The Feed (2019–…): Season 1, Episode 9 - Episode #1.9 - full transcript

In the blink of an
eye, connect to everyone.

Never miss those moments again.

Relive them.

Be there.

Be informed.

Be better.

Dream together.

Discover together.

The world's knowledge
is yours at a glance.

Invent a more beautiful world.

Share your world.



Share your life.

Your memories, mundles,

are safe forever.

A virus is coming though
the Feed.

It appears as a spasm
while you sleep.

Do not sleep alone.

Watch each other.

Stay vigilant,
but above all else,

remain calm, and do not tamper
with your Feed.

Remain calm... Do not tamper...

Remain calm... Do not tamp...

Remain c... Do not...
Remain... Do not...

Meredith Hatfield is a liar.

Do not remove it?



No need for panic?

Even when the Feed
is literally killing you

while you sleep?

This was my wife last night.

Margaret! Margaret, wake up!

Margaret, you just had a spasm.

Are you okay?
Sh-Should I call someone?

Margaret! Margaret!

It's kill or be killed.

What the fuck?
He just killed his wife.

- She was trying to kill him.
- That's what they think happened to Cass.

- That she's got that virus.
- There's no fucking virus.

They're saying Hatfield cracked.

Then what the fuck
did we just see?

They're not gonna hurt Cass,
are they?

No. What?

No.

Don't do anything stupid, Kate.

We're too high up.

It's okay. It's okay.

No service.
We apologize for any inconvenience.

Look, I don't want you
to put your baby

- or yourself in harm's way.
- Then let us go!

I can't do that!
You know I can't do that!

Shit. Shit.

Don't go through
the window, Kate.

- I just want to talk.
- You got a funny fucking way of showing it!

You attacked me, remember?

I never wanted it
to be like this.

Where is she? Where's my sister?

Oh, Kate. I know what it's like
to lose someone.

And now my family,

the ones like me, are in danger.

So that's why I need your help.

I need you to track Tom
and tell me where he is!

Go to hell.

Evelyn!

Evelyn!

Fuck.

Help! Help me!

Help! Evelyn!

Their numbers are increasing.

And if it comes out
that Meredith was right

and we kept all this secret,

- it's our heads.
- How soon until we run out of space?

We're already holding multiples
in single cages.

- Have you found Meredith yet?
- No. Any ideas?

Why have you called me in?

We have staff trying
to roll back

the Feed's operating system,

reducing us
to the most basic network.

We're trying to see
if the takers

will still be able
to come through.

Right now, we're just trying
to target remote areas

outside the city,
where its infrastructure

won't affect the daily balance,
but the Feed keeps crashing.

We can't stabilize
its operating system.

We need your help.

The takers'
numbers are escalating.

We're running out of space.

- Well, what happens when you do?
- That's what we're afraid of.

America, Russia and China
are already discussing

systematic removal.

If they keep coming,
and we can't save them...

Then what?

Then you'll kill them?

They murdered my men.

They tried to kill you.

If it comes down to us
or them...

We're hoping to avoid that.

Evelyn?

Our genomic sequencing code,

plus multiple cures for
metabolic disease.

Well, that's wonderful.

Thank you, Meredith,
for your sudden consideration

for my people's health.

It's just the beginning
of what I can offer.

I have a proposition.

In exchange for
my family's asylum.

When we started the Feed,
we put our competitors

out of business
by buying up their patents.

These contain the base codes
for networks

that could rival the Feed.

I will help you build one.

And put your own company
out of business?

It's already dead.

But we need an alternative.

Why don't you let it
die altogether?

Because it's holding up
our global infrastructure.

Electricity,
banking, information,

all runs off the Feed.
Without it, society collapses.

Your society.

Support me in creating a network

that everyone will want,

and you will become the most
powerful man in the world.

I need to consider
your proposition.

Until then, my sister Sen

will show you
to your accommodation.

Sen and her guards will be
by your side all the time.

- Well, that won't be necessary.
- I'm afraid it is.

Someone needs
to watch you sleep.

In case you get infected
with the virus

and spread your illness here.

What the hell was
he doing down here?

Who knows what was
going on in his head?

Where do we start?

We can't even activate
the lights.

It's here.

Whatever it is, we find it.

We end it now.

We should contact Mum.

She'll be able
to make sense of this.

We can't.

She's gone.
She's left the country.

You serious?

- She tried to tell you, Ben.
- Uh-huh.

She went to find us
a safe place.

- She wouldn't just leave you.
- Well, why not?

- Everyone else does.
- Do we really have to do this now?

I'm just kidding, Tom.

The last time I saw her,
she was very kind.

Look, it's just important
that we focus...

Of course. The magic touch.

I've called the police.
They're on their way.

Well, that was
a fucking stupid thing to do.

What now? You kill me?

Just find out
where your husband is.

Why? So more of you
can come through?

You take other people's lives?

My sister had kids!

She had a fucking family!

I had a child.

Three years old when I died.

She'd be eight now.

Don't you think I'd give
anything to see her again?

But she'd just look at me
the way you are now,

like I'm a monster.
Like... I don't belong.

You take my sister's body
and wear her

like some fucking parasite!

Fuck you.

You know, Lawrence said
we'd have a chance

at a new beginning.
That we might get to live again.

Lawrence did this?

He-he... he made it so that
you could come through?

You know, maybe
you should call Tom.

Tell him that.

Maybe it would help him find
what he's looking for.

I am not calling him,
you fucking lunatic!

- Then maybe I'll give you a reason to.
- No...

That was fast for the cops.

You want everyone to stay safe,

then you stay fucking quiet!

Martha! Martha, no!

Fuck. Fuck!

Naz.

No...

Hey.

- I'm Martha.
- Naz, hey.

Where's Kate?

Oh, uh, she's back in the house

trying to get Bea
to sleep, so...

Right, right.

- Is this all for us?
- Yeah.

Tia said you'd be staying
for a bit.

Sorry I couldn't
get here earlier.

Oh, no worries.
Uh... Should I give you a hand?

Yeah, cool.

Hey. Jonah.

It's me, Danny.

Um... can we come up?

Danny?

Hey.

Uh...

Look, I'm... sorry
for spraying your image.

We were idiots. We get it now.

But we need your help.

I didn't know where else to go.

Try the Feed.

Please. Our friend's in trouble.

She got arrested by the police.

But when we
went to bail her out,

- they wouldn't tell us where she was.
- Why?

They think she's one of those...
the sleepy twitcher things.

Is she?

So why would they think that?

We fucked up.

We sprayed a video
of her pretending to spasm.

- W-We thought it was a joke.
- But we're learning it's not.

Come in.

So how does it work?

Fingerprint? DNA?

Considering Dad's obsession
with lineage,

I wouldn't be surprised.

We need to find
the main controls.

He really did love you.

And you've no recollection
of being here?

If I was ever here,

I-I was too young to remember.

He probably erased
those mundles, too.

Yeah, well, at least you have
a clear storage.

No... fucked-up memories
to keep you up at night.

It's not much better, Ben.

Well, that's where I have
to disagree with you Tom,

because...

it is the memories that...

I mean, you feel like
you've dealt with everything.

That you've fixed things.

And you let your mind rest
for a second.

It's the memories
that catch you off guard.

Turn everything dark
in an instant.

What memories, Ben?

- Huh?
- Just the same old bullshit

that everyone else
has got, I guess.

Well, why don't you just
delete your mundles?

But I still remember, Tom.

Well, you can't just keep
replaying them

over and over again,
torturing yourself.

I-I can't.

I can't forget how hated I am
because...

What if I just want
what you've got?

Muscle out a place for me
and a family

and if it happens again,
if people decide

I'm not good enough again...

I want to see that coming.

Because I can't
be rejected anymore.

Ben.

You can be better
than you think you are.

- You really don't know me at all.
- Oh, shut up.

Tom, no...

Good evening, Mr. Hatfield.
My name is Alba.

How may I help you?

Thanks.

I'm up to 12 minutes off.

You don't have to prove
anything, Danny.

Right, what do you lot
want with me, anyway?

We thought maybe,
because of who you hang with,

you might have heard
rumblings about

where they're taking
the twitchers to.

Why? What you thinking?

We were hoping
maybe you could set us up

- with some Resisters.
- You?

Do you think any Resister's
really want to

gonna help you break
into the Hub?

The Hub? For real?

- I can get us in.
- Yeah. -No, he can.

- His shrink's a Hatfield.
- Yeah.

That Hatfield who don't like
being a Hatfield.

He's like you.

- Preachy.
- He's not preachy.

He's right.

You and Tom
would like each other.

On the same page,
like old folk would say.

But seriously.

You were right.

All right,
just call your friend.

Don't want you doing
anything stupid.

Slow signal.

We apologize
for any disruptions.

- It's slow.
- Mad slow.

I can barely chat to my girls.

That's 'cause there are
no girls.

I think they're keeping it
slow to stop the virus.

Or bury that kooky
Hatfield message.

Maybe Tom's at the Hub.

- Hey, we should just go there.
- No, you just said yourself.

The Feed is being weird.

If Meredith fucking Hatfield
is saying it's a problem,

there's some serious shit
going down.

But what's the
worst that could happen?

What? They tell us to fuck off?

Yeah, they had me locked up
there for a week.

And I hadn't done anything.

Dan...

it's Cass.

We owe her.

I hope my family...

enjoy your country.

Especially my son, Tom.

He has a baby girl.

Is it a good place
to bring up children?

I'm sorry about
your mother's passing.

I've recently suffered
a bereavement myself.

Your mother was a clever lady.

She realized your potential
for leadership.

My brother's the one in power.

Not if you depose him.

I know you've been working

with a resistance group
to expose your brother's lies.

You hate him
much more than I do.

You don't hate him.

You're helping him
to save yourself.

Yes.

But with the Feed compromised,

someone else will build him
a network if I don't.

And your brother will become
an even bigger tyrant

than he already is.

How may I help you?

Are you my father's assistant?

My objective
is to make life easier.

So, that's a yes?

Yes.

Well, you could've
just said that.

That would've made
things easier.

Do you have access
to all of his files?

Can you pull up Hawking 7-2?

299 results found.

Hawking 7-2-1-0-0 to 7-2-3-9-9.

What are they?

Hawking 7-2-1-0-0,

thought unification modulator.

Hawking 7-2-1-0-1,

fetal intelligence monitoring.

Hawking 7-2-1-0-2,

AI soldier simulation.

Hawking 7-2-1-0-3,

genetic replacement therapy.

Hawking 7-2-1-0-4,

neurological
redistribution meter.

Hawking 7-2-1-0-5,

- synapse conduction testing...
- Tom, this is gonna take for fucking ever.

- 7-2-1...
- Do any of these files

store people, uh...

mundles, thoughts,
consciousness,

anything like that?

- 73.
- Pull those up.

72 presented.

Hawking 7-2-1-9-7,

corrupted.

How?

You found it.

Alba, what was the file?

Original participants
in our SAVEYOU Beta study.

What was the study?

Who were the subjects?

A medical trial
on consciousness manipulation.

Subjects were deceased persons

who donated
their Feeds for research.

Consciousness manipulation?

What are you talking about?

SAVEYOU's just
an enhanced memory storage.

The program goes beyond mundles.

It stores thoughts, emotions.

Every experience the user has.

It stores their essence.

Dad was storing people's lives.

What exactly did he do
to them, Alba?

Mathematical reasoning

enhanced within ten percent
of safe zone.

Cognitive empathy diminished
within 12% of...

He was manipulating the
consciousness of dead people?

- Correct.
- For how many?

15,000 in SAVEYOU Beta.

Before memory increase.

15,000?

Well, that's fine.

- We-we can deal with that.
- Memory increase, Alba.

Wh-What exactly do you mean
by memory increase?

Original participants
totaled 15,000.

Memory has since increased
to 4.739 million.

That's 4.7 million?

Correct. Worldwide.

Lawrence made that many?

No.

They continued
the study themselves.

Wait...
They continued themselves?

Correct.

- They made more of themselves?
- Correct.

- Currently in process.
- They're doing it right now?

- Correct.
- Stop saying "correct."

How, how could they do this?

They learned watching Lawrence.

Can you delete them?

Negative. File corrupted.

We need Evelyn.

Okay.

Okay.

Oh.

Oh, shit. Oh, shit.

Oh, shit. Shit, shit.

I'll help you unload them.

Oh...

no, that's okay. I'll do it.

We're really tired, so...

Looks nasty.

Is it...? Oh.

Yeah. I, uh...

I got spooked by
a stuffed squirrel in there.

Fell down the stairs.

This house it nuts, innit?

Let me have a look.

Oh, no, no.
Uh, Kate'll patch it up

- when Bea's asleep.
- I've got a kit right here.

Really, you don't have to.

Look, we're really tired.

I've got this huge headache,
and...

you know, thank you
so much for your help,

but we're good.

- Really.
- All right, well,

- be back in a couple of days to check on you, then?
- That'd be great.

Go.

G-Go.

Good night.

Martha?

Martha?

Are you all right?
Has something happened?

Did Kate do that?

You think Kate has turned?

Oh, God. Naz.

Naz, run. Get out of here!

- Naz, run!
- Look, hold on a second.

Naz, no!

No... you stay back.

Okay.

Help! Martha's been taken!

No signal. We apologize

for any inconvenience.

Unable to modify
SAVEYOU base code.

File corrupted.

Ask her what the corruption is.

Alba, what's the corruption?

Corruption derives from
the subjects' self-encryption.

They've protected themselves.

Encryption? Is that why
their Feeds are being blocked?

- Probably.
- Can you delete them?

Um... if I can break
the encryption.

Ask her if she can
transfer the file.

Alba, did you hear Evelyn?

Can you transfer
the SAVEYOU file?

Downloading to Feed.

I'll let you know what I find.

Ev, h-have you heard anything
from Martha?

No, I've been trying.
I-I was hoping you had.

Service is slow
outside the city.

We've gone back to basic,
so it keeps dipping in and out.

I'm hoping
we just can't get through.

Just...

Finally. I've been trying
to get through to you all night.

What are you...?

Where the frig are you? Hey, hi.

- Danny, Danny, what's wrong?
- Uh...

my friend's in the Hub because
of something stupid we've done.

I mean, they think she's one
of those things, but she's not.

- I swear it was a joke.
- Wait. Wait, wait, wait. What?

She pretended
to-to have a fit online,

And they assumed
she's one of the-the taken.

How has she ended up in the Hub?

They've taken
her from her house.

They put her
in the back of a van...

Now she's in the
Hub, we need to get her out.

How did she get in the Hub?

They arrested her!

They took her in the van...

Can you get us in?

- Into the Hub?
- Yeah.

No, no way. It's not safe there.

Okay, you're gonna go home.

I-I'll handle this, all right?
What's her name?

- Cass Stewart.
- Cass?

- Cassandra.
- Cassandra. Okay.

I'll ping it down, Tom.

Get someone to take a look.

Thank you.

Hey. I'm gonna deal with this.

You're gonna go home,
you're gonna stay home, yes?

Yes, Danny?

Okay.

Tom, Martha's been taken.

Tom, we need your help.

- Fuck.
- What?

- Shit, shit, shit.
- Tom.

Are we in?

Nah.

He ain't there.

He said he'll handle it.

Right, well, then,
he'll handle it.

Fuck.

Danny, we should just think
about this.

Hey, she's one of us, man.

Tom.

Due to compromises
in the Feed network,

the police emergency line
is currently unavailable.

Tom!

Tom.

Wh-Wh-What's happened?
What's going on?

Kate and Bea are in trouble.

- Martha's been taken.
- Well, then, call the police.

I've tried! The Feed's slow

and Kate's in the middle
of fucking nowhere.

Wait.

- Key. Give me, give me the key.
- Tom...

- What? Give me the key!
- We can't just leave.

No, you don't understand.

This is my family. This is...

This is all I have.

Just give me the fucking key.

Well, I'm coming with you.

I... I-I can't lose them, okay?

I can't.

I know.

No...

Okay.

Okay, you get in. You're okay.

You're okay.

There we go.

Okay.

You be quiet.

Come on. Come on.

It's your sister, Kate.

If you have any hope of getting
her back, don't hurt her.

Oh, God. No. No.

Okay. Okay.

Okay.

Okay, baby.

It's okay.

No.

No, oh, God.

- Be quiet! Shut up! Shut up!
- No! I don't want to!

- No!
- Move it out. Quickly.

- - That's it...
- Get it moving.

Right. You two, over there.

Get going, move it on.

Hey, let's leave it, man.

- This is intense.
- Yeah, he's right, Danny.

Your friend said he'd handle it.

Tom's busy with other shit.
What if they're hurting Cass

- and he doesn't get to her in time, huh?
- This is bait, Danny.

We're so gonna end up
in one of them vans ourselves.

Yeah.

- That's the idea.
- What? No. No fucking way.

- What?
- Look, they locked me up there for a week.

Who knows what the fuck
they're doing to them.

That's what I'm trying
to find out. W... y-you survived.

Yeah, and it wasn't
fucking funny, Danny.

I'm having no part in this.

- Part of what?
- Wait, wait, wait. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

She'd do the same for me, Jonah.

Come on! Let's wrap it up!

- Danny...
- It's me you're talking to.

I'm like a cat,
the way I land on my feet.

Come on.

Hit me.

Seriously, what the fuck
is going on?

- Help! Help, quick!
- Ping the Hub.

Please! Please help, quick!

Uh, my friend... He's my friend.

I-I mean, he was my friend.

- I don't know who he is anymore.
- What's going on?

He just went for us,
out of nowhere.

Well, it was fine one minute,
and the next, punched him.

- Are you hurt?
- No, I'm fine.

I mean,
I had to take control, hard.

I'm not proud.

You did the right thing.

We'll take care of him.

Move on!

With Hau eliminated,

well, you can assume
military control.

And when enablement starts,
you can monitor your officers.

Make sure no one plots
against you in return.

So I can become
as paranoid as Quan?

If I was planning something,
you're threatening it.

I don't have
full military support.

You will if you
build them a network.

But the people don't want it.

Our country survives
on off-line tourism.

Which will end if we don't give
them an alternative to the Feed.

You can free your people, Sen.

Do you know
what Quan does to traitors?

You're getting along.

The hard drives you gave me
were encrypted.

Of course they are.
You can't open them without me.

- Yes, but once we have...
- You won't be able to enable

the codes without me, either.

Did you really think
I'd come here unprepared?

You can't trust her regardless.

She's been telling me
all the ways I should kill you.

My sister has
a very dark sense of humor.

I can never tell
when she's telling the truth.

Is she?

Of course she is.

Leave us.

Get out.

Let's go. Move.

Move on. Move.

Oi.

You...

Next.

Next one.

Kate! Kate! Kate.

Okay, okay...

Bea...

Bea! Bea. Hey, hey.
Hey, it's okay.

It's okay.

There we go. Come here, baby.

Come here, baby. Come on.

Here. Take her.

Okay, take her.

Okay.

Shh, shh.

Where is she?

I know what you are.
What have you done with my wife?

Tom.

Just go.

I'll stay with Bea.

- Yeah?
- Okay.

Okay,
I have to make myself absolutely clear.

Only the authorized personnel
present in the meeting room...

It's not working.

Keep trying.

Oh...

I've had to restart
three times now.

What's happening?

It's the SAVEYOU encryption.

It keeps locking us out.

It's protecting itself.

It's outsmarting us.

- So how do we get rid of it?
- With time.

Or insight.

Well, we don't have time,

so what the fuck do you mean
by insight?

You're holding hundreds of
people who know how this works.

Who literally built
this encryption.

Get one of them to talk.

Kate!

Kate!

So, you're Ben Hatfield?

You don't need to worry
about who I am.

No one ever does, I guess.

You know, I know all about you.

Alba's got all kinds of secrets
stored in her.

You've seen them all, have you?

We've seen a lot of things.

Well, that's over now.

We know it was SAVEYOU.

Our programmers are at the Hub
deleting it as we speak.

Good luck.

What?

Why would we allow the tech
that supports us to be deleted,

when tech is literally
our greatest strength?

Cass.

Cass.

Cass.

I said move!

Hey, I'm looking for my friend.

What the hell
are you doing here?

Eh?

This kid shouldn't be here!

- No talking!
- He's not one of us!

He is not one of us!

Cass?

I said no fucking talking!

Cass?

Open the door.

Open the door!

Cass?

Cass. Cass.

Cass, you need to wake up.
It's me.

It's Danny.

- Danny?
- Yeah.

Danny.

What have they done to you?

Fuck, fuck, fuck!

Kate!

You know, AI lacks humanity.

It's flawed, robotic,
and serves absolutely no purpose

other than to serve humans,

which automatically
makes it inferior.

And the fact that it will still
go on to exist beyond us,

serving nothing and no one,
is the biggest travesty of all.

Your father couldn't stomach it,
so he created a solution.

You?

We're here to save you
from yourselves.

If you're here to save us,
then why kill us?

Dmitri Garin? My dad?

When we first started coming,

the transition was disorienting.

Sara was aiming for Lawrence
at your wedding.

You were a mistake.

Oh, so I don't even make
the kill list.

You aren't a threat.

You're not important.

But you could be.

We know it's SAVEYOU.

It's only a matter of time...

before the rest of your kind...

are deleted.

It's inevitable.

You will not win.

But with your help,

we can make better arrangements
for all of you.

Who will give us the codes?

Kate! Kate!

Kate!

Thank God.

I love you.

It's okay.

I'm so, so sorry.

Oh, thank God. Oh, thank God.

Oh, thank God.

- Oh, thank God.
- She attacked me.

- It's okay now. It's okay.
- Oh, God.

- Where's Bea?
- She's fine.

- Where is she?
- She's back there with Ben.

Okay, she's good.
She's okay, yeah?

Let's get you out of here,
all right?

- Yeah.
- Come on.

- Get your arm over.
- Oh, God.

Come on, baby.

There we go.

There we go, come on. Come on.

- Get me to my baby, please.
- Okay.

Do you know
where Lawrence made us?

That's where he was
experimenting on Tom, too.

When I was stuck inside
that void with Alba,

I could see everything.

I know what Lawrence did.

Tom? Tom, Bea...

Don't you ever wonder
why Tom is more intelligent?

More together?

Why he's so good?

Why does Tom seem to have
everything while you...

you have nothing?

You know,
I can change that, Ben.

I can show you
what Lawrence did.

I can give you access
to his memories, his thoughts,

his research.

I can make you someone
your father would be proud of.

And why would you do that?

Just get me to Alba,
and I can help us both.

We just need your father's DNA.

Tom's would work, or...

you have a little piece
of him here.

Anyone change their mind?

Cass?

I'll help.

Pull him out.

Stop him!

Kill them! Kill them all!

Cass!

Cass...

Ben? Ben...

Tom? Tom, where's Bea?

Ben!