Speaker 1: Tomorrow's Monsters as a production of My Heart Radio Flynn
Speaker 1: Picture Company, Psyde Copia Pictures and Upper Room Productions, June PM.
Speaker 1: This is Dr Cassandra Berkeley. This is case number one
Speaker 1: zero two one test subject Max Fuller. Are you sure
Speaker 1: you want to do this? Max? It seems a little risk,
Speaker 1: He doesn't it. I get that, but you know, self
Speaker 1: experimentation as along and well documented history Benjamin Franklin, Albert Hoffman,
Speaker 1: Kevin Warwick, to name a few. Anyway, single subject researches
Speaker 1: are only option now. Besides, I'm not alone. I have you,
Speaker 1: but I'm the only lifeguard on duty. I trust you. Okay?
Speaker 1: Sixty two point five PRF for five seconds, eyes forward,
Speaker 1: deep breath. When I woke up on the floor of
Speaker 1: my apartment, I felt like I'd been very Then with
Speaker 1: sand I had to peel myself off the cement fluid.
Speaker 1: Took me a few moments to regain focus and find
Speaker 1: a clock. It was after one pm. Then I started
Speaker 1: to catch up with my situation. I had been attacked.
Speaker 1: I scared. My refliction no bruises christ except a nasty
Speaker 1: confusion where my forehead must have collided with the ground.
Speaker 1: When I felt she's I hear her keys to wake
Speaker 1: up the computer and tied to my password. The screensaver
Speaker 1: vanished and there it was at best box page still
Speaker 1: opened on the desktop. Something was different. They were missing files,
Speaker 1: like half of them were gone. No man, I tried
Speaker 1: to play the same files team the night before from
Speaker 1: one of the transitions with to March, but it wasn't
Speaker 1: it was. I looked about my palmer for the signs
Speaker 1: of intrusion, but it was one good morning, Cassandra. You
Speaker 1: wanted to see me. What the hell happened to you? You
Speaker 1: You get in a fight? You're able to tell a
Speaker 1: rock stepping on the shower walk with me? That kind
Speaker 1: of helped your headache definitely hasn't. Well, that's understandable considering
Speaker 1: the pressure we're all under after your last conversation with Max. Okay, look, cast,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to take responsibility. Thank you. By the way, sure,
Speaker 1: what time is your pod leaving? Finn and I are
Speaker 1: planning to meet up at the hotel. Allowed to go
Speaker 1: over this speech one more time, have a couple of visits.
Speaker 1: I think that'll be good for him. Here's something I
Speaker 1: don't think you should go. I'm sorry, I don't think
Speaker 1: you're up for this. M I don't like I said,
Speaker 1: it's just a headache. I command to see. Yes, I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about c E s. And what are you
Speaker 1: talking about? Letting you go? Gotcha? Oh? You know Max
Speaker 1: is the one who hired me. Max is gone and
Speaker 1: he also sized my checks. Under current conditions, I have
Speaker 1: full authority to terminate. All right? What what conditions of that? Well?
Speaker 1: One condition is that Max is gone. Another condition is
Speaker 1: that Max is gone in part because of you. And
Speaker 1: I'm not buying your bullshit excuses anymore. Looked at yourself
Speaker 1: in the mere lately, you're a mess. Jack. You're obviously
Speaker 1: not up to this. Okay, all right, I'm not getting good.
Speaker 1: You're blind? What did you say? Not only am I upitius,
Speaker 1: I'm you're an hope. Fain will be completely lot about me.
Speaker 1: He may seem like he's got this, but the truth
Speaker 1: is he's got a chance of puking the mini steps
Speaker 1: out on that stage. I need you to look around.
Speaker 1: I'm the anchor here. He trusts me, and if I
Speaker 1: don't show up a sea, yes, he's going to fold
Speaker 1: like a fucking sock. And you know it. Okay, that's
Speaker 1: more like it. You know, I learned a long time
Speaker 1: ago that people are much more complex than most of us.
Speaker 1: Assume we all have more than one version of ourselves.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it just takes the right stimulation to bring out
Speaker 1: the best one. I like this side of you, Jack,
Speaker 1: but I'm still not convinced that you fully grasp just
Speaker 1: how important this speeches. Of course I do, because if
Speaker 1: Finn doesn't absolutely nail this, I mean fucking nail this
Speaker 1: too the wall, there won't be a next corp to
Speaker 1: come back to. What's that? You know what that is?
Speaker 1: That's a shut I applica uh huh. Finn is a
Speaker 1: brilliant man. His mind works in ways that I cannot fathom.
Speaker 1: But Finn is not Max. I think you know that
Speaker 1: if you want to keep your job, you will need
Speaker 1: to step up. If you will need to be more
Speaker 1: than a cheerleader. You will need to be Finn's right
Speaker 1: hand to keep him relaxed and sharp and focused, which
Speaker 1: means I will need you relaxed and sharp and focused.
Speaker 1: I need you to be the best version of yourself.
Speaker 1: This is buyinry, Jack. You are either with us or
Speaker 1: you are fired it. I had underestimated my opponent, Cass
Speaker 1: wasn't blind at all. She'd been watching me all along,
Speaker 1: waiting her web black of spider. Now I was trapped.
Speaker 1: She was five moves ahead of me, and she knew it.
Speaker 1: Every outcome was the same check me, every outcome except one.
Speaker 1: My worst possible option was suddenly my only option. O
Speaker 1: Cass had me. Yet the only thing that mattered was
Speaker 1: the end game and taken down next Corp, tell me
Speaker 1: that you understand. How do I take it? It's easy,
Speaker 1: Just hold this to your eye, okay, relax, I'm going
Speaker 1: to count down, ready, yeah, three two to kill him
Speaker 1: one star. Sometimes we have to become one ourselves. How
Speaker 1: do I take it? It's easy, Just hold this to
Speaker 1: your eye, okay, relax, I'm going to count down, ready, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: three two one. It was a flash of bright light
Speaker 1: and then warmth, gelatin, like the heat of anesthesia, slivering
Speaker 1: through your veins before it takes you out. But it
Speaker 1: doesn't take you out. It takes you in electricity that
Speaker 1: seems to start at your extremities and then pulses upward
Speaker 1: and inward, moving fast, until all the sensation collides no
Speaker 1: unpleasantly in your scalp. And then this bath of white light.
Speaker 1: This wash of pressure pulses back outward in a burst
Speaker 1: of energy as a flash that seems to last an eternity. Bods,
Speaker 1: It's over and blink of an eye and I'm back
Speaker 1: there where I was back in the room looking at Casperkeley.
Speaker 1: How do you feel? Jack? A hard reboot and my
Speaker 1: mind had been upgraded with a new process of build
Speaker 1: dream logic and a micraine. He's gone, hold on, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm in a car behind but in a Dell Taco
Speaker 1: on the way to the loop. I I had to
Speaker 1: pause for a sick pull over a quiet moment. Can
Speaker 1: can I help you? Jack lock H? He was asking,
Speaker 1: I'm agent Batty h e A, well you want to
Speaker 1: call look like you're talking to something now, man, just
Speaker 1: connecting my thoughts self meditation and I just needed some man,
Speaker 1: so I pulled over. I guess the air behind del
Speaker 1: Taco can't be beat. Yeah, not to some mel Fiesta
Speaker 1: bowls in the morning. Were you were you following me?
Speaker 1: Of course I was following you. I'm sorry, mate. Am
Speaker 1: I in trouble? I don't know? Oh yeah, how can
Speaker 1: I help you? Agent Bating? Do you know what we
Speaker 1: do with the human enhancement administration, You enforced laws surrounding humans.
Speaker 1: Were nice here, but wait, are they any real laws
Speaker 1: or just a few bills bown around in the chambers
Speaker 1: of Congress. I just wanted to know your chosen field
Speaker 1: has grown very quickly. Yeah, and you're correct. And actually
Speaker 1: tried to go to the h A, and so they
Speaker 1: said they help a week after Michael's death. But I
Speaker 1: soon realized that I have to investigate the matter myself. Sure,
Speaker 1: the h A has the power of a federal law
Speaker 1: enforcement agency, but I soon realized that it was really
Speaker 1: just a basement operation, newly formed, underfunded, and understaffed. But
Speaker 1: then they showed up. So you're the ones who shut
Speaker 1: down the shot I trials? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, people were
Speaker 1: sent to the hospital. Oh so you he had to
Speaker 1: protect people? Nice? What if Max Fuller told you about
Speaker 1: your brother m I'm sorry, what has he told you
Speaker 1: about your brother's involvement? And shut eye? All right, nothing.
Speaker 1: We haven't talked about manything. He doesn't know you're related.
Speaker 1: He doesn't know why not. Oh it hasn't come up.
Speaker 1: It's curious, it's personal. Yeah, yeah, i'd say it is.
Speaker 1: Come on, what exactly are you're doing it next? Corpse Jack,
Speaker 1: I'm helping develop state of the art technologies that will
Speaker 1: move mankind forward. Well, Jack, do me a favor. Let
Speaker 1: me know how that goes. That's my card. Oh yeah, Look,
Speaker 1: if you happen to talk to Dr Wolds again, would
Speaker 1: you get out of return my call? Enjoy Ces. Maybe
Speaker 1: we'll see you there. Fuck me, Jennalicole Abbey calling Dr
Speaker 1: Abbe Reynolds. This is Dr Abbey Reynolds. If this is
Speaker 1: a medical emergency, hang up in down. Otherwise, if I
Speaker 1: said the next few hours were blood, well, I'd be
Speaker 1: lying to you. I was moved fast for shure and shy.
Speaker 1: I remembered every second with a strange clarity, each scuffle
Speaker 1: of a shoe on the concrete platform fly cleansed overlooks,
Speaker 1: the rasp in the voice of a gay agent who
Speaker 1: had been working too many hours. Ye. All the while,
Speaker 1: I'm just just to be to be awake, really awake,
Speaker 1: sitting and again rocky in across the desert, Bloody Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: My father loved Vegas. Suckers stacked in every direction, he said.
Speaker 1: Centuries before neuroscience was even a thing, magicians had a
Speaker 1: really cracked the code on the human brain. They learned
Speaker 1: through trial and error that they could control what an
Speaker 1: organ sees or does not see, what they believe or
Speaker 1: do not believe. Max Foller was right. Humans are flawed,
Speaker 1: and it's a conman's job to exploit these flaws. Inaccurate memory,
Speaker 1: susceptibility to suggestion, they need to perceive cause and effect.
Speaker 1: Even a small time hustler relies completely on these vulnerabilities
Speaker 1: to make a living. As I moved through the Casino hotel,
Speaker 1: it felt like I was stepping into a time warp.
Speaker 1: Everyone was moving in slow motion except for me. Casinos
Speaker 1: are designed to make you use track of time and space.
Speaker 1: No clocks, no windows, so the suckers will know how
Speaker 1: long they've been losing money. Amazed with no clear exit,
Speaker 1: but I was hyper aware of every second and every
Speaker 1: step I took deeper into this labyrinth. My mind was
Speaker 1: involuntarily bapping my way. Okay, I just passed a man
Speaker 1: and I looked nor More a little too normal. Shorts, sandals, sunglasses,
Speaker 1: and now yeah, he's swallowing me. It was a little
Speaker 1: cold out for shorts and sandals. But then Vegas is
Speaker 1: like a giant pressurized space station with his own internal
Speaker 1: atmosphere to keep the suckers slightly high. In the endless
Speaker 1: lab ruth of slow machines and oxygen bars and poker
Speaker 1: tables and pancake per face, you can go for days.
Speaker 1: We'veout ever seen daylight in Vegas. But this guy, short sleeve,
Speaker 1: buttoned down, still had creases in it, fresh out of
Speaker 1: this package. And when I got to the elevator, the
Speaker 1: guy passed by. Jack. You had six missed calls from
Speaker 1: Finn connolly Blood. I rolled into my hotel about seven pm.
Speaker 1: I'm still lee up from the afternoons does and probably
Speaker 1: a head of a lot less worried than I should
Speaker 1: have been about prepping Finn to speaking Max's absence. That
Speaker 1: will change five minutes after I walked into my hotel room.
Speaker 1: I'm going Jesus coming. Oh hey man, hey man, were
Speaker 1: you gonna call me when you got in? Or what?
Speaker 1: I don't not? Just how happened to your head? So important? Look,
Speaker 1: I think we should rewrite the sort of aspirational section.
Speaker 1: I don't really think I'm in less than probably Do
Speaker 1: you have your laptop right now? You all right? Me? No,
Speaker 1: I'm not all right. I'm getting ready to ship myself
Speaker 1: here do you have your laptop or not? But Finn
Speaker 1: was effectively having a panic attack that lost it from
Speaker 1: the hotel, into the car and on into the convention center.
Speaker 1: He was a mess. But we've reached a point in
Speaker 1: our evolution where for the first time, we can choose
Speaker 1: m we can choose we can we can choose hip jack.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man not just still doesn't sing. It
Speaker 1: sounds great. It sounds great. Seriously, it's effective, eloquent on message,
Speaker 1: and we're really running low on time here. I think
Speaker 1: you're ready, right, I just think I just think we
Speaker 1: can still make a few little minor cuts in, just
Speaker 1: like a just a few hey, hey, hey, excuse me,
Speaker 1: you what are we looking at? Time wise? Three minutes
Speaker 1: of ship? Okay, thank you, shift ship. I'm not ready
Speaker 1: for it's right, it's time. Oh thank god, cass, how's
Speaker 1: it looking? It's a ship show cast. He's ready. He's
Speaker 1: just freaked out, right, I'm freaked out. This is absurdain. Hey, Finn,
Speaker 1: what you know what's happening right now? Yeah? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: know it's happening. My brain is releasing cortisol, which is
Speaker 1: raising my heart right now, it's modulating he okay, I
Speaker 1: need you to take the very deep breath right now,
Speaker 1: Take a breath, Take a breath. I want you to
Speaker 1: remember something, you what You don't need to impress anyone.
Speaker 1: You can't be Max. They don't expect that our of you.
Speaker 1: What do they expect an awkward keep that I can do.
Speaker 1: It's true, Finn, we're pitching to the money people. And
Speaker 1: do you know what the money people want to see?
Speaker 1: The money people want to see. They want to see
Speaker 1: the brains of the operation. They want to see the spine.
Speaker 1: They want to know if there's someone real behind the curtain.
Speaker 1: I can't do this, cast, I can't do this. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to just give me a second. Hey, how
Speaker 1: much time do we have? One minute? Ben? Look at me?
Speaker 1: Look at me? What? What? What? Okay? Forget all this?
Speaker 1: Once Max told me that the only reason next corp
Speaker 1: or shot or any of this ever happened was all
Speaker 1: because of you. Like a project that you were working on,
Speaker 1: right that the reconnect, the reconnected reconnected mind Yeah right right?
Speaker 1: That said He wasn't even sure if he wanted to
Speaker 1: continue living anymore after his father had died. But for you,
Speaker 1: but for me, yes, yes, he came to visit you,
Speaker 1: and he saw something in you that changed him. He
Speaker 1: sort of looking your eye, that wonder about the mechanics
Speaker 1: of the universe and the human mind. That that's something
Speaker 1: Max doesn't even have, but mate, you do because you
Speaker 1: actually live for this ship. And that's the good stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the good stuff, the good stuff. That that is what matters.
Speaker 1: That stuff is all that matters. This speech. You memorize
Speaker 1: everything we wrote, you know what, just forget it. Just
Speaker 1: throw it away. Man, it's stressing you. You don't need
Speaker 1: to try to be the most charming pathon in the
Speaker 1: room because you're really a lot of the most trauma
Speaker 1: pushing in the room. Man. All you need to do
Speaker 1: is share it. Just walk twenty over there and tell him,
Speaker 1: tell him about it, about the good stuff, all right,
Speaker 1: give him the good stuff, the good stuff. Yeah, Okay.
Speaker 1: At this point, I was starting to come down from
Speaker 1: the show. I guess that would be the phrase. Definitely
Speaker 1: felt less bright, and there was a ghost of a
Speaker 1: headache in the corners of my brain, just a whisp.
Speaker 1: I would have been worried more if the next few
Speaker 1: moments hasn't wrenched my attention away. Has dedicated his life
Speaker 1: to this exact principle. It's my great pleasure to welcome
Speaker 1: the lead engineer of Next Corp. Mr Finn Connolly. Thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you. Uh. It's amazing to be in front of
Speaker 1: you tonight. It's amazing that we live in a world
Speaker 1: that allows us cs given the long and fraud history
Speaker 1: of man and technology. Mm hmm. Ever since we first
Speaker 1: stole fire from the gods, the same question is asked
Speaker 1: of every technology, are they more helpful or more hurtful?
Speaker 1: From language to the printing press to microchips, and the
Speaker 1: naysayers always have the same argument. With every new technology
Speaker 1: that we become dependent on for survival, we become weaker
Speaker 1: as a species. But that is actually shortsighted. It's not
Speaker 1: that we're dependent on our inventions. It's that we're dependent
Speaker 1: on our ability to invent genetics, AI, nanotech, thought ware.
Speaker 1: These are scary words because they unknown and they feel dangerous.
Speaker 1: But this, this is human kind's next frontier. Right when
Speaker 1: he had them, the craziest thing happened. Holy shit from
Speaker 1: the shadows on the far end of the stage of figuring,
Speaker 1: Luves dressed in a black suit, hair swept back and
Speaker 1: eyes bunning. Wow, I'll be Damned Max Fuller every Day
Speaker 1: m Tomorrow's Monsters, starring John Boyega as Jack Locke, Darren
Speaker 1: Chris as Max Fuller, Marley Shelton as Cass Berkeley, Clark
Speaker 1: Gregg as Walter Fuller, and Gauga as David Truesday, Nicholas
Speaker 1: Takoski as Finn Connolly, Claire Bronson as dr Abby Reynolds,
Speaker 1: David Chen as Michael Gordon, Sue, Hila Eltar as Jenna,
Speaker 1: Victor Rivera as Eddie Bender, Robert Pralco as Agent Batty,
Speaker 1: Steve Coulter as Senator Berkeley, wrote of Griffiths as Rainy Webb,
Speaker 1: with additional performances by Helen Abel, Jason Williams, Michael Anthony,
Speaker 1: Robin Bloodworth, and Teresa Davis. Our first assistant director is
Speaker 1: Michael Monty. Our second assistant director is Sarah Klein. Sound
Speaker 1: and music by Ben Lovett, Additional sound design and editing
Speaker 1: by Benjamin Belcolm, Justin Roboski and Mike Reagan. Casting by
Speaker 1: Jessica Fox think Been. Our executive producers are Scott Sheldon,
Speaker 1: Shelby Thomas, Alexander Williams, and Matthew Frederick. Written by Dan
Speaker 1: Bush and Nicolas Takowski created by Dan Bush and Conald Burne,
Speaker 1: directed by Dan Bush, produced by both Flint dan Bush
Speaker 1: and John Bleega Tomorrow's Monsters as a production of Higheart Radio,
Speaker 1: Flynn Picture Company, Psychopia Picture and of The Room Productions.
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