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It's very nice to meet you, Nia.

Welcome to atmos.

Follow me.

I also design rockets.

I could have been an engineer, but I lacked

Patience.

I think working at atmos is a vitally

important job.

-Science is a process and often leads to dead

-ends.

But here,

we're delivering the answers,

we're educating people.

Knowledge is sacred, and atmos is the new

scripture.

If you think about it, we're kind of like

preachers.

Where did you study?

I've always drawn pictures ever since I was

a child.

One of my guardians, barnabas, nicknamed me

little Da Vinci.

Did you hear?

Zoe was inseminated.

It means she's clean.

She didn't catch the bug from Silas.

That means we're probably clean, too.

- I'm definitely clean. I donated blood last week.

Silas?

Jonas?

You ok?

Ok.

Do you want to take a walk?

I don't know, it felt so good to be around

her that...

...we were nearly tripping up and I

couldn't see...

...couldn't see anything bad happening to

her.

You two were in love with each other.

That's very clear

you were right to end it though.

I think dealing with this disease on your

own is hard enough,

coupling would just make it unbearable.

You know...

...about a year ago.

I also made a connection with a woman.

Though, it didn't end well.

So sorry.

Your friend...What stage is she?

She's self

-diagnosed. She's fighting the bug without drugs.

She's a "hider."

Not many people can do that successfully.

I think hiders are...

I think they are wired differently.

You know we have one in our group. Bess.

She's a...

...she's a doctor at the den, of all places.

Listen...

I'm part of a group. A support group.

With Bess and others from my work.

To talk openly about how we feel.

If you're interested I'll vouch for you.

It might help.

I'd be willing to try.

Great.

Nia, it's me again.

Until you give me some text to work with I

am idle,

and that doesn't seem like a very good use

of my time.

I'm almost finished, Dominic.

All the other illustrators received their

pieces hours ago...

I'm almost finished, Dominic.

But I appreciate your Patience.

Of course.

Silas, you made it.

Oh, this is great. I'm glad you're here.

Everybody, this is Silas. The one I was

telling you about.

Silas, this is Bess. Peter and Thomas.

Gilead. Max. And Alice.

Come take a seat.

...and then after lunch he kept staring at

me,

like he could tell i wasn't taking my meds.

And I wanted to say something to him.

But then I thought, what if I'm just

imagining it?

So I turned and walked away.

And all I could think is that he knows.

He's going to report me and I'm going to

get caught.

And I can't stop thinking that.

-All the time...

-It's natural.

It's happened to every one of us.

Yes, but all I could think is that I am

going to the den. I'm going to the den.

It's over.

And they're...

What happens in the den?

Half the people who are brought in commit

suicide.

The staff encourages it and stand by while

it happens.

And that's the preferable option anyway.

Compared to electro restraints and all the

other methods of treatment.

But there is value in living.

Being a hider reminds you of that.

I still don't know how you do it.

Working for health and safety is hard enough.

Yes, it's difficult to see things and not

be moved.

But that's what being a hider is all about.

So you do small things to help.

Just looking someone in the eyes,

can make them feel they are not alone. Give

them hope.

But under no circumstances do you interfere.

You have to tell yourself, do not risk your

job, do not risk your life.

But why stay in a position where you feel

so much risk?

You could ask to be reassigned.

I'd rather be with people who feel.

Who feel intensely.

It reminds me of who I am and why i choose

to keep on living.

Everybody says it's not contagious.

But after all these years as awful as it is,

everyday I feel a stronger...

...affinity with other people.

See I don't believe all the research.

Feelings engender feelings.

S.O.S. Is not even a disease, that's what

they say but...

...switched off is something they do to us

between conception and birth.

S.O.S. Is who we really are and...

...the inhibitors are just another attempt

to squash that.

-I don't know.

-It's so hard.

It's lonely.

At least with the inhibitors i can get by

but now,

I would rather feel nothing.

Nothing is better than this.

It's okay. It's okay.

I could never have imagined what love felt

like. It's strange...

Like a little tornado going around and...

Yeah.

That's why I was so scared of it at first.

It's about giving, i want you to take

everything,

I don't even know what it is I just want

you to take it from me.

I just want to...

I want to run.

I want to run... both of us...

...as fast as we can, outside, just take off.

It's so weird, I'm like...

I keep on thinking about...

Ever since we were kids it's been drilled

into us that..

Our purpose is to explore the universe, you

know.

Outer space is where we'll find...

...the answers to why we're here and...

...and where we come from.

It's like everyone's...

...searching for these answers 800 million

miles away and the truth is...

...the answers are right in front of us.

I know why I'm here.

Me too.

What are we going to do now?

We just spend as much time here together as

we can.

Go to work, act normal, but then...

...at night...

...we're together.

Okay.

What did you look like when you were little?

Have you always had these freckles?

I don't know.

I think so.

Did you grow early?

Did I grow early?

Yeah, I was tall until I wasn't.

I was a little round kid...

What was your favorite subject?

I liked history.

How about you?

I always really loved to write.

What did you write when you were a kid?

I always liked to write poetry.

I liked the school trips as well.

When we got to go...

To the great war museum,

to see how the bombs dropped and wiped out

the cities and stuff.

I see a future outside of this room.

Some place out there in the vastness of

everything we know.

In all those millions of miles.

Dominic fyi.

The article is finished.

You gave it to me already. I'm working on

it right now.

No, the one after this.

On the extraction of superfluids from

neutron stars.

I wish I could explain this to everyone else.

I'm sick of being...

...scared of getting caught.

I want people to know and not think we're

sick.

The significant breakthrough

came with the isolation of the bulbar cell

line,

allowing effective genetic re

-silencing,

without triggering the systematic organ

malfunction

that had marked earlier attempts.

To be clear, this is not another kappa rho

inhibitor.

It's a cure that restores the health and

systematic order to the individual.

With the ashby eni cure...

...it is only a matter of time before all

current s.O.S. Cases are treated,

and future cases prevented.

The eni cure is injected directly into the

neck,

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