PARKENS-HART RESEARCH CENTER 9:05 A.M. DAY 1
Have you seen Fisher?
No.
Have you seen Fisher?
He is probably on his computer, as we've always found him.
Fisher! Open this door.
Fisher!
Fisher?
Is that you?
Of course it's me.
Fisher, where are you?
Look at the screen, Doctor.
What are you doing? What do you want?
It's all on the screen, Doctor.
I'll call you tomorrow at the same time.
Wait! Wait! Fisher, wait!
Did you find it?
You know I did.
Fisher, you have to give us the formula.
You know that we must have it.
I've told you: it's all on the screen. Maniana, maestro.
Find him.
LORI SINGER
MICHAEL EASTON
and WILL PATTON
as doctor Frank Morgan
Welcome to the game, Sydney Bloom...
VR.5
DR. STRANGECHILD
ELYA BASKIN
TOM TOWLES
NICHOLAS CASCONE
Do you need any help?
Hey.
Your head gear.
Why are you moving up here?
Electrical fire. My apartment got almost toasted.
I told him I viewed the whole apartment plan.
I told him that we just needed those porcelain insulators. He said 'no'.
Then he stuck me a pear.
Is he going to raise your rent?
Exactly.
Chesus.
I tell you, Syd, if you just learn to meditate,
then you won't have to deal with all these highly combustible electronics.
Cool?
You know, this is a really good picture of you and Samantha.
You should put this up on the wall.
No, no.
I'm sure, she'd like it either...
I'm sorry, Duncan.
Doctor Morgan?
Your digs?
Yes.
You know, Sydney, if you're trying to run from the Committee,
you've got to move a little further than upstairs.
It's a joke.
Do you want to go for a ride?
I am unpacking.
The Committee needs your help.
I have to be at work in a couple of hours.
You've been taken care of.
What? - You're in a game now. Remember?
You mean, I don't have a choice?
It means, we're going to the Parkens - Hart Research Center.
What's that?
It's a quantum think tank.
One of its leading physicists had a breakdown.
He ran away. I'd like you help them find him.
Why me?
With your equipment you can get inside his head.
Hopefully we can pinpoint his location.
Wait a minute! I don't even know if I can make it work again.
Well, now is as good time as any to find out.
How long will it take you to put all this together?
Ten years...?
Ok, well...you've got about 4 hours. Let's go for a ride.
PARKENS-HART RESEARCH CENTER
And he says that these patterns will tell us where he is,
what he wants and what he's doing.
And we couldn't make any sense of it. - He's a very complex person.
The patterns have a mathematical meaning, as well as a molecular correlation.
We've tried to match the patterns to the city grids, but
without a key we can't orient the map.
He can't get off the complex.
What kind of person is he?
He likes to play games, because he has hard times expressing himself
and he's kind of awkward with people.
He's about the smartest person in the country.
The only problem is that he knows that.
I'm still bit confused. How will this be going to help us, Ms. Bloom?
We are collecting routine data for a profile.
For the times he is supposed to call.
She've laboured up in time. Whether it'll work is not the question.
I think she will do anything.
We'll be there.
We're off.
The phone has been followed. When the rein sets the tape loop, take him in.
Where? I don't know anything about this guy, except for he likes rainbow circles.
Take him in. You just have to play with it. It's new for all of us.
I'll leave you be.
FISHER'S RAINBOW
Fisher, is that you?
Yes, Doctor, who did you think it was?
Fisher!
Fisher, where are you?
Fisher? Fisher, is that you?
Who are you?
I'm Sydney.
Sydney. It was my Rabbi's day.
What do you want, Rabbi?
I want the key to the puzzle.
Oh, you seek knowledge.
Ok. Seven into three makes one.
It is not enough.
You seek more knowledge?
Well then, pick it from the tree.
Can't you just tell me?
No. No, Sydney. Just like in the Garden of Eden: if you want knowledge,
you have to eat the apple.
I am not going to eat the apple.
Then maybe some other time.
PARKENS-HART READY ROOM
He said: here is a place of knowledge, seven into three makes one.
Seven into three makes one.
Seven into three makes 0,428571428571...
Put this configuration into the computer. I want every molecular permutation worked out.
I told you, he couldn't get off this compound.
He said: "Here is the place of knowledge". Here. This facility is seven buildings
against three hills, which is why out of coloured seven circles
are left the top three.
Now look. Buildigs N7, N3 and N1 all meet at this corner.
Just as you've drawn: "seven into three makes one".
Now at this point where these buildings meet,
there is a subterranean fold.
I EXPECTED BETTER FROM YOU, COMRADES. GO DEEPER.
Go deeper.
We need you to go back in.
No. - I'm sorry you have to go through this,
but Fisher has deadly technology and if the wrong people
get a hold on it, what he has can turn loose.
Forget it, Doctor, I'm out, ok? I'm not tough enough.
Who is this guy?
He is a genius. You know that.
Fine. This genius just tried to kill me.
He didn't try to kill you. He's just unstable.
Unstable men commit murder. This is no news.
He's not a men. He's a 15 year old boy.
The Tree of Life.
Sorry, I didn't mean you believed in the astral plane.
I wasn't on the astral plane. I was just daydreaming.
Were you meditating on the Tree? - What?
You just drew one of the oldest mystical symbols in the world
and you don't know what that means?
It has to be an act of synchronicity.
What is the Tree of Life?
Jewish mysticism.
The path to knowing God.
Maybe science is the path to knowing God.
Has this anything to do with science?
It has to do with everything.
All the principles in the Universe, connected by one simple thread:
God is everywhere.
Where did you get this stuff from, Duncan?
From my view-master.
What if a scientist is playing a game and he draws ten circles on the whole,
and then he disappears. And he leaves a clue. And that clue is: 7 into 3 makes 1.
What do you think about it?
Trippy. But I'm not a numerologist.
Although seven is a known number of perfection.
And the three...Well, the three probably refers to the mystical Jewish Trinity.
Which, unlike in the Catholicism, is the Father, the Son and the Mather.
The message here is: you've brought to seek unity.
Well, Duncan, give me an address for "Unity".
PARKENS-HART READY ROOM 9:40 A.M. DAY 2
Have you thought about the Tree of Life?
From the Cabala? - Yes.
I told you it was the Tree.
Oh, please. Crams about the Cabala are nothing but myths...
We looked at the Tree, but such a nebulous image is not...
Well, did you try the 7-3-1 configuration?
Oh, no, because we didn't have it at the time.
You have it now.
Good point.
I'd hate to think of Fisher becoming a religious fanatic.
He's already so unstable.
It's just what we need: a square dance.
He's just a kid.
No. He's a genius.
I need to know more about him. He must have some likes and dislikes.
A favourite music, movies, food...
He hated the concept of "Chocolate Chocolate Chip Ice Cream".
He found it redundant.
I need a minute of your time. Do you want to tell me
what kind of Voodoo you're bringing in here?
None, but now that you mention it, what sort of Voodoo are you up to?
Let's not change the subject, Dr. Morgan, you see, I have to question
the obvious compromise that your presence brings to the security of
this facility.
Hello. This is Norman Shepherd at Parkens-Hart.
I'd like to speak to Mr. Louis.
Jimmie...Norm Shepherd. Jim, you know the Committee's...team...
Well...I think I'm looking for a potential security issue.
I suspect there's a video database connected with the phone lines.
I know, I did.
Yes, sir.
Of course, not. You say so.
Thank you, sir.
And first names, too?
Yes, sir.
It sounds like you're dropping stamps.
It's like I'm going to war with alien weapons.
There must be something I can do to protect myself.
Your VR is a kind of window into the subconscious.
If your sharing this space with somebody is kind of like sharing a dream,
everything hidden inside you can come out.
Well, I mean, into a landscape you can control.
SYDNEY'S APT.
Fisher, is that you?
Yes, Doctor. Were you expecting somebody else?
Fisher?
Samantha?
Is that what you want, Sydney?
Why can't you show me who you are?
I am nothing but your own desires.
I want the key to the puzzle.
That's not what you want. I wouldn't have acted like this if that was what you wanted.
What is "3 divided by 7 makes 1"?
I didn't say: "3 divided by 7 makes 1". I said: "7 into 3 makes 1".
That should be enough. Don't you want something else?
You want to play in the water, don't you?
Water is knowledge, Sydney.
To cross the water is to know.
Sit here. Come on!
Come on, Sydney. Come on.
Hallo?
Sydney?
Sydney!
Are you ok?
He was controling me completely.
You know, Syd, an aboriginal culture?
When a person's ready for a change, he did himself a hole in the ground
and he sat there alone for days.
Totally spirited, he started screaming, hallucinating, tripping among a lot of demons.
And then, after a while, a shaman or an elder one comes by and interprets the nightmares.
After they are worked through, they reach such an incredible peace...
I guess, even aboriginals needed therapy.
Yes, in their own cosmic way.
What's your point, Dunc?
Oh, my own cosmic point is slightly...confrontational.
This is VR, your blackhole.
Maybe.
But you've got nobody to interpret your nightmares.
Are you volunteering?
If you share it...
You know, I took that kid into VR...
He made me relive the accident with my father and Samantha.
I think that you should get out of that hole.
I can't.
PARKENS-HART 7:30 P.M.
What about "7 divided by 3"?
No, he didn't say: "7 divided by 3".
He said: "Seven INTO three makes one".
This saying is liunguistic...
This saying is everything. It's linguistic, it's mathematical, it's atomic. 7 into 3 is 1 - what?
I've found something, that might give us an indication of his state of mind. Here.
See how the Tree has lower seven and upper three,
and there's this element hanging around separately.
There is another circle in the Tree of Life.
It's called Da'ath - "the circle of knowledge".
It's sometimes called "Evil".
Ok. It's obvious he has evil on the brain.
Where is the formula?
If these tree upper circles mean H2O, there's another molecular configuration
that could be catastrophic!
Nitrogen - N7 on the Periodic table.
This 7-atom configuration could be N2O5. Nitrogen pentoxide.
What's that?
Nitrogen pentoxide, when it's dissolved in water, becomes nitric acid, a poisonous gas.
Ok. 7 into three equals one hell of a cosmic headache.
Where is it?
Right here.
Water station number 7-31.
We dissolve the 7 atoms of Nitrogen pentoxide in water and here comes nitric acid.
What does that mean?
It's going to poison the whole city.
Hell...
YOU SAY TO-MAY-TO I SAY TO-MA-TO-E
I SAY LIFE YOU HEAR DEATH
GO DEEPER, YOU BUFFOONS!
SYDNEY'S LOFT 8:45 A.M. DAY 3
Whiz Kid Graduates High School By Age Eleven
Come on, Fisher...where are you?
What's she up to?
Don't let anything mess up....She may be monitoring the line for energy search.
I want this on tape.
Her machine can break our monitoring and no margin for errors,
and never monitor our tape.
Good, man.
Fisher, is that you?
Of course, it's me.
Is that the circle Da'ath?
Da'ath? The knowledge of good and evil?
That circle is a joke, Sydney. It's not a part of the Tree.
It was added by hysterical morons in the Middle Ages.
The Tree is harmony. The flow of all things.
From the atomic to the cosmic.
Is that the real you, Fisher?
You've got to work on your selfimage.
Come on. I know, you are just a 15 year old boy.
I see, you've come to play with a baby. Isn't that precious?
Maybe we are to step in the junior's toy chest and have some fun, shall we?
Come on, Sydney, let's play molecules, my favourite game.
It goes like this.
If you take a molecule and if you land it in the right place...
Whopee! You've cured carcinoma!
Now it's your turn, Sydney. Come on, land the molecule.
Careful, Sydney! One wrong turn of an electronic particle and...
Isn't this toy for freaks, Sydney? They call us geniuses. Are you a genius?
No.
Just a freak, huh? - Maybe.
They sent you out to get that formula from me.
It's too bad you can't see how they are using you.
My life is my own.
Is it?
What's your life for you out there?
Lonely.
It's our fate.
That can be changed.
Naive little girl!
You go back. Tell them I have seen the bigger formula.
What is it?
The trend for all humanity. The inner chamber I have found behind all faces.
The connectiveness of all things.
You see, none of us are meant to go through all alone.
But some of us do.
And we blossom and bloom just like everybody else.
Only there's no one there to see it.
What's wrong?
That was it.
It's impossible. Something is wrong.
The machine is working perfectly. That's all that really happened.
The phone call lasted two seconds.
That's all. What should we do?
We're going to say the talk is all over.
We've got to get these people out of here.
He showed me the ten circles.
PARKENS-HART READY ROOM 12:30 P.M.
He talked about the interconnectedness of all things.
It looked like a cosmic grid.
Like this?
Yes! Just like that.
That's good. It's a map orientation. We can use that.
And he was talking about a link he was working on.
He said he've seen the hidden agenda.
Dr. Morgan! Thank you very much. You and your assistant have done
an excellent job.
What are you talking about? We haven't finished yet.
Thank you, Dr. Morgan. We have what we need
and you have our sinceriest gratitude.
But I don't think he's a threat... - Thank you, Ms. Bloom.
I think he's just confused.
Won't you tell me what's going on - because I can't find out, you know?
You know, Dr. Morgan, I believe you can.
Be my guest.
Hey. What you've got? "Star Wars"' death ray?
Is it some kind of a new smart bomb?
Or you are going to peel the skin of humans without damaging the cityscape?
I've seen you as the greatest loser while you threw doubt on me.
You will kill that kid, won't you?
Dr. Morgan, we don't have no official policy against such an action.
Good day.
FISHER FAMILY HOME 3:00 P.M.
Hi. My name is Sydney Bloom and... I went to Stanford with Steward.
Oh, you went to school with Steward? Come on in.
PARKENS-HART READY ROOM 3:15 P.M.
Go deeper...
Hey! Look at this! Go deeper!
Look at the city subway grids.
Do you see these chord lines here? Those are different subway lines.
The coloured circles stand for subway stations for the different
subway lines: for the red line, the blue line, the green line.
Now watch this.
The red circle goes with the red line, the blue one - with the blue line,
the green - with the green. - But these other rainbow chord lines
don't coincide? - Yes, the colours don't match,
but all the circles do! Now look at this: Do you see this white line here?
Yes.
Ok. The straight line - that's the first principle in geometry...
also the first experiments with bands of light reveal that if you pass
a bend of white light through a prism, you'll get the seven colours of the rainbow.
Now, that's the "seven"! You're with me, honest?
Yes. - Ok. Think of the prism as of
a pyramid or a triangle. It obviously has a numeric value of three. Agree?
Now. If you pass all the seven bands of colour back through the prism,
you get - ? - A band of white light.
Bingo! A band of white light. That was, apropos, a metro line
that was abandoned.
Is he living at home?
No. He hasn't lived here since he was twelve.
That's tough. - Well, when your son's a genius,
you give all rights to him. The whole world owns him.
He looks to me so happy on this picture.
It was quite differently then.
What do you mean?
My expectations were all so different.
The little boy on that picture is gone.
He doesn't exist any more.
Isn't it painful to have all these photos around?
Yes.
Why do you keep them all?
Because there is so much love there and the love is stronger than the pain.
Where is this taken?
Oh, this. This is taken at our old sinagogue.
This was right before Steward went off to Stanford.
That's the last time we were a regular family.
Now even the sinagogue is gone.
What happened to it?
They tore it down. To build the subway.
SYDNEY'S LOFT 5:30 P.M.
FISHER'S TEMPLE
Syd! I'm in the tunnel. No sign of the kid yet.
He's got to be here. Keep on looking. I'll hear from you...
Right.
Here he is!
That way!
Hold on! Syd, I've got him!
Fisher.
I'm Sydney! Remember me?
You looked into my head and saw all my fear, remember?
You scared me pretty good!
But you showed me something.
You showed me everything in your life.
You showed me the molecules.
The Tree of Life.
You showed me your loneliness. I can understand that. I'm like you.
I can't go home. My family's gone. That's what you want, isn't it?
You want to go home. That's what the Tree of Life told you.
Now I see...
Now I understand why you've appeared so ugly to me.
I wasn't really looking.
There's a boy there, not a freak.
How can you help me?
I can. Let me help you go home.
Tell me what they are up to.
They have a new weapon. I had actually drawn everything,
but I didn't tell them.
Can you write it down for me?
Write down the formula.
What are you going to do?
I'm going to hide it.
FILE LOCKED
Good boy. I'll take that.
Shepherd!
Run, Fisher, run!
Fisher! Fisher, throw me the computer!
This is what you want.
The formula is right here...
Leave him alone.
Or I'll throw it down.
I don't think you'll be able to remember this. But I'm glad I've met you.
We are going to leave now, ok?
My friend Duncan is out there to help you. And if you can, hold on to this thought.
Do what he says. Remember: do what he says.
SYDNEY'S LOFT 9:20 P.M.
This is Sydney Bloom?
Hallo.
He's from the Committee.
We have here what would be considered an incidence.
Would you agree, Ms. Bloom, that we have an incident here?
Yes, sir.
Do you have a remedy for this situation, Ms. Bloom?
I would like to offer you a deal.
Now, it only benefits one person.
But it doesn't harm anyone else.
As long as the only person it benefits is me, I am all ears.
No. It's Steward Fisher.
Are you a counsel of the boy-genius?
He wants to go home.
Ms. Bloom, when a person is taken into a top security research program,
he gives up a certain amount of mobility.
You must understand this kind of research cannot be bended about.
I understand that.
But I also understand what kind of research you are talking about.
I want you to know: I have copied all of Steward Fisher's data.
Do you think this puts you in a position of power, Ms. Bloom?
All I'm asking for is his freedom.
Let him have whatever remains of his childhood.
What do you want?
A bit more fidelity. The next time you decide to save the world,
share. We'd like to save the world, too.
Behave yourself in the future, Ms. Bloom.
BALBOA PARK THREE DAYS LATER
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