Alien Code Page #4

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Well, it's...

It's, uh...

It's... It's a message.

Heh, heh. There's...

There's gaps in it,

there's pieces missing,

but it's...

It's a message to, um...

Have you ever put

these together before?

- Huh-uh.

- No, no, no. It's... It's pieces.

It's pieces of a puzzle,

and... And, um,

you decipher them,

you solve them independently,

and you put them together.

I think this guy's trying

to tell you something.

Did...? Did you...?

Did I...? Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Uh, he contacted me, um

last night, but I...

You talked to him?

Yeah. Well, no,

he knew I wasn't you.

No, you...

You can't talk to him.

I... I didn't talk to him, okay?

He knew that I wasn't you.

Okay, but this is mine.

Okay?

This is my computer,

these are my notes, my house.

- You can't...

- That's fine, it's fine.

Look, I don't think

he's working for A.R.I.S.T.

You can't be here.

Do you wanna know

what the difference

between me and you is?

I'm the guy

that doesn't give a sh*t.

Okay? The NSA, they came in

and forced the company

that I worked for

to write back doors

in our algorithms,

and I didn't think

twice about it.

I figured they were gonna

do it anyway,

I might as well

collect the check.

But you?

No, not you.

I read your bio.

You worked for Everleaf.

Okay? They told the NSA

to go f*** themselves.

Rather than compromise

the privacy of their clients,

they shut down.

You? You give a sh*t.

Help me stop this.

[SCOFFS]

Come with me.

June 4th.

That's the day

I accepted the job.

After that, I got sick.

I started hallucinating.

I tried to come up

with rational,

reasonable explanations,

but none of them satisfied me,

so I started thinking

about the message.

About the key

and quantum memory.

[SIGHS]

Polarized photons carrying

a message from the future.

And photons are just

packets of light, and...

light crosses the universe.

What if someone or...

something was sending messages

into the abyss?

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Across space.

Across time.

All we have to do

is look for them.

I started capturing photons

and deciphering codes.

I became obsessed.

I believed the dead

were speaking to me.

Calling down

from the heavens.

Then, among their voices,

I heard my own.

[CHUCKLES]

I was just talking to myself.

Neither one of us should ever

have taken this job

because it's taken

our health.

And whoever we used to be...

isn't who we are now.

You see them.

Right?

Everything you think you see

is just death.

Do you see that one

out the window there?

If I'm hallucinating,

then how are we hallucinating

the same thing?

This is real.

This is happening.

They put that message

on that satellite,

and this machine... This

is gonna tip the first domino.

We have to do something.

I just wanna die in peace.

Please...

[VOICE CRACKS]

...leave.

[SNIFFLES]

Yeah.

[SIGHS]

[SNIFFLES]

[CAR DOOR OPENS]

- REBECCA:
We've warned you.

- What?

[SIGHS] Why were you in

contact with Beth Carter?

- Are you f***ing serious?

- How did you find her?

I told you

to leave all this behind.

[CHUCKLES] What are you gonna do?

Kill me?

This is a matter

of national security.

You can only push so far

before it's out of our hands.

Great. Then do me a favor.

Why don't you take a gun

and shoot me

right through

this f***ing tumor?

You're not alone.

I know there's not much left

in this life for you,

but if there's someplace you

wanna go or unfinished business,

- we can help.

- What about Beth?

Beth is none of your concern.

- Yeah.

- She's to be left alone.

Did you help her too?

You're not to visit

Beth again.

This is the last time

I'll be coming here.

Do you understand?

[CLICKS TONGUE]

Or what? Hm?

Or else?

You weren't the only one

exposed in that lab.

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Time is all we have, Alex.

Use yours wisely.

[CAR DOOR OPENS]

[DOOR SHUTS]

[WHISPERS]

What the f***?

Oh, sh*t.

[PANTING]

[CHUCKLES]

[SIGHS]

F***.

[GROWLS]

F***!

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[INAUDIBLE SCREAMING]

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[SIGHS]

[SIGHS]

I thought that I...

wasn't here anymore.

I thought that

I had been taken.

I was in a...

[SNIFFLES]

...glass tank somewhere.

Like ants in a colony...

going about our business.

Oblivious to the scientists

watching over us.

[CHUCKLING]

[COMPUTER BEEPS]

[BOTTLE CLUNKS]

[KEYBOARD CLACKING]

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[CHUCKLES]

[SCOFFS]

Mm.

[DOORBELL RINGS]

Is this real?

Oh, I f***ing hope not.

You're drunk.

They took f***ing everything.

Who did?

That b*tch and her f***ing

A.R.I.S.T. watchdogs.

Are you okay?

Yes. No.

[SCOFFS]

I'm f***ing dying.

He was just here.

- One of them?

- No, not one of them.

Those a**holes are always

somewhere.

I'm talking about your boy.

I'm talking about Cipherman.

He contacted you?

Mm-hm.

He told me to come here.

He gave me your address.

I think

you're right.

I think he's trying

to figure out a way

to stop the machine.

He sent me the blueprints.

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- [SIGHS]

- He's gotta be working on the inside

to have access to these.

- This make sense to you?

- [CHUCKLES]

A beam pipe,

a thermal shield...

a vacuum vessel.

It's...

It's all controlled by, uh...

By an air-gapped computer.

This is...

playing with existence.

He had you figuring out

algorithms, right?

Which means

he's targeting the computer,

which would mean

the machine's already built.

It doesn't make sense, though.

How is that...?

[SIGHS]

How is that even possible?

I mean,

something like this would...

Would take years, right?

I guess it's gotta be.

I mean, otherwise,

he would just...

change the blueprints

and have them build a dud.

We did this.

[SIGHS]

We didn't know.

[SCOFFS]

We knew.

We just didn't want

to acknowledge it.

You experience

the time rifts?

They're getting worse.

I don't want what I saw

to come true.

ALEX:
We started

developing a virus...

to target the machine's

zero-day vulnerabilities,

with, uh...

With Cipherman's help.

We were just three people...

doing what we could.

Trying to right whatever wrongs

we felt responsible for.

Then there was this moment.

This moment

I thought to myself,

you know,

I just thought, "F***.

We're just

these two people dying.

Going crazy, you know?

Hiding inside each other."

We felt...

isolated from it all.

That didn't last long.

[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

Lock the door.

Good. You got them.

Hey, what are...?

What are you doing here?

A.R.I.S.T. They're on to me.

They'll be here soon.

- Are you...?

- No, but I know him.

I've been trying to stop this

from the inside.

No one can be trusted.

There is a man,

one of the founders

of A.R.I.S.T.

Here.

"Miles Driskoll."

- Cipherman.

- REBECCA:
That's his address.

I couldn't get you

the schematics directly.

I used him to communicate

with you and develop a virus

to disable the machine.

I was gonna upload it myself.

Now you see what we see.

REBECCA:
None of this

is what they think.

No one at A.R.I.S.T.

believes that.

They think we're hallucinating.

They're blaming the tumors.

If more than one person sees

the same thing...

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