Are we on?
Yep. Introduce yourself.
Okay. Hey, I'm Frank. How are you doing?
Don't answer that. That's rhetorical.
Okay, let's get you up to speed.
This is a story about the future.
And the future can be scary.
What?
Are you sure you wanna go with "scary"?
-Yes, I wanna go with "scary". -Okay.
The future can be scary:
Unstable governments...
Overpopulation...
Wars on every continent...
Famine...
Water shortages...
-Environmental collapse... -And scientific breakthroughs...
...wonder and beauty...
-Could you, please, just stop interrupting? -I will. Just try to be a little more up-beat.
-Up-beat? -Yeah, tell them all you want.
I can't tell them anything...
- ...if you keep interrupting me. -You're right. Sorry.
As I was saying...
With every second that tics by...
...we get closer and closer...
-I know. Tell them now... -I can't tell them anything...
-...until I tell them about this. -Frank, can we, please, just...
...start somewhere else?
Fine, where would you like me to start?
Well, you keep saying the future wasn't always this way, right?
It wasn't. When I was a kid the future was...
-Different, right? -Yeah.
Okay, cool. Then start there.
Alright , well, when I was a kid...
The future was... different.
Flushing Meadows, Corona Park World's Fair. Don't forget your valuables...
...and enjoy the future.
New York World Expo 1964
-Hello, sir. -May I help you?
My name is John Francis Walker.
-I'm here to win the 50 dollars. -Is that so?
I took it apart because of the nitrogen compartment...
You see I just had a bus ride. It was kind of bumpy and...
...you know nitro!
I could have used the hydrogen-peroxide powered engine...
Bell Labs tested that with their rocket belt.
And I guess there were some issues with maneuverability, flight duration and stuff.
It's a jet-pack.
Obviously.
You made it yourself?
Athena, what are you doing here?
Did you, or didn't you?
-What? -Did you make this yourself?
-Yeah... -Why?
I guess I got tired of waiting around for someone else do it for me.
Does it work?
Uhmm... sure. Yeah...
Mostly...
Just doesn't really... you know... technically...
Fly.
But if it did, you know: "technically fly", what'd it's purpose be?
How would your jet-pack make the world a better place?
Can't it just be fun?
Mr. Walter, please tell me you can do better than fun.
Anything's possible.
I don't know what that means.
If I was walking down the street and I saw some kid with a jet pack fly over me...
I'd believe anything's possible.
I'd be inspired.
Doesn't that make the world a better place?
I suppose it would.
If it worked.
Unfortunately... it does not.
And if doesn't work it has no purpose at all.
Thank you for your time, Mr. Walker.
But I can make it work!
That's the spirit.
Until then young man... ...have fun.
Absolutely not.
I like him.
Athena, no.
What makes you think you gonna make this thing fly?
I'm optimistic?
-You're wasting your time. -I'm not!
-Damn contraption. -It's not a contraption!
It doesn't work.
-I can make it work. -No, you can't!
I'm not giving up.
Don't turn around. Be cool...
What did I just tell you?
-Sorry. -Stop talking.
Look over there - it's five o'clock.
You know... on a clock... where the "five" is?
That way.
I'm going with them. You count to 20 then follow us.
Don't get spotted.
Who are you?
I'm the future, Frank Walker.
Travel the globe in Walt Disney's "It's a small world"...
A salute to Unicef and children...
Excuse me!
Sorry folks, you gonna have to wait for the next boat.
There'll be another boat in just a minute.
It's a small world after all!
It's a small world... ...after all...
Hello.
Good afternoon, please step aboard the Transport.
The site is active.
Please put on your head protection in order to prevent significant injury.
Injury?
Transport will commence in 10 seconds.
Wait!
5, 4, 3, 2...
...one...
Fix it...
Hey, that's mine!
Did you just fix it?
Hey! There he is!
It works now.
So... What is this place?
And then everything went to hell.
-Oh, boy... -Well, it did.
So, you gave them like one second of blue sky's and jet-packs and...
It's important! They need to know the stakes!
I think they can figure it out. Clock's counting down...
-Do you want to tell the story? -No, you're doing fine.
Because if you think you can tell the story better...
...I would absolutely love to hear you try.
-Wow! Really? -Really.
Well, I guess technically I am more qualified.
Are you? How so?
Because unlike you... I'm an optimist.
-Baby, you're filming? -It's video-ed.
-I knew it! -She video-ed it.
Okay, go ahead, sweetie.
What do you think, Casey?
That's Sirius, that's Canopus, that's Arcturus...
Rigel Kentaurus, Vega, Procyon, Capella, Betelgeuse.
Why do you love the stars so much, Casey?
Because... I wanna go there.
But they're so far away.
And it'd take a long time, a really long time...
What if you get all the way up there and there's nothing?
What if there's everything?
-Oh, boy... -What?
Are you gonna go through your entire childhood?
You started when you were a kid.
-I'm just giving them context. -Just move it along okay...
-...they don't have all day. -Cool, you've got it.
Identify yourself!
Nate, if you wake up dad, I will crush you.
You should't sneak out.
Well, you shouldn't still need a wooby.
Dad says it's okay to sleep with.
That's because he doesn't want you to grow up.
Were you at the platform again?
What do you do up there?
Are you trying to stop them... from taking it down?
No. That would make me a criminal.
And a pretty terrible role-model to impressionable youth such as yourself.
But if someone else did it...
...I'd had to assume... they believed...
...even the teeniest of actions...
...could change the future.
How can you be sure?
Because I know how things work.
Why are they taking the platform down?
'cause it's hard to have ideas... and easy to give up.
But you won't. Right?
Never.
Hi, dad, heading to school.
Made you lunch. Wrap it up.
-How did you do... -You would have gotten it.
Yeah, Eddie Newton. What?
All three cranes... Alright, Douglas, thanks for the call.
Everything okay?
Yeah, the equipment over at Canaveral is down again.
-Weird. -Really weird.
Well, at least you got the day off.
Actually they're bringing in replacement cranes from Orlando...
...so I will be back to work by noon.
-That's fantastic! -Case...
Nothing's gonna stop them from taking down that platform.
Nothing. And when we're done, I'm out of a job.
There's nothing anyone can do about it.
It's inevitable.
Then you'll find something else. You're a NASA engineer.
With nothing to launch.
-There are two wolves. -Case...
You told me this story my entire life and now I'm telling you.
There are two wolves and they're always fighting...
One... is darkness and despair.
The other is light and hope.
Which wolf wins?
C'mon, Case...
Okay, fine. Don't answer.
Whichever one you feed.
Good...
Eat. Come on.
Mutually assured destruction.
Today any nuclear country or terrorist
is capable of inflicting damage on a massive scale.
With weapons of...
Environmental entropy...
The polar ice caps aren't waiting for us to decide if climate change is real.
Rising coastal waters, intensifying weather patterns...They're all punching...
our one way ticket to...?
Dystopia. By definition: not perfect.
Huxley's "Brave new world", Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451", Orwell's "1984".
Once considered fiction, these futuristic novels are actually happening right now...
...and it seems to be getting worse. Yes, miss Newton!
Can we fix it?
Sorry?
I get things are bad, but what are we doing to fix it?
Have a good weekend, everybody.
Newton?
-Yeah... -They made bail.
Motorcycle is in impound, you can pick up your personal effects over there.
Newton?
Yeah...
...blizzards, floods, cyclones and record breaking...
Alright. Okay... One money clip, 47 dollars 32 cents...
One Florida state driver's licence, one baseball cap...
You gotta one pin, one pack of Beemans gum
and I don't know what this is. Sign here.
-That's not mine. -What's not yours?
The pin.
I've never...
No way...
Have I been here the whole time?
I know...
No!
I got it.
You have no idea the strings I had to pull to keep Homeland Security from pressing charges, Casey!
This is not just vandalism, alright!
-It's NASA! It's government property! -Have you ever seen this before?
You're not getting it, are you? I am very upset with you!
I get it you're angry, I understand, but I just need you to look at it. Does it look weird?
Don't touch it!!
Why are you yelling at me?
Not, while you're driving, dad. It's dangerous! Just, pull over.
Pull over.
I swear to God, Case, if you're on drugs...
I'm not on drugs, just... Look...
I need you to be NASA-dad now.
New frontier, dad. Okay?
All will be explained, as soon as you touch this pin.
What is...
It's not working?
You're not seeing this ?!
Stop it!
Honestly, Casey, I don't know what's gotten into you.
-Help, guys... -Bad move, Dexter.
Totally swept.
Come on, idiots. We gonna be late for R & D.
The hover rail will be arriving in... one minute.
Are you coming?
-You can... see me? -We don't have all day.
Wait for us!
North-South line now departing.
Next stop: Space Port.
Dad, you're embarassing me...
-Do you promiss to transmit every day? -Even when you're out of range.
Come on, what's the big deal?
We're only going 20 light years out.
Now arriving: Space Port
Hey, guys! Over here!
Come on. We saved a seat just for you.
Now you run out of power?!
-Nate, wake up. -I didn't do it!
Dad changed the password to his computer. Do you know it?
You smell like swamp.
Tell me the password and you can go back to sleep.
Your phone has Internet.
My phone got soaked in the lagoon.
Fine...
What are we looking for?
Stop! That's it!
"Extremely rare collectable pin commemorating the 1964 World's Fair"
"Experts and purveyors of the most extensive selection...
...of space-age collectibles in the world".
Wow. This sounds like ancient.
Alright. Give me their number.
They don't have a number...
They don't have a number?
They have an address.
Okay, look... You are gonna tell dad you woke up, saw me leaving...
I told you I was going camping with friends and I will call tomorrow.
-Can you do that for me? -Only if you tell me what's going on.
I think that I saw...
That I went to...
The future...
Can I come too?
Not... yet.
Hello! Is Casey Newton home?
Ahmm, no...
She ordered some cookies and I'm delivering them.
-You're a Girl Scout? -Of course I am.
Why aren't you wearing an uniform?
It's at the cleaners...
Those are Oreos.
Could you, please, tell me when Casey will be back?
She went camping with some friends...
She's gonna be gone for a couple of days.
Is that what you told your parents?
-Uhmmm... Yeah... -But it's not true.
Yeah... It is.
No, Nathan, it's not.
Don't ask me how I know your name.
I know it the same way I know that you're lying to me.
Are you from the future?
You clearly understand.
So, why aren't you telling me, what I need to know?
That pin-thing... It stopped working. She went to find another one.
Nathan! Where is she looking?
He...Hello...
Sale this week: front three shelves... ... 70% off...
Oh, no thanks, I'm not here to buy anything.
I was hoping that you could tell me about this...
Hugo!
Hugo.
Welcome!
To "Blast from the..."
Thank you for the help, dear.
Well, if you just kept it open, you wouldn't need my help.
If I kept it open it would ruin the effect, which is everything.
Pardon my wife, she has no respect for showmanship.
-Hugo Gernsback. How may I help you? -She has a pin.
She has a pin.
-I saw that you were looking for one online and... -Where did you get it?
What can you tell me about it?
I can't tell you anything about it, unless you tell me who gave it to you?
I'm not going first.
It seems our business here is done.
Seems it is...
Saw something, didn't you?
When you touched it.
Something incredible.
It's real?
Of course it is.
Don't ask me how these people...
...have developed technologies we haven't even dreamed of yet.
Wait... what people?
Have you ever wondered what would happen...
...if all the geniuses, the artists, the scientists...
...the smartest, most creative people in the world...
...decided to actually change it?
But where, where could they even do such a thing...
They'd need a place free from politics and bureaucracy, distractions...
Greed... A secret place...
Where they could build whatever they were crazy enough to imagine.
'Plus Ultra', they call themselves.
The only way to see it, however, is thru contact with one of these.
Why did they make them, what are they for?
Rumour has it...
They're about to go public.
Share what they had built with the whole world.
Unfortunately...
...that never happened.
Why not?
I think we have shared enough, young lady.
So... uhmm... as we've decided to trust you.
I don't know...
What do you mean, honey?
I kinda get arrested and it was in with my stuff.
-"In with your stuff"? -Yeah, I don't know how it got there.
-What was that? -Tell us who gave it to you... please?
No one gave it to me.
It's very unlikely, sweetheart.
You know what? I think I'm gonna go now...
Thanks for your help.
A 1000 dollars if you tell me where you accuired the pin.
I don't know!
-10.000 -Was it a girl? A little girl?
I don't know what you guys are talking about.
Have a nice day. Enjoy your freak-out!
Tell us where she is and you will be spared.
This is a joke, right?
Where is the girl?
I don't... I don't know...
You will tell us about the girl.
I don't know any girl. I told you... I... I...
Where is the girl !?
I don't know any girl !!
We have to go!
Come on. Now!
This is a time bomb. Stops time, but not for long.
-What? -Listen to me...
The sphere is collapsing and you're in the line of fire.
We need to go, or you will die.
I'm stuck!
-I'm stuck! -But only temporarily, take my hand.
The moment you're free, I'll pull you clear. And stay behind me.
Ready?
The girl!
Look out!!
We have to go!
They're about to self-destruct. We have to go now!!
...crazy enough to imagine... crazy enough to imagine...
Casey, get up. The'll be coming.
What? Who?
-I know, I know... -No, no! Wait, wait!
Get in the car, Casey!
How do you know my name?
Just get in the car.
What just happened !?
Two AA-units targeted you for extermination.
I saved your life, they self-destructed.
Wait... AA's !?
-Audio-Animatronics. -They were robots??
No, advanced and more.
Sure. Okay... robots.
Who are you?
My name is Athena. I'm the one who gave you the pin.
The pin? Oh! The pin!
And I do wish you hadn't ran off...
...before I had a chance to give you some rather necessary context.
Context? What are you even talking about? How are you... driving a car? Who are you?
I'm recruter...
"60 seconds to self-destruct"
So sorry about that, it's...
You're... one of them?
Obviously.
Where're you going? Stop, I'm trying to help you!
Oh, my God... Oh, my God!
This isn't happening... This isn't happening.
No... way!
Let me out of this car!!
Stop yelling!!
-Let me out, now! -I will not!!
I gave you my very last pin, young lady, and I'm not about to let it go to waste!
What do you mean your... ...last pin?
Wait the... place I saw...
-It exists? -Of course it does.
But if you don't come with me, it won't for much longer.
Why not?
Because they built something they shouldn't have.
Built. What?
Do you want to keep asking me questions untill someone arrives to murder us?
No.
Then which way do you want to go?
Backwards...
Or forwards?
And you can take me there?
I can.
I'm driving.
You fellas are released, thanks.
Alrighty, boys.
Fire chief says we're clear to go in and poke around.
Hopefully they were out for lunch and nobody was in there when she went "boom".
Captain.
Afternoon sir, Dave Clark, Secret Service.
Looks like you got yourself a doozie here.
Secret Service? Hey, where are they going?
They're securing the premises.
Thanks so much for your help, but we're going to take it from here.
Hey, Dale, I found this just outside the window.
Ever seen anything like it?
What the hell?
God almighty!
Sale, this week... 70 percent... Was it a girl?, a little girl?
You wanna tell me what's going on here, son?
No sir, I do not.
Was it a girl? A little girl?
Contact Governor Nix.
Tell him we found the girl.
There left!
Little more of a heads up next time!
Hey, here's an idea: why don't you just tell me where we're going?
Pittsfield, New York.
What's in Pittsfield, New York?
Someone who can get us back in.
Hold on... you said that you gave me your last pin.
How many other people did you give them to?
Not important.
I'm not even your first choice.
I only found you a month ago when you started wantingly destroying government property.
Which happens to go in my search parameters for recruitment.
Not to mention you scored a 73 on the Feynman-Drummelberg scale.
73?
Is that good?
Wait... hold... hold on.. Recruitment for what?
I'm not allowed to answer that.
Who's not allowing you?
I'm not allowed to answer that and I should warn you:
You keep asking me questions and my countemeasure protocol will initiate.
Okay... And what does that mean?
I will shut down.
You will... not.
Try me.
You said that they built something they shouldn't have.
Dit something happen overthere? Something bad?
Son of a...!!
Please don't answer, please don't answer...
Hey, you've reached Eddie Newton's cell-phone.
Leave a message and I will call you back.
Hay, dad, it's Casey...
I told Nate to tell you that was camping, but I'm... not camping... I just don't like lying to you.
But I don't know how to tell you the truth, because...
But something highly unusual is happening and...
Okay, my point is...
I'm fine. I will continue to be fine.
I'm not on drugs. I haven't joined a cult.
I won't be gone long.
And I will call again soon.
I love you dad.
Oh, my God!
Are you okay?
Yes, fine. Thank you.
I thought I broke you, or something.
I should drive.
Casey...
I know you have no reason to trust me...
But, I've been looking for someone like you for a very long time.
Now please...
Pull over.
Of all the people you could give one of those pins to...
Why me?
Because you're special.
-I'm special... -You are.
So, this guy we are going to see.
What's his name?
His name is Frank.
Frank Walker.
He's special too.
Frank... Walker...
Just great!
Where are your paw prints?
That is cool.
I can hear you, you know.
Go away! Didn't you see the dog?
It's a hologram. How did you do that in daylight?
-Pretty impress... -Who are you?
What do you want?
You're Frank Walker, right?
My name's Casey and I want you to take me there.
Take you... where?
To the place I saw when I touched this!
Where did you get this?
Little girl... Athena.
Where is she?
She ditched me here.
Of course she did. Look...
Where ever you came from, kid, go back.
No, I want you to take me there.
-What I saw... -What you saw is gone.
This, what you are looking for - it doesn't exist anymore.
No, I feel like I have to go... Like I'm supposed to go...
Why? Because they're saving a seat on a rocket ship?
Just for you?
What you saw was a commercial that was recorded decades ago.
It was an invitation that never went out, because the damn party got cancelled!
You are not supposed to do anything.
You've been manipulated to feel like you're part of something incredible.
Like you were special.
But you weren't.
You're not.
So, that's a "no"?
Son of a...
Oh, you little...
I'd call the cops, anytime.
Anytime!
You have... I'm giving you five seconds...
I am not leaving!
Either tell me how to get there or kill me!
If you touch anything in there, that's exactly what I'll do.
What are you doing?
I'm touching things!
Open this door, now!
I'm serious. I'll suck you out!
Hey, what's this doohicky with the trombone sliding thing?
Leave it alone. I'm serious!
Will you take me there?
-No! -Then you're not serious!
-Oh, come on... -You really think that was funny?
Are you recording this?
If I get you to laugh... wanna... you know, have it for posterity.
I laughed.
You smiled. Smile is not a laugh.
Everyone laughs, it's a biological need.
Actually it isn't. Sleep is biological need.
Never seen you sleep either.
Well, sooner or later I'm gonna make you laugh.
Untill you do I'm not gonna stop trying.
Maybe you should.
What?
Stop trying.
Why?
Must you record this?
Get out!
Wait a second! What is this? Is this a countdown?
I am not leaving. I deserve to know what's going on around here.
Yeah! I deserve some answers!
Answers to what?
-I know that you were there. -You don't know anything.
-How'd you ever leave a place like that? -Because they threw me out!
They threw me out and they locked every door back in.
Was it because you built that something that you shouldn't have?
Who told you that?
And is that it?
This "something"?
If I could tell you the date... The exact date that you gonna die.
Would you wanna know?
How would you know?
Let's just say I did.
-What are you psychic? -No, it's not the point.
-Then what is your basis for knowing... -This is hypothetical...
Just... just use your imagination! Alright?
Fine...
Let's accept that there's a world where I know with absolute certainity...
...the exact time of your death.
Now... You want me to tell you or not?
Of course I would, who wouldn't?
But...
What if, accepting my death is what causes it...
So the answer is "yes". I would want you to tell me.
But I wouldn't believe you.
-You have to believe me. -Why?
Don't we, like, make our own destiny and stuff?
What?
Who are you, kid?
Is that bad?
Oh... hell...
Oh, hell!
They followed you here?
What? Who?
Robots.
I've never seen them before.
John Francis Walker...
You have been permitted to live based upon your agreed non-intervention.
You are now harbouring a fugitive element.
Release her to our custody or be extinguished.
You have one minute to comply.
-Thanks! -Don't thank me yet.
Wait.
John Francis Walker, by authority of Governor Nix this unit has been authorised...
...to extinguish your life...
Alright... It's enough. That's enough!
Close the door.
Who the hell is Governor Nix?
Let's go! Come on!
How is this a good idea?
-Move or sink, kid! -You were actually prepared for that?
My hat!
-Leave it be. -No, no, no, I can't go without it.
It's my dad's.
I get it...
Too smart for your own good.
Father never understood you, never supported you...
Now you wear his hat!
As a badge of rebellion, right?
No... My dad is amazing.
Hallo... wait a second... we're not...
We're not talking about me, are we?
No, we just get you to your amazing dad and pretend this never happened.
Hop on.
-Battery's dead. -No, it's not.
-Then maybe it's the points? -No! It's not!
-When is the last time you checked... -You know, you're not helping...
Get down. Now!
Wait...
Hello, Frank.
Are you going to shoot me?
I'm deciding.
Could you decide in the truck?
Because we really should get going.
Wait.
Why? Some more robots can show up?
She is one of 'em.
Yeah, I know. Are you coming or not?
Move over.
-Frank... -Not yet.
What were you thinking? Why would you drag her into this?
I didn't drag her into anything.
I gave her a pin... ...she did the rest.
Just like you.
Oh, don't even... And where did you even find the pin?
I was there - they destroyed them.
Not all of them. I made it out with nearly a dozen.
So, you give one to a teenager...
Hey! Got a 73 on the Feynberg- Dusseldorf scale or whatever.
A 73? It's not possible.
He's jealous, because he scored 41.
What? You know what? I was eleven. I was eleven!
Hey, don't touch that!
This is a one-kiloton detonation, it is not a toy.
Do not mess with my stuff, you got it?
-Sorry. -I didn't begin with her, you know.
I wasted years looking after potential candidates.
Potential candidates? For what?
That's beautiful. You still think you're recruiting, don't you?
Do not ask her any more questions, she's gonna do her countermeasure shutdown-thing...
What "countermeasure shutdown-thing"?
Did you tell her you had a "countermeasure shutdown-thing"?
She was annoying me.
You lied?
Get used to that, kid. One minute she's promissing you a beautiful future, next thing you know...
she's leading into your house to kill you.
I'm sorry, but time was running out and you needed motivation.
Motivation for what?
We need to go back over, Frank.
Back over there? Yes, yes, Frank! We need to go back over.
Good, great. That's just great. You know, hey, I got stung by a bee, let's jump on a hive!
That's a terrible analogy.
That's a fantastic analogy. What do you know about analogy?
You know, you're impossible to talk to when you're like this.
I am like this, because you derailed my life! Again!
Frank, it's not personal. It's just programming.
We're here!
Where're you going?
This is where your wire station is located, isn't it?
-We need to get to The Spectacle. -"Spectacle"?
Are you insane? They know that you sent her to me. They gonna be waiting for us.
Fine. Give me the Edison tube and we'll go without you.
I don't have the Edison tube.
It's in your bag.
I have X-ray vision.
-When did you get X-ray vision? -Oh, she's full of surprises.
I know all about her surprises. Chief among them is this:
She doesn't care about you.
All that charm and the sense of purpose and the cute little smile...
It's all just software. It's ones and zeros. That's it.
Trust me, when you get there - you're on your own.
What happened to you two?
He thinks, I hurt him.
No. You hurt a dumb kid that was stupid enough to fa...
You were many things, Frank Walker.
But you were never dumb.
-Why don't you just give me the Edison tube? -I'm not giving you anything!
Alright. You want in... I'll bring you in. Why not.
It's better than waiting around here and getting hunted and killed, etcetera, etcetera...
-That's the spirit. -Etcetera?
What's the "etcetera"...?
What kind of cables are these?
The kind that transmit people.
People? Like us? What, like a...
- ...miniature teleport... -Do I have to explain everything?
Can't you just be amazed and move on?
This is all wired to the dish up there.
Are you using satellite?
I know how things work.
Well, "zippie-dee-doo" for you...
Wrap this around your eyes. Tight.
Why?
'Cause justice is blind.
Just... do it, kid.
You want me... to put this over my head?
-If this takes off my eyebrows... -Shut up, open your mouth, tilt your head back.
What is that?
It's powder.
-We've had "Fat Hog"! -Good to go!
Good. Get set it for The Tower.
There's still a receiver there.
The last I checked!
How long ago was that?
25 years ago.
Roughly...
They threw you out too?
Okay, guys... Killer robots.
Alright. It's gonna be bright, cold and really loud. You gonna lose...
...90% of your blood sugar in one one-hundredth of a second and you gonna wish you were dead.
But then it'll be over.
Don't pee on us.
This sounds spectacular!
Why now? Why her?
Because she hasn't given up.
You think she can fix it.
What makes you say that?
Can she, Athena?
I have no idea.
Let's go find out.
Is it... Is it normal?
Thirsty...
-Dying... I'm d-dying... I'm dying. -You're not dying!
There's coke in the fridge.
Help yourself.
We have no idea how many are here...
...but we're damn sure they know we're coming, so...
...we move quickly. You follow me. No questions. Got it?
Got it.
Excuse me.
We're in Paris?
-Would you stop being so amazed. -I thought you wanted me to be amazed.
-I want you to stop yanking...
Tower's closing.
Oh, hell...
Now... You and I are on the watch list,
but they may not have your facial recognition profile uploaded yet.
-"May not"? -May not. So...
...you walk over there, you take this, you tap him on the neck.
-If he's human, it knocks him right out. -And if it's a robot?
It'll just piss it off.
Fantastic.
She's got guts, you gotta give her that.
No, no, no... I'm sorry - The museum is closed.
Human!
The French hated this thing when Eiffel first unveiled it at Paris World's Fair.
They thought it was an eye sore.
Eiffel didn't care. There wasn't meant to be a monument.
It was meant to find another world.
"Les Quatre Premiers". Plus Ultra's first four.
They were a part of all this?
Eiffel, Jules Verne... Tesla... and Mr. Edison.
-They designed this antenna that we're inside of... -Wait, what?
-The Eiffel tower isn't an antenna. -Now I finally answer your question...
...you gonna interrupt me?
Yes...
Tesla designed the antenna to observe every kind of frequency out there: sub-space...
...transdimensional, you name it. And they found exactly what they were looking for.
And then Edison tried to take credit for it, 'cause these two hated each other...
-Frank... -...because of the alternating...
-Stay on topic. -Yeah...
There were always rumours... of a secret entrance...
The Four kept just for themselves.
A one way ticket... In case of an emergency.
The Spectacle
You ain't seen nothing yet.
It's a rocket...
They're coming.
Buckle up!
What did he say?
Pretty much what you'd expect.
Tell him to hang on!
Why are we going back?
We're not. We're going thru. To another dimension.
So we blasted into outer space just to get a running start?
This part may be a little weird.
Casey... wake up!
-Casey... Wake up... -We're here...
And now what?
You tell me...
-I tell you? This was your idea. -I don't have ideas...
I just find the people who do...
-So, there is no plan. -That's a plan.
You just haven't come up with it yet.
But... You should do that soon...
...that's just terrific...
Here, hide this.
Absolutely.
Is that the one-kiloton detonation thing you told me not to play with?
Right now it's our insurance policy. There's a good chance they gonna try to kill us right out the gate.
So, we're just gonna stand here?
Well... You wanted to see "Tomorrowland"...
Here it comes.
Take the bag.
-Frank... -David...
You look well. Age becomes you.
Thanks, you should try it.
I don't know... I think I'll just keep drinking my shake every morning.
Comes in chocolate now.
Yum...
Hello, Athena. I started to think you were never coming home.
Where, oh, where have you been?
Doing my job.
Your job?
I'm sorry... Were we not clear when we suspended your recruitment protocols?
I got that since when you called me "bloody obsolete" and tried to disassemble me.
Well, you've certainly caused quite a commotion...
...by launching an antique rocket ship out of the Eiffel tower!
Under normal circumstances we'll be working overtime...
...to convince everyone it was just an elaborate hoax.
Fortunately for all of us...
It doesn't really matter now, does it?
Why doesn't it matter?
And who might you be?
...I'm... I'm Casey... Newton...
And... who might you be?
David Nix.
Pleasure...
Well, Frank it's been wonderful catching up...
But as we were fairly clear about the terms of your exile and the consequences of violating it...
...I have to ask:
-What the hell are you doing here? -I think she can fix it.
-I'm sorry... I... -Her...
I think, she can fix it, David.
Wait, what?
I've been pirating your signal. Everytime you turn it on here, I can see it there...
...and it flickered.
The percentage dropped, David.
Impossible.
You don't believe me? Let's go find out, right now.
I'm sorry... What I can fix?
The world, miss Newton.
He thinks, you can fix the world.
Is it like a... ...portal to Earth?
No. It is a bridge-way to Earth.
Welcome back to The Monitor, Frank.
It's something, isn't it?
Yeah... It's something...
Don't worry about the light show, it's perfectly safe.
-Am I supposed to do something? -Aha...
Okay, could you be a little more specific, because fixing the world...
- ...sounds a little... -Just be yourself.
Gotcha.
Flashes of future
What are those?
Flashes of future
It's us in a few seconds from now.
This whole tower funnels energy via tachyon.
A particle that moves significantly faster than light. We've discovered them almost 40 years ago.
Your psysicists are still arguing ever whether they exist.
Oh dear... Too late...
So, on with the show...
We've enhanced the interface significantly, but it still functions on your original algorithm.
You have something to show me, Frank?
Show me.
Pick a place.
-What? -A location anywhere in the world. Pick one.
Canaveral... Cape Canaveral.
Easy, easy!
The interface is oriented from your hands to the center of the Earth.
Yeah... I got it.
You've trained her, obviously?
I just met her yesterday...
She knows how things work.
How is this possible?
We are millions of exponential deviancies away from the dimension you call home.
Frank had the novel idea of building this machine, so that we could keep in touch.
This is three days ago.
Relatively.
That's space/time humor...
Because tachyons travel faster than light... Once we harness them...
You can see backwards in time.
Not just backwards.
You're kidding...
No.
What happened?
Keep going.
Just a little further.
That's enough.
That's enough, kid...
That's my house...
It would have been nice, if Frank had prepared you for this.
I'm affraid the world is ending.
It is certain, it is unavoidable... and it is coming.
When?
Just 58 days from now.
58 days?
Whatever caused this, could happen any time after the static starts. Could be a month...
Could be sooner.
Still looking for your flicker, Frank?
I know what I saw.
So, why aren't you telling anyone?
The whole planet is gonna die and you're just sitting here?
We're not gonna die. This is your world, not ours.
We'll be perfectly fine here.
Then why don't you let people in?
Tell her, David.
Oh... Frank..
All those years in exile and you still don't understand.
These people... they are driven by savagery.
If we told them about this place...
...then that would happen here: to us. Then nothing would survive.
-But it hasn't happened yet! -Actually it has happened...
-You just haven't accepted it. -Well, I don't accept it!
Did you see that? Dit you see that?
David, I know that you saw that. That means that there is a chance. There's at least a chance!
That went quite well, don't you think?
What happened?
You're being deported.
Again...
Well... that's Nix for ya.
No new ideas.
Apparently your one-ten-thousandth variable in the inevitability
wasn't convincing enough to change his mind.
Be gentle.
You okay?
You know, you'd think somewhere in the zillions of questions that I was asking you...
...you could have said: "Oh... "
"... Casey, well, that stuff's not really the issue, because our future predicting machine...
...says we are gonna die".
He did, sort of hint at it.
This place has nothing to do with hope.
It's the opposite of hope.
-Come on... Don't say that. -Why not?
You said it... No wonder, you gave up.
That's before I knew about you.
-You... really... really are special. -Why are you people keep saying that to me?
I'm not!
Why did you even give me this?
You showed me a place that was amazing and incredible and it was a lie!
If you gonna zap an idea into people's heads, you should really make shure that it is the truth,
...because you can't do that...
You can't just zap...
-What?
...zap an idea into people's heads...
You were pirating the signal...
-How? -What?
At your house, all your t.v.'s, your doomsday-room...
You were boosting the feed from that Monitor thing.
How did you do that?
No big deal. They're running so much power thru in now, a HAM-radio can pick it up.
It's just a matter of finding the right frequency...
You grabbed the signal from another dimension.
From a machine here. That means it's transmitting there.
What if it's not just... 'predicting' the future.
It's broadcasting it.
When I touched this thing, for a few minutes it felt like anything was possible, so...
then why can't the opposite happen?
What if the Monitor is just a giant pin...
But instead of making you think positive it makes you think negative and it...
It's... convincing the whole world to feed the wrong wolf...
We need to turn that thing off.
It's time to go home.
David!
-So uninhabited and uncharted. -Listen to me.
But it looks like a lovely place to spend your last days.
David, just... The Monitor is acting as an antenna. It isn't just receiving tachyons...
...it is taking a possible future and...
And amplifying it, transmitting it. Like a feedback-loop.
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy that's coming from right there!
But it's not just showing people the end of the world...
...it's giving them the idea over and over and over again, untill they just accept it!
It's a ticking time bomb and we're the ones that lit the fuse.
We still have 58 days to try and change things, but nothing will work
as long as that thing is still on.
Young lady, I'm gonna assume that your knowledge of tachyonic fusion is a little sketchy.
Shutting it down is impossible. There is no "OFF".
I'm telling you what it's doing.
Why don't you care?!
Because he's the one that's doing it...
Right?
Let's imagine...
If you glimpsed the future...
and were frighten by what you saw. What would you do with that information?
You'd go to... who: politicians? Captains of Industry?
And how would you convince them? With data? Facts?
Good luck.
The only facts they won't challenge are the ones that keep the wheels greased
and the dollars rolling in.
But what if...
What if there was a way of skipping the middle man...
and putting the critical news directly into everyone's head.
The probability of wide spread annihilation kept going on.
The only way to stop it, was to show it.
To scare people straight.
What reasonable human being wouldn't be galvanized by the potential destruction of
everything they've ever known or loved?
To save civilization... I would show it's collapse.
But how do you think this vision was received?
How do you think people responded to the prospect of imminent doom?
They gobbled it up like a chocolate eclair.
They didn't fear their demise, they repackaged it!
It can be enjoyed as video games, as t.v. shows, books, movies.
The entire world wholeheartedly embraced the apocalypse
and sprinted towards it with gleeful abandon.
Meanwhile your Earth was crumbling all around you.
You got simultaneous epidemics of obesity and starvation.
Explain that one...
Bee's and butterflies start to disappear...
The glaciers melt... ...algae blooms...
All around you the coal mine canaries are dropping dead and you won't take the hint!
In every moment there's a possibility of a better future, but you people won't believe it...
And because you won't believe it, you won't do what is necessary to make it a reality.
So you dwell on this: "oh, terrible future..." You resign yourselves to it.
For one reason: because that future doesn't ask anything of you... today...
Yes, we saw the iceberg, we warned the Titanic.
But you will just steer it for it anyway, full steam ahead. Why?
Because you want to sink.
You gave up.
And it's not The Monitor's fault... ...that's yours.
Put them thru.
Thanks for visiting, Frank.
It was genuinly nice to see you again.
What are you doing?
Not giving up.
Look out!!
Get the thing!
What thing?
The thing I gave you when we first got here!
Arm it!
Casey! The bomb!
-Now what!? -Arm it!
How!?
Casey!
The bomb!
Where's the bomb!?
One minute to detonation
45 seconds
Turn it off! Bomb... What do I do? How do I turn it off?
30 seconds
You can't...
This is not... funny.
Frank! Get out of there! It's gonna blow!
Get out!!!
Get out of there!!!
-Close the portal!! -One...
You're alright?
-Can you stand? -Yeah...
Frank!
-What happened? Is she okay? -I need to get her to the repair module!
No one is going to repair me... Not in time...
I need to tell you something now.
Oh, darn...
I'm shutting down... ...I'm...
...shutting down...
I'm going to lose sync.
Don't look at me like that.
If I lose sync, it's not... ...failure?
I know.
There are things I need to tell you before the final...
Before the automated program kicks in.
I'm a machine.
I never thought that was bad. Until I saw your face when you found out I was.
I always knew...
No, you didnt...
Systems failing. Activating last thoughts. Saved for: Frank Walker.
Log 15, September 1965
Frank Walker is looking at me in a manner that is difficult to recognise.
It seems imperative to explain to him, that I'm an Audio-Animatronic.
Athena...
But, I am concerned that he maybe adversely effected
when he finds out, that I am not human.
He has potential.
I don't want to damage it.
He needs someone to believe in him...
...and I am fulfilling that need.
He is my top recruit.
Log 24, October 1965
I'm having unusual thoughts towards Frank Walker.
I suspect a flaw in my empathy interface.
I'm thinking I should report it.
But I haven't.
I cannot explain why...
Log 78, April 1984
Frank Walker has been banished by Governor Nix.
He says he's lost hope and he holds me resposible for having given it to him in the first place.
I do not understand this.
He says I never will...
...because I do not feel... anger... or disappointment...
...or love...
End recording
I was designed to find dreamers.
I found you.
...and lost you...
'til I found her.
Casey.
Dreamers need to... stick together.
It's not programming...
...it's personal.
The Monitor.
The bomb is gone, but I'm not.
Yet...
There isn't much time... My self-destruct... Use it.
You know what to do, Frank.
How to get this right this time.
I thought you can't have ideas.
Well... What do you know...
What do you know...
Systems failing
-Frank... -Yeah.
Do you want to know why you can never make me laugh?
Why?
Because you're not funny.
You can let me go now...
Goodbye, Frank...
Goodbye, Athena...
Oh... bollocks...
Now what?
-You're asking me? -It was your idea, kid.
You think it'll work?
I guess we have to make it work.
So, we're making it work.
First order of business:
Get the door back open.
Couldn't hurt to get a few experienced engineers over here.
Next...
Put the party back on.
And print out some new invitations.
Which brings us to why we're here today.
A year ago it was all supposed to be over.
We shouldn't even be here.
But we are.
It isn't hard to knock down a big, evil building,
that's telling everybody that the world's gonna end.
What is hard...
...is figuring out what to build in it's place.
And if you gonna do that...
...you can't do it alone.
We need all of you.
Frank Walker, may I ask you a question?
Sure.
The search parameters you've given us, while mathematically sound...
...are a bit...
...undefined.
Could you be more specific, please.
Well, miss Newton...
You wanna tell our new recruiters what they're looking for?
Dreamers...
We are looking... ...for dreamers.
Anyone who will feed the right wolf.
So...
I once told your predecessor,
that she was nothing but a combination of ones and zeros.
I was wrong.
She was much more than that.
You are much more than that, too.
So... Go out there and do what she would have done.
Find the ones who haven't given up.
They're the future.