In the Cloud Page #2

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The brain perceives pain

as it would.

How are you going

to get around that drawback?

It's not a drawback.

It's a feature.

It's a real life system.

That's what I'm giving you.

There's no pleasure without pain.

There's no money

in unsafe virtual worlds.

(stuttering)

Yes.

Sandra, what I'm giving you

is a real sensory modality

that other tech companies

aren't even going near!

I don't wanna be open

for any kind of litigation.

Build me a restart button

and then I...

I'm not selling you

video games.

Just think.

The potential applications...

You don't need to speak for me.

It speaks for itself!

Listen, thank you so much for

a really lively presentation,

but it's a pass, I'm sorry.

It's all yours, Mr. Jones.

Thank you.

Thank you, Sandra!

(sighs)

Not the first.

Won't be the last.

No vision.

Screw the suit.

Technically,

aren't you a suit?

Hale.

Hey.

Hale!

I brought you a present.

Are you bringing drugs

into my establishment?

Nah, not me.

Hmm?

Alaskan Thunderfunk.

Old times' sake?

Step into my office.

(Hale and Theo laughing)

Ohh!

Man, I was having a pint with

the Doc like two days ago.

You were talking again?

Yeah, we were talking again.

[Theo]

He hasn't been himself.

Exer squeezed our funding.

Lab's been stressful.

[Doc] There's gotta be

something more than this.

I don't know,

some gated place,

the only gatekeeper

being a mirror.

If you can stand

the sorry sight of yourself

then you're free to enter.

Well, if the cloud is solved

before that comes a-knocking,

then it's basically choose

your own adventure, right?

Yeah, I'm telling you,

there's something's not right

about all of this.

Myoclonic epilepsy.

It's, you know,

it's unpredictable.

The inescapable feeling

of being watched.

It corrupts

the true self, always.

Truth burns.

Right.

Ben goes bye-bye

under the bright lights

and 24 hours later

we're hunting a Nazi.

I don't buy it.

Well.

We've got his brain map.

His research

on the memory dives?

The maths adds up.

He cracked it.

Don't get me wrong,

there's pieces missing,

but there's a chance

that we could sort this.

Then sort it.

Sort, sort, sort, sort, sort.

I can't go lone wolf.

Why not?

I got the software,

but you have the hardware.

Cirrus 8?

Man, that is some serious sex.

Next level.

God level.

God level.

God level.

If we can reprogram your chip

to process memory data

from a brain map

as virtual space,

then maybe we can dive

into Doc's memories.

Dive nice and deep.

Doc's and Max's.

I don't play well with the law birds.

(clears throat)

Government greysuits

climbing my walls.

I want nothing to do with

London's Next Top Terrorist.

Exer could fund

this whole operation.

Play hide and seek

with the cog army.

Nah, sorry.

It's not my style, man.

I may look good

in a suit, but I'm no cog.

I've opened every door

at Wolff for myself.

And for once,

I'm not sorry about that.

I legit just blacked out

the last 30 seconds.

What were we talking about?

(exhales)

I said you built

something remarkable here.

Congratulations.

Doc's dive notes.

[Hale]

Is Theo planting the flag

on this hush-hush

little project you're doing?

[Doc] You know,

it really kills me

that you two are...

Why don't you just call him up?

[Hale]

What's behind your gates?

I don't know.

Maybe your return

to the true self.

Heaven for some.

Hell for others.

(festive folk music playing)

(people chattering, laughing)

(banging on door)

(gasps)

(woman screaming)

(gasping)

(coughing)

It's okay, it's okay.

- Shh.

- (groans)

It's okay.

You dreaming again?

What were you dreaming about?

(mumbling)

I don't know. It was just so...

Mm-hmm?

Vivid.

Tell me.

(groans)

They want me to go work on

one of Doc's leftover projects.

Who?

Mary.

Theo.

- (groans)

- (bones crack)

What are you guys working on?

They want to dive.

Dive?

Yeah.

No, you're not going to dive.

- Why not?

- No!

We tried everything,

from hypnosis to LSD,

to what was the name again?

- Lucid dreaming.

- [Z] Yeah! And the other thing.

- Astral projection.

- Exactly.

I know you want to know

what happened to your parents

but sometimes it's best

to let go, you know?

Oh, my God.

- (bomb exploding)

- [Z] Hale!

(siren wailing in distance)

(phone ringing)

[Hale on phone]

Hey. Theo, it's Hale.

This is getting out of control.

Let's meet at our spot.

Now.

[reporter] At least

17 have been killed

and many more injured

after another explosive device

went off in the UK

this morning.

This time at a

South London mosque.

Authorities are refusing

to comment

on whether this is

a copycat attack

or if there's any evidence

that it could be related

to the two attacks

that have shocked London

over the past week.

The police are not releasing

a statement at this time

but are appealing for anyone

with any information

to come forward.

We'll be back in a moment with

the rest of the day's news.

My gran used to take me there.

We doing this?

(techno music playing)

[Hale]

Slaves!

Couch, up there, now.

It's gonna be a long night.

Let's do this.

[reporter]

The world mourns

for recent victims

of terror attacks.

Candlelight vigils are shown

from New York to Warsaw

as the community shows

its solidarity

with the people of London.

Police refuse

to release the names

of any potential suspects

and have raised

the attack level to critical.

Leaving many people to believe

that more attacks are imminent.

Let me in, let me in.

(indistinct)

(laughing)

(choking)

Test one.

God, I hope this works.

- (group clapping)

- [man] Come on!

Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!

Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!

(clapping gets quicker)

[woman]

Here we go! Yes!

(coughing)

Yeah, nothing.

Nothing!

Number seven.

DMT won't hold.

(gags, coughing)

Test 25.

(coughing)

Test 32.

F***!

(speaking French)

(grunting)

(exhales)

Wait.

Dynamite?

We're effectively building

a biofeedback loop. Right?

Brain-machine interface.

Which is supposed to be

a two way street.

Except right now, it's not.

Information flows

in one direction.

Map to user.

We have to open the loop.

Establish a dialogue

with the memories. How?

- How?

- How?

- How?

- How?

[Z]

Quickest or cleanest?

- Huh?

- (groans)

Quickest or cleanest?

I got a gun to my head.

Feed the user's brain map

into the target map.

Which allows the user's brain

to fill the holes

in the memories.

- That's it.

- [both] Yes!

Fake the loop until

we can update the chip.

Genius!

(Z laughing)

(laughing)

Who's first?

Right, let's see

what rotten fruit is stuck

all the way

inside that mind of yours.

(machine beeping)

Morning, everyone,

thanks for coming.

Okay.

Test 67. 68.

Got that.

Right, uh, his mind acts

as the remote, okay.

He needs to concentrate

on what he wants to see

in order to bring up related

memories in the brain map.

And those memories,

theoretically,

should be recreated

in the simulation.

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