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The results were spectacular,

with a deviation rate

eight times higher than

can be explained by chance.

Now, what

does this mean?

That Silver's powers--?

No! It means that Silver

is pulling a fast one!

Do you know how I know this?

Because telepathy does not exist!

Because nobody

has special powers!

No. The protocol,

in theory, is sound.

It's just that Silver has

found a way of breaching it.

Okay, don't look

for radio transmitters,

because the booths work as Faraday chambers.

I've checked them.

They're isolated.

What if he's not

pulling a fast one?

Ben, you've got

of footage there

from seven cameras.

- That's 30 hours.

- What am I looking for?

An explanation, Ben,

just an explanation.

Try to make

it rational.

Hey.

Is everything

okay, sweetie?

It's raining.

Sit down, please.

I'll be with you

in just a minute.

I'm not a very

accessible person.

I suppose you've

realized that by now.

Only somebody who really wants

to get to me can do so.

I won't talk to

anybody else today.

Maybe I'll do so tomorrow,

in some other city.

Maybe I won't ever again.

As for me, I live each day

as if it were my last.

And I'm starting

to feel tired.

Very tired indeed.

I don't always demand payment for

my services, did you know that?

At least, not in money. There's

other ways of paying for things.

But you know that already.

You do know that,

don't you?

To be

or to appear to be,

that is the question.

It always is.

We all try to be

something we're not.

We dream 27 times a night.

An intricate neurological

protection mechanism

which makes us forget.

What protects you?

Aline of salt?

From the time of ancient

Greece to the present day,

philosophers and scholars

have argued

man is essentially rational.

I don't happen to agree.

If one observes and

studies another person

without having first

studied oneself,

how do we know whether our

instruments are appropriately set?

How do we know we are reliable?

We have no proof.

There's only one way

of gaining

access to the truth,

and that's not

to expect anything.

If our intentions

aren't pure,

we might end up

creating monsters.

Hm. Please excuse me.

It's getting late.

For you too.

Don't worry, we'll see

each other again.

Oh, yes. We'll see

each other again.

Silver is in the

final stages of his countdown,

only 12 hours after the announcement

of his most recent retirement.

This unexpected news

has caused commotion...

...all kinds of

contradictory reactions.

Those that predicted that

Silver had come back to stay

have had no option

but to accept...

...estimate that Silver

may well have pocketed

more than four million dollars

in less than a month,

a figure that

would confirm...

--most immediate

consequences,

with prices of up

to 2,000 dollars

being asked by

scalpers for seats,

a more than dubious record

being held today...

...packed out an hour and

a half before the start

of what will be

his last appearance.

It is impossible to predict

an outcome for this...

...and it's with

great expectation

the verdict from the Scientific

Paranormal Research Center,

to be announced

officially tonight.

If the leaks get out...

...maybe thereby silencing

more than one skeptical voice,

and transcending

once and for all

the area of mystification

and the study

of frontier sciences.

Science has rarely had the

chance to study at close hand

such controversial

manifestations

as those which have made

Simon Silver famous.

We really have to wonder if the

spectators presently witnessing

the final chance to see Simon

Silver will get' what' they paid-

Why have you

come here tonight?

What are you

hoping to see?

Do you think I

should surprise you?

Do you think I

should entertain you?

What are you

looking at so closely?

What do you know about me?

How much do you believe?

How much do

you want to believe?

I can feel your longings,

your desires...

I can feel your demands.

It is a deep, painful

urgency of the animal

forced to live in darkness

which finally opens his eyes

and voraciously demands light

with a howl of rage!

What is it

you've come to see?

This?

Have you come to see this?

I feel my veins burning

with the fire

of a new understanding!

We called Ptolemy insane,

we spat in the face of Galileo,

we burned Giordano Bruno...

What did we need?

What do we need

in order to learn?

What makes us

be what we are?

What finally makes

us come to accept?

What makes us believe?

Why did you come here...

today?

Are you crazy? I shouldn't

even be talking to you.

Wait, wait, Ben,

I'm not against you.

I--I just need to

know what you've got.

You're my student

too, remember?

Dr. Shackleton,

you know I can't talk.

Listen, Ben,

I've always respected

Dr. Buckley's work,

and Dr. Matheson's.

I'm not the enemy.

I'm sorry, Doctor.

I'm going to hang up.

Ben, I've got the results

of nine days of experiments

sitting right

here in front of me.

Definitive results.

The only thing missing

is my signature.

I'm talking about the scientific

verification of extrasensory perception

and forces which until today have

only been seen as para-science...

I can imagine.

Do you have any idea what the

publication of these results

will mean to Dr. Buckley

and his department?

Yeah, I--I guess.

Ben, if we've got

anything wrong, anything,

I need to know.

What have you got?

Nothing.

What?

- What do you mean?

- We got...

nothing.

Final call,

we'd better get going.

I hope the second half

is better than the first.

I didn't spend 300

bucks to see Hamlet.

- Sally!

- Ben? What are you doing here?

Sh*t, Sally, you don't know

how pleased I am to see you.

Tom told me

you'd be here.

You should be

doing this, not me.

What are you doing here?

Where is Tom? He's not home

and he's not answering his phone.

Did something happen to him?

Is that SPCR?

Telepathy booths. I've been

watching the same images.

- If you want my opinion...

- Ben, I don't. Where is Tom?

With Silver, I think.

- What do you mean with Silver?

- At the theater.

It's nothing out

of the ordinary.

He wants you to wait for him

here, so take a seat.

He's perfectly all right.

What's that?

- What's what?

- That. There.

His watch?

Why would

Silver wear a watch?

Blind people wear

watches too.

They tell the time

by touching the hands.

They checked it.

It's clean.

Can you split

the image in two?

- What are you looking for?

- I don't know yet.

Put the sender on the left

and Silver on the right.

That's it.

Move in on the watches.

- Can you do that?

- On the watches? Sure. Give me a sec.

I can't get an angle.

Let me try with

another camera.

Can you

improve the quality?

Mm-hm. Sure. I can

amplify a single pixel,

click it up

with my magic

and make it so

bright and shiny

you need sunglasses

to look at it.

This ain't a movie.

We're in

the psychology department.

All right.

Go to the other camera.

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