Cube 2: Hypercube Page #2

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But I can hear it.

All the time,

even when you don't.

And it sounds...

...it feels wrong.

Maybe we're in hell.

All right,

let's get some real answers.

His answer was suicide.

Not exactly a comforting thought.

Soldier, up on your feet.

Careful, he's hurt.

Come on, pumpkin,

up you come.

Stop it.

He's in serious condition.

Stop it.

Listen to me, sweetheart--

I'm not your sweetheart,

a**hole.

All right.

This man's been tortured.

You want to be next when they come for us?

Who exactly are they?

Well, I'm going to find out.

Come on.

Stop it. Stop it.

Are you trying to kill us?

It's not going to help us if he dies, you know?

You've got no information whatsoever.

- It's here.

- Jesus...

what the f***?!

Come on.

He's conscious.

Sit him up.

Sit him up.

Come on, soldier.

Talk to me, soldier.

Talk to me.

What's going on here?

Are you speaking to me?

Yes. Jesus Christ. Yes.

Just tell me, how do we get out of here?

I don't know.

You figure out the code,

you get out.

The first one had rules...

The first one?

What are you talking about?

Leave him alone.

He's delirious.

He knows something,

all right?

I'll carry him myself,

just--

The first one had numbers...

What do you mean,

'the first one'?

- Let him go.

- I'm out of here.

Oh my God.

Are you okay?

Did you hit your head?

Yeah. I slipped.

It's a wall.

It wiggled.

- You sure you're okay--

- Look. There it goes again.

That--that--that--

That's-- that's-- I don't know.

No!

Holy f***.

What is that?

I don't know.

But I don't think we should

stick around to find out.

- Come on, let's go.

- Come on.

Come on, Sasha, I'm here.

I'm right behind you, honey.

Hurry, let's go!

Easy, easy...

For Christ's sake.

What the--

Come on.

There you go.

- Grab right there.

- Where are you?

Come on, Colonel.

It's time for us to go.

I'm not done with you yet.

I'm not going.

What did you do that for?

I'm not going anywhere soon.

Well, f*** you.

Come on, Kate.

Let's get out of here.

Come on, where's the key?

Do you have the key?

You mean this?

Yeah.

No.

What did you do that for?

You don't honestly think you can escape?

We have to try.

Oh my God.

This is gonna hurt.

Kate,

get the hell up here!

No. I'm not leaving without him.

For God's sake,

he's a dead man. Move.

God.

There's no time left.

Let's go.

Oh my God.

There's got to be a way.

Get the-- get the hell out of there.

- Oh my God.

- Leave him, he's dead.

Oh my God.

Let me go.

Let me go.

It's still coming.

Come on.

So what the hell happened back there?

I don't know.

Hello.

And where did you come from?

What's your name?

I'm-- I'm Kate.

Don't you remember me?

I'm Mrs. Paley.

The Colonel was our only link to this place.

Maybe not.

I designed the door panels in here.

The touch sensors.

What?

I was freelancing for a subcontractor, I...

You didn't think this

was worth mentioning before?

I signed a confidentiality--

Given our current situation,

I'd say it's null and void.

- Jesus Christ!

- The legal--

What the hell is this place?

I don't know.

You don't think the guy that makes

the toilets in the space shuttle,

gets to see the plans for the rest of it?

You must have had some

idea what they were building.

It was experimental.

It was a prototype.

For what?

- I'm not sure.

- For what?!

Leading-edge stuff.

There were rumors...

What kind of rumors, Jerry?

What rumors?

Quantum teleportation.

Pardon?

They were just rumors.

You mean, like...

'Beam me up, Scotty'?

Okay.

Now this is getting ridiculous.

What do you know, Jerry?

Nothing.

- You're lying.

- Why would I lie?

Because both you and the Colonel work for them.

Them? Who the hell are 'them' anyway?

What? The government?

The mafia?

Aliens?

Oh my goodness.

It's a tesseract.

Christ, she's losing it.

Isn't it beautiful?

Isn't what beautiful, Mrs. Paley?

Holy sh*t.

If you look at it from just the right angle...

What did you call it again, Mrs. Paley?

It's a tesseract, sweetheart.

Tesseract?

Tesseract.

It's-- It's a tesseract.

How do you know it's a tesser... act,

or whatever you call it?

Is the second act beginning already?

We should be getting back to our seats.

Excuse me.

Yeah.

Is she for real?

A tesseract,

Holy Christ, of course.

A tesseract.

Jerry, you okay?

Yeah, yeah. I can't believe

I didn't see it before.

It's been staring at us

in the face the whole time.

Maybe you could share

with the rest of the class.

Oh. Of course.

A tesseract...

it's another name for...

... a hypercube.

A what?

A hypercube-- a four-dimensional cube.

Four dimensions?

All the elements are there.

Rooms repeating.

Rooms folding in on themselves.

Teleportation.

It could all very well add up.

Look. Here. See?

Let's call one dimension, length,

and represent that with a simple line.

Now, two dimensions are length and width,

which can be represented by a single square.

Now if we extend that square,

one more dimension...

we get...

a cube,

which has three dimensions.

Length, width, and depth.

Come on, we've all passed the eighth grade.

Hush.

Here's the really funky part.

If you take this cube,

and extend it one more dimension,

we get...

A tesseract.

I thought time was considered

to be the fourth dimension.

Sure. That's one idea.

But what if you have

a fourth spatial dimension?

- There's no such thing.

- Why don't you shut up?

Okay. Okay.

Let's just say that we are in this hyper--

- Cube.

- Cube. Whatever.

Does this diagram show us how to get out?

Well, uh... no.

A hypercube isn't supposed to be real.

It's just a theoretical construct.

Oh. Well that makes me feel better.

Is there a theory on how

we might get out of this...

theoretical construct?

I don't know.

Don't worry, dear.

It's just a matter of time.

That's so much clearer.

Thank you.

Great.

Anyway...

here's my theory for what it's worth:

we are all...

unwilling participants...

in a game show,

and are being videotaped as we speak.

Although I don't condone forcible

abduction of innocent people,

we can take comfort in the fact

that once the show airs,

we'll be able to parlay this

into lucrative sponsorship deals.

Okay, Max.

And what's the object of this game show?

Hmm... I don't know.

To get out alive?

I think we should make a map.

I don't think a map is really going to help us.

Look at that.

That wasn't there a minute ago.

Did you write that?

No. I left my wings at home.

I just marked this room as 10 before it.

Somebody's been here before us.

Thanks.

A really large someone.

Why go through the trouble

of writing it on the ceiling?

Christ.

This place must be huge.

Oh yes, yes.

In a hypercube, there could be

She could be right.

There's a comforting thought.

What the hell are you doing?

Yowza.

The ratings on this show just doubled.

What do you see?

A girl.

Oh Jesus.

I'm going in.

- I think I'm going to puke.

- You all right?

Okay. I just... whoa...

Hey. Hey. Hey.

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