Speaker 1: Tomorrow's Monsters is a production of My Heart Radio, Flynn
Speaker 1: Picture Company, Side Copia Pictures, and Upper Room Productions. Get
Speaker 1: out of Wait, Get out of Way. I followed the
Speaker 1: gray van for about ten blokes. We even in and
Speaker 1: out of traffic. Okay, but he lost the A real crestender,
Speaker 1: crazy son of a bitch sleep through to the other
Speaker 1: side of the track right before the train broke. The
Speaker 1: last thing I remember was seeing flashes of the van
Speaker 1: through the speed and free cause before it disappeared out
Speaker 1: of side like coached. Okay, Jenner, resume oar pilot. Resuming
Speaker 1: autopilot Jack, to improve your chances of survival, please consider
Speaker 1: buckling your seatbelt. I turned the car around and race
Speaker 1: back to next corp with a thirty megaton migraine exploding
Speaker 1: in my frontal lobe. Arenas stopped when the bay was
Speaker 1: covered in thick fog. Visibility on the Golden gate bridge
Speaker 1: was maybe fairy feet, and that sixteen miles power. I
Speaker 1: felt the same sensation I have now out here in
Speaker 1: the desert on oil pilot at night, like I'm suspended
Speaker 1: in a void going nowhere. May thirteen, two or four am.
Speaker 1: A voice message from your brother Michael Jackets. It's it's Michael.
Speaker 1: You can you call me back? I really need some help, man.
Speaker 1: It's something's wrong with my head. Dude. Ever since the
Speaker 1: Next Corporate, ever since the trial meant I'm kind of withdrawal.
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't know. I just yeah, I'm having um,
Speaker 1: I'm having these bad bolts again. Just so, he just
Speaker 1: called just call me back. May seventeen, seven, twenty two
Speaker 1: A m A voice message from your brother, Michael, I
Speaker 1: really need you to call me back. Then. It'm I'm
Speaker 1: I'm homesick. Something happened to me. And there dude, this
Speaker 1: is to all of us, but I need I need
Speaker 1: to make and why why the hell would you call? One?
Speaker 1: Three fifteen pm. A voice message from your brother, Michael,
Speaker 1: how are your mad? Look? I got a call from
Speaker 1: Abel Abel Night. She was with me in the clinical trials.
Speaker 1: She says she thinks we meg be entitled some kind
Speaker 1: of I don't know, compensation from Next Corpse. She's got
Speaker 1: this lawyer and she rounded up the others. There's sewing.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know, you always say never
Speaker 1: trust the lawyers. All yeah, just called me back, jum.
Speaker 1: A voice message from your mother jack it's your mother.
Speaker 1: You need to call me as soon as you get this.
Speaker 1: It's Michael. Jack he's gone. I got a call from
Speaker 1: the Oakland Police Department, said Jackie, your brother said. On
Speaker 1: June seven, one month before my brother Michael died, a
Speaker 1: lawsuit was filed against Next Corp. Michael was one of
Speaker 1: the several plaintiffs who had participated in the human clinical trials,
Speaker 1: but they had all essentially signed away their rights upon
Speaker 1: entering the trial. So they must have been something, some
Speaker 1: evidence of Next Corpse liability, something that would be strong
Speaker 1: enough for any law firm to pursue it, and his
Speaker 1: lawsuits were felt before three of the plaintiffs died by
Speaker 1: a parent suicide. Maybe that's what dr Abby Reynolds was
Speaker 1: trying to tell me before she vanished from the diner
Speaker 1: without a trace. Let us written in a smear of
Speaker 1: lipstick on a white plate, written in haste. First line box,
Speaker 1: next line Abby n C, next line A l G.
Speaker 1: This riddle was spinning in my brain. When I got
Speaker 1: back to Next Corp. It was lunch and the lab
Speaker 1: was empty. But didn't have much time. I hoped on
Speaker 1: Eddie's computer. The second line of Abby's message was Abby
Speaker 1: at n C It looked like shorthand for using name
Speaker 1: maybe Abby at next corp dot com. And if it
Speaker 1: was a user named in the third line a l
Speaker 1: G and whoever else was much to offer those lists
Speaker 1: must have been a pass card. Yeah, hey, Eddie, where
Speaker 1: is everyone looking for you? Actually? What you're doing? Sorry?
Speaker 1: What's that on my computer? What are you doing on
Speaker 1: my computer? Jack? Max? Max? He's he's looking for some
Speaker 1: files things. Maybe they are on an old day of base.
Speaker 1: I just came, just took it out. Yeah, yeah, some
Speaker 1: archival profile for doctor Reynolds. You can help me look in, right,
Speaker 1: I just need to log in. I don't have access
Speaker 1: to any archival stuff. Plus it wouldn't be on this computer. Ah,
Speaker 1: my bad, my bad? What would it be? I mean
Speaker 1: the server probably need to go through hr to Oh
Speaker 1: there he is, Hi there Jack. What's the matter with you?
Speaker 1: What you're wincing? Just a headache? Where the hell have
Speaker 1: you been? Erin from? Max? And where is Max? Not here? Eddie?
Speaker 1: Can we have a moment? I was just needing to
Speaker 1: finish this get out of course? What the fund did
Speaker 1: you say to him? Whoa? What? Hey? Jack? What did
Speaker 1: you say to Max? You were the last one to
Speaker 1: see him. Okay, Cassandra, take a pill. I know he
Speaker 1: likes to have you up for a stiff drink most night,
Speaker 1: so the two of you can wallow in the existential miyer.
Speaker 1: But now he's fucking gone. So what did you talk about? Well?
Speaker 1: I don't have no clue. What what did he say
Speaker 1: say anything to me about? No? Think I don't know
Speaker 1: what you're talking about me, You don't. Okay, Okay, calm down.
Speaker 1: Look Jack, we've got the keynote tomorrow. I know, I know,
Speaker 1: and you're worried about that. Max isn't coming back. What
Speaker 1: do you mean? He finally responded to my texts the
Speaker 1: morning said he was going to be gone indefinitely. We wait,
Speaker 1: what about the Kingdom? How about his speech? We've been
Speaker 1: preparing for Las Vegas for c Yes, but Max was gone, disappeared,
Speaker 1: and he left without any indication of where he was
Speaker 1: going when he would return. Jack. Did he happen to
Speaker 1: to leave you with the speech or or or emails
Speaker 1: speech or for edits or for something he didn't nothing?
Speaker 1: I told you to keep an eye on him this weekend. Finish.
Speaker 1: I proofed it. I proofed it. I could probably reconstruct
Speaker 1: it so I can put something together. See look, Cass,
Speaker 1: we've got some time. Jack. If you and I can
Speaker 1: piece it together, then I I can deliver it. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: dropped by my office tomorrow. Jack. We're not done and
Speaker 1: it's sorry free. That's message would have to wait. Apparently,
Speaker 1: it wasn't the first time Max Fooder had gone off
Speaker 1: the deep end. I'm just curious, how did you do it?
Speaker 1: How did you come up with shy? It was after
Speaker 1: my father died. This is from December. Second became a
Speaker 1: month before CS. Max had offered me a drink and
Speaker 1: it became another late night session drinking indulging. It was
Speaker 1: Finn who saved me. I showed up at his place
Speaker 1: that summer. He was deep into some experiments. He was
Speaker 1: on fire about a project he called the Reconnected Mind.
Speaker 1: Fucking madman right here. But I've done it. I've been
Speaker 1: looking for ways to bridge the gap between the modern
Speaker 1: brain and the primal brain. This is going to change everything. Max.
Speaker 1: I've never seen him like that. His eyes were glowing
Speaker 1: with purpose. I've been so self absorbed for so long
Speaker 1: that it was inspiring to see another like minded person
Speaker 1: so focused and so passionate about an idea. Finn was
Speaker 1: grounding all of that in a way, always care free,
Speaker 1: too fascinated with the mechanics of the universe to worry
Speaker 1: about people. He invited me out to this place in
Speaker 1: the desert, and that's where I That's where I got
Speaker 1: the idea of how to make it work. I had
Speaker 1: a revelation human existence could be reprogrammed, not just enhanced,
Speaker 1: but repaired, repaired. He said. See Max considered human beings
Speaker 1: in the natural state to be broken. It caused by
Speaker 1: design fools. And he told me about the buff of Shy,
Speaker 1: an incredibly romantic tale about human Finne wanted to hack
Speaker 1: the human brain and reprogramming the man is a legit genius.
Speaker 1: But like everything else in this story, there are other sides.
Speaker 1: The same question is true of all new technologies. Is
Speaker 1: it more helpful or is it more hurtful? Take fire?
Speaker 1: Is it more helpful? Finn and I went to the
Speaker 1: rooftop of his building to rehearse for CS. Max was gone,
Speaker 1: so Finn was to feel safe if Max did In return,
Speaker 1: Finn was going to have to deliver the keynote. Now
Speaker 1: for the first time, the entire tech world would be
Speaker 1: watching everything was at stake, not already cyborgs. It's good, right,
Speaker 1: I don't think you need a cybl bit may why
Speaker 1: not counterproductive? Finn and I did get the speech cobbled
Speaker 1: together and it wasn't bad. You know. It was Fuller
Speaker 1: esque or the magic and inspiration. But let's just say
Speaker 1: public speaking is not finn strong suit. Like Johnny Greenwood
Speaker 1: had filled in for Tom York, it would have been interesting,
Speaker 1: but it wouldn't really in radiohead, Okay, I need a break.
Speaker 1: What do you say we change scenery? I have to
Speaker 1: say I couldn't have planned it any bell. I wanted
Speaker 1: to get some time we finned, but if I tried
Speaker 1: to corner him, I would have been too obvious. Well
Speaker 1: that I was digging, and so I could look in
Speaker 1: on a narrative Fin would buy. I would have to
Speaker 1: bide my time and wait. But now it's it's full
Speaker 1: was coming to me, and that he was already nervous
Speaker 1: made my job even easier. This place is sweet meat, right.
Speaker 1: We ended up at a place called the Escape part
Speaker 1: a diet of bar slash retro arcade. No smart devices permitted.
Speaker 1: Apparently Finn's favorite pastime was drinking beer. And playing antique
Speaker 1: arcade machines like Tempest or Cuba or Miss pac Man,
Speaker 1: and it was like we had traveled a half a
Speaker 1: century back in time. Finn ordered the picture of being
Speaker 1: we hopped on the Gallagher machine. It was fun you first,
Speaker 1: all right, man, it's been a while since I played this?
Speaker 1: How long since? Never? Dude, It's easy. It's two day
Speaker 1: baby stuff. Just just dodged the heavy rain of alien
Speaker 1: fire and never stopped lasting copy mm hmm. So I
Speaker 1: don't mean for this to be awkward, but if there
Speaker 1: is anything you can tell me about the other night,
Speaker 1: anything that Max said or did, even if you don't
Speaker 1: know where he was going, any intel you can give
Speaker 1: us about his behavior, we'll assure you. Max was talking
Speaker 1: about the weekend you two came up with shot was
Speaker 1: he Yeah, yeah, a lie. Max had told me about
Speaker 1: how he came up with Shot high a few weeks before.
Speaker 1: Or Max told me the night that he disappeared was
Speaker 1: that his father had never loved him and even blamed
Speaker 1: him for his this tragic death. But I wasn't interested
Speaker 1: in what he needed to know. I was only interested
Speaker 1: in what Fine already knew about everything about whether Shot
Speaker 1: I drove my brother to suicide, or if he was
Speaker 1: murdered as part of a cover up, and this was
Speaker 1: my way in Okay, okay? Whoa And what did he
Speaker 1: say exactly about how he came up with shot? I
Speaker 1: just that he had an epiphany of some kind. You'll
Speaker 1: tell me. And epiphany, huh, I guess that's one way
Speaker 1: to look at it. It's another way. You're too smart
Speaker 1: for stupid questions, Jack Max has always been a little unstable.
Speaker 1: Did you know he was in a coma when he
Speaker 1: was a kid? I met him about a year after that,
Speaker 1: after he came out of the comma. He was alone,
Speaker 1: no friends. Walter had two kids, Max and his twin
Speaker 1: brother Ben had a parent Lee Uh. One winter, the
Speaker 1: two of them were out playing a game of chicken,
Speaker 1: walking out onto an ice covered lake on their property,
Speaker 1: and they fell through. Only one of them lived. Max
Speaker 1: suffered severe hypothermia. He was actually clinically dead for four
Speaker 1: whole minutes. I mean, that'll funk anybody up. They were
Speaker 1: able to resuscitate him, but he remained in a coma
Speaker 1: for nearly a year, and he woke up to a
Speaker 1: very different family. He was an only child, now to
Speaker 1: a gaunt, pale shadow of a man who was crippled
Speaker 1: by grief. Instead of dealing with it face to face,
Speaker 1: Walter sent him away to a science camp, one with
Speaker 1: an emphasis on robotics and AI, and that is where
Speaker 1: he and I met. It's a weird, twitchy kid, didn't
Speaker 1: have any friends, and I felt sorry for him, so
Speaker 1: you know, I befriended him. In the years it followed,
Speaker 1: we be became inseparable, your fellow geeks. You know. By
Speaker 1: the fifth grade, we were rating our father's labs for
Speaker 1: gear and cooking up our own bio hacks looking figure out.
Speaker 1: We experimented with implants on hamsters and gerbils, like thin
Speaker 1: pre adolescent Dr Frankenstein's. Well. We had high school. We
Speaker 1: got into some trouble mixing smart drug stacks for college kids.
Speaker 1: These are like three times more vote. It's going to
Speaker 1: be more pote than anything you've ever final PayPal. And
Speaker 1: when we started Next Corp, we were just eighteen years old.
Speaker 1: We're babies. I mean, at first we were just developing
Speaker 1: new stacks for pharmaceutical companies. But Max and I kept going,
Speaker 1: kept pushing the envelope and now combining our chemistry and engineering. Yes,
Speaker 1: We've figured out a new way to evolve the human brain. Anyway,
Speaker 1: it wasn't until Max's father died that we invented shut eye.
Speaker 1: Max was really shattered after Walt died. Should have always
Speaker 1: been pretty rough between them, and they never really got better.
Speaker 1: Before Walter passed. Max wasn't handling it well. So I
Speaker 1: had this idea in my vast and infinite wisdom to dosion.
Speaker 1: What exactly does that mean? Well, I took Max to
Speaker 1: the desert and I fed him a beroic dose of
Speaker 1: psychedelics that I had designed myself. Okay, look I get
Speaker 1: it the reset by that's what I thought. But that
Speaker 1: sort of thing is always kind of a double edged sword.
Speaker 1: I mean, in hindsight, it was probably really stupid, but
Speaker 1: listen mcame from it was really groundbreaking. Damn it so happened. Well,
Speaker 1: I rented this place outside of twenty nine Palms, the
Speaker 1: Kyle House it's called. This place was like an abandoned
Speaker 1: shrine in the middle of the desert. Like the yard
Speaker 1: when you pulled up was filled with all kinds of
Speaker 1: weird ship sculptures made of found objects, old refrigerators, dolls, heads, bicycles,
Speaker 1: and there were hundreds of wind chimes. Pretty dope place, right,
Speaker 1: it was haunted. I think I'd prefer the Captain in
Speaker 1: the woods ideas. Trust me, you could hear the chimes
Speaker 1: from way out, even over the wind, which could get
Speaker 1: pretty damn heavy there. I mean, the police was otherworldly.
Speaker 1: It was a perfect place the trip and we did.
Speaker 1: I designed this simple las LSD, highly psychoactive. We dropped
Speaker 1: just before sunset, dragged a couple of lawn chairs out
Speaker 1: into the waste land, so it was pretty run of
Speaker 1: the middle tripping in the desert. Ship signs and wonders,
Speaker 1: you know. And then Max started talking about his past
Speaker 1: that I am here trap, about how life had not
Speaker 1: been kind, about how the world was a cruel place
Speaker 1: that had stripped everything from him peace by peace feeds
Speaker 1: on the frail, and his mom, his brother, his father,
Speaker 1: harve Ie endured so much pain, so much loss. What
Speaker 1: am I am? I an extension. I've known Max since
Speaker 1: I was a boy, and it was the only time
Speaker 1: only time I've seen him cry, and he just wept.
Speaker 1: And then suddenly, I don't know where, Max leaves up
Speaker 1: and then he takes off into the dark, something snuff.
Speaker 1: He was gone for what felt like forever, so long
Speaker 1: that I finally gave up waiting and just went inside
Speaker 1: and into my room, and eventually I just passed out.
Speaker 1: But I hear this sound outside, like just outside the bedroom,
Speaker 1: this u scratching noise. I walk out into the main
Speaker 1: room and Max is on the floor. He's clutching a
Speaker 1: piece of scrap metal he'd grabbed from the yard. Then
Speaker 1: he's scratching it along the ground, hunched over like a madman.
Speaker 1: I call his name and he turns and he's covered
Speaker 1: in blood what he'd cut himself on the metal. I
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe he hadn't noticed, but I asked him
Speaker 1: if he was okay, and he just started babbling brain talk, physiology,
Speaker 1: neurology with high about how the drugs were working on
Speaker 1: this delta state. It's a state of consciousness in which
Speaker 1: the entire cortical mantle is lit up like a goddamn
Speaker 1: Christmas tree, a harmony of frequencies. Oh my god, Oh
Speaker 1: my god. And then he jumped up and walked me
Speaker 1: over to what he was doing. And the human mind
Speaker 1: is inter's been scratching formulas under the tile at exactly
Speaker 1: eight to hurt a five by five area tiles, covered
Speaker 1: in algorithms, covered in blood, and that what should I christ?
Speaker 1: You guys want anything else? Just the check? Thanks? Now
Speaker 1: I need to ask you something strange. Okay, when you
Speaker 1: last saw Max the other night, did he at any
Speaker 1: point suddenly seem not Max? H he's taking shy Jill
Speaker 1: has six am. This is Dr Cassandra Berkeley. Case number
Speaker 1: is two one test subject Max Fuller. I'm monitoring the
Speaker 1: subject after his eleventh exposure of shut eye. Subject has
Speaker 1: been awake for twelve days, three hours, forty five minutes.
Speaker 1: He's showing signs of fatigue and describing feelings of anxiety
Speaker 1: and paranoia. Not However, the psychomotor test showed no lapses
Speaker 1: of attention, no false starts, and time on task effect
Speaker 1: is above the Phase two control group average. Please can later.
Speaker 1: It's important to track these episodes. You made me promise
Speaker 1: it off. Okay, it's off, Yes, it's off. Good not
Speaker 1: just I just need to talk, okay, I need to
Speaker 1: talk to you, cass cass I think I'm really I'm
Speaker 1: really scared here. Who whoo woo woo hey, it's open,
Speaker 1: it's okay, it's okay. I'm here, a baby, I'm here
Speaker 1: I'm right here. It's just I can't remember anything that
Speaker 1: happened last night. Nothing. Last thing I remember I was
Speaker 1: here with you, right, I think that that was her
Speaker 1: last session. Yeah, when we administer the last exposure exactly,
Speaker 1: and then the next thing, I know, next thing, I know,
Speaker 1: I'm standing on this rooftop right and I didn't know
Speaker 1: where I was or how I got there. What did
Speaker 1: you do? That's what I'm telling you. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know how I got there, or what I did,
Speaker 1: or why I was there. I mean after I mean,
Speaker 1: what did you do after that? After the roof I
Speaker 1: I came here. My hands cats my hands, my hands
Speaker 1: won't stop shaking. My thumbs and hurt so bad I
Speaker 1: can hardly bang them. I think I've done something, done
Speaker 1: something terrible. Jenn, I'll find me. A ride of a
Speaker 1: car is available two blocks away. Want me to summon it.
Speaker 1: Just confirmed the ride. I walk head west on Courtland Street.
Speaker 1: I was distracted the whole time I sat listening to
Speaker 1: Finn's story of the birth of Shy. All I could
Speaker 1: think of was the message dr Abby Reynold's left smear
Speaker 1: the lipstick on a play first line box, next line
Speaker 1: abby at NC third line a l G, followed by
Speaker 1: some other indecipherable smears. Here's your car. I remember as
Speaker 1: I rolled away, my gaze fixed on my reflection in
Speaker 1: the passenger window. I didn't look good. I was drifting
Speaker 1: in the haze of sleep death, and my pupils were
Speaker 1: like glazed doughnuts. The buildings and lights streamed by, and
Speaker 1: a webbler. That's when the replay happened again, another glitch
Speaker 1: in the universe. The car came to a red light,
Speaker 1: one of the last traffic lights in the city, and
Speaker 1: my focus shifted past my reflection to a dog alleyway
Speaker 1: where I could see rats Scotland in the night. Now
Speaker 1: one of them stopped and seemed to look right at me,
Speaker 1: nose twitching in the light of the street lamp. Then
Speaker 1: it happened again, a red light, The car stopped, and
Speaker 1: the wrap the same exact rap, turned and looked at me. Jenn,
Speaker 1: I play a video for me, which one the one
Speaker 1: called go ahead? I'm listening. Holy shit? There is no
Speaker 1: video in your archives called holy sh it. Okay, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: that's it. That's it. That's it. Jenna played the video
Speaker 1: called Algernon playing Algernon similar bottoms until they're her favorite
Speaker 1: tests rap. How do you know the password? The password
Speaker 1: is Algernon. Back in my apartment, I logged in as
Speaker 1: dr Abby Reynolds a school passwords. It was the entire archive,
Speaker 1: every video, every session of every test subject from Next
Speaker 1: Corps clinical trials, including my brother Michael's. But that's when
Speaker 1: it happened. I wasn't alone. There was someone else in
Speaker 1: my apartment. First I saw a shape, a dark figure,
Speaker 1: reflected in the black corner of the monitor, and I froze,
Speaker 1: my mind, reeling, who are you and what are you? Afraid?
Speaker 1: To turn and look at what was standing right behind me?
Speaker 1: Whoever it was, wherever it was, it was fast and strong,
Speaker 1: like an animal. As I thrashed about to get us,
Speaker 1: the video was still flickering on my computer screen. My
Speaker 1: attack I had me, I clank, you're loose. I could
Speaker 1: feel myself flushing that I knew. It was only seconds
Speaker 1: before I was out, before I lost consciousness. Done. That
Speaker 1: was number thirteen. Administer tomorrow Ship Come on Up Tomorrow's Monsters,
Speaker 1: starring John Boyega as Jack Locke, Darren Chris as Max Fuller,
Speaker 1: Marley Shelton as Cass Berkeley, Clark Gregg as Walter Fuller,
Speaker 1: saw Galga as David Whosdale, Nicholas Takowski as Finn Connelly,
Speaker 1: Claire Bronson as dr Abbie Reynolds, David Chen as Michael Corbin,
Speaker 1: su Hila Elettar as Jenna, Victor Rivera as Eddie Bender,
Speaker 1: Robert Kraalgo as Agent Batty, Steve Coulter as Senator Berkeley,
Speaker 1: wrote A. Griffiths as Rainy Webb, with additional performances by
Speaker 1: Helen Abel, Jason Williams, Michael Anthony, Robin Bloodworth, and Teresa Davis.
Speaker 1: Our first assistant director is Michael Monty. Our second assistant
Speaker 1: director is Sarah Klein. Sound and music by Ben Lovett.
Speaker 1: Additional sound design and editing by Benjamin Malcolm, Justin Roboski
Speaker 1: and Mike Reagan. Casting by Jessica Fox Thick Ben. Our
Speaker 1: executive producers are Scott Shelton, Shelby Thomas, Alexander Williams, and
Speaker 1: Matthew Frederick. Written by Dan Bush and Nicholas Takoski, Created
Speaker 1: by Dan Bush and Connald Byrne, Directed by Dan Bush,
Speaker 1: Produced by both Flynt, Dan Bush and John Buega. Tomorrow's
Speaker 1: Monsters is a production of iHeart Radio, Flynn Picture Company,
Speaker 1: Psycopia Pictures, and Upper Room Productions. For more podcasts from
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