We need to get out of the city. No tech, no printing.
Griff: Look, we decided.
We go underground, deep as we can.
Who are you? I don't know.
She's a dumbshow.
This is the way to safe haven.
The chair? The memories will tell us how to get there?
Home, sweet home.
I need topher to put me in the chair.
Back me up on a drive, hard copy.
You're copying yourself?
In case something happens to me,
I know exactly where we're going.
Caroline?
Yeah.
The butchers are coming.
I hope we find me alive.
Butchers!
Come on! Move, move, move, move, move!
Zone: Go!
Go, go, go, go,
Go, go, go, go, go, go!
Go! Come on!
How are there butchers all the way up here?
We're nowhere near a city.
Locals, got hit with a blanket signal?
They were wearing suits.
Yes.
This was your finer class of mindless kill-zombie.
Maybe they were on a corporate retreat. Who cares?
We still need water, and we're low on gas.
If we don't get to safe haven soon...
Caroline, we've been dodging the mobs for weeks.
Are you sure we're on the right track?
I think so. I don't know.
Last time I was up here, it wasn't this bad.
I could see over the dash.
Whose body was this?
We don't know.
She was printed before we met her.
We stuck your brain in her
Because you're supposed to be
The great and terrible caroline,
The one who knows how to save us.
The tech works.
In my camp-
In safe haven- no one's been imprinted since we set up.
We still have a chance to make a true world.
A true world?
Look around, tiny messiah- it's over.
Half the world's been wiped; the rest have turned
Into crazies trying to kill the other half.
There's only a handful of actuals left,
Which you, by the way, ain't.
We are lost.
We are not gone.
Mag: We stay in the hole another night...
Try again tomorrow.
Is it going to be weird for you to meet yourself?
Face to your real face?
Nah, it'll be sweet.
You were one of those magically delicious super whores.
I bet you look great.
If I have to kick your ass again...
yeah.
Let me see your ugly mug...
All right, that's enough.
Let's not bruise the merchandise.
Bring out the others.
Where are we?
Neuropolis.
The city of minds.
Mag: Neuropolis exists?
Wait, what?
It used to be tucson.
Rossum was run from here.
And you just didn't think to mention that safe haven
Was parked right next door to the frickin' death star?!
It had to be.
This is where we got the vaccine.
We were raiding it for tech whenever we could.
You were here before.
So, what are they going to do with us?
Mmm, yeah.
Mr. Harding.
What is it now?
I'm eating.
Of course you are, sir.
Watch it.
You said you want a new suit.
We have a few for you to choose from.
Oh! Well,
It's about time.
Can't believe I let this one get so stretched out.
You'd be just as fat, ambrose,
If we hadn't of run out of shellfish.
Ambrose: True, but we're having a hard time
Finding acceptable replacement bodies
In the chaos out there.
Got to start taking better care of ourselves.
You're right.
This time, I will.
Going to start on the elliptical.
Where did this body come from?
He's a dumbshow.
Poachers caught him in the wild.
Was he with anyone?
Just some girl.
Oh, idiot!
What's the matter with him?
Couple dumbshows never hurt anybody.
This is worse than butchers.
By at least a lot.
It'll be okay.
Oh, what, you got a plan, wunderkind?
I guess I do.
Echo.
Still living the dream, harding?
It is a little bit tarnished.
You ever think if you didn't cut off rossum
At the head,
The tech might never have gotten out of control?
Yeah. You're a model of control, butterball.
At least I'm having some fun.
Please.
You know I'm backed up.
Why do you bother anymore?
Ask me again sometime.
Does anyone need medical?
Paul. Over here.
You do your doctor thing.
I'll find him.
She's lost a lot of blood.
She's in hypovolemic shock.
Caroline: The brachial artery-
It's healed up, but we need to find oxygen.
Or an iv- supplement the remaining blood supply.
Here.
Let me give you a hand.
Where'd you learn that trick?
Same place you did.
Topher.
No! No, no.
No! No. No.
I mean, yes. Yes, yes, yes.
I- I've been... I've been working.
I... I've been working.
Hard at working.
Please don't use a bullet.
Don't want to waste. It's paul.
I'm here with echo.
Echo. Yes.
One bullet a day.
Don't want to waste.
One person down a day until I solve the problem.
They shoot someone if you don't invent what they want?
What they need.
Every day, a chain reaction.
Erase the world all at once.
How is he?
He's pretty far gone.
The prisoners?
One of them is me.
Okay.
I think harding was making him build something
To wipe the whole planet.
To solve the problem.
But people die if I do or I don't.
A new problem, chain reaction.
Hey, topher, it's me.
We're getting you out of here.
I'm so close.
I'm so close, so close to solving both problems.
They would have no idea.
Close to what? Wiping everyone?
The opposite.
A reflection, like an echo.
Put things back the way they were-
Minds back the way they were.
I can bring back the world.
Come and look at this.
Told you it'd be worth the wait.
Awesome.
Do you want to go show your mum?
Yeah.
Gently.
Hey, mom!
Hey, mom.
Look, the strawberries are ripe.
Oh, wow.
Those look amazing.
Try one.
Go ahead.
You can trust your mom.
Let's save the rest for dessert, huh?
Come here.
Are these from the east house?
Hill house.
They need help finishing the well
In the next few days.
Clearly, if this is all they're producing.
Echo. Ballard: Topher collapsed
About a half mile back. He's malnourished.
Needs water. Go.
Topher?
We got him.
They were trying
To get topher to build a pulse bomb,
Send out some kind of chain-reacting blanket signal,
Wipe everyone. Mag: Everyone in the world?
Who's left? We came out of l.A.
I'm amazed you survived.
Well, hold your applause.
There were 30 of us when we banded.
Who's worth wiping anymore?
Maybe a group overseas, maybe us.
Maybe they're getting tired
Of me killing them all the time.
Aren't you?
Thanks for the insight, mini-me,
But you missed the last quarter of this game.
We're not ahead.
The point is:
Topher thinks he can flip it,
Create a pulse to restore
All the wiped minds. Zone: Yeah?
He also thinks
He's a little teapot, short and stout.
Topher brink is a genius,
And you will keep a civil tongue
In this house, or we'll put it in the stew.
Good to see you've mellowed...
At did they do to him?
They shot someone in front of him
Every day he didn't finish.
We don't really eat people's tongues.
Cool.
I've got a rocket scientist or two in here.
They're not topher's league, but I don't think
It's a fantasy.
The science seems sound.
But what would it mean?
Butchers, dumbshows,
Everyone who's ever been wiped or imprinted
Would go back to their original identities.
Including us.
Aw, you finally get to be a real girl.
It sounds so simple. Echo: It's not.
Anyone with active architecture, we'd be reset, too,
Back before it all started.
We'd forget...
Everything.
Some of us can afford that,
But a lot of us can't, and topher doesn't have everything
He needs. This is where it gets interesting.
It was dull?
To avoid
The blast and any reverberation, we'd have to go
Deep underground for a year or more,
And what topher needs
To make the pulse work... Is in the dollhouse.
Oh, come on!
I guess there really is no place like home.
Hey, hey, we just left that party.
That party was on fire.
We need a guide, and you two know
The city better than any of us.
I thought there was a vaccine.
You said there was a vaccine. There was,
But this is new. Zone, power down a sec.
Think about what this means. It means everything,
And somebody's got to step up.
The world still needs heroes, kid.
Did you really just say that?
what?
I was being inspirational.
You are so corny.
You're... Fat.
Enough with the pep talk. We need to get back.
You're going to show us the way, or...
She said you don't eat tongues.
Maybe she should start.
I have listened to you whine for way too long, zone.
This is bigger than us.
Fine, then you take 'em.
Oh, you can send me a postcard
Once we've reestablished some sort of postal system
Due to your heroics.
She loves it when you're corny.
Look, for your 411, I'm not some printed freak.
A- and the pulse- it doesn't affect actuals, right?
So I'm not heading back into the...
what's that sound?
Sierra: I thought you said you weren't followed.
The main gate.
Ballard: A raiding party.
Sierra: T, come here right now.
Man: Kut! Naz-pas!
Kilo: Bil-dah-has-tanh-ya.
Silago-keh-goh?
Do-ya-sho-da.
Nell-hectic-de-ne.
Ahl-neh ah-hi-dig-flail?
Sorry, english.
I got your message.
How can we help?
sorry if you don't like our methods.
We like to take the offensive.
Most people have a "shoot first" policy.
Ballard: Us included.
Romeo, you want to help with this,
Or you want to play in the sandbox?
Sierra: But why him?
I sent word with some of the actuals we set free.
It was a long shot, I thought...
But he's out of control.
They're freakshows.
Tech heads- exactly the sort of thing
I'm trying to keep t away from.
They're our only chance of making it back through the wild.
But I don't want to go back.
I don't want to leave our home, go down that hole.
It's not my idea of a vacation spot either.
It's just the next thing.
Do I have to cut your throat? What are you doing with the boy?
Showing him my mods, vic.
No, no tech in front of the kid.
Do I have to upload that to your brain myself?
I got it.
Log off.
Easy.
You know, you can stay.
I'll do the job. Come on.
Just takes me a while to process things, during which
I yell.
I get what's at stake.
Who doesn't want to spend some quality time with these
Awesomely normal people?
I don't know.
Could be all right.
The little asian's kind of cute.
She's a tech head, mag.
She's a girl, mag.
It's good to see him productive again.
It is.
Yes, and who are you?
I'm caro- I'm in the...
I'm just some kid.
Damn, you're twitchy. You don't like girls?
Apparently, everyone does.
I don't care for the tech.
So you're the, uh, weapons expert?
That-that's what that says, yeah.
So, um,
What, you got to load that every time?
You can't just store it?
Not unless you're echo.
We want to stay sane,
We got to take something out first, make room
For it.
Take out what?
That's great.
how long have we been on the road?
Couple of hours.
How's the kid doing?
You can call him t.
He sleeps better than I do, that's for sure.
The garden- looks like it came a long way since I last saw it.
Three summers ago?
We've had some time to get it right.
I just mean...
I understand it would be hard to leave.
It was our home... Away from all the horror.
Now I'm condemning him to that house,
That hell I was locked up in
For so many years.
So you can remember him, remember raising him.
How ironic.
You'd have to kill me to take those memories.
But I wanted him brought up
Away from all the crap in the back of this truck.
Well, we both did.
That's why we agreed
Never to tell him, to keep him away from me.
We agreed to keep him away from the tech.
You chose to stay steeped in it, tony,
Seduced by it.
You chose to be victor.
For our cause. For your cause.
I stopped fighting long ago.
I was fighting to protect you.
I would do anything for you, for both of you.
Except the one thing I asked you to do.
Man, you're gonna be hilarious stuck underground for a year.
We're not there yet.
We'll get there.
This thing works, rossum is really going down.
Ambrose, harding- they'll just be hard drives on a shelf.
Yeah, and someone's going to have to smash those drives.
Which is why we're staying down till we know we're safe.
You keep bringing that up.
Because you keep pushing it down.
You think after the pulse,
The world's going to be all hunky-dory?
I think it's not your fight.
I think, for a good long while,
You're going to have to be where you are,
And I think that scares you.
Ugh, I hate when you pretend to know me.
That's not a claim I'd make.
I've been knocking ten years, you still won't let me in.
I've let you in a few times.
When you were sure we were gonna die.
What happens if you're sure we're going to live?
What do you think happens?
No, no, come on, you're my analyst now,
So tell me what you think.
I think you've got a hundred people
Living inside your head...
And you're the loneliest person I know.
That's kind of sweet.
Not for the person who's with you.
We're going to enter here-
Through the union plaza metro station- the service tunnels.
The butchers have killed most everyone in the city
And run out of food,
So, they're thinning out. No, they got food.
We saw one eating
His friend the other day.
Eww, but it still means there's less of them.
It also means the strongest
Survived.
Super butchers. Grand.
Victor: Look alive, people, we're almost there.
I'll get us as close as I can.
I thought you said there weren't many left.
There aren't.
But they're all here.
ready?
We were born ready.
Well, not technically.
Yankee!
âª âª
Echo: Paul! Let's go. Move 'em out.
Move!
Go!
We got 'em underground.
Move in! Move in!
Everyone, into the tunnel!
Now!
Go! Go! Go! Go!
Hey, hey, hey, it's okay.
You're gonna be...
Zone!
That's all of us.
Seal the door behind us. What about...
That's all of us!
We go down here.
Wait! Last time we were here,
Your zombie day spa was crawling with butchers.
We need to drop some c-4 down the rabbit hole.
Then we risk destroying the tech that topher's looking for.
If there were any butchers down there,
They've probably torn each other apart.
Let's find out.
I try to be my best.
Aw, hell.
Nope.
You'll have to keep digging,
If that's where you want to end up.
Alpha.
Thought we lost you in reno.
I kinda let you think that.
I lost my stomach for the fight.
Thought I'd help out some people could use it.
Cleared this place out.
No wonder there's so many butchers up there.
They know about the dumbshow buffet.
Victor?
Why would someone do something so horrible to your face?
Psycho.
Lapsed.
We've got wounded.
Get mag down here. I'll prep the meds.
Where's big bad ballard?
We lost him.
Man, I'm sorry. When did that happen?
Ten minutes ago.
Tell me where to look, darling.
Some things aren't on the cartesian plane.
Is the tech
You're looking for in the lab?
The pineal gland!
The seat of consciousness.
I made it the seat of destruction.
How many people do you think can sit on it before it breaks?
You don't mean the chair, do you?
No.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
What if there wasn't anything?
Then we took a road trip for nothing.
We'd be okay with that.
What on earth do you think you're doing?
Kilo: We came here for some juicy new prints.
Not to let you take our world away.
You stay down here,
You'll be shielded just like us.
You can stay who you are.
The ohm resistance of ten meters of concrete is the equivalent...
We changed ourselves to survive up there. To thrive.
Even if we don't get wiped by the pulse,
You're still destroying who we are.
I've taken down guys twice as bad as you
With guns twice as big.
Our guns aren't pointed at you, sister.
No. Told him
Again and again and again, guns don't help me think.
They just don't help me think.
I can take 'em. You'll get him killed.
What's going on, rome?
Upgrades, vic.
Tell me you haven't thought about it. Hold up.
We tweaked ourselves to fight the war.
It's ending. Romeo: Not anymore.
Not if they don't have him.
And with all the tweaks on this computer,
We'll rule the wasteland.
Why wouldn't you want that?
Alpha: Because we're not freakshows.
Well, okay, maybe I am.
And echo.
Topher's a little off.
But adelle- she's a class act
All the way. Alpha.
It's just that I have worked so hard to have a peaceful
Life here.
It's harder for me than most.
Victor: Hey...
I get it.
You think I don't want every one of those skills
Firing through my head?
I know how good it feels.
Skip learning the hard way.
Skip the long hours...
The sweat, the training.
Just to feel the thrill of perfection.
But if we're going to rebuild the world,
I want to do it myself.
Sorry, boss,
That means you stand with the luddites.
Did he just call me a luddite?
Looking for these?
We'll take him to the holding cell.
The tiny one to medical.
Figure out what to do with them after we set off the emp.
Let's go, romeo.
Oh, god, she's so cool.
It's okay.
It's okay. Everything's going to be okay.
He's tired.
He's much worse when he's tired.
Tired?
Bedtime.
It was like this when I bought the place.
Kill your idols. There's a piece of tth.
Well, I'm very glad you didn't clean up.
Yeah, it spoke to the schizophrenic in me. Hmm.
Well, both of them, actually.
He didn't come back for the tech.
He came back for an idea.
A synapse fires and I find a solution before the problem.
How many times has "b" come before "a"?
"sniper."
"demolition."
"ernesto."
He gave it up, priya.
He knew he couldn't take you.
And he'll be back for these, I guarantee it.
Well... Let him!
Priya!
Wonder if I'm in here somewhere.
"memory of priya."
Pulls it out of his head, along with "being human."
What the hell is wrong with you?
This!
This tech has been eating at my life...
He's in love with you!
Are you really that thick?
This isn't something that comes on a drive.
They tried to pull it out of him.
They wiped his mind for years, and he never stopped loving you!
You want to kill the tech?
Kill it! Shut it down!
Lock him out!
Give him nothing!
You can string him along for years.
You've got years together and what you should do is waste it!
Never tell him that you love him.
Never tell him that you're grateful for him!
He's dead!
He's just... Dead!
I never told him.
Paul's dead.
And I'm alone.
I'm all alone, I'm always alone.
Paul.
bennett: Welcome to lecture one in a three-part series entitled
"neuroplasticity in relation to cortical imprinting."
Her face has a look about her.
The most effective way to imprint new pathways
Is with a timed electrostatic charge.
It simulates the natural rewiring process of the brain.
Basic neuroplasticity-
Every action affects our neural topography.
We literally become what we do,
Not what we've done or what we will do.
We're best defined by our actions in the moment.
With a wavelength of more than two meters,
Little damage is done to the surrounding tissue.
Thank you.
Greater than two meters.
The connection goes there.
I know.
Does this mean we're finished?
Where do we set off the device?
High up, higher up.
Higher, the better. Gamma rays bounce off the atmosphere.
Is my old office high enough?
Yes, yes, yes, perfect.
It'll hit the stratosphere.
A minor explosion cascades into a major chain reaction.
Explosion? It does the work for you.
You said it could only be activated manually.
You're not coming back.
Small price to pay.
I didn't want to cause any more pain.
Is now a bad time to ask for a favor?
I've got something on my mind.
T... I'd like you to meet your father.
Go on.
Hey.
I'm anthony.
But, uh, you can call me tony.
That's my name, too.
Yeah.
Can I help you burn stuff?
You don't have to do it, you know.
At least not alone.
I do.
I'll fix what we did to their heads.
You fix what we did to the rest of the world.
Your job is way harder.
Man...
You don't waste any time.
Shut up.
I don't have to.
I'm going.
Our tiny messiah's gonna be a ten-year-old soon.
Somebody's gotta look after her.
Caroline told me.
And you, stumpy, are going nowhere.
Except maybe down.
Take care of her, zone.
Try not to have any influence on her of any kind.
And, you know, look us up in a year or two.
Not if you paid me.
Mag... What, uh, what'd you do?
You know, before.
I was at berkeley.
Sociology.
You?
Landscape architect.
Would never have called that one.
People are such a mystery.
Echo: Alpha just left?
He said he couldn't stay,
And if he was going to become what he was before...
He won't.
He's evolved; he will again.
Well, I think he'd like to be alone when he finds out.
Just in case.
And the rest of them?
I'll lead them out,
Make sure they all come through the pulse all right.
I'm really the only one who can.
Ever the shepherd, huh?
Leading them into the light.
For good.
Funny that the last fantasy the dollhouse should fulfill...
Would be yours.
I don't have any fantasies, adelle.
More's the pity.
Alpha said to dismantle all the tech in the building.
He said you should start with the chair.
Having second thoughts?
No way.
I'm the lucky one.
I get to start over.
what happened?
It's a long story, kid.
Am I...
Are we...
You wanted me to let you in.
You sure you got room?
I got a lot of baggage.
Childhood stuff.
We'll work through it.
We've got time.
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