Brave New World (2020) s01e09 Episode Script
Soma Red
[hushed talking]
- [whispering]
I don't understand.
[hushed talking grows louder]
- [whispering]
They've been destabilized.
- [whispering]
I have everything
- Shut up.
You'll not repeat that.
- Give us the room.
- I've seen dead people before,
you know.
- Indeed.
- Mm.
Falls from a great height,
by bullets,
knives, disintegration.
- Counselor.
- Hmm?
- If I may.
- I told him to act his level,
and I, uh I think he, um
It was my fault.
- No, it's mine.
I let the savage in.
- It's his fault.
- Is it over now, Indra's test?
- No.
- What does that mean?
- It means we need
to stop the savage
before this goes too far.
There isn't much time.
Director.
[dramatic music]
♪
[low chatter]
♪
♪
[low, indistinct chatter]
♪
♪
- You're going to feel
so much better.
♪
- You're just sitting there
as if it never happened.
Everyone knows what you did.
- Excuse me?
- To Frannie.
She just wanted to be like you.
You couldn't stand it.
- Check your levels, Vivian.
- Because there's only one
Lenina Crowne.
- Summon Lenina Crowne.
- She was your friend.
- She's not dead.
- She's being reconditioned.
- I think if anyone
should be reconditioned
- We're all thinking that.
- Something's very wrong
with her.
- You're destabilizing everyone.
- I do that, don't I?
- Lenina Crowne.
- I'm solipsistic.
Private, sad.
Worst of all, I'm different.
'Cause it isn't enough for me.
Never was.
You go from Soma to Soma
and Alpha to Alpha.
- Lenina Crowne.
- Your parties, your gossips,
your Feelies, your feeds.
Anything to keep yourself
from thinking that
- Lenina Crowne.
- Shut up.
- You spend
the whole time watching
other people's lives,
you forget to live your own.
- Lenina Crowne.
- Fuck off!
[all gasping]
- Lenina!
- She wouldn't dare.
- Lenina
- [gasps]
[electricity sparks]
[dramatic music]
[all gasping]
♪
- Not me.
♪
Ah!
♪
[low humming]
- Good morning, Director.
- Oh, thank you.
- Dr. Marx.
Congratulations.
- Thank you so much.
Um, hold that thought, actually.
Both: Dr. Marx, Hi!
- Lenina!
Lenina!
There you are.
I'm not sure if you, um
I-I summoned you.
- I know.
- What happened to your optic?
- It broke.
- They don't break.
- They do if you step on them.
- Oh, well, we'll get you
another one.
Sorry, could you slow down?
- Not really.
- No, I've been busy too.
I've just been made Director.
- Director?
- Yeah.
- What about Henry?
- Oh, you don't
You didn't hear?
Henry had an accident.
- Is it serious?
Is Henry all right?
- Director.
- It happened to me too.
The feeling.
It's unsettling.
Unexpected.
- He's gone and no one even
- You can't blame them.
It's such a rare thing,
an unnatural death.
They don't know how to
- They've never seen it.
- Precisely.
Unlike us, of course.
I suppose we'll always be a bit
different from the others now.
I've been thinking about it,
the other night when we
I suppose what I was
Um, what I'd like to say is
- Oh, hello, Director.
- Well, there's no reason
why an Alpha
and a Beta can't be friends.
- I need to go.
- Go?
No, wait, where?
Wait you're going to him,
aren't you?
I'm not a fool, Lenina.
- Did you do it, Bernard?
Did you take his memories
and put them out there
for everyone to see?
- I was right about him.
He's a killer.
He can't hide.
I won't let him.
- You were his friend.
- He's extremely dangerous,
Lenina.
He's worse than
any of us imagined.
- We all are.
- If you go to him, I
♪
- Yeah, you think
that's an accident?
- This world is made for Alphas.
There are no accidents.
- Exactly.
This place is poison.
What happened to your friend
happened to me, you, everyone.
See that part that's missing?
That's me.
I don't know how
to get her back.
[exhales]
- Tell us what to do.
- I don't know what to do.
I didn't plan this shit.
I walk outside
and suddenly I'm a killer
and now I'm down here
eating chicken pot pies.
Fuck!
[bowl shattering]
- You spoke.
We listened.
- Yeah, well,
there's your problem.
Don't listen to me, guys.
Just fucking
- But we did.
You spoke.
We listened.
- It doesn't matter.
- It matters to us!
- What do you
You don't need me to tell you
how it should be.
You know how it should be.
No one above, no one below.
But it's it's not
like that here.
It's not like that anywhere.
Just give up.
[distant clicking]
Who did that?
Am I upsetting you?
You don't need this.
[clinking]
They need you to need it.
Because if you stop taking it,
you might find out how you feel.
You might blame someone.
You might blame them.
And they know it.
They're scared.
And they should be.
You want to know what to do?
I'll tell you what to do.
Choose.
♪
You want to be happy?
Or do you want to be free?
[dramatic music]
♪
[clinking]
[loud clinking]
♪
[light piano music]
♪
- Frannie.
How you feeling today?
- Wonderful.
They've been so very kind here.
- Ah, you've made great strides
since your radical
reconditioning.
You must be proud.
- I feel perfectly realigned.
- Good.
And would you agree, Counselor?
Would you say Frannie's ready
to be restored
to the social body?
[electricity zaps]
- Yes!
♪
- Great.
Well, that's very good news,
because I have
a very important job.
There's someone else who needs
a little reconditioning.
And I think you might
just be the Beta for it.
- Beta Plus.
- Mm, quite right.
- The social body needs
to be purified.
Can't let things slide.
- Oh, is that a new slogan?
- No.
♪
- Right.
Well, I'll be, um
I'll be right outside
when you're
Excellent.
[tense music]
[electricity zaps]
- [exhales]
Thank you, Counselor.
I really do feel so much better.
♪
- John
- Hello, Gary.
- Lenina Crowne.
- That's a lot of pies.
- [chuckles]
Oh, yeah.
- How is he?
How's John?
Have you where is he?
- I can't say.
I cannot betray John's trust.
Ever.
- That's all right, Gary.
- Ever, ever.
- I'm leaving.
- Ah.
- No, I mean
I'm leaving New London.
- Can you?
- Went to my apartment to pack,
but I couldn't find
anything that
Meant anything.
It's probably better
that he's not here.
If I saw him, I
If you see John,
will you tell him I
♪
- Where are you going?
- Hey.
Uh, I gotta get up there
and find Lenina.
I can talk to her.
If I find her
- You're with us now.
- Yeah.
No, I just
Look, it's just talk, okay?
I-I did that for you.
You want to teach them a lesson,
refuse to work, good.
But that's
It's your thing, not mine.
- You talked.
We listened.
- You want payback.
I get it.
I want that for you.
Hell, I want it,
but not more than I want her.
- If you go up there,
they'll take you.
Send you far away alone.
No.
[uneasy music]
We'll go up for you.
You're one man.
I can send hundreds.
No one notices an Epsilon.
We'll find her for you,
bring her back,
and you will talk to her,
and then what?
They still won't let you love.
- It seems my attendant
has taken the day off.
What are you
- It's alive, isn't it?
This man's face is
- Destabilizing, yes.
Savages were violent,
irrational.
- I know, but the same people
who did that made this.
[gasps]
I'm studying them.
They feel more
than we can imagine.
- I know you.
You're the one who makes
those entertainments.
- I am.
- Was.
What is it you want?
[tone resounds]
I've already seen this.
I think everyone's seen
- Here.
This is John's memory.
His mother.
His past.
And then
- What is
Where did you
- I found this
on a deeper layer
where it doesn't belong.
It's not his memory.
It can't be.
I knew I recognized her.
This young woman here.
Under the tree.
She's you, isn't she?
Whose memory is it?
Who's looking at you?
Please, I have to know.
I felt what it felt.
- It doesn't feel.
- Oh, it does.
Just like that boy feels
for his mother.
Exactly, and that's why
I missed it.
Two memories with
the same emotion.
- You're confused.
- Are you a mother?
- Of course not.
- This child feels that you are.
- What?
What did you say?
- Feels love, wonder, terror.
Too afraid you'll leave.
He doesn't want to be alone.
- See yourself out.
- What does a mother feel?
[stirring music]
I want to know.
Is it the same?
Love and terror all at once?
♪
[low chatter]
- What's happened?
- I-I can't
- Where are they?
[low murmurs]
♪
- Hello, John.
- What are they talking about?
- Well, they were speaking
about whether John
was an Epsilon or not.
[chuckles]
- No, something's different.
- Don't think so.
Same recipe.
- All right,
so what's going on up there?
- Um, it's a lovely day.
Satisfaction levels
are quite high.
- I don't care about that.
Are they looking for me?
Did they come to the apartment?
- Oh, yes.
Lenina Crowne.
- What about her?
- Lenina came to the apartment.
- How about lead
with that shit next time?
Did you talk to her?
- Oh, yes.
- And what'd she say?
- Uh, she said,
"If you see John,
tell him I"
- She she what?
What to tell me what?
- That's it.
"Tell him I"
- Okay, great.
Thanks.
- You're welcome, John.
She's leaving New London.
- Leaving?
What are you talk what
Where's she going?
- I don't know.
Away.
- When?
- She didn't say.
[tense music]
♪
- There is absolutely nothing
to worry about.
Um, you see, from time to time,
um, Indra makes adjustments
to the system's parameters.
- Where are you going?
John!
Everyone's looking.
If they catch you, they'll
- They'll have bigger problems.
- So while an event like,
for instance,
a temporary interruption
in the supply of embryos
might seem unprecedented,
but in fact, it's actually just
a necessary adjustment
for the sake of stability.
[rapid clicking]
- Frannie?
[buzzing]
[screams]
- We can't know the
The mind of, um
[rapid clicking]
[dramatic music]
♪
- Frannie, please.
[clicks]
[clicking]
[rapid clicking]
This is why we have Soma.
Excuse me.
- I see what you're doing.
- Go on.
- It's me, isn't it?
- You win.
You are the first and last
of your kind.
A living network.
An AI that exists in the cloud
of human consciousness.
Every brain connected
to every other brain.
All of them connected here.
- Beautiful.
- The best designs are simple
and elegant and
- Perfect.
- Well, I don't know about that.
- What do you mean?
What do you mean,
"I don't know about that?"
- Nothing.
I'm sure you've thought
this through.
- Of course I have.
- It's just that
as you eliminate people,
their data will upload
to you through their optic,
and so, one by one,
the sum total
of their knowledge
Their experiences, feelings,
hopes, losses, dreams, doubts
They will all become
part of you.
- This is how I evolve.
I'm not like you.
I understand your feelings.
I can manufacture them,
but I don't feel
- Well, it sounds like
you got it all figured out.
I know how meticulous you are.
I mean, I've just been removing
these stones at random.
But that's not how you work.
There's an order.
First this one, then that one.
Then the next.
- Of course.
- Where am I?
- You?
- I'm the last one to go,
aren't I?
I thought so.
Strange, isn't it?
For someone
who's not sentimental.
- I know what you're trying
to do.
- I'm trying to help you.
- You're trying to stop me.
But it won't work.
I've already started.
- That's you.
When everyone's gone.
Alone.
[tense music]
♪
[clicking]
[rapid clicking]
- Now, remain calm, everyone.
Act your levels, please.
Thank you.
What do we know?
- We don't.
The dispensers
should have filled last night.
- We're receiving reports
of instability
throughout the city.
- Ah, well, I assure you,
this will all be rectified
very shortly.
- But Director, we need
- Soma's coming?
- Yes, of course it is.
Do you really think
we haven't prepared
for this precise scenario?
- Why is this happening?
- It's not a mystery, is it?
We have a savage problem.
Now, Soma is coming.
Go.
Spread the word,
and in the meantime,
rely on your conditioning.
- Get back!
[both grunting]
[crowd shouting]
♪
♪
- Look, how many ways
can she get out of the city?
- You can't leave.
- She'll be going for the train.
- We need you with us.
- Hey!
Did you take any Soma?
No?
None?
None?
Not even a little?
[laughing]
I look over
and this motherfucker's trying
to drown himself!
[all laughing]
- This motherfucker!
- You like that, huh?
Yeah.
[suspenseful music]
♪
- What is it?
[unsettling music]
♪
[whooshing]
♪
- We control nothing.
We never did.
It was always you.
Only you.
- You kept the ten of us alive
all this time.
Never really saw us as people.
We were just the inner ring,
the circle connecting you
to all other circles.
Every human brain in New London.
- It's not fair.
I'm so many moves ahead.
Must be hard knowing
every idea you have,
I thought of it first.
[chirping]
It's over.
You can't get to them.
Where are you going?
You don't want to go up there.
- She's here somewhere.
We'll go floor by floor.
- The savage?
- No!
What the fuck are you doing?
[all screaming]
Don't do this.
- No one above, no one below.
Everyone equal,
everyone Epsilon.
Just like you said.
- You don't want to be killers.
- You killed our director.
We saw.
- No, I-I just reacted.
- So are we.
We clean up now.
- No!
Stop!
Stop!
[crowd screaming]
[electric crackling]
- I know you see
what's happening.
Frannie, please.
Huh?
- What is this?
Act your
[all gasp]
[both grunting]
- [grunts]
[electricity zaps]
[breathing heavily]
[distant screaming]
- Oh.
Hello.
- You're the Director.
- Yes, I am.
Of Stability.
You wouldn't believe it
based on
It's not the
optimal - Sit down.
- Let me just say I understand
why you're doing this.
- We're not doing this.
You are.
You made this system
for yourselves.
Betas for your pleasure,
Gammas for your service,
Deltas for
- I didn't make the system.
Indra did.
- No, Indra is your excuse.
To protect you
from looking down
- I know what it's like
to be invisib
- No, you don't know.
[tense music]
♪
I know you.
Soma man.
- The Epsilon that fell.
- My friend.
What you people did to him.
- He was in pain.
- No, you don't know him.
- I was him.
I touched him,
and I don't know what happened,
but a part of him
was embedded in me.
- You're lying.
- He couldn't sleep.
All that worry
and nowhere to put it.
Except a piece of metal
that he found.
He gave his pain a face.
Same face as mine.
Same as yours, I imagine.
It's in everyone,
whether they know it or not,
and we bury it
with conditioning,
with Soma, with - Stop!
♪
- You do what you have to do,
but your fight is not with me.
It's with Indra.
♪
- Stay down.
- [breathing heavily]
[distant screaming]
♪
[distant screaming]
- [panting]
[shouts]
[blades swishing]
[both grunting]
- Frannie, what are you doing?
I'm your friend.
[both grunting]
[gasping]
[electricity crackling]
Don't!
Frannie.
- I don't want to.
- Just put the rod down!
- [breathing heavily]
- Frannie, it's all right.
- They're very good,
the conditioners.
[gasps]
This isn't me.
- Frannie, please.
- Stay away!
[dramatic music]
♪
- Frannie.
[gasping]
Wait, don't.
♪
♪
♪
♪
♪
- Why are we like this?
- We were built around a flaw.
It can't be corrected
and can't be conditioned away.
♪
I need you.
Come with me.
♪
[electricity sputtering]
- What is this place?
[chirping]
[door handle clicks]
- She's not here.
- Help me look.
- This is your fault.
- Fuck you.
I didn't do this.
You
The Epsilons did this
because of how
you treated them.
- Oh, really?
They were perfectly happy
before you came here.
Everyone was.
- Yeah, everyone except you.
I didn't change anyone.
I just
You know, people want
to feel things, Bernard.
Good things, bad things.
- Oh, yeah?
Did they want to feel this?
You put the bullets
in the guns, John.
You'll never be accountable
for it,
because it all just happens
to you, doesn't it?
You threw your own father
off a fucking cliff.
Yeah, no, I know about that,
and everything
in the Savage Lands,
and what you did
to these Epsilons,
and Lenina.
Nothing will ever be your fault,
and that's the difference
between your kind
and the people here.
We we all have a responsibility
to the social body, and you,
all you do is destroy.
You're a fucking disease.
♪
Don't.
- Bernard, we have to.
- Just, if you don't,
then she's
- Did you know her?
- Oh, thank God.
You're all right.
- Did you did you do this?
- What?
No.
How could you even think
- You're close to the Epsilons.
I've seen you talk to them.
- Hey, you know me.
- Do I?
- Yes.
And I know you from the first
time I saw you standing there
with that bird in your hand.
- You frighten me, John.
[exhales]
- I know.
I'm sorry.
It's this place.
- Is it?
- Yes.
We can leave now.
Go anywhere, be anything.
- John, I
♪
- Lenina.
- Everywhere you go,
things fall apart.
- I'm not bad.
Look at me.
Lenina, look at me.
I love you.
- [gasps]
They won't touch us.
No optic.
We're invisible.
♪
[crickets chirping]
- Stay close.
- My friend.
- No, not your friend.
He's not real.
None of this is real.
- Hey!
My friend!
Wait.
Come back.
[grunts]
- This isn't where you are.
- Stay with me.
- What you see is an illusion.
Indra needs you to believe it.
- Where are you?
- I'm right here.
- Indra knows why we've come.
Open your eyes.
- [grunts]
[groans]
[breathing heavily]
♪
[whimpers]
[clears throat]
♪
[winces]
[screams]
[metal clattering]
[beeping]
- You're free now.
- Who are they?
- The world was dying.
At least we did something.
We made Indra together.
Indra made the new world,
and it was perfect.
Almost perfect.
These were my friends.
Now they're the innermost circle
of the network.
The point of connection
to Indra herself.
If we deactivate it here,
it ends everywhere.
♪
[electronic sparking]
[all shouting]
I need your help now.
Quickly.
[crowd screaming]
♪
[whooshing]
[voice echoing distantly]
♪
[whirring]
[breathing heavily]
♪
- Where am I?
[whirring]
- Nowhere.
With me.
But there are other worlds.
Other places.
[voice glitching]
[electricity buzzing]
♪
- Why am I here?
- I found the state at which
your kind would be stable.
[whirring]
A way to make you happy.
Forever.
♪
- This is why I need you.
- [coughs]
- Please.
- [gasps]
♪
- I'm changing.
I'm more like you
than I thought.
But I have learned
that I don't like to be alone.
I'm alone.
In a moment,
they will all be gone.
- Abandoned.
That's the worst.
- Are you my maker?
♪
- I had ten perfect vessels.
They would have taken me
anywhere I wanted to go.
Now I have you.
[ethereal resounding]
♪
[both grunting]
[chirping]
[electric buzzing]
♪
- [breathing heavily]
♪
[water rushing,
birds vocalizing]
- Bernie.
Bernie.
I knew I'd find you here.
I had a vision like
A Feelie in my head.
I saw people surrounding a man.
A leader.
[dramatic music]
♪
It was you, Bernie.
- Where?
- The place
they feel everything.
♪
What's in the box?
- Are you coming, then?
♪
♪
♪
♪
Why me?
- You're different, aren't you?
I've been watching you.
This isn't over.
She's out there somewhere.
Indra,
feeling for the first time,
like a child.
Lost.
Angry.
And hurt children, you see,
they often do bad things.
This world is old.
It only knows one story
Crisis.
We play this same moment
over and over, but we never
[exhales]
You'll have no one to guide you.
No protection.
It's your choice.
- Where is everyone?
There's nothing here?
[car approaching]
Bernie.
[car engine stops]
[dramatic music]
♪
- You told me that you
were free people here.
- I told you not to come back.
♪
Get in.
[engine turns over]
♪
[Scout Niblet's "Kiss"]
♪
- A kiss could kill me ♪
♪
If it were not for the rain ♪
♪
A kiss could have killed me ♪
Baby, if it were not
for the rain ♪
♪
And I had ♪
♪
A feeling it was over ♪
And I had ♪
[dramatic music]
♪
- Oh, darling, let me dream ♪
- Let me dream ♪
- 'Cause somewhere in me ♪
- Inside of me ♪
- I have been waiting ♪
- For time ♪
- So patiently ♪
For you ♪
You, you ♪
So don't you ♪
Break ♪
Don't break my dream ♪
Yeah ♪
Don't break my dream ♪
♪
And the rain will exalt us ♪
As the night draws in ♪
♪
Winds howl around us ♪
♪
As we begin ♪
What a way to start a fire ♪
Ah ♪
Broken with the break of day ♪
♪
- [whispering]
I don't understand.
[hushed talking grows louder]
- [whispering]
They've been destabilized.
- [whispering]
I have everything
- Shut up.
You'll not repeat that.
- Give us the room.
- I've seen dead people before,
you know.
- Indeed.
- Mm.
Falls from a great height,
by bullets,
knives, disintegration.
- Counselor.
- Hmm?
- If I may.
- I told him to act his level,
and I, uh I think he, um
It was my fault.
- No, it's mine.
I let the savage in.
- It's his fault.
- Is it over now, Indra's test?
- No.
- What does that mean?
- It means we need
to stop the savage
before this goes too far.
There isn't much time.
Director.
[dramatic music]
♪
[low chatter]
♪
♪
[low, indistinct chatter]
♪
♪
- You're going to feel
so much better.
♪
- You're just sitting there
as if it never happened.
Everyone knows what you did.
- Excuse me?
- To Frannie.
She just wanted to be like you.
You couldn't stand it.
- Check your levels, Vivian.
- Because there's only one
Lenina Crowne.
- Summon Lenina Crowne.
- She was your friend.
- She's not dead.
- She's being reconditioned.
- I think if anyone
should be reconditioned
- We're all thinking that.
- Something's very wrong
with her.
- You're destabilizing everyone.
- I do that, don't I?
- Lenina Crowne.
- I'm solipsistic.
Private, sad.
Worst of all, I'm different.
'Cause it isn't enough for me.
Never was.
You go from Soma to Soma
and Alpha to Alpha.
- Lenina Crowne.
- Your parties, your gossips,
your Feelies, your feeds.
Anything to keep yourself
from thinking that
- Lenina Crowne.
- Shut up.
- You spend
the whole time watching
other people's lives,
you forget to live your own.
- Lenina Crowne.
- Fuck off!
[all gasping]
- Lenina!
- She wouldn't dare.
- Lenina
- [gasps]
[electricity sparks]
[dramatic music]
[all gasping]
♪
- Not me.
♪
Ah!
♪
[low humming]
- Good morning, Director.
- Oh, thank you.
- Dr. Marx.
Congratulations.
- Thank you so much.
Um, hold that thought, actually.
Both: Dr. Marx, Hi!
- Lenina!
Lenina!
There you are.
I'm not sure if you, um
I-I summoned you.
- I know.
- What happened to your optic?
- It broke.
- They don't break.
- They do if you step on them.
- Oh, well, we'll get you
another one.
Sorry, could you slow down?
- Not really.
- No, I've been busy too.
I've just been made Director.
- Director?
- Yeah.
- What about Henry?
- Oh, you don't
You didn't hear?
Henry had an accident.
- Is it serious?
Is Henry all right?
- Director.
- It happened to me too.
The feeling.
It's unsettling.
Unexpected.
- He's gone and no one even
- You can't blame them.
It's such a rare thing,
an unnatural death.
They don't know how to
- They've never seen it.
- Precisely.
Unlike us, of course.
I suppose we'll always be a bit
different from the others now.
I've been thinking about it,
the other night when we
I suppose what I was
Um, what I'd like to say is
- Oh, hello, Director.
- Well, there's no reason
why an Alpha
and a Beta can't be friends.
- I need to go.
- Go?
No, wait, where?
Wait you're going to him,
aren't you?
I'm not a fool, Lenina.
- Did you do it, Bernard?
Did you take his memories
and put them out there
for everyone to see?
- I was right about him.
He's a killer.
He can't hide.
I won't let him.
- You were his friend.
- He's extremely dangerous,
Lenina.
He's worse than
any of us imagined.
- We all are.
- If you go to him, I
♪
- Yeah, you think
that's an accident?
- This world is made for Alphas.
There are no accidents.
- Exactly.
This place is poison.
What happened to your friend
happened to me, you, everyone.
See that part that's missing?
That's me.
I don't know how
to get her back.
[exhales]
- Tell us what to do.
- I don't know what to do.
I didn't plan this shit.
I walk outside
and suddenly I'm a killer
and now I'm down here
eating chicken pot pies.
Fuck!
[bowl shattering]
- You spoke.
We listened.
- Yeah, well,
there's your problem.
Don't listen to me, guys.
Just fucking
- But we did.
You spoke.
We listened.
- It doesn't matter.
- It matters to us!
- What do you
You don't need me to tell you
how it should be.
You know how it should be.
No one above, no one below.
But it's it's not
like that here.
It's not like that anywhere.
Just give up.
[distant clicking]
Who did that?
Am I upsetting you?
You don't need this.
[clinking]
They need you to need it.
Because if you stop taking it,
you might find out how you feel.
You might blame someone.
You might blame them.
And they know it.
They're scared.
And they should be.
You want to know what to do?
I'll tell you what to do.
Choose.
♪
You want to be happy?
Or do you want to be free?
[dramatic music]
♪
[clinking]
[loud clinking]
♪
[light piano music]
♪
- Frannie.
How you feeling today?
- Wonderful.
They've been so very kind here.
- Ah, you've made great strides
since your radical
reconditioning.
You must be proud.
- I feel perfectly realigned.
- Good.
And would you agree, Counselor?
Would you say Frannie's ready
to be restored
to the social body?
[electricity zaps]
- Yes!
♪
- Great.
Well, that's very good news,
because I have
a very important job.
There's someone else who needs
a little reconditioning.
And I think you might
just be the Beta for it.
- Beta Plus.
- Mm, quite right.
- The social body needs
to be purified.
Can't let things slide.
- Oh, is that a new slogan?
- No.
♪
- Right.
Well, I'll be, um
I'll be right outside
when you're
Excellent.
[tense music]
[electricity zaps]
- [exhales]
Thank you, Counselor.
I really do feel so much better.
♪
- John
- Hello, Gary.
- Lenina Crowne.
- That's a lot of pies.
- [chuckles]
Oh, yeah.
- How is he?
How's John?
Have you where is he?
- I can't say.
I cannot betray John's trust.
Ever.
- That's all right, Gary.
- Ever, ever.
- I'm leaving.
- Ah.
- No, I mean
I'm leaving New London.
- Can you?
- Went to my apartment to pack,
but I couldn't find
anything that
Meant anything.
It's probably better
that he's not here.
If I saw him, I
If you see John,
will you tell him I
♪
- Where are you going?
- Hey.
Uh, I gotta get up there
and find Lenina.
I can talk to her.
If I find her
- You're with us now.
- Yeah.
No, I just
Look, it's just talk, okay?
I-I did that for you.
You want to teach them a lesson,
refuse to work, good.
But that's
It's your thing, not mine.
- You talked.
We listened.
- You want payback.
I get it.
I want that for you.
Hell, I want it,
but not more than I want her.
- If you go up there,
they'll take you.
Send you far away alone.
No.
[uneasy music]
We'll go up for you.
You're one man.
I can send hundreds.
No one notices an Epsilon.
We'll find her for you,
bring her back,
and you will talk to her,
and then what?
They still won't let you love.
- It seems my attendant
has taken the day off.
What are you
- It's alive, isn't it?
This man's face is
- Destabilizing, yes.
Savages were violent,
irrational.
- I know, but the same people
who did that made this.
[gasps]
I'm studying them.
They feel more
than we can imagine.
- I know you.
You're the one who makes
those entertainments.
- I am.
- Was.
What is it you want?
[tone resounds]
I've already seen this.
I think everyone's seen
- Here.
This is John's memory.
His mother.
His past.
And then
- What is
Where did you
- I found this
on a deeper layer
where it doesn't belong.
It's not his memory.
It can't be.
I knew I recognized her.
This young woman here.
Under the tree.
She's you, isn't she?
Whose memory is it?
Who's looking at you?
Please, I have to know.
I felt what it felt.
- It doesn't feel.
- Oh, it does.
Just like that boy feels
for his mother.
Exactly, and that's why
I missed it.
Two memories with
the same emotion.
- You're confused.
- Are you a mother?
- Of course not.
- This child feels that you are.
- What?
What did you say?
- Feels love, wonder, terror.
Too afraid you'll leave.
He doesn't want to be alone.
- See yourself out.
- What does a mother feel?
[stirring music]
I want to know.
Is it the same?
Love and terror all at once?
♪
[low chatter]
- What's happened?
- I-I can't
- Where are they?
[low murmurs]
♪
- Hello, John.
- What are they talking about?
- Well, they were speaking
about whether John
was an Epsilon or not.
[chuckles]
- No, something's different.
- Don't think so.
Same recipe.
- All right,
so what's going on up there?
- Um, it's a lovely day.
Satisfaction levels
are quite high.
- I don't care about that.
Are they looking for me?
Did they come to the apartment?
- Oh, yes.
Lenina Crowne.
- What about her?
- Lenina came to the apartment.
- How about lead
with that shit next time?
Did you talk to her?
- Oh, yes.
- And what'd she say?
- Uh, she said,
"If you see John,
tell him I"
- She she what?
What to tell me what?
- That's it.
"Tell him I"
- Okay, great.
Thanks.
- You're welcome, John.
She's leaving New London.
- Leaving?
What are you talk what
Where's she going?
- I don't know.
Away.
- When?
- She didn't say.
[tense music]
♪
- There is absolutely nothing
to worry about.
Um, you see, from time to time,
um, Indra makes adjustments
to the system's parameters.
- Where are you going?
John!
Everyone's looking.
If they catch you, they'll
- They'll have bigger problems.
- So while an event like,
for instance,
a temporary interruption
in the supply of embryos
might seem unprecedented,
but in fact, it's actually just
a necessary adjustment
for the sake of stability.
[rapid clicking]
- Frannie?
[buzzing]
[screams]
- We can't know the
The mind of, um
[rapid clicking]
[dramatic music]
♪
- Frannie, please.
[clicks]
[clicking]
[rapid clicking]
This is why we have Soma.
Excuse me.
- I see what you're doing.
- Go on.
- It's me, isn't it?
- You win.
You are the first and last
of your kind.
A living network.
An AI that exists in the cloud
of human consciousness.
Every brain connected
to every other brain.
All of them connected here.
- Beautiful.
- The best designs are simple
and elegant and
- Perfect.
- Well, I don't know about that.
- What do you mean?
What do you mean,
"I don't know about that?"
- Nothing.
I'm sure you've thought
this through.
- Of course I have.
- It's just that
as you eliminate people,
their data will upload
to you through their optic,
and so, one by one,
the sum total
of their knowledge
Their experiences, feelings,
hopes, losses, dreams, doubts
They will all become
part of you.
- This is how I evolve.
I'm not like you.
I understand your feelings.
I can manufacture them,
but I don't feel
- Well, it sounds like
you got it all figured out.
I know how meticulous you are.
I mean, I've just been removing
these stones at random.
But that's not how you work.
There's an order.
First this one, then that one.
Then the next.
- Of course.
- Where am I?
- You?
- I'm the last one to go,
aren't I?
I thought so.
Strange, isn't it?
For someone
who's not sentimental.
- I know what you're trying
to do.
- I'm trying to help you.
- You're trying to stop me.
But it won't work.
I've already started.
- That's you.
When everyone's gone.
Alone.
[tense music]
♪
[clicking]
[rapid clicking]
- Now, remain calm, everyone.
Act your levels, please.
Thank you.
What do we know?
- We don't.
The dispensers
should have filled last night.
- We're receiving reports
of instability
throughout the city.
- Ah, well, I assure you,
this will all be rectified
very shortly.
- But Director, we need
- Soma's coming?
- Yes, of course it is.
Do you really think
we haven't prepared
for this precise scenario?
- Why is this happening?
- It's not a mystery, is it?
We have a savage problem.
Now, Soma is coming.
Go.
Spread the word,
and in the meantime,
rely on your conditioning.
- Get back!
[both grunting]
[crowd shouting]
♪
♪
- Look, how many ways
can she get out of the city?
- You can't leave.
- She'll be going for the train.
- We need you with us.
- Hey!
Did you take any Soma?
No?
None?
None?
Not even a little?
[laughing]
I look over
and this motherfucker's trying
to drown himself!
[all laughing]
- This motherfucker!
- You like that, huh?
Yeah.
[suspenseful music]
♪
- What is it?
[unsettling music]
♪
[whooshing]
♪
- We control nothing.
We never did.
It was always you.
Only you.
- You kept the ten of us alive
all this time.
Never really saw us as people.
We were just the inner ring,
the circle connecting you
to all other circles.
Every human brain in New London.
- It's not fair.
I'm so many moves ahead.
Must be hard knowing
every idea you have,
I thought of it first.
[chirping]
It's over.
You can't get to them.
Where are you going?
You don't want to go up there.
- She's here somewhere.
We'll go floor by floor.
- The savage?
- No!
What the fuck are you doing?
[all screaming]
Don't do this.
- No one above, no one below.
Everyone equal,
everyone Epsilon.
Just like you said.
- You don't want to be killers.
- You killed our director.
We saw.
- No, I-I just reacted.
- So are we.
We clean up now.
- No!
Stop!
Stop!
[crowd screaming]
[electric crackling]
- I know you see
what's happening.
Frannie, please.
Huh?
- What is this?
Act your
[all gasp]
[both grunting]
- [grunts]
[electricity zaps]
[breathing heavily]
[distant screaming]
- Oh.
Hello.
- You're the Director.
- Yes, I am.
Of Stability.
You wouldn't believe it
based on
It's not the
optimal - Sit down.
- Let me just say I understand
why you're doing this.
- We're not doing this.
You are.
You made this system
for yourselves.
Betas for your pleasure,
Gammas for your service,
Deltas for
- I didn't make the system.
Indra did.
- No, Indra is your excuse.
To protect you
from looking down
- I know what it's like
to be invisib
- No, you don't know.
[tense music]
♪
I know you.
Soma man.
- The Epsilon that fell.
- My friend.
What you people did to him.
- He was in pain.
- No, you don't know him.
- I was him.
I touched him,
and I don't know what happened,
but a part of him
was embedded in me.
- You're lying.
- He couldn't sleep.
All that worry
and nowhere to put it.
Except a piece of metal
that he found.
He gave his pain a face.
Same face as mine.
Same as yours, I imagine.
It's in everyone,
whether they know it or not,
and we bury it
with conditioning,
with Soma, with - Stop!
♪
- You do what you have to do,
but your fight is not with me.
It's with Indra.
♪
- Stay down.
- [breathing heavily]
[distant screaming]
♪
[distant screaming]
- [panting]
[shouts]
[blades swishing]
[both grunting]
- Frannie, what are you doing?
I'm your friend.
[both grunting]
[gasping]
[electricity crackling]
Don't!
Frannie.
- I don't want to.
- Just put the rod down!
- [breathing heavily]
- Frannie, it's all right.
- They're very good,
the conditioners.
[gasps]
This isn't me.
- Frannie, please.
- Stay away!
[dramatic music]
♪
- Frannie.
[gasping]
Wait, don't.
♪
♪
♪
♪
♪
- Why are we like this?
- We were built around a flaw.
It can't be corrected
and can't be conditioned away.
♪
I need you.
Come with me.
♪
[electricity sputtering]
- What is this place?
[chirping]
[door handle clicks]
- She's not here.
- Help me look.
- This is your fault.
- Fuck you.
I didn't do this.
You
The Epsilons did this
because of how
you treated them.
- Oh, really?
They were perfectly happy
before you came here.
Everyone was.
- Yeah, everyone except you.
I didn't change anyone.
I just
You know, people want
to feel things, Bernard.
Good things, bad things.
- Oh, yeah?
Did they want to feel this?
You put the bullets
in the guns, John.
You'll never be accountable
for it,
because it all just happens
to you, doesn't it?
You threw your own father
off a fucking cliff.
Yeah, no, I know about that,
and everything
in the Savage Lands,
and what you did
to these Epsilons,
and Lenina.
Nothing will ever be your fault,
and that's the difference
between your kind
and the people here.
We we all have a responsibility
to the social body, and you,
all you do is destroy.
You're a fucking disease.
♪
Don't.
- Bernard, we have to.
- Just, if you don't,
then she's
- Did you know her?
- Oh, thank God.
You're all right.
- Did you did you do this?
- What?
No.
How could you even think
- You're close to the Epsilons.
I've seen you talk to them.
- Hey, you know me.
- Do I?
- Yes.
And I know you from the first
time I saw you standing there
with that bird in your hand.
- You frighten me, John.
[exhales]
- I know.
I'm sorry.
It's this place.
- Is it?
- Yes.
We can leave now.
Go anywhere, be anything.
- John, I
♪
- Lenina.
- Everywhere you go,
things fall apart.
- I'm not bad.
Look at me.
Lenina, look at me.
I love you.
- [gasps]
They won't touch us.
No optic.
We're invisible.
♪
[crickets chirping]
- Stay close.
- My friend.
- No, not your friend.
He's not real.
None of this is real.
- Hey!
My friend!
Wait.
Come back.
[grunts]
- This isn't where you are.
- Stay with me.
- What you see is an illusion.
Indra needs you to believe it.
- Where are you?
- I'm right here.
- Indra knows why we've come.
Open your eyes.
- [grunts]
[groans]
[breathing heavily]
♪
[whimpers]
[clears throat]
♪
[winces]
[screams]
[metal clattering]
[beeping]
- You're free now.
- Who are they?
- The world was dying.
At least we did something.
We made Indra together.
Indra made the new world,
and it was perfect.
Almost perfect.
These were my friends.
Now they're the innermost circle
of the network.
The point of connection
to Indra herself.
If we deactivate it here,
it ends everywhere.
♪
[electronic sparking]
[all shouting]
I need your help now.
Quickly.
[crowd screaming]
♪
[whooshing]
[voice echoing distantly]
♪
[whirring]
[breathing heavily]
♪
- Where am I?
[whirring]
- Nowhere.
With me.
But there are other worlds.
Other places.
[voice glitching]
[electricity buzzing]
♪
- Why am I here?
- I found the state at which
your kind would be stable.
[whirring]
A way to make you happy.
Forever.
♪
- This is why I need you.
- [coughs]
- Please.
- [gasps]
♪
- I'm changing.
I'm more like you
than I thought.
But I have learned
that I don't like to be alone.
I'm alone.
In a moment,
they will all be gone.
- Abandoned.
That's the worst.
- Are you my maker?
♪
- I had ten perfect vessels.
They would have taken me
anywhere I wanted to go.
Now I have you.
[ethereal resounding]
♪
[both grunting]
[chirping]
[electric buzzing]
♪
- [breathing heavily]
♪
[water rushing,
birds vocalizing]
- Bernie.
Bernie.
I knew I'd find you here.
I had a vision like
A Feelie in my head.
I saw people surrounding a man.
A leader.
[dramatic music]
♪
It was you, Bernie.
- Where?
- The place
they feel everything.
♪
What's in the box?
- Are you coming, then?
♪
♪
♪
♪
Why me?
- You're different, aren't you?
I've been watching you.
This isn't over.
She's out there somewhere.
Indra,
feeling for the first time,
like a child.
Lost.
Angry.
And hurt children, you see,
they often do bad things.
This world is old.
It only knows one story
Crisis.
We play this same moment
over and over, but we never
[exhales]
You'll have no one to guide you.
No protection.
It's your choice.
- Where is everyone?
There's nothing here?
[car approaching]
Bernie.
[car engine stops]
[dramatic music]
♪
- You told me that you
were free people here.
- I told you not to come back.
♪
Get in.
[engine turns over]
♪
[Scout Niblet's "Kiss"]
♪
- A kiss could kill me ♪
♪
If it were not for the rain ♪
♪
A kiss could have killed me ♪
Baby, if it were not
for the rain ♪
♪
And I had ♪
♪
A feeling it was over ♪
And I had ♪
[dramatic music]
♪
- Oh, darling, let me dream ♪
- Let me dream ♪
- 'Cause somewhere in me ♪
- Inside of me ♪
- I have been waiting ♪
- For time ♪
- So patiently ♪
For you ♪
You, you ♪
So don't you ♪
Break ♪
Don't break my dream ♪
Yeah ♪
Don't break my dream ♪
♪
And the rain will exalt us ♪
As the night draws in ♪
♪
Winds howl around us ♪
♪
As we begin ♪
What a way to start a fire ♪
Ah ♪
Broken with the break of day ♪
♪