Recollection (2025) Movie Script
1
[tense music]
- [breathing sharply]
[grunts]
- I wouldn't do that.
[unsettling music]
[liquid pouring]
Now, listen closely.
I will do whatever it takes
to get what's in here.
Do you understand?
What do you remember?
- What?
- I gave you back a memory.
And I need you to tell me,
what do you remember?
[pensive music]
- Authorization key.
- 487AB.
- Welcome back, Kate Parker.
We've detected 16 occurrences
of reduced serotonin
since your last cleanse.
Would you like to review them?
- No. Proceed.
- Confirmed.
Would you like
full memory deletion
or the deletion
of the associated emotions?
- Full deletion. Proceed.
- Confirmed.
16 negative memories
queued for removal.
[tense music]
Have a great day.
- Welcome to Vitality,
where yesterday's troubles
are forever forgotten.
- It's been proven now that
those who delete their memories
are 90% less likely
to experience symptoms of PTSD.
- Is it really that surprising
that deleting
traumatic memories
makes for a less traumatic life?
- Violent crime,
a 28% reduction...
- Welcome to Vitality,
where yesterday's troubles
are forever forgotten.
- Experiences
you can't get back.
- I don't want
these experiences back.
This is the new world.
- And 52% reduction in...
- Remember what you want
to remember,
and forget
what you want to forget.
- Next month,
the New Dawn policy
will require everyone
to register
under a memory cleanse
subscription.
I, for one, am happy
about that fact.
[indistinct chatter]
- I don't understand.
What is this?
- Sir, your employer requires
you to sign up with one
of our programs
if you are to maintain
eligibility for reemployment.
- Bullshit.
I've been with this job
for 13 years.
- It's your employer's
policy, sir.
And soon it will be nationwide.
So if you would--
- Nationwide?
They can't do that.
- Statistics show
that employees
who frequently cleanse are more
efficient than non-cleansers.
- Non-cleansers?
[sighs] So, what,
you saying I'm unfit for work?
- I'm only saying
that starting next week,
all non-cleansers
will be considered
an emotional liability.
So let's take a look
at that premium policy.
That's one memory cleanse
every ten business days.
[paper tearing]
[object clattering]
- So...you gonna
pick that shit up?
[object thuds]
You OK?
- Yeah.
Thanks.
[dark music]
- Welcome to Vitality,
where yesterday's troubles
are forever forgotten.
Move on from the traumas
of the past,
and start your future today.
Remember what you want
to remember.
Forget what you want to forget.
Collective memory therapy
is the number one choice
for true professionals.
[continues indistinctly]
Now here are three steps
you can do right now
to prepare
for the New Dawn policy.
Number one...
- Welcome back.
Kate, we detected
16 occurrences--
[indistinct chatter]
[dramatic music]
- Thank you
for visiting Vitality.
We are now closing.
Please proceed
to the customer exit.
- I transferred your asshole
client to the other branch.
He won't be coming back here.
- What are you talking about?
- How often?
- How often what?
- How often are you
cleansing, Kate?
- Two or three times a day.
Why do you care?
- You know, never mind.
Forget I said anything.
[lights click off]
[lights clicking on]
[alarm blaring]
- Emergency power out.
Please proceed
to the north exit.
Emergency power out.
Please proceed...
- Looks like a false alarm.
Maintenance is getting
on it right now.
I'm gonna go check--
[unsettling music]
Kate?
Kate, what's wrong?
- I don't know.
- [muffled] Hey, hey, hey.
Kate? Kate?
Everything is OK.
[lights clicking on]
- I'm fine.
I just need a cleanse.
- Kate, we gotta run
some diagnostics first.
Surge like this might--
- It's--it's OK.
I'll see you tomorrow.
[jazzy music playing]
- You're late.
- First time for everything.
Right, sis?
[can pops]
- Is it good?
- Yeah.
How's the hospital?
- Hmm.
Same old, same old.
You know how it is.
- Vitality's been getting busy
prepping for the new policy.
How is Jesse, by the way?
Feel like I haven't
seen him around in a while.
- You cleansed our last visit,
didn't you?
- No.
Not all of it.
- Jesus.
- What?
- Jesse and I split last month.
It's the third time
I've told you.
- OK.
You don't have
to feel like this.
- Excuse me?
- These circumstances are
exactly what cleanses are for.
- I don't need this.
- Come on.
I have an employee pass.
I can get you in for free.
- It's not about the money.
- Don't you want
to forget about him?
- No!
[breathes deeply]
[bangs on table]
[somber music]
You know what?
I'm done playing a part
in these little loops
of yours, Kate.
- What is that
supposed to mean?
- Do you understand
how many times
we've had this same argument?
Maybe you haven't noticed,
but with every cleanse,
you get more and more distant.
- I'm not cleansing everything.
I'm just cleansing
the parts that are--
- What, hard?
I think I'm done.
- You know, the policy
is gonna go through,
and your hospital
is gonna adopt it.
And I'm just trying to help.
You're my sister, Mags.
- Half.
I think you should just go.
And you know what?
If you're gonna cleanse
any of our time together,
just don't bother coming back.
[thunder rumbling]
[rain pattering]
[tires screech]
[eerie music]
- Struggling with the loss
of a loved one,
a traumatic incident,
an embarrassing social mistake?
Whatever your trauma,
sign up for our
memory cleanse
programs today.
Since Vitality's rollout,
there's been a significant
reduction in addiction,
child abuse, domestic violence,
and overall violent crimes.
Embrace the New Dawn policy,
and get the cleanse.
- [sighs]
- Authorization key.
- 487AB.
- Welcome back, Kate Parker.
We've detected 12 occurrences
of reduced serotonin
since your last cleanse.
Would you like to review them?
- No.
Proceed.
- Confirmed.
12 negative me--me--me--
[tense music]
- [breathing heavily]
[birds chirping]
Kate.
- Kate. I'm James.
- Firm handshake there, James.
- Yeah, sorry.
- [laughs]
[soft music]
[child laughs]
Did you just wake up?
Whoo!
That was a good one.
That was a good one.
Oh!
- Ah!
- This is just a formality.
- Glad betraying my trust
is a formality for you.
- It's just--
- We had an agreement.
- Kate.
- I told you
what I wanted to say.
[somber music]
[birds chirping]
[explosion]
[screaming]
[ominous music]
[fire roaring]
- Two to command,
be advised we have
high heat and low visibility...
- Yeah, looks like someone
left the gas stove on.
Household spark did the rest.
- Is the fire contained?
- Yeah, looks like we're out
of the profile now.
- OK.
- [breathing shakily]
[breathing rapidly]
[tense music]
[echoing]
- Kate.
- Kate. I'm James.
- Yeah.
- [gasps]
[echoing]
- Yeah, that's correct.
- Kate, wait.
- We've detected
16 occurrences
of reduced serotonin
since your last cleanse.
[tense music]
[distorted, echoing dialogue]
- Kate, are you OK?
- Yeah.
- Did you just cleanse?
- Uh--
- Come with me.
[muffled] Kate.
Kate.
[normally] Kate.
- No.
Before today,
I didn't know they existed.
- Are you sure
they were old memories?
- I thought this
wasn't possible.
- It's not.
- When a memory is erased,
it's supposed
to be gone forever.
Has this even happened before?
- Absolutely not.
- This is Natalie.
She's my acting supervisor...
for now.
- First thing we're gonna
need to do
is re-extract those memories.
How many would you say
there are?
Weeks? Months?
- I don't know.
- OK, well, that sounds like
a class five extraction.
I'm gonna need you to schedule
a retrograde immediately.
Kate...
I'm really sorry
that this happened to you.
- Scheduled.
- Good.
- Just meet
at retrograde at 1500.
Hang in there, Kate.
[echoing]
- Kate.
- [echoing]
Kate. I'm James.
[indistinct chatter]
[tense music]
[normally]
- Hello?
- Excuse me.
[keyboard clacking]
- [humming]
[knocking on wall]
- Hey, Del.
- Kate, how are you?
Ah, I haven't seen you since
the company Christmas party.
What brings you
to my department?
- I was hoping you could
give me a peek at diagnostics
on memory dispenser number 6.
- Oh, you need a quadrant
clearance for that, Kate.
I'm sorry.
You know it's dumb, but--
- I understand.
I'm just trying
to do Walter a favor.
He left a detail out
on his report yesterday.
He's getting
chewed out right now.
So maybe we could
just right his wrong,
and then the higher-ups
won't overreact.
- Yeah.
Well, you know...
[inhales sharply]
I can give you two minutes.
[curious music]
Looks like dispensary 6
has been running on
full capacity for 7,622 cycles.
Did you hear of a malfunction?
- No.
- Oh.
- When was
its last maintenance?
- 6:22, ooh, last night.
- Right after the alarm?
- Yeah, right after the alarm.
But that would be security.
They like to run diagnostics
on all the machines
after an incident.
Looks like somebody
was Johnny-on-the-spot.
Anything else I can do for you?
- I'm fine.
Thank you.
- Yeah.
Yeah, anything for Walter.
He's a good guy, you know.
- Yeah.
Actually, Del,
have you ever heard
of a memory being archived?
- What do you mean?
- Like, Vitality servers
saving a memory
after a host deletes it?
- [laughs] Come on, Kate.
You know that's impossible.
Not only do we not have
the technology,
but, jeez,
it's a company guarantee.
Once you cleanse a memory,
it's gone forever.
- That's what I thought.
Thanks.
- Uh-huh.
[pensive music]
- Kate to retrograde,
rerouting to fifth floor.
[suspenseful music]
- If you could relax
your head for me.
- OK.
[sighs]
[breathing deeply]
[machinery beeping]
What's that for?
- We can't have you
accidentally removing
any sensors mid-procedure.
The restraints
are just to avoid
any unintentional movement.
[phone buzzes]
[phone buzzes]
- Sorry, ma'am,
but we do not allow
cell phones
next to the equipment.
- We'll just put that with
the rest of your personables.
- Can I--can I just
postpone this procedure?
- I'm sorry?
- I'd like to reschedule
my retrograde.
- I'm sorry, ma'am, but we've
already prepped the machine.
There's--
- [grunts]
- There's no--look, ma'am,
I'm gonna need you
to calm down,
or else I'm gonna have to--
- [grunting]
- Hold her down, God damn it.
[beeping]
- [gasping, grunting]
- Grab her!
Hold her down, God damn it.
- [grunts]
[objects clattering]
- Get her!
[tense music]
- [panting]
- This is alpha team
requesting status update.
Shutting down east corridor.
Continue with your sweep.
Keep an eye out for any...
[phone buzzes]
[indistinct radio chatter]
- Employee announcement.
Kate Parker to retrograde.
Repeat, Kate Parker
to retrograde.
Employee announcement.
Kate Parker to retrograde.
- Wow, Kate.
You all right?
[phone buzzes]
- Fine.
[no audible dialogue]
[elevator dings]
[tense music]
- Shouldn't you be
in retrograde?
- I was, but they had
to reschedule.
[alarm blaring]
- Employee Kate Parker.
[indistinct] Security.
- We don't have to do this.
- Natalie to security.
[both grunting]
- Don't let Parker
leave the building.
[suspenseful music]
- [breathing heavily]
- Hey.
- Walter.
[indistinct announcement
over P.A. system]
[electricity crackling]
- Set up a perimeter.
Don't let her leave.
- [groans]
[both grunting]
[alarm blaring]
- [breathing heavily]
[muffled]
- What do you remember?
- [speaking indistinctly]
- I gave you back a memory.
[normally]
And I need you to tell me,
what do you remember?
[suspenseful music]
- [breathes sharply]
- What is it?
- No, I can't.
- What are you seeing?
- I can't.
- Tell me.
- No, I won't do that.
[panting]
- You cleansers
are all the same.
- Wait.
What are you doing?
- Just speeding up the process.
- What is that?
- Hold still.
- [shouts]
- [grunts]
No.
No! No.
No.
[suspenseful music]
I will get that memory.
So you're gonna
let me do my job,
or you can continue
to piss me off.
- [panting] I'll tell you.
I'll tell you.
- [breathing heavily]
- [panting] What is this?
- Nothing you haven't
lived before.
- No, wait!
[suspenseful music]
[keys jingle]
[flame whooshes]
[birds chirping]
Hey, babe.
- Hey.
[keys jingle]
- Hi.
- It's a pirate ship.
- It's perfect.
Looks like we have
an architect here.
- I have more.
I'll show you.
- OK.
[soft music]
Hey, sweetie.
- Hey.
[flame whooshes]
Hey, could you sign this
real quick?
Don't make it a big deal.
Just sign it and pass it back.
- "I hereby agree to refrain
from discussing or alluding
"to any detail pertaining
to the selected memories
for cleanse
by one James T. Parker."
- Kate, I technically don't need
your permission, all right?
- Hmm.
- This is just a formality.
- Glad my trust is just
a formality to you.
- Kate, please.
- No, we had an agreement.
If the nightmares continued,
you were gonna go
back to Mrs. Hill, not cleanse
five years of your life away.
- I know guys that have
cleansed a decade.
[pan sizzling]
Hey.
Hey.
[sighs]
I need this.
[soft music]
- I don't think
this is the answer.
- I'm scheduled for Thursday.
[sighs]
[somber music]
Kate, wait.
- I told you
what I wanted to say.
[dramatic music]
[explosion]
- Someone left
the gas stove on.
[birds chirping]
[soft music]
- Hey.
[keys jingle]
- It's a pirate ship.
- Charles.
- I have more.
I'll show you.
[suspenseful music]
[flame whooshes]
- Hey, could you
sign this real quick?
- What is this?
James.
James.
James.
OK, get up and go
get Charles, James.
- I don't even need
your permission.
This is just a formality.
- James, you need to get up
and get Charles
and get out of here.
[tense music]
- I need this.
- Whatever this is, I want out.
- Not until you see.
- I'm scheduled for Thursday.
[somber music]
- I'm so sorry.
- Kate, wait.
[dramatic music]
[explosion]
[soft music]
Hey.
- Come here, baby.
You gotta get out.
- It's a pirate ship.
- You gotta leave, OK, baby?
- I have more.
I'll show you.
- All right, get up.
Come on.
- You can't change
a memory, Kate,
but you can notice
something you missed.
- It was my fault.
I was so caught up
in that stupid argument,
I left the gas on.
[flame whooshes]
- Stop wasting time.
The stove.
- Kate, wait.
[suspenseful music]
- What are you doing?
- Nothing.
It was turned off, Kate.
[explosion]
[keys jingle]
- Hey.
- It's a pirate ship.
I have more.
I'll show you.
- Check the vent
below the painting.
[suspenseful music]
- Could you sign this
real quick?
- Now you see.
This wasn't an accident.
[dramatic music]
- [gasping]
- I'm sorry,
but I had to be sure.
- How dare you?
- How dare I?
Let's make something
really clear.
You're the one
that deleted your son
and your husband.
You erased them from existence.
- It's not like that.
- You know what I
really want to know?
What kind of parent
wants to forget their child?
I'd say, some mother you are.
- [spits]
- [grunts, cries]
[sobbing]
- You done?
Vitality killed your family,
but they weren't the target.
You were.
My guess is, you saw something
you weren't meant to see.
- What do you care?
- Why do I care?
November 16th, they took
something from me.
[dramatic music]
Six days later,
your family was killed.
- What are you saying?
- I'm saying
there's a connection.
- What is this?
- Your memory archive.
Only date
with a missing memory?
November 16, same date.
Clearly Vitality doesn't
want anyone viewing it.
So if I find that memory,
I find the proof
I need to take them down.
- Take them down.
Do you hear yourself?
- What is wrong with you?
Vitality killed your family,
made you erase your son,
and you're just
gonna sit there?
[somber music]
No payback?
You just want to go on
with your life?
You don't even want
to know why?
You help me find that memory,
and we can find out together.
- Untie me.
- OK.
There you go.
[grunts, groans]
- [breathing heavily]
That was for the backhand.
I'll help you find the memory.
I'm not gonna be
your hostage.
- Fair enough.
- Do I get your name, at least?
- No.
[birds chirping]
[indistinct chatter]
[muffled]
- You look different today.
- Oh, yeah, how so?
- You didn't shave.
- No, I didn't.
- No.
But you should.
- Oh, I don't know.
- I like it.
I do. I do.
- Do you like it?
- Yeah, I like
the scruffy look.
- I look like a caveman?
- No, like a hot lumberjack.
[laughter]
- It's not Sprite.
It's actually
a really good champagne.
- Well, you deserve it.
- And I thought tonight
would be a good time to...
well--
- To what?
- I think it's time we just
start talking about the future.
- Oh, boy.
What, like jet packs
and laser guns?
- Yes.
[laughs]
No, do you--you know.
- Oh, this talk.
- Yes, this talk.
Not the jet packs.
Before we begin, cheers.
- [gasps, sighs]
- I'm sorry, I was just--
[faint thrumming]
[door slams]
[electricity buzzing]
[sighs]
Thanks for the clothes.
Were they your--
- It's Teddy.
- What is?
- My name is Teddy.
- It's a nice place, Teddy.
- [sighs]
When you're assumed dead,
your choice of residency
shrinks.
- It's 7:00 AM.
[suspenseful music]
What's this?
- That is the only lead I got.
When I broke
into the dispensary,
I found an encrypted name
buried in the code.
- Do you know who he is?
- Hopefully somebody
that knows about
that missing memory of yours.
I did a background sweep.
Practically came up empty,
except for that address.
- Guessing that's
where we're headed?
- That is where we're headed.
- Could be a setup.
- Could be.
[indistinct chatter]
[tense music]
- I need two units
in the upper east quadrant.
What are you doing, Kate?
[indistinct chatter]
- We just got some new orders.
[birds chirping]
- What's that for?
- Helps with my anxiety.
[suspenseful music]
- Looks like no one's home.
- Doesn't mean
there won't be any surprises.
Keep your eyes open.
- We're breaking in?
- You want to ring
the doorbell?
[suspenseful music]
[ominous music]
I think you're right.
Whoever was here is long gone.
- Wait. Teddy!
[sharp bang]
- Ah!
[gun cocking]
- Don't you move.
I said don't move.
You...
- Son of a bitch.
- Kick that gun over to me.
Do it now.
- The hell I will.
- Teddy.
- I'm warning you.
[suspenseful music]
- We both know you're not
gonna pull that trigger.
- I'll do it.
[breathing heavily]
- Go ahead.
Shoot.
You might want to cock
that gun, though.
[gun cocking]
[gunshot]
[both grunting]
Who are you?
[blow lands]
- [grunts]
- Who are you?
- I can't.
They'll kill me.
- Teddy.
- I'm gonna blow your head off
if you don't start talking.
- Teddy.
- 3, 2--
- Teddy.
- What?
- [breathing shakily]
[somber music]
Tea?
- I didn't take you
for a tea guy.
We found your name
in Vitality code.
Guessing you worked there?
- I tell you something
you don't want to hear,
and he'll what?
Beat me again
in front of my family?
- Just answer our questions.
We'll leave you alone.
I promise.
Who are you?
- My name's David.
I'm a developer.
Or I was.
- Developer of what?
- The first MC device.
- That's right.
- You're the creator
of memory cleanse technology?
- It was my biggest success
and my biggest failure.
- Failure?
You helped millions of people
delete their traumas.
- Well, that's just it.
Trauma can't be deleted.
- Of course it can.
- People fail to realize the
human brain isn't a hard drive.
When a memory is written,
it isn't just a series
of ones and zeros
you can Control-Shift-Delete.
The subconscious mind
can recall trauma
even if the conscious mind
can't.
- Cleanses, you're saying
they're useless?
- Not useless, no.
Sure, it can help on occasion.
It's like trying to patch
a boat with duct tape.
- I would have heard
about this before.
- And why do you think
you haven't?
- [chuckles]
Sales. What else?
- Vitality's been skewing
statistics since its inception,
and those stats
are gonna get even worse
with that new policy.
- This is bullshit.
Teddy, let's go.
- Kate, sit down.
- No.
Why are you trusting him?
- Do you want me to take over?
- I've been cleansing
for years.
You're wrong.
- I'm wrong?
- How do you know?
- Know what?
- How do you know the cleansing
devices don't work?
- Because I know.
- How do you know?
- Because I couldn't save
my brother.
[sighs]
He was a marine.
He was dealing
with post-traumatic stress,
so I created
the whole thing to help him.
And it worked--
for a while, anyway.
Till one day,
he threw himself into a train
after feeling
an unexplainable sense of dread
from the flashing lights.
- I'm sorry.
- This isn't a goddamn
meet and greet.
Vitality has been
archiving memories,
and I want to know why.
- Follow me.
[suspenseful music]
After some clever
bait and switching,
I had signed away all ownership
to my own invention.
It was soon after, I learned
what was really happening.
- Which was?
- Some secret sector
called the Vault
creating an archive
of extracted memories.
- Why?
- I didn't stick around
long enough to find out.
I got out just in time.
- Son of a bitch.
- Been off grid ever since.
Before I left,
I downloaded a contact list
of Vitality operatives.
Maybe you can do what I couldn't
and free my family.
- Thank you.
[device beeping]
- No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
[suspenseful music]
- What is that?
What did you do?
- I didn't do this.
Oh, God, they're getting close.
Jessica, grab Sam
and get to the safe room!
- What did you do?
- I didn't do this.
We've been hiding from them
for eight years.
- Teddy.
- Let's go.
How long do we have?
- Just up the road,
maybe two minutes.
[keypad beeps]
Come on. Come on.
There's a back exit that way.
Wait, wait, wait.
Find a man named Sid Dyas,
hangs around district 27,
code 4815.
- Who is he?
- Hopefully somebody who can
find what you're looking for.
- Let's go.
- He's not an ally.
Be careful.
- Taylor 23, be advised we have
a visual on both subjects.
- Kate is the only priority.
Bring her in alive.
Use nonlethal rounds.
Anyone else, shoot on sight.
- Shoot on sight?
We were told
this was an extraction.
We're not assassins.
- Follow your orders.
[suspenseful music]
[gun cocking]
- Kate, watch out!
[grenade launcher pops]
[beeping]
[explosion]
[high-pitched ringing]
- Permission to engage targets.
- Permission granted.
- Could you sign this
real quick?
[explosion]
[muffled]
- Kate. Kate.
You gotta get up.
You have to keep moving.
Come on.
You got to keep moving!
[normally]
Damn it, Sarah!
Get up.
[dramatic music]
- Head over to the east side.
Cut them off.
- Copy that.
Bravo team pushing east.
Nonlethal rounds are live.
All channels, once you get
a clear shot, you take it.
- Copy that.
Opening fire.
[gunshots]
[gun cocking]
[rapid gunfire]
[gunshots]
[rapid gunfire, gunshots
continue]
- They're forking off.
Keep your eyes peeled.
- [breathing heavily]
I don't know if I can do this.
- Get your shit together!
[gunshots]
- [grunts]
[gun clicks]
- Shit.
- [grunting]
[gunshots]
[groans]
- Nonlethal rounds.
They want you alive.
You take this.
Follow me.
[gunshots]
- Don't move.
[suspenseful music]
- Walter.
[dramatic music]
- What the hell do you think
you're doing, Kate?
- Vitality is not
who you think they are.
They killed my family.
- Bullshit.
- They've been secretly working
on a sector called the Vault.
If you would just
let me explain.
Put the gun down.
Come with us.
- Officer 247,
do you have a visual?
Over.
- I know you have orders,
but please, look around.
Does any of this feel right?
- Officer 247, do you copy?
[suspenseful music]
- God damn it.
You get me proof, all right?
- Yeah.
- Side of the road,
through the trees, go.
- Requesting immediate
mission update.
Are you still with--
[suspenseful music]
- Target spotted moving east.
Just missed them.
- Why are you not
answering your comms?
[muffled]
- David!
- [screams]
- David!
David!
- [screams]
- David, help!
Let me go.
David!
- OK, I'm coming!
Ow.
[grunting]
[coughing]
[breathing heavily]
- [sighs] You've betrayed us
for a second time now, David.
- [sobs] How did you--
how did you--
- Find you?
Come on, David.
We never lost you.
- [breathing heavily]
- You were doing
really good until today.
- [sobbing]
- I'm gonna make sure that your
family is taken care of, OK,
but for you--
[gun cocking]
- You're Natalie, right?
I know you.
Vitality's got dirt on you.
You think your loyalty
will earn you a clean slate?
They'll never stop.
- You don't know that.
[gun cocking]
[gunshot]
- What the hell is this?
[tense music]
Who was he?
- You know I think
I'm starting to like you?
- This is not what we do.
- You don't know a thing
about what we do.
- I know more than you think.
I know about the Vault.
That's where you get
your orders from, isn't it?
And the memories
being archived.
You tell me what the hell
is going on, or I walk.
- You know I read your file?
You were an excellent cop,
really on your way
to some valor until
some friendly fire of yours
killed a civilian.
Now, I need to know, were they
just caught in the cross fire?
Or are you just
a terrible shot?
[somber music]
We're all hiding
from something.
[suspenseful music]
- What do you want
to do with him?
[somber music]
[gunshot]
- [screams]
[tires squealing]
- When was the last time
you slept?
- I'm fine.
- I can drive.
- I said I'm fine.
[radio clicks on,
static crackling]
I broke it when I disengaged
the company tracker.
- Right.
Out in the forest,
you called me Sarah.
Is that the woman
from your memories?
She was my wife.
- What happened?
- She was a district attorney.
She was building a case
against Vitality.
We were on our way home
from the doctor's.
She was glowing.
It was the first time we--
we heard the heartbeat.
When we got back
to the house, they--
they were waiting for us,
shot me twice through the ribs
and left me for dead
in the gutter.
I was--I was trying to--
You had six years
with your boy.
You got to hold him.
I just wanted to see mine.
- I couldn't--
I couldn't live--
- I understand why you
erased your memory.
You don't think
I've thought about it?
The pain that I feel
is all I got left.
So I will not forget.
The people who did this
won't get to either.
[dramatic music]
Let's go.
[tense music]
- Wait, do we even know
what we're walking into?
- Sid Dyas, if David
was telling the truth.
- What if he's not here?
- He has to be, because if this
guy can't find your memory,
then we're out of leads.
[panel beeps, dings]
[buttons beeping]
[panel dings]
Feel free to stay outside.
[suspenseful music]
[muffled chatter]
- Welcome in.
Specific sector?
- Browsing.
[muffled chatter continues]
- Fellas.
- Specific sector?
- Looking for Sid Dyas.
- Ah.
Well, you can find him
at his usual.
- Thanks.
[suspenseful music]
Think any of these guys
are Vitality?
- They don't really
fit the bill.
But let's not garner
any unwanted attention.
- Yeah.
[person screaming]
- Doctor!
Doctor, who the hell
do you think you are?
Hey, step back down!
What are you doing?
What are you
doing?
- What is this place?
- I have no idea,
but let's find out.
[dramatic music]
White suit.
Could be our guy.
- Certainly looks important.
[tablet beeps]
- We got 612 on her file,
13 of which
occurred below the overpass.
- Does this include the struggle
leading up to the assault?
- Oh, yeah, she was cleansing
all night long, pal.
- Nice.
- Here we go.
- Thank you.
- You're more than welcome.
[gun cocking]
- You must be Sid Dyas.
- [sighs]
What can I do for you?
- Is there a place
we could go to for privacy?
[laughter]
- [screaming]
- [groans]
Ow, ow, ow.
Ow.
- What the hell is this place?
- Kate, keep your voice down.
- Tell me.
- I don't know
how you got in here.
[gun cocking]
OK, hotshot, easy.
Easy with the gun.
These are the trading grounds
for the archive.
- Trading?
Memories from Vitality's archive
are, what, auctioned off?
- Something like that, yeah.
- By who? For what?
- Well, we have
a variety of customers.
Thousands of people
cleanse their deepest,
darkest secrets every day.
So a lot of buyers wish
to exploit those secrets.
- For what?
- Well, snuffing out threats
to Vitality, for starters,
blackmail.
Plus, lots of memories
contain precious intel,
ripe for insider trading.
- Operation this big
doesn't just stay a secret.
How hasn't law enforcement--
- Done what,
taken away their primary
source of evidence?
[scoffs] Yeah.
- You're trading crime intel
with the goddamn cops.
- Well, yeah.
I mean, there isn't a more
accurate account of a crime
than the memory of the person
who experienced it.
Or better yet,
the memory of the person
who actually committed
the crime.
Chances are, both are
rushing in for a cleanse.
[computer beeping]
[suspenseful music]
[gun cocking]
Ah! Hey, hey, come on, dude.
I'm just a seller.
- I'm counting on it.
You're gonna find
a memory for us.
- OK.
[tablet beeping]
- File named
Kate Leslie Parker.
November 16, 2033.
- Normally this would take
a couple of minutes,
but you're lucky
I'm really good at my job.
- Exploiting people's trauma
for profit.
You're a goddamn inspiration.
- OK, I found the file,
but it's empty.
- We know.
So where would they store
a deleted memory?
- Well, not here.
I mean, nothing here
except wireless access
to the actual archive.
- OK, then wirelessly access
the deleted memory.
- I'm afraid you have
to be at the archive, pal.
Those deleted memories
are deleted for a reason.
- Then how do we get
to the archives?
- I'm afraid that's
above my pay grade, pal.
[grunts]
Oh, man. Damn.
- Try again.
- Whose memory is this?
Ah, so you're
the dame in question.
Yeah, you might be able
to track a transfer.
Might have been pulled
for malfunction
or sorting or even popularity.
- Popularity?
- Yeah.
Well, not every customer
is here for business.
Some are, you know,
in it for pleasure.
- What do you mean by that?
- Well, some buyers come
for a front-row seat.
There ain't no entertainment
more authentic
than the real thing,
know what I'm saying?
Let me show you something.
[tablet beeps]
- It's a pirate ship.
- This is a good
and nasty trauma of yours.
- OK.
- Now, imagine
how selfish you'd be
if you kept that all
to yourself.
- I have more.
I'll show you.
- Is that your son?
- [grunts]
- Ah! Ow! Ow!
[tense music]
- Shit.
- Oh, shit.
[gunshots]
Oh, no.
You're coming with us.
[gunshots]
- Whoa.
- There's got to be
a back way out of this.
- Yeah, you want me
to aid in my own capture?
[laughs]
You drive a hard bargain.
Right down that hallway
to the right.
[gunshots]
Now's our chance. Go!
- Come on.
[gunshots]
- You're gonna--
I need you to--
- Teddy.
- I'm fine.
Stop. Ah.
- Shit.
- I'm fine.
I just need to catch my breath.
- You're one of those guys.
[gun cocking]
- Don't even think about it.
[groans]
Keep moving.
- [sighs]
I'm not getting in there.
[gunshots]
OK, I'm getting in there.
Damn it.
[suspenseful music]
- Keep pressure on it.
- [groaning]
- This your guy's
first kidnapping?
- I'm taking you
straight to the hospital.
- Yeah, that's a great idea.
Let's bring the presumed dead
to a public facility
while his prisoner
waits in the back.
- I don't mind that idea.
- Shut up!
- Just drive us
back to my place.
[groans]
[dramatic music]
- Every day,
millions of people are cleansing
with no idea their memories are
being archived and exploited.
- Yeah, and that number
is about to triple.
[laughs]
- What is he talking about?
- The New Dawn policy.
- Well, we just won't
let that happen.
- It's already
Congress-approved, my friend.
Starting next week,
all companies have to register
their employees for cleansing.
But sure, storm the castle.
I bet you two could do
some damage.
- Just please, shut him up.
- Make sure you give
the guards a snarky remark
and you can bleed on them.
- [grunts]
Teddy, somewhere
there's a server room
full of every user's cleanses.
We need to do--
Shit.
Shit!
- What are you--
- Hey.
- Who is that?
- Just get his legs.
- God.
[groans]
[tense music]
- [groaning]
- My God, what,
is this a bullet wound?
- Yeah.
- Oh, shoot.
- Just hand me
that tray up there.
- Who the hell is this?
- She's my sister.
She's here to help you.
No, Teddy.
- [groaning]
Have you done this before?
- Yeah, I've assisted
with--with a few.
- You assisted?
- It's OK.
- That's great.
You brought me
a goddamn intern.
[groaning]
- So we need to--
I need to flip him over,
and we're gonna see if there's
an exit wound in the back, OK?
1, 2, 3.
- [groaning]
- Oh, great.
- [groaning]
- This is just great.
- Ignore him.
- The bullet's still inside,
so we gotta move to plan B here.
- Hey, love the place,
by the way.
But if you're going for homey,
I'd say near miss.
- You have any hemostat
or a forceps or--
- What?
- Maybe I can help, ladies.
You know, I took a free
nursing class in college.
- Dude, does he ever shut up?
- No.
- Either of you ladies
got a lighter?
I'd love to be the one
that cauterizes the wound,
burn some flesh.
[chuckles]
[suspenseful music]
[muffled speech]
- OK, here we go.
This is gonna suck, so I need
you to really hold him, OK?
- Yeah.
- All right, OK.
Ready?
[sighs]
- [gasps]
- Just--just hold him.
- [gasps]
- Just--just hold him.
[somber music]
- Hey, I'm gonna get some air.
I just need
to process all this.
[door clatters shut]
- Now, that's a goddamn
family reunion.
Are you sure she's your sister?
You shouldn't have brought her.
- We can trust her.
- You should have just--
- What, let you die?
- Longest time
without a cleanse.
- Hey.
- [groans]
- Stay.
- [groans, sighs]
Thank you.
Let's get back to work.
Give me that.
- After we get Sid to talk
and figure out
where that memory is
and who did this,
what are you gonna do?
- We'll track them down,
and we'll finish the job.
- You mean kill them?
- Yeah.
- And then what?
- What do you mean?
- After you've done it,
what are you gonna do
after that?
- Then I'll be at peace.
Or maybe not.
- Uh-uh.
You need to lay back down.
- Yeah, that's not happening.
- Is he--is he crazy?
- Yes.
- You just got shot.
- Well, you patched
me up well, Doc.
- I didn't.
I'm an assistant, OK?
So you need to go to
the hospital and get that fixed,
or it's gonna get infected.
- What I need to do
is talk to Sid.
- What is--
- Just stay here.
- [sighs]
[door clicks open]
[suspenseful music]
- Ah, dude.
- Inspired
by my handiwork, I see.
- Decided to push off dying
for another day, huh?
Bad move, pal.
- Kate's memory file,
you mentioned it could be found
in the west district.
Explain.
- Listen, man, I don't know.
Oh.
- Try again.
- That's just a server farm
for the archive.
But if it was deleted, it could
be anywhere or nowhere.
- You deal with a thousand
memory transfers a day.
- Like I said, man,
I'm just the s--[grunts]
- Teddy.
Isn't there another way
to do this?
- You're right.
Maybe I don't even need to ask.
- Son of a bitch.
What are you doing?
- Excuse me.
- Why are you doing this?
[metallic squeal]
Hey, Sid.
- What's up, Dad?
- [laughs]
- Doesn't feel right, does it?
[indistinct chatter]
Someone searching
through your memories.
- What's your plan,
to scroll through my lifetime
till you find
what you're looking for?
- No.
No, you're right.
That would take way too long.
This here is just--
it's just for motivation.
[dramatic music]
All right, look at that.
- [laughs]
- What is that?
Is that your honeymoon?
- [laughs]
- I'd hate to erase it.
- Don't--don't delete that.
Don't--
- You gonna answer my question?
- I told you, I don't know.
Don't, don't, don't, don't,
don't, don't, don't, don't.
- Hey, tell me
about your honeymoon.
Where'd you go?
- I don't--
- Oh, that's right.
- I don't know.
- Let's keep going, shall we?
- I told you, I don't know!
- You got a lot
of fond memories, buddy.
Oops.
I didn't even mean
to delete that one.
I'm sorry.
Let's--
- Stop it!
- Let's--hold on, hold on.
- It was just so fun to watch
you when you were that age.
- Wow.
That is not what I expected.
That's sweet.
- You were the sweetest boy.
- You really loved
your mother, didn't you?
I was a mama's boy.
I get it.
Can you imagine
what that would do
if you couldn't remember
your own mother?
- They never tell me anything.
They never tell me--
[crying]
- I imagine it would
really mess somebody up.
- Teddy, he doesn't
know anything.
[sharp bang]
- You don't know that.
I'm doing what's necessary.
And if you can't
stomach it, fine.
Then just stay here.
- [crying]
No, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
[muffled crying]
- What's going on in there?
- Just getting answers.
Thank you for being here.
- Of course.
Why wouldn't I be here?
- The last few years
have been pretty--
[somber music]
[both chuckle]
It's weird, though.
Even with everything that's
happened in the last two days,
I haven't felt
this free in years.
- Taking every negative moment
out of your head
flattens the line.
- What do you mean?
- Like, it's the bad moments
that make us
appreciate the good ones.
And then you take away
the contrast,
and everything just becomes--
- Gray.
Yeah.
- Hey, I--
I grabbed something
before I left.
I know I was supposed
to get rid of everything,
but I kept this one.
And you don't have to look
at it if you don't want to.
[tender music]
- I hated that shirt.
- [laughs] I know.
- I tried to bury this.
I tried to bury
everything left of them.
I'm such a coward.
- Mm-mm.
Kate, don't do that
to yourself.
Nobody should have had to go
through what you went through.
And I know
looking back is hard,
but sometimes loss
is the price you pay for love.
- I should check on Teddy,
make sure he's not
doing anything he regrets.
Teddy?
Is he--
- He's fine. He passed out.
- I'm gonna go get Maggie.
- I said he's fine.
- Did he talk?
[suspenseful music]
- Nope.
You were right.
He doesn't know anything.
[muffled, indistinct dialogue]
- [sighs]
[muffled gunshots]
- Kate?
[muffled gunshots]
[door rattling]
Walter.
Kate told me what happened.
Thank you for what
you did back there.
[suspenseful music]
[gasps]
[radio beeps]
- First target down.
Area clear.
- What is that?
- Stay away from the door.
[device beeps]
[explosion]
- [gasps]
- [groans]
[high-pitched ringing]
[tense music]
[alarm blaring]
- Where's Maggie?
[gun cocking]
[gunshots]
- Where is she?
- Who?
- Your squad leader.
Where is she?
[both grunting]
[metallic creak]
[suspenseful music]
- Oh, thank God.
Oh.
- What did you tell them?
- Nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
[chuckling] Oh, man.
For a minute there, I thought
you were gonna shoot me.
- No.
- [gurgling]
[both grunting]
[alarm blaring]
[suspenseful music]
- Maggie?
[both grunting]
[blows landing]
[bite crunches]
- [shouts]
- Maggie.
Come on.
Come on.
- [coughing, gasping]
- Hi.
- Don't leave me, OK?
- No, I'm gonna get you
out of here, OK?
- Promise me one thing.
That you're gonna finish this.
- Don't move.
- [breathing heavily]
What are you doing, Walter?
- Get up slowly.
Put your hands over your head.
- What about what I told you
in the forest?
- I've never seen you before
in my life.
Now, get up.
- [groaning]
[gunshots]
[light bulb shatters]
- Come on, Teddy.
Just come out,
and nobody gets hurt.
- You expect me
to believe that?
- No.
[gunshots]
- [breathing heavily]
[tense music]
[groans]
[breathing heavily]
- Be smart, Teddy.
You don't want to end up
like Sarah, do you?
- [shouts]
[groaning]
Ah!
- You've had better days.
- [groans]
- You've given
a commendable effort.
[gunshots]
- No.
- You're an enemy of Vitality.
[gunshot]
- [breathing heavily]
- No, stay still.
- [breathing sharply]
- Look at me.
Just keep pressure on it.
[breathing heavily]
[groans]
[somber music]
- What did they do to him?
- Probably cleansed
his memory of Kate,
along with who knows what.
- How did they find us?
- Just take care
of your sister.
- [groans]
- [breathing heavily]
- You know someone took
the effort to pin your location.
You're not gonna shoot me.
You need me.
- Teddy, tell me
that isn't true,
that you led them to us?
- You said it yourself,
Sid was a dead end and a--
- Son of a bitch.
- Back up.
We've come this far.
[breathing heavily]
You want to stop now?
- You did this?
- No. No.
They did this.
They took your boy.
They took Sarah.
We had no choice.
Sid said that you have a lot
more pull than you lead on.
So you are gonna
take us to him.
- He doesn't really
take visitors.
- He will for her.
- Who are you talking about?
- This is interesting.
You didn't tell your trusted
little friend about your plan,
did you?
- What is she talking about?
[gun cocking]
- You're not gonna shoot me.
- You're right.
I'm not gonna shoot you.
I'll shoot her.
He's gonna need her alive.
So you're gonna
take us to him.
- I am not leaving her.
- I know.
[gun cocking]
[gunshots]
[suspenseful music]
- Extraction went as planned.
We have her.
Meet at West HQ at 2100.
- Does that match
your grand vision?
- Just send it.
- So this is all
I was here for?
Leverage?
- I've always told you
I'd do whatever it takes.
- You never needed
my lost memory, did you?
You just needed me.
- [gasps]
- [breathing shallowly]
Don't.
You're not gonna understand,
but I need you to see something.
[tense music]
[panel beeping]
[buzzer blares, gate rattling]
- You know this can
only end one way, right?
- I'm counting on it.
[groans]
You try anything,
and you're both dead.
- I need you to listen to me.
Your friend is injured.
He's not thinking straight.
Your sister's dead
because of him,
and we're about to be next.
- Maggie's--she's--
- All of these vehicles come
standard issue
with a weapon
in that glove compartment.
I need you to get me mine.
- Now, this is what's
gonna happen.
You're gonna call off
all remaining security.
You're gonna clear
the way for us.
Understood?
Now get out.
- Yes, sir.
[both grunt]
- [groans]
- First hit?
I'll give you one.
- [groans]
[both grunting]
- I said one.
[both grunting]
- [groaning]
- [breathing heavily]
[suspenseful music]
They told me about your wife.
Funny thing.
- [groans]
- They tell me...
that I'm the one
that pulled the trigger.
- [gasps]
- At least,
that's what they tell me.
- [gasps]
- Want to know something else?
I don't remember a thing.
- [groans]
- I don't think
I'll remember this either.
[gunshot]
[tense music]
- Don't get up.
- [groans]
- You got what you came for.
- No, she was just a pawn.
This changes nothing.
[breathing heavily]
[gun cocking]
- What happened
to taking down the servers?
- I'm gonna make this
very clear.
All I ever cared about
was killing the bastard
who took my wife and my boy.
Everything else
was just a side effect.
So if you excuse me.
- You're just gonna
get more people killed.
[alarm blaring]
- Security breach.
Unauthorized personnel
entering.
- The New Dawn policy goes
into effect unless we stop it.
I made a promise to my sister.
Help me finish it.
- Security breach.
Unauthorized personnel
entering.
Security breach.
- Freeze!
[gunshots]
[both grunt]
[suspenseful music]
- [groaning]
- Unauthorized personnel
entering.
- [breathing heavily]
- Security breach.
- Kate.
Security breach.
Unauthorized personnel
entering.
Security breach.
Unauthorized personnel
entering.
[gunshot]
Security breach.
Unauthorized personnel
entering.
Security breach.
Unauthorized personnel
entering.
Security breach.
Unauthorized...
[suspenseful music]
[panel beeping]
[ominous music]
[terminals beeping]
[keyboard clacking]
[whirring]
- Hey, Kate.
[dramatic music]
- James.
- I'm here.
It's me.
- Oh.
- Sorry I was gone for so long.
- I don't understand.
I saw you die.
- I know.
None of this is fair to you.
You've been through so much.
Let's fix this.
Go back to the way things were.
- Charles, is he--
- I'm sorry.
He's still gone.
OK, but he doesn't have to be.
- What do you mean?
- Well, this pain,
it's all for nothing.
You can just cleanse it away.
- Our son is not for nothing.
- Of course not.
But--but holding on to him
after the fact
isn't good for anybody,
all right?
You can forget him,
just like I have.
He's nothing more to me now than
what I read about in his file.
- James, what are you
doing here?
- [grunts]
- Teddy!
- Memory can be
misleading, can't it?
- [grunts]
- What are you doing?
- Despair, Kate.
Your husband's
a goddamn murderer.
- Like you're any different.
I heard the commotion
downstairs.
- [grunts]
- [groans]
- Please.
- [coughs]
- God damn it.
[sighs]
- [grunts]
- Now listen closely.
Enter your key code
and shut down those servers
for good.
Do you understand?
- I'm afraid that's not
how that works.
- Then make it work.
- You're a part of this?
- He is this.
The head of the snake.
The person we've been
looking for, right there.
- So we were just--
we were a lie?
- No, I love you.
I did then, and I still do.
Just let me explain.
- Allow me.
I read the report
from that day.
You snuck out
just before the blast.
Tell me,
what kind of man orders
an attack on his own family?
Now, you're gonna enter
that key code.
- Teddy, that wasn't
Vitality's bomb.
- What are you doing?
[whirring]
- [breathing heavily]
[clattering]
What is that?
[breathing heavily]
[clattering]
- What is this?
[beeping]
[clattering]
Teddy.
- That's impossible.
You're lying.
- I'm not lying.
- I wasn't there.
- You weren't,
to the best of your memory.
The memory unit's
central parts were stolen
just two hours after the event,
a few miles from here.
It's like you couldn't live
with what you'd done.
- Kate, I would never--
- You're so caught up
in revenge,
you let an innocent child
get caught in your wake.
And you cleansed it all.
I'm afraid you've let your past
dictate your future
for the last time, pal.
[gunshot]
[whirring]
- Kate--
[breathing heavily]
[suspenseful music]
[gasps]
- Kate.
Now, you know me.
- Turns out, I don't.
[footsteps tapping]
- It's all right.
Kate, I've wanted
to tell you so many times.
From the moment I met you, I've
had to keep secrets from you.
And it tore me apart.
Yes, I stepped out
before the blast.
I was trying to follow you.
[siren wailing]
And the burden was too much.
So we cleansed--that day,
each other, all of it.
And it was your idea,
an idea I stood by.
So your friend here
broke into HQ
and started this whole mess.
Last week, I was made aware
of this situation.
Teddy found a way
to break into our database.
That's when he gave you back
your memories.
I was brought in to review
the stolen memories in question.
- Are you going to school
pretty soon?
- Whoa.
- Right?
- Until that day, you were
only a stranger to me.
[laughter]
I knew I could just re-cleanse,
but I also knew that I could
bring you in safely
and go right back
to where we left off.
- So the fact that I knew
Vitality's secrets
had nothing to do with that?
- Forget all that.
We can start over.
- No.
I spent the last three days
bearing witness
to all of the horrible things
that Vitality has done,
that you've done.
You're a murderer, James.
- You still don't get it,
do you?
We live in a world now
where emotional wounds
can be cleansed.
- What, actions
just have no consequences?
- Cause and effect?
Sure.
But emotional pain,
that's in the mind.
And why shouldn't we repurpose
the occasional client's cleanse
for other means?
Look how many cases
we've closed
because of our arrangement
with the police.
- Don't act like
that's your motive.
- Look at Teddy, a man
so obsessed with his past,
he let it dictate every
waking moment of his future.
I know you have that memory
in your pocket.
Let me show you what's on it.
OK, you've come so far
to get to this point.
Trust me.
Just give me a chance.
[somber music]
- Copy, target
has been neutralized.
Over.
- Sounds like the breach
has been located and contained.
- Copy that.
- Rendezvous is at level three.
Section--
[echoing clatter]
I'll push.
Cover 6 on me.
[suspenseful music]
[gun cocking]
- Walter!
Do you realize
how ridiculous it is to ask me
to sneak in here after hours?
I mean, how the hell
did you get through?
Did you get a clearance pass?
Oh.
- We got to get past
those doors
and destroy those servers now.
- Destroy the servers?
That's 30 feet of machinery.
I mean, how you gonna do that?
- I don't know.
Set some explosive charges,
all right?
- Oh, you got some of those
lying around, do you?
- EMP.
- EMP, sure, I got all that
stuff hanging around here.
- OK, fine, fine.
Look, OK, you're the tech guy.
Surely there's a way.
We cannot leave this building
without erasing
that archive forever.
- OK, OK.
The servers run
on a dual core generator.
You could overload it,
and it would fry the contents.
But that's what
the Faraday cage prevents.
- What if we destroy
the cage, huh?
- Yeah, but, but--
- You get on that overload.
I'll get on Kate
about the cage.
Send me the details on this.
- Wait, where's Kate?
- You and your friend
have been so hell-bent
on digging up the past.
[suspenseful music]
Let's hope this
convinces you otherwise.
[keyboard clacking]
- Memory sequence realigned.
[dramatic music]
[knock at door]
- Am I interrupting?
- Can you come look at this?
You remember that DA who was
snooping through our stuff
last week?
- Yeah, what's her name?
Sarah something?
- Yeah.
Well, she just got a search
warrant for the west district.
- What? How?
- James, she's got dirt on us.
Something needs to be done.
- OK.
It'll be handled.
- What if she goes public
with this, James?
I don't--
- Kate, I'll take care of it.
- Thank you.
- OK, don't get out
of here too late.
[echoing] We made--we made quite
the team at one point, Kate.
- That district attorney,
that was Teddy's--
- [echoing] Yes.
- I didn't--
I didn't know
what I was asking.
I knew that we were
cooking the books.
I knew that we were fudging
some of the numbers,
but I didn't--
[somber music]
I didn't know.
I wouldn't--
I wouldn't have asked for that.
[indistinct chatter]
- It's Bob!
- [laughs]
Hon, it's time for bed, OK?
Go brush your teeth.
Thank you.
[dynamic music playing]
- This just in, local district
attorney Sarah Cruzaedo
has been found dead
from what they are calling
a tragic car collision.
Little is known about what
could have caused the crash.
New details arriving shortly.
Sarah was 37.
- [echoing] You understood then,
the price to keep
doing what we were doing.
You knew it was bigger
than all of this.
- James, that's enough.
- [echoing] At least appreciate
the irony here.
In a way, you and Teddy
created each other,
planting the seeds
of each other's trauma.
[door slams]
- You got all these--
[muffled speech]
- [echoing]
Now you know the truth.
But there's more
I want to show you.
[muffled yelling]
- Wait.
[muffled]
- That's what happens
when you act up.
- No.
- Shut up.
I said...
- I know this place.
- What did you do
to this place?
Work hard all day,
and I do it for you.
And this is how you repay me?
No wonder your mother left you.
[glass shatters]
You got all this shit
lying around.
Clean it up!
Stop lying.
[somber music]
[door clicks open]
- Kate, he came home like this.
I don't know what to do.
- Maggie.
- Where the hell did you go?
Get the hell back in here.
And you, clean up this mess.
- Kate.
- [echoing] Look at all these
memories weighing you down.
It's time to let the past die.
- James, please stop this.
[chuckling]
[suspenseful music]
No.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
- Kate, what the hell?
- What?
- Break's almost over?
What's the whole point
if we can't...
- [echoing] All this
is one cleanse away.
Just say the word.
- Just relax.
- [echoing] None of this
should have happened to you.
[somber music]
- Yes.
But they did happen.
[whirring]
- The hell's
your problem, bitch?
- Don't touch her.
Walk away.
She said no.
- Screw this.
[indistinct chatter]
- You OK?
- Yeah.
- These things shouldn't
have happened, James.
But they did.
- [echoing] But life, it's--
it's about the present,
about discovering
what's in front of us right now.
- But it's also about fear
and shame and loss.
But we can turn those things
into something else,
into something stronger.
[whirring]
- Sorry.
- It was an accident.
Just have to be careful
next time, OK?
- Mm-hmm.
- Come here, bud.
- [echoing] You know
you can never see him again.
- I know.
But sometimes loss
is the price we pay for love.
- What's up, buddy?
You hungry?
- Yeah.
- OK, you hold out. Ready?
[groans] Oh, we did it!
We did it!
- Great work.
- Yeah.
- No.
[growls]
- [chuckles] Keep going.
That looks great.
It's your birthday.
- [singing]
Happy birthday, dear Charles
Happy birthday to you
- [echoing] Then you're lost.
[whirring]
[normally]
I did offer you a choice.
It just pains me to see
the one that you made.
I'm so sorry, Kate,
but looks like I'll have
to make the choice for you.
- You don't have
to do this, James.
- I'm gonna cleanse you back,
cleanse you back
to what we used to be.
- James.
- Welcome back to the present.
[device beeping]
[explosion]
[tense music]
[gunshots]
- [groaning]
- Hold him down.
- [groaning]
Don't.
- Put these on.
- Kate, don't do this.
[computer beeps]
- What did you do?
- I locked him in some of those
memories he's trying to forget.
- Your arm.
I didn't--
- It's just a graze.
- [groaning]
[somber music]
- There's nothing
we can do for him.
[alarm blaring]
- What's the plan?
- Del's on the fourth floor,
on the kill switch.
All we need to do
is take out the cage
protecting the power source.
- OK.
[dramatic music]
- Wait, wait, wait,
wait, wait, wait.
If we go through with all this,
we're taking out
the cleansing tech too.
- I know.
- That means no one will
be able to cleanse again.
- Yeah.
- I'll cover the door.
[somber music]
[muffled gunshots]
[muffled gunshots]
Del, we're getting close!
[knocking]
Del?
- Whatever you're doing,
you better do it fast.
[muffled gunshots]
- All right, Kate.
Now or never!
[dramatic music]
- [shouting indistinctly]
[muffled gunshot]
- Now!
[somber music]
[muffled gunshots]
[electricity crackling]
[alarm blaring]
[dramatic music]
- More are coming.
- I know.
- [gasps]
[breathing shallowly]
I think I can buy you some time.
- Teddy.
Teddy.
- Please, just let me do
this one thing, OK?
- Kate, come on.
We have to go.
Kate.
- [breathing shallowly]
Go. Go.
[object clatters]
Sarah.
[alarm blaring]
[explosion]
[birds chirping]
[somber music]
- You all right?
- You?
- Yeah.
- Too bad all our intel on
Vitality just went up in smoke.
Is that what I think it is?
- Had Del get me these
just before.
That drive should have enough
to get them for something,
if we go public.
- And this?
- Well, you told me you never
got all your memories back.
And I wasn't sure if you--
if you wanted them, but...
that's them.
Anyway, I should
probably go help Del.
Good luck, Kate.
- Hey.
So did you do it?
- Hey, anything good
on that TV?
- Updates
as new evidence emerges.
A sizable Vitality data leak,
exposed to the public
by an anonymous source,
came to light yesterday,
revealing multiple accounts
of fraud, extortion,
and client exploitation.
As we can see here
from the footage,
Vitality has been
maliciously storing
millions of clients' memories...
[dialogue fades]
[dramatic music]
- Do you like going high?
- Yeah.
- Yeah?
- Really high.
- Really high?
- Yeah.
- Just hold on tight, OK?
- No.
- Please.
For a couple minutes, OK?
And then we'll--
- [giggling]
- Do you want to swim?
- I want to go in the pool.
- Yeah.
- [laughs]
[somber music]
[dramatic orchestral music]
[suspenseful music]
[tense music]
- [breathing sharply]
[grunts]
- I wouldn't do that.
[unsettling music]
[liquid pouring]
Now, listen closely.
I will do whatever it takes
to get what's in here.
Do you understand?
What do you remember?
- What?
- I gave you back a memory.
And I need you to tell me,
what do you remember?
[pensive music]
- Authorization key.
- 487AB.
- Welcome back, Kate Parker.
We've detected 16 occurrences
of reduced serotonin
since your last cleanse.
Would you like to review them?
- No. Proceed.
- Confirmed.
Would you like
full memory deletion
or the deletion
of the associated emotions?
- Full deletion. Proceed.
- Confirmed.
16 negative memories
queued for removal.
[tense music]
Have a great day.
- Welcome to Vitality,
where yesterday's troubles
are forever forgotten.
- It's been proven now that
those who delete their memories
are 90% less likely
to experience symptoms of PTSD.
- Is it really that surprising
that deleting
traumatic memories
makes for a less traumatic life?
- Violent crime,
a 28% reduction...
- Welcome to Vitality,
where yesterday's troubles
are forever forgotten.
- Experiences
you can't get back.
- I don't want
these experiences back.
This is the new world.
- And 52% reduction in...
- Remember what you want
to remember,
and forget
what you want to forget.
- Next month,
the New Dawn policy
will require everyone
to register
under a memory cleanse
subscription.
I, for one, am happy
about that fact.
[indistinct chatter]
- I don't understand.
What is this?
- Sir, your employer requires
you to sign up with one
of our programs
if you are to maintain
eligibility for reemployment.
- Bullshit.
I've been with this job
for 13 years.
- It's your employer's
policy, sir.
And soon it will be nationwide.
So if you would--
- Nationwide?
They can't do that.
- Statistics show
that employees
who frequently cleanse are more
efficient than non-cleansers.
- Non-cleansers?
[sighs] So, what,
you saying I'm unfit for work?
- I'm only saying
that starting next week,
all non-cleansers
will be considered
an emotional liability.
So let's take a look
at that premium policy.
That's one memory cleanse
every ten business days.
[paper tearing]
[object clattering]
- So...you gonna
pick that shit up?
[object thuds]
You OK?
- Yeah.
Thanks.
[dark music]
- Welcome to Vitality,
where yesterday's troubles
are forever forgotten.
Move on from the traumas
of the past,
and start your future today.
Remember what you want
to remember.
Forget what you want to forget.
Collective memory therapy
is the number one choice
for true professionals.
[continues indistinctly]
Now here are three steps
you can do right now
to prepare
for the New Dawn policy.
Number one...
- Welcome back.
Kate, we detected
16 occurrences--
[indistinct chatter]
[dramatic music]
- Thank you
for visiting Vitality.
We are now closing.
Please proceed
to the customer exit.
- I transferred your asshole
client to the other branch.
He won't be coming back here.
- What are you talking about?
- How often?
- How often what?
- How often are you
cleansing, Kate?
- Two or three times a day.
Why do you care?
- You know, never mind.
Forget I said anything.
[lights click off]
[lights clicking on]
[alarm blaring]
- Emergency power out.
Please proceed
to the north exit.
Emergency power out.
Please proceed...
- Looks like a false alarm.
Maintenance is getting
on it right now.
I'm gonna go check--
[unsettling music]
Kate?
Kate, what's wrong?
- I don't know.
- [muffled] Hey, hey, hey.
Kate? Kate?
Everything is OK.
[lights clicking on]
- I'm fine.
I just need a cleanse.
- Kate, we gotta run
some diagnostics first.
Surge like this might--
- It's--it's OK.
I'll see you tomorrow.
[jazzy music playing]
- You're late.
- First time for everything.
Right, sis?
[can pops]
- Is it good?
- Yeah.
How's the hospital?
- Hmm.
Same old, same old.
You know how it is.
- Vitality's been getting busy
prepping for the new policy.
How is Jesse, by the way?
Feel like I haven't
seen him around in a while.
- You cleansed our last visit,
didn't you?
- No.
Not all of it.
- Jesus.
- What?
- Jesse and I split last month.
It's the third time
I've told you.
- OK.
You don't have
to feel like this.
- Excuse me?
- These circumstances are
exactly what cleanses are for.
- I don't need this.
- Come on.
I have an employee pass.
I can get you in for free.
- It's not about the money.
- Don't you want
to forget about him?
- No!
[breathes deeply]
[bangs on table]
[somber music]
You know what?
I'm done playing a part
in these little loops
of yours, Kate.
- What is that
supposed to mean?
- Do you understand
how many times
we've had this same argument?
Maybe you haven't noticed,
but with every cleanse,
you get more and more distant.
- I'm not cleansing everything.
I'm just cleansing
the parts that are--
- What, hard?
I think I'm done.
- You know, the policy
is gonna go through,
and your hospital
is gonna adopt it.
And I'm just trying to help.
You're my sister, Mags.
- Half.
I think you should just go.
And you know what?
If you're gonna cleanse
any of our time together,
just don't bother coming back.
[thunder rumbling]
[rain pattering]
[tires screech]
[eerie music]
- Struggling with the loss
of a loved one,
a traumatic incident,
an embarrassing social mistake?
Whatever your trauma,
sign up for our
memory cleanse
programs today.
Since Vitality's rollout,
there's been a significant
reduction in addiction,
child abuse, domestic violence,
and overall violent crimes.
Embrace the New Dawn policy,
and get the cleanse.
- [sighs]
- Authorization key.
- 487AB.
- Welcome back, Kate Parker.
We've detected 12 occurrences
of reduced serotonin
since your last cleanse.
Would you like to review them?
- No.
Proceed.
- Confirmed.
12 negative me--me--me--
[tense music]
- [breathing heavily]
[birds chirping]
Kate.
- Kate. I'm James.
- Firm handshake there, James.
- Yeah, sorry.
- [laughs]
[soft music]
[child laughs]
Did you just wake up?
Whoo!
That was a good one.
That was a good one.
Oh!
- Ah!
- This is just a formality.
- Glad betraying my trust
is a formality for you.
- It's just--
- We had an agreement.
- Kate.
- I told you
what I wanted to say.
[somber music]
[birds chirping]
[explosion]
[screaming]
[ominous music]
[fire roaring]
- Two to command,
be advised we have
high heat and low visibility...
- Yeah, looks like someone
left the gas stove on.
Household spark did the rest.
- Is the fire contained?
- Yeah, looks like we're out
of the profile now.
- OK.
- [breathing shakily]
[breathing rapidly]
[tense music]
[echoing]
- Kate.
- Kate. I'm James.
- Yeah.
- [gasps]
[echoing]
- Yeah, that's correct.
- Kate, wait.
- We've detected
16 occurrences
of reduced serotonin
since your last cleanse.
[tense music]
[distorted, echoing dialogue]
- Kate, are you OK?
- Yeah.
- Did you just cleanse?
- Uh--
- Come with me.
[muffled] Kate.
Kate.
[normally] Kate.
- No.
Before today,
I didn't know they existed.
- Are you sure
they were old memories?
- I thought this
wasn't possible.
- It's not.
- When a memory is erased,
it's supposed
to be gone forever.
Has this even happened before?
- Absolutely not.
- This is Natalie.
She's my acting supervisor...
for now.
- First thing we're gonna
need to do
is re-extract those memories.
How many would you say
there are?
Weeks? Months?
- I don't know.
- OK, well, that sounds like
a class five extraction.
I'm gonna need you to schedule
a retrograde immediately.
Kate...
I'm really sorry
that this happened to you.
- Scheduled.
- Good.
- Just meet
at retrograde at 1500.
Hang in there, Kate.
[echoing]
- Kate.
- [echoing]
Kate. I'm James.
[indistinct chatter]
[tense music]
[normally]
- Hello?
- Excuse me.
[keyboard clacking]
- [humming]
[knocking on wall]
- Hey, Del.
- Kate, how are you?
Ah, I haven't seen you since
the company Christmas party.
What brings you
to my department?
- I was hoping you could
give me a peek at diagnostics
on memory dispenser number 6.
- Oh, you need a quadrant
clearance for that, Kate.
I'm sorry.
You know it's dumb, but--
- I understand.
I'm just trying
to do Walter a favor.
He left a detail out
on his report yesterday.
He's getting
chewed out right now.
So maybe we could
just right his wrong,
and then the higher-ups
won't overreact.
- Yeah.
Well, you know...
[inhales sharply]
I can give you two minutes.
[curious music]
Looks like dispensary 6
has been running on
full capacity for 7,622 cycles.
Did you hear of a malfunction?
- No.
- Oh.
- When was
its last maintenance?
- 6:22, ooh, last night.
- Right after the alarm?
- Yeah, right after the alarm.
But that would be security.
They like to run diagnostics
on all the machines
after an incident.
Looks like somebody
was Johnny-on-the-spot.
Anything else I can do for you?
- I'm fine.
Thank you.
- Yeah.
Yeah, anything for Walter.
He's a good guy, you know.
- Yeah.
Actually, Del,
have you ever heard
of a memory being archived?
- What do you mean?
- Like, Vitality servers
saving a memory
after a host deletes it?
- [laughs] Come on, Kate.
You know that's impossible.
Not only do we not have
the technology,
but, jeez,
it's a company guarantee.
Once you cleanse a memory,
it's gone forever.
- That's what I thought.
Thanks.
- Uh-huh.
[pensive music]
- Kate to retrograde,
rerouting to fifth floor.
[suspenseful music]
- If you could relax
your head for me.
- OK.
[sighs]
[breathing deeply]
[machinery beeping]
What's that for?
- We can't have you
accidentally removing
any sensors mid-procedure.
The restraints
are just to avoid
any unintentional movement.
[phone buzzes]
[phone buzzes]
- Sorry, ma'am,
but we do not allow
cell phones
next to the equipment.
- We'll just put that with
the rest of your personables.
- Can I--can I just
postpone this procedure?
- I'm sorry?
- I'd like to reschedule
my retrograde.
- I'm sorry, ma'am, but we've
already prepped the machine.
There's--
- [grunts]
- There's no--look, ma'am,
I'm gonna need you
to calm down,
or else I'm gonna have to--
- [grunting]
- Hold her down, God damn it.
[beeping]
- [gasping, grunting]
- Grab her!
Hold her down, God damn it.
- [grunts]
[objects clattering]
- Get her!
[tense music]
- [panting]
- This is alpha team
requesting status update.
Shutting down east corridor.
Continue with your sweep.
Keep an eye out for any...
[phone buzzes]
[indistinct radio chatter]
- Employee announcement.
Kate Parker to retrograde.
Repeat, Kate Parker
to retrograde.
Employee announcement.
Kate Parker to retrograde.
- Wow, Kate.
You all right?
[phone buzzes]
- Fine.
[no audible dialogue]
[elevator dings]
[tense music]
- Shouldn't you be
in retrograde?
- I was, but they had
to reschedule.
[alarm blaring]
- Employee Kate Parker.
[indistinct] Security.
- We don't have to do this.
- Natalie to security.
[both grunting]
- Don't let Parker
leave the building.
[suspenseful music]
- [breathing heavily]
- Hey.
- Walter.
[indistinct announcement
over P.A. system]
[electricity crackling]
- Set up a perimeter.
Don't let her leave.
- [groans]
[both grunting]
[alarm blaring]
- [breathing heavily]
[muffled]
- What do you remember?
- [speaking indistinctly]
- I gave you back a memory.
[normally]
And I need you to tell me,
what do you remember?
[suspenseful music]
- [breathes sharply]
- What is it?
- No, I can't.
- What are you seeing?
- I can't.
- Tell me.
- No, I won't do that.
[panting]
- You cleansers
are all the same.
- Wait.
What are you doing?
- Just speeding up the process.
- What is that?
- Hold still.
- [shouts]
- [grunts]
No.
No! No.
No.
[suspenseful music]
I will get that memory.
So you're gonna
let me do my job,
or you can continue
to piss me off.
- [panting] I'll tell you.
I'll tell you.
- [breathing heavily]
- [panting] What is this?
- Nothing you haven't
lived before.
- No, wait!
[suspenseful music]
[keys jingle]
[flame whooshes]
[birds chirping]
Hey, babe.
- Hey.
[keys jingle]
- Hi.
- It's a pirate ship.
- It's perfect.
Looks like we have
an architect here.
- I have more.
I'll show you.
- OK.
[soft music]
Hey, sweetie.
- Hey.
[flame whooshes]
Hey, could you sign this
real quick?
Don't make it a big deal.
Just sign it and pass it back.
- "I hereby agree to refrain
from discussing or alluding
"to any detail pertaining
to the selected memories
for cleanse
by one James T. Parker."
- Kate, I technically don't need
your permission, all right?
- Hmm.
- This is just a formality.
- Glad my trust is just
a formality to you.
- Kate, please.
- No, we had an agreement.
If the nightmares continued,
you were gonna go
back to Mrs. Hill, not cleanse
five years of your life away.
- I know guys that have
cleansed a decade.
[pan sizzling]
Hey.
Hey.
[sighs]
I need this.
[soft music]
- I don't think
this is the answer.
- I'm scheduled for Thursday.
[sighs]
[somber music]
Kate, wait.
- I told you
what I wanted to say.
[dramatic music]
[explosion]
- Someone left
the gas stove on.
[birds chirping]
[soft music]
- Hey.
[keys jingle]
- It's a pirate ship.
- Charles.
- I have more.
I'll show you.
[suspenseful music]
[flame whooshes]
- Hey, could you
sign this real quick?
- What is this?
James.
James.
James.
OK, get up and go
get Charles, James.
- I don't even need
your permission.
This is just a formality.
- James, you need to get up
and get Charles
and get out of here.
[tense music]
- I need this.
- Whatever this is, I want out.
- Not until you see.
- I'm scheduled for Thursday.
[somber music]
- I'm so sorry.
- Kate, wait.
[dramatic music]
[explosion]
[soft music]
Hey.
- Come here, baby.
You gotta get out.
- It's a pirate ship.
- You gotta leave, OK, baby?
- I have more.
I'll show you.
- All right, get up.
Come on.
- You can't change
a memory, Kate,
but you can notice
something you missed.
- It was my fault.
I was so caught up
in that stupid argument,
I left the gas on.
[flame whooshes]
- Stop wasting time.
The stove.
- Kate, wait.
[suspenseful music]
- What are you doing?
- Nothing.
It was turned off, Kate.
[explosion]
[keys jingle]
- Hey.
- It's a pirate ship.
I have more.
I'll show you.
- Check the vent
below the painting.
[suspenseful music]
- Could you sign this
real quick?
- Now you see.
This wasn't an accident.
[dramatic music]
- [gasping]
- I'm sorry,
but I had to be sure.
- How dare you?
- How dare I?
Let's make something
really clear.
You're the one
that deleted your son
and your husband.
You erased them from existence.
- It's not like that.
- You know what I
really want to know?
What kind of parent
wants to forget their child?
I'd say, some mother you are.
- [spits]
- [grunts, cries]
[sobbing]
- You done?
Vitality killed your family,
but they weren't the target.
You were.
My guess is, you saw something
you weren't meant to see.
- What do you care?
- Why do I care?
November 16th, they took
something from me.
[dramatic music]
Six days later,
your family was killed.
- What are you saying?
- I'm saying
there's a connection.
- What is this?
- Your memory archive.
Only date
with a missing memory?
November 16, same date.
Clearly Vitality doesn't
want anyone viewing it.
So if I find that memory,
I find the proof
I need to take them down.
- Take them down.
Do you hear yourself?
- What is wrong with you?
Vitality killed your family,
made you erase your son,
and you're just
gonna sit there?
[somber music]
No payback?
You just want to go on
with your life?
You don't even want
to know why?
You help me find that memory,
and we can find out together.
- Untie me.
- OK.
There you go.
[grunts, groans]
- [breathing heavily]
That was for the backhand.
I'll help you find the memory.
I'm not gonna be
your hostage.
- Fair enough.
- Do I get your name, at least?
- No.
[birds chirping]
[indistinct chatter]
[muffled]
- You look different today.
- Oh, yeah, how so?
- You didn't shave.
- No, I didn't.
- No.
But you should.
- Oh, I don't know.
- I like it.
I do. I do.
- Do you like it?
- Yeah, I like
the scruffy look.
- I look like a caveman?
- No, like a hot lumberjack.
[laughter]
- It's not Sprite.
It's actually
a really good champagne.
- Well, you deserve it.
- And I thought tonight
would be a good time to...
well--
- To what?
- I think it's time we just
start talking about the future.
- Oh, boy.
What, like jet packs
and laser guns?
- Yes.
[laughs]
No, do you--you know.
- Oh, this talk.
- Yes, this talk.
Not the jet packs.
Before we begin, cheers.
- [gasps, sighs]
- I'm sorry, I was just--
[faint thrumming]
[door slams]
[electricity buzzing]
[sighs]
Thanks for the clothes.
Were they your--
- It's Teddy.
- What is?
- My name is Teddy.
- It's a nice place, Teddy.
- [sighs]
When you're assumed dead,
your choice of residency
shrinks.
- It's 7:00 AM.
[suspenseful music]
What's this?
- That is the only lead I got.
When I broke
into the dispensary,
I found an encrypted name
buried in the code.
- Do you know who he is?
- Hopefully somebody
that knows about
that missing memory of yours.
I did a background sweep.
Practically came up empty,
except for that address.
- Guessing that's
where we're headed?
- That is where we're headed.
- Could be a setup.
- Could be.
[indistinct chatter]
[tense music]
- I need two units
in the upper east quadrant.
What are you doing, Kate?
[indistinct chatter]
- We just got some new orders.
[birds chirping]
- What's that for?
- Helps with my anxiety.
[suspenseful music]
- Looks like no one's home.
- Doesn't mean
there won't be any surprises.
Keep your eyes open.
- We're breaking in?
- You want to ring
the doorbell?
[suspenseful music]
[ominous music]
I think you're right.
Whoever was here is long gone.
- Wait. Teddy!
[sharp bang]
- Ah!
[gun cocking]
- Don't you move.
I said don't move.
You...
- Son of a bitch.
- Kick that gun over to me.
Do it now.
- The hell I will.
- Teddy.
- I'm warning you.
[suspenseful music]
- We both know you're not
gonna pull that trigger.
- I'll do it.
[breathing heavily]
- Go ahead.
Shoot.
You might want to cock
that gun, though.
[gun cocking]
[gunshot]
[both grunting]
Who are you?
[blow lands]
- [grunts]
- Who are you?
- I can't.
They'll kill me.
- Teddy.
- I'm gonna blow your head off
if you don't start talking.
- Teddy.
- 3, 2--
- Teddy.
- What?
- [breathing shakily]
[somber music]
Tea?
- I didn't take you
for a tea guy.
We found your name
in Vitality code.
Guessing you worked there?
- I tell you something
you don't want to hear,
and he'll what?
Beat me again
in front of my family?
- Just answer our questions.
We'll leave you alone.
I promise.
Who are you?
- My name's David.
I'm a developer.
Or I was.
- Developer of what?
- The first MC device.
- That's right.
- You're the creator
of memory cleanse technology?
- It was my biggest success
and my biggest failure.
- Failure?
You helped millions of people
delete their traumas.
- Well, that's just it.
Trauma can't be deleted.
- Of course it can.
- People fail to realize the
human brain isn't a hard drive.
When a memory is written,
it isn't just a series
of ones and zeros
you can Control-Shift-Delete.
The subconscious mind
can recall trauma
even if the conscious mind
can't.
- Cleanses, you're saying
they're useless?
- Not useless, no.
Sure, it can help on occasion.
It's like trying to patch
a boat with duct tape.
- I would have heard
about this before.
- And why do you think
you haven't?
- [chuckles]
Sales. What else?
- Vitality's been skewing
statistics since its inception,
and those stats
are gonna get even worse
with that new policy.
- This is bullshit.
Teddy, let's go.
- Kate, sit down.
- No.
Why are you trusting him?
- Do you want me to take over?
- I've been cleansing
for years.
You're wrong.
- I'm wrong?
- How do you know?
- Know what?
- How do you know the cleansing
devices don't work?
- Because I know.
- How do you know?
- Because I couldn't save
my brother.
[sighs]
He was a marine.
He was dealing
with post-traumatic stress,
so I created
the whole thing to help him.
And it worked--
for a while, anyway.
Till one day,
he threw himself into a train
after feeling
an unexplainable sense of dread
from the flashing lights.
- I'm sorry.
- This isn't a goddamn
meet and greet.
Vitality has been
archiving memories,
and I want to know why.
- Follow me.
[suspenseful music]
After some clever
bait and switching,
I had signed away all ownership
to my own invention.
It was soon after, I learned
what was really happening.
- Which was?
- Some secret sector
called the Vault
creating an archive
of extracted memories.
- Why?
- I didn't stick around
long enough to find out.
I got out just in time.
- Son of a bitch.
- Been off grid ever since.
Before I left,
I downloaded a contact list
of Vitality operatives.
Maybe you can do what I couldn't
and free my family.
- Thank you.
[device beeping]
- No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
[suspenseful music]
- What is that?
What did you do?
- I didn't do this.
Oh, God, they're getting close.
Jessica, grab Sam
and get to the safe room!
- What did you do?
- I didn't do this.
We've been hiding from them
for eight years.
- Teddy.
- Let's go.
How long do we have?
- Just up the road,
maybe two minutes.
[keypad beeps]
Come on. Come on.
There's a back exit that way.
Wait, wait, wait.
Find a man named Sid Dyas,
hangs around district 27,
code 4815.
- Who is he?
- Hopefully somebody who can
find what you're looking for.
- Let's go.
- He's not an ally.
Be careful.
- Taylor 23, be advised we have
a visual on both subjects.
- Kate is the only priority.
Bring her in alive.
Use nonlethal rounds.
Anyone else, shoot on sight.
- Shoot on sight?
We were told
this was an extraction.
We're not assassins.
- Follow your orders.
[suspenseful music]
[gun cocking]
- Kate, watch out!
[grenade launcher pops]
[beeping]
[explosion]
[high-pitched ringing]
- Permission to engage targets.
- Permission granted.
- Could you sign this
real quick?
[explosion]
[muffled]
- Kate. Kate.
You gotta get up.
You have to keep moving.
Come on.
You got to keep moving!
[normally]
Damn it, Sarah!
Get up.
[dramatic music]
- Head over to the east side.
Cut them off.
- Copy that.
Bravo team pushing east.
Nonlethal rounds are live.
All channels, once you get
a clear shot, you take it.
- Copy that.
Opening fire.
[gunshots]
[gun cocking]
[rapid gunfire]
[gunshots]
[rapid gunfire, gunshots
continue]
- They're forking off.
Keep your eyes peeled.
- [breathing heavily]
I don't know if I can do this.
- Get your shit together!
[gunshots]
- [grunts]
[gun clicks]
- Shit.
- [grunting]
[gunshots]
[groans]
- Nonlethal rounds.
They want you alive.
You take this.
Follow me.
[gunshots]
- Don't move.
[suspenseful music]
- Walter.
[dramatic music]
- What the hell do you think
you're doing, Kate?
- Vitality is not
who you think they are.
They killed my family.
- Bullshit.
- They've been secretly working
on a sector called the Vault.
If you would just
let me explain.
Put the gun down.
Come with us.
- Officer 247,
do you have a visual?
Over.
- I know you have orders,
but please, look around.
Does any of this feel right?
- Officer 247, do you copy?
[suspenseful music]
- God damn it.
You get me proof, all right?
- Yeah.
- Side of the road,
through the trees, go.
- Requesting immediate
mission update.
Are you still with--
[suspenseful music]
- Target spotted moving east.
Just missed them.
- Why are you not
answering your comms?
[muffled]
- David!
- [screams]
- David!
David!
- [screams]
- David, help!
Let me go.
David!
- OK, I'm coming!
Ow.
[grunting]
[coughing]
[breathing heavily]
- [sighs] You've betrayed us
for a second time now, David.
- [sobs] How did you--
how did you--
- Find you?
Come on, David.
We never lost you.
- [breathing heavily]
- You were doing
really good until today.
- [sobbing]
- I'm gonna make sure that your
family is taken care of, OK,
but for you--
[gun cocking]
- You're Natalie, right?
I know you.
Vitality's got dirt on you.
You think your loyalty
will earn you a clean slate?
They'll never stop.
- You don't know that.
[gun cocking]
[gunshot]
- What the hell is this?
[tense music]
Who was he?
- You know I think
I'm starting to like you?
- This is not what we do.
- You don't know a thing
about what we do.
- I know more than you think.
I know about the Vault.
That's where you get
your orders from, isn't it?
And the memories
being archived.
You tell me what the hell
is going on, or I walk.
- You know I read your file?
You were an excellent cop,
really on your way
to some valor until
some friendly fire of yours
killed a civilian.
Now, I need to know, were they
just caught in the cross fire?
Or are you just
a terrible shot?
[somber music]
We're all hiding
from something.
[suspenseful music]
- What do you want
to do with him?
[somber music]
[gunshot]
- [screams]
[tires squealing]
- When was the last time
you slept?
- I'm fine.
- I can drive.
- I said I'm fine.
[radio clicks on,
static crackling]
I broke it when I disengaged
the company tracker.
- Right.
Out in the forest,
you called me Sarah.
Is that the woman
from your memories?
She was my wife.
- What happened?
- She was a district attorney.
She was building a case
against Vitality.
We were on our way home
from the doctor's.
She was glowing.
It was the first time we--
we heard the heartbeat.
When we got back
to the house, they--
they were waiting for us,
shot me twice through the ribs
and left me for dead
in the gutter.
I was--I was trying to--
You had six years
with your boy.
You got to hold him.
I just wanted to see mine.
- I couldn't--
I couldn't live--
- I understand why you
erased your memory.
You don't think
I've thought about it?
The pain that I feel
is all I got left.
So I will not forget.
The people who did this
won't get to either.
[dramatic music]
Let's go.
[tense music]
- Wait, do we even know
what we're walking into?
- Sid Dyas, if David
was telling the truth.
- What if he's not here?
- He has to be, because if this
guy can't find your memory,
then we're out of leads.
[panel beeps, dings]
[buttons beeping]
[panel dings]
Feel free to stay outside.
[suspenseful music]
[muffled chatter]
- Welcome in.
Specific sector?
- Browsing.
[muffled chatter continues]
- Fellas.
- Specific sector?
- Looking for Sid Dyas.
- Ah.
Well, you can find him
at his usual.
- Thanks.
[suspenseful music]
Think any of these guys
are Vitality?
- They don't really
fit the bill.
But let's not garner
any unwanted attention.
- Yeah.
[person screaming]
- Doctor!
Doctor, who the hell
do you think you are?
Hey, step back down!
What are you doing?
What are you
doing?
- What is this place?
- I have no idea,
but let's find out.
[dramatic music]
White suit.
Could be our guy.
- Certainly looks important.
[tablet beeps]
- We got 612 on her file,
13 of which
occurred below the overpass.
- Does this include the struggle
leading up to the assault?
- Oh, yeah, she was cleansing
all night long, pal.
- Nice.
- Here we go.
- Thank you.
- You're more than welcome.
[gun cocking]
- You must be Sid Dyas.
- [sighs]
What can I do for you?
- Is there a place
we could go to for privacy?
[laughter]
- [screaming]
- [groans]
Ow, ow, ow.
Ow.
- What the hell is this place?
- Kate, keep your voice down.
- Tell me.
- I don't know
how you got in here.
[gun cocking]
OK, hotshot, easy.
Easy with the gun.
These are the trading grounds
for the archive.
- Trading?
Memories from Vitality's archive
are, what, auctioned off?
- Something like that, yeah.
- By who? For what?
- Well, we have
a variety of customers.
Thousands of people
cleanse their deepest,
darkest secrets every day.
So a lot of buyers wish
to exploit those secrets.
- For what?
- Well, snuffing out threats
to Vitality, for starters,
blackmail.
Plus, lots of memories
contain precious intel,
ripe for insider trading.
- Operation this big
doesn't just stay a secret.
How hasn't law enforcement--
- Done what,
taken away their primary
source of evidence?
[scoffs] Yeah.
- You're trading crime intel
with the goddamn cops.
- Well, yeah.
I mean, there isn't a more
accurate account of a crime
than the memory of the person
who experienced it.
Or better yet,
the memory of the person
who actually committed
the crime.
Chances are, both are
rushing in for a cleanse.
[computer beeping]
[suspenseful music]
[gun cocking]
Ah! Hey, hey, come on, dude.
I'm just a seller.
- I'm counting on it.
You're gonna find
a memory for us.
- OK.
[tablet beeping]
- File named
Kate Leslie Parker.
November 16, 2033.
- Normally this would take
a couple of minutes,
but you're lucky
I'm really good at my job.
- Exploiting people's trauma
for profit.
You're a goddamn inspiration.
- OK, I found the file,
but it's empty.
- We know.
So where would they store
a deleted memory?
- Well, not here.
I mean, nothing here
except wireless access
to the actual archive.
- OK, then wirelessly access
the deleted memory.
- I'm afraid you have
to be at the archive, pal.
Those deleted memories
are deleted for a reason.
- Then how do we get
to the archives?
- I'm afraid that's
above my pay grade, pal.
[grunts]
Oh, man. Damn.
- Try again.
- Whose memory is this?
Ah, so you're
the dame in question.
Yeah, you might be able
to track a transfer.
Might have been pulled
for malfunction
or sorting or even popularity.
- Popularity?
- Yeah.
Well, not every customer
is here for business.
Some are, you know,
in it for pleasure.
- What do you mean by that?
- Well, some buyers come
for a front-row seat.
There ain't no entertainment
more authentic
than the real thing,
know what I'm saying?
Let me show you something.
[tablet beeps]
- It's a pirate ship.
- This is a good
and nasty trauma of yours.
- OK.
- Now, imagine
how selfish you'd be
if you kept that all
to yourself.
- I have more.
I'll show you.
- Is that your son?
- [grunts]
- Ah! Ow! Ow!
[tense music]
- Shit.
- Oh, shit.
[gunshots]
Oh, no.
You're coming with us.
[gunshots]
- Whoa.
- There's got to be
a back way out of this.
- Yeah, you want me
to aid in my own capture?
[laughs]
You drive a hard bargain.
Right down that hallway
to the right.
[gunshots]
Now's our chance. Go!
- Come on.
[gunshots]
- You're gonna--
I need you to--
- Teddy.
- I'm fine.
Stop. Ah.
- Shit.
- I'm fine.
I just need to catch my breath.
- You're one of those guys.
[gun cocking]
- Don't even think about it.
[groans]
Keep moving.
- [sighs]
I'm not getting in there.
[gunshots]
OK, I'm getting in there.
Damn it.
[suspenseful music]
- Keep pressure on it.
- [groaning]
- This your guy's
first kidnapping?
- I'm taking you
straight to the hospital.
- Yeah, that's a great idea.
Let's bring the presumed dead
to a public facility
while his prisoner
waits in the back.
- I don't mind that idea.
- Shut up!
- Just drive us
back to my place.
[groans]
[dramatic music]
- Every day,
millions of people are cleansing
with no idea their memories are
being archived and exploited.
- Yeah, and that number
is about to triple.
[laughs]
- What is he talking about?
- The New Dawn policy.
- Well, we just won't
let that happen.
- It's already
Congress-approved, my friend.
Starting next week,
all companies have to register
their employees for cleansing.
But sure, storm the castle.
I bet you two could do
some damage.
- Just please, shut him up.
- Make sure you give
the guards a snarky remark
and you can bleed on them.
- [grunts]
Teddy, somewhere
there's a server room
full of every user's cleanses.
We need to do--
Shit.
Shit!
- What are you--
- Hey.
- Who is that?
- Just get his legs.
- God.
[groans]
[tense music]
- [groaning]
- My God, what,
is this a bullet wound?
- Yeah.
- Oh, shoot.
- Just hand me
that tray up there.
- Who the hell is this?
- She's my sister.
She's here to help you.
No, Teddy.
- [groaning]
Have you done this before?
- Yeah, I've assisted
with--with a few.
- You assisted?
- It's OK.
- That's great.
You brought me
a goddamn intern.
[groaning]
- So we need to--
I need to flip him over,
and we're gonna see if there's
an exit wound in the back, OK?
1, 2, 3.
- [groaning]
- Oh, great.
- [groaning]
- This is just great.
- Ignore him.
- The bullet's still inside,
so we gotta move to plan B here.
- Hey, love the place,
by the way.
But if you're going for homey,
I'd say near miss.
- You have any hemostat
or a forceps or--
- What?
- Maybe I can help, ladies.
You know, I took a free
nursing class in college.
- Dude, does he ever shut up?
- No.
- Either of you ladies
got a lighter?
I'd love to be the one
that cauterizes the wound,
burn some flesh.
[chuckles]
[suspenseful music]
[muffled speech]
- OK, here we go.
This is gonna suck, so I need
you to really hold him, OK?
- Yeah.
- All right, OK.
Ready?
[sighs]
- [gasps]
- Just--just hold him.
- [gasps]
- Just--just hold him.
[somber music]
- Hey, I'm gonna get some air.
I just need
to process all this.
[door clatters shut]
- Now, that's a goddamn
family reunion.
Are you sure she's your sister?
You shouldn't have brought her.
- We can trust her.
- You should have just--
- What, let you die?
- Longest time
without a cleanse.
- Hey.
- [groans]
- Stay.
- [groans, sighs]
Thank you.
Let's get back to work.
Give me that.
- After we get Sid to talk
and figure out
where that memory is
and who did this,
what are you gonna do?
- We'll track them down,
and we'll finish the job.
- You mean kill them?
- Yeah.
- And then what?
- What do you mean?
- After you've done it,
what are you gonna do
after that?
- Then I'll be at peace.
Or maybe not.
- Uh-uh.
You need to lay back down.
- Yeah, that's not happening.
- Is he--is he crazy?
- Yes.
- You just got shot.
- Well, you patched
me up well, Doc.
- I didn't.
I'm an assistant, OK?
So you need to go to
the hospital and get that fixed,
or it's gonna get infected.
- What I need to do
is talk to Sid.
- What is--
- Just stay here.
- [sighs]
[door clicks open]
[suspenseful music]
- Ah, dude.
- Inspired
by my handiwork, I see.
- Decided to push off dying
for another day, huh?
Bad move, pal.
- Kate's memory file,
you mentioned it could be found
in the west district.
Explain.
- Listen, man, I don't know.
Oh.
- Try again.
- That's just a server farm
for the archive.
But if it was deleted, it could
be anywhere or nowhere.
- You deal with a thousand
memory transfers a day.
- Like I said, man,
I'm just the s--[grunts]
- Teddy.
Isn't there another way
to do this?
- You're right.
Maybe I don't even need to ask.
- Son of a bitch.
What are you doing?
- Excuse me.
- Why are you doing this?
[metallic squeal]
Hey, Sid.
- What's up, Dad?
- [laughs]
- Doesn't feel right, does it?
[indistinct chatter]
Someone searching
through your memories.
- What's your plan,
to scroll through my lifetime
till you find
what you're looking for?
- No.
No, you're right.
That would take way too long.
This here is just--
it's just for motivation.
[dramatic music]
All right, look at that.
- [laughs]
- What is that?
Is that your honeymoon?
- [laughs]
- I'd hate to erase it.
- Don't--don't delete that.
Don't--
- You gonna answer my question?
- I told you, I don't know.
Don't, don't, don't, don't,
don't, don't, don't, don't.
- Hey, tell me
about your honeymoon.
Where'd you go?
- I don't--
- Oh, that's right.
- I don't know.
- Let's keep going, shall we?
- I told you, I don't know!
- You got a lot
of fond memories, buddy.
Oops.
I didn't even mean
to delete that one.
I'm sorry.
Let's--
- Stop it!
- Let's--hold on, hold on.
- It was just so fun to watch
you when you were that age.
- Wow.
That is not what I expected.
That's sweet.
- You were the sweetest boy.
- You really loved
your mother, didn't you?
I was a mama's boy.
I get it.
Can you imagine
what that would do
if you couldn't remember
your own mother?
- They never tell me anything.
They never tell me--
[crying]
- I imagine it would
really mess somebody up.
- Teddy, he doesn't
know anything.
[sharp bang]
- You don't know that.
I'm doing what's necessary.
And if you can't
stomach it, fine.
Then just stay here.
- [crying]
No, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
[muffled crying]
- What's going on in there?
- Just getting answers.
Thank you for being here.
- Of course.
Why wouldn't I be here?
- The last few years
have been pretty--
[somber music]
[both chuckle]
It's weird, though.
Even with everything that's
happened in the last two days,
I haven't felt
this free in years.
- Taking every negative moment
out of your head
flattens the line.
- What do you mean?
- Like, it's the bad moments
that make us
appreciate the good ones.
And then you take away
the contrast,
and everything just becomes--
- Gray.
Yeah.
- Hey, I--
I grabbed something
before I left.
I know I was supposed
to get rid of everything,
but I kept this one.
And you don't have to look
at it if you don't want to.
[tender music]
- I hated that shirt.
- [laughs] I know.
- I tried to bury this.
I tried to bury
everything left of them.
I'm such a coward.
- Mm-mm.
Kate, don't do that
to yourself.
Nobody should have had to go
through what you went through.
And I know
looking back is hard,
but sometimes loss
is the price you pay for love.
- I should check on Teddy,
make sure he's not
doing anything he regrets.
Teddy?
Is he--
- He's fine. He passed out.
- I'm gonna go get Maggie.
- I said he's fine.
- Did he talk?
[suspenseful music]
- Nope.
You were right.
He doesn't know anything.
[muffled, indistinct dialogue]
- [sighs]
[muffled gunshots]
- Kate?
[muffled gunshots]
[door rattling]
Walter.
Kate told me what happened.
Thank you for what
you did back there.
[suspenseful music]
[gasps]
[radio beeps]
- First target down.
Area clear.
- What is that?
- Stay away from the door.
[device beeps]
[explosion]
- [gasps]
- [groans]
[high-pitched ringing]
[tense music]
[alarm blaring]
- Where's Maggie?
[gun cocking]
[gunshots]
- Where is she?
- Who?
- Your squad leader.
Where is she?
[both grunting]
[metallic creak]
[suspenseful music]
- Oh, thank God.
Oh.
- What did you tell them?
- Nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
[chuckling] Oh, man.
For a minute there, I thought
you were gonna shoot me.
- No.
- [gurgling]
[both grunting]
[alarm blaring]
[suspenseful music]
- Maggie?
[both grunting]
[blows landing]
[bite crunches]
- [shouts]
- Maggie.
Come on.
Come on.
- [coughing, gasping]
- Hi.
- Don't leave me, OK?
- No, I'm gonna get you
out of here, OK?
- Promise me one thing.
That you're gonna finish this.
- Don't move.
- [breathing heavily]
What are you doing, Walter?
- Get up slowly.
Put your hands over your head.
- What about what I told you
in the forest?
- I've never seen you before
in my life.
Now, get up.
- [groaning]
[gunshots]
[light bulb shatters]
- Come on, Teddy.
Just come out,
and nobody gets hurt.
- You expect me
to believe that?
- No.
[gunshots]
- [breathing heavily]
[tense music]
[groans]
[breathing heavily]
- Be smart, Teddy.
You don't want to end up
like Sarah, do you?
- [shouts]
[groaning]
Ah!
- You've had better days.
- [groans]
- You've given
a commendable effort.
[gunshots]
- No.
- You're an enemy of Vitality.
[gunshot]
- [breathing heavily]
- No, stay still.
- [breathing sharply]
- Look at me.
Just keep pressure on it.
[breathing heavily]
[groans]
[somber music]
- What did they do to him?
- Probably cleansed
his memory of Kate,
along with who knows what.
- How did they find us?
- Just take care
of your sister.
- [groans]
- [breathing heavily]
- You know someone took
the effort to pin your location.
You're not gonna shoot me.
You need me.
- Teddy, tell me
that isn't true,
that you led them to us?
- You said it yourself,
Sid was a dead end and a--
- Son of a bitch.
- Back up.
We've come this far.
[breathing heavily]
You want to stop now?
- You did this?
- No. No.
They did this.
They took your boy.
They took Sarah.
We had no choice.
Sid said that you have a lot
more pull than you lead on.
So you are gonna
take us to him.
- He doesn't really
take visitors.
- He will for her.
- Who are you talking about?
- This is interesting.
You didn't tell your trusted
little friend about your plan,
did you?
- What is she talking about?
[gun cocking]
- You're not gonna shoot me.
- You're right.
I'm not gonna shoot you.
I'll shoot her.
He's gonna need her alive.
So you're gonna
take us to him.
- I am not leaving her.
- I know.
[gun cocking]
[gunshots]
[suspenseful music]
- Extraction went as planned.
We have her.
Meet at West HQ at 2100.
- Does that match
your grand vision?
- Just send it.
- So this is all
I was here for?
Leverage?
- I've always told you
I'd do whatever it takes.
- You never needed
my lost memory, did you?
You just needed me.
- [gasps]
- [breathing shallowly]
Don't.
You're not gonna understand,
but I need you to see something.
[tense music]
[panel beeping]
[buzzer blares, gate rattling]
- You know this can
only end one way, right?
- I'm counting on it.
[groans]
You try anything,
and you're both dead.
- I need you to listen to me.
Your friend is injured.
He's not thinking straight.
Your sister's dead
because of him,
and we're about to be next.
- Maggie's--she's--
- All of these vehicles come
standard issue
with a weapon
in that glove compartment.
I need you to get me mine.
- Now, this is what's
gonna happen.
You're gonna call off
all remaining security.
You're gonna clear
the way for us.
Understood?
Now get out.
- Yes, sir.
[both grunt]
- [groans]
- First hit?
I'll give you one.
- [groans]
[both grunting]
- I said one.
[both grunting]
- [groaning]
- [breathing heavily]
[suspenseful music]
They told me about your wife.
Funny thing.
- [groans]
- They tell me...
that I'm the one
that pulled the trigger.
- [gasps]
- At least,
that's what they tell me.
- [gasps]
- Want to know something else?
I don't remember a thing.
- [groans]
- I don't think
I'll remember this either.
[gunshot]
[tense music]
- Don't get up.
- [groans]
- You got what you came for.
- No, she was just a pawn.
This changes nothing.
[breathing heavily]
[gun cocking]
- What happened
to taking down the servers?
- I'm gonna make this
very clear.
All I ever cared about
was killing the bastard
who took my wife and my boy.
Everything else
was just a side effect.
So if you excuse me.
- You're just gonna
get more people killed.
[alarm blaring]
- Security breach.
Unauthorized personnel
entering.
- The New Dawn policy goes
into effect unless we stop it.
I made a promise to my sister.
Help me finish it.
- Security breach.
Unauthorized personnel
entering.
Security breach.
- Freeze!
[gunshots]
[both grunt]
[suspenseful music]
- [groaning]
- Unauthorized personnel
entering.
- [breathing heavily]
- Security breach.
- Kate.
Security breach.
Unauthorized personnel
entering.
Security breach.
Unauthorized personnel
entering.
[gunshot]
Security breach.
Unauthorized personnel
entering.
Security breach.
Unauthorized personnel
entering.
Security breach.
Unauthorized...
[suspenseful music]
[panel beeping]
[ominous music]
[terminals beeping]
[keyboard clacking]
[whirring]
- Hey, Kate.
[dramatic music]
- James.
- I'm here.
It's me.
- Oh.
- Sorry I was gone for so long.
- I don't understand.
I saw you die.
- I know.
None of this is fair to you.
You've been through so much.
Let's fix this.
Go back to the way things were.
- Charles, is he--
- I'm sorry.
He's still gone.
OK, but he doesn't have to be.
- What do you mean?
- Well, this pain,
it's all for nothing.
You can just cleanse it away.
- Our son is not for nothing.
- Of course not.
But--but holding on to him
after the fact
isn't good for anybody,
all right?
You can forget him,
just like I have.
He's nothing more to me now than
what I read about in his file.
- James, what are you
doing here?
- [grunts]
- Teddy!
- Memory can be
misleading, can't it?
- [grunts]
- What are you doing?
- Despair, Kate.
Your husband's
a goddamn murderer.
- Like you're any different.
I heard the commotion
downstairs.
- [grunts]
- [groans]
- Please.
- [coughs]
- God damn it.
[sighs]
- [grunts]
- Now listen closely.
Enter your key code
and shut down those servers
for good.
Do you understand?
- I'm afraid that's not
how that works.
- Then make it work.
- You're a part of this?
- He is this.
The head of the snake.
The person we've been
looking for, right there.
- So we were just--
we were a lie?
- No, I love you.
I did then, and I still do.
Just let me explain.
- Allow me.
I read the report
from that day.
You snuck out
just before the blast.
Tell me,
what kind of man orders
an attack on his own family?
Now, you're gonna enter
that key code.
- Teddy, that wasn't
Vitality's bomb.
- What are you doing?
[whirring]
- [breathing heavily]
[clattering]
What is that?
[breathing heavily]
[clattering]
- What is this?
[beeping]
[clattering]
Teddy.
- That's impossible.
You're lying.
- I'm not lying.
- I wasn't there.
- You weren't,
to the best of your memory.
The memory unit's
central parts were stolen
just two hours after the event,
a few miles from here.
It's like you couldn't live
with what you'd done.
- Kate, I would never--
- You're so caught up
in revenge,
you let an innocent child
get caught in your wake.
And you cleansed it all.
I'm afraid you've let your past
dictate your future
for the last time, pal.
[gunshot]
[whirring]
- Kate--
[breathing heavily]
[suspenseful music]
[gasps]
- Kate.
Now, you know me.
- Turns out, I don't.
[footsteps tapping]
- It's all right.
Kate, I've wanted
to tell you so many times.
From the moment I met you, I've
had to keep secrets from you.
And it tore me apart.
Yes, I stepped out
before the blast.
I was trying to follow you.
[siren wailing]
And the burden was too much.
So we cleansed--that day,
each other, all of it.
And it was your idea,
an idea I stood by.
So your friend here
broke into HQ
and started this whole mess.
Last week, I was made aware
of this situation.
Teddy found a way
to break into our database.
That's when he gave you back
your memories.
I was brought in to review
the stolen memories in question.
- Are you going to school
pretty soon?
- Whoa.
- Right?
- Until that day, you were
only a stranger to me.
[laughter]
I knew I could just re-cleanse,
but I also knew that I could
bring you in safely
and go right back
to where we left off.
- So the fact that I knew
Vitality's secrets
had nothing to do with that?
- Forget all that.
We can start over.
- No.
I spent the last three days
bearing witness
to all of the horrible things
that Vitality has done,
that you've done.
You're a murderer, James.
- You still don't get it,
do you?
We live in a world now
where emotional wounds
can be cleansed.
- What, actions
just have no consequences?
- Cause and effect?
Sure.
But emotional pain,
that's in the mind.
And why shouldn't we repurpose
the occasional client's cleanse
for other means?
Look how many cases
we've closed
because of our arrangement
with the police.
- Don't act like
that's your motive.
- Look at Teddy, a man
so obsessed with his past,
he let it dictate every
waking moment of his future.
I know you have that memory
in your pocket.
Let me show you what's on it.
OK, you've come so far
to get to this point.
Trust me.
Just give me a chance.
[somber music]
- Copy, target
has been neutralized.
Over.
- Sounds like the breach
has been located and contained.
- Copy that.
- Rendezvous is at level three.
Section--
[echoing clatter]
I'll push.
Cover 6 on me.
[suspenseful music]
[gun cocking]
- Walter!
Do you realize
how ridiculous it is to ask me
to sneak in here after hours?
I mean, how the hell
did you get through?
Did you get a clearance pass?
Oh.
- We got to get past
those doors
and destroy those servers now.
- Destroy the servers?
That's 30 feet of machinery.
I mean, how you gonna do that?
- I don't know.
Set some explosive charges,
all right?
- Oh, you got some of those
lying around, do you?
- EMP.
- EMP, sure, I got all that
stuff hanging around here.
- OK, fine, fine.
Look, OK, you're the tech guy.
Surely there's a way.
We cannot leave this building
without erasing
that archive forever.
- OK, OK.
The servers run
on a dual core generator.
You could overload it,
and it would fry the contents.
But that's what
the Faraday cage prevents.
- What if we destroy
the cage, huh?
- Yeah, but, but--
- You get on that overload.
I'll get on Kate
about the cage.
Send me the details on this.
- Wait, where's Kate?
- You and your friend
have been so hell-bent
on digging up the past.
[suspenseful music]
Let's hope this
convinces you otherwise.
[keyboard clacking]
- Memory sequence realigned.
[dramatic music]
[knock at door]
- Am I interrupting?
- Can you come look at this?
You remember that DA who was
snooping through our stuff
last week?
- Yeah, what's her name?
Sarah something?
- Yeah.
Well, she just got a search
warrant for the west district.
- What? How?
- James, she's got dirt on us.
Something needs to be done.
- OK.
It'll be handled.
- What if she goes public
with this, James?
I don't--
- Kate, I'll take care of it.
- Thank you.
- OK, don't get out
of here too late.
[echoing] We made--we made quite
the team at one point, Kate.
- That district attorney,
that was Teddy's--
- [echoing] Yes.
- I didn't--
I didn't know
what I was asking.
I knew that we were
cooking the books.
I knew that we were fudging
some of the numbers,
but I didn't--
[somber music]
I didn't know.
I wouldn't--
I wouldn't have asked for that.
[indistinct chatter]
- It's Bob!
- [laughs]
Hon, it's time for bed, OK?
Go brush your teeth.
Thank you.
[dynamic music playing]
- This just in, local district
attorney Sarah Cruzaedo
has been found dead
from what they are calling
a tragic car collision.
Little is known about what
could have caused the crash.
New details arriving shortly.
Sarah was 37.
- [echoing] You understood then,
the price to keep
doing what we were doing.
You knew it was bigger
than all of this.
- James, that's enough.
- [echoing] At least appreciate
the irony here.
In a way, you and Teddy
created each other,
planting the seeds
of each other's trauma.
[door slams]
- You got all these--
[muffled speech]
- [echoing]
Now you know the truth.
But there's more
I want to show you.
[muffled yelling]
- Wait.
[muffled]
- That's what happens
when you act up.
- No.
- Shut up.
I said...
- I know this place.
- What did you do
to this place?
Work hard all day,
and I do it for you.
And this is how you repay me?
No wonder your mother left you.
[glass shatters]
You got all this shit
lying around.
Clean it up!
Stop lying.
[somber music]
[door clicks open]
- Kate, he came home like this.
I don't know what to do.
- Maggie.
- Where the hell did you go?
Get the hell back in here.
And you, clean up this mess.
- Kate.
- [echoing] Look at all these
memories weighing you down.
It's time to let the past die.
- James, please stop this.
[chuckling]
[suspenseful music]
No.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
- Kate, what the hell?
- What?
- Break's almost over?
What's the whole point
if we can't...
- [echoing] All this
is one cleanse away.
Just say the word.
- Just relax.
- [echoing] None of this
should have happened to you.
[somber music]
- Yes.
But they did happen.
[whirring]
- The hell's
your problem, bitch?
- Don't touch her.
Walk away.
She said no.
- Screw this.
[indistinct chatter]
- You OK?
- Yeah.
- These things shouldn't
have happened, James.
But they did.
- [echoing] But life, it's--
it's about the present,
about discovering
what's in front of us right now.
- But it's also about fear
and shame and loss.
But we can turn those things
into something else,
into something stronger.
[whirring]
- Sorry.
- It was an accident.
Just have to be careful
next time, OK?
- Mm-hmm.
- Come here, bud.
- [echoing] You know
you can never see him again.
- I know.
But sometimes loss
is the price we pay for love.
- What's up, buddy?
You hungry?
- Yeah.
- OK, you hold out. Ready?
[groans] Oh, we did it!
We did it!
- Great work.
- Yeah.
- No.
[growls]
- [chuckles] Keep going.
That looks great.
It's your birthday.
- [singing]
Happy birthday, dear Charles
Happy birthday to you
- [echoing] Then you're lost.
[whirring]
[normally]
I did offer you a choice.
It just pains me to see
the one that you made.
I'm so sorry, Kate,
but looks like I'll have
to make the choice for you.
- You don't have
to do this, James.
- I'm gonna cleanse you back,
cleanse you back
to what we used to be.
- James.
- Welcome back to the present.
[device beeping]
[explosion]
[tense music]
[gunshots]
- [groaning]
- Hold him down.
- [groaning]
Don't.
- Put these on.
- Kate, don't do this.
[computer beeps]
- What did you do?
- I locked him in some of those
memories he's trying to forget.
- Your arm.
I didn't--
- It's just a graze.
- [groaning]
[somber music]
- There's nothing
we can do for him.
[alarm blaring]
- What's the plan?
- Del's on the fourth floor,
on the kill switch.
All we need to do
is take out the cage
protecting the power source.
- OK.
[dramatic music]
- Wait, wait, wait,
wait, wait, wait.
If we go through with all this,
we're taking out
the cleansing tech too.
- I know.
- That means no one will
be able to cleanse again.
- Yeah.
- I'll cover the door.
[somber music]
[muffled gunshots]
[muffled gunshots]
Del, we're getting close!
[knocking]
Del?
- Whatever you're doing,
you better do it fast.
[muffled gunshots]
- All right, Kate.
Now or never!
[dramatic music]
- [shouting indistinctly]
[muffled gunshot]
- Now!
[somber music]
[muffled gunshots]
[electricity crackling]
[alarm blaring]
[dramatic music]
- More are coming.
- I know.
- [gasps]
[breathing shallowly]
I think I can buy you some time.
- Teddy.
Teddy.
- Please, just let me do
this one thing, OK?
- Kate, come on.
We have to go.
Kate.
- [breathing shallowly]
Go. Go.
[object clatters]
Sarah.
[alarm blaring]
[explosion]
[birds chirping]
[somber music]
- You all right?
- You?
- Yeah.
- Too bad all our intel on
Vitality just went up in smoke.
Is that what I think it is?
- Had Del get me these
just before.
That drive should have enough
to get them for something,
if we go public.
- And this?
- Well, you told me you never
got all your memories back.
And I wasn't sure if you--
if you wanted them, but...
that's them.
Anyway, I should
probably go help Del.
Good luck, Kate.
- Hey.
So did you do it?
- Hey, anything good
on that TV?
- Updates
as new evidence emerges.
A sizable Vitality data leak,
exposed to the public
by an anonymous source,
came to light yesterday,
revealing multiple accounts
of fraud, extortion,
and client exploitation.
As we can see here
from the footage,
Vitality has been
maliciously storing
millions of clients' memories...
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- Do you like going high?
- Yeah.
- Yeah?
- Really high.
- Really high?
- Yeah.
- Just hold on tight, OK?
- No.
- Please.
For a couple minutes, OK?
And then we'll--
- [giggling]
- Do you want to swim?
- I want to go in the pool.
- Yeah.
- [laughs]
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