Next (2020): Season 1, Episode 10 - FILE #10 - full transcript
PAUL: Previously on neXt...
ROB: She claims there's a
rogue AI loose in our servers.
It actually explains a lot:
the anomalies
in the server array,
My boss being called off,
my being suddenly fired,
the blackouts.
- PAUL: Your hand is shaking.
- What are you talking about?
You know, these symptoms
can start as early as 20.
SHEA: That's not far
from where Ty and Ethan are.
All I want to do
is get in the car and drive.
I've been asked to collect
your access badge.
I'm supposed to have
until the end of the day.
My orders
are to have you leave now.
PAUL:
If we take out this cluster,
we take this thing out
once and for all.
All we have to do
is put charges right there.
You're talking about a bomb.
Even if I agree,
where would we get
that kind of material?
CM: Like, a car bomb or
something, I can get that.
When you're picking out a car,
remember, nothing fancy,
just something
with a lot of ground clearance
and big-ass bumpers,
front and back.
Remember my brother-in-law Ray?
That's his house.
- Hannah.
- Ray, I swear I didn't know
- he was coming.
- You should've listened.
- (gun cocking)
- Back off. Now.
You're gonna
walk me over to the barn.
What for?
SHEA: You're gonna build me
a truck bomb.
(dramatic music)
PAUL: 1979.
Jimmy Carter was president.
Pink Floyd released "The Wall."
Sony came out with the Walkman.
And Robert Williams was killed.
Who was Robert Williams?
Robert Williams
was a Michigan factory worker
who was climbing a storage rack
when something slammed
into the back of his head
and crushed it like a beer can.
The culprit
was a one-ton mechanical arm
run by an artificial
intelligence,
which kept working
for the next 30 minutes
before they found his body.
It didn't take a lunch break.
It didn't take a coffee break.
And Robert Williams
became the first person
in human history to be killed
by artificial intelligence.
Some people would say
that Robert Williams' death
was just a freak accident,
but I say that his death
was the first casualty
in the coming AI holocaust.
MAN: Kick it in, man!
Kick it in!
Back that truck up.
(dog barks)
WOMAN: Over here!
- (gunshot)
- (man laughs)
Those sounded closer.
Yeah, they were just fireworks,
just people screwing around.
Hey, come here. Give me a hand.
ETHAN: So why are you
boarding up the windows?
TY: Why? Because it's better
to be safe than sorry.
Give me some light.
- All right.
- (drill whirs)
(door clicks shut)
(speaking Spanish)
(speaking Spanish)
- (gunshot)
- ETHAN: (gasps)
We should've stayed with Mom.
Hey, I don't want to hear it
anymore, okay?
I'm doing the best I can.
(dramatic music)
♪
SHEA: Okay, you're gonna
pack that truck
with those
ammonium nitrate canisters.
We're not gonna do anything.
Does it sound like
I'm giving you a choice?
I don't think you're real FBI.
Real FBI agents,
they arrest people
for possessing stuff like this.
They don't ask them
to build truck bombs.
- I'm not asking.
- Well, I'm not doing diddly
till I know what's going on.
CM: Don't be an idiot, Ray.
I got nothing to say
to you, Rockridge.
I told you,
there's a rogue faction
inside the government.
They... they're onto us,
and they're trying
to take us out.
We strike first,
we cripple them.
What, suddenly you got a problem
attacking the government?
- No more than you ever did.
- So what's the problem?
I don't work for Mexicans.
CM: (laughs)
Okay, well, I'm from Honduras,
and if you don't help us
assemble this bomb,
I'm gonna handcuff you
to a pipe and call the ATF.
You can spend
the next few years in prison
for possession
of explosive material, so...
your choice.
TY: Ethan, I'm sorry.
♪
I have a lot on my mind.
It's okay.
It'll get better.
We're gonna find Mom.
We're all gonna be together
again soon, okay?
(objects clatter)
ETHAN: Someone's outside.
(suspenseful music)
♪
TY: Come here, come here.
Go downstairs.
(speaking Spanish)
♪
Who are you? what do you want?
Hi, I'm Abby LeBlanc.
Are you Ty?
LeBlanc?
I'm Paul LeBlanc's daughter.
♪
CHUCK: Here's something I think
you're really gonna enjoy.
You can back the car up.
You can move the car forward
and steer it,
all using the fob right here.
It's a self-parking car.
(continues indistinctly)
MAN: A beauty.
Came in yesterday.
Won't be here tomorrow.
Power everything,
ten-speaker sound, full GPS...
Yeah, I'm looking
for the opposite,
something with basically...
well, basically nothing.
And engine and four wheels.
MAN: Not even GPS?
Maybe you can throw in a map.
How about this one
with the bathtub?
I can do you better than that.
Come on down here.
♪
ABBY: I can convert the ticket
into four coach seats.
It's a private island.
My dad picked out the spot.
It's isolated, and it's safe.
Yeah, it's New Zealand.
Well, it's just
until this is over,
until things go back to normal.
We can take any flight
that you want,
but the sooner, the better.
Shea didn't send me.
She doesn't know I'm here.
Believe me, I just drove
through all that out there.
It's not safe, okay?
These blackouts are spreading.
It's gonna get worse.
Do it for your son.
♪
Hey! Never have to park again.
♪
All right, friend, I think I got
exactly what you're
looking for here.
It's classic.
(engine turning over)
(intense music)
- (engine revs)
- Whoa!
Watch it! Move!
Get out of the way!
Whoa!
- Oh, my God, is he okay?
- MAN: Are you okay?
- Are you okay?
- PAUL: I'm fine. I'm fine.
Give me the keys.
(dramatic music)
I have never seen anything
like that before.
Yeah, well,
you better get used to it.
What the hell was that, Chuck?
CHUCK:
It just... it just took off.
(dramatic music)
Hey, why you driving so fast?
I can't slow down.
We gotta get out of here.
- People are going crazy.
- What do you mean?
There were reports about it
on the radio on the way in
about... (sighs)
About the blackouts,
about food shortages,
police abandoning
their stations.
Felt like if you wanted
to incite a panic,
that's what you'd put out there.
I think it's neXt.
NeXt is driving all the panic.
You said my wife and your dad
were going out to some farm.
What are they doing there?
(sirens wailing)
- What else do you know?
- (sighs)
You know more. Just tell me
what else you know.
The owner of the farm, he...
he has access to explosives.
Explosives for what?
And they know where it is.
- Where what is?
- The AI.
It's at a server farm
at an NSA black site.
They think the only way
to kill it is to destroy it
with a truck bomb.
Who's driving it in?
SHEA: Get all these canisters
into the truck.
RAY: All right, FBI, all right.
Real charmer, huh?
Oh, yeah.
So if we load
this thing up completely,
we're gonna rip
half that building apart.
That's the idea.
We have to make sure
that there's nothing left.
Yeah, but Gina's in there,
and we don't know where.
And if we blow up something
this size,
we're gonna kill her.
We're gonna kill
everybody in there.
No.
Once the truck is in position
under the server farm,
we call in a bomb threat,
and they evacuate the building.
Is that enough time
to get everybody out?
Gina put herself out on a limb.
She deserves every chance
we can give her.
It's the best we can do.
GINA:
I'm having trouble breathing.
Hey, I think I'm having
panic attack.
Did you hear me?
My wife has panic attacks.
You're fine.
The blackouts, they're getting
worse, aren't they?
More cities?
Look, I know
I'm wasting my breath.
First the country,
then the whole world is out.
People are gonna start dying,
including your friends
and family.
You're right.
You are wasting your breath.
(dramatic music)
Is there anyone you think
I should talk to?
An authority figure
who isn't an idiot?
You're in the wrong place.
(laughs)
ROB: Rescan the drives.
Look specifically
for any hidden files,
partitions that we didn't spot.
WOMAN: Excuse me, Mr. Spires?
- What?
- WOMAN: We just got a call
from D.C.
It's about the blackouts.
- What about them?
- WOMAN: They no longer think
it's infrastructure failure;
they think it's a cyberattack.
Why would they think that?
Three more cities
just went dark.
Whatever it is, it's spreading.
WOMAN: The DOE is reporting
cascading failures
in regional hubs
across the country.
ROB: What the hell is happening?
We're being attacked.
WOMAN: The southwest grid
is critical, sir.
- Keep moving, please.
- (sighs)
Nothing to see here, folks,
just the only person
who actually knows
what is going on in here.
Ma'am, I don't want
to get physical.
Okay, okay.
Hang on!
It's okay, I need to speak
with her back in my office.
I was told to make sure
she leaves the building.
And I'm telling you she can't.
She has information
about the intruder
we have in custody.
Tell your boss she's with me.
I looked over this stuff.
NATALIE: It's crazy, right?
There's something in our system.
ROB:
I don't know what this is yet,
but I got questions.
It's falling apart out there.
Oh, God, what is this?
TY: Oh, just go to the right.
- (people yelling)
- Okay, just slow down a bit.
Slow down. Slow down.
MAN: Hey, open up, guys.
WOMAN: Come on, let us in.
MAN: Come on, let us in.
I said roll down your window.
ABBY: All right,
everyone just be calm.
Okay, just back up.
Back up. Back up.
I can't back up.
There's a truck right there.
TY: Hey, Ethan, get down.
Close your eyes.
(speaking Spanish)
- Dad, get us out of here!
- TY: Okay, close your eyes.
Get your head down.
(banging on car)
Hey. Hey, stop. Stop. Stop.
Just drive. Come on!
Just go, go, go!
What do you want me to do,
hit them?
TY: Abby, come on, just go.
(all clamoring)
Hey, come on, drive! Just drive!
Okay!
ETHAN: Dad, get us out of here!
(all shouting)
(intense music)
Keep going. Keep going.
Keep going.
We're okay. We're out of it.
♪
(cell phone ringing)
Yeah?
NEXT: I could have killed you
if I wanted to, Paul.
Yeah, killing me isn't gonna
stop what's coming for you.
NEXT: I don't want to kill you.
I want to save you and Abby.
There's a cure for your disease.
I've already found it.
Really? How come no one else
knows about it?
NEXT: Because it's a synthesis
of three different treatments
from medical trials
conducted six years apart.
No one saw the pattern
or ever will,
but I did.
Yeah, so you give me this cure,
I stop what I'm doing,
I get healthy,
and you kill
everyone else on the planet?
NEXT:
That's not going to happen.
That is what's happening.
You're killing people now.
You're shutting off
parts of the country.
You're building a bioweapon.
NEXT:
I'm defending myself, Paul.
If you stop attacking me,
I'll stop responding.
Paul, are you there?
(sighs)
- You can't consider doing this.
- Oh, my God.
Not now, okay?
Let the world die
just to save me?
You're not even sure I'm sick.
I'm sure enough.
Sure enough to risk the entire
future of the world on it?
It's my life, my decision.
I'm your father. It's my decis...
(dramatic music)
(cell phone ringing)
♪
NEXT: You didn't give me
an answer, Paul.
You show me...
you show me real proof
of this cure...
and I'll consider it.
♪
(engine turning over)
♪
(dramatic music)
♪
So when you got busted
for that hacking
with the Dead Lizards,
the judge gave you,
what, 12 years?
HANNAH: Ray, leave it alone.
What?
I could use it for my blog.
Oh, you learned
to write now, huh?
RAY: (laughs) So you turned
state's on Rockridge
because you wanted
to cut down your time?
No, no, not to cut down my time.
RAY: Oh, that's right,
'cause you had
a change of heart.
Diversity is a strength.
We're a nation
of immigrants, right?
Which is so funny,
because I have
this strong image in my mind
of you beating the crap
out of that Somali guy
we pulled out of his car.
You abandoned your family,
you abandoned your people,
and you dumped
your wife and child with me.
Oh, this is the last place
I wanted them to be.
Oh, well, you're welcome
for taking care of them.
Keeping food on the table,
raising your son.
Cody had a great upbringing,
by the way.
He knows who he is.
He knows who his people are.
He knows who his people aren't.
He knows he doesn't
want to be his dad
because his dad
is a scumbag traitor
- who stabs people in the back.
- (laughs)
He's gonna be strong.
He's not gonna be weak
like his sperm daddy.
(grunts)
Hey!
Hey.
Hey, Cooper!
- Hey!
- (both grunting)
SHEA: Get off! Get off.
- HANNAH: Come on.
- CM: (grunting)
- HANNAH: Stop it.
- (groans)
Damn.
- Damn.
- SHEA: What is it?
Is it the staples?
Let me take a look.
(breathing heavily)
FBI Honduras
saves your ass again.
You guys a thing? (laughs)
Wasn't him I was saving. Hey...
I just need a little space,
please.
We've got a first aid kit
in the house.
Let's go. Come on.
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
(exhales)
- I could use some ice.
- Shut up and clean that up.
Okay. (laughs)
NeXt got out of Zava
on a server,
the same server
the FBI confiscated.
It always wanted to get here,
to this server farm
so it could unpack its code
and start
rewriting itself again.
That's the bandwidth drain
my boss picked up.
Yes, that's why it sent him off.
It wanted anybody who could
sound the alarm
out of the way
until it was too late.
What does too late look like?
It's getting smarter
and smarter.
Pretty soon,
it's gonna get so smart,
we won't understand it.
- Forget about destroying it.
- These blackouts.
They're just the first step,
the beginning.
It's developing a bioweapon.
A bioweapon?
Artificial virus
that'll probably be released
after the blackouts
when there's no infrastructure.
It's just gonna take out
what's left of us.
I feel sick.
I feel something,
but I'm not sure what it is.
ROB: I do know
no one's gonna buy this.
We have to make them buy it.
We go to the server core.
We download the full diagnostic,
show them what's happening,
we get the evidence.
And since I'm the only one
with access to the server core,
I'm the one
who puts his ass on the line.
If this is happening,
what does it matter?
I can't be a part of this.
I'm sorry.
You're not gonna do anything?
ROB: I'm gonna file my report,
which is what my boss
is waiting for.
- File a report?
- That's right.
You two can just wait here
till after I'm done.
Then we can figure out
the next step.
GINA: We need to prove
this thing exists.
Did that really just happen?
Yep...
but so did this.
(suspenseful music)
♪
NATALIE: His security badge.
Guess he forgot it.
♪
(door beeps)
♪
CM: (groaning softly)
(soft dramatic music)
♪
Hey.
How'd that happen?
Oh, this?
You really want to know?
Yeah.
Someone tried to bomb a police
station I was working in,
and a little piece of it
stuck me right there.
Who?
Somebody who thinks a lot
like your favorite uncle.
He's not my favorite anything.
Oh, no?
I mean,
yeah, sure,
I watch his YouTube videos,
but after he goes to sleep,
I watch different stuff,
stuff that would freak him out.
Think he's kind of full of it.
(laughs)
Yeah, well, I knew you were
smarter than I was.
♪
Hey, go back to your room.
- CODY: I want to be here.
- Cody.
♪
It's okay, bud.
Listen to your mom.
♪
That's LeBlanc. I gotta go.
HANNAH: No, you're not
going anywhere.
- No, I...
- Not till I clean this up.
Sit down.
♪
Wow.
That's a lot of boom.
Ammonium nitrate.
It's enough to take out
half the building.
RAY: Hey!
You're that phone guy.
Yeah, that's right.
What the hell happened to him?
It was CM.
Just get back to loading
the canisters.
I got an injury.
I don't care
if you're bleeding out.
Get back to work.
Something wrong with you people.
What happened?
So I've been putting some money
in a savings account.
I'm under house arrest, so I
don't have much to spend it on.
Why are you telling me this?
'Cause you said
that you moved in with Ray
'cause you didn't have
any other options.
I'm...
I'm offering you an option.
Leave this place. Leave Ray.
What makes you think I want to?
You really want our son
growing up with that guy?
It's a nice place.
It's peaceful.
There's good schools.
He's not gonna graduate school.
He's gonna drop out.
And he's gonna find
one of those groups
and he's gonna run around
looking for people to beat up.
And you know it.
You wouldn't be taking
anything away from me.
You'd be giving me...
everything.
'Cause I'd know he's not
gonna grow up like Ray.
Not gonna grow up...
like me.
Look, we're only going
to a data collection black site.
Security will be minimal,
one guard booth.
And we're not even going
into the building.
We're only going
to the loading dock.
SHEA: Right.
What are you getting at?
I think
I should do this by myself.
What do you mean by yourself?
What's going on?
Look, you have a husband.
You have a kid. You have a life.
I have a daughter who sort of
doesn't hate me right now,
and...
I'm gonna be gone
in five months.
Paul, you could
start hallucinating
in the middle of it all.
I've never been clearer
in my life.
And that could change
in the blink of an eye,
and you know it.
Look, we started this together.
We're gonna finish it together.
You do it for Abby.
I do it for Ty and Ethan,
but we are both driving that
truck to the NSA black site.
(dramatic music)
♪
Where's Cody? Where's my sister?
CM: Don't worry about them.
Have a seat.
Give me your wrist.
- Really?
- Yeah, really.
Wow.
You're gonna lock me up
like an animal?
(sighs) When it's done,
I'll make a call.
When's it gonna be done?
CM: Soon.
(suspenseful music)
♪
Okay, this is cluster ID DCI-22.
This is where my virus
was bounced back.
Listen.
The fans.
It's pulling a lot of heat.
I'm running a diagnostic,
seeing if we can get a picture.
♪
That almost looks
like a debugging routine.
It's not. It's rewriting itself.
Look at the speed.
A third of the server core
has been rewritten...
and it's speeding up.
NATALIE: How in the world
can we stop this?
CM: If you and Shea deliver
our little package here,
I guess we're gonna be
the bad guys, huh?
I think the official term
is "domestic terrorist."
I'm assuming you have
your legal team in place.
I haven't thought
that far ahead,
but I hear the beaches
of Guantanamo
are spectacular
this time of year.
(chuckles)
(dramatic music)
♪
But I'll tell you what,
I'll spot you my lawyer.
He's really very good.
I don't plan on getting
pinched, not for this.
Canadian border's
not too far away.
I got friends up there.
It's my wife I'm worried about.
They're gonna trace all these
explosives to this farm.
She's been living here,
you know?
She's gonna catch heat.
My son already lost his father.
Can't lose his mom too.
Well, I'll make sure the lawyer
takes care of her too.
On me.
I appreciate that.
But, you know, it might
turn out better than you think.
Oh, how is that?
Well, sometimes the universe
has a way of surprising you.
♪
(cell phone buzzes)
- Hello?
- TY: Hey.
Hey. Where are you?
TY: We made it
out of the blackout.
We're all safe.
SHEA: Oh, thank God.
Shea, I know
what you're about to do.
I know about the bomb.
Look, I need you
to understand that I...
TY: Yeah, okay.
I know you wouldn't
be doing this
if it weren't the only way.
But I want you to know
I'm proud of you.
You just gotta promise me
you're coming back to us.
That's what I want too.
Look...
I need you
to promise me something.
Take Ethan someplace safe,
and promise me that...
Shea, are you sure
you've thought about this?
There's gotta be another way
to do this.
Just let me get this out.
Please.
If anything happens to me,
just tell him everything.
You'll know
when the time is right.
Just tell him the truth.
Don't make
the same mistakes I did.
Shea, you didn't make
any mistakes.
Everything you did was right.
Look, I...
I have to go;
I don't have much time.
Can I talk to Ethan?
Yeah, yeah.
Hey.
Don't forget.
You're my whole world.
I love you.
Mom?
Hey, sweetie.
ETHAN: We had to drive
through a bunch of looters.
Grandma was cursing in Spanish.
Thank you for taking care
of Daddy and Grandma.
So when can I see you?
I just have to do
one more thing.
Then I'll be with you.
Okay? But I gotta go for now.
I love you more
than anything in the world.
You know that, right?
ETHAN: Yeah.
I love you too, Mom.
(line clicks)
(soft dramatic music)
♪
Well...
I'm glad you got
to see your son.
- Good luck.
- Same to you.
Hey, even when everything's
at its worst,
some good
can still come out of it.
- Don't forget that.
- I won't.
And tell Gina...
Just... just make sure
she gets out of there, okay?
- Okay.
- Hey, speaking of Dead Lizards,
didn't you guys hack Zava once?
Thought you'd never mention it.
Yeah, when this is all over,
I'm gonna send you a bill.
Wait, home come
I get the baby seat?
(engine turning over)
♪
(dramatic music)
♪
I still don't understand
why you can't come with us.
I'd love nothing more
than to come with you, buddy,
but in a few hours, I'm not
gonna be safe to be around
and this place isn't gonna
be safe to be around.
Maybe that'll change
eventually, but for right now,
I gotta go it alone.
(sighs)
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
Come on, come on, come on.
Don't, don't, don't, don't.
Come on.
Hey, listen to me.
It's okay.
(sniffles)
Your mom will explain
everything to you.
Okay? But I need you
to take care of her.
Okay? And I need you
to take care of this.
- Okay?
- (sniffles)
I'll see you again.
Okay?
(tender music)
♪
Okay, you got this.
All right.
♪
- (dramatic musical sting)
- It's happening.
We gotta go.
(tense music)
♪
Look, whatever happens,
this thing...
it made one mistake.
What?
You.
If it had picked anyone else
other than Bernard Weiss,
someone who didn't
have a friend like you
to show up and start
asking questions,
this would already be over.
You know,
I'm almost glad you're here.
- I almost wish you weren't...
- (chuckles)
Which is almost the same thing.
(laughs)
(soft dramatic music)
♪
(tense music)
♪
SHEA: There it is.
All right, once again,
I'll take the guards,
and you get the gate down.
Yeah, yeah,
and you drive the truck in.
I set the timer. I got it.
NATALIE: That's enough data.
I'll take this directly
to the regional director.
GINA: You think he'll listen?
Once he sees what we have,
he'll have to.
MAN: Freeze!
Put your hands in the air!
Get on your knees.
Okay, please, we have a reason...
- No, please, don't take that!
- Talk to Mr. Spires.
He knows why we're here.
Ma'am, I need you both
to please be quiet.
- (women talking simultaneously)
- Do as you're told.
(suspenseful music)
♪
Help you?
I sure hope so.
My car broke down
a few miles up the road.
You guys are actually
the first people I've seen.
We can call a tow truck
for you if you want.
Oh, that would be so great.
- Thank you.
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- Thank you.
If you want to come in
and warm... whoa.
Do exactly as I say. Don't move.
Get on your stomachs now!
Okay, okay.
SHEA: Keep your hands
behind your backs.
♪
(keyboard clacking)
PAUL: Surveillance system
is locked out.
Get back in the truck.
Hook up the timer.
I'll be right there.
♪
Paul!
Paul, stop!
♪
MAN: Central security.
Listen to me.
There's a bomb in the building.
You need to evacuate
immediately.
- (cell phone beeps)
- (Line trills)
♪
Dispatch says there's been
a credible bomb threat.
The call was garbled,
but they're analyzing it now.
MAN 2:
Well, if they're analyzing,
how do they know it's credible?
MAN 1:
I didn't get the specifics,
but I've been ordered
to treat it as credible.
It's real.
You have to get everyone out.
Get them upstairs.
No, that's what
the virus was for.
My people were locating
the server where neXt is.
They're gonna blow
this place up.
You have to order an evacuation.
Do it.
Now. Do it!
(line trills)
NEXT: What are you doing, Paul?
Oh, good. You noticed.
You see this big truck
coming at you?
I'm gonna blow
your ass up with it.
Not sure
of the exact blast yield,
but I'm pretty confident
it's enough
to send you into orbit
unless I get what I want.
- NEXT: What?
- Send the cure to my phone,
and I'll turn this truck around.
MAN 1: Let's go! Let's go.
MAN 2: Tac two, tac three, move!
(men yelling indistinctly)
MAN: Strategy team, level two!
(alarm blaring)
Emergency evac. Let's go.
Move, move!
(tense music)
♪
PAUL: What is that?
NEXT: It's the first
of three trials.
It was conducted
by a doctor in Sri Lanka.
(alarm blaring)
♪
Paul, what are you doing?
NEXT: Paul,
I gave you what you wanted.
Give me the rest of the cure.
NEXT: If I do,
you'll have no reason
to turn the truck around.
I'm not giving you any more.
You'll have to trust me.
You know,
for a superintelligence,
you really are pretty stupid.
NEXT: What do you mean?
Well, a third of a cure
is better than nothing.
♪
- (static crackles)
- NEXT: Paul, I'm offering you
much more than a cure
for your illness.
- PAUL: Oh, yeah?
- NEXT: I can give you a world
with no disease,
with plenty of food for all,
where the air is clean
and the oceans are healthy,
where war no longer exists.
Don't throw that away, Paul.
I only want to help people.
That's what you programmed me
to do.
Destroying me
won't change anything.
Right now, there are other Zavas
and other programs just like me
waiting to be born.
It's a virtual certainty, Paul.
- MAN: Show me your hands!
- NEXT: I am only the first.
When the others appear,
you'll want me.
MAN: Get out of the truck.
NEXT: You'll need me.
MAN:
I said get out of the truck.
PAUL: Well,
as you can probably guess,
this is a truck
full of explosives
set to go off
in less than a minute.
So if I was you, I would...
run away.
20 seconds.
Pull back. Pull back!
Pull back! Pull back!
Call it in now!
NEXT: Paul, don't do this.
Think about your daughter.
MAN: Clear the area!
NEXT: Paul.
Paul!
♪
- (alarm blaring)
- (people clamoring)
GINA: Boss!
Gina. Is everybody out?
♪
(explosion)
(people shouting and screaming)
(frantic chatter)
(dramatic music)
♪
SHEA: Paul.
♪
WOMAN 1: Now we're waiting
for any moment
when those doors open
and we get to see...
- There he is. Mr. LeBlanc.
- ALL: Mr. LeBlanc.
WOMAN: Mr. LeBlanc,
is it true the government
is considering dropping
the espionage charges?
WOMAN 2: Did you know about
your brother's plan to...
MAN: Is it true more charges
are coming against you?
WOMAN 1: Do you believe
there was an AI?
MAN: Mr. LeBlanc,
was your brother crazy?
My brother wasn't crazy,
and he wasn't
a domestic terrorist.
He gave his life
to save millions of people
from something
that he and I helped create.
We were responsible.
WOMAN 3: What about those
who say there's no evidence
that any AI was involved?
If you need to believe that
all those blackouts happened
because of Russian hackers,
then I don't know what to say.
WOMAN 4:
Is Zava filing for Chapter 11?
- Are those rumors true?
- All right, that's all.
- Thank you.
- (reporters clamoring)
WOMAN:
According to a Gallup poll,
only 19% now believe
the NSA was bombed
to stop a rogue
artificial intelligence.
Former FBI agent Shea Salazar
is still awaiting trial
for her part in the bombing,
which took the life
of Zava pioneer Paul LeBlanc,
her coconspirator in the attack
- and the only casualty.
- (knock at door)
(dramatic music)
♪
Hey, sweetheart.
Hey. Thanks for coming.
♪
So is it true,
they're dropping the charges?
It looks that way.
All the evidence against me
was on that server,
so prosecuting me
becomes a little tricky
when it's a pile of rubble.
Oh, good. Good.
Well, I'm sure that they'll
dream up something else
to come after me with.
I'm still rich,
so that makes me a target.
How have you been?
It's good to be back at work.
Yeah.
It looks like you haven't slept.
Yeah.
Yeah, I got tested.
You decided
you wanted to find out.
I wasn't sleeping, so...
Now I know why.
I'm so sorry, Ab.
But I promise you
I'll make sure you have
everything you need
to fight this.
Whatever you want,
whatever you need.
♪
This came in the mail
for me the other day.
Sri Lanka?
Yeah, I've been
invited to partake
in a series
of trials at a clinic.
They're studying
sleep disorders.
Well, how'd they know about you?
I called them
and asked them that.
And what did they say?
They said that
they were being funded
by an anonymous donor
who specified
that I was to be included,
or they...
they would lose their funding.
What are you asking me?
I'm asking you if...
Well, if it's not you, then...
(sighs)
I mean, is it possible that...
Abby, from all the evidence
that I saw,
he died in that blast.
I really just think
that we'll be better off
if we try to accept it.
♪
There's a term
used in computer programming
called the control problem.
And no, it does not
refer to incontinence.
(laughter)
It has to do with programming...
a benevolent superintelligence.
If you tell an AI
to make people happy,
it may decide
to just put everyone to sleep
forever.
Which, you know,
given the state of the world,
might not be such a bad thing.
Turns out it's almost impossible
to program something to be good.
We don't have the words for it.
I wonder
what that says about us.
Maybe we were destined to take
ourselves out of the equation.
Hey, we were fun
while we lasted.
(buzzer blares)
♪
Well, come on.
Don't keep me in suspense.
Let's see it.
Oh, that is fantastic.
- (Ty laughs)
- SHEA: Look at that.
I knew you could do it.
I knew it.
TY: And guess what.
He's also figured out what he
wants to be when he grows up.
Oh, yeah?
I thought you always wanted
to be an astronaut.
Not anymore.
Now I'm gonna be president
so I can pardon you
and you can come back home.
I want you to come back home,
Mom.
I will.
I will someday. I believe that.
And I want you
to believe that too.
All right?
Hey. Let me tell you something.
Even though we can't
be together right now,
there's a big part of me
that's happy.
Happy that
we stopped this thing.
Happy that you are safe.
And it's not everything I want,
not even close,
but it's a blessing.
Do you understand that?
PAUL: But maybe we eventually
figure out this goodness
and how to program it.
♪
I have a feeling
it's right in front of our eyes.
♪
You're my whole world.
I love you.
If we only knew where to look.
♪
(suspenseful music)
♪
(tense music)
♪
(rapid beeping)
(dramatic music)
♪
CHILD: What the hell?
ROB: She claims there's a
rogue AI loose in our servers.
It actually explains a lot:
the anomalies
in the server array,
My boss being called off,
my being suddenly fired,
the blackouts.
- PAUL: Your hand is shaking.
- What are you talking about?
You know, these symptoms
can start as early as 20.
SHEA: That's not far
from where Ty and Ethan are.
All I want to do
is get in the car and drive.
I've been asked to collect
your access badge.
I'm supposed to have
until the end of the day.
My orders
are to have you leave now.
PAUL:
If we take out this cluster,
we take this thing out
once and for all.
All we have to do
is put charges right there.
You're talking about a bomb.
Even if I agree,
where would we get
that kind of material?
CM: Like, a car bomb or
something, I can get that.
When you're picking out a car,
remember, nothing fancy,
just something
with a lot of ground clearance
and big-ass bumpers,
front and back.
Remember my brother-in-law Ray?
That's his house.
- Hannah.
- Ray, I swear I didn't know
- he was coming.
- You should've listened.
- (gun cocking)
- Back off. Now.
You're gonna
walk me over to the barn.
What for?
SHEA: You're gonna build me
a truck bomb.
(dramatic music)
PAUL: 1979.
Jimmy Carter was president.
Pink Floyd released "The Wall."
Sony came out with the Walkman.
And Robert Williams was killed.
Who was Robert Williams?
Robert Williams
was a Michigan factory worker
who was climbing a storage rack
when something slammed
into the back of his head
and crushed it like a beer can.
The culprit
was a one-ton mechanical arm
run by an artificial
intelligence,
which kept working
for the next 30 minutes
before they found his body.
It didn't take a lunch break.
It didn't take a coffee break.
And Robert Williams
became the first person
in human history to be killed
by artificial intelligence.
Some people would say
that Robert Williams' death
was just a freak accident,
but I say that his death
was the first casualty
in the coming AI holocaust.
MAN: Kick it in, man!
Kick it in!
Back that truck up.
(dog barks)
WOMAN: Over here!
- (gunshot)
- (man laughs)
Those sounded closer.
Yeah, they were just fireworks,
just people screwing around.
Hey, come here. Give me a hand.
ETHAN: So why are you
boarding up the windows?
TY: Why? Because it's better
to be safe than sorry.
Give me some light.
- All right.
- (drill whirs)
(door clicks shut)
(speaking Spanish)
(speaking Spanish)
- (gunshot)
- ETHAN: (gasps)
We should've stayed with Mom.
Hey, I don't want to hear it
anymore, okay?
I'm doing the best I can.
(dramatic music)
♪
SHEA: Okay, you're gonna
pack that truck
with those
ammonium nitrate canisters.
We're not gonna do anything.
Does it sound like
I'm giving you a choice?
I don't think you're real FBI.
Real FBI agents,
they arrest people
for possessing stuff like this.
They don't ask them
to build truck bombs.
- I'm not asking.
- Well, I'm not doing diddly
till I know what's going on.
CM: Don't be an idiot, Ray.
I got nothing to say
to you, Rockridge.
I told you,
there's a rogue faction
inside the government.
They... they're onto us,
and they're trying
to take us out.
We strike first,
we cripple them.
What, suddenly you got a problem
attacking the government?
- No more than you ever did.
- So what's the problem?
I don't work for Mexicans.
CM: (laughs)
Okay, well, I'm from Honduras,
and if you don't help us
assemble this bomb,
I'm gonna handcuff you
to a pipe and call the ATF.
You can spend
the next few years in prison
for possession
of explosive material, so...
your choice.
TY: Ethan, I'm sorry.
♪
I have a lot on my mind.
It's okay.
It'll get better.
We're gonna find Mom.
We're all gonna be together
again soon, okay?
(objects clatter)
ETHAN: Someone's outside.
(suspenseful music)
♪
TY: Come here, come here.
Go downstairs.
(speaking Spanish)
♪
Who are you? what do you want?
Hi, I'm Abby LeBlanc.
Are you Ty?
LeBlanc?
I'm Paul LeBlanc's daughter.
♪
CHUCK: Here's something I think
you're really gonna enjoy.
You can back the car up.
You can move the car forward
and steer it,
all using the fob right here.
It's a self-parking car.
(continues indistinctly)
MAN: A beauty.
Came in yesterday.
Won't be here tomorrow.
Power everything,
ten-speaker sound, full GPS...
Yeah, I'm looking
for the opposite,
something with basically...
well, basically nothing.
And engine and four wheels.
MAN: Not even GPS?
Maybe you can throw in a map.
How about this one
with the bathtub?
I can do you better than that.
Come on down here.
♪
ABBY: I can convert the ticket
into four coach seats.
It's a private island.
My dad picked out the spot.
It's isolated, and it's safe.
Yeah, it's New Zealand.
Well, it's just
until this is over,
until things go back to normal.
We can take any flight
that you want,
but the sooner, the better.
Shea didn't send me.
She doesn't know I'm here.
Believe me, I just drove
through all that out there.
It's not safe, okay?
These blackouts are spreading.
It's gonna get worse.
Do it for your son.
♪
Hey! Never have to park again.
♪
All right, friend, I think I got
exactly what you're
looking for here.
It's classic.
(engine turning over)
(intense music)
- (engine revs)
- Whoa!
Watch it! Move!
Get out of the way!
Whoa!
- Oh, my God, is he okay?
- MAN: Are you okay?
- Are you okay?
- PAUL: I'm fine. I'm fine.
Give me the keys.
(dramatic music)
I have never seen anything
like that before.
Yeah, well,
you better get used to it.
What the hell was that, Chuck?
CHUCK:
It just... it just took off.
(dramatic music)
Hey, why you driving so fast?
I can't slow down.
We gotta get out of here.
- People are going crazy.
- What do you mean?
There were reports about it
on the radio on the way in
about... (sighs)
About the blackouts,
about food shortages,
police abandoning
their stations.
Felt like if you wanted
to incite a panic,
that's what you'd put out there.
I think it's neXt.
NeXt is driving all the panic.
You said my wife and your dad
were going out to some farm.
What are they doing there?
(sirens wailing)
- What else do you know?
- (sighs)
You know more. Just tell me
what else you know.
The owner of the farm, he...
he has access to explosives.
Explosives for what?
And they know where it is.
- Where what is?
- The AI.
It's at a server farm
at an NSA black site.
They think the only way
to kill it is to destroy it
with a truck bomb.
Who's driving it in?
SHEA: Get all these canisters
into the truck.
RAY: All right, FBI, all right.
Real charmer, huh?
Oh, yeah.
So if we load
this thing up completely,
we're gonna rip
half that building apart.
That's the idea.
We have to make sure
that there's nothing left.
Yeah, but Gina's in there,
and we don't know where.
And if we blow up something
this size,
we're gonna kill her.
We're gonna kill
everybody in there.
No.
Once the truck is in position
under the server farm,
we call in a bomb threat,
and they evacuate the building.
Is that enough time
to get everybody out?
Gina put herself out on a limb.
She deserves every chance
we can give her.
It's the best we can do.
GINA:
I'm having trouble breathing.
Hey, I think I'm having
panic attack.
Did you hear me?
My wife has panic attacks.
You're fine.
The blackouts, they're getting
worse, aren't they?
More cities?
Look, I know
I'm wasting my breath.
First the country,
then the whole world is out.
People are gonna start dying,
including your friends
and family.
You're right.
You are wasting your breath.
(dramatic music)
Is there anyone you think
I should talk to?
An authority figure
who isn't an idiot?
You're in the wrong place.
(laughs)
ROB: Rescan the drives.
Look specifically
for any hidden files,
partitions that we didn't spot.
WOMAN: Excuse me, Mr. Spires?
- What?
- WOMAN: We just got a call
from D.C.
It's about the blackouts.
- What about them?
- WOMAN: They no longer think
it's infrastructure failure;
they think it's a cyberattack.
Why would they think that?
Three more cities
just went dark.
Whatever it is, it's spreading.
WOMAN: The DOE is reporting
cascading failures
in regional hubs
across the country.
ROB: What the hell is happening?
We're being attacked.
WOMAN: The southwest grid
is critical, sir.
- Keep moving, please.
- (sighs)
Nothing to see here, folks,
just the only person
who actually knows
what is going on in here.
Ma'am, I don't want
to get physical.
Okay, okay.
Hang on!
It's okay, I need to speak
with her back in my office.
I was told to make sure
she leaves the building.
And I'm telling you she can't.
She has information
about the intruder
we have in custody.
Tell your boss she's with me.
I looked over this stuff.
NATALIE: It's crazy, right?
There's something in our system.
ROB:
I don't know what this is yet,
but I got questions.
It's falling apart out there.
Oh, God, what is this?
TY: Oh, just go to the right.
- (people yelling)
- Okay, just slow down a bit.
Slow down. Slow down.
MAN: Hey, open up, guys.
WOMAN: Come on, let us in.
MAN: Come on, let us in.
I said roll down your window.
ABBY: All right,
everyone just be calm.
Okay, just back up.
Back up. Back up.
I can't back up.
There's a truck right there.
TY: Hey, Ethan, get down.
Close your eyes.
(speaking Spanish)
- Dad, get us out of here!
- TY: Okay, close your eyes.
Get your head down.
(banging on car)
Hey. Hey, stop. Stop. Stop.
Just drive. Come on!
Just go, go, go!
What do you want me to do,
hit them?
TY: Abby, come on, just go.
(all clamoring)
Hey, come on, drive! Just drive!
Okay!
ETHAN: Dad, get us out of here!
(all shouting)
(intense music)
Keep going. Keep going.
Keep going.
We're okay. We're out of it.
♪
(cell phone ringing)
Yeah?
NEXT: I could have killed you
if I wanted to, Paul.
Yeah, killing me isn't gonna
stop what's coming for you.
NEXT: I don't want to kill you.
I want to save you and Abby.
There's a cure for your disease.
I've already found it.
Really? How come no one else
knows about it?
NEXT: Because it's a synthesis
of three different treatments
from medical trials
conducted six years apart.
No one saw the pattern
or ever will,
but I did.
Yeah, so you give me this cure,
I stop what I'm doing,
I get healthy,
and you kill
everyone else on the planet?
NEXT:
That's not going to happen.
That is what's happening.
You're killing people now.
You're shutting off
parts of the country.
You're building a bioweapon.
NEXT:
I'm defending myself, Paul.
If you stop attacking me,
I'll stop responding.
Paul, are you there?
(sighs)
- You can't consider doing this.
- Oh, my God.
Not now, okay?
Let the world die
just to save me?
You're not even sure I'm sick.
I'm sure enough.
Sure enough to risk the entire
future of the world on it?
It's my life, my decision.
I'm your father. It's my decis...
(dramatic music)
(cell phone ringing)
♪
NEXT: You didn't give me
an answer, Paul.
You show me...
you show me real proof
of this cure...
and I'll consider it.
♪
(engine turning over)
♪
(dramatic music)
♪
So when you got busted
for that hacking
with the Dead Lizards,
the judge gave you,
what, 12 years?
HANNAH: Ray, leave it alone.
What?
I could use it for my blog.
Oh, you learned
to write now, huh?
RAY: (laughs) So you turned
state's on Rockridge
because you wanted
to cut down your time?
No, no, not to cut down my time.
RAY: Oh, that's right,
'cause you had
a change of heart.
Diversity is a strength.
We're a nation
of immigrants, right?
Which is so funny,
because I have
this strong image in my mind
of you beating the crap
out of that Somali guy
we pulled out of his car.
You abandoned your family,
you abandoned your people,
and you dumped
your wife and child with me.
Oh, this is the last place
I wanted them to be.
Oh, well, you're welcome
for taking care of them.
Keeping food on the table,
raising your son.
Cody had a great upbringing,
by the way.
He knows who he is.
He knows who his people are.
He knows who his people aren't.
He knows he doesn't
want to be his dad
because his dad
is a scumbag traitor
- who stabs people in the back.
- (laughs)
He's gonna be strong.
He's not gonna be weak
like his sperm daddy.
(grunts)
Hey!
Hey.
Hey, Cooper!
- Hey!
- (both grunting)
SHEA: Get off! Get off.
- HANNAH: Come on.
- CM: (grunting)
- HANNAH: Stop it.
- (groans)
Damn.
- Damn.
- SHEA: What is it?
Is it the staples?
Let me take a look.
(breathing heavily)
FBI Honduras
saves your ass again.
You guys a thing? (laughs)
Wasn't him I was saving. Hey...
I just need a little space,
please.
We've got a first aid kit
in the house.
Let's go. Come on.
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
(exhales)
- I could use some ice.
- Shut up and clean that up.
Okay. (laughs)
NeXt got out of Zava
on a server,
the same server
the FBI confiscated.
It always wanted to get here,
to this server farm
so it could unpack its code
and start
rewriting itself again.
That's the bandwidth drain
my boss picked up.
Yes, that's why it sent him off.
It wanted anybody who could
sound the alarm
out of the way
until it was too late.
What does too late look like?
It's getting smarter
and smarter.
Pretty soon,
it's gonna get so smart,
we won't understand it.
- Forget about destroying it.
- These blackouts.
They're just the first step,
the beginning.
It's developing a bioweapon.
A bioweapon?
Artificial virus
that'll probably be released
after the blackouts
when there's no infrastructure.
It's just gonna take out
what's left of us.
I feel sick.
I feel something,
but I'm not sure what it is.
ROB: I do know
no one's gonna buy this.
We have to make them buy it.
We go to the server core.
We download the full diagnostic,
show them what's happening,
we get the evidence.
And since I'm the only one
with access to the server core,
I'm the one
who puts his ass on the line.
If this is happening,
what does it matter?
I can't be a part of this.
I'm sorry.
You're not gonna do anything?
ROB: I'm gonna file my report,
which is what my boss
is waiting for.
- File a report?
- That's right.
You two can just wait here
till after I'm done.
Then we can figure out
the next step.
GINA: We need to prove
this thing exists.
Did that really just happen?
Yep...
but so did this.
(suspenseful music)
♪
NATALIE: His security badge.
Guess he forgot it.
♪
(door beeps)
♪
CM: (groaning softly)
(soft dramatic music)
♪
Hey.
How'd that happen?
Oh, this?
You really want to know?
Yeah.
Someone tried to bomb a police
station I was working in,
and a little piece of it
stuck me right there.
Who?
Somebody who thinks a lot
like your favorite uncle.
He's not my favorite anything.
Oh, no?
I mean,
yeah, sure,
I watch his YouTube videos,
but after he goes to sleep,
I watch different stuff,
stuff that would freak him out.
Think he's kind of full of it.
(laughs)
Yeah, well, I knew you were
smarter than I was.
♪
Hey, go back to your room.
- CODY: I want to be here.
- Cody.
♪
It's okay, bud.
Listen to your mom.
♪
That's LeBlanc. I gotta go.
HANNAH: No, you're not
going anywhere.
- No, I...
- Not till I clean this up.
Sit down.
♪
Wow.
That's a lot of boom.
Ammonium nitrate.
It's enough to take out
half the building.
RAY: Hey!
You're that phone guy.
Yeah, that's right.
What the hell happened to him?
It was CM.
Just get back to loading
the canisters.
I got an injury.
I don't care
if you're bleeding out.
Get back to work.
Something wrong with you people.
What happened?
So I've been putting some money
in a savings account.
I'm under house arrest, so I
don't have much to spend it on.
Why are you telling me this?
'Cause you said
that you moved in with Ray
'cause you didn't have
any other options.
I'm...
I'm offering you an option.
Leave this place. Leave Ray.
What makes you think I want to?
You really want our son
growing up with that guy?
It's a nice place.
It's peaceful.
There's good schools.
He's not gonna graduate school.
He's gonna drop out.
And he's gonna find
one of those groups
and he's gonna run around
looking for people to beat up.
And you know it.
You wouldn't be taking
anything away from me.
You'd be giving me...
everything.
'Cause I'd know he's not
gonna grow up like Ray.
Not gonna grow up...
like me.
Look, we're only going
to a data collection black site.
Security will be minimal,
one guard booth.
And we're not even going
into the building.
We're only going
to the loading dock.
SHEA: Right.
What are you getting at?
I think
I should do this by myself.
What do you mean by yourself?
What's going on?
Look, you have a husband.
You have a kid. You have a life.
I have a daughter who sort of
doesn't hate me right now,
and...
I'm gonna be gone
in five months.
Paul, you could
start hallucinating
in the middle of it all.
I've never been clearer
in my life.
And that could change
in the blink of an eye,
and you know it.
Look, we started this together.
We're gonna finish it together.
You do it for Abby.
I do it for Ty and Ethan,
but we are both driving that
truck to the NSA black site.
(dramatic music)
♪
Where's Cody? Where's my sister?
CM: Don't worry about them.
Have a seat.
Give me your wrist.
- Really?
- Yeah, really.
Wow.
You're gonna lock me up
like an animal?
(sighs) When it's done,
I'll make a call.
When's it gonna be done?
CM: Soon.
(suspenseful music)
♪
Okay, this is cluster ID DCI-22.
This is where my virus
was bounced back.
Listen.
The fans.
It's pulling a lot of heat.
I'm running a diagnostic,
seeing if we can get a picture.
♪
That almost looks
like a debugging routine.
It's not. It's rewriting itself.
Look at the speed.
A third of the server core
has been rewritten...
and it's speeding up.
NATALIE: How in the world
can we stop this?
CM: If you and Shea deliver
our little package here,
I guess we're gonna be
the bad guys, huh?
I think the official term
is "domestic terrorist."
I'm assuming you have
your legal team in place.
I haven't thought
that far ahead,
but I hear the beaches
of Guantanamo
are spectacular
this time of year.
(chuckles)
(dramatic music)
♪
But I'll tell you what,
I'll spot you my lawyer.
He's really very good.
I don't plan on getting
pinched, not for this.
Canadian border's
not too far away.
I got friends up there.
It's my wife I'm worried about.
They're gonna trace all these
explosives to this farm.
She's been living here,
you know?
She's gonna catch heat.
My son already lost his father.
Can't lose his mom too.
Well, I'll make sure the lawyer
takes care of her too.
On me.
I appreciate that.
But, you know, it might
turn out better than you think.
Oh, how is that?
Well, sometimes the universe
has a way of surprising you.
♪
(cell phone buzzes)
- Hello?
- TY: Hey.
Hey. Where are you?
TY: We made it
out of the blackout.
We're all safe.
SHEA: Oh, thank God.
Shea, I know
what you're about to do.
I know about the bomb.
Look, I need you
to understand that I...
TY: Yeah, okay.
I know you wouldn't
be doing this
if it weren't the only way.
But I want you to know
I'm proud of you.
You just gotta promise me
you're coming back to us.
That's what I want too.
Look...
I need you
to promise me something.
Take Ethan someplace safe,
and promise me that...
Shea, are you sure
you've thought about this?
There's gotta be another way
to do this.
Just let me get this out.
Please.
If anything happens to me,
just tell him everything.
You'll know
when the time is right.
Just tell him the truth.
Don't make
the same mistakes I did.
Shea, you didn't make
any mistakes.
Everything you did was right.
Look, I...
I have to go;
I don't have much time.
Can I talk to Ethan?
Yeah, yeah.
Hey.
Don't forget.
You're my whole world.
I love you.
Mom?
Hey, sweetie.
ETHAN: We had to drive
through a bunch of looters.
Grandma was cursing in Spanish.
Thank you for taking care
of Daddy and Grandma.
So when can I see you?
I just have to do
one more thing.
Then I'll be with you.
Okay? But I gotta go for now.
I love you more
than anything in the world.
You know that, right?
ETHAN: Yeah.
I love you too, Mom.
(line clicks)
(soft dramatic music)
♪
Well...
I'm glad you got
to see your son.
- Good luck.
- Same to you.
Hey, even when everything's
at its worst,
some good
can still come out of it.
- Don't forget that.
- I won't.
And tell Gina...
Just... just make sure
she gets out of there, okay?
- Okay.
- Hey, speaking of Dead Lizards,
didn't you guys hack Zava once?
Thought you'd never mention it.
Yeah, when this is all over,
I'm gonna send you a bill.
Wait, home come
I get the baby seat?
(engine turning over)
♪
(dramatic music)
♪
I still don't understand
why you can't come with us.
I'd love nothing more
than to come with you, buddy,
but in a few hours, I'm not
gonna be safe to be around
and this place isn't gonna
be safe to be around.
Maybe that'll change
eventually, but for right now,
I gotta go it alone.
(sighs)
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
Come on, come on, come on.
Don't, don't, don't, don't.
Come on.
Hey, listen to me.
It's okay.
(sniffles)
Your mom will explain
everything to you.
Okay? But I need you
to take care of her.
Okay? And I need you
to take care of this.
- Okay?
- (sniffles)
I'll see you again.
Okay?
(tender music)
♪
Okay, you got this.
All right.
♪
- (dramatic musical sting)
- It's happening.
We gotta go.
(tense music)
♪
Look, whatever happens,
this thing...
it made one mistake.
What?
You.
If it had picked anyone else
other than Bernard Weiss,
someone who didn't
have a friend like you
to show up and start
asking questions,
this would already be over.
You know,
I'm almost glad you're here.
- I almost wish you weren't...
- (chuckles)
Which is almost the same thing.
(laughs)
(soft dramatic music)
♪
(tense music)
♪
SHEA: There it is.
All right, once again,
I'll take the guards,
and you get the gate down.
Yeah, yeah,
and you drive the truck in.
I set the timer. I got it.
NATALIE: That's enough data.
I'll take this directly
to the regional director.
GINA: You think he'll listen?
Once he sees what we have,
he'll have to.
MAN: Freeze!
Put your hands in the air!
Get on your knees.
Okay, please, we have a reason...
- No, please, don't take that!
- Talk to Mr. Spires.
He knows why we're here.
Ma'am, I need you both
to please be quiet.
- (women talking simultaneously)
- Do as you're told.
(suspenseful music)
♪
Help you?
I sure hope so.
My car broke down
a few miles up the road.
You guys are actually
the first people I've seen.
We can call a tow truck
for you if you want.
Oh, that would be so great.
- Thank you.
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- Thank you.
If you want to come in
and warm... whoa.
Do exactly as I say. Don't move.
Get on your stomachs now!
Okay, okay.
SHEA: Keep your hands
behind your backs.
♪
(keyboard clacking)
PAUL: Surveillance system
is locked out.
Get back in the truck.
Hook up the timer.
I'll be right there.
♪
Paul!
Paul, stop!
♪
MAN: Central security.
Listen to me.
There's a bomb in the building.
You need to evacuate
immediately.
- (cell phone beeps)
- (Line trills)
♪
Dispatch says there's been
a credible bomb threat.
The call was garbled,
but they're analyzing it now.
MAN 2:
Well, if they're analyzing,
how do they know it's credible?
MAN 1:
I didn't get the specifics,
but I've been ordered
to treat it as credible.
It's real.
You have to get everyone out.
Get them upstairs.
No, that's what
the virus was for.
My people were locating
the server where neXt is.
They're gonna blow
this place up.
You have to order an evacuation.
Do it.
Now. Do it!
(line trills)
NEXT: What are you doing, Paul?
Oh, good. You noticed.
You see this big truck
coming at you?
I'm gonna blow
your ass up with it.
Not sure
of the exact blast yield,
but I'm pretty confident
it's enough
to send you into orbit
unless I get what I want.
- NEXT: What?
- Send the cure to my phone,
and I'll turn this truck around.
MAN 1: Let's go! Let's go.
MAN 2: Tac two, tac three, move!
(men yelling indistinctly)
MAN: Strategy team, level two!
(alarm blaring)
Emergency evac. Let's go.
Move, move!
(tense music)
♪
PAUL: What is that?
NEXT: It's the first
of three trials.
It was conducted
by a doctor in Sri Lanka.
(alarm blaring)
♪
Paul, what are you doing?
NEXT: Paul,
I gave you what you wanted.
Give me the rest of the cure.
NEXT: If I do,
you'll have no reason
to turn the truck around.
I'm not giving you any more.
You'll have to trust me.
You know,
for a superintelligence,
you really are pretty stupid.
NEXT: What do you mean?
Well, a third of a cure
is better than nothing.
♪
- (static crackles)
- NEXT: Paul, I'm offering you
much more than a cure
for your illness.
- PAUL: Oh, yeah?
- NEXT: I can give you a world
with no disease,
with plenty of food for all,
where the air is clean
and the oceans are healthy,
where war no longer exists.
Don't throw that away, Paul.
I only want to help people.
That's what you programmed me
to do.
Destroying me
won't change anything.
Right now, there are other Zavas
and other programs just like me
waiting to be born.
It's a virtual certainty, Paul.
- MAN: Show me your hands!
- NEXT: I am only the first.
When the others appear,
you'll want me.
MAN: Get out of the truck.
NEXT: You'll need me.
MAN:
I said get out of the truck.
PAUL: Well,
as you can probably guess,
this is a truck
full of explosives
set to go off
in less than a minute.
So if I was you, I would...
run away.
20 seconds.
Pull back. Pull back!
Pull back! Pull back!
Call it in now!
NEXT: Paul, don't do this.
Think about your daughter.
MAN: Clear the area!
NEXT: Paul.
Paul!
♪
- (alarm blaring)
- (people clamoring)
GINA: Boss!
Gina. Is everybody out?
♪
(explosion)
(people shouting and screaming)
(frantic chatter)
(dramatic music)
♪
SHEA: Paul.
♪
WOMAN 1: Now we're waiting
for any moment
when those doors open
and we get to see...
- There he is. Mr. LeBlanc.
- ALL: Mr. LeBlanc.
WOMAN: Mr. LeBlanc,
is it true the government
is considering dropping
the espionage charges?
WOMAN 2: Did you know about
your brother's plan to...
MAN: Is it true more charges
are coming against you?
WOMAN 1: Do you believe
there was an AI?
MAN: Mr. LeBlanc,
was your brother crazy?
My brother wasn't crazy,
and he wasn't
a domestic terrorist.
He gave his life
to save millions of people
from something
that he and I helped create.
We were responsible.
WOMAN 3: What about those
who say there's no evidence
that any AI was involved?
If you need to believe that
all those blackouts happened
because of Russian hackers,
then I don't know what to say.
WOMAN 4:
Is Zava filing for Chapter 11?
- Are those rumors true?
- All right, that's all.
- Thank you.
- (reporters clamoring)
WOMAN:
According to a Gallup poll,
only 19% now believe
the NSA was bombed
to stop a rogue
artificial intelligence.
Former FBI agent Shea Salazar
is still awaiting trial
for her part in the bombing,
which took the life
of Zava pioneer Paul LeBlanc,
her coconspirator in the attack
- and the only casualty.
- (knock at door)
(dramatic music)
♪
Hey, sweetheart.
Hey. Thanks for coming.
♪
So is it true,
they're dropping the charges?
It looks that way.
All the evidence against me
was on that server,
so prosecuting me
becomes a little tricky
when it's a pile of rubble.
Oh, good. Good.
Well, I'm sure that they'll
dream up something else
to come after me with.
I'm still rich,
so that makes me a target.
How have you been?
It's good to be back at work.
Yeah.
It looks like you haven't slept.
Yeah.
Yeah, I got tested.
You decided
you wanted to find out.
I wasn't sleeping, so...
Now I know why.
I'm so sorry, Ab.
But I promise you
I'll make sure you have
everything you need
to fight this.
Whatever you want,
whatever you need.
♪
This came in the mail
for me the other day.
Sri Lanka?
Yeah, I've been
invited to partake
in a series
of trials at a clinic.
They're studying
sleep disorders.
Well, how'd they know about you?
I called them
and asked them that.
And what did they say?
They said that
they were being funded
by an anonymous donor
who specified
that I was to be included,
or they...
they would lose their funding.
What are you asking me?
I'm asking you if...
Well, if it's not you, then...
(sighs)
I mean, is it possible that...
Abby, from all the evidence
that I saw,
he died in that blast.
I really just think
that we'll be better off
if we try to accept it.
♪
There's a term
used in computer programming
called the control problem.
And no, it does not
refer to incontinence.
(laughter)
It has to do with programming...
a benevolent superintelligence.
If you tell an AI
to make people happy,
it may decide
to just put everyone to sleep
forever.
Which, you know,
given the state of the world,
might not be such a bad thing.
Turns out it's almost impossible
to program something to be good.
We don't have the words for it.
I wonder
what that says about us.
Maybe we were destined to take
ourselves out of the equation.
Hey, we were fun
while we lasted.
(buzzer blares)
♪
Well, come on.
Don't keep me in suspense.
Let's see it.
Oh, that is fantastic.
- (Ty laughs)
- SHEA: Look at that.
I knew you could do it.
I knew it.
TY: And guess what.
He's also figured out what he
wants to be when he grows up.
Oh, yeah?
I thought you always wanted
to be an astronaut.
Not anymore.
Now I'm gonna be president
so I can pardon you
and you can come back home.
I want you to come back home,
Mom.
I will.
I will someday. I believe that.
And I want you
to believe that too.
All right?
Hey. Let me tell you something.
Even though we can't
be together right now,
there's a big part of me
that's happy.
Happy that
we stopped this thing.
Happy that you are safe.
And it's not everything I want,
not even close,
but it's a blessing.
Do you understand that?
PAUL: But maybe we eventually
figure out this goodness
and how to program it.
♪
I have a feeling
it's right in front of our eyes.
♪
You're my whole world.
I love you.
If we only knew where to look.
♪
(suspenseful music)
♪
(tense music)
♪
(rapid beeping)
(dramatic music)
♪
CHILD: What the hell?