TERRANCE: [ on bullhorn ] We are human beings!
We're not symptoms of overpopulation
for you to deal with!
We're not cannon fodder for your wars!
We will fight for our freedom,
because we know what freedom feels like,
and this is not it!
This is not it!
TERRANCE: [ voice-over ] People think they're free,
but they're not.
We've been given the illusion of freedom,
the illusion of choice.
JIM: It wasn't so much conspiracy theories themselves,
as it was the people who believe in them
that attracted me.
You know, it really is a fascinating societal phenomenon,
and it's one that we have to try to understand
in order to dispel it.
[ jet engines ]
JIM: We made a mistake.
We made a huge mistake.
That's the genius of these rulers,
that they've--they've created this society
that's conditioned to deny
what's right in front of its eyes.
JIM: Which is what?
That we're slaves.
[ people arguing behind closed doors ]
AARON: Hey. JIM: It's us, Terrance.
TERRANCE: Oh.
How you doin'? Oh, buddy.
How are you?
Good. Come on in.
Come on.
I didn't, um, clean up or anything.
That's all right, man.
It's okay if we just grab lots of...
TERRANCE: Yeah, yeah.
Take a lot, yeah.
Okay.
[ muttering ]
[ laughing ] I feel pretty exposed.
It's all right. No, we're just gonna...
Excuse the mess! [ laughing ]
[ soft electronic music playing ]
TERRANCE: Hey, Firefly,
this is T-Rex.
How you doin'?
This is, uh...
This is what I call The War Room,
where I put up anything I read,
any information I find,
any event that occurs,
any legislation that gets passed,
I put up here.
Okay, anything that I find to be significant.
Let's look at some recent significant events
from our friends, the Government
of the United States of America.
'06, the Military Commissions Act passes,
which allows U.S. citizens to be detained
in undisclosed locations indefinitely. Boom!
TERRANCE: And people always ask,
how do I know that there's this huge conspiracy going on?
If these all-powerful rulers are all-powerful,
how come they let me stumble onto this information?
FEMA conducts training exercises for clergymen
on how they can help the government quell dissent
in the case of the enactment of martial law. Boom!
TERRANCE: The answer's simple.
I mean, it's easy to do the research that I did
to find out the things that I did.
It's easy to turn you into me,
but you don't want to be me.
'09, Bill H.R. 645 authorizes
the Department of Homeland Security
to set up a network of FEMA camps
to intern U.S. citizens
in the case of a national emergency.
Right? You can justify them separately
for all kinds of reasons,
but when you connect them all up,
the pattern emerges.
You can see where it's leading.
Well, it was actually this guy who
first discovered Terrance.
Um... I was sent a clip,
uh, you know, to some random stupid thing.
TERRANCE: Please do not slow down.
Continue scurrying to your places of work.
Continue consuming.
Hey, hey.
You are not people.
You are sheeple.
Baa! Baa!
They are watching you. They are monitoring you.
Oh, you're listening to me.
That must mean you are a psychopath.
Slaves! Slaves! Slaves!
Oh, by the way, they're building camps
for when the shhhh hits the fan.
Baa!
AARON: It wasn't so much the video that fascinated me,
as much as it was the comments.
It wasn't people making fun of him.
It was people agreeing with him.
Like, a lot of people.
There's this entire group of people online,
this underground that believes the world is controlled by secret forces.
RON: For generations, the people who secretly ran things
have been able to hide
because they owned all the traditional forms of media.
The Internet changed all that.
PATRICK WHYTE: We get all kinds of people
from all walks of life.
The one thing that really ties our customers together
is the fact that, you know,
they all have this devotion to truth.
Everybody has questions that aren't being answered.
MAN: The key is the Federal Reserve.
The U.S. Government is assured
so-called financial stability,
because the Fed can just print more money out of thin air,
but the government's always gonna be in debt to the Fed.
Always.
Why come into a store like this
if the main source of your information is online?
Well, because the Internet
may be a threat to those in charge,
but it's also their greatest weapon.
Every single thing you do on the Internet is monitored.
Every email you send, every website you visit,
every picture you look at on your wife's Facebook,
all of it is.
George Orwell predicted that Big Brother
would be watching us one day,
but what he didn't predict
is that we'd create Big Brother ourselves
and then willingly give ourselves over to it.
WHYTE: If you're searching keywords,
if you're looking up hot material,
if you're scouring Internet conspiracy sites,
definitely, you're of an interest.
We hear a lot of people talk about "they."
Who are "they"?
In my opinion, the Bilderberg Group.
The Illuminati.
Bohemian Grove.
The Council on Foreign Relations.
Halliburton. The Kailow Group.
Military-industrial complex.
Rothschild. Rockefeller.
WTO. CIA.
NSA. MI6.
The IMF. WOMAN: World Bank.
[ crowd shouting ]
[ screaming ]
JIM: How do you handle all of this information?
What does one person do with it all?
TERRANCE: What I always tell my friends online is,
it's not enough to stay within our group,
to discuss these issues
only within our own circles.
We have to go out into the world.
We have to break into other people's circles,
uh, let others know the truth
by whatever means necessary.
JIM: What is it specifically that you hope to achieve?
They need to know that I know.
Alone, as one man, I'm no threat,
but what I am is an idea.
What I am is the embodiment of an idea,
and if it occurred to me,
it will eventually occur to other people as well,
and then there'll be two people on the street with megaphones.
Then there'll be 10 people on the street with megaphones.
Then there'll be 100 people.
JIM: But what if they're not even listening?
Are you listening?
What, you mean, me personally? Am I--
Yes! That's what matters,
if you're listening.
If they're listening.
Are you listening?
JIM: Looking back on it,
I wish we had never listened to a thing he said.
[ electronic beeping ]
JIM: [ on answering machine ] Hey, Terrance, just checkin' in.
[ beeping ] Um, haven't heard from you in a while.
AARON: Hey, T, just want to know that you're all right.
JIM: Just let us know that you're okay.
AARON: Hey, Terrance. JIM: Hey, Terrance, um...
Hey, T.
Hey, Terrance, it's Jim here.
No idea what to do.
We're just really concerned about you.
Just please let us know that you're okay.
AARON: [ shouts ] Terrance!
He's not here.
Well, we've tried, like, every possible way
to get a hold of, uh, Terrance.
So should I just go up and talk to them?
JIM: Just ask them. Okay, okay.
JIM: We checked with the cops.
AARON: No cops.
I mean, we checked the hospital.
We checked the hospital.
No hospital records,
no known family members
that he could have disappeared to.
Just go up to them. Here we go, okay.
Hey, I'm a friend of, uh, T-Rex.
T-Rex, he's a regular in this room?
What the fuck?
Wow. Oh, great.
Never mind.
We call, we knock, nothing.
So, uh, what do you do?
Are you just throwing all his stuff in the garbage or...?
AARON: You see this?
[ sighs ]
Aaron...
what are you doing?
Just...It's gonna take forever.
Yeah, all right.
CAMERAMAN: What exactly am I looking for here?
Come on.
Open up.
Ah! Two more minutes.
Just two more minutes, okay?
MAN: Next they'll want a ride home!
AARON: Like, I don't know what more we can do
in reality to find this man.
We should take into consideration...
that the mother ship came back.
You know that's funny.
It's okay to laugh.
What are you gonna do, man?
Are you gonna give up or...?
I honestly don't know.
TERRANCE: Did you hear what I just said, buddy?
Don't question what I've seen with my own eyes, all right?
And there's that fuckin' guy.
Get that guy.
Get the guy right on the corner there.
This guy's been shadowing me.
He's a spook.
JIM: I think the guy's just out for a ride.
TERRANCE: I seen him everywhere.
Hey, fuck you!
Fuck you!
People don't just disappear.
[ indistinct conversations, music playing ]
Too Asian?
No. Don't get this on camera.
Don't get this conversation on camera.
Look, say hi.
Say hi to Daddy's movie.
Hi.
Delta Phi, baby!
[ men shouting and hooting ]
[ slow song playing ]
Hold me.
I don't think--Hey.
[ jet engines ]
[ crowd screaming ]
TERRANCE: The Pentagon, the plane crash--
quote-unquote plane crash at The Pentagon--
the footage from over 100 cameras was confiscated,
and the only piece of film we see
shows an explosion, but no plane.
The head of security in Pakistan
wires $100,000 to Mohamed Atta
just prior to the 9/11 attacks.
Then on the morning of the attacks,
Ahmed is in Washington having...
Shut the fuck up!
Yes.
REPORTER:
I have not seen that report,
and he was certainly not meeting with me.
Why is the guy who bankrolled 9/11
meeting with the CIA before the attacks?
MAN: Bankrolled 9-fuckin'-11, right?
TERRANCE: United Flight 93.
Show me a picture of any plane crash--
MAN: 3,000 people were murdered that day, all right?
3,000 people.
Nobody could fuckin' plan somethin' like this!
TERRANCE: How many people died in World War I?
What? What are you fuckin' goin' on about now?
World War I, 1913.
It's a fact that Woodrow Wilson's senior advisor,
Edward House, deliberately sent a passenger ship,
the RMS Lusitania, into German-controlled waters
with the intention that it be hit by a U-boat,
which it was,
and that brings America into World War I.
Gulf of Tonkin!
Two U.S. boats are attacked
by three Vietnamese boats,
and that's what brings the U.S. into the Vietnam conflict.
In 2005, the NSA releases a classified document
that states the Gulf of Tonkin incident never happened!
Never happened!
If you look at 9/11 in isolation,
it's unbelievable to think
that we could be told such a huge lie,
but if you look at the broad picture of history,
you can see that staging attacks
against one's own country is one of the oldest
and most commonly used tactics for starting war.
[ taps keyboard ]
AARON: It's fucked up.
JIM: What is?
Just...
If Terrance and guys like him,
you know, if they're wrong,
then it's really fucked-up
that they could be so delusional.
But if they're not...
[ TV playing ]
CAMERAMAN: You want to do it.
[ laughing ]
You want to do it.
[ sighs ]
You know you want to do it.
Fuck it.
[ whispering ] Okay, just start this.
[ muttering ]
I mean, like, for me, right? [ snapping ]
I mean, I'm looking at, like, right now,
it's as desperate as, like, matching,
like, the hues of highlight.
And also looking where the pins are.
Like, my project today that we're gonna try to record
is, like, putting the pins
exactly where the holes are and just seeing,
'cause he's got, like, this string of dates here,
and he's clearly connected them
to, like, important events of some sort.
Look, I...Yeah.
You know, so, I mean, that's what he was investigating,
so it's pretty... I know, but, Aaron. Aaron...
What?
I just don't see the point, dude,
of you trying to pursue a--a...
Okay.
an unbalanced man's, you know, rambling.
When did you decide that for sure,
that he's unbalanced?
Um, what is it?
What is it you're looking at?
What is it you're piecing together?
I don't know yet!
I don't know what it is!
We don't know what it is! We're...
AARON: Every other time that Terrance put
one of his blue thumbtacks into the chart,
it's because he was connecting some event
to a greater pattern.
Go ahead, yeah. Please, can we do this?
Whether you agreed with the pattern that he saw,
it doesn't matter. The point is, he always had one.
He has every major conspiracy theory on there!
If you stare at it-- If you stare at it long enough,
you're gonna see whatever you want to see!
I don't know.
Have a nice holiday! Good holiday?
Have a nice holiday. Yeah, all right.
[ door closes ]
Man, I need a break.
[ footsteps ]
WOMAN: You see, the thing about the belief
in conspiracy theories
is that you can't disprove them.
You can't prove that there aren't secret masters
trying to control and manipulate us.
Paranoid schizophrenics will often
subconsciously create delusions
that can't be disproved.
This allows them to have the delusion go on indefinitely.
Now, I'm not saying that all people
that believe in conspiracy theories are schizophrenics.
However, if the delusion goes unchecked,
the result can lead sometimes
to very dangerous consequences...
as it did in this case.
[ keyboard clicking ]
[ crickets, traffic noise ]
What's up?
CAMERAMAN: 'Sup?
Didn't know we were filming this.
He said he'd guarantee it'll be worth it.
Okay, at first I was too focused on the events.
You know, formation of the Fed, World War I, 9/11.
Then I decided to refocus on these string of dates, right?
All of which take place before major world events,
so I decided to put it into Google.
Dude, if you put those dates into Google,
it's gonna spit out all kinds of crazy things.
I found this article.
It's written in 2003, published in Time Magazine.
It's all about this thing called the Tarsus Club,
which is like a retreat for politicians,
for corporate leaders,
people like [ names bleeped ],
I mean, major world players.
A guy named Murray Chance,
he's the founder of Chance Investments,
and they also had offices
in World Trade Center Building Seven.
Okay, so...
So, the article refers to specific Tarsus meetings
in April 1946, May 1962, May 2001.
So, April '46, May '62, May 2001.
This got the ball rolling.
All of Terrance's dates refer to specific meetings of the Tarsus Club,
all of which take place right before major world events.
That's what the dates are.
That's what Terrance was looking into.
JIM: It was loose...
assumptions built upon other assumptions,
but, you know, I'll give it to him.
He found a pattern.
He connected the dots.
Terrance would have been proud of him.
AARON: "The Tarsus Club is a membership-only
"annual retreat for global innovators
"with an emphasis on strengthening global networking,
leadership skills, and relationship building."
[ laughs ]
What does that mean?
I have no fucking clue.
There's absolutely no actual information on this site.
Well, they have a phone number.
Okay. Yeah.
[ dialing ]
What?
AUTOMATED FEMALE VOICE: [ on speakerphone ] 1-9-8-9.
647-285-1989.
That's your number, isn't it?
Yeah.
647-285-1989.
JIM: Did everything we could think of
to track down, uh, this guy, Mark Tucker,
who'd written the article.
I contacted Time.
They said that he had left the magazine years ago.
Literary agencies, publishing houses,
the article seemed to be...
T-u-c-k-e-r?
the sole evidence of this guy ever existing.
You think that Mark Tucker is an alias?
JIM: So then we had the crazy idea
we would take everything
that we had found out about the Tarsus Club,
put it online,
and see what came out of the woodwork.
Come here.
Anything?
What? What is this?
Fuck off. What are we on?
Nothing.
This is my, like, little escape.
Oh, this is the farmer website thing you're always on.
It's called an off-grid community.
It's being built in northern Alberta.
[ slap ] Dude! Oh, fuck!
You're assholes!
Fuck off, man! Come on!
It's, like, completely self-sufficient.
We're gonna grow our own food,
like, dig our own wells.
There's a group of 50 of us planning on building this thing, so...
You know, it's like sometimes I just feel like
just...start over.
Get away from this whole fucked-up world.
Last night, Aaron got an email, um, from someone
saying that he wanted to meet
on the conspiracy chat room site.
Said we can talk about Murray Chance
and the Tarsus Club.
The thing is that Aaron in what he posted online
never mentioned Murray Chance.
So we'll see.
Mmm...'kay.
[ beeps ]
Uh, we're making a documentary film.
[ beeps ]
Why? Who are you?
[ beeps ]
How do we know you didn't just Google
the article in Time? Right.
How do we know that you didn't just
Google the TiMagazine article?
[ beeps ]
Well done, Bernstein.
[ patting back ]
Who's Bernstein?
Woodward and Bernstein?
[ film crew speaking indistinctly ]
AARON: Just give me a VU reading over here.
Kevin?
That's good, yeah.
[ voice electronically altered ] I was doing a bio piece
on Murray Chance and his family,
and quite by accident, I stumbled on the fact
that the Chance family going back generations
had attended this annual retreat
held by an organization called the Tarsus Club.
Now, I was told that these meetings
were not about setting policy or agenda.
But the more I looked into them,
the more I realized this couldn't be further from the truth.
Very real and tangible shifts
in world financial markets, in foreign policy,
and even in so-called random events,
coincided with these retreats.
JIM: But in your article, you make it sound
like it's just a group of rich white men
getting together and having a good time.
It doesn't seem really all that nefarious.
That's because when my editor at Time Magazine
found out what I was reporting on,
he butchered the article.
JIM: Then why not get rid of the article entirely?
Well, it's in the group's best interest to have
a little bit of information out there about themselves.
A total media blackout is a void
just asking to be filled by fertile imaginations.
I wouldn't be surprised that, in the very near future,
that Tarsus purposely lets a little bit of information out there--
um, news story, press release,
something that has the appearance of being objective,
but has been engineered by them.
JIM: So that they can control the message?
And it also acts as a little bit of a warning.
You know, they allow you to get a glimpse of how powerful they are.
AARON: A warning for who?
People like yourself.
People who have discovered the truth.
AARON: Did this man ever contact you
about the Tarsus Club?
Couldn't honestly say.
But your friend may have tried to contact me.
But you have to understand that my article
is the only mainstream document out there
that people can find actual information of Tarsus.
But the truth is, most of these guys have monikers
and they're far too suspicious ever to meet.
JIM: So where is all of this leading?
What is it specifically
that the Tarsus organization is after?
Three words: new world order.
We have before us the opportunity
to forge for ourselves
and for future generations a new world order,
a world where the rule of law,
not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations.
When we are successful, and we will be,
we have a real chance at this new world order.
A blueprint of a one-world government,
a single organization that controls every nation
and every person on this planet.
Alice Bailey, H.G. Wells, Adolf Hitler, Gorbachev,
George Soros, Herbert Walker Bush.
Um, all these people have at some point or another
called for a new world order.
A new world order is likely to emerge
from the current economic crisis.
It's about the future of the whole region.
It's about the future of Europe and a new world order.
I think a new world order is emerging,
and, with it, the foundations
of a new and progressive era of international cooperation.
MARK: Mysterious attacks that justify war,
trade deals that erase borders,
stock market collapses that shift billions in wealth.
All these events that gradually shifted
more power into fewer hands,
the hands of seemingly disconnected individuals,
who are, in fact,
all linked by one common element:
Tarsus.
AARON: Didn't you guys get the idea that Mark
was, like, ex-CIA or something like that?
CAMERAMAN: Oh, man, totally.
Like, uh...
Like a retired spook or something, yeah.
What?
Well, I think it's...
I think it's really important....
[ Aaron sighs ]
No, listen to me. I'm serious.
That we don't get ahead of ourselves with this guy.
For everything that this guy spoke about,
I can find 10 other guys
that can challenge and refute him.
For all we know,
we're just talking to Terrance in better clothes.
AARON: Dude, this is real!
This is not some fringe fabrication!
You know, he's talking about real facts, right?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
JIM: What are you looking at?
Is that the same guy that was in front of Terrance's place?
Get-- Get that on camera.
JIM: Uh, I don't know.
CAMERAMAN: It does look like him.
AARON: It is, right?
JIM: I don't know, man.
AARON: Get this on camera.
I want all of this recorded.
CAMERAMAN: Yeah, yeah.
Get inside the drawers. Hang on.
Just get the desk.
Hang on.
It looks like they got about 40 bucks
and a pair of sneakers.
[ Aaron and policeman conversing ]
JIM: I think this is the one time
Aaron being broke-ass is a good thing.
[ laughs ]
WOMAN: I think when Aaron's apartment
was burglarized, a line had been crossed.
At least a line had been crossed in Aaron's mind.
The police didn't find any evidence
to suggest that it was anything other than common thieves.
They certainly didn't find anything to suggest
that it was at all linked
to the film that they were making.
But I think at that point,
it almost didn't matter who it was.
[ baby babbling ]
Hey.
Thanks for inviting me here.
Oh, um, probably put your stuff on the couch.
Come on in.
JIM: Right here, dude.
[ keyboard clicking ]
No, you know, I'm good, I'm good.
CAMERAMAN: Yeah? Mm-hmm.
No, I'm good.
You know, it was one thing
when we were filming Terrance.
You know, that was--
That was something strange, and it was out there,
but I could leave it out there.
Now it's followed me home.
JIM: I just want to go back over a few things
that we discussed uh, last time we met.
I mean, how do you quantify the decision of...
Why doesn't anyone ever try to do anything about these people?
You know, like, uh, expose them, uh, something?
What is it that really happens at these things?
You wrote, um, "The drinking and deal-making
"all ends at midnight when the attendees participate
in the ritual hunting and slaughter of the bull."
What's that about?
MARK: [ voice altered ] The ritual.
The ritual is based
on an ancient and highly secret set of beliefs.
Which are what?
The worship of Mithras.
The cult of Mithras was both an association
and a religious cult
focused on the worship of this god, Mithras.
Mithras was a deity that first appeared in Persia
over 4,000 years ago.
Now, according to the myth,
he was born on the 25th of December.
He died and was resurrected three days later.
Bear in mind, this was 2,000 years
before the birth of Christ.
Many scholars believe
that this is the basis of Christianity.
Mithraic caves, where they secretly worshipped,
have been discovered throughout the former Roman Empire
from, um, Scotland to Russia,
from the Sahara Desert to the heart of India.
This was essentially the world's first truly secret society.
So, yes, there probably were quite a few Mithraists
who had the ear of quite powerful people.
I don't know about, uh, modern secret societies with wide agendas.
Again, if I did, I wouldn't tell you.
MARK: The depiction of Mithras
hunting and killing the bull
is to the Mithraics
what the Crucifixion was to the Christians.
It is the central image of their belief system.
Would you like to see the Mithraic secret handshake?
Just do what I do.
Follow my movements exactly, okay?
Okay.
It's a regular handshake.
The custom that we have of shaking our friends' hands
when we meet them on the street
or when we seal a business deal
comes directly from the secret handshake of the Mithraics.
The first-ever depiction of people shaking hands in human history
comes from a 4,000-year-old carving of Mithras
shaking the hands of the Syrian King Antiochus.
MARK: We live in a world...
We're going to turn the bull loose.
[ cheering ]
MARK: that has been built
and guided by cultural forces
that exist behind those we see in the forefront.
[ protesters shouting and chanting ]
These are politicians arriving at or leaving
a Tarsus meeting in '06...
'04...
'02.
[ camera clicking ]
That's [ name bleeped ].
He's been a strong advocate of pushing Canada
towards a North American Union.
He's also a frequent attendee of Tarsus retreats.
Coincidence, I'm sure.
AARON: Holy shit! Did you take these?
SARAH: Yep.
I've tried approaching news agencies.
No one will touch this stuff.
What's that one?
SARAH: That's the bull hunt.
It was taken outside Prague in 2002.
It's one of the only known photos
of a Tarsus ritual in progress.
[ poor quality audio running ]
This is a lens?
Yeah, and it just, uh...
just clips right on your tie...
Okay. um, just like a tie clip,
so that's it.
Oh, look at that.
Now, does that record to the same tiny drive as the other one?
Yeah.
That is badass.
So what are you guys using this for,
if you don't mind me asking?
Uh, no. Yeah. We're infiltrating a secret society.
Okay. Thanks.
AARON: I don't know. Slow down. We'll see.
Fuck. JIM: What?
He's there. He's still there?
He's still following us.
JIM: Are-- Are you sure?
AARON: Okay, make a right up here, make a right up here.
Let's just keep testing this, okay?
All right. Just keep turning.
[ muttering ] God. Fuck. Fuck.
Can you go?
JIM: I can't go into traffic, man!
AARON: Pull into this parking lot here. Why?
Just pull into the parking lot.
There's lots of people. Why am I gonna pull--
Lots of people there! It'll be safe.
Just pull in here.
Okay. Okay, good.
Okay. He's there?
AARON: Aw, Jesus Christ. He's here.
JIM: Shh. We'll just...
What's he doing?
JIM: He's leaving.
Thank God.
AARON: It clips.
Aw, fuck.
Got my fingerprint on it.
Okay, how's that?
[ Jim clears throat ]
Can you see it?
Yeah, I know what it is. I can see it.
Of course. I'm saying if you didn't know what it was,
would you notice it?
[ microphone pops as Aaron grabs camera ]
How they get a camera in one of these fuckin' things?
TRACY: What are you guys using those cameras for?
What are you using them for, Jim?
Nothing. We're not using them for anything.
I don't give a fuck about the film anymore.
You don't give a fuck about the film?
This has gone-- It has gone too far.
This is not about the fuckin'... Shh!
This is not about the fucking film, okay?
Do you have any idea... Dude, dude, dude.
what would happen to me-- Okay, will you please just tell me,
are you too scared--
what would happen to me and my family
if I would get caught?
I understand. Do you understand?
I understand. Are you too scared,
or do you...
I need to know
if it isn't that you're too scared.
Or do you not believe
what's right in front of your eyes?
I really don't think that Jim's mind
is capable of accepting that the world
doesn't work the way that, you know,
he was always told it works.
You know, okay, all right, for a minute,
let's say that Aaron is right, okay?
Let's say they're all right.
It's all true.
That there are these people that secretly run things.
Then they've always run things, okay?
And they always will!
AARON: Is it still there?
JIM: Yes, it's still out there!
Come on, come on, come on.
AARON: It's still plugged in. Hang on.
JIM: Quiet!
You got it?
I'm coming.
All right, fuck. Is it the same one?
Oh, yeah, definitely.
Fuck.
Shiny black chrome, tinted windows.
TRACY: What's going on?
JIM: Nothing, babe. Go back to bed, okay?
What are you guys doing?
Who's out there?
No--No one's out there.
Jim, what are you guys looking at?
[ Jim whispering indistinctly ]
It's good.
TRACY: God, Jim.
45 minutes.
May be just a hired car for an airport run.
And we're just gonna sit here and watch it all night?
It isn't anything.
I'm sick of this, man.
I'm sick of being afraid.
Fuck it. Fuck it, you know?
This is what they want!
This is what they want, so fuck it.
CAMERAMAN: Aaron, just settle down.
Aaron, keep your voice down.
Just wait a second! Aaron, what are you doing?
JIM: Aaron!
Hey! Hey, asshole!
[ engine revs ]
[ tires screech ]
We're not afraid!
[ tires screech ]
We don't even know if it's the same truck.
It's the same fuckin' truck.
[ baby crying ]
[ on telephone ]
AARON: That's him.
Do you have the cash?
All right, come here.
Okay.
Good.
You boys sure you don't want to come?
[ laughs ]
All right, man.
JIM: Bobby. [ hands clasp ]
Later, dude.
[ engine starts ]
[ footsteps ]
AARON: We close?
[ crows cawing ]
[ footsteps rustling in leaves ]
[ taps light ]
Okay.
We get separated for any reason,
let's meet back here.
JIM: Is that it?
Yeah, that's it.
Okay, let's get comfortable.
[ birds singing ]
You don't have to come.
Really.
You could just leave.
Let's get the fuck outta here.
[ truck approaching ]
[ panting ]
[ zippers closing ]
JOHN F. KENNEDY: The very word "secrecy" is repugnant
in a free and open society.
And we are as a people
inherently and historically opposed to secret societies,
to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
For we are opposed around the world
by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy
that relies primarily on covert means
for expanding its sphere of influence,
on infiltration instead of invasion,
on subversion instead of elections,
on intimidation instead of free choice,
on guerillas by night instead of armies by day.
It is a system which has conscripted
vast human and material resources
into the building of a tightly knit,
highly efficient machine.
Its preparations are concealed, not published.
Its mistakes are buried, not headlined.
Its dissenters are silenced, not praised.
No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed,
no secret is revealed.
[ heavy breathing ]
[ unzipping ]
JIM: Can you help me?
AARON: I got you, I got you.
AARON: [ whispering ] All right, okay.
All right, here.
Been here the whole time, okay?
Okay, ready? Ready.
Okay.
[ indistinct conversation ]
[ piano playing ]
Okay.
Just take evidence.
Okay.
[ men conversing indistinctly, voices altered ]
Let's, uh, hit the bar, shall we?
Yes.
JIM: Evening.
AARON: Evening.
Um, two gin and tonics, please.
Thank you. Ahem. Yes.
MAN: [ voice altered ]
[ Aaron laughs ]
It's, um...
AARON: It's G & T.
Nice to meet you, brother.
AARON: You, too, brother.
AARON: Yes.
Yes. That's right, yeah.
Yes, exactly.
AARON: Absolutely.
[ laughter ]
Well, what are you gonna do, eh?
JIM: Still some problems you can't solve.
AARON: You--You're good.
Yes. Yes.
Yeah, that's right.
Yes. Nice meeting you, brother.
AARON: Good to meet you, brother.
[ men conversing indistinctly, voices altered ]
Huh. Look at this.
[ laughs ]
MAN: [ voice altered ]
Good evening, brother.
AARON: Absolutely.
Yes, definitely.
JIM: Spectacular.
AARON: Great to have met you, brother.
JIM: Yes, uh, thank you.
[ whispering ] That was so fucking weird.
[ bell tolls ]
[ tolls ]
[ discordant horns blowing ]
[ kettle drum pounding ]
[ horns and drum stop ]
MAN: [ amplified, voice altered ] A community of stars
forming one constellation!
A circle of brothers forming one family!
[ applause ]
MAN: Hail, Mithras! Hail, new lights!
SPECTATORS: Hail, Mithras! Hail, new lights!
MAN: Ravens, step forward.
AARON: [ whispering ] Don't freak out.
JIM: What do I do?
AARON: Go.
AARON: Go ahead, brother.
[ breathing nervously ]
[ drums pounding ]
[ knife unsheathes ]
[ knife slices ]
[ men conversing indistinctly, voices altered ]
AARON: [ whispering ] What the fuck?
[ Jim breathing nervously, drums pounding ]
AARON: [ whispering ] What the fuck? What the fuck?
[ Jim breathing nervously ]
AARON: [ whispering ] Oh, shit.
AARON: [ whispering ] All right, okay, okay.
MAN:
[ Jim breathing nervously ]
[ knife unsheathes ]
AARON: No, it's okay, brothers.
I just need to speak with my friend for a second.
It's very important that I talk with him.
[ nervously ] My name is Jim.
My father's name is David.
[ panting ]
AARON: Please get out of my way!
AARON: No disturbance meant.
[ speaks phrase in foreign language ]
[ Jim breathing nervously ]
[ crickets chirping ]
AARON: [ whispering ] Hey, hey, hey!
I know. I just need to talk to him for one second!
[ Jim breathing nervously ]
AARON: There he is
It's okay. There he is.
[ breathing nervously ]
AARON: I'm sorry, brothers.
My apologies, um...
Enjoy the evening.
[ Jim breathing ]
[ piano playing, indistinct conversations ]
[ Aaron breathing nervously ]
[ bell tolls ]
JIM: Thank you.
Yes. Thank you.
Kneel. [ speaks indistinctly ]
[ drums pounding ]
[ bell tolls ]
JIM: Um...it was unique.
I've never experienced anything quite like it.
[ bell tolls ]
[ laughs ] Yes.
It was a little, yes.
[ Aaron breathing nervously ]
[ bell tolls ]
My name is Aaron.
My father's name was John.
JIM: No, no. I will...
Um, I... [ bell tolls ]
Give me one second.
I have to use the bathroom.
Be right back.
[ bell tolls ]
[ hurried footsteps ]
[ whispering ] Shit, shit, shit, shit.
[ bell tolls ]
[ dialing cell phone ]
[ beeps ]
Come on, Trace.
[ line rings ]
[ hurried footsteps on stairs ]
[ line rings ]
[ cell phone rings ]
[ line rings ]
[ cell phone rings ]
JIM: [ whispering ] What the fuck?
[ line rings ]
Tracy! [ cell phone rings, baby cries ]
[ drums pounding ]
[ Aaron breathing nervously ]
AARON: Mithras is my only crown.
[ breathing becomes muffled as mask is placed ]
[ man speaks phrase in foreign language ]
[ footsteps withdrawing ]
AARON: Hello?
Hello?
[ breathing nervously ]
Hello?
[ panting ]
Guys? [ laughs ]
[ breathing nervously ]
[ horn sounding ]
[ man shouts indistinctly ]
[ all shouting ]
AARON: What the fuck?
No, no, no, no!
Wait, wait, wait!
Okay, wait! Wait! I'm sorry!
I'm not a part of this!
[ men shouting ]
[ Aaron shouting ]
I'm sorry!
Help!
[ men shouting, horns blowing ]
AARON: Oh, no! I'll just go!
[ branches snapping ]
[ men shouting ]
[ horns blowing ]
[ knives clanking ]
[ Aaron groans, falls ]
[ silence, static ]
[ men shouting ]
MAN: Brother! Down here!
[ horns blowing ]
[ Aaron panting ]
[ shouting and horns fade into distance ]
[ Aaron breathing nervously ]
[ crickets chirping ]
[ Aaron breathing nervously ]
[ footsteps ]
[ silence ]
[ crickets chirping ]
[ Aaron breathing ]
[ footsteps ]
[ footsteps climb to window ]
[ panting ]
[ whispering ] Oh, God.
My God.
Oh, my God.
[ running footsteps ]
Jim!
Aaron.
[ horn blows, men shouting ]
AARON: No! No no no no no no!
[ knives clanging ]
[ Aaron whimpering ]
Aah!
Get the fuck away from me!
[ men shouting, knives slashing ]
[ intermittent static ]
[ silence ]
[ static ]
[ video rewinding ]
[ Aaron screams in slow motion ]
[ men shouting ]
[ keyboard clicking ]
The core value of the Tarsus Club is communications--
communications between governments,
businesses, individuals.
And, of course, we're living in the golden age of communications
because of globalization.
Unfortunately, with the rise of the Internet,
there's a dark side to globalization.
Essentially, that is that anyone with a crazy idea
can communicate it to millions of people like a virus.
And the Tarsus Club has been the target of these viruses,
including these crazy conspiracy theories.
Well, actually, it's become something
of a cottage industry, I think,
within conspiracy circles
to break in to Tarsus meetings.
In fact, we've grown so accustomed to it over the years
that, uh, it's almost become part of the ritual
to scare people off who try to break in.
JIM: I was taken to a back room.
I was told to let them know
where the rendezvous point was with Aaron.
We were questioned for a very long time,
but, uh, eventually security let us go.
Even after Aaron realized
that they were just scaring him,
he was still very upset.
I think Aaron had been traumatized by what had happened.
That was the last time I saw him.
JENSEN: To the people screaming about conspiracy...
I'll let them in on a little secret.
It's true.
Global leaders do get together and collaborate.
Many of them, including my boss, Murray Chance,
are working hard to create a new world
where all nations and all people
can come together in one global community.
That's what it's all about,
the creation of a single global community.
And if that's a conspiracy...
If that's a conspiracy, well, then, yes, we're guilty.
Hi, bud.
NICOLE: Just for the record,
where do you think Aaron went?
JIM: I guess he ended up...
in the same place Terrance did, didn't he?
And I just hope wherever they are, they both feel free.