[rumbling]
[sirens wailing in distance]
[alarm beeping]
Your family is irrelevant.
What did you just say?
They are irrelevant to this mission.
We are going to OriGen now.
We are behind schedule.
Your father can transport the pupa here.
I'll be back in three days.
To build the machine, I have to convert Newton's design,
a design requiring translation
from Anthean to human mathematics,
from Anthean to human component parts,
parts that would routinely be assembled by Anthean drones.
Humans are not as efficient.
They ask questions. They have needs.
None of which I am interested in.
That is why he sent me to you.
You do not have permission to go.
Don't ever say that to me again. Okay?
Back off my family.
There won't be any work if I have to leave them behind.
Your relationships are dead weight.
Well, your family was probably grateful for your attitude.
We have an agreement.
Three days.
[door closes]
[Hatch sighs] Wow.
Old wounds open like old melons.
Do they say that where you're from?
No.
[Hatch] Yeah, they don't say it here, either,
but it's fucking true.
Mr. Faraday, may I introduce you to your team--
Oh, this is... This is so cool. This is so--
You will execute only what I need,
when I need it. Nothing else.
Show me Newton's designs. Now.
We have the patents digitized in a centralized database--
I need the originals.
[woman] Ah. Well, um, all of Mr. Newton's original effects
were stored in a research space we no longer use.
Per Miss Flood's instructions...
[Faraday] Let's go.
[Yatzin]...we prepared a state-of-the-art lab for you
on the third floor of the main building.
We can bring you anything you need.
I'm sorry. Once you get to know him, he is a blast.
[operatic music playing]
[Zach] Um, I... I was thinking we could procure
an industrial gamma radiography machine--
Nothing with high frequency radiation enters this space.
No X-rays.
Of course not.
I shouldn't have said anything. I shouldn't have-- [grunts]
[door creaking]
[Newton murmuring]
[machine whirring]
[rumbling]
[creaking]
[Newton] I built a company.
They stole it from me.
You're gonna steal it back.
[sighs]
Okay. This is fucking adorable.
Where are we? Mission Control?
[Lisa] Used to be the power station
for the whole campus before they renovated.
The conduit to the warehouse still runs through here.
Thank you.
I spent the last two years of my life in basement purgatory.
Sorry, it's the only place we can tap into the feeds.
Don't be.
[sighs deeply]
Purgatory is where you get the best perspective.
[indistinct chatter]
Excuse me?
Two things.
Um, you asked us to build you a new lighting matrix.
But we can't confirm it's a lighting matrix
because you've given each of us a separate assignment
without revealing the goal.
I mean, how...[stammers]
How does that apply to the ultimate design?
We've all seen, uh, the video.
[chuckles] Can we see the cube?
It's capacitated. It was a prototype.
Were it not, I wouldn't need any of you.
[Zach chuckles] Of course. The other thing.
You've asked us to sink
a 30-foot hole in the middle of the--
I know what I asked! Why are you still here?
We need dynamite. For the bedrock.
Did you think I didn't know you'd need dynamite?
[Zach chuckles] No.
Just the... The team needs to know why, though.
We're... We're blowing a hole in the floor?
Liquid at a 30-foot depth will
balance the heavy water reactors.
That is your task.
My task is to transpose the information
so I can understand what to build. Blow the hole.
This is the house that Jack built
Do you remember that house?
Yes, I do I know you do now
This is the land that he worked by hand
This is the dream of an upright man
This is the room that he filled with love
-[Justin] Dad. Who did this? -Juzzie!
[Josiah] Who did what?
Packed our house like the Library of Congress.
[chuckles] I had an assistant.
[chuckles] The two of you did all this?
[Josiah] How many times did we move
across the United States when you were a child?
Your father knows how to pack.
Oh! You even alphabetized the vinyl.
[Josiah] Uh, I am not going to be in London
wondering where I put Pithecanthropus.
How's the lab?
I haven't been yet.
Okay.
Where is she?
Just follow the crayon.
[Justin] Hey, Molly-Mols.
I just didn't want to pack it yet.
[music box playing]
You know, I didn't necessarily want this for you.
I wanted you to feel rooted.
Like a tree?
[Justin] Yeah, like a tree.
Grandpa's job moved us around pretty much all the time.
I didn't like it.
But this is important, Molly.
Does it have something to do with the larva?
Yeah. Yeah, it does.
Is he your boyfriend?
[chuckles] No.
No, he's not.
Hey.
I know Portia's here...
I love you so much.
-I love you, too. -Oh, my gosh.
And your friends are here.
But you know what?
They got us a big apartment near the park
where there's a lot of kids.
[whispering] You should see the size of your room.
I don't need a bigger room.
Wow. You are one tough cookie.
So are you.
[chuckles]
You'll come back or I'll come visit, okay?
Thank you for being here for everything that ever mattered.
What? I... I am everything that matters.
I love you.
[Josiah] All right.
London, here we come.
[Portia] Bye!
Excuse me. The bathrooms are locked.
[Faraday] Yes.
The log says you used
the bathroom at 9:57 this morning.
-What log? -Is it your menses?
[scoffs] Did you just say "menses"?
At your age, you shouldn't still be having your menses.
Jos, I... [chuckles] I need you to listen.
May I ask you to repeat?
Who's in the mood for donuts?
This obsession with your menses
is draining your productivity. No, I will not repeat.
No. No. No, no, you can't-- [stammers] Uh...
So sorry. So, uh, women--
-[both] Women? -You are women.
Um, you know, why don't you guys take tomorrow off?
What, to call my lawyer?
No, you know, just so we can revisit our... Our revamped,
um, sensitivity initiative.
But... I'd say now,
isn't it about quitting time, anyway?
That's not necessary.
When the meshwork is finished, I'll break them into five groups
with alternating 11-minute sleep shifts.
[Jocelyn] You want us to sleep in 11-minute shifts?
That should be enough to stave off psychosis.
Shit. [chuckles]
[Hatch] No, no sleeping here. No cots.
They're not carnival workers,
they're people. They gotta go home.
-Home is illusory. -[Hatch] All right, stop.
Human beings have a very narrow window of interests.
We have... We have needs.
And they include nutrition and peeing.
And if those needs aren't met,
we'll get litigated out of existence.
Fine.
I'll incorporate full-circadian rhythm sleep-cycles.
Excellent. Thank you.
Sir? We finished.
The outer casing's done.
That's a nice lobster trap.
[Faraday] Once we have built the machine,
the cage will provide protection
from interference by electromagnetic fields.
[Hatch] So, like a shield?
[machine powering up]
[static crackling]
What the shit is this?
[Lisa] Some kind of interference.
[all cheering]
All right. Yeah. Well done, all.
All right. Yeah.
Good work, everybody.
He blocked us out.
[Lisa] I think it's an accidental--
It's not accidental. He built a...
A Faraday cage.
[shudders] Fix it.
Hey, you can all head home and sleep in your own beds.
What the hell is the matter with you?
The design is nonsensical.
Nonsensical how?
None of the diagrammatic pieces fit together.
It's like building a puzzle without knowing the final image.
I don't know what it's supposed to look like.
And the equation calls for tritium as a power source.
Newton had it in ample supply in 1986.
But as he would know,
it only carries a half-life of 12.7 years.
So, that supply is useless? [sighs]
Okay. Okay.
[stammers] Didn't you mention a date?
My entire species dies in 2.4 years.
Yours will follow in 2030.
-I'm aware. -This is the apex.
The last step.
Either I am incapable of understanding...
not ready to understand...
or it's nonsense.
Why would he--
For it to be nonsense, Newton...
would have to be insane.
[rumbling]
[dog barks in distance]
[Spencer over phone] It's gone inter-agency?
We needed to keep the circle small.
Yes, but the video isn't small.
It's up to 80 million hits.
Everyone's trying to figure out who he is.
We bought some time by saying he's a basement-dwelling hacker
who hit the London grid.
It'll hold for a while,
but the Director wants me on-site there.
[Spencer] Faraday couldn't sneeze without it being logged.
But if you come in here, the FBI is gonna wanna come in,
and then the NSA, and then the DSI.
And pretty soon it's gonna be a fucking Google tab.
-Spencer, you sound-- - I'm good, I'm good.
-I'm good, I promise. - Okay.
But if this one doesn't go right, I can't help you.
I got it.
Are you sampling that water for tritium concentrations?
Yes. Its half-life is short here.
Well, you better find some,
if you're trying to sequence
enough heavy water to create fusion.
There's barely enough of anything on this rock anymore.
You want a donut?
-I never said the word "fusion." -Didn't you?
I just thought, because that's
a fascinating scintillator you got there.
It's my own design.
But it must be malfunctioning.
The water's ambient tritium reading
is barely 2.3 parts per quintillion.
You expected more?
You won't find fallout in there, just standard groundwater.
Shouldn't your logical and calculatory abilities
have deteriorated by now?
Maybe I'm just reaching my half-life, you little pisher.
Why haven't they sent you to one of those old-people places?
If you knew half of what I know about half-lives,
you wouldn't need to ask that question,
and fuck you, by the way.
You can think of me as the institutional memory.
-Watt. -What?
-Watt is my name. -I don't know.
No, no, no. Watt, that is my name.
W-A-T-T. Like the power in the circuit.
And you must be the magic weirdo everyone's whispering about.
The one who will finally unlock
the innermost secrets of the tenth design.
Well, woo-dee-woo.
Woo-dee-woo.
We used to wrangle with it, back in Kentucky. With Mr. N.
Kentucky?
You worked under Thomas Newton?
Oh, so now I'm interesting?
Yes, I worked with that man.
He had the most surprising mind.
It was a pleasure. It was science.
I... I can't understand why he brought me...
[grunts]
[breathes deeply]
I can't read his design.
I could barely understand half of what he was on about.
And that was before my brain circuity was deteriorated.
That shouldn't apply to me.
It's hard living in the shadow of a genius,
but you're the man of the moment or the century.
You'll figure it out.
I mean, you really don't have a choice.
Hey there, sugar darling
Let me tell you something
Girl, I've been Trying to say, now
You look so sweet...
[Josiah] Hey-hey. Molly girl.
Hey, Molly-Mols.
So? What do you think?
[Josiah chuckles]
[Molly] It's like we live in a coffee commercial now.
Oh, really? Is it a good coffee commercial?
[cell phone buzzing]
[Josiah] How about some of this cassava, girl, hmm?
[Molly] Mmm-mmm.
-Maybe you'll like that, hmm? -[Molly] It looks gross.
[Hatch] Hey, are you back yet? Because we have a problem.
[indistinct chatter]
[drill whirring]
[indistinct conversation]
Stop! Freeze!
If there are cords around your feet,
step out of them slowly and then nobody move.
I'm Justin Falls, your project manager.
And whatever you've been told,
you're about to be untold.
It has the three Lego mini-figures I wanted.
You know,
Lego bricks are made so precisely
that even the new ones
fit into the old ones made in the '50s.
The '50s or the 1900s?
[chuckles]
I liked our old house
and our old neighborhood.
You can love them both, Molly-girl.
A new Lego fits into the old ones. Hmm?
[chuckles]
I don't know if I like your new black hair.
[echoing] Did you dye your old gray hair?
Grandpa?
[traffic zooming past]
Grandpa?
[engine revving]
Grandpa, what--
-[horns honking] -[tires screeching]
-[horn honking] -[men clamoring]
If you can't drive like a human being,
take your useless self off the road.
So little children and old folks can walk safely.
Yes! I'm shaking my fist at you!
Okay, wake him up and send him home,
and will you get these cots out of here, please?
Uh, why are the tables like that?
Oh, he made us get rid of all the chairs.
-Uh-huh. -No, it's cool.
He hasn't stopped for 30 hours.
So, who am I to ask for a chair?
Like, I hate myself. He's incredible.
Hey. Hey, you're being crazy at people.
They're gonna get hurt here
and you are responsible for that.
Hey.
Hello?
Hey.
Newton's design doesn't work.
Well, you'll make it work.
I mean, that's why you're here.
[Faraday] I'm telling you, I can't.
-Is that calling for tritium? -Yes.
The concentration in the water is far too low.
-The amount we would need-- -It's unstable.
And rare.
So, we have an unusable design and no fuel source.
There must be something I've missed.
There must be something I'm...
[stammers] I'm blind to.
Okay, all right.
You're frying your own circuits
and that makes everything more dangerous.
Besides, you need a shower.
You're stinky.
[sniffs]
Are you really not gonna even give me his fucking name?
What the hell do you think we do at the Washington Post?
I'll get it, Hatch. You know I will.
I know you will.
Look, how long have we known each other?
Sophomore year, Wesleyan.
By the way, I love you as a blonde.
So, how do you feel about being back in the yada-yada-yada?
I'm, uh, thrilled to be back at OriGen,
the company that my family has run for decades.
Thrilled to be developing our next step, which--
Ooh, uh, whoa, whoa.
Uh, can you confirm those next steps?
Are they related to the light show in London?
Some kind of energy source?
I can confirm that you're still
the Interruptress of all Interruptresses.
Although, it's usually when you're a little caffeinated.
-[laughs] -[distorted]
Really? [distorted]
You know, if I wasn't, uh...
[normal] ...already a cynic, I'd be insulted, Hatch.
Insulted by what?
Well, at the fact that you're recording
our fucking conversation.
I'll call you back.
Hey, Edie, what the fuck?
Really? You're bugging my office?
[Spencer slurps]
-You're bugging my office? -[Spencer] Hmm.
I fucking knew you weren't DOE. You're CIA.
Clever.
[Hatch] Here to make sure I'm not taking home office supplies?
No, I'm here to let your sister know
who she just made a deal with.
What Faraday really is. I know you weren't gonna tell her.
Did you tell her with any delicacy or sensi--
Delicacy? About the thing that's in the warehouse?
Or did you mean the arrangement that your daddy had with us.
'Cause, uh, come on, you guys had to know
that your dad's bill would come due eventually, right?
But you know what I don't understand, Hatch,
is why you don't care that it's not human.
That thing in the warehouse.
I mean, you can play savior all you want,
but that's not a human being.
Thomas Newton was not benevolent.
He didn't come here 45 years ago bearing gifts.
He came here with a genocidal...
-Bullshit. -A genocidal agenda.
What's genocidal about musical spheres
or self-developing film?
You have no idea the shit I've seen.
I have evidence. And now he has an accomplice.
So, when he sticks his head out to say, "Hello,"
I'm just gonna take him back into custody.
-It's a good thing. -And Faraday?
What's gonna happen to him?
I don't know.
But whatever he builds
is not gonna make it out to the world.
Then why did you let him build it?
Sorry. That question suggests that you have a moral compass.
[Spencer] God damn it. Your dad knew how to work with us.
He capitulated.
'Cause it just doesn't work any other way.
But I do understand why
he gave your sister the company now, though.
[sips] Oh, and FY to the I,
we're gonna be logging all of your keystrokes
as well as your entries and exits
from the building from now on.
And what I told you about Faraday's work
and Faraday's future is not to be shared with Miss Falls.
I don't even know if she's Team Human.
Are you?
You know, I'm not sure who you think you work for, Hatch,
but from now on, you need to understand...
[breathes deeply] It's fucking me.
You know, French fries don't count as a vegetable, Dad.
They're sweet potato fries.
Mm-hmm.
Perhaps Newton meant for me to calculate
using Anthean gravity parameters.
No work talk at dinner, please. Shut it down.
He's not a computer, Mom. He's a larva.
I'm gonna tell people
on my first day of London school that my name is Pupa.
You know, your new school has a purple soccer field.
-Just saying. -Okay.
[Faraday] Anthean gravity would mean
a .0032% difference in the tritium base amount.
You're using tritium?
Yeah.
Okay, missy. You're eating six beans.
-I will eat three beans. -Four.
Fine. But I don't know why you want me to.
'Cause you only ever cry when I grow any taller.
Why isn't the pupa following the manual?
The instructions are specific.
I wanna do mine.
-Who will that serve? -Hey.
Your version's awesome, baby. Don't listen to him, okay?
-I'll take ten of yours. -She's going to fail.
You can't fail at playing. It's fun always.
She has the instructions right in front of her.
Instructions are designed to be followed precisely.
You cannot simply impose your own vision.
You cannot decide for yourself.
It is chaotic, irresponsible and foolish.
Shut up, larva!
Don't talk to my girl like that!
Molly, baby, come back!
No more words from you.
I don't care where you're from. Out!
[powering up]
[rumbling]
[Josiah over radio] What the hell was that?
[Justin] I think he just had a tantrum.
You're still here.
I needed to let my mind out for a stroll.
I thought OriGen employees value their sleep schedule.
You've got that same look he used to get.
-Newton? -[Watt] At the lab in Kentucky,
he used to walk by the water
whenever we got close to the final design of a product.
And then...
He always got it right.
He'd just... get it right.
You like bourbon?
My experience with mood alteration
has been disappointing.
And hot. And loud.
Well, I'm doing that.
Feel free to tag along.
Chop, chop, wonder boy. I think I can help you.
[indistinct chatter]
Where are we going?
You're a drone, aren't you?
What?
Ta-da!
Oh, no. No, my bad.
Existential crises are very adolescent.
How do you know I'm having an existential crisis?
[chuckling] Because you look like you're about to cry.
Ah, nice hat.
I told you.
I knew Newton. [sniffles]
He told me what he was.
That's why I know what you are.
-Spaceman. -He told--
Mmm. You're safe.
[sniffles] I'd never tell.
[chuckling] And no one would ever believe me anyway.
But I promise you, my friend,
you can't be a drone and do what you need to do. [sniffles]
But I am a drone.
[knock on door]
[whispering] Every time I try to leave, she wakes up.
[whispering] She's a tiny tyrant.
[Justin] Mm-hmm.
[Josiah] Who knows she's got your attention now
because of guilt.
[softly] And not the regular guilt
that single working parents have dined on
like I did every night of your life.
[Justin sighs]
It's your first day back in the lab.
Of course you're going to feel Danny.
Yeah. That's the thing. [chuckles]
I thought I would, but I didn't feel him.
I'm sitting here
and despite the fact that she hates this place,
and a rude-ass alien just yelled at everyone,
and the lab today was a total shit-show,
and we have no fucking path forward--
Oh, Juzzie, please. Your language.
Sorry.
Despite all that,
I loved every second of it.
How dare you?
[chuckles]
That's your research from after the accident.
I brought it from Los Alamos.
Why?
Tritium is not going to happen.
You're going to need what's in there.
I never got to the end of what's in there.
Maybe you will.
It's all failing until the day that it isn't.
[kisses]
[Watt] I know, I know.
You're feeling frustrated.
But I know something you don't know about Anthea.
Or you do.
You just can't quite dredge it up from your preconsciousness.
It wasn't always adepts and drones.
The caste system.
So, listen, here's the story. Ready?
Two rocks flying through space.
Each going their own way. When...
Whammo! What are the odds?
42.6%.
You're where fun goes to die.
[chuckling]
I'm fun?
Okay, okay, okay. Go to 30,000 feet.
Earth and Anthea, destined, fated.
Brought together by the gods.
It's a love story.
Giant impact hypothesis. Heard of it?
When two proto-planets collide,
impacting the evolutionary trajectory of both.
A glancing blow, otherwise, none of us would be here.
It was more like
the first kiss at summer camp.
In the kiss, two things happened.
[gulps] One.
Earth absorbed some of Anthea.
That's why Earth's core is disproportionately big.
And two, since this is a love story.
Anthea spun away pregnant with a piece of Earth.
Slutty planet.
Now, some Antheans
cultivated that Earthly part of themselves,
and lo and behold, a new class was born.
They became the adepts.
And the rest of the population, well...
[chuckles] Just became you. It's funny, right?
No, this isn't funny at all.
Are you kidding?
It's a joke on the most cosmic of scales.
Adepts are the demigods they are
because they've unleashed their inner human.
Newton saw 30 years ago, from 30,000 feet.
You wanna unlock that design, then you need to do that, too.
'Cause he saw that it's just one big game
of Russian roulette. Load one. Spin. Click.
What is one big game of Russian roulette?
Unleashing your inner human.
Without it killing you.
[imitates gunshot]
-[thuds] -[Watt laughing]
[Watt] Shimmy shimmy ya Shimmy yam, shimmy yay
Gimme the mic So I can take it away
Ooh, baby, I like it raw
Yeah, baby, I like it raw
Oh, fuck.
Wow.
I'd almost be impressed
if I didn't know that you'd used
an extraterrestrial IKEA manual.
How did you know that?
Seeing shit, are we?
No.
You sound defensive.
Ask the question I know you're asking.
Newton wouldn't have summoned me if I were not capable.
But I am obviously not capable, so why did he summon me?
Except you don't know what you are anymore.
Wasn't so pretty for Mr. Newton, either.
When the memories started coming with feelings attached.
Memories
And the kiddies Are sleeping
-Stop! -No.
You're in this human body for a reason.
Come on. Thump, thump. Can you hear it?
There's a heart in there, Tin Man.
Get out of your ass and into your body.
Act, react.
Come on, intuit. Be in the moment.
The now.
No one can ever be who they were before. The N-O-W.
Midnight and their kiddies Are in the bathtub
Keep your savage, clumsy,
bestial Earth hands to yourself!
[Watt laughs] Ooh!
Anger.
[laughs]
-Why? -Why, what?
Newton. Humans. Why didn't he tell me?
But he did. Day one, planet Earth...
[both] "Humans. You have to let the virus in. Again."
He said, "Again."
You were too "drone" to hear it.
-Fuck off! -Good. [chuckles]
-What else is pissing you off? -Mission.
You're failing the mission.
'Cause those little fucking memories you're having...
You left your family behind.
Now that it's clear that Newton bet on the wrong drone,
it's starting to hit you that you'll never see them again.
You're down here failing on this slutty little planet
and your kids are up there dying.
You've been failing down here. Failing for what?
Maybe... Maybe they're already dead.
Maybe you left them behind to wither and die
so you could fly across the galaxy
just to fuck it all up.
Feel that shit.
[yells]
[laughing] Oh, yeah.
[grunts]
Come on, look at this. Come on, watch this.
[Lisa] What the fuck?
-Whee! Ooh, la, la. -Stop!
[grunts] Stop!
-Ooh, toys. -Stop!
Yummy-yummy-yum.
[Faraday] Stop it! Stop it!
[Watt chuckles] Ooh, I like...
-[grunts] No! No! No! -This is good.
Baby, I like it raw
Yeah, baby
-[yells] -[grunts]
[yells]
You're not real.
Only if you are.
How real are you?
[mumbling] Where are we going?
You're a drone, aren't you?
Ta-da!
No, no, you can't have an existential crisis...
That's a nice hat.
-[grunts] -[thuds]
Ooh, baby, I like it raw
Thirty thousand feet.
What did you see from 30,000 feet?
[rumbling]
[breathes heavily]
[exclaims]
[grunts]
[pants]
[Watt] Thirty thousand feet.
Took you long enough.
Careful.
The air is thinner up here.
[chuckles]
[laughs]
[laughing]
Hmm.
How did you fix it?
I didn't. He broke the cage.
Really? What happened?
[Lisa] When the screens came back on the damage was done.
He was talking to himself.
He solved it.
-He solved what? -The design.
He knows how to build it.
Sir, I think he might be losing his mind.
[sighs]
What the hell happened to you?
I figured it out.
[Justin] Who beat the shit out of you?
[Faraday] I was banging my head against a wall.
Wait. Are you making a joke right now?
Who are you?
I don't know.
But I figured out the design.
How to build it.
I know what it's supposed to look like now.
There are several steps, but we can get started.
Yeah, there's still the fuel problem.
Tritium is not gonna work.
Perhaps I can conjure another delusion.
So, I was banging my head
against a brick wall last night, too.
Somewhat more figuratively.
What is this?
I think
it's the reason you were sent to find me.
After the accident I was, uh,
researching an alternative, more stable fuel source.
I wrote an equation to use hydrogen-boron
in place of tritium.
But this equation, we'd have to find a way to simplify it.
Which I've never done,
because no computer can handle it.
So essentially,
the one thing I could never solve
is pretty much our only hope.
You imagined all this from nothing.
Yeah.
You are extraordinary.
Uh... What?
Where is your daughter?
[whirring]
That's impressive.
I like it.
[Faraday] Did you know
what you were going to build before you started?
Not really.
I kinda started and then figured it out.
What happened to your face?
Oh, I fell. I'm fine.
Where I'm from,
once you reach your first maturation cycle,
you either become an adept or a drone,
depending on the abilities
you've shown up until that point.
And after that, a drone
doesn't have to consider emotions.
There's an answer for everything.
It's very binary.
You are the opposite
of binary.
You have the potential for all things.
I'm sorry, Pupa.
Thank you.
[whirring]
She's not gonna be like other children, you know.
She is going to be different.
It'll be hard for her.