Devs (2020): Season 1, Episode 8 - Episode #1.8 - full transcript
(machinery humming)
STEWART: The falcon
cannot hear the falconer.
Things fall apart...
the center cannot hold.
The best lack all conviction.
The worst are full
of passionate intensity.
What rough beast,
its hour come round at last,
slouches towards Bethlehem.
To be born.
(ambient music playing)
(music rising)
Hi, Lily.
Come in.
Where's Katie?
Here.
In the labs.
We'll find her later.
In about half an hour.
I don't know what I am any more.
Something that makes
no decisions,
has no choices,
follows a path I can't see.
I'm not even choosing the words
I speak now.
No.
I've watched you speak
these words before.
Many times.
And watched myself reply.
As the words come,
I don't feel as if
I'm consciously repeating lines.
They're just the things that,
at this moment,
I feel I want to say.
You've taken everything from me.
I'm sorry.
I hope
I don't sound unsympathetic,
but I've taken nothing from you.
I can't take what you never had.
The sense that you were
participating in life
was only ever an illusion.
Life is just something
we watch unfold.
Like pictures on a screen.
This is what Devs makes?
Yes.
A film of your daughter?
It's not a film, Lily.
Determinism may be strange,
but it's also beautiful.
A small piece of information
provides all information.
The state of every particle
is related to the state
of the particles around it.
Understand the state of one.
Understand the state
of the other.
Keep going...
know the state of everything.
That's impossible.
No. It's big data.
The data of all things.
Held.
Owned.
And that's not where it ends.
That's where it starts.
If you have all data,
you have the emergent property
of the data.
The feel of her skin and hair.
Her breath.
The tone of her voice.
Her thoughts and memories.
Her love for me.
Her knowledge of my love
for her.
It's not a film of Amaya.
It is Amaya.
She's alive.
But she's not alive.
She's a computer simulation.
Explain the difference.
She's going
through fixed motions.
As are you. As am I.
As is everything else.
Jamie said something to me
this morning.
He said...
the problem with the people
that run tech companies
is that they become fanatics...
end up thinking
they're messiahs.
(chuckles)
This is the moment
you take the gun out.
The gun that Kenton used
to kill Jamie.
You take it out of your pocket.
Where you were hiding it.
Don't worry,
you aren't about to use it.
Not yet.
You knew I was going
to come here
and you know what happens here.
Every moment.
But then it all stops working.
I do something
and your system breaks.
Yes.
What do I do?
Don't tell me...
Show me.
Show me exactly
what you've seen.
Yeah.
I'd try to talk you out of it,
but...
I already know I don't.
Sit down.
(panting)
FOREST: (breathing heavily)
(panting)
I think we all know
what we"re doing here.
Then open it.
What are you waiting for?
- I don't know.
- You're frightened.
KATIE: I am frightened. Yes.
However many times
I've seen this...
to be living it now...
Don't worry. It'll be okay.
KATIE: I don't know
why you say that.
Enough! This is too much.
So...
this is where you get in.
And this is
where we say goodbye.
FOREST (on screen): Where do you
think we're going, Lily?
LILY (on screen):
To your daughter's statue.
Where you burned Sergei's body.
FOREST (on screen):
Where you will, what?
Exact revenge.
Lily,
you know what to Messiahs,
don't you?
(breathing heavily)
They get resurrected.
Fuck you.
(panting) Do it.
- Do it.
- (gunshot)
(gasps)
(panting)
(breathing heavily)
(alarm blaring)
AUTOMATED VOICE:
Vacuum seal broken.
(alarm blares)
Vacuum seal broken.
Vacuum seal broken.
(alarm continues on screen)
(Lily panting)
(inaudible)
(static rising)
I'm gonna die here.
We die here.
I kill us both.
Yes.
And nothing can change it.
Nothing can stop it.
Nothing.
And we can't see
beyond that moment in time.
The predictions fail.
Everything is lost.
Do you know
why you pull the trigger?
It's for Jamie.
So, when do we do this?
How long do we have left
to live?
Only a few minutes, I'm afraid.
That's all.
Sorry.
You do...
don't you?
You tech leaders...
think that you're messiahs.
I'll tell you a secret, Lily.
I've been wanting
to tell someone for a while.
The name of the project.
It's not Devs.
The 'V' is Roman.
So, actually, a "U."
Deus.
It was just a private joke.
I think our time is up.
Yes.
It is.
I think we all know
what we"re doing here.
Then open it.
What are you waiting for?
I don't know.
LILY (through speaker):
You're frightened.
KATIE (through speaker):
I am frightened. Yes.
However many times
I've seen this...
to be living it now...
FOREST: Don't worry.
It'll be okay.
I don't know why you say that!
Enough!
It's too much.
(door hisses)
So...
this is where you get in.
And this is where
we say goodbye.
That's not possible.
We've left your system.
Forest...
you know the thing
about Messiahs, don't you?
They're false prophets.
- (alarm blares)
- (Forest panting)
(capsule whirs)
(both gasping)
(alarm continues blaring)
(both groaning)
(choral music playing)
(intercom beeps)
(sobbing)
(sobbing)
What did you do?
I disabled the electromagnetic
field system on the capsule.
Why?
Because I realized...
what we have done.
Someone has to stop this.
Don't blame me, Katie.
It was predetermined.
(whirring)
(distortion)
(distortion)
(distortion)
(coughs)
KATIE: Forest.
Katie?
Where am I? Where are you?
KATIE: I'm in
the visualization chamber.
You're on the screen.
I'm in the system.
What do you remember?
I remember... everything.
What the fuck did Lily do?
KATIE: She made a choice.
It's why we could never see
beyond this point.
She made an actual choice.
(chuckles)
All her talk of God
and Messiahs...
and look
who she turned out to be.
What do you mean?
She committed the original sin.
Disobedience.
She did.
Then it is Deus.
It is Deus.
And that means it's time.
Within itself, the system
is all‐knowing and all powerful.
But only on Lyndon's principle.
I need to know you understand
precisely what that means?
(sighs)
Yes, Katie.
I understand.
Are you sure?
Yes.
I want them back so much.
I know.
(choral music playing)
(scoffs)
All right, fuck it.
I guess wish me luck.
I do.
(choral music intensifies)
(gasps, pants)
Hey, what's up?
Did you have a bad dream?
‐(breathing heavily) ‐(thuds)
I don't know.
Dude.
Move, please.
Yeah... (coughs) Sorry.
Oh, hey, Lily.
(grunts)
You guys have a great day.
Be all you can be.
(chuckles)
Forest.
Forest.
He just drove past.
- (car horn honking)
- Jesus, Lily!
What's up with you?
You've seen the guy
walking around a thousand times!
It was him?
Of course.
(Anya and Jen
talking indistinctly)
(Lyndon and Stewart
talk indistinctly)
So, I'll let you know
how it goes, okay?
- LILY: Sergei...
- Yeah?
Can I see something
on your phone?
On my phone?
(snickers)
What's this? You want
to check my text messages?
- Yes.
- Really?
What, you think I've got
a little action on the side?
Please.
Okay.
But there's nothing to see.
I mean, you can't
seriously think that there is.
This is dumb.
Just give me the phone back.
- I want to open that app.
- It's a fucking Sudoku game,
what's the big deal?
I really don't know
what the fuck
you're playing today, Lily.
This is a big day for me,
and you're screwing with it.
Whatever. I've got to go.
- I'll see you later, yeah?
- Sure.
(indistinct chatter, laughter)
Hi, Lily.
I don't understand
what's happening.
We died.
Yes.
Then, what is this?
You don't know?
We're in the system.
Resurrection.
As promised, remember?
We're in Devs.
- We're in Deus.
- In the simulation.
See it as an afterlife.
Paradise.
In this variation, anyway.
You have your life back, Lily.
Reinserted into existence,
a couple of days
before Sergei was killed.
You can pick up
from where you left off...
if that's what you want.
S... Sergei doesn't know?
That he's in a sim? No.
(indistinct chatter)
LILY: Do they know?
(laughs)
No one knows.
Just you and me.
I asked Katie to resurrect us
using data from the moment
of our death.
So, our memories leading up
to that moment were kept intact.
That's the cross
we have to bear.
But it's worth it.
You get used to it.
We are now living
in many worlds.
In this world, the two of us get
to live in Paradise,
with the ones we love.
In other worlds,
it will be closer to Hell.
For those other harder lives
we have to lead,
I thought knowledge
would be a comfort.
I don't know if that's right,
but it was the choice I made.
Just thought I'd exercise
a little free will.
And in any case...
there's something special
about you, Lily.
Something truly unique.
Something...
I did not want to change.
Hey, smile.
(chuckles)
We lucked out.
This life is one
of the good ones.
What's the matter?
I don't know what to do now.
That's easy.
You do what you always do...
you follow your own path.
That's exactly what's special
about you.
I'm sure I'll see you around.
Let's get coffee some time.
LAINE: So existing
inside the Deus simulation
feels exactly like existing
in reality?
It would be indistinguishable.
Effectively, the simulation
and reality are identical.
Outside of the people
who directly work here,
who else knows about this?
No one.
I just need you to help me.
To keep it switched on.
(squealing and laughing)
Daddy!
(giggling)
(sobs)
(siren blaring in distance)
Jamie.
(indistinct chatter
in background)
(emotional music plays)
STEWART: The falcon
cannot hear the falconer.
Things fall apart...
the center cannot hold.
The best lack all conviction.
The worst are full
of passionate intensity.
What rough beast,
its hour come round at last,
slouches towards Bethlehem.
To be born.
(ambient music playing)
(music rising)
Hi, Lily.
Come in.
Where's Katie?
Here.
In the labs.
We'll find her later.
In about half an hour.
I don't know what I am any more.
Something that makes
no decisions,
has no choices,
follows a path I can't see.
I'm not even choosing the words
I speak now.
No.
I've watched you speak
these words before.
Many times.
And watched myself reply.
As the words come,
I don't feel as if
I'm consciously repeating lines.
They're just the things that,
at this moment,
I feel I want to say.
You've taken everything from me.
I'm sorry.
I hope
I don't sound unsympathetic,
but I've taken nothing from you.
I can't take what you never had.
The sense that you were
participating in life
was only ever an illusion.
Life is just something
we watch unfold.
Like pictures on a screen.
This is what Devs makes?
Yes.
A film of your daughter?
It's not a film, Lily.
Determinism may be strange,
but it's also beautiful.
A small piece of information
provides all information.
The state of every particle
is related to the state
of the particles around it.
Understand the state of one.
Understand the state
of the other.
Keep going...
know the state of everything.
That's impossible.
No. It's big data.
The data of all things.
Held.
Owned.
And that's not where it ends.
That's where it starts.
If you have all data,
you have the emergent property
of the data.
The feel of her skin and hair.
Her breath.
The tone of her voice.
Her thoughts and memories.
Her love for me.
Her knowledge of my love
for her.
It's not a film of Amaya.
It is Amaya.
She's alive.
But she's not alive.
She's a computer simulation.
Explain the difference.
She's going
through fixed motions.
As are you. As am I.
As is everything else.
Jamie said something to me
this morning.
He said...
the problem with the people
that run tech companies
is that they become fanatics...
end up thinking
they're messiahs.
(chuckles)
This is the moment
you take the gun out.
The gun that Kenton used
to kill Jamie.
You take it out of your pocket.
Where you were hiding it.
Don't worry,
you aren't about to use it.
Not yet.
You knew I was going
to come here
and you know what happens here.
Every moment.
But then it all stops working.
I do something
and your system breaks.
Yes.
What do I do?
Don't tell me...
Show me.
Show me exactly
what you've seen.
Yeah.
I'd try to talk you out of it,
but...
I already know I don't.
Sit down.
(panting)
FOREST: (breathing heavily)
(panting)
I think we all know
what we"re doing here.
Then open it.
What are you waiting for?
- I don't know.
- You're frightened.
KATIE: I am frightened. Yes.
However many times
I've seen this...
to be living it now...
Don't worry. It'll be okay.
KATIE: I don't know
why you say that.
Enough! This is too much.
So...
this is where you get in.
And this is
where we say goodbye.
FOREST (on screen): Where do you
think we're going, Lily?
LILY (on screen):
To your daughter's statue.
Where you burned Sergei's body.
FOREST (on screen):
Where you will, what?
Exact revenge.
Lily,
you know what to Messiahs,
don't you?
(breathing heavily)
They get resurrected.
Fuck you.
(panting) Do it.
- Do it.
- (gunshot)
(gasps)
(panting)
(breathing heavily)
(alarm blaring)
AUTOMATED VOICE:
Vacuum seal broken.
(alarm blares)
Vacuum seal broken.
Vacuum seal broken.
(alarm continues on screen)
(Lily panting)
(inaudible)
(static rising)
I'm gonna die here.
We die here.
I kill us both.
Yes.
And nothing can change it.
Nothing can stop it.
Nothing.
And we can't see
beyond that moment in time.
The predictions fail.
Everything is lost.
Do you know
why you pull the trigger?
It's for Jamie.
So, when do we do this?
How long do we have left
to live?
Only a few minutes, I'm afraid.
That's all.
Sorry.
You do...
don't you?
You tech leaders...
think that you're messiahs.
I'll tell you a secret, Lily.
I've been wanting
to tell someone for a while.
The name of the project.
It's not Devs.
The 'V' is Roman.
So, actually, a "U."
Deus.
It was just a private joke.
I think our time is up.
Yes.
It is.
I think we all know
what we"re doing here.
Then open it.
What are you waiting for?
I don't know.
LILY (through speaker):
You're frightened.
KATIE (through speaker):
I am frightened. Yes.
However many times
I've seen this...
to be living it now...
FOREST: Don't worry.
It'll be okay.
I don't know why you say that!
Enough!
It's too much.
(door hisses)
So...
this is where you get in.
And this is where
we say goodbye.
That's not possible.
We've left your system.
Forest...
you know the thing
about Messiahs, don't you?
They're false prophets.
- (alarm blares)
- (Forest panting)
(capsule whirs)
(both gasping)
(alarm continues blaring)
(both groaning)
(choral music playing)
(intercom beeps)
(sobbing)
(sobbing)
What did you do?
I disabled the electromagnetic
field system on the capsule.
Why?
Because I realized...
what we have done.
Someone has to stop this.
Don't blame me, Katie.
It was predetermined.
(whirring)
(distortion)
(distortion)
(distortion)
(coughs)
KATIE: Forest.
Katie?
Where am I? Where are you?
KATIE: I'm in
the visualization chamber.
You're on the screen.
I'm in the system.
What do you remember?
I remember... everything.
What the fuck did Lily do?
KATIE: She made a choice.
It's why we could never see
beyond this point.
She made an actual choice.
(chuckles)
All her talk of God
and Messiahs...
and look
who she turned out to be.
What do you mean?
She committed the original sin.
Disobedience.
She did.
Then it is Deus.
It is Deus.
And that means it's time.
Within itself, the system
is all‐knowing and all powerful.
But only on Lyndon's principle.
I need to know you understand
precisely what that means?
(sighs)
Yes, Katie.
I understand.
Are you sure?
Yes.
I want them back so much.
I know.
(choral music playing)
(scoffs)
All right, fuck it.
I guess wish me luck.
I do.
(choral music intensifies)
(gasps, pants)
Hey, what's up?
Did you have a bad dream?
‐(breathing heavily) ‐(thuds)
I don't know.
Dude.
Move, please.
Yeah... (coughs) Sorry.
Oh, hey, Lily.
(grunts)
You guys have a great day.
Be all you can be.
(chuckles)
Forest.
Forest.
He just drove past.
- (car horn honking)
- Jesus, Lily!
What's up with you?
You've seen the guy
walking around a thousand times!
It was him?
Of course.
(Anya and Jen
talking indistinctly)
(Lyndon and Stewart
talk indistinctly)
So, I'll let you know
how it goes, okay?
- LILY: Sergei...
- Yeah?
Can I see something
on your phone?
On my phone?
(snickers)
What's this? You want
to check my text messages?
- Yes.
- Really?
What, you think I've got
a little action on the side?
Please.
Okay.
But there's nothing to see.
I mean, you can't
seriously think that there is.
This is dumb.
Just give me the phone back.
- I want to open that app.
- It's a fucking Sudoku game,
what's the big deal?
I really don't know
what the fuck
you're playing today, Lily.
This is a big day for me,
and you're screwing with it.
Whatever. I've got to go.
- I'll see you later, yeah?
- Sure.
(indistinct chatter, laughter)
Hi, Lily.
I don't understand
what's happening.
We died.
Yes.
Then, what is this?
You don't know?
We're in the system.
Resurrection.
As promised, remember?
We're in Devs.
- We're in Deus.
- In the simulation.
See it as an afterlife.
Paradise.
In this variation, anyway.
You have your life back, Lily.
Reinserted into existence,
a couple of days
before Sergei was killed.
You can pick up
from where you left off...
if that's what you want.
S... Sergei doesn't know?
That he's in a sim? No.
(indistinct chatter)
LILY: Do they know?
(laughs)
No one knows.
Just you and me.
I asked Katie to resurrect us
using data from the moment
of our death.
So, our memories leading up
to that moment were kept intact.
That's the cross
we have to bear.
But it's worth it.
You get used to it.
We are now living
in many worlds.
In this world, the two of us get
to live in Paradise,
with the ones we love.
In other worlds,
it will be closer to Hell.
For those other harder lives
we have to lead,
I thought knowledge
would be a comfort.
I don't know if that's right,
but it was the choice I made.
Just thought I'd exercise
a little free will.
And in any case...
there's something special
about you, Lily.
Something truly unique.
Something...
I did not want to change.
Hey, smile.
(chuckles)
We lucked out.
This life is one
of the good ones.
What's the matter?
I don't know what to do now.
That's easy.
You do what you always do...
you follow your own path.
That's exactly what's special
about you.
I'm sure I'll see you around.
Let's get coffee some time.
LAINE: So existing
inside the Deus simulation
feels exactly like existing
in reality?
It would be indistinguishable.
Effectively, the simulation
and reality are identical.
Outside of the people
who directly work here,
who else knows about this?
No one.
I just need you to help me.
To keep it switched on.
(squealing and laughing)
Daddy!
(giggling)
(sobs)
(siren blaring in distance)
Jamie.
(indistinct chatter
in background)
(emotional music plays)