Diffraction (2026) Movie Script
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[muffled drill sergeant]
1, 2, 3, ONE, 1, 2, 3, TWO
40, 41, 42
[muffled drill in the background]
43, 44
45, 46, 47, 48
[alarm]
49, 50.
Is that the last of the milk?
[Dale] Um, no.
[Jackie] Is there enough left
for cereal or just a splash left
for a cup of coffee?
Coffee?
Whatever, man, if I can't make breakfast
with it, that counts as finished.
You get more on the way home.
Fine.
[Jackie] And don't be late for work.
Yes, mom.
Imagine being able to provide radiation
therapy targeted to the cellular level.
This kind of precision
provides us with endless possibilities.
What we are working on
will revolutionize health care.
I would like to thank Dean Smith
and everyone
at the college for this recognition
and for the support that they've given me,
which makes this possible.
[applause]
[crowd murmers]
Toast these
tomorrow and they'll be fine.
Here comes your fan club.
Dr. Devlin.
Oh, goodness.
It is years yet that you can call me Dr.
Professor, can I come
talk to you about my quiz grade?
Yeah. Go to my office hours tomorrow.
Thank you.
A year ago I was her
now I have office hours.
Welcome
to step one on the ladder of success.
These weren't given that were fresh.
Who the hell are you?
Nobody.
[Dean Smith] Sure John had more
publications last year,
but nobody's secured this much money
in a lump sum in over a decade.
[Kimberly] They think too much about
the theoretical.
People pay for applications.
Not A Fright by The Square Feet
Can I borrow 100 bucks?
No. What for?
You remember my buddy Aaron?
He's starting a business,
and says I can get in on the ground floor
with just a $100 investment.
I'm not letting you throw away 100 bucks
on some fool idea that Aaron has.
Is a food truck.
People make so much money on food
checks nowadays.
Didn't you just get paid?
No. Didn't you?
Yeah, but not enough. Come on Jackie.
I want to start my own thing.
Be my own boss.
This isn't your thing. It's Aaron's thing.
Stick with the job you have.
I'm not trying to work for an auto parts
store for the rest of my life.
I have dreams.
Dale people like us
don't get to have dreams.
We have each other, and that's enough.
But I'm bored.
Of course, work is boring.
That's why they have to pay you to go.
I don't want to be stuck living with my
sister for the rest of my life either.
[door opens]
Perfect.
Come with me.
Help me sit him up,
and then I'll call the campus cops.
[Jackie] What happened?
[Kimberly] Wandered in here,
drunk I suppose.
[Joey] I'm not drunk. [Kimberly]
Started spouting, all sorts of nonsense.
I couldn't get him to leave.
Where's my money?
[Kimberly] He just sort of stumbled over
and started puking.
[Joey] Supposed to give me money.
[Kimberly] I need you to send
someone fast.
Hey, Sarge.
What's your name?
[Kimberly] I think he's drunk.
Joey.
Hi, Joey. I'm Jackie.
It's all going to be okay.
I'm not drunk.
Just feel like shit.
Supposed to pay me?
If somebody owes you something,
you can tell the cop when he gets here.
[Kimberly] What's he talking about now?
He's not making much sense.
Well, since you're here,
you might as well clean that up.
[buzz, no entry]
Just a little further and we'll get you
into a nice, warm shelter.
She stole my stuff.
No one wants your stuff.
The work we do
in this lab is confidential.
Okay.
We don't let just anyone in here.
I usually have my students do the cleanup.
Not very well.
Exactly.
But now you're here.
Sign this and I can get the place
cleaned for real.
What am I signing?
A non-disclosure agreement.
You promise not to talk about what
we're doing in this lab.
Yeah, I know what an NDA is.
It's not like
I understand what I'm looking at.
Of course you don't.
You're a janitor.
But I need you to sign it anyway.
So, Jackie.
I'll get them to add
your name to the swipe access.
Don't touch anything.
Just mop the floors and empty the basket.
Okay.
And get rid of that
guy's garbage before you go.
You know, I don't mind this whole
you cook, I clean rule,
but do you really have to dirty every
freaking dish while you do it?
Whatever you love my food.
Shit, shit, shit.
[Dale] What is it?
The sink is leaking again.
[Dale] I told you to let me fix it.
The landlord is an idiot.
[Jackie] Yeah, well, that's what
we pay him for.
You can stand on your principles,
or we can have a kitchen that works.
Oh, my God.
Can you please let me fix this?
Fine.
You're in a shitty mood today.
What's wrong with you?
Excitement at work.
Isn't that better than boring?
Not when it involves vomit.
A homeless vet. He was distraught
and I helped calm him down.
Oh, that's nice.
Turn it on.
Off. Turn it off.
Turn it off.
I don't think it really helped
that much, though.
No one cared about him,
not even the cop that took him away.
You cared.
Turn it on.
I don't think my caring matters.
If you're the only person that showed him
kindness today, then it mattered.
Stop being so wise.
[thump, basket falls over]
You have better things to do.
I've got this.
Depends on your definition of better.
You work in there, right?
You invent things. Me?
Don't do that.
My dad's a janitor,
and he's the most amazing guy I know.
Would I know him?
No, not here.
At a university, though.
Where I went to undergrad.
I never would have been able
to afford college at all
if it weren't for his benefits.
It's not good enough to be free,
you still have to be smart enough
to get in.
I mostly work hard.
How do you know
you can make it through college?
I wasn't thinking about it that way.
I knew I wanted to help people
and I liked tinkering with stuff.
So I just kept working until I got here.
I'm better off just being a janitor.
Be a janitor if you want.
But you're not just anything.
Hey! What are you doing?
God, you scared me.
Well, you're not supposed to be here,
so that's me doing my job.
Oh, no, I am. I'm with facilities.
Can I see some I.D.?
Well, no one's supposed to be here
without Professor K or her grad students.
She made me sign her form
and then told me to mop.
Well, I'll have to verify that.
It's clean enough anyway.
Swipe your badge.
[buzz, good]
Am I good?
Yeah.
I had to check.
No hard feelings?
We're all just doing our jobs.
Um... hi?
Security just chased me out of your lab.
I thought you were allowed in.
He didn't know.
But it got me thinking,
I have no idea what you do.
I can't really go into details, but...
We're working in radiation delivery.
You're building a ray gun?
I wouldn't call it a gun.
Portable X-rays and things like that.
Less Teenagers From Outer Space
and more of a tricorder?
God, that's a classic.
I didn't take you for a geek.
My best friend in the Army
was always making us
watch 50s sci fi on movie night.
Well, I'd love to build a tricorder,
but for now, X-rays will do.
Don't touch my stuff.
I wasn't.
Have you seen Joey?
You at the university?
I work here, yeah.
[Sally] Don't trust you?
Probably fair, but I need to find Joey.
Used to be here all the time.
Nobody's seen him since
he went in the building with that woman.
What woman?
I don't know.
Some sharp dressed
woman talked to him for a bit,
and then he left with her.
Look, if you see him, can you tell him
I found his stuff?
He can come get it from
the engineering building.
How's he supposed to get in?
You have those buildings locked up tight.
Otherwise, I'd be sleeping in there,
not out here.
Same way he got in last time?
I told you, he went with that woman.
I don't know.
Just tell him if you see him.
[coins drop in cup]
I have no problem
projecting my slides in the room,
but now they want me to broadcast
to my students that stay home.
Stream, not broadcast.
Do you know how to make the control
panel active?
Just touch it, lights up.
Great. So these three buttons on the side,
The red button will send it to
the campus info channel.
It'll send this entire classroom
and all of your slides there.
It plays on all TVs.
They made it red, because
you usually don't want to do that.
Why would I want to send it
to the whole campus?
Well, this is the classroom that we use
to do the Naughter lecture series in.
That's why you would use that button.
The green button will send it to
the projector that's in the room.
And the yellow button in the middle
is the one that the system uses
to send it to your specific class.
Right.
But, when I press the yellow button,
I get an error message.
It's not an error message,
it is a log in message.
That's the only way the system knows...
[fades out]
[Kimberly] You've heard of Havana syndrome
of course.
All those people at the embassy
getting sick, and no one knows the cause.
[Carl] I thought it was micro sound waves.
[Kimberly] Possibly.
But where did they come from
and how did they get in the room
with no one knowing the source?
[Carl] Do you know?
[Kimberly] No. But Major Hawthorne from the
CDQ at the Pentagon has me looking into it.
[Sergeant] You can't be here.
Sorry.
You know how I was saying
this is the perfect job for me
because nothing ever happens?
[Alice]Yeah.
[Jackie] I think something's happening.
Like what?
We have this professor
who's making medical miracles.
If you believe all the hype.
She's super secretive,
but I got pulled into her lab.
My gut says something's not right.
And you usually trust your gut?
I used to.
Do you understand the work they're doing?
Not even a little.
Then why are you getting involved?
I'm not. I'm not.
I learned my lesson.
No good comes from sticking your nose in.
Good.
Today, she mentioned that she's doing
research for someone
at the Pentagon's CDQ unit.
All the more reason not to get involved.
What do black ops guys need
with medical miracles?
You sure you want the answer to that?
No. No, you're right.
No good comes from mail clerks or janitors
thinking they know what's going on.
You know, it's not so bad being
the low man on the ladder.
You're not responsible
for solving the world's problems.
Are you quoting me?
[both laugh]
Hey.
Hey.
[from a memory] Talks to one woman
and we never see him again.
[dials phone]
9-1-1 Operator. What is your emergency?
Hey, I got a question for you.
If it's about the lab,
I'm really not supposed to talk about it.
This thing... you're
making.
How do you know that it works?
We test it on rats.
So, line three up on the countertop.
And if you get a picture of one
and not the ones next to it,
then you know your focus is working.
And sorry for geeking out.
Focus is the part I'm working on.
You don't test it on people?
Oh, God, no.
The paperwork for human trials is crazy
and not worth it.
Does it hurt the rats?
Mmm... Does it hurt you
to get your teeth X-rayed at the dentist?
So they never get sick or die?
Why are you asking?
Um, nothing.
Never mind. Thanks.
[Devon] I know, but it's fucking mine.
You promise me things.
That's what you do.
You always do that Joey,
you always do that.
You promise things. And then.
And then I don't get them.
So you've been gone long enough.
You told me if you're gone, that.
That I get to have that space.
So now that that space.
That's Devon's space.
It's Devon's space. It's mine.
It is, it's mine.
So Devin gets it.
That's, nobody else can have it now.
No, I've been waiting.
I've been waiting.
[inaudible shout from car]
That's right. Yeah.
Fucking waiting for it.
Keeping out of trouble?
I'm on my lunch break.
I wasn't trying to give you a hard time.
I just saw you here.
Aren't you
the one who found the dead woman?
Yeah.
So how are you doing?
Fine.
Not your first dead person?
I was a cargo specialist.
I delivered mail.
I saw everyone on base,
but they were all alive.
I was an MP.
How long were you in for?
I did my four and then decided I didn't
really like moving around all the time.
You?
I did my four then realized
my foster brother was about to
age out of the system.
Someone needed to look out for him.
So, why are you a janitor
and not a cop or a student?
I failed my Army aptitude test.
I certainly wasn't
going to get into school here.
Did you even try?
I know my place in the world.
Know what I like best about the army?
Everything had to be organized and tidy.
That's something I'm good at.
So this was your first dead person?
Yeah, actually.
So really, how are you doing?
Fine.
All right.
Keep out of trouble.
Air Force?
Yeah.
Don't thank me for my service.
Only if you don't thank me for mine.
Jackie.
Devon.
Seen Joey around lately?
Sally was the last to see him.
She the one who died?
Probably shouldn't stay here.
This spot's unlucky.
How'd she get in the building?
Dunno.
Take care of yourself, alright?
Grab your garbage?
[Kimberly] Come back in 10 minutes
and you can take my recycling too.
Hey, Kimberly,
I need you to do a dog
and pony for a big donor.
Give me 5 minutes?
It has to be now.
Finish shredding the pile on my desk,
and you can take it all.
Ok.
[inaudible mumbling from the hallway]
I bought beer.
Whose ID did you use for that?
Whatever.
They didn't check.
What are you doing?
Trying to figure this out.
What is it?
I don't know, but it's not right.
If you don't know, how do you know?
You know that super secret lab
I've been cleaning now?
The professor is a big deal for all this
medical stuff she's inventing.
But I don't think it's medical.
I think it's the military.
Oh, my God.
Did you steal that?
It's not stealing if she threw it
in the recycling.
You're not going to figure that out,
you're a janitor.
Facilities engineer.
I'm pretty sure engineer in
this case is a euphemism
for a janitor.
[under her breath]
Dick.
What makes you think it's not right?
She sent this report
to a major Hawthorne in the CDQ unit.
Thing is, I know those guys.
If they're doing anything medical, it's
not to make people feel better.
So, what are you trying to figure out?
What it does.
I think she might be testing it on people.
Her grad student says they don't,
but then her grad student
says it's harmless, so...
Wouldn't her grad student know?
There's a homeless guy in the lab
about a month ago.
The one who puked?
Yeah, he's going on
and on about how he did the thing
and how she owed him money.
She said he was drunk.
I mean, he seemed drunk. But.
What if she tested her device
and it made him sick?
That's a bit of a stretch.
And then a month later, another
homeless person died in our building.
In the lab?
No in the lounge.
Coincidence.
If there was something weird
about how she died
the police would have looked into it.
You would have heard.
I feel like the army would pay
a lot of money to be able to kill someone
without leaving any evidence.
The army drops bombs
and doesn't give a shit
who knows.
I just wish I could figure out
what this thing's supposed to do.
With your luck
the answer's in here.
Watch it.
Sorry.
[muffled] This is taking too long.
TriCorp paid you a lot of money.
The research is progressing well.
[muffled] We're not paying for research,
[muffled] we're paying for a product.
[muffled] I'm not fucking the Amazon.
You can't just pay for two day delivery.
I doubt you're stupid
[muffled] but you're not smart enough to
build this without me.
Sit down.
How do I know you
didn't take the money
and just keep doing the medical stuff?
There's a fine line
between medical use and not.
That's how we keep from drawing attention
to ourselves.
With the larger components
the system works.
It's half the size of this desk.
If it doesn't fit in my pocket, it's
no good to me.
[muffled] We're making progress, but
[muffled] if you want it done faster we
need more people which means more money.
You're not going to get it
from Hawthorne.
Not for an assassin's weapon.
There's already
plenty of ways to quietly kill someone.
So what do you suggest?
You promised something as untraceable
as whatever was happening in Havana.
But lethal.
But in Havana, there were whole rooms
full of people who got sick.
It's not hard to spray radiation
everywhere.
You don't need me for that.
We need you for the focus. Pocket sized
and none of that radiation
spilling back at me.
But if you're smart, make it scalable.
[muffled] That's where the real
money comes from.
Like a zoom lens on your camera.
[muffled] But in reverse.
[muffled] If I'm going to
bring in more money.
[muffled] I need to prove
I've seen the progress
[muffled] in your research.
I gave you proof.
Yeah, I looked into that.
There's no proof
it had anything to do with you.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
For this amount of money,
they're not going to take your word
for it.
Fine.
Let me work on this
and I'll give you a small scale
demonstration.
I'll be back at the end of the month.
Uh huh,
[sound of a camera shutter]
yeah. Mom, can you get to the point?
I'm at work.
Okay.
I just sent the photo.
I don't recognize the logo,
but I certainly recognize the type.
I've seen that logo.
Rotation before last I was
stationed at Dagger in Darmstadt.
Before military intelligence
moved to Wiesbaden.
Always worse when they aren't
wearing the branded shit,
but those guys are mean.
What are you getting involved in?
Nothing.
Jackie
I'm not involved.
It's just something was already off.
And then this guy goes marching
down the hall like he owns the place.
After Afghanistan I thought
you learned your lesson.
Get out of the Army.
Live a quiet life.
I got out because I needed
to take care of Dale.
That's what you tell yourself.
Then focus on
it. And leave this guy alone.
Who do we know at Wiesbaden?
Are you even listening to me?
What would a mercenary need that
only a university professor could invent?
You know why they call it
the military industrial complex?
Because people are inventing shit
for us all the time.
Then why would she need to lie about it?
I need to time this better.
Oh, excuse me.
I need help.
Oh, wait.
The last thing I need
is you cutting yourself.
If you're sure.
You'll be more useful to them
than you are to me.
You're supposed to
put things away
after class, not make more of a mess.
One more screw up and you're out.
Understood? Fine.
So the five millimeter version in the heat
sink works well,
but it's clearly
too large for our purposes.
Trey's one millimeter version
is closer,
but it didn't hold up to the stress tests.
And what we really need is to get it down
to a half millimeter.
What if we changed the material
but kept the design?
Carbon nanotubes
could give it more flexibility.
Sam, do some research,
find out how long it takes
for a one millimeter
strand of carbon nanotubes to break.
Trey, go ahead and see
if you can construct a half millimeter
version using carbon
nanotubes for the tip only
and keeping the rest the same.
I'm going to be in my office.
I want to reprogram the sensitivity.
All cleaned up back there.
Thank you so much.
I would have missed my chance
if I were stuck cleaning that up.
Aren't you an undergrad?
Yeah.
But she lets you be involved?
Only when I'm not being a klutz.
But yeah, Professor K's ruthless.
She'll take a good idea
wherever she can find it.
Well, anyway, you're all set.
[Dale] Hey. Can you help me?
What are you doing?
I've got a date.
Come on, help me.
You don't need a tie to go to Taco Bell.
My God, did you bathe in aftershave?
I'm a chick magnet,
and I'm taking her to Olive Garden.
What is this thing?
I don't know yet.
Look like any part of a weapon
you've seen when you were in?
My weapons training didn't
go past sidearm.
And these people are military
and not medical.
Couldn't they just be Army medical?
These aren't Walter Reed types.
They're more Gitmo.
It just doesn't seem like
the military would pay the big bucks
to some university professor
to invent a torture device.
I've been to the dentist.
Anything legit medical
could be used for torture.
Maybe you're right.
But your spidey sense is tingling.
I'll get over it.
You need a hobby.
Or better yet, a date.
I'll ask mine if she has a brother.
Oh please don't.
Sister?
If I promise to go for a run,
will that count as a hobby?
You're pathetic. I'm out.
Don't wait up.
[Trey] Hi.
What is this?
That's the five millimeter prototype.
Where did you find it?
The lab. What does it do?
It's been missing for a week.
Professor K is pissed.
We've all been in so much trouble.
I found it while I was cleaning.
I don't understand
why the military is interested in it.
They're not. Dynamic Medical Devices
is funding it
so they can deliver radiation
therapy directly to cancer cells.
DMD pulled their funding.
How would you know that?
I read it in a letter
they sent that Professor K recycled.
What?
Why? Never mind.
Look,
I don't know what you've got against
Professor K
or why you would go
reading through her trash,
but I know for a fact that she is funded
because that is how I'm getting paid.
Yeah, she's being funded by the military.
That's what I'm saying.
That's why
I want you to tell me what this does.
I'm not going to help you.
Professor K is my meal ticket.
I'm getting my PhD.
If I piss her off.
I've got nothing.
You said you wanted to help people.
I do.
And the first person
I'm going to help is Sam.
Put this back someplace
where he will be the one to find it.
I won't throw you under the bus,
but he's the one she's most mad at.
Go make sure he gets to be the hero.
[Trey] No.
Regardless of where the money comes from,
this device is going to help people.
If that changed, I would know about it.
What?
Nothing.
Aaron's food truck fell through.
Another $100 wasn't going to fix that.
He didn't need my money
as much as my ideas.
Said he wanted to park it
near those upscale condos.
Corner the board housewife market.
What housewives?
Everyone there's working 60 hour weeks.
No one's home at lunch.
That's what I told him.
What?
Nothing.
Go for a run and clear your head.
I talked to that
grad student today to see
if she could tell me what that part does.
How'd you do that without admitting
you stole it?
I told her I found it.
God you're an idiot.
Need to find a better job
before you get your ass fired.
She insists it's all harmless.
Fantastic.
You can stop worrying
about it now.
I guess.
Jackie,
let me be the smart one for once.
It's time to let this go.
[Kimberly] There are several concurrent
steps to what we are doing.
What we've made the most progress on
is focusing the beam from a distance.
This allows us to use the device
without all of us needing to stand
behind a lead shield.
Did you just do it?
Yes.
And if you take a look at the screen,
you can see that
we're getting an image of R283
without getting R194.
Not much spread.
That's good.
How far does it throw?
It's something
that we're still working on.
What we've noticed
with the current configuration is anything
less than three feet interferes
with the imaging.
But we are working on a new power
converter
that seems to be helping, but
it's not ready for demonstration just yet.
And how long before this is
less than 50 pounds?
Fundamentally,
it functions much like a camera, so
it won't be hard to take this front end
and make it about the size of a DSLR lens.
But we do need the power converter working
before we know what size
it will ultimately be.
Let's talk business.
You two can go for now.
Come back when we're done to clean up.
I can never manage to be here
when there are no classes letting out.
Oh, no. It's just us.
Professor K is doing a demo
for the funder today and kicked us out
so they can talk business.
[Jackie] Did it go well?
[Trey] I think so.
I mean, there's
still so much work for us to do.
[Sam] Do you think that guy in there
with him was his boss?
He did nothing but scowl at everyone.
When they recruit you, they only talk
about the science and the exciting stuff.
They don't warn you
what it takes to get the funding.
There are certainly days
where I'm happy to be a nobody.
[Kimberly] You can
take care of the rats now.
I'll walk you two gentlemen out.
I need you to get these histories entered
ASAP. It's a mess back there.
Yes, sir.
Hi Pete. What's up?
I thought the doctors went out
to the towns on Clinic Day.
A group of people came in together
from Cawona.
They have radiation poisoning.
How in the world do a group of people
from a mountain village
on the east end of nowhere
get radiation poisoning?
From what I hear, they're blaming us.
But then again,
they blame us for everything,
so that's not new.
Cawona? Southwest of here?
I think I've seen that on a map.
I hate my job.
I know.
My manager is so stupid.
He can't even make a schedule
and stick to it. Every time I come in
next week is different.
How am I supposed to make plans
if I never know when I'm working?
Yeah, that sucks.
Can you get me a job at the school?
No. I think you can do better than me.
You just need to figure it out.
Too bad I couldn't help
Aaron buy that food truck.
Food truck was a money pit.
Only if you don't know how to fix it.
I can fix everything.
How do I get paid to fix things?
I don't know.
Hey, do you remember when that homeless
woman died in our building?
Yeah.
What does that have to do...
I talked to her before she died.
I was looking for the drunk one.
She said that the last time he was seen,
he was walking into the building
with a sharply dressed woman.
Okay.
What if it was the professor
with the dodgy experiments?
Everyone looks well-dressed
to a homeless person.
Stop fishing for trouble.
It's just that I saw another homeless guy
in our building today.
Your building needs better security.
He was dressed up this time with
the mercenary who's funding the project.
Are you sure?
Yeah.
And when I looked for him in his usual
spot after work, he wasn't there.
Well, that's definitely weird,
but it doesn't make it evil.
What are you really saying?
What if she's testing it on them
and it killed the woman...
No, no, not going to go there.
Don't even start.
You have no reason to think that.
But what if I can prove it?
Why do you care about
a bunch of homeless people anyway?
We're one bad month away
from being them, Dale.
Someone has to care.
Look, if you're right, you're in trouble.
If you're wrong, you're in trouble.
You tell me all the time.
People like us don't get to be heroes.
[Student guide] We'll
continue the tour up on the second floor
so you can see our new labs.
They got a big renovation
about a year ago.
So they're state of the art.
Hey, do you have a minute?
Sure. What's up?
What would you do if you found out
that the research we're doing here
is hurting people?
What do you mean?
It's just
we tell these kids that if they come here,
they can save the world.
But what if they end up doing research
that hurts people?
Do you have evidence
that students are committing a crime?
No, but I'm pretty sure Professor K
isn't making medical devices.
Her money's coming from mercenaries.
Pretty sure? Professor K
is everyone's darling.
If her money were suspect, don't
you think that Dean would know?
I don't trust the dean.
I saw one of her funders. I know the type.
Even if you're right,
what do you want me to do about it?
It's not illegal
to take money from the government.
Even the Pentagon needs medical devices.
Look, you don't know what they do.
I don't know what they do, but the money
they bring in pays our salaries.
You start flinging accusations
that we can't prove,
and you and I are going to
be the losers in that fight.
You again?
You know me, always on the clock.
What are you doing with those files?
Morning, all.
Morning, Trey.
Um, did you find the file
that I was looking for?
I didn't.
Well, never mind.
I'll find it myself.
Thanks for trying to help.
Next time you ask someone to help, don't
forget to tell them
how to turn off the alarm.
Sorry Officer, will do.
What are you doing?
Hear me out.
That silent, scowling guy from the demo
last week? He wasn't the boss.
He was a homeless guy
from the neighborhood.
That doesn't make any sense.
I recognized him.
I mean, not right away,
but after I thought about it.
He didn't look homeless.
I know. Someone cleaned him up
and got him to attend the demo.
Why would they?
That's what I'm trying to figure out.
Yeah, okay.
And why would you want to do that?
Because the last time a homeless person
was in this building, she died.
And sure, maybe I started off being
curious after my army instincts kicked in,
but when people start dying,
that's serious.
You don't know that
the second guy is dead.
He hasn't been back to his usual spot
since the demo.
They gave him a suit so
he could have a job interview.
Now he has his life back on track.
You think so?
Is that funder
really hiring homeless people?
Look, after they kicked you out of the lab
to talk business.
Professor K came to this closet
and took something out.
What's in there?
These are all the
power components we've tried.
It drives the device,
where the radiation comes from.
They're generally safe,
but we keep them in here
for added protection.
It's lead lined.
Why would she need a different one
if you had just done a demo?
Will you help me figure this out?
What are you two doing?
I was just helping Trey.
Trey?
Campus cops were here talking to her
when I arrived.
Those are my keys.
We're going to the dean.
You're home early.
[Dale] My manager hates me.
Gave me half days all this week.
Wait.
You shouldn't be home at all yet.
I got fired.
Isn't there a protocol for that?
Don't they have to like,
give you a warning or something?
They gave me a choice.
Get arrested for breaking and entering
or get fired.
What did you do?
I stole keys from her office and used them
to break into a closet in her lab.
In the middle of the day?!?
The place is alarmed at night.
Apparently, it's alarmed
in the morning too.
I talked my way
out of trouble with the campus cop,
it was getting caught by the professor
that got me fired.
I guess I really am the smart one.
I told you not to get involved.
Now what?
I find a new job.
They're hiring at your place?
No, you can do better than that.
Don't they give business
loans to vets?
I think you need a business plan for that.
You're the one with all the ideas.
I'm just a janitor.
Motorcycle by The Square Feet
What did he say? Are you all right?
I'm fine,
what are you talking about?
The man is the mercenary
that my professor is working for.
He was just some tourist
asking for directions.
I'm telling you,
that man is very dangerous.
Get inside now.
Hey! Be careful with that.
[Chime of a FaceTime call]
[Alice] I was going to call you tonight.
I do a job, you know.
Hey, Dale.
Hey Alice. Jackie got fired so now she
forgets the rest of us are working stiffs.
What happened?
Never mind that,
the mercenary from TriCorp
was just in front of our apartment
building talking to Dale.
Oh, that's not good.
He was just asking for directions.
He was following me on my run.
He made sure I noticed,
then he made sure
I saw him talking to you.
Yeah, that's a threat.
It didn't feel threatening.
Trust us. He knows where you live.
He knows who your family is.
That's a threat.
What did you do?
Why did you get fired?
They caught me
poking around stuff in the lab.
Can you figure out who this guy is?
The one you sent me the picture of?
[Jackie] Yeah.
All right, but don't hold your breath.
It's not like they're going to have
his picture on the company website.
Dale, I think you should stay home
from work today.
[Dale] No.
[Alice] No.
[Jackie] Why not?
[Dale] Someone's got to earn rent money.
It won't help.
He already knows where you live.
Make him think he won.
He did win.
[Jackie] Only for now.
I'm going to go find Devon.
He was there for the last test.
He might have a better idea
of what they were doing.
I don't understand.
I got paid yesterday.
I know I have money.
Jackie?
I'll take a latte and pay for them both?
You really are a fan girl.
It's my guilty pleasure.
If it brings you pleasure
there's no guilt required.
Pretty far from campus.
What are you doing here?
Um... I live around the corner.
At the Rookery?
Easier to be an adult
if I wasn't in the student ghetto.
Thanks for this.
I'll pay you back.
Don't worry about it.
I feel like owe you... about...
You know.
It was going to happen
no matter what you said.
There's something going on
that's bigger than us.
I don't think so.
Sorry Darling by Sorry Darling
What the hell
have you been spending money on?
What? Nothing.
We don't have any money.
Yeah, we don't even have enough money
for me to get a coffee.
So what was it Dale?
Nothing, I swear.
What are you even talking about?
My debit card
got denied at the coffee shop.
Didn't you just get paid?
Shit!
Jackie, what does this mean?
Hey, I left my hoodie behind in class
the other day.
Do we have a lost and found somewhere?
[Student Worker] Yeah, next to the desk.
[Jackie] Thanks.
Hey, you're not allowed to be here.
I know. I'm not staying.
I just realized I left this here.
It doesn't matter.
You can't come in at all.
All right, fine.
I'm going.
I know you think there's nothing going on.
Ugh, where did you come from?
They kicked me out of the building.
Then I probably shouldn't
even be talking to you.
Probably not.
But you want to make medical miracles.
You want to build a tricorder one day,
and you're not going to get there
if you're mixed up with Professor K
her TriCorp goons.
Will you listen to yourself?
Okay, I've seen the tests on the work
that we're doing.
It's harmless.
If that's true,
then why are there mercenaries
following me every time I go for a run?
You are paranoid.
You had to buy me coffee
because they froze my bank account.
You lost your job.
I can think of more plausible explanations
for why you didn't have money.
Why is there a closet
even you can't get into?
They're doing secret stuff in that lab.
You have no proof.
No, but you can get the proof.
Girl. No.
If I'm wrong, then fine.
But if I'm right, you're
the only one who can help me prove it.
Seriously?
Go home.
Rich Don't Worry by ellysa
[Text alert]
[Text alert]
What is it?
Trey wants me to meet her
at the coffee shop.
Do you trust her?
Not entirely, but she's my best source
of getting the proof
I need to get professor K to back down.
Doesn't Professor K have
the Pentagon on her side?
They know where we live.
They took all our money.
And I don't think you'll be safe
until I do something about this.
I'm not a kid
and I don't need you to protect me.
It's the only thing I'm good at.
I'm sorry about yesterday.
Thing is,
she's been lying to us in the lab
for a while now.
Oh?
I wanted to prove you wrong,
so I took a look at all the power
components she's been working on.
She's a good scientist.
Everything's well documented.
She changed the power source
in the coupling
we used the day the rat died.
What happened to the rat?
I'm not sure.
I did the autopsy and I'm still not sure.
There were no radiation burns.
That was my first thought.
We left the beam
running longer than usual.
We decided he must have eaten something
toxic.
He'd been left out.
I didn't find anything
odd in his stomach contents,
but I also wasn't looking that hard.
It's not like we ran blood tests.
I was really only looking
for effects of radiation.
When was this?
Late September,
I remember
because it was my mother's birthday.
I kind of forgot about the rat.
Even after the homeless girl died.
They never found anything wrong with her
either, from what I heard.
No, but there was a new model component
that dates to a few days
before you found her.
There's been no sign of Devon
since that demo either.
Every time there's a new component,
someone seems to die or go missing.
If it's working, then why so many?
They keep getting smaller.
We're trying to make the device portable.
So what are we going to do about it?
This is the most recent
schematics I could find
for the part she's working on.
Do whatever you want,
but leave me out of it.
I can't read any of
this and need you to help me.
She still controls my future.
She's killing people.
I'm not.
My part of it isn't.
Look, I only get to save the world
if I can survive my time with her.
Whatever helps you sleep at night.
I hope you manage to stop her.
I really do.
I have proof.
Oh, my God. You don't give up.
There's a copy of these
in a safety deposit box.
Proof you've stolen them from me, perfect.
Proof that you're making
secret weapons in that lab.
Are you sure?
Do you have any idea what that is?
I don't need to, other experts will.
You're an unemployed janitor
with a history of theft.
No one is going to believe a word you say.
Give up and move on.
There's nothing for you here.
[Alice] What are you doing?
Leaving.
What?
Transferred.
What happened?
I was delivering mail to the infirmary.
There was a rush of villagers
with radiation poisoning.
They were all from one of those villages
on that map in the CDQ office.
It's a village around here
that's not weird.
How do villagers get radiation poisoning?
What did you do?
I talked to the CO.
Yesterday he said he'd look into it.
Today I got new orders stateside.
You accused the black ops
guys from CDQ of poisoning villagers
and you expected that to go well?
I thought I could make a difference.
[Dale] Hey, what are you doing?
[phone rings]
[Alice] You need to back off.
If I can prove that the TriCorp guy
is a middleman for a CDQ officer,
then the dean will have to believe me.
I did that search.
Oh, good. What did you find?
[phone rings]
Nothing.
Damn.
Well, what if...
- -Jackie! The next day my
commander called me into his office
and threatened me with the brig!
They're tracking my computer.
They froze my bank account.
I can't do this alone.
You're going to have to.
[phone rings]
Dale is calling me. I got to go.
Hey, what's up?
You what?
Calm down.
Let's take a deep breath.
Okay now tell me what happened.
Oh, shit.
With what?
Dale, where did you find this?
Okay.
Okay. I'm going to get you out, I promise.
I don't know, just hang tight.
[muffled voices from the classroom]
I was wondering if
I could ask you a question.
Yeah.
Yeah, so I was just kind of nervous about
the quiz coming up
and I wanted some advice.
It's okay. Don't worry.
You know the material.
Just go over your notes
and you'll be prepared, okay?
Thanks so much. See you later.
No, you can't be here.
I know.
I have to tell her.
I know.
Just give me 2 minutes.
[Kimberly] Come in.
Figure it out.
Enough.
All I have to do is call the police
and you'll be in jail
right next to your brother.
Why did you make me work for this?
That piece of press board
is not going to protect you.
[Jackie] Are you really going to shoot me?
[Kimberly] It would be good
to do a field test with this one.
I'll smash this
if you come any closer.
How does it work?
That one doesn't.
I pilfered components to make this one.
I've seen signs of radiation
poisoning in people before.
How come yours doesn't leave a trace?
That's the million dollar question.
Well, 5 million. From the Pentagon alone.
[Jackie] Now what?
You gonna shoot me?
As much as I would love to?
Um, I don't know.
There's something weird going on.
Our little thief is back.
Come and get her.
Is this what you used on Joey?
Who?
The man who got sick in your lab.
He said he did the thing
and you owed him money.
Did you offered to pay him
to let you test your ray gun?
That didn't even exist
when he wandered into my lab.
[Secretary] Sir.
[Dean] Yes?
We have a situation.
How much did you offer to pay, Sally?
Who, the homeless girl?
You're three versions ahead now
and people are dying
without getting sick first.
No one knows how she died.
Right, the $5 million question.
[Jackie] So whatever happened to Devon?
I assume that Carl's friend.
You don't even know their names?
No one cares
about a bunch of homeless people.
You were supposed to be making
things to heal people.
The difference between medicine
and poison is the dosage.
Turns out poison pays better.
Everyone saw you follow me in here.
You can't just shoot me. They'll all know.
It took the homeless guy
at least a day before he died.
Will it hurt?
None of them seem to realize I'd done it.
Fuck. Have you done it?
Well, I was hoping
to test the distance on this one,
but I guess it can wait.
[grunts]
[Jackie] Come on!!!
Nobody move!
[Kimberly] Oh, Officer,
thank God you're here.
Professor, don't move.
This is the girl we fired last week
for stealing from my lab.
She came back to,
I don't know, get her revenge.
Cuff her.
What are you doing?
You can clearly see she was attacking me.
You all right?
Yeah.
Let's get you looked at.
That was some good fighting
for a cargo specialist.
Were you watching?
I didn't know how long I'd have to stall
till someone noticed.
The whole campus was watching.
What did you do?
This classroom's connected to the campus
info channel.
You were right before.
No one was going to believe me over you,
so I had to get you to admit it.
Not so stupid after all.
[Applause]
[Dean] I hope you can forgive me
for letting you go.
I clearly didn't have all the information.
I'd like to offer you your job back.
[Jackie] I appreciate the sentiment.
I think this was exactly the push
I needed to do something else.
Good luck in whatever comes next.
Our hero.
Shut up.
Will you come back to work now?
Not here. What about you?
I get to finish out the school year...
After that, I don't know.
Well, just say no if
TriCorp comes calling.
Even if the cops track down the money,
these guys always weasel out of trouble.
They'll find someone else
to finish their research.
So what will you do next?
Dale and I have our own plans.
Rich Don't Worry by ellysa
How I wish I had a penny
for every letter in my name
Misspelled and out of place
Hmm
How I wish I had a coin
for all the times I was disappointed
and it showed on my face
Cause the rent's due every
first of the month
Working to the bone
to barely make enough
To cut the check
and keeps the lights on
Oh, the bills keep coming
and they keep going up
But the rich don't worry
they're just living it up
They found the secret to life
and it ain't tough
If I had a dollar for
every broken heart
I'd be up in a house in the hills
If somebody paid me
for every broken daydream
I'd already have my first mill.
Yeah I know it's a bitter pill
But the rich don't worry
and they never will
How I wish I had a dime
for all the moments in my life
when I was called ugly names
How I wish I had a nickel
for all the times unspeakable
I still feel the shame
Do you think maybe
once they pay me
I'll still be crazy
Still be hurting
Still be working
Or will I get lazy
Is it the pain
Of the everyday
That's keeping me awake
Keeping me sane
Keeping me in the city of LA
Cause the rent's due every
first of the month
Working to the bone
to barely make enough
To cut the check
and keeps the lights on
Oh, the bills keep coming
and they keep going up
But the rich don't worry
they're just living it up
They found the secret to life
And it ain't tough
No, no, no.
If I had a dollar
For every broken heart
I'd be up in a house in the hills
If somebody paid me
For every broken daydream
I'd already have my first mill
Yeah I know it's a bitter pill
But the rich don't worry
and they never will
13, 14,
15, 16
[muffled drill sergeant]
1, 2, 3, ONE, 1, 2, 3, TWO
40, 41, 42
[muffled drill in the background]
43, 44
45, 46, 47, 48
[alarm]
49, 50.
Is that the last of the milk?
[Dale] Um, no.
[Jackie] Is there enough left
for cereal or just a splash left
for a cup of coffee?
Coffee?
Whatever, man, if I can't make breakfast
with it, that counts as finished.
You get more on the way home.
Fine.
[Jackie] And don't be late for work.
Yes, mom.
Imagine being able to provide radiation
therapy targeted to the cellular level.
This kind of precision
provides us with endless possibilities.
What we are working on
will revolutionize health care.
I would like to thank Dean Smith
and everyone
at the college for this recognition
and for the support that they've given me,
which makes this possible.
[applause]
[crowd murmers]
Toast these
tomorrow and they'll be fine.
Here comes your fan club.
Dr. Devlin.
Oh, goodness.
It is years yet that you can call me Dr.
Professor, can I come
talk to you about my quiz grade?
Yeah. Go to my office hours tomorrow.
Thank you.
A year ago I was her
now I have office hours.
Welcome
to step one on the ladder of success.
These weren't given that were fresh.
Who the hell are you?
Nobody.
[Dean Smith] Sure John had more
publications last year,
but nobody's secured this much money
in a lump sum in over a decade.
[Kimberly] They think too much about
the theoretical.
People pay for applications.
Not A Fright by The Square Feet
Can I borrow 100 bucks?
No. What for?
You remember my buddy Aaron?
He's starting a business,
and says I can get in on the ground floor
with just a $100 investment.
I'm not letting you throw away 100 bucks
on some fool idea that Aaron has.
Is a food truck.
People make so much money on food
checks nowadays.
Didn't you just get paid?
No. Didn't you?
Yeah, but not enough. Come on Jackie.
I want to start my own thing.
Be my own boss.
This isn't your thing. It's Aaron's thing.
Stick with the job you have.
I'm not trying to work for an auto parts
store for the rest of my life.
I have dreams.
Dale people like us
don't get to have dreams.
We have each other, and that's enough.
But I'm bored.
Of course, work is boring.
That's why they have to pay you to go.
I don't want to be stuck living with my
sister for the rest of my life either.
[door opens]
Perfect.
Come with me.
Help me sit him up,
and then I'll call the campus cops.
[Jackie] What happened?
[Kimberly] Wandered in here,
drunk I suppose.
[Joey] I'm not drunk. [Kimberly]
Started spouting, all sorts of nonsense.
I couldn't get him to leave.
Where's my money?
[Kimberly] He just sort of stumbled over
and started puking.
[Joey] Supposed to give me money.
[Kimberly] I need you to send
someone fast.
Hey, Sarge.
What's your name?
[Kimberly] I think he's drunk.
Joey.
Hi, Joey. I'm Jackie.
It's all going to be okay.
I'm not drunk.
Just feel like shit.
Supposed to pay me?
If somebody owes you something,
you can tell the cop when he gets here.
[Kimberly] What's he talking about now?
He's not making much sense.
Well, since you're here,
you might as well clean that up.
[buzz, no entry]
Just a little further and we'll get you
into a nice, warm shelter.
She stole my stuff.
No one wants your stuff.
The work we do
in this lab is confidential.
Okay.
We don't let just anyone in here.
I usually have my students do the cleanup.
Not very well.
Exactly.
But now you're here.
Sign this and I can get the place
cleaned for real.
What am I signing?
A non-disclosure agreement.
You promise not to talk about what
we're doing in this lab.
Yeah, I know what an NDA is.
It's not like
I understand what I'm looking at.
Of course you don't.
You're a janitor.
But I need you to sign it anyway.
So, Jackie.
I'll get them to add
your name to the swipe access.
Don't touch anything.
Just mop the floors and empty the basket.
Okay.
And get rid of that
guy's garbage before you go.
You know, I don't mind this whole
you cook, I clean rule,
but do you really have to dirty every
freaking dish while you do it?
Whatever you love my food.
Shit, shit, shit.
[Dale] What is it?
The sink is leaking again.
[Dale] I told you to let me fix it.
The landlord is an idiot.
[Jackie] Yeah, well, that's what
we pay him for.
You can stand on your principles,
or we can have a kitchen that works.
Oh, my God.
Can you please let me fix this?
Fine.
You're in a shitty mood today.
What's wrong with you?
Excitement at work.
Isn't that better than boring?
Not when it involves vomit.
A homeless vet. He was distraught
and I helped calm him down.
Oh, that's nice.
Turn it on.
Off. Turn it off.
Turn it off.
I don't think it really helped
that much, though.
No one cared about him,
not even the cop that took him away.
You cared.
Turn it on.
I don't think my caring matters.
If you're the only person that showed him
kindness today, then it mattered.
Stop being so wise.
[thump, basket falls over]
You have better things to do.
I've got this.
Depends on your definition of better.
You work in there, right?
You invent things. Me?
Don't do that.
My dad's a janitor,
and he's the most amazing guy I know.
Would I know him?
No, not here.
At a university, though.
Where I went to undergrad.
I never would have been able
to afford college at all
if it weren't for his benefits.
It's not good enough to be free,
you still have to be smart enough
to get in.
I mostly work hard.
How do you know
you can make it through college?
I wasn't thinking about it that way.
I knew I wanted to help people
and I liked tinkering with stuff.
So I just kept working until I got here.
I'm better off just being a janitor.
Be a janitor if you want.
But you're not just anything.
Hey! What are you doing?
God, you scared me.
Well, you're not supposed to be here,
so that's me doing my job.
Oh, no, I am. I'm with facilities.
Can I see some I.D.?
Well, no one's supposed to be here
without Professor K or her grad students.
She made me sign her form
and then told me to mop.
Well, I'll have to verify that.
It's clean enough anyway.
Swipe your badge.
[buzz, good]
Am I good?
Yeah.
I had to check.
No hard feelings?
We're all just doing our jobs.
Um... hi?
Security just chased me out of your lab.
I thought you were allowed in.
He didn't know.
But it got me thinking,
I have no idea what you do.
I can't really go into details, but...
We're working in radiation delivery.
You're building a ray gun?
I wouldn't call it a gun.
Portable X-rays and things like that.
Less Teenagers From Outer Space
and more of a tricorder?
God, that's a classic.
I didn't take you for a geek.
My best friend in the Army
was always making us
watch 50s sci fi on movie night.
Well, I'd love to build a tricorder,
but for now, X-rays will do.
Don't touch my stuff.
I wasn't.
Have you seen Joey?
You at the university?
I work here, yeah.
[Sally] Don't trust you?
Probably fair, but I need to find Joey.
Used to be here all the time.
Nobody's seen him since
he went in the building with that woman.
What woman?
I don't know.
Some sharp dressed
woman talked to him for a bit,
and then he left with her.
Look, if you see him, can you tell him
I found his stuff?
He can come get it from
the engineering building.
How's he supposed to get in?
You have those buildings locked up tight.
Otherwise, I'd be sleeping in there,
not out here.
Same way he got in last time?
I told you, he went with that woman.
I don't know.
Just tell him if you see him.
[coins drop in cup]
I have no problem
projecting my slides in the room,
but now they want me to broadcast
to my students that stay home.
Stream, not broadcast.
Do you know how to make the control
panel active?
Just touch it, lights up.
Great. So these three buttons on the side,
The red button will send it to
the campus info channel.
It'll send this entire classroom
and all of your slides there.
It plays on all TVs.
They made it red, because
you usually don't want to do that.
Why would I want to send it
to the whole campus?
Well, this is the classroom that we use
to do the Naughter lecture series in.
That's why you would use that button.
The green button will send it to
the projector that's in the room.
And the yellow button in the middle
is the one that the system uses
to send it to your specific class.
Right.
But, when I press the yellow button,
I get an error message.
It's not an error message,
it is a log in message.
That's the only way the system knows...
[fades out]
[Kimberly] You've heard of Havana syndrome
of course.
All those people at the embassy
getting sick, and no one knows the cause.
[Carl] I thought it was micro sound waves.
[Kimberly] Possibly.
But where did they come from
and how did they get in the room
with no one knowing the source?
[Carl] Do you know?
[Kimberly] No. But Major Hawthorne from the
CDQ at the Pentagon has me looking into it.
[Sergeant] You can't be here.
Sorry.
You know how I was saying
this is the perfect job for me
because nothing ever happens?
[Alice]Yeah.
[Jackie] I think something's happening.
Like what?
We have this professor
who's making medical miracles.
If you believe all the hype.
She's super secretive,
but I got pulled into her lab.
My gut says something's not right.
And you usually trust your gut?
I used to.
Do you understand the work they're doing?
Not even a little.
Then why are you getting involved?
I'm not. I'm not.
I learned my lesson.
No good comes from sticking your nose in.
Good.
Today, she mentioned that she's doing
research for someone
at the Pentagon's CDQ unit.
All the more reason not to get involved.
What do black ops guys need
with medical miracles?
You sure you want the answer to that?
No. No, you're right.
No good comes from mail clerks or janitors
thinking they know what's going on.
You know, it's not so bad being
the low man on the ladder.
You're not responsible
for solving the world's problems.
Are you quoting me?
[both laugh]
Hey.
Hey.
[from a memory] Talks to one woman
and we never see him again.
[dials phone]
9-1-1 Operator. What is your emergency?
Hey, I got a question for you.
If it's about the lab,
I'm really not supposed to talk about it.
This thing... you're
making.
How do you know that it works?
We test it on rats.
So, line three up on the countertop.
And if you get a picture of one
and not the ones next to it,
then you know your focus is working.
And sorry for geeking out.
Focus is the part I'm working on.
You don't test it on people?
Oh, God, no.
The paperwork for human trials is crazy
and not worth it.
Does it hurt the rats?
Mmm... Does it hurt you
to get your teeth X-rayed at the dentist?
So they never get sick or die?
Why are you asking?
Um, nothing.
Never mind. Thanks.
[Devon] I know, but it's fucking mine.
You promise me things.
That's what you do.
You always do that Joey,
you always do that.
You promise things. And then.
And then I don't get them.
So you've been gone long enough.
You told me if you're gone, that.
That I get to have that space.
So now that that space.
That's Devon's space.
It's Devon's space. It's mine.
It is, it's mine.
So Devin gets it.
That's, nobody else can have it now.
No, I've been waiting.
I've been waiting.
[inaudible shout from car]
That's right. Yeah.
Fucking waiting for it.
Keeping out of trouble?
I'm on my lunch break.
I wasn't trying to give you a hard time.
I just saw you here.
Aren't you
the one who found the dead woman?
Yeah.
So how are you doing?
Fine.
Not your first dead person?
I was a cargo specialist.
I delivered mail.
I saw everyone on base,
but they were all alive.
I was an MP.
How long were you in for?
I did my four and then decided I didn't
really like moving around all the time.
You?
I did my four then realized
my foster brother was about to
age out of the system.
Someone needed to look out for him.
So, why are you a janitor
and not a cop or a student?
I failed my Army aptitude test.
I certainly wasn't
going to get into school here.
Did you even try?
I know my place in the world.
Know what I like best about the army?
Everything had to be organized and tidy.
That's something I'm good at.
So this was your first dead person?
Yeah, actually.
So really, how are you doing?
Fine.
All right.
Keep out of trouble.
Air Force?
Yeah.
Don't thank me for my service.
Only if you don't thank me for mine.
Jackie.
Devon.
Seen Joey around lately?
Sally was the last to see him.
She the one who died?
Probably shouldn't stay here.
This spot's unlucky.
How'd she get in the building?
Dunno.
Take care of yourself, alright?
Grab your garbage?
[Kimberly] Come back in 10 minutes
and you can take my recycling too.
Hey, Kimberly,
I need you to do a dog
and pony for a big donor.
Give me 5 minutes?
It has to be now.
Finish shredding the pile on my desk,
and you can take it all.
Ok.
[inaudible mumbling from the hallway]
I bought beer.
Whose ID did you use for that?
Whatever.
They didn't check.
What are you doing?
Trying to figure this out.
What is it?
I don't know, but it's not right.
If you don't know, how do you know?
You know that super secret lab
I've been cleaning now?
The professor is a big deal for all this
medical stuff she's inventing.
But I don't think it's medical.
I think it's the military.
Oh, my God.
Did you steal that?
It's not stealing if she threw it
in the recycling.
You're not going to figure that out,
you're a janitor.
Facilities engineer.
I'm pretty sure engineer in
this case is a euphemism
for a janitor.
[under her breath]
Dick.
What makes you think it's not right?
She sent this report
to a major Hawthorne in the CDQ unit.
Thing is, I know those guys.
If they're doing anything medical, it's
not to make people feel better.
So, what are you trying to figure out?
What it does.
I think she might be testing it on people.
Her grad student says they don't,
but then her grad student
says it's harmless, so...
Wouldn't her grad student know?
There's a homeless guy in the lab
about a month ago.
The one who puked?
Yeah, he's going on
and on about how he did the thing
and how she owed him money.
She said he was drunk.
I mean, he seemed drunk. But.
What if she tested her device
and it made him sick?
That's a bit of a stretch.
And then a month later, another
homeless person died in our building.
In the lab?
No in the lounge.
Coincidence.
If there was something weird
about how she died
the police would have looked into it.
You would have heard.
I feel like the army would pay
a lot of money to be able to kill someone
without leaving any evidence.
The army drops bombs
and doesn't give a shit
who knows.
I just wish I could figure out
what this thing's supposed to do.
With your luck
the answer's in here.
Watch it.
Sorry.
[muffled] This is taking too long.
TriCorp paid you a lot of money.
The research is progressing well.
[muffled] We're not paying for research,
[muffled] we're paying for a product.
[muffled] I'm not fucking the Amazon.
You can't just pay for two day delivery.
I doubt you're stupid
[muffled] but you're not smart enough to
build this without me.
Sit down.
How do I know you
didn't take the money
and just keep doing the medical stuff?
There's a fine line
between medical use and not.
That's how we keep from drawing attention
to ourselves.
With the larger components
the system works.
It's half the size of this desk.
If it doesn't fit in my pocket, it's
no good to me.
[muffled] We're making progress, but
[muffled] if you want it done faster we
need more people which means more money.
You're not going to get it
from Hawthorne.
Not for an assassin's weapon.
There's already
plenty of ways to quietly kill someone.
So what do you suggest?
You promised something as untraceable
as whatever was happening in Havana.
But lethal.
But in Havana, there were whole rooms
full of people who got sick.
It's not hard to spray radiation
everywhere.
You don't need me for that.
We need you for the focus. Pocket sized
and none of that radiation
spilling back at me.
But if you're smart, make it scalable.
[muffled] That's where the real
money comes from.
Like a zoom lens on your camera.
[muffled] But in reverse.
[muffled] If I'm going to
bring in more money.
[muffled] I need to prove
I've seen the progress
[muffled] in your research.
I gave you proof.
Yeah, I looked into that.
There's no proof
it had anything to do with you.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
For this amount of money,
they're not going to take your word
for it.
Fine.
Let me work on this
and I'll give you a small scale
demonstration.
I'll be back at the end of the month.
Uh huh,
[sound of a camera shutter]
yeah. Mom, can you get to the point?
I'm at work.
Okay.
I just sent the photo.
I don't recognize the logo,
but I certainly recognize the type.
I've seen that logo.
Rotation before last I was
stationed at Dagger in Darmstadt.
Before military intelligence
moved to Wiesbaden.
Always worse when they aren't
wearing the branded shit,
but those guys are mean.
What are you getting involved in?
Nothing.
Jackie
I'm not involved.
It's just something was already off.
And then this guy goes marching
down the hall like he owns the place.
After Afghanistan I thought
you learned your lesson.
Get out of the Army.
Live a quiet life.
I got out because I needed
to take care of Dale.
That's what you tell yourself.
Then focus on
it. And leave this guy alone.
Who do we know at Wiesbaden?
Are you even listening to me?
What would a mercenary need that
only a university professor could invent?
You know why they call it
the military industrial complex?
Because people are inventing shit
for us all the time.
Then why would she need to lie about it?
I need to time this better.
Oh, excuse me.
I need help.
Oh, wait.
The last thing I need
is you cutting yourself.
If you're sure.
You'll be more useful to them
than you are to me.
You're supposed to
put things away
after class, not make more of a mess.
One more screw up and you're out.
Understood? Fine.
So the five millimeter version in the heat
sink works well,
but it's clearly
too large for our purposes.
Trey's one millimeter version
is closer,
but it didn't hold up to the stress tests.
And what we really need is to get it down
to a half millimeter.
What if we changed the material
but kept the design?
Carbon nanotubes
could give it more flexibility.
Sam, do some research,
find out how long it takes
for a one millimeter
strand of carbon nanotubes to break.
Trey, go ahead and see
if you can construct a half millimeter
version using carbon
nanotubes for the tip only
and keeping the rest the same.
I'm going to be in my office.
I want to reprogram the sensitivity.
All cleaned up back there.
Thank you so much.
I would have missed my chance
if I were stuck cleaning that up.
Aren't you an undergrad?
Yeah.
But she lets you be involved?
Only when I'm not being a klutz.
But yeah, Professor K's ruthless.
She'll take a good idea
wherever she can find it.
Well, anyway, you're all set.
[Dale] Hey. Can you help me?
What are you doing?
I've got a date.
Come on, help me.
You don't need a tie to go to Taco Bell.
My God, did you bathe in aftershave?
I'm a chick magnet,
and I'm taking her to Olive Garden.
What is this thing?
I don't know yet.
Look like any part of a weapon
you've seen when you were in?
My weapons training didn't
go past sidearm.
And these people are military
and not medical.
Couldn't they just be Army medical?
These aren't Walter Reed types.
They're more Gitmo.
It just doesn't seem like
the military would pay the big bucks
to some university professor
to invent a torture device.
I've been to the dentist.
Anything legit medical
could be used for torture.
Maybe you're right.
But your spidey sense is tingling.
I'll get over it.
You need a hobby.
Or better yet, a date.
I'll ask mine if she has a brother.
Oh please don't.
Sister?
If I promise to go for a run,
will that count as a hobby?
You're pathetic. I'm out.
Don't wait up.
[Trey] Hi.
What is this?
That's the five millimeter prototype.
Where did you find it?
The lab. What does it do?
It's been missing for a week.
Professor K is pissed.
We've all been in so much trouble.
I found it while I was cleaning.
I don't understand
why the military is interested in it.
They're not. Dynamic Medical Devices
is funding it
so they can deliver radiation
therapy directly to cancer cells.
DMD pulled their funding.
How would you know that?
I read it in a letter
they sent that Professor K recycled.
What?
Why? Never mind.
Look,
I don't know what you've got against
Professor K
or why you would go
reading through her trash,
but I know for a fact that she is funded
because that is how I'm getting paid.
Yeah, she's being funded by the military.
That's what I'm saying.
That's why
I want you to tell me what this does.
I'm not going to help you.
Professor K is my meal ticket.
I'm getting my PhD.
If I piss her off.
I've got nothing.
You said you wanted to help people.
I do.
And the first person
I'm going to help is Sam.
Put this back someplace
where he will be the one to find it.
I won't throw you under the bus,
but he's the one she's most mad at.
Go make sure he gets to be the hero.
[Trey] No.
Regardless of where the money comes from,
this device is going to help people.
If that changed, I would know about it.
What?
Nothing.
Aaron's food truck fell through.
Another $100 wasn't going to fix that.
He didn't need my money
as much as my ideas.
Said he wanted to park it
near those upscale condos.
Corner the board housewife market.
What housewives?
Everyone there's working 60 hour weeks.
No one's home at lunch.
That's what I told him.
What?
Nothing.
Go for a run and clear your head.
I talked to that
grad student today to see
if she could tell me what that part does.
How'd you do that without admitting
you stole it?
I told her I found it.
God you're an idiot.
Need to find a better job
before you get your ass fired.
She insists it's all harmless.
Fantastic.
You can stop worrying
about it now.
I guess.
Jackie,
let me be the smart one for once.
It's time to let this go.
[Kimberly] There are several concurrent
steps to what we are doing.
What we've made the most progress on
is focusing the beam from a distance.
This allows us to use the device
without all of us needing to stand
behind a lead shield.
Did you just do it?
Yes.
And if you take a look at the screen,
you can see that
we're getting an image of R283
without getting R194.
Not much spread.
That's good.
How far does it throw?
It's something
that we're still working on.
What we've noticed
with the current configuration is anything
less than three feet interferes
with the imaging.
But we are working on a new power
converter
that seems to be helping, but
it's not ready for demonstration just yet.
And how long before this is
less than 50 pounds?
Fundamentally,
it functions much like a camera, so
it won't be hard to take this front end
and make it about the size of a DSLR lens.
But we do need the power converter working
before we know what size
it will ultimately be.
Let's talk business.
You two can go for now.
Come back when we're done to clean up.
I can never manage to be here
when there are no classes letting out.
Oh, no. It's just us.
Professor K is doing a demo
for the funder today and kicked us out
so they can talk business.
[Jackie] Did it go well?
[Trey] I think so.
I mean, there's
still so much work for us to do.
[Sam] Do you think that guy in there
with him was his boss?
He did nothing but scowl at everyone.
When they recruit you, they only talk
about the science and the exciting stuff.
They don't warn you
what it takes to get the funding.
There are certainly days
where I'm happy to be a nobody.
[Kimberly] You can
take care of the rats now.
I'll walk you two gentlemen out.
I need you to get these histories entered
ASAP. It's a mess back there.
Yes, sir.
Hi Pete. What's up?
I thought the doctors went out
to the towns on Clinic Day.
A group of people came in together
from Cawona.
They have radiation poisoning.
How in the world do a group of people
from a mountain village
on the east end of nowhere
get radiation poisoning?
From what I hear, they're blaming us.
But then again,
they blame us for everything,
so that's not new.
Cawona? Southwest of here?
I think I've seen that on a map.
I hate my job.
I know.
My manager is so stupid.
He can't even make a schedule
and stick to it. Every time I come in
next week is different.
How am I supposed to make plans
if I never know when I'm working?
Yeah, that sucks.
Can you get me a job at the school?
No. I think you can do better than me.
You just need to figure it out.
Too bad I couldn't help
Aaron buy that food truck.
Food truck was a money pit.
Only if you don't know how to fix it.
I can fix everything.
How do I get paid to fix things?
I don't know.
Hey, do you remember when that homeless
woman died in our building?
Yeah.
What does that have to do...
I talked to her before she died.
I was looking for the drunk one.
She said that the last time he was seen,
he was walking into the building
with a sharply dressed woman.
Okay.
What if it was the professor
with the dodgy experiments?
Everyone looks well-dressed
to a homeless person.
Stop fishing for trouble.
It's just that I saw another homeless guy
in our building today.
Your building needs better security.
He was dressed up this time with
the mercenary who's funding the project.
Are you sure?
Yeah.
And when I looked for him in his usual
spot after work, he wasn't there.
Well, that's definitely weird,
but it doesn't make it evil.
What are you really saying?
What if she's testing it on them
and it killed the woman...
No, no, not going to go there.
Don't even start.
You have no reason to think that.
But what if I can prove it?
Why do you care about
a bunch of homeless people anyway?
We're one bad month away
from being them, Dale.
Someone has to care.
Look, if you're right, you're in trouble.
If you're wrong, you're in trouble.
You tell me all the time.
People like us don't get to be heroes.
[Student guide] We'll
continue the tour up on the second floor
so you can see our new labs.
They got a big renovation
about a year ago.
So they're state of the art.
Hey, do you have a minute?
Sure. What's up?
What would you do if you found out
that the research we're doing here
is hurting people?
What do you mean?
It's just
we tell these kids that if they come here,
they can save the world.
But what if they end up doing research
that hurts people?
Do you have evidence
that students are committing a crime?
No, but I'm pretty sure Professor K
isn't making medical devices.
Her money's coming from mercenaries.
Pretty sure? Professor K
is everyone's darling.
If her money were suspect, don't
you think that Dean would know?
I don't trust the dean.
I saw one of her funders. I know the type.
Even if you're right,
what do you want me to do about it?
It's not illegal
to take money from the government.
Even the Pentagon needs medical devices.
Look, you don't know what they do.
I don't know what they do, but the money
they bring in pays our salaries.
You start flinging accusations
that we can't prove,
and you and I are going to
be the losers in that fight.
You again?
You know me, always on the clock.
What are you doing with those files?
Morning, all.
Morning, Trey.
Um, did you find the file
that I was looking for?
I didn't.
Well, never mind.
I'll find it myself.
Thanks for trying to help.
Next time you ask someone to help, don't
forget to tell them
how to turn off the alarm.
Sorry Officer, will do.
What are you doing?
Hear me out.
That silent, scowling guy from the demo
last week? He wasn't the boss.
He was a homeless guy
from the neighborhood.
That doesn't make any sense.
I recognized him.
I mean, not right away,
but after I thought about it.
He didn't look homeless.
I know. Someone cleaned him up
and got him to attend the demo.
Why would they?
That's what I'm trying to figure out.
Yeah, okay.
And why would you want to do that?
Because the last time a homeless person
was in this building, she died.
And sure, maybe I started off being
curious after my army instincts kicked in,
but when people start dying,
that's serious.
You don't know that
the second guy is dead.
He hasn't been back to his usual spot
since the demo.
They gave him a suit so
he could have a job interview.
Now he has his life back on track.
You think so?
Is that funder
really hiring homeless people?
Look, after they kicked you out of the lab
to talk business.
Professor K came to this closet
and took something out.
What's in there?
These are all the
power components we've tried.
It drives the device,
where the radiation comes from.
They're generally safe,
but we keep them in here
for added protection.
It's lead lined.
Why would she need a different one
if you had just done a demo?
Will you help me figure this out?
What are you two doing?
I was just helping Trey.
Trey?
Campus cops were here talking to her
when I arrived.
Those are my keys.
We're going to the dean.
You're home early.
[Dale] My manager hates me.
Gave me half days all this week.
Wait.
You shouldn't be home at all yet.
I got fired.
Isn't there a protocol for that?
Don't they have to like,
give you a warning or something?
They gave me a choice.
Get arrested for breaking and entering
or get fired.
What did you do?
I stole keys from her office and used them
to break into a closet in her lab.
In the middle of the day?!?
The place is alarmed at night.
Apparently, it's alarmed
in the morning too.
I talked my way
out of trouble with the campus cop,
it was getting caught by the professor
that got me fired.
I guess I really am the smart one.
I told you not to get involved.
Now what?
I find a new job.
They're hiring at your place?
No, you can do better than that.
Don't they give business
loans to vets?
I think you need a business plan for that.
You're the one with all the ideas.
I'm just a janitor.
Motorcycle by The Square Feet
What did he say? Are you all right?
I'm fine,
what are you talking about?
The man is the mercenary
that my professor is working for.
He was just some tourist
asking for directions.
I'm telling you,
that man is very dangerous.
Get inside now.
Hey! Be careful with that.
[Chime of a FaceTime call]
[Alice] I was going to call you tonight.
I do a job, you know.
Hey, Dale.
Hey Alice. Jackie got fired so now she
forgets the rest of us are working stiffs.
What happened?
Never mind that,
the mercenary from TriCorp
was just in front of our apartment
building talking to Dale.
Oh, that's not good.
He was just asking for directions.
He was following me on my run.
He made sure I noticed,
then he made sure
I saw him talking to you.
Yeah, that's a threat.
It didn't feel threatening.
Trust us. He knows where you live.
He knows who your family is.
That's a threat.
What did you do?
Why did you get fired?
They caught me
poking around stuff in the lab.
Can you figure out who this guy is?
The one you sent me the picture of?
[Jackie] Yeah.
All right, but don't hold your breath.
It's not like they're going to have
his picture on the company website.
Dale, I think you should stay home
from work today.
[Dale] No.
[Alice] No.
[Jackie] Why not?
[Dale] Someone's got to earn rent money.
It won't help.
He already knows where you live.
Make him think he won.
He did win.
[Jackie] Only for now.
I'm going to go find Devon.
He was there for the last test.
He might have a better idea
of what they were doing.
I don't understand.
I got paid yesterday.
I know I have money.
Jackie?
I'll take a latte and pay for them both?
You really are a fan girl.
It's my guilty pleasure.
If it brings you pleasure
there's no guilt required.
Pretty far from campus.
What are you doing here?
Um... I live around the corner.
At the Rookery?
Easier to be an adult
if I wasn't in the student ghetto.
Thanks for this.
I'll pay you back.
Don't worry about it.
I feel like owe you... about...
You know.
It was going to happen
no matter what you said.
There's something going on
that's bigger than us.
I don't think so.
Sorry Darling by Sorry Darling
What the hell
have you been spending money on?
What? Nothing.
We don't have any money.
Yeah, we don't even have enough money
for me to get a coffee.
So what was it Dale?
Nothing, I swear.
What are you even talking about?
My debit card
got denied at the coffee shop.
Didn't you just get paid?
Shit!
Jackie, what does this mean?
Hey, I left my hoodie behind in class
the other day.
Do we have a lost and found somewhere?
[Student Worker] Yeah, next to the desk.
[Jackie] Thanks.
Hey, you're not allowed to be here.
I know. I'm not staying.
I just realized I left this here.
It doesn't matter.
You can't come in at all.
All right, fine.
I'm going.
I know you think there's nothing going on.
Ugh, where did you come from?
They kicked me out of the building.
Then I probably shouldn't
even be talking to you.
Probably not.
But you want to make medical miracles.
You want to build a tricorder one day,
and you're not going to get there
if you're mixed up with Professor K
her TriCorp goons.
Will you listen to yourself?
Okay, I've seen the tests on the work
that we're doing.
It's harmless.
If that's true,
then why are there mercenaries
following me every time I go for a run?
You are paranoid.
You had to buy me coffee
because they froze my bank account.
You lost your job.
I can think of more plausible explanations
for why you didn't have money.
Why is there a closet
even you can't get into?
They're doing secret stuff in that lab.
You have no proof.
No, but you can get the proof.
Girl. No.
If I'm wrong, then fine.
But if I'm right, you're
the only one who can help me prove it.
Seriously?
Go home.
Rich Don't Worry by ellysa
[Text alert]
[Text alert]
What is it?
Trey wants me to meet her
at the coffee shop.
Do you trust her?
Not entirely, but she's my best source
of getting the proof
I need to get professor K to back down.
Doesn't Professor K have
the Pentagon on her side?
They know where we live.
They took all our money.
And I don't think you'll be safe
until I do something about this.
I'm not a kid
and I don't need you to protect me.
It's the only thing I'm good at.
I'm sorry about yesterday.
Thing is,
she's been lying to us in the lab
for a while now.
Oh?
I wanted to prove you wrong,
so I took a look at all the power
components she's been working on.
She's a good scientist.
Everything's well documented.
She changed the power source
in the coupling
we used the day the rat died.
What happened to the rat?
I'm not sure.
I did the autopsy and I'm still not sure.
There were no radiation burns.
That was my first thought.
We left the beam
running longer than usual.
We decided he must have eaten something
toxic.
He'd been left out.
I didn't find anything
odd in his stomach contents,
but I also wasn't looking that hard.
It's not like we ran blood tests.
I was really only looking
for effects of radiation.
When was this?
Late September,
I remember
because it was my mother's birthday.
I kind of forgot about the rat.
Even after the homeless girl died.
They never found anything wrong with her
either, from what I heard.
No, but there was a new model component
that dates to a few days
before you found her.
There's been no sign of Devon
since that demo either.
Every time there's a new component,
someone seems to die or go missing.
If it's working, then why so many?
They keep getting smaller.
We're trying to make the device portable.
So what are we going to do about it?
This is the most recent
schematics I could find
for the part she's working on.
Do whatever you want,
but leave me out of it.
I can't read any of
this and need you to help me.
She still controls my future.
She's killing people.
I'm not.
My part of it isn't.
Look, I only get to save the world
if I can survive my time with her.
Whatever helps you sleep at night.
I hope you manage to stop her.
I really do.
I have proof.
Oh, my God. You don't give up.
There's a copy of these
in a safety deposit box.
Proof you've stolen them from me, perfect.
Proof that you're making
secret weapons in that lab.
Are you sure?
Do you have any idea what that is?
I don't need to, other experts will.
You're an unemployed janitor
with a history of theft.
No one is going to believe a word you say.
Give up and move on.
There's nothing for you here.
[Alice] What are you doing?
Leaving.
What?
Transferred.
What happened?
I was delivering mail to the infirmary.
There was a rush of villagers
with radiation poisoning.
They were all from one of those villages
on that map in the CDQ office.
It's a village around here
that's not weird.
How do villagers get radiation poisoning?
What did you do?
I talked to the CO.
Yesterday he said he'd look into it.
Today I got new orders stateside.
You accused the black ops
guys from CDQ of poisoning villagers
and you expected that to go well?
I thought I could make a difference.
[Dale] Hey, what are you doing?
[phone rings]
[Alice] You need to back off.
If I can prove that the TriCorp guy
is a middleman for a CDQ officer,
then the dean will have to believe me.
I did that search.
Oh, good. What did you find?
[phone rings]
Nothing.
Damn.
Well, what if...
- -Jackie! The next day my
commander called me into his office
and threatened me with the brig!
They're tracking my computer.
They froze my bank account.
I can't do this alone.
You're going to have to.
[phone rings]
Dale is calling me. I got to go.
Hey, what's up?
You what?
Calm down.
Let's take a deep breath.
Okay now tell me what happened.
Oh, shit.
With what?
Dale, where did you find this?
Okay.
Okay. I'm going to get you out, I promise.
I don't know, just hang tight.
[muffled voices from the classroom]
I was wondering if
I could ask you a question.
Yeah.
Yeah, so I was just kind of nervous about
the quiz coming up
and I wanted some advice.
It's okay. Don't worry.
You know the material.
Just go over your notes
and you'll be prepared, okay?
Thanks so much. See you later.
No, you can't be here.
I know.
I have to tell her.
I know.
Just give me 2 minutes.
[Kimberly] Come in.
Figure it out.
Enough.
All I have to do is call the police
and you'll be in jail
right next to your brother.
Why did you make me work for this?
That piece of press board
is not going to protect you.
[Jackie] Are you really going to shoot me?
[Kimberly] It would be good
to do a field test with this one.
I'll smash this
if you come any closer.
How does it work?
That one doesn't.
I pilfered components to make this one.
I've seen signs of radiation
poisoning in people before.
How come yours doesn't leave a trace?
That's the million dollar question.
Well, 5 million. From the Pentagon alone.
[Jackie] Now what?
You gonna shoot me?
As much as I would love to?
Um, I don't know.
There's something weird going on.
Our little thief is back.
Come and get her.
Is this what you used on Joey?
Who?
The man who got sick in your lab.
He said he did the thing
and you owed him money.
Did you offered to pay him
to let you test your ray gun?
That didn't even exist
when he wandered into my lab.
[Secretary] Sir.
[Dean] Yes?
We have a situation.
How much did you offer to pay, Sally?
Who, the homeless girl?
You're three versions ahead now
and people are dying
without getting sick first.
No one knows how she died.
Right, the $5 million question.
[Jackie] So whatever happened to Devon?
I assume that Carl's friend.
You don't even know their names?
No one cares
about a bunch of homeless people.
You were supposed to be making
things to heal people.
The difference between medicine
and poison is the dosage.
Turns out poison pays better.
Everyone saw you follow me in here.
You can't just shoot me. They'll all know.
It took the homeless guy
at least a day before he died.
Will it hurt?
None of them seem to realize I'd done it.
Fuck. Have you done it?
Well, I was hoping
to test the distance on this one,
but I guess it can wait.
[grunts]
[Jackie] Come on!!!
Nobody move!
[Kimberly] Oh, Officer,
thank God you're here.
Professor, don't move.
This is the girl we fired last week
for stealing from my lab.
She came back to,
I don't know, get her revenge.
Cuff her.
What are you doing?
You can clearly see she was attacking me.
You all right?
Yeah.
Let's get you looked at.
That was some good fighting
for a cargo specialist.
Were you watching?
I didn't know how long I'd have to stall
till someone noticed.
The whole campus was watching.
What did you do?
This classroom's connected to the campus
info channel.
You were right before.
No one was going to believe me over you,
so I had to get you to admit it.
Not so stupid after all.
[Applause]
[Dean] I hope you can forgive me
for letting you go.
I clearly didn't have all the information.
I'd like to offer you your job back.
[Jackie] I appreciate the sentiment.
I think this was exactly the push
I needed to do something else.
Good luck in whatever comes next.
Our hero.
Shut up.
Will you come back to work now?
Not here. What about you?
I get to finish out the school year...
After that, I don't know.
Well, just say no if
TriCorp comes calling.
Even if the cops track down the money,
these guys always weasel out of trouble.
They'll find someone else
to finish their research.
So what will you do next?
Dale and I have our own plans.
Rich Don't Worry by ellysa
How I wish I had a penny
for every letter in my name
Misspelled and out of place
Hmm
How I wish I had a coin
for all the times I was disappointed
and it showed on my face
Cause the rent's due every
first of the month
Working to the bone
to barely make enough
To cut the check
and keeps the lights on
Oh, the bills keep coming
and they keep going up
But the rich don't worry
they're just living it up
They found the secret to life
and it ain't tough
If I had a dollar for
every broken heart
I'd be up in a house in the hills
If somebody paid me
for every broken daydream
I'd already have my first mill.
Yeah I know it's a bitter pill
But the rich don't worry
and they never will
How I wish I had a dime
for all the moments in my life
when I was called ugly names
How I wish I had a nickel
for all the times unspeakable
I still feel the shame
Do you think maybe
once they pay me
I'll still be crazy
Still be hurting
Still be working
Or will I get lazy
Is it the pain
Of the everyday
That's keeping me awake
Keeping me sane
Keeping me in the city of LA
Cause the rent's due every
first of the month
Working to the bone
to barely make enough
To cut the check
and keeps the lights on
Oh, the bills keep coming
and they keep going up
But the rich don't worry
they're just living it up
They found the secret to life
And it ain't tough
No, no, no.
If I had a dollar
For every broken heart
I'd be up in a house in the hills
If somebody paid me
For every broken daydream
I'd already have my first mill
Yeah I know it's a bitter pill
But the rich don't worry
and they never will