Brave New World (2020) s01e06 Episode Script

- From the visionary
who brought you
OrgasMonday 39 and the Moistboys
comes a feely unlike anything
we've ever seen.
[dramatic music]
[audience screaming]
[cheers and applause]
- Gripping.
As if I was there.
- [laughs] - Marco
- Mm-hmm?
- You've done it again.
- Haven't I?
- You have.
You so have.
- And that's just the trailer.
Just wait
till you see the full
Oh, look.
It's already catching on.
Thank you, Counselor.
He absolutely makes the evening.
- Ah, well, you
know pleasure.
- Dilletante.
- Oh, come on.
He's not that bad.
- His haptics
are completely filched.
From me.
It's my own fault, really,
for trying to raise the bar.
- I better check on John.
- Ah, yes, man of the hour.
- John's not used
to this level of attention.
- Who said anything about John?
Careful, Bernard.
You keep parading him
around these parties,
soon everyone's gonna want one.
- And in the winter,
we would scavenge for food.
We ate bug paste
and called it meat.
[sighs]
What else? Um
- Tell us
of your Savage violence.
- Yes. Do it slowly.
- Um
when I was a kid, I saw a guy
get beat up for his coat.
And strangled with it.
[people gasping softly]
Yeah.
Where I come from,
there's only two levels:
the living and the dead.
- Hi.
- Bernard.
Can I talk to you for a second?
- Sorry. One sec.
- Where the fuck have you been?
- Oh, you're agitated.
- I don't know
what I'm supposed to say
to these people.
- They just want
to get to know you, John.
- No, they don't.
They want me to be
some sort of killer.
They want me to be the guy
who threw the punch,
but I didn't throw the punch.
- Didn't you?
- No. You did.
- Huh. Well, seems most people
remember it differently now.
Anyway,
they're just curious, John.
- Fucking shit.
- They only know
what they've been told.
The truth, your life, what
you've actually been through,
they couldn't possibly imagine.
Help them.
You can be whoever
you want to be.
- Tell us
about your woman birth.
- Okay, again,
don't remember that.
- I want to feed you things
with my feet.
- Uh, maybe John
just needs a moment.
John
- You remind me of someone.
- Does she, John?
Who does she remind you of?
[tense music]
- The first time I saw her,
she was standing alone
in a field.
♪
And I thought ♪
- Go on.
♪
- I thought,
"I'm looking at the last
unbroken thing
in all the world."
[all gasping]
- Who was she?
- A Savage, like me.
[people murmuring]
And I loved her.
[all gasp]
But her parents had promised
her to another man.
He wasn't a good man,
but he had power.
He swore he'd slaughter me
if ever I laid eyes
on his bride.
I tried to stay away,
but I couldn't.
I'd rather die
than be without her.
- What happened to your eye?
- You like my Foster?
- Your what?
- My Henry Foster.
It's the latest.
You know, from your punch.
♪
- You know,
you remind me of someone.
So there was nothing to do
but fight him.
I mean,
he was bigger and stronger,
but he didn't love her
like I did.
You two remind me of someone.
The town gathered.
It was me against him
and his inbred brothers,
four to one.
Seven to one.
Plus his dog.
His entire gang
of nightmare men.
He fought dirty.
So did I.
Because that is what love
will make you do.
I was laying in the dirt,
taste of blood in my mouth.
I looked up.
There she was,
golden hair shimmering,
messy like a storm,
nails the color of midnight,
eyes like the barrel of a gun.
Her voice, her touch, her kiss,
her lips gave me strength.
- And you won?
- Wouldn't that have been nice?
[all gasp]
Never really healed.
Neither did my heart.
And the truth is that
- He never saw her again.
[crowd gasps]
- I never saw her again.
I died that night.
I'm waiting, waiting
to be revived.
[upbeat dance music]
♪
[both panting]
♪
[both moaning]
♪
[both moan]
♪
[grunting]
[dispenser clicks]
- [vocalizing]
♪
- Never really healed.
Neither did my heart.
The truth is I
never saw her again.
I died that night.
I've been waiting
to be revived ever since.
[dispenser clicks]
And in the winter, we would
we would scavenge for food.
Hey.
You remind me of someone.
- Who, John?
Who does she remind you of?
- Sorry.
[intense dance music]
♪
- [vocalizing]
♪
[dispenser clicks]
- For the wait.
- Mm.
- Pleasure Gardens?
Hey, all right, just let me
know where you want to go,
and we'll go.
- Home.
- No, don't come on.
It's early.
In fact, I had the
- Bernard, I'm tired.
- So you had an off night.
- What?
- It's okay.
There's always tomorrow.
In fact, I didn't
tell you this because
the Director of Stability
has invited us to attend
- The Direct that Henry guy?
I thought you hated him.
- [laughs]
Henry Foster's
a very important person,
and his formal induction
ceremony is tomorrow morning.
- Exciting.
- Yeah, and they
You're being insincere again.
- Sorry, forget it.
Look, you go.
He's your boss.
You should go.
- Well, he invited both of us.
So we wouldn't want him
to be disappointed.
- Right.
Or we could not give a shit.
[train whirs]
[sighs]
- Now leaving
District of the Body.
[dispenser clicks]
- Stop.
Would you just knock it off?
- Sorry, just, John,
your levels, they're
clearly - Stop.
I'm not.
I'm just
I'm sick of telling
the fucking story.
- Oh.
Oh, forgive me.
I thought you were enjoying
the parties.
The attention.
The affection.
I mean, hey, no,
if it's a burden, then
- Look,
I didn't say it's not fun.
I just I don't see why
I always have to
Why can't I just go
and be like everyone else?
- Of course you can, John.
That's
It lasted longer
than I expected, actually.
- What are you talking about?
- Well, everyone's conditioned
to want the new thing,
the next thing.
It's like these trends,
you know?
They, well, they
They come and they go.
What's fashionable
in the morning
is normally over
when the sun goes down.
It's the same for celebrity.
No one usually
lasts more than a day.
Bullshit, man, I've been
telling the story for, like
- Six days.
- Six?
- Yeah.
- And that's
- Well, unprecedented, actually.
No, but everything has its time,
and if you don't like it, John,
then I don't care
if Henry Foster himself gets
- Hold on.
- No, John, listen.
Everyone's happy here.
Really.
And that does include you.
- Maybe I
Maybe I can switch it up
or something.
- Oh. Hmm.
That's interesting.
[dispenser clicks]
- Was Lenina there tonight?
- Len Lenina Crowne?
No.
- Oh. Thought I saw her.
Whatever. Forget it.
[dispenser clicks]
- Mm, here we are.
- Now arriving.
District of the Sublime.
- I think I'm gonna
keep going a bit.
- Go? Where, exactly?
- I don't know.
Just wherever it takes me.
I don't know.
End of the line.
- Okay, well whatever
you want, John.
I'll see you in the morning,
right?
[mysterious music]
♪
♪
♪
[rats squeaking]
[suspenseful music]
♪
[scanner beeps]
[soft music]
♪
- I've missed you.
Has it been a long time?
- Yes.
- Well
I'm sure you meant
to visit sooner.
- Where are the others?
- They're off somewhere,
being insufferable.
I don't know why I thought
it would be different here.
Vacations always bring out
the worst in people.
And all I've got to show for it
is this spectacular tan.
- You were always so vain.
- I'm not the one
lying about my age.
- You cloned yourself.
- What can I say?
Takes many hands
to build a city.
What's it like up
there, seeing my face?
- Took some getting used to.
- You love it.
Admit it.
Are you waiting for me
to ask you what's wrong?
You only come down here
when Indra misbehaves.
What's it done this time?
Tell me.
Please.
I'm so fucking bored.
- There's a new virus.
- What's it look like?
- A man.
[dramatic music]
- Now arriving.
District of the Body.
[indistinct chatter]
- That's the Savage.
Don't stare.
- Oh. Lenina.
- What are you doing here?
- I'm trying to get out of here.
You know this fucking thing
goes in a circle?
- [laughs]
Everyone knows that.
- Oh.
[laughs]
Well, at least
I bumped into you.
- You know, they
They don't really happen here.
- What?
- Collisions.
- You were there tonight,
weren't you, at the party?
What, you didn't want to see me?
- Well, you were with
all those people.
- I don't care
about those people.
You shouldn't have
run off like that.
- I couldn't stay.
- Why not?
Lenina, why not?
- I'm glad you're happy, John.
- Well, you know,
Bernard's just helping me get
I'm just trying
to find my place here.
- Mm, you found lots of places.
Alphas, Bets, Pluses, Minuses.
It's on everyone's feeds.
- You been watching me?
- No.
But I hear.
It's all anyone can talk about.
- Wait, are you, like,
mad at me?
Come on.
- No. What?
Why would I be?
You're doing what
you're supposed to do, John.
Like everyone else.
- Look, the people I was with,
they didn't
- Mean anything?
Yeah, exactly.
See?
You're an Alpha already.
- Why'd you leave the party?
- I told you.
- No, you didn't.
- It made me sad. I
Couldn't stay anymore.
Bernard said
you wouldn't mind if I left.
- Wait, he said what?
- I just I don't fit.
I try to, but I just can't
Seem to get back to myself.
I went there tonight
because I thought if I saw you,
I'd remember who it is
I'm supposed to be,
but it
Oh, forget it.
It doesn't matter.
[dispenser clicks]
[soft music]
♪
- Do you feel that?
The vibration?
- It's just a train.
♪
[train rumbling]
- Where does it go?
- It's the Epsilon train.
It goes Epsilon places.
- So you don't know.
- No one knows.
Will you stop?
The system won't allow you to
- You coming or not?
- The system knows, John.
Indra sees everything.
- Not this guy.
No optic.
I'm invisible.
- We can't get on that train.
Surely you've noticed that
everyone travels
in their designated
- Says who?
- Say
Well, it's a fact.
- It's your conditioning.
[optic clicks]
[soft dramatic music]
♪
- You coming or not?
♪
[sighs]
- Wow.
- Remain seated, John.
- I'm okay.
Thanks.
- They know you?
- Sure, you know, I guess.
Wow.
You've really
never been out here?
What's wrong?
- Nothing.
It's
The conditioners separate
the Beta infants
from the Alphas.
Then they administer
a correction,
increasing the intensity
as they move the Betas
further away.
It's just my
[sighs]
It'll pass.
- Here.
I used to do this for my mom
when she'd
She'd get sick sometimes.
Does that help?
[somber music]
♪
- You miss her
Even though she's dead.
Was that
I said the wrong thing.
- It's okay.
- Not for this.
♪
You could have fed everybody.
♪
[romantic music]
- It's your hundredth year.
You want it to be special.
That's why I'm here,
because you deserve me.
♪
I know where you want to go.
I know how to get you there.
♪
To that place
where they'll never find us.
♪
Soma Red, because
it's your time.
- What's taking so long?
It's the director's
inauguration.
- Tea?
- No, just
why don't you just go
and get him washed and dressed?
We want formality
with a little flash.
What's trending today?
- Aubergine.
- Oh, Gary, make it so.
- [laughs]
Soma tea?
- No, just bring me John.
- Your happiness
is important to me.
- Where [dispenser clicks]
[dispenser clicks]
[dispenser clicks]
[breathes deeply]
Where is he?
- John did not come home
last night.
- What?
- John does not
come home at night.
He comes home in the morning,
and smells
popular.
[tense music]
[dispenser clicks]
- Helm.
- What?
- Helm.
- Oh, Bernard,
this really isn't a good time.
I'm creating my next sensation.
I'm going to make everyone tiny,
like a moth in the wind,
like a
- Helm, have you seen him?
- Who?
- John. Is he there?
- I'm not his keeper, Bernard.
That's you.
Aren't you bringing him
to Henry Foster's induction?
Don't tell me
you lost the Savage again.
- No. No, I didn't.
Of course
I'm sure he'll be there.
I mean, where else
[dramatic music]
I'll call you back.
Summon
[mumbles]
Lenina Crowne.
♪
[birds chirping]
[laughter]
[indistinct chatter]
Thanks.
They said go that way.
- You talk to the Epsilons?
- Yeah. They're just people.
- [laughs]
You like them.
- Well, I was them.
I used to clean people's shit.
Except they've got each other.
I was alone.
- That must've been terrible.
- Mm, you can get
used to anything.
You know, when you're a kid,
if you've got an imagination,
you can survive.
I used to go
on little adventures
and build my own worlds.
Nothing like this.
- I've never been alone.
We're never alone here.
Everyone's connected.
Even when you sleep.
- You should try
taking that thing
out of your eye more often.
- [laughs]
Some things you just don't do.
You know, it's
selfish.
Antisocial.
Indra would know.
♪
[screams]
Why have I never been here?
- Whoa. Hey.
Take it easy.
- It's all just sitting here,
and we never even looked.
Why?
- I don't know.
You're okay.
- No, I could've done things.
I could've gone places,
and I've been so
- You're here now.
[emotional music]
♪
- In the interest of stability,
we do not look back.
We know the past is fraught,
complicated
most of all, it's irrelevant.
We're here now, my friends.
We're here together,
perfect social body.
Vital, present.
Dare I say,
now matters more than ever.
[applause]
[light music playing]
♪
[indistinct chatter]
- Psst. Henry.
I'm so sorry.
I don't know what to say.
He was supposed to be here,
but unfortunately,
John is experiencing
what the Savages call
morning sickness,
which is temporary,
but you know,
it's kind of so brutish.
I think we forget sometimes
how delicate they really are,
you know, but I assure you,
I can make John available
for any future functions
- Bernard, it's all right.
Really.
I'm glad he's not here.
To be honest,
this whole Foster thing is
well, it's tiresome.
It's really so much noise,
and now that people
are finally moving on
- I'm sorry, moving on?
- Yes, thank goodness.
I can just go back
to simply being Henry Foster,
Alpha Plus,
Director of Stability,
and well, you can go back to
your seat.
♪
- Um, I'm sorry, I
I really don't think
people are moving on, Henry.
- Bernard
- And as you know,
my critical task
is to integrate John.
- And you have.
Good job.
Perhaps I don't
tell you that enough.
Good job, Bernard.
- Mustapha Mond herself
- You know, I think it's time
that we got you
away from that Savage,
back in the office,
doing work that's more worthy
of a man of your
level.
♪
[dispenser clicks]
♪
[indistinct chatter]
- Bernard, what are you doing?
[loud clinking]
- Um, can I have everybody's
attention, please?
Just for thank you.
I, um
I know you were all
expecting John,
and you were excited,
but actually,
I have something else
that I brought with me today.
Better. Uh
Me.
[laughs]
Hi, I'm Bernard Marx.
I mean, you know me.
I I threw the punch.
Yes,
and I was in the Savage Lands,
and I drove an auto car
which, uh which actually
was very, very perilous.
In fact thank you.
Thanks.
Um, as we were, uh, chased.
[ice clinking]
Violence! [stammers]
I was shot.
[laughs]
Um
And [stammering]
Well, there was blood.
And many other people
were killed.
I'm sorry,
I'm gonna start again.
[stammers]
I was in the Savage Lands.
- Remember at the end?
I mean, the very end?
The last few months,
after the water rose
and all the birds were gone,
we were all sitting
underneath the tree,
all ten of us.
You remember what you said?
- Yes.
- "Maybe the problem
is people."
- And I was right.
Don't give me that look.
It was your idea
to turn Indra loose.
- We all agreed.
- To go underground.
To wait it out.
And while we slept,
Indra made a world for us,
made it over and over and over
till it was perfect.
- We never told her
when to stop.
- Why should it stop?
Indra simulates.
Indra tests.
Indra improves.
- Or dies.
- Resets.
And begins again.
What do you want, Jane?
- I thought
we make decisions together
as Controllers.
- Oh, please.
Suddenly, you're so concerned
with what we think.
You went your own way,
gave yourself a new name,
started dressing
like a fucking wizard.
- Elliott.
- No.
You were supposed
to be down here with me.
You said
you'd be down here with me.
- Something's wrong.
- You're scared.
[emotional music]
I can't read her anymore.
She's different.
♪
- Indra's not different.
You are.
♪
You're dying, aren't you?
How long?
- Who can say?
- I can.
♪
So it's settled.
You'll stay here.
I'll get you a towel.
- I can't.
- Don't be obstinate.
- I'm not finished.
- I beg to differ.
♪
Don't go.
Come on.
Lay down with me.
- Tide's coming in.
- They're not your children.
The scientists
don't name the rats.
If you die out
there, it's forever.
[dramatic music]
Jane.
[dark music]
♪
[breathes deeply]
♪
[sighs]
♪
[gasping]
[dramatic music]
♪
[birds chirping]
- Mm-mm.
- You people have no idea
how good you have it.
- [sighs] I know perfectly well.
My life is perfect.
Everyone's life is perfect.
No one wants to be anything
other than what they are.
- You're fucking crazy.
You gotta try this peach.
- Sometimes I think
I want to be unhappy.
I should've stayed
in the Savage Lands,
could've been anything I wanted.
- You can be anything
you want here.
Right here.
There's no Indra.
No one's watching.
What do you want to be?
- [scoffs softly]
We should get back.
- Just say it.
I'll believe you.
Just pretend.
- No.
- You can be anything.
- Well, we don't do that here.
Pretend.
- Okay.
I'll go first.
I'm John.
This is my domain.
Everything you see
from that peach tree
to that tree over there.
- [laughing]
- You shouldn't laugh at me.
I'm the last man on Earth.
- Well, that's gonna limit
my options.
- Yeah, it is,
but on the bright side,
you're the last woman,
so you're gonna get
a lot of attention.
So what do we do?
- We sh we should go back.
- No, we can't
We have to do something.
We're not gonna survive
if we just sit around all day.
You think I should try farming?
- [laughs] This is so stupid.
- You're right.
That's gonna take way too long.
I'll fish.
What are you gonna do?
- I can't do anything.
- Close your eyes.
- John. Ahh
- Shh, shh, shh.
[soft music]
♪
You gotta picture it.
♪
It's just us.
No one else.
♪
Little house
we built with our hands.
The land's gonna give us
everything we need,
but we're gonna
have to work for it.
♪
- [whispers] Close your eyes.
♪
- Thank you.
- Yes, you must be parched.
That went on
for such a very long time.
- I know.
I know. I
Couldn't even stop myself.
Not even sure what happened.
I think maybe my levels
- It's not your levels, Bernard.
- These things happened to me,
Helm.
I was shot.
- Bernard.
- I drove an auto car.
- Are we doing that again?
Could you spare me a red,
please?
- There's no need to be unkind.
- Isn't there, though?
I mean, being gentle with you
doesn't seem to penetrate.
You continue to insist
on being more than you are.
- I am an Alpha Plus, Helm.
- Are you, though?
- How can
I'm an Alpha Plus.
- You don't believe that.
Inside.
You never have.
So it's going to be
one of those evenings.
[sighs]
It's not your story
they don't like, Bernard.
It's not even you.
Fact is,
you're not the new thing,
and they want the new thing
because with every new thing,
there's a chance
that it could be the big thing.
So we give them a new thing.
Bigger, hotter, harder, faster.
We have to give it to them
like that, Bernie,
because if we don't,
they might realize
that the new thing
isn't new at all.
It's really just the old thing,
but more of it.
And if it's old, it's boring,
and if it's boring,
they will turn it off,
and they'll be alone
with their thoughts.
We know where that leads,
don't we?
[dark music]
People don't want to be small.
They want to be big.
[gasps]
I'll make people big.
I'll make giants,
and they'll crush buildings.
People want to be giant,
don't they?
♪
- People want to be Savages.
- They do not.
- No, they do.
Listen to me.
People want to feel what
it's like to live another life,
to be free from themselves.
- Stop it.
- No, but we could do it.
You could do it.
John could tell us stories,
and you could record
his emotions
- Stop.
- A feeling
that no one's ever felt before.
Helm, it could be a phenomenon,
the sensation
to end all sensations.
- The only one who wants to be
that Savage, Bernard, is you.
- No, I don't.
- Face it.
John is not dangerous or violent
or full of Savage madness.
Your boy likes sex and soma
like every Beta in New London.
Come to think of it,
there's nothing really
all that Savage about him.
- Where are you going?
- I've got to get back
to the party.
- Oh, I'll I'll come with you.
You know, why don't um,
why don't you go ahead?
Actually, I'll
- You've had your moment
in the glow, Bernie.
That's something.
But it's gone.
Don't chase it.
- At the end of the day,
the sun goes down,
and I come in.
And we tell each other
About the little things we did
to keep each other alive.
You caught a fish.
- I did.
- We should cook it.
- I'm not that hungry right now.
- Why don't you
come over by the fire?
- Warm here.
- Don't talk.
I want to look at you.
I went hunting today.
- You did?
For what?
- White-tailed deer beast.
- Did you get one?
You will.
[soft music]
♪
♪
- [sighs]
♪
[stirring music]
♪
♪
[soft music]
♪
- I'm starving.
Gary, do me a favor.
If you could make
that pie with the chicken.
Gary.
Sorry, I don't mean
to be a dick here,
but if you could make the pie.
- Where were you?
- Oh, shit.
Bernard, I'm sorry.
I missed your thing.
- You missed my thing.
- I feel bad.
I'll make it up to you.
Get dressed, we'll go
to the Pleasure Garden.
- No, John.
No more Pleasure Gardens.
It's over.
- What do you what's over?
- You are.
No more parties.
No more stories.
No more pretty Betas
reminding you of someone,
which, let's be honest,
was the one part
no one really quite believed.
- I was thinking we could do
a different thing there.
- Oh, no, sorry.
You don't understand.
It's done.
They've moved on.
No one cares.
- Can you excuse us, Gary?
- Gary, stay.
Look at me.
- Go in the hall, Gary.
Wait in the hall, Gary.
- He won't.
He can't.
It's his conditioning.
He's a Gamma.
I'm an Alpha Plus,
and you're a what, exactly?
You're not even really
a Savage, are you?
- I would check your levels,
man.
- We thought you'd be dangerous
and violent and untamed,
but you're not.
You're just
[sighs]
Sad.
- What the fuck are you doing?
- Not surprising,
given your mother.
Poor thing thought
she had a future here.
It's probably better that she
- One more word, and I end you.
- Oh, I'd like to see you try.
I'm sure everyone
would like to see you try.
[dramatic music]
♪
- Look at that, Bernard.
You got yourself a Foster.
- It's a Marx!
[both grunting]
- Oh, there you are.
Did you let them
start the orgy without me?
- Of course not.
[dispenser clicks]
You're just in time.
Do you ever get tired of it?
All these parties.
The orgies.
[classical music playing]
♪
- What are they watching?
If you say Marco Hoover
- No.
I think it's some Gamma's feed.
- Gamma?
Oh, do be serious.
[both grunting]
[dramatic music]
- [screams]
- Bernard.
You dirty little genius.
[electronic music]
♪
- All right, hit me.
Come on.
[groans]
Harder.
Everyone's watching.
- I'm trying!
[grunts]
- [groans]
- Soft-ass minus of a man!
You want to know
where I was today?
- Stop, stop.
- Want to know who I was with?
Mm-hmm.
- [grunts]
I'll kill you, Savage!
[screaming]
- [grunting]
♪
- [screams]
[both panting]
- S stop stop transmitting.
- [crying]
[dispenser clicks]
[panting]
- [laughs]
[coughs]
Is that true?
About Lenina?
[both laughing]
[ominous music]
♪
- You're not playing
by the rules.
[glass shatters]
Elliott can't help you.
None of them can.
You want answers.
I respect that.
I know how much
you hate the dark.
- Stop.
I want you to stop.
This isn't it's not a game.
This isn't a simulation.
- How can you tell?
- How can you?
- Because I'm perfect.
You should know that.
You made me.
[ominous music]
Hold your breath.
- [panting]
♪
[panting]
♪
[eerie music]
♪