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that your buddies, your

buddies from the future,

they have absolutely no

intention of rescuing you.

- Standing by.

It's an Albanian-Serbian

creole, it means,

- 147 years.

Is that how far you jumped?

You didn't come alone, did you?

- We came

with our leader, Abraham.

- Abraham?

- The father of three

great religions.

Which is why he took

that name for himself.

- How many other

friends came with you?

- They are not my friends.

- Then why join them?

- I believe in their cause.

- Which is?

You wanna change the past.

Is that it?

- You can't change the past.

But you can create a new one.

- Thank you.

You're being helpful, sir.

I'm Fischer.

- Ramiro.

- Is that your name?

I'm pleased to know it, Ramiro.

- Don't put me back

in that cell, Fischer.

- I have to.

- I have a set of demands.

Minimal requirements that

will earn you my cooperation.

- Yeah, couple names and the

vague beginnings of a story

are not really

gonna earn you much.

- Then I'll ask you this.

Do you want to defeat

Abraham and his men?

Do you want to save your world?

- Sorry.

- Fischer!

- Medic!

We need it right now!

Come on, come on. Stay with me.

I don't know what happened,

he just collapsed.

- He's in v-fib.

- Come on, come on!

- Defibrillating.

Clear.

Clear.

Clear.

He's dead.

- No no no.

What do you mean he's dead?

How can a man just die at will?

No!

He's dead.

What the f***?

- This is my first and

last warning, Fischer.

The next time, I

won't come back.

- Any news

from Lincoln, Nebraska?

- It's fine.

Nothing has happened

there as far as we know.

- You know it's been two

years since I saw my family?

It's hard.

On't get much news down here,

even when Indian

point point happened,

they didn't tell us

for a whole week.

- What did they tell you?

- That a dirty bomb went

off at the nuclear reactor.

- No.

It was not a dirty bomb,

it was a Soviet warhead

that was supposedly

decommissioned 12-years ago.

That's what killed

half-a-million people.

Including my sister

and my niece.

So you and Fischer,

how close were you?

- Well I didn't see it

coming if that's what

you're asking, ma'am.

- I don't think that anyone did.

But still you were the last

person to see him alive.

- I was?

- Yeah.

So, what was his mood that

day when you spoke to him?

- Actually, I didn't.

Fischer didn't even say hi.

He went straight in, same

thing when he came out.

- How long was he in there for?

- Barely five minutes.

- Fischer unplugged the cameras.

So we have no idea

what happened in there.

So he goes into his apartment,

he's alone for two days

and nobody hears from

him or talks to him.

- Actually,

I heard him.

I mean, I heard his voice

last night as I walked

past his door, I heard

him talking on the phone.

- Could you make out

what he was saying?

- No, but it sounded like he was

having an argument.

- Are sure he was on the phone?

- Well there's

nobody else in there.

- Bad news,

Fischer. The tests failed again.

We haven't found a functioning

equation, that's the problem,

and I don't understand why.

We've done everything right

based on original parameters.

Unless they're wrong somehow.

Is that possible?

I don't know, Fischer.

I'm out of ideas.

Looks like this is the

end of project sigma.

Doctor Ellis speaking.

- Yeah hi, this

agent Carmen Reese.

I'm Fischer's replacement.

- Yeah, I heard

about Fischer, what happened?

Did he really kill himself?

- It appears

so but I have my doubts.

Look, I need to talk to you,

about project sigma and this

equation that you're after.

- This used to be a darker

facility back in the 50's.

Did all kinds of

experiments here.

Mind control,

genetic manipulation.

You name it.

Sometimes it feels

like nothing's changed.

Only we're the lab rats now.

- Clear.

- Good luck.

- Hello.

- Agent Carmen Reese.

- What a lovely name.

I guess you could say I'm

somewhat of an audiophile.

I love my oldies,

but you already know that.

Coffee? Tea?

- No, thank you.

- Where is Fischer?

- He's dead, he killed himself.

- How sad.

He was my best friend in a way.

- You don't seem surprised.

- This world is like

a dream, Carmen.

Are you ever

surprised in a dream?

Did you know Fischer well?

- I did.

- Were you lovers?

I know you weren't.

- Why's that?

- You're not his type.

You must have made quite the

impression on your superiors.

The fact that they handed you

this most crucial assignment.

- I'll have a green tea.

- Well,

now that you are going

to be my new best friend,

I'd like to know a little

bit more about you.

- What would you like to know?

- Like,

what have you been up to

since all of this began?

- I served in Iraq for a while.

- Ah, searching for those

elusive WMDs, I suppose.

- In the beginning, yeah.

Then the insurgency began and

my assignment changed.

Suddenly I was given hundreds

of shackled prisoners

and this checklist that

made no sense to me.

At the time.

- A checklist?

- We were told that

our suspects would be

in their 20's to 30's.

They wouldn't be Iraqi.

Probably not even middle-eastern

but that they would

have strange accents.

Maybe they wouldn't

have an accent at all.

I tortured them.

Because I was told

that these foreigners

would display an extraordinary

tolerance to pain,

even in the worst

interrogations.

- Tailored genes

and nano devices

are quite common in my world.

- Especially among the

impoverished, I understand.

To help them deal with

their miserable lives.

- I trust you took

blood samples.

- Thousands.

They were sent back home,

tested for key genes.

- Genes that could be

easily hidden or removed.

- Easily.

- I warned Fischer.

I couldn't be certain

regarding the genetics

of the other warriors.

Or their current identities.

- But yet you knew that

they would be in Iraq.

- Iraq was explicitly

mentioned to me.

Please, allow me.

- By who? By Abraham?

- Yes, by Abraham himself.

He said that Sadam would

be our primary focus.

I can understand

your frustration.

There are 30-million

people in Iraq.

Your task was almost impossible.

- Almost.

- Did you find someone?

- We found a young woman.

No family, no papers.

I worked her,

and I worked her,

and all I got was the name

of a river in Kashmir.

- Kashmir.

Fischer never mentioned

the girl to me.

Is she being helpful?

- Not since she managed

to kill herself.

- Oh.

Suicide implants.

- No, she slammed her forehead

into the corner of a desk,

rupturing her cortex.

- How awful.

But look at the bright side,

your success did

not go unnoticed.

You earned yourself a promotion.

Sorry to interrupt.

I need you to step out

for a moment, Carmen.

- What is it?

- Well it's not a

bomb or a weapon.

It wound in the wreckage

of the blast in Mumbai.

- The one a couple of days ago?

- The one that destroyed

an entire industrial block.

No one knows what caused it.

- I bet Ramiro does.

- Where did you get that?

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