Exception (2022) s01e06 Episode Script
Betrayal
[dramatic orchestral music playing]
Morning, Nina.
[footsteps approaching]
This is so strange.
I close my eyes on Earth,
and I open them in the middle of space.
[Nina] That's true.
Your memory is picking up
where it left off, but your body is new.
[Mack] How far are we from Planet X-10?
How much longer?
I don't know exactly. The main console
was affected by the subspace travel.
We'll have Oscar look at it
once he's done printing.
[no audible dialogue]
[gasps]
[triumphant music playing]
[Mack] Something's wrong.
What do you mean?
The constellations outside of the window
on both sides of the ship look the same.
[Nina]
I'm sure it's just your imagination.
[Mack]
And I feel like the gravity is shifting.
When I'm walking,
it's like I'm being pulled sideways.
I wonder if there's something wrong
with the gravity generator.
If that's the case,
we won't be able to fix it ourselves,
since it was made by
alternative intelligence.
Technology beyond human knowledge.
When will everyone else finish printing?
That's up to the Womb.
I want to have a meeting with everyone
before we arrive at Planet X-10.
[sighs]
- [gasps]
- Hmm?
[Nina] What's wrong, Mack?
[Mack] Did you feel that?
Like someone's watching.
Maybe you're just tired.
You haven't taken a break
since you finished printing.
I've had time to stabilize.
Something doesn't feel right.
Can you be more specific?
It's just a theory.
Okay.
[Mack] Nina, you're hiding something.
Mack is starting to notice.
Internal dampeners are engaged. The ship's
movement should be imperceptible.
Maybe he's sensing the planet's gravity.
This is the time
the solar flare would've happened.
And Mack isn't heading to Area D.
[misprint] So, he's
[Lewis] He's not the traitor
who stole the RA bomb.
You're nervous. On edge.
Yeah, well, we're on a critical mission,
light-years from home.
No, that's not it.
[Lewis on intercom]
Nina, the test is over.
[gasps] Lewis? Nina, what is going on?
[Lewis] Calm down, Mack.
Nina just did what we asked.
Well, technically what you asked.
[gasps]
Planet X-10.
The ship came out of subspace
six days ago.
Uh, we've had a few challenges
while trying to stay on track
with the mission.
Challenges?
It'll be easier
for you to see for yourself.
They'll be here soon.
And you're the second Mack
that's been printed.
What?
[gasps]
[Mack] Who the hell is that?
I'm Lewis.
[Mack] What?
We'll explain what's been going on.
[Mack gasps]
[Lewis] Yeah, I can't blame you.
The planetary terraforming plan
is more than 90% complete.
So, you decided to use the Beanstalk.
Atmospheric transformer tests
are complete.
You've determined the landing site.
It looks like the mission
is right on schedule.
Patty? Oscar?
[Lewis] We're missing the RA bomb.
There's a traitor amongst us, and, Mack,
you're the only one we know
who's innocent so far.
[gasps]
[sighs]
[inhales deeply]
[breathes shakily]
- [door opens]
- Huh?
[sighs]
[groans]
[Oscar] Nina?
[Patty]
Where's Mack? What happened to him?
He volunteered to go back into the Womb
to be reprinted.
[gasps]
The new Mack was observed for eight hours,
but never went into Area D,
so he's not the traitor.
[misprint]
The traitor is one of you three.
Huh?
Nina, when the RA bomb was stolen,
you didn't exist yet.
I know. The Nina you killed existed then,
so I'm still a suspect.
That's right. You three have to stay here.
[growls, groans]
This is bullshit, Lewis! Let us out!
[grunts]
Did you already look here?
[Lewis] Not yet.
There's just too much ground to cover.
The bomb could be anywhere.
I still can't believe it.
I mean, you've explained it, but I haven't
been able to process everything yet.
[Lewis] I know what you mean.
If this hadn't happened,
you wouldn't exist either.
Well, not this you, anyway.
[Mack] I'll stop thinking about it.
Right now, we have to focus on
finding the RA bomb
and figuring out who the traitor is,
if we want this mission to succeed.
[gasping]
[groans, sighs]
I win again.
Damn it. [sighs]
All right. Guess I'll have to get serious.
Patty, you want to join us?
This game is much better
when it's three players.
No, thanks. I don't like games
where there's winners and losers.
Why is that?
[Patty] I feel bad for the losers.
[scoffing]
Wow. A bit overconfident there, huh?
So
[Oscar] Yeah?
[Nina] Let's say, hypothetically,
there is a terrorist amongst us.
[Patty] But there isn't. There can't be.
[Oscar] We can't be sure.
One might think they're innocent, but
may have unknowingly stolen the RA bomb
if their brain was programmed that way.
[Patty] Is that even possible?
[Oscar] Maybe, but we've just
been brainwashed to think otherwise.
Remember, we're printed bodies
with backed-up memories
uploaded into our brains.
[Patty] Hmm.
What if our memories are completely
made-up?
What if we don't actually have a past?
We can't deny that possibility.
[Patty] That would mean our originals
never existed in the first place.
What would that make us?
Okay, then who knows if humanity
even exists, or does Earth even exist?
You know what? I-I'm just kidding.
Hmm.
[gasps] Hmm.
- Oops.
- Don't move!
Nina! What?
When you first discovered
that the RA bomb was missing,
what kind of investigation did you do?
Did you find any footprints
or fingerprints?
We looked, but found nothing.
Besides, my misprint was the first victim.
Since the solar flare,
has there been any signs
of tampering with the security footage?
No, the only time
that someone could have entered this area
was before the solar flare,
and we don't have any footage.
The traitor erased any evidence.
You need two authorizations to get in.
That means
[Lewis] Two authorizations
Do you think there's a way
to fool the system?
[Mack] Worst-case scenario,
it's a two-person terrorist team
that stole the RA bomb.
Nina, what are you doing?
[Nina] Both of you, don't move!
Why?
I am not the traitor.
Oh, o-o-okay. I hear you.
[Nina] One of you stole the RA bomb,
or both of you.
Please just tell the truth.
[Mack] In what order was everyone printed?
[Lewis]
First it was Nina, then the other you,
Oscar and, finally, Patty.
The solar flare happened while I was being
printed, which resulted in the other me.
[Mack]
The RA bomb disappeared before that.
Hold on.
[Lewis]
Is that something your other self wrote?
Yes. According to this, after Patty was
printed, a meeting was held without Lewis.
The flare happened during that meeting.
[Lewis] Okay, the solar flare happened
at 1600 Earth time,
but Patty finished printing in the Womb
26 minutes before that.
[Mack] So, after printing
and being examined by Nina,
she wasn't alone for very long.
Patty wouldn't have had time
to go to Area D and steal the bomb.
Then she's not the traitor.
[alarm chiming]
There's a problem in the Greenhouse.
- [Oscar straining]
- [gasps]
Nina, put it down.
Stop it, please.
- [groans]
- [strains]
Nina. Oscar. Calm down.
[struggling]
[breathing heavily]
- [gasps]
- [groans]
- Stay back!
- [snarls]
Nina!
[Oscar screams]
[misprint groans]
[screams]
[Oscar screams]
- [Nina grunting]
- [misprint groaning]
[grunts]
[Nina breathing shakily]
[Oscar groaning] Let's go.
Yeah, come on.
[grunts]
This way.
Oh, yeah. Okay. [panting]
[Oscar groans]
Yeah, back at you.
Let's see if you like being locked up.
[panting]
Is it just me, or was Lewis weaker?
When I examined him,
a portion of his cells
were starting to break down.
He might not survive much longer.
When did you two come up with that plan?
Oh, that? We wrote messages on the cards.
We tried to get you into the game.
Oh.
- [footsteps approaching]
- [all gasp]
- [Patty sighs]
- All right.
Let's go secure the Central Control Room.
Okay.
[groaning]
Let's lock down this room first.
As long as we have control
of the main terminal,
they won't be able to do anything.
I'm on it.
There's new data on Planet X-10.
Patty, we can look at that later.
Yeah, those guys will be here soon.
Patty, keep an eye on them
on the security cameras.
We need to protect ourselves.
[Patty] Sorry, I was just curious.
At least now Mack is distracted,
and I'll be able to look at the data
before he changed it.
Before he changed it?
There's a possibility that
Mack scrubbed the real data from them.
[Oscar] Patty,
what the hell are you talking about?
[Patty] Oh, right. I guess
I shouldn't be focusing on that right now.
I need to take care of
the Atmospheric Transformer.
- Huh?
- [gasps]
[panting]
Come on, we have to go after those three.
Wait. Need to see something.
What is it?
The duct from the Greenhouse leads here.
[Mack] And?
I heard something through the duct.
[Mack] A sound?
Door made a sound.
[Mack] What do you mean?
After that, I hear footsteps.
Someone left this room.
[Lewis] Wait, that doesn't make sense.
Those three didn't come in here, so
[misprint] The footsteps went out.
I heard the doors open and close.
Someone left.
That's impossible.
If what you're saying is true,
we have a stowaway.
Living organisms don't survive
in subspace.
Not an insect, not a single cell, nothing.
A stowaway is impossible.
The only people here
were printed by the Womb.
[Patty on radio]
Lewis, can you hear me?
Patty? Where are you?
In the Control Room.
I need to talk to you. Can you come here?
Sure thing.
I'll go with you.
No, you stay here.
Search every inch of this room
- and let me know what you find.
- All right.
[Nina] What are you doing?
[Patty] There's a code
to detach the Atmospheric Transformer,
and the engineer is the only one
who knows it.
I need that code.
- [groans]
- [rumbling]
What the hell?
[both grunt]
What's going on?
[groans]
[gasps]
It's all fake. It was a hologram.
What is this?
It looks like the Womb.
Are you detaching
the Atmospheric Transformer?
Most of the preparations are done.
They seem to have kept working on
the mission while they imprisoned us.
You need everyone's authorizations,
not just Lewis's code.
It's a fail-safe system so that one person
doesn't make the decision. You know that.
I've already taken care of that.
Besides, if we don't detach,
this ship is going to explode too.
Explode too?
The RA bomb I planted on the Atmospheric
Transformer is set to explode.
Patty, you?
Must be Lewis.
[both gasp]
[accomplice]
Sorry, did I keep you waiting?
Huh?
No, I just started.
[accomplice] I brought these.
- Thanks.
- Of course.
[accomplice chuckles]
This solves the problem
of having everyone's authorizations.
[both gasp]
I'll help you with the detachment.
Hold on.
A down feather?
From the pillow. Pretty.
[dramatic orchestral music playing]
Morning, Nina.
[footsteps approaching]
This is so strange.
I close my eyes on Earth,
and I open them in the middle of space.
[Nina] That's true.
Your memory is picking up
where it left off, but your body is new.
[Mack] How far are we from Planet X-10?
How much longer?
I don't know exactly. The main console
was affected by the subspace travel.
We'll have Oscar look at it
once he's done printing.
[no audible dialogue]
[gasps]
[triumphant music playing]
[Mack] Something's wrong.
What do you mean?
The constellations outside of the window
on both sides of the ship look the same.
[Nina]
I'm sure it's just your imagination.
[Mack]
And I feel like the gravity is shifting.
When I'm walking,
it's like I'm being pulled sideways.
I wonder if there's something wrong
with the gravity generator.
If that's the case,
we won't be able to fix it ourselves,
since it was made by
alternative intelligence.
Technology beyond human knowledge.
When will everyone else finish printing?
That's up to the Womb.
I want to have a meeting with everyone
before we arrive at Planet X-10.
[sighs]
- [gasps]
- Hmm?
[Nina] What's wrong, Mack?
[Mack] Did you feel that?
Like someone's watching.
Maybe you're just tired.
You haven't taken a break
since you finished printing.
I've had time to stabilize.
Something doesn't feel right.
Can you be more specific?
It's just a theory.
Okay.
[Mack] Nina, you're hiding something.
Mack is starting to notice.
Internal dampeners are engaged. The ship's
movement should be imperceptible.
Maybe he's sensing the planet's gravity.
This is the time
the solar flare would've happened.
And Mack isn't heading to Area D.
[misprint] So, he's
[Lewis] He's not the traitor
who stole the RA bomb.
You're nervous. On edge.
Yeah, well, we're on a critical mission,
light-years from home.
No, that's not it.
[Lewis on intercom]
Nina, the test is over.
[gasps] Lewis? Nina, what is going on?
[Lewis] Calm down, Mack.
Nina just did what we asked.
Well, technically what you asked.
[gasps]
Planet X-10.
The ship came out of subspace
six days ago.
Uh, we've had a few challenges
while trying to stay on track
with the mission.
Challenges?
It'll be easier
for you to see for yourself.
They'll be here soon.
And you're the second Mack
that's been printed.
What?
[gasps]
[Mack] Who the hell is that?
I'm Lewis.
[Mack] What?
We'll explain what's been going on.
[Mack gasps]
[Lewis] Yeah, I can't blame you.
The planetary terraforming plan
is more than 90% complete.
So, you decided to use the Beanstalk.
Atmospheric transformer tests
are complete.
You've determined the landing site.
It looks like the mission
is right on schedule.
Patty? Oscar?
[Lewis] We're missing the RA bomb.
There's a traitor amongst us, and, Mack,
you're the only one we know
who's innocent so far.
[gasps]
[sighs]
[inhales deeply]
[breathes shakily]
- [door opens]
- Huh?
[sighs]
[groans]
[Oscar] Nina?
[Patty]
Where's Mack? What happened to him?
He volunteered to go back into the Womb
to be reprinted.
[gasps]
The new Mack was observed for eight hours,
but never went into Area D,
so he's not the traitor.
[misprint]
The traitor is one of you three.
Huh?
Nina, when the RA bomb was stolen,
you didn't exist yet.
I know. The Nina you killed existed then,
so I'm still a suspect.
That's right. You three have to stay here.
[growls, groans]
This is bullshit, Lewis! Let us out!
[grunts]
Did you already look here?
[Lewis] Not yet.
There's just too much ground to cover.
The bomb could be anywhere.
I still can't believe it.
I mean, you've explained it, but I haven't
been able to process everything yet.
[Lewis] I know what you mean.
If this hadn't happened,
you wouldn't exist either.
Well, not this you, anyway.
[Mack] I'll stop thinking about it.
Right now, we have to focus on
finding the RA bomb
and figuring out who the traitor is,
if we want this mission to succeed.
[gasping]
[groans, sighs]
I win again.
Damn it. [sighs]
All right. Guess I'll have to get serious.
Patty, you want to join us?
This game is much better
when it's three players.
No, thanks. I don't like games
where there's winners and losers.
Why is that?
[Patty] I feel bad for the losers.
[scoffing]
Wow. A bit overconfident there, huh?
So
[Oscar] Yeah?
[Nina] Let's say, hypothetically,
there is a terrorist amongst us.
[Patty] But there isn't. There can't be.
[Oscar] We can't be sure.
One might think they're innocent, but
may have unknowingly stolen the RA bomb
if their brain was programmed that way.
[Patty] Is that even possible?
[Oscar] Maybe, but we've just
been brainwashed to think otherwise.
Remember, we're printed bodies
with backed-up memories
uploaded into our brains.
[Patty] Hmm.
What if our memories are completely
made-up?
What if we don't actually have a past?
We can't deny that possibility.
[Patty] That would mean our originals
never existed in the first place.
What would that make us?
Okay, then who knows if humanity
even exists, or does Earth even exist?
You know what? I-I'm just kidding.
Hmm.
[gasps] Hmm.
- Oops.
- Don't move!
Nina! What?
When you first discovered
that the RA bomb was missing,
what kind of investigation did you do?
Did you find any footprints
or fingerprints?
We looked, but found nothing.
Besides, my misprint was the first victim.
Since the solar flare,
has there been any signs
of tampering with the security footage?
No, the only time
that someone could have entered this area
was before the solar flare,
and we don't have any footage.
The traitor erased any evidence.
You need two authorizations to get in.
That means
[Lewis] Two authorizations
Do you think there's a way
to fool the system?
[Mack] Worst-case scenario,
it's a two-person terrorist team
that stole the RA bomb.
Nina, what are you doing?
[Nina] Both of you, don't move!
Why?
I am not the traitor.
Oh, o-o-okay. I hear you.
[Nina] One of you stole the RA bomb,
or both of you.
Please just tell the truth.
[Mack] In what order was everyone printed?
[Lewis]
First it was Nina, then the other you,
Oscar and, finally, Patty.
The solar flare happened while I was being
printed, which resulted in the other me.
[Mack]
The RA bomb disappeared before that.
Hold on.
[Lewis]
Is that something your other self wrote?
Yes. According to this, after Patty was
printed, a meeting was held without Lewis.
The flare happened during that meeting.
[Lewis] Okay, the solar flare happened
at 1600 Earth time,
but Patty finished printing in the Womb
26 minutes before that.
[Mack] So, after printing
and being examined by Nina,
she wasn't alone for very long.
Patty wouldn't have had time
to go to Area D and steal the bomb.
Then she's not the traitor.
[alarm chiming]
There's a problem in the Greenhouse.
- [Oscar straining]
- [gasps]
Nina, put it down.
Stop it, please.
- [groans]
- [strains]
Nina. Oscar. Calm down.
[struggling]
[breathing heavily]
- [gasps]
- [groans]
- Stay back!
- [snarls]
Nina!
[Oscar screams]
[misprint groans]
[screams]
[Oscar screams]
- [Nina grunting]
- [misprint groaning]
[grunts]
[Nina breathing shakily]
[Oscar groaning] Let's go.
Yeah, come on.
[grunts]
This way.
Oh, yeah. Okay. [panting]
[Oscar groans]
Yeah, back at you.
Let's see if you like being locked up.
[panting]
Is it just me, or was Lewis weaker?
When I examined him,
a portion of his cells
were starting to break down.
He might not survive much longer.
When did you two come up with that plan?
Oh, that? We wrote messages on the cards.
We tried to get you into the game.
Oh.
- [footsteps approaching]
- [all gasp]
- [Patty sighs]
- All right.
Let's go secure the Central Control Room.
Okay.
[groaning]
Let's lock down this room first.
As long as we have control
of the main terminal,
they won't be able to do anything.
I'm on it.
There's new data on Planet X-10.
Patty, we can look at that later.
Yeah, those guys will be here soon.
Patty, keep an eye on them
on the security cameras.
We need to protect ourselves.
[Patty] Sorry, I was just curious.
At least now Mack is distracted,
and I'll be able to look at the data
before he changed it.
Before he changed it?
There's a possibility that
Mack scrubbed the real data from them.
[Oscar] Patty,
what the hell are you talking about?
[Patty] Oh, right. I guess
I shouldn't be focusing on that right now.
I need to take care of
the Atmospheric Transformer.
- Huh?
- [gasps]
[panting]
Come on, we have to go after those three.
Wait. Need to see something.
What is it?
The duct from the Greenhouse leads here.
[Mack] And?
I heard something through the duct.
[Mack] A sound?
Door made a sound.
[Mack] What do you mean?
After that, I hear footsteps.
Someone left this room.
[Lewis] Wait, that doesn't make sense.
Those three didn't come in here, so
[misprint] The footsteps went out.
I heard the doors open and close.
Someone left.
That's impossible.
If what you're saying is true,
we have a stowaway.
Living organisms don't survive
in subspace.
Not an insect, not a single cell, nothing.
A stowaway is impossible.
The only people here
were printed by the Womb.
[Patty on radio]
Lewis, can you hear me?
Patty? Where are you?
In the Control Room.
I need to talk to you. Can you come here?
Sure thing.
I'll go with you.
No, you stay here.
Search every inch of this room
- and let me know what you find.
- All right.
[Nina] What are you doing?
[Patty] There's a code
to detach the Atmospheric Transformer,
and the engineer is the only one
who knows it.
I need that code.
- [groans]
- [rumbling]
What the hell?
[both grunt]
What's going on?
[groans]
[gasps]
It's all fake. It was a hologram.
What is this?
It looks like the Womb.
Are you detaching
the Atmospheric Transformer?
Most of the preparations are done.
They seem to have kept working on
the mission while they imprisoned us.
You need everyone's authorizations,
not just Lewis's code.
It's a fail-safe system so that one person
doesn't make the decision. You know that.
I've already taken care of that.
Besides, if we don't detach,
this ship is going to explode too.
Explode too?
The RA bomb I planted on the Atmospheric
Transformer is set to explode.
Patty, you?
Must be Lewis.
[both gasp]
[accomplice]
Sorry, did I keep you waiting?
Huh?
No, I just started.
[accomplice] I brought these.
- Thanks.
- Of course.
[accomplice chuckles]
This solves the problem
of having everyone's authorizations.
[both gasp]
I'll help you with the detachment.
Hold on.
A down feather?
From the pillow. Pretty.
[dramatic orchestral music playing]