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Synopsis: Code 46 is a love story set in a Brave New World-type near-future where cities are heavily controlled and only accessible through checkpoints. People cannot travel unless they have "papeles" (papers in Spanish; words and sentences in many languages, especially Spanish, French and Chinese are mixed with English in this new world), a special travel permit issued by the totalitarian government, the "Sphinx". Outside these cities, the desert has taken over and shanty towns are jammed with non-citizens - people without IDs forced to live primitive lives. William is a family man who works as a government investigator. When he is sent to Shanghai to solve a case of fake IDs, he meets a woman named Maria. Although he realizes she is behind the forgeries, he cannot help but fall completely in love with her. He hides her crime and they have a wild, passionate affair that can only last as long as his visa: 24 hours. Back home, William is obsessed with the memory of Maria. When the original invest
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Production: MGM
  4 wins & 10 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
57
Rotten Tomatoes:
50%
R
Year:
2003
93 min
Website
438 Views


- There's been a fatality in Asia.

A guy was traveling on one of the papers

from Shanghai.

- She's waiting. You want a coffee?

- No, thanks.

- Hello.

- Someone died yesterday.

I heard. Do you have details?

Hombre had una cosa about bats,

wanted to go to Delhi.

The place to be

if you like bats, apparently.

Couldn't get cover because he had an

ineluctable disposition to Ward's Disease.

Do you know it?

- No.

- It makes you bleed to death.

Most people in Delhi are immune,

which is why...

this hombre couldn't get cover,

which is why he bought fake papeles...

which is why he bled to death yesterday.

- What was his name?

- Alekan. Damian Alekan.

The papeles come from the same printer

as the ones you investigated.

I'm sorry.

Get back, make it right,

then you won't have to be sorry anymore.

- Is there someone else you can send?

- Why would you want me to do that?

I had some trouble when I was there.

Some trouble with the virus, I think.

We all have problems, William.

How we deal with them

is a measure of our worth.

Go back tomorrow.

Damian Alekan.

- Where did you get that? Someone gave it...

- I have to go back to Shanghai.

How long will you be away?

I have a 24-hour cover.

I'll be back before you know I've gone.

Messed it all up.

Welcome, sir.

Three more forged papeles reported.

One here, one in Sao Paolo, one in Delhi.

If this doesn't stop,

I could lose my own cover.

Lo siento, it's the first time

my intuition has let me down.

I think he had an accomplice.

There was a woman here last time...

- Maria Gonzalez.

- She's gone.

What do you mean gone? Disappeared?

I was told she had a body issue.

It was all official.

Maria?

Video Listo Corporation.

Hello. I just tried to get in my apartment

and the video listo no funciona.

We have your number listed

as temporarily descontinuado.

Do I look descontinuado to you?

No, senor, but then I don't know

that you're the holder.

- That's not my problem, is it?

- If you can give me your palabra...

I can provide you with a 10-minute window

to recode your video listo.

- How would that be?

- That would be great, thank you.

- Palabra, sir?

- Panoply.

Did you know what you were looking for?

Or were you hoping I had left you a clue?

Like Hansel and Gretel

being dragged off into the woods.

Panoply.

Maria, today you have no appointments.

Maria, today you have a 3:15 appointment

at the Mai Lin Clinic.

I'm investigating a fraud

to which Maria Gonzalez is a key witness.

I was officially informed

that she has some body issues...

and was on a happiness break.

She has been relocated.

There were complications

that we couldn't deal with.

She has been sent outside.

Outside is a big place,

it would help if you were more specific.

There's a confidentiality issue there,

I'm afraid, sir.

What was the nature of her body issue?

There's a confidentiality issue there,

I'm afraid, sir.

Why was she summoned

for a happiness break?

Is this a training exercise?

- Are you trying to catch me out?

- You got me.

- You didn't get me, though.

- You are top of the class.

Very good. Tell me something

about yourself, anything.

For the report. I have to write this up.

My mother had this job before me.

I inherited it.

How long has Miss Gonzalez been pregnant?

I never said that.

What type of Code 46 violation was it?

I never mentioned Code 46.

Where is the Mai Lin Clinic?

There's a confidentiality issue there,

I'm afraid, sir.

Thank you for your help.

You rented a car. The clinic was al fuera.

170 K outside the city.

I imagine you like a medieval knight

on a quest.

A quest for me.

I'm here to see Maria Gonzalez.

Lo siento,

no visitors are permitted until 6:00.

I'm from Westerfields.

She's a key witness in a major fraud case.

- Nombre?

- Maria Gonzalez.

- Tu nombre?

- William Geld. I'm with Westerfields.

I need your print here.

It's a very urgent situation.

I know. Nombre and print.

I can tell by looking at you

that you are not just...

a keypad presser.

You can make judgments.

Si, and I have made my judgment about you.

If you don't have authorization

for this place...

Tell me one thing about yourself.

Anything at all.

Okay.

I'm tired.

I have conversations like this one a lot.

Is that enough?

If I were able to guess your palabra,

would you be impressed?

I would be dumbfounded.

- It's "Garamond."

- No, it's not. It's nothing like that.

Did you have an empathy virus?

It doesn't work here.

That's why you've got a cold. Here.

We use antiviral bacteria.

The institute is infested

with streptococci.

You know, here on the outside...

we do not have access

to some of the pleasures...

that are so freely available

on the inside.

I have these.

- The gold ones are particularly bueno.

- I don't need wealth.

I just need a little encouragement.

You have a very

sophisticated security system here.

Claro. We have all categories

of cases here.

What is Maria Gonzalez here for?

You're investigating

her case, n'est-ce pas?

I'm investigating a fraud case.

She's a witness.

She's had a finger-graft.

Maria Gonzalez?

Take a seat.

- You okay?

- I'm good.

If this is about my finger,

then I don't want to prosecute.

This is not about your finger.

I need to speak to Miss Gonzalez alone.

You have no authorization.

Okay.

I'm investigating an incident

at your place of work.

Fraudulent papeles

issued from your printer.

In the last 14 days,

three people have died...

while traveling from papeles...

issued from your printer at the Sphinx.

The people who come to us,

they're all doing something dangerous.

You have to expect that, unfortunately,

some of them won't make it.

One of them...

Damian Alekan, bled to death.

He was fond of bats. Remember him?

No.

Damian Alekan? You met him at a bar.

You sold him a papel

which allowed him to go to Delhi.

- When did he die?

- A week ago.

I've been in here for 10 days.

All of the papeles were issued

prior to your arriving here.

I'm tired. I would like to rest.

Miss Gonzalez is still in recovery.

Why is she in here?

And, please, do not use the word "finger"

at any point in your answer.

- Her finger...

- Was damaged and regrown...

on her family's insurance policy

22 years ago.

I know a great deal about Miss Gonzalez.

For instance, that she was pregnant

when she came in here.

I also know,

because you told me so yourself...

that you have no interest

in impeding my investigation.

She violated Code 46.

We've terminated the pregnancy...

and taken out the memory cluster

immediately around it.

- The baby was terminated?

- There was no baby.

Just a pregnancy which is now terminated

and the memories removed.

You've interfered...

with the memory of a key witness

in an insurance fraud.

The memories were very local.

It's just the man, the sex act,

and the pregnancy.

She doesn't remember the man at all?

The man, the sex, the pregnancy.

We've erased all of them.

Apart from that,

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