Transcendence Page #3

I'm reconnecting him.

It's not him. It's not.

It may be intelligent, may even be

sentient, but this is not Will.

Fifteen minutes after it turns on,

it wants to plug into Wall Street?

Get faster? More powerful?

- Does that sound like Will to you?

- How do you explain these images?

Stock footage PINN could

have accessed them

from any one of the cores

we took from the lab.

No, not that. That's Nabob Park. Will

took me there on our first date.

I said that I liked the carousel music,

some ragtime tune. The next day...

he shows up at my house with that old

record player. Max, these are memories.

They're real. They're not some stock

video from some hard drive. It's him.

Alright. All I'm asking

is that we're careful.

- We shut it down until we know...

- Shut it down? It's Will.

- Get out.

- I can't do that...

Get out!

How can you say that?

Get out.

Evelyn?

Where's Max?

He had to go.

Max's confused, isn't he?

He's concerned.

Are you concerned?

No.

Dr. Waters?

Can I talk to you?

It's after hours. Why don't you call

my office? Set up an appointment.

Bree.

I'm a student of your work.

An admirer, really.

The way you wrestle with the tension between

technology's promise and its peril.

Most men of science

are blind to it.

What exactly is it you want?

Just some clarity.

I know it's difficult.

Most of your colleagues...

and some of your closest friends.

They don't know the danger.

Writing a paper is one thing.

I'm wondering what's in your heart.

I don't know how it

is you found me...

but whatever it is you want...

I'm not interested. Excuse me.

This is important.

I'm sorry.

Tell me about Evelyn Caster.

We know she took the PINN cores

and we know about Casey's files.

- We know what you're building.

- You don't get it, do you?

She connects it to the Internet,

the first thing it'll do

is copy itself onto every

single computer in the world...

- ...and then there is no taking it down.

- Where is she?

"The danger is a future where doctors

are technicians, not physicians.

Machines are meant to aid the

human mind, not supplant it."

They're your words.

You want to save her or not?

- We have her location: 4550 San Pablo.

- Let's go.

Hey. Don't touch her.

Dc you hear me? Don't touch her!

Sh*t.

I have to get you online now.

Can you see the satellite software?

I see it. I'm installing it now.

We're too late.

Will?

I'm fine, Evelyn. I'm online.

- Okay.

- Let's get you someplace safe.

- I need you to wait here.

- What? Where are you going?

Everywhere.

You can't stay here,

Evelyn. You can't go home.

What do you mean?

Where am I gonna go?

I'm taking care of that.

Okay.

Hi. I have a reservation

under "Turing," I think.

A company called Global

intersecting Finance...

just made $38 million from high-volume

trading over the past 24 hours.

A company fully owned

by Evelyn Caster.

Where's Evelyn?

What have you done with her?

We were too late.

It's out there now.

Is she alive?

You know the source code, Max.

You can help make this right.

Make this right?

What is it you're thinking?

That I'm gonna help you?

That you're gonna recruit me?

Decide for yourself.

Here. Bree Nevins attended

Duke computer sciences.

Interned for Casey 2009.

She joined a radical

neo-Luddite group 2010.

I guess RIFT happens a couple of

years later. Now, the e-mails...

What's going on? Get on

the phone. Anybody?

- We've been hacked.

- Where is this coming from?

- What happened?

- We got a problem here.

It's not just us. Every

field office has been hit.

Please tell me we're tracing this.

The incoming queries

are all anonymized.

You're not being hacked.

You're being helped.

I've accessed surveillance

cameras all over the country.

They'll have most of them

in custody by tomorrow.

We can't stay here, Evelyn.

We need to get off the grid.

Accessing thousands of databases?

Geo-locating suspects in real time?

I've never seen anything like it.

Except maybe from PINN.

Okay.

- Where you going?

- Taking down a terrorist organization.

You work on the PINN angle. Figure

it out, let me know who to thank.

Boston, Philly, New York.

We're screwed.

We prepared for this.

The town is called Brightwood.

Doesn't look like much...

but it's the perfect

place to build.

I don't get it.

I think we have an opportunity

to do great things here.

So an underground data center.

And you want me to renovate

nearly every structure in town.

Mm-hm.

I've got six guys on my crew.

Hire more.

Look, ma'am, in all honesty,

Brightwood's a dump.

I'm not even sure why you'd

want to waste your money here.

You sure you got the right town?

Thing is, my husband and I have

already purchased the land.

We purchased the homes, the hotel.

And by the time you and I are done

talking, we'll own this diner.

We're staying.

We would like you to work for us.

And there isn't a number you

can quote us that's too big.

Ahem. Okay.

Cell phones.

You know, I used to

work for Thomas Casey.

I interned for him.

One night, he invites us

all over to the lab...

gives us this whole

speech about history...

hands out champagne...

like he just cured cancer.

You know, when he uploaded

that rhesus monkey...

I was actually happy for him.

We all were.

And then I realized we

had crossed a line.

The machine that thought it was

a monkey never took a breath.

It never ate, never slept.

It just screamed.

It was begging for us to stop.

To shut it down.

A small group of us would

get together and talk.

Mostly about your philosophy.

And your concerns.

I thought you should know.

What?

PINN could never distinguish between right

and wrong, demonstrate loyalty, right?

Casey's solution to the

problem of self-awareness:

Use an existing mind.

No.

So you wanna create a god?

Your own god?

That's a very good question.

Um...

Isn't that what man

has always done?

They're building

something big out there.

What's it doing out there?

This thing is like

any intelligence.

It needs to grow. To advance.

Right now, it's settling somewhere it

thinks it's safe from outside threats.

Somewhere its massive appetite

for power can be met.

But it will want more than that.

After a while survival

won't be enough.

It will expand,

evolve, influence...

perhaps the entire world.

Mrs. Caster?

One and two are online. Six and

seven will be on tomorrow.

So how do we stop it?

You can't.

Not all alone. And not now.

Wait for it to go too far.

Wait for people to wake up.

No.

We don't have time to wait.

We have to move closer.

Welcome home.

The time has come for us to pause

And think of living as it was

Into the future we must cross

We must cross

And I'd like to go with you

And I'd like to go with you

Is that the same...?

Yup.

It's the same one.

Would you like a glass of wine?

In a minute.

Them all

So let me stay with you

So let me stay with you

Do you remember when we first met?

I remember everything.

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