klara VO] You called us. 1371 01:16:40,300 --> 01:16:43,336 [loud low rhythmic humming] 1372 01:16:43,903 --> 01:16:45,605 [Klara VO] You asked for help. 1373 01:16:47,307 --> 01:16:48,775 [Annika VO] Charlie was right. 1374 01:16:49,476 --> 01:16:51,770 You were hiding us from... 1375 01:16:52,412 --> 01:16:53,513 What? 1376 01:16:54,414 --> 01:16:56,820 [Klara VO] From the universe. 1377 01:17:00,487 --> 01:17:02,422 You're far from alone. 1378 01:17:11,131 --> 01:17:12,699 [Annika VO] Are we in danger? 1379 01:17:15,301 --> 01:17:16,836 Yes. 1380 01:17:20,407 --> 01:17:22,750 [Klara] You revealed yourselves. 1381 01:17:22,242 --> 01:17:26,312 And those that reveal themselves cease to exist. 1382 01:17:28,348 --> 01:17:29,749 Others will come. 1383 01:17:31,418 --> 01:17:32,819 Many are watching 1384 01:17:34,421 --> 01:17:35,889 in silence. 1385 01:17:37,657 --> 01:17:38,858 Hidden. 1386 01:17:40,427 --> 01:17:41,695 For now. 1387 01:17:43,830 --> 01:17:46,666 Some civilizations hide in fear. 1388 01:17:47,534 --> 01:17:49,703 Others hunt out of fear. 1389 01:17:51,938 --> 01:17:53,673 [Annika VO] Who are you then? 1390 01:17:54,674 --> 01:17:55,909 Predator? 1391 01:17:56,943 --> 01:17:58,111 Prey? 1392 01:17:58,778 --> 01:18:00,413 [Klara VO] We do not hide. 1393 01:18:03,550 --> 01:18:04,851 Or hunt. 1394 01:18:10,790 --> 01:18:12,192 Not anymore. 1395 01:18:13,893 --> 01:18:15,228 We protect. 1396 01:18:16,796 --> 01:18:18,465 [deep breath] 1397 01:18:19,232 --> 01:18:20,633 [Klara VO] We learn. 1398 01:18:22,469 --> 01:18:23,703 We have evolved. 1399 01:18:26,639 --> 01:18:28,141 [Annika VO] Evolved. 1400 01:18:28,308 --> 01:18:30,410 Into the universe itself. 1401 01:18:32,212 --> 01:18:34,781 [Klara VO] One day, you may as well. 1402 01:18:37,417 --> 01:18:39,552 But that is your choice to make. 1403 01:18:42,422 --> 01:18:44,391 [deep breath] 1404 01:18:46,826 --> 01:18:47,961 Get back, get back! 1405 01:18:48,940 --> 01:18:49,462 Do not cross the perimeter! 1406 01:18:49,596 --> 01:18:53,800 [helicopter whirring] 1407 01:18:57,670 --> 01:18:59,973 [wondrous music] 1408 01:19:00,106 --> 01:19:01,741 [Klara VO] You can hide. 1409 01:19:05,245 --> 01:19:07,113 [Annika VO] I don't know if we're ready. 1410 01:19:10,830 --> 01:19:11,951 If I'm ready. 1411 01:19:17,900 --> 01:19:19,125 What's past the last planet? 1412 01:19:20,260 --> 01:19:21,661 Infinity. 1413 01:19:22,762 --> 01:19:24,664 [Annika VO] We'll never be the same again. 1414 01:19:26,966 --> 01:19:28,168 [muted laughing] 1415 01:19:28,301 --> 01:19:30,370 [Klara VO] You have to let go of what was. 1416 01:19:33,440 --> 01:19:36,776 To be ready for what is to come. 1417 01:19:36,876 --> 01:19:42,150 [wondrous music] 1418 01:19:44,551 --> 01:19:50,223 ♪ 1419 01:20:08,675 --> 01:20:14,314 [soft dramatic music] 1420 01:20:15,682 --> 01:20:19,850 ♪ 1421 01:20:19,252 --> 01:20:24,891 - [soft fluttering] - [dramatic music continues] 1422 01:20:31,765 --> 01:20:34,401 [deep inhaling] 1423 01:20:34,534 --> 01:20:40,173 [wondrous music] 1424 01:20:41,541 --> 01:20:47,180 ♪ 1425 01:20:53,787 --> 01:20:59,426 [low ominous rumbling] 1426 01:21:06,733 --> 01:21:12,372 - [wondrous music] - [low ominous rumbling] 1427 01:21:17,210 --> 01:21:22,816 - [soft dramatic music] - [low ominous rumbling] 1428 01:21:24,217 --> 01:21:29,823 ♪ 1429 01:21:37,831 --> 01:21:41,167 [soft rumbling] 1430 01:21:41,334 --> 01:21:46,973 [gentle dramatic music] 1431 01:21:52,120 --> 01:21:53,646 [interrogator VO] Dr. Kask. 1432 01:21:56,783 --> 01:21:58,318 What comes next? 1433 01:21:59,753 --> 01:22:01,154 Did they tell you? 1434 01:22:05,910 --> 01:22:07,961 They don't have a face we can confront. 1435 01:22:09,950 --> 01:22:11,531 They don't have a world we can destroy. 1436 01:22:13,533 --> 01:22:16,360 They expand their intelligence. 1437 01:22:18,304 --> 01:22:19,673 [Annika] But not us. 1438 01:22:23,810 --> 01:22:25,612 We're a flawed species. 1439 01:22:27,814 --> 01:22:29,315 Superstitious. 1440 01:22:33,553 --> 01:22:34,854 Self-destructive. 1441 01:22:39,826 --> 01:22:42,195 Safe from the universe. 1442 01:22:49,690 --> 01:22:50,837 But not ourselves. 1443 01:22:53,239 --> 01:22:56,409 [interrogator VO] Doctor, will they come back? 1444 01:22:59,846 --> 01:23:02,349 What makes you think they left? 1445 01:23:03,830 --> 01:23:08,755 [mysterious music swells] 1446 01:23:10,900 --> 01:23:12,926 ♪