ARQ Page #2

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a good time, boys.

- It's for the cause, Brother.

- Yeah. Yeah, of course.

But we're gonna get a finder's fee.

You got what you came for.

Now go.

He can identify us.

Give me the gun.

I'll shoot him right now.

No!

Nobody gets hurt.

Are you sure, Mother?

I wasn't too rough, was I?

He used to work for Torus.

He still might.

We're the Bloc.

We don't kill civilians.

All right.

Looks like it's your lucky day, champ.

Take anything you can hock.

See if you can find some mask filters.

We're running out.

The Bloc needs your scrips, Ren.

I'd have given 'em to you.

I'll be back.

Hey.

So what's that thing do anyway?

Besides fry people.

It's just a science experiment.

That's right. He used to be

a military engineer for Torus.

So is that a weapon or something?

No, it's not a...

Jesus Christ!

Ren?

What the hell are you doing?

You got five minutes.

- Who are they?

- You don't know?

What?

Shh.

Stop it! Stop it!

You're gonna get us killed.

Yeah, tell me about it.

Well, finally!

What happened to you

after Torus tried to arrest me?

I told you last night.

Tell me again.

Now? Why?

Ren, untie me.

What?

Torus agents interrogated me

for three days.

Then what?

Uh, they let me go

after they knew I had nothing to do

with you stealing their scrips.

And that you left without telling me.

Listen carefully.

Torus... Hannah!

I got this!

Ren, un... untie me.

What is it?

And Torus let you go?

Just like that?

Not just like that.

They took away my citizenship, our home.

They put me in a refugee camp

for six months.

I didn't know if you were dead,

or if you had just left me for dead.

I spent a year torturing myself,

feeling guilty that I got away

and you didn't.

They have a gun.

We should do what they say.

I already tried that.

Up north, Torus

security forces battle Bloc paramilitaries

over the Great Slave Lake Oil Refinery.

The refinery borders

the Arctic Parallel neutral zone.

Torus executives

accuse the Arctic Parallel

of providing a safe haven

for Bloc leaders.

Man, why you always

gotta listen to this propaganda?

Know thy enemy, my brother.

Yeah, well,

the Pope tells it like it really is.

Those who can't remember

the past are condemned to repeat it.

Are you okay?

Those guys hurt my back.

There's a bag up there.

Can you reach it?

Yeah, sure.

My supervisors called me a fraud

when I told them the ARQ

was generating limitless energy.

I couldn't really blame them, though.

Perpetual motion's a myth.

Then Torus seized the ARQ.

Now why take something that didn't work?

Because it does.

They want it back.

Torus wants the ARQ for their war machine.

You're crazy.

You've gone f***ing crazy.

Maybe.

It doesn't mean I'm wrong.

I know everything, Hannah.

Your boyfriend,

stealing my scrips for the Bloc...

Mother.

How?

You wouldn't believe me if I told you.

Are you really working for the Bloc,

or did Torus turn you?

Bloc.

We don't want your stupid machine.

- We came for your scrips.

- Right.

Sorry. You're a freedom fighter now.

I'm just some fool engineer

trying to solve the world's energy crisis.

And all this time I thought

you were just a self-serving thief.

I don't even know who you are anymore.

Yeah, that's right.

You don't.

Because you got away.

They kept the lights on

while I tried to sleep.

Kept me in darkness while I was awake.

They played the same Christmas song

over and over.

It never stopped.

I'm sorry.

You don't get to be sorry.

- You're too late for sorry.

- I never...

I never stopped thinking about you,

Hannah. I looked for you every day.

I hacked into every database I could,

tapped every network,

monitored every registry.

Finding you was the only thing

that kept me going.

I still hate you.

Okay.

So you're just gonna kill us now?

- Just them.

- Ren, please.

Nobody has to get hurt.

We do it my way.

...what happened

to continental Australia

will happen to the entire planet.

It will be 10,000 years...

- Jeez.

- What the hell you doing?

...before anyone can step foot

on that radioactive rubble again.

Shoot me, we all die.

They're bluffing.

Hannah, baby, don't do this.

I trusted you.

Ren's keeping half his scrips.

We get the other half.

- Nobody gets hurt this way.

- No, wait.

Hannah.

Come with me.

We can start over.

Okay? Do it right this time.

We'll head north.

No Torus, no Bloc.

Just us.

You should eat.

There's food in the kitchen. Just...

Just think about it, okay?

Hannah!

Well...

aren't we just one big happy family?

You killed me.

You punched me in the ear.

I meant... I meant to hit you in the face.

Huh, like this?

Hannah's coming with me.

Giving us your blessing?

- She won't go with you.

- She will.

I know Hannah.

Then you also know that she hates you.

Stop!

I need a few hours

to download the data and pack up the ARQ.

You can't go with him, Hannah.

His mind's gone sour.

We'll hook up with a migrant caravan,

head to the Arctic Parallel.

I can hack weather drones

so we avoid flash...

I can't go with you.

I can't.

I'm keeping my scrips.

That wasn't the deal.

Well, the deal's changed.

Ren, please.

This is bigger than us.

This is about winning the war.

The war is over.

Torus is gonna win.

The Bloc is doomed.

And you are wasting your time.

Maybe.

But I have to try.

We need your scrips.

All of them.

Now!

You're not gonna shoot me.

You're right.

You're just being ridiculous.

Okay. Okay. Okay. Just...

I shot you.

Wait, you remember?

Were you brats playing doctor?

Oh, yeah.

All night long.

Give me your scrips.

But hold back on me?

You got five minutes.

You do remember.

Is this a dream?

It was a dream, right? Or...

is this a dream right now? I...

It's not a dream.

- No.

- Today is repeating.

No, I have to get out of here.

- Ren, I can't. I...

- Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey.

Everything's gonna be okay.

How is this happening?

The ARQ.

How many times do you remember?

Just one.

But it feels like more.

That's because it is.

Great.

Okay, you see these time logs?

These are the four loops

we've gone through.

They always begin at 6:11

and end at 9:
25.

And this last time log,

that's happening right now.

So we've looped five times?

- Yeah.

- How? Why?

Okay.

Okay, if, uh, this line is time,

this is when the loop begins.

At 6:
11 a.m.,

Cuz electrocuted himself on the ARQ.

This caused forward time

to bend back on itself,

creating a closed-time loop.

And the day repeats.

Time resets every three hours,

14 minutes and 15 seconds.

How does the ARQ work?

Um... Okay.

I mean... I mean, essentially,

these fuel cells power the ARQ.

In turn, the ARQ recharges the fuel cells.

It never needs an external power source,

but... how it's looping time,

I have no idea.

An unlimited energy machine

that also produces unlimited time?

No wonder Torus wants it back.

Not unlimited time.

The same amount of time over and over.

The loops always reset at 9:25.

What happened

when the previous loop reset,

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