Speaker 1: Tomorrow's Monsters as a production of My Heart Radio. Flynn
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Speaker 1: made right, right choice with Fast Troup. January seven, Keystone, Nebraska,
Speaker 1: almost midnight. I had to stop and recharge the car,
Speaker 1: and I think I was gonna make it. I've been
Speaker 1: on the road for over twenty four hours now, about
Speaker 1: thirty hours still to go before I reached Arlington unless
Speaker 1: they catch me first. The night after my first day
Speaker 1: and next Corpus Max Fullest personal assistant, I tracked down
Speaker 1: David Truesdale, one of the participants of the first phase
Speaker 1: of human Trials, and didn't go well. Have you had
Speaker 1: any more contact with the next quarter You've spoken to
Speaker 1: Max Fuller since? Yeah? Just Benjamin's Benjamin, Mr Truch. Looking back,
Speaker 1: that's when all the trouble started. I didn't know who
Speaker 1: was on to me at the time when I started digging,
Speaker 1: so he didn't go unnoticed. Dr Abby Reynolds had tipped
Speaker 1: me off to Truesdale's whereabouts. She was next Corps physician.
Speaker 1: Her job was to monitor and track the test subjects
Speaker 1: during the shot I research similar behaviors, pacing, digging at
Speaker 1: the bottoms of their cages, and attacking each other. I
Speaker 1: am terminating this roundup test. The fact that she oversaw
Speaker 1: faced one of the human trials despite something going horribly
Speaker 1: wrong with the previous animal tests, and she must have
Speaker 1: been instrumental in covering up. The only thing I knew
Speaker 1: for sure is that she would crack. She wasn't a
Speaker 1: crypto hold onto a sea Christ much longer. Her moral
Speaker 1: compass wouldn't allow it. She was too good. I could
Speaker 1: said a lot about person that way, and if anyone
Speaker 1: could break her, it was me. I just needed to
Speaker 1: find her. Let me gome a fast track already. Never today, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: just hurry up. M oh damn, please let your charge? Christ?
Speaker 1: What is this kind of one? She's gonna stand there?
Speaker 1: Stay on board? Can I help here? May decided for
Speaker 1: electric You know the gas pumps are on the other side.
Speaker 1: Recharge complete, Jack, Let's go on, let's considering your side.
Speaker 1: Let's let's go. Let's go resuming, Chris. Who was that
Speaker 1: stark out here? I can see the dull glow of
Speaker 1: some metropolis off in the distance. Highways are for getting
Speaker 1: from A to B and back rows of what happens
Speaker 1: in between. My father told me that once it was bullshit.
Speaker 1: Of course, my father was capable of a massive amount
Speaker 1: of bullshit. The truth is he was avoiding major highways
Speaker 1: because he was on the run and there are less
Speaker 1: facial recognition cameras on the back roads. My father, when
Speaker 1: he passed away, he had nothing, no heirlooms, no family possessions.
Speaker 1: He came from nothing and to nothing he returned. He
Speaker 1: died alone with twenty five K in a sock drawer
Speaker 1: my inheritance. That and the pile of video tapes filled
Speaker 1: with footage of me as a boy. You think that's
Speaker 1: what because I know that you thought I was going
Speaker 1: to give your other hand. I switched it because he
Speaker 1: thought I was going to do that trick every time.
Speaker 1: Always watched the hun on. Man. If there's only one
Speaker 1: thing you learned from your papa, it's how to read
Speaker 1: people and to always watch the hunt abby, always watch
Speaker 1: the hands of None of these have ever been digitized
Speaker 1: by his old penis on the camera still worked. My
Speaker 1: father didn't believe in digital No social media profiles, no
Speaker 1: online accounts, no digital footprint at all, which seems impossible
Speaker 1: these days. Ship it's almost magic. Him being or nobody
Speaker 1: to him meant that he could be anybody, anyone he
Speaker 1: needed to be, depending on the circumstances. That's what it
Speaker 1: takes to be a professional. Comment. When I was ten,
Speaker 1: he decided that it was time for me to learn
Speaker 1: the family business, how to support a sucker and how
Speaker 1: to pocket their money. Whether they're noble laureates or low
Speaker 1: life hustlers or fathers cast long shadows. When you were born,
Speaker 1: each of you, there was a scene in you, deep down,
Speaker 1: and this was potential. This could grow into a billion
Speaker 1: different things. This is doctor Walter Fuller, Max's father, from
Speaker 1: a commencement speech at Stanford University. More sure when he's exactly,
Speaker 1: but the doctor seems to be in the fourties dust
Speaker 1: of silver. These temples, a man in his prime. Family
Speaker 1: gave you alluring and powerful you needed to get here.
Speaker 1: You have found and trained a passion long enough for
Speaker 1: it to get you through one of the most challenging
Speaker 1: periods in your life. And what you need to do
Speaker 1: now is to forget it all. Forget all of it,
Speaker 1: everything that led you to this moment. Let it go
Speaker 1: because it isn't real anymore. It isn't real because it
Speaker 1: no longer exists. It's in the past. The only thing
Speaker 1: that does exist right now is right now, this present moment,
Speaker 1: and this this, this is where the future begins. In
Speaker 1: this moment, you are in the prime of your life
Speaker 1: and on the edge of a new era of human history.
Speaker 1: From this moment, anything is possible. You are the authors
Speaker 1: of what happens next. You can predict the future by
Speaker 1: inventing it. Mh predict the future by inventing him when
Speaker 1: he did. Walter Fuller's contribution to the world of medicine
Speaker 1: is immeasurable. The millions saved each year as a result
Speaker 1: of that contribution, the noble prize he won as a
Speaker 1: consequence Walter fullest work has been widely praised and documented
Speaker 1: in history books. But Walter fullest personal life was jealously guarded.
Speaker 1: You know, it's astonishing that a public figure like Walter
Speaker 1: Fuller was able to keep details of his private life
Speaker 1: secret in this day and age. I guess that's one
Speaker 1: thing he had in common with my father. Even though
Speaker 1: my father had no public identity at all. Like me,
Speaker 1: Max's father was mostly absent from his life it's one
Speaker 1: thing we have in common. Yet you know, they told
Speaker 1: us to see the world very differently. My father taught
Speaker 1: me to track patterns and be an observer, Trust no one,
Speaker 1: and never take your eyes off the hands, because everything
Speaker 1: in if it's a con and everyone is always on
Speaker 1: the take. Max's father taught him to repress the past,
Speaker 1: live only for the future, and that nothing else matters.
Speaker 1: So we came from very different backgrounds. Max and I
Speaker 1: we had did nothing common for me to be able
Speaker 1: to earn his trust. He took a shine to me
Speaker 1: because I made myself the protegee that he wanted, brilliant
Speaker 1: and wounded someone like himself. I keep thinking about the
Speaker 1: first time I saw it the other side of Max Fuller.
Speaker 1: It was almost midnight on December, the night he disappeared.
Speaker 1: The entire team was working over time preparing for TES,
Speaker 1: the International Consumer Electronic Show. This was to be the
Speaker 1: proving ground for Next Corps New Mind apps. When I
Speaker 1: leaned into Max's office, I heard him talking to someone.
Speaker 1: It was he, but when I opened the door, I
Speaker 1: would not just stand me. There was no one else
Speaker 1: in the room. Jack, No, No, it's fine. I was
Speaker 1: actually just having a drink just Max, Would you like one?
Speaker 1: I think so. I want to let you know that
Speaker 1: across the table. But to see yes, innovation awards off
Speaker 1: the yaquina. Oh that's excellent. Is there anything else for tonight?
Speaker 1: I have a seen Jack? Please, I insist? Okay, sure,
Speaker 1: how's your mother? Jack? I'm sorry forgiving me. You don't
Speaker 1: have to answer that. I know it's personal. It's just
Speaker 1: that I was thinking about her, About my mother. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: it's not lost to me what you must be going through.
Speaker 1: She isn't verbal anymore. It's really hard when they get
Speaker 1: to that point. There you go. Thanks. You know I
Speaker 1: still call her, you know, doctors save my voice calmed her?
Speaker 1: Which is you know? You know that that that makes sense.
Speaker 1: Your mother is one of the last humans on earth
Speaker 1: of the primal brain. You and I we grew up
Speaker 1: with smartphones. Because of that, our brains are wired completely differently.
Speaker 1: The massive amount of screen time is forced completely different
Speaker 1: neural connections. For us. Our ability to recognize faces and
Speaker 1: voices is nowhere near to that of our parents. You know,
Speaker 1: my biggest regret not spending more time with her, If
Speaker 1: that's sure? I mean, do any of us ever really
Speaker 1: have enough? Time with the people we love. But no,
Speaker 1: she always had the best advice. Yeah, any girl outdated.
Speaker 1: My mother always knew exactly how long it would last.
Speaker 1: When I listened to my mother, my life was better.
Speaker 1: She was wise. Now all that wisdom has gone. It's
Speaker 1: just con Are you the only one taking care of her? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Just me now, all alone with her here now. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I had had a brother, but he's gone. Huh. I
Speaker 1: thought you said you didn't have any siblings. He was
Speaker 1: a he was a soldier, a soldier. Huh. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I didn't know we had so much in common. M
Speaker 1: my apologies. I really don't mean to be invasive. I've
Speaker 1: been told I lack a certain social etiquette. It's difficult
Speaker 1: for me to decipher what's appropriate when it comes to
Speaker 1: personal matters. So you're so, what about your brother? What
Speaker 1: about him? You still miss him? Ah Um, I'm sorry, maxxive,
Speaker 1: Now I'm being too forward. No, no, no, no, you're not.
Speaker 1: It's okay, okay. And that's when it happened. My father
Speaker 1: used to call it the shift. The moment of sucker
Speaker 1: makes the choice to trust you. For most people, to
Speaker 1: shift happens right away. Well, that's if the coin is good.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest. Max Filler what no Stocker. I've
Speaker 1: been working on shifting him for months. They just kept
Speaker 1: studying me like a fucking spider. I never broke them.
Speaker 1: And then it happened, right then Max's gaze transformed. He
Speaker 1: went from observing me too m to trust in me. No,
Speaker 1: I don't miss him. It's not like that. What should like.
Speaker 1: It's been over thirty years now, and there's still an
Speaker 1: ache sometimes a little tightening in the chest, you know,
Speaker 1: But like anything, it's just sort of fulled up into
Speaker 1: the rest of your life eventually. I guess you, of
Speaker 1: all people would know that, all right, Jack, Oh, they
Speaker 1: live on inside us, in our thoughts and our dreams.
Speaker 1: What do you mean? What I mean is our thoughts
Speaker 1: are shaped differently for having known them, and these thoughts
Speaker 1: take form in our actions, and our actions eventually become
Speaker 1: cemented into habits. So we look at ourselves in the mirror.
Speaker 1: You can see our brothers just reflected back. That was cheesy. Sorry,
Speaker 1: it's poetic, actually, no, or maybe you know, maybe it's
Speaker 1: more like what am I trying to say? We're haunted
Speaker 1: by them. Trauma is the Achilles heel. It can be
Speaker 1: our saving grace, but it can also be our downfall.
Speaker 1: It's a design flaw design for him. He was my
Speaker 1: father's favorite, you know, my brother Benjamin, his favorite son.
Speaker 1: That my father would have never said that. I'm sure
Speaker 1: that wasn't the case. I think he loved Ben's brashness.
Speaker 1: I mean, kid was the first out of the womb.
Speaker 1: He's the first to walk. Like I said, he was
Speaker 1: a lot more like my mom. And when he died,
Speaker 1: it was as if he took the last of her
Speaker 1: with him. And so Dad threw himself into work full force.
Speaker 1: He took all of the energy he would have taken
Speaker 1: into raising us and plowed into the future without me.
Speaker 1: What do you do? What did I do? I went
Speaker 1: to boarding schools. What I did when when I came
Speaker 1: home from school. I didn't notice a change in him
Speaker 1: because he was always sort of distant with me. He
Speaker 1: didn't notice a change in himself because he was too
Speaker 1: focused on the work and too vain to admit to
Speaker 1: himself that he was slipping. It was his assistant, Marie
Speaker 1: who finally came to me. They could have stopped it,
Speaker 1: but he was already so diminished. It was too late
Speaker 1: for any of his drugs to really save him, and
Speaker 1: they hadn't figured out yet how to reverse it. Marie
Speaker 1: had been too afraid to say anything. God, what I'm
Speaker 1: getting at is there's a danger in surrounding yourself with
Speaker 1: people who regard you too highly. Jack Hm, that's why
Speaker 1: you were here. That wasn't why I was Damn. That
Speaker 1: was three months into my time at Next Corporate, and
Speaker 1: I'd spent most of that time when I was in
Speaker 1: photo of Max around as a perfect persige, digging into
Speaker 1: his company's secrets, trying to take him down. And I
Speaker 1: hadn't made much progress to that end until that night.
Speaker 1: Something happened that changed everything. I needed to find Next
Speaker 1: Corps Achilles Hill. I need to find Abbie Reynolds. And
Speaker 1: now it was the night I finally cool a break.
Speaker 1: I needed to find Abbie Reynolds. And that was the
Speaker 1: night I finally cool a break. I have this video
Speaker 1: of my father of his final hours. Sometimes I watch
Speaker 1: it to remind myself. It was the only time my
Speaker 1: father told me that he was proud of me. It
Speaker 1: was like a fleeting moment of clarity. Any time, I'll
Speaker 1: be right back. He was going for a few minutes,
Speaker 1: Can I hurt it? Another voice? Just like before, But
Speaker 1: there was someone else in the barthroom with Max. So
Speaker 1: I stood up and slowly approached the barroom door so
Speaker 1: they could cast some v in my hidden mic. What
Speaker 1: the hell? Who is that? No? H? I slipped back
Speaker 1: into my seat. And when he came out, and it's
Speaker 1: gonna be hard to explain. When he came back from
Speaker 1: the bar froom, something was different. He stood there studying me, smiling.
Speaker 1: Now he had shifted to something new, something dark, His
Speaker 1: eyes intense. He seemed almost wild. He had on the
Speaker 1: gone to some kind of transformation. Is everything okay with you?
Speaker 1: I want you to see it? Wa just wait, wait
Speaker 1: and watch hey that Yeah, it's me Dad. I need
Speaker 1: my glasses. I can't. I can't find it. Where am I?
Speaker 1: Goddamn class? Here? The right here? That I got? Oh? Okay?
Speaker 1: Then turned my hand, I got got hand. Okay, it's you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's me. Okay, Ketto, Where are your baby? Ketto?
Speaker 1: Where have you been? Dinner was two hours ago? It
Speaker 1: was two hours ago? Okay, okay, okay, no wait wait
Speaker 1: wait that's not right. That's not right. God, damn it,
Speaker 1: that's not right. I'm I'm sorry. I am not really
Speaker 1: myself these days, these things get a little. It's okay,
Speaker 1: I get fuzzy. No, I know, bodies get old. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's criminal. Oh how are your studies? Have you?
Speaker 1: Have you done your readings? Have you completed that? Sir? Yes, sir?
Speaker 1: You have speak up son? Have you? Yes? Sir, yes, sir,
Speaker 1: I have good that's good. Good. No, that's yeah, that's
Speaker 1: good for you, good for you. Have you taken your medicine? Dad?
Speaker 1: Fran Scene said you're being difficult. What what did you say?
Speaker 1: She said that? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: excuse me. I'm not being difficult. I'm not. That bitch
Speaker 1: keeps coming into my goddamn house, into my room. She
Speaker 1: comes out, and she tells me what I can do.
Speaker 1: It's my goddamn she know, she just cannot tell me
Speaker 1: what to do with my goddamn dad. Calm down, don't
Speaker 1: she's not even here right now, your hands, Dad, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to help you. Right off me. Get the funk
Speaker 1: off me. Dad. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. No,
Speaker 1: it's no, don't apologize. I'm I'm sorry to It's okay.
Speaker 1: Just h I I've been I've been a little modeled lately.
Speaker 1: It's I think it's the work. It's just been too much.
Speaker 1: I get it. It's it's look at you. Look at you.
Speaker 1: You are a good boy. You have always been special,
Speaker 1: and I am so sorry that I have never really
Speaker 1: said it. But it's true. I have always known that
Speaker 1: you would do great things. As much as much as
Speaker 1: I have hopefully accomplished, as hard as I've worked, and
Speaker 1: as as far as I may have raised the bar,
Speaker 1: I have got nothing on you, son. I've got nothing
Speaker 1: on you. You are going to change the world in
Speaker 1: ways I can't even imagine. Do you hear me? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's true. Thank you so much, Dad, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: It's true. Benjamin, what did you call me? Jesus? It's recent, Benny?
Speaker 1: Would you turn up the thermostat said? Then he too
Speaker 1: is where I like it. I don't know why she
Speaker 1: likes it so God damn Colt. He was so far
Speaker 1: gone that he didn't know who's talking to The one
Speaker 1: time he expressed pride in his son, Max, and I
Speaker 1: thought it was a lucid moment. I believe, deep down,
Speaker 1: despite the years of guilt I felt from my part
Speaker 1: of my brother's death and my fear that my father
Speaker 1: despised me for killing his favorite son, that maybe he
Speaker 1: was actually accepting of me, proud of me. He thought
Speaker 1: I was Benjamin still alive, because because that was my
Speaker 1: father's fantasy after all, his secret wish that my brother
Speaker 1: ben had lived and that I had been the one
Speaker 1: who died that day in the ice. It was never
Speaker 1: me he would be proud of. Do you know why
Speaker 1: it is that we do what we do so that
Speaker 1: people do not to suffer? No, this video goes on.
Speaker 1: I won't trouble you further with it, but in ten
Speaker 1: minutes he ships himself in fift as I'm trying to
Speaker 1: clean the ship off the legs and ass of a
Speaker 1: nobel laureate, the single strongest man I've ever known, whose
Speaker 1: work changed the entire course of modern medicine as we
Speaker 1: know it. Do you know what he does? He starts
Speaker 1: to pray our father, who weren't in heaven out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: This lifelong committed atheist who felt nothing but sustained towards religion,
Speaker 1: who called it a weakness, railed against the political system
Speaker 1: that prompted up this fucking titan who beat it into
Speaker 1: my damn skull that we don't beg for help from
Speaker 1: the great, almighty, invisible thing called God. Have the goal.
Speaker 1: While I was wiping his frankles to he was sick.
Speaker 1: He was sick, and he was confused. And that, my
Speaker 1: little friend, is why we do what we do to help. Yeah, sure, sure,
Speaker 1: we want to help to help. That sounds noble, Yeah good,
Speaker 1: We are very noble people. But there is nothing, nothing
Speaker 1: more disgusting in this world, more hateful and insidious than frailty.
Speaker 1: And I can smell it. I can smell it, just
Speaker 1: like I can smell it on my father, on my
Speaker 1: pathetic muling, praying father. And Jack, you want to know
Speaker 1: what it smell? It is like, it smells like shit.
Speaker 1: We don't do what we do simply because we love humanity.
Speaker 1: It's because we detest the weakness in them. I can
Speaker 1: trust you, right, Jack, That's why you're here to earn
Speaker 1: my trust, of course. Yeah. And he's delivered this for me.
Speaker 1: Why'd you He gave me an umvelove addressed to Abby Reynolds.
Speaker 1: That was the last night any of us alms for
Speaker 1: a while. The next morning he would disappear. M the
Speaker 1: boy hears his father's voice. It's echoing from across the
Speaker 1: snow covered hill buff lake, carried by the wind. Who
Speaker 1: knows how long it had taken his father to register
Speaker 1: his children's absence. When did it occur to the father
Speaker 1: that he had not encountered his children since early that morning?
Speaker 1: And the father's voice draws nearer, It's winded and filled
Speaker 1: with terror, It calls out. The boy strains to turn
Speaker 1: his head, and he could see his father stumbling towards
Speaker 1: him in the snow. He'd been discovered at last, and
Speaker 1: soon he surely would be rescued. Soon he would be
Speaker 1: safe and warm in his father's strong arms, and his
Speaker 1: father would hold him tighter than he had since he'd
Speaker 1: been born, And the boy would look into his father's
Speaker 1: weeping eyes, and he would see his father remembering, remembering
Speaker 1: how precious the boy was to him, how deeply he
Speaker 1: loved the boy. And that is the last thought the
Speaker 1: boy has before before the ice break, before he slips
Speaker 1: beneath the surface of the frozen leg and comes face
Speaker 1: to face with the mirror image of himself, his dead brother.
Speaker 1: Benjamin 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, saw and Guja as David Truesdale,
Speaker 1: Nicholas Takoski as Finn Connolly, Claire Bronson as dr Abbie Reynolds,
Speaker 1: David Chen as Michael Corbin, Suhila Eltar as Jenna, Victor
Speaker 1: Rivera as Eddie Binder, Robert Pralgo as Agent Batty, Steve
Speaker 1: Coulter as Senator Berkeley, wrote A Griffiths as Rainy Webb,
Speaker 1: with additional performances by Helen Abel, Jason Williams, my Chel 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 Riboski and Mike Reagan. Casting by
Speaker 1: Jessica Fox Thick Pen. Our executive producers are Scott Shelton,
Speaker 1: Shelby Thomas, Alexander Williams, and Matthew Frederick. Written by Dan
Speaker 1: Bush and Nicholas Takoski. Created by Dan Bush and Conald Byrne.
Speaker 1: Directed by Dan Bush, Produced by both Flint dan Bush
Speaker 1: and John Boyega. Tomorrow's Monsters is a production of Higheart Radio,
Speaker 1: Flynn Picture Company, Psychopia Pictures, and Upper Room Productions. For
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