WEBVTT - 2. It's Not The Fall That Kills You 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:04.160 Tomorrow's Monsters. There's a production of I Heart Radio Flint 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:10.840 Picture Company, Psycopia Pictures and Upper Room Productions. It will 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:13.320 take around two point nine seconds for an object, say 0:00:13.320 --> 0:00:15.920 amount of five ft eleven inches weighing one and sixty 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:18.680 two pounds, to fall from a thirteen story window of 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:22.120 a building too the street below, not that a humans 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:25.800 mass has any bury On the kinematic equation, the speeder 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:28.800 impact would be roughly twenty seven meters per second or 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:32.840 kilometers per hour. Upon impact, a number of things happened 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:36.080 to the body at once. The skull may shutter. They 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:38.560 also may disconnect from the rest of the heart, pumping 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:42.199 blood into the body cavity, depriving the brain of fresh oxygen. 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:46.000 The sudden impact could cause the blood vessels, even sells 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:51.280 themselves to rupture, but to one point five gallons of 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:55.560 blood can leave the body a human water balloon, flowing 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:59.040 from beneath the surface into the light. Some may take 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:01.280 solace in the idea that you may blackout from the 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:04.400 terror before landing, or have a heart attack from the stress. 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:07.880 But as they say, it's not the fool that kills you, 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:16.839 it's the landing. This scene has been playing in my head, 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:23.480 over and over a fever dream, constantly on repeat the 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:27.399 seconds leading up to my brother's death, because this is 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:31.480 how I imagine him, my brother being attacked and thrown 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:34.960 to his death from thirteen stories. I say attack because 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:38.039 that is the only scenario that makes sense, because I 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:40.880 knew my brother and my brother would never go out 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:45.920 of a thirteen story window voluntarily. Never, and yet suicide. 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:49.080 It's the official cause of death on Michael's death certificate. 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:54.280 But it's like my father always told me, never trust 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:57.800 the official lion. The world needs to know what really 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:36.079 happened and who is responsible. January seven, two pm Jenna 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:41.040 ma Marca. He most recently passed mile marker over two 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:43.760 days to Arlington at this rate, that is, if I 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:45.960 don't make too many stops. Can I help you with 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:49.919 anything else? Jack? Yeah? Actually, that truck behind us, how 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:51.919 long has it been there? The Model four XT cargo 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:54.760 truck has remained point three miles behind us for two hours? 0:02:56.800 --> 0:02:59.280 Is that model man? No, Jack, it is a fully 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:02.960 automated com cargo vehicle. Would you like me to go 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:09.480 online for more information? As Jenna. By the way, Jenna, 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:12.919 can you introduce yourself? I'm Jenna and what are you, Jenna? 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:18.240 I'm your connected virtual assistant? Well not connected? Correct? I 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:22.360 am currently not connected? Would you like me to No, Jenna, 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:24.480 stop asking. I will tell you if I want to 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:28.040 connect you got it, Jack, Jenna is my only companion 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:32.040 on this voyage. Isn't that right? Jenna? Apparently before this 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:34.600 trip she was just my c v A. But now 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:37.600 I think I'm getting attached. Jenna? Can you die up 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:40.360 a sarcasm? Another I don't want to fall in love 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:46.360 or anything. Whatever you say, Jack, Yeah, here's what we know. 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:50.920 Three people died of apparent suicides after participating the Next 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:54.640 Corps of Human trials of this soon to launch product shut. 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:59.040 I mind that they eliminates the need to sleep, and 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:08.800 one of them was my m Michael. Okay, September. I'm late, 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:14.680 not good. There was my first day in Next Corp, 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:17.200 my first day of my new job as Max full 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:20.880 as personal assisting. Can I help you? I'm Jack Locker. 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:26.200 I'm head to see Mr Fuller, Hi Jack, Mr Fuller? 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:33.040 Really dirty? No, it's followed. It gives me an opportunity 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:37.320 to introduce you know. I was confused. The problem was sleep, 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:40.839 as in that I hadn't had any I knew it 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.000 was a risk not sleeping because it was my first 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:45.320 day at next Corp and I needed to be sharp 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:49.320 make an impression. I took the risk of staying up 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:54.680 all night because sleep deprivation was tolerable. The alternative was not. 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:59.000 The alternative was night terrors, which actually makes perfect sense. 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:03.159 I been grieving and I was having me some fever dreams, 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:07.600 and these nightmares were getting worse. They were evolving, becoming 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:10.479 more lucid. I would wake up to the sound of 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:17.400 tapping on my bedroom window and this metallic smell, like 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:23.520 rust and the cane leaves. In the nightmare, I see him. 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:30.400 Their brother was standing outside of my bedroom window, tapping 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:35.320 on the glass, his face stretched in anguish to formed 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:37.359 and flattened and still caked with the blood from the 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:41.320 four that killed him. It's dislocated draw, preventing him from 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:45.039 saying wherever it was he had come to say. It 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:48.880 was like my brother's spirit was just just holding on, 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:58.240 just clinging desperately to its last physical contact me for 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:01.520 this nightmare a hundred times, for the last time there 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:07.560 was something new. He wrote a message on the glass layers, 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:11.839 spelled out in his own body, fluid and blood. Two 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:24.080 words luck. It's such were my nightmares. So I chose 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:27.720 not to happen, at least not before my first day 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:31.680 and Next Corp with Max Fuller. Mr Fuller, I just 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:33.719 wanted to say how much this means to me. I mean, no, 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:35.240 no, no no, no, I get it. No, no need for 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:38.080 the continued gratitude thing. Look, I'm happy to have you here, Jack, 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:39.960 and we've got some work to do, so just up 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:44.280 here on the right. On my first day, Max introduced 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:47.560 me to the top minds of Next Corp, which coincidentally 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:49.640 also happened to be some of the top minds in 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:53.920 the human enhancement industry. They operated out of a reclaimed 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:57.680 warehouse in the dog Patch district of San Francisco. The 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:00.400 innovations that spring from this neighborhood are respon in school 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.680 for a considerable portion of California's GDP, which is now 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:08.960 the fourth largest on the planet. Everything here has reclaimed wood, 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:14.560 ship lab and rusty colors. It's a form of curated authenticity, 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:17.560 built on the graveyard of the past and decorated with 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:23.160 his bones. Has a strange chili sort of fields. Unnatural everyone. 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:27.040 This is Jack, Jack Lock. He'll be working with us. 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:34.040 I'm sorry, what I don't understand. This is Jack who 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:38.600 will be working with us. Yeah, I got that. Isn't 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:44.200 this We'll talk about Jesus. I'll go first. Hey Jack, 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:47.000 I'm Finn Connolly. Yes, hey, I've heard of you that 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:52.880 the Steve was in the act of human enhuntment. Okay, yeah, sure. 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:57.000 And this is Cassandra Berkeley. She's a partner and our 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:01.320 staff psychiatristicest woman in the building. Nice to meet you. 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:05.040 Uh huh, Max, Can we speak in the hallway? We 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:10.640 can do that later, can't Max? Fine? Gentlemen, be sweet, 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:20.440 don't worry. She's always like that. Well not always, was her. 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:24.640 Me little this morning, it was just ten minutes ago. 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:26.880 We're making bets on how quickly you'd be ejected from 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:29.600 the building, and yet here you stand. Wow, so I'm 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:33.360 not very popular around you. Well, to be completely honest 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:35.480 with you, there are dozens of applicants who are better 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:39.640 suited for this than you know of Fens. Anyway, you're 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:42.160 here now for whatever reason, Max has taken a shine 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:46.640 to you. And this silent young man who apparently has 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:49.640 no opinion on you whatsoever is Eddie Binder, who's our 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:52.000 team physician. Nice to meet you. It'll be good not 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:54.120 to be the new kid. How long have you been? 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:56.480 A little over month? Eddie Year is going to oversee 0:08:56.480 --> 0:09:01.520 our next round of human trials. Next round. Didn't realize 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:04.360 you that human testing before, well, it wasn't entirely successful. 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:08.480 You don't hear about the unsuccessful ones to you that? Yes, 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:13.960 of course that makes sense. Yeah, has Max told you 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:16.800 what you'll be doing around here? Because we are all curious. 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:19.560 I'm not sure. I think he wants me to help 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:27.920 organize his thoughts. Uh, that sounds ambiguous. Good luck with that. 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:32.400 Oh pro tip, you should get on cast as good 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:35.120 side because you don't want to be on our bad side. 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:38.600 I need you on something, Maddy. Could you show Jack around, 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:40.839 catch him up on some of the new new I 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:43.520 can Jack, I'll catch up with you a little bit. Okay, 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:46.760 God's babe, how about we start with the lamp really 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:50.800 incredible stuff. It became immediately clear to me that Eddie 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:53.840 didn't get him. He knew little about what went on before, 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:56.760 and even less about what was happening now. I couldn't 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:59.040 piece together why such a medio come man would find 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:02.360 himself in the midst of all these geniuses. Where they 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:05.320 failed to comprehend or capture is that next CORP is 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:08.400 ground zero in the next wave of human innovation. That 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:11.480 he and now I two were inside these hors witnesses 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:14.160 to that elusive moment that has powered American progress for 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:16.880 the past two dred and seventy years. And this time 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:19.880 the stakes were higher than ever. This time the mad 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:25.880 scientists were engineering us reroute in our neural pathways, reprogramming 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.520 our brains to enable us to author ourselves and enhance 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:32.400 our human condition and ways that were previously unimaginable, pinked 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:34.120 up so far enough and long to have a phase 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:37.319 too human trial. I know, they seemed like fairy tales 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:40.160 right way further off. I was shocked to find out 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:42.600 how far along they were too, How many people were 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:47.400 in the initial trials to phase one. It was tiny thirty. Yeah, 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:49.280 it's no way to do large science. But for the 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:52.400 company's purposes, I guess it was fine. I mean, they 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:56.400 already knew the drug worn't so why did they shut 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:59.520 down the trials there? I don't know. I'm new here 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:02.719 to remember, you'll have to ask Max or Cass or 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:06.880 Finn or my predecessor, Dr Reynolds, though I'm not sure 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:11.920 she'll be willing to talk to you. Her name is 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:16.960 sort of Verboning. If you get me. Yeah, why okay, 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:21.160 nobody tells me anything. I don't need to know. Yeah, 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:23.000 I look, I'm just messing with it. It's probably easier 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:27.000 that way, man, exactly. This guy guessing right, it's a 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:31.080 good uh. Here is the brake room, best snacks in 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:35.920 the building. Dr Abby Reynolds Hobby was Next Corps clinical physician, 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:39.000 tossed to monitor and tract the health data of the 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:42.160 trial subjects. I had to sell number, but nothing else. 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:44.920 Abbe Reynolds did not want to talk about Next Corp 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:48.160 as she cares blocking my number. It took three days 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:50.480 and full Burner first to get to this point right here. 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:52.760 I swear to God, if you keep calling from a 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:56.120 Dr Reynolds, I'm not from next Corporal, from the competitor. 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:58.920 I'm not a report. I'm definitely not a Max Fell 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:02.320 the fanboy. I'm going to find out what happened. No, 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:05.640 I'm sorry my brother while he was there at Next 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:14.240 call my brother, who is Michael Corbyn? Doctor? You try 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:17.760 to protect him, didn't you? The others too? And if 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.520 you weren't for you, the others would be well, they 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.640 wouldn't have survived. Viva. Let me be clear, dr un As, 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:26.199 you are a hero, and now you can save the 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:34.480 new ones too, New ones. I need your help. I can't. 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.800 I can't help you, not the help. Yes you can, 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:43.800 Yes you can, you can, Truesdale, I'm sorry, Truesdale. You'll 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:47.280 have to talk to David Truesdale. He was in the trials. 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:50.720 He's a vet. He was in the group in Tehran 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:56.319 and the p K Eagle Trials like the Super Soldier program. 0:12:56.400 --> 0:13:00.400 Jesus Christ, how do you believe everything you read? They 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:03.120 were pumping those boys up on cocktails of methemphetamines and 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:09.760 no tropics, nothing that advanced, just very expensive ones. Hold on, 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:16.960 write this down and Jack, Yeah, I'm blocking you again, 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:20.680 but I might need more information After this we never 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:25.520 speak again. Do you have a pen or not? Yeah? Sure? 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:29.400 The program i'd been named p K Eagle is one 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:33.000 of those conspiracy theories you occasionally are about the US 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:37.120 government's attempts to make Captain America. Well, apparently this particular 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:39.120 rumor had truth to it. Hob He gave me an 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:43.120 address down in Bay View, providence shelter. It was located 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:48.720 in a narrow back alley, abandoned cardboard and tired blankets, vets, 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:52.760 nomadic got upunks, homeless families trickling down from the encampments. 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:56.280 You know, and to see so rich. The site of 0:13:56.320 --> 0:14:00.480 hopeless people is stock and I found you're still on 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:05.320 a car, wrapped in a tad marine comeback jacket. He 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:09.560 was not a friendly prisons I'm gonn't take the risk 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:14.520 of being traced back to next cool, so I had 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:20.640 to disguise my identity. Excuse me, Mr Truthdale, Who are you? 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:28.280 Can I say? Dr Piz? Who are you? I'm Jim 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:32.040 Jim Crane. You're a cop? No no, I'm here to 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:37.120 ask you a few questions like a cop. No, no, listen, 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:44.880 I'm here about the next corporate huh. Okay, I just 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:46.640 want to talk to you about the drug trial there. 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:53.120 How would you describe your experience? Is this a survey? 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:57.160 Oh no, no, no, I just check your questions somewhere else. 0:14:57.440 --> 0:15:07.920 Did you know Michael Corbyn Corbin? You know the name Mikey, Yeah, Michael, 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:12.800 Michael Michael Corbyn. Okay, progress, Mr Treuesdale, you may be 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:17.280 entitled to a considerable someone money. What you do know 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:24.320 what happened to Mr Corbin? I don't ye, skinny kid 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:27.240 real talk all right, Yeah, sure, that's that's accurate, always 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:30.760 making jokes. I wouldn't know. All I know is that 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:34.080 you are listed as one of the potential plaintiffs plaintiffs. 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.320 Took me some time to locate you, Mr Tuesdale, But 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:38.600 if you were in next Corps trials, the same clinical 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:41.600 trial with Mr Corbin, you stand to recoup a large 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:43.440 sum of money. If we find that next Corp is 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:47.120 implicated in any way for what we're wrong, class action 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:49.280 suit of this kind could be settled or awarded a 0:15:49.360 --> 0:16:00.000 generous judgment. Yeah, what happened to him? Well, Mr Trusty 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:06.640 else he jumped off the building ship. Yeah, I found 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:13.040 that dream that you know? Nah, I just must have 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:15.600 heard it is so uh you two must have really 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:20.040 bonded there during the next court trouser. You know something else? 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:23.840 May I ask what was it like? Can you tell 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:32.000 me about your experience retreated? Well? Well, I said, my 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:36.160 experience was pretty good. I mean, all things considered. They 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:39.360 were nice, didn't talk down to me like most of 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:41.920 the v A hacks, Like, yeah, I get it. My 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:45.600 eggs is scrambled, but like you as those responsibility right, 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:50.800 you had PTSD when you came back from Yeah, it 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:53.040 was on the ground in Tehran, the real ship show. 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:54.840 I mean, you'd have to be a box to come 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:57.680 back from that easy. And then the way they dumped 0:16:57.680 --> 0:16:59.680 you back in the world like everything's gonna be fine, 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:02.680 like hey, bat on the back of the parade, and 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:05.840 then you do back in the nine to five and man, 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:08.919 they had us on no stems over there, like the 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:10.600 ones that give you lads of focus, and I swear 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:13.320 to God, make you kid like a Yeah, I read 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:16.679 about the program. They shut it down right when we 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:20.880 all came back junkies. But next course, how did they 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:24.400 treat you? They treated me like a human being, gave 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:26.200 me money and a place to stay for a little 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:38.360 and what was it? Dround like oh what the drugs? Yeah, yeah, 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:44.200 ship different the stems they had us on over there. 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.480 It felt like all my energy got shifted hard into 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:50.920 my extremities. Like one minute, this full body with a 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:53.760 spine and the chest and an asshole, and then you 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:55.440 bite down on the capsule and all of a sudden 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:58.159 you're nothing but eyes and eyes beat and a finger 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:04.120 on a trigger. But it's not clean, like you're still 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:13.960 aware that your muscles are taught, your jaws clenched. You know, 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:16.919 one of the biggest things that they had to do 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:23.040 for us metically in that program fucking didn't too, Man. 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:26.760 I clenched my jaws so hard I broke two boulders. 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:30.199 How did you get pulled into the next core? I 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:33.520 saw the yeah looking for steady work, and when I called, 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:35.320 they jumped at the chance to work with someone who 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:38.119 did the ship out too. I think you finally have 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:40.400 someone to tell a difference between their products and their 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:43.480 stringy ship. Uncle Sam was pumping in US and the 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:48.800 drugs were better next level. When they put me on 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:53.360 their next core, it was fantastic. Black ops me again, 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:59.640 but better me, like more learned. No, not just that, 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:06.880 not just alert. I was grounded. All the doubt, all 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:11.359 the bad thoughts that the agitation, paranoia, their self hatred, 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:16.199 they don't fucking evaporated. Man, you take shut eye, you 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:18.960 feel like a god, like you're watching the game from 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:23.200 above and you can see across time like everyone else 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:26.719 is moving in slow motion. I had all the energy 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:29.080 that the old drugs gave me, all the focus, but 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:34.800 I was relaxed, like I was floating, like when I 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:39.960 was a little kid. It was perfect. I could do anything. 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:46.919 But then one there's no magic pill too. Somewhere along 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:49.720 the line, rent comes to what do you mean? How 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:51.120 do what? I thought there'd be some sort of miracle 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:53.800 drugs with outside effects. There's always a crash at the 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:58.040 end of it. Man, It's the law of pleasure. Like gravity, 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:02.240 what goes up must come out. You gotta pay the price. 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:10.840 Are you all right? Sometimes? Just even talking about it, 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:15.400 I get the twitches. Have you had any more contact 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:21.440 with the next quarter? Have you spoken to Max Fuller since? Yeah? 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:36.240 Just ben Benjamin? Who's Benjamin? Okay? Mr Truthsdale. Mr Trusdale 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:43.520 touched me. I'm leaving the questions. It's fine, I'm gone. 0:20:43.520 --> 0:21:02.760 I'm gone, Mr Truthsdale. Mr Truslane touched me. Touch question. 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:09.200 It's fine, gone gone, David Trusdale. If only I knew 0:21:09.240 --> 0:21:11.879 then what I know now. I left the shelter and 0:21:11.920 --> 0:21:14.720 headed back to work. I was in with next Corp, 0:21:15.200 --> 0:21:17.320 but so far another the fouls that I had access 0:21:17.359 --> 0:21:20.320 to said very much about the human trials and the 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:24.920 test subject I had come across wards not exactly stable, 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:28.119 so I'd have to keep playing until I found a 0:21:28.119 --> 0:21:32.000 way into the inner Santum. And the daily life of 0:21:32.000 --> 0:21:34.600 a start up assistant is hectic and tedious at the 0:21:34.640 --> 0:21:37.320 same time. Up at five in the office that buy 0:21:37.320 --> 0:21:40.480 seven together and sort Max's correspondents of the day and 0:21:40.560 --> 0:21:44.000 bring it to him in the order of importance. Sometimes 0:21:44.000 --> 0:21:48.080 I'm thrilled about my decisions with Max is like having 0:21:48.119 --> 0:21:52.159 to defend the dissertations. Sorry, you have three messages from 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:56.400 Dina Hall from whet past. I know, but I need 0:21:56.440 --> 0:21:58.080 to connect. You know, I don't think you do. You don't. 0:21:58.119 --> 0:22:00.960 You keep reminding me about Dina, which means you seem 0:22:01.000 --> 0:22:02.560 to think that press is now what we should be 0:22:02.600 --> 0:22:05.639 focused on. Yeah, but see, yes, it's going to be 0:22:05.680 --> 0:22:07.560 here before we know it, if we wanted to, if 0:22:07.560 --> 0:22:10.879 we want to pass. I told her. You can tell 0:22:11.000 --> 0:22:14.399 her louder. Okay, tend meeting with all the heads of 0:22:14.480 --> 0:22:17.720 departments to go over a new developments, business strategy, et cetera. 0:22:18.240 --> 0:22:21.000 A right, the daily report for Max, who normally doesn't attend, 0:22:21.000 --> 0:22:22.240 and give it to him to read in the after. 0:22:22.359 --> 0:22:25.560 You know, you don't have to tell me everything. Marketing says. Okay, 0:22:25.640 --> 0:22:28.240 there's a reason I don't attend those myself, right, I 0:22:28.320 --> 0:22:31.840 need you to be my filter. Max gives me the 0:22:31.840 --> 0:22:34.440 answers to every question asked at the morning meetings, which 0:22:34.480 --> 0:22:36.520 I usually type up with my desk while shoving lunch 0:22:36.560 --> 0:22:40.960 down my front. More correspondence, more to filter. Six thirty 0:22:41.119 --> 0:22:43.480 I talked Max through his medians and calls for the 0:22:43.520 --> 0:22:46.040 next day. After three weeks of what was standard my 0:22:46.280 --> 0:22:49.000 numbering intern level work for the day, we're going to 0:22:49.119 --> 0:22:50.760 question what the hell I was going to be able 0:22:50.760 --> 0:22:53.199 to accomplish with this game. Don't forget. You've got a 0:22:53.200 --> 0:22:55.280 breakfast meeting with the A r C group to go 0:22:55.320 --> 0:22:58.080 over the last quarters. And that's when I got the video. 0:23:00.320 --> 0:23:04.879 You need to take that. No, just an old buddy. Sorry. 0:23:04.960 --> 0:23:08.240 Eight thirty at before the hotel, All right, put it. Thanks, Okay, 0:23:08.280 --> 0:23:10.760 I'm going head out get some rest. I've got a 0:23:10.760 --> 0:23:13.919 text message from a block number, just a link to 0:23:13.960 --> 0:23:19.560 a video called Algernon. The scene cuts into a laboratory. 0:23:20.480 --> 0:23:23.919 The subject step began acting erratic at roughly two fifteen 0:23:23.960 --> 0:23:27.560 hours without sleep. At first, it was one or two 0:23:27.800 --> 0:23:33.200 familiar voice dr Abby Reynolds. One by one day all 0:23:33.240 --> 0:23:37.359 began exhibiting similar behaviors, pacing, digging at the bottoms of 0:23:37.359 --> 0:23:42.840 their cages until their claws began bleeding. Cortisol levels spiked 0:23:42.840 --> 0:23:45.760 off the charts, and one by one, in rapid succession, 0:23:45.760 --> 0:23:53.200 they began attacking each other themselves. They are eating each other. 0:23:54.760 --> 0:24:00.080 I am, I am terminating this round of testing, be 0:24:00.119 --> 0:24:07.520 euthanizing the subject. This is I've never seen anything. If 0:24:07.520 --> 0:24:11.520 this was the result of the animal testing rats devouring themselves, 0:24:12.440 --> 0:24:14.840 chewing each of his faces off, then how the hell 0:24:14.920 --> 0:24:18.439 did next Scorpe get permission to have human trials? And 0:24:18.520 --> 0:24:20.760 these data points had to have been omitted in the 0:24:20.760 --> 0:24:22.960 application of a third party review of the tests. Had 0:24:23.000 --> 0:24:25.720 to have been not just sugarcoated. They had to have 0:24:25.840 --> 0:24:29.680 baked a brand new seven layer cake. I had to 0:24:30.600 --> 0:24:32.719 And if we assume that it was Dr Aby Reynolds 0:24:32.720 --> 0:24:35.960 who send the video, that would make her complicity. It 0:24:36.000 --> 0:24:38.840 would also make her a massive liability for them. So 0:24:38.880 --> 0:24:41.199 how much did they pay her to shut her up? 0:24:42.080 --> 0:24:45.080 Hero Mars? When I got home that night after me 0:24:45.200 --> 0:24:48.240 and David Truth still popped three milligrams and Zanex washed 0:24:48.280 --> 0:24:50.639 it down with three fingers of bourbon. The zan X 0:24:50.760 --> 0:24:54.439 was my brother Michael's anxiety disorders of family trade. I 0:24:54.480 --> 0:24:58.280 found the Unfield prescription and the things he'd left behind, 0:24:59.520 --> 0:25:04.760 so I took you. I only used it occasionally, strategically, 0:25:06.119 --> 0:25:08.000 like when a death conform my grain was kicking in 0:25:08.040 --> 0:25:14.040 after thirty hours without sleep. Sometimes it worked toward off 0:25:14.040 --> 0:25:20.120 the darkness my night terrors. I just needed to turn 0:25:20.119 --> 0:25:23.320 my brain off and check out. I remember my head 0:25:23.400 --> 0:25:26.800 hitting the pillar. I remember the ice melting in the 0:25:26.800 --> 0:25:30.119 bottom of the bourbon glass, and I remember feeling a 0:25:30.240 --> 0:25:32.600 draft on my face and realizing my bedroom window was 0:25:32.640 --> 0:25:39.240 open about an inch. And I remember, as I was 0:25:39.280 --> 0:25:43.359 slipping into oblivion that had never opened the window before 0:25:43.400 --> 0:25:47.240 because it had been sealed shot by decades of paint enamel. 0:25:48.920 --> 0:25:51.200 I bolted straight up, despite my very serious need for 0:25:51.280 --> 0:25:54.080 real sleep. There's an accent booze I swallow. It couldn't 0:25:54.080 --> 0:25:56.880 stopped my heart rate from suddenly searching, and I shot 0:25:56.920 --> 0:25:59.320 the window, startled through my apartment in a haze, my 0:25:59.359 --> 0:26:03.240 mind race, and despite my completely impaired bodily function, I 0:26:03.320 --> 0:26:07.560 took a quick inventory. Something had been in my apartment. 0:26:09.960 --> 0:26:12.360 It was as if everything has shifted just a few 0:26:12.400 --> 0:26:16.720 inches off. I've been hoping for some indication that was 0:26:16.760 --> 0:26:19.280 on the right path, something to tell me I was 0:26:19.320 --> 0:26:23.000 getting close to exposing what was being covered up. And 0:26:23.119 --> 0:26:27.960 here it was. I had hit a nerve. I couldn't 0:26:27.960 --> 0:26:30.960 think straight. I'd been awake for over thirty hours, and 0:26:30.960 --> 0:26:33.080 I wasn't going to get any of that precious sleep now, 0:26:33.560 --> 0:26:35.720 which I needed in order to keep going, in order 0:26:35.760 --> 0:26:38.080 to get to the truth about Next Corp. And why 0:26:38.160 --> 0:26:40.840 Max Fuller would want to push his revolutionary human enhancement 0:26:40.880 --> 0:26:45.800 technology to market despite the risks. What's that? That's the 0:26:45.840 --> 0:26:48.840 low battery alert. If you'll sell at five, the vehicle 0:26:48.840 --> 0:26:52.120 will power down if we do not recharge ship. All right, 0:26:52.640 --> 0:27:01.960 find a nearrow station. Close your eyes. I let's return 0:27:02.040 --> 0:27:11.399 to the boy. The boy on the ice. That's it. 0:27:13.280 --> 0:27:17.439 The boy's body has gone numb, and he's staring with 0:27:17.560 --> 0:27:20.920 bright burning eyes at the winter stars, appearing in the sky, 0:27:22.600 --> 0:27:26.439 trying not to think of his brother, his identical twin brother, 0:27:26.600 --> 0:27:30.840 who who has already fallen through the ice. The final 0:27:30.880 --> 0:27:34.479 breath frozen in his lungs is lifeless, eyes fixed towards 0:27:34.520 --> 0:27:42.040 the depths below the bottomless dark, a mirror image of himself. 0:27:53.240 --> 0:27:58.320