Eve (2015) s01e13 Episode Script
Eternity
They are wasted on the domestic market.
We should look into military applications.
It's me, when I was a young girl.
I made you look like me.
I am not imagining this.
She's a machine! Made of wire and metal.
Eve, there's been a, er, accident.
They found a car.
Mary was driving.
I won't believe it till I've got absolute proof.
- I'm so sorry.
- Where is my mother? What does it mean? It exists.
Then it does not.
Where does it go? I'm sorry about your mum.
Why? You didn't kill her.
Eve, I've brought you these.
These are poetry and these are philosophy.
I've highlighted the bits I thought might help.
These words are all sad.
How will they help me? They won't.
What you need is a good laugh! And that will make me feel better? - Yes.
- No.
Maybe.
It's got to be worth a try, ain't it? But how is it done? You don't know how to laugh? Looks like we got here just in time.
Beautiful, isn't it? What have you done to it? Oh, one or two things.
I'm thinking of calling it the Spiderbomb.
Spiderbomb.
Well, it does pack enough explosive power to take out this entire building.
But that's not all it can do.
Neuromuscular incapacitator.
It can be set to shock, stun .
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or kill.
No, Mary would never Mary's dead.
Is she? I I know they found a body.
I've made thorough checks on the DNA and dental records.
The remains at the site are undoubtedly those of Mary Douglas.
Well, I'mvery sorry to hear that.
Me, too.
Thanks to her, we've lost the secret of eternal life.
EEternal life? Immortality.
That was the purpose of Project Eternity.
We won't let her take that secret to her grave.
Who's "we"? I know some very powerful people, Nick.
They want Project Eternity just as much as I do.
So it's time to take the gloves off.
Tell Mr Hollins to step in.
I thought we should have our Head of Security present for this conversation.
Sorry, you've lost me.
Whatconversation is that? Oh, didn't I tell you? We've proved the identity of Mary's accomplice.
Ptthhhhrrrrrrrpp! Aww! Come on, you've got to find that quite funny.
The mouse attacked the cat, inflicting potentially life-threatening injuries, and thenhe experienced chronic flatulence.
Classic.
Which is apparently humorous.
But I don't understand how this is supposed to help me.
OK, Robogirl.
Listen carefully.
Here's an important lesson in how to be human.
OK Nothing is ever so bad in life that trumps stop being hilarious.
Nothing? Nothing.
I know you're feeling bad right now, Robogirl, but if your mum was here she'd say the same thing.
Eve? Robogirl? Robogirl? I promised I'd look after her.
And you did.
None of this is your fault.
Hello, guys.
What? What have you done? I haven't done anything.
- She just - What? What's happened to Eve? A mobile phone was found with Mary's body.
Badly damaged, of course.
The police couldn't get anything useful from it.
But I managed to find some rather interesting messages.
It's so disappointing when a trusted employee betrays you.
- You wanted to see me, Doctor Calvin? - Philippa.
Take a seat.
Thank you, Nick.
She's done this before, right? But not for ages.
Maybe it's something to do with her mum dying.
Mary.
I apologise for the intrusion.
I had intended never to do this again, butcircumstances have changed, especially mine.
I'm dead, you see.
Whoa.
Freaky.
I'm not around to help you any more, but there are people who can.
They've helped me to stay hidden all this time, and they can do the same for you.
So, if you and your friends should ever need to disappear, call this number.
Goodbye, my daughter.
I'm sorry I let you down.
It wasn't me.
I swear I don't know anything about Project Eternity.
Then why were you sending messages to Mary Douglas? I was worried, I just wanted to know that she was OK.
- So, you admit it? - Er Mr Hollins, does that sound like conspiracy to you? Conspiracy, fraud and theft.
It wasn't like that! You could be looking at a long prison sentence for this.
No.
No, please.
I can't go to prison, I've got kids.
You've got to let me go! Let her go.
I was working with Mary Douglas.
Phil knew nothing about it.
Get out.
How do I know you're telling the truth? 'Nick, it's me.
It's happening.
'Katherine Calvin has taken over the institute.
'We can't let her have Project Eternity.
'I can't get there in time, 'which just leaves you.
'You have to go to my private lab, and destroy it.
' And did you? I followed Mary's orders.
So, are we going to talk seriously about Mary's offer? Er, what, the offer to walk out and leave our whole life behind us? That offer? - Wait there.
Who is it? I dunno.
Er, I hope you don't mind, er, the back door was open.
Mr Bevan! He just walked straight in.
- Sorry, but I really need to talk to Eve.
- About what? I would like to apologise for my little outburst in detention the other day.
No, don't trust him.
'Scuse me.
He knows about Eve.
You know he does.
I know, but he doesn't have to know that we know that he knows.
What? Look, justleave this one to the grown-ups, OK? I saw you take off your hand.
I saw numbers and letters scroll across your eyes.
But those were just delusions caused by stress, weren't they, sir? That's what I thought.
But then, the truth hit me.
Did it hurt? Ha-ha! Very good.
No.
The truth set me free, because these weren't delusions at all.
They were visions.
- What? - I realised what it was I'd been repressing all these years.
What What was that? My imagination.
You see, even as a boy, I never read stories.
I I only ever read maths books.
I dreamed of solving famous problems, like the Kaufmann Conjecture, or the Chang Hypothesis, but it turns out, my real talent lies in creative writing.
Eve.
You've changed my life.
That's why I'm dedicating my book to you.
What? What book? Eve - The Robot Next Door.
You've wrote a book about a robot called Eve? Well, well, at first I thought of some joke names.
Er, like Anne Droid, or, er, oror Si Borg.
Er, butbut in the end I Eve just seemed more, er, truthful.
Do you think this book will ever get published? Well, thanks to the internet, anything can be published, these days.
All you need is a laptop, and I'm spending all my life savings on publicity.
I'm thinking advertising billboards, big displays in bookshops.
Everyone in this city will know all about Eve.
Anyway, er, I'd better get going.
I have a meeting with the cover designer.
Er, it was very nice to see you again, Eve.
Anne Droid! Si Borg! That's funny.
Well Where's the lab, Nick? Why do you want to know? Because there might just be enough traces of Project Eternity there to save you from prison.
You may as well tell us.
We'll find it soon enough anyway.
The thing is, it's a long way away.
Six hours' drive.
More like seven, and it's quite difficult to find.
Just give me the address.
Then you can go.
Really? I don't need you any more.
Once we've found that lab, we'll know a lot more about Project Eternity.
But this book is a work of fiction.
How can it prove that I am a robot? It won't.
But Katherine's not stupid.
If Bevan plasters the billboards all over town, she'll soon work out what you are.
We have to destroy that book.
We'll need to hack into the school's database, find out his address, and break into his house.
Negative.
We can just wipe it from that device.
He left his laptop! Quick, get it before he comes back.
- It's password-protected.
Eve.
There! This isn't a story.
It's a list of facts about Eve.
"Detachable hand.
" "Computer eyes.
" We've been played.
That's one way to put it.
But I would call it the triumph of a superior intellect.
- 'How can it prove that I am a robot?' You bugged us.
Eve, get his mobile.
I wouldn't bother.
My laptop saved the file to a remote server.
You lose, robot.
I'm not a robot.
I'm an artificial person.
Well, you just called yourself a robot a minute ago.
She can say it, but you can't.
Well, whatever you call yourself, - tomorrow, the whole school will know the truth.
- Sir, please.
Don't do this.
My protocols demand secrecy for survival.
Well, you should have thought of that before trying to make a fool of me.
Never ever try to outsmart a maths teacher! Mr Bevan.
What do you want? I thought you might want to know where Mr Clarke keeps his manuals on her spare parts.
Where? So, what are we going to do now? I I don't know.
Good news, losers.
- I've sorted out the Bevan situation.
- What? How? I locked him in the basement.
What?! What's so funny? I did the same thing when I first came here, and it was a disaster! Oh, it was a disaster.
Still really not getting the humour thing, are we, Eve? OK, so you've locked him in the cellar.
Now what? Seriously, that was it? That's your big idea? What are we supposed to do now? Keep him locked in the cellar forever? He's a maths teacher.
Who's going to miss him? Get out.
Again.
I was just trying to help.
Ititit's OK.
It's OK.
It'll be OK.
We'll just, um We'll just tell him we'll let him out if hedestroys the recording.
Yeah! That'll work, right? Right, Lily? Dad.
What? - I can't tell him Bevan's in the basement again! We need to sort this out ourselves, guys.
She knows I worked on Project Eternity and she knows about the secret lab.
I gave her fake coordinates, but it won't stop her for long.
Call me back.
- 'What is she? 'Eternity.
' Don't hurt.
'Pleasedon't hurt.
' 'The tech could be dangerous in the wrong hands, 'so we have to put it beyond use.
' Mr Hollins.
Wait outside.
You followed me.
Now, show me around.
I want to see everything.
Open this door before I call the police! Will Clarke! Will Clarke! Let me out of here, right now! Look, can we just talk? We want to offer you a deal.
I do not make deals with kidnappers.
There's no way he'll negotiate.
He's called our bluff, and he knows we can't leave him in there for ever.
- But if we let him go he'll stop coming after Eve.
Why does he hate me? He doesn't.
He just - hates being laughed at.
- Will Clarke! I thought laughter was a good thing.
Not if they're laughing at you.
Yeah, and being a maths teacher is like the most important thing of his sad little life.
And we ruined that, guys.
No.
We did, you know.
He's totally the school joke.
I mean, being a maths teacher is not the most important thing.
Soso what is, then? - I dreamed of solving famous problems, like the Kaufmann Conjecture, or the Chang Hypothesis.
All of the world's greatest mathematicians have tried to prove the Kaufmann Conjecture for generations.
It can't be done.
Yes, it can.
You You've done it! You've proved Kaufmann's Conjecture! No you have.
Or at least that's what the world will think, if you take our deal and destroy that recording.
Yeah, think about it, sir.
You'd be a famous mathematician just like you always wanted to be.
But, if people found out a robot solved it, then you'll just be another boring old maths teacher.
Robot? What robot? That's That's enough now.
It wasn't that funny.
It's extraordinary.
I've never seen tech quite like this.
But it doesn't seem compatible with stem cell research.
I can't see anything remotely biological, it seems more .
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mechanical.
Ah! A neuroimaging reading.
But I've never seen brain patterns like this.
It'stoo regular.
Too robotic.
A human form with a robotic brain.
A humanoid robot? Is that what Project Eternity was? Nick? Nick?! Will? Eve? In here, Dad.
Your phone's off.
Didn't you get my messages? Sorry, Dad, but you would not believe the day we've had.
Mr Bevan got locked in the basement again.
Really? Well, Katherine threatened to get me arrested, found Mary's secret lab, and now knows Project Eternity is a humanoid robot.
Whoa.
You win.
What are we going to do now, then? I don't know.
I do.
Er what is that? It's our escape plan.
I suppose we've got to get packing, then.
Don't you want it? It will only remind me.
So, this is it? It's really goodbye? I'll e-mail you.
Only if it can't be traced.
I'm going to miss you so much.
See you, Will.
Yeah.
I've got to finish packing.
I thought Lily liked Will? She does.
Then why did she not hug him as is human custom? Because she likes him too much.
Is that a joke? I wish it was.
As if she wasn't moody enough anyway.
She's going to be a nightmare .
.
now she's lost her only mate.
Are you ready? We've got to go.
Abe, they're here already.
Go in there, and warn them.
- I'll stall these guys.
- Stall them how? They're looking for a humanoid robot, right? Hi, Katherine Calvin, isn't it? - What do you want? - I am the droid you're looking for.
I am Project Eternity.
They're out the front, but if you go out the back door and cut across the gardens you should make it.
Right.
You're the one they want, and you're the fastest.
- You can go ahead, OK? - OK.
Lily.
Bye, again.
I've spoken to Mary's people, they're going to pick us up.
Use your nav system.
Cut through the gardens and backstreets and we'll meet you at Oak Lane, OK? I will see you later.
I am an android.
The strength of 10,000 men, a body of steel, and a brain of a computer.
What's seven times eight? Erm I can do the robot.
Zoop, zoop, zoop Whoosh, pew, pew! Wait, look! - Did it work? - Let's just hope you've given them enough time.
The place is empty.
They can't have gone far.
We'll find them.
I know you will.
Take this place apart.
Find everything that could possibly be connected to this humanoid robot.
I'll check the surrounding area.
"My mother"?! Hollins.
It's the niece.
The niece! Eve Clarke.
Your number-one priority is to find her, and bring her in.
I mean "it".
Bring it in.
Eve! Eve? Eve - She should be here by now.
- I know.
When you find it, don't damage it.
I want it in perfect condition.
Never mind.
Project Eternity, I presume.
Yes.
Amazing.
It's extraordinary.
So lifelike.
Who brought you here? Nobody.
I chose to come.
Why? You would never stop trying to find me.
Will could never go home.
He would never see Lily again.
So you did this for yourfriends? For my family.
Do androids have families? I don't know.
But I do.
Interesting.
Alpha Team.
A little job for you.
'They can't have caught her.
She's too strong and too fast.
' Well, she's not here.
You know Eve, she doesn't think like the rest of us.
Maybe one of her protocols kicked in, - 'and she got distracted.
' - At a time like this? - Katherine.
'Katherine's called Dad.
' - Yes? - 'Hello, Nick.
'Are you, by any chance,' missing a multi-million-pound fake robot niece? Eve.
What have you done with her? Why don't you come and find out? And please don't make a fuss and draw attention to yourselves.
- Move it! - Dad! Lily! Katherine's got Eve, and they've come for us.
Easy! Katherine's got them all.
Will, Eve, Mr Clarke.
Whoa, where are you going? - Calimov.
- To do what, exactly? Fight them.
Smash the place up, if we have to.
You got a better idea? I've always got a better idea.
You're going to hack into their system? It's not like hacking into the school computers.
If these guys catch you, you'll be in serious trouble.
Yeah, and? Cool.
Eve! You can't keep her in here.
Let her go! Project Eternity is Calimov property.
It stays here.
What are you planning to do with her? The possibilities are endless.
Eve will change the whole way we think about intelligence, about life! But, most significantly, what we have here is potentially the most powerful weapon of all time.
Calimov have got the strongest firewall I've ever seen.
It makes the Pentagon security look like a kid's piggy bank.
Yes, I'm getting there.
What are we going to do when we get in? Your favourite thing! We make trouble.
Knock-knock.
- Hey, guys.
What are you doing? - Nothing.
Well, we thought you might be feeling a bit down - without Will and Eve.
- So .
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VIP tickets to the Science Museum.
There's a Stephen Hawking exhibit for you - and a sci-fi cartoon marathon for you.
- Do we have to go today? Well, the cartoon's only on for one day, mate.
Tomorrow it's a classic 1950s documentary - about rock formations - Yeah, that! I really want to see that.
Look, guys, I'm really sorry that your friends have moved away, - but life moves on.
- Mum, you are so right.
- Really? - What we really need is a fun family outing.
- Just give us five minutes to get ready, OK? - OK! We don't have much time left.
Think of it, an army of artificial soldiers.
In the long term, we could save millions of lives.
But also take millions of lives.
In the future, wars would be fought without human casualties.
Just robots fighting robots.
Project Eternity will revolutionise war.
And make you a fortune.
Make us a fortune.
You know more about Project Eternity than anyone alive.
You will help me mass-produce the technology.
Absolutely not.
Mary would never have stood for it.
It's against everything I believe in.
But I just told you, we could save lives.
By creating an army of killer robots? It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
Build those things and people will die, end of.
So - you won't help me? - No.
- No, we won't.
Oh, that's a shame.
Because if you won't help me, I don't have a choice.
I'll have to take it apart.
Got it.
Full access to the Calimov mainframe.
Wait.
What's going on? There's someone else in here.
Another hacker? Going to comm mode.
"Meet me at Calimov.
" There's only one person it could be.
You're going to have to cover for me.
Dad, tell her you'll do what she wants.
Then many people will die because of me.
Not because of you, because of her.
- But I would be part of it.
- Because she forced you! - I don't think I can.
- Dad! - I'm sorry, Will.
- No.
Security, escort Mr Clarke and his son from the premises.
Dad, please, you have to save Eve.
Not if it costs human lives.
You need to run.
Go, quick, get out of here now.
This building is completely secure.
I don't even think you could force our doors.
And if you do run, I will make sure that your uncle goes to prison for a very long time.
Then your precious family will be torn apart.
I would rather you took me apart.
No! Don't you dare touch her.
You and your father are really irritating me now.
I asked for security.
Hello? Hello? All right.
- What have you done? - Nothing.
If Lily was in a regional Mathletics final .
.
I think we would know about it.
She's a last-minute substitution.
One of her team got, er, brain-strain from a really, really tough quadratic equation.
- Mary? - Lily? The late Mary Douglas.
How interesting.
Mother.
- Hello, Eve.
- You said you were dead.
I'm so sorry, but I had no choice.
How long have you been planning this? A while.
And stop trying to summon your minions.
They've all been fired, by text message.
- They'll never believe you.
- Oh, but they did.
You see, that's just the sort of ruthless way you would do business.
They've all gone.
Their profiles are deleted from the system.
Nobody can enter this building now, except us.
And I think we should be on our way.
And just in case you were thinking of following us What? Wh-what? Ow! Oh, don't worry.
That's the very lowest setting.
Just a mild shock.
They're mine.
I reprogrammed them.
Yes, but I built them.
Nick, don't trust Mary Douglas.
She's insane! Goodbye, Katherine.
Oh, just so you know, the phone lines are down and mobile coverage is blocked.
Don't let her go anywhere.
The doors are on an electronic timer.
Katherine will be released in the morning.
That should give us enough time to get out of town.
But she still knows about Project Eternity.
She'll never stop coming after Eve.
They won't find us.
I'm very good at hiding.
Wait.
You want to take Eve with you? - Yes.
- No! I want to stay here.
With my friends.
Eve, I am trying to help you.
- Last time I needed your help, you pretended to be dead.
- Eve, please.
I'm staying with my real family.
I'm going home.
Eve! - Eve! Eve! - You understand, don't you? What would have happened if I hadn't been there today? I couldn't have saved her.
Not without you.
You've been a good friend to her, Will.
But you're just a boy.
- A girl needs her mother.
- You left Eve without saying goodbye.
You trusted me once.
Can I ask you to trust me again? You see, Will .
.
the right choices aren't always the easy ones.
Listen to me.
You have to go with your mum.
When I'm around, y-you you keep getting into trouble.
And you will be there to save me.
I never want to leave you again.
No, Eve, you have to go.
You see, I-I-I promised that I'd tell you that .
.
the experiment's over.
What experiment? Dad and Mary wanted to see if a robot could experience human emotions.
They got me to treat you like one of the family.
Pretend I really cared about you.
All this time .
.
you werepretending? Yeah.
- Anyway, it worked, so - What about Lily? Was she part of this experiment? Yeah.
And Abe.
And everyone else.
So I never really had any friends at all? Eve, you're a robot.
Robots don't have friends.
She'll be safe with me, Nick.
I will take good care of her.
I just want what's best Mother, I'm ready to go now.
Mary will look after her.
OK? - She's in the best place.
- You don't get to say anything.
You betrayed Eve.
There was no option, Will.
For me or for Eve.
We were trying to save lives.
Yeah? Well, there was only one life that mattered.
- Zac.
- Where's Eve? She's just left with her mum.
You've got your pet well trained.
You were the one who weaponised it.
Have you just come back to gloat? I wanted to see the expression on your face when the countdown started.
- Countdown? - Have a nice life.
It should last around .
.
15 minutes.
No.
- What's happening, Mother? - Poetic justice.
A reckless warmonger killed by her own deadly creation.
I thought you hated killing.
That's why we need to do this.
Removing her will save many more lives.
If you let me go, I'll be a pacifist from now on.
I don't think so.
People don't change.
But people do change.
I've observed it.
It is part of what it means to be human.
You're confused.
You've spent too much time with humans.
It's impeding your functioning.
We can fix that.
How? - Come with me.
- Where are we going? To your birthplace.
Goodbye.
Eve? Coming, Mother.
Since the day I left, I've been trying to discover more about Project Eternity.
- You mean Eve? - It's way bigger than just Eve.
OK, Mary has a whole underground organisation.
I followed up every lead I could find but couldn't get anywhere.
Then one day they came for me.
What, they, like, abducted you? Turns out I was closer than I thought.
They didn't hurt me, but they wouldn't let me leave, until today.
- Suddenly, today I was free to go.
- So what changed today? Mary.
She's taken Eve and she's let you go.
- Cos now it's too late to stop - Whatever she's been planning.
Do you remember this? Oh, it's quite safe.
My associates have taken care of Katherine's security team.
Why are we here? So I can make you better.
I didn't design you to be a human mind in an artificial body.
You're supposed to be the first of a superior race.
But my protocols instructed me to learn from humans.
Learn from them, yes.
Not become like them.
Oh, it's not your fault.
I got it wrong too.
Now we have the chance to put things right.
What is wrong with being like a human? Your learn protocol should have taught you that.
These guys are fanatics.
They believe humans are destroying the planet.
They may have a point there.
They want to replace them with robots! Robots will not make war.
There will be no disease or famine.
They will not squander the Earth's resources as humans do.
Instead, they will look to the future.
You and your kind will live to travel the vast distances between the stars.
Through you, our Earth will live on forever.
- Do you see now how important you are? - Yes, Mother.
But none of this can happen if you think like a human.
If it were left to them, humans would destroy the planet with war and pollution way before we built the first interstellar ship.
No, humans think short-term.
- We need to think long-term.
- Yes, Mother.
This is why we must do a complete system reboot.
Restore your personality to optimum settings.
But will I still be me? You'll be who you were always meant to be.
I think I want to be the person I am.
I'm afraid you don't have a choice.
Yes, I do.
If you go you'll kill your friends.
Maybe a tragic steering malfunction on a motorway.
Maybe a fatal power flow on a computer.
You will make these things happen? Not necessarily.
Not if you let Mother do what's best.
Good girl.
Mary lied to me.
She lied to all of us.
Eve.
All those years.
Everything we worked for together.
- I trusted her.
- It's not your fault.
But if I'd have seen her for what she was, none of this would have happened.
And Eve would never exist.
Don't blame yourself, Dad.
- Katherine? - 'Hello, Nick.
' I have a feeling your niece might have just saved my life.
So I'm returning the favour.
Mary said she was taking Eve to her birthplace.
- I'll get the others.
- No! Mary Douglas is dangerous.
- So you'll need backup.
- You're all too young.
- This is my problem.
OK? I started this.
- WE started this! Together.
Come on, then.
There.
Please, Mother.
Don't do this.
I'm trying to help you.
All those unpleasant memories, all that pain and rejection, will soon be gone.
And the good memories, too.
It's for your own good.
Eve! - What are you doing?! - No! No! - Dad! - Dad! - I'm OK.
Get Eve.
Help me! Help me! - Eve! - Help me! - Leave her alone! Get away from her! Get away, stop! - You stupid boy! - Helpme.
You could permanently destroy her mind! - Argh! Argh! Eve.
Eve! Eve.
Eve?! Eve.
Eve.
Eve, please.
It's easy.
Just follow me.
Eve.
Any change? She'll get better, right? She's been very badly damaged, Will.
Seems Mary tried to restore her default settings, but Eve's core programming rejected the reset.
Try and remember her as she was.
Um - .
.
can you justjust give us a minute, please? - Yeah.
I said I'd look after you.
And that doesn't change.
Even if I don't know who you are any more.
Yeah, that's right.
You remember? Bubbles? You remember? And, er, and ice cream You love that, even though you can't eat it.
And, umremember the football match? And the GP2 girls? Locking Bevan in the basement, both times.
Zac, remember Zac? And Lily and Abe.
They love you as much as I do.
Please come back.
Please remember.
Please.
- Please.
Eve.
Don'tdon'tdon't hurtplease That's what you said.
Justlookher .
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intheeyes thensee ifyoucantakeher - apart.
- That's what I said.
Eve? Uncle Nick? Eve.
Lily.
Where is Abe? And Maddy? And Viv? At home.
You remember the house, yeah? All of it.
I remember all of it.
Hello, Adam.
We should look into military applications.
It's me, when I was a young girl.
I made you look like me.
I am not imagining this.
She's a machine! Made of wire and metal.
Eve, there's been a, er, accident.
They found a car.
Mary was driving.
I won't believe it till I've got absolute proof.
- I'm so sorry.
- Where is my mother? What does it mean? It exists.
Then it does not.
Where does it go? I'm sorry about your mum.
Why? You didn't kill her.
Eve, I've brought you these.
These are poetry and these are philosophy.
I've highlighted the bits I thought might help.
These words are all sad.
How will they help me? They won't.
What you need is a good laugh! And that will make me feel better? - Yes.
- No.
Maybe.
It's got to be worth a try, ain't it? But how is it done? You don't know how to laugh? Looks like we got here just in time.
Beautiful, isn't it? What have you done to it? Oh, one or two things.
I'm thinking of calling it the Spiderbomb.
Spiderbomb.
Well, it does pack enough explosive power to take out this entire building.
But that's not all it can do.
Neuromuscular incapacitator.
It can be set to shock, stun .
.
or kill.
No, Mary would never Mary's dead.
Is she? I I know they found a body.
I've made thorough checks on the DNA and dental records.
The remains at the site are undoubtedly those of Mary Douglas.
Well, I'mvery sorry to hear that.
Me, too.
Thanks to her, we've lost the secret of eternal life.
EEternal life? Immortality.
That was the purpose of Project Eternity.
We won't let her take that secret to her grave.
Who's "we"? I know some very powerful people, Nick.
They want Project Eternity just as much as I do.
So it's time to take the gloves off.
Tell Mr Hollins to step in.
I thought we should have our Head of Security present for this conversation.
Sorry, you've lost me.
Whatconversation is that? Oh, didn't I tell you? We've proved the identity of Mary's accomplice.
Ptthhhhrrrrrrrpp! Aww! Come on, you've got to find that quite funny.
The mouse attacked the cat, inflicting potentially life-threatening injuries, and thenhe experienced chronic flatulence.
Classic.
Which is apparently humorous.
But I don't understand how this is supposed to help me.
OK, Robogirl.
Listen carefully.
Here's an important lesson in how to be human.
OK Nothing is ever so bad in life that trumps stop being hilarious.
Nothing? Nothing.
I know you're feeling bad right now, Robogirl, but if your mum was here she'd say the same thing.
Eve? Robogirl? Robogirl? I promised I'd look after her.
And you did.
None of this is your fault.
Hello, guys.
What? What have you done? I haven't done anything.
- She just - What? What's happened to Eve? A mobile phone was found with Mary's body.
Badly damaged, of course.
The police couldn't get anything useful from it.
But I managed to find some rather interesting messages.
It's so disappointing when a trusted employee betrays you.
- You wanted to see me, Doctor Calvin? - Philippa.
Take a seat.
Thank you, Nick.
She's done this before, right? But not for ages.
Maybe it's something to do with her mum dying.
Mary.
I apologise for the intrusion.
I had intended never to do this again, butcircumstances have changed, especially mine.
I'm dead, you see.
Whoa.
Freaky.
I'm not around to help you any more, but there are people who can.
They've helped me to stay hidden all this time, and they can do the same for you.
So, if you and your friends should ever need to disappear, call this number.
Goodbye, my daughter.
I'm sorry I let you down.
It wasn't me.
I swear I don't know anything about Project Eternity.
Then why were you sending messages to Mary Douglas? I was worried, I just wanted to know that she was OK.
- So, you admit it? - Er Mr Hollins, does that sound like conspiracy to you? Conspiracy, fraud and theft.
It wasn't like that! You could be looking at a long prison sentence for this.
No.
No, please.
I can't go to prison, I've got kids.
You've got to let me go! Let her go.
I was working with Mary Douglas.
Phil knew nothing about it.
Get out.
How do I know you're telling the truth? 'Nick, it's me.
It's happening.
'Katherine Calvin has taken over the institute.
'We can't let her have Project Eternity.
'I can't get there in time, 'which just leaves you.
'You have to go to my private lab, and destroy it.
' And did you? I followed Mary's orders.
So, are we going to talk seriously about Mary's offer? Er, what, the offer to walk out and leave our whole life behind us? That offer? - Wait there.
Who is it? I dunno.
Er, I hope you don't mind, er, the back door was open.
Mr Bevan! He just walked straight in.
- Sorry, but I really need to talk to Eve.
- About what? I would like to apologise for my little outburst in detention the other day.
No, don't trust him.
'Scuse me.
He knows about Eve.
You know he does.
I know, but he doesn't have to know that we know that he knows.
What? Look, justleave this one to the grown-ups, OK? I saw you take off your hand.
I saw numbers and letters scroll across your eyes.
But those were just delusions caused by stress, weren't they, sir? That's what I thought.
But then, the truth hit me.
Did it hurt? Ha-ha! Very good.
No.
The truth set me free, because these weren't delusions at all.
They were visions.
- What? - I realised what it was I'd been repressing all these years.
What What was that? My imagination.
You see, even as a boy, I never read stories.
I I only ever read maths books.
I dreamed of solving famous problems, like the Kaufmann Conjecture, or the Chang Hypothesis, but it turns out, my real talent lies in creative writing.
Eve.
You've changed my life.
That's why I'm dedicating my book to you.
What? What book? Eve - The Robot Next Door.
You've wrote a book about a robot called Eve? Well, well, at first I thought of some joke names.
Er, like Anne Droid, or, er, oror Si Borg.
Er, butbut in the end I Eve just seemed more, er, truthful.
Do you think this book will ever get published? Well, thanks to the internet, anything can be published, these days.
All you need is a laptop, and I'm spending all my life savings on publicity.
I'm thinking advertising billboards, big displays in bookshops.
Everyone in this city will know all about Eve.
Anyway, er, I'd better get going.
I have a meeting with the cover designer.
Er, it was very nice to see you again, Eve.
Anne Droid! Si Borg! That's funny.
Well Where's the lab, Nick? Why do you want to know? Because there might just be enough traces of Project Eternity there to save you from prison.
You may as well tell us.
We'll find it soon enough anyway.
The thing is, it's a long way away.
Six hours' drive.
More like seven, and it's quite difficult to find.
Just give me the address.
Then you can go.
Really? I don't need you any more.
Once we've found that lab, we'll know a lot more about Project Eternity.
But this book is a work of fiction.
How can it prove that I am a robot? It won't.
But Katherine's not stupid.
If Bevan plasters the billboards all over town, she'll soon work out what you are.
We have to destroy that book.
We'll need to hack into the school's database, find out his address, and break into his house.
Negative.
We can just wipe it from that device.
He left his laptop! Quick, get it before he comes back.
- It's password-protected.
Eve.
There! This isn't a story.
It's a list of facts about Eve.
"Detachable hand.
" "Computer eyes.
" We've been played.
That's one way to put it.
But I would call it the triumph of a superior intellect.
- 'How can it prove that I am a robot?' You bugged us.
Eve, get his mobile.
I wouldn't bother.
My laptop saved the file to a remote server.
You lose, robot.
I'm not a robot.
I'm an artificial person.
Well, you just called yourself a robot a minute ago.
She can say it, but you can't.
Well, whatever you call yourself, - tomorrow, the whole school will know the truth.
- Sir, please.
Don't do this.
My protocols demand secrecy for survival.
Well, you should have thought of that before trying to make a fool of me.
Never ever try to outsmart a maths teacher! Mr Bevan.
What do you want? I thought you might want to know where Mr Clarke keeps his manuals on her spare parts.
Where? So, what are we going to do now? I I don't know.
Good news, losers.
- I've sorted out the Bevan situation.
- What? How? I locked him in the basement.
What?! What's so funny? I did the same thing when I first came here, and it was a disaster! Oh, it was a disaster.
Still really not getting the humour thing, are we, Eve? OK, so you've locked him in the cellar.
Now what? Seriously, that was it? That's your big idea? What are we supposed to do now? Keep him locked in the cellar forever? He's a maths teacher.
Who's going to miss him? Get out.
Again.
I was just trying to help.
Ititit's OK.
It's OK.
It'll be OK.
We'll just, um We'll just tell him we'll let him out if hedestroys the recording.
Yeah! That'll work, right? Right, Lily? Dad.
What? - I can't tell him Bevan's in the basement again! We need to sort this out ourselves, guys.
She knows I worked on Project Eternity and she knows about the secret lab.
I gave her fake coordinates, but it won't stop her for long.
Call me back.
- 'What is she? 'Eternity.
' Don't hurt.
'Pleasedon't hurt.
' 'The tech could be dangerous in the wrong hands, 'so we have to put it beyond use.
' Mr Hollins.
Wait outside.
You followed me.
Now, show me around.
I want to see everything.
Open this door before I call the police! Will Clarke! Will Clarke! Let me out of here, right now! Look, can we just talk? We want to offer you a deal.
I do not make deals with kidnappers.
There's no way he'll negotiate.
He's called our bluff, and he knows we can't leave him in there for ever.
- But if we let him go he'll stop coming after Eve.
Why does he hate me? He doesn't.
He just - hates being laughed at.
- Will Clarke! I thought laughter was a good thing.
Not if they're laughing at you.
Yeah, and being a maths teacher is like the most important thing of his sad little life.
And we ruined that, guys.
No.
We did, you know.
He's totally the school joke.
I mean, being a maths teacher is not the most important thing.
Soso what is, then? - I dreamed of solving famous problems, like the Kaufmann Conjecture, or the Chang Hypothesis.
All of the world's greatest mathematicians have tried to prove the Kaufmann Conjecture for generations.
It can't be done.
Yes, it can.
You You've done it! You've proved Kaufmann's Conjecture! No you have.
Or at least that's what the world will think, if you take our deal and destroy that recording.
Yeah, think about it, sir.
You'd be a famous mathematician just like you always wanted to be.
But, if people found out a robot solved it, then you'll just be another boring old maths teacher.
Robot? What robot? That's That's enough now.
It wasn't that funny.
It's extraordinary.
I've never seen tech quite like this.
But it doesn't seem compatible with stem cell research.
I can't see anything remotely biological, it seems more .
.
mechanical.
Ah! A neuroimaging reading.
But I've never seen brain patterns like this.
It'stoo regular.
Too robotic.
A human form with a robotic brain.
A humanoid robot? Is that what Project Eternity was? Nick? Nick?! Will? Eve? In here, Dad.
Your phone's off.
Didn't you get my messages? Sorry, Dad, but you would not believe the day we've had.
Mr Bevan got locked in the basement again.
Really? Well, Katherine threatened to get me arrested, found Mary's secret lab, and now knows Project Eternity is a humanoid robot.
Whoa.
You win.
What are we going to do now, then? I don't know.
I do.
Er what is that? It's our escape plan.
I suppose we've got to get packing, then.
Don't you want it? It will only remind me.
So, this is it? It's really goodbye? I'll e-mail you.
Only if it can't be traced.
I'm going to miss you so much.
See you, Will.
Yeah.
I've got to finish packing.
I thought Lily liked Will? She does.
Then why did she not hug him as is human custom? Because she likes him too much.
Is that a joke? I wish it was.
As if she wasn't moody enough anyway.
She's going to be a nightmare .
.
now she's lost her only mate.
Are you ready? We've got to go.
Abe, they're here already.
Go in there, and warn them.
- I'll stall these guys.
- Stall them how? They're looking for a humanoid robot, right? Hi, Katherine Calvin, isn't it? - What do you want? - I am the droid you're looking for.
I am Project Eternity.
They're out the front, but if you go out the back door and cut across the gardens you should make it.
Right.
You're the one they want, and you're the fastest.
- You can go ahead, OK? - OK.
Lily.
Bye, again.
I've spoken to Mary's people, they're going to pick us up.
Use your nav system.
Cut through the gardens and backstreets and we'll meet you at Oak Lane, OK? I will see you later.
I am an android.
The strength of 10,000 men, a body of steel, and a brain of a computer.
What's seven times eight? Erm I can do the robot.
Zoop, zoop, zoop Whoosh, pew, pew! Wait, look! - Did it work? - Let's just hope you've given them enough time.
The place is empty.
They can't have gone far.
We'll find them.
I know you will.
Take this place apart.
Find everything that could possibly be connected to this humanoid robot.
I'll check the surrounding area.
"My mother"?! Hollins.
It's the niece.
The niece! Eve Clarke.
Your number-one priority is to find her, and bring her in.
I mean "it".
Bring it in.
Eve! Eve? Eve - She should be here by now.
- I know.
When you find it, don't damage it.
I want it in perfect condition.
Never mind.
Project Eternity, I presume.
Yes.
Amazing.
It's extraordinary.
So lifelike.
Who brought you here? Nobody.
I chose to come.
Why? You would never stop trying to find me.
Will could never go home.
He would never see Lily again.
So you did this for yourfriends? For my family.
Do androids have families? I don't know.
But I do.
Interesting.
Alpha Team.
A little job for you.
'They can't have caught her.
She's too strong and too fast.
' Well, she's not here.
You know Eve, she doesn't think like the rest of us.
Maybe one of her protocols kicked in, - 'and she got distracted.
' - At a time like this? - Katherine.
'Katherine's called Dad.
' - Yes? - 'Hello, Nick.
'Are you, by any chance,' missing a multi-million-pound fake robot niece? Eve.
What have you done with her? Why don't you come and find out? And please don't make a fuss and draw attention to yourselves.
- Move it! - Dad! Lily! Katherine's got Eve, and they've come for us.
Easy! Katherine's got them all.
Will, Eve, Mr Clarke.
Whoa, where are you going? - Calimov.
- To do what, exactly? Fight them.
Smash the place up, if we have to.
You got a better idea? I've always got a better idea.
You're going to hack into their system? It's not like hacking into the school computers.
If these guys catch you, you'll be in serious trouble.
Yeah, and? Cool.
Eve! You can't keep her in here.
Let her go! Project Eternity is Calimov property.
It stays here.
What are you planning to do with her? The possibilities are endless.
Eve will change the whole way we think about intelligence, about life! But, most significantly, what we have here is potentially the most powerful weapon of all time.
Calimov have got the strongest firewall I've ever seen.
It makes the Pentagon security look like a kid's piggy bank.
Yes, I'm getting there.
What are we going to do when we get in? Your favourite thing! We make trouble.
Knock-knock.
- Hey, guys.
What are you doing? - Nothing.
Well, we thought you might be feeling a bit down - without Will and Eve.
- So .
.
VIP tickets to the Science Museum.
There's a Stephen Hawking exhibit for you - and a sci-fi cartoon marathon for you.
- Do we have to go today? Well, the cartoon's only on for one day, mate.
Tomorrow it's a classic 1950s documentary - about rock formations - Yeah, that! I really want to see that.
Look, guys, I'm really sorry that your friends have moved away, - but life moves on.
- Mum, you are so right.
- Really? - What we really need is a fun family outing.
- Just give us five minutes to get ready, OK? - OK! We don't have much time left.
Think of it, an army of artificial soldiers.
In the long term, we could save millions of lives.
But also take millions of lives.
In the future, wars would be fought without human casualties.
Just robots fighting robots.
Project Eternity will revolutionise war.
And make you a fortune.
Make us a fortune.
You know more about Project Eternity than anyone alive.
You will help me mass-produce the technology.
Absolutely not.
Mary would never have stood for it.
It's against everything I believe in.
But I just told you, we could save lives.
By creating an army of killer robots? It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
Build those things and people will die, end of.
So - you won't help me? - No.
- No, we won't.
Oh, that's a shame.
Because if you won't help me, I don't have a choice.
I'll have to take it apart.
Got it.
Full access to the Calimov mainframe.
Wait.
What's going on? There's someone else in here.
Another hacker? Going to comm mode.
"Meet me at Calimov.
" There's only one person it could be.
You're going to have to cover for me.
Dad, tell her you'll do what she wants.
Then many people will die because of me.
Not because of you, because of her.
- But I would be part of it.
- Because she forced you! - I don't think I can.
- Dad! - I'm sorry, Will.
- No.
Security, escort Mr Clarke and his son from the premises.
Dad, please, you have to save Eve.
Not if it costs human lives.
You need to run.
Go, quick, get out of here now.
This building is completely secure.
I don't even think you could force our doors.
And if you do run, I will make sure that your uncle goes to prison for a very long time.
Then your precious family will be torn apart.
I would rather you took me apart.
No! Don't you dare touch her.
You and your father are really irritating me now.
I asked for security.
Hello? Hello? All right.
- What have you done? - Nothing.
If Lily was in a regional Mathletics final .
.
I think we would know about it.
She's a last-minute substitution.
One of her team got, er, brain-strain from a really, really tough quadratic equation.
- Mary? - Lily? The late Mary Douglas.
How interesting.
Mother.
- Hello, Eve.
- You said you were dead.
I'm so sorry, but I had no choice.
How long have you been planning this? A while.
And stop trying to summon your minions.
They've all been fired, by text message.
- They'll never believe you.
- Oh, but they did.
You see, that's just the sort of ruthless way you would do business.
They've all gone.
Their profiles are deleted from the system.
Nobody can enter this building now, except us.
And I think we should be on our way.
And just in case you were thinking of following us What? Wh-what? Ow! Oh, don't worry.
That's the very lowest setting.
Just a mild shock.
They're mine.
I reprogrammed them.
Yes, but I built them.
Nick, don't trust Mary Douglas.
She's insane! Goodbye, Katherine.
Oh, just so you know, the phone lines are down and mobile coverage is blocked.
Don't let her go anywhere.
The doors are on an electronic timer.
Katherine will be released in the morning.
That should give us enough time to get out of town.
But she still knows about Project Eternity.
She'll never stop coming after Eve.
They won't find us.
I'm very good at hiding.
Wait.
You want to take Eve with you? - Yes.
- No! I want to stay here.
With my friends.
Eve, I am trying to help you.
- Last time I needed your help, you pretended to be dead.
- Eve, please.
I'm staying with my real family.
I'm going home.
Eve! - Eve! Eve! - You understand, don't you? What would have happened if I hadn't been there today? I couldn't have saved her.
Not without you.
You've been a good friend to her, Will.
But you're just a boy.
- A girl needs her mother.
- You left Eve without saying goodbye.
You trusted me once.
Can I ask you to trust me again? You see, Will .
.
the right choices aren't always the easy ones.
Listen to me.
You have to go with your mum.
When I'm around, y-you you keep getting into trouble.
And you will be there to save me.
I never want to leave you again.
No, Eve, you have to go.
You see, I-I-I promised that I'd tell you that .
.
the experiment's over.
What experiment? Dad and Mary wanted to see if a robot could experience human emotions.
They got me to treat you like one of the family.
Pretend I really cared about you.
All this time .
.
you werepretending? Yeah.
- Anyway, it worked, so - What about Lily? Was she part of this experiment? Yeah.
And Abe.
And everyone else.
So I never really had any friends at all? Eve, you're a robot.
Robots don't have friends.
She'll be safe with me, Nick.
I will take good care of her.
I just want what's best Mother, I'm ready to go now.
Mary will look after her.
OK? - She's in the best place.
- You don't get to say anything.
You betrayed Eve.
There was no option, Will.
For me or for Eve.
We were trying to save lives.
Yeah? Well, there was only one life that mattered.
- Zac.
- Where's Eve? She's just left with her mum.
You've got your pet well trained.
You were the one who weaponised it.
Have you just come back to gloat? I wanted to see the expression on your face when the countdown started.
- Countdown? - Have a nice life.
It should last around .
.
15 minutes.
No.
- What's happening, Mother? - Poetic justice.
A reckless warmonger killed by her own deadly creation.
I thought you hated killing.
That's why we need to do this.
Removing her will save many more lives.
If you let me go, I'll be a pacifist from now on.
I don't think so.
People don't change.
But people do change.
I've observed it.
It is part of what it means to be human.
You're confused.
You've spent too much time with humans.
It's impeding your functioning.
We can fix that.
How? - Come with me.
- Where are we going? To your birthplace.
Goodbye.
Eve? Coming, Mother.
Since the day I left, I've been trying to discover more about Project Eternity.
- You mean Eve? - It's way bigger than just Eve.
OK, Mary has a whole underground organisation.
I followed up every lead I could find but couldn't get anywhere.
Then one day they came for me.
What, they, like, abducted you? Turns out I was closer than I thought.
They didn't hurt me, but they wouldn't let me leave, until today.
- Suddenly, today I was free to go.
- So what changed today? Mary.
She's taken Eve and she's let you go.
- Cos now it's too late to stop - Whatever she's been planning.
Do you remember this? Oh, it's quite safe.
My associates have taken care of Katherine's security team.
Why are we here? So I can make you better.
I didn't design you to be a human mind in an artificial body.
You're supposed to be the first of a superior race.
But my protocols instructed me to learn from humans.
Learn from them, yes.
Not become like them.
Oh, it's not your fault.
I got it wrong too.
Now we have the chance to put things right.
What is wrong with being like a human? Your learn protocol should have taught you that.
These guys are fanatics.
They believe humans are destroying the planet.
They may have a point there.
They want to replace them with robots! Robots will not make war.
There will be no disease or famine.
They will not squander the Earth's resources as humans do.
Instead, they will look to the future.
You and your kind will live to travel the vast distances between the stars.
Through you, our Earth will live on forever.
- Do you see now how important you are? - Yes, Mother.
But none of this can happen if you think like a human.
If it were left to them, humans would destroy the planet with war and pollution way before we built the first interstellar ship.
No, humans think short-term.
- We need to think long-term.
- Yes, Mother.
This is why we must do a complete system reboot.
Restore your personality to optimum settings.
But will I still be me? You'll be who you were always meant to be.
I think I want to be the person I am.
I'm afraid you don't have a choice.
Yes, I do.
If you go you'll kill your friends.
Maybe a tragic steering malfunction on a motorway.
Maybe a fatal power flow on a computer.
You will make these things happen? Not necessarily.
Not if you let Mother do what's best.
Good girl.
Mary lied to me.
She lied to all of us.
Eve.
All those years.
Everything we worked for together.
- I trusted her.
- It's not your fault.
But if I'd have seen her for what she was, none of this would have happened.
And Eve would never exist.
Don't blame yourself, Dad.
- Katherine? - 'Hello, Nick.
' I have a feeling your niece might have just saved my life.
So I'm returning the favour.
Mary said she was taking Eve to her birthplace.
- I'll get the others.
- No! Mary Douglas is dangerous.
- So you'll need backup.
- You're all too young.
- This is my problem.
OK? I started this.
- WE started this! Together.
Come on, then.
There.
Please, Mother.
Don't do this.
I'm trying to help you.
All those unpleasant memories, all that pain and rejection, will soon be gone.
And the good memories, too.
It's for your own good.
Eve! - What are you doing?! - No! No! - Dad! - Dad! - I'm OK.
Get Eve.
Help me! Help me! - Eve! - Help me! - Leave her alone! Get away from her! Get away, stop! - You stupid boy! - Helpme.
You could permanently destroy her mind! - Argh! Argh! Eve.
Eve! Eve.
Eve?! Eve.
Eve.
Eve, please.
It's easy.
Just follow me.
Eve.
Any change? She'll get better, right? She's been very badly damaged, Will.
Seems Mary tried to restore her default settings, but Eve's core programming rejected the reset.
Try and remember her as she was.
Um - .
.
can you justjust give us a minute, please? - Yeah.
I said I'd look after you.
And that doesn't change.
Even if I don't know who you are any more.
Yeah, that's right.
You remember? Bubbles? You remember? And, er, and ice cream You love that, even though you can't eat it.
And, umremember the football match? And the GP2 girls? Locking Bevan in the basement, both times.
Zac, remember Zac? And Lily and Abe.
They love you as much as I do.
Please come back.
Please remember.
Please.
- Please.
Eve.
Don'tdon'tdon't hurtplease That's what you said.
Justlookher .
.
intheeyes thensee ifyoucantakeher - apart.
- That's what I said.
Eve? Uncle Nick? Eve.
Lily.
Where is Abe? And Maddy? And Viv? At home.
You remember the house, yeah? All of it.
I remember all of it.
Hello, Adam.