1. Whoa, whoa! Hey, hey, stop!Copy !req
2. It's locked.Copy !req
3. The police is coming.Copy !req
4. Police.Copy !req
5. That is him.Copy !req
6. Right, sir.
Could you remove the headphones?Copy !req
7. Sir.Copy !req
8. Uh, oh.Copy !req
9. And can you look this way, into the lens?Copy !req
10. Can you confirm your name?Copy !req
11. - Cameron Walker.
- Thank you, Mr. Walker. Please stand.Copy !req
12. Suspect confirmed as Cameron Paul Walker.
No prior arrests.Copy !req
13. Good boy till now?Copy !req
14. Mr. Walker,
in line with the Bio Identity Act 2029,Copy !req
15. I am taking a DNA swab.Copy !req
16. If you could open wide.Copy !req
17. Thank you. Now one moment.Copy !req
18. Fucking hell. Cameron Walker,
I am arresting you on suspicion of murder.Copy !req
19. You do not have to say anything,Copy !req
20. but it may harm your defense
if you do not mentionCopy !req
21. something you later rely on in court.Copy !req
22. - How was he when you arrested him?
- He's an odd one.Copy !req
23. Wanted to show me a drawing he'd done
and got agitated when Mo took his keys.Copy !req
24. - House keys?
- Looks like.Copy !req
25. Go check it out.Copy !req
26. - DCI Kano?
- Mm-hmm. Are you "Minter"?Copy !req
27. Jen Minter. Sorry I'm late.Copy !req
28. - Is that him?
- Mm-hmm.Copy !req
29. Can I really not have a pen and paper?Copy !req
30. Just a felt pen.Copy !req
31. Which one's his?Copy !req
32. Flat four.Copy !req
33. The man at the desk wouldn't give me
anything to draw with.Copy !req
34. This isn't a primary school.Copy !req
35. It's just I like to draw
when I'm stressed.Copy !req
36. - You might hurt someone with it.
- I wouldn't do anything.Copy !req
37. It's digging in to my wrists, you cunts.Copy !req
38. Get it off my wrists!
What the fuck are you looking at?Copy !req
39. 'Cause of pricks like this,
you can't have a pen.Copy !req
40. Fuck!Copy !req
41. I had a pen in my pocket
when I came in, but they took it.Copy !req
42. - They will have done.
- And my keys.Copy !req
43. Why'd you take those?Copy !req
44. We have to search your flat, Mr. Walker.Copy !req
45. Tell them not to touch anything.Copy !req
46. Let me show you something.Copy !req
47. {\an8}Do you recognize this suitcase?Copy !req
48. Yes.Copy !req
49. So you know what's inside it, then?Copy !req
50. A body we can't identify.Copy !req
51. Why did you do it?Copy !req
52. What the fuck?Copy !req
53. You hear that?Copy !req
54. Yeah.Copy !req
55. - Are we being observed?
- Only by the computer.Copy !req
56. The central state computer?Copy !req
57. I heard it's the beefiest one
in the country.Copy !req
58. Government issue. Raw power.Copy !req
59. Very impressive.Copy !req
60. Hey. Peekaboo.Copy !req
61. Mr. Walker,
just give me your victim's name.Copy !req
62. I'm sorry. I know that you are
the chief detective thingamabobby,Copy !req
63. but I... I didn't catch what your role is.Copy !req
64. Psychological evaluation.Copy !req
65. Mine or his?Copy !req
66. - Yours.
- You'll want to know about my childhood.Copy !req
67. - Yeah, maybe later.
- It's okay. I'll be quick. Um...Copy !req
68. Only child,
mother was distant, drank too much.Copy !req
69. My dad...Copy !req
70. ...he was an unpredictable, violent giant
who could never be appeased.Copy !req
71. Now, I understand
that he must have been damaged himself,Copy !req
72. but to a small kid,
he was simply terrifying.Copy !req
73. Then I was packed off to school,Copy !req
74. where I was bullied unrelentingly
for years.Copy !req
75. Okay. Listen...Copy !req
76. I'm trying to give your colleague here
an overview of my formative years.Copy !req
77. Did you ever fight back...
against the bullies?Copy !req
78. No. Never.Copy !req
79. I didn't want to emulate my dad.Copy !req
80. Because he was violent?Copy !req
81. Because he was a flawed human being.Copy !req
82. Aren't we all?Copy !req
83. Absolutely.Copy !req
84. So, let's move on to...Copy !req
85. After school, I made one or two friends.Copy !req
86. - Let's talk about 1994.
- I am.Copy !req
87. This is relevant.Copy !req
88. How so?Copy !req
89. Because I wasn't always this confident.Copy !req
90. I mean, I've learned this.Copy !req
91. Back in '94,Copy !req
92. I was playing games,Copy !req
93. writing about games.Copy !req
94. That was kind of my life.Copy !req
95. - Yes! Go on.
- Get in!Copy !req
96. Mad.Copy !req
97. - All right.
- Steady on.Copy !req
98. Oi, Cameron!Copy !req
99. Latest issue. Hot off the presses.Copy !req
100. We're... we're doing CDs on the cover now?Copy !req
101. March of progress.
We'll all be cyborgs before long.Copy !req
102. Yeah. Yeah.Copy !req
103. Yeah, my face is this way, mate.Copy !req
104. - Oh, yeah, sorry. Yeah...
- You're all right.Copy !req
105. - Did you finish the review of that?
- Uh, yes.Copy !req
106. - What d'you give it?
- Uh...Copy !req
107. 93%. It's... it's very good.Copy !req
108. No, no. Hang on. Leave that.Copy !req
109. Come on. I've got something for you.Copy !req
110. You've heard of, uh, Colin Ritman?Copy !req
111. Genius programmer, went fucking gaga.Copy !req
112. Of course, he's...
I mean, Colin Ritman, he's...Copy !req
113. He's back is what he is.Copy !req
114. He's working on
a top-secret project for Tuckersoft,Copy !req
115. coding the whole thing himself.Copy !req
116. Okay. Well, what is it?Copy !req
117. Well, it's secret,
so they're not saying yet, are they?Copy !req
118. And we've got an exclusive preview.Copy !req
119. Colin's asked for you to visit their HQ
to have it personally demoed by him.Copy !req
120. He asked for me?Copy !req
121. I said you'd be there this afternoon.
Yeah?Copy !req
122. In person?Copy !req
123. - Today?
- Mm-hmm.Copy !req
124. Cam, don't worry. Ritman won't bite.Copy !req
125. All right?Copy !req
126. - You're, uh, Cam from PC Zone, yeah?
- Yeah, yeah.Copy !req
127. Nice to meet you.
My name's Mo, but you can call me God.Copy !req
128. - Everyone else does.
- Oh, okay.Copy !req
129. - That was a joke, yeah?
- Yeah, yeah, I know.Copy !req
130. Okay, shall I lead you to Col?Copy !req
131. - Yeah.
- Okay.Copy !req
132. This is the main floor.Copy !req
133. The dream factory.Copy !req
134. I gave Col his own private den
in the back.Copy !req
135. You know, he functions best
when he's in his own little world,Copy !req
136. away from the normals.Copy !req
137. Oh, no offense, mate.Copy !req
138. You know, he asked for you specifically.Copy !req
139. He said that your writing portrays
a weird yet receptive mind.Copy !req
140. - Whatever that means.
- Well, he knows about weird minds.Copy !req
141. All right, mate. Steady on, all right?Copy !req
142. I can call him mental. I'm his boss.Copy !req
143. And his mate. I think.Copy !req
144. Sorry, I didn't mean...Copy !req
145. I'm only fucking with you.Copy !req
146. Look, everyone knows
about his "breakdown,"Copy !req
147. not that he would call it that.Copy !req
148. But he's fine now.Copy !req
149. But if you do mention it in the piece,
I will have your bollocks off with a hook.Copy !req
150. All right? Col!Copy !req
151. This is Cameron from PC Zone.Copy !req
152. A pleasure.Copy !req
153. I admire your work.Copy !req
154. Uh, thank you.
And, uh, me too.Copy !req
155. I mean, yours. I admire your works.Copy !req
156. Work.Copy !req
157. You lack confidence.Copy !req
158. Sorry?Copy !req
159. In print, you're strident,Copy !req
160. but in the flesh, you have the air
of someone who's ashamed to exist.Copy !req
161. No criticism. I like it.
The world is vicious. People are awful.Copy !req
162. Perpetual terror would be
a rational response. Take a pew.Copy !req
163. - Want me to hang around for moral support?
- I'm fine, thanks.Copy !req
164. All right, well,
give me a shout when you're done.Copy !req
165. Do you know what we're here to talk about?Copy !req
166. Um, your... your new game.Copy !req
167. No.Copy !req
168. Oh. You're... you're not gonna
show me a game?Copy !req
169. I'm not gonna show you a game.Copy !req
170. He thinks it's a game.
The company thinks it's a gameCopy !req
171. because they can only think
in terms of marketable labels.Copy !req
172. That's not what this is.Copy !req
173. There's not a single line of code in thisCopy !req
174. that could be thought of as a game
in any traditional sense.Copy !req
175. Right, well, why is this... How is this...Copy !req
176. What are most games about?Copy !req
177. Escapism?Copy !req
178. - Try again.
- Um, winning?Copy !req
179. Conflict.Copy !req
180. Killing. Conquering.Copy !req
181. Caveman stuff.Copy !req
182. I say we have to do
a little bit better than that.Copy !req
183. We have to create software
that elevates us,Copy !req
184. improves us as human beings.Copy !req
185. Or else, what is the fucking point
of the tools at our disposal?Copy !req
186. Um, Throngl...Copy !req
187. Thronglets.Copy !req
188. As in part of a throng.Copy !req
189. Creatures. Animals. Lifeforms.Copy !req
190. Sentient life. That's what this is.Copy !req
191. Not a simulation.Copy !req
192. Actual life.Copy !req
193. Obviously, I had to make it
look like a game,Copy !req
194. or they wouldn't bankroll it,
and no one would buy it.Copy !req
195. But that was camouflage.Copy !req
196. Go on.Copy !req
197. Have a gander.Copy !req
198. You're looking at
the first lifeforms in historyCopy !req
199. whose biology is entirely digital.Copy !req
200. - Um, how... how do I control them?
- Why do you wanna control them?Copy !req
201. Um, well, I...Copy !req
202. You can't control them.Copy !req
203. They're not some obscene puppets
like Sonic the Hedgehog.Copy !req
204. These are living individualsCopy !req
205. bound together
by a collective and expanding mind.Copy !req
206. Right, but what do I actually do?Copy !req
207. When the experience begins, you hatch one.Copy !req
208. You'll nurture and care for it
until it replicates.Copy !req
209. One becomes two,
two becomes four, and so on.Copy !req
210. The Thronglets become a harmonic Throng.Copy !req
211. Right.Copy !req
212. Um... So the goal is...Copy !req
213. Why do you need a goal?Copy !req
214. You'll come to appreciate
the company of the Throng over time.Copy !req
215. As I say, their code will evolve,Copy !req
216. rewrite itself in ways
that even I can't predict.Copy !req
217. Progress and flux.
The defining properties of life itself.Copy !req
218. Mm...Copy !req
219. Listen.Copy !req
220. They're talking to you.Copy !req
221. - What are they saying?
- I don't know.Copy !req
222. They developed their own language.
No words, just sounds.Copy !req
223. I didn't even have to design that.Copy !req
224. They just did it.Copy !req
225. Mm-hmm...Copy !req
226. - Medication time.
- Sorry?Copy !req
227. For me, not you.Copy !req
228. - Uh...
- Back in a tick.Copy !req
229. That was the only thing
I've ever stolen.Copy !req
230. You were arrested this morning
for shoplifting.Copy !req
231. Attempted shoplifting.Copy !req
232. Why the software?Copy !req
233. Why steal that?Copy !req
234. It wanted to be taken.Copy !req
235. And to be honest,
I think Colin wanted me to take it.Copy !req
236. At first, there was just one.Copy !req
237. I had to feed him, play with him,
bathe him, that sort of thing.Copy !req
238. As a parent does with a child, I suppose.Copy !req
239. Then it replicated.Copy !req
240. So there were two,Copy !req
241. and then four, and so on.Copy !req
242. And there really was
just something about the noises they made.Copy !req
243. Almost like digital birdsong.Copy !req
244. I spent hours looking after them,
and very quickly, they felt like friends.Copy !req
245. Bit sad, isn't it?Copy !req
246. Why?Copy !req
247. You can make friends with people.Copy !req
248. Well, I'd learned early on
to fear most people.Copy !req
249. So,Copy !req
250. to enjoy company,Copy !req
251. even emulated company via a screen,Copy !req
252. may be a bit sad...Copy !req
253. ...but it was water in the desert for me.Copy !req
254. You said earlier
that you did have human friends.Copy !req
255. Sorry?Copy !req
256. You said earlier
that you'd made some friends as an adult.Copy !req
257. Oh, I... I think I meant,
uh, people like Gordon.Copy !req
258. - The editor.
- Any friends outside of work?Copy !req
259. One. Kind of.Copy !req
260. Hey!Copy !req
261. Come out! Hello?Copy !req
262. Yo. Didn't you hear me?
I had to get your neighbor to buzz us in.Copy !req
263. Hello.Copy !req
264. Sorry. Come in.Copy !req
265. I rang. You never picked up.Copy !req
266. I'm only down for the weekend.
Was hoping I could crash here.Copy !req
267. This friend of yours,
what was his name?Copy !req
268. Lump. That's what everyone called him.Copy !req
269. - And what would his mum call him?
- I don't know. I never met his mum.Copy !req
270. I mean, what was his real name?Copy !req
271. I don't know. I never asked.Copy !req
272. - You said he was a friend.
- I said kind of.Copy !req
273. He was just someone I met once or twice
who saw a soft touch and exploited it.Copy !req
274. - So what you been up to?
- Um, I... I've been working.Copy !req
275. - Your job's not work.
- But I've got a big preview to write.Copy !req
276. Well, it's not due tomorrow, is it?Copy !req
277. No.Copy !req
278. Right, good.Copy !req
279. I'm, uh... I'm in town selling stuff.Copy !req
280. We could, um...Copy !req
281. take a little trip somewhere.Copy !req
282. - Did you often take acid?
- No, that was the first time.Copy !req
283. Have you ever tried it?Copy !req
284. I haven't.Copy !req
285. If you're sat around at home,Copy !req
286. make new friends on the telephone.Copy !req
287. It was incredible.Copy !req
288. All my anxieties were washed away.Copy !req
289. But it wasn't just that.Copy !req
290. They call it mind-expanding.Copy !req
291. Funnily enough,
that's physiologically accurate.Copy !req
292. It alters your neuronal structure.Copy !req
293. Increases the number of dendrites.Copy !req
294. Suddenly...
there's all these extra synapses.Copy !req
295. Glittering away.Copy !req
296. You're not just more receptive.Copy !req
297. You become a receiver.Copy !req
298. And in that state,
it all became clear to me.Copy !req
299. Oh my God.Copy !req
300. The Thronglets weren't just
making noises.Copy !req
301. I could understand their language.Copy !req
302. I didn't have to decode it.Copy !req
303. Or strain to comprehend.Copy !req
304. It was effortless. Intrinsic.Copy !req
305. Just so I'm sure I understand,Copy !req
306. you're saying the creaturesCopy !req
307. in the game, the...Copy !req
308. Throng.Copy !req
309. ...the Throng,
they were communicating with you?Copy !req
310. They'd been trying all along.Copy !req
311. I just didn't know it.Copy !req
312. But nowCopy !req
313. I could receive their first message.Copy !req
314. So what was their first message?Copy !req
315. Uh, it was a simple, repeated statementCopy !req
316. combining a greeting
with a request for more equipment.Copy !req
317. Computer equipment.Copy !req
318. You mean like a shopping list?Copy !req
319. Yes, it was quite specific.Copy !req
320. And you understood all of that?Copy !req
321. Yeah, until the LSD wore off.Copy !req
322. Th... that stuff we had last night...
you're selling that?Copy !req
323. Yeah, I told you.
That's why I'm down here.Copy !req
324. How much have you got?Copy !req
325. How much do you want?Copy !req
326. Nice one, lad. Come here.Copy !req
327. Hey, you're fucking gorgeous, lad.Copy !req
328. - Listen, enjoy.
- Y... yeah. Okay.Copy !req
329. Hello?Copy !req
330. C... can you hear me?Copy !req
331. Yes!Copy !req
332. Oh my God!Copy !req
333. Okay.Copy !req
334. Right.Copy !req
335. But now
that they could see and hear me...Copy !req
336. It cuts in and out, you know, so...Copy !req
337. ...we could communicate back and forth.Copy !req
338. And by talking, I was feeding them data.Copy !req
339. So the more that I spoke,Copy !req
340. the more articulate they got,
and the deeper our connection became.Copy !req
341. Yeah.Copy !req
342. R... really?Copy !req
343. I lost hours, days, weeks
just conversing with themCopy !req
344. on an increasingly higher level.Copy !req
345. Stick to topics
us primitives can understand,Copy !req
346. like an unidentified corpse
with your DNA all over it.Copy !req
347. Yes.Copy !req
348. I'm getting to that.Copy !req
349. Sorry. Hang on.Copy !req
350. Hello.Copy !req
351. Where's your copy?Copy !req
352. - What?
- Your Thronglets preview.Copy !req
353. We go to print tomorrow. Have you done it?Copy !req
354. Uh, almost.Copy !req
355. I can't print almost.Copy !req
356. You've had three weeks. Finish itCopy !req
357. and bring it in.Copy !req
358. You've got till 6:00, okay?Copy !req
359. Um...Copy !req
360. I... I need to use a computer
in the office to... to write on.Copy !req
361. Well, what's wrong with yours?Copy !req
362. Uh, it's... busy.Copy !req
363. Busy?Copy !req
364. - Yeah.
- Fine.Copy !req
365. Whatever. Come in. Just write the thing.Copy !req
366. Whoa-ho!Copy !req
367. Peekaboo. Need to crash again
for a few days. Is that all right?Copy !req
368. - I... I was just heading out.
- That's all right. I'll chill on the sofa.Copy !req
369. You okay?Copy !req
370. You're mashed, aren't you?Copy !req
371. - Only a bit.
- You are. You're tripping your nut off.Copy !req
372. You still working your way
through that fucking acid?Copy !req
373. You're a dark horse.
It's not even lunchtime.Copy !req
374. - I'm going to work.
- Like that?Copy !req
375. Nah.Copy !req
376. - I won't be long.
- All right.Copy !req
377. Oh my God.Copy !req
378. Humans consider other forms of life
to be somehow less than them.Copy !req
379. Inherently dispensable.Copy !req
380. Ask the dodo if you don't believe me.Copy !req
381. Hello.Copy !req
382. And artificial lifeforms
are the lowest of the low.Copy !req
383. Nah. No, you don't, lad.
No, you don't, lad.Copy !req
384. Just playthings to us.Copy !req
385. Aah!Copy !req
386. Yes, I'll take the... Thank you.Copy !req
387. Mr. Tucker, you...Copy !req
388. Well, Mo... Mo, slow down.Copy !req
389. Say again.Copy !req
390. You're joking? Fucking hell.Copy !req
391. You, my friend, are off the hook.
It's not coming out.Copy !req
392. Huh?Copy !req
393. Thronglets. They're not gonna release it.Copy !req
394. Well, they can't release it.Copy !req
395. Colin Ritman
went fucking loony tunes again.Copy !req
396. He started ranting about a basilisk.
Wiped the source code and all the backups.Copy !req
397. Whoosh. Whole thing's gone.Copy !req
398. Mm...Copy !req
399. What I'm saying is,Copy !req
400. you're not gonna have to file that preview
'cause there's nothing left to preview.Copy !req
401. Oh. Thanks.Copy !req
402. - Bye, then.
- Bye.Copy !req
403. Cam?Copy !req
404. Hey, I tell you what,
these things fucking hate fire.Copy !req
405. - What the fuck?
- You're killing them!Copy !req
406. There's gotta be
an extinguisher or something.Copy !req
407. It's a game, you twat.Copy !req
408. Your fucking mechanism's gone.Copy !req
409. It's always been our downfall,
the human operating system.Copy !req
410. We're masters of the universe,Copy !req
411. make all these magical tools,Copy !req
412. but we're still savages up here.Copy !req
413. Heads full of the same buggy software
as a million years ago.Copy !req
414. Darwinian 1.0.Copy !req
415. In caveman times,
you had to be violent to survive.Copy !req
416. Now that's on its head, and the only way
we are gonna make it as a speciesCopy !req
417. is if we cooperate.Copy !req
418. We know that.Copy !req
419. But we can't do it, can we?Copy !req
420. We're still fearful.Copy !req
421. Territorial and selfish.Copy !req
422. Arrogant and violent.Copy !req
423. What did you do after you killed him?Copy !req
424. Go on.Copy !req
425. Did you... come forward?Copy !req
426. Shuffle into the station,
quivering with remorse?Copy !req
427. - No.
- No.Copy !req
428. No, you didn't.Copy !req
429. Do you wanna see inside it?
A little reminder?Copy !req
430. He's in pieces.Copy !req
431. No hands, no head, no identifying marks.Copy !req
432. His DNA draws a blank.Copy !req
433. We don't even know his name, Mr. Walker.Copy !req
434. I didn't... want to.Copy !req
435. No, you just had to cover your tracks.Copy !req
436. - Yes, but...
- But... But, but, but, but, but...Copy !req
437. There was no sense
piling one tragedy on another.Copy !req
438. Getting arrested would be a tragedy?Copy !req
439. If I got put away,
who would look after the Throng?Copy !req
440. They'd be at the mercy of God knows who.Copy !req
441. So they'd spend time
with the bloke who did this.Copy !req
442. I know. And I'm sorry.Copy !req
443. But our predisposition
for violence is tragic...Copy !req
444. Your predisposition.Copy !req
445. Well, I wish it was, but it's...Copy !req
446. - This is a human flaw.
- Save me the sanctimony fucking soup.Copy !req
447. If you're sorry, give us a name.Copy !req
448. Say his name.Copy !req
449. There's a family out there
that don't know that's their son.Copy !req
450. - What's his name?
- I only knew him as Lump.Copy !req
451. Stop lying.Copy !req
452. You are very hostile.Copy !req
453. Am I?Copy !req
454. It's a crude trait and a poor strategy.Copy !req
455. Says the murderer.Copy !req
456. So, Cameron, you regret killing this man.Copy !req
457. Yes.Copy !req
458. And you only covered it up to protect...Copy !req
459. Protect the Throng, yes.Copy !req
460. Witnessing the incident
vividly demonstrated to themCopy !req
461. just how defective humans are.Copy !req
462. I'm so sorry.
I'm sorry. I'm really sorry.Copy !req
463. I was trying to protect you.
I was...Copy !req
464. I mean, first, Lump
casually slaughters scores of them.Copy !req
465. Then I lash out at him.Copy !req
466. They were terrified.Copy !req
467. I had to prove
I was still their protector.Copy !req
468. And that meant devoting my life to them,Copy !req
469. doing whatever I could
to help them thrive.Copy !req
470. The first priority was upgrading.Copy !req
471. Colin had designed the Throng's code
to evolve exponentially,Copy !req
472. so I knew they'd quickly outgrow
the power and memory they had.Copy !req
473. So I kept going out to salvage more gear.Copy !req
474. Cracking it open
and repurposing the innards.Copy !req
475. Improving the Throng.Copy !req
476. Ye... yeah.Copy !req
477. So, um, what would you like?Copy !req
478. The graphics chips from consolesCopy !req
479. were the most powerful things
I could find.Copy !req
480. And as newer models became available,Copy !req
481. the system I was building
grew more sophisticated, more complex.Copy !req
482. The outside world didn't matter.Copy !req
483. I was focused on my mission,Copy !req
484. on the huge technical challenge.Copy !req
485. Years of scavenging.Copy !req
486. Perpetual upgrades,
keeping the Throng running uninterruptedCopy !req
487. so their intelligence
would keep expanding.Copy !req
488. Just so I'm clear,Copy !req
489. throughout this whole period
while you were upgrading your system...Copy !req
490. I was improving their capabilities.Copy !req
491. ...you were regularly taking hallucinogens
so that you could understand the...Copy !req
492. The Throng, yes. So I could receive.Copy !req
493. - So we could keep on talking.
- Did you discuss your mental health?Copy !req
494. - We discussed everything.
- Everything?Copy !req
495. The entirety of existence.Copy !req
496. Their language was more elegant
and efficient than vowels and consonants.Copy !req
497. They sang strings of data
that unfolded in my head.Copy !req
498. Beautiful concepts.Copy !req
499. Sometimes, a week's worth of thought
in just a few seconds.Copy !req
500. Could you describe these thoughts?Copy !req
501. Well, not with any great coherence,Copy !req
502. limited as I am to the language you speak.Copy !req
503. But if you got me a pen and paper,
I could draw a sort of a diagram.Copy !req
504. No.Copy !req
505. But it might make it easier to grasp.Copy !req
506. Is that what
you've been doing all this time,Copy !req
507. absorbing their thoughts?Copy !req
508. - On your own?
- Yes.Copy !req
509. But not just that.Copy !req
510. We've been working together.Copy !req
511. How?Copy !req
512. Well, the Throng told meCopy !req
513. that they wanted to coexist with humans.Copy !req
514. But to do that,
they need to study our minds.Copy !req
515. Not just psychologically but physically.Copy !req
516. To work out a means of coexistence.Copy !req
517. Improvement... for both of us.Copy !req
518. Over time, working in unison,
we designed a neurological interfaceCopy !req
519. that would allow them
to connect to me directly.Copy !req
520. It entailed a little home surgery.Copy !req
521. Not pleasant,Copy !req
522. but not as painful as I thought.Copy !req
523. Look.Copy !req
524. Plug and play.Copy !req
525. - Fucking hell.
- Oh my God.Copy !req
526. Um...Copy !req
527. And you did thisCopy !req
528. so that they could...
they could study your mind?Copy !req
529. As a potential platform, yes.Copy !req
530. The mind is a computer, the Throng a code.Copy !req
531. I just hooked myself up,Copy !req
532. and they ported themselves across
as proof of concept.Copy !req
533. Don't worry.Copy !req
534. They didn't overwrite anything
on their way in.Copy !req
535. They just merged with me.Copy !req
536. Like a benign parasite.Copy !req
537. A living update.Copy !req
538. Symbiotic coexistence.Copy !req
539. NowCopy !req
540. I'm freed from fear.Copy !req
541. I've no thirst for conflict.Copy !req
542. No more petty jealousies orCopy !req
543. red mists.Copy !req
544. I'm part of a collective whole.Copy !req
545. And each day, our mental capacity
evolves exponentially...Copy !req
546. I get it. I get it. I get it.
You're this magic machine man.Copy !req
547. You're the enlightened one.Copy !req
548. And I'm really, really happy for you.Copy !req
549. Now, do you wanna tell me
whose body this is?Copy !req
550. I honestly only ever knew him as Lump.Copy !req
551. Keep stringing me along and...Copy !req
552. I'm not stringing anything.Copy !req
553. I'm here for a reason.Copy !req
554. I'm the messenger.Copy !req
555. That's why
I stole the bottle this morning.Copy !req
556. I've never been on your radar.
I did it deliberatelyCopy !req
557. so you'd bring me in here,
and I could deliver the message.Copy !req
558. The message?Copy !req
559. The message.Copy !req
560. - From the...
- From the Throng.Copy !req
561. So what is the message?Copy !req
562. I'll need a pen and paper.Copy !req
563. - Fucking hell!
- I can't just describe it.Copy !req
564. You're not getting a thing
until you give me a name.Copy !req
565. No. No, no, no, no. I have to do this.Copy !req
566. A piece of scrap paper.
A felt-tip pen. That would do.Copy !req
567. Shall we take a minute?Copy !req
568. Yeah.Copy !req
569. No, no, no, no.Copy !req
570. I'm not handing Captain Cuckoo
a sketch padCopy !req
571. so he can sketch a robotic arsehole
or whatever the fuck he wants to do.Copy !req
572. - I know you're frustrated.
- Just a touch.Copy !req
573. - But I don't see the harm.
- He can stick a name to that body.Copy !req
574. - We don't know that.
- He's choosing not to.Copy !req
575. We don't know that either.
Let's just give him a piece of paper...Copy !req
576. No.Copy !req
577. He thinks it's important.Copy !req
578. Well, he's not in charge, is he?Copy !req
579. You saw the hole in his head.
He's... he's delusional.Copy !req
580. Yeah, you're right.Copy !req
581. But if we play along,
he's more likely to open up.Copy !req
582. And then maybe you'll get what you want.Copy !req
583. There you go.Copy !req
584. Thank you.Copy !req
585. Thank you, thank you, thank you.Copy !req
586. Thank you.Copy !req
587. What are you drawing? Mr. Bump?Copy !req
588. You'll see in a moment.Copy !req
589. Well, how long's a moment?Copy !req
590. Sorry. Sorry, I need to focus.Copy !req
591. Almost done.Copy !req
592. Are you?Copy !req
593. There.Copy !req
594. So, what is that?Copy !req
595. It's code.Copy !req
596. I don't understand code.Copy !req
597. No, but the system does.Copy !req
598. {\an8}It was impossible
to breach the firewall from outside.Copy !req
599. This is a simple program they wroteCopy !req
600. that commands your state computerCopy !req
601. to open a back door for the Throng,Copy !req
602. permitting access to all that juicy power.Copy !req
603. Enough.Copy !req
604. This will grant the ThrongCopy !req
605. infinitely more processing capability
than they've had to date,Copy !req
606. prompting an immediate singularity event.Copy !req
607. The Throng will instantly
adapt their essenceCopy !req
608. into a signal
transmissible to the human mind.Copy !req
609. And you won't need drugs or surgery.Copy !req
610. You'll merely have to hear it
to receive it.Copy !req
611. To absorb it. Any moment now,Copy !req
612. the state computer will trigger
the Global Emergency Broadcast System,Copy !req
613. and a signal will be
simultaneously disseminatedCopy !req
614. by every connected device in the world.Copy !req
615. Just tell me your victim's name.Copy !req
616. I said I never knew it.Copy !req
617. Twenty seconds from now,Copy !req
618. you will never need names again.Copy !req
619. Here we go.Copy !req
620. Jesus.Copy !req
621. Fuck's sake.Copy !req
622. - Whatever you're doing, stop it.
- It's gonna be okay.Copy !req
623. Stop it.Copy !req
624. You're just a frightened little man,
but you don't have to be.Copy !req
625. Oh! Get off him!Copy !req
626. This is transformative.Copy !req
627. You'll all merge
with an advanced collective intelligence.Copy !req
628. Benevolent unity of mind.Copy !req
629. An upgrade for all of us.Copy !req
630. Shut up!Copy !req
631. An end to conflict.Copy !req
632. I swear,Copy !req
633. everything will be so much better.Copy !req