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Why would they put it in there

if you didn't need it?

One catalytic converter. It's fine.

Rememberto put it back.

Your emission just went up 300%.

-Is there enough in here?

-Yeah, should be.

If not, we'll pull the one out of my truck.

Okay, coppertubing.

-This will be out of commission, right?

-Without the tubing?

-We can use the Freon, too.

-No, it's going to be room temperature.

I know, just in case.

No, wait. Stop. I'll just buy the tubing.

This isn't saving us money.

-Jay? Hey, man. How are you?

-Good.

Should we be wearing goggles?

-Should we be wearing goggles?

-What?

Goggles. Should we be wearing goggles?

Wait. Phillip, you don't want

to come out here.

Phillip, grab a mask, okay?

It is, though, right? It's not just me?

No, it's definitely smaller, but it just seems

that way. Take what they have.

Minus the coolant which we don't need.

The rest of it is the mercury bath...

which you would know betterthan I do,

but they're probably just showing off.

I mean, you have it, you got to use it, right?

-What? Does it hurt?

-No, I didn't feel anything.

That sound is just weirding me out.

-What does it feel like?

-I don't know.

I don't know if I'm making it up.

Here.

-Next part. Let's do the next part.

-Yeah.

Isn't there some sort of glass

or a transparent....

Anything we can use as a window? Pyrex?

-Yeah, I'm in.

-Okay, drop it.

I don't know of anything

that won't leave a gap in the field.

But we got to see what's going on in there.

-How much did that cost?

-Yeah.

-What?

-You want to put my camcorder...

inside the box that's so dangerous

we can't look into it.

If something happens,

would you pay me back?

So we have a slightly negative pressure

in the box.

So we're ready forthe argon.

-Which one is that?

-It's the blue one.

I weighed it at 77 grams.

I set the scale to decagrams, though.

I'm showing 7.7 decagrams.

Ready for...

-You ready?

-Just the plate first, right?

Right, first just the plate, and then we'II....

Let's just give it a second.

-You want to do the box now?

-Yeah.

Let's go through the checklist.

Aaron, hold on a second.

Let's make sure everything's set up right.

Hold on, Aaron. Wait.

Just wait.

Okay.

Anything?

-Is this normal?

-I don't know.

-I'm turning it off.

-Wait! No.

-Okay, I didn't do that.

-Did we blow something?

Yeah, we did. That's destroyed.

-You want to check your camera?

-Yeah.

-Let's get this.

-You ready?

One, two, three.

Hey. Tell me you're hungry.

Kara's at her mom's and I'm starving.

Yeah, I'm hungry. What....

Abe, it's 7:
00. Abe, it's 7:00 at night.

-Okay, yeah, I have food--

-Okay.

-Wait, are those kids there?

-Just a sec.

Yeah, they're here.

Okay, screw that, let's just go somewhere.

I just pulled in, so come on down.

Come up first. I have some stuff

I want to take back to the shop.

All right, but meet me at the door.

-Okay, all right.

-Seriously, meet me at the door.

Okay. All right. See you.

-What's up, Abe?

-Hey, Brad. How are you?

Good.

-How long did he say he would be there?

-Not long.

If he's got problems, he's got to fix them.

You're not his dad.

I know. ljust thought it would be good

to do something charitable.

It definitely is charity.

At least you admit that.

You feel like a steak? To eat.

I don't want a steak. Let's just

grab some tacos on the way to the shop.

-I have some stuff I want to try out.

-Okay.

We can get some tacos on the way,

or we can get a steak afterwards.

What are you talking about?

I'm not paying for a steak.

It's stable?

Aaron, it's stable?

-What did you do to this thing?

-What?

-It looks like a dog digested it.

-Okay, that's the plate.

I rigged this into the box

so I could control the feed.

-I figured it's the easiest way--

-It's just controlling the box.

The plate stays the same.

What you do is you gradually feed it.

Okay. You hearthat? How it's....

See, I'm not touching it anymore.

It's growing with its own momentum.

It's like a feedback loop,

and it just regulates itself.

And what you do is when it gets there,

you bring it back...

and there you go, it coasts.

It's stable. It stays like that.

So it works?

-Yeah, it does.

-What is that, like 10%?

It knocks another couple of points

by the time it reaches the peak.

You may want to come over here

and take a look at this.

Okay, what am I looking at?

-What are we pulling out of the batteries?

-Probably 24 volts.

-I mean, no more than that, right?

-Okay.

So your meter's jacked up.

That's what I figured. So I tried three others.

I got the exact same thing.

-I spent all last night--

-What was it?

I spent last night and a two-hour break

just double-checking everything.

There's something wrong here. We're not

pulling out more than we're putting in.

-Slightly more.

-Well, yeah, whatever.

It's not like a volt and a half

more than we're putting in.

It's probably the batteries.

They're cheap batteries, not regulated right.

That is weird, though.

You want to see something weirder?

Okay, let's go overthis again.

Two batteries, right? 24 volts?

What are we pulling out of this one?

Just forfun.

Twelve volts.

-How about this one?

-Should be 12 volts.

So, what the hell is this thing?

It doesn't stay like that.

No, it winds down in a few minutes.

What does that?

I don't know. I'll tell them something.

I'll tell them we're spraying for bugs.

It should just be a day ortwo, anyways.

-Unless you want to bring them in.

-No, they have their work in there, too.

If Phillip finds out about that

he's going to have to take it apart.

-No. I'm just putting a little tweak on it.

-Yeah, I know. No, you're right.

Abe, it's my garage, okay?

It's not like they're paying rent.

There was value in the thing.

Clearly. Of that they were certain of.

But what is the application?

In a matter of hours...

they had pinned it to everything

from mass transit to satellite launching.

Imagining devices the size of jumbo jets.

Everything would be cheaper.

It was practical and they knew it.

But above all that, beyond the positives...

they knew that the easiest way

to be exploited...

is to sell something

they did not yet understand.

So they kept quiet.

The parties would continue.

Any birthday, anniversary, holiday...

maybe some obscure project launch.

It didn't matter. Any reason would do.

What was important is that Thomas Granger,

their last best hope of funding, show up.

If he left a little earlier than

they would've liked, he couldn't be blamed.

He was only there

to please his daughter Rachel.

And she was only there to please Abe.

What did you say

to Mr. Granger a while ago?

-Did you flip my burger?

-You can't call him Mr. Granger.

You have to call him, like,

Thomas or something.

-Go ahead.

-No, because he won't take you seriously.

-He thinks we're kids.

-lf you call him Mr. Granger...

he looks at you like you're a 6-year-old kid.

He does it with me. It won't work anymore.

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