Amelia 2.0 Page #4

the one in the park.

Do you remember?

- Yes.

I'm by a lake.

I jump in.

This other man does, too, but

I can't remember his face.

Some kids nearby

are laughing at us.

My face is underwater.

I can feel summer.

Now we're sitting under a tree.

I'm reading a poem to the man,

something I wrote, I think.

I can't remember his face.

We're walking through a garden.

There's a dance by.

I don't understand why.

There's a feeling of happiness.

A girl walks in, she...

- I want you to keep

thinking about that, Amelia,

that exact moment.

- Everything is blurring

together, Dr. Beckett.

Where is the ring?

The screeching...

Sound.

- Warning.

All systems offline.

- Well, it's very strange.

- It's too unpredictable.

There's nothing about

what she remembers

that makes any sense.

- She needs information.

- She doesn't know what to do

with the information

she has now.

Just keep her playing scales.

Understood?

- Understood.

- Build.

- Good morning.

That's one of the few

advantages being a computer

has over humans.

The dreams, they're

more vivid, right?

Yeah, your mind is more free

to create than an organic one.

In fact, if I hadn't

fixed a small glitch,

your brain wouldn't

be able to distinguish

dreams from reality.

Incredible, right?

Look at this, look.

See that?

Every time I look at

these scans, I see growth.

Very important.

Look at all this growth,

all these new connections.

It's amazing, actually.

Looking at the mathematical

equivalent of your mind.

- You can see my thoughts?

- It's like looking at,

like a jpeg in binary.

Yeah.

Do you know, when I was

working on my thesis years ago,

I spent two years

with a neurosurgeon.

He likened the brain to more

of a plant than a computer.

He said the task

of making a mind

had nothing to do

with making it smart.

You had to make something

that was capable

of growing on its own.

Like, even something so simple

as a tree or our flower.

It's infinitely more...

Hello?

Hey?

You're not paying attention.

Sorry.

- Max, can you

tell me something?

- Sure.

- Am I still able to be a wife?

- Yeah, of course.

I designed your body

to be 100% functional

for sexual activity.

- You did?

- Yeah.

Yeah.

Yes.

I used to head up a

love robot project.

Can you believe that?

I couldn't help but

pour a few things over.

There's some things you're

gonna have to do to, um...

Prep the system, kind of.

Ah, can we talk

about something else?

- I guess having children

is out of the question?

- Yeah.

- How long were

you married when it happened?

- Three months.

- Hm, well, any time is too

soon, but that is unfortunate.

- She had an aneurysm.

It broke the connection

to her spinal cord

but not enough to

damage the brain.

I thought they could

just repair her.

- That's what they promised you?

- Not the way I thought.

- Hm.

Well, Sam.

Well, you're right to be

angry, Mr. Summerland,

but for the wrong reasons.

I want you to meet my chief

policy officer and advisor.

Sam.

Sam Patterson is an

old friend and he and I

have followed Wesley's

developments for quite some time.

- Hi, Carter.

The senator sent

me your message.

I'm sorry to hear

what's happened here.

- This is why we have been

on this from the start.

- Carter, did they ask you a

lot of questions about Amelia?

- Of course.

- Did they ask you for

photographs of you together,

private journals?

- Photos, yes.

- Journals, home movies?

- Yeah, whatever I

could get my hands on.

They said it would help

return her memories.

Is this a deposition?

- Are you familiar

with spiritual mediums?

- Excuse me?

- They use techniques

to fool people.

They say general things

like, "I see a person dying

"from the chest," ooh.

Well, most deaths do occur,

statistically, from the heart,

so it's not a bad guess.

But not to the

person who just lost

a father to a heart attack.

It's emotional manipulation.

- Carter, what they've built?

It's not your wife.

It's an imitation.

You believe it because,

well, you wanna believe it.

They're counting on

people to react that way

in order to sell

what they wanna sell.

- Immortality.

- People will pay

ungodly amounts of money

to have a chance

to fly in space.

You think they won't pay at

least a million for this?

Carter, most live

their lives day to day,

like you I imagine,

until something happens.

You're dancing through

a big beautiful field

and then suddenly a

snake jumps out and bites

and the reality of our fragile

lives is suddenly exposed.

We run to the one thing that

we understand to be true.

- Well, I don't know

what's true here,

but I know what's not.

- For now, you can fix

this if you help us.

- If congress passes

the humanity act

it will become illegal

to copy or sell

any element of the human

brain for monetary gain?

- Correct.

- I think the most obvious

critique of your viewpoint

is that it forbids others

from making a choice.

- It's a false choice.

It's something that takes

advantage of people.

Mr. Summerland

can speak to that.

- Mr. Summerland?

- What she is now,

it's not her.

They took my wife.

- Carter, you said that

they took your wife.

I assume you signed consent

papers, did you not?

- She was dying.

I didn't know what to do.

- I think that most

people would question

why you signed in

the first place.

- Well then, you have no

idea what it feels like.

- We need to change

the spin on this.

I got a call from Adah Allen's

producers this morning.

They want a one-on-one

interview with Amelia.

- No way, absolutely not.

Of course you're okay with this.

- We need to get ahead of

William somehow, otherwise...

- we are not having this

conversation again, Paul.

In 12 years you

have not ever once

rushed one of my projects, ever.

- Which is why you

need to humor me.

For 12 years I funded

this humanitarian work.

- Don't make this about

the goddamn money, Paul.

- I've given you a full

staff with technicians

for four years, not to mention

the cost with prototypes

and materials and

security and mark...

- the work we are

doing takes time

and you need to respect that.

- We don't have

the luxury of time.

- Paul we are making

progress, but you...

- no, Ellen!

- Do not destroy this.

- Just get Amelia ready.

- Got big news today.

It has been exactly

six months this week

since I stopped energy drinks.

And I've been taking

lunch to work.

- I had...

Another dream.

- Okay, why don't

you tell me about it.

- I remember Carter.

I remember everything.

It's all come back.

Everything.

- Okay, wow.

Wow!

Okay.

- I need to leave this place.

I need to find my husband.

- Okay, shh, shh, shh.

Okay.

- Hello?

- Carter?

- Yes?

- Where are you?

- Um...

- Carter, why haven't

you been to see me?

I miss you.

I love you.

- Beginning security lockdown.

- You are not

allowed to do that.

- What do you mean I'm

not allowed to do that?

Just like I'm not allowed

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