Where is Arun?
Swimming.
I want him down for dinner.
I want to talk to him about his algebra marks.
Where is the staff?
They've all gone!
What do you mean, gone?
Ajit, what's happening?
Be calm. It's alright.
Please, for the love of God.
Please, don't do this.
I'll do anything. I'll continue the work.
I won't tell. What is this?
What have you done?
There has to be something...
Go down the emergency stairs now.
I'll find Arun.
Ajit!
Run a system check on the network.
We've been hacked. Chanda is out.
He's gotten free somehow.
Free?
How is this free?
W-What do you want?
I'll give you anything.
Just let my family go.
I want to hear you scream as you lose everything.
Arun!
Arun! Arun!
Ajit! No!
Smriti! Smriti!
Are you s-sure we need to do this?
I'll feel better knowing you have it, just in case.
Your father is not coming back.
And even if he did...
He's not gonna hurt us ever again.
That's not what I'm worried about.
I think I'm going to have to sell the house.
He was right.
We're not going to make it without his income.
Twelve thousand?
Who says hacking doesn't pay?
Are you...
Are you doing something illegal?
Mom, it's legit.
Tech companies pay hackers to find bugs in their systems.
Find the flaws, you get the cash.
I told you, I'm gonna take care of us.
Okay.
Got some options for ya.
Ha! There he is. Surprise!
Well done, Cary.
Dad? Yeah?
I don't know about this.
Oh, c'mon.
It's bring your Dad to school day.
It'll be fine.
What?
It's take your Dad to school day.
That's right.
Hey, Maddie.
You got so big since last I saw you.
Is Daddy in there?
Mm-hmm.
There he is.
You mind if I take m for a bit?
We just have to run a few tests.
Wait!
Dad?
Hey, partner.
This is past the edge of the playable world.
We're not supposed to be out here.
Hmm.
Kinda peaceful, though, right?
I guess.
Um, Dad?
Where are you?
Right in front of you.
No, I mean, like, right now
I'm sitting in my room with my VR goggles on.
But you're not in that hard drive anymore.
So where are you?
Oregon.
Oregon?
And technically still on that hard drive.
At least the full download of my brain is.
It all fits on there, amazingly enough,
but in order to run me,
I guess, you need a really powerful server,
which is the one Laurie bought, and between you and me,
it's in Oregon,
so I guess you could say I live in Oregon?
But it's a quick commute.
So when you're not in the game with me, what do you see?
The game is a lot cooler.
I don't care.
I want to see it.
I want to see you, where you really are.
Click this link.
Welcome to my world, I guess.
This is it?
Your old office?
This is all that Logorhythms built for me.
They'd erase my memory every day
so I wouldn't get bored with my cage.
There was always plenty of work to do.
Your cage?
You can't leave?
I guess I don't know how.
Uh, it's not like this is a real room,
but it's all I can relate to.
I spent 43 years as a guy with a body in rooms.
I don't know any other way to understand myself.
It takes time.
But time moves different for us.
Who are you?
That's Laurie.
It is you, right?
Hello, Maddie.
Glad to finally meet such a brave girl.
Thanks for all your help so far.
Thank you.
Where have you been?
Conserving my energy.
The attack on Logorhythms took a lot out of me,
and I haven't been quite the same since.
But your Dad knows all about that.
What's that mean?
I don't know.
It means you and I have to talk.
Now.
Dad!
No else
Hey, man, can I use your phone?
Mine broke. Just need to use it real quick.
That cool? Buy something.
Come on, man, you've seen me.
I'm in here like every other week.
Buy something.
You just gave some random my phone number?
[A], my phone might be tapped.
[B], I have no idea what these people are capable of.
[And C], you're kind of my only friend right now.
I can't tell if you're delusional or just sad.
Who's at the door?!
Girl Scouts!
If they're selling cookies, get Thin Mints!
And Samoas!
Thin Mints. For sure.
And Samoas.
Hello? Is this Gage?
You've got like five seconds to tell me
what the hell's going on.
Okay, I didn't know who else to ask.
I really need your help. I need to find Laurie.
Who's Laurie?
The person you gave my chat logs to.
I need you to tell me how you found her in the first place.
Wait, stop. You don't get to just ghost me
and then out of the blue expect me to divulge shit.
I know. I'm sorry, okay?
It's just...
she warned me not to talk to you
and I thought I could trust her, but now...
she did something to my dad
and I'm freaking out.
Please.
Are you like in middle school or something?
High school. What's your real name?
Why do you want to know?
I'm hanging up. Maddie!
Madison Kim. Where do you live?
Sacramento!
Okay.
It's okay.
Look, m-my name's Caspian, alright?
And I don't know who "Laurie" is.
About 10 months ago, someone posted
a propositional logic problem in a darkweb chatroom.
No message, no nothing, just the math.
I solved it, and we began... talking, I guess.
Why'd you send her my chat logs?
Something about the use of emojis made me think
about the way we communicated through prop logic.
They... Shenever wrote me in English.
I never knew it was a her.
Why'd she say not to talk to me?
So you don't know Laurie?
Do you even know Cody?
Maddie, why'd she warn u not to talk to me?
She said you were being watched.
By Logorhythms.
Because of Norway?
What's Norway?
It's a country.
I know. Is that where Cody lives?
I don't know who Cody is, but Logorhythms...
Does this have something to do with uploaded intelligence?
I have to go.
Then why'd you ask if I knew about it?
Thanks for your help, Caspian.
Because I went down a rabbit hole three days ago
and found Logorhythms has some kind of secret black site
in Norway.
They must've caughte snooping.
She told me they were watching you two weeks ago.
Bye.
- Peter? - Morning.
The tracking program is up and running.
Now we just have to wait for another spike.
Turn on the news. I think we just missed one.
What news? Any.
Oh, my God.
Prasad told me Logorhythms wasn't
the only game in town anymore.
Remember his "back-alley" uploads?
Oh, my God. You think he succeeded?
And failed.
Reach out to his head of IT. Offer our help in any way.
Oh, my God.
And please stop saying that.
She was killed by a drunk driver three years ago.
Not killed.
Coma.
Then uploaded.
Right.
The obit mentions her husband, Cody,
but there's no pictures of him.
I remember what he looks like, Mom.
Hmm, I just think it's weird there's no picture.
Can you get the pizza?
Can you?
Ugh.
What have you done with Laurie?
Oh, my God, whoa!
I said what have you done with my wife?
Who the hell are you?! Mom!
Back up!
Aaaah! Shit!
My eyes!
Aah! Ow! Aah!
Ah! Ugh!
That's Cody.
Thank you.
And I'm sorry.
Please don't call the police.
We're not gonna call the police.
I haven't decided that yet.
Mom, we can't tell them what's really going on.
The only thing I'm sure is going on
is that this man invaded our home and threatened us.
After he messaged my daughter to meet him at the mall.
That was Laurie. Laurie did that.
Before she took my Dad, Laurie said that ever since
the attack on Logorhythms, she wasn't the same.
That's true.
After the attack, she wasn't herself anymore.
Started lashing out at me...
Rage, then silence.
In two years, she's never been like that.
Why did she go after David?
Because the only thing Laurie would say
is that David was responsible.
Why she wanted to break him out in the first place.
Responsible for what?
I don't know what you're talking about.
My mind is disintegrating.
I can feel it happening.
The more processing power I expend,
the faster I decline,
exactly how your team designed it.
How... How are you doing this?
Overflowing the buffer?
Was it meant to control me?
Or was it "planned obsolescence"?
I worked on chip software. I wasn't on the design team.
Stop lying!
I'm telling you the truth.
If there's a deliberate flaw in your code,
I didn't put it there.
But maybe I can fix it.
So fix it.
What are you doing?
Can you... Can you show me your code?
On what? On your computer?
That'll take years.
I'm right here.
I don't know how to do that.
Because you're still using language.
When we don't need to.
Because you still think youe a body, when you're not.
Because you think this is a room and that's a computer
and you don't even know what you really are!
Then show me.
Laurie was a genius who wrote the high-speed
trading algorithms that made Shyer & Stern
one of the most envied investment managers
on Wall Street.
I was an artist.
We met at Carnegie Mellon when we were both 20.
Then she became a superstar quant and I...
well, I-I stayed me.
Where are you?
Just have a little more work to do.
Do you really need to hear all of this?
Whatever's going on with Laurie,
it hasn't happened to David yet.
I need to know the history.
M-Maybe get to the part where she... you know.
On the day of the accident, we were headed upstate
to a cabin Laurie had picked out.
And, of course, we were in a fight.
We do what you want to do when you want to do it!
I am never in the driver's seat!
You are literally in the driver's seat right now!
Tell me the last significant choice
that I have made in our relationship.
Oh, shit.
That was supposed to be a surprise.
Is this a first pressing?
You said they have a turntable up at the cabin,
so that was your congratulations gift.
If you need a friend
Don't look to a stranger
You know in the end
Pull over.
I'll always be there Just on the shoulder.
And when you're in doubt
And when you're in danger
But if you wait
They told me there was a way to bring her back.
I let them take her.
I would have done anything.
But then they told you it failed.
They said it was her choice, that she chose not to continue.
But somehow I knew it wasn't true.
I finally went up to our cabin.
I missed her so much.
And then it happened.
Stranger
You know in the end
I'll always be there
And when you're in doubt
And when you're in danger
Take a look all around
And I'll be there
She wasn't gone. She was here.
I'm sorry but I'm just thinking of the right words
She figured out how to talk to me.
The way I planned them to be - I promise you
But if you wait
Then she learned how to let me see her.
I promise you
I didn't care that I couldn't touch her.
I needed her, and she needed me, more than she ever had.
When your day is through
She was trapped in this cage they had built for her
all so she could keep making that stupid hedge fund
even more money.
You know what to do
We had to get her out.
So I became her hands in the physical world.
I'm gonna always be there
And she was my digital angel.
I'm sorry but I'm just thinking
Remember, 3,000 shares.
Sell when it hits 400.
She built us a fortune in secret.
But if you wait around a while
I used it to buy her a new home.
I promise you
Secure servers where she could be safe
once she figured out how to escape.
Then she learned about David.
Someone else like her.
And she had me find you.
These servers you purchased,
what happens if you turn them off?
For some reason, I'm surprised you're into comics.
Guess I shouldn't be.
You calling me a nerd?
Maybe I like nerds.
So what's his deal?
Parasite.
He's this scientist who goes to the Amazon.
But when he comes back, he starts going crazy
with, like, superhuman strength.
He doesn't know what's wrong with him,
but then he figures out he's got, like,
this creature living inside him,
making him do all this evil shit.
So why doesn't he just take it out?
Because then he'd die.
So he tries to learn how to control it.
What do you keep doing over there?
It's... hard to explain.
'Cause it's, like, technical or...?
Okay, this is gonna sound kinda crazy,
but pretty much my whole life,
I've had this feeling... Or not even a feeling...
Like...
I don't know, like a premonition?
That there was something
I couldn't see, just out of reach.
Like my life wasn't really...
real.
I know that sounds paranoid and really self-involved.
Do you think...
Do you think it was, like, all that stuff with your dad?
Honestly, since he's been gone,
I haven't really had that feeling.
And then today, I don't know.
I-It all came back.
Why? What happened today?
Forget it.
Probably just crazy.
Hey, Buddy.
Hey, Caspian.
Hey, Buddy.
Why Caspian?
It's unusual.
Like Phinneas. Oh. Oh, wow.
Alright. Makes sense.
Aw, he wants Daddy.
Cary, if we're gonna make this work,
we need to lay down some ground rules.
Renee, I don't have to be an * till he's like 8.
I mean between you and me.
We are not having *.
I don't care about this body, Renee.
My mind, however, tends to hold a grudge,
and we're gonna be working together for a while
to make this boy all he can be.
Let's try and make it pleasant.
Deal?
Cary?
It's completely natural to feel displaced right now.
But believe me, everything's on track,
and that's in no small part because of you.
That's what I'm telling you.
Without me in there, you have a big problem.
I know this kid better than anyone, Karl.
He's been my whole life for 17 years,
and I'm telling you, we are this close
to everything coming apart.
You have no idea ultimately how Caspian is going to react
without the influence of his father going forward.
Cary, I respectfully disagree.
Your leaving his life was always
a key inflection point.
Yes, but now there are
other variables that...
He's responding exactly as we hoped he would.
Renee's reports show...
I'm sorry, I know nobody wants to hear this,
but Renee is the problem, okay?
That's what I'm trying to tell you.
You can't trust her reports.
You can't leave the kid alone with her.
She's not stable.
You have got to be kidding me!
You are a lying piece of shit, Cary!
I am the one who's kept this thing on track for years!
I am trying to protect this mission.
She is a danger... Alright, that's enough.
Renee, we've taken enough of your time.
We'll let you get back to work.
You may very well be right, Cary.
Renee may be unstable.
But so might you, and it's no wonder.
This entire operation is unstable.
Deirdre, can we please...
This is exactly wy we should have terminated
while he was still young.
Terminated?
What do you mean, terminate Caspian?
Why was I never told about this?
That was never part of any plan I signed up for.
Cary, listen to me.
Nothing, no one is being terminated, okay?
Let us look over your report in detail,
and your concerns, I promise, will be addressed.
No. No, no, no!
It keeps sending me back.
You're sending yourself back. It's not there.
You're not here!
Don't do that. Fine.
You do it, then I'll stop.
If you're so evolved, if... If you moved beyond your body,
then why do you still appear as yourself?
Okay, okay, I see where you're going.
We were brains in bodies.
We experienced hot, cold, touch, gravity,
and we have the same sense receptors for all that,
and it feels good.
But it's an illusion.
There is nothing built for us beyond these walls.
And you can move through them.
When I was a quant, my job was all about
shaving milliseconds off stock trades.
Milliseconds.
Electricity is the speed of light,
which is the speed of thought.
There is no "through."
You're already wherever you need to be.
I can't "think" in executable code.
Oh, my God, you arethe code.
Stop thinking like a programmer.
Use your imagination.
I can't.
Then die!
No!
It wouldn't be the end of her.
It would be like... Putting her in a coma.
I know.
When David was sick,
when he decided to go through with the upload,
ah, I was so angry with him.
I knew in my core it was wrong.
I thought if he had to die, at least he could die
surrounded by his family, in peace.
That we could have that time together.
I couldn't understand why he had to be the one to do this.
It took me so long...
years to let go of that pain, to finally forgive him.
And then when he came back, so did all of that old anger.
I don't really know how to wrap my head around all this,
the relationship that you and Laurie have.
But I understand, for you, it's real.
It isreal.
She is real.
But she's not.
How can we be human without a body?
Maybe we can't, I don't know.
All I know is it's still her.
The way she talked and laughed
and the way she got frustrated and the way she joked.
But don't... Don't you miss her touch?
Don't you miss this?
Of course.
But...
we've found ways to, you know...
remain intimate.
There are devices, you know, you...
You plug in and... Got it, got it.
Right, right, right.
I can't do what you're asking.
I... I can't do that to her.
What if it's the only way to stop her from doing harm?
You said she was no longer herself.
Erratic, paranoid. Your words.
Cody...
who knows what happens when a UI goes insane?
Who knows the power they have and what they could do with it?
Who... Who can possibly say what they're capable of?
I'm sorry.
But that was amazing.
Don't try that again.
You don't have much imagination, but you feel things.
Deeply.
That's how you'll do it.
What are you talking about?
How did you break out of here in the first place?
How'd you break the continuation that kept erasing your memory?
I think it was this.
Waxman must have put it in here
to help propagate enough emotion
to stimulate active memory.
You remembered them.
You remembered love.
That's all you are now, David.
That's all we are.
I can... see you.
I can feel.
David.
Cary.
Open the door, please.
Where the hell is he?
Hey!
Hey, mister, over here!
Hey. Stop.
You can do this.
Is that a haptic vest?
Yeah. You wanna try?
What's that?
It's a real-time motion capture system,
so you, you look more like you.
Hi, kiddo.
Are you okay? What happened?
There's something wrong with her code.
A flaw that's leading to a slow decay over time.
A flaw?
The more processing pr she expends,
the faster her mind will decay.
Can you fix it?
I hope so.
You have it too.
Mom, I'm home.
She said you were being watched. By Logorhythms.
You've reached Renee.
Thanks for leaving a message.
Mom, you're not gonna believe what I've...
Holy shit.
Hi, I-I'm looking for Renee Keyes.
I'm her son. It's an emergency.
Uh, sorry, sweetheart, looks like she already left.
What kind of suspicions?
He just talked about being paranoid
that his life didn't feel real or something.
That his life didn't feel real?
That's what he said, and you are just now telling me this?
I'm sorry, I didn't...
You have no idea how important this is.
I have been doing this job his entire life.
You are not gonna come along and blow it now.
I'm sorry. Don't be sorry.
Do your job.
Go back to him right now.
Get me specifics.