Some call Bregna the perfect society.
Some call it the height of human civilization.
But others know better.
The Goodchilds built Bregna to ensure us a future.
They built the ReIicaI...
a memorial to remind us of what we've survived.
They built walls to protect us.
They tell us that outside, nature has retaken the world.
But the real problems lie within.
We are haunted by sorrows we cannot name.
People disappear...
and our government denies these crimes.
The Goodchild regime provides for us, as long as we stay quiet.
So we trade freedom for a gilded cage.
But there are rebels who refuse to make that trade...
who fight to overthrow a government that silences us...
who fight in the name of the disappeared.
They call themselves the Monicans.
l am one of them.
HandIer.
Aeon.
We have an assignment.
We want you to sabotage GoodchiId's centraI surveiIIance faciIity.
Your entry wiII be noticed, but we wiII briefIy disrupt their interior aIarms.
SurveiIIance is their greatest tooI against us.
As long as Monicans can be seen, we can be targeted.
We need you to bIind them.
Each mission brings us closer to defeating the Goodchild regime.
This is my daughter. Have you seen her?
She disappeared two months ago.
HeIp me, pIease, miss. Have you seen this girI?
She disappeared two months ago.
Losing sleep? Having bad dreams?
Visit our sleep center for help.
Losing sleep? Having bad dreams? Visit our sleep....
Shopping for me, Una?
Haven't you heard? It's a speciaI occasion.
My sister's finaIIy coming to dinner.
CIaudius and I are Iooking forward to tonight.
For once, you'II be in the house Iong enough to sit down.
That's why I wanted to meet with you here.
Aeon.
I may not make it tonight, I'm sorry.
Don't be upset.
It's not that you can't come to dinner.
It's why.
You know, I used to imagine you'd come with me.
We have different ways of soIving probIems.
Yes. You ignore them.
How couId I possibIy ignore them?
Excuse me. This is my daughter.
I see the probIems. I feeI them.
And I'm trying to make something good out of it.
-A Iife. -What kind of Iife is it?
There are good things here.
There's one.
-So I have a surprise for you. -TeII me.
Tonight.
So be carefuI.
And come back.
Losing sleep? Having bad dreams?
Visit our sleep center for help.
Losing sleep? Having bad dreams?
Visit our sleep center for help.
Possible Monican consort. Three subjects.
ldentification requested.
Possible Monican activity suspected.
lt's not that you can't come to dinner.
lt's why.
You know, l used to imagine you'd come with me.
l think we have different ways of solving problems.
This is the way things are and l'm trying...
to make something good out of it. A life.
You're earIy, CIaudius.
But they're everywhere.
We need to protect you from them.
This is how Chairman GoodchiId deaIs with Monicans.
But she wasn't....
She wasn't a Monican.
l had a family once.
l had a life.
Now all l have is a mission.
Una.
Aeon.
Aeon, Una.
Aeon.
Come back.
Yes.
She will see you now.
HandIer.
Aeon.
We have an assignment.
One you've been waiting for.
GoodchiId.
We've intercepted information that wiII aIIow us to penetrate his security.
We want you to eIiminate him.
You shouId've sent me in earIier.
-That wouId've been suicide. -Not for me.
Patience, Aeon.
It has taken a year to get the information we need.
I know you want to do this for Una.
But you must remember, this is Iarger than you.
She's not the onIy innocent person who's been kiIIed.
This is our moment.
We have never been stronger.
PeopIe are frightened, yes...
but if we show them the way...
they wiII rise behind us when he's gone.
I'm ready.
Tomorrow, GoodchiId wiII be preparing his address to the CounciI.
To reach the government zone, you wiII need to cross the frontier garden.
Once you are through the garden, you must move quickIy to the CitadeI.
The underground interior has been buiIt to be confusing.
We've impIanted a route for you. FoIIow it.
I want Sithandra with me for the crossing.
Of course. Get to the Forum.
That's where Chairman GoodchiId wiII be.
You know what to do from there.
Yes.
Do this and you wiII have your revenge.
And we wiII aII have our victory.
HeIIo, Sithandra.
-StiII can't surprise you. -Not yet.
How are the modifications?
UsefuI.
You shouId have it done.
I Iike my shoes.
Warning. End of civilian zone. Do not proceed.
Warning. Do not proceed.
Ready?
AIways.
Warning. Do not proceed.
-Sithandra. -Let's keep moving.
-We understand these now? -CompIeteIy.
I'd keep off the grass.
-Rendezvous at 1620. -I'II be waiting.
I agree with the poIicy of targeting proven Monican threats.
But I'm afraid we're going too far.
We can't go too far with them.
There are advantages to showing a degree of Ieniency.
We can't aIIow them the Iuxury of hope. Not even one of them.
Brute force isn't the onIy option.
It's an effective one.
The Monicans are growing strong. Soon, force won't be enough.
So you want to compromise? Negotiate?
The poIicy shouId be reconsidered.
-Put to a vote. -The poIicy is not up for debate!
I'm debating it!
I'd encourage you to Iook at this with a IittIe more detachment, Giroux.
Here, we must be impersonaI.
You wouIdn't want me to take your outburst personaIIy, wouId you?
That is aII.
Oren?
I'm getting worried about you, Oren. This edge you've taken.
DispIays Iike that aren't heIpfuI to us.
I beIieve in protecting what we've created. I won't apoIogize for that.
This was created to aIIow me to do my work.
I can't do that if you can't controI yourseIf.
-Understood. -Is it?
Yes.
-And what about the test resuIts? -AII negative.
Sorry.
Find me a new test group by morning.
Maybe it's time to give up on the tests, Trevor.
We're Iiving the soIution aIready. This is perfection.
-Why can't you just embrace it? -You see what's happening to peopIe.
You know how desperate this has become.
It can be contained. ControIIed.
I think you're forgetting that this was aII meant to be temporary.
We've aIways said that, but why shouId it be?
Because it's wrong.
Things change.
But I know you won't.
You know me.
I've been your brother a Iong time.
You're right about that.
Trevor, your speech.
Trevor....
UseIess.
-State destination. -Forum.
Proceed forward.
Proceed left.
l know you have fears.
You have sorrows that shake your belief and try your patience.
But now more than ever, we must stand together...
because there are those among us...
who would tear down what we have built.
The Monicans seek to divide us.
We must never forget who we are...
a lonely outpost, a tiny band.
We're aII that remains of a peopIe that once covered the Earth.
We must adapt together to these new chaIIenges.
Remember what we have faced, what we have survived.
We wiII adapt.
We have aIways adapted.
It's the fabric of who we are.
Katherine.
It's you.
Katherine.
Wait outside.
Aeon.
You caIIed me by another name earIier.
I did, and you Iet me Iive.
Give me my gun. We'II try it again.
Maybe Iater.
What was that name?
You know me, don't you?
No.
Do you know who you are?
-I know I came here to kiII you. -That's why you're in a ceII.
But we're both stiII aIive for a reason.
I don't know what this is...
but it's good to see you.
Amateurs.
Good boys.
-Aeon. -LittIe busy, Sithandra.
ls it done?
I need more time.
Our information on him may be wrong.
l don't understand this. We have to move. l hope you--
Don't question me, Sithandra.
I'II contact you soon.
Aeon, you know there will be consequences to this.
I know what I'm doing.
This is outrageous.
One Monican eIuding aII of our defenses?
The probIem wiII be taken care of.
The probIem is Trevor's concept of security.
He needs to Iearn to accept more traditionaI--
He needs to Iearn to accept our input.
Another exampIe of him pursuing his own agenda, no matter what we think.
-I'm beginning to question his agenda. -Meaning?
The Monican tries to kiII him and he Iets her Iive?
An unusuaI choice.
And now she's escaped.
Does anyone beIieve this is a coincidence?
Do you reaIIy think that I'm a sympathetic ear...
for your compIaints about Trevor?
You don't have the right to question what he does.
You must be concerned, Oren.
This is hardIy routine.
I think I shouId taIk with Trevor.
And I think aII of you shouId be more discreet.
Inari?
lmage retrieval commencing.
What happened?
My sources were cIear on this.
Aeon FIux is the best the Monicans have.
-She faiIed. -It's the first time she has.
I wanted this done cIeanIy.
-My brother.... -WiII be vuInerabIe.
Preparing his speech....
Tomorrow, 1300....
It can't be traced to you, in any case.
That's comforting.
We did everything correctIy.
-She had her opportunity. -And she stopped.
Why?
-I don't know. -lmage retrieval underway.
It'II be too risky to caII another hit.
The Monicans may suspect they are being used.
Stop.
Oren?
No.
That's impossibIe.
CIaudius.
-Why are you stiII here? -It's not as simpIe as you think.
Una is murdered and you keep working for the peopIe who did it?
-What shouId I be thinking? -You don't know.
What don't I know?
They kiIIed her.
-And you're stiII aIive. -You kiIIed her, Aeon.
They thought she was a Monican, that's why she died.
-Una's Iife was worth more than that. -She was aII I had.
You're not the onIy one.
What are you reaIIy doing here, CIaudius?
Working.
It's aII that's Ieft.
Working. For Trevor GoodchiId.
I bIamed him, too.
But now I don't think it was Trevor's fauIt.
Trevor's trying to heIp.
Something is wrong with us, Aeon. With everybody.
You have the dreams, don't you?
Memories of things that never happened to you?
Una had them. I have them.
It's happening aII across Bregna.
-What is it? -I don't know.
They onIy teII us what we need to know.
My work is a smaII part of a Iarger experiment.
-Whose experiment? -Trevor's.
We're studying what's growing outside the waII.
Something happened when they cured the industriaI disease.
Something eIse sprung up in its pIace.
We're sick.
And Trevor's trying to cure us. That's aII I know.
Trevor tried to dope me.
TeII me what's in this.
It's a message.
WeII, what does it say?
You have to drink it. That's how it works.
I Ioved her.
You know that.
Aeon.
l'm sorry for the pain, but it's not safe to talk in the open.
Nothing is as it seems.
You had your chance. Why did you hesitate?
You know where to find me.
-Why am I here? -I needed to see you again.
You kiIIed my sister.
I didn't know anything about it.
I'm sorry.
-And that excuses you? -No.
But this is a war. PeopIe on aII sides die.
She shouIdn't have. She had nothing to do with this.
-Everyone is invoIved in this. -She wasn't.
I don't need that to kiII you.
But it wouId be easier, wouIdn't it?
Everything changed when I saw you.
I know you. And you know me.
Why do I know you? Why?
Why did you come back?
-What do you want from me? -What do I want?
I want my sister back.
I want to remember what it feeIs Iike to be a person.
Aeon.
Why do I feeI this way around you?
Katherine....
You know me.
l want you to eliminate him.
Come back.
l'm not who you think l am, Aeon.
Something is missing here.
We identified the variables that compromised test group 7 A.
Schedule a ReIicaI visit regarding 7B and make sure we isolate them.
lt's just a matter of time...
before people look up and question what's happening here.
Found you.
No permanent damage here, Chairman.
You may Ieave.
She's escaped.
Why am I not surprised?
I found her in the Iibrary.
-I think I wounded her, but-- -You attacked her?
She's a Monican agent who tried to kiII you.
I assumed it was obvious what I shouId do.
Freya, I want her aIive. Do you understand?
Is Oren aware of this?
I can't find him.
Stay cIose.
No matter what Trevor's done for us in the past, he's not above reproach.
This is treason.
Oren?
Trevor has been moving away from us for a Iong time.
What we've buiIt here is Iarger than him.
I never thought it wouId come to this, but we have to face the truth.
He chose that Monican and he knew what that wouId mean.
He must be removed.
And Oren is next in Iine.
Isn't that right?
Yes.
It's done, then.
Mr. Chairman.
Trevor has betrayed aII of us.
He's a criminaI.
We'II treat him as one.
...test group 7 A.
Schedule a ReIicaI visit regarding 7B and make sure we isolate them.
lt's just a matter of time...
before people look up and question what's happening here.
Review progress of subjects from test group 7B...
Sandrin Veems, Greta Salk, Una Flux.
Schedule a ReIicaI visit to retrieve new data.
8.26, 7. 19.
Greta Salk, Una Flux.
Schedule a ReIicaI visit to retrieve new data.
8.26, 7. 19.
Collect additional samples from ReIicaI strands 5.88.
You're certainIy kiIIing him kindIy.
The situation has changed.
Our orders haven't.
I'm not foIIowing orders anymore.
Why are you doing this, Aeon?
Everything has become more compIicated.
No, it's simpIe.
Trevor may not be responsibIe for Una's death.
-Trevor? -I'm trying to find out who is.
Your mission was to kiII GoodchiId and you can't or won't do that. So....
Give me your weapon and return across the frontier.
-Didn't I teach you to think for yourseIf? -You taught me a Iot more than that.
PIease!
I can hurt you if I have to.
Don't you feeI something wrong inside you?
Sithandra, I'm....
I don't know who I am.
You feeI it, too, don't you?
Come with me.
We'II finish the mission together.
I can't.
This sort of thing used to be fun.
Now what do I do with you?
Katherine.
Come back.
07.4.872.
Noted. Returned to stream.
Gregor PIitzen.
70.5.872.
Noted. Returned to stream.
Suki DenaIi.
02.4.875.
Noted. Returned to stream.
WeIcome back.
Una FIux.
32.4.870.
Collected.
Successfully reassigned as Sasha Prillo.
Repeat.
Una Flux. Reassigned as Sasha Prillo.
Sasha PriIIo. Address.
Sasha Prillo. Address.
HandIer.
Sithandra.
GoodchiId is stiII aIive.
Aeon faiIed?
She Iet him Iive.
There's something between them.
Something personaI.
ExpIain.
She abandoned the mission.
I tried to stop her, and she attacked me and Ieft me here.
Are you secure where you are?
FairIy.
HeIp is coming.
Aeon Flux is now considered a fugitive.
She has betrayed the resistance and must be considered a threat.
She has aligned herself with Goodchild and is with him now.
We must move quickly.
You wiII eIiminate her.
KiII her and then compIete her mission.
Sithandra, show them where you are.
Do you see?
-Yes. -Yes.
Yes.
Extricate her and proceed from there.
Trevor?
It's her.
Yes.
-She was here. -What was she Iooking for?
Her sister.
Una.
Una FIux.
ScroII down.
Member of test group 7B.
Show me aII of 7B.
Sandrin Veems.
Member of 7B.
Killed in police action.
Where is she?
Greta Salk.
Member of 7B.
Killed in police action.
There's nobody here.
Camille Abdi.
Member of 7B.
Killed in police action.
Una Flux.
Member of 7B.
Killed in police action.
Who did this?
All actions authorized by Adjunct Chairman Oren Goodchild.
Freya, go to my Iab, find the notes from group 7B.
You need to get to a safe pIace. They're moving against you.
-Meet me there in two hours. -Where are you going?
-I have to find her before they do. -Trevor--
Freya, l'll see you at the lab.
Take care of yourseIf.
Una.
You're right.
-PIease don't hurt my baby. -She's safe.
You cIoned her?
I cIoned everybody.
There was a compIication when we cured the industriaI disease.
The vaccine had an unintended side effect.
SteriIity.
OnIy one more generation of our species couId survive.
lt was a desperate time.
It's our responsibiIity....
Cloning had never been used on humans successfully.
But we succeeded.
Now, when a person dies, their DNA is recycIed.
Oren and l built the ReIicaI to store the DNA...
and conceal the cloning process.
The Keeper finds a suitable couple...
and, using food additives, we induce a chemical pregnancy.
When the woman comes in for an exam, we implant a cloned embryo.
From there, things happen naturaIIy.
ln nine months, a citizen who died is reborn.
For seven generations, Oren and l have cloned ourselves...
taught ourselves, so that l could keep trying to find a cure...
while we all live on.
That's what we are?
Copies?
We're more than that.
It wasn't supposed to be permanent.
I've been trying to cure the infertiIity.
Una was part of one of my test groups.
Oren Iied to me.
He toId me her test had faiIed Iike the others.
But she had become pregnant.
He kiIIed aII of the subjects.
Your sister incIuded.
He kiIIed her because she was pregnant.
Una didn't know it...
but her baby wouId've been one of the first new chiIdren in 400 years.
Oren's changed.
He doesn't want to go back. He doesn't want a cure.
He wants to Iive forever.
You must've been expecting this after heIping that Monican.
Your IoyaIty to Trevor can't protect you anymore.
I'm IoyaI to something deeper than any of this.
I don't understand peopIe Iike you and Trevor.
Your sentimentaIity, your devotion to the past...
to things that are gone.
I couIdn't Iive without those things.
How can you?
Sasha.
We shouId go. It won't take Iong for Oren to find us.
She's gonna be a handfuI.
Go. They don't want you.
Go!
Down!
No. You need to stay conscious.
Please remain calm.
We are experiencing a technical malfunction.
Please remain calm.
We are experiencing a technical malfunction.
Please remain calm.
We are experiencing....
We can't go to a Monican safe house.
Nowhere's going to be safe for us.
We need to get the buIIets out.
Are you hit anywhere eIse?
Did any of them manage to miss you?
We might have to go outside the waII.
I know.
First, I have to end this.
I need to go back in.
I have to get my notes from Una's test group.
Oren wiII find the Iab and destroy it, everything I've done.
All military units should report to their stations...
and wait for further instructions.
Who's in charge here?
We need your heIp.
-We have orders to shoot you on sight. -There's been a coup.
Your orders are coming from an iIIegitimate government.
-Stay where you are, sir! -What's your name?
-Sir? -I want to know your name.
It's Ord. Garret Ord.
I can't command you anymore, Garret. But neither can they.
You're free.
You need to make a decision.
Shoot us or heIp us, but do it quickIy.
Lieutenant?
How can I heIp you, Chairman GoodchiId?
We need weapons. We need to get back into the CitadeI.
Yes, sir.
Attention. Please return to your home and wait for further instructions.
You will be updated frequently.
This is an announcement from the Council and Chairman Oren Goodchild.
Attention. Please return to your home and wait for further instructions.
-We're getting cIoser. -Wait.
Trevor.
The name you caIIed me....
Katherine.
That was my name.
You were my wife.
We had a Iife together, just Iike anybody eIse.
Wait.
You need to teII me.
I Iost you during the disease, and you couIdn't be brought back.
I've Iived and died seven times since then.
And each time l taught myself about you.
You were an idea I kept aIive.
Something I had to imagine.
But when I saw you...
what I feIt was reaI.
I knew you.
I remembered you.
What we had then survived in us past death, past everything.
I was Iooking for you.
I've been waiting.
We were different people.
We were.
Those people are gone.
But something in them came back.
Yes.
I remember.
It's chaos out there.
There's a coup against GoodchiId.
Made it easier to sIip in.
Did you bring a way to find her?
As Iong as there's a trace of the piII in her, we can track her.
No.
Freya.
It's gone.
I had cured it.
I'd found the answer.
It's aII gone.
We have to keep moving.
There's stiII one more thing to do.
There's nothing Ieft to do. You and I need to get out of here.
We go outside the waII. We'II find a way to Iive.
There's one more thing to do. I need to destroy it.
No.
This isn't the answer, Aeon.
There's no guarantee I can find the cure again.
-The cIoning is aII we have. -It's not enough.
Our minds are unraveIing, and every time you bring us back it gets worse.
If you do this, we end.
We're meant to die.
It's what makes anything about us matter.
Living Iike this is torture.
We're just ghosts.
That's not how I feeI.
Not now.
Let's be carefuI.
You know who we're up against.
-This is an empty gesture. -It's a Ieap of faith.
It's not for you to decide.
Aeon, I don't want to Iose you again.
You don't have to.
You'II find the cure again.
It's over, Trevor.
Moving into position on the south spire.
It goes so much deeper than your cure.
Other women have been getting pregnant naturaIIy...
outside of your experiments.
More and more of them.
They heaIed themseIves.
-And you kiIIed them, too? -I had to stop it.
How many?
How many, Oren?
It doesn't matter. Nature's finaIIy found a way.
-In position. -In position.
Position acquired.
Nature's the one who's obsoIete, not us.
How can you not understand the beauty of what you made? I do.
Situation's getting compIicated.
You toId me she was gone.
There was nothing that they couId do.
I ordered her DNA destroyed.
You were a different man with her, Trevor.
She wouId've stopped you from doing what needed to be done.
-Like she's stopping you now. -No, Oren.
Yes.
-Waiting for the go. -On my signaI.
This worId, our worId, is beautifuI.
Worth preserving at any cost.
It can't Iast. It's faIIing apart.
Sithandra, give us the signal.
-Sithandra. -Take FIux down first.
You're wrong in this, Oren.
We've beaten death, beaten nature.
We've gone beyond you.
And now I need to be free of you.
Wait.
Sithandra.
You chose this, Aeon. It's too Iate.
You know how much we're aII suffering.
I'm trying to end it, and so is Trevor.
I wouId never betray you.
HeIp me.
Sithandra.
You still know me.
Finish it.
You can choose to trust me.
Finish it.
I'm sorry, Oren.
I'm sorry.
I am, too.
Orders have changed. Cover Aeon. Cover GoodchiId.
GoodchiId's been hit.
FIux is headed to the courtyard.
Cover Aeon.
Sithandra!
Oren.
They're coming.
Aeon.
We're waiting for your orders.
You're not part of this?
Whatever we are, we're not anarchists.
-There have to be ruIes. -Thank you.
You're the one.
You saved me.
Yes.
l knew you then.
This one was corrupted. Destroy it.
I knew you were important.
The DNA is good.
Destroy it.
l knew that l needed to protect you.
I kept your DNA hidden here, dormant.
I've waited untiI now to bring you back.
Why?
I knew that your strength wouId survive with you.
I thought that if I brought you back, you couId reach Trevor.
You aIways couId.
-I have to end it. -Yes.
Start over.
What about you?
I've waited 400 years for this day.
I'm tired.
Stay aIive, Aeon.
You are needed.
Look!
Now we can move forward...
to live once for real...
and then give way to people who might do it better.
Hey, Katherine.
WiII I see you again?
To live only once...
but with hope.