Genocidal Organ Page #4

Poor Tyrone's been pining.

Oh, has he?

What's your relationship with Lucie?

I'm her student. She's teaching me Czech.

Wow, she's never

brought a student here before.

I'll bet you were surprised

that we use paper money

and don't screen people at the door.

I was, frankly. This would be

unthinkable in America.

America was once known as

"the land of the free,"

but these days it seems like

parts of Europe have a tad more freedom.

I'm certainly impressed

by Europe's broadmindedness,

operating places like these

even after Sarajevo.

It's about choosing your freedoms.

Labor robs the individual of his freedom,

but in exchange, he gets a salary

that he can buy goods with.

He relinquishes one freedom

to gain another.

You're saying that Americans have

relinquished some of our right to privacy

to gain freedom from

the oppressive fear of terrorism?

That's one way of looking at it.

I mean that your country and Europe

differ slightly in the balance they strike.

Do you run this bar

to protect your freedom?

Nothing so grand as that.

It's just hard to get this crowd

to really understand

that "freedom" is made up

of those compromises.

Young people mistakenly think that

pure and absolute freedom exists.

Right now they need to

rejoice in their false freedom.

So that as adults, they realize that

a consciously chosen freedom

is a higher form of freedom.

You're an educational person.

I prefer to be called

"enlightening," actually.

What are you two talking about?

Freedom as currency.

Again?

Well, there aren't many people

I can have conversations like this with!

This was fun.

Let's talk again sometime, Mr. Bishop.

Absolutely!

It must be tough to run

a place like this in today's world.

Yes. But people who remember times when

you didn't need biometric ID for everything,

and today's young people...

they need a place like this.

Spaces like this always pop up somewhere.

Are you seeking that freedom, too?

Personally, I just want a little breather.

Sometimes I just need

someplace I can relax

without anyone knowing

what I drank and who I danced with.

Let's get out of here.

Huh?! But my beer...!

Sarajevo was wiped out

while I was sleeping with him.

John's wife and daughter were there

to visit his sister-in-law.

Boston was so much fun

without them. I was in heaven.

The epicenter of the blast,

which reports indicate was nuclear,

was most likely

Sarajevo's "Old City," Stari Grad.

Officials are unable to contact

the American Embassy there, and--

He flew to Sarajevo.

And the horrible thing was,

even after that, I still loved him!

But he came back from Sarajevo

without telling me, quit MIT,

and disappeared.

I couldn't look for him.

Because he was the embodiment of my sins!

And I can't atone for my sins now!

The dead can't forgive anyone.

You know him, don't you?

He visits me for the first time

in five years, and then you show up.

What did he do?

What are you investigating?!

--Lucie...

--I don't know who you are.

But I just can't believe

you're the villain he claims!

Are you... in league with him?!

It's not that simple! Our relationship is...

You're...

'an.

Your accomplice?

I don't know her. "Accomplice"?!

You're going too fast!

Fingerprint authentication? So, you're a spy.

Mr. Bishop?

Charles! What's wrong?!

--I'm sorry.

I didn't know this would happen!

--Run... --l'm sorry. I didn't

know this would happen!

Run!

He only told me to bring you to the bar!

Lucie... run...

You don't need to run, Lucie.

A US government hit squad,

is that about right?

John Paul...

The Lord of Genocide.

What gave me away as military?

Soldiers have a certain way of walking.

My work was all about

finding patterns in unorganized data.

You were doing linguistic research

with Pentagon funds.

Why does a little language scholarship

need to be classified info?

They didn't tell you?

So you're willing to submit

to that much control.

In the beginning,

it was simple academic research.

Official Nazi documents,

radio broadcasts...

I acquired all possible

text data from Fascist regimes

and performed syntactic analysis.

When I presented my results,

the Pentagon offered me funding.

They gave me access

to classified CIA documents,

records of foreign traffic

intercepted by the NSA, all of it.

And what did you find out?

That genocide has a grammar.

Shortly before genocide occurs,

you start glimpsing the patterns.

Because it's an innate deep structure

independent of any specific language,

those who enjoy the use

of those languages can't see it.

Innate grammar...?

The organ.

The Pentagon figured you could predict

genocides through traffic analysis, didn't they?

I started being able to see the signs

of future violence hidden in language.

When people hear too many sentences

generated by this grammar,

a change occurs in their brains.

Activity in an area of the brain

related to value judgments is inhibited.

It recalibrates what we call

the "moral compass"...

...in a very specific direction.

Words can't influence

your subconscious that way.

We know the Sapir-Whorf

hypothesis is wrong!

Our thoughts aren't dictated

by our language!

What's so funny?!

Sorry, you're just very learned for a spy.

Lucie told me.

Do you ever find yourself

thinking that words have no meaning?

Goethe wrote that hearing

a military air made him sit up straight.

Music rapes the heart.

"Meaning" is like a useless noble

that puts on airs based on that music.

Sound can bypass meaning.

There's a sort of cursed layer

that we can't perceive or grasp?

Let me offer you proof.

I buried a certain grammar

in my conversation with you.

No need to worry. It's not

the one that incites genocide.

What have you done to me?!

I simply stimulated a certain brain function

that's a remnant of past evolutionary needs.

As someone once said, ears have no lids.

No one can block out my words.

That's enough.

The pain is from nanomachines

shocking your nerves.

I put them in your Budweiser, sorry.

Lucius!

What did you do to Lucie?!

She's with John. Poor woman, she lost

her place here when you showed up.

I didn't figure you

for John Paul's accomplice.

John's a client of ours.

We cooperated with him

to protect ourselves.

"We l. ?

We are the Uncounted.

"Uncounted"?

There's an extremely low-tech method.

The world is full of sensors,

but most scan only one thing.

Retinas, prints, or veins.

Brainwave sensors here,

security cameras there.

Map out every sensor, and you can

see the least-watched routes.

Then, if you have nanolayer fingerprints

and copies of someone else's retinas,

it's almost impossible to track you.

Sarajevo?!

We made those into living IDs.

Aren't you the one who said

freedom was about compromise?!

Sure, but things are

very unbalanced right now.

The authorities take far more privacy

than they give back in safety.

After 9/11, the world ramped up security

by managing all our personal information.

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