Beatless (2018) s01e12 Episode Script

I'm relieved that he survived the explosion.
Fortune really shines down on your son.
He is truly fit to be our successor.
If the culprit was after Ryo,
I'm sure they're wringing their hands right now.
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Let's be friends.
How long am I going to?
FROM ARATO ENDO
"TO RYO"
He doesn't give up.
Even after how we left things.
What happened?
I'm sorry. I didn't think it'd turn out this way.
Where is that hIE?
What did you do?
What are you doing?
This boy saved Ms. Shiori!
I'm the one who stopped being a brother to her.
Ginga Watarai?
I'm sorry, Yuka.
You stupid idiot!
How could you let this happen to Shiori?
My Shiori!
I'm sorry.
TRAFFIC DIVISION
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
ARATO ENDO
TWO WEEKS SUSPENSION
Two hours of adventure
for two weeks of cleanup and apologizing.
The damages to the car and gate total up to
4.5 million yen on their own.
Arato, are you really thinking about what you've done?
The 2 million yen we have to pay for damages
was meant for my snacks and clothes!
No, it's not!
Dad is so soft on you.
He's paying it off for you without a word.
Not without a word.
He's making me go all the way to Tsukuba to talk to him.
Hello?
You want to go with me?
Yes, I'm interested to see what kind of experiments
they're running there.
I'll see you there.
MONTHLY SPECIAL
Hey, Lacia! Are there any good bakery there?
This isn't a vacation, you know.
There is a large shopping mall
in front of the station,
but most of the shops don't sell actual food
and only exist as part of the experiment.
Lacia!
Welcome home, Arato.
Sorry!
I was wondering what was wrong
after you left by yourself.
Are you okay?
Yes, it's not a problem. I have plenty of
skin-replacement material.
Lacia, about Marina
I am not concerned about that.
I took care of Marina Saffron's number engraving
while Memeframe was busy rescuing Shiori Kaidai.
You did?
It is all because of your hard work.
It's a lot emptier than I imagined.
That is because continuously operating with
enough hIEs to fully populate the town
would require an enormous amount of electricity.
The cost would be prohibitive.
I see.
And 90 percent of the hIE units are recycled.
When owners get tired of their hIEs,
it's not something they can just easily throw away.
As many people don't want pre-owned hIEs,
they end up here.
Don't say throw away.
That really triggers me.
Sorry to tag along like this.
No, I'm happy that you are.
I hadn't seen you since the airport hospital.
Let's go. My dad works there.
They're just hIEs, right?
I live with Lacia,
I can tell that much.
The one being helped is also an hIE
playing the human role.
You know,
I did read up on what they do here before coming.
You see the hair accessory on the girl in the track suit?
That's the signal for the human role.
The accessory itself is a miniature computer
with an AI program.
That's crazy.
The hIEs assigned to human roles are driven by
desire and pain, just like in the real world.
You know the mayor here?
It's Mikoto, the hIE that was destroyed
at the Oi Industrial Promotion Center.
While Mikoto's "vessel" may have been destroyed,
her real form is alive and well
in the behavior-management cloud.
Mikoto calculates solutions whenever
she receives a request,
and having the hIEs carry out her exact plan allows
her solutions to be actualized in the real world.
Repeating this cycle gradually transforms this
experimental town into a normal one.
Ryo!
Get it through your head already.
HIEs are only carrying out their programming
determined by the sensory-input data they receive.
Well, your Memeframe Corporation
is also working on helper hIEs.
It feels good to watch people help each other.
That's why if you attack the hIE with this impression,
it makes the opposition seem like they are rejecting
the good side of humanity as well.
The businesses in charge
of the behavior-management cloud
are simply taking advantage of that
to make their hIEs seem like nice people.
If you're going to continue using Lacia,
know that she'll be even more manipulative.
-Let me help too!
-Thank you.
Ryo!
Arato.
She's basically human, isn't she?
She even gave me a gift to thank me!
Just because you were giving something,
you think they are human?
Professor Endo is a little tied up at the moment.
I see.
He asked me to show you around.
He's the one who asked us to come!
We are planning on running
a major experiment tomorrow.
So he's busy making those preparations.
I'm sorry to visit at such time.
Don't worry about it.
What kind of experiment?
They are going to simulate a terrorist attack.
A terrorist attack?
We won't actually blow anything up.
That is just the scenario we're running.
Remember how our mayor Mikoto was
destroyed last month?
Yeah! There's been a ton of video uploads!
We've kept all information on that
from the hIEs playing the human roles.
As far as they know,
the mayor is still in good health.
But in tomorrow's experiment,
we are going to see what happens
when the mayor is unavailable
and the administration
is unable to handle the situation.
So there might be a panic?
That is certainly a possibility.
Or the citizens may stand together
and handle the situation.
Up ahead is the server room.
Would you like to see it?
In other words, this is the backbone of our city.
Oh, please excuse me.
Yes?
Yes, understood.
I'm sorry, it appears Professor Endo will still be a while.
So you should wait for him at his apartment.
What? Seriously?
It looks like a normal city,
but it's strange to think that
every resident is an hIE.
That reminds me,
Dad doesn't use an hIE, does he?
They'd clean his room if he got one.
I wonder why we never had one.
If we did, you wouldn't have had to cook
or buy snacks for me.
I've spoiled you too much.
Dad?
Oh, it's Dad!
You scared me.
That happens sometimes.
The power grid probably reached its capacity
when they were preparing for the experiment.
I'm home.
Ryo is eating out?
I invited him, but he declined.
You're the hIE Arato picked up on the street?
Come and sit down with us.
I would take up too much room.
You've been really busy since
this hIE came into your life.
Your high-school years are precious.
Do your best to make the most of it, okay?
That's it?
You're really not mad?
Come on, Dad! It's 2 million yen!
Do what you think is right.
I trust you, Arato.
You're way too soft on him.
You should see the way Arato gazes at Lacia.
Hey!
An analogue hack? Just make sure you're prudent.
I know there are hIEs playing human roles here,
but how many are there?
Of the 20,000 units,
17,000 of them are assigned human roles.
HIEs make up less than 20 percent of the real world,
so we're trying to maintain the same ratio.
If you increased the number of hIEs,
they'd all take care of you, wouldn't they?
That sounds like heaven!
If that happens, it will feel like the machines
are keeping us as pets.
That will cause the anti-hIE community
to spring into action.
Even now,
there are people who feel threatened
the hIEs will take their place.
Regardless of how much they're hated,
automation has made life easier for humanity,
has given us greater freedom.
It's human nature to outsource our work.
And the ideal tool for humans
is something that understands us
and still works like a tool.
Before they were invented,
humans were worked like tools,
either through slavery, friendship,
or through the creation of a corporate organization.
I understand slavery,
but you're saying making friends or corporations
are substitutes for the ideal tool?
Yes, in the practical sense.
-It's a nice thought, isn't it?
-How is that nice?
Don't call them slaves!
I have a feeling I'll never agree
with how you or the antibody network people think.
Then you misunderstand.
Privately, even they want to automate
administrative services.
Just be careful this place
doesn't get blown up too.
No matter how smart you are,
you won't know the best course of action
without hindsight.
That's why you should always be prepared to
make a decisive decision.
You won't have any time to think
when you're actually under pressure.
I was right! You're way too soft on Arato!
You swear to me you are only after the hIE?
I'll only agree if you can guarantee Arato
and the others' safety.
Fine, then.
Did Dad head out already?
-I'm going to go take a walk.
-Shall I go with you?
I want to walk around on my own
since Yuka is still sleeping.
Okay, I will be waiting for you here.
See you later!
-Good morning!
-Good morning!
Somebody call an ambulance!
Is it suicide?
Is it even possible for an hIE to commit suicide?
Normally, that isn't likely.
Do you work here?
I'm Kozo Endo's son.
-I'm here to see the experiment--
-Besides,
what is suicide to an hIE?
The behavior-management cloud
doesn't contain any instructions
for hIEs to destroy themselves.
Then in that case
Your father may be insufferable,
but he does very interesting work
on machine intelligence.
Even at Memeframe,
he was the only person to allow Higgins
to create something on its own.
Memeframe? Higgins?
A person from the 22nd century
equates the word "cloud" to a program.
However, originally,
the word referred to data-storage devices,
processing systems, and software
that were accessible in a shared pool of resources
via an online network.
But now, all data is interconnected.
Look at the hIEs in this city.
They aren't in control of themselves.
They are following the instructions of a computer
that is more powerful than the network.
If the other hIEs are operating normally,
then that means the larger computer
issuing the instructions
already knows about this suicide?
That is a very good question
that cuts to the heart of the matter.
All hIE sensory information
is returned to the behavior-management cloud,
where the data is processed.
During that time,
the cloud stores the manner in which
users use the hIE as metadata.
The Cloud Service tags, extracts, and reorders
the massive amount of data
for more efficient processing.
This data is passed through
the AASC behavior-conformity standard
provided by the super-intelligent AI Higgins,
and automatically returns a response
that ignores any consideration for meaning,
as it requires too much calculation.
In other words,
the behavior-management cloud
doesn't "understand" anything.
So it may have seen this suicide,
but it doesn't understand it.
It sees it, but doesn't understand it?
They are only acting out the instructions
they've been given.
However,
what does that mean, anyway?
The metadata on how an hIE is used
remains in the cloud without
any consideration for its meaning.
But after many years, commonly-used processes
accumulate an enormous amount of data,
while those that aren't common have little.
Just like how brain synapses build connections
every time they are used,
as a service accumulates a history,
its complexity enables it to accurately
depict a human being.
Human
An hIE's purpose is to take the form
of the overlap between the cloud and reality.
Because they are tools that were given our shape
and made to resemble humanity.
In other words, hIEs are interfaces.
Even so,
I think there's meaning to being moved
by shape alone.
I see. So you seek out meaning.
I wonder what future the AI see for humanity
when a person reacts in that manner.
Returning to your first question,
it is impossible for an hIE to commit suicide
if not instructed to do so
by the behavior-management cloud,
unless it was a Lacia-class unit
with its own independent server.
As long as nothing magical happened,
like the hIE suddenly receiving some kind of soul.
That's the second.
That eliminates all possibility of it
being a coincidence.
In that case, the behavior-management cloud
is being attacked by some entity, or
I haven't introduced myself yet.
I am Ginga Watarai.
I used to work under your father
when he was doing collaborative research
with the Memeframe Corporation.
And I am also Methode's owner.
I am sorry. We were just attacked by Methode!
Ms. Yuka has been taken!
Mr. Arato, please be careful.
The city's hIEs have been compromised!
Once I rendezvous with my device,
I will rescue Yuka and prepare our escape.
Lacia!
Do everything you can in this world of rage.
That is if
You wish to live longer and
to protect the ones you love.
Innocent smiles can sometimes be manipulative.
Do promises that cannot be broken exist?
Does real love exist?
Next episode, "Dystopia game."
Do you want Lacia?