Exam Page #2

He is right.

If we try this and fail,

we can't go back.

Blackout.

We vote.

Those too.

Nice.

Very nice.

Touch of blue

what you wanted?

This is black light,

the kind credit card firms use

to reveal

their security symbols.

Yeah, well, it's a shame

we didn't apply

to work for Visa.

Our gamble

might have paid off.

It did pay off,

just not in the way

you wanted.

You acted,

and the room reacted.

We've entered a dialogue now.

We should keep going.

Yeah, maybe.

Maybe not.

Sorry, it was invisible light

you said you wanted, yeah?

Because this looks

pretty f***ing visible to me.

The scientific term for it

is "near-ultraviolet. "

It didn't work,

but it was worth trying.

Well, if nothing else,

we should come out of here

with great tans.

We've got to knock these out

too.

The top halves of these strips

aren't lit.

Look.

Infrared,

the other option.

That exposes something too?

It's less common than UV,

but yes.

Art historians use it

to make reflectograms

of sketch outlines

beneath paintings.

If there's a hidden layer

in our papers...

Carefully.

Let me guess.

Near-infrareds?

All right, everyone.

Try again.

Anyone?

Anything?

No.

No.

Sh*t!

Okay, now can we please

get off the lighting?

If you can provide

a better alternative.

Any alternative.

We've burned

a quarter of our time already.

- Perhaps the company's

Japanese-owned,

and this is an origami exam.

Be our guest.

That sheet is yours to spoil.

Yes, it is.

But only your sheet.

It's a piece of paper.

No, this is more than that

now, isn't it?

This is experimental material.

If you spoil...

Your paper.

You will be disqualified.

This isn't mine.

This is hers.

"Oh, it's not fair!"

And she's gone.

So...

Tracing.

Tracing.

Well, congratulations,

Blonde.

Your idea sucks too.

This could all

be a distraction, you know?

We could be missing

something obvious.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

All right, all right.

Okay, light does not work.

Lead does not work.

Liquid.

Oh, yeah.

All right.

Lick it.

Spit on it.

Get it wet, all right?

If the question's watermarked,

maybe we need some kind

of liquid to bring it out.

What are you going to do

with yours?

You don't want to know, mate.

Actually, we do.

Well, you can come and watch.

You can hold it for me,

if you like,

although I'd prefer

if Blonde did.

That's disgusting.

By any means necessary,

right, brother?

If we can do it,

I say we should.

That's not gonna burn

the question out, you know?

Urine's sterile.

You can drink it.

Wish you would.

Oh, great.

Pissing contest.

Anything?

I can't tell yet.

It's all yellow.

Hold it up and let us see.

Well, if you lend me a glove,

I'll oblige.

Well, I'm running out

of ideas.

Giving up so easily, Black,

with 57 minutes on the clock?.

You should be

ashamed of your-

You know what-

Will you two shut up?

Some of us

are trying to think.

At last, he speaks.

He's French.

Vous voyez la?

Can anyone speak French?

Vous voyez la?

"Can you see? "

Vous voyez?

Regardez bien.

"Can you see it in there? "

See what in there?

See what? What?

Pretty colors?

Vous-meme.

"Yourself. "

Vous vous voyez.

"It shows you yourself. "

And then there were six.

Leave him alone.

He's done nothing to you.

Well, he's done nothing for me

either, has he?

Or any of us for that matter.

Nutter.

C'est vous...

Toujours y voir clairement

est primordial.

"To see clearly is all. "

All right, all right.

That's enough out of you,

Sartre, all right?

F***ing philosophers.

Thank God that

this world belongs to the doers

and not the thinkers.

Since we're proposing

grand theories now,

let me advance one of my own.

This is not an exam,

not in the conventional sense

anyway.

Look around.

You couldn't ask for

a more representative group

to qualify

for the final stage.

Four men and four women

entered this room,

all from differing cultures

and ethnic backgrounds,

possessing a healthy mixture

of skill sets.

How convenient that is.

How staged.

What are you saying?

That they rigged the tests

to bring us all together?

Some kind of experiment

in group dynamics.

What are you talking about?

I'm saying this is a game.

And they're betting on us.

Right, and who's they?

The board.

I'd guess they're watching us

right now.

They'll be ex-VCs mostly,

probably left the incubator

when they realized

their little start-up

had struck the mother lode.

Wouldn't get any sweeter

than this, I'm sure,

so they joined the board,

secured some

big fat stock options,

and bought themselves the right

to have a little fun...

with us.

You don't think

they have better things

to do with their time?

Like what?

At their level,

money ceases

to be the prime motivator.

It's risk they live for.

They're type As, like us,

and just as they were trained

by their investment companies,

they're still

betting on ideas today:

ours.

Who'll decipher the question?

Who'll come up empty and fold?

And who'll crack

under the pressure?

Could be wrong.

Could just be the Invigilator

behind there.

Wanna bet?

I wouldn't if I were you.

Brown talks like a gambler

because he is one.

A professional,

aren't you?

And you, Dark,

are a shrink.

Psychologist

or psychiatrist?

I forget the difference.

Psychiatrists dispense drugs

to control mood.

I'm a qualified student

of human behavior.

Then you should know

what I'm talking about.

The point of having power

is to exercise it

in all of its forms.

We're pawns of the gods

in here.

Oh, look, so what?

This changes nothing.

Yeah.

Games are played to be won,

as a team.

Yeah, or as individuals.

Not if the only way

for them to win

is for us to lose,

all of us.

Have you thought about that?

You're wrong.

There is no them watching us.

The CEO is hands-on.

He micromanages anything

of importance to his company,

and this is no ordinary

selection process.

We're special.

If anyone's back there

besides the Invigilator,

it's him.

Everyone else is a secretary

in his structure,

even board members.

That's how he likes it.

How do you know all this?

We're wasting time here.

There's 50 minutes left

on the clock,

and we're no closer

to finding the question.

Somehow I suspect my question

relates to the question.

So answer me.

How did you learn

that information?

Same way you learned

about the board, I expect.

I don't know anything

about the board.

I made an educated guess,

but you, you know who the CEO is

and what he's like.

How come?

How come you don't?

Well, how could we?

We were headhunted,

weren't we?

Why?

Weren't you?

Of course not.

I heard there was a vacancy

and applied.

I thought we all did.

Are you saying you want to work

for this company

and jumped through every hoop

to get here,

but you don't know

who they are?.

- Well, look, they listed

salary and benefits, okay?

The job description detailed,

"A high level of responsibility

in a Fortune 500 company

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