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Hold this motherf***er!

Ah! Dr. meier!

Ah! Ay, ay, ay, ay.

Okay, okay.

Okay, okay, okay.

Okay, okay, okay, okay.

- Vamos!

- Ay!

No!

Dr. meier, don't fight.

They'll hurt you.

Stop fighting back!

We give up!

Stop!

Ah!

Meier? Meier?

Vamos, vamos!

Get him away.

Come on.

Get this motherf***er away.

Don't touch me.

So...

This was all a plan

from the beginning?

In a way, yes.

Why have you abducted us?

What's your plan now?

Everything will fall

into place.

It depends on you.

There is no question

that our embassy

has been alerted

to our disappearance.

They are already

in crisis mode.

But it is irrelevant,

because there will be

no negotiations.

And the delegation

who was supposed to meet us

upon arrival?

Have you taken them, too?

No. They were easily bribed.

I take no pride in this.

I don't approve of pay-offs

to anyone.

Do me one favor!

Do not try to come

to the rescue...

...of a tired world.

I'd like to know your name.

As long as I wear this mask

i have no name.

But I know the face

of this gentleman.

Krauss, why don't you

remove your mask?

You are compromised,

aren't you?

Krauss? You said your name

was aristides.

In fact, if facts count here,

it isn't aristides.

So it is krauss.

Yes, and no.

And how were you able

to get here so quickly?

- We have our ways.

- And who is "we"?

I would like to know.

"We"... that is basically me.

I am the brain.

I am leading a delegation.

I am responsible

for its members.

Where are they?

Are they all right?

I can assure you they are fine.

I accept no assurances

from an unidentified man

with no name and no face.

I want to see them, now.

Well, hopefully...

...the time will come when there

are no more secrets between us.

Dr. Arnold meier

and Dr. fabio cavani

are both here at the compound.

How is Dr. meier?

I saw your men hurt him.

He is bruised,

but otherwise subdued.

Meaning what?

As Dr. meier

proved to be so combative,

we had to calm his heroism

a little bit.

Krauss, why don't you

show professor sommerfeld

the food she should avoid.

Go on, have a look.

Please do not eat these,

even if offered

with every indication

of warm hospitality.

You gave this to my delegation?

We did nothing.

Our guests ate it...

...and then they came down

with a local form of...

- What's happened to them?

Say it.

Diarrhea.

Krauss...

...why don't you show our guest

to her quarters?

life in a wheelchair

has its comforts,

but not all the time.

I see.

It's okay.

One day I shall walk again.

Dr. meier, Dr. cavani,

please come to the window.

I... I'm dying.

- No, you're not.

- I'm dying, I'm--

- no, you're not.

- I'm dying.

- No, you're not.

- I'm dying!

The dumplings, it must have

been the dumplings.

Are you hurt?

Yes, but I am going to be fine.

It's just my stomach.

I've got

the dresden of diarrhea.

It's a horde of protozoans

swirling around

my intestinal tract.

I may be dying.

I may be dying.

The noblest place

for a man to die

is the place

he dies the deadest.

This is

the mother of all diarrhea.

Take care.

Keep yourself hydrated

and get some rest.

Professor sommerfeld,

I wish I could help you.

Please abstain from gossiping

in that ugly language.

I'm fine,

i can take care of myself,

of my situation,

of our situation.

Let me try.

- Madame...

...please follow me.

Your quarters

are in the adjacent courtyard.

this way.

Ay, ay...

Ay, ay...

Laura, you look a mess.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Rest assured.

This food is safe to eat.

Thank you, krauss.

Half for you, half for me.

You choose.

Excuse me

for taking your share,

but I'm hungry.

And I'm sure...

...you didn't abduct me

to poison me.

Not at all.

I'm glad to see you eating.

I would like to see Dr. meier

and Dr. cavani.

Be assured...

...they are my respected guests.

Why are you holding me hostage?

Is it for money?

I can contact some officials

to negotiate.

No.

Tell me what you want.

You must be secret service.

Are you enjoying the massive

support of the government?

I am no secret service,

no government,

no plot of the CIA,

or anything of the sort.

Who are you, then?

Professor, I expected more

of you.

Matt Riley.

The ceo of the consortium.

The consortium exists

only as a legal entity today.

As you may know, after the

ever-opportunistic Swiss

sold their majority stock,

the Chinese,

the Americans,

the south Koreans...

...all ducked into the trenches

and became invisible.

But they're still there.

They are all responsible

for the diablo blanco disaster.

Despite that the disaster

had already begun

when I took over as ceo,

i personally feel responsible.

But you must have known

it was not a singular event.

It has evolved over decades.

We have measurements,

data and statistics

since the '70s.

Data.

Statistics.

I see another side to it.

Public relations.

Don't belittle yourself.

I'm not prepared

to speak about it now.

Because you are trying to hide

a big conspiracy, mr Riley?

Ah, I find that silly.

There is no reality...

...there are only views

of reality.

Only perceptions.

All collective anxieties

condense into

conspiracy theories.

My data is real.

There is a disaster.

Yes, and there are

three million Americans

who claim they have had

encounters with aliens.

Among them,

three hundred thousand women

who claim

that they have been abducted

and gang-raped by aliens.

Now this leads me

to two questions.

One...

Why do all these women

weigh over 350 pounds?

And, two...

Why have we never heard

of a single abducted woman

in Ethiopia?

Hm?

Of course the diablo blanco

disaster exists.

And it is not static.

It is spreading.

And my delegation has been sent

to determine at what rate...

...and make our findings public.

What prevents me from doing so

is that you have

taken me prisoner.

I am prepared to accept

the consequences.

Even go to prison

for what I am doing.

I demand to be released!

Don't pressure me!

This could end very badly

for both of us.

Do you want to be a martyr?!

I'm Laura sommerfeld.

I've been abducted.

I have been in a car...

...at least two or three hours.

I do not know where I am,

but I will play their game

to figure out

what Riley wants.

Hola.

Remember now thy creator

in the days of thy youth.

This magnificent specimen,

Mr. mcmurphy, speaks.

What did it just say?

"Remember now thy creator

in the days of thy youth."

You know what nostradamus said

about talking birds?

No. I do not read nostradamus.

Hm.

He foretold what sounds

like science fiction today.

He said, "household pets

finally communicate with man.

Life then possible

outside the planet.

A new tyrant sows terror.

Events to come."

A world run by big data

and predictive analytics

doesn't care

about renaissance predictions.

I want to know

how meier and cavani are.

It's not so much

the predictions themselves

that fascinate me, it's...

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